Dayton Board of Education – Business Meeting – December 19, 2023

May we have a roll [Music] call President  goodwine here Mr Smith I believe he’ll be   arriving late today Mr Samson present  Miss Wick present Dr pet present Miss   rard present Mr Lacy here Mr Nicholas here  seven present please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance United States stand

Na all right Dr Lawrence I believe we have a  couple presentations we do we do new agenda   that we do that new agenda item are we going  to do that it is nothing on my screen but if  

You have something on yours I says new agenda  item got all right you’re right well let’s   get it started our first presentation uh is  the Bruner Literacy Center it’s going to be   Joanie Watson uh I just want to say that uh  I made several trips to her classroom when I  

Was the chief of schools and a phenomenal  teacher and I always enjoyed hanging out   in your class was always my last stop on  the way out in fact we’ll take you back um

No not that I I tried sorry I we’re hearing aids  um not that I would not want to come back because   I do love DPS but 35 years was a long time that’s  right um hi everyone I’m Joanie Watson and I’m  

The community outreach specialist and intake  specialist for the Bruner Literacy Center I’d   like you to meet Angela Bailey she is our office  manager extraordinaire um I do believe I have a PowerPoint okay let’s get started and thank you so much so  as I said I’m the community outreach specialist  

For the Bruner Literacy Center and if you know me  you know that relationships and Community is very   important to me I always say to people that we  are the village and it’s up to us to take care  

Of really everybody so when I first started at  Bruner literacy three three years ago I was a   Dayton Foundation fellow and I created a coalition  and um DPS has been one of our Coalition partners   for the last three years so about six weeks ago  Jill Hall approached our CEO Mila cordona Jones  

With hey we’ve got an opportunity to get 30,000  books so when she said that we’re like 30,000   what does that look like well it looks like that  and it looks like the semi that brought them to  

Us and had to have a forklift because I think  what were there 27 27 skids of brand new books   and these books were donated um Jill Hall put  us in touch with them and working together they   were donated by the Disney Corporation and when  I thought about Disney books I thought about all  

These cutesy little Let It Go Frozen books um but  they are beautiful books so we had enough books so   that every child and Dayton Public School could  get a book preschool through high school so can  

We go to the next slide please so our vision was  that every child in Dayton Public School would   get a book and we wanted to do this before break  because this could be a president from Bruner from  

Jill Hall from DPS from the teachers and some  students may never have had a brand new book   to take home that they could keep so I called  Dr Lawrence and I said hey how would you all  

Like some books and we met about it and then Dr  Lawrence put me in touch with the wonderful Denise   gum and the wonderful Alex and my new best friend  in is Daryl glass Daryl glass is from Logistics  

And if you do not know him and his people you  absolutely should in fact I took them Donuts   last week because he’s my new best friend so we  met a couple times over zoom and I have to tell  

You that it was very overwhelming to us at Bruner  because we’re a very small staff of eight and we   had two weeks two weeks to put this in place so  so we had no clue like how do you get out books  

To every single School dis School in the district  and I said well I can just load up my car and just   go to every school and deliver these books yeah  that didn’t last long because I really thought  

About it then so Daryl was wonderful and said we  can do this and this is how we can do this um so   then we can go on to the next slide so then we  also wanted to be able to put labels inside of  

The books so that students and parents in the  community know that they are from the Bruner   Literacy Center in Jill Hall and know what we do  because we are not a children’s Literacy Center we  

Are an adult Literacy Center and Angela will talk  a little bit more about that and what we offer but   we work with adults 19 and older who have low  levels a little ly and I don’t know if you know  

That but one in five in Montgomery County have low  levels of literacy so what that looks like is if   someone gets a medicine bottle from the doctor or  a prescription they can’t read how to take their  

Medicine or let’s say you are a renter and your  landlord puts something on your door that says   hey we’re going to be inspecting your apartment  next week they may not be able to read that as  

Well um I work I volunteer at the Dream Center a  couple times a week and it always floors me just   how many people that don’t have their GED or  maybe they have their GED and they need help  

With like Sinclair or Center or right state so  that’s what we do so here you see our lovely on   the right um Bruner Literacy Center was founded  by Three Sisters of the precious blood we have   a very close relationship with The Sisters of the  precious blood and I think that’s sister Helen on  

The right who is one of the founders of precious  blood so or one of the founders of Bruner so they   have been instrumental in helping us because I had  to call out the troops thank God I have a lot of  

Friends on Facebook because I put out the plea  we need help because we only had two weeks so we   had former DPS teachers that are retired that came  out and helped us put labels on books books we had  

Librarians from the metro library who are retired  so we had two weeks to put labels inside of 30,000   Books Okay the next slide please so my fabulous  Daryl glass and the logistics team um told sent  

Me the enrollment sheet I have to admit when I  saw that I was like oh my gosh how are we going   to do this but we did it so all those boxes that  you see stacked up up first we had to separate  

The books because they didn’t come separated by  age groups they were just kind of like thrown in   these big boxes so we had to separate by age  groups by schools by classrooms but we did   it we got it all done so that’s kind of showing  you what Bruner Literacy Center looked like for  

About two weeks next slide please and I was so  excited I have to tell you this new truck amazes   me I think it is so pretty the new DPS truck I  mean that’s like big time it’s really nice so I  

Think that’s Danny and David was that their names  who were I mean they even came in and smiled when   they saw those boxes so they were such a dream to  work with they made our lives so much easier and  

It just made me feel good that you know my home  DPS since fifth grade all the way through High   School um has so many caring and loving people  that are working there and then on the right our  

First stop because we decided to actually go and  take pictures at three schools thank you Alex and   Denise and whoever and Dr Lawrence who picked  the schools first we went to my home building  

Horus man you knew I was going to go to Horus man  um and we went into a Kindergarten class and Jilla   brought snacks for them and they were so excited  to get their books so that’s a picture of them and  

Then we also went to um th good where um Chief  duy and Dr Lawrence me met us at thurg good and   chief Spurlock was with us at horeman and then  and it was interesting because the man who was  

From the news and I can’t remember what station he  was from Channel 7 maybe two two he really talked   to the students about the importance of being  in school and I’m pretty sure he said he was a  

Third good grad so you know DPS just touches  so many people’s lives in so many ways and   it reaffirms how much we love this District so  and after th good we went to um EJ Brown Edwin   Joel Brown and we went into a um student with  special needs classroom and realized that the  

Books that we had brought for them were too high  even though it was a middle school so excuse me I   went back the next day and brought them a whole  set of books that were more age appropriate for  

The special needs class and she mentioned that  she was starting a a library a classroom Library   so we also brought her some extra books as  well for the classroom library next slide please and oh you have to go  back to that one and click play

Please there should be it  should show up on the bottom maybe if you click on that there it goes now click  on it again this is Hightech okay there should be sound there’s no sound there’s really nice music  with this but these are just some some pictures  

Thank you Alex and Kate of the students  getting the books they were all really   excited every child in DPS preschool all the  way through high school got a brand new book nice thank you um so all day today I’ve been  getting lots of phone calls lots of texts lot  

Of Facebook messages of thank you so much Joanie  to you and Bruner our students love the books   they’re so excited they’re very proud and then  um it almost broke my heart when a teacher said   to me even one of our teachers was those almost  in tears because she just doesn’t have the money  

To spend on presents for all her students but  this has enabled her to give a present to all   her students students um thank you to Dr Lawrence  and Denise and Alex and everybody who has helped  

Us um do this it was a lot but we are so proud  that we were able to work as well with you because   it was seamless and now Angela is going to talk  a little bit about what we do at Bruner we did  

Have a lot of Frozen books um I don’t care if I  ever see one again I’m glad my daughter is older   guess I’m going to have to work through that and  Let It Go um you can go to the next slide please  

So Bruner offers four core um programs um adult  basic education that brings every um one up that   comes through the program up to the sixth grade  proficient um level and that prepares them for  

The GED honestly sometimes we just get some um  older folks in and they say I want to read to my   grandchildren and they may never be interested in  GED although we really talk it up um and they just  

Want to read to their children so they come in and  they go through our adult basic education um and   we help them and Empower them to do that the next  slide um after they’re ready done with that they  

Are ready for our GED preparation um this Brunner  what what we specialize in what sets us apart from   any other tutoring um other than being free is it  is oneon-one and so it’s not a classroom um full  

Of people that are at all different levels when  they come in they take the tab 1112 and we and I   tell everybody that calls on the phone and they’re  a little nervous um maybe you know a lot of  

Emotion come with um admitting what you might need  and I tell them that it just gives us a baseline   of where you’re at and where your strengths are  and when you need a little bit of help then that  

Tells us where to set you up in the curriculum  and then that helps us also to match you with   the right tutor because we know our tutors really  well and we know kind of by the personality of   the student sometimes and the personality of  the tutor of who’s going to work really well  

Together so um I’m very proud of that and really  they become family that’s what we are um we have   a lot of fun together and so the GED gets them um  ready for all four sections of the GED we do give  

Them practice tests throughout um that and to let  them know where they are when they start hitting   some of those milestones and some of their goals  um we give them a practice test and we wait for  

That little magic number and and give them the  thumbs up to go and take step for the real test   the next program the next slide is our continuing  education so this one’s really exciting um because  

I’ve seen personally since I’ve been there in Fe  since February um someone just call in and say hey   I want to go back to school to be a nurse after  not going to school for a very long time and what  

Can you do for me and so she literally brought her  nursing entrance exam book to us and we helped her   go through that and um and now she’s going to be  one of our tutors someday I know it her husband is  

Too um so that gets them ready for preparation for  college entry we’ve also actually started to see a   wave of currently we have two DPS graduates that  came through through the covid years and they’re  

Like hey I’m in this program and I just need a  little extra help and if you guys have ever priced   out tutoring it’s outrageously expensive and it’s  completely free for everyone and so we help them   through through whatever program they’re going  through continuing ed a lot of times um someone uh  

A father um someone a little older can be in a job  that has been grandfathered under a lot of things   but now some new tech come up Tech issues come  up and they need to learn a new skill um we’ve  

Even had people come in and saying hey I’ve got to  learn how to use my smartphone because now I have   to clock in on this baby right and that’s a whole  new thing for a generation so we are empowering  

Everybody to um to to keep up with what they need  to do to live their lives um the next slide um we   also have a lot of elll students and this is one  thing that I see um with my kids going to Styers  

And doing a lot of stuff there when I ever I see  parents soccer games and I hear them talking I’m   like hey come see us you know we’ll help you um  and and they help us even more than we help them  

A lot of times I think but our English language  Learners um again we have students from every   continent every country we’ve gone through it  it was like over 43 I think at our last count   um and and they come through they work on their  English um some of them are beginner and they  

Don’t speak any when they first come to us um and  some of them are Advanced and just need to work   on conversational um then we also do a lot of  citizenship prep um and we’ve had four citizens  

I think four people just this year pass their  citizenship which is a great thing to say for   them because it takes them like six years anyway  so um why is this important to DPS because a big  

Part of what burner literacy is about is about  family literacy and being a sub um previously um   in DPS one thing that I can say is that I know how  important it is for those parents to be reading at  

Home for for you know grandparents and aunties  and uncles and even older siblings to see that   and encourage that throughout a child’s life it  makes such a huge difference and so um we also  

Um the next slide uh plug for um tutors uh one  of like I said we’re like a family and we have   a lot of retired teachers um after taking a little  time off and that uh itch is still there and they  

Need to scratch it um once an educator always  an educator honestly look at Joanie right and   so you we always need tutors and um we’re just so  happy to be partnered with uh DPS um and with all  

Of you and we look forward congratulations on  your test scores coming up to 23 and hopefully   as a community we can all work on that together  thank you slide one more slide please actually two   this is our contact information um you can call us  that’s our address next slide please so not only  

Were we able to give every child and DPS a brand  new book before the break we also gave books to   Deca Horizon Miami Valley School a Rand A Philip  Randolph Institute Northridge schools Trotwood   schools and Emerson Academy will be getting them  in January um lastly community outreach is what  

I do I’ve done a couple of the fabulous family um  literacy nights with M wle um I’ve done resource   table I also did the open housee at Kaiser I am  available to come and speak in your buildings  

To speak to parent groups I can also do intakes  because that’s what I do as well um I gave Denise   I think has them um my business card and a couple  cards about bruners so if those can be given to  

The principles I’m more than happy to come speak  or do whatever is needed so thank you so much for   giving the opportunity um before you guys go I  will also like to say thank you for the books  

Because today I seen a Percy Jackson book in a  box and I was so happy we have lots of yes I’m   two chapters in and I can’t wait to go finish  reading well if you want some more of those  

Come see us because we have quite a few okay  thank you you’re welcome thank you for sharing that thank you for your presentation are there  any comments or anything from the board thank   you thank you I’m excited to see the books I mean  I have a challenge in my own household where we  

Have to do a book a month so it is great to see  30,000 flourish throughout the Dayton region so   I appreciate you guys thank you thank you and  there’s books out there so please would help  

Yourselves because we are not taking them home you  take them home so thank you so much thank you all   right our next presentation our next presentation  um Dr goodwine is our third grade reading test   scores by Mindy Clark our director of assessment  and accountability and we are so glad you’re back  

The team was down one we’re back to full strength  now take it away thank you good evening board   president Dr goodwine board members treasur Braha  Dr Lawrence appreciate the opportunity to be here   uh get to share some wonderful news this evening  um ahead so we’re going to start off with talking  

About third grade reading proficiency and  proficiency is design uh defined as greater   than scoring at least a 700 on the fall OST is  what actually what we’re talking about and so   we compared uh 20 fall 2018 scores to fall 22 and  fall 23 and fall 23 is significantly above either  

Of the two other years um so we are at almost 23%  in proficiency um for this year which is wonderful   and so uh then there’s also the definition of  students meeting that promotion score for the   third grade reading guarantee um and this and  that’s currently at greater than a 690 greater  

Than or equal to a 690 and our promotion score is  a little bit lower than it was in Fall of 2018 um   however we have a significant number more students  who actually met that uh proficiency score and so  

We had 31% of our kids who who met the promotion  score and that does include our proficient kids   that uh percentage go ahead and so I know in  here you could probably barely see um those  

School names and whatnot however um this is really  a chart that shows you how many schools and it is   87% of our schools showed growth from the year  before in third grade reading proficiency um so   there were really only four schools who didn’t  show growth and one School uh was actually at a

0% um and so this slide is really  kind of exciting um because this   is the fall to Spring proficiency um  and so if you if you think about it   in Fall um which is the blue bar and  spring which is the uh yellow bar um

Historically it is generally about twice if  not greater the percentage of increase or um   we double the number of proficient students  our proficiency doubles um and so it is kind   of exciting to think that we’re currently at  almost 23% and what that can look like for the

Spring so just some some interesting details and  facts about the scores um the lowest score uh   this year was significantly higher um so our  our children who scored the lowest uh scored   significantly higher this year than last year’s  students who scored the lowest um even our high  

Score was higher than last year’s highest score uh  the mode of the distribution so the score that had   the the most scores was uh significantly higher  and as well our average score was higher um and   so the scores are just distributed much higher  when looking at the distribution of scores and  

One of the interesting things um because we  went back to okay why did all of this happen   um our third grade attendance went up um and  so we increased that attendance by about 2.6%   and so we only looked from August to November  uh because that’s in that time frame from when  

Students took the test um not we have not looked  to where we are currently we were looking in that   time frame from when they tested and then and  so that was for third grade students only and  

Then when you look overall at a district where we  are um in that chronic attendance we’ve increased   the number or the percent percentage of students  who are on track as a district um by almost 800   kids um when you when you look at the number  of students it’s eight it’s 800 students um  

When you look at the percent of students it’s  five 5.3% but um that’s that equates to about   800 kids being on track uh which is significant  and that’s through like the beginning of December   so I’m going to um invite Mrs Spurlock to come  up because uh we wanted to talk about what did  

The schools do because I think it’s important  to know what we did to actually affect these   numbers and so um you may have heard earlier  where uh we talked about operation report   card where we met with principles about the  state report card details um and then I’m MO

And then our um schools designed a plan focusing  on how what they were going to do um beginning   in August all the way up to this point of what  they’re going to do to um increase attendance   focus on um instruction especially focusing on  those essential standards and many of their action  

Plans also incr it what are they going to do with  small group instruction how are they going to   focus on the needs of the individual students we  also talked about um working on making sure that  

We have um a focus on um looking at those scores  and also um focusing on uh how are we going to   make sure that our short cycle assessments are  focusing on specifically what they’re going to   be tested on and focusing on the standard so we  used the uh assessment authoring system and what  

We focused on was specifically making sure that  our tests align with the OST so it’s a practice   to see so we did a pre and then we did instruction  focusing on and then we did a post making sure  

That we are monitoring along the way at the  beginning of the year we also used to develop   our plan our Dibbles um our map fall assessment um  to develop that plan and those essential standards   specifically were reading literacy text reading  informational text and writing um and then that  

Monitoring piece was that assessment authoring  system but also our D dibles to look at that   throughout the plan we also oops we’re still we’re  so also looking at that co- teing model that we   moved to with focusing on professional development  to supporting those teachers and then the coaching  

And feedback not only from the curriculum  department but also from our administrative team   and then of course we had professional development  on the science of reading um professional learning   communities we did a lot of focus on that with  our principles on our Saturday session in order  

To drill down to our BLTs and then also our tbts  and focus specifically on the needs of those students um and then coming from there  um we also going to be looking at right   now our fall data OST data came back  we’ve met with principles um and we’ve  

Kind of drilled down on that data and then  they met with their teams and right now we   are actually planning for what is going to  be that third day plan for second semester thank you for the presentation I open the  bo the Flor up to any questions go ahead  

Mr Lacy when when is the fall when  is the fall tests when are the fall   tests taken they’re taken in October okay  that’s all thank you for the information   I had a couple questions so it’s always  good to hear that we’re on the rise here  

And I think I asked this one in email too how  what’s the growth from from Spring to now um so so last year we are from last spring we are  about 99.5% behind um currently where where we  

Ended up last spring um which is which is why  I kind of look at at what happens from Fall to   Spring and and what is our potential for where  we’re going to go so even in the year the years  

You guys compared is it our normal Trend that from  um we have in the past have we dropped from Spring   to Fall yes about how much of the percentage um it  usually drops significantly more than we dropped  

This year um it’s usually 15 to 20% and what do  you think that is attributed to um the beginning   of the year um students haven’t students and  teachers they haven’t necessarily covered all   of that curriculum okay and I saw actually I saw  in the mail before I saw here the academic plan  

That’s coming out that has like this slew of  goals that we have that and my assumption is   those are even over the break I believe there’s  some reading challenges and those type of things   can you just talk a little bit about what that  what that program is and what the intent and  

What we’re hoping to gain especially over the  two weeks that we’re we’re out of school we’re   going to have Chief sheii come in because that  is a focus Integrity model um and she’s going   to delve that I mean delve into that I like  those shoes shiny thank you um so this year  

We did Implement um some strategies across  k two and three to support um our um science   of reading strategies um and so this is just a  carryover of that so that students do not stop   those strategies while we’re on break and um lose  learning and it’s also it also helps the parents  

To get a glimpse of what happens in the classroom  every day um something that the classroom teachers   do every day that takes about 10 minutes um so  it’s just a routine to go over pheic awareness   skills and so again these are videos that our  teachers have made um so we had our teachers  

Come in and do the practices on video and then  we’re pushing those out to families so that they   can learn those strategies and do them at home  um and keep students engaged in the strategies   that they’re used to practicing every day okay  so maybe I got a different letter cuz I didn’t  

Even know was some videos the different letters  go out based on I mean on the the the level of   child in the home now there’s a a QR code and  then on the sheet there are days and every day  

There’s a link if you don’t use the link you  can use the QR code to just do audio so if   you’re in the car and want your kids to practice  um they can hear it and practice the strategies  

That way okay in addition to the newsletter  that was pushed out are there other ways that   people who follow our page I mean they talk about  everything else is there a way that they can help   us keep encouraging other people to click those  links and just see what it’s about oh absolutely  

So we actually met with some of our Community  Partners and pushing it out as well um giving   it’s on our website it’s on social media um our  principles individually sent messages out um and   like I said we met with Community Partners to  share the challenge with them so that they can  

Share with families in the community and get the  word out as well and I think maybe the newspaper   I know the last time we did it because we did it  during our last break um in the newspaper shared  

It as well do we have a Tik Tock cuz the people  we trying to get to they definitely on Tik Tok how   do we get a TI I’m just look I’m be honest with  y’all I don’t read the newspaper I get it every  

Day and I walk right well I read it on my I get an  alert on my phone so the alert came over my phone um but the news alert came on my phone you know  Mr Walker is coming on the board and he he stay  

On Tik Tok so if you need an expert to help  us with content development you got one of   the most active users of all the social sites at  your disposal you are hey as the former youngest  

Of usar I’m just saying it’s just a good place  if we’re really trying to connect with these   individuals like I think it’s great to have  tools we need to get them to the individuals   who are least likely to get them and to get  their interest in them to get to our younger  

Individuals we got to meet them where they’re  actually going to go to which you know Facebook   is for older individuals it is it’s our place it’s  safe we know what’s happening there we understand  

Things Tik Tock and all those other places they  get away from us a little bit so any Ty type of   way or any strategies that we can get this to get  more individuals on it and I’m imagining you guys  

Have a matrix to check or to see how much usage  it it got out of it over the break yes and is it   possible for us to get that information when  we come back just to see how how much it was  

Used yes Ortiz and are the videos on YouTube  or where they on they’re on our page we own   the content so it goes directly to the website  page m M okay and it doesn’t require a passcode  

Or anything like that to get in it’s been tested  overly just to make sure M yes I mean anything   can happen a link can break at any time but  we’re actively monitoring that and is it is  

It easy to share that link to someone else yes  anyone with access to the link can open it okay   any other questions go ahead I would just like to  thank you all for this presentation I’m so proud  

Of the work that you have done and our teachers  have done and our students have done this is a   credit to every single person in our buildings  who dedicates their work towards uh educating  

Our kids and I’m grateful for that thank you thank  you thank you all it’s okay to clap for them go ah it all right Dr Lawrence actually I believe this  one is uh go ahead you up uh spectacular job team  

Uh it’s an honor to be part of the team and I  I appreciate all that you do um this is a I’m   excited about this one presentation of school  closing and so school closing is a big deal in  

The community like how we do it so we’re going  to talk to you about kind of how the sausage is   made and how we come to a decision about closing  school I do want to say that there’s a philosophy  

Behind it as well and we’re adhering to this  philosophy this is say we want to respect our   staff members and families and we have a window  this year between 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 to make a   decision to close schools so that families can  have babysitting or um or find ways to make sure  

That their kids are taken care of the next day  uh we uh do not anticipate doing this at um 3 4:   5:00 in the morning uh if we’re wrong we’re  wrong but we want to certainly respect and  

Honor uh community members that are out there  who are who are parents and our staff members   who were trying to get to work so uh Craig  Anderson and my main man rob Hunter are going   to explain today uh about the process good to  see operations in the house good evening Dr  

Goodwine Dr Lawrence board members of Madam  Treasurer uh we appreciate the opportunity   to cover school closing the process we follow the  procedures uh to make this very important decision   of feed information at Dr nor so we can make a a  great decision for the safety of the staff in our

Students I’m going to start at the beginning kind  of to reiterate what we do summarize that that Mr   Hunter will go over some very exciting new things  that we’re going to do this year so what we do uh  

We figure out uh several things going to the  decision we make as far as school closing the   weather uh when it arrives the amount of snow  for example uh the ability to clear Lots the   parking lots of the schools the sidewalks Street  Street you know there’s always a priority on the  

Highways the main streets uh the sidewalks are  important part of that then the thorough fars   and the residential areas kind of fall behind that  freezing rain ice sleep those things present a a   more challenging type of uh atmosphere for us so  we have to keep that in mind uh the wind and wind  

Chill are a couple other factors and obviously the  temperature so all of that goes in comes into play   when we make a decision as far as uh is it safe  for our student students and staff uh to attend  

School that day so we monitor the the weather this  weekend for example we have a group meet chat uh   Mr Hunter put together Chief Wright Dr L all of us  are on there Alis k k and I saw a couple messages  

Even all us out of town just we had some weather  potential uh hazardous uh conditions yesterday and   we saw that and it was a hard clear sign given  out so but want to reiterate the most important  

Thing any decision we make for the safety of the  students and our staff for example we have some   staff members I know we do and probably several  departments a mechanic for example lives near  

Richmond Indiana starts working at 4 so he may  be on the road by 3:30 we want to try to make   an earlier call as far as uh school closing  maybe 9 as Dr Lawrence mentioned the previous

Evening are there are times when buses will  not be able to travel uh safely on the road   because of a high amount a large amount  of snow or because of drifting patterns   that’s something we really keep  an eye on throughout the night we want sorry sorry

Sorry we’re trying to mitigate the need for uh  ra team and my team to drive around in the middle   of the night which isn’t safe but we have some  experts those that have done it for many years  

But we’re trying to mitigate that and use uh  things that are currently available for us in   the C so we’ll keep working on that but the  main roads over time may be cleared after a   morning snowfall so things may look great at  10:00 a.m. but uh during the night 6:00 a.m.  

4:00 a.m. they may have been a little dicey so uh  our residential streets often remain um unco uh   unchecked for a period of time because again  the city of date May focus on the main roads   and we’re focused on the school so some of the  residential areas are remain somewhat hazardous  

Throughout the day takes a little longer to get  to those so the district we just strive to make a   decision about closing schools as soon as possible  as Dr Lawrence mentioned uh to allow families to   adequately prepare we know there’s some child care  and things that need to be considered so we make  

That decision however the weather May roll in a  little bit later uh or earli in the morning so in   those cases say it’s 6:00 a.m. 7: a.m. we may need  to make that call but 5:00 a.m. is when we want to  

Make the call for the day so depends on when the  weather arrives and again we minor that uh the day   is proceeding to a big weather front and even the  night before so that when the district is closed   very important extracurricular activities field  trips that the bus drivers uh handle each day  

Those are going to be cancelled however afternoon  evening uh sports events basketball for example   volleyball those may still go on and that’s  where Chief Jones will work with Dr Lawrence   and others to make those calls so we really want  to reiterate that and if the if if the games are  

Going to continue our social media uh the news  Etc toel 7 channel 22 channel 45 uh that will   be on there so more information to come there  parent Square would also play a part in that as well the school Clos notifications that  we follow uh automated phone calls we all  

Have our phones our text messages emails  uh parent Square again very important uh   post on the district social media so Facebook  Instagram Twitter uh we’ll get Tik Tock going   if it’s not already we want to we want and I  I actually now have a Tik Tok I don’t get on  

It much I’m working on that but we want  to use that an alert on the DPS website   very critical there or what blanket the area  with communication then obviously the the WDTN   wh wkf uh the information will be out there as  well on the TV for those who watch uh TV so next

So what’s new first of all I want your Tik Tok  I want to see what you do to so I want to see   it too I’m not going to lie to you whoa we’re  looking right so uh what’s new first of all uh  

New we actually have our own meteorologist so  we do do Adriana David is of meteorology so we actually so we actually having that in our back  pocket helps us a lot on just on yesterday we   were looking at the situation we were getting  all kind of notifications we’re on a different  

Notifications weather notifications now that the  city of Dayton um we partner with the city of Dayo   to ensure that they’re going to be able to take  care of all of the roadways for us because if the  

Grounds guys get take take care of everything at  every school we still can’t get our buses around   so the partnership um we collaborated with the  city of Dayton and what we do is myself and PR  

Stoval we sit down the night prior when the events  are going to happen as we get the events we sit   down at night prior to talk about what they’re  going to do so we actually have purchased two  

Trucks to brine so this is something new for us  we’re going to be brining more at our schools   we’re also going to be looking at areas that we  identify areas that our buses travel um such as  

The areas over off of Wyoming um between pel over  by Cleveland on down a couple blocks to Phillips   Avenue so those are a lot of Hills so what we’re  doing is we’re going to take on the city cannot  

Brine those areas so because they have so much  to take care of our staff will be brining those   areas we’ll be salting those areas to make sure  our bus our kids are going to be safe also East  

Fair View on down to um Hill Crest those are  Hills those are areas that our buses travel   they’re real tight spaces so we’re going to be  out and we’re going to brine around the those  

Areas to make sure that our bus are being able  to to travel up and down for the kids so um that   is that’s what’s new also we’ve looked at some of  our schools with the city of Dayton they have a a  

Tier process so um they have three tiers they have  tier one is for all the main areas tier two is uh   mostly the bus the RTA bus travel routes and then  tier three is the residential areas so with that  

What we’ve done is we looked at we identifi with  the city of Dayton all of our schools so they have   a a map and they dropped all of our schools all  of our bus routes in their map and what they’re  

Looking at now is around every school so that’s  all the four streets that are around the school   they’re going to ensure that they take care of  those Street for us so in in return we’re going   to actually help them on areas that they have to  that’s where the collaboration with us bring and  

US salting and that’s where that came from so that  was just that partnership um but then we also have   schools such as Bell Haven Bell Haven is it hits  two areas it had hit the city of Dayton Free Pike  

Is the city of Dayton but redunda and the streets  behind are Harrison Township so we’re trying to   work with the county right now but until that we  finalize everything our our guys will be taking  

Care of redunda because that’s the street that the  buses come in to the back of bell Haven so we want   to ensure that all of the streets that the bus  travel are being taken care of so um that’s our  

Partnership next slide here’s some some streets  or some areas and this is the area that I talked   about kind of blurry but this is Cleveland and  as you see all of that area at the lower part it  

Takes you to Belmont well six blocks over which  will take you straight over to to Phillips that   street takes you straight from Wyoming straight up  into Belmont parking lot so that’s the reason why   we’re going to we’re going to be grinding all  of those areas because our buses travel a lot  

Up in that area you can go to the next slide  this this slide here is the area off of Main   Street um EJ Brown is right down in the corner  and we’ll take care of from across Maine which  

Is East fa view we’ll take that on over to Hill  crest and those are are just areas that they are   very hilly and those are areas that we identified  that buses have issues with in their tight spaces  

So we want to ensure that our kids are safe on  the buses so next slide and then this is Bell   Haven so behind Bell Haven as I stated was just  the area of redunda and some streets that are not  

Actually City of Dayton so they do they do not  have the jurisdiction to take care of those so   until we actually get a formal partnership with  the county we’re going to be taking care of those  

Areas to ensure um the buses are getting getting  to the location safe we also added um radios and   into every truck so if a bus has a problem where  last year we had an issue where we had a bus that  

Was stuck up at um third and Gettysburg so now  we’re going to be able to call the guys on the   radio versus having to call their cell phones  and figure that kind of stuff so that’s what’s

New and as uh Mr Anderson said before he told us  about his Tik Tok um this any sporting events we   we don’t really want to cancel um the grounds  guys are pretty excited about being able to  

Make sure that our schools are going to be taken  care of so the young athletes will get a chance   to participate that afternoon a lot of times we  can get it done far to if we just cancel early  

In the morning so and that’ll help Athletics  from not having to cancel or reschedule games   thank you you for the presentation do we have any  questions I got a couple only because I’m heavily   in snow removal right now at my actual job right  so where are we getting do we have a partnership  

To get Brian like where are we getting it from OD  do so we we get we have a partnership with OD do   the city and the county have a partnership but we  haven’t brok into that one yet but right now we’re  

Getting everything from OD do okay now well OD do  and we could talk later on because we just send   a um something today from Ohio from ODOT they’re  giving out money so we can actually possibly get  

Our own equipment to become a bran to to have  Brian done at our facility so that’s something   that we just received today probably around 3:00  so we going to actually talk to Miss po and TR of  

Work out I’m so happy I asked you that question  cuz I’m let take that back to my job that’s good   to know okay second tips hey tips is good second  the um looking at you were looking at our schools  

That are outside the Dayton jurisdiction have you  I know you said the county but I think I believe   Harrison Township the township is responsible  for the roads on the Township Road similar to   how some of our streets like I know we have  some buses that go in Jefferson that are  

Dating or Jefferson so just a tip you may want  to reach out to the town ship Administration to   try to get a partnership there to see how we  can work with them as they’re generally more   responsible for their roads and the county are is  responsible for the county roads that go through  

Those areas so okay so you may be calling the  wrong place which is why you don’t have a park   partnership on that one okay uh let’s see have  we ever considered because I know you talk about  

Getting more modern technology for you guys to  see stuff when you’re out there I see a ton of   drones that fly by my house all the time and  although I do not like them it may be something  

To consider for you all if you are looking in  that area that kind of allows you to cover more   things than just driving up here I don’t know  if you guys have ever considered that or n have  

You ever considered it no so our with the city  we don’t need drown because they actually tell   us how much they have already taken care of so  they tell us all the streets and everything that   they’ve already done so in the morning we don’t  have to drive around anymore the city actually  

Gives us um when we call in the morning he call  our our set time is around 1:00 we’ll already   know he’s only taking care of 20% of the streets  or this has been done these areas have been taken  

Care of so we don’t with the city now the drones  could possibly be something we take care of when   we talk about the townships and in the county  areas that could be something but as far as   the city they actually will they’ll be telling  us exactly what they’ve already taken care of I  

Hear you on that one but as a resident in the  city they may say they hit my street but they   didn’t hit it that first snow seems to get away  from them for some reason but yeah just may be  

Some of you guys may want to uh consider yourself  to kind of help you out with your process on that   one and then other than that my only other thing  is I think you guys have to put Twitter and put  

For put X formerly known as Twitter if you guys  want to you know give them their proper new name   whatever they going they’re going through an  identity crisis so it is but thank you that’s   that’s all I had board member Samson I tried  to fight saying this the last thing Mr Hunter  

Needs is a drone yes well if if he can get on  uh Tik Tok I should be able to get a [Laughter] drone U board member Ryan wait one second don’t  go just yet uh I want to thank you for letting  

The public know the process that goes into this I  think um a lot of people just think that that’s an   arbitrary call and we take the Safety and Security  of our bus drivers and our students and everybody   very seriously I did think that you neglected  to mention one of the greatest indicators  

Of inclement weather and as the parent of a um  several children in school I want you to know that   putting a white crayon under your pillow and a  spoon and flushing um ice cubes down the toilet is  

The greatest indicator for me that school will be  cancel the next day that’s what that’s what they   do they go through a whole process and it’s their  that’s how they that’s how they tell you guys  

That we need to cancel school so just so you know  added to the slides I have one more question for   you guys how many drivers do we have that actually  operate the trucks that remove snow so we have 20  

Drivers now we have 20 drivers we have make sure  so we have nine well 12 plows that are be out um   three of which are our larger dump trucks and then  we have nine uh F250s that are out um and then we  

Also have six of which have salt uh Salt Dogs on  the back okay and I will say I am rooting for snow   days that happen from Wednesday until the first  day of school happens so we can just knock it all  

Out right now and not have any disruption to our  whole school schedule I know children are opposite   of me but that’s kind of where I am on my journey  right now goad um I think I think um I mean I  

You’ve probably explained this to people before  but I I think a lot of people don’t understand   why we can’t re uh reasonably do an hour delay  or a a a short delay if you want to if anyone  

Wants to just go over that subject why it’s it’s  not unless I’m wrong it’s not a feasible option   for Dayton public schools so so that was something  that we actually have talked about um but it was   our understanding from some previous that the hour  delay caused a a problem with parents um because  

Parents didn’t have um adequate way to get their  kids to school and things they may have already   went to work and things of that nature so that  was the reason for the not going with the 2hour  

Delay and but I believe that’s still something  that we could look at okay I thought I thought   the routing system was maybe too complex to allow  for it but maybe I’m wrong that’s a great question  

I have no idea bus perspective no no not from a  bus perspective and also what Mr Hunter mentioned   is very key but also our staff sometimes it can  confuse some of the transportation employees my  

Route typically starts at 6:30 7 it it it seems  simple but at times from the past I think it   let there’s some pretty significant confusion on  the transportation side um so that’s why I think  

There’s been a shine away from uh hour or two hour  delays but it’s something we keep in mind so maybe   our transportation system can handle it I don’t  know so it is something that you guys can do so  

When will you make a decision if it’s something  you’re going to utilize this year or not that’s   kind of my question uh we will not be utilizing  that this year it’s a it’s a long-term process   as you mentioned before we just now stabilize  transportation we actually need a few more drivers  

To make that happen and then there are some other  logistics and protocol pieces to that all right   for everyone at home we are not doing we cannot do  delays if you didn’t you want to say it again for  

The people one more time I got you got dayt and  public schools will not have hour two hours or any   type of days either we are open or we are closed  nothing in between is that correct that is correct  

And ice cubes and uh toothbrushes and all that  make sure that’s there as well all right any other   questions thank you guys no I I go is what’s is  there like a certain temperature that our trucks  

Are are really will not huh that’s a good question  yeah what at what temperature are are our buses   really not going to start I guess I don’t know the  buses have heaters that’s a good question I have  

To get back uh to you with the uh um I will find  out from our garage but I can just based up on   my time here we I started mid January there were  no issues with with starting buses they do have  

Heater so I don’t believe nor my teen years it was  below say maybe the low low double digit so but I   can find that out and get back to you yeah he’ll  get he’ll get back with you but typically 5 to 10  

Degrees but he’ll double check it at that point  we start to have issues okay thank you I one more   question based on his question so we we talked  about the delay from like snow ice and all that  

What’s the temperature number of when it’s too  cold for our people to our children to be outside   to wait our for us to go to school or is there  a temperature number we talked about that and  

What did we come up with there was a wind chill  one field number and I can’t remember what that   number was uh we’ll post it on the website and I  think Adrian I’s over there she’s uh that’s right  

Our meteorologist get me together get me together  that’s what this a dynamite team just so people   can know there is a there’s a temperature now yeah  cuz I think there was a message that you s that it  

Had to be in the single digits Nega thank you  do pick it yeah jail no we’re talking about to   go to school and yeah we did so we what she’s I  see her over there typing right now cuz we want  

To tell the general public what that number  is so they got something he can a little bit ahead so they’re going to come back to us definite  number so people will will know board member  

Samson did you ask something as my okay so for  people who View and watch us they are going to   the team someone here they’re all going to get  together and figure out that number and they  

Will post it so you do not have to wonder what  is the number of when district will close due   to it being too cold to travel to the buildings  yeah she found there we go a meteorologist can  

You come to the mic thank you they want to see who  you are anyway so they can go well she said it was GNA um we wrote down here that negative atga -20  degrees the buses do stop starting and doors Stop  

Opening at 20 degrees or below the buses do  start to freeze over and then at a 10 degree   wind chill the frostbite will occur within 15  to 30 minutes so students standing out at bus   stops in that window was a concern so that’s  what I wrote down that was what we were talking  

Out about out loud okay so you guys still need to  get together so we’ll we’ll take that information   and compile a small range of numbers and then  we’ll put it on a banner so everybody can see  

It yes yeah all right anything else Mr Nichols  you got anything this affects you more than us so all right thank you Mr n is readying up anyway Mr Nichols is ready  in any weather all right next up we have hearing  

Of the bargaining units are there any bargaining  units here today to speak I don’t see any but I   could be mistaken all right Madame treasurer  do we have anyone registered to speak from the  

Public yes okay let me go a couple things do do  we have a timer anywhere in this room still now   two weeks in a row 2024 we’re going to have a  clock in here Li please limit your remark or  

Your remarks will be limited to 3 minutes I will  be the timekeeper for you and you will he hear it   time yeah that one don’t be but you can put it  up there but I still got you up here uh let’s   see is inappropriate to address any matter  involving pending disputes grievances under  

A labor agreement disciplinary actions involving  an employee or student ongoing labor negotiations   concerns or matters that have already been settled  and are any matters which because of its nature is   deemed appropriate to be discussed in executive  session the purpose of the public hearing portion  

Of the meeting is for members of the public  to express viewpoints and public concerns go   ahead Madame Treasurer George yeah Cox and please  state your name and address when you come to the podium good evening my name is Georgia Cox at  4191 Maple Leaf Drive in Dayton 45416 um my  

Comments will be very brief I was here last  month and I understand I had the opportunity   to meet with the interim superintendent and at  that time I was led to believe that the board   be of the impression that my request is not one  that you can help me with because you believe  

It’s legal in nature and so I have prepared  a few documents just to help you understand   um why it is that I’ve started here because  yes there is a legal aspect but before the   law gets involved um there are triggering  me um um incidents sometimes we call them  

Antecedent causes or um probable cause there  has to be something that triggers the law to   feel they have a reason to get involved and in  this situation that’s what happened and that   is what I’m asking you I have been on the side  of the law and I’ve been told this is where I  

Need to start the law needs to understand that  maybe there was an error or mistake with that   before they would do anything and so I’ll just  hand this to the treasurer and um you can look  

At them you have ways to contact me if you need  any further information thank you thank you David isra David Sr 113 Bonner Street i’ like to  thank board member Samson for his service   for the last four years he’s done this in  an admirable way he has not embarrassed  

This District he has been positive he  has done a good job of listening to the public I sat and watched the a group’s  presentation I saw 60% of the public that   was participating said we don’t need to search  for superintendent what we do need is some  

Training for this board this board runs 4-Hour  meetings this board runs six-hour meetings this   board likes to play gotcha with people who come  up here that work for you in public on camera   asking questions just shooting from the HP that’s  not your job it’s rude it’s impolite and it makes  

People look bad you made Dr Lawrence look bad by  naming him in I’m paying him less than what you   would normally have to pay in an Emer mergency  person to come in and be a superintendent you’ve   disrespected this community over and over  and over by retaining Dr Loi who never went  

Through any kind of process you just put her  in place we’ve seen already she couldn’t get   the students to school she couldn’t instruct  them she couldn’t get the third grade reading   levels she couldn’t get bus drivers to show up  I don’t know what you need to see that you now  

Have competent leadership and I don’t know  how you learn to unlearn the behaviors you   have talking about Tik Tock that’s for your Pio  and that’s something that you ask a question in   writing in advance and ask for a presentation  you don’t sit here and just talk for the sake  

Of talking you don’t sit here and ask all these  things they’re making presentations go by the   presentation if you have questions about the  presentation by all means questions about the   presentation are great but just talking to hear  yourself talk you have staff here that probably  

Accounts for $2 $33,000 an hour I mean at least  that never mind the public that comes you need to   learn how to show some respect for them and run  concise sharp meetings that actually accomplish   something because like it or not Dr Lawrence  is accomplishing something and he’s doing it  

In spite of this board so take the remaining  funds you have allocated for the alma group and   take lessons on how to be a better board because  nobody would want to come and apply here that’s  

Wor a lick to work for a board that behaves the  way you do in public I’d like to commend Miss   rinard for saying some positive things at this  meeting and that’s what we need more of thank you any other speakers no all

Right Dr Lawrence your first recommendation that  goodan I recommend a waiver of the 48 R rule to   present the human resources recommendations  as listed is there a motion so is there a   second second move to Second any questions  seeing none may we have a vote president  

Goodway yes Mr miss Mr Samson yes Miss Wick  yes Dr picket yes M rard yes Mr Lacy yes Mr   Nichols yes seven yeses next recommendation  uh Dr G good for our previous conversation   this is that space right yeah I’ll do it just  put the you just got to put the recommendation  

Out first uh I recommend approval of the  following human resources agenda section B   is there a motion so move is there a second  second all right any questions or comments   I would like to pull on the 48 hour raval one  number one and two to be voted on after exact

Session anything else all right seeing  none may we have a vote president good   Wayne yes Mr Samson yes Miss we yes uh  Dr pet yes Miss reinard yes Mr Lacy yes   Mr Nichols yes seven yeses thank you I do  want to make a note that I’m excited to  

See that Belmont has a head girls wrestling  coach I always love to see females do more   Sports go ahead I recommend approval the  following human res resources DEA after   July 10th is there a motion so moved second  any questions move seeing none may we have a

Vote president good no Mr Samson no Miss Wick  no Dr pet no M rard no Mr Lacy no Mr Nichols no   seven no your next recommendation I recommend  approval of the following Consulting Services   section D so move second moving the second  any questions I have one last week I asked  

About for Mr Griffith if the funds had to come  out of General was there any followup on that   yes and they do have to come out of General all  right may we have a vote president good Wayne abstain Mr Smith not here  oh Mr Samson yes Miss Wick  

Yes Dr picket abstain Miss rard  yes yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Nicholas yes five yeses two abstain your  next recommendation I recommend   approval of the following  contracts and agreements so MO is there a second second moved in  second any questions seeing none may  

We have a vote president good Wayne yes  Mr Samson yes Miss Wick yes Dr pet yes   Miss reard yes Mr Lacy yes and Mr Nichols  yes president goodwi if I made real quick   the previous vote it was four yeses to abstain  because we only have six board members present  

It wasn’t five yeses just want to make  not of that yeah she yeah she counts Mr Nicholls uh I recommend the improval the following  agreement with the mtgi County Sheriff’s   Office it terminates the more we have this  year terminates this year so that’s why we  

Have to wave the 48 hour R to get it on this  time so we want to have Sheriff Services going   into basketball season for sure you saying we’re  doing a waiver well we well we wasn’t there for  

The review session but we so not a waiver but  just saying it’s different than review session   just want to make not all right is there a motion  so moved is there a second second any questions   I have one in this agreement it says there’s  an attachment for the rates and there is no  

Attachment here what are the actual rates of this  agreement uh I have to get those from uh Chief right is somebody saying something Shere says  she has some oh question go ahead board member   s thank you madam president um Dr Lawrence with  this agreement with the sheriff’s department is  

It for just the townships and not the city or  are they providing services to all of our high   schools cuz I know Harrison Township metale is  with the sheriffs but is this agreement with   all of our schools or just just one school it’s  with it’s tailored toward medale but whenever  

We’ve had an issue in some other schools and  we call them they’ve responded okay thank you   so much much thank you mad president I have a  question go ahead turn your mic on Mr Nichols um maybe um are these Sheriff allowed  to use weapons during like an incident  

With the students so the use of force by  um officers uh police officers Sheriff’s   officers FBI all officers the use of force as a  a national conversation so I don’t I don’t think   it’s around if they’re allowed to it’s around  what’s their philosophy on use of force and in  

Particular in urban areas um where there are um  poor black and brown people in particular males   who look like you and I so it’s like what’s  what’s the philosophy and I would just say   uh the sheriff’s office they they they tend  to restrain be be restrained more often than

That all one more more followup so we’re paying  a time and a half for them yes I mean that’s   what it says yes yeah I would I I really would  like to see what do do you do you know or have  

On hand what we spent last year for these  individuals I do not okay all right no I do   not okay are there any other questions seeing  none may we have a vote president good Wayne no Mr Samson yes Miss Wick yes Dr Piet

Abstain Miss rard yes uh  Mr Lacy yes uh Mr Nicholas yes five yeses one no one abstain does  that conclude your recommendations that   concludes my recommendations Dr good  one all right Madame treasur your first recommendation I recommend the approval of  the following temporary interfund advances  

We are advancing from general fund  to the ERS fund which is uh 507 2.4 million is there a motion some moov second  moved in second are there any questions see   n may we have a vote president goodwi yes  Mr Samson yes Miss wig yes Dr pcket yes  

Miss reard yes yes Mr Lacy yes Mr  Nicholas yes seven yeses your next recommendation I recommend the approval of the  following monthly financials for November 2023   as reviewed by the finance Comm committee  last Thursday so mov second are there any  

Questions seeing none may we have a vote  president goodwine yes Mr Samson yes Miss   Wick yes Dr picket yes Miss rard yes Mr  Lacy yes Mr Nichols yes seven yeses your   next recommendation I recommend do Z the approval  of the following uh minutes for November so move  

Second any questions seeing then may we have  a vote president good way yes Mr Samson yes   Miss Wick yes Dr picket yes Miss rinard yes Mr  Lacy yes Mr Nicholas yes seven yeses your next recommendation I recommend the approval  of the following purchase requisitions  

As reviewed last uh Tuesday is there a  motion so moved second moved in second   any questions question yeah I got one go  ahead um Miss kid uh 15 PR less than 15,000   is not working that link is broke um I can’t  pull it up um but I do have a question about

The where did it Go prodigy Building Solutions  um what was the increase by $229,000 to cover   contingency what was that about I have  to ask the business manager what that was about good evening good evening Prodigy was used  to um install provide the HVAC services at  

Jackson Center all of the rooms had uh your  home style heating AC unit so we were able   to bring the h units that were currently there  uh back up to speed um the contingency I will  

Have to review uh with Drew uh there were some  issues with uh they had to do some rewiring and   whatnot based on the age and condition of the  building so I can get a more specific answer  

And get that back to you all thank you Miss pal  thank you madam president thank you the link is   fixed thank you Mr L I have one question for  you all Dr Lawrence the smart pass on there  

Is is still at the amount for the six schools  that it was last week and our discussions were   to increase it to include the other three  so that all the high schools and the middle  

Schools were covered in it you got to refresh  the that page for it to come up hit it hit at   the top page refresh first I did no go back to  that one go back to your one now hit refresh

There that is just an error by not increasing it  let’s just let’s uh we got to do that one today   we do well we don’t vote on this one the only  question is if with the increase does it take  

It to the part where we need to vote that’s the  question yeah I think the I think the increase   is 4,600 and something like that so yeah it’ll  be right over okay what you want to do uh can  

You guys find out for sure and then we can put  it on after we get out of exact session so we   just know where we’re voting on yeah walk now  okay and the purchase for is this the amount  

That’s in here the 10,000 for the sheriff  contract that was just voted on yes that’s a   yes that’s a running renewal so we just that’s  one we’ve had before in the past we just roll   it over all right your next recommendation no  we need to vot on this one all right any other  

Questions and this is on the purchase orders  not the less than 15,000 do you want to vote   on the sheriff separately or not really it’s  under 10,000 it’s not one we vote on it all oh  

I see it was you’re right yeah so you said we’re  just voting on The nor got normal thing we vote   on other stuff was just discussion all right  all right president good Wayne yes Mr Samson  

Yes Miss Wick yes Dr pet yes Miss rer yes Mr Lacy  yes Mr Nichols yes seven yeses all right your next recommendation I recommend is uh approval of Zen  and now as reviewed last week so moved second any

Questions seeing then may we have a vote president  Goodway yes Mr Mr Samson yes Miss Wick yes Dr   picket yes Miss rard yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Nicholas  yes seven yeses all right does that conclude your   recommendations yes I recommend the approval  of the following board member travel expenses  

As listed is there a second second are there  any questions seeing none may we have a vote okay president goodwine yes Mr Samson yes we yes Dr pet yes M reinard yes Mr Lacy yes  Mr Nicholas yes seven NES thank you Mr Nichols  

Do you have any comments before we go into an  executive session that you would like to share   with the public I do not but I I seen when I was  reading this earlier there was something about CCP  

With um Central State I don’t see it here though  it was in the Su um superintendent recommendations   Mr Nichols I’m going to say you are razor sharp  we uh we took that off because it shouldn’t have  

Been on last week because we actually voted on  it the month before so it already been approved   and ratified so we didn’t want to do it twice okay  thank you no problem all right pursuant to section  

12.22 g two of the high Revised Code I move  that this board go into executive session this   meeting is being held to consider the appointment  employment of a Public Employee is there a second second move the second are there any  questions seeing none maybe we have  

Vote president good yes Mr Samson yes  Miss Wick yes Dr picket yes M reinard   yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Nicholas yes seven  yeses my folks pack it up this should   be quick no don’t leave don’t leave just  left you sure it’s going to be quick be quick it’s be Qui

Faces so when you first walk in this particular  building what you’re going to see is you’re going   to see bright Open Spaces clean floors when they  say it’s a new age here within this building it   truly is the culture here at EJ Brown is about  keeping it consistent about keeping it simple  

Keeping about students how do we get students from  where they are now to where we need them to be   so about being in those hallways building those  relationships those positive relationships with   students knowing their names and just building  that Bond believing in them keep it simple keep  

It consistent keep it about students that’s why  we’re here at EJ Brown this year we have a very   strong Administration team and we have very  clear expectations not only for the students   but also for the teachers so that consistency is  really strong this year and I see that growing  

As as we keep moving forward I love challenging  the students so I teach science and for me it’s   more about teaching them to think more than like  the content so really getting them to understand   what’s happening around them and then be able  to use that in situations that they might get  

Into outside of the school we’ve been changing  the expectations and honing more into academics   around the students and then we’ve also been  bringing in more Community pieces um we’ve had   some change over the years but the last couple  years they’ve stayed the same and we’re growing  

More community base as a security resource  officer here my main job is student safety   I also am somewhat of a counselor or a mediator  to the students a lot of them come and talk to   me and we try to figure out Solutions together to  make things better because if if things outside  

Of school are affecting you then you’re not  going to be able to uh get a proper education   I I believe that building a relationship with  these students is the key to them advancing   educationally as well as socially EJ Brown is  the best middle school because we have the best  

Sports teams we have the best teachers we have  the best SRO team in the district we have the   best principal in the district so if you want  to be the best you should come to EJ Brown I   think students should go here because it gives  them a better mindset the biggest difference  

Between elementary and middle school is the moving  around but it really wasn’t that hard to get used to the way to be a bruan is to follow the Bruin  bees be respectful be responsible be safe and be unstoppable

Hello I’m Dr David Lawrence interim superintendent  of Dayton public schools it is really good to be   here with you today this is my first address  to the entire School Community a RIT large   convocation and so we have something we’ like to  share with you so the academic team that we have  

Here has worked closely with Learn to Earn uh the  Omega CDC and other community groups such as the   NAACP to develop an academic action plan now this  is important for the entire Dayton public schools   Community the we are DPS all 2300 employees  and why I want my folks in operations I miss  

You and transportation to know the basic things  that we’re working on in academics to begin this   enormous transformational turnaround in dating  Public Schools so that means we all should be   saying the same thing about what we’re working  on to get better um within dating public schools  

From an academic standpoint and also overall  the things that we do around our five uh core   principles the five C’s and the one of the five  C’s is culture and that’s a big thing we’re going  

To be working on so here here it goes uh the first  thing I want to talk about is culture and climate   and in culture and climate we wanted to have a  safe and supportive School environment and so we  

Understand that we still have work to do there but  that is a really big thing that we’re working on   so when you’re out and about you can tell people  that we’re working on culture and climate we’re  

Also focused on third grade reading we want to  be able to move students rapidly so we want to   have a big jump this year and then we want to move  forward from there with incremental steps in terms   of getting better with third grade reading we  know the longitude no consequences of not being  

Successful there and so that’s one of the reasons  that we’re focusing on third grade reading High   School Readiness that means moving eighth graders  into ninth grade that’s an issue nationally and   we suffer from that as well so why not focus on  it so next year we will be working on focusing  

On our eighth grade transition to high school  and we really look forward to seeing freshmen   who are more ready for high school the other  thing we’re looking for is freshman success uh   without freshman success that is directly  correlated to the graduation rate so that  

Will be a huge emphasis for us this year and then  finally College and Career Readiness making sure   that when you leave you’re able to stay in college  and matriculate so those are the five core things   that we’re working on we have a presentation  that will be uploaded to the DPS website and  

It’ll be sent to principles and principales will  go through the presentation there’s a lot more to   it but I just wanted us all on the same page when  we talked about those five core principles and so   we’re working on culture and climate third grade  reading High School Readiness freshman success  

And College and Career Readiness I want to say  that an academic action plan is different than   a strategic plan so for all the folks who you he  talk about strategic plans those take a long time   they’re typically on a shelf somewhere and most  people don’t know what’s in them this action plan  

Is very small um it’s direct it’s targeted and  the key word is action we want to follow through   with Fidelity and we want to do what we say and  say what we do so we look forward to coming out  

This year to talk about the academic action plan  and I so appreciate everyone in Dayton public   schools and The Wider Community um I can’t  wait for my next lunchroom Duty or bus ride thanks hi I’m Gerard Miller a scholar and  leader at ponent CTC parents and students  

Did you know that college credit plus is a  program that provides students with with the   opportunity to receive college credits during  high school for free students save time and   money by earning college credits for free  in high school with CCP courses CCP is an  

Academic experience that enhances College and  Career Readiness dedicated students can even   graduate high school with an Associates Degree  for more information students should talk to   their high school guidance counselor  and now this is in case you missed it Cleveland Elementary received a $10,000 donation  from Myer along with a donation from shoes for  

The shoeless shoes for the shoeless provided a  new pair of shoes to every student who needed   them thanks to everyone for their support this  November DPS Athletics hosted success looks like   me a penal discussion honoring boys and men in  their Sports and their journey to success success  

Looks like you never let anybody determine what  your success is make smart goals make goals and   make steps to reach your goals understand success  looks different from anybody else when it’s your   success the event was hosted by Chief of Athletics  Victoria Jones success looks like me feature  

Mayor Jeffrey MMS interim superintendent Dr David  Lawrence and Hall of Fame athletes such as Keith   buers and Norris Cole students also enjoyed small  small group conversations thank you to all the   guests and staff who made this event possible  interal superintendent Dr Lawrence recently  

Introduced a DPS academic action plan so the  academic team that we have here has worked closely   with Learn to Earn uh the Omega CDC and other  community groups such as the NAACP to develop   an academic action plan now this is important for  the entire Dayton public schools Community the  

We are DPS all 2300 employees and why these steps  include culture and climate improving third grade   reading High School Readiness freshman success  and College and Career Readiness that’s it for   this episode of in case you missed it catch  us next time for more District highlights and  

Follow us on social media to get the most uptate  information in news 24/7 I’m Gerard Miller and   remember I always say that decisions I make  I live with them there’s always ways you can  

Correct them or ways you can do them better at the  end of the day I live with them quote from LeBron James hi my name is Marisha Collins and I am  a kindergarten teacher here at km Elementary   School I’m a product of damee public  schools a proud graduate of dunar high  

School I had amazing teachers that impacted  my life tremendously so much so that I knew   when I graduated I wanted to pursue a career  in education my teachers went um went above   and beyond their expectations and I knew I  wanted to be that kind of educator I wanted  

To make a difference in the lives of children  as well as their families a teacher is um to   me a position that you are called to be in it  is not something that everyone can be I chose   DPS because I had fantastic role models  that showed me just what a teacher should  

Be and how teachers um you know should interact  with students and parents I feel um children um   need teachers who um care for them and um who  have a passion for teaching and I do believe  

That my passion is is there I can’t see me doing  anything else and um that’s that’s why I chose DPS to me I say they’re the best team in Ohio hands  down but we still have some things to clean  

Up you know it’s it’s it’s it’s we I have great  skills but sometimes they got to concentrate and   play together and if we play together with great  skills we’re Unstoppable Belmont soccer has come  

Has come a lot long way if nobody knows it’s a lot  of mixed diversity on this theme lot of different   languages as a coach to know so sometimes my  captain works out well cuz he knows a lot of  

Language we we I use him as an interpreter um  but but Belmont is developing very well and   I’m looking forward when the seniors gone the ones  behind them come up with the same discipline work  

Hard both in the classroom and on the pitch and  we will be fine there’s nowh you can go without   academics always always emphasize and stress that  Student First and I always every each and every  

Day we get we I take 15 minutes out of practice  and we talk about grades we talk about classes   we talk about how your day is going you know just  to get them to settle cuz I can see it on some of  

Them sometimes it’s stressful I’ll bring them  over and we sit and talk about it so I always   stress academics student first student first  because if you have the greatest skill in the   world and you don’t have the academics it’s hard  my being good and on the soccer team cuz I’m the  

Team captain so I’m really close with everybody  we got some few players who don’t speak English   and Coach doesn’t speak doesn’t doesn’t speak  the language that we speak so it’ be hard for   him to understand the other players so I have to  be there and translate I get to have fun all that  

Stuff and most of the people I know play it and  I used to play when I was a kid to be like out   of all the teams that we have played choosing us  it’s just incredible feels amazing it just feels

[Music] amazing if anybody is watching this you  can tell we have some amazingly Dynamic smart   wonderful kids in dayon public schools tell me  why you’re in dating Public Schools um I like   going to EJ Brown cuz of the staff I love the  staff yeah you got a new principal he is good  

Mhm he walks around a lot checks on you guys I  like him I want to be a robotics engineer I want   to take that to college and do great things  with it how’d you come up with that I’m in a  

Pathway called Advanced manufacturing and I’m  taking that currently so your exposure or your   experience in advanced manufacturing that you  start thinking about hey this is the field want   to go into yes sir yes awesome I like going to  Belmont because I like the people and I like the  

Teachers I like the staff and especially like the  principal Miss MCD I want to go to Dayton public   schools because I feel like every single teacher  in Dayton public schools are really appreciated   of the students that they have and show a lot  of love to them mhm what I like most about the  

District is all of the opportunities that they  have such as DPS University where you can earn   college credits while you’re still in high school  the staff is really welcoming and they’re always   pushing you to do your best in whatever you  do I’m looking forward to getting some of my  

College credits already out of the way before  I go to college I have a lot of favorite staff   members but the one who I would say influences  me the most is most likely miss Mo because she  

Just stays on top of everyone and she makes sure  that you’re doing well and having a good day and   stuff like that I’m thinking of studying a law and  becoming a lawyer because I don’t really like the  

Laws we have now so I’d like to maybe change  them I like it so you want to be an advocate   yes DeAndre I’ve thought about being a realtor  I always wanted to uh what get rid of yeah yeah  

I’mma tell you I’ve never heard a kids say that  I wanted to get rid of the whole bunch of empty   vacant houses around my neighborhood feel me it  just seemed like a good thing to do cuz it just   make the neighborhood look bad even though  it’s good people around there it just make  

My neighborhood look bad the whole staff  and administration helped me get through   my sophomore year all the way to my senior year  King I appreciate you sharing that space where   you said you had some adversity you know and  that this hasn’t always been an easy Road and  

There was a whole family that wrapped their  arms around you I want you to know how much   we in Dayton public schools are proud of you uh  first of all and how much we uh how much we wish  

You the best in the future and we hope that you  stay in touch with us so we’re able to talk about   what a graduate looks like as they move out into  the world and and and do things other than High [Music] School yes next time we go L I’ll you

Thing that we read out pursu  to the C code section that it’s the Ohio is so we have to  abide by it cion has to abide by it read right let the record show that  the Board of Education of Dayton city   school district has just completed  an executive session during which  

It considered the appointment employment of a  Public Employee I move that we exit executive   second session is there a second second  any questions seeing none may we have a vote yes yes yes yes yes Mr Lacy yes

Mr yes thank you so we do not need to  vote on the purchase order because it   is still under the threshold but we are  going to move up to HR recommendation   for the three items that were  pulled okay and I give me one

Second so I recommend that we approve the  items one two three that were pulled on the   HR Human Resources 48 hour waiver slide  at the salaries of I believe these are   as administrators and as the K12 system  administrator or no it’s network is it  

Network or system network network engineer at  the wages of 880,000 Plus benefits the help   desk assistant management coordinator at 71,1  1118 and 41 C plus benefits and the education   technology application coordinator at $ 71,1 841  Plus benefits is there a second second moved the  

Second are there any questions see and none may  we have a vote president yes yes yes yes yes yes thank you so now we are into our closing  comments here and as we close out first I want  

To our board clerks actually did a great job of  gathering some items for us as you all know we   have two board members that this is their last  board member board meeting and that is board  

Member Samson and board member Dr picket and  I see sher’s getting up now so I think I got a   little bit more time to go to get it I don’t know  if she wants you guys to if she’s coming up or she  

She wants you to walk down give let me let me see  she’s coming up [Music] so oh it’s Leslie and and   so we want to thank you guys for really the four  years of service I know that you all walked in  

During a very difficult time I believe I hear you  talk about all the time how your last meeting was   here and then you were virtual because that is  when we went through the pandemic you guys did   some incredible work over the last four years  you we’ve had very spirited debates we’ve had  

Disagreements we’ve come Collective and we just  want to show you our our gratitude and thank you   for your time on the board of education y’all  don’t want to open the box and show the people  

What we got y’all that’s just rude just just show  them they all looking like well what’s in there I   mean guess it was some here you go see and that’s  what we’ve been dealing with with me for two years

So the excitement anticipation none of  us have seen it who’s going to get there first was in it we didn’t get to see it from  here nothing in it oh yeah and I I’ll leave  

It open if you want to put some money in a  good one there you go you want me to tap the plate all right and it has a name plate thank  you there you go all right so we’re going to  

Go to closing comments board member Wick I get to  go first first thank you for that um I don’t know   maybe thank you um I don’t won’t take much time  because I’ll allow our outgoing board members  

There proper time but um my board reflection  for the year is of course to thank both Dion   and Gabriella for their service um not easy  work and I appreciate you both uh I had the  

Pleasure to ride a bus with Dr goodwine this  month I got up at 5:00 and met her at the bus   um barn and it was a rainy morning and it was  messy um and I really my mom was a bus driver  

So I’ve always had an appreciation for bus drivers  but I certainly have a new level of appreciation   for our bus drivers and our families as it was  dark in the morning and those little babies are   standing on the corner waiting for their buses  and bus drivers are navigating small streets and  

It’s dark and uh but kudos to the bus driver  that um we route we were covering because um   and Chris you’re going to have to help me with  her name it was a good old Dee uhhuh Deee has  

Uh name tags above each seat we had three routes  that day every child that entered that bus went   properly to their seat and sat down to the point  that I was in their seat and they said you’re in  

My seat so uh I had to get up but um really some  beautiful organization and function that was going   on around there so thank you to the team tonight  that presented about the safety of our streets and  

Our students as we prepare to go into winter um  all of that work and that collaboration is super   important I appreciate that a Bruner reflection  my mom went back to um High School uh or got her  

GED when she was 61 uh so um really appreciate the  dignity and the compassion that you bring to that   valuable asset and encourage all of our family  and Community uh to use that beautiful resource   because um yeah it’s important family literacy and  family Dynamics are super important so thank you  

For that work there um uh board um you know I’m I  know that this board has taking some heat you know   we’re a we’re a mly crew up here you know we have  a lot of work uh we’ve had some chaos but I am  

Super proud of the work that we’ve done um I know  that um we have some long meetings and we dig into   things that sometimes that maybe think that we  shouldn’t but we are engaged and uh I think that  

Working with this board and the engagement that  we’ve had has been some of the most um beautiful   work I’ve been able to do so I really appreciate  at this board and um the tenacity to do the work  

That we’ve done because if I compared where we  were two years ago right now to where we are now   I would much rather be where we are and it is due  to the work that this board has done so thank you  

To my board team that continue to uh help Inspire  us and keep us grow um and um yeah I think thank   you to Dr Lawrence for your continued support um  as we um have you know continued to challenge you  

And to the beautiful team that he’s built uh to  my DPS family the whole family at large to my   uh to my bruan family my EJ Brown breu family  happy holidays to everybody and and thank you   all very much I appreciate the opportunity to  continue to serve thank you board member Riner  

Thank you president goodwine a couple updates um  I just wanted to let the board know I got um some   information from the Ohio School Board Association  about member services since we are a member of the   Hawaii School Board Association the services  we’ve used through them this year um we have  

Um uh saved $2,500 on registration for Capital  conference uh this year our district registered   53 attendees for OSB workshops and webinars  I’m probably responsible for a large number   of those because I watch a lot of webinars um 45  of those registrations were free thanks to our obb  

Membership and I’m grateful for all the work that  osba does um legislation update I wanted to give   you guys an update um it is a busy busy time at  the state house um before we reach the end of the  

Legislative year and the um legislative calendar  resets I wanted to give you some um information   about what’s happening in the state house first  of all Governor dwine has made his pick for the   position of Department of Education and Workforce  and that is Steve dhan um he is very well  

Experienced in many education settings um so I’m  looking forward to see how uh he will head up the   department of educational Workforce um a couple of  bills that we should know about House Bill 187 it  

Was sponsored by reps Thomas Hall and Adam bird um  this was a really interesting bill um there is not   a lot of um it obviously pass the House and Senate  and is um going through some reconciliations  

Between the two and then it’s going to go to the  Govern the governor’s desk for signing um it has   some pretty um serious implications for districts  like ours um it it expands the homestead exemption   and it reimburses school districts for only one  half of the revenue we will learn we will earn  

From the expanded homestead exemption while all  other affected political subdivisions including   Joint Vocational School Districts will receive  full reimbursement from the state um there’s   no good reason for that to happen um and it’s  incredibly frustrating to see that in another  

Way uh public school districts like Dayton public  is losing very much needed State funding um it is   estimated that this change will result in 97  million of lost revenue for districts over the   next 3 years um uh there’s a lot of uh legislation  I’m not going to read everything but um some other  

Things you guys should know about um I will say  I’m going to flag um House Bill 68 and House Bill   six um these are incredibly incredibly damaging  bills for the well-being of our students for all   the lip service that is done for the emotional  mental health services and needs for our students  

This will do nothing but undermine it and children  will die because of these bills I’m not being   dramatic when I say that it is so devastating  to see these bills pass they are headed to the   governor’s desk if you are at all interested  in learning about these bills read up on them  

Um House Bill 68 and House Bill 6 this um these  are bills that will forcibly detransition kids   and it goes in the face of every single medical  recommendation by respected medical institutions   so if you are opposed to this bill please reach  out to the governor’s office and tell him to not  

Sign this bill um the Senate unanimously passed  Senate Bill 162 um it will require public schools   to provide certain academic intervention services  to each student who demonstrates a limited level   in math and or English language arts um and  that’s all I’m going to bring up today in terms  

Of legislation um if you need more information  if you uh have any questions feel free to reach   out to me by my district email J rerd andu.dun  happy to give you more of my um my opinions on  

Some of these bills um and lastly I would like to  extend my deep gratitude to board member Samson   and board member Dr picket it has been an honor  to work with you too um I knew you both before  

You decided to run I am incredibly grateful for  the service that you’ve given to this district   for the last four years again it is probably the  strangest four years that you probably could have   experienced um um you guys attended board meetings  in January and February of 2020 and then our March  

2020 meeting on March 12th we um we told that  we’re shutting down the next day and nothing was   ever the same we’ve not always agreed um but we  respect each other and we communicate and we work   together and for that I am incredibly incredibly  grateful for your service I am grateful Dr picket  

For your unwavering belief in protecting women  in the work workplace um and I am just deeply   grateful for the dedication you both have to  this city and to this district and I am excited   to welcome our new board members and I hope to  see our outgoing board members regularly in the

Boardroom board member Lacy the finance committee  met Thursday and we went over the the financial   statements and they were in good order I am very  honored to have served the past two years on the   finance committee with two fine finance committee  members Mr Samson and Dr picket um and and I’m I  

Really appreciate you both uh um Dr picket I I  want to like I I I’ve learned a lot from you I   really appreciate your work on the on especially  like the international school I think that’s one  

Of the crowning Gems or one of the of your  perform performance um Mr Samson um when I   ran four years ago and I if you remember I lost to  you by one vote and I I’d like to thank that one

Person cuz I if it were not for that one  person I might not have gotten to know   you and and uh and also I I really enjoyed  those two years of not being on the board but so I I’ll miss you both thank you Mr

Nichols um like they said um thank you too for  you know spending the time here as board members   I might not know a lot about y’all but I know  that y’all did a lot um but I have a question I  

Looked over the vote and I don’t see my name  on any of the Voting is there a reason for that we will get you at it in our minutes in  your in your row Mr Nicholls thank you U madam treasur yeah I have a good news  moodies upgraded us from uh for  

Our bond rating from aa2 to aa1  this is a very very good for our district uh board member Samson and  board member Dr pet it has been a   pleasure working with you I appreciate the  dedication and the hard work uh you put to  

Make our district move in the right way I  wish you the best of luck and success in   your future endeavors thank you very much  and good luck to Merry Christmas to all   DPS students and families I appreciate  you and um be safe that’s it Miss pal

I just want to say thank you to board m s and board member Samson is stopped by  Jackson Center uh but I do appreciate   the work that all of the board does  collectively keeps us on our toes um  

Thank you for your service and welcome  to uh our two new members and please if   anybody ever has any questions my door is  always open thank you thank you Dr Lawrence a all right um first I just I don’t have to look  at my notes I’m just going to look around the room  

Uh brother Dr Jones I appreciate we have some  difficult things that we go through and you   stand tall um Miss dly would not be here we’re  not for you training me to be a principal uh   akesa um I’m so glad you’re back uh I still  owe your superintendent dinner lunch dinner  

Lunch breakfast I did everything I could and I’m  glad you’re back you are amazing my partner uh   Lisa Miner could not do this work without you  um I sleep well because we work together and I  

Know things will just get done uh Sher Gil who  is our co- Cabinet member of the month for her   phenomenal work with take flight CSU us taking  kids to St Clair for trips uh she’s involved in   our Sinclair work which is going to be huge I  really appreciate you you’ve been amazing this  

Year uh Denise I’m really not um by trade an  emotional person but I could not I mean this   is you we you know right you already we already  know uh uh Alex is back there she’s our other co-  

Cabinet member of the month uh for amazing work  on the podcast videos um website redesigned with   Miss go the videos um she’s our only Millennial  on cabinet and uh she uh she gets us together   in there and we we appreciate that better keep  us current uh Adriana uh dis isect special team  

Back there and that’s really like what I’m  all about is is team and then as I look to   the corner speaking a team I started this journey  as a principal at thir great Marshall and the two   assistant principles were um Miss Sharon goens  and Judith Spurlock M Judith Spurlock who’s now  

Chief of Elementary School Sharon is director  of equity um I I love them they are ride or die   loyal tough um and going to make sure that um if  there’s anybody who needs to say something to me  

That I don’t see uh they can pick up the phone  or or call me and say hey you’re not you’re not   seeing this think this true David so I uh for  the people who sitting on cabinet I appreciate  

Admire and respect the team and the bond that we  have um thank you Joanie uh amazing presentation   always great talking to you and you know the  sky is a limit for you say the word it’s done   and then happy holidays to board members and  their families students families and staff uh  

The community r large um I already mentioned the  cabinet members and then finally um certainly um   I wish Dr picket and uh my brother Deion Samson  uh a well to do in the future and Mr Samson uh  

I’m going to miss you because you and I are fellow  members of alpha F Alpha Fraternity Incorporated   we are weling another member of that uh fraternity  Dr Bailey and unfortunately there’s a member of f   Beta Sigma un unfortunately unfortunately the only  true brother and sister there’s a member the only  

True brother and sister there’s a member uh you  know for those of you who know about the Divine   n there’s a member of 5 Beta Sigma coming Eric  Walker and uh we’re going to we’re going to get  

Him together we’re going to get him together  careful with your word right we go we going   to get them together so uh and hi Dr turny used  to be a member of our curriculum team brilliant  

And I I love the work you’re doing out there in  Columbus thanks thank you okay I have a couple of   things one second Miss kid do I need to just say  other stuff while it gets corrected all right all  

Right couple things to knock out I will start  first with updating everyone in the community   on where we are in our superintendent search  process the nine of us because the new board   members were included as well we have conducted  I believe it was the second round of interviews  

There will be a communication going out about  the finalist phase and this is the phase where   anyone in the community can nominate individuals  to serve on those panels and submit questions and   do those things and it it is opportunity for you  just to be involved in the process in that way I  

Believe the nominations or are be due January 12th  2024 to submit questions are due January 12th 2024   and there is a good amount of information in  the communication I have so please read that   if you want to know if you have questions about  it shoot an email to any board member because  

Again all seven of us are equally invested  and actively have the same information that   we can share with anybody at any time in this  community on top of that my next piece for you

All sorry I opened one thing and it it took me  to another group so I just want to recap uh I’m   coming at the end of my term as president which  it was completely different than what I thought  

It was and I will say that to any person until  you serve in the seat you really don’t know what   the work is and just reflecting on kind of  the Year here it was it was a fun ride it’s  

Been really good and I want to say two things  that I ran on as a board member was increasing   Student Activities and increasing the amount of  employee rights and work life balance here that   we have here and I’m happy that the things that  I’ve been a part of this year have stayed true  

To both of those policy-wise some things that I  just want to highlight that came about this year   board proclam which I’m excited that whenever  someone does take that up you actually can get   a proclamation from the board take us up on  that celebrate the win celebrate individuals  

Who do things in education similar to how you  can do in any other jurisdiction the employee   referral program which up until about a month  ago was limited it to just I believe two groups   is now open to any employee in the district and  it is a good amount of of compensation that we  

Giving individuals to help be recruiters for us  and that is really important to us maintaining   our Workforce because again the people who work  here are the best promoters of what it’s like   to be in here and they’re the individuals who  people will talk to the were remote work policy  

As a millennial I believe in the remote work  policy and I’m so happy that we were able to   get that through we are still figuring out how  to work it in some spaces but coming into 2023  

With the world changed after 2020 it was it’s  just imperative that is the work for shifts that   we are making those shifts and I’m happy that we  got that done the administrators clock in andout   procedure again we got a lot of Professionals in  here that do what they’re supposed to do and we  

Should treat them as professionals and as a team  we were able to make that possible the community   use policy of our buildings our process is not  perfect but our policy did did speak to some   of the needs that we heard about some of of the  drill teams and other smaller Community groups  

That do things for our students but they don’t  have access to our buildings we were able to   put that in policy this year that they also can  have access to our buildings as similar to what   our coaches and other groups that do things for  children in our groups Let’s see we standardize  

Some expectation and some professionalism around  how we communicate each other in emails we got   some rules here like it’s okay like you it’s  it it’s good to see that those standards are   there because there there was sometimes that you  would read some emails that just got away from  

People and you had to remind them that this is a  place of work and we still got to te people even   when you disagree with some level of respect the  professional hiring policy as as a group we we   stood and on internal candidates having the same  opportunity to compete with external candidates  

On any position that is available ailable in the  district and before that policy that just wasn’t   something that was practiced so now I’m I’m just  excited that people no matter if you work here   you still have a shot similar to people who don’t  work here to go for any job that’s available in  

This District our rehiring policy we didn’t  have one before and now we have standardized   again how individuals are tracked in HR when  they leave us and just the information that   allows them to be able to come back to us no  matter who is here what the documentation says  

Kind of outweighs what individuals say about  you the free admission to District athletic   events firm believer that our kids should be  in any space that we have available to them   and although only I think 10% of our students  do athletics we are moving up more and more in  

Arts and other school activities after school and  just seeing that they have a place to be I’m just   happy that this board agreed with that one and  we are continuing to make that a reality that  

Our kids can be in these spaces and they can meet  the standards that we set for them the increased   fundraising opportunities for Student Activity  groups and student athletic groups students now   at any of our concessions can sign up and their  teams will receive 10% of the proceeds that are  

Raised or that are of the sales there great  opportunity even when we look at our junior   class our senior class The Dungeons and dragon  Club any of those groups can now take advantage   of that pleas to put some type of financing  into some of the things that they want to do  

And it helps us as well be able to staff some of  these places with student workers uh changing our   policy that allows anyone in this District to  speak with board members we can’t solve every   problem we can’t take up every problem but we’re  are people just like anyone else and removing  

That barrier of reminding you yes we all believe  some level of the processes that we have here and   if we are the ones that guide you through that  process that’s great but it it’s just great to   be able to have that open level of communication  we established a whistle whistleblower protection  

Process and policy again no one should ever feel  like they can’t say something that’s going on   with them and they should have those abilities  to put that information out so individuals can   help them get through it and not feel that their  livelihood is in Jeopardy for speak speaking on  

Something that may be unethical or illegal or  just something that they need to put out there   we added professional development programs to  our nonunion employees which most of our unions   I believe already have it so giving that level  of of investment back into the individuals who  

Run this district is amazing and I believe you can  start that program in January for the first time   of us putting believe $5,000 towards your growth  with us in this district and adding evaluation   processes at every level of the district which  this was already happening on the academic Side  

By state standards but ping out to every level of  the organization including the Board of Education   with how we do things is just a way that we just  show we are part of this process and people should  

Be given an opportunity to know what’s going on  what you expect of them and when they meet it   they should be celebrated if they don’t meet it  they should be given the opportunity to correct  

In those type of sessions some other things I just  want to highlight to first I want to give a shout   out to Joyce Stokes who I think it’s kind of those  small stories that you get to hear from time to  

Time about some of the processes here I don’t know  if you all remember last year or last school year   in the spring when we had a presentation about  our grad program our not our grad program our   GED program and students that may have left us  prior to receiving their high school diploma but  

Are coming back to us in those spaces Miss Stokes  we have a vendor that kind of classifies and looks   at some of our transcripts and they do those and  we had some individuals who have been trying to   get their transcripts from decades ago and we  through this process we discovered that every  

Vendor isn’t doing everything that they say that  they’re doing and I’m not going to tell you guys   who the person is but it was it was a great story  to see that Miss Stokes went beyond the level of  

Duty required to find a transcript that had been  a person had been seeking for years so that person   can get into a GED program and just knowing like  it’s those type of stories of even though you’re  

Not a student anymore doesn’t mean you weren’t  a part of this District so kudos for going above   and beyond on that piece right there I also want  to highlight too some of the the wins that I got  

To be a part of this year my focus has been more  on operations than anything when it comes and my   second year on the board and again as a board  we changed the workforce for our transportation   drivers in very meaningful ways we approved and  made sure that funding was allocated and that a  

Process happened that every school bus in our  district had air condition on it which is huge   for individuals who spend the majority of their  workday on the school bus we also added in some   safety features for them this year of putting  rear cameras on those buses so when they back  

Up even though you’re not supposed to back up  but you got to back up sometimes that we are   you are just making sure that you don’t have to  stop and wait for a supervisor or someone else  

To come out so you can move that bus which  takes in the time of that and we also added   intercom systems to the buses which because this  is the only classroom where the instructor has to   have their back to those individuals the entire  time they’re with them so we are helping or we  

Helped really mitigate really that high stress  environment of you yelling your entire day at   individuals or when you’re trying to communicate  something in the schools we added speakers to the   classrooms to kind of help again with individuals  who need to be heard in the classrooms but can’t  

Don’t want to over talk Lou or there and to help  with students that have hearing loss we’ve added   speakers in our gymnasiums as well again to help  with the classroom setting of it as well as the   events that occur outside of that we’ve added  safety equipment head safety equipment to our  

Football program to all of our football players  again to protect again our most valuable asset   students themselves think other than that in this  role I mean I learned being a board president it’s   a title that comes with no additional benefits  it is a title that people think it gives you more  

Authority but it really gives you a well found  respect for all of the administrative assistants   the uh what are clerical confidential secretaries  clericals throughout because that is what the   board president does you are responsible for every  aspect of meetings running you are responsible for  

Communicating with every person on the board no  matter how you feel about them personally or if   you disagree it is still your responsibility  to get information through and keep us moving   and I’m proud that all seven people here and  the two coming on I mean we’ve done that we  

Communicate we get it done it’s um I hear it all  the time like if when people tell us I know I’ve   been going for a minute Miss kid you got that  up there yet all right that’s good to know I’m  

I’m G wrap it up though but people say all the  time when if you’re if you are a 70 board then   you’re a rubber stamp if any of you disagree then  you’re dysfunctional I would rather be on a board  

That is perceived to be dysfunctional where stuff  really happens and conversations about real stuff   happens then on a board that is viewed and acts as  if they don’t care enough to read the fine details   to get involved and to know those things I know  this group knows that we’re not dysfunctional I  

Know this group knows the amount of work that  goes in to everything that we you’ve done this   entire year it’s a lot of work and it ain’t  for the week or the faint at heart you got to  

Have thick skin to sit up here day after day and  listen to people to criticize everything you do   and I’m going to say to board member Samson I’m  a miss calling you and asking you should I send  

This email cuz that’s my guy right there even  though he take me off the edge and he cleans it   up for me but that is still the number one person  that I probably still am going to C I’m be honest  

With you this job didn’t stop our relationship  this is just something that we did together for   this period in life I think Dr picket I love the  fact that anytime if I don’t know what people are  

Saying I can call you and I can give somebody your  number and say call her she will answer if she’s   available and she will get you through what you  did and I appreciate both everything that you both  

Brought to this board whether it was something I  agree with or whether it was something I didn’t I   think you both stood on your beliefs and you  pushed for the communities that put you here  

So I have a second reading of policy minus the  one that was pulled because it went to Lego one second all right in so much as the board of  education is committed to the continuing upda   of its policies rules and regulations manuals  in the committee which was appointed has been  

Working towards that goal the following is  brought at this time for a second reading in   compliance with the board fils now therefore  be it resolved that the Board of Education of   day Dayton City School District mcgomery  County Ohio hereby accepts and adopts the  

Following policies that have been codified for  inclusion in the handbook and policies rules   and regulation file EA eligibility zone for Pupil  Transportation G DN evaluations of support staff   I move that we adopt these policies or second  second any questions seeing none may we have a

Vote president good Wayne yes Mr Samson yes Miss  Wick yes Dr pet yes yes M reard yes Mr Lacy yes Mr   Nicholas yes seven ansers thank you board member  Samson thank you so much much Madam president um  

I’m not going to be very long um I want to say  thank you to my family who over the last four   years have um shared their um son brother dad  husband uh with the community I am so grateful  

For them um allowing me to do what I do um to  my friends who I grew up with went to school   with went to high school and college with who I  worked with in District I want to say thank you  

For allowing um our friendship to be consistent  and allowing me to be Dion and not board member   Samson um I want to say thank you to my frat  brothers um I just want you to know I tried  

My best to be an advocate for our community um  I want to say thank you to uh brother Hashim   and Zakia Jabar um we knew them as racial Justice  now um some people looked at them as Hellraisers  

Um but I want to say thank you to them publicly  because you showed me years ago that fighting and   speaking up against inequity was absolutely all  right to do Mr Lacy on December 4th 2019 December  

4th is a very good day by the way um it was made  official that 6,468 voters went to the polls on   November 5th and elected me to occupy the third  seat of Dayton Public School Board Mr Lacy I was  

Mad at that one person as well um but I had to get  over it because my mother said it was her um once   March hit I was so mad that you were not in this  seat I’m just being honest I’m so mad um but I too  

Am grateful for the 6,46 68 voters who elected me  and I wanted you to know that I tried my best to   Advocate and speak up for our community I also  want to encourage all parents community members   and Advocates to personally start attending school  board committee community and parent meetings if  

You feel like you have something to bring to  the table to make this District better consider   putting your name in the Hat for the 25 election  fighting and advocating on social media doesn’t do  

Much thanks you got to get involved grab a seat at  the table and if they try not to let you sit bring   your own chair Mr Nicholls it has been an absolute  pleasure sir to see you advocating and speaking up  

For students in the district sir you are indeed  a rockar keep becoming and lastly to all of the   employees in this District um I was reminded over  the last four years there are absolutely some  

Amazing people in this district and some of them  are in this room and so because I am opposite of   Dr Lawrence I’m an emotional creature but I’m not  going to give you the pleasure of day to see me  

Cry in front of all of you so thank you Dayton  public schools in this community for allowing   me four years to serve and to this board it has  been an honor and a privilege um as an introvert  

You may not have seen me in public doing a lot of  talking but this board will tell you I argue and   fault for positions behind closed doors course um  I didn’t do a lot of talking in front um this task  

Was difficult as an introvert and so somebody  asked me well what am I going to do I’m going   to be at home um and you will continue to see  me because I’m not new to board meetings um I  

Used to come just to sit in the back with a bag  of popcorn just to see what was going to jump   off so to this board U um and to brother Walker  even well never mind and to brother Bailey um I  

Know you two will do great and I just encourage  you during your next four years to remember your   why and don’t allow any system to make you  sway from your why thank you thank you madam president Dr picket thank you Madame President um  first I just want to wish uh speedy recovery to  

Dr Burton she’s not here with us today and I’m  truly hoping that she can come back quickly so   get well soon uh before I say my my goodbyes  I would like to request that as soon as this   board hires an internal auditor that they spend  some time looking into the historical records  

Documentation of processes and inventory for our  former mids uh provider cbts we know that they had   an employee that created our budget for the last  20 years kind of just to put it into perspective  

It’s like if I want to make a party I’m going  to pay someone to tell me how many people I   can invite and when I’m going to serve for dinner  this is how it’s been done for the last 20 years  

Um they’ve been paid for years of asset management  discover uh disaster recovery and cyber security   and it is it is very possible that they have not  done all the all the work and they have not been  

Um there had not been some checks and balances as  far as that is concerned so I think it’s something   that it would be really important for you guys to  look at um we lost our um IT director because you   started questioning some of the unusual vendor  client dynamics that includes um laptops that  

Are unaccounted for thousands of laptops that  we don’t know where they are um and there were   clear conflicts of interest that I really found  alarming like um how do we have one individual   tell us what services we need to buy from them  how much to buy or no records were kept for a  

Very long time a district with 13,000 students  we have only two people who actually take care of   our equipment one person uh does laptops another  person does Chromebooks um and one of those is the   spouse of the person buying the equipment that  it continues to get lost so those are the kinds  

Of things that we need to look into when I talk  about transparency these are the kinds of things   that I’m been very concerned about I am walking  away today so that I can actually have the the the  

Freedom to talk about these things and tell you  how concerned I am while cbts is not our mid uh   contractor we still have um some um relationships  with them so we have to make sure that we as a  

District are taking care of um what we need to  take care of um I want to say thank you to Jo La   for keep coming back that that that that’s special  as a special thank you for you for wanting to come  

Back every time and I want to say thank you to  all my board members um thank you um board member   Samson for staying in this um interesting right  with me I run for a school board because um like  

Many parents I had something to to say I wanted  to say something and I wasn’t Hur and so at that   time I wanted um something for our elll students  there was really no plan we’ve been a welcoming  

City since 2011 and in 2018 we really had no  plan and we had this mtal uh welcome bailment so I felt the need to um come here and  and and express make the case that we   desperately needed more services  for our elll students because in  

Reality those students are the ones  that are going to help us catch up eventually and so it’s been an honor  to represent a portion of our uh dating   diverse community and it’s because of the  community that we have the international  

School that’s a correction I want to say Joe  lazy um or remember lazy no this we have an   international school because there is a  need for an international school and we   have an international school because there  was dozens of people who stay seven hours  

Behind trying to explain to this board that  there was a desperate need for this kind of   school for our students and so I want to say  thank you for everyone who showed up and and   I feel like we’re moving in the right direction  um thank you so much to uh board member Joslyn

Um I wish I could have your your calm and  not and not really speak up because I want   the public to know I want the public  to know that when there was a sexual   harassment accusation all board member  Riner wanted was a protection for future  

Board members that’s all she wanted and now  we have that so thank you so much for doing that but I’m also going to tell you um that I hope  that you speak up more than you do I understand  

That you’re in a very precarious situation  you’re a white woman who cannot speak up but   I do want people to know that there have been  conversations text message conversations to a   whiteboard member saying I am not your slave  this is not a plantation and when people get  

Triggered like that and they speak to a board  member or a fellow superintendent counterpart   that’s a problem that means that there’s something  that we need to focus on from within to make sure   that when uh we deal with people that we don’t  bring our own triggers in such way and I want to  

Apologize for that behavior to you and I commend  you because you could have make a big deal about   this cuz it was incredibly insulting and yet  you kept quiet so but I do hope I’m going to  

Be calling you on that make sure I’m going to be  watching you make sure that is something needs   to be speaking up that you will speak up thank  you everyone and I want to thank every person  

Who um shared their knowledge with me and I  came in as say Quicky will and I’m going to   continue to be as Quicky will I will come  over and keep you in check so that’s all I  

Have to say today thank you Madame President  thank you motion to aour so MO is there a second I’ll second it second  any questions being none Madam   Treasurer may we have a vote president  goodwine yes Mr Samson yes Miss Wick  

Yes Dr Piet yes Miss rard yes Mr  Lacy yes Mr Nicholas yes sevenes J for

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