Cuyahoga Falls City Schools BOE Meeting 6/25/2025

001Good evening everyone. Welcome to this regularly scheduled board of education meeting. It is 5:30 p.m. June 25th, 2025. Miss Sto, would you please call the role? Miss Coco here. Mr. Gomez here. Mr. Harris. Mr. Schaefer here. Miss here. Mr. Mr. Harris could not be with us this evening, but he is listening in. Item P, approval of the agenda. It is recommended that the board of education approves the agenda of the June 25th, 2025 board of education meeting. Action by the board of education and adoption of a consent agenda means that all items are adopted by one singular motion unless a member of the board of education, treasurer, or superintendent requests that any such item be removed from the consent agenda and voted upon separately. So moved. Second discussion. M do please call the role. Miss

002I. Mr. Gomez. I. Mr. Scher. I. Item C isformational items. This 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 located over there on the stand 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 board president of the topic no later than three

003business days in advance of the meeting. These individuals 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 and 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 at the address shown on your screen. And for your convenient hard convenience, hard copies of the board agenda may be found on the table by the sign-in book. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Kyoga Falls Board of Education is July 9th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Kyogre Falls High School Library. And now for our pledge of allegiance and

004welcome, Mrs. Schaefer. Please stand as you're able and join me in the pledge. I aliance 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. Kyahoga 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, Mrs. Schaefer. Item D is presentations. And first up, we have Dr. Celico with our elementary school closing data. We're looking forward to taking a deeper dive into the data that we've had and the way it's put together for us to go over as a board. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Koko. Uh board members, you have

005a packet of information there with all of the details um that will be presented this evening. So, um just want to make you aware of that. Also, um, for those of you who are here tonight or those of you who are listening, we will have this posted on our website so you can get access to all of the links and the whole presentation. We have a few copies here. Um, but there's a lot to it. So, a lot of people refer uh prefer electronically. So, you will have access to that. So, with that um this evening, I'm going to present um a lot of data. So, those of you who are data oriented um we know that that often comes in the form of facts and figures, right? And so what that doesn't always capture

006though is the emotional attachment that's there for uh all of our schools, for our families, for our students, and all of the anecdotal experiences that have been shared within the walls of each one of our buildings. And so um what you'll see this evening is more uh related to raw data, numbers, empirical um evidence um but doesn't I don't want to discount the um feelings that are involved in the difficulty of a decision of closing a school. No one ever wants to arrive at this. You've heard us say this many times, especially if you've been following us, and it might sound like a broken record, but it is sincerely a very difficult decision for everyone. We uh certainly don't relish this this decision. But with that, Ryan is going to assist me. I think I

007forgot my Are you okay doing it? I guess. Okay. All right. So, first off, um we know when you arrive at making a decision about closing a school, there are many factors to take into consideration. Many more than probably will even be listed here tonight. If I asked if I went around the room and said, "What do you think you should consider?" I'm sure we'd get a variety of different answers. But with the board does have a policy in which uh there are a number of factors and and just to be clear, I um bolded the word may because not all of one um all of the factors may not be relevant uh to making this decision. And uh secondly, we might want to add other or consider other factors. So this is the board's

008policy. I'm going to talk about each one of those, actually most of them, not every single one of the seven because again, there's a couple that aren't necessarily relevant. And then, um, the last one I want to point out is the other uses of buildings and the historical value. So, those are some considerations that the board can take, um, into account when making this decision to close a school. Yep. All right. So to go through just a number of um again data and what I'm going to do this evening, I'm not going to uh go through every single fact and figure because we would be here a really long time. But again, you will have access to sit and digest all of this information and can look at it more closely because you'll you'll look

009at it as as I have many different ways as our team has and may arrive at different decisions throughout or conclusions. But here we have when we're looking at our schools, we've listed the age. um we need to talk about the physical conditions, the operating systems, the different programming. Um so here I have the schools uh listed as well as with the building dates because there are c certainly we know there have been additions added on to different buildings. So there are the different dates listed there, the age of the buildings and then the square footage which you may want to consider take into consideration. Um there is a I I added Chené and for those of you who may not have heard the last meeting or were not at the last meeting, we have

010been um focusing on the six elementary schools. And one of the things that I think um I haven't been um really focused on or informing the board about is Chennai. I happen to be there and I was looking around. I'm like, "Oh my goodness, we're I think we're missing an opportunity here to take this into consideration and put it into the fold." And I'm going to talk about that um suggestion or your uh for your consideration later. But I did add it here for the purposes of seeing the data relative to Chennai. Over here is a building upgrades um and future consider considerations if you want to click on that. Ryan. So this link will lead to uh other information. I'm trying to remember which attachment this was specifically. There we go. This one. Okay.

011So, what we have here, and I should have worn my glasses. Um, and again, I'm not going to go through each one, but it is listed by building. And what you'll see here are the big ticket items. We we did not scrutinize every thing that we've done to the buildings because this list would be, you know, really really long. So, we just honed in on the the major expenses. So, you can see here access controls, air purification, uh boilers, elevators, fire alarms, LED lighting, PA system, paving, playgrounds, roof, like those are some big ticket items. Air conditioning is certainly a big one. Those of you who have been following know that we've been um deeply involved in um through in the process it at um Preston and Price right now, but we have um completed

012Lincoln and um Richardson. So there's some investment there. So we just wanted to see so board what you have for you here uh we have for you here and I thank Christy and Joe for putting this together are the expenses related to what what we have spent in each fiscal year uh in each building. Okay. So, I just want to point that out. Again, I'm not going to make any assumptions. I know you all can look through that more in detail. Okay. And we're going to move along Ryan to the next slide if you would. All right. So, looking at our policy states environmental and site suitability factors, but there's a little bit more to this. uh in in my opinion. So, we had um a study done in 2015 and the OFCC, you might

013have heard us refer to this if you've been around listening to our uh our new project which is funded through the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission. They come out and do very thorough reports on each one of our buildings that you ask them to do, right? And so, they have um looked at all six elementaryaries. I'm not going to have you click on them, Ryan, only because each one, I can tell you, is about 70 to 90 pages. It's very extensive. It gives you lots of information, very detailed, but it is listed there uh for every building. So, it gives you the age. There's lots of pictures in there that show you the systems. They'll give you um they'll tell you what is viable, what is not. Uh what the recommended uh if they would recommend

014whether you are renovate or what's uh what the cost would be to do. Um each one of those um if if something needs to be fixed, repaired, etc. So, they're very lengthy reports, but I want you to know they're in there. And so, bored, if should you be interested in reading through those, they are all listed for you. And then to me, in walking through the buildings again, cuz you know, I'm just trying to do our due diligence and really going through with a really critical eye and speaking with the team and looking at floor plans and all those other things. And being a former elementary principal, I can't help but think of some certain things that come to mind when elementary when you're talking about traffic flow. Those of you who are parents know

015pickup drop off are all big challenges. You know, do we have the can we accommodate for larger schools drop off pickup? Um uh meaning if we increase enrollment at a building, do we have the uh ability to accommodate parking, drop off, pickup? I'm thinking of cafeteria sizes, our specials, ensuring that uh our you know our lunch schedules as well as our specials, meaning art, music, PE. I personally would love to be able to preserve spaces, classrooms for our specialist teachers. I know that would be their preference, meaning they don't have to um teach art out of a cafeteria or, you know, something similar to that. So, I would like you to please keep that in mind as you're looking at this. All right. Right. So, um you know, something very important uh to look at

016are our locations in the community, right? like where are our schools currently located? And here they are. Uh so I want you to just take a look at um where they're situated and then those are also our current boundary lines. All right, I'm going to come back to a little deeper discussion on boundaries later on in the presentation, but that's a link to it. We don't have to hit it because it's actually a link to that exact map just a little bit bigger. But for your consideration and those of you who will look at this online, you'll you'll have an opportunity to to see that a little bit closer. So, building capacity, you've heard me say this before, one of my biggest concerns, uh, our biggest concern is building capacity. And so, when we go

017to close a building, do we have the capacity? And where do we have the capacity to relocate students? And how many rooms do we have? This is I don't want to say this is conservative. I would say this is middle of the road estimation in terms of not utilizing every single space that we're crunched in like you know little sardines because that is not what I I would prefer us not to have to get to that situation but it's also allowing for specials to have their own rooms and maybe this includes some intervention specialists having to share space so there is some sharing that would have to go on there and if you look what I did is I have the um enrollment here listed and we estimated completed kindergarten because that's always the unknown,

018but we know what we have so far, so they're relatively accurate. The number projected number of classrooms we would need based on those numbers, the number of special education rooms needed because this is one thing that I think people often forget. Um, we do utilize a lot of space for our special needs students. And then the total of rooms needed and then the total rooms available in each one of the buildings. If you if you look, our our biggest uh our largest number of rooms available is at Lincoln. They have uh a great number of rooms available there at 7. It could be pushed to eight, but I wasn't comfortable saying the eighth because they have some extra programming there that I wouldn't like to I wouldn't want to forgo that space for. Uh Dwit

0191 to two. Uh Preston 3 to four. Price really has no room. They've grown in their enrollment. Richardson has likely four and then Silverlake would be pushing I might have said one but one two I think we could do but there still would be some sharing as I walked around there I also just listed for your information and we won't get into this discussion this evening but uh if I did not I looked at the total enrollment and then I excluded open enrollment just for comparison sake um what those numbers would look like there in the in the final column if you click on the capacity study I asked our data person um Chris Shaw you all know uh to look at the spaces the number of students we have available so I want to

020be clear about something that the classroom spaces that we have available are one thing so if we have seven classrooms available that might accommodate 175 children right but one of the things that we're we're we haven't thought about in the in that previous slide is the number number of students the open seats here if you see in that column where it says open and you look down there 40 I so I can't see like 48 or I see fours it's not good I need my glasses but um those numbers are the amount of seats that we could still that we could still fill the number of seats because um some of the class sizes might be 21 and I'll just point out if you look at well let me say it this way if you

021look in the blue column at the top there in the middle it says kindergarten I I think that should say 22. And then K1 is 22, grades 2 or 24. Third grade would be 25, I think that says. So based off of those numbers and then fourth and fifth would probably be the same. We would use 25. We don't like to get to 26, but on occasion we might have to. And that would be that might be a change for some some schools. They're not accustomed to class sizes of 24 25. I will tell you in my experience and talking with other colleagues in previous places I've been, those are not unreasonable class sizes. Um there's still we have had a luxury here and I appreciate that we have and I'm I think we're fortunate

022to have been able to have small class sizes but that's been a little bit of a luxury in school funding world related to expenses and I I'm glad we've been able to but this might be a time where things change but I will tell you we are striving for 22 24 and 25 which are again very reasonable numbers but I wanted to point that out. So, there are class sizes there that she put in um or I'm sorry, the numbers there that we have open spots that we could still put more students in those those uh classrooms there. Does that make sense? All right. I also think it makes sense to when you look at go back to the 5-year forecast, you think of how the state funds, those are the numbers they're funding off

023of. That's right. That's right. So, if you're comparing what we're trying to do based off of how the state funds us, they're funding us based on assumption that we have a certain number of students. That's correct. And as we're also facing the economic realities that are forcing this decision as well. Yeah. Thanks, Mr. Gomez. That's a good point. Yes. I'm just going to spend a real brief moment on this because those of you have been following along, the question will come up even if I'm speaking publicly to different groups. Um the question comes up why is why are Kyog Falls why is our enrollment down? Well just a real quick snippet. Here's one of the reasons it's not just Kyog Falls. Ohio birth rates counts are down quite a bit considerably. If you look over

024time the last uh what is that 15 16 years you can see how it had how the just the birth rate alone has declined. And then if you carry that out a little bit more and you look at go to the next one, the Ohio um enrollment, public public school enrollment, you can also see a decline. It's down 7% over the last 10 years. So we public schools in general are losing students. We can again birth rates is one factor. We can guess what some of those others are just people making different decisions, choices, homeschooling, online schools, proil community, etc. Okay. So then if we move over to Kyhoga Falls schools in um in particular you can see the trends and now what I put in here was the past and then you the next

025one will be future. But if if you've been again following Mrs. Stoycoy in her presentation has shared that our decline in enrollment is down 24% in the last 10 years. That's that's a big number. That really is a a statistically significant amount of students to to decline. Uh so you can see the the uh trajectory there and uh the progression in the downward way. So the next slide though will show you then what the future predicts what they predict in the future. Now this isn't us doing the study. We have a a a company that focuses solely on doing these and this is from them uh and what they have given us in a very in a in another lengthy report but they're projecting 351 children less over the next uh 10 years or so.

026And so that's a 9% decrease which isn't the 24% we just saw. So I our team has kind of scratched our heads a little on that. That's kind of a big difference uh down 9% versus 24%. But maybe there's some leveling off in there. But these are their predictions and they they use live birth rates as part of their study. And then um they use it off base it off of bar of course too. So those are the trends. So that's what we're predicted in the future. Then we look at transportation. This is another consideration that it's a big consideration. It's also listed I believe in our policy. And the number of students, what you see here, it's nothing really fancy and I'm not even sure it's all that informative, but I wanted you to

027at least see it. These are the current number of buses that depart each one of our buildings each day that have routes. So, for example, Dwit has three buses every day. Lincoln has two. Preston, you can see van. We have um addition some people may not be aware but in order as a cost-saving measure we've uh decided to purchase vans that really help when you have just to shuttle one student or two or small numbers that really helps us save a lot of money. Um so there's the vans and then the shuttle is just uh we have students that might go from one school to another for the YMCA program. The boys and girls that's considered a shuttle. So those are what we currently have. in speaking with our transportation coordinator, the more um students

028you add, you know, if if you, for example, I hypothetically put more students at Lincoln because we know there's a lot of room there. Currently, there's two buses. If you added more students that exceed the need to have two buses, that would be your increase. So, if you need four buses now, you currently have two, your decision would then be you would take into consideration, oh, we had to add two routes. And I'll come back, I'm going to talk about that in our last slide as well. talk a little bit more about why that's important. Uh then the distance study, this was done uh by Mr. Hutch. He put together some numbers for you to see uh where some charts relative to like where the next nearest school is, the distance from each other. So

029you can take a look to see if that may have any bearing. And we could just show one of those. Ryan, if you just want to click on one as an example, like he went school by school and my goodness, it's so tiny. So it says average distance from Richardson Elementary School and then it says Richardson and Preston. So it shows the distances numbers are associated maximum distance number of walkers uh and bus riding. This does not take into consideration district I believe right or open enrollment. No open enrollment. No open enrollment. Okay. And it just assumes anyone that's not a bus rider calls a walker. We obviously know that most of our students probably aren't walking, but just so when people are looking at this, they understand that. We know most of our families

030are dropping their kids off cuz we see the traffic, but it's just calling at a walker if they're not a bus, right? I'm assuming that's correct. That's correct. Eligible for transportation. Yeah. Okay. So, that's another um something else for your consideration to look at. So those of you who I don't know how many of you use Canva. Anybody in the audience use Canva? Okay. Well, this is it is it's not your traditional PowerPoint where it's easy transitions. Canvas is a little fussy. It's does a beautiful presentation and thanks to Miss Stewart, I can't take any credit. I put give her the numbers and she goes makes it beautiful. Um, okay. So, the alternative uses of building. So, a big consideration and this is something I want to spend another minute on. We need to determine

031what we want to do. Like again, visionary, right? We need to think years ahead. We need to be mindful of what our long-term goals are. And so, what do we do with buildings, right? So, we have the option to sell a property. We know we're in the midst of doing that right now. Our high school and Robert School, we need to look at future sites of new of our new elementary schools. That should be plural. Um, and that is um on the right there. Those are the acreage. Those are the buildings with the amount of acreage that each one of them has. And so just again something to consider for the future. And then the other thing that I mentioned uh last meeting is something I really want you to consider which is going back

032to Chennai and repurposing Chenet. I think we've been talking about closing schools and I know it's can be a matter of semantics but rather than clo I think there is a difference between closing and repurposing and what I would suggest to you this evening is to consider repurposing an elementary school and not closing one and what that allows us to do it it still closes chenise but it's not closing an existing elementary school chenet is for those that don't know there's an alternative ative um program that goes on there Chenade learning center as well as a preschool program. So what I would suggest and ask you to consider is relocating Chennai's students preschool and black tiger family to an elementary school and therefore you're not closing one of our existing six elementary schools. It affords

033our students the opportunity, our youngest learners to be in a and staff to be in a an air conditioned building potentially um depending on again what decisions we make relative to air conditioning. But it allows them to be um in a in a school that's existing um that also needs to be considered um with our youngest learners and our students with disabilities. uh we need to be mindful of that with ADA accessibility, how they would be able to maneuver around a building. Some of our buildings, frankly, and we know this, are more challenging for for them to get around. So, you would need to take that into consideration. And um therefore, not all choices would work in this instance. Should you consider this? Uh we would sell Chennai. So, we would get proceeds from that

034building. And I believe we will have a prospect of we have some ideas that could lend itself well. I tried to do do as much as I could research to inform you and as much leg work as I could for you. And um I think we would be okay in in selling Chenné should that be the case. And then um then you're again repurposing not really closing. So you would keep all your schools um in uh if I all right and also will save us money in the budget in the future because if we keep using schne we know we're going to have to do investments and improvements there as well. So I think that's important as well. And the other thing as um larger school districts have talked about like Columbus is going through

035school closings and Akran's talking about the impact of school closings is that it destabilitizes neighborhoods. And so I think the benefit of even if it's not an elementary school, you're still keeping the stability of a school building and the kind of community connections that that can provide in the neighborhood that is used to having that. So I think that's a positive with that option as well. Agree. Yep. More good points. I would agree. And um Chenet does need some work. like no offense to the architect, but whoever did that design of the roof, if anyone's ever seen it, um it it's nearly impossible to um to uh repair and very costly. And I think we've tried unsuccessfully to repair that. Um the one wing is relatively nice, the preschool ring wing is nice, but the

036other wings and the other main areas, you know, certainly need some money put into them. All right, so looking at cost savings, right? I mean the reason we're at this juncture is because we are in a financial position that is really forcing our hand to make this decision. And so what the treasurer stooy has done is she put together some savings uh by school and in the categories uh she looked at salaries, benefits, equipment and then I won't read to you but there's the list. It's big enough I think for most people to see. So she looked at all of those areas and what that would look like. um how much money you would save by each building. So if you click on that there, it's a this one's a lengthy document. There's several pages

037to it. And if I could add to that, I mean that's all of this is right now. Also, especially when you're looking at like salary and benefits, it's not like if you were to say, you know, any one of those buildings, you can just look at that line and say, "Oh, that's people that are going to, you know, that's the amount we're going to save if we do this building." Because it all is going to be contractual and people would have to be shifted around. So now it's just representative and then showing those averages because you're not going to be able to just say, "Okay, everyone in your building, you don't have a job." They're going to be able to um bump, you know, other teachers based on seniority um there. And um at the

038time when we originally did this um we did not include this year because we weren't done yet. So I didn't have final numbers. So that's why you don't see anything from this year because this is just now the end of our our fiscal year. So it wouldn't have been a complete um data for this year. So I didn't include it because I didn't want it to skew anything. Can I just for one minute? Can everyone hear us with these fans going on and everything? Okay. I I just wanted to make sure. I don't know. Can you hear me right now talking at this level? Okay, board members, can we just try to make sure we're projecting more than normal, which is not my natural voice, but I just want to make sure everyone that is

039here this evening and probably for the microphones too with these fans and everything going, I want to make sure everyone can hear everything everyone has to say. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, one one other quick thing because I just thought of too when you're looking at some of the especially like in the 600s. Um, so like the building improvements, you're not going to see those are like the daily these are the daily operating costs. So we didn't include big, you know, what's on that other spreadsheet that she showed you where it's like we made we did the roof, we did air conditioning, we did this. that was not included in this because we were trying to look at strictly operational on day-to-day basis if you know with just the minor repairs or fixes that you

040would have anywhere whether it was new or older. Um we kept the major improvements again to not skew those those numbers from one school to the other and kind of kept those on a separate document for those one-time um investments at those buildings. Thank you. So, that's going to be an important document, I would imagine, that you want to spend some time off looking at. And then this is not I want to be clear, this is not in your board policy as a consideration. And I have mixed feelings about personally about um putting it in, but it's come up quite a few times from feedback we've received from our stakeholders. So, I just wanted to point it out whether or not, you know, it's it's helpful for you or not. But this is based on

041the 2324 uh report card. As you know, we're measured by stars and this is the overall ratings of each school. So the only thing I would like to mention and this is just being like kind of like a proud superintendent moment you know of the work that our our staff has done is statistically speaking you have a variance uh a difference between um 3.5 and 4.5 stars which is a net of one star. And so I just I want to point out and that's me probably being protective of the achievement and the great work that we do in our schools that they really all are doing well. Um and I'm I'm proud of the work we are improving. you're going to see some good growth in some areas this year after our report card. And

042this will be change. These will fluctuate a little bit. Um, but I just want to point it out because it's been addressed before. Um, but we all are really doing fairly well and I'm proud of our work. So, it's there. I just thought I would throw it in because I' I've heard this mentioned to me several times. Okay. And then the last one I want to close on is um just the fi kind of final considerations because there there's a lot that I threw out there today. I didn't spend a lot of time in depth on each one because there is so much and I went I know I was told 15 minutes which that's a lot to ask in doing all of this and it's such important work. I I'm sorry that I went

043over, but the the things that are really going to come in play and I want us to go in with our eyes wide open knowing the the implications of what decision we make is redistricting. Number one, if you I have um Margie is working on that's our transportation supervisor. She's working on redrawing lines and you know kind of based on each one of the schools should you choose. Um, so she's looking at closing each one and doing a different diagram, if you will. So the number of students impact will vary. So we are talking about perhaps either repurposing or closing an elementary school. That's those are not the only parents and students that will be impacted. So I want to be very clear about that that lines will need to be redrawn and people are

044going to go perhaps to different schools than they're accustomed to. the number of parents uh and families that are impacted will depend on the school that's chosen. I just want to be clear about that. I've seen some preliminary like just playing around with boundaries. I I give them credit for what they do, but just playing around and looking there. There certainly I just want you to know that that is because that is going to disrupt a number of our families in our communities and I know that's what we're concerned about. So just want to point that out. The second thing um you know demographics is always very important. Uh sometimes this is more pertinent pertinent and um noticeable and some in different communities. Um but it is something to consider just making sure that we

045have a a racially, socioeconomically, culturally diverse um representation in each one of our schools if if we're able. That would be a goal. Uh transportation. This is I said I would return to this. So the implications of transportation, I know you all know this very well and you've been very kind and supportive of the things we've needed to do in transportation. But you are not just adding routes. When you add routes to schools, you are adding drivers, perhaps vehicles. We might need more buses. Uh definitely drivers. So there monitors. Monitors, right? It's it goes on and on. So transportation is definitely something I have to point out. And the cost associated with it, of course. So, transportation is very costly as we know, but again, something just to consider. And then our students and staff.

046I mean, first and foremost, they probably should have come come first there. Um, I've already addressed and I said I'd come back to this as well, class sizes. So, I know I' I've been in this business a long time and and what people will say to me oftentimes and even now I've gotten calls that people have thought that we were going to put 30 or 50 children in a classroom. Um, we're never going to have 50 students in a classroom. uh 30 is, you know, in middle school, I'll be honest, there are a couple with like special classes, electives that have 30, but at elementary and being again an elementary educator, uh we don't we would have to be in some really bad shape to get to 30 students in elementary. So, but I want

047you to know that there most likely in many instances will be an increase in your class sizes no matter what building it is because we are going to put more students into um we're going to fill some of those seats in other classrooms. So, but what we are striving for is what I said to you this evening. 22 24 25 26 in the fourth maybe fifth fourth fifth. Uh but those are the numbers we're striving for. So, um could it teeter, you know, one way or another? Could there be some exceptions where they're 17 18? Absolutely. We just don't know until we we get there. But those are all things. And then I certainly don't want to to uh be remiss. I know we have new people coming in this evening and I'm probably scaring

048them to death. I apologize. Don't worry. We've been very successful when we've had to make staff reductions of using attrition. That is always our goal. Attrition meaning that when someone leaves, we just don't fill that spot. So, we are not reducing having reductions in force. Can we promise that? No. But that is what we strive for and we've been pretty successful in the last couple of years in right sizing some things but there is an impact for staff as we know as well and we are concerned about about that. So those are the things I would like to leave you with. Um again there will be access. I do want to thank my team. They've been a great sounding board. Um they've contributed their insights. I appreciate it. They provided me with data and as

049I mentioned Christine has done a phenomenal job of for of uh my last minute changes and additions and revisions. So I do appreciate all of you and the work you guys have done to help. Any questions or anything else I can answer? My question for my fellow board members is you know this schne option was presented to us last meeting. We were pretty receptive to it. We've now had a little two more weeks to consider it. Do we want to stick with our receptivity to that and say that's the path we really want to keep exploring? We want to make a commitment to explore that path further to give our superintendent and her team more direction because that does give them some helpful direction because it kind of does roll in and roll out some

050buildings for future exploration. Doesn't make the decision, but it kind of helps them narrow down the list. Um I personally I am comfortable with exploring that option. um in more detail and I think that we we're going to have our discussion about our special meeting for June and I think after that being brought up to us last meeting and then along with this and all of this data I I personally am in favor of that being what we focus our energy on. I'm sorry I'm trying to talk us out loud. I do not have a loud voice. My children will tell you I'm I can't yell at them. They just I have a stern face with them, but I'm not a yeller. I like that idea very much cuz I've always thought we should close.

051It's not really being used as much as it used to be. Um, and I think that's a good option. I definitely am supportive as well. It essentially rules out three schools that would not be options because they wouldn't meet the needs of the preschool and then would keep three in consideration. So, we're keeping that commitment of not making we're not saying this building is closing, which is what the commitment we made to the community for tonight. And I think important that we keep our promise to the community and not do that, but at the same time kind of gives more more direction to our superintendent and her team as they gather data and we move forward. I think for me the biggest part of that option um for us is we know in the future

052that we're going to want um to put um forward a a bond issue for new elementary buildings at some point. And that may not even be the five of us that are currently here and elected. Um that's in the future. But it by doing this, we're not eliminating any of our current sites and that are able to have a building on um we're not tying the hands of future boards with that decision, whoever that may be. Um and we know that that's an important decision that will be coming down the line. And I think a lot of us I think that was a big hurdle for us before this wonderful option this genius option that um um you came up with. So um for me that's important is to not tie the hands of future

053boards. Can I ask a question? Um, if we repurpose another if we repurpose another build, an elementary school, close Chneay, repurpose another elementary building and move the preschool to another elementary building. I know we did a lot of remodeling at Chneay to make it a usable space. Would we have would that cost would there be a large cost with with that? That's a good question. Um, and in your document too, there is we included Chennai. I asked Christie to add that the chenet cost just so you can see what we have spent. That was right before I got into the district. So probably four or five years ago um they did that work. What's nice is elementary buildings are pretty equipped to handle um preschool. We'll get licensing pretty easily. The only thing that we

054would have to consider is perhaps a playground. Preschool has a lot of regulations to it. If we have any preschool educators in here, there's a lot associated with that. So, playground maybe a little bit of an issue. Um, toileting, I think we can manage all of that. Classroom size is the big one. You have to have a certain amount of square footage per child. So, I think we're great there. Uh, I think we would be okay. And I've spoken um to the city about the preschool, the playground that they are so graciously putting in for us at Chennai. And I asked her to put a timeout on that. And I think they would possibly be able to relocate it to whatever building we we would choose. So that's good news. But we have to put

055like a lock between the the two portions like and right now the preschool has a locked unit. Okay. So at Chennet currently you have uh a T if you will. So preschool and then this way is the alternative school. Um and there's some doors there that uh we would we would definitely want to that's where there would be some cost. And I could think of a couple like I just eyeballed the schools and thinking the ones that I think would work um where we might put a a door some doors. Yep. And you also in a couple of the buildings you do have nice access like you can have two separate entrances pretty easily, right? Do you know is there, and this can be answered at a later date, but it might be something you

056need to look into. Um, is there a compliance issue with our current playgrounds at buildings that would be a possibility when it comes to preschool? Are all of those I don't know. Is there a difference in what you can have on a preschool playground? Yeah, they're actually and a regular playground. Unfortunately, some of our pieces of equipment might be okay, but I would imagine we would want that other playground equipment that they would put in. Yeah, believe it or not. Even though you think what's suitable for a kindergartener, preschooler, it's just it's not, especially when you're dealing with students with disabilities. Makes sense. Well, the three buildings, two of them have older playgrounds. Anyway, one of them has playground. I was thinking specifically of certain things at certain buildings, but I'm like, I don't know

057if those are preschool. Yeah, we' be talking about our three onestory elementary schools as going forward as possibilities. So that would be Price, Preston, and Richardson. That's right. Um the other thing that when I said then thank you for saying that, Mr. Gomez because you just triggered uh something that I did not mention relative to building capacity but please take into consideration the number of students we have to uh relocate. So if it is a larger building of 400 300 whatever that's going to be difficult to do based on the numbers of rooms that I shared with you. So I would want you to take a look at that's why I provided you with the overall enrollments in each of the buildings because we will have an easier time relocating less students. I think that's

058common sense but I do want to point that out. Thank you. Anything else? Um I think that um Mr. Gomez stated I think that we're all in agreement that that's the direction that we're going to be going. I appreciate all the hard work. I know there's so much data and I know that everyone here had played a part and people that are not here have played a big part as well. So just thank you to everyone that works so hard to get all of this information for us um so that we can make the best decision. Thank you. Thank you. Um that brings us to item two. We were going to have a a discussion just on a special meeting for elementary building closure. Um the last time that we had as a board had

059discussed, we had talked about possibly doing a special meeting in June and adding a special meeting um to discuss after we had a presentation on data which is what we just had. So um just wanted to open up for discussion. Do we feel after the presentation and um the data that we've gotten, do you feel as a board that we need a special meeting or um we already have a meeting scheduled June 9th? We could put that at the top of our agenda be the first thing that we do. We have a rather I'm sorry, July. Yeah, I keep saying June. Um July 9th. Um we could put it at the top of our July 9th meeting. that agenda is looking not to be very heavy. Um, and do we want to keep it with

060that instead of doing a special meeting? Um, the benefits to doing it then would be if we are in a place to make a decision and make motions, if it's not a special meeting in its agenda, it is easier for us to do so and do that as well. So, I'm just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on that. You said that meeting is light on presentations. Yes. Okay. I think I'm open to suggestions for me. That would work for me. I like that idea. Although I'm free. I can come another time. I'm usually I just want to make sure we have it clarified and we know so that we can communicate to the community. Yeah. What day is I think that would be fine. I'm fine with that. But what what is our goal for

061the next meeting when next time we have a discussion on this if we're going to be making um originally our goal was to definitively narrow it down to three. Um which I feel like we haven't officially voted on anything, but I feel like that's kind of the direction that we already have been this evening. Um, it might afford you some time, Mr. Coco, excuse me. Yes, it might afford you some time to, you know, look at what I've given you tonight and then maybe as a suggestion, would it be beneficial to come with the three in mind or two or three? I mean, I know you guys have said three, but I also don't know that that you'd have to land on three if you wanted if it if it made sense to pick two

062or four, you know, I I don't know. That's certainly your decision, but maybe in two weeks, would that be a reasonable thing to come with? Would you be able to have the information from Margie on July 9th for us to look at? So that would give us purpose and because I think that's one important thing to know is impacts on transportation and then possible boundaries and then we could have discussion from there because there's a million ways to move boundaries ultimately. So like one seeing what she's done would be helpful but ultimately there's a million different ways to move the boundaries. I'd be interested in knowing like how she determined this like is it based on certain bio you know like what went into her thought process. Yeah. I'm wondering if it's beneficial to have

063her come and explain that to you come and do that. Like it's easy for me to say, "Oh, just draw some lines and I don't even know what I'm talking about, you know, and then because she she did call me then and she's like, you know, I I'm having a real hard time with such and such a school because it's like I'm I can't get them all places." And and I don't know what that means. Like I'm just like, "Oh, okay." But can you tell me what that means specifically? Like why you can't do certain things? And so maybe like I would just be the middleman. It's not I don't mind doing the the grunt work, but I I'm not the person. So I don't know. Maybe we can get Margie here to show you.

064She can I can tell you this some like if we can narrow it, she could spend more time if we knew if she didn't have to do all six. I mean, well, I think we kind of gave her the three. So, if and if you're comfortable with the three, I'll have her work on those three and she can always add more if you need her to, but it is a timeconsuming project. It's not something we all understand, but you know, it's time consuming. So, I would be comfortable with the three and I think it might be a good idea to have her here that evening and explain the boundaries to us if we and then we can have discussion on how we want to engage the community once school's back in session. So then if

065it's two or if it's three, we can make plans for that and then we can get ourselves from there to a decision making right framework and a hopefully maybe in September, right? Because more time for all of you, I know is helpful. More time for our families to know is helpful. And then more time to let not just the school that's impacted, but then once that decision's made to let whoever else is going to be impacted by the boundary redrawing know. So I think just to do it as soon as possible to let people know. I think as well and you know if we get to the point that we're narrowing it down to two that evening then that's where we get I um without sitting and digesting and then getting the boundary stuff. I

066don't want to commit us to saying oh we're going to do this if everybody's not ready to do that. But I you know I feel comfortable that just the natural progressions of things that that might be the outcome of our meeting on July 9th and be open to that. Um and and I agree with the progression and then the making sure that we have time to engage the community in those schools and as Mr. Gome has said, you know, sooner, you know, we've said November, if we're able to do it sooner than that, I think um we're sensitive to the fact that this is there's a lot of uncertainty for our families and our stakeholders and our staff and everyone during this time. And it's it's a huge decision and it's not one that any

067of us want to make, but we have to. Um, and I think that the sooner that we can have that for our community, the better. And to give that whatever building it is as much time to say farewell to itself and its state as an elementary school, too, I think is helpful. Yes. So everyone in favor of then doing July 9th will be yes agenda item it'll be that the top of our agenda on July 9th. Okay. Thank you. Okay. At this time we're going to take a 5m minute recess. It's 6:23 p.m. We appreciate everyone that's here. Um but we know that you're probably not here for the rest of our boring things. They're not boring. There's exciting 6 through 12. There's a 6 through 12 discussion about our new 6 through 12 campus.

068So, please stay if you'd like to, but we also know that you probably don't want to be rude and get up in the middle middle if you don't want to stay. So, we're going to take a 5minute recess. It's 6:23 p.m. We'll um convene at 6:28. Thank you. We don't have to have a motion. We all Okay. All right, we're back. What's going on? It is 6:28 p.m. We are back in session. Thank you. And we are in item E, Treasure CFO's business consent agenda. Miss Stocoy, I have no internet. I recommend that the board of education approve all items listed in the treasurer's consent agenda. So moved. Second. So first thing, let's there's quite a bit here since this is the end of the fiscal year, the last meeting before the end of the

069fiscal year. So a number of things that we do every year to close out one year and start the other. Um but first um we have another about a handful of donations that um very much appreciate. Um see all different ones from the Black Tiger um center um and then for Lincoln Elementary students at Lincoln Elementary. So uh thank you to those individuals um for helping us out. Um you have um so then we have the final appropriations for the end of this fiscal year which I gave you a hard copy because um those get updated last minute there were some last minute expenditures um today um close out the year um so what's what you have in your hand is the what is attached to the agenda um there and then we have our

070temporary appropriations which um help get us started in order to um expend funds for the next fiscal year which starts July 1st. Um and as a reminder um we do about 25% of what our year um expenditures were to set the temporary um we have to do it but technically uh I always give you guys the permanent permanent preparations for next year at the July meeting. So you'll see those at the July meeting. So really it is now to kind of get us that gap, but it'll the the permanent ones you'll see next meeting will supersede these. So this is basically just to open the books next before then. Um advances transfers um there are a couple uh on here and a couple of transfers that are um out of the ordinary. Um, so we

071have a couple of advances that I um this sheet was also updated um just to cover some bases um just in case and if not uh no harm no foul that we have that you guys approved of but in the case that we do need to do them um well I'll have the authority to do it. So, um, looking at three of our grant funds that need money moved because they are, um, in red, um, to close out the year. And then under transfers, so the first two are typical every year. So, our unclaimed funds are our field dated checks. Um, after five years, um, they get both. They get put in a separate account for a holding. And after five years, if no one has claimed them or said, "Hey, I didn't get this

072check or where is it?" Then those uh per board policy, those can go back to the general fund. Um so that's there. Um our class of 2025 also per board policy um it goes to the next senior class. So it moves any money they have left over gets moved to the class of 2026 for their balance. And then the other two you see on there is just um in order to consolidate um our two middle school accounts. So one being the principal's account and the other um being a library account, both 08s that um there were two separate ones, one for Bulock and one for Roberts. But as we're making that move next year to be just middle school, um we are going to be uh transferring what is left over in those to to

073the combined to the bullet accounts. Um that will now be overall middle school. Um and then the last thing is just the alternative tax budget for the library. So I do not prepare this but um as you know because um as we have to put their levy renewals and different things like that on um this is another item that we are required to um approve. um they approve it also, the library approves it um on their end. Um and then it gets sent to the county budget commission very similar to how we do ours um except ours happens in January and theirs happens on in July. So it's just a little different timing. So um you will see all that there um from the library. Thank you. Any questions, discussion? So, at our next meeting

074when we approve the appropriations for uh the next fiscal year, you're going to give us some presentation on that and then about how we met the 10% reductions. Um I can Thank you. Um I couldn't hear what you said. I'm sorry. We might want to you might want to wait. Well, yes, we can do that. Okay, we're going to talk about the building departments. Yes. Yep. Okay. Put something together. Thank you. I'm sorry. He's going to give us a presentation on the budget before we approve it and then how we met the 10% reductions. Oh, okay. Thank you. Mr. Sto, could you please call the RO? Yes. Mr. Gomez. I. Mrs. Schaefer. I miss Coco. I. That brings us to item E. Treasur CFO's I'm sorry that brings us to item F. Treasur CFO's business.

075I'd like to recommend the board of education approve the May 2025 investment schedule and monthly spend. So moved. Second. Um most of this um again like I said should is not super surprising. um because this is based on the forecast that was given um last month. So we can look at interest first. Um so May is definitely um one of our lower months. You can see um overall our our cash flow is down typically anyways and then um you know our cash flow is down from years past um for investing purposes. So, um, we've had to pull some money out of, um, Red Tree and like our general account in order to, uh, meet the needs of all of our expenses and payroll and everything. Um, but still, we're still getting a good return. We're

076trying to maximize that. And then, um, you can see all the different construction accounts. But um so far this year, and I know the majority of it, uh falls in with uh you know, our our building project, but we've had over $3 million um in interest. Unfortunately, the stuff that's in that building project is restricted to to that and maybe not even that um depending on um what OFC. So, just something to keep in mind there. And then looking at the general fund, you can see our revenues this these months of April, May, and then like September, August tend to fluctuate from year to year just depending on the timing of what we receive proceeds from um the county for taxes and different things like that. expenditures are a little under what they were last

077year um from May. So not untypical of May and then you'll see it again in June that there's a negative cash uh result of operations. And so we were right around 9 million um at the end of May. Um keeping in mind that in June we did not have to to make an additional we did not make an insurance payment. we made the double payment back in October. Um so you will see that difference there that there won't be almost a million dollar um expense because um they are also experiencing cash flow and so we decided to um as a consortium you know double pay that to get that going and then not pay in June. That's really He's excited. I say it'll be an easy few days in your office cuz nobody can spend

078money now. One good thing. They'll try but they'll try. They'll try but they can't cuz once we vote the books are closed. It was a little stressful today. I was like, everybody stop. You have six days. Six days. Couple of them are weekend. Got to make it. Thank you. Mr. Point, please call a role. Mr. Schaefer. Hi. Miss White. Hi. Miss Coco. I. That brings us to item G. Superintendent CEO's business. Dr. She had comments. Oh, I'm sorry. Comment. Oh yes. So, uh we are closing year end. It's been a little little hectic. Um but going well. Um it's been a busy year. Be a busy year next year. Um I know I won't get into it, but I know Mr. Harris isn't here. So um the bianial budget was passed um this today and

079uh will be sent to the governor for any kind of line item vetos. There's some uh good and bad. Um we had thought perhaps that uh House Bill 335 would be included in this and it was not and that eliminates um inside Millage which for us is over $5 million um there. The proposal in House Bill 35 is just to take that away. um and with no way of rectifying where we will get that money from. Um and it's over $5 million a year for us. So imagine that compacted five times in the forecast. That's not a pretty picture. Um and and you know it wasn't the best with it. So um thankful that that was not included, but uh there's it's still out there as its own standalone bill. So there's still um you

080know, please reach out. my article in roar will touch on it um kind of in the by the time it reached homes we weren't sure if it was happened same thing with the bianium bill so it was kind of just highlighting what the potential impacts could be you know and it may have may have not been passed so um please reach out to your legislators on that um some other things they did include the um cash balance threshold um at 40% so we can't can't have cash carryover more than 40% or the um county auditor then can adjust our millillage in order to rectify that which to me as I talked to Dr. Celico this morning for districts right now that have way more than that. It seems like there will just be a lot

081of irresponsible spending happening in order to get under that 40%. Um, which doesn't seem logical and doesn't seem responsible and um, but I don't know what else they want us to to do with that. Um, so there was a number of other things um there, but um overall it's not terrible, but I guess that's all relative, which what they rolled out was not great. And so it wasn't as bad as it it could have been, but it's still not great um for public education as a whole um in the state of Ohio. They also eliminated emergency levies. Yes. just something we'll need to have a conversation about um because we have one and we will not be able to renew it as such. Um so that will be a burden to our district. Do you

082know if they included the STRS thing? I was just looking the the right payments like the uh retirement pickup. Yeah, it said that's in there and was extended to include principles. Okay. So, that's another thing we'll have to address in our district because it's in several people's contracts. So, we'll need a future executive session to discuss that. Yeah, we don't want to give them any other future ideas, but still they haven't gotten it right. If they really wanted to do it the right way, they're still missing a whole lot of people. Well, we'll need an executive session probably to discuss that. Yeah. and probably a future agenda item about the emergency lobby. Yes. Yep. Thank you very much and thank you for always keeping us up to date on the ever changing landscape that is

083finance and it's hard state funding flurry of emails and all sorts of things. hard to keep up sometimes with all the changes, especially this time of year with closing a fiscal and when there's a banual budget, there's always a flurry in June. Lots of changes. Thank you. And that brings us to item G, superintendent CEO's business consent agenda of Dr. Thank you, Miss Coco. It is recommended that the board of education approves all items listed in the superintendent's consent agenda. So moved. Second. Thank you. Um so a few personnel items. I'll come back to our new hires. So we have some custodial and um uh secretary uh assignments there that you see there in our uh classified staff. We have our coaches listed. Um we have a couple of resations as we anticipate this time

084of the year. And um we have uh the adoption of the online learning plan. This is you've seen this before. This is just required by the state um again as a result of COVID ensuring that we have a plan for our students in the event that something similar would happen again. And then we have the uh LEA agreement uh for neonet and uh this is for uh three employees um that we contracted for for them um through Mr. Winch's departments. Um then lastly, I want to um introduce to you some potential hires in which you will be voting on this evening. And so if I call your name, if you just raise your hand so we know who you are. Um first we have Sarah Keaton. Sarah. Okay. Sarah uh would be joining us as

085our newest member of the Richardson staff in her role as an intervention specialist. Miss Katon comes to us with four years of experience from Bedford City Schools. I'm not responsible. um where she was be voted uh rookie of the year. She uh earned her bachelor of science and education from Kent State University with a major uh in mild to moderate and minor in autism spectrum disorders. Uh Ally Middleton, there's Ally. Uh Ally would come to us fresh from her student teaching experience. She is a graduate of Miami University where she earned a bachelor of science and education with a major in primary education prek5 and a minor in primary special education. Miss Middleton will serve uh students at her Kaihoga Falls preschool as an early intervention child early childhood intervention specialist. Uh Matthew Desa, I

086get it. All right. Uh he uh you may recognize uh Matt as our uh he was at Silver Lake School as a building substitute last year. I've seen him many times in action. Uh he's completed his student teaching experience there as well as uh during the 2324 school year. and the students and staff are excited to welcome him back this coming year as their new fourth grade teacher. Um he has earned a bachelor of science in education with a major in early childhood education and a minor in special education from Kent State University. Sarah Plattz Sarah Sarah joins our speech and language pathologist team with over 20 years of experience in the field. He earned a bachelor of arts and speech language hearing disorders and a masterers of arts in speech language pathology both from

087Edinburgh University of Pennsylvania. As a residents of the a resident of the falls, Miss Plat Plattz is very excited for the opportunity to serve her community in this capacity. Uh lastly, we have Ryan Warner. Uh Ryan is being recommended as the newest member of our administrative team at the Kyoga Falls uh middle school as an assistant principal. Mr. Warner comes to us with eight years of teaching experience as an intervention specialist where he most recently served River local schools for the past 5 years and where in which Emerson attends, but she didn't know who you were. I did ask. She said she knew who you were. Um, she was my reference check, not I'm sure she would not back either. Yeah, sixth grader was your reference check. You're here. So, Mr. Um he was an

088active member of his staff where he was chosen to serve on the PBIS committee held leadership team district leadership team and IEP compliance team. Mr. Warner earned a bachelor of arts and special education from the University of Akran, a masterers of arts in autism spectrum disorder from Grand Canyon univer Grand Canyon University and a masters of education in educational leadership from the American College of Education. As a sixth grade class counselor leader and a number of years coaching both football and basketball, he is ready to continue his active involvement with our students at the falls. Thank you. Will he be primarily at one of the campuses for the first Yes, that'll be the plan. Um I know Mr. Oswald's still kind of working through that a little bit. Um so he's he's still coming up

089with a plan, but I know and I'm sure you've talked to him maybe a little bit about that. Yeah. So he's he's able to go back and forth a little bit. My office will be in Roberts. Okay. And then um Mr. Tucker, we want to get to know all the students before the switch. So we both go back and forth a little bit, but uh yeah, I'll be primarily in Roberts. And then I had a question for you. So, we have the a gym teacher from Lincoln who's resigning and previously we had a art teacher from Richardson res resign and we know that um we could just hire to replace those folks but we also know we're going to close an elementary school in a year. Um and I had reached out to you about

090this. I know you've been kind of making a strategic plan about this. Could you share some of that information with us? Sure. So, um, in light of us knowing that we're going to be closing an elementary school, I not sure it's, uh, responsible in a couple different ways. One, hiring someone new only to potentially lay them off. I don't think that's fair. Um, also that the financial implications, we have an opportunity to save some money here. So, we um, Mrs. Bogdan and a couple of the principles got together and looked um, to see if we were able to absorb the uh, specials. Um, and so in reconfiguring our schedule a little bit, we were able to, we're going to have to replace the art teacher, but we will not have to replace the physical education

091teacher. Um, so that will be a savings to the district as well. There will be some travel in there, at least for this one year, but it's also not uncommon for specialist teachers to travel among buildings. So, yep, good work on that one. Thank you. Thanks for sharing. Thank you. Any other discussion or questions? Mr. Stoko, would you please call the Miss White? I miss Coco. Hi. Mr. Gomez. Hi. Mrs. Schaer. Hi. Thank you. And welcome all of you to the All right. Single file line. Come on up to the podium. You can save for the remarks. Ryan, you should go first. Lead by example, right? All right. I love how you hopped right up. You did. All right. Hello. Hello. Um, I just want to say I am excited to be here. Um, I

092know a few people tied to the community and people is what they said um is what I love the most is the people. And just a quick story is Mr. Oswell just got back from vacation at the end of the week. We were up here this morning touring the middle schools and uh past other schools didn't stop in but um giving up his time. I know he's on vacation right now and um we also stopped at Robert's middle school and Mr. Johnson the custodian he had his uh work boots on sweating and he had he was cleaning something up and we walked in and he stopped. He was like I got to give you a tour. I was like you look like you're into something and he was like no no no no. He's like

093I'm leaving for vacation tonight. We'll leave a little bit late whatever. He's like, "I'm going to show you around and show you all the tips and tricks around this building." And it just made uh it just formed an opinion and all these people say that the people of Coyote Falls and the community, they're helpful and all this. And that's exactly two for two right there. Miss Tucker has also reached out. Um and we're going to be get going here in three or four weeks. But um it really means a lot that people have been so helpful. um HR, everybody, even during the interview process, everybody um had great questions and very resourceful and helpful and uh I appreciate it and I think this is a great place to be. So, I'm very blessed. Thank you.

094Thank you. [Applause] I just want to thank you for this opportunity. Um, I agree. Everybody that I've encountered so far and has been amazing, super welcoming. Um, I actually used to live right up the road on Third Street, so I'm very familiar with the community and I don't live in the falls anymore, but I am very excited to be serving the community. So, again, I thank you for the opportunity. Thank you. [Music] [Applause] Who's next? I I just wanted to thank everyone for the opportunity. I also met so many wonderful people. I interviewed first at Price and met amazing people there and then move forward to look into that preschool program. And I'm really thankful for all the kind people who have answered all of my questions and I'm very excited to join the community.

095You prepared? Yes, this therapist is prepared. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I am truly truly grateful and super excited. Um, I'm very I'm very excited to join a team that invested so much into my children's education here at the falls. My daughter just graduated in May and my son will be a junior. So, um, I'm eager to give back to my community and also contribute to the success of the students as well as the school district. I've we moved here from Pennsylvania in was it 2005 and there was a reason why we stayed here in the falls. So we love it here and I'm really excited. Thank you. I found out today that she also takes classes at Cork. Mrs. Schaer her one of her we have a mutual friend who reached out

096to me. She knows who it knows who it is. Hi everyone. Um my name is Matt. Um I actually moved to the falls about 3 years ago and it's been an absolute blessing of a place to call home. Um like Dr. Celico said, uh, I did have my last semester of student teaching at Silverlake and then right after graduation, I was a long-term sub for an intervention specialist and then the next year, last year, um, I was a building sub. So, I feel like with all of the opportunities that I had, experiences, relationships, um I feel really ready for this role and I can't wait to get started if it's you student teach with Miss Stance. Yes, sir. Okay. We visited one time when he was student teaching and he got really nervous when he

097walked in. Welcome everybody again. Thank you for being here. That brings us to item H superintendent CEO's business. Dr. Celico. Thank you, Miss Goku. Congratulations to our new hires. Looking forward to seeing you in the classrooms or in your offices working with students. So, um happy you're all here. Just a couple things because you'll hear from me again shortly. Um uh in addition to we were talking a little bit about house bills and I I would concur that it's so difficult to keep up with all the changes. There's so much happening right now and if you're not actively involved in the legislature which not not everyone is and I understand that. Uh but we're really at a time and a juncture that we need to be really reaching out. Um the latest the part of

098the the good news that we received um is that the the vouchers um educational uh school vouchers have been ruled unconstitutional in the Franklin County courts. Uh that's step one. Yeah, step one. And uh you know it you never know it will end up in Supreme Court. I'd bet I'd bet money on that one. I if I were a betting gal. Uh but we'll see what happens. Um, I hate to be a pessimist, but after starting my 30th year in education, it's uh, you know, we've we've seen for decades now, school funding's been ruled unconstitutional decision, and yet here we stand still unconstitutionally funding our schools, and we've gotten a little better. But, um, it's actually gotten worse. The percentage of the percentage of state support has decreased. That's true. But, for the couple years,

099we were we got a little a little bit more fortunate. At least we got them listening to this fair school funding, you know, and they did fund it. They're just not funding it fully. That's the problem. But it still remains obviously a a challenge and a problem, but um we'll see how it plays out there. This will be appealed and appealed and appealed and and we'll see how it how it lands. But we certainly have been fighting that one uh for quite some time. Uh just two things that I' I've been working on just to update you. The sales of the buildings. Um kind of joking around a little bit in our office. I was telling the staff I have to go prepare for my open houses. um because I've been playing real estate agent

100uh this week. But I will um I remain optimistic that you're going to have some offers to consider on our on both uh the high school and Roberts. So uh working on some people there. I've asked to have offers um in the next month like three weeks and I know a couple of them are working through some things. So happy to say that we'll have some good and I think some good offers to consider. And then um still working on naming rights. Uh we you might have seen that we had uh another one come through uh for our band room right that's in the in the works. Um we will be doing a press release on our stadium. Uh we can announce it because it's been approved. We'll be Lambert Stadium. Lambert Buick uh uh

101has given us $250,000 uh for 10 years. And so we're uh pleased to do that. I'll be reaching out to the board to see if you're able to come for a signing if you're able. We'll do a press release um on the new field. So, still continuing to work on those. I've tasked cabinet this morning with brainstorming some ideas of some companies that they can uh maybe reach out to, especially in the advertisements. I really think there's a lot of money to be made there. KJ um has already has 10 off the top of his head already like in the works and so we're going to uh plow ahead. Those will be about 25 35 and 2500 3500 and 5,000 opportunities somewhere in that range. So, I think we'll get a lot of revenue there,

102which will go back into our athletics for the most part. So, I won't take any more time. You'll hear from me more. Um, enjoying a little bit of summer and looking forward to going to summer school tomorrow and seeing some students. Christine did a nice video on the uh sponsorship as well that went up yesterday. Yeah. Yeah, it was nice. Thank you. Any other comments? I think that's it. Yes, you skipped over to the second instead of the first. All right, you're back at it. It's okay. I'm back at it. You guys get to listen to me twice in one night. I'm sorry. All right. This is the exciting part of the CEO's business, right? This job requires you to be responsible for good and bad news, I suppose. But uh so this evening board

103I would just like to update you provide an update on the work that we've done to prepare for our 6th through 12 uh campus move here that we will be having uh before you know it. Uh we'll be in our new building in January which is just a a few months away at this point. I know when I first got hired it seemed so far in the horizon and all you know and here we are um talking about the move. So I just want to update you on the things that we've been doing and team please feel free to chime in because they have been responsible for so much of this work. So Ryan, are you gonna lead me through it? All right. All right. So just to go back briefly to the very beginning

104and those of you who are new to this, um we have been meeting for literally years uh and regularly. So uh there are a lot of meetings that have been involved. We had a construction leadership team that predated me, but we continued those uh meetings. Those were with district and community stakeholders. The their goal then their charge was to design, plan and redesign. Uh there were many concessions as you know the value engineering they referred to. There was a lot of work that went into prior to me even arriving. Uh there were core team meetings that uh we continue to have actually. Mrs. White serves loyally. She comes to all of our meetings and beats up the architects at times not not literally just figuratively. And uh I'm I'm present at those as well as

105uh other members of my team. And then we have TDA who is our architect and Hammond the construction manager at those meetings and we we they provide us with updates. We have discussions just to um find you know figure out what strategies we need, what the progress is um where there might be some challenges, some bumps etc. Then we have design team meetings which can be fun. Um well just don't ask the gentleman in the room. It's fun for maybe me. Yeah. you know how this goes when we get into colors and you know things maybe I step in a little bit. Um but this is where uh we we meet and we talk about the selection of furniture color schemes the flooring all of those fun kind of design decisions. Now we are limited

106in our scope. So if there's there are color color palettes in there that you know that are are nice because it's nice and shiny and new. Would it be my first choice? Probably not. after they they come to us with choices and selections and and you make those decisions. But we also did involve staff. I do want to say furniture for sure. We've we involved students and staff to get their feedback. Some unfortunately some things were not affordable so we had to scale back which is understandable but we tried to honor people's requests the best we could. Um the staff moving committee we decided to form a committee of any staff member that wanted to be part of this not just teachers. So we met uh two times two times um in the second one

107in each semester I think I can't remember at this point but we uh we would uh ask them for their input what they would like to see what they needed and then but more so we would share with them what our thoughts were what the moving details were get their feedback and then they would be the kind of the conduit from our offices here to the schools and informing our teachers and staff of the details of the move itself. And then we continue to have administrative planning at our offices. Uh we meet twice a month cabinet at cabinet and both uh our middle school and high school principles have been part of that process just to touch base. We have a cadence and a um gant chant sheets or rank chart that it's called and

108we go through that regularly to make sure we're honoring what we said we the work we would do. All right. Um, communications in general, just to really tout the work that Christine has done, we really have worked hard to communicate with our parents and families through a variety of mean uh means. Our website uh we we have continued to have a a link there that we reported our progress and now we are shifting to make it more of a hub of information. So now the parent meetings for example, we've shifted our focus where it was construction based at first, now we've shifted our focus to what do parents need to know? What are the schedules? You know, those kind that we're going to start to see more of practical information for our parents there as

109we transition. Our social media, we certainly have made announcements there. Christine has uh kept up with the different accounts, sharing our updates and milestones. She lots of pictures, lots of videos. You've seen our roar newsletter. We always for I think for the at least the last three years I've been here, I think that we've made that a priority to provide updates in our roar uh four times a year to our communities that are able to see pictures as well. Um, as I mentioned the videos, Christine is uh she's taken us on some tours with her phone and you know, oh sorry I didn't turn on the lights. I remember that caption right in the one picture. um showing us the different areas of the school and then what I thought is some really proud work

110and I wish you know I could say this was a great uh you know a great idea by the district but it it really came from TDA um that they approached us and said would you like to do this 12-part series which is great but there was a lot of work on our end Christine had to do the scripts we had to share them with our staff get feedback uh relative to those staff uh I'm sorry um scripts and then we had to come and you know be recorded the different people um different members of our team. But I will tell you this was a really I thought just a great community relations um strategy very informative to folks that haven't been able to come to the campus. You really are capturing uh a firsthand

111account of different areas of our of the school itself. So really proud of that. Um thought that was really great. And then we had our staff and uh family messages as you know we put out emails, parent squares. Uh our internal communication is called tiger tales. So our departments at central office all we write articles uh monthly actually and they love this task that they do. They see all the smiles. They love it. When I say it's when Christine says it's tiger tail time, they all do that. They smile. They welcome the opportunity to write an article and then we provide that to the staff and they get some lengthy um updates from us monthly. So all you new folks make sure you are reading your tiger tales. There's a quiz periodically when I come

112in your classrooms you have to answer. Just kidding. All right. So we have um timelines and schedules and other things that we have been um providing uh frequently asked question documents to families as well and having that two-way communication where parents have had an avenue to communicate with us and ask our question ask us questions and we would respond. Okay. Um so now we're just going to go kind of by season here. The things that we've done in in the different seasons. So fall of last year um we had we continued and you're going to see this and I won't keep repeating it. the core team meetings, bimonthly meetings, design team meetings. Those have always those have just continued to occur. Staff were invited to participate as I mentioned in the moving committee. We had

113the communications that have gone out um announcing the details. So, as early as, you know, the fall of 2024, even though we're not opening till January of 26, uh we continue to do campus visits. So, we've had various people um come and tour the buildings. We have been there, members of our team have gone and looked at the campus and just, you know, check things out periodically. And then we had the feedback and questions from families submitted to the district and that FAQ again was sent again in in the fall and we began our search for a moving company at that time. Moving on to the winter of uh 2425, we had again many of the same things, but this is now where we're started to um our our food services, our HR uh we're

114looking at different um staffing scenarios, what that's going to look like as we emerge. Uh we had some technology surveys and planning that um through Ryan's department to find out what technology teachers would what their preference was as long as it fit within our budget and so planned for that and those devices have are here I believe are they? Yeah. Very good. So the timeline and packing directions then were sent to the staff so they were clear on uh we've sent a very detailed schedule of events for them so they could see map out months in advance they could see and we've we've held ourselves accountable. We looked at that schedule and said, "Did we do this?" Check, check, check. So, we've done a great job keeping up with that. Um, student services was planning

115for they had to get us a new IRN number. So, that will be um we are starting the year out with one IRN, right? Okay. And then teaching and learning begins um their focus on team alignment, new courses. Now, we're starting to work with the staff on what transitioning will look like and working together with new folks and uh new focus perhaps. and our labor unions. We've involved them in regular meetings throughout this transition. So, um, Miss Bogdan has met with them regularly to be wide open and transparent about what, uh, we are thinking and what it may result in for our staff because we're very sensitive to that, of course. And then plans were created. Uh, we're continuing to have these conversations about memorabilia and the digital legacy um, signage. So, we're working on

116those things. That one has me a little nervous to be honest cuz I was standing outside today waiting to come in talking to my mother on the phone. And right in front of me was like this thing that said like dedicated Kyoga Falls 1981. I was like, "Oh, oh goodness, what is this now?" Like, "Do I have to remember to bring this?" Um, but so there the point being there's a lot of things around the district that we really have to be mindful of that are important to people. So that would be a challenge, but we're doing the best we can. And then sponsorship opportunities. That's when we started to really campaign a little bit more for our naming rights. Moving on to spring 2025. Um so our moving company has been selected. You know,

117you um signed off on that uh contract. Our auction arrangements are being they're starting to come through our buildings very soon to to look at our items to plan for that. Uh we've been looking at our emergency response uh coordinating locations, accessibility for our students with special needs and disabilities. Um at the new campus technology as I mentioned has been ordered installation of it at the new campus. Uh we had a family information night in in May. We did again more campus visits the black tiger video series that we talked about. Uh now we've notified our staff of what their teaching assignments will be. Of course in the spring we did that and more surveys this time done by our students to solicit their feelings and thoughts and questions. And from what I understand, the

118feedback we've received, they were kind of insightful and the things that they're curious about or or their their wonders and and concerns were were interesting. Um, but we want to make sure that we address our students um anxieties and excitement as well. And then uh the staff begin began their packing and the middle school staff uh received professional development to merge the two um schools together. We're obviously trying to work on some team building there. and Ryan, we're ready for the summer. That's now. Um, so a lot of, you know, similar things, the website, um, pages, working on now, like merging things, right? Christine with the parent square. Um, the ribbon cutting, we're now planning for our big events, right? The ribbon cutting, Clifford Stadium, uh, celebration, those dates, all of that information will be

119in our next roar. So, those are all listed there. the building tours, uh, meeting with, as I mentioned to you, prospective buyers for our properties, the plans for the Lambert Stadium. We're working on that soft opening and what that will look like. Uh, the student information systems starting to reflect our two middle schools. We have planning now for our fall bus routes. Um, you know, Margie and her team are working on those, the technology equipment, again, as we talked about, the auctioneer, and then the acquisition of the neighboring right sponsors continues. And then this fall, what do we have um coming up? So, building tours, we'll have a field trip for our students. So, again, to help alleviate some of their anxiety, we're going to bring every student in grades 6 through 12 to the

120new campus. Our plan is to do that in December. So, it's relatively fresh. You don't want to do it too soon. Uh so, we'll bring every student there. We'll plan for that. Uh we'll have staff that will have opportunities to come to the building. We have we've already given them the dates and times. I believe some might be tenative but we will stick to those um the scheduling um the pickup of schedules for our students at Roberts and Bolic the new um new students. So we will have some we will not have a a customary um openhouse that we have in the past. It will be scaled back. It'll be more so for our new students entering the middle school, sixth graders, new 9th graders, but we will have an opportunity to have the building

121open and people can come and visit. We won't have staff on hand because they're not required. if they want to come, they can, but the real open house will take place um in January. And then again, they continue to pack. We've had a family information communication about the transition. Um we will, I'm sorry, in October. And Lambert Stadium, again, the the opening the district. Uh we take ownership of the building in uh November 26 is the date. The stadium date would be August 1, I believe. And uh we have you know, a lot of work to do around the communication of the new bus routes for second semester. That will be a challenge. And then the celebration, as we mentioned, the final building tours and ribbon cutting ceremonies. So, we have a few things to

122do this fall. Um, we were just talking about that today. Um, there's a lot coming up in the fall. We're going to be it's going to be a very busy year. Mr. Jones and I were chatting about it. So, I said, I know it's going to be exciting. This year is going to fly by. We won't even it will go so fast. And then lastly, our movein. Uh this is uh kind of spelled out again in that document that we gave to our staff. So December the teachers will start to move into their classrooms. We're going to give them an opportunity to come in and bring their personal items that they want to have. And then the movers themselves over that winter break will be hustling to get all of that in. They they there

123most likely will be some preliminary move in especially if we get um if we get the okay earlier than November 26th. We'll gradually move things over. And then the sta on the 5th and 6th of January, the staff will have those days to work in their classrooms and set up. And then January 6 will be the middle school openhouse followed by then the next day where the middle school students first day will be on the 7th. And then that's when the high school will have their open house. Then the next day the middle school the high school will attend. So it'll then on the last day there of the week all students will come back to school. And the reasoning for that is the probably the obvious, right? like we want to make sure that

124we are bringing a small number, a manageable number of students in for pickup, drop off, scheduling, you know, traffic flow. We're going to be monitoring all of that and we will be making adjustments. We've told parents this all along, family members, that there will be adjustments that will have to be made. Uh I don't doubt that at all once we uh see it in while uh in while we're executing it. So um we have the online auction. will go live that so that January 15th, 5th, excuse me, through the 16th um items will be picked up and then so we we do have some we've asked the auctioneers to stick to those time frames and then we have our building farewell tours and our uh Bullock abatement begins in January of 26. So people might

125be a little confused about that. The Bulock building will remain there for that semester and uh they'll begin to abate it and start uh taking it down. it it will still be there and parking lots parking will be a challenge until Bolic is um demolished and parking lots are put in. So for the following school year will be in good shape but that first semester will be a challenge. So that's what we've been working on. Um, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to see all the things so you don't and I know I know this board well enough to that you know we've been doing work but that um that you can feel confident that we'll be ready in January to make that move. But kudos to again once again to the team

126for all the things that that they've been doing. But I'm happy to entertain any questions if you have them. You mentioned the parking. We know that parking is going to be a huge challenge for that, you know, second semester, the first semester it's open. Do we have or anticipate there not being enough parking with student drivers and things like that? Do we think that there's enough space for everyone without that other parking lot? It's going to be tight. The the biggest, I think, inconvenience, if you will, is that the students are going to have to walk, if I recall, it's a little bit of a walk from where they're going to park. They're going to have to walk up the hill because I think Mr. Smith said at the parent night that he's going to

127have them park down at the stadium parking and then they'll have to walk up the hill. So, we'll hear about it. It'll be inconvenient. Certainly, if we have any snowstorms, it'll be particularly inconvenient, but um I'm sure that our custodial staff will do the great job they always do. Yeah. Yeah, that's what we anticipate. It'll be tight. We don't have a a a great number of student drivers, so but it will be Yeah. probably more interconvenient than anything. It'll be a quick turnaround. I think what's exciting, too, is we could cuz you put some of the dates on here. So, we're going to do the ribbon cutting on December 6. So, we get the keys we know at latest November 26th and then we're letting our community see the finished product 10 days later. So,

128we're we're getting you in quick cuz that's what everyone asks is when they can see it. So, we're getting them in real quick. Um, which I think is important because the community really wants to see it. So, I agree. Yeah. And then a month later, students will be in that week of January 6th through that week. I I think we're going to need to plan on having something extra special for all the staff and everybody working there as appreciation. That's going to be a a very exciting but very exhausting thing. I'm sure for everyone. Mr. Jones words to me today were well the our end of the year celebration better be a good one for all the administrators. Better because we're going to need it after this year. Yeah. I'm more stressed about the moving

129in time that December period. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. Well, the moving company we feel real good about. They've got good reviews. I've spoken to the superintendents who have used them in in well, superintendent um and he had a very good um uh experience with them. The folks at Ohio schools council feel good about them. They vetted them and so we're optimistic that they'll be good. They are going to come in and talk directly with our staff, answer their questions. Like that was something above and beyond that no other company had shared with us that they would do. So, and so much of it is just brand new that we don't have to worry about. But, um, and I talked to Lucas from Hammond about how that happens and he said they just walk it

130all in. They walk it up a flight of two, three flights of stairs. Yeah. I don't want that job. Every desk. Yeah. Yeah. And as a reminder for those who are listening, we're not bringing furniture over. So, that's one. It come the new schools come with new furniture. So, we're not really allowing all the old furniture like this is going to stay auctioned. No one tried to sneak in some old bookshelf. Thank you very much for the update and for everything again that's going on. And we know and are confident that all of this excitement and everything that you're doing is on top of continuing to focus on the education of our students and that it's for everyone in our district. And to be able to do all of that we know is a lot

131um because it's its own piece and we're very appreciative and exciting exciting times. It's very It's been a long time coming for this 20 years. Co made it even longer. I guess it is. We're excited. Thank you. Thank you very much. Right. And I is board business. Number one is resolution declaring it necessary to renew an existing levy. The recommended recommended action is a resolution declaring it necessary to renew an existing 9.9 mil tax levy for the purpose of current expenses and requesting the Summit County fiscal officer to make certain certifications pursuant to section 5705.03 and 5705.21 on the revised code. motion. Oh, so moved. Second discussion. This is the this is a renewal. Um last one that we have that we can uh for a while that we was in our list of making

132continuing. Um this is the first opportunity is in November to put this on. Uh the last opportunity will be in November of 2026. Um, this is the first step after this. We submit this to the county auditor and then they give us the stuff back and then there'll be a second resolution at hopefully at the next meeting. When does our um emergency levy expire? We just renewed it in 22. I can't remember if we did that. Five years. That was for five years, I'm sure. So, it's we stopped collecting in 2027, tax year 2026, but then collection in 2027. Okay. And then we know we need new money soon probably. We'll need new money. And then what's the effective millage of this? This one was down to 6.22 as of tax year. Would there be

133any benefit to making since they're getting rid of replacements to replacing this and renewing it for a continuing period of time? I mean, the benefit would obviously be that you would see, you know, more money in that. Um, but I think that does come with the risk of whether you, you know, you could try that. be the last time we could ever try to replace a lovey. Yes, it is. Those are I mean good. This definitely I think can be confusing. Um I would say county agencies have been doing replacement levies and they've been sailing to success and there's another one on the ballot in November for replacement for the children services board. If we do a replacement, do we lose or do the taxpayers lose their homestead productions? That would be what I would

134be concerned about. Um because that is that is not the same. I don't know for sure. I didn't mean to just bring that on you. No, that's okay. I'm just trying to think of I I mean I probably have that information somewhere. I don't know. Just because typically we're like if this doesn't pass to go for new money then it's going up. So would this be the same? If you have um replacement levies um the additional portion would not qualify. So like the increase which you would anyway considered new. So what you're already doing Yes. But then let's say those other three mills or whatever just like it would on anyway. Just like it would anyway. So are you suggesting doing a replacement for more money and adding and combining? You can't replace for more

135money. You can only replace the replacement renews the millillage at the 9.97. Now it takes your effective millage back to the past millillage. So we're at an effective millage at 6.22 and it takes that effective millage back to 9.97 based on today's valuation, not on the 1991 valuation that this was originally passed at. That's what a replacement levy does. and the state's getting rid of them. So, this is our also our last opportunity to ever do that and we need more money anyway. So if we're talking about levy fatigue, we could do both of those things, attempt to do both of those things in one attempt as opposed to which was the other board members feelings of why they were putting this on in November because it's what we always do to try to get

136out of lobby fatigue. And we could put that replacement on as continuing renew and replace for a continued period of time. and give it a try. And then if that doesn't work, just like if that doesn't work, other folks said, we can go back to renew the existing one because replacement's no longer an option anyway. And we could go on in May. You'd most likely have to have a special meeting because I'm having a hard time hearing down here. You have most likely then have if that's what you wanted to do, have a special meeting. Um like if we need time to talk about Yeah. I feel like I feel like I need time to digest all of like this new suggestion. I'm not opposed to this suggestion, but I feel like I need time

137to digest it. Yeah, we probably need to provide you with some information and we meaning Miss Sto, she's the expert on this, but then yeah, I was just saying like timelinewise, you know that we so we might have to include a special meeting. So you meet the timeline at some point you have to declare uh a levy. You have to get the two resolutions passed into the board by August 4th or 6, one of the two at 4 p.m. Um, but then you have to give the fiscal office enough time in between the two meetings. If you let me know who to contact at the fiscal office, I can nudge them along. I got friends. What are everyone else's thoughts on this? So, instead of renewing the levy, I'm sorry, I was was hard to

138hear down here. So instead of um renewing our current levy from 1991, we would be replacing it to restore the original millillage. So it would be ext. Yeah, we'd have to give that account. Yeah, it would be I mean I can roughly tell you we have a little over billion in valuation. So it would be 3.75 mills at a billion dollars valuation. Is this is this something We want to get more information on and consider. If so, we will need to do a separate we'll need to do a special meeting. Yeah. You should we're getting to some math right here. We wouldn't wait on this and then look at the replacement. Is that correct? Correct. Okay. So we are um with the new um requirements we would be losing the ability to do replacement levy.

139Correct. But our replacement levy would stand though. Yes. We could do put it on in November and then if we were not successful then we could re-evaluate and then go back to May. We would still have two more opportunities to renew this May and November. Correct. Okay. No, it's a good So, my thought is just if we're going to take this chance in November, why not make the most of the chance? The reality is we need more operating money. We all know that we're doing all these other things we're saying we're going to need more. This is an opportunity to kind of do both in one issue. So, that makes it a little bit less confusing. How much does a mill collect again? Like a million. A million on 350 million. So get us cuz

140that valuation is already So get us 3 million $750,000 a year. I'm not opposed. I would like more information before I were to, you know, decide that's what we're doing, but I'm not opposed to doing that with a special meeting and having more conversation about it if everybody else is good with that. I do think it is a good idea. Mhm. When you mentioned for like just the levy fatigue, we have um renewed several and now this one's going to be up either way and we know that we are going to have to get more money and then our emergency levy we won't be able to renew that. So actually I Yeah. Yeah. I'm not opposed to Because that emergency levy we're going to have to do is like a whole new levy. That's going

141to be a whole another battle trying to get people to understand that this is money you already given us but the state took our ability to say that we're just renewing it. So now we have to put it on as a new levy which is going to be a lot of community education. Exactly. But this is an existing and we'll still be able to get that replacement on the ballot in November if we pause right now. Yeah, you you have to have a special meeting mostly for that second resolution in order to meet the deadline and get it to a board of elections, but okay, that's doable. They're usually pretty quick with this kind of stuff. When would we need an issue? Could we have this on the 9th and then a special meeting after

142that or would we need to have a special meeting before that? Yeah, I would say you'd have a special meeting after that because I would agree. And it gives us some time. It gives you it gives the county time to get they've got to return that. So, we're at their mercy for that before we can do the second resolution. So, whether you do it like on um and they're still like the 23rd or the 30th would be okay. Well, we know what we know firmly what has been voted on regarding levies like with in the budget bill will be out. So, we'll have more information there too to see where they land as relates to what you're referring to. You know, the Can I ask another kind of logistic question? So at the next meeting

143we can have the additional information and have a resolution kind of ready to go and then decide at that time which way we want to go on the the renewal or the um replacement. Thank you the and then we could at that time decide which way we want to go. Okay, that makes sense to And then would it be helpful if Miss Stooy showed the impact of that three,750,000 just to the just to the bottom line of the forecast? Yeah. Okay. It would then give her time to do that. So she's closed now. She's not busy. We need to push back this production presentation till the first one in August. I haven't asked about the financial health indicators yet either. I know. Um, listen, and I get it. I paid my property taxes today. It's

144not that I want that bill to get higher, but this is the system in which the state has given us to fund public schools. So, until there's a different system, this is this is what we've got. So, and then do a special meeting 6:23, which is when we were potentially 7:23 or 7. I don't know why I keep saying I want June to just last another month. It doesn't have to be a Wednesday. Yeah, it Yeah, it wouldn't have to be, you know, but if that works, I think that's what we had tenatively as possible a date if we were going to do the uh special meeting for the six or the elementary building. Anyways, if that works for everybody 7:23 Wednesday was getting new signs anyway, so it works. Yes. Okay. Do we need

145to table this action? Yes. Uh, I'll move to table this to the July 9th meeting and I'll second. Miss Stocoy, would you please call the RO? Sorry, Miss White. Miss Coco. Hi, Mr. Gomez. Hi, Mr. Harris. Oh, Mrs. Schaer, sorry. Hi, Miss White. Hi. Thank you. Okay. Item two is adoption of our strategic plan. It is recommended that the board of education approves the strategic plan for the years 2025 to 2029. So moved. Second. I may just make one note. Um so we um approved our goals but this is the comprehensive plan that you will see here that the team has worked on. um the three areas specifically and then the one um kind of consolidated document. The only thing I'd like to mention that um we talked about at cabinet this morning is that

146we understand we are very respectful of the goals and objectives that have been established. We don't plan on touching those because they're they're clear and we we understand the direction. But action steps are some that can be modified at times when you're getting into the nitty-gritty. You might find that you missed an extra step. you might need another action step. One of your goals might have le led us in a different direction, you know, making us add. So I know that the board would not want us to like come back to you every time that you need to approve an action step because that that could happen not necessarily frequently but all the time but on several occasions. So if the board just grants us the um ability to change those and notify you if

147changes happen in our updates. But I just want to say that as you're considering, you know, approving it that there might be some some changes there. Thank you. Um I'm very uh excited and proud of all the work that's gone into this new strategic plan. Um and that it's condensed, it's not too big, there's not too many objectives and goals and all of that. And so all the hard work that's gone into it and I think it the CFS with is awesome with Kyle Paul schools. Um thank you Mr. Gomez. Um so I would like to just right now publicly I think so much work has gone into this and we are very proud of it. I would like for us to read this really quickly out loud because I think it's important um to

148do so. I don't know if any Does everyone have their this copy with them? You're doing Miss Schaefer, do you want to read culture of caring for us? Sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing you. Do you want to read the culture of caring section? Oh, sure. Uh, the Cal City School District is committed to fostering a culture of caring for all members of the Black Tiger family. We believe that meeting the fundamental needs of individuals is essential for personal growth and success. Our goal is to prioritize and address these needs from basic to advanced, ensuring that every student, staff member, and community member is supported in their journey. By focusing on the unique needs of our district population, we aim to create an environment where all individuals can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Should

149we read the objectives as well? I think you want to read the objectives. Sure. Yeah. Thank you. Objective one, we will maintain enhance a comprehensive support network that connects families with educational resources, eliminating barriers to ensure all students have equal opportunities to fully participate in their education. Objective two, all Black Tigers will learn and work in a safe and secure environment. Objective three, all Black Tigers will experience a strong sense of belonging where every individual feels connected to our school community. They will discover purpose by setting personal goals that contribute to their own growth and the growth of others. They will be inspired by hope, fostering trust, ambition, and high expectations to guide them toward a clear and purposeful future. Thank you, Mr. Shaker. Miss White, do you want to read uh goal two? goal

150to facilitating our financial future. As the hub of our community, we will manage operational resources of financial transparency and responsibility to pro to provide a safe, cost-effective environment that enriches student success and promotes positive growth while fostering strong partnerships. Objective one, ensure the continuous development, maintenance of facilities and infrastructure that provide for the academic, artistic, and athletic needs of present and future students in alignment with resources that guide our strategic plan. Objective two, promote financial stewardship, transparency, and accountability by maximizing systems and resources to ensure all financial activities support the district's mission and strategic goals. Thank you, Miss White. Mr. Gomez, goal three, steering to student achievement. We envision a future where all students are empowered to reach their full potential as lifelong learners and global citizens through personalized and innovative educational experiences that prepare

151students for employment, enlistment, and enrollment success. Objective one, continuously improve student learning outcomes through response to intervention, our multi-tered student success academic framework by using diagnostic assessments to drive differentiated instruction. Objective two, foster a culture of continuous instructional improvement by implementing evidence-based instructional strategies and rigorous and relevant curricula, resulting in increased student achievement. Objective three, empower students for post-secary and professional success by developing students skills in communication, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and digital literacy resulting in students being employed and listed or enrolled. Thank you, Mr. Gomez. Does anyone else have any comments to add? you know, hearing it read out loud like that. This this is this is exciting. I think this was really put together nicely. The the the specific words used are inspiring but also like, you know, measurable, attainable type. I

152I I'm proud of this. Yeah, I am as well. Yeah, I think we've made a lot of good progress and I'm optimistic about um what our test data is going to show us when we get that presentation in September like we do annually. But I also think that um if we really work hard on this over the next 3 years that our district will be in a really great place. So I'm optimistic about um the work that we have ahead of us. The one thing is um as I was digging into some of this with Dr. Celico is that I heard that our absenteeism rate is now down to 24%. So we might have to set that um goal to make that goal a little bit more difficult. Mr. Elder um cuz I know we're

153set starting at 27, but if we're really starting at 24, we're going to have to uh dig a little deeper on that goal. If we stick with 1% and we still be where we should it's still and we still want to make sure that data sticks cuz you know they I know you know how those things change but we anticipate 24 which is great growth which is is Oh no it's great growth. I'll take the growth but you know I like I like strong achievement results. So, if if we're really at 24 this year, then then we're a few years ahead and we can we can chip away even harder. Measurable and attainable. Mhm. Thank you. Made please call the role. Mr. Sh. I miss white. I Mr. Go. I I think we should clap

154for that one. I don't know. [Applause] It's a great We're allowed to clap. Yeah. Great effort. Um that brings us to item three, future agenda items. We know that on the 9th we'll have our elementary discussion and then our replacement levy discussion. And then we also have Miss Sto's um evaluation executive session that Oh yeah. in the budget. Can we actually move that budget to the first meeting in August? I because there are some coding changes. That's fine. Um with they updated some things in the US SB. I know. I'm still working through those. I'm concerned I won't have enough time to give you a good work for it. So, um, August will um I'll have more information. Everything should be set by then a little more. And then as a future agenda item, obviously

155no sooner than the second meeting in August, no sooner. um the financial health indicators um from the state. I know Miss Stoy sent that out to us, but if you could just walk us um through that and how they um relate to our district. I've been a little myself, but I think it'd be helpful to do it, but once we get through all the other stuff we gave to you this evening. Anything else? It takes us to item four, committee reports. I know the core team. Yes, I know the core team. I think that's probably the only one we have. We met. Okay. No, go ahead. And it's still a lot of stuff. And you know, it's not like I would think of fun things, but okay. We're getting there and that's what counts. We're

156close. Um the building and the one and four through four exterior that work is getting done in the curbs and the sidewalk. The stadium plaza, the concrete is prepped and poured. We'll continue carpentry carpentry drywall paint. They're wrapping up the case work, the door installation, the ceiling grid, painting ongoing in building four. building three final painting um and um stage rigging complete. The flooring is ongoing. Um they're starting on the stair treads and then they'll in the start initial cleaning of floor flooring in building one. The glazing is continuing especially in the main hall high school um curtain. The roofing continuing ongoing the roof ladder installation ongoing. plumbing, the fixtures ongoing throughout the building with case work. Um mechanical rooms are ongoing, the locker rooms coming along, HVAC again, they're installing the valve tags on

157piping and things like that. Um electrical and technology, all of that is getting installed and going on in the auditorium building 4, testing the fire alarms, which are is very important. um building out the tech closets and so on. The sound cabling in the auditorium also that's that'll be something too. Um there's a little bit of late sight work but the specialties elevator installation, kitchen equipment, the astronomy dome structure is installed. Um signage is starting next month. Stadium scoreboard installations going. The main high school gymnasium bleachers install in installation will be the later this month. Auditorium sound panel installation scheduled to start next week. So um the master schedule and update um um we have the moving company and they will get ready to move us and I don't need to go over this because

158I think Dr. Celica already, you know, kind of told us about that. Um, so everything is is kind of right on time. We're hoping to get the keys uh by um November 26th and it will be done. I I can't I can't believe it's been 20 years. 20 years. And so it's exciting. It really is something. So there you go. It's a lot of stuff, technical stuff, you know, but all needs to be done. That brings us to item five comments. Um, Mrs. Schaefer, your question. Um, I don't really have anything this way. Just one. Um, we of course lost another teacher. I'm sure Lincoln Hackam Jr. passed away um just a little bit. He was really um lost his son in a horrible accident. It was awful. But he continued to work. He um

159was a a teacher here and a coach and um our condolences to his family and friends. He was really a wonderful um man, wonderful teacher and coach. Sorry. Thank you. I don't have anything today. Um, just welcome to our new Black Tigers as part of our family and I hope everyone's enjoying their summer and hopefully it's not going to be as hot as it's been the past couple days soon. And um, I hope our students are reading. That's all. That's it, Mr. Gomez. Yeah, I'd like to congratulate Mrs. Schaefer. She's been awarded with um OSBA's aptitude award, and she'll get that award uh in October at the Galaxy restaurant. All right, you'll get it later, but I found out today. A that's awesome. Anything else? We're good. All right. Item J is executive session. Pursuant

160to Ohio Reise Code 121.22, it is hereby moved that the board adjourn to executive session to consider the employment of a public employee or official. Now second, [Music] please call the role. 750. Oh, I'm sorry. I paying attention. Hi, Mr. Gomez. Hi, Mr. Hi. to enter the executive session at