00111 for an education meeting. Um we have access this evening. So I will be will be in the meeting. So bear with me. This is my first time and I was just told a couple hours ago. Um our treasurer Jamie Graph is also out this evening. So All right, we'll go ahead and start with um >> right Max Bailey >> here. Okay. [Music] >> Item number 1.3 changes to the agenda. Does anybody have any changes? [Music] >> No. Send us an email. Right. There is one but I'm not saying there's a any other changes. All right, moving on to 1.4. Approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Thanks. >> Yes. >> All right. communications and family communications this month. Moving on to the district honors recognitions
002and introductions. I will turn it over to Mr. Mer. All right. For our uh awards this month, we have three. I'm going to start with our uh student of the month. So, our Mills Park Hotel student of the month. Um both of our students are actually not here because they have plenty in the home volleyball game tonight. Um but our student of the month is Ariana Robinson. Ariana's a senior nominated by Ma who said, "Ariana has shown remarkable growth as a student. She works hard and is deeply committed to her school, sports, and community. She stands up for what she believes in, even when it's challenging or goes against the status quo. I recently spoke with Ariana about her college applications and she shared how >> as a sophomore she advocated for herself to meet
003her academic needs. Hearing that someone so young and seeing it all is a powerful reminder of why we do what we do. Her determination and leadership encourage student to watch. She's a fabulous young person um who has committed to playing college volleyball. Um as she before the colleges of last year, I don't think she was planning on going to college and the college visit opened her eyes to what it could be. Um and at the time I think she was planning on attending um one of the schools that we visited last year and she since changed and it's keeping my mind where she's actually going, but I know she's quite congratulations to her. [Applause] Jack, slow down. >> Our trophy sports uh scholar athlete of the month is Rue Robertson. Um she was actually nominated
004by both our middle school coach Jayen Lindsay and our high school coach Phil Renfro. Coach Phil said Rue is very deserving of this award. Not only is she treated to her team and her play, but she's also helping the dual school program as well. She's playing extremely well in the four as the the team I think. >> Okay. With the time commitment to the program, she has continued to excel in the classroom. Um and and I want to expand a little bit because it's interesting. she is attending and going to practice participating games and then she is volunteer coaching the middle school. So she's going to all the practices um and she is taking the gifts that were given and shared to her um through our program and giving them back to our youngest. So
005quite an accomplishment for her. And then finally we have our Piper Orchard employee of the month who is here with us tonight. That is Kim Horn. She's the administrative assistant. Um, also nominated by Hayatt. Uh, Kim lights up our school with thoughtfulness, organization, and a heart for both teachers and students. From celebrating achievements to surprising us with tasty treats and keeping the coffee flowing. She creates a fun, welcoming, and truly special environment that makes everyone feel valued and supported. Her attention to detail is seen in everything she touches, and we are so lucky to have her as one of the faces of our home office. Congratulations. [Applause] All right. Thank you so much. I am so excited to introduce our Milan Young theory student of the month who is Mr. Owen who is a fourth
006grader who is nominated by fourth grade teachers both Miss Henry and Miss they said as a fearless thinker Owen approached learning with curiosity and courage by asking questions embracing challenges and seeking feedback to improve. He recently showed empathy and initiative by learning to communicate more effectively with the classmate who uses a different form of communication. Wanting to support others, he also introduced a sad writing, a creative way for classmates to signal when they're feeling sad or lonely. Complete with a written explanation and classification. Through his kindness, leadership, and thoughtful actions, Owen helps create a welcoming, inclusive environment and truly makes positive in our community. Thank you, Owen. [Applause] All right then. And it is also a honor to introduce our fine arts scholar who is Mr. Timothy George. Timothy is Oh, go. Timothy is a
007sixth grader and he was nominated by Miss Mr. Mayor Mford. Timothy is our performing arts student of the month. He plays the clarinet and Mr. Mayor shared that his enthusiasm for band at the start of the year has been contagious, setting a positive tone for rehearsals and inspiring those learning. In performing arts music class, Miss Rer not notes that Timothy always arises with positive attitude and a genuine excitement for what the class is working on. He consistently demonstrates leadership by encouraging classmates, participating fully, and modeling what it means to be both focused and joyful in learning. Timothy shows what it looks like to live out our skills for life, especially personal best, by giving these all music and helping others rise to the occasion alongside you. Now, big applause. [Music] >> Sorry, we're late. You
008went to the high school. [Applause] So, this is the best part of the meeting for me because we get to hear about all of our wonderful students Um, I want to talk about staff though. This is a an introduction of new staff members. We have just a few of them here tonight. I'm going to read who they are, all of them, and then um each of us and I introduce here this evening. So um districtwide for this year we have Jim Johnson, John Ber, Joe Bachmann, Nancy Sundell Turner, John Herbert, Autumn Hart, Greg Hamlin, Beverly Klinsky, Wilkinson, Jessica, Christina Johnson, Sandra Ramsey, and then Rebecca herself. So I'm gonna let her start and introduce her her mic. All right, it is my pleasure to introduce coming from Dayton, our motorcycle loving intervention specialist, Mr. Crystal,
009so I would like to introduce our new uh STEM coding and programming teacher, Mr. John Carrera. Mr. Phil career teaching mathematics there and is starting now in Yellow Springs. In addition to teaching, he is helping with our soccer program and is also our strength and conditioning coach. So I was serious [Music] and then I would introduce the district level and that is our in charge of tech here. It's been a trial by fire. And I also want to introduce someone else who you've seen around. But he is our intern Sam Powers and he is amazing. So stand up. [Applause] He is our help. So I don't know if you have any questions for any of these folks, but I appreciate being here. You're welcome. >> Okay. All right. So, we are moving on then to
010um administrative reports and that is again sure. All righty. Let me pull up so I can read it myself here. Okay. Okay. All righty. Thank you so much. Um couple things I really wanted to highlight for you all. Um this was just a fun little lesson and a great example of our some of our younger students um thinking very boldly. So, these are pictures of Miss Hoover's second grade class, and they had to tackle one of the biggest questions of that we could ever face, which is um how can you build a house that can withstand the big bad for the three little pigs? So, they were using popsicle, sticks, plastic straws, and Lego bricks. And then they had to use the design thinking process and um engineering to build use use different forces to
011see if they came down and rebuild and um have something that we we kind of titled here a failbration. So they failed and they got right back on those horses and did it again. So it was just really exciting to see them be resilient, collaborate and problem solve. So I wanted to share that. The next is a great example of Karen deeply and this was um our fourth grade um revisited the book Howful Is Your Bucket and it's a story about bucket filling where um every positive thing you say it's just another drop in somebody's their bucket what they hold dear um and we fill those through acts of empathy and kindness. So as part of their focus on caring deeply, they they talked about how small actions and small little things make such such
012an imprint on someone. So they started just making little um caring deeply little bucket notes and little drops for other people's buckets and then they pull some out every day and read them. And this is um student and student interaction which really encourages that empathy and kindness. um they're talking about how receiving a kind note like that can make such a difference in your life and how being positive impacts everyone. Um so they're going to keep doing this all year and I just thought this was a great example of caring deeply for you. And then um you know the the boy have I had a lot to do with safety patrol and those kids are advocating courageously. they are, you know, the conversation we have with them is you're out there to make sure that
013kids are safe and that kids cross the street safely and that's a pretty big responsibility. So, I thought it was worth um highlighting and they've stepped up and um and and they're talking to each other out there and they're working hard and they're doing their best every day and volunteering their time. What a wonderful thing to to come to school early and to stay late. Um I'm not sure I did that in sixth grade. Um, but I really they are modeling responsibility. They take this seriously. They know that we depend on them. They're helping younger students. They're dancing with me on Fridays when it becomes a cross dance instead of a crosswalk. Um, I just really wanted to highlight their commitment and and what it means for us. >> Yeah, I just really want to
014thank you for highlighting it. It's such a wonderful story because you know the um Rogers Institute kind of talked about how safety control folks are kind of like first ambassadors for schools. So you know what thank you so much. >> All right. Thank you. Um under thinking for us I am focusing on a English 12 project that Miss Lun has done for years. uh this year she's revamping that project with the help of our uh teacher support specialist Sada Me. So this is Miss's first year working up in the middle of high school and she has um immediately made an impact. We have teachers reaching out to her and Miss Loots is one of the teachers that has fully embraced her her support and help. And they are um taking a project where um the
015students study how authors track villains and they're doing like an analysis of that to see how it's used in books and then also what the crossover is to like the villains and villainous behavior that we see in our lives. So, so kind of like when we're talking about kids 17, 18 years old, starting to think about the real world when they leave our schools, um, taking the characters they've read about and then extrapolating that into their lives. Um, so, so a a great project and great to see the the embracing of that support and the growth of that work. Um, for Karen Deeply, this is actually Miss Warren left, but this is this is something that she works with us. So when our administrative team went to the admin retreat at the University of Miami,
016um we talked about appreciology, >> Miami University, >> sorry. Um we talked about appiology and appreciation and then we carried that forward with our staff movements in camp. Um and and what we realize is that we appreciate a lot about people, but we don't always take the time to tell them that we appreciate them. And sometimes um people have a kind of a missing or hollow feeling because they don't feel appreciated when really they are. So we are trying to take that last step and communicate that appreciation out to our folks. And we're we are um encouraging our students to do that back either like with their like our student to teacher, teacher to student, but also student to student and teacher to teacher. So um this is our gratitude board. When you walk in
017the front door, you will see post-it notes. um that we are going to keep giving out from time to time so students have the opportunity to reflect on what they are um thankful for and appreciative of and I just want to invite our community to do that back with our schools. So uh last year we started in our building um each month teachers being expected to send positive emails home because sometimes when you get in the the work you you forget to focus on all focus on celebrate like all the great things. So that is the way that we are trying to get our teachers to take that minute to to really focus on the growth and the the positives. Um so I would like to invite our community to to thank our teachers back.
018And then um under advocating courageously I I am putting our AP scores on which does not necessarily feel like advocating courageously but I am because we have an intentional approach to AP where we want every kid to be able to take AP. So in many districts there are a lot of ease put up to stop kids from taking AP so that district AP scores are higher. So they try to keep kids out of AP if they don't think that they are quote unquote AP material or or capable of passing the AP exam. And then sometimes even when students get in AP classes they take practice practice exams just before and if they don't score high enough they don't take the AP exam. That is not our philosophy at all. um these are our in most
019rigorous classes for the most part. So we want as many students in these classes as possible. So when you see um we took 125 AP exams had an 80% pass rate which and we outperformed the national normal most of our tests. Um that is again every student being encouraged to take those classes. I want to highlight um a few AP US history seven out of seven 100% of our students pass. um the the AP art class is actually broken into two separate exams, but every student passed that. And then if you look at the API with um that class is our biggest AP class. I think we had 28 or 29 students take it last year and all but four scored a passing score. So if you think that is that is right at 50%
020of our seniors last year took that class and almost all of them passed it. So, I just want to celebrate our students, our teachers, and then our district's commitment to to keeping that working for every one of our students. >> Great. Thank you so much. And I want to extend my appreciation to both of you for great start to back to school. I know it's a stressful time, an exciting time, but everything has been going so great. And we really appreciate everything you guys are doing. [Music] Um I wanted to add to you this month the first Wednesday and they I've heard 42 students bike to school which is about 15% I think of the enrollment which is first Wednesday. So this is amazing. Thank you for that. >> And it was such a great
021experience. It was everything I hoped it would be when I when I started looking into Yellow Springs. That was one of the things that that made my eyes sparkle and my heart flutter. Um it was just a great experience and and I had turned this in prior to the bike. So what a fun thing to do. I'm really excited about it. All right. Moving on to PTO. update. Okay. So, we do have some updates um uh in writing. Um we received a statement and so Right. Yep. Um so, they've had a couple of events so far this this year that have gone well. Um coffee meet up and the school supply drive. Thank you to everyone who um donated to that and spent their time um organizing that event. um open house and the pot
022were all well attended. Um and then also um a couple of things PTO has been supporting. They've been doing um purchasing classroom supplies the ice maker and the teachers lounge. So thank you to the PTO for that. Um one of the largest fundraisers of the year, the largest fundraiser of the year is coming up. Um we have the fall street fair. Um, and there's a link on our agenda to sign up for volunteers uh for volunteers for parking. That's our largest. And can I add to that? I want to tie the school supply drive to the street there because half of the students at Nelson Mountain got their supplies through the school uh supply drive that was organized by and it saves parents money and time to do it like that. And it also allows
023for everybody to have the same supplies included the families obviously support normalizing that is a way to support more than just your own family or children and the whole community and I'm really impressed that the PTO managed to do that for the first time for half of the students and that is possible because of the money that they get at street there. So, please sign up for two hours. This would be a game changer for students in >> um I just want to say that the visitors to the town really appreciate appreciate it too. So, it's a it's a good event here too. So, come join us. Um a couple other events coming up for them. The PAX training for caregiver caregivers is on October 8th. um with pizza included and their next meeting will
024be on Monday, October 13th at 6 PM. Thanks to the PTO for all they do. And then up next is Mr. Queen. Oh, that's not this. Oh, here we go. Hello. Here we go. Here. Hi, my name is Steve Queen. I am the representative of four yellow strings in the Green County uh career center uh over in Zia and I'm happy to announce that we have gone up to 1,07 students um which is still slightly uh over capacity. Um we are still uh turning away students. um all of our teachers who are teaching all of the uh basic studies like our math classes and English and all of that are built to the brim. Um and so this will lead to our next point, but I also want to announce that uh which by the
025way is the highest amount of students the career center has ever had. Um and also the largest amount of students uh that the career center has ever seen from Yellow Springs. The number is 22. Uh it was 24 but some students decided to remain home here uh Yellow Springs. Uh and so uh things have been building. This seems to be the uh projected or perspective no projected um future for the career and careers not even just in this state um but especially in this state definitely. Uh and so we are happy to announce that the career center has purchased across the street technically 23.7 acres um across the nation way um and we are now because of that we do plan to build and we're not exactly sure what we'd like to build because uh
026once this news got out several other several pathways has come to us saying that we would really like to uh utilize the space uh especially healthcare. So healthcare has been uh growing exponentially uh at the career center. uh we just started with sort of sports meds and we started doing uh some nursing and now we even have a program that is uh technically four years uh with Sinclair uh or sorry um Clark states uh yeah Clark yeah state uh where they start their junior year and actually not only certifications but then finished uh at Clark State ending up with not registered nurses the one under that. Regardless um that sorry my uh that has been uh one of our biggest uh sort of uh things we would like to expand. Um and healthc care has
027been having issues uh nationally with uh keeping people uh on basically it's been really tough. So they've been reaching out. However, there are several other pathways that are also interested. So that's why it's just for now the focus is healthcare. Um but we're not exactly sure but that's why I'm here and I will keep reporting any of the news. Are there any questions? >> I, you know, I'd love to see a map of like because I can kind of see where is now. Be really interesting to see how how much campus does that make sense? >> Yes. That's an interesting space there. You might be able to add that. >> No, you're absolutely right. Um yeah, I can easily provide that and I can provide it uh ASAP so that you have the list for
028your website and then I'll make sure to record it so that is projected here at the meeting for October. >> Okay, awesome. Any other questions? >> I did remember last time when you talked you mentioned that program. >> Yes, that is up and running >> since last year actually. Um, yeah, it started last year. Um, yeah, it's been very successful. Um, it's another one that is growing. We we had to renovate. Um, because of Hback, it's extremely popular. >> Which which program has like your largest waiting list? Do you know what's the most demanded? >> So, call it's usually culinary or cosmetology since you always have the most people that had to take your second option. Um but now with um it's been followed by autos anything auto related couple of those um so yeah
029sorry auto related uh and not hack but um oh welding is welding is another uh and construction those hands down by far culinary and cosmetologology we All right. Thank you so much. Always a question. >> All right. Next on the agenda is a five minute break. >> Okay. Take a minute break at 12 or 7:36. [Music] All right, we'll get right back into it and start with item number 3.1, the district master facility update and then we'll hand it over to Dr. Wood. >> Okay, thank you. Um, attached to the agenda is the monthly report and you this is the second one. you know, start seeing these. Um, you know, I don't really want to go through this. I think it's something to to read. I have two short uh videos of drone footage that
030I'd like to show you. Um, and I missed Tuesday's meeting, but went um to the site on Wednesday. So this doesn't um reflect kind of where we are but the next one will. So these were shot by um Kevin Rogers. So this is Milan. So if you watch in a second it's going to rise. Yeah. It's very And so this you can see this piece here that gets moved. This gets new roof. This is the new place. >> So the chain here I asked and asked again only the dark part was a lot. And of course he what you don't see here that you could see the back door towards the parking lot absolutely man HC towers towers. The towers and that's that's what we needed to bring back to this building. >> Correct. That's
031right. So, if you remember back when you were planning on this, it's easy when you're when you can take your residential experience of your home and care in your home and say, "Oh, it won't be too hard to put air conditioning in this building." It's a it's a feat. Let me tell you, um, this is the middle school high school. Now, what you're looking at is the middle school wing, the fire wing. It actually now has concrete. So, this was shot before. And then right here is the cafeteria. I think that's concrete. And then [Music] >> right here the kitchen. Um serving. Let me see. New gym. This is the weight room, locker rooms, restrooms that will also service the stadium. >> Oh, and they filled in the doors. >> You know, the theme all
032summer has been is the new gym big enough? It's too small. Is it big enough? It's a perception thing and I was in it on Wednesday. I mean, it's huge. >> See, the parking lot is even as temporary as it is. So, this will be um a drive here. There'll be a turnound for the kitchen. Um and then the the chillers for the high school will be kind of in this area. It's coming off. >> Can you remind me again if the is the brick going to stay the same color? >> The brick is going to No, it's it's a lighter color. >> Okay. The brick that's existing will stay that color. Yes. But the new brick is a lighter. >> Okay. The windows around the gym will be framed in a darker brick to
033try and and I actually went into the driver and picked up a brick and walked into the existing building. I'm like this color is not matches. Again, it's that perception thing. Um, and the parking lot that has been >> and that will actually get a little bigger. >> Y >> So once they get the construction of fence down, that will get bigger. And it's just it's hard to explain how quickly that I mean it feels like it's going quickly and then sometimes you know schedule wise we're a little behind there but this is the entrance. This is the athletic entrance. Okay. So the entrance to the gym when there are events. This is the new station. This is the office area so fast. All of this will be gone. That'll be the parking area. There'll
034be like a circle drive here. The memorial garden will be right there. >> Yeah. So hopefully everybody's excited because changes is um it's nice questions about >> well um on the report it you know they're they speak about their current pricing. Um you know that's to you know imagine phases. Um so are we going to have that information that information specifically? Oh, no. It's just uh so you know, it speaks to like the current, you know, uh current issues and that uh the delay in pricing for both purchases can just like there's a delay in so we meet every two weeks and at the meetings they do the bulletins And um you know the goal is to to close those out because that that will you right will cause a delay if the information that's
035necessary um isn't available or isn't >> so that so but I imagine a lot of stuff is going to fall in place soon and so I'm just wondering what time are you expecting your team It really um board member depends upon what it's on what bulletin it is. So if I'm looking at um the middle school, high school and I see um like I can take some things on here like bulletin number four um that will can be taken off there because that's completed. >> Okay. >> Um >> so this will be taken off one by one. >> Yeah. It just depends upon what the actual item is and what we're waiting on. Um we've done a lot of at the middle school expo a lot of electric work, a lot of work around the
036technology package and the tech room. So that's some of what you see reflected here. And obviously some of these bullets bulletins are associated with particular papers and the ones that are associated with earlier. >> Yes. >> Other questions? No, but I was just looking to tour this week and um just being done and the care the coordinations of large crews and things are moving along and just can't wait for phase one. Patience patience and we will get there. All right. Thank you, Dr. Holden. And I believe the next is yours as well. Superintendent report. >> Yes, thank you. Um, let me make this just a little bigger. Um, I have three three items here. Report card comes out Monday. Um, I can tell you I I this is how um all schools and school districts
037in my order are rated um and the percentage that's given each component. This is the district rough rating. Um, probably at overall four and a half stars. I can tell you I believe one is going to be at five stars. I believe middle school high school is going to be a four. And I'm just going to a little bit. Um, this one star for college, career, workforce, and military readiness. Um, I'm going to tell you that it wasn't until maybe February that the state even pushed out any guidance about what this was. And so um I go to regular superintendent meetings and I was had one last week in Columbus and representatives from the deputy director from OD was there and of course asked you know what what are your frustrations and almost two superintendent
038it was this because first of all guidance was pushed out late and dependently if you're a small district sometimes you can't do is um there's a lot of peculiarities around it. So, let let me talk about um one way to do this is to have all of your kids take CCP classes. Well, there they can literally walk across the street to to college. >> Correct. Um not that we don't have students. Um, other districts have um a larger percentage of their graduates go into the middle career tech. We have 22 students at at the career center. That's not a high percentage really. So, um, after this year, this will go up. But but I can tell you if this was not a one he would be at a five district and and if I remember
039last year there was a four right enroll explor >> and you've done poster that were meeting and those >> well and this was actually came out February but it was based on data from the school year prior to that before their guidelines were even approved it was based on that data. >> So do you think that are you going to continue before? >> We are. >> Yeah. >> And will that count towards? >> So we're going to do that because it's the right thing to do. >> Um but this will go up. So um you know once the official report card comes out, we'll have a longer session on it. But I just want um the board and the community to know you're doing well. And I'm going to point out two things. Um, three
040things. Achievement is what everybody looks at. That's just how do you go on the test, four progress, right? Are your kids progressing as they show five stars? And the most difficult one is five stars. Um, we've had five for graduation for for quite a while now. So um there's always room for improvement but kudos to all the teachers and to the principles um for you know really doing all the hard work and those projections come from who who uses what do you mean projection? Oh those are projected ratings. >> It's preliminary preliminary. >> So I can go into the system and check what's comes up. That's why you see it says preliminary. So that comes out. Um, next board I I want to revisit if it's something you've talked about. I don't know if we
041talked about it in a meeting or with President Conor. Um, but as you know, we just saw the the footage of our project. We are at the right time where we have to make a decision about building names. This building is long school. Um the secondary I'm going to call it the secondary campus. Right now it's official formal with go is Yellow Springs High School back. So, the McKini name um I asked our resident historian about the Mckin name and um Ed McKini was superintendent in the 70s and when the shoe box was constructed to help middle school students feel like they had they named the shoe basically um and that was a great reason to do that at the end but both even though it says Yellow Springs High School making middle school there
042is one single unique identifier called the IRN number so middle school doesn't have it so in the high school they have one Um when our project is finished, we will have grades 5 through 12 at the secondary levels still in middle school. So I am asking the board to consider um a slight reame just to middle and high school. Um it eliminates the clunkiness of um the current game. Mine was always and it probably was just me that didn't understand it because I'm always thinking the lower the lower area first middle school then high school backwards high school middle school um but it would just make it middle school and high school same IR number um we will honor the McKini name there's a way we can honor the Mckin name just with that name
043that will exist for grades way. Um, so it's important because you know we're getting monument signs. We have to have a name to put on sign. So, um, we might need the resolution, but I'm going to ask the board to consider that in October, but I just wanted you to understand why the request was don't want to make schools. I'm sorry. the uh poor. >> Yeah. But I can I can appreciate really it's a good identity. Um and then one last update, you know, I hate to always talk about this before. Um just a legislative update as the legislature begins again next week. Um there's some perhaps piggybacking of the homestead exemption. Um that will impact public schools. Um not only will it impact public schools if we double the homestead exemption and owner occupancy
044credit. um the state won't pick up the doubling of that. So then it's it's just left back um to the taxpayers schools lose and the decision is made county by county. So there's not consistency across the city. Um Governor Dwine um did create a property tax reform working group to be able to report on September 30th. Um some things in there I think will come. There's going to be some movement on 204. Um there is going to be some movement on carryover cash balance. um what they are considering and I don't know that it will come out in the recommendation um this consolidation of school districts and taxing authorities and and I emphasize and village manager the other day talking about some of these things that also impact the village of those um I don't
045think this is the possibility of this, but these are all things that are being talked about under the umbrella of um tax for um you know that the house voted to override one line item. Um the Senate did not vote on it yet. So when they come back they very well may um and that is school property tax restrictions um which would eliminate the following levy types. So replacement leies I think the replacement will be also for school district fix some emergency leies fix some substitute buddies combined income tax and fixies and renewal leies if that overrites that this November is the last time the district can put any of these which is what you use to maintain the same level of funding for creating corporations. Um and and just know I've said this before,
046but it's worth saying any of the other vetos of the governor um can be overridden through December 31st, 2026. Um there there's another bill in the in the house. Um some of you watching Star Wars the taxpayer freedom trilogy and act one is is discontin. So the thinking there is that why should I have to pay for what people prior to me Um, act two is arresting village. That's house bill 421. That would create a process for any taxpayer to say, I think this is too high. I want to be um and act three, the triumph of the taxpayer. This is in my mind the most. And that says normally we have a simple majority. So it says if if the levy is 1 mil or less it's a simple majority um to be approved.
047If it's between 1 and 1.9 it's 60%. And if it's over 2 mill it's 66%. Um I'm not sure what I've seen recently passing over 60%. So, it's just um devastating. Again, it's still in the house. It's got a ways to go, but it's something to to um and then the Ohio tax data. Just some general information about um where Ohio ranks. Um the fourth led the highest fallen from 35th nationally on the state share of K12 revenue um to 45th in 2020. um again some more information about requiring taxes and I've linked the um OEPI website so that all this information on health new legislation to watch um there's going to be deregulation bill there's going to be an omnibus education bill um that will contain everything um house bill 117 budget Allegiance Act
048um requires public schools to adopt the policy establishing time and manner for the daily recation of the pledge of allegiance to flag and make the policy publicly available. And then it encourages schools and teachers to develop and implement lesson. You've ever been to Texas to public K12 schools in Texas. At any rate, um, House Bill 187 is the moment of silence required. Moments of silence requires requires rather than permits as under the school district to provide a moment of silence silence each school day for prayer reflection meditation. I think on the surface of that it seems fine. This was discussion about it today. Why did we do this? um because just the career that I feel like is the first step to um prayer in school what it sounds like to me but that's not
049what it is right now. So um and just you know I bring this up to you to just say pay attention pay attention lots of changes in [Music] question I don't have questions but I wanted to bring some context about whose budget uh deal with that impact budget. Um when the state budget was passed this summer, the state approved $2.5 billion from the budget line for public education and sending it to school vouchers which primarily serve private schools. 90% of the students going into those private schools are coming from families that could afford those tuition support. So we are seeing here a movement of $2.5 billion and at the same time the discussion happening about how our property taxes are high they are high but the narrative that is being put out there is they
050are high because of public schools but at the same time for the money for public education going to private schools and so I'm encouraging anybody here to see through this and to advocate for the funding of public education. The schools are not the reason for which we're paying higher in the Moving on to item number five. Do I have a motion to open? >> I move that we confirm the registry. I >> um I just have a few items here. Um we have to approve the district acceleration plan each year. Um not not going to change this from last year. Um 5.3 is our annual into the Y field trip which has become a comic here. Um approved of transportation. And then um another tradition not as old as a while for a little while.
051This is year two of the high school college tour and they are going east um I believe towards West Virginia. Um so I want to point out the colleges of Ohio West um Hawking College of Ohio University and then West Virginia State University and University of Virginia and the cost for that should be on there. Nominal students um $50 and they pay for their food. because they are um comfort by us. Do you know what the changes are on the program and program? >> I I don't know that there are many changes. >> Okay. Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Thanks. Yes. Motion passes. >> Okay. On to um the financial item number six. Motion >> that we open the financials. >> Second. >> All right. So we received um these items from treasur um
052earlier. Do does anyone have any questions or discussion about the financial report or the activity? >> I finally it a couple times. >> I mean, I was on this morning and it wasn't there. I actually >> now that I can see it here. >> I think it would be useful to just um share what the treasure explained in the email is that for people that are paying attention to that budget, you might see that there is a surplus income tax because they came early. It's not um in property taxes and income tax they came early. So we're having a a bump that is ahead of time for our income and also he explained in the communication that he sent us that our income tax is going slightly over what was estimated because it's very hard
053to see income tax um really breakdown of projections of those that are handed to us by the county. So just like >> well it's just I was able to review because it was posted I report too much. So, um I would just recommend that we don't have to pull it out, right? >> Yes. Why don't I pull out and just vote on me? >> This is one of this is what I was talking about. I'm sorry. I don't why it's not showing it for me on board, but you know a few times. Oh, >> yeah. I wasn't matter because it's all packaged to the public. Usually it's been there >> maybe since Tuesday. Yeah. So, um yeah, I think um that we need to pass the correct >> otherwise. So, should we make a motion
054to the financial report? I think she finance. [Music] >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. Yes. Sorry, I hear you back. [Music] >> Are there any questions about this? And would you just briefly explain that this is for upcoming tricks and club functions activities activities and so it is important for us um to approve yes okay Yes. >> Motion to open the personel. >> Thank you board. I ask that you approve four personal schedules. Um, retirement certificated support staff and you have a question. We actually get um you'll see the final [Music] one of our positions is so weird. I just want to thank all of the teachers who spend all of their time doing these supplements because look at the document that's uploaded here. There's a long list of teachers who volunteer their time, not
055volunteer their time, but offer these services to students more. >> Yes. Yes, Bailey. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um I assume we don't have anything for the YC report. That would be >> No, we we don't. I um back as well. Um item 8.2 two village uh the Y Springs on the report that's so she's not here this evening so I don't believe there's anything to report on that and then uh so we just had our meeting yesterday um the note was the minutes for last month as you remember the meeting is always a week of our own meeting so I can't provide the minutes ahead of time current month. But to give you a preview of what you're going to see next month, we are working on updating the active transportation
056plan for the village. If you remember, we've done that for the schools a couple of years ago and now it's time for the village. This is essential to apply for grants and mention that our last ATP, the active transportation plan was from 2019. There were 39 line items on it. Some of them were for instance a new sidewalk on East Sound College. Out of 39, the village has completed 12 in partnership with the schools and u as one $5 million of investments from banks. So 12 items that were taken out of 39 and many of whom were not coming at any expense uh from the military. So this is what we're working on and on that note you might see soon a survey coming out to the community which will be identified by the school
057and shared compare so that we can ask villagers where they think that we should focus on infrastructures or active transportation in town. So I would encourage anybody to feel it. Um should take five minutes and it's really essential for the active transportation community to keep going and be ready for applications. Um it was a schoolboard candidate that came to the last meeting. I'm encouraging all of them to come. This is important. This is probably uh one of the ways in which we can show the partnership between the schools and the community. So pay attention to activities. institution and of course 42 students questions on that on the legislative. >> Yep. Um so I I knew that Dr. Holden was going to talk about but I just didn't update. Um so I decided to do something
058a little different. I attached a report that Dr. Holden and I used to keep updated, but also I drafted the transition middle um because I think that we're all seeing that legislative issues and matters will be a major topic for the future of schools here and I wanted to make sure that the future work would be updated on how to get information where to get it from uh understands who the experts and reliable experts are. Um uh Dr. Fer is the expert on budget and we should he's doing incredible work and we should keep an eye on what is the conditioning what is import issuing and uh on student experience and equity issues that provided also some other resources there. The OSBA has also released an effective advocacy guide which I think will probably take
059a lot of time here. Um, so I would encourage the future board to review it and see how they can leverage those skills to advocate for good of public education in our school district and uh other tips on how to educate update or board meetings. I wanted to share this early because there's so much going on right now and I wanted to make sure that the future board would be ready to hit the ground running. There will be a lot going on in the spring, especially if there is a ballot amendment to uh to abolish in Texas in Ohio. This will be devastating to public education in Ohio and I want I want the voice to be ready for that. >> Thank you and thank you for putting this together. This is very helpful to
060know what is to be expected of each. So, thank you so much. Um any questions? >> Yeah, I the um the amendments for the committee [Music] items funding special education I >> thank you. I was almost going to gloss over that, but yes, uh I'm very proud that Bill Springs is leading to uh resolutions that will inform how OSDA should be advocating for public education. Namely, we wanted uh the dedicated SP of ODA to consider fully funding the importance of fully funding public education, special education and uh schools. This will be voted on by the members of beginning in November. I am very hopeful um that it will be done so that we can empower OSB to advocate for this in commissioner city project and uh I think also this was the first time that
061we've done that now we have a road map on how to keep advocating for other issues in future years. Um so I know that the future board will consider what other advocacy they can do to uh to change the meeting. President will be these [Music] >> actually both of us that are not appointed as delegates can be sitting in the public section. So we can come in Just ahead of the committee meetings. Thank you. All right. Are there any other items? We'll see you on the board member announcements. Does anybody have anything else? [Music] >> Our last board session was cancelled maybe reschedled. The intention was >> I would say also that in the fall we dedicated our work session to discuss the state cards and so I would say so state of the schools
062is on Wednesday or October so that will be our work session now of course we are looking so far that's so August. Okay. And then our next regularly scheduled meeting is October 9th. >> Any other announcements? I have a motion to move back. Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. Yes. >> Major at 82.