001Uh good evening everyone. Uh today is uh May 13, 2025. We are here uh for the River Board of Education work session. Uh Mr. Verdine, will you please call the role? Mrs. Bracket here. Mr. Hyen here. Mr. Malik here. Mrs. Ry here. Mrs. Ste here. All right. We do not have any presentations. um this evening. Correct. Correct. Okay. Uh so first up, we do have the uh board of education agenda. We do have an item on there and that's uh for board discussion regarding revised and new policies. Uh there won't be any action, but this is an opportunity for the board uh to review uh policies that have um been provided to us by our uh attorneys. Um and uh we are going to go through each of them. There's quite a few. Most are
002revisions. I think there is one new. Um, so as we go through these, I'll talk briefly about each one and then uh why they're on there, especially for the revisions. Um, and the floor is open to us so you guys can all um weigh in as we go through it. So the first on here is for the revisions is uh policy 1.09. This is officers of the board of education. Um and if you go through our agenda that's on that um as an attachment uh and the one thing that we're redacting is the president shall uh be the custodian the official bond of the treasurer which bond shall be recorded in the minutes of the board signed by the president. So this is uh being deleted. Uh so we use employee dishonesty and faithful performance
003of duty insurance policy rather than a shity bond. Uh so because we don't use a shy bond there's no need for that language to be in our policy. Is there any other discussion on that? Um next is 4.01 uh employment of substitute uh ste uh teaching staff. Um, so there's uh some additional language in here. Uh, under House Bill 147, which took effect October 24th of last year, 2024, uh, if the board removes an employee from the list of eligible substitute teachers from the district due to an act that is unbecoming of the teacher teaching profession. Uh the board must now promptly notify the superintendent of public instruction by providing the name and social security number of the individual uh and factual statement regarding the matter. Uh so that is why that is in the
004policy. So I assume it I can't remember but just before there was just you just removed them and didn't notify anyone. Correct. That language was not in there. Yeah. The notification. Yeah. Um next is the uh interdict inter uh district open enrollment. This is uh 6.05. Uh also this is pursuant to Senate bill another Senate bill and this is Senate Bill 208 which the governor signed January 8th of 2025 uh whereby boards of education which prohibit interd district open enrollment must still permit the open enrollment of the children of acti act active duty armed services members who are stationed in Ohio. In preventing such open enrollment, the board must follow the procedure applicable to districts which allow open enrollment. And then in accordance with this requirement, the board will need uh to establish the capacity
005limits by grade level school building educational program. Um so if you look at our policy uh you see a lot of red because there's a big big addition. Um I think we have dates in here like deadline dates that I didn't see as I was glancing through the Ohio code. I'm not saying that that's like the application procedures April 1st and stuff like that. So when I was glancing through um so I'm assuming that that's allowed by correct the higher revised code and we've done it for planning purposes so that we can staff or say no correct if it exceeds the current limits and requires more staffing. Okay, that's it. That's the only comment on that one. [Applause] Okay. Uh next is 6.06. [Applause] 06 and it's this is specific to the end of that
006policy which is letter H. Um and it's enrollment of resident non-resident homeless and foreign exchange students. Uh this is pursuant to how code 3313.64F8. Um, and that uh states that a child whose parent is a full-time employee of a school district may uh be admitted to the schools of the district where the child's parent is employed regardless of whether the employee resides within the school district's territory. Um, and uh most schools will have this and it's part of their collective bargaining. Uh, and we have that as well. Um, and that Ohio Revised Code actually requires that a board uh of education establish a policy if we want to have that practice. And since we do have that practice, that's why this is being added to our policy. All right. Next is anybody have any questions
007on that? Um, next is uh 6.26 dangerous weapons in the school, bomb threats and violent conduct. This is 6.26. And you will see um there is one, two, three, basically four pages that are added to this policy. Uh and this is Ohio House Bill 206 which was signed by the governor also on January 8th of this year. Permits the board to adopt a policy allowing the sum superintendent to expel a pupil from school for a period not to exceed 180 days for actions the superintendent determines post imminent and severe bless you uh imminent and severe endangerment uh to the health and safety of other pupils or school employees. In making such an expulsion, the superintendent must develop conditions for the pupil's reinstatement which include an assessment uh completed by a psychiatrist, licensed psychologist or licensed
008school psychologist. The superintendent must evaluate uh a pupil prior to his or her reinstatement to determine if uh he or she has been rehabilitated or if an extension of the expulsion of up to 90 days is warranted. Uh there is no limit on the number of times a superintendent uh may extend an expulsion. Uh and a plan for the continued education of a pupil subject to such an expulsion must be created which may include education by the district in an alternate uh setting including instruction at home or enrollment in another district or other type of public or non-public school. So that is what you will find here at the end of 6.26. All right. Next is 6.6. So this is the seizure safety policy. Um you see that we added some language on B. Uh
009and then there is quite a bit of language at that we added at the end. Um, House Bill 206, uh, allows a student to possess a drug prescribed to the student designed to prevent the onset of a seizure seizure or to alleviate the symptoms of a seizure at school or any activity, event or program sponsored by or in which the student school uh is a participant if both of uh the following conditions are satisfied. And that is that the student has the written approval of the student's physician and if the student is a minor the written approval of the parent, guardian or the person having care charge of the child or the student uh and the school principal and if school nurse is assigned to the student school building the school nurse have received copies
010of those written approvals. So that is what uh this these additions uh indicate. Do we have any definition for the addition of such drugs may be kept in an easily accessible location? Do we are we kind of outlining that by building by age and student? I don't know if we have a plan for how to That's vague and I'm sure it's supposed to be vaguely worded. That's on um letter D. Yeah, letter D. Um I think I mean yeah kindergartener versus 12th grader it's going to be I think age appropriateness um right and determined by how much like the risk for the student how close needs to be like when you think about uh locations usually are clinics I don't think we exception unless it was needed in like this a classroom setting on their
011person right all right so I think It's like case by case. Sure. Um, extracurricular activities. So, this is 7.16 and that'll this is going to be at the end. Um, this is House Bill 147. uh allows a superintendent to permit a home educated student or student enrolled in a different school district, community school, STEM school, charter non-public school, or non-chartered non-public school to participate in inter scholastic athletics at the district if the student was a victim of any of the following by a school official employee volunteer of another student. harassment, intimidation or bullying, an offense of violence, a violation of state and partuning law, an attempt to commit an offense of violence or to violate state and pertuning law or to uh or to conduct by a school official, employee or volunteer that violates the
012lensure code of cond or code of professional conduct for Ohio educators. uh the student must be an appropriate age and grade level and must also fulfill the same academic non-academic and financial requirements uh as any other participant. Um so that this is those requirements have been added to our policy. Uh next is the college credit plus program. Keith, I have a question on that. Like um for the academic piece, if they if a student is attending a they live in the district, but they're attending a school that doesn't offer a sport, right? They're allowed to come here and play for River. Is that a different policy? It is. Okay. That's under this is this is for victims of those. Yeah. Okay. All right. Got it. There's a special provision what you're asking about. All right.
013That's also probed. Okay. Yeah. I just didn't know for the academic piece if it was their standards or ours. Do we know if this is yearby year or like once they're a victim then for the rest of time they can come, you know, say it's their freshman year something happens. Can they continue to play with River throughout their high school career or Yeah. I think once approved it's done. Okay. Good. All right. Thank you. Sorry. Reverted backwards. Next is the uh college. I didn't do the college credit plus one. Not yet. That's all right. Sorry. Sorry. I got uh this is se or this is uh 7.26. Um and you'll see a couple of red marks throughout. most of some of them are just typographical. Um but then in the first paragraph under eligibility restrictions,
014you'll see a sentence added. Um so this is pursuant to Ohio Senate Bill 104 which uh became effective uh February 15th of this year. Uh, a student may provide his or her uh, intent to participate in the district's co college plus credit program during the second semester of the school year by November 1st of the preceding semester. Uh, the district's college credit program plus board policy, uh, we have revised it to accommodate that language. [Applause] All [Applause] right. Cash in school buildings. I mean, like 20 years ago, that don't even I mean, that's what we had was cash, right? Right. Uh so this uh you'll just see that there's some language that was added. Um so this is pursuant to House Bill 147. Uh schools are now prohibited from establishing different prices for tickets for
015a school affiliated event based upon where those tickets are purchas purchased using cash or other uh payment methods. Um, however, a school may charge a processing fee, uh, similar like when we go out to restaurants for credit cards. Um, and it requires that the student enrolled in any of the schools participating in the school affiliate event be charged a ticket price that is less than the ticket price that the school charges for an adult for the same event. So, you'll see that language here. It also adds that language about basically requiring us to have the student tickets be less than the that's new too. Yeah. So they don't distinguish it. I mean it could be like a dollar less. Yeah. But it's not in the old policy. I didn't realize that. Our kids don't pay
016to get into any of our events anyway. Sporting sporting sporting that's other stuff they do. Yeah. [Applause] really have much to say about 810. This is a uniform federal grant guidance. [Applause] [Music] Um I think this is just about that reallocation of costs and the whistleblower protection that was added um to protect uh an employee from that. Uh 8.13 also this is on procurement with federal grants and funds. Um this is just adding in some um change of words from small purchase to simplified acquisition. Um and then there's some uh language modification. Um and then we have here a lot of revisions but next is the inventory and disposition of equipment obtained with federal awards. Um so the federal office of management and budget u made significant revisions to the federal regulations establish establishing administrative
017requirements cost principles and audit requirements for all entities receiving federal financial assistance. The non-substant revisions include replacing jargon with plain language and ensuring consistent use of terms throughout the regulations. Um, Ohio schools typically or districts generally do not pay reallocation cost. Um, to any existing or new employee. Um, so such benefit would likely have to be uh collected bargained. Um, so these we're just taking into account here all the new changes. Did you want to say? It's only a using federal funds to those. So, our federal funds that we receive are minimal. They're minimal, but they're also they long before me, they've been allocated to certain staff positions that are partially or fully funded out of there, as well as contracted services procured for special education through the ESC northeast Ohio. We have very very
018minimal amounts beyond that that aren't there's a little bit for supplies if they look at $150,000 but it's it's nothing that even gets into these purchasing thresholds relocation my entire career if I've ever seen it it's been like on a superintendent treasurer hire where you might pay for them to if you're hiring out the district out of the region even more than the district I should say. So but again this would be applicable if it's federal right funds which is not the case. All those eight points appear to be just federal fund related. Okay. Um next we have 9.14. This is the food sale standards and services. Um, pursuant to Ohio Rise Code 3313.816, an annual report regarding the district's compliance with its nutritional standards must be included in the consolidation or the consolidated school
019mandate report that the district provides to the Department of Education and workforce as prescribed in code 3301.68. Um so this this requirement is now being incorporated into our board policy um because uh districts have increasingly been subject to scrutiny over such policies obviously with our nutritional program. So we just want to ensure that we are compliant and stay um up to date. You approve an annual resolution for that. We upload it now. So it's really stipulating what we already do. So that's uh it as far as revisions. And then we have one new um policy and that's 9.39. That's the parents bill of rights. [Applause] Um so let me talk a little bit about that since it's new. And this is House Bill 8 um that requires the board to adopt a policy by July
0201st of this year which promotes parental involvement within the district and includes the following elements. Uh number one is all sexuality content any oral or written instruction, presentation, image or description of sexual concepts or gender ideology provided in the classroom setting must be age appropriate and developmentally appropriate. Prior to providing instruction that includes sexual sexuality content, parents must be provided the opportunity to review such materials and request for their child to be excused from that such instruction. A student's uh parent must be promptly notified of any substantial change in the student's services, including counseling services or monitoring related to the students mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being or the school's ability to I'm sorry, to provide a safe and supportive learning environment. School personnel are prohibited from directly or indirectly encouraging a student to
021withhold from a parent information concerning the students mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being or a change in related services or monitoring. Schools must obtain authorization from parents prior to providing any type of health care services to a student, including physical, mental, or behavioral health care services at the beginning of the school year. Parents must be notified of each health care health health care service offered or facilitated by the student school and their option to withhold consent or decline any specified service. Uh parents must be notified of the right to file with a principal or assistant principal a written concern regarding any of these topics addressed in the board policy. The principal or assistant principal must resolve such concerns within 30 days. Parents may be may appeal that decision to the superintendent uh who must
022conduct a hearing on the matter and render a decision. The superintendent's decision may be appealed to the board which may hold a hearing and either affirm the superintendent's decision or determine a new resolution to the parents concern. So that is what is drafted here for the parental or for parents I'm sorry bill of rights which we have to have in place by July 1st. Is there any discussion on that? Just to be clear because I know we might get some questions. All Ohio public schools are required to have this policy. You are absolutely correct. And what is what we're in May? So we have our first read will be next week. So public will have an opportunity to make comments and then we'll have our second read June. June. Yeah. Just right before the deadline.
023The only comment well maybe two but there's a section I'm only allowed one. Okay. Um there's a section on the Ohio Revised Code that specifically outlines like um all of the like HIPPA fura that it doesn't we don't have that in our policy but I don't know that it matters because it's part of the code anyways. Okay. We make reference to the code. Yes. Yeah. There's one other section where it specifically says that like this pol or saying that there's a procedure of like you go to the principal then superintendent then board doesn't prohibit people from going to the board. That's also not in our policy but it is outlined in the code. So just making sure we're okay with those two variations that I saw. That's it. Anybody else have any comments? All right.
024That was a lot. That's a lot. Nice job. You did it well though, Keith. We got that faster than I thought we might. So, good job. Well done. So, I will probably talk a little bit about them next week, too, just because it'll be um even though this is a public setting as well, um since it's a first read next week, uh I think it might be good just to kind of go over that again. So, not to bore all of you to my reading next week, but that's probably what I'll end up doing. So Sheldon hopefully took good notes today and show up next week. I didn't see him writing. Yeah, exactly. Tell me what Keith just said. All right. Uh Mr. Verdine, do you have anything today? Okay, Mr. White. Do you have
025the one uh resignation for retirement for Marty Single? Okay. Any questions? How long has Marty been with us? I'm sorry. How long has he been with us? Does anybody remember? 32. 32 years. All of Wow. Wish him well in his wish him well. Yes. Hope he enjoys retirement. Thank you for uh his service here to River. Um, so may I have a motion and a second, please? Motion, second. I have a quick question. On the topic of retirees, where are we at with filling Percy's kindergarten position? I know we've got some questions. We're monitoring the enrollment numbers, which I think the last report we had was 177 students, right? So, we're just watching it right now at nine teachers. It puts us at about 19 students per class. We filled that spot, we'd have 10
026and about 17 students. So, we're just kind of monitoring along with the rest of staffing and potential changes with staffing, especially with STRS going down to 32 years. So, we're watching closely. We had posted that position and then the number of applicants. It's still an open vacancy right now. So, it's still posted and people are still applying for it, but we haven't started the interview process. We have a green light to do that. Can I ask when you think we will? Just because I think it's like thinking back, my son was in kindergarten last year. I think his class was 17. Um, and I know people are asking. So, I just I don't know. I just know it's been a topic of conversation. And I think that um you know is it is it typical
027to wait as we go into the summer or I think traditionally uh we have waited um you know uh just because there's multiple staffing decisions being made. I don't want to speak for you. Um but I know this is your first year. I'm just talking about history. um we have typically waited um because kindergarten is the one that's kind of up in the air because it's a new it's it's all new students to the school. Um has that been your recollection, Rick? In my eight years, we we used to wait until I think we filled in August before. Yeah, because you're not you have I don't know how many applicants there'll be, but it'll be a bunch for primary grades. Is there a number like is there a threshold that that's what would trigger it
028because I yeah we don't want to go over very much over 20 you know so I think there's not a set number there's nothing like in a policy or anything says when you get to the cert number but I don't think we want to go over 20 like 22 23 we want to start looking to make those smaller but it's not the uh Yeah, it's not something that's set in stone. So, I think traditionally kindergarten, first grade, those those grades you typically have a lower class size per teacher. The other thing that, you know, I think that we'll eventually have to look at is I think I don't know how recently it was changed, but um where it's kind of integrated am PM down at kindergarten. So I think that's something that we'd have to
029evaluate as well because I don't know when those certain students leave then what are the classroom sizes when they do leave you know do they go down to 15 14 students in the classroom um or less so it's not always at the number that we see because it's now integrated um so that's also something I think you got to evaluate because I don't think that is really known because if you before it used to be you one teacher that taught the half day and they and now we went to a model that's more integrated. So I kind of I think we kind of have to reevaluate that as well. Um because when those students leave then obviously they no longer have 19 maybe in their class they have 14 or something like that. So that
030you know I think that all has to be accounted for too. I think that a lot gohead. I was going to say I think like this year and these numbers are just like numbers, right? To estimate like let's say we I think we start out with like 60 half day this year and now we're down to like under 20 cuz kids often switch throughout they can switch throughout the year from half day to full day. So I hear that but I think they switch and so then you have those kids there all day. That makes sense. Like my son switched from half day to full day as we went through the year. Um we do see a transition most years like Ally described where we will end with more full day than what we started
031but the numbers vary as we've looked back five six years since the change was made to not offering AM and PM halves. We went back and looked and you generally see growth in K. Not always, but generally you see growth in K um from spring to August and then you then it kind of plateaus after after Labor Day. It really plateaus, but then you do see the shifting that N described where you'll see more kids transition to a full day offering. Some of the commentary on because two of the staff already working here in this building who are helping with student registration said that they've both been in district 27 years. So they've done it a long time. They said the dialogue was different with families this year where there seemed to be more uncertainty
032about whether they would commit to long-term. So I don't know if it's just economic circumstances in the moment and then those could change by spring. They didn't have to commit that day. We don't count them as full day until they put the the $300 deposit down. So, I think it's clear that number could change, but it's kind of why we've always said we'll monitor that enrollment. I think we're at like 99 full right now and 78 half. So, using those numbers, you would have 11 students in the afternoon. I don't think it will end up there, but that's what we're looking at now, right? We study the situation. I think we need to be aware that because of the structure that we have for kindergarten where it is half day incorporated into that full day
033class that all of the curriculum all the core curriculum for those students is given during those morning hours. Right? So, when we're looking at effectively um uh teaching these students and providing them with the resources they need, we really need to look at that morning number unless we're going to change the structure of our kindergarten class because every student that is there in the afternoon is paying to be there a full day and are also there in the morning trying to learn that curriculum with those half-day students. So those kids that are left in the afternoon are enriching those skills and having a little bit more time for some of the social emotional skills as well. Um but that core curriculum is when the class is as full as it's going to get. And then
034not that we're not looking at it, but I know that there's a lot of data out there with research that shows that small classroom sizes at that age are really important and have longl lasting effects, like lifelong effects, test scores, academic success, college acceptance, college success, stuff like that. So, um I know that I've had classes in both sizes. I've had 17 kindergarten class kids and I've had 23 and the difference is stark. And it provides an absolutely different learning environment and opportunity to build those foundational skills that we absolutely need and will just provide benefits as the years go on. So yes, I agree with that completely. I've had small classes and larger. I was first grade so it wasn't kindergarten but it's very similar and it makes a big difference with the amount
035of time that you can provide to each student who needs it and um and I do think that's I was going to ask about that too. I do think if the morning is when the instruction is then that's the number that matters most more than if there is a drop off I understand that but um but I do think the core curriculum time it's really important to keep that number small. I agree. I think the biggest thing is we have to weigh whether or not that the way we have it set up is right the best way is the best way and if we need to reevaluate that I agree with that as well but um we agree with using that big number at least from the cabinet conversation that occurred this week is we
036agree it's just where where is that number and and frankly you know you get all kinds of data from a lot of other districts me personally as a guy who's never taught a second in his I really don't care what other districts do. I think it's a river choice. And if the five of you representing revections and we don't care if they're 17.7. Mhm. That's all I care about. I don't care what pick 10 districts. I don't care what they do. I think it's what it's what's right for River. I could tell stories all day long from all the districts I've been in, but they're frankly not relevant. What's relevant is what you folks represent for our taxpayers and that's what we'll deliver. So say the word. I agree. Not worried about other districts, what's
037best for our kids. That's all I care about. Ideally, the younger the younger school or the younger age kids, I think need more attention. Yes. Well, so that sounds like fillet. This Natalie, I think you sound like a fillet. Kosha, I think you sound like a fillet. 100%. Hayden and Courtney Courtney sounded like she's a fillet. I think I know if that was if I wasn't clear, I apologize. Hayden is all about doing more rever. So I I think we heard your answer. I would only be interested to see what the data is from the kids who go half day to whole day. what the difference like how they transition from is there a big difference in them in the way they transition to third, fourth and fifth? Do we have data that shows do
038kids that go half day do they seem to adjust as easily as kids that are there fulltime? um just for my own, you know, like is there a difference or is the afternoon more of I I would just assume it'd be very hard for a kindergartener to go for 7 hours without there being, you know, like is the afternoon more of like a daycare type atmosphere compared to it doesn't affect how many teachers we have, but you know, I mean, do we have any kids that go in the afternoon and not in the morning? No. So, okay. So, they're all there in the morning, right? Yes. That's the curriculum. I was my son started half day. Not to like make this about my personal business, but half day and I remember sitting with Miss Emory
039because that was his teacher and she made the the the case for us to switch because for like social reasons, like he was doing great academically, but socially she thought it'd be beneficial for him to be there. So then I think there's opportunity in the afternoon for even the teachers still to have that one-on-one because they would also do like I think um enrichment in different centers and things in the afternoon that you don't get in the morning. So I think that afternoon is still in the day. Oh yeah, they're still Yes, they're still following the same curriculum. They're just opportunities for additional activities and interactions with the teacher that are a little bit individualized. Yeah, I was just wondering I have the teachers. Karen, I have Maria. Karen, what you I like am I
040reading this right? We have 225 applicants for the kindergarten job right now. Some people have over 200 225. Yeah, we will never have a shortage. If we did in August, we aren't going to have a shortage because we've never had we've never had a shortage. I think I think I think we I think we know where the direction we'd like to go. To answer your question, Emily, May 13th. Yeah. Well, I think that's a good idea. I think when it comes to class sizes, you'll never regret a small number. Like that's never going to be something where like, oh, we were too small. I agree. And I Yeah. And I just think especially in the younger grade. I mean, having having taught young grades, I I felt it was critical to have a smaller size.
041Hopefully, we made it easy for you. You only had 225. Although that's a lot of that's a lot of applicants to go through. You got a lot of reading tonight, Karen. Sorry. a lot. But we can talk we can talk further about the setup at a later time. Um, but I do think we should evaluate as well the way that we're doing it and see if that's the best practice if that's what we want to continue, but I still think I still think we need the 10th unit. What is it? What is our largest like as a whole at River? Where are our largest class to teacher ratios? Senior band. Band. All right. That's a good one. Band for sure. I mean, are you talking about band as a class or band as a Yeah,
042band as a class? You're talking about a class as a whole? What are you talking about? Like a specific Well, no. I'm not Aren't they mostly in the high school? It's currently the fifth grade class going into sixth grade. No, but what I mean is like is the um gifted math class have a larger teacher to student ratio compared to the chemistry class that most kid like where the average kid is or is the class ratio bigger in our average classes of kids that are I would say I hate using the term average but kind of in the middle are those classes larger per student teacher ratio. Is it in our gifted classes? Is it in our IEP? Or is it all pretty much around the same? There's I know that science at the middle
043school, they will say that there's like a bubble that comes through here and there in their honors classes that might be larger than their gened classes. That's the biggest place that that I hear it. Okay. Social studies, middle school PE, too. That's I think that's different as an elective. That's just one that is desired. And then that twice. When we look at electives, well, even the different gen ed honors at the high school, none of the numbers are staggering as far as class size. Okay. Yeah, I was just I don't feel concerned when I look at the numbers. and and most of our programming we order class sets of texts and we have 30 but that leaves us wiggle room where some students have a text that goes home with them and stays with them.
044The only place where I've had requests for more is middle school science. So, and I do think that's with the schedule change with the way that um the whole day has changed at the middle school. Science and social studies occasionally can have more than maybe the other classes, but we're under 20 in math and ELA classes at the middle school for almost every section. I love that. Which is great. And part of that was distributing students who have IEPs into multiple classes. And part of that was looking at trying to change the schedule to support students better. Awesome. Great. Thanks. Yeah, I love those numbers. I mean it's important for the students and it's as important for the teacher too. Their load of what they are capable of. Yeah. I'm glad you both were here
045today. Yeah. Me too. Me too. Yeah. They would have gotten me. That's awesome. Hey, Mr. Single was 30 years. Thanks Mr. 30 for looking at 30 river years. That's awesome. Thank you. John was able to find that much more quickly than I would have. So thank you to Mr. retirement. So we uh we started to have comments but we have not um actually voted on the retirement. All right. If you could call the role, please. We got sidetracked. Related. Mrs. Ste. Yes. Mrs. Brad. Yes. Mr. High. Yes. Mr. Mallet. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Thank you all. He thought he was going to be stuck here if he's watching this video. Yeah. He's like, "So, I'm not really retired." Hey. Yeah. Good job. That's why we're all here, right? Thank you. Okay. Good discussion. Yeah. All right.
046Let's um go over our draft agenda. All right. Kind of forgot we needed to do this. for this too. [Applause] Keith, you're just holding us together tonight. Yeah. Goodness. I So, uh, Brendan and I went through the all the board effect, our new Oh, yeah. software. I was just playing with that. I'm finally on. Did you get on? I did have her bring these sticky notes and everything, but clearly we didn't need them. But at least they were there. I appreciate it. So, all right. Do you want to start with the Sure. Or do you want me to? I don't care. Doesn't matter. Whatever you like. All right. So, um we'll do our traditional pledge of allegiance. Um anticipate Mr. Pachy will be there with uh several of our pledge leaders. It looks like they're
047mentioned here. One, two, three of them. Great. Um and then we'll have presentation uh from Bath, Mr. Fry, Mrs. Hetman, um Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Connley regarding the academic challenge um group and then Mr. Ferris with the high school also has some people uh for recognition. And then Mrs. Roach, are you doing both of the presentations? Okay. Are they two separate or They are two separate. I'll have teachers from Richfield with me for the bridges in mathematics presentation and that is the new program adoption and then they'll take a seat and then I'll go through recommendations for mostly updated additions of current adoptive programming at the high school level. So, a lot of social studies electives, biology, and Latin four and five. Okay. Do you know if anybody came in to see the Frog Street?
048Um, no one other than district employees have rented on Frog Street or talked with me about it. So, I have not I've not interacted with community members. Must most like it. Yeah. I think I didn't mean to jinx it or anything. I think Sammy has been the selling point. So, I have props that I'll be bringing next week, too, because that seems very, very nice. I do have three of the texts already here, and I'll have the others as well. Oh, great. Yes. Very good. We look forward to it. Yes. Uh, and we'll have a public speak to agenda items. Um, board of education agenda. We have uh tent of an a tentative agreement um with REA as well as uh an agreement with our or I should say um changes to our the benefits
049for our administrators exempt uh support staff as well. Uh that is in line with the REA agreement. Um I just Yeah, you can. So, um, REA will be, uh, meeting with their members the next few days. They intend to meet Monday and vote. Right now, this is technically just a placeholder. They've not voted on it yet. So, we're hoping, being optimistic, that that'll go through. That's tentative. Yeah. Fingers crossed. Y. Um, Miss Burke, will you have something to update? Good. Okay. Mr. Berdine, thank you. um minutes, financial report, the assets. We have some items from Marsha, some old reading materials from about early 2000s that we will salvage. Early 2000s. Oh my goodness. We still have some leveled readers from 20 25 years ago that are as teachers are cleaning out and making space. Okay.
050They're slowly reaching out. I would have thought that some of that would have been gone when they when we built the new schools. I think with it being Richfield. Oh, Richfield. Okay. Yeah. So, the teachers have been in their classrooms. Got it. And then also there are four buses. Um we have been our own pull apart. Uh so our mechanics have used but they can off of those. You can't drive them any longer. They all have to be towed out. Are there wheels still on them or did we use those too? Might not be. I'm not sure about that. But I do know that all four have to be towed because they are hydraulical because of everything we've taken off to use. But our mechanics and AJ said it's time to say bye. So we'll
051say bye to those four. I like that we've gotten what we could from. We have new junkers. They always do a good job with using those high [Music] mile. We met with finance committee last night. Uh and then uh I've sent that out to board members. So, we'll have that on there for your approval. It continues to look very favorable. Selling agreements are on [Applause] there and then the donations that are on each time purchase orders just for whatever ones there will be a handful of them where they're out of sequence. That's it. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. White. All right, so we'll uh start with the resignation of Abby Castle, director of student services as she moves on in her career. Um, and we have new hires Jill Nulan. Uh, our teacher
052mass replaces Mrs. Coach who retiring. We have Jessica Hilbrand will be at the high school for biology. And then Samantha Neut. So she's a new addition for the speech language pathologist that we've worked through for the past couple years placeholder for physical education teacher that interviewed tonight and uh went very well. So hopefully we will have that recommendation for you as well. So the um and then the potential to have somebody replace Mrs. Castle as well. Okay. Yeah. Then we have a change in positions. So with our retirement at the middle school, we had 0.5 our halftime English teacher and halftime Spanish teacher. So one of our halftime English teachers will now be taking over that other halftime English that was vacated and now become full-time for us at the middle school. Then we have
053some administrative contract renewals and all those be three years. So um any questions about just teasing because John said there so actually I will stop there. Any questions for those who are certified? I have a question Samantha the SLP which fields that full time replacing that three day a week outsource contract we had this year. We had the three fifths this year. Are you nervous? I'm not nervous. Okay. So maybe we should be nervous. Yeah. No. No. All right. Classified personnel. AJ continues to work his magic and another bus driver in training. So very thankful. It's completely counter to what the rest of the country is experiencing. Yes. That's so appreciated. Um then student services, we have the Hazel Health Contract amendment extended school year um coordinator. One of our students who have the Summit
054County Educational Service Center, Kids First. Uh we had some questions about that. So we have a student whose needs were not being met with one organization. So we're contracting with this organization who will accomed school years also help the student or [Applause] is and then second and final reading for revisions to our student handbooks for the transportation section and then the policies first read that we went over tonight so discussed tonight and then we have the second final reading for Frog Street uh school photography agreement with Britco and our college credit plus agreement with Walsh University. Then we'll have the first readings for bridges in mathematics and then we'll have that presentation as well other information for you and then the social studies updates to all the textbooks and things listed there. I have questions.
055[Music] I don't have page number on here. She came tonight to get advanced warning. That's why she's here. She was staring right at me. I said, "What are you doing here?" She said, "There's a lot of cry." Like I didn't realize, but yeah, it's half the agenda. It's the almost There is a lot. That's good. Yeah. Yes, but you can see there's recommendations from the teachers for each of those texts that you know they can clearly share why they value that one. Yeah. Thank you for including that. I know past meetings. That's so helpful. Yes. So if you scan through all those eventually get to O in L of transportation for any transportation for parents who don't take advantage of hours public transportation then they can do payment. [Applause] That'll take us down to the
056information discussion items Roman numeral [Applause] 10. So right now we don't have executive session on here but there may be need for that. We can we'll amend it necessarily. Any other questions on the draft agenda? I know there's a lot in there. No. Thank you to everybody who worked to put all this stuff together so much this week. I appreciated Brenda's comment that she doesn't love May. Um so, uh forformational uh items, we do have none to add. Um, but we do have an need to go into executive session. Uh, and that's to discuss the employment of a public employee and to prepare for conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with employees. Um, so may I have a motion, a second to go into executive session? Motion. Okay. Mrs. Stein. Yes. Mrs. Rain. Yes.
057Mrs. Brack. Yes. Mr. Heisen. Yes, Mr. M. Yes. Uh, no action will be taken when we come out of executive session and we'll adjourn at that time. So, thank you all for attending and um paying attention. Thank you.