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required but are an extension of the collaborative partnership that has long existed in the Dearborn Public Schools this new section will further enhance the commitment to valuing all suggestions views and opinions brought forth by all staff members in the district and I'll just skip directly to
see where we have someone okay so who we have here tonight with us is from the Dearborn federations of teachers DFT Miss Kathy Martin [Applause] good evening how are you good theater people it's nice to have support from
everywhere um uh I'm here tonight to talk about building conditions um this has been an issue for a long time I understand that having the bond fail several years ago did have a negative impact on how you know buildings and
infrastructures being handled in the district um however even if we pass a bond today some of these building conditions won't be addressed for years to come and we have students right now learning in
classrooms that are 60 degrees um now maybe they're in and out of that room you know for an hour but teachers are in there teaching for eight hours we have uh actually sitting here just now I got an email from a teacher at one of the high schools who says her room is
basically an inferno and there are no windows in that room and she's put in work orders but the district now contracts out to just two companies and they're under staffed and she has to wait who knows how long so I don't know
what the details are um but these kids are in and out of I mean in that classroom and it's making it hard for her to teach and hard for the kids to learn we have mold issues in the district we have um rodent issues and
these things would definitely be resolved with the bond however they need to be taken care of now not when a bond passes so I really hope that um we're able to look at each individual building
and figure out which ones can be resolved right now I don't think anyone here wants their student learning in a classroom where black mold has been found and we're not clear as to whether it's been cleared out or not and to ask teachers to spend eight hours a day in
those rooms we have teachers right now who are having health issues whose doctors are telling them you need to quit your job because it's an unsafe environment for you because of your health so I I mean the money should be found
somewhere because this is the health of our students and our staff so I hope we can focus on that thank you Miss Martin thanks I I do have a question do you
have a question for Miss Martin yeah yeah trust go ahead sorry when we talk about the different conditions or issues are they reported and this is a question to uh Dr moo is do we have a list of
issues that you know whether it's mold whether it's a um any type of issues is there um is there a list of items that's been reported is I guess what I'm saying I have an incomplete list I have a list of
the people who've reached out to me um I don't know at the district level though so safety is our our top priority and obviously we want to address issues so if you have some specifics if you send it to me and to Mark Andrews we will get on top of it we do have a protocol um
depending on what it is because there were different um things mentioned here uh that we would look into it address it and bring in contractors I mean there's a lot of different things like I know for example in one of the schools you know uh the roof um needs to be replaced
or portion of it so there was water leakage so they addressed it you know I think the teacher had to move for a certain point in time just as one example um but I appreciate the collaboration with Miss Martin if you could send us those uh things there are things though when I go to um like
chatting events and I'm saying like a lot of things that requests that are made for example I was telling people this example uh there's things that we probably should replace but what we're doing is prioritizing you know boilers and heating and electrical and things that you have to like you would in your
home uh versus like requests for bleachers and new things that we probably should have but we just don't have the funding for and we did talk about you know how we're funding some things today in the uh finance committee meeting but if you could send me a list then obviously we'll look into it I know
there's ever uh mold or some other specific safety issue Danielle's on top of it we bring in Consultants we bring in contractors we look to it we make sure we're in compliance with all the you know the state and federal rules and you know to make sure people are safe but I can understand their concerns and
I would just say this is another reason why we are also talking about a potential bond in the future because we do not have infrastructure funding from the state as was discussed in the finance committee or the federal government so we need to to find another
way to do it and uh while a bond may be longterm it's something that we need to do you know now for the future but in the interim I know Mr wall and his team and we discussed it today they find ways to uh use our general all we have now is our general fund which most of it does
go you know for uh the people that work uh work in our district but I do know that Mr wall is always bringing what can we put on and put more money into infrastructure um as well so I appreciate you bringing these forward and we will definitely and and the collaboration we always uh are trying to
work together and of course we want students and staff to make sure safety is number one I just want to add to that it's it's when we say there's issues I would prefer there's a reportable mechanism a reporting mechanism so we could track them and then I agree with
you the bond is you know for major infrastructure but if there is any safety issue mold or anything like that that's where they get prioritized but if there's a reporting Mech a way for teachers to report issues and it gets to
the say something see see something say something there is a ticketing system I believe yeah what was that kind we can have Mrs Z come and address some of the concerns as far as addressing good even somebody reports an issue infrastructure
so as far as reporting mechanism we do have an air quality Complaint Form and we use that for anybody in Dearborn schools can f fill this form out it gets reported through the engineers and then we take a look at it and if it's something that needs to be tested so if
it's something like mold or um something that just smells in the air that the teacher would report we do have an environmental consulting company that comes out and they do testing and they give us recommendations and then we follow up and make sure that the recommendations that were given are um
followed and if the room needs to be um vacated while that work is being done then we ask the teacher to relocate we work with the school to relocate the teacher and then once the room is safe to be reoccupied we make sure that the teacher can go back in the inside of the classroom so we do have all of those
mechanisms in place it's just that I do want to say one thing too about mold so the EPA and the state do not have a mold threshold and the reason for this is because mold is forever changing mold gets um will
grow when it's hotter outside it gets less active when it's colder um in a place or a space and so like if I were to test my home today it would come back positive for mold guaranteed and that's the reason that there is no threshold
because mold levels are continuously changing so you could test something for mold today temperatures change environment changes and then the test for mold tomorrow would be different so we just try to work with our buildings and trades guys and operations and um
the testing company to just make sure that we look at each situation and try to clean up as much as we can so when Mo sorry when mold is discovered we do address it immediately yes we get it tested and then the environmental company gives us recommendations we make
sure that the recommendations that we're given are followed through and um try to remediate the issues trusty Watson so I think part of this was already um kind of discussed I was just thinking if I were a teacher and you were saying that
there is a reporting system is this Reporting System electronic or is it a paper Reporting System it's electronic and paper you can do either one so they can do both yes Some people prefer to email it to us some people prefer to send it in her school mail okay um yeah
so it could be done either way reporting it up to the principal and then like then the principal we're waiting for them to it usually goes through the engineer okay so it goes straight to the engineer so it's normally some teachers like to fill it out themselves and send it to me okay and we don't want to tell them that they have to go
through somebody it's it's fine if I get it from the engineer we take a look at it if I get it directly from the teacher we take a look at it if I get it sometimes I'll get it directly from the principal so um so for instance if I had like a classroom that those extremely hot so I went on my app or my on the form and I said it's really you know
it's it's got so hot and there's no windows what would be then the turnaround until I would hear back from somebody saying I acknowledge this and I'm sending somebody out okay Heating and Cooling yes not my I think okay I'm going to call up Mark Andrews I'm just thinking what would the turnaround be so
that they would be able to so it's normally the engineer would start a ticket for something like that and then they'd get the HVAC guys out if it's something that they can take care of right away they do okay correct so good evening so yeah we have a separate work order system for heating cooling issues and other
building issues um and we would direct those to the building engineer we always like to have the building Administration a part of those conversations so they know what's going on in the building as well would like to add to um Miss El added the form we use is recommended by the EPA so it's a Google doc and it can
be either done electronically or printed and done by hand but it is a document that the EPA um suggests to use okay so it sounds like the teachers would have this tool that they could put in a work order and what would be the turn around until they would so every year trusty
Watts maybe even twice a year I send out um classroom classroom tips and guidelines and then that Google doc is goes out to the entire district and that Google doc the air quality Complaint Form is actually linked in that document so it's shared with staff about twice a
year okay so my question would be like in the morning I'm it's you know it's ungodly hot in my classroom um and if I put in that request would I be able to get some sort of reprieve or fans or something very shortly to start helping with the temperature control so a lot of
options I'm one if like if there's Windows you know that'd be something that the Billy could look at again we like to have the building Administration involved because yes you know there's times where we might our hbac technicians we have three I'm going to plug in we'd like to hire more in the future but we understand right now we
can't um so they could be overwhelmed and you do it by a priority right so and or first come first Ser but they you know we try to get to them within at least a look at them within the same day but as far as resolving them it it can depend on what parts are needed what's the cause of it so a lot of times with
our older buildings there's late lead times you know can be a couple weeks to get the proper parts that's why we like to work with the building administrator and see if we can relocate them even for classroom that's too warm okay truste Barry and then Martin brings some issues
that we've heard about before but I want to concentrate I want to make a comment uh I don't think anybody's qualified to look at something and call it black mold I mean this is just I mean for my industry I know that for a fact but uh what I'd like to see is you
communicate with m z or Dr Malo or both uh what buildings this is at and let's get it inspected because black mold is very serious and to allege out there on this world that you know we have black mold in our buildings uh it's alleged a it came from a report well that but okay came from a
report but we we just need to be there's some responsibility some responsibility on us here not to put that out there that there's black mold because that's some very serious stuff just have let's let's just get this please Dr Mal Co thank you
trusty I I think what trusty aljami was kind of alluding to um do we have any kind of spreadsheet so to speak of what's going on in every building when these kinds of work orders and or air quality complaints so that there's like a master list that somebody can look at
and maybe just like we've done in the past for where we're at with schedules of construction um projects and what could we have something that would somebody could look at and track and say okay this is where you're at with this
building this room this issue kind of thing so that it can be followed a little more transparently so with uh the building issues outside of the air quality the work order system you can run a report to see what that's why we're very strict about making sure Engineers submit a
work order so that's in the system and it can always be tracked about what's you which room when it's been done and what the problems were when it was logged in corre and how Andre where it's at and Mr walls we're we're moving to another system electronic system from we
do kind of bigger projects we can track what um infrastructure improvements have been made in the district as well okay that's great yeah trusty sorry I'm conf I'm a little bit confused who so there is like some Central system of work orders tickets whatever who submits
those so in other words can a teacher directly submit a work order or a ticket or does it have to go to someone in the school first who then submits it so the building Engineers are some build some buildings our middle schools and and um our high schools have two building Engineers our small elementary schools
only have one Elementary unless you're at like Henry Ford Elementary um so the building engineer are the ones are responsible for submitting a work order okay and so okay so how does it work before that so I'm a teacher in the classroom I
what write an email to the engineer I talk to the engineer or whatever and then the engineer submits the work order so we leave it up for the billing administrator for each building to uh um make the rules on how to report it most of them like to keep it through an email it can be done verbally really so but
email is what what a lot of Administrators prefer so that it can be recorded as well that way why don't teachers directly submit a ticket or workorder it's a complicated system and we so the person that has to do it we want to make sure
that it's done properly and it goes to the right to the right people can we have a I mean the reason I'm asking is just like so somehow we can you know maybe one day track okay this a many or this many requests came in instead of there being some informal
system before it gets to the engineer you know maybe there can be a system where a teacher or someone in the building submits something through the system and then it gets approved by the engineer whatever since it's a complicated system right I'm sure the teacher can figure it out though and so uh um you know just so that we really
know so we have metrics right so we can hold everybody accountable at every step also to protect against people making too you know that way you know if people are making too many requests and make too many silly requests whatever but just so that there is some way to track everything from the beginning seems you were hitting it a little bit there why
would you like the building engineer because a lot of times it's something that can be small and and because part of their job responsibility is to take care of problems in the building so that's one of the reasons why we like to directed to the building engineer so first they're aware of the issue so things aren't being submitted without them aware of it two a lot of times they
can investigate it you know they all hold boiler license so they can look into the system sometimes it's an easy as just make an adjustment on our buildings that are newer that have um controls our electronic so it might just be a matter of it the schedule needs to be reset so there's there's a lot of
reasons why we like it to go through the building engineer so they're aware of it and they can make sure that even when our trades come out that they can help the trades show them where the problem is and what the problem is and I already started the investigation no I understand all of that I'm just saying you know maybe we have a system where something gets
approved by the building engineer before it gets further whatever but sounds like right now there's no formal system formal uniform system of a complaint getting from a teacher to the to the engineer in the building is that right correct their teachers AR they
don't have access to and we can look into expanding it to them for sure okay and then my other question Kathy is how long has all this stuff been going on in the schools since I've been hired however um things don't come to me right when it
first happens so usually like the person who contacted me has gone through like I'm only talking about today I'm not talking about the reports I have you know in the computer she has gone through the proper channels and said that I'm basically her last resort um and I will say when I get involved
things do get resolved so it's not like stuff you know it continuously gets pushed aside but you know for the past two weeks she's had a sweltering classroom with no windows um but I mean we've got old buildings so some of the stuff is it it just it is what it is you
know I've brought heaters into some of my rooms I you know sometimes stuff you can figure out how to work with it but some stuff I can count off the buildings but you know some stuff you can work around but other things it's just difficult and it's hard it's one
thing for you to be struggling but to have a whole classroom of kids who are lethargic and have their head down and you're trying to teach it's kind of tough to me this just kind of highlights how we all need to everyone everyone we all need to get on the same page because
you know these schools are these kids' homes for eight or 10 hours a day and so we need to make sure that we all get on the same page so that when we do submit a bond to the to the community um it's been well reached researched well uh um
thought out and has input from everybody so that it passes overwhelming I really do believe that it'll pass overwhelmingly if we get everybody on board from the beginning so I thank you for bringing all this up and being a voice for our teachers trusty wats so I I think this was all great discussion as well because I'm sure that there's
probably some program out there or some way to be able to be transparent so we can see when the reports being made but I think also as a teacher like two things number one you want to be able to say like this is the status of what is happening and how long it's going to happen but the other thing is sometimes
some teachers like a nice colder classroom some like a warmer classroom so it's also a personal preference but you also know which room is that room in the school building and you kind of paper rock as to who gets that one so I think everyone knows who that who has
that one classroom in the building um but all of that said I think that having a transparent document that people can look on there to say like or just the email saying this is when the part's ordered this is how long it's going to be it helps you then plan accordingly with your students yes and then you can
then go ahead and know like it's going to get fixed this is short term and my needs are being met so J um just to piggy back on the trustees he made a good comment if we have a list
of issues it's easier to justify the bond because you know the different issues that's happened but I was just going to share my experience um um for tracking things of this sort usually similar to a help Des system um and sometime help Des system
could handle there which all you have to do is uh you know make a service type of building issues and this way you have a trackable item you could justify it later on to say we have buildings with heat and problem ventilation and and so
on but it gives you a trackable but I I I understand it has to go through the engineer because they have to sign it and create a work order so I I get that part but there is easy ways to report those similar to help that system and
they're not very expensive trusty Barry trusty Zar did I hear you say that teachers can figure it out I think imagine that I think so but on more serious note uh I mean we've experienced before where the engineers
kind of run the building and and you know don't pick on Kathy here Kathy's a troublemaker in this building she's always pointing things out she's always pointing out and they sort of kind of make an executive decision on needs to be done or not done so I can't imagine I I don't remember the last time we
disciplined an engineer custodian for not following protocol somehow I mean there's one particular building we had the same problem for over a decade two possibly three different principles couldn't figure it out so yeah you're right I mean there's got to be a process
where if I'm a teach teacher and I send it to my building administrator or my engineer and doesn't happen there's got to be somebody I can reach out to directly so I agree with that think that feedback can definitely be taken back to
Dr Malo operations to discuss a way of tracking those requests and we'll put it on cabinet agenda for tomorrow discussion and see if there's any with technology and things of a workflow system that maybe we can do what you're saying so yeah just just to re to
sorry I just to reiterate just one more time is that the same system be from the teacher's desk all the so so the teacher right and again there can be stop like stop measures right so if the engineer can like stop something or go back to the whatever I understand that the engineer on site is the one who is
obviously more and obviously we want most of the communication to happen in the building I mean they're the ones that are on the ground and know what's going on but it just seems to be to create transparency and accountability across the board from A to Z if the teacher can be submitting a request right away or sorry I mean into the same
system that the engineer is going to do it to so that everything is tracked from the beginning so no one can ever say hey I didn't get request hey uh the engineers not listening to whatever it just creates all transparency and accountability from the from the top it just seems to make and it would just probably solve a lot of conflicts too I
imagine and and also I would say just our teachers have a lot on their plate to begin with it to make an easy system that takes 30 like something that takes 30 seconds it should not be very comp complicated to put it in order so and I and I think it's a good idea we do the same thing for field trips it starts the
form goes and it goes to different people throughout ends up with me actually this one ends up at the board at the end just getting the notification so it's an example thank you good ideas thank you thank you Miss Martin it's great discussion Part: 2
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good evening uh calling to order the regular meeting for the school district of the city of Dearborn for Monday February 10th 2025 sir secretary um okay roll call yes roll call truste alji here truste Barry
here truste petkov here trusty de brosio here truste Zar that's me vice president Watts here president mosip here all right next item please next item is the pledge of allegiance to the flag tonight we have Miss Zahra Z the principal of
Becker Elementary along with students who will lead the Pledge of Allegiance and she'll introduce them to oh my God good evening I'm Zahra these are my students abas aluli Tatiana Yousef in Batum
Ru I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for stand one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all great
[Applause] job go up come on up come on up right there in the middle Tatiana Tatiana thank you great job proud of you high five high five
great job another round of applause for our students next item please next we have the superintendent item or so sorry superintendent update starting with agenda item good evening everyone uh hope you're doing well uh unfortunately
I would like to start with a moment of silence and we had a passing of a former student in a vehicular accident so if we could just take a few moments uh silence thank you thoughts and prayers are with his family I will move down the agenda items
Mr President uh so I'll start with uh retirements like we do every month uh we have a few retirements this month Nancy Chase 26 years of service Dr winred Green 25 years of service Linda gunnis
over 36 years of service FY hasham over 18 years of service Dr Ryan Lazar 25 years of service Linda liard 27 years of service Genevie Sullivan 35 over 35 years of service
Teresa hand hook over 13 years of service and Jeff Conway 27 years of service if we could uh show our appreciation and thank him for the many so I'll move to non-agenda items and I have right now a presentation uh of a
check uh Mr Ali SED I believe and Miss uh lur is going to come up um the are grants that were received um and donations to the district for um Robotics and
Athletics and we appreciate Mr say's support uh I've been at some of the events myself and the basketball and I know the students are so excited and the gymnasiums are jam-packed with parents and students so it's a real positive yeah good evening everybody good evening
it's my pleasure to welcome the founder and CEO of hype who's also a family member um to deborn schools to the board meeting to present these two checks Ali applied for and got approved for a grant and he called me up and said we need to
share it with deborn students and our elementary schools and here we are Ali will elaborate a little bit more about how we're spending that money but it's been if you've been to the games you'd know the hype that's happening uh in those in those gymnasiums with the
families and the employees instructional and non-instructional all partnering up and just the students um enthusiasm and the momentum that's happening in these buildings is unbelievable I'll send you all the the game schedule and I'd love to see you at one of the games Al
good evening I'm joined with by Maha our CFO Maha saba and Billy aan our C operations director coo um the truth is uh honorable board members and administrators and family members we
have an awesome District that's the truth everything becomes great when we join together and it's been an absolute honor uh working with all of you that had that played a major role including and um and myome and Dr Glenn and and
many many others um I'm I I here today to award uh let's do the first one uh $90,000 which will fund all the elementary robotics programs um for all the schools that are participating this
year um so we're we're grateful to have collaborated with the district on that project it's fun it's cool but the second one is cooler you know as as a as a product of the district um you know participating in
the physical fitness award the Presidential Fitness Award and getting all those blue patches as a kid um you know one thing that I wish I had was more organized Sports you know experiences as an elementary student um especially being that many of the kids that
participate in our hype programs at the center um I the percentages are very low from the 48126 48 12141 120 zip codes uh less than 7% of our participants come from those zip codes so for years and years and years we've Tred to advocate
for programming um within the district specifically targeting East Airborne schools um you know obviously the Gap was was very evident the disparities were very evident so um this year again thanks to the partnership we've established and the funding that we were
able to receive and hopefully continue to receive for for many many years to come uh we're able to launch a really cool um Elementary Athletics program that includes boys and girls basketball soccer in the spring and we're going to
do a cross country program in the fall and that cross country program will lead an end at the cypriano race so we we'll have you know a few few meets if you want to call them for the kids um local stay within their their uh neighboring
schools and then that program will grow and end at the cypriano race one of the cool things also added on is that Fitness Award so we do want to encourage a challenge a districtwide competition for elementary school students possibly even take it up to the middle school
students that incorporates a variety of different skill sets and skills competitions and then to give them an award here you know to show who's the number one person that can do the most chin-ups or most push-ups or the fastest runner whatever the competitions are
that we we agree on and develop uh but that is something that we're all very excited to to incorporate and to work with you on um and as I had mentioned and I we all are super excited from our board uh to our administrative staff and our leadership team um we love this
District none of this would have been possible without the leadership of the district um and and that that really has to resonate I I mean that you know we have the best families we have the best students and we have the best leaders and again as a product we're all
products of Dearborn uh it's an honor to serve with you and alongside you with our our serving our children so thank you thank you what's that check for say the amount of the second check oh I'm sorry so so the the second check to we well we've
allocated $250,000 to run all of those four sports or athletic programs so $250,000 has been allocated for that I never thought we'd get to that point we're giv money cuz we always need money but it's it's we're grateful
trusty trusty what yes um so thank you for that that is amazing so I have a couple of questions regarding the Athletics do we have a metrics as to how many students we're hoping to get involved in the elementary Sports yeah we have we have the limits for boys basketball um it was 700 for girls
basketball we actually anticipated um little bit fewer uh kids participating the boys actually motivated the girls and we we were able to get a significant amount uh that limit is 500 we're at 500 girls uh for soccer we're anticipating super high numbers um and we've
allocated uh funding for about 700 kids as well between all the schools um because there's you know it's it's a bigger game it's you know eight on eight is what we're going to try to run for these kids um and then for cross country um we're hoping everyone participates okay so um it could be a grand total of
about uh possibly 2500 youth participating in all sports programs excluding the the fitness challenge concept that that project might will include every child to to compete um and then also the um the donation is it a one-time fund is it a rolling is it
something that can be then um applied for year after year once we have that final report um I say we but it's actually you so yeah so so I was just talking to Mrs re about that before she had walked out um we're committed to this program
whether we get the renewal of the grant or not we're committing to this program and and God willing they'll stay in the city of Dearborn forever you know there's ways that we could you know we can definitely save on some cost okay you know um and reduce some of our
expenditures uh and maintain the quality that we're that we've we've experienced this year um so with with that being said it's it's not ending okay I mean that's wonderful yeah um and then I guess the same for robotics do we know
how many schools we going to be and or how many students what is the metrics on that what's the goal great question I'm going to let Lise answer so we have our own funding for robotics as well this is an addition to that um I think we have around 15
schools who could find uh a staff member who could lead an additional team okay so it it'll grow I'm I'm sure it'll grow um we were later to begin this year just the way things uh fell into place hopefully next year we can start a
little bit earlier and get that going a little bit earlier and then get more teams on board okay awesome thank you trusty pesov yeah Mr sad um couple things to kind of Take Along and I'm a 48126 um resident so I I I really
appreciate because you don't see enough kids even in their own neighborhoods um participating in any kind of you know sporting uh activities anymore so it's wonderful that we're going to continue to encourage this kind of um athleticism
and it also helps feed up into the um middle and high school level that being said how are we who's running these programs at each of the buildings is it going to be somebody from the building itself is it somebody who's um
understands just like we do at middle school and high school the rules and and the um techniques that we need to be teaching these students or is it just a volunteer great question so uh we committed to hiring a liaison a faculty member from each school to to be
basically our Point person um for each school has one liaison and then we've encouraged for the most part we've encouraged parents from the from the team to step up and volunteer and Coach so the liaison is a paid position the volunteer position is the coaching
position so we have have you know someone that has direct access to you know policies procedures regulations you know that can talk to the custodial staff or maintenance staff uh that can communicate with all parents with you know a click of a button so um that
that's our current structure some of the schools we had to actually hire some of our coaching staff to fill in the gaps which worked great as well um uh parents and and faculty were very receptive to that plan as well um and that's that's what what I was mentioning with some of
the cost cut cutting measures in the future if needed uh would be to to like consider uh an alternative to a paid liaison position possibly you know we can encourage and they see the value of this program and we can encourage them to partake in it as more of a
voluntarily V voluntary role or um maybe a slightly less Fe but we'll we'll determine that as as funding presents itself in the future so one more question do the students just play each other in their own school buildings or
are we having competition between schools every school has a third fourth and fifth grade boys team and then we combined a JV and varsity team for all the girls teams um there is four divisions within the district the the
tractor division includes uh Unice Oakman McDonald's Becker Lori and Maples the Legacy division is what we named it includes Henry Ford William Ford Miller gear and Salena there's the uh Thunderbird division snow
um don't tell me Whitmore Deval Nan and uh and long and then the Pioneer division the heg Howard Lindberg River Oaks and uh that was it yeah okay so 19 schools participated they all kind of
the that group that feeder group plays each other 100% yeah they play each other Pioneer plays each other other Thunder but then they meet the semal about them having to be taken across District or anything like that which may have been part of the issue with kids participating at
hype not having we were worried about that um and we actually have for the girls we have um games being held every Friday we select two teams one from East one from west to play against each other and they're held at hype those are like the signature Week Games per week and we
have 100% parti IP ation as a matter of fact as uh many who could attest to it the parental participation in this activity is beyond our expectation beyond our expectation I mean it's a full on a screen yeah well they're not on the street anymore it's better than a
screen that's why I'm saying yeah appreciate it thank you Ali I've known you for a long time and it's just a comment I want to commend you on the amazing program or on hype as a whole I remember when you
first started doing three Onre basketball tournament and from where it started to where it's not you guys you and your team have done an amazing job and I appreciate the fact that you're giving back to the schools you're at the schools now because sometimes it's difficult to get to Hype for some
parents but doing at the local schools you know Sal on other schools is amazing and like I said I commend you and your team for doing an amazing job and giving back to the community thank you thank you thank you trusty what I was just going to ask if you could share the schedule with the
school board so we yeah yeah yeah well it's one email we'll send it okay thank you you have to come to a game it's Pierce I I've attended the game and it's it's crazy the parents their excitement it was just amazing What what schools did you watch
air Park okay yeah uh trust yeah I just want people who are watching in the world and in the audience to know that this doesn't really happen in a lot of other places Dearborn is an amazingly special place where this kind of stuff happens and so I just want to say I love you all I'm proud of you all and my
question is can I play yeah okay yeah I got you for sure says no okay all cool all right yeah don't make promises Ali no we'll make an exception we'll make an exception thank you so much Ali thank
you so much Mah and I leave these trusty amen too thank you picture uh picture fromo and whomever from the touches would like to take a picture with them you're not getting in the picture I want be go ahead I'll wait for you guys to
move how are you man how are you yes no M KNE oh that's after the board he will appear tomorrow thank you you can [Applause]
thank you sure it's pretty cool huh to David's point yesterday uh we held um 80th birthday party for my father and my family was like oh no Glenn will have that up before the pictures before we leave they were up
before half the halftime show yesterday so um I also just want to mention that yeah I was I went to dval to see the competition between schools and when I was a teacher back in the late '90s early 2000 at Salena I would have loved to have been able to do this for our
student so it's just a very positive thing to be able to compete in her school as you mentioned trusty pelov so thank you to them I will move along then Mr President go ahead I next have um my favorite thing my favorite group in the district uh I have a lot of favorites
but this is the one that I really take pride in are super um the superintendent student advisory Council and they're here for a report with Dr Sweden who does a great job uh leading the way they do a lot of great things and they're going to report on some of that so I'm going to ask Micah bisan Miriam and
maraki to come up and uh provide a presentation and I know you've seen them before hello board members we are part of the superintendent student advisory Council and we're here today to talk about our initiatives for
MLK I am Micah Mitchell I am currently a senior at Henry Ford Early College my name is bisan Alan I'm a current senior at deor high school my name is Mariam aler I'm a current Junior at deor high
school and my name is moroi tasin I'm a current 11th grader at Dearborn High School okay so uh every year ssac tries to do something for Martin Luther King Jr day he was big on community service and we wanted to embody that by doing something
for our community every year so this year we volunteered at local food pantries and we raised money for humanitarian Aid in the Middle East and we are going to middle schools to teach them about Mental Health
um so this year we participated in the initiative in Zaman where we got to help the Metro Detroit with initiatives we got to organize cans we got to learn about like their thrifting store that people can go through and um our team
helped out and organized the supplies in the pantry to help the cause Okay so one of our our big initiatives this year is to raise awareness about the issue of bullying vaping and mental health in general um so we are actually I talked about this at the last board meeting I believe so
we are going to be visiting numerous middle schools and talking and presenting giving them presentations and interactive games during the month of Ramadan about bullying mental health faping and the issues about surrounding these uh topics and we plan to not only
present them and give them the information but also interact with them and make it a really engaging lesson and we plan to do it during Ramadan because we know a majority of the middle schools are going to be fasting so we plan to do this as a way to not only like distract them but to keep them entertained as
well as giving them an informational lesson about these ement issues in our district um so we're going to be doing so many fun games and hopefully it'll really raise awareness about the issue to them and a really interactive and fun way that'll resonate with them
um so as you guys all know the ssac meets on a monthly basis and tomorrow is actually our monthly meeting for the month of February and this is a new um initiative that Dr sedan brought up this year so I'd like to thank her for that um tomorrow as an extension of our
regularly scheduled meeting um all of the ssac members will be participating in a safe talk suicide training which this is something new that Dr swedan BR brought up it's a training that'll be facilitated by um training members from the University of Michigan eburg Center
for Family depression and the main goal is to utilize um interactive open discussions and video presentations um to allow us students to be able to connect with students who might be feeling suicidal suffering from depression and to be able to safely
conect connect them with the many staff members in our district um that will be able to provide them support and so this is really important because the Sac kind of serves as that link between students and staff a lot of um students in our district who might not be comfortable
seeking help um this training will really allow us to become more receptive to that and more aware and open so that way we can connect those students with the right resources in the district and with all of these initiatives I wanted to give a quick shout out to someone who has been a big
help to all ofice her name is Miss Norma harb she is very invested in fostering leadership and all of us she's very passionate and she has a lot of connections that will help us find the best organizations to donate to and she has just been a great help with all of
this so I wanted to give a quick shout out to her questions for the students JY petkov well it's not really a question it's an observation we just had a moment of silence for a young man who lost his life again in another tragic auto
accident and we've continued the mayor was here at last month's meeting um we continue to talk and talk and talk ad nauseum uh but our talking isn't making an impression um I know in the past
we've tried to utilize student members to um have that safe driving kind of conversation in the school buildings are we going to try to continue um besides bullying and vaping and everything else
I think we really need to um try to brainstorm for how we can really finally reach the parents and students who just are seemingly not understanding the dangers and tragedies that um these
occurrences are causing to our community okay so this was actually a topic I'm glad that you mentioned it because I was talking about it with a teacher at school today and she was telling me that how as part of the superintendent that we should be talking
about more about the issue of driving in Dearborn in general especially in among the high schoolers cuz I know a lot of our high schoolers especially in newbor high um they tend to buy the parents tend to buy their kids really really nice cars and they don't tend to like tell their kids like yeah watch out they
say those things they don't say there's the there's these dangers that can be caused by this car there's it has such a strong engine power like you should be careful you should do this you should do that it's not emphasized enough until an accident happens and then everyone starts posting on their stories and then there's like a period where there isn't
anything happening but then it starts all over again and then another accident happens so there definitely something that we can incorporate in our presentations and we do plan on addressing that issue hopefully in the future um and I'm glad that you mentioned it because it's definitely a really prominent issue in our district
and it's been happening for years now um and I do believe action should be taken towards it so that's definitely something we'll think about incorporating in our presentations the more voices we bring the more attention we bring hopefully the more Behavior will change yeah 100% thank
you I wanted to ask the seniors on their future plans so Micah and bisan what are your future plans hi so um with the program I'm in I'm a senior but there's an extra year on top of that where we mostly just take
college classes but I plan on majoring in sociology um becoming a professor and uh getting grants to do research um in order to uh advocate for Public Policy you're already on that route so
greatan um so after I graduate from deborn high I'll be attending Columbia University this fall I plan to study biochemistry and concentrate in public health on the Premed track and my goal is to eventually become a phys physician but then also um advocate for public health policy work so to serve our
underprivileged uh communities thank you ban and thank you to all of you for what you do representing your fellow students with Dr Malo thank you thank you great job I'll move along uh it's black
history month and what B better way to uh celebrate the contribution black Americans in the United States but with the MLK and the students doing these service projects so we also send and have lessons in the schools and just wanted to recognize black Americans across the country for their
contributions over many years the next thing I have is positive news uh we came out of finance committee today and Mr wall runs those committee meetings with the chair and the other board uh members and once again seven
years the meritorious budget award it's a rigorous award uh we have the plaque right here um if we can give him and his department and the board a great Round of Applause really um this is a this is a big deal it's about transparency and not a lot of
districts get this it's from the association of school business officials International um so congratulations Tom on the award and like I said the board's involved with this the entire cabinet and we have five more spots you need to
fill the next that I thing that I want to mention is we've talked here and we had David and Tom talk last month and we're going to have it on every agenda president uh mosip and I have discussed this you know we're talking about a potential Bond we know we're in a situation and I can say this is now my 29th year in the district that
infrastructure is a great need in this District probably one of the top priorities long term I've been talking at every event um with chatting events recently with staff and and and parents and whatnot and we've had this topic going for a long time as Mr wall and Mr
in discussed we also have two rfps that are going out um uh the one on infrastructure historical review they're meeting with principles right now uh that was approved by the board last month we're not yet on the one with the communication but that will be coming where we look at the data and
information uh to potentially go for a bond now here's the thing we say potentially November 25 maybe in 26 and the reason is because we don't want to rush it we want to make sure we're ready but to let the public and the board know that by law we would have to have a
ballot uh proposal for a potential Bond um approved by August 12th that's the deadline so if we were to do it this year for November we would have to Target um July the July board meeting or a special meeting if we choose again it's still potential we still have a lot
of work to do and the board would Al ultimately have to make that final decision based on Administration recommendations after we go to the community but we want to keep it out there um we do see the needs as we have aging infrastructure across the district and the last thing that I do I
did want to mention as kind of an other uh I got invited to uh a game on uh I know trusty aljami was there and trusty uh dambrosio um they invited me to play in a charity basketball game I haven't played basketball in many years uh but I said it's oh trusty president mosip was
there I got a picture with his kids um but I said it's for a good cause all right I said I'd do it it was for uh fundraising in Lebanon Palestine and Yemen and you know my wife said your objective is just not to get hurt by the end of the game it was a very long game
but I do play hockey so they said you'll be fine I didn't score but I was good on the boards and defense is what they told me I played with the mayor the chief and others and Mr Omar crsd and many others but it was really a wonderful Community event and I will say that game went
longer than an NBA game I don't know those of you were there it was a long event but they had a lot of positive things for the community so and Dearborn won yeah and debor one I forgot to mention that yeah not that we're competitive or anything but so this is an annual event seems like now it's the
fourth annual Dearborn versus hamic and the Dearborn ju so the record is 3-1 right now okay and that's all I have Mr President thank you superintendent moo next item please the next item is recognition and
acknowledgements we'll be starting with commendations good evening my name is gallana meles I am a senior at Henry Ford early college and this is hi again I'm Mitchell also a senior at Henny for Early College I will first
open with the district com commendations commendations to the adult education staff for achieving a record-breaking enrollment of more than 2,0 students this year the enrollment process for each student takes more than two hours
including a comprehensive assessment the staff dedicated numerous evenings to facilitate the registration of students for GED and ESL classes next is the high school recommendations to Donna Smith an etel
forward par professional for quickly responding to a student who had passed out in the hall Miss Smith quickly made sure that the student was okay and followed up with all necessary procedures we thank her for her concern care and as well as her
leadership commendations to the etel Ford principal advisory and peer-to-peer students who hosted Unity week January 13th to January 17th Unity week brought awareness that even though we may have different outlooks on life we all Stand
United showing respect concern and compassion the week was filled with various activities for students to engage in kudos to the etel students for taking on this initiative commendations as well to Y me Barry Margarita Chavis
and zanab serini for supporting the students in this initiative commendations to the dear Warren unified bigger skating team to to three District students selected to compete internationally the team is not
technically part of the district but still includes a number of District students Dearborne unified won everyone of its District meets this year and the C team was runner up in that division both teams qualified to compete at the
state championship in March students Jillian furo from Dearborn High and Olivia mackid and Molly Holland from etel Ford were named to Team USA by the US figure skating governing body these skaters will compete in the
junior division at the hias cup competition in gash Poland this week and the US figure skating Nationals in Colorado Springs at the end of February for a chance to qualify for the World Championships
our final accommodations go to the following seniors who were awarded a $1,000 scholarship through the my potential mentoring program that is facilitated by Miss Kathy khil through the Dearborn rotary the students are
Nora Duram and Fatima Bazi from Fortson and Jenna dalala from Dearborn High thank you for the middle School Commendation to the basketball coaches Kevin barov at Bryant and Yousef Nasser at Woodworth
both men their teams and even the spectators received a glowing report from from the mhsaa refs officiating The District Tournament game in January the officials praised the coaches and teams for their passion and sportsmanship both coaches and players
should be commended for their efforts and commitment to the sports of basketball the officials wrote Woodworth ended up winning their hardfought game 34-33 commendations to the district's Middle School musicians who performed at the msboa district Solo in Ensemble
Festival in February from low students earning a two for very good performance were a hammud for a flute solo and talah habala aah harb Yara aloi and Zara yaser for woodwind quartet earning a one for
excellent performance ments were ran Alami Hala osri for a viola duet Leanne alil Maya feris for trumpet duet Ahmed habala Hussein azadine Hassan Mala Ahmed
materic and Ali materic for brast gentet and Hussein ezdine for trumpet solo and Ahmed mat for trombone solo for stem Middle School earning a two were Olivia Linderman Miriam AB ABD
Haw Max orio Mia tenic myel Ali and yasmina aloi earning a one were Tim Bloom Alex dwey David Lua Carson post and Alex brookley for elementary commendations to
the district media Specialists barad nef and his wife who repaired the free little Library outside of William Ford Elementary School lower elementary students can use the library to now take a free book or leave one that they want others to
enjoy all right thank you next item next we have approval of minutes uh no we still have employee oh sorry sorry sorry uh next we have employee recognition good evening president mosip Dr moo um I'm filling in for Mesa Ali bazzi today
uh very blessed to get to do this actually um I see Don shuid is here so I'm going to talk a little bit about the three winners this this month uh of the district nomination I believe you've probably seen him on the district website as well as Dr Mel's Instagram um
the very first employee the great Don shuid who's standing next to me she's a Early Childhood special education teacher uh she's been in the district for over 35 years now has AB absolutely touched so many lives um and made this place just a better place all the way around uh she was nominated for her
dedication to her students so uh great job Miss Don shuid I'm not sure if you have anything to say or I just like to um thank my colleague for you know the opportunity to you know stand up here and accept this um I've been here 35 years 34 years with ecsc in the same
classroom so I've touched um many lies as students and I've met wonderful families so thank you truly appreciate your service thank you thank you Don uh for the non-instructional employees we have our great locksmith Mr Dennis Burkholder uh Mr Burkholder has been in
the district for over 27 years now he was nominated for doing a great job uh Dennis works with the operations team and the entire District congratulations I want to say thank you and I appreciate this and I'm honored to have this award thank you thank you for
your service and our administrator recognized this month was Mr uh Joseph Martin Mr Joe Martin over at River Oaks Elementary uh Mr Martin's been in the district for over 13 years now uh he was nominated for showing appreciation for his staff during difficult times he always makes
sure that the staff are is okay and then problem solved so thank you Mr Martin thank you everyone thank you for the opportunity and I share it with my staff they make me better each day by their collaborative and working hard and focusing on student learning thank you thank you
thank you and congratulations they're very well [Applause] deserved next we have acknowledgement of donations good evening president MIP and
the board we have eight donations I'll share with you today a donation of $1600 has been offered to slanta Intermediate School by the Dearborn Education Foundation to be used for phonics books number two is a donation of $275 has been offered to mall Unis school by the
Dearborn Education Foundation to be used for making books accessible for a library project number three a donation of $240 has been offered to maala elementary school by the Dearborn Education Foundation to be used for Bingle for books number four donation of
pallet construction paper and markers have been offered to cter school by wiek yusf to be used for the gsrp classrooms a donation of $650 has been offered toal Elementary School by Fred Bellow to be used for items in our new sensory room
number six a donation of a couch love seat and love seat has been offered to force in high school by Detroit Furniture to be used by students with physical needs to create an environment that Fosters concentration reduces anxiety and supports the students's ability to engage with learning number
seven a donation of 103 handmade blankets and hats has been offered to house school by DW Pro Michigan to be used for each student to keep them warm during transition and floortime activities and lastly number eight donation of a full-size refrigerator has
been offered to house school by new hammud and Ima massan to be used to support the postsecondary programs with cooking and life Skol activities thank you thank you Mr wall we definitely thank those partners and private citizens who have donated to our
district next item please next item is the approval of minutes is the approval of minutes of the following deer Board of Education meetings special meeting um that was a closed meeting on January 13 2025 board report
24-85 the organizational meeting on January 13 2025 board report 24- 86 and the regular P to2 meeting January 13 2025 board report 24-87 we are looking for anyone to make any necessary Corrections and move
approval of these minutes so move support Second motion made by trusty diio can I have trusty oji support that I'll let Mr thank you you can have that any
corrections or questions I do have a correction small one um just the last name of Mayor hammud was not spelled correctly on page 12 any other questions or
Corrections all right May attach a unanimous role to this in the affirmative thank you please attach please attach an and Miss Ro in this in the affirmative for this motion