President Uriah Anderson welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Brian Hayes provided the prayer.
Today’s quote provided by Don Overly: "A smile is the beginning of happiness.” – Mother Theresa
Today’s announcements:
- Thanks to today’s greeter, Adam Manning.
- Welcome today’s guests: Ann Wyman, Bernadette Henderson (host) & Roberta Serra (short-term exchange student)
Roberta shared she is visiting from Italy for 3 weeks. She said she liked what she saw about America on the Internet and was curious to visit. Welcome Roberta!
Additional announcements:
- Seven Rotarians have risen to Socks’ PolioPlus challenge. Two more will help us reach our club goal of $1,000.
- The July board meeting is Monday, July 20th at 5:30pm in the Joyce Young Center. If you haven’t been and you still have a red ribbon, this is a great opportunity to see how the board operates.
- Rotary Women Connect is meeting tonight at 5:30 pm at Chappy’s.
- Gina Smith shared her dad is turning 80 on July 23. Due to health issues, he is unable to leave home, so she invited all to take part in a surprise for him.
- Adam Manning said next Thursday, July 23 at 11 am will be the first Pancake committee meeting of the year. Please join this great committee.
- Brian Hayes said, “Pay your bill. Pay your bill.”
Happy Bucks recipient this quarter will be voted on at the next Board meeting on 7/20/26. Until then, we will continue raising money for Operation Warm.
Pat Beckel was our Sergeant at Arms with assistance by Brian Hayes.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Pat B said his wife has been enjoying herself in Seattle all week, so he has enjoyed extra time with his boys.
- Carol K paid a fine for being on social media for being elected President of the Centerville-Washington Foundation and gave $11 for granddaughter, Kaycee’s 11th birthday next Tuesday.
- Brad H for today’s guests, and said our exchange student from Sardinia, Italy the first week in August.
- Sofie A for Marie-Thérėse is home.
- Mark K for the weather & guests, and is happy to see who wins the World Cup.
- Elda GG was happy to be back.
- Harvey S welcomed today’s guests.
- Ron H for today’s guests and nice to see good sportsmanship at the end of the soccer matches.
- Boyd P questioned Carol K’s injury that required bulletin editor subs the last two weeks ;-)
- Lisa GM said we negotiated the coat cost down to $17 this year so give generously.
- Kristin H’s birthday is Wednesday so she gave $40 to Operation Warm.
- Don S shamed Boyd for his comments as Carol does lots for the club ;-)
- Frank P is back from vacation and said the Rotary team of Frank P, Brad T, Chuck K, and Don O, represented Rotary with class and good cheer at the Optimist Golf Tournament this week.
- Brad T said the golf team represented Rotary well, and the team was the most experienced with a combined age of 300 years!
- Chuck K for a coat, today’s guests and speakers, and will be missing the next two weeks.
- Adam M for today’s guests and speakers.
- Socks was happy.
- Gina S had a great vacation last week with her Texas cousin.
- Lee H said the staples were removed this week and nothing fell out. He shared Tom Achor’s sister, Nancy recently passed away. She had helped Lee with fire prevention education for many years. Farm Report: Montgomery County Fair is going on this week, and he encouraged all to go see the animals. Tomorrow will be the sale of champions.
Our speaker today was Jon Wesney, Superintendent of Centerville City Schools, sharing information on school facilities.
Also with Jon were Chuck Cowgill, Director of Business Operations, and Charlie Jahnigen, an architect with SHP.
Jon shared that the 13 buildings of Centerville City Schools are aging so they are looking at the future needs of those aging buildings.
Magsig Middle School is the oldest building at 102 years old and Primary Village South is the youngest at 19 years old. 12 of the buildings are 50 years or older. Schools are part of this community so they are interested in what the community’s priorities are for the school buildings.
Jon shared a link to a survey and asked everyone to please take it. What if you no longer have kids in schools? They still value your opinion, so please take the survey.
Charlie shared he is an architect with SHP and has been there for 26 years. They have worked developing master plans for many area schools, including Beavercreek, Mad River, and Clark County schools.
In order to have a successful Master Plan, it must be:
- Great for Learning
- Fiscally responsible
- Community supported
The current schedule:
- Survey now
- Summer testing some options
- Fall roll out some suggestions and get feedback
- Board of Education approvals
ELPP program of the OH Facilities Construction Commission provides some funding, however, our local share is 82%. We must make the improvements first and then seek reimbursement of the 18%. The plan is:
- Assessment
- Develop Master Plan
- Determine what can be done
- Secure local share
Chuck shared information on the age of the buildings. He said if 66% or more is needed to be renovated, the State says you should rebuild instead of remodel. Magsig falls under that.
Centerville enrollment has seen a little decline - was at 8,300 for many years, but is now around 7,900.
Some buildings are full - Watts has over 800, others are around 600.
Most class sizes are 665-670.
They have the opportunity to look at options - move preschool to one building, do all-day kindergarten, redistrict, etc.
Look at different grade bands. Have heard a lot about neighborhood schools, people want to keep that. Looking at efficiencies.
Will do hazardous materials assessment
Why do they need to look at facilities now?
It is a balancing act of looking at all components and what will be supported by the community. Also the age of the buildings that cause maintenance nightmares. Magsig is not ADA compliant but it is cost prohibitive to correct. Other buildings have steps, too, that make access challenging.
They are doing this study to see what community wants/supports. Costs will only increase if they wait longer to address the issues.
One member was interested in seeing the costs of new vs renovations. Magsig is old enough to be historical designation.
Over 1600 survey responses have been received; they need 400 more.
To take the survey, scan the QR code or use this
LINK
