April 24, 2025 Board of Education Meeting

001to order at 6:00. The 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, the bylaws of the board of education can be found in board uh docs. Mike, can you call the role, please? Scott Fishell here. Dennis Keaney here. Brewster here. Linda Dawson here. Lorie Kren here. We stand for the pledge, please. 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. Okay. Welcome. 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

002would like to remind everyone that this is a meeting of 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. Uh we need to make a motion to approve u the appointment of Miss Belinda Grassi as the treasure promp or can I have a second please? Second. Thank you. Um you can take the role. Sure. Uh, Scott Fischer, hi. Dennis Keany, hi. Denise Brster, hi Linda Grson. I Unfortunately, our treasurer, Gary Plateo, um, found something out there that wasn't the most favorable to him, so he's taking the rest of today off, not passing it to us, and not wanting to pass it

003around. Sure. So, okay. All right. The approval of minutes. Um, can I make a motion to amend the agenda? Um I'm sorry. Yeah, go ahead. I'd like to make a motion to amend the agenda by separating um the April 17th, 2025 special meeting minutes out from the rest of the meeting minutes. Okay. Where is that? It's It's one of the attachments. It's on the second. Oh, it's an attachment to be looked up. I I just asking to vote March 20th and April 7th as one and then April 17th as a second one. here. Yep. Okay. So, you would like to remove uh the April 17th minutes and vote on that separately. Yes. Okay. And um All right. So to move this and I've heard a motion to move those minutes. Do we have a second?

004I'll second. Um Dennis Ke here or I mean I sorry this and this is to just to move the amendment to separate them separate right uh Denise Ber I grai I kinski I Scott Fisher I motion carried I'd like to uh make an adjustment to the agenda you'd like to amend the agenda yes uh under um buildings and grounds uh number E and number F, the parking lot repair, resurfacing, and the parking lot striping. I'd like to hold off on those for now until we uh review exactly how much repair needs to be done. Uh we removed El Riverview Elementary from that contract, but most of Riverview Elementary can be done. Also, the reason why that was removed was due to um potential construction scheduling. Uh but most of that parking lot will not be

005affected. So, we're going to look at it one more time and uh make sure we have everything in place before we uh go ahead and move forward. That'll affect line striping also. So, it still will be done in the same timeline, but it just won't be approved tonight. And what what letters are those? That would be uh E and F under buildings and grounds. Okay. So, you want to remove those from the agenda for tonight. Okay. Sec. Go ahead. Uh Mr. Allesic, does that by removing them and postponing a vote on that, does that impact your schedule this summer at all? I will make a reach out to uh the vendor that we are going to use and ask them to pencil us in. Um, so we do have a placeholder and advise them that

006we will be approving in May, but we would also like to meet with them, but we will I will assure that we have a placeholder somewhere on their schedule. We just like to vote on removing those or do we have a second? Okay, so yeah, I'll second that. And any further discussion on that? Can you take Just to clarify, we're not separating it out on the consent agenda. We're just adjusting agenda. I just want to make sure. Is that legal? Yes. Yeah, we're removing it from the agenda. Okay. Mike, can you take the role? Denise Fer I. Belinda Graci. I kinski. I visual I motion carried and then make a motion to approve the minutes as attached minus the April 17th 2025 special meeting minutes. Can I get a second? I'll second. You take the

007role, Mike. Belinda Grass. Hi. Lori Kiski. Hi. Scott Fishell. Hi. Dennis. Hi. Hi. So, I make a motion to approve the April 17, 2025 special meeting minutes. Um, can I get a second? I'll second. Any discussion? Um, Lori Kinski, I'm sorry. Um, abstain. Scott Fishell. Hi, Dennis Keaney. Hi. Miss Brewster. I special reports. All right. Thank you. I have two tonight. Um the first we're really excited about is introducing the board as well as those who are watching to our curriculum plan for kind of this year and the next three years forward moving forward called the pathway to excellence. Um, a little introduction about this plan working. Um, our our motto is educating excellence. It's on top of the Koopa. Um, and Riverside Local School is committed to continuous improvement uh through aligned systems that

008support highquality instruction, data-driven decisions, and meaningful student outcomes. The pathway to excellence assures that we are truly one community pursuing greatness and getting better every day. This is a true strategic um plan in the sense that we are taking all of the work that we have been done putting it together and really kind of focusing on what is important in terms of the outcomes that are that are expected. This is published to our website. It is it is forward- facing. We want to make sure that it's forward facing so we are transparent with our community as much as possible. And this is kind of how all of these things tie together. We often talk about a lot of these things using educator speak and we try to take this and make it as clear and

009as transparent as possible and the reasons to why we are doing this, why we are spending our professional learning time on it and what our expected outcomes are. And it's something that we have really worked um truly to make sure of it. It is really in depth and if we were to go over the whole thing tonight, it would be a very long meeting um and we would get lost in a lot of the minutia. So, we're going to hit just kind of a overview uh specifically about implementation, how we're going to implement this pro this this plan um what we're going to do to implement it and then kind of get to some of the some of the 50,000 foot views of you know the the basic outcomes and the goals and why why

010we're doing that. So, first of all, it's a three-year implementation. in the first year. We're actually in the first year of this implementation, really focusing on some of the really important things. One of those is this Riverside Way document, which has its own um has its own little wheel or spoke on the wheel. We'll get to that later, but it really is our our blueprint for what teaching and learning looks like in every one of our classrooms and how that looks. It was designed by our teachers, uh put together by Dr. locker and really ties into this competency based personalized learning that we've talked a lot about focusing on what students need individually. We also will talk about and have introduced instructional rounds that we have teachers comes out of the medical field. We have

011groups of groups of educators take time to get into classrooms. This is coming from our district leadership team. Uh they get into the classrooms and look for evidence of the Riverside Wade um instructional framework in there. We worked a lot about strengthen our multi-tered system of supports at tier one level. That's basic instruction, meaning that 80% of our students get and master the content. We did begin a new curriculum. We're looking at a rigorous curriculum and we started at at the K2 level with a wit and wisdom science and reading curriculum. We're really excited about some of the outcomes that are there. Um, and coming from that, the other thing we did just the other night is introduced a Lakeland at RHS program where we are offering 32 um, credits, college credits on campus for

012students. So, we have diff 32 different credits. A lot of them are ones that are students, they're the introductory classes that students like to take online. We'd rather have them be in person at Riverside. The one that is really unique and new to us and one that had a lot of buzz about is uh ASL. So, American Sign Language. So, we're offering ASL as a language option as well as comp one, comp 2, um, English composition one, English composition 2, math, speech, um, college speech, uh, and economics, um, are some of the courses that we're offering and continuing to build that robust program out and looking for other opportunities for our students to earn advanced level courses at our high school. Um, we also have mentioned the portrait of a beaver. That's a that is

013a hub in that spoke as well, the Riverside B. We've introduced those to our all our faculty and looked at the competencies and we're going to work those competencies throughout the um throughout the curricula prek through 12. And the last is we've we have collected baseline climate and engagement data and we're going to do that at the end of the year from our staff and then we're going to continue to move that out past that in terms of all stakeholders. So including parents, uh hopefully even community members as well because we want to get the feedback from all of them. So that's year one. That's what we're doing now. We're setting the foundation so with the baseline as to where we are uh moving forward in year two in this plan. We're going to expand

014the training on the Riverside Way document based on the the information that we gather in those instructional rounds. We you're what you're going to hear a lot in this plan is we use the data we gather to provide our teachers and our staff and everyone else what they need to move forward. So, we're use that um you know based on that to to develop with our personalized learning. We're going to form instructional rounds in every building and try to get those rounds across buildings. So, right now our instructional rounds occur only in the buildings the teachers are in, but we're going to take some time and have our teachers do rounds in other buildings to look for the Riverside Way documents. Not only does that strengthen the practice that happens in that building, it strengthens

015the work that those teachers are doing by learning new things and seeing new things and seeing how other teachers teach. One of the things in education that's not as common as perhaps I would even say it should be is watching others do the craft. Uh we kind of teachers typically will isolate in their own room and getting out and to watch others um you know do te you actually teach the same lesson and maybe teach it a nuance. They learn so much from it. So getting into the classrooms to see that is a great thing. We're also rolling out two additional um structured curriculums. our benchmark advanced. So that's our ELA curriculum for grades 3 through six uh based on the science and reading and then CPM college prep math which was just approved at

016the last board meeting. That's our math programs for grades six through eight and honors algebra 1. Uh that is a very rigorous math program that combines that. We are working on strengthening those tiers one and then working on tier 2. uh making sure that all of our learners have those tier 2 supports. So when they don't get the they don't meet that 80% threshold, what do those interventions look like not only in the classroom but maybe in small groups if needed. And then we're also working on the roll out of the senior capstone project that came out of business advisory rolling that out. Um making sure that works there and the you integrating these portrait of a beaver trait specifically into classrooms and designing look fors at each of those levels to make sure those

017are there. So that's year two. That's a that's a lot of PD for next year. We're planning that right now. And then year three um is basically sustain and refine this program. So what are we so what we're going to do with that? We're going to deliver the advanced professional learning based on what our what our staff need. So based on again the data we get from instructional rounds, the data we get from the assessments that we get that provide those that are there, the data we get just from our surveys um that come out. We're going to do um make sure that the Riverside Way is embedded in every classroom and that it is consistent like we say it is. Uh we're going to make sure that CPM that college prep math goes up

018to algebra uh algebra 1 geometry and algebra 2 um those courses. So CPM gets expanded all the way up through our high school core curriculum and then we're going to deploy [Music] uh we're going to fully implement Lakeland at RHS with our in-house faculty. So, one of the things we're starting with this year is Lakeland faculty are going to come to Riverside. We're going to try to get those as many as we can by RHS and even expand it and offer other options. Perhaps Lake Erie courses at a CCP level and some of the fine arts and that sort of thing. We're looking to really provide our students with different opportunities to find their passion and to really expand it more on campus, not have to leave to go to another pl or go online.

019We want to make sure that they're in person. And then again, we're going to continue um we're going to continue to use the refine the MTSS data to personalize the learning that we deliver. So, we're going to work on those tier three strategies as well as making sure that our learning and our lessons are personalized and we're going to evaluate the post-graduate outcomes for our college and career readiness students. Making sure that what we say that's going to happen from this is is actually happening. The goal of this whole program and the outcome. So I always want to start with the end in mind is really increase student achievement. And for us increased student achievement is not just those achievements met on state test scores. Those are going to rise with this. We know that's

020going to happen. Our diagnostic assessment scores are going to continue to grow. We're going to see growth. We want to see real-time growth. The problem with state test scores is they happen once a year. We see them. We see the results the next month and then it's kind of looking at an autopsy report. So, we're going to try to use real time data to make sure we improve that. Also, surveys, also looking at um what our students are doing after the fact. So, post postgraduation and post success surveys of our students to make sure that they are truly prepared uh for college and career. And our progress is going to be driven by strong instructional practices and data informed teams. And what I would like to do, we're working on developing what this looks like

021now, is when you click on increase student achievement in the website, it takes you to the state report card. That's one measure, but I also want to we also want to develop a dashboard in which you can see all these all these measures. So a public facing where we say here's where we are. So when we talk about multi-tered system of supports, it's a pyramid and you have your tier one, your tier two, and tier three. What do those look like? If we're doing what we're doing, we're going to see less from one year from beginning of the year to the end of the year. We're going to share that information and be be public facing with it. We're going to share some some de not identified data but some just general averages. We're going

022to share growth data. We're going to share different data points along the way that say this is what we're doing and this is what we're growing. We're going to identify what those key indicators are and make sure we're transparent with it and set and we're going to set high goals and we're going to try to reach those goals. Now, we know we're going to have some some challenges. Anytime you put in a new curriculum, you sometimes get a dip that first year as teachers learn that curriculum, they've learned it um they've learned a new way of teaching, a new way of presenting material. So, we may see that dip in that first year. But overall, by the time we've got this curriculum fully implemented, what we think that's going to happen, what we're what we

023know by looking at all the research and the other schools that have done it is that that care that we're going to see a growth in our student achievement across the board in all those areas and our students are going to be even more um prepared for college and career. So, that's what's coming over the next couple of um over the next couple special reports. Will be different levels of these, two or three of these at a time with some of the experts who are there. So, I'm the introduction guy and then we're going to turn over to the real people who are experts about these specific areas and are doing the work from our district leadership team. Um, not only our our central office, Dr. Malacher and Mrs. Lanny, but then also uh some

024of our actually we have a district leadership team of both principles and teachers who are heading these subcommittees that are driving a lot of these changes and they'll I'd rather them speak about it than I do. So, at this point, I'll open it for any questions about just kind of the introduction of the plan. I was just going to say that uh you know because you have data on a student when they go to the next grade level or teacher they can you know they have a lot of information about that child and then they you know can hit the ground running on where do I begin it's not like you're just getting this child and you have to figure it out. We we talked about that today. One of the programs we're using for

025um monitoring our multi-tered system of supports is called branching mind. And so it it it's a common system where we have students in there and it track and when you set the new classrooms and the new classes in place, all that data follows the students. So it tells them what tiers they're on and all of that. And we'll use the spring map to set where they need to be for the next year based on the next year standards and we can set up and have those have those interventions ready to go. And I think that's been that is a promising practice that we're going to continue on uh moving forward. And then the fall map will whe will either confirm that or we'll identify and move some students off um as well as needed. Is

026all this information housed in Infinite Campus? So Infinite Campus is so Infinite Campus is the point of truth for some of it, but it it leads to other programs that we need. So Infinite Campus will write to branch Infinite Campus syncs with branching minds overnight and branching minds uses the data from Infinite Campus, but then puts other information in it. what happens if we have to move from infinite campus because that's a distinct possibility right now. So we pray that we don't and I do have an update that that they're making progress with that we would have that data would still transfer with it. It's a large data conversion. uh we would more likely my recommendation would be more likely to change our um a site than to move from infinite campus because that's a

027to do it right to move from an SIS to a different SAS is over a year and a half to really make sure that all the data is checked and corrected and all that. I just know that that's a concern. It is it is a huge concern on this end. Um it it has slowed us up from a couple of things not necessarily from this project from implementing some other things moving forward because of the fact that if we have to change it does it does if we have to shift where our aite is it shifts some of the URLs and all that and that's a that's a big concern. I believe neonet gave us an update today. They're they're headed in the right direction. Looks like it's a positive outcome, but um it wasn't

028didn't really make me happy when I received that. Okay. Is that it for a special report? I have one more. So, I'm the star of the show tonight, unfortunately. Sorry about that. Um the other one is there's been um I was asked to bring some talk about what are we going to do next year with the construction going on in our elementary classrooms um and looking at you know some some ideas and relocating these classrooms because of construction uh thing construction projects that are going on and what they and how they impact. So coming from that really looking at why we why we did this and what are our factors driving the decisions that we made or the decisions that um we're proposing. Uh the first and foremost is the Riverview expansion which was voted

029on um and is starting hopefully in in June. Um the Riverview expansion provides additional classrooms for all students and allows the originally designed special education classrooms at Riverview to return to their intended building. Uh the Buckeye construction project is another factor into this. Uh although we don't have a a start date for the Buckeye elementary school project. We do know that it will be at some point during the school next year and it does require the modular units to be um either taken offline or moved. Um and so that those classrooms that are housed there, we have to account for that as well. Uh and then the timelines for the project. So, I do have an update from um RFC Construction as well as TDA on the timelines. Uh they we should have a final

030they are getting the final proposals from contractors in today and over the weekend. Roger and Ryan are going to go through it through them next week to kind of look at what those are, what those proposals look like and what those bids are. And the week of the 5th, um we is looking to set a meeting up for buildings and grounds to discuss the um if buildings ground wants to do it or if we want to just keep it a smaller uh to set up the final the GM the proposed GMPS at this point for those um projects. So that's the week of May 5th. Yeah. So in going over those contracts um we're already in motion basically with contracts. We would have to approve the amounts. We do have to prove, but it's the

031it's the specific biders and what the scope looks and all of that and and the specific bidder in this case is CCI Cleveland Construction the subcontractors from that and so Right. So I mean they're hiring the subs though. They they are but I see I believe in this project we can rule some out. Right. We have the ability if we want to partition. Yes. So, just so everyone knows, there was a request um from anyone that might know uh construction companies or people who are in business that the school either would like to do the district would like to do business with or not like to do business with. So, uh whatever information was gathered there, but then this will be the final review of that process. Yep. And then the final just wanted to

032make it clear for people going on. Yeah, I mean construction can be confusing and and and the final numbers and then uh very very strong concrete timelines in that as well. Um so that is another factor. So currently the timelines that we're working with, we're assuming a project completion at Riverview by January of 2026 and the Buckeye work starting in October. That's the latest data we've heard from um both Roger and Ryan. and factor in these timelines some of the classroom space we'll see limited availability during the school year. So we took that into place. Um the guiding principles that we made our decisions by number one we wanted to be the least least disruptive transition. So we want to minimize the disruption of students routines and services especially during the middle of a school

033year as we move through. We want to make sure that we have a continuity of services. When we talk about our our special needs classrooms we want to make sure that all those required services are provided throughout the move. We want to make sure we're transparent and we get it out to families um early and often. So, we want to engage those families as early as possible with clear information. So, uh after today's meeting, we even want to get something out to families saying this is what we've discussed at the meeting and be clear with that. We talk about accessibility. We want to make sure that our physical accessibility and appropriate environments are there for all those needs that are there. We're always making assumptions um in any type of forecasting work that we do.

034The assumptions I made for this is I made the assumption number one that enrollment in Buckeye Melage and Riverview remain relatively consistent for the 25 26 school year. We see the same rough amount of sections in each grade level that we have this year. We don't see a surge in any one grade. Um and other assumptions that student needs for the specific self-contained unit classrooms will remain consistent and the number of those classrooms remain consistent. We don't believe that to be in be an issue, but if we were to have a large number of movements who require those services, we would have to add an additional classroom, which would change some of the needs that are here. Now, we also make the assumption that the Riverview expansion final construction timeline has that occupancy date that

035falls within 2526 school year. If something were to happen where the GMP came back uh similar to, and I'm not projecting this, nor do I foresee it, but I just wanted to put it down. If that GMP came back incred or incredibly high, we would have to do a whole lot of changes to it, that would of course delay this. And if if the Riverview project weren't to be done by the 2526 school year um or in that time, we would definitely want to take a look at what we're doing to make sure that that it's the best for for students and that the last assumption is the mod units at Buckeye will be inaccessible and taken offline um at some point during the 2526 school year. So just the overall brief view of what

036we what the plan is and some of the reasons why behind it. Um the first part of it is to move the primary autism and MD unit that's currently at Buckeye to Riverview first floor to begin the school year. Um and also to move the primary uh special ed classroom at Riverview uh to or at Mel Ridge to Riverview as well to start the school year. The reason behind this is these are students who have the most um the the highest challenges in terms of a transition. So we want to make sure that they have the same year throughout and we can transition them and even do some of that transition work now um in May and then in June to kind of have them and familiarize them with this school and the classrooms that

037they will be in. Um the other thing at Buckeye would be to move the two prek kind uh preschool classrooms at Buckeye to Melidge. Uh we want to take a look at move getting all four classrooms at Melidge to for that school year to make sure that prek is in one location. That does free up some classrooms at Buckeye to move some of those classrooms and modular units in. Um another change to Buckeye is due to a current enrollment right now. Those Buckeye sections in second grade, which are three, can consolidate to two sections of third grade to be consistent with our class sizes throughout third grade across the district. Uh the one thing that we don't have a final on is what we're going to do with the specials and that really depends on

038the number of kindergarten students who are enrolling and how many sections we are going to need for kindergarten. If we need three sections for kindergarten um then we will be looking at doing something if we have two sections then they'll have that room as a designated kindergarten space. Three they will be probably throughout in multiple spaces throughout the building at Melidge. Um Melidge again is moving their special ed classroom. Um, also they are going to receive the two preschool classrooms from Buckeye. So for the 25 26 school year, we are recommending preschool, all four sections of preschool be housed at Mount Ridge um for that time. Riverview um Riverview is going to receive the two um special education classrooms and those are going to be placed in the rooms that were designed for them when

039the building was open. um they're going to temporarily relocate um the the act the sections that have five sections to spaces that are available. If we have um the current music room available, we do not need five sections in kindergarten based on the numbers. We'll put a classroom in there. The first grade classroom will go in that kindergarten space. The other ones we're going to put up um temporary dividers in the pods and utilize those pods temporarily for the fifth classroom as well. And then art and music will share. It's both the art room and the technology room that they share upstairs as they currently do now. So those are our proposals. Are there any questions? Yeah. Um uh on the use of the pods and I did get to view those. Um and I

040know a lot is contingent on um kindergarten enrollment, but um you have first grade, fourth grade, but you haven't mentioned the current first grade going to second. That's been quite large. We are monitoring that one right now. It was down for a little while. I think it's going back up. We're looking at our enrollments. It will most likely have to be five sections. If it can be four, our recommendation will be four. But we are watch that is one we are watching extremely closely. Okay. Because I just don't want to lose sight of that one. and then um you know at um Riverview um and I wasn't part of the design team but um you know on that first floor um and you know I know some people have not actually seen um you know

041how this all comes together first floor second floor but on the first floor edition um you know there's uh four classrooms that have a bathroom in um with the idea that if there's a fifth section of kindergarten that there would be space for that, there was a fifth section of first grade, that's possible because then that would allow second and fourth to go upstairs. Um, but it also has an office for a preschool administrator and a secretary. And the idea was to move at least next year depending on a finish date pre pre the two of the prek classes depending on how you organize them. I was looking at, you know, the notes you sent and it had something to do with, you know, how they're organized, whether they're um park fe park side and

042it's so in in talking with our preschool staff, their their preference would be to finish the year at Mel Ridge and then start the 2627 school year at Riverview with with the preschool there. Um, but that said, if the board chooses to have two school two sections at Riverview, we would need to make sure that it's open and get the permitting once we have occupancy and that would depend. It is all it is really date based on occupancy permit for the preschool program there. We could start the we could start to fill out that as well. We just need to know kind of what that looks like. I believe in the 2526 school year for the half of the year that all of those classrooms will there will be some classrooms that are open for

043that year because of um just the half year that's available but we will fill in as much as we can. Well, we just nobody has a crystal ball to know how this is going to go. Absolutely. Um if you finish at the end of November, then you know it makes all the sense in the world. Um, I understand in talking to Ryan that there will be um things would be finished enough to use that entrance there and I'm all already um Dennis and I are um you know he he had talked to Ryan, but then I've been personally going around and looking at preschool playgrounds so that we can have an idea what that looks like and that it would be very functional so that I can present that and see what the Riverview staff

044would like or the prek because it would be used by prek but it could also be used by kindergarten and not create so much congestion on the main playground. Um, and then there was also um a lot of the pods when I I went over to Riverview um and toured it not once but twice um they're very especially at the primary level very congested as far as intervention places. you know, they have maybe two or three people using the space and um you know, we just want to see if there's other areas like for example the second floor of uh Riverview. Um we have two rooms there that were from my understanding were designed for uh special education rooms. It had small group instructional rooms off of it and a large um larger changing table

045and that was specifically designed for that. Um I know that the uh transition changing a building, changing busing, all that would be a lot and I'm totally in favor of them being at Riverview to start the year. But the question is whether, you know, they could utilize that space because we have other people that could use some space for intervention for some of the other Riverview students if they're not using that space. I mean, a and Ryan did indicate that because I know at um uh Melidge they had to construct some drywall area to have some space when a child needs that space. um in the ED room and it is possible to put a door um on the one side here into that small tutoring room. Oh, on the new in the new section

046in the new upstairs edition. Yes. That was designed for special and um but yet it still leaves another intervention room that could be utilized um you know general. So this would be I I thought you talking about the transition to Riverview from the beginning of the school year. You talking about once the building is open and o the new wing is open and occupied. Yeah. I mean if they're already in the building you're just moving to they would move to that is that is an opportunity. I really focused on the beginning of the school year what the plan was to move there. And I guess I'm saying I'm totally in favor of that. they're in the building, but then once the space is available, looking at the space they're going to occupy in the beginning

047of the year during construction versus the space they could go to. Sure. Night and day. I I I would agree with that. I think that's part of once we get the GMP to see where it is, if we have to do some value engineering, we take a look at what that looks like at that point. And I I do almost expect to have to do something with that um okay to get those numbers. So I think those are all great considerations. This was really for the start for the start of the beginning of the year. Right. And then um just as far as Buckeye had um on the last page just a little bit because this was something we talked at the Buckeye committee meeting. Um but just kind of seeing where those classes that

048um are moving from the modulars where they would fit into the building and um you know the modulars you know if we have an October start once the kids are back in school I I would really want to see those modulars removed before the kids start school. I I'm assuming it's going to be removed over the summer. Uh there has not been any board decision that's been talked about there. Mr. Allessa had a price on it. Right. So there's there's a price to dismantle all three and discard. Right. Right. Right. And and so um there was another guy that I know that had looked at it and and uh so then part of the question was are we going to be able to sell the one or are we going to have to cut it

049up and discard it? Um so it's a little bit in discussion but that should be wrapped up I would think. Wouldn't you think Rich in the next 30 days? Sure. So I have a question on that. I mean because I mean because we have already we have something in hand if we needed to act on it. If we needed to get another proposal or two, we can do that. Um if the board is good with one um and we agreed to sign off on that, we can get it rolling. Yeah. I just I happen to know a guy that I mean that's what he does every day. Demolishes stuff. So he he he u is going to be uh throwing a number out there and we'll see how it compares. But we might have to

050get an adjusted number if we can sell the third one because they wouldn't be cutting that up and throwing it away. Correct. The newest one you're saying? The newest one. Right. Can I ask a question on that? So what happens when when do we anticipate getting a a price for Buckeye? So go ahead. Uh we have so in buildings and grounds there were some preliminary um well numbers I mean I when do we expect to get a GMP so that we can I I don't have a time well right so so my suggestion will be let's take that into consideration that if that GMP comes in excessive and we end up not being able to do the ri uh the Buckeye project or whatever. We won't have any place to put kids and taking them

051down in the summer before we have a GMP could be problematic. I'm just throwing that out there. Yeah, I'm not so sure that'll be a problem because it's really going to come down to how much we borrow and uh so even if the number goes up, we're going to be borrowing anyway. So, um I don't think that would be an issue. And the Buckeye committee has worked to accommodate everybody. In fact, um we um were able to uh not allow the congestion of interventions for people in one room. uh we're able to use some of the space that's being vacated by um the preschool um on each side of the stage, but al also the um um they call it the fishbowl, but it's the um room that's right there at the entrance um because

052the um that that room could be utilized by speech or OT or or shared and so um we feel that we have enough space to accommodate everybody and there's no need for I I to answer Joe GMP question though, I could reach out to Roger to see if he's got like the targeted date in mind. He's he's been pretty Yeah. And I talked to Ryan yesterday and he said they're really clipping along with uh Buckeye and that's one of the reasons he had some questions why we changed our meeting on Tuesday instead of at 8 when he couldn't make it to 2 o'clock. So, it's clipping along for from my perspective. There's just a lot of unknowns at this time. um not knowing how much we're going to borrow, not knowing what that PI fund's

053going to look like, not knowing what might happen with the cash set aides that we might be limited with in our general fund. I I don't want to put the cart before the horse. I just want us to take that into consideration and and some I think we really thought about all those items. So, I don't know. We haven't talked about it at the table. So, I want to make sure I can get a uh estimate from CCI or I'll ask Roger to get the estimate from CCI for the new part. So, uh Ryan has to have a certain amount of work done. And then uh I mean when you're when you're looking at the number of classrooms in a gymnasium, the number is going to be could already state an approximate number. Yeah. And

054so with a little bit more work by Ryan, Roger should be able to give us a range. I that's what I'll I'll follow up with that. I'll follow up with some range and maybe even some suggested timelines. And we're in agreement on the um general design. We made some modifications um just to allow for two u more tutoring rooms by pushing the bathrooms in where the um uh kindergarten rooms are. And it also allowed the art and music room to have a bathroom. and it um really didn't increase. I think it it all allowed for four to six more feet to push the the gym, but that was it. But it will have its own entrance so it can be utiliz utilized at night or after school by community groups and yet we can still

055lock off the rest of the building. And so that that was a real positive and it leaves the playground pretty intact. Um, but obviously from construction there's going to be some need to fix some things like the basketball court wasn't in great shape anyway. Uh, ball field should be okay, but we'll we'll get on to that. So, is there anything we need to do about the modulars at this point? That is that would be an action. Uh, that would be an agenda item and it sounds like we're going to discuss the buildings and grounds and come back. I think at the next buildings at grounds, we should have enough information to make a call. And I and I know that Mr. Plateau is not here. He was going to put that one up for auction.

056Yes. So, thank you for putting that together because there were a lot of questions. Sure. Across different committees. If we're going to put something up for auction, we have to vote on that. Correct. That has to be an agenda item. Uh I think uh disposal of property. I think it's a policy that if the if the school is going to sell something, I I think it was a policy. It's a gray area as Gary Platco was saying that it could be sold or it could be uh put up for auction and uh he had already looked at a couple options and what he had said was u u that he was going to put it up for auction. So, if that needs a board vote, maybe we should look into that and we could certainly

057do a board vote to auction that. I can look I can look into that. You can look into it. Just let us know. Mr. McIntyre, don't we have to have like isn't isn't disposal of property a board vote item? So, if you're auctioning off your real property, which is legally required, that does require board action. I'm just looking at your policy right now. Is this um would we consider this surplus property that's being subject to the auction? It's not real property. Well, I mean any any fixed asset that we decide to dispose of, isn't there policy that says we have to or legislation or something that says that we have to vote on that? So under board policy 7300 um personal property the value of which does not exceed $10,000 shall be disposed of by

058the superintendent in such manner as serves the best interest of the district. The two obviously are under $10,000 that we'll demo. the other one. That's a guess. It's really not like I'm not I'm not asking whether or not the value of that is less than $10,000, but what we have it we purchased it for and so its fixed asset value is greater than that. I'm not sure that like I would I would like to follow up on that. Yeah. So, I'd be happy to look into it. I just need to get the facts and then I can Right. And if it's underneath $10,000, a superintendent can dispose of it without board action. That's correct. And are we looking at the value of each one or as a whole? Uh the the uh the two that

059are older are are going to be disposed of. So there's no value. They've depreciated over their time period. I think they depreciated years two or three times. Yeah. They've been there a long time. So uh the newest one is the only one that has any value, if you will. Um unfortunately um it's the market and what's the market going to bear? We don't know. Uh but certainly it it might be prudent for the board just to take action to give approval and and if it's above that number the approval's been given. If it's below the number then you don't need approval of the disposal the yeah the sale. the section of 7,300 that relates to the um disposal of personal or real property over 10,000 um shall it says it shall be sold at public

060auction to the highest bidder. Um you may offer it as uh a group of items or separately. Um it gives all the procedures for doing that. Um, I could see why Gary said it was a gray area because the the board policy doesn't seem to say one way or the other. I think in the interest board action it does not but I think in you know basically it would do any harm to have board action. Agreed. I think it's okay. So I I just want to clarify. Yeah, I'm happy to look into it further soon. Give you my recommendation. We can put it on a future agenda and and do that. [Applause] Okay. Okay. Who's in my report? Thank you very much for your report reports. [Applause] Okay. All right. Discussion of uh old business.

061Uh any old business? Yeah, I have old business. Um Mr. McIntyre, is it possible for a board communication to go out just with people who are in favor of sending that? Because I continue to have concerns about the information that is in it as not being true. For instance, finding out we're demolishing trailers when we've never spoke about it and then also it's not transparent. So, I just want to ask if possible just the board members that want to put their name on it can and those that don't do not have to. So, what does it how is it formatted right now? If I could say Riverside Local School Board. I see. So, I mean, there's no specific answer or statute that that I could flip to that'll give you um a direct answer. Um,

062I would say generally that the uh board members have the right to exclude their name from a publication. Although if a majority of the board wants to put the Riverside School District's name, board of education on something, I think they have the right to do that. Well, I would like my name excluded from here on out. I continue to have concerns about the information that's being sent out to the PD as not being factual or transparent. So, um I would ask that we remove my name from the board from the board's communication, please. And I have a question about that because um uh the board voted to send that out. Um, and once the board votes and they're the majority, the board has spoken. And so where does that fall in? So that would allow

063you, it's not your name, it's the board of education. Sorry, Dan. So I would say that would allow you to put the Riverside Local School District Board of Education's name on that communication. What's been done? Yeah. But if you if a board member says, you know, I disclaim this or I don't want I think a board member has the ability to say I don't want any part of that communication. And should that be on the same communication or separate communication? H however you guys decide to do it. It could not be on there. It could just be the board of education. I believe the names were taken off after the first month or so. Um how would we how do we do that? just send an email to the superintendent. We don't want to be

064included. I mean, it your your names aren't on it right now, but it says the board, which insinuates us. It does. I mean, I don't know of we we'd have to brainstorm this. I don't really know of a specific avenue that you could say as a district publication notice, hey, three board members are behind this. It has the Riverside School District's name on it, but two board members aren't. We We would have to figure something out on on that, right? Be like the Supreme Court to send out a rebuttal. Uh sort of a dissenting opinion kind of a thing. I mean, I I mean, I said it from the beginning. I'm not a fan. So, understood. Um so those communications would have to occur personally and would would not be the communications of the district

065and couldn't use district resources for that. But once the board has voted, they have spoken, I thought. And that um you can't have somebody acting. Well, they would be if it was true, but there's a lot of things in there that are not factual. Yeah. When I as a board member learn about something by the board communication, that's not right. I should be learning about it at this table. So, when something comes out and we learn about it in a communication, something's not right. Also, they're not transparent. We're talking about all the wonderful things that are going on, but there's no discussion about the fact that we may not have the money to pay for all of them or that we're going to really um hurt our PI fund for 10 years plus. So, it's

066not transparent and it's not factual. So, I'm just asking nicely put the three names on it that want to be on it and remove our two from it. That's it. I guess we can all think about that. Well, our attorney's already given us the advice, so thank you for the advice. What advice, Mr. McIntyre? Can you please tell me what advice you've given? So, my advice is that if a majority of the board agrees to send out a communication, then it can list the Riverside Local School District Board of Education as the official um author or distributor of a communication. If an individual board member doesn't want wants to disclaim their role or their consent or their agreement with the content of that um communication, I believe they have as an elected official the right

067to have that opinion um and to sort of disclaim their participation in this. However, I don't know of a venue or a way to do that because your names aren't listed on it individually right now. So, can I ask a question? Yes. As a board member, should we be learning about something via board communication that's going out to the entire district? I mean, generally speaking, no. Thank you. Right. So, would it be appropriate or allowable then for a board member to respond all or or send out a a communication that says I desent? I disagree. When you say respond all, you mean to like to use my district email to say I don't agree. Oh, I see. So, uh I I do not think that that's an appropriate use of the district's resources. Yeah, there's

068a lot of serious ethics problem right now. Well, I mean, I'm just asking. Yeah, I I I I think one of those already went out and that was a serious ethics problem. I I would never recommend that. I don't think that's the right course of action. So basically I guess basically what I'm hearing is we just have to suck it up and listen to wrong information and no I think you and have my name attached to it and in in disguised format the board of education I am on the board of education so it's wrong and I just have to live with it. Yeah. I guess my advice is not that um it's just that you are my advice would be that the the information doesn't go out wrong in the first place. You don't

069get an opportunity to see it. So it goes out and it's not accurate and time after time I I have issue with it. I know I'm not the only one who has issue with that. So Okay. Anything else uh for old business? Um, I have an update uh for the stand of trees uh along the Riverview uh property um that we had quotes to remove. That work's mostly done. There's a little bit of cleanup that still needs to be done. Um there was a person that lives in the Riverside local school district that was able to do the work and save the district $14,000 which was a savings of 60%. And uh we look forward to building more of a team of of people that either live in the district or in the nearby community

070or communities that would be willing to work with the district to save the district money so that we can make our dollars go farther and uh be more efficient and effective with every dollar we spend. So I think that's a success and it's to be well noted and we appreciate uh that person who lives in the district and and working with us. So, a little bit of old business. Any new business? Okay. Uh, board of education committee and liaison reports, buildings and grounds and superintendent uh business advisory liaison zone. So with the capstone project that our superintendent previously mentioned, um that is a new campaign, a new project and that is something that we're looking for companies uh if I understand correctly that'll work with the students for 250 hours. 250 hours throughout the year

071and we have a number I think we do have a number of businesses who are running. Is that No, we haven't gotten to that page yet. I just sent you an email about meeting before business advisory next week. Okay. So, we have some specific businesses based on who the kids what the kids are interested in because it's such a small group for Yeah. Do we have what 10? Is it limited to 10? 12. Well, I would say we'll push it to 13. Okay. 13 to do. Yeah. So, we only have 13 and we were talking maybe 15. So, yes. Uhhuh. So, we got to 13 of the kids who came down. There were 22. 13 actually followed through, filled out the application. So, I want to have a quick discussion before business advisory. Sounds good.

072Okay. Um, so anyway, that is something where students can have experience while they're still in school to see if there's a career they they might like or they might find out they don't like it, which is maybe equally as good. So, yeah, we're moving forward on that. And then, um, there was the senior hiring fair on Friday, April 11th. How did that go? Uh, phenomenal. We had a number of local businesses that were there. So, the last minute push actually did help out and it keeps growing and growing. And it was actually seniors and juniors this year participated and uh nothing but positive feedback from the employers who were there about about our students. Now, they prepared seriously and they took it. Were people hired on the spot? I don't know if they were hired

073on the spot. Um, I know they filled out applications and if I could interject just for a minute about our particular hiring fair. We do it a little bit different than other schools and we don't open it up to the whole building. So kids, we invite specific kids who don't have a plan for after high school to try to get them connected with jobs. So with actual jobs and good career paths after high school. So the kids who come down and go around, although we don't get, you know, there's not hundreds of kids. The kids who are there are actually looking to interact with those employers and secure a position. So it's a little bit different. It grew this year. I'm sorry, Chris, to jump in, but you're just stealing my thunder later. It's all

074I know. Oh, are you And then the superintendent's going to talk about the rest of it in a couple minutes. So, but it is it is different because sometimes I look at what Menor does or some of the bigger schools and they have all these kids come down and wander through, but they're sometimes just kids who don't want to go to second block or whatever. You know what I mean? So, there's not that interaction between the employers and the students. And so, I think Mallerie was there and and it was just a really positive experience. And one of the goals there was maybe to create some internships. Mhm. So, if you're going to talk about that, I'll stop there. So, so I have pictures. Okay. Better. Even better. So, anyway, yeah, some good things going

075on there. So, um buildings and grounds. Um we're looking at uh a box truck that uh Mr. Alles said was partially falling apart and didn't know if he had enough enough duct tape to get another couple years out of it. And so we'll be looking into the possibility of uh making a purchase. So we'll see how that goes. Um the uh it's a Okay, I'm just going to read what it is, Rich, and maybe you can explain a little bit more. Um we we have a uh heavyduty utility machine and uh there's a pricing of 35,000 and then we have a K Cabota u a utility vehicle priced 218 and uh that's in discussion right now about we have one of the first machine and we need another one and and in buildings and grounds

076we talked about that. We certainly want our guys to have everything they need. we can't afford a a piece of equipment to go down where they can't do any work at all. So, we're inclined to uh go ahead and and and get that done and we put it on for the next uh buildings and grounds meeting. And then uh we have uh Riverside High School gym bleachers. Um there was a three different quotes and for $18,250 we're going to be buying new bleachers. Um we had normal maintenance. Uh we'll just put it that way for the the grease traps and the sewer lines. Uh that'll be done. And then we'll be changing our service for the mechanical service uh to clad CL a mechanical and u Mr. Arlesic met with met with Tom Stiger the

077owner and went over what our needs are and got some pricing. So it looks like we'll be changing um service companies there. And then also uh ambitious landscaping. We talked about the work they do and everyone was well pleased with the work they do. So $14,400 for landscaping, mulch and and a general cleanup. So that was approved. And then um we have some pavement uh things to be done, asphalt and and patching and and striping and coating. And I think that Mr. Keaney said we need a little more time to look into that. Right. And u we want to we want to refine the numbers as best we can but of course we want to get all all the work done that we need to have done. Um just taking care of the things that

078we have. And then also uh there is a contract for snow removal that that we're approving a three-year contract because they've done a great job. Well this past year Mr. or less sick, right? We would have if we didn't have a good company, we would have been in some trouble, right? We probably would have missed more days than we did. Yeah. So, you know, that was that was approved for three years. And u everyone here that owns a house that has to have snow removed and hires a company knows that if you do a contract, sometimes it doesn't snow much, but sometimes it snows a lot and you never know what's going to happen. But, uh, we need to have them in place, especially for years like this past winter. Um, so we're looking at

079some Mel Ridge items that u that need to be done and uh we're we're in discussion about that and um looking forward to getting some of those things done over at Mel Ridge. And then at Lamouthuth, there's new carpet and a band room for just under $8,000 and we'll be looking uh to get that executed also. And then u over at Mel Ridge u there's the opportunity to possibly put a door between a couple classrooms and uh the cost on that and we're looking at at that possibility. So anyway that's that's buildings and grounds um curriculum and programming and the Buckeye elementary ad hoc committee. Okay. Um I already spoke a little bit about Buckeye. Uh we do have a meeting uh this coming Tuesday and Ryan Schmidt from then design will be attending at

080two o'clock. Um and um you know we have a you know plan on how we can h accommodate uh Buckeye students within the building. Um and uh as far as the strategic plan um committee I met with Dr. Rino and um uh Dr. Lockar and uh you presented that tonight, so I'm not going to go over it again, but it's well done. All right. And then um as far as curriculum and programs committee, we met on April 15th at 7:30 uh with the new college uh prep uh preparatory math program. It's CPM. You'll see those initials, but I wanted to say what it stood for. It's for our sixth, seventh, and eighth grade teachers that will be participating in trainings um so that they can use this new program with students um in the fall.

081And those trainings will be on April 29th, 30th, and May 1st, and then August 19th, right before school starts. And because our district is serving as a host site, uh uh the there will be no cost um for our staff to be trained, which is huge. And then teachers will have access to the materials over the summer, which is really good. Um, also on June uh 3rd through the 5th, the honors teachers in grades six through 8 will attend a three-day training in Columbus. And this integrated program includes algebra 1 and 8th grade. Is that correct? Well, it's kind of spans, right? Sixth through eth is compacted. Yeah. So, and and ends in eth. And then you spoke about it in this document. All right. And then report card information on graduates or the state

082report card. Um they have um some postsecondary data. I had a question by a community member and are graduates getting jobs uh you know are they working? You know all those kinds of things. And um so there is information on the state report card site uh on the state uh site under post-secondary data um and there is a tab labeled postsecondary pathways. So if you want to view some of those credentials of our graduates you can do that. Um this information includes students who attend Auburn career center and as this is self-reported data some of the information on graduates might not be there. it's a voluntary thing. Um and then um the social studies courses study has been released and uh it was on the board agenda and you can uh click the link and

083um see it by grade levels. Um I was pleased to view um you know the different grade levels but also really enjoyed going through the current events and the financial literacy programs um things that while we had current events but it just so much more involved now and I I love the financial literacy program to help our students go forward and um the can I mention interrupt once approved it will be on the district curriculum website. Yeah. So, we will post it. Correct. So, it didn't And what was missing, in case you saw it, was the kindergarten, first, and second grade social studies course of study because they're still working on it because we just adopted the Whiten Wisdom uh reading program. And so, I it, you know, social studies is kind of blended in

084that reading program. So, um that will be coming. Okay. Do you have a timeline on that? No, probably not till the beginning of next year. They'll start working on it. So hopefully by the fall of next year we'll have that grade level updated but we'll also probably have to update 345 because of the new benchmark program also. There's so many standards embedded in there. So there will be some revision in that. Also you will get the science courses of study will be coming out in a Friday packet again for the board to review and that should will be on the May the May one. Yes. The May check for approval. won't speak about it yet because it isn't here yet. Okay. And then um uh we already spoke about the job fair and uh but

085we had talked about that. It was nice that companies are coming out uh for our students and that Dr. Ratino already talked about the pathway to excellence, the three-year formal uh formal curriculum plan and then um uh the updates on staffing and program locations during construction. So, that was pretty much it unless I left something out. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And we do we do meet again. Um I didn't put the next date. Uh do you remember? I have it, but we're meeting again in in May. It might be on the board agenda. It might be on the website. Yeah. All right. I think it was June. Mrs. Bster, remember we skipped May and we were going to We're skipping May and went to June. That's true. Yeah. You want to review data? I

086think that's why we don't have it. Exactly. tonight. Sounds good. Thank you. Okay, so policy and alumni. Um, so there's a policies on the agenda for approval tonight um at the second reading. Most of them are due to clean up or higher revised codes, changes in the law. So that's the majority of those policies. Um, and alumni association, they um met on April 14th. um talked about the pancake breakfast and how well they felt everything went um during the celebration. Um coming up June 21st, they are looking for sponsors um for the golf outing and also people to golf. So if you are interested in golfing or sponsoring a hole or sponsoring some part of that, you can got get out on the alumni association website or on their Facebook page so that you can

087sign up that way. Um I believe there are also um flyers. I don't know if there's any in the board office or um I believe it's on our community web page. Is it not? Not the golfing. Yeah, if you have a flyer um I could also post it at Paysville Country Club. They have not sent that. Ohio offers a variety of education. Okay. But if you do you have a flyer because for the golf outing? Yeah. I do not. Okay. No, they have not sent I had a personal invite. I don't know if there was a flyer attached to it cuz if you played the previous year, they sent you an email. So, I if there's some kind of flyer, we're trying to get sponsorships. If if we could get something that would be helpful.

088Um I'll talk to them about getting some for the schools, too, if it can. It's all on the website. Yeah. It's just that Yep. you know, if you don't see a posting a lot of times, you know, when you go to a golf course, you have have this posting of all the tournaments and different things. I hate to miss that opportunity. We can get them up. Okay, that is it. Booster organizations liaison. Um, so Lemouth uh is having a night at the races this weekend in downtown Payneesville. They have an AMSO meeting on the 28th and their spring dance after school is being held on May 2nd. Mel Ridge has their glow dance which is their fatherdaughter dance tomorrow. They have sun plus one bowling on Saturday. Um, Parkside has their mother son event on

089May 9th. Dr. Ratino has a conversation with the community at Parkside scheduled for May 19th. Correct. Correct. Okay. Um, Riverview, I don't have anything for the month of May. The district egg hunt was a success two weeks ago. It was over in three minutes. And then four longer. It took longer. There's a slide on that, too. It was a It was a really really great It was 400% longer than last year. Yeah. Um I think one comment I heard from and I don't know how this can be accommodated. One comment I heard from a number of individuals was to try and keep the parents from helping the kids get the eggs. Good luck with that. Good luck. Right. I don't know how that works. Um, I don't want to give away any secrets, but I

090was telling some of the younger kids to go into the older sections because there wasn't as many older kids. Well, there you go. So, um, strategy, a number of booster groups will be having golf outings over the summer. Maybe if they can reach out and get um the flyers to the district, that would be great. I've seen some posted online. The Grid Irons mulch sale is coming up and I believe this is the last week to place orders for mulch. So, if you want mulch put down, um, contact the grid iron and go look at their, um, website or Facebook page for that. Um, I know that someone had reached out from, um, RBI club and commented on the the excellence of the playing field. So, thank you to our maintenance staff and Mr. Allesk

091for getting that done for them. Um, they were even able to host something for another district because they couldn't hold games. So, that is a huge accomplishment. the fact that they're happy and emailing us that they're happy is is excellent. So, um that's all I have. That's all I have. Thank you, Miss Grassy. Superintendent report. Okay. Um so, we'll start with the not so fun stuff. And that is u I know I don't know if Mr. Patrice is going to steal Mr. Plac's thunder, but I know that there's talk about the financial piece of the state of the house budgets version of the state ban and budget. I just wanted to mention some of the policy things that they put in there. I always find this interesting to see kind of what nuances they throw

092into the budget. I picked out some that really truly impact us um and take away some of the purpose of why the language is in there. Uh the first is one of the things I was really excited about was in the governor's version there was the principal apprenticeship program which was funded by the state to allow a um princip or teachers who want to be principles to perform an apprenticeship and get their license at that time. It was a supplemental funded we would the district would be responsible for the teacher salary but as a supplemental that goes with it. um and the the schooling and all that would have been funded by the state. That has been that funding has been removed, but they've kept the program. So, they say if you want it, you

093have to pay for it. Um and it kind of steals the thunder of of the program a little bit. There is a principal shortage across the state. Um but I think this was a way to really get those who are interested in what the job is to truly see what the job is, but yet um still have a teaching job if it's not for them. It also removes the requirement that district reports the number of individuals who completed the science of reading training to the Ohio Department of Education workforce. We have to have it all done, but apparently the House thinks we don't have to report it to anybody. So, for those who haven't done it, I don't know what that means. Um because at one point it was a it was a requirement for

094keeping your license. So, I wouldn't encourage anyone to kind of hold their hats on this because come July 1st, it'll probably get put back in there. Um but it's something that the house did not feel that it was important at that point. So I just thought again just a unique thing that comes up with there. U the one thing I'm glad to see is it does eliminate the governor's proposal that uses a state diagnostic in grades K through three. We would have to pay for that but the state would pick what we'd have to pay for. So we currently use MAP uh as ours. Uh but it takes that it the governor was going to say that they would use state pricing for the reading diagnostic. We use MAP for both reading and math. um

095and it may not be map, it may be a different one that we're not familiar with. We're not familiar with how to use it. We're not familiar with the data reports um meeting. So, we it' be a large learning curve. So, I am I am happy that local control has been given back with that. Uh it does remove the requirement that districts implement the kindergarten readiness assessment. This is another unique one because they change this all the time, but it takes the KR out. I'm not sure why. It just they just said, "Well, we don't need it anymore, so we're going to take it out." And it's the first uh we have to they've just recently changed that diagn that that diagnostic that has to be implanted within the first few days of school. It's

096one of the things we do in the very um opening days as part of orientation and then the first couple days after that. Um it also requires the Ohio Department of Education workforce to establish a system comparing voucher students with data systems and students in nearby schools. So it does provide accountability for those on vouchers and a system for that. I think that's a good thing always. Um, I'm all for you. That's it is let's get judged on the same playing field. I've always believed that. Um, and finally requires districts to excuse this is another unique one. There's a lot in this um in both the governors and this about driver's education and the push for uh 16-year-olds and high school students to get their license and for schools to help facilitate that. Um so

097this one actually requires district students use up to eight hours um two hours over four days the absence of a high school student to attend private driver education course. Districts must allow students to make up any missed assignments specifically in the budget that we have to provide driver's education waiverss. I don't know where this is going, but it's really out there. Um, especially since driver's ed and those hours are actually online and available online for a lot of students as well. So, I'm not sure where this is. It's just a unique one that I'm not sure who got that one put in. But, I thought it was well, it's one just to share that that's those are some of the things that make their way to the budget. We'll see what happens when it comes

098out. Um, not only when the Senate releases theirs, but also when it comes out at the end. the funding stuff which is really a lot of fun will come up later. Um, another thing we are excited about, Riverside is joining the Greater Cleveland Conference, uh, beginning with the 26 and 27 school year. So, not this year, but the year after. The GCC consists of teams from Brunswick, Cleveland Heights, Uklid, the Rain, Menor, Riverside, S Shaker Heights, and Strongsville. Those are our league schools, and we allow all of our athletes to compete in league tournaments and for league championships. We're still going to play um the local schools around as non-conference games, but when we talk about conference play, we have a schedule. It makes our our scheduling a whole lot easier and again it provides

099more opportunities for our students. Uh we were voted unanimously to join as well. We are going to remain in the Western Reserve for the 2526 school year, but that is the last year right now of the Western Reserve and then all of the schools have left. We were the last one standing um in the Western Reserve. So I think we keep the naming rights, but I have to check on that. So, um, athletic conferences right now are to be honest, they're a mess. Um, so we'll see what happens with that, but we're excited to have a home and we thank the GCC for accepting us into it. Community want to remind the community that, um, they can come hear my mug in person. Uh, the last one of those this year is May 19th at

100Parkside. These have been great meetings, really good kind of feedback, great to have those. Thank you for those who have come out to listen and and hear what all the great things going on. shift it to those things who are coming up and then um ask questions as they might have it as to the things that are coming up. So I know this has been talked about but here are the pictures from the junior and senior hiring fair. Uh there are it was April 11th we did have 21 businesses on hand to interview students um interested in joining the workforce immediately upon graduation and nearly 100 students signed up to attend and be a part of it. Uh great opportunities coming up. The spring carnival was the April 12th. Uh this was at Lemouth and

101thanks to all the families who attended for fun games and activities. This event raised $1,500 for NHS scholarships um in the Lake County Council on Aging. So our NHS does typically give a portion of the money they they do back to a local nonprofit and this year they chose the county on Aging. As mentioned, the Easter egg hunt was there. This was a special one. Um, thank you to all the families who attended. It was packed as always. Our softball team was playing at the same time and softball thought they were going to have a soldout crowd. Uh, just to be stunned by they forgot the Easter hunt was out there. The Easter egg hunt was out there. Thank you to RPTA for sponsoring. We did do a staggered start because we lost the bullhorn.

102So, we started with the Easter Bunny on one side and walked him across and you couldn't start till Easter bunny uh made it into your zone. Um, and that was all good till we got to the little kid zone. was packed and we had to walk the bunny out for safety, for his own safety. So, we had to exit a little bit um from a different path, but it was a great time and we had by far the longest line of people to get their picture taken with the beaver and the bunny at the end. It actually went it was really long. So, the whole event took a lot longer than normal because family stayed around. It was a great day. Did not snow. So, it was a that I take that as a win.

103That's good. And you have a focus on two people in this picture. There are um nonprofit fair um on April 16th uh side leadership and our side group. They're amazing. They've also put on a recognizing RHS podcast. Uh they those students coordinated and hosted a nonprofit fair for our campus students to learn about local nonprofits and how they give back to the community. Uh we want to thank Subzero Mission, United Way, NAMI, uh Torch Light, Lake County Metrop Parks, and the Salvation Army for participating in this. Hopefully they got some volunteers from this to work over the summer and earn their volunteer seal uh as well. So the community service seal as a part of it, but really having those here's some ideas of how we how Riverside can give back. And that's a that's

104a focus of all of our areas. Craft show is this Saturday from 9:00 to 3. It's in the gym. There is a $3 admission fee. It's a really neat opportunity. Uh proceeds again benefit the Lake County Council on Aging and our NHS scholarships and that we'll have a ton of local vendors who are there. Um so kindergarten registration, we are in the middle of kindergarten registration right now. We have 131 students who are currently registered for this event. One of those things coming up is a kindergarten kickoff and that I believe is was it May 7th? May 7th. May 7th. Uh this this was an event started last year by our kindergarten teachers in which parents and students can come and kind of just speak with the teachers, view the rooms, kind of have a

105general overview. One thing that is shifting, we've talked about this in programs as well as um at the table a little bit is how we are starting the year um for kindergarten. So there are some changes to the to next year's schedule in terms of kindergarten specifically. The dates are all the same, but how we roll out. We are going to try we are going to do a kindergarten camp and the premise of this is all the kindergarters come together. The teachers get to meet those students um and then from them they get to interact with the students see how the students interact with each other and they like classes will be assigned during the camp week and not ahead of time. So kindergarten classes so all kindergarters will show up um during the first

106couple days then they will go on to the normal schedule which is outlined in the new calendar. It's a it's something that we that our kindergarten teachers are excited about. We think it's going to be a great opportunity. It's going to make us really um unique and one of the really cool things is the last day of kinder camp when they have these classes decided um I believe they're going to send them off with like like almost like in honor of tonight's the NFL draft. Um and not necessarily you're the last draft, but you're on this team and you're on this team and they send them down that way and all the other students in the building will clap and cheer and kind of have a big uh celebration for it. So, it's a really

107neat opportunity that we have and something that we are um excited to to pilot and and to really try and roll out this year, especially with our kindergarten enrollment. If you haven't enrolled for kindergarten, please do. So, sooner rather than later, so we can plan for you and make sure that we have appropriate staffing. That's there. Wednesday, May 14th, uh we will have our annual military signing day. We honor those who are um who have made their commitment to one of the armed services. It's at 1 p.m. at the wall of honor inside of the Riverside Stadium. Um, all board members, you are invited to attend. Please do so. Uh, this event's open to the public as well as we honor any senior who has comm committed sign their letter of intent to commit to

108the uh, military services following graduation. And that concludes my report. So, are they getting a sorting hat? Oh, it's so exciting. It's so cool. We call Wednesday reveal day. It is a little bit. Yeah, like that. But yes, they'll get something that tells them which classroom they're in. We're not we're not sure what the what the trinket is. Uh we thought about changing the t-shirts, but the t-shirts are from the board. So, we're going to keep the traditional class of a long time from now t-shirt and um but we will do there will be something that is there for the reveal date. So, it's going to be really exciting. Okay. I had a couple questions about the state budget changes. Um so um with the science of reading most of a lot of our staff

109has already gone through it. They've been they've gone through it paid to do it. They the state reimbursed us. The states reimburse us. It is all tied to that. I don't know why they put that in there. It doesn't make any sense but they threw it in there and they I'm not sure. So are we still in the midst of some people needing to We have some who haven't we have some who haven't completed it yet. They have some time yet. I I have till the end of I I will self-report that I'm one of them. It is I actually just we're going to send reminders out to teachers too. Yeah. Just those that have I don't see that one staying out of the budget. I think that's an easy that that they'll take it

110out. But I thought it was it's just one of those where it doesn't make sense why they're doing it, but it's again it's one of those where they they throw these kind of trinkets in and say figure it out. Okay. And then on the kindergarten readiness assessment, uh, KR, are we still going to do that for screening purposes or I don't know. That's a that's a good question because that's a funded test by the state. So if it goes offline and they take it away, we're not going to have Yeah, you couldn't do it. So I they've just re they changed it again this year, too. It's a new format as well. There's two options. There's two options. There's a long and a short and I think everyone defaults to the short unless you say,

111"No, I'll take more torture." Okay. Yeah. And they're just so Yeah, I it again it's one that I don't know because that typically that's one of the diagnostics for are you ready for kindergarten and typically it can count as your reading um on track off track for the guarantee. So you still have to give some sort of benchmark but okay I just wondered yeah I all right thank you. Okay, treasures report and committee update. U we have the finance audit personnel committee, insurance optimization ad hoc committee, legislative liaison. Okay. We um held our meeting on April 17th, personnel updates. Again, typical turnover and postings for newer replacement positions. the uh summer ladski camp sold out across all four buildings with around 100 students enrolled uh that uh sold out very quickly I understand in less

112than a couple hours or something like that. So that's a very popular uh event. Um the staff has been offered opportunities for substitute custodial projects over the summer and uh response has exceeded the available positions. This is u staff can participate in u all kinds of activities that the uh maintenance director has for them to do that uh really fills a need um to get some things taken care of over the summer. Um and the student job fair went well. Everybody's talked about that already. Uh the board discussions agenda discussions included uh mention of various contracts recommended for approval, the RLEA uh memorandum of understanding, special needs rate coordinator and retirement adjusted adjustments. That one is not on the agenda because they just changed it again. So we need to work through it. Um, so

113they they uh last Friday, Thursday, Thursday, STRS voted and reduced the minimum age uh the minimum years of service from 33 to 32. When they typically do that, they typically for the next year, they did it beginning June 1st. So, it's a huge change to a lot of people. Um, and so we did not have anything prepared because it it's it could be impactful. I saw they changed 32. They change it to 32 and it is it starts. So this so this year there are three cohorts of educators who are retiring. Those were 32 years or eligible for retirement. Those were 32 years, those were 33 years and those with 34 years. So let me ask a silly question because we have a fund set aside that we've been transferring money to. Will we have

114sufficient dollars in that fund to cover? Working through that math right now based on the number of people that we are we don't have and we probably don't have all of the potential retirements at this point because people have to check and see what all that means to them before they we don't we don't so trying to get an appointment even to talk with STRS about that is in the middle of June and that was Monday. I think it's even farther out than that. We typically have a date on to when we need it by. So, it's it's working with some of these people having some, you know, obviously truly compassion to them that that's it's a huge decision you have to make in under a month. And when do we have when do we

115ask to know by we April 1. So, it's it's a it's a shift and we're working with REA to make sure that we get what we need from them and make sure that we kind of hit these things and truly identify those who have who are in this situation to say you are this is your chance um from that point. So, I think it's a it's a really big it's it's a real collaborative effort from between myself and uh Mr. and you're really trying to go through with them and trying to figure out who but then we only we currently only have years earned at Riverside. We don't have total years. So those are all and then other years that are transferable from other state pension funds depending. So we're working to try to get

116all of those together to say who fits. How do we get all that? They they give it to Does give it to you? Uh the No, the employees do. Okay. So, we have we have some language in this new one to kind of look at what that is. And we we worked for all of that to make sure that it it works. It's a it was a huge curveball that that that happened. Okay. Many more curve balls to come. Can't wait. Okay. Um the uh health insurance uh optimization committee uh I think we've kind of wrapped up our work. Um, we finalized the contract details for coverage and services and those will be approved tonight. DCW has already started their work. I'd like to say thanks to all on the uh on the committee for

117their working cooperation and collaboration in seeing this transition and health insurance coverage. And I'd especially like to thank uh Bill Robertson for all his help that he's uh lended to us on that with his expertise in that particular u uh segment of uh health insurance. So I think we're off to a good start and uh once again thanks to all and especially to Bill Robertson. Um, we went over some uh revised budget figures uh and they show the uh PNI fund for the current fiscal year will end positive, but it will be the lowest it's been. Uh, but we will see increases in the years ahead. Uh, but there will be a dip although still positive in fiscal year 2028 when the football field turf is replaced. uh legislative layers on the uh budget negotiations

118are ongoing in the state legislature with proposed changes in funding. This will affect the amounts the district receives, but all is still subject to change. So, we'll know when we know. So, that's it. Thank you for that update from the treasurer. Okay. Um, so our monthly financial reports, uh, like the more we do, they're all available on the, uh, board docs along with being on the treasures page. Um, total cash balance for all our funds is just under $47 million and within that general fund makes up about 32 million of that, 31 million. Our PI fund, as Mr. you were just mentioning uh currently at 7.9 million. Two 2.1 of it is currently encumbered. That means we have purchase orders out to vendors. Uh 5.7 is not. Although that's just waiting for a lot of

119the construction uh projects to give us an actual number and then once that happens, we'll start issuing purchase orders out for that. Um appropriations and revenue estimates. Uh we're threequarters of the way through the fiscal year. Um revenue is just under 93% and expenditures are under at 71%. I do want to mention at least because that 92 might stick out because of how we collect our um monies throughout the year. We get like two big spikes when we collect taxes. Um March, April is one of those spikes. And so we'll be at 92, but then you all start to see it kind of, you know, even back out as the rest of the year goes on. So um so um just a little bit more on that which I just mentioned with the uh property

120tax. Um in the month of March, we received both our um settlement and advance. Uh we collected $18 million $19 million for the taxes. In total, we were just under 22 million. Like I said, that's an unusual amount for us because it's like I said, twice twice a year. We normally see that kind of spike, but we do ride that out throughout the entire rest of the year. Um interest revenue uh just around 104,000. Uh star investment rates at 4.48%. and our expenditures for the month of March were a little over 4.7 million. So without stealing Mr. Flack goes Thunder, I guess I could give a teaser trailer approach to it. Um want to leave it in there, but as we mentioned, the House released their version earlier this month and at least from a

121financial standpoint, it's not good for public education. Um, one piece of it is they are not continuing is currently in there is not to continue the phase in of the fair school funding plan. Believe they're in the last two years of funding that and if it stays like it is, this last two years will not happen. The other big piece that's out there is the 30% cash balance carryover limit that's been put into place. And that's based on the uh fund general fund expenditures from the prior fiscal year that you cannot carry more than 30% of that number over. So, and then uh the county budget commission at that point also then has the ability if you do go over that to send that money back to the taxpayers and take it away from the

122school district. So, and then one other piece, normally we've had the five-year forecast for um I'm not sure how many years, but it will establish a three-year forecast. Um, which based on that 30% piece, if you go out five, it's not going to look pretty when it comes to that, mainly because of how we collect our our money with levies and whatnot. Just touching on that 30% piece. Currently, if you look, if they took this back to last year, um at the end of the year 24, our cash balance would have been at 47.6%. Um within the entire state, 485 out of the 609 school districts exceeded that number. Um and we do have a chart on the uh on there. You can kind of see how it our cash balance and the percentage as

123it goes throughout the year. Um, February, January, February is usually our lowest. Um, when it comes to the cash balance and then like said March, April when we get our tax collections, it spikes back up. But in our case, if that 30% was in place as of uh the end of last year, we would have they would have taken about $8 million from the district. Um, and like I said, in February, I think our low balance was 10 million. So, we would have been at two 2 million and hoping to get payroll, you know, make sure payroll in there. So, one of the problematic things with this specifically to us is we have a cash balance policy and 30% um is roughly what three months and that's a that's a that's a challenge to that

124to that policy and it it it puts us in a in a real true bind to where that is. The other part that that doesn't necessarily make sense is it's a one-year reprieve and then the next year they go right back up if not higher. So, so the taxpayers who are getting their relief aren't necessarily going to see it as a it it's is it making an impact on property taxes for a temporary it's a temporary band-aid and then they go right back up to where they were because that's exactly what we would collect back. So, it's it's not a permanent fix or a permanent solution to to the problem that's there. Um, and that's a that's everything. It's it's concerning as to where it goes. The other part that I've heard is districts that

125are collecting money through not not through property taxes like a we had talked about potentially doing an income tax, an earned income tax that so that doesn't necessarily benefit our seniors or or burden our seniors anymore. that would actually if it were above if we still carried over 30%. All of that money would still go back in property tax relief even though we collected any new funds through income tax. So, it's it's there's some there's some real concerns with with what this is and um it's something that we are watching closely. We are advocating and working with our our groups to make sure that we advocate on behalf of um you know this is this is very complicated for districts especially those who work so hard to to stretch a levy out like like we

126have we've got we're we're getting a lot of years out of the last operating levy and this would put us to the bound a whole lot quicker and a whole lot more often. So just uh on that note uh probably everyone is knows who Tony Pajel is and so I had another conversation with him a couple days ago and so we were talking about this and he's going to be u testifying and and of course he's talking with people regularly and uh so you know we talked about what things look like, where things are going and of course what it's going to do, you know, as a as a uh as a school board, you know, obviously what we have to do is take what the legislature gives us and we have to do the

127best job with it. And uh this doesn't look like it's going to be any fun. Doesn't look like it's going to be helpful to what our thoughts and ideas and goals are. Um, and part of talking with Tony is to try and mitigate that 30% and move that up to try and make it a little easier, ease the pain a little bit. And uh, so anyway, yeah, we're we're going to stay in in communication and talk with some people to see where it might go. You said the average is around 50% across the state. Um, and the other part to that as well is this this impacts our ability to certify three-year contracts with our negotiating groups from from our treasurer and that's a huge deal uh because that's every year back at the table.

128That's all that's going to be on for discussion and on the table and there'll probably be some adjustments made. We you know obviously we're going to know pretty soon because this is going to uh pro this bill will probably be signed next month. So I find it interesting and I just want to share the state has an almost four billion dollar rainy day fund and always tax relief comes back to school districts to provide the tax relief instead of coming back to the state and the state is not going to impose a 30% give back to its taxpayers um or whatever it is you know like they're not going to give back money to the taxpayers of the state, but yet they expect school districts to give back money to the state. I think that's

129interesting. I also find it interesting that they've gone from a five-year forecast to a three-year forecast. We've said that for years because you can't predict the bianium budget. However, I believe taking it from five years down to three years is going to hide the detrimental effect that of what they're doing. And and mind you, I think that is purposeful. Um, and so I just want to put that out there that when you look at that information, there's a reason why they're taking that fiveyear down to threeyear because they don't want you to see the results of the impact of what that give back is going to look like. Well, sure. Years four and five would always be in a negative, right? Right. And it doesn't none of this takes into account what people's where they

130are in the levy cycle. When you're on the front end of your levy cycle, obviously you're always collecting more dollars. When you're on the tail end of your levy cycle, you're usually deficit spending. So, we might not have that much cash left. I I think it's it's just really a poor piece of legislation in there. Also, logistically, it takes away our our opportunity to focus on what truly matters in teaching and learning and making sure that our students are are prepared for the world because we're busy negotiating and and working to make sure that we have money and levy cycles and all that comes with that. So, it's it's a it's not that we're allowed to push for levies, but if that were you're on the ballot more and more, so those questions come up

131and you're doing the factual representations of all that, it just it just focuses your energies elsewhere than where they should be. It's my understanding too that it impacts schools that are considered wealthy different than it does those schools that maybe get um monthly or regular checks from the state. It absolutely does because we we only get ours um twice a year in property taxes. We don't get a huge burden from or a huge portion from state funding. Those who are higher state funded, they see theirs on an annual monthly basis. So they're they're stay under the 30%. Yeah. Mhm. And it's my understanding that initially that was 25%. So then it went to 30, but then in talking to um Tony Pajel, I'm hoping that they can keep getting that figure up there. His his

132belief is there's going to be a figure in there. Um there will be something because tax relief is some property tax relief is something that is a priority. Um but he is he does and he is afraid to throw out a number um because if you throw out a number that's too low then they just take in and run with it and say well you said that. So he's he's working towards that along Miss Gracie was mentioning school districts are the only ones that are being affected by this. who other government entities are and one other area that is out there is um bond rating was potentially an issue um because of not having cash balance on hand. So for anybody that's doing projects or whatnot you could have a lesser bond rating. So um

133Mr. Blackood uh probably will still we have a work session on Monday. You wanted to kind of go into it again there because it obviously plays into the long range you know, forecast. So, you know, that if he had spoken with Purcell to be there Monday because I think he was in New York, believe. [Music] Yeah, because he is in New York. Couldn't come for this meeting. And yeah, he's supposed to be there on Monday. Supposed to come Monday. Thank you. And then, of course, the whole reason he's coming is to talk about what kind of loan we'd be looking at, what the rates I mean not firmly are because you don't know but about what they are and how many years we'd be looking at that sort of thing. So all right well thank

134you for that. We are into 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 identify themselves and their topic. Comments are limited to three minutes. Okay. We have a consent agenda for finance and audit. Okay. [Applause] Okay. Uh, I'd like to make a motion to approve items A through R listed on the finance audit consent agenda as recommended by the treasury. Could I get a second, please? I'll second that. Okay. Um, any discussion? G. I mean, uh, Mike, could you take the role? Uh, Scott Fisher, I. Dennis Keany, I. Denise Brewster, I motion carried. Consent agenda, personnel. I'd like to make a motion to uh approve the items A through G listed on the personnel consent agenda as recommended

135by the superintendent. Have a second. Second. Any discussion? Congratulations to Mrs. Vernon and Mrs. Economic Retirement. [Applause] Okay. Mike, would you like to take the role? Uh Dennis I producer I motion carried consent agenda curriculum and programming. Okay. All right. Um, make a motion to approve items A through F listed on the curriculum and programming consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? Okay. Could you please call? Denise. I gracias. Hi. We have some agenda buildings and grounds and A through D. Make a motion to approve the items listed on the buildings and grounds operations consent agenda as recommended by the superintendent. And that would be A through D. Can I get a second? Second. Can you take the role please? Linda Cross. I motion carries policy agenda

136resolution to approve the adoption of new and revised board policies as listed in item A. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? Can you call the role, please? Lori, I. Scott Fishell, I We have a resolution to approve the adoption of new and revised board policy at as listed in item B. Second, Miss Graassy. Second. Any discussion? Can you call roll please? Fishell. Hi. Dennis Keane. Hi. Denise Brewster. Hi. Negraphy. Nay. Lori. I motion carried. Uh, board of education business Armor Linings resolution to approve a purchase order with Armor Linings, Inc. for the undercoding of 50 school buses at a total cost of $18,125. Get a second. I'll second. Any discussion? Is this the um company that our transportation director wanted to work with? This is the company that we took the buses to the last time.

137Um um Mr. Official did get the quote from Arner. It's the Crown Company as well and it's the same one in West um Western Pennsylvania. I contacted the Crown Company in Akan to get the quote and the numbers were the same. But my question is, is this the company that Mr. Andre preferred to use? I actually don't have that answer to be honest. Um well, who did he propose last year? I guess so. He had both of them out last year and he said we have we did not ask him to which one was was a preference at this point. This came to Bill. Is there I'm just curious why this is separate and why it wasn't in the is coming from Mr. Fishell to put on the agenda. Mike, can you call the role?

138Dennis Keaney. Hi. Denise Bster. I Keski. Nay. I motion carried. LLB resources resolution to approve the first amendment to a consulting services agreement between the Riverside Local School District Board of Education and LLB Resources LLC effective April 24th, 2025 through March 19th, 2026. Can I get a second? I'll second. Thank you. Any discussion? I did not see the amendment. I just What is the actual amendment? I'll be happy to answer that question. It's in the paragraph two um entitled scope of services and the original contract said for the purpose of regularly distributing board communications. This is the preparation of the email address or of adult residents. And what was added to this was and to provide other services as described in appendix A and you'll see appendix A attached to the agreement. Can as it's

139as directed by the way. Can I ask a like we just approved this as a well the board just approved this? Yes. Not unanimously whatever the board approved it two months ago, two meetings ago. So why wasn't all this included at that time? I mean, it was it was approved. Did nobody read it? Yeah. I mean, I wrote it. I understand. So, yes, I read it. I guess I'm asking like why why would the board have approved it if they wanted to just amend it in a month? They just not have it done at that time. I mean, I think that's uh my responsibility. I um prepared it based on what I thought the scope of work was based on everything that I knew. Then there was some confusion um recently in the last couple

140of weeks. I got a couple of inquiries about you know the scope of services that were agreed to and um and then I realized that what I I had prepared was um overly narrow. Well, I I understand that. Yeah. Well, I guess what I'm asking is the board members read the contract as it was presented for the board meeting and if they didn't like it, why did they approve it? And I guess what we're doing is bringing back in the proposal. So the scope of consulting services is now increased to create and implement community engagement strategies, create, review and revise district policies. Um create press releases and provide counsel with media interactions, create newsletters and email campaigns, incident and crisis management plans. So these are the possible, right? So it leaves us wide open again.

141So it would just be as directed, but it it's out there. Yes. Correct. Okay. It's a broader scope of work for sure. And it's it's now for a one-year term with no dollar amount, no limit, no $250 an hour. I mean, that's true. It can be cancelled with seven days advanced notice. There has to be a purchase order issued by the treasur. So there are checks in place but ultimately this is a fee for service arrangement. Can you take the vote please? B I nay. Trinsky. Nay. Scott Fishell Iki. I motion carried. We have vouchers herd Ohio resolution to approve joining vouchers Ohio. I move to postpone to the next regular meet board meeting. Can I get a second on that motion? I'll second. Why don't we have to do that at the beginning of

142the meeting? No. Um, no. This is subsidiary motion. So, it can be made at this point of the discussion. And the discussion can include, you know, the underlying motion, the object motion, the original motion is sometimes called and this new motion. So, can I ask why we're why we're postponing that? Nothing's going to change. Yeah, I just think it's good to to uh postpone it and u so I'm making a motion to do that and we have a second. So again, I'm going to ask again. All right, I'll second like I'm just Thank you. I'm just I'm just again questioning that's not a reason just because I want to postpone it. I'm asking what is your reason for postponing it? I think it's a good idea to postpone it. I think it's a good idea

143to postpone. Okay. I'm going to so just to have some discussion on vouchers who who Ohio we're not allowed to have that discussion. We can only discuss uh the the mo the motion to postpone to the next regular meeting. We can't say whether it's a good or a bad item. I didn't following the Robert's rules of orders saying good item. So Mr. McIntyre, what were you gonna say? I'm sorry. No, I was going to say that some whether to postpone it to a certain time can include some discussion, not a full discussion, but just some discussion as to why postponing the underlying motion would not be a good idea. That necessarily involves some discussion of the underlying motion, that's fine. But when there's a motion to uh postpone to a certain time on the table,

144we have to be limited in That's okay. I don't need I don't need to actually discuss it. I would like to pass out some information on what the lawsuit entails. Um what the purpose of it is. Yeah. It's just not permitted. I mean, if you want to leave, it's not permitted to pass out information. If you want to leave information for people to pick up, you can do that, but you can't just you can't do that right now. We have to vote on this. We have to vote on this. So certainly information for everyone can be uh available. So, so you don't want the board members to be informed about what not what I said. Well, that's who she was going to get the information to. That's all right. So, anyone that wants the information

145is certainly it could be available and after the meeting to hand it out to everybody. That'd be wonderful. That'd be good. Thank you. Mike, can you take the role? Um, this is to postpone to a future meeting. So to the next regular board meeting next. Okay. Not a special meeting but specifically next regular board meeting. Yes. Gracias. Nay. Lori Krenki. Nay. Scott Fishell. Hi. Dennis Keiny. I. Motion carried. Board of education update. Any update information? I have some. Um, so I attended a conference um the weekend of April 5th. Um, attended two sessions on vouchers here to Ohio. Got some signs for everybody. They're really awesome. I'll pass them out. They each have one. I'm a fan of public schools. Um, the two sessions related to vouchers here Ohio specifically. Um, one of them he

146had to do with what the lawsuit was all about and the second was why it's important to be involved and join this coalition. Um, as a as just a general rule. Um, again, I'm going to pass this out um so that people can understand what the lawsuit entails. So, just as part of my board update, you can have one of these. It's a really great article from the Capitol Journal. um that outlines what the four complaints are in the lawsuit. It gives information on what that all means. Um as part of this conference that I went to, most of it was about advocacy, how to be a better advocate for your school. Um I'm going to pass out some things, advocacy survival kit that I collected. Um it was a really really valuable I thought

147opportunity to go and be involved with national organizations who are all about public education. Um there were every state there every state was represented in some way shape or form. There were legislators from every state at the event. Um the speakers were phenomenal and and I will tell you that one of the keynote speakers was Kurt Russell. um who not the actor Kurt Russell, but the teacher of the year Kurt Russell. It always makes me laugh when I say that, but it he was if if you can if you can ever get him for a a PD day, he would be a fabulous fabulous. He was his presentation was so good. Um but it was just really great being around individuals who were all like-minded in support of public education. I also I also just

148wanted to make a statement about the national organizations that represent teachers. So your the two large organizations in union representation for teachers are spending phenomenal amounts of money supporting public education. And I don't care what side of the fence you sit on when you talk about unions. I was impressed um that they were that they were out there advocating and helping organizations. It was it was it was crazy to see the amount of advocacy that goes on and the amount of um underlying participation and the hard work and leg work that people are doing to advocate for public education. It was it was a valuable experience for me. So, thanks for allowing me to attend. Thank you for that. Anything else? I I um wanted to also um reiterate that um Bill Robertson spent a

149lot of time and effort trying to get us um a better insurance deal for our district. Um the history there was that we had been with the consortium and it's my understanding that the rates raised tremendously and uh was going to have a major impact on our budget. So thank you u community members stepping up and helping us on that. Mr. Robertson, what was the increase this year? Um 23% 22 23. We haven't saved any money yet. All this all that we've done is we have put the district in a position to have more flexibility. So when you're locked in with the consortium you can only offer consortium plans. Uh but the the district is large enough that they can stand on their own and that's a good business decision. It gives them more flexibility.

150Um it means that they can look at a a supplier different from the consortium. So while a consortion may be good for a number of the districts, it could be a situation where Riverside was better served to be with a different different organization. So um with the number of employees that they have, the consortium doesn't offer any value and in fact there's some disadvantages. So, uh, this is just sort of step one to allow the district to have the flexibility, um, to pick the best choices for their for their staff and, um, and and get the optimal cost costs. Yeah. None of the cost or coverage has changed for anybody, right? That's all the same. Thank you for that. Um, next meeting announcement. Uh, Board of Education work session Monday, April 28th, 5:00 p.m. Buckeye

151Ad Hoc Committee meeting, April 29th, 2 p.m. Finance and Personnel Committee meeting, May 15th, 8:00 a.m. Board of Education meeting, May 22nd, 6 5:00 p.m. Okay, that email went out. M Miss Grassy, are you okay with 5:00 a.m. on the May 22nd? 5 a.m. Sure. 5:00 p.m. We'll be there. Dan, you coming? Miss Kroniski? Yeah, I responded to Mino. All right. So 5 p.m. Perfect. Thank you all. You're in. All right. All right. And the curriculum meeting is not scheduled until June. So yeah, it won't be on this list. I just wanted to let All right. Real good on that. And then um we'll be setting in other buildings and grounds. That'll most likely uh be on May 20th as we typically have followed that schedule Tuesday before. Tuesday before. And so we want to

152just set that put it in place. Yes. Okay. Um going to adjourn to executive session. Be it resolved that the Riverside Local School District Board of Education hereby adjourns to executive session at 8:05 p.m. to discuss personnel matters relating to the employment of public officials in 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. Uh Mr. Official, yes, I need to ask Mor. It's employment and discipline. Employment and discipline. So add that. Thank you so much. And uh can I get a second? Can you call the role? Cory Krenneski. Hi. Scott Fishell. Hi. Dennis

153Keiny. Hi. Denise Brewster. I grass. I. Motion carried. Off we go.