001e e e Education meeting to order please call R Mr President we all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance led by vation by Mr over pledge Ali to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and jce heavly father we just thank you for the beautiful weather we have today and uh we just uh thank you for being with our students uh at the track accident today and we just pray that you continue to guide the hands of all the doctors and be with him and we also just uh lift up Adam tonight as he out on call we just ask to be with him and the situation that uh he's dealing with as well God just be with us as we
002do the business tusky Valley tonight in Jesus name amen amen amen Dr Brans is there any additions or Corrections to the agenda uh no the agenda tonight though is different than the one that went public last Wednesday there's just a few additions of things that came in today but everybody in this room should have an updated agenda though moving on is our statement of mission our mission statement and Board of Education goals um any requests for public participation not tonight okay hearing that there's none uh we will move on to uh superintendent report awesome well thank you Mrs burger and I'm going to start off by turning things over to Mr Phillips for students of okay thanks so we have two here so far I thought was going to make it show up first I'll
003bite Leah up so Leah warin is our athlete of the month and she is a senior she's a daughter of Ken and hadman um her activities include scared me include many sports so uh soccer this year right cross ping soccer in the past at the same time basketball currently track and also National H Society um her Hobbies including hang out with friends going to church going to Starbucks and Liv weights and after graduation she plans to attend State University um and study exercise science to possibly become [Applause] next is our Arts of mon she's a senior she's a daughter of James and public gifts and her activities at school include pursuing her art she does a great job um her hobbies include creting artwork reading and hanging out with her friends and after graduation plans
004to become a veterinarian technician so congratulations are you going down to the Kent State Branch probably yeah aw time rest for the occasion here sorry I couldn't find the room um Luke is our student of the month for kindness you are he's a senior and the son of Travis and Christen Miller his activities include playing football U baseball he's part of the yearbook and TV online his hobbies include playing a variety of sports foring hunting attending new Point Church and spending time with his friends and family after graduation l also plans to attend Kanas State University and would like to earn a degree in education with focus on special education awesome [Laughter] would you go on the other side Mr PHS your ha it's fine if you guys really close two three any parent that
005wants to take picture now be the time to come on up okay after [Applause] great awesome Leah DEA L congratulations uh thank you for everything you do for tusky Valley we are definitely a better place because of you and we appreciate all of the families being here tonight as well we'll continue with our meeting you're welcome to stay for everything but I also know you're very busy in different sports and different activities so if you need to go you will not hurt our feelings if you need to speak out but again on behalf of the board and administration congratulations all right uh next up underneath my report I'm going to turn over things to Mrs Clemens now to give the board an update on the 21st century grant program good evening everyone um I have
006created a little newsletter there for you so that you can see some of the highlights of our program this year we are very forunate year two of a fiveyear grant and so part of the grant we run after school programs and events for our families and some summer programing so I just wanted to give you some highlights um at the very beginning there we have over 220 students that have been staying for our after school programs um that's throughout the year some are able to make you know a fall session others are making spring sessions but we've offered over a th hours of programming to our students here which is phenomenal and of course we couldn't do that without numerous staff members we have over 30 staff members that are part of our programming and
007we're very proud of what we're doing in our evening and at the school events um just so you are aware our program does run Monday through Thursday from 2:45 to 4:45 so the students stay for two hours the first hour is really focused on academics we're offering achievement Club where some of our older elementary students would be doing some homework um maybe test prep and then we're also offering a tutoring session for those students that are showing some need in reading or math so we're trying to Target those academic skills um but then the second hour they have their program of choice so students register for the programs that they would like to be part of and I'll highlight some of those when we turn the page um but I do want to mention that
008our programs are focused on academic support but we also see a huge growth in their confidence and their social emotional skills because they're meeting new students um they're not just staying with their grade level they're usually in grade level bands so a second grader may be working with third graders or fourth graders or fourth grader may be working with a sixth grader which is nice to see some maturity as they move through the program um if you open the inside this is just some highlights of some of the programs we are offering of course our K1 Discovery we are really trying to get those fine motor skills um in place and some of the uh vocabulary and so we're working with them with the spine motor and gross motor skills along with a lot of
009game playing um our second and third grade students again we're still working on some Fine Motors so a lot of Legos and magnets and drawing um but then we also are having some games Art Theater and then we move into our fourth through sixth grade program where we are going to start some gardening broadcasting basic we're going to start doing some podcasting some things with technology there that I it's going to be new and exciting for them um some outside partners that we have paired with this year mus Gangham Watershed has just finished up a six week session where they did some Hands-On learning for us they brought in their their movable classroom and shared programs with our students we also had the Adon fly Arts Center that came in earlier this year to do
010tumbling and gymnastics which we had a group ofs that really enjoyed that time zor is a great partner with us um they've done zor explorers where we have groups of kids that go out to zor and they do some Community um historical sites and some activities for them and then of course the New Direction Arts Academy that's with K Spina they are running our arts program and they are prepping for Lion King Jr right now which is a huge program for us on the right hand side there there's some information about our evening family engagement events with the school which I was very excited to have another great turnout you guys are part of that evening being able to trick or treat with our kids but we had numerous outdoor or outside uh programs and
011agencies that came to support our program that night um two other programs that you may not be aware of first are paint nights um Courtney Wallace from our biver Branch library has run two paint nights the first one was was in the fall and had some pumpkin things uh this is what we did this spring so they are um 8 1 half by 11 small canvases that people can paint we do do step-by-step instructions or they can paint whenever they choose that night but we do offer all of the materials for them for painting Mrs th is that yours it is mine wow very impressive so that's what we did the step-by-step program that night um buty has also offered two different book clubs these are for families to come in uh Courtney has read
012the two stories with them and then has done some activities so the first one was Finding Winnie this is the true story of Winnie the Pooh unoun to me Winnie the Pooh was truly a beer and so it gives the historical references of Winnie The Boo and then they went into some um Family Tree information that night and it was wonderful to hear the families talk together trying to fill out their family tree and discuss that with their students and then just last week we did the cran man which is the true story of the invention of the crayle of crayons and so that was a fun story and the students did some artwork after they were done with that book so Courtney has done an excellent job for our kids I'm trying to keep
013them engaged in our early literacy and then on the back just some other additional options that we offer Community maker spaces Mrs ransy runs those throughout the year we have three more uh tomorrow night is one of the evenings coming up then the end of the month and then one in April and she does everything from bunt making painting cricketing um she does a great job with those so if you're ever interested you can log on and register for one of those evening events um Mrs Shaw Tiffany Shaw has run the Financial Peace University for our families and we've had 10 families take part in those programs it's a 10 week session that talks about their finances and how to budget and and run their finances at home and then we also have nurse Crank
014that runs our CPR in first aid she does that for our our staff here that need the new credentialing but then she does open it up for our community to come in and then I have a little blurp there about The Lion King Jr I've heard some of the kids singing um the prep has been phenomenal I can't wait for this play this spring so look for ticket sales late April um the program will run in um beginning of May there May 8 through the 10th and then lastly we have summer programming I have a meeting this week with some of our teachers that are interested in teaching our summer programs to set all of our themes uh make sure our dates are solidified and really look at what those days are going to look
015like for our kids again academic focused we're trying to Target those students that um are in both academic and Fin iial need um so we are targeting them to come in for some Camp days where we would have teachers doing offering tutoring and academic support but also some fun activities it is summer we want to make sure that we're engaging them in in lots of different activities but then we are also going to do some popup sites we wanted to Target some of the kids that can't make it maybe due to some travel issues or families working so we're going to try some of our lower income areas and do some popup sites so we're going to take the work to them with some food and activities so that more to come on that whenever
016we have that fully planned any questions of course I do okay first of all thank you for your wonderful brochure and for speaking today on this event um one question is when we went to zor for the kids did we take a bus then or how did they get there we did we were very fortunate that the students were able to kind of one of our bus RS that was going through there so it was for our busing um we also I didn't mention that we have two other field trips we have to get our kids to the Top Trail so when they were droing kids off the we took some kids to do some hiking out toath it's amazing the kids that live in this area and they don't know it exists so that's
017part of our Outdoor Adventures and then we are also will be taking a group to Alman the points of light um service project where they they create blankets they do the fleece blankets and then they donate them to Alman hospital so they'll go and donate those here the next month or so great great thank you and um educational studies show that the more the kids can do hands-on experience as they're learning the better that that some men that learning and so I appreciate that and I look forward to seeing some um the outcome of this hard work I think we we'll see amazing things so I appreciate that um your summer camp you mentioned and you listed some of the things you're going to do normally we have a science camp for a week are
018we still doing that or that is kind of a privately owned company that comes in and helps to run that so it is a paid program that students have to pay to attend that week um we do offer some scholarship opportunities for some questions that can't afford that camp um but Mrs keski she was formerly a teacher here at tus Valley she's the one that heads that program for us so yes that will be I believe the second week in June well second week we're out of school first week is Youth Basketball Camp very important week and then we move into Camp invention and then we'll start our summer programming after that okay thank you very much thank you Mrs CL and again I just want to publicly thank her for the work she does
019uh if you're not aware uh 21st century Grant is a ferally funded Grant the money comes from the federal government down to the state who then uh puts it out uh so what we what we do is that starting at 2:30 we no longer operate as tusky Valley with that program it complet operates under a complete different different licensure program uh so it's really a child care center uh and there's tons of rules and requirements that come along with that uh so not only do you have to do all of that licensing you're also a lot of requirements for State reporting federal reporting uh so it's a ton of work so I'm so glad she said yes when I asked her to do it she didn't really have a choice but she she is loving
020it she's she's making it into a phenomenal program so I can't thank you enough for that uh and then also Mr Phillips I just want to thank him and his office uh again with being a federal Grant tons of requirements and things that you have to be watching fiscally so I just appreciate that him and his office are always willing to go along with our ideas and uh and to help make it happen so uh to both of you thank you for everything you do to make this possible for kids which is what it's all about so that concludes my report Mrs Burger all right moving on to item number five board member Report with Mrs Green please thank you I'm G I'm going to talk about a couple things today and I um I'll
021try to go fast but uh first of all this we this month has been um focused on U legislation and and getting down into the capital meaning legislators and all of us have worked really hard at that and I'll speak to that in a few minutes but I did attend a conference which I just want to um make two comments of and then I'll send the PowerPoint to everyone so you can get that um those who are attending on March 18th the legislative um session conference remember that it is at the Athletic Club in Columbus it's not where originally is and has been forever it's at a new location due to more people signing at the Athletic Club in Columbus and there's a address that is associated with that um and you'll need to if
022you want to get the parking underground you need to get there before 8:00 just an FYI they said that it fills up by 8:00 but it did list parking places that you could go to as well um and we do have people attending that we have five from the school district attending that um and then we um thank you for reminding me to say that because um I will address that in a minute as well and but budget priorities for osba Bassa and oasa um one of the things that um we worked really hard to get included in this is the removal of reductions of the guaranteed amounts that The Bu that the governor has proposed and that the um house is looking at so uh that was a big win for our local district
023and I appreciate them looking at that and taking care of that um meaning keeping the guarantee at 100% what not losing any money that they want us to lose um and then um the timeline is very very quickly which I'll speak to again on a minute but we have to we have to be really diligent in the next two weeks uh uh on this and um we need your help um the other thing is um they want us to make sure there's a couple things they want us to talk about in the meetings or actually not talk about they actually said don't bring them up but make sure you know them and so I want to just let you know what the 1 2 3 four five things are that that a legislator might ask
024you your cash balances and why you're carrying them and I can tell you Mark has these all covered when Falls from property value increases hiring additional administrators which we have decreased our administrators and our administrative assistance teachers salaries what we're paying them and mandates that and this is the one D where we're going to need your help with mandates that can be removed from public schools to help us that is cost in US money um so any of our administrators too that have any great mandates that you find are time consuming and taking all your time um that's causing us to have extra Assistance or whatever that would be great help that we need to have that stuff in place though for us when we go down March 18th and then I'm going to send
025you my written testimony and my oral testimony um this week so you have them but I do want to summarize two issues that we did this month the first one is we had a session on March 4th and we talked about um an organization Coalition called vouchers herd Ohio during that recent board meeting We examined the potential benefits of joining this Coalition that includes over 300 school districts I strongly supported I strongly support parent choice in selecting the school of your for your children however I oppose the unrestricted financial support provided to these schools through the universal vouer plan in Ohio which lacks accountability and transparency since 2008 the program has surged from 20 from $42 million to over a billion dollars a year and we are finding that this is impacting our budget as
026for public education as they are cutting our bills and cutting our resources as they continue to hold fast in their voucher system and expanding it I believe we should refrain from allocating any funds to U vouchers her Ohio even though I believe in the organization at this time because we need to keep the money in house given the the suggestions that are being made of our major cuts to our school district it is essential to highlight that our school district is stug struggling due to Financial Resources being diverted away from public education public education serves over 1.7 million students in Ohio and for it to thrive the state must invest in our students who are vital to the Future Workforce of Ohio um I'm going to take a pause there if anyone else wants to
027talk about the work session or share any thoughts at this time that' be great but if you don't I'll move on okay okay you want time no are you U going to speak about the work session that's going to be yes number two thank you item number two um on March 5th I had the privilege of testifying before the education committee and submitting a written testimony to the finance committee and the Ways and Means Committee our board superintendent and treasure have actively engaged with senators and representatives not only from our district but across the state to voice our escalating concerns about the proposed budget and its possible effects on our schools however I must insist that your input is NOW essential we need the voices of our dedicated teachers staff Business Leaders parents community members
028to stand up for our schools we are faced with threatening loss of $2 million annually due to Two Bills currently under consideration in the legislation along with a third bill that would possibly freeze any additional funding from property taxes your involvement is crucial in this juncture and I strongly encourage you to join the fight for the future of our students and for the quality of Education They will receive at this time I'm going to throw it to Derek and um Mark um Derek is going to just highlight how we're going to try to get our community aware what we have in program and then if Mark you could speak just quickly to the two bills is that okay sure sure uh so tomorrow we are going to release a letter uh it'll be on social
029media and it'll be mailed out to all district families or emailed out to all district families along with a text message uh that just talks about the three bills that have been proposed and what that would mean for tusky Valley uh and ultimately just we're just asking for people to support us in contacting local legislators um in Sharing uh what that would do to us uh because we feel the more voices that they hear they understand the problem that that's going to bring for us so look for that tomorrow for the staff we we are hosting a staff meeting on Wednesday uh to ensure that all of our staff are aware of of what this would mean for our district um and also asking them to take part in um and making sure that they're
030voicing their concerns as well and any board who wants to attend on Wednesday it will be held after school at 3:00 and the district Auditorium District Auditorium all right Mark so again I mean the way I've explained it to you and I've explained to everybody is just at the highest level all of these bills are affecting the amount of Revenue we're going to receive on an annual basis and it's we're a slow to no growth Revenue District as it stands right now if all three of these bills were passed as as they're currently legislated we would actually receive less money in funding year after year after year so again I mean as you look at your personal budgets if if you don't receive a raise if you actually take a decrease in pay each year
031a decrease a decrease a decrease going forward makes it extremely difficult to balance your personal budget the school's the same way if if we receive less Revenue year after year we're going to struggle to balance our budget thank you House Bill 96 again that's the the budget Bill the way the governor has it proposed right now we would take a 5% decrease in state funding in year one and a 10% decrease in state funding in year or two essentially operating with a half a million dollars Less in the second year of the budget losing $750,000 in that two-year period which one you want the other one is the pipeline 116 okay house go 116 affects the valuation of the pipeline is it's taxed so all of our homes are taxed at a 35% assessment rate
032the pipeline is actually taxed at an 88% assessment rate but what's being proposed is to reduce that assessment rate from 88% to 25% essentially we would lose 2/3 of the revenue that we're currently receiving from the pipeline which side note isn't isn't even half of what we should be rece I was going to say please acknowledge that we're not getting 100% of so if we were to receive 100% of what they should be paying we'd be in the neighborhood of $3 million but if this were passed it's legislated we would be less than a million from the pipeline so it's again losing revenue is what's going to happen if these bills are passed and we we can't balance our budget going forward if we continually lose revenue and I would like to say about the
033rubber rubber pipeline is when they initially proposed this to come through our County they said how much it would cost and how much they would pay us every year um and then once they got it up and running they decided they just didn't want to do it and so they fought in the court systems and now they are going through a legislator to make it a law rather than having to go to the Supreme Court so I feel like this is one that is really going to impact us we really need to speak to it and that's my report may I yes yes I'd like to say something I want to address those that happen to be watching us uh uh this evening uh you've heard what can happen when we just want you to
034know that this board has always as part of our core values been wanting to uh be financially responsible to you the taxpayer and uh in our conversation with one of the representatives it was Don Jones and he's on both the uh finance committee and the education committee we explained what tusy valley has done and is doing way before they started to talk about this budget and all these budget cuts and I just want to share four things so that you understand a little bit what we already have done first of all we are sharing a treasure with Fairless and that has saved dollars from both school districts and uh Mr Phillips even though he shared he it's just like having a full-time treasure he's done a tremendous job we've also are sharing our food services
035director and that's with two other districts besides ourselves so we are sharing responsibilities in the administ ministrative end of it uh to help keep cost down for you the tusky valley voter and uh tax constituent but we've also eliminated one administrative position and maintain that level since 2023 this is one of the things that the legislators are saying is that well are you are you too heavy in the administrative uh staff end of it well I can tell you that we are not here at tusky Valley the fourth thing we did is we have eliminated two administrative support staff since 2024 so we're going to share that story with our legislators uh down there we have been fiscally responsible and now to have additional funding taken away from us it's just going to be difficult
036like you say to balance the budget thank you i' like just say thank you uh publicly to Sally and Mark and everybody else on the board who puts a lot of hours and research and time uh for these bills and things that are trying to pass and keeping uh everybody up to date because there's a lot of school um schools that I don't think put as much effort into that and uh we just want to be very very open with that that this is something that can affect tusky Valley so we are very glad to have you guys do the Deep Dives and get all the information for us with nothing further on that we'll move on to our consented agenda item number six is there a motion to approve I um line items a
0371 through 15 I'll make a motion is there a second I'll make that second okay any discussion this one this item line here just has a lot of um of our policy some changes that we've done um that's the second reading and most of those have been put through niola in regards to um changes in the legal standing so there's not really a lot out of major other ones just keeping us a breast of and being legally in line I believe and we want to thank Mr Gooding and Mr overon for he they are the designated people that keep our policies uh and go through those um so thank you guys for spending time on that a lot of that is just language revision too based on how how things are worded so yep any
038further discussion call the RO please Mr wson yes Mrs Green yes Mr good yes Mrs B yes item number s we want to approve a resolution declaring that a case of urgent necessity exists requiring the board to forgo competitive bidding procedures can I have a motion so move second second um would Mr M would you like to describe this or share this information sure so if you think back to when alandis sort of got us some extra money through the last final budget Bill uh to help with the demos of the uh elementary schools we've got some money left over from that so we need to use that money somehow or we're going to lose it and what we've decided to do is to to use that money towards some of the updates that are
039taking place in this building one of those deals with uh air conditioning here and down in some of the administrative offices is in in the cafeteria where the senior Center's going to be and the lead time for some of that equipment those who have been a part of the building project you're familiar with the term the lead time it it takes a while if what you you can't just walk into Lowe's and get a 5 ton air conditioning unit it it it takes you have to order it and it takes anywhere from 8 to 10 weeks for that to come in so if if we went through the process of putting this out to did we'd actually have to work with Lesco to have specifications drawn and they'd work with their engineers and that would
040take weeks possibly months to complete those specifications then by the time somebody was you know we advertised the bid for two weeks and then it's awarded and they place the order for the equipment the timeline stretches beyond the time period we have to use the funds by which is June 30th so this is a way for us to not necessarily circumvent the bidding process but create the ability to use the funds within the timeline that we're allotted to use in order that we have to use those funds in so are we paying ahead of time is that what you're saying we're doing no no okay it's use it or lose it right I understand this gives us the ability to tell the contractor go ahead and order the equip we don't have to go through
041weight right so you not delaying the timeline from when they would order the equipment by two months two and half months that's great all right okay roll call please Mr good yes Mr Overton yes Mrs Green yes Mrs B yes item number eight leadership team reports let's start with Mrs Clemens I know you gave a great presentation anything addition to really just keep our students in mind over the next couple months uh we're starting testing season we just finished ACT Testing tomorrow we start coat testing then we move into State Testing AP testing it's just a lot on our kids emotionally um so just keep them in mind as they're working hard to show us what they what they've learned throughout the year and hopefully we can continue to have weather like we did today
042because that always makes the spirits higher but makes them one to go that's true there is uh Mr Phillips I don't have anything else other said all right and Mr Street probably did ow to that thank you all right Mr Peno only thing I have to add is you go outside see some activity on the 2015 we did ajor project here westof and they're coming back and addressing some concerns especially CL C around this building not just what they Qui fixing patch there some major tear off areas happen they're going to be here while so that's are they Mr pen that's under warranty is it not that's wonderful 20 year warranty good 10 years into good so are they redoing the whole roof or just the the worst there's um met with numerous U heads
043of the business company and they're very apologetic they had um Bic Roes and they're going to make it right okay thank you thank you for that hard work all right moving on to item number nine we do not have any more any additional public participation item 10 next regular board meeting will be held April 14th at 6 pm here in the community boardroom do I have a motion to adjourn so moved second second R Please Mr good yes Mr Overton Mr Green yes Mr bur yes thank you for coming