001Would these microphones be necessary for the recording? Yeah. Calling to order. Uh the June 30th special board meeting um today, Monday, June 30th, 2025. Uh this is a meeting uh that would be normally a work session that has been changed to a special board meeting which allows the board to vote on certain items and welcome everybody. Roll call here. Kim here. A Magnus here. Here. We have Laura. Board member Amy Bailey is on vacation uh with her family this week. We have on uh the agenda is pretty light tonight. However, the items we're discussing are rather wavy and that has to do with finances and and many of the issues that we're facing, the uncertainties that are arising from the current Ohio state of Ohio budget process. So, the first uh item in section two
002of the agenda is to approve the second meeting for board policy 8500 food service. We discussed this board in our last regular meeting. Um we have met with the food service uh group and um and this is just finalizes that contract. Jay, did you have anything to add? It's not the contract. The policy, right? Okay. And there was some language stricken from that policy and that's just updating it to align it with current current trends and other things. Okay, I I move that we approve the second reading of DC 8,585. Is there a second? Any discussion, questions? Not discussion about then there's been no changes to the document. Okay. Well, let's take a vote. Magnus, yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Motion passes 4. Okay. We move on to 2.2. This is also a second reading.
003This case of board policy 5113 interd district open enrollment. If you recall, we also discussed this last time. It's removing some number restrictions or percentage restrictions that have currently shaped that policy. Uh is there a motion? already have questions. I just have a question about the content of this policy. I think that we discussed it really well last time and we proposed in it was really our advantage to do that. I know that there was a pending legislation that was going to be lifting the restrictions for military families to uh open enrollment. Has it happened? Has it happened? So there are actually two parts. One is that um military families the change is that they don't have to meet any open enrollment timelines because of their military status. The the other change and I verified
004this afternoon with our legal counsel was that we have some school districts around us who um there was a statute if they received federal impact because they were based that allowed them to prohibit students from that that statute is now old and no longer in existence and therefore they cannot prohibit students to so that's the local kind of flavor to our school district that this is also good way for us to leave that cap and see who could be a pay to major right it sounds like it's going to particularly impact neighboring districts who have prohibited open enrollment particularly be the Fairborn School District and Okay. Uh have you had any conversation with the superintendent in those districts? Um no. So you know like I have a strong feeling about it's because I get a
005letter from one of them that says just remember um our kids can't enroll in so about that no answer question. Okay great. Um so we'll track essentially what kind of impact uh this change has on the policy and as we discussed last time as a board this is something that can be reverted back uh depending on the enrollments and how those trends fluctuate and it is not costing the district any increase in staff or budget. Um it's really just a way of actually um making our investment work the best for the district. And in addition to that, it's not changing the student to teacher ratio because we're we're not accepting beyond the capacity that we have and beyond the contracts that our teachers have. So, it's really great. A good point um to make it
006will not affect the sizes of classrooms. We've seen a we had a very large class graduate this spring. So, this is adjusting for some of those demographic changes. Any other comments or mention when this was brought up that temporary um construction was a big part of that. So the intention to um readress I think that would be a great start and then shift desire. Yeah, it's true. It's nothing. It's not for set the stone for time longer than one year. Okay. Uh would you like to take a vote? Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Motion passes to zero. Um, we're moving now to item three, approval of negotiated agreement between the YPOE and the OAPSE from 812025 through 7:31 2027. Every 3 years, we enter a negotiation with these two unions. We had successful negotiations. I'll get
007a motion and then we'll open it up for conversation. A second. Do seconds. Uh, so any comments or questions? And Terry, if you have some comments, I just want to point out this is a two-year negotiated period um and not a year. Thanks for that correction. So the um the I want to thank the board members and the administrators It's it is typically a threeear reason it is um very transparent with that efficiencies um that we may or may not be staff transportation and so do that and and Dr. I could say just briefly what OBC employees do. So OBC is our classified. So our instructional assistance, our building administrative assistance, um, transportation not normally food service, but because of the contract not any I'm thankful to the foreign university and Amy for serving on
008the negotiations took the whole week. It was it was a big commitment. I appreciate that. I think that they were successful in this happy. Yeah, we can um we can I think in many ways celebrate as a district that we have a strong retention rate. Uh we are very well staffed in comparison to other districts. Negotiations sounded like they were tough at times. Uh we we definitely appreciate the work of our teachers, our staff, and uh look forward to a a good relationship going forward. Any questions, comments? Okay. Um J, did you take Robert? Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. We move on to the financial section. I move that open the financial. Okay. Great. Are there any items that someone uh board member would like to see removed from the consent calendar
009for consideration? Okay. So, there are a number of items in this section and I'll turn it over to you Jay to explain them all to us. So, we have some appropriation increases. Um things are adjusting up to our final expenditure here. The uh big change in the general fund is due to the uh transfer and approval of um the creation of our capital projects fund that consent agenda. We have the temporary appropriations for next school year. We vote on the final or not final, this is our final appropriations this year, but we vote on the initial appropriations in August. Um, so the temporary allows us to operate in July, early August. The establishment of funds, we have seen this capital projects fund. This is in direct response to state budget bill and the limitations they're
010putting on carryovers. um talked about having a set aside to do some of our big bigger projects. And so we are going to have to uh move some money and if that money is not utilized capital project in 10 years and then returns to the general fund. Um and and then there's some of regular advances who are um uh federal funds for different balances. Um small advance for student activities that is basically athletics. Um and then um we're buying a lot of a lot of uniforms to get ready for next year. So some changes in our athletic department and looking at uniforms making sure and then transfer to the capital project. We've been talking about the state budget. I I don't know if everybody is aware, but school districts are being limited to carrying over
01140% of their general fund um expenditures and their cash balance. We talk about what's an appropriate cash balance. I said anything over 100% is a little excessive, but um you know minimum is nice to have 60 days which isn't that much less than 4%. So, so the state is really school districts operate within a very narrow window. Just a lot of restrictions that are not some of this too is right now it's in question about the being a private school is that and they said it was unconstitutional probably go to the state supreme court next so for public schools it'll it'll continue some of these changes also anticipated as well so we're going to act accordingly right now and then we'll see what happens in the future as far as So voter approved students. Thank
012you. And as I understand it, the bill uh the budget that was the combined effort of the House and the Senate is now at the governor's desk. We haven't yet fine. you go. So, you know, went from the House to the Senate, then through conference committee, and now we have this final budget that quite honestly is not not good for public schools. J mentioned the lawsuit vouchers. We are involved in that as part of our work with equity advocacy for public schools. we have been involved um in that and so that will be remain in litigation and and I agree with Dave. I think a lot of this is going to be challenge legal but as of right now this is why we are meeting tonight and I can tell you most of my colleagues
013are meeting tonight have more meetings tonight because everyone is in the same boat and most districts are doing things very similar to what we're doing because the rules have changed and and literally in 11 hours and and so we are trying to respond to that. Um, you know, Jane mentioned our federal funds and I don't know if we can follow these at the federal level. We still don't have any idea about those. And so, normally the state says, you know what, Jinger, you have to have everything done um kind of a first task. said, "Well, we need to go first, but here's what we need to do because Yeah. Um, we're operating best we can sort of in the dark because as you mentioned, the question hasn't been signed yet. Um but it is changing
014how we have to end of our fiscal year today. So um we operated under one system for most of the year. We've been hearing a lot of things since March and April and May and they've been working on different changes to this budget bill. I'm trying to remember what the low point was. I think the low point was 30% carried over. Um, but I I mentioned the the 60 days, just so you know, that that's a 16% carry over. So, you know, operating between 40 and 16% is is a pretty narrow gap. And also, it it doesn't give a lot of understanding to the way that school districts cash flows work. Um, we have our high and low months throughout the year. um and their community system based on one day of the year. Also,
015you know, they don't look at how all the different individual schools operate. We have a very unique thing here where we make a large debt payment with income tax money. Um so, we have to have that money there to make our debt payments. Um so I will say it is fortunate that we issued all of our major debt for foreseeable future because these type of cash restrictions um would very much negatively impact our ability to borrow. They looked at our national balances. saw everything growing rates and that was one of the reasons that we to districts in the future or our district in the future year is going to get it's going to be harder to borrow or just more expensive to borrow right so so I had a couple questions but I'll move to
016other board members first do I do have questions So just to summarize and then there are two discussions that we need to have here right there is one conversation about the way in which we want and restrict public education in Ohio and I know that around this table we're all in here but it's still important to articulate that. So I'm going to have comments about that later but that question specifically about this fund because we're setting money but we need to spend the 10 years or we go back to original fund. That's okay. But there will be dedicated to uh facilities project, right? And so we're in the middle of the biggest movement project. So I'm sure that the average person that lives in the district might think how are we? Yeah. Uh the money
017that we're setting aside tonight is not part of our master facility project. Um it would be more for some of the things that we've discussed uh resurfacing on track. Even though our track is new, it is coming up on Yeah. It's not new anymore. It's part of the maintenance, right? Every 8 to 10 years. Yeah. Which is will be coming up. So great. Does it cover more than just Yeah. Um, we also have our outdoor facilities that aren't being addressed by fire facility project at all. Um, we have some spaces that are moving from that into the new facility, some theater spaces. Um, so it's going to open up some of those spaces in that building. Um, and these funds would allow us to revamp those spaces to keep. So, let me give you an
018example. We are going to paint the press box colors that match. If you notice or remember out there, there's lots of different groups. Paint the color that paint the press box the color that matches our actual district colors. Then we have to address the ticket and the bus. So the painting of those it seems small but it can get um costly. The interior fence if you go out there now you're on the side of the bleachers between the bleachers and the bus farm that fence is in pretty rough shape. That would have to be replaced. Um that's just out there. We and we are in a master facilities project things still break so process for our water for $8,000. I mean it just there are expenses in this a lot to address. Oh, this is
019saying um so set up you're taking advantage of that 10 year plan that's being set aside um that the next project you're discussing right now is mostly projects. Yeah. And I mean, full transparency, this isn't direct response to the states. It this is one of the um there's not every fund that are you allowed to transfer in and out of. Um so we did some transfers earlier this year. Um we did food service and athletics. Those funds when you transfer them out of that is done permanently. Uh the capital projects fund does allow transfers back and forth. So recall the transfer if it gives us the most flexibility with the fun and I think it's important to remember the treasures that there's an assumption in this budget bill that schools are not operating as not
020operating in fiscally responsible manner but this budget bill actually forces us to do things that we don't on the surface think are fiscally responsible. We've been fiscally responsible. They weren't telling us we have to do this and we won't by but just um I would agree with that. I mean, it it does seem odd that you can put money you can kind of get around this restriction by putting money into this fund and then moving it back into the general fund, but we won't tell the lawmakers that. We'll just handle it. Um I I had a couple questions though. Do we have to wait 10 years to move the money back? No, I don't follow. Okay. So if we did have a fiscal issue where we needed that money back to cover general fund expenses,
021we could draw Yeah. Well, at the end of the year at the end of the year, so for the time being it Yeah. like next year back, but it also I mean we're not anticipating on on the unit next year. Um it's I think there I mean it's hard to know exactly what the thought process at this time changes. Um but it does as said in a way a lot of it is punishing the schools in the past. Um just like we have expenses that we don't anticipate like we're in the middle of a master facility project and we had a water break. We don't want to replace it because we're gonna have a brand new one, right? A year that's budgeted in. And if we Yeah. But we have to. So you can run
022into, you know, financial issues that can cost you money. And then we we've discussed that we've had financial benefits. uh you know our state funding grew with the new fair school funding plan and we used that money wisely and we didn't spend all of it. Uh we had some back taxes that we got and we used that money wisely. Um so this bill is really by saying you can only carry 40% says if you have any surplus spend that money now. Um that's not really the way and that gets me to a couple questions because these these were In terms of fiscal responsibility, I I do remain aware that our our a big portion of our um construction project is funded by income tax and uh that and and property tax of course, but especially
023with income tax. We've seen in uh my time living in Yellow Springs like the 2008 recession that you can see real dips in income tax revenue just like at times you can see real growth. um having a kind of ability to draw upon a fund when you have a dip like that I think would be extremely important because we know that that bill has to be paid even if it is at the expense of other bills getting paid. I had another question that so I'm glad to hear that we can move it back at the end of the year meaning and 10 years is a a long time and we don't have to spend it. I'm not also interested after these appropriations and I know we made some adjustments at the beginning of uh this
024last fiscal year to the general fund uh pulling money out with regards to getting ahead, you know, with regards to the financing of the of that initial financing of the bond. um which enabled us to invest money and it worked or it worked well. After this transfer um and the general fund approach to procreation, where are we at? What percent of our budget do we have in your fundal? That's where the amount of money to get to 40% to get to 40%. Yeah. With some wiggle room, right? And so that is that's a that's a major adjustment if you even go back a year ago when we were much more close to 100%. Yeah. And we well and I do remember last year it was sort of artificially high because we had bond proceeds and
025we had the um well um premium we had the premium on our debt issuance and that money went into the general fund was used to pay debt and then we um sort of we made some big payments um you know we you're only allowed to use premiums uh to pay interest. So we use the income tax that we were getting to pay as much principal as possible. So we had some principal payments at the beginning to lower our interest rate project as much as possible. Um and then that so we had received much money but we knew was also going out in November. Right. Um, so that money did go out in November and we were having lower cash back where we sort of anticipated it to be, but we did not anticipate having to
026spend this money do it this way. Yeah. And so the 2 million uh it's not there but on the other page um does the 1.25 million come out of that 2 million? I'm a little confused. So the um so it's total that and then we also have a bunch of normally at the end of the year um and we would have meetings some of the the extra costs and particularly with regards to other school like the the bats and the heating system and and those kinds of things. So combined that 2 million includes this 1.25 Yeah, that's what I thought I just wanted to make sure. And part of it is also that normally at the end of the school year, we have a goal in what we call future requisitions. So that mean after
027we complete has always been this year's money and this year's kids. So if you want a textbook order for next school year, you want to order it on July 1st. since next year's kids. Um, but we have to have a thing and this we've called everybody requisition and now I had a bunch of requisitions and purchase orders after this appropriation. I see. Once again to get ahead of that accounting which and it's something that we hear that I hear from other school board members that are doing the same this this whole new line in your budget is just encouraging school even though we're in a state where public education is not in the state and that of school it is insane but it is intentional as well. The question that for you Jason where are
028we at the maintenance or parking lots? So the the majority of our parking lots are going to be a grassfire master project. um the entire parking lot here and we're I don't believe we finalize but we're trying to get the 100% of the parking lot of the main school um yeah and then say full um resurfacing so down to the base and then resurfacing on top of that you have you have two different levels of resurfacing parking lots you have just the top layer. Yeah. And then you have when you go down to base, which is what they're doing at the high school, um it's called alligator. You drive down the road and you see all the cracks and it looks like an alligator's the base layer is gone. And I can just I can
029tell you that once your base layer is gone, it's about three times more expensive to do that than it is just a top layer of surface. you have um mill is set to be resurfaced at the end of the project. It is not in with the shape of the ice. So now with this point let's say that the next time you forecast we are above 40% at that point will the board have the option to add money to that fund and then how does it change your limit because it will be younger money there. Yep. That Yeah. So if in 2 years you got to set aside money again, then that that money can be put there for years. And we have a track age. Yeah. Okay. And so that means that once we've set
030up this fund, which is that resolution, uh next year if we need to put more money into it, we can. So that we keep at this 40%. So that's you don't lose the 40% is a snapshot. So we'll be measuring this again next. So do we? Um so no we normally is it is the timing of it in our favor like are we giving a time where we have bigger or um no our highest points are August and March. So coming at June it's not a good reflection of the cash that we actually um it's just it fluctuates. So it depends. It is not at our lowest point but it is not at our highest point and we would want it to be at the highest point because no we would want it to be
031at our lowest. So our lowest is August, the beginning of August and then um January. I think I think the question is that says [Music] our understanding is that it's our 630 balance. It's not like we're going to take your highest point or your lowest point or a median. They're just going to just say 230 square foot lands. Yeah, a lot of these questions are are sort of questions that simple weren't exactly answered. Sometimes uh you know maybe these things and school but it's interesting to see how this access over next year. Um and one of the things that I would imagine is that we'll see it in the financial reporting with the numbers that you Yeah, we'll we'll have a much better idea in November what the effects of this are. Um because it
032isn't even a law yet unless he's signing and that sort of body. Um we don't know how it's going to be implemented, how it's going to monitor and track, who's going to monitor and track it. Um there there's a lot of pieces to this uh budget bill that that haven't been um explained how we're going to be executed. So So we still don't know who's going to be responsible for tracking. county. Could it be the county auditor? Could it be the state auditor? But then um uh income that taxes included changes. Hang on. It is not in the budget bill but HD35 which posted that county does not also income taxes as fluctuating and because it's information about private indiv individuals. We don't get a lot of backup to our income tax. The state department
033of taxation says that this is how much you got. There you go. Yeah. You can say how much money will we get? Almost. that there's no, you know, they're they're like it's they're kind of like question makes me ask leads me to ask another uh in anticipation of our fiveyear forecast what we'll see maybe in July, maybe in August is how does this capital fund uh calculate into that because we know that So, so, so when we look at the five-year forecast, this 1.25 million is is not being considered in the long-term projection of the budget. Um, so for November one, what we'll see is the transfer out this year. So, in the 5year forecast, we have three previous years. You'll see that money transfer out. Uhhuh. And maybe you know a little question in
034May last we were all very satisfied to see that we could stretch the money that the voters with us 10 years. So now should we anticipate that this will change the relation or is that the question that we find? Yeah, that was my that was my question as well. How is this because we were in solid footing and now we might see something that says oh no we're we hit that zero mark or you know the time where we need new money a year or two years earlier. It's more the impact because we're setting this money aside for capital projects and things that otherwise would have to come out of the general fund. Um the no is really what's impacting our impact our forecast for the future. It's more changes to property tax laws that
035are going to impact our projections for the future because There's certain areas we are on the GP floor including substitute levies on the 21 floor. So instead of seeing um growth on the 21 floor the trial um our property taxes are going to remain very flat for the future. Um I am unsure what happens on our substitute and there's a construction road. um these changes that are about property taxes and aren't allowing it right now to just just operating in bonds at this time. Um I don't know how it impacts that construction growth that new construction growth especially when it's rolled into the floor. So um it is the revenue impacts of the state budget. So even though these were not extreme growth that we were projecting for property taxes, property taxes don't grow even
036though your expenses might grow at the same as inflation 5 7%. Typically you see property taxes grow over time um if you're on the floor at two or 3%. Now we all know that there was a you know triangle update was for everybody and 18% average some places saw 25 some places saw 30%. That's not normal. So what we normally anticipate is you know maybe two or 3% and really only every few years but now I don't see much at all. So um that's the law. Correct. I mean I think what they're trying to do is to prevent us trying to prevent us. I don't know it's as much to respond to the evaluation as it is to um prevent anticipation that the um over the next five years potential population grow [Music] um additional
037um you was potential seeing that trend continue. I think that um you know with Intel coming that there's that anticipation population growth and um and assessments not seeing thorough evaluations not seeing the grow potential growth that I'm not sure, you know, there's there's um there's a few there's a little bit of magical maybe a little bit more than a little activities for I I just think you know what we have right now is House Bill House Bill 335 means that's the one that Jesus so we'll just have to wait and see with that I'm not sure where we want to go back to my colleague about what funding we're getting I was checking my email to see if I got an email saying the governor can sign the budget bill. I did not, but I
038did get an email from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. I think I'll just read it. Uh the Department of Education and Workforce received the following notification from the US Department of Education today, June 30. Quote, given the change in administrations, the department is looking at fiscal year 25 funding for title 1 C, 2 A, 3 A, 4 A, 4 B, grant programs, and decisions have not yet been made concerning submissions and awards for this upcoming academic year. Accordingly, the department will not be issuing grant verifications obligating the funds for these programs on July prior to completing that. The department remains committed to ensuring the actare resources are spent in accordance with the president's priorities and the department's statuto responsibilities and then that do provide additional. So what that tells me is that I
039don't see title one A listed. I see title one C. It tells me we're not going to get title 2 A money. We're not going to get title 4 A money. um I don't know how much we're not going to try to be. So this is a disturbing no because when they when they say we're not issuing any awards obligating us to these funds. So it it's a double whammy. We're sitting here today because of the state budget and then we get this email from the state about the federal budget. So um and can you delay notification that they're not going to I'm a senator you're not going to issue. So the federal funds we get are um those are their types. So title one a generally used for reading and support. Title 2A, I
040think the official description is supporting teacher efficacy. Title four, uh, student wellness. Um, then there's IDA. I did not mention IBA. Um, I that that's our biggest one. So, so special education. Yeah, I special education did not mention that. So, we may be getting that, but we again we simply don't know. What we can say is that it sounds like there's at least some delay um and your optimism. Well, for years um and have seen many turnovers in administrations and often delays. So um in front of us is the is the appropriation um of funds as the treasurer described making the appropriation changes. Uh there is also however the resolution establishing the capital fund and um this consent vote will also include that approval. So the establishment of that capital project fund. So that's your
041other funds that we're transferring into with transfer. Not to be confused with the capital that was discussed. Exactly. These are two different Right. Exactly. So what would be the result of this is that we establish fund 070 capital projects fund and 1.25 25 million would be moved into that fund um as of June 30th and then there is an additional uh money um additional almost $1 million but no I I put that the the one total but yeah but there's other advances and those advances are those advances um are 25 251,000 Um, and this is all kind of those advances are sort of balancing some of the gaps that we're left with by the end at the end of fiscal year 2024. Yeah. Yeah. 25 always. Okay. So, um, so I hope the board members
042are clear on what we're voting on with this consent agenda. Right. And after an approval of the this set or suite of finan finance decisions uh we will be close to that 40% mark understanding that it's a moving target. This has some it will have some ramifications on what the fiveyear and especially 10-year budget's going to look like. Uh we are able to move that money back into the general fund if needed. Uh so this seems like a very prudent decision to make at the 11th hour and we'll be making a couple more of those tonight and um this is also though doing some normal work for the end of the fiscal year of balancing things out. Okay, any further conversation? Jay, did you take a vote? Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes 40. Okay. So,
043now we'll move on to personnel. Can I move that? I second. So, that's item 5.1. Any questions? Any comments? Dr. This is um typical when we approve ours then we apply the same salary increases to so if you um all looked at the document of the seven schedules these are steps Yes, I don't know I would make any money to read that but it's it just shows that based on years of service or how their salaries are going to be increasing and these were adjusted based on the percentage increase that was agreed upon in salary negotiations with our staff um and our teachers. And so those numbers are reflecting those changes. I think that when we were informed as a board about the whole process of salary negotiations, we got a lesson on that too.
044But does anyone have any questions? I do have a question. Um and it has to do with the project. We're going to grad from one building to another. So principle change with that still race. So is that why the high school principal when you start to hire the high school high school principal are always hired because they have a whole host of athletic events many. So just to recap as I understand your question, the elementary principal with the move of sixth grade up to the new middle school high school will be dealing with the grades or supervising the grades in this building fourth through prek. And correct, but the high school, middle school, high school principal and vice assistant principal will take on that additional uh kind of duty responsibility. I don't have any other
045time. Yes. Yes. Yes. Let's move to 5.2. Is there a motion to approve contract today? I move that the board contracts the following laws retirement system. [Music] How about second? Second. Okay. Any questions? If we could get a little bit of an update on why we're looking at these shorts. This is on advice of maybe our professional organizations again back to the budget there. Excuse me. There's a provision in the the budget that says superintendent, treasures, principles um that the board it would prohibit the board for providing as compensation payment of my portion of my entire. Um so what's standard in the contracts for administrators is that it's called so typically an employee pays per share share for in general for administrative contracts many districts have as a compensation piece that the board picks up
046the employee share. So part of the budget against that. So what that effectively means is a 14% probably more increase for anyone who has that in their contract for us as individuals. Um and so this paragraph it's why excuse me while you have the um contract for each individual the paragraph needs to say and it is if in the event the board is legally prohibited from doing this the salary will increase to match that time of judge. So there's no being nobody is nobody would get a release. It just honors that compensation and yes is that okay by adding commentary to this um because we board members can see this but our administrators cannot see it. This for the budget line that provided this school boards from paying uh from toes. This is a direct
047payment to all the administrators that came out and talked to the legislators probably Ohio has had a record amount of publications and reaching out from all sorts of school boards because they have been orchestrating an erosion of public education and the NSA and it's been pretty clear that that kind of language used to intimidate administrators for future terms. So not only are triggers across the state of Ohio are said to be financially impacted by this but also when you think about it you know the way in which public education the reason being in Ohio is through the school vouchers budget not the same budget lineation. It is the threat of criminal charges and losses by senators against teachers and administrators that are pushing back against. It's the cash reserves attack. It's the limitation of the
048type of school levies that we can put on the ballot to keep operating our school levies. It's the threat of loss of funding for our most vulnerable students. It's also the insertion of church business into public education. This is just another layer of that. And if we don't as a board try to address this with the agenda, then we're going to create we're not going to be in a place where we complete neighboring school district. So we want to make sure that we're staying in trying to offset all the way in which um the publication. So just to recap, I think what member bouquet was kind of encapsulating is that the language in the bill to try to remove this uh this practice. It's common to administrative contracts was could be seen as rather retaliatory
049uh because of resistance posed towards his will. Um, but I also just add that it it is in the administrator our administrators contracts already. So there is a real legal issue to change a contract midstream and say, "Oh, you're earning 14% less." If the district or any district does not want to do the pickup, then that should be negotiated at the beginning of the contract. So I believe as a school district we honor the contracts that we approve and endorse. Uh so this is of course something I I'd recommend that we approve. Um and also people are right and um what school districts offer negotiation with uh some impact contracts that are offered to um testing. So it it's uh it's it's you know as we saw in uh year flaws that impacted um higher
050education we see uh similar action that's that's impacting our leadership and publication um at the secondary. So uh this is you know this is not the level of this is not the level of micro management that school district and micromanagement is a good word and I think just for the record you know if the state of Ohio and our majority of of lawmakers uh who because of their party ideologies you emphasize local governance uh should really pause for a second and if they truly believe in that local governance that's structured with the school district system to enable it. Um it would be I think offensive to any government body and certainly private body if their ability to engage in contracts was undermined in an arbitrary way. So, I'm glad that we can get around it.
051Uh, thanks to our big council, we have a solution for this and hopefully we don't have to be bothered by it anymore. But the other list that Dr. K talked about um just shows how this particular state legislature is and in ways that are just making us call special meetings. So, Any other I forgot one more that they will be now I think has passed um obligation of putting a partisan label on also important states. So this is a publicization of it hasn't been in the state. What if you're not a member of the party? If you vote in primary, you have that's how it's done and how you do it. That's that's a question mark. I'm not sure if we have that. Well, you know, I I appreciate, you know, people's, you know, frustration
052state, but I also feel like it's appropriate for us to stay on topic, especially social media. So, we'll take a vote. Okay. Yes. Yes. motion pass. Thanks. Okay, now we'll move on to other board member items. Um, and there is one. It's concerning a a you got a draft or or well, you got a copy. This was submitted this letter copy of the letter that was jointly written by the members of the school board. was that effort was levied by Dorothy Bouquet and Brian Hush, right? But there was participation uh by our administrators, Dr. Holden and Johnny Burns, and the letter was sent uh to a number of lawmakers. Yeah. uh by myself and by Kevin Stokes, the president of a village council and the to that committee and also to our direct representatives, Senator
053Kaylor and Representative and and the reason for which it didn't come in front of this board is there was such a tight timing that we got language of what the budget bill, one of the finalists of the budget bill uh on Monday the 23rd and it needed to be submitted by the Wednesday. So the quickest way here was to um reach out to our voices on each of these bodies to draft to send that statement to the various recipients here to just point out the impact to those bills as much as bills and HD5 you'll you'll be familiar with the language in this letter. It followed uh pretty much exactly what we had discussed um when we sent you know when we advocated uh for changes in the legislation proposed by the house right so
054this time out was in front of the senate in front of this committee and time was shortened so that work was was refashioned into this letter um how much impact it had don't inside. It's not moved from HD to 335, but there was there was some changes that made it less worse. It's still less wasted. Does anyone owner have any questions or comments about this? just to make it part of the board materials packet so that it's project and in that to also inform the community of the persistent outreach that we've done to advocate um for the funding and less waste on it just to send an FYI that I was my oversight and that's why I was hoping to include it because I'm glad I just Okay, everyone know it is it was just
055a tiny one I was in a commission and it's to start getting the word out uh for the feminists in the district. The male is organizing a school size um it's not a drive, it's a collective purchasing and it makes it a lot more effective efficient. It's time efficient. I didn't want cheaper for me and allow me to sponsor another family but could be receiving the school supplies. So if parents are listening in, go to the mail, look at the type of uh collective school device organization that I've done because I think it's a way to to save time, money, to help our final followup, I really want to give a shout out to the organizers for an amazing Junth event uh at Annie College and an amazing pride event um this last Saturday. Fantastic.
056And thanks to all the board members and community members who attended. It was a lot of fun riding with you all in the parade. Amy, Bailey, Emilia with us. So, shout out to her, too. But, uh it it was a great day. Um the Junth celebration at Calry Theater was also absolutely amazing. So, a big month. Let's hope that spirit of community uh equality, joy, and fun continues the rest of the summer and we really continue to uphold the values of this amazing community and district. Okay. Do I have a motion to adjourn? I get a second. I think the storm outside has passed. Oh, good. We will all get home ready and safe I hope. So all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. So the meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone.