001the hour. >> Okay, go ahead. >> Okay, [Music] >> welcome everybody. I'll call to order the regular meeting of the Yellow Springs Exempted Village School District Board of Education today, October 9th, uh shortly after 7 p.m. If we could have the roll call. >> Bailey >> here. >> Okay, >> here. >> Himley >> here. >> Magnus >> here. Potter >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you. Are there any changes to the agenda? Additions. Okay. Seeing none. An approval of the minutes from the September meeting. >> I move that we approve the minutes of September 11th, 2021. >> Okay. Are there any suggested changes or corrections to the minutes? >> Can we second? >> Yeah. Yeah, we got we got a second. Okay, seeing none. Um, >> Pimpling, >> I wasn't here. >>
002You You can still vote on the minutes. >> Okay. Yes. >> Uh, Magnus, >> yes. >> Potter, >> yes. >> Bailey, >> yes. >> Bouquet, >> yes. Okay. Motion passes five to zero. >> Thank you. So now I'll move on to communications and I'll move on a bit of a clip because we have a lot in front of us this meeting uh with regards to administrative uh reports, financial reports, etc. We have one uh communication from the Green County uh commissioners addressing property tax. We will be addressing property tax on our October 30th meeting. Uh, and you'll also notice that in the superintendence report, Dr. Holden provides also a rundown on the current issues regarding school districts and property taxes there. Uh, but we'll have a more fuller and complete conversation about it at that
003time. Okay. Community comments. Think it's working. [Music] I'm Jackie Clark and she her and my cousin Eric Clark myself April and getting help start a plus LGBTQ group community group for families. We started it in the spring this year and we've had a few meetings each month. We're now called which stands for rainbow lights. We meet on the first Saturday of the month at the Ryan Center from noon to 1:30. Our meetings start with the guest speaker. We have time for snacks. After a bit, we use the ability to run across the hall of arts and crafts games or paint projects. Then the adults, parents, grandparents, allies need to discuss how we're navigating the world. Um, we just had a speaker from the League of Women Voters. So that's veryformational for October elections. Our next
004meeting is November 1st and we'll have the founder of Happy Day. Um the news will like I said go across the hall and meet with Danny Ste who was an intern with NCCJ and she worked with Florence. Um they project that diversity they painted pride dos that had to do with suicide prevention inspirational phrases or kind words and they plan to put them all the time next week. Um, so we're hoping to have other future community projects and then students can also earn community hours for these projects. High school, junior high and it's really not it's any ages are welcome to come. We have fourth grader brothers and sisters. We encourage other organizations we've gone to. It's 7 through 12 comes. Um so we encourage anyone everyone to come to our next meeting Saturday November
0051st at noon and then we had a couple issues come up and um so because we are talking about everything some of the parents have some concerns about available plus kids in the school and this has caused a few ruining situations coming into the woods Washington DC Chicago orchestra trip out strips etc. So we just want to encourage you to continue to have those conversations with parents as we try to work that out because sometimes you're not getting along with people or they're being really maybe don't know how to say that. setting up our meetings and we just want to make sure and then the other thing too is we still have a few teachers not just using students dead names or pronouns there are repeated reminders in some cases the child's names are changed
006so just you know more conversations that are coming [Music] I was serious emotional support. >> Thank you. Thank you Jackie and Eric for for all your work on what was P flag and now race and thank you Jud getting that started. >> Okay. And that's it for community comments. So, we're going to move on to the highlight, the early highlight of the meeting, and that is our district honors recognitions and introductions. We starting with Becca Milsworth. All righty. Thank you very much. I am so pleased to introduce the middle student of the month, Miss Dory Fisher. Um, she go for it. Thank you. Great. She is a second grader and she was nominated by both second grade teachers, Mrs. M and M. Nora works well with others and always helps the entire class. She is
007a strong, very quiet leader who includes everyone and makes sure others is so welcome. She is trustworthy and kind and believes good things happen. Her positive actions help others stay hopeful, too. She treats everyone with respect. Nora is responsible. She comes to school on time, is ready to learn, follows directions, and takes care of her things. She always tries her best. Even when no one is watching, she makes good choices. Norah stays calm, shows self-control, and sets a great example for others. Nora's efforts are listening your efforts to make your classroom a positive and welcome place. Keep up the great work. [Applause]