001until he looks up. You ready? Okay. Um, good evening. I'd like to call the Tuesday, July 15, 2025, Springfield uh, local school board of education meeting to order. And Mr. Adams, Mr. Mason here, Mrs. Fola, yes. Here, Mr. Roer here. Mr. Furong here. Miss Terry is not going to be here tonight. No. Okay. She won't be here. Would you please stand for the pledge? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay. Um board members, is there anyone that wants to speak because I we've rearranged this, but we'll do that first. I do want a couple updates. some updates from Columbus uh in regards to the bianual budget um that has
002made a lot of news and kept people up late at night this this year. Um it had passed and then was awaiting Governor Dwine's line item vetos of which he had about 67 for a schools. He vetoed number 27 which is non-charted educational savings account program and educational tax credit line. Line item 51 is STR and STER employee contributions. There was some controversy on if the boards were going to support that or not. He vetoed that. Item 53 partisan school boards elections which means right now we're nonpartisan. If that went through, we would have either had to declare whether you're a Democrat, a independent, or Republican. He vetoed that. Item number 55, County Budget Commission's authority and procedures. That was a partial veto. Item 63, which would a lot there was a lot of discussion
003on this, was the cash balance carryover at 40%. It vetoed that. Item number 65 uh for probably 284 school districts in the state of Ohio of which we would have been one 20 mil floor calculations which would have been included fixed sum levies which we have all of those. He vetoed that item number 66 school district property tax restrictions eliminate fixed sum levies. He vetoed that. So those were vetoed and then But but yes, override them. There is a push Monday, July 21st in Columbus to override item 55, property tax, county budget commission authority and procedures. Item 65, which will directly impact this district heavily. Item 65, which a 20 mil floor, which if that does get overridden, I think everybody here, I'll be like Mr. Adams and I don't know if I'll have a
004whole lot of this left. I'm sorry to pick on you, but that will just blow my world up and everybody's here. And then item 66, school district property tax levy restrictions. Um to say the least, I I'll read a little bit of vote. 55. The veto removed provisions allowing county budget commissions to reduce millage on any voter-approved tax levy aside from debt levy. This provision prevents concerns about constitutional uniformity. Over onethird of Ohio's school districts span multiple counties. We're one of them. We have a little bit in Portage. All residents of a school district vote on school levies regardless of their county residents. Under these provisions, single county budget commissions could lower the millillage for the residents in a county, creating uninformity issues for residents in other counties. That's 55. Item 65, the 20 mil
0054 calculation, which is really important to us. The veto remove provisions that change which leveies are included in the 20 mil 4 calculation under the bill. Emergency levies, which we have, substitute levies, incremental growth levies, conversion levies, and property tax portions of combined levies would all count towards the 20 mil floor. If the provisions are restored, approximately 200 districts will no longer be at the floor due to these changes, which means they have no mechanism to deal with inflation. In many of these districts, new money levies are simply not possible. It will just create a massive headache. These changes will result in more frequent levy requests being put before voters and disproportionately impact small and rural districts. I would consider us not rural, but I would consider us small. This will increase the likelihood districts
006will face fiscal emergencies and require state soly assistance. Item 66, the last one, the of the three that are being considered being overturned. The governor vetoed provisions that eliminate the ability of districts to levy replacement property tax levies as well as fixed sum emergency substitute emergency combined school district income tax and fixed sum property tax levies. Each school district is unique and the levies passed by the voters in these communities reflect the needs of their communities. Communities may prefer to levy a fixed sum levy rather than asking for new operating millage levy dollars to maintain existing services. So you've all heard me before and you're going to hear me again. You need to call Casey Weinstein. he's our senator for this district and Jack Daniels and let them know, especially Jack because he's on the
007Republican side, that he really needs to not allow the veto. He needs to vote against these. So, and if he doesn't, I may be looking for a new job. I don't know yet. I haven't made that declaration. You're going to give up on the kids? Uh that's that's hard to do. Yeah. Donnie, do you have anything? Um thanks for staying on top of that. It's very informative to help us out because the verbiage is very hard to understand many many times. Um something that's coming up this weekend that's really cool. Um the Springfield Cares backpack program is 9 to 12 this Saturday at Lakemore Methodist Church on Clickinger. That's from 9 to 12. So, anybody who is enrolled in the school district, just come with a parent and you get hooked up with a book
008bag and school supplies. Their 12th annual month Saturday appropriate. Saturday, 91. Pardon? No comments from me. Pardon? No comments for me. Okay. Uh my only comment is going to be on moving we're moving the board agenda to put the executive session um uh later in the uh so we're going to skip over five but before we go on. Okay. But I'm going to um so we could reach some stuff. Do you want to this is going to be this is we put this in here. So, I alluded to last month at the board meeting that our transportation supervisor, Melinda Hamilton, uh was at the Ohio Association of People Transportation conference um dur during the the meeting and she was surprised with an award there um granted by the board of the Ohio Association People Transportation
009Board uh the Everyday Hero Award there that she received from that organization. So, um I since learned that this was the first year that they have um issued this award and Melinda was honored to be the first recipient of the award there. Um, so I think it's welld deserved. And this award was created to recognize those who just every day are, you know, making things happen and getting getting things done and often go unrecognized, but uh are truly making the um making everything happen there. I was almost going to make a wheel making things go around joke there, but I decided, but you did it anyway. But I did it. But you did it anyway. Um, so Melinda really goes above and beyond to make sure that everything happens around the district and gets done
010there. So we're appreciative of that and she's very deserving of this award. Extremely congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for everything you do. You are say that I have a wonderful, wonderful group of bus drivers, runners, and mechanics that make my job a whole lot easier too. So I like to thank them because I think they deserve recognition on Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So, go approval minutes. Yeah. Okay. We'll go to number seven. It is recommended that the board approve the minutes of the regular meeting of June 10, 2025 and the special meeting and work session from June 30, 2025. And these were provided in exhibits 1 and 1A. So moved. Second. Okay. Mr. Adams has been moved and second. Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Hoffer, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. Mrs.
011Fola, yes. Okay. At this time, uh, citizens comments on agenda items are welcome. Participants are asked to try to limit to five minutes. Are there any citizens comments? Right. Seeing none, then we'll go to the next favorite thing, pay some bills. All right. Number nine, payment of bills. Um, it is recommended that the board approve payment of bills for the month of June pending audit and these were provided in exhibit two. So moved. Second. It's been moved and second. Mr. Adams. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes, Mr. Hoffer. Yes, Mrs. Fola. Yes. Motion pass. Number 10 is recommended that the board accept the financial reports from the treasur for June 2025. And these are provided in exhibits 3, four, and five. So moved. Second. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mrs. Fola, yes. Mr. Furlong,
012yes. Motion passed. Number 11. It is recommended the board accept or approve the following personnel items. 11.1 Resignations. Accept the resignation of the following teachers. Abigail Garlock, effective 20256 school year. 2526 school year. Corey Tanksley effective the 2526 school year. 11.2 Accept the resignation of classified employee Denise Taylor effective August 1, 2025. 11.3 employment reassign classified employee Michael Cooper as an eighth hour custodian at Springfield High School and Junior High per the negotiated agreement pending a proper lensure and that would take effect August 4, 2025. employment employ McKenna fast as a 100% intervention specialist per the negotiated agreement pending proper lure and pre-employment screening effective the 2526 school year 11 uh the next is employ Tina Hedrickk as a routed bus driver per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening effective the 25
01326 school year 11.6 Six is employ April Jawers as a classified substitute per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening effective the first day assigned. The f uh 11.7 is approved. The following teachers as listed in the um agenda uh to serve as resident, educator, mentors or facilitators for the 2526 school year pending proper lure and completion of required training on an asneeded basis. 11.8 A approved the certified staff member, excuse me, the following certified staff members as LPDC members for the 2526 school year per the negotiated agreement. And we'll see those uh that list on the agenda. 11.9 Approve 15 days extended time for counselor Tiffany Writtenower for the school year. Uh the uh and that puts that's gives three days one week three weeks one before uh after school's out and
014two weeks before the beginning. That's why that uh is appropriate. Uh number 11.10 10 approve a 7% counselor non-sport supplemental contract for the 2526 school year for Tiffany written hour per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure 11.11 approve an athletic supplemental contract for the 2526 school year for Mason Inman as a seventh grade football assistant coach at 8.6 per the percent per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-mp employment screening. That's all the personnel. So move second. Okay. So before we vote um you guys are fortunate you've already met McKenna. McKenna is excited to be here as we are to have her here. So it's going to be great. She's going to be an intervention specialist at Spring Hill at this point in time. Um there's a couple things that are going on with
015our with all of our um employment. Uh we would have done Tiffany written hour with the 15 days with the other counselors, but we did not do that because she was officially being hired at that point in time. So that's why we extended those on to this um agenda. That's why I mentioned it because yeah, I appreciate that. But those are typical. LPDC is a requirement that we go through that our LPDC handles all the professional development that the teachers do throughout the years in order to renew their license for their next renewal. And then um resident educators, facilitators, mentors, facilitators, those we pair up with a with new hires who are in their first or second year of teaching. So that way they have the new teacher will have a experienced teacher in order
016to lead them through some of the processes that we have. And at this point in time I think we only have one of those mentors who is not associated with an RE a resident educator. So we have quite a few people. So Tiffany welcome McKenna. I was hearing Tiffany Kenna welcome. So sorry I think you're going to love it here. It's uh uh people who come don't usually leave. So, it's a it's a it's a great place to be and it's Spring Hill is going to be a great it's going to be all brand new almost. So, so it's it's it's going to be a great home. It's going to be a great home and and uh hopefully we'll have some things planned for you to meet some new friends and build some relationships and
017and get you a u a mentor. We already have one. Oh, we already have one for you. We already have one. There we go. So, where did you go to school? Yeah, Nerk, I just signed your Where did you go to school? Awesome. Welcome to Spartan Nation. Welcome. Awesome. Welcome. Thank you. You know, and just with my comments and and you know, just with my comment that nobody ever leaves, you know, we do have those two um people who are resigning and it's not I mean, it's it's um better just opportunities for them on what they're looking for in their careers, in their lives. And so um and they were new. They would have been new to us, right? Um no no no no no. So they they've been here both with us for at
018least one year. Uh one has been here for one year. One has been here for two years. One is leaving because they are moving out of state. So they are leaving Ohio as it was a tough decision for him. It was a very tough and and for actually for both of them it was a very tough decision. So it's a um it is it's going to be a wonderful place to to be. So, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. I love this place. Okay. All right. Should we vote, Mr. Adams? All right. Okay. Oh, we should leave. We'll make Don't leave yet. Got to wait till we vote and then Mrs. Then you're official. You're not official yet. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Mr. Tropher. Yes. Mr. Furl. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Now you're official. You guys can leave.
019That's fine. We're good. legs. Well, you could think you kick out, too. She's going to stick around for And if you're a parent of this young lady, she's making money now. You know what? I'm going to change one more thing. That's always a good thing. Number 12 right now. Okay. Because then so Melinda doesn't have to sit around. Okay. And then and then after 12 then we'll go to executive session. Okay. Put it down there, but hang it up there. Okay. All right. At this time, we're going to do number 12, uh, the beginning and ending of school per the day. It is recommended that the board approve the following school start and end times effective the 2526 school year. Springfield High School and Junior High, the student day would be 7:40. uh arrival or
020beginning 2:30 uh would be the end of the day and the bus drop off pickup is drop off and pickup 7:15 and 2:30 Shra Intermediate student day 8:20 to 3:05 bus drop off and pickup 8:00 3:05 Spring Hill Elementary the student day is 9 to 3:40 bus drop off pickup up 8:40 to 3:40. Springfield Preschool in the A.M. drop off 8:00 uh it's 8 to 11 and the pickup is 7 drop off is 7:55 to 11. Springfield preschool PM uh student day is 12 to 3. Bus drop off and pickup will be 11:55 to 3 o'clock. Got all that. Got it. So move and second. Okay. So, um the reason why we're doing this, okay, a couple things. Um this is going to allow us to bring back full busing for all students. So, you
021know, that is that is something that this board has uh made as a promise that if you know, as levies are passing that this was something that was very important to this board to make sure that we did it. So, you know, thank you for allowing us to be able to provide for our kids what our kids need and definitely, you know, full busting it is. Melinda, thank you for working your magic and getting this to where it will work out. Uh we will have for the families. Yeah, we're gonna start releasing information. Well, we will start releasing information this week uh for the families uh so they can start planning on what the next school year is going to look at. But again, um bringing back full busing was a promise that and it's
022very it's very very important. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. And adjusting the schedule like this allowed us to do that at minimal cost and without adding additional drivers and buses and everything within the confines of what we the resources that we currently have. That's why we had to adjust the schedule rather than just add you know more buses more buses and more drivers. So just for the people that might be listening you know not here say that again that we are not expanding employment or the number of buses we're doing work we're going to work with what we already have. Yes with minimal if if if there is any cost increase it'll be minimal very minimal. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure that was No, that's a very good point because
023not only did we bring back something we promised, but we're doing it at a very very very costefficient um fiscally responsible move. Thank you. So, thank you. No kids walking down Sanitarium now Unless they choose to. Yes. Yeah. Part of the information we'll be releasing is um encouraging people to get in their final forms and submit those, especially for this process, updating their transportation information, whether they'll be taking advantage of busing or have alterns situations and stuff that we need to go know about to properly route the the students. the earlier we can get that information, the more effectively we're going to be able to get stop and stop times out to parents and and be accurate with that and not have to continuously update it as we um you know, always seems to be
024the case that we issue route times and people like, "Oh yeah, I've got to turn in the babysitter forms." And then all the route times change because this kid comes off here and moves over here and and so on. So want to try and frontload that this year as much as possible and we'll communicate that out. I didn't know where our cluster stops are going to be. Yeah. Mr. Adams. Mola, we're voting on the times. Yes. Did you say? Yes. Yes. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Rover. Yes. All right. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now you can leave. All right. At this time. Yeah. Now we're going to go back here. Uh-huh. To number five. It is recommended that the board go into executive session at this time to consider the compensation of a
025public employee or official. So moved. Second. Moved and second. Mr. Adams. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Hover. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Motion passed. And there will be no action. And when we return and adjourn from executive session, there is no be action based on the executive session. There'll be no um no uh um action taken on executive session. We do have other things we have to work. Okay. All right. Let's go back to the All right. 75 down to number six. It is recommended that the board adjourn executive session at this time. Motion. Second. Okay. It's been moved and second. Mr. Adams. Who motioned? Parker and then Donnie and Donnie seconded. Okay. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Fur. Yes. Mr. Hover. Yes. Mr. Fro. Yes. Okay. Now, number 13. We're on. We're down to
026Yeah, that's what I didn't want to. All right. It is recommended that the board approve a service contract with the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio to provide visual impairment services for the 2526 school year. Motion moved. Second. So we normally have it with Summit County ESC, but this is for they don't the Summit County ESC doesn't offer services for students who have a visual impairment. So we go to the northeast Ohio. Okay. Kyle County is one. Yeah. Where is the Northeast Ohio? It's on Rockside Road. Oh, it's further north. Okay. All right. It's been moved and seconded. Mr. Adams. Mr. Floyd. Yes. I get Sorry, Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. I should know this by now. All right. Motion passed. Num. Um, number 15. It is recommended to the Huh? 14. 14. Okay.
027Thank you. It is recommended that the board approve a service agreement with Suma Health System to provide sports medicine services. Motion. So second moved and second. Mr. Adams. Okay. Um just what this is this is um which we're very lucky and I know um I know you call you I had all my questions answered. You had all your questions answered which was really good. Um let me let me see something here real quick. Give me one second. Uh I thought I had one second up. Just want to see if I have something here. Um, so I I So this is for our trainer. As you know, last year we had a really hard time getting the trainers and uh and it wasn't any fault of our own. It was just the way that Suma and
028all the other healthc carees decided to start paying them. Um she uh um Kev uh Kevin says she's absolutely amazing. She's working with our kids and um she goes um the kids are reacting very well to her. So we're we're very pleased to have her join our team. Looks like the breakdown of 1600 hours is very sufficient. Yes. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Okay. Motion passed. Number 15. Right. Yes. Yes. Okay. It is recommended that the board approve a resolution declaring transportation to other schools impractical in in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code sections 3327.01. 01 and 3327.02 and therefore will offer payment in lie of the transportation. So moved second. And this of course is um uh for busing you know kids that we determined
029that's that is impractical that we pay the parents in lie of for and we've been taking a very close look at this over the last couple years of la last year. You may remember I said that we were taking one school off of the impractical list and going to provide busing to that because of the number of students that were attending that. It became um finally tipped the scales there uh where it made more sense for us to provide that transportation than to pay make the payment in lie of. Um so we did one school last year and we're starting another school that tipped that scale um this year. This will be another school that we're taking off the impractical list for this coming school year there and and always keeping our eye open for
030potential cost savings. What 156 bucks is skyrocketed. Yeah. I mean it changed. It was up to 250 and then state law changed and it changes every year and now it's almost 600 a year. Yeah. Um really for um Wow. That change change the scale on a lot of those. Sure. Yeah. That would that would change your sk that would change your look factor at it pretty pretty intently. Yeah. Wow. Uh Mrs. Fola. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Motion passed. Number 16. It is recommended that the board approve a resolution determining to proceed with the submission of the question of the renewal of an existing tax in excess of the 10m limitation to the electors of the Springfield local school district pursuant to sections 5705.21 of the Ohio Revised Code. motion.
031Second. And remember this is the um this resolution is for if you remember we had um four operating levies. We passed the one, we passed the two and if you remember the pie chart which we will put out again, this is that last piece of the pie for the operating levies. It will give us financial stability for five years. or more. Or more. We haven't been able to say that since I've been here. My goal is to make it more than five years. Music to my ears. All right, Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mrs. Fol. Yes. Our next seven. Oh, go ahead. 17. Did you want to say something? It is recommended that the board approve a resolution determining to proceed with the submission of the question of the renewal of
032an existing tax in excess of the 10 mill limitation to the electors of the Springfield local school district pursuant to sections 5705.194 to 5705.197 of the Ohio Revised Code. motion. Second. Y and then this is our uh PI levy. That's what I was going to Yes. Yes. This is for our uh for our permanent improvement. And I think it's point what it's uh it's down to very small. Collects about 300,000. It collects about $300,000 a year. That's it. For us, for all our buildings, for all our all our rooms. Um yes. all our parking lots and all the new chairs that was based out there in 196 something. Um, Mr. Adams. Wow. Mrs. Fola? Yes. Mr. B? Yes. Mr. Hoffer? Yes. Mr. Furlong? Yes. All right. Motion pass. Mr. Adams, do you have a treasures
033report? I do. Okay. Here we go. So, I can So, we closed our books for the fiscal year and I wanted to give you a recap of how we did versus our budget and what what specific group really helped us. So, we're talking revenue right here. Okay. Where's my pointer? All other revenue came in a half a million better than budget. Which means total revenue came in 358,000 better than budget. Okay. Real estate was down a little bit. Foundation was down a little bit. When I say a little bit, collectively about 150,000. But this category right here, we got some Medicaid reimbursements that were quite large versus prior years, which is good. If you go down to expenditures, Dustin, our expenditures came in, keep going. Uh about about 100, a little bit far, and I'll
034explain it. 140,000 unfavorable. So, we beat budget by a quarter million dollars. Let's go up to personnel services because I want to explain why we were a lot of this number right here was because of a a quite large sovereign package that we had to pay for retirees. I mean, we planned on in the beginning of the year, right? Four, we had 13. And then we had one teacher that decided she wanted her pay not over the summer lump. Okay, but look at benefits. We beat budget by 436,000. Look at all other objects that came in better than 292. So kind of offset it. This number right here, benefits, as we know, is going up next year by 17.3%. But with the new individuals that we've hired, I'm expecting it to be in the more
035in the 13% range because of all the employees that are either single or on their parents' plan. Uh so that's good because right here, my old forecast was forecasting on this budget. Well, it's going to really have to be taken into consideration here. This will be substantially modified too because we won't have what we had last year. Overall, my goal was always, if you go all the way down, was to hit a bogey, okay? And that bogey was met, meaning I wanted to have a certain amount of money in my bank at the end of the year. And we have about 300,000 more, which helps us with our forecast. So it was a good year meaning no surprises and the and you know with a treasurer that's the biggest thing is to have a surprise
036that you have to go to your board and tell them that my forecast is not really that good and we're not going to make it 5 years or or longer when our levy passes. So, we're really on the cusp in this district to have a to have a forecast that it's manageable, that helps Shelley and her team come together with new plans. It's it's really a nice nice time for us right now. So, we just have to keep it going. We have to get that levy um the finish. That will that will solidify us for many years to come, which is wonderful. I know Dave has we've never seen that, you know, thanks. And just a note, usually we have a pretty good idea of the of our retirements. STRS really just threw us for
037a loop. Oh. this year. I mean, when they went from all of a sudden 33 to Well, it was 34 at the beginning of the year, then it went to 33, and then it went to 32 all in last year. Yeah. So, I mean, so that's why it was that's that's why we were so off with our number. Okay. Because that was a huge yo-yo for us. Not a yo-yo. Went down and they walked the dog. Was a dropping ball. Yeah. All right. Central to office report. Um we talked about permanent improvement with recommending to renew that levy there and some items that we're working on this summer. Uh you'll you'll see we have two different permanent improvement plan programs. One with the high school and then one for the rest of the district. Uh
038there. So you'll see right now the parking lot at the high school is being sealcoated. Uh which why we do that, we do that preventatively to avoid um you know potholes and cracks becoming a problem. Keeps the moisture out. Um so they'll fill all any cracks that small cracks that have developed and then seal over um everything. So we do that to avoid larger cost in the future there. And then next Wednesday, July 23rd, we will have our first meeting of the facilities and capital planning committee that I've talked about the last several months there to bring that group together and start uh uh first meeting will largely be creating a baseline, explaining to them, what our budget is, where things have been spent, what we have um to take care of. Uh we're working
039right now on putting together a spreadsheet of all the square footages of roofing and parking lots. So try to try to understand the scope of what we're what we're dealing with and the age of the latest improvements on some of those which is quite uh breathtaking if you will to see some of our roofs pushing 30 40 years years old. How many volunteers or how many members what would the be 10 members on that committee? 10 members. Yeah. And then the other thing I want to mention in case someone heard you say too permanent in front the one was built into the the bond issue for the bond issue. So it isn't like that's something we're going to ask people to vote on. No, that that was it's already there. I just clarification. Very good.
040Um two things. One, taxfree weekend is coming up in Ohio. It actually is no longer a weekend. It's actually two weeks. So we have August 1st through 14th is considered taxfree weekend in Ohio for up to $500 worth of tangible property um for use for you know almost anything. There are a few exceptions. Um but that is a huge holiday holiday coming up. And then if you are paying attention to what's going on on national news, you know that the um current administration's looking at the dismantling of the Department of Education. Currently, we are awaiting almost $800,000 worth of funding through the US DOE that comes to us that we're eligible for um that I write a grant for and I don't have access to that money at this point in time. So hopefully I
041can get that soon. on that. They're saying that they're just looking at it. Hopefully, they will release the funds to us. If not, um that's going to be $800,000 that we're going to be short. Yes. And what grant title two and title four? Oh, and title three. And title three also. So, it's a total of about $800,000. So, we we we had to and Mary did an amazing job. We had to um write the budget for it and we had to submit it. Um cleared it all out and they and then they clear then they said oops and they took all the money away. So, the money was in there. We did all the work. Mary did all the work. There was some holding dollars. There was about $500,000 in there. So, we did some
042voting work with the information based off of it and then they said that these are just placeholders based off of past history and that they would get the rest of the funds to us in the future and then they just took them off. The whole grant process disappeared. So, it'll be back. So, this this this is another um and I do have and I will send it out to you tomorrow um that something we need to write to our to Governor DeWine about to let them know to release our funds that this is this is going to affect this is a lot. It's a lot and that and that would be just not our district. Oh, no. That's that's across the um it's across everybody federal funding. It's across the country. Okay. Thank you. I
043don't really have too much. Um July for me is a lot of organization of case loads or perspective case loads and reviewing um numbers and what what kids will be serviced by what teachers next year. So not a lot of pretty fancy things, but we do have yes kindergarten registration and preschool registration. People can still sign up for both of those. So that's um that's exciting and you know that and that's basically what July is. July is us just getting ready for next year and and it's a it's a busy month and it's an exciting month. Um I'm again I'm going to give kudos to Mary. I mean every time I turn around she's interviewing and uh we thought we were done And we're not. So, uh, um, hopefully it's, uh, but it's an exciting
044time that we're getting all the new teachers and everything and and you know, um, Christina undermines what she does, but getting the case loads ready, getting all the paperwork ready, you know, that's all relates to funding. So, that's very important of what she does. And then of course Dustin, you know, um, working very closely with Melinda on the busing and all these projects we have going on. I know sometimes he's not sleeping at night when he's looking to see how we take that $300,000 and how do we spend it. So hopefully the um the committee will help but it's um when you start reading um when we get to number 21 and you start reading those dates, you are going to see that um it's here. Um we are planning um a um an administrative
045retreat. Uh not that we're going anywhere, but um it's going to be July 31st and August 1st. We usually go up to Summit County. They have an they having a symposium, but um they're not doing it this year. So, we're going to do our own little symposium with them. So, we're excited about that. Um Oh, and then that's not on there. Um Safety Town. Yes. Safety Town is going to be August 12th, 13th, and 14th from 9 to 11:00. So, uh parents, get your kids who are going to be kindergarteners signed up to, uh go to Safety Town. It's a pretty uh I don't know if you guys ever I don't know if you've ever gone. It's pretty fun to watch the kiddos on that. August 12th, 13th, and 14th from 9 to 11 at
046the high school. Just thinking when when I was working Uhhuh. where people would say, "What do you do all summer? You just do you just sit in the building?" Well, people still ask us that. Yeah. Yeah. I thought, "Well, I count books." Yeah. Yeah. Know, it's it's it's an extremely busy time. If you don't do this, it's hard to realize what all has to be done, right? I do. Okay. Do you have anything else? No, I'm done. Okay. Items worthy of your note. It's a coming. August 4th, school building offices reopen. August 18th is a staff's first day where they have a convocation. August the 19th, staff in service. August 20, students first day of classes for grades 1 through 6, 7 and 9. August 21st, all students 1 through 12. August 26, preschool first
047day. A August 26, kindergarten, first day, A through L only. These are the people that are wishing their names started with P. August 27th, kindergarten last name M through Z only. And then on the 28th, all kindergarteners repeat uh uh come to school. Um and just a couple things, you know, August first uh fourth with the school buildings, you know, not only do we have new administrators, but um Spring Hill is going to have a new head secretary. Um Shrap um um uh um Vicki, this is only going to be her second year. And then the high school is going to have two new secretaries. So, um there's a lot of new change there. Uh August 20th, uh the reason why 7th and 9th grade comes in, that's going to be our connections day. Even
048though the ninth graders have been in the building before, it's it's the first time they're going to be high schoolers and and things change. So, they they get to learn high school. And then, um I think when did we start with kindergarteners? Um two years ago, the transition. The transition was two years ago. So two years ago um we introduced um transitioning the kindergarters because it's it's easier for the teachers to help them learn at least what school is and it gives a better chance of you know how to use the bathroom walking down the halls and plus it helps with the busing. School etiquette. Yes, that's it. Exactly. Yes, it is. That's awesome. So, oh, I can't believe it's here already. All right. Uh, I'm going to skip number 22 because we don't have
049anyone present who would give citizens comment. So, uh, we'll move to it as recommended that the meeting be adjourned at this time. Motion. Second. It's been moved and second, Mr. Adams. Mr. Furlong. Yes, Mr. Mason. Yes, Mr. Hoer. Yes, Mrs. Fola. Yes. Okay. Meeting adjourned. Thank you very much, Cant. You didn't give me back those documents, did you? Huh?