001at 6:00. Gary, can you take the role? Scott Fishell here. Dennis Keaney here. Denise Brewster here. Graci here. Glory here. Please stand for the pledge. Pledge allegiance 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 would like to welcome all the students, staff, parents, and interested community members to tonight's board of education meeting. I would like to remind everyone that this is a meeting of the board of education held in public for the purpose of conducting the school's 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. And before we proceed
002with tonight's agenda, on behalf of the Riverside Local School District Board of Education and District Administration, I ask that we take a moment to honor the memory of Robert Sicker, who was a custodian at Riverview Elementary, who tragically passed away last week. Our heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathy go out to Robert's family and friends during this extremely difficult time. In recognition of his life and the impact he had on all who knew him, I ask that we observe a moment of silence. Thank you. Make a motion to approve the minutes as attached and those uh minutes Gary for May May 22nd 20 four minutes. Uh can I get a second? I'll second. Thank you. You take the role. Scott Visual. Hi. Dennis Keany. Hi. Denise Brewster. Hi. Glendrassi. I Lorie Fiski. I motion carried. Approval
003of minutes. Motion to approve minutes from the June 4th, 2025 special meeting. Can I get a second? Second. Gary, can you take the role? Dennis Keaney. Hi. Denise Brewster. I grassy. I abstain. Scott Fishell. I. Motion carried. special report. Okay. Um, continuing our pathway to excellence. Um, tonight we're going to talk about two more areas in the pathway specifically the Riverside Way instructional framework as well as the instructional rounds component because they're both directly connected to one another. Um to start off the Riverside Way instructional framework, uh the belief of this is that high-quality instruction is grounded in consistent student centered practices observable in every classroom. What's really unique about this is um even prior to my arrival, Dr. Malaca reached out to Riverside staff and asked them to explain what good teaching looks like
004and what they can expect in the classroom. We those answers that were gathered from there were were complated into this um Riverside Way instructional framework. So it's really what we expect every lesson. It's not it's it's really about and focused on engaged learning um active participation through discussions. The teacher is not just the stage on the stage. They are the guide by the side. They work with um they work to engage ask proper questions um connect the learning to real world scenarios. Uh student centered classrooms. Uh we talk a lot about choice uh and how students learn and how they demonstrate mastery. So providing additional choice that goes with that. What we're finding is that this used to be a very and it still is a challenging task, but some of AI tools make it
005a whole a little bit easier and a little bit more efficient in the way we do this. Um, use of blended learning and differentiated instruction. We talk about personalized learning. I'll get back to personalized learning at the end of this, but really kind of different ways to show different ways to capture these um these learning topics and then clear learning targets and and um incorporated use of technology. The important part about learning is is presenting the why. It works with adult education. Why are you learning this? It also works with students. Why are you learning this? Why do you need to do this? And at the end, what are you expected to learn? I think that's one of the keys. Um it wouldn't be a talk about any type of learning. If we can talk
006about data coming from me, I love data, but really using data to drive instruction. Last month, we talked about the assessments that we use and why we use those assessments. Well, one of the reasons we use those assessments is to drive instruction. We know where students are. We know that we need to either hit something a little bit more in depth or we know hey our students kind of mastered that so we can move forward. We can group students using data put them in specific groups to kind of really talk about um so that they're in like-minded groups so that they are working on the same level. We know which groups need a little more assistance and which groups we can push and stretch um and then students reflect uh they seek feedback on that
007and they engage in meaningful assessment. So that if the lesson is set to their level, we know that they are going to reflect seek feedback and engage um forward. The next part of that talks about you know this framework set the the culture the environment and setting the expectations for for that. So we talk about positive classroom culture what we expect of all classrooms um is that you know it's a safe environment where everyone is treated with a mutual amount of respect and um we encourage risk-taking. We we encourage risk-taking amongst our teachers when we ask them, hey, you know, take a risk and try personalized learning. Take a risk and, you know, step out of that comfort zone. Um, you know, so we expect that we we ask the same out of our students.
008Um, our teachers model respect and they encourage student voice. We want to hear what the students have to say. We ask for their feedback. We want them to have a, you know, have that autonomy in their learning. Um, and then we also expect them to be engaged and and to be present. um you know so working on ways to make sure that the lesson is relevant so that they can be there and that they can engage in that lesson. And finally we talk about a supportive physical environment. What's it like to be in a classroom? They're not necessar when you go into a classroom that has this framework in place. There's flexible seating. There's opportunities to learn in different manners. It's not all in in rows, you know, four by 4x6 rows. They're they're sitting
009in groups. They're sitting in pods. There's there's couches. There's different opportunities. Some of them are standing um depending on what they need and how they're most comfortable. Student work and exemplars are displayed and celebrated. Um you know it's not just hey here's a check here you get it back. It's this is an exemplar this we're putting up. And again technology and instructional materials are current and they're easily accessible. Um and they and they're friendly and they're appropriate to to that to that level. And the outcome we expect from from this framework as we go through it is consistent, rigorous, and student centered instructional experience that reflects our commitment to excellence. Truly, one community pursuing greatness, getting better every day. It's a process to get there. It's not just we wave a wand and say, "Hey,
010turn your classroom into this." It doesn't work like that. It is a very ch it's it's taking a lot of our teachers and having them step out of their comfort zone. It's having them take risks. Um it's having our leaders take risks. We we s have some try and true methods that this has worked in the past and this is what I'm comfortable with or or the classic we always use dinosaurs for whatever reason. I love my dinosaurs and I this is a great dinosaur unit because it's engaging but it doesn't hit the standards but it's really fun. Well, okay, how do we take it to meet to the standards and what does it look like for our most advanced learners and our and our struggling learners and those in the middle and how do
011we kind of get that? So, that's the framework. You know we can say we have that but what you value um what you value you assess. So how do we assess this? Well obviously we do it through teacher evaluation process but that gets our principles in classrooms to see our teachers and doesn't really impact all we have really great teaching that happens in every classroom across this district. So instructional rounds is is the way we hit that and instructional rounds really make sure that Riverside Way um and the Riverside Way framework is being used with fidelity. So instructional rounds comes out of the medical field and it's a structured collaborative approach for educators to observe and strengthen teaching practice practices. The goal is to align the classroom instruction that we see on a daily basis
012with aspects of the Riverside Way. When we send a rounds group into a classroom, they're not going to see all of it. They don't spend the entire period there. It's a 5 to 10 minute, you know, snippet of what that class is, but what they're looking for is student engagement. They're looking evidence of data driven instruction. So the questions they may ask students are why are you doing this? They look for this positive classroom culture. Is there evidence of of students learning and kind of feeling that and you can feel that when you walk in and is it an effective learning environment? I think that you know in looking at that engagement. The other thing about teachers going into classrooms in instructional round group is forever teachers have kind of been in their own little
013islands and they teach and then they meet each other in you know in in the lounge or they see each other before after but they don't actually typically watch each other teach. Our intervention specialists start and we started co-eing. They started to get in see different teachers but traditional classroom teachers are stay in their zone. They don't get to go see other practices. Well, this is a way for all of our teachers to go in and kind of see others and celebrate our best practice lessons to make sure that they they see what those are. And it really gives them some look for us to look through. So, they get new ideas on, okay, this is what this looks like. This is what engagement looks like in a classroom or this is how they interpreted
014that lesson. This is a really good thing. Um, and they can kind of take those back to their own classroom. It's also a way for us to track data. So we we take these small teams, we meet with them ahead of time, um have a group of classrooms to go to and kind of give them some focus look for we emphasize that shared feedback and continuous improvement. It is not evaluative in any way at all. So this isn't a way that ever hits on the teacher evaluation form or any of that. It's about support and what you're doing well. So it is really about real-time feedback. It's it's kind of if you use a coaching world and coaching steroids, it's it's watching practice film. When you watch practice film, you learn a lot from that
015practice. Um, and it's a it's a supportive environment because it there's no stakes to it. It's not doesn't increase the one loss, but you get a lot better if you kind of take a chance look at it. And this is what they do after the round. They meet as a team and they and they talk and they say, "This is what we saw. This is what we captured. I like when they did this." And we gather that on chart paper in a large group format to look for trends over time. So the more is the more evidences of rounds we have, we can kind of see what that data is and look at that and then plan PD for the next the upcoming year or the next time or or kind of where where our
016areas of strength are and where our areas for growth are. So it really does um provide it the strength the benefits again it promotes ongoing professional learning where teachers are professionals to get into one another. It strengthens collaboration and peer support. They can really come in and say this is a great class and this is what happens. It builds a shared understanding of what high quality education is. When we say things like personalized learning, we have a common definition. We have examples and exemplars that we can send people to say this is an example of that. We say engaged learning. We can say go to so and so's classroom to see the these students are always engaged. High quality questioning. Go to so- and so's classrooms to see what high quality questioning looks like in
017there. Um, you know, in terms of implementation, we train all the observers on the process. We train them to say it's not evaluative. These are your look fors. These are the things you're looking at. Um we we want rounds to occur regularly within the schools. The eventual goal is that schools will go to other schools. So our elementary school teams will cross schools or cross grade levels or high schools will go to elementary schools and see because good teaching is good teaching. It looks different on different levels, but you'll see it there. Um and then the last thing is we debrief and we identify the next steps ultimately looking for what's then what's known as a problem of practice. When you get enough of these rounds in place, you can identify that problem of practice.
018So, what's the long-term impact of this and why are we doing this and why is this part of our pathway? Well, number one, it informs our professional development. So, it tells us what we need to get better at based on what we see and what more and what we don't see uh and what we identify as as some of our our areas of growth. It uncovers systemwide strength like I said the areas of growth and it does drive instructional excellence aligned to our district goals. So it's what we need to do um to move forward and kind of how we identify those and then we put a problem and we put a pathway and a plan in place to identify how do we how do we solve that what do we need to grow in
019and and what do we see and if we have all this information we can really do a lot more with that. So it's it's an area that we can make sure that we are providing um that instruct or that that Riverside way uh document. We are providing that that framework um in every classroom because when we say every classroom we mean every classroom, not just math, not just reading, not just core, but every classroom uses um and implements the Riverside Way um framework. So that was a lot. I'm going to open it up to questions before I finish. Kind of a short update today. Um well as far as the um part of this program you are using the coaches to create consistency. We are we are using the coaches as well as uh Mrs.
020Lweber will be leading instructional rounds next year. So that's our that's our curriculum supervisor and she is one of her major uh tasks next year is to lead the rounds process and have it consistent throughout. Anything else on this one? Okay. So, I think we have one more one more month of these and then we'll kept cover the whole pathway and that concludes my report. Thank you for that. Discussion of old business. Any old business? I have some old business. Um at the last meeting um there was some information um shared that you know there were some inaccuracies and I wanted to make sure that we're clear about how uh things evolved with uh Buckeye Elementary. Um and so I just want to let everyone know that Mrs. Smolen, the Buckeye Elementary principal, created options
021one and option two, shared them with our committee, and she detailed these um room assignments because we were removing the modular trailers um and bringing three classes into the building because the other three classes were graduating onto uh Lemouth. and the board appointed me as the committee chairperson and as a a board member um you know heading the committee I chose option two as the best option and so I just wanted to be clear about that but in the meantime um we're continuing to monitor the kindergarten enrollment I don't have um the last numbers I had were what you sent out Dr. Ratino changed. Yeah. So I, uh, Buckeye and Riverview are down a section. And so, um, if the numbers stay within the current range, which Buckeye has 29 students instead of 60 last
022year, so it's significantly down. Um, right now that would translate into 15 and 14. And even if we got some more students, it's highly unlikely that we're going to have three sections, which, you know, frees up a classroom. And that's going to afford the opportunity. And we can't make any promises until, you know, August when we see uh what's happening with last minute enrollments, but that um we're we're hoping that the art and music teacher would remain in their current space next year at Buckeye. And then uh Dr. Routino is continuously monitoring these numbers. Right now at Riverview they have uh 73 which translates into 18 1817. No fifth section like we had this year. So I just want you to know it's something we continually monitor. actually the central office does and um you
023know we we typically will have people enroll the last minute but I don't see a significant change where it's going to force another class at this point but we will we will determine that. Um so I just can I ask a question? I'm doing a little bit of math. So 18 18 and 19 would be 73, right? Oh, sorry. 19. Yeah. Typo. Oh, no. Sorry. You're right. Just be accurate. Yeah, I know. He's the math person. All right. So, but still, we're under 20. We're also four sections, not five. And um so, that's going to help um with the transition. We did move over a couple of uh special ed units over there. And uh we also have had uh we will have uh some students that are going to be in pods, but this
024would afford one additional classroom that we would not have to have um a class in a pod. Uh because some sections are um you know um five sections and there's only four sections at a grade level. So um that's part of the reason for the addition is so that we have adequate space. All right. And then uh I I think that's it for that topic. Anything else? Um I'm just curious on our policy on committees and there's no power within the committee and the committees don't have authority to make decisions. Um, and so I just want to make that as a statement. You know, we we discuss things in committee and committees make recommendations, but the recommendations are supposed to come to the board and the board's supposed to have conversation about those. I'm looking
025at it right now. So, um, I don't know that one individual on a committee can just make a decision. We probably should have done that by board conversation. Uh, option two was discussed at the board meeting and we voted on it. Yes, I realize that but you also just said that you decided that that was the what I decided to bring to the board, right? So, yeah, it was not recommended by the committee as a whole. I'm just saying. So, that's all anything else discussion of new business? Um, I have some questions on some items that were brought up at our finance committee. We can either talk about those things now or we can talk about those when we get to the finance committee report. We had some information that came through at the last
026minute on the finance committee that had to do with some borrowing options that were being discussed by the board president and our municipal advisor that were not brought up previously related to the riverview cost. Are we going to have any of that conversation? Will we Mr. Plac, are you going to share any of that information at this meeting? I did not bring any of that information tonight. just uh I did update the permit improvement fund uh improvement fund forecast that included borrowing figures on it but it's similar to what was presented previously. Is there a plan to have conversation about that? Are we moving forward with having any considerations on that or is was that just I just want to make sure that we're discussing it at the table. You want me to handle that
027Gary? Sure. Okay. So all that was was information that was being gathered. Nothing's ready to come to the table yet even for discussion. So that's just updated info on what the bond rates are right now and what the borrowing uh amounts would be uh if we so chose to move forward. But nothing's ready to come to the table unless you want to bring something to the table. I don't want to bring anything to the table. I'm just asking are we going to be discussing that in a finance committee meeting before it comes to the ta to the table. So it may be in buildings and grounds. It may be in finance. It may be in both. It may be at the board table. So, it isformational right now. And until something's ready to come to
028the table, uh there's really no discussion on it unless you want to bring something to the table. I would I would I would consider otherwise. I would think that if we're going to be considering borrowing for Riverview that we should be talking about that as at the table. Um, if anybody is thinking of wanting to borrow for Riverview, I mean, that's what you were investigating and those were the questions you were asking. And so, I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page is is what's on the table for discussion. We didn't discuss it in the finance committee meeting to great extent because we didn't really have the information at the time. Right. There's nothing on the table right now unless you want to bring something to the table. But you
029said you collected information. What she's asking is can the information please come to the finance, not a committee. Oh, I'm just gathering information. So, if I were to bring all the information I'm gathering, we would be days in meetings. I'm just gathering information. That's not to be shared until Trey to come to the table. No, the information can be shared with the entire board at all times. But the information was shared. Mr. PLO did put it in the Friday to our treasurer. Absolutely. But he did include it in the Friday packet. I want to make sure that if we're going to have conversation about information that was in the Friday packet that we have it at the table entire community can can have a listen to what it is. you can bring it up as
030you just did and we can discuss it. So if we're as we just did. So if you'd like if you'd like to bring something to the board to formally discuss to vote on you, you're welcome. I do not want to vote on anything. What I would like is to have open discussion about this topic at some time when the information can be presented in full that Mr. Placo had provided to the board in the Friday packet. Okay. Anything else? Nope. Thank you for that. Um, okay. Um, education committee and liaison reports, buildings and grounds. So, in buildings and grounds, uh, this week, uh, Mr. or less uh made us aware that u for the uh Buckeye trailers the HVAC the freon was extracted from the HVAC units. Um security and fire was removed uh by
031Southeast security. The door fobs technology removed by Zenith Systems and RHS technology department and the illuminating company disconnected the power and removed the meters. Uh and uh one thing I added was that the people the company hired to dismantle those uh went to get a demolition permit and they have to have an asbestous report. So Mr. Arlesic is um looking to have a company come in and do a report. Um expecting and hoping that that's clean and and uh we can proceed. So update that's the update on that. Um the summer cleaning uh progress is uh moving along very well. And we have in this meeting right here in approval um uh for equipment purchase and uh those are the two units you're looking at from Middlefield. Is that right? That's reference. So we'll be
032approving the purchase of a couple units that the district needs to be able to do their their maintenance work. So, uh, we also talked about getting, uh, three quotes, uh, which Mr. Arlesic will be procuring for the asbestous removal project. Uh, we're certainly looking to, uh, make Riverside as safe as possible. The asbestous has been there for ever, right, since the building was built and, uh, we'd like to get that taken care of so we have a safe environment for everybody. So, thank you for your work on that, Mr. Erlesic. So, that's the buildings and grounds. The business advisory council uh the superintendent uh said we wouldn't have one uh this month. You're welcome. So, I I say that or next month either or next month. Okay. School's out, so we don't have those meetings
033right now. So, um Okay. So, that's it for buildings and grounds. Okay. Curriculum and programming. Okay. Um the curriculum committee uh met on June 10th. Uh there was no meeting in May and we had several updates. The K2 wit and wisdom reading program that was implemented this year uh will be establishing learning labs next year to promote collaboration um across the respective grade levels and in their building and also across the district. So it isn't just teachers within a building. Um there will be a focus next year in developing a writing scope and sequence. Uh that was an area that um staff felt that they needed to put some more time and attention into and this will enable students to build on their writing skills as they progress through the year and into the next
034grade levels. Uh grade three through six will begin their training in the new reading program called Benchmark. Uh the teachers receive the materials prior to the end of the school year which is very beneficial to be able to look that over over the summer. Um there will also be additional training for the teachers in the new CPM uh math program and that's college prep preparatory math, right? Um in grades 3 through six. Um our former math coach Katie Lber 6 through eight CPF. Oh, I'm sorry. I I did it wrong. 6 through eight. Sorry, it was the other the benchmark is 3 through six. Sorry. All right. That's why you don't type at night. Um, all right. So, grades six through eight. And our former math coach, Katie Lineweber, is um going to be um
035continuing to assist with this process. The honor um uh math teachers, they were in Columbus this summer. Is that correct? and um for specific training in the program which also includes algebra 1 for professional development in 25 to 26 there will be a continued focus on personalized learning and the MTSS process including the advancement of students at the higher end. Um up till now we've kind of been focusing on remediating students and getting them up to where they need to be but we really need to focus also on the students at the higher end. Uh the science courses of studies um was reviewed by the board of education and will be approved at tonight's meeting. Uh next year the English language arts curriculum will be posted. Um part of the reason for the delay is
036the implementation of some of these new series that we need to get through which it is posted now. It will be updated. It'll be updated with the new series. Right. And then second semester the math curriculum will be approved. uh some preliminary Ohio state test results were discussed but are not ready for release. Uh when we initially get this data um that they call uh there are many corrections that need to take place and it's called scrubbing the data getting um everything accurate before it's reported out. Um so there were some strong gains in several areas particularly algebra 1 as I understand and um but there are still some targeted areas um that are in need of improvement and it's a good read for us to all right here we are where do we go
037from here um and then due to the retirement eligibility and some staff moving on we have found some quality staff members joining us at Riverside and I want to congratulate all of you and I think you'll be introduced by our superintendent shortly. And then lastly, um there's going to be some playground projects and additions for students that will be added at Riverview, Mel Ridge, and Buckeye as construction projects proceed. Um we're just um looking at that. Um we talked about adaptive, we've talked about preschool or or let's say little guy size. um because if you don't rightsize them, in fact, I actually made a visit to several preschools to look at um how that looks differently than some of our playgrounds. And then also a place to ride your trikes. You can't really ride some
038of those trikes on the um mulch. So sometimes creating a pathway which can be used for multiple things. and we um are maybe going to look into um uh proposing some things that our construction um classes might be able to build for us. Um it's, you know, something that I think would be a nice contribution by them. Okay, that's all for that. And then um uh the Buckeye ad hoc committee is done. uh the strategic plan liaison. Um we've really, you know, just focused on the pathway to excellence and and what Dr. Ratino covered tonight. So, thank you for uh policy committee. Um we did not have a policy meeting. I do see that there's a policy item on the board agenda. So, I just want to make sure all board members know um that
039that did not come through the policy committee. So, there's been no discussion or understanding of where that came from. Um, and then also there was no no update on alumni association. I'm sorry, you said no update on the alumni. Thank you. Yeah, I just want to speak to I I did get a chance to attend along with several of the administrators uh their alumni golf outing at uh Paintsville Country Club last Saturday and I think there were 11 or 12 groups. Um, and it's a worthwhile cause and highly encourage other people to participate so we can have a shotgun start and not spend as much time starting one after another. But it it was well done and very nice to you know be a lot of good work done by the alumni association and and
040our superintendent uh came and and uh I'm still showed everyone showed everyone how to hit the drives. So, so I can just I haven't golfed in a while. No, and the weather was great. So, successful out. It was hot. It was hot. Um, booster, I don't have a report at this time. Okay. Thank you for that superintendence report. Okay. Um, so it's been a great month, but I'm going to start with the uh a little bit of an update on the state budget and House Bill 96. It is it is out of the Senate went to conference. I know Mr. Planco will talk all things money, so I kind of avoided that uh and just talk about some of the policies. I love some of this stuff because it sometimes just makes me laugh how
041this impacts a budget. But that's a that's another whole statement. But a couple things that I one of the wins I think that comes out of House Bill 96 is the language they have in there that modifies current attendance laws. Um really the old current attendance laws or House Bill 410 really focused on punitive and checking boxes and making sure you have meetings. This takes more of what it looks like to be an intervention focus and how do we the purpose of having these attendance laws is to get kids to come to school. So this really focuses on um getting kids to come to school. It does involve if we have habitual truency, you definitely we reinvolved the juvenile court system brings them back into prior to House Bill 410. We had a great relationship
042with Lake County Juveninal Court. We still do, but they helped with some of the truency issues. I think that's going to help with some of these uh interventions here. Some of the other things that came out of it, which I thought was um just the share, which are kind of unique. Now, these are subject to the governor's line item veto, I should say that. And that will come through um somebody hit the button on that board. Um that'll come through eventually by uh the 30th. He has to sign off on it. Oh, too late. Nick spent too much time reading. Well, there was no option to let it go. It just said shut down or update now. Oh, okay. So, it's an update. So, I Yeah, we'll go off this board. Um, one of the
043things that the that they did is they modified the state board of education to a total of five appointees. Uh, there are currently eight appointed by the governor and 11 elected PE uh board members who serve on that. The language reads that the 11 elected board members will ser will serve out their term and not uh be up for re-election. the five appointees. Uh it is one with a suburban focus, one with an urban focus, one with a rural focus, or one with um a charter uh experience, and one with a a non-public um non-charter school service. So, it's it's a very unique way that they're shifting the state board of ed. They are all appointed. They take the election out of that state board of ed. Um, one of the things that I'm disappointed
044that the governor put through that got completely eliminated was the principal apprenticeship program. I thought it was a very strong practice uh to put that in to kind of really see um when you enter administration even though you do an internship as part of your experience in in grad school. It doesn't really prepare you for what the job truly is. an internship program would really um or the apprenticeship program would really allow us to see do you really like the job and identify um in-house administrators to kind of feed that throughout. Um also in the um in the House version they they worked in some ed choice accountability provisions for those scholarships that those got removed in the final one that's going to the governor's budget. Um as well it requires district so it does
045require districts to adopt a cell phone policy that bans cell phones during the instructional day unless medically necessary or for a legit a legitimate educational purpose. We will change our policy a little bit. We have some at the principal's discretion and that actually gets removed to just um that one of the unique and ironic things to this whole policy is then the next line down it says you have to adopt a um an emergency plan that allows students to use their cell phone if in case there's an emergency on campus. So it kind of speaks it you know out of both sides of its mouth in in that plan. But that's something that we will have run through the policy committee to make sure that policy fits with what the what the intent is of
046that. It says by January 1st um at Lamouthuth and our elementary schools we we pretty much have this plan in place now at the high school we are going to start impinging that the first day of school. So it will be a plan that and and we can do that in our our current policy as we update our policy. We are going to go based on these are the rules um from the first day of school. So that's one thing that I've talked to Mr. Hall about to make sure we ready for that. Um another thing that came out of it is requires districts to provide I put this in quotes advanced learning opportunities for math. um for each student who scores advanced on a math achievement assessment at the on the end of course
047exam. So if they score an advanced on a math um on the the grade level math test or on the algebra or geometry in a course exam, we have to provide um we have to provide an advanced learning opportunity for math which is basically the equivalent of subject acceleration or some sort something that looks like that as long as we have it in the building. So if you score advanced on geometry, look at what what's a two-year advancement after that. Um well that's that's you kind of individual through their pathway but it might even be calculus well that might be a struggle for kids and we don't typically offer we offer our AP calculus but in order to have any of the prerequisite skills um and they didn't necessarily address the issue that you have
048to have algebra who are equivalent to graduate so you can't skip that. So there are some I understand the premise behind this, but there are some kind of kind of holes in in some of this as typically are. We'll work our way through it. Uh for us in looking at the preliminary impact, it wouldn't necessarily change what we have. It might change a couple of our offerings um and our offerings at the middle school moving through. But ultimately, when we have students who score well in math, we meet as a team and look to advance them anyway and have those kind of things and bring the parents involved. The parents can deny this. So we don't have to force them. So, we have automatically score five and the parent says, "Wait a minute, we don't
049nobody wants this. You can move them and keep them in the track they're on." Um, and the last thing that it does do, and it doesn't mention how, but it does create partisan school board elections um with the inclusion of a primary. So, I know that impacts all of you. Um, so that is coming down the road. Again, they are subject to uh the governor's line item vetos and this is one that both OSBA uh BASA OASPO and all them has encouraged them to uh has encouraged the governor to veto or these partisan elections because no one really knows how it's going to work out and work that way um moving through what a primary is. And it also eliminates certain people from serving on a school board, police, fire, those in state government, those
050sorts of things. We have interest. So, um that is the policy changes. Now for the it's been a really exciting month um throughout throughout the district. First and foremost, and I am kind of putting the bats away a little bit before um all of it, but I want to introduce our new administrative hires. We're really excited. Katie Limeweever is going to be our curriculum supervisor. She could not attend due to a medical appointment, but we are excited to have her. She's our she was our former math coach u and kind of is stepping up into that role with familiar to the district. Uh Kaylee Flint is in the back. Kaylee, stand up, please. Uh Kayle's our middle school principal at Lemouth coming to us from Willwick Middle School um as an assistant principal there. We
051are really excited to have her on board. She uh is district president, has some great experience through that and um has already hit the ground running meeting with all the staff um and all of that. And not yet approved, but on the agenda tonight is Miss Camille Rit. She's our executive director of student services. Um she's going to replace uh Chiranic will be retired. She was here all day today. She's been here a lot as well kind of getting to know staff getting in introduced and all that and brings a wealth of experience. Again comes from uh Willoughby Eastlake as a special ed supervisor basically in charge of preschool their sale program and a number of other assignments as directed which um any supervisor has. So we are we are super excited to have them
052join the team. Um, and they are already all have been in the office throughout throughout this month and even more. Um, and then it happened 75 years in the making. Riverside finally has a state championship team and our softball team waited till the very last season in the 75th year to win it. Boy, was it a great game. Riverside uh, first team in uh, to win a state championship. They beat Mount Vernon 8 to6 in a thrilling seven inning game um, on June 8th. It's supposed to start at 1:00. I think it started at 3:30 or 4. Uh it rained all the way through. These girls were so impressive in how they did it and the way they did it. They were down. Uh the very first play of the game was an air. Um
053and they just bounced back because of the field. The ball was wet, slipped out of the short stop's hand. Uh didn't let them phase them. They went through more kind of ups and downs. I've never been to a game where every pitch was important. um kind of turned the edge with a line shot out of the field uh by Mr. Kevin's daughter. Um then that kind of got him back. As soon as that happened, Coach Bors uh said to me, "We're winning this game." We were still down two, you don't math so well. That's only one. Um so but it just turned the momentum around. Um and then again, Matty Kein again hits a bases clearing double uh to take us ahead. It was unbelievable the way they just nothing phased them in this entire
054game. You said coach Boris said I coach Ross. Oh no, I was talking about No, I was it was actually I was sitting next to Mr. Boris on the stand. Coach Ross was he doesn't deal well with change the the delay and all that was uh a little bit different with him but everybody else um was amazing. Um so we're sitting in the stands realizing we're going to win this game. What do we do? Uh cuz we've never done this before. So we all so we were fortunate enough to have such great relationships with Payneesville Fire Concord or Painville Township Fire Concord uh fire as well as the sheriff's office. We got the team escorted the sheriff's office met them off 90 to 44. The the fire trucks met them on 44, drove the drove
055the team back into a great number of fans who were there at 8:00 on a Sunday night to to root them on. The the Beaver was there. Uh it was just it was it was awesome and and just a great thing. And then we went on to what's what's next. Uh on June 18th, we hosted our state championship celebration. Um it rained all day. It was it was outside and it just poured all day. Buckets. Um but we had it outside. We wanted to have it on the field. Uh thanks to Mr. Arlesic and and his team and all the work with that that field we could have played. Uh that field drained so well. So buildings and grounds having them come out and redo the field was amazing. We could actually play that night
056even after all the rain outfield might have been a little bit soggy but it would have been okay. Um but we got to celebrate them. If you drive out, you'll notice the 2025 state championships banner hanging at the top of the dugout. That is going to stay up there until the next state championship team um replaces that. Um my hope is that it's not another 75 years. Uh so I'm hoping we get them a little bit more uh frequency in in frequency. Uh not to be remissed, our track and field athletes had another on the same kind of week. They we had a number of track and field athletes come qualify for the state meet. These are individual events or you know small relay team events. They happen more frequently. Uh we have a lot
057to celebrate at Riverside. Allison placed eighth in the 100 meter hurdles. Uh that's running fast and jumping at the same time. That takes a lot of coordination. Uh Kate Miy placed 11th in the 1600. When I say she placed 11, she cracked five minutes in the mile. I mean that is insane. And that was still 11th, but that's moving. Um I I said I don't think I can run a half mile in five minute under five. And she she absolutely killed it. Um so it was amazing how she how she peaked. Then Josh Porter placed seventh and Mark Cooji placed ninth in the shot put. Uh both of those were over 50 foot throws, which is a 12-pound implement throwing at 50 feet is really far. Uh Kendall Michaela placed 16th in the long jump.
058Um and uh Colin Boris, Richard Johnson III, Jake Lagger or Jake Laggerre and M and Kendall Michaela placed 14th in the 4x2 on the relay. I do think Kendall was a little bit hampered with the with the hamstring and they were they were saying he was a little bit tired, so that was kind of why um for that. But again, just great great efforts by all of our athletes and awesome to do down at that state meet. I'm showing up. Uh we did have celebrate two groundbreaking ceremonies on May 30th. Like I said, May was the month at at Riverside. Uh we broke ground um for both Riverview, the Riverview Edition and the CTE building. Um and though and those sites look very different today than they did a month ago. If you drive by
059them now, as you drove by now, they're they're up and working. Um, and I will give some updates and these are um, so Roger Reich could not be here tonight. He had a prior engagement. Um, but he did send me some updates on both of those. From the CTE aspect, the building pad uh, is set to commence this week. Uh, interior demolition for ramp foundations commenced on June 24th. The demolition of the new door openings commenced on 6:24. So, if you drive by, you can see the green spots that are open where those doors are. Um the CMU infills are scheduled for early next week and the foundations are scheduled for the week after to kind of make sure that that all those things are set. So just to show some pictures from that. Um
060just some of the pictures that are going through and it is constant in and out um construction going on banging everything else like that that we're hearing running into some you know unexpected issues when you deal with a 75year-old building and trying to tie to it and not necessarily the greatest of plans at times but Mr. and his team are doing an amazing job kind of handling it with with poise and making sure that we can still kind of have school, that school's going to start on time. Um, and all the stuff that impacts the schooling operations are done. Uh, but ultimately that we are moving forward. One thing to notice on these is the cooler in the top left hand picture that you see there is no longer here. So, that's actually moving. It's
061getting replaced and moved over to the right, but the the door is cut open and we're ready for it. Um but that's been so it's amazing how much we've changed in even a week since these pictures have been taken. So uh Riverview update um the site rough grading will be clean will be complete by the 27th. So that's tomorrow. Uh it keeps testing back is really well. Uh the building pads complete pad staking is complete and the excavation um for the foundation is commencing this week. The stair uh demolition is complete and the new egress door opening and demolition is in progress. So that's moving along as scheduled. They did have a couple days because of weather last week because of the rain, but they don't foresee themselves to be at behind schedule at all.
062Again, you can see the roof the window is removed from the property as well as they've kind of gone through and done a lot of work there to make sure that that foundation is ready to go. Um, and the last thing we celebrated was um, well, actually the second to last thing on June 2nd, we hosted our second annual districtwide end of the year recognition and retirement celebration for our entire staff. Um, that's during the teacher checkout day. We invited everybody back, provide them with lunch. This year we catered with fire and ice. I want to thank them um, for coming out in a pizza oven. It was really good food. Um, made a pizza and salad. Had a chance to everyone to um, celebrate a retiring staff. put up posters designed for each of
063our retiring staff with their pictures, some of their highlights, got some quotes from them as well. Um, just a great day of of fellowship, kind of sitting around, meeting, talking, and um really overall positively attended um by most staff that were there. And the last is congratulations to the class of 2025. Again, another day where we thought it might have rained, it didn't. Another perfect night for graduation. You couldn't ask for a better night. Um and just what a great ceremony and you know it was fantastic time. So wishes best luck to the class as they go on and that concludes my report. Thank you for that. So on the softball team u celebration it rained all day then it cleared up for a couple hours and then rained again. So it was like perfect
064and and they will be here next month. So we will have a proclamation for them as well as the team and the coaches at the meeting next month. Uh Coach Ross is on a much needed vacation. So, so he is out. Um, but he will be back. And they've got a couple other great events. The Guardians are honoring them at a Guardians game that week. And the Captains as well. So, they have a cap they're they're touring professional baseball teams. Maybe they'll show them how to do it. I know the Guardians need some help right now. And I think we saw them on Fox 8, right? Yeah, they were on Fox 8. Um, Cleveland Construction on their own put that banner up congratulating them as well. Um, Leroy has on their signed. Um, congratulations as
065you drive through the town. Pain Township is deliberating on how many signs to buy of on the signs that you come in and where to put them. So, there will be home of the 2025 Division 2 girls softball on the signs as you walk in. Welcome to Painswood Township. So, awesome. All good stuff. Uh, they did order rings and those rings, we're doing a ring ceremony hopefully at a football game at halftime of a football game or before a football game depending when we can get that with the lead time. So, I know they're working on that as well with the team. So, we are there a little bit more to come with them, but you know, awesome. And there are t-shirts that are out there. We did send uh memorabilia out. I think it's
066on our website, too. You can get uh championship softball gear. We did buy a special t-shirt for the girls. Um but there's the other one that is out there for anyone who wants t-shirts, hoodies, long sleeves, all that. So, it's been awesome. great month. Thank you for that. Uh finance, audit and personnel. Um and we met last Thursday morning. Um the um this is kind of end of the year getting ready for next year. So there's a really a lot of things um on the agenda tonight that reflect that. And um you know we've had some uh resignations, transfers, retirements, you know, all of those things that at this time of year it really comes to a head and uh gets sorted through. Um and a lot of renewing of contracts uh and everything for
067the next school year. So everything is pretty much um I won't say boilerplate but uh things that are necessary transitioning from one school year getting ready to go to the next. Okay. Thank you for that update from the treasurer. All right. Um as always we'll do a quick uh overview of our financial reports uh for the month of May. always available on board docs and on the treasures page on the website. At the end of May, the total cash balance of all funds of $40.9 million. Of that, the general fund balance was at 26 million. The permit improvement fund is at 7.8 million. Of that amount, 7.7 million is encumbered towards current projects and the unencumbered balance at the end of May was $17,000. Appropriations and revenue estimates, uh, we're currently 91.67% 67% of through
068the fiscal year. Revenues at 101% right now and expenditures are at 88.2%. Um, just to point out that when we look at this each month, I don't really highlight this. We're looking at the original estimates we prepared. We accept the budget back in September. Not we don't really update it with the with the way we update our forecast. So, we kind of keep those the same. Um, you know, back in September, we didn't know what the reappraisal amount was. That's where most of the uh extra revenue came from was from the valuation increases were a little bit higher than than we originally forecasted. Uh going to the next slide here, our revenue for the month of May for general fund is just shy of three $3 million which includes $611,000 in unrestricted state foundation payments.
069Includes $2.1 million in homestead and roll back stake reimbursements from the state of Ohio. That's the portion of property taxes the state pays on homeowners. Interest from A is just over $97,000. We're currently getting 4.48% our Star Ohio account and 3.78% in the red tree investment account for an overall yield of 4.22%. Uh expenditures for May were just at 4.9 million. Uh wanted to highlight uh we received the Otter state award for fiscal year 2024. This marks 10 consecutive years of receiving the honor state award. Um, just wanted to to thank my staff. They're the ones that that do all the the heavy lifting in the office. Make sure that we are following all procedures and and all their hard work and dedication is what leads to this because obviously 10 years precedes my time
070here. Um, a couple years, but uh we're happy to to to go 10 years in a row and hoping to continue that. Comes with a set of state uh state budget update. I'm going to pass out uh some simulations real quick to just kind of show what our state funding is projected to look like from the state of Ohio. Now, keep in mind that these simulation spreadsheets put out by the legislative services commission is more to highlight for the state to know their obligation for state funding. Um obviously they run calculations for each district based on the current known data. It could change from from these figures a little bit. uh our enroll enrollment is pretty steady and the way the formula I wouldn't anticipate any drastic variation from what's projected. So, uh, highlighted Riverside,
071all Lake County on this line on this spreadsheet, but for our estimated funding for our current fiscal year, it's just shy 8 million. It's 77,964,000. Uh, based on what was released by the conference committee, their projection for FY26 is just over 8.5 million. So, it's about a $584,000 increase in our state funding from last year. And then the following year would increase an additional 393,000 on top of that 500. So it's about a so in year two of the budget will be almost a million dollars higher in state funding than we've received previously. So we did okay as far as from that from that perspective of the state funding formula. They did they are phasing in the final two years of the fair school funding plan. The major concern though is they're not updating the
072cost inputs to the formula. So, but they're updating the revenue inputs, which makes districts look quote unquote poorer, you know, in comparison to to the state. So, um that's one thing that we were hoping that to get those updated inputs. So, while the formula is pretty much phased in, it's still not truly phased in because they have not updated those cost inputs. And I guess we'll see what happens in the following budget. Um, another piece, um, you'll see on the second bullet point, House Bill 335, that was a bill to eliminate inside millillage for all government entities except for townships. That bill we talked about in the finance committee as well, and we were looking if that's implemented was about $8.3 million loss to the district annually. Uh, they revised that bill. At the time
073of the finance committee, we talked about inside millillage and substitute levies and we're currently at 20 what's called the 20 mil floor and we have a substitute levy that's currently at 2.9 mil. So in this house bill 335 they already include that into um the 20 mil floor calculation going forward. that piece of 335 made it into the state budget. Well, they're going to include substitute levies and emergency levies and those type of levies in that calc calculation of the 200 mill floor. Um the other part about eliminating inside millillage did not go into the budget. It's still on this the standalone bill and so we watching that as it progresses. Um if if that does get passed into law, there'll likely be uh legal challenges on that because inside millillage is authorized by the
074Ohio Constitution and our belief is the state legislature can't overrule the the Constitution. Um this slide I just passed out, it's actually from the 5-year forecast presentation. So if you look at that on our website, you can you can pull that up. I don't I wasn't didn't have time to get it in tonight's slideshow. This shows all of our current levies and you can see the subtotal general fund levies towards the 20 mil floor and then that substitute levy of 2.9 mills. If that would have if we had gone back in time and substitute levies were included in the 20 mil floor calculation when the reappraisal happened uh for this year, we would have hit the 20 mil floor anyways. But they won't they're not going to roll back our millage now at this point.
075It would just it just now be included in that floor going forward. So on the next reappraisal, we originally projecting our 5-year forecast about an 8% valuation increase based on historical data of the average increase during a three-year update. Um, by including that millillage in the floor, we won't see as much of a revenue increase uh when the next trial update comes up. And that would be which would would lower our re projected revenue in 2020 fiscal year 2028 and 2029. depending on what that update is. Um, when you look at it, if we have a 14 and a half percent increase in values in three years, we would hit the 20 mil floor again, assuming there was no other levies enacted between now and then. If the increase in in that time is higher
076than 14 and a half%, we would realize u revenue gain at that time, assuming no other legislative changes happen in the next three years. Uh so something that you know we'll we'll monitor and the next treasure will monitor as we update 5-year forecast. We'll continue to update those projections and you know obviously trying to figure out what the what the the next trial update is going to be is just anybody's guess at this point. So it's it's all more to come on on that. Um other thing that was implemented in the state budget if you recall the the house proposed a 30% limitation on cash balances. The Senate proposed a 50% limitation on your general fund cash balance. They landed on 40%. That came out of conference committee. It's based on your prior year expenditures.
077And so right now our our well this current year, you know, we're looking at FY26, we'd be looking at FY25 expenditures. And based on where we're not quite closed out of the fiscal year yet, but we're 40% of our current expenditures would be about $22.5 million. we're below that amount, so we have nothing to really worry about as of right now. Uh the concern would be in the future if there's additional levies or income tax, whatever the board decides to do in the future when those if those levies are approved by our voters and put into place, there's always a spike in collection and it's part of the levy cycle. You have higher collections in the beginning as your expenditures continue to to roll up. Uh so that's something that to be watched carefully for
078all school districts in the state assuming it's not uh vetoed by the by the governor. Ed choice voucher update the u it was ruling came out this past week here that they ruled ed choice unconstitutional. What does that mean? Nothing at this time because the state's going to appeal it and then whatever decisions come out of that will be appealed again one way or another. So, probably end up in the Supreme Court at some point. Um, Ohio school funding has been unconstitutional for a quarter century and we're still dealing with that. So, what does it mean going forward? I guess we'll we'll see as as time goes on. And then lastly, I was asked to update the permanent improvement fund forecast uh going, you know, that we've reviewed multiple times recently. I'm going to pass
079out uh two different versions here. So, let me uh pass these down. I had spoken with a judge about that bill and you know kind of what you said it would be an automatic court case and a challenge. Is it constitutional because you have the government almost having competing bills and how how do how does that square up constitutionally? So that's not going to be pretty if that goes if that passes. Um, so the two permit improvement fund forecast I I passed out just if you look at the top of the first page, there's a little bit of like neon highlighting highlighting FY27. There's a little blue FY26. And I'll get to what that means when we get to the second page. Uh, so as you recall, the permit improvement fund forecast that I provide
080shows five years of historical data of actual expenditures. In the current fiscal year, which is FY25, we show our current expenditures plus all the outstanding incumbrances because we have to include that in our calculation in order to certify if there's funds available to sign contracts. Uh fiscal year 2026, you know, for me, New Year's New Year's Eve coming up on Monday. So on Tuesday, 2026 starts at my world. Anything that's encumbered but not spent yet will move forward to FY26. So that FYI25 and 26 columns will drastically change in the next update because we're going to cross fiscal years. Um I highlighted so right now the current 2025 column the revenue and expenditures include all the actual revenue and actual expenditures and encumbrances. So on the revenue side there will be an interest posting for
081for June. I didn't include an estimate for that. I just wanted to tie it to our system where where it says today. So they'll probably get about another $20,000 in revenue. So in total we started the year at a $9 million cash balance. Um some of that was encumbered for for about3 million that was encumbered encumbered for projects that were happening like this the vestibial project the track school bus purchases and things like that. We collected about $3.6 million in revenue which includes our property tax collections interest income and then we had the advance from the general fund of 325,000 that will be returned um in fiscal year 2026. And then below shows all the items encumbered this year, including the Riverview and Clear Tech uh projects, leaving us with the the ending uh unencumbered
082cash balance right now is $79,140. Going forward in the FY26, I did tweak a couple things from prior forecast presented and those include we added back in the school bus purchase uh based on what Mr. Andre uh provided at a buildings and grounds meeting that we needed to purchase a special ed bus. Um so that would be encumbered under 2026. So I put $130,000 estimate there. Uh for maintenance equipment I up it was originally forecasted at 40,000 but on tonight we have those two uh pieces of equipment we're purchasing that's at 58,000. So I just tweaked that number slightly. And then uh in working with Dr. locker the career tech furniture. We originally had $200,000 forecasted for that. We're probably closer to $100,000 if not lower. So I dropped that number down to 100,000. Thank
083you for that work. And then the then so then going forward the the two basically the two versions of the forecast are the same. The only difference is right now the projected borrowing for that we have here for $12 million for 25 years for Buckeye Mel Roger Weber uh combination that is uh $825,000 a year in principal interest payments uh projected and I talked to Purcell today just to kind of help understand it. It really depends on when the borrowing occurs, when the first payment is. There's there's things that can be structured uh with the borrowing that usually is generating what's called a premium on on that borrowing and that might go towards that can go towards that first payment. So, it could be either version or somewhere in between. So, it's it kind of
084depends on how that's ultimately structured. It's it's really early in the game to really know what that's going to look like until we get uh further through that process. So, any questions on on that at this time? Um, if if it falls in between and it's still negative, then the general fund will have to advance or tr transfer. Correct. You to the PI fund because we'd have to make it whole. Correct. It Yeah. And it also depends on what we truly spend. Obviously, right, most of this is estimates based on historical spending. And so either you'd have to transfer from your general fund or adjust your your spending uh going forward. And you know, a lot of this stuff is to be determined. You know, sometimes you're going to spend higher in other categories or
085lower in other categories. So it's right now it's it's forecast. And transfers transfers don't come back. Advances do, but transfers do not. Correct. Yes. And you can also advance too. There's different, you know, those are both options, but depending on how things trend going forward, it just would depend on what what the needs are. Thank you for that update. That concludes my report public comment. Anyone wishing to address the board of education will be recognized by the board president. Speakers are requested to speak from the podium. Do we have a podium? Uh right over there. Okay. Kind of a podium. And u identify themselves and their topic and comments are limited to three minutes. Okay. Hearing no public uh comment, consent agenda, finance and audit. Okay. Flip all the pages this time. There's a lot
086of Oh, boy. Yeah. I think it's a new record. A lot. Okay. SS. Yeah. I make a motion to uh approve the items listed uh A to RR listed on the finance audit consent agenda as recommended by the treasury. Could I get a second? Second. Any discussion? Um yeah, Mr. Placo, can on item 10? No. Um just on the grant applications and awards that's next year's do like that's the that's we've already been awarded those dollars for next year. Yeah that's that's our initial allocations. There's one for a safety grant that we just received uh for the title attorney general. So that one we we have and that that kind of crosses fiscal years. The other allocations are for fiscal year 2026. the state's implementing a new system which they even told us ahead of
087time was going to be a disaster and it's probably more of a disaster than they anticipated. So we don't have all of our allocations yet. So those will probably update in the I was going to say they look a little lower than somewhere like 50% of what we got. They they put 50% in they've said but they're still working on the kinks in the system and then it doesn't include the carryovers. Correct. Which don't come through till what like September. Usually we have to file final expenditure reports by September 30th and they come in October and then we revise our grant applications. Um and then can I just thank the individuals for their donations. Um we had Larry Watson who donated to the George Inco Memorial Scholarship and the David Shainer Memorial Scholarship Fund. Um
088we had Charities Aid Foundation America donate to the Riverview Elementary Activity Fund. Riverside Alumni Association donated to the National Honor Society. They also donated to the Riverside Choir. Family of Andrew Cosner uh donated to the Academic Decaplan. Uh first Bor of Lakewood donated to the Riverside Art Department. George Haden to the Clyde C. Haden Memorial Fund. John and Cecilia Stannoses to the Riverside Theater. Sue Hail donated to the George Ins Memorial Scholarship Fund. the class of 1962 donated to the Inso Memorial Scholarship Fund and Parkside Elementary um gave money for a projector and cart for the gym. So, thanks to all those for their donations. Thank you for that. Uh Gary, can you take Oh, I'm sorry. It's yours. Yeah. Okay. Uh Gary, go ahead and take the role, please. Denise, I grassy. I Lori
089Kiski I Scott Fishel I DKI I motion carried consent agenda personnel. Okay. Uh I make a motion to approve items uh A through E listed on the personnel consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent. Can I get a second? Second. Any discussion? Uh, no discussion. Uh, car, please take the role. Landsci, I. Lori Kiski, I. Scott Fishell, I Dennis Keiny, I motion carried. Consent agenda, curriculum and programming. All right. make a motion to approve the items um A through C listed on the curriculum and programming consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Any discussion? All right. Uh Mr. Plco, could you please take the role? I Dennis. Hi. Denise Brer. Hi. Grassy. Hi. Motion carried. Consent agenda, buildings and grounds. Make a motion to approve the items listed
090on the buildings and grounds operations consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent. Superintendent, can I get a second, please? I'll second. Okay. Any discussion? Gary, can you take the role? Scott Fishell, I graci. Motion carried. First reading of a new revised board policies. Um 8805 flags and displays. Uh this is uh just procedural and needs to be announced and so uh it will be for a policy needs to be two meetings. So next meeting uh there will be discussion if necessary or needed or wanted and a vote will be taken. Uh board of education update. Board of education will provide updates and or discussion as the board wishes. Any updates? Um is there any reason why we're not discussing the first reading of the revised policy? If you would like to discuss it, we can
091discuss it. Yeah, I would like to discuss it. Go ahead. What would you like to say? I I would like to know where this board policy came from. Um, it I read it, but it doesn't really state anything policy related. It's just a list of items. Um, we already have a policy 8800 that includes definition and displays for the flags and for other items that may be donated to the district. I'm curious where this is coming from. Is it Niola? It is. It's not new. Um, Mr. Official presented it as one. I did send it to Mr. McIntyre. He made some changes or recommended some changes um for the board. We just like to pass those out if if I'm not mistaken and maybe maybe Mr. McIntyre can chime in. Isn't there legislative some legislation
092currently out there waiting to be voted on and discussed down in Columbus regarding um this type of policy? Anyway, I believe there's an item in the budget bill that deals with flags and what they can be presented on certain uh buildings. I didn't quite I was going to ask him. I don't not sure how we pertain to it or whether it pertains to us but I know that there is something in the budget bill that I saw today as I was right some of the 55. So wouldn't we be expecting to some policy changes to become forthcoming as a result of that at some point in the next policy packet perhaps because I would imagine there's quite a few things in the budget that they're going to have to update policy on. There's going to
093be some significant changes that's for sure. I'm not sure if this is going to be one that will be included, but I know that we'll be we will get one probably with I would say the next two months to to get to some of their recommendations as they work through it. So, yeah, we can we can have a policy if we'd like and if it overlaps with a state law, that's okay. Uh doesn't mean we wouldn't have a policy because there's a state law. Um if if a policy overlaps with another policy, then u Mr. McIntyre, would you like to address that? If you have one policy overlaps another policy. Sure. Yeah. We of the law makes it u um a policy that we have in place either not applicable or somehow requires us to
094redefine the terms of that policy, then we would do that to comply with Ohio law. We do that twice a year at least here because lots of laws are passed that impact the content of our policies and those revisions come through as part of our routine business. Um I' I've not reviewed the portion of the state budget bill regarding the flag um content. Well, the bill is only 5,000 pages. You haven't read it yet? not that part um yet, but uh but but we will get to it and and Viola will certainly review it as well and and and if there's anything that impacts your operations, you know, we'll make the appropriate recommendations. So again, I I'm just I'm reading what this says and I'm trying to ascertain what it says. Um, it doesn't it
095doesn't define what the policy is or what it says how we're supposed to display. It just gives a list of items and it says this is the policy, but then it doesn't say what the policy is. It doesn't say what the display criteria is. It's not defined in the policy. Usually when we have policy, something is defined on how that is supposed to be interpreted and this isn't. So I was somewhat confused as what what this is doing. I I don't understand the purpose of this to write it, but I did review it and revise it. And one of the points um that I added in my revisions, um was to make clear that the list of items, I think it's A through H if I'm not mistaken, um are considered permitted displays. And I
096think that was the intent as I read the draft of that policy was to essentially define what permitted displays are on district property or somehow attached to district property. So what's on our agenda is different than what Mr. uh McIntyre had given us? Yeah, I received I I just received it back today. Yeah, I I received it I think earlier this week. Um, I made my revisions and I just sent them to Dr. Ratina. So, uh, procedurally speaking, are these, uh, changes, uh, enough to make the next board meeting the first reading? It would require another first reading, I believe. Yeah, I think there's I mean, just to be safe. Yeah, I think they're substantial enough that it would make sense to have a new first reading on the revised version and then to talk
097about those potential revisions. Okay, that that's what we'll do in the next board meeting. Um, this language will become first reading. Okay, we'll be back. Who will I would like to schedule a policy committee meeting? Do you know since Mr. Slick is out? Thank you. I'll get a hold of you to schedule that. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Board of Ed education updates. Would like anyone like to do a board of education update? Okay, next meeting announcement. Board of Education special meeting June 30th 5:00 p.m. Board of Education special meeting. Well, possibly July 1st 5:00 p.m. Yep. That's if needed. As needed. Board of Education special meeting July 7th 5:00 p.m. Finance and Personnel Committee July 17th 8 a.m. Board of Education meeting July 24th at 6:00 p.m. and is what we normally do. Uh
098July 22nd would be buildings and grounds. Can we insert that 7:30 a.m. on the 22nd? Thank you. Um, we are going to adjourn to executive session. Be it resolved that the Riverside Local School District Board of Education hereby adjourns to executive session at 7:18 p.m. to discuss negotiations and personnel matters relating to the employment and compensation of public officials, plus pending litigation and other matters required to be kept confidential by state or federal law. and the 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 these matters and the need to preserve confidentiality to properly conduct the business of this board of education. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you. U Can you
099call the role please? Dennis Keaney. Hi. Linda or Len Brewster. Hi. Linda Grassi. I Lorie Kisknney I Scott Fisher I motion carried and the board will not be having anything other than the adjournment of the meeting. So if if uh if everyone's going to leave, we'll stay here. But if not, we can go to another room.