001That's awesome. Good evening. I would like to call to order the uh uh meeting for the Springfield Board of Education, Tuesday, March 18th, 2025. Uh Mr. Adams, would you do roll call, please? Mr. Hoer, here. M. Terry here. Mola, here. Mr. Parker, here. Mr. Furlong here. Thank 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. And you too. At this time um we will have introduction of the uh an award of the high school student of the month recognition. Okay. So I have um the February student of the months. They are determined by our national honor society. the um students are presented to
002the NHS students without the names and they look at them and they choose the student that they want to be recognized. We'll start with our junior high student. So Riley, will you join me here please? Um this is Riley Mailing and this is what um Miss Taylor Riley's English teacher has to say about her. Riley is an exceptional student who consistently goes above and beyond in everything she does. Her dedication and enthusiasm are truly admirable. She is always eager to lend a helping hand to her classmates during English class. Riley's excitement to participate and answer questions showcases her genuine love for learning. It is clear that she is deeply motivated to grow and be the best version of herself and her positive attitude inspires those around her. Nominated by Miss Taylor. Congratulations [Applause] So that
003will be um displayed outside of our front door all of this month and then it will be placed in another part of the building for the rest of the year and Riley gets a copy for herself. Brianna, will you join me up here, please? Brianna is our high school student. She was nominated by Mrs. Brown. And this is what Mrs. Brown writes. Briana Curry is a hard-working and wellrespected member of the Spring Hill community. She is a highly regarded by the staff where she works in the kitchen. Consistently doing a great job in building positive relationships with the younger students. Beyond her work ethic, Briana is a dedicated supporter of her school, always showing up to cheer on sports teams and stepping in to help whenever someone is in need. She is a thoughtful and
004dependable teammate and classmate, always striving to do her best. Additionally, Brianna is highly conscientious about her schoolwork, demonstrating a strong desire to learn and achieve good grades. She was nominated by Mrs. Brown. Thank you. Donnie, are you going to do anything? Gotcha. Um, I don't have any information on that. All right. So, um, is Ethan here? Yes, Ethan. Ethan? No, he's not here. Okay. So, PLCC student of the month is Ethan Crane and he is in the cyber academy. Um, he's not here today. Um, every month PLCC also does student of the month and he's in grade 12. So, um, we will make sure that he is recognized through PLC. So [Applause] here Mrs. We'll have it is I'm sorry. Uh board member informal. Do you want to Dustin? Do you have a pictures? Do
005you want the lights turned out? Okay. Um, so our junior and seniors get an opportunity to apply at Portage Lakes Career Center and um because they're part of the Springfield District, so they get that privilege. Not everyone gets accepted and the courses are very challenging and rewarding. Um, this week there are 30 students from PLC down in Columbus and they're competing at states for Skills USA. Um 10 of those students are from Springfield, eight seniors and two juniors. Um this t-shirt was designed by Spartan Kaylee Lewis Creekmore who is in the auto program. Um she designed a shirt and it was one of them that was picked and it's down there for everyone to uh I'm not sure if they purchase them or get them. And then can you go back to the other one?
006No. There. That is Andrew Barry. He is part of the engineering program and right there he is actually showcasing his skills with technical drafting. So you can tell that they're laser focused. That was my my joke there. Oh didn't go off very well. Okay. And then right here um so we have junior Marty Thirstston who is in a group of four. Three of the others are from Green High School and they are actually competing in the teamworks competition. Um, these four competed in January at regionals and their fourth place finish earned them a spot at states. So that is Marty looking right at the camera in the blue helmet. Um, they were the only competition to compete from noon to 4:30 yesterday and then they went back there today at 8:00 a.m. and they've been
007doing it all day today. They do uh they compete in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and masonry. Um, so they'll do that all day today and then tomorrow they'll find out the rewards. I'm gonna show one more. And this is Shilus Wager. She is in the nursing program. And after I got this picture, I actually text her and asked her how it was going. And she said that she that it's a huge learning experience and it's testing all of her skills that she's learned in the program. She is competing against other kids from all over Ohio. She said it's extremely nerve-wracking for her, but she's being pushed out of her comfort zone and showing her that she is capable of even more than she thought. Um, even more than that, she did she says she did struggle
008a little bit this morning on one skill, but after that, she turned it all around. And one thing that she's taking from it is that she's been able to talk to all the other students that she's that are from all over Ohio and they all get taught in different ways. So, she's learning from them the ways that they've been taught. Um, so there's Shila. And it's funny because co Mr. Hannah, Coach Hannah has her had her in golf and I had her in junior high as a basketball and player and this girl has she has found her way. Like I don't know. We used to call her Smash in in junior high because she broke a window during COVID. Sorry about that. Um, but she has just found her way and it's it's amazing to
009be able to like kind of just see what she's doing. Um, anyway, um, I got all this information from Sarah Murphy who is a school adviser and she is one of the chaperones um, and a mutual family friend. So, she sent some pictures up and just wanted to uh, share those and good luck to them all and hopefully they bring home some gold. Thank you. We don't often get to hear what our Springfield students enjoy. No, I did get in trouble by Marty and got told like, "Hey, I'm doing this." And I was like, "All right." And his mom reached out. What Parker? Just congratulations to the students of the month. Excellent job. Keep it up. Um looking forward to seeing the next ones next week. Come on. Um bunch of things. Miss Swagger here,
010the sister making it to states and wrestling. Congratulations. Congratulations. That's pretty amazing feat. Um, get the whole family in here. It's great. Very proud. No, just congratulations to everybody. Congratulations to you. My favorite part is watching the parents' faces. Like, what? They do that? Yeah. Nice. That's my favorite part every single time. But, um, looking to finish off the school year strong. It's pretty soon. Pretty soon. It's coming fast. Yeah. Thanks, Cynthia. Uh, it's been very busy. Uh if you haven't heard, we're in the in the bianual budget. The governor has proposed a budget. Um I asked Shelley for some help on a crafting letter. She sent she crafted a letter, sent it to me. I looked at it, added some stuff, sent it back to her. She read it, sent it back to me.
011And on March 4th, I went to Columbus and presented in front of the educational uh committee for the House of Representatives. Um it's submitted. It's it's now part of part of that uh tenure that's going through the house. Um there are some very concerning things in that. I think Shelley has brought to mention that and in in some of the stuff for the for the levy. Um Cut Patterson has uh kind of hit a perfect storm. I was sharing with her today. I was down in Columbus again today. Cut Patterson when it was designed about five and a half years ago didn't take two things in into consideration. one inflation, two property value increases. And like the movie Perfect Storm, we had a perfect storm. So Cup Patterson is actually falling on its face. I
012saw heard a rounded chorus of school districts, superintendents, and treasures complaining on House Bill 96, which is the governor's budget. I came out and opposed it because you can either oppose be a proponent of it or um interested party. Uh for us, I opposed it for the reasons that it's going to hurt us. There are there are parts in that budget, a bill that are very good, but but for us losing 420,000 a year and then over two years, that's 800,000. Uh I'm a propon I'm I'm against that bill as it stands right now. The other bill that's concerning is House Bill 61. It has to do with the homestead exemptions. Right now, the the u the proposal is to increase it to 750 per household and then if your owner occupied another 750. As
013I heard today, they don't know how they're going to lower that and have money to shift around. So, state's actually in a very tight position. There's no extra money. Although they did give a 3% cut in income tax last year that saved them saved everybody a billion dollars but took a billion dollars out of the state budget. So hang on folks I'll have more updates. It's u it's keeping me busy. It's keeping me up at nights and it's there's a flurry of activity more so than I've seen in a number of years since I've been doing this. So that board members that's my report. Any questions you can reach out to me and I'd be happy to answer questions. Thank you. You're welcome. You know what, Dave? Maybe what we could do, too, is send
014to the board um the letter that was crafted so they have it. I can do that. I can send it out. All right. Perfect. So, it's my turn. And today, as I was reading through um doing some prep for tonight and I had All right. Wow. The the band, you know, that really was a nice and then the kid. I I had so many things that I can't I don't want to just pick out one set of group. I I think our students have excelled at so much this year and I'm not just saying that for well I'm not I'm not looking for votes so I would not say that but I mean the uh they're rising to uh meet whatever is asked of them and uh as we go into spring sports and as
015we go into extracurricular activities and programs for the uh toward the end of the year. I wish you all I wish all the students good luck and I want to say congratulations on all the good work you've done. So that's I just couldn't pick out one thing. That's right. All right. At this time, excuse me, uh it is recommended that the board approve the minutes of the regular meeting of February 18, 2025. Uh and uh the minutes have been provided to us as an exhibit. So moved. I'll second. Been moved and second. Mr. Adams. Mr. Terry. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Motion passed. At this time, excuse me. Citizens comments on agenda items are welcome and participants uh are asked if you have some comments on agenda
016items to come to the uh lectern and give your name and um make your comments. Are there any at this time? Okay, seeing none, then let's pay some bills. It is recommended that the board approve uh the payment of bills for the month of February pending audit and again those are provided to us in an exhibit. So moved second moved and second Mr. Adams Mr. Mason yes Mr. Terry yes Mr. Furlong yes Mr. Hoffer yes Mrs. for off. Yes. Motion passed. Number 10. It is recommended that the board approve a resolution for payment of bills per Ohio revised code section 5705.21 and these are have been provided uh a list of these have been provided to the board uh to in preparation for this motion. I'll make a motion. Second and it has been moved
017and second. Mr. Adams. Mr. Parker. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Hoer. Yes. Okay. Motion passed. Number 11, acceptance of financial reports. It is recommended that the board accept financial reports from the treasurer for February 2025. And these have been provided in exhibits four, five, and six. So moved. Second. Okay. Mr. Adams. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Mr. Parker. Yes. Mr. Hoer. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Motion passed. Number 12 is personnel. And it is recommended that the board accept or approve the following personnel items. 12.1 is a retirement resignation. Accept the retirement resignation of principal David Germanovich effective July 1, 2025 12.2 resignation. Do you want me to just go? Yeah. Accept the following classified resignations for Carol Simmons. uh effective February 4, Robert Keller, effective February March 20,
018and Riley Whiteclaw effective March 21. 12.3 Termination of employment approve the termination of employment for classified employee Melissa Atkins effective February 26, 2025. 12.4 Four, employment. Employ Garrettson as a two-hour cafeteria worker at Springfield High School and Junior High per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening effective February 27th. 12.5 employment approve the following classified reassignments per the negotiated agreement and pending proper lensure. Those uh reassignments involve Mary Lance, Brenda Lampy, Jessica Wright, Yashanta Beckett, Brooke Garrettson, Kathy Clark, and those are uh the dates are provided to uh on the agenda 12.6 Six employment employ Denise Turkovich as a classified substitute per the negotiated agreement pending proper lensure and pre-employment screening effective first day assigned 12.7 Athletic supplemental contract approve the following athletic con supplemental contract for the 2425 school year per the
019negotiated agreement pending proper lensure And that would be involve Corey Tanksley as a JV bar varsity baseball coach. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Okay. So, um just a couple things. Um the retirement. So Dave will be retiring effective July 1st. Um he started in Springfield in 1994 as a third and fourth grade teacher at Lakemore. He was there for 13 years. In 2008, he moved over to SHRP where he not only taught, but he was um dean of students for two years. And then in 2013, he became the assistant principal for SHRP for two years. Then he became principal of Spring Hill for six years. And then with all the uh riffs and everything in 2021, he moved back to Shrop as an assistant principal and then becoming principal in 2023 where he has
020finished off his career. So, um, so Dave, you like I said, will be missed, uh, at SHRP. We will start, um, with the, um, interviewing process coming up once that this is approved. Mrs. Roll, yes. Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. M. Terry, yes. Mr. Hoer, yes. Okay. All the personnel items are approved. Number 13 is a sales agreement. Uh it is recommended that the board approve a resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a master electric energy sales agreement between the district and power for schools endorsed electric supplier. NG resources limited. I hope I said that right. So moved. Second. Yeah, it's been moved and second. But I do have some questions. Okay. So, so this agreement is through the Ohio Schools Council. Uh they manage the power for schools program and they go
021out and bid the electric rates um for a consortium of schools to lock us into um the best possible rate based on those bids that go out there. Um, this is a five-year agreement to lock lock us into that price. Um, it's a continuation. We've done this in the past. The last agreement was approved um in 2019 2020 effective 2020 through 2025 uh there. So, we've received very favorable rates through this program. A lot of schools participate in that and helps us u stabilize our electric budget and not um seeing the variations that are in the market as much as you may at home sometimes. Were we with them last year? Yes. Would you say it's a fiveyear? I it's only two years. 2027. The other question I had was all the way at the
022end it talks about green energy and I'm pretty sure I voted yes on the first five years ago uh green energyy's changed and right in the contract it says if you do have green energy selected there's an additional charge for that. Are we aware of that? Not not that particular clause. Okay. Um, I'd like to know what that what what what that entails then because it it and the only reason I really paid attention to it is because I'm kind of a green energy uh geek myself. I mean I have my own off-grid um you know the price of um is an addition. So I'd like I'm curious to how much that extra that that that that's put on on the uh base charge. And I get it. Power for schools has done a wonderful
023job of getting us a cheap rates of electricity. But I when I saw that at the end, I'm like, okay, things have changed in that market. So I'm curious as to what that what how how that affects us and what the upcharge is. So are you It's on page It's on page two, I believe. Dave, you want us to get the information and do you want to just abstain tonight? Well, as it as it stands right now, if as I read this, I would vote no, unfortunately, because I see I see the upcharge to it. Okay. Um I don't know that I don't know when we have to have this in place. By tomorrow. Tomorrow. Yeah. They they have a very short turnaround on this. They were urging districts to have to have special meetings
024if necessary to put this agreement in place in the timeline that the vendor was giving them. Okay. Doesn't make me very happy. But anyway, um I thought it was a question that needed raised. Okay. We'll get you that though. Okay. Uh, any motion? There's already been. Was there a motion? Say anything. Who was it? It was I made the primary motion and Donnie Furlong seconded it. You motioned? I did. You have to get it on the floor. I didn't hear that. All right, Mr. for furongs. Um, abstain. I think we need to figure it out pretty quick. The reading this here, the green energy provision is only if requested, which we didn't request. Which we didn't didn't request and if there's an upcharge would not be something that we would request. Makes it all the
025difference in the world. Well, then at the last page on the last one it says product any source type green E. Is that our costs? Okay. So, on page whatever p on page um it has our estimated costs and that's that's what we're going to be paying because we didn't do we didn't click the um about the upcharge agreement summary information renewable energy certif certificates Where yet? The very last page. Very last page. Table this to the end of the meeting while you search and go through the rest. Are we allowed to do that? We allowed to table it and come back to at the very end of the meeting while they're looking. You want to table this to the end of the meeting and continue on with the agenda? That's fine. We need a
026motion for that. Need a motion to Chris. Do we need a motion to table it till the end of the meeting or just move it down? It would be You know what? Let's do motion to table with uh Dave since I would motion I have motion to the table with your name on it. Okay. Okay. And then Donnie second. Yes. Okay. And then we'll come back to it. Okay. At the end of the meeting right at right before the adjournment. Okay. All right. So we're all right to go to the next one. Yes. I don't have my reverse rules with me. Um, going to number 14, primary service plan agreement with Summit ESC. It is recommended that the board approve the primary service plan agreement with the Summit Educational Service Center for the 2526 school
027year. U motion I'll make a motion. I'll second. All right. Been moved and second. Um Mary's going to talk about it. So, the Summit ESC partners with us in order to provide services that we don't house inside of our district, including psychological services, auditory aology, aiology. Um we use some professional development services as well as a teacher for the hearing impaired. Um so we purchase their services through the service agreement involved in this service agreement because we have two options. We have an A option and a B option. The A option saves us money throughout the year as an overall and um the services that we provide for the ones we get to actually participate in selecting who comes into our district and provides said services. So um our school psychologists like those are all
028provided through summit ESC in addition to the school psychologists that we have to provide to do the services at super learning center as a requirement of them being inside of our district walls. So those things we are allowed to participate in any questions on those any questions. It's something we do every year also. Mr. Adams I see here no questions. Mr. Mason. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Ferry. Yes. Mrs. Fola. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Motion pass. Number 15. Excuse me. It is recommended that the board approve a Ohio Department of Education and workshop workforce operating standards for the ch education of children with disabilities. Summary of charges also attached for us in our exhibit. You want to Oh, let's have the motion first. I'll make a motion. Second. All right. Moved and second. Last month
029we had this on the board agenda without board approval, but since then we've sort of deter like we heard from a lot of other school districts that their boards were approving it. So these are they always have had the operating standards but then they added some updates to it, some things like um updates in child fine, updates on disability categories that we can use for identifying a student with a disability um and just some other procedural things. So now the operating standards are aligned with all the current laws and regulations that we have to follow. Okay. And we weren't aware that it had to be board approved last month. That's why you're seeing it again this time. Yes. To make it all legal. Yes. So and then I'll upload our minutes up on this fancy
030website and we'll be all good to go. Which kind of like we were ahead of the game because they changed it from the first one to the second one. So, we would have had to if we would have approved it the first time, we would have had to approved it again. And I think a lot of people misunderstood how it was read because they extended the deadline to upload them into this portal website. So, everybody got some extra time. Yes. I think because nobody was really approving them. I'm glad that we we got it. Yes. Um to where it's needs to be. All right. Mr. Adams. Mrs. Fola. Yes. M. Terry. Yes. Mr. Hoer, yes. Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Furl, yes. The motion passed. Number 16. It is recommended that the board approve a resolution
031accepting the amounts and rates as determined by the budget commission and authorizing the necessary tax levies and certifying them to the county fiscal officer. Um, so moved, second, Mr. Uh move. We have a motion. Um Mr. Adams, do you want to speak to that? Yeah. Every year, uh the county auditor puts out a report that is in the exhibit that establishes our uh effective tax rate. There wasn't much to change this year versus last year, but like a couple years ago, we had a a big change, but they require the treasurer then to have board approval of those rates that they calculated. And sometimes in a rare instance, you might call them up and say, "This doesn't look right." Since we have ha haven't had any uh levies change uh and in a long time
032ours don't change that much. Uh we had little little growth in valuation. So this is a procedure that you have to do to to satisfy the law and to satisfy uh your auditors. Any questions for Mr. Adams? Okay. Hearing none, we'll have a vote. Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. Mr. Hoer, yes. Mrs. Fola, yes. Mr. Terry, yes. Okay. Motion pass. Excuse me. Um number 17, it is recommended that the board approve a revised financial recovery plan and that's exhibit 11 and uh Mr. Adams. Oh well, first get a motion. So move second. Okay. Mr. Adams, um did you get We're gonna we're going to switch this up. uh we discussed this before the meeting the revised financial recovery plan and the treasury reports going to kind of be cond be together. Okay. So, what
033I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about I'm going to talk about uh uh my monthly plan and talk about the impact and then Shelley's going to get up and talk about things in the financial recovery plan that she has already internally talked to our teachers and classified staff and and stuff like that. And we will address also Dave, you were talking about uh the current budget plan at the state and uh we were uh originally not going to put it in, but the the oversight committee uh decided to put that in. So, we're going to go over first our our what we're doing on the expenditure side and then we're going to show a chart regarding uh our cash and the impact uh of where we're at right now. And I and
034when we get to the chart, you're going to see how quickly you can go from you're you're you're sitting there with some money. I call it our s money. Yeah. You know, you got a checking account that pays bills and then when you need something, you transfer it over. Well, the savings account, this is it right here. This is a startling chart right here. We're just going to talk about these two right here. Okay. Uh you're we're seeing that our expenditures and our revenue is uh very consistent this year. Next year, what do you see? You see our expenditures exceeding our revenues. Correct. What? That's our That's our cash balance. Oh, is that our cash balance? Expended um the um Okay. Okay. Revenues up there. I got you. Okay. So, that's how much money we
035have in the bank. Okay. And then all of a sudden it goes down. See how it goes down? And look at 27. Boom. You barely have anything. Okay. This is what happens in 28. Now look at these numbers. It's $5 million here. 29. It's over $12 million. That shows the how quickly a district can have money and then be broke. Now this is without the renewals. Okay? that shows what happens when uh the scenario worst case scenario we may have. It's very uh this is this number right here. You just you can't comprehend that number right here. And that all goes away. That all goes away. These numbers are much better once the renewals are are approved. That's just fact. Let's go to the f let's go to the uh let's go to what we
036can control. We can't control revenue. We can't we can't control the state budget. We can't control uh uh the outcomes of the levy. We can't control the federal I mean we all see what's going on in the world right now. Everything is kind of tipsy turvy. You turn the TV on and things that never happened before are happening. Good, bad. I'm not here to judge. I'm saying it's happening. So, it makes us in public education and especially a treasure that that relies on uh certainties. We don't have certainties anymore and and it's funneling down to us. You know, people have watched TV and said, "Well, why you know what's that matter?" It matters. Education is huge in our country, public education. So, so we can control these numbers right here. Okay, this is our expenditure
037side. This is what we pay right here. That's teachers personnel. It's all personnel benefits. This is what we buy. Purchase services for example like the ESC and other contracts. But what are we doing? How are we doing? Okay. Well, we're doing pretty darn good. Okay, Dustin, could you go down a little bit? I don't want to dwell on each and every number right here. Okay, we're beating budget. Okay, and this was a tight budget. When I say a tight budget, it means we don't have the luxury anymore of putting in one or 2% in each category in case something uh doesn't work out well. Our budget is as lean as you can because it has to be approved again by the state. We have an oversight commission because we're in fiscal oversight. We're beating budget
038by 15 almost $159,000. This month we beat in February our actuals were actually less than the budget. I'm hoping it you know we got four months to go right. Our goal is to be under the budget. So what's that mean? That means that the stuff that we can control, we're controlling. We can't control the revenue side. Just like your house, right? Say you have monthly expenses and you tighten up your belt, okay? And then all of a sudden, boop, something happens dramatically. Can't control it. lose a job, you know, and inflation hits 10%. All schools are no different. We we need consistent predictable revenue and that doesn't happen anymore. So, makes my job a lot, you know, interesting, let's say. Is there any questions for many of you people? None. This is good. When you're
039beating budget by 159,000 in today's world with unpredictability sometimes and with inflation vendors, you know, they might want to charge us more, but we'll push back. We're now going to talk about the financial recovery plan and Shel's going to talk about that. Uh, this is a document that'll be out on our website. It is detail-driven, but if there's anybody out there in the audience or anybody in here that wants to talk about it, have them call me. We'll keep it a little high. We're not going to make it so damn difficult, but if you have questions, I always encourage people to give us a call. Thanks. All right. So, just real briefly. So, the financial recovery plan. So, being that we're in fiscal oversight, we have to create a financial recovery plan. The chart that
040Chris showed with the uh red and green um bars, we have to prove to get those bars above the line. So, that's the uh the recovery plan. So, the recovery plan is going to be on the website. It is a very big document. You're going to see on the bottom here all this these are all the different tabs that this workbook has and it might be a little bit daunting for people to go on to. So I just want to show you two parts of the forecast that might help you understand. So this one is called the current forecast prior to the plan. So this is prior to the cuts that we have to make to make that red bar go above the line. So the first thing is and you'll see it here in
041changes of assumptions. Chris has to go through the plan go through our year just like a a weather forecaster and forecast what types of changes are going to happen in our budget that's going to affect our five-year. So that's this center column right here. So these numbers, if you want to know exactly what they are, you go to this tab here and changes of assumptions and it explains everything to you. Okay, so going back to this one, the one thing, and I'm not going to get into the numbers because I'm not a number person. It's called Shelly math, and Shelly math really doesn't work that well sometimes. But this number right here, this number right here, this number is very important because this is what Dave was talking about with House Bill 96. They they
042readjusted it a little bit. Uh we just got the new readjustment. So this is the money that the state if the budget bill passes is going to take away from us. Okay. All right. So this was the fall forecast that was submitted. This is the assumptions. Then this is the five-year with the um assumptions in place. And I think the key thing that you want to see here is where are we in the hole? Right here all the red. Okay. So that was that bar chart that we had. All right. Now the second tab that I want you to if you're have nothing to do and you want to go on to the website and see it would be the uh um did you go to it already? Okay. So this is after the plan.
043So if you remember the uh um it was in our uh um uh uh newsletter that just went out. I did a little presentation and talked a little bit about what would happen if the levies do not pass. So the so the fin uh the uh fiscal oversight tells us you have to tell us what that is and then you have to put it in the plan. So this is the five-year with those assumptions. So that first um that we saw the one that was over there is now over here. So that's that with the assumptions. Then we had to put in what we were going to cut and what that was going to cost us. And that is here, right? Is that expenditures, reductions? Yes. And these are all ones that we start from
044the beginning of next. Okay. So this all starts at the beginning of next year. So, this shows all the cuts that we're making and how much every one of those cuts is going to cost us. Okay. All right. How much are going to save us every month, every year. So, that's why the report is so detailed driven. When you make a decision to say not replace or make a cut, you got to take their cost and blow it out over each year in the financial recovery plan. So, um, so that's that one. Here's the impact of the cuts. Now, here it is with the So, this is with the assumptions and with the cuts. You could still see that we're still in the um in the red, but we're lowering our number and that's what
045the fiscal oversight wants to see. So, you can see over here we were 365,000 uh 367,000. We have a million here. Okay. Now, what's important too, Shel, is show them what the the renewals, the the levies that doesn't cost anything, what it does to us. Okay. Well, to do that one, go back to You can say right here. Right here. No, no, no. Let's go back to this one. Okay. Because this one is without the cuts. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, um So, here we are. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Holy camole. We'll go up to uh so we can see what the the renewals means right here. So you can see with the renewals with the insumptions we were $7 million in the whole with the renewals were were positive2,910,000. Now that number can also change
046because as Chris says we do have control over our um our uh um expenditures and how we can make this you know because my goal to you to be fiscally uh responsible is to keep this number as high as we can if the um when the levies pass. Is that each year? Yes. Yeah. Can you can you kind of shrink that down so they can see that this is the passing of these renewals is not for a couple weeks that weren't good. No, you're up to 29 there. This is 29. So 29 we still have, you know, and I and like I said, this is not accounting like any type of retirements or any other types of things that we can do. My goal and my promise is that I would want to prolong this
047as long as we can, you know, as a district. Okay, so that can you go back to the workbook to the B? Okay, so that's the workbook. Like I said, if you're bored one night, you have nothing that you want to do and you really want to get, you know, number happy. You can go through all these different of tabs on the bottom. And I urge you to go through them, mark them up, ask any questions, and then give, you know, Chris a call and, you know, ask, "Hey, I was looking at the uh the uh financial recovery plan. What does this mean? What does that mean?" And we'll be more than happy to tell you. This is a very daunting um as you can see uh uh workbook. We've worked on it for I
048mean all the way up until this morning we were working on it. I mean and we've been working on it for about a month and a half now for it. So um I just wanted you know sometimes we just throw things up there and we don't explain what it is or you know how to look at it or you know how to use it. So hopefully those two tabs will um help you with that. Okay. All right. Any questions? Just a renewal. We just can't do ABCD. I said, why can't we just say ABCD? Right. Make it hard. All right. Um, central office report. No, we have to vote on this. Got to vote on this. Oh, that's right. Are we ready to Yeah, Mr. Mason? Yes. We're This is number six. We're looking at
049the We already We're voting now. Do we What? We already sec We already um We already motioned and second. Okay. But direct to go ahead. I'm sorry, Mrs. Fola. Yes. We're voting now. Yes. Yes. All right. You don't want to read it again. All right. Yes. Okay. Miss Terry. Yes. Mr. Hoffer. Yes. Mr. Furlong. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Okay. Motion passed. You got your question resolved. I see. Now we're going to go to number 18. So say we will do 19. You have a separate treasur report. I gave it like I stated. Well, I heard you say do 18, but you must have said did 18. All right. Number 19. Yes. Central office report. Please. I just give a quick update and uh let everybody know we we've announced this in our newsletter and via
050social media and such, but we did launch our new website last week. Uh you'll see a popup here for the first few weeks here letting anybody know it is a new site and there's a link here you can click here which will take you to a feedback form if you find information you'd like to see on the site or a broken link or so on there you can report that there and give feedback as well. um that will that popup message will come off in the next couple weeks, but that feedback link will remain. We'll integrate it into other parts on the site there, so you can continue to to give feedback there. Um and the the finance updates, as we just came off approval of the financial recovery plan, um right on the homepage
051in the middle under the main image there under the finance updates, that's where the financial recovery plan will be posted. And then right now the video that Miss Monino referred to earlier that she explained some of the um effects of the levies not passing is available under that link there as well. Um so that'll be there and we'll be continually updating the site especially over the next couple weeks. Um just trying to fine-tune things but we we hope this will be a a great way to communicate with our community and in a streamlined fashion there. And um one of the reasons why we changed here is this site is now responsive. So no matter what device you're looking at the site on, it will scale uh to that device there. And it may move things
052around a little bit, but it'll all be there and you won't have to, you know, keep pushing over trying to get to that side of the page or whatnot as you may have with the the old site. The images will also scale there so you can see those depending on the device. um and just it's more accessible for anybody with uh disabilities or impairments. This works well with screen readers and um has the high contrast to allow visually impaired to see the site better. So, not only just making it cleaner, more upto-date, but also more accessible to the entire community there. So, so I spent now now I'm going to do a board comment. I spent um a while today looking at the site and u it's it's a vast improvement now but I do
053have a question when you know I clicked on schools I will there be like a like there will there be some pictures will there be what you know when you click on schools uh the individual school didn't come up for me I don't know whether if you if you click on that that'll go to the school's individual site there where they'll have they have different information on each school site. That didn't come up for me today on my iPad. I clicked on it and clicked on it and that's why I thought it's got to be there. Yeah. So, look to see that I see. I'll have to look at it uh on my laptop and see I'm seeing that. So, for the people don't know, the individual schools is is on the black strip up
054there. So, I know some people are having questions of where it was at, but it is much easier to find like the calendar and the uh because of I've got I very often get emails about when's our next board meeting or whatever, you know, direct them to it. So, that's what I was looking at, but I just I figured they were up there just because nothing was coming up for me. We'll look into that and see it. Okay. Thank you. Mobile version's great, too. So easy to use. Go ahead. That's only I mean 90% of us probably use the phone more than the computer anyway. It's so easy to use. Big win. Good. Two weeks ago was my official um part of my duties to officially accept the PBIS awards for Shrop Intermediate School and
055for Springfield Junior Senior High School. So these awards were officially given these are for the 2023 2024 bronze awards that were awarded to each of our buildings. PBIS stands for positive behavior interventions and supports. This is a huge rubric that the teams, the building leadership teams at both schools take on um and fill out. It includes things such as suspensions, absences, the way students perceive things going on in the schools, rewards given to kids, things like that are all encompassed into this rubric and is graded at the um this this time it went to the local level and then it went to the state level. in order to receive these awards this upcoming year will go only to the state level in order to be scored if our teams decide to reapply for the award.
056It is a yearly award that is given to our schools. We um have two of our three technically four schools but preschool is not part of the ability to apply. So we have 66% of our schools have received this PBS award and it's something to be extremely proud of. um as they move forward they can go on to silver status because this is bronze they can go to silver and then gold status depending on uh how much is implemented in the school day so this is an amazing accomplishment for them I'm so proud of them I just wanted to recognize once again last month we had the sparkacular it was amazing um it's a great way for us to showcase um individuals with disabilities from across northeastern Eastern Ohio. Um I think there were like
05715 different teams there um performing in some capacity and it's every year, you know, there's different groups coming out of the woodwork to join in at the spectacular. So, it's a great achievement and Mrs. Kaiser has done a great job building that program over the years. So, I know she's been recognized a couple times as she steps down from her role as adviser of the Sparkacular or Sparkles, but she's made a great program that's going to live on for a long time. Um, so just a couple things. First, um, you know, Dave's hard work with the uh um going down with Columbus and with the advocacy, he did get a nice thank you for making time to come to the state house and testify on the budget. We appreciate you and your advocacy for students.
058Please reach out when we can be of support or assistance. So, thank you Dave for, you know, doing that. That takes a lot of time out of your uh day to do it, but it is something that's very important and we're lucky to have a school that has a board member that is very um involved with the advocacy. Well, thank you for helping me write the letter. You're welcome. Um uh just remember spring break starts Monday. Woohoo. March 24th. Um, we're going to return March 31st. We will put out an all call just to remind people so you don't send your kids to school on Monday because nobody's going to be there. We'll be here, but nobody else will be there. Um, and I hope everyone has a safe and um, relaxing and fun break.
059Uh, last Friday, as what you referred to um, Donnie, is that uh, it was the end of the third quarter. So, this year is flying by very quickly. Uh, one of the things on April 10th, we are going to have our kindergarten roundup. So, if your child is going to be five by August 1st, please make sure that you come to the kindergarten roundup. Um, we will have tables there. Um, a kindergarten classroom will be available. We'll even have um, if you need help for registering, we'll have people there to help you register. And we give away freebies. Oh, and we give away freebies. Can't forget that. I think it's Oh, and there's going to be a school bus. So you can get on the school bus and see what that's like. It's um this
060is going to be the third year now that we're doing the kindergarten roundup. And each year it has um grown larger and larger and we're getting a little bit more um a little bit more accurate of what our kindergarten class is going to look like. So it's it's it's a plus. Uh I do want to thank uh Dustin for the website. He worked very very very hard on it. many many many many hours late at night as he's texting and I was saying stop working please um that doesn't happen so Dustin it is a great thing uh the the comments that we've been getting on it have all been very positive so hopefully you guys are receiving positive comments on it also um April 5th is the um boosters reverse raffle I don't know if
061there's any more tickets available I have some tickets okay so yes there are tickets available oh Mr. Johanna, why are you looking at her like that for? I'm looking for them. I'm selling so many of them. Okay. Well, there you go. Look, look. Oh, we got two behind you, too. Well, we're just making all the connections all over here. Um, it is if you have a chance to go, it is truly truly truly truly a fun evening. Um, it's uh something that I look forward to and I think a lot of people do. So, they're fun. They are. It is. It's it's it's a lot of fun. So, that's April 5th. Um, apparently see Miranda if you need tickets. Don't see Mr. Hannah because he didn't have any. Um, and I guess you can call
062uh Mr. Von too. Um, and again, always if you have any questions, you know, please or concerns, email me, call me, you know, check to see if I'm in, just stop on by. Um, you know, we're open and and anything that we can do to help explain anything, uh, we will definitely do that. I'm done. And I'm done. Thank you. I have nothing else. Thank you. You know, you know I'm going to say something else. Uh well, you're allowed. Uh items worthy of your note. March 24th, spring break, spring vacation begins. I think you mentioned that. I did. I want to. Yeah. Uh March 31st, classes resume. April 15th is the next regular board meeting at 6 PM. Uh, April 18th is Good Friday, no school on April 18th and April 21st is also a
063no school day and that is a for uh the teachers and uh students that is a conference comp day uh for their nights that they come in for uh working. Okay. at this time. Um, any citizens comments? Hello, my name is Lyanna Swigger. I am a freshman at Springfield High School. I am an honoral student and a year-round athlete. To me, being a good student and an athlete go hand in hand. I need both together to accomplish all of my dreams and goals. My future depends on it. I set big goals for myself in all of my athletics. For example, this year was the first year our school had a girls wrestling program. In that first season, I set many goals and worked very hard to achieve them. I even became the first female wrestler
064in Springfield history to make it to the high school wrestling state competition. With that goal met, I've set a bigger goal to become the first female state champion in Springfield history. I fully intend to accomp accomplish that by my senior year. It means everything to me to be able to continue this path, working hard to accomplish all my goals. I know as long as the opportunities are there, I can do this. I know this because what being a Springfield Spartan athlete has taught me. Thank you. Awesome. [Applause] Hi everybody. Um my name is Jenna Kale. I wrote this big long thing, but I'm not going to read it because I've just decided I'm not going to read it. Um but I would just like to give a little bit about myself. I am a graduate
065from Pit from University of Pittsburgh. I graduated with my bachelor's degree in forensic science. I have a minor in chemistry and then a minor in criminal justice. Um right now I work as a environmental scientist in um a little lab in Akran and I test the drinking water and the waste water and make sure everything's able to be disposed of properly um for our environment. But I would just like to say I wouldn't have been able to make it to where I am now without the education that Springfield has provided me. Um, I moved to Springfield back in like third grade. Um, I came from Florida and I struggled a lot as a third grader. I mean, little kids struggle because little kids are little kids. Um, but I struggled a lot compared to my
066classmates just because I was from a completely different state. The curriculums were so different. Um, but every single teacher I had um, every step of the way noticed that I was struggling the way that I was and they were able to help me and provide me the services and the supplies to be able to be successful. And by the time that I graduated high school, I was um, either 16th or 17th in my class. I made the top 25. I got to pick the teacher and get the whole fun speech at the Heartful Kitchen and eat all the good food um, and dress up and do all the fun stuff. Walk across stage. I was in so many clubs. I'm not even joking. I was in like every club. I held a position in all
067of the clubs. Um like I was National Honor Society president my senior year. I was also cheerleading captain. And I just was in everything. But the only reason I was able to be in everything was for how successful Springfield was able to make me. And I'm saying all of this because the renewal is so important. Um, like they said before with the graphs and all that stuff, I'm terrible at math considering my credentials. I am really bad at math, but I know that something below the x-axis is terrible. So, I think we should really pay attention to these renewals. Really look up anything that you need to educate yourself as a voter. It's so important to be educated on what you're voting on. Um so just education and the renewals are important. So just really
068keep that in mind around May. Um but that is my speech. Thank you Facebook. I read it. Okay. My name is Michelle Han. teach at Springfield High School and I also live in the district and I had Jenna in class and my heart just goes pitterpatter when I hear a minor in chemistry because I teach chemistry. So, um I'm super proud of Jenna and I can't wait to have Lyanna says she's coming up. Um but I just wanted to share some thoughts. Um as a commu as our community begins this process of passing renewal levies, I felt I feel compelled to share this graphic and I know that not everybody can see it. Um, but I will kind of describe what is going on here. So, this graphic was shared with me several years ago
069from a friend in our community and the graphic says teachers make all other professions possible. And it has a picture indicating that mechanics, firefighters, medical professionals, police officers, communication professionals, and legal professionals all start with an education and teachers. We know that there are plenty of other professions out there that are dependent on their education. This message is so powerful to me personally, not because I'm a proud Springfield teacher, but because of the impact that a solid education has on society. If we don't provide a solid education for our youth, all other professions will begin to feel that impact. I tell my students all the time, I know you're not going to use specific, sometimes very hard chemistry content often, but what you are going to use is the perseverance, the no quit, I need
070to learn this problem-solving mentality for the rest of your life. Recently, I worked with so many kids to work through some hard lab calculations using data that they gathered in the lab. I am so proud that they came to me for help and didn't give up. Giving up is easier, but the accomplishment they felt when they completed the calculations is a life lesson that they won't forget. I genuinely love working with these kids to help them find their potential. A solid education includes athletics, it includes music, it includes art, as well as the core classes. All of these areas have so many valuable life experiences that all students need to be well-rounded contributing members of society. We need to provide all of these life experiences together for our youth so they can be productive members
071of society. We need productive, contributing members of society. Springfield's levies in May are not going to raise our taxes. They are renewals. I get it. Everyone is trying to save money in today's economy, but I can assure you voting against renewals will cost you and society way more in the long run. Education is necessary for all other professions. Please take the time to educate yourself. Don't spread information that is not accurate. I have already seen so much information that is not true. These levies will not increase your taxes. If these levies fail, teachers will lose their jobs. School funding is stupid. I agree it is. But the truth is, if we weren't paying property tax to support our schools, we'd be paying in some other fashion. Educate yourself. Ask questions to people who have accurate
072answers. Springfield cannot afford failed levies. I am a proud resident of Springfield. I am a proud parent of a Springfield student. I am a proud parent of two very successful Springfield alumni. And I am a proud teacher in Springfield schools. Support your schools, support your community, and support society. Thank you that she was talking about You're welcome. We work fast behind the scenes here. Thank you for the voices that we have to be quiet about doing the board. Sorry. All right. If there are um we have to go back to the one at the table 22 now. Cynthia, it it was originally 18. We're going to make it 22. The sales agre agreement for NG Resources LLC. We tabled it and we wanted to put it at the end of the agenda. So, we're going
073to on number, let me show you. I can only imagine what my assistant's going to do right here. We have to call this one right here again. Okay. I thought we just did which we just tabled it. We tabled it to the end of the meeting. Yeah, but I thought we went back and voted on it. No, we did not. All right, I'll get it straight. All right, kids. I know. Uh students, don't let me be your example tonight. Um all right, now we are going to go back to uh 12.8. Um and I'm going to reread it so everyone knows what it is we're voting on. We tabled this motion. It is ex recommended that the board approve a resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a master electric energy sales agreement between the
074district and power for schools endorsed electric supplier NG re uh resources LLC. All right. I believe we had a motion. Okay. So um Dustin put up here. So this is the paragraph um that shows what that exhibit at the end last page was. So it says you know the customer has the option to request NG to procure the green E uh RECC's. If requested NG shall procure on the customer's behalf the quantity that you will receive based on that chart that was on the last page. But then if you look at the bottom if the customer elects not to purchase which we did the uh a replacement non-certified then's obligation asked to the quantity is not procured and shall be terminated without further liability and the customer shall not be subject to any monthly fixed
075fee or fixed premium charge as specified in attachment A. So we were um we we um elected not to purchase that. So, I think that chart in the back was just a uh chart if you to show you if you wanted to and how much it would be. And these credits, the these are green energy credits that can be used for we don't qualify for the tax rebates, but if we're doing an energy project with a company, they can qualify for the rebates. If we have them, we can transfer them to them for them to qualify. And then in turn the agreement would be for us to have a lower price on that project there. Correct. Okay. It clears things up. I thought it was just worth the question. That was a good question. That
076was a good question. So yeah, I mean it's it's you know what and that's you know what in a question like that is the reason why you know we want to be financially um responsible because you know what one thing that people think the boards do is that they just vote yes you know halfhazardly and they and we don't I mean you guys get the board notes the board agenda notes you know ahead of time there's questions that's exactly what a board meeting is supposed to be for is to ask these questions and to say that you know what we are working, which is good for you guys and we do appreciate that that you are looking at everything that is said to you. So, you know what it is that you're voting on because
077there are a lot of boards out there that just blanketly just vote yes without asking questions. And our just an FYI, our superintendent and treasurer or any of the uh central office staff are always open to uh questions. I think all of us ask individual questions. You don't hear all of them because we get it resolved before we get in here. So that that's appreciated that we are respected for our job the job we're trying to do. And also too, I mean that's why you know this year we've started for the public to when we when we uh send out the agenda, we do send the um the attachments now also because just as you might have any questions if anybody out there's going through the agenda and they hit the attachments and they have
078questions, you know, we uh welcome those questions also. Yeah. Thank you for the follow-up work on that. Yeah. Thank you. From the five to the two-year and is it just an extension off of that? Yes, it's the one year. Yeah. Our previous agreement was a 5year and we're signing a two-year till it. Got it. Motion. Yeah, I'll motion. I thought we did, but I'll you did you? Yeah. Okay. Read the vote. Yep. M. Terry? Yes. Mr. Ferlong? Yes. Mr. Hoer? Yes. Mrs. Fola? Yes. Miss Terry? Mr. Mason. Mr. Mason. Yes. The motion passed. probably said that word. Okay, it is now recommended that the meeting uh be adjourned. Second move in second. Mr. Adams, Mr. Mason, yes. Mr. Furlong, yes. Mr. Hoer, yes. Mr. Terry, yes. Mrs. Fola, yes. Okay, motion passed. The meeting is
079adjourned. I saw a picture of your