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the school district of the city of Dearborn regular meeting. Today is Monday, October 13, 2025. The time is 7:12. I apologize for the late start. We did have a committee that was meeting prior and it went over. Uh thank you to
Vice President Petushka for volunteering to be secretary today. Roll call, please. Jamal Ojami here. Ali Bazi here. Pathy Ambrosio absent. Mary Pletro here. Nasri
here. Amazar also absent. President Moses here. Thank you. Uh, next item please. Pledge of allegiance to the flag. Miss Amoadre, director of Michael Berry campus and will introduce the house students that will lead the pledge of
allegiance. If everybody could please stand. If you're able. Good evening everyone. I'm Amaladre. I'm the director of the Dearborn Heights campus. Please welcome our Hal Montasauri fifth graders to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. We have Kareem
Kat, Lilia Gordon, and Ky Radford. I aliance 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. Right. Great job. Thank you. IA and thank you very much. Great job. Another round of applause for our
next item, please. And now what I think a good deal of people in the crowd were waiting for is the new board members oath of office. Board member Nasar So will take the oath of office at this time administered by
Miss Julia Hav. Miss Habri so will stand and with right hands raised Miss Abhab will ask him to repeat after her the following oath of office. Okay. Mr. Trusty and Miss S.
I do hereby swear and affirm. I do hereby swear and affirm. I will support the Constitution of the United States of America. I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of Michigan and the Constitution of the State of Michigan. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties
and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of office of trustee of office of trustee of the school district of the city of Dearborn of the school district of the city of Dearborn to the best of my ability to the best of my ability in the manner provided by law in the manner provided by law.
Congratulations. Well, I guess [Applause] Julia, congratulations on winning. All right. And number two, board member
Ali K. Bazi will take the oath of office at this time administered by Miss Juan Bazi. Miss Bazi and Ali K Bazi will stand and with right hands raised and I think they've been experiencing this since they've already gone once at the college. Miss Bosi will ask him to
repeat with her the following oath of office. I wrong. I do hereby swear and affirm. I do by here I do by here swear and affirm I will support the Constitution of the United States of America. I will support the Constitution of the United States of
America. and the Constitution of the State of Michigan and the Constitution of the State of Michigan. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties And that I will faithfully discharge the duties of office of trustee of office of trustee of the school district of the city of Dearborn of the school district of the city of
Dearborn to the best of my ability to the best of my ability. In the manner provided by law in the manner provided by law. [Applause]
[Applause] So now we're a full board once again. Yes. If I can give a few minutes to the newest trustees to say a few words and acknowledge their families in attendance. We'll start with trustee.
Thank you. Uh just wanted to say thank you so much everybody. Um, thank you, uh, President Mosip, and to the board for, um, this opportunity, um, for your faith in me. Um, it's a it's going to be a short, quick, difficult year ahead, and I'm I'm really excited to tackle all
the challenges. Um, to everybody, um, you know, out here and in the district. Um, for those who don't know me, I hope you'll take some time, um, you know, reach out. Um, just like the rest of the board is accessible, I will be as well. Um, and I'm looking forward to making the most out of this next year. So, just thank you again for this opportunity.
I'm really grateful to be here. Thank you, Trusty Bazzy. I want to say thank you to my family for being here, to be based for me for a very, very long time. Um, thank you to the board, um, for your conference and me, for answering my
questions over the past month, many, many questions. Um, and, uh, like Trusty Sova has said, um, you know, if anybody wants to reach out, feel free to reach out. you know, we're here to to listen. Uh we're here for the community. Um and thank you.
Thank you, Tisha. Next item, please. Superintendent updates, agenda items, retirement. Good evening, everyone. Hope everyone's doing well. Um as we wind down, I think this kind of summery weather. um again our um first beginning of the
year. Hard to believe we're now into the middle of October. We're going close to two months of the school year. Uh so we want to both congratulate and thank our retirees. We have Anthony Aaliyah, 40 years of service, Brenda Fler, 22 years
of service. Deborah Goch over 28 years of service. And Mona Heder Akmed 27 years of service. Let's show our appreciation and I will go down my agenda. Uh wanted to also um mention the 25 plus club had
their annual dinner last week. Um so in addition to recognizing the retirees, I would like to mention that that the 25 plus club has done great work here to support uh retirees in the district. Almost 150 people attended the event that honors employees from both the
district and the college. Um those that have reached their 25-y year mark with the schools. I got it se few years back. Um those retiring under 25 years uh were recognized or retiring and have more than 25 years. I want to thank the entire committee who organizes and hosts
this annual event. I've been there in the past and have spoken. Uh the 25 plus club is a a group of retired staff members who volunteer their time to make sure that staff members stay connected and receive the recognition and is a very positive positive group. Um so I want to thank them. Let's show our
appreciation for the 25. I heard someone here David got his 25 years. David did attend and he was one of the awardes as well for serving more than 25 years to the district. We truly truly appreciate uh those individuals who have
gave their entire career to Dearbornne schools on Henry Ford College. I was part of that event and enjoyed every minute. And I think he's pictured in the back of us um as as a brand new employee in the parade. I'm thank you David and others for your
service. I will go down my agenda now. Uh we got a very positive event coming. I know it's headed up by Micah Sale. We have care to the core and anti-bullying. This is something the board also uh had asked us to work on and the goals for the superintendent goals. And so we have a
big kickoff event and David coordinates that with Mike uh Dr. Rola Bazzy Gates and many many others. Uh this year it's starting at at 8:30 at Zel and then we'll be making many visits to the schools. Uh board members were provided the invitation. If you're able to come to any of the events you're you're more
than welcome, but it is a very positive event. There's a lot of student leadership that goes on and we've been doing this for quite a while. So, um, you know, what we also want to do is things that we're sustaining throughout the year through the anti-bullying committee, through the core values through Dr. Suedan, through Mr. Saley. So, uh, really positive to have that
going on this Thursday. Uh, I wanted to mention we finally got a state budget as you're probably aware. Uh, districts were up in limbo as you know, they they actually violated the law by not passing one um July 1st. Uh it's you know our
budget looks decent overall for Dearbornne. We were talk we're still waiting on an analysis of the detail because sometimes you hear the headlines that you get an increase but then for example you're losing money in retirement other things that are cost to the district. So we're waiting for the final analysis. Um in the end overall uh
there were a couple positive things like an increase in the at risk budget which does help our Derwin school students and the English language learner uh money as well. section 31A went up by 25% along with that. I can tell you I put together and I know the board is aware two years
ago an e English language learner advocacy group that started two years ago. Part of our mission was to share um and knowledge missile is a part of that Mr. Saley and I was able to leverage my position two years ago as president of the Michigan superintendent association.
We have we actually met this afternoon and we have districts from all over the state. team uh of different districts including we got Michigan State University. We've got a lot of groups involved. Um um advocacy groups in the area um uh Midwest Trust is involved.
Many others they actually presented at the MASA conference. Miss Al Duba was part of that co-presentation. So we're very pleased that some of our efforts I got to say our senators you know Sentenna and Cameli Senator Camelary really championed a couple of these budget areas. Um, and in fact, I did see
him on uh Friday uh with uh Tim Kelly from the House uh uh school aid chair and um we did speak a little bit. We're going to have some future meetings there. But I just wanted to mention those couple of positives, but we're still analyzing things with Mr. Wall. Uh
but overall the budget that we passed, we should be in good shape from what what occurred in June. I President. Yeah, I just have a quick question on that because while this is a state budget that's passed, the federal budget
still had some potential um losses and cuts that we still I believe are not certain of come next year. So, next year, but this year we're okay because this state budget, remember, they were behind on passing the budget
for this year. We are fine for this year. for next year and we talked about it in the ELLL advocacy committee meeting today which we do the virtual meetings because there are people from all over the state. Um we did say to prepare for the possibility of title two which is staff development supports for teachers. I'm just summarizing it. Title
three which is federal dollars for English language learners and title four which is technology community funds. In fact, one of the budgets that's on the agenda today comes for that. The CIS and others uh like our access 21st century and other programs. Those are all things that we're being told to prepare for the
possibility of it not uh coming back next year. Uh we are hearing good uh information on title one and special ed, but that's why it's very important that everybody advocates uh with the legislators. We know we met with um Congresswoman Talib a couple weeks ago
with our network legislator. I know President Mos came to that. And so we're always in contact with the legislators to let them know on both a federal and a state. So I appre appreciate you bringing that up. but also parents, if you're talking to legislators, uh these are impacts that can uh impact students in the classroom because if you're
reducing teachers and services, um it will have an impact on not only the staff member but the students that are going to lose those services and obviously we're here for our students. So there are there are things to monitor. Uh I think there could be we could be in for another, you know, budget battle next year.
Thank you, Trusty. Okay. Okay. Uh potential. Oh, I I might as well mention too, there's some other So, we're still going to be very cautious on some of the positions, but what we did approve, and it's within the flexibility of the budget. We had to wait, but we did approve, and I talked to President Moz
if I've had it in briefs um a um uh a third trainer we're looking to hire um uh for the athletic programs at all three high schools. So, that is a positive, but we really were waiting. And there truly was a shortage. I know we've had blue cards here. there was a shortage because of the contract that uh
we just learned in July was cancelled because they couldn't find people. So, we're going to be recruiting right now and hopefully we'll get that third person in support our athletes. In the meantime, we did have some correct players health professionals though at the
fields for high combat sports. I saw that myself at so which was great. So, thank the administration for being so swift on this matter and getting those two trainers hired. and now we're potentially hiring a third. Um, so to
make sure that we have, we said it last time as an entire board that safety of our students is number one and we lived up to it. Thank you, President. So, the next thing I have on there is potential bond. Uh, the one-on-one interviews have been
completed and they're going to be starting a focus group, four different focus groups this week, um, from Byron and Fisk. And there is a report I believe the board received uh Katherine right the report um from those uh focus interviews. Um so that will continue to
move forward with a potential bond for again potential for next year but we know the infrastructure is a high needs situation that needs to be addressed long term for the Denver public schools. Uh one thing uh superintendent Maliko if we can give the new trustees the packets
that we received from Delbine and the other firm. Oh, sure. That we have I believe I talked to Trust and Bazzy about this that they they need that information as well that we received. Okay. Thank you, President. We'll do that for sure. Absolutely.
So, we do have um a special accommodation coming up and I'll bring Massur up right now. Good evening everybody. Good evening. Good evening. Before I read it, can I ask Mr. James Martin and Principal Stanley and Miss
Marhoff to join me? We have commendations every month, but this one's a little special. We wanted to take a little more time to do it justice. Hi, Mr. Jim. at Dearborn Schools with the help of
Miss Stanley and Siraha we'd like to um give you the certificate of recognition and I'd like to read it for everybody to hear with deepest gratitude the certificate is presented to James Martin as the kids know him Mr. Jim
in heartfelt recognition of your unwavering dedication encouragement and love for the children at Salina Elementary School. You have been a grandfather to many, a steady presence of kindness, and a shining example of selfless service. Your spark has ignited
joy, hope, and inspiration in the hearts of our students and throughout our school community. Thank you, Mr. I worked for the city of Detroit for 35 years. The last 10 or 12 of them, I was the main Head Start planner for the
city. After I retired, I volunteered in a classroom in Southwest Detroit for two years. Some 20ome years later, I find myself in another classroom. Who knew?
It's been outstanding interacting with the kids who I dearly love. and having the support of Miss Stanley and Miss Marhoff. Miss Mayor Hoff who puts up with me two or three days a
week. They do, she and her staff do an outstanding job and you should be very proud of what goes on at Salina. As a closing thought,
my birthday was September 17th. Who has 400 kids? Sing them happy birthday, not only in English, but in Arabic. I was truly lucky and I very much
appreciate receiving this certificate. I love those kids. We thank you, Mr. Thank you. And President Mos and trustees and Dr. Malleo, if I can just say just a few more words about this really special
man. He is 85 years young and he embodies the heart of what it means to serve with purpose. So, like he said, three days a week, rain or shine, he walks through the doors of Salina Elementary School with a kind word, a smile, and an open heart. To our
children, Mr. Jim, you are a grandfather, patient, steady, and filled with encouragement. And to our staff, you are a reminder of goodness in action, humble, dependable, and always putting other first. He gives us his
time, wisdom, and compassion to lift others quietly and without expectation. Whether tying a shoelace, offering a word of comfort, being a gentle giant for our students, or finding ways to help families in need, you do so with
grace and humility. Mr. Jim, you are the spark that reminds us that kindness, consistency, and love are truly what makes a difference. Because of you, the halls of Salina shine a little brighter, and our our children believe a little
more deeply in themselves. Our theme this year is one small spark. Mr. Jim is more than one just small spark. So, thank you very much for allowing us this time to commend this very special person at Salena Elementary School.
I appreciate this award immensely. And I'll just finish by saying the two questions I get initially from the kids. One, how old are you? And two, why is your hair white?
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for your service. [Applause] Okay, I'll move along. Um, wonderful. So, next I just wanted to provide uh an update. Uh this is under other uh I
spoke to President Mosup and we're looking at a parent square. I know that's the big new uh platform we've unveiled and so we're looking to bring a presentation before the board in November. We've talked about that. Mr. Mustin is getting that ready with uh Mr. Addie and the group. Uh so I just wanted to mention that. I also just want to a
recognition for breast cancer awareness month. Um I know I saw pink in the schools as I was going to different schools last week and uh we see it throughout. So, um, you know, great that we have students and staff and others getting involved for a great cause. Uh, the other thing is it is school lunch
recognition week. Um, the National School Lunch Program, uh, Darham Public Schools will observe this, uh, school lunch week from October 13th to 17. This year's theme is taste the world, your school lunch passport. Invite students to explore new recipes inspired by
delicious foods and cultures from around the globe. This celebration held in partnership with the National School Lunch Program highlights the importance of healthy school lunches for our students success in the classroom and beyond. We sincerely thank our dedicated food service staff for their hard work
and commitment to serving nutritious meals to our students throughout the school year and they do do great things. I know I always like to visit especially when I'm with uh President Nibil from the PTA council. My last thing that I have to add um I have a couple of congratulations. I know we've done it uh
informally uh but they were just sworn in. So congratulations to Trusty Bazzy and Trusty So uh appreciate you guys have already been reaching out very positive. I think you're going to make be be a great part of the team moving forward. Um and so thank you for putting
yourselves out there to serve and work with the rest of the trustees. So we have a great feel both of you and you've already been learning. You're already setting up meetings and things which is great. Right. Uh I have to do a double thank you for trustee so he uh got married on Saturday as well and my
understanding is he is he was initially going to have his honeymoon plans today but he changed it because of his board responsibility but he's still prioritizing his new wife. We know that. So it is great. Yeah. Everybody will find out as trustees that there's a lot of
sacrifice, but that that's uh that's quite impressive. He met with me Friday morning at 8:30, too. Y Thank you. Any questions for the superintendent? Any of his updates?
Thank you, Dr. Maliko. Thank you. Recognition and acknowledgements, commendations, we have two students from Dearborn High. Hi, my name is Miam Aldis. I'm a senior at Dearborn High School. And I'm Ram, also a senior at High
School. Okay. Commendations to Jacob Farah, videographer in the communications department, for his work to capture drone footage and create the subsequent video highlighting the Selena school's campus. This video will be used to complement the green schools progress.
Commenations director of food services. She completed the Michigan school business official certification for child nutrition director. The MSBO's voluntary certification program supports ongoing professional development for school business officials. The program is a mark of distinction that reflects
professional achievement and demonstrates a person's dedication to his or her profession. Commendations to two high school students, so two Dubron High students who are recognized through the National Merit Scholarship Program, Zachariah Ahmed and Jason Anderson who were listed as commended to participate
in the National Merit Scholarship. Students take the PSAT exam in the fall of their junior year. Out of the 1.3 million program entrance, 34,000 of the high scorers are listed as commended. Commendations to the Dearborn High and Forzen football coaches for hosting a
unity dinner with their team captains before the school's rivalry matchup on September 27th. The event brought together student leaders from both teams to hear about the history of the rivalry game, the importance of showing respect, and that they are all part of one community and school district.
Commendations to Dearborn High golfer Kalissa Post, who won the MHSA Division 1 Region 2 Championship with a score of 84 for 18 holes. The junior now will represent Dearborn High in the state finals on October 17th and 18th at
the Grand Valley State University. Commendations to Edel Ford High School football coaches and players. A referee for the September 26th game praised the sportmanship of the sideline players and coaches for how they treated referees and their opponents during the game. The varsity football team is coached by
Shaun Locansol. Common commenation for stout principal HB and all Smith principal Mark Ramul for being named finalist for Michigan Middle School principal of the year. Commenation to Al Smith, assistant
principal Maha Pay for being named a finalist for Michigan Middle School assistant principal of the year. These three exceptional administrators has dominated student first daring grip positive culture and climb and their school.
The recognition comes from Michigan association of secondary school principal. Commendations to stout teachers Julia Watson, Baxter Perlop and Kayla Zariba and Salina and intermediate
teacher Amira say. The three star teachers visit Miss S's room for to observe best practice in LA phonics instruction in middle school setting. This is a whole functional BLS
BLC at work. Teachers are learning from one another and seeking to improve their practice through highly effective strategy of peer-to-peer learning. Commenation to Julie base and Mr. The two GSRP preschool teachers
visited their former student at home before they started kindergarten. Each child receive a balloon in a book the night before kindergarten by Natasha Wink. Commendation to to district
instructional coaches Noel Bush, Angel Zajuri, Material, Landerman, and Susanna Slangman for their ongoing effort in supporting the successful role of the district's elementary English language
art assessment. Commenation to David Hen, principal of William Ford Elementary. He was recently praised by parent from being a good school leader and create a positive environment for parents and students. The parent wrote,
"Mr. Asian leads with the empathy, compassion and a genuual care. That's are we done? If you want to both say Miriam and Ramsey students, you want Yeah. You want to? We always have Q&A afterwards. We're
going to test you. Should have got used to it by now. Uh, Trusty, did you have any questions for them? I just waved. Okay. Uh, I I have a question for both of you. Since you were both seniors, where are you heading after high school? So, I'm planning to go to the University
of Michigan and Arbor hopefully. Um, and I hope to pursue a premed track, double majoring in biochemistry and nutritional sciences, and minoring in business. Fantastic. Ramsey. I'm planning to attend Eastern Michigan University for
joining their programs on innovation and going on my journey to become as a amazing that's great. I've heard news that you Miriam was crowned homecoming queen. So congratulations and also Ramsey you were
part of the homecoming court. So congratulations to both of you as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next item, please. Employee recognition. You want to do it, Tom? Good evening, everyone. Uh, I'm not sure. Is Miss Caitlyn
Pincowski or Miss Hannah, are they either one of you here? Okay. So, we'll just read them then. Uh, good evening everyone. It is my honor to recognize this month's outstanding Dearborn Public Schools employees. Uh,
first, our instructional employee of the month, Miss Caitlyn Pinowski, the speech pathologist over at House School. Uh, this is Caitlyn's second year with Dearborn Public School, and she's already made an incredible impact. She was nominated for going above and beyond to ensure that every student has a
voice, both figuratively and literally, and that every teacher has the tools they need to help students communicate effectively. Caitlyn's dedication and energy have made the real difference in the lives of her students and colleagues. Uh, next is our non-instructional employee of the month, Miss Nadia Elon, Secretary 4 at Bryant
Middle School. Um, unfortunately, Nadia couldn't be here with us tonight, but I wanted to take this moment to recognize her 28 years of service with Dearborn Public Schools. She was nominated for her positivity, her quick problem solving, and warm smile that makes everyone around her feel welcome. Nadia
is the kind of person who keeps things running smoothly and does it all with the grace and kindness. And finally, our administrator of the month, Miss Hanan Ridda, assistant principal at Hag and Maples Elementary. Now in her 12th year in Dearborn Public Schools, Hanan was nominated for her exceptional
leadership, tireless dedication, and unwavering commitment to student success. She builds strong relationships with both students and staff and has created a culture that's positive, supportive, and deeply rooted in care and connection. Her influence reaches
far beyond the walls of her building. Uh to Nate to Caitlyn, Nadia, and Hanan, on behalf of everyone, thank you for your effort and excellence you bring to the Dearborn Public Schools community. Uh now I'm going to turn it over to Executive Director Swore, who has even more knowledge.
It's a great point. I know the commendation was made, but a special recognition for I'm sure the news you've heard over the weekend about our three finalists for principal and assistant principal of the year through the 2026 MASSP.
Um, can I have principal Abdaki, principal RML, and assistant principal play join me up at the podium? So, I had to be very covert with all of this. So, I want to recognize Assistant
Principal Proctor and Office Manager Latifah over at Stout who helped me. So, thank you to both of you. And and the tricky one was Smith because I had to meet with Mark to get Maha's done and I had to meet with Maha to get
Mark's done and have no one ask any questions. But without the support team, this couldn't have happened. Um, I also want to take a minute to have anybody who submitted a letter of recommendation to please stand because without you, this wouldn't have been uh possible.
There are many, many more about five for each one. And I just want to say that process was very easy. It was not hard at all to get um students, parents, staff, and community partners to give of their time to recognize these three amazing administrators. They are
finalists. Um I asked today, I emailed Maggie how many nominations there were because that's the competitive part of me that I need to know. Um but it doesn't matter because you uh make us so proud and being a finalist really means a lot. So just a special recognition to
you today and I know all your families are here as well. [Applause] [Music] Good evening everyone and um congratulations to our new trustees. Um I am truly honored by this nomination.
Honestly, when I received the email that I was nominated, that felt like winning. But when I received an email that I was a finalist and um find out that I'm here with two amazing colleagues in the district, that is such a real a real treat for us and a reflection of all of
you, of everybody from central office, from everything that you instilled in administrators in this district. I want to just reflect that there's a there's an Arabic saying that says one hand does not clap alone. It couldn't be more true than today. This is not a
recognition on a single person's um commitment or or accomplishments in a school. We have a staff at Stout Middle School who is beyond goes above and beyond in everything they do. They don't do things out of compliance. It is genuine care. I have
family members. Stell Middle School consists of four communities in Dearborn. Maples, Gear Park, Miller, and Snow. Very unique. All coming together to be a powerhouse of students in that building and their amazing families,
central office people, the guidance you guys give us, this is why we're here. Lemie Sur, what can I say about Lemise? She is a gentle giant who guides very gently but knows what she wants and gives us what
we need but lets us do our thing and have our personality. I do want to commend Fati Farage Fi works with middle school principles all the time. Look at who's here. Middle school people. So Fi, thank you for all your guidance.
Brent Proctor. He's my partner over there. Admin partner. We just go through so much together. And honestly, I wouldn't be here. Half of it has to go to Brent along with the rest of the staff. And Latifah, who's my office manager, is also here. She's the boss in
that building. So, Latifah, thank you for everything. Thank you everybody. This is such an honor to be here tonight. Good evening, trustees. Dr. Meno, thank you so much for sparing a couple minutes to have us recognized tonight. Uh I'm just very happy that this this whole
process puts the Dearborn Schools in the lens of the of the state as a whole. I think it helps them see what we already know that there's a very high commitments to excellence and a high standard. Um I will say every day there's a very high commitment to excellence and a very high standard for
education with everybody in our staff. Um especially at Smith Middle School, especially at Stell Middle School. Um my my our community is is amazing. Our teachers, our staff is amazing, but I really couldn't do without my my amazing
cohort there, my my buddy there, Miss Fyad, my assistant principal. Um thank you very much. The the inspiration is very wonderful. So, thank you everyone. So, I have two great speakers that I can um I need to follow their footsteps. Before I start, I want the cameras to
actually go in this direction because these are the pieces that make it all work. There's a lot of our staff members here, a lot of our parents, our family members, and as you all know, a p a puzzle is not complete without its pieces. So, as great as a puzzle is, everybody has a piece of it that makes
it exceptional. Um, I did write something just to be safe because I feel better with my paper. Um, I'm not going to go through it all, but I do want to recognize that this is a recognition for the entire community, especially the Dearbone Public Schools District. The investment that you guys put in your
employees is nothing but great. Um, at the end, you see the fruits of it all in these rooms and in the classrooms and in the uh in the schools. Um, Dr. Mr. MOO, thank you because under your leadership, you've instilled a lot of greatness of which you've created a team that works
tire tirelessly to make sure that we are all in on this together. You've created an executive team of Miss Sur, Miss Faraj, and Miss Shaheen that really go above and beyond to inspire their staff, to keep us motivated, and to keep us in line to doing the right things. A
special shout out to Miss Surur, um, our Viking feeder executive. You go above and beyond to make sure that we are all supported, we're heard, and we're appreciated. And you take the extra mile to make sure that you cheer us on. So, you are our, you know, behind the scenes
cheerleader. Um, Mr. Rald, he does not like to be in the in the spotlight, but could I have you up here, please? Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. Okay. This man right here is an exceptional leader. He's a phenomenal
um mentor. He takes the time to educate. He takes the time to lead with empathy. Um, you care from the heart. You create systems and policies. You've trained me. I am good because I'm under you. Um, the staff is amazing. We work very well as a
team because we are a team. We really define what team is. Our staff, as we said earlier, is pieces of the puzzle and everybody has something to do with it. Um, thank you to everyone. Um I don't know who else I need to thank but of course there's a over there my family
my children and my parents who are the biggest support system always. So I thank you all and thank you for giving us this time to recognize this just to add to that everyone's a team. You know we have a wonderful team in our district. Thank you.
Congratulations to the finalists. We are truly truly proud of you and you made us proud. You put Dearborn on the map in the entire state. So, thank you for that and thank you for what you do every single day for our students.
There are no others. Uh we could go to next item acknowledgement. Oh, Trusty Jama. Yeah. Yeah. Trust me, sorry. Yeah. I I do want to congratulate on behalf of the board the three nominees. It's a great honor and we're so proud of you.
But I did want to share something as a parent. Um, this is regarding Miss Abdulbaki. My son was a fortson when she was an AP and I always felt like you're the reason he graduated and I really appreciate you. I've been
trying to connect with you and I will but I always thought as a parent you did such a wonderful job at Fortune and you're doing such a wonderful job as thought and my son always remembers you.
His name is Jabra El Jami and um he was struggling at school but you pushed him to graduate. So thank you. Yeah, I I'll definitely share the same testament. My my both of my kids went through stout and uh Baki, you've done
so much for Omar and for all the students and um we're we're truly blessed to have you in our district as well as Mr. Raml and Miss Fayat. Thank you, Dr. Mallay. I would also like to congratulate them
and Miss Abdulbaki, I go back to our Salena days when she was an outstanding teacher and she kept it going, making a difference, putting students first always. And Mr. Ruml, um, uh, and Miss Fiad, the great work you do, and although he may not want the spotlight, I see him all over Instagram. I'm just
saying, you know, he's giving me a run for my money. So, great job. Welldeserved honors. Good luck with the final selection. [Applause] Next item, please. Acknowledgement of donations. Mr. Wall.
Good evening, President Mos, board members, and Dr. Lleo. We have 14 donations to recognize today. A donation of $251.60 has been offered to Forton High School by the Dearborn Education Foundation to use for McBTH books. Donation of $400
has been offered to Hela Howard Elementary School by the Dearborn Education Foundation to be used for pitch perfect padding. Three, a donation of $500 has been offered to Dearborn High School by the Dearborn Education Foundation to be used for poetry literacy initiative. A donation of
$14542 cents has been offered to Whitmore BS Elementary School by the Dearborn Education Foundation to be used for a classroom rug. A donation of $450 has been offered to Maples Elementary School by the Dearborn Education Found Foundation to be used for flexible
seating. A donation of $185 has been offered to Howard Elementary School by the Dearborn Education Foundation to be used for a classroom rug. A donation of $20,000 has been offered to Dearborn Public Schools by the Dearborn Education in partnership with Ford Motor Company
to be used for district-wide robotics. A donation of cameras, lenses, lenses, and assorted equipment has been offered to Essen Ford High School by Ken and Jill Chokal to be used by the students in the photography club. A donation of $1,480 has been offered to Salena Intermediate
School by CRC Obad Mari to be used for PBIS student incentive and awards. A donation of $1,000 has been offered to Salana Intermediate School by Khaled Abdullah and Obab Maui to be used for PBIS school student incentives. Donation
of $400 has been offered to Smith Middle School by Ali Chammy to be used for football equipment. Donation of $500 has been offered to Smith Middle School by Tophek Ahmed to be used for the football team. 13. A donation of $50 has been offered
to Smith Middle School by Christy Roth to be used for sports. And a donation of $50 has been offered to Smith Middle School by Terry Shyaka to be used for the football team. That concludes the donations. Thank you, Mr. Wall. And thank you to all of the donors,
organizations, and individuals who have provided the district with the support they need to excel, especially from the Dearborn Education Foundation. Thank you to them. Next item, please. Approval of minutes. Approval of minutes of the following Dearboard Board of
Education meeting. Special meeting board vacancy September 2nd, 2025. Board report 2536. Special meeting board vacancy September 4th, 2025. Board report 2537. Special meeting board vacancy September
8th, 2025. Board report 2538. Building and site committee meeting September 8th, 2025. Board report 2539 and regular P12 meeting September 8th, 2025, board report 2540.
Recommended action, make any necessary corrections and move approval of these minutes. I'll make a motion. Thank you, uh, Trustee Jamie for moving it. Support supported by Trusty Bazzy. Thank you. Any corrections to the minutes or
changes? Hearing none, may I attach a unanimous role to this motion? Thank you. Next item, union leadership commentary. Uh I am showing that there is no union leadership commentary, but I do see on
the top of my blue cards that uh Kathy Martin has something. It's more on a personal level, it appears, but if she would like to take this opportunity to speak now, I I'll I'll give her the floor. Thank you, Vice President Pleskov.
We'll get one out of the way. I did respond to Joanne and I was shocked that I didn't see my name on a thing. So, I was proact. But this was last week. But anyways, it's beside the point. Actually, I just want to come up here and congratulate our new trustees. Um it it's going to be
great working with you all and I think um this district is going to be lucky to have you. So just welcome and that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, President Mars. If there are no objections, if I can move citizen participation
ahead of special reports. Seeing no objections, we can go to citizen participation, please, and we'll come back to special reports afterwards. Citizen participation. Citizens wishing to address the board on agenda and non-aggenda items for action who are signed in by 7:10 p.m. 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, speakers 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 three minute time limit on comments made to the board and I will begin reading and as I read your name please come up to the podium. Uh oh, this name is familiar. Hussein Barry from Dearbornne.
Like to congratulate, [Applause] President Mos, Madam Vice President Petrickoff, Trustees, Superintendent Dr. Milik, good evening. Miss you all. Uh, you know what? I just want to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank
Trusty Soa and Trusty Bazzy. Uh thank you. Thank you. Thank you for stepping up. I've been able to sleep better at night now since I resigned off the board knowing that uh this this amazing board did made a great decision. Uh just wanted to explain one thing and I
promise you President Mos, I'm not going to be that former board member that's going to keep coming and telling you what to do and not to do. I'm just here just just for tonight. But uh Mary on a more personal level, Mary, not
Trusty Petricoff. Uh we had our ups and downs, but you know what? We did some amazing things together for the last two decades. We've accomplished a lot. So, thank you for helping me grow. And uh President Mos, what could I say, man? 2025, what a year.
Yeah. And you know what? I want to thank you for your leadership and your steady hands on the steering wheel this past year. There was a lot thrown at you at the board uh from the college end
public schools. You know, you had two new trustees. They're doing amazing job. You know, you're onboarding them and now you have two more. So, thank you. I mean, my intentions were I mean, most people know by now that I have some aspirations next year. My intentions
were to resign in February of 2026, but since one of our colleagues left, I think you all know now what I meant by let's get this done, you know, instead of just going through all the interviews. And by the way, thank you for all the other 35 or 36 candidates
that stepped up and please stay involved. Uh I knew this was a very uh you know challenging I used a different word a couple months ago but it's a very challenging process kind of divides the board but now you've made two great
decisions come together to the to the new trustees it doesn't matter who supported you who didn't who voted for you who didn't you represent everybody keep one thing in mind how does my decision affect the students that is the most important thing that we all talked
So again, congratulations. Like I said, I won't be back, but you're always welcome. Thank you. Thank you. I won't be back bothering you, but you have a very two very important decisions to make. One at the college and one to replace Dr. Mleco. Congratulations, Dr. Malo, on
your new venture. But please keep one thing in mind. hire the people that will protect the ones they are paid to protect, not to protect the quote unquote protecting
ones. Keep that in mind. Thank you for allowing me to speak to you and congratulations. Thank you for addressing this Gary. Next, okay, our next speaker will be Robin Ml. She would like to speak about the walking classroom.
she will demonstrate the walking classroom. I had a little little problem. Um well, first of all, I just wanted to say congratulations to our new trustees and to all of our trustees of course for serving. I appreciate you all and I can't wait to see the great things
you're going to do for our kids. Um I also want to congratulate the principal and assistant principal um who have made the finals. I'm very impartial or partial to the um the two from O Smith because my kids have had such a wonderful experience. They're some of
the best teachers I've ever encountered at O Smith and it comes from the top down and the bottom up. So, um congratulations to all of them. And then I wanted to talk about something really um positive and exciting that my son experienced. He's at he's at O Smith now, but he was at Duval last year and
I've been meaning to come in and talk about it. Um, and that is the walking classroom. So, in networking with my son's teacher, uh, I learned that she wanted to raise money to purchase something called the walking classroom. So, these are small MP3 players, um, worn on a lanyard
around the, um, students neck. Um, and they are preloaded with like a ton of uh, standard-based educational uh, podcasts. Uh, they're supplemented with lesson plans, quizzes, and other activities. They cover topics grades um
three through eight in like ELA, social studies, and science. Um kids carry the MP3 on a lanyard around their neck and the class can go out and take a walk in the fresh air while they listen and learn. Um so our first roadblock was funding and trying to be able to make that happen. And we actually reached out
to our neighbor Dearborn Federal Savings who was generous both with their money but also in spirit. um they are always enthusiastic about anything at the schools that they can do to um encourage ed you know education and the future um citizens in Dearbornne um and also
encouraging health and wellness. So they actually donated and per the money to purchase um 30 headsets at a cost of over $3,000 and um we were able to purchase those last fall and I actually had the opportunity to walk with the class multiple times as they went out
and listened to their podcast. There's so many benefits. The kids really look forward to it. They're moving around in the fresh air. Um even in the winter, they bundle up and go out and it helps with focus, attention, and motivation, especially for those who are most
challenged in this area. Um the kids are able to share and retain so much of what they learn. And it helps with attention span, which we know our kids badly need right now. Uh so, um and it's especially helpful with larger classrooms. you can
go out and um you know and do it. So um we even walked up to Dearborn Federal Savings Bank and the kids got a tour of the vault and we even built like more community with our neighbor and hopefully we're going to be doing some other things to partner in the future. Um but my this teacher I just want to
say um is forever in my heart uh after embracing this idea and I know other teachers at the school would also love to have these u I encourage all of our leadership to look at exciting things and methods delivery methods for our curriculum and I encourage parents you know if you like the sound of this and
this idea to push for this um as well and advocate for that. So thank you so much and have a great night. We truly appreciate Next, Samr Sad would like to speak about Dearborn High School football situation.
[Applause] Good evening everyone. Good evening. Congratulations Mr. So, Mr. Bazzy. First, I want to thank and acknowledge the district for taking quick action. The situation with the football program
was becoming more and more toxic and every practice and it was hurting these kids every day, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. So, I really do appreciate the staff for stepping in. We care
deeply about this district, this community, and these kids. At the end of the day, that's why we're all here, to make sure every decision is made in a way that uplifts and supports what's
best for each individual child. This district has always, excuse me, this district has always emphasized restorative practices, and that's something we value. As parents, we're asking you that you continue to lean on
those same restorative and indiv individualized methods as these things move forward, both in how the situation is handled and how these students are supported afterward.
Addressing the behavior is important, but it's just as important to make sure the kids are part of a process that helps them learn, grow, and find their way back to their goals. These kids need to know that their voices matter, that accountability
doesn't have to mean tearing them down, and that adults in their lives are working to build them up. Listen, at the end of the day, it's all about the children. Football is a brotherhood. And this
young gentleman, the whole team is here. Stand up. [Applause] We're all here for a common cause. And as parents and community members, we hope that the staff and leadership care
about our children the way that we want them to be cared for as their parents. We've supported the staff and we've supported this board. We voted for you because we believed you do what's right for these kids. So, we're trusting you
to continue to do just that. Thank you for hearing me out and for continuing to make decisions that reflect the values of this community. Before I go, uh, Ahmed Say would like to say a few words. He was one of the kids that was involved in the situation.
Okay. So, it does he have a card? Okay. All right. All right. Yes, he's going in a blue car. I just wanted to take the moment to apologize to first of all my teammates, administration, and everyone that's been helping me through this whole situation. And I just wanted to say that
just just please any way there is just I would love to finish the season with my brothers. We've been doing this for 5 years and I I would do anything just to get back on the field with them and just finish the season. [Applause]
Thank you. Thank you for your time. Thank you for addressing us. Thank you. Okay. And our last blue card is May Meredith Gordon and she would like to speak about Edel Ford autoshop teacher or lack of an autoshop and lack of communication parents.
Good evening. Good evening. So I have been a parent in for Dearborn Public Schools for about 11 years now and still have a number of years left. Um, I have three kids in Edel Ford, either at Extel Ford and Exel Ford feeder schools, Whitmore and O Smith,
which I love Whitmore. I love O Smith. They're amazing. Um, my son is an 11th grader at Zil who is in the advanced autoshop program. That is a 2hour elective in the middle of the day. It's been over 3 weeks now that the autoshop
program has not had a teacher at Zel. Um they're basically being babysat for 2 hours in an advanced auto class. Um just being supervised with nothing to do. As of this date, no one from the
administration has even made a formal announcement of the teacher resigning. I do appreciate President Mosique for reach for responding to my email when I did raise concerns about the teacher resigning who I happen to know for a
fact did not want to resign. She did not want to resign. Um that was something that was from her words threatened. Um and she did not want to leave these kids high and dry. The autoshop kids are a fringe group of
kids. They're generally not athletic. They're generally not super um into academics. They're they're kind of their own breed of kids. They feel overlooked as it is. They find a place in autoshop. They find a home
there. That's what my son found. He really struggled his first two years at Zel trying to find a place. He didn't quite fit in with everybody. He's not a sports kid. It's just not his thing. and he doesn't see college, he sees himself in the trades. He fell in love with the
auto shop program. For the first time this year, he was waking up in the morning at 6:30 excited to go to school, waking me up for work, um coming home, showing me things that he did, telling me all about everything
he was excited about to do. In these three weeks, I have to He's a completely different kid. He doesn't want to go to school. He doesn't have anything to look forward to because his electives are just him sitting in an empty autoshop classroom. Um, so I
really would like this elected board to please do something about getting somebody in that position where these kids need somebody and at least my kid at least is really struggling. Um, I'd like to not bring
him to school in tears. So, thank you. Thank you so much for listening. And if somebody from the administration can follow up with a parent, we truly appreciate that. Uh Dr. Malikica, do you have any followup on the previous comments?
Yeah, sure. I can make a couple. My understanding is a recommendation did uh just come in to hire the autoshop teacher. Um appreciate or sorry for the inconvenience with that situation. Um the this the career and technical areas are a high needs and demand area. There
are shortages. Um so we will work on that and I saw Miss Miss Farage also just uh reached out. So I think um positive coming and if there's things not going in on in class, we'll talk to the principal. We'll go in, we'll look at and see what's going on um as we normally would to make sure that
instruction is going on. Also just to mention um whenever we have a situation um obviously I know principal Jabriel over at Dear High with the football uh put out a statement or or communicated with the the players um and it didn't work out with the coach and we
appreciate you know the recognition of us working together through that. Um I can say that um we always stand for uh restorative practices and working together. Um, and I I can't get into any specific comments of individual students, but what I can say is that
I've been kept apprised in the board along the way of what's been going on, and I know it's being handled with the utmost professionalism um by the administration working together with uh the staff, Mr. Holly, Principal Gabriel, and uh parents. So,
thank you for your comments. U Trusty Poff I just kind of want to add on um I understand the frustration from parents and community members who should be seeing a certain theme now
where we have struggled with um specialty um staffing whether it's in special education whether it's in um the arts whether it's in um
trades, any of those things. Um, there are so many requirements to be certified as a teacher in a public school district that um it's not you can just go out on the street corner and pick up somebody who's good at something
and put them in the classroom. Um, they're required to to have certain um degrees and qualifications in order to be there in the classroom with the students. And so it's a struggle finding
these niche um employees. Uh public schools especially don't pay top dollar are is not considered the highest um espoused job opportunity for a lot of
people. So a lot of people are now going elsewhere for their opportunities. So, it makes it much harder for us. Um, and we do struggle. It's not an excuse, but but finding people to fill those roles
uh is becoming more and more difficult as the days go on, but we continue to work at it. Be it an athletic trainer, a school nurse, uh, you know, speech pathologist, a hearing impaired, or an
auto mechanic, uh, instructor. uh we just have to dig a little deeper, look a little harder, but it might not be as quick a turnaround as we would like to see. And and um I really appreciate the fact that the parents are are working
with us to help help us um maintain some order in the classroom and give these kids these opportunities because you're right, every kid isn't going to be a sports kid. Every kid isn't going to be a music kid. every kid is not going on to premed or law. So, they all have um a
place to find and call home and find success in their educational career and we want to be a part of that. We really do. But sometimes it's a little harder than we would like to see. Thank you, Vice President Petoff. I like
to echo your comments and also acknowledge and thank the parents and the students. I hope this is a lesson learned that they've hit rock bottom already and now we're coming back as a united family and to make sure that this
program stays on for and Dearborn game is always a game that the entire city looks up to and something that we want to see next year I hope uh with a you know a great program at at Dearborn High and a great program at Fortson and um
Uh it was it was saddening to see what happened, but I hope that this is a learning lesson for all and that we come back from it stronger. Uh, as for the trades teacher, I'm I'm happy that we have a
replacement and yeah, I apologize again. It took some time, but we have to go through the HR process that. So hopefully we will have a teacher in that classroom soon because that program is hailed at at Ford for the auto shop. That's what it's known for. So, um, we
we truly appreciate the administration for acting so quick on that. Uh but I I would hope for next time whenever we have these situations. I I know the parent mentioned there was no communication that we are definitely
upfront about things when things like this happen. So this is also a learn lesson for for for the administration for future uh events when they occur. Any other comments? Okay. All right. Uh next item, please.
Special reports. We're going to flip back on the agenda. Uh, school safety, Miss Danielle Aat, Mr. Abe Dala, and Sergeant Jared Mleth. Good evening everyone. President Mos, Dr. Maliko, board trustees.
Congratulations again. Boy, it's different on this side. Okay. Uh, as mentioned uh before this is a bakla. He's the assistant supervisor of health, safety and security. I have with
us also um Sergeant Jared McCullaf who oversees all of the SRO's that work in our district. Um so we have a great partnership and I asked them both to join me up here today. So, President Movisit, thank you for
your interest in uh school safety and for asking us to put this presentation together. School safety is such a broad topic and it covers so many things. So, what I did for this presentation is I kind of divided it into the different things that we do and that we cover
throughout the district, which is health, safety, and security. So, keeping us healthy, our main focus is maintaining a healthy environment in our buildings. Um, this focuses on environmental health and infrastructure safety.
So, we maintain uh things like air quality. So, there's continuous monitoring and filtration maintenance to ensure optimal air quality in all learning spaces. Indoor air quality, annual testing on a three-year cycle. So we make sure that within three years
every building gets their air quality tested. Um this is aside from the regular maintenance that takes place in the building. Water quality. We do regular testing and reporting of water quality at all schools and sites. So
this is also on a three-year cycle. So there are things that are done um annually and they are maintained throughout the year. However, the actual um official testing with the environmental testing consulting company is done on a three-year cycle. Um legal
notices. So, there are notices that have to be legally posted and those can be found on our Dearborn Schools website. The legal notices that we deal with are the asbestous notices, the weapons notice, the drugs notice. um those
public announcements that we make annually for the district facility and inspections. So we need to make sure that all of our playgrounds are inspected, surfaces, equipment integrity is intact, inspections of
athletic turf fields are done every year and mandatory bleacher inspections um to make sure that the structure and integrity of our bleachers um are maintained. And these are the outdoor stadium bleachers. So focusing on preparedness and
training, we have drills, training, and reporting. That's usually the cycle that they work in. So we have our mandatory drill reporting. We make sure that our drills are reported, which they have to be reported annually every year, September 15th of that year. They are
required to conduct safety drills in all of the buildings. There are fire drills, tornado drills, our lockdown drills, all of this to ensure compliance, which is great. So, I'm happy that, you know, we always meet our compliance. We make sure that the drills are reported um to the
county. Then we make sure that the drills are reported after they are conducted. But more importantly, what I love most about the drills is this gives everybody in the building a chance to practice. So, we can write our plans. We we put our plans in action and then we
do what's called um like a hot wash after, especially on the evacuation drills. Since I've been here, we've worked with a few buildings where we've practiced evacuating the entire building and going to a reunification site to see what that looks like to get everybody out of the building in the event that
there's an active asalent incident. We work on um so evacuation drills, shelter in place drills, and our lockdown drills. big part of our planning is the emergency operations plan. This is a comprehensive safety plan inside of um
each building. So annually they are reviewed and then every 3 years with the state they have to be certified. We also work on our traffic flow plans. This is a recent initiative that we um partnered up with the Dearborn Police Department with. So all of the buildings were given
a template to put their traffic flow plans in order. So we know that every building has a traffic flow plan whether it's on paper or not because hundreds of kids are getting dropped off every morning and they're getting picked up every afternoon. But we wanted to take
what was in the mind and make sure that it was put on a plan. So all of our buildings are working on traffic flow plans with our SRO. They will review them. will actually make sure that what every building has on paper flows right in accordance with um traffic laws that
are around their buildings. Classroom in place kits. So I call these in place kits because when I first came to the district they were called go kits and many people thought that these were bucket safety buckets that are in each
classroom. And I noticed that during some evacuation drills, people were actually taking the buckets with them out of the classroom, but those buckets are meant to stay in the classroom in the event of a shelter in place EOP development. So, we're constantly working on that districtwide. Any new
recommendations that come through from either MDE or the county, we make sure that we disseminate that information out and that those corrections are made or changes are made. And then again, they're reviewed with our public safety team. So, our personnel partnerships, like I
said, we have a great partnership with the Dearborn Police. Um, our SRO's in are in every building and every SRO is assigned a few buildings. They make sure that they stop at those buildings throughout their work week. They've
built a great relationship not only with uh myself and Abe. Abe actually used to work at the Dearborn Police Department. So, um, we have a great working relationship there, but they really take time to visit the buildings, the kids, the staff. They've become an integral
part of each and every one of the buildings that they serve, and we appreciate their great work for that. We also work in close partnership with the Dearborn Fire Department. So, we coordinate things with our emergency management office, with EMS, with uh the office of the fire marshal. Sometimes we
need um firewatch assistance for our buildings and of course fire response. Our high school security guards, we have a dedicated security team providing a visible presence and access control, helping us monitor our parking lots at the high schools, helping put that extra
set of eyes and ears to the administration in our high school buildings. So, one of the main things that uh we changed recently was we used to be on the Alice program in the district and we've switched over now to the federal
model. So, I always say it it doesn't matter what you call the system. Every single system is the same thing when you look at the training and it's either run, hide, fight. It's unfortunate that we have to worry about this training,
but um we do. So, this keeps it simple for all of our staff, for all of our students. It's simply run, hide, or fight. So, we emphasize the primary objective of escape routes and escaping to a safe area. We work on if uh if it's
safe to hide, securing, and barricading, and we work on fighting. um as a last resort acting uh to disrupt the threat. This uh I provided the link for you guys so you can see uh the video that that
our staff watch and the training that they do every single year. So, as far as exercises, we try to do exercises aside from the mandatory drills. As I mentioned before, we've done drills where we've evacuated entire buildings out to the reunification site. And it's
amazing how for even though people are doing it for the first time, they still know what to do because of the drills that they've done previously. Threat response. So when there's a threat in the building and these are the uh incident reports that you guys
receive from me most of the time. We have uh you know swift action and it's not just us up here. This is a multi-coordination team that is working at the same time to mitigate the threat. So, it's myself, it's the director of student services, it's the school
administration, it's the school resource officer, and the school social worker. So, this team is working in sync to react to any type of threat in the building and to make sure that it's safe to keep kids in the building or in some instances making sure that it's safe to
open school the next day. And a special thank you, I'll pause right here, to the Dearborn Police Department who helps us do that at all hours of the night. I don't know why, but it always seems that Jared and I laugh about this all the time. It always seems like it's Friday at 11:00 at night, somebody's posting
something on social media that we work throughout the weekend to make sure that we're able to open uh school on Monday safely. Some of our grant funding, so we've put our grant money to good use. The last round of grants that we received from the state was the 97 grant. That was
extra per pupil funding. We put our uh money to good use by upgrading our camera systems, our access control equipment, and our integrated software to make sure that we can see what's going on in the buildings without actually being in the buildings. So,
that's as far as um access control when doors are opened, when doors need to be locked, when doors need to be unlocked. Abe does an amazing job with making sure that all of that access control and camera systems are easy for us to see. I did want to pause here and say thank you
so much to our IT department, Bob Addie and Chris Kennenburgg who work so closely with us on making sure that we can actually operate this equipment. In conclusion, we say this all the time, Dr. Malco and I, uh safety is everyone's
responsibility. So whether you're a board member, whether you're a staff member, whether you're a student, a parent, or a neighbor who may not even have kids in the district, safety is everybody's responsibility, and the only way we can achieve this is if we all
work together. Um there are some reporting tools that I wanted to take time to mention tonight. We do have our student safe voice. This is a link for every single building. If somebody feels that something needs to be reported to safety and security, you can click on
this link and you can report it anonymously if you wish. And there's also a space in there to give us details on what you want to report. State of Michigan also has a similar reporting tool, which is nice because if somebody is causing a threat or causing a
disturbance that may be out of state and somebody else hears about it, they can go to this okay to say website which goes to the Michigan State Police. The Michigan State Police then will forward it to the local police department and also to the schools. Uh so we love we
love that these tools help us active participation engaging in all safety drills and training. We want everybody to take this seriously. Um I'm thankful that everybody for the most part around here does and um working together. So we want to foster
an atmosphere of mutual responsibility and care among our administration, staff, students and families. It's always students first in Dearborn public schools and we want to make sure that our kids are safe when they're at school. That is all I have. Um I will say that I provided this link for you
here. We've just recently with the help of our communications department. David I think stepped away. David and Katie and communications helped me with this. We put together um a new web page for health, safety, and security where all of this information we we called it
together and just put it in this one page. So school safety really hits all of the departments. So I noticed that you know there were things all over the place which they should still remain there but there should also be a link um where all of it can be in a oneclick
under the safety and security web page. So again thank you to the communications team for helping us with that and that is the end of the presentation if anybody has questions. Thank you, Director Zat, Trusty Bazzy, and then we'll ask. Um, first and foremost, say thank you
for this presentation was very informative. Um, the changes that I've seen, at least on my drop off for my kids, I've seen at the elementary schools have been fantastic this year. So, thank you. Traffic flow, great, especially as we promote kids biking to
school or walking to school, you know, the safety of traffic flow there um is is very, very important. So, from what I've seen, it's been it's been great. in SRO that I've interacted with have been great to interact with, very informative, you know, good placement there, at least in the elementary school setting. That's my kids are in
elementary school, so that's what I see in the morning. Um, I do have a question uh regarding some of the drills. You know, when I went to school, we didn't have to do some of the some of the drills that we have to do now. Um, and I know that I've noticed there has been a change, you know, uh, when my kids come
home talking about that. um so different that I would I would ask or maybe make a suggestion that if a video or something you put together to share with the parents, right? The the especially the fight piece, right? Um that's something different, you know, what does that look
like? What happens in a classroom for something like that? Just having that um you know, as a parent and I'm I'm sure other parents too, just having that understanding of what's going on there. Again, it's so different. We didn't grow up with that. Absolutely. So, just a suggestion there. That's a great idea. And one of the things about
run, hide, fight that I like the most is it hones in on the idea that you make the best decision with the information you have at the time you have the information. So at the high school level and the middle school level, it's a little easier to do that because it's
not only staff thinking for kids, it's also the kids are able to think too. At the elementary school level, we discuss this all the time. most likely at the elementary school level, kids are either running or hiding. Um, and that and
that's just the nature of their age, right? But I do agree and u definitely will take that suggestion into consideration for sharing that video. Thank you, Trusty Pisca. Yeah, this has been a concern of mine for a long time, even
before we be uh started to have the prevalence of situations across the nation, but we're all aware of the reality. But I've been in buildings a lot of times where especially with
the older students who h it it doesn't have a reality to them. And I see them opening doors all the time. All the time. especially at buildings the size of Fortson High School where I'll be walking down a
hallway and they're coming and letting people in a back door which worries me and I don't know how we impart the importance of you know this is not just something that is uh a game or a one time we're going to have a drill but the
rest of the time we can kind of relax and how but we don't want to do it in a way that has everybody terrified or on pins and needles every time they move through the building. And we especially have to
put the message in a different tone depending on what level, elementary, middle, or high school that the students are at because they're all going to hear it differently and um prepare for it differently. So, how can we I got on uh
when I saw this report coming out um schools safety.gov. Yeah. Which has all kinds of different tutorials um to um access kind of thing. What what is a suggestion
of how we can because we're such a large district, we have to reach so many different voices and we have so many different levels of staffing and students and parents accessing buildings
all the time. H how how do we can we can we do a better job of um Well, there's always room for improvement. I so I I always say that no matter what, even if we think we're A+, then we can be A++. There's always room for improvement. It's a beast to tackle
no matter what. I think about even in my own home when I tell the kids, make sure you lock the door behind you, you know, or don't open the door and sometimes they open the door and sometimes they don't lock the door behind them. Um, but it's that constant reminder and I think that our buildings do do a good job of
that. It's just that we can't be everywhere and we can't see everything. So, it's that advocacy and it goes back to what Dr. Malleo is always saying day in and day out. Safety is everybody's responsibility. So, it's got to be in our daily practices and our daily
discussions and it has to always always be in our in our trainings, but most of all to our parents. So, Michigan Department of Education just released some videos similar to what you're talking about, the safety.gov website. So, we're currently reviewing those
videos and we're going to see if we can um they'll be posted on the website, but the thing is people don't always go visit the website just to look at these videos. They can be shared with our parents and we're hoping that they click on them and look at them, but we really need our
parents to hone in and talk to their kids about these reminders. Dr. First, I just want to thank um I think a little bit over three years now, Miss Zat, you do a great job leading the department. Mr. Nala, same thing. And
Sergeant Moff, great uh partnership with you, the work you do. Uh Chief Shaheen and all the SRO's uh seeing them all the time, building relationships and maintaining high level safety. Saw that all three of the football games last week and they're very busy and they do great work. Uh so I just want to
compliment you all there. But I do agree with Miss Alat. um you know there's a lot of responsibilities we have but we also have we have SRO officers we have five and they're in different places so like with my council we've had missiles you know students need to take hold of this
as well uh that's why we tell them even during you know for example during an emergency or something don't be shooting videos and posting things like it it you know that's why we also have to be careful with the information we're providing here publicly because there's certain tactical reasons why we don't want to share certain things um but I do
think it it is everyone's responsibility and you look at buildings where someone opens their the door but we can also improve and and I'll use this example I remember after the pandemic um and and Miss Alzat and I are always saying to the administrators and at trainings um
but uh as far as the doors being propped so I noticed it a lot now during the pandemic obviously doors were being opened for a certain reason because we were dealing with it but then as administration we went to the general administrators we talked to them multiple times we said No more prop doors. We went to Mark
Andrews. We went to his engineers and everybody has to take part of it. I seldomly see I'm not I'm I'm not saying never, but I don't see the prop doors in the backs of the engineers. So, we address that. We need the students to help out. We need everyone to kind of uh do their part so that you're not letting
somebody in. Um and you know, for example, at the football games, we increased security this year. We did that to keep everyone safe. and there may be some inconveniences for it, but we need everyone to kind of chip in with those security protocols. So, I do agree and we will constantly keep at it and we
appreciate the support of the board, but the team is doing great and please send the message on to the Dear One Police that we really appreciate Chief Shaheen and the great partnership. I have a question. Do you still have a question? Just just to piggyback on um one one thing I'm wondering about is
we're hearing a lot more about um cell phones being banned and it might be a nationwide um ban in schools uh during the day during the school day. Um which you hear push back all the time from the parents. I want to be able to have my
kid, you know, right there in case of an emergency, which, God forbid, it's it's such a rare circumstance, but that's what comes to the forefront of a parent's viewpoint. But if we were to be in a position where we decided that
because we know the detriment of cell phones in the classroom and what kind of um educational uh experience they uh decimate in the at the classroom setting, would that change how everybody
also practices their safety experience because they wouldn't have cell phones to be calling for emergency? ies or videotaping what's going on or that kind of thing. Do we think that would have a a side effect? Well, it would just take us back to the
time before there were cell phones, right? Which was a very long time ago. Um, not for me, but so, you know, uh, yeah, it it definitely would change things. Uh, I say all the time, I I talk to Dr. Malgo all the time and tell him, look, we are never going
to beat social media during an emergency. And I don't want to. I mean, I would love it if people weren't videotaping everything, every single thing going on in the building and sharing it on social media, but I always tell the principles, we cannot worry
about that during an emergency. So, during an emergency, the top priority is keeping the kids safe. It's not why is somebody posting something. If they have their phones or if they don't have their phones, um,
we still need to keep them safe. And I recently was able to join a meeting on school safety uh in a different capacity, not for Dearborn Schools, but everybody was talking about the cell phone bill. And I did let our uh representatives know that parents have
to be able to feel that their kids are safe at school if they're not going to have their phones. So that's building safety infrastructure and we need money to do that. So that comes from advocacy on your part too to advocate that we get grant money and we might know a guy up
there starting um in the end of the year. Well, I was going to offer a little bit of my insight as transitioning. Um I was at policy uh discussion event and I spoke and that was with I mentioned about Tim Kelly the chair of the appropriations of the
house for the education state aid committee and senator came chairs in senate and both of them were saying and they you know there were multiple people so this was said kind of in a public forum that um they are looking at tackling that next year but what I heard
is kind of a compromise somehow that it wouldn't be a total ban but you know we've looked at some of these technologies where there's pouches at the front or things like that. So there I believe that the legislature will likely tackle this issue uh the next year. Um especially when you have both
parties saying that it's a priority where it will end up exactly because it was also mentioned to your point of the parents concern if they can't communicate. So I have a feeling there'll probably be a compromise. But we'll see. Um absolutely. I mean, I worked 16 years on planning for emergencies,
and I'll tell you, I'm a firm believer you can do anything as long as there's a plan for it. So, whatever scenario we're given to work with, you'll make the plan. We'll just make the plan for that. And as long as we make the plan and we train everybody on the plan consistently, we'll be good.
And there's competing interests with safety being here with the plan because as an instructional leader, when I go in for school improvement visits and I walk through and Miss Alia, you were in one of them with me. And what did we see? We saw some, you know, hiding in under here on the cell phones, right? So, it is a distraction. So, you've got instruction,
you got safety. Where can we find that balance? Absolutely. And plan, as you mentioned, and you guys do a great job. Thank you. Question on the recent law from 2013 2023 about keeping guns safe at home and the requirements on districts to send
notices to families about this law and the importance of keeping firearms in a safe place. Uh, how are we doing that digitally or are we sending that to their parents through We're doing it digitally. We worked with uh David, I don't see David, but we
worked with the Department of Communications. Actually, they received that notification, too. So, we put something together for parents to receive all of that information. Okay. Uh, any other questions? Thank you,
Director Isaiah. Thank you to officers for your help and truly this is a very important topic uh student safety and staff safety so and everyone's safety is very very important so I wanted to bring that to the forefront
and also to keep this as a reoccurring topic if we have any topics that we want to tackle such as cyber bullying perhaps maybe that's another thing that we want to present on um but we we truly truly uh appreciate you uh One other concern that I had is that we did in the
beginning of the school year an uptick in student injuries, especially at the at the yards of the schools uh where they try to go on the monkey bars and they fall and then they have to get some casts and it was kind of concerning for me and this is what prompted this
presentation. The same way this Yeah, we had kind of quite a few. So I've asked Dr. Malik, what can we do? I know I don't know about equipment change but definitely a lot of education to the kids themselves. You and I were thinking the same things. I forgot to mention this, but we did
talk about it at cabinet and we approved some additional budget to provide training for the new supervisors and other staff. And so, um, I obviously have experience because I was an elementary principal before. And one of the things you want to do is as principles and assistants is to make
sure we have people, uh, divided up on the playground and at different areas, especially some of those areas where someone might climb and fall. So, that's what we need. We need the visibility, the proximity just like we have, you know, in a classroom or in a hallway. It's the same thing on the playground.
So, we did approve, it came up in the assistant principal meeting with Miss Sewer, I believe, and we approved time for the noon hours to get some additional training. And then we would, you know, ask our instructional staff the same thing. When they take uh and I know Miss Martin's here, but when we take students out for recess, we should
be kind of divided up so we can kind of monitor things as we go to maintain uh safety. And we appreciate the union support always with those things. Absolutely. Safety. Absolutely. And I mean, if I may also just a special thank you to our department of operations that uh
director Mark Andrews and his team over there because every single piece of our puzzle has to do with them. So, we can't do it without them. They're the ones who support all of the work that we do and we appreciate everything that they do, too.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Next item, please. 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
will exclude these from the motion below. Are there any agenda items that you'd like to discuss on or vote separately? Take from the motion. I have some questions on some of them. Does that mean they would be need to be
excluded? No. Do well do you anticipate a vote like to to change your vote based on the questions we can have that as a separate motion if they're just questions of if they're just regular questions then we can just
include and then you ask the questions they're they're question I don't anticipate change my vote but okay I do have some concern for them so just name name which yeah name which question which agenda items you'd like to
uh item number 6 7 8 and nine. So six through nine. Nine questions. Okay. Any other trustee would like to single out any you have questions? 15 15 just questions. Okay.
Okay. So, so let's have a motion first to get those on the table first. Right. Okay. Uh move that action items numbered one through where we at here? 26. Yeah. I I'd like to also give some
attention to 26 as a supplemental item. Um be approved as recommended in this agenda with the exception of none. So can we have Okay. A motion to move the agenda items. I move.
Okay. Thank you trusty. So uh supported by trusty pets. So now let's have the questions on the discussion. Yeah. Go in order. So Jah let's start with number six. So they're they're all uh related questions. The the original budget is
27,000 and there's additional cost of um for item number 648,000 for number 73,000 for number eight uh 173,000
uh and number nine 223,000. So the question is um they're all 27,000. So the change is the scope change. I'm trying to see why it's not in the original budget. Why do we have to especially since the year just
started? You know, are we putting the 27 as a placeholder and not sure? So I I'll wait for you to explain. Yeah, that's kind of exactly what it is. Trust me, I wish we can come up with a perfect number. The bottom line is is what we do sometimes when some of our
staff are on leave or we have vacancies is we contract staff. Uh the staff that we contract our ancillary staff that specialize whether it's social workers, speech pathologists, occupational therapists. While we're contracting staff, we're actively searching for permanent replacements. Uh sometimes we
get permanent replacements quickly, sometimes it takes a little bit longer than we would like. Therefore, that's why you'll see the fluctuation. And many times special ed has a change order or a change in specific budgetary things. Uh we're still budgeted the same amount with the FTE and things along those
lines. It's not costing us additional unless of course we have a staff member on leave. Then we'd have to obviously replace them with a different staff member, but that's why you see some of the change orders with special ed staff some. So So the additional 600,000 give or
take does not take away from what was budgeted? No, no, no, no. And a lot of times a lot of times what ends up happening is actually there's multiple staff members under the the one specific company. It's one company that sometimes will but will
maybe contract two to three staff members or whatever the situation may be. So we're not asking for additional monies per se, but sometimes we just estimate what it may cost. Uh, I wish if there was a better system that we can do this because I can tell you this, it kind of frustrates me at times too,
always bringing this up to the board agenda, but we're really playing like a guessing game sometimes with how long staff contracted staff are going to be there and so on and so forth. Yeah. And the only reason I asked that is um early in the school year uh to
budget two $27,000 and then asking the highest one is $223,000. It just seems like we should improve our budget so that we don't um put such a low number and it becomes a change control.
Yeah, I just an opinion. We'll definitely take that in consideration. I'll work with Tom's office too to see what we can do maybe a little bit better so we're not coming up here so often with some and and I will just attest having been the longest on the board. This has always right
always been a problem especially with the special ed because of the um ancillary staffing that we use outside of the norm of a regular hire. Um and I've been on the board since 2008 and it
was going on them. Every every director has had this um trouble with with getting the numbers the first go round. And and another thing sometimes that'll happen is we'll have an like say a social worker contracted uh that the original employee
comes back and then we find out someone else is going on a leave. So as opposed to going and searching for somebody new, we'll just shift that contracted person to a different vacancy which then will trigger obviously another change order and things along. Yeah. And just uh to reply to that, I
mean if it's always been that done that way, usually you learn from in budget and based on historical data to actually improve the budget and process. Um so if this has always been happening, then we would know how much we should expect
based on the fluctuation. And that's when you budget, you kind of use historical data to see what would happen. I'm just saying when I hear it it's always been. Yeah. No, you you bring up great points trust. I'm just wondering Mr. Walls there, but I wonder too if we could put a higher
threshold and send too if the board would want to do something like that and give the budgeting isn't as much of an aspect because every year we do budget money for contracted services for special ed because no matter what you do, people come and go and we always have that. State law requires that anything over
roughly about $30,000 has to be board approved. So if we actually approve one vendor and that person no longer works and we find another firm that has a social worker by law if it's going to be over 30,000 we have to bring it to the
board for approval. There is no so that's that. So budgeting is one aspect but the actual individual contracts to vendors has to have board approval. That's a state law. Now we could at the beginning of the year choose three firms and take that as part of our blanket process but again it'd be
an estimate as you know Mike has said that we don't know how long that's going to last or how much we have to put in there. So budgeting is one aspect but the state law contracts is very specific. Yeah. Also there's such critical shortages that I wish we can work with one or two firms be a lot easier for us
but like sometimes we're just we're we're opening up to as many firms as possible to get the best qualified candidates. So that's why you'll see multiple different vendors with different different I just to to clarify more. So it has to be board
approved if it's over 30,000. Does it have to be with a specific vendor? If it's more I mean is it has to be a specific vendor that you're approving by the because we have an individual contract with each of these companies. Make sure they meet all the quality standards, the
certifications. What happens if we want to hire that employee permanently? Then there's a clause that you have to go through. So each individual contract with a vendor requires board approval. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, then there was a question on 15 as well or Yeah.
Uh I believe it was 15. I believe that's communities and yeah, you had a question on 15. I didn't. I think it was uh sorry 15. Um so I was as I was reading through this, you know, this program has been
going on since 2017. 11 schools, seven coordinators, and it's expanded to 24. Is it the same number of coordinators that are still part of this? Has that expanded? Yeah, it's it's expanded greatly. So, initially what we had was we had we had coordinators doing shared time. Uh what
we found was that just wasn't a very effective model with communities and schools. Uh so they were split up in between one or two schools or whatever the situation may be. And it was limiting the capabilities of what they can do. first and foremost really servicing your most vulnerable students within the within the school setting. Uh
so what we ended up doing was we did expand uh this is fully funded right now still through a lot of our title dollars and our federal grants, but last year what really caused the expansion is Michigan Department of Education gave us a wonderful grant that we actually applied for and we were able to get and
we were able to do a couple things. We're able to expand the CIS with within that specific grant, but also make some of these part-times into full-times. And it's also it's not completely funded by the district as well. The Balmer group, who I don't know if you're familiar with our summer school group,
uh they also pay a specific portion for that as well for this this year for CIS. Yeah. For for all the time. So CIS is really a nonprofit organization funded by the Balmer Group. Okay. And so then what kind of like we're looking at almost 1.1 million. What kind of change was from last year
to this year for Duke just roughly? Uh the additional schools and additional CIS coordinators. I can tell you a couple years ago we had about 11 or 12. Now we're up to 24 coordinators. And a lot of that though was a result of the grant we received last year. But the budget itself, how much is it?
Uh the budget last year, I'll tell you from last year to this year, it's pretty much the same. The same. Yeah, there there's not much of a difference. You might want to give him the report that absolutely we asked for last year to I will. I I could provide that for you because we had similar questions last year. Yeah.
And this program definitely is federally funded, but it depends on the funding for next year. Yeah. So, honestly, we went we went into this year, we were going to make some drastic cuts with CIS over the summer. I thought almost for sure we were going to cut almost half the budget because we didn't necessarily know where Title 4
was going to be. Thankfully, it was restored in time. But, you know, next year, not knowing whether we're going to have title two, three, or four, we're going to have to make some difficult decisions moving forward with a lot of different services. And it's unfortunate because communities and schools does do some great things for our students. Yeah.
And that's what I was going to say. I know we talked, but I also just want to the history of this. So, it was the year I think 1718 we started it and it was AFT Michigan that actually approached me, the union to implement this. um at the time uh the pre the DFT president it
was Chris Tipperly and David Hecker who was there. So they the union was promoting this as well and we've generally gotten really positive over time but we also know we need to evaluate it. So uh we're hoping that we can continue to lobby our legislature so title 4 will be there next year because
CIS was well aware that this was a potential problem and they were trying to find additional funding possibly to supplement but I don't know that they necessarily did. So thankfully the title four was restored. Okay. Uh does that answer your question? Trust basic. Thank you J.
Yeah I I had a question on number 24. It's sure kind of more of a request and I could wait till later on um and maybe make a request. I think we we get the financial statements and we get the operating costs, but we don't get anything on the
federal programs as a part of the the financials for transparency sake. Um I I would like to ask going forward that we would get that as a part of the um whether it's the brief or the uh agenda
to be able to see the full budget. We're talking about 180 million that we don't see. We know it's there and everybody's really transparent about it. We just had a mean previous to this for the financials, but
for the rest of the boards, it would be good to have the full budget, the 280 uh operating plus the federal u programs, which is 180 million to be
included in the included. Okay. Uh trusty I agree with with trusty when when I was going through this and looking through the budget it was one of the first things I was trying to find. So I agree. Sure.
Uh I also just have a comment on 26 uh the ad hop committee uh met last Friday uh only myself and vice president Petishkov vice chair at the college side and we're recommending um academic
search to be our search firm for the presidential search we felt they were um the most qualified from our judgment unanimous support from the three trustees and um yeah, I believe I've
spoken to all of you about this item. So uh we we have it and President Gangko is here too but we uh we have it on this agenda so we can give them time also to start uh the work of the search and um I
would like also from all of you to let me know if you would like to serve on the pres presidential search committee subcommittee ad hoc committee that we will be forming next week. So you can let me know that uh privately. That's all I had on 26.
Trustee Ji, did you have any questions? No. Are you asking do we want to be on the search or you you can you can let me know. But we we still have a motion on the floor. Should Yeah, let's let's uh let's approve the agenda items. Okay. I I I do have a question even
though we talked and I want to make sure that the search firm that we pick um does everything that needs to be done it's not limited to um I know at one time the discussion was
they wanted to limit what the search firm does so the committee has does more limit their scope kind of situation. Yeah. So I want to make sure that doesn't we don't go that route. We want to make sure that the search firm does what they're getting paid for, what they're getting paid to do and they do their job. Yeah. Yeah. The RFP was very clear that
this is a full national search. So, yeah. So, that's why it's this high. I know for the superintendent search it might we discussed this at the finance committee that it might not be that big of a cost to the district. So, okay. Um, can I have a roll call,
please, uh, for this motion? Okay. Trustee Eljami, yes. Trusty Bazzy, yes. Trusty Damrosio is not present. Trusty Petoff, yes. Trusty Soap, yes. Amarzar, not present. President Mosep,
yes. Thank you. Next item, please. Okay. Oh, I have to read a summary. Summary of summary. It's a long list, too. Yeah, we're getting summary of action items. Number one, approval of warrants per board report 2541. Two, approval of an
award to Sungage per board report 2542. Three, approval of an award to I Ready per board report 2543. Four, approval of an award to Peopledriven Inc. Data Image Systems and Inacmp per board report
2544. Five, approval of an award to EXL. 6 through nine, approval of change orders. 10. Approval of an award to Bhani Therapy Services PLLC. 11. Approval of an award to the Stepping Stones Group. 12. Approval of an award
to imaging learning per board report 2545. 13. Approval of an award to imagine learning per board report. Oh, what did I say? The last one. Imaging per board report. 2546. 14. Approval of an award to Delta
Network Services. 15. Approval of an award to communities in schools. 16. Approval of an award to train per board report 2547. 17. Approval of an award to We Build Fund per board report 2548.
18. Approval of an award to Green Manufacturing, Inc. per board report 2549. 19. Approval of an award to Johnson Controls per board report 2550. 223. Approval of non-instructional and
instructional personnel items for P12. 24. Approval of financial statement. 25. Approval of donations. And 26. Approval of a contract to academic search for
executive search consulting services for the next Henry Ford College president. Thank you. Next item. Okay. discussion. None. Next. Board of Education business. Acknowledgement of correspondence.
I have responded to all of the emails that have been addressed to us and uh I still have some emails that were just addressed to me, but I'll I'll respond to it later. Any other correspondents to acknowledge? No. Uh next item, please.
Board member committee and organization reports. Uh the finance committee met before this meeting and we discussed multiple items. Uh first was the uh preliminary discussion on the audit and the post
audit discussion with Mr. Higgins from plant Moran. Happy to report that the district received unmodified opinion on the on the audit. uh they'll be working with the district to work on the recommendations that they have and they
found uh with the audit. Uh there was also a discussion on putting uh the RFP for banking services on hold uh until uh we get a clear point of view of the
competition. Uh there was also a discussion on the state aid budget um as well as uh the upcoming superintendent search which we would discuss which we will discuss in a little bit as well. Um
so that was uh the finance committee I sat in for trustee who's the chair for that committee. Any anything else? Well I I didn't have a committee but I did have a correspondence. I totally forgot because it was a text message
sent to me and then an a follow-up email that was sent by city councilman uh Paris who was contacted by a community member who lives near Hey um elementary school who this individual had concerns about a
tree that had been planted in memoriam of a student I believe that had to be moved and had subsequently died because of the move it didn't rroot and um this individual was concerned about the condition of the tree and
would a new planting take place. So they reached out to Councilman Paris who reached out to um the principal at HEG who did respond back that they would like to be able to replace a tree but
they're trying to find a way because trees can be fairly pricey and the timing of the year and everything. So there is conversation being had but I wanted to share that with the board. Thank you. Uh any other uh committee reports?
I I do uh and I need uh Miss F to help me. We did uh the proficiencies of the school improvement. Um we we had a great meeting and a lot of positives. Um we also got to see the dashboard. Uh
Dr. Patterson did a great job with that. It's it's amazing. It has a lot of data that we're looking for and you know we'll wait till it's ready to be shown to the board but I think the board will be happy with that and as well as the parents because transparencies both
ways. Um I think we're looking for the next step in the next meeting. I wish more board member would have joined the the the committee. Um it's still you know I anybody could still join. Yeah. But the idea for is the next step
is going to be, you know, goals and and correct me if if I'm wrong, Miss Fer, goals for the schools, you know, to set the expectation and what they need to do to meet those expectations. Obviously, there's going to be support for them to meet those goals. But accountability is
big. It It's not something where there's a school improvement plan and you see if you could make it. If you don't make it, that's fine. There's going to be accountability to go with that. So, that's where the changes to this committee came in is accountability
is is a a big factor. Uh, did I miss anything? Can Can we get a Because I totally forgot about it and I didn't sign in originally to it. Can we can we re-receive the in or at least the
upcoming dates for the next one so that anybody who is available will be able to attend because I did promise that I would come and I totally was not in my calendar and we had a good um diverse group from
different schools. um representation, not diverse, good representation from the high schools, from you know, different schools. And it was good to hear the different feedback, you know, and and kind of share success and failure. We didn't get in depth into
that, but I think it's going to be in the future more. Um, but I I thought it was a great meeting and like I said, the dashboard will complement that. All right. Um, next. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, any other committee reports? No. Okay. Next item.
Board member, superintendent commentary. No, the superintendent has things to share, but any any other board members would like to do any commentary. So, usually in this section for the new trustees, if when you could vent. Yeah.
So, if you want to vent, if if you have something to share, if there are any upcoming events. So I'll start just to to lead by example. Um I did attend the 25 plus dinner as Dr. Mico mentioned and uh it was great. It was amazing seeing how many people dedicated so many years
of their lives uh to uh the district and um and the college and we had people even with 39 years uh of service and some are still continuing on. So we we it was truly truly amazing. Uh Dr. Gonko
was there too from the college and and David was there as a sub for Dr. Malleo since he was in Lancing. Um there was at the last football game for for there was a recognition for co former coach Zeban.
Uh he was inducted to the hall of fame for the state of Michigan for MH MHSSA organization and that was a great event. I know u trusty demio and trusty Bazzy were present so we were able to take a
picture and Danielle took the the picture for us so thank you for that um uh presidential search so I'm glad to now announce that we're going to be working with academic search to do the
presidential search and uh for the new trustees you know as I mentioned you can let me know if you'd like to serve there will amount of work um and I'd like to get all of us to work on this as we have in the past all together to participate in
some way or form in this process. So we started with the search firm we're going to go to the now the actual search and then there will be also an opportunity to do contract negotiation. So, um, there's only three for for me. You can only have three.
We can have up to three members on a committee. And so, I'd like to divide the work between all of us. And there will also be perhaps uh a search committee for the superintendent. Uh, so uh you will be able if you would like to serve on that
to let me know as well. And you will have if you read the RFP, you'll have a better understanding of the timeline and time commitment to be on that committee and you'll be serving with a number of other community members who will also be participating.
Um the other thing is the FO board will be um involved in the beginning with the search firm who will be looking for what kind of profile we're going to be putting out in order to um have applicants for um the college
president and what we would like to see. Um so what I hear is the possibility of three committees for each one the initially to select a a firm and then the now you would be part of a larger search
committee that includes um college community members um and and community members from within the uh city who would also volunteer their time. Last time we did this we had 35 to 40 people. Yeah. No, they
all didn't show up. Yeah. 35 to 40 people were on this search committee. We had which was much larger than it should have been. The search firm will help us flesh out what our search committee should look like, but we have a
contractual obligation with the um unions at the college that they have a certain number of individuals who will be participating. Okay. So we we already actually in a previous meeting determined that 24 individuals
will be on this committee. So uh three of them will be board members much lower number than than 40. So three uh board members as again let me know if you're if you have interest in serving in there. If you don't serve in that then you'll be able to serve in contract
negotiations um for the superintendent. I I'm gonna wait until we have our study session on November 3rd to learn from MASB the best practices and to see what is the best option that we have especially
considering that next year is going to be a very important year for for the district especially with a potential bond in November. So we want to see a great timeline. Um we want to move as quickly as possible. I know the college
unfortunately the timing was not great. It started over the summertime so took us a few months to get to a search firm but I I would hope that the districts would be much much quicker in getting us a search firm and then we go for the full search.
So then there's there's a committee to select a search firm. Then once that's selected a committee with the search firm to finalize and then once the board has voted on whether it's the president or superintendent then a committee for contract new for contract. Correct. Yes. Those three that are
selected first are they all the way through or this can change up. No, it will change up. So that's why I talked about dividing the work and I hope you know next year we'll build on that of saying who haven't served will be able to to serve in some some some capacity
but at the same time I I'd like to say and mention this clearly that the entire board is going to be a prize of all the things that are happening and then the finalists for both the president and the superintendent will be here to to be
interviewed by the entire board. Yeah, the entire board does interview. Yeah, the finalists. Okay. Any other commentary? Anything that you'd like to share? I know election day is coming up for municipal elections. That's a very important day
and absentee ballots are already out. Yeah. So, uh city council uh race as well as the mayor race in our city of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. And also there is a ballot proposal that I'd like residents to read on and and they have
the opportunity to vote a yes or no. And that's changing how uh city council members are getting elected in the city. I have no other commentary or announcements. Anybody else? Okay. Next item.
I just I just wanted to uh thank Dr. Gonko for an excellent meeting a week and a half ago with Kevin Hley and Michael Nean joint cooperation. I think we got through a lot. Tom put us the a jam-packed agenda. You ever seen Tom's agendas? You know how they go. But we got through a lot. And yeah,
he does. He does like to fill relations. He has to. But anyway, it was very productive. I appreciate if you can share with the others. Uh we we have the best partnership of any college P12 anywhere. So, uh board members, I think you're aware of that and we continue to enhance that. So, thank you, Dr. Uncle
Josh, I I did want to say um you mentioned um Coach Walker Zavan, somebody that um we grew up together. Um an amazing person, a great coach, and I just want to recognize him by the board
for his service and what he's done for the community. Somebody that's of high character. Um, I always feel like that people like him because they go under the radar, they're not recognized, but the impact that they do to our kids in many ways as a
teacher, as a coach, uh, we grew up together. We grew up in Amazon. Amazon um, had great people that came out of it for those who don't know. Yeah. Amazon street is index. It had Emo
and it had uh, Abe Mashure. So, a lot of great people came out of that street. Uh, and Walkers was one of them. Walker was um is he never changed from when he was a kid till now and he really impacted the kids in Fortson in many
ways. So, we're proud of him as a South Ender, as somebody that grew up with him. So, I want to thank him for his service. Thank you. Thank you for that recognition. Uh I I had coach Zaban as a student at Fortson. So I did
and he was an amazing uh made me run a few miles for missing on a swimming day. One swimming day, two miles. But that was great. That was a lesson for me. But definitely I echo your words trust former coach Zaban and teacher Zaban had
been blessing for our community and we thank him for his service and uh I believe that induction to the hall of fame is welld deserved. Okay, next item please. Request for information andor future agenda items.
So Trash Ji already had a request for information as far as the budget for federal funding. if we want to that to be included in the report for the Mr. W already had that. And one more thing uh outside I I just
need an update on the early college and the elevator. I know um the building you mean the building because it's impacting the kitchen and and other things. So just an update on that.
Okay. Any any other requests? There are no more requests. We can go to adjournment. This meeting is future meeting dates. Oh, we do have future meeting dates. You might like to know when we meet again. Please go.
Uh Monday, October 20th, 2025 HFC policy committee meeting at 6. Monday, October 20th, 2025 HFC board of trustees meeting at 700 p.m. in the Rosenau board room. Monday, November 3rd, 2025 P12 Board of
Education Training, 6 PM at the Administration Service Center. And Monday, November 10th, 2025, P12 board of education meeting, 700 p.m. at the Administrative Service Center in the Frankie boardroom.
Thank you everyone for joining us. Thank you to Vice President Petoff for being secretary today. Have a good night everyone. This meeting is a journal 921.