001Mhm. >> Welcome everybody. Uh this is a meeting for the Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the school board's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is a time for public comment during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. Can we all stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you, Mr. Chambers. Will you do roll call, please? Mr. Early. Here. Mr. Hare. Here. Mr. West. Here. Ms. Pritchard. Here. Ms. Smoyer. Here. Thank you. All right. We have on the agenda next the approval of the minutes from last month's meeting. Do we have a motion to
002approve the minutes of the meeting? I'll make that motion to approve the meeting minutes from March the 17th regular board meeting. I'll second. All right, thank you, Mr. West and Ms. Pritchard. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. Roll call. Mr. West. Yes. Ms. Pritchard. Aye. Mr. Early. Aye. Mr. Hare. Aye. Ms. Smoyer. Aye. Thank you. All right. >> [clears throat] >> Are there any um Oh gosh, we need to do the additions, removals, or modifications of the agenda. Is there any? I see none. And then [clears throat] approval of the consent agenda. Would anybody like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Do I have a second? I'll second. Thank you, Ms. Pritchard and Mr. Hare. Any questions or comments? Very quiet today. Hearing
003none. Mr. Chambers. Ms. Pritchard. Aye. Mr. Hare. Aye. Mr. Early. Aye. Mr. West. Yes. Ms. Smoyer. Yes, please. >> Thank you. Okay. And now we're on to superintendent's communication. You are up, Mr. Sable. Well, good evening, everybody. Uh this evening I would like to invite Principal Hardery up to the front. Uh this evening we welcome AI Root for our building presentation. Hi, everybody. So, the eighth grade team um at Root spent the beginning of the academic year facilitating a Holocaust unit and through thoughtful instruction, Ms. Kaylee Rydel guided our students in exploring one of history's most difficult and significant periods, fostering not only academic understanding but also empathy and critical thinking. The unit was designed to be age-appropriate while still honoring the gravity of the subject matter. Students engaged with historical sources, personal narratives, and
004meaningful discussions that encouraged them to consider the consequences of prejudice and the importance of standing up against injustice. Ms. Rydel created a respectful classroom environment where students felt supported in asking questions and processing complex emotions. By connecting historical events to broader themes of citizenship and responsibility, Ms. Rydel has helped our students see the relevance of these lessons in today's world and throughout their Washington, D.C. trip. Her commitment to thoughtful, responsible instruction reflects how she plans all of her lessons with the ELA 8 team. Ms. Rydel has studied abroad to strengthen her contact her content knowledge and brought her real-world experiences into the classroom for all of her eighth grade students. Kaylee is an ELA 8 teacher at AI Root Middle School and this is her first year of teaching. She exceeds and encompasses the competencies
005of our portrait of a B and portrait of an educator. Ms. Rydel works each day to provide students the opportunities at Root to grow and achieve and I'm excited to welcome Kaylee and our students. Thank you so much, Ms. Hardery. So, my name's Kaylee Rydel. I am here with three of my amazing students from AI Root. Um this is Maggie, Aubrey, and Wyatt and we're here to talk a little bit about our ELA and the Holocaust unit that we had um with our essential question being, how does one remember the past? Let's see if I can get this to work. You have to turn it on. Oh, look at me. You guys You guys are better listeners than me. What would I do without you guys? Boom, there we go. So, our essential question, thank
006you. What would I do without them? Is how does one remember the past? As Ms. Hardery said, we really did a lot of background building and um establishing a classroom where we can handle this very mature topic. So, first we really tried to dive into our stories and our voices, making sure students have a wide variety um of people to look into as well as a wide variety of texts. We have diaries, we have poems, we have comics, videos, speeches, anything that can really help our students to grasp the events of the Holocaust. Next after that, we have our analysis and inquiry portion. You can see there are some of the activities that we did um regarding literacy. I brought along I don't know if you guys want to pass them out to our board
007members, but here you are. We did an upstanders investigation and envelopes are going to come around to you guys about what that kind of looks like. Um but students all at this point um had built up background, had looked into stories and voices, and they were all given a folder with no more information other than what is in it. A couple photos, a brief piece of text, and there's also a couple of our artifacts from our Holocaust Museum. So, sorry if one of you guys have that mingled in your papers. Um but this was a point for them to really piece together the uh the stories and understand um what it is they're reading, read it closely, annotate, ask questions, and have meaningful discussion. That all primed us up for our experience and connection piece,
008which I'm going to hand it over here in a moment to my students to tell you about the great things that they got to experience and how all of this came together um at the end. But we were very lucky at Root to go on a D.C. trip in the fall. We were very lucky to have VR available for all of our students to uh virtually tour the annex that Anne Frank had hid out in. Um all of our eighth graders had the opportunity to meet a Holocaust survivor, which as we know is a it's a dying perspective. We're very fortunate have that. So, her name was Irene Butter and we had a Q&A session with her. And then at the end we did a Socratic style seminar or fish bowl and students responded to
009the literature that we read. So, I'm going to hand it over to them now and they're going to tell you about what stuck with them the most and how they themselves are remembering the past. So, what stuck with me the most is um the like the fact that the Holocaust didn't start because of violence, it started with words and choice and that showed me that choosing to be a bystander can impact many lives. It also showed me that small amounts of kindness and bravery can change everything. And that relates to the poem that she talked about called I cannot forget by Alexander Kimmel because he was a bystander whenever all of like people were being taken and it wasn't him at the time, but then whenever it was time for him to go, there was
010nobody left to stand for him. I think what stuck with me the most was being able to go to the Holocaust Museum and getting to see things that some of the Nazis and what the Holocaust survivors used and what was used on them. And we got to see a lot of things there that like we can't talk about in school, but we still got to learn about that stuff, which I think is still important and it helped us understand the unit a lot more. What I think stuck with me the most is like the book of Anne Frank and how we were able to see from her perspective and see how like they lived and even with the VR like being able to see like how like the layout of the annex was and like
011just uh like what their struggles were. So, now we have a couple of photos before we get into how we encompass portraits of a B. Um so, there we go. Um I'm going to let the students explain some of the photos that we're looking at here from our experience and connection portion of our um unit. So, whoever would like to explain. One of the pictures is the shoes and that is all of the victims who did not survive. And the top two in the right corner were the was uh us getting to talk to Irene Butter so we got to ask her questions. The one on the bottom right is us uh actually being able to like tour uh Anne Frank's um annex and And then here, oops, sorry. Here's our last slide um where
012we are going to talk about how we encompassed um aspects of portrait of a B. So, our main ones that we identified were collaborator, communicator, resilient lifelong learner, and respectful citizen. Um here in a moment I'm going to hand it over to the students to see um or to hear from how they encompass this, but how I encompass it and try to model it for my students, I would say is absolutely the resilient lifelong learner aspect. I really tried to lead with curiosity. I try to make those real life connections. I try to let students know what's out there, what's available if you keep trying to strive for growth and knowledge. So, I'm going to hand it over to them to talk about how they see themselves represented in portrait of a B and then
013we'll be done. Uh it helped me grow as a communicator because it made me like be able to understand how to talk about sensitive topics like that and how to like talk like speak without being uh offensive when it comes to topics like the Holocaust. I think this unit helped me become a respectful citizen because it helped me like understand how I'm supposed to be acting while learning about this and we just got to learn a lot more about history. It made me realize how we should remember all this stuff. I see myself as a resilient lifelong learner because learning about it made me like remember about like people who still feel like unheard and don't feel included whenever you talk about it. Like they still feel like their story should be told. And that
014is all we have for you guys. Thank you so much for your time. Does anybody have any questions for me or my students um regarding anything that we just talked about? Just have a couple a comment. I think this is a it's a very interesting um historical thing to investigate and lest we not investigate it, we for- forget it. Absolutely. >> Um personally, I've not been to the Holocaust Museum yet. I want to go, but I have seen bits of it through um my grandfather served in World War II and his infantry division was the one that split the Germany in two and met up with the Russians and they were at Auschwitz. Wow. They went there to a couple of the concentration camps. In fact, all of the American soldiers were ordered to go
015to the concentration camps. So, that's uh it's an I have a I have a history book of his infantry division and there's some very interesting things in it. Yeah. It's very poignant and through this unit I've gotten to really connect with students about the stories they hear from their family and their relatives. And just seeing how hard and close to home it can hit for some people, I think our students here and the students that aren't here with us, um they really handled it with so much maturity. Um they really made me proud. So. Are there any other questions? Nope, just want to say thank you guys for coming in. It's great and I love that you experienced it, that you used the portrait of a B, you know, learning in that aspect and I
016recall when my daughter was went to the Holocaust Museum, one of the things she mentioned was the way that it's set up is supposed to make you feel out of sorts just like they did. I thought that was very intriguing, but also she remembered the shoes. So, the pile of shoes, that was one of the main things that she remembered um and probably still does to this day. So, and but I wanted to know where did you um as a teacher, where did you uh travel to that? So, I went with the University of Akron. I was fortunate to go as a graduate student and we had went to Germany where we got to tour Sachsenhausen, one of the first um camps that laid the groundwork for all the camps to come sadly. We went
017to Poland where I got to see Auschwitz and I got to see Birkenau and I got to see Majdanek. Um those are very close to the Ukraine border um but I will never forget the feeling that I had in some of those places and then we ended in the Czech Republic um where still I mean all these countries were impacted um and kind of going back to that visual literacy thing um with being able to look at a map and see just how they moved people, how many people from different places um and the fact that I went to three whole countries and that history was able to be followed. So, um I was also very lucky to get to speak to professors and high school teachers and middle school teachers over there who work
018very closely with their Holocaust curriculum and take what they would tell us into our US Holocaust curriculum. So, it was very meaningful. I'm going back again this summer and I encourage my students if they ever get the chance to keep going and seeing these um these places, which might be hard, but are needed so that we don't forget. That's amazing and that really helps you to teach it showing them all that. So, thank you. Thank you guys so much for your time. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Perfect and then we'll Oh. Yeah, I thank you to uh Root for being here today. I definitely an important topic. Uh one of the things I really enjoyed that you talked about was the experiential learning. I do think that's a very important piece and an opportunity
019to actually uh live history. Uh believe it or not, we've got commencement coming up uh just weeks away. Um I think we're almost exactly a month away uh with today being April 21st. Uh commencement this year is going to be at Kent State Stadium uh as we've done for the last several years. We do have a change uh coming up this year though. It is being moved from Saturday morning to Friday evening uh on May 22nd. So, want to make sure that everybody is well aware uh of that change in the time. Um I know Dr. Tedona has sent out multiple uh emails and her newsletters and information about upcoming graduation to ensure that families are aware of this adjustment. The graduation, as you know, is now outside. Uh we've been very fortunate with the
020weather over the last uh many years that we've been doing this. Uh however, we do have a plan in the event that we have inclement weather. Um uh some options that may be implemented if necessary is moving the start time earlier uh if the forecast projects evening storms. Um the second option is to move the graduation to Saturday morning. Um so, we think the Friday evening venue uh under the lights uh as the sun sets on our seniors uh is going to be a cool environment uh and we also have more flexibility now in terms of uh makeup if necessary. Uh next, I'd like to invite Sarah Jackson up. Uh she's our assistant director of instruction. Uh she's been working uh with our teachers uh as well as our curriculum committee on our upcoming science
021adoption, which we have items on the agenda tonight for a first review. Good evening. For the past year, our DOI team had an opportunity to work with science teachers from 4th through 9th grade to think about what we wanted to see in our future visit visioning for science instruction and this really launched our curriculum adoption process. As a district, we were brought to this point for two reasons. The curriculum that we were utilizing in grades 4 through 8 was being discontinued by our vendor and our physical science team had not had an opportunity for quite a time to look at new resources. So, thinking about the direction our district is going with the instructional experiences, we wanted to really take this time to think about what that would look like for Medina City Schools moving
022forward. The process within our curriculum adoption really started with that visioning piece. And as our teachers talked with their colleagues across the district, we really came up with a clear vision of what we wanted to see within the curriculum resources that we would consider. We wanted our students when they were in science instruction to think like a scientist. We didn't want science learning to live in a textbook. We didn't want it to be on a worksheet. We wanted it to come to life in the classroom. We wanted it to be hands-on. We wanted phenomena-based questions to really launch critical thinking, problem-solving. We wanted it to have give students an opportunity to really bring those deeper learning experiences that we've been talking about to life throughout the curriculum experience they were seeing within science. As our
023committee reviewed the resources that we had available to us, we were able to identify two that I'd like to present to the board for consideration today. For grades 4 through 8, our adoption committee has selected experience science through Savvas. And this curriculum is structured within a framework called 5E. And through that process, every unit starts by engaging students in questions, allowing them to explore the content before we go into explanations. So, it's really a discovery-based experience aligned to our grade level targets. You will as you look at the budget that we're putting forward, we took many steps to really think about the best use of our budget to maximize the learning experience. So, some of our instructional resources, we decided to not go with our vendor, but we looked at other vendors that would allow
024us to have a more cost-effective approach to this adoption. Our physical science committee selected Inspire Physical Science, which is a curriculum through McGraw Hill and they are adopting this curriculum, we're proposing the adoption of this curriculum alongside a training framework called modeling instruction. And we're really excited to bring this into our advanced science course within 8th grade as well as physical science within the high school because we do see this as a framework for instruction that we're hoping to expand to all of our different science areas. Within in modeling instruction, it is a research-guided inquiry teaching method that organizes the curriculum around developing, testing, and applying conceptual models. So, when we talk about thinking like a scientist, this framework will help our teachers to set up their day-to-day instruction to really model the scientific process.
025I'm really grateful to the teachers that have joined us through this journey. Being a part of a curriculum adoption process is a lot of hours. Our teachers really are liaison between the committee and their colleagues to make sure that our teachers' voices are heard and we can bring forth resources that are going to support the vision that we are putting forth within the district and within the curriculum. So, I'll open up to any questions you have about the two curriculums that we are considering. All right. And Sarah, you're welcome to just stay up there if you wouldn't mind sharing out with the board on the curriculum meeting from last week. >> Absolutely. We had our last curriculum committee meeting on April 13th and during that time, we had an opportunity to preview the resources that
026we are looking at for our psychology course at the high school. We also had a chance to review the middle school and high school reading editions that we're looking at for the upcoming school year. And probably the highlight of the meeting was the time we had to hear from our partners at Spark Medina. They received a grant that they were able to bring into our schools to continue the collaboration that they have had for many years with Medina City to really further our deeper learning experiences. We're really grateful to Spark Medina. They have been a critical community partner and have created amazing opportunities for our students. All right, thank you. And Mr. O'Cole, you are next up. All right, thank you. It's good to be back. Wasn't here at the last meeting, so and not
027being here at the last meeting, I have my first item that I want to bring to the board is comes with an apology for this project kind of got out ahead of me because of the speed in which materials became available and the way that it was able to get pushed forward through the availability of work and and that's the pool bleachers. Aaron and Vicky were at my facility meeting where we showed the state of the Rec Center bleachers. The environment, the pool environment there is is very rough on those materials and we needed to replace those. So, so we went ahead and started that process. So, it is on the agenda tonight for your approval. So, I'm hoping you see that as a necessity and we can move forward with that project. The second
028thing I want to talk about is the two roofs that we have for this summer. The high school roof, the section that's on top of the PAC seating area and then the halls that surround the PAC area. That's on the agenda for approval tonight as well and the local Medina group was the low was the apparent low bidder and was recommended to do that high school project. So, I'm excited about working with a Medina organization and hopefully that helps keep some of our sales tax dollars back in Medina as well, which is be a great thing. The AI root project, the ABC science labs over each wing, that was the the bidder that's been chosen for that project is PRS Roofing and we've used them for the last two summers and been extremely pleased with
029with the work that they've done. So, we're excited to uh to have them on another project this summer. They are also, you know, going to do the top of the theater. So, they have the the top of the theater with the fire hatches that starts as soon as they can get a good week to get up there. So, those are the two projects and then the third thing that is is on the agenda this evening is a a Rec Center project. The Rec Center would like to update the tile work in the main entry redo the front desk. They're they're thinking this is around a $200,000 project. They're thinking this is around a $200,000 project. They would like to use the schools as a pass-through. Our procurement process is a little different that makes it
030easier to get materials in a short amount of time. So, they would like to use the school as a pass-through to complete this project. This is all pending. They have to have council approval. But I've asked Jansen if I can get school approval before he goes to get council approval just so that I know that you the school board is is okay with them updating the tile in the in the Rec Center. So, this is the uh 25th year for the Rec Center? I believe. 26th year? Does anybody know that off Sounds about right. Okay. Should have been right around 2000, so just So, this is like the first update that they've done to that infrastructure. So, in the main infra- infrastructure, we've we've done the addition on the Rec Center with cooperation with them.
031This project, I did say it's a $200,000 project. This will be all Rec Center funds. It'll zero school dollars, but they will use us as a pass-through to to do the procurement of the materials. So, are there any questions about those projects? >> So, on the tile, we're going to buy it and then they're going to reimburse us. Is that the deal? >> Yes. And when will they reimburse us? As soon as we invoice them. Yeah, they and that's they're just going to city council to get approval for the entire project. Uh the tile is about $125,000 worth of that project. The other portion is the the front desk. They're reorienting the the front of that how that when you walk through the doors how you walk through the rec center, I guess. So, that
032part of it I don't have on for approval cuz they didn't have all the quotes together for that part. But, that you'll see next month. So, the part we're doing is what you showed in here. It looks like all the way down in front of the entrances to the pool. All that that hallway with the stairs and that. Yeah, and they're also looking the material they want to use a it's an anti-slip tile. They've had some issues uh with the current tile and uh this would be an anti-slip. Uh when you come out of that pool area, that wet floor is not always uh kind. So, we're trying to up that increase the safety there as well. And then on the bleacher replacement, that's a 50/50 shared cost. >> That is a 50/50 shared cost.
033That's correct. That project was $107,000. Yep, and I just want to clarify that that bleacher project is completed. So, we're asking the board tonight uh to approve the completed project. On the agenda, it says that the roof replacement is at Claggett, but it's at Root, right? It is at Root. Yes, I'm sorry. No no, that's fine. I just think we need to make sure we change that. It has a high school as well, right? Okay. I'll make that adjustment as we go through the agenda for Dave's notes. Do the um funds for the roof that comes through the uh the sales tax, right? >> That's correct. Those are sales tax projects. Yes. All right, thank you. And Dr. Qualic, last but not least, policy. Save the most fun for last. >> as roofs, but maybe
034more exciting. I don't know. It fits in there somewhere. So, our policy committee um met and at this point we don't have anything for the board agenda. Um just to remind everyone about our policy committee's process. We meet and um I present the policies after they've um been reviewed by district staff that experience those policies. So, for example, Dave and I met to go over the financial policies. I talked to high school staff about the policies that involve the high school um and curriculum and grading. Um I met with Tina Cassidy to talk about some of those policies. So, then we present them to the board policy committee to look over and they have a month to look those over. Uh so, we'll look those over until our May meeting and then we'll answer any
035questions they have and if they um are okay at that point, then we'll bring them on in May for a first reading and we can discuss those then. Uh as usual, a lot of them we don't have a lot of choices in. Um they're just mandated by certain laws or things that were passed. But, when we do have options, we spend a lot of time making sure we pick the options that fit our district and our students best. Floor is yours, Mr. Chambers. Uh before I talk about the committee updates, I'd like to bring up Ryan Nelson so that he could get out of here before the night comes. Uh Ryan is the head of RedTree Investment Group. Uh he's been our investment advisor since uh 2000 I believe it was 2014-15 that I brought
036him in here. Um and uh we've been doing well ever since. Um well, thank you uh Dave. Um good evening. I'm Ryan Nelson with the RedTree Investment Group and I'm here for the annual update for um the investments of the school district and a brief um economic update as well. I believe there are a couple of new board members um as well. So, uh it's nice to meet you and we'll take a slight step back here tonight just to bring you up to date on how the district can invest funds and and matters like that. Uh I'm going to look down here. Uh just [clears throat] a little bit about RedTree Investment Group. Um we are a firm that says located in Cincinnati and we are sole focus is investing public funds across the state
037of Ohio. We uh have about a little over $10 billion in funds that we assist on. And we have about 240 or so K-12s and career centers that we work with across the state of Ohio. So, we do understand um the nuances of school district uh funding and finances. Um I'm one of the co-founders. Jennifer Turbridge is the other. As Dave mentioned, we have been here for um a bit. Um we started the partnership back in 2014 and serve as an investment advisor and manage a portion of the school district's funds. We um work with Dave very closely on the needs of the school district and communication. We serve as the investment advisor and purchase securities on behalf of the school district. Um US Bank um is a third-party custodian. They hold the securities that
038we purchase. For the um new board members and existing board members, um I thought it would be important to point out how the district can invest funds. There is an investment policy statement. It's nice that we follow after the policy person. Um there's an investment policy statement and the investment policy statement follows the Ohio Revised Code Chapter 135.14, which governs how schools can invest funds. The last time the policy was updated was in 2021 and that sounded like a long time ago. But, there haven't been any changes in laws um with the state. So, uh that we haven't gone through the the process of making a a new policy. How the district can invest funds, how what Dave has at his disposal as funds are invested is what you see on the screen here. Um
039it's checking accounts, CDs, uh the state treasurer has a money market program called STAR Ohio that most entities utilize for overnight liquidity. Um from there, the district can own US Treasury securities, agencies, municipal bonds, and commercial paper. Everything is centered around safety of principal, liquidity, and a market rate of return. Generally, the maximum maturity is going to be 5 years on any one investment. Additionally, Dave is required um on an annual basis to receive 6 hours of investment training. Um he is compliant with that because I believe Dave, I saw you at all six of those hours this year. Um and so, he's in compliance with that um as well. So, this is the world uh the school district lives in. As you can see there, there's nothing on there that says Bitcoin, Google, Apple,
040or anything fun like that. It's all centered around fixed-income um securities. Any questions on that? Uh real quick then, a couple slides on the economy about what we're focusing on as we're investing school district funds. Um obviously, there's a lot going on in in today's world. It's probably this information I'm talking about is probably going to be stale from when I left the office this morning. Um but uh we focus on economic growth, jobs, and inflation. There was some positive news as it relates to the economy today. Uh retail sales uh came out and was very positive despite all the headwinds that we are facing in in our world today. So, we'll take that as a win. As it relates to the job uh markets, um it's been on um a trending down over the
041past couple of years. Um we did see a positive number of of job payrolls back in March of 178,000. A lot in the healthcare industry. Are students still here? Um the healthcare industry um is still hiring and probably will be for a quite some time. So, um we will see that, but um uh companies um it's a low hire uh situation that we are in. Um instead of looking at those bar charts, uh we try to dig into some other um interesting tidbits as what's going on with the job market. And just some things that are going on out there that I think is quite interesting. Um is the that um I'm going to call it seasoned or veteran type of workers. Not I'm not going to use the O word. Um so, um folks
042that have been in uh working for quite some time um have seen um an uptick in being hired. And um that is a result of maybe they have they have to work a little bit longer for financial reasons. But, it's also um companies are really using them for AI because the younger workers don't know how the sausage is necessarily made. Um they need to rely on on folks that have been around a while. Um and then also uh the uh season workers have better soft soft skills such as sales, etc., etc. than new folks. Um the average age of a new hire in 2025 was 42 years old. So, that's um interesting. The it's uh the unemployment rate for college grads is over 10%. You don't want to hear that back there for students. Um
043but um uh that is not good because um I have two daughters coming out of college next month. I don't want them to come home necessarily. Um love them dearly, but uh they need to stay away. Um so, this this an interesting um change in what we've seen in the marketplace here. Um and so, the younger workers are having a more harder time finding jobs. So, let's hope that switches. Eventually, there will be a silver tsunami silver tsunami where um the baby boomers will be uh moving on. So, they just need to wait it out. Uh you're going to be moving on. Give us space for everyone else in the room. Um Um inflation that's certainly been on the topics of investors and and consumers over the past uh couple years. The good news there
044is inflation has come down from the highs of a couple years ago. We're in a disinflationary period meaning that prices are still rising but not just as fast. The um um and with everything going on in the Middle East right now and the higher energy prices, that is starting to leak back into inflation. So, we are a little concerned about that um and how long that's going to last. I just filled my car up today and thankfully it did not show how much the price was. So, I guess it was free. Um but um we are feeling that the pain at the pump and that will certainly lead into higher prices when we go shopping, etc. Even to depress you even more, um inflation has hit hard over the past uh 60 years. Um this
045is a chart about what has happened since 2019. Overall inflation is up 26% since 2019. Um the winner of what's the most expensive uh increase um as we all know in the room um is your car insurance. It's at 57 56%. And that certainly hurts um especially when you have uh kids at home that um tend to run into things. Um and I I everyone has called their insurance agent asking why but as you can see there, everybody was um influenced um all types of goods and services with um inflation over the past couple years. But fortunately, we're not seeing that rise as quickly as we had over the years. Maybe some good news here in a moment. Uh latest on the Fed funds rate, uh we'll talk a little bit about the Federal Reserve.
046This is a very important rate as as Dave looks to invest school district funds. Um the Fed's funds rate is set by the Federal Reserve and the types of investments that we talked about there earlier are tied very closely to what the Fed does. So, over the um past couple of years, the Fed did raise interest rates and that was very beneficial to to the school district because you enjoyed a much higher income stream. Um in 2025, the Fed did lower interest rates as um the economy was starting to cool a little bit. Uh as we entered 2026, we thought they were going to continue that trend um but with everything that's been going on over the past month or so, uh they're on hold right now um with um any type of rate changes.
047So, stay tuned about what will happen here um in the future. One important important note is if you've been following the news, um there will be a new Fed chairman um here in May. Uh the Jerome Powell's uh term is up. Um Kevin Warsh um is um the um incumbent. The confirmation started today um about confirming him. The Senate has to confirm him. Um it has uh turned into a political um something in Washington turning political, imagine that. Um so, it is um very political right now about him um being the new uh chairperson. Uh there's a senator out of uh Republican senator out of uh North Carolina Tillis is not necessarily in favor of him. So, they're trying to um sway him over to get him as the new Fed chairman. Um so, we
048will see if that happens. Um if he is not um confirmed, Jerome Powell will stay on as the interim uh chairperson. And um so, a lot going on the changes at the at the Fed. Uh everybody's uh patiently waiting if the Fed is going to remain independent or are they going to be more influenced by political uh powers. And I'll leave it at that. Uh benchmark um interest rates, um interest rates um have um uh declined um over the past year. Um this starts from way over here on the left as a 6-month treasury and over the right is a 10-year treasury. Uh this time last year uh the short-term interest rates um were higher. We've come down quite a bit um with with interest rates. Um and as I pointed out here earlier, this
049has a direct impact on the investment income of the school district. So, um you will not you'll still see higher income but it won't be as high as it was last year um particularly with the money that you have in like the Star Ohio type of accounts. So, that's right now the Fed is on hold. They're sitting on their hands. They're doing, you know, the proper thing by waiting to see what happens um with gas prices and and everything across the sea. So, lots to look at there and it'll probably change by the time I get to work tomorrow. A little bit um about the district's uh funds. This is an overview all of all funds of the school district. Uh we serve as an investment advisor for a portion of those funds. Additionally, um
050Dave diversifies his investment um professionals. He utilizes the services of Fifth Third Bank and another um financial institution by MultiBank Securities. And then also he utilizes the Star Ohio account as a main liquidity account uh for the school district because they do offer the best rate um on an overnight security. Um overall, excuse [clears throat] me, the total investments of the district is right around 74 um million. And I look back and that has trended um down quite a bit since I started here um working with the school district over the years. So, um for for a variety of reasons. So, that is a little bit of a overview of all of all of the funds there and well diversified across all of the the different um types of institutions and and products. And now
051just a quick glance um about the funds that we assist the school district on. Um this is a snapshot of a sort of the the statement that Dave gets on a on a monthly basis from us. Just a couple of points here about the portfolio. This portfolio sits right around $20 million. Uh the yield on this is is almost 4% and um what is most important to point out for for the the investments in this portfolio is the weighted average maturity is over 2 years. And why is that important for the school district? That means that over the past couple of years when the interest rates were higher, we were able to lock in those higher rates for the school district so you can um enjoy that higher income stream for a little bit longer
052um of a period of time instead of um like a Star Ohio would immediately the yield would fall if the Fed would cut interest rates. So, it's diversified by maturity. Um as you can see there to the left-hand side with the bar chart, we've got securities maturing um out in a three four and five-year range and then also we do take advantage of of all of the um different investment options that are allowable for the school district. So, we do I talk to Dave quite often with about what's going on here. We get um updates from him. We are very in tune about what's going on in the world of of school finance in in today's world. And we Dave and I were just at a conference last week and heard a lot of news
053about that. So, that um we're staying in tune about what could potentially happen in the future so that we would if we would have to pivot um with the investments of the school district. That's what I have here tonight. Any uh questions? Concerns? Well, thank you for coming. >> I appreciate that. Thank you for having me here once again and not in January. Before you go, What's that? >> Could you tell us how many years the Fed fund rate was at 0.25%? Uh so, they moved um which time? Um they uh the Fed Federal Reserve cut interest rates to actually near zero during the during the dark days of COVID. And uh so, you know, the district was earning a quarter of a base a quarter of 1%. And we somehow made it through then.
054So, the rate stayed uh around a quarter percent half a percent until 2020 two or 2023. So, it was it was a long time uh for us to have to watch interest rates um so low. And then they rocketed back up um and and now they have brought them back down um a bit. So, um you know, where the district's portfolio is here today when I was here back in 2020 and you had I had to talk about near zero percent interest rates, it was not a it just wasn't fun uh to do that by far. So, the district is in a great spot here. Um all of the investments are are earning above market uh yields and um you know, the question is is what happens in the future. And that's really going to
055be driven about what happens with what's going on across the ocean right now. If you ever have any questions about the portfolios, let us know um Dave. I appreciate you having me here once again. You all have a great night. Thank you. It's always good to follow Ryan because he always has so much fun with what we have invested. So, um back on March 19th, we had our last finance committee meeting. Uh we had a few new members in there so I presented the financials that are given to the board on a monthly basis. Talked about the first 12 pages, which includes the summary, the revenues, the summary for the revenues, the expenditures, the summary for the expenditures. I also believe it includes Let's see. Our >> [snorts] >> I want to say our interest,
056but that's uh not part of it. Um But the first 12 pages are always the most important for anything you're looking at here. Um We went through each of those page by page, and then we got into legislation and all, you know. You don't want to get into any legislation tonight. So we got into legislation, and there were There were um questions about why the state would do this, and our answer is, like we're always saying, we don't know. I think the state hates school districts, but public school districts, I'm sorry. Um and then we spoke about what happened at the budget commission, and their meeting, I believe it was on March 6th. And since March 6th uh the budget commission has seen to it that they met two more times, I believe. And in
057those two times, they never followed Robert's Rules of Order, but I won't say that. And they also never took any action in their second meeting at all, and never ended their second meeting. In their third meeting, they came through and said they're going to follow all the all the tax budgets that were submitted. So that was a quick summary of what happened after the finance committee meeting. So let me talk about these are important here. Uh if you notice, we are at AI root. Cuz I like to always point out where we're at when uh our financials are here, and the speakers are presented by the superintendent's office. Uh with our overview, our beginning balance is always the beginning of July, July 1st of 2025. We started with $41 million. Our revenues for Oops, sorry.
058Our revenues for the uh year have been $94 million, and our expenditure is $77 million. Um this will Our expenditures will catch up to our revenues as we go through, because our last payment from the county was made uh just last Friday. And uh so that'll be the largest portion of our money's coming in. Our ending balance for March was $55 million, and this increased $14 million in March. Uh that's because of advances that came in from the second half real property. First half real property tax in the calendar year, second half in the fiscal year. Now we get to our revenues. Our total revenues again, $94 million. That's at 81% of what we targeted with our last um forecast. I was going to say 5-year forecast, but there is no longer a 5-year forecast.
059So it's just known at the state as the forecast. Our real property, $64 million. You could see this is only 2.1% above last year at this time. Uh you would figure that this would have been more because um we had a full year's worth of collections for the uh levy that was just passed in November of '24. Um So looking at this figure, um we knew that our our advances were low. Uh what came in with the settlement here uh last Friday was a $6 million settlement. That's roughly $5 million more than we usually get in the settlement itself. Um so I don't want to say that the county was holding on to our money's, because they're supposed to advance 90%, but the county was holding on to our money's. Uh our state foundation, $14
060million. This is uh 4.9% above last year at this time. Um and it's it's been holding now. If you go back to February, it was also at 4.8, 4.9%. We get to our expenditures. Total expenditure, $77 million. Uh this is 69% of what our forecast uh has stated we would be at right uh for the full year. And um so we're right in line with what our expenditure should be. Personnel services, uh $42 million. This is 2.4% above last year at this time. So we are well within what we were projecting. Our uh benefits, $17.4 million. Uh this is up 13.2% and then again, I remind the board, our premium increase for our health care benefits was at 18% uh starting July of this fiscal year. And then our other expenditures, $10.3 million. This is
061up $418,000 above last year at this time. Uh everything was up except for the uh supplies and um materials. Uh I added this slide last month. I I actually like this slide. You you see it on the monthly uh information that I give to the board. Uh shows your current revenues and your current expenditures broken down by the different sources there. We come to our investments uh that Ryan was talking about. We are up um $180,000 above last year at this point. Uh last year we collected a we were collecting $1.77 million. I believe for the entire year we collected over $2 million on investments. And we get to our forecasted funds. If you look at that blue bar in March, it's lower than where we were last year at this time. Again, um you
062would have anticipated that that should have been higher based on a full year's worth of collections uh with the new levy. Um What we will see is our April blue bar will probably be at or above the blue yellow bar from last year. And then I added this focus. Um As you know, we do a focus Friday here. Um This isn't last week. This was the week before. I wanted to point out that this is a chart based on not only our base cost, but on the average cost of a student in the state of Ohio. Now if you look at the the local share and the state share, that is less than the than 50% of the average cost of a student in the state of Ohio. Now our share, or I should say,
063our total student cost is less than the average cost in the state. So that's that's the one thing I wanted to point out. The other thing I wanted to point out is the base cost, if you look at that, and then you look at the state share of the base cost at 4.9%. The state is not paying a fair amount. And this is the reason that our property taxes, we have the number of levies that we do. Is because the state is not sharing the cost of a student. The state is paying a minuscule portion of a cost of a student. So I just I just wanted to point that out here. Uh you could find this Friday forecast. Uh I believe Amy sends it out every Friday uh that we do produce one. And
064I also uh believe it's on our website. On our website, and possibly on Facebook, and what's that other one? Instagram. Thank you very much. So And again, where can you find the information? It's out on our website. Uh anything going back to 2014. Any questions on that? >> Yeah, I have a question. Since the auditor held on to our money, and probably was getting interest off it, can we ask him for our interest on our money? Well, back in the I want to say '90s, uh Cuyahoga County Auditor, and you may have you may remember this, Frank Gaul, was charged by the s- was was um He was let go by the Cuyahoga uh by the Cuyahoga County. Um and the reason is because on a yearly basis, he was holding more than the 10%
065that they were uh supposed to be holding. So And school districts did get upset with that. But no, they never saw interest going back to them. So I believe I recently read that uh their expenses um or their expenditures are up about 70% at the auditor's office, so maybe it was to cover that. >> Yeah, I I do want to reach out to the auditor's office, cuz on a settlement basis, bas- basically um semi-annually, just with the collections, they are to withhold money's for the reappraisal and update. And I think I want to reach out to the auditor's office and see what monies were expensed from everything they withheld uh because under auditor Kovach, we received around a I want to say anywhere between 150 and 250,000 dollars coming back to us, which in turn
066helps um reduce the tax our taxpayers uh portions. So, if the auditors have increased their expenditures for the reappraisal and update, I want to take a look at that and see. So. Thank you. I have one thing. Yes. Sorry. Yes. Can you go back one slide? Yeah, that the the base cost. Yes. I was watching the news last night and I don't know the senator's name, but he's the one that's always passing all or wanting introducing legislation for property tax. And it was on the news last night and they were saying that uh the average cost in the state is 18,000 dollars a student. Does that sound about Um it it was 17 Whatever this adds up to. 17 5 17 6. Yeah, you were saying it was 18,000. So, I guess my point is
067is that we're less than the average cost in the state. Correct. That's my point. Thank you, Mr. Chambers. All right. Moving on to board communication. Would you like to go? Ms. Pritchard, thank you. Okay. Um last night I picked a bad night to go to a baseball game because it was really cold. We played Strongsville and um unfortunately, we lost 7 to 5, but our kids did come back um and make it a um a you know, a more of a ball game. Um Strongsville just had a lot of blue pits. So, it is what it is, but they are playing tonight. So, hopefully, we'll be able to um beat them on their home field. Um I attended Jazzmatazz in March. It was uh it's always a great event and a great fundraiser for the
068bands. I've been able to watch two boys lacrosse games, one in the cold and one in the warm weather. Both of them were victories. Um and watched uh girls rugby defeated Medina in New York 77 to nothing, which really wasn't much of a game, but it's fun to watch the girls just run over one another, I guess. Um because that's what they were doing. Uh boys volleyball, um they are playing very well. I've got to see one game um and they're they're playing some real stiff competition to get them ready for tournaments. Um attended the musical on Sunday afternoon, uh Hadestown, amazing production and a great shout-out to the cast and directors. Um congrats to Brandon Marinus, who placed first in the state in culinary arts and is headed to nationals um from the career
069center. National Honor Society uh induction ceremony is tomorrow at 7:00 at the PAC. A reminder that if you are 18 to 23 and don't know what you want to do with your life, check out adult ed at the career center because it is free. So, do that. I know a lot of people are seeing a lot of signs around Medina, but for some reason, people are wondering why. Um remember voting is going on, so you have until next Tuesday to vote. So, please go and vote. Um it's important because every vote um that is cast by whatever party you want to vote for um you the local gets money for the um for their party to spend on local candidates. And then two passings, which I'm sure everyone knows the first one, um our former
070basketball coach Keith Soy, and then a former secretary at the high school, Lois Anderson, who passed away at the age of 98. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Pritchard. Mr. Hare. Um Yeah, I attended the um Ella Cannavan fifth grade capstone presentation along with uh Vicky and Jean. Um it was amazing to see what fifth graders can uh put together. Um and I think it really shows the value of the uh capstone initiative as it continues being rolled out. Uh got to give my obligatory lacrosse updates. Uh watched the boys take on Wooster and win 9 to 5. Uh Caleb Miller and Bryson Hoffman each had a hat trick. Then they had a great game against Strongsville being down at halftime and coming back to win 10 to 4. Uh Kobe Miladinovic had 12 saves making
071a 75% save rate, which is incredible. Then unfortunately, we had a tough loss in the pouring rain against Wadsworth um losing in overtime with 18 seconds left. So, that was a that was a tough one. Um as previously mentioned, the facilities committee met and while we are currently doing the um root roof replacement, um one of the ongoing topics is investing in the ongoing improvement of Claggett. So, maybe more to come on that. Um as Jean already mentioned, tomorrow is the NHS induction ceremony and then Friday the um MCTA awards ceremony. Um and then uh if you have time, check out on May 1st, uh the debate team is having a showcase. Um certainly a busy time of year. Great. Vicky. Thanks. Um so, I went to a facilities policy committee and curriculum committee this
072month. And um as Dr. Jackson said at curriculum committee, we previewed uh the psychology materials and the choice book list. And I just really appreciate the care that goes into making sure our students have relevant and engaging materials. Um I think I finally made my way around the square to see all the pieces of art from the art show. Um it's quite a trek to get to every single one. Amy Busby did a really great job um with the art show. Um I think our families are always really pleased. Um it's exciting to go see your kids' work town. I also attended Jazzmatazz. This was my first one. Um it was really joyful. Um I'm impressed by the amount of time that the that are that are our um students spend doing this outside of
073school to put together these performances and um this event. Um I attended the dedication of the PAC stage to Gary Seola and hearing about his life and impact and the legacy that he leaves behind was incredibly moving. Um his entire family was there and that was um incredibly touching. I as Aaron said, we went to Cannavan and did the fifth grade capstone presentations. Um the students were grouped and then paired with uh business leaders around the community. It was funny talking to the kids about what was the most difficult part and they all um talked about how difficult it was to work together and compromise. So, >> [laughter] >> I think, you know, they're learning how to be collaborators and communicators and uh I'm I'm excited to go this week to see the capstone projects
074at Claggett and Root. And then um last but certainly not least, I also had the opportunity to see Hadestown. Um it was nothing short of phenomenal, not just the amazing performers that we have, but the the set, the sounds, the light, um all all of the technical aspects, um the fact that it's, you know, primarily kids that put this together. I mean, obviously with the guidance of adults, but it's it's really amazing what they're able to do. So, I think um you know, there's some really wonderful examples of what our students can achieve when they have opportunities to express themselves and create. Thank you. Um I went to Jazzmatazz and um that's brings back a lot of memories for myself. Uh my father was a band director and he always had these sorts of things.
075So, I very much enjoyed that and I thought of my dad the whole time I was there just because that's what he loved to do. He would have he attended a few times and absolutely enjoyed it. Went to Hadestown. Um I'm not going to say anything more cuz everybody else has, which is fine. Um had a Medina City Schools Foundation uh meeting uh last week, I believe. And then I've also attended the finance committee um uh meeting in March. I would um ask uh that we are now in becoming into the election cycle and I would encourage everybody to get out and vote. That's um it's our constitutional uh right that we get to vote, but I think consider it more of a d- it should be a duty. Um but if you have questions
076uh especially anything school related we have five elected board members up here and we have a superintendent and a treasurer here that are more than happy we are all more than happy to get you the answers to questions that you have. So, you can make an educated choice. Uh there is a lot of legislation you hear every month, a lot of legislations coming out of Ohio and even out of Washington. Find out what's going on and make your choice. I would just encourage everybody to read, ask questions, um come to the sources here. Um that's all I have. Great, thank you guys. I do want to point out it's great something that I don't think when I was in school that the board members really attended a lot of things in the community and I
077want to say thank you to all of our board members for truly stepping up and going to all these events. Um Medina is much larger than the place that I went to and um we have so many events. So, I appreciate everybody taking the time to do that. Um I was lucky enough to be a guest reader at Blake uh in their kindergarten class. It was so much fun. Um they were they're just so cute. Kindergarteners just love them and they really enjoyed the book that their teacher picked out that I had never read before and uh that was real fun trying to read it >> [laughter] >> and show it and not know what I was reading. So, that was fun. But, always good. I attended the policy committee as well, partnership council which
078I absolutely love. I've been doing this for many years. It's um with the uh police departments, with the mayor's office, with the Main Street Medina, finding out what's going on within our community, but also uh generally Mr. Sable's there. You don't think you were there this you were in uh out of town that day. Uh but, Amy filled in for him and told everybody about what was going on in with the schools. Um otherwise, they have a PTO council. So, all the wonderful PTOs uh presidents and their treasures came and um you know, brought all their things that they are doing together. So, it's really nice for them to work together. Otherwise, uh attended Hades Town. One thing I want to mention is not only did the students outperform themselves and I know there's going
079to be many that are going to be part of the Dazzle Awards that are coming up. I guess Dazzle uh people were there on Saturday. But, uh I'm looking forward to seeing how many of our students are there. It was amazing. I brought tears to my eyes. I I and I'm not a musical type person. So, uh it was very good. They told the story very well. Um but, also our band director, Mr. Locker, our um Oh, he's in charge of the drums, Mr. Louie. Thank you. And uh Mr. Ilg who his children can't uh went to school here, but he also teaches at Highland were part of the band. So, we had several of our band members there, but also they were in charge of that. I loved it. They were all dressed up
080with their like they were down in a Louisiana band. So, it was very neat to watch that and they got up and um Mr. Locker played his trombone. That was very fun. Uh otherwise, I'm going to shout out to the after prom committee. Um tomorrow night if you guys don't have dinner, go to um Gianino's. They all day tomorrow they are doing a fundraiser for the after prom. But, otherwise, after prom walk through, you guys have to see what this committee has done. The theme this year is Legends of Rock. So, keep that in mind. You know, think about 80s rock. That's all I'm going to say. But, um the walk through is on Ap- I'm sorry, May 16th at 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. That may sound late to you, but trust me those
081kids don't get there until 11:00 p.m. And they stay until 2:00 and then the wonderful people that are volunteering are generally there until 3:00 a.m. or 4:00 a.m. So, give kudos that to them. So, and I might be there, too. But, appreciate everybody that puts that forth because it is a huge undertaking and it is all for our juniors and seniors in the high school. All right, moving on. Anything else? I'm always used to Becky always you know, bringing something else. >> [laughter and gasps] >> All righty. So, do we have any public comment? Nope. Anybody else? All righty. So, moving on to action items, treasurer's action items. Yes, if it please the board, uh I'd like to uh recommend action item What is this? Hold on 1 second. Action item G1, uh treasurer's financial
082report. Action item G2, supplemental to permanent appropriations. And action item G3, resolution accepting the amounts and rates as recommended uh by the uh budget commission and authorizing the necess- the necessary tax levies and certifying them to the county auditor for the 2016 tax year, 2017 collection year. All right, I'll make a motion to accept treasurer's action items G1, the financial report, G2, the supplemental to permanent appropriations, and G3, the resolution accepting the amounts and rates. I will second. Thank you, Mr. West and Mrs. Drewly. Any questions? Comments? No? Hearing none, roll call. Mr. West? Yes. Mrs. Drewly? I. Mr. Hare? I. Mrs. Pritchard? I. Mrs. Moyer? I. Thank you. I'd like to recommend to the Board of Education uh the approval of agenda items H1 through H7. Uh couple things I want to highlight on
083these items. Uh within donations, uh we have almost a $2,000 donation from the Cleveland Browns in support of our new girls uh flag football program. Um the other items we have the uh projects as presented uh by Mr. O'Cole. Uh in addition, we also have a couple service agreements for special education services as required by uh the students' uh IEPs. Uh we also have the science adoption uh materials. I just want to emphasize that this is not the actual adoption of these materials. Um this is the approval for review. They'll be presented back to the board uh next month for actual uh approval. And then number seven uh is personnel. Um I I I do want to point out that uh Mr. Perry is going to be moving up to the high school uh next
084school year uh as he uh finishes up this year uh in and then um in addition to that uh we also have uh several um supplemental contracts uh as well as substitutes uh on the agenda. Um substitutes are always at a premium, so it's nice to see uh those lists. I'll make a motion to accept the superintendent's action items 1 through 7. Okay. Anybody second? I'll second. Thank you, Mrs. Pritchard and Mr. Hare. Um I would just like to um just say wish well uh Kathy Rhymer who was a physical education teacher, Ella Cannavan who's uh retiring um who was our gymnastics coach and gave us um probably one of our best athletes. Her both she had two daughters and maybe probably had more kids, but her one daughter was a state champ- all around
085state champion in gymnastics. Um And I wish her the very best. So, that's all I have there. I do want to point out since you mentioned that that next month's meeting is going to be a meeting where we honor all of our retirees. So, we'll be inviting all of our retirees in prior to the meeting. Usually have a cake and then recognizing them at the meeting. Oh, and the science books will be at the board office Correct. for review. Okay. All right, I want to recognize uh Carolyn Ballas who is the administrative secretary at Medina High School who is retiring. Um reached out to her today and wished her well and she said she was quite excited to be retiring. So, um you know, sometimes we just do. But, I think that's awesome. She's helped
086uh me in the past with several of the things with the high school and with after prom. Any other questions? Comments? All right, hearing none. Mrs. Pritchard? I. Mr. Hare? I. Mrs. Drewly? I. Mr. West? Yes. Mrs. Moyer? I. Thank you. And the last item on the agenda uh is a resolution uh to approve the 26-31 strategic plan as was presented uh, last month. Um, so it's recommended that the Board of Education approve the Medina City Schools Strategic Plan uh, for 26-31. Um, and I'm not going to read the resolution unless somebody from the board uh, requests it. Um, but it outlines uh, what we went through and basically what was presented last month. I'll make a motion to accept uh, Superintendent Action Item uh, I1, the resolution for the Medina City Schools Strategic Plan
0872026 through 2031. Okay. Any second? I will second that. Any questions? I have one question on um, Goal two, Objective 2.2. Develop and implement a district-wide behavior and expectations framework to ensure consistent, equitable responses to student behavior across classrooms and buildings. I know your answer is we're going to think about it and plan during the summer, but we do have a bullying problem that was very evident in every survey that came back from the students, the teachers, and the um, parents. I I guess my question is how is this going to help resolve that issue? I'm going to invite Dr. Qualk or Ms. Pazeka up. I think um, in talking to parents and while I acknowledge their concerns, I think when we talk to parents a lot, um, what we're going to work on with
088this is educating people to on the definition of bullying. Because the definition of bullying is not ours created, it's created by the state in terms of what counts as an incident of bullying. So on our website, we're legally required to list the number of incidents that meet the federal definition of bullying. So while wholeheartedly we do have incidents of bullying in our district, I think part of this goal that we want to work on is educating people about what bullying is defined as by the state of Ohio in terms of what meets that threshold that then um, requires a certain investigation and certain consequences versus harassment, right? The legal definition of harassment versus students who we need to talk with because they're not treating peers appropriately. You heard the root students talk about that, like
089being a bystandard and watching something happen. So I think what this goal seeks to address is all of that. So educating the public about what bullying means in an in a Ohio public school district versus how we want to make sure we're addressing any concerns parents have about their students. Um, it was funny, I was with teachers today and just talking about how we want everyone to come to whether it's school or work and feel good, want to come and feel like they're in a safe environment. So I think that's our our goal with this goal or our hope with this goal. Does that answer your question? Okay. Yes, thank you, Ms. Qualk. Appreciate it. Anybody else? Any questions? Um, I don't have a question. I just I think to to piggyback on that a
090little bit, like what I'm most interested in seeing is how um, we take the day-to-day experiences of our students or our parents and how that translates into progress towards our goals. So that's like what I think is going to be important for the board. No, I I was just going to mention and I know I've had this discussion with uh, some of the board members, but uh, it's important to know that uh, the strategic plan uh, it isn't a map, it's a destination. So we're creating uh, the pathway to meet all these goals um, as we work towards uh, uh, meeting each step of the strategic plan. Uh, and I know Ms. Pritchard had mentioned, you know, we're going to be working over the summer and we'll be ongoing working and adjusting in order to
091meet uh, this end game of the strategic plan. I just want to state that um, your board the Medina City School Board is definitely going to be monitoring this and all of the goals, which I believe they are very good straightforward goals and not to worry, we are watching over it. So as you guys all know. All right, any other questions? Uh, just a comment. Um, yeah, while I think the entire strategic plan is important, I do have a particular interest in 2.2 and 2.4. Um, and while I'm not looking for any kind of answer now, um, I will be curious what steps we're implementing for each of these and then how we're going to measure success, whether whether they worked. Um, I mean, I guess that applies to the the whole um, strategic plan,
092but again, focusing on those two. Um, based on some of the uh, survey feedback from the students, I I think 2.4 um, definitely deserves some attention. All right. Mr. Chambers, when you're ready. Mr. West. Yes. >> Ms. Smoyer. Yes. Ms. Early. I. Mr. Hair. I. Ms. Pritchard. >> I. Thank you. All right, after that, we are going to go into executive session uh, to consider the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, and compensation of a public employee or official and preparation for conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with employees. Thank you all for coming. We truly appreciate it. We have a motion. I'll make a motion to go into executive session >> for those reasons. I'll second. Thank you. Yep. Ms. Pritchard. I. Ms. Early. I. Mr. Hair. I. Mr. West. Yes. Ms. Smoyer. I. Thank
093you.