001Sorry, I had to get them paired. Um, okay. This is a public meeting. I want to be able to hear. Um, I'd like to call to um the Springfield uh local board of education regular meeting for Tuesday, May 20th, 2025. Call it to order. Mr. Adams, Mr. Mason here, Mrs. Rollola here. Merry here. Mr. Furlong here. Mr. Hbert here. Okay. All present, would you rise for this? 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, we're going to start off with happy news. So, um, Mrs. Bourner, yes. Give us some happy news. Okay. The whole meeting is going to be happy news. Well, I think anytime we kids, it's happy news.
002Don't let that levy get to you. Okay. I have students of the month and the students of the month at um Springfield High School in Junior High are determined by our National Honor Society students. They get all of the nominations from the teachers with um the students name removed and they read them and then they decide and vote who they want to choose to be the recipient. So, we're going to start with high school first. Could I have um Emma Berlin come join me at the podium, please? Yes. Come beside me. Um Emma's the recipient for the high school, and this is what her teacher wrote for her. Emma has wonderful manners and a great personality. Her academic work is exemplary. Emma's effort, attention, and attitude are top-notch, and she was nominated by Mr. Harton.
003So, this um certificate was printed and is at the entrance of the building. It will then be moved down by our community center and will stay there until the following May when it's replaced by our next student. Congratulations. And AJ McKenzie, will you join me up here, please? She's our junior high student and this is what was written about her. I would like to nominate Addie AJ McKenzie for recognition. She does an outstanding job leading the seventh grade band's percussion section with focus and determination. Truly shining in the band room. I also admire her dedication to the girls wrestling team. She balances school and sports exceptionally well while leading by example in band. And she was nominated by Mrs. Freley. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you to the both of the students and
004congratulations. Um now we have a portage. That's what I was going to say. Portage Lakes. Um, who is doing port? Hi guys. Who's doing Donnie? Oh, so we left first. Are you doing portage? Okay, go ahead, please. Um, for last month, uh, the student of the month for Portage Lakes Career Center was Sophia Walberg. Uh, I know her as Sophie, member of the cross country team and doing really well. Uh, she is a proud uh, representative for the very first dental program that they have. And then um Sam Cole, top 25 student, graduating this year and graduating top honors. And her teacher talked very highly about her during the top 25 dinner. It was amazing. Yeah, you did. All right. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Now, Springfield High School and Junior High art
005presentation. I didn't have a whole lot um prepared to talk about today, but um we had a really great year at the art department. Um Kelly Weiss and myself uh collaborated quite a bit this year and um we're showing the junior high first. So, this is Sophie's uh Bud's artwork with the junior high kids, and she is having a little show tomorrow from was it 5 to 8 tomorrow? 5:30, I think. 5:30. Okay. I know she did some still life work with her kids and some portraiture. She had some of the safety kids poster contest winners, too. So, we look forward to having these kids in the high school next year. Then the other one. Did you get the other one? Yep. You just got to All right. This starts out with Kelly's uh Kelly
006Weiss's artwork. And I just so impressed with the work the kids did this year in her class. It's just beautiful. She told me just today what a great year she had and um very sad that she's retiring, but I'm happy for her. These are acrylic paintings. You can see the work with reflection. These were portraits. And that's when the lights and shine the light on their faces. She got a special lamp to to get the colors on there. And that is Zion's uh acrylic painting. Charcoal drawing. They take these pictures in class. So, even the pop cans and the chips are all taken in class. The glass pictures are taken in class. These aren't, of course, but those look like watercolors and uh color pencil. Back to acrylic paintings. It's about reflection. Color pencil again.
007There's Alejandro on the left there. And that's Kaylee Bog. She is um That was a color pencil. I think this one's pencil. More charcoal. Those are really fun to do. The kids love to do the ice cream. They're not so keen on doing portraits, but once they finish them, they're always glad they did it. color pencil. These are getting into temper paint. These are multimedia pieces, ink and paint. That's pencil drawing. All the these portraits are pencil drawings. That's scratch art. This is an art one project. They have to mix all those colors. Those are beautiful. That's that's scratch art also. Wow. You can get so much texture that way. This one just beautiful piece. And that's temper paint. Can you guys believe that? It's temper. More pencil portraits. What is that? That's acrylic. This
008is This is Alejandro. He's um This is He got first place and best of show at the Holocaust um contest this year. Kaylee Bogs got um I'm I'm not sure what did she get an honorable mention? Yeah, she is only in 10th grade. We get to have her for two more years. I'm just excited about the work she's going to do. But this is his best of show. The piece that he made. Is that pencil? It is pencil. And no, I he went in with ink and watercolor too. It's multimedia and then some collage at the very top of that. The piece that he did last year also did really well. He got second place. And oh yeah, there it is. Honorable mention. You're right. You're You'll see a lot more good things from Kaylee,
009too. She had an honorable mention. Yep. Adriana Collins, honorable mention. Okay. Now, what was this? Now, this was the congressional art show and Liliana uh Biddinger got um third place and she's 11th grade, so we get to keep her again for another year. Excited about that. And that's Liliana. And then that was at the the compet No, that wasn't at the competition. He wouldn't have been there. That was at the um sorry they did a contest for the importance of jury duty and they both won an award for that. Now, Miss Weiss and myself, we've been working with Alejandro to build a portfolio for him to go to art school. And we're working with several other students, too. And if you see, Alejandra was awarded a college scholarship of 98,000 for the uh Columbus College
010of Arts and Design. Wow. So, he is so excited to go to art school. And he won't be too far from home. And then the next part is what we did in the 3D classroom with ceramics and sculpture. I put quite a few pictures of the kids because I like to show them working and showing off their artwork. Few of our seniors, Jeff Jesse Stevens and Zion. This is one of their first projects they do. It's coiled built bases. We do pop can monsters. They love to do that. They're so fun. And then they're learning to Oh, we do all hand building except for this year I brought my wheel in for the kids to try. So, they got a chance to try that this year. They transform furniture inspired by a favorite artist. Here's
011a couple the kids work in. And then we did paper lanterns this year with reed and um tissue paper. Those are ceramic rooms, mini rooms that they do. So fun. We did beaded trees. This year in the advanced class, we did large candy, too. sea creatures. We did uh ramen bowls. Then we had a ramen party and the kids love doing this project. This was new this year for uh cake sculptures and we did it out of cardboard and aird dry clay. It was so fun. And then we set up a sweet shop. And then the final project for ceramics too, they had to do teapotss and um teapot sets actually. So they had to make cups or saucers, whatever they wanted to make with it. That was it. [Applause] Do you think we would
012uh uh be able to keep put that on our website so people can see it? Oh, I love that. Okay. All right. So people, you know, if they want to go slower through them and really Whoa. Hello. Um well, again, hello. Um and and really take to really be able to look at it. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. I think that's what we're going to do. Thank you for doing this. No, you know what? Thank you. And and you know, one of the things we talked about when the levy was about how important arts are and we have amazing artists in our school and when you walk in through the four u the ratunda and you see the artwork there, it's just amazing. So, thank you for all that you guys do. Thank you. Thank you. I
013have to say that this is what I mentioned last the hall. I went down to the uh library and I saw the Holocaust m uh exhibit and in addition to us admiring it um and me being so proud, it was kind of neat. I stood back a little while and listened to the people that were around uh looking at the things and they mentioned um they you know they were admiring and complimenting uh the work that the students can do and uh made me proud. So, um, board members informal. Do I have someone who wants to start? I I don't want to jump in, but I'll go real quick. Um, probably too many to to list right now being the end of the school year, but um, another successful year for the teachers and students
014and administration staff. It's been really good. um Washington trip. They just got back from there. I've heard a lot of success stories from there when my daughter actually tells me something she learned. That's pretty good. Uh prom is Friday and senior walk was really cool yesterday. I wasn't there but Dave was sending me pictures and then I found out my wife was there so I was like but um and thanks to everyone who did the scholarships and stuff. That was really cool to see how many were out there. Um, I just want to thank the community for showing up. Um, on election day, I think that was one of the most emotional days that I've had. Um, and I'm not an emotional person. I was hugging people so that doesn't happen. Um, tears and cheers.
015But uh I think that people really rallied around the importance of not just the education factor but the arts and the music and growing and keeping everything moving forward. So um I know that a lot of people were very happy and I think the message got out. So thank you very much. I'm going to piggyback on that and say even though we tried to send letters to or well we attempted to cover everyone but letters were of thank you were sent to each of the people who signed up to volunteer but on a Saturday morning it was kind of rainy and I thought I hope they come to pick up their cards when we were doing the distribution and within an hour I was down to like there was one one set left and then
016I realized that someone had signed up to take two and I just you know having done levies in the past and knowing that by the time we get to the end of the levy people have done so much that it's just like I'm tired but I I want to say thank you for even if you were tired not acting tired and coming out and doing it. And um it it just was a real team effort and was amazing to see. I also agree. It's so so important that we got those passed and I'm just glad that we did so we can see as Miranda said a future where we keep growing off what we've already accomplished and the things that we seek to accomplish in the next few years. um to really climb as a
017district and to be competitive with the other districts around us and to hopefully leave them in the dust at some point and be one of the best districts in all of Sent County. That's one of my goals and that's what I want to see one day. So, and I'll finish off by thanking the community for the loveies and renewals. Um, when you see artwork like that, we have always said for years that our kids are very artistic in this district and that's not in my bucket list, but I am in in awe of some of that. How they draw that just I love looking at it. So, thank you very much. Uh, last Friday we had a interesting meeting here at the board office. We had reps, Ohio reps out of the Ohio House, reps
01832, Jack Daniels, which is our rep, our home rep, and then rep uh 65, David Thomas out of Andover, majority of um Pasta County, who's been, if you following this, have been done, been pushing a lot of the uh things in levies and how those affect the 20 mil floor. We had a very very good conversation here. and they both came in and uh I was sort of uh you know we had planned that we would talk for a little bit and then we'd go visit a school. So I mentioned it and Mr. Thomas looks at me and he goes, "We're having a really good conversation. I think we'll stay here." So I thought I'd try one more time and Jack Daniels looked at me and goes, "These are very good conversations. We'll just stay
019here." And I went, "I got the message." So a lively conversation. Um, one of at least my key peak points and and then Shelley and administrative team tag in after after I I've always wanted to say look at our valuations. You know, the their point was every school got money in the state of Ohio after they went back and looked at it after it was in the house. And I said, "Well, we don't we're not even keeping up with inflation, and it's been that way for 13 years, and this is what our valuation is, and this is what we're getting, and that's not correct for us." And that's that's my beef with how we've been treated, but it was it was lively conversation. They were very open to what we had to say. we listen
020to them and parlay into the rest of that because all of you sat in that and Donnie for long sat in for a little bit. Chris, you sat in. Shelly, it was a it was a very um you know what we just asked them to do is just look at each district individually. Don't clump us in with everybody else because we are so different than a lot. And I didn't I think we taught them some things. I really do. I mean, there was some, you know, aha moments that came out of them that um that um you know, they said they had done like 77 of these. Is that what they said? Dave Thomas said this was his 72nd school visit. And I'm going to say ours was probably the most organic that was there
021because we really didn't have a set um script. It was just whatever came to our heads, we said out loud. And I think shocked them a little bit that our brains worked like that. But uh um and we agreed to disagree on some things. So it was a uh it was good, but I I think they I think they I think they enjoyed it just as much as we did. I I think because we were genuine and it came from the heart, right? It just wasn't we just didn't throw them with a bunch of figures, right? We actually had discussion, right? Does anybody else want to chime in? Thank you for making the effort to make school come alive in their minds. Yes. So, you know, thanks. Thanks, Dave, for for getting them abstract sometimes.
022And it is and it is. Okay. Um, it is recommended that the board approve the minutes of the regular meeting of April 15th, 2025 as provided in exhibit one. So move second. Been moved and second. Mr. Adams, Mr. Furlong, yes. M. Terry, yes. Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Roer, yes. Mrs. Prol, yes. Motion passed. Number nine, uh we're open for any citizens comments on agenda items. There any citizens comments? All right, seeing none, then we'll go to it number 10. It is recommended that the board approve payment of bills for the month of April pending audit and that's those are provided in exhibit two. So moved. Second been moved in second without questions. Then Mr. Adams. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Corola. Yes. Mr. Perry. Yes. Okay. Motion passed. It is
023recommended that the board accept the financial reports from the treasurer for the April 2025 as provided in exhibits three, four, and five. So moved. Second. Yes. Terry. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mrs. Fro. Yes. Mr. Hoer. Yes. Mr. Furlow. Yes. Okay. It is a motion passed. Moving to personnel, it is recommended that the board accept or approve the following personnel items. 12.1 retirement resignations. Accept the resignation of the following certified staff members. Lori Beanovich, effective June 1, 2025. Jennifer Ganzer, effective September 1, 2025. Kelly Harmon Weiss, effective June 1st. Ed Lancer, effective June 1. And Wendy Leeman, effective June 1. I'll go I'll go through it all and then I'll go and I'll go through. U moving to 12.2. Accept the retirement resignation of classified employee Teresa Henthornne effective July 1, 2025. 12.3 Approve a 2-year
024administrative contract for Tim Burns as Shrop intermediate principal. Effect um 12.4 Four, approve a three-year administrative contract for Todd Levelville as Springfield High School and Junior High Assistant Principal. 12.5 Approve a three-year administrative contract for Kevin Vaughn as dean of students and athletic director. 12.6 Exempted employee contract. Approve a three-year exempted employee contract for Melinda Hamilton for transportation of supervisor. 12.7 employee Stacy Manzo as a Springfield high and junior high assistant principal on a two-year administrative contract pending proper lensure effective for the 2526 school year. 12.8 8 employ Shelby Van Guten as a Springfield High School and junior high assistant principal on a 2-year administrative contract pending proper lure effective the 2526 school year 12.9 employe I hope I said that right a bit uh as a 100% elementary teacher per the negotiated agreement pending
025proper lensure and pre-employment screening effective the 2526 school year. 12.10 employ Gregory Ben Lai as a 100% teacher per the negotiated agreement pending proper lure and pre-employment screening effective for the 2526 school year. 12.11 reassign the following classified employees per the negotiated agreement pending proper lure and these are reassignments from well I'll read them Samantha Baker 7hour teaching assistant uh Betty Betty Batty Salswever 4hour bus driver Joe Epner Ner, a 4-hour standby bus drive monitor. Tara Pritchard, 7 and 1 half hour study hall educational assistant at the Springfield High School Junior High. Uh, and that one is effective u these are all effective at at different employment dates. Rebecca Biddinger, a 6.75 hour teaching assistant at the Springfield Preschool. Uh M Michelle Nagel, H bu head building secretary at Springfield High School and Junior High
026effective the 2526 school year with training to begin at on March May 12th. and Tatiana Radnovich, a head secretary at the Spring Hill Elementary School effective the 2526 school year. 12.12 employs Stan Cooper as a substitute a classified substitute per the negotiated agreement pending proper lenture excuse me and pre-employment screening effective the first day assigned 12.3 employment employ Holly Murphy as a classified 2-hour educational assistant at Shrop drop intermediate per the negotiated agreement. Um, and that would be effective May 20th. 12.14 Summer School Credit Recovery Program approves Steve Schaefer as an online summer school credit recovery uh, teacher for grades 9 through 12 for the summer of 2025 at the approved grade of 282.25 25 per hour. This position is an online position with the maximum two hours per day for 27 days for the
027total maximum hours of 20 54 hours. 12.15 resident educator men mentors or facilitators and approve them uh the teachers approved to serve in in that position uh pending proper lensure and complete completion of required training uh on an as needed basis. Claire Miller, Julie Dtoaso, Dena Screo, Paula Murphy, and Brett Zimmerman. 1216 ESY teachers, and they are uh the following teachers are employed as a certified personnel to work during the extended school year summer 2025 pending sufficient student enrollment. and their pay is $28.25 for a maximum of up to 64 hours. And those are listed as Melanie Smithers, James Burns, Rodney Bowen, Sydney Kenneth, uh Mary Beth Mitchell, Sheila Wright as a substitute, and Katie Dacis as a speech psychologist. 12.17 uh ESY AIDS employ the following um for the extended year program pending proper
028uh student enrollment uh and up to a maximum of 56 hours that would be Tina Merkel, Regina Southhall, Nancy Arens, Rachel Pal, Tracy Cole. 12.18 athletic supplemental contracts. And the these are listed and it's a rather long list, but these are all the athletic uh contracts for the fall sports. Um, and these are assigned per the negotiated agreement. The um and that's it. That's a lot of hours. So moved. Second. Did I do everyone? Yes. Okay. Um couple things. Let's go with some of the retirements that we have. Um Lori Baganovich. Uh Lori started her career in Springfield in the 1992 93 school year as a first grade teacher at Roosevelt where she also taught third grade. She then taught first grade at Lakemore and then kindergarten at Ber. And then for the 2010 2011
029school year, she moved to Shrap to teach fourth grade. is now finishing her career uh teaching fifth grade. Jen Ganzer. Jenny started um actually kindergarten here. She went to school here, but uh the 94 95 school year teaching kindergarten at Boyer before moving to Young uh in the 9697 school year to teach first grade. She began her administrative career in 2003 as an assistant principal at Shrop. Since then, she's also served as assistant principal at Spring Hill, principal at Ber Young and Spring Hill where she's finishing her career. Kelly Harmon Weiss, who we just saw a lot of the artwork, it's going to be um you know, their kids are the but they've got really good teachers to get that artistic out of them. Uh beginning in the 9394 school year, Kelly was employed as
030an art teacher at Lakemore Elementary. She also taught art at Sawyerwood, Shrop, Spring Hill, Young, and Roosevelt. and she's finishing her career teaching at the high school junior high. Ed Lancer. Ed began teaching Springfield in the '9495. It was a really busy year between 94 and 97 um by teaching seventh grade language arts. He also taught seventh grade math at Spring Hill before switching to physical education. He taught uh PE at Spring Hill, Spring Hill High School and Junior High and at Shrop where he's finishing his career. Wendy Leeman uh began her career in '9293 at Lake Moore and Young. She spent one year teaching first grade and the rest of her career teaching second grade mostly at Young and then finishing up at Spring Hill. Um as you know the state changed the retirement
031from 33 years down to 32 years in like a month. and uh um unfortunately fortunately for them they were able to come in at the last minute to do that. Uh Teresa Hthornne who will be retiring as the head secretary of Spring Hill. Uh Teresa started at Springfield in the 9495 school year as a monitor at Young. She then held many positions either as a monitor or teaching assistant at Young Spring Hill in the high school junior high before becoming the building secretary uh for the TWW uh the 18/19 school year. She's been a secretary at the high school junior high young Spring Hill where she's finishing her career. So those are our goodbyes. Um coming in we've got Tim Burns here uh who is going to be our new You could stand Tim if
032you want. There you go. who is going to be our um new shop principal. We're excited. Um we've got Todd here. So Todd, thanks for coming back. We appreciate it. Great to be here. Amazing. Um let's see, where am I? We've got uh Kevin Kevin is needless to say is at the softball game where they're losing nine to one. I think that's what he said. Yeah, nine to one. So um it's the top of the seventh. So that's where Kevin's at. So uh um three-year for athletic. Uh we got Melinda who uh three-year um when we brought the buses um back home. She uh um she uh um is amazing, you know. I mean it's it's we we say a kid's name and she knows exactly where they live, how many people live in the
033house, you know, when they bought the house, when they take their garbage out. I mean, she's got it all. She's got it all. So, so thank you. Um, then we have um Stacy Manzo who is going to be now the new one of the new assistant principles at the high school. Uh Stacy was a teacher and a special ed teacher and um she's it's going to be a really great addition. We have Shelby Van Gutton who's also going to be one of our assistant principles. Um needless to say, they've gone through they went through several rounds of interviews and um they constantly just kept everybody that they interviewed with, they just rose to the occasion. So, welcome aboard to the I say to the dark side, but it's it's our side. Thank you. Um Brooke
034Bataway is um going to be our uh kindergarten teacher. So, um, she's now doing she's doing a long-term kindergarten for Rayland Craig right now as Ryland's moving towards retirement and she's out on medical. Uh, so Brooke is filling in and Brooke will just take over that classroom. Okay, awesome. And then, uh, Ben is back there. Uh, we we saw Ben a while ago as our head football coach, but, um, Ben is finishing up to, uh, uh, get his degree and he will be joining us at the high school junior high. uh more than likely as taking Mr. Murphy's place which it's gonna be big shoes to fill with CBI. I mean really big shoes literally and bugfully shoes to fill. But um we've got some ideas of u where Christina's, you know, always thinking of
035of new ideas and where to go and take us right to the brink of exciting things. So I don't know what Ben's I don't know if he realizes what he's in for, but he's in for some. So, we're excited about that. Um, in the um reassignments, Michelle Nagel is um and last month we did take um Mary Ser's um uh retirement. So, Michelle Nagel is going to be taking her spot. So, she's been up there now working uh just learning the ropes uh because the end of this school year in a high school is just busy busy busy busy. So, she's getting on that. And then um Tatiana who was working as the aid uh the office aid at Spring Hill is going to be moving up to the uh um secretarial position there. So
036I mean you're talking within two years we've got um four new secretaries. We've got out of our six administrators, seven administrators, six one, two, three, four, five, six administrators. four of them are going to be brand spanking new into the positions. So, uh um there's a lot of changes, a lot of changes going on. Um we got um Steve Schaefer. So, we know that the summer school uh credit recovery, we're thankful for Steve for stepping up on that one. Um this is for our kids who are struggling that did not take um that are didn't do so well in their classes. So, they're going to get a second chance to do it over the summertime to make sure that we keep them on track for graduating. The resident educator mentors, uh, by law, when we
037get new teachers in, they are assigned either a mentor or facilitator depending upon where they're at. So, uh, um, these teachers are and they have to go through special training. So, these teachers will be those mentors or facilitators. uh the ESY teachers and ESY aids. ESY is extended school year and it is for um our students with um they either have show significant regression throughout the school year or need to have extra time during the school year so they don't lose some of the skills that they've had. So you know we thank these teachers for giving up their um not giving up their summer but working with our kids during the summer. Then we have the athletic. So, you saw all the You know what was exciting about this list is we've got some um
038new people that are stepping up to being coaches that haven't coached for a while. So, we're excited about that. Um I know um uh Coach Lai over there has got a football over here that uh him and Kevin have just been working on. So, that was good. Um I'm really excited about um our sports here. So I think we're going to just it's going to be a good fall season and um that's it. So it's it's it's a lot. It's a lots. It's exciting. It's um it's it's our kids deserve it. Well, we better formally hire them then. Yeah, I think we better formally hire them. Yes. A motion. It's a motion to had a motion to second. Okay. Mrs. Trollan. Yes. Miss Terry? Yes, Mr. Hoer. Yes, Mr. Mason. Yes, Mr. Furlong. Yes. Motion
039approved and everyone is hired. Congratulations, guys. Congratulations. Now that you're You can't leave. You got to stay. So, you're not going to get up and leave. Sorry, Todd. I saw you. I saw you. I saw you look over I saw you look over at Tim there. Go. Let's Let's go. No. No. Uh well, number 13, approval of graduates. It is recommended that the board approve the 20 25 seniors listed in exhibit six uh to receive a diploma from Springfield High School after having met all the requirements as set forth by the state of Ohio and the Springfield Board of Education. That one's made. So moved. Okay. Okay. And again, you know, when I said that this is a good meeting, this is a great meeting. We got a lot of good things. This is exciting.
040Um, this is the approval for the graduates. It's going to be next Friday. Hopefully, everybody will be able to make it. I don't know if you've got to tell you if they're coming to get tickets. I can't. Okay. So, let Mrs. Warner know. If they tell me Yeah, you can give them to me. Yeah, just send them over and we'll wrestle for them. Yes. Yeah. Okay. We're not wrestling. We're not We're not going to be doing any jello. We have a team now. We're not doing any jello. Yes. Okay. Well, no, we're not. Ben, you want to coach some jello wrestling? I don't know. Maybe it's a um but but to what to Donniey's um you know what the the the awards ceremony yesterday was fantastic. Our kids were great. Um there was a lot
041of scholarship money given away. Oh my um you know the high school always does a great job with it. Uh um uh uh Matt Graves and um Elena Jackson really worked hard and then watching the kids come through the halls that that's always a a great um Did we just start doing that? We just started doing that a couple years ago, didn't we? I mean Okay. So that's um you know something that that's really good. So approval of the graduates. No. Okay. We have a motion. It's been done for a while. Yeah. Okay. All right. Second. Do you have a second? Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Mr. Hoffer? Yes. Mr. Furlong? Yes. Mrs. Foland? Yes. M. Terry? Yes. Mr. Mason? Yes. Motion passed. Woohoo. And I'm sure all the graduates have too. Yes. Yes. All right. It
042is recommended. Service agreement. It is recommended that the board approve a service agreement with the educational alternatives to provide educational services to students on an as needed basis for the 2526 school year. And that agreement is in exhibit 7. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Okay. Um this is of course our service agreement with EA that's over at Young and it's it's um it's to provide services for students as an as needed basis for Miss Terry. Yes. Mr. Roer. Yes. Mrs. Fol. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Okay. Motion passed. Okay. Our next item number 15 is a resolution rescending a prior resolution and authorizing the selection of a contract through the Ohio school Ohio Council of Educational Purchasing Consortium. It is recommended that the board approve a resolution rescending a prior resolution and
043authorizing selection of a contract through the Ohio Council of Educational Purchasing Consortium for its roofing project. Oh, you have a motion and a second. Oh, motion second. Okay, this is all Dustin. Go for it. Excuse me. Um, so the resolution that we're rescending was a previous contract, I believe, from October where we awarded a roofing contract for the replacement of part of the roof in this building down this um hall area there. It was a smaller section. Since we had awarded that contract, we've continued to have um further deterioration um the roof that's caused problems as you can see walking through the hallways here and so on. So, we went back out to um go through the process of getting pricing for not not only a larger portion of this building, the majority of this
044building except for the roof section here, but also included um or the gym section here, roof um also included the gym section at Spring Hill because of ongoing problems there. It's not saying that these are the only problems that we face, but they've been the most most severe and most ongoing issues. other areas um are need to be in our plan in the next few years here to um fix or replace there, but these were the most urgent issues there. So, we went through a a consortium bid process there. Um it's nationally recognized and um vetted there um and received bids there. We went back, we originally received bids for the project separately. Um, and they came in very close there, but we in talking to um the contractor realized that we could um save
045some additional money by combining the projects into one award. So, we went back and rebid the project then um combining them into one single project uh there. So, we were able to to do that, realize some savings by by doing that. Uh funding for this will all come from our permanent improvement budget which is dedicated to the upkeep and maintenance of the the buildings here can't be used for other purposes. So that will all be funded through through that fund there and the work will be completed this summer. uh they have a strict deadline in the contract of August 15th to complete the work by so that um and there are um there is a fine in there for every day that they would go over if they would exceed that. So, um, our coordination
046up to this point, which we could do, you know, prior to approval of the contract here, but they plan to get started very early in June there to get get the work done and out of the way there. So, that there's no problems with that deadline. And they they work extensively with schools, so very familiar with those timelines. Any questions? I just looked quick glance, it's like $70,000 in savings. Yeah. Combined. Okay. Any other questions before we vote? Well, we got one more thing. If I can go ahead and give my update here. I want to update something that's connected to this project here. I have a proposal in front of you with the uh um in the blue folder there. Nothing that needs to be voted on, but just wanted to present to you
047this evening um of establishing a district facilities and capital planning committee. Uh this would be a 10 member committee um representing our employee groups, parent representatives, um community members and representatives from Springfield Township in the village of Lakemore to um come together and review our facility needs, our permanent improvement budget, um and make recommendations for future projects there in what order and how we proceed. We have a a great deal of things that need attention and want to um have that transparency out there of what's going on, what our issues are with facilities and um projects and get their input on those. they um would make recommendations to the superintendent and um to make to the board uh there based on what they find out and um not only have that as a committee to
048make those recommendations but just also get a a greater understanding of our our needs and current situation out in the community. So along with the you know with the roof like how we did it but just to make sure that we have a committee now to uh really look at everything that we have going on in the district to make the decisions. I fully excellent idea. Great idea. Um let's vote on the motion. So the roof. Yep. For the roof. No the roof. The roof. The roof. Let's vote the roof. We got to vote. We're not voting on that. I got a motion, a second. We got them. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mrs. Fol. Yes. Mr. Her. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Motion passed. I know. All right. Next, we have the treasures report.
049I think last month, I know last month I talked about there was two forecasts that I was going to be able to present, the good one and the bad one. Well, I'm here to present the good one, which is wonderful. uh in my 15 years here uh outside of the building project that happened right when I got here. This is a I think everybody can state that the results the percentages was I don't believe I've ever seen a lovey so two loveies so high 67 and 68%. That gives you a good feeling that the community uh really stood behind us and it made a major impact to our forecast and I want to focus on a couple lines. Now, this forecast, I want you to let you know, will change for year end. And the
050reason it's going to change is because we're getting a ton of people retiring. Typical year is 35. We're going to have a lot more reassign people. And what we have to do in the forecast is we got to see one the suffering practice for each one of these individuals. Two, old salary versus new salary. Three, old benefits versus new benefits. Meaning typically when a person comes into the district, they're young and they may be single. They may be whatever where most of our teachers when they retire, they're the ones that own the insurance plan because we have such a nice plan. So there's a lot of figuring to do. So, but either way, this forecast is great. Let's focus on two lines that really changed. Okay, the two lines that changed is line 1.01. These
051reflect the two renewals that were passed. Uh those two renewals brought in $4 million. So you can see uh how much that would impact the uh the forecast. That's a good thing. Here's going to be a rough thing though right here. Uh benefits are going to bite next year when I say they're going up 17%. And the reason they're going up 17% is we had we have a lot of uh events that were cost. You know, it's just what happened. We had uh we just had a lot of events. We had we lost an employee that I truly admired. We had a couple spouses that passed. And that's just tragic stuff. What that does is it just, you know, get down on medical bills. It's ridiculous. I've seen medical bills that are just outrageous for
052like two days. Well, uh, that should change next year. Obviously, take me for example. I'm a lot cheaper when I was 23 when I was I think we all are. Plus, just that's how that's how medical benefits work. Uh so that will invariably go down which would help go down a little bit farther dust and down to where we stand. Okay, where we go cash rounds we'll end this year in the 6A range. Next year 71 27 58 28 3 29 and 730. But go down a little further. We'll just give it a sec. Uh we haven't seen numbers like that in a long time. Gives us a lot of breathing room. And again, I think with the forecast uh in that I'm going to produce in July uh will be even better. Let's go
053to one note though. You know, revenues. We talk about revenues. We've been talking about the loveies, how important loveies are. uh in there. Unfortunately, on the expenditure side, I think I made a very simple graph that goes to show how difficult it is for us to really have a huge impact on expenditures. And people say, why is that? Well, it's right here. That right here is people can't get rid of, you know, we already got rid of all the people we can get rid of, right? We're very well right now, but it represents 80% of our total spend. And if our healthc care continues to rise or we have a bad year like we had this year, that number is even going to go over a little more. So really what we can concentrate out
054of a $26 million budget is a $5 million. The rest are, you know, right here. We're in the hands of the insurance companies and And with our people, it's, you know, it's we have contracts and like I said earlier, uh, we don't have room to cut anymore. So, so I was really relieved that these two were passed and, uh, it's nice to have breathing room. I'm very happy for our kids. I'm very happy for our staff and, our board, the community. It was a resounding yes. And I think It surprised a lot of people which was nice. It goes to show that when you run a an effect an effectful and an open uh campaign that people uh they respond. Any questions on forecast? Thanks. Okay. Central office for um um don't we have to
055vote on the five-year forecast? Yes. Oh, let me get my glasses. It is recommended that the board approve the five-year forecast update. And these are exhibits 9 and 9A. Moved. Second. Moved and second. Mr. Adams. I did. I didn't hear that. Sorry. Okay. Thanks. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Hoover. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Mr. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mrs. Pole. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Is that your treasures report also? That is that is okay. Central office thing. So, one of the things that I do as the director of academics and human resources is I go through all the applications that do come into the district. And people often ask, why do you want to come to Springfield? And and sometimes you hear people say, "Nope, people don't really want to go there." I am here to
056tell you that's wrong. In the particular case of our assistant principles at the high school, we had 32 external applicants for the elementary principal position that we are working on filling for Mrs. Ganszer when she retires. We've had 23 external applicants. That's not even counting our internal people. So, we do have that right now. We have um elementary teaching positions open and posted and the posting's not even halfway through. And we have 25 applications for just that. Right now we've got applications that are cra crazy in numbers that we usually don't see which is fantastic. Um more so fantastic for the people who get to retire um because those people get to and start the next chapter of their lives but it also allows new people to come into our district and start the first
057chapter of their let's call it adult life so that they can come here and enjoy a career. So, it's very exciting to be in human resources right now. I should have gone first because Mary's was way more exciting. So, in March, um, we switched our IEP writing software over to a new program. The program that we've been using is going to become outdated and discontinued in the next year and a half. So, we switched early and it has been fun to work with some of the teachers that have adopted the new program and are working through the, you know, hiccups and getting to learn something new. Um, but it will be in the long run much easier and much more user friendly. So, we're excited and it will catch errors if teachers um they don't
058always catch the errors until after it gets sent to us. So now they will be able to catch it on their own and it'll be better for funding and better for compliance. So and I have to just um thank they've been um Mary has been um let's see assistant principles, principles, gym teachers, our PE teachers, art teachers, elementary teachers. So her whole life right now is interviewing. And I'll be posting more tomorrow. And she'll be posting more tomorrow. So uh um I and then I thank the team because they are one of the um uh levels of interviewing. So they've been interviewing quite a bit. So I do appreciate them. Um I do have a thank you. So what we're going to do is we're going to physically thank um we're going to publicly thank
059them um uh this month and then next month we're going to formally accept a donation. Um this was from Mr. Green over at Shrop. Um, see, Mr. Green, Miss Shop's music teacher and band director, would like to personally and publicly thank Springfield Cares and four Springfield families for don donating new ukuleles to our shop music program. Springfield Care and one Springfield together purchased 14 ukuleles for Shrop from uh, Taylor Band in Orchestra. Three other Springfield families purchased three more ukuleles per family for a total of 23 new ukuleles. I never said ukulele so much in my life right now, but I got a couple more times. These ukuleles added to our 10 previous schoolowned ukulele ukuleles purchased by the district in 2020. Now makes our total of 33 ukuleles. This is enough for each student
060to learn to play the ukulele at the same time instead of sharing our rotating of ukuleles. Again, a big thanks to these people for their donation to the Strat music program and we will formally um put that on the agenda for next month to um to accept them. So, um I know that I know playing the ukulele is a um one of the highlights of Shrops. Can I say I happen to be one of the people who got to carry some of the ukulele and when they You just wanted to say ukulele. I did. I say it differently than you, but that's okay. Um but I do. It's weird. So, but the kids faces when I walked in with multiple boxes and they're like I mean they it was almost Christmas time. It was beautiful
061to see. So good. So, so we're really excited about them about them having that. Um so it's May. We have eight days left which is unbelievably of how quickly this year has um has gone by. We've gone through a lot of changes this year. uh a lot of ups, a lot of downs and we ended on a high note. So with ukulele leaves and passing of loveies. So it is it is a good high note and um I just want to thank the students, the families, um staff out there for another exciting year here at Springfield. And even though we have eight days left, we've already started working on next year. And we will I mean and we will be working all summer long to get ready for August because unfortunately it's going to be
062here before you know it. So u um thank you for a wonderful school year. I have a question. I have an answer um on the uh I think this is a great idea the proposal but how does this become an actionable I mean what what's the process we're you're going to go through to establish it we'll we'll start advertising for applications later this week um social media newsletter so on and we'll accept applications um and then next month we will filter through those and select the 10 candidates and then we'll start um meeting. We'll meet a little more frequently at first to get a good handle on where we're at and then we'll transition to quarterly meetings um after probably November, December of next next year once we've got a good handle there. Um and
063then plan to u bring a a proposal for just the capital plan as to what we what that committee would recommend you know being replaced fixed what whatnot you know over the next couple years and you know the quarterly meetings will allow us to update that as needs arise. Well, you answered my second question, which was going to be, is this a uh do and done or is this going to be an ongoing thing? I think it's important that it becomes an ongoing thing. Thank you. I think it's a good and and I think one of the things too that we're going to look at for next year is um getting a strategic plan created, a fiveyear strategic plan, and this will um fall right into the strategic plan process. Thank you. So, thank you
064for you, D. Okay. Um items worthy of our note on your note. May 26 is Memorial Day, no school. May 29th, students last day. May 29th, end of fourth quarter and second semester. May 30th is teachers records day and their last day. May 30th is graduation at EJ Thomas. and June 17. We're going to change change that. Yes. Okay. You want to announce Do we want to announce it? Yes. Um so for items worthy um our June 10th um board meeting will be June 10th. Yes. For next year. Next year. Next month. Next month. And um for the memorial day we will be marching in the parade. So the band will be in the parade. um Sparty will be in the parade and uh um will be in the parade. So it'll be um 50
065plus is this is the first time they're going to be in the parade. I think so. So uh um it should be in the lake more. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Okay. So we'll uh um come out to the parade. It's always a good time. Number 21 is citizens comments. Are there any comments? It does not have to be on uh board agenda items. Okay. Seeing nothing there, then uh it's recommended that the meeting be adjourned at this time. So moved. Second. It's moved and second. Mr. Adams. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Furlow. Yes. Mr. Hoer. Yes. Perry. Yes. Mr. Po. Yes. Meeting adjourned. Good. I see you. Great job everybody. Awesome.