call us to order um Miss hore can we get a roll call vote Mr Martin here Dr Lions here Dr edel here miss Ferris Highland here Dr Chambers present Mr Holbrook here Dr
Torres here miss Leo here all right thank you Miss hore uh trusty Torres would you like to read our mission statement yes our mission statement nurturing each child educating all students building World citizens thank you trusty Torres uh can I get a a
motion to approve today's agenda move the Board of Education approves the agenda of the July 22nd 2024 regular meeting second second was moved by trusty lion seconded by trusty Holbrook all in favor please say I I any
opposition motion carries unanimously uh can I get a motion for the approval of the minutes of our last meeting move the Board of Education approves the minutes of the following meeting June 24th 2024 regular meeting second moveed by trusty lion seconded by
trusty Chambers all in favor of the motion as presented please say I I any opposition the motion carries unanimously all right so now we're at the recognition stage Do we have any recognition today we don't all right thank you uh superintendent report yeah
thank you uh this November there will be four open seats on the East Lancing Public Schools Board of Education candidates interested in running for one of the three four-year terms or the single two-year term should visit the Ingam County Clerk's website to learn more about the requirements for filing
right away uh the deadline to file is tomorrow at 4M uh and then I've included the uh link so this will go out uh to our folks tomorrow morning but um yes the deadline for filing for the November election is
tomorrow at 4:00 um I'd just like to formally welcome um our new uh three three new elps administrators uh they've already come this way through the board but as this goes out to our community as well I want to acknowledge them in this
communication Dr precious Armstrong has begun as the Director of special education Mrs Armstrong comes to East Lancing from the Jackson County Intermediate School District and started in her role here July 8th Justine Richards is the new principal at Glen Karan Elementary School Mrs Richardson
moved back to Mid Michigan after teaching and being an assistant principal in Arizona and Mrs Richardson started her first day today and Lisa Allen will take over the role of Director of Finance when Rich Pew retires in February 2025 Mrs Allen comes
to East Lancing most recently from Delta dennel she will begin six months of overlap time with Mr Pew starting this September uh little update safety security and accessibility Bond uh we held our first design meeting for the high school editions last Tuesday July
16th uh the stakes and little turn over dirt you can see outside is the soil testing that's already started um here at the high school as well we got on that really early so that our uh construction folks and Architects can get that
information and um we have our msand student conference coming to East Lancing in November of 2024 East Lancing Public Schools will be hosting ing the national Multicultural student achievement Network student conference this November 13th through 16th at the Kellogg Center on the campus of Michigan
State University over 250 students and chaperon from Member districts across the country will hear from guest speakers T the MSU campus network with other member district teams and get a start on their action planning for
20242 our next board meeting is August 12th at 7 p.m in this room here and time to kind of start thinking about it or at least putting it it on calendars the first day of school for students is Wednesday August 28th half day for
elementary full day for middle school and high school wow coming up way I know I've been watching our monitor our monitors are like screens in the hallway you know on in the summer and every day when I walk in um you know Cycles through all the kinds of different information and
for a while it tells you how many days till school starts and so uh I noticed I think we we got into the 30s um I know I'm like oh man that's still coming it seemed like when we were in the 50s and 60s what was so far away but I all we we
also kind of sometimes equate to like June July August to like Friday night Saturday Sunday um so June is like Friday night woohoo the weekend's here long you know plenty of time ahead and then July hits that Saturday so we're approaching
Saturday evening [Laughter] coming up yeah so I don't know I went into the store the other day and they had school supplies out and I just about walked out and Christmas ornaments I saw that too I haven't seen Christmas but
I've seen we were at yeah we were at Target out of state and we've seen all the all the back to school stuff and new one's like I don't even want to see that I'm on vacation right is right yeah uh are there any questions
for our superintendent about the superintendent report I just I I think this is I know the answer question but I want to ask I'm gonna ask it anyway um first day of school is on a Wednesday is that right for students yes that means we have two professional learning days before that
Wednesday is that so the first teacher day is that Monday of that week right right and Friday's off because of Labor Day they go Wednesday Thursday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday yeah and that's nice to have the little kind of ease into the school year for
[Laughter] who I think there's an MSU foot Sor I'm ready for my kids to go back I think there is on that Friday that we are off so it's going to be a crazy day it'll be great all right any other questions no just that I'm so excited for this McAn conference to be hosted
here cool that's going to be so cool I'm looking forward to hearing more updates as we get closer yeah yeah we're getting good lineup of guest speakers and activities and some panelists and really have tapped into some of our um our um we our our theme is around leaving your
legacy so that we've really tapped into some local folks and we're working on um uh Dr Green isn't able to travel but you know uh looking at uh maybe doing something remotely with him or
pre-recorded um and kind of we have uh kind of a cool idea to tie that in possibly with uh um you know the letter from a few years ago that one of our students wrote you know why I sit and uh everything you know just uh especially when you think about Legacy and uh our
community so we're really um yeah excited about some of the ideas that we have and um putting it together so yeah it'll be it'll be great it'll be awesome yes when I have details all an agenda kind of times I'll make sure you all have it in case there's any sessions you want to join s in
on good stuff very cool all right the next uh the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda there's no discussion over the consent agenda can I get a motion on the consent agenda I move the Board of Education
approve the consent agenda to include the following a hiring of Derek Kathleen farbach 1.0 FTE kindergarten teacher at Marvel Elementary School at baep 99 effective August 26 2024 B hiring of Alison leers 1.0 FTE fourth grade math
uh fourth grade teacher at Marble Elementary I don't know where math came from um at ba 3 effective August 26 2024 and C hiring of Taran Tucker 1.0 FTE second grade teacher at Donley Elementary School at ba step 3 effective
August 26th 2024 second I'm G to give it to trusty Torres so move by did Mo by trusty Chambers seconded by trustee Ferris Highland all in favor of
the consent agenda as presented please say I I any opposition motion carries unanimously we have some special guests here so uh congratulations to you all welcome uh it is our custom it's not a
requirement it is our custom to invite uh newly hired teachers to to step up to the podium and introduce themselves and where they're coming from uh and um but we know we're kind of putting you on the spot so you don't necessarily have to do that but uh if anybody would like to
introduce themselves now is the time I warned tan she was here first think about what you might want to say oh well done all right hi I'm Taran um I'm originally from Oxford but I just did my internship at Donley so I'm excited to be back um and it's going to
be a great year thank you for having me awesome welcome all right Josh is [Music] gonna uh I'm here to offer a very warm welcome to Ali lers and to Kathleen fernbach on behalf of the hor whole marble staff we are super excited to
welcome them uh Kathleen is a marble parent so she has uh her exiting marble muskrat here as well as two current marble muskrats and a future marble muskrat so we're excited to welcome her uh for kindergarten and then Ally has been with us on and off um for the last
year and a half doing some of her senior coursework in one of our classrooms doing some observations with our interventionist and then subbing whenever we could snag her on a free day so we are super excited to welcome them to Marble I kind of prepped them beforehand and they both declined to
come up to speak so I wanted to speak on their behalf but we're super excited to welcome them to Marble excited to welcome well and it's it's so nice to know that people who have been involved in these buildings for you know for all of you
for a number of months or years uh we have people who are invested on day one coming in and that that means a lot um and it's great when we can train the teachers here who serve the district so those are really positive things another great thing about having MSU in our
backyard so well welcome and uh good luck this year you don't have to stick around for the rest of the meeting if you don't yeah all right so I will read the public comment uh disclaimer and if people want to sneak out during that
time they can um run reclaim your your Saturday evening so the next item on our agenda is public comment uh this is the agend this is the opportunity to express to address the board speakers are to
confine their remarks to five minutes if a speaker requires more than five minutes after all other persons have requested to speak during this part of the meeting uh that speaker will be allowed additional time superintendent or other District staff may comment to clear up or avoid significant
misunderstandings do we have any public comments today miss oore all right so we will close public comment sorry um the next item on the agenda is uh board discussion is there any board
discussion tonight all right so we'll move on to our action items we have one action item and this was something that was just an oversight um at our last meeting that we
need to clean up and um so we can I I'll let somebody make the motion and then we can discuss it if we need to move this superintendent contract approved by the board on June 24th 2024 inadvertedly included Lang
language to add 3% to the base salary for the 204 25 contract year superintendent Leo agrees that the error should be corrected accordingly I move that paragraph seven of the superintendent's contract for 2425 strike only the
following language 3% increase to base in the 2425 reference line all sub subsequent references to 3% increase remain in place the superintendent board uh president and secretary are directed to execute a
contract at dundum to that effect second all right moved by trusty lions seconded by trustee edil is there any discussion or is any clarification required on this all right and this was just a an error on our part when we were reviewing
the the contract I I don't know if you if everybody recalls but on the part where it addressed like future years it said 3% 3% 3% and then who when they wrote the contract they had inadvertently included 3% for this year which is the beginning year of the
contract we just want to make sure that it accomplishes the the goals of the contract and uh superintendent Leo was work very she's cooperated with this process and she identified it yeah so um
so we thank her for that she saved the district a little bit of money so thank you for that um all in favor of the motion as present please say I I any opposition all right the motion carries unanimously we will take the steps to
amend that one line out of the contract the next item on the agenda is committee reports do we have any uh we with trusty Lions anything from academic and Technology we have not met and so I'll be sending out email so we can set up
our uh meeting for sometime in August all right thank you uh facilities trusty Ferris Highland um we met on the 11th um Rich Pew came and just kind of gave us a timeline on the bond project so that was interesting um we got a
facilities update from Billy basically they're just in the process of deep summer cleans emptying out all classrooms doing floors grout heavy duty cleaning um as always he's on top of everything um the tennis building will
start um August 1st the tennis wait yeah storage fa the storage facility building um and will be completed before school starts but that's um that's been a long time coming I know people are interested in that um Nikki for athletic and event
updates there were no big facility projects on right now um but they anticipate host more in 2025 um it was a quick meeting and we don't have anything on the books yet but we will soon for our next one thank you trusty Ferris Highland
finance committee trusty etel we have not met we will meet again in September I believe very good inter governmental trusty Tores we have not met Personnel that's me don't think we've met um maybe an email or two but
not a not a formal committee meeting uh policy committee uh trustee Chambers we also have not met we have a meeting scheduled on scheduled for August 5th here in this room at 10:30 um I may need to circle around make sure that works for people still
and then um we have received the summer policy updates as expected from trro and they did a nice little Zoom introductory meeting to talk about those changes um so we'll have that to talk about at that meeting and maybe some other
things very good thank you J Chambers um the next regular scheduled uh meeting of the board of education is August 12th 2024 I will be away that day for sure so
um me too I'm just kidding chesse Lions will be will be the uh je got it the chair for that meeting or then other announcements I did see a bunch of students on my plane today on a German
trip from a Michigan high school and I thought about all of our students that are traveling abroad for different academic programs they're back from that though right yeah just um this the exuberance of the high schoolers um and they all have matching t-shirts and
stuff it was really you know t-shirts kind of made me think that it was just I'm glad that young people get that opportunity I never got to go to Europe until I was much older so all right if there's nothing else I think we're ready to adjourn at 7:21