Waterloo Board of Education
Thursday, April 10, 2025
6:00 p.m.
Waterloo High School
1464 Industry Rd.
Atwater, Ohio
Attendance:
Brian Pusateri, President
Patti Wittensoldner, Vice President
Joseph Hickin, Member
Timothy Moon, Member
Teresa Zachariah, Member
Superintendent of Waterloo Schools Joe Clark
Summary:
Recently, the Board of Education allowed the Waterloo football team to place their equipment after practice in an unused visitors concession stand. The football coach began the meeting by expressing his gratitude, explaining how about two hours of labor previously went into putting all the equipment away in its previous spot.
The board approved the resignation of Teresa Zachariah, board member, starting April 30, 2025. The board also discussed the application process with the audience and encouraged community members to apply for the soon-to-be vacant spot.
Joe Clark, the superintendent of Waterloo schools, recommended the district enter into an agreement with the Summit ESC to have the Portage County Sheriff’s Office provide school resource officers for the 2025-2026 school year. The board approved with a motion and a second.
Robert Wolf was appointed as interim superintendent from June 1, 2025, through July 31, 2025. The retirement of teacher Lisa Lange was approved, as well as the resignation of aide Amy McClellan. Substitute contracts were approved and meeting minutes were approved. The March financials were approved, as well as generous community donations to theater, scholarships, supplies and the principal fund.
Documenter Notes:
- PTO to host school dance on April 26 at 6 p.m.
- Football team is now responsible for any maintenance of visitor concession stand
- Board member Teresa Zachariah is resigning
- Approved salary grid for the operations manager
- Student teacher stipend approved
- Teacher presented what his classroom of high school mathematics students have been working on
- Salary contracts approved
- Boards previously revised policies had been approved
- Approval of State Safety Grant
- Approval of Recycle Ohio Grant
Transcript
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Speaker 1 00:00
It helps us out putting equipment and stuff in there, close to concession stand, typically on the game day that we would be there, it would take us nearly two hours to set up, two hours to figure out, using 10s coolers, everything else. Our goal in this is to form a relationship, a better relationship with the Ben just high school football program, middle school program, both cheer programs. There’s ultimately, these kids start with us, and we want to keep feeding the programs. For instance, the first year that I was there, this year, with the freshman classes going in, I think there’s 12 to 13 boys will be playing football. This last group is going into seventh grade, or 17 boys going there. You know, we’re donating six, five gallons of paint. We’ve also allocated, we’ve already talked about allocating a good chunk of money to over there renovations. For the visitors, concession stand for us to be able to put our own equipment in in there after games, we don’t have to use anything. We already have it. It’s just much easier for us, and it gives our boys the opportunity to play on a field that actually has bleachers. You know, we’ve played the Atwater. Now we have no stands on either side. Parking is a mess, but we really want to build help build the community and relationship between youth program and
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water schools. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Liz.
Speaker 2 01:50
PTO, so PTO, we have our next meeting on Monday the 14th, at six o’clock. We have some great events coming up, and I want to share april 26 is our spring dance for elementary girls, and May 4 is our Canton state for elementary boys. So all the stuff for the dance model and stuff for the state to go out. Few other things we recently PTO donated $1,500 on elementary school with six graders to do things in gratitude project. And I disagree with my talk about that, but that was really great. We’re we used to do that. We Mr. Noel reached out to us and Miss Richie about doing some fundraising during Fine Arts night. So one of the things we talked about was possibly having a concession stand, helping them do a raffle to raise money that would go through PTO, but strictly to the high school and elementary and junior high school programs. We had a fun run in February, and that’s all been totally done, and decided to do it for something this year. So we did fun run for field day and talk to Sabrina about things she needs. And then we asked suggestions for the kids, and we raised like, $9,000 so we will be able to buy some things that can stay with the school. So instead of like, renting things or heading home in schools, we can buy, like, real games and real carnival type stuff that the school can keep and then continue to use. So that was pretty exciting. And we we had one gal volunteer to do some yearbook. She did a really good job. Today was the last day to order, but we will have experts available to sell the students, and then at our meeting on Monday, we will be doing nominations for elections for elections, Mrs. A came to us and we gave money to put in the sensory hallway. So we’ve not seen that yet. It’s pretty awesome. There’s stuff on the walls and floors and Mrs. A kept saying so she was a strategy to us. She’s like, we’re waiting for him to skip their rules out so they can jump, they can touch.
04:11
Things really, great. Thank you. Appreciate
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everything you
Speaker 3 04:16
guys do. Nice to see. Okay, so that brings us to this time we’ll call the regular Board of Education Roll call,
Speaker 4 04:32
please. Mr. Chair here, Miss Linton, yes, Mr. Hickman here, Mr. Ben here, in the second act,
Speaker 3 04:43
okay, can I have motion to adopt resistant agenda for the next meeting? Secondly, how much
04:57
a question? Vote? Call please. Mr. Winn, yes, Mr. Hicken, yes. Mr. Chair, Yes. Motion passed. Okay. Just wanted to touch on all things as we go into my last board meeting, we unfortunately had the resignation of our superintendent due to retirement treasure as
Speaker 3 05:26
well. So we are entered into a search for both of us replace both those positions. That’s why I started sometime towards the end of the month, and hopefully have somebody leave for each position, rate manager in June, and see how that goes. Haven’t finalized all the details of how the process has been well, but we’ll keep you updated as we move through the process. The other thing wanted to mention is you’ll notice on the board, on the agenda tonight is the reformation
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of thank her for medication work for the last year, working with you and mission, coupled with that, is where you have To fill that position. So
Speaker 3 06:21
effective immediately, we’re checking out letters of interest with resumes and those kind of things for anybody who wants to interview with the board for an appointment for that to fill, to every seat that would be for the remainder of this, remainder of this calendar year, essentially. And then you have to run and you’re interested to continue on. You have to run in November to be likely to November and start your start the next two, the last two years of that term, in January. If you’re interested, people that are interested maybe running for positions, those typically have to be in the board of elections. I would say, let’s just say the first week of August. So as you can’t wait till November to run, if you’re going to run, you can kind of make that decision in June, July, and start getting the signatures you need from the non petition. But we are going to, if you’re interested in interviewing for the for Terry’s vacancy, please set our letter of interest and your resume to our treasurer, Scott Pittman, and also, we’re going to put it up on the website. I believe is it up yet? So we’re waiting for today. So tomorrow we’ll be up on our website. So please, anybody who’s interested, please go ahead and it’s kind of a, you know, we hate to see Terry go, obviously, but it’s, it’s, it’s one of those things where you’re not committing to four years, like, if you work, if you typically run for a new seat, it’s not four year things, it’s a six month term where you can see if you like it or not, and decide if you want to run or you don’t want to run. So hopefully we get lots of lots of candidates, lots of people are interested in, typically interview with anybody who applies. So I think I can’t see any room, but we would continue that practice. So we’re
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going to be very busy in
Speaker 3 08:07
middle of April through June, interviewing people for three positions we have to fill, legally, we have to fill Terry’s position after May 10 and before May 30. So if
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we don’t do that, then a judge can come in and appoint somebody. We certainly don’t want that, so
Speaker 3 08:32
that really, her position is probably going to take a priority somewhat. Our deadline is April 24 for applications or interest for the vacant agency. So if you have any questions, don’t hesitate. If you want to call Scott, call Scott whatever. Email Scott your information and looking forward to hopefully draw people’s mind. That was all that I had. So we’ll move on to some events. Thank
Speaker 5 09:00
you. I have three items. First of all, I do want to talk a little bit about the concession stand, because I noticed that on social media today, discussion I want to kind of clear through the air and make sure people know what’s going on. First of all, I absolutely am a huge fan of music and our band, and one of the very first events I went to was dropping off obstacles to the kids I’ve always wanted to support her, and I’m very proud that we’re adding to music. Next year, we’re adding a teacher, so we have choir and music elementary
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grade levels. And we are very fortunate
Speaker 5 09:32
here to have Gabby leading the charge. She is a rock star band instructor, and you should do whatever you can to keep Gabby here, because she’s outstanding. It’s really, really a great program, and we’re great to see how it’s great to see how it’s growing. Now, the visitors concession stand has been out of use for three years. The last year that both concession stands, the home side of the visitor side were open, was. In 2021, and in that year, over the five football games, the visitor stand made, and I don’t know if this is profit or
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for total revenue, $3,984 and the home stand made $10,890 so it hasn’t been used for three years, and you
Speaker 5 10:33
approached us repairs at that point, I had unheard that the music boosters were also interested in taking that concession stand back how they had used to, how they used to have it. I did let the boosters, my own music boosters, that they could have baseball and softball concessions immediately. We’ve not had people doing that for some time. I don’t know if they’ve done that yet. The weather’s not been great, to be quite honest with you. So I’m not sure if they’ve taken advantage of that. One thing that did come up when I was meeting with the boosters to hear about the concerns for this is they do the boosters do give a lot to the district, right? They do a lot in the music
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program
Speaker 5 11:11
in terms of instruments and uniforms. And one thing they mentioned was that they also pay for sheet music for the band. And I honestly haven’t taken the time to delve into that, but I would say, if that’s true, they shouldn’t be that the sheet music is the band, like textbooks are to other classes, and that’s an expense I believe that the district should take on, because music isn’t just an extracurricular. Ben on Friday nights. They’re here during the week, so I’m not going to be here, and Scott’s going to be here a little longer than I am, but I hope that the board, you know, directs the new leaders to look into how we are funding music and making sure that they are getting the support they need from the board level to take a little bit of that burden off of boosters. You know, it’s I, when I did meet with the boosters, I let them know that this is a, it’s a, it’s a tough decision for me, right? Because either way, somebody’s not going to be happy. But what I my belief is this, is that, you know, one community, we’re one school, they’re all Waterloo kids, and we just need to be good neighbors with each other. If you’re in a sandbox on the playground and you have two Tonka Trucks and you’re playing with both of them, that’s great, but if another kid gets in the sandbox, it’s best to share the second truck. And I don’t know if that’s a good analogy or not, but I think the football and cheer they do great things for our kids. The bamboo shoots do great things for our kids. I want all of our kids to have great opportunities. So that’s why my recommendation coming up would be to give the visitors stand to the football cheer. Okay, the next item is bad news, the youth intensive services. I did let the board know this, but in the community. But I want to reiterate it here this meeting concerned that I let the board know that youth intensive services let us know just yesterday, yesterday or two days ago, that effective April 18, next week, they will no longer be providing services for us now. They’ve been providing these services for free for more than a year, and they tell us that the decision stems from delays in the Medicaid payments at the state level. Molly powers has been the person from youth intensive services. She’s been here providing services in our district for over a year. She’s been fantastic, and she’s going to be the one impacted by this change, as well as our communities. We do recognize this development anxiety among our students and our families. We do have other relationships with community, another group, and Hazel provide some services. So we’re not going to be without services. We’re just going to be out without one of those service providers that we have had. So I wanted to let the board know about that that will continue to look for ways to provide these services for our families free of charge. But that was that was bad news that we got came out, my final item is in compliance with the federal dei certification. Following the news at all, there have been some recent directives from the United States Department of Education and Ohio Department of Education that we are to certify that we are not doing anything that would be discriminatory based on any protected class, and particularly title six, which deals with race. So this follows the US Supreme Court’s decision students for career industry versus Harvard, which prohibits preferential treatment based on race in educational settings. So. So my job as superintendent, every other superintendent state has to, by next Friday, upload a affidavit into the Ohio Department of Education’s system saying that we do not have any race based programs here, that it gives advantages to anybody based on race. I have taken the time to go through our board policies. I have not found anything in policy that suggests that we do. I have not heard from any board members or staff members that we have any practices that are doing that. Still, I have an upload. I’m not going to upload that until next week, because I just want to make sure that when I when I upload that, that I’m acting on. So if you do happen to recall anything, or think you know we do do this, I don’t think that we do, but if we do, let me know so we can make sure that we get that corrected before I upload that to the state. And if I don’t upload that to the state, they will stop our federal funding immediately, and they will go after analysis. So I will absolutely junior high, Junior and high school personal
Speaker 6 16:21
report. So so we started a new course testing this week. So we had that on Tuesday and Wednesday for seventh, eighth and 10th grade in ELA. I mentioned this. Sherry would have mentioned this previous board meeting, but all other students are on testing. We’re on a two hour play for us. And then we run a kind of modified schedule where we go half the classes one of those days and half the other. So we actually have full class period instead of kind of running through every class for 20 minutes. So it adds a little less chaos to the day, which is nice. And then also, we get a little bit more quality time actually addressing things in class. Even on testing days, we’ll still run testing Tuesdays again, Thursday or Tuesdays and Wednesdays, sorry, throughout the month of April. So four tests we have to give and do that, four subjects,
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and we’ll do that
Speaker 6 17:20
on Tuesdays, Wednesdays. I just want to thank Miss Phillips and this al Ben for helping with test coordination. It’s a lot of running around, and, you know, everyone’s roster due to certain classes and kids have accommodations and all these, all these other things, and it’s a lot that goes into it, and they’ve been a huge help. I want to thank our teachers for proctoring and taking seriously and to our students who are taking the test seriously as well. That doesn’t necessarily happen in pre district, and our favorite corner shows four corner afcars in our schools, and that that’s a credit to our students to take the test seriously. Prom, just will happen before the next court meeting. So I won’t mention it. Prom will take place on May 3. It’s at almost home Event Center, which is at sea bird, which is a little bit different than where our usual places were booked on the date we’ve chosen. And so instead of moving the prom date, we had moved the location. So that will happen
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on May on
Speaker 6 18:22
May 3. We have the district art show coming up, which is the first full week of May. So May 5 through the 11th is that Sunday, but we don’t have it on Sunday because that’s Mother’s Day, just highlighting some junior high events that we’ll have. We are are having, yes, battling bands on Monday, May 5, so that will be some student bands. Miss diatti is asking teachers to come. She is trying to get me to play with the zoom there, so we have the actual art show for the community, and then a band concert on Wednesday of that week, May 7. And then we have our theater performances the first time. We’re bringing those back of Matilda Junior on May 9, on Friday and on Saturday. May 10, tickets are on sale in the office. And then there’s also an online option through go fans. Yeah, so go fans. So you get tickets for those performances now. So come out and support our art programs. One Note that I wanted to make, so our senior end of end of year events for our seniors are coming up. Obviously, we’re gearing up for that. I’ll mention most of these and highlight this a little bit more at the next board meeting. But one change I just wanted to kind of telegraph a little bit more is that our academic award ceremony typically takes place during the day. We are moving into the evening. This is something I kind of toyed around with possibly doing last year, but with moving graduation, we did not do that. That it’ll be Thursday, May 22 at 6pm the simple reason for this change is a lot more family members doing it during the day. We have students that get to see it, but having it in the evening, parents that were grandparents and uncles, what have you. And it also allows us to actually focus on all the achievements of our seniors and other students, on just a management piece. Sometimes you worry about behaviors and things if they have a whole student body there. And so just being a little bit more intentional with that in the evening, so that’s still a ways away, but just wanted to mention that change from I just want to echo what Dr Parker said about these intensive services and Molly. Molly came here in December of last year. She has been a tremendous asset and at no cost, but as well in the building, she has helped our kids tremendously, has made meaningful relationships with them, and as has really had an impact that’s on student well being, and that’s also translated to achieve some health issues and just social, emotional issues that students are having because they’re able to be in class more, and Molly has been a huge part of that, so she will be missed tremendously. There’s a possibility that children manage, may hire or, I don’t know if that’s happened, but and then we’ll have a model that’ll be similar, that will be a keeper in sort of the same role, but that is very tentative. That is the end of mine. Except for my last piece here is that Mr. Clay here to talk about our MMR program. MMR is mathematical modeling. Mathematical modeling and reasoning. They’re changing the name to advanced quantitative reasoning. Right to be a compliant in compliance with NCAA requirements for classes. But this is a algebra two alternative class. So for the state, the only math class you absolutely have had on your transcript to graduate to. So this offers a alternative pathway for students to meet that requirement. There’s a couple classes, there’s a computer science class, there’s this, there’s a couple others that I’m pretty thanks for that, but that be there’s some alternative pathways for this. So again, just giving more options for our students. What I will say before Kyle talks is just, there’s a huge time commitment that goes into this class. As far as training goes, there are some summer trainings. There are monthly meetings that you have to attend. Most of them are virtual. And then there’s couple that are in person, I think, throughout the year as well. So it’s a huge time commitment to be a part of this, and I think that needs to be recognized as well. But it’s also, I don’t know, scary, so I’ll go from there. But anyway, I’m excited for it and getting off the ground here as just another opportunity for our students, and Kyle’s gonna talk
Speaker 7 23:21
about, sure. So like Tyler said, This is our first drafting MMR class, and the idea behind it and why the state started it was instead of having a more traditional math class, this one’s more profit based. So it covers standard wise. Math wise is a little above Albert one, a little below Algebra Two, but it also like all of the math Cornerstone goals, it like having meaningful discussions and articulating your reasoning and defending your reasoning about things. It focuses more on that than the skill set. So that’s kind of the difference between the two, but they do both qualify a student, and I just wanted to share just a couple of minutes some of the projects that they’ve done throughout the years. We have a little over some students taking this class this year. We have two sections of it, again, most of the students can go, but it’s a little different homework. This is a test. This is really a group centered, project based. It’s very similar to the computer science classes. So with this, like here was one of the first ones. This was kind of a traditional icebreaker that is not unique to math classes, but they were given tape, spaghetti and marshmallow, and the objective was to build the tallest structure you could that like it goes back to you’re familiar with geometry, usually using triangles. This group, I’m pretty sure either knew about it or hadn’t seen it. But the group on the left they you. Scenarios, because they knew that, like, that’s the strongest structure they can build with those. Here was one of the activities. Maybe, if you guys are watching the district emails, at one point, we asked for donation bar doll. And the reason was for this, they essentially, for a couple of days, they practiced with modeling rubber bands and action figures and dropping them and seeing, you know, we drop them from four feet off the ground, how far does two rubber bands take you? How far does six rubber bands take you? And then they use that model, and they built the regression model to estimate, eventually, we were going back to the state and put it on the right where the objective is. You want to get as close to the ground as possible, because that’s the real fun jumping. You want to make sure you don’t hit the ground. And so the objective was how many road bands. They knew how tall it was. We measured what that height was up to the top of the stadium, but they never got to actually drop it from there. They had used math models. So it’s going to be had these math models. Here’s just one of those students that did it. This one, yeah, one of the other things. So this one, we used popsicle sticks and glue guns, and they created catapults. And the objective of this one was to teach the kids consistency. So the idea with this was, it wasn’t, could you launch the catapult? Prefer this? It was they had to drop through trial and error. Again, use regression modeling, but to project, you know, based on their catapult, they got to put the map on the ground, and then they launched it three times, and it was to see, you know, how I’m trying to do whatever scores there’s so this stack of books in the chair height was the constant for all of them. And again, they didn’t get a practice at that night. They were told the catapult is going to be, you know, whatever, 36 inches off the ground. You need to project where is it going? Is how bad? And then they did a bunch of things with measurement throughout the year, like they had to with the classroom, figure out what would be there to create a budget proposal for if we would carpet the classroom, paint the walls, and add some other fancier things to it. So essentially, my classroom is really good one for it because it’s one of the old format one. So there’s a bunch of cabinets and dishwashers and stuff. So they had to dig into all of the different leads. But most classrooms don’t have a little COVID units that they had to do the measurements for. And then essentially a project on their own, like, go and find how much paint would cost, what carpet would cost. And then they created a proposal, the one on the right, like they do a lot of things like food and fun things, but this one was a cell growth modeling one where, essentially, like, you start with a couple of em, and you can, like, start with two mm. You roll them, if they roll side up, it’s like the cell would duplicate. If they roll side, like, the M side down, it wouldn’t. And then they see, after you have, like, 1015, trials, it’s an exponential growth model. Is what it is. And
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see how that
Speaker 7 28:24
works. We had officer cutting under the class where they were given each class had like, four different file cases, essentially, where there was an accident, and they were told information about, like, skid marks, and then they had to use we had some formula. Again, more model building, where, okay, if this was the evidence that happened at a trial, would this person be innocent or guilty? Essentially, it was like a biker pulled out in front of a car and the car spent on their brakes, and they still, well, some of the cases, they hit the biker. And the question is, who was at fault? And so half the class got assigned. There were a couple cases in each class, but there were always two sides to every argument, and Officer Kevin came in and essentially was the judge for all of their cases and decided who had the best argument. Again, those are just some of the projects that we did this year. Just thought it would be nice for you guys. And like I said, wanted to show you guys what we are doing. Sure, yeah, if you guys have questions,
Speaker 3 29:39
thank you. Sure,
Speaker 7 29:47
yeah, if you guys have questions, you did yeah, at the beginning of the year, we’re so that one was that they were measuring the classroom, but we had ramps set up, and they were figuring out essentially, like slope and how did that come? Compilation, even measures ramp out there to see if it fell with the compliance or national standard, we’ll go
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with your measurements. You for sharing. Thanks.
30:23
Okay, the owner is full.
Speaker 8 30:31
So the hands of gratitude project was mentioned by and we were able to assemble about 10 robotic hands. These are all materials that have been three printed. There’s they’re sorted labeled. There’s an obstruction booklet. And sixth graders were printing books of two to the sample type hands they’re going to be delivered to either Honduras or Guatemala. So the kids got to actually hear and see on the map and actual photos of the places where these hands will be used, and the kinds of kids were going to the kids also wrote a note or a letter to the recipient and designed a little hand so the kids were actually getting a picture when they received a robotic hand. But the kids were really well behaved. I was so proud of them. They worked really hard. I felt this really meaningful project for them. Hand gratitude is going to return sometime before the end of the year, came into testing season. So we want to address those sixth graders before we split your ends for another project to design those hands. So as Tyler mentioned, take testing. Ben this week, grades three through six are the ones that test in our building. They take, we took the LA test this week. In two weeks, they take the math test and then the science test, and that’s happening. All of these tests have two parts that we’re administering over two days. But my foot is go to Mrs. Nicely, our counselor. And because we had such an extensive amount of students who needed accommodations, that we actually had to sell a few of our specialist teachers so that they could help administer tests. So we had a huge team effort to do this for our kids, and again, we were really trying to ease anxiety for both the teachers and the kids, and really trust people for plugging alongside trust the elementary school started a competition for students who ride the bus from school. But we bus behaviors are an everyday thing in a school building, and to try to decrease that, we’re calling this the rider rally. We’re focusing on promoting positive behaviors on busses. So when a bus route earns 12 tallies for 12 routes with the behavior or for the bus driver, they’re getting done that party. So one bus is very close to getting their first set of 12 tallies, and we’re really happy to reward them, because if they’re staying on the bus, they’re staying on the bus. That’s what we’re trying to force the annual meeting with Candace Curtis and Sarah Beatty from the Ben Curtis Family Foundation takes place next week to discuss our birdie bags distribution. We currently have 160 bags from the foundation that we receive each month. These bags contain non perishable food items for families that are experiencing food insecurities and are distributed twice per month, facilitated by the wolf counselor with helping Sabrina, our school secretary and our transportation supervisor to class. Fix them up each month from the foundation’s warehouse in Kent This is a hugely impactful program, if you’re not familiar with it, and we’re really grateful. So we’re going to be reviewing plans for next week. Next week. We are just beginning interviews for our open elementary teacher and intervention specialist positions. We’re hoping to have those recommendations in place for the board by the end of the month, so perhaps looking at the main hiring, both high school and elementary have art installations happening, and that is what you have photos of in front of you. There are two designs being applied as vinyl pieces. One called together VR is located. They’re going to be located in the hallway near the cafeteria, outside of the bathroom, and we’ll see there’s like a little space cut out because it goes over the drinking fountain. The other one is other ones called together their Vikings and would be located in the high school cafeteria. Both installations were designed by students in the minors School of Art at the University of Akron, and are made possible under the coordination of Barnard with parents, Cassidy Baldwin and jordano. We think these are going to be pretty awesome additions to our lake walls for our school, and we’re thankful to have been selected for this opportunity. No cost, nothing changes to the structure. All Mrs. Rock approved. We’re pretty excited about happening, and I think that’s it. So. Concern. Thank you. Appreciate it. Nine legislative
Speaker 3 35:07
report, none at this time. The biggest thing going on in legislature
Speaker 9 35:14
right now is all the tax discussions and state funding discussions and nothing is state
Speaker 3 35:26
funding discussions and nothing I sent in our last board meeting, we had sample letters and stuff. I actually sent a
Speaker 5 35:39
couple out, hopefully others did as well. Released the harmless on the funding, but there’s the tax, property tax House voted
Speaker 4 36:02
yesterday. Just sent out the simulation, so I didn’t get you to look at them. I don’t think it harms us as much as the initial government, but there’s still a cap on general fund threshold of 30% so if you have more than 30% carry over in your general fund. The Tax
36:24
Commission can reduce
Speaker 5 36:29
your property bills from one year to I check those out, and fortunately, but 468 school
Speaker 3 36:37
districts is massive, and that sounds like it does sound like a ton. Let’s just say. We have our let’s say that we are a bunch of 10 million, just to keep the numbers easy, so that’s saying you can’t have more than 3 million carrier. And what happens is, is your funding is pretty much flat. So in your your your revenue, your expenses, are sloping up, right? So while they’re flat and they’re sloping up, you want to bank your banking money here, while everyone is less than your expenses your banking money to cover you, when it crosses over that line and you’re spending more than you’re taking in to fill that gap, right? That’s really what you’re trying to do. So it’s really conceivable that, I mean, we haven’t had that issue many times it hasn’t that much, but carry over from one year to the next. But, I mean, it’s conceivable that you know to get through a five year forecast without planning on going back on about 30% for the first year or two is not a ridiculously high number, because if you don’t have that, you’re not going to make it
Speaker 5 37:41
for five years. This is it’s fundamentally a misunderstanding of our elected officials about how school funding works. That’s what it basically comes down to, and it will have the opposite effect. If that passes, schools will be on the ballot more often, not less often.
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It’s a three year forecast
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penalizing those us if we have too much. Well, I just, I was meeting
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with the Treasury about this. A lot of these cash surpluses for the result of two things. One was that, sir money, two is they’re aware of big capital projects that need to be done in the district, so they’re trying to save money, so they don’t have to go to the voters for a levy. And so if they take that, then they’re gonna
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have to go without money. So we were trying to save money, but fix the roofs we have issues. Issue. I think we still have the issue where we have a surplus in our cafeteria Fund, and the state is always like, you’d spend that money, you’d spend that money, and it’s like, well, what if you spend that
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money and then
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another breaks our freezer goes out, or whatever we don’t have any way to, you know, it’s kind of like, like that idea that I should spend everything and make every every week, because I should live pay. We should look paycheck to paycheck. It’s really kind of pushing that forward. The Treasurer is within the forecast. Treasure Scott tried to have a meeting with the our state representatives this past Monday, and why weren’t they not able
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to make it. They just didn’t fit in their schedule. Senator rover did express interest in trying to get the time
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together to do that. So the port of county traders, along with the traders superintendent and board member trying to have a meeting with legislators, and
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like I said, we’re not able
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to get together this past Monday, so hopefully we’ll do that in the future. Hopefully they hopefully they care about public education in a hospital. You know, something just occurred to me, do we need. To appoint somebody to be the
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legislative
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liaison Now, anybody
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I’ll be happy To get a report. I’m not a board member. I’ll be happy to report on legislation in May, but that looks
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like he’s excited. Really what it is emails and the updates, yeah, put together. He said, Yeah, why don’t we just what’s going on? Tell
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me, can we just vote? Yeah?
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Oh, so you can make that change.
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We might add something. I forgot
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to email you guys this, so if you would like me, I don’t know if you guys saw the article on the portager, but the Maplewood electricity classes and also the HVAC class, at
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the to do some updates
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for them. Also the 2024 25 yearly achievement report from Maplewood Waterloo had 28 students on it, and it was all a Skills USA Competition that they do, and then also any students that passed their CPR and first aid and the and they have any certifications that they asked that would have to do with their program. So all of our students that went to Skills USA, all of them placed at least in third place, and we have three of them. One of them is in collision repair, one of them is in welding, and one of them is in electricity. The electricity, they are all regional qualifiers, so they are all going to the regional competition, which I do not confident when the date, and then just important dates, and it was last night, but they had a cupcakes with teachers. So the new students that are coming in next year, they have to open house, and they meet all the teachers and students. Get to meet
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everybody, and then
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April 17, so next Thursday is the National
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Honor Society invention. April. 25 is their med for under 21 rally, and that’s at Kent State University in the
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Ben center. May 19 is their award ceremony
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at nine
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o’clock. May 23 they have the field day. And first attendance drawing, and they actually get really good gifts for the products. I was really surprised when Mason was a senior with things that they knew for that. And then may 27 is a senior works practice at one o’clock at the Ben center. So the mat center. Oh, I’m sorry. And then on May 28 is the Senior Award ceremony, which is their graduation at seven o’clock at the mat center. And then June 3 is the junior class day of school. But they were. Reports, well their graduation or they have an awards assembly at the award the assembly was the 19th, okay,
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so you. New business. Is there any new business that any board members would like to bring up at this time? All right, that brings us to an 11 board business. So can I have a motion to record to approve the resignation motion second, please. How much
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questions Jerry sweater
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says you letter says hacking up any other questions.
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Roll call, please.
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Mr. Moon, yes, is that correct? Yes. And Mr.
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Speaker, Yes. Motion passes. Okay. We have a motion to send, resolution 196, 24 principal in the system. Secondly,
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comments or questions, yes, motion
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passes, okay, Superintendent,
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business, all right, I may have
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recommended recommend you do the following
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four amendments, take a motion to approve an agreement and
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investment
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agreements. Secondly, Okay, question for the first one is with the ESC to do the superintendent and treasurer search. The second one is our service plan with the ESC for next school year. Just a reminder that we are scaling that way back. You’re going to save money on this because many of the tasks are being set by the principals. There’s the agreement with fighting the football and cheer for the concession stand and using our fields for the game. And there’s the sheriff’s office, MOU for our school resource officer. They were negotiations.
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Any questions?
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Okay? Roll call, please. Is that correct? Mr. Ben, yes, Mr.
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Hicken, yes, Mr. Yes. Item B is recommendation to approve a three year contract for bar rock Operations
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Manager to motion to approve a three year contract for bar rock call, motion second, please. No
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second, as we talked about we are. This is a new position, because Barb is currently food service director and also facilities director, and different grades, different days, and all this while trying to streamline and make things more coherent. So the new position that combines all of that
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work. Any comments questions? I just want to say, thank you. Barb, you do great job.
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Forward those 130 calls to you if you
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can, okay. Move always yes. Is that correct? Yes.
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And Mr. Chair, Yes. Motion passes IDC is recommendation approve the salary grid for the operations
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manager. Motion to approve the salary grid for the operation. Comments or questions.
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I ran this by Kyle and you assured me that the union would not be destructive.
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Roll call, please. Ms
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Winslow, yes. Is that
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correct? Yes. Yes.
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Is that correct? Yes, yes.
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Item to use the recommendation to approve the destination, imagination of supplemental,
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understanding motion to approve the destination. Imagination, supplemental, do? A second, please.
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So this will create a position, and next month, we should be hiring the individual who’s going to take on the supplemental reminder, we get a generous $5,000 donation from one of our parents to fund this great program offering more steam activities for our students after school for K 12. It’s really exciting, and we’re grateful for the generosity of Mr. Britain.
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Yes, this is kind of similar to what, in the
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old days might have been called Odyssey, yep, Odyssey of the Mind, similar or future problem solving, any of those things happens to be similar kind of things. Kids work here, and then they go out to regional competitions and
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state conferences. Any comments questions?
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Roll call?
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Please? Yes. Motion passes
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item media’s recommendation to appoint rules as Interim Superintendent from June 1 through July 31
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we have a motion to appoint Bob wolf at our Interim Superintendent on the dates listed second please. Any comments or questions
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I was I was in the building named after him the other day, and I noticed that this photo does not look the same as he does. He’s
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a great guy. If we do get a new superintendent prior to that,
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well, you would take some action, but yes, they absolutely know that it would be too much, and if it got for midnight longer, they can do it longer, or the scale back. We expect it to be two months, and that is part of the agreement that you already passed for the search. This is included in the search.
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So essentially, essentially, they’re not charging us for this service. So which is very nice, obviously. And this Bob Wolf. He was our principal for 15 years. He was our superintendent for probably 10 or 15 years, and just a great class individual that really loves Waterloo and do anything to help us out. I don’t know that this was for any other district. I don’t know, doing this. So we’re so fortunate to have had a father working with ESC and have been
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working for us. Hey, Roll call, please. Yes. Is that
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correct? Yes. Mister hicken, Mister Yes. Motion passes. I retirement of Lisa Lang a motion to approve the retirement of Lisa Langley,
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second, 34 years of service. I’m grateful for all that she’s done
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for water pits, which are the best for the night. She’s very such a sweet person to live in. Night, Mister
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aye, Mr. Hicken,
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yes, Mr. Chair, Yes. Motion passes
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recommendation approve
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the resignation. Approved resignation second please. Comments or questions,
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Roll call, please. Mr. Lee, yes. Is that correct? Yes? Mr. Hinkin, yes. Ms
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Witten, Yes. Motion packed item H
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is a recommendation to approve the phone substitutes both certified and
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classified, a motion to approve the list of substitute contracts second Yes. Ms, liberty,
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yes. Ms Zechariah, Mr. Hicken, yes. Mr. Passes. I admire
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the recommendation to
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prove statements for the following teachers for supervising students.
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We have a motion to approve the stipend as listed central
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please. Now these two are splitting a student teacher. That’s why the cost is about half of what it would typically be, and it is paid by the university to the district, who then pays them so.
