A BEAR UPDATE FROM NORTH ROYALTON CITY SCHOOLS

MESSAGE

FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT

July 14, 2021

Dear Bear Families,

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer! We are working hard here in the District to get everything ready for the return of students in the fall. The purpose of this communication is to provide some updates on where we are today with building construction, the grand opening of North Royalton Elementary School, and the return to school plans for the District.

The high school project is due to be finished in October as planned. Some areas of the project are actually ahead of schedule. If you drive by at this time, you will see a great deal of work on the outside of the building and on the site itself. Inside, we are seeing a great deal of progress every day. These are going to be outstanding new spaces for our students and staff.

The middle school renovation is also moving along well. It is on schedule to be ready for students in August!

Finally, the elementary school is looking great! Staff members are already in the building getting learning spaces ready for our students. There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, August 28 in the morning (more details to come).

Managing these projects is no small task and I would like to thank Mr. Jim Presot, our assistant superintendent, for all of his hard work.

Finally, our plan as a School District is to have all students return to the classroom in the fall. We will continue to implement good sanitary practices within the building and be mindful of some of the things we learned from last year. Face coverings will be optional, based on current guidance. We will certainly adjust our approach if we are required to do so by health officials, but we wanted to be clear about what our plan is as of today.

Thank you,

Michael Laub

Superintendent

North Royalton City Schools

michael.laub@northroyaltonsd.org

440-582-9030

Graph 1 compares our monthly operating receipts to the prior year actual for our fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 (July 2020 through June 2021). You will notice two large collection points in our fiscal year, which are August and February. These two months are considerably higher than the other months due to real estate collection, which represents over 70% of our revenues.

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Graph 2 compares our monthly operating expenditures to the prior year actual for our fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 (July 2020 through June 2021). You will notice a consistent expenditure pattern throughout our fiscal year due to salaries and wages evenly distributed throughout our fiscal year.

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Graph 3 illustrates the current actual cumulative monthly operating revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 (July 2020 through June 2021). You will notice a gradual increase in both revenues and expenditures as we approach our fiscal year-end where revenues exceed our expenditures.

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Graph 4 illustrates our fiscal year-to-date operating expenditures by category for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 (July 2020 through June 2021). Salary and Wages represent approximately 60%, Fringe Benefits 25%, Purchased Services 11%, Materials Supplies, Textbooks 3%, Capital Outlay and Operational Fees 1%.

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District financial information such as our annual financial reports, forecasts, tax rates, etc., can be found by clicking here.

Biagio Sidoti, Treasurer

North Royalton City Schools

biagio.sidoti@northroyaltonsd.org

USDA EXTENDS GRANT TO OFFER FUNDING OF

BREAKFASTS AND LUNCHES FOR STUDENTS

By Harry A. Swartzlander IV, Food Service Supervisor

The USDA has granted an extension to the funding for our school nutrition program. With this funding, we will be able to request reimbursement for all students to select one "complete" breakfast and one "complete" lunch in our cafeterias every day school is in session. That means breakfast and lunch will again be free of charge to our students every day for the foreseeable future.

During the final weeks of school in spring 2021, we served record-high meals and we anticipate serving even more of our students again in the fall. In order to maintain the flow and ensure all of our students have the benefit of participating in our meal program and the time to enjoy their meals, we have to make some changes to our service model. It is our intention to move to a semi cashless service model.

In a semi cashless model, our cashiers will not have change to provide our students for their purchases. All cash given to our staff will be deposited in whole to the students account for immediate and future use.

Because first meals are free of charge to our students, money will only be required for snacks and second meal purchases. In order to keep our lines moving smoothly, we are no longer going to provide change at the point of sale for school meals.

We are making this transition because it is in the best interests of our students as a whole to minimize the time in our lines as much as possible in order to ensure that all students have adequate time to consume their meals.

We strongly encourage parents to utilize our Myschoolbucks to control the amount of money for snacks and second meals your students may use and to minimize delays cash handling may bring.

We are very excited to continue offering this benefit to our students and appreciate your understanding in the transition to come.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the School Nutrition Department at nrfoodservice@northroyaltonsd.org.

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