--------- next item is discussion item that is a first budget amendment for 2024 2025 with Mr Thomas wall good evening again um I I try to do this in five minutes but I won't do it so I just get get you off of that
expectation you always got to manage expectations with the audience you're with um as part of our normal budget heing process uh we do our first budget amendment at this time frame and actually you'll actually approve it at the next board meeting but this is just a discussion so we can have a discussion
what it's all about um if you look on the screen this is our budget calendar so our budget process usually starts in January for the next fiscal year 2526 and our first step is for our purpose is to do our budget amendment
because we do a budget adoption by July 1st and when we did our budget approval back on June 3rd of last year it was based on a lot of estimates because the state law was not passed at that time uh so now that we actually have our student count all the revenue is kind of figured
out by the state how to handle it we update our budgets and we bring it to the board for formal adoption so this is basically our current operating program we're doing for the 2425 school year now as in the calendar the state has started
their process for next fiscal year so we kind of look at where we're at now taking what the state information is going to be coming forward for the next several months we start developing our budget for next year but this is the part we look at for today is just the adoption of the First Amendment you'll
see on the days that we'll be meeting again constantly talking about this um our next big one is in April we'll look at a first look for next year because we'll have a better idea what the economic factors are and where the state is going for next year's
budget but looking at this year again this is I always like to lead off with this screen showing you where all the money is in the fund on a pictorial basis we have our Capital project fund which is restricted our debt funds was restricted our special Revenue funds we have more control over it but it's based
upon the individual grants or the funding source and then we have the general fund that kind of captures all the remaining funds in that that's mostly our operational budget if you have questions feel free to rup me as I go along it won't be as fast as Dr bar I won't speak that
fast uh a big component we have three big components obviously state a student count and our compensation those are big things we always want to make sure we look at when we look at the operating budget last year we were in June we actually expected to increase slightly
by 41 kids that's on the Blended count now we have two counts once in the fall and once in the spring actually kind of winter more like it now um February 12th is the upcoming one the counts are based on the calendar year so we're looking at last February of 24 count and this Falls
24 count account to get our true revenue for this school year um our actual count was 385 kids less than we expected from our budgetary projection now with that and the actual decrease we add those two together we're actually at a shortfall that'll look at
a future screen on the actual Revenue because we get our our foundation allowance of 9,921 per pupil uh just looking at the pictorial for all funds um you can see the majority of our funds which is the yellow comes from the state of Michigan
uh since proposal a passed in 1994 most of our money comes from the state prior to that it was local elections that we would handle for our own Villages but now majority of our money comes from the state recently a lot of money has been coming from the federal side too Esser funds and we're just finishing it up
this year with a little bit of construction funds that ended September 30th so that you'll see that actually phasing down as we go forward but if you look at our total budget you can see our amended budget is $463 million that's broken down here more by categories and numers so you can see
percentages a little better same information from the other side but this is just looking at the revenue side now and you can see that for all funds that majority of the money comes from the state on the right hand side the amendment of roughly 290 million you'll see the state on the left side we
originally projected 278 million and you ask why is that number higher when we got less money from the state for our foundation is Grants State has now moved to more of a grant discussion as we talked about in the past and you can see the federals roughly about the same but you'll see that going down next year as
the Esra funds move out looking at the just the general fund which is our operating fund you can see that roughly about 73 to 75% of our money is from the state so the state does make up a large portion of that the other portion as big is the blue which is local as we as part of our foundation
allowance even though we get $992 per child we are required to Levy that 18 Mills on non-homestead property which is the businesses the total of that the blue and our foundation allowance make up our full $992 so just realize that that's even
though it's the local portion it's still part of that 9,921 people you won't see a large variance between the two but just so you're aware of how the larger portions work out looking on the expenditure side you you can see we spend majority of our
money on instruction that is the basic classroom which is in the classroom we spend the majority of our money in the classroom as we kind of philosophically planned every year so when every time we do adjustments the classrooms are usually the last ones that we adjust to make sure that students have the
resources they need in the classroom the only thing you'll see slightly here Al is the increase in transfers that we'll get a little further on in discussion of why that is happening this is just broken down the same thing in the general fund but broken down more by different categories
so you can see that on the bottom part of the expenditures that you'll see that our salary projections were pretty on on online with what it was roughly about 130 million of the 267 which is roughly almost 50% is based on just salaries the
next three items benefits biker retirement workers comp another 35% of our budget is based on the benefits you look at that total we're about 85% of our operating budget is spent on salaries so again that's our third component so that's something we always
have to be aware of so when we look at significant changes uh if you remember I recalled I said that we adopted our budget before the state a is passed and unfortunately last year they kind of took a a left turn on how they were funding it they
were promise promising money for us in our P Foundation allowance our most likely scenario we do three different scenarios as we go through the process best case worst case and most likely we adopt the most likely as we get through forward to the end of the adoption process we expected $2 $241
they gave us zero so that was a significant change of roughly about a $4.7 million loss they were going to take away some of the grants enrollment stabilization was one of the grants but they gave it back to us miers which is our retirement fund is where they really started messing with dollars as you can
see some of those numbers are pretty big so them messing with dollars could really impact us unexpectedly on an individual District than what they see at the state level fortunately for us it worked out to our benefit and taxes uh if you remember we had that issue where they didn't L some
the taxes the prior year so that's why it's higher in the subsequent year so the net effect was roughly about a $6.4 million increase in Revenue which was good for us now granted some of the taxes were a one-time Revenue but for on a single year basis it was good but on the next count you see we're student
count our other big piece we always talk about is that we actually lost the total of 385 plus the 41 so roughly about 426 kids we lost revenue for because we have a lower student count that was about a 4.2 million doll loss so nting those two
we are about roughly about $2 million higher overall from on look on the general fund change looking at staff compensation you can see you know budget actually was pretty good again we could control that one so it's easier to forecast where we're at now are we higher than staff
because we lost those 421 kids yes but we usually don't make those kind of adjustments in the same year because that means moving teachers out of their normal classroom kids being reassigned we don't usually do that we roll that into next year's work of figure out how to balance that number if we're too high
other expenses only bigger things is Contract Services are up you know we have older buildings we have to spend more money in our maintenance and operations and we also have uh we're doing those Consultants this year for the communication of reaching out to the public on the potential Bond that's that's in that cost also with that $2
million surplus we're actually moving some of that money over to our building and site fund again to handle some of the repairs that we need to get done so I know the community is not going to be able to read this but this just gives you a larger picture of looking at the original and the other
Amendment side for special Revenue funds uh just beware that you can see most of them are balanced you know for Grant purposes you know we getting grants we only expense what we have so there really isn't a common go you'll see that the food service and Adult Ed are the only ones that really have a fund
balance because they operate on a year-to-year basis they could have a loss or a gain in any given year so that's why you see a little bit of fund balance but most of the other funds the Student Activity fund funded projects and act 18 are all self-balancing we only get the cost that we can that we spend and we get reimbursed for those
exact costs [Music] you'll see in front of project that little three it's on a screen later but I'll kind of touch on it now uh you'll see that we originally estimated 84 million actually came in 104 million
again there more grants that came up as the year progressed we applied for them and received them so a lot of those are grants that we applied for one of them was the V Ed grant that we got for expanding Michael Barry for their construction trades and autot Tech you'll see another one that we received
received was for Energy Efficiency from the federal government we applied for that renewed America that we had to do and you'll see some other ones that I'll mention later looking at the this is just a general fund side by side we kind of went over those numbers but just kind of give you a comparison if you want to get
in further detail um you'll see here for the overall all funds you'll see the debt fund that right now we're at 1.35 Ms when we originally went back out in 2019 for the bond we at 4.82 so that number
has dropped as bonds have come off and that 1.35 until 20134 will continue to go down slightly as we get near the 20-year Mark for the original 2014 bonds the other one is the capital projects you'll see that there's roughly
8 million in that Asser funding that's the federal portion that finished up in September 30th is still in this fiscal year and next year you'll see that rolloff so just looking at this I've already talked about the erss and debt funds so some of the other was that 12a that's
the energy Improvement bonds 74b infrastructure we applied for a grant to help offset our electrical buses infrastructure that was accepted uh the 994 9995 is the vocational Capital Improvement in Green Schools 31aa we got
they were originally going to cancel that one at the last second they came back and extended it for mental health 31n was for mental health H for mental mental health so we are AB you know looking out there for any grants that we can get to help offset cost for the district stronger Connections mental
health and 21st century which you approved at the last board meeting is tutoring uh normally access has done that in the past but the state has limited the number of buildings they can help so they asked us to be a Fiscal Agent so we're running the program collecting indirect cost but they're still running the program as a
subcontract that was quick so I'll open up anytime you have questions I met with Jamal earlier today we went through spent an hour just going through budget items always glad to do that it is a broad big area and it's hard to be you know an expertise and everything but you
need to have that General understanding I'm always glad to meet with you and go over it trusty P okay the elephant in the [Music] room we hear a lot of instability right now coming from the federal right side
and a lot of these grants energy improvements electric buses Capital Improvements I'm assuming are federal grants correct since we can't be reassured right now that we're actually going to
get that money in the bank I know my understanding from what I'm hearing and reading is is that we're probably okay for right now for things that we've already correct for this year we're good yes we're good how much of
these projections can we withstand some seismic shifts coming from Washington DC and potentially from Lancing um number one and number two and I'm going to kind of mix the question my
understanding when we lost the 400 so student count that we eventually got back a number of those students but we did not get the funds correct follow with them I thought originally laning had changed that so
that the F the money would move with them if they came in after so let me give you a little what's going on with that so we have firm you know dates that we collect student data and any given day it's done across the whole state of Michigan so they can know where every child is on a given day if they were in
another schol school district prior to us so if they came in after our count day we get a proportional credit for that and you'll see that as part of the student counts you'll see 23A those that kids that transferred they might have started in Crestwood but then came to
here and vice versa they started here for our account date and they went there afterwards they get a perational amount up to the secondary count date those kids are accounted for but those kids that were never in public schools this year those are students that would not be in our count because they came in
after the count day the state was promising to do a supplemental for us for those districts that had that happen because they knew the refugees were coming in or coming from out State because of you know issues outside of their control they just traveled later that they were going to give us a
supplemental and that was on the agenda to be approved in December but unfortunately things kind of blew up and everything nothing got passed so the money there is extra money in this school year we don't know if they're going to still do a supplemental or not with the new legislator they're still
working through their Kinks and so we have not heard anything about those additional students my understanding there about 385 kids that could be counted that we get a perational foundation allowance for so I just I wanted to make sure that our community members understand that while it sounds
like we lost this amount of students we really didn't lose them it's just a the accounting right um Sor the financial support we get from the state does not allow us to count those kids for funding we actually didn't lose that many of
students at the end of the day okay so that I wanted to clear up and then we're back to a lot a lot of this uncertainty right now in our political landscape with um a lot of our funding
um are are we prepared to weather the storm so to speak well that's one of the things that we're going to have to make some assumptions because right now any Grant that's coming forward we were going to talk about American schools in the finance committee about whether we could apply for it again because there's
a 25% match and unfortunately we don't have necessarily the operational money to match that that we were considering going into our fund balance to match that to do some school improvements so basically getting $4 to $1 doll on that money they end end up pulling that off just today they pulled that off the
shelf and Clos that window because that was due in April now it's not even open so we don't even know if it's going to reopen again uh the other things we're seeing now is language being associated with federal grants that if you're going to apply for a Federal grant you've heard some of the
White House Executive offices you can't offer a Dia program right and if you're doing it you're not eligible for the grant and they said they are going to audit districts or any grantees to see if they're actually are or not doing that so now it comes into the question whether we can even apply for federal
grants so as you're also aware you know the states are following lawsuits one after the other opposing some of these you know White House mandates that are coming through so where it's all going to end I'm not sure but what we're going to do is look at all our grants
especially the federal ones and see if we don't get that what the impact is now that impact will affect next school year right so as we go forward we'll have to make the assumption that we're not going to get that and have to figure out how to handle it because some grants do have staff in it and we don't want to lay off
staff so that means they have to roll into our current Staffing and maybe we look at those that are retiring we don't hire new people we roll those people in so it's going to affect a lot of different departments HR might not be able to hire things like we like to hire early get the cream of the crop from the
graduating classes we might have to not look at that this year so those are the things we're going to have to decide as Administration and board where we're going to go with that and how it's going to impact next year's budget this year we're fine but it's next year it's going to be the issue yeah all right trusty Wat so two things what is the current
fund balance percentage 11% you mean the rainy day what's yeah we have a certain percentage that we always like to so when you look at the general fund um it's the 37 million 639 is our fund balance on the oh sorry wrong side 30 million is our
fund balance on the amended side out of a 283 million so you're probably just under 10% and what does the state like us to have what is best practice uh well if we're under 5% if we're under 5% we're going concerned and then we have to start filing reports with the state of Michigan to show how we're going to
get out of that okay so we're the recommendation is usually anywhere between 5 and 20% okay I was going to say we like it around 15 our own board policy it says 5 to 20 anytime we're over 20 we're expected to work as a group to figure out how to get it back under 20 okay so we're at 10% and I
think you had already mentioned this um and I know that this is what I'm doing my position is looking at the language for those grants to start looking through the application to see what sort of verbage right they're they're hunting
for yes okay matter of fact we have I just talked to Jo put some language on the cabinet to start talking about do we even qualify or not qualify you know I I don't know necessarily know every single program we do so that's something we're going to work as a group effort to see if we are and if we want to be what's
the compliance we would have to take I was going to say are we going to have our legal maybe start to have to wait in on some of this if they're more up to speed about what's going on it's something we're going to have to consider we're going to have to consider
yeah trusty Barry yeah let's clarify student count Tom Mr wall the students that we lost they're not the same students that came into our school dist correct correct because we were based on students they were here for the February
count of last year is what we do as a projection correct but I mean I heard earlier it was a good question that was asked it's we're not losing we didn't lose any students we we lost the students we had last year but more new students came because what's going on on
the other side of the ocean is you know like if we didn't lose the students that we did lose we would be up 400 students yeah I don't know if we're actually they could have been a student just came in yes yeah I just want to make S um f me farage and Ros they were
tracking every student we do have some for example that they didn't come back they were in our district last year but they didn't come back at the start of the Year normally the that's not the 400 students no not not all of them not that many PE not that many families went overseas during all this trouble going
on what we looked at though with the data and again every situation is different um but they would count for one or two reasons if they weren't enroll and this is what the supplemental was going to be and then it blew up during the lame duck um was that if they weren't already enrolled in another
District or if they were enrolled in our district and just didn't re didn't come into class before the October 10th they would have counted but you are right there were different reasons we've looked at previous years and this was an odd year um it was not within the norm
because we generally would get 70 to 80 students that would come within that time frame and this year it was about 380 so it was an odd phenomena again we can't say for sure on each individual but was the data showing that it wasn't within our Norm I just want to make sure that the discussion that we've had
before that we're bleeding students oh with the that's that still exists we need to keep an eye on that we can't just say oh student count was low but now it's okay because it's different different students yeah we're losing students at the high school we look good at the elementary levels but the high
school is and we've had some that are going online in other places that was virtu you're right we don't want to say to the community that oh yeah no no we're good over there no we're not good we need to have that discussion sure absolutely but this was just a unique phenomena that we were trying to work with the legislature to get the funding for our students sure and the problem
most likely we're not going to get these funds we're still going to Advocate we're going to Advocate but the reason we're not going to get these funds we're probably one of the very rare districts that this happened to well we do have support from some of the educational organizations for this so
I'm hoping that we can use those I mean I don't want to sound negative but if this was a Statewide issue you'd have more we'd have more sure yeah I mean the fact that we got guesstimating about 400 students because of what was going on overseas maybe a
local another District got 40 maybe a district out in Oakland County got a couple hundred where the minority in that discussion that's why sure right it's only 2% of our student count but still it's a large number large large a large
amount any other questions for Mr W and I always again anytime one wants to get further deep into a certain section I'm more than willing to do thank you for what you do and congratulations again congratulations again you got a fun job it's not an easy
job next item please okay next item will be acknowledgement of Correspondence now we did receive um a letter today that you I believe you all have from Mr Dugen right
Dennis dou um all of the emails that we received about Personnel have been responded to uh accordingly with Dr Malo so thanks to all parents and citizens who have
corresponded with us next item next item is board member committee and organization reports I uh Finance uh committee did meet I I was sitting in for treasurer D
Ambrosio and um the items that were discussed were the amendment um to the budget as well as um the explanation of the budget that Mr wall just did uh he did also mention
the renew America competitive Grant which is needing a 25% matching fund and possible usage of the fund balance for that that's to be looked at um there was also the banking services there will be
an RFP for that service um so we can get a better better rate from the banks believe that was any other item trusty trusty Legal Services on the agenda but we didn't get we didn't have
enough time to get to that today okay we are looking for for information on that yeah thank you uh any other committee reports trusty Barry the policy committee also met earlier I sent out an email earlier today asking my colleagues that if
there's a certain policy you want us to get through this year please share it with uh Mr musen and myself also I CC we had Joan circulate the minutes of the study session from uh February 28 2023 we kind of want get on the same page on
some of those uh policies that were discussed some we were got updated on some we were still looking for information but we will get to it some of the items on the agenda was uh board meeting agenda regarding citizen participation
yes Mr President uh the discussion we had is we're going to keep it the same but give you flexibility give the president flexibility to move things around okay if there's uh what this is uh we're talking about here if we get a
room full of uh our constituents or students the president will have the right to move citizen participation of the agenda okay yeah just just so that we're following Robert's Rules he really needs to um entertain a motion entertain
a motion that sure sure but we're saying that's always been his prerogative sure sure the other thing we president's prerogative the other thing we discussed is the self phone search uh protocol and all that was was just kind of updating and educating our
staff on the protocol and at the same time moving forward we're going to try to figure out we're going to follow up on how do we educate our students on their rights when it comes to search protocol uh placement of administration was also discussed administrators now
that was we're just updating the policy to kind of like mirror state law was there anything else okay thank you that's all I have Mr President okay thank you any other committee reports seeing none we can go to the
next item please the next item is board member and superintendent commentary I do have some commentary but I'll wait for anybody to say any commentary trusty I just want to um I'm sure a lot
of you know Mr B who works at at so for he's a counselor um a great person a good friend and I just want to send our prayer to him he's um he had a heart attack and our heart goes to him and his
family we wish him the best of health and it's really uh I mean he's the kind of person that always gave a genuine person a person that cared about our kids and impacted impacted the the community in so many ways so we want to
wish him the best of health and you know we wish him to be back at etel forward and continue what he's doing absolutely all prayers to Mr vun and his family uh trusty zah yeah um I would like to bring
up something uh to the superintendent that we talked about briefly before but I also brought up at our uh College meeting last month and and that is how we classify and count uh our students and how we look at categories especially
racial and ethnic categories um uh I know that we have a software system I believe called myar in the schools that keeps the profile of the students and one of the things that it tracks is um race or ethnicity and for the longest
time Arab Americans were absent or invisible from these things uh counted as white Under federal law that seems like it's being rectified by the federal government as of March of last year but still for um you know uh educational institutions from uh direction from the
Department of Education have been able to add more categories to these things if they wanted to so what I'm asking is that if we can get a clear answer of what are the categories that are currently depicted on the myar system and how um they're currently classifying
students and to update it to reflect our population so if there is not a box for Arab American American or the government uses Middle East North African which I don't like but whatever that's what they use if if uh if there's not a box for that that we ask a software company to add a box for that and to add sort of
specification boxes beyond that we have a unique population and um we can we should get the proper data so we know exactly how to um address all different concerns in our district so uh that would mean if we do have a box uh for
let's say Middle East North African or really any other thing that people can specify beyond that um let's say what country they're from or whatever and very importantly that they can check more than one box you know we are in increasingly uh diverse and uh you know
quote unquote mixed you know we have a lot of mixed families and all that kind of stuff so it's important that also students can uh classify for themselves or their parents do it more than one category if necessary I know sometimes I you know I teach this class and or teach us stuff at school and people get
confused sometimes where you know how can you have four people in the room and have you know three of them be white and three of them be Arab well and there's only four people well you know somebody married somebody so you have somebody that is a uh a member of more than one racial someone can check more than one box so we need to have those uh uh
things available so we can have an accurate depiction so that um we know right away when we're speaking and when we're talking about our district exactly how many you know especially in a place like Dearborn you know what's the percentage of Arab American students right now I think we have no idea and um
it's important that we have uh that kind of accurate information so I'm just asking you I know we've discussed it uh before but I'm just asking you to look into that so we can get clear answers so we know exactly how to um uh what to ask for from the software companies and
hopefully to start a process where maybe in a year from now uh after we've gotten the right classifications and gotten people to fill them out that we do have accurate numbers of of all of our students thanks any other commentary I've also
sent the entire board the link to a form where you can input the board goals for 2025 2026 so please look for that and uh I'd like it to be shown in the March meeting
here as a presentation item uh that we can track uh for the next for this year and the year after um thank you trust for mentioning mrun he was also on my agenda I know Founders
Day for the PTA is happening on the 27th I know Mr nabila the president of PTA is here I hope that some of us can make it um I know I plan to be there and uh I wanted to mention
about um news about ice raids in certain places in our community and um uh I've talked to Dr Malo about this and some of you as far as uh the what
we're doing as the district and the district does have a plan of addressing uh these kind of situations if if they were to be happening at our schools sorry you said ice rates yes yeah so um um Dr Malo has a plan has addressed
it with his administration addressed it also with the teachers and secretaries uh if this issue would to happen um and then I don't have anything else so uh next
item next item is request for information and or future agenda items oh I guess that's when I should have said what I just said to you but okay sorry thank you for that you're new here sorry I'm very new here yes thank you we already have that request any other request trusty bar just for the record my opinion you're doing a good job don't
go anywhere thank you s thank you so uh good nice to hear that from everybody I would like to get a history of uh I'm going to go ahead and call it we called it earlier the guido fund balance Dr Malo oh just to kind of follow up on trusty Watts question see where we've
been and what direction we're going and just got to keep an eye on that please maybe over the last 10 years or longer do you want to see uh let's see we started uh yeah 15 years 15 yeah thank you we seen it not too long
ago we just need sure we'll have it just needs upd that's all thank you thank you any other requests no trust um one of thing that I'm looking for and and we should all be looking for
is to kind of get a better handle for understanding of our El students um I met with Dr uh Patterson and did an amazing job G giv me up to speed but one of the things that I I was hoping that from a data perspective we
could get some um data analysis based on number of kids designated as El students in the district per School in the number of years those kids are in the program uh because there are some kids that are saying six seven years
whatever I know the data is there because he showed it to me but he can provide it to me it's just you know probably doing some kind of pivot table or something to that extent uh and also the number of kids that have exited the program okay uh because right now from
what I'm being told is if you look at at the high school level the number of the exit is very small where the exit is more at the elementary school and this will give us a good gauge you know as far as our proficiencies where is it impacted by is
it the El students and and so on and just to make a statement um the number of yours will dictate a lot of things because I do think if you take kids that are in just my personal opinion that are not an uh a
second language speakers and they take the waa test they might struggle with that but it gives us an idea as far as you know how many kids do we have in the program how many exen and how long we' been
there great got that Dr got it okay perfect thank you all right there are no more requests next agenda item please next is future meeting dates Monday February 17th 2025 the
Henry Ford College Board of Trustees policy committee meeting 6 p.m. at the administrative services and Conference Center in the cabinet conference room Monday February 17th 20 2025 the Henry Ford College Board of Trustees meeting at 700 p.m. at the administrative
services and Conference Center in the Rosen all boardroom and Monday March 10th 2025 p12 Board of Education meeting 7M at the administrative service center in the Frank Frank franie
boardroom thank you this meeting is adjourned at 9:49 Part: 2
next item please next item is special reports we have a career in tech technical education update by Mr John BYL did I say that right did oh thank you that's a rarity thank you
BYL hi superintendent moo members of the board you know I'm I'm looking around and I see all these new faces and I realize it was about time I came and did this anyway so I brought for you today a brief really brief um kind of up update on where we are with Career and
Technical education here in deero right so um I started out I sent in my slide deck last week and you all know we had a snow day last week I don't know if you know for us teachers what snow days do they throw everything into chaos so this is not a student although
she looks like one this is our culinary arts teacher Karen pcrii I did ask her to come along because she is one of the absolutely excellent professionals I work with every day and I wanted to publicly recognize her for the amazing work does with our students uh preparing
them in culinary arts but also for hospitality and tourism careers which I keep finding out is our second biggest employer in the region behind the Auto industry so sometimes that gets overlooked um I think I can turn right uh February's Career and Technical
Education Month both nationally and the state Governor uh Whitmer has signed this and this is where we celebrate those programs that prepare our kids for Life After High School um and we always say it's not like we used to think in the 1950s some kids went to college some
went into careers it's now College and Career ready because all students are going to be lifelong Learners so what is Career and Technical education this is what I share in a much larger format with our students all the time they are classes that beyond the
rigorous curriculum that all schools have also include Hands-On skill training laboratory training we run a school restaurant Ellie's eery at the Michael career center where students handle all aspects of the restaurant work based learning where they get out
and engage with members of the local community finding out what it's going to be like after they're in high school and what that job's going to entail uh Career and Technical student organizations clubs that allow those students opportunities for student leadership competition scholarships
they're built into our classes they're not necessarily after school clubs um like at a traditional high school or in a traditional classroom student certific ifications independent thirdparty external verification of what they've learned I'm going to talk about this
more in a minute um but it's our mstep or our SAT or our PSAT how we measure success is when kids leave our program do they have something in hand they can take to our local Workforce that says hey hire me and then there is college
credit um available for students uh both through AR articulation agreements with Henry Ford Community College our partner and also Statewide we're also exploring some dual enrollment options rolled into our career in technical education so these are the 11 programs
we offer currently as you can see culinary Erics and Hospitality we have a business Academy preparing kids for business career Allied Health pre-education trying to grow our own uh teachers uh criminal justice and law
careers police officers and lawyers um and then underneath automotive technology computer programming construction trade cyber security and it digital design welding um you'll notice three of them I highlighted in red Auto is great if you go to edel Ford and
Fortson you no longer have an auto program at Dearborn High those students can go to the other high schools and take it however they don't in practice it's a little weird being the one Dearborn kid at etel and there may not be room for same with construction trades we unfortunately lost our teacher
at etel that's not available there um I had a student just share with me this week he's completed two years of health science classes at Michael Barry loves it has a great time she's starting an electrici apprenticeship because she didn't have a construction trades program she loved daylight Health she
didn't waste her time she had a great experience um but it does point out a need same with welding as far as a state approved program is only at edel Ford um I wanted to recognize this guy too mral gy over at Fordson uh he is our
Automotive teacher doing a absolutely fantastic job um we threw the world at him he was a technician we hired him to be a teacher and he had to figure that out on the Fly and at the same time he had to do his ASC five-year recertification and he just got audited
by the department of Ed to make sure he was in compliance with all of his program handled it with a smile and he brings Pizza to the meetings so amazing um but he is this wall of fame and to me this is everything remember I said certifications are our ESAT uh we're
training kids through a three-year program to go out and get jobs as auto mechanics at local dealers um independent service shops you know oil change places Bell Tire You Name It We we're pumping out the mechanics of the future tremendous job
demand very high paying those are all of the students who have passed the Michigan mechanics license exam in his class this year or their ASC certification so if you can look on that I was telling him one of my friends says uh that's the pudding because that's
where you find the proof he's doing what he needs to do because his kids have those licenses they can walk in the dealer when they turn 17 now and get jobs high paying jobs right out of high school no college debt so Mr algar amazing if you get a chance to go see his shop I encourage you to do it he is
doing fantastic things over at Fortson High School um I saw this at a conference I was just at this apprenticeship program wall um that they put put together I'm looking at getting one of these actually custom for Dearborn with our local trades unions
but these are the 16 uh Statewide trade unions that offer apprenticeships and we are not sending kids into these we just aren't we know that there's a huge demand we know that a lot of our students will end up in the trades uh but we're not highlighting this so again
I pointed out our construction trades program it depends what school you're at um it is definitely something I think on a strategic level we're looking at is how do we bolster the trades and and you know whatever our last have a partnership advisory meeting that talks
about Career Tech Ed programs at the Michael Barry Center twice a year and you know the last meeting our IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers stood up and said hey my apprentices are making $54 an hour to
start that's $108,000 a year with no overtime and you could have heard a pin drop in there parents other professions whatever there are great careers out there um and another initiative we did as I said sorry I'm going to go kind of
chaotically fast um I did host a trip to Nashville which is a national model of Career Tech Ed education um they like to say their why was different than ours they had a 44% graduation rate we're not Nashville Nashville is not Dearborn um
but they do have every single kid I think a little over 200,000 kids every kid does a three-year career program 10th 11th and 12th grade and so we went to see how they do that not so much so so that we could just steal that for Dearborn but so we could look at what
they do because I will tell you from talking to kids there um I think if they ever tried to get rid of this it wouldn't be the teachers and the parents complaining it would be the students the students love this they they can't see any other way to do it um we kind of came out of that looking at two things
they have a really robust partnership with the local tourism Bureau Chamber of Commerce City Government because they knew that those high school kids were the workers of the future and their economy depended on it um and then they have a ninth grade academy I said they
took classes in 10 11 12 they have a dedicated nth grade class all year where kids kind of figure out what they're going to do in 10 11 and 12 um it sort of aligns to what we do with the Michigan career guidance model um and we looked at it so these are these are very initial baby steps but you'll see I took
the principles of the three high schools a graduation interventionist one of our assistant principles and we're in the process of sort of digesting this and looking to see if out of that we can come up with some ideas for things to do in Dearborn um to sort of Shadow some of the things they do because again it's a
it's an excellent program if any of you want to meet with me not at a board meeting and discuss because it's a long discussion but we can any time you want to discuss this um very passionate about some of this stuff I thought also while we're focusing on positive I would focus on
our funding how we support these programs um the first two things are every year always were funded by federal and state funds um you know our Perkins Grant funds mostly salaries um for
leadership and some reporting and then that section 61a State funding has been great um we did take a huge hit in that state funding this year about 34% we lost uh part partly through declining enrollment partly through the state not propping it up with Esser funds anymore
um and partly through we have a lot of kids who start our programs where they get partial funding and then they don't come back for the second year and and generate the rest of that funding so we're we're kind of working on that and dealing with that reality um I know that
at our recent education conference I talked to the curriculum leaders from all over the state and they have written a letter to the State Board of Education and the Govern Governor um advocating for increased funding to sort of replace those funds that evaporated this year um
on good news um thanks to a lot of people superintendent moo mayor hamood help me out our state representative yeah far fars so they've been great to us these these grants keep showing up in
the world of CTE that I kind of find out about and they're like Glen's great he's like here's a check spend it yeah great love it and Senator Camary was helpful with Y for sure um so we got last year a quarter million $250,000 for a cyber
security program which is up and running at the Michael Berry Center it is running as an unfunded elective program this year because we have to go through the state approval process it'll be funded next year uh we're in that process the cyber security lab that goes with it is nearing completion Mark Andrews has been great working with me
on that um really looking forward to that um and actually kind of expanding out into a lot of interest in Our IT program everything from the help desk computer repair careers all the way up through cyber security been great um there is a $2.5 million skilled trades
Grant floating around out there I don't think I can really talk about much because I don't think really anything exists other than there are some Architects exploring ideas about consolidating our Automotive And Trades program to um sort of deal with that Equity of access issue what could we do
so that all kids could get training in the trades all kids can partake in those excellent Automotive programs so that's kind of I think where we're at with that and I'm sure Mark and I will talk to you as that progresses because for every one of those dollars as you know there's a community meeting and a recommendation
and a vote that has to happen that's how grant money Works uh we also through Chasity towns in the um Education Foundation got a grant from Ford as part of that getting kids interested in the skilled trades we just got a $220,000
grant to buy a robot for the skilled trades program I actually ordered that today finally um and that's in the process and then we are exploring options at our early middle college the Henry Ford Early College the cleet
academy um to see whether well we can generate tte funding for those programs the question always has been was that juice worth the squeeze would it cost us more to put that in place than we would generate in funding in return um but we're at least looking at it uh going
forward and then I think I have one more just sort of in general things I can share with you um we've been I talked about this a little bit thinking about this idea of what does it mean to be a high school graduate in Dearborn um we have theems at forson a little bit more
developed than Dearborn High and edel but a focus on a career Centric um high school education not maybe structured like Nashville where you're locked into taking six classes more like as long as you have a plan it's okay just don't
graduate majoring in whatever fit your schedule right we want to have kids to take classes that mean something and build up to something uh we are always reviewing our curriculum so we have some things that have come from the state recently allowing our career tech ed kids like
maybe a kid in automotive um to not take one of the His science classes or one of his world language classes or Algebra 2 because they just don't need that going forward um and therefore opening up more chances for them to take other classes to improve their skills or take classes
more aligned to their um future plan uh we are looking likewise to Reign our business curriculum we have a great business curriculum we just know that 40% of our kids are going to end up in a business career and only about 5% of our kids get into our business program and we're
trying to make things a little smoother and more logical for them um we're thinking it's more a marketing program problem on our end than anything else uh we are looking at that pre- trades model we have now right now uh we built it strictly off the state standards and it
leads towards a carpentry apprenticeship but only carpentry as we know there are many many many trades in construction there are also manufacturing trades um so we're looking at something that will start as early as 9th or 10th grade and get kids exposure to those careers think back to that um apprenticeship wall
slide I showed you just making kids aware that After High School it doesn't necessarily have to be college and college debt that there are other options and that yes you can do this and yes you can make a living at it so we're looking at a class think of it as kind of a exploratory makeer space do things
with your hand figure out that hey yeah I can do this stuff um kind of stuff so that's in the process of going through curriculum right now um and then we're in the very basic stages of talking about if we did some kind of Nashville style n9th grade career exploration what
would that look like who would teach it how do we fit it in the schedule what kind of credit could it account for um again that's something if you're interested in get a hold of me offline we're we're still at the talk it through we're not even at the have the first meeting stage yet but it is definitely something that's out there and we've
been talking about how do we get kids um educated to where they can Advocate fors themselves and make better choices in their electives as they go through um cool I think that's my last slide I was going to say the one thing I didn't get to put in here our open house is coming up March
12th 5 to 6:30 with a meeting beforehand 4 to 5 for our Community Partners I will give you all personally hand delivered invitation um as soon as they're done uh it is a great chance to come and learn about our programs we have local colleges there we have local employers
that talking about jobs it's a real chance to reach out to the community we get a lot of interested parents and students even some Middle School parents and students come by um would love to see some of you there so that's as fast as I can go I feel like I'm out of breath because this is fast for me I know there are questions I saw some
hands for sure going up trusty Barry yes John I always enjoy listening to you thank you I love your passion for our students in our district I am so happy that things were going good for my new colleagues on the board here I strongly recommend visit uh sit down with John
very very good things going on what do I not have a question but I'd like to give a plug to the restaurant what days are we open and what hours absolutely absolutely I I had every intention I apologize we are playing a um P potato of influenza in my beginning and
afternoon kids last week when we had the downtime so they took this week off actually for my students that were supposed to be here been out for over a week so you are here with me I would normally have them here speaking the restaurant is open every Wednesday and every Thursday um of course we will be shutting down for Ramadan but will be
back up and going um we will be running this week next week and the following week so if you'd like to come and see us we would love to have you there we open up at 10:30 and we close at 12:00 but we do allow you to stay in the restaurant until around 1 we'll serve you until around 1 where my students have the
opportunity to host you um cook the food for you um we serve Dr Malo quite a bit it is a wonderful experience for the students and for I to share our passion in culinary arts and keep your eye open for us March 10th and 11th proart it is
something that we participate in heavily as a culinary department and my students will be competing in the Michigan Restaurant Association proart competition which will be hosted out in Battle Creek we compete against all local culinary schools Statewide for CTE
competition and we try our hand at a $250,000 culinary arts and management scholarship award and so out of that two-day event it is intense where students compete in not just culinary arts but table decorating management
Hotel they have to Market their product they also get a chance to do um pasta which I have a couple teams doing that cake decorating quiz bowl and of course all of my kids John had touch base on certification my kids are all certified in serf safe management which is
recognized by the National Restaurant Association and all restaurants in Wayne County and most counties you must have that in order to even run and operate a restaurant and so my kids compete in competition obtaining those skills in a quiz Bowl so keep your eyes open for us
hopefully this year we will take home a win Plymouth Canton seems to always beat us but this year is our year so keep your eyes open for us go thank you trar what's your name again ma'am my name is Chef Karen py how long you been with uh
this program I have been in the district for 20 years so I started at Henry for Community College as a um culinary instructor at the college level first I was there for 10 years I was wonderfully blessed with this opportunity when Elanor Shepard retired in 2016 and to which I took over her
position and I've been with them since 2016 but in the district overall with Dearborn I've been here since 2008 and how many students are you currently teaching so I have 22 first year and I have 11 second year and then I usually do have some third year not this year
but I do have them carry over and it is a fun experience for them my second year are the ones who run my um restaurant program so the more that I have return the better it is for us it's always a great problem to have too many kids in culinary arts for sure and how many people am I allowed to bring to lunch
you are allowed to bring as many as you would love we would love to have you is it like a different menu every week or so we rotate our menu monthly so I do teach children Cuisine from around the world and so every month we do change that okay can't wait m a phenomenal cook you got to get there great food
reasonable prices I I to meet truste McDonald our birthday lunches and everything is hello so please do join us right yeah wonderful sir barl I had a question about the cyber security yes students are enrolled and you said funded versus funded what
we run are state approved CTE programs that generate funds through Perkins and that 61a there's a there's a it's a two-year approval process um so we got this grant kind of dropped on us last year and said we didn't want to and especially because it's a three-year program we didn't want to wait and then
get kids in on the ground floor so we just enrolled kids in the first class this year they're taking the certifications whatever we're just funding it out of building funds instead of out of CTE funds um we will put in that intent to apply letter coming up um
March 11th I think is the date um the state will start working that approval next year we'll run the program again somewhere during the year they'll give us the approval and they will allow us to backdate that funding to the beginning of next school year so we're on track to be a fully funded program
next year with it and actually through talking to the state we're actually going to apply as three separate programs so the first year second and third year will all be a separate funding stream um because we realize they align to um multiple career paths like I said information technology you
know tech support help desk computer repair the second year into Network in management the third year into the actual cyber security which is sort of the natural agression of skills uh Bob Addie and his Department have been amazing helping us it's pretty complicated and they've been helping us
really figure things out that's great so how many students were enrolled uh we have we have some kids who came through the dcmst track actually taken the third year Advance certificate this year I think there's 14 of them or 15 and then
we have two small sections of 16 177 so a little over 30 uh first year kids um and tremendous interest for next year just I'm in the process of talking to kids and it's one of the more popular things I think especially because we've
built it with off ramps if they get in it and they're not going to get all the way to that third year there's definitely well-paying and well-skilled career branches that come off that so and as we do those advisory committee meetings if you know people in that sphere in information technology and
cyber security reach out to me we're putting our advisory committee together we need probably 20 local employers to advise us in that field I got some names but I'll always take Dr I just got to also support Chef Karen does a great job
with her students and we've had our advisory Council come and it's really great to see and it's fantastic food so I'll be I'll be back I appreciate it yeah and Dr BYU I know just finding funding managing it is very important um next month we're going to have Miss M
bco who's here here present with Miss uh SE on all the grants that we're finding our team is working hard that's the position that we have to coordinate it uh to find alternative funding Mr Martin was instrumental uh Adam Martin as well getting the CTE uh uh when I talked
actually mayor hood and then uh Senator Santana it was a lot of work that went into try to getting the funds and once I said it may be available I think they got the application ready within 2 weeks and it was in and ready to go we've also applied and we have haven't heard back we don't know what's going on nationally
now with all the changes but uh congresswoman toed was supporting us with some federal grants that we wrote as well for similar programs so we're hopeful but we know now that there's been some kind of put stop on some of those funding sources so um just wanted to commend the work you guys do thank
you thank you very much Dr Malo keep asking like I make it sound like it's a lot of work but I love the work so just keep asking for money I'll keep spending it thank you thank you Dr thank you thank you thank you next item please the next item is
citizen participation citizens wishing to address the board on agenda and non-agenda items for Action who are signed in by 7:10 p.m. or 10 minutes after we start our meeting 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-agenda items therefore speakers should not anticipate an immediate response to their comments or questions for the benefit of all concerned do not mention the name of students or School District employees please keep your comments as brief as possible there is a 3 minute time limit
on comments made to the board and our first speaker is Robert kagic I'm not saying that right how do you say ital say it again Shalia okay our first speaker is Robert chavalia who will speak to us on the
selected cancellation of after school activities on today's schools are closed for weather thank you very much good evening my name is Robert chalia and I am representing the Performing Arts students and parents at Dearborn High School this past Wednesday the district
made the decision to close school on Thursday due to the forthcoming weather Wednesday night was opening night for the student directed scenes at deborn high school this is a three night performance in a very intimate setting with a 100 per uh 100 people in
attendance as the students teachers and adult volunteers prepared for opening night the DH DHS principal was leaving the office we were informed that Thursday's performance was cancelled because there would be too many people in the building a discussion about the
audience size was held the principal then assured us that I will contact the superintendent and get back to you thus implying that the decision was to be made by the superintendent throughout Thursday the teacher contacted the principal and the simple answer is there was no response
from the superintendent as rule followers we canel the performance resulting in the loss of at least $600 in Revenue I will not go through all the financial items because this is a secondary issue the primary issue is why were the performing
art students denied the opportunity to perform while the Athletics students were allowed to compete not only did the district wrestling match occur but DHS also hosted a swim meet the bowling took bus to an away event the basketball
teams and cheerleaders were allowed to practice the message that was received by these students was not students first it was Performing Arts students don't matter performances are performances whether it's a wrestling match a swim
meet or a theatrical performance all students must be treated as equal furthermore other performing art students had after school rehearsal scheduled for vocal music and instrumental solo Ensemble held this past weekend why were their practices
forced to be cancelled when basketball and cheerleading practices were allowed to continue the Performing Arts students put a tremendous amount of work in practice into their activities no different than our athletic students yet the decision to treat the performing art
students to be less than that of our athletic students the seniors in the Performing Arts at deor high have already received more than $1 million in scholarship offers for their onstage Talent this does not include academic or
merit-based scholarships or financial SK need scholarships therefore I have a few requests please tell us who is responsible for this decision please inform us of the decision-making process that is used to determine which events
and practices are allowed to continue when school is cancelled and the final request is for the superintendent the DHS principal and any members of the school board to attend a meeting with the Performing Arts students at Dearborn High where you can provide those answers
to them as you need to justify your actions to them not to me or the other parents here tonight thank you thank [Applause] you Dr do you have respon first thing I
would just say is um uh we never want a close school or any um uh events to be honest um you know but we have to for safety and I made the call to shut down the basically the entire District gets shut
down and the protocol is that we shut down all activities there are some exceptions that go through um that come up the the uh ranks to miss Ali bazzi and the athletic department if there's competitions with other um schools and
sometimes there's exceptions made but generally everything is shut down uh we do plan to talk about this at cabinet um to see uh how we'll do this moving forward uh as far as me responding I did get an email from a student in the evening it was late it wasn't uh you
know on a day that we closed and I did respond to one student I don't know if anyone else tried to contact me but I did respond to that student about 8 I saw the email about 8:00 can you comment if Miss if the principal contacted you uh as she informed us that she would do
I don't recall if I got a contact on that from the principal that this time I have to think about that but I because I talked to her on a few different issues so but anyway we don't want to cancel school but we have to for safety and I can I can assure you we're not totally agree with the reason we not um we're
not looking to Center out arts in any way basically events were canceled throughout the district and some exceptions are made especially in other uh and a lot of times the superintendent we talk and we look at competition that are occurring and sometimes we uh agree
that all events including Athletics or whatever it may be and sometimes we allow an exception when districts are playing each other or there's final tournaments I had no knowledge up until that um what you're saying until I got the the uh that email so but we're definitely not looking to out uh Center
out the Arts so we definitely want to review the process as far as what to close when we have cuz those events are voluntary or do yeah and and generally parents and students they volunte students volunteer to be on those extra curricular
activities same as they do for sporting events as well so we um like I said we we do not have we generally shut everything down because we don't have staff in buildings that's the issue when everything's shut down we do have Engineers that will come in on a
limited basis but it's not but we can talk about it in cabin in fact Miss Miss Ali bazzy asked as me to come up with kind of a consistent system um but generally when we're shut down per the contract and everything everything gets shut down there's a few exceptions that can be made through the Athletics and
they have to get special permission but it so it only it only applies to Athletics is that what you're saying special I I you know there could be other events that we've approved in the past I don't recall specifically um but generally um the requests will come in
and there will be exceptions made when it's told that this event a lot of times it happens to be Sports I'm not sure if we've had it with the Arts I do think we did allow the at last year if I recall one day um uh there was a performance at
deor high in the evening it was a um performance that was put on and I think we allowed it Mr Martin I don't know if you recall that or Miss farage for for which event what time of year I I just recall last year this happening so and again I don't want to keep getting it back and forth but we can get back to you if you if we got your information
and we can get that protocol let's get the parents information trust you had a question according to our agenda I mean board followup supposed to be later but since we're already having a discussion I mean was there any events took place in the building that night
yes um I would have to get back to you on what Adam you you're what I'm hearing what I'm hearing you say is that we made exceptions I also heard you say that uh we don't know if there was enough people to keep the school open how does that
well it's it's whether or not we have engineers in the building to run the building that's the issue well I mean if there's a basketball game going then there would be there has to be not would be there has to be correct correct I mean yeah please look into that and let us know can there was any other events somebody I mean if
there wasn't any other events something happen and yes students shouldn't feel you know the basketball players shouldn't feel like the wrestlers are more important on the Performing Arts yeah we can discuss students first everybody should be equal trust isar and
then we'll get Mr Martin to comment um I want to thank you and all the parents who support their kids in Performing Arts I'm a Performing Artist so uh this stuff hits uh very personal and deeply to me I don't think anybody and here's the here's and this is why
sometimes it's we don't we don't see it I don't think anybody thinks that the administration singles out Performing Arts to cancel right but it's more about not thinking about it in the same way we think about everything else it's more about maybe having a blind spot when it
comes to preserving the Performing Arts and um so I would just ask everybody to have a a a a more of a eye towards that I don't think anyone thinks that you know we you know somebody made a conscious decision everyone else can do something and these guys can't but I think it's more about sometimes we just
don't think about it and the the truth is the Performing Arts develop and I know we all believe this but the performing arts and the Arts in general develop as much skills in our young people as any sporting event or anything else that kids do and so I just want you guys to know that I'll always be here
for you if you need me and um uh you know again as an artist I understand how deeply personal and how important this is to all of you so um thank you for everything you do Mr Martin yeah my understanding on Thursday it was Thursday correct yes um
that Dearborn High was hosting the mhsaa wrestling meet um with multiple teams there um so I think you those of you that know Athletics understand the mhsaa if you move off there's other scheduling issues my understanding was that was the
the event that kind of precipitated some of the others I did want to clarify since Miss verage is um she wasn't working that day Mr bril did reach out to me and her and I had a lengthy conversation um to Dr malo's Point um so
the he was speaking of me if you spoke with her um in terms of who she was talking to um and I did consult with u Miss Ali Bazi um and that's where we're at um in terms of how the decision was made I think going forward like Dr Malo
said we'll explore what our process is in terms of what does and doesn't happen in the building um but to trust aar's Point uh we apologize validate your feelings um that we apologize y can we get something for the kids for the
students that were so I I certainly think Mr Brill uh and myself can can work on that for that would be appreciated absolutely absolutely thank y thank you well since you're going to be having
this conversation with cabinet and since we see that there seems to be a need to have guidelines that are pretty consistent across the board for how we approach when we have these exceptional weather events or any other events I
think we should also when we develop the guidelines have bullet points be very clear and have something available in each building so that when something occurs we can um have an
explanation that you know we can hand to the parents and to and to the students that that defines why this is occurring and what the processes will be so that they understand I understand that if it's a athletic
event that has multiple schools involved and they think that they can go ahead that that's why they wanted to stay committed to it as opposed to a a single School building event but then we have to explain it and we have to be able to justify it and it has to be consistent
across the district at all of our buildings well if I could just add um so and I've been promoting the Arts I'm just going to say because you guys all know I've been on the committee with the music and everything and I go to the art performances it it nothing was done intentionally here's the issue with school closures is every situation is
different so you might have one day where the morning is a hazard but in the evening in the evening it clears up but you've also had situations where the day before you close you actually have to cancel all activities because you're dealing with snow or ice so the one
problem with a one we have to have a consistent system yes with flexibility because every and I've been doing this now for 10 years and I'm going to tell you every every time we've had to close it's under different circumstances different uh parameters and so the that's why as superintendent in Wing
County we do discuss sometimes everybody just agrees it's going to be very dangerous we have the meteorologists in the meeting with me that's where we get the scientific dat it and we all may just agree there's not going to be anything we're not running any Athletics we do it kind of jointly to you know for safety but I we've heard you and I
appreciate it and I can assure you nothing was done intentionally um you know we we value all the students we have a lot of events and we're just going to have to come up with maybe protocols on top of with some flexibility for unique circumstances during these variety of emergencies
since I I've had to close school over the last 10 years trust just real quick I'm sorry pres M uh trusty as our this board has always supported I mean the arts program if it's music I mean
Performing Arts it's always I'm very proud of that and so has the Administration so Mr Martin wherever you're at thank you thank you for acknowledging what happened let's move forward the only thing I can say is yes there should be flexibility but either the building is open or it's closed keep
that in mind when you're talking to your cabin thank you thank you um I believe we still have a speaker right yes this one was submitted I read this one right um this is from Mary
Lane who says I attended the ETO Ford production of McBeth on December 6 2024 and thought all the students and staffs involved did a really excellent job with a challenging work I would like to extend my CR
congratulations and recommend community members that they patronize events at the schools and hfc thank you next item please the next items are action yeah agend action items first
item is special consideration of an action items first are there any agenda items on this agenda which board members or the superintendent we should discuss and vote on separately if there are we will exclude these from the motion below I believe we would have do we have
to S fill in a name yes so Paul that one do we have to pull that as an individual motion well no it well let's do that let's uh to to fill in the name you would have to P cuz otherwise you're going to make a mo for
the 16 yeah let's take 16 single letter out so we'll do uh one two with the exception of with the supplement we have supplementals too so one 1219 with the exception of 16 so we'll vote on 16 separately which one
is 16 16 is the uh masb board of directors election where we will have to fill in and fill in the blank yeah I do have a a question before we vote so that I don't ask for an exception could I do
that motions on the table we we still don't have any motions we're just asking right now trusty Zar trusty Zar is gonna read it so at so you want me to read sorry atend at this time the secretary will call for a
single motion to approve all of the actions items on this agenda with the exception of any items which have just been excluded from this motion by board member request okay so now you have to say move the action items numbered 1 through 19 with the exception of 16 yes
okay so the recommended action here will be removed at action items numbered 1 through 19 correct is that correct be approved as recommended yes as recommended in this agenda with the exception of item 16 so moved support okay so motion moved by trusty
Barry supported by trusty pesov any discussion on any of the items or questions now question did you have a question yeah so there's a couple items and and they kind of focus on Henry Ford in building renovation and they talk
about two buildings um which item yeah n number which number um just bear with me a second number nine
yeah so number nine yeah I think it's nine there's nine with the there's SE oh sorry there's number seven and there's nine will these be the same the the same question or do you want to take each one
separate each one so so number seven talks about renovation of the two buildings are we talking about the same buildings for those two items for number seven so number seven includes multiple uh Improv ments U part of the scope of
work for Clark that manages the Early College we're also looking at several other projects um that were mentioned earlier tonight at the Michael Berry Center that the Architects are working on um and there's also some mechanical improvements that we're working on we
also have the green schoolyards but is it the new the two new buildings that we're renovating is number seven deals with the two new buildings for the construction management portion correct that'd be a portion of their their scope of work and number
nine number nine is to expand the early college right now we have work that's um ongoing it was previously approved and ongoing for the south building this is to expand that scope of work into the west building okay and go back sorry to
number seven it said there was a two 12,500 um budget for full scope is that accurate the 12 so correct this is just estimated um we were still waiting on some funding to come for some
of these projects however our AR Architects are working on the full scope especially at the Michael Barry Center if we can get uh additional funding um and do more for the Michael Barry then we would probably have to revise Clark's contract later on down the road this is
just for the end of the 2025 so we have $2.5 million allocated for the Michael Berry project right now uh we anti ipate um to get more and if we can then we'll move their services so this is up to that amount depending on how much funding we have we're anticipating on
getting well the reason I asked is said increased by 1 million to 5, 800,000 but the the budget is 12 million yeah just to give a little background of the whole thing whenever we do a construction project we're
required to have an architect by law so you'll see that we're using French and IDs for architect Services I believe that will happen in March that we'll bring those forward in addition we have a construction manager the construction manager helps us lead and operate the building and watch over the the um
trades that actually do the work the third part is actually the trades so number I think eight or nine which one is the trade nine I nine is the Trad so that's actually the plumber the mechanic HVB construction manager is helping us
oversee that because we don't have enough staff on our own staff to able to run it and so the other one you're looking at is the construction manager so there's three pieces for every construction so even they might name the same building there's certain components that they work with so seven is paying the construction manager correct so
we're expanding the scope from the original project from the south building and the eser projects it's all one contract we're expanding it amending it to include now the west building at Henry for college okay and and the reason I asked is it said 12 million5
but we're increasing it by 1 million to 5 million so it just didn't make sense that if we're still within scope of the 125 million why do we need to get well part of the actually number eight keep right eight nine nine nine is
expanding the scope of work so that's roughly about 3.6 million 3.6 million so and part of that the other part is what Dr bar was up here before on the bed expansion so their cm is crossing several different different construction
programs but it's all one contract so that's why the number is larger okay all right thank you any other questions can we have a roll call for the motion yep truste alji yes truste Barry yes
truste dambrosio yes truste petkov yes truste Watts yes yes trustees are yes president mosip yes thank you uh now we go to 19 or I'm sorry 16
16 so you can read just the recommended action Mr secretary y so now we're looking for a motion to move that action item 6 oh yes ma'am I'm
new fine I just got thank you P just remember I did asked if you wanted me to highlight okay good so for item number 16 correct yes for item 16 we the recommended action here do you want me to read the background information do I need to do that just the recommended action the
recommended action here is move that the Dearborn Board of Education cast its vote for blank for blank well well then we'll fill it in okay got it know move that the dear board board of education cast its vote for blank as candidate for
the MB board of directors position for Region 8 group six one seat for a three-year term trusty pesov okay I um did the research in my homework on all of the um
nominees so let's get a move and a support first and then we can well I to put the name in That's what I was doing oh you have to put the name in oh you want to complete the yeah I'm just letting you know I did the research and I would like to um select Randall
Meisner from Fitzgerald Public Schools what what school district I'm sorry it's it's Jerald Public Schools but that's in Warren okay Michigan so that would be from also mome correct yeah there was only two Wayne
County anybody read the BIOS the emails that we've received from other candidates that they want to bring another name forward thank you for doing the homework yes you read we read the the motion yes Rand Meisner is that what you said
Randall Meisner Randall Meisner okay move that the deborn Board of Education cast its vote for Randall Meisner as candidate for the masb board of directors position for Region 8 group six one seat for a three-year term so moved
support moved by truste Barry supported by truste Watts the objections to the motion can we attach a unanimous role no it can be a unanimous okay thank you good thank you okay next item please
inside the last page got it yes I remember you showed this to me okay summary of agenda action items number one approval of warrants number two approval of an award to amcom number three approval of an award to access
number four approval of an award to hop skip Drive Incorporated numbers 5 through eight approval of change orders number nine approval of an award to Chrisman Chrisman Constructors Turner Brooks Ki painting LLC shock Brothers
Great Lakes Hotel Supply Covenant environmental Great Lakes power and lighting and Bren call Constructor Constructors per Port report 2489 10 through1 13 approval of non-instructional and instructional
Personnel items 4 p through 12 14 approval of financial statement 15 approval of 2025 January graduates per board report 24- 95 16 approval of 2025 MB board of
directors election and 17 approval of donations oh sorry okay 18 appointment of a assistant principal to Woodworth medical school or middle school I wish it was a medical school I wordworth middle school and number 19 appointment of special
education coordinator Dr mik you want to make some announcements based on the yes so I'd like to call up first um Mr Douglas Ratcliffe um he's been acting as the interim principal now we're making it official uh let's give him a big round of applause and
[Applause] welcome thank you um I just quickly want to thank um principal jabriel principal rayback and then Mr Adam Martin for investing in time in me um and into my career and I want to thank the board and
Dr Michael for the opportunity and I look forward to continuing the work that I've been doing at Woodworth working with our students in deborn public schools thank you congratulations you and next um Miss Carrie Schoolmaster um she again she was acting as interim and she is now a permanent position as
an administrator um so let's congrat congratulate her and welcome her to the podium know her for many years going back to teaching time at Salina 25 years ago I picked up from college and moved to Dearborn not
knowing anything more than Greenfield Village but um in the past 25 years I've been able to work with some amazing Educators and leaders and most of all I've been able to make Dearborne my home um so it means even more to me to have this opportunity to support the
community and make sure that all students have the opportunity to achieve thank you [Applause] congratulations next item please next item number