001how are you got some good skills there with those Compu those I call to order this regular meeting of the oand City Schools Board of Education please call the role Mr Stanley Miss Gatson here Miss Garrett here miss tagel here miss AA here thank you keep I will entertain a motion to adopt the agenda so moved second it's been properly moved and seconded are there any additions changes questions discussion hearing none please call the role Mr Stanley yes Miss Gatson yes Miss Garrett yes Miss dagel yes missa yes uh next we have citizens concerns on agenda items do we have anyone sign up here or online to speak of anything that is on the agenda doesn't look like it okay so seeing that there are not are there but they're they're for the citizens concerns
002uh you mean what's it called whatever it is the other section yeah the other section concerns okay uh okay so next we will hear news of note and presentations Dr Hall okay thank you T tonight first I like to honor I wanted to give a huge shout out to our fifth grade boys basketball team here tonight um the basketball team who won the championship thank you all for your support your help and did a great job and also with their coach here as well Mr Chambers did a great job not only coaching the youth program but also coaching our girls team as well and doing a great job with them I I know Mr Chambers like to come up and introduce the students and congratulate them a wonderful thing to do to seem proud with
003their medals a great job [Applause] awesome um when I call your name fifth grade I'd like to come up brayen brown Gavin Gabor all right Chris San f d buan Charlie Cafaro Kingston gains Aiden Jackson Chase Chambers zanen Chambers Colin Wilson Mason polling adak K niski and Julian Barnes wo um I had a help I had assistant coaches uh coach Poland and uh coach nisi that helped me uh my wife I would like to tell the kids uh yay and I like to tell the kids that I'm very very proud of you uh this community is proud of you the way you uh went undefeated for two seasons in a row uhoh all right and uh you guys finish a job uh this wasn't a win for just the boys basketball program this was a
004win for the community uh we had a lot of community support and uh to be a good team and to have support like that uh was really really good and it's what the kids need and that's what this community needs uh but I was very proud of that and uh we all won that game all right so as a community win and the oand win and For You Youth all right thank you good job good job good job good job guys uh we'd like to hand the plaque uh to miss Weber for uh to hang all right we like to just thank we like to thank you Miss Weber also for the support uh the teachers in the community uh these kids are not just athletes they're scholar athletes and they're doing well in school
005and I'm very proud of them by that too all right okay I just want to say thank you for the plaque we're going to hang it in our office so everyone who visit us visits us will get to see it and we're going to take a photo of you to hang along with the plaque and you're starting a new Legacy and new tradition here at OES thank you all [Applause] right nice job thank you thank you m chamers job guys great job gentlemen Chambers um Howard's have done a fantastic job is working with the district far is anything we need from sing to um working with the kids from the girls basketball program youth programs and all over and we like to thank him and his wife and family their dedication to the district as
006well next we have linkston Middle School provide a presentation on some of their clubs that they do within the schools and also their math program as well but um like we're proud of them and I'll turn over to Mrs Hicks can I chime in really briefly I'm so glad to see so many people here if you would like to have a seat I would be happy to take a minute to pause to allow folks who are standing and would like to sit down to take one of the empty seats so you can be comfortable while you're watching okay thanks I just want to make that okay good evening and thank you for the opportunity to present some of our amazing Langston students we've done several presentations over the years and last year I know we
007focused on our Athletics and we focused on some leadership groups and this year we're going to focus on the clubs that the various clubs we have at linkston and we will start with our new clubs and the First new club we have this year is the National Junior Honor Society this is the first chapter of National Junior Honors Society at the middle school and we are very excited to um have this begin there and we have three students presenting hello hello my name is Omar wallon I'm brand new to the district this year and I'm in eighth grade at Langston Middle School I've been very fortunate to be able to participate in many extracurricular activities throughout this school year including academic challenge basketball Mar wi Geography Club principal's advisory Council and currently serving as president
008of our student council recently I was inducted into the first chapter of National Junior Honors Society at Langston Middle School selection criteria include scholarship a minimum of 3.5 GPA service leadership character citizenship and citizenship I'm most excited to take part in our community outreach community service initiatives and our College visitation through this National Junior H Society program I'm really hoping we're able to visit Case Western Reserve because I'm considering attending case for engineering thank you thank you good job hello oh hello my name is Kira I'm in eighth grade at linkston this is my first year at linkston middle school as I'm knew I want to join Junior Honor Society as I heard it was something new and I knew I wanted to do it I joined to learn leadership and I wanted to outreach
009to my community um I am in the following clubs Junior onor Society you belong in ceramic Club I play travel softball School softball soccer bowling and now cross country um I so I wrote about how of the struggles at my old school and how I didn't have many opportunities because I felt left out this school has G me many opportunities to really be myself and have a good education that's all thank you thank you thank you hi my name is Olivia this is my second year at ly Middle School I participate in many activities such as basketball volleyball Junior n Junior National Honor Society and I do cheer I am excited to be able to participate in Langston's First National Honor societ Society to be selected you had to have Community Services Community certif hours
010and Leadership opportunities my community my community service hours were volunteering at my church in the nursery BBS during the summer also you had to meet the pillars that is Junior National Honor Society thank you good job thank you and are there any other Langston students that are part of National Junior Honors Society that are here today raise your hands nice and high awesome all right our next Club our next new club for the year is Geography Club and often times when new clubs get started they are started by the interest of students and students had this interest and shared it with a staff member who was willing to be their volunteer supervisor for the year and you guys are all going to have to use your strong teacher voice so all of us can hear
011you hi my name is Carlos I'm in a sixth grade my name is Max and I'm also in the sixth grade um and we're here to talk about Geography Club Geography Club teaches kids about cultures and places around the world um we cover history alternate history and flags to different countries this club started out by some sixth graders want to start geography Club more people started building on the idea and we've grown into a team and nice Geography Club thank you for listening to us thank you very good thank you good job thank you any other Geography Club members nice all right next Club also started by interest of students is our D and D Dungeons and Dragons Club hi my name is Ava and my name's Connor we're both sixth graders at Langston Middle
012School we created no we both say it at the same time we created D Dungeons and Dragons drag Club because we hope to inspire more people to play and get into the fantasy world DND D is a popular role-play fantasy based World building game DND D allows a lot of design and art and art skills as well these skills in DN are because of character and map and campaign design um it's great for team building the art comes in when drawing a character or a map which helps with skills that apply to classes such as art class or maybe even social studies or language arts um it's also good for planning because when designing your character you must think about um the abilities in case you encounter enemies last d d and d is super
013super fun Super Fun For All to play ages uh with the different aspects of the gameplay nice very good thank thank you good [Applause] job thank you any other D and D club members all right one other back there thank you um those are those are our new clubs for the year but we also have some academic CH competition clubs that have been in existence for a while our first to present is the Ohio Model United Nations put it um my name is Thora and I'm in sixth grade and my name is my name is hero I'm a seventh grader at Langston and I've been and I'm part of model un and the National Junior Society mod is great for a lot of students because it helps with their presenting skills and talking in front
014of people because at the general assembly in Columbus you have to talk in front of two groups one small group of peers and also in front of hundreds of different schools at the general assembly um participating in model un can help develop leadership skills by helping us take charge and establish [Music] Solutions it also encourages teamwork by having different country Representatives work working together to find solutions to real world issues it can teach us problem solvings and we can find problems in the world and work together to prevent and solve the problems during the practicing stages of M they have us research our own C the our own countries and problems in those countries which helps uh students get more aware of the world around them and political issues starting from a young age and
015finally it's also just a lot of fun going to stay at the hotel room overnight and hanging out with your friends during that time and meeting a lot of new people so so thank you thank youc thank you if you didn't notice that was a brother sister team there any other om in people out there Lots awesome all right the next is is our academic challenge team we have a fifth and sixth grade academic challenge team which we only have the linkston students presenting and then we also have the seventh grade seventh eighth grade academic challenge team so first we'll have our sixth grade academic challenge team uh present and then our seventh eighth grade oh did we skip a slide oh it's there okay we're good thank you um hi my name is Louis
016and my name is Shannon and we were a part of the sixth grade academic challenge team I joined academic challenge cuz I wanted to try something new I joined academic challenge to grow my mind and learn and learn new topics uh academic challenge helped me become more knowledgeable on topics that I wouldn't normally study like Olympic facts and the Battle of Le academic challenge made me want to study topics that I wouldn't normally stud uh academic academic challenge is great is a great way to get out of your comfort zone and try new things overall academic challenge is a great club and more people should join thank you hi my name is Ruby kussler and I'm an eighth grader at linkston um I'm very involved in school Community by being a part of Molly one
017serving as a student council vice president playing softball and being on the e8th grade academic challenge team academic challenge is a club where you learn a whole bunch of facts about current events and school subjects along with some random facts like that triskaphobia is a fear of the number 13 we take these facts to a competition with other schools around I think eight other schools compete while while it's fun it also gets very competitive um last year we played third but this year we took home the gold um I joined academic challenge partly because my friends were in it but also because I just want to learn a whole bunch of cool facts thanks and thank you very much other academic challenge participants all right awesome and now time for power of the pen okay
018um hi my name is Alex carner and I am an eighth grader my name is Fallon Vargo and I'm also an eighth grader um and we are from we are representing power of the pen uh Power of the pen is a club where you have 40 minutes to write a short story based off of a prompt that you were given and and at the end um you have the option to share out your story um and our invi our advisor uh Miss Agy will give us uh like positive reinforcement and criticism on our stories and how we can change them and this is in preparation for a contest like towards the middle of the year and if you place in the top 10 in that contest um then you can move on to Regionals and
019actually one of our members um Christina fredenstein uh placed eighth place at the most recent power of the pen and we'll move on to Regionals um I enoy power of the pen because I get to share and build on my own stories I also receive constructive criticism on my drafts so I can learn how to improve on them additionally we get to read out our stories and hear what other people come up with based off the prompt and I joined power of the pen because I have a strong passion for writing and that passion is certainly nurtured in this club um I enjoy it because the like positive reinforcement that we get is um super helpful in helping me shape my writing and also being surrounded by um people that I know like friends um
020is really helpful and getting multiple different views on my writing is helpful thank you good job any other power of the pin I thought we had an audience member part of that but there okay that's better thank you sir all right uh oh sort of okay next we are moving on to our clubs for Visual and Performing Art okay my name is fiser and I joined Art Club because I like to visualize things and uh Express them through ART I'm Camden I joined Art Club because at first I wanted to my friends were in it but then I found out that it can kind of be like fun and we learn new skills and other things Art Club is incredibly special for kids who want to like show their ideas and who want to create
021something that other people can see and uh comment on their art yeah um it's a way like to um Express Yourself kind of to like other people like share your ideas and like um um you can do more art just out of like um school time and you can work on different things that you usually wouldn't do in regular art class good job good job thank you any other art club members all right awesome and then jazz band this is also new for this year come on up jazzband um hi I'm VH Baker um I'm I'm viola poznik [Music] um jazz band is a collection of seventh and eighth graders who participate in concert band playing jazz music together we both joined um jazz band to play more advanced music outside of school hours oops
022oops oops oops um we joined band to play more oh jazz band is since people from multiple grades can play and socialize with each other you can also learn new instruments and uh learn from your peers and Jazz Band which is good it builds uh like teamwork skills that's that's [Music] it thank you any other jazz band members all right thank you now on to our Sports and Athletics clubs first with our weightlifting shout out to our oberin elementary student who just joined in with Colton uh Colton's partner didn't didn't wasn't here this evening and so he snagged uh Mr Brown from the audience so thank you for joining him U my name is Colton and waen oh okay you can oh he's a what grade you he's a fifth grade and I'm in eighth
023grade uh we do weightlifting and um so all right this year was the first year that weightlifting was available for the Middle School the reason uh We join is to get bigger and stronger for football next year uh the workouts we do are upper and lower body workouts uh with um agility we've gotten friends to come to weightlifting with us uh to um get better with us because they're going to be doing football next next year um at the start of the year I could deadlift uh 170 lbs and now I can deadlift uh 225 lbs wow wow all right oh uh oh he forgot what uh he could do at the start of the year but now he can do uh 185 lbs so wow all right good job yeah very impressive John thank
024you very much any other weightlifters okay Ski Club oh Ski Club okay anyone want to join Nina okay my name is Nina and I'm in sixth grade I'm part of the ski snowboard Club thank you it has been a really fun experience for me since I joined in fifth grade I joined because I love skiing in the cold weather skiing snowboard Club has allowed me to meet new people and step out of my comfort zone skiing snowboard Club is an amazing opportunity for anyone to try something new gain independence while on the slopes without adults and to just get out of the house and spend time with friends thank you Nina any other ski club members all right I see one back there and then the last clubs for today are s Service clubs starting
025with yearbook club and so the service clubs they provide a service to the school like yearbook creating the yearbooks for others to purchase and then we'll end with Student Council planning activities for students my name is Reagan and I am in eth grade I've been doing yearbook for 3 years in yearbook we take pictures and vote for designs and build the yearbook I joined because it sparked my interest and I wanted to make a contribution to the school's yearbook with my own ideas and creativity yearbook Club has helped me know more people in the school in the school being in your book helps create a lasting product that could be shown to represent Langston culture thank you my name is travel I'm in seventh grade and I'm just one of the many valued members of
026yearbook I joined yearbook cuz I felt like my photo my photography and photo editing skills could be you to be put to good use here I do a lot of things involving page editing photography and sometimes even designing pages and honestly when my days in Middle School are over I think I might want to do it in high school yeah [Applause] aome any and then student council any other yearbook people out there okay and student council come on down hi my name is Samir Brown and I'm part of student council hi hi I'm Chase and I'm new to the district um I joined student council because I wanted to be involved in the activities here at linkston the reason why I join student council is to know more more people since I'm new and it's
027the my other school is kind of hard to like make friends cuz everyone was just like wild and was kind of everywhere in student council we plan dances and fundraise for our activities I'm going to be talking about spirit week because it's like something that's fun to do during the weekdays it's just something to like be looking forward to just like it's just fun every single day when spirit week is around one thing I like about student council is the people that are in it and the things we do any other student council members all right so those are some of the clubs a couple of them that that we didn't share this time because we discussed in the leadership presentation um last year was the pack any pack members out there and also you
028belong any you belong and so those groups shared last year when we were talking about student leadership um as some of the students especially our new students mentioned it does these clubs that meet after school do a lot to help students feel a sense of belonging in the school and one of the things we've done in the building to try to encourage and celebrate um students participating in school activities is we have these um Locker po posters on each locker with stickers of for each student's Club affiliation and so all students at Langston have one of those Locker signs on their lockers any questions for our students before they all right I just want to say thank you so much for all coming out I know it's hard to get up at a board meeting
029and talk to people people you don't really know and and it's really great having you come out to our meetings is the best part of being on the school board good job I Echo that thank you very much students and [Applause] families so again as we transition if you're standing and would like to have a seat please come take an empty seat if you're going to remain with us for the rest of the meeting was bunch of kids like thank all our students who participated and came um very important for to joining clubs that's our part of Social and also the academic development and I'm also happy that we have um students that's doing both in multiple tasks at the same time we also like to thank our teachers as well because they're very very
030instrumental in helping being advisers for those clubs and spend long hours with our students after school before school Saturday Sunday he's doing competitions with them and they put the time in with them as well and also like to thank our parents for um picking them up for long different hours or dropping them off um various places for us and encouraging them to participate as well so thank you next we're going to have our math intervention and enrichment presentation here from Mrs Hicks thank you and so I was asked to provide an update about the choice to shorten lunch and recess at linken to add a math intervention and enrichment period And so move on to the next slide and get right in it why math intervention and enrichment so first what does the data say
031um our Ohio state test data show that 100% of our students who took Algebra 1 were proficient and so we definitely celebrate those two 22 students who were in Algebra 1 last year and while we celebrate that um only 69.2% were proficient in Geometry 40% proficient in 8th grade 34 proficient in seventh grade math and 36.8% proficient in sixth grade math so that alone shows the need for um some extra support in math and in addition to the math intervention and enrichment periods we also adopted a new math curriculum last year and have been well for this year we adopted it last year um this is our first year using it and we've we've um spent some extra time meeting as a as a math department and strengthening our program already we have some excellent
032teachers working really hard in math and just trying to figure out exactly what our students need and what's going to help them be successful is what we're all working on together um in addition to that if you go back the school report card data shows that Langston earned only two out of seven points for math achievement and only in zero out of seven points for math growth and these graphs help show a little bit more about what those numbers mean and so those seven points um that we're looking to earn learn are in the categories of all students multi-racial students students with disabilities black non-hispanic students white non-hispanic students Hispanic students and economically disadvantaged so with the math achievement the two points earned there were white students and um black non-hispanic students where you can
033see that um for example about about 79 to 80% work expected to be proficient and 88% were proficient and then the other place we met it where 52.8% of black students were expected well no about 50% of black students were expected to be proficient and 52.8% were um over here where you see the math growth Index this is the um somehow the state puts together a formula that determines um the growth that students should make in a year and you can see as a whole group that our growth index showed that um students did not make the expected growth last year in any of the categories and so that data alone let us know that we needed to do something different with math again um we have excellent Math teachers at linkston working really hard
034and we are trying to figure out exactly what our students need so why math intervention and enrichment I just shared the why so how's it going and this chart if you look at that first um so students either receive during the intervention enrichment period they're either receiving tier 2 or tier three intervention or enrichment so this shows that 25% of our sixth grade students are receiving en enrichment which means 7 75% are receiving intervention that's a large number of students who need that 28% in seventh grade which means 32% or 72% are receiving intervention and 70% of students in eighth grade are receiv receiving intervention as 30% are receiving um enrichment and so there's a lot of data on there I'll give you a second to look at and think if you have any questions
035um but how's it going so our I ready state test projections already show a 19% increase in proficiency from Fall the winter if no additional growth is gained so if students don't do anything else this year our I ready state test projections are already saying that 19% of students will um perform proficient and if they meet their typical [Music] growth it's 25% % increase excuse let me excuse me excuse me excuse me can I I'm talking to you I don't I'm sorry I don't know your name ma'am this is a board this is a board meeting can you can we please move the board back this this meeting is for the board I'm I'm I'm trying to address you but it's fine so we need to be able to see it that's all I'm saying
036is that better okay you can yeah it's fine and you can are you guys all able to see yeah okay um 17 out of 26 I don't know if I finish that first bullet um if students make the typical growth we've already seen a 25% increase in proficiency um projection for the state test um 17 out of 26 grade students on Intervention plans made progress or met goals 33 out of 38 7eventh grade students and 26 out of 31 Eighth grade students 62% of sixth grade students in math enrichment made 100% progress toward their annual typical growth 79% of seventh graders and 50% of eighth graders and so while we know that there's still much work to do we feel like we're headed in the right direction I'm sorry I had a question on that
037last uh what is Alex Alex is a self-paced part of our math curriculum and so it is geared towards each student so students um work on Alex at the beginning of the year so it finds a level of where they're at and it continues to track their progress and give them work that is where they are at their skill level and teachers can also assign specific things um assignments or standards that they're either working on in class or if they see a gap they can assign them directly to students and and can you what are the Alex numbers what do those numbers mean so 47 out of 55 um sixth grade students are using Alex at some point throughout the week and 59 out of 64 seventh graders use Alex and 61 out of 66
038eighth graders use Alex sometime throughout the week and how do you decide who uses Alex and who doesn't so some of the students who have specific tier two interventions or tier three interventions might not use that they might use the I ready pathway instead and actually if you look at the I pathway at the bottom you can see that that makes up the difference of the Alex so all students have a personal path it's either the Alex or the I ready pathway they also receive tutoring I'm sure from teachers interventions things like that most of the Alex happens during they they have two Library rise times one is focused on reading where students are working on independent reading and the other they're on the computers doing Alex and then the other four days of the
039week are primarily direct instruction from a teacher and that's what they're doing during this additional yes so why shorten the lunch and recess period uh the first reason we have a packed schedule we have 43 minute class periods and we certainly don't want to shorten um that time for instruction we had last year four core classes and four non-core classes and so and one Ela and intervention period And so our non-core classes equaled as you see our core classes so Langston has a lot of specials we have three a day um each student and we don't you know that's great we don't want to lessen those or shorten those but it definitely you know you can see that there is no other time in the day um to find a time for intervention um District
040comparison it just made sense OES has 35 minutes for lunch and recess combined LMS now has a 30 minute lunch and recess and Os has a 25 minute lunch and so where before we had a 43 minute we were able to shorten that down to 30 um also part of that decision in my conversations with um other admin throughout the district and even new students who come to linkston who are often surprised that we have a recess um just wanted to to look a little bit more into what everyone else is doing around the county and um of those eight schools that I surveyed most have 30 minutes or less for lunch with no recess and up to double or triple the amount of students and you can see that information in more detail on
041the next slide so where linkston has a 30- minute lunch period for 67 students in its largest um lunch period and a combined recess um Westwood Middle School has a 30-minute lunch pre re Lunch Period serving between 200 to 250 students in that lunch period with no recess Fireland had a 31 minute lunch period with about 140 students in each lunch period with no recess Avon had 26 minute lunch periods with 150 plus students in each lunch period with no recess Long Fellow had 30 30 minute lunch periods serving between 100 and 150 students in each lunch period with no recess Midview had a 24 minute lunch period 200 minutes 200 students in each lunch period with no recess Brookside 35 minutes 259 students no recess Amhurst 29 minute lunch period about 280 students with
042a combined lunch period in that 29 minutes Keystone had the closest to what we used to have with a 22-minute lunch and about 60 students in each Lunch Period and a 22-minute recess so how's it going um all students are sitting and eating within 3 minutes of the start of Lunch Period so previously students would come into the cafeteria and wait until um the monitors would signal for them to start eating and now because of the short timed students um come in immediately after their last class period and enter in the cafeteria right away and begin getting served right away um and so within 3 minutes everyone is sitting and everyone is eating and of course lunch is the period that students are most anxious to get to on time so they are not late
043students also have a choice to remain in the cafeteria for the entire Lunch Period or spend part of the time at recess and so after about 10 to 12 minutes um the cafeteria monitor will signal if students have finished eating that they can go outside or to the gym or they can remain in the cafeteria for the rest of the time if they want lots of students choose to stay in the cafeteria to eat longer even after they're eating students will stay in the cafeteria to socialize in there and then the majority of students will eventually choice to choose to go to the gym gym or outside because of this new schedule there are different recess options um with this new schedule the gym is now open to all grade levels for recess where that
044wasn't a possibility before because there were classes in the gym during lunch periods now this opened up with the intervention BLS and the lunch periods for the gym to be open and so students always have a place to run and play um plenty of of outdoor space and activities when the outdoor is open and we also put board games in the cafeteria for students choosing to remain indoors um the only concerns that I have heard from students or it is the expectation that recess is outdoors at 20 degrees or higher um when I surveyed the last time students went out at 20° most of them are outside without coats it's not because they don't have coats it's because they won't wear coats they we've given them out um lots of them and I'm like where's
045your coat didn't wear it didn't bring it and so middle school students don't want to wear coats and um when we went out on the 20° weather most many of them stayed in the cafeteria that day and when I asked them if they would be in the gym if the gym was open they said yes we'd be in the gym but they didn't want to go outside um new equipment is often needed but I you know we purchase some at the beginning of each year and then I have keeps half of it for the middle of the year um we're closer to when when the weather's nice we'll pull those out again and we are now down one microwave so we need another microwave and that was one of the things that helped lunch go
046by faster is we put another microwave and we're back down to two so if anybody has an extra microwave they want to donate to Langston will take it thank you Dr Hall you'll have one tomorrow thank you awesome awesome all right I think that's is that the last slide slide all right any questions yeah so you already said this but I'm sorry I missed it at how like what how much time transpires before they say you can go outside for recess about I would say about 10 to 12 minutes she tries to make sure that most students have finished eating because we do know that there are students who desire fun more than eating and so she tries to make sure that most students have finished eating not all but most and when most students
047have finished which is usually at about 10 to 12 minutes she'll say if you're done eating and you want to line up go out to recess you can line up at this time and students don't have to just go out at that time if they finish three minutes later they can go out then so they're allowed to go to recess and join the recess whenever they're finished eating and we have some students who never do they always want to be inside with their group so they can't go before that though it has to be no they can't go before the 10 10 minutes minimum usually about the 10 to 12 minutes is when she calls it and is the reason they don't go in the gym when it's 20 degrees outside just because they have
048to choose Outsiders they're not a monitor so some could go outside and some could stay inside there is the there is an expectation somewhere that if it's 20° we have to go outside and if students are not outside on 20° I get an email from a parent that says why weren't they out it's 20° and they should be outside even though it's wet and messy and sometimes I take the hit I'm like we're not going out today I know it's 22 but I just walked out there and it's super slippery so if I get the email I'll deal with it then but the gym is open the gym is always open and the students are like please can we go to the gym and I'm like nope we can't we're going to go outside because
049that's the expectation so any help on that if that doesn't need to be the expectation that would be great if if our lunch monitors are allowed to make that decision for the safety and well-being of students that would be great I guess the question and maybe it was answered I'm sorry I'm all over the place is what I'm thinking about but so there's no option for them to choose the gym and outside no because we only have one we have two monitors one stays in the cafeteria and one goes outside the recess and so the and so it's either outside or the gym if we have more monitors could we it depends on so so I guess the question is and I did look for it to see if there was a policy that said
050we had to go out if it was 20 degrees or higher um and the message I get is that if it's 20 degrees or higher students should be outside and if they're not then we're getting an email about it so so that so that would be and I don't know if that's a policy I couldn't find it but it definitely is an expectation somewhere who is sending this email I don't want to say that but I'll talk I'll talk to actually they included you I think on the email a Community member yes so I would I would second what uh you know what would it take to have one more can I just pause for a second are you not able to hear us is that what you're saying okay can we talk into the
051microphone so that we can yeah uh the question is what what would it take to have one more monitor for those three periods I I guess an hour and a half so they could choose between the gym and the and outside um that I guess would be for you all to decide uh but I can just say that most students When I Survey them I do have the numbers um said they would choose the gym so I think if we if hiring another monitor would not necessarily be the option because we certainly want to be outdoors if the weather is nice and beautiful and all things are right um that's where we would prefer students to be there's more space there's more activities but when it's wet and I and I'm slipping or the ball
052is splashing water on us and I can't go to the field because it's muddy um they choose to be in the gym now to be the challenge is um a lot of our students will choose go in the gym whether it's 30 or 40 even 50 or 60 degrees they may want to stay inside but we want to give them that opportunity to go outside as well um and something we can talk about far as getting you know the monitoring there and set them some guidelines where okay if it's 60° out we're just going to go outside or inside for a certain time we will always be out at 60 so so had the gym open I'm sure kids will they they might but they I think it's the weather if it's if it's nice
053out and yeah they they would rather be outside if the weather it's when it's cold and yucky that they don't want to be outside well it seems like if we have the option then that might address the complaint because the answer would be they can choose that's what I said if they're not outside but with what you just described to us it was I I either can let them be outside or I can keep them in and have them go to the gym because you don't have the Staffing right to let them choose so I think maybe that I mean and we don't know what the Silver Bullet is I mean we're just trying but I think if we have options then you at least your answer will be the kids chose to be inside
054and maybe they're few kids outside we we'll take as many monitors as we can get inside or outside so the bottom line that I hope I hope folks understand is this was you know this decision to shorten recess um and lunch was not halfhazard it wasn't without great thought it was made out of great need um we have a great need to um strengthen student Proficiency in math there was no other place in the schedule to find that time and this was this was the option um available to us one of the areas we identified as an opportunity for the district is math area and that's a K12 piece with math that we identified as an area of um concern or area that we can improve on is math so I comp U thank you
055for trying to address those issues ESP the teachers too of trying to address those issues also like the community and the board to know too that students are actively engaged during that time period while they're doing um those intervention periods they're not just sitting here on computer mindless but they're actually doing some activities while they're there and our teachers are there help guiding them through that process yes and because we have for each intervention group all three grade levels of Math teachers um an intervention specialist and other core subject areas are available to each grade level of students so the numbers are very small in some cases five um 6 10 very manageable numbers to for students to be able to have that intervention thank you sorry one more question that's okay um I know
056when that all the teachers in the district have had extra um reading what's the word I'm looking for professional devel yeah professional development so have all of the teachers had extra math professional development we are working on building that now so literacy obviously from the grants the literacy grants that we have has been a focus in the district and there's been a really strong push on literacy all teachers in the district um have literacy standards regardless of what subject you teach and so in that aspect um we could provide District ypd on um Ela standards but we definitely realize the need for more professional development on math definitely opportunity thank you thank you thank you Miss X next we have a presentation by avi avi is our food services um organization that provide um food
057for our students and also for events and they would like to provide an update on how they're doing within our school district thank you like to thank you all first of all for having us here tonight um it's good to kind of get out in front of you guys and give you an update on what's going on um I'm Matt Phillips I'm your resident director here I manage the day-to-day operations uh standing behind me right here is Jennifer hoen she is our district manager she provides support with whatever we might need uh Jody's our regional manager and then we got Chris Garbin our new vice president uh Jennifer jod and Chris are all new to the district uh we're seeing a lot of positive changes coming from them so it's very nice um Jennifer Curry's
058our compliance manager she deals with the audits we go through every 5 years uh Miranda's our dietician she plays a huge role in what we do here uh you'll hear more about her later Jeff is our uh vice president of culinary uh he deals with all of Avi uh he's really stepped up this past year or two and started playing a big role in K through 12 and then we have Carrie Isabelle our vice president of marketing she put puts all the fun stuff like you see over there on the wall uh together for us and the cafeteria is full of fun food service facts for the students to read um our Oberlin team we have one of the best teams I think that we could ask for here at the school uh I help
059out at quite a bit of other schools and we're truly blessed here I I love to say that about our staff um I've spent a lot of time in Food Service I'm over 20 years now I've managed most places I've been at and the one thing you can't teach that this staff has is they care and it's hard to find a staff that cares and we're blessed to have that here um student engagement activities these are what we were just talking about with the stuff on the walls uh foodie friends is what you'd see in the cafeteria if we were able to go in there fun little story promotions about healthy foods and uh stuff that tells you about the health uh nutrition and uh try to encourage kids to eat things like broccoli that
060they normally wouldn't want to try um U thank you this is just an example of what you would see on the left is the foodie friends that's more of what we're going to see at the elementary school and on the right is more what you're going to see at the middle in high school uh a little more in-depth facts for the high school students a little bit more fun stuff for the elementary kids um this is our dietitian again Miranda um she's going to be out here next month doing a food sampling for all the students here to try and in uh introduce them to new things I think we're going to be bringing in different flavored hummuses for the students to try this year um along with different vegetables to dip the hummuses in
061to try and encourage kids to eat vegetables maybe hummus will be that thing that pushes them over the edge um developing our staff this is something that my staff just went through last week uh surf safe training is a very in-depth 16 hour hour course on how to properly serve food how to uh take temperatures how to make sure studs stored properly um this is something all of our staff goes through here uh to ensure we're safe food and nobody ever gets sick and we don't have any outbreaks in our district uh Community engagement is something we're big on here we do a lot with uh overin Community Center um say we're going on Christmas break we have a bunch of food left over that's going to go bad all of our food goes to
062them to uh distribute throughout the community so it's a great program we have with them and a great way to make sure nothing goes to waste uh this is new this year this has been very exciting we got a $25,000 Grant from the state to provide fresh vegetabl our fruits twice a week to all the students here and we actually just received another $20,000 on top of that so we have try it Tuesday and fresh fruit Friday where we bring in all sorts of different things from Golden watermelon raspberry strawberri celery cucumbers to give the kids a chance to try something they might not normally get to try and we've had pretty good success with that so far this year the kids seem to really enjoy it and there's a little more information on try
063it Tuesday the thing that kind of surprised me is a lot of kids actually really enjoyed celeries or radish coins which I would have never imagined um and that's it anybody have any questions just a quick update for you guys because I'm curious how it's going with the cost of food has just increased exponentially it's not pretty um with the c program too that kind of adds to it it's nice to feed every all the kids here for free but it does come with a little bit of an added cost we're going to try and reapply this year if our numbers are better and see if we can get a better rate for next year and I do have that number that you been wanting if you want to talk about that later oh yeah
064great thank you any other questions anything I can do for you guys all right thank you thanks good job like to thank you for all your help AVI has been a phenomenal job um St had a good idea during our policy meeting for um food of choice Sushi maybe sometime so I'm down to that there's actually a lot of fun stuff with like fruit sushi that we could try here one day maybe with our uh food samplings do some fruit Sushi you said fruit Sushi yeah yeah that's cool would let us know when that is I'll let you know thank you try it board members thank you thanks Avi moving along right along with our announcements we do have facilities update we will have Mr iel here for a facility update for us and for
065the distri skipped over we going to do that I was going to do that the board do the board section okay thanks no that's fine sorry okay jumping ahead that's good so uh good evening folks uh this evening Let's uh I'm gonna hold off on this for a minute I've got three things tonight okay uh first Eastwood facility update about Eastwood as you know the last month I uh described that they it was reson to R2 which is what our request was so moving forward with uh so that officially the Oberland Land Trust will end up with the property so uh we're working with our attorneys as you know to uh try to work out a three-way deal so that again it it becomes housing that Oberland needs that we want for our community so
066we hope by this summer that it's completely transferred and so we're still again working through that and we'll continue to provide updates on Eastwood quick question so I know in our last version of trying to sell this property we actually had a contract in the contract it said you're going to turn this into residential housing are we going to have that again we're working off that same contract with new names okay and and re redoing those so yes I see thank you yeah for sure so and the land trust as to what they do as housing pieces so um I think we're looking at deadline maybe March or June some or probably June and of June sometime or we're still working with on that so next next couple months here hopefully find some new information
067out and I don't know if I cut you off before you went there but are you going to talk about what their plan is I I am not I'm not yeah I'm not versed enough to speak on what their plan is sorry uh point two uh we know that the the new Middle School uh is progressing as far as um ideas for what the new middle school will be where it will be one of those uh hurdles we have to jump through is providing a site map a site plan to the city with the idea of where we're thinking about the location of the middle school because the city wants to give input on uh traffic patterns pedestrian patterns uh utilities so all the City Utilities everybody looked at our idea of where we would
068like to have the Middle School um that could still function next to the high school for now until eventually you know that we end up with a a 612 facility so um the site plan is nowhere near detailed and finished this was something that we were looking for feedback from from the City Planning Commission because they do have to approve it but it's not U set in stone with us at that at this point so they gave us some ideas for some revisions but I think that's what created quite a bit of Stir of stir in the community as people must watch M Mr R we to cut you off too the plan commission we have to understand that um we hate showing pictures yes because once we show photos then it becomes that's what
069it is just like pictures of new school we show pictures of school but those are just designs and we're in a planning stage we're not ready for at least a year to do any kind of construction whatsoever there will be no equipment moved on that site for a year the plans that we have currently now has been changed 20 times we changed it today so what do you see is just a concept um of what we thought may work whatever then we go back to the Architects and tell them look um one of the things we identified was the road at top was is it close to the Memorial Park is and we told him that we w we don't want it closer to mare with the park um can we move it is that
070possible so what do you see here is not the final drawing it is still under development um but we had present something to everyone else and you'll see from now until um the next seven eight months even while we're doing construction different drawings of the site but they're always developing you'll see the parking here for the um High School area that's if we have funding so can that change yes can anything in the back area change absolutely so will this road right here is guaranteed and concrete is going to happen no it will change so is not concrete is it close to the area absolutely we've told them several times that the Memorial Park is there the Memorial Park is there and we also told them about the trees we told them about different areas
071about the retention pond so we wanted the community to understand too the drawing you see is not the final drawing we're a year away from anything it takes three years to build a middle school so right now we're in a plan design stage and Mr iel certainly can probably give some ideas of things that are changing I know we had our um our shed that we wanted because we have to move our um our maintenance shed that has moved already three times it moved from one area to back here to over here to over here so that is still being moved so I don't want anyone get stuck on a picture it's we hate showing the photos so I just want a community to know that if I could just jump in one second so
072one in a board meeting the only time that the audience can speak is during the public comments section I just want everybody to know that so you'll have a you can't hear okay we we yeah just let us know um so just one thing though you said move it at one point in your conversation there what do youer you saying the road move it the road cuz we have to be clear with what we are saying we are saying currently now sorry take your microphone with you n we are currently saying that hold on you're still Twisted you're still do you're still in uh you're still in yeah here you go you're good we are saying currently now this can go down to the South this can reroute this way this road can actually be
073eliminated we looked at Creekside to go through this road can move this way this road can but we have to work with whatever utilities underneath we're not sure where utilities are underneath we're not sure how close this road can be to this road we're not sure of any of these things yet but one this is just a concept of okay fine we don't want to interrupt the trees the nature we don't want to interrupt those things so what we do is they have to go back to the drawing board to The Architects and tell them once again hey they work for us you maybe need to move it down is it possible to move it down is there something underneath there we're not sure but we tell the Architects what we need and we keep
074going through the process of changing things so to make it clear is this could come down this could move over but you also have to make a curve enough so we can get um fire trucks through can that happen and that's what something emergency vehicle got to come through there I don't know what the radiuses have to be but Architects do so they would actually come and say okay got to be this route got to be here but this is something they showed like I said why I hate the pictures is a concept and we'll go back to them and tell them look is this road right here because when I first looked at it I was thinking is will it hit the Memorial Park wasn't quite sure and Jim and I both talked about
075it too at the same time will it hit Tom moral Park we're not sure but we do know that's an interest too we also have this area here we know parking is a problem this is depending on whether we have um enough funding for the parking pieces this right right here may change so all these things may change as well but we're a year away from any vehicles coming through anywhere and and just so you know so you get an idea I think you know what you're looking at but this is the current high school with the with the circle in front this is the location the proposed location of the middle school off the back with a little Breezeway to connect for now um we're looking at the bus entrances possibly on this side
076for Bus drop off on this side uh so they need a construction entrance of course as they're building this for trucks to come in and out of the property so that's what this proposed road is and if you're laying base to get heavy trucks in it makes sense to end up Paving it eventually like they did with ringroad the old track so uh this Northern Drive is what they're looking at for using for a construction entrance and when it was drawn it was just drawn straight across and we understand again that the Memorial Garden is right here it's a clump of trees right here we have aerial photos so uh we know that that's there uh again we've given our desires to make sure whatever we have to do to get around it to have
077discussions about it to make sure that that's uh we do our best to keep that intact or if something has to happen with it that we have some discussion as a community and you know we obviously have stakeholders who have a great deal of uh emotional attachment to that Garden so we need to make sure we honor the people that are in there and you know we aren't just plowing it up and sorry cuz because we happen to be a road is it told I hear what Dr Hall says about not really wanting to show pictures but is it possible to just Mark the Memorial Park on the designs yes I mean we can yep we can ask certainly that way we all know yep and have the have the Architects can draw those for
078sure in yep so that was that was my third point was that there's been uh discussion lots of people watch the planning committee meetings I guess so uh and and again those are not set in stone at all uh we did another aerial photo we do have and again the clump of trees is is just right there with that where it's showing that there's there's a road going through so please don't take that as that's where it's going to be we understand and as Architects zes they're architects who don't know the whole history and call everything with it so they I'm sorry they're Architects so they don't know the history and everything else with it so they're drawing a road straight through and we tell them the the Memorial Park is over there so yes
079it's a good idea for them to Circle be more specific with it but they view it as if hey Road's coming through here we bring in vehicles through here that's their mindset of we know we have to have another Point that's what it's going to be and they'll adjust it and we would have liked better drawings actually we got a lot of feedback on on things we left out that the TDA turned in so again TDA has been great for us but as far as the detail that was in this uh site plan uh we could have we could have done a little bit better with that so uh we talked about two-way traffic there were a lot of things who didn't necessarily show pedestrian traffic so and they didn't they weren't even sure where
080the students were going to come into the building and buses so all that will again we'll take those revisions and and move forward with them that was all I had any questions U like I said we're a year away from any construction happening I think everyone see drawings think they over the summer we're going to be doing some major construction that's not going to happen right now we're going to have the same the fills for the fall we're still going to be playing soccer there um you know we're going to finish up our baseball season here those things are still happening we're we're not going to do anything until 20 was 25 26 2026 March 26 March 26 okay any questions could a member of the media ask a question so again excuse me excuse
081me excuse me I appreciate you so much for being here like I said this is a school board meeting there are rules on how it is run you are welcome to make a comment or ask a question during the public section if you would if you have already so thank you thank you Mr Ral all right thanks guys thank you okay any questions from the board thank you um couple more announcements like to make one more a couple more announcements is um Eco Olympics that's coming up so we' like to thank our staff for working with the city and the college as well on making sure Eco Olympics happen again um tomorrow the district will be hosting Eco Olympics Community kickoff from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday February 26th inside Overland elementary school gymnasium
082that is when we have various um organizations will be there um from solar to um collecting glass to all different other areas they may have in there at the same time for the community come in so that'll be an event tomorrow um welcome all our community members to attend and that'll be here this our second time we did did that event and it has been very successful and like encourage our family members to um come out during that time period um I'll also like to make a couple more announcements um I know there also will be a a March 11th at Orland high school media center Mr zillich our athletic director will host an Orland athletic history Community Forum they will discuss athletic banners and trophies I know that's been on social media so that
083is um March 11th we changed the meeting because um a snow date we had and so the new date is March 11th 6 to 7:30 at OS media center and they'll discuss the banners and trophies then with alumni with um collaboration with the community um immigration update the district coordinated and train our staff on some of the new immigration guidelines the training was facilitated by AL Central the training was conducted to ensure all of our staff members are familiar with new guidelines for immigration we had staff um they actually did two trainings one for administrators and one for staff members so all our staff members did a train on February 14th and on the 12 our administrators train as well during that time they also had restorative practices training um our staff members from our
084bus drivers to teachers to administrators um ex continued our restorative practices training for everyone on restorative practices are strategies for building and repairing relationships and solving conflict those areas that we one of the building initiatives or District initiatives we've been working on and I like to final one we like to announce on agena um is a contract for agon leadership to update our strategic plan the district strategic plan was developed in 2018 with the assistance of over 30 community members and osba to facilitate the process the district has been updating and monitoring our goals yearly but at this time that that we need to review our district vision mission goal values and strategic pillars we'll do that in June and invite the community members in we'll have a daytime and also afternoon time set up
085so that we'll have um more of an opportunity for community members to come in um agon leadership has done this before in the past to other districts and they will assist us in the process of updating our strategic planning long update but um this concludes my report awesome okay so before I actually request uh a motion to approve the items on the board items I wanted to start with first a recognition of school board member Dr Ken Stanley and you probably do you would you stand while I talk about you or would you rather thank you so uh unfortunately ly for us the board members and the community as a whole Dr Stanley has decided to step down as a school board member he has many things going on in his life that he is
086going to turn his attention to and we want to take this time to recognize all that he has done for the community and what he has done on this school board and there's many many things so I'm going to try to highlight the things that I know um from the impact that they've had on me uh as a school board member one I mean this is his 13th year as a school board member uh he's been quite dedicated to these schools far beyond that and I can tell you that because my children have benefited from everything that Dr Stanley has done to help kind of supplement the education that the children were getting in the schools my kids did the the de booys project I forget the exact name of it but I remember the
087soccer math camp for sure uh they did that straight the youngest one did that straight out of the gate and my children are 26 and 22 so that's just a little a little example of how long Dr Stanley has been committed to our community and he's always focused on math education and trying to make it fun so that kids could understand that they could be good at math uh he also does a great job of making sure that girls know that they can be good at math and students of color know that they can be good at math and I think that's particularly important yes uh for the contribution that he has made as a school board well you've actually even taught in the schools right as a as a a substitute or as a
088teacher both yeah that's what I thought okay so both substitute teaching and so this is a person who has rolled up their sleeves in every role that they could think of to try to serve our community so that's wonderful and then as a school board member he has been phenomenal on our finance committee and helping us be smart and strategic about funding these buildings that we very much need and so we've been very fortunate that while we try to move forward in this process which we see it's not easy you know there's always Growing Pains uh Dr Stanley has made sure that we've been very fiscally responsible which is like the primary role of a board right on any for any organization so we really really appreciate that from you uh and that you gave
089us that we hope that you will continue to serve in some capacity with our finance committee I don't know how plausible that is but I'm putting that out there and we just want to thank you so very much for the time that you have given to us to our children to our district and we have this plaque for you that says in grateful appreciation for your years of service on the oand City School District Board of Education and to the children of Oberlin Kendall Stanley 20202 to 2025 as a school board member thank you very much all right moop around and take a picture W put me in that [Applause] picture okay well I just like to say that it's been a real honor to to be a part of this school system um we
090have terrific teachers dfic administrators terrific um superintendent and Treasurer um all the way all the way through our staff um and yeah let let kids enjoy math all right we would we would like to get a picture with the whole board with you Dr Stanley right now it'll just be little two good [Applause] [Music] okay so now I will entertain a motion to approve board items A and B so moved second it's been properly moved and seconded the board items a is approval of the January 28 2025 regular session minutes uh Item B is approval of the 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 academic calendars are there in any questions comments discussion I just wanted to say thank you for all the teachers that got together to work on the academic calendars we've made some slight
091changes this year to accommodate learning for the students and um I appreciate all the thought that went into that anyone else okay hearing no other comments please call the role Mr Stanley yes Miss Gatson yes Miss Garrett yes Miss tagel yes Mr mea yes next I will entertain a motion to approve treasurer's item a so moved second it's been properly moved and seconded Bob okay for January we um ended the month with 20,1 184,185 54 in outstanding checks and we had in transit $424,990 67 cents um in transit from our general fund to the payroll account to make the January 3rd payroll since that was a first business day after the first um I would like to also thank my staff because I was on a cruise when this happened and they were able it
092made me feel good that they were able B to close without me so first time in 27 years I haven't had a computer with me on vacation so good A little frightening I froze up a little bit on Monday morning but my wife got me through it so it was a good feeling um interest for the month we ended um for January we had $ 51,470 54 bringing our grand total of interest for the year to $469,999 38 um our month to date on the fiveyear forecast is showing that we've brought in a little over 400,000 more than we did last year at this time we've expensed close to um $1.1 million more than we did the year prior but most of that again is because of money going away and us moving expenses instead
093of cutting staff we kept the positions that we increased over the three Co years so um we are projected right along the projections that I currently have and the finance committee did meet and we are updating our November five-year forecast and we will have another meeting in April to finalize that and bring that to the board in May so um any questions on the fiveyear forecast month to date spending okay all funds um biggest thing is that um we will be moving money in March um the Nexus money once we find out what those are I still don't have those numbers from the county auditor but those monies will go into the building project fund um which should bring that balance close to $4 million um the bond Levy fund again we are paying architect
094fees out of that now so that is why you see that fund shrinking when it has been only growing from the interest but we are paying Architects to design the building so that that's the expenses coming out of there other than that all the other funds are running um I know Miss Deo you brought up about lunch room and food costs are really driving it our food costs are up probably close to $10,000 a month from what they were running previously so um and we're getting less than um Federal funded Commodities so so that that that negative amount is growing a little bit um we're actually when you look at it we're actually doing better than we were last year but that's because we received money this year that we hadn't received last year at
095this time reimbursements so um other than that that's all I have oh I did want to say one thing there was a question on the building project um all these funds are coming from tax dollars and Nexus money none of these funds are coming um a lot of people are concerned about house bills 69 or 96 96 um and that's the new budget bill that the governor has proposed and um again this happens every bium they come out saying they're going to cut funding but my whole time 27 years they have never cut the guarantee and again it's been proposed every budget cycle um and they've yet to do it so I until we get closer to May the budget's not going to be passed until June 30th at 11:30 at night so they will
096come some miraculous decision to say hey we finally figured it out um and until then I mean we can spend a lot of time on it I mean we are talking to our legislatur all our groups the administration groups in Columbus are talking to legislator we Dr Hall meets with them on a monthly basis they do know the situation and it is affecting the rural schools a lot more than it are the Suburban schools so any questions that's all I have Mr President all right any no questions no comments no discussion hearing none please call the role Mr Stanley yes Miss Gatson yes Miss Garrett yes M dagel yes Miss mea yes uh next I will entertain a motion to approve superintendent's consent items a through I3 so move second it's been properly moved and
097seconded Dr Hall thank you first like to thank Mr Stanley for your service as well um thank you for your mentorship your friendship and your leadership as well on the board um you're one of the first people when I came to the district took me around showed me around to different community members went to different houses um as young superintendent you um remember the fireworks outside in oing you took me to Hon Phil to watch i' like to thank you for all that as well thank you thank you Dr H superintendent cons sit items we have item a is Aba Outreach service agreement ABA is a service that we utilize to provide support for teachers and students um there are various interventions they help our staff with and also our students and our parents Item
098B is OSHA membership that's a How High School Athletic Association membership that's an annual occurrence for our Athletic program they help us and provide the guidelines for athletics item C is Overland College Recreation U rental for the 10 football games for $10,000 um in agreement with with oand college for approv of the 2526 school year for $10,000 for the 10 football games that we play item D is approved of 2526 of rain County public health school health services there those are nurses for the district item e is approval of Lorraine County Board of DD Educational Services agreement item f is the Aon leadership um proposal to update our strategic um District strategic plan and implementation um plan they'll help us during that time in June to update our strategic planning item G is approve a
099petition to recognized as exchange students organizations these are organizations District utiliz to um offer to provide to facilitate for change students within the district from different countries item H is approv a professional service contract these are Transportation contracts with Overland college for field trips um sure where it's coming from thank you um item I is approval of the Personnel report uh we have a few resignations on the report item i1 item two our recommendations for employment item three is stiens for supplemental contracts for some of our coaches request approval from the board for item a through i3 so on the resignations we have a couple of or three retirements uh we usually acknowledge those like can you just talk about when those will take place and if they will be acknowledged absolutely um we have
100a couple teachers retiring phenomenal job here we have um a couple them here tonight um if they' like to say a few words um Lori Brewer um is here she was very instrumental when I first came to the district um actually helped mentoring me through the process of uh from opdc to um going to classrooms always checking on me office making sure you're okay um she done a phenomenal job and she's retiring as well and I'm not sure if you want to say anything or not no I appreciate all of the support and she come to the microphone please I think she's trying to avoid to come to the microphone I do appreciate the support that I've received and from many of you working with your daughter working with your children working with some of
101them as teachers as well um 34 years is a long time to be in the same district um I taught anywhere from 2nd third fourth fifth and my last six years in sixth grade math I do appreciate the fact that we have an intervention class now for math because I really do recognize the fact that our math needs to improve just that growth mindset that work so hard with the kids you can do this and with these rise classes I I see them succeeding so thank you thank you that's your support thank [Applause] you and I'm tired you deserve iter ago oh wow did you did you want to come up here and say that no no okay all right well Lori um I just want to say thank you I my my children have
102had Lori as a teacher I've worked with te with Lori in fifth grade and we've worked together at linkston and phenomenal person um supporter of students families and staff and involved in lots of different committees and and clubs she was she's the fifth six academic challenge um and she's just done many things in the district and so we will definitely give you a proper sendoff with a resolution and all the fancy things but since you're here tonight and you're on the board um minutes we just I just want to thank you thank you and Lori Lori Lori Lor we'll put you on a su list as for next year Su list I'm sorry one second L I just want to say yeah retirement is [Laughter] great we have Christina homman as well um she's retiring
103from um Elementary she's been phenomenal um and Cath Katherine um keing as well who's retiring um I don't know w why like say a few things or Miss Baker but um both of them has been phenomenal teachers I've been here we're planning something fantastic to share with them in May so when we we do please come to the mic please I try to be loud enough I'm used to be in the cafeteria um so we will do something fantastic for them because they are two fantastic outstanding employees who have been the queen of third grade for a long time and my partner and third and one in fourth grade so I've had a chance to work with them both as teachers but their send off will be in May thank you thank you thank you
104and I'll never forget our time with miss keing talking to her for hours about her kids in the military as well and um we have great teachers and they they deserve to retire they put the time in any other questions comments discussion hearing none oh did you have something I just want to say I'm so excited to see Aaron Hopkins on here as a substitute teacher who graduated from Oberland High School um not not not too long ago so it's really exciting to see him on here thank you for sharing that anybody else okay please call the rooll Mr Stanley yes Miss Gatson yes Miss Garrett yes Miss tagel Miss mea yes okay so next we have comments and discussion board updates who would like to go first we got legislative liais on first do
105you have an update yes I do okay so I would like to encourage everybody that's within the sound of my voice to please call governor dwine and tell tell him to not support uh sb1 which is uh legislation attacking secondary education in this state and uh making uh getting rid of uh Dei and uh um the right to unions at that that level um if they come after the unions at that level the next thing is going to be unions at the in the public schools you know it is they tried that once before with s sp5 years ago um I would also like to encourage you to uh tell him to go to not support uh SB um I'm sorry House Bill um I don't share Bob's optimism that they they will not uh
106undermine our guarantee um this is an attack on public education K through 12 uh the funding um and uh they are expecting to take a lot of money from public education and give it to private education when 80% of our children go to public schools and only 20% go to private schools it is not a good use of our public dollars so I would like to give you the telephone numbers of the representatives to call Governor dewine's number is 3555 uh Nathan Manning is our state senator and he came out uh against these and then he has reversed his position I saw in the newspaper today uh his number is 7613 our brand new uh state representative his name is her name is Kelly deer and her number is 466 962 28 um now I
107want to say that uh I attended a town hall with her um recently in Wellington and I asked her why she decided to run for public office and she said that she is a nurse and she is tired of the government interfering with her ability to do her job and I said hello how about public education as well and her answer was she will vote with her party which is the Republican Party against public education she actually said that so please call these people incessantly I have friends that call every day I personally don't call every day but I do call frequently so please do and if you didn't get those numbers you can look them up very easily online thank you we have an update from the endowment board uh yes the um spring
108Grant cycle opened yesterday so that is online that's available to teachers and community members that want to do things in the schools can you move your mic yes so we've funded did lots of wonderful things like some of the clubs that you saw here today from Langston um a lot of their trips a lot of trips going to the eighth graders go to DC and the music programs will go on trips and the ninth grade experience where the incoming nth graders get to go out to Common Ground and spend a day bonding as a as a group um and we've funded all sorts of different interesting projects for the art teachers and so if any of our teachers are listening and and have a fun exciting wonderful field trip or project that you want to
109do with your students please um apply for an endowment Grant and let us give you some money great uh technology applications and education any update there I I don't have any update on okay yeah we did not meet and then the policy committee so the policy committee met this afternoon um all of those updates will be on next month's board meeting thank you uh next we have the finance committee any update there yeah we we did meet uh and Bob talked about um you know the Nexus settlement we talked about the you know Bob explained how it is that we're going to manage to build this building the the 68 Building without increasing taxes and it's and part of that is is you know what we did with the for this building where we uh
110pre-loaded a lot of that we paid a lot of the a lot of the cost that in the first eight to 10 years um and so and the one thing that that you know when when that when we get to the point where we've paid off the short-term part of that our taxes will all drop and at that point when we going back to when we um put that battle on we said that we would not collect both Mills of our PI Levy when we get to the point where we're not collecting we put a 4.7 mil when that drops and it will drop to somewhere in the threes maybe even the twos High twos at that point it'll will will I mean it's your board your decision but it's likely that uh you may
111have to start collecting both Mills of that Pi Levy but it won't be a tax increase it'll just it'll just be um you know we'll be instead of collecting 4.7 Ms on the uh the bond Levy we'll be collecting less than that and then we we'll collect one mil back uh of the pi Levy so we'll just be collecting the full um voted millage on the pi Levy at some point as our taxes drop on the on the rest um I probably made a complete hash of that if you have any questions about that Bobble but the point is that we you know we I've always wanted our our taxes to be as consistent as we can with you know I don't like people don't like to see their taxes going up and they don't
112notice as much going back down and so we want to try to be a little bit a little bit consistent um thank you uh town and gwn did not have a meeting this time or around and then there is a JVS update from our representative JVS had a osba Le Retreat on the Thursday early February it was largely a training on board leadership around competence collaboration commitment and communication uh it looks like the JVS will be beginning a strategic planning project um since their last strategic plan is several years old um before the osba portion they had a session with legal council about funding and responsibility around 504 and IEP activities uh the high level message was that the code is complicated so it is not easy to give a blanket statement about whether the
113JVS or the home district is responsible for the IEPs in particular uh one thing that was noted uh with the expansion to include 9th and 10th graders at JVS it means that many counselors in the home schools do not know the kids since they're coming straight from middle school so I guess that creates an issue with um the connection back to the home school uh the main message was clear communication and partnership is imperative to ensure the kids are being properly served so that's communication between The Homeschool and JVS so that is the update from the JVS rep uh okay and so from there we will move to uh hearing of the public on other items I have the list here for every everybody who signed up uh what I would ask is that you
114come to the mic um speak clearly into the mic as You' seen we struggle with that today and you have three minutes to talk once your three minutes are up you'll have to stop if you are not finished with your comments and you would like to come back and finish them after everyone else has spoken we can ask the other folks who've signed up and if they say it's okay then you can come back and finish um I would ask for you to direct your comments to the board because that's who meeting it is and that's who you're talking to and that's that's it so we will start with oh the other thing is when you come to the mic state your name address and your relationship to the district so we have Barbara Lee
115first I'm Barbara Lee um I go by Barbie as my teachers that I went to overin with would know me as um I was a member of the memorial committee when I was in Oberlin I have several friends that had passed away during my time in school and after school that we have created the the Memorial Garden for when it was first made in '98 my was when my first friend passed away I was 11 years old so to be able to have that Community Memorial Garden for all of the students that have passed away is very important so my concern is that I know know that it's still in progress of how it's going to be worked into your plans however I would like for us as the committee members to be able to
116either have some insight on those plans of make sure that it's not removed those trees that we planted are not just plans as a beautiful thing to look at it's also continuing from the lives of these children that lost their lives so young and they have grown with us that are still here as part of those kids that aren't with us anymore so for us to see those trees to be removed or the time and effort that we all put into for those children to put the the bricks down with their names and dates on it and the flowers we planted and the bench that we purchased everything that we have put into it like the other gentleman had said you know we have emotional attachment to it but so do the families and the
117community itself so just please if we could get any kind of insight or guaranteed from you guys that we can have that as you guys are making these plans to move forward we would really appreciate for you to allow us to have that that guarantee from you all that we can we can have some insight and make sure that it's not removed it's it's just too important to the community and a staple it's almost a historical thing here now and I and we all know how Overland is with our historical monuments right our buildings everything so thank that's what I ask and I I know you didn't say where you live but it looks like here you live in I live in Lorraine now I grew up in Overland I've been here since kindergarten I
118graduated my senior year here in 2005 so yeah I just say this is home I just say that to say that you came from Lorraine to our meeting in order to be able to provide this message so we appreciate that absolutely it's very important it is we hear you y okay next I have on the list Rebecca Crawford uh hello um this is more Community input regarding the potential loc relocation of the high school Memorial site uh my name is Rebecca Crawford I live at 180 South Park Street in Oberlin um I am a Overland Public Schools alumni I graduated in 2000 and I am a parent of a future oberin Public Schools student and the daughter of a oberin high school teacher you know etc etc um okay um so I mov back this
119summer um I was part of the first student Memorial committee a student initiated student run group that came together through spontaneous discussions about the inequitable ways that overlin had to publicly process their grief and celebrate life at that point uh at one point we went to look for a memorial for two boys who died in the 80s the wooden sign had broken with one half rotting under a bush and the other propping up the door to the gym so please forgive us our current Panic we have precedence for our fears um and so we deliberately created this Memorial um each detail of it to be permanent be and because of that it wouldn't just be metaphorically impossible to move it it would be logistically impossible to move it as created um without destroying it it's
120it's not just a boulder some Stones two benches it's the five trees we planted as saplings using two grown trees as anchors to represent the oin youth taking their places by the ancestors to watch over us um it's the stones embedded in the earth which in most cases were placed and buried by the families of the Dead it would be like trying to relocate a cemetery um metaphorically its Presence at the high school is the point uh we felt then very strongly that the oin youth who died belonged with us at school never to be forgotten and we the students were the ones who brought it into being and we the students future generations of students kept it going for decades um if you cut down the trees and move the stones in the boulder
121to some more convenient area even just temporarily you're not relocating it you're destroying one Memorial and creating another by who's the driving force behind that creation not students and not the families of the dead it's adults students should drive it um the families who gathered at the dedication ceremony in November 98 are one of the most diverse groups of people I've ever seen at an overin event um and yet they all leaned into each other because they all knew what it was like to lose a young person uh in a community as fractured as Oberlin can be we have to hang on to the things that remind us of what we have in common and grief is something that we all learned to share that night so is love and this Memorial site was created
122in that grief in that love and the wildly optimistic belief that we as mere teenagers could have a positive and lasting impact on our town and maybe the world thank you thank you thank you thank you next we have Bethany Baker she left she left not here okay uh and then we have Karen schaer that would be me as you may have already guessed uh I'm a member of the media or at least have been um I am Karen Sha I moved here in 1988 and uh since 1989 I have been a member of the media uh I have worked for public radio public television both locally regionally nationally and internationally as well as local print media like the pl Cleveland plane dealer and uh in about 1998 Rebecca Crawford and her father red Crawford
123alerted me to the fact that there was a memorial garden being built on the campus of Oberlin high school at the time I had a daughter my stepdaughter in high school and she was going through some bad times there was a lot of bullying going on there had been drug lords in the town selling drugs on the street after dark there were U sort of WABE gang members combing the streets and the schools and there had been shootings a child D in a fire and a number of other things that made us all very scared I'm a parent whose child survived many did not what I'm do here tonight to give you is a slightly larger perspective on this problem in 1999 or so I don't remember the year I wrote a story that was
124uh broadcast on the English Channel on three continents for Voice of America which is no longer a federal government agency but that's what it was and it was about two of these Memorial Gardens that had been made in oberin and in Ashland Ohio mostly by students students and in some cases a in the school an older teacher or a parent or something and these became sacred spaces to the students to the community and most especially to the parents who had lost children due to gun violence suicide illness accidents whatever and they have become ever since gun violence mass shootings at schools they have become not just a us thing they have become a global thing they are important and sacred spaces to everyone who has ever experienced a child dying or knows anyone who's had
125a child die even the idea of temporarily shifting anything in that Memorial here in Oberlin is an affront to this entire community and especially to the people who are most involved and who have been most closely touched by it I want you to think very closely and very carefully about how you present this issue to the public I want you to say very clearly to the public when you will be making this final decision I want you to say very clearly to the public I will not be moved I have to say that your time has been up and I would like some kind of answer to the public within one month that's my answer thank you doesn't want to go back thank you okay next we have Michelle ner sorry if I messed up
126your last okay my name is Michelle Nery class of 1982 this is my brother Michael Lee Nery class of 1987 he was an eagle scout he was president of JVS student council at the time it was called vica I don't know what it's called now my brother is memorialized out here he died within a year of graduating it's the only school he knew it's the only school I knew Michael when he died the funeral possession was miles long because he was not only an Overland Boy Scout he was the highest ranking Boy Scout in three states he was president of order of the arrow he died in an accident he was on a motorcycle and it hit a truck and it took his life I've been here long enough to know almost every single name
127out there I lived on Orchard Street for nearly 50 years my parents' home I currently because I'm disabled live with my brother in Berlin Heights Ohio his name is Kevin Nery also an eagle scout graduate class of 1983 I think my my sister graduated also the only school any of us knew was overin and I want to say thank you to the students who did this I was there when we planted the stones it would break my heart to know that this had to be moved because I would still know that it was moved and I know I can go to my brother's grave site in Westwood Cemetery here in town but Michael didn't know that he knew oberin he knew Oberlin high school and I just I just want to say thank you for
128your consideration and your time and I'm not going to beg just remember this face of a Young Man Who Loved his community and served it along with all the other students out there that lived here and died here thank you thank you [Applause] and so Michelle is another Community or member who came from another Community back to Oberland today for this meeting so we appreciate it uh and then the last person that we have listed is rud Crawford [Applause] taking the mic oh never mind Hello nice to see you all hello um I wanted to be last and thank you for that because in all the discussion about moving and driving and driveways and all of that I wanted to make sure that it got brought back to the students who thought it up in
129in my trigonometry class after a couple of kids died and and this was a very sensitive bunch of kids and they really wanted to do something and so they did and I was sort of behind the scenes as they worked and worked and worked and worked to make a plan find the money get the trees all the rest of that stuff it was it was spectacular I wanted to say a little bit more that hasn't been said I I'm I'm delighted with with the three that have talked um but there were some things that they had to do that nobody talked about for instance before anybody could uh have a stone planted in the ground we had to get permission from the families so imagine that you're 15 years old and somebody has just died
130and you want to put a you want to have a stone carved and planted so you call the family and somebody answers the phone and you say I'm a student at the high school we have this Memorial site we would like to put a stone for your son daughter in there and the person on the other end of the phone starts crying and you're 15 years old you learn fast give them space don't try help just give them a moment or two and that's the kind of learning in addition to just organizing a a memorial but those kinds of emotional things that were right all the time you know those little um plastic flags that Mark a gas line around town when they're the students would get the flags for the stones of the young
131ancestors as we call them um they get the flags and they'd plant the flags by the Stones of people who died in car crashes and they would put those St Flags out there during prom week as a reminder be careful that's the kind of thing that they did um well just one interesting thing um Sergeant Lewis taorus um you see his highway sign on the way to drug Mar he was a young ancestor um and he died before he was 30 and a state representative came with the great big sign to to present it and the natural place for it to be presented was at the memorial and so that was a little meeting ceremony that was held there and the representative came and several dozen people came for that um to be a part
132of that of that event and I I just want to say by the way that that representative was watching our people our our graduates and was saying this is such an amazing comfortable relaxed easygoing interracial group it was like she'd never seen that and and I just um so my last thing that I need to tell you uh which I'm going to have to read because it's going to be hard for me to get through this um the the memorial can be a place for real healing an overin high school student nearly 30 years back was driving drunk and hit kit and killed a classmate they knew each other the student body knew both of them well he was incarcerated he did his time and returned to society then rather recently at a Saturday morning
133Memorial spring cleaning session people would go out and scrub the stones and pull you know weeds and steaks and so forth at a Saturday morning Memorial spring cleaning session I spotted him way off by himself the boy who had driven the car and had been in jail and got out I spotted him there way off by himself quietly washing and tending the stone of the classmate he killed wow I wonder how often he comes to visit that stone I think it's more than once and I want that stone to be right where it is for him always I guess I'll stop there thank you very much thank you pleas so that was our last speaker um I did want to say thank you to all the community members who before today reached out to the
134board to make us aware uh and then also showed up today to share during the public meeting uh I will say that the community spoke quite some time ago about the Memorial Garden we did have one Community member let us know about it in the fall which is why Dr Hall was already kind of aware of it um I do understand the alarm that was raised from watching the planning meeting I tried to watch it myself just so I can have a good sense of what happened but the recording was not a complete recording of the meeting so um the issue was brought to our attention and I just want you to know that this is what we're here for this is the role of the board we're your voice and so when you tell
135us what issues have Arisen and inform us as well as you had about an issue like this one we are going to listen to you we are going to listen to you and so we are going to take all this information back as Dr Hall said this is still in development uh it is important for us to get this level of detail you know to see the people that are represented there at the memorial to hear these stories it makes it quite more real than it was when we were initially told about it so we just want you to know that you are heard um the suggestion to try to keep the committee up to date I will talk to Dr Hall about that and see how feasible that is I can't make make any
136promises sitting here today cuz I would commit them to something that you know maybe they can or cannot do but I think that's a great suggestion and so we're going to look into how we can make that happen I mean there's already a couple of you here you know In the Flesh so that makes it a little bit easier to be able to connect with you and continue to communicate with you but we want you to know how seriously we're taking this and that we appreciate your input and if anybody else wants to speak yes I just want to say thank you your stories are very moving and very meaningful I just want to let you know that my cousin is there but my cousin was Danny Scott so there you go get it did
137anybody else have a comment okay so um finishing up the meeting I mean we do I'm it's a a tough moment right now oh wait a minute we still have some more to do don't we I know it's a right now to just move on uh thank you again everyone for sharing uh so we do our future meetings are March 4th 20125 that's a work session at 6 pm here at oand elementary school we'll be reviewing uh the overall academic uh status of academics here at oberin City Schools uh and then on March 18th we have another regular meeting and a tour that meeting will be at JBS it starts at 5:30 uh it's been nice having those meetings there at JVS and getting to see a little bit more that institution um so now
138I will entertain a motion to move to Executive session pursuant to Revise Code 12122 G1 to consider the appoint employment or compensation of a Public Employee or official so moved second it's been properly moved and seconded please call the RO Mr Stanley yes Miss Gatson yes Miss Garrett yes M tagel yes M mea yes and we are going to move to Executive session with no further business to occur after that so we will be adjourning the meeting from there so thank you all so much for coming again tonight we really appreciate your