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I'd like to call to order the regular
meeting in the Troy City Board of

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Education today is Monday March 9th
stand for the pledge please

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of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands one

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nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all

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thank you

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phone call please
this is vimish here

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Mr Hefner here Mr Lucas
Mrs Reeves here Mr Trussell here

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first item on the agenda is a moment of
silence for

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several individuals first is Emily
Conley 80 of Anna and formerly of Troy

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passed away on Monday February 16 2015.
Emily worked in food service at the high

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school in cookson Elementary from 1980
until her retirement in 1994.

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Maryland dearth 76 of Troy passed away
on Saturday February 21st 2015.

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she was a graduate of Piqua High School
in a 60 1960 graduate of Bowling Green

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University
Maryland taught first grade at cookson

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for 28 years before her retirement in
2002.

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Douglas Weichert 68 of Troy passed away
February 12 2015. he was an assistive

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Varsity track coach for choice schools
from 2007 to 2009.

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Deja Bishop 13 Diana Bishop 14 of Troy
passed away Friday February 27th

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jakaya
Jones 13 of Troy passed away Sunday

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March 1st all of the children attended
Troy Junior High

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thank you
I'd like to move into the presentations

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lead off with you
get some guidance counselors as well as

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a teacher with us they were recently
recognized by omalay for different

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distinctions and I'll say that piece
we've got a representative from omla

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here to present the awards but they
aren't aware of this but apparently

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state senator Bill beagle caught wind of
the fact that they were recognized and

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we have very nice letters here from him
for each one of them along with

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recognition from the general assembly of
the state of Ohio the Ohio Senate with

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signatures from Senator Keith Faber
president of the Ohio Senate and Senator

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Senator Bill Beagle from the fifth
senatorial District I'd like to present

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this to them and then I'll turn it over
to Tracy Kramer who's the representative

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from Illinois this evening

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thank you

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get a read from those who don't have it
all memorized the Ohio middle level

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Association is dedicated to serving the
needs of young adolescents we seek to

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recognize schools faculty and or
programs that nurture the social

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emotional intellectual and physical
well-being of the young adolescent using

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this we believe the association for
middle level education's handbook for

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Effective middle schools as our guide we
look for schools that are implementing

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best middle level practices it is my
pleasure to represent Ohio's west region

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today in honor Troy junior high for
their work with young adolescents

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first nominated by their principal I
would like to recognize Laura Jackson

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and Kelly leganek guidance counselors at
Troy Junior High School Mrs Jackson and

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Mrs Atlantic started a student group
called The Four Squad after Rachel's

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Challenge was presented this fall
under the guidance and Leadership of

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Miss Jackson and miss leganek this group
of students has focused on making a

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positive difference in the building
weekly meetings are held with

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discussions focusing on leadership
optimism kindness and how to impact the

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world around you
students have planned many activities

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thus far to make a positive difference
in the building and are generally

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excited about the project Mrs Jackson
and Miss organic's continued efforts and

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advisors and character education will
shape and mold Future Leaders from Troy

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Junior High in a manner that Far and
Away exceeds that of most guidance

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counselors so join me in recognizing
them

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let's see how many hands I have

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one
and for you

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congratulations thank you

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thank you

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okay
next nominated by Laura Jackson I would

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like to recognize Lindsay shank Meredith
Paris Carl Ratterman and Brian racy 8th

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grade teachers at Troy Junior High
these teachers have partnered with Troy

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Historical Society the Troy local
history library and the Museum of Troy

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history to teach students about the rich
history of Troy Ohio and the important

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role their hometown's history has played
in National History while students are

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learning about and appreciating their
local history they are also learning key

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Concepts and skills found within the
language arts and social studies

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curricula
students enjoy learning about the people

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and places of their Hometown they offer
remark how they have passed by or live

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near many of the places discussed and
have no knowledge of their past learning

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about the rich history of their Hometown
seems to encourage students to research

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even more into the past motivates them
to find ways to currently make a

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difference and fosters an appreciation
for the people and events of Their Own

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Town integrated curriculum is an
important component of the middle level

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philosophy and omla is pleased to see
this happening in this manner at Troy so

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Meredith

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thank you

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thank you

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congratulations
congratulations

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I think I said Carl is it fairy no it's
Carl oh yeah okay unable to be with us

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this evening we're Lindsay Shane Carl
rather than Brian racy but they worked

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together as a collective team with Mrs
Paris that does the the History unit

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it's it's fantastic by the way so
congratulations to Miss Jackson Mrs

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organic Mrs Ferris if you want more
round of applause

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appreciate it
good job group

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thank you

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thanks for stillbone thank you

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next one is uh it's a word can came to
us teachers Rock

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it's out of the uh the seller connection
they did a nation Nationwide

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were they going out to teachers they
created book bags and they've selected

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teachers and brought them supplies we
had 10 teachers that were honored of

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that last week the week before
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let me keep their names on Michelle
Skipper from Force Channel Lampert Kyle

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Linda Holt from Haywood Karen Richardson
from Van Cleave Jason otisborne from the

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high school Jane Wise from Concord Karen
Wernicke from Hook Angie Collins from

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the junior high Stephanie shorter from
cookson and Kim Oaks from the hook and

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basically it's just it was their way
they called the culture of good and so

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we're just saying hey teachers really do
a great job teachers Rock and they just

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want to show some appreciation
so they went out and presented and met

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their buildings
so yeah it's kind of nice I'm just a lot

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of good things happening
the next one that I have

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is uh Kunta Ohio school boards
and it's recognizing school board

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members who have years of service
and the two people use the service to

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get to Smith Arizona I'm amazed that
somebody does School Board this many

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years it was pretty impressive but Joyce
Ruiz for 10 years her 10-year

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anniversary and for Steven Lucas's 15th
year

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appreciate it

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thank you thank you

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thank you

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seriously and on school boards it's
it's not a lot of people that stay

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around that long this is kind of a
thankless job in a lot of hours a lot of

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time
so a lot of times it changes over but

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we're fortunate the stroke's got 15 last
year 15 and 10 we have a lot of people

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that are staying around so I think that
means we're doing some good things

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I'm trying to get it right

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congratulations

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the next one's audit report Mr price is
going to talk about a little bit I just

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want to kind of talk about Mr Price just
a little bit

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um
and I told him I wouldn't say anything

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about physical but I can't help it

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um it's kind of neat when you get a
clean audit it means everything's kind

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of in place and works very very hard at
it but not only that I mean the audit

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he's got got a nice little certificate
here this came from from the state

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senate
addressing that basically telling how

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the people should be very they should
understand how fortunate they are that

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someone's doing to get a lot of taking
care of their money and taking care of

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things I think Mr Price does a great job
he he fits here amazingly well uh it

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works extremely well and that said that
makes even better

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but to get two of them this would be
your second one you've been here how

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many years two two okay
pretty good then huh all right so I just

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think it's really neat to mention that
he helps in many many areas but to get

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clean means exactly what it says
everything was done right and we're

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taking care of people's money that's a
good thing

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congratulations

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you're going to talk later about it
are you gonna talk now

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yeah as Mr Herman said we did receive a
clean audit it was filed late February

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we had no material control weaknesses no
significant deficiencies of internal

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control
no non-compliance

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no material internal control weaknesses
no significant deficiencies

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and no findings and we received the
unmodified opinion which is the highest

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possible we did have a couple verbal
comments which we argued uh have a

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weight but they commented
we had one month where we did not spend

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our federal funds within 30 days I think
it was 32 days before we had it fully

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spent
this invoice

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check writing timing and then the second
one was dealing with the hospital 264

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payback
um which I dug through the file that Mr

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Pence he was back and forth with the
Auditors the time that that debt was

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issued and how to record that we have
been recording that

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not
part of our fiscal year in closing it's

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not part of our carryover balance or
anything

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we set aside on a quarterly basis
quarterly payments over I think it's a

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15-year period and then once that
15-year period is completed the funds

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are then to be paid to the bank to pay
off the note that was issued I believe

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six years ago with the correspondence
back and forth between Mr Pence and the

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honor of State's office you could record
it

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either on your books or off the books
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Mr Pence chose off the books now they
change their minds they don't want to

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record that myself we will be changing
that it will be part of our year-end

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balance going forward so you'll see that
fun presented at the end of the fiscal

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year as part of our
close out and that amount will increase

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each year for the next nine years until
we pay it off at the end so there's the

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only two verbal comments we got
nice job very good

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evening everyone
the the big news on race to the top is

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is
we started testing February 23rd we

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actually have we been talking about it
for four years or longer but um

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our staff our students everyone has
worked extremely hard our technology

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department and I think that work had
paid off with a smooth start to the

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testing schedule all nine of our
buildings have participated in online

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testing some are a little further ahead
than others the only thing that hasn't

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cooperated last week was the weather a
little bit but aside from that our

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buildings were prepared for that we had
spoken about to them in advance about

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having a plan in place if there were
delays if there were snow days and it

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has continued to work smoothly even with
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um science social studies math language
arts all of them that went off we've

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learned a lot in the process although
it's went smoothly there's been a few

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bugs we found ways to fix some of those
things to share with our staff we've had

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the call to get some additional help on
a few items but overall it's went very

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well and I credit that to our teachers
and kids for taking the time to get

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involved to understand the system to do
the practice tests and and to work at it

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and um
if this system continues I think the

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work that we put in that will will
continue to serve us well we will be

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doing an end of year assessment later
this spring which will also be online

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and we're kind of looking forward to
each day learning a little more and

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troubleshooting that and it's working
well I think our kids the preparation

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it's been a uh there was a lot of
anxiety a lot of fear once we got

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started I think that has went away
since we last met we haven't had a race

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to top meeting we will meet again next
week on March 19th and in that meeting

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we'll be a little bit of a discussion on
how testing is going in each of the

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buildings of the teachers and
administrators of the president on that

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committee as well as any questions or
concerns about where we are with OTAs we

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are approaching the point where some of
those things start to wrap up and we

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talked about
roster verification linking students to

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teachers and making sure we're doing
that correctly as well as wrapping up

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into VR finances for racing the top
which this is the final year of that so

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a lot of good things going on I can
raise the top a lot of good things

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as far as the testing is this where the
students or parents have the option to

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opt out
and what what's our percent of optel has

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been looking like
um I don't know the overall percentage I

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think our round number of students is
approximately 150 so this is about four

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and a half percent

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we've taken the stance with that I mean
if if a parent wants to do that

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fine I mean we've not fought that or put
up any roadblocks to them we we accept

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whatever they turn into us
and then we have a letter that we've

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we've developed and we send down
basically goes back through you know you

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get the basically the third grade and
all the things that you have to be

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concerned with
uh we talked to him about a few by not

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taking the test than any of the results
coming back are probably going to be a

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zero because just the obvious things
they need to know and also to to take

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care of the school
that we've done our due diligence we've

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tried to do it so if someone will come
in and check us we haven't just randomly

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we've tried to we've we've talked to
each parent explain to them why why not

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and then I I've told my folks to kind of
stay out of that I mean you give them

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the facts and look at the facts and let
them decide as a parent where they're at

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not Mr Herman said this or any above you
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um as you know the state's doing some
things with testing so I think they're

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going to make some changes with it
but until we get through it and see what

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all happens it's been a hard year
anyways because we've had duplicate

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testing and you know a lot a lot of
hours a lot of stuff going on yeah

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so I think the state's going to step in
and take care of that but

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right now it kind of is what it is we're
required by a lot of tests so we're

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gonna
we're gonna do that

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any other questions guys
thank you thank you

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uh just a couple more things while I've
got you the Art Exhibit got a hander

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it's open through uh April 26th we were
just down there early it's really good

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it is really good every year it's really
nice it says every year but they do get

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better every year they have different
types of art down there so this is over

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400 pieces of art on display down there
pretty amazing it truly is worth the

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time to go down and take a look at it
um tomorrow I just want to remind

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everybody the junior high is closed for
students it's a work day for staff so

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the staff will be in to work just like
normal

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um we thought that was the right thing I
think the junior high two are here

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they've done a very tragic situation in
your eyes done a nice job

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as far as we've had some grief
counselors that came in we had five two

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and high and five at Haywood that have
done an outstanding job I mean they came

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in and helped and really kind of put it
all together but the junior high staff

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and excellent job Mr dilborn leading
that they've done a real nice job in a

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very tough situation
um Mr Sadler at Haywood said a nice job

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so just tomorrow a reminder the junior
high will be closed just the junior high

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it's only students the staff will report
as normal

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I just want to make it comment I've
noticed what the schools have done

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through this unfortunate situation and I
think what we have done has been

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terrific as far as the support from the
schools from the administration from the

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teachers
it's really seen out in the community

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it's felt so I want to certainly thank
Mr dilborn and his staff and Mr Hermann

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what you've done has been terrific the
communication to us has been

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great as well so I think we handled it
very well

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I think it just reinforces once again
the Partnerships that the community the

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schools
and everyone pans with one another

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because I know you know from the city's
perspective it's just been constant

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communication with the the leadership at
Lincoln Center and the schools and we've

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even laid some offers out on the table
some were taken advantage of so others

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were not but you know to know that
everybody was willing to to step forward

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and do their part so
this is when you're you're most proud of

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being a part of the community like Troy
so

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Mr deobon especially thanks for the
what the junior high has been able to

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to do for them

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anything else that's it thank you brings
us to the first hearing of the public if

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anybody wishes to address the board of
any matter of issues on the agenda now

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would be the time to do so

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if not we'll move into the regular
agenda items first is the

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Treasures report
and the first item is the approval of

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the minutes of our meeting of Monday
February 9th 2015 these were previously

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distributed to you we've entertain a
motion to approve the minutes as

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submitted so vote
second

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any comments Corrections
roll call

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Mr Hefner yes
this is Beamish yes Mr Lucas yes Mrs

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Reeves yes Mr Trussell yes
next item is the financial reports this

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would include our sm-2 our monthly total
revenue monthly total expenditures

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monthly ending balances scheduled
revenues expenses and change and fund

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balances The Five-Year forecast
appropriation account summary and the

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investment schedule would entertain a
motion to approve and submit it

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so moved

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second

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just highlight the sm2 we were still
tracking very well for the fiscal year

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so that was good news
um our next big settlement will be at

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the end of April for income tax okay and
probably a couple weeks before that we

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should have our final settlement for
property taxes also

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really coming
on the um on the expenditures the

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purchase Services
being far below what we had expected

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which is good news but what's driving
that

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a lot of it is probably fuel oh okay um
and then utilities have not gone up what

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we initially anticipated because

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we negotiated a better deal
if you remember

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through the or
Consortium the EPC for natural gas a

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year ago we did the electricity so it's
mainly the utilities

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okay thank you yeah I'm sure the fuel
has to be pretty impactful yeah

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any other questions
roll call

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this is Reese yes Mrs bimish yes
Mr Hefner yes Mr Lucas yes Mr Tulsa yes

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next is approving the tax rates
these rates have been certified by the

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county budget Commission on February
25th of budget commission certified the

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following rates of tax to be levied for
school purposes on the general

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duplicates for 2015.
of which we have a listing

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would entertain a motion to
approve as submitted so second

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and Mr Price you wanted to yes a couple
comments I placed before you uh this

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evening in comparison over the last
three years

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of those tax rates and values Associated
therewith

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you'll notice in fiscal year 15 the no
limitation general fund has decreased

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that's because the unknown of the 5.9
Levy for which we're on the May 5th

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ballot for renewal

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I have not had the conversation but I'm
assuming

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if we're successful on May 5th with that
renewal we'll be coming back to you with

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an adjusted rate sheet to approve it at
that point

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any questions

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any other comments or questions

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what I wish this did reflect was what
the

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actual value of these levees are today
at their collectible rate versus what

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they're what's a

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not counting the capital Improvement in
the bond retirement were just under 22

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mils I believe

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if we get below 20 then it automatically
bounces at 20 mil yeah

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which if we had not seen the evaluation
decrease so since 07 this year we're

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back up slightly
we would be below the 20 mil effective

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rate
so we'll be seeing a few more dollars

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than what we're actually getting today
because of that

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any other questions
roll call Mr Lucas yes this is Reeves

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yes this is Beamish yes Mr Hefner yes Mr
Trussell yes

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next item is the then and Nows this has
become a fairly regular common monthly

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occurrence
where there have been Appropriations

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available or there was the fiscal
officers certifying that there were

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Appropriations available and funds in
the treasury

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but there was that time to issue a
contract prior to the expenditure this

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gives retroactive approval for the
purchase orders listed below

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there's a total of six items for a total
of Eleven Hundred and seventy seven

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dollars would entertain a motion to
approve sell it

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second

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any further coming uh just one comment I
believe in three of these cases

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well we instituted this we could if you
remember I mentioned that we may have in

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instances where something was
put through right at the end of the

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month and I think three of the six
involve that scenario so it's just a

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we happen to close out and get into the
next month before the paperwork found

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its way around with everybody
a PO ISU so the number looks better than

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that yes

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we will continue uh reminding our
Administration and staff members proper

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procedures I mean it's going to happen
absolutely

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any other comments roll call Mr Hefner
yes Mr Lucas yes Mrs Beamish yes Mrs

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Reeves yes Mr Trussell yes

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next item is a consideration of a bid to
replace

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the roof I assume it's part of the roof
at Troy High School

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we advertise for bids in February 11th
and February 18th in Detroit Eagle News

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received a total of eight bids in this
hereby authorizes the lowest and best

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bid for maxim Roofing in the amount of
383 thousand dollars

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would entertain a motion to authorize
the expenditure

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second

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any further explanation we we had a
meeting uh I think last week this week's

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miss being there and we went through all
of our capital and expenditures that we

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thought we needed to do
roofing's as well as we can get away

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from but when you have to do that we
have about 685 000 and one roof kind of

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get police a lot of that so we went
through everything all of our buildings

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Stadium got a little bit going on in
every place that will start on fairly

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soon
have we used maximum Roofing before

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no we have not
um it is a relatively new company but

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with very experienced staff they've come
from other companies and formed their

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own company Titus did a reference check
and but the architectural firm that we

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used RDA group is very familiar with
this group and we're pleased okay

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um this involves two large sections on
the west side of the high school

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building I believe that roof area is 25
years old weight room area

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okay
um it was originally estimated by the

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Architectural Group
to cost about 478 thousand dollars a low

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bid came in at 383 000. so that's the
right direction 95 below the anticipated

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amount yeah pretty competitive bids here
yes yes yeah there were yeah yeah they

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were pretty bunched up with the
exception of one we were a place we had

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nine attend the pre-bid meeting a few
weeks ago and now that night we received

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eight bid so we were very pleased

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any other questions or comments
roll call this is Reeves yes Mrs Beamish

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yes Mr Lucas yes Mr Hefner yes Mr
Trussell yes

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anything else from the treasures

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went into the superintendent's report Mr
Hermann you want to report on the

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generous gifts
yeah this this month as you can see it's

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starting these scholarships
starting to come into the scholarship

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money the Muslims are going to the
scholarship fund 5848.18

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and um just pedal them I think for
scholarship one or the other

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to entertaining a motion to accept the
gifts and express our appreciation

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second

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any comments or questions

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year to date this brings our total to
291 thousand dollars

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for gifts yeah that's unbelievable
roll call

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Mr Lucas yes Mr Hefner yes this is
Beamish yes Mrs Reeves yes Mr Trussell

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yes

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next item is a request for non-routine
use of our buses this has become an

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annual request on behalf of Detroit
Strawberry Festival

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they will be requesting the use of our
buses for June 6th and 7th

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and the Strawberry Festival committee
will pay all costs associated with the

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use of our buses would entertain a
motion to approve

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so move
second

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it's fairly standard every year
roll call Mrs Reeves yes this is yes Mr

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Lucas yes Mr Hefner yes Mr Trussell yes
foreign

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we have been submitted to a list of
personnel items for the month

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you'd entertain a motion to approve and
submitted

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so moved
second

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depress you want to make an introduction
um this evening we have Candice Swartz

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The Chosen candidate to replace Susan
denlinger which will be retiring

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effective July 1st but pleased to have
for everyone

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welcome
some big shoes to fill when we have all

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these plants see you gotta

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anyone else here Marion that we need
this

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is wandering right
here

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there he is
yes Matthew from

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uh sixth grade building
that's right

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yes math currently is um assistant
principal at Troy Junior High

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and before that he taught social studies
at Troy High School so we're very

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excited about him taking over
okay

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that's a that's a very unique building I
I think it'd be a great place to

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call home for a while so yeah I think so
I'm looking forward to it very much the

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the character of the building and you
know you know the unique setting with

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one-on-one class there in one grade and
they had a fantastic staff and you know

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the great groundwork that Mr Keller has
already established there so I'm really

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looking forward to it good thank you
any other comments on any personnel

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if not roll call
this is gamish yes Mrs Reeves yes Mr

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Hefner yes Mr Lucas yes Mr Trussell yes

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any board members have anything else to
be brought up

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anything else I'm superintendent I just
want to remind her about the levy 5.9

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mil renewal Lobby
no increase in taxes May 5th no increase

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in taxes is really important remember
that part

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recognition that our treasurer's office
is continually showing the

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incredible protection preservation of
our funds so

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this brings us to the second hearing of
the public if anybody wants to address

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anything to the board

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Mr Hamm congratulations on your
recognition this last month thank you Mr

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Tristan it's always nice to see those
Trojan alumni get those that

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recognitions

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anything else to be brought before the
group if not we'll entertain a motion to

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a dream
so moved

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second

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this is Reeves yes Mr Lucas yes Mr
Hefner yes Mrs Amish yes Mr Trussell yes