001are we good are we live shut my phone off here the pledge of elite flag is yeah thank you sir okay if we could uh rise for the Pledge of Allegiance please the flag is Right overhead here I with to flag the United States America okay before we uh before we start with recognition of visitors okay hey guys your Hammer at before we start with recognition of visitors is there anybody that would like to speak to the board make a statement that did not sign in okay Okay so we've got four people on here and okay so before we thank you um before we do that uh just a little bit about public participation at board meetings I'm referring to our policy it was out there on the table hopefully if you grabbed it that's
002great if you didn't that's okay too but um this has been our policy for quite some time I don't know exactly when it was last updated but it's uh 2015 um when we posted it but basically it governs you know these meetings are are a meeting held in public to conduct the business of the bo of the watera local school district and um so we obviously would like to hear any statements that any community members or anybody would like to make and under the uh item a I guess I'm just going to kind of summarize some of these person wishing to get heard by the board shall first discuss the matter with the appropriate person on the superintendent staff and with the superintendent any any person or any group group appearing before the board shall
003select a spokeperson to address the board uh other members of the group shall not address the board except as permission um I think here we're okay because you know everybody signed up with different topics participants must be recognized by the providing officer and should prep should preface comments by an announcement of their name address and group affiliation if appropriate each statement made by the participant shall be limited to no more than five minutes at the discretion of the presiding officer no more more or less per person may be allocated um uh a person may be may be permitted to speak more than once at the same at the same meeting all statements shall be directed to the presiding officer no participant May address or question board members or administrators individually and then talks about some
004other things but those are kind of the highlights of of the policy and uh that uh that we have had in place for quite some time so with that with that said we will start with uh elizab Barton hello hi um there are a lot of people here tonight and we are all here because we care about water and uh this is what community looks like and while I understand that the searches to replace our superintendent and Treasurer both of whom submitted their resignations will be time consuming I urge the board to take advantage of the opportunity that's presenting itself uh our community is here and we should take this opportunity to come together for our school Mr P suggested to me that once we have a new superintendent in place the board could possibly
005return to hosting a state of the schools event and Mr Moon suggested open forums for parents and community members in the future and uh the board I believe I'll be following up on that um and to everyone who isn't typically um a regular board meeting attendees U I encourage you to make time to attend every now and then because we need to show up and waterl success involves all of us um I recently started being a little more vocal and sharing with others what I was learning at board meetings through conversations document requests because I genuinely care deeply about my children's education at watero and everyone's children's education at Water um and I know other parents do too regardless of whether or not they attend every board meeting um organizing the community around something we
006all care about and sharing factual information in a way that is easy to understand without acronyms and double speak isn't spreading this information it is using knowledge to organize encourage others to show up and ask questions and hopefully bring about meaningful change that ultimately benefits our students it's using our Collective voice to encourage transparency and information sharing so that everyone feels included and informed and thus more inclined to be supportive of our school I was highly skeptical and cautiously optimistic when the board announced they were hiring Dr CL didn't work out but all of our kids are still coming to water tomorrow and in the light of current events that brought so many of us here today I think we can all agree it's time to write the ship and I hope that is what
007happens with your searches going forward thank you okay thank you Angela Bennett um yes good evening members of the board our district has seen a troubling pattern of leadership turnover and the community is concerned about its impact on our schools while the board has commended departing leaders for advancing their careers the reality is is that this constant state of turnover is not a positive reflection of our school it's a disruption that affects our students our teachers and our entire Community most recently the hiring process for our superintendent did not select an internal candidate to be interviewed instead the board chose an external candidate nearing retirement who P who personally assured us all at a meet and greet that they intended to stay for 5 to 10 years less than a year later they have announced
008their resignation which they are submitting tonight once again our district faces uncertainty this instability negatively impacts our student achievement teacher retention School culture and our long-term Improvement efforts we cannot continue down this path as the board begins its search for the next superintendent we asked what is the plan to fix this issue how will you ensure that our next leader is committed to staying growing and nurturing our schools for the long term while I understand that it's impossible to ensure that someone will stay I do believe that there are things that can be done to increase that possibility giving internal candidates an opportunity to grow and nurturing their career or giving serious reflection on why a candidate with one foot already out the door due to retirement is the right fit for our school our
009school our kids our teachers and our community deserve stability and it's time for a real commitment to leadership that lasts thank you okay thank you Angela um Heather um well mine isn't as well angel um I just wanted to address something that said last night on his um in the know with Dr Joe um he made several comments about the community and um our concern for Miss Phillips taking over the ad position and while I can't speak for everybody um I was at the um open Forum question and answer that he had last last week or the week before that um and also attended the community call for action and I was late surprise surprise um I never heard anyone say anything negative about her um taking over the position I did people were concerned
010um they do have concerns about it but he said yesterday that some of the concerns were that she's a female and that is absolutely not what I've heard um I'll admit that I do have a few concerns but it has absolutely nothing to do with her gender um I have four kids and two of them have already graduated they've played Sports and now I have two that are in elementary school one will be in middle school next year but they also play sports so my concern with that is um a lot of our students do play sports and a lot of them come to school because of sports their relationship with their coaches their relationship with um the athletic director currently and so my concern is that we get somebody that's qualified and that wants
011the job um to continue those relationships because my son that just graduated in May would not have come to school and would not be the person that he is now today if it were not for those relationships built so I just hope that you guys will get somebody that is qualified for the position and that wants to be a position to build those same relationships that they had with Mr de as great thank you well said all right and Mr C but first I want to say thank you to the board of education for the opportunity to speak tonight I'm going to read a prepared statement from the water Education Association the teachers would like you guys to know how much we appreciated the opportunity have meaningful dialogue conversations with you guys in addition we
012look forward to creating a positive collaborative relationship with next year's new superintendent we're hopeful that the discussions on teacher discipline procedures and having weekly or bi-weekly meetings are going to be productive for everybody teachers truly feel that we can do better when we work together and we appreciate allk thank you Kyle thanks everyone for thanks everyone for coming and uh thank you guys for for for making a statement so um at this time we'll call to order the regular meeting of the W Board of Education roll call Mr Pitman here M here Mr hickin here Mr Moon here M okay can I have a motion to adopt the agenda as listed I makeing a second a second any comments or questions roll call please Mr yes M yes Mr hickin yes secr yes motion passes
013that brings us to the president's report so um wanted to talk to about a couple different things uh you put them over there Scott yeah they're on the microphone um I'm gonna stand up over on the microwave is a is a sheet of paper that has uh information about it's basically we all experienced the the tax increase on our property taxes and um I personally didn't didn't fight it even though I think my property value was over inflated but I didn't fight it for one very good reason is I said well that's good the school me personally I don't mind it because the school's going to get additional money additional funds because certain a percentage of that is going to come to the school well as State sometimes does you know we're getting some extra
014money in this pocket through our real estate taxes and they're taking money out of this pocket through looking at the uh at the way they're funding the next couple years uh we're anticipating about 300 to $350,000 in uh less revenue from the state over the next two years correct Scott okay so what we would what this is is talks about about how what what the they're doing what the state is doing and then on the back it talks about you know typing a letter and having a letter and and uh and sending it to uh Heidi Workman our new rep or Senator Christina rogner and isn't there there are there sample letters there there are sample letters there as well or if you'd like to write one yourself that's perfectly fine but if we could
015you know we I think uh they need to hear from us um I never I never realized how much when newly people get elected I never realized how how important it is to them that they uh that they make sure they they get reelected uh until one time several years ago I was sitting with somebody who was just elected to similar position and we were talking about school funding it was a group kind of much smaller on this but it was a board activity we invited some some Congress people some legislators in and we're talking about school funding and school funding and the guy said Point Blank we know the schools need money but there's only one way we can do that and that's if we raise taxes and we know what'll happen to our
016our political life if we raise taxes so we're pushing it back to you locally I mean that's basic that's exactly what he said it's like ah this guy really cares more about getting reelected so I think it's important that we that we you know either use the form letter type our own letter if you want if you if you you know if you uh if you don't want to mail them get them to me and I will mail them you know we need to we'd like to do this if you could get them in the mail sometime early next week sooner the better but uh I think this is a really appropriate way to you know let let Columbus know what we're thinking because uh you know we we we are living on the last
017time we passed additional millage was 2013 and we are we on the state guarantee which I'm sure a lot of people have talked about and that was based on the funding we got at 2020 well now they're reducing that that that state guarantee amount from 2020 so it's really a big deal and that's uh you know that allows us to do if we could straighten out our funding we could really uh be able to do a lot more offering programming and thing like things like that so one of the so if anybody wants to take one of those as your way out please do um the other thing I'm gonna stand up again the other thing that I wanted to touch base on is coming up this November there are four seats for the Board
018of Education that are open the only one coming back for sure is Patty uh Mr Moon and I our our terms are up that'll be a four-year position and uh Joe and Terry who is on family vacation tonight couldn't make it they are they are completing a uh the the remaining two years of an unexpired term that's up for that so so there'll be two four-year terms and two two-year terms up uh and I think it's you know last time we had four people running last two years ago in November and we had two people running that's why we had to Point Joe and and uh and Terry so you know please please run uh just touch and base on a little thing about what school you know the main thing the board of education
019does is we adopt policy to help the district operate we uh we we adopt policy we um we set the goals for the district we hire the superintendent and we hire the treasurer right those are the main items that we do and that's you know that's all very important because that sets the that sets the framework with which within our educational system works so um the the the the petitions the nominating petitions have to be back to the Board of Elections I want to say August 6th but it's sometime early August in um uh it's you can pick up the petitions at the Board of Elections and if you would like me to go with you and help walk you through that process I'd gladly drive with you up to the Board of Elections help
020you get a petition listen to the lady tells you how or the person tells you uh you know how to fill it out and all those kind of things but I think we really need to you know we need to get I think lazette mentioned about being involved right we need you know that's a good way to get involved and learn more about how the district runs and things and uh and so if you like I said please please consider that and think about that and tell all your friends or any anybody who has ever mentioned that they might be interested in in being a board member to to Jump On In The Water is fine so and that by the way that's not saying anything bad against Tim or Joe or Terry or myself
021it's just you know competition is good I mean I remember years ago when I ran we had seven or eight people for two positions you know so so that's good um the other thing I just wanted to mention is to uh you know I believe Liz mentioned about being involved you know PTO is always looking for people band boosters athletic boosters those I mean you know it's uh uh we have people that are really super involved in like athletic boosters that their kids on have graduated years ago that are I I hear that there are some newer people getting involved in things but you know jump in I mean even if you can only do one or two little things a year that's still that's less at the that that they have to that everybody
022else has to do so they would really appreciate the the help and um I'm sure there's some other groups that I haven't mentioned but I forgot but you got to get the general idea so thank you uh that brings us to the superintendent report apologize for looking at my phone but my computer just died uh kindergarten open enrollment policy there's been some uh a lot of misinformation being spread about um enrollment open enrollment for kindergarten uh we will accept applications for kindergarten open enrollment um for next year uh the Open Enrollment applications uh for kindergarten though will not be cons considered uh until August after most waterl Resident students have enrolled uh and the reason for that is real simple we plan for two kindergarten sections um because that's what we anticipate the um waterl
023students uh folks who live in the in the district will fill but we are prepared to add a third teacher if the resident enrollment requires it um open enrollment should not Drive the hiring of a third teacher because our district does not receive extra funding for open enrolled students that was not always the case it used to be true that open enrollment came with funding it no longer does so when you have enough open enrollment students that cause you to hire another teacher that is um strictly being paid for out of our general fund why is that important well the cost savings from limiting kindergarten sections is helping to fund some like a brand new music teacher we're bringing back Elementary music and in choir two intervention Specialists who will be U working with our
024special needs students 20% of our students are on IEPs um and quite frankly our special Leed report card is horrible we need to work on that and by adding staff we'll be able to do that I want to talk about the track we are still working on a few uh small construction projects that need to be completed before we can open the track to the community these are primarily for safety reasons and we appreciate everyone's patience as we ensure everything's in place before allowing Public Access again a huge thanks to the bo Family Foundation for their generosity for allowing us to put that track in um and we hope to have it open soon just as soon as it's completed and finally I'm also really thrilled to share that bar brck U and I have
025secured another Grant we've submitted a request for $40,000 in uh Project based grant funding to enhance our school security These funds will support security cameras at the stadium uh for better event surveillance and will allow us to uh keep an eye on that beautiful new track up to 20 new computers to improve the security monitoring and the replacement of the faulty entry doors to strengthen School access points um so in the last month just about $43,000 in new funding coming to us um through some grants so we're happy about that any any dollar we can earn through a grant saves our taxpayers a dollar that is all I have for my report great thank you Joe um the junior high high school principal report uh Sherry um hi I have a statement from Tyler Ballinger
026he says apologies for not being at the board meeting I st running the DC trip we have a huge thank you to Mrs fla for coordinating the trip and Mr Flanigan and Mr for Sheron ACT Testing took place February 25th a huge thank you to miss Al for coordinating testing and Mr Herber and Miss Allan for proctoring testing groups and of course testing will start the week of April 7th we will run a two-hour delay schedule on testing days students will report at a regular start time for and non- testing students will report after testing um ohsaa officiating credentials courses we're looking into a program that allows students to take courses that would satisfi training requirements for sports officiating with the OSAA there are many sports offered and students would be fully licensed to act
027as officials with the ohsaa we're in preliminary stages would piss and present more information as we progress tonight we're excited to have two new hires Miss renov and Mr Young on the agenda these positions cover a deficit from losing a shared intervention specialist to the elementary school for full-time and will allow us to provide CAU inclusion classes for all tested subjects which will support both students and staff in those classrooms the hope is that this model will help us increase test scores and credit retention for all students by providing an extra layer of support secondly we'll be able to provide special designed instruction and a small group instructional setting which will double as a drop in accommodation location for students with small group testing and thirdly this allows intervention Specialists to departmentalize and have academic
028focuses in one core content area this is important because they will be able to to become content experts in one department and will then be able to use the information from inclusion classes to teach the students who least restrictive environment is outside of the general education C great thank you that the the uh officiating course is kind of neat we had a we had a student a couple kids that that graduated from water that have have been officiating and one one from the class of 2006 uh officiates bowl games and things like that from from football he's been to a lot of bowl games and what you he travels every Friday I think he leaves or for a game on Saturday and he comes back after the game so it's a it's really neat so
029that's good so interesting thank you okay the um Elementary School Julie thank you so um students and even teachers seem to have a lot of fun during R Across America week U we had great participation in the spirit days and Friday's dress is your favorite book character uh was especially fun lots of creativity from staff and students you're a to ride free books to many students and Amazon gift cards to six students who were drawn from our raffle for bringing in and showing us their Public Library Park um we'd like to publicly thank Sacred Heart School and the a aan chapter of altrusa international who collected a significant amount of book donations um for our kids so that we were able to give them out and also to stop artical Free Library out front of
030our um main door our sixth grade of service learning project that I had mentioned last last month it has been moved to April for the organization's request um also PT PTO is now supporting half of that cost and we are very grateful for this um we're excited to welcome Outback Ray and his animal managerie for all students next Tuesday um this is a fun thing provided by PTO we're all looking forward to it adults included and Mrs a and I have been working for some time now on building our draft master schedule for next school year with the of being able to show it at next week's um staff meeting at the elementary level there are moving parts to this unlike at perhaps the junior high or the Senior High um we have to depend
031upon grade level enrollments in some of the decisions that we make we Pi close attention to class size in order to do this some of you may already be familiar with this information but I'm going to share it um just so everyone has the information first our numbers year-to year can fluctuate for example our current second grade in mment is 40 kids our fourth grade enrollment is now 54 students well it's easy to say two second grade classrooms each with 20 kids it's not necessarily so cut and dyed for those fourth grade classes they've gotten uncomfortably large and so we are quot adding a fifth grade teacher moving a fifth grade teacher to um fifth grade next year so that we can decrease those class sizes something to keep in mind we have a large
032population of special education students that has to be factor in planning those students have accommodations that must be met at grade level teachers while they in the classroom so these are not students that are pulled out for services they're students that have to be among their state aged peers um for the teachers provide all that so I just have some enrollment data from over the last um three years and I had shared this at the last board meeting but I just wanted to review it so in 2023 24 we had three kindergartens the following year three kindergartens and the following year two kindergartens which will be next year our population though has gone from 58 to 49 next year it's hard project kindergarten but we're looking at around 48 with more first grade went from
03337 to 58 to 49 Second Grade went from 59 to 41 back up to 58 thir went from 53 to 65 to 41 fourth grade went from 51 to 57 to 65 fifth grade went from 59 down to 49 back up to 57 and sixth grade went from 54 to 59 to 49 so our total enrollment at the building has gone from 371 with 19 teachers to 400 students with 18 teachers and next year we're looking at 300 51 with 18 teachers so really significant things to note for this with how much our enrollment has fluctuated over the last three years we have been very fortunate to keep all of our teachers to benefit the students um a specific note about kindergarten class sizes um because that's been a topic of discussion we are in
034alignment with every other for County School District Windom has two classes with about 15 Presswood has four classes with 20 to 22 students stre throws at with 2 to 22 students a piece bfield is four students Mark be four classrooms with 24 to 25 students a piece field is at seven classrooms 19 to 22 kids Brown's at four classrooms with about 20 kids and Kent is at 10 classrooms with 18 to 22 so we are very much among our peers in kindergarten little bit and last Maybe most importantly um we'd like to welcome our new music teacher Kay 6 um Mckenzie Ross I don't even know if she's here um and also our new school psychologist Hannah sens and really if it's okay with you could we have all four of our new employees to
035stand that would be great yes please [Applause] that's I great thank you Julie I just just wanted to ask so you mentioned that we that the classroom teacher the numbers you listed for classroom sizes that's that's the number of students that are in Home Room lunch uh specials in in throughout the day but then correct me if I'm wrong from an educational standpoint at various times we bring in maybe a title teacher into the classroom to help and an intervent an intervention specialist in to bring down when they're so the when they're the core Learning Time a lot of times the number is is the average number is reduced because we've got multiple teachers in that classroom is that correct we strive for that and GL you asked we very much believe in a coing
036model where the intervention specialist is expected to work alongside the general led teacher so that they can team teach now it looks differently depending on the grade level but ideally that would be what was happening so the kids are getting extra support all kids even if the intervention is in there specifically for a couple kids and then we do do a title our push in model is for title so we prioritize pushing into the classroom to help teachers run centers and small learning groups um with some additional pull out of certain grade levels depending on the me I got you that was one of the nice things about the the two new intervention Specialists one's going to be at the high school and one's going to be at the elementary school right so by adding
037one at the elementary school they'll be able to help basically sort of we are the two new ones will actually be at the elementary school but there will be an addition oh that's right two the two new ones will be at the high school but the um but there's going to be a net gain of one in each yeah that's what I mean so we have an extra one more than we had this year next year so that'll be allow us to get into the classroom more for helping and lowering the the student teacher ratio during those core learning times can I put on the spot for just a moment she say it much more eloquently than me as the special person um you're trying to build our um model of Continuum of services so
038that's just providing additional steps that each student needs so some kids are fine in Jed with an intervention specialist in there kids need a little bit of reading or math um and then they can go back in with some support we currently don't so we have we go from Jed to a behavior unit and we don't have that intermediary piece that some kids need for that extra and math but then they can go back in for science social studies parts of reading parts of math so we are putting in that extra step of support our kids our teachers really trying to get a strong firm model in place for special education services great everybody is stretched incredibly thank you actually I don't know if this is appropriate but us I was with somebody this week
039and somebody that they were that that they know that works with us and a special education expert if you will said oh you're from waterl I work with Mary a she's one of the she's one of the best special ed people I've ever worked with and that's like a somebody that has that's like you know unsolicited I didn't you know I didn't have to pull I mean it it was just kind of crazy so so congratulations for that that's very nice that it's very nice yeah so okay sure thank you okay I think we're good um legislative report Terry usually does that but she isn't here so we will we'll jump past that Maplewood um there's not a lot for Maplewood um the um perfect attendance for the second quarter which it's a little bit
040behind because their meetings for those of that don't know the Maplewood meeting is actually next week so I'm always a month behind because I don't get the updated information until um but there was 80 um total kids with perf dependant and water had 10 of those and then um on the honor rooll water had students and um the um acceptance letters for next year if your child is enrolled or applied at neighborwood all of those letters should have been sent out so if you're if you applied for mwood and you did not get a letter you should call and find out about that um and then just so that you guys are aware the first day of school next year is August 24th 25th 5th you said really yes uh oh um okay um Everybody
041we're good let's do uh new business item 11 does anybody else anybody have any new business Tim no Patty no Joe okay so we'll move on to board business um uh I recommend the approval of the res to accept the resignation of Scott Pitman as treasure effect of August 1st 2025 can I have a motion all motion second please I'll second any comments or questions yeah thank you very much Scott you came in and done a great job and it's been nice great working with you and you'll still be around for several more months so we're looking forward to that too so thanks okay roll call please yes Mr yes Mr yes yes motion passes okay can we have a motion to to approve the resignation for the purpose of retirement of Dr Joe Clark
042as superintendent effective June 1st 2025 a motion a second no second any comments or questions thank you sir learned a lot from you it's been a been a a good year we've done a lot of things but uh enjoy your retirement um thank you very much thanks to the board for giving me the opportunity I wish you all the best roll call please Mr Man yes M yes Mr hickin yes Mr yes motion passes okay um more reading whereas a public Board of Education May hold an executive session only after a majority of the form of this board determines by a roll call vote to hold such a session and only at a regular or special meeting for the sole purpose of the consideration of any of the listed matters uh can I have a
043motion to to uh recess an executive session to to discuss employment and compensation our motion second please no second any comments or questions roll call please Mr Mo yes Mr yes Mr Mr CH yes motion passes guidance okay all right okay do they understand what's going on the people we we're going to go we're going to go into executive session and uh and then we're we'll come back out and when we come back out we'll we'll actually complete the uh the remaining items on the agenda that are could be an hour yeah could be yeah could be 15 minutes could be an hour I I think it's going to be closer to an hour than 15 minutes um I don't know okay are you gonna not okay I don't want to M I agree I
044agree thank you [Music] I got I got him I just could to find the right pocket okay so that brings us to the superintendent's business business all right item a I recommend you approve the Enis coordinator salivary grid for 25 26 and 26 27 school years effective July 1 2025 do I have a motion to approve the emis cordinator grid salary grid as described no motion second we talked about this last month and uh it's been some board updates that we need to increase the um the dedicated hours to our person Jen's a fantastic uh person doing the emis but she hasn't been compensated fa want to take care of her um or whoever gets the job job will be posted I don't want it to be a self um not decided but it'll be
045posted and we're hopeful that that she app okay any comments or questions roll call please this yes Mr man yes Mr hickin yes Mr P yes motion passes Item B is a recommendation to approve the following agreements andou you have a motion to approve the listed uh agreements and and memorandum of understanding all motion second please uh several things here the first is the power for school renewal that's for our um energy the ESC of Central Ohio that's for training for Kyle for the math pathway he's our MMR teacher and he gets trained in that uh the oh High High School Athletic Association membership allows our kids to participate in the state the following two items are the summit ESC preschool agreement we've been talking about this for a long time we are going to
046join the summit East uh ESC preschool Consortium um so they will be running the program instead of us and also one benefit of being one additional benefit of being with the summit ESC is they WR they pay us the for the space so they'll be running the space for us for the two classrooms um and the final one is anou between water local schools and Rootstown local schools for transportation for a student I I can't give more details for that uh because of the sensitive nature of the purpose for the transportation um but long and short of it is or sharing costs for this child okay um any any comments or questions yeah I think I heard you say last night on on your uh or maybe Wednesday one day anyhow yeah that we're at
047our our power rate is actually going down it is like six do you remember Scott I my head sorry I don't have it in front of me but so the good news is it's going down down yeah I think it was it might have been last it was but I don't remember okay roll call please Mr Mo yes Mr hickin yes M wmer yes Mr F Terry yes item C is a recommendation to approve an agreement with spark for internet services can we have a motion to approve an agreement with spark for internet services a motion a second please a second and Spark of course is our internet service provider and we're upping with them for another year any comments questions roll call please Mr Mo yes M yes Mr hickin yes Mr BR Terry
048abstain item D is recommendation to approve participation open enrollment policy for school districts throughout the state of Ohio off of the 25 26 school year have a motion to approve participation in the open roll policy for the school district throughout the year all motion a second please I'll second again this is the exact same policy the district's had for multiple years it changes absolutely nothing uh it will be open enrollment um which is uh any District in the state of Ohio students can open a rooll here you can be denied for um if you've been expelled you can be denied if there's not space and you can be denied if you are a special Edge student who has a service that we're unable to provide other than that person okay any comments questions roll call
049please Mr Moon yes Mr hickin yes M with yes M Bruce Terry yes motion passes item e is a recommendation to approve the resignation of Tyler Brown uh PE and health effective at the end of the school year or the contract year I have a motion to approve the resignation of Tyler Brown effective the end of the year no motion a second please second to's been very active um both in the classroom and as a coach for us and we wish him all the best of luck any comments or questions roll call please yes Mr hickin yes Mr yes Mr yes motion passes item f is the recommendation to approve the resignation of lindsy Ren off Title One tutor affected at the end of this contract Year have a motion to approve the resignation of
050Lindsay rof I'll second and you'll see why in a second she's getting a new position with us roll call please Mr yes M yes Mr hickin yes Mr yes motion passes item G is a recommendation to issue a three-year contract administrator to Sherry Phillips effective August 1 for the contract have a motion to issue a three-year contract as administrator to Sher Phillips motion I'll second and just a reminder Sherry currently is our employee through the ESC paid for through some ES funds with Mike de's um right retirement as our dean of students uh Sherry is filling that slot the cost there's no cost um difference U except she will now be on our payroll been doing an awesome entire team I can't say enough great things about the team that you have um assembled here
051and Cher is a big part of that so I recommend this okay any comments or questions I just Echo your your comments that that the whole this is happens to be for Sherry but the whole staff administrative team has done a really nice job this year so thank you roll call please Mr Mo yes mner yes Mr hickin yes Mr yes motion passes item H is a recommendation to approve the following certified contracts can we have a motion to approve the listed certified contracts a motion second please a second I am thrilled with all of these the first one is for Hannah Fitz Simmons to be a school psychologist as you know this year we had to Outsource the school psychologist position because we couldn't find one um being able to find Hannah saves the
052district about $50,000 a year and we're thrilled to have her um the two intervention Specialists that we talked about earlier who are greatly going to um help in u the special ed program are Andrew Young and Lindsay renol who's coming from an hourly tutor to a full-time teacher we're super happy for that and Michaela raw is Michaela still here is anybody else here that I just mention no Michaela is still here M I am I'm just I'm a music um geek from all my life my kids were very very active in the music program and when I came here and found that we did not have Elementary music um frankly it became my mission that we can return this I I love nothing more than watching uh kids sing and play instruments and the idea
053that there will be holiday concerts in a big Auditor in a big cafetorium with kids and their families here I'm I'm sorry I'm going to miss it but I'm so happy that we're able to return this to the district so welcome Michaela and congratulations to you okay any other comments roll call please Mr Moon yes M whittner yes Mr hickin yes Mr BR St yes motion passes item I is a recommendation to issue the following Personnel contract under the auxiliary service fund um I have a motion to issue the the Personnel contract under the auxiliary fund motion second please second and this is a service for students at St Joe's I believe Scott right and it's not doesn't not come out of our general fund it just flows through us from the state okay any
054comments or questions roll call Mr Pitman Mr yes M wh yes Mr hickin yes Mr yes motion passes item J is a recommendation to amend resolution number 28-25 here a motion to amend resolution 2825 as listed motion second please I'll second so I I don't know these uh two ladies I think they must be sisters and they were both hired as softwall assistants at 3% each I don't know if there's an argument or a bet or they just work something out but they're going to change so um 4% and Michaela 2% instead of 3% great both are great young ladies very nice sounds like yeah any comments or questions no roll call please yes Mr Moon yes Mr hickin yes Mr yes motion passes item K is a recommendation to issue supplemental contracts uh to
055the following folks listed there have a motion to issue the list of supplemental contracts all motion a second please I'll second um would like to point out Dennis Gump as a volunteer baseball coach we're so grateful for our volunteers a couple Middle School track assistants and then Angie Luli and Patty Mills the Soapbox Derby you guys approved the memorandum of understanding last month and Patty and Angie do such a great job just to see their smiles when they're working with the kids that are there uh on the Soapbox Derby is incredible so we're happy to this to them great okay thank you any other comments or questions roll call please Mr Mo yes Mr hickin yes M wh sner yes Mr Bru Terry yes motion pass item L is a recommendation to review the following
056new and revised board policies this is not adoption that'll be recommended next month this is just first we have a motion to review the follow the listed uh new and revised board policies all motion a second please I'll second uh most of these are uh non-substantive they're um just language changes based on law or not the two new ones though are the ones that are mandated by the state of Ohio the one we we have had significant discussion on which is the release time for religious instruction um and then um the parents Bill of Rights uh so after adoption next month in April then that will be policy and then that can start to be put into practice all right any comments or questions roll call please Mr Mo yes Mr hickin yes M Whitmer
057yes Mr BR yes motion passes and my final item item m is recommendation to adopt the following policy it's not your one have a motion to adopt the listed policy a motion second right so this is the tobacco free policy um you did a first reading last month as you remember the Ohio Department of Health gave us an F on our our tobacco policy so we um had it Rewritten so that we should get an A next year and I hope when the when the new superintendent gets that a he brings it to the board and thanks you for making this change all right thank you any comments yes roll call please Mr yes Mr hick yes M yes yes motion passes that conclud thank you um Mr uh Pitman Treasures report uh item a
058is uh the minutes from the February 13th regular meeting I have a motion to approve the listed the minutes for the February 13th regular meeting a motion a second comments or questions Corrections any of that good stuff roll call please Mr Mo yes Mr hickin yes M whittner yes Mr Bru Cherry yes motion passes uh the second item is the financials which you have in your packet um as far as some highlights go before we going too far so February is when we receive our uh tax tax advances um so our tax advance for the month of February was almost $2 million um because of that you're seeing surpluses across basically all the lines there so February Surplus for the emergency fund was 1.3 million year-to dat Surplus for um all the funds was 1.1
059million February Surplus for all the funds was 1.8 million and then year-to dat all fund Surplus was a little over 900,000 um we also did receive 70,000 from the state in auxiliary funds which is the money that goes to St Joseph um and then we had a couple expense outliers um we did purchase roughly $18,000 in fuel um Tim says that should be enough to get us through the rest of the school year and we had track supplies of 23,000 which was partially reimbursed by the booster club and that was approved at last month's meet okay great motion to approve the February financials a motion a second please a second any comments or questions just think it's interesting you know we went from a $325,000 deficit and then we finally got our money from the
060and then now we're 1.8 to the good so that's that's I still haven't heard what the final settlement will be for this month so that'll be on next month financials right um did we have a first and a second yes okay roll call please Mr Mo yes M yes Mr hickin yes and Mr P yes motion passes uh item C is um donations for the board to approve um we have $1,000 that's going to the theaterdrama program from the magador VFW charity foundation and then we also had a little over $1,200 in supplies for the Elementary School from Ohio snap head have a motion to approve the donations a motion second comments or questions second snaped the thing that you started with us yes that was a grant um to make what we're calling the
061water Trail so it's to the ground pieces of equipment our kids that we can use inside the building and outside it's located ofers and great thanks okay anything else roll call please uh Mr Mo yes Mr hickin yes m w yes and Mr Cherry yes motion passes uh item D is uh approval of the grant that I think Joe talked about it earlier um this one was for $3,629 122 um we'll have the $40,000 one on next month's agenda have a motion to approve participation in the uh the listed grant on motion a second please a second comments or questions nice work getting us a grant that's always those are awfully nice to have so bar it's very instrumental with this she does a great job for us no doubt roll call please Mr M
062yes Mr hickin yes M Wht yes Mr Brian yes I'm sorry I'm reading the next one close no I'm reading the next one no I've had too many cough drops today so um the last one is just to approve a then announced certificate for Lisa be you hand our OT and PT Services we just had a timing issue with the last Po and the invoice dated the new one so I just need the board to approve this then anoun certificate okay can I have a motion to approve the then anoun certificate uh listed all motion second please Joe any comments or questions roll call please Mr Moon yes Mr hi yes Mr yes Mr yes motion passes so before we adour I just want to thank everybody for coming it's great to see everybody and
063uh hopefully we might might see some sun this weekend but hopefully enjoy it spring is spring is coming if it's not here so but thank you very much for coming and spending your time with us and a happy spring break to our staff spring break a week off and is well deserved a full moon and we knew it today so thank you again so we'll adjourn the meeting I'll second take but I didn't want to take it makes me drowsy and I'm coming here so just so you know I don't mean to ever jump on anybody being the first I'm just ready let's go I you know what people W for when I used to these meetings when hey how you doing why you