Meeting Agenda
1. Call to Order and Roll Call - Open Meeting Law
2. Excuse Absent Board Members
3. The Pledge of Allegiance
4. Recitation of Board Mission Statement: Providing collaborative leadership to prepare students today to succeed tomorrow.
5. Approval of Agenda
6. Financial Report
7. Consent Agenda
7.1. Discuss, consider, and take all necessary action to minutes
7.2. Discuss, consider, and take all necessary action to bills
7.3. Notice of Meeting Publication: The public notice for the Regular November 9th Board Meeting was published on the school's website
8. Blue Jay Celebration of Success - None this month
9. Artist of the Month - None this month
10. Request to Address the Board and Correspondence 
11. Information and Action Items
11.1. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to 2027-28 negotiations with the Ravenna Education Association (REA)
11.2. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to the school district's Annual Financial Audit
12. Discussion Items
12.1. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to the Ravenna Bond Building Project
12.2. Anticipated Board of Education Vacancies
12.3. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to the superintendent's evaluation
12.4. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to personnel matters
13. Elementary Principal's Report
14. Secondary Principal's Report
15. Superintendent's Report 
 
16. Board Report
17. Positive Comments
18. Adjournment
Agenda Item Details Reload Your Meeting
Meeting: November 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
Subject:
1. Call to Order and Roll Call - Open Meeting Law
Agenda Item Type:
Procedural Item
Subject:
2. Excuse Absent Board Members
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Recommended Motion(s):
  1. Motion to excuse absent board members
Subject:
3. The Pledge of Allegiance
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
4. Recitation of Board Mission Statement: Providing collaborative leadership to prepare students today to succeed tomorrow.
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
5. Approval of Agenda
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Recommended Motion(s):
  1. Motion to approve the agenda
Subject:
6. Financial Report
Agenda Item Type:
Information Item
Rationale:

1.  Review monthly bills using the EMeetings Software.

2.  Review all credit card transactions for the month

3.  Finance Committee Members Sign-off on the review of monthly bills, credit card transactions, and district fund balances.

4.  Approve superintendent's expenses (mileage & reimbursement).

5.  Lunch Fund Review-Monthly Lunch Fund Balance Worksheet Attached

6.  General Fund Review-Monthly General Fund Balance Worksheet Attached

7.  Payroll Ledger Review

8.  Insurance Billing Review

9.  ACH Payroll Review

10.  Audit

11.  State Aid Prior Year Correction - Annually, after the "October 1 Snapshot" is collected by NDE, NDE Financial Services Office provides a "state aid correction" based on the actual student count as of October 1 and the estimated student count when state aid was issued in the spring.  This can be a positive or a negative correction.  The school district has a positive prior year correction of $4,140, for a total state aid amount of $621,293 for the 2026-27 budget cycle.





 
Recommended Motion(s):
  1. Motion to approve the financial report
Subject:
7. Consent Agenda
Agenda Item Type:
Consent Agenda
Recommended Motion(s):
  1. Motion to approve the consent agenda
Subject:
7.1. Discuss, consider, and take all necessary action to minutes
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
7.2. Discuss, consider, and take all necessary action to bills
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
7.3. Notice of Meeting Publication: The public notice for the Regular November 9th Board Meeting was published on the school's website
Agenda Item Type:
Consent Item
Recommended Motion(s):
  1. Motion to record in the meeting minutes that the public notice for the Regular November 9th Ravenna Board of Education Meeting was published on the school website
Subject:
8. Blue Jay Celebration of Success - None this month
Agenda Item Type:
Information Item
Subject:
9. Artist of the Month - None this month
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
10. Request to Address the Board and Correspondence 
Agenda Item Type:
Procedural Item
Rationale:

Members of the Public, 

This is the portion of the board meeting when we invite anyone in attendance to address the board of education. If you would like to speak to the board regarding any of the items on tonight's agenda or a public concern, now is your opportunity to do so.  Please review the orange sheet (found on the visitors' chairs) of paper that contains the guidelines for public participation.  If you wish to speak to the board at this time, please let me know.  "Would anyone like to address the board at this time?"

 

AFTER THE PERSON(S) INDICATE(S) THEY WISH TO SPEAK

1.  Please stand and state your name?

2.  What topic will you be speaking on?

3.  Are there others in the room who wish to speak to the same topic? (If so, ask that they be recognized so that 30 minutes of time for public comment can be apportioned as per the policy-5 minutes per person).

4.  Optional-"Please understand that public comment is your opportunity to speak to the board and present your concerns, thoughts, feelings, ideas, and observations.  Members of the board are happy to hear from members of the public, but the board will not engage in conversation or dialogue with you during public comment."

4.  "You'll have approximately 5 minutes to address the board, as we allow 5 minutes per person and a total of 30 minutes for public comment.  You may begin when you are ready?"

 

 

 
Subject:
11. Information and Action Items
Agenda Item Type:
Procedural Item
Subject:
11.1. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to 2027-28 negotiations with the Ravenna Education Association (REA)
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Recommended Motion(s):
  1. Motion to go into close session for the purposes of negotiations with the REA because it is in the best interest of the public at ??? PM. President Fiddelke repeated the purpose for going into closed session prior to entering into closed session. The board came out of closed session at ??? PM
Subject:
11.2. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to the school district's Annual Financial Audit
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Rationale:
The 2026 Annual Financial Audit for the Ravenna Public School District is attached to this agenda item for review and consideration by the school board.
Recommended Motion(s):
  1. Motion to approve the 2026 Annual Financial Audit as presented
Subject:
12. Discussion Items
Agenda Item Type:
Information Item
Subject:
12.1. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to the Ravenna Bond Building Project
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Rationale:
Updated Master Construction Schedule is attached as long as the most recent weekly update.
Subject:
12.2. Anticipated Board of Education Vacancies
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
12.3. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to the superintendent's evaluation
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Rationale:
The superintendent is to be evaluated each contract year.  This agenda item is to provide the board of education notice of this need to evaluate the superintendent at the regular December Board Meeting.

Also, as per the language of the superintendent's contract below.  The superintendent is to remind the board of the terms of his contract renewal in writing at the November Board Meeting.  That informational reminder appears below:

Section 2. Renewal of Contract.  If a Board representative does not inform the Superintendent in writing on or before the seventh day after the regular December 2024 board meeting (and each December thereafter) of the Board’s intention to consider the non-renewal or amendment of this contract, the contract will automatically renew for a period of one year from and after the expiration date provided in Section 1 of this contract.  The Superintendent shall remind the Board in writing of this provision no later than its regular November meeting of each applicable year in which this contract may renew, starting in November 2024, and shall make the renewal of the Superintendent’s employment contract an agenda item for the regular December board meeting during each applicable contract year.  At the time of each contract renewal and/or amendment, the Superintendent shall be responsible for taking all necessary steps to insure that the School District has complied with the Superintendent Pay Transparency Act.
 
Attachments:
Subject:
12.4. Discuss, consider, and take all action necessary to personnel matters
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
13. Elementary Principal's Report
Agenda Item Type:
Information Item
Subject:
14. Secondary Principal's Report
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
15. Superintendent's Report 
 
Agenda Item Type:
Information Item
Rationale:
1.  Annual Financial Audit 
2.  State Aid Prior Year Correction - Annually, after the "October 1 Snapshot" is collected by NDE, NDE Financial Services Office provides a "state aid correction" based on the actual student count as of October 1 and the estimated student count when state aid was issued in the spring.  This can be a positive or a negative correction.  The school district has a positive prior year correction of $4,140, for a total state aid amount of $621,293 for the 2026-27 budget cycle.



 
Subject:
16. Board Report
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Subject:
17. Positive Comments
Agenda Item Type:
Information Item
Subject:
18. Adjournment
Agenda Item Type:
Action Item
Recommended Motion(s):
  1. Motion to adjourn at ??? PM

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