May 12, 2025 Fredericktown Board of Education Special Meeting

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May 12, 2025 Fredericktown Board of Education Special Meeting/a>

Could you do the roll call? Mr. Bman here. Mr. F here. Mrs. Lenderman here. Mr. Nier here. Mrs. Winger here. Okay. And now we have the adoption of the agenda. And again, I feel like I’m using my like mom voice here, so don’t feel like I’m yelling. But I feel like I kind of am from here. So, we’re going to um ask for roll on the adoption or a motion to adopt the agenda. So, moved. Second. Mr. Bman, yes. Mr. Folk, yes. Mrs. Lindamman, yes. Mr. Napier, yes. Mrs. Winger, yes. Okay. And number four on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from the regular board meeting that was held on April 8th of 2025. And then we had a special board meeting on April 24th of 2025. I could have a motion to approve those minutes for both meetings. So I moved. Second. Mrs. Winger. Yes. Mr. Napier. Yes. Mr. Bowman. Yes. Mr. Ful. Yes. Mrs. Lindamman. Yes. Okay. Number five is public participation. So, just a quick soft review um of this policy which we are going to uh deviate from this evening. Um feel like it’s very important for voices to be heard. Um uh Mrs. Wanganger is going to take time, but that’s just to kind of keep us in check so we don’t get too crazy with um making sure that everybody has an opportunity that has signed up to share to be able to share. Um so, uh let me think what else we need to add to that. We just I we want to be cautious of that precedent being set moving forward. But again, we we really do appreciate you being here tonight and we want you to be heard. So, um I’m also going to take a minute before we get started with our public participation. I there was copies um over on the table, but I’m going to read you um a statement. there has been a lot of information um out throughout the community um and we’re aware of that and you’re aware of that and so we just want thought that it would be super helpful um for us as a board I think a lot of you have spoken to either us as individuals probably Mr. Chapman um maybe some others um in administration. So this is a joint um statement from the board of education challenges and considerations facing Fredericktown High School’s agricultural education program. Fredericktown, Ohio, of course, May 12th, today of 2025. Frederickton High School is proud to be the home to a longstanding and respected FFA program symbolized by the iconic FFA jacket rooted in a rich tradition of agricultural education. For decades, this program has prepared students for careers in agriculture, instilled leadership values, and fostered a deep connection to the community’s heritage. A key concern is the clear and sustained trend of declining enrollment in Fredericktown’s a program. As of April 28th, 2025, approximately 22 students requested to roll enroll in the A program for the 2526 school year. So that’s for our next school year. Of these, 16 are first or secondyear students. The remaining students are upper classmen who have elected to attend Knox County Career Center full-time or take all online college credit plus CCP courses. One upperassman is scheduled to remain on site at Fredericktown High School for next year. This makes offering upper level agricultural classes such as forestry and agricultural business very challenging. These are these courses are essential for the for a complete and progressive agricultural education pathway including the state and American degrees which carry significant value after high school graduation. This situation presents both educational and operational challenges. Providing specialized upper level a instruction for only one eligible student is not sustainable from a staffing or financial perspective. Additionally, accommodating students who express interest in the program but are not physically present at FHS during the school day adds further complexity. Even the consideration of reducing the program is diff is difficult as it affects a tradition that has long been a cornerstone of pride and identity for our school and our community. That said, our ultimate goal is not merely to maintain agricultural education, but to revitalize it. We are committed to strengthening the program and growing it into a thriving, current, and relevant offering that attracts new students, reflects the evolving agricultural in agricultural industry, and actively engage engages our local agricultural community. By doing so, we can ensure that Frederick Town’s FFA legacy not only endures, but also flourishes. We recognize the deep emotional and historical significance of this program. We remain committed to transparency, open dialogue, and collaborative planning as we work together to navigate this difficult moment and pursue a stronger sustainable future for agricultural education at Frederick Town High School. Okay, thanks for indulging me in that long there. Okay. So, for the order of um people that are going to be um speaking this evening, what we would like to do, we got we have them in order of how we receive them. Um but want to give um like everybody’s going to have a chance. So, what when I say priority, that just means if you live in the district, have a student that is in the or is enrolled in the district, then we’re going to start there. So, if you were like, "Hey, I know I had that in it, you know, 5:30 a.m." We will get to everybody, but we just thought that that would be um a good way to proceed. So, when you come up to the podium, I will tell you these are not mics that amplify. Um so, you know, speak loudly and clearly. Um if you could start with your name. We need to do just name. Okay. Yeah, we have. Okay. So just name and if you have a maybe you’re you have a student maybe what grade if if you so choose to or um you can start from there. Okay. So Leroy Frasier you are up first. Austin asked me to have you go first and not him. I’m just kidding. He didn’t. He didn’t. All right. Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the Frederick town local school district board of education. My name is Leroy Frasier. I’m a resident of the Frederick town local school district and a parent of junior who attends the Knox County Career Center. I’m also a proud alumnest of the Fredericktown FA chapter. I’m here tonight to address the issue of the proposed cuts to the current vocational agriculture instructor at Frederick High School and by extension the FFA program as a whole. The FFA alumni was notified last week of the proposed contract for the BAG instructor that was offered. It was a part-time contract at 38% of her current full-time contract. It was also communicated that due to this, junior and senior ad classes would be cut indefinitely. There would be no additional provisions for the current juniors and seniors enrolled in Boat. How can a program of Frederick Town’s historical importance even consider such an action? This is the home of the FFA jacket. This program has produced over60 state FFA degrees, including three just this year, even with the limited numbers. We have produced eight state officers and 37 American degree recipients, including one this year. 29 of those American degree recipients have come in the last 15 years. So why are we even here FFA members? Why are you here? [Music] Brotherhood opportunities and responsibilities leadership which member should possess. The program teaches more than just agriculture. The skills, work ethic, and leadership that this program provides and develops in our young people translates across any profession and any occupation and it lasts a lifetime. So again, why are we here? Are numbers down? Absolutely they are. Show me a program, sport, extracurricular activity class in the high school that isn’t right now. More of our students are taking advantage of programs at the career center, whether it be TRA or the college credit plus program that they are offering. Our challenge is to find a way to continue the program without depriving any child of the opportunities that Boag and the FFA provide. I’ve heard multiple times in the last week that there’s no seniors enrolled in the program next year. Well, I’ve got two of them here tonight that would argue with that. They all they attend the Knox County Career Center during the day. And for the last nine months, they have been here at 7:00 a.m. Monday through Thursday at the high school to complete their a science class and keep them active in the FFA so they can pursue their goals. These two, my son and Lane Nugan, received their state degrees less than a week and a half ago at the state FFA convention. The other thing everyone should know about this is that the BAG instructor did this on her own time. There was no additional compensation. We asked last year the administration for a zero period to accommodate these students and their wishes to not only continue their education at the career center, but also take advantage of the FFA program. We were denied. That’s why they did the independent study and had to do it the way they have. Excuse me. So, I have a question for the board. How many kids does it take before we allow them to pursue their goals and succeed in accomplishing those goals? The four rising juniors and seniors in the program sure want to know that answer. What message are we sending our kids when we’re willing to sacrifice them for no good reason? I am sure other programs are struggling as well, but we don’t hear about cuts there. Instead of the cutting the program, let’s look to the future. Why are our numbers down? What can we combat do to combat the loss of students to the career center? Let’s take a look at some solutions that might help. First, I ask the board and the administration to establish a zero period starting at 7 a.m. next year that will allow the one junior remaining in Fredericktown and the seniors that are attending the career center. There’s three of them that are pretty committed to this so that they can continue to a science education. This will also help us bridge the gap as we find solutions to improving our retention and our recruitment. Speaking of recruitment, with removing the career expiration class from the Boyag instructor’s class schedule and limiting her time inside the building, how and the cancellation of the scheduling night that was to be held at Fredericktown High School earlier this year, how is she supposed to interact and provide potential eighth graders with the opportunities that FFA provides? Another thing I suggest, let’s bring back the VOAG advisory committee and it needs to meet bimonthly. This committee will help the a instructors come up with ideas for recruitment and retention. We also would welcome any board member or administration participation in this committee. The last thing I want to suggest to the board is a revision of the current curriculum. Currently, we are teaching the same four courses we did almost 20 years ago in production agriculture, and that’s not the environment that this community lives in anymore. I would challenge the board to look at the potential of adding additional classes in mechanics, a engineering. We have the curriculum options are outstanding for what a ed offers today. We have classes in aerial unmanned aerial aircraft, drones. find our niche, offer exciting options to the kids. I don’t think it says anywhere that we have to offer four ad classes and that’s it. Not all four of those ad classes are going to highlight what kids are interested in. So, let’s expand our offering. Let’s give kids a choice. Become that destination school. Instead of all of our students going away, let’s be a destination school to bring kids into our school and use the ACT program to do that. I have up here of available course offerings. If any of you want to see after the meeting, I’d be happy to share it with you. In conclusion, we need to do whatever it takes to make sure all students of the Frederick local school district are able to enroll and enjoy a complete FFA experience. If we work together as a community and school board, I have no doubt that we can make that happen. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the FC local school board of education for your time this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Leroy. Austin, you are up next. Austin and I tried to trade positions earlier. He wouldn’t trade with me. So, all right. President, I am also a student of town local school. school district and I attend the county career center. I’m also a proud member of the county chapter and currently serves as reporter. FFA has been a program that has been part of the American education system since 1928. And since it foundation, FFA has helped millions of people around the world around America get a head start in the workplace. But today I stand here to talk about the benefits of FFA and the President FFA chapter. FFA is a program is a program that is entirely necessary for town high school because of the opportunity it provides for students in FFA. Students learn valuable skills that can be applied to almost every field. FI teaches skills such as networking, recordeping, time management, work ethic, etc. FIA members also develop leadership skills as they progress through the program and even have the opportunity to attend leadership conferences at both the state and national level. Eth means a lot to me. My freshman year, I set three goals. Make it stay in public speaking. received my state degree and received my American degree. When I chose to attend county career center that seemed those little beyond miss after all her efforts failed, she took on the challenge of winning a zero period for which she wasn’t compensated. Since the school year began, myself and three other students began our school day at 7 a.m. with this zero period in a science. It paid off this year less than a week and a half ago me and myself ended up getting our degrees. Over my years, I picked up a whole lot. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the FFA. It helped me find I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the FFA. It helped me find my voice and I am will help others find their voices. Thank you for clearing why I believe we should keep the county. Thank you. You won’t be surprised he was right on that three minute money three almost three minute time there. Okay, we are going to move on to Uh Stephanie Borman, you guys can rock paper scissors or you can go first. Switch up. Okay, good. I haven’t been good about stating your I think maybe everybody’s stating their name during their speech, but Okay. Good evening. My name is Stephie and this is my daughter Izzy. Before Izzy speaks to you, I wanted to administrators for encou working towards her evil and she’s almost halfway there in one year. She’s a straight A student active in our church and in our new horizon for club. She is the vice president of our club is looking forward to jumping into the forestry and so competition this fall. In fact, she has been leading a team to nationals in forestry. They were only one team off this year this past fall. My husband and I are very proud of her and what she’s accomplished at only 15 years old. We know she will be able to reach her goals in doing was one of the best decisions I have ever made. During this year, I learned so much about agriculture, made friends that are currently very experienced events and competitions. EP has inspired me to go into a career in agriculture, one of our nation’s oldest Atlantic to make the program only 8 through 10th grade is put into action. I won’t have the chance to earn two of the top awards in the state. School is supposed to be a place of learning and opportunities and you must produce one of the best programs to prepare me for a future. My teacher, Mrs. I could have asked for she’s passionate about her subject, cares about her students like her own children, and is someone I know I can go to ifies arise in my life. my respect and admiration and I’m glad she’s my teacher. Lastly, town is the home of the jacket and strong for 96 years. My last question is why my school board wants to go forward with this decision to significantly limit a program into this village history to finish up. She sees our potential and she wants us to be successful. [Applause] Thank you both. Thank you. Sorry, I’m checking some off the list here. Okay, Courtney, do you get your my dear? Courtney has also provided the board and myself and Mrs. Arnold the and Mr. Chapman um some information about the state and American degree. So we have those ahead of time. Thank you for that. So hello, I am Courtney. Um I have three kids that reside in this district. And as you know, I’m very passionate about my kids. Um as a mom, this is my senior year. He’s um he’s attended his whole life. And now this predictive yet again, can he do the rule? And you know, you know, he went a long career. Who him is a critic? So, as you guys are well aware, we’ve all talked about um we continue to lose kids to the Knox County Center. I kind of joke that I call it the Candyland special case. They have rolling chairs. They have coffee. You know, who wouldn’t want to go? They can have their phones all day. Um this isn’t just about an FFA problem, though, guys. Um this is a school problem until we fitment and better opportunities within our school. We’re going to continue to face these school numbers really. Um they continue to succumb to the factor that you know they’re enticed by that you know career center um and the provided opportunities within our school. Um this is being exhibited by another year of phone numbers where my son is being told by the counselors at both schools that he can be enrolled um and he can do dual enroll but this was supposed to be the magical year. This was supposed to be the period early making sure he gets it there. Um but the teachers teacher doesn’t know where I uh every year alumni we talk about retention we talk about class numbers how we can currently support our kids um how we improve informed that the proposed classes were just add 100 to 200 and now possibly the eighth grade with some good communication uh with the prep time. So where does that leave again my senior um we only need one more year because So what does that look like for my incoming sophomore? You know who really right now has only offered freshman and sophomore classes. She took one more year but you might need to start looking at an enrollment because she can’t take an American degree. We don’t have any lives here. Um, as my daughter asking in a panic, does this mean the proposed test that no more state convention, no more national convention? Oh, I can’t do that contest. Mom, what does that mean? I don’t know. What does it mean? Um, do you did you know that on average the past two years our kids and this community participated 120 hours in contest outside school day? They 42 FFA activities. Our kids, all our kids in our chapter have invested into our community $63,000 through their SA projects. Do you know what an SA project is? That’s a super supervised agricultural experience, meaning supervised by the teacher, meaning extra time outside the classroom. from this proposal sounds like it’s going to be a minimum meaning a parttime um our students would require the requirement as a state requirement for state degree or American state degree they’d have to have at least two different uh state contests they have to have FFA contest eight of them above the chapter level for ours to get state let alone American American you know we have to have a productive SAPE project supervise their kids they need that supervision to have a productive project. Is the school board aware of these requirements? I did provide a lot of reading material. I’m sorry. Um, but what does this mean for my sophomore coming in? What does this mean for my sixth grader? You know, will they never be able to carry on the family tradition or our local chapter tradition of getting their American and state degree winning. Um, so I understand my proposal. I understand numbers are low. They’ve been them for a while. This isn’t news. We’ve been dealing with uh the Knox County Career Center providing extra opportunities, but I would propose that we allow the juniors and seniors to class together and flip-flop them every other year. Uh meaning that our kids still get enrolled. Um that would probably be proposed as a real zero period, but that also comes from the school offering and communicating to these kids. No one offered to my kids. That’s why there was only three. No one knew about it. and somebody told me, "Well, you should have done that. That’s not my job. That’s not my job." But I fought for my kid and he got one more year. And I know that would add one to two more classes to the ad teacher, which could be potentially, yes, the first few years is a little low, but if we communicate and let other kids know these are opportunities, we might be able to do this. Are you telling me that the small amount of kids that desire to come back that aren’t worth it? Their efforts aren’t enough? They finish a program that they started here at the FFA jacket, home of the FFA jacket. I’m not sorry that Lane decided to do the welding certificate. I’m happy for him. However, I’m sad that town didn’t offer it some type of welding. He could have done voting and could have gone on to Lincoln and get a certificate here. We don’t have welers till this year that are even fit and they’re old, not industry approved. Um, so what I’m consider um that you allow these juniors and seniors an option to be able to finish their type of career in FFA. Um they deserve it. They deserve the full experience, not picked and choose by somebody, oh, you can’t do soils because I don’t have enough hours. Oh, you know, that wouldn’t allow doing for you. No, we we need to give them the full experience. We’re the home of the FFA jacket. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Courtney. Okay, Becca Hostler. She here. Oh, there she is. I was expecting to be like one of the first. Um, hi everybody. So, I’m new to Frederick Town. Just moved last August. Um, and I have two children. Um, I am an American green recipient and I’m originally from Shelby, Ohio. FA has changed the course of my life. Through four years in the program, I’ve gained life’s valuable skills, shop class, judging competitions, all things that have helped me discover my love for grooming livestock, which has eventually um changed into a passion for grooming pets. Today, I’m an entrepreneur. I own a mobile grooming business for six years, and I’m expanding again this year. Um I’m actually building out another mobile grooming van um piece by piece, you know, board by board. Um and this is all thanks to the welding. Um so, in our class, we have a shop class. Um and this is a couple times a week. our FFA instructor, he would teach us welding, um carpentry, plumbing, like just the essential stuff. And um it’s it’s helped me be able to run a business. Record keeping was a big thing. Um but FFA not only helped me just find a career, it actually gave me tools to build my life. Um and I can support not only myself but my family with that as well. During my junior sen junior and senior year, I also attended our local career center which is pioneer um for meat processing. Um and I was also able to participate in act three and four junior and senior year. Um thankfully because the way that we do it, which I’m just trying to think like outside the box for town. Um so the way they do it, we have a bus driver, our ACT teacher at Shelby High School, he um he works together with the career center. So they have morning and afternoon labs for junior seniors. And then during the lunch period, there’s three lunch periods from Pioneer. Um, and so the ad kids that still want to be able to participate, they get busted over to our home school, which is Shelby. Um, and we do, you know, just our class midday and then we come back and we just have a shorter lunch period. Um, and it’s really nice because, you know, because there are a lot fewer kids that want to do that because most of them want to do like um whatever their labs are at the So whether that’s welding or body shop work, stuff like that. Uh but the ad class that we did have there I want to say there was like 12 to 20 kids at all times which was nice. It just gives them an opportunity for the kids that do want to do a they do want to do um state American degree all that stuff through their home school. Um these upper classes are more than just electives. They give students a chance to apply what they learned, take on leadership roles and exp explorer real career paths through advanced essay projects and hand audience experiences. Um, and now as a mom of two children, I want them to have the same opportunity to be able to find their true passions and gain reward skills and pursue act if they choose to do that. They deserve deserve that change just like we all did. Um, so let’s keep giving students the same life changing opportunities I had. Opportunity to shape my future and I support my family. Thank you. [Applause] I’ve always been told that Shelby was God’s country, but welcome to Frederick Town. Um, okay. So, James Anderson. Hello, my name is James Anderson and I’m happy fourth grader. And I know a lot of you don’t know me. I am relatively new to the area. I moved here in 2014. So I’m just basically a concerned citizen who believes deeply in the value of FFA. Out of a small joke, my first date with my wife when she told me she was from town, I said, "Wow, that’s a moment." So, I was very excited to hear about that. But I care a lot about our students and their future. I want to speak it in support of keeping the ACT 3 and ACT 4 program. FFA is so much more than farming. It’s leadership, career explor exploration, confidence building, and hands-on learning. that offers the career development events aka the contest that expose students to real world skills from wildlife management to tractor troubleshooting. These experiences help shape futures. I know this by firsthand as a student of the North Union FFA chapter in Ridgewood located in Union County. I participated in the wildlife contests. That single experience led me to my current career path as the park naturalist for the Marian County Park District located in Marian County, Ohio, which most of you may know which were President Harding and Buckeye Chuck is from our state grounds. Today I also coach the wildlife team at River Valley FFA located in Calonia and I’ve seen multiple students from that school choose to create natural resources to become because of that contest. If we cut the ACT three and act four program, we risk closing the door of those opportunities, especially for the juniors and seniors uh just discovering their career paths. Yes, the enrollment might be low, but that’s a reason to invest, not to retreat. When I was in school, our a core program only had about 10 students, much like yourself, because of the local uh career center at Troy Rivers, but the impact was lasting. I also want to share that I currently fourth grader going on to fifth grade who attends the school district and I want him to have the same opportunities that his mom and dad, his grandparents and his great grandparents have through the FFA. It is a it is a tradition rooted in growth, service and leadership and I want that legacy to continue. Instead of cutting, let’s evaluate. Let’s look at what working of our other school districts here in Knox County and also some of the other surrounding counties um and work together to strengthen our program here. FA has changed my life. It has made me a leader and gave me direction. Our students deserve that same chance to grow, to lead, and to thrive. Thank you so much for listening. [Applause] Matthews, I saw you. There he is. Good evening everyone. Appreciate your time this evening. Come this evening. My name is Brian Matthews. Uh I’m a 2017 graduate and unfortunately seen coming from a place where I hope I wouldn’t have to this program this program has changed my life changed the trajectory of my education and my career to not be and this evening I just want to shed some light on how this program has impacted me how it’s impacted my career and I hope that there’s a number of students that will come to this program will have the same experience that I did. Again, I’m a 2022 graduate of the University of Akan. I graduated from town in 2017 and I received my degree electrical engineering. I currently work as the facilities electrical engineer at Corporation and I manage projects two to five million. I do all of the electrical projects for 1.8 million manufacturing space and I say that because to me select the next generation of engineers that come through our doors on a daily basis. I am reminded of the skills that I learned in FFA. My experiences from class and work that we did from shop and public speaking soils forestry and agriculture. They not only stand out work but also just in my academic career when I was at the University of what allowed me to get the GP that I did to land the job that I have. I can trace those directly back to the I got sitting in the classroom. Those experiences that you learn and technical vocational education are irreplaceable. You cannot get those. When I was in school, I felt as though we were position with competing with other electives career center. I felt like I had to fight for my agricultural education. Looking back, it made me competitive in my degree. And I’m so glad that I when I graduated a corporation, when I began looking over the first thing that I looked for, did they have an agricultural goal? I want to I want the next set of engineers that come through to be a different kind of alumni. But this evening, I’m not sure I can look a resume and see that. If there’s even one student here that chooses a STEM degree, I want you to know that your education at Predator Town through the FFA will set you apart from any other engineer and any other program you possibly go through. I find it concerning that our administration, our board is seeking to treat the symptoms of a bigger problem, not find the root cause. We should be investing in our students. Even if it’s one student, we should put whatever it takes into those people because it completely changed my life. It changed my whole outcome. Chang. And if there’s even one student here that can have that same impact, is there a dollar amount that can really that is frustrating and disheartening that students have to choose between their career and their agricultural education. It is frustrating and concerning that we are having to discuss the future of a handful of students here who want to pursue a career, who want to pursue their dreams and yet are having to question if that future will be there for them. These classes, agricultural education, are some of the most important courses that these students will go through. It is what helps form them to make them into the people that they will become. These students are so lucky that their school offers it. We should not be looking at reducing or taking that away, especially from a story and legacy program. My relatives helped found the FFA going back generations. My mother’s side. I’m incredibly proud of that tradition. I urge the board and the administration to invest in this program, not look at cutting, not looking at reducing any course because every single course matters. Would like to say one last thing to Mrs. Burton. Thank you so much for the opportunities that you afford and I hope that there’s numerous other students that will get the same outcome from their junior and senior level. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Ryan. Okay, Dr. Katie Goddess. She’s sure. Absolutely. So I [Music] already graduate of town schools and a study. I also recently graduated from the Ohio State College. Without my experiences in MFA, I would never have voluntered. And I definitely wouldn’t be the person I am today. My time in this organization has taught me how to communicate effectively with others and relate to other people. During my point of view, I spoke a lot about my lesson I learned and I remember seeing a smile on one of my interviewers. After bringing attention to it, I learned that she was simp because the ability to connect with others is a critical skill in practicing veterary medicine. Additionally, I was one of a team of four that competed in the National Environmental Natural Resources Competition in 2016. Not only did this mean I received a scholarship to put towards my education, but I also learn about the relationship between human health, animal health and our shared environment. This is a concept known as health and it is the idea that drove me to pursue a career in medicine because I wanted to make positive impact on my community by maintaining the health of animals and also protecting people. It’s connections like this that make an important pipeline to agriculture veterary medicine that are essential to protecting human health and Our state is currently facing a severe veterary shortage according to the USDA 28 of Ohio counties already have rural areas in need of veterary services. State University College Veterary Medicine has proposed the protect Ohio initiative which is a plan to combat this issue. Uh you’ll see on the last page of your hand up there that there are three pillars as part of this plan. One of which is to provide support of their journey. This begins with identifying students in their own high school and that are interested in programs like FA. I speak for many individuals in the veterary profession when I say that we believe that an FA program in good standing is a critical component to a student’s education and their success in their future career. Please consider continuing four years of agricultural education, giving the work study program as part of the ACE program and allowing middle school classes so that middle school students can be exposed to these ideas and to maintain heration. Doing so will carry on legacy of home jacket. Thank you all for your time. Thank you. [Applause] Okay, still getting used to these cheaters. Um, Bruce Grey. Good evening. [Music] I’m chairman [Music] board. I want to introduce myself. I’m Bruce Greg, alumni of Frederick County High School Full Transparency. I’m also on the county education service center and the house county I was previous two sons went through the program both state farmer one of them is an American farmer program was very valuable in their college experiences because of leadership responsibility and I also want to refer to FFA is the original steam or STEM program agriculture now is biology soil science genetics GPS modern technology. I just got out the tractor here attracts all our hybrids populations weather. So agriculture has changed tremendously over the years. I think what the board needs to look at is similar to what we need to reevaluate the curriculum. We’re facing stiff competition from the career center as you know it hurts the numbers for juniors and seniors. So we have to offer something to keep the students at town instead of going because I’m trying to draw people because in today’s environment dollars follow the students. So we’re trying to get more students to get more dollars. trying to keep students here and some of the other said you have 20 class because you never know what impact that class would have on future students. So my question to you as board is what does the board have to provide support for what facilities equipment you change your curriculum on and on. I think that hopefully you realize the importance of the other speakers and even if it’s one student for students. Thank you for your time. [Applause] Okay. Trying to do this. We have Mrs. Abby. Okay. We have three um more more uh speakers. Um, and we’re kind of staying with the pattern of um, lives here in the district currently. Um, so um, Mrs. Vanite, you are up next. She’s still here. There she is. My name is Cassandra. I have seven kids who are enrolled in graduated schools. I would like to thank president school board members and for allowing students and community members to speak and have our voice heard is a problem not just for the agriculture classes but AP and honors classes higher level classes anything that requires a little extra in the school are we sending to our students when we start making that they aren’t worth the extra effort and investment. Yes, one student is challenging but not impossible. It’s absolutely worth the involvement and investment. My son Jacob graduated in 2023. He is my middle child and when finding his own activities and identity, his own thing, he was a one. He was the only one in his grade who took that classes. Never was he told that he was not working in that it would be too difficult or logistically complicated. Instead, he took his classes often combined with other grades. He would do work outside of class time and spent at least some of his study time in the rooms even more so. He of a and was involved in FFA all four years. Agriculture and FFA provided Jacob with identity, goals, and purpose. Being a one gave Jacob the opportunity to have his teacher, Mrs. Curten, work a little closer with him. She was able to get to know him, challenge him, give him extra opportunities, and help him be more successful. Without her in the school full-time, this experience would not have been possible. being in a large larger class would not have allowed her to get to know him as well and help him out as much. She says she has just done her job, but anyone who has had the privilege of working with her and had her teach their kids know she does so much more than that. She does goes above and beyond more than her job. We are town where things can be done with small numbers where anything is possible with effort and creativity. Let’s show that creativity and effort to maintain and expand the ACT program to show our students the ACT program at Frederick Town is worth the time, effort, and investment. That the students, no matter how few they are, are worth the time, effort, and investment. Again, thank you for letting us speak and letting our voices be. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Abby Powell. Does some of us notice? Pause Eric. I’ll just say it for you. Good evening, Frederick Town School Board, administration, and community members. My name is Abby Pal. I’m a proud Frederick town alumni, a former FFA member, and before being promoted to full-time wife and mother, I was an ACT teacher and FFA adviser leading a successful program in a rural district much like Fredericktown. When I first heard of the proposed cuts to the agricultural education and FFA program, I was deeply saddened. As a student here, I experienced firsthand the lifelong benefits of a full-time a program. Later, as a teacher, I had the privilege of watching my own students grow and thrive through similar opportunities. Limiting the program to grades 8 through 10 would severely reduce those opportunities. Junior and senior years are when students are most invested, and this is when they apply what they’ve learned through leadership roles, coursework, and supervised agricultural experiences. It’s when they earn state FFA degrees, apply for national FFA scholarships, and master career development events. they work toward throughout their years. Removing access at the critical stage denies them the full benefits of the program. I believe there are creative solutions to some of these scheduling challenges. I’ve heard of zero period classes, work study options, senior capstone courses, and high school credit for eighth grade agriculture, food, and natural resource um classes. Additionally, expanding the AO aggra business pathway could also strengthen offerings and provide even more opportunity for Fredericktown students. It’s also important to note that agricultural education is part of career and technical education, CTE, which is funded differently than core academic classes like English, math, and science. Increasing enrollment in AED not only benefits students through hands-on learning and leadership, it brings in more CTE funding for the district. Those funds can support curriculum. My personal favorites were IC and case curriculum, program supplies, travel and content expenses. Agriculture is Ohio’s top industry today, contributing over $124 billion annually and employing one in seven Ohioans. FFA prepares students for real careers both in agriculture and beyond. I encourage the board to maintain a full agricultural education and FFA program through grades 8 through 12. Thank you for your time and dedication to the future of Fredericktown students. Um, if I can assist in any way, I would be more than happy to do so. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] I believe our last speaker is Jessica Cummings. Hi, my name is Jessica Cummings. I am an FFA member for 5 years now and I was heavily involved. I graduated last year and I now attend the University of Finland for the prevet program. And when I think back on my time in high school, I think about FFA. I would not be the person I am today without it and the people in FFA and the adviser. I was also in NHS and student council. And to be completely honest, those not leave an impact on me. I don’t remember them at all. I remember FFA. I remember the competitions. I remember the people. I remember the friends that I still have to this day. Um the difference with FFA is that it’s like a family. that I could bring on and have so many more opportunities outside the classroom. And um I my speaking my junior and senior year, it was the best years because my junior year I got third in a county competition within um hundreds of people for forestry. And my senior year I went to nationals for um urban soil out in Oklahoma. And that was one of the best trips of my life. Um the decision getting rid for getting rid of it for any grade is honestly ridiculous because there’s so many classes at town that have low class numbers. It’s a small school. You’re going to have that. It’s inevitable. It does not mean to it does not mean that the choice to do FFA should be taken away from the students at all. So, the home of the FFA jacket. So instead of getting rid of it or for any um any grades at all, we need to reinforce it and stand behind it because where the home FFA jacket is important. Thank you. [Applause] So I feel like we’re going to take just a couple minutes. the stretch, stand up, and we’ll reconvene here. And let’s just call it three minutes. We’ll do three minutes. We’re going to get started. Thank you, James. Okay. See if these guys are ready at the end of the table, too. Okay. So, we are to number six on the agenda, which is our special accommodations. Um, I will tell you that we have I don’t know that I’ve ever seen this um number this item empty. Um we are very fortunate um to live in a very uh giving community. Takes a lot of different um revenue streams small or large to help um supplement some of our programs. So you’ll see on here um a list u mostly from the PTO anonymous donation to NHS. I do want to um just say something about um inner church and our relationship um with them. this um each year they kind of help out with that and have also um met with um Heather and Mr. Chapman and myself about a little bit more of a long-term um funding relationship. So, we really appreciate appreciate that. So, if I could have a motion to approve our special accommodations. So, move second. Mr. Folk, yes. Mr. Napier, yes. Mr. Bman, yes. Mrs. Lindamman, yes. Mrs. winger. Yes. Okay. And number seven is our treasures report and then number eight will roll into our treasures consent agenda. Okay. Um I have several different items on the agenda this evening. The expenditures for the month of April um did exceed revenue by almost 68,000. This is due to some large expenditures for the month of April. Uh I did give you all the large expenditures for the month of April on one of my reports. We did make our first uh payment to um Norman Construction for the bus garage. And um we’ll be making I believe at least three more payments, two two payments in the month of May and then one more payment in the month of June. They are ahead of schedule. So hopefully by the end of July, right at the beginning of August, everything will be wrapped up and the bus garage will be open for business come the first day of school. I do have my insurance premiums on here. Uh we are receiving a 5% increase for medical premiums and a 1.27 increase for dental. This is the first time we have received a dental increase. Uh the when I went back and looked it’s been almost 18 years since we received an increase in dental the 1.27 was only like um 60 cents but still it is a slight increase. So for the 5% uh for medical so for single coverage for an employee it’ll go up uh $7.30 a month and for family it’ll go up $17.36 a month. Currently we have uh 33 single and 71 family that take our medical insurance. So out of the 45 we have right around 104 that take our insurance. Uh the other one I do have the bronze plans that is uh a higher deductible that I offer to employees that do not um either they may work under the 30 hour mark or they choose not to take our regular premium. So there is a high a higher end deductible they do offer. I have those on here as well as as well as the COPRA. And the last one of the last items I have is the ESC agreement. Uh this year it came in at 833,000 for the year. That’s about 10,000 higher than last year. And then my last item that I have is my five-year forecast. And I have some presentations up on um I gave you the whole 27 page packet that I will be submitted to due tomorrow. Um, but this is a condensed more in-depth look at the forecast. So, the forecast really is a planning tool that reflects one year of actual data and then five years of estimates. This forecast I am going to focus on the month of May and how we’re going to end fiscal year 25, but I will speak um of how Bill will affect us moving forward. So, uh the forecast right now we I am projecting that we will end fiscal 25 with the surplus of a little over a million dollars but by the end of the forecast by fiscal 29 a revenue shortfall is going to be right around $980,000. uh as the state of Ohio proceeds through its bienium budget process at this time of preparing the forecast, it is um not quite possible not quite yet possible to determine the final outcome of the legislation which is expected to be enacted in late June or early July. As a result, the district has prepared I have prepared uh three financial statements, three forecasts, but I am only presenting one this evening, but I am presenting all three to OD. Uh they’re each based on different scenarios. So the scenario I am presenting tonight is based on the 30% of expenses. Um so they’re suggesting in House Bill 96, it’s 30% of the previous year’s expenditures that should be your starting cash bail balance for the new fiscal year. So um I will get right into that. This slide here is basically I am just projecting how fiscal 25 will end. And like I said it does have a revenue surplus of a little over 1 million. So it’s 1,ion39,000. Um we started out with our cash balance of 9.8. and we’ll end right around at 10.8. Slide two. This is a breakdown of all revenues for the general fund. Total property taxes makes up 39% of total revenue. State aid makes up 53% and other revenue which consists of interest, Medicare reimbursement, and tuition makes up 8% of all total revenue for the district. This slide represents all expenditures for the district. Our largest expenditure is personnel cost which it includes salary and benefits for all employees. That’s consumes 73%. purchase services such as utilities, all contracted services such as all ESC services or behavioral services makes up 14% while supplies, capital outlay, um those are the Chromebooks that we purchase and debt makes up the remaining 13% of all expenditures for the district. Um here you can see that expenditures slowly start to surpass um revenue. It really happens in fiscal 26 where the revenue takes a nose dive. That is where the 30% of total pro total expenditures from the previous year kick in. So um House Bill 96 said a school district cannot carry over more than 30% of the previous previous year’s expenditures. So for fiscal year 25 it is projected that district will expend 14.72 million. So Frederick County should have a carryover balance of $4 million. To make this happen, the House bill will eliminate property tax revenue from the district. The district will lose approximately $5.2 2 million in property tax revenue over fiscal over fiscal years 26 and 27. With the loss of revenue, the district’s cash balance will drop by approximately 6.9 million by fiscal year 2029. And that is represented by the second graph as you can slowly see it starts to decline. our revenue shortfall. Um, the district will lose in fiscal year 26, we will lose 3.9 million in 26, which is a 25% drop in revenue, and an additional 1.2 million in 2027, which is a 19.2 drop. From here on out, it will be honestly almost physically impossible for the school to bounce back or gain the revenue that we lost over those two fiscal years. Um, we will have to if this house bill does go into effect, we will have to maintain that 30 day or 30% balance from here on out. Re Oh, do you have a question? Okay. Uh revenue compared to expenditures. Uh this slide shows the drop in revenue that will happen in 2026. And you can see that expenditures are basically almost flatlined. Expenditures do continue to outpace revenue due to the drop in property tax revenue. But yeah, um yeah, the the expenditures just continue. Me there’s slight increases. It’s it’s not even quite one and a half% that the expenditures continue to increase but the drop in revenue does continue to happen in days cash on hand uh we did pass a cash reserve policy that was uh basically mandated by the state we passed it last year with where we stated that we we will always maintain a cash balance of 90 days with this house bill by 2029 We will be under that cash reserve balance by one day. We will be down to 89 days of cash on hand. We started uh fiscal 20, we left 2024 with 238 days cash on hand. In 2025, we have 278 days and then it just slowly declines. In 2026, it’s 192. Then 129, 115, all the way down to 89 days cash on hand. and district educated enrollment. Uh uh the district has lost a total of 68 kids or 68 students since 2020. It is projected I have projected that the district will lose another 29 students of for 2026 and with an additional 19 in fiscal year 2027 and then additional loss of 10 for fiscal 2028. Um these projections are basically based on live birth data coming into the district. Uh state aid is basically based on educated students in the district as the number of students decreased amount of state aid also decreases. In house bill 86 the the state aid it or the state is proposing that we get so much money per pupil and that is built into the state budget. they have built in a 0% increase for um per pupil funding from here on out. So, no increase in state aid for per pupil funding. And the demographics uh here it’s you can see that we spend um the district 12,789. That’s what it cost the district to educate a child here in Frederick County. By 2029, it will be um 18,124. That’s an 18% increase. So, a state aid either stays stagnant where they hold us to 2025 funding levels um but also with the decrease in property taxes, the revenue will continue to go down, but our expenditures will continue to increase. This one breaks it down to what it costs to educate a student per day. So, it is $71 per day to educate a student here at Frederick Town. Resident property tax. Um, we get out of that 71, $24.14 is what comes from property tax. The remaining amount of 46.86 is paid by the state. And this this one, which is a little hard to read, um it is my forecast in general. So, my forecast I do have a projecting that for this year we will end with revenue surplus of 1 million but with the 30% um carryover balance as the first line there at on line 1.01 uh you can see that general property tax collection is 5.2 million. In 2026, it’s estimated that we’ll collect 1.9 million and then 2027, 3.8. It is projected that going back to 2028, we return to those funding levels, but at that time, we’ve already lost over $5 million in revenue. Um, and our expenditures, like I said, they they are almost they’re not completely flatline, but our expenditures continue to increase. So by the end of the forecast by 2029 our ending cash balance is projected to be 3.8 million which is um like I said one day short of our cash reserve policy. uh the if if for whatever reason the whatever state budget that is passed in the at the end of June, beginning of July, I will be bringing a new forecast to the board for approval and I will be submitting that corrected forecast at that time. But at this time, this is the forecast that I know um moving forward that is held to be true. And that is all that I have. Okay. Well, so that because we have some folks in here that know how to run a business meeting. These are FFAS. I’m just kidding. We do, too. But, um, we’re going to start with a a motion to approve the treasur’s consent agenda. Sure. First and second. Be the second. Okay. We can have some discussion. Sure. Okay. So, I have questions, but I just want to throw stuff at me. Um, I just want to also say that that’s a lot up there. Um, and Heather doesn’t just like she presented that in whatever how many minutes. There’s a ton of time that goes into it. Our district also uses a software, is it called? Focus front line. Frontline um to help with some of that. So, she’s not just googling, you know, what expenses are going to be and all those things, but really there’s a lot that goes into it, a lot of scenarios. Um, she can plug in um things like enrollment. Yes. Um I can put in um enrollment, what what the state numbers are projecting to be, what uh the state or any kind of cuts because right now there are three separate House bills that are out there. House Bill 96, which is the most impacting that will hit the district. That is the 30% of the previous year’s expenditures that ex that will be our cash balance moving forward. Um there is House Bill 66, which really won’t impact us that much because we do not have an income tax. Um but there are several school districts in Knox County that do have income tax. Uh and then House Bill 186, which affects mill and millage would be then um decreased based on the GDP and that one um a school district that it basically does not allow the school district to grow over the GDP. So for 2026 the GDP is right now projected to be 13% moving forward it’s 9%. So if a school district goes through a reval or a trienal and it grew 20% this house bill would not allow any district to grow beyond 13 which I do understand that one quite a bit especially through the rebal that we just went through two years ago. Um and that is one of the scenarios that I am sending to OD. And then the other scenario that I’m sending to OD is one as if nothing changed as if no hospital’s role in the four. This is what it would be moving forward. So, Don and I are currently serving together on the finance committee. So, we typically do that reporting reporting out a little bit later since we’re talking about finance. I thought it might make sense to just talk about a little bit of that. Currently, I want to stress so everybody understands, school board, we’re losing $5 million in the next two years and a school district our size. That’s a heck of a lot of money. A lot of money. There’s going to be a lot of tough choices we as board members, administration are going to have to make. But the realization is get talk to your legislators. You know, I’ve written them several times. Call them. But to cut this district over $5 million in two years, that is a lot of money. And I’m not looking forward. I don’t know if I’m going to run again. I’m still baiting that right now. I was kidding on that salute. But we’ve got a lot of hard work to do right up here, too. So, we’re kind of like I would call it maybe not quite halftime when it comes to House Bill 96. So, that is the governor’s um budget. There’s a lot of things. Actually, when it came out of the House, it had like 2,000 amendments. It’s 5,000 pages long. Um, so it is now living in the Senate Finance Committee, but alongside that work that’s being done on that committee, we’ve got, you know, education committees and other bills that legislators are proposing. Um, so there’s a lot a lot going on. I’ve said the last few board meetings, if you are bored, can’t sleep, flip on the Ohio channel. Um, and you can watch um and and see the testimonies. Um there we have um as a district Heather has submitted some some written testimony. Um I attended a legislative uh conference where there were um some representation from schoolboard members just trying to really educate um there’s a lot of talk about this cash reserve which sounds like a lot of money but um when you’re trying to run a district and you know of all sizes that’s the thing we have 6 okay 11 don’t quote me on that it might be eight or something but we have 600 districts in Ohio us and we’re all unique. I think we’ve identified that tonight like you know in our in the beginning part of our meeting. So funding is it does follow kids and it’s the actually we we felt like it was a good thing I believe seven years ago when they started the conversation four years ago when it was implemented there was like this phase in of school fair funding and so um somebody had mentioned earlier CTE. Absolutely. Career tech education. So, it cost I don’t sit on the career center board. Obviously, that would be a really big conflict, but I do I’m the liaison that goes to their board meetings. It costs about $22,000 to educate a CTE student. So, we do get every I mean the career center gets a different funding rate. We also do. So um for example our project lead the way anything that is categorized as a CTE or our or VOAG um we do receive more dollars. So it is beneficial it is beneficial for a lot of reasons um but funding also to have um a to have those programs thriving because we do um we don’t want to to give that funding up. Um what else did I want to say with that? So again we’re at halftime. It’s living in the Senate. It’ll come out of that. I believe it goes, they anticipate voting on that by like June 11th, but then it’ll get kicked into like a what is it called? Conference committee, I think, where it’ll get debated by both the House and the Senate and it’s supposed to be finalized around like June 25th and they are doing more testimony on Wednesday. So, the There’ll be um quite a few school districts down at the state house on Wednesday to provide their testimony as well. That’s a big list. Yes, I saw a list. Yeah, piggy back and I was at a school board conference last weekend down at Columbus for the one finance. I would get finance away. It’s not only us. It affects almost 90% of the school system. Am I correct using that figure? Yes. Are going to be affected by this. So it’s just not us alone standing the alarm and saying this this is statewide. Uh you know for Dublin and Tangi they’re fine. Most of us like I said 90% of the school districts are going to struggle the same thing that we all are looking at right now. So we’re all in this together but it’s it’s a tough road. The other just real quick is the way I understand this also is if it goes through we’ll all have a decreased tax budget or tax bill. Tax bill will be less. Yes. And then in two years it’s going to and there’s a re rebalance. So guess what? Your taxes are going to go sky high. So your property taxes. So that’s why this is all connected so much right for close to maybe two years. tax bills will you’ll still get the tax bill but no school tax will be listed on your tax bill. It will be library, EMS, fire, everything else that has a levy just no school. And then in 2028 when by that time we will be through another rebal and so you’re going to be hit with a tax bill plus an increase because we’ve gone through another rebal. So that could be Yep. So county auditors are not they’re not loving this because guess who’s going to get the phone call because it’s it’s I mean it’s borderline smoke and mirrors as tax reform and that’s not really what it is. It might feel like it for a hot minute and then it’s going to come right back and their phones are good. So the county the county auditor there’s a lot of you know pieces and parts and people that are involved in um these decisions and Heather has to report all kinds of things. So um you know she had presented to Don and I several um kind of scenarios scenarios and we feel like today um this is probably our you know the best um one to submit to the state. We’re hopeful quite honestly like we’re hopeful that I’m hopeful that it will but we want it to change. We don’t want it to stay right you know where it is. Um yeah there’s as you said there’s many pages to the house bill but this one is probably the most drastic um house that I have experienced. Yeah. Again, thank you for breaking the complex and somewhat of a sane program. We could follow along, but I’m still looking for that gray hair, too. Yeah, it’s fair. It’s there. Thank you. You’re welcome. Yeah. Anybody have anything else? Or Shel, from a legislation standpoint that ties to this one? I mean, that’s pretty much my legislative report, so You’re welcome. Thanks, Heather. Anyway, but no, I and we pretty much covered it. So, we hate to say stay tuned because that’s an uncertainty for everybody when we’re in May, but it’s it’s really stay tuned and um across the state for public education, which by the way educates almost 90% of the our children in the state still. So, it’s a huge impact for all of us. We need to be united um united in it. Okay. guys feel good? Named good? Yeah. Okay. All right. Let me get my thing flipped back over. I think we’re ready to do roll. Mrs. Winger? Yes. Mr. Napier? Yes. Mr. Bman? Yes. Mr. Folk? Yes. Mrs. Lenderman? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for your patience, everybody. I did warn you this is a full agenda tonight. Oh, actually, can I just um say one other quick thing? I’m sorry. back to the it was actually in her report, but the Knox County ESC contract that big number 833,000. So that’s we’re able to utilize our regional um ESC educational service center. Um so we get some of our um physical like PTA aid well PT therapy OT um aids speech. So um Mr. Caputo, this is kind of right up his his alley. Um but just that number is a big number. I I just wanted to make sure everybody knows that’s where that comes from. And it’s actually a savings to the the district to be able to um have those shared um services. We of course love stuff inhouse. So anybody out there’s a speech path pathologist. It’s a good that’s a good profession to be in right now. You can So anyways, I apologize for jumping back. So Mr. Chapman, look for superintendent report and then your consent agenda. Yes. Thank you. Good evening everyone again. And also I just want to commend especially all our speakers here this evening. Thank you for coming out and sharing um sharing your experiences with FFA and and being honest with us but also Austin Izzy outstanding job. Thank you. Um I really appreciate the courage to stand up here and to speak. So great great work there. Impressive overall. As far as superintendence report is concerned, this is also a a big week for our high school. Um, I’m going to look over to Mr. Shoemaker here quickly. And are we ready to go? I guess we got kind of a big event coming up here this week, maybe. Yeah. Thursday, Friday. Uh, graduation Friday at 7 p.m. the gym. Um, we have back senior awards on Thursday night. Back at 6:15 to 7, seniors 7 to 8. We’ll be getting ready this week. right after we have our underassment awards Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. that getting the stage set up and sounded ready to go for graduation on Friday. It’s hard to believe a lot of a lot of things going on right now that being the pinnacle here to finish out the week. As far as the superintendent’s consent agenda, um if you look here on items A and B, we do have two resignations um that we need to act upon and accept. Also on item C, uh we have a motion to approve a special board meeting on Thursday, June 26, 2025, and that would be for a final budget hearing that would be scheduled for 7 a.m. And I believe we’re confirmed there with the entire board as far as that time, but that is when Heather will will present her closeout information so we can wrap up the year. um we try to push that as close to the end of the month as possible so she’s not changing and making additions corrections. So uh that would be item C. We also have um a motion there with again the New Life Community Church for building rental for the senior class lunchon. That is an annual event there on on Thursday, May 15th. Uh item E and F as well as G are all um approvals for contracts for student services from aiology services to behavioral analysis service and then also another uh central Ohio behavior consulting services. We would also then on item H um we would be asking to renew a five-year contract with Final Site. That would be the host for our website and that’s for $4,500 annually. That would all that what would come with that also would be a refresh of our current website and some work there. I know Brettton would have Mr. Wolf would have quite a bit of work here along with a lot of us there, but want to get that approved. We also have a motion for a first reading of the handbooks for the for next school year. That’d be our athletic handbook, parent student handbook, and also transportation handbook. Item J is a motion to approve the Neola policies that were we presented this um batch last month and we omitted these four policies from that agenda and we need to include those in and get those approved here. Item K is a student insurance from student protective agency for the 2526 school year. and then also a long list of college credit plus for 2526 as far as the following are the students that would be attending those courses. Going on to the next page there. We also have item MO a motion to approve the the following student summer custodial staff at 1070 per hour LPDC committee for 2526 year school year and also our two college credit plus teachers that provide college credit plus in-house and Mrs. Grim and Mr. Snyder. Item P would be science of reading professional development and then item Q are over two overnight camps scheduled for this summer for boys basketball and football. We have on item R classroom field trip volunteers for the 2425 school year. And then also item S is a recommendation there for employment. Um, which is is neat to see at this point. And I know we have quite a few other uh well, we’ve had we’re actually a lot of interviews going on right now. I look over to Mrs. Sackman and she was interviewing here this afternoon too to replace some other positions uh that we have open. So, a lot of work here going in there, but excited about our new people coming on board. Item T would be then just to adjust contracts for the 2526 school year. As you can see there was Cindy Truax reducing down to part-time and social worker, Mr. Brown, middle school principal and K12 curriculum coordinator adjusting his contract as well. You have then on item U an adjustment on supplemental contracts for still this current school year. just as far as the weight training uh is concerned on those supplementals. And then when you go to item B, you’re looking at um the supplemental contracts uh for the 25 26 or the next school year. And you can see a long list of those essentially for your fall supplemental positions. Item W is a motion to approve a three-year agreement with OC local number 323. This agreement would include a 50 cent base salary increase for years one and two and a 40 cent base increase for year three. The contract dates would be July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. That’s our collective bargain agreement with OC. Item X is a motion to approve those then salary schedules effectively or respectively um for nonun classified employees, you can see there who they are by position as listed. And then non-union certified employees would receive 3% base increase for 2526 school year. And you can see those uh who those in respective positions are right there. But this is always an exciting one. Motion to approve a $5,000 EW scholarship awarded to Brillan O’Neal. She will be attending Kent State University and entering the the field of education wants to become a teacher and that is always exciting if we can award that and recognize those individuals to get into this profession. We have other items to be voted on separately. Number 11 then A would be other LPDC committee members for next school year. Motion to approve then additional student summer school custodial staff. Item C would be college credit uh students participating in college credit plus classes for next year. And then item D uh for our collective bargain agreement for certified employees is a motion to pro approve a one-year collective bargain agreement with FBA for July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. The agreement would include a 3% base salary increase for year 1 only July 125 through June 30th, 2026. Well, I don’t know why you didn’t get to Z X Y and then there’s no Z. Couldn’t find one more thing to to put in there. So, let’s start with um a motion to approve. I have to like flip back a couple pages there. Just want to get to the right item number here. Get your consent agenda item number 10. Items A through Y. If I could have a motion to approve and then we’ll do discussion. Second. You want discussion? I do. Well, my only my only I guess not really discussion or request is I think it’s interesting something else for us to follow probably was part of the finance thing is you guys notice all the CCP kiddos that we have which is a great thing um that is and no complaints but that is an expense that typically falls pretty heavy on school districts and it’s been out there for about a decade now and so the um state is looking at like a working group to just kind of um get higher education involved, get the public ed involved so that there’s conversation about what that looks like and the expense um that it’s costing and it’s fine. We’ll take the expense, but the state needs to give us more money to help out, you know, with that. So um and stay away from the cash reserve, right? So anyways, just wanted to to make mention that that program has been it was called something else before CCP, but it’s been around for about a decade and there is a work they are recommending a working group to take a look at that. So just wanted to mention that for the good of the group otherwise any other I was just going to comment good to see some more of our alums coming back to coach with us. Yeah. So on the athletic end. Okay. Anything else? I think we can do a roll on that. Okay. Mr. Bman, yes. Mr. Co. Yes. Mrs. Lindamman. Yes. Mr. Nier. Yes. Mrs. Winganger. Yes. Okay. And then um number 11. Um items A through D. We have to do one at a time. Oh, one at a time. Okay. So number 11. Oh yes. Item A. Need a motion to approve. Second. Mr. Napier. Yes. Mrs. Winger. Yes. Mr. Bowman. Abstain. Mr. F. Abstain. Mrs. Lindman. Yes. Okay. And number 11, item B, motion to approve. So move. Second. Mr. Napier. Yes. Mr. F. Yes, Mr. Bman. Yes, Mrs. Lindamman. Yes, Mrs. Winger. Abstain. Item 11, letter C. Motion to approve. So move. Second. Mr. Napier. Yes. Mr. Bman. Yes. Mr. F. Yes. Mrs. Lenderman. Yes. Mrs. Wer. Okay. And number 11, item D. Motion to approveive agreement. Second. Mr. Napier, yes. Mrs. Winger, yes. Mr. Bman, stay. Mr. Faulk, yes. Mrs. Lenderman, yes. Okay. Good to see our kiddos coming to work for us and stuff, too. All right. So number 12, which is the board consent agenda, we have um item A, which is a motion to approve our treasures contract at 2% for years 25 and 26 and 26 and 27. So move second. Mr. Napier, yes. Mr. Folk, yes. Mr. Bman, yes. Mrs. Lindon, yes. Mrs. Winger, yes. Thank you. Okay. Item number 13, which is one of my favorites, which is our committee reports. Um, these are important to us. These are ways for the board members and our administrators to be able to report out um several of while we all serve on different committees that give us community connections. And I’m going to try to find my notes. I apologize. How about we skip myself and go to Mr. Bellman and I’ll find my notes. Yep, that sounds good. Uh, so we had a workdev meeting uh April 23rd. Um, little update on Knox aspect. So we have four Freddy’s freddies um in Knox aspect. A little bit about Knox aspect. Um students participate students uh that participate are actively learning about local manufacturing companies, gaining valuable insight into potential career paths and developing a deeper understanding of the industry’s role in the community. So we have 22 students across Knox County. Four of those were Frederick Town like I mentioned. Uh the positive response from students so far highlights the value on hands-on local career exploration opportunities and the program continues to serve as a key connector between education and the workforce in Knox County. Um I think I mentioned this in our last meeting. They’ve established um a business advisory council in addition to the um monthly work dev meeting. So the superintendents will be meeting quarterly um to cover you know any hot topics or just address things that have gone on uh in the previous couple months. Um so that is happening as well. Um Brandy Booth from Ohio Means Jobs um mentioned there’s been a notable rise in healthcare related openings. Um there’s also a lot of office based positions that are currently available across the region. Um I have they’ve got a an app now. I have that up here if anybody would like to scan that or take a look at that. Um or you can get on Ohio Means Jobs Knox County’s website, but they do have an app now. A lot of good information um there with Ohio Means Jobs. And then uh United Way of Knox County, they are having a spring community resource fair um this Thursday, 1 to 4 pm at New Life Naz. Um, basically like it’s going to cover how Knox County’s nonprofits are addressing uh hunger, housing, and healthcare. So again, that’s 1 to 4 p.m. this Thursday. Ed New Life Naz and uh Mount Vernon um and uh Walt Lewis reported out on that. And then our next meeting, we’re not having one in May. Next meeting will be June 4th at uh 8 a.m. So awesome. Yep. Appreciate that. I found my notes. So, back to me. Um, I had mentioned before I typically attend the Knox um, county career center u meeting and they always indulge me with an opportunity to share all things Fredericktown which I’m always happy happy to do and always have lots to report out um, to that board. Um I was not able to attend their meeting um last Thursday because I had an opportunity to watch some of our own students um present their capstone projects um here from the project lead the way program. So they did a phenomenal job. I know you’re not surprised by that. So nothing to report out um from the career center board meeting. Um I’m also the um board member that attends the Frederick Town Community Development Foundation. There is a lot going on there. So, I’m just going to read a few of these things so I don’t miss anything. Um, the design committee, which I serve as co-chair. Um, we hope you’ve noticed that we’ve gotten actually I don’t know that they’re all up. I noticed maybe that a couple weren’t, but the military banners um have have gone up. Um, we also, um, have purchased new flag poles and brackets and flags. Um, I have to say you don’t quite recognize how maybe f faded your flag is until you have nice bright shiny flags up. So, um really appreciate the partnership that we have with the village and um the employees that are kind enough well they’re they’re doing it a wonderful job getting that stuff up. So, hanging baskets, we’re going to be picking those up. They can be picked up actually um at some point this week. Um and those are going to be flower baskets that are going to hang downtown on our new street. Light poles um which I think is going to really add some color to that downtown um corridor. Uh we are in the final stages um of ordering some planters that are going to really be some statement pieces on the sidewalks of the streetscape and I think that’s really just going to kind of finish off the impression when you come into town. So super excited about that. The first Saturday of each month you probably all have noticed we have merchants um up on the square. this continues to really be successful and brings not only you know them into um our community but additional um patrons um into patron um our local businesses farmers market um is going to be kicking off June 5th. So that will run June through August every Thursday 4 to 6:30. Um we’re bouncing that over now that we have the fireplace um in place. over there. It’ll be on the caddy caddy corner from that, which is where it was at last year. Uh FCDF and the parks department, we’re gearing up for the Fourth of July event already. Good partnership there. Um we do have FCDF has a great uh Facebook page, so I would encourage you to jump on there and the website, like I had mentioned last month, we’re in the process of revamping and refreshing that look. Emily Shipley, um actually a Frederick Town alum, um is is the downtown experience coordinator for the county, um had had a baby girl and is going to be on maternity leave for the next few months. Um and then Sam Filkins um was named the Knox Area Development Foundation’s new president. And Sam is he served as the vice president um for that organization and was promoted after Jeff Godkkey um moved on to Gahana to fill a similar role to what he served here in Knox County. Jeff’s continuing to live here in Knox County, but he’s going to be serving Gahana. We’re super excited to to have Sam because we’ve been fortunate to have a great relationship um with him with him here in the village of Frederick Town or just Frederick Town in general. He’s got a real heart for um the municipalities that surround, you know, the monster of Mount Vernon. So um we do appreciate Sam and um we know well we won’t let him let us fall off his radar. So and that’s a lot and that’s all I have for FCDF. So now we are on to policy liaison. You guys probably didn’t meet. We don’t we don’t meet until September. Okay. And Shelley, anything addition to House Bill 96? Um, I mean, I just I guess I’ll be brief here. Um, there are Well, Heather actually talked about um a few of the other bills that are proposed right now that could potentially affect school funding. So, I’m just going to list them off again just so that everybody can kind of be watching them. But that’s House Bill 186. Um, that’s the one that affects uh the millillage floor. Um, that’s the one that probably has the most potential to impact us in addition to House Bill 96. Uh, right now there’s also House Bill 129 and Senate Bill 66. Um, both of those propose very similar um similar things. Right now, neither one of them, the way they’re written will probably affect our district too much, but just wanted to throw them out there because um they could always be amended and suddenly have an effect on us. Uh the last one is House Bill 28. Um that one actually eliminates uh replacement property tax levy authority. Um instead, it would require districts seek renewals with increases uh to capture current property tax valuation. Um, and that one has had a little bit more progress than some of the others. It’s actually, I think, passed through the House. It’s in the Senate right now. Um, and then the last thing I just wanted to mention, this is not really school funding related. This is Senate Bill 62. Um, and then also House Bill three. They’re both the school bus safety acts. One’s the House version, one’s the Senate version. Um, I think they maybe have merged those or they’re starting to merge them or anyway. Um but basically those are the bills that allow the civil penalties for um illegally passing school buses. So I think I reported on that previously. Um but anyway, just wanted to mention that one again because it is kind of moving along. Um so I kind of anticipate that there’s probably going to be more on that one later. So that is that’s the short version of the legislative report this month. Awesome. Thank you. Okay. Um letter E, any um additional board member reporting out? I’m just going to make it short. Uh I went to the USBA conference. I mentioned that last week. Uh I’m sure of a name out of the past. I only see two people out there. at the G says, "Do you remember John Fasel, our old basketball coach?" Julie Fiesel, his daughter-in-law, was the presenter in there. So, I went up, she saw Freddy Todd right away right off the bat. So, John’s doing well and as I said, the only three of us probably remember John, but he’s okay and doing fine. So, second thing I I went to a session uh Todd Spitter did it. He’s the new superintendent of Cardington. Uh, you know, gave a talk. He was bragging about his FFA, all the kids that got there, blah blah blah. When he was done, I went up and he looked, "Oh, Frederick Town." I said, "Yeah, Frederick Town." I said, "That’s the home of the FFA jacket." Yeah, I know. So, you know, again, it’s just out there, but I just thought I’d throw that out because they before they But yeah, so anyways, he’s got some great ideas, just school culture, working it up. If everyone wants to get different ideas, another perspective from another school system or science, what they’re doing to their program, I have his phone number right here. And he’s a super guy. He’s willing to talk to anybody. So just another source if you want to I’m going to throw that out and if you want to check into that I’ll give you his number and see what happens. So anyways that’s there’s much more but I’m going to pass on that. I would we’re going to give board members your number at other places to pass out. I love it. I love it. Anybody else? Yeah. I just had a quick report out um just on the district leadership team. Uh they met on April 24th was just a very brief meeting just kind of wrapping up the school year. Um But one thing I just wanted to share with you guys and I I did kind of pass out a little flyer here um was just you know their they discussed goals moving forward. Um so of course they’ve got you know the vision mission goal which we’re all familiar with. That’s you know kind of our strategic plan that we kind of develop as a board. We talked about that. Um that’s been in place for quite a long time. Um but in addition to that they have uh identified focus areas um that they have been uh using um to kind of I guess develop um their their goals as a group. So um I’m not going to read them but I wanted to make sure that I put those in front of you guys because they did talk about that and decided not to change those um moving forward for the next school year. they’re going to continue with those same focus areas just to kind of um just for continuity stability reasons um and just to kind of keep the forward momentum going on it. So just thought it was important for us to be aware of what those focus areas are so that we can make sure that we’re aligned um as a board. So that’s all. Anybody else? Um, I’ll just add, you know, last week we were able to spend a little bit of time with our transportation department. It was um, bus trans school transportation appreciation day followed with intertwined with um, teacher appreciation week. We kind of celebrated as um, staff appreciation and appreciate. we all kind of take our parts, the board and the admin and FBA and PTO and kind of all join in and sugar up our I guess the way to our staff’s heart is definitely through the stomach. I mean, except I think you guys did something practical. The rest of us fed them. So, um that was fun. And then, um obviously Mr. Shoemaker already mentioned it, but we’re looking forward as a board spending some time with the seniors um serving them lunch and um getting getting some time. Last year was my first time, you know, being a part of graduation and I wasn’t expecting I didn’t have, you know, my own kid graduating or anything, but was a little emotional and kind of reflecting on um, you know, all the the great students we have out there and what’s next in life for them. So, I think we’re all looking forward to getting into celebration mode as a board. So, okay. Sorry if I stole any administration thunder over there. I apologize. But if we could do um letter F and it looks like we’ll just go in line with the order there. Mrs. Sapman, you want to start for us? This is our last week of school. day. Tomorrow um we finished our state and district testing last week and um on Wednesday of last week we had our night at the museum that celebrates the learning of our students and the many projects that they have done. And um fifth grade has their first band concert and both were attended and fifth grade band is they are doing marvelous. Our music department does amazing with them and um just so I always enjoy listening to them. Um and then our outdoor learning lab, our um team of Colleen Gray and Julia Greaser have really worked with our students and our staff to revitalize that area and get it set up and ready for um use um in the fall. And our garden um squad, as we’d like to call it, um will have some opportunities to volunteer during the summer months to keep that and ready for projects um across all grade levels when we come back in the fall. And on Tuesday after our staff workday next week, um over 28 members of our staff have volunteered their day on May 20th to get trained in packs. Um which is a a good behavior game and positive um reinforcement. And I’m excited that we’ve had that many staff volunteer um their time because they the need and the improvement for that and that’ll be incorporated into part of our um program for next year and that’s available to us from a grant from our partnership with Texas and large hospital. Okay, Mr. Caputo. Sure. From student services, um three big items I’d just like to share with everybody. Um the first being just some data. Um Shel mentioned some information coming from our DT. Some of the other information I shared with the DT at our our last meeting. Just some end ofear stats on how we’re doing with certain things. Um one um our evaluation team reports that our school psychologist completed. Just want to kind of bring that to highlight and mention Molly Ryan, our school psychologist on there. Uh basically it boils down to she completed 55 evaluations. Of those 55, those are every three years we have to complete an evaluation on students who have disabilities and have an IEP. So every three years we complete those and of those 55 um 10 of those uh students exited services which is a good thing to you know students are meeting their goals and being able to accomplish what they need to and moving on as far as that goes. The other thing I just wanted to highlight is last year at this time we have a this year we have a veteran school psychologist. She did 55 evaluations which is would make a young school site cry. Okay. Uh last year we had uh our school site was able to do 25 evaluations and we had to contract out for the rest of them and we did more than uh 55 last year. Okay. So that’s a bonus for us as a district. uh from that perspective that we have a really good school psychologist that’s doing the work there. The second thing is some of our systems to help support kids. Just to share some data with you, this is slightly different since I last reported, but our intervention systems that we go and provide for students. U we had 41 students districtwide that were referred to a team. Um 31 of those students continue to meet goals and did not need supports anymore, which is a good thing. Uh, three of the students that we were working with qualified under section 504 and got 504 plans. Uh, 10 students were referred for initial evaluations. That’s going to change to 11 and most likely that will be nine qualifying and one did not qualify. The one that did not qualify I’m not concerned at all about because that was done as a baseline due to medical issues. So, when we talked about doing evaluations. Uh I’m sorry that this is taking a little bit longer. It’s a long night in general. Uh we we want to have a very high percentage of the other thing we want is we don’t want to have a lot of students coming to the team getting uh and then getting evaluated and not qualified. Okay. Um that’s our data piece that we shared. One thing I wanted to share you talked about this the staffing speech therapy. Right now we do not speech therapist for next school year. Uh working with three different contract services. Um and just to kind of paint a real quick picture of how we were able to get through this year, we were able to find a speech therapist through one agency that were going to stay through December. They decided they’re going to stay through February. Then they were like enough liking us enough and we got them to stay till um April 25th. Okay. Not the whole year. Uh but we were able to take our part-time person and she was able to cover the rest of the district for the rest of the year. Okay. So, that’s how tough it is to kind of keep speech therapists and kind of keep them going. I just want to paint that picture. Right now, I’m working with three different contract service agencies to try to get a speech therapist. I had one interview that didn’t pan out. I have another another interview this week and I’m hoping to have with that which is a new agency that we’ve never worked with before. Okay. Um the last thing I wanted to share is programwide big picture. Uh it goes from transportation to facilities. Um within next year, I thought it was two years, but actually next year it’s going to start. are going to have uh five students uh with disabilities that will be needing to be accessed all of our properties uh new wheelchairs. Okay. Um so that’ll go it’ll hit all three buildings when we um to make sure that we’re looking at those things. Um we’ve already started the process of working with transportation. Kale knew it beforehand. um student we won’t be school age for two years but we do have a preschool that that student will be attending and they’ll be accessing those services through us. So that piece we got covered working with Neil and facilities because we’re going to be needing to look at two changing rooms within the district and revamping those to make sure that those are equipped so that we can provide services. And then we’re also looking at all the areas in the district to be able to access classrooms. Um, playground. Playground’s a big one because that equipment is getting a lot older, starting to fall apart. So, we have some big things to be looking at as far as accessing the district for our students with disabilities. I knew I threw a lot at you right there. I did have a lot in my board report, but I wanted to highlight those three big items. Anybody have any questions for me? That bus, the bus that we ordered, this last one is going to be have accessible bus, but my understanding is that it takes about a year still to get buses, right? We have one already that we’re hoping to have that midway through the year, right? We’ll make up an arrangement with that, right? Yeah. And we have one in the fleet already. But yeah, it’s just crazy. Probably it takes a minute to get them. Okay, Mr. Brown. Mr. M. Well, Mr. Brown’s up next. All right, so life at the middle schools. Uh few things that happened here. A few weeks ago, we had fine arts night. If you were able to stop in, you saw some really uh great performances by our kids. Um pretty much in the comments for about 2 and half to three hours straight students were either playing their instrument or showing off their vocal abilities. Uh and then over in the elementary commons uh Miss Hog had all a bunch of artwork on display from middle school. So really cool night. So definitely want to thank Mrs. Derf, Mr. Holland, uh Mrs. Overbolt, Miss Hope for they put in a lot of work uh to make that a really cool night uh for our kids. Great experience for them. Um and right leading into that with Mrs. And I think Miss Over won as well. Fire went to Kings Island on Saturday. Um, middle school did well, placed third place. Uh, they did a great job. But I would say most importantly, uh, had a chaperone that was on that trip let me know that our kids really represented themselves well. They were by far, they said, the best behaved group out of anyone there. So, uh, you know, obviously we want to, uh, do well singing, but, you know, really, uh, want to highlight how our kids are behaving out in public and showcasing, uh, you know, their, you know, Freddy ways, I guess you can say, uh, you know, out there for everyone to see. Uh, so, thank you to, you know, all the fine arts, uh, teachers that have been working with that. uh couple weeks ago to end state testing. Uh the staff did a really great job. Stacy Myers kind of spearheaded it. Uh but the staff brought in breakfast uh for all the middle school kids. So almost all 300 of them, everybody, you know, uh got the breakfast and we just hung out outside and kind of enjoyed the end of state testing season uh that Friday morning. So staff did a great job celebrating the kids that day. A few upcoming things. Tomorrow, sixth grade academic challenge. They they’re going to Ohio for their last competition. Uh that’s during the day. Mr. Mcclelay is taking them up there. Uh tomorrow, seventh grade is heading up to the Mansfield reformatory. Uh take a tour up there. I think they’re going to check out Kingwood Center as well. So, a little bit of learning, but get out um experience uh a little bit and hopefully learn some stuff. eighth grade spent today at the Buckeye Imagination Museum uh which they had they do have like a teen or adult uh room there now. Uh kids in they really enjoyed it. Uh just kind of had some bonding. Uh spent some time together as their last few days here as eighth graders. Uh same thing as Mrs. Sagman here with field day. Our middle school scheduled for Wednesday. Uh weather permitting. We’ll see what that looks like. Hopefully we can get it in this this year. Uh squeeze it in this week. Uh and really the last thing uh eighth grade went to Washington DC last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So uh we went on that trip. Uh the kids did an outstanding job. Uh I mean it’s can be a long bus ride. Uh 44 middle school kids, but they did a very good job outside of a few typical middle school behaviors. Uh nothing major. I was really proud of them and how they acted. Uh the last thing I with that I really just want to thank the Shafferrons, uh Mr. Dibling, uh Mr. Hartley, we we talked him into going there, high school teacher, uh Miss Tate, Miss Neb, then Mrs. Hunter, uh they all did a great job. You know, obviously the kids wouldn’t be able to experience that if the if I couldn’t get chaperones and staff members to be willing to go on that. So, and thank you guys for allowing us to to do that and already looking forward to next year. Are you really? He just got back. Okay, good. Yeah. I mean, I I need a little time to recoup, but I’ll be ready next year. So, yeah. Awesome. Those are really tough acts to follow. Mr. Shoemaker. All right. Um yeah, state uh like Gina said, state testing’s over. I want to thanks to Mr. Brown, new district test coordinator. Everything that went went smoothly. Um glad that’s over. I think he’s done a great job getting all the kids in. Um this year. Um, we’re almost almost done the AP testing. Um, finishing that up. Um, the high school schedule, uh, unless we have any more, uh, surprises, is pretty well, um, set now. Uh, we’re going through and making sure every student has a full course load. Um, make sure they’re getting signed up for electives. Um, so Mrs. Bart is right now taking care of that. Uh, got news like M. said, "Our choir, high school choir, placed uh first in class A. They received a superior rating. They beat 10 of their schools. They had the highest uh choir score uh in the competition at Kings Island. Um congratulations to them. Mrs. D. Um we had our we had the high school end of year celebration was planned by uh Mrs. Trux, Mrs. Langi, and Mas helped out a great deal in that. Um last Friday we had food trucks, uh, yard games, cornhole tournaments, uh, soft serve ice cream, a DJ kind of who facilitated the yard game prizes. Um, it was, uh, I think feedback was pretty good. Something we’ll probably try to do again next year. We did that 17 period on Friday. Um, one of the last things, uh, grading committee, uh, led by Mr. Snider, uh, he put a committee together of teachers. I shared that out last time. I reshared it again late today. Um, just you guys have feedback. you’d like to take a look at that and see if you have any questions, comments um in the future. And we don’t do that now, but uh if you do reach out to me and we can talk about that be something we’d like to possibly start to implement. It would have to be something we do as a freshman class that follows through. We couldn’t do that midway, but um something to look at uh for the future. And lastly, just again, I’m thankful that I get to finish up this year. I get to work with these administrators, teachers, um We have teachers taking on new preps. We have teachers volunteering to take on pretty extensive additional training. Um we have teachers who agreed to complete uh high school teachers who have agreed to complete their gift of training late. Um we have pros that are bailing us out on day short staff sickness. Um again we have a lot of people stepping up to do. Excellent. When you said Ree, it made me think about it was for Mr. Chapman, Mrs. Rivas and Drew Dumball or you talked about that Ohio Channel, they’re going to be going out and testifying um about Yeah, you’re good. You’re fine. You said just triggered me to think like Yeah. Junior Achievement. So to advocate for that program. So that’s pretty cool. I’m sure that we’ll be able to I mean if those are all video as long as their technologies working but we should be able to watch it live and or see the recording. So pretty cool example of what it is to advocate with your legislators. So that’s awesome. We’re using Junior Achievement for our financial literacy curriculum. Um so they’re going to go speak on how that curriculum is how we feel about that. Yeah. Love it. It’s great great opportunity for our kids. Okay, looks like we’re moving on to G, which is FBA. Mrs. Snider, um, we would like to thank you for the negotiation process and I was pleased to be able to reach out to them to ratify the contract. So, thank you for your time and effort with that. Um, we put together welcome bags this year for our future little buddies for administration. FDA has also done a variety of things for during the teacher appreciation week last week and um back in March FBA sponsored a um comic strip contest and we had finalists and then we pass those finalists on to this one’s English classes so the results are back I got them today so we’ll make sure that we announce their top three winners and get their prizes awarded posted about that so that wraps up for before the school year is over. And uh we would like to thank the administration, the school board and PTO for all the delicious snacks and treats and special things for last week of school. All right, let’s see. I just want to say thank you for a good negotiation time. It was it went good. We had some laughs. We had some discussions, but they went good. And thank you for the board for approving our contract. That’s awesome. Um, thanks for the treats last week. That was very appreciated. And we’re just going to hang in there and get through these last couple of days of school. Thank you. Okay. Um, so number 14 um is I’m going to just uh do a little practice before this. Um, so I’ve prior to being on the board spoke several different times and honestly sat out in that room out there for hours um waiting for, you know, maybe uh something to happen even though it says there’s no action to follow. So I just want to ensure you all that um we’re going to, you know, do item number 14 to make a motion to go into an executive session. Um, and when it says that there’s no action to follow, I ensure you that any action that needed to be taken um has already been taken tonight through the board agenda. So, I just want to be mindful of your time to let you know that that’s how that will um just how that’ll work because I’ve been there and actually I think Courtney, you and I may have sat together even. So, um, anyway, so, um, number 14, um, item A, um, I’d like to entertain a motion to enter into executive session for the discussion of personnel and matters to be kept confidential and there will be no action to follow. So, second, Mr. Bowman, yes. Mr. B, yes. Mrs. Lman, yes. Mr. Napier, yes. Mrs. Winger, yes.

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