001All right. Good evening everyone. We're going to get started. This is a regular scheduled board meeting for Edgewood City Schools. Mrs. Bowers, would you call the roll, please? >> Mr. Gary Gabard, >> present. >> Mr. Michael Presler, >> here. >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft, >> present. >> Mr. Mark Measure, >> present. >> Mr. Andrew Presley, >> present. >> Would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing? 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. >> Let's bow together. Our father in heaven, we are extremely grateful to you. our hearts uh sometimes feel like they're bursting uh with gratefulness to you. You've blessed us in wonderful ways and m a multitude of
002ways. And Lord, we just want to express that gratefulness. We want to thank you for our schools and the the timeless job of educating the young. Uh their job is bigger than ever before it seems in so many ways. and just ask your blessing upon them as they seek to u fulfill such a big responsibility. We pray Lord in particular for our board of education. Uh thank you for each one of them for the service they do to our community uh by serving in this position. I I pray Lord that you'll help them those times when they're unsure of what action to take. uh that you'll bless them as they struggle in prayer and help them to come through to see things in the right way, your way. Now God, we also thank you for
003our superintendent and thank you for his leadership and pray Lord that you'll just bless that leadership, multiply it, make it more effective. And uh Lord, we pray that in all that's thought, you would help us that we might raise a community of children and young people that would be a community of good character, outstanding citizens, uh people to whom the pledge of allegiance would really be fulfilled in and through them. Now Lord, we just give you praise. Thank you for this time. Bless the meeting. We pray it in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you, Patty Riser. >> Thank you, sir. >> At this time, I'm going to look for a motion for the approval of the agenda as amended. >> So, >> Mr. Michael Presler, do I have a second? >> Second. >>
004Mrs. Amy Ashcraft. Mrs. Bower, would you call a role, please? >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Ashcraft. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barry Gabbert. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presler. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> Next up, we have presentations. Mr. Clemens, would you like to start us off? I want to thank the board for giving us this opportunity. It's always great to see a a team, a group of young men accomplish such a great accomplishment. These young men did last year. Uh won our first league titles since 2005. Won district championships for the first time since 1981. had a 22 and8 record and that puts them in the top five of all time of wins Edgewood history with the baseball team and the amazing thing about
005this team if she was there for their extra win over Harrison in the first round game was like come on guys just win a game here let's just cruise through this they gave us a heart attack and then they followed that up with another 3-2 victory from behind win against Troy Ford. So just amazing thing that the these young men accomplished last year as a group and the big thing is they got a big core of their players back. We've already got one to committed. Carson Downy's already committed for next year. We got other ones that are getting offers now and and weighing their options and stuff. But as we always talk about what they do on the field's important, but another impressive thing about this group finished the season last year with a 3.59
006GPA as a team. That's great. I think that's the impressive part. We say accomplishments come on the field, but it shows in the classroom. These young men also did those things in the classroom. So kudos to them for all their stuff uh that they accomplished not only on the field but as a team off the field with their GPA and their leadership and guidance and and all the stuff they brought to the community. The excitement getting to see some of the great undersuits the 10 [clears throat] pressers those team those guys that played for that 79 team coming back out to watch these guys play and being at the game. I know Michael was at the game over Detroit there and he had to leave early but >> he still got to see a lot
007of excitement baseball game with those guys. And like I said, the last game to lose to the the eventually division 2 state champions Anthony Wayne 3 to2, they they were right there. I mean, we were right there with that opportunity to to even go travel on and play further and look forward to uh bring another another league title home again this year and see how far we can go in that state championship with them. Uh some league honors they did get. JJ Bo was a player of the year for the SWDL. Carson Downey was a first team player. Nick Bole and Nick Kellhoff were second team players and Payton Simons that's up in hockey playing college baseball was an honorable mention player. So young man off that team went on to play collegiately which is
008great news for us also. So man congratulations. You guys did the community proud, you did the school proud and you did yourselves proud and your families. Congratulations. [applause] Very impressive, guys. That's something we can all be proud of. >> Um, but we do expect it again this year. So, >> state title would be phenomenal. >> No pressure. >> Next up, we have public participation. We don't have anybody signed up for that. So, Mrs. Mrs. Bower, would you like to get us started with the treasurer items? >> Yes, sir. I would first like to ask for a motion to approve the board meeting minutes from July 28th of 2025. >> I'm looking for a motion to approve the regular board meeting of July 28th. Minutes, please. >> So, Mrs. Ashcraft, do I have a second? >>
009Second. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Mrs. Bower, would you call the role, please? >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft, >> yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler, yes. >> Mr. Gary Gabber, yes. >> Mr. Mark Measure >> abstain >> and Mr. Andrew Presley >> yes >> that motion carries 4. Uh next I would like to ask for a motion to approve the July 2025 financial reports as presented. >> Look for a motion to approve the July 2025 financial reports. So >> Mr. Michael Presto I have a second. >> Second >> Mr. Mark Mr. Mrs. Ber, would you call a roll, please? >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. I guess I'll back up discussion. >> Yeah. So, Patty, we're showing here 443. Just making sure I'm seeing this right. 443 is what we're showing is projected revenue and expenditures are
010433. So, we're looking at about a million and surplus this year. Is that correct? >> Um, as of right now, yes, it is. We are still fine tuning these numbers with our cuts. Um you're going to see tonight we've had a quite a significant transition with our staffing. We did just have to bring in another kindergarten teacher because numbers jumped up at the end. So that's where we're at right now. >> So that was my second question. So when you look at student enrollment showing that we're about 50 higher than we had last year. Is that because of the bigger kindergarten? Do we do you guys know? Um, if you go let me go down here to the bottom, blow this up here a little bit where I can see it. Um, in August of
0112025, that very top column, that was just a snapshot last week of where we were. Now, we know at the beginning of the year we may have some withdrawals. Um, Curtis has been signing a lot of homeschooling things as well. So, um, these numbers are just estimates where we're at. Let's come back every month and update that. If you look down at the middle section where it says annual building summary, um I like to look here again, you can see where we finished June of 2025. You see our numbers a little bit higher there. Um but what I want to point out here is last year we ended with 127 students at the JDS. If you look over, we're at 149. So we have 22 more kids going to the JDS this year as well.
012So, and then that bottom one there, we will update that each month just so we know monthly where we're going. So, we we do look a little bit higher right now. We'll continue to fine-tune this. We always have students that just don't show up that we have to search for or um like I said, a lot of homeschool coming in, but just be mindful that our JBS number did jump up 22 kids as well. >> Good. Thank you. >> You're welcome. The kindergarten was uh there were a lot of open enrollment requests for that. And uh because we wanted to cap those about 20 24 per per section and if we would have excluded our open enrollment we could have kept it at the manageable number based on number of teachers but by adding we
013were able to accept all those open enrollment which will not only pay for the teacher puts a little extra in our pockets as well. So uh um we decided to hire that extra teacher and instead of keeping our class sizes at 24 but add another 24 kids and I believe 20 of open enrollment. So so we did this a couple years ago. What we what I saw was when we denied open enrollment for particular grade because it maxed out at a class size a lot of times we lost kids in other grades that weren't maxed out because an entire family left the district. >> You don't know with kindergarten because it could be that they are the day situation and they prefer to be in a full day and they may go back to their
014home school, but if they have positive experience and they maybe stay edge with families and trying to combat that shrinking enrollment problem. So, we thought kindergarten would be a good place to start. So, typically don't grow programs with open enrollment, but in this case, it made sense to do it. Do >> you have a feel for if we saw any additional students come in by keeping the open enrollment open longer? >> We got open enrollment applications sitting out today. We got we got new ones today that the principles are looking at right now to see if we can accept more. So, we're still getting don applications. >> Is there a trend from the district? Are they from all over? >> Um I don't I don't know. These people are typically most of the ones I
015saw that are late are Edgewood families that moved out of the district. They want to continue at Edgewood. All of the new ones today were Edgewood kids that and just moved out. Okay. I want to continue at Edgewood. So, it's I think one couple of them were moved in Franklin. Might have been another from Middletown, but uh usually they're neighboring districts. >> Okay, [clears throat] >> I got a question. Where did you see the enrollment number? >> It's at the bottom of the financial >> First report all the way at the bottom. >> 3371. Yes, sir. >> Thank you. Any more discussion? >> One last question. The uh permit improvement fund showing 2.9 is that after we paid for the black top and all that? >> Um no because we have paid three probably 400,000
016this month. So this shuts shuts down in July. So it does not include what we pay today in August. So, how much is in that fund do you think after we pay pay all that down? >> I can run it if you can. >> Just just roughly. >> Let me just run and give you a number. >> It'll just take a minute. >> My understanding we got some other things we might have spent some money on. >> Yes. >> HC is probably some roof some roof issues. minor. Where's that at? The one we're going to probably focus on first is this one, the high school. And but it's called the middle school is the one we probably need to have a conversation about. We're still waiting on the final information from the company that we
017met with those thermal scans. We were supposed to get us the information. We didn't get it yet, but uh so there's some needs in the middle school and there's small needs here. And you know, this this building minor repairs to keep from getting worse. Middle schools pretty significant and the uh the two the elementaryaries have needs as well. I think you guys talked about those a while back, but we didn't get those all that information from the vendor yet. >> Yeah, 2.1 million in that fund right now. >> So 2.1 and then you're looking at these roofing repairs. Any idea what that's going to cost? No, I don't have a final number on those. I mean it depends on if you obviously you typically do them in phases. You do part of a roof at
018a time. You start kind of start in the middle, work your way out. Like here at high school it's like 60,000. So it's really insignificant minor repairs. It's just some patchwork where there's been some little leaks. Middle schools more significant. And then the uh the uh the two uh the two elementary schools have some some more significant repairs. The middle school's the biggest ticket item of all the buildings. >> You talking replace an entire section or you talking the middle school probably needs in both the middle school and the elementaryaries. Uh the parts that need worked on are on their second roof. So they have to be tear offs. Can't do a third layer. So they have to do complete tear offs. Part of your payback the primary has got metal roof. So that's that's
019fine. It's the flat part. the brain part that needs attention. >> So, is that something we're going to try to do before the winter? Is that something we're going to say for the spring or >> I think it's probably [clears throat] it would be for it would be for the spring or summer. >> I know we got that conversation before back in the early spring. We're waiting on those roof scans. We just met with a guy last week. We go over to those and we're waiting on his his uh because they bid those out. Um, and we'll wait to get those those numbers into what cut money we're looking at and determine like like a phase in project. How much do you want to do? And then obviously we'll have that conversation with the board
020to decide what how you want to tackle that. So So the roof scans were value added. >> Absolutely. Because you you've got a little bit of money that needs to be sent here to to prevent bigger issues, bigger problems because they go through a free stall. We'll get those issues done this this year. I think we probably already got kind of started that process. [clears throat] >> Are we going to pay for that? Are they 034? >> Yes. >> The issues at the middle school and the other buildings are uh they're not like you don't have like water intruding, but you're getting water in the insulation. So, talking about tear off and all that stuff. >> Yeah. And you got you got to tear it off and replace it. So, um a little more cost
021associated with those, but we're kind of waiting on an idea from them what they recommend in phases, how much Now, what what's your fee do you need? And they typically start in the middle like over your gyms because obviously gym floors are expensive. Um, and we're going to see what their recommendations are, what the costs associated with those are. We still don't have that yet. Any any um idea on what we're looking at HVAC wise, I know there are some issues. >> I haven't heard any numbers. Um, we we're dealing with some humidity issues at the at the middle school in the auditorium and the green room, but I think we've got those worked out. Johnson's been on site. We've made some adjustments. I don't know why it got to where it did, but we
022actually bent it in the bud before it got to be a problem. Um, and I think there's some compressors here down that associated with the geothermal. I have no idea what kind of money we're looking at. >> Are these new problems or was these was this going on last school year? >> I think they've been some of these compressors. I think they're just a fancy word for pumps. Geothermal pumps have been going out. It's like 16 of them and we're down six right now. something like that. So, the system's not operating at 100% efficiency because of that. It's still it's still cooling, but it's not as cool as it might be at 100%. He's been kind of keeping the system limping along, but I'm I'm hearing that there's going to need to be some some
023money spent on these compressors in this building, but I have no idea what cost. >> Um there's actually 20 compressors that run [clears throat] this building. They do do air and heat. Six of them are down. We need to probably repair three of them or buy three to get it back to work correctly. Where are they at? Are they inside the building? On top of the building? >> I'd say they're probably on top of the building. I'm not sure. >> That's all that's all my question. Thank you. That's where we're at. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barry Gabard. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Amy Ashcl. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presley. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 50. [clears throat] The next agenda item is the
024Everway curriculum quote. Looking for a motion to approve the Everway curriculum quote as presented. >> So moved. >> Mr. Master Schmidt, do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> What is this? >> This is special education curriculum. It is a renewal. It's something we've been doing. It is a couple thousand less than what it was last year. She was able to reduce a couple license. >> I think I remember seeing this last year. >> Any more discussion? >> No, sir. >> Mrs. Bow, would you call the role, please? >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barry Gabard. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Amy Ashcco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presler. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 50. Next, I'd like to ask for a motion to
025approve the payment in L. >> I'm looking for a motion to approve the payment in L. So move me on a second. >> Second, >> Mr. Michael Presley discussion. [clears throat and cough] Mrs. Bower, would you call the role, please? >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barry Gabard. Yes, >> Mrs. Amy Ashcrat. >> Yes, >> Mr. Andrew Presley. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> Next, I'd like to ask for a motion to approve the various donations as presented. >> Move for a motion to approve the various donations. >> Mrs. Ashcraft, do I have a second? >> Second, >> Mr. Mr. Smith. Any discussion? very very generous. Several members of the administration made donations member family make donations very generous boosters of community organizations in here. >>
026Mrs. Bowers, if you call the roll, please. >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraf, >> yes. >> Mr. Mark Measure, >> yes. >> Mr. Michael Pressler, >> yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presler, second. and Mr. Barry Gabard. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 40. Uh, next agenda item is the appointment of a Butler Tech representative. Do we have a nominee? >> Not by Gary Gabard. >> A second. >> So, this was Tom's Tom York's uh term, the rest of his term, and he He hired him to be assistant principal, couldn't continue in that role and then he injured his back and wasn't unable to fulfill that. So, he resigned, but he it just doesn't feel like he's well enough to serve in that role. So, this is Tom's term. It expires in December of 2026, but you know, if it
027was something that someone didn't want to do, good point on January or actually, do we want to table this? I will I will do it till the first of the year. Do we want to table it? >> We tabled it a couple of months. >> We probably need to get somebody down there to represent us. We've already missed a month. I will do it for the rest of the year and then >> January. >> In January, if you guys want to revisit that, let's talk. >> How's that? Is that fair? >> Yeah. I I I can't get there. I can't do it with my commitments to Miami. I can't do it. >> Well, they wanted us to do it last month. So, if there wasn't somebody Tom hasn't been there for a while, so >>
028I'll finish till the first. >> So, you accept? >> I accept. >> Thanks, Gary. Can I vote no? [clears throat] >> Can you vote no? >> Yes. >> Do you want me to kiss? Do you want to do it? >> Call the RO. >> Mrs. Bowers, you call role, please. >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Pressler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andrew Pressler. >> No. 18. >> That motion carries 30. >> That is all I have this even. >> Thank you, Mrs. Bowers. >> Next up, we have superintendent items. >> Mr. Pop. >> Thank you. I got a few items here. back um I believe it was either May or June, we had a a gentleman from uh Baltimore, the water consortium present about um their desire
029to do some water sampling on our property. Um because it's so close to the the to the regional water plant next door and uh they lack a testing area in this this location, this proximity to the to the treatment plant uh to detect any you have changes in water levels, any chemical, any kind of intrusions. Um, and it was a really interesting presentation. I think the board was definitely on board with with this program. So, we just had to get legal involved to draw up a memorandum of understanding. So, we are proceeding forward with the project where they will be um placing these wells out that we determine a location we think would interfere with any kind of future growth, development, change of plans. Although the memorandum of understanding does protect us if we do
030decide we need to change that use that process differently but we hope not to do that to respect their costs putting in these wells. So the memorandum of understanding has been approved by both parties um we just lack our board's approval. Um Southwest Water and New Baltimore has reviewed it. attached there. And uh this would just allow them to uh place those wells on our property. Again, we own the property. They just are we're letting them use it to test the water. Uh there's some educational components. We drew that up. Communication component. So, uh like I said, it took a little longer to get this drawn up than we thought, but but it's in place and uh if approved, I think we can drill in these wells probably sometime this fall. Did we agree on
031our location? >> Um, >> I'm let me get I'm going to look for a motion to approve the motion for the approval of Southwest Region Water District. >> Mr. Mor second. >> Second. >> Mr. Michael Preston. >> Do we did we agree on the location? >> Yes. >> Is it where they show this on the map? >> Yes. the corn the kind of the uh kind of the uh uh on the on the south west corner of the parking lot down there where >> in the lower ground. >> No, no, right up by the parking lot on by those parking spaces there on that corner next to those places right up there. >> Wasn't there a concern about like something to do with like interfering with cross country? >> No, that was that was that
032cross country doesn't run anywhere near there. >> Original proposal I think was going to be in the middle but Then we talk about putting it up by the parking lot so it's out of the way of >> Yeah. And also the kids could come out and walk out of the building and not be tracking all over the property. Um they're putting up ballards around it so it's not going to be like and it's also away from like where snow would be moved. So we we walked property. We met we took Scott and and uh um you know so the athletics was represented and u we looked at several locations and all of them would work. This is not I mean I don't think is anywhere that will ever be impacted and they can drive their
033trucks right up to it. It's kind of it's towards the end of the parking lot. It's at the front parking lot by the health building. Um so it's pretty accessible by their vehicles. It'll be accessible for our kids to walk out and uh it's really they maintain it. They uh they'll they'll plan it, make it look nice and keep it up if we want to mulch it out so it's easier to mow around. We talked even Doug Turner about, you know, maintaining it. So, I think I think we're good. >> Did Pam have any concerns about any of the >> I'm sorry. >> Did Did Pam [clears throat] have any concerns about any of this? >> She We pretty much wrote theou. So, um she's good. >> Yeah. And and Holly re assisted with her
034and so Yep. It's like I said, so we're definitely covered in with theou the agreement. It's just us being good stewards of the aquifer and the water and trying to protect help monitor it and again maybe have a little educational component because I thought it was kind of a boring topic to the guy came here and presented and I was kind of excited about it. So I know those kids will get excited about learning about that as well. >> We didn't do we didn't have to do an eth >> I'm sorry >> we didn't have to do an ement but that is much better. >> No, >> I didn't like that part. Any more discussion? No, sir. >> Mrs. Bowowers, would you call the roll, please? >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael
035Presler, >> yes. >> Mr. Barry Gabber, >> yes. >> Mrs. Amy Ashkra, >> yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presler, >> yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> So, the next item, uh, item B under superintendent items is a board policy, uh, recommendation to change. And this was literally something Um I had stumbled onto um just in day-to-day operations I came across a situation where I found a board policy that was kind of contradicting the administrative guidelines that we're following related to policy 5530.01 drug testing of students in um extracurriculars and also for for for parking permits. Um and then our actual policy the word encourages was the operative word in lines. It was not an optional thing. It was a requirement and our policy did not reflect that. I don't that was an oversight or just uh
036um why why it was that way could have been an update when it when it did an update did get corrected because we clearly require that. So, if the board wants to continue that practice and our guidelines that we're enforcing, um this would be a necessary change and it's a one-word change. You change the word from encourages to the word requires athletes, members of clubs, organizations, and student drivers participate in a random drug testing program because our current language is not actually congruent with what we were doing or our guidelines. >> We'll look for a motion for the approval of board policy. Mr. Mr. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Michael Presford. >> Mrs. Bower, would you call a roll, please? Does anybody know why it was originally encourages instead? Why wasn't
037that way before? >> Don't know. I reached out to Pam. I called I called Neiola. This was a This was a custom policy. This wasn't a boilerplate one. This wasn't Neiola where you pick option A, B, C. This was custom. So, I don't I don't know. Don't know. Pam didn't know. She agreed that this this is the language we need if we're going to go with our guidelines that we have in place that this language is what we need. >> I always thought it was required. So, I don't know. >> It says in there somewhere it says required, but then it says on that encourage I I took the wording when I read it like like the reason why it's required is they encourage you to not do these things, you know. >> Yeah. And
038if you look in the guidelines, it says clearly that if you don't do it, you will not participate. And not only if you have to do it, parents have to sign off on it. It's two parts. So >> So would we So So is this one of those situations where we are going to randomly drug test or is it based off of probable cause? Is it >> It's continuation what we've been doing. If you're a student athlete or a driver in these clubs, you're you're you're a number system. You're randomly pulled by quarter. The principal uh there's a the total guidelines walks through the process where they their number gets pulled. They they pull the kids out of class. They do it discreetly and privately. There's a nurse that that helps them collect the sample
039and they get randomly drug tested and uh they do it they do it quarterly and that's that's what the guidelines say. Will every student get tested over the course of a year? >> It's random. It's totally random. >> But we don't do it enough that everybody gets tested. >> Probably not. Probably not. >> I don't know what our numbers are, Doug. Do you know what the numbers are each poll? We typically test between 10 to 15 kids and a pull once a month, but monthly. >> Yeah. Kind of possibly talking about reducing it, but they're coming twice a semester. The only other group that we do test our kids that are on an expulsion of a drug offense that could be detected through testing. We can make that a condition of their ovance and those
040won't be random polls. Those will be a requirement to continue to have their disc. Any more discussion? And that policy was in place before I became superintendent. That policy was in place, I believe it was 1999. And then again in 2007 was the last update. >> So we've been contradicting ourselves for 26 years. 2007 at least >> on Facebook. Well, we didn't have Miola when I first got on the board. >> 2019 got six years a ran out. Mrs. Would you call the role, please? >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barry Gabbert. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presley. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 50. >> The next item, item C are two overnight field trips. one for the core leaders to
041Nashville and the other to the marching band to Pigeon Forge um to uh compete in choir competitions and also uh to compete at the uh in the music in the parks performance in Pigeon Forge. Uh the chorus trip is in February uh and the uh band trip is in April in 2026. We'll look for a motion to approve two overnight field trips. One for the band and one for the corer. So move. >> Mr. Measure. Do I have a second? >> Mr. Michael Preser. So this actually John actually Donald actually called me about this. This is the exact same trip that we voted on earlier in the year. I think it was over the summertime. Um I guess once he started look at when I guess when looking at the date for prom it it
042conflicted with prom. So he had to reschedu a different weekend. So this is exactly the same trip that we've already voted on once just the dates have changed. >> Any more discussion? No sir. >> Mrs. Bower, would you call the role please? >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barry Gabbert. Yes, >> Mrs. Amy Ashra. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Andrew Presley. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> Thank you. >> Um, you want to do that here? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Phil. Tomorrow. Next up, we haveformational items from board members. Mr. Measure Smith, would you like to start? Yes, sir. I got two things. Um, one, uh, football game Friday. I had a friend of mine that was, uh, here with the visiting team and had some
043conversation with him and one of the things that he talked about was just how nice our facilities were and how good everything looked. And, uh, you know, the parking lot obviously work we did over the summertime really makes things look a lot nicer around here. um you know, especially considering how bad it was. But just facilities and everything look really good. I think it's just kind of a continuation from some of the stuff we talked about over the summertime with all the maintenance and things that was uh that was going on. And then the other um the other thing I want to say is, you know, this is this my fourth year on the board. I've seen four first days of school. And um I I just I think for the first two weeks of
044a school year, this has by far been the smoothest that I've ever seen. Well, you just changed this. >> I know. I know, right? Hopefully [laughter] doesn't come back. But I do think that has an awful lot to do with uh you know, our administration, our building principles, assistant principles, our teachers, our staff, our bus drivers, our kids, our community. So, you know, just it's it's been a really really good start to the year and I just wanted to call that out because I I do recognize it significantly better than anything I've seen in the previous three. So, just great job. that was involved. Everything looks great and it's been a good start to the year. >> Thank you. >> All the parents that like to complain their kids graduated. >> They're all blue. >>
045Mr. Andrew Kresler. >> Nothing to add? >> Mrs. Ashcraft. >> Oh, well, Hollyy's not here. I wanted her to tell us how her event went. Does anybody know? >> It went great. >> Did it? >> It went great. Good turnout. very >> committee was very appreciative of that was a big success. >> Yeah, I have a lot of people who said that um the event was great but I didn't know from her p her perspective what she thought. So summer was fast this year. So welcome back everybody. I can't believe we're sitting here already. >> She had last minute family emergency question here. >> Okay, >> that's all I have for school. >> I know. That's the shortest summer of my life. Quick, Mr. Michael Presley. Good, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, I just
046want to remind everyone we do have a speaker coming in. Uh, actually, it's Warren Davidson will be here Wednesday at our auditorium. I think it is recommended that you do pre-register online just for I think safety reasons. U some of you might not be able to get in if put down your true information. >> Yeah. They won't turn you away if you take a little extra. >> Yeah. So so just just kind of a update on that and uh if you got some free time get out to get out to the schools. We've got a lot of things going on. I mean, good volleyball game right now going on over here in the gym. So, that's about all I have to add. >> Yes, the dedication of the the track to Mr. Bill Melo was
047was was run very well. Um, Bill's 85 years old and he spent 50 years as a track coach at Edgewood City Schools and Trenton. He had a couple years in at Trenton before we combined. So, uh, welld deserved for him. Glad for him for that. This time, I'm going to look for a motion to to move to executive session for uh to consider the appointment appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of a public employee or official. So moved. Mr. Meshman, do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Michael Presley. Mrs. Mr. Bowers, would you call the roll, please? >> Mr. Mark, >> yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler, >> yes. >> Mr. Gary Gabbert, >> yes. >> Mrs. Amy Ashbro, >> yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presley, >> yes. >> 54. >> All right,
048we are back out of executive session at 8:14. This time I'm going to look for a motion for personnel items. Item A >> administration certified classified exempt and supplemental nomination as presented. Mr. Andrew Presler, do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mrs. Ashcraft. >> Mrs. Bowers, would you call roll, please? >> Mr. Andrew Presler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft, >> yes. >> Mr. Gary Gber. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Measure Schmid. >> Abstain. >> Item B under personnel items, leave of absence as presented. >> So move. >> Mrs. Ashcraft, do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Measure Schmidt. Mrs. Vowers, would you call a role, please? >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft, >> yes. >> Mr. Mark Measure, >> yes. >> Mr. Gary Gabard, >> yes. >> Mr.
049Mr. Michael Presler >> abstain. >> Mr. Ander Presler >> abstain. >> Personnel items item C [clears throat] for administrator contract. >> Second. >> Mrs. Ashcraft. Do I have a second? Andrew Presler. >> Mrs. Bowers, would you call the role, please? >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Gary Gabard. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mark Measure. >> Yes. >> Carry 5. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> All right. I'm going to I'm going to read a letter here from Mr. Michael Presler. It's to Mr. Gabard and members of the board. It is with heartfelt emotions that I submit my resignation resignation from the Edgewood City School Board District Edgewood City Board of Education effective Friday, September 5th, 2025. Serving on this board has been
050an honor and a privilege, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of our students, staff, and community. This decision was not made lightly. My family and I have deci have made the decision to move outside the district. However, my daughter will remain open enrolled and continue her education at Edgewood City Schools. I have the utmost confidence in the leadership of the board and administration, and I know the district will continue making decisions that put students first while building a strong future for our schools. I remain fully supportive of the mission of Edgewood City School District and will continue to be an advocate for our educators, students, and families in any way I can. Please know that I will do all I can to ensure a smooth transaction
051during this time. Thank you again for the opportunity to serve. It has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, and I will always carry pride in the work we accomplished together. Go Cougars. Respectfully, Michael W. Presler. Hate to lose Michael Presler on the board, but at this time, I'm going to ask for a motion to approve item D, resignation of Michael Presler. >> Second, >> Mrs. Ashcraft. Do I have a second? >> Second, >> Mr. Master Schmidt. Mrs. Bowers, would you call the role, please? >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft, >> yes. >> Mr. Mark Measure Schmidt. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gary Gabbert. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presler. >> Well, Michael, I just have to say although I was a woman in motion, um I'm sad to see you go. I've enjoyed working
052with you and I think that you have come a long way in the two years you've been on the board and I've really enjoyed working with you. I felt like we were going to be a team. >> Amen. >> So, I'm sad to see you go. >> And I'll add to that in these last couple years been pretty tough with budget and and drawing down the size of the administration and making making cuts within the in the district. And as a guy that set up here with you for two years, I truly believe and truly feel that you you really care about this community. You care about our kids, our staff, our administrators, and I think your heart was in the right place. I think you're on the right side of every issue. So I
053I really sincerely appreciate you being on the board. I can see you go. >> Thank you guys. >> But I understand. >> Yeah. I think under any other circumstances, I don't think you would have opted out of this role. I think you fell into a pretty good spot and uh we will definitely miss you. Um your perspective of things is completely different than anybody else on the board. You analyze things and you bring a lot to this board and we will miss you for sure. It's it's a big loss. >> I want to say something nice, but I can't bring myself to it. >> I have no no comment. >> It's just brother. >> So, >> don't expect any [laughter] >> you would know what to do. >> I'm going to look for a motion
054to adjourn. >> So moved. >> Mr. Smith, Mrs. Ashgraph. Mrs. Bower, would you call roll, please? >> Mr. Mark Measure Schmidt. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Amy Ashcraft. Yes. >> Mr. Gary Gabbert. >> Yes. >> Mr. Michael Presler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Andrew Presley. >> Yes.