You you so we're gonna go ahead and call the meeting to order. Today is Wednesday, April. And we're at the Fisher Building. We will excuse member McClendon today who had a family emergency at the last minute. If we could have miss Drake, can you read the meeting norms, please? We respect the rights of all persons to participate in this public meeting of the board and kindly request that everyone engages in behavior that supports the same. In the event anyone engages in behavior that is not in support of the good, we request that you refrain from that behavior.
Thank you. During our moment of silence, and and we'll we'll go into more detail at the board meeting, but we've had a rough couple of days, a rough couple of weeks with staff, passing away. We've had a couple of staff members. If you watch the news, there's students involved in incidents in the city. And so if you're like me, every time I see a young person involved, I I feel like that's one of our babies in one way or another. And, unfortunately, a lot of times, I I find out that they're one of our DPS CD babies.
But to lose, staff members who, you know, come to work one day and the next day, they're no longer with us, you know, this isn't just work. This is, what we do, but the family members. So during our moment of silence and, again, we'll acknowledge each person individually at the board meeting, in May on the I think that's the twelfth. But if we could just re thirteenth. Thank you. If we could just remember all of those, who have we have staff members who lost family members. It's just been a a been a a really rough thirty days.
So if we could just remember all those families and offer condolences during our moment of silence for all of those who are, grieving and mourning the loss. Thank you. The chair will now entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I make motion to approve the accept the help me out here. I'm just I know. I know. It's just me you said. We we good. The Janelle presented? As presented. Okay. Thank you. And I support the motion on the floor. Any discussion on the motion on the floor? If not, all those in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. So I will be voting today. Since we only have two board members, I will be voting today, so we will make note of that. The chair's report, during the academic committee, we know we wanna make sure that our community, is aware of some of the things that we're doing in the community. And oftentimes, unless you're boots on the ground with it every day, you may be unaware. Even as board members, there's so much that's happening in our district. But if this is an opportunity that we have, we're gonna take advantage of it and lift lift up a few things.
So, miss Strickland, it's fine. So on August I'm sorry. April, we have nearly a hundred students who are going up to Lansing, to the capital, and this is a annual lobby day. So what they do is in partnership with our government affairs department in the district, four h two forward, and, Detroit change initiative. They have sessions prior to the drive up to Lansing, and they talk about how to show up in that space to make sure that they know how to advocate for themselves.
So this is an opportunity for them to learn their voice and become empowered. We look forward to the information that they bring back, but they learn how to not only have a bill go from the mind to the to the table, but what does it look like when it it grows sweetness on the floor? And so, you know, getting bills getting bills passed, when bills are vetoed, things of that nature. So we we wanna say that we are empowering young people for leadership for tomorrow. A lot of them are leaders today in their schools.
And so what they're doing is they're honing in on that leadership, and we're develop developing it among some of the others. But it's really exciting to have our young people. I've talked to a couple of school students as they've come back, and they are in awe of that whole process. So lifting up today, DPSCD's annual lobby day at Michigan State Capitol, it is happening on the April 29, and we have nearly a hundred students who are going up from a variety of high schools. So, again,
appreciating the social studies department who leads this effort. So we're excited about what these young people are going to experience, and they'll sit at this table and even doctor Vidi's table in the future because we know that they are learning what they need. You'll get one of them yesterday at Supercenter? They typically don't they're they're up in Lansing. Yeah. I know. They they may start here. Oh, yeah. I mean, sometimes I think I'm gonna see, the student leadership tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. Our government our government students. Yeah. They typically don't. They haven't been up to my floor,
but usually, I go down and see them. No. I mean, like, you'll see as a superintendent when you retire. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. He it went all the way over. That's not the job. They don't like you know, I just made okay. I'm sorry. So, I was with a lot of grief. So, yeah, just looking forward to hearing back from them, and maybe it's something that we can have them, you know, come to a board meeting to share, their their, you know, their experience or even the next academic meeting. So just wanted to lift them up. That's all I have. I know especially in this climate, this is a rough climate that we're in.
From from Washington to Lansing, we're feeling some of the impact of the decisions already in both private and public sectors, so no greater time than our young people to learn and use their voice than than the time now. So that's why I have doctor Vidi. We can roll over. Oh, I do I will lift up to the, on the May. Just wanna make sure that everyone knows about, the math and the d program happening at Martin Luther King Junior Senior High School, 9AM to 1PM.
The students do an amazing job over there and staff all day. And what we want people to understand is, you know, it's often been said that we only recognize those who are in athletics, but we know that the strongest muscle that you have is your your mind. So these young people have not only tapped into that, but they do very well. So whether it's math, science, chess, sim, this is an opportunity that day to lift that up. Lift those young people up and all that impact. So please mark your calendars for May at Martin Luther King Junior Senior High School
if you have the opportunity to go out and support. We'll now move into the, academic report by the superintendent. Thank you, madam chair. Just wanted to review two topics. One, really for feedback. I ran this through the finance committee, last week. Again, this is for feedback. Just district philanthropic focus areas, this is primarily used with now the DCFPD Foundation. The foundation is moved to be a direct partner and arm of the district. Philanthropically,
we no longer fund, full time positions with a focus on fundraising. We also do not fund full time positions for grant writing. That now is led through the DPFCD Foundation. But with their stronger alignment to the district, it's our responsibility to name what are our focus areas and need. So this is not, all inclusive. But it does, try to identify, the request, at the highest financial levels. Most of these things were approved, by the board,
not through a formal vote, but the discussion, at the, a January retreat two years ago. So not this past January, January before. And then there's been some updates since, through general feedback from individual phone numbers, just things I have heard from the board as a whole over the past couple of months. And so the point of this is just to review these, get your feedback on if these make sense, point of clarity on these, and if there are other things that you think we should add, to this list.
So our way of work now is that the district doesn't necessarily go out to fundraise. We may be called to a meeting, may write an advocacy letter. You know, the board may do the same. If we come across philanthropic opportunities, then we try to ship them to the foundation so that they can take the lead on that, and we focus on our day to day work. That, realignment with the foundation is similar to what you see in large urban school districts throughout the country that have foundations that focus on philanthropic opportunities.
So, this is, a way to have a conversation. Don't don't not on the presentation. This is supposed to look glossy or nice. It's really about the content. One, is to continue to fundraise, for the Coolia Fudda complex. You may recognize that the dollar amount is lower than it used to be. One, we did receive a $15,000,000 grant from the state, last year. That money is actively being used. You may recall the board approved for the architectural work to start at Cooley. So that's in process,
funded through that state grant, and demolition, will happen through that state grant. And so the original vision was to have, the complex used as an athletic complex, which would have indoor fields, for seven on seven lacrosse, soccer, primarily used by DPSPD students, because of the lack of resources to do that within the city. Our students, primarily have to go to the suburbs to access indoor facilities, in the winter. And we're also obviously trying to build niche,
niche sports that were once called niche sports, but sports like lacrosse, soccer, and even indoor track, or access to indoor track. So that was the indoor facility. The other facility, was to be, a bat multiple basketball courts along with volleyball courts, again, used for boys and girls, same thing for the indoor facility. And then outside would be multiple fields, outdoor fields, for competition in soccer, lacrosse, seven on seven, primarily. The idea would be that our students would use those, fields indoor and outdoor during the in season and out of season.
We'd also be able to host, more tournaments, in the city, and not have to go outside. So the $10,000,000 number is a reduction based on fundraising efforts, but, also, it's been renewed energy, mainly on the parts of the the business to build an athletic complex similar to the vision that we have here, that would give primary access to DPSCD students. They are funding that. They are leading that effort with us as a partner, which then minimizes the immediate need for the Coulee Athletic Complex.
But based on that reality, and that movement, the Coulee, complex would still be an athletic complex, but we would build a football field, a modern football field with with a with a stadium, mainly for Cody High School. Cody High School doesn't have his own field. He uses a city park, and we've had some challenges with that. So with a new Cooley high school being built, that that Cooley Field would be used for their football field and track. We would also continue to focus on not a memorial,
but something to commemorate the Cooley legacy, indoor building, that would be, served for locker rooms, a weight room, primarily for Cody, but it would also be used on the West Side for youth league, to play there and and to help build the cedar pattern, there. So the gap between the state grant and a smaller version of the complex focused on the football field with the track, a a locker room, and a weight room would be $10,000,000. So that's the current gap that we would try to fundraise to meet that gap.
So the the the field would only be used, on a smaller scale based on how described, but the land would still be ours. So in future years, we could build out what was originally the larger vision of the athletic complex, but then more immediate need for the the athletic complex has been reduced based on the Pistons wanting to fund a larger athletic complex in the city, which CBSCD would be the primary recipient of that and it would be. That's still in work, but not led by us, but we would be a partner in that. Run through the rest of these or just the Yeah.
No. I've I've got a question. So, we're talking about Cody, but what about CMA that has no, that's an upstairs. They can just Get in there. They're they're on that lane, there'll be a football field built, and an upgraded, gymnasium as well. So that So when when is that expected to happen for that? About the same time frame? Yeah. Miss Jackson is coming in. She's coming in from a meeting. I'll give you, the exact time. I know it's on our web, but I think it's, fall of twenty twenty seven. So that's just a football field, but, what about the development or track team,
you know, lacrosse? Will they have that opportunity to use Yeah. I mean, that field would that field that DMA would be able to use, that as well. As the I mean, sometimes you have competing sports. Right. You know? But I I'm just thinking Yeah. That's gonna be a reality in really any of our, fields. But, yeah, they would all have to share the field like other schools do throughout the city and even outside of the city. It wouldn't be to answer your question, there aren't multiple fields that will be created for multiple. But, I mean, I I just know they have nothing now.
So if one is coming before the other, I would like to see that, you know, they're kind of blended in along with Cody that it it's a shared expectation and not that, oh, I have to ask and try to, you know, develop a team around. And and I'll just piggyback on that because I know that, I've been going to these facility community meetings and I what my what I'm looking forward to is CMA that was gonna be my question as well. CMA receiving their field because Cody,
they are playing on a field. Like, they do have a field even though it doesn't belong to the city. I know there was a lot of back and forth with councilman, Fred Derhall about the city and the district obligation. I know miss Jackson reached out to him. I reached out to him as well, and I I don't know if I know I haven't been contacted back, and she's shaking her head. No. She hasn't as well. But for that community, they do have something that they're on. So as we look at the timeline, CMA has been asking for this for quite a long time, and I think that there were promises made where and I know we're not saying
we're going back on a promise, but they have been in that space, patiently waiting for a football field. And so they've been going around kinda using other spaces. So if there's a timeline that we can control and I know that the the grant from the state, we have only until 2027 to use that 15,000,000. So this is an additional 10 on top of that 15. So that 25 total that we're talking about for for the cooling conference. Yeah. I I think we're getting some things just to clarify.
The the the funding for the CMA Football Field is there. Mhmm. This has nothing to do with that. Mhmm. We that was part of the FMP. The field will be built by 2027. Okay. This is not I understand the question, but they're not connected. Well, because the timeline on this is '27 as well. I know we have to spend just okay. So Yeah. All the meetings that we've had Right. But the but the the the money coming from the state is not there's not enough with the money coming from the state to build a football. That's what they have. So if there's no football field going about the pool anytime soon until we get
10. So we're not so the messaging is different then because I've sat in two community meetings and the 15,000,000 that we have to spend by 2027, what's been communicated is that that is for outdoor facility. Not not any of the indoors, not that. Just strictly outdoor facility that those dollars are earmarked specifically for that. Yeah. Well, I would say that's not happening, but Well, that's the intent. But the first step of the 15,000,000 is the architectural design, then the demo,
and then probably fencing lighting. Mhmm. There's still there's a probably after all those three things are done, there's not enough money to do a football field. So that's why there's there's still a funding gap between that and putting up a football field, which would be primarily for Cody High School. Okay. So the community in that space, as we've immersed ourselves at at that church I mean, we've just been over there in John R. King. There there are additional ask even being asked of that complex,
but if it's outside of that 15,000,000, I think we we owe the community, explanation as to because there were additional ask that we were saying, well, we can't do this because we're locked into this 15,000,000. But if we're saying there's additional dollars, I think we just need to revisit some of those requests. And I know, miss Jackson's team has they have the cards, the comment cards, the request. So we don't have to belabor the point here, but we probably should look at some of those assets to see what is doable within that dollar amount.
So I just Yeah. Just as a reminder, that dollar amount used to be 60,000,000. Mhmm. Mhmm. And so that that number would be much higher if it wasn't for the other complex that will be billed by the Pistons Mhmm. Which then negates the immediate need for a citywide athletic complex for our students. The benefit with the Pistons vision is that they wanna prioritize DPSDB students. And where are they looking to build? I'd rather not say that. Oh, but they did there is a site? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Not on our not on any of our properties.
Okay. That was my next question. Okay. And so that's still work in progress, as far as working with the city on the land and the development for that. But, there there was the what has been shared with the community is the vision around the Cooley Complex. Mhmm. But as far as, like, concrete deliver deliverables beyond, the architectural work and the demo of the field right now, there's a funding gap. There always has been. And that's that that has been the case even after the state grant was provided. So, you know, beyond with the 15 after the demo,
there there may be some money left, which could be some initial work on on maybe fields in general, but not enough to do a a stadium. Okay. We can dial it offline. But okay. Go ahead. Instead of doing to to clarify, instead of doing the stadium, we could do multiple outdoor fields. That could be enough money to do that, but I don't know, like, the amount of, use that way. And, I mean, my my personal opinion would be if there's a gap between, the 15,000,000 after the architectural design, after the demo, I put it into the stadium,
not multiple fields. Yeah. Yeah. But that's something that we could talk about. But to clarify, there there was never enough money to build out even a smaller version of the complex without more water. Mhmm. Even after the 15,000,000. Okay. As long as we're communicating to the CMA community about, their football field Yeah. That that hasn't stopped on the seventh. Okay. It's It's not a matter of we need money for that. The money is going to be marked. It's rather executing the project, and that's due to be done by 2027. So Okay. As as, we we talked about mainly,
the latter part of the summer, and at times at the academic community level, the high school redesign work. So there is, there could be some philanthropic energy behind this mainly with businesses, in the city and outside the city that are interested in creating more career pathways for students. So here, about $5,000,000 in one time development costs. So this, the one time dollars, continues to go, with just rebuilding schedules, professional development, more of the infrastructural work to then redesign the plan. So we're not using our own dollars for this.
And then $10,000,000 in reoccurring costs once the high school design is implemented. That's mainly linked to tuition, for college and universities and transportation to and from, the school district, and colleges and universities. Camper Chile, I think, both of you are aware of Camper Chile. We've owned that property for quite a bit of time. Unfortunately, under emergency management couldn't be sold because it's it's deed restricted. It has to stay with DPSCD. We were starting to reactivate the use of camper shortly before the pandemic,
and then the pandemic hit and obviously, it abandoned all opportunities to travel there and for kids to attend there. It it it has led to, a deterioration, through, over forestation, vandalism. And so there's a lot of work that now needs to happen just to get students to be able to go back, on the site. And so the request here is a range and, board member McClendon specifically asked for a range in in this one to go from 2,700,000.0 at the low end, which would just allow us to, use, the site again,
and to, winterize, the the cabinets. Right now, the the they cannot be used, in the winter because there's no heat in them. And so the 2.7 just allows us to run it again, and to operationalize the cabin. The 40,000,000 at a high level would be to reimagine the whole camp. So that would be complete like, demo the the cabins that are there, make them completely modern. So you have, modern HVAC systems with air conditioning and with modern heat, you know, upgraded across the board infrastructure along with the plumbing, carpentry. All of it is outdated and overrun.
And then whether it's 2.7 on the low end or 40,000,000 on the high end, it'd be about 350,000 a year to operate. So in the district with so much facility needs, the district has hesitated to put any, large scale dollar amounts in camper truly because we have facility issues in schools where kids and staff attend daily. But from a visionary point of view, I can't I I continue to think Camper truly is a great opportunity for the district, and its students to, experience nature. I mean, there's a lake there. Mhmm. They can fish. They can go on canoes.
We, invested in, like a obstacle course through Title I money when we had an excess amount. So, it's a great opportunity. Board member, Gabe DiNogo, at the finance committee meeting, did bring up a good point, which was to try to lobby on the republican and democratic side, with its representation in Gregory, Michigan where the camp is. Try to maybe have some bipartisan collaboration between Detroit Lawmakers and and those, in that area to maybe have a dual use of the camp, for kids that live in that area and schools in that area,
which I thought was a good idea that we could add to the legislative, approach too. And anything on this list is not only what the foundation focuses on, but we also included in our lobbying work as well. So, GSPI along with, the foundation and, at times, myself or board members will actually lobby on these issues with the right, legislators to try to get, some of this done. I'm continuing to support oh, let me pause you for one second. I'll cancel. So I went up to Camp Birch shortly, and I know, like, that annual amount, if it's only being used a certain time of the year,
then I would I would hesitate to say put that type of investment if we're only using it. So let's get it done and get it up to speed so that it's used all year. But I know when I went, there were conversations with labor as well. Having them partner with us to donate some of their services. So have we explored tapping into the skilled trades? I mean, we have Randolph and all of that over there, but, you know, we have all of these unions, skilled trade labor who look for community aspect to offer services.
Have we tapped into that to that population of people yet for skill for their skill? Well, the issue I mean, that would be defined more between the 2,700,000.0 and the 40,000,000 because that's more renovations. Mhmm. The the annual cost is is linked to more having a a daily presence on the camp because of the excessiveness of, of the vandalism. I mean, we're seeing the same thing we're seeing in the city. These people will go there, they'll steal, they'll vandalize drug use, name the list,
all of that. It's happening in that area. So you we we literally need to either contract or have someone there all the time and also protect the property. And then just deal dealing with maintenance. I mean, you have to you have to trim the trees. You have to clear the path. You know, during the winter, you have to clear the snow. You have to monitor the, the banks because we've had issues with overrun, pollution. I mean, it's it's a Mhmm. It's a host of Yeah. Of just just think about managing property. Yeah. And that that's what's needed.
So that's where that call comes from. So that 350 is whether we use it all year round or not? Correct. Okay. Yeah. That's the estimated cost of just monitoring and keeping the place safe. And, again, even I was very skeptical when I started to get into some of these numbers, but we've done RPs. I've I've visited there a couple of times and talked to people that have directly managed the location, and it you have to think about it as managing, property that you wanna maintain, not just let go. Mhmm. And right now, it's it's during the pandemic, it was let go, and it now is just overrun with challenges.
So I I'm just lifting up that it may be worth looking into, as people try to offer skills from a skilled trades perspective, whether that's construction, whether that's carpenters, whether that's electrical. We we have these facility open houses where we bring people in, and I know they are constantly trying to apply for RFPs and things of that nature. But a lot of people don't know about campus, Shirley. And a lot of people have not even visited to even see what the needs are from a from a aspect if you have resources. So I just don't want us to leave that on the table because,
again, when I went, I took skilled trades people with me, and we were in a process of doing some things there under under UAW. So I do know that there are there are people who would assist, but we can just talk offline. I don't know if there have been a tap already into deal trade or not. Not that I'm aware of. I don't know what to ask that you're aware of. This is it. Okay. Yeah. For sure. They're more focused on the trade. Okay. So then there's a family resource centers that are connected to the help hubs. That's, everything linked to the pantry that we run,
to the services, that are provided through that. Right now, we have grant funding for the health hubs for the next two years, mainly through the Ballmer grant and possibly beyond that, but we're thinking more long term, to create an endowment that will last for much in the future. Right now, it's about a million, 1.1 a year to run the health hubs. That's mainly linked to the navigator at each of the club that help parents schedule, appointments for mental health services, basic medical, dental, or vision screening. And then we have opportunities for philanthropy around,
paid incentives to attend the parent academy, trying to incentivize teachers on the parent home visits because that was once grant funded. So the grants, have expired. And then we have the student leadership conference, which, we empower our students to create an agenda, invite, recognize speakers on on, various, topics, also to rent out a location. We have the ongoing and unlimited needs of our homeless students and families. We've talked about that. And then lastly, just sponsors for employee of the year event, teacher PD day. We pay that through our district funds. Sometimes we have self-service support for that,
but that's, an ongoing need. So, this defines what would be the major focus areas. I know you've already had questions, but I didn't know if you had additional questions or, things that you would like to see maybe added to this or clarity on things thought I would talk about that I didn't. I wanna put, board member Brian first. Well, I'm thinking in terms of our special programming, chess, robotics Yeah. And some of our students who've been traveling that we often don't have the the funds available. It seems that we know that that's a need yearly,
and maybe if we could get some the some funds in place, then we can one school this year goes to China, another school. So I would I would like to see that. And, actually, maybe they could help us in securing coaches by increasing the stipend, perhaps for some engineers to come in and work and build our, programming up on that on that side of the, robotics. That seems to be a hard space to get some coaches. Yeah. We as you probably know, we fund all the robotics and chess,
but definitely the field trips that that should be on here. The the the foundation is aware of the increasing heat and demand for more field trips, especially international. It's not on the list, but they are aware of that, but it should be on the list. So the the way they're thinking about this is allocating a certain amount, allowing teachers and students to compete and submit, applications, and then they'll define the winner based on need and, you know, the quality of of the request. So that is on the radar. They are funding, some additional field trips, but,
also trying to be more aggressive on the international, travel, in that, area. I'd I'd have to look more into the stipends for the coaches. I know we pay our employees with certain stipend that's defined by DFT. I know this past year with DFT, we increased the stipend for our our athletic coaches. I believe that included the, the sponsors for those programs as well. So, I can explore that more. I think if we attract some engineers that will help train some of the you
have some coaches, but they may not have that background. So if we can facilitate that part of it, that I think we'll have more success at building because those coaches are sticking around, and then they can bring coaches on. And as long as we don't see significant federal cuts, which we all know we don't have we should be able to afford that. If we start to see the cutting of title one and title four, that would put us in a difficult position to even maintain the robotics programs and
chess programs. I would likely recommend to the board that we use the fund balance if it came to that to preserve those that programming. But if that doesn't happen, then I can see us absorbing the call, six degrees, the stipend for that. Yeah. So we both talked about that shared program. So the HealthHUB, I know with our partnership initially, was that just for the onset or or where are we on the spend down for all the dollars that were raised for the HealthHub initially? So we're good for the next two years, so not including this year. We have enough to sustain where we are and build out where we said we
the issue is, after two years. After two years. So some of those And there is an opportunity to extend the dollars that we're getting to Okay. That's what I was getting right back. They said as long as they solve, clarity with the impact Yeah. That they would consider extending funds. Okay. Perfect. So that was my next question because several of them made a commitment that they would recommit financially. And then you may not have the numbers now, but just to know what the foot traffic is for the health hub, I know I think before when I asked you the highest, health hub usage was in Southwest Detroit,
does that still remain? Or do we know where the highest usage is and what that number is? You can send it to us. Yeah. I'll send it to you. I don't I I don't remember off the top of my head, but I know our numbers continue to increase across the board for nearly all the help outs. But I I have a follow-up. I can send it to the committee. Okay. And I don't see, Cass Football Field on here. Is it because it's already funded? Okay. I know that was and then Davis has been funded as well. Davis Aerospace going back. And I'm just going back to what we initially have talked about. Those were already They're funded already.
Got it. Okay. Any more questions, member Bryant, before we No. Okay. Thanks, doctor. Okay. So the next topic, was a request just to review. One one last thing. I'm sorry. The homeless student families support. So I know that, we had a couple of board meetings ago, maybe two, we mentioned about, us willing as a district to partner. And I know since that time, people have reached out. So is that the same category that we're talking about? As we're talking about our buildings, this is that same okay. Yeah. And why would they this is more about the concrete.
Okay. So not with the facility. No. Got it. Okay. Alright. The next topic and, the last topic, for the agenda items is just a review of the two grants that we received, for EV buses. So I provided an update, to the board about this, but the, our plan is, to move away from these grants. And, there was a request at the finance committee meeting in here, just to review the details of that. Mhmm. And so, prior, right after the pandemic, through the Biden administration and even the,
Whitmer administration, there was this movement, to try to modernize, and create more environmentally friendly busing for students. Obviously, we know the globe is facing environmental challenges that are severe, with different countries and administrations, acknowledging it. But with all that said, originally, what we hope to do, is through grant funding, and this is why we applied for these grants, was to move to more environmentally friendly transportation for students, reduce carbon emissions, from the diesel fuels, be more aligned to where the federal and state government was going with clean air
and clean energy, begin to modernize the district's yellow bus suite. Remember, we don't own our yellow buses. We contract all of that out. We do own vans, but we do not own the yellow buses. There are about 200 yellow buses that we contract out. So you also have to think about that versus what we would possibly be able to do to these grants. It put a dent in, I think, the fleet, but certainly not at scale transformative, but nevertheless, in the right direction. And then,
initially, our analysis was that it wouldn't reduce operating costs if we moved in this direction. But, obviously, things changed once we received the grant. So, again, also at the time, the grant would cover the majority of the cost. So, at about 375,000 per bus, it'd be about 80 to 90% of the overall cost because you're talking about 90% of the cost being on the bus and buying the bus, about 200 or 20,000 per, charging station. We assumed in applying for the grant that we would have vendors or bus contractors
that we wanna partner with. So we had some preliminary conversations when we applied, that vendors, ones that we currently had and possibly others, would partner with us in a way that would reduce our cost. But as once we received the grant and we've started to move into actual negotiation, it became clear that the district would be the one saddled with the majority of the cost and the risk, because the contractors demanded different details in the negotiation when we got to the point of actually negotiating to try to come to the agreement. Again, initially, there was a savings,
with moving the EV versus the diesel. We also assumed that the federal government would continue to support EV initiatives and general environmental strategies, which obviously the Trump administration is not, actually moving in a different direction, which could create a risk on if we start spending the federal grant, if it's going to be pulled underneath us as we start to actually use it. I think there is less risk for the state grant, but definitely a lot of risk for the federal grant. And again, the belief that we would have partners that would work with us,
which would be more beneficial, to us. So, the details of the two grants, one, was a federal grant, for about 5,900,000 that included 15 school buses, the charging stations, again, about 90% of the cost. That didn't include maintenance or operations, and then the state grant, for about 4,000,000, which would be for 10 school buses, and the charging stations. Again, covering about 90% of the cost linked to that, but not including maintenance and operations. And, I'll talk about this more, but the issue here is we gotta remember we have no infrastructure for our buses
at all because we don't run buses. We're all owned by the contractors, and this is all new work. So you need, you need repair people that understand EV. You need people that know how to drive the EV. You have to train them on the EV. You need an infrastructure to do the charging and all all of that, we assumed, would be owned, if you will, by the contractor, not by us. And so if we were gonna move forward, we'd have to, absorb all those costs, hire people, and train people to then implement, which then dramatically increases, our cost.
So for clarity, on the federal grant, it has to be implemented by 04/01/2026, the state grant, by 09/01/2027. And so if we went if we move forward with the federal and the state grant implemented by us only, as a minimum, and there could be more cost than this, then we would have to put in $2,000,000 up front. So in addition to these two grants, which would pay for, let's say, 90% of the cost with these buses, the the actual buses in the charging station. We're talking about additional 2.2,
which is the difference in the 90% of the buses, but also to build out the infrastructure to hire the architects, to then develop, this infrastructure that we don't currently have. The issue with 2,200,000.0 is we're in a situation that is looming that we're probably looking at cuts. And so right now, to add 2.2 to the budget when we don't know where the federal budget is gonna be at, and we even have questions somewhat, at the state level, it just creates risk for us to say, okay. We're gonna absorb 2,200,000 and then some maybe as we,
begin to, implement. So, the plan to implement was to, have a contractor, that would absorb most of the risk and the cost. Since our initial thinking on this, that one company no longer contracted with us, and the other one, wanted us to absorb absorb the cost. So in other words, that if, the, the vendor initially owned the the buses, and, something happened to the contract or they didn't wanna implement anymore, then we would absorb all the risk. So then we would have to buy those in buses at market value,
which would then come out of our pocket and not be used, through the grant. And then just to reiterate, we're just building an infrastructure for EV, which we don't have. Everything from bus drivers, the mechanics, the dispatchers, the training, to managing, and the software, the regulations. We have no infrastructure, no know how, and all of that. So we're starting from scratch, if if we end up moving forward, with the current grant. So, all these things are are just a repeat of what I've said before. 2.2 out of pocket, if we implement as is because we don't have a partner,
to absorb, the other the cost and and the risk. That's a breakdown of the 2.2. And so the district's recommendation is to basically return the the federal and the state grant, so we don't have to absorb the 2.2 and additional risk moving forward. There's no penalty, to return, the funds. The other risk, just to repeat, is to go back, is more of the federal funds. I I mean, I'm very, concerned that if we start to implement, this money is gonna be taken away from us, because there's just been a rating of the federal funds.
So my fear is that we start to implement, assuming we have 5.9, and we start to implement and that's pulled out and we already go out and purchase the TV buses with this money, then then our costs are gonna go much higher than even 2.2 because then we'd have to pay out of pocket, for for the buses, which we may have already been contracted to pay if we got to that point. That's the breakdown of the risk where we were, where we are, and and why the the recommendation that was made. Oh, thanks, doctor Vidi. I know I I have, a few concerns working in the auto industry myself,
thirty years now. This is extremely tough for me to swallow because even in auto industry, there was this thought that we were getting ready to move quickly into this EV space. And then there was this big halt, not only on products, but laying people off and stopping to build facilities that initially was going to address EV. So now the thought is more hybrid than anything because we don't have the infrastructure, as even as a city to even do this. But it is because I know how progressive this is,
I think that's why I'm the most disappointed that we we have, leadership now that is not that we it's the the unknown, the question mark. So for me, I get it. I get it because I work in this industry, and so I know there's been a lot of walk backs of a lot of things just because of the leadership that we have. My I guess I have a couple questions, and and then I'll turn it over to member Bryant. So one of the questions is, is this something that and maybe this is suggesting for the board.
If this is something that we would even consider Because we know that if if if there are partners out there who are interested, I know you're saying the initial partner is bagged up. Right? But if people are saying, oh, EV is where to go, and these companies that they're saying that, then it puts them in a space to have the support if that's where they feel. So that's a question more for us. But the other question that I have is, I know that there are a couple of districts who have this now. None, obviously, are as large as ours. And I know some of the challenges that they've been experiencing with their very few
EV buses. So do we do you have a pulse on these other districts? I know transportation, mister Walters is here, but do we have a pulse on that? Because I do know some of these other districts that have them have been experiencing major problems. Yeah. You I mean, you answered the question with the statement, but that that was part of our analysis. Do other school districts that moved in this direction have had challenges with, maintaining the buses, personnel to maintain the buses, and, hidden costs that were not initially there. So, yes. And then, you know, I did name it, but the insurance cost,
with the EV, is also a challenge, and and the regulations are linked to that. So, yes, the feedback, has not been overwhelmingly positive, with dealing with hidden costs and the new infrastructure that's required. And and I'll, repeat. I think it's easier to do this kind of work in an environment at the federal and state level that is very supportive, financially, with infrastructure, with networking. And it's still I mean, federally, we all know it's extremely fragile, not as much at the state level. And and to clarify, partners are are actual bus company Mhmm.
That that wanted to move in this direction. So it's not philanthropic partners. I mean, theoretically, it could be Yeah. To your question. I'm doubtful in where we just are Just in the climate. In the climate. I don't I don't see I don't see philanthropic partners wanting to absorb this risk, for the same reason that we don't wanna absorb the risk, or even give them profitably to something like that where the infrastructure is not supporting this kind of development, based on where we are right now. But, yeah, partners, just concretely, are bus companies that already partner with us or other bus companies that have that
have bid on contracts or would bid on contracts that had initially signaled they wanted to go down this route with us. But after we started to begin to negotiate, negotiation fall fell through because it was we were assuming more of the risk than they were, and it didn't make financial sense, in this environment. Mister Bryant, so I appreciate all of this information because they put it in perspective for me because I hadn't been on the board Yeah. You know, previously. But what I I always look for and I think that we're missing is an
analyst of what it represents for our student. Obviously, we're still challenged with transportation. We're challenged with, you know, attendance issues. And our most vulnerable students, our ESE students, are all constantly we're we're having a a tug of war trying to get them transported to school. So with that being said, I didn't see how this could support Even if we didn't have the 2,000,000, I didn't see a number that says, okay. This is how we could kinda kinda close the gap.
And I think when we're talking to our our parents and our general public, just to say, oh, well, we don't have the 2,000,000 or we don't wanna invest it. Because my my question would be, well, why can't we make some cuts somewhere else for transportation? But now when we're talking in the grand scheme of things, it puts it in perspective. But for some who are struggling with transportation and I you know, and they probably thought, like, woah. That's an opportunity to have 25 buses. How can that really impact our students? And so I think that's the kind of conversation that when we are having,
from the academic perspective, because, obviously, finance deals with the numbers. But I would like for the parents and the community to understand that we are looking at budgets, but we are concerned about our students getting getting to and from school Yeah. In in a safe manner. The the the the vision behind this was never to add more buses to the fleet. It was to take it was to replace current bus. So it wasn't like we're gonna add more transportation. It was just simply saying these were more energy efficient,
more environmentally friendly buses, and they would replace the older buses. Okay. We're not adding transportation. Now to your point, absolutely right. And, you know, I always try to remind the board, especially based on where we are now. Yes. And and all transparency, we could add 2.2, and take something out. And, you know, that's always the exercise. When I say if we're gonna add things, we can always add, but what are we substituting? I mean, what are we gonna take out? So, I mean and this is a transparent conversation. Yes. There is an opportunity to do that. And and based on where the state budget is,
there might even be a way to absorb this cost, and I don't wanna mislead the board. I think it's it's not just the 2.2. It's the other, risk in moving forward on this. The primary one being the federal funds not being there and then the infrastructure that has to be built out, which on a on an operations team that is already been in the transportation team that's already been, I'd rather focus on continuing to improve our services as we are now than adding to something that is more risky than,
I I think, efficient considering the other challenge. So if we got rid of the the federal grant and and, obviously, the the state is friendlier, to work with. What would be the difference of cost, or it's just $2,200,000 regardless? The 2.2 is focused on the 25 buses. So Okay. I'd have to give you a different amount with just the 10. Well, would you be so kind to do that that I mean, the the 10 buses and and the other the other thing is I think at some point, the board member, excuse me, the Mayberry, it's not ever going to happen,
and we probably should be looking to move into that space. And this is a space that we also can introduce in our high school where students are, you know, having the opportunity to either, you know, work in in this area. And then I don't I don't know if you had thought about some of those things adding into Yeah. There's well, I mean, when we think about the, partnership with Lane County Community College, as you know, they're they're starting to be fields, not starting, there are fields that are opening up around e d technology.
And so those are opportunities as we think about the high school design and career pathways and definitely exposing students more to that opportunity. Now the the real question is can that be ramped up to then create a pipeline of employment for all that? Maybe. But I don't not at the scale that we're talking about with all of our lessons. The the the federal and state infrastructure and funding structure has to modernize to support a movement. In this direction. And we're at a disadvantage because we don't have our own infrastructure anymore. So, you know, that's that's the but if the I mean,
in talking about this at a high level, the board says, you know, that's the we wanna prioritize this moving forward. Then then I think, you know, through me, the operations team, we can start trying to move in a direction to to transform the fleet more into this direction. I would just caution because of the the cost. I mean, our we're we're not we're not funded the way we should to even just transport kids the way we need to now. And and I'll repeat,
the reason for that is 50% of our student population, no no no blame, doesn't attend Negroes Schools, which puts an enormous pressure on our bus transportation system to then move students across the city. So as students exercise choice, even within the the district, it puts constraints on families and us to try to meet that need. So we're not funded, and we're not functioning in a city with modern, reliable mass transportation either.
And has there been any discussion with the city? Because they're building a facility over on Schaefer. Have have we had discussions with them about them moving into that space? I see a few Yeah. Vehicles. Yeah. I think I think their plan is to begin to transition through federal state grants as well, but their their challenges are similar to ours. The benefit they have is that they have their, an infrastructure. We don't which was decimated emergency. We problem solve on them on routes, that haven't been reliable,
complaints from parents. That's the extent. Well, moving forward, a city that is on the comeback has to have a school district that aligns with what they're trying to do. So, I mean, I I'm not sure how how that that engagement process would would happen, if it could happen, but I think it's worth, opportunity, that it presents. We're up for a a new mayor and new city council people. You have two new members on the school board. So to to really engage and see where we go from here because we have
to figure out a better alternative for transportation. It is killing us. That is, like, the one of the top three things. If our students are not in school, they're not learning. And so, you know, those dollars we're spending to educate students that are not even in school, that can't even get there with transportation. So if we, you know I'm I'm comfortable with the the federal, but with the state, we have a deadline to the twenty seventh. So, you know, if we can kinda explore what options may be able to happen there and minimize
that 2,200,000. And with that 10, you know, buses, how effectively can we get and, I mean, I I know all of our students are important, but our ESE students, putting them on a healthier bus, you know, and and making sure that it aligns with some of their needs, I think, would be a great step, with where we're trying to go and what we're trying to do for our our students. So, doctor, let me just also add to that because I know we have an action item today around transportation and an increase in small vans and things of that nature.
That is one of our action items. I guess, to to board member Brian's point, even with the 10, when you provide additional information, I think we also just need to make sure to call out that. One of the things that may be preventing us even from doing it is we don't have a park we don't have partners at this moment. So even if we were due to 10, because they came to the table differently than how they initially came to the table, we if we wanted to do it, we don't have partners who if you're if I'm understanding, the partners, the language changed in terms of what they wanted and what we were responsible for,
whether it's 10 or 15. And then these 10, again, aren't additional. They're just going to replace 10. And I don't know if we're moving into a space like propane is something to think about. That's that's more energy efficient than gasoline, not as energy efficient as EV, but it's just an option. So in the information that you get back to us, the board member Brian's point, if you can include that information in the email as well, that'd be extremely helpful. Yeah. The to go to 10 buses, we're talking about,
about a million dollars. 8 hundred 80 thousand would be the the estimated, cost that we would, have to put out on front in order to do the 10. So let me work with the team. I mean, there there's ideas that I have. I think that I think the the one risk does the state grant require the conversion of of diesel? They don't. Yeah. See if it that would be more I I think we could do something. I mean, if the board is willing to absorb the cost, you know, in in next year's budget.
And again, I say that, you know, it's easy to talk about absorbing the cost. But if we're cutting, it's hard to justify adding a hundred or 800,000 if we're cutting. Right? Or even using the fund balance to preserve things like chest or robotics, and then we're adding a hundred or 800, 8,000, which would be general fund. And that's the other thing. That's what we have limited dollars for. So I I I could think of of some ways to improve transportation and fuel services if we could just use buy 10 EBD van buses.
Well, say I I can't. But we can't because we what we have to do is take 10 diesel out of the fleet Right. In order to be eligible for the grant, which then doesn't put us ahead in the number of buses that we're running. So then then all we're doing is yeah. We have 10 buses at our EV, but we're adding million dollars cost. So that's where if it was just a straight 10 extra buses that we could own and run and and pay a million dollars or so, I'd be more inclined to do it because then we could we could then pilot
what I've been talking about is having a yellow buses, EV buses just to transportation for one neighborhood high school, and then not use city buses, which I've been wanting to do for a while because I wanted to see if that's gonna positively impact attendance at that neighborhood high school. So have you presented a plan to the board previously with that idea? The the pilot yeah. The challenge has been not that the board hasn't been willing. We haven't the bus companies hasn't been able to provide us with more buses and bus drivers to do that pilot.
That's so we we we have plans to possibly do it at the fall. We talked about doing it at Pershing, because they have one of the higher chronic assets. The the issue isn't as much funding. It's it it goes back to the company's not having enough and enough buses or bus drivers to extend the fleet. So but let me let me think more. Let I'll work with the team more on the numbers. I'll provide it to the committee. But my my new reluctance is the idea of replacing a fleet replacing 10 and
not adding. Like, this makes sense if we're adding to your point to then improve services. But that's initially what I what I thought. I thought this was adding on. Yeah. It was always Right. The condition of the grant is to replace, not add. Because then that's how you reduce the emissions. Well, that's why I asked the question. No. Because that is you know, at first at first glance, you say, oh, wow. 25 buses. That's gonna help us move a lot of lot of suits. Yeah. But okay. I I If you could still get us that information, though, because it would be advantageous for us to have it and to know what some
of the barriers might be as we're in spaces with those who may be able to assist and what that looks like. And I think that would be, good for us to have that information too. Okay. So thank you. Anything else before we move to the action items? Okay. And the chair will obtain a motion to accept the superintendent. Motion to approve. It's the support. It's me. All those in favor of the motion on the floor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. So now moving to our action item. I know we have the time is upon us where we're going to be seeing some of these action
items come through as it relates to, fields and transportation and, waste and things of that nature. This is routine to come before us around this time of the year. So doctor Beatty, if we could start and I don't know, board member Bryant, Is there any reservation or or anything as it relates to item 4.01 with Hampton Mine? Yes. Okay. Our first question is why or how do we end up purchasing books without resources? Now just give me an answer. Then
what are we using the same company to purchase these, new kits from? And what's the cost difference if we had a bottom upfront versus who's coming back now with nearly half a million dollars to get these? My other question is, teachers provided a stipend for having to create these resources. And are they if if and or are they have they been reimbursed? And how did, you know, we we have a k through oh, I'm sorry. K through second grade.
So what is the time frame for possibly freight phasing out these books and buying new books? So we're about to invest in kits. But if we're gonna be using a up to date, version of this book within one, two to three years, can you elaborate on those questions or answer those questions? Sure. So this can this is, what I would call supplemental. We were engaging, stakeholders on how to use the literacy cost of money. Teachers, in particular,
at the k two level, ask for more manipulatives. So these are you know, think about the, tactile ways that you can teach children how to read, through manipulatives, that they can touch and feel small groups. And so when we ask teachers on a gap analysis, what what do you need more than you currently have more of, with literacy lawsuit funding, they named, foundational skills kits. So, this is funded through the literacy lawsuit funding. We, once we agreed to do this,
we went through the RFP process, and we said, okay. By the time that was executed, we were already in the school year. So we said, let's wait and do this at the end of the year for the beginning of next year so this this material wouldn't come in the middle of the year. So this is a onetime purchase. It's not reoccurring. So we don't pay teachers more to set this up. It's part of their getting the classroom ready. And so that was the thinking and the history behind how we ended up here and why these materials.
So, I mean, I'm I'm looking at it said, the recommended activities in the literacy curriculum must be creative manual. So the books that were purchased, they they were purchased knowingly that they would have to create these additional resources? Well, the books are the books. I think this is more about giving, k two teachers more tools to break down the foundational skills, that are understood at that are taught at that level. So these are additional resources.
So this isn't part of the core. These are just additional materials that teachers said that they wanted with the literacy lawsuit money. So at the end of the day, teachers said, we feel like we need more materials beyond what we currently have to teach k two children at a higher level. And since we add the literacy lawsuit money, we thought it was a good way to use one time money for one time purchase material, to to get teachers for a long term construction.
So the current books now, they were creating resources when instead of now duplicating that, we're talking about getting these toolkits instead of them manually doing their creating their own resources? Again, just these aren't books. These are these are just tools that are used beyond the book, small groups. Okay. And so it says alignment of the strategic plan outstanding achievement. What does that actually mean? What does that look like? Because it says anticipate an increase in percentage of student students meeting the grade level,
foundational reading benchmark. We we know students starting in pre k based on, pre k beginning of your data or kindergarten data that students start significantly below the national average and state average. So that's a foundational skills gap. So, when we thought about best uses of k of the literacy lawsuit was to increase intervention and support in the earlier grades, in order to catch students up so that they're not as far behind, especially by third grade.
So the strategy here is to improve k two small group instruction with a focus on foundational skills, which is done at at the small group level so that more students that are where they should be in k two and not playing as much catch up later in in later years. So, and this is also, you know, this also builds off of our investment in the AIs in more small group instruction. And at midyear, our data was promising with improving foundational skills,
which, should be linked to the AI investments. And then down the road, we should continue to improve through this investment out through the literacy lawsuit funding, which then leads to more students being at and above grade level in third grade. So this was the first year that you started using the literacy plan? So we don't have any research or or, I should say, data to show where the kids are who are in these grades k through 12 from this this I'm sorry. I can't say 12. Second grade with what we've done with the Let's Read program and any other intervention
that's been going on. So we Yeah. We do. Remember two months ago, we started I reviewed midyear data that showed, the impact of Let's Read, showed the impact of the I'm saying a full a full year in order I I'm I'm just having a problem wanting to make this type of investment without a at least a full year of looking at the data and where they are. Full year will be next month. Theoretically, it would be next month. Because they'll start using just starting in the fall. Have we reserved went back to the teachers to ask them,
you know, from the first initial survey, because things change, what their thoughts are on on these kids. I mean, we we've seen that, you know, I don't I don't wanna just say, like, throwing money at a at a trying to fix the problem that before we know that what we're doing is is working. Yeah. This is a good example of funding what they wanted. This is what k two teachers wanted based on when we asked them, here's the funding. What would you need to improve student achievement?
They said we need more work on foundational skills, and we need more manipulatives to teach students the foundational skills beyond the core and supplemental materials that we use. And none of them ask for phonics because we keep hearing that Well, this is linked to phonics. Yeah. Meaning, these manipulatives help teach, those found foundational that's another word for foundational skills is phonics. So for for me, in a layman's term, that's what I'm looking for because that's what everybody is saying Yeah. Or asking, you know. Correct.
So if they've written this, they're like, well, where is the phonics? Yeah. You know, where is that piece? Right above, Gap and Elf, it says the materials promote multimodal, multiple multi multimodal learning and sound engagement with core foundational literacy skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding. I'm just saying that when we say foundational skills, it's encompassing those things. Well, I'm asking the questions that Yeah. Our our our some of our parents and community members are are asking. And that's that's really,
you know, seems to be a a huge, it is a a disconnect. It is. And that's why, based on those listening sessions, we decided to fund them with our focus on early learning. And I'll just say to, board member Brian's point, you know, as people are asking and they wanna know about the kids, maybe what we do is let them know there's magnetic letters, there's fluency phones, there's dry erase, like, all of different things. Was hoping that a kit was brought. So So you can You know, I I was I'm a I'm a I'm a tester. Mhmm. So, you know, there's sufficient kit. He can drop you off the cake.
Yeah. And and I'll have the kit. And then we'll hear from the teacher since they requested this. And and I'm sure there was some reason as to them thinking that this would help move some of this data. Then, that could be if you could we look forward to the data if this is, if we pass. Yeah. That end of or midyear Mhmm. You know, end of next year. And, again, how this this cost is, impacting how many a number of students. So our our k second grade. Yeah. All all this well, all the students, k to two. I got that.
But what's our number? Because, I mean, it ultimately boils down to what are we spending on our students. So when you see that perspective, it's like, okay. That's gonna impact 5,000 students. We have 50,000 in our district. You know? I I just like to to be able to see the student in the number and how how we're taking It's about it's about ten, twelve thousand. Okay. That's what I take. Yep. Population. Right. Okay. Okay. Combine about about 4,000. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. Anything else new?
If not, sure, I'll entertain a motion to approve 4.01. Motion to approve? I support. Any further discussion? None. All those in favor of the motion on four, signify by saying aye. Aye. Oh, okay. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. So four point two, I know, is with Southeastern. So as we talk about this, automotive space over at Southeastern, this is an opportunity to provide some additional equipment, machining equipment. Is there any deduction needed on 4.02? No. Okay. Do you understand motion to accept the action item?
Support. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. 4.03. So this is a contract with Vito Outsourcing, and this is around storage distribution of curriculum material. So packing, distributing, storing, counting, delivering, all of that associated. I did have one question. So this is only for one year, and I know it mentioned that we would be trying to do this in house next year. So if this passes, we do we have the bandwidth to do this type of service going forward?
Are we saying we will no longer use a external company that will be something that we use to do internally going forward after the year? Jackson, you wanna handle that one? We're currently working with miss Campbell Williams' team, on this by monitoring the volume, the expected volume in the future years Okay. And completing a cost analysis of what will it will take. Okay. Obviously, the summer is the largest volume for the warehouse, which is why the routine looks like work with an outside. Okay. So we may depending on we may actually see another contractor outsource if we don't
have a bandwidth internally. Correct. Okay. We're trying to bring those numbers down. Okay. Any further discussion on 4.03? No. If not, can you turn the motion to approve 4.03? Motion to approve. Support. There's no further discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. 4.04, CO OP, agreement with card integrated corp. So this is for our ID card for our students. We know about the safety associated with ID cards. We know we are replacing ID cards,
when our young people will misplace them, but this is for the printers, the leasing of the printers and the material. Is there any discussion around this? Is this the leak Okay. Okay. So I do have a couple of, points. Mhmm. So, and I know we spoke myself and board member, short, spoke with, miss Jackson regarding using the cards for the meals for, my soul. Do we have a plan for how we are going to do that? Yeah. We are doing that. The principals giving direction on, making sure that the IDs are staying in school,
and that they don't leave. Trying to we're gonna start reducing the emphasis on using the cards for the buses that, deals. And so by the May, we should be seeing we're already starting to increase use and some numbers are moving in a in a better direction. Patient rates because of that. But by the May, we should see consistency with the use of the ID, for the meal process by using the ID and then scanning the code. And we should see we're already seeing an increase, but, you know, rapid increase in participation rate.
And my other question is, do you think that every year, since I've been been a high school parent, We don't have students taking IDs before school starts. Either there's not equipment or something is wrong. How would that impact getting IDs a little bit earlier than after the second or third week? Yeah. I I mean, it it varies among schools. I think some schools hesitate until actual count to, you know, who's gonna be there. But knowing how starting last year in particular and then moving to next year,
we still need to see these ID cards consistently. So we'll we'll talk over the summer about making sure that we have clear operational plans for schools to start issuing IDs that first week, and using them mainly for the meal program. But we also have to solve our processes. And my other question is, I know, previous to my joining the board, we had to phase out of, volunteer batches. Is there a opportunity, you know, with this equipment to bring that back, or is that something that's just done done away with?
I I not a huge fan of not having a volunteer with Ivy, just to take a parent's word for it based on some incidences we have seen. I I think, it's time to maybe review having some parents have IDs on when they come in in the school versus, you know, just take my word for it that I'm a volunteer. Yeah. I'll I know we you mentioned it. We were moving in that direction. I don't know, miss Fleming, do you remember why? It was expensive. So, because the badges get,
created out of, the, the been creating those badges. Okay. It was it was costing. Yeah. And so there we could look at, potentially a transmission machine. Yeah. We could figure it or something. Yeah. There's some schools that, are volunteer with someone else to sell, and so no friend something, but the the initial, around Well, the concern I have is is that as a volunteer, when you go through Galaxy, you get the email that says you're a volunteer. There's nothing at the security desk to check. There's nothing for the administration to check.
I do my due diligence and have made a, you know, a copy or forwarded to say, hey. I'm I'm a volunteer. But even with, those stickers, you know, that's still not clearly identifying a person. You're walking around in the school because, yes, you're here and you're not. Yeah. The schools have access to the volunteer list, but that's a yeah. That we'd have to create a a process maybe at the front desk of the security guard. I mean, we can look into that. I I I see your point. I don't disagree with it. I think it's,
as this bucket said, a function of cost and then one more thing that schools would feel like they have to manage. But I'll I'll I'll list that as something we can have. I definitely get get the cost. Yeah. But my concern is for safety and Yeah. I understand. Security. Yeah. Yeah. No. I understand. Okay. It might even be where I'm looking into, lanyards that are color coded because I know if you're a volunteer for one day versus if you're a long time volunteer in different levels of clearance. And so that's easily identifiable to see somebody with,
you know, a red lanyard or a blue one. We we could look at that, but, that could be if you can put in some information back. To your point, I'll just add to so if you had a badge number with, a badge with a number on it, and if the volunteer signs in, they put that badge number down. And when they leave, they sign Becky. So you know that parent had that number, and they were in the school. Just something that you can go back to reference. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So that's item 4.04. Any further discussion? No.
Not to carry any motion to approve for motion to approve. Motion to approve. Support. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. 405 is around bus passes for our high school students, and 4.06 is the small vehicle transportation services that we're increasing based on demand. Is there a desire to tie bar those two transportation items? Yes. There is. Thank you. I will support the motion to tie bar of those in favor of tie bar four point zero zero five four point zero six,
signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Now that you're understanding the motion for the tie bar of 4.5 to 4.06. Motion to approve. As for any discussion, my only question, doctor Beatty, is for middle schoolers. I know high schoolers is a given because they're using city buses, but for middle schoolers, some of our middle schoolers are using city buses as well. They're not using the transportation for whatever reason. School not in there with all the things. Is this a case by case basis? Because I know we've done it in the past,
but are we making sure that our you know, sometimes even a sixth grade, it might be around the six months. So so the middle schoolers have access to these bus passes that need to be as well? Yes. Okay. The case. Thank you. Got it. Thank you. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor, $4.054.0.06 of $5 on the floor signify by saying aye. Aye. The opposed motion carried. 4.07. So this is, around the fuel, Crystal Flash Inc, and 4.08 is around thank you. It's around weight with Ally.
Is there any discussion needed on 4.07 or 4.08? Nope. I have one question on 4.08. I know one of the vendors dropped off because there was not performance. Then we go to that third vendor. So many of these, I look at we and I I don't know if we have an answer for this, but it is worth mentioning that. We send these RFPs out to hundreds of people, and then we get bids of, like, two or three. And so to say,
I get some of them just don't have the bandwidth or they can't maybe do the scope of work. But that's a lot of of people 800 people almost getting the bid, and we're only getting two or three people. So I don't know if we know why that gap is existing like that. But, really, the question was, did we get a third did we get a second person, which would have been the third person on the list and on the street where I identified this number two was nonperforming. Or could Ally do all the job of both of the vendors since we decided
to split? Yeah. So moving moving forward with two gave us some flexibility in case one company couldn't fulfill the obligation of the contract. Unfortunately, we did not have three Oh. You know, the third account. Okay. By Bidders. And so Allied was able to assume the entire Okay. And so that's the that's bad. Okay. So chair is taking a motion to approve items four point zero seven and four point zero eight. Motion to approve. As a tie bar of support, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed aye.
Any opposed? Motion carried. Now the chair and the second motion for the tie bar of four point seven four point zero eight. Motion to approve. Support any discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Four point o nine is around the fencing. So we know we've had, promises to do some of the fencing repairs. We've had issue with staff and their vehicles. So the goal is to make sure we see the list of schools for the contractors as it relates to the different fencing, not only around schools and parking lots,
but also around place case. Is there any discussion needed on 4.09? So are these just the schools that are, like, a pry the primary, repair and then smaller repair? Yeah. That yes. As you define it, I think that's the best way to define it. We we try to put as much as we can, in this space, you know, to to fund what we can. And then as we go through the budget, if we are seeing less funding in different areas, expenses so expenses are below expected,
then we shift onetime money to add to this so that we can do more fencing, than we anticipated. But I we start somewhere. It's it's not a huge amount, but it's something we're finally investing in some repairs. And as we get to the midyear and overall, especially in general fund, if we're spending less than we anticipated, then we'll do a budget transfer and then an amendment to possibly this contract, which the board would see to do additional fencing work. And then we could also talk about 4.1, as it relates to time. So we have fencing and we have signed with,
James c Stevens on business as a RedMon sign. Any discussion on 4.1 with the sign? Yep. Couple. So are they responsible for the banners that are up on some of the buildings? Meaning, like, promoting the school. Mhmm. No. Those are qualified to school. Okay. They'll need their school based funds. Sometimes we've done district wide type of initiatives, but, you know, separate. They those are usually bought through smaller contractors or contractors to the individual group. Okay. And do we have a list of schools that have been identified that need letters?
Because I'm telling you, when I go out and visit, I see outdated information or a number miss you know, missing. So do we have that so that everyone is on court on a court with what the expectations are for that? Are they different from that list that's on there? I'm good. Admin and 99. It is rolling. It is rolling. We're just doing age. And so we create the list at the end of the year and then plan that budget. But then during the course of the year, there may be additional letters that fall off that we Do we have to buy
a a whole kit for a school or do are we at It depends on the age of the building. Okay. Because some of the letters assigned are no longer being made or the cost that special makes them exceeds the cost to just create all the letters. And do we have something that we expect of is with the school that they should be changing, updating because we're talking about, you know, outdated information that's a month or two old. So So on the so on the Marquise, that's that's a little different,
from this one too. So they oversee the language that's placed on their Marquise. This those were the the intent of this contract is to replace the Marquise signage that includes the names school and So the frame the framework with with more the stand alone letters that you may see up next to the building itself. Okay. Perfect. And more of a Brian, if you are at a school and you notice something, yeah, let miss Jackson know because it may not be on the list. So Well, no. I've just seen some banners that are Oh,
full purchase. Have fallen down or some that have really faded. You can't you know? You know, it's it's no confusing. I just was wondering if that was part of this. That's right. Okay. Okay. Alright. Four point nine and four point ten. If we could type my goals. Yes. There's a motion to tie bar. I support any discussion. Although in favor of tie bar four point nine four point ten, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries that you're not gonna attend a motion for the tie bar of four point nine and four point ten.
Motion? Support. Any discussion? Are those in favor of the tie bar on the floor signify by saying aye? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Now four point eleven four point twelve eleven and twelve, 13, 14, and 15 are all around fields and exterior operations. Is there any discussion on any of those? 4.11. So the company RNA, how how well, have they done in our district? Miss Jackson. With regard with regard to landscaping Yes.
It varies based on different school locations and during the first of the year, but overall, pretty close. So do they they also do snow removal? They did do snow removal, but no longer they only for us. Right now, they only for, obviously, facility management services and then landscaping, but no longer snow. So my question, around the landscaping, so and this may be something separate, but you know how we have some of these boxes in front of our school or, the name escapes me. But are they contracted to keep those?
Oh, the garden boxes? Yeah. The garden stem? Yeah. Who do we have working on those? No. So the raised garden disc, that falls under collaboration between school nutrition and, teachers at the school to work on that collaboratively, for different school events for students. So, no, that that's all outside of the school. Not happening, then what? Then It is just unkept. We could be that could be brought to our attention Okay. So that we can work on hand with school level staff. And then who handles those yellow boxes that have, like,
confidence, different names on them that are around the school that are unkept? I want to say maybe it's a what's the the It's like confidential? Yeah. Different different respect. Oh, is that part of the, school safety? Talking about the signs inside the building? No. They're they're, like, outside of some of our schools in a on a parameter. The signs? Yeah. Okay. No. They're little little boxes, and they look at one time they have flowers or something, but they're they're not kept up. It's a combination. I know of one of the county commissioners in her district.
She had those planted outside of the perimeter of the appointment that she's in our schools. So, her staff is responsible. And then for others that are on the terrace, which is actually the property, the city's response. Okay. Well, can we look into making sure that someone gets out there that because it is on the curb. So that's curve if we're talking about curb appeal and that's what I pull up to Yeah. I'm like, it it it takes away from the nice Kevlar. Okay. That was my only question. So the chair entertain a motion to tie bar items 4.11
through 4.15. That's all of the landscape, asphalt, and athletic fields. Yep. Motion. Support. Any discussion? You know what? Can we back that up? 4.13 with the, paving repair. So my two schools that I just absolutely I I think desperately need something. Stamps and Webber, the front, and Northwestern, the back. Apartment. Not department of the sidewalls. The parking lot. Yeah. So that that's that's I think Northwestern is on here, but Samson Weber,
the front. Is that the one I didn't see that one here. It is. It's under a major contracting. You see it. Okay. Alright. Okay. So they get added to added to okay. Yep. Okay. So you you hit those two. Okay. So there's a a motion on the floor of tie bar 4.11 through 4.15. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries that you're not gonna entertain a motion for the tie bar of 4.11 to 4.15. However, before any discussion of those in favor of the tie bar,
signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. 4.16. So this is environmental consulting. I'm not sure if there is any, questions as it relates or any concerns as it relates to 4.16. I haven't been addressed already prior to the week. Okay. 4.17 is, for Persian High School. So we're talking about, construction manager for the new Persian High School. So we know we've seen it, come through bid package one, and now we're seeing this, for phase. You can see the phase of the multi phase bidding process and everything that's included.
Is there any questions on 04/2001 '7? No. Okay. 04/2018. And created the contracted services, involving roof. So this is for mold and field. So we know we've seen roof contracts come before us. We know our buildings, they're older, many are outdated. Depending on the weather is when we see, a lot of these challenges. Is there any discussion on 4.18? No. Okay. And 4.1940.19 is, a co op agreement with People Driven Technology,
and this is around IT. So making sure, this is the that this is a Michigan based family owned business. But this is around, IT support. Any discussion needed there? No. Okay. 42. I'm for technology group. So this is for voice over IT services as it relates to, integrated technology solutions, for our k 12 schools and higher education institution. Any discussion needed there? No? Okay. And 4.21, approval for a co op purchase agreement with Apply Innovation,
in Raico, USA. So this is around, multifunction devices to enhance efficiency and reduce cost for printing and copying of services. Any discussion there? So I have a question there. So as we're phasing out, some of these printers, and we're moving to different companies, these printers that remain in the school, will they be able to still order, ink? I know we'd have certain vendors that they're allowed to use. So in a case where one remains that's pretty much in good use,
but could we still be able to get, ink? I know. We've centralized all of this and we get more of it. You know? We're getting off and so that it's burdened by all this and what we're contracted to do with Okay. Or is ink? So, no, not for stand alone printers because it costs us less to visualize to the larger the larger, printing and accurate devices. So You're talking about, like, stand alone, not the big one. Right. Right. Is that, mister Badito? Correct. We allow for, the principal,
the special education lead, to have to do confidential printing. They have their own sensors and do that throughout. But for everyone else, since we're actually renting, we don't pay. Right? So you're saying don't pay for ink growth? For individual printers. So just the principal and the ESD lead are allowed to have individual printers. Everyone else goes to the standard copy machine that So when it was we have printers that are needed for a particular, maybe, class subject that's being taught. Or it's in a medium sense,
for the student to print something out. We don't we don't cover that cost or that comes out of the school question. So copying so all schools now have the legal devices Okay. It's all the it's all centralized. K. So you're on your laptop, you hit print, it'll go to the big one of the bigger printers in the building rather than one offs which are more costly and also break in the maintenance is higher and all that. Okay. No problem. Alright. So the chair entertain a motion to time bar 4.16 through 4.21?
That's correct. Okay. Support? Support? Yes. Support. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Now that you're in a state of motion for the tie bar of 4.11 through I'm sorry. 4.16 through 4.21. Motion to tag her? To support. All those in favor of the motion on the floor signify by saying. Alright. Alright. Any opposed? Motion carries. We will now move into public comment. Miss Drake, can you read our public comment statement? Members of the public are welcome to address the board during public comment.
Individuals wishing to address the board must raise your hand to be acknowledged. Virtual public comment will be facilitated through a Zoom webinar. To register, you must use the raise your hand feature to indicate that you wish to participate in virtual public comment. Via the computer, select the raise your hand option on the screen. Via the telephone, press 9 to raise your hand. The meeting administrator will select the individuals in the order received. You will remain muted until your time to speak. All comments will be limited to three minutes. The superintendent will reply today.
Two questions or concerns raised today that do not violate ethical or legal standards, confidentiality, privacy of others, or require additional information to respond. If you would like a direct response to your questions and or concern, please forward an email to the secretary of the board, Vaden Moore at Vaden dot Moore at Detroit k twelve dot org. Thank you. So we will go to our public commenters who are in the room first. We have three. Mother Moore? Thank you very much. It's gonna take me two hours to do my reports. I'm just sitting here wondering why we're going through all this.
Do we have this kind of money to even talk about contracts and stuff that has to do with buses, electric buses? Why did we waste all this time? Aren't we in debt? Don't we have two budgets, one from the past and one for Donald? We owe a lot we we owe a lot of money. And some of it wasn't $25,000,000 that were just that you all were concerned about. But why do we spend all this time going through that? We don't need any new contracts or anything. We don't have any money. Our children are really hurting,
and our school system is really hurting because of the money situation. Now unless you all know something that I don't know, I got two meetings, national meetings to go through tomorrow and Saturday. National Action Network, y'all know I do that, and you know Journey for Justice in Chicago. When I make my reports, I wanna be truthful, and I want to tell them exactly what's happening. I'm not going there talking about we're in debt and all of this, and we're coming up with talking about buses and all of that. Why are we doing that when we don't have the money?
I'm just as frustrated as I can be after coming back to these meetings so I can get the real information to tell to all these people. Now tomorrow, I'll be on with Journey for Justice. Now on Saturday, I'll be right here with reverend Sharp. You know, I'm the person for education. Can y'all tell me why all of this is coming up and who bought the information about these buses? And, doctor Beatty, how'd you get that information? And why does anybody wanna deal with it? So we understand what I'm saying? We have no money.
Yes. We gotta save our system. Can you give me an answer before I get on the on the speaker tomorrow? Yes. Why are we doing all this? Aren't we wasting time? And she's asking all these questions and all of this. Tell me something. So I don't just speak here in Detroit. I'm all over the country, y'all. Well, make sure you have some talking points more some factual stuff for your meeting tomorrow, and you can use it. Send it send it to me. Okay. Okay. I'm really getting in trouble. I'm seeing one thing, and Eli Musk and Nut Brains of president of The United States are doing all
these crazy things. Okay. That's all I wanted to do. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Miss Aliyah Moore. Hello, Moore. Hello. So glad I could be here in person. I have a few questions before my statement. I did file a complaint with the state of Michigan concerning my daughter's IT. Thank you for miss Green, complying with me from compliance, getting you a schedule for her to make up for hours. With that schedule, if there was a to be determined date for summer school, I then find out, apparently, that our high school experience is online.
My daughter will not be online. My daughter will be in somebody's building getting her summer school as well as her recovered hours. I don't understand it. You know, you can blame the AC. You can blame the hot temperatures or whatever, but the rationale for our kids getting pushed back in school was what? They're not learning online. So how is high school with hot temperatures, kids at home, how these kids going to find a neutral place to study?
I mean, I don't know how long it's been going on like this, but it's it's very you know, it's just contradictory because you can push the kids in to learn because they're not learning online, but then you only give a opportunity for virtual high school. My daughter will be in school, so y'all better figure it out because we're not doing virtual high school recovery and and at home, and we're not doing her made of hours, sixteen hours that she was shorted by miss Curry, Cynthia Curry from CMA.
And I still haven't got my law from either miss, Sarah Jarden and or miss Armstrong. So I don't know what they're doing. But, I mean, I'm a keep saying it until it happens because why give me a compliance and you're not being compliant? But in the eyes of the state, you wanna protect that you're compliant. As far as doctor Beasley's financial sense, how are we building buildings with reoccurring costs, but yet we don't wanna try to curve first with the $700,000,000. We don't wanna try to curve with his ideal of quote,
unquote this pilot program. Why did he push that pilot program out before we put 700,000,000 in building? I got so much more but last year. The state of this district and the state of this board. I was on a parent listening session yesterday. You got the president of this school board telling people on a parent listening session that we haven't had building school buildings built in thirty to forty years. I guess she don't know about Gumpers. I guess she don't know about East English. I guess she don't know about Munger.
That's the president. So y'all better check y'all board member because that's misinformation, and she's been on the board for how long? She is a representation of you all. You all can give us this long drawn out way of how to act and how to prevent ourselves. Give her a fact sheet. Thank you, miss Moore. Mama Redmond? Call me. I'm going home. Mama Moore? Sorry. Okay. We'll get your email to you. Thank you. You are. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. My question would be around the CMA High School. I did hear doctor Bebe speak about the football field that was promised to him.
My first question would be, how long has CMA been in a middle school science building without a football field, without a high school gym? It's very sad that our students have to go elsewhere for sport. And why does that make me upset? Because I have so many parents that ask me, mama Redmond, do you see CMA at the great the high school? Yes. Well, what type of course do they have to offer? And then I look stupid when I say, well, they don't have this. They have to practice here.
And it may A child frustrated. And we wanna see enrollment, sure enough. The same way y'all put all that in the state is the cat, Brandon Football Field, King, Brandon Football Field, Cody, Brandon Football Field. Do those some of these other schools because it it's making parents upset. CMA enrollment has never been this low. Not only that, I'm I'm confused why doesn't CMA have a pool. My son is about to graduate. He has never took swimming. I remember when I was in high school,
it was madness for him that we took swimming. If a kid go out here and need to use that for a life saving saving skill to save another kid's life, How can they if it's not being offered in high school? That is very frustrating for me to hear that. Another thing as well, I bring this up at beginning of the school year. What do we have in place for teen moms that would like to get their education? Because if they're trying to get a high school diploma or GED, they can't focus.
It's a kid. It's two months or three months next to them. Chronic. What happened to us putting something in place? If we're gonna bill, we need to bill Upwork and not Downward. Thank you, ma'am Melissa Redmond. I will speak to those as well. Is there anyone online? Miss Moore is here. So she's usually our online person, but she's here. Yes. So let's go ahead and see her here. No. Anybody else online? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Go ahead. Hi. Dilecki, please go ahead with your public comment. Okay. My son is a freshman at Cat Tech, and he was all excited about the,
program that you had here for the perfect attendance. And he had the perfect attendance, but we never saw any funds coming in. So then when I he checked his, email address, we saw cycle four. And we saw cycle four for $200, and we was like, okay. Well, we're in cycle one, two, and three since we just saw it in April, cycle four. And so then I reached out to someone in DPS, last name, Hicks, and she ended up giving us cycle one, two, three, and our c o four that we already had. Well, when we opened up cycle one, he had 10¢ left in it. When we open up cycle two,
he had $200. When we open up cycle three, he had $6. And when we open up cycle four, he had 2, $200. So we were like he didn't use any of the money. So how did was his money taken from cycle one and and cycle three? You know? She was like, oh, you're gonna have to do this and then give a dispute. So we put a dispute down for cycle one and cycle three, but that's gonna take him forty five to ninety days. So now my son is he was all excited about it, but now he's being penalized because now you have to wait because someone in digital
world or wherever used his money. You know what I'm saying? So that was the 200 that was the $400 that are now on dispute from those two cards. So then I'm like, well, you might as well use the, you know, cycle two and four quickly before someone take that. He didn't decide to use it till the other day, and he wanted to get something on Roblox or something. And then he said, mom, it's insufficient funds. I'm like, it was just $200. And I said, let me let me open up your thing. Let me see what's going on. So then I opened up cycle two, and then it said on April 17,
someone purchased something from Best Buy for a hundred and $37, and his item was for $99. So it was insufficient funds. So I'm like, wait. This is a mess. So you mean to tell me not only were you robbed for cycle one and cycle, three, then when you were about to use cycle two, it that was at 200. Now all of a sudden, since we didn't use it, I guess, FAST, whoever been stealing from us to deal with, used it April 17. So I'm like, this experience has been it was, like, so horrible because,
one, that clearly shows that his email address is not secure. We don't know where the well, I saw when I opened it up and I saw the dispute, whoever this was was getting Uber Eats. They were getting stuff from Best Buy. How did they have access to my son's account? Now we have to wait forty five to ninety days on that dispute, and we're still waiting for cycle five, and that should be coming out. She told me that'll come out at the latest on the twenty fourth, which is tomorrow. So hopefully, it hits before someone steals it again. And that is my concern. So my thing is if you do this in the future,
another way needs to be set up like a P EBT card, something given to the students and load it up from them directly versus going through the cyber net where people on the black web stealing our money. Thank you. Do we have her contact information? I I Oh, can you, yeah, can you get it? We got it. Yeah. I've been in contact with, because miss Hicks. And, yes, I can give it to you. But, yeah, I was like, he he's so, like, little distraught. This is kinda sad because he was all excited. He's like he said he was gonna let it save and do all this. He couldn't do anything because he can't it's gone.
Can you share your and and so can you share your email address in the chat? In the, is is it a chat? It's not a chat? I can share it. Where you where would you like me to put it at? What you wanna do? Call call this number, please. 31331373873. 4 1 yeah. I'm sorry. (313) 873-4104. We just don't want your contact information on the airways like this, especially we're already talking about cyber, in security. So if you can call that number and talk to Vanya or Kia and give
your contact information so that we could look into the what you explained today about your son. Okay. And then I have posted it on social media because I was mad. And other people, like, yeah. They did that to one card of mine, and they did that to one card. But it was, like, one card again. I was like, this done to three of my cards. So I'm like, I mean, I get they have one card, but it's been three hours. You know what I'm saying? So I was still mad. But okay. Thank you. Appreciate you calling in today. Thank you. So we can get this resolved. Is there anybody else online? Tell me. Okay. Doctor. Beatty, there are a couple. We'll we'll get mother more talking points,
because we do want her we know that she's in a lot of different spaces. Her and I were together a week and a half ago at a education form. And so people people are looking for good solid information. So if we can get some talking points factual stuff around, one, the whole EV knowing that that's a grant and that's where that came from. It's not like those dollars can go somewhere else. And then, she wants to know about our budget. So if we can get talking points to her, that'd be great. If we can get them before tomorrow or sometime before tomorrow before her meeting,
that'd be great. She's with, an organization tomorrow. Okay. So I know there were some questions from, miss Aliyah Moore and from, Melissa Redmond. So, high school, course recovery, has been operating like this for a couple of years now, couple of years, four or five years. So the students can come in during the school, during the school, or in person engagement with the teacher in that that, area. So if you're taking a course recovery class in ELA, math, science, or social studies, you can independently work through Edgenuity at home.
You can also come in this school, between 9AM and, I believe, 1PM, and to work directly with the teacher who's certified in that area, at school. If you're not comfortable working, independently, at at home, our high school students, most enjoy the ingenuity opportunity because they can work on their own. They can work, either during the day, at night, or they come in, in, during the morning and work directly with the teacher. And we've had success with recovering credits and either graduating or towards recovery generally.
So that's the model. That's what we've been running for several years now. If there are any teen parents, teen parents, can go, through a district authorized charter school, that we offer, but also the virtual school. So we are trying to expand opportunities to the, the, the virtual school to give more flexibility to the parent who is about to have a child or just had a child, then they can learn, online through the virtual school. The gift card issue, we'll get the information. We have a separate contracted team that's reaching out to family who has an issue. If the parent's still online or other parents are online,
I would recommend always trying to update the password, because there is, heightened steps, facts and cybersecurity issues with that. But at the end of the day, we'll problem solve with the parent and make sure that whatever was earned, is granted. Okay. I'm talking about my daughter's compensatory services, and I'm not talking about, recovery. I'm talking about regular high school summer school. My daughter will not be at home doing summer school or her hours for her compensatory services because the state of Michigan is waiting on a location. I have paperwork that I can email you,
and it says specifically waiting on a location, and it's not on Metro, sir, within my address. Thank you, miss Moore. Can you please email that? I already did. Okay. She has it. Okay. Yeah. I already did. But I'll do it again. Thank you. Could you please give me two minutes? I sure will. Thank you. I appreciate that. I did I will just lift up around so CMA, we do have the the date 2025. That was another one. CMA. Yeah. Yeah. There's everything that we said we would do at CMA, there's funding and there's a plan to implement. And we've we said from the beginning that the move,
to the to the building, was going to require time to build the gym and the and the field. So no one has misled anyone. We said that upfront. We did it in an engagement process. All of our dates are on on our website, and and we plan to implement all of that. Okay. And I'll just lift up around the team mom. So the one school that we do authorize, Pathways is the name of it, miss Vaughn Jefferson. I was over there maybe three weeks ago. It's for moms and dads. And so if they're pregnant or if they've already had children and there's daycare there,
I mean, we could get the information, but please share the information because I was extremely impressed with the facility. Okay. If it's possible, I can receive that information. Yep. Yep. Is there anything else, board member Bryant, before we adjourn? No. Okay. If not, then you're gonna send a motion to adjourn. Before, so moved without objection. Thank you so much everybody for coming out.