001It is 6 o'clock on March 18th and I would like to call the regular board 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 me and join me in saying the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Can I get approve an approval of the agenda as written? So moved. When when do I need to mo do I need a motion now? So I want to put forward a motion. First, sec. Do we I think we do first and second and then changes. That's fine. Okay. Okay. Who wants second? Okay. So,
002I'm going to uh motion to amend the agenda to include a symbolic uh vote on a resolution at the end of the meeting before executive session. And the um resolution is to ask for the board's support um uh to to sign the resolution in support of the fair school funding plan. So I'll I'll read more about it when we get to that point in the meeting. So would we put that in under J3 discussion or before J2 because J2 is executive? Oh, okay. Yes. Right. J1 A J1A sounds good. Okay. Yeah. So, we'll do it right public participation. Okay. Okay. So, um I have a move to move that to J1A. Do I have a second? So moved. Please call the role. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs.
003Mason? Yes. Now I need an approval of the minutes of the board meeting that took place on February 20th of 2025. So moved. Second. Can I get a roll call? Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now we'll move over to featured artists. Thank you, Mrs. Mason. Member of the board. members of the board, Superintendent Spicer, if I could invite all of our featured artists from Cypel Elementary Forward, that would be great um to be recognized. And as they're coming up, I want to call some special attention to something new that uh we're going to do as part of our featured artist uh celebration. Um I've for the past couple years, I've always felt like, you know, and I know they appreciate the certificate as something to
004hang on the fridge, but something that students can kind of keep with them um as a recognition of their art. Uh, so I commissioned a senior uh, visual arts student that's been working um, kind of in an internship with me this year, Emily Zeke, uh, to create a representation of all of the visual arts at Milford High School and throughout our our, you know, all of our schools, K12. And Emily came up with this image. So, as you can see, it involves, you know, graphic design, uh, ceramics, drawing and painting, kind of all of photography, all of the different media involved in visual art. And we've created a custom enamel pin. Wow. from that image uh that uh Emily created that will be awarded to all of our featured artists. So you guys will be
005the first ones to receive it tonight and uh we just really like to highlight the work that Emily did on that. Um and I think uh Steve, if you can go to the next slide, we'll recognize our student artists and we'll we'll kind of revisit that here in a little bit. So each of you will get a pen tonight to keep with you. Okay. Uh first I'd like to recognize a fifth grader. We've got uh two of our fifth graders created these ceramic textured dragon eyes that are just gorgeous behind us. Uh, first we have Celsabil. Congratulations. We also have fifth grader Benson [Applause] Brown. We have a fifth grader with a great I'm gonna get it wrong here. Mrs. Casper repose medal. I practiced all week. a week. Carly marker. [Applause] Uh we have
006uh Libby uh Paulace could not be with us tonight. She has a Milford Youth Theater uh rehearsal, but she has the first pop art anamanopia. She's a fourth grader with us. And uh Liam also has a pop art anamanopia. Liam's challenge is to spell anamanopia. As a former English teacher, I cannot spell anamanopia. Uh Juliet Dietrich created the perspective tree. She's one of our outstanding third graders. And Elena Callahan created the value ice cream. She's also a third grader. and Anna Kelly created the Enri Rouso tiger on the very end. Uh she could not be with us here tonight, I don't believe, but we will get her uh and Libby both recognized down at Cypel Elementary later this week. Wonderful work there. Um and again, I don't want to miss any opportunity to celebrate the
007art. So, Steve, if you could advance to the next slide. Go ahead to the next slide, Steve, if you could. Thank you. Um, I want to recognize, you know, we've been talking for months about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Uh, this past weekend, we sold out two of our three shows. We had an incredible feast between, uh, the Saturday shows provided by Tina Reynolds and the amazing, amazing food service team. We had over 1300 attendees. And this uh by all accounts, by every measure that we could look at, it was the bestselling and highest grossing production in Milford drama history. Um many people don't know this. I know you know sometimes on on social media things Milford drama is 100% self- sustaining. They every dollar they raise goes back into the program. Um none
008of their production dollars come from the district general fund. Um so really proud of those kids and what they've done. And I want to show you just a few highlights from that. Steve, if you could go ahead. Um, when I mentioned Emily Zeke, Emily Zeke created this incredible pre-show. Um, it's supposed to represent kind of the moving pictures from the the Harry Potter movies. You know, the portraits all kind of move. Uh, so she took images of all of our cast members and put those out. And then, uh, Steve, if you would, the next one, this is one of my favorite mentors% student, student run, uh, student done, just absolutely outstanding. listen super close when they come in. You can hear the audience just gasp uh at how incredible they were. Um so the next
009slide is just the cast and crew and just just an incredible production all around. I want to thank the district for your support. I know many of you uh on the board were able to make it out this weekend. Um and to the casting crew and Mr. Daringer. Um the numbers and drama have just gone through the roof and um really doing some incredible things. So thank you so much for your support. Yes sir. Uh I mean you got the microphone. Tell us about Scotland. Scotland. So uh our drama program um is part of uh uh what they do in the summer because the work never stops. They have been invited to be a part of the Eden Edenboroough Fringe Festival which is the largest um outdoor drama festival in the world. Uh so they
010will be traveling to Scotland in late July, early August. Uh we've got about 15 students and they're putting on a play that they wrote. So they had to apply. They had to be accepted. Uh and they're going to be taking the show on the road to Scotland this summer. So pretty darn exciting. Pretty darn exciting. The arts are thriving here in Milford. Yeah. Still looking for chaperones. I you know I asked the same question, Mr. Wilson, but very cool. Thank you so much. Thank you, Josh. All right, we're going to turn it over to Principal Melissa Car. [Applause] I have some student presenters with me. So, if you are presenting tonight, come on over by Mrs. Iger. Well, good evening. My name is Melissa Caraher and I have the privilege of serving as the principal
011alongside Mrs. Iger, my teaching assistant at Cypel Elementary. Um, I am excited about tonight. Last year when we presented to you we shared about what we do for our all school mornings which is when we bring our students together all together as a student body have a handful of staff that help while our teachers are taking some time for professional development and planning. This year it was a great honor to hear that one of our all school assembly mornings or our Friday morning assemblies focused on generosity. And these students along with their colleagues or their peers in fourth grade came up with their own idea to give back to our community or to a larger community I should say and they are here to tell you about project sea turtle. Good evening. Good evening members
012of the board. Good evening members of the board. My name is Nathan Bishoff and I'm a fourth grade student at Cypel Elementary. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak with you tonight. This year, our class was inspired in a big way by our school's December character trait, generosity. In our class, we watched a video about a girl who gave back to her community by collecting recyclables to raise money for an organization called Smile Train, which helps children with cleft pallets. In the video, it made us think about ways we could give back and make a difference, too. We talked to our teacher, Miss Shifflet. She agreed that we could work together on a project to help spread generos generosity. I knew immediately what I wanted to do. I have always loved turtles and
013sea turtles have been my favorite animal for as long as I can remember. It all started when I first saw the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I became fascinated with turtles. So, when our class came started to think about ways we could give back, I suggested we do something to help protect the sea turtles. I shared some ideas with the class and we started researching ways to support the sea turtles. We found out that there are organizations dedicated to saving them and Miss Shifflet helped us find sea turtles.org, a group that raises awareness and funds to help protect the sea turtles. Surprisingly, it was something the majority of us agreed on and wanted to be a part of. Good evening, members of the board of education. My name is Emerson Dillingham, and I'm here to
014share. Good evening, members of the board of education. My name is Emerson Dillingham, and I'm here to share the exciting research we did in our class about sea turtles. We learned that sea turtles are important to the ocean's ecosystem. But they face many dangers. One big threat is pollution, like plastic bags, which can harm or even kill them if they eat it by mistake. We also discovered that climate change is making beaches too warm for sea turtles to lay their eggs. We looked into how light pollution can confuse baby turtles, making it harder for them to find the ocean when they hatch. Our class wants to raise awareness and about these issues and encourage everyone to take steps to protect sea turtles. We hope the money our school raises can support efforts to reduce pollution
015and beach cleanups. Hi, my name is Lily Wall and I want to tell you where the money we raise will go. We are donating to sea turtles.org, an organization that helps protect sea turtles in their habitats. So far, we raised $434.34. Even one of my classmates collected $100 of their own. We love asking our teachers for updates on how much we've raised, and it feels good to know we're making a difference. Our class is excited to help these amazing creatures, and we hope our efforts can inspire others to do the same. Hello, my name is Ola Kinttonia and I'd like to share how this project has brought our entire fourth grade class together. We worked together on making posters, flyers, Google slides presentations and we even gave updates of the announcements of the money raised
016in order to keep everyone informed. The best part is that this was all led by us. We came together as a school community learning about how we can help protect these turtles. Through our work, we made a real impact on Site Pel Elementary and the environment. We're proud to make our mark here at Cypel and we hope our efforts inspire others to take action, too. Thank you, Milford Board of Education and Superintendent Spiser, for inviting us here tonight. [Applause] I think that was the best part of my day. I hope it was yours as well. Um, these students are just representing a small part of our fourth grade population. I have some fourth graders here tonight. If you are in fourth grade at Cypel, will you stand up to also be recognized for your work
017and then there are two other people. Mrs. Lindsay Ship Shiplet is here with us this evening and without her having the flexibility and open-mindedness to be able to incorporate this into her classroom along with Mrs. Queen and Miss Hensley, we appreciate them very much. So kudos to you guys. And last but not least, uh Lauren Iger is my teacher on assignment and I would not be able to be here having this presentation tonight for all of you if it were not for her role in this. uh she puts together all of our Friday morning assemblies. She is really the person who drives this and if I did not have that support within the building, we would not be able to have as much of the as many of these awesome activities. So I appreciate her
018as a person and I also appreciate you guys as a board recognizing how important her role is in the elementary building. So we appreciate your time tonight and we hope you enjoyed our presentation. Good job. I just wanted to thank all the um students for presenting. I think it's so great that you took your theme of generosity and made it important and close to you so that you can help um reach outside of your school community. That's a really really great thing and it shows how just a small group of people can have a huge impact on the world. So thank you so much and we're still taking donations. All right. I want to compliment them on their public speaking. That is not easy to do. And you have a big crowded room here and
019you all did it very, very well. Great job. I want to recognize the gentleman who took care of changing the slides because he knew exactly when to do it and he wasn't reading anything. You want to introduce yourself? You want me to? Hi, I'm Grayson Meyer and I'm a fourth grade class in Mrs. Queen's class. And I would say that Grayson is the technology guru at Cypel. Uh Mrs. Zigger and I needed to make a video yesterday. We actually had Grayson come out of class to help us make that video. So um he is our go-to. So he did a great job as well. Good job, buddy. [Applause] I think we're going to turn it back to Josh Kaufman. We are. And uh I'm going to invite my student I'm going to recognize our high
020school mock trial team. While I'm doing that, I'm going to ask our student artists from Cypel to go with moms and dads and and friends uh with Mrs. Carah her. I'm going to meet you out there in a minute. But if I could have our high school mock trial students uh please come up. Now we've got several of you here. Oh, you're good. You're good. Okay. No problem. No problem. No. Yeah, you're fine. All right. We are going to recognize our high school. Do I need to start by saying may you please the board? Is that what I'm supposed to do? Is that is that how I right? Yeah, that's right. Is that right? Okay. They always start there. Am I correct? You always start your statements with may it please the court. May it
021please the board. We're going to recognize our high high school mock trial team uh who this past this past weekend ago week ago made it to state which is pretty darn incredible. And this matches the furthest uh that Milford schools has ever gone in uh state competition in mock trial. So pretty darn incredible. Um, a total of 31 teams from throughout the entire state. 23 public, nine private made it to state. So, some pretty elite company there. And we would like to recognize the adviserss, Miss Gabby Downey, who's retiring at the end of the year. So, going out on top is always a really cool thing. Uh, Mrs. Melissa Marson, uh, for being their legal adviser. Every team has to have a legal adviser, an actual practicing attorney. So, thank you for that and and
022your time with that. Um, we also want to recognize the six students that were on that state team. Grace Ham who won best attorney, Libby Morgan who won best attorney, EMTT Derek, Natalie Chiaelli, Marina Chiaelli and Kushi Patel. So congratulations. Great job. Great job. Thank you. I didn't realize they had to have attorney. Thank you. All right. Aaron Zupka, where is he at? Loves him a microphone. Danger. Well, I'll say one thing. Probably a message that's not on. So, I'll tell you one thing. I don't know a lot about turtles, but I do know a lot about athletics. So, I'm going to try to uh stand up here and and congratulate acknowledge a lot of our winter teams who put on great performance this year. So, I like to start with our dance team if
023that's all right. I don't know if you have a preference, but we're going to start them. Ladies first. I was always been taught ladies first. So, come on up. Coach, you're come on up here with them. So, we have uh three young ladies here today and coach Kennedy Fails here with us. I know a lot of the other uh girls on the team are working or they're at their studios or have, you know, practice their dance is a 247 12 months a year thing. If you want to be good, you're you're working all the time. So, it's really hard to get everybody together as that can be seen by our practices at 6:00 a.m. because it's only time where they can get everybody together. So, I know they really like that. The breakfast squad, it's
024really good. So, we were honored to um these young ladies put on a a great performance this season. They um just completed their fifth ECC championship. So, five in a row, five Pete, hashtag five Pete. And um when I got here six years ago, we weren't in that position at all. We were we were on a different level. We knew we had to do some things differently. And we're lucky enough to have some great leadership, some great coaches come in over those last couple years, including uh Coach Fails here, who's done a tremendous job with the program. So, in addition to winning their fifth straight ECC uh championship, um they also won first in Palm and Game Bay or excuse me, Palm and Hip Hop are the two um areas they competed with. They also
025went to the OASSA. I'm not going to tell you what that stands for. Educators will know, but they had the state championships up in Heath High School and they finished runner up in their two divisions in palm and hiphop. And then uh they were, you know, qualified talent enough to go to nationals and compete at the NDA National Championships in Orlando, Florida. It's a great place if you haven't been there. And out of 43 teams in their category, they made the first two qualifying rounds, you have to make two cuts to get to the finals, which we've never done before. And they end up finishing 14th out of 43 teams, which is very impressive. Um, and they're only getting better. We have a lot of young, talented kids here in the program. So, the last
026thing I'll just say, coach fails. I know. First of all, her shoe game's always on point. Show them my shoes. Show everybody shoes. Her shoe game's always on point. So, um, I just want to talk about her, embarrass her a little bit. U, she's been a tremendous leader. This is her second year running our program. If you don't know, we post a picture that she danced at University of Kentucky and also danced professionally with the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA and other great experience. So, we are very fortunate to have her. If you talk to my other counterparts in our league in Southwest Ohio, dance, good dance coach, good cheer coaches are hard to find. And we have a great one here. And a lot of schools don't have that. And that makes or breaks
027our program. So, we're so fortunate to have her and her leadership, her creativity, her enthusiasm. Like I said, 6 a.m. practices. I'd be out. I'd be like, I'm going to go coach golf. I'm going to do something else. But she puts the work in, the commitment. They're already starting for next year, and it's not even the the conclusion of this year. So, I want to thank them all. I know a lot of them aren't here tonight. Some may be watching, but I want to thank coach and our three ladies here today on a fantastic season and look forward to the future. And you're all back, right? We don't have any seniors here, so you're all back. So, can we congratulate them properly for a tremendous year? Congratulations, you guys. Congratulations. And thank you And also
028they they have the best bedazzle around. Marian's gonna show up and wear those coats. If you need a jumpsuit with some bedazzle and your name on it, that's really cute. I got it. All right, we're gonna So, uh, we're going to bring up our swimmers here. Um, we have three state divers as well. Unfortunately, they couldn't be here today. one is working a job and the other two are traveling to Europe tomorrow morning to visit their sister. So, but I do want to give a quick shout out. Audrey Fox, who's a junior, made qualified for the state tournament, uh the state meet for the third time in three years. She's going to go for number four next year, what no no female diver has ever done in school history. We've had a couple really good
029divers dating back to the late 80s, early 90s there. Um, also the two Emir brothers. So, we have Patrick and we have uh Jacob. Uh the other brother, Lucas, just graduated last year and is diving at George Mason. So there's quite a genetic um you know that that family has some great uh history and genes there. But Patrick is a junior. He ended up winning the ECC, went all the way to the state championships and placed 10th in the state of Ohio as a junior. So just missed the podium by two spots. And then his brother Jacob, he's only a sophomore. He made state last year and made state this year and ended up finishing 26th in the state. So, I know they're not here, but they may be watching. Can we take a minute
030to congratulate them on a tremendous year? All right, let's bring our our swimmers up and coaches, please. And you can tell they're swimmers by their hair, right? Of course, lacrosse is kind of catching on. They all dye their hair now, too. So, I don't know. So, so we have three out of our four uh of the the quintet of swimmers here today. Um, and we're missing a coach, too. But I just want to introduce them really quick and I'm going to say a couple words and then I don't know if coach if you have anything to say you're good. Probably not. Okay. So, me coach Megan Stillwell, she's our varsity head coach. Uh coach Lauron Moley, he's actually works for Varttech and he is assistant coach. And then we have Landon Crumb who actually goes
031to Miami Valley Christian but through um Ohio rules is able to swim because they don't have a swim program. Then we have EMTT Fentress. You're probably well familiar with that name. Uh Evan and Aaron's two two of the best swimmers we've ever had there. He's the third of the three and is phenomenal, phenomenally talented himself. And then Cameron Barklay, our one senior up here, um is also up here. So, I want to talk about their season briefly. So, obviously went in the season with big expectations. We had a great season last year, finished second in the league. Um made state in a lot of events, were, you know, top eight in a couple. And then this year, we knew we were turning everybody. We were poised for a really big year, and they did not
032disappoint. So, we end up finishing as league champs on the last event of the ECC meet in Mason and the 400 free relay came down. They weren't telling us the scores because I don't think they want anybody to know, but we uh end up winning that event, winning the whole thing, I think by seven points, which we've got a very talented uh Southwest Ohio swimming in ECC is very talented. So, we were able to do that. Many of them, you know, first uh second team all league honors there. And then um you know the sectional meet you know the there you have to qualify from the sectionals to district and district until the state championships. We end up having uh well Brady Campbell's not here. We'll talk about him in a minute. But these four
033three plus Brady um end up placing six in the state as a team with four swimmers and including our divers obviously scored which is impressive. So we were right behind Mason who probably has 100 swimmers and we had four at state plus divers and we were right behind them for sixth in the state. Um we had multiple district uh district and sectional champs u but ultimately we had um a handful make state we had the four athletes that I named in seven different events. So Brady Campbell who's not here uh he's a sophomore and Brady is is a talent a generational talent. Brady who finished third and fourth last year in the state in his two events. This year he won the 50 free. He was our first Ohio State champ in swimming or diving
034in school history. We've been a school for a long time. We have a program for a long time. Uh he finished second in the 100 fly and that's probably not even his his top event. And uh he was part of the two relays who were third in the state overall. And like I said, he's a sophomore. Um so you'll expect more to hear that name. You might want to get his autograph at some point because it might be worth something. Um, but also we had uh Sandrum, like I said, he's a junior. He was the ECC champion 100 back, a state qualifier in that event as well and set a school new school record. Um, 5165 of my math right my memory. Look at that. That's what I dream of these times right here. So,
035um, Landon was also part of our 200 and 400 free relay that were third overall the state in the highest finish in school history in any relay. Um, EMTT uh is a junior as well. Um, phenomenal season. you know, he was the uh ECC runner up in the 100 free and 100 fly. He took seventh in the state in the 100 fly and he was also a state qualifier in the 100 free, taking 10th. It was also part of our relay. All four of them are part of that relay. So, they're all that finished third overall and set school records in those events. Cameron Barlay, he's the iron man. He swims the 500, which is 20 laps down and back if you if your math my math's right. Um he he was like I said
036uh was the lead ECC champ in the 500 and 200 free relay or free event. Was a district runner up in the 500. He qualified for state in the 500. Should have been the 200 free as well but we're not going to talk about he had an unfortunate DQ but he would have been probably placed at state. So I know that eats at him but it doesn't take away from anything accomplished. Um also what so he didn't break the school record in the 500 but the next week he did when it didn't count. So I want to give him props for breaking the school record unofficially. So, he was just a week off from tapering. I mean, we just So, and like I said, back circle full circle, the 204 free relay teams, competed with
037some of the best uh Saint X and I believe St. is it St. Charles up in Columbus area. Um those were the two teams that were battling out for a team state title and we were competing with them at state for the top three. Um which is just a testament to all those guys. Also, um all-American honors. Both relays are qualified for all-American honors and Brady's 50 free is automatically all-American and Brady has two more events 100 free and Tundra Fly that are under consideration. They have to wait till all the results in the nation come in and they set a time and you have to make that time to be an all-American. So pretty darn impressive. And also want to mention coach Stillwell, it was the ECC boys swimming coach of the year. So
038congratulations to coach. Congratulations to our swimmers. and we bring three out of four back next year. So, we're excited. So, congrats, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. Great job. Great job. Great job. Parker, send send Aaron back in here. I think we're going to move to um the next section. President Mason. Yes. Um we're doing mission moments and we're going to hand it over to Aaron this month who has our mission moments. Coach Mickey Stakeley would come on up here. You can bring your family up too. Your boys bring you bring them all. It's a family affair if they want to. So, uh, just kind of following up, I was asked to speak on behalf of Mickey and our one of our mission moments here. And I just
039want to say that, you know, not all heroes wear capes. Um, we have some great, you know, staff members that work at the school and our coaches who are, most of them are part-time, you know, supplemental coaches. Most of them don't work for the district. Um, I think sometimes we take for granted, you know, the the knowledge and responsibility they have trying to keep our kids safe. So, we had a um just an unfortunate incident a couple weeks ago where a young man got seriously injured and Mickey was right on scene to take care of that. Um, you know, we we followed our emergency action plan and um, we're fortunate that everything is worked out well. The young man's in great shape and probably be returning here soon if he hasn't already to the sport
040he loves. Um, so just per her response time. She has a background in athletic training, too, but our coaches have to take first aid, CPR, concussion, all the basic certifications, and for fortunately, she has some additional background because we all feel like we're we'll be ready in that situation, but we're not really ready until we deal with it. But our coaches uh on the on the track staff were well prepared. They activated the EAP, which we have a very detailed and thanks to our trainers, Ashley, Andrea, and um Mandy, who make sure our coaches know that and have everything in order. and we we were just lucky that it was a fortunate situation uh for us and that young man here. But like I said, Mickey, I think exemplifies everything that this award and honor
041is supposed to be. And we're just very appreciative that, you know, we have great people like Mickey that take care of our student athletes and our kids are in good hands. So, thank you, Mickey, and thanks for being here tonight. Thank you so very much. You got a great There's some stickers down there, too. If your kids want some stickers, got him a sticker. There you go. Mr. Acriman, do we have any public commentary? We did not. Uh we're going to move on to the treasures reports then. Michael, did you want to start off with your summary? Uh yeah. Yeah. So I mean our main the main summary coming out of the financial committee uh for this meeting is just that our uh state performance audit kicked off yesterday. Um, so you know, above and
042beyond what, uh, Doug will go over for the numbers. Um, you know, we have been talking about the state performance audit and getting it started and we were able to have the state performance audit group in yesterday. Um, they actually made a comment at the beginning that it was the most uh administrative staff they had seen in it sounded like forever, but maybe just been quite some time uh to participate in what I would consider a kickoff. I'm not sure I can't remember exactly what they called it, but it's kind of a kickoff meeting where our administrative staff is is kind of aligning with them and we're making sure that the scope of work is is accurate. So, um, so yeah, so that that's getting started. It was nice to meet their team. It was
043really encouraging to hear the knowledge that they'll bring to the conversations with our district staff. Uh they had a lot of positive things to say about our district already. Uh which was great and we look forward to the work that they put uh the work that they uh put together for their final report which will not be for another five or six months. Um and special thanks to you John to getting you know everybody there. um as anytime you're doing an activ you know a audit like this it or any type of event like this where you're working with an outside group I mean the participation from the district is is key that multiple times in their presentation so the fact that our entire staff is um ready and prepared to go through that and
044spend extra time when they've already got so much going on is um is great and I know we as a board I can speak for the board that we really appreciate that. So, um, so yeah, that's what's working at the finance committee and then I'll let Doug roll in. Um, can I get a motion to approve the board reports? So moved. Second. Please call the role. Uh, Mrs. I'm sorry. We need to have discussion, don't we? We can. Let's have discuss. We can go backwards if you want. All right. So, Madame President, members of the board, I am once again excited to give you a fiscal snapshot of the district finances as of February 28th. So, the first report that we see as you scroll down, Steve, is you'll see that we are balanced, which
045means that uh the state software matches our operating account and then payroll balances. So, that's very important. If we're not balanced, we're in trouble. Awesome. All right. So, the next report, this is our finan or excuse me, our uh investment report. And what's important here is you see that this right here, this column here is what we've earned for the month of February, which is approximately $38,000. I know that's hard to see right there, but the next column is what we've earned year to date, which is almost $4 million. So, I think that's excellent. $4 million taxpayers money that we can use in various funds. And then as you scroll down to the next report, now this report here, this is this is our uh comparison of our five-year forecast through the uh month of
046February. So, this is our five for five-year forecast column right here. And then if you look in this column here and scroll down, you'll see Steve. Okay, right in here, you'll see that we are over. So, we're negative spending right there. Um, but don't worry about it right now. So, this is a learning a teaching moment. The reason I say that is last year by this time we had already received our second payment in in uh tax revenue. So, if you scroll back up and look at the first line right in here, which means we're due about another $17 million, which obviously would put us in decent shape. So, the point I'm making is you have to have cash on hand. So, I know I throw this phrase out a lot. We have to be
047fiscally responsible. We cannot overspend. If you overspend and don't have cash on hand, then that's when you start running into other problems. Um, as you scroll down, do we know when to expect that next payment? It should be here by the end of March, uh, middle of April. Okay. Yeah. So, as we hit hit, excuse me, head into the the the graph section, this is our revenue. And you can see that the first column here, now this is uh uh July, excuse me, this is local revenue. And you've got um fiscal years 23, 24, and 25. So, as I stated earlier, you can see right there where there's a difference between what we've received last year by this time and what we received currently. And then as you look at state revenue, you can see
048that we are up a little bit. And then as far as all other revenue, which encompasses many things, we are up over last year, down over two years prior. um which is pretty common because again it involves many other things besides uh interest on your um investments and of course any uh fees that we might collect and um some tuition payments. Then as you scroll down to the next slide you'll see our expenditures. Now salary and benefits again we have fiscal year 23 24 25. you'll see that they're up, which they'll always be up each year. Um, but this is the key one right here. So, this is our purchase services and you can see the purchase services are down between last fiscal year and this fiscal year. And then when you look at all
049their expenses, way down. That's the key right there. So, you might not see it in the numbers in the previous slide, but here you do get, excuse me, two slides ago, but you do get to see it right here. And then in the final slide, final graph, you just see um a different kind of bar graph. So it kind of shows it side by side between salary and benefits, purchase services and supplies, but it does show you that it's going down, which means we are being somewhat fiscally responsible. So is that downward slope on both purchase services and other expenses partially due to the cuts that we made last year? Correct. Correct. Yes. Everything is starting to catch up, which is important. When we get closer to the end of the fiscal year, could we
050blow that out a little bit to to look at that more? Sure can. Yeah. So, I mean, I know we still got a little time now, so it wouldn't make a lot of sense, but maybe like the May May time frame. Yeah, sure can. I'd be excited to do that. Yeah. All right. It's great. Okay. Any questions? Other questions? Okay. Uh, please call the RO. Where are we? Uh, Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Um, now I need a motion to approve the vendors. So moved. Second. Do you want to tell us a little bit about these? Uh, let's see. I'm not sure all the vendors we have. Oh, we have a lot of vendors. Yes, we have various vendors. Now, the nice thing about the
051vendors is we actually run those through a company called Bonefish before they're brought to you. Um, we do no expenditures until obviously you approve them, the um, state of Ohio approves them, and we make sure that the federal government, the IRS has no issues. So, does anyone have any questions? Please call the RO. See, Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now I need a motion to approve contracts. So moved. Second. Is there any discussion? I mean I see the school links on there. So I know the question above was you know say a little bit about the vendors. Obviously school links is right above that. This one's for 28,000. What is our what is our limit on bringing the contracts to us? Is that why sometimes
052the contracts I actually like to bring all contracts to you. Okay. Just to be safe. So, when we see a vendor, but we don't see a contract, what what why does that happen? We probably haven't spent anything with them yet or we don't have it's just a one-time purchase. Okay. So, we're So, we're approving them as a vendor, but they haven't came through in the contract. Correct. Okay. No, I just want to put that I just wanted to bring that up as a question I think that the public might ask. Should they look at two things like that? So, sure. There's not always a contract to go with them. Um, I'm good. Please call the role. Mrs. Will, yes. Mrs. Powers, yes. Mr. Wilson, yes. Mrs. Chestnut, yes. Mrs. Mason, yes. Now, I need a
053motion to approve the donations. So moved. Second. Um, I would just like to say we have a gigantic list of donations um this month and we are grateful to absolutely every single one of them. It really helps us out and it really shows what a great community that we have. Yeah, I did want to say, sorry, I didn't mean to cut you. No, go ahead. I did want to say one, well, two things. There's one on here that's a an estate donation and and I've talked to to Doug and we're going to find out more about uh K Tanaka. Um, it's a extremely generous donation from an estate and I personally uh feel bad that I don't know more about Kay and I'd like to to learn more about that donation from her estate to
054understand how we can make sure that we're thinking um her family members properly. Um the other part is there's a few donations on here in memory of Peggy TR. Um, so I have um Google alerts set up for whenever Milford exempted village school district is mentioned and I saw um in a obituary um for Peggy that she was asking for uh her family and herself uh were asking for donations um to Cipelt uh the elementary school. So when I saw that I had pulled down the obituary and I'll just read a short part here. Uh so uh Peggy dedicated over 30 years to teaching music at Cyp Elementary School where her passion for music became a lifelong gift to her students and community. Uh she taught countless children how to play the recorder which resulted
055in lessons and patience for parents along the way. A trailblazer in music education, she started the beloved afterchool ORF program, igniting a spark for creativity and young musicians. Beyond her teaching role, Peggy's talents extended to the national stage, where she served as local chair of the American uh am I saying that right? Orf. Yep. Yes. Shul work association national conference in Cincinnati in 2001 showcasing her commitment to music education. Um and it goes on to talk more about um her career at various universities teaching u music and and various knowledge of the arts. Um so just wanted to read that as and say thank you to the family and and her memory. Um and yeah, so that was it. I'd like to say that I had the pleasure of knowing Peggy for many years and
056she was totally committed to education, the music education. She was a lady and her husband was a treasure for the for Clom County. But Peggy was a delight and she had her daughters came through health and the high school. So, and just so everyone is well aware, when we receive donations, 90% of them there are restrictions. So, they're asked to be placed into certain funds to be spent certain way. All right. Which is okay. We honor that. Oh, yes. We're happy to take money in whatever form. Yes. Yes. Well, thank you to Peggy and her friends panel. She's great. Any other discussion? Please call the role. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Also, quickly, thank you to Conger. I forgot to mention that. And look, really
057looking forward to that ribbing cutting ceremony that we have. So I know conger and then Jeff you were was there another group SHP. Okay. So thank you to them looking. All right. Go ahead. Sorry for that. That's all right. I now need a motion to approve the resolution to authorize filing of board of revision complaints. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Um can you tell us this? I feel like this process has changed every year or something. Uh, it has changed over the years. We now have to bring it to you. Okay. But what this is is um this is an opportunity for the district, the board of education to ask the board of revisions to reassess some recent commercial property sales. These sales actually exceed what the board, excuse me, what the auditor believes the
058property is worth. So, we want to see if the border revisions could possibly take the value of the property up, which means these individuals, these commercial sales, these uh properties would pay more in tax, which means everyone else would pay a little bit less. In the past, we never had to bring it to the board. We were just able to move forward. Yes. Well, thank you. Any other questions? Please call the role. Mrs. Will. Yes. Mrs. Powers. Yes. Mr. Wilson. Yes. Mrs. Chestnut. Yes. Mrs. Mason. Yes. Now, moving on to superintendent business. Thank you, President Mason. Members of the board, we have a middle school update uh for you today. I am uh pleased as I know Jeff is that we're still on target for an August one certificate of occupancy and maybe even a
059little bit sooner for some of Jeff's and um his folks to get some things in. So, I'll turn it over to Jeff. Yeah, it's been another good productive month. Um got a few pictures. Um some of the color that's popping. There's a kind of a it's an M but it's not an M that's going up on the wall on the second floor. You can see the learning stairs off to my left. Um, so that's going in. That's our cafeteria. That's pretty cool, though. I can see how it has the two doors on the side to make the M, right? Yeah, it looks cool. That's cool. Next one, Steve. We have casework and flooring that are going in um on all three floors of the academic wing. Um, this is the court. This is the main
060courtyard in the academic wing. Um, so what you're seeing is there is them finishing up the stone and grading it. Um, and later on this week, they'll be putting gravel in there to prep it for pouring the concrete. This is the kitchen. Um, that picture is actually probably about a week old. A little bit more of it's done, but the quarry tiles going in in the kitchen. And then this is the main entrance. Um, they're starting to frame in the canopy. Um, if you're familiar with the Miranda Sports Complex, that canopy that kind of bridges the two buildings, this canopy will be very similar to what we see over there. And then this is an aerial of the site that was taken about two weeks ago. Um, they they come out and fly drones over
061the site probably about every six weeks. Um, they don't change as much as it did when they were bringing the structure up because now we're under roof. Um, but you can just see the the incredible amount of activity and lay down area um that's going on. Um, they've started uh laying the uh the brick on the gym area. So, a lot of that real estate's being taken up by our brickmason combs and we brought and hopefully in about hopefully maybe that by the time we have our April board meeting, they'll be getting close to finishing up and and kind of taking a lot of that material and equipment out of there so that then we can start doing some of the site work um that needs to be done. And one of the big challenges
062we've got that we've been working with Conger as well as our contractors is trying to keep that stadium and Miranda Sports Complex open all summer um and maintaining access to it because pretty much as soon as we start tearing the the junior high down, that parking lot has to come out, too. There's a very large cut. Um if you've been over to the Miranda Sports Complex, when you walk out of the parking lot, you go down a pretty decent ramp. Well, that ramp, that lower, that's the level of what that parking lot's going to be. So, there's a lot of that that has to come out. So, in order to get that done um for when school opens up so that we have access and we have parking, excuse me, we've got to get started
063on it early. So, we're working to get site work to the west and north of the middle school done so that we can switch access to the stadium and the Miranda Sports Complex from that side of it instead of the side we we're using now. Exciting. It'll be a busy summer. All right. If this picture here, Jeff, um the scaffolding is in the uh the middle, if you will, but it is now on the gym. Correct. It has moved. surrounded the gym and the scaffolding's gone. There's still some kind of on the north side. They're still working on the cafeteria courtyard. Um, but all that scaffolding has been taken down and moved over to uh the gym and they've started laying the brick on the the gym. All right. Thank you, Jeff. These gentlemen in
064the front row are really excited about that, Jeff. They're your presentation. They gave you a Uh okay. Uh next item uh under superintendent's business is the legislative update. Um Steve, if you could just click on that first PDF for us um just to see all of all of the uh major bills and then other recently introduced bills. Um it's an extensive list uh currently right now that uh is under consideration. Um, and then the other thing that I wanted to mention this evening is um, my own personal uh, testimony as the superintendent on behalf of the Milford schools and and this community um, to the House Education Committee uh, had had my three minutes. Um, I thought I was getting five. So, um, I had to stop and and go towards the end right away.
065Um, knowing that, however, they they have the testimony. Um, and it's also linked here as well. Um uh and I as um Michael Wilson here later will bring us a resolution talking about the fair school funding formula um and just funding in general. Um so we did some advocacy work there. We will continue to do that. Um, I also note that um there were over 36 other treasur superintendent and advocates who um gave testimony this past week um to the I believe it was the finance committee or the house and ways um I can't remember which but um certainly locally and and our former treasurer um as well John SB did that for us as well. So, uh, with that, uh, there are some other bills, um, to note. Uh, the education Senate Education Committee
066did hear testimony, um, on Senate Bill 7 sponsored by, um, Senator Terry Johnson, who does represent us, um, here in Milford. uh that will require all types uh of school districts to provide annual instruction to students in grades K through 12 on the effects in shortterm excuse me of short-term and chronic substance abuse in the manner determined by the local school board. Uh and then also Senate Bill 34 sponsored by Senator Johnson uh would require public school boards to select at least one of the bills listed historical educational documents to display in each classroom by July 1 of 26. Um, so there's some testimony there. Uh, other testimony or excuse me, other bills, House Bill 62, um, sponsored by Representatives Pizulli out of Sciota County and Adam Bird, um, just to the east here, uh,
067makes changes to the College Credit Plus program, including requiring notice to school districts when a student drops a college course, transitioning to open-source textbooks, and lowering the cost of certain online college credit plus courses. Uh there's a host of others. Um but um you know each month we'll bring you um some legislative items um for the community. Certainly uh I think those uh massive list of bills that specifically um affect education andor property taxes um would be listed there and we'll continue to um do our advocacy work at the state level and local here um and we'll bring it every month. So that's our legislative report. What what can community members who are watching or doing um specifically Gene Schmidt and Terry Johnson because there are two representatives here. Did in your conversations, do they
068like calls? Do they like letters? Do they like emails? Do they like all of them? That's a great question. I think uh well, I know. Here's what I know. Um and it's based on what they've said to us. They like uh personalized notes whether it be email. Jean Schmidt, Representative Schmidt likes a handwritten cursive she and cursive. Sure. Uh she would she would definitely like a handwritten note. Um but certainly emails are welcome. Um but they have to be personalized. uh form um and and we've heard this from others, not just from those two, but many of the um the other senators and representatives that we talked to is you have to personalize it. Form letters, they it's it's white noise, for lack of a better term, to them. So, make it personal. Um and
069when they hear from two, three, or four people, that's a lot is what we keep hearing. So, um I would just ask that um whatever your cause, whether it's education or something else, you know, if they they're they're listening, they want you to reach out to them. And um we just ask that you continue to do that. And I learned uh recently that they have very small staffs, like one and two aids. So, it's not like, you know, sometimes you think, "Wow, she's representing me. There must be a whole group of people." I mean, it's one or two people. So, if you start calling, you're going to get to know them and they're going to get to know you. That's right. Representative Schmidt has uh Tyler. Tyler's been a great um person for us to
070reach out to and and speak to as well. Um and then also on the federal level um David Taylor um here locally. I mean I've been able to speak to um one of his um aids as well um trying to help one of our students get into West Point. Um so I've connected um parents um with him and um same thing. Um, so they've they they are um they're reachable. I mean, they we we you can reach out and and they they will talk to you. They'll get they'll I mean, we've got we've got cell phone numbers, too. So, um it's it's been very good. I also just wanted to thank you for going up to Columbus and testifying on this issue. It's so very important to our entire community and um the funding problems
071that we are having we are having because of state funding. Um so it's really important that our legislators hear from people like Mr. Spicer who know education and are living education every day and know our district and know what we want. um so that they are at least informed of the struggles that we are having and why it's important for us to have this budget bill passed. Yeah. And there's an area on our website now too that has the um template for writing the local legislature and and their email addresses as well. So again, personalize it, but there's email addresses and phone numbers there. So great. Um Now we are going to move on um to I need a motion for the waiver of the first reading of policy JFB. So moved second. Any discussion?
072That that's a timing issue. Um so we have to implement this policy prior to April. Um and we wouldn't be in session for that to happen. So that's the why we're asking for a waiver. Can I get a roll call? Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now, I need a motion for um policy for approval. This is J EFB and KGA. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the role. Mrs. Wil, yes. Mrs. Powers, yes. Mr. Wilson, yes. Mrs. Chestnut, yes. Mrs. Mason, yes. Um, now we're moving on to human resources business. So, I just wanted to give a little bit of a summary. Um, this is the committee that I am reporting on. Um, we have a couple of things to highlight this month. We
073have because of the recent renovations at the Z, we're generating a lot more interest from outside organizations, which is great. Um, so we're excited to have a couple new job descriptions that we're going to pass tonight. Well, hopefully pass tonight um for sound and lighting stage hands. And um these are for productions that are happening in the Zamoodio Theater. Um, this is going to answer a need that we have to preserve the longevity of our equipment. Um, and just make sure that our investment is taken care of. Um, the positions will operate like that of a site manager. Um, so they'll be used on an ad need as needed basis. So, if somebody from the community is renting out our theater, they are covering the cost to have those people um do the sound and
074lighting. And then also all of our staff recently, we kind of talked about this last time, were offered the opportunity for the Q12 Gallup employee engagement survey in February. Um this was the third year that we've done that survey and our participation increased 10% with 75% of the entire staff participating this year. So that is really great. Um we had improvements in 10 of the 12 areas of the survey. So that is also really great. Um right now our next steps the district administration and principles are meeting to analyze this data and then they're going to share additional details with their staff. And then finally, um, we wanted to congratulate our Milford nominees for the Claremont County Educational Service C Center's first dinner of excellence. Um, this dinner recognized distinguished staff all over the county,
075and we had two people representing us. Trina Panko, who is our high school intervention specialist, she was selected as teacher of the year. and Carol Gulick who works at McCormick, she's the nurse. Um she was the recipient of the educational excellence support staff. Um both of these employees demonstrate commitment inside and outside of the district with extensive community involvement. So congratulations to both of them. And with that, I need a motion to approve the MOU with MCA. So moved. Second. Any discussion around that? Please call the role. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Ma? Yes. And now I need a motion to approve the job descriptions. So moved. Second. Any questions, comments? Please call the role. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes.
076Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now, um we are going to do a consent agenda for um a consent vote for items three through five. Can I get a motion for those personnel approvals? So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Please call the role. Mrs. Will, yes. Mrs. Powers, yes. Mr. Wilson, yes. Mrs. Chestnut. Yes. Mrs. Mason, yes. I have two comments. Sorry. Um Stephanie Allen retiring 20 years in the the district. And Kelly Wuest 30 years of service in the district. We like to congratulate them on their um retirements. Y congratulations. I hear there's some some chaperons needed for Scotland. Right. All right. Now we're moving on to curriculum and instruction business. I need a motion to approve curriculum pay. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Uh do you want me to do curriculum summary real quick to
077start sort of related to the pay? But um this month at our meeting we talked um about curriculum pay. We also have, as far as curriculum updates, Milford Junior High is adding two new elective courses that they're partnering with Great Oaks. Um, one called Flight and Space and one called Magic of Electrons. Students will take one course per quarter for a full semester elective during their sixth grade year. So, as the this is one of the opportunities we get as the sixth graders move over to the middle school to offer a wide variety of courses. Um so that's a really neat um sounds super interesting there. We have a new we earlier voted on um a contract for school links. This is a uh career plat planning platform that will u replace Naviance which we've
078used um in the past. Uh school links will bring us up to align with other um a lot of other districts and starting in middle school students will start using this system to kind of track track their way through. So, um it will be a great place for families to go. We have a couple other items I think that yes that we're voting on. We have some outdated science books that um we're going to either sell back or dispose of whatever value we're able to get about them. We already talked about the um new policy JFB that was reviewed um and Columbus uh this had come down from Columbus that we needed the policy in place by April. Um, we had teacher professional developments. Um, teachers participated in the Ohio writing project. Uh, and math
079teachers got to explore some new tools um to help students who need some additional help. And community engagement and technology. The district is um considering joining the Claremont County Chamber of Commerce um which is something that we've done. And then we also talked about the phasing in um timeline for the bring your own device program. Getting all of our students on one technology will be easier maintenance longevity um and it's actually going to save money for families. Um so that will be um rolling out. We had already planned to roll it out. We were looking at the schedule about how to get that provides more security. More secure. Yes. More security. More cost effective for families. Um, so that's uh some of what we talked about. Most of what we talked about is curriculum. So,
080very good. Uh, can I get a roll call for curriculum pay? Sure. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now, can I get a motion to approve those two new junior high course offerings, Magic of Electrons and Flight and Space? So moved. Second. any additional um I will say when we partner with Great Oaks, correct me if I'm wrong, we partner with Great Oaks, we share the cost of the teaching staff. So, this gives us an opportunity to offer additional classes and it doesn't require a full uh the full cost of the teacher on us. So, it's really a great partnership um to to bring that to life for students. When will those be available for kids to start taking those classes? This fall. This fall. this
081one. Okay, awesome. You going back to sixth grade? I mean, I've got flight in space. I've got the time, I guess. Be a Billy Madison situation. Okay. Uh, please call the role. All right. Uh, Mrs. Will, yes. Mrs. Powers, yes. Mr. Wilson, yes. I'm sorry, Mr. Madison. Uh, Mrs. Chestnut. Yes. And Mrs. Mason. Yes. And finally, I need a motion to approve the science book sellback. So moved. Second. Any comments? Please call the role. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Moving on to business operations. Um, I will need a motion to approve the Peterman contract. So moved. Second. Jeff, do you want to tell us a little bit about that? So, as part of our current Peterman contract, um, there's a clause in the contract that
082if we reduce transportation by a certain amount that it triggers basically a renegotiation. So, um, while we have fewer routes and we'll be paying less, um, on the Peterman contract, they still have the same essentially the same amount of overhead. So, that's kind of the reasoning in that. So, we've worked back and forth with Peterman over the last couple of months um, after the board made the decision to move to state minimums next year. Um, does two things. So, there's a a 3% escalator every year in the contract. the first year of the contract with this amendment, the contract would actually go up 5.2%. It would stay 3% thereafter. Um, also part of this amendment is an extension to the Peterman contract. And as part of that extension, they give they're giving us a $200,000
083credit that we can use all next year. We could split it up and take, you know, bits and pieces of over the next five years. Um, I think we've talked with Mr. Spiser and Mr. Acriman about taking that $200,000 all next year. Um but that's what this amendment to the contract would do. What did our savings end up at? Um just a little under a million dollars. Okay. Just to make sure that's what we're talking that's the estimate, you know, depending on even at state minimum, you know, with special ed transportation and and other things, we're still going to be massaging that. But that's that's the projection at this point. Yeah. That's where we were. That's you know I was happy to hear that that was the number because that's what we were kind of
084expecting. So being such a influx operation that was good to hear. Um and then one other thing is is that and I know we talked about this in committee but I had brought it up publicly before about the contract. I had brought up publicly that, you know, when we um renegotiate the contract to make sure that there wasn't, you know, an to pay attention to a clause being in there where if we reduced a few more routes, we'd have to come back to contract again. But in committee, um Jeff made a good point to me that we're going to state minimum busing. So therefore, you know, there isn't any other routes to reduce. So, um, so there wasn't a need for that. So, I just wanted to bring that up because I I had and
085if there's a bill, I mean, I'm not there could be a possibility that maybe it's one or two routes that, you know, that could be reduced based on writership and enrollment and everything, but that wouldn't trigger any kind of a renegotiation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I just wanted to to to I was thinking about that just to make sure because we do have that cost savings by signing a longer contract. So we wouldn't want to get into a situation where we'd lose that by having to renegotiate. So it's a good good for um the district that that's that's not going to be something for us to worry about. Right. All right. All right. Is there any more discussion? Please call the role. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs.
086Mason? Yes. Now I need a motion to approve the change order for approval. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Please call the role. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now we need a motion to approve the turf replacement proposal. So moved. Second. So I just want to point out so this is Eagle Stadium. Um it is 12 years old. Um the projected lifespan when we put it in was 10 to 12 years. Um we have been saving the turf rental um for those 12 years. Um which is going to pay the lion share of of this replacement. Um, I talked a little bit ago about trying to navigate the the summer work and and maintaining access. Well, in addition to kids wanting to get on the fields,
087we've got to get a contractor in there to replace this turf as well. Um, we did um solicit uh proposals from both Mommy Bay, who has done our previous two fields, and the Moes Corporation. Um, both very quality um contractors. Moes did come in about six or $7,000 cheaper, I think, if I remember right. Um so, um we're I'm asking for approval to approve that contract with Moes. And then, um we also saw some images, um of what the printing on the field is going to look like, an option for an upgrade. Can you There is an upgrade. Moes calls it game on. Um it it's a way of kind of being able to get more graphics and stuff onto the field. Um, it's a relatively new process. Mommy Bay did not offer that. Um,
088I did compare the bids, not thinking of the game on system. Um, we're not asking the board to pay for that upgrade, but the boosters from talking to Aaron the other day, the boosters have agreed to pay for that upgrade. And that upgrade it using that process because there aren't any sewn in pieces, it extends the life that they I don't know that it extends the life. I I can tell you in 12 years on the football field and now what three or four years on the sock three years on the soccer field I think I think we've had two seam repairs so from they kind of sell that a little bit but the reason for doing it is I mean we haven't had any problems with seams um it does speed up the process
089a little bit because there's not as much done in the you know on premises um it's really kind of an aesthetic graphics point of view which again is a reason why hey let's go to the boosters and we want a little bit of a bonus and um Aaron and I will be working with Moes um over the next few weeks to come up with what that design looks like. Um there there's a lot of different options that they've shown us. Um but we also got to keep in mind there's four fields worth of lines on on this turf field. So we've got both boys and girls lacrosse, we've got soccer, and we've got football. So you don't want to make it so crazy that everything starts blending together. So, we'll be working on that um
090so that we can get them in here. Probably I'm shooting for like maybe the third or fourth week of June. We've got camps and track camp and football camp and some of those things we got to get through in the first of June. So, that that's something we'll be working with over the next few weeks. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm happy to hear it's a lower lower bid, but Moes also as a local group, it's very possible that Moes has employees that live in the Milford communities being where they're located. So, I see one of their trucks at MAC several times a week. So, yeah. So, you know, again, you've said good things about our previous um contractor, but happy to hear we're able to partner with somebody local. So, right. And just so everyone knows,
091we've been collecting money over the last few years, uh, rental fees, and that's what's paying for this. So, it's not coming from the general fund. That's awesome. And once again, it's end of life, 12 years, maximum possibilities. Yeah, we actually they they call it GMAX testing that they come out and they kind of bounce a weight on it. How high does it start bouncing up? Um, and I think people realized how I mean, our field's still safe. It's it's in good shape. Um but when we put the soccer field in, you could feel the difference between being on one and the other. Um and we don't want to get to the point um I can remember, I won't name the school, but many years ago that there was a school local to Cincinnati that they
092didn't have the money to replace their turf and the field really became unsafe to use. So we we obviously don't want to get to that that point. Sounds good. All right. Um, can I have a vote? Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Do we have any public participation? We do. Uh, Mrs. Walker. I don't know if this is the right water for next year, but we're allowed to have spring water polo, but the girls don't have full time. So, I don't know if this is Oh, sorry. I don't know if this is the right form. I don't know who voted on it. I don't know any of that. I just know that I need him writing what needs to happen and why the boys can have
093water polo, spring polo, but the girls don't have pool time. So, I just need some clarification. So, I don't know, Mr. Speer, can you connect her? We um we talked prior to the board meeting and so I'm I'm grateful that you came back to speak. Um, and before the meeting started, I shot her an email and said that Aaron and I would connect um with with her. Um, we've also connected with Josh House prior to this meeting about the future of water polo in general, boys and girls. Um, but yes, I I'll we'll get connected tomorrow. I promise. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Um, we will be moving into exec J1A his Oh, yes. Sorry, I did write it down. Um, yes. So, I need a motion to approve the resolution. So, moved. Second. Michael,
094do you want to tell us about this? Yeah. So, this resolution that I have uh passed to the members of the board on the final page is a signature page that that we'll um you know, as long as everybody approves, which I have passed it out and and to everybody to read. Um this is a a ceremonial or a symbolic resolution from our board um supporting the fair school funding plan. So uh John had spoke about it a little bit before. So we're on our final two years of the fair school funding plan. The governor did put it in the budget. Um, however, it doesn't have updated inputs, which means that it's working off of 2022 um, numbers when you're looking at benefits and and other things like that. And then there's also a piece
095in there where it reduces uh districts that are on the guarantee by a certain percentage over the next two fiscal years, which if uh that clause is left in, Milford will lose around $900,000 of the next two fiscal years. Um we put forward or I put forward this resolution um also um to support our other districts around the state. So, I was talking to John at our committee meeting. I believe he said Kings um would lose around $2 million over the next two years. Um our neighbors Lovelin has also put forward a very similar resolution, if not one that's identical to this one. Um as John mentioned earlier, our um previous treasurer that um also mentored with our current treasurer John Espie um works in Loveland. And not only have they gone up to Columbus
096and spoken to the legislature about funding this, we wanted to, you know, I wanted to put forward this resolution for our board to to send to the legislature to show that that we're asking them to not only, you know, implement the next two years of the fair school funding plan, but consider um a few updates. So, um, one, it would keep pace with, uh, inflation since 2022 to 2025, and then secondly, not to ding the schools that are on a guarantee by certain percentages of the next two years. So, I I know this is very long, but would you mind reading it because I do find that it's very important? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it says, "Whereas the Ohio Constitution guarantees a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state and the Ohio
097Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the state's school funding system must be both adequate and equitable. And whereas a fair school funding plan um was designed based on research-driven inputs to ensure all Ohio students receive the resources necessary for a highquality education regardless of their zip code. And whereas a fair school funding plan represents a bipartisan effort to address long-standing inequities in Ohio's school funding system by accurately determining the cost of educating a student utilizing a base cost methodology that reflects actual actual district needs. And whereas the current state bian by annual budget proposal continue funding the fair school funding plan but fail to update the base cost calculations relying on outdated 2022 inputs that do not reflect current inflationary pressures rising personnel cost or evolving student needs. And whereas Ohio's commitment to an equitable
098funding formula must include periodic updates to cost inputs to ensure districts are receiving an accurate and fair allocation of state resources. And whereas any proposal to reduce funding for districts currently receiving funding guarantees would destabilize educational services, harm students, and undermine the intent of the fair school funding plan by shifting financial burdens onto local taxpayers or forcing cuts to essential programs. And whereas a fully implemented and and regularly updated fair school funding plan benefits all Ohio students by ensuring predictability, adequacy, and fairness in school funding allocations. So now now therefore be resolved that our board of education ex you know one expresses strong support for the continued implementation and full funding of the fair school funding plan including the use of updated researchbased cost inputs that reflect current economic conditions and student needs. Two rejects
099any proposal to cut funding from school districts currently receiving funding guarantees as such actions would create financial instability and negatively impact students and communities. and three, call upon the Ohio General Assembly and Governor to uphold their commitment to fair and adequate school funding by ensuring that future bianual budgets continue fully continue fully funding the fair school funding plan and updating cost calculations to reflect the actual cost of educating Ohio students. Four encourages fellow school districts, education organizations, and community stakeholders to advocate for an equitable school funding system that supports all Ohio students and does not pit districts against one another in a zero sum funding model. Um, this co a copy of this resolution will be forwarded to members of the Ohio General Assembly, the Ohio Governor, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, and
100other relevant stakeholders that emphasize the needs for continued investment in Ohio students and public schools. Thank you. Are there any questions? Thank you for doing that, Michael. Yeah. Thank you. Please call the role. Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes. Now, we will be moving into executive session. I need a motion to withdraw into executive session. So moved. Second. The purpose of this executive session is to discuss the employment of a public employee. And I just want to note that we we will not be we will be coming out of this room and we will be adjourning in this room but we may be gone for a long time and we do not intend to make any votes. We won't be doing anything besides adjourning. Could I
101squeeze in a quick shout out to the athletic boosters? They they had their first annual night at the nest this last Saturday. It was so much fun. It was fantastic. They raised a lot of money and it had to be so much work for the people involved. So, I appreciate all they do for our athletes. Yeah, it's awesome. I also wanted to point out that our next board meeting is April 17th and it will be here um at six o'clock. Okay. All right. Can I get a roll call? Mrs. Will? Yes. Mrs. Powers? Yes. Mr. Wilson? Yes. Mrs. Chestnut? Yes. Mrs. Mason? Yes.