Yellow Springs Schools Board of Education Meeting October 9, 2025 Part 2

001I'm actually going to do this for up here. So, at the start of the school year, um at our convocation, we do our service awards, but this service award winner um was not present and so he gets a special celebration. So there's dedication and there's dedication. This award is for John Budgeon who has been here at Yellowstone Schools in addition to being a graduate and I'm going to talk about that. teacher, principal, counselor, coach, and listening holes, but also mentor, historian, confidant, friend. There's no person that opened his arms up to me when I arrived and has done nothing but embarrassed about my entire seven years. So, we'll come over here. This way's going to have some things to say to you. John is getting the 45 year service award, which means he is in

002his 46th year of service. I knew that when we were 50, but we are so lucky to have this man to everything that Dr. said. Um, always open arms when a new person comes into the district. 45 years, 46 now, working on it and demanding it. That's not even counting the time that he spent here as a student running Pauls. But then when you do the math, you realize that is long enough for him to have taught a student in his very first year, then that student's child, then that first student's grandchild, and he might even make it to a great grandchild if he hasn't already. He is a household name and a name that carries with it so much care, time, energy, knowledge, respect, and lots of weight on his shoulders. Every educator should

003look at John Dedel as a model. He's touched the lives of countless families and students, and mine is one of them. I got permission from my mom to tell this story right before I came. When my sister was struggling in 8th grade, my mom sat in front of John Federal in tears. My sister did not go to Yellow Springs schools. She wanted to give my sister one last chance to find success and that last chance was Yellow Springs. I don't know what Mr. Gun did, and I will never ask. But after being told to no the first time, he somehow made it happen. My sister went on to graduate from high school, build a wonderful life, become a photonist, and become a very proud mother. That's the power of John Bedwell. To see what's possible

004when others can't. To open doors quietly but meaningfully, and to leave generations of students and families better because of his heart. from my family and from all the other families who have stories like mine. Thank you. Would you like to take a picture? Another That's the key. Oh, sorry. on behalf of the district. Thank you so much Mr. Gel words as finally as expression your service. Okay, now move on to administrative and reports. All righty. It looks like we're up first. Milan um >> I mean I'm kind of loud for those of us on the internet. >> And speaking of internet, I am about to use the word legal matter >> live online. Um we have our first uh category thinking boldly. Um there was a very There we go. our um sixth grade science

005class um did a card project about the biome in our gut and had a great time not using using representations but um transferring healthy bacteria in the gut and um we know those words people matter about 18,000 times a day. We're very excited to say um and what was really exciting was it was in collaboration with the um ELA class and as a as a school we really decided that we need to be pushing this year. Um so they did a multi-page lab reports in order to go to the bookathon and um it was just really exciting. There was a lot of really deep thinking a lot of when I read some of those lab reports we I was reading what I thought was sixth grade book. I was freshman sophomore in high school. So

006it was really Saturday night at home. That was awesome. >> You you know what I'm talking about. >> I do. >> One of the things that's been a a tradition at Hillsmon is having the better classes. And so you pair an older class with a younger class and it helps build community and it helps um the younger students have a role model. all the older students that helped build empathy. And so we wanted to highlight some of the activities that our first and third grade learning classes have been doing. They interviewed each other and got to know each other. And when we talk about caring deeply and um the importance of belonging in school, what a beautiful way to build community. So I just wanted to highlight that because what a great example of how

007our students are living out that value of caring deeply. and J first grade at home had a little bit of a rough time and she asked to go see her third grade buddy and it was just lovely that she had one more person to go to and that that person was able to do it work with her. So I thought that was shared and I guess I was in the steps this week. Sorry about that. So what you are seeing is students starting to not just advocate courageously but advocate courageously for themselves. Um our first grade as first graders are can be tagged in graduating. So once a week they've been having brain lessons and they are neuroscientists in training. And so this morning they learn words like neuroplasticity and neurogenesis and neurosircuitry. And what

008they learned would be we are likening the amydala to a cat that sounds like you're ted or you're stressed. And then we likened the hippocampus to a tiger. And and tigers are amazing. They really actually like to sleep all day, but when they're awakened, they can either run away or they can become ferocious. And and so the the third part of that temporal lobe is the prefrontal cortex which we call our owl. So when your tiger wakes up and becomes ferocious and runs away um your owl flies away and then you can't activate that prefrontal cortex and you're not thinking straight and that's disregulation. So they've been working on some um ways to keep themselves regulated, ways to express not just feelings but the sensations they have in their body. And um the middle picture

009that this first grader drew of what happens when her tiger wakes up I thought was very accurate description of what it's like to be um a frustrated first. So I just thought I'd share that. >> I've had days like that. All right. Um, I'm going to share just briefly about our into the wild trip because it's also our schools in action and I have five students who are going to be coming up and serving on the panel to just share their experience with the board. Um, so that you can can see how the expeditionary um opportunities um impact learning and and not just learning but overall student growth. Um, I will share the into the wild trip this year looks different than it has in the past. The place we typically stay they that campground

010sold which forced us to move to a different location. Um, so we actually moved there's a property on the back side of camp that just has cabins and so we actually moved to that location. Worked really really well. um our our students over the the eight years that we've done this went from sleeping under tarps to sleeping intense to now we're sleeping in cabins. So, I'm not sure if it's because they want that because I'm getting older and that's what I want. Um but either which way it's getting a little more cushy for our kids. Um the the that change worked out great. Um this year uh we are the weather actually impacted us. So, if you've been following the weather, you know it's been dry for most of the last two months and there

011was like rain this week and then there were two days of rain about a week and a half ago that just so happened to be the two days of the main two days of our trip. So, the first day um we had to make the tough decision on Tuesday afternoon that we were going to transport the bikes down and take a bus as opposed to riding because they were calling for lightning on our bike route. So, I did not want to have students out on the bike path lightning. Um, it actually worked out great. It allowed us to get down to camp earlier. We were able to play different community building games. You made some pictures with the kids with shaving cream and cheese balls stuck on their heads and different things that um in

012many ways the students didn't have a challenge that you have with that long bike ride, but they had other beneficial things. So, um, I do want to before students come up and before I get to that, I want to thank the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. So with that change, um when Morgan's family sold the campground, they also sold a canoe delivery. So that was the the second day of our trip was to do a canoe trip. Um and ODNR actually stepped up. They provided canoes for every one of our kids. They provided like 12 volunteers who came out and taught our students water safety and then they along excuse me canoeed along with our students. So they still got that rich experience. Um, and with the change in lodging, one of my goals is

013always to keep our trips cheap. Um, the lodging got more expensive, but because ODMR provided that service for us, the canoe trip was free. So, we're able to pay keep the cost the same with families. Um, and then OD and actually stayed and spent the day doing their stream quality um, test with us with our students where they were down in the stream digging around and collecting little insects that live down there. and and like the ones that are more sensitive indicate the um healthier water. So So like our kids got to play in the water and then they got to actually step in the water in the same day and that was all because of the the high department of natural resources. Um the second thing I want to share another exciting opportunity. So

014we we had a kickoff with gifted savings. Um so gift to savings is an organization that's been working with the community foundation and they actually approached us last spring um seeking a partnership with our high school students and um through gift savings each one of our class of 2026 seniors got a $1,000 investment portfolio in their name. So they came to the kickoff event uh that investment portfolio had stocks, bonds, bitcoin, CDs and then our students can monitor how the different investment types grow over the course of the year and they have to complete 20 different lessons about investing and then once they graduate turn 18, they get the money. So, so they don't get to play with money when they're 18 because they want students to learn to manage money effectively before they just

015like start taking chances. Um, so that the risks are more calculated. Um, but they they can all open up the app each day and see exactly how much money they had. So, it started as $1,000. By the time we did the kickoff, it was,028. The next day I have two kids walking the lunch line. Did you see it? We made $23 last night. We didn't do anything. So, so like there's some real executive markets um for this. And I want to thank Savings. They've been great to work with. We are actually they they did a private school in California last year and then they kicked off with Yellow Springs and a school in Georgia this year. So we are the first three schools in the nation that that every one of our seniors will walk

016out as an investor and with that investment portfolio with the hope that when they graduate they can choose to get um direct deposit into a savings account, a check or it can go into an investment account. And our hope is that it will go into an investment account for each other. So really cool opportunity for our kids there. And then the last thing we had our um college tour uh on October 2nd and 3rd we had 20 students attend this year. Um we went to Ohio Wesley, Ohio University, Aen College, West Virginia State, and University of Rio Grand. Um this this is our second year of the college tour. So this is something that is um built by Miss Maya. it's it's one of her kind of goals and um we try to get our

017kids exposure to a lot of different postsecary options. Um so even if a student goes on this trip and is like I don't really have any intention of going to any of these five schools then they go and see I fell in love with the small liberal arts school or I fell in love with the big state school or I fell in love with HCU or whatever it may be. Our kids get exposure to those and then uh next year will be the last year in our career cycle. So our goal is that if a student wants to go there sophomore year, junior year, and senior year that they will have exposure to at least 12 schools, viety different settings, variety of different um styles so they can make a more informed decision once they

018graduate, if they choose college. Thank you. >> That's really go ahead. No, I was just going to say they didn't say anything. I was just imagine our students are going to have a a$1,000 investment portfolio. So thank you all for putting that together and giving >> and with financial literacy it's money right >> that that is the key. >> Yes. >> Having young adults leave us with real working knowledge about how money works and how investments work. So that um I think we all probably have stories about how perhaps we didn't have that um education when we were in high school. And it it really is life-changing. So um and we did clear it with um layers of it. And and I want to speak of how it erases social economic crisis because we can

019grow families that talk about money and that have money to invest and then we can grow that. And so I like that equity part of this. You know, it's it's pretty level. Actually, my question was going to be about the uh the into the wild and I know we're going to have a presentation, but could you speak about next year whether or not it will be at the same site or it will be back to >> No, we actually um the the original site is not an option anymore. So, OENR took it over. Um the the the perk to the original site was literally right on the bike path. So you can ride your bike right there and go there. Um the perk to camp is that the actual facilities were much nicer. So so

020like the cabins are much better and then like we were housed in a shelter house at both sites, but at the original site the bath house was probably 180 yards away whereas here like the bath house and bathrooms and everything are attached right to the shelter house. So it makes um like supervision much easier. We don't have to have like and and they the original spot had two showers total. This one had five showers on each side. So So like there were so many works in this location that it's actually much better. And when we got there the day early, we had three rain of their entire property. So like they have a lot of challenge things that like our staff have done in the past and we were able to take our kids up

021and they didn't experience some of those things. So it actually can work out pretty good. >> Judith, >> in terms of the investment uh education you're doing, are is anybody talking about ethical ethical issues regarding where you're investing? And if not, is that something that could be incorporated into that? >> I'm going to be completely honest. I am not sure. So So they it's a they have a very can curriculum. Um, it's 20 lessons. They're about 15 minutes each and they're all computer based where they watch videos and I'm not sure the the specific topics of what those are, but we are not allowed to in any way change their program >> because it's part of a study. >> It's part well so their program is part of the study, but I don't believe that

022our students are actually participating in that study. Um but they they in our agreement with them we are not allowed to deliver content in any way that's different than what they have. >> This this is the organization that worked with the community foundation for YS. So um you know that's how they reached out to the schools. So [Music] as it goes forward that's a conversation that you know how how is that addressed so we know the community and thought to include that right. >> Yeah. And our kids, in addition to this, our kids are now required to have a financial literacy course before they graduate high school. So even if it's not every day, that's something that Miss Gorgon can definitely build into her course. >> Okay. So when you Judith raises a a good

023point um and maybe we can just follow up on how socially responsible investing, ethical investing can be addressed somehow in the curriculum that our students. Y >> yeah just is definitely an area where you know critical thinking is is important right so um I a lot of these things are arguable I this is recently that one of the things that argument was that investment was you know one of the best ways of acquiring so it's I don't and I know that from my family's experience That's that was the case. Um and the air force did a really good job of providing that information officers in 1916 Los Angeles. Um it was kind of an interesting proposition with you know the young lieutenant but uh they made it seem easy level that we provided here it

024is it is even more than what we were encouraged to do and it's a great skill. um getting feedback from the students on what's doing really important and um you know and also ways that they can seek out um credible reputable information to probably you know the um shared Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um so let's then move on to schools in action into the >> gentlemen. If you all just want to um stand alone here if you can introduce Yeah. Here. Go ahead. You'll grab this one. If you could each introduce yourself and just first off share your favorite memory from the wild expedition. >> Jenstein and my favorite was probably swimming after the water festival. Hi, I'm really involved. >> Hi, my name is Riverstone and my favorite memory was probably

025I think and my favorite memory was probably um you hold on to it and we're going to work back this way. So you hit the next question. The the question is what positive struggle did you experience on this trip? probably available. I would have to probably >> Yeah. Um I miss my cat a lot. I really just wanted my cat to be there and was um show Oh, >> and I want to brag on Jayla just had to leave. Um, so, so on our bike day, I had the opportunity to bike with her. And normally we have our long bike day and then the second day is a shorter day, but to see her persevere through the bike trip when it was hard and and wanted to give up and just continue to push um

026was it was rewarding for me to see her have that positive experience. So, all right, next question. How did your relationship with your peers and or your teachers change because of this trip? >> I feel like it bonded us all together closely like more than we are. Saying that we had this seeking the same as each other. So soft wet and maybe spent two or three days together was probably walking us closer than ever. too. I also think that it was really fun having all my classmates with me and just like so much fun. Um, I would say um being able to teach more because it was only a couple weeks to do new school with new teachers and so I wanted to you know get to know >> so this trip we intentionally put

027it the fifth week of the school year and it's kind of a bookend we book end the middle school with this at the beginning of seventh grade in Washington DC at the end of eighth grade and it's very intentional um because we get a lot of new seventh graders coming either from the Antioch school or from open enrollment So that immersive um is immersive nature of the trip is one of our goals with this. Um and and I will just speak as a principal. I go every year. It's my opportunity to learn every kid's name and like I can think about moments for each one of these kids whether it's it's playing volleyball, doing a dream study. Um I remember River like intently working one-on-one with a volunteer on the river study for a long

028time. um like you you form a different understanding of kids than you kids form when you just see them passing in the hallway. Um and this trip gives our students an opportunity to to show their best side which I think is really important. All right. Um how do you feel like or what sorry what did you learn about yourself on this trip? I thought that I wouldn't have like a good bond with my teachers because it's a middle school and I've been going to the school of kindergarten and one of their favorite classes. So I just learned that I could like go more and doing activities than I thought. I learned that I honestly enjoy a lot more than I thought I would sitting with all the friends and friends that I ever that I

029ever enjoy. I really enjoy having much. [Music] >> I feel like What was the question? >> Um, what do you learn about yourself on this trip? >> I learned that I love school trips for you in the same way because I think it's so much freedom. It's so much fun. I also learned at high school it could be like I know we watched the movie the worst years of my life before I bring this all out pretty bad but it's really bad. >> Does anyone else have any questions for our students? >> Can you tell us about the differences between the sleeping quarters and the boys and girls? >> Oh, you have about that. So, the girls cabins, we were in tree houses, which if you're going downstairs in the middle of the night, be

030so careful because I slipped down at least two times. And um the boys cabins I know were not exactly cabins. They were they described as parks and also described as having no stairs, but a sloped piece of wood with like pegs on it. I saw the city managements from the friends hall and they said that they had a few in the girls cabins. They had one big ply thing with a tree branch in the middle that had four pattresses on it with sections of sheets in the long tree houses that were a few people fell through. But the boys were singing like boxes with it. So yeah, it was really fun. Like we had bunk beds on top of each other and it was so fun. kind of look like Jesus. [Music] >> Yeah. Because

031the bathroom was like way over there. We had to go out at night and we wanted to use the bathroom. it since it rained so much, a lot of people fell and slipped. It was it was kind of bad. And there was a couple holes in where we walked and one person got their foot stuck in it. So, that wasn't good. And I think our bathrooms were really nice. I didn't see like any bugs like moths, but my door didn't work and I had to like open it like that and swing back and now I have a scar on my face. The the boy scout said that their doors open to people like just a gust of wind. And they also said that they have a lot of bugs, mice, and stuff like that. >>

032Sounds like into the wild. Thank you very much. >> Thank you everyone. >> Thank you. >> I wanted I wanted to ask if anybody got a chance to show off their fire. >> We did. We did have sports one night. >> Yes. >> The spy bugs is nice. It sounds like a fantastic trip and again kudos to the teachers and the parents and the administrators who pull this together eight every year eight years now adapting to changes and conditions and making it as we see an amazing trip for the kids. I'm going to move on to the long PTO report. Yeah, we submitted our report but [Music] we submitted our report but we have street fair this weekend and we are looking for people or not for us not in LA but like take money

033spots. So if you want to volunteer, I'll post something on Facebook on open discussion and closer board like right now. Please sign up the afternoon spar. We need some help. So it's a fun time. Two hours. I can account for that. You get a nice vest to wear. You can collect money. You get to talk to wonderful happy people. And you get snacks. Scratches. Yes. Okay. Um, folks, are you all okay for moving on and not taking a fiveminut? >> Okay, great. >> Can we reserve the right to take one duration? >> Yes. And I I was just going to say if you would raise your hand and say, okay, after our our financial report, we need a break. Um, just just gladly we'll fit it in. So, let's move on then to the master

034facilities update. Thank you. I've provided um two documents. One is my update, the other is the monthly report from Cong. But I would rather use my time um to show you the most recent video footage from yesterday. Um and this is actually on our website under facilities construction. the gym. >> The new gym and the lockers. So when we did our tour, there was no roof on that gym. Correct. [Music] >> And we had a lot of folks doing this to get it. So now you're looking at at the um in the forefront is the 58 wing and the smaller one is the 912. the common >> that is the gym mid and putting brick on the outside and they are making amazing progress. You see the new the band room is the higher building

035and office the lower and then the entrance now where it goes along. So this will be the um prek1 hallway looks. >> Yeah, the windows. Yes, >> windows are here. Some windows are >> windows are in lights. Um the windows honestly changed the water. >> Was that correct? I thought I saw the health report like over 40% completion just >> could be. Yeah. I mean there in the office area the the phase one and two. >> Yeah. I mean look at look at how nice those windows and they have the shades in between the panes and the small windows are the safety windows they can open. ress paint. All the paint colors um look nice. You see how much brighter it is. And those those big units are vents for heating and cooling. And those

036will be up against in some rooms. You can see that there's a little opening. And I just want to repeat um because I know it's not being caught very much except in the corner of the YouTube video, but this is on the on the website right now. For everyone who's uh watching the school board meeting, go to our website and find this video. window. It will be 11 office flex space. That's the full office area there. I will say um we don't have like this next time takes a visit from the room because I took the generator sites today and that room is is like it is I I know nothing about it. I can tell that it is amazing. Well, they're putting in an entirely new in a very small space. I mean, it's

037like a jigsaw. >> So, what we are seeing are the rooms that of the school preschool entrance. Anyway, you can slow it down if you go to the website, but I just wanted to use this time to say look at this video because we are in this. Thank you. And we are still based on the um updated timeline, we are still on time. We are still on schedule. Um you know, I'm going to be honest. We have met about a month ago. Um our our goal is to get in um early fall, hopefully September, but I can't say that we've been able to make that work yet. That is um we need to have some resolution so we can get out of the next year. We know how we need to adjust to this. But

038um we really are are trying. So I would say within the next five by five next quarter he will have some um details about that great look forward to this. Thank you. >> Is there some issue with um >> well the rental is that what you're asking about just location? Well, immediately um there is an end date. So that's what we're trying to that's a that's a factor in this equation um how much work they can get done in the summer who don't have um people around so that they can accelerate that and they have been accelerating progress. So, you know, um I I hesitate to say the date of the fee right now, but early fall is sounds like you're working on it and we'll have some time at our next meeting to go

039a bit deeper when we have that information. And just one one thing I just kind of wanted to put out there um in preparation for that meeting is um obviously the uh the grounds have um been impacted. Um and I'm curious about what the plan is in that recently. >> That's all there that's all for. Yeah. Yeah. It's not I'm not sure um what people expectation was in terms of what how the rest of the um encourage could be impacted. So might be interesting just to have you know what just as close as you call that a death follow up with that. There was something that I'm on. So, we got to to do the last digits um on the B monthly meeting on Tuesday and it was raining a lot. So, it was a

040great time to look to look at our the progress of the work and when and where, you know, they needed to come back and and um address, you know, some some issues. But I was impressed uh by how it felt building within the windows and the power on. We were not able to go see uh the in site just because it was too muddy and we would not have been able to see anymore. But uh what I wanted to bring up to the board here is that Amy Baby and I we've been sharing the load for participating to the facilities construction by monthly site tours and meetings. and I called for AB to help because um I've been hearing that responsibility solely since May and my work schedule does not allow me to participate to

041all those uh meetings to maintain the board presence. So I'm requesting that we officially add um in place in replacement of you Rebecca to the video so that she can get the emails and the packets and be fully informed when she comes to those meetings. for that. >> Okay. I believe that this is a an equipment change. So, we didn't have an official it's not an official committee. So, we it's not a board committee. So, we don't have to worry about that. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Terry, we'll move on with the superintendence report. Um for for my updates, again, I'm not going to read this to you. I I just take really two academic updates. One is that um Jack who left to go to sleep tonight. um key learning in

042your language to STEM cohort as we prepare um to apply for steam designation for I just want to say you know we have a couple actual visits and then we have some meetings at Mattel and Columbus throughout the year but I just want to say with the admin reports of what our children are doing we are doing things as good as and I would argue better than most other districts. And so um we really it is our mission to really highlight this and and amplify this um beyond the village and the county and that will be part of the state of the schools. I won't address that. I did want to say that Jack and I are involved in this first district in it um through Ohio. And then um Megan and I are involved

043in the League of Innovative Schools artificial intelligence cohort because we are doing a lot of district work on creating our AI plan um that we need to have by the end of year. It takes monthly. So policy um and then practical guidance for students and staff today. Um in my update the last part is about um legislation specifically budget and property tax. So I've given you some brief updates. So the first part is about the property tax working group that released their final report on September 30th. Get the bullet points I have here um from that. But I actually kind of the 11th hour so you may not have seen it attached to the agenda your actual report. So that is there if you need it. Um, I guess what I want the board and

044the community to understand is that um, there has been call for reform in property tax. Nobody here disagrees with that. I think the devil is in the details and what is actually um being legislated and how that impacts not only public schools in Ohio but villages and municip um everyone is going to be impacted by this. Um so I I don't want to because Jay has a the uh forecast um tonight. Excuse me. There are little bugs flying around. Um Jay has a forecast and I really want to, you know, see my time to him. Um but I do want to say that I will revisit this um actually the the three of us spent a lot a lot of time talking today um on October 30th. So I would like to do the first

045half of the work session on our report card and state of the schools. but then also um have a real detailed conversation about the changes that um have already been made with the budget bill, the changes that have come as a result of the override the governor's veto. I expect two more overrides by the end of the month. Um, and then one other thing I pointed out, maybe you're paying attention to a something that's gathering some steam. Um, it's still early days, but it is this um effort to put on the ballot a constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes. On a surface, that sounds great. Yay. No, no property taxes. But things have to get paid for through some mechanism. So if there are no property taxes that leads to sales tax and or income

046tax and perhaps fees. So the past two days Megan and I were in Columbus at a BAS conference. Um here's one example. They gave fees. If you go to get you a license plate for your cars, whether you get just a sticker or a hard plate, maybe you're at 75 bucks, 100 bucks, if you have an ED, maybe $250. How about $1,500 or $2,000? How about if your income tax for the state of Ohio goes up or sales tax goes from 6.75 to 13%. The state gets $24 billion in property tax. 8 million of that is paid by businesses. Only one/3. The other twoirds, correct? Farmers and and property owners. And if we switch, if we think it's some nirvana where we can eliminate property taxes, if we switch and go to sales tax and

047income tax, how much of that do you think is going to be paid by business owners? So again, we need to have some real in-depth discussions because I think it is, you know, we are a school system and and it is our job to educate our community because there is a lot of misunderstanding um out there and so I would ask that you do and that's why. Okay. Thank you very much. And I also encourage us all I mean it's a lot of reading but it it is extremely useful and and important that we all uh delve into these these documents between now questions. Are you finished here this day? You just have the open enrollment. We do it every October. Okay. Um so I've given you um the first few slides are current. So

048the first one this is by grade level um what our enrollment is total of 67 students. The next slide is okay of those 607 what's the demographic breakdown? Then um resident students out. This is a tricky number because folks aren't required to report this to us. So we have to do some hunting. Um if we have a student who leaves us and goes to another school, generally we we have that information or if another school request records. Um but this is a total of 81 students. And and this number is important for you to remember because we always have to know what is our total capacity. We have to educate all students that live within the district. Um the next slide is current open enroll students in. So these are students who get through open

049enrollment and what public district um they come from. So you can see um the most from Zenia followed by Green and then Dayton public Springfield [Music] and then an assort assortment of other districts. Again I think we offer something unique. Um so how many how many totals do we have? Uh 196, you know, when in 196 in, 81 out. that that 81 is, you know, so when you see 10 public um that could very well be uh children of color parents who are elsewhere private program um could be uh CJ Bridg and then we've got others would be simil Are we track are we tracking off school? Are we tracking the uh year onyear data for students out? So is that number staying flat? The number of students in district >> it has been. Yeah,

050we we've always been positive 100. >> I see. So it's at 85. We increased our enrollment a little bit this year. >> Yeah. So, we kind of got one for the third one, but I figured, you know, we did the move we made, which is March 28, is a little late, but um the board is out now. So, I'm going to follow up with question prior to your question on date. Um so I I do notice that there's been a 20% decline in in district enrollments uh from from 5 years ago. So over the last 5 years. Um so what are what are the thoughts or plans uh for boosting that? So we've talked about this. Um I think here are some things we have to think about. First, I'm going to say that there's

051I would say the majority of public schools in Ohio are experiencing. Here are some general factors about that. Um would we have the state giving any hand over fist to students to go anywhere? So, um I I'm a parent. I've been sending my um child to schools because I might prefer private but I can't afford it or I choose not to and then I can get about 10 grand to send my child to CJ CJ. So that would be interesting to see if we see any fluctuation then in those numbers in the district if we see more kids going to private school. >> That's that's one piece. Another is um construction. Yeah, disruption. >> Disruption. Another is housing developments. You know, they're when we apply when they see they do an enrollment projection and they

052have some very sophisticated metrics on how they calculate um enrollments 10 years down the road, 15 years down the road. and the things that they look at are housing developments that they do not look at our housing developments because they only look at ones that are um pretty much done or pretty far in the construction process. So, how many students do we get from Meadows? Don't know. But I walk through that neighborhood and I come back and look, there are kids living there. Um, we do know that the village has property, what's going to be done with that? I don't know. Suspect housing. Um, so those are, you know, it's it's not an exact science, so we do a lot of guessing. I think here's here's what we know about our buildings. I think would

053be breathable. If we got past that, we could take kids. So, doing that. I also know that um by policy and by negotiated agreement, we value class sizes. Um, so I think how are we working on ways to increase enrollment? I'm going to go to back to STEM. you know, I and I will talk about this um at uh the work session and and I respect all of my colleagues who work at schools all over Ohio and I will always advocate for my and I know students need us to go to for examp academic performance and their academic performance and our other um opportunities and you know I I I will argue till the day that we provide the same or better I would say better um education. So, it's not that I think um

054I am not slamming that school, but I think we are working to make sure folks residents of Y Springs feel that they can get at Yellowstone schools when they're getting Thank you. We're going to be showing that later when we approve the ISA request for our school. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Thank you. So, I know that is great. So, I hear a lot of discussions with our parents about the STEM destination. and something that everybody's eager to see coming because that makes us uh very much competitive with the indigenous STEM and other province here. So what's the timeline you think on this destination application? You you have to apply in February and I'll be honest with you extensive work. we may not be able to apply this February, but it will definitely be next February.

055And and the Ohio STEM learning network says, "Look, maybe we don't want STEM designation." They're like, "That's not really the end of the journey. It's really about all of the practices that you do." And we have done so much in the past few years. We really have um that really built on things that have been done years before. So, I think we're well on our way. Um, I would like to say February. I think that could be our goal. I'm not sure if we'll be ready. Maybe we apply knowing that we may not get it, but what we will get is Friday. >> Yeah. I know that the feedback that that I hear from parents is the coding program that that is changing how some parents look at our middle school and high school. Um

056also our art program for sure the fact that we have new hires in math that are experiencing higher education all those things I hear from all the parents that give a lot of value to what we offer here. Uh the other question that I had was we lifted the cap on open enrollment. So I know that we're only a few months in into that. What trends are you seeing? Well, right now you mean just general. I think we're just slightly higher than over the original scale that it had. Um, but this gives us some room should it and then I know that we have now some students at least one that is coming from Fairborn in that pipeline. We are okay. And so that would be the role on the board to kind of keep

057asking those questions to see what's what is the best format for this discussion. >> Thank you. I'm going to move then on to board policies.5. Now board you'll notice that there are a number of policies. Uh this uh 5.1 is approved to approve the first reading of board policies. Uh these are always reviewed and presented to us by AOLA. Uh then they go through the process of updating our own bylaws. I'm ask superintendent Holden to give us a brief overview. Uh if there is this if there's any particular policy you want to discuss. Um but we also looked at a lot of these things back when we did a whole bunch of approvals um earlier this year. >> Yeah. And this is from the new set that we reviewed on October 1st. So I would

058say most of these are are pretty self-explanatory. I do want to highlight a couple uh uh 523 time for religious instruction. If you remember the last time we asked that we wanted that though now you can do a little bit of that. So it's giving people more power um for that policy. um 5136 that is the sub policy that we're required to have in place by the end of the year. Um so that is that piece 5200 is in attendance. Those revisions are based on changes in the budget bill. Um and I think there was a highlight uh two actually continuity of organizational operations. So that is not our city plan. that is how do we keep the organization running if we have an issue that happens that's the same right you know let's say

059there's a fire safety plan addresses what you do or a continuous operation plan details what if the fire causes you to be out of your main building for three months that's so um and that's a required new required policy 8305 information security. We are also like I said we are working on our AI plan. We are also working on our cyber security policy which is required by law um and by our insurance carrier and I think those are the highlights of that policy. Hey. Um, [Music] I think it's just a good thing. >> Yes. I don't think there's a an impact. It's just an additional. >> So, I was just wondering if >> I'd let get a motion and then we can have some discussion if if any is needed. Is there a motion to

060read? Second. >> Any further discussion questions? Okay, let's call vote. >> Magnus, >> yes. >> Bailey, >> yes. >> Bet. >> Yes. >> Templin, >> yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Okay, moving to 5.2. This is another set of policy revisions. under this case they're non-discrimination boards or this should be using these are either rescending replacement or technical correction. Um the technical correction is taking on first name out and just putting compliance officer director of student services to change the policy every time should that um the person won't change. Um and then the rest are they're all parallel but the non policies are parallel based upon does it apply to students to staff and that's thank you. Do I have a motion? I move that we approve the first reading of the non-discrimination

061from >> and second any questions discussion >> yes >> okay >> yes >> motion passes zero >> so 5.3 approve first reading of revised work policy 3213 what is 321 3213 is That's student supervision and it was just a miss when this volume was done. >> Right. So, we're just correcting that. >> Is there a motion? >> I move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any questions or Okay. >> Yes. >> Magnus. >> Yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero. >> 5.4. Approve second reading of board policy 6150. that we [Music] want to tell us what tuition income I had do an audit of our policy approvals instead of this one and the one prior we just missed. So this one can get us first street and so that's what this is. So

062it's this housekeeping. So seems like we're ready for a vote. >> We got a motion. Yeah, I think they jumped in that. >> Yes. >> Magnus. >> Yes. >> Bailey. >> Yes. >> Passes five to zero. And then 5.5 and then we're done with this section. Approves first point first and second reading of revisits for policy 24 policy. >> I second. Okay. So this policy in school athletics and extracurricular activities. The board approved this policy in August 1st and second reading in the time between it was being sent to production and now there was a change in the law. So we had to add that to the policy. So I ask you to reapprove it. >> No major change discuss ice. I see. >> Yes. >> Okay. Yes. >> Magnus >> Otter. >> Yes. >>

063Haley. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Or ice. >> Okay. Moving on to six. Uh this is an administrative calendar. Let's open up the consent calendar. [Music] >> I second. >> Okay. Um some 6.2 to do is transportation just as payments for um students who go elsewhere. Um 6.5 is revision of the athletic and extracurricular handbook. Um we've already approved it. So there change about um students who go to schools who are residents who go to schools and participate with us. Um 6.3 [Music] is the resolution for building any change for Yellow Springs High School/P Middle School to Yellow Springs High School. And then 6.4 is putting in the Yellow Springs for a sand club. We have 70 70 students from that course. Okay. So, usually instead of calendars, there's not much in the

064way we have discussion, but perhaps there's first of all, I'll ask if any board member wants to pull out any of these items for a second. Okay. There any questions? Okay. sort of you know I feel like just the parent school comes off it just yeah high schools I guess it's actually one school because we only have one so it's a middle and high school and this is one building with two wings and is it true I will ask the question that they can that the um fourth through 8th wing may still David Kennedy or is that five years? So, we need to do something to honor um Dr. And please take a vote. Oh, close to consider. Magnus, >> yes. >> Conor, >> yes. >> Bailey, >> yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero.

065>> Okay. We'll move to seven. Adoption of the consent calendar for financial. >> I move that we financial. >> I second. >> So J. >> Yeah. Um, if you don't mind, I I would like to sort of go in reverse order. Uh, I know the forecast is first, but um, if we want to touch on any of the other items, um, the financial reports are covered, right? The forecast is more up to-date than the um than the financial reports. Student activity, budget, and purpose statements. Um these are some old ones that we are cleaning up. So you might have noticed that the classes that we're approving are all graduated and that is true. Um this is moving their remaining funds and um sort of assigning task of making sure that in the future our classes

066are thinking about what they want to do with the money that they raise and don't spend graduation. Um and the transfer schedule matches the student activity budgets approving. And then the last part of the ticket kit launch program that's the transfer that's not really related to um the student activity accounts. Um just closes out our balance of first year. And then finally the appropriation changes. It's really just a change. Um we have a small rural school um grant. Uh it is thrown into the miscellaneous federal grants but in small and rural school districts. Um it's going to be used for professional development of our staff. Um and that's the the plan for that. We just got the approval last week. So getting it on our budget so we can spend the money. Um are there

067any questions on those items? >> Have there been any particular requests for profession? >> We used a considerable portion of PDL training for all staff and audience all teachers and instructions. that it was actually amazing and and very well received. >> Was there an attachment that you intended for 7.4 that confused me a little bit? The student activity budget and purpose statements. [Music] >> It showed up. I know I've seen the amounts. Isn't it in that transfer schedule? It's in the the transfer schedule. >> Okay. >> But >> yeah, very good. >> I may be able to fix this right now. Yes, there should have been a there [Music] was proposed budget though if there was a more itemized Okay, >> we can move on and then just >> How about is this a good

068point for like a two minute break while trying to prepare for the financial stretch? Uh, >> we'll take a really short break. Heat. Heat. Okay. So, I would like to point out that and and I'm sorry this is indicating but we have the 11th grade class president who's over here who's committed to attending board meetings as a student. So I just wanted to thank you for being here. >> Thank you. Will >> Okay, we're continuing on with the financial >> the student activity budget statements right there. Um, so are there any questions about the items not on the anom? >> Yeah, one quick one. Um, one quick question about the lunch. Does it mean that the funds? >> No. No. Um, I don't have the balance of it. Um actually the balance of it. >>

069Uh can you look at the we can actually check it right now. Um Sarah would you go to the financial reports and go to August. So I guess this will be before the transfer. >> Yeah. >> Um if you will keep scrolling down, keep scrolling down. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. You want to go to the stuff that uh looks like junk at the bottom. >> The last page. >> No, no, not necessarily the last page. Okay, slow down. Go back up. Go up. Uh right there. >> Get the lunch fun. Yes, I should have said that. Everybody please bring your glasses for my presentation or classify glass, but >> $1,145. So, we will move that $192. >> Okay. to the regular lunch fund. So it would be close to $1,000 sitting in the

070TV lunch drawer. We have used that to pay off the balance and it seems like that is about the ending balance that we have over the year somewhere between $125 and $250. So 192 is right in the middle there. I appreciate that especially because this is funded by volunteers that are providing money for for to close the uh the debts of students. >> Yes. Everyone sleeps. >> Thanks. Now we're not closing the consent calendar. We have big items now to discuss. Um the but am I right? Were there any questions with regards to the financial reports for a um August and July? So, you're going to move now to the forecast. >> So, does it do do any board members have any questions or comments about the July and August reports? >> Okay. So, let's

071move to the forecast. >> Yes. And um officially it is the forecast now. no longer the 5-year forecast that you're approving because um part of Pascal 96 reduced our requirement from 5 years to 4 years. Not exactly sure why. I think part of that was the um carryover balance and some of the stuff that was still hanging though. Um but this is one of the changes that happened during the the banana budget is um they reduced the number of years on the forecast. They changed the dates. Um so if you go ahead and open the one that should say it power yes poweroint PDF. Um just just to start um we're required to do the forecast and uh there is the high revised code. Um part of the changes was now uh if you remember

072last year we did the forecast in November. um they moved up the deadline to October 15th this year and then our update is due um at the end of February. So, previously we had the forecast done in November and then May and the end of our school year is June 30th. So um one of the changes is you know in May we know you know 95% of our information. June is not a very busy month for us. There's no kids here. So, um, now the second forecast being done in February means like that, um, we'll probably have a little bit less accurate forecast in February than we would in May because in May, you're already mostly. Um, and then in fiscal year 27, the initial deadline has been moved up to August 31st. that was

073done in the August meeting and the February 28th deadline still still stays. Um and they have the required funds in the the forecast the four-year forecast and essentially the discs are um your general funds. moving on. Uh the purpose of the five-year forecast and the objectives is to make sure that school districts are um being mindful of their financial balances and where they're going um to help predict, you know, when the next levy would be or when your next um need for refinancing would be. Um so the forecast is just a snapshot of today. Um now even though we're not required to do 5 years uh where they they rolled back the forecast requirements to four years um a lot of us in the state including um our assistance uh K12 consultant that helps us

074with forecast um we've just decided to keep the 5-year forecast. Um, so you will see 5 years on the forecast. What we submit to the state will will just be four years of that information. Um, if you're able to project five years, then it doesn't hurt to keep that fifth year on our forecast and we'll just send four years to and an important piece of the the forecast. I know a lot of times people look at and what what I had printed for you just this while I have a 10-year projection I printed for you. The five-year forecast is embedded into the full document. Um that includes our notes and assumptions and the notes and assumptions really get down into the details of how we derive the start. There's two sections on the priary 410.

075It's divided into our revenues and our expenditures. Our main sources are local and state funding of the general fund. We do get federal funding. Federal funding is not in the forecast because it is a different fund. So it is not part of the general fund. Generally speaking, um that's like the um budget that we're approving fund 599. 500 fun and our expenditures are mainly salary wages and benefits services and materials. We are unique in that we do have debt service payments coming out of our general fund. That's because those debt service income with with the income tax addition that made the combination. All right. The revenue versus expenditure and Indian cash balance. Um the red line is expenditures and the blue line is for revenues. And uh you can see we're kind of right in

076the sweet spot right now where revenues and expenditures are very close but that gap is widening. And the um the the nature of that is that a lot of our revenue sources are very stagnant. um property taxes are designed to be stagnant. Uh and now our our state funding you can we'll get to some other graphics later that show state funding um instead of increasing has decreased this year. So we're getting less funding this year than we got last year. Um and it's really flat um what we're doing from this area. And then um the further apart those lines grow um means the further the faster you get to your cash balance. But we still do have a positive cash balance projected through um 2030. This graph should look familiar. This is very similar to

077what we have on our financial report. uh just shows the breakdown of our relevant sources. Um and if you're keeping track, uh our our local sources are you know 76 and a half% and state sources are 33 and a half%. Um our local sources have the percentage has grown from the year prior but that is mainly due to the um the state coming from then this is the graphic I was referring to earlier that shows our local revenues um the big jump in 2025. As you see, um the local revenue was higher last year than it is this year. That was mainly due to the large um refiling that happened with the taxes. We got that big influx of old income tax last year. So, um, this year we've gone down from what we what

078we're expecting last year in local, but you can see we're still a lot higher than we were in four. And then it continues to go grow throughout the forecast. That's mainly due to taxes throughout the forecast. And then the other bar is the state revenue. And as you can see, um, 23, 24, 25 state revenue steadily increasing, which is what you would expect, especially if they continue to fully fund and update the fair school funding plan. Um, that'll be updating the expenditures based on the most recent data that they had. That was one of the things they decided to do. they're keeping the funding based on old data and then um they have done some other things to to cut state funding. So um state funding is going down this year and the sort of

079the best that we can hope for is that it remains flat throughout the past at least at this point right now. This is our enrollment trend and you know we we've been a lot around that that 640 number um that carries that at 607. So that's kind of the 608 number just a day off probably on what was left of that but um what we're um we are now on we are on the per school funding plan. that we are on the formula is what they would say. Some schools are on what they call the guarantee and that's where the state guarantees they're not going to get less money than we did before. We are on the fun on the formula. So um our enrollment does affect our state funding. If 10 students leave, we

080will see a decrease in our state funding maximum. If we get 20 students, we will see an increase in our state funding. That is one thing with uh state foundation payments with the the parish school funding command right now um is they are using emata live. They used to do what was called count week and that was where um they do a lot of fun activities to make sure that students really wanted to come to school and didn't feel sick in October. Um, but now it it's based on your enrollment of your day and what we're reporting to us. So we don't have to do those final accounts that they they do here. Um this slide and we'll be talking more about this um later talks about probably the biggest thing that that's hanging over

081our heads and that is the state budget and legislative concerns. Um first they call it the the state budget and then the state budget is looking at property taxes. So it's not just the money that um that the state is spending. It is and they roll a lot of legislative things into the budget. Um so there was no increase in foundation funding. Um the governor vetoed four key provisions to House Bill 96 that would have had a big impact on local revenues and cash balances. Um, so after I received the score desk on 101, we had our first veto that was overwritten. Um, that eliminated a lot of our local tax options that we had available. A lot of the types of levies that schools were allowed to run have been eliminated. Um we don't

082currently have any levies on our forecast and that was our goal when we went out for uh new money and removing our substitute levy um the new money the new buildings and then you know keeping the money that we had substitute our goal was that the amount of assets we're doing for for training. So there's no forecast. So this first bill does not have an immediate impact on our district, but it does take care of our future funding options. So instead of having a a tool belt with with five or six tools to form your schools, um now we're pretty much limited to traditional levels which is uh just like a flat dollar amount to ask for everything besides bonds which you debt anticipating for quite some time. Um everything is challenging towards so there's

083right now there's 14 laws getting out there the governor's tax reform work group you saw the report that came from that and some of their suggestions. Um there is a lot of things that are pending uh at the state that could lo uh impact our local revenues. This is something that that's you know very difficult um to predict and budget. Right now we're we're sort of uh surrounded on all sides as far as the revenue we're getting. Our federal funding is in limbo and a lot of it did come through this year that we anticipated. We're still getting federal for um but um you know that has been sort of held up and and we wait until August when it's normally done in June to to find out that they were getting that money. Um

084we have already discussed that the state has reduced the funding what they provided last year to this year and now the state legislature is not just looking at reducing the state money that they give us but the um the local money that we collect and I I guess I would just say that's money that um the community has already supported with their their votes here. So, a lot of the walls that or um vetos that we're looking at um will we will lose local funding if if those go into effect. Keep going. Um, so big piece of our forecast looking at the state budget and the state budget timeline and the city approved their budget, you know, at the 11th hour in June. Um, and then that the governor did his details and overrides. Um,

085they can So the next one basically they can change the state budget up until December 31st 2026. So even though they approved it in June with the the vetos the the vetos will be over all the way until not this December following December. Um it's just a a difficult part for us to project right now. Um what does it mean if they veto some of those things like carryover cash balance? Um If they veto that on December 29th, 2026, does that change our funding for the previous years? These are a lot of questions. Um, so um so so for now the forecast is in relatively I would say it's in in good shape and we are still positive through 2030. Keep going. We got these challenges The reappraisal in 2023 um increased our class one

086which is residential and agricultural by 26.32% on average. This took us to the 20th floor. So uh locally people did not see the uh impact quite as much as districts that were sitting on the floor when those property taxes went up. David, if you remember from some of my educational pieces on how property taxes work, um, like substitute levies and and a lot of levies until you're on the 20 mil floor. As property values go up, the property taxes stay the same. Um, until you get to the 20 mil floor and that's when you have these increases that are affected by. So we are on the floor now and it will affect value in the future but um thankfully we don't really anticipate seeing property values increase as drastically as they were. So future funding

087is coming question by state legislator and the governor's capital group income tax. Uh we're expecting steady growth of 2%. Um the fair school funding plan there was many changes um the state funding payments and expenses and then the fair school funding plan basis was funding is on enrolled students. So we're very dependent on the number of students that go here. So if enrollment goes down then our state funding goes down. And if you want to move on, we'll look at our expenditures. Um, again, our expenditure looks a little different than than a lot of other school districts. Traditionally, you will see wages um being around 60 70% and benefits being um 20 25%. uh a large portion of our expenditures goes to to debt that's being funded by that. You keep going down. Um this

088is just taking that chart and turning it into a bar graph that shows you how expenses increase over the next five years. Um the largest um expense is wages and benefits. Those are those are the masses >> and that includes the terms of the contract. >> Yes. Yes. So um beyond the negotiated agreements, we always predict a 2% base increase. That was something that we moved to when we started here. But the next three years We have negotiated our agreements with the future union and classifying um we are using our actual percentage of assistance increase >> purch purchase services however in that 10% category. >> Yes. >> Oh just services but that's purchase services. um purchase services we're kind of hoping will will go down. That's one of the things in our our projection that

089is going down. We had some we had a few pond things with our our buildings um last year and uh this year as we continue to work through the construction prog or project um there's some additional services that we just sort of take home as a district utilities are because we're running a lot of equipment for people um they might be using more water so some of those things have gone up and then just sort of the emergency things that we have to do to continue the cash balance. Um this is probably the most important slide I would say. Um looking at our in cash balance unencumbered cash balance. So, even if you have money that's spoken for, it's not a free money. And then showing that 30-day cash ratio, um the FA, the Government

090Finance Officers Association, um recommends that we keep 60 days and we are above that for the 5-year forecast. Um, so this is that that conversation kind of how much money you need to to hold on to. Um, you really never want to get below that 30-day mark. Um, 60 days is considered a reasonable um cash. If you go one more slide of that, that's looking at it with our cash, but this is just looking at our our days of cash at the end of each year. that big spike that we saw those 300 numbers 347 we were um in the the year we were deficit spending we were deficit spending in fiscal year 24 as well but that was also borrowed money and we had that um we did very well on our cops financing

091and everybody we sold it at a premium so that means people overpaying were renting and we was sent to pay down but it it so that 347 was inflating um and we were closer to probably 250 if you didn't include a debt service that we were running for >> right 2 million towards that debt from the beginning which brought up >> that back to where we would anticipate it to be. So um we're hovering at 180 we at 186 last year one this year um and then you see um through 2030 we are at 72. Now this is all based on today and that nothing changes from today through 2030. Um but as we've spoken about there's a lot of things moving um at the state level right now. So we have perhaps more developmentally

092mineral fund. >> So So Jay, I guess this is my question to you. I think maybe this is a good time we can open it up to conversation as it's 9:00, but um is this a pessimistic view? Is this an optimistic? This is like the best you can do and is it going to have any I mean what what confidence we have? You did a great job in telling us that basically there's so much unknown. >> There's a lot of moving parts out there right now. Um I would say traditionally treasures and a lot of finance people, you know, when you when you do forecast and projections, um you do take sort of a pessimistic view of the of you know of the forecast. if you you know you you put income taxes growing at

0932%. But if they grow at 3% great, you know, like that's an extra percent. Um so you take a a conservative approach to looking at it. um your expenses if your expenses have been um so like uh our benefits for example um are insured uh or in a consortium for insurance they told us um several years back we we had a big spike in insurance cost premiums um I wasn't here at the time but I I think those springs got the the 17% I was on the low Some people were getting 25% grades, you know. Um, and they said, "No, we expect 10% increases for the next 5 years, 5 or 10 years. That's what we expect premiums to grow." Last year, um, we had a 2% premium increase. So, you know, factors, not the

09410%. Um, we did adjust. So, prior to to this year, we we were anticipating 10% increases like our um insurance providers told us to anticipate. >> Well, we got the 2%. We we we never did see a 10% increase. We saw 7 and 12, 8 and a half%. >> I'm curious conservative. So, so we're but honestly right now this is probably the most optimistic forecast that I anticipate having because there are so many walls that they are pushing to change um our revenue sources that and and we're going to be discussing a lot of those more thoroughly on October 30th. Um but I did want to open it up. Is this a good time to just open up to other questions from board members? Yeah, I'll be very interested to if there's any discussion about

095how potentially the the um or the impact um I mean I know that we don't have people who are on the ACA here but the anticipation is that those rates go up in in market places that everybody's rates will go up. So, um I think that um be very interested to see what happens at the February budget and the anticipation that if those tax subsidies are allowed to expire also that definitely those benefits that's that's one of the biggest expenses we have. Um, great question and we will we will wait and see. So, so I guess you know typically financial forecasts are very conservative but you ask how I feel about this one. I I feel like this is the most positive forecast I will have for some time unless there are some changes of

096heart in the way that the state is looking at laws and changing because right now I mean you know you you look at what our local revenues are 76% over 50% of that is is property taxes. So what happens to our district if 50% of our revenues disappear overnight you have to find a new way of I hope those are questions that they think about when they look at proposing these changes and other questions. Yes, I was I was trying to compare the um five year forecast that you gave in May to this one and then see how much is moving the needle in terms of when this district will have to go back to do can you give us kind of a summary of that compared to May? How much sooner are we going

097to be facing change of a new levy? And um so it didn't help. So I was looking at May and your estimation for 2029 in terms of cash balance was you know half a million no sorry5 million and then I'm looking at the one that >> the so the fiveyear >> is not as telling as the the >> 10ear projection. So the um because the 5 years remain confident although at the end of 23rd which last year would have been the 10 projection um outd. Yeah, it does. >> And that's just the impact that so far HB96 with the override that was passed this week. Um well the override that was passed this week doesn't have immediate effect on this but >> so just HP96 is as >> changes at the state level have um

098moved up when we will be in the red from 2034 to 2032. Um, and it's it it's not quite equitable to just stay in the red because um 2034 was in the red by $9,000. Um 2032 now we're looking at about a million dollars in the red. So >> it's down by it. >> It's moved up by by two years. And that's without knowing the health care cost, the benefits cost increase that we're facing. And that's without recurring bills that are looming at the state level that will impact very likely property tax. Yes, >> I looked at the night. It was um it was something I think I'd like to just say to the board uh for us to think about. I know there'll be a changes to the board uh in January. Uh but

099in May uh we we did based on the information we had then um some confidence especially after the passing of the last levy uh that we would be not needing to go to voters for a good 8 to 10 years and that has changed uh dramatically and this I think gets us at that made me think um when I see that rather I call it rather steep downward curve uh in the deficit spending and the reduction in our revenue. Uh that it is something for the board to really strongly pay attention to and consider with you know with the administration. Uh that there will be budgetary constraints and how do we best fiscally approach them. uh because it does look uh even economically with the projected forecast and it has a crystal ball. But we

100also do know from we all recall 2008 that income tax revenues take a serious hit if there's any downturn in the economy and we will still have to pay those debt services. So these are all very very might be very very serious concerns for this district. >> Yeah. Um, and I will say one of the the pieces is that it's it's really, you know, that's one of the things that we've pushed back on as far as what the the state is doing is that it's really unfair to us because we tax levies and we tell people what we are doing. We we are up front of the community that when we ask for an increase, we set it as an increase. Um, and we make our decisions based on the walls as they are. So

101when the laws are changing in and changing to negatively impact us, um, when the states taking away our funding and giving more funding into schools, when the states looking at changing our local tax laws, these are things that really take away the voices of our voters. One of the things they say about property taxes is property taxes are the most honest tax you will pay because you get a say in everything that your um logo that your property taxes go to. So, you get to vote on your schools. You get to vote on your permit police and um then making changes at the state is saying that you're not able to make those decisions for yourself. This is fiscal year 207. This is um kind of like what profile you want to see that that

102curve look at probably going to have a serious discussion about it that is a screen conditions now we're going to know more about that more um you know I was just checking the property raising happens every six years so happened in 2023 So >> every year >> so yeah it's kind of they do a full evaluation every six years >> and they you're both and they do an update every three years. So so that when six years comes around and they reevaluate everyone's properties it's drastic. >> So is is the update coming up? >> Um yes. >> Okay. So again, that's going to be another I know that some of this tax reform, budget reform is in response to that 2023. >> It is it's also this is political. >> Elect me and I can

103make your taxes go away. And and I think again you know we need to have a deeper discussion about this um because it it's uh people are providing a simplistic answer to a very complex problem and and I think that again it is our responsibility to educate our community. What I want the board to know is that the the three of us um have been speaking about this regularly and my um kind of directive to my administration team is that we are going to be proactive rather than reactive. So we don't know what's coming but we know something's coming. So, how do we thoughtfully, emphasis on thoughtfully, really look at our expenditures and say, how do we um reduce because that probably is going to come that maybe it's going to come in some form

104or fashion that how do we reduce expenses in a way that has the least amount of impact on our operations, on our students, on our teachers, on the community. So I don't want you to think that we haven't done thinking enough about this. We discuss it regularly, but there's just a lot of noise right now and thank you. And if I can add to what Dr. Golden said what you said. I think that it's also the duty of this board and the next board to keep educating our elected officials at the state level about the impact of all this on our ability to keep delivering educational quality uh and retaining our staff and maintaining our buildings and all that to our elected officials. So I I really think that I anticipate that it will be

105uh even more of a duty for the next board and I think that we should still do this for the end of the year and and pass the value on to the next board to keep doing that to keep educating our county commissioners and our um state >> representatives. And I just like to say you have you have been very very vigilant in that. Well, we this community has proven time and again that it's committed to the way we work to um to keep our schools. Um this is this is potentially driving that's coming. It's going to mean that you know this next very um and um you know really hard conversations um some of these things um Texas schools that's um but the the hope is is prevail. We don't have time to write

106down this body. But the uh one of the things I'm really curious about is you know as we get closer and closer to the um to completing the facility project we're going to reach a point especially the CC project on campus is that it's pretty important [Music] as for the funds that they promised us. And so um I think that that is part of this conversation really good to say like we are this close to making feeling and so um I I I think everybody's you know these changes that are happen everybody feel um it would as soon as we can get that those funds or request those funds I know it can take years, but hopefully you know we can make those requirements and [Music] that's a good point and something to consider in

107longterm planning perhaps OFCC. Okay. Are there any further questions or comments on the financial consent particularly the financial forecast? >> Yeah. Thank you. So we still need to vote to close the consent calendar. >> Yes. >> Bailey. >> Yes. >> Magnus. Motion passes. And I also want to encourage you while I'm I will do it. I know that I'm I'm I'm back from my leave um talk to Jay individually about questions, concerns, getting the overall picture. Uh we'll continue to have this conversation over the next months. [Music] >> Okay. So I just lost the number. Okay. First to make a motion that we >> second. >> Yes, I second. [Music] All questions. >> Great. Any questions for Dr. >> Yes. >> Magnus. >> Yes. That's zero. >> Now number nine, more communications. There's no motions

108here or really deliberation. These are reports. Uh the Yellow Springs Development Corporation. Um I was out uh due to personal matters illness. Uh and so I did not go to the meeting. Um but uh they are doing a kind of walking tour uh next week of the businesses in town. Uh they are continuing to be very active and uh yes that's about all I can report there. >> You know I will I will send you all the flyer that I got right. I just just got it back yesterday. So I will take that. >> And now the VA report. Anything to report Julie? >> Okay. And then the active transportation. >> Yes. So I included that the flyer for an act active transportation uh survey which is different from the short street survey. So if

109you have taken the short street survey, make sure to take that one. So far we've only gotten about 100 submissions there. This survey asks about which area of a village is most pressing in uh in improving so that you can uh safely and confidently uh travel from a village. Uh this is being deployed. We pushed it through our parent square communications. It has been uh the survey is available at the at the library. the village has pushed it through uh their own communication but the more input we have the better informed we are in prioritizing which area of the village we should focus on. So um some allying examples are having a sidewalk all along Fairfield Pike uh or on campus or any other areas around the campus. So please if you haven't done so

110fill it up. It closes next week on the 15th. Oh, one more topic that is very important too. Uh there have been uh a traffic accident that involved a students a couple of weeks ago here from my conversations with the chief. Uh what transpired is that a car did not yield to a student on a bicycle. And so I want to remind everybody how important it is to travel at a safe speed in town and to watch for children that are following the rules and doing everything right that are on bicycles or on foot so that they don't get involved in traffic >> legislative report. >> Yeah. Okay. So I have two sections that I was um going to bring up to the board. One is the upcoming bill proposals that are that may be

111impacting our curriculum and there are three bills here that I want to bring to your attention. My goal here is to really empower community members to reach out to their uh elected officials so that they can talk and provide their opinion about this. The first one is HB485 By Olivia Act that would require schools to show AI generated videos about fetal development that have an anti-abortion agenda starting in third grade. Those videos have been contested as being inaccurate scientifically and not age appropriate and there is no parental option so far in that field. Uh the bill has had one hearing so far. So there's time for our committee members to reach out to their representative and voice their opinion about this. The second one is SB272 that has been proposed and introduced by our own

112senator Senator Ker that is called regarding civics assessments in year of American government exam. So that would allow high schoolers to take a civics assessment that is aligned with the naturalization test instead of the end of the course exam for American government class. The bill uh will not add any value to students education. It's considered to be unnecessary and redundant. Uh the third one is HB486 that is called the Charlie Curve American Heritage Act and that bill would normalize a revision the revisionist curriculum for American history that prioritize the positive impact of Christianity on America. The bill has had one hearing so far. So, those are uh the three bills. I have a whole thing about school funding, but I'm only going to wait until um our October discussion to bring that up. Um I

113provided here the legislative report that is that is from last week but it's already outdated in view of what's >> it is literally changing >> every day every day. >> Yeah. So what I've provided here Sarah is not on that because it happened this week. Uh I've also provided a letter that I sent to our senator and state representative about uh the amended HB186 that is related to our um to our budget. And again any one of the board can write their own communications there. There's very little time for us to meet and agree on a text to send, but I do think that we need to keep being loud and explaining and educating our uh representative about the impact of all this bill that they're considering. And I would say just this about the

114school funding is that all the solutions on the table that they are proposing are implying that school funding the the public education is why our property taxes are high. But when you look at it, this is a false narrative. Um because the state support for public education has fallen from the 30th nationally to the 40th uh 45th nationally in 20 years because they've sent um 2.5 billion dollars to um private school vouchers because they repailed over relief programs and also because they've been giving away $12 billion per year in tax breaks to wealthy individuals and big corporations. So at the end of the line we are asked to consider having less funding but where the money is going not it's not because of public education. Um okay yes oh and one thing is that there

115is a bill that we can support. It's HD415 that is called the Brown Act that would prohibit public schools and high schools from discriminating against students because of traits associated with a student's race including hair texture and protective hair signs. It has bipartisan supports and it has had a first hearing. We could prepare a statement of support for when the House Education Committee is ready to call for testimonies. So that's something that we could do and I you know if anybody wants to write a letter please what what did you say the name of that was >> uh HB415 the crown >> crown sorry >> brown and it has bipartisan support and it has one hearing it's still in the house education committee right we could write a letter of support for any other board

116announcements. >> So maybe the one on the table that's me >> I I I added it to the agenda and I know that you two are a delegate and then yeah I'm not going to be able to attend. >> Okay. So then Rebecca would be you being the delegate voting on it and I wanted to bring it up because it came out yesterday. So we have the opportunity to start the conversation here and then to finish it at the next meeting before the OSBA conference. There will be seven votes that I've counted so far. I think some of them are pretty clear. Uh if you go to the end of the packet on that you will see the rational for all of them and the basic one. It's it's the Zoom meeting where they're talking

117through the amendments that I'm seeing. >> Oh, okay. Okay. Uh well, there's the delegated assembly meeting where vote will take place. And so I figured that since both of you are new to this process, I would bring up the packet so that you would know how to um go through it. Our own resolutions are on page 4952. There are others. I think that um if you look at it, the one that is that I don't know what to think about is the career tech planning district. This comes from the Butler vocational or something something there. I it's on page 16 and if you're kind of going through this question, we can to sit down with you individually and kind of answer questions that you might have things like that. Yes, it is late. I don't

118we've got a few we've got a few weeks and I've got time this week if you want to. >> So, we can still discuss this by at the next meeting. I wanted to bring it to the to your attention so that we can all look at it and be ready to discuss it on our next meeting. It would be nice to have it >> just this one particularly. >> No, I do think that we need to look at all of them so that we you know >> Okay. And then we'll make it an agenda item. So, so what I I hear Dorothy asking is that we review this document that she attached to the end of board other board member announcements. So, SBA official business um and it is going to be of all those

119voting matters in front of the Ohio School Board Association. We're going to that conference in in November. >> Yeah. Why don't we put it as the last agenda item? So that >> right and so and there's a particular concern this one on page 16 about career education. >> So there is a page 12 about local control. I like I imagine that we would be in favor of it. Page 16 that tidings the language on the base formula amount. Again this is in our interest to support this. >> Uh there is the special education funding and also ELLL funding. That's on page 16 and 17. Um there's charm and community school funding on page 17. Um diversion of voter approved tax revenue on page 18. And then school meals which is our own uh resolution on

120page 25. I imagine that for all of them we would be in favor of it. The one that is a question mark is the career change planning discussion. >> Okay. will be talking on the lines probably refer. >> Yes, I do have the line number too. >> So, um >> I will I will send the my notes by email to all of you. >> Thank you. >> Well, and thanks for sharing that. So, we'll be um doing our homework uh between now and the next regular meeting. We will be having our workshop uh meeting on the 30th uh where we'll also hear the state of schools report from Dr. Holden. Uh and also what's that? >> 6 p.m. 6 p.m. Okay. Mark it in your calendar. Uh do I have a motion to adjurnn? >>

121I move that we adjourn. >> Uh second. >> Okay. All those in favor say I. I. All >> oppose. Thank you everybody. We are adjourned at 9:34. [Music]