1 00:00:00,590 --> 00:00:07,570 All right. Good morning and welcome to our school. We're meeting, we'll call this meeting at 2 session. Mr. President, please call the roll. 2 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:21,600 President Matthews. Here. Dr. Hopkins. Here. Mr. Davidson. Here. Dr. Copis. Here. Mr. Minkuso. Here. Thank you. I don't see any more from city council. I'll turn it over to Ms. Wise Row for our spotlight. 3 00:00:30,030 --> 00:00:39,430 Thank you. Good morning. I know this is our last morning session of the summer. I was just joking with a couple of folks that we really want to recognize today for our spotlight. 4 00:00:39,430 --> 00:00:44,510 Mr. Tom Schuler and Mr. Jeff Kilbee about did summer actually even start for them both. 5 00:00:45,470 --> 00:00:49,350 It started but I'm not sure they got any kind of breaks. 6 00:00:50,350 --> 00:00:57,570 We really as a team wanted to make sure that we gave them a shout-out the incredible planning 7 00:00:58,110 --> 00:01:03,890 and work that they put in along with a lot of our maintenance and custodial crews over 8 00:01:03,890 --> 00:01:10,730 the summer with going into the summer plan that we had in, you know, in relationship to 9 00:01:12,010 --> 00:01:16,990 the logistics and the moves that we had to make all across the districts. I had Mr. 10 00:01:17,050 --> 00:01:23,710 Sary run some stats for me and I know with moving teachers we moved over 150 teachers and 11 00:01:23,710 --> 00:01:31,790 you're talking with the district of this size. That is an immense amount of logistical, I would 12 00:01:31,790 --> 00:01:36,430 Jenga pieces that you're trying to put together right and it wasn't just teachers. 13 00:01:36,430 --> 00:01:43,090 It was staff across the way and executive leadership meetings when we were kind of going through 14 00:01:43,090 --> 00:01:48,170 these things over the course after January all the way through when we kicked this off in May. 15 00:01:49,070 --> 00:01:55,750 The amount of information and planning and just to look at the plan that Jeff presented to the 16 00:01:55,750 --> 00:02:00,650 executive leadership team and research that he had and just the moving parts I thought to myself, 17 00:02:00,650 --> 00:02:05,590 You know, we just got to get through this stuff and I know Mrs. Levin just kept talking about that all through the time, right? 18 00:02:05,850 --> 00:02:08,630 It's talking about a lot of moves of whole buildings. 19 00:02:09,570 --> 00:02:15,510 And, you know, also staff moving across a district of, you know, being placed other places. 20 00:02:15,750 --> 00:02:22,610 It was just, it was a lot. And then you're talking of a district this size, the amount of effort and time and details, 21 00:02:22,790 --> 00:02:28,650 that eyes and cross and tease that these guys both did along with our staff to manage that. 22 00:02:28,650 --> 00:02:34,110 It was crazy to me, but it went off without a hitch in the giddy up. 23 00:02:34,430 --> 00:02:39,680 You know, there's a tiny bit of there where, you know, some boxes were misplaced there, but it was 24 00:02:40,750 --> 00:02:41,250 miniscule. 25 00:02:41,510 --> 00:02:44,930 When you're talking about that, we just wanted to see what that was going to be like. 26 00:02:45,170 --> 00:02:49,310 And we had complete and utter faith in both of you guys and in your team. 27 00:02:49,990 --> 00:02:56,630 And we as a district team cannot thank you both enough of the work and what your team did with that. 28 00:02:56,630 --> 00:03:01,930 It was a huge nightmare of a task, but like I said, it was smooth and maybe not from 29 00:03:01,930 --> 00:03:06,870 your end with some of the emails and calls that you did, but with feedback from the district 30 00:03:06,870 --> 00:03:11,590 and the staff, I think that's where all of our heads were at when we were talking about 31 00:03:11,590 --> 00:03:17,090 getting ready to kick off with kids coming here in a couple of days, the staff appreciates 32 00:03:17,090 --> 00:03:17,990 the heck out of you. 33 00:03:18,710 --> 00:03:22,250 I mean, I've heard, we're all out there in the weeds with the staff. 34 00:03:22,250 --> 00:03:24,790 I've heard nothing but great and positive things. 35 00:03:24,790 --> 00:03:33,970 And not, hey, I need my desk with this or my file folder with this, it wasn't those kind of things. 36 00:03:34,090 --> 00:03:42,130 It was just positive of how smooth it was, color coordinator it was, just your team with accepting what the plan was. 37 00:03:42,570 --> 00:03:49,790 Our district wants to make sure that we give you a huge shout out and spotlight also to your teams of how clean the buildings where I know Mrs. 38 00:03:49,790 --> 00:03:54,770 11's with her schedule that I don't know how she keeps. But she does it. She's intentionally 39 00:03:54,770 --> 00:03:59,550 made it all the way around to each and every building and just the way that the buildings 40 00:03:59,550 --> 00:04:05,350 and grounds look and prepare for like she just said to a couple of the board members in her 41 00:04:05,350 --> 00:04:10,830 office today. How well attended our open houses all across the district have been and tonight 42 00:04:10,830 --> 00:04:14,810 with elementary getting ready to kick off when we always know those are very well attended. 43 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:19,570 But we always say you don't get a second chance at a first impression and the way that your 44 00:04:19,570 --> 00:04:23,510 a half approaches that not only with our team and our staff moves that you did this summer, 45 00:04:23,970 --> 00:04:28,570 but also the way that the buildings look. So the board team would really like to say thank you 46 00:04:28,570 --> 00:04:34,030 and you get one of our special cups to go along with Jeff. I'll give you the mic here. I know you're 47 00:04:34,030 --> 00:04:38,750 really excited to come and talk, but we just wanted to say thank you. So if you guys don't mind 48 00:04:38,750 --> 00:04:39,570 coming on up. 49 00:04:50,250 --> 00:04:56,330 Okay. All right. Oh, it might just pass along the buildings around staff, 50 00:04:56,330 --> 00:05:06,530 It's a lot of extra workload above and beyond the typically doing the summer and they did it graciously. 51 00:05:07,250 --> 00:05:09,070 And in carrying the plane, they got it done. 52 00:05:09,250 --> 00:05:11,630 We didn't even have to put in much ever time. 53 00:05:11,830 --> 00:05:14,190 Like I said, it's like a center of virtual development. 54 00:05:14,950 --> 00:05:18,330 It's on my like to echo that, you know, it was a massive move. 55 00:05:19,150 --> 00:05:22,470 To our member when we first started brainstorming what we were going to do. 56 00:05:22,990 --> 00:05:26,310 And I just remember Jeff just writing down everything I was saying. 57 00:05:26,310 --> 00:05:34,630 on this note pad and you know I couldn't be more proud. You just executed a plan that I 58 00:05:34,630 --> 00:05:39,930 don't think many other districts could pull off. And our buildings were ready. The signage 59 00:05:39,930 --> 00:05:45,590 out front. Every attention to detail has been given your fullest attention and I appreciate that. 60 00:05:46,390 --> 00:05:50,350 Mrs. Wisebroid mentioned I walked every building that's one of my favorite things to do before our 61 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:55,150 staff or our students come back and the floors are shinier than they've ever been. 62 00:05:55,150 --> 00:06:01,010 Our staff, our custodial staff, is so proud they were so excited to show me they did this or they did that 63 00:06:01,010 --> 00:06:06,010 And I think it goes back to the strength of at the center of our district as our people and 64 00:06:06,010 --> 00:06:10,210 Everyone came to a challenge rose to it and under your guys' leadership 65 00:06:10,210 --> 00:06:18,650 We are opening the school year more than prepared for a new chapter and that wouldn't have happened without great leadership 66 00:06:18,650 --> 00:06:20,670 So I appreciate each of you 67 00:06:20,670 --> 00:06:24,510 You know last year we were able to honor custodians and we thought this year just your leadership 68 00:06:24,510 --> 00:06:30,090 took that another notch up the belt, but I am just grateful for you, for what you've done, 69 00:06:30,410 --> 00:06:34,430 and I can't wait for our families and our students and our staff to get in there and see. 70 00:06:34,710 --> 00:06:39,070 I mean, it's like we flipped a switch, and I know this summer caused a lot of stress, 71 00:06:39,490 --> 00:06:43,630 and you know, trying to figure out when and where was your time off, and what those pieces 72 00:06:43,630 --> 00:06:49,330 look like, and no one said to me, I can't do this, they figured it out, and so I think I've told 73 00:06:49,330 --> 00:06:54,090 both of you this personally, but on the camera, I just want to say, I'm grateful for your leadership 74 00:06:54,090 --> 00:06:55,710 for all you did this summer. 75 00:06:56,570 --> 00:06:56,790 Same. 76 00:06:56,870 --> 00:06:59,070 So as I thank you so much for all your hard work 77 00:06:59,070 --> 00:07:00,310 and dedication to make sure everything 78 00:07:00,310 --> 00:07:01,730 was on point and taking care of. 79 00:07:01,890 --> 00:07:04,290 As you always do, but just above and beyond. 80 00:07:04,470 --> 00:07:05,570 So definitely, thank you so much. 81 00:07:05,710 --> 00:07:07,270 Great, and greatly appreciate it. 82 00:07:07,270 --> 00:07:09,270 Make sure that we're ready to roll. 83 00:07:10,630 --> 00:07:14,150 At the end of the school year, Dr. Copis and I went around 84 00:07:14,150 --> 00:07:16,430 to the three buildings that were being affected. 85 00:07:17,030 --> 00:07:19,010 To see how it was going. 86 00:07:19,010 --> 00:07:23,310 I was so impressed, I referred to it as organized chaos. 87 00:07:24,230 --> 00:07:25,990 Everybody had their list, their colors, 88 00:07:27,190 --> 00:07:30,170 and I was so impressed with how they were getting things done 89 00:07:30,170 --> 00:07:33,750 because you had mapped out, but they needed to do. 90 00:07:34,050 --> 00:07:38,010 During the summer, driving around, I saw people busy working all summer. 91 00:07:38,590 --> 00:07:41,590 And I do, I echo Mrs. Blavins' comments. 92 00:07:41,830 --> 00:07:45,690 I'm so appreciative of the two of you in the work you did on that. 93 00:07:45,690 --> 00:07:46,730 Thank you. 94 00:07:47,230 --> 00:07:53,850 Yeah, Jeff, do you remember when we ran into you at the Wilson, and now I draw on a 95 00:07:53,850 --> 00:07:56,330 blank on the name of the company that handled the move? 96 00:07:57,250 --> 00:07:59,990 Plains, yeah, and I told the Plains guy, I asked him, I said, what are you charging 97 00:07:59,990 --> 00:08:00,650 us for this? 98 00:08:01,150 --> 00:08:05,170 And he told me I said, man, that's a great deal, you should have charged us more, but anyway, 99 00:08:06,490 --> 00:08:12,290 Tom, I have a story for you, and I want to begin the story by apologizing, and I hope 100 00:08:12,290 --> 00:08:13,170 this doesn't happen. 101 00:08:13,170 --> 00:08:17,670 and let me tell you frequently my wife and I will walk around the block where the high school 102 00:08:17,670 --> 00:08:18,230 is located. 103 00:08:18,910 --> 00:08:21,850 And she'll always say, oh, you know, this sidewalk needs to be edged. 104 00:08:21,850 --> 00:08:22,010 Sure. 105 00:08:22,010 --> 00:08:24,170 There's a dead tree limb in that tree or something. 106 00:08:24,650 --> 00:08:27,210 And the last time we were doing it, I was ready for it. 107 00:08:27,270 --> 00:08:31,150 The first comment she made, I just took a little piece of paper out of my pocket and handed 108 00:08:31,150 --> 00:08:33,530 it to her, had your phone number on it. 109 00:08:34,910 --> 00:08:38,130 I hope she doesn't call you so if she does, I apologize. 110 00:08:38,730 --> 00:08:45,810 But Mrs. Blair and Jerry remember it was recently I drove by the high school and I called you. I said man have you seen the parking line in front of the high school 111 00:08:45,810 --> 00:08:51,990 I mean it truly is beautiful. So your cruise your staffs do an unbelievably good job 112 00:08:51,990 --> 00:08:58,450 And I echo what Miss Matthew is a Mr. Davidson said and my fellow board members really do appreciate all of your efforts 113 00:08:58,450 --> 00:09:03,030 It our facilities are impressive. So thank you both very very much 114 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:52,440 All 115 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,660 right, I want to consider our motion to go into executive session. 116 00:10:15,940 --> 00:10:20,320 The reason for that is to consider employment of public, employee or official to consider 117 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:25,740 the sale of property at competitive bidding and to discuss confidential information related 118 00:10:25,740 --> 00:10:31,400 to an application for economic development assistance or negotiation with other political 119 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:36,540 subdivisions related to the application as an executive session is necessary to protect 120 00:10:36,540 --> 00:10:42,420 the applicant's interest or related expenditures of public funds, a unanimous vote is required 121 00:10:42,420 --> 00:10:43,900 to hold an executive session. 122 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:48,530 I moved to adjourn to executive session. 123 00:10:50,030 --> 00:10:50,690 Thank you, second. 124 00:10:53,430 --> 00:10:54,150 All right. 125 00:10:55,050 --> 00:10:55,370 Oh, I'm sorry. 126 00:10:55,690 --> 00:10:56,530 I've got a roll on the trigger. 127 00:10:56,850 --> 00:10:56,890 Yeah. 128 00:10:57,570 --> 00:10:58,150 Dr. Hopkins? 129 00:10:58,670 --> 00:10:59,090 Yes. 130 00:10:59,330 --> 00:10:59,710 Mr. Davidson. 131 00:11:00,590 --> 00:11:01,210 Dr. Copis? 132 00:11:01,550 --> 00:11:01,770 Yes. 133 00:11:01,990 --> 00:11:02,910 Ms. Matthews? Yes. 134 00:11:02,990 --> 00:11:03,190 Yes. 135 00:11:08,730 --> 00:11:10,590 All I will call this opposition. 136 00:11:11,630 --> 00:11:13,550 Come back from executive session. 137 00:11:14,130 --> 00:11:16,110 And going to our business meeting. 138 00:11:16,110 --> 00:11:18,610 pledge allegiance would say 139 00:11:21,490 --> 00:11:25,390 pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America 140 00:11:25,390 --> 00:11:32,890 into the Republic for which it stands one nation under God if it is all with liberty in 141 00:11:32,890 --> 00:11:34,230 justice for all 142 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:45,000 right I'll accept the motion to approve our board agenda I'm motion to approve 143 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:52,440 the board agenda thank you I'll be second thank you thank you Mr. President you call the roll 144 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:53,220 Mr. Davidson? 145 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:54,620 Dr. Copas? 146 00:11:55,260 --> 00:11:55,920 Ms. Matthews? 147 00:11:56,020 --> 00:11:56,420 Yes. 148 00:11:57,580 --> 00:11:57,760 Yes. 149 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:00,560 Thank you. 150 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,580 I'll accept the motion for the approval of minutes. 151 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,340 I moved to approve the minutes. 152 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:08,100 Thank you. 153 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:08,600 Second. 154 00:12:09,420 --> 00:12:11,220 Thank you, Mr. Fraser, if you call the roll please. 155 00:12:11,700 --> 00:12:12,260 Dr. Copas? 156 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:13,080 Yes. 157 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:13,940 Ms. Matthews? 158 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:14,400 Yes. 159 00:12:14,580 --> 00:12:15,240 Dr. Hopkins? 160 00:12:15,420 --> 00:12:15,740 Yes. 161 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:16,340 Ms. Matthews. 162 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:17,720 Yes. 163 00:12:18,860 --> 00:12:19,260 Thank you. 164 00:12:19,260 --> 00:12:23,800 I don't think we can probably participate in. I will turn over to Superintendent 165 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,420 Blavance for her superintendent update. 166 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,940 Yes, thank you President Matthews. Members of the board. I am so excited this morning. 167 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:37,600 We are officially in the 2627 school year. There is a ton of buzz around this community 168 00:12:38,140 --> 00:12:43,420 to get our kids back into school. This year our theme is we build this city, every student, 169 00:12:43,740 --> 00:12:48,500 every staff every day, and we've really spent the last few weeks digging into that and what 170 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:55,100 means. And so I'm so excited to start this year strong. You know, last year was a challenging year 171 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:59,180 with all that we went through. And I think it's important for our community to know. I put this 172 00:12:59,180 --> 00:13:04,380 in our first community newsletter, but we're strong going into this school year. We are continuing 173 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:10,660 to offer amazing programs. Our class sizes continue to remain small. Transportation continues. 174 00:13:11,140 --> 00:13:15,020 Our all of our extracurricular activities are up and running. You can see our band, 175 00:13:15,020 --> 00:13:19,620 out practicing every day or football players on the football field, there's a buzz and energy 176 00:13:19,620 --> 00:13:24,920 with welcome back with us starting up school. I do want to thank all of our secondary buildings 177 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:30,140 last night for a wonderful night of open house. We had record-breaking turnout which was amazing to 178 00:13:30,140 --> 00:13:35,680 see and such great energy as we welcomed our seven through 12 students which sometimes those kids 179 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:40,540 are a little harder to get excited about getting back up at 7 a.m., but they were very excited. 180 00:13:40,540 --> 00:13:42,600 Tonight is our elementary's turn. 181 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:47,200 Our seven elementary's this evening will host open house from 5 to 7. 182 00:13:47,620 --> 00:13:52,460 We do know that the weather might be a challenge but we still encourage our families to come out as much as possible. 183 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:58,740 I also want to thank all of our community partners that have gone above and beyond to make sure that our kids are prepared for school. 184 00:13:59,580 --> 00:14:03,000 So Booker T. Washington hosts a back-to-school drive for the Riverview community. 185 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,780 The Boys and Girls Club did one for the Crawford Woods community. 186 00:14:06,780 --> 00:14:11,460 and tonight the Hamilton Rotary Club will be hosting a back-to-school drive at Bridgeport. 187 00:14:11,780 --> 00:14:16,240 So I'm just thankful for our communities who have shown out to make sure that our kids are 188 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,200 are looking strong and have all the needed supplies to learn in our classroom. 189 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:25,960 I do want to let our community know tomorrow is our last day before we welcome kids in the building on 190 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:31,640 Thursday and Friday this week and so tomorrow afternoon all of our buildings will be closed from one to four 191 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:37,700 so that our staff can come together one last time over at Markham Park to come together to build 192 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:42,300 energy and excitement to kick off this school year. So if any of our families need support, 193 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,220 you know tomorrow morning the buildings will be open as normal, but from one to four our 194 00:14:46,220 --> 00:14:51,780 buildings will be shut down so that our staff can participate in that event. Speaking of school 195 00:14:51,780 --> 00:14:57,580 beginning, just reminder we have three first days this school year. On Thursday we will welcome 196 00:14:57,580 --> 00:14:59,320 our students K through 12. 197 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:28,680 Those last names are A through K. Obviously, if there are blended families, we just ask families to pick one letter and send all of their kids on that particular day. Then on Friday, our last names, L through Z. And then next Monday, we go full force. All of our students K through 12 A through Z, are welcome back into our schools. So I'm very excited to get around and get this year started. I also just want to encourage our parents to help get connected to your children's schools by signing up for our Aubrey Parent Portal. 198 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:34,700 It's a great way with immediate access to teacher contact information, grades, schedule, lunch, 199 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:36,320 venues, anything that they need. 200 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,360 It's the fastest and best way to stay connected to what's happening in our school district. 201 00:15:40,740 --> 00:15:45,680 And also to follow us on all of our social medias, where we will post any and all information as we need. 202 00:15:46,660 --> 00:15:50,840 Those are my comments just about the opening of the school year this morning. 203 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:54,100 Today on the agenda, you'll see there's a number of items. 204 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:59,560 each of you received the document that details each of the items that are up for vote today 205 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,600 because it's such a lengthy, I'm not going to highlight every single thing in here 206 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,500 but please just let me know if you have any questions. 207 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:08,940 And President Matthews, those are my comments this morning. 208 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:12,020 Perfect, thank you so much. 209 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,820 Next on our day is our human resource. 210 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:18,000 I'll set the motion for our human resource. 211 00:16:20,890 --> 00:16:24,790 I moved to accept the human resources agenda as is. 212 00:16:24,790 --> 00:16:28,690 Thank you, do I have a second, a second, any discussion? 213 00:16:30,370 --> 00:16:31,530 Mr. First, what you call the role? 214 00:16:32,050 --> 00:16:32,710 Miss Matthews. 215 00:16:32,970 --> 00:16:33,070 Yes. 216 00:16:33,250 --> 00:16:33,850 Dr. Hopkins. 217 00:16:34,210 --> 00:16:34,490 Yes. 218 00:16:34,630 --> 00:16:35,410 Mr. Davidson? 219 00:16:36,910 --> 00:16:37,650 Yes. Dr. Cobes. 220 00:16:38,270 --> 00:16:38,450 Yes. 221 00:16:39,810 --> 00:16:40,310 Thank you. 222 00:16:40,790 --> 00:16:42,350 Next, we have our consent agenda. 223 00:16:43,570 --> 00:16:44,430 I'll accept the motion. 224 00:16:45,030 --> 00:16:47,050 I've moved it. We accept the consent agenda. 225 00:16:47,650 --> 00:16:48,330 Thank you. 226 00:16:48,650 --> 00:16:49,650 Do I have a second? 227 00:16:50,170 --> 00:16:50,810 I second. 228 00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:52,310 Thank you. 229 00:16:52,450 --> 00:16:53,410 Mr. First, what you call the role? 230 00:16:53,410 --> 00:16:55,170 Just a discussion or a second. 231 00:16:57,910 --> 00:17:02,410 You can sit in gender as it's related to the secondary instruction portion. 232 00:17:03,930 --> 00:17:08,250 Mr. Fraser educate me on our agreement with Westward LLC. 233 00:17:09,350 --> 00:17:10,510 So Westward LLC. 234 00:17:11,390 --> 00:17:13,130 I'm going to put my mic on for this. 235 00:17:13,710 --> 00:17:18,110 Westward LLC helps us with our Medicaid reimbursement process. 236 00:17:18,110 --> 00:17:26,490 So, there are a lot of eligible things that we do here in the school district that is eligible 237 00:17:26,490 --> 00:17:29,150 for Medicaid reimbursement, okay. 238 00:17:29,890 --> 00:17:37,510 And Westward helps us put those Medicaid claims in so that we receive the maximum reimbursement 239 00:17:37,510 --> 00:17:38,270 that we can get. 240 00:17:38,430 --> 00:17:47,730 So, currently, we're getting about 87% back on those items, so to put that in perspective, 241 00:17:47,730 --> 00:17:51,150 I think the Westward contract is $60,000. 242 00:17:52,010 --> 00:17:57,490 We just received a check in June for almost 2 million, 243 00:17:58,590 --> 00:18:03,030 and we just received another check this month for 174,000. 244 00:18:03,590 --> 00:18:05,730 So definitely well worth it. 245 00:18:05,930 --> 00:18:06,270 Yeah, sure. 246 00:18:06,350 --> 00:18:07,370 Money that's well spent. 247 00:18:08,690 --> 00:18:11,190 Also a question, and I miss this. 248 00:18:11,910 --> 00:18:14,030 This might be a question for you. 249 00:18:14,350 --> 00:18:17,010 Under business operations, there was a small portion area 250 00:18:17,010 --> 00:18:20,010 about transportation and lieu of. 251 00:18:21,030 --> 00:18:23,710 Is that related to what you and I were talking about 252 00:18:23,710 --> 00:18:26,010 similar to what the Lakota district is doing? 253 00:18:27,090 --> 00:18:30,090 Yes. So right now, all public schools, 254 00:18:30,090 --> 00:18:32,250 school districts are responsible for helping to 255 00:18:32,250 --> 00:18:35,190 transport our students that choose a non-public option. 256 00:18:35,750 --> 00:18:35,790 Yes. 257 00:18:35,790 --> 00:18:39,350 However, there are caveats within the state law that say, 258 00:18:39,390 --> 00:18:43,070 if it's beyond a 30 minute or 30 minute ride, 259 00:18:43,250 --> 00:18:44,170 then the school district is not 260 00:18:44,170 --> 00:18:51,570 to provide transportation or if it is, if it's not feasible, if it, it causes the district to 261 00:18:51,570 --> 00:18:56,770 accrue excessive costs due to it. So I believe in the in Lakota's case they deemed that 262 00:18:56,770 --> 00:19:01,790 routes were too expensive for what it was costing to transport a small number of students. 263 00:19:02,230 --> 00:19:07,850 The transportation in lieu of that you're seeing on our agenda is a similar concept. It's $654 264 00:19:07,850 --> 00:19:13,310 that in place of transporting to Fairfield Prep because the time does not work with our schedule, 265 00:19:13,310 --> 00:19:17,510 We would have to have a whole new bus, a whole new driver, and that's very costly. 266 00:19:18,810 --> 00:19:22,550 We are paying the parents to transport their own children to that private option. 267 00:19:23,230 --> 00:19:23,790 Thank you. 268 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:28,680 Any other discussion? 269 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:31,720 Mr. Fraser, you called the role? 270 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:33,200 Dr. Hopkins. 271 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:34,000 Yes. 272 00:19:34,220 --> 00:19:34,740 Ms. Minkuso? 273 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:35,380 Yes. 274 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:36,040 Mr. Davidson? 275 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:36,580 Yes. 276 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:37,420 Dr. Copas? 277 00:19:37,740 --> 00:19:37,960 Yes. 278 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:38,780 Ms. Matthews. 279 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:39,180 Yes. 280 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,360 All right, next is our finance agenda. 281 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,600 We'll turn it over to Mr. Fraser. 282 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:45,880 Thank you, President Matthews. 283 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:51,720 uh... we have quite a few items this evening on the findings agenda uh... we have 284 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,260 several items that you guys are used to seeing uh... things that we pass every 285 00:19:56,260 --> 00:20:01,800 year at this time and then we have another couple of items that uh... are new so 286 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:08,080 uh... i'm just gonna run down the list we've got the butler county sc agreement this 287 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:13,140 is something that uh... you will see every year uh... this includes things like speech 288 00:20:14,620 --> 00:20:20,520 OTPT, and this year we have our nursing services on that list. 289 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:23,300 We've got two items from Swoka. 290 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:30,420 We have the software piece that we get from Swoka, which is the fiscal software that we 291 00:20:30,420 --> 00:20:36,400 use, the accounting, we have emus through them, which sends all of our data to the state 292 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:41,280 so that we know we get the maximum amount of money through the state through our foundation, 293 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,420 in which we all know is a massive part of our revenue 294 00:20:44,420 --> 00:20:46,980 about 75% of the money we bring in 295 00:20:46,980 --> 00:20:48,400 and then progress book. 296 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,020 We also have the technology services 297 00:20:52,020 --> 00:20:56,480 which is, we get our internet and phone through Swoka. 298 00:20:58,020 --> 00:20:59,480 Living waters, this is something 299 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:04,440 that is not an annual thing that you will see. 300 00:21:04,620 --> 00:21:08,640 So we own the building where living waters ministry is 301 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,000 we've had a long-term lease with them, a dollar a year. 302 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:14,220 I think it was a 30-year lease originally. 303 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:19,840 We are working with living waters, the city, 304 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:24,900 and the YMCA to dissolve that lease, and sell that building 305 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:28,980 to the city of Hamilton for use by the YMCA. 306 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,880 So you'll see the lease termination on there, 307 00:21:32,460 --> 00:21:34,820 and also the purchase and sale agreement 308 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:36,700 with the city of Hamilton. 309 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,460 We've got a fee schedule on there. 310 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:44,100 This is something that we haven't passed recently, but at one of my treasure trainings, 311 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,240 they said it was a good idea to do this annually, so we will start doing that move 312 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:48,960 in forward. 313 00:21:50,860 --> 00:21:55,100 Dr. Copis and I had a brief conversation earlier about the fee schedule about how reasonable 314 00:21:55,980 --> 00:21:56,780 it is. 315 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,440 I mean, four, I mean, just picking off the thought in my head athletics, it's for high school 316 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:06,180 with $100 per kid, per sport, family max of $250. 317 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,840 So we were talking, if you have four kids in the all-place 318 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,220 sports, you're still in the out $250, 319 00:22:12,620 --> 00:22:13,800 which I think is incredible. 320 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,880 We have the commercial paper reporting requirements, 321 00:22:19,740 --> 00:22:23,580 which is something that started, I think, three or four years 322 00:22:23,580 --> 00:22:26,340 ago, this is something that you'll see every year. 323 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:30,340 We have to board a prove our commercial paper, 324 00:22:30,340 --> 00:22:38,940 which commercial papers, it's a short term investment, usually one to no more than 270 days. 325 00:22:39,420 --> 00:22:46,080 That's put out by a public company, and so we are allowed to invest in that and we do when the returns are right. 326 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,500 We also have a confirming requisition. 327 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:57,560 We have the normal treasure financial reports, which includes the cash summary and the bank reconciliation. 328 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:09,120 And then as always we have the donation list, which I love the highlight. Again, look at that. I mean almost $30,000 that we've received in donations from the community. 329 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,020 I just love to see that up there. So I always like to highlight that. 330 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:20,020 Those are my items for this evening. I'd like to entertain any questions that you have. 331 00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:29,020 No questions, just to comment, as Mr. Fraser said, our fee schedule is very, very, very favorable to the district surrounding us. 332 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,460 So I think that's wonderful for our student athletes. 333 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:44,920 Also, again, to address the donations, I just want to say how wonderful it is that we have so many individuals, so many organizations in our community that support our district. 334 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:52,780 And I certainly hope that they know how well that is appreciated and how much that contributes 335 00:23:52,780 --> 00:23:56,040 to the overall experience of our students here in our Hamilton district. 336 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,300 So that truly is wonderful that we receive that kind of support from the community. 337 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,180 Okay, thank you Mr. Fraser. 338 00:24:06,940 --> 00:24:11,100 I'm all set the motion to, I'll set the motion to accept the agenda. 339 00:24:12,140 --> 00:24:12,520 Report. 340 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,380 I moved to approve the finance agenda. 341 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:17,780 I'll have a second. 342 00:24:19,020 --> 00:24:19,900 How's that going? 343 00:24:20,580 --> 00:24:22,080 Thank you Mr. Fred, you call the roll. 344 00:24:22,420 --> 00:24:22,920 Dr. Hopkins? 345 00:24:23,340 --> 00:24:23,780 Yes. 346 00:24:23,820 --> 00:24:24,220 Mr. Davidson. 347 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:25,640 Dr. Copis? 348 00:24:25,940 --> 00:24:26,180 Yes. 349 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:27,040 Ms. Matthews? 350 00:24:27,060 --> 00:24:27,440 Yes. 351 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:27,880 Yes. 352 00:24:30,780 --> 00:24:31,380 I'm all right. 353 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,260 We'll accept the meeting to adjourn. 354 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,960 Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, August 25th. 355 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:38,620 And we'll begin at 4 p.m. 356 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:39,800 We're back to 4 o'clock. 357 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,040 Motion to adjourn. 358 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:44,320 I can. 359 00:24:47,420 --> 00:24:48,200 I motion to adjourn. 360 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:48,640 10 o'clock.