001flag right back there to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for [Music] Okay. Uh, nobody signed in to speak tonight, so we're going to go ahead and, uh, at this point in time, we'll call for the meeting of the water board of education. Roll call, please. Mr. Christ here. Mer here. Mr. H here. Mr. R here. Mr. Ros, can we have a motion to adopt the list of agenda for tonight's meeting? Motion. Second. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. M. Yes. Mr. Hick. Yes. Mr. secretary. Yes. Motion passes. President's report. So, you know, it's kind of neat. I think if you live long enough, everything comes back full circle, right? And and good news, bad news, I've
002live long enough, which means I'm really old. But, uh, I just wanted to say it's really a pleasure and honor and pleasure to, uh, to have Mr. Bob Wolf serving as our interim superintendent tonight for for this month and next month. Um, you know, Bob was a was our high school principal for 10 years and then uh was our superintendent for 13 years in my first when I first got on the board few years ago Bob was high school principal. He was one of the people I talked to quite a bit just trying to learn, you know, what you're what we're trying to do and those kind of things. And something they told me once that I'll never ever forget is uh we're talking about kids that kind of were getting in trouble and their
003punishment or what their what their uh what they had to do as a result. And it comes to me was um you know this is really the last time in their life that they get to mess up and get to be a doover. After this it gets after they graduate high school it's going to be held you know those kind of things get held held to them. So you want to make sure they understand what's going on and how important it is, but we want them to be able to recover from it. So something that I stuck with me a long time, but uh it's great to see Mr. Wolf here, having him here with us and and you know, basically this complex, a large part of this whole one complex is was very much
004due to Mr. Wolf. So he was just spearheaded us getting the funding from the high school facilities commission and getting moved up with special need getting moved up into the into the program to be able to get uh to get the funding to do that. So, just want to to thank you Bob and look forward to working with you in a couple months and do appreciate it. Other thing I guess uh just wanted to thank everybody for coming end of the school year and I'm sure the the principles are going to have a lot of things about that. A lot of a lot of great things happen this year with students and things like that and uh and and you know we had graduation a week ago and it's it's kind of interesting though every
005graduation is special. It's a for some parents with gradu it's even even more special. But no matter what graduation is special and it's such a pleasure to watch our kids and see our kids walk across that stage and get to hand such an honor to me to do that. Um other last thing I wanted to say is I just wanted to commend the board sitting in front of me here. Uh all the board members because we've had just a a very exhaustive is a maybe a good word. um a couple month and a half uh you know we uh we've hired a new superintendent Mr. Mr. H who who will be starting in when Mr. Wolf is the end of July but he's he's involved in here everybody knows him I'm sure we uh last
006night we kind of settled on our our new school treasur that's going to be starting at the end of July he's going to be picking up here helping with transition and all that kind of stuff and we also uh uh appointed a new board member Mr. Dane Wise who had previous commitment and camp is not here this evening. So um we've met a lot together and uh and I just think that the the commitment of these folks is just phenomenal and just you know a lot of time together and there was never a harsh word between any of us. It was all very continual wanting to do the best for the school, work together and all that stuff. So, you know, spending that much time together with anybody, you know, that's that's kind of an
007accomplishment, I think, because like we had a lot of 10 11 o'clock at night evenings and that. So, so I just want to thank the board members and really appreciate everybody's effort and that. So, and that's behind us now. So, now we're moving forward. So, onward and upward. Uh, so we will see. Mr. Wolf, do you have anything to report tonight? My name is Robert Wolf and I'm proud to say that I'm superintendent of water local schools. Happy to say that tonight I was happy to say it for 13 years prior. So thank you Mr. Pster for the opportunity. Also by the way I just forgot the administration building is the BO administration building right. you. Yes, there's a little dirt. There's a little flag out there, a little So, so it's kind of neat.
008Okay, so we'll move on to uh the junior high senior high principal report. Sure. Um so, obviously at the end of the year, we had a lot of senior events and graduation um happened uh last week. Yeah. Sorry, it seems everything's a blur. Um I just wanted to thank uh Mr. Dugan and Mrs. Allen um as the senior class advisors for helping out with all of those events um you know the the cap and gown walk the breakfast uh graduation practice and then if you're at graduation you saw all that hard work and effort um pay off with that culminating piece. Um I also want to thank Miss Alim uh putting together this all of the scholarship information, graduation seals um great verification information at the end of the year. It's a ton of work.
009takes a ton of time. If you've ever seen the diplomas anymore, it's it's just a it's like a collage of different stickers and seals and stuff like that and it takes a ton of time. So, I don't know if Jen's here, but thank you, Jen. Thank you, Jen, for all of that. Um, we Julie has numbers for this, so she's going to talk about it, too. Um, but we we met last week to go over open enrollment um applications. We just wanted to kind of touch base on this and note that um all obviously any student who's already here uh who was who was open enroll was accepted. All new applicants uh were accepted as well. We didn't have to deny anyone based on class sizes. Um there was one that was rejected based uh
010based on discipline concerns. That was the only one um that would have been coming in that was denied. So from here it kind of it'll continue on a rolling basis and we'll keep you know consideration for whether we can add additional students based on class numbers and is that is one person going to tip that over one kid going to tip that over into um adding a new teacher or something like that. But we were able to accommodate everyone that we had by the initial deadline that we set. Um so that's exciting. Uh we got the junior high awards uh today for seventh and eighth grade. Uh that was held in uh this morning in the high school gym. Uh there's a nice turnout from families. Uh plenty of students were recognized. Um I said
011there it was a good it's a good indication of if we're doing a lot of good stuff is how many kids, right? Are we two or three kids or is it is it a whole bunch? And so I think that's a testament to our teachers um as well as the families that provide support to their kids. Um I with that too, this is one of the events I I basically kind of just showed up for and then I signed a bunch of papers and shook hands. Uh the junior high teachers uh did a lot to coordinate that and also uh the junior high field day that happened the day before. Um so I'm super appreciative of them. Um and the kids had a lot of fun and enjoyed those. Uh the last piece that I
012have um is that uh we will be holding for the assistant principal position. Uh we're holding interviews uh tomorrow and next Tuesday as well. We had upwards maybe it was over 30 applicants. Uh so that was that was good to see. We've selected seven for first round interviews. I think the plan is we'll decide based on how those go whether we'll have a second round if we feel comfortable offering that after the first round. Um and that's basically it. I just also too wanted to note um just wishing Miss Phillips, she's not here tonight, but just wishing her well as she transitions to Glenn Oak. I you know she was a wonderful assistant, helped out a ton, uh had a positive impact on the junior senior high. Um I appreciate that and I wish her
013well. And that is my report. Thank you. Um the elementary principal report. Yes. So, the elementary awards assembly took place um Tuesday morning and we gave out over 200 awards including for honor role, merit role, leadership, presidential awards, attendance, straight A's, as well as talents in art, phys life skills steam and technology. We also recognized close to 50 kindergarten students during a special graduation ceremony. They received diplomas, sang songs, and enjoyed refreshments with their families. And I know our kindergarten teachers are very proud. To celebrate the last day of school, today was field day for grades K to six. There were carnival games, Zack races, volleyball, inflatable slides, and obstacle courses, a dump tank, popsicles, and a French trucker. There was even a barrel train providing rides for students. A huge thank you to Sabrina
014Kissner, um our school secretary, and volunteers Tammy Hoots and Bonnie Huth, and our PTO who together planned an awesome day for our kids. Our sixth graders have added their names and handprints to the elementary hallway and we clapped them out of school at the end of the day today making their move to the junior high. And congratulations to the vicious bikes, our fifth grade soap box derby team who took fourth place in the super stock division of the annual gravity racing challenge. Fourth place is a really big deal and the trophy is enormous. It's in our squad. I'd like to give special recognition to members of our elementary staff who are moving on from Waterlue with the close of the school year, including teachers Lisa Lang and Beth Moon, Marcia Wise, title one tutor, Sandy
015Forsy, one of our speech and language pathologists. Allison Arsto Elliott, our school psychologist, and preschool teachers Megan Hoots and Amber Wy. Um, Loretta Huth isn't officially part of the elementary staff. She is a retiring custodian, but we're going to play with her anyway. Um and last, these are our updated enrollments going into next year. Um kindergarten is sitting at 52 students. First grade at 58, second grade at 57, third grade at 42, fourth grade at 66, fifth grade at 69, and sixth grade at 48. You can still tell that we have two grade levels that just have a much smaller enrollment than the other grades. Now, these numbers include both new and returning open enrolled students, which for the whole district um with 52 students open enrolled up to now that have been accepted. Thank
016you. Um legislative report. Um so the final bianual budget bill is supposed to be finalized by the end of the month. Um the DEI ban the potential prohibit prohibition of DEI initiatives that's 113 and 155. Um they're just talking about it right now. H the House Bill 322 um is the presidential fitness test. They're talking about bringing that back. Um Senate Bill 190 is the good deal. Um they're looking to bring free breakfast and lunch to students. And then the school cell phone policy um which we already have in place is um it requires school boards to have a policy by mid 2025. That's it. Great. Any questions from any for that? Um what? Um I don't have a lot. Um the auto procision lab remodel is going to start at the beginning of summer
017break. Um the power equipment lab will get um it's going to get a new storage area that's going to have a metal staircase into the mezzanine because right now it's just kind of an open space that they don't use. Um that and then they're getting four rooftop units um that are going to be replaced over the sum summer summer and a new a new one for the auto collision technology lab. Um and then uh there is currently 1,50 sophomores in Portage County. 44 of the 44% of those sophomores are enrolled at Maple Wood. Um which is 455 incoming students. So 455 sophomores that are going into Maplewood next year and Waterlue has 38 of those students. That's all I have. Thank you. It was amazing to see at graduation how many people are actually when
018they stood up how many actually that's kind of awesome. Yeah, there's usually we um graduation at Maplewood was last Wednesday and it was the largest class that they've had since I in the four years that I've come is the largest one. Okay. Any new business? Any board member like to discuss the point? Okay, great. We'll move on to the superintendent business. Mr. President with item A recommend to approve the following agreements and those agreements are list they're in your green folder. They include the educational alternatives agreement, Alliance, Ohio Alliance billing for medical services, Ohio school council, the booster club agreement, and also the learning agreements. Can we have a motion to approve the list of agreements? Second, please. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Moon, yes. Mer, here. Mr. Hicken, yes. Mr. Fer,
019yes. Motion passes. Item B is to recommend to approve the water food service to apply to the community eligibility provision C through the Ohio Department of Education and ODW for the 2526 school year with pending approval. It would be a one-year pilot project providing free meals, breakfast and lunch to all students. Barb would be happy to talk to you. Yeah, I think it's a great program. Um, we've been talking about for a while, but it really didn't fit and then all of a sudden now it seems like it's going to fit. So um you know basically we'll be our students our students will get free breakfast and lunch every day of school and so that's a that's a good thing. Um and so I think hopefully it it works out as we hope and and
020it's a it's not a income thing or nothing. It's just everybody's getting it is an income thing but it's a different system. So it's still based on income, but it's we get our numbers from the students who are directly certified and the way they become directly certified is through the state. So if their family is on SNAP or Ohio workforce or something like that that they're getting assistance through the state or the county then the school directly certifies them. So our numbers based on that puts us in the potential eligible category that we can. So then we'll get reimbursed based on those numbers for preals and then the school pays the difference um for the non eligible students. So I just have to submit the application but we'll know by the next I hope they
021tell us by July. Great. So great. Thanks for looking into that and staying on top of it. Can we have a motion to approve uh applying for the the C program? A motion. Second. Second. Comments or questions? I think we kind of covered all those, but thanks again to Scott and roll call, please. Mr. W. Yes. Mer. Yes. Mr. Hick. Yes. Mr. Chris. Yes. Motion passes. Item C is the recommendation to approve the resignation of Sandra for speech language pathologist. We have a motion to approve the resignation of Sande. Second, please second. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. M. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item D is to recommend to approve increasing hours for following instructional aid sending negative 2.5 hours. We have a motion to approve increasing the hours
022for listed instructional aot. Any comments or questions? 256. Thank you. Roll call, please. Mer. Yes. Mr. M. Yes. Mr. Hig. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item B is to recommend to approve a stipen for custodian coordinator Jason H again for the 2526 school year. Terms of condition. Have a motion to approve the Jason Hook as the custodian coordinator. Motion. Second, please. Second. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. M. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Chris. Yes. Motion passes. Item. There's a recommendation to approve one year for 256 school year for a motion to approve one year limited contracts for the list of eight. Motion. Second, please. Second. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Soldier, yes. Mr. Hick, yes. Mr. Pier, yes. Motion passes. Item G is a recommendation to approve a
023one-year limited contract to Jasmine Watts custodian effective July 1st, 2025. We have a motion to approve a one limited contract to Jasmine Watts. Motion. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. W. Yes. Mr. Hick. Yes. Mr. J. Yes. Motion passes. Item eight is a recommendation to approve extended days for the 2425 school year for S. So a motion to approve extended days uh for standard for motion. A second please. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Moon, yes. Mr. Hick, yes. Molder, yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. And item I is a recommendation to approve substitute contracts for the 2425 school year for the people. Motion to approve sub the list of substitute contract motion. Second, please second. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Hicks. Yes. Yes.
024Mr. Yes. Motion pass. Item J is recommendations for the 256 year to for the following substitutes. So to hire the substitutes have got a motion to approve the hiring the listed substitutes. Motion second. Any any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Hicken. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. And item K is a recommendation on supplemental contracts for the 2526 school year contingent upon compliance with all the state of Ohio and water board of education requirements. So we have a motion to approve the listed supplemental contracts. motion. Second, please. Any comments or questions? Looks like we're in pretty good shape. I've looked through looking several times now. I haven't seen anything jump out that were that were in trouble. So, as far as not being able to pull off major major supplements, that's
025great. Those are mainly the athletic ones. He tells me that principles are working on the academic supplemental contracts and probably July July. Okay, great. Okay, thank you. Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Hick, yes. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Treasures business. Uh first item is uh the meeting minutes given to approve. We have the May 8th regular meeting and then the 17th, 21st and June 4th special meetings. Okay. A motion to approve the listed meeting minutes. Second. Any comments or [Music] questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Yes, Mr. Hickman. Yes. And Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Uh B is the May 25 which I was able to get out with the meeting being. Um so many for our general emergency fund, we had a deficit of um almost $950,000. Year to date. those
026funds. We do have a surplus of a little over 1.3 million. Um they for all of our funds uh we had a deficit of about 715,000 and then yeartoday all funds we have a surplus of a little over 900,000. Um I changed some of the verbiage on my reports to you in the email instead of exceptions but highlights that more stuff. Um, just to keep you on your toes. Um, revenue highlights. We've got uh our SAR Ohio interest was almost 19,000. We did get Medicaid reimbursement from FY23 final settlement of almost $90,000. Um, expense highlights, our May payroll was 500,000. Our May insurance was almost 150,000. Um, we paid the Summit County ESC almost $200,000 and that is two months worth of invoices. We didn't um they got us the invoices late for last time
027so they didn't get in May. So there's two or in April. So there's two months in May and um the Portage County Sheriff we finally got that contracted invoice squared away. So that was 92,000 resource officer about 12 of that was paid for by a grant. I'll be happy to answer any other questions. Can we have a motion to approve the financials? Second, please. Any comments or questions? Thank you, Scott, for thorough description there. You mentioned something at the end is our SRO. Um, we uh we are we are in my opinion, I think we hopefully everybody hope most people agree, but I think we are very fortunate to have officer Cunning. Well, he's just seems like just a phenomenal individual and such a great role model and just a I mean just a great
028guy. So, agree. I mean, he just seems phenomenal. So, he's worth every penny and um it would be great to have him again next year. So, h that's strong. No, but seriously, he he does a great job and we're very fortunate to have him. DC all over. Okay. Roll call, please. Switzerland. Yes. Mr. Moon. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Bruce. Yes. Motion passes. The third item is just appropriations for FY26. Um, technically these are I'm I'm going ahead and making the permanent appropriations. I've gone through the budget. Everything's in there except for the grants. We won't really know what those final grants are until fall. Um, but this will allow us to get started and then the new treasure can make appropriation adjustments as the year goes on. Have a motion to approve the appropriations for
029fiscal year 10. Motion second, please. I'll second. Comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. R. Yes. Mr. Hick. Yes. Yes, Mr. Cter. Yes. Motion passes. Uh the fourth item is uh our insurance for next year, our liability, um crime, violence, fleet insurance, general liability. Um and then our cyber liability as well. Um, I believe that was about a seven and a half% increase from last year, but this will be our second year with Sorsa and it's probably still less than we would have paid if we were still. Okay, we have a motion to approve the insurance for 25 the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Second, please. Second any questions? Yes. Mr. Man. Yes. Mr. Helen. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Uh E is basically the board to approve everything that shows up on our end of
030the year cash summary report. This is one of those housekeeping bittings. It's been on the board agenda in June ever since I was able to look back. So I guess it's just a just a housekeeping thing. Okay. Can we have a motion to approve uh the funds as shown on the June 30th cash report? Motion. Second, please. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mer. Yes. Motion passes. Uh the next item is this is something that was new that we instituted last year and it seemed to work so I wanted to do it again. Um I know you've talked about how you guys have spent so much time together. This basically alleviates the need for us to do a last minute board meeting on June 30th. Um, and if
031something were to happen where I need to make a transfer, do an advance, make a final appropriation, you're giving me the authority to do that and then you'll approve it off the July 10th meeting. Like I said, we did this last year. We did have a couple things kind of happen last minute, but I did um I think I did one advance and then I did one small appropriation increase. You know, this cover us unless you guys just want Um I think this is a good idea to authorize and allow the treasur to make necessary transfers advances and corporation adjustments questions roll call please yes Mr. W yes Mr. M yes and Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Uh again, this is item G is just increasing the appropriations for this year. Um just to make sure
032that I don't necessarily spend over those dollar amounts because that is what the higher advice code says. Um so that's why we have some you have increases there. They're not necessarily all the funds, but they're the ones when I looked at it a couple weeks ago, we needed to bump them just to make sure we don't go over them. But again, that's something I look at at the end of June as well, just to make sure. I'm looking to approve the listed appropriation modifications at the fund level. Second, any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Next item is to approve uh a grant that received from the University of Cincinnati for $4,000. Um we are getting this grant essentially every year. It's either between four or $5,000
033and helps provide um supplies and needs for some of our special students. Okay. We have a motion to approve the participation in the the grant with University of Cincinnati. Motion. All said any questions or comments? Roll call, please. Molder. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. W. Yes. And Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Uh item I is basing our enrollment in the Shaker Ohio School Council group retrospective agreement for workers compensation. We've been with them since I've been working with them all the time. Customer service is very helpful for me. So, okay. Can we have a motion to approve uh enrollment in the Ohio school council group retrospective retrospective? Second, please. Second. Comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Hick. Yes. Any chair? Yes. Motion passes. Uh J is we found some more fixed assets that
034we need to dispose of and kind of clean that up a little bit. Um so they're listed there. We'll either um auction them or just scrap them or whatever the best way to get rid of them. maybe try a little bit. We have a motion to uh I'm sorry to to dispose of the listed items in the appropriate manner. Motion second, please. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Item K is for us to participate in the Ohio school council's best bid. So earlier in the year, Casey, the board passed a resolution for us to basically be a part of that bid that went out to the vendors. The vendors have sent bids back. Um we would like to purchase after talking to Tim. We would like
035to purchase one four passenger conventional bus. Um and this uh the board passing this resolution will allow us to start making contact with um vendors um and get those get those order. Do we have a motion to approve uh participation how school council's made up? Motion second, please. I'll second. Any comments or questions? So this we're probably still it's a year away probably close to a year away nine months away probably before we get six I mean earlier in the company um but yeah it could be six months to a year before us on the lot. Okay thank you roll call please yes yes Mr. Dickens. Yes. And Mr. Bruce. Yes. Motion pass. Um item L is to approve a transfer to the for $25,000 five fund. This is the fund that I had before.
036Um last month we can and will take severance out of this um and then just get it out of general fund. Have a motion to transfer $25,000 in the listed fund. Motion. Second, please. Second. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. M. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. And then the last thing is just a donation from American Red Cross $1,000 for scholarships. receive $500. Have a motion to approve the list of donations from the Red Cross. Motion. Second, please. Second. Comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Whereas a public board of education may hold an executive session only after a majority of a forum of this board determines by roll call vote to hold such a session and only at a regular or
037special meeting for the sole purpose for the consideration of listed matter and employment. Do we have a motion to recess into executive session? Motion. I'll second comments or questions please. Yes. Mr. R. Yes, Mr. Hicken. Yes, Mr. Yes. Motion passes. I forgot to tell you guys, I think I did tell you this, but just as a reminder, my I'll have two Maplewood meetings before your guys's next your before your July meeting. So, the July meeting, I'll be on vacation, but I'll email you and then I will not have an update in August. Okay, great. If you just shoot that email, I'll gladly read it and then because our meeting is July 2nd. Okay. So, I won't have another meeting. Thank you. Enjoy your vacation.