001Welcome everybody. Thank you for coming. Tonight is Tuesday, March 17th and it is 5:30 and um you are at the River Board of Education regular meeting. Um Mr. Berdine, will you please call the role? >> Mr. Bowler >> here. >> Mrs. Brackett >> here. >> Mrs. Burke >> here. >> Mrs. Rainey >> here. >> Mrs. Stein >> here. >> Okay. Mr. White. >> Sure. All right. Mr. Pavlich and Mrs. Smith, will you have our students come up and lead us in pledge of allegiance? And then after we're done with that, you can recognize those students. >> We sure can. If we could have Maxwell McDonald Schultz, Henry Shrank, Harrison Vakod, and Emmy Graater come on up. >> All right. If everybody will please stand for the pledge. I al to the flag of the United
002States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Nice job. Well done. Great job. Outstanding students led us in the pledge of allegiance and they are being recognized for what it means to be rever ready, respectful, responsible problem solvers in our school community. First of all, from Mrs. Habick's kindergarten class, we recognize Maxwell McDonald Schultz. Maxwell is a kind and thoughtful member of the classroom. He works hard, listens to feedback, and always strives to improve. His friendly personality and warm smile make him a wonderful part of the rees community. From Mrs. Schneider's first grade class, we recognize Henry Shrank. Henry comes to school each day with a positive attitude and a readiness to learn. He consistently shows kindness to others, helps
003classmates without being asked, and never gives up when learning becomes challenging. Henry's perseverance and caring nature make him a wonderful example for others. And from Mrs. Yoder's second grade class, we recognize Harrison Vicoder. Harrison brings joy to every room he enters. I can attest to that. He's always smiling. Many people in our building know him because he greets them with a bright smile, right? And a friendly hello. Along with his positivity, Harrison works hard in class, welcomes feedback, and is always willing to lend a helping hand. He is a trustworthy leader who truly represents what being rever ready looks like. And from Mrs. Ba second grade class. We recognize Emmy Grater. Emmy lights up the classroom with her energy and kindness. She works hard to make sure everyone feels welcome and included while balancing a
004fun spirit with a strong commitment to learning. Emmy is a positive role model for her classmates and a student who brings joy wherever she goes. Nice job. parents, we'll we'll move Miss Campbell out of there pretty quickly and then you can take the center and get your photos as well. >> She's our fill-in PR person tonight. >> She She's just a uh parents have at it. Come on up if you'd like. Come to the center. Whatever you'd like to do is fine. Couple more folks. Hold on. Got it. Okay. >> All right, Mr. Fry. Thank you. >> Good evening. I'd like to introduce Max Gitner from Mrs. McCoslin's third grade class. Max, come on up. Unfortunately, Mr. McCausen is home with a sick daughter tonight. But here is what she would like to say about
005Max. Max goes above and beyond what a simple kindness recognition award can even begin to capture. He consistently seeks opportunities to help others. He is the first to help troubleshoot iPad issues, the first to lend a hand if someone is in need, and the first to volunteer to help with even the smallest of tasks. When we welcome a new student into our class, Max is the first to help set up their materials and help them navigate their day. Max does all this without seeking any recognition. He authentically enjoys helping others. Not only do I see it, but I have been approached by numerous other teachers this year that sing the praises of Max's kindness. He truly embodies a bath team hero and is a testament to how powerful kindness can be. Congratulations, Max. >> You're
006welcome. Stay right here. I'd like to have Mrs. Peters come up to recognize her student, please. Top of the evening to you, I guess. Uh, I would like to introduce Elliot Fuller, please. Elliot, will you please come on up? I don't know why this always makes me emotional. I get so proud of something. Elliot is a student in my fourth grade classroom. He is a curious student who with a deep knowledge of fossils and dinosaurs. As a result of his passion, he was invited to help plan part of our class unit on fossils. He shared ideas for activities, suggested important topics, and helped plan a poster project for his classmates. And as a result, all of the other fourth grade students um this year, the other teachers thought it was such a great idea, they
007had their uh classes do it as well. During the unit, Elliot's classmates were engaged. They produced excellent work, and their presentations were outstanding. Don't you agree? Yes. Oh, good. Not only do I enjoy Elliott in science, but also in math in every classroom discussion. He always offers incredible insight and always one of those students that if you can't pronounce a word, he's got it. You know, especially dinosaurs. Yeah. I'm just so thankful to have him in my fourth grade family. So, congratulations, Elliot. Okay. And Mrs. Schubert, please come on up to introduce your student. Good evening. This is Evie Manowski. She's in my fifth grade language arts, social studies class. And I have a little something I wrote up. We had to do um a class project on um presenting an entrepreneur idea to uh
008like kind of like a Shark Tank when the kids had to come up with an idea and try to sell it to the investors and she blew my mind. So um she was our entrepreneur winner of our class. Um I felt she had an exceptional idea. She took my encouragement and advice to think outside of the box and pushed her proposal to a real business model with marketing skills. She even used her friend's business idea to partner up with Stella Kuster, who wasn't here tonight. Evie has a great work ethic with clear communication skills and a lovely personality. She worked well with me, her parents, family members. I think your uncle too, right? She involved everybody. um and her friend to complete an assignment that exceeded expectations. She made stickers, which she has brought some
009here to pass out to all of you. Um she's actually even improved the business ideas since even getting her grade. So, she's really into this. Um she printed them. She made different categories. She would place the stickers um around businesses around town. Um one being her friend's madeup business. The idea would be for the consumer to collect stickers to um complete different challenges. And I just thought it was such a genius idea. I said, "Okay, well, what's so different about your stickers?" And she just kept coming up with different ideas to where she would actually sell them as if they were like a football, basketball, sporting card, and kids would collect them and find different categories and all of that. So, it was really cool. Um, I just wanted to encourage her to keep chasing
010her dreams and working hard. I know she's going to be a success and maybe even own her business someday. So, Slide over. I'm sorry. Did you get yours, sir? You got it. Yep. Okay. You want me to grab a couple? All right, Dr. Overberhouser for the middle school. >> Yes. I love seeing so many parents here. And if you ever wonder what it's like for a week of middle school in the spring, think of the last five days. We've had power outages, we've had meteors, we've had 75 degrees, and we've had snow. I mean, that's what middle school is like on the on the daily during the spring. So, um, it's an honor to be up here to announce our three students tonight. So, students, you can come up when I'm finished. I'm going to
011go one at a time here. So, Julia Ramsay, if you can stand up. Going to embarrass her a little bit. Okay. So, there's always a theme, you know, when teachers, you know, nominate students for this. There's always a theme with each kid. And you know with Julia hard worker is something that stood out multiple times from her teachers. It doesn't matter if she's playing violin. It it doesn't matter if she's at speech and debate. And by the way, I went to the state competition for speech and debate. I was not prepared for what they were going to be doing. And she was very sick. So I compare it to like the Michael Jordan flu game in the NBA finals. You know, she's up there and they choose her to lead her session as she's sick.
012So she doesn't get to sit back. She's leading it, doing everything, and still ends up getting third place in the entire state of Ohio. So, I thought that was incredible. So, Julia, great job. Come on up here. You can come up now. And then our next student, Taye Wy Harris, if you could stand up for me. So, a theme that came out from TA's teachers, just one of the kindest girls in the world, sincere, helpful. We have a class called classmates and learning. You know, she she signed up for that. Stuck with it the whole year. She's just so helpful. And then another thing that teachers say, man, she's got some style to her, too. Like that's just something she's a little bit known for at the middle school. And I could tell you a
013brief story last year, I remember she was a sixth grader and I met her and we had a little conflict with some girls and she kind of stepped in and you know, she knew both of them. She was like, "Hold up, we need to kind of talk about this with the counselors." and she was helping her friends, you know, mediate whatever was going on. She was the helpful person in the room. So, I've really enjoyed having you at the middle school, seeing you smiling and just wanting to help everyone. So, thank you. Come on up. And then Aiden Lewis, if you could stand up for me. So, Aiden, a theme that emerged from his teachers, he really loves to learn. And I heard you're a pretty funny guy, too. You know, I see you in
014the cafeteria at times. Eighth graders can be squirly, but teachers say that the one thing about Aiden, he really has that great sense of humor. Loves to learn, but he knows that line. Like, he knows when it's appropriate to stop, when it's appropriate to work. And his coaches, you know, he just made the stink competition in math counts. That was an outstanding achievement. I went to a math counts competition and I will tell you, they put the problem on the screen. I would still be sitting there trying to figure it out and kids are answering it in 10 seconds. I mean, I two weeks I couldn't figure out the problem that was on there without some type of technology and the kids are just responding like that. So, for you to go to state in
015that competition, that just shows how much you love math and you know, you practice at your craft. And Mr. Fletcher on academic challenge said he can put Aiden with any kids. He leads. He knows his role and he always does a great job for him. So, come on up, Aiden. Parents, come on up and get pictures of your kids. You don't have to do it from back there. >> PR. >> Okay. >> Am I a part of the PR? Come on. Walk outside. All right, Mr. Ferris with the high school. >> All right. Hey, good evening everyone. So, one of my favorite things about so many of our high school kids is that they're incredibly humble. These two young ladies to my left, so Aditi and Prica, they did something this past summer back in
016June of 2025 and just didn't say anything about it. They did this amazing thing. They were part of this uh fundraising effort called uh Chess for Cure that raised $18,000 for the Cleveland Clinic uh and just didn't say anything about it. like came back to school, just jumped right back in like they would. Uh, and it wasn't until late January that they were nominated by uh, Senator Casey Weinstein and a little birdie told me that two of our kids were getting nominated for this. So, Pisha and Aditi participated in this chess for a cure event, like I said, and their time and energy and effort raised $18,000. I think that is just absolutely amazing. Okay, so I'm going to talk a little bit about uh Aditi first. Adidi is a member of our 11th grade
017class. She and all the other juniors today absolutely crushed the SAT and I'm so excited to see those results come in. Uh Aditi is involved with NHS and band and she's also the treasurer of the National Music Honor Society uh here at River. In addition to all those things, she works at the Farmers Rail in her spare time. So congratulations Aditi. And then Prica, she is uh one grade below. She is a member of our 10th grade class, so no SAT for her today, but that's going to be here quick for sure. She participates in speech and debate and is part of that amazing organization and as well she is a member of NHS. So congratulations, Prica. So for me as principal, it's just going to be incredibly exciting to watch these two young ladies
018over the next year and two years start to make decisions about their post-secary plans. I did have another young lady that I wanted to recognize tonight, Maya Gwyn. She's part of our 10th grade. She um is ill tonight, so couldn't be here, unfortunately. Just an outstanding young lady. I would put her in the same caliber as these two. um she was selected by a college board to be a big future ambassador which is a really big deal and uh we couldn't be prouder of her of her here at RHS. So thank you ladies. Let's get a picture. Go ahead, parents. Stay there at the end. One more in the back row. Okay. >> Okay. Yes. Please take a moment if you would like to go. Moms and dads, we know it's a school night, so
019please feel free to uh head on home, start getting ready for bedtime, all those things. Thank you all very much for coming. >> You're welcome. Congratulations. Yeah, good job. See you, buddy. Good to see you. >> And the room clears up. >> Look at this snow. >> You're welcome. Thanks for coming. >> Isn't it wonderful? That's why we're here. >> I know, right? >> You want to say don't take it personally, but like I would >> Okay, now it's time for um our agenda item, public speaks, or two agenda items. If there's something on our agenda tonight that No, >> we have the presentation. >> Oh, I totally missed it. Never mind. Pause. I flipped the page I think too soon. All right. So, presentations. >> Mr. Pav. >> Mr. Pavich in Richfield PTA. If
020you want to come on up to present on the pavilion, please. >> Yeah. Come on. >> Hey. >> Hi, guys. >> Hi. Hello. >> Oh, this is that. Okay. >> Got it. >> Hello again. Thanks for uh giving us the opportunity to do a quick presentation this evening on the Minutemen Pavilion project that our wonderful PTA has been working hard on. Uh just a a quick little introduction here. I have our treasurer, one of our treasurers, Bill Scott, next to me and our PTA president, Ashley Iaz. and they're going to talk a little bit more um after this this beginning part, but I just want to say just a quick word on on what a phenomenal PTA we are are so grateful to have at at re when Mrs. Smith and I came on board
021uh and we were hired in late July. I think one of our first orders of business was to do a meeting with the PTA executive board. Um, we got together over at Bath Community Park and, uh, we hit it off with with these, uh, outstanding individuals right away and and, you know, they were giving us ideas for the year and things we're going to do and we just knew it was going to be a great team, a great partnership and and they've done so many outstanding things to support our kids throughout this year. Um, but this one, this one is like pretty much the most awesome thing ever this year. And I wanted to uh just say a little bit about the two of them and then uh kind of step out of the way
022and let them explain what this project's going to be and how it's going to benefit the students uh not only our current students at RES but those uh for future years to come as well. >> Oh my gosh, this is so exciting. >> Hello, I'm Ashley. I've never spoken at one of these. This is great. Um I'm the PTA president. I've got four kids in the district. um sixth, fourth, 3rd, and 1st. Um and I'm almost a little sad that I really will only have one kid to benefit from this, but my future plans intend to be a bus driver and a lunch lady for my grandchildren at this district. I can't wait for April 18th. Love it. >> So, I cannot wait to see this just really take off. Um luckily, we've had Bill
023on the board this year. This has been a plan of ours and we initially had it as a three-year plan and thank goodness Bill joined the board and was able to kind of streamline it for us for this year to get it on the books and get going because truth be told I would have just sat there all year and been like that's such a good idea. Let's do it. Yeah, that sounds great. And then I would have waited for the next person to come on. Um, a really cool idea that Bill presented in doing the funding for this project is the idea of bricks and leaving the river legacy for all of the students that have been at Richfield are coming to Richfield, future grandchildren. Um, so I'm going to really let Bill take
024over this as it's kind of like his little baby. But I can't sing the praises from this enough. It's going to be such a great addition for our kids to be able to have a learning opportunity outside. Um, and we're going to be working really closely with the staff in kind of upgrading a project that some of the teachers had already brought in and making it a better visible area for everybody that attends Richfield in the future. So, thanks for giving us your time tonight. >> You sure did. >> Thank you, sir. >> Good evening. My name is Bill Scott, as they said, and I am a revered grandparent. I have three granddaughters in the uh system and I can't tell you what a wonderful experience it's been for the last couple years to be
025involved with the PTA here and the school system. It's one of the most awesome school systems I've seen in my few years on the planet. Um just to follow up with Ashley's uh introduction, the pavilion project was kind of sitting lame. We didn't really have a place for it, a fit for it, the money for it, so on and so forth. So, we got together, as uh Kirk said, early in the year and started talking about what we're going to do this this year for a a school project. Last year, it was the um umbrella structure in the kindergarten playground so the kids had shade. So, that's one of the things we were talking about was the blue playground over at the Richfield Elementary School and not having enough shade for the kids, any shade
026really. Um so, we kicked it around a little bit and finally decided that we could go forward with this. So, I'd like to go over it a little bit. Um, it's a timber frame project. I worked uh after 20 years in the Navy, I get out and work for a timber frame company. And timber frame has always been near and dear to my heart. It's like a hobby. So, I connected with a timber frame company that just happens to be right here in Ohio. It's a uh company that's owned by Adam Croninburgger, who is a River School family. So, Adam and I got together, put together a design, then we had a little conversation about concrete. We were fortunate enough to find another uh River family in the form of Jason Morris, who's Mia Morris's
027brother-in-law. He's going to do the concrete work for free. >> Wow. So, we really love those guys. They're they're really reaching out for us and helping us a lot. So, as I said, it's a timber frame pavilion to be constructed at the school later this year uh by the second grade playground or the blue playground depending on what school of thought you have cuz the bleachers are green. We realize that. Um, and it's to be used for recess, shade, as well as classroom outdoor opportunities for the teachers to give them the place to take a class outside if the weather's, you know, a little better than this. And then, uh, go forward with that. We began fundraising in January and so far so good. As I said, we're working with NeoTimber Frame Pavilions. Uh, it's
028a re rever school system family. They have very high quality workmanship. We have a great working relationship and it's competitively priced. The board had tried to get this price out last week and we had prices ranging from in the 70s all the way down to 20s uh depending on what we wanted to do. This year the budget is 70,751 but that includes a lot more than it did last year. Um the structure itself is about 39,000 but then when you form the masonery the the ditches the uh getting the flow of water into the culverts and so on so forth we added that up. The figure also includes $12,125 as contingency money in case we run into those unknown things that happen a lot in Ohio. >> Uh we partnered up with fundraising bricks as
029me as Mia I'm so used to working with Mia I call her Mia Ashley said uh that we're actually allowing people to buy bricks and pavers and essentially memorialize somebody or their family or their child, their student, a teacher. It's wide open. you get so many lines depending on a brick or a paver and you can memorialize it any way you like. Um the bricks are a lifetime warranty and we're actually selling those as a fundraiser to try and uh get the cost put together. We're also uh offering six columns. The six columns on the pavilion are made of timber and then for sponsorship you can actually engrave your family name, your company name, whatever you want to do in the timber. So it's memorialized pretty much forever as long as the structure stands. Um
030the timeline is yesterday. The weather's holding us up a little bit, but the order for timber's already started. They're already cutting. The timbers are cut. Um we're starting the orders for bricks and pavers. Uh construction is supposed to begin in midappril. The concrete work is allegedly supposed to take one day. I'm I'm really eager to see that. Uh and then the timber frame contractor should be on site less than 5 days. So it's going to be, you know, pretty quick to fold it up. Dedication of the timber frame will be at the end of the year at the carnival. The end of the year carnival. We're going to have a ribbon cutting and you know maybe food and beverage if Ashley has her way to >> uh the location as I said is the second
031grade of blue playground. Um you'll see there's a slab there with the mini houses. It's going to go right there along the basketball courts and all the drainage is going to be taken downhill to that culvert collection point. Uh it's a 28x 38 foot structure to be built on the existing pad. Six t it has six timbers for support 10 x10 press treated columns and then the bricks going to be used as skirts. So if somebody buys a memorial brick, a 4x8 brick, it's going to be used as a skirt around the column. If you buy a paver, the outside is going to be trimmed. The whole uh paver portion is around the outside of the slab. Uh it's going to have a pro snap standing seam metal roof which is blue in color. Um,
032amongst the board, we're still trying to figure out what shade of blue. Um, but it's it's pretty close right now. It's going to be blue. Um, all wood. It will be painted and stained. The inside uh of the ceiling will be tongue and groove uh pine. It's going to be really nice. He's he's doing a great job. All the fas and gutter boards are going to be the same color as the roof. Uh 4-in gutters and downspout will be connected to the drainage. We have drawings that are being uh finished up as we speak with a PE stamp for the Summit County uh folks. And then the building permit, the village of Richfield, uh we'll be pulling a permit from them. Uh the only thing left is what do we do? We are always looking
033for volunteers. I've got a really good committee started. Uh we're selling 250 pavers and 500 bricks. And that allows us to meet our goals and also have some money to start next year's project. And then the other thing we need to do is help. We're going to put wheels or casters on the bottom of the mini houses to allow them to be mobile because they're used in a compass course twice a year. So the plan is to move be able to move the houses out on the basketball court at specific locations so the kids can learn cardinal direction. Okay, that's what I brought. But if you have any questions, be happy to answer them. >> Was wonderful. >> It's beautiful project. >> Appreciate that. >> I do have a question. Can could a couple companies
034team up on a column and split it and do one side? >> I don't see why not. >> It's uh excellent question. >> It's a great question and you know we probably do it opposite facing rather than just have it four sides. So we might limit to two uh so it doesn't get >> too much. >> Okay. >> Um but we have six and uh we're asking for a $2,500 donation in order to do that. >> Yep. >> Um there's no logos. There's no I got blindsided by the uh the graphics that everybody wanted to put different graphics and this company offers over 500 graphics. So I started people saying well if I want to put a roller skate or a hockey stick I'm like >> they don't offer 67. >> No 67. But great
035question. Thanks for asking. >> I have a quick question. >> Yes Natalie. >> Um Bill I know you've poured so much time and care into this. So just to even see this is is amazing because it has been years in the in the making. Can you talk a little bit about um the feedback that you guys saw from the teachers and staff of what would be useful because it didn't just you guys didn't just pick this on your own. I know that I know you saw so much feedback. So can you speak a little bit to that? >> Sure. Yeah, we received really out outstanding feedback from the teachers for the most part. Um they have come up to us and said can't wait. I'm already thinking about you know lesson plans for outdoor activities
036classroom. Um it it's just been overwhelming. I've gotten hugs because we're doing it. Um, the other thing too, I'm not Can I let it out of the bag for next year? We're actually planning on using some of the money when we're all done with this to put a greenhouse over there so they can do indoor growing. This year we did garden beds and the kids were wild about it. Um, so wild that we had an excess of vegetables. So, uh, next year we plan on trying to expand that program a little bit and give them an indoor greenhouse so they can start growing earlier in the year and harvesting later. But yeah, phenomenal feedback. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you very much. >> Just as a point of information for the board,
037the pavilion that we have behind the back stop at the baseball field was donated to the district by the Croninburgger family. >> Oh, nice. >> That was a a um home and garden show trade show. They used that for their trade shows for a season and at the end of that season they donated it to us and our cost in that was just the concrete pad. So kudos to them. I we always say with our donations the river families that come forward but generous >> they have previously come forward as well for the district. So I wanted to acknowledge that again. >> Thank you. Thanks for a great presentation too. >> Thank you. Look forward to it. >> All right. Our second presentation on zoology. Mrs. Roach. >> Good evening everyone. This is Miss Hiltbrand.
038She is one of our biology teachers and she's going to be teaching the zoology course next year. So she's this is her first year with us and she is just been having a great year doing some really wonderful work and we're really excited about this course. So this is the textbook that we're recommending and I'm going to let you look at it but it will be in the conference room at central office. you'll see that this text is dense. So, we're going to talk a little bit about what we want to do because it's different from what you typically hear from me. Okay. So, the course textbook information is up here and this is a semesterl long course that is obviously we want it to be rigorous. We want it to be challenging for students,
039but we are also seeking to offer an elective in this course that is more of a mid-level academic and is accessible for all of our students. Zoologology is typically a collegiate level course and finding a text to support high school students to have access was a bit challenging for us. So, what we would like to do, our recommendation is a one-year digital license of this text because we want that year to experiment, to play, and make sure that we really love the text itself before we have a commitment. Typically, we do a five to six year cycle. And we talked about this text being kind of overwhelming. The print is small, the words are big. It's zoology. the digital is much more inviting and we have some pictures so that you can see that. I'm
040going to let Miss Hillbrand take the lead because it's going to be her course. So the the main topics that we'll be covering or hopefully will be covering will be like the bare bones necessities to understanding zoology. So, we'll talk about naming animals, how we get their scientific names versus their common names, how we can analyze fossils to get to their current state from where they originally were. We'll look at how we can compare animals to what you may think that they're in the same kind of species, but they may not be, and how we can actually like analyze their bones and their physical attributes to be able to see that. as well as kind of branching off and reiterating some of the concepts that they'll have seen in a biology class like ecology, interactions,
041genetics, and evolution and stuff like that. So, those are the main topics that I think the book covers really well because not only does it go into the review of some biological concepts that they'll have already seen in their biology courses, but then it branches off further into these really niche zoologyesque topics. Um, so some of the things that we really really like about the book, especially that we can see in the digital versus the physical textbook, is that there's a lot of scaffolding available. Like I said, it covers those basic biological concepts as well. So, if kids need a little bit of a review, I'm assuming they're going to be coming back from at least a summer break and I'm sure they'll have forgotten most, if not all, of what they learned in biology.
042So, it'll be nice to have a little bit of review on those main topics first. There's a lot a lot a lot of pictures. Not only are there actual photographs of different animals and different uh techniques and things that are used in the zoology field, there's also really really nice drawings like the one that you see there comparing different things within the topics. So, I think it gives the best of both worlds in terms of visuals. Um, and then although there is a lot of text and it is pretty dense, the topics that we would be focusing on within the text, I think do avoid that unnecessary scientific jargon that you might see in collegiate level texts, which I think can sometimes scare kids off from science electives. Um, so it does a really really
043good job at least in the the aspects that we want would want to use it that it avoids that unnecessary jargon. There are some topics where if they want to dive in further, it does have some of those collegiate level definitions and some of those larger words, which I think gives the kids an opportunity if they want to go further in, they can do their own research and utilize the text in that way, but it's not necessarily necessary for our class. Um, a couple other things that I really liked about the book and that we saw was that in the digital they have this uh key summary for the different topics. They give specific within the book themselves. They give specific objectives and key concepts that they want you to take away from the book
044that align I think pretty nicely with what I would want to the kids to take away from the class. And so they give these really nice very very brief paragraph to paragraph summaries of those key concepts. So if even the bare bones of the text is a little bit jargony for the kids, I think these summaries do a good job of this is the absolute basic information that you need to know about XYZ concept. Um and then they also have these videos embedded throughout the text as well that kind of go over some of those key concepts as well. Um, and then lastly, some things that we saw is that you can see a little bit in the physical textbook as well. They have a really good breakdown of review questions and end of summary
045or end of chapter summaries um to allow kids to really check their understanding outside of what I would provide on a day-to-day. Um, so I think it gives a good view of what we would want outside of what I I provide during the class. The image that is on this slide doesn't really go with the content. That's my doing. So that she would have done a better job, but I wanted you to see this and it didn't fit on the other slides. This is an example that some many of the vocabulary words are hyperl in the digital text and you select and it pops out with the definition. This is really great because delaying the point of frustration when a student is reading independently is critical. It allows them to do so much more work
046and push themselves further. And vocabulary is the key predictor of reading comprehension success. Sometimes in an elective course in science and social studies, we as a whole, I think I don't mean like we but society forget how much reading is part of those courses. So, we don't want reading support needs to get in the way of a learning experience for our students. And that was one of the things I liked in this little snip snippet here. And then it's hard to see, but at the top right hand corner, there's a little um speech to text or text to speech turn on. So, that is throughout all of the digital text students have that choice to select. So, if they do want it read aloud, they can have it read aloud. I don't think they can
047speed it up like they can on YouTube. So, that works for us. Anyway, >> that's really nice, though. That's a great >> It's a really nice digital text. And again, we thought that a one-year subscription would be a nice fit because we want the opportunity to reflect and refine when we get to this point next year. And I felt like this was a great course for us to be able to do that. So, any questions for us? >> I do have a question. Um, so it's going to be a one semester class, right? >> An elective. So, how many slots? How many are avail? >> I actually asked my friend Mr. Ferris for a sense of signups and I think it was 18 were interested. Are we running one section next year? >> Yeah, there's
048there's 18 right now. >> Great. >> Any students that maybe signed up for two study halls on next two study halls. So we version to pursue this option. >> Well, once word gets out, kids will take it and like it and then >> 18 becomes more. >> Yeah. Right. >> It takes time for a new course to develop that >> for sure >> reputation. So, we want this one to be a course that all the students are excited about. >> Good. >> I have a question. >> This might be a good one that's on like a twoear cycle. zoolology might only be offered every two years if you get to the point where you do it for first and second semester but then it goes away for a year and another science comes in. So
049as you look at the students four year journey through science they'll be able to map out physical science biology okay that junior year I could go or if I didn't that would be an option so depending on their path and their choices they could maybe save that third credit science for senior year only. >> Nice. >> I have a question about the functionality on the online versus a text. So when you're talking about a one-year digital license, you're talking about for the online version of the textbook. Some of that functionality obviously just goes away if you ever do move to a book. So are you thinking that if it goes well, you would continue with the digital version instead of going back to the book? Okay. >> Yes. So we would definitely continue with digital.
050There's not a reason not to. The students we've at the high school level the teachers have surveyed their students when we've been doing curriculum adoptions and by and large the students prefer digital. So I have over the last year if you remember a year ago I had a lot of social studies adoptions and that was a big change. We had all physical texts and we went to a digital for everyone with a class set of physical texts in all of the social studies classes aside from global issues where we just did a one-year digital kind of for the same reason. So, we would keep digital. We just don't know that we would want the physical book. We don't know if there's value. Our biggest concern is that some families request a copy of the text
051to have at home. So, we're monitoring that. I've had zero requests for the global issues text to to have a printed to have at home, but we're monitoring that and it would be easy for us to purchase and quickly receive a few texts if we needed those. We have two already, the one that you've asked and the one that she has. So, but digital is the really the primary ask from high school students. >> That was going to be one of my questions is what if there is a request for a physical book? But that makes makes sense. That read feature, read aloud feature is really nice. >> It is nice because sometimes students don't want to have to ask. They don't really want it to be obvious, but it is there. It's universal. It's
052for everyone. And even a student who doesn't have any significant need to have something read aloud might make that choice. >> Yeah. >> What's the cost breakdown look like between a physical book and a subscription? >> You would be surprised that the difference is minimal because we are paying for intellectual property. So, the companies have found a way to continue to make money. Um, often I I do not have the quote for this text yet. >> Um, I I'll get the quote as we go forward, but typically if I were to purchase two class sets, so 60 books would be two class sets. We always do some extra. And I'm thinking about a course that everyone takes, like a world history. It's probably about $3,000 less to not get a physical book for everyone because
053the the bundled price of a digital and physical is a it's very close actually to the online. So, but you know $2 to $3,000 is still $2 to $3,000 and we definitely don't want to purchase books that we won't be using. So, we're really aware of that and and try to figure out the best path. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you guys so much. >> Can't wait to hear about the class next lecture. >> Okay, >> now moving on. >> Yes. Now, >> sorry. >> Public speaks to agenda items. >> Yes. If you would anybody like to speak tonight? Okay. I don't see anybody that's interested in speaking. So, um, no, the board has no agenda, um, this evening. So, we'll move on and I'll let Miss Burke introduce our guest tonight. >> Yes.
054So, uh, I'd like to introduce Mr. David Mangus, who is the superintendent of Kaihuga Valley Career Center. He, uh, accepted our invitation to come and speak about what great things are happening there. President Bracket, Board of Education, Superintendent White, Rick Berdine, of course. Uh we just go through and uh was asked to give a presentation kind of an update on CVCC about our success and how we plan. I'm going to try to tie it to Rever as much as I possibly can um just to kind of give you an update on some things that we're doing. So, first and foremost, the strengths of Kog Valley Career Center is not that we're trying to replace or compete with what Revier does. We're our own entity. We want to support or supplement what you do. So, the
055great stories we're today or zoologology would be an example of an elective. That's what we are. We're an elective that students can sign up for uh when they're interested. We're not trying to convince kids they should come to our programs. We want to be an option for those students that want to explore or know, hey, I want to be in one of these, uh, careers, uh, such as health careers. How do I explore it? We're more of a hands-on option. Whereas, if you're a student that's really good at sitting behind a seat and and getting this information from text, the River College Prep track is a great track for nursing. If you learn with your hands, that's when you might want to uh, come over to the career center. Why are we such a great
056school? Well, we have a great community, great partner schools. This slide was up there before. I didn't just create it for today. Um, industry partners, our local governments, Richfield Village, Richfield Township, Bath Township. We have great communities, colleges, and universities. And as we go through, know that we also work with associations. So, you'll you'll see as we get into a little bit of the budget talk, we're constantly advocating for career tech um to not just take place at the career center, but also for that career development that happens uh here in your uh elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools. And then as we go through that whole process, know that we want to have a return on investment. So what what's the river communities getting from CBCC? So we have high school programming. I
057think everybody kind of understands that. But it's really that career development piece. We put resources into our young uh students hands so they can learn about careers young so they can then make the decisions academically to lead them in a direction. But our adult education is also a big part of what we do because we know that every resident in in the River School District is at some point going to need some cement work done. They're going to need a handout or a a family reunion brochure made. Uh they're going to need their HVAC fixed on a cold winter's day. Um those adults come from our training center. So when you're hiring those technicians and some communities have a real hard time finding them, um you know that they're trained with schools like us. And
058then really what what it comes down to is we have three values that we try to portray for our students, our staff, and our community, which is the values of care, accountability, and uh development. So we care about you. We want to see you succeed, but we're going to make sure the supports are there, and then we're going to help train everybody to make sure those supports are available. It's okay. Thank you. Uh we've provided some success stories on all three sides. So, first career development. Uh here is career week which took place for the first time this year. Um and that was at Richfield Elementary. Uh um Nancy Vandre is the career specialist. She's our employee but she resides uh within the River School District to provide those resources. Uh in my research, I
059found that when students have questions about careers, the counselors have a lot of work on their plate. Having that career specialist or that career counselor really allows those counselors to point students to that direction. And then she also gets to put on these wonderful activities for students. She'll bring parents in, do speaking engagements, the touch a truck events and things to that nature. >> Okay, it's working now. Uh every month uh you receive our uh student connection which is one of our current rever students. Uh this is Jaden who's in our uh mechanical design program. Uh he's in there doing a great job. We also then also have alumni spotlights. So this will be uh Haley uh one of our great graduates who went through our electrical program. She went on to an apprenticeship and
060she's now working in construction uh at our constructing futures event next month. Haley will be one of our guest speakers. So uh we're really proud of her and all the success she's having in life. Moving kind of the strategic plan. We're still talking about our success. We do chart this success as we go forward. So these charts just basically show an upward m momentum that we have. This is in certificate and lure. So there are three different levels. The first level would be how many students attempt. The second would how many students attain a certificate or lure. But the yellow bar that could be CPR, that could be first aid. It's that blue bar that you really have to look at because those are industry recognized credentials which means those credentials if earned by a
061student are giving them a leg up in the workforce environment or if they choose to pursue college. So those ones are real meaningful and you can see that since uh 2021 there's a real increase and the number of students attaining those. This is our career technical student organization. Again you see participation um how many we have is in red. The participation is yellow. You see that's tracking up. Also notice the blue which is is where how many place how many place at a regional, state or national competition. That stays pretty flat. We're not teaching to this. We want the students to experience this because this is where they learn leadership, confidence, being able to present, talk in front of uh adults, those kind of soft skills that you need out there in the real world.
062And then retention. Um so this is what we really focus on. Know that our strategic plan just isn't about our high school students. is also adults. Uh but you'll see uh as we talk about retention, um that's how many are enrolled in a CT program. And then the yellow is how many complete uh year-over-year and then work-based learning. How many of our students go out and uh do some sort of on the job placement, internships, job shadowing. The red you can see that's any work-based learning. But the yellow is the state standard for accountability, which means they they've logged more than 250 hours of work-based learning. And you can see that since that's been tracked in 2022, um we're steadily increasing each year. This slide would be directly to ver talking about your enrollment numbers.
063Uh so this is uh everyone from our success academy, a freshman and sophomore, all the way to our seniors. You can see that it's steadily increased since that 2122. We're currently at 71. I can let you know that uh moving into next year, which uh is is a projection at this point. We count that enrollment this 10 days after school starts next year. So that's when we take our snapshot. Um but if we had to look at it right now, uh first we launched a new program. So the nice thing about doing a new program is that's an additional 24 students in the junior year, 48 if you count both years. um and revere uh for the parks and environmental resources which is a construed program with uh a park management uh tone to it.
064Um the three seats that are assigned uh to rever have all been filled. So we made a good choice. Those seats were filled. Our projected enrollment for first year students next year is 47 which would be a projected uh the next of the juniors that are currently with us this year. We project that 82% will come back next year for their senior year. So that would make a projected total enrollment next year of 78. So you can see that that's a seven student increase over this year. Again, projections, but we do track this stuff. An interesting note is um RER is assigned 89 seats in our program. So we're 11 students away from River filling every one of their seats right off right from the very beginning. So that's a real good place to be.
065Um any seat that is not um filled from River then goes through a kind of roundrobin draft day where other schools of the eight of our partners can fill those seats. Our hope is that every year every school will use all of their seats. I know when Jen gave her presentation a few weeks ago, she talked about our academic achievements, talking about kind of that high level of success we expect for our students. This slide just is the one that illustrated that we're the top performing uh academic career center. That's a JVSD in the state. There are 91 of us. You start boiling down to all the five-star categories and we have the highest performance index of those top performers. Um it's just something that shows we're tracking this stuff. We're taking it seriously. We
066want your students to perform at a high level. there is a skilled trade that they learn when they're with us, but also know we understand there is a balance of high performing students and students that want to go directly to work out of high school. Uh, one conversation we had today was in our sports medicine, exercise science. We're considering adding a second academic next year because we're finding a lot of our students are going to OT and PT programs, not well beyond a four-year degree. That's an advanced degree. Um so uh that and teacher has requested that we add a pathophysiology um course to that curriculum. So you can see that those ones that are collegebound uh really do go at a very high academic level. This is where I kind of shift to kind
067of the strategic plan on the operational side know that without excellent operations uh instruction will suffer. So you have great people like John over here behind the scenes. Uh they keep everything flowing. It allows our teachers to teach. It allows our students to stay focused. So, a lot of this presentation when I presented to the board was about operational stuff, roofs, HVAC. I didn't want them to miss that. Our main focus is education. Um, but as you look out there in 2018, we mapped a plan to basically say we have to reorganize how we do things. And I can show on the next slide why, but basically that plan was to make sure we were performing at our best, our resources were closest to the classroom we could make them and that we could continue
068to do this well into the future. Um that plan included a reorganization, a salary schedule reform, and health insurance uh restructuring. And then once obviously you start performing at that high level, it's difficult to stay there. So you have to constantly adjusting this plan. That's why in our plan, we rotate that on a on a five-year cycle. We keep adding a new year every year to keep us on our toes. This is why we knew we had to reorganize. In March of 2018, our budget from the state in the red shows that we were overfunded by $1.3 million. So, I said, I'm not going to sit back and just keep spending that money. We need to find a way to start figuring out how we whittle that away. And uh the green there was our
069annual budget at that point. Moving forward to November of uh 25, you can see that um our total budget increased by 4.5% over that 8-year period. So so not a lot of increase in state funding and we we know but the uh but the carryover amount that they said we were overfunded by dropped to 414,000. So progress happened just in that time. But the interesting thing is with with our plan reorganization we saved about 200,000 a year just over with the salary stipen plan we saved around 1.13 million and with the health form healthc care reform it was about 421,000. So that transitional aid that we were being overfunded we actually reorganized to account for all of that. We did not know that it wasn't going to be a cut in state funding. it was
070going to be a cut in property tax funding. But you can see uh with House Bill 186, we lost about 1.55 million. We had already accounted for that by doing that reorganization plan. And again, how did we know to do that? It's because we looked at those details during the strategic planning process and saw that that the state was saying we were overfunded. So, we took those steps and we're in a good position. Now, during that 10-year period, we did 10 roofs. We replaced all of our HVAC units on our existing building. Um, and what that did is it made it so let's say we get into a situation we just lost and it's it's an actual $1.5 million out of our budget. If a roof if we would have done nothing and a roof
071failed today, we would be in some academic uh uh financial issues going on with the district. So during that time, we also invested in our infrastructure. Um, it's important to point out to the board that uh we projected that that cost, if we did it today, if we would have done nothing over those 10 years, that would be about a $20 million uh exterior renovation project, which in in that case, we saved about 27% by doing it over time um because it cut out those cost increases. Our current carryover balance is about $20 million. With our new forecast that we just did in February, we show that in 5 years it'll be about 13 million. So that 1.5 million does have an impact on us, but we still have projects that we plan on doing.
072We're likely going to scale some of those back to try to keep us in a better financial state. We'll do that over the 5-year period. But part of our strategic plan is to look into the future. So we do what's called the roadmap to the future. We know that property tax reform is a big issue. Um we look at those cash balance limits. So there was a lot of talk by the legislature about not having a large carryover balance. So having the 20 million with a $18 million budget, that might be a little bit of an issue. So you can see that that's being addressed. Uh state funding, insurance costs, I'm sure you guys talk about those here. That's one that I say uh there's really there's no way to prepare for that. They go
073up 10 to 12% every year. You keep doing that math 10 years out and and that's a that's a real warning sign of things to come. So we want to plan for that. Uh advanced technologies, we talk about AI, we talk about all the things we're doing. You heard about online textbooks today. All those things come at a cost. We have to be aware of them. Uh financial aid changes. Uh avoid complacency. That's a big one for my administrative team. We're focusing on that. We have to constantly looking to improve even when you're performing very high. Uh facility renovations. And then obviously we got to identify lab spaces because it would be great to expand and add five more programs. It costs a lot of money, but the reality is there's no there's no room
074for those labs right now. So we're constantly looking for ways to improve the lab spaces that we have. Uh the next two plans we're renovating a lab currently that will allow our ad our architectural mechanical design program to move into a new space. Once it moves, we're going to renovate the space that they're in. Right now, our sports medicine program does their uh drills in our hallway. Then we're going to renovate the architectural space so that then the the sports medicine has its own um lab space so they can do their workouts in a confined area. So just things that we look at into the future. I'm going to go back and then forward, but here would be an example of that planning. So we already have a uh drawing from an architect of an
075addition. This addition would be a multi-purpose room that would be used both for sports medicine and for fire EMT. Um, as you can see, the plan's out there. Our current budget does not allow us to put this into into uh into work, but um it's there in case something would happen, if the state would open up grants or if the the reality is we needed it. So, um, we're always planning for what's next, even though in some cases we may not be able to fulfill that requirement. And at the end, I just wanted to, uh, thank our board again because they supported we're a we're a 50 plus year old district. Um, when I went there 10 years ago, some of the equipment was 50 years old. Um, so we they have uh allowed us
076to invest quite a a large amount of money. We did a million-dollar investment this year to replace equipment that we've been keeping going but is past end of life. Um so they invested that dollar so we could replace some of those equipments. Everything from the nursing beds and our nursing lab to um a Peter Belt truck for our power equipment. Um we invested and got some of those things uh upgraded so we're ready to go for the future. So that concludes my presentation but if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them. I have a question just about how you go about selecting which programs you will offer and maybe if there are programs that you feel the need to >> scale back or remove completely like what does that process look like? >>
077Yeah. So the board in my goals charges me to make sure I'm constantly looking at our current program. Um for our budget Terry purposes because you can see we're not going to get any new money from the state. Um, we're going to try to keep our program uh certified teaching level right around 50 instructors. Um, so to do that, we have to look at our current programming and if we're going to add programming, then we have to look at what we're going to take away. Uh, so we're constantly doing that. Um, it all comes down to the first measure is will students enroll in the program? So obviously that's a that's a big concern we have. We talk with our career specialists, get the students input on what programs they might like to see. The
078second is there has to be the support from business and industry. So we have to have a commitment that we'll get an advisory for that program, but also that they'd be willing to hire those students directly out of high school if we offered that program. So our most recent with the parks and environmental resources, we first went to the park systems. They thought it was a great idea. Once we talked about the curriculum, we brought in construction companies, paving companies, our local municipalities, their service garages, and every one of those organizations signed off on this program that they would hire a program, our students out of that program. So, we know there's a a need for that type of concrete work, basic repair. Um, they learn how to use excavators, things to that nature. And
079then the last is we want to make sure that there are jobs available and that they pay a livable wage upon graduation. So those are the three factors we use um to get that job data that either comes from team NEO reports uh statewide reports on economic development and uh that's why me and my administrative team are constantly going to meetings to make sure we're keeping up on on what that data is saying uh because it can be a little bit misleading. You can have a large growth in an industry, but if it has a small number of jobs, that large growth may not be enough to support 24 graduates coming out of a program at one time. And then also just that kind of qualitative word of mouth um community uh feedback that we
080get as well. So that we take all that into consideration when we decide programs to add. We had a program list of the next five we would like to add and I charged all my high school administration. We're revamping that now because you can't once you go five years that list could change. Um, but some ideas for the future. I know that we've talked about a automation and robotics. We've talked about law enforcement. We've talked about uh a veterary technician program. All those things have come up and we have to go back and review all that data again to make that decision. >> Great. Thank you. >> Perfect. Yep. Can you talk a little bit about how you partner with businesses and municipalities to provide training for their employees? >> Yeah, so on the adult
081side, um we are we offer a certain uh platform of of of jobs training uh through our adult program. So the 26 programs we run during the day, we're willing to offer them at night. Uh there's two sides of that equation in the evening school. You can do occupational training which those are people that are either unemployed or undermployed and you're getting the skills to get a job in that area. That has been kind of a slow progressed segment of our our work. What's really happening now is we are doing what's called customized training which we partner then directly with business and industry. They pay the tuition for their employees to come to us to be uptrained. So we have uh currently we have two sections of multicraft maintenance going. So those are technicians that
082are in manufacturing setting already today. They are either entry- level employees or operators that they want to move into maintenance technicians. So when we sign those agreements, those run during the day. So we have a lab set aside where we'll have 8 to 12 students that are adults come in and they are upskilling. They are actually at work while they're at our building. So, they are uh employed by our 20 plus manufacturing partners on Monday and Wednesday. They show up at 8:00, but they show up at our facility. We train them and then they have lunch and then they go back to work for the afternoon. Uh their companies allow them to do that for two two days a week and then other companies then do it on t Tuesday and Thursday. So, we do
083that during the day. We're we want to be at break even. Understand break even means you need to make a little bit more. So, you can expand, but you can also cover all of your indirect costs. Um, but we do that at the lowest possible rate we can because we know it's good for our communities. We're not trying to make a profit on that. We want to make sure um we're the best priced option in town. And then we hire people from business industry to teach those classes on a part-time basis. So, those instructors get paid when a class runs. So, a little different model than our day school where we hire teachers full-time. In the night school, they're part-time. They're get paid hourly and that's built into the price that we pay. Enough information
084there, Jen. >> That was beautiful. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Anybody else? >> All right. Thank you so much for coming and presenting to us. >> Thank you so much. >> Um I only had one other thing to add for my report for the month. Um, tomorrow night the uh National Technical Honor Society is having their induction ceremony and I have in front of me the longest list of River students being inducted that I've seen in my tenure on the board. And so I'd like to congratulate Izzy Massu, Ricky Dreward, Molly Wolf, Leland Clark, Holly Gainner, and Dominic Surin for that achievement. It's incredible. It demonstrates their dedication not only to the skills that they're learning but to their academics. and I want to congratulate all of them. >> Wonderful. >> That's it. Thank you.
085>> Congratulations to them. >> Okay, Mr. Berdine, it looks like we're up for your agenda. >> Thank you. I would propose taking all of Roman numeral 8, items 1 through five, please, as one action item. >> Okay, I'll make the motion. >> Second. Okay, >> you move. You moved. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Okay. So the first one the minutes from the three meetings you see there because we had the the uh additional special meeting in February the financial report for February which doesn't have any variances just because we just updated the forecast. So by the time the software was updated my monthly projections were not able to be done in time for this. The purchase orders there are six that were out of sequence this month. asset deletions or additional um library materials from
086River Middle School. And then the donations um we have on the pavilion which you heard about um tonight. So that is on there for acceptance as a as a facility that we would take on and then own and then have responsibility for maintenance of that after it's built. Um, and then we had the three cash donations. $500 from River Middle School PTA for the seventh grade Cedar Point trip, $10362 cents from Chris Gear for the Ben Chrisman scholarship. That's a funky amount only because the donor can pay the credit card fees in Give Smart and they did that. So, it's actually a $100 donation >> uh because of the fee assessment that's on there. But we did receive 10362 with the way it's charged off through give smart and then the River Baseball softball association
087$1,000 to the softball program at the high school. So as always we are very fortunate here because that's uh 70 plus thousand dollars right there. >> Yeah, that's amazing. >> Thanks to >> What a gift. Thank you. >> Our res friends. >> Definitely. Okay, any questions or discussion for Mr. Bine? >> Okay, please call the RO. Thank you, >> Mrs. Bracket. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stein, >> yes. >> Mr. Bowler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Burke, >> yes. >> Mrs. Rainey, >> yes. All right. Motion carries. >> Thank you all very much. >> All right. Mr. White. >> All right. Roman numeral. I'll recommend we take Roman numeral 91 1A and B as a consent. Can >> I get a motion and a second, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. So first there
088at A we have a resignation for retirement purposes um for our high school intervention specialists and then uh letter B we have some internal transfers. Um Mrs. Cancealier is going from seventh grade social studies to eighth grade social studies and then Mrs. Bquette from language arts teacher to the seventh grade social studies position and Mrs. Cancelier is leaving and then we have um Cindy Basher moving to the high school from Bath. And then Teresa White will transfer from technology media teacher at the middle school to BA Elementary to replace Mrs. Pasher. And then we have Ryan Lee Camp will be transferring from electives teacher to a sixth grade science teacher at the middle school. >> It's quite the domino effect created there. >> Yes, exactly. Looking forward to having everybody start in their new roles.
089>> Any questions or comments? >> Okay, >> Mr. B. >> Mrs. Burke. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bowler. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Brackett. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stein. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. Then Roman numeral nine number two, letter A through 2G as a consent as well. Can I get a motion in a second, please? >> I'll motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> So, uh, Jeff Shouline was our oopsie employee of the year this year is going to be retiring. He's up there first. And then we have two of our bus drivers will be re uh retiring. And then also our intensive needs, a Mrs. Ring there in letter A. And then we have some new hires. Letter B. All
090right. Deb Dorio for 10-month secretary for us at the high school. All right. Ashley McClung. Letter C, we have a track aid for one of our middle school students. And then letter D, we have two new van drivers to consider. And then Cheryl Magcguire for substitute bus aid. Any questions on any of those? All right. And then E, we have a change in hours, Mr. Gartland. And then letter F is our contracts there for Mr. Pine to be a volunteer assistant director for Rever Players. And then G is a game workers uh Abigail Hitman to help us out as a game worker. Any questions on any of those? >> I just want to thank the our retirees that are on this list for their service. There's a lot of people here with a long tenure
091at River that are much appreciated and I wish them the best of luck. >> Yeah. >> Anything else? >> Okay. All right. There's no other discussion. Mr. Berdine. >> Mrs. Stein. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bowler. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Brackett. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burke. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey. >> Yes. Okay. >> Okay. Number three. We have no items for student services tonight. and then 4 A just discuss 4 A for now. So our second and final reading for the list of policies there. >> Okay, I'll make the motion for that. >> I'll second. >> All right, these were items we had discussed in previous meetings. You have any questions on any of these policies? >> Anybody? >> Okay, Mr. Bine, please. >> Mrs. Brackett, >> yes. >> Mrs. Burke, >> yes. >> Mr.
092Bowler. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stein, >> yes. >> Okay. Letter B, we have the new revised board policies first reading. We went over these at our work session. >> Yes. And no action being a first read. So, any questions or comments? Okay. >> All right. And then 4 C and D or I would recommend as a consent. Two calendars. >> All right. I'll make the motion. Second. Oh, >> thank you. And so the second and final reading for the 2728 school calendar and then the revised district calendar for 26 and 27. And again, that's just switching that uh our convocation day and professional development day. It doesn't impact our community, students or families at all. >> Okay. Questions or comments? >> 2720 Oh, >> go ahead. >> Sorry. >> The
0932728 calendar that's already on the website or that will go out to families once it's >> once it's approved. Yeah, >> perfect. >> He'll be excited to have that to plan. >> I know. I'm excited. >> Okay. Mr. Berdine, please call the role. >> Mrs. Brackett, >> yes. >> Mrs. Rainey, >> yes. >> Mr. Bowler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Burke, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stein, >> yes. >> Okay. So, E is the presentation that Mrs. Roach and Mrs. Hillbrand did for us tonight on zoology. That was a first read with no action. >> Yep. >> Questions or comments? >> Appreciate the presentation tonight. Looking forward to seeing how it goes next year. Thank you. Anybody else? All right. >> All right. 4F is the curriculum recommendations. The second and final reading and these were presentations
094we also had at previous board meetings. So, the intensive needs class. >> Okay. Can I get a motion, please? We'll make a motion. >> Second. Thank you. >> All right. Any questions? >> No. Mr. Bine is calling. >> Mrs. Burke. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stein. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bowler. >> Yes. Mrs. Bracket. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. G is the college credit plusou agreements uh with Walsh University. >> Okay. I'll make the motion. >> Second. Any questions on that one? All right. Mr. Bime, please come. >> Mrs. Brackett. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rainey. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bowler. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burke. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stein. >> Yes. >> All right. And then last is the student handbooks. The first reading, no action tonight
095for 2627 school year. That's it for Roman numeral 9. >> Okay. Any questions or comments? That's a lot of effort to go through that every year. So just appreciate the time that it takes to review and make those edits for >> all of our different building administrators. So and that's no action. Okay. Thank you, Mr. White. >> You're welcome. >> Okay. Um for information and discussion items, we just have the announcement of our next um board meetings in April. So we have a work session that will be held on Tuesday, April 14th and that will take place over at the River Administration Building and then that's followed up a week later here again in the library um April 21st at 5:30 for the regular meeting. Okay. Um, and then finally, this is the part of
096the meeting where you can speak to any um, concerns or comments that you have, regardless of whether they're on the agenda. >> Anyone? >> Sure. >> Is there any news on Seeker and his situation with athletics? >> She should go to the mic and identify herself for >> just so we can get it on for proper protocol. Thank you, >> I'm sorry to be the nitpicker. We love that you're comfortable. >> Thank you. >> Hi, I'm Sandy Palmier. I have uh two middle schoolers. So, I'm They're very into the athletics and all of that. So, a priority for us is to figure out this athletic director situation. Kind of heard different um things about him retiring, him not retiring. So, just looking for some information from the community on that. >> I'm going to let
097Mr. White speak to this. We've heard the same thing. We've just not received anything official. So, I think >> very different news in the community. So, we're just curious. >> Yeah. So, I we have not received any official word from Mr. Seeker at this time. >> Okay. And when is his contract up? >> July 31st. >> So, it's coming kind of soon. >> Okay. And is there like a search going on for a replacement at all or >> We need to hear officially from Mr. Seeker on his plans. So even though I know there's a lot of conversation out in the community, we've not officially received anything for us to start a search at this time. >> So that kind of starts after you guys right >> got it. And when he resigns, how long
098is the period before he's actually like gone? >> Well, his contract would be up July 31st, >> right? >> Yeah. So the new athletic director would start August 1 if indeed we had a new one. >> Okay. And um has it been like thought about at all? Like it just seems like there's going to be a gap. >> I will say we have I mean we're all hearing rumors right in the community, so I don't want to >> pretend to be ignorant in that fact. >> Um >> I think people are thinking about it, but until then, we have no idea. You were asking if >> Well, if if there like if we don't start searching until his contract is over. Well, so if the contract ends July >> 31st, yeah, >> jump in. >>
099And we don't have a replacement, then what happens in that period before we find >> We will make sure we fill that gap. Yeah, we will make sure we have somebody in place to take care of that. >> Yeah. I just I feel like that's like a big >> It won't There won't be a gap. We'll make sure somebody Yeah, we will have somebody to take that. >> Okay, cool. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> That's it for now. >> The mic's still open, Sandy, if you want to come. Hey, I'm >> okay. Any other comments? Okay, we do have a reason to meet in executive session this evening to discuss the employment of a public employee. We do not anticipate any action to follow the meeting. Can I get a motion and a second
100to enter executive session? >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Mr. Bdine, please call the role. >> Mrs. Burke, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stein, >> yes. Mr. Bowler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bracket, >> yes. >> Mrs. Rainey, >> yes. >> Okay. 653, we are officially in executive session. Thank you all for coming.