Medina City Schools Board of Education Meeting 5/20/25

001I'd like to call this uh regular board meeting on May the 20th, 2025 uh of the Madina City School Board to order. This is a meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district'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. Would everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nationy andice for all. Mr. Chambers, would you please call a roll? Mr. Nichols here. Miss Parkerst here. Miss Perkard here. Miss Smooyer here. Mr. West here. Thank you. First up is I would entertain a motion for the approval of the regular meeting minutes of April the

00215th. I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes. Second. Any questions or comments from anybody? Hearing none. Mr. Chambers, when you're ready? Miss Smooyer. I. Mr. Nichols. I. Miss Perkerst. I. Miss. Perchard. I. Mr. West. Yes. Thank you. Are there uh any additions uh removals, modifications to the agenda? Anybody hearing? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Thank you, Miss Pritchard. I was getting there. And do I have a second? Second. I'll second. Thank you. Uh, Mrs. Parker. Mr. Any questions or comments on the consent agenda? Hearing none. Mr. Chambers. Miss Perard. I. Miss Parkers. Hi. Mr. Nichols. I. Miss Smeyer. I. Mr. West. Yes. Thank you. Uh, next up we have information and discussion items. Number one, superintendent communications. Mr. Sable, I'd like to start by welcoming all of our

003guests this evening. Um, our board meetings are going to get a bit lonely as we head into the summer or no longer have our building presentations. Uh, so welcome to Claget students and staff that are here tonight to present as well as our retirees. Uh we are overflow into our room next door where we're broadcasting live thanks to Mr. Komar. Um so welcome to tonight's meeting. Um I'd like to uh bring up uh Principal Condit. Uh tonight we're going to be hearing about some of the innovative uh activities and lessons and instruction that's occurring over at Claget. Good evening board. Um very excited to be here and share with you uh some of the things that we have going on at Claget Middle School. I have several of our uh Claget students here and staff

004members to share a couple things uh that have been going on at our building. Uh the first that I want to talk about and invite up are is Miss Suzu and uh Mrs. Scott and their students from team Mercury. Uh last week the team uh came out with a career day where they invited local businesses and uh local entrepreneurs into the building to present to our students and then we held an expo in the afternoon where all students on the Mercury team were able to interact with these merchants and find out to kind of do a little career exploring to prep them for uh the career center field trip that 8th grade does the following year. So I wanted to give them opportunity to come up and share their experience and kind of what went

005into the planning to get this day possible uh because they are trying to move forward with and putting back in place the career shadowing that Claget used to do many many years ago. So I'm going to have Mrs. Cot and Miss Suzu come up with our uh seventh grade students from team Mercury. Hi, I'm Sam Lindon and on May 15th, my team Mercury 7th grade Claget had a career day. So, um, in the morning we had seven rotations you could go to and you could choose your top three to go to. And it was different groups each time, like different groups of kids. Each one was 30 minutes. And yeah, um my favorite was photography and because everything was just so interactive and I think the time inside each group was really good because it

006wasn't too long that it got boring, but it was also like a blast. It was a lot of fun. Thank you. So, my name is Bri and I will be telling you what we did in the afternoon. So, in the afternoon, our whole group, our whole team rotated through three three stations. In one station, we worked on our career day packets, which was like this stuff. And then in the second station, we did was our visual cover letters. And then the third station we did was our career day fair. So um for the visual cover letters, we did something that reminded us of ourselves and what we like to do and what we love to do. And everybody loved um loved how their cover letter turned out. And it's a good thing like it's a

007good idea that we made. And this is and this is my visual cover letter. Um, I picked um this because it's like very calm and it's like and everybody loves to be calm and I love the color pink. So, I picked some pink stuff to glue on there. And then I picked this because I love like this car and stuff. And then I picked this because I love basketball and it reminded me of basketball. And yeah, thank you. Hi, my name is Hunter and I'm going to be talking Hi, my name is Hunter and I'm going to be talking about the career fair. In the morning, we took a survey that helped match us with the careers before the career fair. The gym was organized by these groups that made it easy to find speakers

008who matched our interest. One of my favorites was the Navy submarine guy. He was awesome and the only reason I liked him was because he can hold the conversation about his job and went into depth with it. We were builders, thinkers, organizers, helpers, creators, and persuaders. The career fair was such a fun and helpful experience. I found out about careers that I never knew existed. Thank you, Like I said, photography was my favorite. And these are some pictures that we got to take with their very fancy camera. Uh hello, my name is Leo. Uh I'm excited to share with you what we learned from career day. Uh we gathered some feedback from our Mercury students. We enjoyed the day. We really liked how interactive the morning was. Uh, I really liked the quote where I

009learn more about qualities I have and jobs that I will fit into into because this really shows that um they took uh what the professional said and uh thought about what they wanted to do. Uh we also got some feedback from our presenters. Uh they shared how respectful we were and asked great questions. Um I really liked uh if C if uh students keep getting the opportunity uh like this workforce of tomorrow is going to be stronger than ever. I like this because um there's not a lot of opportunities like this and it shows us uh how many opportunities we have and looks deeper into our future. Uh and thank you Um, so we got on the newspaper and it was so awesome. Oh, we got on the newspaper and it was so awesome because

010it was it was a good it's it was like a good story that we did and everybody loved how like their career day turned out and everybody found like things that they like at the cur day and yeah and I do think there is another article coming out in Madina weekly this Thursday except they it hasn't been published since we had it last time so hopefully this Thursday you'll see another one about it. Oh, that's me. Um, so hi, I'm Selena Suzu. This is my third year in Madina. Uh, coming to Madina honestly was amazing because my first middle school that I worked at was more of a junior high, so no teaming. I think I'm blessed to be on team Mercury. Uh, Ericott, thank you. Um, so we kind of wanted to align everything

011to Portrait of a Bee. We wanted it to not just be a fun experience for the kids, but it aligned to district. So, um, I really feel like we did that. students were not just asking questions and digging deeper. They were looking into things that we were asking questions we didn't even think they were going to ask at that point. And I'm so proud of them in so many different ways. There was a couple other things you were going to add. Come back. Yeah. No, I got nervous. I'm sorry. You should see me in my classroom though. Give me some numbers. Math. I got it. Uh students were so intentional about what they were doing. They weren't super prepped on everything. They kind of went in like solo with the speakers. Seeing them do everything.

012It was just incredible. Um, I cannot wait for this to happen again next year. And I'm Erikica Cot. I have been in Madina City School since 2000, so a very long time. Um, and as Mr. Condet said at the beginning, formerly, we did have a career shadowing program where students went out into the community and actually shadowed somebody in a career of their interest um, for an entire day, which has always been a passion of mine that I'd really like to see us get back to. But we decided to kind of baby step our way back into this with the day that we planned this year. And then basically what I want to talk about now is kind of our future plans. So um one we would like to expand the career options. We had

013almost I think around 40 different careers at our building um throughout this experience. And it was awesome. We really tried to hit military, the trades, um a traditional four-year college path and even beyond. Um we'd like to continue to expand those options for kids in the future. Um again, one of our big goals is to get students back out into the community. Um we find it to be so important to remind these students that they have to be able to communicate face to face to other people because I we know we have a lot of keyboard warriors these days and we don't have to practice talking in person. Um so we think that's really important. And um pie in the sky down the road, I'd love to see us create a more formal opportunity for

014students to share their experiences with parents. So maybe we do get out into the workplace and then maybe we have something in the evening at Cleet. Mr. Condis just hearing about this for the first time I think but where parents can come in and the kids can kind of present about what their experiences were. So, we really look forward to it and as Miss Suzu said, it was really a team effort and we are so proud of all the students and the feedback we got from the presenters on how well they did. Um, and we're particularly proud of these four students for stepping up and and being brave tonight because uh we couldn't do it without them. So, thank everybody so much. We're proud to be Mercy. [Applause] So because Thank you. So before I

015call, I did bring another group from Claget to to brag about, but I wanted to speak of the career expo that occurred and the way our um seventh grade students, Mercury students, conducted themselves. I was extremely proud of our students. You know, sometimes people get nervous when they have middle school students around, but our students rose to the occasion. They spoke very professionally to the uh presenters that were there to the entrepreneurs and did a fantastic job uh representing this district and representing Portrait of a Bee. So I just want to congratulate uh the Mercury team on a amazing job and an outstanding program uh that our students were exposed to last week. All right, the second one that I'm calling up if you Yes. Could I just uh comment? Yeah. Um if you want

016me I can wait till the end if you want. up to you. I just was I your portrait of a Mercury or whatever you called it. I I caught on there. I I think it was important that you saw or I saw a student said, "I didn't know how much math careers took." And I think the tiein is is that they realize these things that they're doing now they will need later. And that's kind of show them. Yes. Absolutely. I It's just something that struck me. So I just wanted to say that's a good thing. Yes. Thank you. And I it's a great point to bring out that students have to realize down the road all these skills that they are getting now will be utilized at one point or another um as they move

017on from the walls of these buildings. So all right the next group that I'm going to have come up and if you came to the expo you may have had a little taste of it uh is the chestnut the American chestnut club of Claget. Uh Mr. Molene is not here so we will not be here speaking to you for an hour on chestnuts. Uh so the presentation from this will be much shorter but I do want to call up uh Miss Hannah and Mr. Caruso and Mrs. Montgomery uh who are here with uh some students of the American Chestnut Club to talk about uh what is going on with the American Chestnut and the club at Claget. Well, um, as Mr. Condet said, I am definitely not Mr. Mawne. Um, I cannot do this speech

018justice. Um, as he was texting me on the way here, he said it was like, um, a babysitter leaving a newborn baby for the first time with all of the directions. So, I'm going to do my best. Um, before I tell you a little bit about the club, I first want to tell you, um, the kind of teacher that Mr. M Wayne is um he could not be here tonight because he's with his family. Um his daughters are experiencing some monumental moments in their lives. So he is with them. Um when I first saw Mr. Mane um two years ago, we were coming back from uh summer break and no other teachers were in the building. I was walking by his room and he was standing on a really tall stool hanging something up on

019the wall and I expected to just say, "How was your summer? Did welcome back." And instead he whisked himself around and said, "I have to tell you about the American chestnut." And I'm like, "Okay." So, I got a very dramatic story about what the American Chestnut was and what his grand visions were for um what he wanted to do with this. So, it was his vision for this to become a conglomerate that spanned across the entire district. Um he wanted to involve building administrators, central office staff, teachers, students um and that is exactly what he has done. So he has um built partnerships at a national, state, county, local and just today at the district level um where he gifted a American chestnut tree to um AI root middle school to Mr. Kevin Bucks to

020um extend that chestnut branch over there um to the other middle school across the way. Um and he was very excited to receive that. um he helped get this into the classrooms of eighth grade students um with an amazing culminating event of um planting American chestnut trees at Memorial Park. He worked with integrating history and science and he's now looking to the future of possibly expanding this fully interdisciplinary um involving math and language arts as well. Um, so I am going to turn this over for a moment to um, Mr. John Caruso. He is part of the Ohio chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation. Good evening. Um, I'm John Caruso. I am a board member of the Ohio uh, TACF. Um I have uh contacts with uh National and we interact with them on a

021very regular basis and many of the trees that uh Mr. Mcawne and the club have planted uh come from National um donated through the Ohio chapter as well. And then um I think I'm going to introduce Miss Hannah and um I can answer questions and talk for a little bit at the end. Hi there. Um I'm Miss Hannah. I currently teach math at Claget Middle School. Um, and I'm on the Nebula team with uh, Adam Mawne. Um, and I too have spent a lot of time uh, working with him and getting this um, off the ground running. Uh, we've got a lot of chestnut trees in our math classroom right now and the kids all know what they are. Um, and I'm excited to give them a chance in a couple minutes to tell you

022guys about it. So this is kind of the timeline of our um community engagement and partnerships. Um so back in 2023, the fall of 2023, um we had that initial video conference with um the national chapter and had conversations of how do we get this to um continue to grow and evolve. Um we then have gone through the Ohio chapter um and Mr. Caruso has been pivotal in helping develop that. Um then in the spring uh the geometry and science plus students they got to um do a project where they got to pick what they wanted to research. if they wanted to research something with history, um something with science and what um they wanted to learn about with this um chestnut and the blight that kind of took over. Um then in spring, like

023I had mentioned earlier, we got to go and plant those. Um and of course, they did not stop there. um continued getting um funding for this club now with getting grants um and just now have um partnered with Boys and they are um kind of having they plan to hold a chestnut talk um and just continuing to evolve this as much as uh possible. So, this is um really something that we want you to hear from the kids because I think that um they can explain it much better than all of us. Uh before we do hand the mic over to the kids though, um we do definitely have a lot of ties that are inspiring deeper learning through this club at Claget. Um and the first one is with the goal of engaging the

024community and environmental education. Um we are promoting those 21st century competencies like collaboration, communication, um literacy as far as civic duties and ecological knowledge, um problem solving. I feel like the list goes on and on and it's really cool to see the kids explore this um and enjoy doing it. We are also uh definitely fulfilling a lot of the skill requirements that were projected for this year um in the future of jobs reports such as leadership, resilience, social influence. Um it is crazy how much interest other students are showing in the American chestnut tree. Um prior to this year, they probably weren't even aware that it existed. Uh so it's very cool to see that. The second connection um would be in regard to tree development and future ready skills. Um it is full of

025STEM innovation uh as we work to restore the American chestnut tree. Um the kids are learning about crossbreeding. Um you will hear in a couple minutes about the B3F3 trees um and solutions brainstorming involving genetic modification to save this species. We are also teaching problem solving, STEM fluency and um integrating technology in everything that we are doing. Um and we are also instilling skills of analytical thinking, systems innovation, um and monitoring the use of technology. And finally, in regard to historical and ecological literacy, um our goal, learning from the past for a sustainable future, we are exploring indigenous uses and the cultural history of chestnuts while promoting intelligence as far as culture goes, um historical awareness, um and ecological ethics. And I will now turn it over to our students. To start things off, I'm

026going to be explaining why it is so important for us to restore the American chestnut tree. So, first things first, this tree has gotten a bad disease called blight and it's spreading really rapidly. And so, to stop this, we need to act fast. Um, but we need to be able to like do this really quickly because it's um functionally extinct, which means it it could go fully extinct at any time. And without this tree, we won't be able to look at it um cuz it's so beautiful. And we won't be able to build with it because it has really great wood to build such strong structures. So next we're going to I'm going to be explaining what this tree produces. So this tree produces a type of nut and it's very nutritional and high in

027protein and dense calories and it also includes vitamin C. And a lot of animals and creatures really like to have this um type of nut for a snack and even humans can have it. And the fun thing that we did during one of our lessons was we got to actually eat one of the raw chestnuts. And the flavor that some of us sort of like explained was that it kind of tasted like a Thanksgiving dinner or mashed potatoes or something. It was really weird, but it was really cool to like experience that. But also, these nuts can be cooked and when they are cooked, they're a lot sweeter and have a more crunchy texture. And one last quick fact is that these trees can produce around 100 pounds of nuts per year. Thank you. Um,

028I'm Enzo from the sixth grade space pirates team at Cleet and today I wanted to talk about the ways the American Chestnut Foundation is planning on restoring the tree. So they have three possible solutions. The first solution is called the B3F3. Um, this tree is bred with other trees, the specifically the Chinese chestnut. Um and the other solution is called the D54 and the D58. Um and this tree is bred or genetically modified with the Chinese chestnut as well. Um the third solution is called the um Darwin and the Darwin is actually bred or genetically modified with uh wheat genes. Um, and the difference between the uh D54, sorry, my apologies, and the D58 is that the D54 and 58 actually work to um fight the blight constantly. And the um Darwin only works to

029fight the blight when it is harming the tree. Um, and I actually have a Chinese chestnut right here and an American chestnut. And they're quite similar. I don't know if you can tell. Um, and I uh our gift to the um from the American Chestnut Club. We actually have two native trees that I would like to give to you guys. I think that wraps up about what the current solutions are to um help the tree and I'm going to pass it to our next person. Thank you. Hi. Hi. My name is Maggie Williams. I'm in the eighth grade Nebula team. I'm going to be talking about like the buds and insects. Um, these buds and insects um help with the trees a lot, but they also can harm the trees. The small uh buds that

030you see from the nuts are called the larvi. um they emerge from the soil and they um enter the do stage uh in mid late August. The chestnut blight might not only uh take the chestnut tree but also these buds that came with it that helped our envir environment. Uh recently more buds have been discovered including the uh chestnut mining bay which has also helped our environment. The leaves of the American chestnut tree often look sharp as if they could hurt you, but um they only have a scratchy test texture. Um on the top of the leaves, they're it looks like they have a matte surface. Um while the bottom um is paler than the top and it also has like soft hairs as you could say. Um the edges of these also look kind

031of tooth but they do not hurt you if you do touch them. These leaves are fairly large um ranging from 5 to 9 in. These trees were used in lots of different uses with construction. They were used to build houses and lots of uh uses throughout cultures and just human environment itself. Um Mr. Macin actually has a favorite use of this which is with the guns. Hello, I am Jackson Morick from the eighth grade nebula team. And in the late the 1800s to late 1800s, the Americans used these for a variety of reasons because it was a wood that would not rot until the late 1800s, a blight from a foreign source came in. And due to the trees not being able to be adjusted to this, they would be killed off at a rapid

032pace, dying off around the 1950s. Uh my name is Gavin Hire. Um I did the ecological role for the American chestnut tree. It played a um vital ecological role as a dominant species in the eastern North American forests before being killed by the chestnut blight. Um it served as a crucial food source for um lots of wildlife sources and species and it leaves contributed soil health. The tree also is valuable tender timber and other resources for human use. My name is Paul Doyle. I'm in eighth grade and I'm on team Nebula. So, I did the different kinds of chestnut trees. There's plenty, but I wanted to do these three cuz I found them interesting. So the normal and the American chestnut tree, the castania dentata uh is mainly used for furniture and flooring and was

033founded in the year 1983. The algon plane pomea is usually used for fence posts and fuel. There is evidence of the al The Alini chinkpin in 2000 BC. The Ozark shinkpin was used for furniture and fence posts and was founded in the year 2007. So, I'll just have Jordan kind of click through the pictures you can see of the different things the Chestnut Club's been working on. Um, but this is just one of the many opportunities that our students at Claget have uh to do. Uh, and I think it's a unique club. It's one of the it's the first one in the state uh that is at the middle school level to give the kids the opportunity to learn about the American chestnut and a way to give back to the community because they are

034planting these trees uh in cooperation with the city and the school district. So that concludes our presentation for Kleet. Thank you. [Applause] I want to thank our CLA claget presenters this evening. Um uh obviously our core curriculum is so important when we talk about reading, writing, math, science, but it's the application that really creates the learning uh to so to see tonight uh the application of learning occurring uh at Claget was really impressive uh and it's really reflective of the hard work of our teachers and our administrators and our curriculum department with the deeper learning projects. And I think we get questions, what exactly is deeper learning? Well, you just saw it tonight. So, thank you. At this time, I would like to recognize our district retirees. Um, we started this tradition just a year

035or two ago with a small reception prior to the board meeting and then an opportunity to uh recognize all of our retirees uh at publicly at the board meeting. Uh, today the way we're going to go about that uh is through the individuals who know our retirees the best and that's our uh building administration. I'd like to start by inviting Principal Grace up to the podium. All right. Good evening. Um I have some pretty special retirees to talk about tonight and I know um two of them are are here and I'm going to invite them up. Uh one being Nikki Fujia. I see her entering the door right here and right and right behind her is Mr. Ken Bazidlo. Hey, friend. How are you? I'm going to bring them up together because uh they're buddies,

036so it makes it even more special. So, um I have had the privilege of knowing both of these individuals for a very long time. Um Ken, we were elementary colleagues across town with one another. Um I won't say how many years back, but it was a long time. And then Nikki I had the privilege of uh working side by side with um about 20 years ago as we taught sixth grade math together. So um I'm going to stick to a script because these are two um pretty hard individuals uh to see leave root and to leave our district um because they're they're pretty special. So, I'm going to start first with Mr. Bizidlo. So, Ken Bazidlo, eighth grade history teacher at Root Middle School, is completing his 34th year as an educator um in service

037to the Madina City Schools. Ken started his career in Madina in 1991 at Ella Canavan. And we realize that's where most of us all started our career is at Ella Canavan um for two years. Then he moved across town and worked at Sydney Fen for 13 years where he was a beloved elementary teacher. Mr. Bizilo then followed his passion for teaching history um to middle schoolers where he has been at AI root um inspiring eth graders uh to love history for the past 17 years. Anyone who knows Ken would define him as having solid pillars of character, kindness, integrity, and professionalism. When asking his colleagues for words to describe Ken, they said, "Wonderfully steady and kind, an example to all. An amazing storyteller, the model of an ex of an exceptional educator." A quote recently

038from one of our students uh was sweet. They said, "Mr. Bazida only has 15 days left, but he's teaching like he has 15 years." Ken's kindness, his grace, and his unwavering positivity has touched the hearts of students and staff alike. He has a smile that can brighten every room, and his legacy of class and care will always be remembered in our district and at root. So, best wishes to Ken on your special retirement as you and your awesome wife who is here as well. Chris is also a retired educator. There she is right there. um can enjoy the extra time and of togetherness and family and the joys of grandparenting. So you will definitely be missed Mr. Bazillo. [Applause] And our our next special person is Mrs. Nikki Fuia. Nikki is uh currently the seventh

039grade medical detectives teacher at root and she's completing her 33rd year as an educator in and service all to Madina City Schools. Nikki 2 started her career at Ella Canavan uh in 1992 and three years later became one of the founding um staff members uh for the opening of AI Middle School. Nikki has remained at Root for the past 30 years and is one of only two remaining teachers of the opening staff um at Root. Nikki's gifts and strengths are endless and her kind, caring, and empathetic soul serves as a model to all who know and work with her. Nikki is constantly evolving in her craft as she once inspired many sixth and seventh grade math students and lately is running medical clinics with her students in solving epidemic outbreaks. Her creativity and her excitement

040to try new ideas is contagious. And even in her final year, she regularly comes down to me and giggles and says, "Cindy, I'm having so much fun." Nikki's positive energy, her constant smiles, her helpful spirit, her fun and pro fun approach to everything that she does has made a lasting impact on all of us. It's truly an honor to call her my colleague and my dear friend. Nikki, you will be greatly missed, but know that your legacy of joy and innovation will always remain. So best wishes to you as you in too enjoy the gift of extra time and creating special memories with your beautiful family who I know um some are in the back here as well. So Nikki, you two will be missed. [Applause] Thank you. And next we have uh from Canavan,

041Principal Newton and Principal McGinty. I subbed in kindergarten today and I was looking all over for my glasses and I this kindergartener put them on and she's like, "I can't see anything." It was so funny. So, I have him here today. It was really funny. Um, Kim Deman has worn many hats while serving in a variety of roles for Madina City Schools over the last 30 years. She began her time in Madina in food service in 1995 where she was first a server at Claget and then became a cook at the high school. In 2000, Kim became a support paraprofessional at Claget where she worked for a year followed by 19 years as a parah at the high school. After her roles as a paraprofessional and in food service, Kim made the move to be

042a full-time custodian in 2021 at Elanavan. She worked at Elacan since then, supporting the building each evening. Although many of her jobs go unseen, her work at the building sets teachers and students alike up for success each day. Working in three different jobs at three different buildings over three decades, Kim has definitely left her mark on Madina City Schools. Kim's final hat might be just that of a motorcycle helmet. Kim and her husband are avid motorcyclists and spend many sunny afternoons on the open road. We are thankful for all of her years of commitment to our students and facilities and want her in to enjoy this thrilling ride into retirement. Congratulations, Kim. [Applause] I didn't realize how many people started at Canavan, but I have two awesome people who are starting and ending at Canavan.

043So, I would like to first recognize Christy Corkin. Uh, one of the best things about Madina is being able to see students return as educators and then dedicate their careers to supporting um, the same community that raised them. So, Christy Corkin is a prime example of this. She is a Madina City School alumnist and is now getting to retire as a Madina City Schools teacher. Christy was hired in 1990. She has served the district for 35 years as both an inter intervention specialist and a gened teacher. 34 of those years have been at Ella Canniban. As a general education teacher, Christy was extremely innovative and incorporated hands-on learning into her looped fourth fifth grade classroom. She was involved in deeper learning long before it was a philosophy of the district. Now, Christy is devoted to

044providing the most intense reading interventions for students in first through fifth grade. Her work as a certified academic language practitioner is crucial in our building and has set up so many students for success, many even to hopefully return as teachers one day like herself. Christy has been a flexible, understanding, compassionate, and supportive partner to all of her colleagues. The joke is often, which schedule version are we on? I think this year we made it up to Corkin schedule 9.0. um her flexibility in the day-to-day unknowns of elementary school in addition to the big picture of taking on new students midyear is appreciated beyond belief. Not to mention um in her last year of teaching we asked her to move into basically a copy room. So really we just appreciate all of that flexibility. Um as

045an MCTA building rep she has been unbelievably helpful and patient with me as a new principal and that is something that I will always be thankful for. Christy will be greatly missed at Canavan, but we are so excited for this ne next chapter for her in her brand new home with all of her duck friends in the backyard. So, congratulations, Christie. All right, next up, I would like to celebrate Miss Vicky Hannah. So, originally Vicki was not one of the people that I was planning on talking about tonight. Um, but I guess thanks to STRS, we are here and we are going to celebrate this well-deserved retirement. So Vicki began her career actually student teaching in Madina at Madina High School and then Garfield Elementary. After college graduation, she was hired as a long-term sub

046at Madina High School. And only one month into the school year, Vicki got a call from Principal Carol Sterk for a full-time contracted position as an intervention specialist at Ella Cannavan. and Vicki arrived at Canavan and has been an integral part of the Canavan family ever since. Since we didn't have a party planner position at Canavan, um Vicki tackled the role of Sun Sun sunshine committee chair for us. And truly, there is not a better person to serve in this role. Vicki applies the same warmth, sincerity, and kindness she has for all of her students to the interactions and support of our Canavan staff. She is always sending around a card to be signed or stuffing staff mailboxes with goodies to make the day just a little bit brighter for everybody at Canavan. Vicki is

047the type of teacher that students, teachers, and families are all thankful to have on our team. She does the work, loves her students, even the little kindergarteners, and supports her colleagues, never looking for recognition. We thank Vicki for her dedication and hours spent helping some of our most at risk students. We wish Vicki all the best in retirement. So now you can enjoy some sunshine. [Applause] And next I would like to invite Principal Dodie up from Northrep. Good evening. You're up here with me, girl. Yeah. Okay. A little. Tonight, I have the honor of recognizing Kathy Fraser, media pair professional at Northrup Elementary. We are celebrating 30 years of Kathy being a full-time pair professional in the district. She moved here from Kentucky where she had also worked in schools and in daycarees. And she

048first joined Madina City Schools as a parent of three uh then graduates and a sub for two years and very quickly became part of the Madina City Schools family. Kathy was first hired at Garfield Elementary and worked there for 14 years if I'm doing my math right. Okay. And then in 2009 when Northrup opened, so 16 years ago, uh she joined the Northrup family. She quickly made the Northrup Media Center a central hub in the building, a place where you can go get a hot cup of coffee every morning, a friendly conversation, and if you're one of the lucky ones, a delicious homemade New York style cheesecake on your birthday. Those are legendary. One of the things that makes Kathy uh so special is the way that she cares for the kids who need it

049most. You can call them the underdogs, the students in need, the ones who need just a little extra. Whatever you want to call it, Kathy has this innate way of knowing what they need, knowing who they are, and helping them with it. And it's quietly, and it's behind the scenes, without fanfare, without recognition. It might be buying them school supplies to start off the year or some new clothes, helping them at the holidays, quietly paying off some unpaid lunch fees. If you didn't know it, you wouldn't know it. But those of us who do are so grateful for it because the reason she does it is for love of kids. When we think about retirement, it's a mixed bag of emotions, right? Yeah. Excitement. It's it's really the thing that we work so hard for

050and look forward to. Maybe a little bit of sadness to not see your work family, the big people and the small people every single day. Um, a little bit of the unknown because we have a set schedule that we live by, bells and all, for 30 years. But there's joy in being able to spend more time with family. And as a good old Irish Catholic, Kathy has no shortage of a wonderful family, some of whom are here with her this evening. So, we are really excited for you on this next adventure. Can't thank you enough for all your service to Madina City Schools. You'll always be a part of our family and a part of the Northrup family. Congratulations to Kathy. Thank you. Thank you. Love you. I can do this. I can do this.

051You can do this. And from Madina High School, principal Teddona, you choose. There we go. All right. I have here Michelle Warner. Michelle is a Madina graduate who returned to MHS in 1997 to work as a server and a cook in our cafeteria. In 2002, she moved from the cafeteria to become a PAR professional, which is where she has served for the last 23 years. Michelle has made a lasting impact on our staff and students. She has provided advice for those in search of answers and has joined the various fun activities throughout the school. For example, most recently, she twinned with a student on twin day and made herself and the student matching shirts and proceeded to make him pose for pictures with her. Um, and if there was an award for whoever won that

052spirit day, it definitely would have been Michelle and this student. And that's what she does is she makes students days brighter and a lot more fun in a in a building that can be chaotic and overwhelming for some. One of the teachers who works with Michelle shared that she routinely goes out of her way to make an extra effort for her students to feel comfortable, heard, respected, and loved. Every birthday, the students came to expect a birthday bag from Michelle where she filled it with her favorite or with their favorite candies and snacks along with a handmade sign that the kids would always hang in their cubbies. Students have shared that Michelle is kind, generous, caring, and goes above and beyond. Michelle is going to leave a giant hole in Madina High School, but we

053are so excited for your next chapter and appreciate all that you have done for Madina High School in this district as a whole. And we'll certainly miss you, but are looking forward to all the adventures that I know that you will have and the trouble that you inevitably will get into. So, thank you so much for everything that you have done. And we have this for you because I was able to give it to you beforehand. Thank you so much for everything could not speak more highly of you. So, thank you so much. And next up we have Fen uh Principal Perry. First of all, we do not beat up our employees. We will explain this in a little bit. Uh which is goes to the nature of Terry Sabbo. So we are here to

054celebrate Terry Sabbo who completing her 35th year all at Fen. So you had Mr. Knight uh Mr. Komar and now myself. So uh you've gone through some principles here. Uh we're so glad you're here. So she I have to tell you she's one of the most easiestgoing staff members I have ever been around. Um, she's been working as a paraprofessional working with students the last few years, but also as our media paraprofessional. And I have to mention another role that you have, which is in the morning, which caused this. Um, she's one of our crossing guards in the morning, which I never realized how important that role was until I had a fill-in one day and I I nearly cause accidents, which just shows uh that you take that role very seriously and I couldn't

055not fill your shoes. Um, and so the reason this happened is she was our crossing guard the other morning and had a little spill and she did not want to leave. Um, but we did make her leave and I'm glad she did. Um, and I'm glad you're here tonight. What's that? In an ambulance, no less. That is correct. Um, but it made me again seeing that role just made me see how important just that small role we think of a crossing guard. It keeps our kids and staff safe every morning. So, and she takes it seriously. Um, so whether Terry is in our library helping our students build a love for reading or working with kids to teach them to type because that's very important. Uh, she even created the golden keyboard. Right. You still

056have that golden keyboard? You do. Uh, to help teach kids to type without looking because that's very important. She's always looking for a way to help our students. Um, you have a true passion for what you do and you are going to 100% be missed it, Fen. Um, you have always been and will always be part of the Fen family. And I know that we talk a lot about your grandchildren because, uh, they're in Brunswick and I live in Brunswick and we always talk about the times you get to go to the classroom or get to pick up or get to babysit and you're going to have a lot of time to do that. So, I hope you enjoy that and enjoy that as a grandparent. There's nothing greater. Um, so I just want to

057thank you for all years of service and a speedy recovery to your injuries. Terry [Applause] Sabbo. And this year we have an administrator retiring. And I'd like to ask Mr. Shields uh up to the front. You know, I have to tell a story here. Karen's already arguing with me that she's leaving to go to a concert over at Claget or over at Canavan and she wanted to leave. And this pretty much sums up mine and Karen's working career that arguing with each other. Just got the look. Come on up here. Come on up here. Stand next to you so everybody can see you. Plus, she told me I could do it at another party. I'm like, "This is the most professional one I have, Karen." So, you we got to do this one here tonight.

058So, so the year was 1998, and the district began an administrative intern program. The first person hired was an external candidate who previously taught nine years as a fourth grade teacher at Homestead Falls, her hometown, where she graduated from, and her name was Karen McGinty. Karen was assigned to learn and assist principal Carol Sterk at Alanovan Elementary School. When Karen arrived at Canavan in the 199899 school year, it was a year that saw eight expectant teachers at Canavan. Karen wanting to fit in and make connections with the staff immediately became pregnant and had her son Patrick that school year. So, team player. Two years later, Karen became principal at Ala Canavan. At that time, there was no weight, no Northrup, no Blake. Cannavan had nearly 800 students, a modular classroom village outside the building. And

059one of her first challenges in her early years as a principal was a major fire at Elanovan. So, she was out her way to Hilton Head, what had happened. So we sent her to Hilton Head and she came back and had to deal with the cannavan fire in the aftermath of it. And that was also the year that it impacted the start of the school year. But Karen was a trooper. Never seen anybody work more donations and taking care of the building and the students and making everything perfect after that fire that happened there. Karen spent the next nine years as a cannavan principal focus on focusing on her love of student instruction and staff development. In 2009 though, the district was opening two new elementary buildings. Everybody assumed Karen would want the challenge of

060opening a brand new building from scratch, but not Karen. Instead, Karen requested she wanted to take on the challenge of going to Garfield to be the principal. For the next 15 years, Karen was truly the perfect fit for Garfield students, family, and staff. I think personally from what she shared with me and what I witnessed, it was probably the most meaningful and impactful professional and personal fit for Karen at Garfield Elementary. Karen was a champion, an advocate, and a tireless crusader for every aspect of a Garfield student's life. There is nothing like, and I invite everyone to have this experience, than going with Karen to visit the Garfield attendance area neighborhoods in Madina. just bring Karen and tow because it's nothing, you'll never see anything like it. It's like a visit from a rock star

061more important than Taylor Swift showing up. Karen McGinty's on site or as I've been watching the po the new pope lately and Karen is a great Catholic so no disrespect Karen. Yeah. Um, it's truly like I mean people running to be blessed by her when the the families from Garfield are so thankful and grateful for all you've done for them and and uh just again I've never seen anybody put more of her heart and soul into taking care of the students in this building and I know it's sad every time Karen walks in this building. In Karen's initial application to Madina she indicated that recognizing the talents of others is her strongest ability as an administrator. Yes, you did say that. I might add that recognizing those talents in others, she also figures out a

062way to utilize those talents for her benefit. And everybody who has worked with Karen would would agree to that. Yes. So, we all like to say that we're Karen's interns, which brings us back full circle to Karen spending her final year back at Elican, where it all began as an admin administrative intern, covering a maternity leave this year for Gretchen and completing a job share with Gretchen once Gretchen came back. Karen, I personally want to thank you for a 36-year career as an educator and sharing 27 of those years at Madina City Schools. and I truly are so appreciative of everything I've learned from you and and what you've taught me about caring for the student in all aspects of their lives. And I know we all thank you and are going to miss you.

063She also has the very best stories about her family that I I just I'm going to miss that every day not hearing updates on Karen's family members, but uh we really thank you for all you've done for Madina City Schools. Thank you. Thank you. I think we might have tagged a new term. Instead of a swifty, we'll be a ginty. I I really do appreciate Karen's passion. And I when I came to the district nine years ago, she may have been the first building principal that I met with. And it was all about advocating for Garfield, the staff at Garfield and the kids here. Out of the box thinking of how to improve instruction uh within uh Garfield here. But what I'm really wondering is who's going to take over for Karen and calling me

064whenever I make a decision that's not popular with all the principles cuz she's always been the designated one to reach out to me. Congratulations to all of our retirees. Um, you know, it's really impressive the service uh that uh our staff graduates have provided to our students uh and our community. And I always look forward every year uh to hearing these presentations and the incredible impact uh that all of our educators have on our not just our students but each other, parents, and in the community every day. Um, when I was a building principal, I always said every year, "Boy, these freshmen get younger and younger." And and now I'm looking at our mentioned, it is our 150th. And as uh Miss Busby shared at our last meeting, we have several things that we're going

065to be doing uh to uh honor uh this benchmark in our history. Uh in addition to that, as I think it's raining or drizzling outside, uh our commencement ceremony is now outside at our stadium. Uh we do have a plan in place in the event uh of bad weather. Uh our goal is to proceed with the ceremonies if possible. Uh however, if uh the weather does not cooperate, um our first plan of action is to move to a later time uh on Saturday. Uh if it looks like a wash out, uh then our second plan is to move to Sunday. Uh I am happy to share though that at least as of this evening's forecast, we look like we are in pretty good shape. Um, and it looks like we're going to have cooler temperatures,

066which is great as well as everybody's sitting in the stands and on the field. Uh, school funding updates. Uh I've spent a lot of time uh maybe too much time having to talk about uh school funding and finances uh from the district as the uh state legislators move through uh the bianial uh state funding plan. Uh this evening I just want to share a few advocacy efforts uh that we have been making as a school district or in collaboration uh with other surrounding school districts. uh we are working with uh as as a county in order to make sure that our legislators are aware of how proposed budget plans uh will impact our individual students. I'd like to publicly thank uh Kids First and Vicky Drooie for her work in coordinating um a a a

067community town hall that we just held last week uh where we were able to share information out to our community. uh we had I think just over a hundred uh community members and staff that attended uh that event. In addition to that, uh we have been working as county superintendents to meet with our local legislators and have uh conversations uh with them uh on the uh school funding uh to ensure that the elected officials that are there to represent uh their communities have the accurate and correct information uh in order to advocate for our students. uh just yesterday had the opportunity to go to the high school and meet with uh approximately 25 or 30 students who took their own time after school uh to come and learn about uh the proposals currently coming uh

068out of Columbus. Uh most of those students uh were members of our student council as well as our national honor society. Um and uh they made the decision to do a writing campaign and uh have written or or in the process of writing personal letters uh to our legis legislators as well as our governor uh in order to advocate for the programming that they currently have here at Madina City Schools and how that programming is important to them uh as our legislators consider funding uh for public schools here in Ohio. And the last thing that I want to share is that the Senate committees uh are meeting to discuss the budget. The education committee uh just met last week. Um and uh I put together some testimony and submitted that to the uh committee uh

069advocating for Madina City Schools specifically as well as schools across Ohio as well as reiterating uh some of the important points uh that were presented through testimony through our supporting organizations such as the Alliance for Highquality Education. uh and uh the board may talk about this a little more in their communications, but I also wanted to thank our board of education uh for putting the time, effort, and difficult conversations amongst each other uh to come to a consensus on a piece of testimony that our board of education uh submitted on behalf of our students, staff, and our school district last week as well. And last up in my section, uh we have uh committee updates. And I would like to start uh with Tina and curriculum. Good evening everybody. Um the board curriculum committee met

070last Monday. Uh, one of the things that our board curriculum committee helps us with is to review new curriculum that will um be up for approval. And one of the things that we looked at last time was a secondary book adoption list. And you will see that um on your board agenda tonight. So those are books that the high school ELA teachers um and middle school um ELA teachers will be using in their curriculum. So uh we went over that with the with the board curriculum committee. Another thing that we went over was uh we talked about elementary report cards with the changes that we have had recently in elementary curriculum. Uh we talked about updating our standardsbased report card in grades uh K through five. We have standardsbased report cards and we want to

071make sure that parents understand um the the report cards and that uh communication is clear so that they understand how their kids are progressing. And we also talked about what it could look like to add some portrait of a B competencies into our report card so that parents could see how students were progressing with uh those competencies as well. So those are conversations that we started to have with the board curriculum committee and that um our teachers and staff will start to have next year. Uh the last thing we talked about was um a 4 to8 science adoption that we are going to do next year. Um unfortunately our science fusion um uh curriculum that we have right now is discontinued. Um so we will um finish up with that next year and then we

072will need a new curriculum for the following year. So thanks. Any questions? Thank you Mrs. Cassidy. I just wanted to confirm that for the book list that will be up for available for public review for 30 days. Correct. I believe. Yes, it'll be. Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. and for the public to review list and then we will it's up for basically a first review tonight and in June we'll Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Mr. Okalle from facilities lock own facilities prepping for the summer. Yeah. Yes. A lot going on on this world B day, right Dave? Yes. All right. All right, we're going to start off with uh the first project uh this summer that starts May 27th is the track and uh we received our first installment from

073the EPA on the track project. So, we're super excited about that. Um it's a very conservative 12week schedule to to get this project done. uh first three weeks of tearing off the old material and then grinding the track surface off, laying down a new surface and then it has to sit for three weeks and in off gas they call it to get the uh let the chemical reaction take place so that they'll get good adhesion on the uh final topping product. So um that's a going to be a 12-week product or uh yeah 12-week project um sponsored co-sponsored by the EPA. So again, super excited about that. The next uh couple projects here are the rec center uh projects we're doing in conjunction with the rec centers, and you have on your agenda tonight to

074do some uh money transfers uh in order to do these projects. And the first one is the the rec center roof project that we're doing is a 50/50 split with the city. The second project is uh the rec center is going to redo the tile in the community locker rooms. And this is more of a a project the rec center's interested in doing for cosmetics and kind of freshening up the rec center. And uh that's 100% covered by the rec center, but but the funds will pass through Madina City Schools. So we'll be paying the bills. They'll pay us immediately back. they have all the all the pieces in place to do that. Um so we're going to be transferring money this evening. Um hopefully we'll be transferring money this evening to complete those projects.

075Uh the last two are are again projects we're working with uh community on which is uh things that uh we like to help out the community when we can and we like when the community helps the school. So, House Bill 47 requires that uh athletes, coaches, and in organized sports have AEDs on their facilities they're practicing on. We allow uh a couple of different organizations to use some of our facilities. So, Madina Youth Baseball, Madina Grid Iron are going to be putting AEDs on a couple of our facilities. So, um, we'll we'll be supplying the electricity and the maintenance department will be installing those, but those those AEDs will be purchased and maintained by the organizations that are going to be using those facilities. That's one. And the other uh Blake PTO project, they have

076a playground project that we're helping them um clear the way for new pieces of equipment that they're putting in. So, those are the up and cominging. Um, the other large roof project, uh, I talked about it last board meeting, but Canavan, uh, we'll get a new roof on the last section of Canavan. So, the entire Canavan roof will be less than four years old. So, super excited about that. Any questions? Yeah. I Yeah. My question is in this 12-week process for the track, how are we going to keep um football, rugby, and lacrosse off of it? We are going to do the best that we can to keep them off um in the times that they have to be off. So, the first uh nine weeks of the the project, there's really no reason they

077can't be on the turf if they're not in the way or I'm going to communicate with the coaches is the best way to answer this. Um, when they're not doing dangerous work, there's no reason they can't use the field for that particular time. It's only when they lay down the final surface that we have to really keep people off of the the field. And that's I guess the what I'm considering the la the last three weeks. Yes. Okay. We're not going to build a bridge over We haven't considered that yet, but uh I'm sure Larry Larair's going to come up with something to get his football players on the turf. Well, there's plenty of green grass, you know, that Yeah, we do. We have tw plenty of fields around the high school to utilize. Um,

078so I'm hoping that that the community can take a break from the field and appreciate that we'll have a a brand new facility when we're done. We're we're doing a lot of uh along with this project. We're replacing all the fencing around the the track. We're having the poles painted. It will look like a very very nice facility when we're done. So, okay. Thank you, Mr. Oll. Just um regarding the track too, that will be the entire the entire area like the area around the high jump and pull vault and yeah, they call those the Dzones. Long jump I meant. Yeah, the the Dzones we'll do. And um we have put in the the project we're going to put long jump runs so you can go both directions and then they'll also clean up the

079high jump. Right now, one of the pole vault pits was set in improperly. So, it's not it's not set in perfectly straight, which creates a real problem. And you and you know, pole vaults are pretty um accurate sport on where you can plant your pole. So, having the pole box not in their right has prevented them from being able to use it. So, we'll have both of those then. And so we'll be able to run either way. If the wind is a factor, we can we can do either direction. Yeah. Important to mention that uh the the grant that Ryan uh brought up uh I want to thank him for applying for that through the EPA. Uh we're always trying to offset costs wherever we can and that's a $300,000 grant going towards uh that

080track. So that's a big deal. Uh the the other piece is it's funded through sales tax funds. So those are not our general operational uh funds that are being utilized for that. And we will be locking up that stadium. Yes. When those final layers go down and uh I know there will be a waiting period, but that facility is going to have to be off limits uh during that time. Yeah. One of the other considerations I think Gene you brought it up to me once before is about the fencing and getting in and out and there will be a a corral entrance to the to the stadium when this project's finished. So somebody asked me how are how is the ambulance going to get in? They still have they'll still have the long the long

081gates. We're not changing those. We're adding so that we can close those during events. Okay. Or uncontrolled times. Okay. During events they can be opened. Yeah. That's probably the best way to say that during an event it will be open because it's monitored. It's just the time the unmonitored times we want to have better control over access to the field. And I know Mr. Shields is going to present during his financial presentation tonight. Mr. Chambers will present. What did I say? Shields. Mr. Chambers. Dr. Qualic on a long day. It has been a long day on policy. Um we do have the first reading of several policies on the board agenda. Um some of them are some slight changes or um amendments to current policies. Uh nothing of significant note. Um so those are just

082for a first reading, meaning that the board's going to approve those um just for them to be able to be viewed um by the public. And then the at the June meeting is when they would formally become policy. Um we are looking at um again like I said there's so many of them. There's over 30. I think I mentioned that last time. So there's no general statement that can be made about all of them but they're just updating again to keep the board in line with the legal requirements for policies. Thank you. You're done. Mr. Chambers or good evening. Um, tonight I'd like to first talk about our April finances and then we'll get into the five-year forecast if that please the board. With our April finances, um, again, we always start with what we

083started with in July of 2024, $33 million. Uh, through April, we took in $90.14 million and we spent $74.67 million. And then uh that leads to an ending balance as of April 30th of 45.9 million. Uh this reflects a decrease of 4.8 million or sorry 4.4 million. Um and this is again due to our levy cycle. When we look at our revenues, our total revenues of 90 million, this is roughly 95% of what we anticipated back in November. And uh at uh this time um this amount reflects the uh levy that was passed in November that we started collecting in January. Real properties $61 million. Uh this is showing the 17.7% increase. This increase is directly due to the levy itself. And also uh we have seen um higher collections in real property and personal

084prop or public utility property uh for the first half of the calendar year, last half of the fiscal year. And then looking at our state foundation, this is 3% above last year at this time. Uh this includes the um the casino revenue uh which as you see is not a lot as compared to what we get from the state. On our expenditure side, uh we have spent $74 million. This is uh near 81% of our expected expenditure as of November forecast. Uh so usually at this time if you take uh 10 12ths of the year, you would say that would be around 83%. So we're below our expenditures that we anticipated. Our personal services are 1.6%. 6% above last year at this time. If you recall last year though, we were at 27 pays. If

085we look two years ago, we're only at uh 2.4% above two years. And the reason looking two years ago, that was our last 26 pays. Our benefits though, if you if you look at these uh were down 3.8%. Uh this is a direct result of the reductions that were made uh coming into this year. and our other expenses are down 8.5%. Um, this in looking at these our purchase services, our supplies and capital are all down across the board there. So, u we are we are um grateful that they're down, but we're perplexed as to why. So, our investments, this is a good thing. Our investments are up to $1.8 million. This is roughly uh $400,000 more than what we took in last year. It's also the highest amount that we have taken in uh

086throughout my 11-year career here in the district. Finally, we get into our true days cash. If you look at the orange bar of April, we're at roughly 175 days. Um, this will only go down through June because we have no more major cash coming in from uh the real property taxes. The only cash that we have coming in is from the state at this point. Um, what you do also see here is that with the 175 days, we are below where we started uh the current year at. And if you uh think about this um in January of this year, we didn't collect anything from uh property taxes until February. Hence the reason you see the large increase in February. So I want to point that out for what's going to be happening later when

087we're talking about the five-year forecast. Any questions with the financials? Okay, let's head into the five-year forecast. The current uh year, we have roughly 69% in local property taxes, 5% in all other revenue, and then 26% in state revenue. You can see the breakdown on the right uh what we were projecting. And um it is to be noted that with our other revenue of that 3.14 uh million 1.8 million is investment income. We have our uh our expenditures for the year. We're a service industry that produces nothing. The only thing that we produce I'm I'm sorry I can't say nothing. We're a service industry that produces workers for the future. How's that? The only thing we have to show for that is our graduates going out the door and our preschoolers coming into the door.

088Uh we have no no nothing that we could sell. So our biggest expenditure is personnel and as you see here it it basically is uh you can't read it. I I believe it says around uh 83% or yeah 80% is our personnel. So that's salaries and benefits. Our other projected um expenditures are our purchase services and that goes to pay for tuition that goes to pay for uh individuals coming into the buildings that goes to pay for our children leaving the buildings going to other buildings to be serviced. Uh we also have our uh other expenditures of supplies, capital debt, uh operating advances, transfers, and other uses. Uh a major portion of those expenditures, um I know the county doesn't like hearing it, but nearly a million dollars goes out to the county on a

089yearly basis to collect property taxes that we receive. Here's our five-year forecast. Uh our projected revenues and expenditures. As you could see uh 24 we were uh below our revenues were below expenditures. With the advent of the uh November levy, we started collecting on the uh uh the real property taxes. So our revenues exceed our expenditures. Uh if you look at 26, our revenues exceed our expenditures more. And that's because we're actually collecting a full year at that point in 2026. Uh 27, you could see our expenditures are catching up to our revenues. And you could see from 26 all the way to 29, there's not very uh big difference in our revenues coming in. Um however, with our expenditures, our expenditures are looking at anywhere between a two and a three and a half%

090increase based on his uh historical data. So that is why you see the on the left hand side you see the expenditures constantly increasing where our revenues stay the same. On the right hand side you see the cash balance and again we're looking at 25 26 27 being the largest years and as expenditures exceed revenues you see the cash balance declining. Now with our change in revenue, you're looking at the history of our revenues. Uh you had a 2.14% the last five years. We're looking at a 3.96% the current five years. And the reason for this change again is the levy that passed in November of 2024. On the expenditure side, it looks like there's a big difference, but you're only talking uh 71% difference between our prior year's ex uh expenses and what we

091project over the next five years. Then finally, you have our days cash on hand. You could see the normal levy cycle here. You could see that with the uh increases in revenues and uh exceeding our expenditures, you see that our days of cash on hand are growing. I believe they're going up to 160 days uh that we may hit. And then you'll see the levy cycle and the expenditures starting to take over. So our cash on hand is dropping as we go through 2029. Then finally, I added this in. Um, we had a we had a town hall meeting last week and we talked about House Bill 96. Now, if you if you look at the top line here, the blue line, it's our current forecast based upon uh the cash balances here. So, these

092are ending cash balances. the the forecast actually starts with the fiscal year 24. You could see it below the red line here. And with 25 and the passage of the uh levy, you could see it just above the red line there. I mean, smidge above the red line. And so our current forecast is um the levy cycle. You could see it's a it's a normal cycle, a increase and then a decrease. That's what a levy cycle is. Now, the red line is where we ideally should be at when looking for a new levy. And the reason we put that there is if you recall in 2024, we were coming off the state um basically putting us into a fiscal precaution. We cut $4 million out of our uh our um expenditures to reach that point

093in 2024 and with the addition of the new levy got to that point that's barely above that red line in 2025. Now again, we're going to be getting our full year's cash in 2026. So you see the line going up, the blue line going up. Now, with House Bill 9, I'm sorry, not 920, House Bill 96, the and we're only projecting this. If they if the Senate holds what the House did and holds down to 30%, we will automatically be losing roughly um $14 million out of our balance. And that's what takes you down to that orange line there in 2026. So you can see we are already below where we were when the state put us in fiscal precaution in 2024 and we're starting below that amount. Now the orange line represents if the

094following year the county budget commission gives us our millillage back. And you could see the difference between where we are right now and where we would be if House Bill 96 goes into effect with a return of the millillage. Now the gray line that you see there, that is if the county budget commission does not give any millillage back to the school district at all. And this is what's this not only affects our school district, it affects all other school districts in the state in the state the same way. So that's why House Bill 96 is not a they they want to call it a uh property tax um property tax reform. It's it's not reform. It basically puts all school districts in a state of um where they will be either placed in fiscal

095caution, fiscal watch or fiscal emergency within a year or two years time. So finally uh if you want to find our financials, we always place our financials, we update our financials on a monthly basis. It's on our website. You could click on the madinabes.org. Uh in there we we have our five-year forecast. We have our monthly financials. We have our tax budgets. Um I believe there's something else that we have in there, but I don't remember at this time. So any questions? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chambers. Uh board communications. How about let's start with uh Miss Pritchard. Sorry. Okay. Yeah. Um ready, Mr. Chambers. Okay. Yeah. Um if you remember at the last meeting, Mr. West said that he um attended the Tom Pascal relays, but what he failed to mention was that he

096received an award um from the cross country and track teams for his uh for volunteering um all this time. So, I just wanted to mention that that um he was a friend of the cross country and track team. So, congratulations on that. Um Mrs. Smooyer and her group um with the um after prom I stopped up around 6:15. They did a great job decorating and I I'm sure the kids had a great time and congratulations to Mrs. Parkhurst on receiving her masters a couple weekends ago. Um that's very good and if I wouldn't be a like an older person if I didn't say do you have a job yet? Uh but uh just you know so your parents wouldn't feel bad about that. Um uh Mr. West and I attended the National Honors Society induction

097a couple weeks ago and I attended the career center um induction uh to the National Technical Honors Society where we had nine uh Madina High School students inducted. McKenzie Laps um in the teaching professions was named the Madina County Career Center student of the year and the May Medina students of the month were Lan Swe and Gabrielle Tracomi. Um attended the Canavan Art Festival uh which is the kids are truly amazing um especially with the ceramics. Um it made some amazing things. If I did that they would all look alike. Um uh Mrs. Dalian certainly brings the best artists out in everyone attended the bell choir concert and it was an exciting night because that was when the uh tornado sirens went off and I think it was something that Mrs. McGinty got to check

098off her list of uh bucket list as we all headed down the hall and uh Mr. Brinker and the parents moved all the tables down and we had the concert down in the hallway and that's when I found out what part of the roof of Canavan leaked is my back was soaked from all the water leaking in. So um just you know it it was an exciting night and no luckily nobody got blown away. And then last Friday I attended the Canavan choir concert and those kids were did a wide range of songs and they they were very well prepared. I was able to catch the boys volleyball game versus Strongsville varsity girls lacrosse against Strongsville. Um, and that game the girls clinched their ninth straight uh lacrosse uh GCC championship. Um, I stopped in

099and got to see the Claget orchestra. Um, baseball won the GCC championship. Um, attended I like Blake's idea. They did the art festival, choir concert and book fair and that was great. Um, we got everything done in one night. So that was just great. choir did a very nice job. Um, I got to see the Last Chance track meet at the high school and then attended Showtime. And while all the Showtime productions are are very good, um, this one was especially good. I just thought this was they just did an amazing job with some dances and uh, the solos. Um, I sat in on two capstone projects um, at Claget um, which were very good. Um, one was on the Zenen at Claget. Um, and thanks to the Hock family for sponsoring it. And the

100second one, um, I'm sorry, this was not at Claget. This was at the high school. And the second one was, uh, protecting the environment, uh, starting with kindergarten students at Northrup. Then I went to CLA uh, Claget and did two projects there and then I did four at um, Rut. And the one young lady at Root, Sydney Beckett, um wrote a book about children's grief called grief is an ocean and it is now you can purchase it on Kindle. And that was a very touching uh capstone project and um this young lady's been through a lot and it it um it was very moving to listen to her, but she is truly an amazing young woman. Um later that day I went back to Rut because I didn't have anything else to do and um

101bought looked at another art show and so I'm going to ask the Gazette if I can have a job as an art critic. Um and it's just amazing when I have gone to all these art shows how artistic our students are and how our teachers bring out the best in all of them. And just uh real quick, the 50th class reunion. Um for those of you that have been out of uh have graduated 50 years ago is July 9th. Invitations are out and if you haven't received yours, contact Owen Blakesley and hopefully the Madina County Career Center graduation will be tomorrow at our football field. But things are not looking great. So anyways, and just wishing thanking all the teachers for all their hard work this year and hoping they have a great summer. Thank

102you. Thank you, uh, Miss Pritchard. Mr. Nichols. Yeah. Uh, I just have a couple quick things. Um, first off, I did not get a chance to attend the Fen Art Show cuz I had to help my uh my brother-in-law move furniture into his apartment. But Leah and Liam did and uh they had a great time walking through seeing everybody's art. So they told me all about it. Uh the art teacher did an amazing job getting the school all set up for that. So um I just wanted to make that point and uh and give credit there. Um the next thing was I attended the uh town hall that we've kind of talked about a little bit here. Um, I want to say, you know, thank you for I I guess I'm considered the district, but

103you know, administration in the district for giving us a place and finding a place to put on that for kids first and Vicki, thank you Vicki and Kids First for kind of uh putting that together, too. Um, I know that uh we ended up having to move venues because it was a little bigger than we had initially. um thought um and you know, thank you to all the schools that came out and took some time, the superintendents and the treasurers that were able to take some time come out speak on uh what HB uh 96 means to their district um if it goes through. Um it was uh it was pretty cool. I was scrolling through social media and I saw uh OSBA actually shared um I believe an article that was written about it

104um and a bunch of information. So, it's cool that you know we're kind of hitting the um the front a edge and kind of you know got a chance to lead the conversation there for a minute. Um Sarah, great article. I know that I gave you a little bit of flack like make sure it's a good one. So, thank you for that. Um, and then in addition to the OSBA thing, we also had, um, a couple other schools that I saw ended up sharing the same article. So, um, it's cool to just see how far that reach just from having like a conversation and bringing in districts within the county. Um, and having, you know, those tough conversations and very, uh, uh, direct answers and trying to answer people's questions specific to their district. Um,

105and you know, I think I saw mentor was one of them and there was one or two others that I saw. Um, it got shared in in their communities. Um, I also want to uh say thank you for showing up to uh Dolores Ford who's actually on the state school board. um she came out, she heard about it, wanted to be there, be present, hear everything that was um said and kind of support the districts um in her her district that she's a part of. Uh side note with that, um I did want to mention that, you know, the state school board is kind of getting some of their powers taken away. Um looking to switch that from an elected position to an actual appointed position by the governor. So, you know, once again, if

106you don't like that, call your representatives, let them know. Um, and, uh, final thing, still talking about HB96. Um, I did see about a day ago Casey Weinstein came out and said that he was going to push forth an amendment um onto the budget to reenact um or to try and reenact the fair school funding plan um into the budget over the HB96 um stuff that we've been talking about. Now, obviously, we've had elected officials speak kindly and in favor of public schools and then fold like Origami when any pressure comes their way. So, hopefully that's not the case. Um, but, you know, that's another thing that uh um community members can do uh when they reach out is mention, hey, can we redo the fair school funding and get back to that, please? That's

107a good option. So, that's all I got. Thank you, Mr. Nicholls. Uh, Mrs. Smooyer. All right. Um, it was a busy month. Crazy. Of course, it's always crazy at the end of the year. Uh, but I was able to attend the, uh, MCTA teacher retirement celebration. That was great. Um, I got to meet a lot of the new teach uh, some of the newer teachers and some of them that are retiring. It was great talking to them. Miss Pritchard was there as well. So, um it was a good time and of course lots of accolades given to uh those who had been there for several years as well and not retiring. Uh went to the facilities meeting so we already heard from Mr. Okool. Lots of great things going on. Um and then Mr. West

108and I went to Columbus for uh OSBA's board leadership uh institute and got to learn a lot of new things. Learned about um some things that I never well knew that knew about with AI. Um, but I also learned that especially being on the policy committee that Madina City Schools is on top of everything uh in regards to the policy with AI. Uh, which was great because some of the schools that were down there were not. Um, and then we were talking a lot of us were talking about the HB96 so and how it will affect them. So that it is it is felt all across the state of Ohio. Um of course the policy meeting was the next week so went through that and uh you know definitely were on top of things which

109I like about that. Um the cleet and root capstone projects that Miss Pritchard mentioned I also went to those. uh they are so it's so intriguing to see how these eighth grade students are thinking and thinking out of the box and and you know the projects that they want to do and it was their passion projects. So it was what they were passionate about and it was it was nice to question them why why are you passionate about this and find out what what their reasonings were for them. Uh we have done some many many awards throughout the district uh presenting awards which is great. Um my favorite was yesterday we went to Fen for the uh believe it was the distinguished service award for Mrs. Suzinski and she her first year teaching was my

110oldest daughter's first grade class and uh she was telling us that it was the hardest class that she had ever had and I I'm very much a part of the PTO and very much involved in all of the classes and I couldn't tell. So I could not tell that she had a hard time. So and that was her first year teaching. So now she is on top of things. But uh it was it was bittersweet seeing her and and tears coming to her eyes when she was when uh Mr. Sable was reading about how she was great and um I don't know who did uh write that but it was very sweet. also made it to a baseball game uh where we won the GCC championship. And next door was the uh softball game going

111on and uh Miss Pritchard is not very happy with me because I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Drew Aller and getting a picture with him. So he was there watching his sister play. So um where's who? Amanda. Miss Dodie. I think Miss Dodie left. She Miss Pritchard has a little bone to pick with her, but nonetheless, she so it was it was fun. And Drew is just, you know, he he goes to Penn State. He's playing great football. And um he is just so humble. It was so sweet to meet him. Um attended the town hall meeting as well. You guys have all talked about that. That was great. Um, and then recently I was able to be a mystery reader in Mrs. Downy's class, third grade class in Fen. And um, that was

112great to read to them. They were very surprised that they had a mystery reader come in and um, actually they left me a nice cute uh, thank you, which was very sweet. And um, I do want to do a shout out. She mentioned, Miss Pritchard mentioned about uh after prom. I am still recovering. I have like a hangover from not sleeping, but uh the custodial staff there, I asked uh if they could really help out and because it is a huge event. I think we had about 600 kids there and they arrive at 11:00 p.m. and they leave at 2 and then we break down everything right after that. that I did not leave until 5:00 a.m., hence my little hangover of not getting enough sleep, but that custodial staff was on point. Everything was

113great and uh just want to do a major shout out to them. So, thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Smooyer, Mrs. Parkhurst. Thank you, Mr. West. I just have a few things. I wanted to wish the students that will be attending the national debate tournament in June good luck. And I believe that their coach, Coach Nickel, is getting an award. I don't know if she's already gotten it or she is getting it soon um from I believe the debate world. So, congratulations to her as well as to the staff at the Bowman House who are recognized by Education Associates for their work that they're doing out there. We really appreciate them. I also just want to congratulate all of our uh employees and staff who have been recognized for extra mile awards uh the distinguished service

114awards. It we have great staff here and we are doing great things and it's great to be able to acknowledge those who are contributing so much uh to our students here. I'm not sure if Mr. West will mention it but uh the board is contributing to the Junth celebration the city is having. Um I believe this is the third year that we have done it and we make a contribution on behalf of the Madina City School District. Additionally, the school board will be hosting candidate session um date to be determined. Uh this is an election year for school board and t in the past we have held a candidate information session or two. Uh, so I know that we will be coordinating something and getting that out to those who would like to know have

115information about what it's like to be a board member. Uh, what we do up here. So, we'll get that information out. Lastly, it is a Oh, I we've talked a lot about uh House Bill 96. It is the end of the year. I appreciate everyone's efforts in contacting their legislators, uh, sharing with friends and neighbors, and community members what is going on. Uh, May is a busy time with a lot going on. If you have students in the district, uh, there's concerts and awards shows and all athletic events. There's a lot going on. So, we appreciate if everyone can just take some time to learn about the issues and share with their friends, family, and neighbors. I do believe there's going to also be a virtual chat possibly hosted by the ESC um coming up

116next week. I believe oh this Friday apologize that Mr. Sable will be participating in and the cloverleaf superintendent. So if you missed the town hall, here's another opportunity to learn some more about House Bill 96 and what you can do um to help your schools. The schools are important part of the community. They are what make our community great. And so whatever you can do to educate yourself, you're always always welcome to reach out to any of the schoolboard members, the administrators to learn more as to how you can be make change or have effectuate change or at least try and um I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the school year. It is wrapping up quick. Thank you. All right, I will keep my comments short as possible. We've we've had a lot and

117everybody's covered some of uh things. Um, I would be remiss to not thank Mrs. Parkers and congratulate her for completing her master's degree, all the while serving on the board and uh doing all these duties while still uh taking all kinds of classes and getting assignments done and that. So, congratulations on that. Um, did get down to the OSB leadership conference uh with Mrs. Smoyer. That was a day and a half. Um, well worth it. Uh, one thing that I'm, every time we go to something like this, I do realize that Madina is at the tip of the spear, if you will, on all the new stuff that's going on. We talk about our portrait to practice that we've had around for a while, and some districts are just getting started with it. Um, the

118portrait um, yeah, the portrait to practice and our, um, portrait of a bee, all of that kind of thing. We are at the tip of the spear with that. Um, I did uh I attended the Alcanavan art show, the Ralph Wait Art and Music Choir Show and Showtime. And again, every time I go out to these, the the talent level of our students, the creativity and the enthusiasm that they all ex uh ex uh exhibit is tremendous. And not the least of which, the amount of time our staff puts in to put these events on. um hours and hours and hours um after work's over. Um went by after prom just to check it out. And as always, our volunteers that set that up so our students have a safe place to be after prom

119and have a good time uh was phenomenal. Uh, I want to thank uh all of our retirees that we had here this evening uh and wish them, you know, um you can tell from all of the testimony that uh was given tonight that these are all very very um great individuals to our students and our district and our community and they will be missed. But we wish them a very happy retirement and um great times ahead. Um I want to personally thank the board. Um uh we submitted uh public testimony, the whole board did to the education committee in our opposition to House Bill 96 and in support of the fair school funding plan because you know we were elected to represent our district and we were advocating for our districts, our students and our

120staff and our schools and we felt that that was very important. So we're going to get that posted up uh along with Mr. Sables. Um, and we are keeping a close watch on that and when the other committees coming up, um, we may submit some more. Um, but I want to you have five very passionate uh, board members up here all with their own perspectives and getting uh, some good testimony together was a lot of work from all of us and I appreciate all of that uh, work from everybody um, very very much. Um and um uh thanks to Mrs. Parker for mentioning the schoolboard candidate date. We will uh waiting till after we get through graduation, but we will get a date scheduled and get that out through social media and uh media in

121general. So, anybody running for uh or thinking about running for the school board in the fall in November can come and um see what it's all about. And I think that's all I have. So, oops. Next up, treasure action items G. Uh that is Oh, sorry. My apologies. Uh public comment. Is there anybody? Uh, no public comment. Okay. So, we will move on to treasures action items G. Number one, the TR treasures financial report. Number two, the supplemental to permanent appropriations. Number three, the 2025 2026 temporary appropriations. And number four, the five-year forecast. Would I would entertain a motion. But I'm sorry. Yes, please, Mr. Chambers. I'm a little off tonight. I'll just I'll just present a little bit of this. He already read item number one, the supplemental to permanent appropriations. Uh these are

122changes to our appropriations uh to try and close out the year for our schools or our buildings, I should say. We also have the rec center that uh Ryan was talking about. Uh what else do we we have our K12 connectivity. This is uh a uh monies that uh Craig gets in for technology. Uh we have our EPA EPA recycling which uh will be going for the track. Uh that's the grant. We put it under the 499 right now. We may have to change that. We'll find out on the 28th where they actually want us to put that grant, but I'm throwing it under the 499 right now. And then uh we have changes to our title grants that probably will change um after we approve this. They'll probably change. So uh our temporary appropriations,

123I uh sent that out. We have um uh the general fund is up by roughly $11 million. This is because the auditor of state has changed funding. Uh there will no longer be funding in what is known as the 06 emergency fund. All emergency levies will now be going into the general fund directly. So that's why you see a change in the general fund. Our special trust and endowment funds. I've increased those basically to what uh has been appropriated for the the current year. uh you could see last year we didn't appropriate anything at all um barely for those and the reason was we didn't at that time we didn't uh receive the budget or for it so I'm looking at the positive that we are giving out scholarships through those uh special trust and

124endowment funds uh I spoke about the emergency levy that's why you see the zero there it's no longer going to be there starting next year uh only those uh those funds that are currently encumbered and currently in that levy will still remain. Um the special enterprise fund, this is uh the fund that the transportation department uses to um uh uh work on uh buses and vehicles for other schools. Uh they've started that up again this year. Last year, uh you could see there wasn't much in there at all. So they started up again this year and uh they're going to be, I believe, continuing into the next year. uh student activity fund. I raised that up because they're well above uh 200,000 at this time, but I'm sure I'm going to get the appropri uh

125get the budgets in from the buildings as soon as we get the temporaries passed here. And then the athletic fundraisers, I moved that up because um if you recall at the beginning of this year, uh we made transfers from all these sub funds into the main athletic fund and that uh caused the increase. We are going to be doing that again here, but we're going to be doing that uh come the June board meeting. Uh moving those funds up so they start with the funds already in their in their main fund itself. Uh let's see. And we spoke about the uh item number four. We spoke about the five-year forecast. So I believe that's a good roundup for it. Sorry, I didn't mean to take away your thunder. It's been a long night. Uh I

126would entertain a motion to accept the treasures action items G. I'll make a motion to uh accept treasurer action items G. Thank you, Mr. Nichols. I'll second. Thank you, Mrs. Miss Pritchard. Do I have any comments or questions? I just want to confirm or note that the five-year forecast is something we're required to do by law. We are the only public entity that is required to do it by law and we are just approving that it is complete. You are approving that it's complete and as um accurate as we know as of today. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions or comments hearing? None. Mr. Chambers, if you please. Mr. Nichols, I. Miss Perard, I. Miss Parkerst, I. Miss Smeer, I. Mr. West, yes. Thank you. Next. Next up, superintendent action items. Number one is donations.

127It is recommended that the board of education accept the following donations. I'd like to point out the generous donation from the Hock family um to uh support the establishment of a Zenen at Claget Middle School. Um these Zenens are a very important uh mental health piece uh for our students to provide a safe place. Uh also would like to point out the donations from our student organizations to the battered women's shelter as well as the support for our organizations for each other uh w within the the high school. Service agreements is recommended that the board of education approved the following service agreements. The first one, Renaissance Learning, uh is for STAR testing, which is progress monitoring monitor testing that we do throughout the district uh and is a requirement uh from the state that we

128have some sort of assessment system in place. We also have uh several uh recommendations for special education. Uh these recommendations are in preparation most of them for uh next school year uh as well as some providing summer services for students uh that uh qualify per their individual education plans. Uh we also have a recommendation uh out out of for bonefish systems uh which is for our accounts payable system through uh the treasur's office. Number three is policies as presented by Dr. Quallic earlier this evening. Uh just want to reiterate uh that this is a first reading uh of all of these policies and they are uh fairly minor updates uh to language within the policies. Number four is a resolution to increase meal prices is recommended that the board of education approved the following increase

129in lunch prices effective with the beginning of the 2526 school year. This is a quarter increase across the board for meal prices. The last time uh the board approved an increase was back in 2022. Uh this increase is necessary uh because of uh the inflation we've all seen with food costs. Um am I say this all the time, but very impressed that our food services is self-sufficient here in Madina City Schools. It's the first district that I've worked in as administrator where that's been the case and it didn't have to be supplemented through uh the general fund. So they do an outstanding job. Number five is book list is recommended that the board of education approve the Madina City Schools 2526 book list for review. The book list will be presented to the board for

130final approval and potential adoption at the June regular board of education meeting as presented uh by Miss Cassidy. Uh these books have all been vetted through our uh community curriculum uh committee. Number six is recommended that the board of education approve the memorandum of understanding between the Madina City School District and Ashlin University for the college credit plus program for a three-year term beginning with the 2526 school year. It's also recommended that the board of education approve the following stipen payments to district teachers who have served as cooperating teachers for students attending universities. I do want to thank these teachers uh for their willingness to work with not only teaching their students but also teaching the future uh educators. Uh this is more important than ever for us to participate in these programs as a

131district as we face uh education ed educator shortages. Uh number eight is a field trip. It is recommended that the board of education approved the following overnight field trip in compliance with policy 2340. Um and as Mrs. Parkhurst mentioned our debate team uh in June is going to be going to national competition in Iowa. And number nine, it is recommended that the board of education approve uh the following personnel recommendations pending completion of all required paperwork uh to our director of human uh resources. Uh, this recommendation also includes uh an increase to our summer crew rate changing the uh amount to $13.50 per hour effective May 1st, 2025. This is vitally important uh because uh we are very reliant on summer help which generally tends to be uh students home from college for the summer

132to help prepare and clean our district uh for the coming school year. and we need to stay competitive uh with other with o some of the other summer opportunities uh such as the fast food restaurants and coffee shops uh in order to attract these individuals. I also want to point out that we have recommendations for contract renewals uh for administrators uh as well as teaching staff. Uh we do this annually uh in May. Uh these recommendations follow a sequence uh that we have in place for administrators or within the negotiated agreements in terms of uh the contract years that an individual is eligible for. uh teachers that uh are being recommended for a contract as listed with a T means those individuals uh have qualified for and are being recommended by administration for a continuing

133or tenure uh contract. Uh those individuals uh show high performance in working with their students in the classroom as well as on the state teacher evaluation system. Thank you. I would entertain a motion to accept uh superintendent action items number one through number nine. I'll make a motion. Thank you, Mrs. Smooyer. Second. Oh, thank you, Mr. Nichols. Are there any questions or comments? Anyone? I have a question about the um summer help rate. That's not included in the oopsy contract. That is not okay. And can um our teachers apply for it? Uh we do have teachers uh or other support staff that have filled those positions in the past. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Mrs. Parker, I just wanted to thank the community members for always supporting our schools with their

134generous donations as well as the donations that our students make uh as well. That's that's wonderful they do that. And just uh also thank you to Miss Sers for the great work that the food she and her who she and her food service staff do for us. Thank you. Any others hearing? None. Mr. Chambers, when you're ready, Miss Suyer, I. Mr. Nichols, I Miss Parker. I Miss Perrick. I Mr. West. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Sable. It is recommended that the board of education approve the Oopsy local 305 negotiated salary schedule for the 2526 school year effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 per article 37 of the collective bargaining agreement. I do want to point out that this was a year three salaryon opener uh within the contract. Uh the reason why we have

135this year three opener is because we weren't able due to being in fiscal precaution as Mr. Chambers mentioned earlier this evening to certify an increase for that third year of the contract. I would entertain a motion uh for the Oopsy salary schedule 2025 2026. I'll make a motion to approve the Oopsy contract. You Mrs. Pritchard. I'll second. Thank you, Miss Parkerst. Any questions or comments from anybody? All right. Well, thank you, Mr. Chambers. If when you're ready. Miss Prick. I. Miss Parker. Hi. Mr. Nichols. I. Miss SME. I. Mr. West. Yes. Thank you. Uh, next up is uh board action item uh J uh treasures contract. It is recommended that the board of education approve the treasur's contract for the five-year term with provisions as listed in the in the attached public document. I would

136entertain a motion to accept. I'll make a motion to approve the uh Mr. Chambers 5-year contract. Thank you, Miss Pritchard. I'll second. Thank you, M. Mr. Nichols. Um I want to Any questions or comments from anybody? I I just want to thank Mr. Chambers. Uh we look forward to having him around for another five years and uh thank him for his patience with uh working through uh his new contract. And that's all I have to say. So when you're ready, Miss Prick. I. Mr. Nichols, I Miss Parker. Hi. Missy, I Mr. West. Yes. Thank you. And finally, we have an executive, right? Okay. Um, next up is uh item number L, executive session. This is to consider uh the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline or compensation of a public employee or official preparation for or conducting

137or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment. Um I would entertain a motion to move into executive session. I'll make a motion. Thank you, Mrs. Parker. I'll second. Thank you, Mr. Nichols. Mr. Chambers. Miss Parkers. Mr. Nichols. Hi, Miss Pritchard. Hi, Miss Moyer. I Mr. West. Yes. Thank you. Uh, there will be no action following um leaving executive session.