--------- next item please the next item is special reports we have the bully prevention committee update all right i'll let them introduce themselves thanks David you're welcome good evening
everyone um my Oh good my name is Anabini um I'm a facilitator for the district i focus on community engagement and really fostering u positive environments for our students and I facilitated the district's bully prevention uh committee i'm joined here today with some of our committee members
and some of our committee members Trusty Bearing Trusty Watts on our board i'll let them introduce themselves and then we're going to share some updates about the work that the committee did and and the recommendations we came up with hello everyone um good evening my name is Yasmin Sed i'm a junior at Ford High
School hello I'm Harmony Morales and I'm a senior at Dearborn High School hi I'm Miss Alamante i'm a teacher at Dearborn High okay so um we're excited to be here on behalf of the full bully prevention committee to share the great work that
the committee engaged in this academic year um the committee was tasked with developing three to five district level recommendations that were aimed at preventing and decreasing incidents of bullying uh our committee was made up of around 30 members so this included uh
individuals from across the district community teachers students parents social workers principles occupational therapists board members um English language developers central office directors and more um so we had a pretty diverse uh committee and and diverse
representation in the room we met three times as a committee so we started meeting in early midocctober and we wrapped up our work in February our first meeting really focused on what are some of the bigger challenges and what are some of the opportunities um for changing uh things that are happening
and also what are some of the things that are going really well when it comes to bully prevention we consulted with some middle school advisory groups in between so we had some lovely high schoolers in the room with us for those three meetings it was a little bit harder to get the younger students in so we went to them in between meetings to
get a little bit of their input and you'll see that reflected in the recommendations as a result the committee is putting forward four recommendations for the district to consider implementing a lot of really great things came out of the committee that were more building level strategies
so a lot of great things that were already happening in some of the buildings so we also developed a resource for building administrators that we'll share um these were things like mix it up lunches so uh having students pair with somebody they don't know at lunch or ideas that building
administrators could could implement not necessarily district level things so we do have that document that we'll be sharing um with our principles and assistant principles as a resource but I will have Yes me talk us through the first committee recommendation so our committee has been
discussing the importance of fostering a culture of respect understanding and inclusivity across our schools and we believe that promoting cultural awareness is a very powerful way to build empathy strengthen relationships and prevent bullying um to support this we're recommending a district-wide
cultural awareness day and event um this would give us the chance to celebrate the diversity in our school communities and bring together people in a positive and meaningful way so we've come up with two main options on how this could take shape first a cultural awareness day during a designated month or day um
similar to how care to the core works um or we could even link it with care to the core um each school would receive a main theme goal and grade level activities with the flexibility of like catering it to their own school second option is a district-wide event where we
would have an open celebration of cultures in our community and this would be organized by a plan uh by a planning committee and um it would be open to the whole district our com our committee feels very strongly that building respect across cultural differences
isn't just valuable but it's also necessary and events like these can be powerful tools to bring people together celebrate who we are and grow stronger together as a district thank you our second suggestion is that the
district conducts a student-led media campaign to spread awareness on the negative impact of bullying in schools and with the goal of promoting strategies for response and bullying prevention um this recommendation particularly came heavily from middle school students um who expressed the
need for parents families and peers to have access to information about bullying and by utilizing the district's digital platforms including its websites and social media pages we believe that we can reach a wider audience in the larger Dearborn community to encourage
collective action and foster a culture of empathy respect and inclusion um so students and families have shared that they would um again they would like to appreciate more accessible information um when it comes to
responding and preventing bullying um particularly cyber bullying which we received a lot of feedback about as it was a very large issue in this school district and um this media campaign can help spread information about cyber
bullying and support families in supporting their students online safety and just to reiterate uh one last time uh this would be led by students who would create the contact the content and then have it posted to district websites and social media
sites our third recommendation I keep forgetting I can lower this our third recommendation was looking at the board policy under board policy 5517.01 right now there are current school responsibilities so this lists out um a handful of responsibilities
that the building principles respon responsible for um implementing i won't read them all but they are as they stand at the top and the the committee is recommending the removal of C which is teaches the district response to bullying behavior curriculum that's a
pretty outdated curriculum and so we're recommending removing that for consistency and transparency and then the committee has also put forth a recommendation to change the verbiage in that first bullet point from anti-bullying events to bullyrevention events and initiatives um administrators
on our committee shared that bully prevention the bullyrevention phrase is more in line with some of the initiatives that they participate in um and has more of a positive framing the next point on here that the committee is recommending isn't changing the policy but is attached to this um we're
recommending developing a resource for administrators to be used as a tool to track their progress when it comes to these school responsibilities and also as a list of different ideas and suggestions that we can curate and and get input from them on so that administrators are aware of some of the other great things that are happening
and if they're things that could work for their school they can um adopt and adapt them as necessary okay and the um last thing that we're going to talk about is professional development opportunities and so we're thinking about developing or starting a catalog with Zay and others to share
with principles um and this way that it's going to be a working document and it'll come out in the fall of every year and broken down into the categories that I'm going to explain to you so they can see which ones fit with their buildings um the three different things that we're suggesting that we when we talked about
came up that are happening in other buildings is restorative practices um we want to focus on restorative practices because it's through this open dialogue that you can share empathy and a mutual understanding um as well as conflict resolution techniques conflict resolution techniques are about teaching students to be able to have these active
listening skills and respectful dialogues to resolve that conflict which goes with the restorative practices and the last one is cultural awareness and the idea is to train staff to inclusion practices for cultural humility and also a positive culture in the classroom and building for sustainability or for
sustaining it okay those were our four recommendations so a part of our next steps are continuing to gather feedback from administrators about the implementation phase and ways that we can implement this in ways that make sense in our schools and once we do that we're hoping to put together an
implementation plan that we can share with you all and we want to get going of fall of 2025 so trust me you put this okay I'm gonna read you guys something um because you talk a lot about cultural
awareness but people have an interpretation of culture potentially that's specific to them identifying with their family or or a country this is what I would like to see changed with your verbiage usage
school culture is a collection of values beliefs norms traditions that shape the way a school operates and influences the behavior of its members this includes the shared expectations and attitudes of teachers administrators students and
parents as well as the rituals and practices that define the school's identity everywhere you have that word culture I want to see school in front of it because that's what we're trying to encourage is the school cultures
identity not necessarily people who might reference it in their own um specific definition i uh we're trying to shape uh a a definition across the districtwide
um community and we want everybody involved in the school's culture not just their own personal understanding of culture so I would like to see school put in front of every culture um verbiage that's used in any of your um
reporting out and I'd also suggest that if we can have a workshop for principles at the beginning of the year that helps them understand how to build a school culture in in the district and that may
potentially be an opportunity for experts to help explore with this size of a district a way to bring everyone together and kind of sharing the same page of what should be happening in all of the individual schools
sorry just I like I agree with that point because uh Miss Harp she used to always say to break the cord you have to have a conversation so I think in understanding the culture of what your school is and then coming up with that school culture but understanding everyone's background I think is a powerful message because too often we
have people are going through the school and they know what the school values are and things like that but they don't know like what their actual culture of their school buildings made up with all the different individuals going from the staff to the students to the support that make up everything that allows a building to run so I agree with you on
that pe people when they hear the word culture they have their own understanding of it and generally speaking it's not one of the schools identity this is what we want to tie this into so you want to make sure it's very clear to everyone what we're
talking about when we talk about cultural awareness it's the school's cultural not the awareness that your neighbor is from some place or their family is doing some tradition you want what is the school's traditions
oh trusty Barry trusty Petoff I completely agree with you that we need to concentrate on uh school culture but at the same time if I remember right correct me that we actually there was a big group that had a discussion on this that uh cultural awareness culture means
many things but cultural awareness that if uh let's say you got four or five kids looking at another student so I shouldn't say kids students four or five students looking at a student maybe looks different or acts different whatever and they don't they just don't understand what that person's going
through so that needs to be but that is because that's why I read the definition it's it's what we're talking about is the shared expectations and attitudes and the rituals and practices in the building so all of this is a school's
um presenting what their expectations are from the students from the parents from the and that would incorporate I mean that's just one but just using the word culture everybody has their own interpretation of what culture means to them and that way they don't necessarily
buy into well I understand that because they're defining it differently we want to make sure it's tied into a value system for behavior in the school i heard you say wherever there's the word culture put school in front of it
so creating a school culture of understanding i agree with you later on it's when it says you know cultural awareness day may take place during designated months that that's referring to something completely different what
is it referring to then exact cultural i mean there's different cultures within our school your interpretation of what culture is that's why I'm saying we have It's not mine many people's too what What does culture mean to you
culture i mean it could mean that hey we need to understand each other i I got to know Irene a few few years ago the more we communicate the more we talk the more respect I have for some of her but that's not what we're looking for what
we're looking for is to embed in the school building a shared um vision and values and concept of of school related um you asked me a question you're guilty again so if I didn't understand Irene
understand what she was all about I might say something might offend her without even knowing that I offended her so I need to understand Yeah that that will that will come about in how they develop whatever they do that's the point of trying to get it that's not going to be taken away by saying a school culture that's part of the
concept i I do have trusty Jeremy so great job on the committee sorry great job by the committee um that's a really good step to to get started the question that I have uh for the committee and the young
ladies up here is were you able to identify the type of bullying that's prevalent or common and so that's one question the other question is you know when we talk about bullying there's two type of bullying there's in school bullying there's
social media bullying after school and how do you incorporate that into the parents h how is the parents how do the parents fit into this because um you have to educate the parents as well what is going on they might not understand is
wrong so were you able to identify some of the common um uh bullying yeah so I can I was at one of the tables when we discussed this and it was I believe I was at a table with a principal and a vice principal and I had
asked the same thing and what we're seeing it's not necessarily just the physical interactions um but it's the tiny cuts and usually it's resulted they said on Monday is usually when they are just so they're extremely busy because it's the weekend
has happened and all of the conversations that have happened on social media and through the phone has now come to fruition in the school building so a lot of it is mediation and just uh just trying to address those issues but on Monday when you're a
principal or vice principal those are all of the conflict resolutions that you're dealing with so it is both it's an and it's the physical result that has happened from these microaggressions on social media and on the phone yeah and and I just
want to add to the fact the culture part of it to what Trusty Barry and Trusty uh Petra say culture is you know teaching our kids in school to be respectful it's
a culture of um because we could look at culture you know I come from this country and our culture is this and that and but there's a common uh layer so both were right you have to understand each other to respect each other's
culture uh but respect should be common across but you were gonna say something i was going to um comment to the parent question so a lot of well all of our buildings do parent meetings and I know um that a lot of them have actually been focusing on online safety so I've done a
few workshops with elementary schools where we've talked with parents about like digital footprint and online safety and um they've been great the media campaign recommendation um for the committee is really focused on how can we get information out to parents especially parents who maybe can't come
to those meetings so they'll be a big audience parents and families will be a big audience for us when it comes to that media campaign where we can hopefully disseminate information to them about you know what's happening online how can we protect our students and how can we practice more online safety perfect
question as far as the recommendations are there anywhere in the recommendations where we're asking schools to implement ways of changing their current status of um bullying prevention so you mentioned um
restorative practices um conflict resolutions are we consistent across all of the schools or we're leaving that to the building administration to determine which is the optimal solution for
bullying incidents and how are we learning or sharing that among schools of we have a bullying problem in our schools we have too many incidents how do we reach out to other schools to learn from what they do to prevent those
kind of incidents so I I'll I want to clarify a lot of the training that we outlined in the professional development recommendation is already happening um across the district one thing that really came up with the committee was that we want more of it and we want it to be more accessible so these were the
three topics and committee correct me if if I'm misspeaking but these were the three like most important topics and so the idea with this recommendation is that now we'll have a catalog that we can share with principles and do some of that work for them right like here are upcoming professional development opportunities about restorative practice
about conflict resolution about cultural awareness so then then they're able to identify okay it would be great for my school responsibility technician to get a refresher on this or so they're able to identify like who they have in the building and what might work best for them um but a lot of them are already
going through these types of of trainings and professional developments but it was a big topic in the committee that we want more of it and we want more access to it and you have to remind me of the second part of the question i forgot are are we sharing to the Canadian i so one one part of the second
recommendation I believe was that tracking document um the hope there is that it's a space where people are able to share the things that are working well we've also had these conversations in general admin meetings a lot where we talk about different strategies when it comes to responding to not only bullying
but just building um a positive culture in the school what are some things that we can you know share with each other about what's working well so that I know is a space where those conversations are happening pretty frequently trusty Watts Trusty Barry um for those new trustees on the board so this came
about last year during the policy meeting when we were looking at the bullying policy and trustee Barry you were on that committee trustee I was as well and I think we came to or maybe I came to the realization that the bullying policy was all about the
bullying and not about the victim and I think it was a philosophical shift of saying like well if we why is the onus why is the responsibility and the sleepless nights on the victim's parents and where is the responsibility
for the bully or the bully's parents and it's not a you know what is you know why is this child doing this but is what has happened to this child that they are then the bully and the other thing is as teachers as a former teacher you know which five students those are and
regardless of what happens you can continue to ask those victims to do you want to change schools they will just find a new victim and so it is not the rotating door of you know you're coming in one or they're going leaving the district because those solutions have not happened because the bully is there
and there's now a victim so I think it's not necessarily a policy it's not necessarily a couple recommendations the the problem is several it's multi multi-tiered the solution is going going to have to be an ongoing so it's not just this is done and we're going to move on it always has to be what is
working what is not working if this child has 25 suspensions why is this child still in the school terrorizing we have other alternative schools and so I've spoken with some of our state officials because state law still is
very it's almost like an overcorrection um on this as well so even our state officials know this so it's an ongoing discussion so that's number one number two is that when you were talking about the school culture this should be something we saw with Henry Ford this
more or this evening when they did the kindness pledge that is school culture right they knew that pledge those expectations it's not the beginning of the school year it's the end but I guarantee you those expectations are embedded every single day in that
building that principles establish those cultures the teachers probably follow with those cultures and if not they probably find other places to go because the expectation is as a teacher that not only are these you'll have high level expectation for your students and
they'll make mistakes you're there to support them but you're not going to allow them to continue to have such behaviors without consequences and some of those consequences regardless it does not matter who your mom or dad are right because the teacher should know if
they're this child's out of if they are having a rough day that the principal has their back and the principal needs to know that we have their back also with the understanding of this is still a child and what has happened to this child so I don't want to say it's one versus another it's an and so it has to
be a continued conversation of what is happening and what else can we be doing and and it's not just us and the parents and the teachers it has to be everybody who says this has to change because our society and our middle schoolers are asking us for social media like what is
happening and we're the adults trusty Barry and then Trusty well okay yeah well and that's what I meant by school culture because there should be an expectation across the district the parents the teachers the
administrators should all be supporting each other to support those students so that everybody is aware of of what we expect when you walk through those doors and that we will support you in obtaining that direction and that we
will back you you know we hear a lot about restorative practices and and over the years you know you always have people say "I don't want to sit in a room with that person who just you know did me wrong that's not comfortable for me that's not what I want." We thought
it would at the time give it a a cultural awareness approach of them getting empathetic with each other but if people aren't in a place to hear it either the person who's the perpetrator or the person who's being abused if they're not in that space to
hear it they might say "I'll get along because that's all you're offering me at the moment." But we have to do more we continue to do the same thing over and over and over again for years and we're not getting the best results and we just get
[Music] more compounded wii w with with problems and we're finding a way to explain it away and like trustee Watts said people are just
going to leave they're gonna they're going to be to the point where they're going to say "Look I you know this is not working and nobody's doing they it they it gives the appearance that nobody's doing anything." So everybody has to be on the same page and that's the parents just as much as the teachers
need to know that we're going to back you and that's one of the things that I think we haven't always necessarily communicated well that will support what is necessary in order I mean the board
itself right now is the the buck stops here kind of um case where we end up with the student in front of us at at an expulsion hearing um basically we don't want it to get to that point but we have
to have everybody working and rowing those ores in the same direction that's why I would like to see a workshop done with administrators so that they understand they're all sharing what those expectations should be across every building
thank you Trust Barry thank you you know I wanted to go last i wanted to comment on the committee it was a great committee made up of staff students uh there's some business people administrators i personally learned a lot sitting at the different tables but
uh like I like what I heard Trusty Petrov say Trusty Watts say I can say that the number one thing I heard is the teachers want to be seen they want to be heard they want to feel supported we've been guilty for a while things have changed the last few years but we've
been guilty of that we were guilty for a long time but we need to support our teachers when you know when when when when they're in the classroom like you said you know those five or six students and when you go to your administrator and it's because somebody's mom or dad
is connected to somebody and you look the other way that's not preventing bullying that's that's that's encouraging bullying so enabling it is enabling thank you perfect word so uh and I've shared this with Dr malco Miss Sereni this is the very first
committee I've worked on where the solicitor uh didn't steer the committee a certain way you listened you took a lot of notes you came back and I I I felt like you were listening to everybody in the room i don't know how you did that but you did an amazing job so thank you everybody
thank you and thank you to all the committee members who volunteer their time um to put in this uh great work and now uh the policy committee will take those recommendations and um implement them at the board level and then the
building administrators will take those recommendations as well so thank you yes thank you thank you next item please next item is citizen participation do we have any cards okay do you want me to read this since we don't have any cards no but that's interesting that we have I
thought I was going to make you read it anyways all right after that we have action items um special consideration of action items are there any agenda items on the 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 and so I am calling for a single motion to approve all of the action items on this agenda with the exception of any items which will be excluded from this motion by board member request
any trustee would like any item to be excluded from the single motion there are none um I I do have questions on 10 and 16
but they don't need to be pulled okay so can we have um so movement and a support thank you Trusty Barry support please thank you Trusty Pushkov uh questions um I do have a question on 10 and this is
the purchase for Chromebooks and laptops and was it two meetings ago where we talked about screen use um and uh Chromebooks in the classroom i just have a question as far as the Chromebook's
life versus the computer that we have do we have kind of any um data as far as how long usually a Chromebook would last compared to a a laptop or a desktop
great question and there's been some recent changes with the lifespan of different devices oh thank you uh great question there's been some changes with the lifespan of different devices so recently Chrome has extended the the support cycle for Chromebooks which will
now last from the 2020 models up through now about 10 years so we would expect a 10-year lifespan for each of the Chromebooks other devices are usually about 5 to seven years like that so as we look at the Chromebooks a lot of the shipment that we got during the pandemic
era would be at end of support in 2029 based on when they were purchased and supported like that so part of the reason that we do purchase them uh as we do with title funding like that is because we've had purchases pre- pandemic and the support time of those
are kind of uh nearing an end as well too we expect about 5,000 of those to be at end of support by fall 2026 okay but as far as the use of a a single Chromebook would that last
longer shorter than a regular laptop i I would think that the Chromebook's life expectancy is very smaller than the laptops um laptops would do you more time so there's there's a difference with the
Chromebooks and the laptops in terms of cost and everything basically with a Chromebook you can afford two Chromebooks to the cost of one laptop like that so in terms of cost efficiency that's why we kind of look at that in terms of lifespan you may have to de um
update a device at least one to two times during the lifespan as well too mhm um so going like we did this past year from Windows 10 to Windows 11 and some devices might not be able to be updated after a certain point so Chromebooks we have that 10-year gap
that we we or window that we have in there okay trusty Pushka I have a question for Mr wall about the funding from this for tit from title one we already got the money in the bank right correct it's on a
reimburse they're going to be able to um correct there will be no adjustment for future bill give it back correct not for this year purchase future funding is subject to potential due and tariffs could potentially impact the cost down the road as well so if we're going to do
it we better spend it now while we have it correct it's on a reimbursement basis once we order it and receive it then we can ask for reimbursement we can't ask for it in advance okay okay so we really don't have the money in the bank then if we're asking asking for reimbursement for this current year correct that's the
federal process we do that's what I wanted to know because I don't I don't want to find out you know when we go to hand the bill in that they say oopsie oopsie trust um Superintendent Dr yeah
we just say too like with the H that we talked about that we had never seen that before where like they just said but they'll you'll get noticed where they cut us off like immediately you saw some of the funding too with ESRE and other dollars so we haven't seen this kind of thing happen before so So we don't
really know what could be coming so the title order in how do they have this well the title one the title one is approved from what I was told through uh the Congress and Slatkins was in a meeting with us uh we're okay up until September of this
year if anything happens to Title One it would happen in October is what we're being told and they would be next fiscal year grant my my fear is is that everybody's going to be ordering so let's let's get that order in now because the availability might also be
strained yeah the standard process even though it's for this year grant that started October 1st our title one budgets just got approved last week so it's a logistics process that we go through quite extensively and this time of year is usually when it gets approved hence why you see that in the board meeting immediately afterwards right and
I hopefully they'll have that number ready to go thank you um my other question was on 16 was it did I say 16 yeah um so this one I know it says due to the lead
time for the parts and urgent need for these repairs we utilize the Omnia contract uh can you please explain what that means for the general public to know yeah I'd be happy to could we have more quotes from other
companies just to compare prices so using Omnia D because as was mentioned um well we kind of discussed earlier but not in great detail uh the the heat in on Stout's pool stopped working at some point during this heating season uh our
HVAC mechanics were aware of it um and they we weren't able to have the funding to have the time to have an architect design this which you're referring to as what would be a normal bid to where you can get more proposals so due to the
urgency and becoming at the last minute available funds through a grant that we received we went with the design build option that's where Train designs it and they also provide us a quote to perform the work so we were not able to get it from Right
so we utilize the Omnia contract this is used in this case often just to save the time because if we were to have an architect design it and then bid it out we wouldn't have a chance to get this work done this summer okay thank you just one more note on
that the Omni bid pricing they go through a bidding process themselves and they bid unit prices and that's what we call a consortium bids it's already been through the bidding process not specifically by us but by the company great thank you any other
questions there are no questions can we have a roll call please on the motion sure trustee Aljahi yes trustee Drosio yes trusty Zar yes trusty Barry yes trusty Pichchkov yes vice President Watts yes president Mos yes call
yourself think you did i'm sorry did you call for yourself yeah you did oh yeah I did he did thank you unanimous uh next item please or we do we have a summary of the agenda items
keep going this right here okay the summary of the agenda action items were number one approval of warrants number two approval of an award to Ulants number three approval of change orders number four number four approval
of an award to Southwest Food Service Excellence per board report 24-116 number five approval of an award to Michigan Initiative for Cyber Security Education LLC number six approval of an award to Nutty Scientist and Hype Athletics number seven approval
of an award to Curriculum Associates per board report 24-117 number eight approval of an award to Just Right Readers per board report 24-118 number nine approval of an award to Keys to Literacy per board report
24-119 number 10 approval of an award to Peopledriven Data Image Systems In Apple and CDW per board report 24-120 number 11 approval of change orders per board report 24-121 number 12 approval of an award to
GD Top-Notch Cleaning Service Incorporated and Absolute Fire Protection per board report 24-122 number 13 approval of an award to Allied Construction Services per board 24-123 number 14 approval of an award to HMC
Mason Contractors Spence Brothers EID Consulting LLC Contra Concrete Floor Treatments Incorporated Absolute Fire Protection WM Floyd Company and Allied Building Service Company per board report
24-124 number 15 approval of an award to Michigan Recreational Construction number 16 approval of an award to Transer board report 24-125 number 17 through 20 approval of non-instructional and instructional personnel items for P through 12 number
21 approval of financial statement number 22 approval of policy updates changes per board report 24-131 and number 23 approval of donations thank Part: 2
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school district of the city of Dearbornne uh today's meeting for April 14th uh it's 7:05 uh Mr secretary may I have a roll call please trustee Aljah here trusty Barry
here trusty Droio here petoff here vice President Watts here trusty Zar here president Mos here thank you uh next item please uh now I'd like to introduce Miss Miam Farhach she's the principal of Henry Ford Elementary to introduce
students who will lead the pledge of [Applause] allegiance good evening Superintendent Malleo President Mosip and board trustees um I'm very honored to um
invite these young ladies from our kindness club to join us in saying the pledge um they also would like to do our school kindness pledge if that would be all right and they do have something they'd like to say about their club after the pledge
ready pledge allegiance 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 i pledge to myself on
this very day to try to be kind in every way as every person big or small I will help them if they fall when I love myself and others that is the best a for Bronco all right so we were inspired by a few of our um
peers colleagues who already have kindness clubs in place and um we had two staff members who the girls will talk about take this on this year and it's made a huge difference in our school and the girls will tell you about it
the Henny Ford Kindness Club is a fun group of kids who love to help others and spread kindness all around the school we have about 44 members in our kindness club our awesome sponsors Miss Burks and Miss Battery help us come up
with great ideas to make people smile this year we raised money by selling our handmade jewelries like keychain necklaces and bracelets we raised $47045 we then donated the procedur proceeds to help people in our
community the donation went to many different organizations like Sabil Foundation Amenity and Zaman we also did kind things like writing nice notes to teachers during conferences and we created an activity for our whole school
to do for World Kindness Day back in November which was the kindness chain where everyone in the school writes some writes a kind note on a piece of paper and we connected it together to make a
big chain another one of our ideas was to have students and staff write compliments to one another each day we read several of the submitted compliments during our morning announcements it really puts everyone in a good mood first thing in the
morning thanks to the kindness club our schools our school feels happier and more friendly we have some special jewelry jewelry made by our kindness club which we will give to you later
thank you so we do have some um kindness club bracelets that they made and I will probably have to enter school mail them thank you but we do have something for you so ladies if you can come up please i'd like to give a I'd like to share a
couple words of my own i want to thank my principal and teachers for all their help i also want to thank all the people who were there in my learning experience and in my succeeds lastly I want to thank my mom
and dad for always encouraging me thank you thank you yeah can you tell us can you tell us your names again go to the mic and tell us your name my name is Auzi what grade are you in i am in the fifth grade
my name is Bi Vidya and I'm also in fifth grade all right my name is Mina and also in the fifth grade all right all right great job thank you this is for you thank you how do you say
your first name again thank you Miss Reed this is for you thank you so much take a picture trust will take a picture you guys want to take a picture with them i do i do
n is my cousin too i'm here starting a new tradition yes [Applause] [Laughter] thank you to the Henry Ford's family
again uh next item please uh the next item is Superintendent Mleo's update so I'd like to start um we're going to observe a moment of silence and we're going to start uh we had former trustee uh Stockwell who passed away and we have a couple I believe slides from Eric and the team
If we could also take another moment uh we had a coach who passed away and we want to take a moment of silence for that coach and their family as well along with Thank you i'll just go down the agenda sure President so we'll start with retirements and it will be a long list
and part of the reason that we will get it this time of year is because it is right at the time where uh staff members would submit their retirement and then there's an incentive so it allows us for staffing if they do it's not a huge incentive but it's something that we give back so the list this was usually the longest list is around this time of
year so we want to both uh thank our retirees and congratulate them on their retirement uh so I'll start carolyn Allen 26 years of service veronica Andrews over 29 years of service paul Bayerwald 37 years of service zana Barry
over 29 years of service gan Brackett over 21 years of service ryan Cook 29 years alino Donaldelson over 29 years jesse Dupants 25 years kathleen Duket
over 36 years of service dena Furlow 28 years elizabeth Garcia 30 years john Het over three years keith Hobbins over 24 years miriam Joer nine years
lisa Kenny over 20 uh 25 years of service and I apologize if I didn't pronounce that correctly tried to get it correct here dean Kendall 32 years rebecca Lodgeson 28 years wendy Gans
over 35 years rebecca Majettic 28 years asha McTar 30 years of service heidi Martin 34 years jenny Mory 39 years mary
Passan over 25 years celeste Reed 29 years colleen Shum 30 years wendy Shane 30 years mark Shepard over 5 years janet Smith 28 years peter Sunn 25 years
frederick Cisil over 17 years amarie Walters 30 years linda Well over 35 years christine Wilkey 30 years carrie Zach 25 years that has many many years of service supporting many students o
over the the years so I know a lot of them personally u and I've met most of them and appreciate the great work they've done i I just have to say that a number of those names are familiar to me because they were part of the Oakman family and
um it's uh they taught my children and it's scary that they're retiring and my kids are closing in on 40 now too so that it's a welldeserved uh group uh leaving us definitely that combined years of service maybe exceeds a
thousand years so thanks to all of them for their service next I have Mr mustin is going to come up and speak about the board uh proclamation from several years ago about ArabAmerican Heritage Month good evening board and Dr malo President
Mosup so April uh is National ArabAmerican Heritage Month and the Dearborn Public Schools is very proud to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of ArabAmericans that have made to our community our state and our
country uh the district passed an official resolution in June of 2018 proclaiming Arab uh April of each year to be National ArabAmerican Heritage Month here in the district the resolution encourages all residents to
join in this special observation just as millions of other people from countries around the world have immigrated to the United States to pursue a better life and contribute to the success of our nation so too have Arab Americans for more than two
centuries ArabAmericans have been making valuable contributions to virtually every aspect of American society in medicine law business technology government and culture men and women of Arab descent have become woven into the American tapestry as they share their
rich culture and traditions uh and we are very proud that this board of education took that initiative passed this resolution in 2018 and uh it uh is ongoing within our district so thank you
thank you Dave thank you Dave next item please we're still in Yeah I'm still going to go down so a couple I have a few more things here uh I just want to recognize our staff for uh occupational therapy month all our therapists it's also autism
awareness month i know we've been invited to some different autism events um and it's also school library month so I want to thank our media specialists and librarians um I'm going to keep going down with some more positive Dearborn Shines on a national level a lot and a state level uh we were at the
Miss Harris and I and were at the NSBA conference uh about a week ago we presented on board superintendent uh communication relations um and handling board meetings i've presented this topic at the national superintendent meeting i know uh Trusty Petitchkov was going to
join us but wasn't able to so we had um and we worked it out trusty watch came in virtually uh it went very well our session was jam-packed and in fact they needed more seating I think in the area we had a minor technical issue because of the zoom but we worked through it and it was very important i think that it
also showed how we use technology and how the board and superintendent work together and it we had about 75% in the room I think were uh schoolboard members and about 25% superintendent in the group so I want to thank the board for supporting these and obviously they're
great conferences uh we did submit to the MASB state conference for the same topic as well great so uh encourage everyone to go to those and I know a lot of you have been to the different conferences so thank you TR uh Vice President Watts and Joanne Harris and by
the way she gave she Joanne she's great with the technology so this was the way she had one of these the card for the QR so it made it very easy for participants just to scan it and get the presentation like on their phone or their computer right when we were there in the session
so okay I'll keep moving along uh I want to mention uh federal grant uncertainty um all districts right now are not certain of certain grants especially from the federal government um the the Trump must cuts have started uh we had
one called the H which we sent that to the board uh we're going you know it had to deal with mental health and supports for students uh supports some of our social workers and things of that nature uh next year that would cost us about $1.1 million um so these things have
started um you know we're just not certain we're going to continue to advocate for the funding for um you know for our students i was interviewed by the Detroit News too um you know we do get between our consolidated application of title funding and special ed we're at
about $25 million so there's been some discussion that those may be reduced we're not sure the state is going to potentially come up with a one-year solution on a rainy day fund but we don't know that for sure as well so obviously these are very concerning we're hearing other things like the free
uh lunch program and things of that nature but we're not 100% so when I'm saying these things uh there's a lot of uncertainty right now um with what's going on so I just have to mention this as we balance our budget and look at these items that we may have to take care of you know these cuts from these federal areas that we've relied on for
so many years um with that I want to mention that we do have a potential resolution for the board next month and this is about IDA um special ed funding uh a lot of the national groups have asked including I believe the uh schoolboard association and the superintendents that it's fully
funded right now it is not fully funded uh the special ed is not fully funded by the federal government so it is currently a partially funded mandate if they were to cut the federal funding what I've explained to Detroit News is that um it would actually hurt all so it would hurt special ed students but there are certain services that we would have
to absorb in the general fund because you have to implement it by the idea law so you would actually be going into your general fund so all students would be impacted by a potential special ed our association i'm on the governing board at the national superintendent group um and I know you guys you're aware about
last month I was at the meetings we meet virtually as well and I will have some meetings in Washington this summer um with that group and they're advocating for more fully funding we know it may not be the right time but these are the things that are going on so we continue to monitor and we're thankful we have Mr wall here who we're going to be going
through those budget processes and tonight he's going to be talking about that so uh that's another thing just to be to on the lookout i will tell you I've met with Congress our Congress people and and uh from our senators staff people that I've been advocating including our state officials but our
federal officials right now is people that we really need support because we're just worried about some of these cuts that might impact students um moving right along i wanted to uh congratulate um President Mosip uh award
of merit level three for MASB congratulations i know we have a award ceremony coming up and at South Redford I believe in a week or so and former trustee Thorp also received level four master board uh um I did get a letter
from the executive director Don Warrouer to both of them so congratulations to both of them oh and that award ceremony is uh the 24th at 5:30 at Redford Union Secondary Campus uh I got to do another kudos here uh Micah Sy and his team were talking about special ed uh we were
invited a few months ago and this had to do with the special ed audit least restrictive environment and our co-eing the state came in to audit school districts not just us they saw some remarkable things uh that were going on again we know that we can always improve so we're not saying we're perfect but
the state came in they then asked us to present at the at the state board of education meeting uh they had Mr aseli there we had a student Hadtie who presented and they were really heralding both Wayne County along with the director from special ed for the state of Michigan as Dearborn schools as a model for special ed implementation uh
he's now being contacted and they want him at other conferences and I believe CBS uh local news is also going to do a story on this so this is a positive thank you and kudos to uh Mike but I will say Hattie sold the show one of our students in the program and talked about how teachers in the in the model really
had a positive impact on him and we learned that he actually wrote a book uh the students so it's remarkable and he really talked about how he needed those students to get through some of his um areas of disability that he was dealing with and his father was so proud he taped the whole thing it was fantastic so I was glad to go i didn't I wasn't
part of the presentation i just went up there to support the presentation was the presentation taped on video i yes it would be on the state it is because it's on the uh school board assoc they have a whole day of meetings and it would have been uh last Tuesday
can you link it Mike please thank you okay thank you uh the last thing that I just have um which we have on every agenda Tom Wall is going to talk about this morning's budget I know we have Kathy Martin coming up about um you know building uh areas as well we have a
potential bond that we're still working towards the Quinn Evans group I know has met with a lot of people and they're going to be setting they wanted to get all this data together and then set up a meeting with me so that's going to be coming up soon so um more to come on that as well and uh that's all I have mr president any
questions for the superintendent there are no questions we can go to the next item please sure the next section is recognition and and acknowledgements and we're moving on to commendations wondering students here should be okay
hello my name is Muhammed at Dearborn High School and Dearborn Science Math Dearborn Center Math Science and Technology um first I'd like to start with the district accommodations uh accommodations to Nikki Cassidy and Sunshine Durant who have been named recipients of the Dearborn Mayor's Arts
Awards miss Cassidy is the art teacher at Dearborn High and will receive the arts education educator award mr rant teaches at River Oaks and is a district's art resource teacher she is receiving special recognition the mayor's arts awards will be presented on
April 28th now for the high school commendations commendations to the Dearborn High girls varsity basketball team who claimed the MH MHSAA district championship in March the head coach is Maddi Hamadi and assistant coach is Cal Alam
Huri commendations to Fortune High School which was recognized as a Michigan College Access Network champion more than 80% of Fortune seniors applied at at to at least one college in October fortune was one of 59 high schools across the state to be recognized
commendations to at Ford High School's DECA Club members Deon Mitchell and Jason Bundes both qualified for and competed in the 2025 DECA state conference in automotive service marketing commendations to Debburn High student Mahi Saba and Ford student Macy
Gerlech both seniors were named 20 2024 to 2025 Van Patrick award winners as the top student athletes in the city awards were based on athletic and academic achievement as well as extracurricular activities and community involvement ger earned an outstanding 15 varsity le
letters at Zel in volleyball basketball soccer and track she exceeded the usual maximum 12 varsity letters by competing in two spring sports mahi competed in football wrestling and track commendations to all of the students featured in the Dearborn public school citywide art show which opened on April
1st at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center a special recognition for the senior artists selected to display multiple items those students include include Nasarin Husini from virtual K through2 Amina Bazy and Maria Maria al-Shawal
from the Berry Career Center Naven Haidar from Dearborn High Amani Mukbal and Mia Morabido from Atso Ford High and Katie Heatherington and Sunnen Al Jawad from Portson High commendations to fif 15 students from the Michael Berry
Career Center who qualified to compete at the state dhaka competitive in March diodorm and Mahmud Fawani both meddled in their respective events and three other students qualified to continue to the international competition in Orlando zanab Ahmed advanced in the gold merit
award program and Maya Harmon and Jenna Habal qualified for the startup business plan commendations to the 29 students from the Michael Berry Career Center who qualified to compete at the state BPA competition in March 12 students qualified to continue in the national competition in Orlando Florida d
al-matari and Ilas Salah both won multiple state competitions yar Ibrahim Ayah Sahoba and Rua Harb placed for their website design nur Hebhab and Zay Bazi Yar Yasin and Madison Dybolt placed
for their podcast production ala Eli not only placed in a state competition but was also elected to Michigan BPA as historian accommodations to the Dearborn United figure skating team which was recently named state champions this is the highest ever finish for Dearborn
Unified the team also finished second in Michigan in overall team point standings for individual events individual skaters who made it to the podium during the competitions from ATSO Ford High Olivia Mloud was runner up in gold ice stands and Molly Holland took third place in
showcase dearborn High student Jillian Furlow was the state champion in freestyle and runner up in showcase and DHS student Adriana Bun was state champion in showcase the team is coached by Jason Darvish commendations to Henry Ford Early College students in the National Honor Society and Student
Council the student came together to raise more than $250 for an O Smith student who's battling cancer hello I'm Ann Becker i'm also a student at Dearborn or at the Dearborn Center for Math Science and Technology the accommodations for middle school are
uh accommodations to district middle school athletes who are also recognized at the recent Dearborn Department of Parks and Recreation Commission event those students include Leila Hamade and Muhammad Shimmoot from Bryant Hadil
Amusa Hadir Aljabanavi from Lori Hna Mused and Ilas Masar from Salina Akira Gambrell and James Malo from Smith Leon Aers and
Sif Hammud from Stout Zana Ina Belout and Jawad Bazzy from Ununice Helina Crease and Hayam Elhabasi from Woodworth accommodations to LL Smith teacher James Ravcliffe who also earned his PhD
elementary accommodations accommodations to William Ford Elementary staff including Miriam Alabachi Peggy Honer David Higgins Nasarin Najam and Annie Sha who were accepted to present at the Michigan Reading Association Conference
as is always the case our staff shined with the work they do to support our students commendations to district instructional coaches Lisa Jorgensson and Michelle Linderman the women facilitated six days of intensive professional development dedicated to the science of reading and and the
components of effective literary instruction through their skillful facilitation they have built the capacity of elementary classroom teachers and positively impacted tier 1 and two classroom instruction commendation to the young fives teachers and
administrations at Salina Gear Park Maples McCulla Ununice Lindberg and Henry Ford for helping create the district video titled Why Choose Young Fives thank you to the parents and staff who participated jennifer Rustink Candy
K Mir Beth Steppenovich Sue Stanley Lisa Fritzell Lindseay Tilly Wade Aloi Angie Isham and Carrie Kushner a special thank you to the digital media supervisor Eric Shigfrey
and digital media technician Jacob Farah for all their efforts to create the final video thank you thank you Trusty Barry yes I just want to follow up on the citywide art show uh there was
75 students that uh put in their artwork for for a t-shirt for the show and the one that was uh selected was MNA Abdullah from the Michael Bar career center and I promised her that I was going to wear her shirt next board meeting david promise made the promise
kept so I need proof there you go we'll share that with Murd thank you thank you thank you Trust Barry uh next item please uh next item is employee recognition right yes yes
good evening there we go i'll introduce you i'm so glad I came yes yes i'm so glad you came so I'm going to read this is Nicole Bush nicole is a teacher at Henry Ford Elementary um I'm going to hand the mic over to her in
just a second i'm so glad you made it made it today um Nicole is the only one out of the three that was able to join us but one of us one of them will hopefully join us next month nicole has been an instructional coach at Henry Ford Elementary she's got 28 years with Dearborn Public Schools and she was
nominated for caring about all the students and the quality of education they are receiving nicole uses her expertise and skill to help everyone she works with grow and improve go i didn't know I had to say anything thank you
very much for um nominating me and it was quite an honor and it was nice when they came to the school and the kids were super excited so it was super nice thank you thank you and this is still one of my children's teachers from way old she's still not retired good old
Oakman and that's Mary where I subbed in her class one of my first assignments that your daughter was in the class yep that is correct she's outstanding i was so excited to go and deliver that when we met her at Henry Ford for Nicole yeah our non-instructional employee is
John Disney i don't believe John is here i don't see him yeah he's not here so non-instructional employee is John Disney john Disney is a custodian at McCulla Ununice he has also has 28 years with Dearbornne schools and he was nominated for having high standards for
how the building and ground should be treated and working diligently to keep them in great shape thank you John Disney and hopefully you'll you'll see this message um our administrator of the month is Nicole Rayback nicole is the
principal at Woodworth Middle School she has 16 years with Dearborn Schools she's nominated for her outstanding leadership and unwavering dedication her genuine care for every student and staff member creates a positive and supportive community at Woodworth nicole may be
able to join us next month instead thank you Nicole thank you everyone have a good evening thank you Molly next item please next item is acknowledgement of donations president Mosep trustees Dr maliko Miss Harris uh the following donations have been offered to the school district
acceptance of these donations are requested at this time a donation of $500 has been offered to Whitmore Bulls Elementary School by the Dearborn Education Foundation to be used for green space outdoor classroom a donation of $1,876.72 has been offered to River Oaks
Elementary School by the Dearborn Education Foundation through crowdfunding to be used for the outdoor garden a donation of $7,500 has been offered to Smith Middle School by the Dearborn Education Foundation through crowdfunding to be used for a fellow student who has cancer a donation of a
wagon has been offered to Miller Elementary School by Whale Shimmoot to be used for transport robotic access to be used to transport robotic accessories sorry a donation of $1,000 has been offered to Hey Elementary School by Barhot for Michigan PAC to be used
towards the third graders field trip to Lancing the Capitol building and the Michigan Historical Museum a donation of $2,338.75 has been offered to Fortson High School by the Fortson Alumni Association to be used for resources for
staff technology and the PE department a donation of $250 has been offered to Henry Ford Elementary School by Mary Lou Zangerly to be used for a whiteboard a donation of $10,000 has been offered to Dearborn Public Schools by Jack Demer Ford to be used to directly support
student learning through in-person experiences the purchase of educational equipment or specialized classroom materials not covered by the general fund a grant of $21,000 has been offered to Dearborn Public Schools by No Kid Hung hungry organization to be used to
purchase uh co a Comey oven that has multiple functions it can steam grill bake and smoke that will be used to offer a variety of items for students at breakfast and lunch a donation of 140 Ford remote control cars has been offered to Duval Elementary School by
Event Network to be used as prizes for the ice cream social rewards for students and share some with other elementary schools and lastly a donation of $300 has been offered to Salina Intermediate School by CRSD Obad Maui to
be used for PBIS student incentives and awards thank you thank you Mr martin we thank the Ed Foundation as well as other donors who have contributed to our schools thank you next item please next item is approval of minutes excuse me
we're looking for approval of minutes of the following Dearborn Board of Education meeting the building and site committee meeting on March 10th 2025 board report 24-112 the regular P to2 meeting on March 10th 2025 board report
24-113 and the executive session on March 17th 2025 board report 24-144 i'm looking for anybody to make any necessary corrections and move further approval of these minutes so move
support motion moved by Trusty Pushkov supported by Trusty Barry uh any corrections to these minutes that we want the re the record to reflect there are none may I attach your unanimous role please motion is carried thank you uh
next item please next we have union leadership commentary do you need me to read this whole paragraph uh please yeah okay the new section of the board of education this new section of the board of education meeting is being added to further enhance the already strong commitment and longtime partnership between district administration and all
bargaining units both instructional and non-instructional union members serve on a wide variety of standing and ad hoc committees that drive the work and decision-making in the Dearborn public schools in addition administrative administration meets monthly with the leadership team of all unions as well as
a group meeting with union presidents these meetings are not required but are an extension of the collaborative partnership that has long existed in the Dearborn public schools this new section will further enhance the commitment to valuing all suggestions views and opinions brought forth by all staff
members in the district and I see we have with us today representative from the Dearborn Federation of Teachers Miss Kathy Martin good evening um spring is springing so I'm really excited about that um so I am here to talk about building conditions
however after a discussion today with the engineers union and the um DFSE I've decided to hold off on the slideshow uh as some issues uh may be currently being
addressed so I know that some of you have accessed what I sent over for today's meeting um and when we created this presentation I'm tried to make sure that
all the steps have been followed by people i made sure that the administrators of the buildings were aware i made sure that the engineers of the buildings were aware and that these issues are more than you know one or two
months old uh however as a show of good faith I am going to hold off and see what happens between now and the next school board meeting and to be completely honest with you I don't want to be here i don't want to be making
slideshows of you know damage to buildings i want everything to be great and I want to skip along happily uh teaching our kids and having great welcoming schools so if we can avoid
getting to something like this where I have to come to a schoolboard meeting and show pictures I would love that cuz I have better things to do um and members have better things to do than to take pictures and document and fill out forms
so I'm hoping this is a step in the right direction and we're going to resolve some of these is these issues i understand that nobody is intentionally being negligible i understand that this is a
very large district and everything costs money however these buildings are where our children sit for eight hours a day and we need to make sure that the environment and the climate is conducive to our children learning and that's what
I'm here talking about so I'm going to leave that alone i'm not going to go through the slideshow uh but I would like to say that I feel that all of us have one thing one common
goal and I've discussed this with Dr mleco multiple times i feel like we have an understanding of where we want to be and I feel like we agree on a lot of things and Dr mleco has been very supportive and easy to work with and so
I really do appreciate that i appreciate that I can give you a call and things get resolved um we're making good progress uh however some stuff needs to move a little faster for the sake of our kids and that's that's all I have to say
tonight thank you Miss Martin we truly appreciate your comments i know teachers personally have reached out to me as far as building conditions um which I forwarded those issues to the administration to look at and they've been addressed uh but I I do want to say
that we do have older buildings majority of our buildings are surpassing 100 years and they're falling apart and this is where the entire community needs to pay attention right now and to say we need to find permanent solutions we
can't just put them bandates um I'll have the administration address um things that they've been working on i know um operations department have been working on those but please share those slideshows with administration so we can
get those addressed ASAP so I'll have Dr mleo and then we'll have trust yeah so just to to comment on your comment the majority of our buildings aren't 100 years old i think there's 10 maybe out of the 30 plus say majority yeah you say majority i just want to make sure people
are are aware of some of these issues occur in newer built buildings quite frankly so the building building issues occur across the spectrum trusty Barry yes President Martin very classy of you step back a little bit tonight uh but
yes some of these these are unacceptable some of them I'm aware of they've been going on for years and years and we having the same discussions so I'm very happy and excited and I'm hopeful that some of these things are get taken care of i mean I don't want to say some
simple things here but there are some simple things here that should we should get to right away so I agree thank you very much for bringing them to our attention trust J so in in followup to uh previous discussions how are the Sorry in
followup to previous discussion how are we capturing these issues cuz one of the things that we want to make sure we're aware of all the issues that are happening um we shouldn't wait for you to put a slideshow to prove to us that
there is issues and I know uh Bob and and his team if I recall correct there was a system in place that allow us to capture these issues and so that's the question and to see where it's at and then in followup to that We really would
like to see more often uh data results to show what kind of issues exist you know we we shouldn't have to wait for you to do a presentation for us to be exposed to those issues so the first question have we implemented the system and are we using it
i I can comment on that first I want to say I appreciate uh Miss Martin too we worked together and if we have to resolve some issues we had something over the break with some teachers we were able to get on it and resolve and I appreciate that as well from your end thank you for bringing these to our attention as well and we're always looking to improve and do better i'm
going to ask Tom and Mark to come up um here's we are with the flow is that we are working on a system like a flow is what we talked the technology so that we can look at the data too and I think you had even mentioned so that maybe we can track some of this so I believe they're going to be ready to unveil that for the next school year there's some work
technology we're doing but that is in the works and we are working on that um so if Mark and Tom want if you guys want to right just in general you know they're going to speak in general and uh kind of how they're handling some of those things and making sure that we're we do address
some of these issues good evening President Mos Dr malo and members of the board um we all agree with Kathy that we are here for all for the kids um as President Mos said our buildings are getting older uh we have taken some steps uh in the last year we have hired
an additional HVAC person because of all the issues we are having uh long term it's better for us to fix it ourselves and the contracted out to make sure it's done right and they're very familiar with the systems but unfortunately with our age of our systems we could fix it today and tomorrow have the exact same
problem or something very similar until we get to that large investment of infrastructure we're going to continue to have these kind of issues and unfortunately I give a lot of credit to Mark and his team uh they work very hard a lot of what they do is behind the scenes that people don't see that they're addressing before it becomes an
issue and as things come up we do have limited staff so they are addressing it even after hours um even in this room itself we had air conditioning issues and they were here late last night trying to fix them for this meeting did anyone complain about it no but we came across it and we're trying to fix it so
half the room has air conditioning i won't tell you which half but we are working on this and I'll let Mark go into a little more detail yeah thank you as well um just to talk a little bit that wasn't hasn't been mentioned already is some of the challenges we face like this is the season where new roof leaks pop up and
it's pretty challenging for us right now because as you go from the winter freeze to the warmer climate in order to address these properly we need uh consistent outside temperatures of 40 degrees or warmer so that's part of some of the delay and the challenge that we go through also with our multi-level
buildings um in the age of our buildings which we mentioned about a lot of these uh leaks to be investigated require manlift and you know that that's one thing to coordinate to get the investigation done and that's another piece of coordinate to have the repairs completed so you know just to wrap it up
we we uh as Mr all mentioned our team works very hard and diligently to try to get these repairs done in a timely manner but due to the age of our building and sometimes the challenges we faced in investigating it and then the time it takes to get some of the parts for our heating and cooling systems it does take us a little bit longer than we
would like but we're going to continue to work on trying to come up with better systems to try to improve what what we've been having experiencing and I think that flowchart is going to help us too cuz we're going to read it and I think Kathy this will help us kind of Mr eddie he's here if you if you'd like to him to talk about a little bit i mean I
don't know if that we need to get into all the the detail per se i do think it's going to collect the the data on that and then secondly uh you know M martin if you need to you can always you know come to me if there's something we need to get on and Mark's on top of things and I think it is challenging for the staff too as we we know because
we've had issues that have come up that are like electrical issues at different buildings and and it's a lot of the aging infrastructure there's other things though that we need to get on when we see it and I think this tracking system will make sure so if there's issues happening that our staff is not doing versus things that we know are
infrastructure uh but we obviously have to resolve all of them um and you know when the decisions have come and Mr wall keeps bringing up and I know we brought up building a site we have to put the safety issues first the heating those kind of things we have a lot of nice things that we should be replacing you
know we talk about different things in the district that we would like to do but we don't have the funding so we have to you know put in for those needs like a boiler or uh you know air conditioning or things that are the big necessities is where we're at right now with infrastructure but we all want to work together to make sure everything's safe
thank you for bringing it to our attention uh Kathy and uh we'll work together with our engineers and other unions great any other questions i I I I do want to say something sure i think let's not got to be careful we shouldn't be
dismissive of tracking issues it allows us to justify and understand what the issues are and to you're always going to prioritize you know based on funding based on how critical it is but we want to make sure there's a responsiveness
and it doesn't go into a black hole so it's really really important that you know those type of systems are not um complicated and Bob knows it so tracking even allows us to justify with the bond and issues so it's really important to
be responsive to the teachers on things that we could and justify why we can't it might be the issue is funding and you know we explain and I'm sure they'll understand but uh it's something that we need to do we need to be able to track
things um just we're in a new world well I guess maybe I will let Bob then uh mention what you're doing thanks so what we're currently looking at for our system is very similar to what we use in technology for our help desk tickets and so what you would be able to do is
collect data by building where you would be able to kind of see where it is and like with the help desk ticketing system it goes to our techs or to our network administrators in this case it would be able to go to our engineers any of the support tickets like that so they would
be able to respond so we would be able to look at that data of response time with the engineers and we would also be able to have the staff input their concerns what they're seeing with their building with their room number so we can track that data over time as well
too we would allow staff to also open up the tickets if their ticket was closed and they don't feel it was done adequately so it allows for two-way communication if a ticket gets closed prematurely as well too and that way we can track all that information thank you
thanks Trusty Barry yeah I like where Trustee Jami is going with this but I'm surprised there hasn't been a system in place already it's all about communication i mean we keep I keep hearing these buildings are old it's like we know these buildings are old that's not that's that just sounds like
when what the public's hearing right now is an excuse that's needs to stop i mean ever since last Thursday I saw this then today we got an email that eight things were taken care of let's get to it and I agree with you if there's a reason if
there's a part that's going to take 6 months to get here let's let the administrator and employees know that hey we hear you we see you it's going to take some time to fix this but some of this other stuff it might not get to you because there is no system in place and I'm sure if it does you have a great
staff i I know they I I know the work they put in and did you say air conditioning today a little too early for that but uh yeah so no more excuses let's just get to it and if there's a reason that we can't get to it let's let everybody know thank you
thank you Trusty Barry thank you all and thank you M martin