001graduation and talk to me. What day is that? What? I don't know. Second, third. It's coming up. But I need to still email him, right? Okay. Okay. All right. I I'd like to call to order the Tuesday, April 15, 2025 regular board meeting. Mr. Adams. Mr. Mason. Here, Miss Terry. Here, Mrs. Fola. Yeah. Here, Mr. Mr. Furlong. Here, Mr. Hoer. Here. Would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance? 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. This time we're going to have a presentation by Mrs. Pensky's third grade class from Spring Hill Elementary and it will be led by music teacher Mr. McInness. They were out there practicing when
002I walked in. I'm nervous. It's ready. Hi everyone. Hello. Thank you for having us here tonight. I'm Jared McGinness. I am the music teacher at Spring Hill Elementary. And joining me this evening is Mrs. Spency's third grade class from Spring Hill. Um, we're really excited to be here tonight to perform for you. This year in third grade music, we've been exploring the relationship between music and holidays and seasons. So, with spring beginning recently and some of the weather that we've had recently, we have been working on a Beatle song called Rain. We've been working on this for a few weeks now and we're really excited to share it with you. So please enjoy [Applause] [Music] rain as well for when the rain comes. When the rain comes, the sun is slines. [Music] I [Music] don't
003shine. [Music] I can show you when it starts to rain. Everything's the I can show you. I can show you. [Music] Wow. [Applause] That was an awesome job. That was an a that was a great choice of music. Awesome. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] apparent. You can you can You're going to miss all the fun. You're like, "Yeah." Okay. Yeah. That was awesome. We could use a lot more. Yes, we could. That was really good in there. Hopefully it stops the rain. It's time. And Mrs. Warner, see what I did there? You want to do the nice Friday? Yeah. Presentation or I have student of the month for March, both high school and junior high. The students aren't here this evening, but um I will recognize them here and then we
004will make sure that they get their certificates at school tomorrow. So, we'll start with um junior high. We have Jenna Dodson. Jenna was nominated by Miss Taylor. And this is what Miss Taylor says. I have Jenna for both theater and English. And I'm lucky to see her twice a day. She is truly a pre a pleasure to have in my classroom. Her enthusiasm, kindness, and positive energy makes my job as a teacher that much more enjoyable. I know I can count on her to participate and have fun doing it. She is so kind and I love when I get to sit down and have a conversation with her. She is very dedicated and thoughtful student. Again, nominated by Miss Taylor, Jenna Dodson. Our high school student of the month is Dustin Sabilac. And the statement
005is, "Dustin is an athlete here at SHS and cares about his grades. He is often given PBIS points for being kind and helping others with their studies. For volunteer hours, he is coming into study tables to volunteer his help to assist others with their grades." Dustin defines a Spartan. nominated by Dr. Hartman. [Applause] All right. So, we also have Andrew Barry who is a senior at in the engineering program at PLCC. Um, in March, he went down to Columbus and competed in the technical drafting competition at Skills USA. Um, we actually talked about him last month while he was down there and since then he did place second in the um, competition. So, not only making PLCC proud but also representing the Springfield Spartans very very well. So, that is Andrew [Applause] Barry. Excuse me.
006Congratulations to those students and thank you for being the Spartan that you are. Uh at this time, uh we're going to do um go down and do the board members informal. Does anyone want to start or do you want me to start? Uh I will. Um I thought it was really cool this Saturday. Um I sat there and watched Facebook live the band performance with the backdrop of uh New York City in the background. and I thought that was super cool pouring down rain and they're just having having a blast. So, congrats to the band. Um, last Saturday was the all sports um reverse raffle which um a couple people in here were at a winners table. We won't mention any names, but they won like everything again. So, we'll sit at that table next
007year. Was it you guys? Was you guys? They didn't win Arizona team. Didn't you guys win a lot? But the table won. I didn't win nothing. No. No. Anyways, it was one. I won one. Yeah. I won one, too. Okay. My turn. It was a lot of fun. Um, the boosters put on an another amazing night. Um, I think it was the most we've ever had uh attend. Um, a lot of great help and um, I know Tara and Gina do a great job. Throwing it out there. Tomorrow is a actual booster club meeting if you want to attend. It's at the high school at 6 PM. Um, other than that, it's been fun to watch the Spartan community come together and rally behind our kids over the past couple weeks. So, yeah, that's all
008I have. That's good. Thank you. Um, I would just say I got to go to the reverse raffle for the first time and that was very exciting. It was a new experience for me. Um, the boosters did a fantastic job. It was very, very fun. I will give them that. Um, same with the band as well. It's exciting to get to see them go on trips like that and get to represent us in other places and perform so well. So, that's exciting as well. And awesome to see what we're doing here in the elementary. And it's very important that we will keep that coming up, you know, all things considered. Um, community staying strong and supporting us as Miranda said. And, um, congratulations to all the students of the month. Is that you? I went
009first. Oh, that's I missed that. It has been a long month uh in Columbus. I've been tracking a few things. House Bill 96 did get voted out of the house. Uh and it goes over to the Senate. Um couple of things there. Um if you follow that, follow Representative Dave Thomas out of Ashibler. I think he's rep 65. Uh, according to the new House Bill, no school district loses money, they gain money. However, there's a really dangerous clause in House Bill 96 that says if you have 30% carryover, and that we are a diverse state, uh, some some districts that went to a meeting last Friday have a couple hundred% in carryover. What people don't understand is they may have building projects, they may have House Bill 264s and that accounts. So what would happen
010if if we would have a 30% carryover, it kicks in the tax department of a county and they would automatically go in and adjust millages on our on our levies. Extremely dangerous. This is going to happen across all 88 counties if that gets um voted in in the Senate. I think Andrew Brunner does not care for that. Uh, moving on, House Bill 129 would limit the ability of school districts to reallocate unvoted property tax millage and include certain property and school district income taxes and calculations. We don't have an income tax. Uh just a note when he says unvoted it's a little bit misleading because everything that's been voted by the public even though we had a spike in in inflation in the last three and a half years and it bumps up that's still
011voted. House Bill 920 back in the 70s when me and you remember inflation going for we're old. Yeah, I guess it's an interesting take. So they're so they're trying to balance that. House Bill 86 would authorize reduction in school property taxes affected by millage floor. So if the mil if you have renewals as us that have been renewed over and over again for 20 30 years that would hit us in certain areas. House Bill three uh would authorize 25 million to a school school bus safety. Uh, it will also increase the penalties for people illegally passing a school bus stop with its reds on. So, that's an update from Columbus. They're in recess right now for spring and it will start back up April 20th. And one of the things with House Bill 3 is
012that they want to put cameras on the outside of the buses to start catching cars that would um that would go, you know, through the red lights of the of the buses. So yes, almost like a spillet camera. Would that would that funding come to us or would it go to the local police? No, it would it would come to the schools to be put the cameras on the buses. So there would be like cameras like on the I guess probably where the stop sign is that somewhere somewhere where it could see. So if they get the ticket, the funding goes to the school. Oh, no. That's that needs worked out. But thank you for bringing that up. No, that that's Gosh darn it. No, that's not it. That would be a All right, we'll
013make a note of that. Make a note. Call your other representatives. Thank you, Scott. Um, two weekends ago, I had I had an occasion to be down um at the main library in downtown Akran. And after I was done with the program that I was had gone down there for, I uh went down to look at the books, I went down to the lower level and I walked up to this display and there was a tri uh tripod with a big sign on it and I walked up to start reading it and it's Springfield High School. And so I started booking and it was uh we this was the Holocaust uh uh art show uh throughout the county, but we had a a senior who won first place uh in the Holocaust art show and
014we had I believe two honorable mentions and they were very close to the top. So I thought h and I was standing there and a couple had also been where I had been at the uh the concert and I they were talking about some of the pictures and they are very impressive. I don't just the artwork that these kids produced very impressive and um they mentioned they were saying look at what that boy from Springfield did because of all the images that were used. I was so proud and I just um I was going to bring a picture in and all of that but we will be inviting them. I'll be inviting uh after their their awards ceremony is not I think until the 28th. So the pictures will be on display until after that.
015And so I didn't want to cut into uh the attention we would give them at that time. But, you know, and I may get in trouble for saying this, but as I was standing there and I saw, you know, this big display honoring Springfield and I saw that the uh two honorable mentions um and I thought this is something that I don't want to see reduced because we do have some some very talented and we have in all the years I've been here very talented art artists and I hope we can still present developmental skills because they don't have it till they get to the high school or junior high very often they don't have an interest that leads them to that because they've put their interest somewhere else so um but it was very
016impressive and I thank Mrs. voice for the work that she's done. That picture is a very impressive picture. Yeah, that's amazing. Hey, at this time, uh, it is recommend that the board go into executive session at this time to consider matters required to be kept confidential by federal law or regulations or state statutes. So, move. Second. Okay, it's been moved and second, Mr. Um, is there any discussion? Okay. Um, Mr. Adams, Mrs. Pola, yes. Mr. Mason, yes. M. Terry, yes. Mr. Hoffer, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. All right. Uh, we'll be right back. just practice smiling now. Yes. Yes, we are. Okay. Mary's going to be Mary's. Uh, we're down to number nine. It is recommended that the board adjourn executive session at this time. So moved second. It's been moved. Second, Mr. Adams. Donnie Parker.
017Donnie Parker Parker. Okay. Or Mr. Mason. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Ferlong. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Mr. Hoer. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Thank you. Number 10 is approval of minutes. It is recommended that the board approved the minutes of the regular meeting of March 18, 2025. And that was in exhibit one. So moved. Hoer has moved it. Second. All right. It's been moved and second, Miss Terry. Yes, Mrs. Barola. Yes, Mr. Hoper. Yes, Mr. Furlong. Yes, Mr. Mason. Yes. Motion pass. Number 11. Citizens comments on agenda items are welcome at this time for excuse me, participants shall be uh limited to five minutes duration. And if there are any citizens comments, would you go to the podium and give your name and any citizens comments? All right, seeing none, we will move on to payments of
018bills. Uh these are the monthly bills. It is recommended that the board approve payments of bills for the month of March pending audit and these were presented to us uh for review in exhibit two. So moved. Second. It's been moved and second. Mr. Adams. Mr. Hoer. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. M Terry. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mrs. Fol. Yes. And number 13 is payment of bills then and now. It is recommended that the board approve a resolution for payment of bills per Ohio Revised Code section 5705.21 D. And these were presented to us in exhibit 3. I'll make a motion. Second. M. Cherry. Yes. Mr. Bason. Yes. Mrs. Fola, yes. Mr. Hoper, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. Okay. Motion passed. We are moving on to uh number 14. At this point, it is recommended that the board
019accept the financial reports from the treasurer for March of the month of March 2025. And those were in exhibits four, five, and six. So second moved and second Mr. Adams are oh I forgot to ask are there any discussion questions okay go ahead Mr. Furlong yes Mr. Terry yes Mr. Hoer yes Mrs. Yes. Number 15, we start personnel. It is recommended the board approve the following personnel items. 15.1 Accept the retirement resignation of teacher Larry Murphy. Ex effect E effect effective June 1, 2025. 15.2 Two, accept the resignation of bus driver Yashanta Beckett effective end of the workday March 28, 2025. Yes will remain on the substitute list. 15.3 is accept the resignation of classified employee Brandy Bicil effective April 8, 2025. 15.4 is an employment approve the following classified reassignments per the negotiated agreement
020pending proper lensure. First is Meredith Williams who is a teaching assistant at Spring Hill Elementary and she had a ch assignment as of March 2031 of this year. Second is Amy WAP Wapus. Oh, I hate to screw up names. I hope that's right. Uh, and she is a um assigned as a teaching assistant at Springfield Preschool Center and that's effective April 14, 2025. 15.5 employment employ Paula shoots as a 2-hour standby cafeteria worker per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening effective April 2025 15.6 Six. It is recommended that the board employ Sydney Kynth as a substitute, a certified substitute per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure effective the first day assigned. and 15.7. Uh we have a list of teachers who will be uh receive one-year limited contracts effective for the 2526
021school year. 15.8 athletics contract supplementals. It is recommended that the board approve, sorry, doing the wrong tape. Uh, approve the following athletic supplemental contract for the 2526 school year per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening. And that would be Charlie Van Riper who as head soccer coach for the girls team. 15.9 non-sport supplemental contracts. Approve the following non-sport supplemental contracts for the 2425 school year per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure. Um Heather Phillips hero. a split contract with Stacy Manzo who uh also will do Roman her Romano and they will uh and Trisha Rosali uh her Romano. So that's a three-way split. Okay, those are all So move second. Okay, so a couple things. Um first, uh Larry Murphy is um going to be retiring us. He um started with us
022in 1992 and he was a sixth grade teacher at Roosevelt and then in '94 he moved over to Spring Hill, taught 8th grade and then in 2002 he uh came to the high school. You did OWE and that's where he's going to be finishing his career. Uh you know he was a teacher, coach, mentor. He's been with us for 33 years and um he was a staple of Springfield. So he he will be he will be missed. I'm sure we'll still see him around. I'm sure we'll still see them around the building and and everything. So, um also, uh the the uh contracts, the uh limited contracts, as you know, teachers before they can get their tenure, they're on a one-year contract until they become tenure and they go on to a continuing contract. And
023there's certain things that they have to do to get on to that continuing contract. Um I have Kevin here. Kevin, I'm putting it up to you now. Thank you for having me. U before we go through the process of voting, I wanted to um welcome and introduce our new addition to the Springfield coaching staff, which is coach Charlie Van Riper, uh who will be our girls soccer coach. Uh coach Riper brings a wealth of experience over 30 years of coaching. Um he's worked with players from the youth all the way up to uh the college level. Uh most recently recently he has ser he was serving as the head soccer coach for Firestone High School both boys and girls at the same time. Wow. So um we know how hard it is just to coach
024one program but at the same time in the same season. Um quite commitment organization I would say. Um In addition to his high school coaching experience, coach uh Van Ripber is the president of the Akan Metro football club where he has spent years developing youth athletes and mentoring uh coaches um for player development, academic support, and character building. Um all qualities that we uh support here and value in Springfield. Um, so we're excited to announce Coach Van Riper to the Spartan family and we look forward to continued growth of our program. And as I talk about continued growth, um, you know, we also want to make sure that we take the time to thank coach Eric Ford who has been a part of the program uh for the past she has done an outstanding job
025uh keeping the program together and we've had some outstanding uh young ladies coming through the program, some record breakers, and actually Coach Van Riper and Eric Ford have a very good relationship. He has a lot of respect in the soccer community. When you're talking to the references and a lot of people in the area, they all know who he is. Uh he's he's been a staple around. So, we're excited to have him be a spark. Coach [Applause] RER superintendent or thank you for letting me have this chance to do my job, do the work. Um, not big on speaking, but I'm good at what I do on the field with the kids. Um, I'm a little bit of a throwback. I do a lot more disciplinary type stuff. Uh, to talk on what he said
026about Eric for Eric was my little brother. Okay. So, I've known Eric since he was little. Um, we started with the Farel Park program, um, CO with St. Paul and A public schools kids and it's grown from there. Um, we still work with for Canary United force and all that. So, um, again, and oddly enough, I've been working Fernando Leon with your youth program to rebuild it for a few years now. He kind of was like, you just need to go do this. I'm I'm retired from it, but it happened at Firestone. They're like, "Come help me." Yeah. Things happen. And, um, I do love this. It's a passion for me. Uh, 55 years of playing and coaching experience. started when we were little, playing in the neighborhood and went through all that. It just
027it gets you know they say fanatic. It really is fanaticism. Um I was there when you won the national championship there coaches coaching our club stuff like that. So it's very inclusive. Um small world kind of like it but uh everyone knows each other. So when you mess up everybody knows you messed up. That's kind of how I try to coach the kids. Do what's right so you don't have to worry about it at night and sleep easy. But again, thank you. Thank you for coming. Um, I knew my niece who played here softball in your championship years. So, once again, small work. Thank you. Welcome to [Applause] Oh, well then one more thing. So, the not supplemental the Romano, you know, for Heather, Stacy, and Trisha to uh um pick it up. We haven't
028we haven't had it for a year. I think it's been about a year. Yeah, this would have been year two. This would have been year two. And um they start bringing back some of the stuff doing uh some of the um did the service service and Stacy kind of took care of the dance. So, so all of the things that would have been done got taken directly. Perfect. So, yeah, it's a good service. Yes. Yes. Good to learn. Yes. Thanks, Michelle. All right, I'm done. Okay, Mr. Mason, yes. Mrs. Fola, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. Mr. Terry, yes. Mr. Hoer, yes. Okay, motion pass. Thank you. Um, excuse me. It is recommended that the board approve a provider agreement with Triad Dev Services Incorporated to provide American Sign Language uh referred to as ASL interpreting services
029for the 2425 school year. And the U agreement is in exhibit seven. So moved. Second. Um, we had a student that um was going to move into the district and he was going to need an interpreter and it was sort of a short time frame and short notice. So to hire somebody from permanently. So this company provides interpreting services for short ter shortterm um needs. So Okay. Is that I see that that one goes to June 30th. Is that person going to stay enrolled and He he already it was just a very short time. Very short. They already left. Enrolled in our school district. So they enrolled in and left. So I think we're going to get charged two days. For two days. For two days. Okay. Mrs. Pola. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Mr. Hoer.
030Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Okay. Motion passed. The item 17.1 um Ella closeout and fabric. Uh this is to accept a donation of three cases 50 pieces each of Pyrex test tubes from the Elllet closeout and fabric. So moved. Second. Somebody's going to be happy. Somebody's smiling back there. Mr. Hoffer, yes. Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. Mrs. Fola, yes. Mr. Terry, yes. Okay. Motion passed. Okay. Number 18, treasures report. Mr. Adams. Before we pull up the slide, uh, I want to talk about a couple things because it's come to my attention personally and some board members attention regarding the two issues that are on the ballot. And mostly what it's about is the language that is used is confusing for a lot of people. Uh you know the big question is why
031is this an emergency and why is this is an emergency? Well the way it works is once you place a levy on a ballot and these were placed 20 25 years ago closer to 25. One was placed as a 7 mil 5-year renewal and one was placed as an emergency. And uh once you put it on the ballot, it stays that way by law unless you want to change it. But if you change it, it causes all other issues. So for the last 25 years, we've kept the ballots the same. But if there is anybody out there or here or in TV land that still sometimes it's better to get a couple people to to verify what the treasurer is saying. Call the board of elections, Summit County Board of Elections at 330-6435200. Unfortunately, they
032know me well because I show up every season two or three times. So tell them Chris sent you, Mr. Adams or whatever you want to call me. That's important. Secondly, uh next month is uh is when I present the five-year forecast for this district. And uh like I say there there's two scenarios that are possible. And we're going to talk about one scenario. Uh the one scenario is uh is going to be uh refreshing. It's going to be exciting. It's going to give the kids a future. It's going to give our superintendent and our board the opportunity to uh come up with some new and exciting programs. Uh so I think it's very important that everybody goes out and votes. And when they when they vote, they think of the the preschoolers all the way
033up to the 11th graders. Uh they need they need for people to vote. Uh so my hopes and prayers is when I get up here next month what I present will be a exciting 5-year forecast and not the other scenario except for me. Can I just um just for a little bit more about emergency levies? So, you know, a lot of times when people think the emergency levy is like, ah, it's emergency because, you know, that's what the word, but that's not that's not the case in this. It's it's just simply the name used for a property tax that has a limited operating for the district. So, it's a set amount of money, whereas the um 7 mills one fluctuates with the uh um 7 mills considered a fixed rate where all our other ones
034are fixed sum meaning it's 1.6 6 million 25 years ago, it's 1.6 million today. And and and what's interesting about that I had just read today about the fixed sum that didn't dawn on me is that the bigger that your tax base is, the less amount of money you pay on it. So um so like the new houses that we're getting in um in the new developments, they're going to start taking up piece of that pie. So actually your the amount that you pay for that because we only get that set amount the amount that you pay as a taxpayer gets smaller on the slice. So that's what an emergency levy. It doesn't mean uh you know one of the questions that we had was like why is it called an emergency if you're just
035using it for day-to-day operations. It's it's because that's the name that they gave it. Um, they should have picked a different name than emergency, but I'm not in charge of that, so I can't change that. So, uh, um, and and so if you have any other questions, like, um, Mr. Adams said, please, you know, call the board of elections, call me, call him. We'll be glad to answer as best as we can. You call me, you get Shelly math. I'll try to explain the best that I can with taxes. Um, you call uh, Chris, you're going to get a little bit more technical answers. Um, so please that that's what an emergency levy is. It's not that it's a it's just a name. That's right. And I encourage people to call the board of elections.
036It's always nice to hear from somebody that isn't, you know, working for the school district. Thank you, Mr. Adams. Welcome. This time, central office report. Uh, I'll just give a quick report. Uh this past weekend um at Springfield High School, the port the district 6630 Rotary uh district hosted their four-way speech contest at the high school, which is basically northeast Ohio uh area there. I don't know exactly how many participants we had, but we filled up seven classrooms had it's about 42 about 42 um participants there from all over Northeast Ohio. and just you know wanted to share you know how the number of great comments people um impressed with the facility and um happy to be there. We actually the local Rotary Club actually committed to a three-year um commitment to hosting the contest
037and they've enjoyed our facility so much they asked us to extend another three-year commitment there. So, um, but very happy with that and great to showcase our our schools there and everything in that way. So, and which and we're the furthest south for the Rotary, so people have to travel far to get to us and they still wanted us to um post it. And I want to thank Mary because I couldn't be there because I'm usually the MC for it. And um I've learned my first year that there's a lot of dead space. There's still a lot of dead space. Well, so last year I had to entertain them and uh so this year I let Mary I thought she was going to break some boards being a black belt, but she chose not to.
038So, but I do appreciate uh her stepping in for me. Thank you. Appreciate that. Um I would like to say thank you to Mr. McGinness for bringing the third graders here. That was amazing. M um I texted him to just let him know what a great job it was and how nice it was to hear the kids sing because it's been a while since we've had just like a little performance here of our elementary kids and um he said it was just a great opportunity and he loved it and the kids loved it so that was that was fabulous. Um if you are at home in TV land do not adjust your color. Yes, a majority of us are sitting here in purple today. Um and there is a reason why. Um, first of all,
039let's start with Mrs. Terry. She is not wearing purple, but she has served her time. She's got a she served her time in the military. She's got a purple pen. She's got a purple notebook. She's got a purple phone case. Girl is Freddy over there. Um, but we are all participating in the Ohio Military Family Spirit Week. This is an This is a Ohio initiative that is put on by the Purple Star Award um process that we go through every year. We do have purple star schools in our district. So, this is one of the ways that we participate in it. Um, in case your child didn't tell you, tomorrow is to support your favorite um service. So, the Army, the Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard. Don't forget them. Or Space Academy does count.
040Yes. Also, um on on Thursday, it's um called Digi Day, which is camo day. So, we do have camo day. And although we do not have school on Friday, right, we do not have school on Friday. We will be showing our Spartan colors because Friday is actually red Friday and red means remembering everyone deployed. So, we will be participating in Red Friday even though um the students won't be here. So, I appreciate everyone who's participating in that um and supporting our military families that are across the state of Ohio. So, not trying to interrupt, but um we did have Right. Um we did have a senior that this weekend actually enlisted in the um National Guard. Uh Kaden Bulliard. He is a member of the football and basketball team. That's awesome. Um just so just
041thought I'd throw that out there. So much. That is awesome. Um I was just going to speak briefly. Last week we had kindergarten roundup at Spring Hill. Mrs. Scanzer and her staff did a great job organizing um all the volunteers that came in to give books to kids, show the buses. Um we had registration, so the secretaries were there as well as many organizations from our community getting kids signed up for different like library services and the police and fire were there. So it was great. The kids, we have about 50 students come through. So, we know we have at least 50 incoming kindergarteners already registered and ready to start school in August. So, thanks Mrs. Gander. That was a that was a great day. Popcorn shortage was a little bit shaky, but but we
042got through the popcorn. Yeah, we we got through the popcorn shortage. We were a little hungrier than we thought. Yeah, we were. So, but it was good. If um if anybody had a chance to come see it, um it was it was a good it was a good night. So, this is our third annual. So, um it's something that we're going to continue on. Um Kevin, so Kevin over there got a huge award yesterday. Um it was the um the Northeast Ohio Interscolastic Athletic Athletic Administrators Association's Sportsmanship, Ethics, and Integrity Award. So, yes, it was it was it was very um Um this this honor is presented to um any current uh athletic director who has displayed expl um exemplary sportsmanship and who has fostered a growth in um outstanding sportsmanship program within our kids
043and showing integrity and and ethical when making decisions or um handling situations so our athletes learn. And I, you know, I've mentioned throughout the the years that our kids do get a lot of compliments when we go out and about. I mean, I've shared with you, you know, parents calling us from other districts saying, "I can't believe how great your kids were. They were helpful. They were polite. They were kind." And a lot is atone to Kevin. So, Kevin, um, we're very proud to have you as our AD. So, thank you. Thank you. So, um, of course, I would be remiss if I didn't say we had two ballots, I mean, two, uh, issues on the ballots. I'm just going to say that again. And, uh, this week, was it this week that we started
044testing? Mhm. This week. So, all schools are testing and we've got the third grade testing next week. Shrap started testing this week. The high school started testing this week. It's a um, it's a little bit of an intense time. Thank you Michelle and Jen for working out your schedules to get them in there. I know it's a little bit at the high school with coming and goings and everything and all different grade levels that you have to. Uh we will be getting the results back really early this year. Okay. We'll be getting them back really early this year. Uh probably to May 21st. Thank Thank you, Michelle. Uh so uh uh we will get the new law announcements too that we will post on our um website where the parents can go see their scores.
045So we will have that. Um and then you know what? Just trying to get in some baseball and softball. The weather is just not uh it's just not Kevin. Every day every morning you put out that thing that says here's going to be our baseball games and then in the afternoon you're like mother nature's is like no no you're not playing your game today. So, uh, um, I don't know when we're going to make up all those games. We're going to have like a like a quadruple header header on a on a Saturday. Close down school. Might even get into a Sunday. So, I bet you I mean, the kids are probably just itching to just get out there and play. And, and even seems like track is being cancelled, too. Now, that's unusual because
046track you're usually out there freezing. Yeah. Cold temps. Try not try to limit any possible injuries and multiples. So when it gets below that 32 mark, we start clearing off. Okay. So hopefully hopefully we'll get them in. And uh it's hard to believe that's um we've only got 30 some odd days left. Nobody's counting. I I didn't I didn't know the exact amount. I said 30ome days. I didn't know how many days we Oh, am I mistaken? We got 25 days. Thank you. Leave it to Thank you. 29. Um, so that's it. Uh, we do have an Easter egg hunt. Um, Lake is doing their Easter egg hunt next Saturday. This Saturday. Sorry. This Saturday. This Saturday. This Saturday at 1:00. Yes. At 1:00. Yes. So, Springfield did theirs a couple weeks ago. So, that'll
047be a fun Okay, I'm done. You know I'm not, but go ahead. No, I really am. Thank you. Items worthy of your note. April 18th this week, Good Friday, no school. April 21st, conference comp day. Uh, no school on the on that Monday. May 20th is our next regular board of education meeting at 6:00 pm uh at this location. May 26 is Memorial Day. I can't believe it. No school on Memorial Day. May 29th is the students last day. And May 29th is also the end of the fourth grading period as well as the end of the second semester. And uh the recycling bins will be full after May 29th of all the papers that have been saved up until now. I was always amazed at that. And May 30th is the teacher's last day
048and then we're off to a restful summer. Oh, you got one more. Oh, gra Oh, graduation. We can't forget graduation. That's on May 30th, too. And then we also have this on here. Um top 25 is May 1st. So, Uh, I know Miss Hannah does a lot with that. So, thank you for getting that organized as do you. That's a big day for the seniors. It is a big day for the seniors. It's a big day for the teachers, too, who get Yes. uh, nominated or picked or I don't know what the correct terminology is. Chosen, citizens comments. Uh, at this time, if there are any citizens comments, uh, you're welcome to go to the Podium big word. Any citizens comments? Well, thank you very much for your attendance tonight. I was good to see
049the the kids back in here. Yeah. And um I hope everyone has a good holiday. So, at this time, it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned. So, okay. Mr. Adams, moved in and second. Mr. Furlong, yes. Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Terry, yes. Mr. Hoverer, yes. Mrs. Fol, yes. Okay. Meeting is officially adjourned. Thank you. Well, I guess better than I used to do.