Cuyahoga Falls City Schools BOE Meeting 3/19/2025

001Good evening everyone. Welcome. So good to see so many students faces and faces and everyone else out there tonight. I'd like to call to order this regularly scheduled board of education meeting, Wednesday, March 19th at 5:30. Um, Miss Stole, can you please call the role? Miss Coco here. Mr. Gomez here. Mr. Harris, here. Mr. Schaefer here. Here. Thank you. Item B is approval of the agenda. It is recommended that the board of education approves the agenda of the March 19th, 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 request that any item be removed from the consent agenda and voted upon separately. Second discussion. Mr. Would

002you please call me? Miss I. Mr. Hi. Mr. Harris. Hi. Mr. Schaer. Hi. Hi. Item C is our opening ceremony. Informational items. This meeting is a meeting of the Kyogre Falls Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business. It is not a public community meeting, although there are opportunities for public participation. If an individual wishes to address the board regarding a topic found on the meeting agenda, the individual must complete a registration form found inside the attendance notebook and present it to the treasurer. Following the introduction of the topic by the board president, followed by board discussion, the individual will be recognized. If an individual wishes to address the board regarding a topic not found on the meeting agenda, he or she must notify the superintendent and or board

003president of the topic no later than three business 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 unabridged board agenda for this meeting can be found on your electronic device at the address on the screen. For your convenience, hard copies of the board agenda may be found on the table by the signin book over there on the library stand. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Kyogre Falls Board of Education is April 9th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the Kyogre Falls School

004Library. And now for our pledge of allegiance and welcome, Mr. Harris. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Welcome. Our vision Kaga 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. The board's strategic plan goals are as follows. School safety. We aspire to have a welcoming environment that ensures the physical and social well-being needs of every student and staff member are met. Academic growth. We aspire to have a have significant growth through personalized education for all students. We aspire to improve graduate graduation

005rates so that our students are prepared for employment, enrollment, or enlistment. Engagement, inclusion, and diversity. We ensure that every student has access to resources they need when they need it in order to be successful. And technology systems and integration. We aspire to create safe, secure, and efficient technology systems to support highquality teaching, learning, and district operations. Thank you, Mr. Harris. Item D is our presentations. Uh up first is our military recognition, and Mr. Gomez is going to lead that recognition. Thank you. Thank you. And I have a few people joining me tonight. Um first is Miss Peggy Whitcom and she just got back from Columbus today. She was representing the entire state of Ohio in Columbus with the governor's office and re um representing all military families in a meeting with the governor. And we're

006very gifted because Peggy Wickcom works here for the Falls City School District in our human resources department. And one of the things she also does for us is coordinate resources for all of our military families. So, if you could give her a round of applause. And would you also let us know the award you recently received? I was um named the Ohio National Guard Volunteer of the Year. We're very proud of to have her. And we have from the Daughters of the American Revolution, Judy Orsine. Judy Orsine. And so every year at graduation as the board of education, we see all we see our students who have joined the armed forces and we see them wearing their stools recognizing the different armed forces and we always say to each other, we should have done more

007to honor those students. So this was the year we decided we were going to do something more to honor them. And so on March 11th, the state of Ohio had Ohio Military Signing Day. So this is our board of education meeting closest to that day. We're very proud that There are four students from Kaga Falls High School that have already committed to joining the armed forces after their graduation. And as a board of education, we say that every student who graduates, we want them to be employed, enlisted or enrolled. So this is an absolute success for these four students. We know that not all of them were able to be here tonight, but we want to recognize all of them. So as I say their names, if they could please come forward, I'm going to

008recognize the branch of military that they've committed to. First is Ahmed Ahmed and he is committed to the Army National Guard. Grace Henry who has also committed to the Army National Guard. [Applause] Gavin Taylor, who is committed to the US [Applause] Army, and Grant Orsign, who is committed to the US Marine. [Applause] One of our hearts. It's important to note that Judy is Grant's grandmother. Chicago Falls chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is very active in supporting our schools here and we support Price and the high school and we provide supplies um snacks things that they might need. So Judy is is awarding Grant a certificate and then we're going to give him his first military coin which is a big deal in the military. Ed, this is a certificate of United States.

009I would like to say also And I I promised Grant I would not embarrass him, but I do want to say that Grant is the fourth generation in his father's family to graduate from Ky Falls High and the third generation in his mother's family to graduate from Kyber Falls High School. And I think this says a lot for the city and for the high school and for the school system in general. Thank you. One, well, two other things to share. So, we have three purple star schools in our district. We have Lincoln, Preston, and Richardson. and those schools have worked with OD to go through a process to show that they support mil the military and the military families and veterans in our community. Um, April is month of the military child. So, look for

010some announcements about wearing purple. Purple is the color of the military child. The dandelion is the flower because it's very resilient. And then May 2nd, we will be having a district-wide event called um military and veterans appreciation and resource event and that will be held at the natiatorum from 4 to 7. So we welcome everyone. It's open to the public and we welcome you to come. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. Item two is Mr. Bill Johnson and he'll be recognizing career enhancements. So, if Noah, Logan, and Zach are here, if you guys could come up. So, I have been working with Noah, Zach, and Logan since the fall of 2023. After fighting through the start date registration process, which I believe they will tell you is the hardest part of the program, each student successfully

011completed intro to computer programming, logic, C++ programming, and Java programming. Through the three classes, they've completed technical programs like calculating elasticity and manipulating vectors. They've done financial problems like maintaining a savings account and determining taxes withheld from a paycheck. and even made games like hangman and rock paper scissor lizard Spock. Along with earning nine credits, they have each also been awarded a career enhancement certificate in computer science from Stark State College, which is similar to a minor for a bachelor's degree. These students can now proudly include these certificates on college applications and their resume. There's certificates for them and pins up there as well on the lect. [Applause] Thank you very much. I've heard some of the um amazing things that these students have done through this program and I'm just in awe of um

012the talent that we have for these with these students and um all of our students here in the district. Um item three is our staff star award. like to call up Miss Alison Bton. Good evening everybody. Um before I get started with recognizing our staff star award, Miss Christine Stewart wanted me to u make the announcement that if you have been recognized already, please stick around because we are going to be taking pictures immediately following Top Tigers. I know how some high school students are and they sneak out that back. So, you stay right here. Okay. Um, every month we honor and award a staff member that's been nominated by their colleague. And it's an exciting award because it gives us an opportunity to say um just to recognize those above and beyond people that

013are doing things for our children, our students every single day. Before I announce who is our staff shining star this month, I'd like to ask Mr. Jason Smith to come up to the podium as well as Miss Lisa Colado who nominated this person so they can join me in recognizing the Miss Michelle Wright who is a math teacher at Is here. Come on up, Michelle. She is a math teacher at the high school and she is our March staff shining star. It was really hard to keep this a secret. Uh Miss Bright is a passionate and caring teacher. She goes above and beyond to make lessons hands-on and relevant for her students. Her former students love her so much they continue to come and ask for assistance even in their current math classes. Her students

014describe her as a great individual with great energy, always engaging, hard to ignore, helps keep her students focused, even during tests. She'll make time to make sure you understand the material. Her assignments focus on every student, not just her own plan. She's a cool leather jacket and a jeep. She does different activities, not work and online. Most of all, she's funny and uh very important to me, she's always willing to step up anytime I need her to shap, even if it's overnight in the woods. Thank you, Michelle. We appreciate you. Well, thank you. I was totally surprised, though. I had no clue. I I didn't even know. I was trying to figure out how I even got nominated. So, and I'm terrified to be up here, which is really strange being a teacher. But, um,

015yeah. No, I just I just try to teach the kids how I would want my son to be taught, you know. Thank you. [Applause] And now what so many of you students have been sitting here waiting patiently for. It's our top tiger recognition. I'd like to call up Miss Mrs. Jody. She's way ahead of me. She's ready. This is exciting. This uh usually Dr. Celico, our superintendent, does the honor of this. So, I'm the assistant superintendent filling in for her while she's recovering. So, what a special treat to be here with you tonight. Uh, so Top Tiger is an award given by the board of education to students from each building each month. The students are chosen by various staff members in their buildings and I get the distinct honor of reading each nomination and

016Miss Schaefer is here to assist and to hand out some special treats. I'm going to ask that when I announce the students name that they come forward and as I read the description of why they were chosen. After that, I ask that each student come up and receive their bag from Miss Carrie Schaefer. After all the students have been honored, we will meet in the cafeteria and Miss Stewart will take pictures. In addition to the awards and picture, you will also receive a yard sign from our CFA president, Mrs. Melody Carile. Give a shout out over there. Once everything Thank you. And then once everything is complete, it's exit stage left. You don't have to stay for the whole board meeting. I would also like to add that we have many generous community sponsors, including

017the Kai Hugah Falls School Foundation and Alumni Association. Thank you to all of our partners who encourage our students to be the best that they can be. At this time, I'd like to ask Miss Barbara Tresh, the communication and technology leader of the foundation, to say a few words. It's actually Mrs. Chris Shrader. Oh gosh, I'm so sorry. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Hi everyone. My name is Chris Shrader. I'm a trustee of the Ka Fall Schools Foundation and Alumni Association. I'm also a 1970 grad of Kaga Falls High School. 55 years this year. Anyway, the Kaga Falls School Foundation and Alumni Association is one of the sponsors of the Top Tiger Award. Each year we award over $150,000 in student scholarships and teacher grants. And we also recognize distinguished alumni and host a

018recognition program and reception each May. All of our top tigers are invited to march with us in on in the Memorial Day parade. So there'll be a letter to all the parents about that. But we really want you to be there for the Memorial Day parade. It's a lot of fun. And so as you said, afterwards we'll go over there. You'll get your picture taken, then you'll go back and have a seat, and I'll call you up by school to get your t-shirt and a folder to give to the adult that brought you here tonight. On behalf of the Koga Falls Schools Foundation and Alumni Association, we congratulate all of our top tigers on earning this very special award. Thank you. So, for those who come every month to enjoy the top tigers, um I

019think Dr. Celico is probably listening from home tonight. What do you think? Do you bet she's listening? So, I really want her to come back to work because we've missed her. I really want her to come back to work. And so, I'm going to break a rule that Dr. Celico always have. So, Silver Lake, are you ready? Are you ready? Come on. Come on, Mr. Dula. We're gonna do it. We're gonna break the rules. So, our first student is Estelle Wenhart. Estelle, come on up. All right. Stand right here. Estelle is truly a wonderful student. Her kind heart shines through in everything she does, and she consistently strives for excellence in her work. She's a fantastic helper to her classmates, always willing to lend a hand, and a real asset to the classroom. Estelle's participates,

020always has a listening ear, and is ready to learn. She's a pleasure to have in class, and her dedication to doing her best on every task is truly admirable. Way to go, Estelle. Our next student, Ken Zang. [Applause] Ken is an amazing young man. He always demonstrates Black Tiger pride. He is a respectful person and he expects he expects the same of those around him. Ken is responsible and will even help his teacher stick to her responsibilities. I love that. Ken does everything he can to keep himself and our safe as well as encourages good choices everywhere he goes. Kalen is a joy to have in class and at Silver Lake Elementary. We are proud to have Kalen as a top. Okay, now I'm going to follow the rule. Okay. to win. Rean Regan Crabtree.

021Regan has consistently demonstrated exceptional academic abilities, earning excellent grades and showing a real love for learning. Reagan's hard work and dedication are truly inspiring. She tries to do her best and her efforts are paying off because beyond Reagan's academic success, she's a shining example of being respectful, responsible, and safe, she treats her classmates and teachers with kindness and consideration. And she's always thinking of others and how to help. Levi Oxley [Applause] Levi is a hardworking student who strives for excellence in everything he does. He leads by example, providing a fantastic role model for all the DIT students. His love of learning in and out of school is very evident, often contributing interesting facts to our class discussions. Do you remember? Levi not only takes responsibility for his learning, but for his materials as well. Wow,

022that's a big one. Good for you. He is always prepared to take out what he needs in order to be successful. He makes choices that are respectful, responsible, and safe. Not to just receive praise, but to embody what a black tiger is. Congratulations, Levi. And he's quick. He's quick. Take a picture right here. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Lincoln. Um Kaden Bimshas. Kayen comes to school every day happy and ready to learn. Not only does Kaden do well with his academics, but he is kind and caring to his classmates. Kaden is always the first student to offer help to another student or teacher. Kaden has grown with his academics this year. He has worked hard to learn his letters, sounds, and addition and math. Outside of school, Kaden is very close to his family. He loves

023to tell stories about his younger sisters. Kaden has also been involved with baseball, soccer, and wants to try karate this year. That's awesome. Kaden is developing into a wonderful leader in his community and we are excited to honor him this month. Congratulations, Kayen. Payton Kennedy. Payton. I love it. The black tiger tigger, right? So, Payton is an outstanding student in the classroom. Not only does she exhibit exceptional academic skills, but she also demonstrates outstanding character. Payton is a kind and compassionate friend to her classmates and is always willing to lend a helping hand. She comes to school every day with a positive attitude and a smiling face. She's a model student who embodies Black Tiger pride and encourages others to do the same. Payton stays involved in the community by participating in gymnastics, I believe

024that, and Boys and Girls Club. Payton's honest, respectful, and trustworthy nature are among the qualities that make her worthy of earning this top tiger honor. We are excited to see all the great things that she does in the future. Way to go. Way to go. And now we have Malik Aerati. [Applause] The first word that comes to mind when Preston team thinks of Malik is helpful. He is such a caring young man and wants to help in any way he can. He jumps at the chance to help a student and the adults. When it comes to his classroom work, Malik turns in work that is neat, double checked, and something to be proud of. Malik is an excellent reader and everyone always wants to be his partner. Thank you for always showing that Black Tiger

025pride, Malik. [Applause] Congratulations, Nila Johnson. Okay. Well, we'll we're going to brag behind your back. Okay. Mila was a unanimous choice for our top tiger for this month. She is one of the most responsible and caring students we have at Preston. Mila quietly leads by example in all that she does. She dedicates herself to working hard every day and helping in all kinds of ways without even being asked. She will be missed terribly as she heads to middle school, but the Preston family cannot wait to see all she accomplishes. Congratulations, Mila. Xavier Neater [Applause] Xavier. Xavier embodies the spirit of a black tiger. He is a hardworking, highly motivated student with incredible stamina, always striving to improve and be his best. He is also a kind, wonderful friend and a helpful member of our class.

026Xavier is a true role model for his peers. We are incredibly proud of his dedication and growth. Congratulations. A Ruby Sua. A Ruby is truly an exceptional student, not just because of her amazing academic growth, but because of her unwavering dedication and work ethic. She approaches every challenge with a positive attitude and a willingness to put in extra effort. She does not get discouraged easily and always maintains her positive attitude. Right. Yes. Whether she's tracking, tackling reading multi-elabic words, solving math problems or writing informative paragraphs, her perseverance is inspiring and her genuine enthusiasm for learning makes her a joy to have in the class. We are so proud of you, Ruby. [Applause] Congrat Olivia Ramon [Applause] Wells. Olivia is a shining example of what it means to be a respectful, inclusive, and responsible student at

027Richardson Elementary. At recess, she goes above and beyond to ensure that all students, including those with varying abilities, feels included and valued. Love that. Whether she's inviting them to join a group game or encouraging them to try new activities, Olivia's kindness and empathy shine through. In the classroom, Olivia serves as a true role model for partner work. She is patient, focused, and collaborative, always ensuring that her partner feels supported and heard. Olivia's responsible nature extends to her own learning. approaches challenges with a positive attitude and a determination to succeed. Olivia's actions exemplify the qualities of a true top tiger. Congratulations, Calvin. Calvin Randy. Okay, if you see him, tell them we bragged about him. So, Calvin embodies the qualities of true top tiger. Through his kindness, hard work, patience, and leadership, Calvin is kind to

028everyone he meets, greeting them with a warm smile and a listening ear. His patience and acceptance shine brightly, especially during indoor recess. Calvin goes above and beyond to teach and support students of varying needs in games like Uno and Battleship, ensuring everyone feels included and has fun. In the classroom, Calvin is actively engaged in lessons and frequently participates. He works hard and strives to do his best in all his endeavors. Calvin is a role model for his peers and a valuable member of our school community. Congratulations to Calvin at Bolick. Matthew Don. Matthew consistently demonstrates respect not only for teachers and staff but also for his fellow students, offering a polite good morning and readily listening to others. There we go. Stand right next to me. There we go. Perfect. And readily listening to others

029perspectives. His responsibility shines through in his diligent approach to school work, always prepared and taking initiative to understand challenging concepts. Beyond academics, Matthew embodies responsibility by helping maintain a clean and organized classroom and readily volunteering for school projects. Finally, his commitment to safety, whether it's carefully following science lab protocols or reminding classroom classmates about school rules, makes him a true leader in creating a secure learning environment. Matthew's recognition as a top tiger reflects his dedication to those core values and his positive impact on the entire school community. India height India here she is she's coming. India practices black tiger pride every day. She is very respectful with her peers and adults. She has lovely manners and is gracious with everyone. India is a very responsible student in and out of class. This is especially true

030when she has to do her makeup work. India wastes no time in finding out what she'd missed and getting the work in. Finish correctly with no additional reminders from her teachers. Wow, that's impressive. Good job. Finally, India practices safety in the classroom, in the hallways. We appreciate that she follows all rules without adult reminders. She's a valuable member of the Hive team. Congratulations. Next, we have Emily Clayton. Whether it's in the classroom, on a project, or in extracurricular activities, Emily approaches every task with a level of dedication and focus that inspires those around her. While Emily may not always seek the spotlight, her leadership is consistently demonstrated through her actions rather than words. Emily is involved in ruling our experience at Roberts called Rocks. This program's goal is to create generations of confident girls who

031are in control of their own relationships, experiences, decisions, and futures. Emily's passions outside of school are running, reading, and rock climbing. Emily shows an exceptional ability to balance both academic and personal pursuits, making her not only a standout student, but a quiet and impactful leader. We are confident that her leadership, commitment, and values will continue to guide and inspire others in the future. Congratulations, Morgan Houston. Morgan is an amazing young man. Morgan excels in school as he had all A's for both quarter 1 and quarter two of seventh grade while taking honors ELA and math 78. He volunteers answers, turns in all assignments, and is polite to both staff and other students. Morgan excels on the field as well as at school. He belongs to two soccer clubs, Liberty FC and 14U 14U Great Lakes

032Alliance League. Kayhaga Falls Soccer Club, Kaihaga Falls Amateur Baseball Association, and participates in the Olympic Development Program. Morgan will be traveling to Portugal and Spain with the Liberty FC team to play in the Little World Cup this summer. Outside of school, Morgan likes going to the gym, hiking, kayaking, kayaking, and camping. Congratulations. All right. schoolers. Last but not least, Elizabeth Campbell. Although she is active both socially and as a member of the symphonic band, Lizzie shines as a student in the Latin program. Lizzy began her Latin journey when she was a freshman of Latin 1. Since then, Lizzie has persevered and worked hard to learn the language. Now, as a senior, she has grown become not only a great Latinist but a great person as well. Beyond any inborn skill, these qualities of dedication and

033perseverance are the ones that truly exemplify a top tiger. Congratulations, [Applause] Dshia Fuel. Dia is an exceptional young lady who embodies the true spirit of citizenship and academic excellence. A dedicated student with a strong work ethic, she consistently strives for and achieves high academic marks. Beyond her scholastic achievements, Dikshia is deeply committed to making a positive impact within both Kaihaga Falls High School and the broader community. She has been involved in a variety of extracurricular activities demonstrating her leadership and dedication. Her participation in the executive committee, National Honor Society, Tiger Crew, sources of strength, and tiger backers showcases her commitment to both student leadership and fostering a positive school environment. Dshia's commitment extends beyond Kaihuga Falls High School. She has generously volunteered her time at food banks, hospitals, and libraries. Directly impacting the lives of

034those in need, balancing these commitments with a part-time job also further underscores her remarkable work ethic. Her dedication to academic citizenship and service makes her a role model for peers and a shining example of what it means to be a top tiger. Okay, our top tigers, you want to give a big round of applause for these wonderful people you brought with you today because they help make it happen, right? So, thank you all our caregivers, parents, guardians for supporting these amazing students. We're so proud to recognize them tonight. So, at this time, we're going to travel across the hallway to the cafeteria because we want to take pictures of all of you wonderful people. And then after that time, we hope you have a lovely evening with this gorgeous weather. So, thank you I'm looking

035You didn't get one yet. Not yet. Yes. Please fire me. Come down. Thank you, Miss Sha. Congratulations. [Music] Item E is treasurer CFO's business consent agenda. It is recommended that the board of education approve all items listed in the treasur CFO's business consent agenda. Second discussion. Um just a couple of things. Um one would be the electricity provider resolution. Um so we have done this in the past. This is just a renewal. So we have one building, Silver Lake, that does not get electricity from the city of Falls. Um and so through the Ohio schools council um they walk us into kind of the agreements just like you would with your home um for certain rates over a two-year period. So our two-year period um is coming due and this will start again on July

0361st through the next two years um same exact everything just obviously but um same exact companies and everything like that. So um this is our renewal for that and And if you recall, um, as part of Can I ask a question about that? And it's always for a two-year period, so we're not changing the period. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Um, the other one would be as part of our ODW financial recovery plan. Um, once that was approved, which was approved in February, um, it was subsequently approved, submitted to ODW, and approved by them. And so the last step is is that they require that we file a forecast. Um there's an optional period right now, not a mandatory mandatories are May and November, but there's an optional five-year forecast window that we submit our

037updated forecast that matches the recovery plan to ODW. So that's what this is. the exact items you saw and the bottom lines that you saw in that recovery plan. This just mimics. This is the base recovery plan, not any of the additions that you presented. Correct. It's the base recovery plan that gets us to solveny. And then then from there, you presented us some additional options. Those are not Yes. This is just the one that got us in compiance to not be in the red in that year. And then the last would be the donations. Um, as usual, there's a bunch of them. Um, and so we have our birdie bags and local businesses and our books. And then we have some donations to the family to the family center family center. So there's a

038number of those that we're always grateful for. I would just like to say thank you to our community for their continual support um of our schools and the community center. I know when we opened the community center, I don't think we were worried. I think we had confidence that people would continue to show up and they have in big ways over and over and over again. So just want to say thank you. Also add a shout out to Miss Paul Misano for her work in making sure that her community hat was successful and the winners had prizes because there's quite a few donations on here for winners of the community hat which is a big event that Miss Pomano puts on every year. Shout out to her as well. I mean, all of them are

039great. Mr. Gomez. Hi, Mr. Harris. Hi, Mr. Schaer. Hi, Miss White. Hi, I treasury investment schedule. Just a couple things to note. First, interest. We're still doing pretty good there. Little down from last month. Again, most of those are in our construction funds as we had a lower balance in the general fund. These are lower funds as you know, but you can see it's a little bit of an uptick because we started receiving some advancements from Summit County. If you look at the general fund monthly cash flow, you will see obviously a very big difference from December and January November to February. February was over 11 million. Most of that is tax advances. So it was a net positive of 5.6 million which puts us back over 10 million for February. Keep in mind again

040that we did we did do that double payment for insurance which is close to around $800,000. really in the general fund. Do we expect any more money coming from property tax? Yeah, we have not gotten the final settlement yet and I also we received an advance in beginning March as well. So you'll see that sometimes that usually comes in April. So you'll see a little bit over the next two months that questions or discussions. You have athletics that last month. And then what about food service? I think this was another month. Yeah. So this month I'm expecting that we probably receive a double payment in March for reimbursement from the state for um you know our free students. Obviously 32,000 is just what we brought in from students adding money to lunch accounts like that

041purchases. Um but we received in the beginning of March our large reimbursement and then I assume towards the end of March we'll receive another one. So you'll see a double similar to how it was in November and December if you look about 58,000 next month we saw about 377,000 because of the timing of those reimbursements. And you can see you It's kind of similar to that. Looks like last year it happened maybe January February instead of March's and flows to do we think as we go into the new building that food service will continue to be sustainable on its own as it has been because it's kind of been I mean definitely not as high as used to be correct. I I believe so. However, put a little caveat on that is there is a

042lot of pending ideas in legislation about removal of Medicaid back which right now we're receiving reimbursements for um so it is going if everything was status quo and nothing changed I do believe that it would Excuse me. However, any changes would most likely those changes would most likely negatively impact because they're also like at the state level they're saying they're going to take away the free for reduced which we've had for the last two years and I think we know our reduced population is very large in this district. So that would have a big impact on us as well. So that's Just thinking of the overall impact that food service has on their budget. I think they'll be able to like I said without any changes be okay. However, any changes that are being proposed

043right now, would you please call Mr. Harris? Hi, Mr. Schaer. Hi, M. Hi, M. Hi, Mr. Hi. I really have much. Um we are ramping up for next school year, you can imagine um with the budgeting process. Um and so um we've kind of teed up everything on our end and going to be sending out communication um most likely tomorrow actually um to the buildings and the different departments about all the number of items that they So that has been kind of our focus here over the last month or so in addition to many other getting getting all that kind of rolled over to the next year. end of the year in July. Can I ask a question about budgeting? So, with the um plan that we just approved a little bit ago, it calls

044for 10% reduction in all the budgets, but the way the budgeting with the zerobased budgeting. How will you implement those reductions with that form of budgeting? So within there uh like the worksheet that we provide to them, we give them a history. So it has like this year's appropriations by you know by their budgets um and then you know previous year's history. Um we are asking them that whatever was appropriated this there's a total at the bottom that it's 10% less than that. So, however, you know, they go through all their items and they put those things in um you know, when they get to those new totals for next year, um they may have to go back and say, "Okay, there's some things that we we should do or we want to do, but

045we don't have to do that." they may have to uh move or sacrifice one thing um for the other in that instance. So they'll still go through the same process, but once it's complete, what we're looking at is that that total number this year next year's number is 10% below that. And so that's going to be their gauge before they submit it. That is that where it needs to be or else obviously not going to accept that or we will make those decisions on what's cut out at that point like we do normally with a lot of their should and then you won't give us some like detail when you present the budget for us to thank you in my head I'm thinking of when I have to go to the grocery store and it

046would be like having $90 instead of 100 and I tell my kids back the cookies. Those aren't necessary. [Laughter] Sorry moms, you know the apples. You know when you see in the grocery store you see in the grocery store like something out of place and it's like you know the cookies over in like the towels and as my kids go by they always Somebody's mom said no. A decision was made. I'm the mom that's gonna say no. I think there's going to be a lot of people in Sarasota's office learning the art of couponing. There you go. Thank you. Item G is superintendent CEO's business. Mrs. Austin, I recommend that the board of education approve all items listed in the superintendent business consent agenda. So moved. Second. I'll give you some highlights of Elise Delthal.

047Uh she voluntarily chose to go from high school to middle school. She is so excited about this change and we're just so grateful for her um accepting this opportunity and helping us with that. We also have Tammy Brown as the summer school administrator. Uh we have a new coach, assistant coach from middle school. We also have a person and we have a few resations. We also have a retirement. We would like to congratulate Joyce Pary 26 years. So, what a wonderful accomplishment and dedication to our district and so we thank her so much uh for that. And then of course we always appreciate our volunteers and coaches and those that support us as well. As we are opening our preschool site in the district, we are looking modifying a job description to kind of blend

048the EL service for English learners and preschool specialist. So, we're bringing those two roles together and just trying to be, you know, supportive of the programs and being responsible and then positioned in the book number. agreement center gives us the opportunity to hire different workers and employees that augment support us. So for example, we have helps us and so that gives us an opportunity to go ahead and make those decisions. And then we also have a service plan. This is an annual approval where we purchase a variety of services through the summer. And then a children's hospital nursing for our Washington DC trip. And then again to provide Yes. This is the preschool. team to help us with assessment for students who are turning three at a certain age and then we have to there

049is a timeline that must meet that assessment. So we are hiring we're really excited for the people that are coming on board. Um this is something that is typically in the cost of what we pay the ESC now it's outside of that because we're starting to take them on our own. for specialized. This is for the augmentative and alternative communication support students there. And lastly, Ohio school council support 360. Can we ask Mr. Hutch to talk about kind of exciting? Absolutely. I've seen it done before them. our plans and those that we share with first responders regardless of agency we don't typically partner with those agencies first. I think that's awesome and a great safety enhancement. And not only that, I was amazed by how cheap it was, like $3,000 for something that will make

050our students safer in the case of an emergency that we hope doesn't happen. So, I think that's a great investment in safety for our district. So, thank you. Thank you. Any other discussion? I just want to mention that Miss Bakudo Devon that we're so grateful she's moving down to middle school because of the 612 building so that we can expand our Spanish program into the middle school as one of the um educational expansions that we're able to do in this new 612 building. So that's really exciting. I just want to ask Miss Toy Stoy um on this ESC assessment for the prek early intervention assessments. Do you have that tracked on our budget? Yeah. So these will be so I've created like a separate budget for preschool so that we can track that over the

051next year. Kind of similar not exactly the same but similar to emergency so that it's all So you know our account Mr. superintended parent nights for our elementary, middle, and high school. We were here in the center and doing a nice job of highlighting student at the high school. What that looks like even as parents of elementary school forward so that opportunity um she also has her 24 game coming up Saturday. Uh we also have literacy night at the library. We've been partnering with the library. Uh we meet with the library about once a month and we plan a variety of activities. Uh whether that's some grant opportunities or working on this event. Last year we had hundreds of children and families come to that. It's a really popular event. So we're excited. We hope

052that we have great weather and that continues. Um we're starting preschool registration starting tomorrow. We started already with our students that were at the preschool program and so we've already sent out information to them and so we'll now be after that survey we'll be hopefully that up for other students we also coming up there will be a lot more student athletes will be fun to see some other amazing students and our tiger This past Saturday, we had over a few hundred people. We had amazing performances. Um, it was set up beautifully. So, a shout out to Stewart and Mr. Jones and I think they were the three ring leaders. Um, and they really did an amazing job and many of our administrators and board members and people were there to support that. So, I think

053everybody was very proud of that accomplishment. I was trying to do that myself. It is fun. It is. Of course he did. Thank you. Okay. Item I, board business number one is resolution for OSHAA. It is recommended that the board of education approve the resolution to allow the Kyoga Falls City School District to participate in the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Any discussion? that once we're in a 612 building to pay for one school. Hi. Hi, Mr. Gomez. Hi, Mr. Harris. Hi, Mr. Hi. Item two is contract for services Garland DBS Incorporated. Is it recommended that the board of education approve the contract and addendum between Garland DBS Incorporated the Falls City School District? Second. So this is for Did you want to speak on that? Yeah. And then this is based off of roofing

054studies that you just had done. Correct. And how long would you expect it to last? And then Richardson we don't need to worry about with this because that's a separate issue. Correct. That's being addressed. Correct. Okay, thank you. Any other discussion? Hi, Mr. Gomez. Hi, Mr. Harris. Hi, Mr. H. Item three, handbook for the elementary schools. It is recommended that the board of education adopts the handbook for the elementary schools for the 2025 2026 school year. Discussion, please call the Hi, Mr. Harris. Hi, M. Sheer. Hi, Miss. Hi, Hi. Item four is the handbook for the secondary schools. It is recommended that the board of education adopt the handbook for the secondary schools for the 2025 2026 school year. Any discussion? Please call the role. Mr. Harris, hi. Mrs. Schaer. Hi. I Miss I Mr.

055Hi. Item F is the resolution for reduction in force. It is recommended that the board of education approves the resolution to implement an administrative reduction in force. discussion on this. I know that this is um in line with the administrative with the what we approved for the um preschool and administrative kind of merging the two. So we have to do a reduction in force for the previous our new campus and our financial recovery plan. Yes. It never feels good. Any discussion, would you please call the Maker? I item six is policies first reading. There are a lot for first reading to go down the list of our first reads. Section B, school board governance and operations, BCE, board committees. Section D, fiscal management. DECA, administration of federal grant funds. DJF, purchasing procedures. DJF-R, purchasing procedures.

056Section E, support services, ED, computer online services, acceptable use and internet safety. Section G, personnel, GBH, staff, student relations. Section I instruction IG A-IG AI family life education sex education IGBA programs for students with disabilities IGLA promoting parental involvement IGCH-R college credit plus IG guidance program IKF graduation requirements section J students JCB admin Admission of non-resident students. JCB interd district enrollment. JFB release time for religious instruction. JGE student expulsion. JHC student health services and requirements. JHCA physical examinations of students. JHCD non-administration of medicines. JHCD-R1. istering medicine to students. JHF, student safety. JHG, reporting child abuse and mandatory training. Section K, school community relations. KBA, public rights to know. Um, I would just like to give a huge thank you to Mr. Gomez and Mr. who are on the policy committee that worked very tirelessly and

057a very long meeting on all of these policies and the revisions that needed to be made. So, thank you. Thank you. I'd like to highlight a couple um there's a lot there, but I think there's a few that um you know, student expulsion, there's a lot of green added language on that. It's all permissive langage. um that we chose to add. So none of the stuff that's added is required to be done, but it's options that our superintendent can have. So that's important for the board members when you're reviewing that. Um but it gives her options in terms of um requiring students to do certain rehabilitation um and to create certain plans for students if they're expelled that they would have to follow in order to come back to school. And so um as a

058district we felt that that was something good that we would want to allow our superintendent the ability to exercise. So that's one. Um, another one is interd district open enrollment. Um, there's a lot of changes to that one regarding law about active duty um enrollment in military. That's a change in law. there's um additional changes that were brought to us that as a policy committee um we ask for more data on um before we bring to the full board for consideration. So there may be additional changes to JC VB on interd district open enrollment. Um but we're just evaluating all the impacts that that could have from data before we bring it to the full board. So keep an eye out on that one. And then students programs for students with disabilities. Um right now

059you're just seeing the policy um that says by resolution we will adopt policies and procedures. At the next meeting when we go to a second read, we will actually bring forth the actual um resolution because we can't adopt the resolution until we adopt the policy and Miss Zean can speak to that. Good with her speaking. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Thank you. Yeah, she can highlight it because there's a lot to this. We're going to adopt special educational record. So we wanted to make sure that um the requested destroyed. Also looking at independent evalid education evaluations those assigions. And the last part are services that students are recommendations to us. Thank you. That policy will come for second read and then we will as policy committee we suggest that the next action be the actual approval of

060the resolution at our next board meeting has recommended to us. It's kind of an unusual thing from a policy perspective. So we wanted to make sure everyone had a little understanding before you saw that because it's not what bring from policy. We'll be bringing resolutions, but we want to make sure everyone understood that before you saw that. Um, we'll also be bringing in the future. Um, Miss Stoyco is working on a new inventory policy. Um, and it's going to be pretty much totally different than the current one we have. So, keep an eye out on that. And then I would bring your attention to um policy JFB. It's a new policy for our district um because optional before release time for religious instruction. Um we spent a lot of time on this one and um

061we tried to personalize it for what we think will work best if someone brings this forth in our district. Um but we're open to additional edits. Um, I know there's people in the community that have thoughts on this or if our education association has thoughts on how this could be less disruptive. We're open to um their thoughts on this policy as well before it comes up for approval. Um, we're not the experts on release time and religious instruction and we've never had a policy on this before in our district. So this is our first stab at it and trying to make it um we have to have a policy that in some way permits it um but trying to make it as um nondisruptive as pos possible. So please bring suggestions or amendments if there

062are ways to make it better. And then IGBLA is brand new polic as well. This is not one that we can really change at all because it all comes from state law. It's House Bill 8. Um but I would bring your attention to um policy IGBL which is policy we already have which is talks about how we already promote parental involvement in our district. And so I think it's important to note that we already have a policy on this. Um we have to have this new fancy policy because of state law. So, we've been promoting parental involvement in our district for a very long time and encouraging parental involvement in our district for a very long time. We just are required to adopt this policy because of House Bill 8. We had a lot of

063conversation about what this does and does not require our staff to do um going forward and I think it was helpful conversation because um the law is very specific um to its own fault in what it does and does not say. Like for instance, it says that if if a student has to be called by different pronouns that that is something that you have to notify a parent about. And so we went over the question policy committee. If that happens, the the law says you have to notify them. The law lays it out literally in the law. So there's no way to get around that. whether you like that or not. And people have their own opinions about that. But what the law doesn't say that if separate and apart from that, someone comes up

064to you and asks to be called by a different name, there's no obligation to notify a parent about that. And we talked about nicknames and different things like that. So the law is too specific to its own fault because I think some of the things that it intends to do, it doesn't actually do. So, um, and from that, our administrators are going to work to give guidance to our families and to our staff on how this will work going forward to try to make sure that they understand what this is because one of the things our families will see is these sexuality content warnings. Um, which will probably be very startling for some of our families. Um, but it defines what sexuality content is. So, anytime that could come up, we have to send those

065notices out. And then obviously our staff have concerns because they want to make sure that whether whatever our personal opinions may be that we're complying with this law because as part of this law, there's this whole concerns and appeals procedures. And obviously, we want to do whatever we can to make sure our staff understand the so that they are protected because we didn't pass this law, but we have to pass this policy. And we want to make sure that our staff understand what it means and what it doesn't mean and that they're protected as well so that they can go about doing what they're actually here to do, which is educate our students. And lastly, I promised I'd talk about the DEIB policy because that's the last policy we talked about and I think we

066spent the most time on. So that policy is with our legal council right now for review and for right now we've renamed it our culture of caring and belonging policy. Um because that's we believe until our legal council tells us otherwise that's a legal thing to call it. Um and we want line by line, word by word through the policy on what we could and couldn't keep. And um once we hear back from legal, um we felt that we ended up with a pretty good product in terms of what we were able to keep and we kept as much as we could rewarded some things. So, waiting to hear back from legal counsel on how well we did on that and now you know why it was such a long Thank you for all your

067hard work and everything and um just to be clear, we do not have the DEI policy on for this for the reasons that Mr. Gomez stated, we do not have that on the agenda yetal. just for clarification. Um that brings us to item seven, discussion, future of facilities. We had pro um committed to put this back on our agenda after we had it on for board discussion last month. Um knowing that it's something that is going to need to be revisited and top of mind for all of as we move forward um making decisions and having an open discussion um and transparent discussion with all of us is the only way to do it and the only way we will do it. So, we're kind of revisiting this and going back to first of all

068um data and where we're at with our data, what we have as um kind of up against what was requested at the last meeting and the items that we still need to get and if board members have new pieces of data that they feel they need um for our buildings as we move through this decision making process. So like to open it up. Um I know that as far as the data that was requested at the last meeting, um I think the piece outstanding would be Miss White, you had requested for the bus data as how far the students would be traveling. Um and I know Mr. Gomez, you wanted some data that kind of coincides with that with elementary buildings and how far they would be from their closest building. if you want to

069recap that. So, I guess I'm interested in currently how far a student is now from their elementary building to get that like I think we need to like level set that information on like where we are today with the students we have. How far are our students from their ele assigned elementary building and then say you I'll use the school that my nephews go to. If you eliminate Lincoln, how far would someone then be from two closest schools? Their two closest schools because we're only going to have one 612 building and then an elementary building. So, how far would they be? Because one of the things we're known for is our community schools. So, how far would they be from that sense of community? And then do that for each of the elementary schools. And

070I know we can't do that for all future students, but I guess we can do it based on who we have now. And that gives us kind of a picture because our boundaries are only what our boundaries are. So it can only vary by so much, you know, and it could vary by a little bit here and a little bit there, but it can only vary by so much. And I think that piece ties into and would be um kind of hooked on with the data that Miss White asked for because theoretically the the students that would be the furthest way part the furthest distance away from that elementary would be a student that would be getting bust as well. So um I think that we're looking into whether or not that's data that we

071can somehow provide or if that's that's a piece determining whether that's We need to have someone outside our Can I ask a question because I don't think I understand I I I don't think I understand what you're what you're asking. Yeah. What Mr. Gomez what you're asking. So are you asking for what the distance is the furthest distance from their home elementary school from their home to a school? So if all these kids that go to Lincoln don't have How far is it to a school now? Are you for everyone or just from Lincoln? Are you just using Lincoln? So that's a lot because that's a lot of people that run a model from every ele from every elementary. I'm picking on Lincoln because it's where my nephews go. So people know that I'm not

072people know that I'm not picking on any school because it's where my nephews go. So obviously have affection for Okay, that makes more sense. Okay. I was Okay. The problem with transfinder is that we I think that we have the data for the students that are getting bus and that data would change and we wouldn't necessarily have that data for students that aren't currently being busted if it meant that they need to be bus somewhere else. You could probably just add just add one or two students and live close to the school like Do you know what I mean? I'm sorry. You add probably if you the students that live closest to the school that you're looking at that you're like mocking that's closing then that would be probably the furthest distance then to not

073necessarily because like at the reality is like at Preston the farthest is going to be somebody that lives at Hunter's Lake probably. But that's a priority on the bus. True. Yeah. So, you add some students like around the school area to like your So, we can look at the software and see if we can run for us, but we also there's a gentleman that works with schools really well. Well, it see And the other thing is like right where the border says right where the border between Richardson and Dit cuts off. It's almost equidistant between Richardson. So I don't know if those people get picked up on busing for either. Those people used to go to grant school but it is like right where it gets cut off, you know, when you think about where

074some of our our cuts and the boundaries are. Yeah. I think it's 12th Street where it's almost like equidistant to get to either or and like the Dit Silver Lake split is like over by Front Street and Third Street. So some of our splits are interesting when you actually start looking at the boundary like it comes Silver Lake comes up on Third Street by where it goes one way and then it becomes to I don't know if this is getting too in the weeds for us as a board or if it's something that would kind of help and go along with requesting this data. Would it be helpful for any of you to see what our current boundaries are with the schools? Just I know that I've seen that data before to see what we

075currently have for the boundaries. It might make it more I'm a visual person so it might make it more visual for us and I know that's data we already have Friday middle school make a lot of the boundary splits better when Christ people get split up between middle schools and The Lincoln people get split between records that all happen. I will warn you with those boundaries. Get your magnifying glass. Patty, you're going to need your magnify. I'm going to need it, too. Those of us I'm on the far side between Lincoln and Richard live on the 221223. And then as far as I know, we discussed the data for back in March, Abby had done a presentation of the possible sites for new buildings. And so we all have that data. And I know that

076we had brought up um because this is a piece that we have to consider as future sites and not limiting the not just us but future board members and future boards in any decisions that would be made as far as um the building of new buildings in the future for elementary. Um, we do have the data of what would it cost for what would it be now as opposed to when that last study was done, which I believe was in 2018. And Mr. Bagatti has stated in April is when OFCC will update those to basically now numbers for the costs. I gave you that. for all buildings numbers. Not enough to get it to 66% where we are. Thank you very much. Aren't there only two nonbes though? I'm sorry. Aren't there only two nonbuildable

077sites? So we know that. Yes. Yeah. And that that's data that Abby presented back in March. So we have that piece of data, the non-buildable sites along with what kind of what could be on the other sites was included in that presentation as well. Um along with that on that data there was kind of map that was given that is a good it's kind of a bird's eye view of where our elementary sit within our city which I think is a good piece of data to have to look at when you're talking about this building here this building here to see that bird bird bird's eye view of you this one wow there's this much land this one which would tie into the furthest a student have to go but it is a snapshot of

078And that was also in that 2018 presentation as well. I have a quick question for Mr. Bagatti. Um, with our elementary buildings, the OFCC then wouldn't help us to renovate only to build new, right? Right. And so any building that is higher than that, they're not going to put money into to renovate. Is that correct? Okay. Can we get another copy of that 2018 report? What year did we present? She was 2024. It was in March or April. I can't remember off the top of my head. I'm sure I think it would be nice to have again. I think I do too, but was either March or April. And then can we get a hard copy of the enrollment analysis that was just I think we only got an email. Be nice to like finger

079through that. That would be good data too. And I think the one thing that I shared just with Miss Coco, so I'll bring it up here is and I don't know how I think it's important data and I don't know how you quantify it, but I think like the community support that like a building gets and or would lose I think is important too and I don't know how you quantify that and I'm open to ways to quantify that but I think like if we close this building what do we lose in terms of community support for closing this building as opposed to this building or this building or this building not just us but our students in the building that's I'm not worried about us personally, but like our students in that building. Like

080what is the community support that goes into this building more so than another building? And maybe they're all equal. I don't know the answer because I don't know how to quantify yet. You're looking at both monetarily and physically like give back or like community financial support outside that they support like through PTO's PTA like those kinds of things or community support as far as like people who come in and volunteer in buildings attend events. I think that's more important than the finances. Some of our districts are a little wealthier than others. So I don't know. Oh, that's what I was trying to clarify exactly what right we're trying to Yeah. I just think like Yeah. Is there volunteers? Are there volunteers? Like some of our buildings have community partnerships with um like organizations nearby or

081like different things. What would be the loss like if we pull out of this neighborhood? What is the loss of community support that we're having? like the D has connection to this building and this building. Um, Asia Inc. has connections with this building and this building and all those different things. So, how do we quantify all the connections and supports that a building has? Because if we take this building out, do we lose all of that or can we be proactive in making sure that we can redistribute that across our district because if we're not aware of what supports a building has, then we're at risk of losing them and also turning people off to our district. That be something that the administrators in each building have a list. Yeah. A survey of the administrators

082probably already list. I just thank you, Mr. Bugatti, for the facilities data you did get over. Um, that's very well put together and a lot of the stuff I was looking forward to, too. So, decision and it's a lot of team effort. It is. We ask a lot of questions and we ask for a lot of I appreciate your willingness to the data piece. Did we want to touch at all on the community engagement piece? Do we have anything new right now that part? Yeah. Well, we went to the Silver Lake and zoning. And I think one of the things that they asked that I think we should talk about was um whether or not we've made the decision to close a building. And the honest answer is technically we have not made the decision

083to close a building. So I think as a board we need we're trying to have two conversations at once. We're trying to talk about what building we might close but we haven't come to terms yet with are we closing a building? We haven't said that and we haven't made that decision. So, I think we need to come to terms with that decision so that we can honestly then go forth with the second decision if that's the direction that we're choosing to lead in. But I thought that that was when they were asking that question like no tech we've never we are closing a building, but I think it is somewhat unfair to the community to keep going down a process that can lead to uncertainty and uncomfortableness about whether or not their building is going

084to close when we haven't even decided if we're closing a building. I think it's kind of unfair. So, I feel like we need to decide, are we going to close a building? And then have the honest conversation about what we need to make the decision about what building to close or then just take a step back and say what what information or data do we need to make the decision that we're going to close a building because it seems like we're trying to do two things at once and I think that's not usually a setup for success. I I agree with that. I think The first step is to decide, you know, for all of us to have that conversation. Decide if we are indeed closing and if that's the route that we're all I

085don't want to use the word comfortable because that's not something that I think any of us that are sitting here up here are comfortable with as something that we want to do. But I think we need to come to terms and I'll decide if that's necessary. our financial position that we're in. Can I throw another wrench in too? So this so my brain is working in a I think in a different way. So I'm thinking about um in the future rebuilding in the ele the elementaryaries. So in the future are we going to build how many elementary schools are we g you know what's our and projected enrollment how many elementary schools are we going to need so it makes sense to me to see how many elementaryaries we are going to need when we

086rebuild elementaryaries where are good sites for those going to be so if we're if we have if we end up financially needing to close one and we sell the site like oh that would have been a great site to put something somewhere I'm just I hate to you know, make a decision now that in a few years like, gosh, I wish we still had that because we're not getting property back, you know, and especially with the changes in the state budget about selling property and and how we have to sell how we have to get rid of properties, which could really hurt us financially also. Like, we can't just hold on to things inde like we've had that sale property for 100 trillion years. We be able to hold on to it like that. So,

087and we obvious I know that we will even just the empty property at the empty land. We I mean I know we don't want to make we've been hesitant to make make decisions for future boards because we're not going to you know we might not be here when it's time to build the the new schools. But it would be nice to I think this is this is what we think the plan is going to be and we think this is what it's going to I I think it's smart to have a a game plan for the future before we start thinking about closing buildings and selling selling it off. I think that no matter what our decision was as far as what building we were to close and properties um I think that would kind

088of coincide with which building. Not so much are we closing unless you're saying that you're not confident in the fact that all six of our properties we need to keep. That makes sense. I I don't know all six where our current six elementary schools are. I don't know. You're not confident that all six of those sites are things that we need. What would be our what would be our model for the future for elementary? Do we need six elementary schools? Do we need five? Do we need four? I don't know. Four maximum three minimum three to four that we know. We know that it's going to be three to four. And we know that. So if it's four, what would four? We know that these we know that these are buildable sites. We know that

089Lincoln is a buildable site. We know that Preston is a buildable site. We know that Richardson is a buildable site. We know that Silver Lake is a buildable site with variances. And we know that the cell site is a buildable site. We know that Price and Det are notable. Yes, that's true. But a lot of those are close to each other. So you wouldn't you wouldn't build a site at Preston and Yeah. I maybe you would. I don't know. But they're like three blocks from each other. Would you put two? I don't think we would. Maybe a future board would. I don't think we would. So it would be nice to kind of have I mean not maybe a committ but just kind of in our head like this is so like looking at the

090city from from a top and say these are buildable sites. This is where potentially we would put schools. I'd hate to leave a dark spot in the city where there's no school got rid of and I think that would be part of the discussion of which building more so than are we closing. So if we're we do I think we need to close the building. Um I think we need to also look to the future like what is going to be our model also. So we are looking way into the future too. I know it's a lot. It is a lot. I think we need to make this decision, whatever this is, and then probably create that committee of community to do that pre-bond work on a master facility. But I don't think it's fair

091to create that committee and say we need your help to help us decide which building to close because I feel like that's a board that's a board decision. Um the fun part is the community's work with us. The hard part is our job and our job will be making that decision in a way that doesn't tie future boards and the Either way, either way, future boards, it's a it's a very tall ask, a very daunting task. That's why we're discussing it. It encompasses a lot of hypotheticals and a lot of things that we are not in a position here as a board to make decisions on future things. We can have But we can't actually make those decisions. What we have in front of us is what we're tasked with and I agree with Mr.

092Gomez. The first the first part of that is are we comfortable all again depended on our budget. I think that was in presentation that she gave us to close. You know what other data I need? We could wait two years. I don't think we can wait two years. I know because I think what we said before was um we didn't want to do this until we had to. I think now we have to. Now we have to. So I think that kind of answers that piece is that we have to um but we don't want to and that we're giving ourselves this runway in which to do it. Um but I think one of the pieces we need is um in terms of student enrollment, do we have what's the student enrollment look like and

093where would they fit? And what class size numbers outside of the contractual numbers that we have at certain numbers, what class size numbers are we not going to go above? Because I think that's important too when you say you're going to go down. We know that we have some across all of our elementary schools very small class sizes. So that doesn't mean we're going to go up to 30 kids if we close an elementary school because that goes against things that we believe in. So I think that's something that we need to take into consideration as well is um class sizes and I don't think this would be presented to us if we thought that that would happen. But at the same time I think that needs to be said that we have to think

094about what our maximum class sizes will be in those non certified agreement classes. I think we also have to think about um the buildings that are um put this academ academically excellent. I it might not be as important as other things, but some of our buildings do better too. So something maybe to look at there. Um it's going to be hard to do hard decisions. Is that to do with the building itself though or Well, I it might be the area and the educators. Yes. And the support. So, it all kind of ties in, I believe, with, you know, but I think it's something to look at just to see. Um I don't know. Well, when you say building sites, you know, if we if we say we want a east side building, you could

095put press on the table. I So, I have great affection for it, but I'm trying to be as impartial as possible. Um, you could put we could say, "Hey, we're leaving an east site buildable site at Sill. So, hey, we're going to take a hard look at Preston, too." So, but like I said before, my concern is those hunters like people and how far a building would be for them, right? Because price is a little bit of a We know the high school is not exactly close to 100. So that distance piece is concerning to me. Okay. Um are we keeping open the um high school site when we leave this because it will be empty and it's kind of in the center of the town. I'm just wondering if we I know we want

096to sell it because it's profitable to sell. But if we can't get what we want, maybe it could be a future site for an elementary. I don't know. Just kind of throwing it out there. Big elementary. Well, you would. Well, I think our hope is to sell because we don't want to have to maintain. I know. I realize that. But if we can't get enough value, I I don't know. Again, I'm just It's just I don't want to I don't want to maintain this. No, I don't. No, I don't either. at all. It's not really a feasible feasible option for us. No, you don't want to have empty buildings. I think the amount of people that have already asked for tours from Dr. Celica knowing that this will be for sale at some point, I

097think. That's true. Fingers crossed. Y absolutely. Are we looking to include the preschool also? Because we don't have much at We could probably sell that down the road. So, where would we maybe site a preschool? Is that something that we're going to consider? Also, I think we talked about potentially relocated central office um when we go into elementary buildings and refurbishing that central office, but that wouldn't be until we built new ele. No. And no matter where we were to move that, we would it would require money for us to be able to make a building like another spot. We would have to put money into it, which at this point is not we're not trying to put money into things. We're trying to go the other direction. So, okay. So I think first order

098businesses deciding yes we're closing a building is and deferring to Mr. on this. Is this a agenda item that we put on and vote on or is this just a discussion item or how exactly would that work the resolution? I think it should be something that we vote on just so that there's no lack of clarity to the community and what action that we're taking. It is the intention of the board to close an elementary building. I don't think we have a set date in mind and I don't think we should put a date on it because that's not set. But if that is what we are going to do, I think we should make it clear to the community that if we get to the point that that's the decision that we've made, I

099think we should make it clear to the community that that's the decision. I think we've given a long enough list of data. has one clarif. Because I mean I think we know that if you close one students would get moved to wear an average size kind of like the comfort of how that would fit I guess and how that impact that would be my suggestion for that because that would get really inepth and tedious or or really in some ways there wouldn't even be any way to do that without knowing specific. Okay, I think once we get that data and then when we get to the point that we're comfortable um and if that's what we're doing is passing a resolution then with this data that we've requested then we can start the conversation of

100which building and I think along with that which building comes that next piece of that is when the engagement with the community and what exactly and how we're exactly engaging the community needs to be not that people aren't engaging with us and we're engaging Um, but I think that that's when we're going to need to be more specific with how and where would be once we make that first step and decision. That's what we're doing. Anyone has any thoughts? So, we would wait for the survey maybe total summer. I I don't know that I'm comfortable right now like when I say summer for a survey. I don't even personally I was trying to think of how how we would word what we want for community engagement for a survey. And at this moment I'm not

101sure that we have what we need to engage and ask the correct questions for the community. personally like I don't I don't know does that make sense? I I think that we need to narrow down exact for community engagement and for the survey to get that feedback before we were to have the community meetings. We need to have more of a direction to go than what we currently have because we're still at the collecting data point. I hear what you're saying, but I also can the community saying this. You're coming to me talking about closing my building. I didn't even know you were talking about closing a building. No. Yeah. I what I'm saying I don't know about engaging the community on which building if we haven't even come to a decision as a board

102of proposing but we need to make sure we're getting out the information about the financial situation leading us to discussing this decision at least. Oh so maybe not the survey piece but we need to make sure the community as a whole is aware of the conversations we're having. Yes. because we can't come to them with a survey about specific data for buildings and them say I didn't even know you were talking about this that is going out in the spring that we just she included basically what we're facing and the plan so that's going that's going to first week that the presentation I gave which was here's what we did within the financial recovery plan. Is there included in that because I know it's there's a more it's more condensed obviously you know you would

103have is there included in that like a link or a QR code or something that would bring up the full presentation for them out there and And I know like for me I know where that is district l but for the community to easily find that after they're reading could we include a link or some maybe a QR code or something they could easily get to that information. That would be helpful for people. No offense, but not everybody goes to the treasure. Not what I was Can I make one suggestion under like where you said next steps? It says potential community discussions on levy proposals and school closures. Is it a way to specify an elementary school closure? So people know we kind of summarized it because I added a little brief in that and

104so we were trying to kind of condense some of the other ones but I was like when you said that I was like let me look what it says. Yeah. I just want to make sure we're being as specific as possible. So, if we're saying this is how we're communicating it to the community, I want to make sure we're being very clear that this is what we are talking about because people understand that like Roberts is closing both closing like they might just think that's what that is. So, I want to make sure people understand that that's what we're talking about. Not that we're happy to talk about it, but I just want to make sure somebody reads it and understands that's what it is that we're talking about. But yes, I agree with getting,

105you know, all of that specific and have it easily accessible to the community. you know, community engagement is going to be a huge piece of this and the decision making process for us moving forward. Um, and I just before I said like the steps like okay, are we for sure closing getting to that point with the resolution? And then I just want to ensure that our engagement, excuse me, I want our engagement with the community to be first of all, I want them all to know that we want them to be a part of this decision. I also want the the engagement that we do with them to be productive for them and for us. And in order to do that, I think we need to really think about the best how we do that

106so that it's not I don't want them to feel like oh we're just letting you come to this so you can talk so you know just so we're doing it to do it it needs to be real conversations and hard conversations on both sides but they need to be geared towards being productive for us to make the decision as well I mean that's so I think that's why we need to narrow down before start a survey. I have some ideas for that going back to like when Miss White and I served on the plan for excellence. Like there's a way to allow people to say whatever it is that they feel they need to say, but at the same time for you to facilitate some things that you want to get out of them. So

107like you can have like questions posted in post-it notes and ask them answer these questions that we have for them that we want to make sure we get answers to. at the same time to make sure there's an opportunity for people to say what they need to say. And Mr. Whizzler back in the day did a good great job with that. He's still around. I see. Um and so we learned from that like he would have like these post-it notes and questions like um like if we're in a building say like what does this building mean to you? And like let people put put that on a post-it note. We can collect that from every building because that's meaningful and people that come to a about their building want to share that information and they

108want to know that you care enough to ask them that question. And there might be other questions that we'd want to post that up with post-it notes. You have different colors so that they know that they're for the different areas. But then you have that open time for people to come up and share those other thoughts that maybe they have prepared or not. But then it makes it also more welcoming that you've thought about ways in which we're actively asking them for their thoughts as well as well as allowing them that time to share whatever thoughts that they might have. I think that Steuart is going to be a big part in how we do this. Anything else? We got future agenda items. Item eight, future agenda items. House, were you able to reach out?

109So, I did not get a date yet, but I can follow up again. Y anything add item committee reports. We will start with 6 through 12 construction. Yes. Um we met on March 6 and everything is is going really well. The contingency was a board approved. Um for the um GMP 2.1 to the GMP 3.1 um the building itself, the concrete is getting poured in the auditorium. the retaining walls being installed. The last part of that, um they're sealing the concrete floors and mechanical rooms. Um carpentry, carpentry, drywall, and paint is continuing and they are putting that into the auditorium lobby. So, that was good to hear. Um the um flooring is almost complete in building one and then two and three, it's ongoing. And then the main high school gyms will begin in April.

110So, that's good to know, too. And there will be wood floors in the lower gym and then in the auditorium stage, those will be wood. Um, the scoreboards will get installed. The glazing is going continuing on and caulking and roofing and all that. Um, we we're looking at plumbing and the fixtures for the sinks and toilets. I know it doesn't sound like, but it is. You have to have them. Um, So that will be going on the roughins and so on for all that will be going on soon. Um HVAC keeps ongoing the the piping test testing and so on. Um electrical and technology we're going to put the speakers throughout the building soon and the auditorium the roughins are going in the um late site site work. It depends on the weather whether the

111stadium will be completed at the end of this month um or not. We're not sure because of the weather. You never know. And then the drainage. So, the water retention is good to go. Um, and I think that's about everything that Well, Ryan was working on Mr. How was working on the antenna um the birectional that we need um trying to see how much that would be to um cost to get I think that is an important thing. And then the outlets in the classrooms we have to look at too for the um desks. The desks are going to move. They'll be you know where they can move up or down to sit or to stand. So we want those sockets the the um power and data to be right there for the teachers. So

112that's pretty much what we did and talked about, but it's coming. And we have um tours for the during spring break. Thanks to Miss Stewart for her work and helping get that all organized for their staff. And then I did ask once it's done that the planning committee have the first look at it complete when it's done. So I thought that would be important for them and one last harrah. So yes, anything from athletics board polic I don't know. Do we need any more recap other than I think so? Um, Mr. Harris Business Alliance. Um, Miss Schaefer went my place. I had co so Oh, that's right. Yes. And I did go and um Mr. Macintosh gave a presentation with a student about the fresh. Very exciting. Um, the person I sat next to, I

113don't recall his name, but he has chickens himself. So he gave me his raffle ticket to try to win some eggs and I did not win. I had a double chance still did not win eggs. Tried really hard. Was it was Yeah. From community vineyard. Yeah. It was very nice. It was very nice. It was really interesting. Uh and it was and then the the principal from Dwit was talking about put putting together like a walking trip for the students. um and looking for some input like what about this, what about this? And like the group just really came together like how about we can help you? But it was all one person from the city building. They're like oh she can help you. She can help you. But they had like all the ideas.

114It was [Music] No, she wasn't. So, it was time district wellness April 7. I don't have anything on financial advisory um foundation alumni. I actually able to make this last meeting, but I went over the minutes and connected with them. Um, just remind everyone that the scholarship program is May 6th here at the high school. I'm sorry, when was that? May 6th. May 6th. Legislative liaison, Mr. Harris. Yes. Um I was uh able to go to Columbus yesterday and I appreciate the opportunity to do so uh for the OSBA um OASBO at BASA uh state legislative conference. Um it was a fun uh not fun I guess it was a kind of depressing um few hours there. Um we started out you know there was kind of a deep dive. I was uh going to

115be meeting with uh Senator Weinstein. He was unable to meet with me. his schedule got a little out of whack there, so I was unable to sit down with him. But um and I know Mr. Gomez, you ran into uh Representative Hall, so I'll pitch that over to you here in a sec. But um mainly our biggest thing we did was go down through the House Bill 96, which is that bianial budget. Kind of piece by piece there, some of the concerns from those organizations, what they're looking for us to be advocating for and other advocates as well. Obvious obviously that big push uh to get those data inputs uh up to uh current at least 2024 level there. 2022. Talk a little bit about those guarantees. If you recall, the budget is u reducing

116by 5% uh the guarantee in fiscal year 26, 10% in 27. Uh there were a lot of concerns about those reductions as it relates to uh economically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities and English learners. Um we talked a little bit about the uh uh uh disadvantaged pupil impact aid, uh DPIA. The budget will require districts with reading improvement plans to spend 50% of their DPIA on either reading improvement and intervention which is aligned with the science of reading uh or on uh professional development in those areas uh in grades K through three. All other districts would be required to spend 25% of their DPIA on these two initiatives. Obviously that's a concern reduction in other services being provided uh with this aid. Um so what they're calling for and advocating for u no spending requirements

117should be considered until that funding study for DPIA is released and the recommendations for funding levels are provided. Um obviously unused facilities came up. Uh huge gasp and a lot of sneers across the the crowd when that was uh discussed. Uh changes the definition of unusable facility if you recall to include any building that has been used for direct academic instruction. Buildings where student enrollment is less than 60%. Um they were pushing for that to be removed from House Bill 96 and introduces a standalone piece of legislation to allow for a discussion and an understanding of a little bit better understanding of impact. Talked about transportation. Um obviously a big issue here across the state. Um uh Ohio is one of the only states that requires public school districts to transport students to schools outside

118of the district. Um so we're losing money. Uh data shows that this is costing a lot. Um so they're they're asking for a transportation work group to be put together with advocates public school uh district uh folks uh uh to come together policy economic folks to uh put together look at the issue come up with some solutions and take that to the legis legislature. Um diagnostics assessments uh we talked a little bit about that. House Bill 96 would remove the ability of districts to select their own diagnostic assessment and instead would require districts to use statemandated assessment. Obviously that is taking local control away. So, um, we want to push back against that at all costs. Um, then we kind of dove into a property tax overview, which was very, um, was just very informative

119with Dr. Howard Fleeter. He went over the history of property taxes since, uh, 920, um, back in the mid70s was passed, and the trends were just unbelievable. And I'm happy to provide you guys with some of my notes. I didn't put those in here, but uh, just seeing uh, the imbalance and more of the burden that's being put on homeowners, um, it's just it's remarkable. Um, So, uh, his biggest thing was, you know, there is a good policy option. I think he went over the circuit breaker option for that, um, instead of just doing band-aid after band-aid after band-aid over this issue. Um, he also discussed a little bit some of the energy bills that are, uh, coming across here, taxation for energy properties, uh, House Bill 15, Senate Bill 2, Senate Bill 116, and

120how those will impact those districts within, um, some of those, uh, areas close to those power plants. Um, and then we had a panel discussion and I was very pleased to see two Republican chairs uh come uh and show up. Uh, Senator Andrew Brener uh the chair of the Senate Education uh committee um and he also sits on the Senate Finance Committee and then Representative Sarah Fowler Arthur who is the chair of the House uh Education uh Committee and then uh Representative uh and ranking member Phil Robinson of the House Ed Committee as well. Uh it was a good discussion. Um there wasn't as much of how are we going to fix this? from the two chairs. I was expecting a little bit more uh other than there were open for options. Um Brener and

121Fowler Arthur see I guess the issue as it relates to vouchers and school funding as more of an assessment and student success issue with test scores being down. Brener mentioned why put more money into uh public schools. At least that's what I took from what he was saying. Um so they are seem seem to be a little bit more focused on the assessment portion of things. Uh more so than you know the billion dollars going into vouchers and away from our our public schools. Uh Rep. Robinson and I I knew we'd be on the same page and he was on the same page with most of the folks there across the room given the uh applause that he was getting. Um they are um you know he's upset with the the millions being cut from

122public schools and from uh special education calling for some means testing as it relates to vouchers. Um he and the caucus are are putting forth some amendments. I haven't had a chance to look at any of these but um uh as it relates to the unus fac teacher seniority, needs testing, transportation. Um, so, uh, they are trying, uh, to to work with the other side to get a couple, uh, things in there that can help alleviate some of these issues that were that we're seeing here in the budget. Um, he also talked a little bit about some of the things he's introducing, universal prek, a paid leave for teachers, a lot of hailmary stuff right here in the state of Ohio. U, but, u, but, yeah, that's pretty much, um, the overview I have there.

123Um there were they talked about a few pieces of the uh property tax legislation uh coming out here, but um that's pretty much um everything in a nutshell. Like I said, I did not get a chance. Um our own representatives did not attend. Um I did not see Representative Ror there. I did not run into Senator Rob either. Um I didn't stay for the whole lunch. Maybe they came in after, but um I didn't get a chance to get in front of them uh and chat with them, but um it was a good um opportunity and I'm glad I I was able to make it down there. So I think you saw Did you? Oh, yes you did. You went to the town hall, didn't you? Yeah. Did you want to give a cap on

124that? Recap on that at all. Or 700 people attended, I think. Right. 700. Yeah, there were 700 people there. Um, uh, Congresswoman Sykes and I mean, um, yeah, Congressman Sykes and, um, Senator and I got there. So, the doors open at 5 and I'm like, I'll be there 5. I got there like And like five minutes later it was like completely completely full and there were people in the overflow room and it it was a lot of people and um I think I might have cried twice because there were people there was just the people the energy in there there people are just so stressed and worried and um they were they were so willing to answer questions and say like look this is what we're we are here for you. It was it was

125it was so refreshing to hear someone say like we hear you. We hear what's going on. Um and we're going to answer your questions and here's what you're doing. If you don't like what's happening, this is what we want you to do, you know. One thing that kind of struck me though was um someone and I can't remember what the question was about um but said said the answer was across the aisle our our people across the aisle are not getting these complaints. They said we're not getting complaints from from our constituents. We're not getting the calls from people. And then the the crowd of people are like they were in an uproar like we are calling our people. We're calling people who are not getting calls back from our representatives and that they're telling

126their their teammates that we're the representatives are saying they're not getting calls. Yeah. Well, I'm not getting calls back from my state representative when I call them public. But so apparently you're not allowed to. That was that was kind of striking for me. I was like, "Wow, that's That hurts my feelings a little bit. But um it w it was a good talk. I I I felt like the people that came I I didn't I didn't get up and ask any questions, but the people that did I feel like that they got their questions answers. They they felt heard. They had like a direction to move into. Um and then she talked um talked a little bit about how the process works, the there's an executive order and then um how it was the judicial

127branch and how that was working. So, it was uh I'm really kind of learning as I go with what I when I came on to the board of education, I came came on as just like I'm the mom of Victoria and Dennis. I didn't really know a lot about politics or anything. I just wanted to come in and make a difference. And so, since I my time on the board, I've just been learning and trying to know more and do more. So, it's it's really been a lot of it's been a big learning curve for me and I've learned a lot and um there's so much more to know. So, it's a lot. It's and it's frustrating a little bit because you see a big picture and you're like, how do we get from A

128to B? And there's just a lot of you could you could find a solution, you know, a solution, but it's the politics that gets in the way of getting to and it's the rigamroll like there's well why didn't there's the bill that needs to go through and then there's all these little things that get tacked on to the bill and like well why didn't you oh your your congressman didn't sign that bill why wouldn't they sign the bill because of the things that were tacked into the were tucked into that they didn't want to sign it and so then there's just this the big all the big fights and I just let's just do what's right for for our Let's just let's just fund our public education. Let's just do right by our kids. I

129saw Representative Holland Stow and he took the time. He waved me down and talked to me about education, which I appreciate because he's not my state representative, but he does represent part of our school district and let him know that my state representative won't reply to my letters or phone calls um about education. But I appreciated him taking the time and we talked about um budget and um he let me know he's on our side. He's trying to do what he can, but he also let me know that my state representative, Bill Ror, um on Friday um released an amendment to cut funding for public libraries across the state of Ohio. Oh, really? Yeah. So, that's what he was doing when he wouldn't call me back. So, that doesn't give me a lot of positive

130feelings about what he's going to be doing for our school district. Um, but I also can't say for sure because he won't call me back, which is really annoying. And you've called? I've called him and written him a letter. Um, we need to start a campaign of everybody writing but not sending them until the exact same day. So then the post office takes in hundreds of thousands of Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin how they felt about libraries and public education. Maybe they need to re-educate themselves. Was that an amendment in it's going to because all their amendments were due Friday 96. Well, they haven't released their version yet. I've been waiting to see what the House's version of 96. But yeah, cutting funding for public library. Thank you for going and M Schaer too for

131going last night and for always us informed and up to date. Miss Su, student achievement. We meet next month. Okay. Item 10 is comments. Mr. Gomez. So, I I want to give a shout out to Boolic because they were a um they were on a list from OD for schools that needed extra support and they are no longer on that list. They were released from that. You might have seen that in in the Beacon Journal as well. So I want to give a shout out to Bulock for getting released from that list and all the hard work that Mr. Oswald and his team of folks at Bulock did. So it's a celebration of academic achievement at Ble. Um and then I was able to go to the Richardson as well as Dit Art and Book

132Fairs, lots of great art. Um lots of new books for my nephews. And then Price had their game night and it was very well attended. and they had some games that they set up and they encouraged people to bring games from home. Their PTO put it on. It was a really cute event. Um, low cost. They just gave gave out chips and water and just told people bring some games from home. It was a really nice way to bring their community together. Thank you, Mr. Harris. Uh, I have uh I kind of gave my update. I'm all good. Thank you, Mrs. Schaefer. Um, I also attend the Dit Art Show and Book Fair. Um, there was some really uh fun artwork. I I love the the 3D pieces. They're my favorite. When I went into

133the the library was where the book fair bear was hopping in there. Uh, I talked to Mrs. Lindy and she said that the wave art that was right outside the library was part of the the Wit and Wisdom curriculum. They used like it was part of the um so it was like a kind of a crossover which I thought was like a good I guess crossover I don't know what would be the word you use but that was kind of neat and then the tiger tapestry I think we all were there right yes we yeah it was nice I took a salsa dance [Laughter] lesson it was something Yep. It was something. Um, and then later in the day, my arm my arm I my arm like the behind my back were like like stiff

134and I was like, "What? What did I do? I don't understand." And it's because she kept saying your arms are because my arms weren't stiff enough. I was had floppy arms. I had kept trying to hold my arms stiff while I was doing the salsa dancing. So, I need to work on those muscles. Maybe I need to take salsa dance lessons. There you go. If anyone wants to take salsas, I'll go. It was fun. It was a lot of fun. The whole event was a good time. It was I also attended the Tiger Tapestry and it was it was a lot of fun. I got to see a wonderful dance performance in the in the auditorium. No, unfortunately I missed that. I would have liked seen that, but I missed that. But it was it

135was really nice. It was nice to see all the different um institutions that were there. Fire police um Akan Children's and so on. Just really nice to to meet some of the people that help us out here in our district. Um one other thing, I don't have an article tonight. I'm sorry. Um I forgot. I'll bring it next time. Um but um one thing I did want to um Well, if I can find where I put it. Yeah, here it is. Um I like to the middle school notes and and just to give um the middle schools a shout out. Um our libraries are very busy places. These were her minutes and and it so impress impresses me because I'm a reader right now and I highly recommend it. I am reading Poverty by America.

136It's a a wonderful book. Really good. I also have another one, Abundance, but I don't like I can only read so much non-fiction that I have to go back to my light reading. Um but anyway, um so here are some some of the things that she put out. Library visits 455. That's good. Um number of dropin groups, small and large who use the facilities without a reservation, 73. Number of actual lessons delivered, 118. New books added, 127. And that's print, 132. Ebooks or audio books. I don't want to say how many books they're discarding because I too sometimes have to discard and I don't like it. But well, I'm just Never mind. I just have so many books. Gosh, it's I don't But anyway, um and then districtwide um the number of ebooks, audiobooks checked

137out, 3,99. That's awesome. It really is. And then Bulock um held their reading is fundamental um distribution this week and 1,130 books were distributed to the students in three days. That's awesome. It's really good. So, that's all I have. Those books out for spring break. Pardon me. Get those books out for spring break. Exactly. It's good to see kids reading. Next up is me. I don't have a lot to add. I think everyone's covered everything again. Tiger Tapestries. Thank you to um contributed to that and specifically Miss Stewart who was Mr. Jones who even broke up a little bit of a kuffle in the bathroom with some middle schoolers. So he was doing a double duty there. Yes. But absolutely wonderful event and thank you all for your hard work. I just wanted to give

138everyone a reminder of the care awards dinner that is April 3rd. And um our board of education along with the other um boards of education from the six districts are um recipients of the care community appreciation. Oh really? Oh my gosh. So very honored to be a part of that part of that of the sixth district. Tomorrow is the state of the city address with the mayor here in Ka Falls. And Mr. Gomez, can you remind me just I didn't I have it on my calendar, but I want to search when's the state of the city for Silver Lake? April 7th at 7 p.m. As long as that's a Monday. Yes, that is Monday. Yes, but literacy night will be like over by then because literacy night's earlier. You can Wonderful. Thank you. I had

139it on my calendar, but I do not want to sit here and search the whole thing. So, yeah. So, if anybody is interested in doing state of the city for Silver Lake, that's April 7th. So, okay, that is all that I have for this evening. Um, item J, motion to adjourn. It is recommended that the board of education adjourns this meeting. So, move second. Would you please call Miss White? I miss Coco. Hi, Mr. Gomez. Hi, Mr. Harris. Hi,