April 23, 2026 Board of Education Meeting

001So, notice of this meeting was given in accordance with the provisions of bylaw 0164B of the Riverside Local Board of Education, which was adopted in accordance with section 1.450 of the OC and the Ohio Administrative Procedures Act. You call, please. Yes, ma'am. >> Mrs. Kinsky >> here. >> Mrs. Graassy, >> here. >> Mr. Adino, >> here. >> Miss Brewster >> here. Mr. Buyers here. Thank you. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the board, I'd like to welcome all students, staff, parents, and interested community members to tonight's board of education meeting. I'd like to remind everyone that this is a meeting

002of the board of education held in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is time for public comment during the meeting in the public participation section of the agenda. I make a motion to approve meeting minutes. >> The agenda or agenda? >> Oh, sorry. We changed it. >> Yes. >> All right. I make a motion to approve the agenda. Can I get a second, please? >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? >> Um, I wanted to know about um is this the point at which we can table something on the agenda? >> Yes. Okay. >> Make a motion to >> Okay. I make a motion to table. Let me get the item number. There session updates right here. Uh item 16 which

003is >> and that is um uh board of education business um vouchers >> table and postpone. We have to have a second. >> Need a second. >> Is there a second? Well, the second that just opens it for discussion. That doesn't actually take it off the agenda. Right. >> Correct. Not yet. >> Okay. Well, I'll second it so I hear your argument. >> Is is a table permanently or is that just a postponement? >> It's not a postponement. It is a indefinite um decision to not consider the subject matter of that. but could be brought back up at any point. >> That is correct. >> Could be but not required. >> Correct. >> Postpone requires you to postpone it to a specific meeting and then it would automatically be on the agenda for that specific

004meeting. >> Whereas tableabling it does not >> and tableabling can be brought up at this section at another meeting. Correct. as it gets put on through the >> Yeah, there would need to be a motion to remove it from the table and to add it okay >> to an agenda. It would need to be second and it would need to be approved by a majority >> and it would have to be before the agenda is approved. >> Yes, that speak the same language. >> Okay. So, >> is there any discussion? Well, I guess I'm I'm curious, Miss Ber, is it something you want to discuss later on, or is I'm not opposed to it. I'm just curious why we wouldn't vote on it to see if it would not pass or pass. >> I think

005that um you know, I think that the timing for it is a concern and I'd like to take right now. That was my thinking. >> So, I had the same question. Do we just want to keep it on so that we can just vote on it and get it and be done be done with it? >> Yeah, that that's where I'm kind of leaning is that we can this will be the third meeting where it's on the agenda. Well, I guess two and a half because it was motion to be added to one and today we can just as a board put it to bed whether we want to proceed or not. >> That's right. >> Any other discussion? All you're doing is voting >> on whether to table it or not. >> So a

006yes vote will table it and a no vote >> we'll leave it on the agenda. >> You got it. Okay. Um Mrs. Kreninski >> nay. >> Mrs. Mrs. Grassy. >> Nay. Hey, >> Mrs. Miss Brewster. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Buyers may >> motion fails for one. So that means it's still on the agenda. >> Okay. >> Any other discussion under the approval of the agenda? Can you call the role please? >> Mr. Adino. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Kinsky. >> I >> Mr. Buyers. >> Hi, >> Miss Brewster. >> I >> Mrs. Grassy. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. >> All right. That brings us to the approval of minutes um for March 12th. I make a motion to approve the minutes as attached for March 12th, 2026, March 31st, 2026, and April 9th, 2026. Can

007I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you. And any discussion? Hearing none. Can you call the RO, please? >> Mrs. Grassy. I >> Mr. Buyers. Hi. >> Mr. Greninski. >> I. >> Mr. Odino. Hi. and Miss Miss Brewster. >> Hi. >> Motion carries five. >> And then that brings us to special reports. >> Okay. Dr. Thompson and I have one tonight. Um wanted to and I handed out a draft copy of it in print form of our um updated facility plan. Uh we took a look to update the plan to include all of the projects that are there. um and some of the conversation we've been having kind of moving uh forward over u facilities work bond issue um tax issues and that sort of thing. So just to hit some highle um

008overview of what's what's to be expected and what are the major updates in the plan. First and foremost, I did update it with the current enrollment data versus OFCC projections from the study just to kind of show that we still are um we are in fact declining in enrollment. However, that that decline is not as projected via the study, but it is it is a real thing that we are seeing. Um I've updated a timeline reflecting some of the completed work. We put tried to put together a draft timeline prior. Uh Mr. Allesic and his team as they've been out and doing some things, they've knocked some of those out as well. Um kind of knocked some high priority items on the Bowski report. So those timelines were updated in the back as well. Uh

009one of the things that was in there is the 12 classroom edition at Buckeye. Um that is and the funding mechanism of the cops funding for that under phase one of the plan or segment one. Um and also mentioning the redistricting um that will occur once that is complete. uh and the revisioning of Melidge for the 2728 school year assuming uh everything goes as planned with the Buckeye project and then the phase two was more identified and kind of really spelled uh with some more spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe specificity as to what to expect from there. So as I mentioned enrollment numbers are very different um one of the things we've always kind of said is the the projected

010enrollment studies don't really tell the true story. uh whereas we are seeing declining enrollment. The OFCC is in prior studies, we did not have one done recently. So this is the study back when uh Riverview was was constructed. We are seeing still declining enrollment. Um our projection is next year to most likely be under 4,000 students. um as we go through and a lot of that is coming from um there are simply our kindergarten classes and our elementary classes are significantly smaller than our graduating classes. I think we're graduating somewhere around I think 350 this year and we are looking this year's kindergarten class is uh 250. We have 60 registered right now and we just started kindergarten enrollment. So, we'll see where we're at, but we're trending at that under 300 class size again

011and kind of really predicting looking probably for a average of about 275. That is consistent with all um from Northeast Ohio. Northeast Ohio is a general is seeing uh a decline enrollment of enrollment. Um actually, the nation is seeing a decline in enrollment. We are having less kids um as as a whole. Kids are very expensive and they're getting more and more expensive. We're seeing a lot more um one child or two child households than we have in the past. >> And real quick, this is projections are based on if like a kid's half is enrolled in Auburn, right? Like >> these are state these are state numbers. So they don't necessarily say 40.4. >> Okay. >> Um but they are they're the state numbers and they we use the exact same numbers to be

012consistent with kind of how they are they are presenting. That is another good point about where we when we get into our 11th or 10th, but really uh a student's junior and senior year. They don't necessarily sit as much in the seats as they used to. So they have they have lots of options. They have Lakeland um that you know or or any type of college CCP class. Uh we have the we about 100 students a year or so on a given year who attend Auburn for half the day. So they count at 0.5 for us. We are trying to include again have those students stay at Lakeland by offering CCP at Riverside. So I'm still appreciating and want to go to Lakeland or even do the online option um for college classes as well

013which is an option to them um to participate in and that is the higher institution experience. >> Uh one question in this data there's um not we don't have preschool. Correct. >> Does not include preschool. >> Okay. >> No. >> All right. because you know in some of the reading I've done um there's been you know obviously an increase in funding for some areas may not be us >> I know that um for preschool funding uh but the fact is that you know it seems to continue to >> increase so I don't know where that'll go in the future I don't know what you hear um obviously for a district like ours um we don't usually qualify criteria. >> Yeah, >> I Yeah, I'm not there's a lot of question about how schools are being

014funded and what parts of schools are being funded. Um, as of recent now, preschool is out of ODW and with separate Ohio Department of Children and Youth. So, they're in a whole different that happened with the last budget when they rearranged all their departments. >> Okay. But as far as you know um let's say you have a family who would qualify but we don't have a head start here or a preschool that typically so they don't get any funding >> they do not >> as an individual >> um they may qualify for a head start program at paint city if they had one okay >> or a neighboring district but for us we do not offer that that program >> okay I just So, in looking um at some other of our update, now I

015did not include this in the strategic plan because this this is um fresh off the fresh off the press and very preliminary. Um one of the things we are in the middle of is our strategic plan and our community survey. When I looked at I did reach out to the impact group to say uh they said they get about 400 results right now. That's pretty good so far as a as a cross-section. I go presenting on facilities tonight. Can you give me some information on the facilities questions overall from the community? And so they they presented um and they sent me two of the slides from Survey Monkey that specifically get to facilities. Um this is with I believe uh responses. The first question is uh in planning for the district's long-term facility needs, which

016approach do you prefer? Again, these questions were um vetted and and also they are examples from the auditor of state guidelines. We're not doing anything that's that's against that. We made sure that we kind of stayed within that that guidelines. And the first the first answer in green is focus on long-term uh long-term needs to needs to come even if that they require significant initial investment. And that was about a 20% favorable response rate. The second response there is focus on short-term needs. Um maintain current facilities pre post postponing larger projects. That's a seven% favorable. And the third one is a balanced approach um of both long-term and short-term. And again this is the 20 this is the current survey that is still open. So um obviously those results can be changed if we continue

017to send out. We're on our second push now for that survey and I think it closes pretty soon. The second question regarding specifically all facilities regarding our school facilities which statement describes your current perspective your current perspect perspective on their condition and future needs. Um the first response which had 72.29% of 253 of the 350 responses. Um our school facilities require significant renovation or replacement. The second one, the blue one is I don't know what is needed regarding our school facilities. That was 18%. And then the third one is our school facilities do not need renovation or replacement at this time and that was about 9%. So really truly an overall uh public opinion. Again, this is preliminary. We'll get the final coming up, but we also heard it in a lot of the um

018focus groups as well regarding facilities. So just to kind of where we are with that um facilities plan. So kind of how we looked at the plan in terms of phase two because phase two had a big shift to what it was. There was a lot of unknowns. There was a lot of well whatifs um and all that. Really took a look at okay what does this campus look like? Addressing the campus and the 712 platform. What does the hybrid look like? You know the hybrid renovation. We're calling it a hybrid because we are keeping the in this model. We keep the original campus renovate it completely. keep the large spaces and the campus is mostly large spaces on the first floor and then build an additional wing um off to the side in in

019a phased approach with all new classrooms. Actually, the first phase would be to construct the new addition um of the classroom space. That second phase is the renovation of the current high school and go and renovate that. Um and then the third phase will be will be the demolition of John R. Williams um school. That that's the other end. We are also Dr. Thompson and I are in meetings all the time. We're currently investigating developing community partnerships. We have shared this with some of our community partners. There's a list slide later on who we have talked to and who we are planning to talk to. I'm going to set them up. And the and the interest is it's very preliminary now. We don't necessarily have any resolutions. Again, this sounds good. But the interest is

020very peaked very much. This sounds great. This sounds like something we would get into. Um and this is the area where we think you should go. So really kind of some in that direction um to add to the Riverside one community campus. And then also the the third part of this revision is when we are done with the building uh we revision lemouth to a five six intermediate building. The fifth grade is really working there. Our fifth graders should all be together bringing them together in fifth grade. It's still a two years gap but that it fits an intermediate space. Um it's we can still do teaming. Teaming is great in the fifth grade. It works as well. Kind of put them in those teams that shift up. We would team all the way fifth

021through 8th grade. Eighth grade, seventh and eighth grade would be teamed up in the high school with that still middle school concept. Um but it would look different at the mouth and we think that's that's a great solution to that. >> One question about the partnerships. Um >> when you talk about those and I know there's different situations, but would that be um where they would be housed here? >> We'll get we have so you have something about get rid of facility >> possibilities where they could be housed. We have we have a whole slide on some of that just the initial things that we are discussing and obviously there's there's more get to see it ahead of time. >> Yeah. So the biggest question is how do we fund this? Um you know they

022don't just give these away free. Um so what are we looking at? So we did some costing estimates uh under the premise of a 1% earned income tax EIT. Um $120 million borrowing and I get to say this and I'm so excited in two tranches. Those are two separate 60 million borrowings. Um so I showing my financial knowledge tonight. Um our assumptions would be with this model is we are going to pass that in November of 2026. We're also assuming an earned income tax does receive growth. It is not subject to House Bill 920. >> So so it does it does earn some growth and then the borrowings would occur of the trunch borrowings would occur in 2028 and then 2030 would be when we would be ready for the funds. It's not that we're

023not working on it until then. has a lot of work working into it, but that is when we ready to sell the bonds and move forward. Um, and that cost does include a 5% inflation rate for construction overtime built in uh from TDA in their estimators. We are still working with TDA to get these a little bit more tied in and tightened up. Um, they were very, I don't want to use the word raw because they're they're pretty professional. We want to make sure they're they're tight and they're and they're neat along the way. So, what does that look like? Um, from that and to that, turn over to Dr. Thompson for a little bit and I will click for him. >> I I thought I would give you a motivational short little thing. I

024ran across this and I thought it was perfect for our situation. This these are not I didn't make this up. So, the the ship is for a reason. And so, it goes the captain stood at the fort in the river just before dawn. One path was familiar, calm, predictable, and safer now. The other was uncertain with rougher waters ahead, but it led toward a deeper channel that could carry the ship further in the long run. The crew waited quietly. They trusted the captain, but they also knew the choice wouldn't be easy. Staying the course meant comfort for today. Changing direction meant facing risk, but also the possibility of a stronger, more secure future. The captain took a breath, knowing that no decision came without consequences. Some choices aren't about avoiding difficulty. They're about choosing the

025difficulty and making it worthwhile. And with that, the course was set. So I would say that our course is clear. So I wanted to start with just the picture just to resonate for a minute about what it could be. Could it be different looking than this? This is just a initial rendering, but it's exciting and it would certainly move the district forward that I think everyone will agree needs to occur. How and when that may be disputed, but I don't think there's any dispute about the fact that the building has served the community well, but it's time to go to bed. And then this I had to add this next next slide in because it's uh it's it's Chris's favorite Friday Night Lights, but it sure looks cool, too. But um I want that to

026be in your mind as as as we kind of move forward, are the risks worth uh the reward? I I think one of the things as I talk about this and we've shared this with some with some pretty key stakeholders and community as to what it looks like. Everyone has kind of said the same thing you talked about and when you listen to people they they value the building. They value the way that it looks. Um that keeping the fieldhouse is purposeful. There's a great story behind there. There was a great group of families who kind of put a lot on to make sure that fieldhouse came became a reality and and how do we upgrade that and make sure that that that takes us into the future. And it is a it is a

027unique neat thing for Riverside that you have your your your home varsity sporting events at a separate building. It kind of has a it's got a neat and and a cool feeling to it. So, continuing that tradition uh as as well as the the high school, I have been remembered that there is a pyramid of remembrance tree on the front lawn that we do need to move some of those and move some of those monuments. Um there was suggested that the alumni association would help us with an alumni with a monument garden of some sort to kind of look at where we put those. So there are some as you share and listen and kind of take get some feedback. There are there are some small things but it the message is the same um

028that we heard them. The fact that the front doors will be operational and we actually the student drop off is a huge win. U the idea that we're using the front drive for student drop off um is is also another thing that I think you know 75 years ago wasn't necessarily considered uh like it is today. So, I think it's there are some there are some really big wins along the way with this. >> So, I know there's a lot of questions. Will 1% income tax cover our operational and facility needs? And we uh being in the administration obviously want to make sure. So, we've done our due diligence and our homework. What you're looking at right here is just um it is assuming passage of the income tax. The the um the blue is

029the first $60 million issuance. The orange is the second $60 million issuance and the green is the money that would be available for operations. So you're going to see this baked into a 5-year forecast, too. Before we get to the 5-year forecast though, I want you to understand that we are staring in the dollars. It'll take the till the third year that some will say the second year, some say the third year. We took the most conservative approach. We did the third year. So, what we're we could be I think we'll probably end up being better than what I'm forecasting, but what I'm forecasting is I believe to be the worst scenario. So, you know, what is the impact on the forecast? So, you're looking at the forecast. Can I grab that for just one

030second? What you're looking at is the um is the forecast with those dollars in. I want to bring a couple things to your attention. So, in 2027, again, we went very conservative. We're showing a fairly nominal collection in 2027 on a 1% income tax. Year two, it gets jumps up considerably, but in 2028, if you you'll also see that expenditures jump because that's our first payment on our cops. The first $60 million of cops hits us on the 20 on year 2028. It's a bit of a disadvantage because we don't have full collections yet. Um and it uh it does impact us to some degree. And then you'll see in year 2029 we're at 14 uh million dollars. The good thing is it is increasing by on average we're going again conservatively with 2% a

031year. I think it'll probably be higher than that but that's what we want 2% to be conservative and we start to hit the full collection and then in 20 Whoops. Sorry. I don't know what what the my problem is. >> It's on there. You can't see. >> Oh, no. It's cuz I don't have another box. But um but the um you'll see to the right of the 14 million is the 15 million. But that's also hit with the big jump of the third of the second COP's issuance coming on. Then if we if I were to go further out, you would see us start to then reverse our trend of uh deficit spending because we're now finally bringing in the full amount to offset against the full cops. So I think conservatively we're at least

0328 years, probably more like 10 to 12 years before we would need um any additional funding. But I didn't I I can m I can I can forecast it out if if you find it beneficial. The problem is there's several bianiums that are in in that interim. I there's so much I don't know that I don't want you know 3 years from now someone to come back and say but you said I it's too hard to forecast right now. But I think it's pretty clear to see that while we still must be fiscally responsible, we still must keep our belts tight, um it can be done with a 1%. I'm confident of that. So we've also uh reached out and we're working very hard to develop these partners. So here's where we try to explain

033what when we say partners, what do we mean by that? So, uh, on March 2nd, we met with the YMCA. Um, Mr. Bennett, you want to talk a little bit about that, Chris? >> Yeah, it was a real great meeting. We talked to him. The first time we mentioned, we had a, uh, facilities plan kind of up. We did the first goound of of the community uh, meetings and listenings and kind of did the initial feedback. He reached out and said, "Well, what are you thinking? We're interested. We're looking We're always looking to do some upgrades to Central Y specifically. Um, you know, have some thoughts. the partnership worked well with Will East Lake. How does that work? So, we we kind of said, "Yeah, that we would like to we're very interested. Um there

034are some there can be some wins on both sides. We want it to be a win-win." We met with him again. Um had a lot of great conversations. There was a lot of and it was a lot of honest conversations. Um he expressed to us, he said, "Construction's expensive." And we said, "Don't we know it?" um um it's not that it's not the same market as it was when they when they partnered with the Y. They also said they're in a time now where they're looking at some property um and doing some studies and actually having some internal studies as to whether they can fund raise the funds or not. Um so that's a that's a portion as well. Can they make those can they raise enough funds to build uh on the property somewhere

035something and to have that partnership? But he said we're very interested. it's something keep us in the loop as you continue to move forward uh so we can have some of those continued conversations around that >> in these conversations like is there something specific they're interested in like >> so with the Y it was a partnership on the land and kind of capitalizing like they did um you know in Willoughby where we look at putting a putting an auditorium in for the community indoor indoor site kind of really looking to relocate that central facility to to a common space um and again our goal is to bring the communities all together and make this the the one community center um of really of all of our communities and put it to put it in that

036in that context. I think there was there was a lot there's also some concerns about I mean he mentioned too there's concerns about location we would have to bring in Lake TR to see if they'd be willing to put a route up to you know the YTOP and all that and we would we would have those as we continue to move through and investigate. We do have a second meeting set with him uh just to kind of follow up and say where we're at um and he's going to come back with some of his information where they the information the fact finding that they're doing and just start to look at some timelines >> um from that. >> Yeah. So, so what we're giving like for example in in this particular situation uh so let's

037say there's a competition pools build which would be outstanding for our students our end might be they construct it we give them the land at no cost uh they construct it uh but we help offset their operational costs on the maintenance of the pool for example Um, obviously the more people we can get interested in building simultaneously, we're going to get economy of scale on construction. So, they're getting the land and some potential partnerships um and the benefits of those and that would be the reason to move on this for them. >> And the preliminary concept is on the John R side after John R is torn down then it goes on. >> It could be on the John R side. It could also be on the back um off where the cell tower we

038could pave that route into. We have 120 acres. >> So it could be I know they like to be closer to the main road because they like the exposure as well. So >> but it it it could be at the fieldhouse. >> It could be tied to the >> could be doubling the size of a fieldhouse and >> there's a lot of possibilities. But no, we we haven't gone that far. We would certainly put a committee together, have board representation obviously on that committee. um and as we start to lay this out, but it it it it's keep in mind this isn't new and will be slate isn't the first one to do it either. I mean I went to other schools and saw how they did it. Um all this has been done. >>

039I just talked to Mr. McIntyre. I think he's working on right now where he said it took it's taken quite some time because as they picture the building and then they have to have so much land for that building, right? And then there's some adjustments there and it's constantly kind of being tweaked and worked on um until they come to that final agreement. Right. >> That's absolutely correct. I mean the place you're at right now, as I mentioned at your last meeting, is right where you want to be. And that is to try to come to some agreement and concept to create a joint usage facility. what that is, where it goes, how it functions, what its specific uh operational needs might be. Those are the things that necessarily take shape over time. They have

040to because there's no way to decide right now all of those specifics. >> I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but I'm assuming there is a benefit if the building were attached to this building. Like Willoughby is attached. Correct me if I'm wrong. >> Willoughby is. Yes, because there's a fieldhouse there with four basketball courts and a running track and the pool. All of that's all attached, but it's all very secure in terms of what you can access during the day and all of that that um so yes, it is attached and perhaps that's on the table. We we don't know. I mean, where John R sits, it could go that direction potentially. um it could sit freestanding. I we from I think from our perspective is just what makes the most sense and

041what um is most cost effective for us. Um to be clear, we cannot legally and nor would we use taxpayer dollars to support any of our partnerships. That money's for us and our kids. But how can we how can we make that we would you know for example will be they would have never been able to have an eight lane competition swimming pool if it weren't for the partnership with the Y just couldn't have happened. So on March 11th we met with University Hospital Systems tough first meeting but they've come back. They've come back. So you want to talk about that? So our our initial uh field turf sponsorship was through Lake Health. Um it had quite a sizable monetary donation um along with athletic training services. You university hospitals uh since that time has

042purchased the Lake Health system. Uh we met with them to say our agreement is up. Um what are you you know kind of and just just to have some preliminary discussions. They made it clear at that time that they are not sponsoring like Lake Health did um with the monetary donation. They will still provide the training services but the money um in their in their statement at that point the money the capital funds right now are going to uh put in the cancer center at Trioint to which then we started to have some other conversation. Okay, we are looking, yes, we're we're always looking for donations and that would be great, but we're also looking to partner. And who do we need to talk to to partner with things and we talk about what that

043looks like? When you look at where the monies are from the state, the state talks about, you know, on-site clinics um and and even health centers for >> and and the Willoughby model of even or not will I'm sorry, the Wickliff where Wickliff put the community center in and that that gets some sponsorships as well. And if we can get a a health system behind us and get somebody who who sits on our campus, that has significant cost savings for us in the long term in terms of healthcare and and healthcare costs if we can kind of have that drive-thru through that person as well as we can use as a training facility uh you know using either either the facility that way. We've thought of all different ways like can we train like a

044SNTA program can we run something through that? like a career focused program on site kind of help provide some services. Can we can we do a sports medicine training program? Can we have a sports medicine site uh and kind of like a similar to what's in what's in Menor uh put something out here on this end of on this end of the town to do rehab and perhaps provide a different option. So, we do have a second meeting set up with them as well, uh, to have those discussions at a higher level as to not not just turf or not just money to put your logo on. Um, which would always be nice, but really truly, how do we invest in like we have with the class where we send students out? Um, can we

045rank can we crank that up a little bit? And maybe the facility we send students to is in Trioint. Maybe it's in our backyard right next to the fieldhouse. Uh looking for that. Can we get a an eye doctor or a dentist to kind of provide some services to our students who definitely need it, but then also we'll run their own practice out of it. We kind of again we have land, we have space. Um we have we have significantly not I would never say construction is cheap, but this would be costbeneficial on a large scale if everyone's in on the same time and buying from it. That's a good benefit in terms of a cost of of construction instead of building a small building. You're going to get economy of scale and we will

046be able to help provide that if they're on there. So, that's that's where we're going with that. We'll keep we'll keep the board informed as we continue to move. It is a you know, it it it's continuing to evolve, but to this point, we have not yet had the door slammed on us. So, >> back. >> So, can I ask a question? Um, have we approached the township because it's a zoning? Stay. Stay tuned. >> You're going to see that it's coming. >> I mean, like when you guys did Willy's Willy, you know, it was adjacent to commercial property, so it wasn't as big of a stretch as it might be here. >> Well, that those would obviously that would be an issue that would have to be addressed for sure, but we are working

047towards that. And you know, for example, um, one of the nice things that Willoughby does have is we put in a minute clinic, um, in partnership then with Did you ever go to it, Camille? Did you ever go to the minute clinic? >> That's absolutely >> great. >> It was in my building. >> Yeah. Yeah, that's true. It was. That's right. But um the way it wor worked itself out it was how it was staffed by a PA three days a week. We partnered with Men. Men used it 2 days a week their staff and if you went there you didn't have to pay your co-pay. It was free. Um so it helped with curbing absenteeism. Um but at the same time was just super convenient. We were hoping that, you know, instead of calling

048off, I got a cold, a head cold, and I'm going to be, you know, I don't feel great. I could teach or I could do my job, but well, if I come here, I don't have to pay. I'm heck, I'm already on the I'm already on in district. Might as well go to work. And then we opened that up to uh families in the community and we across we put it we partnered with an eye doctor gave him that space for free paid his utilities. He built it out but in turn he had to see um our kids every Wednesday. Um we rotated grades through for um IARE. Well, and I I mean it even DCW mentions if you want to truly want to save on health care costs, bring them in house as much

049as you can. This is an opportunity for us to bring those health care costs in house as well as have have some benefits. So, it's it's kind of all as a as a you know, absolutely not only is it beneficial, but it's also cost savings of or potential cost savings down the road for some. >> Hit that one. >> So, April 22nd um >> yesterday. Yeah, it was yesterday. Uh we set up a meeting. We asked Payneesville Township and Concord Township uh to kind of Well, we actually reached out to all of our townships and trustees. Paysville and Concord both said yes. Concord um did not show for whatever reason. That's to follow up with Mr. Rose after. Um but Payneville Township uh actually it was Josh Pennock showed up, sat down, we talked to

050Josh, we showed him the pictures, we showed him the plans, we kind of gave him the ideas, we said this is our vision. Um we want to be that hub. Um, I know as a I know as a township you are under the same the same guys as you your your residents are looking for things. What are those things and how can we help with that? Is it is it another athletic field or another turf field? turf field space and field space in this township for our youth events is I mean our field >> is it is on you know it goes from 2:00 when students are out till 11 o'clock at night somebody's practicing on it and then on the s on the weekends it's probably almost I would say 8 to 11 then

051every single event that gets if we can provide another field they're not cheap but if we can work with someone to help with partner with those fields for recreational activities and all that that's really who wants to use it that would be that we Wonderful. We we did talk about different opportunities um for even an entrepreneur who's interested to maybe put up a steel building and put put some turf fields over it and kind of let us use it, but then have a field kind of have a real true turf fieldhouse on there for all those softball or vol the seed the the Cedar Point model is is is the favorite. So if you Cedar Point built their sports now we would not do it to that scale. They built their sports complex and a

052huge turf field and they host tournaments there every day of the week in the summer and there's daytoplay tournaments and with that they give every single player one ticket to Cedar Point to be a part of it. Well, that player comes with families and those families get and they want to go to Cedar Point. So, those families go to Cedar Point. So, it's really kind of pushed money into Cedar Point. That's kind of some of the thought is those complexes are busy all of the time and there's a true need for it. And so can we is there somebody who wants to use that and does that want to work? >> So we're putting in a roller coaster. >> So no not just the water park. >> No, we'll let you play a tournament and

053then you have to enroll in our schools. That might be >> the kids might like. >> So we better go faster. We got to pick it up or we're going to be here all night. >> So with the township discussions I think where Miss Gracie was going was zoning and stuff. So are you having some of those? >> We will have some of those as well as we start to get to that point. The township's very friendly. they were very he would uh >> well the township might be friendly but and even though the parents who live around here are mostly our district parents I don't know if >> they'd want that commercial up in their backyard. So >> yeah those are the kind of conversations we have to have and what it looks like

054and I think Josh was very open but he was very >> he actually invited us >> to the full council meeting. >> Yeah. So we are we are headed taking the show on the road. >> Um >> the three today we had a meeting with Adventure Subaru. Um Adventure Subaru Adventure Subaru was one of the first uh when we did the original turf project. They were very interested in sponsoring the turf. Um ultimately Lake Health stepped in and and won that bid. But there's still there's still some interest there. We kind of said, "Hey, we've got some short-term projects coming up that you may want to um help us partner with." and sponsor and we have some long-term ideas as well. On the agenda tonight is a resurfacing of the basketball floor. Uh we do

055have some spaces located on that floor. If they wanted to put if a company wanted to put their logo on there um and help us fund that that project and up upgrades of the of the fieldhouse, we would definitely um be akin to that and the tone of that. Make sure that that fits all the legal. We've run it through legal obviously um but we make sure that that that partnership works works in our favor as we go through. That's an easy way for us to kind of help offset some of these capital projects and costs. They're they're very interested. We are having um some kind of packages we're putting together. We see a lot of opportunity for that and kind of like like a premier sponsor of our sport or our sporting complex. Um

056as much as the back of the football scoreboard is a great billboard. Um you know, if it's if it's a car dealership or they wanted to put a car out front, that would be great. We've talked about even do you want do we want to look at raffling the car off? Um and how that looks. So we we've got a lot of different ideas and it was a great kind of just a brainstorming session. So he is going back to take it back to his um the owner and then we are continuing to kind of put some put some numbers behind that and kind of see what other schools are doing to get some numbers. We want to make sure they were interested first get some kind of solid numbers and present those to them

057and see where we go with that. So more on that and that's exciting. >> Yeah. And that's how we closed the meeting with was wanting us he wanted some short-term and some long-term opportunities. The shortterm one easy short term is the court >> and a pretty easy longer term is we're two years away from the turf which you'll see in the PI forecast. It'd be nice to take that out of off our for off our forecast. It's in there now but I'd like to take it out and maybe this is an opportunity. I don't know. Uh May 2nd is our follow-up meeting. Um and we'll be at that point. I I'll get with you Dan with this. What I hope to come out of start getting something concrete from these meetings is not a not

058that somebody couldn't back out. It's not a formal commitment, but it's a commitment to say, "Hey, we're willing to say on paper that we're we're we're we want to be a part of this and we're going to work at this." And by the way, also we asked the township um at that meeting too for an endorsement of our levy as well uh to to be to put that to pin and let us um campaign using that as part of our campaign as well. Um and he didn't commit to that nor should he. He's one of three, but he was very supportive. And then May 4th as our followup >> call for University Hospital to start talking about real real concrete partnerships what that might look like and flesh out and not just hey thanks giving

059us money to put your put on the but how we really can work together >> and Melissa thank you Melissa knows a big wig >> I wouldn't go quite that far she is however the person who helped us create the healthcare partnership that we have is her first name and she's wonderful they're very very um interested in community outreach and being having uh be a part of the community that they exist in. So I I have enjoyed working with her in the past and and she allowed a student to shadow her around one day when somebody in a regular department didn't show up. That's a pretty big deal, I think, when you're like the the chief chief operating officer of a of a hospital system to say, "Yeah, let this high school student follow me

060around for a day." Cuz that's how important it is, I think, that these kids get this experience. So, she she's a great person to work with. And for example, you know, they may not have capital. Their capital may be tied up, but one thing they could do potentially is partner with us and provide us that PA to create that minute clinic, for example. Um, so I I think there's there's there's more than one way uh to address our needs. Doesn't always have to be, you know, a significant capital outlay. And then the 19th, um, we are meeting with the Leroy trustees and we're just going to present our financial situation, hopefully be able to present what we're doing, um, in November, and also inviting them for any partnership um, ideas that they may have, a

061senior center, and there there is a variety of things that we could do. Um, and it's a great opportunity for them as well. That concludes our report. I do ask um that you read over the draft of the facilities plan. Um it is it is updated is also in the shared drive as well. Um you know and I would like to get it on the agenda for approval to kind of move forward and post it. So if there are questions please send them out and I will continue to communicate the change. >> I would ask that if there are questions that um you could send the questions to Dr. but CC the entire board on it so that in case somebody else had the same question that way you all have the same information. >>

062I can also run a a doc of kind of the questions answers and how they've been addressed. >> Great. Thank you. >> All right, that brings us to unfinished business. The only thing that we had for unfinished business was the vouchers. um that is on the agenda later where we can have additional discussion, but I just wanted to see if there's um I think Miss Brewster, you had asked for us to put that there. >> Well, if it's already on there, we'll discuss >> discuss it there. Okay. >> All right. Any other unfinished business that wasn't submitted? Um next is discussion of new business. Um the only thing here that I know we do have to talk about is adjustment of a couple meeting dates, I believe. Um, I know I had a conflict with

063our June 25th meeting date and I wanted to see if we could adjust that date and I think there was one other date that we needed to adjust. Correct. >> Um, was there somebody else? >> Wasn't there a conflict in the schedule? >> The September meeting uh is the same as of now is the same time as a homecoming parade. >> Oh yes, the homecoming. So I think the suggestion was either e either to push the meeting back an hour to allow for >> mean start an hour earlier. >> later okay >> or start an hour earlier and ensure that you get done with the meeting in an hour. >> That would be nice. >> I like that. >> There's a lot going on. I don't think we want to commit to that right now.

064So um so let's let's take a look at June. >> Is there would we be able to do the Thursday before June 18th? Yeah, we would just need to move the finance meeting maybe earlier in the week so it's not the same day. >> What does it do with our year end? We usually have a have our June meeting as close to the year end as we can because >> what the the the the only thing I would ask is that perhaps we might need to have a special board meeting because unlike years past and you'll see it when I do my section of up in the upcoming dates we've got to close the books um make sure everything's balanced We've got to um uh stop, you know, obviously stopping purchase orders, creating our budgets

065are done, so that's done, but we still have to create the appropriations, which will be easy because the budgets are done. Formulate a five-year forecast and do all that in general. So, one of the other things I was going to suggest to everybody is that we just at one time we had meetings um mid in between as placeholders on our calendar just in case we need them. And since we have so much going on, I was going to see if anybody had any concerns with adding that placeholder just in case we need a meeting to >> I hope I can be ready by the 18th. That would be my goal to be ready by the 18th to do appropriations and and final in our 5-year forecast. Um, >> we have to do final appropriations, right?

066>> Yeah, because there is no temporary anymore, >> right? >> Well, you want to do the 23rd? >> I mean, I'm just asking. We have to we have to finalize out the ones for 2026 fiscal year and then we have to have new ones for 27. When are those due? >> July or did they like did they move them to July? >> Those are in July. So, but they're early July. So, it's before our board meeting. So, I kind of feel like my plan was to have everything done in June. And I think we can still make it. Is Where's Mike? Mike, are you panicking over there? Thank you. >> That That would be our challenge that we might need that extra week, right? >> The 23rd. You mentioned >> the 23rd. Yeah, >> that

067works for me. the 2nd of July. So, >> and >> I think you have to have a meeting before the end of June because I think we have to >> we have to close things out. >> So, the 23rd would work. >> 23rd. >> What do you mean? >> I leave the 25th. >> 23rd. >> Sorry. >> Thank you. >> And that works to keep >> Jimmy Lee that we can keep the finance meeting where it is. >> Yeah, you said that already. Just hit >> All right. So, >> I just changed it. >> Oh, >> all right. And then September is the other one. >> September. >> All right. So September is September 24th. Do we want to move that to the Thursday before or the Tuesday? >> What's the 20? What's that? >>

068So the 24th is is homecoming. It's a homecoming parade. >> Oh, that's the parade. >> Is there a problem moving it just the day before >> or or pushing it an hour back if you're doing that? >> I think we're going to be >> I witness people here. >> Our meetings are never short. So the 22nd. No, the 22nd works for me. That's a Tuesday. >> Did you? >> Does that work for you guys? >> That'll work. >> 22nd. >> It's the first day of fall. >> Are you on? >> I don't want to think about that right now. Wait. >> I need to have something slow that roll. >> Okay. >> And then do you want to put on midmon meetings? Are you is the is everybody on the board okay to just it's

069again the block >> holder >> it's a holder placeholder on our calendars in case we need >> some kind of special meeting >> in between so they would take a look and say here's this one and here's that one >> and then put it in between >> sure in the month of June >> I would say all the way through December just put them there >> just placeholders yeah >> I mean I think it's a good idea simply because >> there's just so much going And >> so we might not use them. We might use them. It's just keep our calendars kind of. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Not to mention if you need to have a lengthier disc. >> All right. So I'll throw the wrinkle in the first one. >> Um our our

070meeting is May 21st which is earlier because of graduation on the 28th. So if we wanted to do it, it would be either May 7th or May 14th. And we would have kind of two back to back. >> I cannot do the >> Well, May 7th I you have Mel Ridge meeting. >> I Well, yeah. So, they're both out. So, May's out. The Thursdays remain are out. So, >> okay. So, let me ask another question for May. Then, are we going to have to have a special meeting >> for a Because we don't have a We don't have a construction price yet. >> We Well, >> we will probably have to have one get it. We're going to have to schedule that one. It's probably a 7:30 in the morning type meeting to come in.

071Just get >> timeline on the Still waiting. We need to light a fire. >> Yeah, we're working on it. >> Exactly. >> All right. So, maybe we'll just go with the GMP when we get it and try to get something special on the Okay. >> I will work to get something >> and then we can go through the rest of them. We'll send out the dates. Just make sure there's no conflicts with anybody that um we're going to block and that they're okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. >> All right. Um there was no other new business that was provided. Is there anything else that anybody wanted to discuss? All right. So, that brings us to our committee and leaison reports. First up is buildings and grounds operations committee and strategic plan leaison. Miss Rossy is going

072to be first. We had a we had a meeting of buildings and grounds on Tuesday. Um we talked about many of the items that are in our board agenda today. The first area that we talked about was a parking area for the house next door who has insufficient parking for their needs and for people who come for registration and whatnot. And we got a price on that. I did not see that on this agenda. >> It's a it's in house and there'll be two separate. Um so it's not a combined there. There's a there's an equipment rental and then there is also the stone and >> that's the gravel. Yes. >> Is the rental >> the rent the rental is under as well >> is and that is included in here and grounds total price.

073Yes. >> So you asking is it on the >> I'm just asking you is the rent is any rental stuff on this agenda? >> There is a there is a blanket PO for rental stuff and I believe that that's where they are coming out of. >> All right. So I'll ask that later. Um, so we talked about that and so that should alleviate some of the issues that they have over at the house. Um, the next item we talked about was the HBAC systems in the John Band room and the high school choir room, the technology main server room. Um, we're going to be recommending here that they be replaced with the same types of units that we have in our lecture hall now. um and that the maintenance department will be able to do

074that work and so that will be helpful. Uh the next item we talked about was the fieldhouse floor and they had we had two quotes to review for refurbishing the fieldhouse floor I believe on the agenda is the Ohio floors because they can schedule that in this year whereas the other quote couldn't get to it till next year. So we'll be seeing that done. I think the issue with that was we'll have to schedule it appropriately because of timing. They need, if I don't recall correctly, seven days to 7 to 10 days without without anybody on that floor. So >> I I did get confirmation this is the first time that floor has ever been stripped and redone and filled up. >> Okay. >> So they'll just we'll just have to work around that and

075I'm sure that we'll be able to accommodate that depending on when that is. >> They're already working. They're >> I'm sure >> they're excited. So, that'll be nice. Um, they're going to sand and take that all the way down to the beer wood and so we're going to be getting the updated logo and then on that floor as well. So, that will be nice. >> Um, the next item that we had on here was to talk about basketball hoops in the fieldhouse. We are going to revisit that at our May 19th buildings and grounds meeting. Um they we were talking about the rem moving units that we have currently and having some permanent units installed um and whether or not we wanted to do just the main hoop side courts, whatever. So they're they're going

076to continue to flush that information out, bring it back to the May 19th buildings and grounds meeting. >> We talked about the playground mulch. Uh we are not we may not do Buckeye yet. So the playground mulch may may is on the agenda here and we have to do that every single year. We may not do Buckeye yet because it just depends on the projects that we have going on over at Buckeye when we do that. Um so we talked about that. Then we spent quite a significant amount of time talking about parking lot maintenance. Um, we have are going to move forward with a slightly more expensive, if I'm not mistaken, we're moving forward with the slightly more expensive one on this uh agenda. And that's because they're going to do a little bit

077more grinding of our parking lots. Um, so that's coming in at 85,000 um and some change. It doesn't include it doesn't include Lemouth. It I mean it includes Lemouth, but it doesn't include a redo of the entire Lemouth parking lot. That would be really really expensive. So that's just filling potholes. We did have the conversation about what about the Lemouth parking lot? It it needs some serious work >> and that's some serious money. >> Yeah, it's it's in the three. It's just really really expensive to redo a parking like that. A lot like that. And talking Yeah. and talking about what the plan would be for that parking lot, perhaps expanding that parking lot. It needs additional space. What do we do with the gravel lot that's next door? There's a lot of conversation that

078goes into the new parking lot. So, in the meantime, we were going to have all the other parking lots re regg ground, striped, um, seal coated, and have those kinds of things done. So, we talked a lot about that. And then again that that 85,000 does not include the striping that comes along with it. So that is also on this agenda at a cost of 15,000. Um the next item we talked about was a walking path at Lemu and we don't think we've made a decision on that one yet. We are considering having having some conversations with some of the community organizations that use that property and seeing if we can piggyback on some of each other's projects to get that done. Um, and the reason we wanted to consider that is because there's a

079lot of mud back there and those kids come in and out of now that we have recess going on over at Lemouth and all that mud comes into the building and so we need to have a walkway. We talked about sanitary sanitary lines, storm sewer lines, and grease traps. That was fun conversation. And so we have we have something on the agenda so that they're going to be coming in. And that's an annual expense that we have people come in and clean those out every single year. Um we talked about what we're not doing right now yet is new vehicles. We talked about what kinds of vehicles that we need. um and just going through some future planning to try and figure out how we can um manage to purchase new vehicles for the our

080departments. We discussed a concrete walkway for over by the CTX building which I believe is on the agenda. We did decide to move forward with that one. We have a lot of things that we talked about yeses and a lot of things we talked about nos. So, um correct me if I'm not saying these correctly. Uh the walkway over at the CTX wing, we would have it would come from the bathroom area, that hallway that connects um to the kitchen and you know the cafeteria and all those are >> to the main doors. It will be parallel kind of directly into that that goes into the night entrance. >> It would come all the way down to the parking lot and it would be handicap accessible. They would have to move the bench that's there

081out by the parking lot. So, um, just so that there and it would be wide enough and make everything really nicely accessible. So, that is on the agenda. >> That included a bike rack. Is that >> Yes. >> And then we talked about some of our current roofing needs, although there is nothing on the agenda to address those right now, but we will be doing some additional work to look at some of the areas in our district that have some leaking roofs. And then also on the agenda is the purchase of band instruments which when we purchased them previously as probably at least 10 years ago they were financed and this time around we're going to be doing it in stages so we're not doing it all at once. I covered it all. Did I

082get it? That's all. >> Okay. And I just wanted to ask two things. Um the Lmuth um soccer field in the past has come up about drainage because you mentioned drainage and the bleachers. Has that all been addressed? The bleachers have been repaired. We have talked about the soccer field. We actually repaired and did a significant investment in that field. The issue is that we just can't keep people off of it. And if you can't keep people off of a grass field, you can put as much money as you want in it. It's just going to it's going to just go. You can't keep it. Um and that's our that's our problem. >> It's just we hear about it every day. >> We do. And we keep saying that well there other options to not

083allow them to use that. And so we weigh that we have to weigh out our event. We want our community to be able our community groups to use our field and field use is especially now is a very big item. And when you're out now the the fields are wet. Um they're wearing cleats. They're they're stopping on those things and they are tearing up the grass. And depending on the sport that's on it, not that I'm against or you know lacrosse on a field, the goalie is always kicking up the spot. So they have they have better grant. They're stopping a lot. It's just different the way that the way that they use different fields and that's I mean that's a part of it. So, in the in the initial when we talked about our

084our our plan, one of the things we talked about this community could definitely be use a second multi-purpose turf field and and turf area for them. And we know that just because it's northeast Ohio and they start in February, if not January, out on the grass items and it's soon as it unfreezes, it gets torn up and there's no and it absolutely there is no time for it to recover and grow. >> Yes. So, we also talked about the um you mentioned vehicles about having smaller shuttles like if there's only a couple of students >> more sports. >> That's a that was a different that's a transportation issue. We did buy and we were finally able to get three uh eight passenger nine total vans that we are starting to utilize more and more. Um

085we are looking to even put those into our fleet next year for some of our transportation routes. uh working with um ESC of Northeast Ohio to kind of come up with some different strategies for not only routing but also transportation to be more efficient. We we hear that too. Um so to be more efficient and also to make sure that we can be more economic. >> Okay. So some of the things that we talked about with vehicles is the fact that we we need to replace the box. The box truck we have is >> it's held the other way up >> ancient. We need to replace a box truck. We have a pickup truck that needs to be replaced. you know, we'd like to have some a 12 passenger van that they can they can

086use for their HVAC and plumbing needs that they can retrofit for that. Um, a large pickup that because we have two trailers that need to be towed, especially when we go to band and football. Um, the band trailer specifically needs a large vehicle in order to tow that. It's really heavy. Um, and so so we are without vehicles to tow some of these things. And so it's not on the agenda yet, but it's going to be coming because these vehicles need to be replaced. >> You'll see it on I'm going to show the PI and show you where we spent a lot of time trying to figure out how can we stay within our budget constraints yet meet our vehicle needs. And we think we think we've accomplished that. Maybe not at the rate that

087Rich would like but but adequately. So, in conjunction with the buildings and grounds, I took that and looked at our board agenda. And just for public knowledge, we are approving $327,299 of tonight's agenda. That's that's buildings and grounds related stuff. Um, and by my calculations at least I assumed and I could be wrong almost 255,000 of that is going to come out of PI and about 72 comes out of general fund just by what I was making some assumptions um based on what those things are used for and if they're long-term whatnot. And I just want people to be reminded that's a lot that's a lot and that every year we're spending those kinds of dollars. It's not like this stuff is um things that are special. You know, bleachers have to be repaired and

088they have to be inspected and playground mulch has to go down. It's not like we cannot do these things and skip a year. So, >> it's cost to do business. >> It's expensive. Um yeah, it's expensive. That's all I got. Strategic plan. I have nothing because we're not there yet. >> We're in the middle of it. >> Yeah, you're in the middle of it. And so, we'll wait to see. >> Answer the survey. Yeah, >> I did reach out today um again to our community partners, community leaders, uh all the townships to try to set up a focus group for them instead of >> I told you to stop. >> I told you it's >> to to reach out to um set up a um round table that would be run by impact group or

089our focus for them from impact group instead of calling four or five of them. try to get them all into a room together. So really looked at who we are bringing in. So I will keep you updated on that as well. >> Okay. >> We did talk about that. >> All right. That brings us to curriculum and programming committee booster organization leaison Mr. Audino. >> Yes. Thank you. We had our meeting back on Wednesday, April 15th. A lot of the topics will be I'm assuming presented in Dr. Certino superintendent report and some of which were presented in the special report, but I'll hit on some of them lightly. The open house for the CTX is Monday, May 4th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. We discussed the strategic plan. Like I mentioned, Dr. Tino kind of

090hit on that. It sounds like now we're up to over 400 responses. Just last week, we were at 180. So that's over doubled. And then there's also one going out separately to staff. What's the time frame on that? >> That was out Monday. came out yesterday Monday and it's we'll keep it open for 10 days or so for two weeks and we'll send it out we'll send a reminder out next Monday. >> Great. And the first draft of that strategic plan will be visible to the administration in June and then a presentation to us at the board come August. Then we moved on to uh the CPM purchase which is a math curriculum for sixth to 8th grade eventually hopefully rolling it up to the other grades. No, we are rolling. >> We are rolling

091this coming. Yep. The purchase is alge algebra one geometry algeb. Okay, great. >> Then we moved on to the Auburn career center which is an agreement that we're uh coming to with them. um specifically a senior only program that will take place and will include the CTX program. Our construction and welding programs and the financial terms are still to be determined but being worked out to kind of make it financially beneficial to both groups. Then we discussed uh there's some money left over in our CTE grant and we're using that to partner with a company called Roundtable Learning who provides us with VR headsets that comes with programs uh specific to supply chain logistics, forklift training, just some avenues for our students to see uh future career opportunities and also how VR can come to

092life in a lot of different unique ways in in K to2. >> So cool. Yeah, I'm sorry. >> Uh then we discussed uh Mrs. Rich shared with us a student services update. We uh had our annual licensing visit specific to preschool back in late March. A lot of positive feedback in terms of our programming organization. No surprise there. Um Mrs. Written, the school has also set up a smooth transition and moving our license to Riverview to house our permanent or at least semi-permanmanent location for preschool moving forward. And then also the Ohio Department of Children and Youth, every five years they renew or review, I should say, the rules for preschool programs. And uh in their review, we see no significant changes this year, but what changes there are are very little. They will be

093effective this July. And that's my update for programs committee. And then, as I mentioned last month, the booster liaison meeting only happens once a quarter. So maybe a month or two from now I'll have an update. >> You you talked about the CTX grant. Where are we on the reimbursement process for getting the money for that? >> Well, Mr. Patrice, would you like to jump in? >> We just had this conversation. >> Yeah. He and I were just talking about the money that we have left >> because that's a spend and reimburse, correct? >> Yeah. So right now we have been reimbursed um for everything for the construction component of that which was the majority of the and we're in the process of having been spending some of the supply material um and obviously continuing

094to to do that and we cannot you know ask the state for reimbursement until the checks been paid. So we're keeping up with that. Like I said, we're still got a little bit left to go out, >> but we're doing it every month or whatever, I would assume. Right. >> Yeah. I haven't ordered anything in a while. And part of what we a conversation that we just had is a lot of the money was allocated to supplies and we didn't have anywhere to store those things. So now we are trying to figure out how we're going to store. We also found out that we can potentially expend some of that money through 27, which means we don't have to try to store $25,000 worth of materials. Do you know what I mean? At a time.

095So, we're working out a couple of things. >> Did we have any areas in that grant that we didn't spend the money? And if we had to could we move it somewhere else >> within the grant itself? I don't know. like >> we have moved some things, but I think the way we have it allocated, it's going to end up being where we need it to be. It was pretty close >> and the district did add money to that, didn't we? >> To the construction. >> Yes. Construction, not to any of the other stuff to the construction piece. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Um so when like when does it stop? Like when do you have to spend everything down? >> Um June 30th or 27 is the last date and then we have to report

096by September. Um there is a checkpoint this September that we will file some paperwork with them. They'll review where we're at. um just to make sure we're spending it according to what we said we were and as long as that's a go um they'll roll it in next year and given where we're at right now I don't see that being an issue >> and I know we um applied for additional funds but didn't get it but is there any like another round or other considerations for anything or are we pretty well set >> I have not heard that there are going to there's going to be any other money okay released I just wonder There is. We'll take a look at it. Or someone else. Or someone else. >> By we, I mean you. >>

097We'll take a look. >> She's already in the detachment. >> Not really. >> Back as a grant writer. >> I just want to study. I don't really want to write the grant. I like the big ideas. >> Just want to come up with them and spend it. >> All right. That brings us to policy committee and legislative liaison, Miss Brewster. >> Okay. Uh the policy committee met on February 17th. Um and it was probably a record short meeting of 14 minutes. So just want to let you know Dan did a great job, our our legal rep. Um uh creating the policy on uh public participation. Uh we did have some discussion about that and um you know there was um uh some concern or discuss more discussion needed by the board uh regarding um you

098know the option to allow additional time past the 3 minutes um and what criteria that would mean uh you know how how that would be in practice. and also about two board members um you know and you know talking among us um we were concerned about whether we wanted to strike that I don't know it it just was part of the conversation um it seemed like there was some redundancy and some of the things were already spoken about whether we needed to speak about it some more so that that is already I think we have a copy of that it's a first lead. Uh, thank you Dr. Ratino for sending that out and um, you know, just look at that. But Dan, did you want to say anything else about that particular one? >> Sure,

099I'd be happy to. So, there's a provision that I added for your consideration that would allow the board in exceptional circumstances to extend the 3minut speaking time. And that determination of what is exceptional or not could be made either by the board president or by uh the agreement of two board members. Again, this is just a discussion draft kind of um uh approach to just making sure we raise this issue and and that you have a chance to discuss it and decide what you feel is the right approach. Um exceptional circumstances essentially means if there's something that occurs that's unavoidable or unforeseen. So someone is speaking for example and perhaps um you know you lose power or perhaps uh they're interrupted unfortunately by maybe a member of the audience. Um if there is something that

100happens that's unavoidable then you would have the ability to extend their time. Um, it's not meant to be uh one of those exceptions that uh swallows up the limitation or the whole rule. It's supposed to be a very narrow type exception. That said, if the board feels, you know, that 3 minutes is three minutes and that's that, then we could easily take that language out. Another point to consider is if there are exceptional circumstances as an exception or basis for extending the three minutes. Who would make that determination? It doesn't have to be the board president. It doesn't have to be agreement of two of the board members. It could be an agreement of the majority of the board. You could require that it's unanimous. Um so all the options are available to you. I'm

101be happy to talk about it further. >> Did you want to say anything else about it? >> No, I think I think you covered most of it. >> That last part you mentioned, forgive me. Can you repeat that again? Are you saying that because my biggest hiccup in how we got to today is that I I don't care for the fact that the board president can turn off the ability to have public speaking. That's been changed. >> Okay. And that's one of the strike. >> Yes. Yeah. We struck out all the discretionary decision making of the board president. There was language about suspending the rules that's been struck. There was um language about um just the general discretion of the board president to uh to oversee the public participation portion of the meeting. That's been

102struck. Um the the policy in its current revised format does require public participation at every meeting whether that's a special meeting or a regular meeting at every meeting. Um I believe that reflects the discussion that the board had during our uh retreat um a month or so ago. >> Is a committee meeting considered every meeting? >> A committee meeting is not. This is a meeting of the board. Okay. Um, I will say after you kind of define the exact exceptional circumstances does make sense. Is there would it be beneficial to define it somewhere in the document? >> Yeah, I'd be happy to do that. I mean, u maybe even just using the word unavoidable would be better than exception. Oh, good. to try to make sure that we're talking about a very narrow exception and

103and frankly probably a very rare exception. >> Yeah. We just didn't want to create a situation where somebody didn't finish making their points and they might not have been aware that there was three minutes. But the fact is we usually say that um but then if you let them then somebody else might feel slighted because they didn't get to finish making their point. So we didn't feel that we wanted to create that situation. >> So >> I feel like if I define it a little bit more in with more specificity that will help avoid that situation where somebody feels like they should just get an extension. uh because of um other reasons. Um you know the circumstance I always look at too is you know somebody who's not used to addressing a public body in

104an open session maybe starts out with some introductory remarks, maybe a little anecdote about what happened to them on their way in, maybe a few compliments of the board, and then all of a sudden half of their time is gone. And so, um, what the what this version of the board policy is attempting to do is to empower all of you to enforce these rules and to jump in and to say, "Hey, please, please know you have three minutes." Um, so you might want to move to the substance of your comments. Also, um, you know, anything around confidentiality. So if somebody is speaking about their own child, you know, they can be reminded by any of you that this meeting is being recorded and that recording lives on for some time and so you might

105want to be careful about what information you disclose. Um so that's another important principle embedded in in this new version. Question on number three, which I know is pretty much a continuation of what's been. It says that participants must first be recognized by the board president and then will be requested to preface their comments by an announcement of their name, address, and group affiliation. Perhaps we should consider the three minutes beginning at the conclusion of that since it's our request that they preface their comments with that. >> I I think that's a great idea. So not to start the time. So they've introduced themselves and gone through those those preliminary remarks. So, at this point, just reread, but you'll send us something to review and then obviously because we're changing the um text um it's

106going to be a first read next time. Um so, um but if you have any input or just taking Lor's suggestion, just copy the rest of the board on your thoughts so we see the same thing, if we're making the same point. >> Yeah. Number nine specifically dealing with um I guess more or less 9A. Is that any board member can terminate? Is that how you read that? Or is that the providing officer or the majority? >> Catch it. >> Says the board the board may interrupt, warn and or terminate participants period of participation when they make comments that are repetitive, slanderous, disruptive, profanomy and so forth. Yes, it's this is meant to be a shared responsibility. >> Okay. >> So, yes, I could imagine a circumstance where someone would say as a board member,

107I think we need to terminate this person's comments b, you know, their or public participation based on the comments they just made that were slanderous. But then another board member may have a different view of it and the board will have to sort that out. But ultimately, it's for all of you. we would stop the timer at that point. >> So you we wouldn't want to make it specific cuz I I see that getting a little gray. Um perhaps if there was a policy of the board may with a vote of three to two of some, you know, a majority of the vote. I also am a little worried about one of the words, the word repetitive, slanderous, disruptive. I think most people have a a unique not a unique definition of that. repetitive I

108worry about because there are oftentimes take take the fa the face mask policy if that were the case and this policy existed then of the 50 people who spoke 49 of them could technically have been asked not to speak >> okay >> so I'm I'm worried that the word repetitive might be a little too ambiguous understand let me work on that um I I do want to um try to capture the um the concept that if there is um someone who's using public participation uh to essentially um delay the proceedings. Um I want to create some ability for the board to prevent that from happening. Uh so you could imagine somebody has prepared a statement and let's say it's two sentences long and they just keep reading the same two sentences for three minutes. Uh

109which I've seen uh I want to try to give give you some ability to say please move on from that feel free to use your whole three minutes but not to just say the same thing over and over. Okay, hearing that that makes more sense, but hopefully we can make it a little more clear as to >> do we have to have a consensus among the board to to do 91 9A, excuse me. >> Yes, I will add that. >> Okay, >> thank you. >> All right. And then um the other uh policy was on food services and that was per recent reg legislation but um you know kind of got a little humorous there because um some of it had to do with the types of food being served that the intent I know

110you're going to laugh. Um no that it's not fake meat or fake eggs. It's real you know like >> mislabeled meat. >> Yes. So that's what that's addressing and um and there were really no choices on that. It was pretty fixed. So um so that that was pretty much where we are on policy. And then as far as uh legislation update um that's a moving target. Um we're still monitoring what's going to be happening with Senate Bill 19. That's the one where uh students would be uh having remediation in math and what that would mean for our staff and um and hopefully um not be so cumbersome or that it would cost additional funds for our building or for our school district. And then um there also is um House Bill 715, but we talked

111about this before. reports about strengthening requirements for charter schools, but that comes up all the time and usually nothing happens with that. Uh but we'll keep an eye on it. And then um in our recent um um board magazine, um there was um an article about what to expect from the state house in 2026. Uh nobody knows from one day to the next. Um but you know um the the thing with this 136th general assembly um again is just monitoring what they're looking at and mainly they're talking about the capital budget and so we'll see how that all comes out. Uh right now we did receive proceeds from um you know the re-evaluation of property but we know that there was a change in the legislation that allowed the commissioners to take what was it

1121.2 million of >> 1.6 I believe. >> Was it 1.6? >> Our total is 1.6. >> 1.6. >> Yeah. We've lost half that so far. >> Yeah. And so what does that look like going forward? Are they going to continue to do that or are we um you know are we going to re be receiving any funds or will our hands be tied further by the state? Um, and then let's see. Um, there there was also a good article on policy management, uh, which gets into the legislation because when it's legislated, then we're looking at it from a policy standpoint, but it really got into, you know, what you must do, what you can't do, what you may do, and those are the decisions we make when we're forming policy. And then, um, there was

113a legal deadline calendar for board presidents. I know we all get the same uh calendar or this uh same uh publication. Um and it was funny because it was by Jennifer Harden, but I didn't know if you had received this um or got to read it, but it went monthto month um on what's due when and um you know it's for board presidents. So, and then it also talked about a year in the life of a school board member and monthtomonth what you're looking at as um school board. So, I thought that those two articles were really good and if you didn't get a chance to see them, I have them or we could put them out there online. Okay. One other thing for legislative, you know, the capital budget that is coming up and

114they do that on the off cycle of the bianium budget and the operating budget for the state. it it behooves us to take a look at how we can get a project funded if we're going to be doing community partnerships. Um because because if you can have legislators be behind a community project that's going to benefit the entire community, you can access some of those capital project funds um in the capital budget. And when you look at the list of people that were awarded, I looked at them two years ago because I think we were going to request some for my office, but then that it didn't come to fruition. But it's interesting to see what gets funded and what the purpose of those buildings are. So, if we're going to move forward with some

115community integrated things on this campus, maybe we should be talking to the right people. >> So, could you turn us on to some of those contacts that you might know about? It's you you have to you like you get sponsored by a legislator though. >> So just just our local legislator is what you're suggesting. >> I know that Wickliff did it as part of their community center. Um and I was and there Joe >> you can get some funding and it might not be a lot but anything right for their former superintendent is now rap and he was talking with me a little bit about it as we move forward to help some of that. So we are it is on the radar not for this class. Yeah, but it's >> as we move forward.

116That was a definitely engage him as we start to think of what what we are going to look forward to. >> Okay. Just thought I'd put that out there. >> No. >> Okay. So, that's all I have. So, do you want to pass that down? >> Um, real quick, >> did I see that the K through five additional playground time or additional recess time pass? >> I did not see that. No, >> I have not heard that yet either. For some reason, I thought I saw >> they are not in session right now. So, I have not I have not heard that. I I do have an update tomorrow um with a laundry list of bills and where they are. >> Okay. >> Um but no, and it was K8. >> I don't think they

117discussed it yet. >> It was Kate. I think they put it out there. I know the governor is in favor of it and I think it's a nightmare. >> Yeah, somewhere. I thought I read that. So, I'll look to see if I can find where I read that at, but >> I will I will ask tomorrow and legislative. >> Yeah, I have not heard anything either. It would be nice to know before I'm getting ready to do the schedule for him. >> Just saying. >> Oh, an hour of recess at John R will be a challenge. >> An hour is a long time. We did used to take them down. Remember we used to let them run around like knuckleheads cuz it's good for eighth graders. >> All right. Um, >> anybody who's ever had

118a Toyota in their house knows I speak the truth. Um, so next up is a superintendent business advisory le li le li le li le li le li le li le li le li le li le li leaisonazison report um we did not have a meeting last >> May 14th is the next scheduled meeting I'm going to try to coordinate that and maybe change that to the senior um capstone production or security but a couple other things that'll be coming up May 7th is the what are we calling it the truck oh check out the truck check out the truck event um and I think you had a lot of good items that or a lot of good um people that are going to be participating, right? >> So, we have about 25 vehicles that

119will be there um from a vast maj number of professions. So, the drivers and the operators will be there with the vehicles. We will take all of our second graders. We've invited a couple of their schools to maybe come in the afternoon. So, we're still kind of in the works for that. But, I'm really excited. I think it's going to be really fun for second graders to get some exposure, some career exploration at a young age in a hands-on fun hands-on way for them. So, the fairgrounds has been very gracious. They have allowed us to use the property. That's where we're doing it at no cost. So, it's really been a very cool thing to set up. It's I'm really excited. It's going to be fun. >> What's the t-shirt say again? >> We haven't

120decided on that yet. >> Now, you don't change. Well, go ahead. >> No, I'm not going to say it. >> Okay. >> I thought it was great. >> So, anyway, that is that is happening. >> And then May 13th, we have the career queer quest, right? Career quest, which will be for our fifth graders. That will take place up here. We will bring fifth graders by school up here. And their focus um is more of a why do I have to learn this kind of thing. So we have stations are kind of centered around there's six of them around subject areas. So there's a math station, an English station, fine arts, that kind of thing. Um and within each station we have three activities that directly relate to standards that they have learned in fifth

121grade in that subject area. So for example, one of the math stations is an HVAC station. So they will measure various size boxes that we are modeling after um houses or you know what I mean buildings and then they will calculate the volume and they will decide which air conditioning or furnace unit would go in that building. So that's why you learn volume. That's one of the professions that uses that standard. So they will be here um each building will come in a rotation of about two hours a little over two hours up here. We'll all be centered. It'll also be kind of a cool opportunity to show our fifth graders the CTX wing, some of the things, the welding lab, get them kind of through the high school a little bit and one more

122touch point to get them used to being. So, >> thank you. >> Fun stuff. All right. And then now that brings us to our superintendent report. >> All right. Thank you. So, I can't believe it's only a month, but on April 4th, we had the annual Easter egg hunt. This is the first one in a long time where it was a gorgeous day. Um, you'll notice they're hunting in uh shorts and not winter coats and there's no snow on the ground. Uh, because of that, I believe it lasted two and a half minutes. They were very thorough egg hunters um along the way. It was a it's a great thing. Um, and thank you to all the families who attended and worked really hard to set it up. Um, also this is super cool. Uh,

123congratulations to our sophomore Ava Paqua Path Pasalqua. >> Pasakua >> Pasalua. I knew I would screw that up. Uh, for winning Lake Trans bus rap art design. The theme this year part uses a works with Avery Dennis and puts a local challenge out to schools every year uh to design a bus amongst the theme. This year's theme was America 250. Uh Ava dethroned mentor. The last couple winners have been mentor and Ava Ava took it over. She uh Lake TR came out with the bus on a cold day. It was very cold that morning. >> So cold on on April 7th. the the bus was displayed. One of the things they noted in in her bus design is that it was actually handdrawn and not necessarily digitally designed. And they they thought that was really

124cool. Ava got to walk around the bus and uh dad was there and so proud of everyone. I believe she may even take the bus to homecoming or prom. We're not quite sure. >> It's also going to be a check out the truck by the way. This is one of the vehicles that the um lake tran is sending. >> So thank you to Lake Tran for that. Um really great thing uh RHS job fair. Every year we host a job fair for juniors and seniors uh exposing them to local businesses. More than 120 students attended to learn about local job opportunities uh between 20 local businesses and organizations. Really great event and thank you to Mrs. Molenus, the assistant principal at the high school uh for organizing that for our students. Um this is really

125cool. Well, congratulations to uh Mrs. Poji. She was inducted this month into the Ohio Thesbians Hall of Fame for all the work she does for the group. This honor, it celebrates her distinguished career to the Ohio Thesbians. I recognize her enduring impact on theater in our state. And I believe this is her 21st or was her 21st or 22 second show. Um she's been doing it forever and truly impacting uh students all the way through. So welldeserved honor. um she doesn't necessarily like to be in the spotlight, so it's something we want to definitely show off and and be proud of for her. Um at that same competition, um our drama department put on um their spring show between the lines, they put it on for the entire state and the crew that was out

126there. So, they had to take the scene, the scenery and everything and pack it up, put it in a U-Haul, and drive it down to Columbus and then set it up again um and redo it. So they they did the they they got to do the show. Uh they did not bring the pit band. They that was the one thing that they left at home and did the music for. But um great job for them. They did put on an encore performance one last time for the community so they can have a dry run um to get it through. But it was it was a great show and um really great opportunity for them to show it off in front of their peers um in the state. >> How do they do music without the

127pit? >> So they use the tracks. >> Yeah. They tracked it. Um, softball scoreboard got its debut. Um, lights up. The the home side is having bigger numbers on the visitor side, so that's a good thing. Uh, the first game, the first home game was against Shardan. It was neat to look out my window and see the scoring that we were winning. Uh, then went out and watched a little bit. uh did put a dedication plaque and a thank you plaque on the dugout to our alumni association who gave a significant uh sponsorship to the to the scoreboard that's out there and there and it's been really positive. We know what the score is now where we're at. So it was a really good thing um obviously um for the softball. One of the great

128things um you know our Nick does with his department or he is his department in department of one and mighty um but brought in a banner sponsorship program really to look to kind of you know advertise our local uh sponsors but also get their get their banners up this year. 42 local banner sponsors joined us this year. It brought in over $70,000 to our athletic department. Just want to thank them for their support. Uh there are different levels throughout whether it's a stadium banners, the fieldhouse banners, and then even the um their kind of combined banners on our softball and baseball fields for the spring um that are there to make sure that they're they're aware. So, thank you again to those people who have partnered with us. The calendar, the 27, not next year,

129but the year after, two year advance, 2728 school year calendar is on tonight for a vote. Uh, pretty typical to that. We try to keep spring break that the spoiler alert. It's usually the last full week of March. That's what we always try to keep it as. That's the question everybody wants to know. When is spring break? Um, that's we're trying to we've been consistent with that throughout um getting some other local districts on board with that idea. Auburn is one of them. Um, as well as um Pel City are looking at that as well. So, we're trying to get more collaborative a more consensus amongst our calendars. ours being out two years in advance uh does give us an opportunity for that calendar. So, um >> is that great in the in August? That's

130>> those are our teacher work days. >> Say we still are one of the lone hold out districts who >> we >> starts late and I think that's at the request of families. >> We're creeping a little earlier, but we're typically that third week um and you know to to get there. We're not in the middle of August uh yet to any of that. We still we still have that that last days right around Memorial Day depending on what um what comes in. A lot of it's where Easter falls um where some of those those things are that we we provide days off for and kind of working through. So it's been uh working through that. One thing that I don't know that is identified in here but will be soon is the first day

131of kindergarten and what we deem kinder camp to start. That is very important now where it hasn't been because that's the registration cut off. So we will put that date on there um shortly and that will be a separate color um that Nick will decide to he has it written about the bottom. It's just not >> it's the 23rd. So uh age five by August 23rd >> 2027 for kindergarten registration that year. That is a that is a definite learning curve change for our our families if you move >> to be moving. >> Yeah. >> So will there be like any phase in like they're in but they're or it's just >> they're in or out there they there is always the opportunity for um early entrance res you know they can go for early

132entrance testing. We've had a couple do that. Um but it is the the law is you are in or you're out. >> Yeah. >> Um >> so either you're five or you're not five. Um, so just continuing with kindergarten, we are registering our kindergarteners. Now, one of the things we have started to do, I think this is the third one that we've done is a kindergarten kickoff on May 7th, um, 5:30 to 7:00. It is located at each of the elementary schools. So, it's located at the home schools. Um, strongly recommend that they all come to to that, come see the schools, see the buildings, the teachers are there. Uh, they run them through the bus buses are out there. Uh buses are out there with bus driver recruiting banners hanging from them. Um but

133kids get to go on and see the bus. They get to they get to see the school uh meet their teachers and kind of run around and have a have a great time >> with that. Um other exciting things and I believe it was mentioned earlier CTX open house is on May the 4th. So we're >> CTX is what again? >> Career technical experience. Uh we are celebrating Star Wars day um by cutting the ribbon on our techn our high-tech open house. Uh really happy about that. The ridding the ridding the ribbon cutting is at 5. Um but then it'll be open house after that where our families can go and see see the space look around kind of see how students are learning in a different way. Really excited to host that. Um and

134we have invited many of our um you know state rep we've invited our state reps. We invited many local local politicians and more to kind of be a part of part of that celebration and celebrate what it is because it was funded by a $2.5 million grant. Question. >> That's the same night as our band concert. >> It is the same night as the seventh grade band concert. I believe the the sixth grade band concert is at 6. Um and I believe they're re they're um they they have a tradition of doing um goodies afterwards. I believe their goodies are going to actually be in the CTX wing. know, we're looking to kind of combine so people have time. >> We try to get free out of it, but no, we're looking to have them

135come to see it and then seventh grade will see it before and go to a >> cuz there's nowhere better to eat snacks than in a construction snack. >> Sawdust and cupcakes. >> Why not? >> I was going to suggest maybe we ask Mr. Swiss in his communication that he includes this open house so parents know. We absolutely can. >> Okay. Another great event that we do is scheduled May 21st at 1 PM is our military signing event um recognizing our seniors who have chosen to enlist in the military uh following graduation. I don't know how many you have committed to this time, but I'll get an update to the board um as soon as they get that number and all board members are invited uh to attend and watch this great celebration to our

136brave seniors. really excited to have this. And this just came about two days ago, I believe. I got the the letter, the notification. Um, Riverside recently nominated three local businesses that we partnered with for the 2026 OSBA business honor role. We're excited to announce the OSBA has officially presented three businesses with a certificate of recognition for their strong partnership um you know of our of our programming that includes Gem Construction, Fulton Sign and University Hospitals. We will bring universities recognition to them when we go v meet with them. Uh GEM I think we're going to reach out to them to invite them to the CTX open house. Um and then Fton sign there he's Brian Fton's here all the time so we'll we'll find a way to present present his to him as well. So,

137um, thank you to those businesses. They truly are partners, uh, moving forward. They've done a lot for us. And that concludes my report. >> All right, that brings us to um our treasures report and committee update. First is the finance audit personnel committee and alumni association leaison Mr. Buyers. >> Okay. We had a fairly short meeting as well. Um there are bunch of items on uh that we'll be voting on to purchase later. Some of those including a high school math curriculum, um electric program, transportation renewal, fuel purchase, and u and the instrument purchase that uh Belinda mentioned that was purchased DPI fund. Um we talked about personnel. There was there were 10 postings open open through uh spring break. um attended uh like as Chris mentioned the there was the junior senior uh career

138fair fair that was talked about. Um talked to at the Akran fair. Uh there was a lot of conversation with students that were graduating that are certified will be certified teachers. this uh staffing survey was uh was out and we were getting more uh participation with that. Uh so so that was good. And then there was a budget update. Uh Steve was at at statewide conference. So we missed him. But uh Mike discussed the new budget process and uh you know there's a learning curve there. They're sitting with the various departments and making sure everyone is aware of um what what their responsibilities are. Uh May 15th purchase orders are no longer permitted um with fiscal year ending in June 30th. Still looking to consolidate technology with centralized uh budget model. Um, and that is

139about it for personnel and finance. Uh, the alumni association update, again, I'll just say it. The golf outing is June 20th. It'll be $100. It's a fourman scramble. We're looking to get 18 teams this year so we can do a shotgun start. It will include a hot dog lunch. Mission uh barbecue dinner I believe is still the plan. Um there we're talking about different games and um uh advantages that can be purchased uh for that. So it should be fun. Uh I believe there will be cornhole for those not play uh golfing. And then the last piece of that is they still had not had any one apply for the scholarship. Uh so if you know anyone who can benefit from those, please have them apply. It is it does have to be a student

140who has a parent or grandparent that was alumni. Um but they they did um move back the date on getting those submissions in. So you had time. >> Dr. Tino, is there anything we can do with like the guidance just to try to get word out on? >> We will. I was just putting right in the dock. So, we will work on making sure we set that up to all our seniors. >> About a month ago, we did send uh just to senior parents all the scholarship opportunities and >> yeah, >> I don't know if they're trying to tell parents that it's economical. it's economically advantageous for their kids to apply for scholarships. I mean, for the obvious reasons, but for example, when my kid was a senior, I said, "Okay, so spend your time

141really doing a good job filling out these scholarship applications and don't go get a part-time job and you make more money like per hour worked." It really was like it really it's beneficial by the time you do that and kids just are not applying for the scholarships and we have so many of them out there. You know, all the ones that came in from REF and that we now house here in the district and all the ones that were here in the district already. It's >> I'm just trying to get my kid to read his email. So, >> that is that's a that's a real that's a real thing. Yeah. >> Um, reading, you know, reading emails and getting to the the page where they're all located is a we put them all over the

142place and we sent them text. We accept QR codes. >> It's a it's a true thing. >> So Jamie McIntyre every probably once a week sends senior updates to all the senior class and it's, you know, it's everything prom, scholarships, graduation ceremony. >> I just want parents to be aware of. We did also do a separate one just for scholarships, just to parents. >> I mean, it's in the weekly newsletters that we get from Mr. Hall. And yeah, so it's it's out there. >> So, it is it's a $1,500 scholarship. Just do the math on what how many hours you would have to work at $20 an hour, which is twice as much as I made when I was graduate of high college. But, um, >> some people are getting paid now. >> Yeah. Mhm.

143>> So, but I will I will say that the lack of application is uh they were able to use $3,000 of dollars from last year for the softball scoreboard as a donation. So, >> it does not go unused. Thank you. >> All right. For me. >> Thank you. And that brings us to an update from the treasurer. We've been waiting for this. >> I'll bet. Um so, I'm I'm doing a a change in format. So, I'll um love to hear your feedback. Uh what what it what it what it's focused on is making sure you all have the information you need to know. Are we tracking with our 5-year forecast? Are we spending what we said we were going to spend? Are we behind? Are we ahead? Where are we? And I think ultimately from

144a fiduciary respon uh perspective that's probably one of the main functions of a school board. So th that's what this is trying to do and I'm trying to do it in a way that is digestible. So you have a written report um in in there as well. So uh so the first thing I'm looking at just cash balance trends as they relate to the forecast. So everything I show you how does that relate to the forecast? we above the low projections. So what we're currently looking at of course is fiscal year 26. Uh our expenditure analysis through March, obviously we're not completely through but we're through 9 months. So it's pretty solid data at this point. Um and we're going to compare that to most actuals but still some estimates for those last 3 months

145um trending forward. So current year to date revenue collections are about $145,000 more is what I'm projecting than what we estimated. So not a ton of money, but it's in the right direction. Uh year-to- date expenditures, we're we're spending about it looks like we're going to be about $53,000 more than we projected. Uh so the net impact of course is that's $92,000 favorable overall. So, so and some of the variances uh so in terms of our current monthly cash flow estimates in 26 it was 192 um and that cash flow estimates includes actual data through March uh to June 30 cash balance and you can see that that is about $92,000 more than what we originally projected. Again, cash B that does not mean we're not in deficit spending. It just means we're hitting what

146we said we were going to hit. So, uh cash balance in June was 20 million and we're clocking at about 90 or $19 million, uh which is $84,000 of operating deficit. But that wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the last second change by the by the um county. You know, if we didn't do the roll back, that's about about as much money as was pulled out from underneath the rug. I mean, we'd be spot on. So, um, so some of those, um, cash flow variances from the forecast. Um, again, we saw those numbers, those numbers of that 145,000. Here's a breakdown of where they were. So, local tax um tax reimbursements a little bit higher. State revenue, we killed it. I mean, we really got a lot more than uh what we estimated. $8,600.

147We'll take it, though. It's in the right direction. and all other revenue 78,000 and that's what encompasses that's where that $145,000 is coming from. So those top two categories obviously represent about 113.7% of our variance between our estimates and our actuals. Uh our total variance uh with current revenue estimates versus projected in the 5-year forecast is point we're off a lot 26%. Um off our annual forecast. So the fiscal year 75% complete or 9 months that's how close we are to trending where we think we are. So there's just a small amount just that orange that still remains an estimate. So moving to expenditures same period of time again nailing our forecast but we're is still um losing we're still in deficit spending. We're still trending in the wrong direction. Where's it coming from? No

148surprise to anybody, the vast majority of our expenditures are in salaries and benefits. Um, that is true of every school district. We're a service industry. It's what we it's it's what we do. Purchase services and all other expenses. Uh, bring that together. So, if we break that down, you can see salaries and benefits. how how much they this is what you're looking at here is a comparison to last year. So salary and benefits went up. We we made a reduction remember of a million dollars in salary 1.1 million uh total reductions but people still we they still saw a 3% pay raise. They still experienced a roughly 2% uh increase on a step if they were on steps. any column movements, all of those things um every year is going to far exceed uh inflation.

149And because of House Bill 920, we're not getting any additional revenue. Anyways, purchase services, as you can see, went up 630,000 compared to last year. This time last year, um all other expenses went up $875,000 and our total expenditures, we're spending approximately $3 uh.4 4 million more this year than we did last year, which is in line with what we projected. It's not that there's nothing on here that's a surprise for us. There's the total. So those those compared to the same period that were expended last year. So the trend is $53,000 unfavorable to the forecast. There again is the breakout of where those expenditure trends came from. Where did we how did we get there? Salaries and benefits, we projected it to be higher than what it is. So, we're coming under in salaries

150and benefits, but in the other purchase of services and all other expenses, we missed the mark a little bit. Uh but total overall we are uh down $53,000. Uh our $53,000 more in expenditures than we anticipated. Um and here is again a more extensive breakdown of specifically where that came from if you want to get really into the the details, but we track all of this. We track all these things and we monitor it every month. >> That's the 26. >> That's correct. Yeah. So again um those top two categories make up or represent 381% of the variance between you know those current expenses and what we projected and that's creating the variance of $53,000 which is.1%. Our variance on on revenue was off 26%. Our variance on expenditures is off.1%. off what we forecasted.

151So, I'm going to just say it again because it feels so good. We nailed it. It's nailed. I mean, you can't I don't think you can get any tighter of of our projections versus what actually transpired. Uh we continue to make our investments. So, right now we have almost 30 million that's invested. We're still doing all right on those investments as you can see. Not what it was doing a year ago. You know, we were turning at 5% a year, beginning of the year. So there the those portfolio yields are coming down some. Um but I think what's important to note and I want the community to know is we don't just send it in the bank. You know, we're we're investing our dollars until we need it and then we pull it out when

152we need to make payroll, etc., etc. Um trying to stretch their tax dollars. Uh where I'm I I'm going to do this um I think I'm going to do this at the committee level, but I didn't do it at the last committee level, so I'm going to do it here. But moving forward, I'll update this every month on the committee level. Um so we have some clarity. I'm sorry that it's small. um we did the best we could um to make this larger but um so a lot of talk you know a lot of questions about what's going to happen to our PI levy so um whoops sorry so right here um uh is where you see a huge in 2029 you see a big number coming in there's two uh reasons um for that

153number. This one is the turf replacement. So that $600,000 which we are budgeting for in 2029. I hope we can take it out, but right now it's there. And then secondly, big number. That's the that's when the cops payment is going to kick in for Buckeye, the $15 million cops deal. So that's now we're now we go from building cash reserves to we're not we're eating into our cash reserves across the bottoms our cash reserves. Um 2.6 million 3.8 million 3.1 3 million and 2.8 million. So for the foreseeable future, this meeting we went through uh the three of us went through all our budgets and everything that we know, everything that we know that's repetitive, everything that we can foresee and we budgeted for it. That includes vehicles and buses and cleaning the track

154and money for parking lots, etc., etc. Now, it does not include a million-doll parking lot project, which we know we need to do, but we did not budget for that. Um, so that still hangs out there. >> Is that 1.2? I thought it was less than that. >> What else is in that 1.2 for Buckeye? >> It's It It's just the cops. >> It's just the cops. So, and that's a bit of a guess. And I went high. I could I hope I come back and tell you it's not 1.2 because we haven't sold the bonds yet. But >> I thought it was >> at 12 million it was almost a million. So it's a bit of a guess going from 12 million to 15 million. I don't know yet until we get a GMP,

155we sell bonds, and then I'll be able to tell you exactly what it is. But that's what I that I don't I'm confident it's not going to go over that. I'm hope I'm hopeful that it's going to go under it. But you can see that does put us in put PI in deficit spending. But it still leaves us now the good thing. You know, the also the thing to think about in in this in this scenario, if we're successful, if we move forward and we're successful in a bond issue, all three elementaryaries are wrapped up. They shouldn't require a lot of major repairs. Our high school, well, 712 would be all buttoned up. So, expenditures out of the PI account should diminish. never totally go away but should diminish and hopefully that'll slow the curve

156but we are going in the wrong direction we will be eventually when the cops kicks in we'll start going in the wrong direction in our PI account >> the turf replacement is that a guesstimate in price and what is the scope of that project >> it's a guesstimate in price of course because it's still two years out um we're we're estimating $600,000 that's what we have here. What we don't have here is the fact that um well, let me ask to make sure. Did we take out the 200,000 that's in the scing fund or did we put the full 600? >> Uh there's 600 there. There's still this. >> Yeah, there's there's a think it's going to be >> they thought it was going to be 800. >> Right. So, the the last the last

157quote that I received last year on just an estimate for what a turf build replacement was about $675,000. Now, I would guess that it's about 800 by the time we're ready to do it. We have 200 in a sinking fund and 600 there >> which is still gaining revenue from cell tower from the cell tower. >> But this is just turf. This isn't track. >> It's just new carpet >> has been replaced. They have to take the they they take the turf up. They put it right back down. >> Yeah. Yeah. And it's already honestly past it life expectancy. That turf >> we put it in they they said about 8 to 10 years. We're on 10 and we're pushing we'll probably push 12 by the last estimate we had about 2 to four years

158of life left on the turf. So >> and then it then what happens? It starts ripping coming apart at the seams and >> and it gets harder too that it becomes a danger for concussions. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So it we we have to we have to address it. So, that's our PI and we'll continue to update that and bring that to our committee each month so we can keep a a track on those. Um, now what's not showing up here is um under each one of these drop downs are all the specificity underneath it, but they're in green and they're hidden so that I can fit it on one chart. Otherwise, it would never fit on a piece of paper. But those are all the major categories and everything that's underneath it. And also

159remember we we we um appropriate at the fund level. So I want to get I'm going to talk about this in a minute. I want to get away from it. But um you know I don't want dollars from here going up to here or down to there. But we can if we have to. But we're we're working to make that less uh likely occurrence. So, some important dates and some of them are past. February 9th, we did department and building training on the new budgetary process. That handbook is in your in your file there or in your notebook. Um, that gives more specificity. On March 6th, um, budget requests were prepared. They had to justify them and review them internally. when I mean internally it within their own their own departments that they did that

160by March 6th and then submitted them on March 6th to us uh which we went through. Um big thank you to Mike. Mike spent a lot of time meeting with all the all the department and building principles because they have not had to create budgets at least in quite a while. So, it was a new process for them to learn how to do that. April 10th, um we did an administrative review and that was with the three of us, um going through and trying to figure out if we appropriate it, which is going to be done in June. So, whatever we appropriate, then that's going to go into the 5-year forecast, drive the five-year forecast. So we know we're going to be in deficit spending, but our question was how much is tolerable? What can

161we cut back? How can we minimize this? And but at the same time not be in March saying um we need to transfer $300,000 from general fund because you know on paper we made it look like we were making all these reductions when in fact we couldn't like fuel or whatever it might be. Uh budgets were finalized and returned to buildings and departments. Hard date. Heart date. So all of you teachers and leaders out there, there will be no additional purchase orders accepted after May 15th. Zero. None. No exception. No exception. I won't even Mike doesn't even get to weigh in. It's no from me. It's no sign anymore. >> No. It's no. It's no. Don't ask me. It's no 15th. Okay. One less step for me. I'm happy. What we will do in an

162effort to be flexible though, and we've told these guys, we we've made this out there known for a while. They've known, but it's going to be hard for them because they're not used to it. Um, but we will let them put a purchase order in and date it July 1st, but they're going to have to sit and wait. >> So, that means, you know, if you're going to buy cleaning supplies for summer cleaning, you got to think ahead. >> Yeah. But that's also coming under next year budget. So, >> that is true. That is also true. >> Too bad. That is true. And then June 25th. Um, >> well, I guess it's June >> 20th 26th. >> 3rd. >> 23rd. >> It's 23rd now, but when I made this, it was the 25th. Um, it

163won't be temporary appropriations. That's a that's a typo on my part. It'll be the final appropriations. And then you'll also get the uh 5-year forecast. and then we'll have everything closed and all the documents that's required for that etc etc. So that's where we are. Any questions do now? >> It's it's due in July threeears. >> It's a fouryear forecast. >> It's a it's four year they require four years >> not five four but we're going to keep doing five. I'm just going to I I would agree that year two should be the year you're in should be rock solid and clearly we were. Year two should be pretty darn good. Year three should give you a strong indication. Year four starts to fade away and year five is anybody's guess. So much change. You're

164in a different benium. There's a lot of changes that go on but it still gives us trend data and I think it's worth doing to see that. I think it'll help us and we're used to it. That's what we're used to seeing and operating under. Any questions for me. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Does your new software still accommodate the 5 years or is it shortening? >> No, it's accommodating the fiveyear and that and that in those um that format that I used, I used forecast 5 to do that. All right, that brings us to public comment. So, anyone wishing to address the board of education will be recognized by the board president. Speakers are requested to speak >> from their seat. Um, identify themselves in their topic. Comments are limited to three minutes.

165Any public comment tonight? >> Not all at once. We had such a great policy on it. >> All right, so that brings us to consent agenda. First one up is finance and audit. >> Okay. I'd like to make a motion to approve the items listed A through N on the finance audit consent agenda as recommended by the treasurer. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? >> Yeah. Can I ask can I ask a couple of questions? So, um I see that we're doing this Cleveland construction for preconstruction. Um that's out of PI, correct? >> Yes. >> Can and then boys volleyball. I have a question on that. So, we we added a boys volleyball varsity sport. Correct. >> We did not. This is a this is a club sport. Yeah, this

166is a club sport completely funded by the team. There is no cost to us. >> So, we don't have that yet. How many people are participating in that right now? Do we know? >> We just There's a handful. I mean, they just >> 10 to I mean, I think it's about I think they keep 10 to 15. There's there's a good number. >> I'm just curious, right? Um, hold on. In item K where we have our blanket purchase orders, we have luck rent. Are we buying a bobcat? Because that's about how much that costs. >> So I took a look real quick. That's that actually should have that little rotation next to it like the one below it does. So that's kind of like a culmination throughout from July 1st through now. >> Is that

167to rent one >> to well rent multiple different pieces. >> So So here's my question. Why are we spending that much money with Lepo rents when it only costs 25 grand to buy a Bobcat? >> Well, these these are like we have a scissor lift that we've gone and there's >> Don't we have our own scissor lifts? >> Not an outdoor one. >> Special wheels. >> Yeah. And you can't use an indoor one outdoors. But this last one actually takes into account the project over >> and that's a B that's a large bulldozer that they're running and not a Bobcat. >> It's not a Bobcat. >> No, it's a name of the company. >> I bought a Bobcat on >> it say just putting it out there like >> Okay. And then my last question

168I think was we're putting on the agenda the the amount for the construction the 22,000 but then it's under the then and now. So do we already pay it? >> Not yet. >> No hasn't been paid. >> They've already uh done the work. They sent us the the invoice for it. We just didn't have the purchase order in place prior to that. and we're doing they know that Mike and I do not like them in the house and we're working on significantly reducing that but sometimes the situation as you know occurs and there's nothing you can do about it. >> Um I had a question about the world fuel service. I see the 120,000 how how does that service work and uh I think this is the second one we've voted on since I've been

169on the board. So, how what's what's the one? I mean, obviously it's pay for fuel, but how does that work? Do they come and put it in the ground in the tank for us and we pump it out? >> They're they're right out here or here. I'm disoriented over here. Yeah. Back by the >> Okay. >> by the football stadium. >> Just curious. Yeah. >> Yeah. And um and we actually >> share that with >> we share that with Payneesville City and we're looking at more. We didn't mention it. We probably should have, but we're we're looking at um some conversations too. Um Chris and I will be meeting with their superintendent to talk to look at where they repair their buses and you know is they've got a great facility. Can what can we

170do? >> We're already partnering with them on fuel. >> We have them at Fairport as well to have some conversations. I know Fairport doesn't do busing, but they they have to bust their kids at times and so we're looking at options for that too. And then I just want to make sure that we thank the people who have donated dollars. So there was um some money from 1922 Coffee and Brew to the Riverside Theater. We had dollars donated to the George Haden um from George Haden to the Clyde C. Haden memorial scholarship fund, another scholarship, folks. Um and another donation from the LaMarcos family, I would assume that is um to Riverside. So, thank you for those. >> Is that uh any more discussion? >> Can you take the role? >> Mrs. Keski, >> I

171>> Mr. Adino, >> hi. >> Mrs. Graassie, >> I >> Miss Brewster. >> I >> Mr. Buyers, >> hi. >> Motion carries 50. >> That brings us to personnel. I have a motion to approve the items listed A through H on the personal consent agenda, personnel consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent. Can I get a second? >> Second. Go ahead. >> Any discussion? >> I have a question. I'm just curious. Uh, how do we determine supplemental contracts? What do we use to come up with the number? >> It's in the contract. Well, okay. I guess before that, I mean, I know I know that the contract dictates what goes on in this paper, but what determines what are we do? We use other school districts to determine supplementals as as a baseline or is

172it it rolls from I mean, it's it's kind of been inherited. I know there was a big I think honestly about 10 to 15 years ago there was a redo of some of the supplements to take some out to add some to change them, but it's off the base. how it's a percentage off the base salary goes up every year kind of where you're at. >> And it comes with a step program too, right? >> Uh there is a step program for seniority and supplemental. So if you've done supplemental for years, you can go >> there like two or three levels. >> Yes, there are three levels. >> Okay, that was just question. Thank you. That's all I had. >> I I would just like to, you know, congratulate the folks that are retiring. Mrs.

173Star and Mrs. Vera, >> hers is just a simple date change. Star is actually >> Mrs. Star has been >> Mrs. My kids had her. So that's she's been around a long time and congratulations to her on her retirement. >> Absolutely. A lot of books in her room. >> Steel. >> We have a custodian retiring of 43 years. >> Wow. >> Did I miss that one? >> She's on a different section. >> Different section. >> Yes. 43 years. That is the longest tenure. Correct. >> That's amazing. >> Yes. >> And her family worked here. Um, >> really? >> Yes. >> Yeah. So, we will be doing something for her at our cookout. >> Good for them. I hope they have enjoyable retirements. >> Any other discussion? >> Steve, could you call the RO? >> Mr.

174Buyers, >> I. >> Miss Brewster, >> I. >> Mrs. Krennki, >> I. >> Mrs. Grassy, >> I. >> Mr. Odino, >> I. >> Motion carries. 50. >> Can I just can I just mention one thing? I see on here we have a we have a school psychologist intern. >> Yes. >> Um I just wanted to mention that anybody who is taking psychology as part of their college degree, you know, this is a program that they offer that is through the state and we don't pay for this person. This is an internship that's paid through the state. And there's so many school psychologist openings that if you don't know that's a job potential, it's it's a job potential. Like I'm just >> they're on every school district's like, you know, it's it's a need. >> It

175is the only internship >> that is paid by the state. >> Paid by the state. >> Somewhere a governor's wife is a psychologist. Christmas >> that is the that is the truth of that. >> Well, I just wanted to bring it to the board's attention. We are not paying for we are excited to have them with us this year. It's a guaranteed job. >> I appreciate you saying that. >> We're really happy with the steps to have our site approved. So, we're really excited that that will be something to do. All right, that brings us to consent agenda for curriculum and programming. >> Yes. Motion to approve the items listed A through G on the curriculum and program consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent. Can I have a second? A second. Any discussion? Okay.

176Roll please. Miss Brewster. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Kinski. >> Hi. >> Mr. Adino. Hi, >> Mr. Buyers. >> I, >> Mrs. Grassy. >> I >> Motion carries 50. >> Consent agenda for buildings and grounds and operations. Um, I'm going to question this one because I we have an item that's on hold. >> Oh, are we skipping that one? >> We're skipping that one. That one did not come through. I'm sorry. >> Okay, that's right. >> So, it's A through H. >> A through what? >> Yeah, A through H. >> A through H. Okay. Um, yeah. We have a motion to approve the items listed on the buildings and grounds operations consent agenda A through H as recommended by the superintendent. Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Again, we talked about most

177all of these at our buildings and grounds meeting with the exception of one and I think that was the preventative maintenance for the bleachers, but that's also a routine annual. >> That was a requirement. Yes, >> it's a requirement. Is there any other discussion? Can we call the role? >> Mrs. Kreninski, >> I. >> Mrs. Grassi, >> I. >> Mr. Adino. >> Hi, >> Miss Brewster. >> Hi, >> Mr. Buyers. >> I motion carries 50. >> Um, as mentioned earlier, there's the policy agenda, which is the first reading of the new and revised board policy. >> We will have changes to the bylaw and um it'll be out again next month for a reading. the fake meat will be after the ribs. >> No 3D printed. >> All right, that brings us to um board

178of education business. We do have a resolution authorizing the Riverside local school districts joiner of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy Adequacy of School Funding. I get a second. I'll second. >> Thank you. And how about some discussion? >> Uh, I appreciate the information that you forwarded um in our in our Friday packet and Joe, thank you for the sending the links. Um, some of that information was was very helpful and reading your their PowerPoint. I thought at least brought some of additional information to the table I thought was interesting. So, thank you for sharing. Um, I will mention that I felt that the answers to Dr. Ratino's questions were a little canned, not necessarily providing us with any more transparency than we started with. Uh, it really didn't define the scope and intent.

179It didn't give us a lot of financial clarity. I know that you reached out to someone subsequently who kind of backchandled some financials to you. >> We did. We did a public records request to their fiscal agent. >> Yeah. So, we we we shouldn't have to take that kind of length when they're asking us for our money, um taxpayer dollars, our students money. Um so, I don't know if my view is changed by the information they provided us. Um and and the fact that they included some politically charged comments in the response to you mentioning the Koch brothers, those are all talking points that you typically hear on a 24-hour news channel. So, I I don't know if I'm any further along than I was a month ago. Um, that's just my point of view.

180>> Yeah, I I I tend to agree with you. Like, I reached out to them individually myself to see if I could get additional further information on their financial, where they spend their money, where, and I know that the the ESC is their their fiscal agent is an ESC, and I think I sent you that. Hey, do what you need to do, whatever. They were not forthcoming with the information when I asked for it. I don't >> They did mention to me that you asked for it. >> Yeah. >> And it was interesting to see like it the data that they provided was just a little bit interesting. I was I I tend to agree with you when you say I'm not quite sure I'm fond of their message. I understand that vouchers, we need

181to be advocates for public school funding, but I'm not sure I'm a fan of 100% of their message all the time. >> And I I have a problem with that. And I spoke to someone at great length about that just this past week, as a matter of fact, who had called me out of the blue, I don't know why, to ask me some questions on on the fact that we were having this conversation. And I said, 'I don't speak for the board, but I'm going to tell you, I don't I like maybe somebody should take that back to them and tell them maybe they can revise some of their messaging because it's not vouchers aren't all bad. It's the funding mechanism that that is not appropriate. And she was just very taken back that I

182would say that. So, I'm not I'm not I'm on the fence at this point. >> Yeah. Honestly, we were voting for voucher equity, the concept, I'd vote yes twice if I could, but >> right, >> this coalition in particular um doesn't sit well with me. >> So, >> yeah. Um I wanted to make a couple comments. Um you know, it is in litigation. There's we're going to be able to continue to follow what's happening in the courts. Um it it it is a politically charged issue. Um, I totally agree that there's a lot of money going where it shouldn't be going, but you know, in reading a lot more comments, our own um, uh, attorney general Yoast said that there's no guarantee that even if that money was changed that it would come back to

183us. And I I felt that was pretty problematic. Um, because we're assuming that it would. um and the um fact in greeting um you know the records request information that you sent and thank you for doing that. Um we already knew that the ESC of Northeast Ohio is a member and we're associated with them but also the Ohio School Boards Association of which we pay a membership. They are also members and advocating. So I feel like we have advocates um already for us. on this. >> I would just say that uh I just look at it as return on investment and while the the return on investment could be substantial if the court case is ruled in favor and money is brought back to us. I don't think our $8,000 makes a difference in whether

184uh it doesn't change the I don't think it changes the outcome of of the case. So that one the return on investment is pretty much the same. >> And it's $8,000 each year. >> Each year. >> Yeah. It isn't just a one time 8,000. >> And the the other thing that I don't think we really got a clear answer was they say how many people are members, but it's whether they've ever been a member. Are they a current member? How many do they actually have? It was vague. I don't think we ever got a finite answer. You know, they're they're a council of governments. They're organized as a council of governments. So, they're kind of like our healthcare consortium used to be, right? And they're they they they quoted we have an audit every year,

185but when I went back and I looked up the audits, it's not really an audit. It was specialized procedures and right and I was like, uh, don't don't you like don't try to pull the wool over my eyes. you didn't have an audit. Do you know what I mean? Um and and the reports are out there because it's a council of governments. The data is out there on the state's website. Um and all you have to do is Google it. I mean, it was pretty easy to get to. And that I guess that irritated me to the point where I I said, "No." So, I'm just throwing that out there. Okay. A lot of good discussion. Is there anything else? You call the roll. >> Mr. Buyers, >> nay. >> Miss Brewster, >> nay. >>

186Mr. Adino, >> nay. >> Mrs. Grassy? >> Nay. >> Mrs. Greninski? >> Nay. >> So that means the motion failed >> and it's >> zero to five. That's >> that's a first for me. >> It was good to have the conversation I think because I think you know like I said >> huge proponent of advocacy for the funding of public schools but I think and I believe the lawsuit should go forward but I don't believe that that they were transparent about the questions that we asked. So thanks for having the conversation. Thank you for bringing that donation. >> Thank you. >> Um, board of education update. Um, I wanted to, um, thank Nick for putting out I didn't get to say it at the last meeting, the little um, survey thing for the seniors. Um,

187because sometimes, you know, we don't have their information to contact them. Um, and I assume you got a a decent response and >> uh, we passed out about 250 and we got about 30 responses maybe. >> Okay. But did you might have had some of them already cuz I see a lot of the same people there too. >> Did you try MySpace? >> Okay. >> We put it on. >> But I guess at this point um I know >> at one point >> I'm one of them so I can say it. >> Yeah. You talked about you know like the parents and that the email addresses we have that we were at about 5,000 initially. Where are we now? because we've made an attempt to try to reach out more. >> I don't have that

188number off the top of my head, but it's it's probably not a ton more than that. >> Oh, I thought that we were like doubling that. Or >> you mean from LLB? >> I wasn't specifically saying that. I'm talking about >> that's where it came from >> in general. What are we doing with those? >> I thought I'll shut up. I thought I thought we had them. >> We haven't really done anything with the list. >> Um, >> we got it about what 3 weeks ago. I I we put it in a Friday packet about the information. >> Um, I don't know how accurate it is. Um, there's there's 28,000 entries. When I removed duplicates, it was went down to about 23. Um, some spot checks were correct, some spot checks were incorrect. Um, so

189we haven't done anything with it yet. I don't I mean it it's the the board purchased it. >> If you give us the the authority to use it, >> we will use it and see what happens. Um, >> I just wonder in light of the fact that we're trying to appeal to the public for support, um, you know, that we might want to at least send something out and inviting them for information or whatever and see what you get because, you know, 5,000 if it even goes to 10,000, that's a good thing. >> I don't know. >> So, I mean, the 5,000 >> Do you need authorization from us? Are you saying >> well I I question >> I don't know if there was any board discussion once I mean it was a discussion for

190a long time about even getting the list and now that we have a list and there's >> can we discuss it at our next >> it's not 100% accurate I don't know how I don't know >> business old business >> yeah I think there's some significant concerns that are that are with the list >> I well then we just need to talk about it >> I I think we do I think it's a great thing for new business in the next year >> okay >> so we'll cancel >> all right but thank you for direct >> the the 5,000 you're referring to is our parent email that that just syncs with our student information system and >> of course we have our community leaders and we do have some people who fill out the the

191website email address and the senior citizens so that adds a couple hundred >> okay >> we had we had a lot of success with our strategic plan in reaching out to our the local townships and asking them to put on our Facebook page and I think that got a lot of a lot of buying from the surveys >> yeah I had a couple emails from people that saw in the newspaper. >> Yep. >> So, >> we made the front page, I think, for that, too. >> So, I'm just saying there's >> Thank you, Bryson. >> A lot of good good ways to get in touch. >> Any other board of education updates? All right. Um, next meeting announcements. We have curriculum and programming committee meeting May 13, 2026 at 7:30 a.m. Finance and Personnel Committee

192meeting May 14th, 2026 at 7 a.m. Buildings and Grounds Committee meeting May 19th, 2026 at 7:30 a.m. And our board of education meeting is May 21st, 2026 at 6 p.m. >> And I don't think there's a need for a policy meeting. >> There is not. No. >> Okay. But just to follow up with what Dan sends and then you know if you have any comments and it'll be a third. >> May 13th is our career quest which I have 100 fifth graders coming here at 8:30 in the morning. >> What day? >> May 13th. >> So we may be looking to reschedu the curriculum meeting. This is like a very busy day for you. >> I think I think we have we don't have right after I think when we're done maybe we can talk

193about um what days might work. >> Okay. >> All right. And that brings us to executive session. So, be it resolved that the Riverside Local School District Board of Education hereby adjourns to executive session at 8:37 p.m. for the purpose of discussing safety and security arrangements in the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of a public employee or official. Confurrence with an attorney to discuss disputes involving the district that are subject of pending or imminent court action. like Riverside Local School District Board of Education hereby designates all matters discussed in this executive session as strictly confidential and finds that this designation is warranted because of the status of this matter and the need to preserve confidentiality to properly conduct the business of this board of education. Can I get a second? I'll >>

194second. Then can you call roll please? >> Mrs. Graassie. Hi. >> Mr. Buyers. Hi >> Miss Brewster. >> Hi >> Mrs. Grenki. >> Hi. >> And Mr. Adino. >> Hi. >> Motion carry five. >> Thank you.