001e e e for those who want to participate the pledge the Pledge of Allegiance and the Pledge of Allegiance is going to be done by Martin Luther King Jr Academy for boys flag of the United States of America for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all lift every voice and sing till Earth Heaven r with the Harmon [Music] of let our reing rise high as the let it out as the rolling sing the song of the that the darkness has t us sing a song full of the hope that the Pres has us facing the rising son of our new day be let us victory [Music] we Empower each and every student to lead and live a perfect Driven Life we provide Innovative educational opportunities that Ure each student
002is prepared for their future Miss pater good evening and thank you Mr Vasquez uh I'd like to continue our Black History Month celebration and recognition Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African-American and a time for recognizing their Central role in the United States history also known as African-American history month the event grew out of the original negro history week which was the brainchild of noted historian Carter G Woodson and other prominent African-Americans since 1976 every US president has officially designated the month of February is Black History Month other countries including Canada oh I'm sorry other countries around the world including Canada and the United Kingdom also devote a month to celebrating black history as a district Black History Month is recognized across the different schools and different classrooms including the first
003Friday of every month in February being designated as Crystal Ellis Day by resolution from the Board of Education tonight we would like to share a video from Rosa Park Elementary that highlights how the school celebrates its namesake's birthday [Music] well today is Rosa Park's birthday and we are celebrating our names sake which is Rosa Park we have edible buses Rosa Park Shuffle we are leading a podcast we have one of our grandmothers and she's reading a book to our students and then they're asking questions what as though she's Rosa Parks herself Rosa day is one of our annual Traditions that we bestowed upon our students and our staff so that they really learn more about her names sake her purpose and the work that it takes to put into just having the grit the tenacity
004and the grind to make a movement when I when I was a little kid's age we will make a bus edible bus with gram crackers but now that I'm older I like I like helping kids and teaching them how to make it and everything and showing them what what they got to do and one thing I like about Rosa Parks day we all get together do fun activities like a podcast and one thing I care about Rosa day is showing how she supported and didn't let nobody Ambush her off the bus and I feel like that really brings some something to my heart because she really cared about our black community being better than what it is now it is extremely important so that our students know about their history we deem it important and
005necessary so that when they are making decisions when they are in school they have a deeper meaning and significant to be here and to get an education my name is Terence Livingston my name is James Williams my name is Chanel Phoenix my name is Angela Hickman Richburg and I am TPS Pro along with celebrating excuse me Black History Month in our schools we'd also like to recognize some of our community leaders who demonstrate their tireless commitment not only to the city of Toledo but to our schools they are the epitome of what it means to be TPS proud so tonight we have uh some certificates that we would like to uh share with and if you're here if you could come forward and shake hands at the Horseshoe then we will take one group picture
006in the back uh when we're done here Cecil Holston II Warren and Yolanda Woodbury kind look like a boomerang maresa is Marisha here miss Joanne White [Music] and one of our new favorite Allstars Miss Stephanie Williams pict yep e e e ation we will recognize and congratulate this month's retirees starting with Mr Bert Barnett Jr social studies teacher at Bower retiring with 29 years and 6 months of service Miss Angela Cassidy director of transition at start the at the start sack with 37 years of service Karen Cohen intervention assesses at East Broadway with 35 years of service of Angelina donau night miscellaneous labor at to Technology Academy of engineering 29 years and8 months of service Janelle finger food service worker 2 currently at Rogers with 28 years and four months of service Gladwin Richardson alternative
007energy at to Technology Academy of engineering 37 years of service Christina Schwarz Vision hearing par at start at the start sack with 39 years two months of service with a total of 27 years and six months of service to too Public Schools thank you Miss Maser section uh three uh consists of community comments and we have no Community comments for uh tonight's meeting so it takes us down to section four and section four is organizational input and uh 4.01 is a student representative we don't have one we are working on one hopefully that'll go through the fat committee um and then section 4.02 is the parent Congress and we have a representative from parent Congress uh Miss Joanna White who is the PTO president at Jones Leadership Academy oh good evening I am Joanna White
008and I have two daughters who are alumni of Jones Leadership Academy of business and I also have two daughters who are currently students at L student L Stewart Academy for business thank you for providing this opportunity to for me to speak to you today I'm the PTO president at Jones Leadership Academy of business and I have led the PTO at this school for about six years I believe in TPS and our students and that is why I wanted to be a part of this lead parent leadership committee currently we are working on getting the word out about the importance of attendance and being on time to the school and how it impacts academic achievement with the leadership of Miss Brigman we have done two attendance blits so far this month we've done a successful attendance
009Blitz at L Stewart Academy and we did an attendance Blitz at Jones leadership Academy of business last week where we gave away hot chocolate coffee muffins bottled water and raffle tickets to our parents who showed up on time and they really appreciated it they were surprised and they were able to receive a Kroger gift card through the raffle and we were also able to tell our family members that we had a PTO meeting that night and we had three new parents show up to the PTO meeting at L St so we're working hard to get our parents um to attend our PTO meetings and also to let our students know how important for them to come to school each day thank you uh next will be uh 4.03 with our tap representative Mr alilio Ramirez
010thank you I'd like to give a shout out to the wood berries I say the wood berries because Yolanda you see Yolanda you see Warren you see Warren you see Yolanda so it's a pair um I've known him for about 15 years I think probably going back the countless hours that they put in to kids the money that they put in to those kids the dedication not only just the chess club but I see them in community events all over anything dealing with kids I do uh respect you and shout out to you and everybody else that that was honored today thank you for what you do thank you I was thinking about this what I was going to say today with what's going on we kind of talked about it a little bit in
011January but uh it's I had an interesting conversation my uh stepdaughter teaches at Bowling Green and lives in Bowling Green and talked about the the Flyers that were that were around there and she had to have that kind of discussion with her kids so I did talk with her and I'm so glad to be here in Toledo and to be uh amongst people that are of like mind I I I would say um most of you know I went to Birmingham and East L Junior High and weight high school and and had a great experience they never had an issue um but it's tough out there people and I glad to be here and glad to know that we're together thank you thank you um next is Section Five um comments by the board and
012we'll start with you Mr Parker please Parker thank you Mr Mr President um first of all thank you to uh martyr the King Academy for boys for the pledge and L stewards school for girls for the mission and the vision um to our honores uh with the certificates of achievement Mr holon and the wood berries and Miss Williams thank you for all that you do in our community uh it is uh always seeing your light even whatever you put your hand to it's always evident that it's about what's best for our community and those who you are in contact with so thank you for all that you do um to our retirees 27 years 6 months is not anything to frown at uh but that's their consistency and M white I want to thank you
013for all that you did for your care and your consistency six years of uh striving to make a difference and you are doing that day by day we appreciate that I want to just kind of take a moment and use my comments to talk about uh last Thursday and and the smarts uh board meeting the the board takeover meeting uh which was absolutely phenomenal and I think that and I believe my colleagues can agree with such a uh culture that we're in now your mental health is everything and so we can tell you all day long about what that looks like but to hear our students share from their perspective and not just share but to be absolutely prepared in their presentation uh with data and things of such I want to salute and Miss
014Williams is here and she was one of the uh quote unquote smart board members and so I want to thank you and all of the colleagues uh last Thursday who really opened us up to a better understanding I think in this season that is very important and vital that we listen more talk less so we can understand the total picture so thank you again so much and um also with this being Black History Month um for me it's black history period not black history month but to celebrate during this month is always a privilege and an honor because of who I am where I've come from and where I'm going um I'm always excited about the first Friday in February thank you to our board members and the resolution celebrating Dr Crystal Ellis day um
015seeing that there was uh schools that participated that in well and uh Rosa Park day uh you all didn't see it but when the students were talking I was over in the corner in the left away from the camera but I was there uh Miss Barnes was with me as well it was great they had me in the gym uh dealing with different pictures and and thought process and students did an amazing job and finally I'm thankful also for Rosa Parks because this Friday uh I have been picked to be recognized at the end as one of the highlights for Black History Month so I'm really excited about that and honor that they thought enough for me to do that thank you Mr President that's the most I've talked in three months thank you m
016Mrs gin thank you um I doo want to say something about our uh special board meeting last week when we heard from our uh leaders and our student voice group um I actually kept my notes from that that evening um and really what what I heard and I I hopefully I heard them right um was that they wanted to work on efforts to destigmatize uh mental health um challenges so that they can have get help when they need it that they need a safe space uh that they want to be heard um that they want access to these safe spaces um and this was presented to us by a very diverse group of young people and the only thing I could think of that kept coming to mind over and over during that presentation is
017it sounds a lot like inclusion it sounds a lot like Equity it sounds a lot like diversity and uh we are being challenged to um put those efforts under wraps and I am one board member who is not interested in put those efforts Under Wraps if we need to uh cause our students to realize uh these these goals we have to have an inclusive School District I don't know how else we can do it if we want to make sure that uh mental health challenges are destigmatized and that folks with who may have them are in inclus included then we have to have an equitable School District uh so uh it's just not possible to do our job without highlighting those very important efforts regardless of what we choose to call them uh my my
018second comment is um really related to the challenges we're facing with um with funding and making hard choices about what gets funded and what doesn't and making U making hard hard decisions as board members uh we understand the importance of respecting the boundary between governance and management strive to stay out of the dayto day uh decisions of our Administration we trust that they're uh making the decisions with the best interest of our students and staff in mind I do want to uh caution us as we're making those decisions though uh to be careful of what I call you know looking for every nickel while we're stepping over or throwing away some dimes so we always have to keep in mind the return on investment of the things that that may or may not be on
019the chopping block that it's not always uh as simple as a few dollars a few nickel here and a few nickels there when uh we may actually be overlooking uh a return on investment that adds up to dimes and dollars so I'm I'm going to I'm going to leave leave that caution uh there right now and we'll see we'll see how it goes uh in the coming weeks thank you Mr President thank you Miss barns thank you Mr President first I want to say happy Black History Month um to those who think that removing us and I mean us I mean anybody that is not cisgender heterosexual white Christian Able Body male with a higher income from the history books from our classrooms you cannot erase people we are here we are we've been here
020and we are thriving I am proud to be a black queer person I am proud to make history here I'm proud to be archived in the library of Congress and my name will not be erased because of your bigotry or your hate and so I am so proud to represent so public schools and our students and our staff that is standing up to bigotry in all shapes and forms to make sure each and every student feel seen value and heard that is a part of Education I wish if I had a magic wand um maybe I'll get it for Black History Month I got a couple more days that our state leaders will look at education like the beacon of the community like they are versus business when you put business over Community you get
021left with nothing um over the last uh over the weekend I had a pleasure of talking with some students college students who are going to be Educators and social workers uh about a discussion topic uh after re uh reviewing the movie The hate you give um and I am a big Tupac fan so I say poac but Tupac fan and a lot of people literally don't understand the the tattoo he had it said Thug Life t h u g l i f e so he thought oh he's representing and proud of being a thug really is a quote the hate you give little infants will F everyone so we need to make sure that we are not giving hate to our children because eventually we'll have a village that would want to burn it down
022to keep it warm so in honor of black history you know I not do black history quote you can't Separate Peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom freedom Malcolm X we're going to keep fighting the for accessibility the equ ability in giving our students public education um we're not just stopping here because it's Black History Month we going to celebrate it 365 days a year we are going to sit there and teach the truth not for us but for our future without knowing who we are where we've been we have no future and I am so proud to represent and work with colleagues who understand the assignment of uplifting each identity that we represent in the school district and standing up against cowards who feel they have the
023right to make America white again um and I am so honored to share this moment with the honores I'm going to take a little time I'm going to go by each person Miss white as a proud TPS parent a true Mustang I cannot thank you enough for your dedication and your determination to make sure parents are involved in the education Beyond checking the parent phal you show up and you show out I did not get my coffee that day I was a little late but I saw y'all but I just want to say thank you um because let me tell you something a lot of people you know don't realize Miss white children graduated from Jones and she is still showing up because Jones babies is her babies um and I appreciate that and I
024am so proud and I can't wait to vote for her one day as a board member I'm just saying um but I am so proud of her and I I just I I wish people would always give flowers where they do so I'm going to give you a garden right now my sister thank you so much um board member Williams who's also a Mustang and I promis you I'm not biased okay maybe a little bit but not um thank you so much for being unapologetically you and sharing your truth and bringing the Highlight needed to listen to our youth about mental health I really I was just so moved uh as you all took the board meeting over because this is what we do it for I am old now you see you see my
025shirt don't say young gifted in black no more just say gifted in Black okay um because I am waiting for you to take the mic I am so honored that you chose to do so and that's why I'm so grateful you came tonight to be recognized um to Mr holon the second um a true Pioneer of what it means to be a community leader um very quiet but makes big waves and I am just so grateful that he chose to uh definitely pour into black male mental health um but also just mental health for our students period the work that he's does he has a workshop by the away once a month uh at the Y in wom Parmer um that is free that talks about mental health and they work with students and they
026actually get lunches and this is for any student not just TPS and the fact that he is pouring into our community this is how we need to show up um so also want to give him a garden as well and then maresa who couldn't be here tonight because she got to make them dollars and I understand that I am so proud of her for taking that initiative to make sure we have a sensory room um when we're talking about mental health uh it's we have to talk about healthy coping but accessible coping skills um and I'm so grateful that she pushed that initiative with the teachers over there at start to get that happening for our staff and our students um and my friend my my homie he better hit me up on Facebook later
027uh Phil um he has been ground shaking since from day one um working with smarts at uh woodwork um and showing up and making sure voice student voices are centered and so I just wanted to go down the list and thank thank him and our students in the wood berries don't be side out of me I'm coming I'm coming to y'all thank you so much thank you so much for giving me the blueprint of how to show up for our kids um like Mr Roma said every time I'm out I see you I see you smiling and I know it's hard cuz I got three kids so I know it's it's not hard to manage 5,000 kids but you're showing our babies something that was stolen from them and that's the the accessibility of choice
028you can choose to do something even though you don't see it in your neighborhood and I'm so grateful that you're bringing that to our neighborhood I'm so grateful that you're bringing um chess to our babies and to have 175 entries is that about right it was more than that what oh just 75 well I'm going say 100 75 but it's 75 um of 75 kids played pretty much a all day tournament they didn't tell me it was all day when I showed up Dr dur looking at you as you left me there um they were so intense they were just literally loving and enjoying the game and we had two students two teams from TPS um three I'm sorry that one we had Harvard Jones and it was another school we had baby from I
029can't remember I'm so sorry but to see the joy in their faces um because of the opportunity and the termination to bring something to our district um was beautiful and I can't thank you enough for sharing that that love and passion for our students and offering the blueprint for us the following footsteps thank you Mr President thank you Mrs okay now I know why Pastor Parker would always say it's so hard like down sitting down here after all the board members have gone right it's like ditto ditto ditto um I do want to just quickly uh thank uh MLK Academy for boys for presenting The Pledge and LP Stewart um Academy for the mission of vision and then the students and the staff from Rosa Parks um I love what the principal said about grit
030and grind and it just truly reminds you of what we all aim to do uh follow in Rose's footsteps uh I would like to certainly congratulate the retirees uh 207 years again we could not do what we do without what our retirees have uh accomplished in this district and the impact that they've made on our students and then congratulations to the community members thank you for being here tonight thank you for being a part of this um you know especially during Black History Month especially during black history month so thank you uh what you what you bring to TPS um is immeasurable it's immeasurable so thank you and I'm especially happy to see a parent in our parent seat over there um it brings back fond memories um and again you never know where you're
031going to wind up we've talked about this uh so thank you Miss White um certainly happy to see a parent in our paren seat uh the smarts board meeting certainly listen I think that the statement was made enough that just for the fact that we got up we sat down the students took over and that was empowering their voice we didn't have to say a word you said it all and that means more to me and I told you my mother's heart was bursting that day um um from where we have been to where we are now and I see I know the future um number one is female and two is so bright so thank you um thank you okay Mr Ramirez you about brought me to tears over there and I'm just thankful
032that we are united in this District um with everything all the noise that's going on and that's what it is is noise uh our hearts are united and we as a board I know will always continue to make Student Center decisions um because that's what we're about and that's what we do I do want to just bring notice to our Fine Arts festivals that are coming up uh they start February 27th at Scott high school and the last one I think is March 21st at Rogers High School make sure you check on the Facebook post for TPS or our website um I know the board members will probably share that as well and I'm sure Dr Durant will be out and about to all those but highly recommend it we have such talented students in
033this District they're phenomenal so I recommend getting out to all of those if you're able to and then I just want to quickly recognize um Ohio Schoolboard Association our Northwest region uh is having a um uh our banquet coming up in March and three of the board members are being recognized with Awards so I think that speaks volumes about the impact that board members can make on the state from the association level um but then also um I want to remind everyone that um our board members whether it's at a conference or whether it's at this board meeting or just out in the community can continue to be advocates for public education and our students and I certainly hope like you said um about our state legislators Miss Barnes is that they need to understand
034the value that public education brings to a community they certainly do um hopefully one day they'll learn that that's all thank you thank you Mr bar uh my comments are going to be uh around um that I also want to offer congrats to our honores uh tonight also congrats to the uh retirees um I also want to make up for uh something that um uh from the last meeting I uh Dr Durant I forgot to U uh appreciate uh uh your staff uh when we talked about the mental health uh uh board meeting students because uh uh we've been working on this for over a year about a year and a half and uh Linda bringman uh put a lot of work into it Gail Lake put a lot of work into it and uh
035Jennifer Lawless put a lot of work into it I was so excited about what was going on I was remiss in in in doing that and and and telling you what a great job your your staff has done I I sometimes get carry away that way uh what's and Patty Patty Maser so yes um so um I just wanted to uh make sure that they got recognized as well the um I want to talk a little bit about the uh organic uh process that went on when we talked about the board meeting it um obviously started with the formation of student smarts of the kinds of things that the uh students would discuss and uh take on um and of course mental health was one of the things that Rose to the top but in
036addition to that uh uh was um uh uh Miss Barnes um uh first at the fates committee because like I said took over took over a year uh also uh uh Pastor Parker par Pastor Parker and I attended a mental health uh conference and this goes back to something that Miss vwing said about conferences and things that we do as board members we went to a conference and uh they were uh there was a presentation by students at at the conference and and they were talking about how important mental health was and how they wanted people to listen to them and then uh pastor parf and I came back to our own district and we heard you all saying the same thing when we had different face committee meetings uh M misss Barns and U
037uh Pastor Parker and myself heard over and over again the same thing so Pastor Parker and I talked about that we thought that our students could uh do a better presentation than we could as as board members and as adults uh so uh he was part of initiating that we took it to face committee and we asked Miss bringman to uh please uh take that onor she thought was appropriate uh that was in new organs for for a year and a half and and that's how that happened uh organically and I guess I only say that to say everybody's involved every single board member here and up here uh a lot of your staff uh doctors your a and and of course the students and of course the people their families who support our students
038um are all involved so it it took all of us to do that um I also want to build on uh uh Mr Ramirez's remarks I could tell how difficult that was for you to talk about uh I like you are having conversations at home uh that I didn't think uh I ever needed to have I too I'm a weight graduate uh you are weight graduate Dr Durant's a weight graduate I don't want to just I want to stress that but I thought I'd just casually bring that up uh but I I think that we would all agree that in our history and the things just just never thought we deal with some of the things that we have to deal with now and some of the things that our students have to deal with
039um it's unbelievable to me Mr just just unbelievable I I have to be honest with you I just never thought that we would be here uh discussing how people can um use hate and name calling and make Mass characterizations about a group of people uh like seems to be happening now I have to say that I um mostly not not always but mostly grew up in an environment of respect and care about everybody uh especially those who needed a little extra help and a lift up uh I I like you I'm just at a loss of words that I would live long enough to see what's going on right now and with that I'm I'm going to end my my comments thank you section that brings us to section six and section six is the
040uh consent agenda uh agenda items 6.01 through 6.22 are the consent agenda items board members May request to pull an item from the consent agenda and move it to the discussion section of the agenda items 6.01 through 6.06 are the human resources staff development and training committee chair poly Taylor girkin co-chair Randall Parker II items 607 through 612 our finance and business operations committee chair Bob Vasquez Co chair Randall Parker III item 613 Workforce Development and partnership committee there are no action items this month chair Chris varwig co-chair Bob Vasquez item 6.14 through 6.15 of the board curriculum instruction and academic Excellence committee chair poly Kaylor grien co-chair Chris farwick item 6.16 is the policy commit there was no meeting this month uh chair Bob Vasquez co-chair Sheena barnens item 6.17 Arts Athletics and Student
041Activities Committee no action items this month chair Chris farwick co-chair Randall Parker III items 6.18 through 6.19 are the family and Community engagement committee chair Sheena Barnes co-chair Bob Vasquez item 6 .20 through 6.22 are approval of board meeting minutes I would like to request a motion to approve the consent AG items so move second it has been moved and seconded is there any discussion if not treasure please call the RO Miss Barnes yes Mr Parker yes Mrs girkin yes Mrs barwig yes Mr Vasquez yes section seven of the agenda consist of reports minutes from the month's uh committee meetings and are here for information and reference no action is required so we can proceed to Section 8 of the agenda Section 8 01 is the uh discussion items and there are no items this
042month section nine consist of walk-ins uh are there any Walkins no good there are none so we can proceed to section 10 section 10 is the early childhood education action items and there are no action items this month uh chair of that committee is uh Randall Park thei and co-chair Sheena Barnes that takes us to section 11 of the agenda that consists of early childhood education reports and minutes from this month's committee meetings and are provided for your information and reference no action is required so we can proceed to section 12 section 12.01 are walk-ins for the early childhood education and there are no walk-ins for early childhood education that takes us to section 13 and section 13 consists of uh through 13 through 15 uh consist of comments um comments by the superintendent again
043uh honor to Dr Crystal Ellis with my superintendent uh and feel honored and blessed to to be here at this period of time and uh to see what he has contributed to to students of over the years being myself and being TPS proud uh also in regards to thank you to the wood barries um I can't say enough because it goes way back to Mr woodbear and I used to sit on uh a board for the city and uh as well as over at the project Douglas Center uh we had done a lot of work over there with uh Mr mammed and some of the others but uh they've been a true blessing uh to show with a loving uh black nuclear family looks like uh of a wife and a f and a husband
044and a father as well as other things and uh our kids truly appreciate that uh the other thing is is congratulations to maresa Coy over at Star High School she created the Sparty gym along with the sensory Center for kids within that school those with autism and other things and this is a child just as great as our smart student who came up with a concept and put it together in a business plan to execute it and I'm glad the media supported her in that endeavor uh also want to congratulate uh our board members osba uh with the Star Award uh I think a great great distinction because there's over 3,400 board members and they're going to only going to award 41 Awards and we have over half of our board receiving that award which
045is remarkable uh in the work that we do and last but not least uh our smart students uh we've already been contacted Mr silac Scott CAC has already contacted me we are arranging for our smart student to speak at their Mental Health Board so this is going to be a great thing uh to take it to the next level so I think you all should be very very T proud of our students thank you and and our and our staff as well Lawless R Brinkman Miss Meyer still gives her time Miss ner our executive I mean uh there's a lot of people who put a lot into these students and so to see what they produced uh we will be behind them to execute a lot of those things particularly the room that they've already
046started creating so again thank you than thank you Dr uh Durant uh any comments Mr sey uh we keep monitoring the more information that we get on the BM budget um when they release it it's pretty much a summary document as it comes out we look at it see how effectively so we will keep you in the loop when we find out that information and the more that we receive but unfortunately right now it's not looking real great for us thank you Mr steli uh uh 15 is board members um and we'll start with uh uh Mr Parker way down there at the end Mr President I don't have any other comments thank you sir thank you I'd like to take a moment to recognize the thoughtful effort that my colleagues and our um and
047our Administration put into planning today's special recognition in honor of Black History Month I truly appreciate the intention to highlight important contributions in our committee uh it's in moments like this that really enrich and deepen our connection with those that we serve at the same time I'd like to suggest um to my my colleagues that we consider developing a process that allows for uh some more broad input and collaboration when planning these meaningful recognitions uh given that we have a very uh active um face committee we've heard many different things about the things that our face committee has accomplished for our board uh and that's the family and Community engagement committee as you know it is um cleed by uh my colleagues Mrs um Miss Barnes and uh and Mr Vasquez uh if uh it
048seems like that would be an ideal place for these types of initiatives to be developed with Fuller participation uh this could also ensure that maybe we consistently recognize others significant observances such as women's equality month among others I know sometimes um when there's uh you these opportunities come up and we really don't want to miss the opportunities at all I I again I just want to say that I truly appreciate uh someone taking the lead in in doing it but I'd like to see it um become a more formal process maybe something that we do with regularity that comes out of the face committee additionally I think it's um going to be beneficial if our policy committee um if our the colleagues on the policy committee uh would review and establish some clear guidelines on
049how presentations and recognitions are brought forward to the board agenda uh so that we're all really clear on how that that is going to work it would provide Clarity and consistency for all board members to ensure um you know that that we have some understanding and inclusion in those processes and again it will continue to strengthen our engagement with the community um I offer this as a s suggestion uh for future consideration and and want to just uh reiterate my full appreciation uh of what has gone into today's presentations I believe that by working through our established committees we can continue to recognize important moments in the way that col that uh reflects our Collective board voice and value so if uh if my colleagues from those two committees would consider taking up those topics
050in future committee meetings uh in the bring recommendations to the board it would be appreciated um I'd also um like to mention one more thing about our uh smart students again it was something I meant to mention when I commented on it earlier I'm not sure what official action we've taken or what resolutions we've had um recognizing smarts but it seems like um it would be appropriate again probably the face committee uh to consider some sort of um resolution that officially recognizes smarts as the board's student voice uh group or in some way formalizes them as the student boys for the the boards and then thinking about other ways that we can maybe use that group uh to come up with a way to have a student representative you know part of is part of
051our board meetings and something we've you know wanted to do and it seems like uh with the leadership that we're seeing with our uh smarts group it it might be a great vehicle for considering that that's a thank you thank you Miss Barnes thank you Mr President Bor m kkin you're welcome for the past four years we have recognized each Awareness Month including women History Month just for the record um and we will be doing that as well this year um once again I am so honored to recognize our community members who show up in our spaces to help our babies um in spite of U miscommunication closed-mindedness or bigotry and so I I am so proud once again to represent TPS our community and also black history month thank you Mrs v um you
052know what I just made to um I'm excited about the conversation that we had in Workforce Development um about our bus tours I know that we have not uh talked a lot about that at board meetings but I think that we need to start doing those things um I'm really excited this coming one in March uh we have three buses I believe almost 100 people or more and we're going around to all of theems uh showcasing uh Career Tech programs and really letting our community um be more aware of what we offer along with leading the way in the state of Ohio by bringing other districts to our districts so it's kind of a showand tell and I really believe that this is the the way that public education um will go and um I
053I'm just I'm really excited about it so I just wanted to start bringing that topic up it's going to be an ongoing Topic in our Workforce Development meetings are the bus tours and how we're going to bring folks into the fold and showcase TPS it impacts so many different areas of our Community uh whether it's Economic Development Workforce Development you name it and so any way that we can bring um that Community to see what we're doing and participate in TPS to become a part of that economic development in whether it's the county or the city you name it um then we should do it and the fact that we're showcasing to so many other school districts across the state should speak volumes to our community here that's all M Bar we to add to
054that before I came here today a legislator from Indiana want to come now to the tour as well so we now have cross the state uh from legislation as well they bring money he's bringing a um an investor to do that yes he is y lastly I want I want to give my comments and I I gave most of them but I I do want to uh touch on something that U uh Mr St schy uh mentioned uh we had a discussion um with uh Mr sty Mr kofman and part of that discussion is how how difficult it is for Mr sty to keep us updated recognizing that the budget uh is a process down at the state and what Mr schy doesn't want to do and I I think this is my understanding anyways
055he doesn't say it in this many words is he doesn't want to State something that isn't going to be finalized because we know that in that process it goes through different bodies of the legislature and then it goes back to the legislature and um they but they do start off someplace the reason I bring it up and the reason that it's important is that I've asked for him to get with all of you my colleagues in the board because and also staff because there are things in the budget that are very clearly financial and then there are things in the budget that aren't as clearly Financial there are things surrounding curriculum there are things about how we uh uh Define attendance or truancy uh but they all have uh or could have financial implications so
056what I've asked uh our finance uh Department to do and our treasur to do is to try to go through all those and even though we're in the early State not beginning stages but we're more towards the beginning of the budget process to try to attach what it uh means to us financially and also to get to those and I say that especially for my colleagues in um HR because it hits every committee uh not just Finance HR curriculum uh Athletics um uh our buildings and Facilities there are things in that budget that hit everything so uh we really going to have to depend on the expertise of our staff from our curriculum uh people from our business people uh from our HR department Etc uh and then also from board members who staff those
057committees those are things you should be uh talking about um because I know that one of the roles of of the board members is to contact um our legislators in uh Columbus to try to change what's there right now so I think what we will do is um uh what I've instructed to do is get with each one of you and that maybe you can discuss these things in committee what I've also asked to do is to take the risk take the risk of telling us where we stand right now where that piece of legislation is right now even though it won't be the final so you know and I think of what I was getting from is remember I could give you information today that won't be the same information a week from now
058and I still want to know what that information is so that we can have an impact on that information so we may could change it from what it is next week so I kind of put Mr SE schy on the spot so I I just want to tell my colleagues that he's on the spot so don't don't kind of blame him if you say well that's not that's not exactly true you told us last week it was something else because it was something else last week okay so but I told him I want to take the risk um of doing all that um I and I think that uh one of the other things is is that uh um it it doesn't the way it stands today and what he has said today as as
059he already said here is it doesn't look good okay so uh and I want to I want to caution everybody you hear come out of the state sometimes right out of the governor's office we're going to do this for you and and it goes out in the media as a sound bite that we're going to do this for you but then they forget the sound bite that says but then we're going to take this away from you okay and this no way makes up for what we're taking away from you so it's like I told Mr stty that we we got to do the math because they say we're going to give you money in this hand and take away from you in this hand I want to know what the math is I want
060you know just to use a simple thing if $10 and they're taking you know $12 away from us and giving us $3 and think we should celebrate that that's that's not something to celebrate so we're going to have to figure it out as we go along so I want I want to caution the colleagues we got to get into this we we gota you know a lot of that stuff and a lot of the language is vague it lacks definition so you don't even know how to interpret it so um uh those those were my comments all right uh that brings us to uh section 16 which is adjournment do I hear a motion for adjournment so move second it's been moved in second is there any discussion hearing none treasury please call the RO
061Miss Barnes yes Mr Parker yes Mrs girkin yes Mrs barwig yes Mr Vin yes meeting J