MCS Board of Education Mtg., March 18, 2025

001e e e at this time I want to call the um call the regular board meeting for March the 18th to order this is a meeting of the Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and not to be considered a public community meeting there is a time for public comment during the meeting as indicated in the agenda would everybody rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America stand IND andice Mr Chambers would you please call roll Mr Nichols here Miss Parker here M perard here M Moyer here Mr West here thank you um at this time uh we're going to have a moment of silence for Tess U uh after I read a little um read something Tess

002started with Madina City schools in 1993 Tess was hired by principal Tom McKenna at Madina Junior High in anticipation of the opening of root Middle School Tess spent the majority of her career teaching 8ighth grade science and technology at root more recently she split time between clag at Middle School teaching 8th grade science and Madina High School teaching Project Lead the Way this current school year she was assigned solely to Madina High School teaching ninth grade physical science Tes was an accomplished educator who earned her national board c c certification and master teaching designation she also received Madina City School's highest honor the distinguished service award she always put her students first and worked endlessly on their behalf she also would willingly share her technology technological knowledge with her co-workers our condolences to Tess's husband

003John and her two sons Nicholas and Jacob could we please have a moment of silence Thank you very very much uh first item up is uh approval of the uh approval of the minutes from the regular board meeting on February the 18th 2025 I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of the February meeting thank you Mrs prer second thank you Mr Nichols uh any questions comments on those minutes anyone here hearing none Mr Chambers when you're ready Mr pitard hi Mr Nichols hi M Parker hi M smer hi Mr West uh yes thank you next I would uh any additions removals or modifications to the agenda anyone I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda thank you Mrs parkur I'll second thank you Mr Nichols any questions or comments Mr Chambers Miss Parker

004hi Mr Nichols hi Miss perard hi Miss Moyer hi Mr West yes thank you uh next up our informational and discussion items superintendent Communications Mr Sable great thank you and good evening and I always love seeing our staff and students out in the audience uh I think the highlight of our board meeting uh every month is when we get to hear our building report and I'd like to welcome uh principal Newton uh here this evening with principal mcti uh for canavan's uh presentation I always travel with an Entourage so tonight we've got a really good lineup we have our fourth grade students and their fabulous teachers are here tonight uh Miss daing our art teacher and Miss Loko who is a fourth grade regular education teacher who really specializes in those content areas of science

005and social studies and it's sort of a NE unique position where she is then her goal with science and social studies is to really embed cross-curricular a lot of the literacy initiative too that's happening within the building and working closely with her grade level colleague Mrs Beth Niki who's here tonight also and Mr Mike pumi our math teacher as well as our art teacher Miss daing so I am going to have Miss Loko and Miss daing lead us off and talk to you about the wonderful wonderful um learning that their students have been doing hi nice to see you all um so the um project that we'd like to talk to you about is uh focused on transportation and inventors um it encompasses science social studies Ela and art standards and wait ah [Music] um

006and it also focuses on our um District's Initiative for the um deeper learning um um specifically in this project we focused on students being communicators Innovative problem solvers and res iant lifelong Learners um before we um the beginning of our project we uh focused on um research with Ohio inventors um students got to research uh lots of different inventors and then they chose an inventor that they thought was the most impactful and then did a project first airplane chatter pics where they it's really a fun um application where they can choose any kind of um an image that they'd like and then as you can see they can animate it to then um explain the research that they did focusing on evidence to back up their opinion so we'll just play one so you get

007an idea of how they did that hi my name is Carl Benz I made the electric car start over 3.3 million people use it because it made it faster to get around it was impactful because it made travel fast according to the Avengers times Carl Ben's wife uh traveled 65 miles and people were surprised by her arrival so um it was really a lot of fun to watch them choose inventors and inventions of their choice and then we could build that into um ourour learning through history um starting with paleo people archaic people native um Americans and then as we keep going throughout um history um which then brings us to how we then collaborated to um build that into the art curriculum hi everyone um so once I talked to Jen about what they

008were doing in their classroom um I thought it was amazing to do a Transportation uh design project and the students would bring in their um Chromebooks and from there we researched they sketched uh their past Transportation ideas of the ones that they were interested in and it was so cool because some kids wanted to do airplanes and you'll see that um some wanted to do um shoes uh some people wanted to do tires and like we we had hot air balloons like everything you could think of across the board it was so cool and then we built a digital timeline which that was something that just kind of grew because they would come over with their Chromebook and be like Miss steing look at this look at what I found and um we just kept

009building it and it's like 60 pages long or so right it's huge and um then we would compare and contrast like ideas with the past the present um different materials that they use back then compared to now and also like what type of designs today would improve like living safety and the environment um the next slide just shows for example um one of the things that we found was this car that there it's a prototype right now that could go in into the water like off of traffic and kind of like throwing like hurricanes safely and drive kind of like a submarine on Wheels in a way so that was really cool um students had to include the year the make and model um who it was for if it was for like kids adults

010if it was for everyone um what materials if it was recycled and um like how fast would it cost right and um why it was unique that was the fun part when they had to create their future one had to look at the past the present and then they had to go in and dive into like what a futuristic model would be of their own and then these guys can um we can start with uh so Dean you're number one he's the one where should I go you can step up here buddy so I did I did um I did for you buddy yeah I did Planes because um I wanted to see what the r brothers were like so I wanted to look up their the plane that they made so I wanted to

011get information from that and I said like okay I want to draw this I'll try to and if I mess up it's okay cuz it's my first one so I can just do it again and uh I just did it and it turned out good so then I kept going with planes and then I did the present one which goes um8 860 mes per hour and um I did the futuristic airplane it goes three 1,300 mph and the circle part of it it's like um it makes the plane fly and then it's like it makes it Fly cuz there's like there's like a propeller in in it so like there's no like um I forget what they're called um what uh type thing yeah um like hover like a hovering thing and and wings and

012wings yeah and then the and you can like inside of it there's like a button that you can make it automatically fly so like it so you like if it's at night time you can just fly it by itself and it'll go you just have to put in where you're going and it'll go there right away and then so I did I wanted to do airplanes because I like I like airplanes they're really fun to go on and that's why I did airplanes Carson me hold it for you tell why you did this so I did um airplanes and I mostly chose the World War II fighter plane because of my family they're veterans my Papa Was a engineer for the B24 Liberator for World War II and that's that's why I chose planes so

013I've the first one could go about 400 440 mil per hour it costed 50 around 50,000 uh to build and it could carry up to two passengers the B Gunner and the pilot and the present plane was about it could it could go to 500 to 600 miles per hour and it and it costed over 80 million to build and it can carry 150 to 600 passengers and my futuristic plane um it could go 1,000 miles per hour it's a stealth bomber it can carry about 500 passengers and it's 100 thou 100 million to build and I uh I chose that cuz I really like like fighting fighter planes um I did a plan because like I love riding on airplanes and I just thought it would be fun so um the first one goes

014about 100 miles per hour and it couldn't carry very many passengers and it made like a really loud noise when you started it the second one could went um 500 to 600 miles per hour it wasn't very loud and 150 to 600 passengers could ride it and then the last one um it goes 200 mph 1,00 through 1,500 passengers it's really quiet um and yeah I don't even know great that's Wonder thank you those are all our planes and then we have a couple two different people that said shoose these are really so I did shoes because first of all I never rode a plane before um and and I also thought like it would be very interesting to see how something as simple as shoes could evolve um so my first shoes are like

015really thin and they were made of string like the um the part the little strap and then my also they weren't very warm um and my present day shoes are like thicker they're easier to put on and they're just better um and then my futuristic shoes they're like they're made of ocean Plastics so it like helps save the environment and it's just like really interesting good job thank this is aw um I chose Uggs because I just it was like um still cold at the time when we were doing this and the first Uggs were made in the 1920s and they were made out of sheep skin and the present Uggs are still out of sheep made out of sheep skin I don't know why but um my future Uggs are like it has some

016like um heaters at the bottom so you just press a button and it'll like keep your feet warm and there's fur inside it's waterproof it has lots of pink I chose pink cuz it's my favorite color um and it's still made out of sheep skin and it cost $250 thank you okay now we have Brandon Williams like this get up there okay so I did something like I don't think people acknowledge much so I did 1900 BC um the horseback riding when they used horses to get around cuz they didn't have any other type of trans transportation and then I did the present camper van and then it it's special because it helps you C store camping supplies and it sold from either $10,000 to $20,000 and it goes wait can i000 um 5 right

017here yeah 55 to 65 miles per hour and then I did two 2065 the future camper van and I would name it the axle cuz it has a tail which helps you swim underwater and then it's sold for a million dollar and then it goes to and then it goes 2,000 miles per hour and it also can fly it's kind of right this is arah um I did bus is because that's how I get to school every day and the 1906 bus was designed by Henry Ford and can only go 24 mph and it was a double decker bus it was pretty cool and then the present bus average goes 50 m hour and the two stripes are just iconic 3,000 I designed it um and it's like a flying plane it you can press

018a button inside to make it fly fly with the fire on the bottom and then it goes 80 mph it's really colorful and it's flying and it has LED lights inside AES awesome and then yeah that was everyone um the second thing we had um we had a designer come in that worked at twep and speak to the fourth graders and before he came in we generated questions um in class we wrot wrote down some of them and we sent them to him and I really like thought they were so thoughtful um one of them said there was one what are some of the products and features that include everyone like example children and Wheelchairs and I love that the students were already thinking about how others can play with play with toys and not

019just isolate just one person you know everyone um also like they were really curious like what was the inspiration how they came up with the ideas and also so he was a toy designer he went to Cleveland State Institute of Art um amazing it was just incredible his sons are video game designers so the kids were like they were in it you know everybody was asking questions um they learned about future careers of what they could do and someday and um I don't know is there anything else you want to yeah I think it's just been really nice to see the connections that they're making and it uh for me as a classroom teacher at this point in the school year it's been really great to watch how they're starting to make connections from things

020they learned from the beginning of the year and carry it over to now to be able to ask a question and then research and find the answers more and more independently um and just be able to take hold of their own learning so it's and enjoy it it was it was so fun to do this and um we had the kids they sent him cards and it was just so fun to read what they wrote how you know he inspired them um they learned so much and just they it was just amazing we had conversations after it and yeah we loved it and then um we also found out just recently that the uh Historical Society is having a historical toys on display that hopefully we can get down there to show the kiddos I

021think that'd be really cool to see so yeah all right so that's it so thank you so much thank you um I like to say uh I I always like seeing what each of the schools come in and do it's always nice to see that deeper learning and all all of that that's going on I I can't speak to shoes um but or really vehicles or buses um but there I'm sure that there's museums with all of these somewhere with historical but for those that did the planes here in Ohio uh the Museum of the United States Air Force which is down in has an enormous collection of planes all the way from the original right or one of a reproduction of the right flyer in the first planes all the way up to that

022uh stealth bomber that young man uh put up there but I can tell you that stealth bomber was more than100 million about 10 times that so but it's it's nice to see so and and I like planes too sorry thank you very much I I want to mention something real quick so for all the kids out there you've designed your futuristic uh version of whatever a shoe transportation bus airplane um try and remember that and look back on it in 10 15 20 years and see how far technology has come to getting close to what you imagined even if you imagined it was a thousand years in the future just take a look and see like how how far we've come and I say this short story real quick so when I was in fourth

023grade um I don't even know the year but a while ago um not as long as some other people on um but uh I had a writing prompt we had journals and we'd write every single day we had a writing prompt of something that you could do um and I don't know if I went rogue with the writing prompt or or if it was something about design a a thing of the future and I ended up sitting down and designing riding out there's this fighter plane and it takes off like a helicopter and it has all these cool features on it and I don't know 10 years ago or so I ended up finding the book reading through it and being like Oh my gosh I basically designed like the F35 my fighter pilot Enthusiast

024Airplane Guy yeah I basically had designed like what the F-35 would end up being like as a fourth grader that knew nothing about airplanes nothing about anything like that so just it it's just really cool to see like your imagination when you're at your age and how close it actually comes to reality when technology catches up so just hold on to that one I just wanted to thank you all for coming in especially it is a really nice day and to spend your time inside with us was a treat for us sh and for you to share all all of your talents with us and what you've learned I do want to make a comment the young man who was the first one to speak about the airplane and said if he messed up well

025it was okay he could try again that's an awesome way to look at things and I think we all should incorporate that into our Liv so good for you nice job just one last comment I I didn't know Uggs were made in 1922 I thought it was a recent thing but I guess not I'm excited about the flying bus maybe we'll get more bus drivers that Ryan thank you uh Canan for coming and joining us today uh normally I send you right away uh because you're usually anxious to get out of here but I do want to let you know that we do have an important state budget presentation that we're doing uh which you're welcome to stay for if not we are going to make sure to get this out to all of your

026your staff and your parents so go enjoy the weather [Applause] that'll be 7 feet [Laughter] tall well as all of our board members are aware uh and I'm guessing most of our community is aware uh is Governor dwine uh introduced uh his proposal for the new state budget uh for the next two years uh that's state budget uh could have uh and will likely have a major impact on the funding of public schools uh in Ohio uh so this evening I wanted to spend a few minutes sharing with you information regarding the proposed state budget and the potential impacts uh on our our school district I think in order to have a full understanding of the impact of the budget on Madina City schools it's important to really look back at our recent history uh

027one thing I'm going to talk about in the presentation are ways that parents community members uh students staff uh can reach out to legislators to Advocate uh for our school district and in the time that uh I've spent in Columbus working with organizations and working with legislators one of the things they emphasize over and over again is the importance of districts sharing their stories uh and really putting a personal note to it in regards to how funding uh impacts students uh and kids overall in our community so our recent history uh as we're aware uh has been littered uh with uh Financial challenges uh we were placed in uh fiscal caution uh by uh the Ohio Department of education uh and this was due to our five-year forecast uh we had been deficit spending uh

028in order to uh spend down funds uh within our budget um and we got to a position in year three where we were looking at going into the red or or negative uh this is a sign where the state intervenes uh and ensures that strategies are put into place for school districts in order to make sure that they uh are fiscally sound uh one of the strategies uh that was implemented was a $2 million uh in reductions um the second strategy uh that was implemented uh was to put a levy on the ballot and we had a lot of conversation in regards to what kind of Levy uh was needed uh and presented that information to our community uh the levy did not pass on its uh first two uh attempts uh and that had

029consequences for our district uh in addition to the original $2 million in reductions uh an additional $2 million in reductions going into the following school year after the two Levy failures uh resulted in uh 48 staff members uh being reduced within the school district as well as uh other programming we're very fortunate uh to see our community uh come to our support uh actually just this past November uh that support resulted uh in a fixed 10-year 7.5 mil Levy passing um uh the passage of that Levy allowed us to avert uh an additional $8 million in reductions which would have completely changed the landscape of our school district uh and how students were uh receiving their education uh within our our communities um we are in a position right now after the passage of the

030levy uh where we are fiscally sound with tight belts um so the look at continued uh reductions because of deficit spending uh is something that we are continuing to do uh and the goal uh has been to do that through attrition uh unfortunately with the governor's proposed budget it throws a wrench uh after just passing uh our our Levy and gaining that community support and the reason why is because his proposed budget as it stands uh would result in another $1.5 million uh in reductions for our school district uh $1.5 million in less State funding uh for our school district and if you look at what the result of uh $4 million in reductions with 48 uh staff positions and other programming being reduced uh us already being in a position uh where we're looking

031at making an additional $2 million Cuts over time through attrition um because of continued deficit spending uh the $1.5 million uh that we could be facing uh is a real challenge for us and continuing to offer programming like we uh currently do so a little information about the proposed state budget uh the proposed state budget that the governor has presented has $13.4 million in reduction Statewide uh so he's looking at uh reducing the amount of money going to districts across the state um the theory behind this uh is that the state overall uh has seen a reduction in enrollment uh this isn't due to students going to private schools uh it's not due to the voucher system it's just due to a decrease a decline in the population of young people uh across the state

032um this reduction isn't hitting districts all the same way um so the formula uh within the proposed budget is faulty um we are a district that is facing $1.5 million in reductions uh over the next two years with this proposal there are districts in the state that would be gaining funds uh there's some districts that would be remaining flat uh so we as a district are in an unfortunate situation uh we have a stabilized student enrollment uh the state has done enrollment studies for us two of them uh recently over the last uh 3 to 5 years uh both of those studies conducted by the state uh are predicting that our enrollment stays where it is now uh over the next 10 years uh despite that uh we're facing a potential reduction uh I'm aware

033of districts that I've worked with in Columbus and the Columbus area uh that are actually seeing uh pretty drastic increases uh in their enrollment in their districts uh we're all aware of how Columbus has just been booming over the last uh 10 years and those districts are facing reductions uh so finding the Rhyme or Reason within the formula uh when you talk about overall reductions due to decreased students in schools uh it doesn't make a lot of sense with the specific schools and communities that are impacted by these actual reductions uh another key uh issue with the proposal is it doesn't take uh into account the drastically increasing property values uh within communities which impacts the formula of how school districts are funded um and it also doesn't take inflation into account so the uh

034proposed funding of public schools in Ohio is based off of uh 22 uh figures um not 24 figures um and and in addition to that with the rising property values uh within communities it affects what levels of fundings districts uh will receive because wealthier districts receive less money and if property values are going up which is how they determine the wealth of a school district it's going to again decrease the amount of funding that a school district receives and I I think this is the major thing that many of these Public Schools uh in Columbus are facing so the impact on Madina City Schools as I mentioned a 1.5 million projected uh loss as things stand over a two-year period and the impact of this uh and it's difficult to stand up here and talk

035about this again because I if it wasn't that long ago it was just the beginning of the school year maybe in September where I talked about reductions uh we would have no choice but to uh Implement further reductions which we were not planning on doing with the passage of the levy other than the ones through attrition we would have no choice but to look deeper into various ways that we would need to make reductions uh so we don't go into a position of fiscal uh watch again so the overall impacts to Madina City Schools uh I think one important piece to look at is the little amount of funding we already receive from the state uh so with a $1.5 million reduction uh we will be receiving extremely low amounts of support uh from the

036state uh in Madina City Schools uh the average per pupil expenditure is about $133,000 per year currently approximately $850 of that uh comes from the state so that 850 per student uh would be reduced and as I already mentioned uh the inputs for the formula are outdated they're 22 figures putting 24 figures into the formula uh considering the property value increases and also inflation could have a Major Impact uh on that how that formula would impact schools so negative consequences uh which means even with the new Levy uh we would be facing a shortfall uh in funding uh the other challenge uh that we face with the proposed budget uh is the burden that it puts on our community um our community uh in November uh our our strategy uh was not to try and

037sway community members which way to vote but to present options of what they want from our schools um and then uh communicate what the costs would be in order to maintain the kind of programming or class sizes within our district um in order to maintain what we currently have the burden is again shifted to our local property taxpayers and our local uh community members in order to provide more funding for our schools now why is that happening because the state looks at schools across the state if you're a considered a wealthy District based off your property values uh our as we all know our values just uh drastically went up here in the community uh the state says well you're even wealthier now you should be able to pay more uh for your local schools

038what what's really frustrating with this mindset is that we've talked about this before our funding system in Ohio by Ohio Supreme Court uh over two decades ago was determined as unconstitutional and one of the primary reasons why it was considered uh unconstitutional is because of the heavy Reliance in the state on property taxes to fund the public schools uh and I actually just heard this figure um last week uh and I just about fell out of my chair uh you know we've got a lot of pride in Ohio not just here in Madina but in Ohio as well uh and we expect our students to perform at top levels when compared to other states but we don't want to fund our schools to help our students perform at those top levels uh Ohio currently is

039ranked 35th in the country in terms of the amount of funding that's provided uh by at the state level to fund public schools and obviously if this proposed plan goes into place we're going to drop even further even lower property tax limits um and this is a real Challenge and it's something we faced uh with with the last Levy as a misunderstanding is people assume because their property values are going up schools are getting additional funds for us that's not the case uh because we are not at the funding floor and we're on the guarantee I'm not going to get into the details of those tonight uh but I would encourage if you want information to reach out to Mr Chambers and myself because we're willing to have those conversations but it puts us in

040a situation where the increased property values are not having any kind of Major Impact on the funding that we're receiving so when a levy is passed such as our last Levy for $14.4 million all we'll ever receive for that Levy is 14.4 it won't be increased with the increase of property values so what are the impacts on our students um and this is the message that I think is important to talk about um and again it goes back to what are our expectations uh as a community uh for our schools and and our students um but this is literally uh pulled from the list that uh we had presented to the board uh back in September uh because we would have to look at the same kind of reductions uh the elimin ation of programming

041uh the reduction in Staffing I I estimate uh in order to meet the reduction level we would need uh we would be facing uh approximately 15 around 15 staff uh that would need to be reduced uh in order to reduce those staff it means reducing programming programs like what you see up here uh as well as increasing class sizes uh no matter what we do I think it's important emphasize that we are committed to our students in our community and whatever level of funding we have we are going to do everything we can to provide the best education for our students possible uh the next piece that I wanted to share uh some information about is the voucher program um and the voucher program does have a direct impact on public schools in Ohio and

042our board elected uh several years ago uh to be Advocates against the voucher program uh because of the money uh that it disallows from going to Public Schools um the original tent of the voucher program which has actually been around for quite a while uh I want to say approximately 15 plus years uh the original attent of the voucher program was to help families and kids living in low social economic economic areas that didn't have the same kind of access to high quality education that other students in Ohio had um and the voucher program served that purpose for uh a number of years um I can tell you that if you talk to uh these impact this the voucher program originally impacted the big city schools uh more than anybody and if you talk to

043school leaders in those districts they'll tell you that it hurt them back then because it was diverting funding away from their schools to make them better sending kids to uh voucher schools uh which generally do not perform at the same levels the current reality and this has literally occurred over the last two years is that the voucher program is no longer serving low economic families the way that it used to it's actually a program where it's now serving the wealthy uh it's serving households uh that have six and seven figure salaries uh whose students never even attended a public school or Madina City Schools to begin with and I'm going to show you some specific data for Madina City schools and how that has impacted us last year uh the state spent uh just about

044$1.2 billion uh in uh voucher programming this is a drastic increase uh from previous years um and those funds if they were red diverted back to the public schools could completely solve uh the funding issue uh across Ohio so this is our district um you can see back in 2122 and 2223 uh this is the amount of students uh or participating in the voucher program uh the vast majority of those students were Local Economic families uh taking advantage of the voucher program if we jump from the 2223 to the 2324 school year the whole chart just direct drastically shifts uh the amount of students that are taking advantage or families taking advantage of the voucher program are wealthy wealthier and high income families so looking at the percentage increase blows my mind this didn't happen

045over the course of a short period of time this happened in a year uh an 1,00% increase a 1700% increase uh in terms of uh students receiving vouchers um wealthy families utilizing vouchers uh those funds not being available uh to help Madina uh City Schools uh and we are not seeing a decrease in enrollment because of this voucher usage again these are kids these are families that never attended Madina City Schools to begin with uh that's uh parents made a choice for alternative education options uh for their own reasons uh for students and now are benefiting from public funds to help them uh fund those individual options I think what really is lost in this conversation is when we look at Ohio as a whole uh I've heard comments made about uh voucher programs is

046good for Ohio it's good for uh kids but the reality is 89% of students across Ohio attend a public school so the vast majority of students and kids in Ohio are going to a public school yet we're shifting funding for the 10% uh to support schools uh that are non-public schools uh when it's in our Constitution that there must be a common education public education system funded and supported uh through Ohio so if you look at the chart here uh traditional districts uh which are public schools uh have seen a almost $32 million uh reduction in funding uh and are facing an additional uh $40 million in reductions over the next two years meanwhile uh other schools non-public schools are seeing pretty drastic increases especially when you consider that this is 11% of kids across

047Ohio dramatic increases in the funding so what can we do uh what we can do is make sure our legislators understand how State funding and the state funding proposal that's currently out there impacts our students uh and that's why I'm sharing the information tonight uh we are very proactive as a school district uh we're members of multiple organizations um uh this past year uh I've actually been asked to serve on the executive legislative committee for the alliance for high quality education uh so I am in Columbus regularly uh working with other school leaders and legislators to advocate for public schools uh the other piece is uh really working with our community which is a step in what we're trying to do tonight because we have our voice as a district but the voice of our

048Comm community and what they want from our schools I'll tell you means even more to legislators they're voted for by uh our community members so it's vital that our community reaches out to legislators in order to let them know how this is going to impact Madina City schools and what kind of funding and education we expect here in Madina uh to support our schools I'm talking to you tonight because there's still time uh the timeline for a budget is the governor makes a proposal uh then uh that proposal goes through the house and the Senate uh currently uh the budget proposal is in the house we anticipate that within the next week or two uh the house uh will release that budget to the Senate and then the Senate will take time to review the

049budget as the budget goes through both the house and the Senate multiple changes are going to be made to that proposal um the deadline however for that proposal uh to be voted on and passed uh is July 1st so that's our timeline to reach out to our local legislators so how can you help stay informed uh look for information we provide information on our website uh through our podcast uh through our uh regular newsletters and emails that go out um contact your legislators uh let them know how it impacts Madina City schools because quite frankly they're serving large areas and they may not really be knowledable on how uh these funding uh changes will impact schools and then spread awareness we need people to talk about this I've included up here this evening is our

050area legisl later contact information uh Sharon Ray uh in District 66 I can tell you that we have had Communications uh with Sharon uh we actually had uh I think brunch with her this past summer to talk to her about Madina City schools and we've had board members reach out uh Mark rachek uh for district 22 uh in the Senate um Governor Mike dwine of course this is his uh original proposal and then Max Miller uh our US Congress uh representative and again the key here is sharing our story so that our legislators can make informed decisions when they're working within their committees down in Columbus and then eventually uh taking votes so that ends my presentation this evening uh we are going to make this presentation uh a available on our website uh we

051also intend to send this out to all staff uh because it's important that our staff members uh are informed uh in addition uh I would like to thank the board uh if you haven't noticed and I'm talking to the community on the board agenda tonight is a resolution uh for uh our board members to take a vote on uh advocating uh for fair school funding and to support uh our schools and and the hope is that's a resolution we'll be able to pass tonight uh and then uh sending that resolution on to our legislators down in Columbus as well as here locally uh so that we can Garner their support in supporting Madina City schools at this time are there any questions from the board regarding the proposed budget excuse me it was Stark seeing

052the slide with the increase in the number of U vouchers being used um the one that you know just the huge increase um any idea of what that is in dollars uh I not in a local level at a state level though we did share that in the beginning of the slideshow here it is these are the dollar Statewide I don't have the breakdown for you this evening on how that impacts uh specifically Madina City Schools but we will pull those numbers and make those available to the board and on our website I I think I think for the public of our school system would be very interested to know what that is in millions of dollars I'm sure it's in millions yeah so thank you well especially since because right here the increase of

05388.6 million is for only 11% of stud of Ohio students so proportionately already right so if you look at the per pupil expenditure um I it's completely slanted in terms of what public school students are receiving versus voucher when you look here at Madina and I think you need to repeat that our we have not lost students that's something that clicked with me we have not lost students these are students who are already going to these uh private schools and they are receiving public school money essentially that's correct I think it's also important to note that the we are held uh certain checks and balances and mandates and requirements that those other schools are not as well uh you're absolutely right and that's that's actually something that we've advocated for uh in working in Columbus

054uh was for a similar system if we if we are providing uh public dollars to private schools uh through vouchers that they be held to the same standard academically um and there was a lot of of push back and lobbying against that and that legislation uh did not go through um and a big reason for that uh is overall the schools that are accepting vouchers are performing at lower levels than public schools are in Ohio I just want to say one thing on uh actually contacting the representatives at the end of the slide uh or slideshow um I know that this and and various other things are topics that people get very passionate about can get very heated about things like that but if you are going to call any of your representatives whether you

055call during hours or you call after hours they're much more likely to even give you a few seconds of listening if you're kind and direct about it don't call up and start yelling and screaming that you're angry about something because I know I would not feel very good about that that would not be something that would help me be very receptive to what people are saying that's definitely going to go for your Congress people and uh all your elected officials also so and and a lot of times there staffers on the other end it's you're not talking to Max Miller you're talking to one of his staffers so and I I agree 100% with what what you're saying um and the reason why uh is because everybody wants what's best for kids in Ohio and

056one thing that we have to keep in mind is we're working with legislators is they've got really big jobs and schools and school funding is one little piece of it and a lot of times it's they just don't know and what we need to do is make sure they know um I think I don't know whether I sent you this article but I think there there was an article I read today where after kids go into schools with vouchers over a three-year period their test scores actually go down in every level I mean they drastically drop in uh English and uh science math so it's not like they're necessarily getting a a better education and also supposedly Max Miller is supposed to show up at the library on Saturday at 3:45 um so you can

057always come up there and talk to him then but I have a feeling he's not going to be there but be nice to see last question um you one of the slides had what okay well you can go last Becky uh you had 1.2 billion that was the state spent last year correct on vouchers and where did that figure come from that come yeah that that's right from the state those are actual figures okay thank you Mr Sable you mentioned that this presentation will be available on the website what about you giving the presentation because I think it's valuable for people to hear actually what you're saying is it is it possible to snit this out of the board meeting post it yeah that's actually Amy and I have already had that conversation yeah the

058communication that's uh going out to staff I think tomorrow uh we we won't be able to have it cut to just the presentation but we're going to give a link to the board meeting uh later when we do have it isolated to the presentation we'll make sure that's available in addition to that uh we are preparing to do a podcast uh on this information as well uh we're actually waiting to do that podcast until after spring break uh the first or second week in April uh because we're hoping we'll have updated information on the state budget in the school funding formula because it should be moved on from the house and I'll have been back in Columbus by then and should have some additional information great thank you soon as Mr you still have some

059time items it's time for the committee reports uh let's invite uh Ryan come on down and talk to us about facilities and you've got an item or two on the agenda tonight too yeah there are a couple couple items on the agenda tonight one for um our gas contract that we do through Ohio school council the other is for um P paving at Northrup had to make sure every remember does so the one thing I did want to share from my facility committee meeting um I had Bob piter there and we he's a head of the transportation the uh maintenance of the of the buses and Bob and I came up with a plan to re uh renew the buses and keep the fleet at a c servable age and a cost effective way to

060do that so that was a big presentation that we put together for the facility meeting um I have one coming up next facility meeting we we'll be doing some food service talks so uh be happy to share those but we we uh we put the buses on a every year we're going to be purchasing five buses that extends life 12 years is the rotation before we've replaced the entire fleet so every every year five buses 12 years will'll have replaced every bus so that's the that's the plan moving forward and um look forward to the next facility meeting it's right around the corner all right thanks great thank you and Dr quock for policy uh so tonight we have some policies on for um first do we have first readings on sorry it's been quite

061the day so we don't have readings tonight and no second readings yes yeah we have a second reading okay thanks sorry needed a minute yep so I presented last board meeting on this policy so everyone's intimately familiar with it so this will be the final uh vote for that policy and then it will become official policy policy committee met we went over our next um stack of policies for first reading so what happens in our committee is we review those commit gets a month to look them over then we'll review those again and then we'll we'll go uh send them to the board for first reading so we we will be meeting a lot there's a lot of policies a lot of once uh legislation is voted in and there's legal changes that then turns

062into policy revisions or new policies so we'll we'll keep at it we won't cancel yep and last one is finance which David is on his way up so I'm done okay the finance committee met uh back in February uh we had to say goodbye to two former finance committee members Jay Austin and John Foster um we're looking for other finance committee members to take their place so if you know someone out there who would like to uh join our committee me we meet roughly five times six times a year uh it's always at 4:30 in the afternoon because Miss perard said she would like to be there at 4:30 in the afternoon and uh so uh again if you want to be on our committee it's great we discuss the finances of the district uh

063last committee we talked about the tax budget process uh where uh we create the tax budget that is submitted to the County Auditors and we go step by step through the process and until the County Auditors approv the tax budget well this year they put a little wrench in it they had a tax budget hearing so we talked about the tax budget hearing to the finance committee and talked about uh uh what other tax budget hearings have done out in Lake County and giaga County and uh what we were anticipating and what we got from the Medina County uh tax budget committee uh we also talked about Collections and where we stand uh we talked about the January collections at that time and then we talked about what Aaron basically presented today the governor's banian

064budget so that was the finance committee may I go on Mr President sure thank you um the February financials we always start with our beginning balance and our beginning balance hasn't changed because it's the beginning balance in uh July 33 million we've uh collected revenues of $81 million and expenditures have hit $6 million our ending balance as of the uh February 28th was $51.7 Million uh with our Revenue we had revenues totaling the 81 million and this represents 86% of our anticipated revenues on our 5-year forecast of this $59 million is real property taxes uh this is showing a 19.5% increase over last year and that is directly due to the levy p in November uh we received I believe it uh was 30 uh million here in February the state Foundation is at $12.3

065million this is 2.7% over last year at this time it includes $400,000 in casino revenue uh the casino revenue is U that's all we're received for the year and again this was the largest uh Revenue that we've received from the state for Casino purposes go on to our expenditures we have total expenditures of $60 million uh that's 65% of our anticipated expenditures for the year based on the 5year forecast our Personnel is at $37 million this is two points it's 7.5 over last year 7.5% but last year we had 7 pays so most if you recall in past years I've told you most of our expenditures are on personnel and benefits because that's what we do we have Personnel that deal with uh uh educating students so most of our expenditures are in personnel and

066if you look at that uh being that we had 27 pays it means we had smaller pays last year for personnel until the end of the year and uh but if you compare this to two years ago we're only 2.6% above what we spent two years ago and the reason I want to compare it two years ago is two years ago was the last time we had 26 pays for our personnel and if you think about it we've moved up two years from that point and only 2.6% above that time and that deals with the cuts that we made here going through precaution and going through the additional um reductions because of the March Levy failure so now going on to benefits this is more reflective of what we did with those cuts uh we're

067down we're at $1 13.7 million this is down 2.7% year-over-year and again it's directly because of cuts in in or reduction in Personnel last year beginning of this year uh because our benefit cost for medical went up 12% on the premiums and then our other expenditures are down uh we're at $9.3 million they're down to 4.5% from the previous year our investments this is this is where we actually have some um good news for our community we have been investing since I got here uh I was I was happy that the board allowed me to uh bring in an investment advisor and create a portfolio back in uh the summer of 2014 our Investment Portfolio is limited to the Investments we can make uh we can't go out into the stock market and throw out

068high-risk Investments we're limited to treasuries CDs uh commercial paper uh so we are very limited on what we can invest in but our Investment Portfolio uh currently has brought in $1.3 million to offset taxpayers and this is $354,000 above last year or sorry above February at this time and finally I'd like to talk about our today's Cash if you recall what I spoke last or this uh last board meeting in January I was saying this is where we are um at our very lowest end in January and you could see the last three years January has always been lowest in February we always click up and that's because we received the first half property tax advances uh most of the monies come in February this year our January low Point wasn't as low because uh

069the auditor shocked Me by giving us an advance on the new Levy of which they were just collecting on so the low Point wasn't as low as it could have been so I was I was happy with that um now you see the money's coming in from the new Levy in February that's why this year's monies in the yellow are greater than last year's monies in the green so questions on the finances okay for the last page this is for the community please visit our website for any information and our financial documents are all out there thank you Mr Chambers we are at the excuse me uh at the board communication uh point and we'll start with uh Miss Pritchard over here um the student of the month at the career center is another Medina

070uh person Caitlyn malbin she's an Allied Health in pre- nursing and president of her class the Medina March students of the month are Cameron Anderson and Max Dudley um congratulations to the mtss coach Maria oh boy uh Co K who received one of two Nationwide hero awards for the MTS s Heroes award program um I attended the northr talent show which included 159 students plus staff and the two secretaries who really rocked it to their dance um it was in the middle Auditorium which was packed there was not room for one more person to get in there um it was an shout out to all the staff they did an amazing job um and the performers were very very good and they did not have a care in the world as they went out there

071and sang and dance and did a lot of different things the art show is still going on and businesses on the Square um the preschool was invited and they are some of them are in uh Huntington bank and they are very good and I just want to give them a shout out for all their hard work I read to the kindergarten class at Blake and I don't know what makes me always ask a question because I I I don't want to know the answer sometimes um but I was going to go yesterday to see the the leprechaun that this one girl claims that she caught and she has a picture of it but I didn't get a chance so next year I'll go she'll be in first grade and I got to watch Mr Douglas's

072class um do part of the MC Beth program um Anna sh who was today named I think it was today um the gymnast of Madina County also finished fifth in the balance beam and was all state Dominic D filipo and Chad Nicholson qualified for the state wrestling um tournament uh I just want you to know that rugby and guys volleyball are now playing uh just check the athletic website for games the musical starts on April 11th goes April 11th 12th and 13th for those of you who um haven't heard or didn't read it in the paper the career center is expanding we now have leased the acran facility off of Wedgewood road for the adult education um Department uh I attended the Saturday breakfast that the diesel uh kids put on and it was um

073very nice uh did a good job the Hall of Fame for masty schools was on Friday we honored nine outstanding alumni and I want to thank Mrs Buzby Mrs debnars and Jared fry for their um hard work it was a very nice evening uh everybody who um was honored was there except for um rear Admiral um Greg newerk who was on a boat in Japan but he sent in a very nice um you know salute to his parents and many of the people that were there U Mrs smoyer and I attended an osba master class which was something new that they put on and um there were some things that I we wanted to share um they they uh that we basically picked up from them they said that they we think they said that

074we should have three things that we want to share with the community each month we should have policy review every five years I think we have we we've done that before I mean much sooner and we should invite legislators to schools so here is the one thing I want to share with you and Mr Sable's already done it but if you want the email for uh Sharon Ray it's rep 66 Ohio house.gov and if you want for the Ohio Senate it's sd22 Ohio senate.gov and um beside the passing of the teacher here uh recently uh Nancy Brit who taught at clagett and served on the EMT for 15 years she was a 25-year veteran teacher passed away recently um a very beloved teacher who taught health and just did a great job and that's all

075I have thank you Miss Pritchard Mr Nichols Yeah uh so um I had a couple couple things come up um during since the last board meeting um I wasn't able to make it to the finance meeting but Dave gave us a good rundown of that like he always does um I was able to actually make it over to Fen to look at the aliens that were presented and many many more um across the multiple classrooms um it was kind of cool to hear the differences between each not only each group but each classroom and just the reasoning kind of what we heard here the reasoning why uh aliens had certain adaptations to survive on their specific planets um so that was cool to get kind of the full experience with all the kids there um

076in addition to that I ended up making it to the osba spring conference and um Miss Parkers over there ended up getting a little award for all of her time on uh Schoolboard what what 30 40 50 years which is funny because I'm only 29 so it's true I don't know how you did it uh no I believe it was 10 years um but uh that was really nice um I was glad to be there to support Mrs Parkhurst and um in typical me fashion I threw off some of the uh kids that are part of the culinary program there um me and Ryan were up there trying to figure out what was in one of the desserts and it was the dessert of a kid that wasn't standing there they came over and they

077started explaining it gave us a whole rundown um and I just nodded my head a little bit and said thank you chef and they were like wait what and then Ryan's like have you seen the bear and they lost their mind they were like oh my gosh oh I I've really wanted to see that so bad I've wanted to see it and then the teacher that was actually in charge of it just like gave us a stare and was like yeah I can't watch it it's too real for me it it brings back flashbacks I can't do that so for the realness of the TV show the bear um apparently pretty real um and then I went over to another student and I asked three of them I said all right give me uh who's

078dessert in my picking up here and one kid instantly was like oh you got to get mine instantly everybody else didn't even get a chance and I did a similar thing and nodded my head and said heard Chef thank you Chef um and picked it up and walked away and he was also equally dumbfounded that uh I had addressed them like that but it was uh it was funny to throw off The Culinary students a little bit but it was all good it was all good Mrs Parkhurst but you can come in again at the end if you have to thank you I appreciate that um thank you um Mr Nichols for mentioning Wednesday evening I want to thank Mr Nichols Mrs smoyer Mr Sable Mr Chambers Mr oall and Mrs Busby for uh attending

079that that was um very special evening and 10 years has flown by really quickly and that's probably because we're such a great district with a great community and great teacher staff student students just great people to work for and it has been U my honor and and privilege to serve the only thing I would like to mention it has been mentioned already is uh a reminder that our portrait to practice is April 10th from 5:30 to 7:00 at clate and we invite the whole entire Community to come come one come all there will be great things there there might be food there as well from our cooking students maybe okay now it's out there so got to make it happen but no great things I invite the entire Community to come and see what our

080wonderful students and and teachers are doing so thank you very much Mrs smoyer thank you yes it was a wonderful dinner and it was great to see Rebecca get that award I was amazed at how much time several of these board members had been in there uh includ thank you including uh the one that was the longest running was 40 years so somebody who had been you know on the board for 40 years had been uh voted upon many times so they must be doing a very good job all right uh otherwise the Madina career center uh Awards I wanted to um just do a shout out to McKenzie laps Lauren kadlick Zamara Glover Jackson gumo and Isaac Lewis they all comp uh competed at the states and they are going to Nationals uh in

081Florida so in the near future actually in June so they did a great job and they are going to go to orando um and then the gymnastics you mentioned about uh some of the gymnastics I just saw that uh Anna sh and Haley Hoffman were the gazette's all count gymnast and Haley's little sister Bethany who is a freshman uh received an honorable mention so from Madina so that was great um oh I got to read to the third grade class at Blake Elementary that was a lot of fun lots of questions um reminded me of my PTO days of going in and reading uh again lots of questions and I felt horrible for uh the the teacher was not there that day so we had a sub and we went in and he was a

082little dumbfounded that I was there but he's like yes he needed a break so it was wonderful um so I took that on uh let's see otherwise I attended the band uh the Madina High School bands Winter concert and they just they're so impressive how awesome they are compared to when I personally was in band The Madina High School band just blows them away which they actually did very well uh we actually hosted the omas's uh contest this past weekend and uh our bands received all A's so that was great um so kudos to them and I just wanted to shout out to Mr locker and Miss snide uh they've been tasked with covering more this year uh due to cuts and also one of the band directors did have a baby so uh they

083covering for her as well which is great and speaking of the Bands they are going to be having a jasat Taz on April 5th so it opens at 5:00 p.m. at the high school in the pack and in the cafeterias and the tickets can be purchased in advance um there's a link that I can't tell you what it is right now uh but until April 1st adults and students are $15 in advance and 18 at the door and seniors uh and children 10 and under get a discount at $12 in advance and 15 at the door so this includes general admission to all musical performances which they have several jazz bands all around the uh School a raffle ticket which there are many many Raffles going on and a $250 cash prize that's mine no

084oh and you get a dessert box so if you do that otherwise I have a lot today I'm pretty impressed going to Pat myself all right the other one we've brought this lady up many times Ella Nicholson she was in Cuba this past weekend and she took first place in the PanAm Junior weightlifting again I used to babysit this girl she is to be reckoned with and uh she is going she's going to be going to um the Olympics I can just see it now uh let's see and then at the osba training that Miss Pritchard mentioned about it the beyond the basics mastering the of the leader I I felt I should take that especially with being the VP this time uh three things that I got there's a need to contact our legislators

085she mentioned that uh because every school district is different and they need to understand ours so I know I personally will be reaching out uh I hope you will too build relationships as a board with our community such as going to senior centers so we had talked about that actually earlier today um this one stood out to me have food in a photo op and the local legislators will come all right they will but another thing is be a united front so as a board we all five are a united front for our school uh let's see and otherwise wish me luck I'll be chaperoning the band for the uh Disney trip starting on Thursday so for a whole week 22 hours in a bus I Goa all right thank you everybody I won't keep

086everybody too long I did also attend the uh Sydney Fen um their alien presentation that was they were learning about our planets and the students had to come up with an alien and uh we got to I got to go with Mr Nichols and we got to go to the classrooms and talk to them and they were very passionate um I was quite intrigued by some of the aliens that were created and some of the materials they Ed and why they chose them some sometimes it was well that's all I have but they were very creative and it was very interesting um especially to me uh since I studied that a long time ago um I also got to uh go to Heritage for a presentation of a distinguished service award to their custodian who

087his name is escaping me and I apologize but that was uh it's so nice to surprise somebody with that and um Kim beard um was it was nice to surprise Kim and uh I know the staff was running around trying to keep her away from us so that she didn't know we were there um but I suspect she probably knew something was up um and then finally um it's so critical that uh our district um you know help us advocate for our students in our district at the state and federal level um we we are doing our absolute best but we need everybody to uh help us advocate for our kids in our district and that is all I have uh next up whoops sorry next up is uh public comment time it looks like

088I have one public comment uh allow me to read this and then we'll get started uh community members wishing to address the board are asked to abide by the following guidelines attendees shall register their intention to comment in the public portion of the meeting upon their arrival at the meeting after those that have registered have spoken if time allows the board president will ask for public comment from all other attendees please state your name address and affiliation please keep your comments to a maximum of 3 minutes no participant may speak more than once on the same topic unless all others who wish to speak on that topic have been heard all statements shall be directed to the presiding officer no person may address or question board members individually and our speaker is uh Victoria druy

089who I do know thank you um my name is Victoria dry I live at 896 Laurel Glenn's drive here in Madina I think that's it right you don't need my phone number nobody needs to call me I want to thank superintendent Sable for sharing the information about the fair school funding plan and for helping us understand the financial challenges that our district is facing I also want to thank the board for considering a resolution in support of current accurate inputs in the funding formula and for fully implementing the fair school funding plan by passing a resolution the board will send a strong statement that Madina will fight for what our students deserve we cannot afford to let bad data determine the future of our schools this resolution is more than a formality it's a call

090to action that extends to all of us every member of this community needs to reach out to our state representatives and demand that they fully fund and fully enact the fair school funding plan using real up-to-date numbers and this is a fight that we cannot afford to sit out so what does that look like that can be really intimidating um to hear that we're all being called to do this and that's where I'll do a plug for kids first Madina if you're not sure how to reach out to your representatives if you're not sure what to say or what to do then you can reach us on Facebook kids first Madina you can send us an email kidsfirst Madina gmail.com and we have statements for you to make we have materials to share we have

091data um Aon mentioned tonight that 90% of the students in Ohio 89% but 90% of students in Ohio go to public schools um 95% of students with disabilities go to public schools um we also just recently found out that 90% of people using voucher monies come from wealthy households um so that's people that are making well well above the median income level um we found out that 20% almost 20% 18% of of people using voucher money are um making are they're they're in the 1% top earners in our state so why are we trying to cut a hundred million from public schools and give a billion dollars to vouchers to people who don't need it um but there's a lot of good information like that and I'll also do a plug for all in for

092Ohio kids it's a coalition trying to get parents together to teach them how to write testimony um and to reach out to our representatives to stay more informed with what's going on we like Aon said we do have time but we don't have a ton of time we we really need to act now on this and um if you're looking for more information about what's going on policy matters Ohio has a lot of the data and how it affects other districts in the state because this is a fight that it's it's not just Madina it's it's everyone thank you thank you very much uh Mrs droy and we are now on to treasur action items G yes if it please the board item number one it's recommended the Board of Education approved the February 2025

093treasurers financial report item number two supplemental to permanent Appropriations it's recommended that the Board of Education approv the following supplemental to the 2 uh 425 permanent Appropriations on these items uh that you see here your uh EBT administrative fund is funding that was given to the food service department and we're using the last of the funds this year uh you're you have uh various items for your buildings here your Capstone at uh the high school your field trip at Blake you have auxiliary service monies these are the last of the monies that the state uh gives to the uh School District to disperse to our auxiliary services uh these are also a true up for the year uh so you could see that both St Francis and MCA are moving up and the nury is

094uh their budget is being cut here and it's all based on student numbers uh you have the oeg safety Grant this is a grant that uh Mr okal applied for and received from our Ohio attorney generals and then uh finally our title 3 LEP uh this is the full funding for the LEP uh if it's below $10,000 it doesn't come from the state to us it comes from ESC to us um item number three is accepting the amounts and rates it is recommended that board of education adopt the resolution accepting the amounts and rates as determined by the budget commission and authorizing the necessary tax levies and certifying them to the county auditor for tax year 25 collection year 26 uh these this is uh an acceptance that is on a year basis um and

095the rates did not change from this year I would entertain a motion um for Treasure action items uh G1 through three I'll make a motion to approve the treasures action items one through three thank you Mrs prer I'll second thank you Mr Nichols any questions comments uh from anyone um it seems that one thing the state is doing is making these more of these grants available instead of funding districts they making them into grants that you have to apply for um so thank you Mr O call for researching that and applying for those funds for our district uh anybody else hearing none Mr Chambers when you're ready yes Miss pitard hi Mr Nichols hi Miss Parker hi Miss moer hi Mr West yes thank you Mr Sable um superintendent action items H number one it

096is recommended that the Board of Education accept the following donations to Madina City Schools uh I do want to point out the rather large donation uh to the Madina High School vocal uh program from Harmony helpers Harmony helpers is our parent group uh that supports um our our uh vocal musical uh program so we're very blessed in this District uh with the support uh and the high quality Arts programs uh as Amy had already mentioned this evening number two is policy uh as Dr quock brought up it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the second reading and Adoption of the following new policy uh that is for the religious uh release time as mandated by new legislation number three it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the following Service uh agreements

097uh the first two agreements from pupil Services is for uh extended year summer school services for students that qualify uh per their IEP uh both of these programs uh are uh programs that that we have contracted with uh in the past uh the second is from the treasurer's office uh for Frontline education and Power School group uh the one is an extension uh from a Frontline of current programming that we already have uh in place um uh these uh programs uh will allow us to look at additional data from across the State as well as develop uh comparisons uh in charts which will be useful for us on many fronts uh the second program is to assist department heads uh central office administrative team members uh in utilizing best utilizing their budgets number four is

098a proposal uh for Northrup Paving it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the proposal from Vasco asphalt company for Paving adaliz in Northrup Elementary School in the amount of approximately uh $92,000 and that's part of our summer work as mentioned by Mr oole number five uh it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the resolution authorizing the uh execution and delivery of a master electric energy sales agreement between Madina City School District and power force schools uh endorsed electric supplier uh and this is effective July 1st uh 25 through June 30th this is a Consortium we've been a part of for many years and saves us significant money uh in a grouping uh with other entities in order to lower those costs number six it is recommended that the Board of Education

099approve the following overnight field trips in compliance with policy 2340 uh two of these uh are uh District wrestling tournament is as well as ohaa uh wrestling tournament um for state competition uh the second two are the Washington DC trips for next school year it's nice to see these up on the agenda early um but they are both uh going to be going in the fall and then number seven is Personnel it is recommended that the Board of Education approve uh the following Personnel recommendations um completion of all required paperwork uh to Mr Shields Director of Human Resources and there's a few I want to highlight here but for whatever reason my board do is going at a snail's pace tonight it sounds like I'm not alone uh it just loaded and unloaded uh couple

100things I did want to point out off the top of my head though is we do have a teacher uh that's uh resigning uh and it is not a mistake uh that Garfield Elementary thank you I I have it up now uh Garfield Elementary listed um this teacher has been on an approved leave and that's the last uh building uh where they worked uh in addition uh we have multiple co-curricular contracts uh on the agenda for the spring we also have non-renewals uh for co-curricular contracts uh for 24 uh 25 uh which is uh happens uh regular thank you I'll make a motion to approve the superintendent action items one through seven thank you Miss Pritchard I'll second thank you Mrs parkst any questions comments from anybody I just want to say um the two

101certified resignations uh Nikki fujio and Christie Coran um probably two of my last students um uh Nikki was in my gym class and got hurt we were playing the World Championship uh kickball game and um we were was America versus Venezuela we didn't think we could take on Russia yet but um she had to get the first base and she did but she Twisted her ankle and so I got down off the bleachers and for those who don't know she was Nikki Taft and I said well give me your mom's phone number and I'll call her and she goes oh well she works in uh Mr irish's office off I go who is that and she goes oh Pat Taff the secretary I go well I'm out of a job now but so anyways and

102christe I had on student council and in gym class and just two really wonderful people and two individuals that we going to miss and then I just want to say Liz kosis the cafeteria manager at Madina high school please say it isn't so she's such a wonderful I'm glad you mentioned that unfortunately it is I know I mean just she has done so much with that cafeteria um she's really going to be missed so I'm sorry to see her go but anyways that's all I have anything else from anybody I was going to mention Liz as well she's a wonderful person to work with has helped me immensely with uh several different things that I've been a part of but I know she's going to leave it in good hands she has been training those

103ladies uh that work with her immensely and I know they're going to leave it in good hands but we're going to miss Liz and I hope they all come in May for our retirement recognition meeting any anything else all right M hearing none Mr Chambers when you're ready m per hi Miss Parker hi Mr Nichol hi Miss Moyer hi Mr West yes thank you uh the next item on the uh agenda is an action item for the board a resolution in support of the fair schools uh funding plan it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the resolution in support of the fair school funding plan to emphasize the need for continue investment in Ohio students and public schools whereas the Ohio Constitution guarantees thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state

104article section 2 and the Ohio Supreme Court has already has repeatedly ruled that the state school funding system must both be adequate and Equitable and whereas the fair school funding plan was developed using research research driven inputs to ensure that all Ohio students receive the resources necessary for high quality education regardless of their zip code and whereas the fair school funding plan represents a bipartisan approach to address the longstanding inequities in Ohio school funding system by accurately determining the cost of educating a student utilizing a base cost method that reflects actual District needs and whereas the current state Pi annual budget continues the funding continues funding the fair school funding plan but fails to update the base cost calculations relying on outdated 2022 inputs that do not account for current inflationary measures Rising Personnel costs

105or evolving student needs and whereas Ohio's commitment to an equitable funding formula must include periodic updates to cost inputs to ensure districts receive an accurate and fair allocation of State resources and whereas any proposal to reduce funding for districts currently receiving funding guarantees would destabilize educational Services harm students and undermine the intent of the fair school funding plan by shifting Financial burdens onto local taxpayers or forcing cuts to essential programs and whereas a fully implemented and regularly updated Fair school funding plan benefits all Ohio students by ensuring predictability adequacy and fairness in school funding allocations now therefore be it resolved that the CH City School Board of Education one expresses strong support for the continued implementation and full funding of the fair school funding plan including the use of updated research-based cost inputs that reflect

106current economic conditions and student needs two rejects any proposals to cut funding from school districts currently receiving funding guarantees as such actions would create Financial inst instability and negatively impact students and communities three calls upon the Ohio general assembly and the governor to uphold their commitment to fair and adequate school funding by ensuring that the future banal budgets fully fund the fair school funding plan and update cost calculations to reflect the actual cost of educating Ohio students four urges the Ohio general assembly and the governor to advocate for Equitable school funding system that supports all Ohio students and does not pit districts against one another in a zero sum funding model be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to members of the Ohio General Assembly the governor of Ohio the

107Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and other relevant stakeholders to emphasize the need for continued investment in Ohio students and public schools I would entertain a motion on this resolution I would like like to make a motion to take care of this resolution thank you Mrs smoyer do I hear a second I'll second thank you Mrs Mrs parkur any questions or comments from anybody anyone I do think it's important uh for us to be doing this and I do fully support this I think it's I think it's important we're bringing this to the attention of our community members and and to our legislators how it will directly impact us and tell our story I I agree and um I think it's important that our that we as the board do this we're advocating for our

108students in our district and um we need everybody's help along with this but this is our part a big part of it anybody else hearing none Mr Chambers when you're ready Miss moer hi Miss parkur hi Mr Nichols hi Miss perard hi Mr West a resounding yes thank you and I just wanted to briefly add if if it's possible and Craig might need your help with this to print this out so board members can sign this now that it's passed tonight uh because Lee and I have already talked we want to get this out tomorrow to to the legislators um uh next up is an executive session uh to consider the appointment employment dismissal discipline uh or compensation of a Public Employee or official to consider the investigation of charges or complaints against against the

109Public Employee official leny or regulated in individual discussion with the board's legal councel of disputes involving the board that are the subject of pending or imminent Court action prep preparation for conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with employees concerning uh their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment I would entertain a motion to move to Executive session so moved do I hear a second second thank you Miss Pritchard Mr Nichols there will be no action taken following the executive session when Mr Chambers when you're ready M periard hi Mr Nichols hi Miss parkur hi Miss smer hi Mr West yes thank you that's it for our regular meeting thank you everybody for