001[Music] one [Laughter] [Music] sure [Music] welcome everybody to the regular school board meeting March 13 the school board has come out of the executive session and we getting apologies for being 5 minutes late uh we're going to start then with number three on the agenda preliminary matters and that first item is set changes to the agenda does any board member have any change to the agenda okay good seeing none let's move to the approval of the minutes I still second thank you that's um any suggested changes first see none let's take a vote any yes okay yes yes yes yes motion passes 5 to Zer okay moving right along uh there were a few Communications from the community at nor could you briefly talk about them yes so there are two letters in there one
002letter from a parent who question about lunch I'm sure that the will be happy to that into time and the other that is a response from our state to the statement that the board approve last month about school um I would encourage the committee to do it I think it's very telling yes thank you and and then that moves us to highlight of the evening the district honors recognition and introductions so welcome everyone here who is to here to honor our award of winners get started with that ja gonna start thanks up we have Aubrey milhome who is our alumni association F Arts scholar the month conratulations [Applause] was nominated by performing arts teacher and arts teacher both um Audrey is a student and practitioner of theater bringing Excellence a good attitude clear communication and
003a dedication to all they undertake Audrey is currently the production state of both all district Musical and the REM of Two Gentlemen of um a also represents the Bulldogs as the CRM for the OA all Ohio production John the villain so she's doing work on three shows currently um she's such a hard worker it has a creative Spirit she's a vital and much respected member of our congratulations [Applause] [Music] [Applause] next we have Nick and M who is the Mills Park Hotel student of the month come on up [Applause] ni so Nick was nominated by Mr de who said Nick I stood out in my psychology and sociology classes this year for his intellectual curiosity and his wonderful ability to see how the things we learn about the classroom play out in the real world
004he does a great job on all assignments and tests participates in class discussions with insight and brings positivity to interactions I love how willing he is to try social and psychology experiments recently students were assigned to break a social norm and Nikki his girlfri Nikki had his girlfriend pushing around Walmart and a grocery card to see reactions he would get he wrote an excellent analysis of his experience then he went back a few days later and it switched roles and compared results this was definitely going above and beyond [Applause] PA family [Applause] all right so niron is our 20y Sports scholar athlete of the month he was nominated by coach Ramsey who said n on the basketball court provides leadership from the under class demonstrating what it means to work hard and fight University while
005exceling the court has been maintaining a consistent work ethic in the classroom staying disciplined by not only completing his assignments but working for the best of his abilities to maintain an impressive GPA n both as a student and an athlete is someone who has been a positive influence on those around him and as the for hiss [Applause] [Music] congratulations can't leave so quickly [Applause] okay I have the young da student of the month that is going to Raven heart third grade student at [Applause] M Raven was nominated by Sarah H Tammy Parker and Emily mayor they said raven is responsible and caring she always helps her peers and model safe and healthy coping skills and work ethic her classmates look up to her and she consistently works hard and tries her best she demonstrates kindness
006and consideration and responsibility cons them congratulations [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] and last but not least we have the piper ored employee at [Music] month yellis spring is graduate teaching in Yellow Springs for 24 years at Mill's lawn M sense MAA was nominated by Mr gel and myself she is a dedicated first grade teacher who brings a deep sense of Pride and commitment to her work she is always looking for creative and Innovative teaching methods finding unique ways to engage her students and making time at Ms long memorable for students she steps up to serve on lots of committees because I ask she shares her ideas and people respect them she supports her team her dedication is evident in her long hours arriving early staying late answering phone calls and texts from her principal on Saturday
007and Sundays but I know not to call her over the summer well I try not to That's masasa goes above and beyond and truly embodies the values of our district and deserves to be recognized for her outstanding and continuous hard work [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] thank you everybody um and now we're moving on to the reports from PTO but just one last congratulations to everyone who received the bo tonight [Applause] so this will tell us about the T was like which way should I there we go hello I'm Liz H I'm the president of the PTO um first I just wanted to um highlight some of the core experiences that we are funding this year so I've said it a couple times but we approved at the beginning of the year um $500 for
008each grade level um to core experiences for students along with specials um and I just wanted to highlight those right now um for the kindergarten through second graders uh the students will be um um attending Boop as well as there was a dcdc um which is the D contemporary dance and and that was a whole school assembly um that I heard about my students um specifically which was really awesome the third grade is going to be going to the Planetarium fourth grade is going to be visiting shelf as well um fifth grade um has news machine or had news machine come it's coming up coming up cool and then the specials classes um are doing an activity with the Mad River theater Group which is awesome so again this is um something I think we
009started last year and has been really cool to see a play out and to year about from our students um recently we had a really amazing youer night we raised $700 um it was so much fun thank you to the Emporium and her for hosting that for us um it was a great event and just thank you to everyone who volunteered and help it that be awesome specifically IM who helped a lot with the organization of that um looking ahead we're really excited this year to um offer um a new workshop um it's a p tools workshop for caregivers it's going to be hosted by Sarah Badger it's going to be on April 3rd from 545 to 7:30 we will have child care and dinner provided and it's a a um Workshop that's focused on
010managing um your children's behaviors in compassionate ways um I'm really looking forward to it I have a four-year-old so I need I can get um but again that's new it's really exciting um I think we just posted the Forum today uh on our Facebook and we'll have something going on out of parent share or parents Square as well um we're in the final planning stages for some of our end of the year events which include the Bulldog Boogie which is a dance for the K through fourth graders with their caregivers it's super fun really chaotic right here um and then we have the fifth and sixth grade as well and we have teacher appreciation coming up in May which of course we're um always really excited about we partner with Miss Winston and to host
011that um we're also funding uh teacher lunches during conferences this this year and um the healthy snacks for students during um the testing weeks in April um speaking of the teacher appreciation um I did want to highlight and thank Dorothy for putting together some templates for us um that we've been um blasting out to parents to thank teachers for um just all of the the hard work they do any positive experience their students have um I really want to encourage parents to utilize these templates um to and include Miss Winston um when possible just to thank our teachers for all that they do um yeah so finally we'll be voting on new board members in May so again we encourage um all parents um of M students to come out to our PTO meetings which
012are the second Monday of every month at 6m in the conference room right over here um and we're always looking for volunteers for shoot there which happens in June so thank you [Applause] he um should we tell the parents to save all the clothes yes sorry ition that as well April 27 27 um we are going to um host again this is like a new thing for us but we're going to do a clothing swap um we're going to have a little set up at the Earth Day event which I think is happening over um on one of the anti LS we the I think but we will be doing a clothing swap there so please bring your gently used clothing to the spot to the swap yep that day again more information coming but
013start thinking about that if you're doing some cing listen Workshop seems great and I I think it's free just y it's completely free we'll have dinner dinner Channel care provided um I think we're going to have the kids hanging out here dinner in here and then the workshop will be in one of the open rooms here for parents but please sign up ahead of time so we know what who to expect that um uh Sarah Bader walked us through some of the the tools that that they use if you're familiar with the p program and they're really really great so questions thank you thank you PTO man [Applause] that's Community comments Eric CL hi my name is er Clark I was actually just about to say the skip L because I found out that all
014of our conference teachers have decided to be one bulk and so I was bring this up but I might as well read this well here um and since I wrote this I had found out from several other parents that situation contact Administration but I said Morgan middle students have moved into the modular the students are now being required to load their backpacks with all of their resource materials this includes their laptop charger all of their textbooks and as a result the backpacks are now completely stuffed into materials and the majority of the students do not bring most of the stuff home so it's going back and forth without any purpose really um our student in particular is indicating he's no longer able to safely ride his Bic to the school due to the heavy and
015potentially shifting load on his back we are not alone in this situation we have already heard from a few other parents how ridiculous it seems to be that all of the materials even if I'm needed are coming home another parent is also indicated that they are not having to drive their kids to school every day because their the American Academy of Pediatrics believes the children should carry no more than 10% of the body on their backs with a maximum 15% so they may be overwheling at this point it would be nice if that the end of each class the students with their homework would be permitted to Simply stack their books in the corner put them in a box or have a small bookshelf some places or they could just leave them and then they
016would get the next day it would get lost stolen forgotten thank you very thank you very much for that feedback and we with Community comments we take the feedback but we take it very seriously and address it later administrative reports oh yes and everyone please leave okay we are going to start with M Juan we had another successful Black History Month celebration thank you to the PTO for providing all of the Educators who wanted a t-shirt at Ms lawn with a Black History Month t-shirt um all of our classes participated in the walking tour so they went kind of on a a shortened 365 tour and I just really want to thank all of our tour guides and that was Kevin mcder St M Queen who's here and some of the um Yellow Springs High
017School and Middle School students who came over from the high school middle school to take the younger students on these tours so um thank you to everyone that made that possible and you can see some of the pictures there walked to the Willing G statue and then we also had PTO discuss this dcdc in for a program the whole building was able to attend and they have to learn dance news they have a lot of fun and then I also have our third grade pbl and they are exploring the diversity of life on Earth by studying animal classification and I won't read all of this but I will say I have a chance to look at all the artwork today because they are getting ready um to write the diversity Diaries animals of every kind
018and each student was able to um pick their animal to research in depth and it's going to go into this book with their own art pieces and you can see those down there at the bottom and thank you to the third grade teachers and to Amy meinhart the art teacher who coll collaborated with the third grade teachers to make um this project possible and then the last thing I have are just a few reminders we do have parent teacher conferences next Thursday and Friday Thursday evening all day Friday you should have received um a paper home with your students indicating whether a conference is necessary and when your conference is scheduled for we do not have school on that Friday because conferences and then we go into spring break and once we come back from
019spring break third fourth fifth sixth grade students will begin Ohio State Testing um Ela will be on Tuesday Wednesday that week of April 7th and math will be the week of April 14th on Tuesday and Wednesday and then fifth grade only they have to take the science test and that'll be April 22nd and 23rd thank you PTO for providing healthy snacks for all of our students who are testing thank you I had a couple questions first of all let's hope that spring break starts when spring is really here it's looking helpful um how is how is the adjustment with the building construction going on so students are adjusting I will say that we have have less tardies now that the students have moved um to the modular units so that has that's been a really
020good thing that we are seeing at the beginning of the day and the kids love it it is clean um they love the warm restrooms they love the warm soap they love the soft toilet paper industrial siiz toilet paper does not fit in in those um holders so the kids tell me every time I walk in something that they love about the modular units um and teachers really love it because they are right beside either their grade level teaching partner and they're right across the hall from you know second and first right across the hall so teachers can go outside their doors and they can kind of collaborate in the hall and they have really enjoyed that a love but um her and Mrs gabone I see them out collaborating while kids are you know
021going to the restroom or putting items in their baskets so we have not had any complaints no and I want to say I came over the other day when it was raining and Miss Winston has a system of umbrellas in a container by a door and sure enough they were all under their umbrellas yeah it's been it's been a smooth transition all right um for the middle school high school I've been thinking boldly I want to celebrates uh Rebecca dwine tiger Collins zo Herzog and Jane Chambers so uh a few years ago Kevin Mighty restarted chawa and then um it's carried on since he left and last year this team of four won the Dayton Regional competition um it's typically around 40 schools including like big schools such as Centerville Springboro so we are a
022really small school going competing against a ton of students and for the second year in a roow this team of four our regional competition and they going to travel to Washington DC so it's quite an accomplishment um and then the second thing I'm keeping old with uh this month we inducted 12 new members into our National Junior Honor Society and 23 members into our National Honor Society so that's National Honor Society is a long-standing tradition and National Junior Honor Society is just in the second year here in Yellow Springs um and and that is something students have to demonstrate uh for National Junior Honor Society five different pillars and and for National Honor Society four different pillars and they have to go through an application process and then we have a panel of five teachers
023who review the application and the goal is really to um identify the the students who really meet those pillars so so you see what you see here are the kids who um are showing up best foot forward every single day and we have many more kids who uh were were able to apply that didn't quite make it not because they aren't deserving necessarily but U for example service is measured through community service hours so once they get more commity service hours that application becomes much stronger um so we try to meet with each who did make it and give them some feedback um but we are excited to have those new members recognized um under caring deeply uh so so one of my goals is for our kids in our middle and high school to
024have Rich experiences so there's classroom exper exp we want the day to day to be rich but there are so many things beyond the walls of the school that that really um improve the kids overall experience so pre pandemic we had traveled to Chicago we were on a I think every other year basis going to Chicago um and then when the pandemic hit we took a break from it this year we brought it back we had I think 36 students um from our instrumental music program travel to Chicago they were were able to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra um they went to Northern Illinois University of Northern Illinois and they did workshops with the college students um they did some sight seeing around Chicago um one of the things that's unique for our instrumental program
025is we do not have marching band so when you don't have football you don't have marching band the students in that program lose the opportunity to bond on a Friday night riding to to a game together on the bus playing together sitting in the stands together our kids don't necessarily get that opportunity so so this trip to Chicago really is an opportunity for our kids to to Bond as a program um and and for some of our students this is the first opportunity they've had to travel to a city like Chicago so um I had a a Community member talking about how one of the students was calling every morning showing the the sunrise over Chicago skyine so so things like that that I think are just experiences that you can't get C classroom and
026then uh lastly um we so so we IAT meetings this year um we had an enlistment Expo then we had an enrollment Expo today we had an employment Expo where we had I think 45 or so um local employers come in and our students could see different career opportunities uh for them once they leave High School um and they were all by Holland code so whichever area their strength is in is how they were organized um and then our kids could go in and interact with the employers if employers had internship available they had a gold balloon at their their table so if our junior or senior was looking for an internship they could quickly identify spaces where that would be possible um but even through all this work we realized a gap where um
027a lot of students who who want to go into the trades but don't go to the career center in 10th Grade they hit their senior year and they're like what now um so Dron and I have senior lunches with all of our seniors and at the beginning of the lunch they go around and talk about what their plans are for next year so when they're in those launchs and the kid says well I'm thinking about going into the trades but I'm not sure what I'm writing that down Miss gun's meeting with them but ultimately we started field trips this spring kind of ajus In Time field trip for some of those seniors and underclassmen who maybe didn't go to First 10th grade but still want to explore what traits are out there so it's kind
028of like the last push to make sure we're connecting our kids with that right next step after I had the chance to go you the employment there today and I was just impressed at how engaged the students going to the asking questions I am so thankful for various professional weam many of from our commun I recognized one of our lawyers and a horse trainer in restaurant that was very they were Mental Health Providers there social marketing there was so many options for the gifts it was really incredible and um yeah I would like to just my thanks to his gun Inc workan kind of answers my question with the bre of opportunities was and sounds like it was amazing they were Cil Architects were journalism oh yeah that's right good news I'm sorry news a
029lot different options oh there was ayci poar tattoo artist nice so for those of us who are quite as cool what is Jaa it's is the Joint Council on world affairs so when I was in school we had what was called quiz b and this I think is the evolution of that yeah congratulations to the team thank you okay the next report is afo the GRE County Career Center I speak hello [Music] very much guess hello everyone my name is Steve McQueen I am the board member for the GRE County Career Center representing Springs uh this is my report so I'm not going to uh get into what that all says though I do suggest you read it uh basically um for years uh ever since we got the new building even before that we
030have been giving out um materials uh usually like magazines books uh different things to sort of get k35 involved with um thinking about St and uh career Pathways and that sort of thing and wanted to do something different and we received some grant money to ask teachers directly from K through five to come up with programs of their home and to basically write proposals um that would involve something step related uh or Career Tech uh related so that we can get basically so many of was a much more direct link to students than sort of what we come up with especially for that age group and so we had sort of a practice run that went really successfully so next year uh we will be asking all of our K 5 uh and to come
031up with whatever ideas they have S their proposals and they can get up to $5,000 um and it's per U per classro uh who are accepting to be able to do a program that the commers center will help fund um and so we're really excited about this so I wanted to make sure uh that it was said in our report uh and then the next is just sort of the new numbers we have all the students coming in and for Yellow Springs so that's all of the numbers of the new if we scroll down that's all of the in that uh in that one not gra but uh table huh table table thank you I knew it was a for and that table describes all of the Jers coming in uh but I um asked
032and was able to give a rundown of yellow screen students uh who will be coming in um and how many into each of different headways that we're doing uh at the bottom there that number is incorrect because I asked for current students uh and So currently we have 21 spring students there and we have 15 that will be coming in we expect eight to graduate meaning there will be 28 students uh from Yellow Springs that will be attending the career center that is quadruple the amount of H spring students that have evered uh well not ever but um since since the new build um those are extremely impressive numbers from the old spring attending so we're extremely excited about that uh I always like to let people know about our green room and and this
033week starting yesterday and today but tomorrow if you have the chance uh please stop by from 10:30 to 2:30 you can go uh to the career center and eat U all done by our culinary arts and now we don't always get to do this but this Saturday as well that's from 10:30 to 1:30 you can also go in it's extremely nice it's decorated by our natural resources room and a lot of the supplies that are made like glasses they have no invitations on it that's done by our design students so everything there is all stud done it's really amazing to actually go and check out and the last thing is um for the ones did get to attend the regional convention uh for the osba uh we didn't have time to do tours afterwards so
034the superintendent uh David deskins suggested that we invite the board uh for a tour of the Green County Career Center I keep coming and talking about this new building and all the different things we're having and so I want to reach out and that does include Administration um and two have a let's go do a tour and uh see some of these facilities that we've been talking about are there any questions all right see thank you thank you he we scheduled for 5 minute break so we move ahead okay going forward so uh let's move on then to our first consent calendar for policies I that approve hold on jump ahead of me first have to ask if any board member wishes to remove any item from that calendar just I thought you move accept
035it okay we got a motion to open it um second okay are there any items that any board member would like to discuss individually that calendar items areally not okay so just um I are you going to talk about this St or should I either to I did send you and more member Bailey an email about an update to one of the policies I um so that might be the one to talk about maybe but these are all um policies we go through roughly twice a year with our policy provider new updates um generally based upon changes in the law what the board has to do adopt a new policy or revise an existing policy so that we in compliance with the law if you're remember work session you know there are a lot of
036laws that are coming so um you do see policies here that reflect that so the the second Fe is one of those policies that is related to um the B bill um and then in the first three of these polic from volume 43 number two there really are two that are connected um directly to laws and that the first one is this 5223 which is releas time instruction during the school day and if you remember we put some requirements you know the board put some requirements on the um policy almost a day after we met the organization State religious organization that is pushing this threat litigation for some of these requirements that districts wanted to do so um the policy you see in here is the one that matches the law and we don't have
037a lot of options so which number is it it's 5223 it's called release time for religious instruction during the school day and it goes in effect April April so for example and I asked that greater liability insurance be show help by these organizations and that was removed andal backg cheal Che the ability ability for the board to request criminal what was is that we are expect they um respect laws corre this for that all except the uh travel field trips um policy it's the first reading so we would these next next regular board as well um I'd also like to say that theol has been very active in informing us school districts about the options and engaging this in these changes in a very transparent way so we appreciated the representative from theol walking us
038through those those policies the other one is 57.1 which is the parents rights which is house so that's to ption to we are approving all of them um when I ask if there's no objection unless again P out okay is there any objection to items on the consent calendar board policies to say no no we don't have to say anything okay all right Bailey yes okay yes yes Magnus yes Father yes motion pass 5 to Z I just want to reate both of these policies we'll see at our next board meeting encourage you all to look at them and we'll keep you a bre of any changes or any additions and um we had also agreed as a board that two board memb will continue to meet with partia the superintendent on policy matters that
039was me and a Bailey they volunteer two volunteers for the next session meeting we the first time around you did it okay so I can do it good okay maybe next okay number six board member appr it's work I open okay and then yes V item so I that resolution um so this is this work is a followup to the discussion that we had last month where weed the pieces of that uh our board president sent to various legislators in the state but next step that we can take as a board is to submit both resolutions to amend the way in which Bo can l so the process is that we have to submit a should that is to be formed in a specific way then the osba committee is meeting this summer they have
040a right to be this they have a right to move this forward and then it goes to the delegated assembly the osba delegate assembly is made of one board member per School District that is member osba and then the delegate assembly meets at the capital conference in November and which beh on whether or not to amend the legislative platform to include those new adces so the two that I've drafted here the one the first one I'm going to talk about is about special education because I recently learned that Ohio ranks last in the funding that is provided for special education that means that there is a very tangible Gap in the staing for special education in our Public Schools um in Ohio we have an average of 18 staff members for special education for every
041200 students uh if you compare it to Pennsylvania are indana uh so this is where I think that osba should take that on for us and Advocate uh for this so is there any question about the resolution I should say that I consed with theba leaders and how should Beed should that I was advised the only change that you might have seen in the two documents two different versions is that they asked me to include that should to the fin questions I was just yeah represent it's excellent and um I it it does reference I think very importantly the potential elimination of the US Department of Education and what that will mean in terms of federal oversight do you want to speak that well I I was asked you know what we're going to do
042and right now um the only information you're getting is what the wall City needs so I imagine it will come but pretty much City I asked to be on T's newsletter for any news regarding SE ucation and how it will so I believe that we're going V by readyy yes okay yes yes Magnus yes yes motion pass Z okay so now we'll need a a vote for the resolution to with regards to Universal SCH sure so same same thing I with I drafted a resolution that empowers them should to all the hurdles uh to Advocate to our legislators to provide uh enough funding for schools to for Universal students it's based on the simple reality that a hungry kid do learn and that they should be their basic needs um I should point out that
043U there's truction right now in the legislature is SB 109 by schools uh but today how speak Hoffman said that U it was the responsibility of parents to um eat their children and find that parents choose not to which is absolutely ridiculous and insulting people don't choose people people don't choose not to their kids and I think that's still Testify the importance of empowering to advocate for that basic to be met I just reference again senator's letter which seems to Echo a similar response we encourage our our constituents of Senator coler's District to voice their concerns over that s may I say I want to support one thing you wrot in there of there so many sentences um uh I'm trying to think uh I I I'm sorry I had the one and then I'm
044trying to feel like one sentence that would articulate its position um at the same time the state and federal government continue to provide help to needy families when it comes to housing Healthcare sties and job training to help individuals become self- sustaining at some point we need to consider if we aren't traveling people was yes but of course he doesn't want yeah he doesn't want any of this to soundless I will say that I it was hardless I I do want to add this is pretty important because if you've been watching the news you know that yesterday USDA um cut one billion to the1 billion in food funding to schools and food banks so I think there will be a triple effect for us we're not quite sure how or what that will look like
045but this makes this resolution Prett and I think that we should bring in the context of our district we have just increased the cost of some by 25 cents and yet this board is going to look at having to f a gap of $100,000 in deficit in in how we PID for current uh School meals offering so we know that we we're already over taxing our families as much as we can obviously V we're not the only District this is through State probably throughout the country V be thank you Bailey yes okay yes yes Magnus yes yes motion pass by Z okay so now we Mo to the third item um it's an approval to replace a board member m with board member Bailey on the contract negotiations committee is there a motion second okay
046and this is mainly due toed due to um work obligations 're remember to step off that committee and has graciously to fill that position any discussion okay okay yes yes magn yes yes motion pass by Z we correct and I will send you more details as I okay item number seven again we're have a consent calendar so we'll start with a motion to open the consent administrative consent calendar Mo okay and this has a few items Jerry want Dr hold want to explain them to us um actually I thought it I was going to have more than one there's actually okay it is the annual approval of our contract with the Green County Education Service Center so we do an estimate this time based upon past years and it spells out all the services we
047get from any objection to that item okay take a vote Yes yes yes mag yes H yes motion pass Z okay now number eight moving right along uh this is the financial consent calendar you have a motion to [Music] open okay Jay tell us about our finances um so um everybody have a report ahead of time so really any questions on that we get fully cut up next month um the there was a purpose statement that you all received class of 2026 because they from and that is coming up so we had to get that approval on there um I do have a couple items that or non votable items that I would like to discuss we have put out our food service RFP you have to do this once every five years um and
048I am putting together to riew that um so to be you know central office Personnel but I was would like to have somebody in that committee as well it it's similar to it's similar to the process of when we did the RF um rfps rfqs for construction projects so same thing we have scale and these food service companies will provide their proposals and we will go through that scale as a committee so um be great to have board member or two go over that but if any board members want to take part in that process i' happy to have since it's a your committee we don't necessarily have to approve those members we can just take volunteers and and Dr hold and I talked about this also being a good time to have a work
049session on Food Service our currentc food service so we talked about and this might come up in other board writings our naturally occurring work session is been so we were thinking that we need discuss the following Wednesday which I believe is April third second or third to have our current food service provider come in and give a report to the board which should be done annually um about our food Serv yeah and just as far as timeline for that committee take place during April proposals are due um beginning of the DAT but um so sometime during theing together review all the proposals and then selecting our food service here for the next year and you can have a renewal contract for up to five years in total um the board love to be part of
050it too I was really impressed with all of the food vendors at U at the osda conference but I also schedule so if anyone else wants to replace me that's okay to open it is a placeholder okay I I will EMA both of yes and we can talk also other way also getting perhaps broader feedback and the work session might be an opportunity for that too so thank you any um questions about the financial reports if you could give a brief update just uh for the community um once again can talk on the state of the budget for our building project um so it's still good news you know I don't have any updates since we approved the um the GMP where we were on so uh we do we know that we have some
051changes to the project so you know du to the bathroom that is something that's out of our control so we do expect some changes we don't expect to project as far as the cost be a cost increase see that um but right now okay so those are the words on budget I want to emphasize okay um seeing no other items we take vote on the finan yes okay yes yes mag yes yes motion pass to zero number nine consent calendar for personnel dren oh yes I still move jump as we yeah um or in the Personnel consent calendar you have our Personnel schedules um again as you've been on the board now so you can see that they cycal depending upon the time of years you're starting to get um resignations and retirement notices um
052there are three job descriptions a school psychology Sor school psychologist rision um attendant job description and our student support specialist that is a revision of a previously named job description um and then um sary schedule for that companies the assistant superintendent job description um and as I discussed with the board will be retiring in june6 so that did you did you want to start so I I want to express a deep gratitude as with this vote we would accept superintendent Dr Terry Holden's retirement announcement um Dr to Holden has been a leader guiding our schools through significant advancements in education infrastructure and governance and our commitment to academic Excellence Equity Student Success has profoundly shaped our district your steady leadership through covid-19 was exemplary leadership during the pandemic reassured families and ensured students safety while
053maintaining high quality education Beyond crisis management Dr Holden implemented a strategic action plan aligning District initiatives with vter polls and under your leadership ill spring schools enhanced curriculum offerings including modernized stem programs science of reading align instruction well-rounded education uh public the pbl was really unmatched in the region and it's really made this District stand out for those programs U quick reading from the script and just say that it is with deep appreciation we reflect on the service that you have shown to this district and I also have to speak to Dr Holden's tremendous tenacity in seeing this building project throughou um and working to uh see a successful L pass and not only that uh to launch the new build renovation project at both Milson and the middle school high school in ways that
054are going to bring a real state-of-the-art building to the district at budget and at a plan that farp passes what the indidual expectations were and I personally saw that tenacity that work uh tireless work to make that happen to get to this step the years serving this District have have been demanding and uh it has not come unnoticed by any member of this board um how that dedication has come through the place so thank you and I know other board members also want to express their gratitude um sweet Rel I pass on I'm sorry my scpt my script also disa so I will say just how incredibly thankful I am as board member for how you navigated some really really top challing moments in this um you have you have my gratitude and and full
055trust in in how you've done that and I made this District so much better and there are some very public signs about this you know we got aard also I see stories that my so something that is very uh and um and the other point that I want to make is that many of Dr Holden's initiatives in hard work will only be seen after the retirement that's just too bad but forance in building redes building bring all together foring offering progr and just s that you will not be the superintendent that will the yeah thank you thank you for all the impct for generations to we wish you the very best for we we witness [Music] um the firewall you and dedication and passion this I have a small statement to um this has been
056a long time coming and I couldn't be happier for you and the fact that your tunnel not has light at the end I grateful that the best opportunity to set up for sucess I couldn't blame you if inste chose to wait until next year two we Noti and headed on the way your ability to remain focused on what is best for staff and students is a testament to the dedicated leader that you are you know the risks any District faces during this time of transition the fact that you're willing to do what's best for the students and staff proves how much you respect the important nature of this profession I have great confidence that you will do nothing less than everything necessary to guide and prepare your successor this person will have big shoes to
057fill and high expectations to meet not all districts have the opportunity for a seamless transition but fortunately we have an internal candidate who is more than qualified for this important position I have no doubt that this person would continue to lead this District to success especially as we navigate the UN challenges and political climate in the years ahead a year from now would be good or sweet but I'm looking forward to this next school year celebrating your accomplishments and doing everything we can as a board to support you and preparing the next successful leader of this district for now I'll simply say thank you for all of your dedicated years service to the of I like to say um you're uh you work hard you work very hard for the district appreciated your love your
058recognition of the importance of Education I believe that is very evident um and she work for the district and I just wish you all best point get time little it's um truly been an honor and privilege to work here and I've met many incredible people and I'm committed to this district and everything we have so [Applause] for yes yes yes Magnus yes yes motion pass 5 to Z thank you again Dr um now we're moving to board Communications so there no voting items here this is just where we report uh as board on specific committees Etc that uh we are involved in I'll start with Yellow Springs Development Corporation uh their last meeting introduced us to the new assistant um to the um planning director who will also take on responsibilities for and they continue
059to ma out their strategic goals for the coming year and those strategic goals including include particularly supporting local businesses and bringing new job opportunities uh to the Village as well as uh making sure that our current major employers are are supported in ways that serve them the best school district is one of those major employers for Yellow Springs the village of Yellow Springs and they are looking at having a continued conversation with us I it it's still I think Dr Holden has also mentioned and I reflect that the the way that the school district is participating in YDC is unclear I think still but as they develop that strategic plan it will probably become more clear and then we can consider what that relationship looks like in in the future okay and then next report
060is the the Asam report although we've been hearing a lot about legislation is I jumped yes um I don't have a lot to record this point I've been having a little trouble connecting with the village Leon but the two issues I want to talk to superent about again talk about a little bit is next steps this idea of an educational campaign for safe storage guns and the second issue is some way to to try to make sure all students learn to swim and um so next steps need to be taken but I need [Music] to can I bring up just a quick point that um was mentioned during P one of the concerns that um one of the needs I guess here in the district is child care after school Child Care um so one
061of the ideas um to move forward um would be to maybe talk to the Village about arranging for for the young students because the center serves ages andely service yeah they got an basico program children so the question is active Transportation yes all right here we go okay so remember how we said that we would be apping for all say School Grant well we have to push it back uh there are several reasons uh for that that we're just compounding and and to led to the decision that we need to apply next year but one of them is the LTE project potential to change the scope of a volti have on E team so if any of you have some update to share with us about it would be useful there I realized that I
062should the draft those minutes have been approved so um the next update from the active Transportation group is that um we have made I have made the initial connections for a snow angel program between our high school you schard and the senior center to create snow shoving program where high schoolers will gain community service hours for shoveling sidewalks and driveway of residents in need your support more details will come in the phone but I just want to thank um principal here for putting it on calendar and being in touch with my of the center and and thank you the center for w to take up the task of keeping TR of who is on the list to shovel and who will get uh the next topic is the bike bus so I think that you
063remember last year bag are our physical education teacher Miss bero has started the B bu that has been Wily successful and this will start again on APR a representative from Deon children's on that day will come to talk to the kids about the importance of wearing a helmet for good brain safety uh they will also offer assistance for feeding helmets on children at the CH fire rescue we'll also come a of time to talk about first res to the children their family should there be a accident ambulance there so we're trying to make a kind of a bik safety event for children of the day of the first five bu event that will go on everyone St until the end of the year Miss bur has lined up a very robust schedule of f field
064trips this and parents get your bicycle tuned up and contact me to volunteers the sixth graders will bite to the brand new great Council State Museum amazing the third and corpers will continue to participate to the annual B I believe this is to Lis F and also Miss B will run a twice a week bike riding program for kindergarteners and first graders and she will need run UPS to help so if any of you have some avability and wanting to help our younger kids get more comfortable and sa please contact her Miss Winston forward this so yeah that's the thank you I can give a quick update as contacted by the developer that the unit number has been reduce in their application to 60 and there will be 30% three bedroomroom apartment and the applications
065in Village we'll hear back [Music] other and I know that I've talked about special education and School meals but there's so much activity happening at the legislature that I need to point out a few more things so a lot of bals are being introduced um I'm just going to mention some one is about expending the school calendar minimum hour requirements another one is about requiring a preed historical documentary home Engish classroom number one is about the B of di staff in initiatives uh the next one is about Universal schools U another one is about mandating school board members to disclose a party atation or re-election or re elction so all of us one hour are moving committees I don't want to spend more time at that it's impossible to know where we're going but I
066just want to mention in passing and I have numberers you to if you want to follow up on specific one um but I specifically want to focus on hd96 which is the budget Bill the Ohio legislature as an internal deadline of finalizing it by April 9th so the bill has been moving pretty fast two committees Dr Holden board member B and I we have submitted testimonies pointing out that the budget uh the budget lines dedicated to public education are falling short of expectations while the budget line for private education is expended we're looking at a loss of half a million dollars over the next years which would be compounded by the threat of dismantling of the Department of Education so I'm urging everybody in the audience at home and on this board to keep reaching
067out to our legislators and advocating for the proper funding of public thank you any other board member announcements I want house as well and some of those things that discussed yes so right now the the budget is including 488 million for private education May half a billion dollars um the cut that we are seeing in the bill um to our funding over the next two years I I talked with our forecast consultant today we our preliminary information u a lot of schools have always operated on Guarantee even if you're thisy um or something else has happened the state has always provided the same money to public school districts that they did the year before so they all School gone our consultant has been working in educational Finance since 1982 that's over 40 years she has
068over 40 years of an experience and um when I brought up I I said you know how are you going to address our our state lunding and she said yeah she has a b and then you looked at ours half a million dollars um in her 40 plus years in school Finance she has never seen Schools go back in St so this is sort of an UNP thing that schools are seeing where we going to lose save money when not not based on Ro and it's simply because they're F through updates in the and making sure that they're using to I also want to say that u j you also pointed out the tremendous increase in vouchers and how that those voucher Hills are tring tremendous resources from public education as well and we've spoken
069as a district how we are Partners on the voucher Bill the ell Springs news did a great article on that thank you but also just please um if these issues matter and the votes in the legislature matter and your voice matters so can I point out something odd that I'm noticed about this um in early January I heard of a vek school B that I've been able to get specific data for a school district on the ENT voucher branch of the Department of Education the actually got data that was forwarded to them by the odw statistic so I used the same request for us uh to the same email addresses and both email addresses in favor so they shut appications to to request information from the Department of educations andice I think that we realize
070that I we got a lot of request that's very um if it's appropriate wanted to say something in the other board members announcements is now the time for that yes we done mother board M thank you so I wanted to make sure that I separate this discussion from uh the statement gratitud toward um Dr Bon uh but of course as we receiving her later retirement we had to as a board about next Awards and I have some thoughts that I wanted to share with the board and to the public on this um we the board are facing the critical decisions of selecting our next superint and this Ro requires someone very special someone that understands our community and shares our core values uh someone that can navigate important Transitions and build upon the foundation that
071Dr Holden established uh we need someone with extensive experience across all grade levels from preschool through high school with a vision on how to rest structure the grade grouping we're going to have two grade levels up basic Rees a strong master of curricul knowledge we need someone with a deep commitment uh to our full-time public preschool program which is a significant and LIF we need someone with indepth knowledge of our ongoing facilities project because this isn't just any school Improvement this is a significant very special renovation here is restructuring our grade groups shaping both the economic and social development of our children is someone with a strong expertise in Project based learning which is Central to our district educational identity and we are fortunate to already have someone within our district who meets all these
072assential criteria this individual has demonstrated leadership across all great levels possess a specific experience with our PR school with a pres school program and is intimately uh understanding the the intricacies of our facilities project we also have strong support from our staff and families and they are buil to put trust necessary to leave effectively given this strength we have a unique opportunity to confidently move forward without the expense and uncertainty of an external search by selecting a candidate who already knows our community deeply and understands our priorities can smoothly continue our momentum in ensuring stability and continued success for our students families and staff thank you I want to say that deliberation is not part of this section but can that okay is there any any other number items yes I just want to share
073when it's appropriate just a two minute update about our fa I suest we [Music] that so you might have seen you know each building is Clos off so here you cannot get down primary hallway um at all it's the middle school high school mckin there's no access to M and there's no access to the 2002 um um today fencing went up um at the middle school high school so we strugling with a little bit of a parking problem but I think we're trying to figure that out um there's also a big you know the name of the be bigger at the middle school high school um the panels on the B were updated over the past weekend um and and Jeff correct me if I'm wrong that's coming down on Monday so um just know
074that that's happening work here is not quite so visible but just know that they've been working nonstop in the in the primary hallway so we are moving along you'll probably see construction trailers out here next week um and as well as Contin SCH thank you and I think we could add it reports uh so those can watching these meetings and might not make it to the very end can get the report they only part of the meeting okay are there any other board number items do I have a motion to adjourn second yes okay yes Magnus yes yes passes 5 to Z we are returned at 8:32 thank you everyone we'll have a date for that work session to shortly