001good evening like to welcome everyone to this board of education regular meeting Wednesday March 5th 5:30 p.m. item a call to order um Mr Gomez will be the treasur prot tempor today as Miss sto is not here Mr Gomez can you please call the RO Miss here Mr Gomez I am present Mr Harris here Mrs Schaefer here miss white here Item B is approval of agenda it is recommended that the Board of Education approves the agenda of the March 5th 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 such item be removed from the consented agenda and voted upon separately so moved second
002discussion Mr Gomez please call the rle Mr Harris I Mr Schaefer I miss white I Mr Gomez I miss Coco I item C is opening ceremony informational items this meeting is a meeting of the kyoga Falls Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business it is not a public community meeting although there are opportunities for public participation if any 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 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
003the superintendent Andor board president 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 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 the next policy committee meeting is March 12th 2025 at 4:30 p.m. in the Board of Education offices 405 toan Road kyoga Falls
004the next regularly scheduled meeting of the kyoga Falls Board of Education is March 19th at 5:30 p.m. in the kyoga Falls High School library and now for our Pledge of Allegiance Mr Gomez please stand as your a and join me in the pledge I pledge aliance 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 welcome our vision Kaa Fall 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 strategic plan goals are as follows school safety we aspire to have a welcoming environment that ensures that the physical and social well-being needs of every student
005in staff member are met academic growth we aspire to have significant growth through personalized education for all students we aspire to improve graduation rates so that our students are prepared for employment enrollment or enlistment engagement includes and diversity we will ensure that every student has access to resources they need when they need it in order to be successful technology and systems integration we aspire to create safe secure and efficient technology systems to support highquality teaching learning and District Operations thank you Mr Gomez item D is presentations we have two presentations this evening the first is Mrs Christa kage with our CTO CTE program welcome thank you for being here so first I'd like to say thank you to the board for having me um we have made some done some really great things this year
006in CTE uh we continue to push forward and we have a lot of things going on and um a lot of things that we want to implement for next year so I'm excited to talk about it um and we have a lot of Engagement from our students so having me here is great because I feel like it gives us an opportunity to talk about the programs and get everyone excited about the things that we're doing so thank you um so as you know really CTE is a pathway for a lot of kids to be successful After High School to go out and to have a job um be prepared for college if that's what they choose to do so we want to make sure that our programs are putting kids in positions where they're learning
007job skills they're learning people skills and anything the skills that ultimately are going to they'll have for the rest of their lives and will impact them so our partner schools are Kent husin Woodridge talage and Stow uh we currently have kids in all of those programs across the district and we have the second largest group of programs Kent be first and then us so we get quite a bit of quite a few kids here which is great um so we have 29 programs across the compact uh six schools offering programs eight here in our building and we have four feeder middle school programs three which were recently approved by the state so I'll talk about that a little bit later in the presentation but we're really excited about that we have 248 students participating in
008our program here at Koga Falls so that's pretty large number of those 248 135 of those are our own kyoga fall students and 113 are students who come from the other five compact schools and we have 265 of our kayoga Falls students who are participating in CTE across the compact which between 11th and 12th grade is a third of those students so kids are really invested in our programs um and are getting a lot out of them which I will talk about a little bit today um we have 130 who are going out to Compact and then we have between our level one and two 135 in our programs um including a few kids who started in 10th Grade went through level one and two in 10th and 11th so this year we created a
009level three for those kids so that this year they're doing internships through part of their program and having some extra experience and to um go along with that and enhance with they already know is that something we're looking to expand so this year when we met for screening and placement we had so many kids apply to programs that we didn't take 10th graders so it happened to be that this this year when the kids applied I think there were some open spaces and 10th graders that applied so we so at that I wasn't here they started but um they were able to start as level one kids in 10th Grade so when they finished level two last year they were still really interested in learning more so we created a situation where they could have
010time to do internships and make sure that they were still uh working through their program so those there's two boys that are doing it now and they're doing some extra industry certifications and extra learning so that they didn't have to just stop and then not be doing anything this year related to that I think what Mary Jane spoke to us was it two two years ago I think she spoke about the the space being one of the biggest issues that they face so that makes sense yeah we would love so I think we would love to expand that it's just the space is yeah the physical space so I think anytime we don't fill a program we're always open to taking 10th graders so if that's something that does happen I think there's always room
011to expand for like a third year of that program for sure thank you so um we did screening and placement for the 10th graders who will be our upcoming level one kids the last week of February and as of right now uh we have 108 kyoga fall students who were placed into programs throughout the compact so that's over a third of our 10th graders uh we have 115 students who are currently on waiting lists and then we accepted kids into seven of our programs because we are not going to run a level one for auto next year year so between the seven programs we have 111 kids as of now slated to come those numbers will change um as kids get their placements and then if find out that they didn't get placed somewhere whatever
012then we always have kids who then want to add to our program so um we should be pretty full next year and actually all but two of our programs were are at capacity for next year so in our two that are not we're we've set up with situations so that the teachers can go out and kind of recruit we're going to have them go talk to students at other buildings to explain more about what they're doing in their programs and hopes that we can get some more interest which two is that uh cyber academy and our agriculture that's surprising and there's a Hu they have a Hu they take can take up to 30 kids so they also have a lot of kids to be able in there yeah so and also just to talk
013a little bit about our attendance rates so overall for our school we're at 87.6% but our attendance rates for our own Falls CTE kids are at 91.5 and our attendance rate for our out of District CTE kids is at a 92.3 so kids are really invested they want to be here they're coming to class every day which is great sometimes we see kids who come just so that they can come to their CTE programs and although we do not encourage them to leave afterwards we so for some of these kids the whole reason they come to school is because they are participating in these programs so as part of CTE one of the things that our kids get that doesn't always happen in a traditional classroom it's just all these different experiences go ahead Ryan
014so at up until last week um so far far just this year we've taken our our programs have taken a total of 58 field trips between the eight programs we've had 52 guest speakers come in and talk to programs we're slated for like hang on hang on we're slated for for about 30 more guest speakers between now and the end of the year and we have more field trips going out so we are trying our best to make sure that our kids are getting out in the community and that we have people coming in to see what we're doing and talk to the kids as well between our so all of our kids are getting work-based learning hours and the work-based learning hours count if they're out working in a job or an internship or
015even throughout their program as long as that aligns with the standards for their program so the kids in our programs this year have earned over 45,000 work-based learning hours and our out following kyoga Falls kids have earned over 32,000 work based learning hours so we've tried really hard this year to make sure that we're documenting and keeping track of those hours because being out in the field is huge for these kids they're getting real life experience meeting people in the community and um I think just by the Numbers alone you can tell that that's been a huge Focus for us this year which has been great do we connect them to um work that's related to their program like do we have a system to do that yeah so um we'll talk a little bit
016later about our Community Partners but a lot of the partners that we're working with um through our CTE programs give the kids internship hours let them come and work even doing volunteer time in there and then so any workbase learning hours that the kids put in for has to be a position where it's aligned with the standards for for the program and then during first semester this year um kids across a compact our Koga Falls kids have earned a total of 79 CCP hours which is the equivalent of 24 classes college classes um some of the classes that they're taking are like worth two credits which is why it's not in uh even divisible by three number but um our kids are definitely we have programs here where the kids are earning college credit hours
017and outside of our buildings as well and then um our internships currently we've got 16 out for cause Community agriculture has two uh medical office and business has 10 cyber security has two and criminal justice has 15 so we have 45 students at this point of the year who are going out and doing internships with um businesses that we work with with with Community Partners so they are getting real life experience in their CTE program of interest and then this is a snippet and I'm sure um hopefully I caught every every business that they're working with but here are um just local businesses who are working with us so whether they're providing places for the kids to go for field trips um or they're providing internships or volunteer experience or coming in to talk to
018our classrooms we've tried to really reach out to a lot of organizations that align with our programs to get people in so the kids have an opportunity to see all the different um Pathways within their fields and get some interest there so one of the biggest changes that we've made this year is for industry credentials so industry credentials are certifications licenses and qualifications that demonstrate skills and knowledge in a specific industry the credentials are are um National based credentials or state-based credentials so they the credentials are not scored by us so there's no um preference or anything like that given to kids um they're all things that they have studied for and they have earned so when a student does not pass both their algebra and their English OST the industry 12 points of an
019indust credential in their pathway allows for them to meet criteria for graduation so for some of our kids that pathway of being able to have those credentials is really important um so this year we implemented that each of our programs here at Falls allows for an opportunity for kids to get 12 points so that they're not trying to figure out a different alternate pathway for graduation so we want to make sure if they haven't met the OST piece that we can provide here in our programs an opportunity for them to still be able to meet criteria for graduation so so far this year our students have earned 231 industry credentials in our programs which is huge um we have 19 kids in CTE currently who have used those credentials as a competency for graduation so
020without those they would be looking for an alternate pathway right now within our rise up classes which is another means for industry credentials we've given nine given and passed 92 tests 35 students have already passed both tests 22 of them have passed the first test and are now getting ready for the second test so we'll have 55 students who are also using that rise up credential as a means for graduation um and actually today this afternoon while we were sitting in our meeting of all four of our girls who went today and cause for their board exams also passed today so we can add four more of those so they are up to 12 officially so we're super excited about that um so all in all we really have 327 industry credentials that have been
021earned by our students this year that's great so that's huge that's great um changes that we made just to talk a little bit about this year we aligned our classes so students are earning CeX and articulated credit so once they complete a class with a b or above and they pass a web exam that goes with that class then they get what's called a c tag or an articulated credit so when they go to college that goes with them and they get the college equivalent class of whatever that class was here so we've tried to switch out some of the classes just so that we know students are getting are able or have the opportunity to earn those college credits um our CTE industrial artarts and FCS teachers have participated in PD aligned with CTE
022um we've sent a couple of our CTE teachers this year out to professional conferences um a big change for us is that our teachers this year for CTE have comeon planning time so we can meet for tvts we have an opportunity to talk about the kids who are in our programs talk about improvements and be on the same page um we added 12 points of IND three recognized credentials to each of our programs we created a system for tracking our CCP hours our credentials or web exams and Reporting all of that information to the state so when we get the report card that reflects for this year it will be a huge change on our College and Career Readiness section of the report card because um that hasn't been reflected thus far so that's going
023to be huge for us on our state report C so we're excited about that um this year was the first year because we are tracking that that we were able to put in for a reimbursement and have the state reimburse us for industry credentials so that was another good like y for us um we worked really hard with the compact schools to align things like field trips so we've had um other programs and our programs go out and do field trips together uh to do emis coding correctly so we're all on the same page and student tracking for graduation uh We've implemented a leadership Academy with one of our local business partners which has been really cool because the kids in that Leadership Academy are also doing um not only some volunteer experience but they're
024in the process of creating a um a like philanthropy like a thing that they would like to do at the end of the year to to gain uh some Community input Which business partner was that one Chick-fil-A and they have a set like an actual set Leadership Academy which is really cool um with a curriculum and everything so the district manager from there comes in once a month and brings the kids lunch and he meets with that group of students who's doing the leadership academy which has been really very cool actually to um see that and the kids love it and um not plan we created four new CTE 26 applications this year for sth through 10th grade so I talked a little bit about that earlier but essentially what we would like to do
025once we combine with the middle school is look at our um the elective classes that we're offering to kids through 7th 8th 9th and 10th grade and we would like some of those elective classes to align with our CTE program so kids have an opportunity to see like what is community agriculture really about so by the time that those kids get to 10th grade and start applying for programs they're invested in what we're doing and they have some experience it doesn't seem so overwhelming to go into a career program so um we've we put in applications um to align with Community agriculture with our media arts program and marketing and um our cyber security program so I think that's going to be helpful too because in the state budget they're flushing out what they do
026or don't want to require and in terms of CTE for 7 through 10 right and they they don't seem they haven't landed on it yet but they seem to be going back and forth on whether or not they're going to require us to do more than we have previously so so we have those applications in place now so now we'll be able to like start thinking as the um program of studies comes out and then we'll be able to start really thinking about what kind of we proactive on that that'll be very helpful in case that the state goes that way we'll kind of have this already in ready to go and combining with the middle school for us will be great because we'll have the kids right there we don't have to worry about
027taking them out of the building but we'll have them right there to be able to visit our programs work with our teachers see what our kids are doing do some shadowing experiences like we have a whole bunch of ideas so I think it could be a really good situation and then reimagining career night um this year I guess it was okay what we'd like to do is um kind of realign it so that we open it up to some more business partners um that we give kids like in every grade level an opportunity and a reason to want to go and participate in that um and so we want to be able like our 10th graders go to the Showcase but then kind of after they have career night and everything's kind of focused at
028that grade level but like we have the colleges at career night and kids aren't really so much thinking about that yet so we would like to make this more of a schoolwide type thing so that we have you know by kids junior year they're starting to really look at colleges they really look at field of interest and um we would like the kids to be a little more invested so we're trying to reimagine what that will look like I'm just say because my work happens to be one of the ones that comes every year um which Mr wowski knows and uh because they show up every year and he sends a nice thank you note and they appreciate that um and they go to other ones and So like um the Portage Lakes Career Center
029they do theirs during the day and they get a lot of people that will come during the day because there are people that do recruiting for a living so it's part of their just their job so their job will then send them there and so just throw thought out as you're reimagining not it's not to tell you what to do but just throwing a thought out if you're saying you're remining there's a thought and I know plcc does theirs every year cuz my work goes to that one as well so just want to think about another place touch Bas with to check on them yeah so I think I think we could make a lot more out of it and I I would really like to see the students be more engaged not just asking
030three questions to business partners but really having engaging conversations you know what did you do what did you study how long did it take you to get into this field like really talking to people um but I think maybe a year older would would be a little more beneficial because now they're really starting to think about their future it's always been connected to the the English assignment too right cuz I believe you helped Implement that correct yes she was the English teacher chair that helped Implement that whole Pro so there's that piece of reimagining as well that's that where the connection should be or not and I think the hard part I I I don't think they should expertise while you're here I think the hard part is that it's 10th grade English and so
031they're so focused on osts that that taking time to really have these career conversations is hard you know but when you hit 11 afraid you're not in a tested subject and now we're really talking about what your future looks like um we really would like to be able to plan like a week worth of lessons kind of leading up to that that has skill building questions that the kids would be asking having them do some research before they go so that when they go it is an engaging experience it's also more likely that they're in a job at 11th grade so maybe they've gone through their first interview personally so asking a question maybe doesn't feel as unnatural because they've been on the other side of having that question asked of them yeah and I
032would love if there was a way for us to be able to set up mock interviews during that time like I think that would be really beneficial to a lot of our students as well so so we have a lot of ideas going the well miss Koko sits on the Alumni Association board and they could maybe get you some people if that's something you want to do they could maybe try to tap into some alumni to doac interview there's a lot of resources here if you're thinking about a lot of resources different ways to pull things out yeah that would be awesome they would love to try to find people and they're always trying to find ways to connect the alumni with the students so then some future goals that we want to work on
033for next year um is again aligning those Middle School electives with our programs putting plans into place for Partnerships with Stark State so like one of the programs that they've offered is an HVAC program that we could utilize for seniors but I don't want to just send seniors out so I want to really look at like what electives leading up to senior year how do we get those kids invested so that we're not just sending them out their senior year but that they have some background and make decisions about that and are educated about those decisions um our criminal justice program potentially is talking about adding a Cyber Law class which would allow us with our um cyber security to do some interdisciplinary teaching between the two classes um currently we're doing some work with
034redefining our grids which really just means um like realigning our grids across the compact uh like the order of classes how those things are documented and what credits kids are getting for those classes um working together with other compact schools to align credits and Industry credentials and enhancing collaboration with our local businesses so hopefully as we work on the career night um for next year that'll give us another opportunity to tap into some of our our local people so we've put a lot of time and effort into this year we've made a lot of changes really positive changes really have gotten our students very engaged this year making sure that we're giving them a lot of like good Hands-On experiences so I'm going to end this with a video that actually um some students made
035who are in our modern communications class so a great group of students and really what I said was here's what I'm looking for and I'm letting you guys run with it which sometimes is really hard for me and so um but it's a true Testament to really what we're doing in our programs [Music] one [Music] CTE has provided me with uh invaluable experience to work with professional equipment and prepare myself while also enabling me to excel in My Chosen area of study and work I've been able to make connections in the community meet other people with similar interests it's helped me prepare for college a couple days ago I confirmed Acceptance in Ohio University they invited their honors tutorial program which they only accept three kids for 30 majors and the school is actually ranked
036number four nationally for editing which is what I'm going to college for we've gotten to go on a lot of field trips through actual companies and we went on a huge trip to Philadelphia to a journalism convention where we learned industry standards to prepare us for an actual job we recently put on a game day between cago Falls and and it was run by the students in the program it was super helpful to have different kids from different districts to bring other aspects of their knowledge and their technique and expertise and to work together to help out looking back as a high school senior I'm proud to say that I chose ctd it's allowed me to build strong connections gain experiences you would never receive in a traditional classroom and it's opened the door to
037so many for me in the future I'd be lying if I told you that didn't make me a little teary when they showed I was like that's so good exactly what I wanted so great do you guys have any questions um I was going to ask do you track are there many students that start in the CTO CTE program program for year one and decide not to continue we had four last year oh wow that's it out of the yeah and this year I think we'll have two one was an early graduate so they graduated at the semester so yeah but no all in all our our programs routine students pretty well yeah so but feel free to contact me if you have any anything you want to give me about career night um I
038will take any information and our goal is really to get that going doing well next year thank you I know um I've been on the business advisory and um Mr harrises as well I just stepped down this year off of that but I know that's a big goal of that group and um with Community engagement and one of their goals is to kind of revamp that career night as well with um the partners so next year it'll be on the advisory committee too so I'm excited for great that's awesome that's great thank you thank you much thank you so much for letting me present and hopefully you guys see the um how awesome our programs are this year and much work our teachers have put into them thank you so much thank you thank you
039Mrs SCH thank you thank you second presentation is construction materials testing allowance Mr Scott TDM we're only doing good news presentations tonight Scott this is informative I actually upd up right and as president I also implemented a timer and we're just going to buzz you and the floor is going to drop out when you're [Laughter] time so play we're going to play you off I've done before got more to say so there's a lot of information in this package so I'm going to do a speaking of time I'm going to do a high level overview of this but um later on the agenda there's you're consider a resolution to um increase our construction testing allowance in our contract and I want to take the opportunity to uh do an overvie VI of what that means
040what the construction testing allowance is um what the purpose of our testing agency is and how they are involved in our project and just do an overview of of essentially why we're why we're asking for this allowance increase um you can go to the first slide Ryan so um we'll look at in our agenda here quickly um how independent testing independent construction testing is described and conducted kind of go through an explanation high level explanation of all the testing categories that are involved um look at the scope of this building uh pieces of our scope of our new of our new building our project that are and how those relate to construction testing um look at the project schedule and how that has related to construction testing and then looking at the allowance increase request
041so construction testing is uh mandated by the state of Ohio so uh the state of Ohio and the Ohio uh building code the OBC requires us to do construction testing of uh in the code it's several several different aspects of the construction but the the aspects of the construction that apply to our project here are the steel Construction masy Construction the soils uh sprayed uh fire resistant materials and fire resistant penetration materials um and along with the state requiring us uh to uh conduct that testing and to submit it to uh the authorities having jurisdiction in this case it's Sumit County um at the end of the project um our partners at the O ofcc the Ohio facilities construction Commission in their Ohio school design manual um they the the manual states that um are
042building building should be designed and constructed of materials which will perform uh satisfactory for over 40 years with limited uh or minor maintenance and 100 years uh without major repairs so we're designing these buildings the state's mandating that we design these buildings to last 100 years this new school hopefully lasts 100 years I would love that uh it may not we may not keep it around for 100 years but we're designed to meet those requirements um so to ensure that the ocdm in their the Ohio school design manual STM has requirements again I can go through these high level but has requirements around foundation retaining structures which are involved in our project general construction of the framing structural framing systems roof framing systems go to the next page for framing systems masonry Wall Systems um
043lateral bracing systems of the structural system slabs on grade which is our second floor slabs lentils which kind of hold hold openings over uh masonry over our doors and our Windows um but the the point is that along with meeting all of the requirements in the in the state code and all the requirements in the osdm um the construction uh testing agency we are through our drawings and our documentation so through architectural drawings and specifications we specify what needs to be accomplished we specify the frequency of these tests and we specify um uh how how they is supposed to be conducted the testing agency so they're they're the people that are actually doing the testing and our project it's it's geoi it was our geotechnical engine engineer they're doing our construction testing as well the
044testing agency their third their third party organization is they're not they're hired by the district through the architect's contract so that's the reason why we hold an allowance in our contract for them um and they uh work with the construction management risk so they're working with Hamond construction very closely to coordinate the required testing based on with construction schedule um and it's important that they're a third party because they're uh they're they're really they have their eyes on everything and they have to they have to test outside they have to test those requirements outside the construction company outside the architect um but again they're hired through our contract so we hold an allowance and the allowance is a complete pass through so if we're not marking it up we don't have anything over and above
045we get a bill from the construction testing agency we pass that along to the district and charge it against our allowance so that's how that how that works um when they're out there testing we can turn the page yeah so there are specific testing categories that they're looking at uh so soils test testing they're looking at uh compaction testing of our soils so when we when we're cutting and filling on site when we're building up certain areas to accept our floor slabs and our foundations um they're making sure that all that fill is placed it's compacted it's engineered um it's going to meet the requirements for for our building that sit on top of it same thing with proof rolls uh they have a big dump truck that rolls over the the slab um soil
046that's going to support our slab or parking lots and they're making sure that that's meeting uh meeting uh the what it needs to meet and bearing capacity of our soils for our foundation so testing VAR capacity of our soil so it holds up our twostory walls three story walls four story walls in some cases of our building here um testing concrete so concrete they're testing Foundation slab on grade slab on Deck sidewalks retaining walls equipment pads curbs stairs elevator shafts so everything that that is of Concrete Construction those con uh Crete field tests include uh slump tests that works workability they test the temperature of the concrete the air content of the concrete and each of these tests have like five concrete samples that they're that they're testing for and then the comprehension test of
047the concrete um it gives the strength of the concrete uh they test for they test the asphalt uh compaction testing of the asphalt making sure that asphalt's going to be able to accommodate and hold trffic patterns uh hold up to the traffic and the parking and everything that needs to hold up to on site um they test masonry so they're testing the grout and the mortar of the masonry uh to make sure it's meeting the compressive strength tests and they're also checking uh reinforcing in our concrete wall in our masonry walls especially our walls that are holding up the building make sure that the reinforcing steel is placed appropriately and at the right size um steel they're looking at all of our connections bolted connections and Welding connections as they build erect the building so
048they're making sure that they are um they are to code and and per drawings and specifications and they're also doing some ultrasonic testing that again looks at uh looks at looks deeper under the welding connections that AR aren't um completely visible uh with the naked eye and then fire stopping and fireproofing so fir stopping is when we penetrate a a wall a firewall on site with a pipe br um HVAC duct we have to seal around that to make sure no smoke or fire U penetrates that wall and then fireproofing we have an area of the building here that um we we' have spray on fireproofing on the structure so they have to make sure that that's all been um applied correctly to the correct thickness and it doesn't pull off when you when you
049test it all right last two promise floor flatness so they're checking the the floor flatness of the of our Port floors on our first and second floors for the concrete and then they also test the relative humidity in our concrete um we're looking make sure we don't have too much humidity in our concrete um before we place our final floor materials and things on it um so they have a lot of they have a lot to do and um when we establish our allowance for the testing agency we work with the testing agency the come up with a budget um those budgets are based on the project size project budget uh schedule and then history so what what has a project like you know a similar size in the past um what allowance did we
050use on that project and we come up with an allowance what buildings did you use based on history yeah so you you high school was was a good was a pretty good size um same similar size square footage I think as we get into this presentation a little bit what uclid high school didn't have were the the site with just the the the site challenges the the enormity of the site that we have on this project all the site work that was involved who was the construction manager for you uh Hond construction yeah um so and we have to keep in mind that we're setting these allowances when we're negotiating our contract of being in the project so it's before we put pen to paper had any design conversations we setting these allowances um and
051at that time we set the allowance at $325,000 um I want to go through a few of the few project scope items that on this project where the I think the the message here that I'm saying is uh We've saved especially with site construction we hon and T Ben design architecture worked closely to come up with solutions that save the project in the end millions of dollars um but it increased the testing it increased the testing scope um uh so you know again thoughtful site design save this project save the project costs um every inch of our 48 Acre Site has been impacted by some way or another um through our site development um over a million cubic yards of dirt were moved on this site through cut and F activities um site utilities ran
052the entire length of the site they were uh they were dug deep to meet existing um to meet existing utilities you think at Portage Trail we're 35 feet higher than we are at Silver Lake so those all those utilities are dug deep uh most of them run to Silver Lake um and then uh if you remember early on the conversation we were trying to maximize the the the the footprint of the site and we were looking at can we store storm water underneath the parking lots so we can have more space for ball fields and things like of that nature um but just just bringing those storm water detension basins above ground save the project probably three or four million but all of that scope added to the to the scope of our testing agency
053what that moving the storm water retention above ground but I recall you said TD told us that you almost never do the water retention underground it's one of the first things that you get rid of so wouldn't you have accommodated for that wouldn't your company knowing that that's one of the first things you get rid of then accommodated for that and your things knowing that you almost always end up getting rid of that wouldn't it have been good due process on your end to think oh it's almost certain that we're not going to do that cuz you even told us that sure yeah that was I mean that that's one example of of of several on here um I don't disagree I think that storm water detension above ground is is um many times where
054we end up um I think we were trying to do it be as economical with our site as possible I think yeah early on we were trying to design it so we can have um as much usable site as possible so how does that apply to the testing itself because whether it's in the ground or out when they still have to yeah so they do yeah they do testing um on the storm water so they the test the biggest testing we had on the storm water tension basins were for water table so we were making sure that we didn't have to put it's it's actually like a clay cap at the bottom of the Basin um to uh keep groundwater from infiltrating it so we did we did several um tests water table tests on
055storm water retention basins um concrete retaining walls allowed us to um Bridge the 35 foot elevation of our site and step our building down or site down from Portage Trail to to Silver Lake um and it really saving grading excavation cost but there was a lot of scope added in those in those concrete retainers walls but we knew didn't we know that already no well I mean yeah I I think I think at at the at the time where we again the time we do these allowances we haven't designed any we haven't designed anything yet um and uh po soils um were identified which would it requires um to do mask excavation on the site or and import engineered fill um and we worked to find a solution where we did our aggregate Pier solution
056there were over 2,000 aggregate peers that were um that were used to stabilize a site so that on itself saved the project one million two $1.5 million but that that Inc increased the testing agency scope um they had to be on site to Monitor and test the all of those aggre peers um and then in addition to design the site design modifications I think led to the majority of the added scope um but we did work to reduce the building's footprint um we end like uh there is one portion of the building it's the um uh the middle middle school Wing where we have a lower level and then three stories on top of it so there is one portion of our building that's a four-story building um which required us to fireproof that structure
057um according to the building code and uh that led to an additional fire proofing which we don't have in every project um so the the schedule and how it relates to testing so from October of 2022 through June of 2023 is when we were doing our early site work so that's when we were doing the heavy lifting on site so that's where over a million cubic yards of soil removed during the cut fill activities and the grading activities to shape our site um and where the aggregate peers were installed to St iiz the soil uh just in these n months there were over 1300 hours our testing agency was on site they were on site fulltime uh during this these activities to to shape our site so again to to build our site up to
058accept our foundations and our building pad uh that then started in uh uh July of 2023 so we knew two years ago that we were going to be pretty over okay um so yeah and so the that you know through this time alone over you know half of the allowance was spent in the early safe in the early safe package um and then we continue to work so then from July of 23 to December of this past year um the building was erect and the stadium took shape the site has continued to be developed um and the testing agency was on site observing all the components of the project simultaneously so that was soils concrete masonry steel fir stop and fireproofing so they were again on site almost fulltime but uh they were observing all
059of those all of those items at once these quantities and these tables kind of relate back to the uh to the beginning the presentation um with the different uh the different um tests that they were conducting so just kind of give you some quantities of of the tests they conducted over the over the length of the do they have time logs to cover all their time they do so do they sign in and sign out with someone or do they keep their own time so they we started the we they started signing and out this past summer previous to that um we have I actually have we have all their invoices here so that their invoices and their daily reports show all of the hours that they were on site and and the um the
060work that was taking place but previous to that they kept their own time that's correct I have a question too I I guess you keep saying it before the the school was done but we knew that we were going to have to save money by going from two floors to three stories so wouldn't you have known at that time then we would have needed more testing do you see what I'm saying there's so many things that we already knew that we were trying to save so wouldn't you have yeah I don't know how did you not know I guess that this was going to cost more in testing when we didn't even have I don't I it's just frustrating I yeah because you're saying nothing was designed as a defense but then on the same
061thing you're saying that when the design changed it cost more money so can you help us understand how both of those can apply yeah so when we set our allowance at $325,000 that's true that no at that time we didn't you know again pen wasn't set the paper uh we hadn't had any design conversations as it progressed um I I think to what you're getting as I think we could have come to you sooner saying that we needed additional monies for the testing um but as um for the testing that's been done and will continue to be be done during this project um it all had to take place for this project to meet the requirements that it needs to be in the end it's it's making sure that we're providing a safe reliable building
062um for the community and that everything is being constructed the way it should be so it's a really important piece of the project could have let you know sooner um but it's it's a Well it has it has to be done or we can open the building so got to do it I get the importance of it I don't want a Sherwin Williams where we can't move into our building because the fireproofing is wrong and I don't want an aaran Springfield where the concrete's wrong and wasn't tested right and then we have a bouncy building and we have all these other issues I get like why this is important I think the frustration is it seems like there are things that could have been known or should have been known yeah and it's perhaps not
063the first time we felt that way and so I think it's a lot of frustration but I I appreciate the importance of why this work needs to happen and then oh you're not to that page yet so I won't ask that question okay go wait yeah so um through yeah so through December of this past year invoices total cents is currently outstanding um so that brings us that that brings us to DEC yeah quick sorry um so with that amount of overages do you have a time when we actually hit that proposed budget amount like that we're now open this much yeah so I think that it was probably it was hit um about this time last year the 3 to 25 um and then we're anticipating future site work for the spring of 2025
064which is this spring um stadium and parking lot uh Stadium all this work in the stadium and then the additional parking lot work this spring of a we're estimating $20 $20,000 a month there's about five months of intense testing we feel that we're going to need so that's $100,000 for this spring and then next spring will be demolishing bolic um preparing that site for the future parking lot areas um and it's the same same is same conditions there so about five months of intense site work at about $20,000 a month uh so the total testing allowance increase requested is just under $400,000 um we did there are allowances other allowances in our contract that aren't specifically tied to testing that we feel that we will not be billing um anything against for the remainder of
065the project so that's in special studies surveys geotechnical testing uh primary power uh additional document printing and then storm water fees so there's about just over $70,000 in our contract that um we'll be able to move towards this allowance to alleviate that uh that overage a little bit um so the it the the um allowance would divide into co- versus lfi about it's a 9010 split um so on the co-funded side if you include the unused allowances in our contract we're looking at a total uh allowance increase that were requesting of 287,213 n7561n what if we base the $20,000 a month off of that was our testing agency's uh estimate so they uh they looked at what we um have done on this project to date for those uh for very similar work for that
066kind of sight heavy similar work um and we set it at $20,000 a month and then we work with Hammond to understand that that those five month durations for this year and next year until the prior invoice that support that they do okay have separate thing okay yes let just discuss what did you want to come up and discuss do you have the GMP piece the GMP piece that we're going to vote on if if you're wanting to since you're here sure we figured we could do it under presentation since you're here thank you it's good news I won't talk numbers I think you have all of the information in front of you um we shouldn't provide it to you but um over the about the past month we uh it's the culmination of a
067lot of years of work with you folks and we've um we bid the last piece of work which is the um abatement and demolition of Bullock Middle School um and so there's a there's a co-funded allowance that goes along with that um we received those numbers and um we were we were slightly over the co-funded budget um but as a means of exec that we um we had money in our guaranteed maximum price with the the pk12 building and we returned some CM contingency so it's essentially a net zero um um execution that work so this work is essentially to remove all of the Hazardous Materials within the building and then we will demolish and remove um from the property uh the facility and that will allow us to perform the final site development which
068is the parking lot that you know kind of runs between Port Trail and 13th Street there out in you know the south side of your facility so do you have any other specific questions related to the GMP can you just State since our some of our community listens to the meeting can you say when it'll be completed by this portion of it um yeah so essentially we will finish the building um this fall and you will move in right you will you will combine your middle schools and your high school and all those students will move in and there's a period of time where um you will vacate that facility you will um hold an auction and try to you know retain some funds from selling whatever you can in that facility and then we
069will take um we'll kind of take it over and and you know at the beginning of the year of 2026 and then we will take a couple months to demolish it a couple months to Abate it um not in that order but and then we will do the final site development over the summer of 2026 so when you come back to school um for the 26 27 school year I'll bring the best news that I can possibly bring which is we are done right so and so you said we we're moving in this fall um you try to get me on that all the time I was going to clarify that we are not moving in until a mid move I think I think Lucas and the team are doing a fantastic job it is
070a very large building um we do have a ve very difficult push um to get to that finish line and then there's a couple months of these buildings are alive they take a lot of time to come online and um it'll take a lot of time for us to get it uh operating efficient efficiently so even like a full year you're going to move in and over the years over that year we're going to have to tweak and um and get it running perfectly so moving in and taking ownership of it takes a couple months but I think we've got a good we've got it set up well for you folks to take good ownership that ex and then you did say this would not cost us anymore yeah essentially it is over the the
071co-funded budget okay but in order to offset the overage Hammond as it's a little convoluted but as part of the the building we are going to return the CM contingency so it is essentially a net zero accounting function that's good so it was really close I think that was the good thing like we had great competition and um yeah okay so it was good thank you yeah appreciate it thank you thank you very much then want to do some sort of Celebration once it's all done right Miss Stewart oh yes celebrate yeah that it's all done yes I am sure that uh Mr batti would love us doing confetti cat cannons new parking [Laughter] right answer good answer item e is treasure cfo's business consent agenda it's recommended the Board of Education approves all items
072listed in the Treasure cfo's business consent agenda so moved second Mr Gomez do you have any discussion I would just say that um Miss to brought forth the minutes from the last meeting as well as um several donations from our generous Community any discussion Mr Gomez please call the RO Mr schaer I miss white I Mr Gomez I vote I miss coko I Mr Harris I item after treasur cfo's business um it is recommended that the Board of Education approves the following resolutions to authorize the filing of an original tax valuation complaint against property for tax year 2024 RC 9A second any discussion right I will call the role Miss White I Mr Gomez abstain m coko i Mr Harris I Mr schaer I item two is treasur cfo's comment U Miss dooy is not
073here this evening so no comments from our Treasurer tonight item G is superintendent Acting Superintendent assistant superintendent cfo's business consent agenda it is recommended that the Board of Education approve all items listed in the superintendent's business consent agenda second yes so we have um a new van driver and um we have Tia Summerfield is returning to the Paro role at um in her in that position we have some coaches wrapping up for Springtime girls track assistant coach baseball assistant coach uh we have a leave of absence uh two leades of absence we also have a job description for your um review uh the van driver is a position that was created in the current school year in need of a job description uh the school psychologist and speech and language pathologist positions are um being
074revised in up dated thank you very much any questions or discussion Mr Gomez please call Miss White I Mr Gomez I miss coko hi Mr Harris I Mr schaer hi item H is superintendent CEO so I have good news Dr cico might be on her way home right now she is on her way home there we go good so that's great news so uh we're all wishing her continued speedy recovery and uh doing well uh we also have the tiger tapestries event which is March 15th from 11: to 2m which is right here at the high school gym uh a lot of really uh fun things new things added this year so we're really expecting it to be bigger and better and that's exciting um the Strategic plan with revisions was shared with the board
075of education so we welcome any feedback or comments and we'll continue to work on that uh while Dr C Dr cico recovers um and then we also um are continuing to kind of make a few improvements on the preschool handbook we think we've we've landed in a pretty good place uh we can get that printed for you this Friday if you want or we can continue with like an online version so please let us know I'll take a yes I will too okay very good we're physical paper people I I know The Lorax doesn't approve thank you of course y you want me to oh yeah okay I wasn't sure if it was under separate under the consent agenda okay uh it is is recommended the the Board of Education approves the resignation and separation
076agreement between the Board of Education and PR hob effective March 5th 2025 so moved any discussion Mr Gomez please call the role Mr Gomez I miss coko I Mr Harris I Mr schaer hi Miss White hi thank you that brings us to board business item one is resolution of the design architecture it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the resolution to increase the construction testing allowance in then design architectures contract for professional architectural services for the 6 through campus second discussion just disappointment that we have to do this but I think ultimately we will be made whole and I have fief in that process yes thank you Mr Gomez please call the role Miss Coco I Mr Harris I Mrs Schaefer I miss white I Mr Gomez I I item two is resolution
077for Hammond it is recommended that the Board of Education approves the resolution to authorize the execution of the guaranteed maximum price Amendment for the abatement of hazardous materials and demolition within buck middle schoolov second any discussion I think this is our last little piece for the project yes yeah it's hard to believe we've got come this far it seems like it was just yesterday yesterday it also seems like it was 40 years ago so yeah 20 [Laughter] years Mr Gomez please call the rooll Mr Harris hi Mr schaer hi Miss White I Mr Gomez I miss coko I item three overnight field trip for the bowling team it is recommended that the Board of Education approves the overnight trip to allow the bowling team to compete in the state championship I was so moved second
078any discussion other than congratulations it is we wish them best of luck wow good Lu yep very exciting they have a clap at 8:4 Friday okay good where what doors do they clap out of you know and up by the band doors that's where they they so tiger Lane right okay I'm not positive I can make it but just in case if I can swing by just to know what doors need to be thank you Mr Gomez please call the RO Mrs schaer i m white I Mr Gomez I miss coko I Mr Harris I item four is policy adoption it is recommended the Board of Education adopts the following policies section B School Board govern governance and operations BDC executive sessions section I instruction in animals in the schools ining g-r animals in the
079schools section J student JF g-r interrogations and searches second discussion I have one thing just cuz I wasn't able to be present at the last meeting yes um in interrogation and searches on with everything going on in the world um we modifying this policy um to protect our students um in terms of what's going on with ice now that schools are not protected zones for ice with this new Administration um we put some things in this policy um to further protect our students that we would only comply if it's a official judicial warrant that is um um so that certain other things that might come in we are clear in policy we wouldn't have to comply with if it's not of that degree in magnitude so with certain things happening in the world we just
080want to make sure that our policy is as clear as possible and that um we are complying with what we have to but also protecting our students and our staffs and our schools as much as we can while we can good thank you Mr GES any other discussion Mr Gomez please call the RO Miss White hi Mr goz I miss coko I Mr Harris I Mr schaer I thank you five is future agenda items um on our next board meeting we have Mrs ements what I saw I was trying to recall the last time what that was I'm sorry I can't career enhancements career enhancement maybe that I was looking up the dra and that's why I was questioned about that is that what that okay that's why I wanted I wanted to ask you
081because I wasn't positive because it was on the the draft for the next time okay um I know that there's a policy meeting coming up for you do um we were going to do an early literacy update in either April or May that is something you know if the board is interested we would prepared to do that I think we do that annually yes um as well as we had that very interesting uh Summit education uh initiative report that was shared uh where they did a regression analysis and uh gave us some really interesting information about uh graduation and uh some you know interesting data it was a really nice collaboration with them if that something the board would want to consider it is I actually put that down to ask the board um and
082Friday notes if that was something that you would want to add a presentation from absolutely Dr drinkle am I saying that correctly Drinker Drinker and I think with early literacy you said that you would talk about um the cohorts and then see if there's any like how that compar with um students that might might not be being taught by a cohort group so that we could see that data okay so early literacy in um that first meeting in April I don't think we have anything large on that one and then I'm sure if you wanted to reach out and see when Dr drinkard would be sure available be happy to do that and one of the meetings in April might be the second one we're doing the um military recognition for any students that are
083going into the military um the state of Ohio is promoting military Signing Day um and through that I reached out to Dr cico who reached out to Mr Smith and they're working to identify any students who are seniors that are going to go into the military this year so that we can recognize them at a board meeting because enrollment enlistment um I will check that that's on one of the next two meetings we saw on the agenda those are three those those are the three things ENT enrollment and listen are the three things so to try to do more to um recognize those that are doing going into investment if we have any this year usually we do and like I told Dr CA we all sit at graduation we see them with those stols
084on um and we're always so appreciative of their sacrifice but then there's nothing more we can do after that point to recognize them so this gives us that opportunity to recognize them while they're still here I will make sure that it gets put on but I I believe I saw that on it's on one and um they've coordinated with Mr Smith I believe does anyone have anything else like to add on I know um you and I spoke about on the next agenda about continuing the conversation about our K5 buildings um I turn it over to you to speak yes on that um I I was wanting to put on if if the board agreed a follow-up conversation on um Community engagement and the future facilities at the next meeting um I know that this
085is going to be an ongoing discussion that we need to have and um be very transparent and have this discussion all five of us together to make these very important heavy decisions that affect our community so I I honestly anticipate that this may be a board discussion that that gets put on monthly um as we're moving forward um but minimally have a followup at our next meeting um on that discussion and we can decide if we need to put it on monthly but I it's something that is yeah yeah you know of such magnitude that we need to keep it on the Forefront of our meetings and I think you said to hone in on um if we're doing that survey which I think we said we did to try to hone in on what
086that would be to try to get that exactly what that would look like what that would look like what that would be try to get that done um and then what data and that might and I know for all of us this might change as the process changes but as of where we sit now as five people what data do you feel as of today that you would need just so that we can um I think Miss Coco CU she and I had a just conversation so we're letting you all know because we can't more than two people talk about it um about um what data we would need so then Administration could say is this data we have or is this data what we can get or is this data we would need somebody
087to help us get um so that the sooner we can let them know what we know we'll need that would be helpful to Administration I think Dr Silo made she was taking made list um maybe before next meeting um you know I can work with you Mrs hman and kind of go over what we currently have and get that list to the board too of this is what we this is what we have so far as a starting point for that discussion and um yeah because we're going to need to make decisions on what we need and like Mr Gomez said what can we get on our own and then also what cost is there going to be on other data that we may feel that we need um or is it well this is
088the cost but we have this data from 2 years ago is that good enough those kinds of decisions are going to need to be made so or it might be you asked for this I can get you this which is close to what you asked for is that close enough to what you need you know sometimes that's what we can yeah exactly yes thank you we'll put that on the next agenda um item six committee reports um 6 through 12 we meet tomorrow tomorrow do you have an Athletics date yet Mr Gomez I do not thank you um we know you have your board and policy meeting can we just give a little highlight of what we're so board policy committee um there's a lot of law that's going into effect April 8th and 9th
089um so that's what we'll be working on at our policy committee meeting all of those laws and then also with all of the different things that are coming down um in terms of executive orders if it's things we haven't addressed yet that we have to address we will be looking at that as well we're also evaluating whether or not those are what is enjoined what isn't enjoined what we have to do and what we don't have to do so Administration is um checking in on those pieces parts for us as well um because um um we're not going to do things that we don't think are good for our students if we don't have to but we will do things that we are required by law to do as well thank you and I truly
090appreciate um the work that you do with the policy commune and Mrs schaer and um that I know Mrs White did for a very long time and I appreciate us being able to be partners with osba and the gu that they able to give us and keep us legally compliant with everything which is a full-time in our Administration as well Mr Elder and I were talking about some of this just before the meeting is sp we we realize that it's becoming a full-time job these days so thank you um then we have business and alliances next week y District Wellness committee is schaer May like week okay um Financial advisory I gave a report last time foundation and alumni will be this next coming week which brings us to legisl legislative liaison uh yeah just
091briefly just a quick um update on the the house bill 96 the budget um hearings and public testimony um for the education related Provisions um began on February 26 and the house education committee hearings are going to continue for a few more weeks as the bill is heard and amended in the house finance Comm committee uh the chairman of the finance committee said it has been it stated that he plans for House Bill 96 to be voted out of the house by April 9th so we will see there's been a slew of recently introduced legislation I'm not going to go through all those um I'm looking forward to have uh to uh be in Columbus I think I mentioned this last meeting March 18th uh for the State Legislative conference um I'm hoping uh to
092get some meetings scheduled with our representative so we can have some discussions about um School fing um and I'm sure miss Schaefer will mention um the luncheon we attended the other day in her comments can we talk about Senate Bill 119 though because Senate Bill 119 is Senate bill one but for K12 schools so all the harmful Provisions that they did for colleges and universities for K12 buildings and it's introduced by Senator Brer who's the chair of the education committee so is it is what is it what did you say 19 or is it 139 it might be I think C is it diversity Equity inclusion yeah yeah C 113 113 I six no you're right okay but inste one 4 K12 schools and because Senator brener introduced it and he's chair of the education
093committee so he decides what's priority in the education committee that's definitely something that we need to be uh very cognizant of yes um I will I'm glad you mention it I am planning to as I get more steam here um see how much I can either testimony wise being Columbus in person or submit some testimony I would encourage all of you as well to do that and I'm going to be reaching out to some other folks I know we've been talking about how we can I know Mr Gomez you as well how we can um educate the public on what is going on as it relates to school funding um so um yeah a lot more discussions coming as it relates to that so I I know osba just oppose it on on the basis
094of local control so yeah it's always these are good stuff that's right that's right they can just say it takes away local control they can go against simp lot Beyond but I'm very concerned just because he chairs education that when he introduces education he can fast track it through his committee he controls that process right absolutely so that's something we have to um pay attention to yes and I will keep everyone posted on there thank you Mr that brings us to item seven comments I am up first this evening can you skip student achievement oh I'm sorry you know why it's because you flipped over onto another page it's okay student achievement that is the most important thing and I everend but I got notes from Miss Housman um the student engagement techniques um they
095went over and and in groups to learn what techniques would boost achievement and for an example listening technique so things like that um it was a shorter meeting because of the board meeting and I couldn't couldn't attend but um Miss hman filled me in a little bit so I'll be able to next month thank you awesome thank you item seven is comments and I am up first um first of all just we wish Dr cico well I'm glad that she's headed home um and we wish her a speedy recovery and the time that she needs to heal and get back and M Housman thank you for stepping in and being thank you for me um and taking the rains while she is gone it's much appreciated and to everyone here that's I know it's a
096team effort for everything so that um I'll be attending the Jazz Band concert on Friday evening um so I'm excited to do that and um I'll be going to the mayor's state of the city address as well I think Mr Harrison Mrs shaer I think are going as well to that I'm going but for my day job not for school board oh so you'll be there I'll be there but you just didn't get to you just didn't get a meal request from Mr Jones to say if you had any allergies that's why I didn't know if you were going I'm going for my day job not for school okay they so excited about that don't sit together we never we don't ever violate the sunshine I know I was very careful yes um I don't
097have a lot of other things this evening um that's it we just met a week ago so I had a short list up next is Mr Gomez thank you um I'm sorry I apologize can I say one more thing you're the president president I know but I um I had I just wanted to give also um kudos to the staff at Roberts I had a parent that uh reached out to me who had um I for confidentiality I will not go into details but reached out about a very serious situation that had happened with their student and um our staff went above and beyond for them and their family this past week and um so much so that they specifically wrote an email and said could you please recognize the Roberts staff and for what
098they did for my family in the past week so I needed to mention that and say thank you to the Robert staff and administration this week okay um I wanted to mention the workshop that we went to um just because I wasn't here last week um I it was really such a great learning experience and I'm always so appreciative of the opportunity to attend um osba learning workshops to like deepen our knowledge but the way that they had set it up was that new um system that they had and we got to learn so much more about like why osba does the things they do and then when they started at explaining like how they analyze stuff and how much work goes into that it really made me um appreciate them even more and feel
099so much more confident like when they say something that like that's the way it is so I just wanted to comment on my gratitude for being able to like continue to attend education um and different workshops I'm signed up for several more so I'm G keep learning till I till I can't anymore which is when I'm dead um the other thing I I want to talk about the state budget as it currently stands I reached out to it's the state budget is in the house right now so I would just encourage everyone to reach out to our state representatives if you live in kago Falls portion of our district that's representative Bill RoR if you live in the Silver Lake portion of our district that's representative Derek Hall as the state budget stands right now
100our district is set to lose school funding from the state of Ohio and what that means is that we will will have to rely more on local funding and local funding is property taxes that means we will have to ask our residents for additional property taxes to make up the difference of loss of funds from State funding at the same time this is all happening our state legislators say that their number one priority is reforming property tax reforming the property tax burden and I mentioned this to representative RoR who I don't really have anything against um he's our state representative the people elected him and that's his right he's the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and the Ways and Means Committee is the committee that's supposed to be reforming the property tax burden
101I think that would be wonderful I don't enjoy writing my property tax check twice a year just like probably all of us in here nobody enjoys doing that I don't know a school board member that enjoys doing that even though we know that a majority of that money is funding the school districts we are so p passion about but ultimately we can't help the property tax burden when we are supporting a state budget that is cutting State funds and furthering the Reliance on State on local funding uh Statewide when the derol ruling came out so many years ago it was around 42% was the difference of what was State funding now with this new Fair school funding it's actually dropped the state funding percentage even lower than 42% so we have to be reaching out
102to our state representatives right now because that's where the budget is if we want property tax reform which I don't know if that's going to happen but if we at least want a fighting chance to not have every school district have to ask for more money because in year two of the state budget Bill not a single school just District Public School District in the state of Ohio receives additional funding they either stay the same or lose money so every school district in the state of Ohio is going to have to go out and ask for more money and nobody has more money right now right and that's what we keep talking about up here is we don't want to have to ask our community for more money because we live in our community we
103know the situation that our neighbors are in it's not great it's not like every 's in a great financial position so I just I just implore people to reach out to your state representatives explain to them that this is an untenable position they have the money in the state of Ohio to do better for public schools and now is the time to reach out thank you Mr thank you Mr Gomez Mr Harris it's a great yeah that was just was great Fant um I agree with him um just real quick I'm just going to mention the um luncheon M Schaefer Dr cico and I attended the uh other day at the um ESC Northeast Ohio uh it was fantastic it was very well attended um Dr celico actually gave a presentation uh uh on uh
104people Transportation um mayor dumy Silver Lake attended with us uh Council uh person Russ balus and council person Rachel Lo of kaga Falls so we had a good group of people there um a lot of good discussion back and forth um as it relates to school funding um some of the uh I think they had a couple I cannot remember their names off the top of my head but a couple of folks that have been going back and forth between Columbus um didn't and testimony I believe they've done some testimony as well um and you know really um driving in some of the some of the key issues we've been talking about here uh tonight so it was a really good uh lunch and I'm look like I said I'm looking forward to uh getting
105back uh getting down to Columbus uh on the 18th to uh have further discussions hopefully with our Representatives I know it's they're busy it's very hard to nail them down sometimes but I am hoping to catch a few of them and you know continue some of these discussions so it's really all I had this evening thank you Mr Harris Mrs schaer I don't have much to add to that um we attended that um that presentation the K through2 school funding state budget policy implications and propos solutions um and I've actually attended I think three um workshops and presentations that one or more of these gentlemen have presented and so I've heard one or more of those people speak a couple times and every time I hear it I can retain just a little bit more
106and understand a little B more it's a big it it's a big concept and there's a lot of components a lot of moving parts and it's it's hard to understand everything as a lay person as myself to understand everything so every time I hear it it's a little more and and if anyone wants to know more about it or wants to understand a little bit more let me know because I'm trying to educate myself more on it and I'm learning more and I'm willing to help anyone else understand a little bit more and if they would like to reach out to you know they're legislators I will help you yes figure it out um as anyone on this board would help you um and are you to excuse me are you going to uh state
107conference at all I do not think I can attend that okay okay if you're going um reach out to us on our emails and we can help you I guess finding that INF difficult at times so yeah we all have it and intimidating yeah so and we could I mean there are scripts out there Stu I would I would like people's voices to be heard so that is all I have thank you and and you're right I think a lot of times people are intimidated to make the phone call what do you say or I'm intimidated what to do it what do I write how do I write something you know and that's why I think a lot of people don't reach out is because they're not quite sure exactly what to do or what
108to say to make that impact even if they're willing to pick up that phone or write the email correct I think what's important to remember is at the end of the day we're all just people they're people too we're all we're all just people we're nobody's more of a person than anyone else so they were once the person probably scared to call a state representative now they are a state representative right I I remember a time where I was intim by school board members so I still am why intimidated oh yes I know I'm very intimidating especially with that article on that I do I do tonight um Miss wife well tiger tapestry is March 15th 11 to2 um so try to make it to that and I do have an article tonight which Miss
109bogden's excited about I know but any rate why school isn't working for many boys and what could help and I'm not going to read all of it thank God you know but I'm going to try to pinpoint some of this um so for many um boys school isn't working the gender disparities on a range of academic and social emotional benchmarks start as early as preschool and continue through middle school high school and into college they span several key areas including discipl rates special education placement ontime high school graduation rates and postsecondary degree attainment so why are boys educational outcomes on the whole worse than girls and why don't they seem to match their ability well it it's believed that um boys have trouble sitting still um especially in kindergarten and we all know how all
110kids are really um and so they're less focused they're less engaged in class less willing to take on leadership roles and generally less motivated to perform well academically so again even um biologists say that in kindergarten boys are on the whole more likely to be more physically active and have a harder time inhibiting themselves so what can we do well one teacher um felt that the direct instruction method was not working very well especially for the boys and so what she did was she instituted um different um Mobility things like incorporating music um movement guided play and choice time into the curriculum still meeting State Standards so that's one thing we could focus on more um where they appear to focus less um the amount of time students spend in electives like art or music
111and recess has shrunk over the years for countless children especially boys the changes haven't been easy so actually playgrounds and recess time we can do something about that to to get some of that energy out in in our bo boys take on fewer leadership roles than than girls and one reason might be because um they experience failures in the classroom so they're not likely to feel like leaders in that setting social conditioning might also play a role guys know that if they just sit back and relax somebody will step in and get it done um and then what motivates boys versus girls um boys tend to have um an intrinsic motivation where girls maybe are a little more extrinsic motivation so competition with boys is really important even girls too for that matter but um
112between class class of or even grades that Inspire their students to do their best work and be on their best behavior so we can see that um some of this competition can be very um it can be collaborative too so like groups or teams compete against other groups or teams it doesn't have to be one toone but sometimes those are things that we can do to help improve our boys education and academics in addition to promoting healthy competition and collaboration the process is a way to public a knowledge when a young male student shows positive behavior like pushing his chair in before ex exiting class or helping a classmate solve a math problem so it's important that we step up those um that praise when they do things um classroom lessons that link to real
113world applications especially those directed connected to boy's personal interests also tend to motivate male students to learn so if you can tap into the why for boys then they're going to buy into it and basically um that was that one and then I just wanted to point out there was another article kindergarten play makes a come back and boys benefit and that's again all about recess and play and kids do well when they're at play so that's Mrs mfet would a I know what I was thinking the importance of play that was her master SE yes it was it yep yeah and I I have also yeah because I think play is very very important for kids to develop and socialize and they learn a lot you can introduce them to Concepts that they're unaware
114of through objects and shapes y we've seen that in past literacy presentation so it's good it's all good but we got to watch out for our boys thank you thank you Miss weit item J is adjournment it is recommended that the Board of Education of JS this meeting so move second thank you Mr Gomez please call the role Miss coko I Mr Gomez I miss white I Mrs Schaefer hi Mr Harris I thank you board meeting adjourned at 72