001We can I guess still wait till six. >> I assume that time is right. I don't have time. >> Yeah, we got a program. Oh, there we go. >> This special meeting of the Aurora Board of Education is called to order. Please rise for the pledge. 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. >> Mr. Shy, please call the role. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> here. >> Mrs. >> here. >> Dr. Schneider, >> here. >> Mr. Aim, Mrs. Fuller, >> here. All right, we'll begin tonight's meeting with five person. I'm going to take the first five together if that's okay. Um, personnel resolutions. I'll read through them, then I'll get a motion in a
002second. Exhibit A1 is a resolution to accept resignations. Exhibit A2 is a resolution to award a new administrator contract. Exhibit A3, a resolution to award supplemental supplemental activity contracts to nondist and district personnel. Exhibit A4 is a resolution to employ a long-term substitute teacher for 2026 to 2027. And exhibit A5 is a resolution to approve the introductory appointment of support staff. May I have a motion, please? >> Moved. Second. >> Are there any comments or questions about any of those? All right. Then Mr. Shaldy, please call the role. >> Dr. Schneider, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fuller, >> yes. Right. Then we have exhibit A6, which is a resolution to hold a public hearing on the reemployment of an STRS retirey for the 2026 27 school
003year. May I have a motion, please? >> Second. >> All right, I will read through this. Um, at this time, the Aurora Board of Education will hold a public hearing in accordance with Ohio Revised Code 3307.353 regarding the possible reemployment of an individual retiring from the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. The purpose of this hearing is to provide members of the public with an opportunity to comment on the board's potential reemployment of the following individuals following retirement from STRS employment with the district and the prospective retire rehire candidate this evening is Mr. Mark Abramovich from Herman Middle School. At this time I will open the public hearing and invite any public comments related specifically to the proposed remployment of Mr. Obramovich. Will there be two ladies? Okay. Mary loves him. Okay. Hearing no additional
004comments, the public hearing regarding the potential reemployment of STRS retirey is now closed. Are there any questions or comments about that? >> I can just talk about the process. So obviously this is a required 30 60 90day process which we started um back in April. Uh did not need to take any action in May. uh this special board meeting was for this public hearing and then June is for uh the individual or individuals in this case Marramovich um to submit his retirement for approval and then we would also have a uh new contract on there you know per our uh discussions of that at the June board meeting. This um will be a annual rhythm uh now that we have the retire rehire provision and the the teacher contract as well. So we would anticipate
005a number I would think a number of teachers in the next couple of years. Um although some of them just retired this year which is fine too but we do anticipate um we would have some uh that would pursue this next couple years. >> So I now I have a question. It was my understanding that we moved our June meeting to the fifth Monday to give enough time for this process. >> Yes. >> What would happen if there aren't five Mondays next year we meet in July for the June board meeting? >> No. I think we might just have to pick a different day. We'll just have to count the days based on have like a special meeting. >> We could potentially have a a special meeting instead of doing at the regular meeting to
006look at the calendar. We will, Mr. Hayes and I will make sure when we are going into January at the organizational meeting, we'll look at the calendar and count the days and just make sure we have it on the appropriate date to meet the guidelines. >> Okay. Okay. All right. Mr. Styley, please call the RO. >> Dr. Schneider, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahales, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fuller, >> yes. >> Mrs. Clay, >> yes. All right. Exhibit A7 is a resolution to approve a leave of absence request. May I have a motion, please? >> Moved. >> Any comments or questions about that. >> Mr. Shelley, please call the role. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fuller, >> yes. >> Dr. Schneider, >> yes. >> All right. And then moving
007on to exhibit B1, which is a resolution to accept the master facility plan for the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission expedited local partnership program. May I have a motion, please? >> Move. >> Chair Seconds. >> I'm assuming you're going to let me speak now. >> Yes, >> please do. >> Uh first of all, uh thank you for your patience. Uh this has been um very frustrating in terms of just getting this document. We set this up months ago uh with the UFCC and TDA and they said no problem that they would have before the meeting. I assume well originally but we're supposed to get it late May. We did get it today. I like I told you I was professionally persistent uh with TDA starting last week to make sure we got this uh in time
008for you at least to look through it and and try to understand it uh prior to voting on it. Um just to reiterate the process of this as well. So the for this special meeting, we uh essentially are just approving the partnership with the OFCC, even though their plan that they approved is slightly different, which I'll um I'll talk about in a moment. And then if you recall what I sent to the board in the last update, at the end of June, we will bring the documents from the Mr. Sheldy will get from our bond council to approve the essential plan, $96,200,000. all of that we will take that to the county then bring it back in July to have an official you know the 4.25 millillage is what we anticipate um and then that
009would go back to make sure that we are on the November ballot. So these are just all required steps that we're going to continue to do that we've really talked about since last year around this time when we decided that the essential plan was the plan. So this uh for tonight essentially what I gave you I mean you have you have the entire document which is massive so I didn't print out all of that. Um and it and it talks about a lot of their calculations and enrollment etc. But you have the cover letter which basically just talks about what is in here which is a resolution to accept the facility uh master plan the half mill maintenance resolution um and the projected agreement. So uh you have the agenda there and I'll talk through
010these pages and then if the board approves that then uh what we will do is we will take the um well Mr. Shaldy will complete the one uh document about the roll call and then we need to have Pam, myself, Mr. Shaldi sign uh the other document and then we actually need to send this back to um the OFCC by June 12th. We won't delay. We will do this tomorrow and get it sent in on June 9th. So they gave us a very tight timeline to turn it around which is interesting. Um so uh anyways, so that's the cover letter and let me try to do my best to walk this through. uh this is these documents are very confusing um even for us when we've gone through this before. So I'm just just going
011to try to simplify what they included here in these uh pages. So the first one um is to accept the facil master facility plan and the scope of the project. If you look down uh below there though, their plan does not match our plan. And that was the same way the last time. Although though that's confusing, it's actually to our benefit because in our plan, the essential plan, things on the triage list and the bus garage, those aren't necessarily covered through the OFCC because they don't impact instructional spaces. So what they do is they take your enrollment and I we appreciate them doing this and they say well if you just did a PK through three and renovated you know Leighton and squished everybody in those buildings which technically they say we could do it
012it would never fit. We already had trailers but technically according to their enrollment numbers it would then um you know this is the project that that uh we would approve uh for this amount. So essentially on that cover page, what this is showing you is that the pro project budget that they're covering is 93 million essentially 905603. Our local share is roughly $81 million. But that state share that we could potentially get in 3 to 5 years as reimbursement if we pass the bond issue and the half mill maintenance. All of those things would be 13,146,784. So, I know that that is a small number compared to 96 million. Um, and there are districts in poverty who get tons of money. However, $13 million is also nothing to sneeze at. It's a significant amount of
013money that we could uh we could recoup later. And there there's all kinds of other facility upgrades that we could uh that we could do on the capital improvement list or otherwise uh if we're lucky enough for all those steps to fall into place and to get that $13 million later. So that is um I mean it's it's uh we're happy certainly with that with that figure and and the reimbursement, you know, given given our um what they consider to be, you know, our wealthy status in their system. So that's that page. Um the second page uh just talks about the uh LFI. So, this is they they have us um we're voting on their plan because they approved their master plan, which is beyond our scope. So, that's why it has uh the the
014um $17 million built in there with the 93 to get to 111. So the LFI includes other things on their assessed plan that would include remodeling at the high school and the middle school and doing the auditorium, but we we can't afford this plan and this is not part of our essential plan, but we're just essentially saying that we approve the partnership with them. We understand that this is their master plan. Uh but that's that's not what we're doing. It's just approval of the partnership and what they perceive as a facility master plan. We do not need to pursue that. That's I know, like I said, very confusing. Um but that's that's I'm just explaining what what that document is. The third page um is our signature page showing our intent and I already checked
015the box there. Um and this this is what we did the last time. We are committing that if we pass the bond issue um successfully at that time um excuse me. No, it wouldn't even be later than that. And we get in line and are able to um officially uh get the notification that we will participate in CFAP, which is basically meaning the reimbursement dollars. At that time, in order to get those reimbursement dollars, we would have to go to the community and pass a 0.5 mil maintenance, which is just the OFCC guidelines saying that the district, community, everybody's committing to that 0.5 mil maintenance to help upkeep the new facilities >> with that. What's the timeline on that that we need to do? >> We don't know because I don't we have to pass
016the bond and then we'd have to find out when um we'd get in line. It could be three years, it could be five years, it could be more than five years. So that is completely up in the air. It would just just saying that we would have at some point around that time we'd have to pass the 0.5 mil maintenance to access those funds. >> Okay? >> Which is also the the case the last time too. That's just how they operate. So that's our intent. there's no commitment until all of those other things fall into place, which is what we talked about the last time. We prefer waiting and to make sure all that happens. Um, and then it's just the end of the contract. And this is in your document, the last page. Um,
017it's just a little snippet of that uh monster document. I shared the spreadsheet showing how they calculated um the plan, putting the new PK3 um as as our plan and taking Miller and Kratic offline along with high school renovation. So that is how they got to that $13 million um dollar calculation. Otherwise, it would actually be less because our plan um is the one through three uh and includes the triage list and and all those other items. So questions or comments on that. I know that is a bit confusing and but I wanted to explain all that to simplify what was in the monster document as well. Regarding the the line that you were talking about, do we automatically go to the bottom or is there some configuration? >> Yeah. No, there there we're there
018is a placeholder now that we're agreeing to be so we're agreeing to do this um tonight and we'll send this on and they'll register us and we'll get in line. Um the last I've heard there is no promise of it being less than five years. However, every year um schools will move up based upon if they pass or don't pass. So, um, for example, I think I shared this before, Oakwood City Schools, a fairly wealthy district. A friend of mine's a superintendent there. They were not anticipating getting funds, um, but then because so many schools passed the la or excuse me, did not pass the last couple years, they moved quickly up that line and actually received some of those reimbursement dollars through the OFCC. So, it's w it's really wide open. It could be
019over five years, six years, seven years. Maybe we pass and others don't and it happens in two to three years. I mean, that's that's the best I can say. We just have to see get in get in line and see what happens. >> Is there a time frame for us to pass that millillage? >> Yeah, it does not give us an exact time frame other than when we're up in line. And I think well, I do know that to in order to receive those reimbursement funds, we would have to pass it at that time. So, it'll have to be in that window when we're getting set to receive it. I'm assuming they're assuming they're going to give us notice, you know, at least a year notice or uh significant notice to figure out when's the
020best time because as you know, um we have so many renewals that are up on the ballot, but it may have to be it may have to coincide with one of those renewals. >> So then if that.5 mil does not pass, then those funds don't be available. >> Correct. I would hope that our uh community would support that uh given >> that would be cutting our nose despite our face, wouldn't it? >> That would considering that that it's that it's $13 million. Yeah. which like I said a significant amount of money. But all we're doing tonight is saying we're going to participate in the planning process. We understand that this is your master plan and what you would reimburse if everything else falls into place. >> Good to go. >> Okay. Please call the >>
021Dr. Schneider. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fuller. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> All right. Thank you for putting this together for us. >> My pleasure. Sorry for the delay again. >> Yeah, that's all right. Um, okay. Are there any board items? All right, then. Can I have a motion to adjurnn, please? >> Moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Shelley, please call the role. >> Uh, Mrs. Fuller, >> yes. >> Dr. Schneider, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahales, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> Meeting is journ. >> All right. Officially 15 minutes, I believe. Do you have the thing you need me to sign? >> Yes. Okay. We'll pick we'll pick a master copy and use that one. >> I'll pass that tomorrow. >> Yep. You need to