Cuyahoga Falls City Schools BOE Meeting 7/09/2025

001It C is our opening ceremony. This meeting is a meeting of the Kyoga Falls Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business. It is not a public community meeting, although there are opportunities for public participation. If an individual wishes to address the board regarding a topic found on the meeting agenda, the individual must complete a registration form found inside the attendance notebook and present it to the treasurer. Following the introduction of the topic by the board president, followed by board discussion, the individual will be recognized. If an individual wishes to address the board regarding a topic not found on the meeting agenda, he or she must notify the superintendent and or a board president of the topic no later than three business days in advance of the meeting. These

002individuals may share their comments during the board business portion of the agenda. In both cases, the individual will preface comments by an announcement of his or her name and address limit comments to three minutes. All statements should be directed to the board president. No person may address or question board members individually. An unabraided board agenda for this meeting can be found on your electronic device as shown on the screen. And for your convenience, hard copies of the board agenda may be found on the table by the sign-in book over on the library station. The next special meeting of the Kyogre Falls Board of Education is July 23rd, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Kyoka Falls High School Library. Um, I just wanted to date for everyone in attendance. We will not be um having elementary

003school building discussion that evening. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Kyoga Falls Board of Education is August 6, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Kyoga Falls High School Library. And now for our pledge of allegiance. And welcome Miss Stoy to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome. Our vision. Car Falls City School District. The hub of our community. Committed to a culture of caring. We innovate. We create. We personalize education for all. Our mission. Every student, every day, every opportunity. Thank you, Miss Stoay. Item D is our presentations and discussion. And I would like to call up Miss Marjgerie Johnson who is our transportation supervisor. If I could just maybe set the stage

004um to introduce uh Miss Johnson. So this evening uh we have two things in which we'd like to focus uh part of I'm going to share that responsibility uh with Miss Johnson. I've asked her to uh work on looking at what the boundaries would be for uh the three different schools that we have announced which is Price, Preston and Richardson. And so she's going to show you, give you a demonstration of how that happens. It's a very complex um process. I got to see it firsthand in her office uh earlier this week and I've seen it before. But um I want her to share that information with you and then when she's finished um I'll have a part two and talk to you a little bit more specifically about um the dividing up of each

005one of those buildings relative to if we were to um close or sell Chennai and move over to one of the elementary buildings. So, um, Miss Johnson, I'm going to probably tag team her a little bit and maybe interject on some things that I think might be relative to what we have discussed and maybe she's not privy to just to for some clarification, but if you would and thank you again for all the work you've done on this. Sure. Thank you. Good evening. So, whenever we are routing, um, these considerations always take place, but even more so now when we're talking about possibly closing a school. Um, we always consider how much time will be on the bus. Um, we want to route children to the closest building to their address. So, so you're not

006going to want to route a child that lives over in the Preston area over to the Richardson area. It's not efficient. Um, it takes a lot of time. So, back to the length of time on the bus. Um, I'd like to limit. There is no Ohio law on how long you can be on a bus, but I like to limit it, especially for our little ones. I like to keep it somewhere between a half hour to 45 minutes. Um, extreme cases an hour, but I I don't like to do that. I haven't haven't seen that even here. Um, and the number of drivers that it takes. So, obviously obviously the more locations you're going to, the more drivers you need. And as you know, finding drivers right now is a big challenge. And any of

007you that want to learn, I'd be happy to teach you. Um the uh students with special needs um are always, you know, you have to take that into consideration and we don't always know that ahead of time. We we don't always know that till till close to the last minute. um that that takes uh a special vehicle sometimes special um harnesses sometimes on the buses. So, we have to prepare for all of that. Or maybe it's a van. Um so, we have to take into consideration what we need there. We have to take in consideration the capacity of each school building. So, even though um you may draw a boundary line and it may be the closest to that building, that building may be full. And so then we have to redraw and remove. Um

008we try to keep the boundary lines, you know, on the main roads. So you're not going back through the the neighborhoods because it's it's it it's very easy to send two buses down a main road, one going up one way, one going down the other way. It's not so easy to do that on a small road. um and the number of impacted students of course. So when you're redrawing boundaries, you think that you're just clo talking about closing one school, it affects all the schools because then you are shifting everybody. You're shifting those lines. So, so kids that were in the Preston area now may be going to Price and Dit and the kids that are at Dwit may be transferred then to Richardson um possibly up to Lincoln. So, everybody shifts. Um okay, so

009Dr. Celico asked me if I would give you a little bit of a demonstration on what it actually looks like. So, whenever we're doing um changes of any type, we create what's called these sandboxes. And because you never want to work in live data, um you want to keep what you're doing safe. So, we create these sandboxes. So, the first step is creating a database. Every time you change a boundary for any school, you have to create a new database because once you once you change a map, it's if if you move that line, it'll erase what you just did. So you have to create a database for each school. So, our first step is going to, and you can see there, um, all the different all the different things we've been working on. So,

010we're going to just go to, um, use Preston as an example. [Laughter] Aliens are All right. So, first we're going to be I'm going to be bringing up the map of our whole of our whole district. Maybe Miss, can you make sure you're muted? While we're waiting for that, too, I should have prefaced this by saying thank you all for being here tonight. I know this is a um of a lot of interest to to all of you, very important to all of you, and so we're thankful that you're here, and we hope to be able to provide you with some clarity and some information tonight. If we don't, we certainly are available for questions or concerns and comments. So, thank you for being here. Should have said that out of the gate. I'm sorry.

011I'm gonna have it reload. That's the other time thing. This time of year, all we transportation supervisors and routers are here working late because uh there's so much to do and sometimes it bogs the system down. Okay, there we go. So, here is our city and surrounding cities. So, we pull up a pallet. Our pallet um can do many things and we can edit school boundaries. We can update our city map to reflect new housing developments or changes. Um we can add new addresses here. We handle all of the bus routing logistics in this in this pallet. Uh so first we're going to pull up the boundary planning and those are all of the schools all of the elementary schools that we transport to including our private schools and and our public schools. So, I'm

012going to go in here. Sorry, I don't have much room up here. And I'm going to take out all the private schools. So, those are just our schools. Um, so this is where, so this is what it would look like if we took out Preston and we have redrawn and and as you can see, we tried to really, you know, stay with the main roads. Um, again, these are just guesstimates. Um, we have projected how many kindergarters there will be coming in this year, how many projection to come in next year, taking our fifth graders out. So, it's a little bit, you know, this far out. That's a little bit of a guessing game. Um, so this is where we can draw. Um, if we wanted to, if we wanted to create a new a

013new school, a new boundary, we just start drawing like this, go down, you know, wherever we wanted to, and draw a boundary. So that's that's what Then when I click on the students tab, all those blue dots represent students. So those are all of our elementary students throughout the district. And you can see all the elementary students that are outside of our district that are open enrolls. But within the boundaries, the numbers that you see are just reflective of the boundaries within district, not the open enroll students. So, I can go up to the population region and grab a polygon and start going around students to tell me how many students are right in that area. But all of this is really really time consuming um when you change them and then trying to figure

014out how many kids are in each section. So, we may we may do this and then find out, okay, Silver Lake has too many kids. So, then we have to redraw and we have to keep moving. Um, the other thing that we are able to do, and again, it takes time putting them in, but then but then it it saves time in the long run. We can go into It's called map viewer. And you see we've created all of our schools over here that have every grade level. So if we wanted to see how many first grade to what students we have, click on there and there they all are. And you can see that you have dwit students in that's the uh intra district kids that are in the other areas only here in

015the green are the actual dwit students that live in that's their home school and we can keep adding second grade Lincoln students up there and then we're able to go through and see exactly how many of each grade level is it at each school which again is a determining factor. These are just numbers. These are not, you know, we don't know what any given school needs for special education students. Maybe they need an extra classroom. So, you know, I'm just basing off of population numbers. I don't have any of those outside factors. Okay. So, that's just a a short overview. This system can do a lot and incredible things, but it's it's it is very time consuming and and um we we're adding to it every day and learning more things about it every day.

016And maybe one one point to emphasize in doing that um when we were looking at it and I know you mentioned it earlier but I I want to point out because you know the question can become you can really draw these lines any way you want and certainly the answer is yes but there are so many other factors that we mentioned earlier with the consideration such as those main thoroughways and main um main streets we have railroad tracks to contend with. So you it wouldn't make sense to draw lines just anywhere. And that's why I know Miss Johnson has showed me how she tries to stick to those main uh roads. So students are not crossing those dangerous areas. And um so it just makes sense. So there's we don't really have the ability to

017just draw them any way we want. I don't want people to walk away with that impression. And I also would say I don't want you to squint and like look for your street on here and see where you're at because this is strictly a draft. Uh it's not going to be written in stone. I can assure you there'll be many changes because we don't first we don't know what school it will be but I don't want you to take this walk away from this saying oh no my child's going to go to such and such a school if you find your street. So this is really for demonstration and you'll see in this next part here though that we did get a little bit more specific but again not completely written in stone. So, I

018just would like to clarify that and when we put this on the website, we'll make that sure uh certain to people so they know that they're not uh looking at the final draft because I I know how that could work. So, we'll put draft everywhere so we don't panic people more than they need to be. And to her to her point, um, and I explained this to one of the other board members earlier, when when you make a boundary that crosses like crosses the tracks that crosses the median of the of the district that so if you have a boundary like Dwit goes across that bus then has to go back and forth. All those things add time. So you try to limit that as much as as you can. So if I have a

019boundary that crosses, as I do a lot with the special needs buses, I try to limit it to one or two buses. So I have the bulk stay over here and so I send one or two across. So you you want to limit that as much as you can. It's it it takes a lot more time as as she said with the tracks. Uh we have to stop not only going but coming back. So that all adds time to the route. So these this is what we have now. The these are the boundaries and they have been that way ever since I have been here. I did not create these original boundaries. This has been here for 10 plus years. Um those of you that have been here all your lives, you probably know better

020than I do. But ever since I've been here, this is what the boundaries have looked like. So this is the current boundary map on the left and Preston closed on the right. So that you can get a little bit of an idea on how how we moved the boundary lines. And again, it does not include the open enrolled students. And your numbers on the left have the capacities at the bottom on what they could hold. And these are based on a 2015 study. Again, that does not include special rooms that we need for various reasons for your uh special needs students. Um there's lots of other factors. This is, you know, based on a study from 2015 on what our buildings can hold. Yes. And I would caution the board on these. Like I studied

021the capacities and I looked at our buildings rather closely. They're pretty pretty accurate. I'm I'm a little skeptical of Silver Lake, for example, the capacity that they have there. Um I'm I'm not showing that we could get that many in there. Um but they're they're pretty close. I think that's a tight fit for both uh Preston and Price. I think the others are pretty pretty close. Um and Lincoln gets high up there. But I would just say I would again for the reasons that Miss Johnson stated, you know, we have sensory rooms now. We have special specialized classrooms that probably weren't taken into consideration and the state not take those rooms into consideration. So what they deem as capacity I would not necessarily agree with based on the needs of our students here today. Much

022like a school bus, you know, we are allowed three children per seat. Um I don't typically do that. I try to stick to two per seat. Um just you know for comfort of the kids and and you know we might be able to put three very small kindergarteners in a in a seat but we don't typically try to do that if if we can help it. And then in this because we the other factor as well for you in routing is that we bus at one mile in elementary school which is well below the state um limit. Yes. The state limit is two miles and we we bus anybody that is over one mile from their home school for elementary. Um, so, um, like in this you could see that there'd be a lot of

023additional busing because you've got the tracks going through right there. So, in if if we were to close Preston, this goes through the number of students that will be displaced. And this is what I was talking about earlier about moving boundary lines and what it does to the other schools. Um, so Price Elementary would have approximately, again, these are all guesstimates, approximately 105 students displaced to Lincoln. Now, that doesn't mean that those spots aren't being taken back up. They would be they they would be taken back up by other students from other schools. Uh, displaced to Lincoln Elementary. Silver Lake Elementary would have 35 students displaced to Lincoln. Dwit would have 59 students displaced to Richardson and 46 students displaced to Lincoln. And Richardson Elementary would have 37 students displaced to Lincoln and Lincoln would

024have no displaced students. So that's that school holds more students. So again, you have to keep that into consideration. Um, when a school has a capacity, they may not have that many kids there, but they can hold more. So we could put more there if we needed to. It's it's all a puzzle. And then just to add, so it's 282 that are displaced by closing Preston, which has 226 kids that then get displaced because we're closing it. So then the total would be 508. Just on this on this um and in each one of these, if you do the math, I was I was looking at them and I said, "Something doesn't add up here." If you try to add up the numbers on the left and they add up the numbers on the right,

025I will tell you they don't add up. And the reason for that is because you don't take into account open enrolled students because on the left is our current enrollment which includes all students whereas um the other the ones on the right are just including Kyoga fall students. So that's why there will be a discrepancy in each set of those numbers. So if you think our math is wrong, it's in it's it's intentional. It's not our math. So on this next one, you see if we were to close price the current map and then what what it would look like or one scenario. Like I said, we we you know, these are by no means written in stone. So you can see two of the schools, Dwit and Lincoln would be crossing the tracks. So

026th that those routes would take longer because of that. And again the number of displaced students if we were to close price Silver Lake would have 29 students displaced to link to Dwit and 42 displaced to Lincoln. Lincoln would have 54 displaced to Richardson. Dwit would have 155 displaced to Richardson and Richardson and Preston would have no displaced students. And then so just that's 280 plus the 268 at price. So then that totals out to 548 total. Okay. And if we were closing Richardson um Again, we have one school that would cross over, but this one has a has a pretty big shift and some pretty pretty big numbers in some of the schools. Um, we would we most likely have to do do more figuring here. Prices over capacity. Yeah, prices over capacity. well

027and some of your you know like Lincoln's getting up there again these are not including open enrolled in um any other sensory rooms things like that so you know it's getting when those numbers get high like that then then you have to think about re redrawing refiguring moving moving some students to another school. So, Lincoln Elementary would have 147 displaced to Silver Lake. Silver Lake would have 40 displaced to Preston and 42 displaced to Price. Dwit would have 43 displaced to Lincoln. Um, Price would have 52 displays to Preston and Preston would have 46 displays to Price. And then that's the 370 plus the 270 students at Richardson. So that's 640. again, you know, you're you're driving around students and and the other thing you're you're in the middle of a summer when we haven't

028rolled all the students. There's a there's a lot of things that enter into it. We haven't rolled all the kids yet. Um, so your numbers are going to be off just a little bit and it certainly doesn't account for students that move in or move out, right? So, this is a projection. Okay. And to clarify, this is not including any open enrollment. It does not. Thank you. Any questions or anything that Miss Johnson can answer before she sits down? That's the question. Sure. If um with a with the closing of the school, if a student is say do it is within that one mile, so wouldn't technically qualify for busing but crosses the train tracks, would they be bus because of the walking over the train tracks? Yes. Okay. I I do that I do

029that for any student in our district, no matter how old they are. I don't want kids crossing the tracks and I I I deem that dangerous. So I don't have kids walking across there at all. Thank you very much. Can I ask another question? Sorry. Oh no, go ahead. Um so and I think it's actually for you Dr. Salo. So based on the numbers and I saw how they were they had the capacity to say this is second graders and this is how many third graders. Is that how you is that how you guys kind of figure out how many classmates or is there something else that you guys use? That is excuse me my next concern um because sorry this is like an aggregate right this is the whole number. Sorry, I I don't

030know. I don't know what happened. I I just drank water. I went down the wrong wrong area there. Um so, um yeah, I mean certainly one of my concerns that you know Margie and I discussed is that like let's say the numbers work, right? All the totals work, but then we end up with like an odd number when you add when you end up with those, you know, um sections where it's not enough for two, too big for one, and you can end up, you know, with different amounts of sections. Now, we make those things work, but that will require more play with them, you know, with the lines to make them as best you can. And then it's up to us to just make some decisions, you know, about um where we place students

031or transportation or we might have some more challenges. It so looking at the whole number doesn't solve the problem. You do have to go deeper. We just haven't gone that far yet. But just in her example of grade levels, I am a little concerned when we get to that point concerned about making it so it's nice and neat, but it's, you know, not most likely not going to be nice and neat. So, we just have to figure out those challenges. You may have a huge fourth grade or a huge fifth grade and and you you don't know that yet. So, and then you may not have any any first graders, you know, so it's it's a balancing. I appreciate the incredible amount of data that you're able to get from this program. Um, I didn't

032realize all the things that you could do with that. So, that's neat to know. And I can't imagine trying to do this with just paper and pencil and not having the computer support because there's so much information. There's so much information that you can get from Transfinder that I didn't realize that you could get. And I'm glad we're not doing a paper and pencil. Me too. Me too. It's less guessing and more um accurate data. Anybody else? I don't have any questions, but I appreciate what you did. Yes. Thank you so much. That was a lot. Thank you, Johnson. Okay, part two. Thank you, Miss Johnson. Appreciate it. So, I apologize to those of you in the audience. I am not going to have a visual and the reason is what I'm about to show

033the board members are floor plans and um for security purposes we're highly discouraged by folks and I don't even know the legality of just putting out floor plans for safety of our students and staff. So I appreciate you understanding that I you'll hear our dialogue and um that they'll be referencing some floor plans here. It's not intentional. It's just for safety. So um I believe so what I gave you are two things. One so if you would like draw and play. I gave you um uh copies that are not written on and if you would like to, you know, take a stab at other ideas, I you have that opportunity. And then what I did, so what's in front of me here is this is um related to um the notion if we were going

034to repurpose. So people think it's semantics about closing and repurposing. Um and it can be to some extent, but what we are really looking to do is uh in the suggestion that I offered to the board for their consideration is to keep all six of our buildings open, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be elementary. One would be repurposed to to house preschool and an alternative school for um high school students. So and let me tell you a little I'll tell you a little bit more about that. So that's currently at the Chenet Learning Center. So that program actually exists. Those two programs coexist in Chennai Learning Center right now. I've been there numerous times. It's it's functions very well. Um students are separated. Preschools in one wing. There's a whole separate entrance for

035both groups of students. Uh very um isolated. Frankly, the high school students um there are sometimes in which they interact and read stories to the little ones and it's it's a nice um a nice interaction between the students. But what um we were I was suggesting was that perhaps we look at Chennai is is in it's not in disrepair by any means because we our preschool particularly is nice. We invested in that prior to my arrival in the district and so it it looks and functions well. But um because we are investing in our buildings and and upgrading in some of them um I thought that we could explore uh selling Chennai and I do believe we'll have some some interest there. It does Like I said, some work. The design, if any of you,

036how many of you have seen Chenet the building in Chennai? Okay. So, we have this roof that does one of these if you've seen it. And it's very, sorry to the architect who designed it, but it poses a lot of problems with roofing and leaks, etc. So, um, my suggestion would be that we would sell that property and then take those two those two programs and relocate them in one of the three elementaryaries you see today. The reason we have arrived at these three elementaryaries is because in a number of our students in the preschool um are students with disabilities and some of them are um have uh mobility issues and so schools with multiple floors um are not really conducive to those students and if we are going to consider that then we would

037need to look at a one-story building hence the three that you see here this evening. So that's just one one piece of it. So what then with that in mind, what I did is I took each one of those floor plans and I want the board to see different ways in which we could divide those buildings. So we are providing for what I just described to you, separate entrance for our preschoolers, a division where that division would be so it's safe and blocked off from the other group of students. Um and the and then um but in doing so I had to look at um one and I didn't get this far into it I will be honest but you know like um egress and things that the fire department would look at you know

038making sure that there's enough exits entrances. Um I looked at restrooms because we have adult restrooms and then we have student restrooms. So there's on these maps they'll see those that bit of information. And then each one of the spaces needs about 10 classrooms. Uh I think Chana could do with less. They have six full-time and four part-time classrooms in use right now. Uh but that doesn't count also their office area and things like that. So I think it's safe to say 10 I think it's safe to say 10 for preschool. Around that number we have currently we have four classrooms for our preschool. We would like to expand that eventually and but also with that comes we need rooms for related services such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech psychology services, uh a sensory

039room. So all of those things do require more space for preschool. It's not just the four classrooms. So we're keeping those things in mind and looking at um all of those areas. So what I did was I took a stab at and what you'll see if you just look we'll just take what's first price. Price is on my first list. I don't know if it's on yours. I'm sorry. Mine got shuffled. So we'll look at price. Um in uh what I did. So for those of you who are looking it's um like a letter T but like a little bit of a short T. So there's a little part here and a longer and it goes across. So, what I would suggest and what we run into with the price situation is adult restrooms would

040be an issue. If you look at my two green lines, there's two options that I kind of came up with there that the the one uh to the I guess the north would be one that would afford us a couple more classrooms. So, that would give us 10 classrooms for preschool, six offices, and a gym. And so I listed it off to the side there, how many each each area that they could see how many classrooms would be there. In addition, um they would have access to the gym. There's no cafeteria um at Price. They have dual purpose uh gym and cafeteria. So neither one would have a cafeteria as it is. Chennet would have 12 classrooms in this. Now, you also could bump that line down. So, I could have shown you 10 different

041lines, but I didn't think I I know you're all very astute and can figure out that we can manipulate that line a little bit. If you just move it down, you'll get two more classrooms, etc. So, the challenge for Price, in my opinion, might be the staff bathroom. However, what you're going to see because you'll you won't see it in other um drawings is that right now, I just learned at Chenet that they they badge in. So, if an adult needs to use a restroom, they badge into the other side and use it appropriately. All of our staff is background checked and are all certified folks and and so I don't have a concern with safety relative to the in-n-out. Um so that is uh that then um the the concern there and I think

042one of the things I would have to speak with um Mr. Paula who's the principal at the other at the high school program is that there's no large space for them. So cafeteria they do eat there. So they currently uh use the gym as a cafeteria. So that might be a challenge. That would be a challenge in all three of them. Well, two of the three, I believe. Probably all three, actually, if I if I look at it. And you'll see that when I get to Richardson because there's Richardson was tricky. Dr. Celica, do they serve a meal? They do. They do. They have um Bill brings them lunches like brown bag. I don't think they do hot lunches there, right? It's just all brown bag. Okay. Can you clarify what the yellow highlighting? Yes.

043yellow are the restrooms the the dual restrooms for children. The blue are restrooms for adults. Okay. So, the prek entrance at um Price would be your main entrance that's there. Now, the Chennai students would enter from the the back end of that hallway and come in. So, again, separate entrances. Your door where you see my green line is where we would install a door um as the division. Any questions on that one before I move on? Okay, next I have Preston. So Preston is also like a T. These buildings are quite similar if some of you are familiar with with one or both. Um so and I I should say this because I I I did this in all three models. It doesn't you could flip the models in which so in other words you

044could flip in some of and Crescent's a perfect example of switching preK with Chen. I'm a little selfish in that I like the notion of our preschool to have our parents come in the main entrance with an office and um the setup that it is as a school. Uh Mr. Paula is a little bit more flexible in what his programming is different. I know he's been great to work with and flexible and I don't think that he'd be so bothered as bothered as I would be about the having the office and where parents can come in etc and set up like a school. So in all three of these models I preserve the office for the preschool. So they come in the main pre office. When you go to the left, you have um you

045have well the library is across from then you head that and then you come to this hallway here. There's just a storage on the end. But what I would suggest is um dividing that sort of in half. And so you wouldn't have access going oh my goodness this way which is what direction? South I don't know. Don't add north. North. Okay. They all know. I have no sense of direction. So does my team. So none of them are surprised. But I don't know north south. I just say left and right. Don't ever go any north. North to start with. Thank you. Every once in a while right. So yes, heading that way. So heading to the left. If you're coming down Preston and you're going this way and you go to the left, you can

046see there. I'm trying to illustrate for the people in the audience. Uh but this one this one affords uh there is no bathroom in the in actually anyway you would slice this one. There would be no adult bathroom because in that and Miss Principal Brown, you're here today, but I and according to my drawing, there's no adult restroom in that one whole wing your where your lounge is. It's not designated just adults. All the restrooms are pressed or adultsized. Yeah. But you don't have a private restroom for adults, right? Yeah. In that hallway, right? So that would require people to come over. But again, same as price, similar challenge. And then you could see, so in this model in Preston, our students, preschool students would have access to the gym. And they do need a

047large motor space. So, our preschoolers uh need special playground equipment. They also need a place for gross motor and that's why we really need to preserve a gymnasium for them. Uh Dr. Silico. Yes. On this the one that you just gave us, you have the the restrooms out here marked blue. Those are in the classroom. Yes, they are. So, those would be designated as an adult bathroom. No, they wouldn't. They're just I'm just showing you where bathrooms are. Okay. Because they're blue. That's why I asked. Yeah, they're Oh, yeah. Um, Mr. Woodard did this. He was just showing me where the odd ones were. So, thank you. Yeah, I just asked him to show me where all the various ones are. You're right. There are two in the two kindergarten rooms, which are great for

048preschool, and I took that into consideration, but I still went the other way. But what I just described to you, you could flip this model. You just wouldn't have the um the pre um the office then, and that would be offered to the Chennet. I would probably make that whole hallway for pretty much for preschool, but then you would not have access to the gym and that was my concern. And then Chennet entrance would be off the parking lot there at the end of the hallway. Um, just any notes? Let me see. Um, no large space for Chen as I mentioned the adult restroom and you can flip it. So, and then the preschool would have 11 classrooms, the library, the gym and four to five offices whereas They would have 12 classrooms. So, both

049ample space. Okay. How am I doing on my description? Are you all following along? I'm me. I'd be lost. I'm like, I don't know what they're talking about. Right, left, all that. So, can I ask one more question? Yes. The schne entrance will be here. This doesn't have the markings on these ones. You have don't have them marked off. The ones that you just gave us don't have the green lines on them. Um, the president. Yeah, it does. Well, I don't know. There's just one line. Yeah, it's like Oh, mine doesn't have a line on it. Are you looking at the I gave you a blank one and then one, right? That's a blank one. Thank you so much. So, I thought you you could all take a stab and scribble on. Look at those

050ones. All right. Thank you. There's three and three. Okay. Um Richardson, are we prepared for this? I would say this is the most complicated. Uh, I could have drawn many lines as I kind of did actually. I did put four in there. I probably could have drawn more because it's eye shaped. It is eye-shaped. It is. That is right. So, it's a bigger building and um allows us more space than we would we would need. Not a ton more. So, it's not that's not an obstacle really, but uh the So, you know, I came up with various drawings. So, the challenge at at Richardson is that you have a gymnasium with two doors that that have entrances, right? And then you have a cafeteria with the same thing, two doors. You have a library with

051two doors. So when you're why that's relevant is when you go to split it, you might have a door on one side of your split if you following that where that door would block off and then someone could go in here and walk around, you know, kind of a thing. And you could lock it, of course, I suppose, but I don't know how the fire marshals would uh like that idea too much. So, so what I tried to do was take that into consideration and block it off either before a main the gym or the library or um the cafeteria to to have discrete closures. Uh but this one does pose a problem really. It's um coming in the preschool entrance. Uh I have you coming in off of the main. So again, the main

052where it allows us to keep maintain um the offices. Then uh we would block it off before you get to the gym, which again I don't recommend because we need the gross motor. So then that brings you back down to the end of the gym where you could split it. You can even go one classroom in, you can go another classroom in depending on how many classrooms you would like to give. But the one that I recommend would um split off your library. We would have the library and that would allow Chenet 12 classrooms and two offices. Richard, I'm sorry, preschool would have a library, cafeteria, gym, 12 and six offices. So, more than enough, but again, the challenges being those splits and then um no large space for Chenet, but again, this challenges really

053exist on all three of the buildings. So, this one's just a little tricky. Restrooms are the best at Richardson in terms of adults and students. They're they're accommodated in both settings. Can I ask another question? Yes, of course. Um how many do you need parking spaces for? Do they have student drivers there? Not many. Okay. Yeah, there's not a lot. Parking's fine in all of the areas. That's not an issue or concern. And um access for preschool buses in and out were fine on all all schools. I mean, Richardson is tricky. The acne thing that's going on there. It's very interesting. Those of you who are Richardson parents, when I first arrived in the district, I'm like, this is the procedure is very strange to me. I mean, but it works. But I when I

054go there, I go to Acme and grab my grapes and then I go to visit Richardson. Acme is very accommodating because they get lots of shoppers. I know. I know. I' I've said that. I've talked to them there. And actually, who am I kidding? It's not grapes. It's usually chocolate or donut. I'm being truthful. So, you all know that's true. That's why you're giggling. My team over here, Mr. So, anything else that um I can answer thoughts? Not on that. Dr. C, real quick, uh, do you what was the reasoning for the prek entrance on Preston? Um, for the offices. Yes, the prek entrance there. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You just It was for the offices, the office space. Yeah. if you go to the right and um also the gym. And for the gym. Okay.

055So, in all three of these, you have the preschool going into the main what what would be right now the main entrance of the Yes. And having access to the gym. are I'm I'm trying to think and I know Richardson and Price are there there's not crossovers with the schne entrances on any of these with playgrounds or anything like that for the students. Um I know Richard since there there isn't and I believe Preston there's not either I don't think so. I mean, I I've always they they coexist now nicely and it and it works and I don't think it would be any different in how we have it now. They're we also are going to be putting in with some luck a preschool playground. So, we can hope we might be able to and

056I don't know every single ounce of every aspect of the three sites, but we have some control over where we place that playground as well. Thank you. Can I ask one more question too? Um are in thinking about like the cafeteria that you would need for the Chenet students are in any of these rooms um can be schools like a like a teacher lounge or something like that that could accommodate and how many students are at Chne? So right now there's only 50. There was there's been as many as that I'm aware of as like 90. So that would probably wouldn't work anyway. No, but they don't theyss These those students sometimes are in and out. They're not all there all day every day. And uh they're smaller class sizes. So I mean we they

057could eat in classrooms. We could set up in my previous life, we set up a classroom for our um online students and we made it a little lounge area for the students to eat in. And it was a classroom, but we made it nice. Made it like a cafeteria setting. It's not ideal, but it it definitely could be done. Um, that brings us to board discussion. I know that we've gotten a lot more information to go over um along with the presentation by Dr. Sal at our last meeting as well. So, wanted to open it up for board discussion on thoughts and where you're at. I know we were to the three buildings um at our last meeting um with the transportation data and I know the blueprints and everything. Um I just wanted to

058open up for thoughts and discussions on where everyone is at right now in their process. Um well looking at Sorry, I'll go first. um looking at just the transportation data alone and the number of displaced students I think Mr. Gomez you were pointing it out while um the presentation on so if if Preston closes um it will be there will be 282 students displaced amongst four other schools plus then the Preston population so that's 508 price um you'll have a Obviously the the price current population would be displaced to other schools and then 280 additional students over four schools. So that's a total of 548. And then Richardson which now has 270 students they would be displaced and then over five schools 370 students would be displaced. So that would be a total of 640.

059So speaking of just displaced students, pre Preston is 58, Price is 548, and Richardson is 640. Um I was a little bit confused about the next closest school data. Um and then the the I guess it was an average next closest school and then what the walk the furthest distance would be. Um but it looks like the average um if you close Preston the average next closest school is 67 miles. Price is one just over a mile and Richardson is 74 miles. So that probably makes a difference with transportation routes because you wouldn't be if you have a school that's closer to the next closer schools and you wouldn't have as much transportation time. Um, I was confused about and I'm and I'm glad that Miss Johnson talked about how they look at the the

060numbers and the different classes because originally when we were looking at how many rooms were available like currently. I know that would change because we would be pulling students, you know, redrawing boundaries, but like it looked like Price didn't have any available rooms, but like Preston and Richardson would have available rooms. Um, how do you look at how would you kind of figure that? I know these are just like raw numbers, like this is how many students would be at that voting, but I wasn't sure. And so, for the benefit of people in the room that may not have heard the last presentation, and Miss Johnson alluded to it, Lincoln has a lot of uh and I don't I'm going to go back in my memory about eight classrooms that are available. So they have

061a lot of space whereas Price for instance doesn't have any space. They're at capacity. Um Dit had like maybe one or two at the most. Silver Lake had two. Um Preston has a few I think four four available. So that makes a difference as well. And that's why when you're looking at your capacities like that's why some people are untouched like doesn't have to move anyone because they have so much room. We don't have to take students out of there. So that also does that address kind of what you're you're getting at? Um yeah. So those those buildings can absorb more which is why they'll have they may in some of those instances have less movement. And I saw in some of the Richardson too I'm so sorry because I know we have Richardson people

062here this evening. They also have four rooms. I don't know. Four rooms. had zero and then it said Preston had three to four rooms available. So when we when we're looking at where students are going to go do the the transportation presentation didn't specifically look at that. But with the rooms that are available and the number that we know needs to go to each building to reroute, have we looked at if there's actually a classroom available for the students? I know the number wise would fit in their maximum capacity. No, we're still at that high level. Okay. But my assumption would be based on the numbers that she had. Again, it's going to depend when you get down to the grade levels because again, if I need five fifth grades, but only one first grade,

063you know, it's weird. I I think overall it should be pretty close to those overall numbers. Just do a divisor of 22 24 25 in the classroom and that'll give you how many classrooms you need. I'm also concerned like on the closing of Richardson um where where we have students going right now um price has a capacity of 293 and it's put in 44 students um with the boundaries that are available and obviously that doesn't work. So I know to us the naked eye would be oh well then you withdraw you know you redraw price and you put some of them at Silver Lake and then you make Preston larger and you put a few of them over there. Um but as Miss Johnson explained it's not that simple. It's not that easy and we

064are well over capacity of what would need to go. Yeah. She had said to me that Richardson would be the the biggest challenge because of where it's situated in the city. You know it's kind of up there and that a lot of would need to be bust elsewhere and it has a a push back but I think is the capacity like a fire code capacity or what just the build like it's a problem most likely associated with well I think when you think that price doesn't have classrooms available if you're going to pack it that full I just don't think it's going to work feasibly because if you need even one more classroom and you know you don't have it it's not going to work well there's zero available classrooms at price currently Yeah, that's

065Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Harris, do you have any um No, I I mean I'm just curious. I know Miss Johnson mentioned um you know the uh increase in cost of transporting over the tracks. I'm curious and I know we probably have this with all the data we've been presented with, but uh what that would look like. What like what is that increase? Is it it going to be a significant? So I think she said increase in time. Oh increase in time. Oh, I thought she was talking about money. Okay. Increase in time. Okay. Because of the opening and the closing of the doors, you got to stop at the stop. Right. Right. Okay. Okay. And then uh just and to your point, remember Miss Doyco assumes in her financial piece of that that we won't that

066we will incur additional costs and transportation. So she assumes that and the financial piece already. Okay. Okay. With whatever we do. Right. Right. And then uh you know just these these uh uh blueprints here were super helpful because you know I'm not as I'm familiar with the buildings but not as familiar with the building. So seeing these restrooms and stuff and being able to visualize this and lay this out at least in my head here uh will give me a better idea um of how we're going to uh or how we could at least chop this up. So I at least do really appreciate that. Um and I do want to you know have a look a little bit closer look at all of this. So, but no. Yeah, I'm sorry. I was a little

067confused on that transportation piece with the track. So, I was just want some clarification. Yeah, like as Mr. Go says, there will be an increase in cost and if you recall last time, those that weren't here, it will result in potentially more drivers, more buses themselves, the fleet, and then um you know, that'll you know, the cost. So we just have to be mindful also of the number of routes that we would be adding which is I why I think Miss Johnson was you know she had that on there as a consideration because you know the more students you have to transport obviously more buses and more absolutely so um from my perspective I think a few things one I think it's going to be disruptive wherever we go one of the things people have

068saying is that certain schools are closer than other schools. So, I put that to the test this weekend and I drove around and I measured distances and um it's actually surprising. So, for example, just using um ones that are on the up for consideration, Richardson to Dit is 1.6 miles, but Preston to Price is 1.5 miles. So in terms of distance um between those schools um that are in consideration right now, it's actually pretty much equal distances um between next closest school. So um it's one of the things I did this weekend cuz people were saying um that the schools on the east side were closer and as somebody that grew up on the east side, I was like I don't know, Price always felt so far from where I lived one block from Preston.

069So I wanted to put that to the test. So, it was interesting that they're actually very um similarly distanced. Um so, it's definitely going to be a hardship no matter what um no matter which side of of town it is. Um and then I think one of the other things that is important to note is as you look at the map of the current boundaries is that Price is our only building that's close to its capacity. So, Um, one, if you close price, it's a lot of students to move and they won't all fit super neatly on the east side because you'll hit capacity pretty easily as we saw. And then if you close Preston, you can't absorb those students just into price or the wit and they won't fit. So I think Miss Johnson

070showed um pretty thoroughly the unfortunate realities of how that reverberates. Um, so that brings me to what I think is an important deciding factor, which is trying to minimize the impact on families. So, um, when you look at right now, and I know these are drafts, but if Richardson's going to impact 640 families, 370 outside the Richardson neighborhood, plus the 270 inside the neighborhood, whereas Precedent Price would impact 508 and 548. I think for me I would roll out Richardson because it's going to have a much greater impact on our community as a whole and then I would want to go forward talking about Preston and Price where they're much closer in number in terms of how many families they're going to impact. Not that I'm excited to impact 508 or 548 possible families by

071any means, but those are much smaller numbers and I think at this I'd rather go with options that impact less families than more families if that's a possibility. So that's kind of where I'm at tonight when we're looking at one option that's going to impact over a hundred more families. I would want to rule that option out, Mr. Gomez. And also with that the wouldn't all the students wouldn't be displaced to one or two schools. That's across all the schools. all the schools. So you'd be moving across less people would be going to the same school be across five schools which I think is an important thing to note too. And not to criticize Miss Johnson who is phenomenal. We're very lucky to have. But I think then by focusing on two buildings we can

072try to look at opportunities to try to even lessen the impact more. Are there, you know, corners that we can soften, um, areas that we can maybe see where we can, um, move from a draft as we get to more finalized options for perhaps those two possibilities where we get even smaller numbers of impacted families. I think that's easier to do with less options. So, as I look at what's been presented thus far and especially with what's been presented tonight, that's where I would be at with options that impact as few people as possible. And that's where I am, too. Um, it's I think would be Price or Preston. So, I'm there, too. Thank you, Miss White. And I just know Miss White went to Price and I went to Preston. So it's not the

073lack of love of those buildings. I I would agree, Mr. Gomez, um that obviously we are very sensitive to the fact that this is affecting a lot of students in our district and families in our district. And um just with data alone looking at how many students and families are affected, you know, Richardson affects the most. Um along with the fact that the numbers right now, the way that the boundaries are drawn with closing Richardson do not work for capacity either. And also looking at relocating a preschool and schne um the way that that is cut off as Dr. mentioned is not not the most conducive at Richardson either. So for all those reasons um along with um looking towards the future and it not going to be maybe the five of us sitting up

074here making the decision of new elementaryaries in the future. We also know that um Richardson is a site that's large enough to put in an elementary school. So um and we are keeping all six of those. So I guess that that was something four that was um discussed that isn't necessarily affecting this decision right now. But um I would agree that Preston and Price and if we can get down to two this evening so that we can start as Mr. Gomez said you know looking at those boundary lines um for Miss Johnson better and even classrooms um with Dr. Cico what we need for the grades closer um would be a good decision. thoughts on that? No, I mean I I mean I would agree with what Mr. Gomez said. It makes it that makes

075the most sense. We obviously want to impact the least amount of folks as possible. So um I I would be in agreement with that. Are you in agreement? Oh, I'm in I also in agreement. Um it's, you know, it's just looking at at the numbers from displacement and then also um where the school is located in the city. While Preston and Price aren't as close together as what people think that they are, I think where it's but where Richardson is low located in the city makes a difference for me, too. is when you look at the corner staples of the city. Yes. With our community. I would agree with that. And you have a divided heart because you were a Richardson kid, but your kids went to Prostead. I was a Richardson ruffian back in

076the 80s 1900s. It is. I would say between the five of us as board members, um, you know, as I've spoken and been in contact with a lot of families over the past couple months, you know, we have former students on the board that were Black Tigers. Um, I think all five of us have either went to school here or had students that are have gone or are still in school in this district. Um, taught or up and coming little black tigers. Um, so we are all very invested in this community and have been and none of this is easy for us and we know it's not easy for the community. So we appreciate everyone's involvement. We appreciate the emails. We do we appreciate everyone that reaches out. Um, it means a lot to know

077that so many people are invested in the education of our students. And then um next steps, I know one of the commitments we made is once we narrowed it down that we would have meetings in those buildings for the community because we want once we have um kind of where where we're headed. We wanted to then go out to those neighborhoods to make it as easy as possible for the people in those neighborhoods to be able to talk to us. um not for them to have to come to us, but for us to come to them. So, I think if we're narrowing it down to two, then we can try to work to um see some times when we could schedule a meeting at Preston and then at Price as well. I would agree um

078if we could get that for some time. I know school is coming right around the corner with school being back in session. Summer goes by very fast. Um and engaging those um families one school is back in session might be the best option. Um, but we can definitely look at dates. I don't know if we want to do that tonight or put that on as an agenda item for our first meeting in August to decide that or if even if for you, Dr. Celica, we need to be sensitive to the fact that school's opening and that you all have a lot going on too. So, um, we'll make sure that it's a schedule that works for everyone so everyone can be there to engage in the community. I think we could just work to try

079to schedule some two meetings for sometime in late August. Is that I think so. I mean, we're on the sixth already scheduled 6th and 20th. Are those our meeting dates? So, when school's back at kids come back on the 18th and the 18th, 19th, 20th for kindergarten. I also would like to whether it's the invitation of combined with, you know, go we want to go to them at Preston and Price and talk to them, but at some point um engaging the community because we know they're not the only students that are going to be affected by this. it's going to be families um that are displaced or or moved from their home school um to a new school as well. So, I just want to make sure that we're also inviting and engaging those parents

080as well in whatever however we're doing that. I just want to make sure we they have that opportunity. Yeah. And hopefully that gives over a month. So hopefully we'll have something more um honed in by that. Thank you. Is there anything else? Thank you everyone that's here. You know, you can continue to stay for the rest of the board meeting. You don't have to. We won't think it's rude that you get up and leave. It's It's not boring to us, but we know it might be boring to you, but you're more than welcome to stay for the Thank you. brings us all there were anyone that wanted to speak. No, no, okay. Christine behind you. Allan's here. started talking to Ryan. I was like, just can't we could we take a minute? Do you need

081a minute? Yeah. Can we have a shake off and have a break recess? like to take a short recess at 6:43 p.m. We'll convene at 7 or 650. 7 minutes. Thank you. and I hated every minute of it. 6:50 p.m. we are back in session. Thank you. Our next item is item E, treasurer CFO's consent agenda. Miss, thank you. Like to recommend the board of education approve all items listed in the treasur consent agenda. So moved. Second. Um there are a few things. Um the first one is so it's a stressful month for me. Um and so especially um the day of the meeting last whatever it was at the end of June to close because lots of things were happening and so I think the paper that I printed for you guys had the

082wrong amounts for the advances. What was attached was correct but I think what I handed so just to cover my basis just to make sure because I don't I don't really know what was what then. So, we're just going to go ahead and um it was just there was one line missing from an advance to one of the grants. So, nothing like huge or anything, but just for audit purposes to cover my bases, I'm just going to have you guys approve that like cemented that yes, you you knew what you were approving. Um and then following that is the return of those advances back to the general fund. Um and then we have our permanent appropriations for um this next fiscal year, fiscal 26 now. Um and our change funds for athletics and food service

083to start the year off. Thank you. Any questions or comments? And then we'll we're going to get a more detailed presentation on permanent appropriations next meeting. Correct. Yes. Thank you. Please call the role. Mr. Gomez. Hi. Mr. Harris. Hi. Mr. Schaefer. I miss I don't have treasur CFOs business. Like to recommend the board of education approve the June 2025 investment schedule and monthly spending report. So move second. Um we'll look at the interest and we can look at that. Um this was the obviously the close out of the fiscal year. Um we did a little bit better than we did in May, which I believe looking back was our our lowest month all year. Um but you know, as I've mentioned many times before, our cash flow is um is down just due to construction.

084um you know getting towards the tail end here. Um so we finished the year with uh almost 3.3 million. Now the majority of that is in the construction funds. Um so it's like two 2.3 Yeah. 2.3 um 2.4. So um in the construction funds that's some of that split between local state and then obviously our LFI um there. So, um, not bad, but we are not going to see what we've seen, you know, the last few years just because of our a our financial situation in the general fund and not having um as much money to invest in our general account at retreat. And then obviously the construction fund balances are um certainly um going way down. As a matter of fact, one of the LFI accounts, you may have noticed, I think it had

085like four dollars in it at the end of June. Um, So it and then they closed that out like in the beginning of July and sent me like whatever interest and stuff was remaining. So um that account will no longer be um on here. Um and so and then the capitalized interest as you know that we close that one out as well. Um so there'll be a few less accounts going forward. Um we can look at um athletics. I'll just kind of give you guys the real quick since it's the year end. Um um so athletics ended up about I mean it was a little under what they were last year but it's kind of now that we're in the swing of the accounts are figured out. The fundraising has been moved kind of to

086the boosters and out of these accounts um we'll get a better picture of actual um athletics. Um, so they're going to run right around there. As you can see, they've been doing that for the past few months. They're going to run right around 5,000 most likely. Um, except for the beginning of the year because your big revenue is is football gate sales and stuff, but then obviously in the spring we do not have many, if at all um, ticketed sports that we're receiving revenue for. Those are heavier in the fall and the winter. Um, so this is typically what you'll see. Um but again we don't have all those other activity expenditure wise coming out of this anymore either is what we did um food service just because that is a discussion item later I

087know um so I will preface this with um the fact that so they ended with about 230,000 um but due to many of these uh federal government delays um some of our reimbursement for the end of the school year. Actually, I still don't have it um in July. They're supposed to be processing them this month. Um what normally would have come. Um so um I don't know exactly how much this that is. I'd have to look. But you can still see that even if it was like for the typical if it was for the month of May and um whatever, we normally get maybe 150ish um there. Um still under, you know, about 300,000 or so from what they were um the year before, maybe 300. Um so it certainly is um a dwindling balance

088um there. Um and I'm sure we'll discuss some of that more later, but I just wanted to point that out and to make a note that there is a an outstanding payment due to us um for that. So we should see that hopefully soon. and then the general fund. Um I think if I remember I think we said pull it up because in the May forecast we had forecasted ending balance of about 6.3 um so we ended at about 5.4 And some of the reasons for that are just the timing of payments. So if you remember like our big technology orders, we ordered we pushed that up to this year in May. I didn't anticipate us like receiving everything, getting the invoice, and cutting the check before June 30th. I figured it'd be post July.

089Well, we were able to do that. So some of those things, it's really going to be just kind of that that move around. There'll be less expenditures than next year. Um we should end up in the same. So, um there were some big um we we made a final another payment for the Preston Price project right before um that. So, some of those payments just crossed when I anticipated we'd actually physically cut the check on those. Um but they were all within those two years there was a projection for all those costs anyway. So, um that's where we ended um the which is right about where we where we thought we would be um going into that. And then if you remember, we were only looking at ending um this upcoming fiscal year for the

090May forecast at about um a million u would be our ending balance. Um the budget is a lot tighter this year. Um you probably see um even in the appropriations the significant difference between last year's amounts um and this Some of that has to do with the fact of the bigger projects and us having those on the books and and you know no longer having those large amounts outstanding. Um but it's it's it's much tighter. There's a lot of wiggle room um as far as um all the checks and balances that we have between our appropriation and our estimated resources. So it's going to be a little um trickier this year um at times if emergencies arise. Um, we'll have a better picture once, you know, um, hiring has settled and everybody has chosen, you

091know, what insurance and we have a final end picture of like what that cost savings will be. Um, so I I'm keeping up to date with that, but um, there's we haven't really gone through that process on the insurance side yet. So, and obviously for us that's been cost depending on what they choose or what they don't choose. So, um, you know, the next for the November, but that's where we're at right now. Um, and then I think normally I have like that annual statement that is required every year. I get it from Redeeree. Um, and it's just kind of an audit thing and we have to um submit it to the Ohio auditor uh auditor's office. I don't have that yet, so it'll probably be on the next on the August 6th in the

092reports. Um, Ryan is on vacation. Mr. Nelson is on vacation from Red. So, um I'm sure he had other things to do than send me that that little that little paper. So, we could probably if we get in time, we could put on the special meeting. I don't I'm not sure when he's going to be back for sure. I'll just It's It's not a It doesn't have to be at a certain as long as we do it that once a year, then we'll be okay in August. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Mr. Please call Mr. Harris. Hi, Mr. Schaefer. Hi, Mr. Coco. Hi, Mr. Hi. Um, I don't have many this evening. Just um one real quick thing. Um, and I'm sure Mr. We'll get into this later um in the legislative, but

093um the um they are going to reconvene on July 21st to try to override a few of uh Governor DeWine's vetos. Um so it is really really important to reach out to your representatives, your legislators, and let them know um you know that the these are things that would really impact um uh public schools. There are three um items that would really impact one being our ability to uh have an emergency levy, replacement levy. Uh, one giving the county um budget or the county auditors, county budget commission that uh the ability to withhold or restrict or modify basically um what voters have approved in each in um each local school district, taking away uh local control from not only the school and the boards but from the community members that um made decisions on behalf

094of their schools. Um Did you do the carryover or the uh the cap cash reserves? No, that's not I can tell you. You did. You said levies, right? Yes. County budget commissions to reduce levies. 20 mil floor 20 mil floor. So um the inclusion of um which does not affect us but it does affect a lot of districts and could potentially affect us in the future. Um you know including emergency levies and things which are currently not included with calculating the 20 mil floor um in doing that. So, they need a three fifths vote in order to override his veto. Um, I really don't remember the last time that they've done, you know, that they reconvened, obviously not recently, but I'm trying to think of the last budget cycle when they may have reconvened right

095after to try to override. Um, I don't have any rec. Was it was the transgender did he I thought he voted something. Yeah, the bill it it's just the the outreach is is very important. Um he has said he wants to put together a property tax reform group study um which I think everybody um agrees, everyone on all sides agrees that something needs to be done. It's just a question of what what what that is and how it affects um you know the differing not only residents and taxpayers but the entities that receive those those taxes and what other avenues are. So there are some great ideas by some legislators. So they have them brings us to item G superintendent CEO's business Dr. Thank you, Miss Coco. Is recommended that the board of education approve

096all items listed in the superintendent's consent agenda. So move. Second. Okay. This evening we have a few personnel items for your consideration relative to certified staff coaches. We have a couple resignation and um we have some transfers and again most of it are um typical. I I'll come back to some introductions here in a moment. We have uh some stipens for professional development. Those are regarding mostly our science program. However, there's some algebra and there's some KR training, quantitative reasoning training for a math teacher at the high school. And then we have some adjustments to the administrator's handbook. Some things the things change are noted there. The we have two service agreements, a proposal and an agreement um out of our special So if you could explain those two students there The next one is

097education service center of Northeast Ohio and this is for the contract for the teacher as well as the orientation mobility. Can I ask a question for the contract with um LEAP? Is that for all of the locations like a general just green? Okay, I missed that. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you. And then uh lastly, I wanted to uh introduce you to some potential new hires should you agree to hire them this evening. Um first we have Elise Nelson. Is it Elise? Hi. Okay. Um Elise would be uh joining us as our our newest member of the PRI staff in her role as an intervention specialist. This will be Miss Nelson's first year in education as she completed her student teaching last spring in the Stow schools. her bachelor of science and education from

098Kent State University with a major in special education with a concentration in mild to intensive. Amanda Herring, Amanda um would be serving as a district-wide speech and language pathologist. We've hired, if you pay, I know you have all paid attention, we've hired a few this year. She earned her bachelor of science in speech pathology and aiology with a minor in early intervention from Kent State University and a master of science in speech language pathology from Balden Walls University. And then the next that are for your consideration this evening are not able to come. But David Miller uh we're happy that we found a modern communications through media production teacher. Uh I'll tell you in my a little bit more when I get to my remarks, but I did visit the new school today and I

099saw that space. It's amazing. So he comes to us with experience from Ashta County Techn technical and career center where he served as an interactive media teacher. So he has a number of years experience, a bachelor of arts in mass media production from the University of Akran, a teaching certificate from um Bowling Green. And then lastly, we have Katrina Johansson, which may be a familiar name to some of you, but she was uh she served as the long-term substitute in fourth grade at Dwit this past year and she was uh in for Miss Satiki and she will bring that fourth grade teaching experience to Silver Lake. This year she earned a bachelor of science and education with a major in early childhood and a minor in mild education from Kent State University. Any questions or

100comments? Sorry, M. Schaefer. Hi, Miss Cocoa. Hi, Mr. Gomez. Hi, Mr. Harris. Hi, Thank you. Um so at least if you come forward you'll be next. You're on deck. Okay. Hi, I'm Elise Nelson. I just graduated from Ken State this past year. I'm so excited to be a part of the Kyoga Falls City School District. I grew up in Independence my whole life. So, I've been very familiar with this area. I know it's a great city to be in. And as soon as I received the opportunity to sign on, I got so excited. I love the team. Um, from the second I did my first interview with them, I was so excited and I was like, I hope they take me. I hope Amanda takes me. So, I was so excited to be a part

101of it and I'm just so happy to be here. I'm ready for the school year. Thank you. [Applause] All right. Well, my name is Amanda Herring. It's nice to meet all of you tonight. Um, I noticed a lot with this school district that everyone is a black tiger and stays a black tiger, which I love. Um, I unfortunately am a bulldog. I went to Stow, so don't hold that against me. You're okay. Good. I feel better. Um, that aside, I am so excited to be part of the Black Tiger family. Um, when I spoke with Miss Seaman, I could tell that you guys have hired a lot of new speech pass, um, just within this coming school district or the school year. And I think that that's awesome. I'm so excited to be part of

102that team. Um, I am fresh out of school, just got my masters literally two months ago. So, I am very excited to take on this challenge. I've been in um preschool all the way up to high school. So I feel very confident working all the way through um you know littles to the to the ones all the way up there. Um so that I'm very excited. So thank you for this opportunity. [Applause] Thank you so much and welcome because now you're a black tiger and will always be a black tiger. You can stay a bulldog too or whatever. the dual citizenship. Yeah, dual dual. We'll let you apply for dual citizenship. Okay, that brings us to um superintendent CEO's business. Thank you, Miss Coco. Just a couple things. Um one, I did uh forget to

103mention in my remarks. Um we hired a new receptionist. Uh she accepted and we're excited for her to start. Uh that's Fran Bishop. She has a lot of experience um in schools um and courts, but most recently Talmage schools. So, she was able to um we had great a great candidate pool and it was a difficult decision, but she certainly um brings a lot of experience and was a delight. Um so, we're happy to to welcome her on on board. So, she and a black tiger I think she has a vacation. What's that? And a former black tiger. And her parents had of a business for 46 years here. the florist. Her last name, but it's her beta name. Do you know what is it? Her maid name. Um, it was the name of the

104florist. Yeah. No, no. Um, no. Now, I don't remember. I'm not sure. But regardless, she has a lot of ties to the community and um so she'll be starting. She has a vacation plan. So, after that, we'll get her started. Um, I also uh just No belly. What is it? No. That's what it is. Belly Forest. Okay. Um, summer school concluded. Thank you to Principal Brown. I got a chance to see them. I think it was your last day maybe. Um so happy to to see them. They were quite excited. I felt like a celebrity again. I haven't been around kids for a while and they were quite excited to to see to see me which was nice. Um but I was happy to see them. And then um the uh we've had our our

105Black Tiger family uh tiger I'm sorry drive are uh that is in uh motion. So we are taking donations. We've had some generous uh donations from the Democratic um club and our foundation. And anyone else on this? I know others are working on the drops that So, and when is our pickup date? You know, um August 12th is our actual stuff, the bus, but the drive for 28. Yeah. So, we're excited to to add to that and just very I know all the board feels the same way. just so happy of all the families we've been able to to help. Um, and we've had so many generous donors, personal and businesses. So, very grateful to everyone. And lastly, I would just say that um, I visited the new campus today. Um, and like I'm flabbergasted

106because I haven't been there since before I went on vacation and actually it's like so much progress as we know and it was so there was so much progress just beautiful. I was checking out the colors and the schemes and some ones that I was a little skeptical about. I'm okay with some of them, some others are. Um, but I was taking pictures of things I'm not so fond of. Um, and I will be talking at our meeting tomorrow on Thursday. So, Miss White, I'll be fired up tomorrow at our meeting to share some of the feedback. I have little things, but enough that they bug me and I would like to know reasonings for some of the decisions. Uh, some landscaping and some other molding. I don't know. Didn't sit well with me. But,

107you know, I have strong feelings about landscaping. Do you? Yeah. I'll show you a picture of what I'm talking about. I'm sure you'll agree. Uh but it it is beautiful. The field when I saw it for the first time, I was just in awe. It's gorgeous. Uh I try to be partial as I'm more of an athlete than I'm a musician for sure. So I was appreciative of that. But then when I saw the auditorium, very happy about that. I the panels are going in. So that was cool. The um sound sound acoustic panels acoustical panels. Thank you. See, I'm the athlete. She's at least she knew she did know what the field post the goal post were. That was good. So, um it was uh I do have some questions about that though. I

108want to see I don't remember that being the color choice. So, there's some things that I want to uh check in on. But it it's beautiful. The colors they have signs up now for all the the doors. The doors are in. They're putting in some more glass, but the um the exterior doors and glass are coming together. And I I know this will not be a surprise, but it was so it was so much of a difference. I had no idea where the heck I couldn't believe that these, you know, where these worms were situated because I've been in there several times, but now that they're really there, I'm like, "Oh, that's where the home room is. Oh, that's where such." So, it's really not that hard to get around in there. Oh. Oh, I

109had no clue and I've been in it 10 times. But I had Aaron, but I did I believe it or not, I recognized a little like the little ramp and I knew where it led. So, I did get a couple places. to the performing arts center. That's very good. I do that because it's not it's Don't let Don't let our superintendent scare you cuz it really is not that hard to get around in the new building. Yeah. Well, it makes sense when you're in it. The I got the middle school. That's easy. Six, seven, eight. That's when I get into the joint. But regardless, it was beautiful. I was very I'm very pleased. It's coming along, like I said, quite well. But there are a couple things that I will be following up. You also

110will have a large current change order coming your way and that I'm not happy about. Um and that we might need to put on the July 23rd. I'll have a report for you on that and with more details. Mr. Vagatti will provide you with details on that as well. So that's you want to let us know what it's relating to so we can start doing our research as you know. We will Mr. Hutch could tell you because he's been working on it. So we had specified that data and power be at desk height. Oh, so this is about the you read about it. Yeah, that's true. This is the summation of the cost. Uhhuh. We just got the bi-weekly report yesterday. So, so I'm sitting down with Lyall from TDA tomorrow pretty much all day.

111We going room by room to make sure what they're proposing is what's needed. Is there way down? Okay. I still I don't see any level. Yeah, that's the bad news. But the good news is honestly I I know I'm joking around a lot, but it truly is it's it's very I'm so excited and it's coming together so beautifully and I would encourage you to you know drive if anyone wants a tour. We I'm sure we might be able to arrange that. Um there weren't that many workers on site. I mean I was surprised. I mean they're there of course but it wasn't like the real construction zone I'm used to. There's less than 178 per the board. Would we be able to by any chance do just a real quick peek in what we're there

112for? Um I can reach out to Jim Baleman because I think either he or Lucas will be there and I don't know if they actually lock things there or what. But I'm sure I bet we could we could if we were there for the photo anyways we could just take you know just real quick. And then when the roar hits, I've been waiting for mine. It hasn't come yet. I know. I'm sure it's bothering you more than it's bothering me. But we do have that date for the grand opening. It's December 6th. Time to be announced. That's right. And you need to get them that date because it was in the notes that they need that date for the plaque. FYI. I think I gave it to them. It was It was in the notes

113that they're waiting for that date from you. No, you're right. I think I think it was tentative. So yeah, so they need they need that date. Dr. I reminded myself to remind you of that. Thank you. But they were waiting for I was like, "Oh, wait. No, we have that." So we should send that over to them so they can make that plaque that they want to make. I will make notes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That brings us to board business. Number one is resolution. It is recommended that the board of education approves the resolution authorizing one person to possess a deadly weapon on board property or a school safety zone. Second discussion I mean I can I mean that language is rather strong and it might grab the attention of folks. Um

114essentially uh what we would like to do is name one person who is extensively trained in law enforcement thorough background um to be able to um to carry a a weapon on property. And what it does is it allows us to have just one more responder in the event that there would be an emergency or or a need for it. Um, we I want to be very clear. This is not about having multiple people or any staff members. Some districts do open it up to staff members. That is not what we are interested in doing. This is, as I mentioned, a highly trained numerous years in law enforcement. Um, and has been authorized to use a gun for decades. So, and I don't know, Mr. Hutch, if you want to add anything. Just a couple

115clarifiers. It would be concealed. So it would be an open carry situation. We have our resolution goes far beyond the Ohio standard. We add what? Thank you, Mr. Any more comments or discussion on this? Yeah, I just add because this relates to school safety. This is something that the board can and did discuss in executive session. So, we spent a lot of time discussing this. I won't go into discussions that we had, but we have that right under the law to have those so that we weren't revealing the identity of the person. Um, but um, we spent a lot of time and got us to this place with this very specific resolution. Um, that as Mr. Hutchad, it goes well beyond what the law requires and also um with the language that it's one person

116that we all as a board thought was important. We don't want folks in the community um thinking that there could be so many random people in our buildings with guns that aren't police because obviously we already do have guns in our schools with our trained officers that we welcome in our schools every day. not just as our school resource officers, but just anytime I stop by schools, there's police sitting in the um driveways of our buildings or I've visited buildings and there's just police officers there visiting because they're encouraged to do that. Um, and this just adds someone that has um as highly trained as the full resolution says um and meets the master in my opinion to be able to do this and that's what makes me comfortable and confident in this. Thank you,

117Mr. Gomez. Anyone else? Mer, please call the role. Miss, Mr. Gomez, I. Mr. Harris. Hi, Mrs. Scha. I This brings us to item two. Resolution declaring it necessary to renew an existing levy. Uh recommended a resolution declaring it necessary to renew an existing 9.97 mil tax levy for the purpose of current expenses and requesting the Summit County fiscal officer to make certain certifications pursuant to sections 5705.03 3 and 50 five I'm sorry 5705.21 of the revised code second discussion. This is just the first step in putting the 9.97 mil levy on in November for continuing time. Um the last one in our in our little group that we were hoping to get um out of the cycle with. Um, so then I will submit um this resolution to the county auditor um and then they'll

118get back to me um with that information and then on the 23rd meeting we will have the second resolution um so that I can get it to the board of elections by the beginning of August when it is due. Thank you. Thank you for looking into the U replacement option. But because folks would lose their 12.5% roll back, when you look at the amount of additional revenue we would gain from that replacement with the amount of additional taxes people would pay, the kind of hit that folks would take compared to what we actually gain would make it very difficult when we need to go for new money because people would be paying so much more and we really wouldn't be getting that much more comparatively. I think this is a prudent decision. Had we not

119had that not been a factor in there, I do think it would have been a good idea to do it was one. So, thank you guys. I do think however um we need to be thoughtful going forward because we have this that we're putting on for this year 2025. We'll have a renewal in 2027. Um well, we'll see because if it gets overridden, there won't really be a renewal anymore um for the emergency level. And then 2029, we have the renewal of the 10-year mills. So, we know that we do need to go for new money. And that leaves us with only two options. Next year, um or 2028. 2028's probably too late. So, we need to be honest about the fact that we need to push really hard for this that to get this

120passed this year because the reality is we're probably going to have to ask for new money next year because with everything we've already done in terms of cuts, including closing a school, uh cutting budgets by 10%, we're still only going to end up next year with 1 million in the bank. So, I absolutely support this, but I also think we need to be realistic about where this still puts us at. Thank you, Mr. Gomez, and thank you for the select uh solution and trying to think outside the box to bring in more revenue for the district. You know, unfortunately, as you stated, and as still quite discussed, that wasn't an option for us. But I appreciate that. This will passes just like the floor will lock in that that state reimbursement for taxpayers. So we

121not have to worry about that if this this passes as is. Um they would continue to pay that for the duration and it would never be up for uh approval on whether it would you know um fail or pass again. So it would lock that in just like the other one. Okay. Mer Mr. Gomez. Hi. Mr. Hi, Mrs. Schaefer. I miss Coco. Hi. Can we would it be possible to have a statement of facts ready by July 23rd or do you need till August 6? Yeah. So, do you need till August 6 for that? I just think it'd be good to have that board approved as soon as possible. I think I should. Okay, thank you. That brings us to item three, school lunch prices. It is recommended that the board of education approves the

122school lunch prices for the 2025 2026 school year. Um that would be increasing the elementary school breakfast um 20 cents and the elementary school lunch by 20 cents. The middle school and high school breakfast would increase 20 cents and the middle school and high school um just the middle school increase. I'm sorry. Middle school would be 35 cents on a motion. Second. Thank you. Sorry. Discussion. Yeah, I have comments. Um, so well, I I appreciate the fact that we have low meal rates. I think that's a good thing. But my issue is if we raise these prices by this much, um, somebody that eats breakfast and lunch at the elementary school every day of the week, it's $2 more a week. At middle school, because we're just we'd be raising middle school to match high

123school, it's 275 a week. Um, and I appreciate because I asked administration, is there any way to know like how many people buy every day of the week? And we don't really have a way to pull that data, but I appreciate the fact that they tried um, nonetheless. So, I really do appreciate that. Um, so I can only just go off of what would that worst case scenario for a family be? And then on the other side of that is how much money does this really produce for the district? And based on last year's number, it only really gives us $32,000 more. And so we don't really have a way of knowing what potential hardship it could create for families cuz we don't have a way. And that's cuz our system can't do it. And

124that's not anyone's fault. But there's no way for knowing how much more this is going to financially impact our families. But we also know it doesn't really put much of a debt at all in the food service budget because we're looking at being down $320,000. This is $32,000. That's 10%. Which in business world is like a rounding error. So I feel like this puts a hardship potentially on families, but it doesn't really help our budget that much. So for that reason I won't be supporting this this evening. Comments Mr. Harris thoughts I mean I understand I I I understand where Mr. is coming from. But um I mean I I I'm personally okay with these these increases myself. So um what would be the procedure if someone if the if the prices changed and it

125did create a financial hardship? Is there what would be the procedure on like the family would how does that where do we land on our procedure on that people that couldn't pay their lunches? So currently we have our individuals who may extend their lunch balance and we start with a phone call reach out to see typically our social workers are working with families on the alternatives and things like that if there needs to be something more in terms of going back and resubmitting your application for your Sometimes that's just about the simplest thing. trying to encourage you know anybody who's close to do that because we start and that happens by October once the roll overl hardship. None of our students go without food. So, we are ensuring that they get something to eat breakfast

126or lunch. If this were to pass Oh, I'm sorry. Did I cut someone? I was just going to say like and I would add to that that I think in our policy the tre the treasurer has the ability to under circum certain circumstances I know our social workers will work with families and and if they can produce reasons for a hardship we make exceptions and would allow for that and we'll we'll work with the families to get that information to present to the that's not the first if this were to pass and would there be a way to excuse me, to be able to put it out to the community. Hey, this is the prices have changed. If this creates a hardship, can you please call, you know, whoever the treasur's office or the So,

127um, in the handbooks that we approved months back in the past, the actual prices have been embedded within the student handbook. As of right now, it is simply just a link to the nutrition site. Um, we start to re up our new information and final forms for next school year starting in August. There's going to be every family has to go through that process of identifying either the application for lunch at that point of this approved. Um, do we have the ability on final forms to note that there is a in price increase? Correct. And that you know someone that they could contact and then also maybe to say contact fill out you know click yes to fill out the form and then contact the office something because I know that maybe it won't be

128noted noticed in the handbook. Sometimes you have the beginning of the school year is a very busy time and it could be missed and could we make it more like highlighted? Yeah. Yeah. More highlighted. Thank you. We also plan on multiple communications as well and we know that building principles will be putting out information. So we're not just for that for that reason. So you know that go out of every opportunity will be like and that can go in my back to school newsletter that I send out to the beginning of August and maybe highlight the importance of filling out that form for the free and reduced lunch. Um because $2 might not seem was it $2.40. What did you say, Mr. $2 at elementary if you're buying both meals every day? $2 might not

129seem like a lot a week, but if you have like four kids in the school, I mean, that does over the month add up. So, it could be a significant change for someone that has is in between um being able to qualify for a free or reduced lunch and someone that doesn't qualify Thank you, Miss Schaefer. Wonderful suggestions. Um, and also if if someone is applying for free and reduced lunch and they make too much money, they're on the lower end of, you know, they make too much money, but they don't make a lot of money. I don't know how else to say that. Um, I they get a notification that they don't qualify. Correct. Is that from us or is that an automated? So the we just launch the nutrition services department has to

130enter some information from student services as well. Okay. So that's not something that we can tailor. Okay. However, for those individuals who are at that cusp, we We can talk about the other alternatives. That would just be my concern. I wasn't I wasn't comfortable with the numbers that were presented um before which were higher than this for the increases. Um but that still is my concern. Um it's for those families that are just just over but don't make a lot. Those are the families that are most affected. You know, the last couple years we have a list for a lot of time going through trying to address poss Another reason I think it makes sense to make the middle school and the high school prices be the same because they're receiving the same lunch. So

131it just and I think that would was that your suggestion, Mr. Gomez, bringing the prices up to the uh the middle school up to the high school prices because they'll be receiving the same product. So I guess my question is what is the reason to support the increase in the prices? I I'm supporting these numbers are a lot better than what they were. I don't have didn't bring the uh past numbers with me though. Um I can't tell you what those are. And I understand what you're saying about the the increase creating hard hardship on families, but we're not getting as a big entity a big return on that number. It's not solving um problems in in food service that would make a large large increase in income. And then I hear, what if I

132support the increase? We'll try to help those families that need help, which would probably be more families because we're increasing it. So, I guess what what is the Yeah. What is the impetus for supporting an increase? I guess I haven't heard someone advocate for increasing the prices. Well, I think if you go to the grocery store, you know, prices are up and maybe that's why he's trying to increase the prices because we all know every time while I go to the grocery store and the prices are very high. I couldn't remember. Yeah, I couldn't remember if that's what Bill if he had mentioned. I don't know for sure. I'm just offering that might might be a reason, right? I mean our costs have gone up just you know when supply chain issues were happening and

133um you know they've just continued to stay at that level obviously um over you know since the pandemic um we also received you know more money during the pandemic and reimbursements that we are also no long receiving. So both of those two things combined um are you know causing some of this decrease in their their fund balance. I would say that our our food cost um in general it just by gauging going to the grocery store anywhere else is probably has probably increased well over what we're increasing the prices. So, this is putting a a little bit of a cushion on that, but I don't think it's definitely these increases are not nearly enough to cover all of the I'm sorry. Excuse me. And one of the big expenditures that he shared with me is

134equipment. So, he's had to replace a lot of equipment, which is very expensive. So, and I know that he shared this the last time with his, you know, how he has lost what hundreds of thousands of dollars if I'm not mistaken over the last couple of years. And so, he's probably quite nervous about that because what we're trying to do um is not have to tap into general fund because right now we're self-sufficient in that department but and I don't want to speak to the treasur but I I think that's what I heard and the concern is. Yeah. And what do you think the difference is that we've been doing what like being able to be a self-contained unit and the having the funds to you know pay for the the food and then the

135equipment and the benefits and then now with the prices and food is the price of the food going up that's now it's not just affecting our food costs it's up we're not able to pay the labor cost and the equipment cost and things of that nature. Yeah, I mean there are multiple obviously you know we're in negotiated agreements on the labor costs for things our insurance costs are up those are charged there um but you know again like I said we received more revenue during the pandemic and um pre pandemic the food prices were much lower um you know what we were purchasing um now you know they're they're up there just like you at the grocery store that are also up there. Um for us, which has had significant, you know, it's it's the

136timing of all of those issues hitting at the same time of we're kind of losing we had a cushion from the co reimbursements. Um you know, co reimbursements made a difference. Yes. Everybody we were getting reimbured for everybody at that that point in time. Um and now you know so we were getting we were getting more reimbursements then just due to the nature of how it was um you know how it went during the pandemic. Um and now we've gone back to you know reduced and having to fill out the application in order to get it before you know everybody was just universally getting it and getting reimbursement for it really. So, I know even in previous districts that's always a a struggle too as Mr. Elder, you know, um refer to of just getting

137people to fill out the application. Um you know, of just just doing it. And it's always been a push in any other district I've been in to have people fill it out no matter what and just see um because it helps them, it helps us. Um but it's always it's an issue everywhere just to to fill out the form. Whereas during the pandemic, you didn't have to fill out anything and we got the reimbursement. And so, um, now there's, you know, a little more a little more, um, selfarter work, you know, and more of us trying to get people to to do it and communicating that. And even so, a lot of times it still doesn't result in what we already have. You may get a few, which is always helpful, but I've not seen

138anyone with like a real successful plan for that over my time where they've like gotten everybody to do it. I I am uh yeah, I'm I'm comfortable with the increases here personally. Um and I'm also confident in our student services and thankful for everything that they've worked towards knowing that we do have the in place for families that may have a hardship that they're have the avenues and communicated for them to be able um to be taken care of because as a district we want every student to and and I know they're eating. I know that every student is eating no matter what. We know that and we've established that. that um we want our families and our students to be taken care of and I'm confident that we have support in place for them.

139Please call the role. Mr. Harris I Mrs. Schaer I [Music] Mr. brings us to item four, future agenda items, Miss Coco, I I don't have any comments or anything, so I'm going to log off now. Thank you very much. Take care of yourself, Miss White. I will. We love you. Bye. Bye. Have a good evening, too. You, too. future agenda items. We know Miss Stoy will have for us the appropriations and a statement of facts for us as well on August 6th. Um our special meeting on the 23rd will be the levy and then if there's any additional staff but maybe on July 3rd our special meeting July 23rd. 23rd. Yes. We get the change order info on that too. Was that right? Yes. So, and I was going to ask in your report this

140week, but if for that I know we just wanted it to be the levy and again my apologies for having to insert the change order as we know those that can hold things up as well as our insurance um carrier just came through. UDICA was had us at bay and now we've our folks have worked it where they will approve us. So that's probably a little time sensitive. Um and then if we have staffing that would be appreciated but if the board desires not to do that to keep it if we're here we might as well work. Okay. I just want to be respectful. anything that's time sensitive. I mean, it's appreciated like again staff I think for the folks that are resigning and getting new positions, especially if they're leaving for another district, they'd

141probably appreciate being approved sooner rather than in August. And then on August 6, would we be having discussions on President Price then? Um like what specifically you thinking? Well, because you'd have more time to look into some of the numbers. Um, we could we can be more prepared when we go to have um like our meetings in the community as well. Kind of want to be prepared for what we'll be presenting to them as well. So, we want to hone in on that piece as well and kind of have something a little bit more Yeah. If you I mean, you guys, you know, you're the bosses, so if you need that by that date, we'll make it happen. I I speak for Margie. I know she's um under a lot of pressure getting prepared for

142the new year. So, you know, the more time I can give her, the better. Um August 6th is seems to be probably reasonable. I hate to speak for her, but knowing that it's two perhaps she can and she's got a good start, so it's not she's starting from ground zero. So, Mr. Bagatti, you can mention maybe to Miss Johnson that want her to start working on those two buildings. I mean we will tell us more about like that the students will work grade levels. Yeah. I mean I think that's important as well. Okay. We just have that as a discussion item. Yeah. Or a presentation. I think a discussion and then we would want to also make sure we're like preparing for what are we presenting when we go out into each school before we

143just open it up for their to receive feedback. You know, mostly we want to have something prepared to kind of explain to the community how we arrived at these two possibilities and kind of show them what that looks like. And then also hopefully we can have something that shows like the impacts as well, speaking to what you had said because then that will help folks understand like what what gets impacted. So if they're getting impacted, you know, more so, then they might want to come to the price one or the pre one. So that'll help as well. So then I think as we're honing in, then we can kind of have those conversations and then kind of be prepared when we have those meetings in their neighborhoods. And would those meetings occur before or after

144the school year starts? I'm sorry. I think we said late August. So that school would have started. schools. It's hard. And not to be dramatic, but that's this is someone's last first day at that school. So, it's it's it's stressful. Yeah. I didn't think of it that way for the people that are going to, you know, the people for everyone. Thank you. I think that brings us to committee reports. Um, we had a foundation alumni association meeting last night. Um, it's summer. It's downtime. Not a lot going on. Just wanted to mention that we now have a another um possible board member that joined last night for the first time. Um, and it's encouraging to see. Um, I'm saying this like I'm old, but I feel old, but a an even younger than me generation

145of um alumni that are starting to form and be interested in being a part of the foundation and bringing others along with them. So, it's encouraging. It is encouraging and um of course there and a fresh perspective always is nice to have some it's very it's it's good and very encouraging because That's all for that. And then Mr. Harris, do you have any legislative? Uh yeah, just I missed the way quite covered a lot of it, but uh you know again last Monday uh Governor Dwine um signed the budget with 67 line item vetos there. Um we went over the ones that were related to um uh education. Uh again, as Miss Stoyo said, uh Speaker Huffman called the uh the House back on the 21st. Um, so we'll keep an eye on that and

146and see what happens. Um, so and then also a little fun fact about that. Um, the House chamber is getting new air conditioning at the moment. So they are going to be in the Senate chamber. 33 seats for 99 uh folks. So that's going to be interesting. The buddy putty system, right? Yeah, that's a buddy up. Sounds like somebody didn't do a capacity. Exactly. Right. Is that going to be No, but uh it it'll be fun seeing them seeing them figure that out. What's that? They have to call the fire department for a fire hazard above capacity. Yeah. And they won't have enough buttons to push. What's that? Cuz they don't do roll call votes in the house. They do the button push. I have no idea how they're going to do it. Yeah, we'll

147see. Magic. We'll see. But no, that's all that's all I have. We have for board policy. We need to set a meeting. We've been slack. We talked about it today actually get an email from Chris today. If not, it's coming. We talked about it today cuz then yeah, we need to get these ones done cuz then we'll get all the budget ones and those we have a whole list today. The budget ones will probably be quite large. So, just want to mention that again. That brings us to comments. Um, I don't really have anything to I don't have any comments tonight either. Um other than I I truly truly do appreciate the engagement of this community um in whether there's things that they necessarily agree with or disagree with or concerns or excitement, the level

148of engagement that this community has with our district is just sometimes I'm aruck by it and I'm appreciative. of that and glad that we have the community we have. So, Mr. Doris, yeah, I just want to say I'm really proud of our new strategic plan that we adopted and our our three focus areas um culture of caring, facilitating our future and the steering to student achievement. Um, I just am disappointed that we no longer read our focus areas on our agenda and I think that we should return to that. I was told that that was a decision made by board members at the retreat that they held and I think it's unfortunate. Thank you, Mr. Gomez. Mr. Harris, um, you I was going to mention exactly what you did. Uh, Miss Koko, I'm very appreciative

149of the community coming out also of administration for getting us everything we need to to make this decision. So, thank you all so much. Yes. That brings us to item J, executive session, pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 121.22 G1 and section 121.22 G2. It is hereby moved that the board adjourn to executive session to consider the employment of a public employee or official and to continue the p consider the purchase of property for public purposes, the sale of property at competitive bidding or the sale or other disposition of unneeded, obsolete or unfit for use property. Second, sir, can I please call Mr. Schaer? I miss I Mr. Gomez I Mr. Hi. Thank you. Entering into executive session at 7:55. There will be there will be no action after