Cuyahoga Falls City Schools BOE Meeting 2/12/2025

001oh that's better good evening it's 5:32 on Wednesday February 12th I'll call to order this regular meeting of the Kao Fall City School District Board of Education Miss Doo if we please call the role Miss Coco Mr Gomez here Mr Harris here Mr schaer here M white here Miss Coco is not feeling well this evening but she's joining us via Zoom Item B is approval of the agenda number one's a motion to approve the agenda it's recommended the Board of Education approves the agenda the February 12th 2025 Board of Education meeting action by the Board of Education adoption of consent agenda means that all items are adopted by One S motion must a member of the Board of Education treasur superintendent request that any such item be removed from the consent agenda and voted upon

002separately so move second any discussion please call Ro Mr Gomez I Mr Harris hi Mr schaer hi M white I thank you item sees our opening ceremony number one's our informational items this meeting is a meeting of board education and public for the purpose of connecting the school district's business is not a public community meeting although there are opportunities for public participation if an individual wishes address the board regarding a topic found on the meeting agenda the individual must complete a registration form found inside the attendant notebook and presented to the treasure following the direction on the topic by the board president followed by board discussion the individual will be recognized if an individual wishes address the board regarding a topic not found on the meeting agenda they must notify the superintendent and or board

003present on 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 profice comments by announcement of their name and address and limit comments of three minutes all statement should be directed to the board president no person may address re question from board members individually n board agenda for this meeting can be found in your electronic device at the address shown on the screen and for your convenience cop the board agenda may be found on the table by the signning book the next work session is February 19th 2025 at 5:30 p.m. right here in the K Falls High School library the next finance committee meeting is February 25th 2025 at 8:30 a.m. and the

004K Falls Board of Education offices 405 town mro and the next regularly scheduled meeting of the kayak Falls Board of Education is Wednesday February 26 20125 5:30 p.m. right here in the K Falls High School library now for our Pledge of Allegiance and welcome white if you please stand and join me in the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you welcome our vision Kaa fall School 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 safety we aspire to have a

005welcoming environment that ensures that the physical and social well-being needs of every student staff member are met academic growth we aspire to have a 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 inclus inclusion 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 high quality teaching learning and and District Operations thank you Miss White item D is presentations we have two presentations this evening and for our first I'll hand it over to Dr F thank you Mr Gomez um as we talked about last week we have your or

006last time I should say probably two weeks ago um we have your um gifts from our students they were unable to come tonight but these are your um superhero pictures and um each one is unique and fun so we want to thank our art students um Miss Stuart what art um gifts areal honors student oh wow you want to hold them up for our audience members Les and Terry and here's Miss Coco I can just put this right it's awesome let to go along with our superhero theme our very own superheroes and we'll put Miss Coco up I think I'm I think my superpower is is psychic psych did they say what your our superpower is no we get to like decide for ourselves you can absolutely that's cute thank you to our students comic

007booking helping us make your day special hey mine's mine's actually yours is picture mine's not picture I know you're not like a digital person little thank you that's great all right I almost wore that outfit today presentation number two is our financial future and recognize mcoy try write mhm good thank you want C her a stack at one oh yes thank you awesome thank you [Applause] okay so what we're going to go over here is um kind of review what you will be approving at the next meeting um to comply with OD um and then after that we will kind of look at so basically what we're doing is just that getting us in compliance with um OD um for their requirements however what we're going to go through is not going to fix the

008problem so we are going to then uh I'm going to show you guys a couple different uh options scenarios type things to um look at ways that we could potentially um address this so all right this is all this is GNA be guys sorry I it just is sorry um so as a refresher here is what we submitted for the November forecast um if you look at that third year um we were in the red by about 3.8 million so that's what this plan had to come up with was a ways to uh get that back in the black so basically almost $4 million worth of savings the first thing I'm going to tell you is is that uh they would not allow us to use the sale of the build buildings as a way

009to uh alleviate that um deficit because it's not a guaranteed thing right now there is no contract um so OD will not accept that um as as as one of the methods or one of the ways to recovery I guess you could say um so that made this a little bit more difficult but um we were we've uh been meeting about every other week with our OD um representative and and tweaking things so um I just want to put this up here as a reminder and then the next slide we'll show you this is also where we were at so 2026 we had about six days of cash left and then going into 27 we were in the whole 21 and you can see it going down so we would need a revenue increase of

010133% to balance um by the fifth year or over an 8 million um reduction in expenditures if you recall so so so here are some things so the way um that they have this set up first is some changes any changes in assumptions from November so basically uh things that we don't necessarily have control over as a district um but have changed since November um so the next section is more things that we can control you know how many positions we have uh what our budgets are those types of things these things are just changes that happen that happened over the course of the last uh two or three months so um you know we did receive our um numbers in the beginning of the year for what the valuation and everything is and so

011we had some slight adjustments um to all of the areas that real estate is affected because of that um nothing significant but um they do require that we also pass a new forecast that matches the plan and exactly um and so part of the forecast automatically updates these so um they will be included in that assumptions um another automatic one um would be our unrestricted State and restricted state grants in Aid so as we get um as the state starts using updated student count numbers um that affects some of the things that we receive so even though we're on the guarantee there are some things that are included in here um like casino revenue is on a per person or per student basis so when we lose students we lose a little bit of Revenue

012there um anytime that like State share and everything shifts um it also is going to end up reducing your restricted because that is kind of based on that uh multiplier there um so nothing significant here either they both kind of actually wash each other out for the most part um but there are some changes and then the all other revenues so estimated Medicaid reimbursements I was really really um conservative in November because I really had no idea what we would receive on a year-to-year basis we've started receiving some interim claims um and I was better able to assess kind of like what will receive in interim claims for the year verse the pay you know the the true up I guess you would say in future years um so those were added in now that

013I have a better idea so that did help that was the more significant change in Assumption on the revenue side um but not a whole lot other than that that is changing which it usually doesn't um on the expenditure side um so we had a 2% a 2% and a 2% in 27 28 29 as that is when our 27 is when our negotiated contracts are up obviously if we are in the red we would not be able to serve certify um that fiscal 27 um so we reduced that increase from 2% to 1% um which gave us the savings and salaries and benefits as shown um on the flip side I have increase our insurance to 15% from 10% in November um I fully expect that it will probably be uh every bit of

014that um we have just had some very very a lot of sick people um a lot of severe cases um and um you know we do those renewals with like through February and so I just don't see uh after talking in January I don't see any massive recovery that's going to uh change that or bring it down or anything like that so to be safe I've increased that to 15% um because that is what they are telling me um so you can see that that has a negative effect um on on this and and also let me tell you positives at this point are reductions negatives are like again it's kind of opposite of the way I would normally present stuff but this is how OD considers it is that a savings is the in

015the black because we're trying to get out of the red so it's kind of flipped so um I just don't want you guys to be uh totally confused there so um that was it for our changes in assumptions Good Times all right so now this is the things that we do have control over um and uh let me preface this a little bit with um some of these were some of these you will not see necessarily in the plan because I had included some Savings in the November forecast already so we knew that we were probably going to cut the four uh four content area at the middle school one you know next year because of them combining when we go to the new school um I had already estimated a certain amount um for

016that so when you actually vote on this plan next week it won't be everything I'm listing here but if you can see um to the right I kind of tried to put um you know where it was like it was in the November forecast or it's solely in the the recovery plan or it's a mix of kind of both um so um and we've we've talked about these things but um most of these um not all but most will be through um attrition um so there are three administrative staff that over the course of next year and the year after um will be reduced as a result of um combining the schools one um one we have some temporary staff this year here this year as you know on a one-year contract so that is

017included um a secretary position at the high school in also in preparation for um moving to the new building um that is a retirement um you as you already know uh we have not replaced the administrative assistant in curriculum um there are some when we change the base salary to 2% to 1% some of these miscellaneous things um like stiens or substitutes or uh just some other things that are based you know the home instruction rate and this kind of stuff because some of them are tied to the base um it affects them a little bit so it did have a minimal but a little bit of impact on the salary side um when we did that um next uh a media specialist will not be replaced that is a retirement um there are three

018teaching positions at the high school um and that was a combination of both um five at the middle school um also a combination of both and um we believe to at the elementary level um where particularly we're not sure yet we'll have to wait and see how um enrollment and everything shakes out um but um you will also see that it's kind of uh in the narrative that they'll have you approve with it it basically says like you don't have to do all these things this is like the intended but there could be changes you know from now until then that uh cause us to have to do more or less or so it's not like when you're approving this like you can't go back on it or you can't do anything but this is

019just our plan as of this point in time um of how we're going to achieve that if nothing else changes um and then these are just the um Associated benefits um for the those same staff members um and salaries um on the next [Music] two slides and then U miscellaneous so that was all salary and benefits um these expenditure reductions are in all the other categories so um we've moved some things around so um we will be um doing a 10% budget reduction when for next school year so everybody's department and building budgets will need cut by 10% um and you may think like oh that's not a lot of money like 9,000 in purchase Services I obviously didn't include every line item that we have because there's some like that are out of our

020control like we're not going to get to decide we can cut tuition for our special ed students by 10% although I really wish we could uh because that would be a much bigger savings but um this is just kind of what's in our control as far as um it's the building department level well and some things are paid for by student fees as well correct yes but that's not part of the general fund okay so that's they're in their own fee accounts yeah yep um and I mean utilities are in purchase services like we don't we don't get to decide that we don't have um control um in the supplies um there were some movements to our textbook adoption cycle um so um uh delaying math uh for two years and continuing with what we

021have the subscription that we have now um kind of splitting an Ela over two years as opposed to one year although that doesn't really affect what we're you know the third year here but that is something else that's on there um Capital outlay this is also a bigger one in addition to to the 10% budget reductions after talking uh with Joe and Margie Ryan um we will uh we had scheduled to purchase two buses each year two new we are moving that down to one um they believe we're in a good position right now and that one will be suffice uh for each year um we were going to purchase a maintenance van I believe over the next two years we have decided not to do that the Vans are that we have are currently

022in uh good shapee so we are not going to purchase new ones um and then the dit roof was scheduled for a couple uh I think in 26 and in the forecast and we had um the operations building roof this year um so we have decided not to do the operations roof right now and do dwit in its place this year with the money that was already budgeted for operations this year so then there's a savings of what we had projected um in the future year for to I for supplies and capital Outlet can you extrapolate for us what in there is from emergency Levy that's going to be impacted because we've always kind of held to like the commitment of that piece so so to be honest a most of those bigger things so

023your textbook adoptions roof vehicles and some technology are going to be in there um some of it is um a shifting of just the years yeah if it's still happening within the five years I can live with it I just need to see that to make sure that I feel like I'm keeping that commitment of the plan cuz if it's shifting within that five years I can live with it if we're shifting out of the five years I need to yeah I say that the only the only thing that um is not a shift would be the bu bues um going from two to one we had two in there really as a just a that's what we've done um it's not necessarily a necessity going forward um it's not again it's not a huge

024part of that emergency Levy but um you know capital outlay is mostly comprised of our emergency Levy funds so um that but the um textbook options all those things were shifted around so I know you're jetting off tomorrow but when you get back maybe we could get that info and then maybe Miss Johnson over in the bus gudge could get us information on like the years of our buses I I have that I give it to you cuz that would also be good information to have as well cuz that might justify that change for us these two isn't the oldest like maybe 10 years I think the biggest issue purchased about I think it was buses in 201 so here we are 10 years old with those buses so we were trying to do replace

025those a so we that's the next hurle now those 10 buses those eight buses I'm sorry are in relatively good shape with not a great amount of miles on them not anything that we we wouldn't want to I think those are our oldest so that just be helpful to have that cuz I think it's easy to say that it it makes sense to go from two to one and that we can vote to approve that but to not have the data to support it to be comfortable if it's a promise that we made that the voters voted on yep and can I ask a question too the buses are to maintain our current Fleet not to add to the current Fleet that we're not trying to keep more buses we're just trying to keep running

026buses that are eles okay so then on the next slide it this is overall so the total expenditure reductions you can see um you know close to two and a half million in 26 and 27 now this is not cumulative this is just each Year's savings so um because again this is how you're going to see it when you approve it next week so I wanted you to kind of see it in the same format so this is the savings per year um there yeah so after that um this is what it the forecast looks like now I will preface this with you're going to see about a $440,000 difference um in the forecast that matches the OD because for whatever reason and I don't totally fully understand um but there are some there are

027some um reductions that don't start until 27 um and so they don't those are put in like another tab that you can't use those it's very strange I still don't really understand And even Chris who's the former Treasurer who's our representative doesn't like totally get it either from the treasur standpoint but I can't use those in the like plan you're going to approve like they're there and we're going to do them but they really want to see what's going to be implemented for 26 and count all of that and how it affects 26 and 27 so this is actually what it is uh right here but you're going to see it be about that bottom line is going to be about 40,000 so it's only like a $40,000 difference it's nothing like anywhere near um

028you know being having any kind of Major Impact but I just wanted you be aware when you when you do approve that it is without those um things we will enact or reduce in 27 beginning in 27 um so comparison um here so now we are we we went from six to 16 days cash umga - 21 to zero um like I said the next part of this is going to talk about like we can't have zero days of cash going into the next fiscal year I wouldn't be able to make payroll um with the first one because we won't we won't have the the cash or the revenue um so now 16 isn't really that good either you're going to have some you're going to have some tight payroll periods at 16 yes um

029so here instead of 133% we only need 11 and a half% of Revenue increase or um I think we've cut out about a million overall so 7.3 reduction in expenditures so we got to do both yes so here's what it looks like um for this is the November forecast just kind of with all of that you can see um I'm highlighting 6.01 because that is really the problem um that is excessive Revenue over under expenditures um you do not want those to be read and you can see we are um significantly readed now let me keep in mind that that's just for the year it's not like those renewal levies are not inclusive of that um so you would kind of want to add those together but they're still negative um overall in those years

030and then this year or then the financial recovery plan um Now you kind of look at this um again it's still in the red um on that 6.01 um but we did get to the black in in 7 um and ending with about 3 million um in in 26 compared to we were at about 1.2 in the November forecast so a little bit more of a cushion there um and then I think the next one just kind of shows the differences so these are the the differences in uh changes so the additions to revenue reductions from expenditures and then how it affected um um the bottom line there so again it was 3.84 something uh our our uh deficit in 27 um and so we made a difference of between revenue and expenditures uh reductions

031of about 3.9 million so a little bit more um than the deficit was and then the next one we'll show you those cash that I um had talked about before you know youve I know you've had it with me you know but it's not g to stop the fun keeps going so on to this kind of second section of some things we know that are going to happen um and some things that um I believe you know we're going to need to do in order to stay solvent um um because uh there are not a ton of options um for any school district really when it comes to uh comes to this so we know we're going to sell these two buildings um this is the appraisal amount of each of those buildings so just

032sticking with that alone um is what we use because we have no idea um what it will be so we stayed there um so I've used at the top what I just showed to you that financial recovery plan forecast and what happens then if we sell those um buildings uh for the 3.5 you can see this is very simple math it just changes years three four and five um improve by three and a half million um a flat amount so I have 27 by the time you know we would sell them and receive the money um I suppose it could be sooner but I'm guessing I'm guessing not um just to be um conservative there and then the next one is we do have lfi funds that we have had interest on um you know

033over the course of the last few years we have a good amount in there I think um right now I want to say there's like three million in excess there um so um we obviously have to wait till the project closes out um things like that but you know we have talked about paying the debt um with those funds if we had anything left over uh I Ed half of that I used a million and a half um just as any if anything unforeseen comes up or uh anything like that that we would I was trying to be conservative here um so this is pretty much the same thing uh total expenditures are reduced because we would spend the money out of the lfi for The Debt Service instead of general fund um again very

034simple math of a million a half those final three years then I believe this is what it looks like um if you combine both of those um which is five million over the course of those three years so we're getting closer to um the black there in uh fiscal 28 more of a healthy balance in 27 um however these are onetime infusions so again it doesn't solve our Pro our on going problem of you know spending more than um we are receiving um that is not a totally uncommon thing in school districts obviously there are very limited ways for you to increase your Revenue um especially our two biggest sources are property tax and state funding State funding is flat um and I Lord knows what will happen uh with this new budget um but

035um and the only way to increase on the property tax would be to put on a new money Levy um other than that there are not major significant ways that you're going to uh raise millions of of dollars there um so the next consideration I kind of want to talk about and show you um is kind of our enrollment and our staffing levels like a history um so here's our enrollment back to 2015 we had almost 5,000 kids this year we're down to about 30 750 so over the course of that 10year period we've dropped 24% um of enrollment over a 5year period a little more than 13 and a half and just over the last two almost 4% decrease um in enrollment um again this is I mean Ohio public schools are decreasing all

036over um the pandemic obviously had an impact in some of this but um you know we we continue to decrease a little bit um each year matching that up with our staffing levels um so you can see back then in like the 590s and then I believe 2018 is when that riff was implemented back then um which brought us down to um 567 um you'll see a drop during that Pandemic those pandemic years as um there were some staff that we didn't necessarily need as we weren't in the buildings or we were in hybrid um and so we did not um you know necessarily need those those services so think of like our food service cashiers and and those kinds of things that are that are that are there um in 2023 we kind of

037start to go back up so you know full years of us being back in back in full um you know with our student wellness money and our Esser funds we were able you know we've added social workers um we've added um literacy Specialists um you know we've we've added some things that are were necessary um because I think they were a little probably slim uh Pickin back in like 2018 going from that large of a cut um but we've added um different positions we've had a need for additional um you know maybe intervention Specialists or PA professionals because of the special ed education population um so you can see that we've kind of gotten back up to those numbers um yet our enrollment is is decreasing and um you know we we have tried over

038you know to make sure that through attrition or that where we can we are um and we've been doing that um but um I I think we're going to have to you know continue to to look at that and address that um because I as we continue down that path I don't know that we can sustain these levels um of Staffing p on a per student basis okay so I just did some ma in 2015 we had one staff member for every 8.37 students in 2025 we have one staff member for every 6.39 student today too so we've increased that by almost 2.0 it's 1.98 but almost full 2.0 um do we have data on what those positions were in 2015 that we could compare to what those positions are now because I know that

039the needs have changed but it would be valuable to be able to compare what we staffed in 2015 I don't know that I have anything my earliest goes back to 1920 um when I started keeping track or when I got here um I don't know if Peggy or them may have something in HR that shows um 2015 or I can look and see what you know else we have I think that would be if we can find something that I think that would be valuable to see what did we staff in 2015 versus what do we staff now understanding the difference y yep the ratios yeah you will look into that you mean do you mean types of positions yeah what position who were we what positions were we Staffing then versus now because it's

040almost the same amount of staff three FTE difference yeah and these are I I will say that part of this too is these are on a per head basis not an FTE basis okay um so you know that there could be some fluctuation there as well where it's not exactly the same so that would be helpful as well because like food service um noon time AIDS we have a lot more in 2015 trying to think we probably had more like recess monitors then cuz we Rift those in 2018 when I was on the board so yeah so these are yeah these are just a a per head basis so not necessarily FTE so looking at this position would probably be helpful as well to you yeah do we know why we're losing students is it

041vouchers or that's part of it that's part of Live Verse have been yeah live are down I mean it's en rollment is really dropping everywhere okay um and then the voucher situation Ohio um does not help that cause um I think partially you know not yet not as many people are having kids um and I being that this in my opinion that this is a little bit more landlocked I think the younger you know it's a little bit more difficult for maybe younger families who want something that's newer or want to build um you know in in that could potentially um also do that but overall I mean yeah birth rates are down and and vouchers are up and our our reputation which we're trying to improve as well impacts it as well because a

042lot of people are using Kyo Falls as a starter home community and they're having um babies and then their children get older and then they're moving to other communities and enrolling them in school there and that's happening more than we would like to admit but it is true and so as we're working so hard to improve our academics and seeing great growth there and our reputation for our academics continues to improve hopefully that will positively impact our enrollment as well and one other thing this year too is um through a combination of things we're at about a hundred Less open enrolled students um so whether they didn't reapply whether um you know we decided that we would have to add staff and so we denied or whether you know we had asked them to turn

043in paperwork that they never followed through with so we're we're down about a hundred students this year just in open enrollment um from last year um so then the next topic which I know is a it can be a very dividing issue um but um I I part of the reason for the staffing versus the enrollment especially at the elementary level is that they are spread across six buildings and so where you could potentially condense you can't because of the numbers in each of those buildings um and and you know what I've done here is I took all six elementaries um and I took uh threeyear average so this year the year before and the year before that threeyear average of everybody in these positions that are listed um and from all the elementaries so

044that is the average principal salary across all six buildings for the last three years um I did not well I I did include everything here so there were there are some things that I um I did not include so if you go to so you know you have your Basics here um and then the benefits that also go along with them on the next slide um and then if we look at our purchase Services um so I didn't include everything in here um there are obviously some things that are still going to happen regardless of what what whether there's one building or six buildings um so I tried to really really pull out just the things that potentially uh would impact if there were to be a closing of an elementary um so this is

045extremely conservative um based on on what really is attributed to each building as far as costs so you can see um substitute teachers secretaries um staff mileage meeting not a lot um you know but nursing Services we have a you know a nurse there um the utilities at the building um repair maintenance to the building um those things again it doesn't add up to a whole lot here but those are the things that um could potentially be impacted um with the closing um same thing with supplies um again not a large amount but I did not we're still have to buy supplies for the same number of students um we still have to buy textbooks for the same number of students so even though we may charge them you know appropriately to the six buildings

046um there there is that that cost is not going to go away um so again I just tried to look at each individual building and um this is only about 29,000 on average per per year for supplies um but it is something um and then the next one um is um capital outlay and other objects obviously other objects not a lot um on average um but then your um equipment or building Improvement so building Improvement would be all those major uh you know repairs whether they be roof or parking lot or those kinds of things um are the building and sight improvements that um have taken place over those years um Tech equipment that may have been purchased for particular buildings obviously that is not inclusive of a buying Chromebooks for every uh student because

047again those students that those numbers still exist um and then some equipment that is just bought on a per building basis so um that is what it boils down to on average so 3.1 million so before we go to the next slides which will show you the impact of this I want to tell you that I did not use that 3.1 Million number we are not going to be able able to get rid of all staff um you know as far as salaries and benefits go now chrisy that's for one building correct yeah that's the average of yeah that's the average per building okay yep thank um we're not going to so when I factored in these costs I took the salary and benefits at half so half of the savings um because you know

048within there is a principal a secretary like those things are but we are not going to be able we're not reducing all the teachers at one building or the all the intervention Specialists or all the Paras and things um could there be an elimination of some yes and so I I just use half of that figure um so when we look at this um so there's the again our uh financial recovery forecast and then the impact of the close of an elementary um has on on our fiveyear forecast you can see in 27 we're you know we're just right under that revenue is under expenses but it's under a million dollars there um and and then how it affects the forecast going forward um is much more than um you know just those onetime infusions

049of of the sale or lfi so then if you combine all three of them um we're not too bad so we would go to almost a$7 million cash balance in 27 uh and mind you I implemented this in 27 obviously not next year I considered the close of an elementary in the 26 27 year um being that it's that third year um that we're really honing in on um we would be in the positive in um year in fiscal 28 and not too far off but almost a 10 million dollar difference in 29 um and 29 is far enough out there that you know there are things that'll change um and you know that number won't be what it is could it be worse yes could it be could it be less um obviously I

050don't think we're going to continue you know at 15% for insurance and I have 8% continually forecasted but I don't we're not going to have to take 10 and and 15 and 18 and eight and eight and eight like they there will be a low in there somewhere where we kind of right size um and and write the ship basically with these larger increases um and that's kind of because we've had such an anomaly the last two years Insurance wise we are trying to make sure uh like with this renewal that we don't overcorrect either that we don't raise it so much and then we go back to a normal year next year and now we've got you know too much and we're going to take a z you know we're going to take a

051zero like we don't want to do that either um so we're trying to to gauge here um you know what that looks like I say um it's not the first time we've discussed this possibility of closing an elementary school um so it's not new news but um and I don't think that anyone on the board doesn't realize real that the day is coming that we're going to have to have this conversation as our enrollment continues to decrease sustaining six elementary schools becomes more and more difficult where I think we have our strong disagreements amongst one another is what information we would need to make that decision and then to be guided by that because there are so many different ways you can look at it if you go by size we have three Elementary School

052schools that are much smaller than the other three if you go by age we have two elementary schools that are around that 100y year mark but they're of different sizes so there's a lot of different ways to parse things out and in which to form opinions on um and so I think that's what creates um a lot of the disagreement and I don't think it's the reality of the situation I think it's how we go about that conversation and making those determinations when we make the determinations and that that I think is where our our disagreements come from not so much the reality that unfortunately um enrollment forces a reality and we're seeing Rena just closed an elementary school lakewood's closing an elementary school Columbus City Schools is closing several schools akan is condensing its

053footprint it's a reality right now in education I think the other thing is the neighborhood because we have neighborhood schools and we got to look at that too of where and which ones we want to keep so that we can continue that tradition as well well the problem is we all want to keep them all well we do but this is why I only put the word elementary yeah we all want to keep them all the reality is that unfortunately we're coming up upon the fact that we're going to have to make a decision eventually um and then the other piece is um what factoring in which is a huge unknown because we don't know where we're going with this decision but whatever cost there will be um in closing whatever building this might be

054because we don't know what will happen with that will we be closing a building that we see as a potential future site for an elementary school and if so then we have to figure out what what we're going to do with the closed building and work with the community in the meantime on that um because nobody wants a vacant building and we just be honest nobody wants a vacant building owned by us because we don't have a great track record I yeah unfortunately um and we have talked about it um but as I went through this exercise um and looked at the you know number of things that we're doing just to get to that 880,000 point and realizing 80,000 is not enough um in that third year we're obviously gonna have to do more

055um this is this is the reality now this is the uh biggest bang for your buck unfortunately as far as impact on the forecast um year-over-year overy year um on the expense side um and so I I know a difficult conversation I've had it in other districts it's it's you know not just here um there are a lot of feelings attached to things by both community staff all sorts of things um but um realistically and that's my job to to to give you the hard F bad news um I I think that's where we're at other than potentially passing a new money Levy and that's really not under our control either so we can say we're going to um but that doesn't mean it's gonna happen mcoy can I ask a question yeah um so

056what year when you're looking at those savings and potential you know savings and writing the ship as far as if we were to close a building what year did you start that in again 2627 so that third year we would close that the beginning of 26 it would not be Elementary would not be open in 26 27 so through this school year and all of next school year it we would have six elementary schools okay all right so that was my question and I guess my other question because there is so much to consider and discuss like Mr Gomez said um in regards to this if that projection is something that we decide as Board needs to happen and this might be more for you Dr celico when would that decision need to be made

057by potentially just so we have a timeline of you know when we need to fit in these discussions and have these hard conversations about what may or may not need to happen yeah I I would gather if we were to to make a decision for the 26 make sure I'm saying this right 27 28 26 276 27 you know I always screw these dates up always get yog 26 27 not next year the year after yeah um I'm guessing um I mean the earliest the latest would be January of 26 but if I would suggest probably having these discussions the fall of 26 right am I saying that right fall 25 this fall of 25 yeah yes and I already have personally have some ideas I like to share about how I think we could

058go about these conversations to try to engage the community so that you don't feel left out because I think that's going to be very important so I would propose if we could pencil this in as a future agenda item to discuss like a decision making process and framework and we can all have some time to gather thoughts on that and then pencil this in as a future agenda item president coko yes I agree with that thank you Mr and then we can keep going on with finances okay um the last part is just kind of some scenarios about what if on on a new U money Levy because um regardless of you know any combination of those things at some point in the future this is this is going to be a reality as well

059um so just a reminder of the different types of levies and what their um uses can be for um the only one we current well we do have permanent Improvement half Mill but that's dedicated to the 612 building um so we don't have a general permanent Improvement right now but we do have operating emergency Levy and bond um the only operating that is not um continuing there's one remaining um and that will be up uh this November uh for the earliest renewal um of that um one and uh currently for us one mil is a little over 1.1 million so we have over a billion dollars in tax revenue so we have over 1 billion evaluation yeah so this is kind of looking at all those scenarios I just proposed and what the kind of

060estimator says you would still need um so looking at just the financial recovery plan Alone um and when you do these it goes out a few more years so you also will see 2030 and 2031 on here um in order to gauge that um so this is what it looks like just the financial recovery plan you can see there's that 81 1,000 all pretty much the same numbers with the addition of the two columns um so in um yes so they look at the revenue Surplus or deficit not necessarily what are ending cash balances so for that in um 27 is about 2.8 million um which is the equivalent of 2.58 Ms um any other shortfall um would need annual uh Levy millage trending towards 6.99 mil so you can see um depending on where

061it's passed there's a kind of a high range and a low range um because obviously as you get further out into the years you you know it shortens the um the revenue uh cycle um gets pushed out as well so um in all of these that you're going to see so the lower millage would Trend more towards like a three-year Levy so it's a statement of like three years you know would get us there um and then we'd either have to look at something else again um and the higher end is going to give you more of like a fiveyear life cycle on a levy um so and not saying that like that's the length of the levy that like we would need more new money you know over and above those depending on at

062at those points the three years or the the five years how much does a mill cost per 100,000 we know that what do you say that like how much does a mill cost a homeowner per 100,000 um well because it's so it's 35,000 um on that um so $100,000 you have have to do the map in my head here so their assessed valuation is only 35,000 yeah 35% and um one mil is really just just that in a sense is one mil so one mil overall for us is that 1.17 million like if you split it among everyone but that $35,000 is just that that percentage you know what a mill is times 35,000 so whatever it would be well I guess I'm trying to figure out how much this would like cost our residents

063to put that in context of like I can I can run those with with some of these numbers on there to see what that would be yeah yep we can do that let we see like the combination and kind of think of like a number that would be most table and now keep in mind so operating um levies emergency levies go um into the general fund um if it were to be a permanent Improvement Levy it would not go into the general fund but it would alleviate expenditures in the general fund so it would have the same impact um you know um as far as that goes but it would just be in a different area than um on the revenue side in that case um there so the next one we'll kind of just

064take the same um order that you know I showed you the other options so this would be with the sale of the buildings um as you can see um you know we would the the range Chang is a little bit but not a whole lot again it's a onetime infusion so um really the only change there is that the low range Mills um you know went down to zero um but still the 5.05 and the other numbers um remain virtually the same um this next one would be with the lfi funds um so we would be short about 1.3 million here with those lfi funds um which is about 1.24 Ms um um and so we're looking at almost 6.73 as we move out that's very similar to again it's a onetime infusion both of

065those kind of are similar along the same same uh wavelength both of these together um you're still looking kind of at the same thing on the next slide I think yeah both of them combin um so you're still kind of looking at the same thing because it's a onetime infusion so it's not solving the problem long term out in the thing it just lowers that kind of lower range Mills you would need if you did it in 2025 um so you can see that um you know again how those how those things while they're helpful it long term um it's not it's not fixing our problem um and then finally uh with this um this is we're bringing it down a little bit so we're looking at like I said a little under a million

066of a deficit spending um which is about 87 mil so not even a full mil um and so at the most here as we're getting out towards 31 um you know we're looking at like 5 11 one um but you can see um we we range anywhere during the years from a 087 to about a 4.74 and then if you combine all of these um you pretty much get the same thing as you have above except again that 2025 because there's that um infusion in 27 you wouldn't you know need to necessarily go um in 202 or H you know have a a large amount pass in 2025 and that's all I'm going to bum you out for today any additional questions at this time really appreciate it yeah been a bummer thank you very

067much for putting all that together with all the different scenarios I know it took a lot of work to do that but for us as a board to be able to be thoroughly educated in these decisions it was necessary for us to see all that and I just appreciate all the work that you thank you thanks appreciate that brings to item e treasure cfo's business consent agenda it's recommended the Board of Education approves all items list in the Treasure cfo's business consent agenda so comments I'm sure there's donations uh we have the minutes from last meeting yes and nine generous donations any other comments or questions okay please call a roll Mr Harris hi Mrs schaer hi Miss White and Ivo I brings us to item F treasure cfo's business miss doyo your comments um

068I gave you my terrible comments um but uh one thing I last week I went and spoke to two of Miss palmisano's classes which I've done before um about um the treasurer role and um ironically enough um you know they can ask questions and one girl raised her hand and said do you have kids I said yes I do she's like I think I know one of them and I said oh yeah I said what which one uh she said Morgan I said yes that's my daughter she's like we used to play basketball together and I was like wait a minute what's your name and she said her name and I was like oh so I went to high school with her dad and uncles um her uncle was closest to me in age of

069all of them and my mom was his second grade teacher and um she's actually lived down the street from us for a period of time and she said I know where you live she like really [Applause] weird oh that's cute so um I I had a good time they they asked a lot of good questions and um I actually got a little thank you from both of the classes today um um there there was one girl in particular in the first class she had a lot of questions I was I was um I was intrigued by that so she had a lot of good questions too so just asking about things or asking things like how much is in the athletic budget or but I could guess it was and and things like that so

070um I always like going over there it's always a fun time getting to talk to the kids and I I always tell them that I didn't even know who the superintendent or treasur was when I was school or that they existed um and I only really knew about this position because my parents work in public education or else I would not um and so uh I was trying to do some recruiting for this profession because there's not many out there um and as an organization with oasbo we've been trying to really do that and go to job fairs for colleges and high schools and stuff and just make people aware that we even exist I mean most of the time I prefer that they don't know that I exist uh I'll leave that to Dr

071Sal go they know she exists um we had that conversation today yeah yep so um but yeah I was trying to do a little recruiting there but we had a good time thank you brings us to item G superintendent CO's business consent agenda Dr Salo thank you Mr Gomez it's recommended that the Board of Education approves all items listed in the superintendent's consent agenda sound second discussion Dr Sala yeah thank you um number of items this evening um first off we have a a recommendation of a staff member who's unable to be here this evening um her name is Marley Fagan and this is a result of some increase in enrollment in our special needs classes so um just to tell you a little bit about her um Miss ban earned a b a bachelor's

072degree in education with a major in uh Early Education from K State University uh as well as her master's hours in Early Childhood Intervention specialization also from Kent State she is licensed in both pre3 Early Childhood as well as prek 5 intervention specialist Miss Fagan comes to us with four years of experience and is extremely excited to join the Preston family uh Elementary black tiger family mid year to serve as the intervention specialist um in addition to that we have some other positions uh van driver we have some leaves of absences we have a um a resignation there um with with uh Miss Ros in in our um office we also have some job descriptions there I know there's been a lot of discussion about this and communication just to also inform you of what

073our our vision is here that there's um some thought um some ideas going into U maybe restructuring a little bit of our literacy program the literacy coach prog Coach position that You' see there already exists it would just be a change in title for those literacy Specialists because we would like to um call another position should we consider that the structured literacy specialist and just to avoid confusion one works with teachers and one works with students um so that's some clarification there and then um again that's to um bring some real um targeted assistant and um highly trained um professionals to working with our students but again we're still working through that and then um lastly The Early Childhood positions for our Preschool teachers that we will need to hire um in our preschool integrated

074classrooms uh we also have listed there our CCP the changes are uh listed there in your um explanation there nothing too major a few minor changes there to the agreements our um neonet agreement is to um we have a um staff member who's on long-term leave and as a result we wanted to replace him um and we did so through neonet um and then we also have the DC there of Northeast Ohio for some professional development for our transportation department we have contract again with learnwell which you're familiar with and then transportation for a student for Ed Alternatives and I believe I hit the mo thank you questions or comments from the board um on the job descriptions I don't have any issues with anything in the job descriptions but historically when we approve a

075job description then we the next day the jobs get posted so this is really the opportunity to ask the questions about what's going to happen with these jobs so I've had a lot of questions um one I'm still cautiously skeptical about our savings in preschool and whether we will save money it's based on a projection of what it would cost for next year and we really don't know what it would cost for next year so we're we're going forward with that but we don't really know so what I would ask of our Treasures department is to keep track of what our actual costs are for our preschool as it rolls out because we've been given two different now um assessments and budgets of what preschool Bo cost and now we know we're going forward with

076only um the special needs with um the like peers portion of it so I would like us to commit to um keeping an action ual's budget so that we can compare that to what our projected budget is because as we know with our finances we have to keep an eye on these things so let me tell you I have not assumed any savings okay so that that forecast that was presented does assumes the same cost to be conservative that makes me feel better um but in the budgets we're seeing an assume savings so that's why I want to see that get realized so I would like to know that we're tracking that and that makes me feel better and then for the um structured literacy specialist my concern is um is for the 90 kids

077that we won't be servicing in the new structure I I like the new structure because the data supports the fact that our kids aren't making the growth that we want to see and that if that's the goal then we need to do something different so I support that my concern is about those 90 kids that aren't going to get this specific type of um tutoring in the new format and what specific communication their families are going to get CU I appreciate that there's going to be something different for them but that's 90 families that are historically the way that they receive the information is going to be my kid was getting something now the district's not giving it to me anymore I'm very very concerned about how that's going to be received and in this

078world of Education competition what decisions then those families will make so that gives me a lot of consternation those 90 families we don't want to lose those families we want them to feel that their children's needs are being met here in this District so that communication piece could not be more critical so that is my concern and I support what we're doing because the data supports that this will be a more impactful um model model to help our children with early literacy which is going to set them up for achievement all throughout their K12 career with us which is what we are here for but I'm just worried about those 90 kids and how their families are going to receive this information because it's going to feel like something that their children were given as

079a support is being taken away from their children and that really really worries me and so just we really have to get that communication perfect so again no problems with the job description it's just what we go do as we go forth with posting these jobs and then how we execute all of this thank you anything else well since you brought that portion up and then are do we know what model we are using the the um because there was the we have the nine title one and then there was the six and then there was the integrated model have we decided because that's the first that I had heard about the integrated model and which well I think the reason for that well the reason for that was we were sensing maybe some some

080um maybe some not not push back by any means but certainly some questioning I think we're trying to give you hesitation thank you so I think Mrs hman was trying to provide you with some Alternatives it's not our preference I think we'd rather prob it's not cost effective either yeah no you would you would actually not be saving um yeah I mean you because of the the breakdown I think was wouldn't be saving money into the new bottle either though so it's not no we're not doing it to to save this I want to be clear that's not what this is about this is about trying to try something different that we think will be more impactful for our students yeah at the same cost very little difference yeah again I support it it's just

081my concern is for those those 90 students because um we we will hear about that and it'll be in the community and I it just has to that communication of what they're going to receive instead as part of that m PSS tier 2 model has to really be perfect it has to be so effective sorry and I and I I think that you really hit the nail on the head because as a parent and my student was receiving tutoring and now even I'm not receiving it from that same model but now I'm receiving it in a different fashion but it doesn't feel like I'm receiving the same thing because it's being received in the classroom by in it just in a different manner I'm not getting pulled out pulled out to the next class you

082know it just it feels different so and a good explanation I I do think that's important so that they don't feel like they're losing something because they're really gaining something well there many people are gaining um I don't have I'm sorry I don't have the right words in my brain to come up my mouth in the new model thank you and hitting I think hitting parents with data is not always no I mean we appreciate the data because that's part of our job is to analyze the data and make good decisions based on the data but parents don't always appreciate the data because they don't look at their kid as a as a part of a holistic piece of data that's their child that is their number one priority yeah I think I would just

083say this I I think with the amazing work that our team has been doing I think with the of Mrs Zan and um Mrs Housman and they they spent a lot of time and energy I watch it I got to be part of the two of them tag teaming me today um and their passion for telling me about literacy and writing and their models that they're creating I mean I can just say that there's a real concerted effort to make sure that we are not leaving any children behind and that they will get Services it would just as you stated Mr schaper will look different um in in a different way but we're not we're not going to overlook those struggling Learners I can assure you of that so I think we all believe it

084that's why we're going to vote for it here in a second but it's just getting that making sure our fam get that and we'll make sure we do a good job of communicating what it is we're doing to to parents I appreciate that thank you anything else please call roll this schaer hi this white hi Miss Coco Mr gz she would have voted for it I'm sure uh brings us to item H superintendent CO's business your comments Dr Soo thank you Mr Gomez I'm gonna just spend I'm G to mention one thing and then I'm G to spend a bit of a Time bit of time talking about some legislation that I want to make people aware of um first off I want to um mention I know Mr um Harris mentioned last meeting that

085it's the start of Black History Month and now we're Midway through and um I've asked our principles to share with me what they are doing to celebrate and honor our um our friends in the um in um during Black History Month and so as a result um we have a number of different things out of the buildings the some of the traditional things that you would expect the morning announcements highlighting different um famous black Americans we have some um reading and listening activities with biographies and choice boards listening libraries um they're learning about different Business Leaders in our some of our business classes uh specifically Curtis Moody who was a famous architect and um they're talking about the different professions and we have some morning meetings being held introducing famous black Americans and focus on

086their lives and accomplishments um we have more biographies where they're doing some they're embedding some music and artwork into um the month and uh trying to think what else was unique here um ju oh putting together short presentations with facts about um again famous black American so just wanted to let you know that we are not losing sight of that in our classrooms cool appreciate that um so I want to now take it just a moment to um speak about uh some of the things that we are seeing in our executive orders as well as um here in the state I first off want to share so I've been doing a lot of work um lately trying to keep up and probably spending hours with not not exaggerating here trying to um keep up to

087speed with what's happening as well as um keeping us um informed and also trying to make our best decisions for what these orders will mean for us as a district I will say that after listening to various attorneys as well as lobbyists and Advocates that I'm starting to put together a picture here though we know that this is still tenative and and subject to change um I I will say I want to thank publicly our three of our um uh two senators that I met with Senator um rogner um and Senator Weinstein as well as representative Bill RoR and I will be meeting with um representative Derek Hall next week I appreciate their acceptance of my invitation to come and speak and be able to talk about some of the issues that are um concerning

088to us as public Educators and us here in kaga Falls and they were quite receptive and I I again appreciate their time um what we are seeing at the federal level um are not are many things if you're listening to the news you've heard some people of my in my life have said that they choose not to listen and I don't have that luxury I wish I wish I could um turn a deaf ear just because there's so much coming at us and it's um it's a lot but I feel like I have to educate myself um so I can in turn educate others around us and in our organization so the first that I want to speak of is the freezing of federal funds and like what that impact could have um on us

089as a district so it it kind of sent people in a f frenzy when we talked about um freezing federal funds and that is um we were happy to hear that Social Security Medicare uh Medicaid snap some of those things were not Social Security were not going to be impacted those things that directly um go to individuals we are happy to hear uh we're not we're not affected but we we are concerned about our federal funds mainly being our Title One funding Title 1 through four our idea B those that provides us $3 million close to that um that we use for teacher salaries PBIS special education programming professional development intervention services supplies and curriculum that all could be impacted should funding um be be changed or or impacted as a result of the federal

090um freeze here the funding um as it relates to diversity equity and inclusion Dei um we know that um this is a priority for the um Administration I think it's been made pretty clear by the president as well as um in our state of Ohio from what I've heard from our um lobbyists and and attorneys that Ohio is pretty much similar to a copy and paste of what we're seeing at the federal level so we can expect to see the same initiatives trickle down um or be initiated in our St and that um the at the larger picture we heard today that um the president has stated um he is looking at illegal Dei um initiatives and programs not sure what that means yet we're waiting to hear what what that is um but there

091are mandates and policies that are going to certainly affect us um as a district and um some of those things could be um around surrounding our um positions our board policies um our clubs our curriculum our our course offerings many of those things could be impacted and not so much that it is I think it's I could spend a lot of time and I won't um defining Dei and the true meaning of what diversity equity and inclusion means and how it's being interpreted sometimes by people in general or our politicians and what that means it's often equated with critical race Theory that's one thing that you'll continue to hear that is one thing that is trying to be has been tried to be eradicated um and it is also in the state of Ohio Senate

092bill one is going to be focusing on higher education in their Dei initiatives but we expect it to trickle to K12 education as well we're told that if we stick to the true history um meaning like the content that is factual in history again that probably could may be questioned by some but what does that exactly mean that but those those types of things would not go away Black History Month would still exist for example um but we are to be careful there's been some guidance about um how we the the question that the question and challenges will come not so much in the courses themselves but in the theoretical conversations that may um take place in the context of the content in the classes and so that could mean um you know people May

093challenge us there and we are to be careful careful not to shame students is what um we have been been advised that there's some language in there about shaming um certain groups of um students uh to feel a certain way um in Ohio we also passed the parents Bill of Rights as well as the bathroom Bill we've heard of these um again this is um U impacting our transgender students and um perhaps those of certain sexual orientation um there are a lot of ramifications again for these thing these two bills and we are um complying but um we need to look at again what's in our um course of study how we um our bathrooms for example we talked about the last time and what those they need to be uh single single gendered single

094gender um the president has stated as well there are two um Sexes they are moving away from the word gender and using the word replacing it with Sexes and that being male and female and we are to proceed as such um so there are a lot of questions from our staff as to the safe space stickers that we have classroom Flags celebration um how we handle our students identity and sexuality and how we need to notify parents like what all that is going to look like so there are a lot of implications for the work we do um under these bills so we will again be astute and keeping up on what that will look like um we've talked we've learned a little bit about the V voucher EXP expansion and school choice we know

095that this is a priority both at the federal level as well as our state level the impact here is we know we heard it this evening um directly related to our funding but as well as um the expansion of vouchers and I shared with our legislators that I am very much understanding and a proponent of allowing students to have vouchers for students whose zip code dictates a different type of education that perhaps their families wouldn't want for them and that they want them to have opportunity and choice and I'm um very much in favor of that but since it's expanded and we've spent as a state over oh close to1 billion in vouchers um I think we've gotten too far away from the intent of the law and I shared that with our legislators as

096well um finally um the dismantling of the Department of Education um clearly has raised some concerns um we're following this closely I what we have been informed of today is that they um there are a couple of different options here that there can be a complete elimination of the department and that could include the funding the second thing could be that they just redistribute um duties and money and sending the funding back to the States and then the third would be the reassignment of Duties within the department so in other words taking some of those components of education and putting them to the Department of Labor of justice of health of Treasury Etc so at a minimum what our folks have said is that we can expect to see a reduction in positions at the

097very least in the department but any one of those things can can happen um that I described so impact is unknown really at this point um we would just have to let this wait and see what um how this will impact our our district um and I have encouraged my staff as as uh my administrative team as well as staff that I speak to to just you know remain calm as we can and let's get educated let's find out truly what these things mean I don't want us to jump to conclusions or to react um prematurely or um needlessly so let's just wait and sit and see what happens and as a district I know we will comply with all laws um some may run run contrary to our district and vision and Mission but

098we will comply to um what those regulations are um I did want to mention just lastly that title 9 is been changed um not necessarily I don't know if this is an order or not but I know they're returning to 2020 Title 9 regulations so there are a few changes there and gender identity will not be a protected uh be protected under those regulations um as we go back it will not be a definition um under sexual harassment and the um the grievance procedures will remain unchanged though so just a note on that though our non-discrimination policy in the district still stands we have discussion about this at our policy committee so while um discrimination under gender identity will not rise to a title 9 violation under federal law um gender identity discrimination is still

099not permitted in our district under our non-discrimination policy and would be dealt with under other portions of our policy so that's important to note here in the kall school district and I think there is something we can do we can call we can call our state reps we can call our Federal rep reps senators in our house we can call these people over and over and repeatedly again and let them know our concerns about getting rid of the Department of Education and the other things that they are trying to do I did hear today that there is a new budget and they are cutting Medicaid trying to and they are trying to cut of course the affordable care act so we need to have our voices heard so please call please call I'm very concerned

100for our special education students with this Department of Education because people who are such strong supporters of federalism that they probably never um read any of the Federalist Papers um that uh they want everything to go back to the state's rights don't understand that special education law comes out of the federal government most all of our special education funding that we get specialized for comes out of the federal government and the state of Ohio doesn't want to administer those funds because they don't have people to do that at the Department of Education and Workforce they would have to hire new people that wouldn't know how to do this because those aren't their funds to administer so it's it's causing it'll cause chaos in all 50 states um we have people at the federal government the

101Department of Education that know how to administer These funds and even if we continue to get these funds there'll be delays because nobody knows how to do this and it will harm our in particular our special education students if nobody knows who's enforcing special education law there'll be less protections for these students because Ida and all all these other laws are federal laws that's where this all came from in the first place so and the pel grant too I'm sitting here today and got my degree because of a pel grant and because I was poor and on welfare and I went back to school on a pel grant got my degree got myself off of welfare because of that opportunity to receive and that's something else that a lot of our kids are um economically

102challenged and could maybe use a pel grant we can't let that die that's right thank you so my closing statement would just be that no no I I appreciate your advocacy and I think we're all kind of struggling to to work through this but you know our we're going to stay true to what we do here in a district and that is to educate all students every day right and so regardless of we'll follow the law but we'll also um continue to do and live our mission of of making sure that every child feels warm accepted loved and educated here that's it thank you thanks bring the item I board business number one's agendum V I don't think we voted we voted on just my comments those are they were ly I know you got

103lost we're good I board business number one's addendum to program studies it's recommend the Board of Education proves the adendum to the KAG Falls High School program studies for the 2025 2026 school year so moved so any discussion did we want Miss hman to briefly just mention it I think it's worth mentioning supp class that will help our students while they are in their Al oneac model in this Isam often I think we also in there included about that there were some courses that were requiring students to pay for like a model felt strongly that that is not something that we want our students to you know have to choose to do also support AP strcture students are taking expect because never know they might do well and it we also want that of that

104is there for all children thank you thank you thank you and um algebra one is one of uh the two courses that you have to score that 684 on as part of your graduation requirement so this is helping with our our goals of getting students prepared for graduation and um and reviewing some of the materials was really exciting um in Troy High School which is where they're modeling this off of every student that was uh helped with this model got to that 684 they had 100% success R I just also want to thank um Mr pass and Miss Hershey who I know have done a lot of work on this as well because this is I was really excited to read all about this Mrs Mah as well yeah please call the r Miss White

105hi Mr Gomez hi Mr Harris hi Mrs schaer hi thank you number two is the overnight field trip for student councils recommend the Board of Education here's the overnight field trip to camp woa for the kite high school student council moved see any discussion please call the rooll Mr Gomez hi Mr Harris hi Mr schaer hi Miss hi thank you number three is resolution and contract with bus movers and more LLC it's recommend the Board of Education approves a resolution declare that two school buses property are no longer needed for school purposes and direct that the buses be sold per policy did and has recommended the Board of Education approves the contract between bus movers and more LLC and the kall City School District so moved second discussion I think we already requested just to

106be informed of um how much we make off of these sales okay please call the role Mr Harris hi Mrs schaer hi M white hi Mr I thank you number four is future agenda item um we said that um a process for elementary closing engagement would would be a future agenda item are there any other future agenda items to bring up at this time I think the gifted presentation's on the next agenda it's on the next agenda Miss White I I know I just want to make sure you do that okay that brings us to number five committee reports 612 construction Court team Miss White yes we met on Thursday February 6th and there's a lot going on but the 612 building the building's one in four stairs and dining space are complete Auditorium stage

107is poured and they're starting to ex excavate the sloped seating um masonry is going on and continuing um except for the auditorium access area they'll get to that carpent carpentry drywall paint is all going on um building for Block fill paint is ongoing and building for the framing and hanging drywall in in Auditorium Lobby is continuing the flooring the first and second floor is going on plus third floor also glazing they're doing this on the windows the interior light installation and the caulking of the exterior the roofing um again it's that metal coping on top of the wall um for the panel installation and the plumbing is ongoing also um HVAC is is also going on and then electrical techn ology still um going on um getting speakers and and those kinds of things the

108cabling for Tech and things like that that are ongoing um the stadium the turf installation will start um next June I think this June is what um was is that correct this June okay and the naming rights on on field will be stitched into the um Turf so it's not just you know painted it will be stitched in there and we should be ready for the first game hopefully um and then um we're doing the multi-part videos where um Miss Stewart is um creating videos on the academic area and then um Miss celico will be going um and talking about the intro and the vest vegetables and the security systems and then the Arts Athletics the planetarium things like that that we are um that well not we but they are working on so um

109and then um I think that's I think that's about oh I hope I'm not missing anything so yes so pretty much all on that one thank you um board policy yeah did you say did you say name you right something getting stitched into the the name of whoever it's the rights for didn't say so I'm sorry for the um State the stadium it'll be stitched into the um should we get a Don oh should we okay yeah we don't have any I thought there was big news coming okay not yet no big news yet we're just letting them know that it will be stitched in there timeline for there is yes so yeah board policy committee we met on Monday we'll have a few coming for first read for the next meeting and one that

110we have to resend due to state law and federal guidance not because of um our beliefs so you'll see that one um anything from you Mrs schaer on that no it was very exciting it was my very first one um business Alliance Council uh yes uh we met uh was that yesterday yeah yesterday um was a long day yesterday so Dr celico provided an update on the naming rights uh event yeah talked about some of the feedback and you know the tours that were given um she went over uh the transition plan for the new campus some of the ideas there um Miss doones gave a presentation on graduation requirements I think some one of the same presentations we received uh just updates across the board requirements seals uh stuff like that we also heard

111from some Elementary School principles about how they're working with CTE Miss scet talked about how uh dwit is working with the a program uh was pretty excited to hear a little bit about that um and then like I said contined discussion about how kids uh in elementary school can start thinking more about careers um and Dr cico I can't remember who mentioned this Shark Tank event on February 28th yes Stark State Stark State okay yes and there's judges that are still needed and I put on here board members question mark um so um so yeah just like a you know Shark Tank event so I wanted to mention that to you all but that's pretty much it and then uh everything thing Dr celico spoke about uh this this evening about um some of the

112uh laws inome changes I did Judge for the Odyssey of the mind which was challenging but it was a lot of fun and I also um judged sometimes for power of the pen okay which was another one I felt more suited to than Odyssey in mind but it was fun yeah sure it sounds fun it it would probably would be District Wellness commending Mr schaer um we met on it seemed like a long time ago it was February 3rd and we're still following up on the original work we did with going over the well set and do our policies line up with um like the requirements that they have set out it's and you get you get points for um if your policy you know X Y and Z and how well it's written based

113on what their parameters are and I think that ours are they're pretty good and so we went over it how how they fit with the well set and then we were looking at what the actual policy what how we're carrying it out how it's actually happening in the buildings so we talked about smart snacks too and we talked about um in the past smart why is that so hard to say smart snacks in the past it was it was difficult because there was like a little list and it was all like um things from like PepsiCo we thought wouldn't it be fun to have like a list of snacks that were like from Aldi from Giant Eagle like things that you could buy locally that just from like PepsiCo um company but the but it's

114made by a cal a calculator so you take take what the item that you're buying and then you take the data from the item that you're purchasing and put it into like their little nutrition calculator to get to make sure it's a smart snag so it's not like just a cut and dry thing you have to do math numbers so it' be nice to have like a a little list of things that are like at Aldi that you could just pick up um and then there they split some uh subcommittees a staff wellness subcommittee and a School meals subcommittee somehow I didn't end up on either one of those so there's still time though I guess so we meet again in April April 7th thank you U Miss Coco are you able and do you

115want to give a foundation report I can just real real quick I'll to speak that um we have 59 students that have turned in applications for the scholarships this year um the teacher deadline for those grants isn't until the beginning of March so those are still coming in but those were the main two pieces for that thank you sure Mr Harris legislatively on yes uh just a few updates and again thank you Dr celico for the overview of you know some of the stuff at the federal and state level there um going back to Senate bill one again that was the higher education overhaul that did pass through the Senate uh just before this meeting I believe so um that'll be headed to the house um just I'm just going to do a quick overview

116of Governor dwi's uh proposed budget here I'm not going to go over every piece of this but I'll highlight a few things here um everything education related of course uh funds uh will be continued or funds to be continued uh phase in of the years five and six of the fair school funding formula uh reduce that formula guarantee uh to 95% in fiscal year 26 and 90% uh in fiscal year 27 uh continued State investments in school choice programs at levels similar to the current ones uh earmarks 12 million in Lottery funds for science of reading literacy coaches and requires schools with low rates of proficient readers to focus more funding on literacy supports invest 30 million over the bium uh to create a new school bus safety grant program based on the recommendations of

117the governor's Governor's Ohio school bus safety working group providing 4 million to increase the annual bus driver training requirement from four to six hours and widening access to Advanced driver training invest 7 million in each fiscal year in competitive grants to support career planning and Workforce Readiness initiatives uh for K12 students uh creates a driver training uh in schools grant program at the Department of Public Safety funded by non-medical marijuana sales uh tax revenue for school districts to fund drivers education at their high schools uh continues an administration's work on school-based health uh expanding the number of school-based health centers in high need counties and providing resources and Technical Support to these Health Centers and then invest 50 million over the bayum to create a new Vision Services program called Ohio C SE uh which

118would ensure that K through three students who fail Vision screenings receive comprehensive eye exams and glasses if needed um I thought that was that was really cool um and just a couple uh uh updates of new bills that were introduced um these are all uh kind of related uh to property taxes and taxes here Senate Bill 66 uh this bill would include emergency levies substitute levies all inside millage and School District income taxes in the calculation of the school district's eff of millage floor cability one uh this bill would authorize property tax frees for certain owner occupied homes including for senior individuals who are over 65 years old and Senior owners of manufactured homes a house bill uh see with this companion bill Senate Bill three would phase down the state income tax to a

119flat rate of 2.75% over two years um House Bill 42 uh this bill would require certain agencies including schools to report data concerning the citizenship or immigration status of persons with whom they come into contact and then Mr Gomez you had mentioned I didn't have that one on my list did you want to mention Senate Bill 93 um it's proposed by Senator brener who's the chair of the Senate education committee and it is to establish a single Statewide property tax and increase state sales tax to fund schools eliminate State scholarship programs uh establish a school financing system that calculates the Statewide amount of P per pupil funding that will be paid to the public or char nonpublic schools in which a student's family chooses to rooll that student and eliminate each School District's ability to

120Levy property and income taxes awesome thank you yeah and going back to the governor's budget just so folks know uh that's not a for sure thing uh it will change um there's already been some uh skepticism uh from uh speaker Huffman as it relates to that phase in of the uh Fair school funding formula so stay tuned I will keep everyone updated the issue is even with the phase in if you're keeping the inputs at 2022 it doesn't really so the governor wants to reduce the guarantee amounts to from 100% to 95 and 90 which would hurt our district which when you get back from your trip we'd love to see what those projections are because that'll be important as we look as well because I think that's probably likely to happen um because it's

121a reduction in school funding so I think it's likely to happen but the problem is if you have an issue with a guarantee a way to get us on a path to getting districts off the guarantee is to put in there that the inputs get updated every year because if you're actually updating the inputs and fully funding the fair school funding plan you're more likely to get more districts off the guarantee so you're shooting yourself yeah in the foot yeah it doesn't the whole thing together doesn't make sense because if your goal is to get District off the guarantee the best path forward is to right change I think I showed that graph when I did the November forecast where the numbers of when we kept the same inputs and how many districts were on

122the guarantee and then how many went off in the years that we updated them and then how many jumped back on when we didn't and I mean it went down significantly when we updated those inputs and I think if you update the inputs and then you say yeah and then we want to we want to wean people off the guarantee I get that from a policy standpoint even if it doesn't help our district I wouldn't go down there and advocate for it but I get what they're trying to do from a policy standpoint it makes sense I don't love it if it doesn't help our school district because that's my first priority but it still makes sense to me if you're actually doing it all of it at the same time yes but when you're

123only doing it halfway that's what frustrates me yeah the formula itself the fair school funding formula is not going to work until it's like truly work until it's fully implemented and those inputs are updated or for example if you are not going to update those inputs then stop updating the property tax that's every year we're getting an update it's a new it's you know the enrollment figures are new averages every single year property tax every single year that's what's really makes it more reliant on state funding is because you're updating those valuation numbers every year you're not updating the costs and so you're becoming more locally dependent your state share is not as big that's reducing your restricted funding as well when your state share is not as big um if they would at the

124very least match those like one goes every year and they all do or we you know they're on the same schedule of updates because with the rise of valuation over the past few years in addition to not doing those updates it's it's that's why so so many push back to the guarantee right and our new lieutenant governor um is the person that wrote the Youngstown plan um houseal 70 which allowed the state to start taking over public schools which again was such a colossal failure that they released those schools from State control and Not only was the Youngstown plan a failure that um decreased academic success in Youngstown the person that the state put in charge of the Youngstown School District um got was so Cor corupt that the entire Youngstown school district is under

125FBI investigation so hoay hoay for us but that's the plan he wrote Jim Trestle by the way yes oh yeah while we're legislatively updating ourselves just I mean it's just the truth they just need to fund Public Schools okay student achievement Le on yes we met um and um for the DT that we just went over the Norms of active listening and um being respectful and having a data driven discussion never base your thing your discussion on personal opinions I would never no focus on trans questioning and clarifying of course and then so this was all to get ready for Friday this Friday's PD professional development day um so they're going to when they get into they they'll be here at the high school but they'll meet with the building and they'll put their staff

126into teams of no more than five and um they'll create um parking lots with chart paper and Post-its for concerns comments and then they're going to look at the data and the data basically they're looking at will be disability data and free and reduced lunch and gifted data for their own building so they can kind of look at these things um when we were looking at it we didn't know like how many of each ethnicity there were in a building so it was kind of hard to tell if okay are we G is gifted only here and not over there we're not doing enough but they will have that data so yeah I know because you don't have the whole picture so we couldn't tell um there were some things that we did notice um

127too so I mean I thought it was really interesting and what they're going to do on Friday the um gifted team also met and the gifted advisory we they we only meet quarterly um and so that was today and it's very interesting what our um new um t i Tammy I can't think of her last name thank you um what what she is doing um with the Middle School honors placement rigger and um trying to figure out what test could we use to screen them either the Iowa or the other one that we are using the Kat um and then just things like that um we're going to try to maybe identify science and social studies for gifted um but that's a little tricky to do um and it just involves more testing which we

128don't really want to do but um you know to see how many kids are maybe gifted in those two areas and we might be able to use Iowa screening I'm not sure if that would work but um again and then also teacher recommendations or you know through a checklist might help also um professional um development they are um looking at a gap for closing gifted um and and letting teachers receive some training on that um the testing is going on and let's see enrichment opportunities we're looking into reaching out to Kent for the reading and writing Festival which was really awesome at the middle school levels for anybody that was involved in that I was and it was really something that kids have to read books and and they go to Kent State and they

129write or uh talk and they get to meet an author of one of the books that they read so it's really it's really neat um how they work that out and we're going to check on that um but she has instituted power of the pen which is a writing program for our students um the Dobama theater residency they act and then they write write plays themselves the singer songwriter roots of American music and stop the hate essay contest which is simply an essay but we will find out if any of our kids did well or how they did in a April um the 20 um for math contest and young authors they um right now it's just for our kids but we'd like to maybe take that forward in time for other districts that we

130could compete against the high school um she went over the difference between CCP and AP classes um for parents not many attended but is on the website so any parent or student that's interested in you know the differences there um can look on on under the gifted on our um links um there is more training needed in March coming for Naviance and how we can use that better the differentiation in um Regular classrooms for example especially at the high school we don't do a lot of that and we suggested maybe putting like um how to get a student that maybe isn't interested but gifted and how maybe you could let them go a different way in a on a project or a writing assignment things like that and list things there's the act that we

131went over there are practice tests available for sophomores even though we don't give it to our sophomores um we do our with our Juniors but there are practice tests that are free and available and they're pretty good they tell you what you missed and didn't um there is a new new gifted newsletter and it's on the site if you go there and it's you know kind of interesting all the things that they are putting together and doing um we're trying to figure out how to recognize gifted students whether that should be an award night or just maybe a shout out on the PA systems we we'll see how that goes and I think that's about all for the gifted committee so it's really good really doing a lot of good things um if it's not

132already in someone's Friday notes can we have from the full board have that um green section with the data on disability gifted and whatever for the PD on Friday thank you yeah yeah I think we'd all like to look at that it's interesting but we don't have the totals like I said for all the kids would you like all the data that you're going to see I don't know well because if you if you're looking by how much is that it we don't know how many Asian you know or we don't know how many American Indian I'm yeah for yeah so it and we don't know male and female either so it kind of I mean it was interesting but you kind of want a little more data to with the high level but it

133is interesting to see brings us to number six comments Mrs schaer you're up first what has been a busy couple weeks going to a lot of things and doing a lot of stuff um uh we were invited to uh the elected officials breakfast hosted by congresswoman Amelia syes um I was able to attend that and that was the first time I was ever able to attend something like that so and she kind of just talked about what she does and like what committees that she was on I don't think the Committees were selected yet at that point and um like what the game plan is and everything and uh was very interesting um and then rushed over to Preston to do some Valentine's forets uh that was it was a lot of fun I like

134doing that kind of stuff I like coloring putting stickers on things um and making Valentin that was a lot of fun um got to go to a couple Bingo nights this is a lot of fun got there's been a lot of a lot of heaviness happening and I got to just the last couple weeks I got to do a lot of fun things in in the school so I I I did enjoy that so a little bit of both thank you Miss White yes um I keep forgetting to bring it up and it happened in December but we got to actually go and read to the middle schoolers at bolck and Roberts and boy was that fun and they were so good I will say they were very good kids and I think almost all

135of us participated but I don't think anybody mentioned it so I just wanted to say thank you to miss Gideon for inviting us all it is a real pleasure to work with kids of any age um the band show um percussion only um the all percussion is Thursday February 20th and their art show is the 21st so I just mentioned those things um and then sadness again unfortunately uh we all know about our colleague who just passed away too young but I have another one Mr Sebastian he um was a good such a good man he to he worked with us at the high school um he did project love which just thrilled me I just just just a he and his wife yvon they just were wonderful wonderful teacher wonderful man good friend to

136me I don't know why he liked me but he did and we used to talk and and so on and I just really I really loved him so our hearts go out to their family and our prayers especially his daughter who still works for our district yeah it's just no that's all I have thank you Miss coko did you want to share anything I am good for this evening thank you okay I'm up next um I am along with other board members went to the naming rights night got some good information as well as opportunity to tour the building again um I also along with many other board members sto by the um Valentine's for vets at Preston along with congressen Sykes I got to go to the Lincoln Bingo Night Last Friday Night along

137with my nephews who got won a few items they're very excited because they won two free tickets to coai so they're really excited to get some science in this uh summer a little free trip uh thanks to the Lincoln PTA for that um and then last evening I was at uh our career night here at the high school and my work uh always comes and as part of the career night as well uh and osba World yesterday they had a policy chat that I attended um our Black Caucus had its first meeting of the year and I attended I'm on the northeast region executive committee and we had our first meeting of the year as well and then um I attended our eighth grade orientation here at the high school I think that was last

138Thursday I have to say it was a little underwhelming we spent the majority probably the most time at the eighth grade orientation watching a School links video with a voice over it was not very engaging it was pretty it was pretty bad it was not a good evening you would have been disappointed um I think nights like that orentation you said yeah for incoming freshman Oh So Fresh So I think nights like that are just critical um evenings for family engagement and I think as I look at um Miss Stewart who's very passionate about family engagement we should um look in the future at making sure those that are playing these nights are plugging her into them because I was sitting there I was like Miss Dart with like 10 minutes of effort could have

139made this way more engaging for our families it was a sit and get and there was just no engagement and I think um we have to realize that not every family that was there is committed to sending their kid to our high school next year with vouchers and there's a student sitting behind me I know the family and I know that they touring private schools as well so we have to sell our school at these nights and we were not selling ourselves very well and I know with like 10 minutes of work Miss Stewart could have really made it so much more engaging so not to put more things on her plate but I know she's really passionate about family engagement and I was like she could have made this so much better without having

140to do all of the work so I just want to toss that out there and then again um just emphasiz that I think um on the other end of that just we need to sell ourselves on the kindergarten end as well because we have to make sure that um families are also touring private schools um especially in January when there's a certain religion that has their blank schools week and families are touring those schools um in a very personalized way that we need to be pushing our kindergarten program earlier and earlier to compete because it's a competition now uh we need butts and seat as we saw tonight and we're going to lose those folks if we're not selling ourselves a little more and we have a great story to tell um all of us

141believe in this school district and that we have great things to do but if we're not competing when people are out there looking we're going to miss our opportunity to sell ourselves so I appreciate um everyone receiving that feedback but again I was just like Miss Stewart with 10 minutes of 10 minutes of feedback could have really made this so much better she would have been like this is not engaging well like anything I was like she could of I was like I was like and she is I was like she's always talking about family engagement in our updates and I was like you would have been like how are you engaging these people so credit to you for the work that you're doing that I was like I immediately thought of you and was

142like oh she needs she needs to judge this a little bit so thank you Mr Harris oh yeah um thank you to the art students for our um wonderful superhero art there I really appreciate that I too was able to attend the uh with my colleagues uh the a congresswoman Sykes event over at Preston Elementary um you know riding decorating cards I haven't colored that much in a while and then I think I went home uh and uh my wife and my son she had a big old piece of paper spread across the table and he was just doing this and I sat there and I kept coloring you know so I was I got in that habit um but um it was really and I appreciate the congresswoman for everything she does for our

143veterans as well so uh thank you uh congresswoman syes and then uh Dr celo you're read my mind I was going to see what was happening around the district as it relates to Black History Month so thank you for sharing that um I'll give a reminder to folks this month uh we take time to honor the achievement the resilience and the contributions of black individuals throughout our history uh it serves as a reminder to acknowledge past struggles to celebrate progress and to continue advocating for equality and justice remembering that black history is American history so thank you all so much thank you br this to item J executive session pursuit to high rised code section 12122 G1 hereby move the board J executive session consider the employment of public employeer official so mov second okay

144please call the role Mrs schaer hi M white hi mrz hi Mr Harris hi we're in executive session at 7:42 p.m.