001This is Tuesday, June 10, 2025 local morning. Mr. Mason here. Mrs. Yes. Merry here. Mr. Fong here. Here. Thank you. Would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance? [Music] I pledge algiance 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. We are now going to have recognition of the 242 25 retirees. So, this is always a fun time and uh a sad time. Uh what I'm going to do is I'm going to read everybody who's retiring so everybody out there knows who it is. Okay. And um if you're here, please come up front because we have something special that Vanna White is going to hand out to you. And I I do
002my hand gestures when we're doing this. Okay. Uh, first Elden Anderson. Um, Mr. Anderson's not here. He has he was with the district for 29 years. In 9596, he was hired as a second grade teacher at Lakemore Elementary. In 0809, he moved to Roosevelt's. In 1415, he moved to Spring Hill. And then in 2223, he moved to Shrop teaching fourth grade until his retirement in 1025. So Tom, congratulations. Next, Betty Bersick. Betty was with the district for 14 years. In 1112, she was hired as a bus monitor where she worked until retirement in February of 2025. Congratulations to Betty Francine Beast. I think she's on a ship somewhere or she's where Mexico? Okay. Nope. Okay. So, she's not here. Maybe she's watching though. Hey, Francine. Okay. Um uh she as she's sitting on the beach.
003She was with the district for 30 years. In '9495 she was hired as a teacher at Lakemore Elementary. In 0102 she moved to Young and Roosevelt elementaryaries. 05 0405 she moved to Lakemore Elementary. 0809 she moved back to Roosevelt Elementary. 1213 she moved to Young Elementary. 2122 she moved to Shrop Intermediate. And then 2324 she moved to Spring Hill where she retired in May of 2025. So congratulations Francine Lori Beanovich. So Lori was with the district for 33 years. There's a pattern here for all you new hires. See what's happening here. In ' 9293 she was hired as a teacher at Roosevelt Elementary. In 0203 she moved to Lakemore Elementary. In 0405 she moved to Boyer Kindergarten Center. In 0708 she moved to Roosevelt Roosevelt Elementary and then 1011 she moved to Shrop Intermediate where
004she retired this year in May of 2025. Congratulations Lori. Rayan Craig come on up. Woohoo. [Applause] So Rayan wins the prize. She was here for 39 years. Uh she was hired as a teacher at Roosevelt Elementary in 8687. In 94 9596 she moved to Boyer Kindergarten Center. In 0708 moved to Lakemore Elementary in 0809 moved to Roosevelt Elementary and 1415 moved to Spring Hill Elementary where you worked until the sheriff. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] Next, Kelly Harmon Weiss. Kelly was with the district for 32 years. She was hired as an art teacher at Lakemore Elementary in 9394. In 9596, she split between Lakemore and Sawyerwood. In 0708, she split between Lakemore and Shrop. In 0809, she moved to Shrop. 112 she moved to Spring Hill Junior High School. 1213, she split between Young and Roosevelt.
0051415 she split between shrop and interrop in the high school. Then in 22 23 she moved to the high school full-time where she worked until her retirement till 2025. So congratulations Kelly. Hold on. [Applause] Am I out of order? You're out of order. She's out. Okay. Um Teresa Heather. All right. [Applause] Atrice has been with the district for 31 years. In 9495, you were hired as a playground monitor for Young Elementary. 9697 worked as a playground monitor and library clerk at Young. Then in 2000, he became a teaching assistant at Young. 0506 moved to Spring Hill Junior High. moved to Shrop Intermediate. 1011 moved to Spring Hill Junior High. back and forth. 1415 moved to the high school. Then in 1819 became the building secretary at the high school. And then in 1920 moved to
006Young Elementary. And in 2122 moved to Spring Hill Elementary where you worked until your retirement of this year. Congratulations [Applause] Jenny Ganzer. Come on down. [Applause] Now, it says that Jenny's was the district for 31 years. That's your age, right? Because you've been here since kindergarten. Okay. So, it's a little bit longer than 31 years, but only by about 5 years. So, we're good. Um in 9495 was hired as a teacher at Boyer Kindergarten Center. I didn't know you taught kindergarten. I did. That's where I started. 9697 moved to Young Elementary. 0304 moved to SHRP as a 50% admin. 0405 became a full-time administrator. 0607 slipped between split between Shrop and Ber. 0708 split between Shrop and Spring Hill Junior High. 089 became head building principal at Spring Hill Junior High. 101 moved to Young
007Elementary. 2122 moved to Spring Hill Elementary where you worked until your retirement of this year. Congratulations. [Applause] Dave Fanovich. Dave, you didn't go to kindergarten, did you? No. Okay, just checking. Okay. Dave was with the district for 31 years. In '9495, he was hired as a teacher at Lakemore Elementary. In 0809, moved to Shrop Intermediate. 1314 became an administrator at Shrop Intermediate. In 1516, moved to Spring Hill Elementary as head building principal. In 2122, you moved to Shrap Intermediate where you remained until your retirement of this year. Congratulations. [Applause] Ed Lancer. Okay. Ed has been with the district for 31 years. He was hired as a teacher at Spring Hill Junior High in 9495. In 1415, he moved to the junior high high school. And in 1920, he moved to Shrop Intermediate Intermediate until his
008retirement of this year. Congratulations, Ed. Wendy Leman. So Wendy was with the district for 33 years. In ' 9293, hired as a teacher at Lakemore Young Elementaryaries. In 9394, moved full-time to Young Elementary. In 2122, moved to Spring Hill Elementary where she worked until her retirement of May of 2025. Erica Meter. Erica was with the district for 31 years. She was hired as a music teacher at Roosevelt Elementary in '9495. 9596 she moved to Lakemore Elementary. In ' 0708 she moved to Shrop Intermediate. 1011 she split between Shrop and Young. In 1415 she split between Shrop Wow. Shrop and Young and Spring Hill. In 2021 she moved to Shrop Intermediate. and in 22 23 she moved to the high school where she retired in May of 2025. Thank you Erica. [Applause] Next up is Larry
009Murphy as he likes to say teacher of the year. Larry has been with the district for 33 years. In ' 9293 he was hired as a teacher at Roosevelt Elementary. In 9495 he moved to Spring Hill Junior High. In 0203 he moved to the high school where he worked until his retirement of this year. Congratulations. Thank you very [Applause] wife. Vance was with the district for 28 years. He was hired as a custodian at the high school in 9697. In 0910 he moved one half to Spring Hill Spring Hill and one half at Roosevelt. In 1415 he moved to the high school full-time. In 1617 he became head building custodian at the high school and in 1920 he moved to Spring Hill where he worked until retirement of August of 2025. Congratulations, Vance. [Applause] Mary
010Sers. [Applause] All right, Mary, you're almost right up there with uh pretty too. So, you have been with the district for 37 years. In 88 to 94, you were hired as a monitor at Lakemore Elementary. And in '9495 you became a secretary at the admin building. In 9596 you moved to Sorwood as head building secretary. And then in 01 and 02 you moved to the high school where you worked until your retirement 2025. Congratulations, [Applause] Danielle Starky. [Applause] Danielle's the baby of the group here because she was with the district for nine plus some years. Okay. You were hired as the assistant principal at the high school junior high in 1516 and in 2324 you became the junior high associate principal where you remain until your retirement of February of 2025. Congratulations. [Applause] And then
011finally, Donna Walker. Donna has been with the district for 40 years. She was hired as a cook in 8485 and then in 98.99 she became cafeteria manager at Shrop where she remained in this position until her retirement in September of 2024. Congratulations Donna. [Applause] Okay, so Cynthia Worinski. Okay, I don't have the information for Cynthia. Um, Cynthia has been with the district for 33 years. 33 years and she ended up at at Spring Hill. At Spring Hill for her finals and we will get more information on Cynthia. We apologize for that. We'll make sure she gets her bill. Congratulations, Cynthia. Again, if we can give a round of applause to all our retirees. Thank you so much for your service. [Applause] Thank you. At this time, excuse me, we have board members informal. Any comments
012or uh observations you want to make? And usually I pass it on, but I'm not going to to do it this time. I I'm very privileged to have been colleagues with many of the people that are on this retirement list. So I knew them as colleagues and I I thank I thank them for the years of service and for the support that they showed and uh to the teachers. I'm talking now about Mary and Teresa and uh to um to their the other teachers in the building. So congratulations. I hope you all have a good retirement and I have a feeling we'll see you as many years as you put in here. I think we'll see you around again in some way. So, could always sub. Can always sub. Everybody jump on time. No, you
013can't sign them up tonight. Yeah. Darn it. Well, things are uh heating up in Columbus. Uh the House Bill 96 went to the Senate and it's now going to get kicked back to the House. Uh they've going to continue with five and six years of the fair funding plan. Cut Patterson. Uh it doesn't in include any increase in base costs. This is more for Chris and people in finance. Uh the guarantees districts at fiscal 212 2021 levels provides growth for enrollment growth. Um the other interesting things on this uh we were really worried about um you talked about if we if you paid attention to this there was a 30% cap on district carryover. Well the Senate has raised that to 50%. They didn't do away with it. Um that one it will be appropriated.
014They'll come together and they'll figure this out. 20 more days if this is June 10th budget needs to be approved by June July 1st according to the constitution. So that's if that wasn't bad enough now you have a whole lot of sweeping property tax bills. The new one on the on the list is House Bill 335 uh sweeping tax property reform bill. I sent a letter out to all the board members administration uh that removes ability to levy inside millillage which a lot of our levies are been out there for a long time. So it's at the 20 mil floor and that's where this conversation across the state has grown. Other proposals in 335 are house bill 129186 309. you really need to get contact your state senator, your state representative and oppose this. And
015on top of that, there is a new initiative out there statewide. The new initiative will be to eliminate property taxes alto together. That's going to go, if it gets enough signatures, it will go on the ballot in November. So, it will alleviate your property tax altogether. And then uh organizations like us, townships, villages, police, fire will all have to get their money. The way I'm understanding this from the from the language that I'm hearing and the talk that I'm hearing, either from sales tax or income tax, but there would be no property tax. I can see that passing in the state of Ohio. I really can. So hang on, folks. It's going to get real interesting for the next six months. Yes, it is. I'm done. And Congratulations to y'all that retired. I got 12
016more working days and I can put my hat on. I do not have 12 more working days, but congratulations. Um, just throwing it out there because Larry Murphy has what, 33 years of teacher of the year running. So, I'm excited that other people will be able to finally win this. and kind of getting out of hand. Um, if you get bored, we can all follow Larry Murphy because he volunteered at Bingo this past Monday and he had a great time. So, if you'd like to come help at bingo, we will always take volunteers. But really, um, congratulations to everyone with, uh, your retirement. Yeah, same here. Um, I did some quick math with all those retirees. It came up to 546 years. Wow. It's a lot of years. Yes. Um that's a long time to
017replace that. So, thank you guys for all your dedication. Congrats to the seniors this year and all the incoming students. Read at least one book before you come back to school. Yes. Likewise. Congratulations to everybody retired. I hope the next phase of life is very um exciting for you. A long retirement. My father retired in 58. Okay. He he he passed his 95. He was one of those guys that he asked me, "How much did I pay into the systems?" I said, "About 28,000. How much have I gotten back?" I said, "A little over 2 million." And he went, "Wow." I said you were one of those lucky agents, but you know, fighting two wars and living in a depression, but we won't see that obviously, but that's a neat story. So, I hope you
018all hit 95 years old and be healthy while you're here. Thank you. Uh item number six, it is recommended that the board approve the minutes of the regular meeting which was held on May 20 uh 2025 and it was provided in exhibit one. Second, Mr. Adams been moved and second. Any questions? Go ahead. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Terry. Yes. Mr. Verer. Yes. Mrs. Frola. Yes. Motion passed. Item number seven is time set aside for citizens comments on agenda items. So any citizens comments on agenda agenda items are welcome at this time. Is there anyone that no retirement? I thought for a minute Mr. Murphy is going to come. You sure you don't have anything to say? One final. [Laughter] [Music] I'm sorry. All right. Um, number eight is payment of bills. These
019are the monthly bills. It is recommended that the board approve payment of bills for the month of May pending audit of those and that was provided in exhibit two. So moved second. Mr. Adams has been moved and second. Mr. Terry, yes. Mr. Mason, yes. Mrs. Fola, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. Mr. Hover, yes. All right, motion passed. Item nine is the acceptance of the financial reports. It is recommended that the board accept the financial reports from the treasurer for the month of May 2025. And these have been provided in exhibits three, four, and five. So move second. Moved and second. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Miss Terry. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. I a motion passed. It is recommended that the board accept or approve the following personnel items. 10.1 is retirement resignation
020uh of exempted employee Christine Polling effective November 1, 2025. 10.2 two resignation uh accept the resignation of Michael Wland as a varsity football assistant coach effective June 8, 2025. 10.3 employ Brian Masenko as the Spring Hill Elementary principal on a two-year administrative contract pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening effective the 2526 school year. 10.4 Four, employ the following as one employ the following as 100% teachers per the negotiated agreement and in all cases pending proper lensure and pre pre-employment screening and this would be effective for years 20 the school year 2526 one is Trent Bontrager um physical education Danielle Capota art and Sarah Charlotte art. Jessica Garbinski, elementary teacher. Anna Pock, uh, elementary teacher, and Rachel Stackluff, music 10.5 tenure. Approve the tenure for Monica Rusk who is initially licensed on or before January 1,
0212011, holds a professional license, has appropriate credit hours, and has three years at least three years of experience in the system, and is therefore recommended for continuing a contract effective with the school year pending proper documentation to meet the requirements. 10.6 Reassign the following classified employees per the negotiated agreement pending proper lure effective for the 2526 school year. Karen Dubbert 6.5 u this educational assistant to Spring Hill. Holly Murphy to educational assistant at Shrop and Regina Southall as a Excuse me. Teaching assistant at the Springfield Preschool Center. 10.7 employ the following as classified substitutes per the negotiated per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening effective the first day is signed and those are William Evans, Gregory Ben Lai and Jim Young. 10.8 employ the following classified personnel to work extended school year
022total educational solutions ESY and summer camps summer 2025 per the negotiated agreement pending sufficient student enrollment and proper lure and those include Christy Joiner, Don Black, Terry Connor, Regina Goldinger, Jessica Wright and Betty Bey. Uh nine 10.9. The following teachers um uh approve the following teachers to serve on the district leadership team as per the negotiated agreement. And those include Dave Bosco, Christristen Christine Delaro, and Dana Floyd, Michelle Hannah, Jen Hoskin, and Christy Hubert. 10.10. Approve the following teachers for building leadership team per the negotiated agreement. Tammy Applegarth, Dave Bosow, Rebecca Boyd, Leona Cable Baldinger, Libby K, Meredith Gray, Michelle Hannah, Jen Smith, Melinda Weakland, Michelle Zares, and Brett Zimmerman. That would be for the high school for Shrop Intermediate. Amanda, I'm sorry, Chumiti. Chita. Mhm. Chimita. Chimita, I apologize. Christine Delaro, Cynthia Ferguson, Dana
023Floyd, and Cynthia Johnson. And for Spring Hill Elementary, Kendra Cox, Jen Hoskins, Anne Morrison, Paula Murphy, and Matt Schlarb. 10.11. uh approve the following athletic supplemental contracts for the 2526 school year per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening and these include Kevin Nash who will be uh for the head basketball uh coach Derek Garber junior varsity boys basketball coach Brian Cuser varsity football assistant coach Coach Jeff Moore, eighth grade football coach, and Patrick Trernowski, eighth grade football assistant coach. Nonsupplemental non-sport supplemental contracts. The following non-sport supplemental contracts for the 2526 school year per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and those are as listed on your agenda. I'm not good at it. Uh I no offense to anyone but um the and 10.13 extended time the following extended time for the 2526
024school year. Ashley Freley as head band director. Uh extended days. Melinda Weakland and Charlene Moss both coun as counselors and they always have they have extended days and 10.14 an unpaid leave of absence approve an unpaid leave of absence for classified employee Rachel frame from May 1, 2025 until approximately the start of the 2526 six school year. I'm done. Motion. So moved. Second. All right. It's been moved and second. Uh Mr. Adams. Mr. Offord. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. And thank you for everyone who's going to help our kids. Yes. Mr. Flo. Yes. Okay. Motion pass. Okay. So, just a couple. Um, let's first I'd like to introduce um Mary's going to start with the new teachers. All right. So, we um obviously we have a lot of new teachers coming in because
025you saw all the bells that we gave away today. Um we do have several in the audience. So, I'm going to start over on my far side and we have Rachel Stackloop. She is music for Spring Hill. Back in the back in the center, we have Trent Vontreger. He is PE for Uh, we have Sarah Sheret right here. She is art for Shrek. And then we have Jessica Garbinsky in the back. She is fourth grade for Shrek. Um, and Jessica, I was her principal back at um in Telmich. So, wait, I hope I got everyone because I hope I did not miss anyone, please. Oh, teacher wise. Yes. Okay. All right. Um I do have a couple. Uh we have um Brian Menenko. He is going to he's coming to us from field. He is
026going to be the Spring Hill principal. So we're excited to have him and he's you're going to be starting pretty soon. So do you want to say anything? Uh thank you. Very excited to be a part of the Springfield community and schools. I look forward to the opportunity and congratulations to all the high surrounding tonight. Give her one minute. So yeah, it's been a it's been a great process so far and uh I wish I could start tomorrow, but very soon I will jump on board. So um uh I'd like to uh um and I'm pleased to introduce Kevin Nash. You want to stand? He is going to be our new head boys basketball coach. We're excited about that. Um, he is a graduate of Manchester where I'm assuming you played basketball there. Okay, that
027was just a guess. Um, oh, wait a minute. I'm writing it right here. You played under a long time coach Jean Schwin. Okay. Um, and you've been 10 years of coaching. So, you did JV, I mean, uh, JV and you were 73 boys basketball for five years or for five years. Awesome. And he teaches math. So, we're awesome for that. and we're excited for you to take over our basketball. Hey, do you have anything you want to say? That was it. Okay. Thank you, Kevin. Um and then, uh we did have um the retiring of Kim of um Chris Polling. Um Chris has been with us for um she became she was employed in November of 1999 as a part-time secretary for the curriculum department. She became the head building secretary at SHRP for 2008
0282009 and then during the 201718 school year she moved to the treasures office as the accounts payable clerk and then in 2024 position was changed to assistant treasurer. So, she has been a staple in the treasures department. So, she will be very much missed. Um, I think that's all that I have. Oh, a thumb. You don't have more new teachers, I would say. Oh, we do have a lot more new teachers and and Mary's going to I mean, and she's she is just she is like the hiring machine over there. That's all she does is just been just interviewing and interviewing and interviewing. It's a good thing. So, we're excited. We're excited for everybody that's going to be here. Oh, I think you're going to love it here. As you can tell by the people
029who stayed here for 31, 32, 33, 39, forever. So, it's it's um it's a it's a place where people want to come and people want to stay. So, we are excited. I'm done now. You're going to go further? No, I'm done for now. All right. Number 11. Uh it is recommended that the board transfers from the general fund to the following accounts. Uh bus garage building bond retirement $2,340 $234,000. See Mr. Nash Mr. Nash numbers place. Uh the uh syncing fund bond retirement 995,000 cafeteria food service 15,000. So moved. Second. It's been moved and second. Mr. Adams. I think Mr. Adams has an explanation. Yeah. Two of these were recommended by the auditor to put on because they're yearly year end entries. the sinking fund. I know it looks large, but when the high school
030was built and financed, uh, at that time, uh, President Obama had some innovative build America bonds, few skews. So, the syncing fund is just basically a a mortgage that gets paid one time in 2027. in the bus garage is just the yearly uh payment for the bus garage. Cafeteria food service transfer. Mr. Boswell will will go into some of the specifics. Uh because it was quite a a different year for us and everybody else, I'm I'm sure. So, are there any questions before we vote? Do you want um Dustin to talk about the lunch now? Yeah. that uh so this year in food service we typically do have to do a transfer into food service because it is its own account which operates independently um but we have to subsidize that account uh most years
031um there this year we did the provision 2 program which provided free breakfast and lunch to all of our students. Um one positive thing with this is we served over 14,000 more meals this year than we did last year. So, um, a lot more students were able to take advantage of of that and, um, eat it eat healthy meals. We know a lot of our students that is not always the case at home there. So, um, that was a big positive there. Um, contributing to this um, transfer here was um, higher food cost. We've seen that food and supplies there have definitely hit us just like they have everybody's home there. Um and when you're, you know, serving 200,000 meals a year, whatever, um it is there. Exactly. Those, you know, small increments start to
032add up um over over the year. I think at the high school alone, we had almost 50,000 additional just in food costs this year. And some of that was the additional meals we served, but a large portion of that was also the the increase in food cost. Um we also had to replace an oven this year. We had our administrative review which um adds some some cost with consulting and getting ready for that review and as well as the point of sales software that we use um to manage all of the food service operations. Um it we had been using since 2012 and they end of life that software and we had to switch to new software which was an increased cost there. um sort of along along with that we also implemented online menus
033with full transparencies for carb counts um sugar and all that. So um that while that was not required I think was a good thing but did um add to our cost but gives parents more access to the menus and all the details of what's being um eaten on a daily basis. So, um, we're watching the budget very closely because it will contain provisions on whether or not the state will continue to pick up the reduced portion of meals as they have been, which will um, relate to whether or not we continue with provision two next year. Um, one key point with provision 2 and also contributed to our um, fund balance this year was, you know, if you remember back to the beginning of school where we were really pushing that we needed applications from
034every family to ensure that our free and reduced count was as high as possible this year. Um, didn't come through as we had hoped and expected there. So those numbers were lower than anticipated which with the difference in reimbursements for a student who's qualified as free versus a student who's qualified as pay also greatly contributed to the negative fund balance there that so if we are able to continue if the budget uh at the state level and our level allows us to continue that provision too next year we're going to have to do a you know a greater push to ensure that we get all those applications and and really get funded where I think we should be funded because I don't I don't think we were at that level there based on previous year's
035numbers. I I think we have room for improvement there. Thank you. Uh Mrs. Fola, yes. Mr. Terry, yes. Mr. Oper, yes. Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. Okay. Motion passed. Excuse me. It is recommended that the board approve the final amended appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and those were provided in exhibit six. Second Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Motion passed. Number 13. It is recommended that the board approve the temporary appropriations resolution for fiscal year 2026 as it appears in exhibit 7. Make a motion. Second. Parker. Mr. Mason. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Okay. Motion passed. Number 14, uh 14.1, marching band. It is recommended that the board approve an overnight extended trip for the Springfield marching
036band and chaper runs to travel to Camp Muskingham for band camp from July 27, 2025 through August 2nd, 2025. and all expenses for this over uh this trip will be paid through fundraising and by the participants. 14.2 two um high school uh cheer or it is recommended that the board approve an overnight extended trip for the high school cheer team and chaperons to travel to Walsh University to attend cheerleading summer camp from June 27, 2025 through June 29, 2025. And again for this trip all expenses will be paid through fundraising and by participants. So move. We have the motion. Second. Mr. Hoer. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Terry. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Motion passed. Trips are on. Trips are on. Uh 15. 15.1 All Sports Boosters Club. Uh a motion to accept
037a donation of $5,497 from the All Sports Boosters Club to the Springfield baseball team. That the only one and second. Okay. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Ferdlong. Yes. Mrs. Fola, yes. Miss Terry, yes. Mr. Hoer, yes. Motion passed. Okay. At this point, Mr. Adams, do you have a treasure? I just have a May historically is a in between time. Uh we got our fiveyear forecast approved and obviously next month is the end of our fiscal year. And uh the good thing is uh uh I highly anticipate that we're going to be uh right on target from where we estimated it to be in the year by o September October. So when a district lands where they think they're going to land at the end of the year, uh it makes the treasure happy. Uh obviously uh
038with the two renewals passing and uh we're looking to get released. I'm talking to the commission actually this week. So there it's they want us to get out as much as we want to get out. So that's exciting news. So next month uh I'll have the year end results and uh go through exactly where the budget was and what the actuals are. So any questions? Thank you. Central office report. Good evening. Um, earlier today I learned that our transportation supervisor, Melinda Hamilton, was awarded the Everyday Hero Award from the Ohio Association for Pupil Transportation at a conference she's currently attending that uh came as a surprise to her and and us. So, uh, that that was a wonderful nomination. This is a statewide award that recognize individuals who go above and beyond in their daily
039transportation work to ensure the safety and well-being of students. So, we'll share a little bit more next month when Melinda will be able to join us. She's still at the conference um right now, but uh when she returns and we can have her at next month's meeting, we'll share a little more about that. But very proud of her and uh just glad to hear of that accomplishment for her. Um I I returned from Columbus today attending the Ohio School Safety Summit. It's a free conference put on by the Ohio School Safety Center. Um so it was two days of classes and um speakers there focusing on threat assessment, student mental health, building building security, transportation and coordination between districts and law enforcement there. So um very encouraging couple days. So I was glad to be
040able to take that uh opportunity there and learn a lot that we can start working on. Thank you. Um, mine goes out to the retiring teachers or retirees, I should say, because it's more than teachers. And to our new hires, to our retirees, thank you for your years of dedication, passion, and unwavering commitment to the students of Springfield Local Schools. Your impact has been profound, and your legacy will continue to inspire both students and colleagues alike for years to come. As you embark on this new chapter of your life, may it be filled with joy, relaxation, and a fulfillment of your dreams. Every one of you will be greatly missed. To our new employees, welcome to an incredible journey. You are stepping into a profession that is not only rewarding, but extremely transformative. Embrace the
041challenges and the joys that lie ahead. and remember that you are part you are part of a supportive community that believes in your potential. We can't wait to see the amazing things that you do with our students. Welcome. Welcome. Awesome. Um well, there are still some students attending school. We have 35 students that have been attending our ESY program um either at this building or at Next Door at Strap. and the teachers that are teaching that have done a great job making it fun and a little bit more laidback since it is June and they're the only ones still in school. So, um they've had a lot of fun and I've seen them doing some fun hands-on activities the last couple days. So, that's it. Um just a couple things. Um graduation went great. So,
042thank you for everybody. That was a was an exciting time. It's always an exciting time seeing the kids cross through. Uh we did have a couple awards for some of our students. Um this was for the 2425 Greater Akran Canton High School Sports Award and um it's going to be a live show that's going to be on Tuesday, June 17th. So, we had students um athletes nominated from our school as uh athlete of the year. And the students are um I have them here in my um for bowling, Ryan Slusser. For wrestling, Lyanna Swagger. For softball, Brianna Rogerio. And for athlete of the week, Lyanna Swagger. So, it's um they can go free to this um to this uh event and it'll be so we'll hopefully we'll keep our fingers crossed that our kids will
043um It's a nice event. It is a nice event and it's and it's and it's uh that we have four kids that are making it. So, um I think we had a really great end of the year. It's hard to believe that it was just a couple weeks. When was the last day of school? Last week. Two weeks ago. Two weeks ago. It just seems like summer's just flying by already. Um, I hope everybody out there has a fun, enjoyable, and safe summer. Um, and I just want to say that uh we're already getting ready for next year. So, it's it's it's exciting time. It's an exciting time. Kenda. Items worthy of your note. June 19th, district buildings will be closed for Junth. June 30th, there will be a special board meeting and work session
044at 6 pm here in the Springfield administration and preschool building. July 15, this is the next regular school uh board of education meeting at 6:00 p.m. here in the administration building. At this time, uh, if there are any citizens comments on, it doesn't have to be on, um, agenda items. Is there anyone who wishes to There he goes. Okay. Anyone? All right. Thanks, Paula. Well, Larry, in the years we were I worked with you, it was a pleasure to get you through and he's a fellow Steelers fan. So, we shared that. I know. We were doing so well. But I moved from Steelers country. So, okay. If I see none that uh no one wants u then at this time it's recommended that the board go into executive session to prepare for conducting or reviewing
045negotiations or bargaining sessions with employees and um there's no anticipation of business upon return. So, um, you you can leave. That's what she's telling you. I didn't I was trying to think, could I say that? Yeah, you can say that. Byebye. Um, all right. Do we need a motion? Yeah, we need a motion. I'll make one. Second. All right. Is moved and second. Mr. Adams. Mr. Furlong. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mrs. Foler. Motion passed. And thank you. Good night everyone. Clear ones. You got to catch it before We're in