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A long intro. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the school district of the city of Dearbornne regular meeting Monday August 18th 2025 7:09. We appreciate your patience. We were late in previous
meeting. I call this meeting to order. Did we miss the gavl today? We did. So here we go. Uh Trusty Alah here. Trusty Barry here. Trusty Drosio here. Trusty Pelichkov
here. Trustee Zaher here. President Mos here. Thank you. The next item is the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Uh, as you may have heard um in the news since the school district has released a press release, trustee Irene Watts has
submitted her resignation from the board of trustees effective August 11th uh due to her uh moving out of the district. We truly thank her for her service. we will truly miss it on this board. And uh
the state law says that we do have to fill this vacancy within 30 calendar days and we have started that process already uh with a press release of announcing that the board of trustees will be accepting applications and that
deadline will be August 25th at 400 pm. Um you may visit the school's website to learn more about the opportunity if you are an elector in in Dearbornne and also
you may submit your application either online there's a link online on dearbornschools.org or you could submit your application, your your resume, your three references um and the letter of interest to the
office here at Tanite Building. Uh we will truly miss uh Trustee Watts on on the board. Uh Trusty Barry. Yes. Uh yeah, I'm also thankful for for Irene Watts, former trustee. She did a wonderful job. Uh she just like we uh we
miss certain for board members for what they excelled in, she excelled in policy. She kept us in line a lot of times. Uh President Mos want to make a statement. Uh this might not be a surprise to most of my colleagues. I've spoke to them before. But uh the process
that we have is not a fun process to replace. Uh it didn't serve us too well. I've always advocated to change it. There was no support for that. So, uh, out of respect for this board, uh, I was
planning to resign probably soon. Uh, but I think it would be at at this point it would be a good idea since the process already started. You have one interview and nom, you know, I'd end up, uh, putting together adding two more additions. So, as of midnight tonight, I
will send you a formal resignation of the school board, Tierville School Board and the Henry Ford Board of Trustees. Well, thank you for that, Trusty Barry. That was surprising, but I' i've talked to some of my colleagues. I mean, I've hinted that obviously you
know what I'm doing next year and absolutely. But I didn't want to wait to go through this process. It will be an ugly process. I mean, we lived it. Okay. And then have have you go through it again two, three months from now. So,
but I will send you an email with a formal resignation. Thank you, Trusty Barry. Any other commentary? Thank you. No. Next item, please. Next item is Next item is a superintendent update.
Good evening, everyone. Uh just want to welcome everyone back. We officially start next Monday with a half day of school. Plans have been well underway getting ready for the start of the school year with the students. I know they're very excited. Uh our teams have been meeting. there's a lot of professional development going on and uh
so you know the first day of school is my second favorite time of the year. My favorite is graduation but the first day to see uh the excitement you know some of the anxiety on parents and on uh uh students but to support them through that and so uh we're really excited to
get the buildings open and have them back and our entire team has been working very hard. I'm going to go along down the um list here. have uh Miss Shaheen, the new executive director of student achievement. I'm going to call her up. She wasn't able to make it last month uh because of uh uh death in the
family and our thoughts and prayers were with her at that time and they still are. And we'll let her come up and say a few words to the board. She was approved last month. Congratulations. Thank you. Good evening. I I just wanted to say thank you so much for the honor and privilege to return home to Deerville Public Schools. I'm a proud
product of Woodworth K8 and Forzen go tractors. Um, this has been my first official week. I started last week on Wednesday officially and the very first day I was before uh middle school and high school administrators and
interventional coaches. And I have to tell you the experience that I had being that it was my very first day. I had first a day jitters. Looking out into that crowd, the support, the kindness, the love, the the um response they gave
me was so powerful. I felt so welcomed and it was just truly heartwarming and that's just indicative of Jon public school staff, a whole slew of professionals, and I get the great privilege of working with this amazing team. So, thank you for the honor and the privilege. I'm so excited to be back
home. Congratulations. Congratulations. I'll just go along. Uh I also want to mention retirement. I normally do at the beginning and uh Margaret Earl uh 25 years of service. Uh thank her for for her years of service and cong let's
congratulate her on her retirement as well. [Applause] Teacher professional development starts uh two days from today. Uh we've got a lot going on this week and I know we also got the welcome back picnic coming
up on Thursday if any board trustees want to. It's back at the Henry Ford uh excuse me, Ford Field. Um it used to be I know at Dearborn High, but we've moved it. But we have a whole array of professional developments and meetings that are going on all week uh as we're
providing support for uh for our our stu our teachers to provide support for our students. So we're excited to welcome our teachers back as well. wanted to mention um something on the state and federal funding. Um you know, we heard the positive last month with the release
of the title 2, three, and four. Uh I know this board passed a resolution. We still do not have a state budget. Uh through the meetings I've been in, uh I'm hearing the word potential shutdown is is some of the the word what I'm hearing. Uh you know, it does not help
school districts, dear one, schools, all districts. Our associations have come out strongly. I know the Michigan Department of Education and others saying we need a budget. Um, you know, we we appreciate the work of our legislators that work in Dearbornne and and they're very supportive, but on a state level, it makes it very difficult
for school districts uh not knowing the funding sources that are coming and the uncertainty. Uh I haven't seen this in quite a while and so we're hoping that the state uh is able to pass a budget and uh you know, we'll have plans in place. We always do. uh we're fiscally
responsible under the leadership of Mr. Wall with you the board. Uh but right now it's not a good situation at the state level and again appreciate the support of the board. We do not want to see money a billion dollars diverted out of the school aid fund for roads or any other thing and so um we believe that
money is there for the students and uh so we'll keep keep you apprised but right now it's it's at a standstill up there in Lancing. uh wanted to mention potential bond. Uh our groups have been meeting our one-on-one meetings uh with Byron Fisk are almost complete and then
I know surveying and other aspects of involvement with the community. I know that David Mustin said that this consulting group said we had a very intensive plan to make sure we're really out there listening to the community. We know we need it, but we also know we need to gather support and get the input of the community. So, there is more to
come. I know as um you know we return in the fall, we don't want to do a lot in the summer because people aren't around. We want to make sure we engage the community. So, there is more to come on that end as well. I do have a few others that I wanted to mention. Uh I know I talked to President Mos in um the
tribute for Mr. Bun. I believe we're looking at next month. I think there were some compromises and some uh you know ultimately be up to the board, but we're looking at next month for that. I wanted to mention as well um uh Irene
Watts and Trusty Barry. Well, it's been uh was it a it's been a pleasure working with you over many many years in different capacities and the same with Irene Watts. I want to thank her for her dedication and um I know uh you know we're in it for the students and so we appreciate your service to the students
of the Durham public schools. And then I do want to mention for me I I know I put out a letter tomorrow morning I do have an interview uh for state superintendent. and I'm one of seven candidates. I appreciate the support of the board. I love working in Dearbornne. I'm going on 30 years here. Uh Dearorn
will always be a part of me. Uh if I am fortunate enough to uh achieve this position or get to the next round or or work together uh with the board uh with the state board, I will continue to work hard for Dearborn schools and Dearborn students. Um but I'm um you know, it's
something I needed to try. I'm dedicated to Dearbornne. I'm not looking to go anywhere else. Um, and I love working here in this district. So, I want to thank the board. I want to thank the I had an outpouring of support from the community and messaging when I I did uh announce that application. And so, I
just want to thank the entire Dearborn community uh for getting behind me with that. And uh so, you know, we're in it for the students and to advocate and uh I've been doing that on a state and national level for Dearborn students, for Michigan students. And if I get that job, we'll continue to do so. So, thank
you so much. And that's all I have. Thank you, Dr. Maliko. We truly appreciate your service as well and we wish you uh well in your interview. Next item, please. Next item is recognition and
acknowledgement. Then we have acknowledgement. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Acknowledgement of donations. Yeah. Mr. Roer, are you doing acknowledgement donations? Thank you. Good evening everybody. Good evening.
Just one donation today. A donation of fresh fresh fruits, vegetables, goodie bags, and canned goods has been offered to Long Elementary School by Eternal Light to be given to students and families at Long Elementary School. Thank you.
Thank the donor for their generous donations. Next item, please. Next item is approval of minutes. Approval of minutes of the following Durborn Board of Education meetings. Finance committee meeting July 28th, 2025. Board report 25-13.
Building and site committee meeting July 28th, 2025 board report 25-14. And the regular P to2 meeting July 28, 2025 board report 25-15. I'm looking for someone to make any necessary corrections and move approval
of these minutes. So moved. Uh moved by Trusty Barry, supported by Trusty Damio. Any corrections uh to the minutes? Thank you. Uh seeing none, attach a
unanimous role to this motion, please. Motion is carried. Thank you. Next item, please. Next item is union leadership commentary. It looks like none of them are here. Perfect. We can go to the next item. Next item is special reports summer
school update by Miss Mesa Ali Bezi uh initiative and uh super close to my heart and you'll see why. Huge gigantic thank you to the Balmer Group and United Way. Uh we received a grant. I applied and we received a grant for nearly $8
million. This is our second summer in a row receiving this grant. Um I guess I'm going to do this. Okay, here we go. So, it's funded by the Balmer Group and um
United Way. So, in 2024, we had 3600 students enrolled near about $7.1 million. And in 2025, we had 4,000 students enrollled and just about $8 million. and we are 99% oh about 90%
sure we'll have the grant for a third year and we're aiming for the stars with our enrollment um summer discovery some of the grant requirements is that um include that it has to be an eight hour a day program um 20 to 25 days of instruction in 24 we
had 25 days and in 20 this last summer we had 24 days it must include 90 minutes of literacy and 90 minutes of math has to have teachers certif certified in ELA, English language arts and math, teaching the core areas. And
uh the enrichment has to be fun, engaging, and exciting. And that's why the grant provides so much funding. Um enrichment, parent family engagement. All of our 18 sites where we held summer discovery had two parent engagement, family engagement events. And it's
required to have a student pre and post survey and a pre and post assessment. And as much as we don't want to assess students anymore than we already do, it's a brief 10 to 12 question assessment which is required by the grant. What was new for 2025?
Our rising ninth grade students. So that's our the kids that were in eighth grade last year and starting ninth grade this year attended a five-hour program which was approved by the grant and they earned high school credit. So before they even officially start high school, they've now had the opportunity to earn
high school credit. Um the sixth graders, the rising sixth graders, so all the kids that were in fifth grade were had the opportunity to begin their transition to middle school earlier and and attend the middle school in most cases the middle school that they'll be attending this fall. So for example, the
students attending Bryant um came that attended Bryant this summer are the incoming sixth graders from Howard Hey, Lindberg and some of our roses for example. That's how we we organized it. So they have a jump start on their transition to middle school. Last year
we did not adopt a curriculum. We extended the regular school year curriculum, but this year we did adopt a curriculum. Um, and last year we had for all the grades, um, kindergarten through 8th grade. And last year we had the lit
lab curriculum only for first and second graders, rising K through rising second. And this year we had a adopted a curriculum for all the grades except for the rising ninth because they followed the high school credit uh, courses. So those are all the new things. Oh, and
most importantly, we added field trips. Some pictures you'll see here. We had the Exotic Zoo, Z the Cook, uh we had the Nutty Scientist, uh Kona Ice, the Laughing Factory Assembly, Hype Athletics.
We also had I'm going faster than my slides. We discussed the curriculum. Lit labia is the name of the curriculum. Teachers receive professional development on that curriculum as well. and the ninth grade for credit courses.
Some more pictures. You'll see we have cardio drumming here. Art was a huge hit. Music was a huge hit. And the buildings that didn't have a full-time music person had um about four different teachers that were rotating from buildings to buildings doing the cardio drumming. You'll see in the one picture
on the upper left. Um PE, gardening, steam. We had um one DBKI teacher, Miss Meyer. Shout out to Liz Meyer. She is one of our many many stars. She was rotating buildings providing the deadbecky
lesson, spending a week with each group of students. We had a theater. We have theater offered in some programs. I went to a play at McCulla Ununice. Um, and then we even had a board game room because these days kids don't know how to play board games and it actually
is a great skill for kids to have and so this gave them an opportunity to enjoy that as well. Some of the field trips included the Detroit Riverboat cruise and I will say by the end of the summer the riverboat cruise was no longer working. So
So we we uh pushed it to the end of its life and hopefully they'll have a new boat next year. We had the Zap Zone, Revved Up, Detroit Institute of Arts, Blakes's Orchard, High Velocity, Turtle Cove, and you'll see some pictures here.
That's the river boat. Looks like Turtle Cove and either revved up or high velocity or Zap Zone. In that other picture, we're going to have some data really soon, and when I have the data, I'll provide it to the board via board briefs or board requests for information. But
what I can tell you without any data is that 4,000 kids were actively engaged in academic and social activities. 4,000 kids were not sitting on the couch playing with technology. 4,000 kids experience something new this summer.
And 4,000 kids were engaged in positive interactions with safe and inspiring adults. Few more pictures. A very special thank you to all of uh the Dearborn team, the teachers. We had 250 teachers. We had um I don't have the
number, but we had quite a few non-instructional staff. Our transportation department was amazing. Our clerical staff pulled through. Um our communications department, we'll have a video for you next month. Um our payroll department and our HR department. It was Oh, and of course, um
uh technology. It was truly all hands on deck. Many districts do not want the funding because of the work that comes with it, but our team embraces every opportunity no matter how much work is involved. And that is why we are able to do what we do. Any questions?
Trustee, of course. Am I supposed to call on you? I'm sorry. I'm not supposed to. President Mosab said that I got in teacher mode. Sorry. I I waited. Okay. Um a a quick question because I need a refresher on this. Um
are all all the elementary schools are not participating? It they are all eligible but if a building had less than a 100red enrollments then I combined them with other buildings because it's a lot more fun that way. Well, my question would be like I have a
neighborhood um student who already has struggled with some absenteeism because he doesn't have his parents are not comfortable with him walking to the local elementary school on his own and he was relying upon some other family
friends to drive him there and when they didn't show up he would just be at home playing out in the yard and whatever. I finally asked him, I said, "Why are you not in school?" Um, I he could have really uh benefited, I suspect, from having his day occupied,
not sitting on the couch kind of activity, but wouldn't have had transportation, especially if the school building wasn't the one he would have been assigned to, right, if especially if it was further away. Did we have transportation for students
out of their neighborhood school? We did. We had transportation. Well, everyone had to stick within their home schools. So, they're within the boundaries of the schools that they normally go to. So, we stayed with that structure. And then we had transportation. So, if a student is eligible for transportation during the regular school year, then they were
eligible for transportation during the summer discovery program. And then if I um for example, Smith did not host a program because they had the lower enrollment. But if I attended Smith, then I would and if I take a bus to Smith, then I would get a bus ride to
Smith, pick up the Smith kids that walk to Smith, and then take them over to Stout. So, there was some complex transportation organized. Okay. Was that communicated to I'm not sure whether my local elementary school participated or not to begin with. Yeah.
So, and I'm not going to call anybody out. Yeah. But if they did not, was it communicated to the families that there was still an opportunity for them to participate at the next the next school in the area that was hosting?
Oh, absolutely. So, every school sent out every one of our schools sent out um registration forms that had all that information on it. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, absolutely. But if ever, please feel free to contact me and I'll call the everybody takes advantage because these
opportunities might be not so plentiful in the future. So, um I would like to see every child have that advantage of occupying their summer uh with something fruitful and not absolutely boring. Absolutely. And we continued
enrolling um a week into the program. Any other questions? No, we'll look forward to the data. So, uh, great job. Yeah, summer program was amazing. We saw Thank you very much. Shared on social media. Great job.
Thank you. Okay. Uh, next item, please. Next item is citizen participation. Citizens wishing to address the board on agenda and non-aggenda items for actions who are signed in by 7:10 or 10 minutes after we start by submitting a blue card to the board secretary may speak at this
time. The board may not be in a position to respond to non-aggenda items. Therefore, speaker should not anticipate an immediate response to their comments or questions. For the benefit of all concerned, do not mention the names of students or school district employees. Please keep your comments as brief as possible. There is a threeminute time
limit on comments made to the board. And we have two cards. Uh, Chair Mos, President Mos, the first one is, sorry if I say this wrong, Scott Salowski. Did I say it right? Zalowski. Zalowski. Sorry, man.
Zalkowski, you can. Sir Zowski, you can come forward. Scott Zhalowski. Zalowski. The S is silent. Thank you. Uh, good evening. I was just, uh, wanting an update if there is one on the athletic trainer situation.
Athletic trainer situation. Yeah, for sure. Uh, because we're at the 11th hour now. All fall seasons are starting. You know, we have boys, girls, all three levels, hundreds of athletes that are depending on these people. Yeah, I I am very certain that the
administration has been working hard to to work on the athletic trainer situation. Dr. Maliko does have an update. I just want to mention that this wasn't definitely the district's fault. This was Henry Ford systems unfortunately back now out of the the
contract and uh we had like other districts also scramble for resources. So, Dr. Malik, where are we with athletic trainers? Yeah, Miss Miss Ellie Bazzy can actually come. How are you? Good. How are you? Good to see you. I thought that was you. We were on a we were on an interview committee together.
So, I am I'm excited to say and thankful to say that we have hired one athletic trainer. One athletic trainer is not enough for our three high school needs. Correct. Um I'm in the process of getting a contract with Plymouth Physical Therapist. That's what they do is they
you contract their athletic trainers. Um the plan is to um contract them for at least six weeks just to give me time to get two more one or two more positions. Um I'm waiting on confirmation of funding for at least a second athletic
trainer with the potential of enough funding for a third trainer. But that's just going to take time. Our other challenge, and you can let me know if you have anyone in mind, is that it's very difficult to find people that have the athletic trainer certification. Um, and so I have to be very careful because
the company that I'm going to be contracting the physical the athletic trainers from, Plymouth Physical Therapy, that's what it's called. Um, if they find if if we find someone that we like, we can't just hire them because that's stealing their employee and those employees have contracts with that
company. Um, so we are actively Oh, I've also messaged in the short immediately when we knew this was going to be a challenge. um all the physical therapists that we employ to see if anyone would be willing to work for extra pay to help us get through this
this period. But it is uh urgent. It's on our radar and we take it serious. Um that that's great to hear. But the thing that worries me with only one athletic trainer is, you know, I think it's two dates, September 5th and then October 27th, all three high schools play at the same time. Uh and that's
just football. That's including all these other sports. How are I don't I don't know how they're going to be. We do have a plan to um our Danielle Alat, our um health and safety director. She plans on reaching out to the local EMS to see if we could have an EMS present
on site for those days when there's an overlap and we haven't sorted things out yet. Okay. Just to keep them on site. So, that will probably cost us, but it's well worth the investment. We're happy to do so. Um, so we're hoping that I haven't confirmed that, but I will keep you I
will keep you and everyone in the board uh posted. Okay. I go I just want to say one thing. Uh I go to every practice I watch my son play. Last year uh a young man would have died if it wasn't for the efforts of an athletic trainer and a coach who
happened to be a a police officer. Yeah. Uh he had a he got hit in the chest. They they brought him back to life. I mean it's it's beyond urgent that this has to happen. Thank you. Thank you for everything. Thank you. We do recognize that the importance of having athletic
trainers. So, uh, Trusty Zar, so just to make it clear to Mr. Zalcowski, am I saying it right now? Okay. just to make it clear to him, you the the administration is committing to whether it's through contractors or EM
whatever you're committing to make sure that there's adequate athletic trainers at all of our events. Yeah, we have plans for the game. Um regardless, there's definitely going to be medical staff on hand during the games. Okay. Okay. Next speaker.
Next speaker is Nicole Elraia. Rabia Rabia Arabia Elabia Rabia Okay. Sorry. Nicole Elra Rabia. Fine. How are you? I'm actually here to piggy back on what Scott mentioned about the mic. Yeah. Sorry. Uh I'm not very well with public
speaking. So, excuse me. Um my son actually passed out Friday at practice. Um don't even know he passed out until the coach turn around and I saw him on the floor. Hit his head pretty good. Thankfully went to the ER. He was fine. But in that circumstance, if Kelly or another athletic trainer would have been
there, he would have been tended to. Mhm. He would have been sat up, given hydration, checked to see if he had concussion, whatever the case may be. The coaches had to leave the other children. So now, everybody's focused on my son where they should be focused on what they're doing and not and not
concerned with an emergency. Thankfully, it was an emergency. He was severely dehydrated. He's fine. But what Scott said about athletic trainer being so important at the games is is beyond what I can say. My son's been hurt multiple times at football. Our previous athletic trainer, Kelly, did so much for my son.
Always had him taped, always had him wrapped. The kids were always able to go to her, speak to her. She communicated very well with the parents. I cannot impress upon you how important it is to have somebody there for our children cuz God forbid something bad happens to them and we could have prevented it.
Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Um, no, no more speakers. So, the next item is board followers. I know from last meeting we did have many uh presidents address us on the
dedication for Haj uh Dus Bun and we appreciate the work that has been done behind the scenes to reach a consensus. I want to name Mr. Jiad Bedun for um his work in in getting us to a good
recommendation uh coming to the board in September. Any other followup from other trustees? Okay, next item, please. Next item is action items. Special consideration of an action item. Are there any agenda items on this agenda
which board members or the superintendent wish to discuss and vote on separately? If there are, we'll exclude these from the motion below. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve all of the action items on the agenda with exception of any items which have which will be excluded from this motion by
board member request. Some moved. Support. Motion moved by trustee pets, supported by trusted diamio. Um, I don't hear any exclusions for any
items. So, any any questions on any of the action items? Seeing none, um I I attach a unanimous role to this motion, please. Thank you. Motion carries. Next item,
please. Next item. Summary. Oh, summary. Summary is at the end, right? Okay. So, the summary of the agenda action items. Number one, approval of warrants per board report 25-16. Number two, approval of an award to
Burlington English Incorporated. Number three, approval of an award to Henry Ford College. Number four, approval of change orders. Number five, approval of an award to Amplify per board report 25-17. Number six, approval of an award to
Pearson. Number seven, approval of an award to Apple Stores for Education. Number eight, approval of an award to access. Number nine, approval of an award to agile sports. Numbers 10 through 12, approval of non-instructional and instructional
personnel items for P12. Number 13, approval of financial statement. Number 14, approval of summer school graduates per board report 25-22. Number 15, approval of policy update change per board report 25-23.
And number 16, approval of donations. Joan, I mentioned your name. We're having a side conversation here. They're trying to move quickly to break my record. They're not going to just You're just not going to do that. Don't You're not even close. You already passed it. Okay, next.
Board of Education business. Hey, acknowledgement of correspondence. We have received a lot of correspondents about the athletic trainers and I've responded to nearly all of them. I believe I still have one more to go. Uh but we truly we we we I I do personally
have a high schooler playing football and it's a highly combat sport and we do definitely know the importance of athletic trainers on the field when these games are happening. So um I I can't stress enough that the administration is working hard to get
those athletic trainers hired or contracted um and be available throughout the game. So we do have a game plan for that. Um any other correspondence be acknowledged? No. Next item. What was the record? B. Board member
committee and organization reports. We did have a meeting for the superintendent evaluation before this meeting which will be approved next meeting. Um I do not recall we did have other board committee reports. No.
So we did not have any to to report. Next item please. Oh, trusty debris you. Yeah. I um I was at the Dearborn Education Foundation organizational board meeting last week. Okay. Um and basically they went through, you
know, all the things that they're putting on the board for this year, but I'd like to highlight a few things uh as far as fundraiser fundraisers go. Um, you know, they have their golf, their uh
martyr, their green green tie raffle. The golf is September 22nd. The big shot raffle drawing is at the golf outing. The MA Marty Grow is February 10th, and the green tie date is to be determined,
but it will be going back to Balow's uh this year. Thank you, Trusty Drosio, for that report. Uh, next item, please. Next item is board member superintendent commentary. Trusty Pishaw.
I just wanted to add that Goodfellows will be having their smoke on the grill, which is also a fundraiser um opportunity September 9th or 19th. I look on the Goodfellow's website because
I can't offhand. Um, we usually, uh, see a little more advertisement in the room than we have of late, but they're also tickets are $35. They're very familyfriendly. I think the kids tickets are five. And they have a furnace raffle for $5 if you need a new
furnace and you want to try try your luck. So, I just wanted to give them a shout out as well. Uh, I'm pulling it up now. Just Okay. Thank you. September 13th. Yes. September 13th. 13 4 p.m. September 13th.
Septemberfield 4 to 8:00 p.m. at Fortfield. Yeah. Trusty Bear. Yes. I know the back to school uh picnic for the employees was mentioning for th mentioned earlier on Thursday, but we also this weekend have the back to
school fair that the PTA will be holding. That's Saturday, August 23rd, uh from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Fort Field, the large pavilion. That's the north one. Yeah, they got rained out last year practically. Don't jinx them.
No, it's supposed to be good weather. I promise. Supposed to be good weather. I promised President Nibil that I would be grilling the hamburgers. Yeah. Okay then. But I can't. Sorry, Nabil. I'll be reaching out to you just in case. I got a family wedding. It's all day thing. So that's Saturday at Fort Field 12 to 3.
Great event. Absolutely. Always a great event. Any other correspond? Yeah, I'd like to say that I believe that Trusty Barry just started talking to prolong the meeting so that it's already it's already a done deal now.
Oh, ma'am. But uh no, just to say thank you to Trusty Barry and uh for his service to us, his mentorship to me personally. For sure. Um I'm sorry. No, no, go ahead. Okay. And uh you know, this is um wish you
best of luck. It's obviously sad for all of us, but thank you for everything you did for us. Thank you for sharing that, Trusty. And I also want to say uh Trusty Watts and Trusty Barry because I've served with both of them from the beginning to the end. I guess now I'm the last one
standing. I I re No, I'm not going to I won't put in my resignation. Make it more difficult for you all. But but yes, uh it's been a pleasure working with you all these years. I I I was
working with you before you we were working on the board. Way back in the early 2000s, so we've uh shared a long history. Not going far. We'll be working together hopefully. God willing, we'll be I be representing. I understand. And Trusty Watts, she did
leave. So, we we won't be seeing her around town anymore, but uh it was great. And I hate being the last woman standing here, but uh we'll see how things change. Trusty Aljavi, I do want to thank uh Trusty Barry.
I've known him for a long time and he's been a mentor. Um, you know, me coming into the board. You'll be missed. It was a surprise for me. Um, maybe I saw it coming, but I still um it was a surprise and we're going to miss you. We're going to miss your expertise
and your knowledge, but hopefully we could still call you anytime. So, we we will miss you. Thank Thank you very much for sharing that trust. So just so um I understand and so that everybody understands uh are we then going to use the proc the
the application that process that closes on August 25th for both of these positions. David I think uh I think that would be a good idea. That was my intention. Are you are you uh did you say effective midnight? Midnight tonight.
Okay. So his clock's a little bit late. I hope I hope Trish Berry can still reconsider his resignation. He can reconsider his rec resign. I I wonder Well, sorry. I'm not But if he does, I I don't know whether I don't know what the rules are, whether somebody can
resign and and say, you know, I'm I'm announcing my resignation effective a month from now and then we can still seek somebody for that and then that trustee can no He looked into that, can't he? Okay, great. bylaws are very clear.
Okay. So that means So is it then are you going to close this August 25th for both and then we'll have a special meeting for and interview people for and not for both. I mean not we'll be interviewing for two positions and do it all in one meeting. Is that the going to
be the plan then? Well um it it's actually that's the way I imagine it. It's up to Yeah, we can check for legal purposes that we we still have to post. Uh we could move the goal line for the
existing position or we could say, you know, once we post um another vacancy again, the clock starts from but our our clock is still uh right. But we still have to appoint one Yeah.
within that 30 calendar day. Yeah. by September 11th, right? Or September 10th, depending on 10th. Yeah, I think it's September. So, um, and then if Trusty Barry still resigning tonight, then we would have to
fill in that vacancy by September 17th. Well, and that's that's correct. However, there's no from what I understand, there is no outline. There's no there's no um we have to do it within 30 days or else the county does it. Yeah.
But there's no minimum amount of time. So in other words, so in other words, we could say to the community, hey the trust if trusty Barry still resigns the trust the that trusty Barry resigned and and August 25th is the closing
application date for that one too. Like we could say there's no wrong. Yes. When I when I was president and we had a an appointment, it was a 7-day window for the applications to be taken. So, yeah, we we determined that. So, so I would I would urge you to do that,
which is so that we can do because what's the point what's what I mean, it would be what's the point of doing it twice. Yeah. What's the point of doing it two weeks in a row, you know? So, we might as well just try to do it all and let the community know, hey, if you get enough people applying that I guess we just need two, but
you at least need two. Yeah. we'll get a lot more than two. But then um and then and then also just to be clear that means that there'll be five of us involved in that process, correct? And three would constitute no
four four has to be it's a seven member board. Yeah. So four is the quorum number. I so I I read the I read the policy in the bylaws and it says majority of the full board. Correct. But we I've I've understood this.
I know the full board's seven, but it's not when it's very clearly the full board. Don't look at me. Don't look at me. I'll start that argument. This is all your fault. So when So when I'm just wondering what the full board the full board sounds to me like whoever's the full We'll definitely get legal and then
MASB's opinion on it. But I'm I I visited this so many times and obviously we can go back in the history and visit 2017 and how 2017 ended up. But you sure What I remember what I remember
clearly is that you need four affirmative votes to get a trustee. Well, the Okay, not to be nerdy or anything, but if there if there's only one vacancy, then yeah, it's still four because four is a majority of six. Correct. But the bylaws say a majority of the
full board. Now, the full board as of midnight tonight might be five people. So, we need to get clarity on this. Correct. Because the full board as of tonight might be five people and the majority of five is three. So we just need to get clarity on so that we all understand what we're getting into so that it's not a surprise at whatever meeting we have.
So we need to be clear on that. Um because also well there's other parts of the thing that if you lose a majority of the board then you have to have elections that's not happening right. Okay. So as long as long as that doesn't happen we don't have to have elections but if we lost one more person then that would mean we
have four people and then a majority of the full board means all four people have to agree on the next. I mean so I don't think that's what it means. I just think we have to get clarity on it says our bylaws say the vacancy has to be filled by a majority of the full board. Now that
can't mean I don't think that means seven people. I think that means the full board of like however many people are on the board when that person uh when when you're doing that and for now for us that's going to be five. So I think we should really get clear is it going to take
three votes or four votes so we all know what we're getting into uh when we get there. Thank you. Yeah, we'll definitely get clarity on that. Trusty Barry, I got to take my last shot here. I'mma You're an attorney. You just said the majority of six is four. No. Five.
Well, the majority of six is four. Yeah. If you find the right judge, they'll rule that the majority of six can be three if you use the right words. Yeah, I'll stop right I'll stop right there. I've heard that before. I'll stop right Mary knows Trusty Pet knows what I'm talking about.
Okay. Um, matter of fact, President Mos, you were in the courtroom that day. Yes, I was. And so was my wife. Last last funny thing, Ahmed, I'll shut up. The judge was explaining to me how the
majority of six can be three and he was like reading and you know I have to be a Zen. I have to get silly. I said, "Your honor, I was told by one of my colleagues that this is all set, but please at least give me some eye contact as you're ruling." He didn't like me.
Yeah. Well, that judge was wrong. Um Okay. Alhamdulillah. So, uh, we'll we'll definitely put up a press release if Trusty Barry definitely does resign and we will make sure, uh, that is well
known and the application will application deadline will stay to be, uh, August 25th. I do have another commentary if nobody else has anything. Uh,
very unfortunate news. Um on July 30th um at age 96 we lost uh William Keith Brem, known as um uh Bill Brem, uh who has been an outstanding
and an amazing philanthropist and um gave so much to Fortune High School um its graduates who attend the University of Michigan and receive the Brem Scholarship. Um and we send his
family uh condolences. I on a better news uh we approved today the summer graduates. We tell them congratulations. I know it took you one more semester to graduate but uh we do wish you well in your future endeavors
and uh we uh hope to see you successful. There's no commentary. We can go to next item please. Next item is request for information and or future agenda items. Any requests? So we do have a request to
legal um as far as and I will get that distributed to the entire board as far as the um majority of the board when we select a vacancy and then um we we already determined that August 25th will
be the deadline. Yeah. And just to do we do we sorry do we ask for that in house? Do we ask for that like how how does that all work? Uh we do have our own legal Yeah. So we have that we have MASB attorney too that specializes that. So just Superintendent Malleo we're
pointing them to the 142.5 of our of our bylaws that which says filling a board vacancy part D appointment by the board to fill a vacancy shall be by a majority vote of the full board. We need to know what like does full board mean
and there's state law that will come into play as well on that most likely. So, but you know does full board mean what what the full board is at the time of that meeting or does it mean seven? Understood. Okay. Next next item, please.
Oh, sorry. Next item. Future meeting dates. Monday, August 25th, 2025. HFCC board of trustees meeting 7 p.m. at the administrative services and conference center in the Rosenol boardroom. Monday Monday September 8th 2025 P12 board of
education 7 p.m. at the administrative service center in the Frank Fantry boardroom. All right. Thank you for attending. This meeting is adjourned. 7:56. Sorry. Yeah. Okay.