001Mhm. >> Mhm. >> It is Thursday, April 16th at 6:00 p.m. I need to call this meeting to order. Can I get a roll call? Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? >> Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Please stand and join me in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? >> Yes. Mrs. Mason? >> Yes. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting from March 12th and the board retreat
002on March 28th? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? >> Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? >> Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now I'd like to hand the podium over to Mr. Kaufman. Thank you. Thank you. If I could invite our featured artist up from Pattison Elementary here and Milford Middle School down there. We're going to do two schools tonight. Mr. Wells stealthily caught Milford Middle School was scheduled to be recognized in May and he said, "Josh, that's the last day of school. We got to give these kids a night off." And I said, "You're right. So we'll double up in April." So we're going to recognize our student artists from Pattison first. We have visual art kind of everywhere tonight. We have some wonderful work from Pattison here.
003And then we have some Milford Middle School work behind you there that we're going to recognize. So we'll start with Pattison and we are first going to recognize fifth grader Adelaide Adelaide White who has the Frida Kahlo inspired painting right here. >> [applause] >> Thanks. Then we have we're just going to move down the line here. We have Kennedy Rothmiller who has the uh You're going to have to help Where's Kennedy? You're going to have to help me with the name. Is it Sana Delani? Sure? Concentric circles in oil pastels. Congratulations. Congratulations. Nice job. >> [applause] >> Rosalyn Isaacs is a third grader. She created the beautiful weaving in tempera. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Reese Fenbock is a second grader who created the beautiful Frida Kahlo portrait. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Alton Mear created the
004beautiful He's a first grader, created the Monet Japanese Footbridge. >> [applause] >> Then we have Rosie Reinhold from kindergarten who created the torn paper collage at the end. It's so awesome. >> [applause] >> Congratulations. writing in Milford Middle School. And this is a you know, is you know, if you've got kiddos, you know, this is a the crazy busy time of year. So we've got you know, I know my own kids are out and about tonight doing things. We have kids everywhere. So we're going to recognize not everybody could make it tonight, but we're going to recognize who's here. So come on up. Come on up. No, we don't bite. I promise. We've got And this work goes from left to right behind you there. We've got Penelope Harris who's an eighth grader who is
005not with us tonight. We have Sicily Wright who's also an eighth grader and didn't make it tonight. We have Nat Fischer who's a seventh grader. Josie Gingrich who's a seventh grader. Here we go. >> [applause] >> Congratulations. We have Connor Prather who's a seventh grader also. We have Adeline Gilligan sixth grader, Reese Clark who's a sixth grader. Reese >> [applause] >> Here we go. And then we have Jim Springer on the end here. >> [applause] >> And they are all getting the the custom design pin for our featured artist that you only get if you're a featured artist. So excited to recognize those young people. Also super excited and we have Mrs. Cork from Pattison, Mrs. Huggins, Mrs. DeStrange. Thank you so much so much for all your work. >> [applause] >> And I know
006we have so much art going on tonight. We didn't want to overload you, but we have a very special project that Mrs. Cork and her students have been working on in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States that we're going to share with you a little bit later this summer. So more to come on that, but super super exciting. And you know, I wouldn't step away without highlighting some of our great things going on in the arts. Water for Elephants was an incredible production if you had a chance to see it. Sold out shows. Incredible stage performances, the technical aspects. If you saw that elephant, holy cow. Like and the kids built that is just incredible. This weekend Milford Middle School is going to present Seussical Jr. They are almost sold out. So
007shows tomorrow night, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. Get your tickets online for that. We have fine arts, our annual fine arts fair is May 1st and May 2nd at Milford High School to represent artwork from K-12 throughout the entire district, over a thousand pieces of student art. We'll kick that off with our fourth annual fine arts senior signing day at 5:00 in the Z where we recognize any senior that is going that is going to pursue the arts in any capacity after graduation. So that's become a really special event and a really cool way to honor those kids that are moving on to to participate in the arts. Our winter percussion ensemble performed just a couple hours ago at WGI World Championships up in Troy, Ohio. I was able to make it up there. They
008had a tremendous run. They'll find out any minute now if they make finals tomorrow. So if there's breaking news during the board meeting, I'll send send smoke signals up or something like that. I'll yell it out for you. And then I don't want to put the cart in front of the horse, but I did kind of want to highlight something that the board's going to be asked to to take action on later this evening. We have a recommendation in front of you this evening for a new band director of Milford High School. And I just wanted to share a few highlights of that candidate with you. This candidate is coming to us from Dobyns-Bennett High School. During the five just five years that they've been there as the assistant director of that program, this director
009has led that group, that band to be two-time featured performing ensemble at the Tennessee Music Educators State Conference including last weekend, two-time state champion in marching band, five time Bands of America regional champion, three time class A, which is the same class that Milford competes in, national champion at Bands of America Grand Nationals. Um, a Bands of America semi-finalist band in 2025, a three time Bands of America Grand National finalist band. This is just in the last five years. Wow. Um, with an overall finish, highest finish of sixth place in the nation against bands of all sizes in 2022, and most recently spearheaded their application and acceptance into the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this fall. I got a call from Bands of America because word has kind of slowly trickled out just about an hour
010ago from their director of band relations. And her first question was, "How did How did you get him?" Um, he could have picked any program in the country. How did Milford get him? And uh trying to He's coming home. This is a Milford graduate. He's a 2010 graduate of Milford High School. You're going to be asked to to approve Jacob Carpenter as our next director of bands. And Jacob's coming home and man, that's awesome. That's so cool. It's great for our program, it's great for our kids. So, thank you so much for all you do for the arts. Thank you, Josh. It's Sheila Artist just came in. Oh, did you just Oh. No. >> [laughter] >> But good catch. Good catch. So, thank you so much. >> if she was. Thank you so much. Yep.
011Thanks, Josh. All right, thank you. Um, and now we are moving on to some Pattison happenings. I think she was. >> She was. She just didn't want to be recognized. I hate it when you see her and not get recognized. Where did everybody go? That's how it always works, you know. You're up, Rob. Yeah, it's fine. We figured you were just shaking hands. Now, we took a lot of the MC work out of you last time. >> I'm I'm still winded. Good evening, members of the board and Dr. Fiore. It was great seeing the amazing artwork. They just left, but from Rosie, Alton, Reese, Rosalind, Kennedy, and Addy. It is a privilege to be here tonight to share some of the incredible things that are happening at Pattison Elementary. We often say it takes a
012team, and tonight I want to highlight exactly what that looks like at Pattison. I am thrilled to announce that our playground update is officially moving forward this spring and summer. This project is a true testament to the power of our community, our Pattison community. It's being funded entirely through the hard work of our PTO and the incredible generosity shown during our annual Walk-A-Thon fundraiser. So, it's great that that's being handled through that. And what makes this project special isn't just the new equipment, it's the process. We didn't just look at a cat- log. We gathered direct input from our students and our staff to ensure that the changes reflect how kids actually play and how our teachers utilize that space. It is truly a playground by the students, for the students. At Pattison, we are
013deeply committed to the social and emotional growth of our kids through our PBIS program. We are focused on creating respectful, responsible problem solvers, and we do mean that. We believe in celebrating the good in every single day. And we do this in different ways. Through daily classroom incentives directly inside of the classroom from the classroom teachers, through processes that they establish in their classrooms, through some unique experiences that go beyond the classroom, some high-energy rewards like the LEGO builds with the principal, which I can't believe I get to do that and I get paid to do that. And other things are like the Wheel of Thunder. Thunder. So, they get to earn fun things from the Wheel of Thunder. And we created a really amazing song that goes with it when they are spinning that
014wheel. And they get to earn >> song? Oh, you wouldn't want that. You really wouldn't. >> Oh, we definitely want to hear you do. >> AI helped us create that. >> [laughter] >> And And when they do her Wheel of Thunder, they get to earn lots of experiences and prizes like trucker hats and they can do the joke of the day with me and different things that they can earn as well. So, we want to incentivize and reward those students who are showing those traits and are being responsible and respectful problem-solvers um problem-solvers. We've also seen a wonderful shift in our building's energy with the addition of our preschool program and those three- and four-year-olds joining us. Having those little learners in our hallways has been a fantastic addition to Patterson. It allows us to
015start building those relationships with families even earlier, ensuring a seamless and welcoming transition in their K-5 years. There is a flaw, though. I have to say bye to some of these students in a couple of years and I'm going to have a really hard time when Andrew leaves us. I have this little boy, three-year-old, who just gets off that bus and he just wants me and wants to hold my hand and walk in. And he's about that tall and he is the sweetest thing you've ever met. So, I get one more a year of that and then I'm going to have to let him go to one of our other elementary schools. I do want to emphasize that none of this happens in a vacuum. Pattison is a home to a staff that is relentlessly
016committed to meeting the needs of each and every student. Whether it's a classroom teacher, the custodian, our amazing SRO, the nurse, our school psychologist, or volunteer, we move as one team with one goal. Thank you for your continued support of our school and our students and we're looking forward to a very busy and a very productive end to our school year. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. And now we have a middle school update. Sorry. Madam President, we're all for one. He turned you off. He turned it off. I think we're on now. >> There you go. Good evening, board members, Dr. Fiori. I've got a presentation here. As you all know, I can't talk for a very long time. I thought Dr. Dunn would maybe talk a little bit longer, but I am prepared here
017to share wonderful things that are going on at the middle school. We've been in this wonderful building and space now for almost 9 months, believe it or not, with the addition of our sixth grade staff who have been amazing that have come to us from the elementaries and actually the sixth grade students. I I thought for sure that getting sixth grade, cuz I've always been 7-12 and I've never had anything lower than seventh, so these sixth graders I was afraid are they are they truly ankle biters, but I will tell you, it's if if if you have three siblings, you know, you usually have the oldest kid, which that's that's me, you know, we're the experimental. Then you have that middle child, which is kind of like the wild child and then you have the
018sixth the sixth graders are the babies and they get babied all the time. So, I will tell you I have enjoyed our time with our sixth graders. Now, the seventh graders, they're a little handful. But anyway, but we've had so many wonderful things happen at at the middle school this year. So, I mean, I I have pages and pages here. I told uh Dr. Fiori and Mr. Glassmire that uh I would not spend 15 minutes and we we just have so many great things going on. Uh like I said, great kids, great staff, uh great paraprofessionals, a wonderful office, and really our food services just knocked it out of the world. Uh Mr. Johnson and Ed Beverly and and our custodial staff, I mean, they've really it's it's still work in progress, but we're getting
019there. So, if you want to go ahead and start. So, that was the the opening slide there. That was it. Can you flip back real quick? So, that was our our our theme this year, the new beginning, because it is a brand new building. We brought the sixth-grade staff and sixth-grade students uh to the building, so it is a new beginning. Go ahead. Next slide, please. This is uh this is about a 3-minute video. Um we interviewed three students. Now, I'm not the greatest uh video photographer in the world, so we used my cell phone. Parker Brown and Miss Eiger kind of tweaked it and put some fun things into it. So, if you want to go ahead and hit play here, it'll talk uh three students will talk about how they enjoyed the middle
020school. >> [music] >> So, these are some quotes that we asked students uh As this is playing, I'll talk a little bit. So, I was actually ready to present in May, but uh we got bumped up to tonight, so here we go. Good morning. Thanks for joining us this morning. Would you introduce yourselves uh for the camera and the folks that will be watching this wonderful production that we're doing this morning? So, we'll start with you. >> Bean, sixth grade. I'm Zoe Dunbar, I'm in eighth grade. I'm Ali Wallen, I'm in seventh grade. All right, guys, I'm I'm to put you on the spot this morning. So, what I'm going to ask you is what are your two or three favorite things about this brand new building, okay? And then if I was able to
021give you that magic wand, what would be one thing that you would like to change about the new building? Okay? So, talk to me then, you know, what what are some things that you like about the new building? I like how like all the schools like combined and like how all of my friends are there and stuff. Okay, that's great. And then I like how it's like bigger and you have a lot of space. A lot bigger, a lot more space than your elementary school. What elementary school did you go to? >> Boyd. Boyd, okay. Anything else? No? What's one thing if you could take that magic wand or snap that finger, what would you change about the new building? Foot traffic in the hallways and stuff. >> Foot traffic in the hallways. Where where's
022the where's the big congestion point do you feel in the building? Like right like up by the stairs or down the stairs, especially during lunch. Like at by the elective bathroom and the elective floor, there's stairs coming down. And going up to sixth grade. Okay, cool. Thanks. Thanks so much. Miss Zoe, what are some great things about the new place? So, I will tell you quietly, Zoe misses the old junior high, believe it or not. It has more of like a modern look than the old school. Like All the lighting. Yeah. The Milford sign in the background. Okay. But I just miss the like old school and like all the memories that it had. >> You do miss the old school. What are some what what are some memories that you had about the old
023school? Well, like I just think it was like more fun during like games and stuff cuz like we could do more, but we're not even allowed like past the gym anymore. Got you. >> even like do anything. Thank you for being honest with us. Miss Ali, how are you? Good, how are you? Fantastic. So, what are some great things that you like about the new building? Um I like how it like looks like brand new and it just like gives like that kind of like vibe where it feels like just like fresh. And I like how you like managed the lunch times better. So like we can get like better times for it. What do you mean better times? Like last year when we had to eat like really late, it wasn't like What time
024was that? Like 1:00 something. >> 1:00 something? Oh my goodness. >> almost get out at that time now. Yeah, we get out at 2:00. We get out at 2:00. So what time do you currently eat lunch? Uh 11:40. >> 11:40. So that is a big difference than last year. >> Yeah. What's one thing that you could change? Um the bathrooms, they're like a little too open. It's like where you can like it's like not as private and it's just like It just like is like just more open for people and it's just like doesn't feel right. Well, thank you so much for joining me this morning and telling us uh how you feel about the brand new building. I I love the space. Um so we I do agree there are some uh nostalgia pieces
025from the old building that I kind of miss, but uh this is a great space and and you guys have have been wonderful this year to experience this new new space. Um so but again, thanks very much and I'll get you back to class. So that was a sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade. So Zoe is our eighth grader and last year in the old building, the gym, as you all know where the gym was, but there was the green hallway. So we were color-coded. Well, they like to sneak out that back door and they would sometimes dive in the um the electives hallway where Gateway was and they would kind of hide and hang out there. So nowadays with the new building, we can shut those fire doors into the cafeteria so they
026can't go anywhere. So and they don't like to be, you know, corralled. So anyway. So this is probably one of my all-time, you know, 30 3-plus years of education. This was the first ever sixth, seventh, and eighth grade pep rally that we had and uh Mrs. Eiger was huge with this. Um I'm kind of, you know, grumpy at times and I'm like, "There's no way we can get 1,450 kids in the stands for one photo op." And I will tell you what, that is every single student that we had uh right before homecoming uh the game on Thursday. Um they did a great job. Um so, that that is my screensaver on my phone, my screensaver on my computer, but that's what I walk into every morning when I when I get to my office
027about 5:30 is I get to see this this group of great students and staff we have. I'm in the bottom third row on the left there. Can I see you? It was so fun. I just remember I was sitting. So, uh it's been quite a few years, but this year we actually had our first uh regional qualifier. So, Miss Genevieve uh Limpke, there our seventh grader, she did qualify for the regional and she did make it uh she did place 24th out of 50. I think her favorite pasta was uh rigatoni at one time, but that was the word that she had to spell. Unfortunately, that's what kind of knocked her out. So, if you ever see her, just don't ask her what her favorite pasta is anymore. So, but she's fantastic. Um this is
028this this this blows my mind. We we have two gentlemen here playing chess in the entire This was at lunchtime and the kids that were out in the courtyard, they, you know, they're allowed to walk. There's no balls, there's no Frisbees, but uh the kids broke out the chess pieces and they're playing chess with with the nice size uh nice size uh not nice size, but pretty nice size big chess pieces, but they enjoy that. You all know in years past we we have a fantastic middle school robotics program. Miss Campese is our our our coach there, but we had uh we have four teams that qualified for the Worlds. They will leave at the end of this month and travel to St. Louis and compete with schools from China, Japan, South Korea, uh the
029Philippines. So, they are an amazing group of young gentlemen and ladies that are so so wicked smart just to build what they can build from the ground up and to compete. Um they're just they're just a wonderful group of kids. And then, of course, as we all know, our eighth grade got the opportunity and excitement. You You've got to understand as an eighth grader, I would be that way, but for our eighth graders to be able to participate on a multi-million dollar stage at Music Hall is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So, you know, thanks to the band boosters, thanks to Mr. Kaufman. Uh Jody Smith is is fantastic. So is Brandon, but for the opportunities that our middle school students are are getting is just mind-blowing. JROTC, so we started JROTC JROTC JROTC this year as
030eight for eighth graders. And I will tell you we we have about 70 We started with 70-some students. We're down about 51. Uh Sergeant and um Master Chief, they're they're pretty strict as you would think. But uh what is so Next time you visit the middle school, you will see we do have two national banners championship banners. We have four eighth grade students who made the varsity team. Now, you got to understand, we're pulling kids from the middle school, Milford High School, and the Oaks program. On the varsity team, I have four eighth grade female students who were on the national championship team. And I have one young gentleman who was on the the men's national championship team as eighth graders. So, five five eighth graders on the national championship team. They They they've done
031an amazing job to be as eighth graders. So, just a few other things about those those young gents and ladies. Let me the notes here real quick. Um so, Bella Cathcard, Robin Cathcard, May Oppenheimer, Maya Lowry, Ava Edwards, and Eli Barrett, they all as eighth graders have made the All Army Regional National Team uh at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and they are competing this week in the nationals. So, that just tells you that uh JROTC program is is is early in its infancy, but uh we're growing there. So, they are amazing group of folks. Nutritional Services, I had to throw this out because I will tell you um if you've not heard of uh Smart Mouth Pizza, I think they've had it at the high school for a couple years. We rolled this out probably about
0323 weeks ago, and I will tell you that we're probably selling anywhere from 4 to 450 pizzas a day. So, Nutritional Services at the middle school, we have a a fabulous staff there, but they start cranking those pizzas out. I mean, it comes through this nice little oven um and they're boxed up. So, they do pepperoni, cheese, breadsticks. Um I think the kids enjoy it. I usually eat about four or five a week as well. So, I go through my money in my account quickly. But, uh it it's it's great. Kids love it. Hopefully, the kids now want sushi maybe once a week. So, we'll we'll wish for that next year. And then, I think my final slide here is um this is one of the most um important days in my life because I
033come from a military family with with my grandfathers, my uncles, and my father, but we had a in my opinion, one of the top-notch programs uh this year at the new middle school. We decked it out. Uh the veterans were just so excited to come. Uh we were hoping to to have a flyover. Unfortunately, we could not get that to happen this year, but next year it is in the plans if we we correct we we get the correct date and we could work it out with Clermont County, uh we will have a flyover for them. So, but this was an amazing. It means a lot. It brings tears. Um it's just it's just a one of the one of my favorite holidays of the year. So, I know I've talked a lot. I'm sorry.
034I do have a lot more to share, but uh I mean we've had quite a few fall uh middle school championships, uh winter championships. We're uh in into the spring season now with softball and track and tennis, but uh Milford Middle School, you know, top to bottom, it it's a great place. We got a great staff. You know, I could share our PBIS numbers, our attendance, our our GPAs, our F and D list. Um those numbers are way down, so we have a lot great a lot of great things going on at the middle school. So, but thank you for the time and I'm going to turn the mic off. Awesome. Thank you. >> [applause] >> And now we have an update from the athletic boosters. I will just say my grandson is already worried
035about leaving his team, seventh grade team this year at the middle school. He's like, "There's no way my team next year can be as good as this year." They always think that. Hi, good evening. My name is Chris Amon, I'm the president of Can you check that? I don't know. Yeah, it is. Todd Todd turned it off on you. It's off. Uh-huh. How about now? Um Yes, thank you President Mason of the school board. Um Superintendent Pury Um Treasurer Ackerman. Um it's been a long time I think since the athletic boosters have presented in front of the board. Um we took over Um I say we, we've got nine board members and eight of us are fairly new. Uh we took over in July of of last year and so this has been our kind
036of our first year of understanding and learning a little bit. Uh it's been a good experience. And some of our objectives were to be more community involved because I think that for many years um although the athletic boosters have been great, uh they were run really for 20 years under two presidents, uh Dave Miranda uh Laura Dominique and they've done a great job with the boosters, but there wasn't a lot of um communication the community. We didn't have a lot of social media presence and so one of our objectives is is to get out there a little bit more, explain what we do and this is kind of part of that process. So the boosters really were created in 1973. The current iteration as a 501c was 1994. So they've been around for a while.
037Since 2000 the Milford athletic boosters have donated um or given to the school district over $3 million. Um there's probably not a facility on that campus that doesn't have some fingerprint from the Milford athletic boosters. And again, past leadership's done a great job uh of managing the money and and making sure they contribute to things that maybe the school district couldn't contribute to or to add on to things to make the improvements in some of the uh uh the fields or the the screens or you know, just a lot of different things over the years. Um we talked about equipment, training, experiences, and recognition, which is kind of what we do as as athletic boosters. Uh we oversee also 24 sub-accounts. So, each of the individual sports have their own um sub-account where they raise
038money for, and they can spend money towards their program specifically. We manage that money for them, so that it all comes into one area and goes out to those various things. Uh we did increase our board from six to nine this year, so eight of those nine are are pretty much within the the first year. So, again, we're kind of learning. Um this is sort of our we'll call it a not completely refined mission statement, but this is kind of where we're headed. Now, I like I like what it says, and I'll read it. The mission of the Milford Athletic Boosters is to make unite parents, students, faculty, alumni, the community in a shared commitment to supporting and courage you participation in interscholastic sports. We recognize the vital role athletics play in the education and
039personal growth of our students, and strive to promote the mental, physical, emotional, social benefits of athletic competition in Milford Junior High, now Milford Middle School, and Milford High School. Through our efforts, we aim to foster school pride and spirit, provide financial support to Milford athletic programs, and to recognize and reward the dedication and achievement of our student athletes. And we've had quite a few. There's been a lot of successes this year. Sort of our focus and our four pillars. Um everything we want to do wants to be we want to be student athletes central. Uh that has to be priority one for us, and and every decision we make is about our student athletes. We want to build new efficiencies throughout to maximize value and delivery, and prioritize items to meet our mission. Our four
040pillars are student athletes, facilities and equipment, community, and then efficiency and accountability. This is as I mentioned our board with our nine members. We've added some some areas to this board because we've added uh some strategy and some vision on what we want to do and where we're going to take the board for the next 5 years. Uh we have um as I mentioned, I'm the president of the board. We have an executive VP whose focus really is on building our database. We have a new CRM um uh platform. And that platform is going to interact with all local businesses, with all of alumni, with um any of our our sort of auxiliary input folks, our parents potentially and at some point in time. But it gives us one space to kind of manage all
041of those people, which we haven't had the past. Our treasurer is Buzz Martin. We have a VP in creative, Britney McGowan. Our VP of events is our old-timer. That's Justin Benalla. As you know, Justin and his family have run the craft show for years, and he continues to do that. He's been a valuable piece for us as we've all kind of navigated this this process. Uh VP of community is Ricky Harderfer. VP of operations, Sarah Oldendick. Uh and if you've noticed any of our concessions this year, they've done just a fantastic job. We've got a brand new system out there. We have better inventory control. We'll talk about that in a little bit. Uh but it's just a a much better system. And even though the football program didn't have a great year this year,
042we still had really good crowds. We moved those through the concession stands really quick. Um we have youth sports. And that's an area we want to focus on building more of a bridge towards, which we haven't we we we've limited in the past. And then we have vice president of student services in Dan Chadwell. You'll know Dan as teacher coach. Uh but he also is helping develop a platform that helps our students interact directly with um colleges and coaches. And so we're hoping to add to that next year. Uh these are our financials as of January 31st. In our general fund, we have $291,000. Our capital fund is $237,000. The sub accounts, which I mentioned before, are sub accounts for our different athletic teams. Uh, 228,000. We have 1,000 in Venmo. But, total of 757,000
043between all of the groups and what we've been put putting aside. Typically, that money uh, in the general account is rotated through each year where we're buying something or we're, you know, doing something and it matches up with revenue. And we hope to have at the end of each year you know, 50 to 60,000 we can put in the capital account because we've got some projects which I'll talk about in a second. This is an eyeball chart, but this is our budget for this year. And it's the first time we've had a budget in a while. And so, we we put this together back in July with a little bit of information, but I think now that we have a full year under our belt, our next one will be a little bit more robust.
044Um, and it's an eye chart. I apologize. So, you can pick it up on Google Docs or or Board Docs, sorry. But, to give you an idea of where our revenue comes from, we get our revenue from these categories, which are sponsorships, we do events, we have season tickets, we have concessions, we have donations, and then we do various fundraisers. And that's where really most of our revenue comes in. Sorry, I'm going to have to talk to the side. I think I printed off half the pages. Uh, next is our expense category, which is capital projects, equipment, experiences, recognition, pay-to-play, which I'll talk about in a second, youth camps and outreach, and then administrative. On our pay-to-play grants, this is the first year we've done this. Um with the increases in the uh cost of
045per student for the um participation in athletics, uh we decided we wanted to initiate a pay-to-play program, and especially focus on the kids that need grants in order to participate in sports we talked about earlier. We don't really view sports as extracurricular. We really view it as intracurricular because it plays a big big role in so many areas, and study after study shows that. We want to make sure the kids that want to participate can participate. Um So, this will uh we talked about allowing families uh to cut their cost or reduce or eliminate their cost. To- total program cost this year when we finish up here in the spring will be about $30,000. Uh we budgeted 50,000, so we expect that to expand next year. Um this covers grades 7 through 12, and it's
046participation in any sanctioned sports. So, it has to be a sanctioned sport. Uh we're also going to look at expanding that. One of the areas we want to try and look at expanding is trying getting more awareness out there early on because there may have been kids that didn't know about this this year >> [snorts] >> that didn't even go out, and so now we want to get that out there. And also, we we think it's a big thing for seventh graders to be, you know, able to do whatever they want want to do and participate when they first get into the system. We talked about capital projects. A couple that um you know, we did some stuff with concessions, the storage room at the high school, uh some windscreens, some smaller projects this year.
047The long-term bigger ones are Charity Lucas Fieldhouse, which I have a rendering of there. Uh that really, if you look at our campus and you look at all the facilities and the fantastic things that have been done on this campus the last few years, that's kind of the last, you know, frontier. You know, that's the uh it's not beautiful when you drive into the into the high school, and it's not very functional. So, we ultimately want to do that. Uh that's been on our radar for a long time. There's also discussion regarding the infield turf for baseball and softball fields. That will allow those infield or those facilities to be used almost year round. And being able to do that as well as generate some revenue from the the rental of those facilities is also
048very helpful. Our focus [clears throat] items really uh for fiscal year 2026 have been rebrand and create a social identity. You'll notice the logo over here is SOAR Milford. It's student opportunities athletic resources. Um we we did our bylaws. We invested in a POS system for concessions and move towards less cash, better inventory control, establish online accounting platform with monthly reports, establish a more robust reimbursement system, and create project bud- budgets and monitor our year over year. We also wanted to introduce the PTP grants, which we did. Continue to expand relationship with fine arts and youth sports. Review possible single large all athlete fundraiser each year. And again, on the CRM platform that I talked about earlier. I mentioned the uh fine arts as well. We've actually done a really good job of building the
049relationship with the band boosters. Um and they've been a big participant in a lot of the concession parts of of what we've done, and that's been very helpful. And that's all I have for you. Thank you. Any questions? Um on the I'm I'm really happy to hear you coordinating with the band boosters as well. So, I'm glad to hear you guys are working together on that. Um one part I heard was where somebody on the board is working on a platform to connect students with colleges. So, when those types of programs come up, are you working with the administration to make sure that that's a coordinated effort between the school as a whole and then the boosters? You can just say. One one. There we go. Yes, we are. As a matter of fact, the
050initial meetings on that were pretty clear. Yeah. That you know, there's certain issues related to privacy and some other things that we know we have to address before we can even launch anything like that. And it'll have to be an opt-in system for our our parents and families. >> Yeah, good. Yeah, I mean the privacy I'm glad you guys are thinking about that. I just I also want to just make sure that I mean you guys are doing a lot of a lot of great stuff and then the district as a whole is doing a lot of great stuff and just to ensure that we're not overlapping where it's unnecessary and making sure the lines of communication are staying clear so the kids have everything um available to them from from both sides, you know,
051especially with you guys helping with the pay to play, you know, I mean if there's opportunity for us to help you guys get that out there. I mean these are the types of coordinated efforts we got to make sure that we're working together on to make sure that um your reach is as far as it needs to be. Yeah, no no question. And I think that we part of our, you know, there are 100 items I think that we laid out in July of last year. We might have 40 of them completed. I mean it's just a lot. We've got a volunteer board. Uh but we have made strides in trying to make sure we communicate more with the administration. We had a a meeting and a presentation I think in February. Um and then
052this meeting tonight just to kind of give you an overview kind of what direction we're headed. Um but yeah, there's there's so many things and our our role is as a support organization. We want to fill the gaps that you guys can't do whether it's statutorily or you know, otherwise or it's not a priority in budget. You know, that is our role is to try and fill those when we think there's a need there that matches the direction of what we're trying to accomplish in regards to uh experiences and and equipment and and you know, giving our kids the best possible chance to be successful in in a lot of areas, not just winning and losing. Yeah, no, absolutely. And I appreciate it. All right. Yep. Thanks. All right, thank you. Thank you. And I
053I think this is the second night in a row I've seen a few of you guys. >> I know. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, congratulations to your daughter last night. Yeah, yeah, fantastic hearing all her accomplishments. >> Well, great job by the Milford School Foundation as usually as usually they always do such a fantastic job. >> you. Yeah. >> yeah, no, absolutely. That's why I bring that stuff with the coordination between what you guys are doing and athletic foundation, the the power that we have as administration, the district, that really is when our operations are more coordinated and and communicated in a clear way, I think there's just not much we can't accomplish. Well, maybe as a a final thing, I wanted to mention that we are building this database, the CRM. And I think one
054of the challenges you've had over the years is communicating with alumni or being able to reach some of the alumni. And maybe there's a project there between the school foundation and athletic boosters. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Awesome. Thanks, Chris. Thanks, Chris. >> [applause] >> All right. Do we have any public commentary? We do not. Okay. Um moving on to Board of Education business, we have a mission moment. Um and is Grayson Okay. Grayson, um could you stand up? You're our mission moment and for this month, we wanted to recognize him um because he has had outstanding contributions as part of the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation Youth Advisory Council. Uh Lester Grayson was elected as one of just 21 high school students across Ohio to serve on the council working to advance youth-led suicide prevention efforts.
055He was also the only student selected from Clermont County. Just last month, Grayson and his fellow council members traveled to Columbus to review applications for youth-led mental health and suicide prevention initiatives. Together, they selected 10 projects to receive nearly $10,000 in grant funding supporting impactful efforts such as therapy dog programs and peer-led wellness um fairs in schools and communities across the state. We are incredibly proud of Grayson's passion for breaking down stigma and supporting prevention efforts around such an important issue. So we just wanted to thank him tonight. >> [applause] >> All right. Moving on to treasury reports. You have a summary for us Michael. I don't have anything additional to add to what Doug is going to show us or go through today. We have a pretty pretty packed treasurers section tonight of the
056agenda. So I think as we go through it there'll be some commentary from me and maybe some commentary from the board of questions but I think it's all in here. Okay, sounds good. Can I get a motion to approve the board reports? So moved. Second. All right. Doug, can you take us through the board report? Madam President, members of the board. Thank you for this opportunity to present to you a snapshot of the district's finances through March of fiscal year 26. It is hard to believe but we are 9 months into this fiscal year. So with only 3 months left, let's see how we look. So this first slide that you see right here and I know it's kind of blown up right now but this is our bank reconciliation. So what this does is
057show that where our operating account is compatible with the state software. And you can see right there that it does balance and then payroll balances as well. And the next slide, now this is our investment report. And what's important about this is right through here you can see down in here. This is the interest that we've earned for fiscal year 26 so far. It's about 2.3 million dollars. Which is excellent. And then the next slide, now here it is. Now this is our 5-year forecast. a snapshot of our 5-year forecast of just fiscal year 26. And at the beginning of the year, we were forecasting a deficit spending of 1.9 million dollars. And as you can see, right now through March, we're sitting at a positive 11.6. So, that is tremendous. It gives us some
058cash. I wish it could stay this way through the next 3 months, but I have to be realistic. We just want to make sure that we can can beat that number right there. So, but for now, that's good. And then, our next slide, here we have some graphs. And you'll see our revenue, and you can see that revenue is up in fiscal year 26 from fiscal year 25 and 24. And that's local revenue. State revenue is up from 24, but you can see from 25, it's down a little bit. Not much, but just a little bit. And then, all other revenue is up each fiscal year. And then, as far as expenditures go, you can see that salary and benefits are up each year. Purchase services are down, which is very good from 24 to
05925 to 26. And then, all other expenditures are up from 24, or excuse me, from 25, but they are down from 24. So. And then, as far as our administrative costs. Now, this is a big deal because House Bill 96 requires that we are below 15%. For the last year, 12 months, I've showed you a number right around 15, let's say 14 15%. Now, the state wasn't sure what expenditures they wanted to include in this, and they finally have given us some information on what we can and cannot include. And the final result shows that we're actually sitting at 7.29%. So, that's excellent. We're well below where they want us to be. So, very good with that. Yeah, I think the two things I'd point out there is if you go up a little bit,
060you know, you don't have to scroll up purchase services are down. That's where we we made significant cuts, but as we always remind the public everything trails. So, when you make cuts or reductions it takes a while to show up in the forecast. So, you have that aspect that's down. And then when you look at now that the state's given Doug the direction on how to record that administrative cost being down around 7% when the limit's 15. So, almost at half is is pretty remarkable and is in line with our performance audit. So, now you see the two things lining up. So, I'm glad that you got that new direction to really show where that number is at and it's a very impressive. >> It and I know it feels slow to everyone else. To
061my department it feels like everything is in full force going very fast. But, you're exactly right. We just have to be patient. Every trust the process and things will work out. And I I want to applaud everyone in the district cuz they work very hard in making sure we watch our expenditures. So, thank you. I think that's it for this part. Does anybody have any questions on that? Nope. All right. Can I get a roll call? Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? This is me. Yes. Someone has a question. One time. That's the music for every time we do a roll call. >> [laughter] >> I like it. >> spice it up a little bit. Cuz I don't want anyone to fall asleep during my presentation. Is that part of
062cartoon Doug? Yes, it is. For those who don't know what cartoon Doug is, just keep a look out. Cuz we send him out every now and All right. Now we need a motion for approval for the intra fund transfers. So moved. Second. All right. Any discussion? The intra fund transfers, now what's nice about these, they're just moving inside [clears throat] the fund. And it's just moving from one cost center to another cost center so that we can utilize the money. Most of it from one fiscal year to another fiscal year. So, this is something we do every year. Um but helps keep the general fund from uh expending too much. So. Any questions? Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. >> Mrs. Chestnut? >> Yes. Mrs. Mason? >> Yes.
063Um now we need a motion to approve the then and now. So moved. Second. Any questions? Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? >> Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? >> Yes. Mrs. Mason? >> Yes. Uh now we need a motion to approve the following contracts. So moved. Second. Any discussion? There is one contract in here um with EMS or the enrollment management system service, excuse me. Uh this is the one this is the company that's coming in to help us with our health benefits. So, they will be talking to every employee to make sure they're utilizing the benefits to the best of their ability, which ultimately not it helps them financially and it also helps the district. So, this is something that's uh very positive. What's really nice about this is if
064you look at the contract, yes it looks expensive, but they guarantee your money back. And if you don't get your money back, they don't charge you. That's nice. So, it's kind of a win-win. Yeah. We've been using them for a few years, right? >> No. No, this is this is new. Yes. >> Next year will be actually We'll start this program the next fiscal year. Our health benefits actually take place in on the calendar year, so in January. And Great Oaks is looking Of course, everybody's always looking at their expenses, so I was able to text Doug from the Great Oaks meeting like, "What's that service you use? Can they use some, too?" So, share that information. I don't I haven't caught up. >> So, we belong to an insurance consortium. They came, gave a
065presentation. Kings started using this service a few years ago before they were part of our consortium and highly recommended them. So, individually or as districts, we've been talking to them and then obviously talking to the staff through the union to make sure everyone's on on a par with >> Healthcare is just confusing, right? Like, every year when you have to look at it, it's confusing, so that's a really nice resource to >> Yes. Well, I think what's great is they actually sit down with the employee and their significant other and discuss them personally, in private. And there's going to be things to help people. There's going to be opportunities to help people and that's That's going to be the best part. Yeah. Sounds right. Yeah, it's important for the public to know that that's one
066of the only areas that we can do to try to reduce some costs. So, the idea that it is a great service, very personal service, and obviously the guarantee is great. It's as we continue to ensure that we've taken all possible steps to minimize our expenses. That's That's one of the main areas to see in that get signed and get put into action is another thing that we'll be paying attention to as we look at those future numbers. All right. Uh please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. >> Mr. Wilson? Yes. >> Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? >> Yes. Uh now I need a motion to approve the following vendors. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. >> Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? >>
067Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now I need a motion to approve the five following donations. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Thank I just want to thank everybody for their donations. Um I love how the community comes together to support the schools cuz we see quite a wide variety of of folks We receive a lot of donations and I have to agree. Thank you so much. Yeah, I mean a lot of great donations on there. A lot of good names. Milford Schools Foundation on there. That's a sound like quite the playground project. That's great. Thank you. All right. Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Um now we are going to hear from Mr. Johnson. He has a transportation update for us. Um this is
068one of the sections of the audit that we promised to update on. So from day one when the board decided to go to state minimum, we've been continuing to look at transportation and how can we be more efficient? Not that we didn't do that before, but but you know, knowing the hardship that's on families um in a lot of ways, but we continue to look at it. So the performance audit um their recommendation regarding transportation was to use rider data to make informed decisions regarding contract and bus routing. So the main thing that the the performance auditors took a look at was how full are our buses? You know, we can look at at rider count. Um we know the capacity of our buses and they you know, counted the number of kids that are
069on the buses. Um so, what they came up with Well, let me let me jump back here real quick. One of the challenges that we had, one of the Last year to this year to potentially next year are not necessarily apples to apples comparisons, which makes it hard, and we're trying to look at those things, see how um the the reduction to state minimums, how much money has that saved. But, what other things are also affecting that that had we not gone to state minimum, what would that have looked like this year um from a financial perspective. Don't have numbers for you. We're still looking at those things. Um but, one of the one of the bigger things that that popped up as we've been looking at this um high school and middle school are
070no longer on the same bell schedule. Um last year, we had five special ed buses. We combined the junior high and the high school. This year, because they're separate, we can't do that. So, now we've got five high school special ed buses, and we've got five middle school special ed buses. So, those are some of the challenges um you know, that that we've come across um some of which you can kind of project out, but some of which you don't really know until you get into the weeds of of of reality instead of of projections. Um Steve, so one of the things again, they the the state looked and said, try to get as close to 100% capacity on school buses as you can. Um Tier one is our middle school um and we've increased
071that seating capacity from 79.5% to 86.5%. Um tier two are the early three elementary schools that we've increased from 54.1% to 64.5%. And in a three um we've increased from 53.7 to 67.1. So, I think those are great numbers. Those are great increases in efficiency. But, the one thing to understand is was we have two capacity limits. One is just we like to call them butts and seats. You know, how many kids can we physically fit on a bus? Obviously, you can put more elementary kids on a bus than you can put high school or middle school kids on a bus. But, the other limit, the other capacity we have is time. So, we've got a number of routes that if if we keep going till we fill the bus up to 100% capacity, those
072kids are going to be 15 or 20 minutes late to school. So, in order to get you know, maybe that's why we're only maybe 2/3 full is because all right, I've picked up as many kids as I can get until we've got to get them to school. And the same is true in the afternoon with dropping them off. You know, so our third tier buses or our third tier schools are getting out a little bit before 4:00. Um we don't want our kids on the bus till for an hour hour and 15 minutes, right? You know, in order to have 100% capacity, that means kids aren't going to get dropped off until 5:15, you know, 5:30. And I and and I don't think we as a community, parents, as a board, I don't think we
073want that. So, that's a hard thing that the performance audit had a really hard time like they they really couldn't audit that for lack of a better term. They can certainly count the number of kids versus the capacity of the bus, a lot harder to kind of could deal with some of the timing. So, what we're continuing to do and oh, we uh going into it, we had projected somewhere between seven and 10 routes that will be eliminated. Um we have eliminated eight routes. Um uh Peterman and myself have already been talking about some projections going into next year where we think we can get maybe one or two more um based on you know immediate knowledge. Um the other thing that we're looking at is we're upgrading the routing software um that we've been
074using. It's the same manufacturer but it's a it's a new and improved upgraded version um of the of the routing software that we think um might be able to help us with some efficiencies as well. So again, we continue to kind of look at this. Is there anything we can do um to alleviate need on families yet maximize the savings to the district um from a financial perspective um don't see any drastic changes you know at this point in time but again we continue to look at it. Um I don't know if I remember this correctly but when we talked to the auditors and they were looking at capacity as well weren't they looking at three kids per seat like that's what they considered to be like a full bus? >> They can they look
075at three kids per seat at the elementary level. >> Okay. Um it's two kids per seat at a middle school high school level is what we look at. >> Understanding that you're never going to put four kids in a seat, right? But even at the elementary level you've got some kids that you're not putting more than two in a seat just from a safety perspective. Um kids grow at different rates and and everything so you've got even at the elementary level not all kids can fit three to a seat. Um and that's one of the things that at the beginning of the year we route things based on past experience but we tweak it and that's why things change a lot in the in the first two to four weeks of the school year because
076we've got [clears throat] data from years past but that doesn't necessarily mean that's what is going to happen this year. Right? So we we get buses go out and they pick up kids and all of a sudden they're half or two-thirds of the way through their route and their bus is full. That's why we've got buses that are out there going they get on the radio say, "Hey, I'm full. Can somebody come pick up the rest of my route?" And then we re-rework the route and and spread kids out and maybe there's another route that's only half full and we can kind of move some kids from one bus to the other. Um but that's why there's a lot of changes early in the school year is trying to balance those things out. Do we
077still have um I know that when we did bussing for everyone, we would have um changes during the year because like kids would be in sports and then they or after-school activities or whatever. Are we still having those kind of changes happening with state minimums? We we do tweak those. It's not as big because most of those changes were at the high school middle school because it tends to follow the the athletic seasons. So going from fall sports to winter sports, from winter sports to spring sports is when when a lot of those things change. Also, from you know, the longer you get into the year, the more kids get driver's license and can drive instead of riding the bus. So not having high school transportation, it that's not as big of a factor as
078it has been in years past. If that makes sense. It does. All right, any other questions? Thank you for that, Dave. >> All right, thank you. Thank you. Uh not bussing specific, but um do you want to give people a stoplight update of any sort? I did see sidewalks on Wolfpen. They look lovely. To be fair, I've been out of town for the last 2 and 1/2 days. I did see the sidewalks myself. Um the last update I got from the county, um we're hopeful within the next 2 weeks that Wolfpen will be completed. Um 131, I don't have as good information on. Um quite honestly, they they've been working on it. Um Um there's some materials that are missing that they're trying to track down or get reordered. I don't have an update on
079that. Like I said, hopefully Wolf Pen's done in the next week or two. I would say probably two weeks. But again, like you said, the sidewalk's got poured. Um the base coat of asphalt went down. And I know Nyra is the asphalt contractor for the Clermont County DID. They're also the asphalt contractor under our middle school project through Conger. So the widening of Eagle's Way to go to those three lanes is supposed to happen in the next couple of weeks as well. As a as a carpool family, I also appreciate more driver's licenses and seniors ducking out early. Carpooling's are not as I definitely noticed the E slot up at the middle school has filled up as the year has gone on with the adult. Yep. Yep. Thank you for all your work. All right.
080Can I get a motion to approve the MEA regarding MEA officer stipends? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Just so everyone knows, this is not cost the district anything. They reimburse us for this. So this is just us being a fiduciary agent. Mhm. All right. Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. >> Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mason? >> Yes. Moving on to superintendent's business. We have four policies. This is the first reading of them. So on artificial intelligence, misbranded foods, and cultivated protein food products, entrance age for kindergarten, and administering medicine to students. And then we also have a PowerSchool update. Yeah, we wanted to provide an update on PowerSchool. We know it's been frustrating for many parents. Um, so over the last couple of months, our district
081experienced a significant influx of parent support tickets, um, hundreds regarding the PowerSchool mobile app. So, parents reported a high volume of persistent errors, specifically with like authentication failures, server errors, and redundant logins. So, we have a really great team here that's been working really hard to address these issues immediately. Um, it was just a full resolution from the vendor took approximately 2 months. So, um, the internal data now, um, it does confirm a stabilization of tickets. Um, there was some emergency interventions by PowerSchool that led to that. And I really give Emma a lot of credit. She's back there. She's been in constant communication with PowerSchool. Um, they have acknowledged that this is their, um, that they have formally acknowledged that their performance missed the mark. Like, that this was, you know, their fault, um,
082when they transitioned to the mobile app. So, they have they're looking to make this more of a priority. Um, and as part of their commitment, they've implemented an automated diagnostic logging. So, what this means is that the app will now report errors to PowerSchool automatically, allowing for proactive fixes before our parents even notice the problem. That's good. >> So, hopefully, I know that there were hundreds of tickets and now there's none. Um, I know Emma, I know Lisa, I know others in the district worked really hard to try to communicate with parents. We know it's inconvenient, um, and I'm sure it's very frustrating. So, hopefully, you know, there'll be some smooth sailing moving forward, but, um, we wanted to make sure that we let you guys know, all of our community know that we are
083aware and we're working on it, and PowerSchool is committed to making as many of the efforts to try to make this better for our families. Very good. Awesome. All right. Um we have human resources businesses and I need a motion to approve G1 through G5. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. >> Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Uh now moving into curriculum and instruction business. Do you have any updates from Great Oaks? I do have some Great Oaks updates. So um the uh Great Oaks looks very carefully at their retention numbers and they reported out that we they've had a 94.8 retention rate across all four campuses um with the year-end goal of 95% so they want to bump it up a little
084bit. Um the application process wrapped up so everyone who applied should know um what programs they're in. 63 of 76 of the programs are at capacity for the fall. Um the junior who will be incoming juniors um 45 programs across the campuses still have openings if there are some students interested. Uh they received 3,068 applications for a capacity of 2,100 seats so um in the past they they keep growing, they keep looking at how they might um help students who didn't get into their preferred programs still do some options so they're looking at some kind of neat part partnerships with um OTC plus or how could they can work with local schools um to do that. They also have partnered with um the achievement center at Camp Friedlander which is Boy Scouts up in Loveland.
085They built a big um center that's underused right now and they're going to Great Oaks is going to look at putting some programs there, too. So, it's still always looking at how we can get students who have interest into programs. Um their financial audit received wrapped up and they received no findings. And then just like we're seeing around here, lots of great senior ceremonies happening. So, if anybody's interested, I know all the senior ceremonies. Most of our students go to Live Oaks and that ceremony will be Tuesday, May 12th at 7:00 p.m. at NKU Truist Arena. I'll be heading down and if people want parking pass, Dr. Fury, I don't know if you had gotten an invite for it yet, but we can get parking passes. You can get parking for that. And that's Great
086Oaks. Um do they ever go into cuz that's great that all those programs are filling up. Do they ever go into like what the most popular programs are? Yeah, they I mean it's the programs that are out of capacity. So, cosmetology, digital sciences, there's some every year and there's just kind of limit. They can't expand some of the programs cuz I did ask about that. Like, well, can't we make more spots if we need twice as many? And there's lab space and equipment. Isn't the welding one of Isn't the welding one of the top programs, too? >> Yeah, I think I think welding licenses like cosmetology comes from the state board of cosmetology. So, you have to get approval to open additional programs and that's probably not going to happen. So, they're definitely looking at
087They know the most popular ones. And I we get these big charts that I print one every month of like where all the students are across all the campuses. So, but if you don't get your first choice, you are offered a second choice and or they will tell you like this is all the programs. If you don't get your first choice at Live, but they have an opening at Scarlet, you could go there. Oh, okay. I didn't realize that. Yeah, you can go to any campus. Some We don't have equine here and they do. Milford's Live is the only one that has Parks and Rec, so students come from other places to get to that. So Yeah. Cool. Um I just have a few updates for curriculum. Uh we just looked at all of our
088fees. We'll be um voting on those tonight. There were no major increases this year um across all of the schools, which is great. We also talked about like some of our contracts for different educational products that we have. So we continually look at the usage to determine whether or not to renew any of these contracts. We want to make sure that our students are using them and getting the best out of them and that our teachers are happy with the products. And with that um we are making sure that we're sending out a document with the products that we're evaluating, the ones that we're keeping, the ones that we're losing, and the ones that were in danger of losing so that our teachers can make plans on um what they can use and keep using
089for the next year. Um we want to make sure that we're using the products that are being used the most. Uh summer reading lists are also being developed. And um on the technology side uh we have a new framework for cybersecurity that's being um that's because of House Bill 96 that requires that. Um Emma has been meeting with other districts to see everything that they are doing in their districts. Um and also met with some cybersecurity experts um just to look at their policies and uh what they're all doing. And then um we also have a new AI committee. So we had a discussion about um what we should do with our policy for that, and we Most districts in the area are adopting the OSBA policy, and that's what we will be doing as
090well. So that's what we talked about in curriculum. And now I need a motion to approve the fee approval for the 2026-2027 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Uh now I need a motion to approve the cybersecurity framework resolution. So moved. Second. Any discussion? No. Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Uh now moving on to business operations. Uh I need a motion to approve the paving agreement. So moved. Second. Any discussion? No. Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? >> Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now I need a motion to approve the e-rate agreement with
091HCC. So moved. Second. Any discussion or questions? Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? So moved. I mean, yes. >> [laughter] >> I was like, Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now we're moving on to some concluding items. Do we have any public participation? We do not. All right. Um before we talk about moving to an executive session, uh does anybody have any discussion items? I know that either Mary and Elmyra would want to talk about where we went last night. Okay, I'll talk about it. The Milford Schools Foundation had their scholarship dinner last night, and we had, uh I believe originally, 48 uh applicants. and we interviewed 16 to 18. We had a couple kids that didn't come. And, uh, so last night we awarded the foundation awarded 11
092$5,000 scholarships. Uh, it was a wonderful evening. And two $2,000 scholarships. >> Oh, and the two Yes, there's two bonuses. Uh, and it was a wonderful evening. The The students are all so special. I I said at the dinner last night cuz I I'm I sit in on the interviews as being on the foundation. And, um, I just walk out thinking I feel really good about the world. We've got all these smart kids. They're so mature and positive and insightful. And, um, so I wish everybody could experience that. But, it was a great evening. It's It's also amazing to hear like all the community service they do. I think one student had like over 700 hours. >> Yes. It's just really amazing to see these kids. >> I know. Yeah, and I I mean, when
093we're there we're all sitting at different tables and we're walking around talking to people at the beginning and things like that. And just, uh, overwhelming amount of joy and gratitude that the kids and the families get from the work that the foundation is doing there to provide those scholarships is, uh, really amazing. So, And I got invited to two graduation parties. >> Yeah, good. You should go. I will. >> They Where's Myra? Um, and then we had our, uh, retreat which we were talking about that. We're like, we really need to not name it a retreat because it sounds like we're doing like trust falls and things like that. We are really just Or like we're going somewhere fancy. Learning how to be better board members. >> Yeah, right here in this room with Yes,
094this room. We're not on vacation anywhere. [laughter] But, um, it was it was a really good day. Um, we spent a Saturday morning just, uh, like looking at what our roles are as board members and sort of redefining goals for the year, and it was just really positive, and it's it's great to have that time every year to sort of redefine our goals and and talk about everything together and how we're going to like tackle the new year and everything. So, really appreciate that time. >> And it was nice to do with Dr. Fiori cuz we got to know her better and align all our goals together. It was very uplifting. Yeah. And then um I just wanted to have another mention that um Miss Tighe is in Washington, D.C. right now because she um
095was part of the Principal of the Year Award. And so, she's um at a gala celebrating um with all the other principals of the year from all the other states. So, that's really exciting, and we definitely want to hear back from her when she gets back. Um and I think >> it's important to note also just the tremendous work that our team did with negotiating the MEA agreement with the the teachers. Um You know, I In business, I always think about having the right people on the bus, right? Like you're always trying to accomplish the right things, and you just got to have the right people in place, and uh the work that we've done over the past year as a district and as a board, I mean, it really is shows that we have
096the right right people, the right administration, the right teachers and staff, just how good they work together to get through that agreement and the overall respect and and joy that they had to get through it was was phenomenal. So, as a community, as a board, we have to keep all these people here now, but um really do truly feel like we have the right people. Not that we haven't always had very good, compassionate staff, but um the work that they're doing right now is phenomenal, and that's a good example of it. A day and a half was a record for the district, I I think, my 45 years. Yeah. For sure. And everybody walked out happy. Yeah. Our jobs make everything boring. >> [laughter] >> That's all I have. Does anybody else have anything? Okay.
097Um, we will be uh moving into executive session. We will be coming back here just to dismiss. We will not be discussing anything. We will not be taking a vote on anything. Um, and our next regular board meeting is May 21st and it's right here at the Milton School's administrative office and it is at 6:00 p.m. Uh, so with that I need a motion to go into executive session to consider the purchase of property or to consider the sale of property in conferences with the public bodies attorney concerning pending or imminent court action. So moved. Second. Please call the roll. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Grace. >> Mhm.