001[Music] good evening the november 16 2021 regular meeting of the men are 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 mr wade will you please call the rule mr buckley president mrsan here please join me in the pledge of allegiance one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice i would like to welcome everyone to the november 16 2021 regular meeting of the men are exempted village board of education prior to this evening each board member has received for the review 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 the agenda
002is available through the district's website for public viewing the sunday prior to the 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 ford this meeting is being televised on a delayed basis and will be shown on spectrum cable channel one zero two six and mentor and channel one zero two five in runner on the lake this meeting is also being videotaped and will be shown on our youtube channel cardinal tv inventor ohio please place your mobile telephones on silent mode during the meeting mr wade in his role as cfo and secretary of the board minutes will now share some protocols regarding our public participation policy thank you madam president govanini good evening as the regulatory agent and
003the secretary of the board i wanted to take a few moments again to clarify expectations for the public participation at board meetings to help ensure we continue to have productive and respectful meetings the board invites and welcomes participation at our board meetings at two times during our meetings the first opportunity to speak is typically after the approval of the minutes this opportunity is related to board agenda items only participants wishing to speak on board gen items are asked to come to either of the microphones located at either entrance our board policy policy 1.12 public participation at board meetings requires those wishing to speak to announce their name address and the school or schools where their children attend if applicable each statement made by the participant shall be limited to three minutes duration and any questions
004must be addressed to the presiding officer no participant may speak more than once on the same topic unless all others who wish to speak on that topic have been heard likewise there is a second opportunity to speak on any item that is near the end of the agenda again participation participants wishing to speak on board agenda items are asked to come to either the microphone located under the entrances and again state their name address and schools where their children reside and limit their speech to three minutes i will welcome you to the microphone at either of those times and ask you to state your name address and if you have children in the district for the policy so i can appropriately record this information for our minutes once i have that information i will welcome
005you to share your comments and your three minutes will begin at the end of your three minutes i will let you share your last statement and thank you for sharing your thoughts we will move to the next speaker at this time i would continue to remind everyone that the board meeting is a session for the board to conduct their business the board superintendent and i recognize and appreciate the public session is part of that business during this hearing of the public we will ask that all speakers exercise the appropriate decorum for the board to conduct its business specifically in the case of public participation all members of the community including but not limited to participants board of education members and district personnel need to be treated with respect people should speak in an appropriate tone
006and refrain from using inappropriate or harassing or threatening language furthermore members of the audience should not interrupt or speak out during this portion of the meeting as each person can and should have the opportunity to speak uninterrupted if they so choose if you have something to say we invite you to join us at the microphone when it is your turn we also ask that you have something to say to follow these guidelines so we're able to complete our meeting in an orderly and productive manner as well ensure we are here to hear any comments or concerns that are shared please know anyone who repeatedly fails to comply with these expectations outlined above or deters the board from being able to conduct business will be told to leave the meeting if at the end of public
007participation the board or administration does not make a statement please know this in no way demonstrates a lack of care for the comments that were shared by our community the board of education wants to be thoughtful in their approach and will work with the superintendent or myself to evaluate the comments shared and response may be shared in a timely manner if and when appropriate again our intent for the public participation for us is for us to hear our stakeholders so the board and administration may use the feedback to best serve our community it is our hope by clearly establishing these protocols and expectations that we can continue to have meetings as we've had in most recent months that aligns with our mission vision and strategic plan for men our schools as well as models for
008our students the appropriate way to engage in meaningful discourse thank you mr white next we'll have approval of minutes for our regular board meeting october 19 so moved second please call the world mr buckley yes ms dressling yes mr sun yes mr tuttle yes miss breiner yes motion carries 5-0 and now for hearing of the public on agenda items only last call for agenda items only none thank you moving on to superintendent's report and recommendations mr porter thank you good evening madam president members of the board i have the following recommendations listed under the consent agenda and recommend approval of items 581-583 so moved please call the roll mresling yes miss hassan yes mr buckley yes mr tuttle yes miss breiner yes motion carries 5-0 i'd like to add something just as a point of
009recommended acceptance of the following gifts that's quite a list i'm very impressed by that the number of community members also industry small business making contributions so i'd like to express my thanks deepest thanks thank you thank you madam president members of the board i have the following board of education policies on the agenda for a second reading and i'm recommending approval of both policies second please call them all mr tuttle yes mrs thanh yes mr buckley yes miss jesslyn yes miss breiner yes motion carries 5-0 thank you madam president members of the board mr wade tonight i want to touch on a few different topics to inform all of you as well as our community of some important information first we know that school for students around the country if not the world has looked
010vastly different since march of 2020 when the pandemic began that's certainly been the case for our students in mentor schools as well with extra safety protocols in place and with interruptions to in-person learning over the last 19 months our students like many around the globe have experienced learning gaps that we continue to identify and are committed to solving our state achievement tests that range from third grade to the high school level between the last typical administration year of 2019 and this past spring of 2021 saw a 13 average passage rate drop across subjects the least affected subjects appeared to be our middle school language arts grade 6 7 and 8 while 8th and 9th grade math classes were most affected by the pandemic according to those results it's important to note that this past spring
011we had more students than usual whose parents exempted them from the tests which adversely affects our passage rates but this does not fully account for the percentage gap differences while the state achievement tests are taken by all public schools across the state one drawback is by the time we get the final results the data is five to six months old what's been vitally important to tracking our students in real time has been the use of i ready and star programs for both reading and math the benchmarking data from this past fall generally reflects that we are close to national averages for a typical year but we are ahead of the current national averages of schools taking these assessments this year by re-measuring with these tools in the winter and the spring of this this school
012year we hope to see noticeable gap closing progress we also realize the gap closing efforts are not a one time effort but our interventions need to be sustained over time some of these supports include expanded summer offerings from both this past summer and again next summer for elementary students the cool cats program is available to all at-risk learners there's an online reading and math intervention option for at-risk middle school students our traditional high school summer school continues to allow for credit recovery many of our elementary students took advantage of free summer tutoring from the educational service center of the western reserve during the school year we have several programs in place right now at a recent board meeting you heard us mention the hiring of 20 long-term certified teachers using our federal esser funding these
013teachers are spread across the district at all levels to meet with students in small groups to address reading and math gaps this is scheduled to be covered by the esser funding through the 23-24 school year also at our two title one schools lake and sterling morton elementaries we will operate an after-school math program using title funding these are just some of the steps to close the academic gaps additionally even prior to covid we saw an increased need to help support students with more mental health challenges or trauma the pandemic has increased these needs our commitment to our to at least one full-time crossroads counselor per building has been key in helping our students directly as well as connecting families to important community resources another area of focus this year has been attention to developing executive
014functioning skills at all levels which you get which again have been affected by the pandemic these are basic work skills needed by all students to successfully function during school these include basic concepts like paying attention organizing one's schoolwork self-control managing one's emotions and memory development to name a few which are all essential for academic success at the high school and middle school levels there is intentional focus on these skills during advisory time and at the elementary level these are addressed in daily morning meetings and at other natural points during the day i also think it's important to mention that our students feelings of success and connection are enhanced by programs and extracurricular activities last year and again this year we are running as many programs and extracurriculars as possible because we know this makes a
015positive difference many of these are featured along with other vital district information in our annual quality profile report which was recently mailed out to homes throughout the district and another note i want to take a few moments to share my thoughts on last monday student walkout at mentor high school while we did not condone the walk out once we knew it was going to happen our focus shifted to making sure everyone involved remains safe while walk outs are not common this response is consistent other walkouts we've had in the 14 years that i've been in the district last monday about 150 students exited the high school while classes continued for everyone else inside the building students spoke on a variety of topics for approximately two hours including bullying race mistreatment harassment follow-through from the school
016and many more there are situations we heard about that we knew about and had taken action we heard about some things we knew to be inaccurate we heard some things for the very first time we also heard about some things outside the school's domain regardless any claim of bullying abuse or mistreatment of any kind should we should be taken seriously and is unacceptable under any circumstances even though i preferred a walkout never happened i also recognize it's an opportunity for us to listen and learn one clear takeaway for me is that many of the students do not feel as emotionally or physically safe as they should more importantly it requires us to reflect on some of our protocols some of our follow-up how we listen and communicate and to provide students with appropriate forums to
017express themselves mr crowe and his team at the high school have been busy talking to students and working on ways to have more ongoing honest conversations we also need to continue involving adults which includes staff parents and community members in finding ways to address some of the underlying concerns i don't just consider these high school challenges we have to make sure that we're looking through a district lens as well our attention to this needs to be ongoing so we are meeting students needs to feel safe and valued as members of our school community so while we have many programs and initiatives underway i will never say that we are all the way there we can always get better there's always more we can do our students are worth it thank you at this time i'm
018happy to take any questions or comments from the board mr porter with the comparing our local data with the state data were the gaps similar less than uh i think it depends on the area the grade level the subject matter i think in some places less than some places better than some places about relative it's hard to draw an exact comparison because there are so many districts that we could compare to you know whether it's county districts similar districts you know around northeast ohio or around the state so it really depended subjects grade levels and our local data is more relevant and more timely than the state data uh we have been putting a lot of emphasis on i ready and star and some other local programs because we're getting more real-time results from those
019we're also getting from those feed information about students strengths and weaknesses that allow us to give very targeted intervention right away okay and then a lot of those uh a lot of those assessments are given fall spring or i'm sorry fall winter spring or at least fall and spring so sort of gives us a before during and after picture in a lot of ways so we can adjust the instruction right away based on that data versus the state data that's post-mortem it's a little bit post-mortem and it's not that you know we can use some of the state data but we've we've had good success moving students forward using the more real-time data thank you mr porter when you mentioned that um students who did not take the test that that counts as a failure
020against us but you said that the gap exceeded that if you removed that factor do you have a sense of the what the percentage remaining might be because you said 13 i think it would be just a guess but i would say between five and ten percent okay and would that be what you would have predicted based on the enormous disruption of for three semesters of of covet it's at least what i would have predicted um but we really you know it was hard it was hard to gauge what the impact would be thank you any other questions or comments i just wanted to say also i appreciated the spirit in which or the lens through which the student walkout was examined that obviously we would prefer that it had not been something that happened
021but it's an opportunity for there to be improved dialogue and expanding and fine-tuning things that we're able to do so i appreciate that that was not a wasted opportunity and especially from the high school administrative team the district administrative team and yourself that spirit of openness i think is is critically important to making the best changes possible agree thank you madam president and members of the board i am recommending approval of agenda item c1 related to certified personnel and c2 through c4 all related human resource matters so moved second please call the rule ms yes mr buckley yes mr sun yes mr tuttle yes miss breiter yes motion carries 5-0 thank you this concludes my portion of tonight's agenda thank you mr porter we have board business mr wade did you want to leave the
022appointment yes madam president members of the board mr porter uh we appointment of the following citizens financial advisory members to a two-year term expiring december 31st 2023 shannon kasich leone and zachary williams so moved second please call the rule mr tuttle yes miss hassan yes mr buckley yes miss dressling yes miss briner yes there's also the approval of the spire aquatic center agreement i have a question for you well is that the same rate as last year it says it didn't increase i'd have to confirm that for you but believe it was the same right it's been a few weeks since i've looked at that mr shuttle but i'll get that information to you thank you so moved second please call the girl miss jessling yes mr buckley yes miss hassan yes mr tuttle yes
023miss breiner yes motion carries 5-0 thank you legislative report mr tuttle thank you mrs breiner blended learning model bill picks up several amendments as it passes out of the senate the ohio senate passed senate bill 229 on october 20th by a vote of 30-0 the bill went through significant changes in the senate primary and secondary education committee before the ohio senate vote the changes to senate bill 229 largely addressed the need to provide schools with legal alternatives to maintain educational instruction to students who are quarantined sb229 would do the following temporarily extend the deadline to april 30th 2022 for a school district to submit a blended learning model to the ohio department of education for the 2021-22 school year permit a school district to adopt a resolution that provides remote learning to a student whose
024parent requests remote learning and require a district that operates an online learning school to allow a quarantined student in a traditional district school to participate in the online learning school during the period of quarantine and there's more continuing there but i wanted those covered those i felt those are more important to read new quarantine recommendations aim to keep students in the classroom again this is in senate bill 229 ohio department of health director dr bruce vanderhoff released the mask and state test to play option for schools to keep students in school after being exposed to a positive covet 19 individual in a school setting the mask to stay option would be available to a student in a school setting regardless of vaccination status or whether they were wearing a mask in order for the student
025who had the direct contact to stay in school they would need to wear a mask for 14 days after the exposure monitor for symptoms and take a covert 19 test if symptoms present present students who participate in extracurricular activities can continue participating under the following conditions wear a mask when able test on initial notification and test again between days five and seven from initial exposure if the student receives a negative test after the test the student would no longer be in quarantine house bill 458 introduced by representative thomas hall republican of madison township to eliminate the august special election except in instances when the august special election is to nominate or elect candidates for the u.s house of representatives and to allow a school district whose entire territory is located within the congressional district that
026is on the august ballot to put a levy on the august ballot won't go into the reasoning behind that i think it's self-explanatory uh house bill 477 introduced by rep tracy richardson republic in marysville to allow a student to decline certain mandatory vaccinations and to prohibit a student from being expelled due to their covet 19 vaccination status to allow an employee to decline certain mandatory vaccinations and to prohibit an employee from being terminated from their place of work due to their vaccination status comments questions [Music] mr tuttle do you know with dr vanderhoff's recommendation uh there's a lot of cova testing going on there are they providing money for those students to have those tests or is that something the district would have to pay for ken i'll have to research that and let you
027know if you don't mind i don't know i'm assuming that would have been us but i'm could be wrong i'm sure let me find out maybe we get reimbursed let's let's hope for that and i'll find that out for you okay thanks good question any other questions or comments thank you mr tuttle thank you moving on to osba student achievement report mrsa thank you mrs breiner some student success stories across the nation many schools are adopting early college programs aimed at helping students prepare for future careers earn college credits and sometimes become eligible for a degree in one colorado school district students work 20 hours each week in elementary school classrooms through the future educator pathway to prepare them for careers as classroom teachers another story schools across the country say they're seeing an uptick
028in disruptive behaviors in kids some are obvious and visible like students trashing bathrooms fighting over social media posts or running out of classrooms others are quieter calls for help like students putting their head down and refusing to talk the behavior issues are a reflection of the stress the pandemic placed on children experts say appending their education schedules and social lives for students dealing with grief mental health issues or the layered effects of poverty and racism big transitions can even be more challenging some of the school districts have come up with some of the strategies uh like misawa's county schools in montana for example they hired a dozen additional staffers to focus on student behavior and mental health now they have a stab at every elementary middle school to teach coping strategies to kids who are
029getting frustrated quickly brown schools in detroit are just a schedule this year so every morning they start with a 15 minute students can spend on deep breathing discussing something in the news or venting about personal issues or stress um there is one interesting study i wanted to share with everyone because it talks about a four day schedules in school and now post candid a post around pandemic people are talking about the four day work schedule and this one talks about the four day weeks in school um so four days school weeks which are adopted by more than 1600 u.s districts as of 2019 2020 are gaining favor among parents and students according to a study done for rand corporation researchers found that student growth in schools with four day weeks fell over time compared with
030those with five day schedules the notion of four day weeks boomed after the great recession especially in small far-flung districts looking to try to save cash and attract teachers now the widest reaching analysis of the practice to date paints a nuanced picture of the effects of the switch it typically save district a small but not intangible amount of cash and on the day out of school students are typically working doing errands or spending time with family not running wild the trade-off for those benefits though showing in learning several years after adopting a four-day schedule the researchers found that those districts saw slower rates of student progress than similarly situated districts that retained a five day schedules that's all from me thank you all right next we have chief financial officers report and recommendations mr wade
031madam president members of the board mr porter community i'm here to share tonight with us our five year forecast which we're obligated to post by november by ohio revised code so our five year forecast is a glimpse at our current year it looks back uh three years as well as looks forward uh four more years additionally so it looks back really it has more information here than we typically would report but i wanted to kind of give a trend for us looking at our revenues and you can see from the stat column on the left the majority of our revenue comes from the local real estate and this year we are looking at 104.8 million dollars in revenue which is up based on our analysis of our five-year forecast and our current trends from what
032i presented to the board back in september after about five weeks on the job when we did our appropriations of doing further analysis and working uh with the updated information that we had from the state department of education which i'll get into in a second by about two million dollars so we're trending in an upward direction which is a positive analysis that we have received as you can see moving forward our revenue remains relatively flat if you've been around school districts or you're familiar with state funding in ohio with how we fund schools that's not uncommon we don't see growth in our revenue we have our voted in millage and we collect what we collect and that kind of remains flat over a period of time until we ask for additional revenue from our taxpayers
033again looking at a pie chart just to summarize and i'll hit the bigger areas for us here tonight general property tax accounts for about 65 percent of our total budget that comes from our voters in the form of residential and commercial a small portion of agricultural and then we have some property tax coming in from our pup and the rest of that majority comes from our state grants and aid which is in the form of state funding and we will get into that more we do receive some additional property tax in the form of pup as i said as well as other homesteads and rollbacks that we get that are pretty consistent this slide shows our general property tax we bring in about 68 million dollars a year in property tax revenue from our local
034taxpayer you can see on the 2019 i have an arrow here that is to denote that this year i have started to classify where we're putting our uh property tax from our pup in our tif which are different types of taxes that we received mr wilson historically put them in with the general property tax i have taken an approach where we're isolating those receipts into their own separate receipt accounts which is more common with a typical practice across the state of ohio so that we can better track those funds and see where they're coming in and ensuring that we have a better idea from that standpoint not that either way is wrong or right it's just a different approach that i'm using to isolate those funds to better track them into the future so it
035we didn't really receive a dip we actually just have reallocated those funds elsewhere at a different receipt code i also will point out on the 25 and 26 fiscal years that you see the brown or tan tops that's a result of the fact that we have a emergency levy that comes off at the end of tax year 24 that if it is not renewed those respective colored areas would be loss of revenue that we would see in the form of property tax that they were not renewed and passed so i wanted to point that out to the community and the board also just will point out this year we all know that we had our reevaluation year that brought in about 200 million dollars more in evaluation for the district we see a slight increase
036in revenue because of that it's not as much as most people expect because people think because their property values go up that the district would see more money house bill 920 protects the local taxpayer from that increase and actually lowers the millage rate that we receive to minimize the impact that we would receive on that growth we do see some growth on the inside millage and we're expecting about 460 to 470 thousand dollars in additional revenue each year going forward we did assume in 2024 that we would again see an increase in valuation of our total property um obviously not as high as that we're seeing right now we expect the market to stabilize so we're expecting the valuations to go up by about half of what they've gone up this uh update and those
037are accounted for in our assumptions in our out years of our real estate tax collection the other large portion of our money comes from the state in the form of what used to be known as the state foundation now and is known as the fair school funding plan you can see that there is a looks to be a decrease in our state funding that we're projecting in our unrestricted which means we can use this money for anything uh there's also restricted state funds that we receive which has gone up uh by about five hundred thousand dollars if you were to add columns for 21 versus columns for 22 you would assume that there's a slight decrease i'll go into that a little bit more here in a second why that's a little bit misleading our
038new state funding model is based on enrollment so it's very important for us to continue to do a trend analysis of the district enrollment because the money that we receive from the state will now be based on students who are attending actually our schools we saw a decrease of over 200 students from prior to covet to last year we had enrollment of 2020 going into covet at 7 345. we would have expected our enrollment in 2021 to be however we had an enrollment of 7128. so what that means is 163 students who didn't enroll back in the district in 2022 that we would have expected this could be attributed to many things we saw lower than typical kindergarten numbers parents who kept their kids home and kept them out for additional time or it could
039be that students went to other other online charter schools so we will continue to track that we have gone up back up again this year in 2022 but still down to where we would expect to be so that's something that i know mr porter his team and myself are keeping a close eye on and collaborating and working with that as we go forward the new model is based on a formula that is again related to the number of students that we have in our schools so butts in the seats so to speak if you will and it's based on four components of direct classroom instruction instructional and student supports building leadership and operations and district leadership and accountability the easiest way to think this is is it based on a certain number of students that
040we have it relates to a certain number of staff members or certain levels of service that the state has come up with a formula that relates to a specific value for example teachers is based on the average teacher salary for the state of ohio in 2018. um again outdated uh you know we're talking almost three four years ago on that information and things have changed drastically however they are funding it at the student level which is different based on our information you can see that we were determined the base cost to calculate for educating students in mentor schools was about 53.2 million dollars what this slide shows is is that what they do is they take the total of that 53.2 million dollars and divide it by one of two things either the three year
041average of enrollment in 2019 20 and 21 or the enrollment in the last year which is which is ever lower to come up with what our per pupil cost would be which in this case is 7 298 and they fund that based on a model excuse me of determining what our local share is going to be based on what our property wealth is versus two forms of income wealth and kind of rate us based on that and because the the our property value and our income measures become are one of the top in the state we receive very little funding from the state in support and only receive about a thousand of that seven thousand uh 298 dollars per student where as a district then we have to pick up the rest i think it's
042worthwhile to mention at this point based on our state report card mentor averages eleven thousand five hundred and twenty one dollars of spending per student so they're not even funding at this rate here even with the new calculation what the average cost is to for us to educate a student here in manor which is slightly higher than the state average which is ten thousand three hundred thirty four dollars so again it's an improvement on the funding model uh they were only in funding about six thousand twenty dollars per student previously the new model is now funding more uh money per student however still far below the state average in less than what we are spending on our students to give them the education that they receive here in better schools so if you remember i
043had mentioned here that we see a slight decrease in funding just want to explain that for the board in the community last year we received in total state funding 16.9 million dollars this year based on the new calculations we're receiving 15.4 million dollars or difference of about 1.5 million dollars less funding from the state it's a little bit misleading because previously as well we used to have a number of deductions or expenses that we'd have to give back to the state or they would take off the top of the money that they gave us in the form of tuition payments that we gave community schools stem schools autism scholarships and john peterson scholarships that totaled 1.864 million dollars in expenses so in reality that money was taken off that 16.9 million dollars that received from
044the state they also have changed some funding with regards to student success and wellness funds that we received which is pushing additional costs from our standpoint onto the general fund which we haven't had historically so that offsets this savings or reduction of expense by about 458 000 so the net impact on expenditures is down to 1.4 million dollars so when you look at this in its totality we did receive 1.49 million dollars less than state funding however we've reduced our expenses expenses excuse me by 1.4 million dollars so the difference in reality between this year and last year in state funding is only about 86 thousand dollars and actually we have to set aside a hundred and nine thousand dollars so we we pretty much could break even or have a little bit of a
045surplus um because i know mrs bowser and her team work very hard to make sure that we get all of our catastrophic costs uh that we have to set aside for an excess cost so we have to set aside for that so we're expecting us to actually see a little bit of additional funding this year and we will see increased funding on all the out years in our forecast as a result of the new funding model as well so we are seeing some sort of benefits year over year by about three hundred thousand dollars uh or so each out year one of the things i did want to point out to the board in the community is a uh one of our areas that we collect revenue is our operating revenues and mainly coming from
046the form of our tif payments from the city as well as other earnings that we get from tuition fees rentals and donations a large portion of that used to come in the form of investment interest that we received as i'm sure everybody is aware investments right now particularly for us in the public sector are not having high interest rates we're seeing much lower interest rates than usual so we're expecting less interest income as a result of that and as we'll see later on we are deficit spending now so our cash reserve that we have the ability to invest is going to decrease in each of the out years so we will actually be pulling in less revenue in this area of our general fund than we typically have so i wanted to point that out
047to the board and that would explain why we see a decrease across the board in our out years so i think some key takeaways from this is that our annual revenue has gone up we're looking at an annual revenue closer to 105 million dollars this year than first projected a few months ago our revenue continues to remain relatively flat and all out years which is to be expected and is pretty traditional on the surface it does appear that we're receiving less state funding however in actuality because of the reduction that expenses our state funding is about the same year over year and we are seeing less revenue in our line 1.060 because of reduced interest rates and less money to invest in future years as we continue to deficit spend if you look at our
048expenses again column stack chart here shows that the majority of our expenses come in the form of salary and benefits which is not surprising for education we are service oriented business our businesses to educate and provide the services that we need to educate our schools and keep them open so that comes in the form of salary and benefits mainly what you can see down here is the impact of covet on our budget and our expenses over the last two years again that is a result mainly of the increased personnel that we've had to add to make sure that we could keep our class sizes down so we can keep school open as well as the additional services that we needed to provide to keep our schools clean and disinfected as well you can see that
049in out years we have corrected that assuming that we can get through the pandemic get our class sizes back to more traditional numbers in adjusting our staffing as needed to go back to pre-covered staffing historical trends and in actuality and our out years were actually growing at a rate less than we were going into this current school year based on historical trends i'll focus on the big areas again much like i did in revenue just want to touch on a few things with regards to our expenses for our personnel so this is for the salaries that we pay our employees you can see that it has an upward trend some of the assumptions that we made here were that we would uh all staff members would continue to receive their steps staff members would be
050granted a one percent increase on the base salary we had two teachers that we've added recently through arp funding which is the american rescue plan funding that we have which is a form of relief that we've received because of the public funds from the federal government we added two special ed teachers and two classroom assistants to support with uh support us in that two of those teachers will be back on the general fund expense in 2024 a classroom assistant will come back on at 23 and another one will come back on the general fund expansion 24. it assumes that five staff members that we added this year uh to support us in covid would be uh not coming back in the future because we will through the pandemic and would not need those additional staff
051to keep those class sizes down it also assumes that in the next school year that the business operations position would be brought back on which is the administrative position that was cut that i had filled last year in my transition to the cfo it also assumes that as i said the district success and wellness funds that we get from the state will be into the general fund so there are a couple employees that we have been paying out of restricted funds that which haven't come out of the general fund an assistant principal memorial assistant principal at shore and a half time community engagement person uh who will then be on the general fund but again we will be receiving five hundred thousand dollars in additional funds from the state to offset those expenses so where
052and they'll be added in the general fund where they weren't before we were receiving additional money from the state to offset those incurred costs so in all intents and purposes it's kind of a wash so to speak but again all that's assumed into our out years as we move forward our second largest area that we have which makes up roughly 20 to 25 percent of our budget is in the form of our health care what we see here in the out years is an assumption of an increase of about eight percent in health care costs which is the national norm so we're using the national norm for health care moving in our out years i just would like to point out to the board in the community here it does look like we had a
053big increase this year and out into 2023 we'll explain that as the fact that we did have a premium holiday because we had been building a large reserve in our health care fund where we did not charge the employees of the district that expense for one month in 2021 which lowered that and we also had a two-month premium holiday here in 2022 which again seems that that you know is down and then we are having a projected increase of nine percent on our health care costs this year so we see in this fiscal year about a 4.5 percent increase but because these values are under inflated by one month here and two months here what you see in 2023 is a larger than expected it's kind of the renormalization of this this value so where
054if you look at it percentages it does look like it's more than it is but when you compare it to kind of where we're going it's more in line with our eight percent trend so i just wanted to point that out as well our other large areas that we have for costs come in the form of purchase services which is our utilities our legal fees some services that we have to provide to our students our tuition costs and you can see that we have a downward trend kind of over the last few years in that area we're assuming anywhere from one to three percent based on the service that we have in those areas and again you can see we're remaining relatively flat across our pupils personnel services in those areas supplies and materials is
055something we spent quite a bit of time on during the appropriations so i just will point it out again quickly here this large increase is uh misleading there's a couple things that come into play that show this and we we have self-corrected we did not build just off of this year as we go to out years um some of the reason for that change was if you remember a few months ago the board approved a new policy which changed the capitalization threshold from five hundred dollars to five thousand dollars which pushed our expenses from what is known as our 600 object code or capital outlays into our materials and supplies so that counts for about a little bit over a million dollars of that difference we also had some curricular delays because of covid that
056we had are catching up on this year which is going to account for about a quarter million dollars of the difference and we had technology purchases that were shared back in june from our director of innovation mr lynch as well uh with regards to purchases and technology as we changed our purchasing of devices for our students so we have a larger than expected cost this year but it's going to save us over 900 000 in the out years and we are finishing up our renovations for our classrooms and doing two grade levels and between the technology and those two grade levels uh updates and furniture that counts for over another million dollars of that and we're seeing because our buses are going to be back on the road full-time and we're transporting our kids five
057days a week prices of gas gone up we're seeing additional costs projected of an additional four hundred thousand dollars so when you take that into its account you know we're doing some catch up we're changing some things to save some money out and the out years our buses are running at full steam where we've seen cost savings previously for those that does explain the increase that we have here and you do obviously see a corresponding decrease as i said in our capital outlay because less things are being coded to that object code as a result of that capitalization threshold i do want to point out a discussion that has been happening we did share this five year forecast with our citizens financial committee as we always do i had a great meeting last thursday and
058we had two hours worth of valuable discussion for myself and the board to discuss this uh and they uh were pleased with the information that we shared and were in agreement with that one of the things that we've continued to discuss and we've had a work session back a few weeks ago as a board of education as well to start to look at this as well as well is each year we're transferring from our general fund to our capital improvement fund our 070 account which is different than our permanent improvement account about 3 million a year to help support and sustain the maintenance of our facility so you can see we have these transfers or expenses that we have in each of our years out years i will just share a couple quick thoughts on
059that to not belabor the point we receive about 1.1 million dollars a year in annual revenue from our permanent improvement levy that was passed in 1988. if you take 1.1 million dollars in 1988's value fast forward to 2022 that would collect about 2.2 million dollars with inflation so we're about we get about half of the value for the dollar now that we would have got in 1988. we also see that in reduction the effect reduction of the effective mild rate from one mil down to uh below 0.5 mils if you look at a research report being kind of a numbers person scientist i like to have a rationale behind why we do things carnegie mellon did a study an architectural study called addressing inadequate investment at school facility maintenance and they talk about the best
060way to calculate how much you need to maintain your your plant or facility and they say if you take basically the gist is if you take your your total value of your plant which for us our total insured value is 257 million dollars almost 258 million dollars and you multiply that by two percent that gives you about how much money you should set aside yearly to maintain your plants if you do that for us that equates to be about 5.1 million dollars so if you look at it from its totality we're bringing in a million dollars in 1988 value still currently in a million dollars here if really that would equate to about a 2.1 million dollar value that we would need to have the same purchasing power that we did in 1988 and then
061you add the three million dollars a year that we're transferring from the general fund to support the sustaining of our plant that gets us roughly to that 5.1 million dollars so currently our permanent improvement levy is not meeting the needs to maintain our facilities and do the purchasing that we need and permanent improvement funds can only be spent on specific things it's typically anything you know we talk about the three books uh three b's books balls bricks by actually four and buses so you know things that have a lifespan of over five years basically is what can be spent on permanent improvement funds they cannot be spent on anything related to salary benefits so right now because we're not collecting enough revenue to support that we're subsidizing that through our general fund so those are
062discussions that we're having right now as a board and as assistant financial committee so our key takeaway is we need to continue to manage our expenses in the form of salaries and benefits special education and facilities we need to continue to monitor our enrollment and lastly as we move forward it's imperative that we track our monthly reporting not only against our historical data but against our five year forecast to continue to find ways to reduce our costs and flatten our expense curves because this is everything in its totality in a summary we can see that right now our revenue is less than our expenses so the black bar represents our revenue and what's happening to our cash balance as we go through the five year forecast is that we're actually spending it down and if
063we continue on the current trend and all of my assumptions go correctly the assumptions that i made with our administrative team uh in conjunction with mr porter and the rest administration district looking at historical trends talking to other local experts we would have a negative balance of 1.2 million dollars which is not allowable by a high revised code so we need going back to control those expenses and reduce our spending moving forward so that we don't put ourselves in that position as well just another graph that shows this 2016 was the last time our district uh went for new money it was the last time that we had a deficit where we deficit spending you can see that revenue went up because of that levy remains relatively flat as we go through expenses continue to
064increase our goal here is to flatten this curve to make this area less here so that we don't see the steep decline that we're seeing right here in our cash balance so that will be continued discussions with myself mr porter and the administrative team as well as with the board of education and evaluating that and again with the majority of our costs coming from selling benefits those are the two areas that we have to work on to control the most because we really have very little you know about five maybe seven percent of spending that is that we can adjust which would have a huge impact on what we're doing one of the things that we like to trend in my world is our cash balance or cash on hand and you can see because
065we are deficit spending each of the out years our cash on hand is going down rule of thumb at a minimum you want 60 days preferably 90 to 120 days so we are continuing to deficit spend in all of our out years so we've got to continue to monitor our spending to find ways to control costs and again flatten the curve as i was saying our cash balance is depleting yearly and is in the negative by 2026. when you account for our conferences that one million dollar negative balance actually turns into nine million and we need to pass the levy renewal in 2024 or prior to 2024 so we don't see a reduction in revenue we need to consider seeking additional funding to support the general fund we also need to determine uh if we
066still want to utilize the general fund to support our five-year capital plan or look for specific ways in the forms of additional funding for permanent improvement funds to increase and allocate more funds for this specific purpose and the key for us now that we're using a new analytics program is to track monthly using forecast five our budget's performance both first a historical comparison and versus our five year forecast so that we can continue to be more efficient and find ways to improve and reduce costs and i'm happy to answer any questions that the board may have before i go on to my next little bit that i have to present tonight when you're talking about uh some of the supplies and and the things that are most impacted by inflation this current pump um are
067you thinking that that may well we don't know if it's going to last indefinitely but how is that impacting this this particular school year with gas prices higher and and so forth well we saw that coming luckily when we do our appropriations and you know in september so you know our budget's tracking pretty well in those areas um so we were able to kind of project that and i think that's why you're seeing like i talked about for buses an additional 400 000 and just maintenance of our buses that we haven't seen over the last few years because we haven't been running our buses as much they haven't been using as much gas but we knew we were going to be running full we knew gas prices were closer to over three dollars we did
068some you know some calculations mrs kulski did a nice job with that working with me having those discussions to kind of to do that so things like gasoline transportation you know we did project a little bit higher four percent um you know to that point though we mr wilson and then i continued when i got here because one of our contracts went up we've locked in our rates for gas in electric so we're we're kind of going to hopefully ride that out so to speak over the next few years because those contracts have locked us into a specific amount for our usage so we're able to kind of track that things all things considered so that's going to allow us to keep those down a little bit more talk to mr reporter and you're going
069to continue this isn't my five-year forecast this is this is all of our five year forecast this is the board myself mr porter a lot of collaboration a lot of effort went in we made decisions about certain things that we said we weren't going to increase year over year we're going to you know we're going to kind of hold the line on some of those expenses um and if you know without sacrificing our strategic plan we felt that we could do that thanks any other questions okay quickly then just to kind of a monthly update uh obviously as i just said we need to track our revenue and expenses in a monthly if you look at uh our actual month uh this year compared to last year we're seeing about 387 thousand dollars in additional
070revenue and at the same time now comparison to the previous year and its totality so comparing a year at the same time this year versus the same time last year not just by the month we're seeing about 364 thousand dollars in additional revenue uh going forward which is a good trend to see our expenses we're down for the month by about four thousand dollars so we're trending obviously pretty close for the month when you have a total expenses of about eight point three million dollars for four thousand dollars is a pretty small change for the year we are up four point nine million dollars but again continue to harp on this remind that was because of the one-time transfer that we had to make up for the correction for our budget reserve that wasn't made
071last fiscal year and then the three million dollars that we transferred to our capital improvement plan that we accounted for so when you take those two transfers out we're actually trending at about expense growth about at about the same level oh so i'm going to ask and i don't know if you know this off the top of your head but our we care program had been self-funding and then last year we needed to supplement because of the circumstances of covet has that normalized or are we still seeing that return to normal we are normalizing is what i would say yeah we've actually had a few at a meeting about this last week right mr porter uh you myself mr hammond and uh miss burnett so we're continuing to keep an eye on that continue to
072see that we did budget some subsidy to that in the event that we did but we have not had to do that yet so that will lead to some additional cost savings if we continue to have the numbers that we've been seeing going forward and the expanded meal program is that funded federally it is so we don't have to see and i believe miss picaro was here tonight i saw her earlier she sent me her numbers for last month and they were through the roof and the participation and she's doing that with supply chain issues limited ability to get certain materials and certain foods and but you know she's doing a great job continued does a great job and maintaining our food service program making sure that we're not having to subsidize that in these
073trying times so kudos to her and her team for that so thank you mr caro and she keeps me updated we have a little bit of relationship since we spent so much time last year so she so it's always fun to catch up with miss vaccaro on that thank you yes last thing we are obligated to do a public presentation of some funds that we are going to receive from the federal government in the form of what they call american rescue plan funds or arp funds there are three funds i wanted to make the board aware of that we plan to receive and kind of give a gist of what we're going to use those funds for quickly we have the ida part b special education insurance funds which will equate to 406 thousand dollars
074approximately in funding from the federal government ms bowser oversees those funds and she attends uh intends to use those to assist with mental health needs across the district due to the covenant pandemic as well as the hiring of the two special education teachers and two classroom assistants that i mentioned in my five year forecast presentation again those teachers will be funded through 2024 will come back on the general fund classroom assistants would come back on the general fund in 23 and 24 respectively our ida early childhood education assurances would be approximately thirty thousand dollars in funding and is to assist with the purchase of materials and supplies for our preschool program that we house in the district as well as they'll be utilized to support the salaries and benefits for summer preschool again as mr
075porter alluded to in his presentation providing that enrichment and closing those gaps for students as needed the earlier we can catch students and close those achievement gaps the better it is for our district and i say that with my educational hat on and i'll throw my treasurer's hat back on right after that which allows us to have cost savings in the future because we're able to meet the needs sooner so that's a great use of those funds and lastly we have arp homeless funding round two of about twenty two thousand dollars and this is going to be a well-received funding because we are seeing a slight uptick in our homeless funds our homeless students which with homelessness it is our obligation to transport students from wherever they may be located if they want to attend
076mentor schools and we've seen an increase in that so this 22 thousand dollars will help us offset some of those increased transportation costs that we are seeing as a result of the uptick unfortunately in homelessness across the district so thank you madam president members of the board mr porter for allowing me to share some thoughts on our forecast as well as the monthly financials and complete that presentation that we were obligated to do at this point i would ask for approval of items c through j and addendums uh may be acted on in one motion please so moved second please call the roll mr tuttle yes miss joslin yes mr buckley yes mrs hassan yes miss breiner yes motion carries 5-0 all right all set mr wade yes thank you moving to unfinished business anything
077nothing any new business for the board i don't know if this would be a good time to mention the outstanding job the students and mr cable did on the careertech house that will be auctioned off at the beginning of december i think some open houses are planned it's just beautiful and so so delightful to see it all come together it's a wonderful program and hopefully we will have a presentation on that in the next month or so we will yes thank you all right moving on to hearing of the public on any items anyone good evening amanda alfie 5428 march few lane i have a child at shore middle school thank you sure uh so tonight i just wanna i have a few questions and there's something that i wanted to bring to your attention
078if you're not already aware of it i have a few questions for you and of course a few comments um on relating to those questions um so it's been brought to our attention that there are a couple of different books um in our middle school library um that many of us feel are questionable in nature so [Music] i'll give you that i'm just going to highlight one of them the title of that book is called transphobia deal with it and become a gender transgender again it's transphobia deal with it and become a gender transcender so my questions for you and again if you can't answer these tonight that's fine i i we could follow up if you can follow up with me after the meeting that's that's fine uh my questions for you are one
079were you aware that this this type of book or this book was in our libraries at the middle school level number two um who is in charge of ordering these books that are in our library and all the books in our libraries um and who's in charge of approving of those books number three how does a book a particular book like this align with our curriculum here at mentor schools so those are my questions again if we can't answer those tonight communication after the meeting is is fine but my concern with a book such as this um is that it is really kind of influencing a change in ideology for our some of our students namely those who might not support these kinds of non-traditional lifestyles are targeted really as being closed-minded or even bullies
080in some instances so you know in my mind we're kind of labeling kids negatively that may not agree on this kind of lifestyle and you know i kind of i want to point out that students can disagree with these kinds of things without you know with still showing respect for the for students like this so you know that's certainly what we're teaching our kids at our house um and i don't understand why that can't be the focus kindness and acceptance versus you know making labeling labeling people you know deal with it deal with this well you could say that about anything um so you know again i don't understand why that is not the focus kindness of respect um you know it's my opinion that we should be teaching our kids how to think for
081themselves and not necessarily what to think especially when we're talking about sexual human sexuality and gender issues those we all know those are really divisive topics i don't think it's the school's job to be raising political activists and i think a book like this may tend to do that um so again those are the questions i have i have concerns members of the school board i know you have a big job but i also know that we the people elected you and we the people would prefer that you not abdicate any of your responsibilities to unelected officials going forward as you consider what's happening in our environment at the school i think it's important that we have a finger on the pulse of the events of the school and mr porter's letter that went out
082he said it was an unsupported walkout well if it was unsupported why was it not stop in some manner if it was unsupported i could only assume that it was never disgusted no ground rules were set why would we allow that and we should not be taken by surprise that this happened clearly channel 3 wasn't taken by surprise were they when they played it on the evening news the student vincent miranda slandered an innocent citizen for simply running for school board reading from a document on his phone he named her over and over not you know as ant he not annie payne demonstrated the same things that he said says that he stands against he demonstrated discrimination divisiveness and bullying the school stands against that why was it allowed to carry be carried on like
083this where were the adults that should have been supervising this and stopping this if these are behaviors that we are tolerating in the school god help us all is this an example of what we call a safe learning environment i would say not it sounds to be hateful and hostile so i suggest to start with that vincent miranda must apologize to this citizen annie payne and anybody who was involved in that from an adult perspective who did nothing should join vincent miranda in remedial training on civility america supports equal rights and we but if we continue to give benefits only to the special interest groups then we are violating our constitution so i agree with the lady who stood here before me we must must help our students become purposeful productive citizens they must know
084how to be mutually respectful kind and be able to deal with differences if we don't teach them that then we have failed as a society and this country is too great to allow that to happen and the burden falls on your shoulders please take it responsibly and help us keep this country great thank you thank you yes ma'am hi i'm annie anderson i live at 5951 center street i have three children in the school system i have one at mentor high school and twins at shore okay it's kind of suiting that someone would talk about a book about transphobia because i have a daughter who's transgender at shore middle school and i think it's wonderful that you guys have books that are inclusive that can explain to children because children don't seem to have a
085problem with inclusivity maybe they could bring the whole their books home about transphobia to their parents because transphobia is learned children aren't born hating other children it's a taught thing that they learn at home unfortunately and it affects my daughter who's 12 years old every day on a daily basis so i think i'm sorry that i'm very emotional but my family has been through so much i'm um i grew up in mentor i went to mentor high school my family went to a catholic school here i was raised catholic brought up catholic my daughter had to leave the school because she's transgender so if we start cracking down on people being transgender in our school system where does that leave my daughter to go if nobody has any insight as what it means to be
086transgender and we're not teaching anything about it how are children going to know to be loving and accepting like i've heard from the parents they want their children to be loving and accepting okay well then we lead with education books are around to educate people we do not have books coming out of our library we have more books being brought in about race about sexuality about inclusion about gender identity because minority communities are not going to go anywhere they're going to be here for a long time and they're just going to get more and more diverse more people are standing up more people are learning about what it means to be a real good person and inclusivity my daughter has had a very good experience here at mentor so far she's on a cheerleading team
087she's doing great things she's an a student i would like things to actually if you guys could get a committee for parents like myself i am more than willing to answer any questions i'm never offended by anything i understand people don't understand what it means to be transgender i get that but what i don't understand is hating someone for not understanding who they are i don't understand that so if anybody would like to learn uh on anything what it means to be inclusive if we could get a parent committee together to help some of these kids in the school that are struggling that did this walk out i would be more than willing please call me my name like i said is annie anderson 440 well you know i'm not going to do that thank
088you [Applause] good evening my name is ladonna altmans i live at 5010 brookdale road and i have a student that is here at mentor high school i just wanted to take a moment because i have seen this controversy going on and i felt that it is very important although i do not have a student in this school that is transgender lgbtq plus or of any ethnicity besides being a caucasian white male i think that it is so important for us to i'm sorry i'm an educator myself it is so important for us to be educating our students about the diversity of the people in this world there are people in this world all shapes all sizes all types and by excluding these types of books by not talking about these types of people we are
089telling them that they are not important i understand that many people say they don't want their children reading this if your child has been raised by you your child aligns with your values your child might not want to read this book or is it a fear that your child might want to read this book and not align with your values any longer is that really what it is that you are afraid of our board making decisions like this is what needs to happen for our future to grow we are being closed-minded individuals by not letting our board help make these decisions and whoever it is that purchases these books they see the change happening in the world it's us sitting here fighting you don't want to see the change happening but it is it's too
090late so by discriminating removing these books not talking about these problems that are happening we're not listening to the children that we're teaching school is not just about coming and learning from books school is coming and learning about social interactions the aspects of other people different cultures it is not just coming to learn about the book for many of you i hope you take this away this is the 400th anniversary of thanksgiving this year not the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims coming to plymouth rock the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims killing the native americans at plymouth rock that is what it is i want you to take that and i really want you to think about it when you're celebrating thanksgiving when you're not having an open mind about all the different cultures in america
091thank you [Applause] hi my name is adrian stovall i live at 8334 dartmoor road and i have a child in mentor high school go ahead please thank you um so i wasn't planning on speaking today i was planning on just you know listening and seeing what was going on um i heard a lot of things that were said about one particular event or one particular speaker at um at the walkout and you know that aside there were so many other things that were said there were so many other stories that were told and you know the kids that were up there the kids that were talking kids who were trying to make themselves heard they they were participating in the process that is you know america um we're talking about making sure that our country
092survives you're talking about you know making sure that our constitution is um is preserved and and all of those things then this is one aspect of it that is vital so if if the question is you know is it okay for for these kids to come out here and say the things they need to say to make public statements to talk about situations they think need to be approved then absolutely they do and you know the stance of the school in in that particular event was was neutral you know they weren't condoning it they weren't going to to make it a big deal whether they knew about it or not that's that's something else entirely but i think that giving them the space to do that making sure that they knew that it was okay
093for them to exercise that right that they have to talk about the things that are problems to try to bring them to everyone's attention and to make sure that you know they could have their voices heard and that they could have these very real very vital very difficult situations brought to light in a public way there's there's nothing there's nothing better than that right there's no better way for that to have happened so um i appreciate the statement that was made um in that email i wish it would have gone maybe a little bit farther and and i expressed that to you actually in an email mr potter but i guess what it comes down to is as as we're thinking about what it was that was said even if there may have been an
094instance where there was a child that went ahead and went off the rails and said you know some things that were incorrect let's not let that take away from all of the other things that were stated you know during that time let's not let that take away from the very real problems that these students are trying to let us know that they have thank you [Applause] anyone else hi there my name is christina smelser 8535 hilltop drive i just feel that i have three children here at the high school i just feel like it's necessary for me to stand up and defend my children on behalf of them they sometimes feel like their voice is not heard and we've experienced that several times over the last few weeks you know in regards to the walk
095you know we stood there and we watched it we watched the recordings and and they kind of gave us their opinion of various instances that they're familiar with and from their standpoint they feel like it like gets skewed and i by no means want to take away from the legitimate concerns that were expressed that day or you know the ones that need to be looked into further and um you know definitely investigated further but some of the speakers that spoke my my kids have interactions with on a daily basis and the things that they're complaining about or have com you know complaints about they themselves do on a daily basis towards my kids in the lunchroom and or or their bouts of school and it just seems a little contradictory that the things you're going
096to complain about you're doing yourselves um it's just it's hard for them to accept that all of those complaints were legitimate and and i just i just feel like those that have real concerns i hope that they're bringing them to you and that's something that's being done um you know my kids struggle to feel as though they can support their law enforcement father on a daily basis on a daily basis and they're not ashamed to show the thin blue line um they're called homophobe homophobic on a daily basis and they say why would you call me that when you don't even know anything about me and they say where you wear the thin blue line so you must be homophobic and you know my kids hear that and they're strong enough to understand that that's
097not true of who they are that's not who their character is and it's actually the opposite of what they are and it's it's concerning that you know that's that's a case of bullying they can turn that in and complain and and have a complaint about it if they were to choose but i don't know they're they're they're just raised in a home where we've taught them that we have to hear the things of this world and know that there's they're not always factual and that we have to rise above that and remember who you are in god's eyes and not be concerned with the untruth that spoke to you um and then my daughter i know i have to wrap this up she was faced with an incident of bullying by a teacher for weeks
098in fact it took nine weeks for the decision to be made that she would be pulled from her classroom because discipline action was not taken upon the teacher and it's pretty sad that our senior daughter has to be changing her schedule for the second semester because by her complaining about a teacher repetitively is now problematic for her to get all of her classes in that she has to get in and therefore we as parents have to decide what has to go so that she can graduate on time and get the classes and that she needs to because disciplinary action is refused to be taken by this teacher and it's just it's very upsetting i know i pass my time thank you for listening thank you [Applause] last call may i say something please just just
099to follow up um i was made aware of the book today i'm going to review our processes i know there are varied opinions on that but we learned about that today and certainly we'll look into that and review our processes we also and i might have mentioned some of this when i spoke earlier we knew about the walkout we discouraged it and sent a letter out to the families to the students uh prior to monday we knew then it was still going to go forward and the focus and this has been consistent with other walkouts that we've had over the years some large some small it doesn't happen very often our focus was to keep the students safe and i do know that trying to literally bar the doors i assure you would have made
100things worse so um you know that that's been a consistent strategy of ours if the walkouts going to take place our priority is student safety um and so i just want to at least mention that as a follow-up and we will follow up with a few of you that spoke tonight uh where follow up may be required thank you thank you all right we will entertain a motion to go into executive session to discuss the contract of a public official and evaluation for a public official so moved second please call the role mr buckley yes it's justly yes mr sun yes mr tuttle yes ms bryanter yes motion carries 5-0 we don't anticipate any vote after the executive session thank you