001Call the Tuscross Valley Local Board of Education meeting June 9th in the community boardroom to order. Please call the role. Mr. Here um agendas have been posted online. Will you please stand for the pledge of allegiance followed by Mr. Overton's presenting the invitation? 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. Heavenly Father, we just thank you so much for uh the completion of our school year. We just thank you for just watching over our students and our staff and everybody this summer as they're going about their travels and all their activities. Lord, just u ask you to put a hedge of protection around them, Lord. Uh we just thank you for being
002with us as we do our business tonight and we thank you for uh Dick as uh this is a big night for him and we just pray that everything goes smoothly in Jesus name. Amen. I believe there's no additions to the agenda as Dr. Bransky is not here tonight but I didn't receive any. Are you aware? Okay. Item number two uh is our declarations, mission statement, and board of education goals. Item number three, public participation. I'm also not aware of any of that. Item number four, new business and consent agenda. Is there a motion to pro approve items A 1 through 17? I'll make a motion. Second. Second. Any discussion? Yes, I u uh under item number 10 that we are approving the attendance and participation for both Mrs. Green and Mr. Fiser to go
003to the consortium of state school boards association national school safety symposium. That's a lot of words, but I really feel we as a board need to continue doing everything we can to keep our schools safe for all our students and staff. And I know that the state safety meeting I attended in the past was awesome. So I'm happy that Sally and Adam will be attending this national meeting to glean anything else that we can do to help prevent incidences from happening. And I know Sheriff Campbell normally would attend the state meeting according to Adam. So the Tuscross Sheriff Department will certainly have this year's conferences well covered. And I'm just that I also want to point out on item number seven, um, Cleveland, we are in agreement again with Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital for our
004our athletic training and if anybody knows Bria, she is the best. Hopefully she will continue with Tusky Valley and um I'm I'm thrilled to have her on board with us. So, anybody else? Uh, number five, while we're talking about our supplemental contracts, we do have Elise here tonight. We just want to welcome her publicly. So, yes. Yeah. She will be our new assistant and director. Yes. All right. Do I have a second? Discussion. Call the role, please. Sorry. Too many things to talk about. Yes. Mr. Fischer. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Burger. Yes. Moving on to item number five. Approve a one-year lease agreement with Cardinal Rehab for rental of room 132 in the administrative building effective September 1st, 2025 through August 31st, 2026. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Second. Any discussion? Um
005just saying that glad to see people wanting to come in and um help us keep our administrative building going. That's what it was for is community use. So that's great. Call the role, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Fischer. Yes. Mr. Mr. Robertson. Yes. Mr. Ber. Yes. Item number six, approve a one-year Oh, approve a one-year lease agreement with Cognitive Organics LLC for rental of room 128 in the administrative building effective August 1st through July 31st, 2026. Motion or second. Second discussion again. Great to see that. Call the RO, please. Mr. Fischer. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. M. Yes. Approve a lease agreement with the Orville Hospital Foundation. Uh ABDA DBA doing business. Okay. Um Alman Orville Hospital effective September 1st, 2025. Can I have a motion? So moved. Second. Second. Now I assume that's for the
006health clinic here going to be doing. So they are Yes, there is going to be an agreement for one year, which is one is great. Thanks to them. Exactly. Call the role, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Overton. Yes. Mr. Fisher. Yes. Mr. Yes. Item number eight. My sad item. Accept the resignation of Richard Gooding, Board of Education member, effective July 31st, 2025, and commend him for his 22 years of service to the Tusky Valley Local School District and community. Do I have a motion? Yes. Second. Second. So, if we don't approve this, does that mean he has to stay? Madame President, I would like to make a few comments. You You can. And then, of course, I'm going to. And I'm just going to tell you, today's been an emotional day, so don't make me cry.
007Well, this evening, I am giving formal notification of my resignation from the Tusca Valley Board of Education, but it's not effective until July 31, 2025. And I'd just like to take a few moments to share some heartfelt comments with the board, those of you in attendance, and those that may be watching on our YouTube channel. First, I want to thank the voting public local school district's residents for allowing me to serve them for the past 22 years. It's my hope that they feel that I have represented them with the utmost honesty, integrity, and to the best of my ability in discharging my duties of being a member of their school's board of education. I also want to thank all the multiple fellow school board members that I've had the opportunity to serve alongside with during
008my tenure. And a special thank you to all of you, the current board of education. I would really be remiss if I did not thank my wife Mary Ellen, of whom this November we will be celebrating our 48th wedding anniversary. It's been her willingness to sacrifice having me away so many times for all the meetings, events, and projects that are involved in serving on a board of education that has made these 22 years possible. Most of you know of my faith in Jesus Christ. I truly believe that God called me to serve in this capacity from the very beginning due to the necessity of being appointed to this board by the ESC during a turbulent time in our history. I know he has provided me the health, vigor, drive, and determination to give 100% to
009this important task. I give him all the glory for that. He has blessed me so much and I truly hope that I have in turn been a blessing to others in this position. Over the years, I've had the wonderful opportunity to serve with three superintendents and multiple treasures in supporting and helping them make Tusky Valley the outstanding school that it is today. I want the entire Tuscross Valley community, teachers, administrative and support staff, students, and their parents to know and understand that Dr. Derek Baransky and Mr. Mark Phillips are, in my opinion, doing a tremendous job for you and this district and they are well deserving of your total support. Thank you, Derek and Mark. There comes a time when those who serve actually know when it's time to pass the torch. As with my
010professional work career of 45 years in the nursery landscape business where I served so many customers, clients, and even industry associates with my involvement in our state and national industry associations, I knew when it was time to retire. I've come to that point now with this position. I am so very thankful of having been a part of the original master facility plan envisioned many years ago and now coming to fruition with its implementation of building our new middle high school. The renovation of the previous middle school with the major addition to become our new elementary school with the unification of bringing all students and activities for one central campus location. turning our former high school into the administrative offices as well as opening it up back up to the community with the recent opening of
011the senior center and soon to be opening of the school's Alman health clinic plus seeing the safety improvements to our football stadium bleachers and finally now as of our last school board meeting to approving the final phase of that master plan with the professional turfing of all our athletic fields to benefit all our students in sports activities as well as those in our wonderful band. All this work will now serve the needs of not only current but future students, their families, and our district residents for many years to come. My act of service here on the school board is ending, but my love and respect for the Tusky Valley School District will always be in my heart and prayers. It's my desire along with Mary Ellens to be able now to spend more time visiting
012and supporting our grandchildren's involvement in their particular schools, pursuing some long- aaited travel that we've postponed over the years and being open to seeing how God will direct us to continue to serve him in other capacities. Thanks again and may God continue to bless the Tusky Valley School District. Okay. Well, Dick, um you know, I've been on here now with you the longest, 11 years, and um I wrote something, but I can't I'm not even going to read it because I just want to say thank you. I remember being a young pup joining this board, and I'll never forget like you just telling me how it is and what we do and being my mentor. And um I appreciate every time I talk to you, you do always say, "Let's pray about it, Amy." And
013um I hope to continue that. And I appreciate you. And I thank you for making you me who I am on this board. I think you have a lot a part of that. So thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Oh, I will say that I have recently taken on the role of the young pup coming into uh into the school board and I will tell you you are somebody that uh is very easy to look up to and somebody that's uh that I hope to mirror and somebody that I hope to follow in your footsteps. They're big shoes to fill. Um and I think that uh it will be tough for all of us, but definitely honor integrity. those two words you used and they describe you wholeheartedly throughout this entire process in the short
014time that I've been here. Thank you. Well, I've known you probably longer than a lot of them and uh I just appreciate you as a person, not just as a board member, but who you've been as a person to me and my family and even just uh back when you were on the board and hired me to work in the after school program all those years ago and uh just watching how you conducted yourself and coming onto the board now and being any role model and influence that any board member can look up to and say, "Hey, that's that's what we need. That's the kind of person we need on the boards." And uh it's been an honor to work with you. And I know I probably will still see you all the time because
015you do your walk around my house all the time. So, so looking forward to still having our little chats when you're there, too. So, thank you. And I appreciate your financial expertise being a business owner. I you've always come in and shared your perspective, your opinions on finances and how it affects the school district. I appreciate it. Diligently, always thoroughly review my reports, ask questions. I appreciate. Oh, thank you guys. All right, call the role, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Fisher. Yes, Mr. Yes, Mr. Yes. Item number nine, approve a ratification of the negotiated agreement between the Tuscross Valley Board of Education and the Ohio Association of Public School Employees effective August 1st, 2025 through July 31st, 2028 with a 75cent hourly wage increase for each year of the negotiated agreement and onetime 10,000 signing bonus
016payable August 29th, 2025. Do I have a motion? So move. A second. Second. any discussion? Um, I can say I sit on the good negotiation team and um I felt that our negotiations this year went very smoothly. We appreciate all of the um employees that are that come and um work for us and we want to um you know make make it a good place for them to be as well. And so it was very smooth and we appreciate the the working togetherness on that. So call the role please. Mr. Good. Yes. Mr. Fischer. Yes. Mr. Robertson. Yes. Mr. B. Yes. Item number 10. We need to set a date, time, and location for our June special fiscal year end meeting. Um we did talk about this. So, we were originally going to be doing
017this on June 30th, but the trial um sentencing is going to be happening that day. Um I believe Derek and Sally would both Yes. And so we would be h some board members and and uh Derek, Miss Dr. Veransky will be attending that. Um we did want to uh open it up to see would anybody be willing to do that Monday night at 5:00? Derek, Dr. Veransky and Sally said that they would be fine with that with the travel 23rd. We're talking the 30th instead of like the morning. We were going to do morning. Oh, okay. Just pushing it to the evening. Is that like at five or six? Whatever. What's the best time for you, Adam? I don't I know you I'm I'm okay with five if you want to do five or six.
018Either way. Five o'clock. Would that Oh, you're not going to be here right now. I'm not Right. Okay. Is 5 o'clock okay with you? Okay. Five o'clock. Okay. So, we'll set a um our special June fin school, excuse me, year end meeting for June 30th at 5:00 p.m. Can I have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. No discussion. We just had discussion, I guess. Call the RO, please. Mr. Fisher, yes. Mr. Overton, yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. As for our agenda here, I don't see any public participation for non-aggenda items. Um, at this time, I need a motion. Oh, before uh that I was going to say, are you there's not going to be any action taken? Correct. So, you might want to go over the announcements down the bottom before Can I do that just for
019those that are in the room? Just for those that are here on Okay. Yeah. So, let's jump to announcements here. Um, because this is important. Um, this is information on anyone that's interested in filling the vacancy spot of Mr. Gooding. Applications for those interested in filling the vacancy on the board of education will be available beginning tomorrow, June 10th on the district website. Applications are due by July 31st, 2025 to the central office in the administrative building. Interviews will then be scheduled for August at a date and time to be termined. Um, our next regular board meeting will be held August 11th, 2025, 6 pm here in the community boardroom. There is no board meeting in July. The back to school blast will be held August 15, 2025 from 5 to 7 in the front
020of the district administrative building like it was last year out front here. Any questions or anything to add that I've missed on that? Okay. So now I can go into motion for executive session and that executive session is for the purpose of considering appointment employment compensation of a public employee or official and preparing for conducting or reing negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment. So do we need a motion? I think we need a motion to go. Second. Second. All right. So we will go into executive session. No action taken. So call the role. Mr. Good. Yes. Mr. Fisher. Yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. All right. Can I say something? Yes. Um I just want to wish Dick and Maryan the best as they try
021this new venture. I've worked with Dick all 22 years he's been here and I just appreciate him so much. I appreciate his Christianity very much. Why am I crying? It's okay, Barb. He's just such a great man. I just am so thankful that he's been on this board all this time because we have there been some really rough times. I got to give you a hug. Give you a hug. Thank you. You've always done a good job for Tes Valley. We really appreciate that. Barb, I hope you cry when I leave. I'm probably I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I've been here 45 years. I know. She's seen. You have seen it all. Oh, yeah. Mostly good. I cannot tell you. I am so so fond. I mean, this school district is just 100% compared to some
022of the things that happened before. I'm just I'm thankful that you have the the administration you have and I can just I'm just thankful for that because it's a very very good school district. So, all right, I'm going back home.