Mentor Board of Education Meeting: July 10, 2025

001Good evening. The July 10th, 2025 regular meeting of the mentor exempted village board of education is called to order. This meeting is being held in accordance with section 3313.15 of the Ohio Revised Code. Please place your mobile phones on silent mode for this meeting. Mr. Wade, please call the role. Miss Ayelo, here. Miss Jessling, present. Miss Marchazza, present. Miss Payne, here. Miss Cook, here. Thank you. And please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I would like to welcome everyone to the July 10th, 2025 regular meeting of the mentor exempted village board of education. Prior to this evening, each board member has received for their

002review and consideration the agenda and materials associated with each agenda item for the board's approval via the district's paperless board of education agenda system board docs. The public can access the agenda through the school district's website and the agenda was available through the district's website for public viewing the Monday prior to this board meeting. Board members have the opportunity to call the superintendent and chief financial officer for information concerning agenda items and to request if needed additional information. There are two places on the agenda when the board entertains comments from the community. The first hearing of the public is dedicated to those who wish to address the board on agenda items only. The second hearing of the public is dedicated to those who wish to address the board on any subject, whether it be an

003item on the agenda or another topic. To participate in the hearing of the public section, interested speakers must sign up prior to the start of this meeting. And signups are available online through the school district's website or on site prior to the start of the meeting. You will be called to the microphone when it is your turn to speak and at that time we ask that you please state your name and address questions to the board president. Each person may speak only once per segment and com comments are limited to three minutes. The purpose of the hearing of the public is for our community members to address the board. The board continues to welcome feedback from the community as an important component to conducting business. This is an information gathering opportunity for the board and

004administration so that we can best serve our community. If at the end of the public participation we do not make a statement, please know that this does not demonstrate a lack of care for comments shared by our community. Rather, we want to be thoughtful in our approach and we will provide a response in a timely manner when appropriate. In an effort to maintain an orderly meeting based on Ohio Revised Code 2917.12 and board policy 0169.1, any person doing any act which obstructs or interferes with the conduct or orderly progress of the board meeting will be warned and/or removed from the meeting. This meeting is being shown live and can be viewed on demand on our YouTube channel, Cardinal TV Menor, Ohio. Thank you. President, I move that our meeting this evening adjourn at 8:00 p.m.

005for the public portion of the meeting so that we have adequate time for our executive session. to clarify, would would that be the entire meeting or would we then go into so all the public comments would be done at that point or Right. We would need to allow time based on what um Mr. Wade has for our speakers who've asked to be heard that we allow time for that so that our public portion of our meeting this evening is completed at 8:00 p.m. Okay. I have a motion um to end the public part of the meeting tonight by 8:00 PM. Do I have a second? I'll second that. It's worth a shot to give us a deadline to wrap up our discussions. Okay. Is there any discussion? I have I have a question. How would

006we what would we do with the rest of the meeting? Move it to a special meeting. We could move it to a special meeting or we could add it on unfinished business for August because that poses some additional issues with public commentary because we don't allow public commentary at special meetings. So, if we only get through half of the agenda and move half of the agenda to a special meeting, now folks aren't able to speak on those things. Could we move business to the next regular meeting so that we could enable that? We could do that as well. Wouldn't Wouldn't that though continue kind of kicking the can down the road then? Like if we have a lot now, you know, and then if we have a lot at the next meeting and then we

007add whatever we don't get to to the next meeting. I do think we would need special meetings in between. I don't know. I mean, I think it's worth a shot. Um, another option that we could do is we could suspend this role if we get to a point where we feel like Oh, yeah. We just want to continue the meeting. we can aim for it and then we can try to if if we need to suspend it later throughout the meeting we could suspend the role. Yeah. Again, I don't think this is a big agenda and I think all it is is like Mrs. Payne said kicking the can. Um, we just discussed this meeting efficiency and there were numerous ways that we could have whittleled down this our meetings to to to get out

008of here earlier and um, but it can't come at the expense of board business. So, I'm not Yeah, I I'm all for making adjustments to things on the agenda that are not um board business, but this is our only time to talk and so if we have to keep kicking it, that's going to affect our conversations and it's going to affect um, public commentary. So I think in the interest of meeting efficiency, the fact that historically when we've done an executive session that included um a review of the performance of a public official that the amount of time that's needed is such that it's reasonable, I think, to allow that time to begin at a a reasonable hour. And so I thought 8:00 PM seemed uh like a reasonable compromise and then we could in

009postpone anything that wasn't covered here at our next uh to our next meeting. It could be the public meeting in August and that would allow folks to speak. I had um I know we talked about this previously at the last um meeting that I had proposed moving the public uh the sorry the um superintendent's review to a special meeting and backing it up with a meeting about bullying and discipline and then I believe uh the majority of the board did not support that. So that's why we have this agenda tonight with the review at the end. I would love to have that moved to a special meeting and also a special meeting um that we can really address bullying and discipline. Well, my understanding was that that wasn't off the table that we all did

010support that, but we couldn't find a time to meet before August. We had a couple dates and and they weren't weren't all available. And so we were going to try to get through everything here and then if and my understanding is there would be a meeting in August to discuss those. I just think it's kind of I think it's silly and to have to cut out the public part of the the meeting when the executive session the public doesn't get to be in that. So I feel like if anything should be moved, it should be the executive session because the public is here tonight and they want to hear the discussion on the portion that they're able to speak to and see. So could we just all aim to run this meeting efficiently tonight and

011move through by we'll aim for eight and Yeah, I think we we did come up with some suggestions and I know we have the liaison report is going to be shorter, the student achievement is a little bit shorter. I know we're all trying to make it more efficient, so I would feel more comfortable with that. In the future, I think we should be moving executive sessions instead of cutting our public portion short. Mrs. Jessine, you made a motion. Would you like to vote on that motion or would are you withdrawing your motion? Vote on the motion. Then at least it sets the plan and then we can suspend the rule if we wish. Can I add one more thing though? I just so I'm understanding, we're not cutting public comment, right? No. No. Okay. I

012just wanted to make sure I understood. Yeah. No, I wasn't saying we were cutting public comment. I'm saying the the portion of the meeting where the public gets to hear, they don't get to hear executive session. So, if anything should be moved, it should be the executive session and we should fulfill our duty to the public because we put out our sunshine notice and told them we're going to talk about this stuff tonight. So, Sure. Okay. I have a motion and a second. Could you please call the role, Mr. Wade? Uh, Miss Jessling? Yes. Miss Marcha? Yes. Miss Ayo, no. Miss Payne, no. Miss Cook, yes. Motion carries 3 to two to end the meeting in time to uh allow public comment and end at 8:00 p.m. All right. At this time, we have district

013highlights and recognitions. Mr. Heath. Uh prior to our district highlights and recommendations this evening, uh just wanted to mention that there will be one addendum to the agenda that will be included in the superintendent report and recommendations under letter F, administrative staff recommendations regarding our MER high school principal position. Uh all of you have the language for that addendum at your table. Good evening, Madame President, members of the board, and Mr. way. Tonight we are recognizing several students for their outstanding achievements. The first group being recognized is our career technical education students who qualified for the state competition. I'd like to invite Dr. Joe Glven to the podium to begin the presentations this evening. All right. Oh my god. put my phone taking taking it in here. Okay. So, Madame President, members of the board,

014uh Mr. Heath, and of course, Mr. Wade, um tonight, I am honored to be here to help recognize the outstanding accomplishments of students who participate in our career tech education programs. These students have not only gained valuable knowledge and industry exposure, but have also had the opportunity to participate in work-based learning experiences that will help shape their future pathways after high school. Their commitment, drive, and success is inspiring. Through my own personal interaction with many of these students we will recognize tonight, I can confidently say that their involvement in career tech education has sharpened their focus, broadened their perspective, and position them for success as they begin the next chapter in their lives. I'm proud to share that this year 23 of our students qualified for their state level competitions in their respective career tech

015student organizations. A remarkable achievement and a direct reflection of the highquality instruction and programming provided by our educators. We will now take a moment to recognize our students who competed through DECA and also Skills USA. I kindly ask that we please hold our applause until all students from each organization have been recognized. But obviously, if people applaud, that's never terrible either. So, I'm going to start with our DECA students. These are students that uh are represented from our marketing and business administration programs, and they participated in the DECA state competition. Several of them earned top honors and qualified for the international career development conference, which on the good news for them was in Orlando, Florida. and they participated and it was wonderful for some of them. So, the first people that I have coming up,

016I'll be honest, I'm gonna have to figure out I don't know what order these guys are on these certificates. What I'm gonna when I go ahead and say your name, I'm going to have you come up here and then I'm going to ask that you shake the board members hands and kind of stay up on stage so we can do an applause at the end. And if you're here, that's wonderful. If it's July and you have many activities, I understand that as well. So, our first person is going to be uh TA McDonald. TA came in first place, won a state title in professional selling and she qualified for the national competition. Our second person is Johnny Apprentice. He took third in the state in financial services team decisionmaking. Partner with Johnny was Cameron Taylor

017who also came in third place in financial services team decisionmaking. Colin Pritchard came in fourth place in the state in personal financial literacy. Summer Compton was top 10 in the state of Ohio in principles of hospitality and tourism. Dylan Budziaak was top 10 in the state in sports entertainment and marketing. Lily Walters Waters was top 10 in human resource management. Brian Mcnogna was top 10 in accounting applications. Log, hey, look at this right here. Hey, congratulations. All right. Sorry, I'll give you the certificates later. And then Logan Mitchell was top 10 in financial services team decisionmaking. James Findac was top 10 in financial services team decisionmaking as well with Logan. Onto our Skills USA students. These students represent a wide range of programs including our programming and software development, fire and EMT, and automotive technology

018at the Skills USA state competition. Their achievements demonstrate excellence across technical and professional disciplines. Our first student is Devin Alex who is fifth place in the state in computer programming. I then have the team that came in ninth place in the state in creative sculpture. Congratulations. And the team that came in ninth place in creative sculpture, which is DaVon Davis, Genevieve Shields, and Jack Zageric. Sixth place in cyber security, Mr. Lynch. We had Lisa Guzlio and Aiden Swatulski. Uh, our team that came in eighth place in EMT, which this makes a lot of sense now, is Nicholas Tomy and Timothy Pazgy. We also happen to have they are right now currently also at Auburn Career Center uh completing their fire one fire two training. So I do have a chance to see them regularly. Congratulations.

019Congratulations. Coming in eighth place in the state of Ohio in interactive applications in video game development was Jonathan Namela and Dominic Kedar. And then 20th place in maintenance and light repair for automotive was Ryan Mitner. Congratulations. Please join me in congratulating our Skills USA and DECA competitors on a job well done. And in closing, what I would say is first the people that are here. I'll meet you in the back for your certificates that I can find now. And also, I would just like to thank our dedicated instructors, families, and school leadership who support these students each step of the way. Their achievements represent not only personal success, but also the strength of our career and technical education programs. Uh, I would also just go ahead because I'll be honest, this is my last board

020meeting here. I would just like to uh take the opportunity to thank each of the board members and you know, Mr. Heath and Mr. Wade, uh, you guys have a tremendously tough job and it's hard work, but it's good work and we appreciate you and being a member of the community, um, we appreciate everything you guys are doing. So, thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Paul. Madame President, members of the board, and Mr. Wade, at this time, I would like to invite Mr. Cassella to the podium for the Menor High School track and field state qualifier recognitions. Yes. And tennis. Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Heath and Mr. Wade, it's my pleasure to be here tonight to introduce and recognize members of our spring sports teams for qualifying

021for OSAA state tournaments. Even though the crazy spring weather and outstanding competition, these student athletes persevered and competed at the high levels, highest level of competition in their sport. First, I'd like to recognize a member of our boys tennis team. I would ask Theodore Vano and head coach John Sturmach to join me here at the podium. Theodore came in became the first menor tennis player since the late 90s to advance to the state tennis tournament. The co- captain of our team is a two-time GCC player of the year. He was undefeated in the regular season play, including the conference tournament. He was sectional tournament champion enduring a 38 plus hour match in very high humidity and hot weather. He eventually lost in the state tournament to the state runnerup. Theodore is a is a true

022student of the game and a great example of sportsmanship. Congratulations Theodore. Thank you. Thank you. Next, I'd like to bring up members of our girls track 4x100 meter relay team along with head coach Mr. Bob Burwald. Would Kiara Coleman, Kylie Coleman, Kayn Harwood, and Janisa Javy along with coach Burwald join me here at the podium. This group of young ladies broke a 21-year school record and then reset that record three times during the season. They were district champions. They finished third at the regional meet and then finished 14th overall at the state meet. So, I want to congratulate our 4x100 meter relay team. Vier, hold on. Don't go anywhere. Kylie. Thank you. Finally, I'd like to bring up members of our boys track and field team along with head coach Mr. Bill Dennison with Dominic

023Burns, Billy Dennis, Robert Kudson, Michael Maynard, Matthew Pencowski, and Aiden Shields join me here at the podium. as they're coming up. Overall, these members were member obviously members of our boys track team and as a team they were Greater Cleveland Conference champions. They were district champions. They finished third place at the regional and 10th place at the state meet as a team. Individually, first of all, we have Dominic Burns who qualified for the state meet in the 110 high hurdles. We had Robert Kudson who qualified for the state meet in the pole vault. Then we had our 4 by 800 meter relay team of Matthew Pankowski, Michael Maynard, Billy Dennison, and Aiden Shields who set a school and area record of 742 leading them to conference champions to become district champions, regional champions, and then

024finished fourth overall at the state meet. Matthew Pencowski as an individual was Greater Cleveland Conference and District Champion in the mile and finished eighth at the state meet at the in the mile. Aiden Shields broke the school record from 1975 and a area record from 1974 in the 800 meter. He was Greater Cleveland Conference District Regional Champion and was state runner up in the 800 meter. And then Billy Dennison broke the school record in the two-mile from 1981. He was Greater Cleveland Conference and District Champion and finished eighth in the state in the two-mile. A fantastic season by our boys track team. Congratulations to all of our spring student athletes and we're looking forward to a great fall coming up here in August. Thank you. [Applause] Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Wade, at

025this time I would like to invite Tim Hammond to the stage. [Applause] As all of you know, our assistant superintendent, Tim Hammond, is retiring at the end of this month. This means that this will be his final official board meeting in our district. I want to take a quick moment to recognize Tim and thank him for all of his hard work and dedication to our district over the last eight years, as well as his over 40 years of service to public education throughout his career. Tim has been a tremendous asset to me in my transition to Menor and I value his wisdom, his insights, and most of all his friendship over these last three years. I am going to miss him in this role next year. Tim, on behalf of the Meadow Public School District,

026I want to thank you for your leadership and partnership and we wish you all the best in your retirement. Congratulations. Thank you. Oh my god. Congratulations. Next, we have approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Is there any discussion? I had just a little bit of discussion. I just have a note there was some uh discussion that I felt like was missing in the meeting minutes. Um the meeting minutes, they're not wrong, but I wanted to reiterate for the record the additional discussion that was had that seemed to be a little bit omitted from the minutes. So during the regular May meeting, um Rose and I moved to postpone the vote on the MTA and MCE contracts until after our budget was finalized with the state on July 1st. While

027the motion didn't pass, we were outvoted 3 to2. Um it did lead to a thoughtful discussion around our financial outlook. We were clear in our remarks at the meeting that the vote and postponement was in no way a reflection of diminished support for our teachers and our staff. We personally supported um I personally supported the MTA and MCE contracts wholeheartedly in previous years and I continue to value the incredible work of our educators. Our motion stemmed from financial responsibility out of concern for the constraints of our current budget and awareness of how our decisions may be perceived by the public. Um, we acknowledged that while short-term savings were anticipated over the next few years, it was also pointed out that deficit spending could return in subsequent years. So, that's an important part of the broader

028picture that we were bringing up at the last um at the May regular meeting. These two decisions, there was a resolution advocating against House Bill 96, which could have potentially resulted um House Bill 96 could have resulted in a $12 million loss in funding. and the approval of raises. They were made during the same meeting. Rose and I noted in our conversation that um should that loss materialize, we may need to seek even greater savings than what we were uh projecting with the contracts and that the risk of returning to deficit spending still does remain a real concern um for the years ahead. Although these points were part of the recorded meeting, they're available on Cardinal YouTube channel and in the video, they didn't appear in the minutes. Um, I'm just going to share it

029today just to provide a more complete account. I'm not asking for the meeting minutes to be updated, but just to kind of get a clearer picture. So, to be clear, you don't want anything changed. It's okay. I mean, it's all in the video, but I just wanted to clarify since some of it was a minute. Thank you. Please call the role. Miss Martaza. Yes. Miss Jessling, yes. Misso, yes. Miss Payne, yes. Miss Cook, yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next, we have hearing of the public on agenda items only. Our first speaker is Susan Sednik. Good evening everybody. My name is Susan Sednick. I'm at 7539 Little Mountain Road. Um almost three years ago to the day, Annie recommended that the board employ student resource officers at Menor Public Schools. Despite reluctance and deliberate push back from

030Maggie and Jenny, we finally now have an SRO contract with the Menor Police Department for retired officers. This is excellent news and so thank you very much, Annie. I'm also grateful to the Mentor PD for their willingness to do this for the safety of our students. So, thank you to you as well. Additional thanks also to Riverside Schools as well because they we have modeled our contract after their own which was written largely by Deputy Chief Robert ISO who will God willing be on the school board soon. I look forward to the new school year and I hope this is the year that we can clean up the school libraries. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is John Sanford. Good evening, Madam President. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I'm John Sanford. I

031live on Parker Drive in Min. I would like to address the proposed Neola policy 5722 being offered for first reading. As written, this policy uh places too greater limits on or actually too much power in the administration to censor and control student expression. This policy places our students in a category without a voice. The goal of a student publication in creative expression should be to help students develop critical thought and communication skills. As written, this policy allows the administration to quash any evidence of critical thought if they don't agree with it. We must remember that the best educational experience often comes from making mistakes. Within this policy, students are denied the opportunity since the only mistake they can make is to offend administration. Having worked in administration, I recognize the various problems involved in giving

032full voice to students. Uh that it really is fraught with concerns on all counts. However, instead of trying to manage student expression, we should let them express themselves clearly as students, identified as students, not view it as extension to the school, and then let them learn from that process. Thank you. Thank you. Our last speaker is Jennifer Herad. Good evening board members. Mr. Heath, Mr. Wade, haven't been here in quite a while. Um, hope you uh missed my presence. I missed a couple of you up there. Hi, Annie. Hi, Rose. the rest of you. I can't say the same. So, I've um you know, by speaking out against uh some board members here, I've been relentlessly attacked. I've had false restraining orders. I've had an attack by a 14-year-old who dresses up like a girl.

033Um I I pay my mom's I paid her mortgage off and I pay her property taxes. And I was just like, why would mentor schools be asking for a new levy for more money when you get 60% of every property in mentor for the mentor schools? I pay the property tax bill. I see where this money goes. So, I'm vehemently opposed to any levies. Mrs. Hlet, do you have a agenda item that you're addressing? Oh, you want me to address an agenda item? Um, the SRO. I'm going to address the SRO's. Okay. I think, you know, one of the board members brought this up many years ago. Yeah. You know, unlike Annie, you don't listen to us either. So, I don't understand um if you're not going to listen to your fellow board members or

034hell, your community members. What makes you think that this community is going to pass a levy for you? You didn't listen to us when we asked you. I'm speaking. Please do not cut me off, ma'am. I'm speaking. We do not I am speaking. We do not I am speaking agenda. Is that what you guys do? I'm speaking. We do not have a levy on the agenda. Listen when we wanted police officers here to protect our Mrs. Had you may speak. I'm sorry. We need to have this woman removed. No, you're not. I'm sorry. You you didn't listen when you we told you get the boys out of girls back. You didn't listen at all when we told you keep the sexuality. You are obstructing the orderly progress of a board meeting. You're a I don't

035care what you say. You ain't going to take my freedom speech away. No, she's a goddamn fascist. You're a basist, Maggie. This is free speech. We now have the superintendent's report and recommendations. Want to share a quick update with the board on where we are with the ad hoc committee work on student discipline. We are preparing our final report and recommendations document that we will share with you in the next couple of weeks. Uh the report will contain the notes, comments, suggestions, and data that was collected in the over 50 meetings that were held with students, parents, board members, principles, administrators, district organizations, and community partners as we discuss student discipline, mean behavior, and bullying concerns in our schools. While we are still finalizing the recommendations and action steps we will be implementing in the

0362526 school year, here are several of the items that have risen to the top throughout these meetings. One is create and revise student discipline matrices for each grade band in the district as a guide to consequences for student behavior. Number two is create a simple reporting system for students to share a mean behavior issue that is taking place. Number three is create and identify resources to educate students and parents on the concerns of social media and its relationship to bullying and mean behavior. Identify additional resources, activities, assemblies, and programs that support the PBIS and kindness initiatives in each of our buildings. Conduct proactive parent meetings with those students who have exhibited the highest number of mean behaviors at each building. coordinate the transition of important student behavior concerns, plans, and no contact agreements between buildings.

037So, especially between elementary and middle school and middle school and high school. And then finally, to create an alternative placement program for student discipline to be used as part of the consequences for mean behaviors that incorporates academic, behavioral, and mental health supports. Some of these items will be implemented later this month as we as we prepare for the start of the school year. Others will be in place for the first day of school and some will be more long-term goals for the future. Again, we will have more discussion on this later, but just wanted to give you an update here this evening. Did you say 50 meetings? Yeah, there are 56 total. Wow. Thank you for your work on this. I appreciate it. Craig, did we um set up I know we were kind of

038tossing around the dates. Did we get a date yet for a special meeting for the public to come and see kind of what the plan's going to look like and all these these things are great, but to kind of see um in, you know, a deeper dive. Yeah, I think once we uh get that sent out in a board update here in the next couple weeks, we'll send out some dates uh probably early August for us to consider. Okay. Thank you. Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Wade, I have the following recommendations listed under the consent agenda and recommend approval of items 6 A1 and 6 A2. So moved. Second. Who was the first? Me. Thanks. Is there any discussion? Please call the role. Misso? Yes. Miss Jessling? Yes. Miss Marchazza, yes. Miss Payne,

039yes. Miss Cook, yes. Motions carry 5-0. Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Wade, I am recommending approval of the resolution to accept and approve the Menor High School grad graduating class of 2025. So moved. Second. There any discussion? Mr. Wade, please call the role. Miss Payne? Yes. Miss Jessling? Yes. Miss Aylo? Yes. Miss Marchazza? Yes. Miss Cook? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Madame President, members of the board, and Mr. Wade, I'm recommending the approval of the 2526 parent student handbooks for the preschool, the elementary schools, the middle schools, and the high school. So moved. Second. Is there any discussion? I had um a few items. So, on page 10 of several of the handbooks, it um it mentions bullying and it it advises the victims to use humor and I think that's really out of

040touch. Um, I don't know if that's something that we can look at and I don't feel comfortable with that going out to parents and them seeing that we're suggesting to use humor during bullying because if it's meeting the definition of bullying for Ohio Revised Code, we know that it's consistent and it's persistent and it's been happening several times. So, I don't think humor is appropriate in that situation. Do you know which handbooks those would be included in? I want to say it's in almost all of them except for Garfield. All three levels, I think. So, so would you just like to motion to strike that? Yeah, I would like I would like to motion to strike that language in any of the handbooks that it's contained in. Yeah. In any and all handbooks that have

041that in there. I'll second that. Any discussion on that? Could you call the role for that motion? This is Apple seconded. Yeah, I just um trying to figure out the best way to coordinate this. Miss Payne, yes. Miss Ayapo, yes. Miss Chesley, yes. Miss Marchazza, yes. Miss Cook, yes. The motion to strike any and all use of humor related to bullying language in all three levels of all nanny handbook is approved. 5 Z. Thank you. I had a couple other things. Uh page 14, it talks about counseling and I didn't know I just want to make sure that we're consistent with the new state laws that have passed. I Craig, did our attorney look over I know it's not normal for them to look over this, but because of the parental bill of rights and

042all that, did they look over the handbooks? No, they have not looked at the handbooks because there's there's in the counseling session on page 14 counseling section on page 14. I know that because of the parental bill of rights, there are certain things now that do require parent notification. I didn't know if that should live in there. Um, and those those are typically in the contractual agreements that we have with our outside counselors. Um, and those get approved by you guys each year. But this is not outside counselors. these like I know I know we I know we make sure it's in our outside counseling. This is guidance counselors. Um so the parents bill rights if we can just double check. I mean I'm fine with passing it as is, but I do think we

043need to check with our attorney to see if that needs to live in there. Absolutely. Um and then I know there was let's see. Okay, page 16, it talks about plagiarism. And I don't know if we want to add artificial intelligence in there for AI if we're artificial intelligence is in there if you keep scrolling down. I thought that too, but there's a separate section on AI. Okay, I must not have or the the one that I saw it. Let me look. Page 16. Oh, maybe is it in middle school? Do you know, Maggie? Um, I think it was middle school and high school. See if I can It's just under AI. I'm not getting anything under I just While you're doing that, I found a couple things I just wanted to um I didn't

044notice anything about the no sell bell to bell in any of the handbooks. So, that might be something that should live there. Um I didn't see it in any especially at least middle school and high school. And then um the SRO contract stated something about um you know, if somebody wants to make a complaint that they should um that there's a process and it says the process will be made known to parents and students through the student handbook. But I didn't see anything in there on that. So that might want you might want to add that. I saw in every handbook it mentioned um procedure about phones, how they needed to be on page. Yeah. And and put away. And then at the high school level, they even had the graphic that said no cell

045the ballot was read. Okay. In the handbook. Did you see that? Yep. Page eight. I just looked at middle school. So AI is on page eight as well. I'll just mention that too. Page eight. Yep. They both are on page eight. Thank you. Sure. Was that at the high school or the middle school? Okay. Is it in the middle school one as well? Because we're probably not so worried about it in elementary school, but but middle school the kids are smart. They could use it. I think to a couple um I know Mr. Heath I had reached out to you about you know not seeing enough about discipline in here and you know we're referring parents to the student code of conduct and it was linked in some of the school the online but it

046wasn't linked in all of them. So if we could just make sure that that's linked because that's anywhere it says discipline. There are so there are so many different I just want to make sure that we've got it. Was that in all three levels to the high school Mrs. P? Um I see the high school but not at the middle school. Which which which one? The the I noticed it. I think Hopkins did have it linked but I can't remember which didn't have it linked. I'll double check them all. Yeah. I don't remember if it was at the middle school member seen at the high school. Can anybody else search the doc? My computer's going really slow. Can anybody else search the document for artificial and see if it has it in there? Can we

047just have it looked at and then we can just for the sake of Or if you Yeah, you could just Yeah, if you could just make sure, Craig, that it's somewhere in there for all of them. Um, so if it's not in the middle school, we would like it just Yeah. Yeah. Just what you see mirror added over there. And then under there is the last thing I have there under the book checkout. It goes over that parents can opt in which is great you know to um receiving a notification for their child for their book or approving it. But I didn't that's this is also a question for our attorney. I didn't know with the parents bill of rights there are certain subjects now if they're in the books that have to be ran

048by the parents. So I didn't see that verbiage in there. if we can just double check with our attorney and see if that needs to live in there as well. That's all I had. Is that under the library section, Amy? Yeah. Yep. That's all I had. Okay. Any more discussion? Please call the role. Miss Marshazza? Yes. Miss Jessling? Yes. Miss Appo? Yes. Miss Payne, yes. Miss Cook, yes. Motion carries 5-0. Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Wade, I'm recommending approval of the addendum uh to the 2526 service agreement with the ESC of the Western Reserve. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the RO. Miss Marchazza? Yes. Miss Jessley? Yes, Miss Apple. Yes, but I motioned for that one. Yeah, I didn't motion, but that's okay. Sorry, Miss Payne. Yes, Miss Cook. Yes. Motion

049carries 5 Z. Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Wade, I'm recommending approval of the purchasing agreement with Equalist Group. So move. Second. Any discussion? Please call the RO. Miss Jessley. Yes. Miss Alo. Yes. Miss Marchazza, yes. Miss Payne, yes. Miss Cook, yes. Motion carries 5 Z. Madame President, members of the board, and Mr. Wade, I am recommending approval of the amended SRO agreement resolution. Again, so moved. Second. Is there any discussion? Yay. Thank you for your persistence and your um your your diligence. I know it it took a long time and I just I really appreciate the effort that went into it. Yes. Thank you very much. Yes. I just want to thank for um I want to everybody there were so many people that were part of this, but I do want to

050thank Annie. I remember sitting here at one of my first board meetings and um the resolution for staff to be trained and carried was voted down and but that you brought up the bring, you know, hey, how about if there's not enough officers, why don't we bring in retired? And so I was as a parent was very um happy to see that suggestion. So, thank you for researching other districts and bringing that to the board. Um and and at the time that was not something that was will you know people were a little bit um hesitant I think to to accept that that was our reality. So I thank you for pushing pushing through that and um creating the safe safety committee. I think that came out of there. So um I just want to

051thank you know men police chief gun city council Mr. Heath I know this was a pain in the butt for you but you pushed through Mr. Wade and for finding money for us um and really the entire board. this was um we don't agree on much, but this was something I think we all um really were pushing for. So, I'm very happy, especially as a parent. Um and I'm excited for when my building, my youngest building gets gets one. But, so I'm really excited and I do want to thank uh Mr. Philippia and Chief Gunch for all of their hard work on this as well. It took a long time to get here, but we got here and they did a nice job. Thanks, Rose for the for the kudos. Um, while I may have

052initiated that suggestion to hire, you know, retired police officers and my initial model, the only model that I knew of was Beachwood, uh, you know, I I think it wouldn't have happened obviously without the whole board support, without, you know, our superintendent, without all the people that everybody mentioned, Menor Police Department, Chief Gunch. Um, there's one person that I've been forgetting to thank and uh, I went back and looked at board updates from when I suggested it and then a few days after in that Friday's board update and then the board updates from then. And at that point, we had a different superintendent, which was Mr., you know, Bill Porter, who's one of our principles now, um, over at the elementary school. But he really took my suggestion and ran with it. it was he

053did a lot of the the investigative leg work and then found you know later on that Riverside had something they were working on too. So he really did a lot of it and I've been missing the opportunity when I looked it back at it I was like oh gosh we've been missing to thank him too for all of his work. So I'm very thankful to him as well. Great. I'm pleased to have it on. Finally have an agreement and um thanking the city for their cooperation too. All right, please call the role. Miss Marchazza, yes. Miss Payne, yes. Miss Aylo, yes. Miss Chesley, yes. Miss Cook, yes. Motion carries 5-0. I I motion for that though. I know. I'm sorry. I'm not talking into the microphone. Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Wade, at

054this time we have the permanent improvement technology presentation. I'd ask uh Mr. Vakarella to please come to the podium. Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Heath and Mr. for Wade. Tonight, I want to show you um a little bit of what we've been doing this summer, what we did last summer, and what we have planned pending approval for the next 5 years for capital improvements in the Menor District. So, last year was the first year of the three-year project to replace the doors and windows at Menor High School. Last year, excuse me, last year about a third of the doors and windows were replaced. Um this first slide shows the before and the after. Um before is on the left and after is on the right. We got rid of all the stone siding.

055And then we have a picture of both after and before left to right. Um that's where the project ended last year and began this year. We also finished the second half of renovating the interior of Fairfax Elementary. Two years ago, we started the project and last year we completed it. This slide shows the before. Old lighting, fabric walls, tile flooring. The next slide shows the after. LED lighting, glass walls, and carpet. The rooms were also painted. It's Mr. Wade's favorite slide. We replaced the roof at Lake Elementary. Uh, this slide shows the before in the upper leftand corner. the during bottom lefthand corner and the after um the bigger part of the picture. Finally, we paved most of Shore Middle School's parking lot. I don't have a picture of that. So, the other project completed

056last year was the CARES House. This was not funded through the capital improvement plan, but was instead funded by CARES funds. The next couple of slides show the front of the house and the inside. Um, want to note that that is a light switch that is inside the car's house for the residents to be able to get help by pushing a switch. Um, you push the help button and a voice throughout the house will say, "I need help. I need a drink. I need to use the bathroom." So, CARES should be able to recoup the cost of this project by being able to accept more out of district students into the program and then we would then charge tuition to those districts. This year, we're continuing the doors and windows replacement at the high school.

057About another 45% is being completed. The roof at Fairfax is being replaced and a small portion of the roof at the high school was already repaired. We also continue our annual evaluation and replacement of the rooftop units so we can avoid breakdowns and costly repairs. One of the major construction projects occurring in the high school is funded through the career technical education grant that was awarded a couple years ago. The culinary construction cyber security and digital media rooms are being renovated. Here we see the before pictures of the construction and culinary rooms. And this is what's going on right now. We will be done by the first day of school. So next year, summer of 2026, we will complete the high school doors and windows, replace half of the roof at Shore, and a partial

058roof replacement at Ridge and a partial partial roof replacement at Memorial. We had already done major roof replacements at both Ridge Memorial, and these are just additional areas that need attention. The elevators at the high school and shore will be replaced along with paving and concrete work. On an annual basis, we will look at the funds available and determine the greatest need for paving and concrete. Summer of 2027, we'll see the completion of the shore roof, continued replacement of rooftop units, and more paving and concrete repairs. Summer of 2028, roof replacements and paving and concrete repairs. Summer of 2029, roof replacement at Hopkins, paving, cement, and rooftop units. We have a theme going. Summer of 2030, roof replacement at Sterling Morton, paving and cement repairs, and rooftop units. um would like to continue the conversation

059and talk about our five-year technology plan as well as our furniture plan. So, Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Heath and Mr. way to always appreciate the opportunity uh to share some of the great things uh that we have going on in the district. All things around technology. Um we kind of uh follow Mr. Wade's lead on this and also have our own themes around our technology plan. Uh first one and for first and foremost is fiscal responsibility. uh maximizing the life of the devices, making sure that we're not holding on to the hardware too long, and consistent and quick IT support for staff, students, and parents. Uh we are able to do this with uh a great team of uh 10 people in our uh IT department that work diligently every day to

060make sure these things happen. So, looking at uh the five-year plan, I have a couple of things highlighted that I would like to point out. Um the first thing is the sellback prices for the MacBooks and the iPads. Uh this caused us to make some um extensive changes in our plan about 3 years ago. Uh soon after uh COVID there was an influx of devices um throughout the country. And so we were no longer getting the $250 to $300 uh sellback prices for MacBooks. And so we had to make a change to our plan with regards to having MacBooks at 9 through 12. Uh making this change, we had uh collected our last group of MacBooks from this year's seniors and we will be going out to auction to sell those. Um and so we

061are now uh located at the bottom of the slide K3 iPads and 4 through Chrome 4 through 12 Chromebooks for the district. Um the other thing I'd like to point out uh is over in the lefth hand column the two items that are green. The first one is you'll see uh the highest uh projection for the five years is next year 202627. Um and that is because we will be replacing access switches and wireless APs. Uh this is the infrastructure of technology in our district. The largest expense and you have to do those things in order for them to work well. you have to do them together. And so we try to stretch this out as long as we can. Um I would say that this is probably one of the few uh pieces of

062tech equipment that we don't put on a fiveyear cycle. We actually try to extend those out to seven, eight, maybe even nine years. Um and and we do that because of the cost. Um but also because we we still believe we are fine in the position that we are having the equipment that we have. Uh so you'll see that increase as well as from last year when I presented to this year the IT department took on uh uh just the not only the budgeting but also the assistance of making sure all of the phone system is in good shape. So we took on uh that role um since last year's presentation. And so you'll see a slight increase of 150,000 to update the system uh in 2728. the I've done this presentation. I think this

063is the fifth time that I've done it. And this is the first time that it's going to look a little bit different in that we used to do it by grade grade bands, K through three, uh I'm sorry, K through five, middle school, and then high school. Um, but there's a reason that I'm changing it, and this is one of our reasons. Um we are uh making a shift to try to get all of our staff on the same device year of MacBook. And so we are going to be making that shift starting at the end of next school year. Um this is a benefit for us two reasons. The first one, it allows us to um get a balance in the five-year forecast with regards to how we are paying for those MacBooks. So

064we'll be paying for them $160,000 over the next four years. Uh, so it spreads that cost off with no um 0% interest. So we don't have to worry about that. And so it allows us to financially spread that out and have a good balance. Uh, but just as importantly, it allows our staff to be all on the same version of the MacBook. So with regards to management and the daily things that we have to do for the managing of those devices, it makes it a lot more efficient for us as a technology department. And so you'll see that uh is the first time. So you'll see that large purchase in 2005 two uh I'm sorry 2526 and then no purchase will be made again until the 30 uh 31 school year uh with the MacBooks.

065And then here you'll see the change uh with regards to student devices. Uh you see the uh ninth grade Chromebooks. uh we purchase those um in the eighth grade year and we hand those out uh before they go on summer break. So we actually hand them out in uh the end of April, beginning of May uh to the eighth grade students and then they have those Chromebooks until their senior year. Uh fourth grade Chromebooks, we give those to uh third graders at the end of their third grade year. So we do those transitions so they have the summer to get used to using the Chromebooks as they enter their fourth grade year. And then kindergarten iPads will be passed out to all of our incoming kindergarteners uh when they enter in August uh in the

066last week in August. And then finally, this is all the other technology hardware. And this is something that we take a close look at. Uh uh myself and Mr. Woodworth spend a considerable amount of time um not just yearly but ongoing to look at this and to make sure that we try to maximize the cost. And so we have every piece of technology in our district on this five-year plan. Uh when Mr. Woodworth and I took over the IT department uh about six years ago, um one of the biggest things is that we had such an influx of devices. Uh we had uh three or four devices per student or staff member in our district. And what we tried to do is to really cut that down and to make sure um that we are

067as efficient as possible. And that has allowed us to make sure that we are not using old equipment. Old equipment uh one of the biggest things that it causes is a huge risk for cyber security because when you can't update something it's going to be an immediate uh it puts us at risk for a district. So we have done everything that we can in our power to make sure we put uh items in place that allow us to keep safe and to keep our district students and staff uh with updated devices. And then the other quick thing I would like to update is classroom furniture. Uh again, we have done this for the last five years. And if you recall back in uh November of 2023, um we had uh paused our spending on furniture.

068Um and we had a an annual budget um that ranged from $200 to $300,000 based on the year. uh but we had paused that because we believed uh in the financial situation that we were in uh that we couldn't continue to keep you know updating the furniture. Fortunately over the past 10 years we had updated uh literally every space in the district uh with furniture um and looking at furniture the needs of the district and so we put that on pause and and I do want to make a point here that um Mr. Wade and I'll mention Mr. Wilson's name as well because they have both the same philosophy talking about quality. Um, I think an excellent example is here in that starting in 2013 and 14 when we started making those renovations, uh, we

069really looked for furniture that had high quality and that also companies that stood behind their product. And I am very happy to report that, um, even still today, uh, Verco, um, and Ohio desk/steelcase, um, they stand behind their products. There's uh usually uh maybe once or uh or every other month that I'm submitting a warranty item on furniture that might be as old as 9 10 years old. And I still have these companies sending us new pieces of furniture because of a fabric deterioration that they believe that shouldn't have happened. And so uh because we went with quality uh those companies have stood behind their products um and they have been great partners for us over the last uh 12 years now. And so that has allowed us to pause this spending with still um

070and please do walk around the district. I still feel like so much of this furniture looks brand new. And so that's a a tribute uh to our custodians who do an awesome job. It's a tribute to our teachers who emphasize to our students and it's a tribute to our students who when we give them nice things, they take care of it. So we really appreciate that. So at this time both Mr. Vakarelloo and myself would be happy to take any questions. Mr. Vakarelloo said he didn't have a picture of Shor's refurbished parking lot. I can speak to that and it's great. Very good. That's good. I have a question that might be a little unrelated. Um, in reference to the technology, I know we've heard in the past from just a few complaints about like

071technology use in elementary school. Have we ever sent out a survey to parents or even to the teachers to say like what is the what do you feel you know the the use is whether it's good or whether it's too much or not enough or anything like that. Sure. Yeah. I think over the years we've sent out a number of different surveys um that is trying to keep things up to date. We could always do another one but um we're always taking that feedback in and trying to find the right balance. Um it's part of our uh mission uh always finding the right balance. Balance is a word that I truly believe in. And so, uh, it is working with our parents, working, um, with our teachers, and making sure it's the right balance. There

072is a time to use technology, and there's a time to put it down. And I think, uh, it's working with our families. Uh, we need to get back into I think our our transportation uh, beginning of this year caused a little bit of a delay, but in past years, we would put out a monthly newsletter that talked a lot about, um, what is the right balance, how do you try to achieve that? Um, and so we can work on trying to get back to some of those newsletters home to our families. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you. Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Wait. I'm recommending approval of agenda item C1 related to certified personnel and C2 through C5 all related to human resource matters. So moved. Second. Is there any discussion?

073Please call the RO. Miss Jessling? Yes. Miss Marchazza? Yes. Miss Ayppo? Yes. Miss Payne? Yes. Miss Cook? Yes. Motions carry 5-0. I'm also recommending approval of agenda item D related to exempt staff. So moved. Second. Any discussion? I just um I wanted to touch base on this since there's still some uncertainty surrounding the the state budget. Um, but we do now have the clarity at the state level, which significantly changes the position that I know Rose and I were in when we tried to postpone the MTA and MCE contract because we were at risk of losing $12 million. Um, so, you know, we were facing that that risk, but with the finalized budget confirming that we're not at risk of losing that money anymore, I feel confident in supporting this adjustment. Um, I do know

074that, you know, while we are supporting this, while I'm supporting this, at the same time, we do still need to stay fiscally cautious, which I think we're doing. Um, because there's there is growing attention on property taxes right now. So, um, I just want to make sure that we kind of keep our eye on it. I do think we have been and we're doing a good job of that, but I just wanted to say I would be supporting this tonight and explain why. Thank you. And I'll echo your um your words because and for the since we're in a time crunch, I'm not going to expand, but yes, thank you for putting it that way. Is there any more discussion? Please call the role. Miss Payne? Yes. Miss Jessley? Yes. Miss Appo? Yes. Miss Marchazza?

075Yes. Miss Cook? Yes. Motion passes 5. I'm also recommending approval of agenda item E related to administrative staff benefits stipen salaries and salary ranges. So moved. Second. Mrs. March. Sure. Is there any discussion? I'm just going to echo what I just said about exempt. But this one I just have one other thing. I know typically it's historically we've been giving the admin the same raise as MTA um and MCE you know so it should be normally it would be about 3% but now we're doing 1.5 I think I have brought up in the past and I know we've talked about it here that we do have you know some of the highest average salaries for the highest average salaries in Lake County for admin. So this is I think a very good um compromise and

076so ensuring that they're still you know getting something but also kind of maintaining the fiscally responsible um decision- making. So I will also support this. Is there any more discussion? Please call the role. Miss Jessling? Yes. Miss Marcha? Yes. Miss APO? Yes. Miss Payne? Yes. Miss Cook? Yes. Motion carries 5. I am also recommending approval of agenda item F related to administrative staff recommendations. That also includes the addendum that we had mentioned at the beginning of the meeting. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the role. Miss Payne? Yes. Miss Appo? Yes. Miss Chesley? Yes. Miss Marchazza? Yes. Miss Cook? Yes. Motion carries 5. I'm going to get lights. If you motion, you have a light. A good idea. pops up. That was a good idea. I like that. This concludes my portion of tonight's

077agenda. Thank you. [Applause] Next, we have the board of education report and recommendation. Um, the first item under board business is the first reading of policy 5722, which is school sponsored publications and productions. And because this is a first reading, no vote is necessary. Is there any discussion? Madam President, I have a few things if I may. Sure. Um well, first I want to say thank you for taking the time to uh you know take this um policy back to uh point where we can kind of revise it, play with it a little bit. So I'm glad for the conversation. Um it looks very similar to what we've previously had. So it's not too much of a departure, but there were a couple of things here. Well, for one, I think there was just a

078an edit that I wanted to offer where I think we're missing a word. Um, and this is where it says student expression relates to classrooms or educational settings not otherwise directly associated with school sponsored student publications and productions. I think which is missing after after productions are non-public forums. It does affect sort of the understanding. So, I want to make sure that's the word that is indeed missing. Um, anyone following where I am? I'm not. Which paragraph are you in? I will tell you. Let me just pull it up again. I'm looking at my notes as opposed to being able to comment on the document. Sorry. Please hold. Here it is. Okay. All right. Oh, this isn't the clean version, is it, Mr. Heath? That was in the attachments on the meeting. Uh, no, that's

079the edited version. So, if you go to my uh board update, there's a clean version there that might be easier to look at. Yeah, probably. So, you're right. All right, I can do that. Okay, clean language. Okay, so I'm on the clean version. Um, all right. So this one it is the one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh paragraph. And actually that's really where a lot of this is where some of my edits begin. So student expression relates to classrooms or educational settings not otherwise directly associated with stu school sponsored student publications slashproductions. I is it supposed to say which are non-public forms? I think it's defining non-public, right? That's how I read it. I'll check into that while you're talking about the other thing because I'll go back to the Neola template. All right.

080It's kind of a long and unwieldy sentence as it is. All right. Um, okay. And now I've navigated away from my notes. Give me a moment. All right. Here we go. Okay. So, some the others the other items I have are more I I would like to strike some of this. Um, I I see I from what I understand we see the removal of the prohibition around social media, right? Can you first talk us through how that will work going forward with that change? Uh yeah, just just to kind of clarify, a lot of the changes that are being made in this policy are being recommended to clean up any of the confusion around the use of social media. Um especially as it relates to Cardinal Nation, which is our student newspaper. Um the the

081one I think the confusing part with some of this is uh Cardinal Nation is published through they call it a content management system. It's called uh Flex Pro WordPress theme which is awesome. Um some that need some editing I think. So um yeah that well they're language people. They they love words. Um so so that's one of the things that we're trying to do is kind of clean that up a little bit just to make sure that we're reiterating that um Cardinal Nation is not published through any social media platforms. It's actually housed in its own uh content management system. Um, the other piece to this is, uh, I know we had some questions around Cardinal Nation, um, utilizing a Facebook, Twitter X, whatever you want to call it, and an Instagram page. Um, and

082we kind of looked into that a little bit more. And while there are no articles being published there, um what those uh social media platforms are used for are to to point people back to that content management system where the articles are published for them to read. So they'll make an announcement, hey, you know, new addition to Cardinal Nation is now published. It's an article on this. and then it points them back to that uh to that content management system. So, what we're trying to do in the policy is just kind of clean up some of that language a little bit more. Um the other thing that we're trying to do here is make sure that um because we are now going to be having both the Cardinal Nation extracurricular and we also have our

083new journalism course um and the journalism students are going to be preparing articles uh potentially for publication in this uh in this forum as well. So we want to make sure that this policy kind of points to both of those things as we're moving forward. Um what that's going to require us to do is make sure that we've got um a little bit more administrative control over the Facebook, Twitter, and and Instagram pages to make sure that again they're pointing directly at Cardinal Nation and that we've got some flexibility and who has access to the administrative rights there. Um so those are things that we're working through kind of on the back end uh as we're going through this as well. Great. Thank you. There is still the line moving over to productions. There's a

084line in here. It says, "The board expressly prohibits the use of social media related to student productions." Um, and I appreciate you having that conversation with me earlier this week about this. Uh, because I know we post a lot, uh, you know, top 25, the orchestra, the marching band, etc. I want to make sure that, you know, you you explained to me that this is really for copyright purposes and we don't, you know, we're not really allowed to be um, posting entire performances um, on social media. So they will still those groups still will be able to like advertise promote their productions and so on. Right. Correct. Okay. All right. Just wanted to make sure that's I have a clarifying on just on that if I I'm sorry to No, go for it. But so

085will they still be allowed to have I know like a theater production wouldn't be in its entirety but are concerts. Yeah. Um they would still be able to be on like YouTube. Yeah. So typically that's how uh things have been working here in the past as well. This policy as it relates to productions is really kind of focused on the theater components of things because uh we can't post any theater production uh based on the the rights to those productions uh from the original authors. But we don't have the same don't have the same with songs or top 25 performance or uh choir concerts, those sorts of things. Great. Thank you. Should we have something on here that says like as related to copyright infringement or not do we feel like that's because we've had

086this discussion? tonight. I can bring that up with uh with legal just to see if that's something that they would uh suggest having clarification on. Um typically I haven't seen that in other districts policies similar to this as we're doing some of the research for this uh this update. Um but that's something that I can bring up in our next conversation with legal just to make sure that we get that that concern expressed. Thank you. Thank you. All right, just a couple more things here for me. Uh, so going back to the journalism course course and Cardinal Nation. Um, I it's sort of in that same paragraph I think that we were on earlier. Um, I I want to it occurred to me that, you know, we've never had a journalism course before. we're kind

087of moving into um uncharted territory and I I worry about potential conflicts with the ability of uh student journalists to write and to express their opinions. Um and at the same time I feel you know we have to balance their safety and um and and you know making sure that they're making wise choices and and also learning from the process as well. So in order to kind of balance all of that, you know, I think giving giving them a little bit of freedom to to express themselves, to write their own views, to maybe even write persuasively in, for example, editorial. I know that's come up in our conversations before. I wonder if there's a way to kind of rework this lang some of this language a little bit. Um, so for example, when we're talking

088about restricting speech, um, let's see, let me try to find which paragraph we're in here. Um, let's see. It completely makes sense that we're, you know, we're going to restrict speech that is defamatory, lialist, obscene, harmful, etc. This is on the um, let's see which paragraph. One, two, three, four, five, sixth paragraph. In the sixth paragraph, we're talking about um, you know, unprotected speech. Totally makes sense to restrict that. But then we move down to the next paragraph and we talk about um as non-public forums the content of such student expression can be regulated for legitimate pedagogical school related reasons. School administration shall routinely and systematically review and if necessary restrict the content of these students expressions uh prior to publication or performance in a reasonable manner that is neutralist to the viewpoint of the

089speaker. And I wonder if this is an opportunity for us to again first of all give clarity to the folks who are approving so the administrators who are approving the language but also um kind of make this a more um make it feel less restrictive and more encouraging of students who are finding their own voices for example. So I wonder if we could instead consider something like student expression shall be guided by school administration when there are legitimate educational reasons to do so. Any review of content prior to publication or performance will be conducted in a reasonable and fair manner with an emphasis on supporting learning and maintaining a respectful school environment without favoring or disfavoring particular viewpoints. So does that make sense? Am I kind of getting across what I'm trying to say about

090finding that balance between you know student free expression as well as you know encourage cultivating a learning environment with guidance by administration. Does that make sense to folks? Craig, I had a question on that. The the majority of these changes are coming from Legal's recommendation. Is that right? Really, there there aren't a ton of changes that are being made um from our previous policy. Just clarifying a few little things. Um we did put this in front of legal. They made a couple of little tweaks, but um that that's been the extent of it. and those are in the edits uh that we included in the board agenda document. That specific um paragraph that we're looking at is that part of the DELA template approved by their attorneys. Yes. So I hear what you're saying, Miss

091Marcha. I don't have a problem looking into that if we can run it by legal. I don't feel comfortable changing, you know, anything without running it by them since we're talking about free speech and everything. Of course, this goes without saying. I completely agree. Legal should take a look at it for sure. One of the things I wondered is if um since this is kind of that format that Niola has in place that the administrative guidelines would be the perfect way, especially since we're having a change of administration at the high school level to assist those administrators with just kind of talking through expectations with Mr. Heath and uh going forward, especially since we have a class now. So there's some changes that make it a perfect time in my mind that the admin guidelines

092could be more robust and clarify what the spirit of it is to make it easier because it there's always an element of subjectivity in anything like this. But you want to make sure that you you have a respect for free speech aspect, but also all of these other considerations that are important as well. Mr. Keith, could you speak to the administrative guidelines? Yeah, there currently isn't an administrative guideline with this policy. Um, I did ask a little bit about that uh in my last conversation with legal and uh they they were recommending because I was talking a little bit about you know kind of what our procedure and practice is uh at the high school level with regard to uh you know kind of how we approve the uh those articles that are going to

093be published. And um the recommendation was again you you've heard it from our legal counsel many times less is more in this situation. Um that's something that I can certainly bring up again as we're uh talking about um and you may need to send me whatever language you just uh just read off there. Um but that that can be part of the conversation and I can give everyone an update in next week's board update then. So in that case and that's great. Thank you. In that case, would we then kind of um shorten up this policy a bit? Like I I know for example, I want to say it's Mayfield um their district, they have a very brief policy, but then they have extensive administrative guidelines that kind of helps um with with some of

094the paragraphs that I was just reading um and really lays out more specifics. So maybe is that the route that Jenny Jenny for you you for your part what you were suggesting and sort of like a less is more approach in policy and then really fleshing it out in the admin guidelines. Okay. I'm open to that for sure. You know I let me just add my two cents. The you you're talking about the journalism class especially. You know it's um it's a learning tool. It's not a free speech zone. And I think that we have to remember that and we live in a time where we shouldn't have to worry if kids can't express themselves. You can have a podcast, you can have you can go live, you can I mean there's ways to get

095to express yourself. So I don't feel like we would be infringing on that. And so and I think we ran into some problems before and I think this cleans that up a little bit and you know really you know the journalism class I don't think would be as much of an issue because I don't think they're going to just Cardinal Nation I felt like really hammered in on the the divisive political subjects where I think in the journalism class there's going to be a whole a larger array of of topics. So, I don't think we would come run into that as much. But, you know, I think as you know, as written and having, you know, administration um be able to to regulate that. And I and I don't think that they're I I don't

096think that they there's been a history of them being too strict. If anything, you know, we could use be a little bit more strict. So, I I'm okay with the language as it is, but I would like, you know, to see what legal says. I'm interested in seeing what legal says as well, but I'm also open to um if we had administrative guidelines that were maybe more clear. Some of this I think is a little subjective. That's one of the things that I'm worried about. But I I do see the need for like clear guidelines and we we want to hear from our students. We want to hear their opinions and we want to be able to moreover teach them how to be involved in a respectful manner and to research both sides, not to

097have biased or prejudiced absolutely views. So, you know, I like that that is in there. I I know that with the journalism classes more opportunity for that teaching and we do want to have some guidelines to their student publications for sure, but this might be a little subjective. Yeah. And I think that because both are still going to exist, right? Cardinal Nation as um as the extracurricular as well as the journalism course, you know, having that clarity um is really important, but we also have, you know, the the students that are participating in Cardinal Nation as an extracurricular are still choosing what to write about, right? So they and it is still a learning experience. is just in a in a less structured environment. Um so I I do think that our administrators, our advisor,

098and the students would all benefit from a lot of clarity, but um I I'm kind of moving toward I feel myself moving toward the less is more when it comes to the policy portion. Um so I just want to before I forget, I I think I saw some redundancy in here too. Um so Mr. Heath, when you go back to have it revised, um I think that we've got a double paragraph in here. I don't Yeah, think we talked about that the other day. We did. I think it's the Let's see if we were on that seventh paragraph. ETH I think it's the ninth paragraph. We have that redundant Yeah. par paragraph. So, I won't read it out, but um that's the one. So, if you wouldn't mind. Yeah, we'll we'll make that up. Great.

099I think that's it from me. Anyway, I had one question. Um, just because these are put out sometimes on social media and it does gain attention on the controversial issues that we've had in the past where students have been attacked online um or their address has been shared, their personal information has been looked into by folks who disagree with them um on the side that they're on that is, you know, a controversial issue. So, with that said, do we ensure that parents sign off and that parents do know that these are going to go out to the public and there could be contentious things that come out of it? Um, I'm I'm not for restricting speech, but as a parent, I would want to know if my kid was going to write about some really

100hot topic and it was going to get blasted all over social media. Yeah, I can check into that. Don't know the answer. Yeah, I had the same I had the same question just to because it says um to if you want it to be published outside of the school community, you just need permission from the superintendent. So maybe to add something about run it by parents. Yeah. Oh, Mr. Heath, you also brought up some good ideas when we spoke too about um on that note um especially for the journalism course. again a new course for us and persuasive writing and perhaps on controversial topics might surface. Um that when that does occur, you were you were talking about maybe creating some not safe space in the sense but we basically I what I want to

101do is allow students to freely express themselves, engage in the issues of the day with one another, with their peers, but also with um their teachers, their leaders, and even the board, you know. So can you talk about some of your ideas around creating spaces like that for them? Yeah, a lot of that uh part of the conversation revolved around the editorials and and writing those which obviously that's that's not part of what we have in our our Cardinal Nation right now. Um but when we're looking at that from the journalism course and they did start discussing things around editorials um you know part of my thinking was is there another way to do this in in an authentic way where uh I know we're we're invited into our AP US history classes every year

102um and the students share kind of what their suggestions would be for uh improvements to to our schools. And yeah, would would this be another way for us to get into classrooms and and have the board invited, have our administrators invited where they could come in and and those students could then read their editorial um works with us as well. So that that presentation is is done in an in an authentic audience as well, which again kind of points back to our framework for the future that we we want demonstrations of of student learning and this would be another way to to kind of tie that in. Yes. Thank you. I think that's a great idea and just one of probably many we can come up with and um allow students to pursue this as

103a potential career pathway. I'm very excited about it and that's really it from me. Okay. Um, next we have approval of the resolution authorizing a performance stipen to the chief financial officer. So moved. Second. Is there any discussion? Please call the role. Miss Payne? Yes. Miss Chesnley? Yes. Miss Ayo? Yes. Miss Marchazza? Yes. Miss Cook? Yes. Motion carries. 5-0. Next we have the legislative report. Miss Martaza. Thank you. I'm going to be quick as soon as I get my notes back up. Okay. Uh, no state board or ODW updates at this time. Um, I'm really only going to focus on uh the update on the budget. The governor signed the state's two-year budget, House Bill 96, into law last month, and before signing, he uh sign he issued 67 line item vetos, which I think

104is the most he's ever issued, actually. Um, there were several key education related items. Um, I'll just name a few. One of them was that 40% cash balance carryover cap that we were very concerned about. Uh, another was the restriction against local school boards from paying employee contributions to the state teachers retirement system on behalf of superintendents and principles. Another one was a requirement that local schoolboard candidates run under partisan labels. Another was the um authority of the county budget commission to claw back levy funds that had been voter approved. Um, another was a provision requiring um, emergency and substitute tax levies be included on the 20 mil floor calculation. And another was the elimination of several different levies um, including emergency levies. Um, so these funding provisions uh, that that did go into law

105that did get passed into law will take uh, effect immediately. Policy changes will become effective after 90 days. Uh, DeWine also emphasized the need for comprehensive property tax reform and announced his plan. He's actually made movement on it today. I think to convene a working group that will um include legislators, agency officials, school officials, community members, and tax policy experts to take a look at that tax uh excuse me, property tax problem we have in our state. This is not the first time, however, that that was done. It was done in the last general assembly as well, and 21 recommendations were issued, but none were taken up. So, we're taking another stab at this uh working group. It looks like uh the general assembly can attempt to override these vetos uh with a three-fifths vote

106in each chamber. That's um 60 votes in the House and 20 in the Senate. Um and indeed the um Matt Huffman, Speaker Huffman, has called the House of Representatives back into session even though they're on vacation right now. Um they're going to meet back on uh 7:21 Monday um July 21st to attempt to override a few of the vetos um that were related to property taxes. They include item number 55, which again allows county budget commissions to reduce voter approved levies as they see fit, if they see them to be excessive. Uh I have had questions about who that county uh budget commission is. That includes county auditor, which for us is Chris Galloway, the county treasurer, which is Michael Zuran, and the county prosecutor, which is Charles Coulson. Item number 65 is also up

107to be overridden. That's the um one that includes uh levies counted in the 20 mil floor calculation. And the last one is the elimination of um different levies, four different kinds of levies, but also includes fixed sum levies. And that's item number 66. Um just for my fellow my colleagues on the board here, OSBA is doing a deep dive webinar on the budget and its implications. Um and that will be on July 28th. So I I plan on attending. I would highly encourage everyone to do as well. I think it'll be recorded though, so if you're not available that day, you can watch the recording. Um, and then I would just really like to thank everybody, everyone here at this table and everyone in our community who stepped up to speak out and uh in

108favor of public education and contact legislators. I know, you know, our administrators here at the table did a lot of work to work with our legislators on this. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, it was really um a huge lift and it made a difference. So, I really just express my gratitude to you all. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you for keeping us informed through that whole process a lot as well. Um, next we have the student achievement report. Mrs. Tesla, I was going to say, should we let Mr. Wade go first because since I'm proposing a hard end, I'll kick mine forward to next month. If that's not too disruptive, Mr. Gy, are you if you don't mind? Yep. Mr. Wade, would you like to do your financials? Never miss an

109opportunity to talk finance. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board, Mr. Heath. Um, we closed out our fiscal year uh on June 30th as we had the special meeting. We're all aware, um, our current year-to- date revenue collections indicate we were about $129,000 less than we were projecting in the May forecast. Our year-to-ate expenditures exceeded the forecast by $4.8 million, which netted a uh unfavorable impact of about almost $5 million to the 5-year forecast. Uh, I'll walk the board through the committee through those again just so that we're on the same page. Um actual revenue for the month uh comparison to last year uh was down uh about $4 million, but that's just a timing issue of when we collected revenue last year versus this year. And our compared to last year um we're

110up about $4 million uh in revenue at the same time period. Um biggest differences for us um is our restricted aid um was down in comparison to where we were thinking it, but the unrestricted grants and aid uh made up the difference just based on some changes that were done throughout the process. June expenditures compared to last year, we're up about uh $6.8 million. And compared to the same period last year, uh our total expenditures were $8 million higher. Uh most of that being because of the way that we closed the fiscal year based on my recommendation that we discussed at the last meeting. Um that primarily being transfers out were about 3.7 million higher than we projected because of the transfers that we made at the end of the fiscal year to move the

111capital improvement monies for FY29 as well as the money to fund the buses and the vehicles out of the general fund into the capital fund because that's where I recommend we make those purchases moving forward. um at and that was a result of the legislation changes uh to ensure that we were below the 40% cap uh with regards to that. Um that has been since vetoed. Um so we'll wait and see where that stands. It does not appear that that veto is one that will be looked at to be overridden. Um but anything is possible and we'll continue to kind of look at that. Either way, um whether it is vetoed or it's not, my recommendation is to leave that money where we put it because the, you know, our capital plan that we have

112and I just think it's sound financial planning on our part. Um, and I haven't changed the slides. I've only changed my computer. So, um, apologize for that. But when we look at kind of where we were as we close out the fiscal year, obviously we know that we have um kind of four checkpoints in any given fiscal year. We have our appropriations in September, we have our November forecast, we have our May forecast, and then we close out the fiscal year. Um kind of on the screen uh above behind me and then I did email this to you as well so you have it uh to view. You can kind of see how we adjusted revenue based on how we were trending at those specific times. Um, you know, we're revenue was actually about um

1133 and a half% higher than we projected based on just where we saw our uh tax dollars come in as well as regard we saw we're about a million dollars higher, a little bit over a million dollars higher on our investments still. Uh we expected some of those to kind of fall off and they didn't. Uh so we saw higher collections than we were projecting. Um again expenses changed um if you kind of look at September and May you know we don't see a huge difference there uh but you did see the increase in June final uh and that again was because as I explained we did a larger cash transfer at the end of the fiscal year uh to the capital improvement fund than we had initially thought. The bottom right we see we're

114about $5 million reduced our cash balance out of the general fund. I think you know one of my jobs is to explain to the board to kind of look at things and to see kind of where things really were and you the issue that we have is because we are cash basis when things come in and when they're finally purchased versus when they were you know originally maybe purchased and a good example that would be school buses. Um we had some buses come in from over a year and a half ago in the last month of the fiscal year. So, we spent $700,000 that we had already technically spent and encumbered back uh in September of 23, which would be fiscal year 24. Well, we don't really expense it until the check is written because

115we received the buses in June of 25. So, you know, that makes that expense kind of be higher than we had rejecting because we weren't really sure, but that money was encumbered, so it was already accounted for. Um, so timing kind of comes into some of this. So when you look at it, when you kind of normalize it, you take out the transfer that we did and you look at our expenses and our incumbrances from May to what was actual, there was about a $899,000 difference. Um so and all most of that a good portion of that comes in the form of we had higher expenses in special ed tuition than we had projected. um when all the bills came in and you know things kind of ended for the fiscal year we were about

116you know 600 of that $900,000 was because special ed tuition so um one of those things that we can't really predict but it's more of a timing issue um I think we're still trending exactly where we want to be again you look at the expenses of the $3.6 $6 million that we transferred that was budgeted. It's just all now happened in this year and we'll see a corresponding decrease in the outy years as we discussed back in June. So, just want to make sure we're all on the same page and all the numbers make sense and we're not surprised by anything that we saw at the end of the fiscal year. Um, as the has been discussed, the binding budget has been finalized tenatively, I'll say, uh, because there's still a chance for some I'm

117not looking at anybody. I was just happened to turn left. uh finalized and we're waiting to see if anything is overridden. Um what I will say to the community based on where we stood with uh what was passed and then even we stand better now based on some of the vetos uh but excluding the vetos just what was passed um prior to the vetos we were about $2 million better in revenue uh based on the five-year forecast. Um we're seeing about um just under a million dollars in the first year and right around a million dollars in the second year of additional revenue based on some of the changes that we're getting from the funding per student increase though they didn't increase the base cost. There was a guarantee increase based on your enrollment um

118a minimal increase. Uh and then there was a performance increase based on our scores that we received on the uh number of stars for the performance stars and then the progress being a fourstar progress district. We receive some additional funding of about $500,000 each year. I did not include um 28 and 29 performance increases. Uh two reasons. One because who's to say that that's going to be in the next banium budget. and two, um, I don't know what our scores are going to be yet. So, I, you know, I was always, as you know, a little bit more conservative on our revenue and our expenses when it comes to things like that, but to reiterate kind of the point that was made earlier, the budget definitely clarifies that we're in a much better financial position

119uh, than we were prior to the budget. So, wanted to update on that because we've talked about it a lot. And then there has been a lot of news lately about uh, federal funding. Um it's become a political hot topic I think uh uh both sides of the aisle. Um I've received some questions uh from community members as well as board members. Um we have not received Can you change the screen so people can see what you're talking about? Thank you. Uh what we have not seen yet is we've not seen the actual allocations for title 1 C uh because we don't get title 1 C. So, just to clarify, when you know when President Trump has made the decision to not release that money through the Department of Education, we don't receive title one

120C funds. So, that one has no impact on us. Uh we do receive title 2A, which has not been released either. Uh last year, we got about $163,000 in title uh 2A professional development funds. Um we do have students that are English language learners. Um so, we would be impacted by this as well. um it's about $10,400 last year. And then the academic enrichment title 4 funds that uh are also being held back at this time about $54,000. We do not receive any title 4b. So it has no impact and we don't have an allocation. However, we also receive title 1A ID special education and IDE child early childhood and Carl D. Perkins. Um those were the funding levels that we got last year. those ones are impacted. Um, our current funding allocations are on

121the right and we have those are substantially approved and we have access to those. Um, so what happens just to kind of reiterate in every August part of the agenda or sometimes it's been a special 15minute meeting before we have to present our federal funding by law to our community to receive any feedback. Um, so I did share I think out with the entire board just kind of reiterate. So you just as a reminder where our funds are and what they're used for and so on and so forth. Um, but so we're basically waiting, long story short, on about $210,000 worth of funding. Um, and we'll keep our eye on that and make adjustments as needed. But federal funds, you never actually receive the funds until you return your receipts basically. So what we do

122is we will make the payments. Then every month we do project cash requests um that we file with the state. Then the state then sends us the money to reimburse us for those. So um at this point we're just holding our breath and kind of waiting on that to be finalized. But wanted to give a quick update on that as well because I know it's been something that's been really hot and every time I open up a social media post or I see it come across my feed. Do you know Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I was going to say if those allocations are not made, are there some things that we would have to spend on those areas that are the to be determined um so that we would proceed but we would have to

123have another source of funding if that's never going to be reimbursed. Um, that would be a question probably better asked and I'm not going to put him on the hot seat for that would be uh Mr. Heath and Miss Bowser based on and Mrs. Bonis based on where you spend those money. Um, but obviously we do have to provide services for students. I can answer from experience ELLL students for example. Um, we don't receive a lot of money because we don't have a high population of ELLL. Um, so that would probably be something that the district would have to continue to do and and eat the cost for a lack of better ways to explain it. Um, some of the PD and other things that we're doing were the things that we have to do.

124I would say no, but I'll defer to Mr. Heath. Yeah. And and as you look at those, obviously the academic enrichment, we're talking about some of the gifted services that are provided to students. Um, I know Mrs. Bonis has everything written up in the narrative pieces that we have to include along with these federal budget allocations. Um, so I will gather that information and include that in the board update tomorrow so that uh you know exactly what uh we're using those three funds for and what we've used them for in the past. Could you also include if if we don't receive the funding at all, what what we may do if we need we could fund it alternatively or if there's are you considering a cut? Yeah, I we'll take a look at that and

125see um if if there are impacts that we would have to cut something or someone at that point. I think Bill, you might have already touched on this, but um I'm looking at our cup report and our percentage of English learners is 1.13% which is actually a lot smaller than the state average and similar districts. So is the amount that they would typically give us I know it's the 10,000 but is that based on that percentage then there's a calculation. Okay. Yep. So it's based on the identified language learners in our district. um because because we're not very large percentage of English language learners obviously we receive less uh funding for that and that amount doesn't fully fund what we need to provide for none of these amounts to be clear fully fund correct anything

126that we're doing to meet the needs of any of the areas on there is correct but our property tax pays into it right it's not just we don't just get those funds it's property taxes Plus, correct? Yep. Right. My point is not that is just that this $10,448 for ELLL wouldn't cover what we spend for Oh, yeah. ELLL students. It would be much greater than that. And then a loss of these funds obviously would be have decisions would have to be made if we're going to fund it through the general fund and or make reductions in services based on that as allowed by other laws. You know, for example, you know, if this we were talking about IDA, special education, we don't wouldn't have much of a choice, right? Because we were obligated by law,

127federal law to educate students with special needs, so the 1.8 then would be come out of the general fund, which that burden then would be pushed to the taxpayer. Uh, but we're not worried about that one, right? That's No, not at this point. No. Mr. Heath did you say that we are also obligated by law to provide the gifted interventions as well or is that not uh we are obligated to identify gifted students we are not ident or obligated to support them support or service them okay and then besides I may have missed it but besides gifted intervention and support what else is falls under academic enrichment that's what we're I'll dig into the plan right now and and hopefully give you guys an update here. That should also be in the document that we

128shared with you guys. Thank you. As well, it is clarified in there how we spend it. Appreciate it. The the amounts for special education and early childhood special education, we received those and I noticed that the amount is less. Is that because we have less students that qualify for that and it's a per student or did they allocate less? Uh I'd have to look into that a little bit easier a little bit more uh depth just because of the fact that it's based on the number of students with disabilities in the district. Um and then there's some adjustments based on the poverty level. So the funding is usually allocated out to districts and that fluctuates every year minimally based on a variety of factors. So to say it's because we have less special ed kids,

129I can't say for certain, but as populations of special ed kids have changed in other districts or the poverty level in different communities have changed, those impact those funding levels as well. So it's could it could be a multitude of things. Okay. They're similar. It's not a lot less, but it is less. So just wondered why. Yeah. Just real quick, um, as I'm jumping into the the dashboard here and looking, um, one of the things out of our title 2A that we have included, um, is providing some of that initial training on the new literacy programs aligned to the science of reading. And uh uh for our K5 staff, um we're looking at uh implementing a multi-year literacy professional development plan, providing the ongoing and embedded professional learning for all staff, uh conducting classroom observations

130and walkthroughs. um as it relates back to our math curriculum and the open up uh resources providing targeted support through tier 1 and tier excuse me through tier 2 and tier three interventions excuse me based on MTSS. So th those are some of the things coming out of the 2A which is the largest of those groups up there. Um so a lot of our professional development money is coming out of that uh that particular fund. So learning that, Mr. Heath, I I would not be in favor of cutting any of those. I I for one, I think some of them are required, right? But we we do need to have those professional development because that was something that we addressed as as a need to improve our scores and our academic achievement. We want to

131make sure that as we roll out new programs like, you know, our literacy program with wit and wisdom and our open up math that our teachers are prepared. So, I don't know if if we're not getting that money, where else we would find it, but if you could give us some updates on that. Absolutely. Thank you. That concludes my report. Madame President, members of the board, I ask for the approval of items B through I and its addendums and they may be acted on one motion. So moved. Second. Please call the role. Miss Ao, yes. Miss Marchazza, yes. Miss Jessling, yes. Miss Payne, yes. Miss Cook, yes. Motions carry 5-0. Okay. We do not have any items under unfinished business this evening. So we will move on. And we also don't have any items under

132new business. So we can move on to hearing of the public. We we are at 7:54. So if we could perhaps this we could get there, don't you think? And then I'll there's time fine. Otherwise I'll just save it for August. Thank you. Our first speaker is Alex Fish. testing. Can you hear me? Okay. Madame President, thank you for the opportunity to address you. Good evening. My name is Alex and I've lived in mentors since I was an integrated preschool. First, following the disruption during the first round of hearing of the public, I hope you are okay and thank you, Madam President, for responding bravely. Another reason that shows why I supported you during last week's Fourth of July parade. I have some comments or questions that I forgot to ask from prior meetings. The

133May 13th meeting, I wasn't able to ask this question, but better late than never. I forgot to say that as well as Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Marchazza, I submitted written testimony to our state house. And when it came to libraries and then March's um Cardinal Cafe, I had some questions about student safety and discipline. Um, something I forgot to ask at the Cardinal Cafe was student safety, specifically when it came to school related events such as men or football games, school sponsored dances. I didn't know if there was a discipline chart or something for that that I forgot to ask. So, and with and um also the last men football game I went to, which was to support JBS Strong, there's been and games near it. there's been an increase in ruly behavior and so

134as it's a family as it's meant to be a familyfriendly event, what uh measures are you taking to uh tackle the behavior? And then as I'm heading out to play pickle ball with my buddies as it's 8:00, thank you for the opportunity to address you and go-karts. Thank you. Our next speaker does not appear to be here, Jennifer Allad. So that would leave uh John Sanford. That concludes the public participation section of the meeting. All right, Mrs. Stuffling, would you like to do your presentation or do you want to hold off till at the pleasure of arrest? I am fine either way. If Mr. It's five minutes or less. I think we can fit it in. Let's do it. If he can cue that up for us, that would be great. Thank you. Thanks, Mr.

135Gatsky. Mentor strategic plan continues to be our framework for student achievement. Our career tech construction academy students got some real world experience while revamping one of our spaces right on campus, helping to refurbish rooms to become our new family resource center. Among the great initiatives for students to serve our community are the monthly fresh produce distribution at our food market and the recent cleanup of Headlands Beach. The Kindland Land Project sponsored a special competition and Memorial Middle School students were recognized last month as they continue continue to perform acts of kindness toward others. In May, Lake Elementary held a special career awareness event to acquaint students with local occupations. Mentors Officer Childs visited Shore Middle School science classes to share his expertise as an evidence technician. As a professional who helps investigate and process crime

136scenes, he brings science and law enforcement together. The middle school family and consumer science classes competed in the food truck challenge in May. And the project provides delicious hands-on learning. High school freshman Rapolus Oko Regis created this portrait to honor beloved World War II veteran and mentor centinarian, Mr. Bob Zonavville. It was a special treat to attend the May 16th Shore Middle School art show all about superheroes. How delightful to get a glimpse of students thoughts expressed so well visually, plus their body of work from the whole school year was wonderful to see. Menor took all three top spots. Marlina Slenena is the winner of the 2025 Congressional Art Competition for Ohio's 14th district. Her submission, Prophecy, will be on display in the US Capital for a full year. Abigail Parks won second place with

137the Apple Hand and it will be displayed in Congressman Joyce's DC office. Third place went to Lily Walker's Stuffed Memories, which will be on view in his mentor office. Congratulations to Mentor Memorial's Ashlin McKini on winning the middle school national championship in the shotput at the New Balance National Meet. Menor's musicians have been busy over the past six weeks. Summer band camp for middle schoolers kept their instrumental skills fresh and the high school musicians are essential to events like the Menor Memorial Day ceremony and the upcoming CityFest parade. Top 25 traveled to St. Louis, where they had been invited to perform. Learning and fun were in the air for prek through grade five students at Mentor's Cool Cat summer program. Math and literacy skills are sharpened to get ready for fall success. Here's an inside

138look at our senior sendoff. As the class of 2025 prepared to leave the nest, a fun morning of activities was followed by a tour to their elementary and middle schools for a clapout in the halls of the district's buildings that they attended in the lower grades. And of course, the first of June brought the class to the Woolstein Center for their commencement ceremony. We applaud their hard work and wish them a heartfelt farewell. Thank you. We on the dot. Fantastic. We have an executive session on the agenda this evening to discuss the employment and compensation of public employees and to review negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment pursuant to divisions G1 and 4 of section 121.11 of the revised code. Following that discussion,

139we will also discuss the employment of a public official and when we reconvene, we will adjourn the meeting. Do I have a motion to convene to executive session? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Wade, please call the role. Miss Pink, yes. Miss Jessling, yes. Misso, yes. Miss Marchazza, yes. Miss Cook, yes. 801, we go into executive session.