001thing that everyone to go to. I would like to go to one eventually, but definitely this week I got so [Music] I call the Tuscross Valley Local Board of Education meeting October 13th in the community boardroom to order. Please call the role. >> Mr. Fischer, >> present. >> Mrs. Green, >> present. >> Mr. Mr. Overton >> present. >> Mr. Burger >> present. Agendas are um have been online and um made available that way. So please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Mr. Overbertton. >> 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. >> Mr. will you please provide us with the invocation? >> Heavenly Father, we thank you once again just for an
002opportunity to come together and do the business of Tusky Valley. We thank you for your continued uh hand of protection upon our students and our staff. Just be with us tonight in Jesus name. Amen. >> Thank you. >> Dr. Bransky, is there any additions to our agenda tonight or changes? >> Uh there are changes from the original draft that was posted online, but as long as you grab one off the table, that is the most accurate. Okay. On our agenda, you can fly find our decorations which re um points out our mission statement and board of education roles. Moving on to item number three. Do we have any public participation? >> Uh not tonight. >> Hearing that we have no public participation, like to ask Dr. Bransky to give his superintendent report. >> All right.
003Well, thank you, Mrs. Burer. Uh first, I'd like to just welcome all of our students here tonight. Uh so, we're recognizing students of the month, which we normally do. Um, we also have Tusky Valley Broadcast joining us. Uh, and we also have a few government students joining us uh to see uh what happens at a board meeting uh and to learn a little bit more about that. So, we just appreciate you all being here tonight. Uh, two things under my report. The first thing I have is October is National Principles Month. Um, and so we just want to give a shout out to Mr. Phillips, Mr. Fogle, Mr. Street, and Mrs. Macke for everything that they do um in managing and leading their buildings. Uh, they've helped us open our new facilities and all of
004the grade level changes and bringing buildings and cultures together. Uh, and I think they've just done a fantastic job. Um, they do so many things that nobody knows. Um, they're the people I'm talking to at 4 or 5 a.m. Uh, they're also the people I'm talking to at 11:00 at night. Uh, it's not uncommon to call them and they're not in their office because they're covering a classroom somewhere. Uh, Mr. Street was teaching kindergarten today. Um, so, uh, so they do a lot of things behind the scenes that really nobody knows. Um, and I just truly appreciate that. So, thank you guys and everything you do. Uh the other item under my report tonight is uh the district report card was released by the Ohio Department of Education um a few weeks ago. Um I
005shared out publicly just highlights of that. Uh but I'd like to go over it tonight with the board and just make sure you don't have any questions and you understand what the scores are. Um anybody that's here, there were copies of the report card on the table for you. Um so the district report card comes out once a year. It really measures how students do on a single test on a single day. Uh so a lot of a lot rides on how our kids do. We at Tusky Valley don't focus a lot on the state test. We focus on doing the very best every day. Uh making sure that we're doing um we're using the most innovative teaching practices. Um we have updated curriculum. Um and if our teachers and our staff is doing what
006they're supposed to do every day, then the report card will take care of itself. Um and we're thrilled with that that we are a four and a half star district. So the state of Ohio changed a few years ago uh to a star rating system. Five is the highest. Three is the state what what the state expects. So three means you met the standard. Anything above that means you've exceeded the standard. Uh so four and a half stars. Uh there are only two districts in Tuscross County to res receive a four and a half star. Um and also oftentimes we look to Stark County and some of the bigger schools up there and the wealthier schools. Um not a single Stark County school got a fivestar. Uh so we are right up there uh with
007everybody else. Um the report card is broken into several different categories. I'm just going to give a quick summary um of what they mean. So the first is achievement. Uh so achievement we received four stars. Again three is the expectation. Uh this is a measure of how our students did on the state tests. Uh so every state test that kids have taken between the grades of 3 through 12 um how they do on that day um is measured based on how they perform. And the way they measure that is how students did the previous year compared to how they did this year. And what they're looking to do is to see if kids grew. Um the more the higher you score the more points the district gets. So there's a thing in there called the
008performance index. Ours is a 94.6. Um, again, what it's higher than we've had in the in the past. Um, and it's the second highest score in the county. Uh, so the more so if you're an advanced or an accelerated on that test, you get more points than if you're proficient, limited, or basic. So then as soon as you move to the next category, you get more points and that's how you get a higher PI score. So when you look at PI scores, you can kind of tell on how how kids are scoring based on where that score falls. So we're thrilled with that. Uh so achievement four stars our kids have done a great job. So kudos to all of you that are here because I know you've had to take those. Uh progress is
009the next component. Four again four stars. Three is the expectation. Uh and that it's very similar to to achievement but it's growing or it's measuring growth from year to year. So just last week or last month I'm sorry Mrs. Clemens was here and was talking about MAP scores and the zero and the zero means one year's growth. Um and how we're always measuring that to make sure our kids are growing. Zero means you're maintaining your place. So if you think about a race and if you start one year or one meet and you go to the next meet have you maintained your same place amongst everybody else. If you do that's a zero that's a three. So you have to go above and beyond that to get to higher scores and and altogether as a
010as a cohort of kids across the district four stars. So great job. Gap closing five stars. We're thrilled with that. Gap closing is a measure of our most vulnerable students. So for us in our district, it's going to be students with disabilities and free and reduced lunch students. Uh so it's it's seeing if those those subgroups of kids are are measuring up to where the state says they should be. So the state of Ohio every year sets a score. I'm not really sure how that score is decided, but then how close you get to it or how how far you exceed it um equals your star rating. So we far exceeded what the goal was for us and that's how we hit five stars there. Uh graduation, three stars, three as the expectation. Um there's
011a few reasons for that. One is if you have a student with disabilities that's on an alternative assessment. So it means you don't aren't required to take the regular end of course assessments in high school for graduation. Um you take something called an alternative assessment. And though our our kids have passed those, those don't count as true graduates. Um which is silly to me. Uh but but they don't count as graduates for us. So we always get a ding for those students. Um another score if if students are 18 plus and they decide to drop out and they withdraw, we can't stop them from doing that, but that would count for us. So, in the last two years of cohorts of kids, um we've had a few do that. Um or students who leave our
012district and they go somewhere else. Oftentimes those are seniors um halfway through their year and they decide to often enroll in an online school. Um they have the right to do that. Um but because they're not at that that new school for enough days, that counts back on us and it counts as a dropout for us. Uh so all of that scores are are revolving into that graduation rate. So that's going to eb and flow based on the cohorts of kids and sort of what's happening with that group. Um, our high school does a nice job of trying to track those kids. Um, I believe they they work closely with the sheriff's department before to find kids and figure out where they are. Um, and again, it's not uncommon that um, uh, Mr. Phillips, Mr.
013Fogle are, um, getting in their cars and going to houses and knocking on doors and trying to find where these kids are at. So, uh, graduation something we'll continue to work on there. Early literacy, three stars. Three is the expectation. Um, this is measured by three different ways that you get this score. Uh the first is the students who pass the third grade test and that's the largest percentage and you get more points for that. So how many kids pass the third grade test? Um it has to do with students that are in reading improvement and monitoring plans, how many students are what what the state considers off track and how many we are able to move on track. Um and then the final part of that is how many students are promoted to fourth
014grade. Um we are less than two percentage points away from having a f having a four-star rating in that category. So our elementary is doing a nice job. when we looked at diagnostic data a month ago, um you could see the growth that that's happening down at our elementary. So, I'm not too worried about that. Um next one is college and career readiness. This is the first time this is showing up as our overall rating. Um it's been on there kind of as a soft recording, so you can look into it. Um but this is the first time it's counting for us. So, we hit three stars. Uh three is the expectation, and it's the number of students who meet one of eight items divided by a total number of students in the graduating class.
015Um, so to to to meet one of those indicators, the categories include that they received an honors diploma, that they've earned 12 recognized industry credential points, they've taken part in CCP classes, but not only taken CCP, but you've earned a minimum of 12 credit hours, uh, being ACT SAT remediation free, scoring a three plus on at least three AP tests, completing a pre-apprenticeship program, being proficient on three or more tech assessments in a single pathway, um, or completing the Ohio Means Readiness a seal and working 250 hours in a workbased learning experience. So those are the eight categories that's being measured here. Um again, we missed four stars in that category by less than two percentage points. Um we we have consistently since the state has started to track this every year our numbers continue
016to grow. Um and it's worth noting that that is two years worth of students that they're looking at for that. So it's two it's the last two years um that's being measured in there. Uh looking at that uh for this year, Mr. Phillips and his staff's already working on that. So, we have 102 seniors in the current class. 37 of those have already met one of those pathways. 21 are on track. So, as long as they finish their courses that they're enrolled in, we'll hit it. Uh 21 students are currently at Buckeye Career Center and they are on track. So, as long as they they get their industry recognized credentials, they'll be on track. And then we So, there's just 23 students left in that group that's not meeting one of those categories. Uh so,
017based on that, if you do the percentage, um we will have no problem hitting four stars uh next year. Uh the final report that's not showing up on here for you, but uh just finances. Um it's a little there there's more to it than what the district report card says. Um but we are the third lowest per pupil spending overall in the county. And we're the third lowest uh in classroom spending in the county. And the only schools we are behind is Dover and New Philadelphia, which are city schools with way more kids. So when you divide the number of students by the overall spending, they should be less than us. Um but so we're third. Uh we spend $1,365 less per student overall than the state average. We spend $1,171 less per student just
018in just general classroom supplies and what happens in the classroom. Um and while we're able to spend less per student, we also receive about $300 less federal funds than the state average per student. So we're getting less money from the state, we're also spending less money for students. Um and we're performing exceptionally well. So from a financial aspect, um we we are trying to provide our community with the best bang for their buck, a great education at the most cost-effective ways possible. Uh when you pull up the quadrant chart, and all of this is available on the Department of Education's website. Um if you go to the finance page, there's a quadrant chart that you can plot every district in the state. You can do it by county, you can do it by region, however
019you want to do it. Um but we consistently we are following in the the very highest category for highest performance index the ability to move all kids from one great one level to the next um while being the most cost effective. So we're all we're up in that category every single time. So um that's the report card in a nutshell. There's of course a lot of other data that flows into it. Uh but I I'm thrilled with what's come out. Like I said it's not our focus. We'll look at it one time per year. What can we learn from it and then we're going to move on. Uh but I'm thrilled with our staff. I'm thrilled with our students for the work that's happening in our classrooms. Um, any questions from any of the board
020members. >> Awesome. All right, that concludes my report, Mrs. Burrier. >> Thank you, Dr. Ransky. Item number five, we have I'd like to ask Mrs. Shaw to come up and share. We have student representatives report. >> Awesome. And I think they're going to report. So, if the board members want to >> join the audience, we can see their screen. Are you sure? Oh, okay. Okay, we'll go back. All right. Well, good evening, members of the board. On behalf of our students and our crew, I'd like to introduce uh a couple members of our Tusky Valley broadcast team. So, of course, I'm Mrs. Tiffany Shaw. We have Natalie Stokes, Jordis-in-law, and Jimmy Walker with us tonight. All right, so um Tusky Valley Broadcast, what is it? So, first of all, it's a student-led program that gives
021our students really a hands-on learning experience in video production, communication, technology, public speaking, teamwork, and leadership. So, what started as an idea has quickly grown into a creative outlet where students share some of the incredible things that is happening all throughout our district every single day. And so, first of all, before we get into our process, I want to give um just thanks to the board because it was really your vision and your support really Sally Green um really wanting to to bring this to fruition. And so, your belief in providing students with this hands-on authentic learning opportunities really has uh brought this to life. And so I'm excited because our students every day get to see the the fruit of their labor. And so the process just we're going to share what that process
022looks like uh the daily process. But to give you some background, we currently have 40 students on our crew. 15 high school, 25 middle school students who work on this every single day. Uh which of course I'm very excited about. Um most students have learned multiple roles and so you're going to see here um as they explain the process what those different roles are. All right. And so the first one is the script writer. >> So script writing is the very first part about Tusky Valley Broadcast. It's really what our co-host base. It's what they read when they're recording. And the first step of this is to collect information. We get our information from several different sources. It depends on the Tusky Valley website, different Tusky Valley social media such as Instagram and Facebook. We
023look at the district master calendar. We look at the dragonfly calendar that you can find on the website. We really collect information from anywhere we can. There's a document that any teacher or staff member can put information in that they'd like to be read on the announcements. and we just make sure we get all the information we need to just say what we need to say about what's happening that day in Georgian country. So once we have all the information and we uh got everything together then we can actually write the script itself. And to do that there's a shared Google doc that all of our script writers have access to. And each day one of the assigned script writers will write the script. And so they make sure that it's cohesive, it has smooth
024transitions, that the co-hosts have balanced speaking parts, and they make sure that it just makes sense, flows well, and will sound great on camera. And then the final step about script writing is to make sure it's set up on our teleprompter app, Parrot. Um, it doing that super simple. We just copy and paste our written script into the app, and we make sure it's all set up and ready to record that day. Great. All right. And the next part is um our director and uh Elsie Corey who was supposed to be here couldn't make it at the last minute. So I'm going to go ahead and share um the the director's role. So this is the most important role. They really are calling the shots. They're the one making sure that everything is ready to
025go, the lights are ready. Um they are making sure that the co-hosts look okay. uh and just making sure that we're ready to flow. The other thing is they get the fun the fun part to say action and so that's always the fun thing every day uh whenever we're recording. So that is the director. So, before the process of taking the video may begin, there's there's a couple things that you have to make sure is set up and ready, such as the the co-host not wearing green. This this this them wearing green can affect the green screen and it can make them look like they don't have a body. Now, we don't want that, do we? So when that is done, you also have to make sure that the script is on the iPad on
026the on the holder >> teleprompter. >> Yeah. And that and then that the there are no shadows around the co-hosts when that is all ready and and they are all in their you have to make sure that they look and sound their bests. So that includes making sure that as said earlier that there are no shadows around them and that they are dressed appropriately. Then you have to make sure that they sound their best which means making sure that they don't sound too low or too high like not ear bleed high obviously >> and that they and that you can hear them on the video. When that is when that is made sure of you can you and the director and the co-host are in their place the director will then say action and then
027you will start taking the video. >> Yes. Excellent. >> All right. And then co-host. >> Yep. Co-host is basically the face of the broadcast. We mainly just uh read off the script. Uh it's our job to prepare, read the script beforehand. uh ask for any changes right before we go into record. Uh Miss Shaw likes it if we read it that the morning of so any necessary changes can be made uh before we record. And then uh it's all about projection, making sure that we're uh loud enough to be heard without uh deafening the audience when they listen to it the next morning. But other than that, it's a lot of reading and just looking nice. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. And then the video editor. We couldn't have any of our editors be here, so
028I'll share. Um, and so this is the final step of our daily broadcast. And this is a very, very technical step. Um, as you can see, there are 30 different steps that the editor um has to take in order for uh the broadcast to actually go out. Um, we upload, we make sure that it's uploaded onto YouTube. Um, also our Instagram channel every day. And so with with the um with the editor, patience is also a key because uh sometimes it takes us a couple takes or we'll have to do a couple takes and then they'll have to splice it together. And so making sure um that as they're going through those steps that they're not skipping anything. Uh because one step skip could throw off throw off the rest of it. We do upload
029um our movie or our video in iMovie. So, that's currently how we're using um that's currently what we're using to edit. Uh we've been playing around with some other um editing tools, but right now we're currently using iMovie. All right. And then our Trojan highlights. So, on Friday, we record our Trojan highlights. And it's very similar in process to our daily to our daily broadcast. It's the same for the co-host, the director, the video. The main difference comes down to the script writers. The script writers, instead of looking at one day, they look at the entire week. It'll go from Friday night all the way up to the Thursday night before we record. So that will include like the Friday football game, Saturday cross country meets, any soccer throughout the week. And they just have
030to make sure that they report on everything that's happened. And so it'll mostly discuss like the wins and the good things that happen between all the middle school and high school sports, fine arts, and activities during that week. And for the most part, the process is the same. But then once we get to uploading, it's a little bit different. It is it is uploaded to VV instead. And it is it is shown during fourth, fifth, and sixth period lunch periods. This is different since it is usually shown in the morning during first period before well after the pledge of allegiance is said and it is also posted to the YouTube and Instagram just as the just as the daily videos are. Okay. All right. And so we are proud of what we have been able
031to do so far. Um but we are even more excited about where we're going to go next. We don't want to stay stagnant. We always want to be pushing forward. And uh so I know this year one of the things that um actually Mrs. Green even came up and talked to me about is is integrating some podcasts. And that's something that's already on my agenda. Um and so I again just want to thank the board for just allowing us to to be able to do this. Um it really is we know that video um is is where it's at. If you're scrolling um what's going to stop you, right? Is it going to be a photo or is it going to be that video that really brings out um and really stops your school? And
032so it's the same thing with this. Our students are able to see visually um not just hear auditorially but see visually every single day. So thank you. Are there any questions from the board or the audience? >> I need their names. >> Oh, okay. I can get that I can get that to you here. So, how how do you do the director um position? Like, is it all gear? Do you rotate around since that's a one single individual person? >> So, we have a daily crew and for some reason this is not letting me go back. Let me just bring it up here. >> Good question. >> I can I can say >> Oh, yeah. Go ahead. You can. So the the director usually so for the daily crew like at the beginning of the
033year there's a survey that we could we sign up for that like which positions you want to be on. And so there's multiple positions that you can choose like so director you there's if multiple people choose director since there's only 40 this year there's probably like five maybe. >> So but they just they just do it that day and they just have to show up. So there's different ones for different days. >> So you have multiple directors, not just one. >> Yeah. And I know this is hard for you to see, but I can actually uh I can send this to you our our uh presentation. But we have a daily uh daily crew. So there's a crew for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then for the Trojan Highlights. So they're responsible for whatever
034crew is on. If it's the Monday crew, they're responsible. >> Yeah, great question. since since their since the it it goes into your school schedule. So So me and Stokes have it fifth period because that's the only free period we have. So some people have second, third, or fourth. >> Yeah. So we do record. I guess that is an important um thing to note is that we really do work it into the student schedule. So, especially at the high school level because all of our students are involved in so many different things, they they still want to be involved in this. And so, we have rotated the recording. So, if you see like on Monday, our recording is first period, but second per uh Tuesday it's fourth period, Wednesday, it's second period. So, that allows
035us um the flexibility to allow more students to be involved and it works in their schedule. So the high school students I do have to handched all of them but it makes it worth it so that they can still be involved. >> I have a couple. You know I'm so excited about this. So we're all here in the audience. Tell us how we can subscribe to this so that we can see this daily and our weekly. What do we need to do? >> Go ahead guys. >> So on YouTube we're under Tusky Valley Broadcast. You can subscribe to us there. And then our Instagram account I think is just also Tusky Valley Broadcast. I don't think any addition. >> Yes. Yes. You'll look up Tusky Valley Broadcast and we should be that pops up. >>
036Yes. So those are our two handles right now. >> Okay. And then from the students, I always like to hear from the students in their voices. I want each of you to tell me one thing you learned this year and one thing that really fires your soul about this. Uh, one thing I didn't necessarily learn last year but or this year but last year is that I end up being the loudest um co-host and anytime you see my mic is actually just turned off because when I have it on it's everybody says it's always too loud. >> So that yeah that is a balance that we have to try to do with our >> some of us project. >> Yeah, good job. >> But I really enjoy just being in front of the camera. It
037helps with my public speaking mainly. >> Great. >> I learned that I how much I do like inform informing people about like events and how much I like speaking towards other people and like presenting myself in like in different ways. >> Um I'd like to say that I learned that I just I really love script writing. I love writing and just like putting my words out there. I really like that. And what drives me on Tusky Valley Broadcast is just informing the people because I found that a lot of students, they just don't know what's going on. Like they don't know when there's games. They don't know when there's any events. And I think it's really important for our students to get involved and be a part of the community. >> So, do you think
038this has helped our students become more active and more aware? >> I think at least partially. I think it has helped. >> Yes. And I will just say this summer Natalie had messaged me and she's like, "Mrs. Shock, we need I I have some thoughts." And so she came over to my house and we we went through her thoughts. And so I really value that because they take, you know, a true vested interest in how to continue to improve um our broadcast. I have >> any thoughts of like in the field broadcasting >> like out and out? Yes, I I mean I would love that. Um the issue is always >> Yeah, finding the students to be able to go. But yes, that is that is definitely something that we're looking at. Um any other
039questions or thoughts? Well, thank you all for coming today. You guys, we really appreciate hearing from you and I think you're doing an amazing job and I'm looking for more great things. >> All right. >> Thank you all for having us here. Thank you again. I think that's we're always trying to be in the ahead of things and I love that this is one of those things that, you know, keeps us on top of everything. Moving on to item number six. Tonight we have leadership team reports. We'll start with um Mr. Phillips. >> Well, I'll start off with first with TV broadcast. One of the things I like from last year when we started it, well, >> two years ago we started it. last year really started to take off. But the very first one
040it was something like this as they read from the >> prompter because like the timing was off and they just had to learn and I was like I can't wait until they can get up there and they see what they have to say but they really just talk and they like almost add live a little bit of like and it's it just keeps getting better and better. And I don't know if I should say this, but one of the things for our schedule next year that we've kind of talked about, not even with her, is possibly combining our TV online with our TV broadcast and those who do photography at the games like Maddie for sure >> is somehow tying that together so that they're out taking pictures, but they also might be able to
041get an interview clip. >> So that just stayed right here. not an outside but we have thrown that idea some whoever brought that up um that's >> well I'm excited to subscribe so >> yes >> I'll do that tonight >> um okay student of the months um I'll start with our athlete of the month which is Maline Benner um better known as Maddie Mattiey's a senior she's a daughter of Sarah Nick Benner um she's a member of our soccer team which is why she was nominated for her outstanding efforts in soccer um she is part of TV online so when she's not playing soccer. She's at football games or other the boys soccer taking pictures. Um she's part of that group. Uh she's a member of National Honor Society and proudly supports her classmates during
042their athletic events. Her hobbies include playing club soccer and footsel, working at Zor Creary and hanging out with her friends and family. And after graduation, Maddie plans to continue academics at Walsh University, major in financing, and she would like to become a real estate agent. So, >> congratulations. And next is Riley Ramy. Riley is also a senior. She is our fine artist of the month for her outstanding um efforts in band. and she just not Friday, the week before, so a week and a half ago was the MC at our Trojan tours for our pep club. So she's much very much involved in pep club and also theater. Her hobbies including reading include reading, doing nails, baking, and cooking and making various crafts. And after graduation, she plans to pursue her passion for doing nails
043while taking a gap year before possibly entering college. So congratulations, Riley. Um, and our student of the month is Josie Digman. She is a senior. She is the student of the month for best first impression. So, if you say hi to her, you will figure out why. Um, she is the daughter of Angie and Dan Digman, and her student activities actually are also band, pep club, and theater, which she's great at all of those as well. Um, she enjoys watching TV and playing video games, hanging out with her friends, and after graduation, she plans to go to college. Do you know which one yet? >> Um, I'm looking at Penny, but it's not 100%. >> Okay, that's why it's not on here to become a better veterinarian. So, congratulations, Jo. [Applause] This is the only
044team. >> So, we have to stand about right here like this way facing that way. >> I'll stand on one side. Oh, >> okay. Like you like each other. >> Okay, here we go. >> Okay, thank you. Congratulations. I got it. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Congratulations. Great job. >> Moving on to Mr. Streets. >> Yeah. Um October is a busy month. Not that there's not a busy month. At the elementary school, um we had jam-packed great participation at conferences, picture day, book fair, and we're approaching the end of the nine weeks in holiday parties. As well as I wanted to touch on, I think Dr. Maransky may have mentioned this. I'm not sure if he did to you. I think he did at our um admin meeting about having a future
045Trojan story time. So, we were actually able to partner with Courtney Wallace um with the library and we sent this out to all of our elementary families. Um she posted it in the library and we had 15 um two to 5 year olds that came in um for our first time and then our PM preschool class was there as well. They had a story from Courtney. She went through, they did a couple songs and then they were able to enjoy a meal in the cafeteria um that they brought down. So that went really well. We're looking at expanding that in November. And then in November, we also have kindergarten grandparents day coming up as well. >> Mr. Panel, transportation. >> Transportation. We have two new bus drivers that are fully on board and driving. um
046buildings and grounds side as we got all the fields completed. That has come to um I think successful mission as to how it all come together. Um been a great response from the public. We just recently put a new roof out here on the ticket booth. Um there is more exciting things to come in the future for athletics. Um and far as buildings and rest buildings grounds, the grass is back growing so we're happy to have the rain. Okay, thank you. Moving on to item number seven. Uh, Mrs. Sally Green with board member update our report. >> Thank you. Um, there's a lot going on, but I I'm not going to take much of your time. I want to um we're going to have Capital Conference next month that we'll be going to. And just
047for all of you who are uh want to know, capital Conference is an organization that is the Ohio Schoolboard Association and they hold the largest uh convention across the nation uh for schoolboard members and it's an opportunity for schoolboard members to learn and grow and we take a lot of learning experiences from there. Uh hope squad came from there from another group showing that to us and there's a lot of e academic transportation a lot of ideas that we get. So we really look forward to that. Um there is a lot of legislation going on but a lot of it mostly is pending. We have 170 bills of trying to cut school funding. So school funding is under attack in every corner of the state right now, but especially among our legislators. So we'll keep
048you informed of that as they come closer and closer to passing those bills. Um and I think I'm going to leave it at that for now. >> All right. Thank you. Item number eight. Is there a motion to approve items A1 through 16? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Discussion. I want to start off by just saying number one, thank you uh for the bus drivers that we've got. I believe there's been a crisis of bus driving for the last couple years. Is that correct? And we are actually at a point where there's a little bit of relief at this moment. I mean, we could always still use more, but >> but we're happy to we're happy to hire on um a new bus driver. Um as well as I just wanted to
049point out in the um item number 12 that our speech and debate team will be traveling and if you've never heard or watched our speech and debate, um we are uh Miss Spina does a top-notch uh leader there in that area and we have great students that that participate. So glad that they get to go there. Anybody else? >> I just say item two, we're always thankful for all the donations um that many of those help some of our programs um move forward. So we appreciate that. Uh and then number item five, you'll see a lot of teachers moving on the the salary index. That's because they've taken additional college coursework. Um so I'm always thankful that our staff is uh continuing their education um to fine-tune what happens in our classrooms. So we appreciate
050that. >> Call roll, please, >> Mr. Yes, >> Mr. Fischer. >> Yes, Mr. >> Yes, >> Mr. Bur. >> Yes. Moving on to item number nine. Uh, is there a motion to approve the 5-year forecast and related assumptions as prepared by Treasurer Mark Phillips? >> I make the motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? >> Just as I put in my update, I mean, we're in a strong financial position right now based on my current assumptions. Uh, as Mrs. Green noted, there's a barrage of legislation attacking revenues for school districts. So, we have to continue to monitor those. Any any of those that have passed that would affect our tax collections going forward would have an effect on our forecast and our financial position. So, we'll continue to monitor and update the board
051as those move through. >> Thank you. >> Call roll, please. >> Mr. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Totti. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fisher. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. Item number 10. Do I have a motion to approve the following change orders to Massland Construction and Supply LLC of Canton contract originally approved on January 13th, 2025 for increased scope on this clinic project as an estimated cost of $2,39256 to perform additional sophet vents and sophet painting work. Have a motion. >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion on this? uh these funds continue to come from the Appalachian Children's uh grant that we received. So once they put in the new windows and new spouting, uh it just made sense that we replace some other things as well. So it comes
052from that those same grant funds. >> Okay. Call roll, please. >> Mr. Fisher. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Green. >> Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Is there a motion to approve the following resolution for the acceptance of security framework? And I'm not going to read all of it. Um, it's on our it's on your agenda. Is a motion for that, please? >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? >> Call the RO, please. >> Mr. >> Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Is there a motion to modify a one-year lease agreement with KP FitLife to include the rental of the clinic in the administrative building effective October 1st to July 31st, 2026, previously approved on the August 11th, 2025 board
053meeting? MO motion. >> I make a motion. >> Second. >> I'll second it. >> Uh any discussion? That's just another one that's rented out that we're pretty pleased with that. >> What is what is the FitLife program? So KP FitLife is a yoga massage therapy. Um so it's just an increase of of services to use both rooms. So originally it was just one room but we've added on the clinic as well. Okay. Uh so we're just modifying that lease agreement. >> Thank you. Call please. >> M. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fer. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. M. >> Yes. Item number 13. I do not believe we have public participation for the end. >> Nope. and we'll move on to announcements with uh Dr. Bransky. >> You want me to
054read? Okay. >> Oh, do you want to say any announcements? >> No, just the ones that are listed there. >> Okay. They're listed on your agenda. >> I didn't know if you wanted to. >> Yeah, we we are excited hopefully as long as we still continue to have rain that we'll be able to bring the community bonfire back this year. It is scheduled for October 23rd. Um we'll start with food at 6:30 and that's going to be down at the grass soccer field. So, you'll use that entrance um off of 212. So, we're excited for that to be back. BU at the school October 28th, 5:30 to 7. That's going to be right here in this building. Um, and so we just excite welcome everybody to come out for that and we're thrilled that we
055have a few board members that are going to be here to help out with that as well. Uh, Mr. Street and his team will be participating in the 25th annual reading festival at New Town Mall on November 8th. Um, and then the next board meeting is here on November 10th at 6 p.m. >> Um, two questions. Yes. Sorry, Derek. Um, >> what is the date for the veterans? Is that the 14th of Friday? >> Uh I believe so. >> Is it in only one place or is it >> just one? Yes, it's on should be on the district calendar here. Um >> yes, it is on November 14th um at 100 p.m. So it's being is it 1 p.m.? Is that correct, Mr. Phillips? Afternoon. So it used to be a morning one and I
056think we've moved it to the afternoon and they're going to try to mix it up a little bit. Um but it'll be it's grades 5 through 12 will be invited and uh to bring a veteran, but it's going to be at the middle high school in the gym >> and everyone's welcome to come. M yeah. >> Oh, I do have a question. For those um students that are here that are trying to watch a board meeting, do you guys any have any questions that you want to ask us? Be bold. You'll get extra credit points. Not pretend. You'll get brownie points. >> Okay. >> Yes. Just tell me we're going to do a fivem minute break. >> All right. Item number 15 is a work session that we are going to actually take a five
057minute break to complete this. You're welcome to stay. Um but uh we will resume then to go into adjournment. So is that okay? >> Yeah. Yes. >> So you're free to go. >> So if you'd like to leave, you can. You'll still sign We'll still sign your papers. Just letting you know we're going we're coming back