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Call to order at 701. >> Yeah, I understand. >> Can we uh get a roll call, please? >> Trusty Lions >> here. >> Trusty Ferris Island >> here. >> Trusty >> here. >> Trusty Martin >> here.

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>> Trusty Chambers. >> Trusty Torres >> here. >> Trusty Taki >> here. and superintendent Lego >> here. >> All right. Thank you very much. Um Trusty Torres, can you uh read our mission statement, please? >> Yes. The mission statement is nurturing

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each child, educating all students, building world citizens. >> Thank you. >> And can I get a approval of agenda? >> I move that the board of education approve the agenda of the June 8th, 2026 regular meeting as presented.

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>> Second. was moved by trustee Torres, seconded by trustee. Any discussion? Not hearing any. Um, all in favor? >> Any opposed?

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Approval of agenda is approved. And can I get a motion for approval of minutes? >> I move that the board of education approve the minutes of the May 11th, 2026 regular meeting as presented. Second >> motion by trustee Fris Highland,

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seconded by Trustee Edel. Any discussion? Not hearing. Any all in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Um, all right. So, we're going to move

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over to recognition. Uh, Trustee um Martin, um, I'll turn it over to you. >> All right. So much recognition tonight. Um we'll begin with recognition for East Lancing High School. Uh Amir Ahmed has been selected to be a member of the

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Michigan Department of Education Student Advisory Council. So congratulations to Amir. Uh the first meeting will be held on June 15th. It includes networking with fellow council members, learning about state government, lunch with state

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superintendent Dr. Glenn Malleo and participating in a leadership learning activity. We want to thank you for supporting student representation and voice from your district to the MDE SACE. Uh we have a number of 2026

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East Lancing Rotary Club scholarship recipients. The East Lancing Rotary Club through their East Lancing Rotary Foundation awarded scholarships to six outstanding East Lancing High School students at convocation on May 22nd. Good luck to all the recipients as they

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continue their education at the college level. And uh the uh recipients are Julia Vala, Michigan State University Economics, Apollo Reed, University of Michigan, Mathematics, Kell Mott, Ketaring, Mechanical Engineering, Colin Fitzgerald, University of Michigan

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Aerospace Engineering, Matthew Wang, M University of Michigan statistics, and Lucia Highland, Grand Valley State University, Social Work. Congratulations to Aaron Fa, Talent Together apprentice teacher on being

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named the 2026 National Apprentice of the Year by Apprenticeships for America. Aaron is completing his registered apprenticeship with ELPS while earning his master of arts at an education at Northern Michigan University. His journey from pair professional to future

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special education teacher highlights the impact of apprenticeship programs, mentorship, and dedication to students. We are grateful uh for Aaron's contributions to ELPS and excited for his future in education. And that is a great program. All those programs are

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great and we've had some great teachers come through those programs. We'd also like to recognize a number of uh of retirees in the past. Superintendent Leos wrote the names. Would you like to do that or would you like

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>> Absolutely. Sure. Um we have uh both some uh retirees who are just retiring at the end of this year and then also a handful who retired since we did this a year ago. So um we have three of our um

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nine folks with us tonight. So I'll just acknowledge and recognize those who aren't with us first. Um Tim Acres Lancing High School teacher Kathy Kaine most recently as a Robert L. Green teacher. Bonnie McGra who has been our

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high school registar most recently. Uh Tara Williams Donley paraprofessional. Belinda Hajj is a McDonald middle school lunch monitor and Christina Herd um who has been uh most recently an East Lancing High School pair professional.

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And then with us tonight we have a few of our retirees. I'm going to start with Shannon Johnston. Shannon um is with us this evening and Shannon uh retired earlier this um in 2025.

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Um Shannon was hired back in 2004 and has served as a special education par profofessional um a title one reading paraprofessional and for many years and finished her career as the library parah at Donley. She also served um students

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at Pinerest School. Uh but like I said, most recently uh con completed her career as our library parah at Donley Elementary School. So we want to thank Shannon for her service. We have a little token of appreciation

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for you, Shannon. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. We appreciate you. >> Um, next we have Molly Williams. Molly's been with us for three years, but has a

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much longer career in in education. Um, Molly started as a middle school teacher in Okamus public schools and uh was an elementary and high school teacher in Stockbridge. Uh she went on to become an elementary teacher in Williamston and then moved to as a as an instructional

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support teacher in Mason Public Schools. Uh before coming to East Lancing, she was an elementary principal in Potterville and has spent the last three years as the principal of White Hills Elementary School. So we wish Molly well in her retirement and Finally, we have here tonight

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Stephanie Crumbach. Um, Stephanie has served a lot of different roles in her time in East Lancing. Um, she actually did her internship here at Glen Karen Elementary with Renee Van Remen, which was new learning for me as I uh went

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through some a very thick packet um of lots of information. So, Stephanie started uh at Glen Karen with Renee Remen as an intern and then began teaching in East Lancing Public Schools in 2001. um back in that time frame was when um a

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lot of layoffs happened and people were pink slipped and then um many times brought back. So Stephanie was laid off for a year but then came back to Donley um in 2003 as a kindergarten teacher. She also taught third grade at White Hills, third grade at Marble, and most

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recently has completed her career as a fifth grade teacher at Red Seedar. Uh Stephanie also for a number of years served as the social studies chair for grades three and four. And Stephanie and her husband are here with us tonight. And we want to recognize and thank Stephanie for all her years of service

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to our students. >> Thank you. Wonderful. Any other recognition from the board? All right, we'll move on. Um, thank you so much uh for coming out um and for all your

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service with us and um don't feel that you have to stay for the rest of the meeting, but if you would like to, you're more than welcome to. >> So, we'll move on to a superintendent report. I'll turn it over to Superintendent Michael. >> Thank you. Uh first I want to say

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congratulations to our class of 2026. Last Thursday evening, East Lansing High School honored 302 graduates of the class of 2026. Uh the student speakers and performers were amazing and we are proud of every one of our graduates. Uh next I just want to share kind of as we

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wrap up this year an opportunity to support East Lancing Public Schools athletics. As we wrap up the school year, we want to thank you all for supporting our student athletes and the many opportunities athletics provides for students at McDonald Middle School and East Lancing High School. This year,

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ELPS implemented a pay if slash how much you can athletic participa participation fee model to ensure that no student would be excluded from athletics due to financial circumstances. As we evaluate this pilot approach and plan for future seasons, we're making one final request

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to families whose students participated in athletics during the 2526 school year. We understand that some families may not have been able to contribute at the time of registration or may not have been aware of the option to do so. If your family is now in a position position to contribute, we would greatly

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appreciate the support. And again, this goes out to families and it just has a QR code if families um are able to contribute uh for participation fees if and how much they're able to. Um families are welcome to contribute the full amount, a smaller amount that works

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for their situation, or an additional donation to help support another student athlete. Every contribution helps offset the cost of providing high-quality athletic programs and supports our ability to continue offering a flexible, accessible participation model for all

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students. And thank you for your partnership and for helping us keep East Lancing athletics strong for our current and future Trojans and junior Trojans. Uh, I want to give some additional followup one more one more month here regarding our May swatting events at

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East Lancing High School. Following the two swatting events at ELHS in early May, East Lancing Public Schools has recently participated in a comprehensive afteraction review that was facilitated by Jason Russell of Secure Educ Environmental Consultants SEC and

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attended by representatives from the East Lancing Police Department, Meridian Township Police Department and District Leadership. The review provided an opportunity to examine our response, identify strengths and areas for growth and stren strengthen partnerships among

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school and public safety agencies. One outcome of these discussions is the exploration of a grant-f funded shared director of safety, security, and student support position in partnership with Hazwood public schools. This role would serve as the district's lead

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administrator for school safety, security planning, emergency preparedness, threat assessment, and risk mitigation efforts while coordinating with law enforcement, emergency responders, student services personnel, and community partners.

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Importantly, this is not a school resource officer, not an SRO position, and is not intended to be studentf facing and would not replace or impact our existing safety team positions. rather it would provide strategic leadership and coordination to further strengthen the district's overall safety

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and preparedness framework. The board will hear more about this proposed position this evening um both from me and Jason Russell who will be here shortly and will be asked to take action on this proposal at the June 22nd meeting. Uh I want to share that the district has

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selected a new school photo company. ELPS has selected a new school photo company beginning in the fall of 2026. The district will be using schoolpictures.com. It's not an online company. It's a real company. It's just their name. Uh to

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replace Life Touch as our new school partner, and more information will be coming to families through their school offices this fall. And it seems early to think about it, but it's not. East Lancing Public Schools will be seeking board of education applicants to begin in 2027.

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We will have four seats open at the end of 2026. The election is until Tuesday, November 3rd. U but interested candidates must submit their required filing materials by 400 p.m. on July 21st. So about a month away. And then I have a link here for more information as

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it goes out to our community for um uh for candidates who would like to file. And our central um central administration summer office hours are listed on here. uh will be open most days 7:30 to 4. Uh we do have a span uh starting the week of June 15th through

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July 31st where we'll be closed Fridays and July 6th also. And then beginning August 1st, uh we'll be back to 7:30 to 4. And I know it's super early to be thinking about this, but I have started by our important dates. I only have one

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right now, and that is our first day of school, which is August 24th, half a day for students. So, um, and then the last thing I have in here are just some photos. Um, can we scroll down, Kelly? And yeah, put them up on our screen. Just some updates with our high school,

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uh, construction project with our new uh, secure entrance and vestibule and um, our additional cafeteria. So, you can see on the top photo there, some of the um, new sidewalk has been poured that was torn up. And then the one at

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the bottom is the is the same courtyard that's been there, but it was torn up during construction and has been reoured as well. And then uh the next page, you can kind of get an idea. The top there is a picture from kind of facing the front entrance. So you're inside the

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building facing toward that uh if you're heading out that front entrance, the new front entrance with the office over there on the right side. Um there will be some curved glass going in. Uh that section right there on the right that has kind of the curve around the top.

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And then the lower photo that's up right now is a picture taken from kind of the um about floor 1.5 uh looking down into the new uh cafeteria, the second cafeteria. And Trojan Hall, right,

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Angelie? Trojan Hall is its name. Now we have student union as our first one. This one will be named Trojan Hall. And then the last photo is of our learning stairs. Still in process, but this will be a space where students can gather. Um we envision also like where we can take

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photographs like clubs and teams there, but it's also a place that our instructors can bring their students and do um presentations or just alternative learning in a new space outside of their classroom. So, uh just some progress photos. Again, we're looking at a a July

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completion and occupancy date um with uh readiness for everyone when school starts. And that is all I have tonight. Happy to answer any questions. >> So, question about these photographs. On the second photograph where there's the

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sort of the sunken courtyard there, >> uh what's what are we going to do with that space? It looks like a good space to me. It's got some shade. Are we going to put tables there or anything or do we know? Um it it's not connected to our our uh cafeteria areas. So um there have been some tables there in the past that

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staff I think has accessed at one time. Um it also has served as a duck habitat in the past um where uh yes we've had connected >> Oh okay. >> Well staff needs tables too.

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>> That's the way to go. Yes. >> Yes. >> Um, apologize for not thinking to ask you this before, but it's been on my mind. Do you have like a not a specific number, but in general, how are we doing with this pay if, how much you can

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process? like are we >> we're uh it's it definitely has not matched um our proceeds our revenue when we had when it was a requirement. >> Um I think also it's the first year we've done this so even getting the word

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out on a consistent basis with our all of our meetings. Um I think we I'd like to try it again um next year and see if with more communication and more consistent communication we can improve that. I don't have current up to date, but last I looked I mean typically and

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again this was precoid um when we still had our participation fees in place. We haven't had any in place postcoid. Um this was the first year instead of bringing them back that we offered an option um to pay if and what you can. Um

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and I believe and Lisa might be able to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we were around 25,000 um this year of what we've collected so far and precoid we were collecting around 90,000. >> Oh gosh. So, this was but I I have heard

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from um just some families that they weren't aware, you know, maybe did in the fall, but then maybe their second sport they didn't pick it back up again. So, I thought we'll try one more time, but I would like to still try it one more another year and have a better communication and follow-up plan for

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families to um before we determine whether or not it's uh successful enough to um maintain. >> Okay. Well, I like the final push and I appreciate the thoughtfulness of trying to do it again. evaluate. So, I appreciate the program. >> Any other questions?

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>> Superintendent. >> Yeah, I will say to Jason Russell is going to be here. He's um presenting first. It has a board meeting right at 7 and then we'll be here. So, he is on the agenda for a little while and um but we may just need to shift his um

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presentation a little if uh we reach that and he's not here quite yet, >> but he's on his way. >> All right. So, we'll move to our consent agenda. Um can I get a motion for our consent agenda?

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>> I know that. Go ahead. >> I move that the board of education approve the consent agenda to include all of the following items. The MHSAA resolution 20 26 27 and new hires uh one

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hiring of Campbell Foses Barti 1.0 FTE English teacher at East Lansing High School at BA Step 3 effective August 20th 2026. Hiring of Olivia Kaminsky 1.0 third grade teacher at Robert El Green Elementary at BA step 4 effective August

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20th 2026 three hiring of Corey Shepard is a conditional hire pending obtainment of certification 1.0 FTE fourth grade teacher at Glenuran Elementary at BA step three effective August 20th 2026 four hiring of Kaylee McMillan as a

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conditional hireer pending obtainment of certification 1.0 FTE fifth grade teacher at Red Cedar Elementary at BA step 3 effective August 20th, 2026. And five, hiring of Jasmine Palmer as a conditional hireer pending obtainment of

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certification 1.0 FTE special education resource room teacher ASD focus at McDonald Middle School at BA step 3 effective August 20th, 2026. >> Second. All right, that was moved by Trusty Edo,

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seconded by Trusty Copy. There is no discussion on our consent agenda. So, all in favor? >> I oppose for extensions. All right, all have passed. So,

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congratulations, >> Stephanie. This is where you have to pass the torch. >> Yes. Yeah. And I believe we do have some folks here that uh we just hired. And so if you would like to come up and introduce yourself, uh this is kind of

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we turned it into a tradition where you can come up and introduce yourself if you would like. No pressure, but >> a little. >> Hello everybody. I'm Campbell Fostnes. I was just recently hired at the high school. Thank you all for having me. I'm

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really excited. You've been at the high school already, right? >> Correct. >> Um, I'm Kayla McMillan. I got hired at Fred Seer. I was an intern there the past couple of years and then I got the pleasure of working with Stephanie. >> So, I have some big shoes to fill.

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and I recently met on our bad weather day when uh when we had the storm warning and I was over at Red Cheeter and she was um late for another interview uh which uh you know it just kind of worked and I remember she ended up a little late for her other

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interview and it was just meant to be here so we're excited to have her. >> I can go next. I'm Corey Shepard and I'm a recent hireer at Glen in fourth grade and I'm excited for the opportunity to get started. >> Great. >> Have a little uh cheer behind you.

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>> Beautiful. >> Very nice. >> Well, welcome to you all. Thank you so much. And again, you do not have to stay for the rest of the day, but you are welcome to if you would like. >> So, Jason's on his way, but not here

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yet. He did text, so He's just bleeding his way. So, I think we should go and then we'll go to the bathroom. >> Congratulations again. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations on retiring and on the new job. >> Yes. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. >> Bye, Sean. Thank you. >> We should have recognized you as a retiree, too. Just not from us. You still have a few months. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. >> Hi, puppy. Thanks for coming. >> Put that in the public record.

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>> Public. Well, Oh, yeah. >> All right. So, public comment. We don't have any. Well, nothing. >> Any more discussion? >> I got nothing.

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>> All right. We will move to our action items. Um, may I get a motion on our world language department trip to Puerto Rico in June 2027? >> I move the board of education approved the trip request submitted by the Sanchez for travel to Puerto Rico uh

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from June 22nd to 28, 2027. >> Second, your head was spinning with the you're so pretty. >> I know. I'm just gonna sit over here. >> All right. So, we got a motion by Trusty

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Martin, second by Trusty Torres. Uh, Miss Chen Sanchez, you are here. If you have anything that you would like to tell us, go over. We reviewed everything, but >> I was going to say mostly just was here. If there were any questions, >> any questions from the board?

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>> So, I tell people this all the time and I don't know if I'm right or not, but I tell them that, you know, our Spanish program does these alternating trips essentially where one year they'll do kind of a very involved European trip,

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then the next year they do a slightly less involved trip to like Puerto Rico or somewhere um in in in this in this part of the world, this continent. Um is that an accurate statement? >> Yeah, I would say especially when it comes to cost. Um we really love our our Spance trip. Um but offering something

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that's like just unique for the Spanish language learners and is a little bit more cost effective and no passport for Puerto Rico. It's super cool. It's It's a great place to visit. So, >> what is the So, um how many more students or how many students do you

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have participating in Puerto Rico? >> Um so, right now I'm hoping to get it to 35. We're at 34 right now. So, I have one person that was like going to register. So, we're just kind of waiting. Um our number was 36. We do have an adult of um a student coming to support them with some medical things,

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but um the goal was 35 students. All right. No other questions um or discussion. Um can I all in favor? >> I post or abstensions. All right.

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>> Thank you. >> All right. >> Sorry. Enrollment is still open for that. >> Yes. I think we have two more people that have signed up, but I haven't like offered them the link yet. Also, just trying to make sure

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>> Oh, I didn't mean for me, but actually, >> the spans trip happens pretty quick, doesn't >> Thank you so much. I'm excited. >> The push I needed to go ahead and register.

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>> Don't listen to Glenn. >> Okay. Next on the agenda, can I get a motion for our East Lancing High School volleyball camp in North Carolina? I move that the board of education appro approve the high school volleyball team's participation in an out ofstate volleyball camp in North Carolina from

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July 21st to 23rd 2026 as submitted by Miss Heather Stanley >> second moved by Trusty Chambers seconded by Trusty Tai any discussion or questions we have Miss Stanley here

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anything that you would like to share with Other than I mean we reviewed but just want to make sure. >> Great opportunity. >> That' be a good experience. >> All right. No other questions or comments? Um well just that I I played

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on the B team of my middle school volleyball team and a sub. >> And I used to get the biggest bruises on my hips. I don't think I was sliding correctly, you know. But thanks. Anyway, was your chance. >> All right. With that, uh, we'll move to

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a vote. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose or exception? >> Motion passes. >> Yay. We look forward to hearing how it goes. >> All right. May I get a motion for the

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East Lancing High School boys basketball camp in Sanduski, Ohio? >> I move that the board approve the high school boys basketball team's participation in an outofstate basketball camp in Sanduski, Ohio from June 26 to June 27th, 2026 as subot

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submitted by Mr. Ray Mitchell. >> I think there's a conflict of interest. >> I can introduce the motion. I don't have >> I'll second. Okay. Um motion by trustee uh chamber second by trusty edil. Um any discussion

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questions and re here have any >> I I mean and just slightly but I do have a potential conflict on this one. So, I will be abstaining from the vote, but >> No, because there's no financial benefit to you. >> No. >> So, you don't have to abstain? >> Okay. Well,

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>> I I will I will I'll clear you on that one. >> Okay. >> I love the I love the agenda. It looks like a lot of fun. >> Yes. >> All right. Um we will move to a vote. All in favor?

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>> Any oppose or abstensions? >> All right. Motion passes. We're excited. Can't wait to hear how it goes. >> You have to roll out to practice. >> Yeah, I have practice right now. Sister is holding it down, but I know he's like, "Where's coach?"

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>> All right. >> No problem. Have a fun trip. >> Go see my chiropractor. >> Agenda went the way it was because it got >> coach. Perfect. All right. >> All right. Can I get a motion for

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certific certification of form L429 2026 tax rate request? >> I move that the board of education approve the 2026 military choice. Guys, leave me the boring ones to be levi levied on July 1st, 2026 as calculated in accordance with the Michigan

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Department of Treasuries form L4029 as presented. Second >> motion by trustee, second by trustee chambers. Any discussion, questions that after we vote for it, I intend to also applaud this one.

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>> What's that? >> I'm going to applaud for this one, too, when we do it. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Make it less boring. >> Yay. >> All right. >> All in favor? opposition. >> All right. Uh we'll move over to uh uh

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can I get a motion for 2025 26 final budget revision? I move that the board of education adopt the 202526 final budget revision resolution for the general fund as presented on pages five through six of the budget book. >> Second

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is that that was okay. Okay. Motion by trusty fland seconded by trustee. Um any discussion? All right. All in favor? >> I.

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>> Any oppos or extensions? Motion passes. May I get a motion for food service fund? >> I move the board of education adopt the 202526 final budget revision resolution for the food service fund as presented on page seven of the budget book. >> Second.

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>> Motion by trustee, seconded by trustee Taiaki. Um any discussion? >> Hearing any. Um all in favor? I. >> Any opposed or abstensions? Motion passes. And can I get a motion for a student

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school activity fund? >> I move that the board of education adopt the 202526 final budget revision resolution for the student school activity fund as presented on page eight of the budget book. >> Second. >> Motion.

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All right. Trusty Highland. Second by trustee. Um any discussion? All in favor? >> Any opposed or extensions? All right, motion passes. We will now move to our agenda item on

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presentation. Uh we have our presentation security and student support uh director proposal. Um and Jason Russell is here. Um I'll turn it over to >> Yeah, he's over there. I'll I'll start with a few comments, Jason, and then

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kind of turn uh share what I have and then uh turn to you and um can answer questions too. So, just kind of backing up to fall of 25 26 school year on the board. This was a unique year for the 31A funds that were um presented by the

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state, but if you remember uh there were a lot of stipulations that had to that came with accepting those funds and um East Lancing board did um approve my recommendation to accept those funds back in the fall. And um because only

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about 25% of the local districts um eleas in the state accepted those funds, we were the money that was set aside for them was distributed to those of us who accepted it. Um and so for us, our allocation in 2526 was about uh $1.36

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million. So um significant funds we received this year that don't last forever, okay? But they still they do need to be spent. we do have the opportunity to carry over, but those expenditures um need to happen by September of 2027.

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We right now use those funds to support um our safety team at the high school, our safety team at the middle school, our mental health coordinator, our district nurse, our rave system, and then our cyber security article system are some of those are the main things

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we're currently using those funds for. Um but one thing you know there was a lot of uncertainty when we came out of last year's budget um especially around 31A and we eliminated our um director of health and safety position which did

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leave a gap with some responsibilities and leadership in our in our district. So, um, Okamus has had a safety director for a hand quite a handful of years and, um, I have been in conversation with the

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superintendent Hanslip and we are proposing a shared person to do this work. Um, it would be for a three-year contract. The contract would actually be with SEC. Um, and that Jason can talk a little bit about any questions you have

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with that. Um, but we would, um, in your blue folder, I gave you a copy of a draft of a job description that we would use for this. Um, a sample contract that we would have with SEC and then also a cooperative agreement for a shared

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safety director that we had True Law Firm draft for us. So, you have a chance to review these um, ask questions. Again, it it needs to be tweaked a little because like our needs uh might be slightly different than Hlets in some of these areas because for instance, we

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do have a mental health coordinator in the district, you know, that still will um be very involved in leading a lot of our BTM work, but we um it K12 um we also uh we had a oh behavior system

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specialist also uh Paul Shanks who resigned this past fall and he also was very involved in the behavioral threat assessment work at the elementary school. So, his departure also left a gap in some of our um systems and

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leadership work in the safety, security and um student um health areas. So, uh, tonight I'm bringing this forward. Um, it for us, uh, we've talked about, uh, the superintendent Hlet and I have talked about how to share this cost and

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we've looked at the number of school buildings in both districts. We have eight, they have five. So, we've looked at this um, as a 813 share on our part and a 513 share on their part. Uh, which for us uh, would be about $80,600 a

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year. We are um just kind of for reference, we're carrying over nearly $900,000 of our 31A funds. Um so we are in a very healthy financial position to be able to do this um for three years and I don't have any concerns about

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that. I think it'll uh provide us some um experienced leadership in the areas especially you know this also came about as we uh have been processing these swatting events and getting input from our staff on um their preparedness and

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how how well they feel prepared. So, I see some of the uh some things we could increase and uh kind of ramp up would be um some tabletop exercises, some scenario trainings at our schools, um

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putting people in um problem solving um options based scenarios more frequently. And while we all want to do more of this work, it's it's hard when it's only a slice of, you know, all of your responsibilities. And so that's why we're looking again at someone uh who

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will lead uh this work in our district. >> I hope I'd enjoy your presentation. >> No, that's you did a good portion of it. So, thank you. Um yeah, thank you for the time tonight and for considering this. Uh I'll kind of tell you where this came to be from our perspective at

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SEC. So, I'm the I'm the founder. Um, and we work with about 75 to 80% of the public school districts in Michigan. And the majority of that work has been on assessments. Uh, I was also appointed by Governor Whitmer to the school safety and mental health commission. And one of

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the kind of findings on our assessments that was fairly consistent is safety and security was often somebody's like a side job. So, it was an assistant superintendent and it was like you do this, but you also do safety and security. And as you all know, uh, you

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know, I think I'm not saying anything that you're not aware of in schools now, safety and security really is is such a huge issue, you know, a huge element of of the daily operations of a district that we felt like having somebody who was dedicated to it, that had a safety

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and security background made a lot of sense. So, we started this program, our our kind of contracted safety security director program, uh, in 2023. We have about 16 directors now in school districts across Michigan including two

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local districts. So we have uh one in Okamus as well as one in Waverly. Um we have a lot of districts on the east side of the state and a lot of districts on the west side of the state as well. We really see the purpose of this position uh as you know I see safety and security in two ways. I see kind of the tactical

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piece which is your your school safety teams that are checking doors and standing at the front and all those good things. And uh and then I see strategic which is more oversight of the programs. Are we progressing? Are we doing our drills correctly? Are we writing our new emergency procedures? Are we seeking

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additional funding opportunities and all those things that are more leadership driven? So these director positions are really designed to be more strategic than tactical. So they should really be driving the program forward and making sure but also responding to things like

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you know the swatting incidents really that director would really have good level of oversight liaison with local law enforcement as well as your safety teams and other directors. So the reason one of the reasons we did this and we we

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started offering this was we also saw the need for support amongst security directors in schools because often they were placed into a district but then they were a silo. They didn't really have any other directors to kind of lean on. So our our

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network of directors has become really good that they support each other. Um, we assign every new director a mentor director to just make sure that they're, you know, that they're on track for what they're doing. We do strategic planning with our directors. So, we don't just say, "Hey, go do something this year."

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We actually lay out a plan for them to make sure that they're really driving progression in their district. This particular position will be a little unique, shared with another district. And also, we've tried to put more uh emphasis on the mental health side of

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this. So, I think the candidates that we'll be looking for hopefully will find some unique opportunities to bring somebody with a safety and security background, but maybe also a mental health background. As Dory pointed out, you're you have a really strong behavioral threat assessment program. What I would anticipate as our director

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would really help support that as well as support other initiatives related to, you know, ongoing mental health for students and and supports in that area. Um, real quick and then I'll open up for questions. The way we generally hire these positions and once again this will be a little unique shared with another

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district. I was just in HLA um having the same conversation is we would post the position. We would essentially filter or uh you know filter the candidates down to probably two or three finalists and then we really would

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like the district to have the final say in who they think is the best fit. So in this particular set of circumstances, what we would likely do is bring a team of East Lancing and has the people together to interview the finalists and and then select who they believe would would be the best fit for the district.

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This is also what we call a school year position. So it's essentially almost like a principal in terms of time. So it's 200 day schedule. So start a couple weeks before school, end a couple weeks after school. Um, the other thing that we do with these positions, I know I

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said that was my last thing, but I promise this is, uh, is we support it with all of our other consulting services. So, East Lancing has been a great partner of ours for a long time in terms of, uh, we do trainings for the district. I I support with uh, afteraction reviews and other things

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like that. Now, those services really become kind of built into your director. So the real hope is eventually once we really get this director up and running, you'll essentially have one of our consultants, but they'll live within your district every day. So they'll be

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able to perform our trainings, be able to do all the things that we do for the district now, but they'll actually belong to you. So that's kind of how we envision this. And as Dory mentioned, uh this is like an 813 uh 513 split with HLlett. So the way

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we'd envision that is likely this person would be three days a week here, two days a week in HLlett, but there would be certain things that would be priority. So if there was an emergency or there was something that was, you know, needed to be dealt with, that split would go out the window to deal

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with that particular issue. Uh, and I explained the same thing when I was over at Hazard because they had some questions about that. So, okay, now I'll stop talking. So, um I know you have a few of these uh directors placed in different areas. Uh

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do you have these cooperative arrangements with other districts? >> We don't. >> So, this would be a sort of a >> this will be a unique setup and I think the way we intend to deal with that is obviously clear expectations within the districts. And so laying out things

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like, hey, if East Lancing had a swatting incident and it's the director's one of his or he his or her two days in H has they're going to come deal with that issue, right? >> Yeah. >> So making sure that it's clear within the district and then also obviously we're going to probably provide

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additional supports to this director because they are going to be kind of split between the two districts. So it'll be a little bit of a unique set of circumstances. I think we'll be able to function it. Uh, and we'll continually monitor to make sure that each district is getting the resources that they need,

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you know, at the level that that makes sense. >> So, I'm going to tag on to that to sort of say, um, we are different than Hlet. Um, so the first the first hurdle I see is finding somebody that fits with both

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hiring teams. I I'm not asking for an answer there. That'll as it comes. Um, but I'm just seeing that as potentially an issue. Um, but the next step is, you know, that will the strategic plans

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be individualized to the two districts u based on the needs of of each district because I do see our needs as being different than Hlet's needs based on who we serve and who they serve >> and and so is that something that we're looking at already? >> Yes. So, let me answer the first

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question first. I think you're right. I think um we will be looking for a very specific set of skills to be able to fit both districts, right? And a big part of whether whether a director fits within a district and I think this has to be part

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of that final interview process is they should have done some research on the district to understand what the needs are and understand who the students are and all those things, right? To make sure that they feel like they can function appropriately in that district. Having worked with thousands of schools across

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the country in a million different types of environments. >> We I have a pretty good sense of who will fit in particular areas. So, I'll be really focused in on as we go through our applicant pool to say I think this is somebody that I think will fit in both

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>> districts pretty well. Um, and we'll be sensitive to that issue. Um, your second question was a strategic plan. Yeah, very that's a great question because I think both districts we've worked with both districts so you're not in totally different places in terms of where

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you're at safety and security wise but there are different needs right you have a safety team here they don't have a safety team over there they have an SRO over there you don't have an SRO over here right so the liaison with local law enforcement for this position in East Lancing might be different right than

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what it's going to be in Haza because they're going to be lia they're going to need to be able to speak that language and >> and support that. Uh whereas an east and has they have an SRO. So their SRO really is that connection between local law enforcement. Um so that'll be

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different. And then just in terms of where you are with training, what training you want and need, what other strategic supports you might need. So, you know, 31A for instance, like making sure that we understand from the district's

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perspective because we do a lot of work with the legislators like what do we want to see in 31A next time so that more districts can take advantage of it, right? So, those are the types of things I mean in the strategic plan. And then another example of that would be um I have a a director in Romeo schools.

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Every year he does a project with the students. So it's a security based project that but I have another district where they're like we don't want your director to do that right. So we really work with the districts individually to say what's important for you. Um some districts they want the safety and

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security director have more touches with you know parents and with the community. Some they're like just do the emergency plans and the drills and and all that stuff and we'll really work that out uh as part of that strategic plan. So there will be very different probably.

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Hopefully that answers your question. >> So it did. Um can I follow up with that? >> Yeah. >> Um so uh you said there's a lot of the background that your organization does in all of this area that isn't specific

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to the district. And so that they would I I can't remember the word you used that they would be that we've been using you for all along. >> Um >> would that training on the job or that training. Are we trying to hire them, get them trained for that part of the job before August or it'll all happen on

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the job once they've been hired? >> So, here's what I've found with this. If I try to find a person that has really a lot of school experience, they often don't have the strategic experience that I want. So, what I found actually is better is if I find somebody who has

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strategic leadership type experience where they can manage projects and they I can teach them the school stuff. So, if we find a perfect person that has both, we have a couple times and it's been wonderful because I can plug them in and they can do both. Um,

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the strategic, the ability to manage projects and lead initiatives and say, "Hey, here's where we need to go next." Uh, is more important to me than the school specific safety stuff. I can teach them that and I can support them while they get up to speed on that. So, if they're like,

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"Hey, we need to do assessments." I don't know how to do them yet because I've never done one. Okay, I'll do the assessment. So, you'll come with me, right? We need a training for the district on deescalation strategies for our front office staff. If they haven't done it before, all right, you're going to watch me do the training and then

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maybe eventually you'll feel comfortable enough to do this training yourself. Same thing with tabletops. Same things with drafting emergency procedures. Like we'll support until that person is functional. And then the other thing about the director network is they support each other. So, every director

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we bring on has a mentor director that is essentially assigned to them to say, hey, they're going to reach out to you if they have any questions about, hey, I've never dealt with this type of an issue before. What should I do? So, they not only have us at SEC, but they also have the other director networks. And you have two really strong directors in

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the area, Katie Deal, who's in Okamus, uh, as well as Dan Mumford, who is in Waverly. >> Okay. Thank you. I appreciate the um that the most immediate issue takes precedence, but in a world where we know

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that squatting happens simultaneously all over the place and sort of executed creates chaos. What happens? God forbid if Hasllet and Peace Lancing both have urgent need. >> Yeah. Uh they're likely going to have to call in resources from from SEC or bring

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in one of our other directors from the area. So, one of the things that we're bringing on this summer because we haven't had it previously and now we have way more directors is we actually have somebody who oversees the directors. So, uh

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uh Beth Clark, who was deputy director of the state police, uh is actually now being promoted to oversee our director. So, Beth, who's actually currently the director in Clarkston, can come over and support. So, we have the ability to move

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pieces. I I want to hope that that doesn't happen. Me, too. >> Like, I'm gonna stress that only one one district can have an emergency at a time, >> but um we'll make sure that we support. Yeah. >> Unfortunately, that's not it doesn't always work like that. But,

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>> so, um I guess it sounds from what you're saying that this program that SEC Shield has created is is growing. you have you're bringing on more and more directors across the

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state and you said there's even like a little bit of a bureaucracy forming. >> Yeah. >> Is that just is that just because there's a need or do you think that um I think it it speaks well to your program but um do you have any thoughts about the growth why the growth that's

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happening? Yeah, I think because more districts have said our assistant superintendent of curriculum can't handle safety and security and handle curriculum. So, this program is a little bit attractive

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because you can essentially dip your toe in it without all the internal costs and all the other things that come along with bringing an employee for, you know, three years or whatever. Um, and then coming the wraparound services. So we offer a lot of wraparound services on

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top of our trainings. We have an intelligence service that if this district needs some social media research done open source, we're not breaking into anything. We have some of those sources available. So I think the wraparound services on top of just our our experience in the state of Michigan

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has really driven that. So, our first year we started with two directors, then we jumped up to 10, and then last year 15, and then this year maybe 18, maybe even 20 by the time fall rolls around. All in Michigan. We do have one director that works for a nonprofit. So, we do a

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lot of work in advocacy organizations like the ACLU. We're the primary provider for them, Tides Foundation. Um, and we have a director of security, one director that supports uh Tides Foundation. One thing too like and I think that

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maybe speaks to the timing is our EOPS um you know the board approved it just under two years ago but there's a requirement with an updated um state template there's an update or there's a requirement that we bring these back again um by October 1st is the date

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that's on those and uh so we need to update our EOPS um bring that back to the board for action um before October and ALS Also, um we're we've we're already moving into year three of this, but it just is becoming um a requirement

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is that we're all moving to the standard response protocol from I love you guys, the new language. You know, we no longer use uh shelter in place and internal lockdown, external lockdown. Um that's also a a new requirement. Um it just takes a lot of training, you know, for

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people even though, you know, we've we've talked about it. we've, you know, provided materials and resources, but there tends to still sometimes be that uh habit to revert to old language. And so, the more we can put practices in

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place and have someone monitoring, you know, how we're doing our drills and our exercises um as we can as we continue with the um standard response protocol, the SRP, uh that's what we call it. Um but it's it's a new requirement of the

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state. We happened to move into it two years ago. Um because I think Jason gave us a heads up it was coming. We just thought it was coming a lot sooner than it was, but I think uh that it's a good thing. Um but we just still need more practice with all of our staffs around

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each of our buildings um implementing it and using that language. but it will be common language across the entire state so that when we have um responders come, no matter where they're coming from, it will be common language um across the

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state for school districts. >> I was going to we love you too. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Um what is the process of um we just got these materials and the presentation is great. um in uh engaging with the building

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administrators on the creation of this position. >> The creation um not a lot. Um it's something we've had more conversations with about that central office. Um, I think I mean I feel very

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confident uh it will be supported because I think there's a desire and a need for more training, more onsite training with staff, more people on site um when drills are being done to give feedback and monitor um how we're do how

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we're implementing those processes. So um we have our ad council meeting tomorrow. So I anticipated talking more about it tomorrow. Um but I don't uh I don't see I I think it'll all be very

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positive. I I don't see any push back of it. I mean we have one administrator here. Um again as long as sorry one school yeah too. Um we had more other or we had additionals. I'd also say um >> oh goodness hang I lost my train of

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thought. I will say while you're catching your train of thought, Dory, if it comes back past you, um we ask that our directors get out and meet the administrators so they understand like this is the you know this is the person and they should

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really be meeting the tech director and transportation and literally every department should understand like okay this is a piece that we have now that is supporting safety and security regularly. So, >> and the district has control over the trainings, right? I mean, so they're not

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going to come in and start doing live ammo. >> No, we we still will not be doing Yeah. And that's part of I think the customization piece, you know, we're we're not going to be an Alice district, you know, we're not going to be doing that. And that's what I mean. Um I think I'm pretty confident to say that that's

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where that person meets our needs, you know, um and we still drive what uh what happens and what models we follow. I don't see any of that changing. I just see a point person being able to lead in. >> Okay, perfect. >> Um, you know, I shared uh, you know,

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that we had done that after action review um, that Jason facilitated for us uh, last week and um, you know, one of the things that did come out of that, you know, we we kind of learned a little bit more about uh, best practices from a law enforcement view and why why they

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did what they did, you know, in some of those settings. And that was really helpful. And I think even just having, you know, since that uh that meeting we had last, I don't know, Tuesday or Wednesday, whichever day we had it, uh you know, one of the officers who participated reached out and said, "Hey,

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let's continue to um you know, build our uh our our relationship, our partnership, you know, with the district and and law enforcement." So, he and I are having coffee tomorrow. And then another one of them reached out and said, "Hey, we have this training coming up." Um, I don't know what it stands

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for, ABI. Is that something you know, Jason? >> Yeah, active violent incident. >> So, our East Lancing Police Department is participating in that training um in a couple weeks and they reached out and um asked if Mark and I wanted to be part of it and said, "It's not that it's

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geared toward you, but it might help you understand why we do what we do." And um then he reached back out to me today and said, "Hey, we're not super familiar with this I love you guys SRP thing. could you you know spend 15 or 20 minutes you know presenting to our staff and our folks too about what you'll be

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using and the language you'll be using. So just trying to get everyone on on the same page I think too will be um advantageous in case we do have future incidents. Not in case when we have

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future incidents, right? >> Well, in case >> in case. Let's hope. >> That would be the best case scenario is that we're really well prepared and nothing, you know, happens. >> I have a couple questions and they have

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somewhat unanswered. So, um, back to the, um, qualifications for this position. I appreciate seeing the kind of like a draft description of a position announcement and a simple contact documents, but I'm interested in

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like not the specific requirements. You talked a little bit about like the balance between like the strategic leadership and other things, but what kind of qualifications do you do the people who hold this kind of position typically have?

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>> So, our typical director is a command level, often law enforcement. So, we've had retired Secret Service agents. So, I was a Secret Service agent. Uh, we've had retired agents. We've had retired command level Michigan State Police. But

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we've also had educators that were, you know, had leadership positions in education, but were also instrumental in their district's safety and security program. So, our director in Van Beern, for instance, as uh as a former central office administrator, but he was really

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instrumental in the district's safety and security. He retired and came back as their safety and security director. So, um, it tends to be law enforcement, but usually management level, but we're also looking for people that understand

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or at least can appreciate or be prepared to go into a school environment. So, I'm very specific about this is not a police job, right? So, you know, even with we we do safety staff in schools and this first question I ask the safety staff is, do you like kids?

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And if the answer's no, then I'm like, this probably isn't going to be the right place for you. So, a big part of our our questions in our interview around being able to function in a school environment as opposed to whatever particular background they come

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from. So, the Secret Service agent, he had never worked in a school before, but I had he understood leadership and those and the pieces of that that were important. And he had done assessments in schools. So, what'll be interesting about this one is we've leaned heavier in this job description on the mental

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health and the behavior support side. So, I'm we're going to leave it open to >> into all of that. We're going to be open to good applicants that have maybe backgrounds that are safety and security or police related. Um, and and really

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see if we can get somebody with some good leadership experience. I think it'll be a popular we we tend to get between 75 and 150 >> applicants for these positions. The Waverly position, we had 250 applicants.

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Now, it was a full year position, a little bit higher paid, but we had really, really good. And there's one applicant for Waverly that I'm hoping we can get to apply for this position because I think he'd be excellent. >> So, um, and then the other question I

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have is about um Again, you talked a little bit about um how this position, the person in this position kind of leazes with our existing structure and the structure of East Lancing is different than HSL, but the other piece of it is the short-term nature of the

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position. I realize it's funding specific. So, obviously, we would love to be able to fund a position like this in perpetuity, but we don't have it set up that way necessarily. So, does that um factor in at all in terms of what this person person does. So part of my

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question is how does this person liers with our existing administration especially across the two districts? You talked about that a little bit. Um but they're providing strategic guidance to our existing leadership team. Like just a little bit more about that piece of it. And then relatedly is it about putting systems and processes in place

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that you know are get us up and running and then you know should this position end we can't continue to fund it. Or is it just like no it is a person that's seen as longterm and we work out the fund it using an example of other districts like they've worked up the

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funding to keep the person kind of the vision of either would affect what that person is doing if it's short-term versus more long-term >> and I don't know Dor if this is or superintendent this is for both of you. I can start and maybe do jump in. But what I what I what we anticipate with

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these positions is that hopefully it becomes just a regular part of what you know because safety and security is going to go on forever. It's not going to stop in three years. However, some of the initiatives that this person were to you know the emergency procedures

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getting the training getting you know materials built and all that stuff um you know in three years they should be able to get a lot of stuff done. Uh what I will tell you is uh our first con our first group of contracts after three

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years came up this right now. Uh and we've had 100% renewal on those contracts, >> right? >> Um because I think everybody saw the value. A lot of times what it was is we didn't even know how bad we needed this till now it's here. And then when it's like, okay,

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>> this person's going to go away because contract's over. They're like, "Well, we're not how are we going to go back to doing this without that person?" Right? >> That's up to the director, quite frankly, to show that value within the district. If after three years, you're like, "I don't know. What did this person do?" Then that's our problem.

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That's my fault and that's we failed you, >> which won't happen. >> Um, and then your other question was about, you know, that kind of being able to work with administrators. Once again, that's going to come boil down to getting the right personality and the right fit that understands

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that school is different than whatever world. And I'm going to give you a great quick very good example. Beth Clark, who I just told you is going to be running our directors and she was really high at the Michigan State Police, uh when she was new on the first time they had conferences, she thought it'd be a

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really good idea if instead of the parents going down to the classroom that the teachers would come and get the parents. Well, she didn't like check with the administrators before she suggested this. and she almost had a mutiny on her hands. She learned very quickly and she apologized. She's like,

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"I'm so sorry." But those that's something she had to learn because she just wasn't familiar with schools. So, I think part of the expectation that we have for our directors is get out into the buildings, find out what they need because every building might an elementary school needs something

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different than a high school. I promise you, elementary is like, "How do we fix pickup and drop off, right? Like, what do we do to change the traffic flow or whatever? How can we make this better?" whereas a high school may have like how do we stop kids from driving diagonally across the parking lot, you know, like

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totally different needs. >> So what we want is our directors to be able to plug into all those situations and say, "Okay, let's let's try to solve this issue for each individual school." And I think every school is different. There may be a communication element where the the director might need to

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communicate not only to the board here, but also maybe to the community. So sometimes we do newsletters um and we really just try to support the director to make to fit within the district they're in. I would be lying if I didn't say this is going to be unique because

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they're going to have to fit into two completely different Yeah. >> districts, but I feel confident that we can do it with our support and making sure that we're driving them towards being successful. Yeah, I appreciate you raising the point about like, you know,

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I think it's only natural, especially, you know, we've um have the maybe misfortune of having had a couple of these kinds of situations very recently and then a more significant event in our recent past where our immediate response is going to these kinds of like higher

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level more involved um security situations. But you mentioned like the traffic flow in a into and out of a school building which to be honest is probably more impactful to our school community in terms of like the everyday safety situations that happen. So I

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think that's an important piece of what this position would be able to offer us. I'm really excited about that part of like a more holistic vision of security in the district. um related to that. Um and my last question

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and I'm gonna stop asking questions, but um I I appreciate what you're saying about this this person would um fit in with what we do. Um I again having recently experienced two swatting incidents, I think one of the things our district really appreciates is hearing

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from our administrator administrators. Like they know who they're going to hear from and that's very reassuring. Um And so what I hear you saying too is that this is a person who can take more of a central role and be kind of the

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forefront in this but also can kind of like mesh in with our existing communication and existing people that people know and trust to create that kind of seamless like that trust factor we have learned is so important that families know when something critical is

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happening who the players are what they're going to hear when they're going to hear it. and in a very chaotic situation, that kind of reassurance can be very important. Um, so I'm I'm very sure to know that this is, you know, we can still keep that even as we have this

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important support piece to our team. >> Yeah. And I think what I learned and even, you know, I've done after action reviews on a lot of local incidents and I've responded to several is having a director in place. the the questions that I was trying to extract

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during our afteraction review, they would have been able to extract way ahead of me getting there. They would have done it that day. >> Yeah. >> They would have said, "Wait a second. Why was this this way and this was this way >> and the situation seemed like the

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flip-flop should have happened." They would have gotten to the bottom of that that day uh and then been able to explain out to everybody, here's why this happened. Here's what needs to happen next time. and to be able to really guide that response too and say, "Here's what we expect of you." You know, Katie and Okamus when there's an

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incident, they call her now. Law enforcement calls her and she says, "Here's what we're going to do, right? We're not going to here's how we're going to handle this because we have a plan for this." So that they'll be able to support that. um does the work integrate with the me

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you talked a lot about mental health um and we've talked about BAM but not just like a mental health threat to someone else but um you know someone having a mental health issue or a physical health issue. So does the director work with

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the nurse and you know so that so that there is a appropriate response in the event of a sudden heart failure or a diabetic seizure or of those things so that there is safety and security >> in along with the medical piece that's

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happening. >> It's actually why I call it the safety and security director. Safety is first. >> So all the things that you described earlier which a lot of people think of this everybody thinks of school emergencies they automatically go to the worst emergency. You have school emergencies

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>> big or small every week, right? >> My child every day. >> Yeah. Just my my daughter was the same way. So, and it was always she forgot her laptop. Okay. So, >> this person should be plugging into everything that touches safety and security in a school district. So, AEDs,

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first aid response, cardiac response, like they should be plugged in. Behavioral threat assessment, right? Like, I really want them plugged into all of those different things. Uh, the big picture, the, you know, the the what I call a wedding cake emergency, one that happens one in a million times.

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That's a tiny part of their job. The rest of it should be all the day-to-day stuff, the traffic, the, you know, all the maybe an investigation that needs to happen where it's like we need to look at the camera to see who did this thing and they should be able to plug into those things as well. >> Well, we just approved to like we just

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approved a trip to Puerto Rico tonight. We have a group of kids going international next Monday. We just appro approved two, you know, camps for students to attend out of state. These are all opportunities for us. We have kids going on field trips all of the time. You know, there are a lot of opportunities for us to as we think

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about this to think about how this person could be utilized. So clearly I just created a job description in peruity. >> Yeah. Well, I mean, and also even just on that specific thing, we have a we do a lot of travel safety. So part of the wraparound services could be, hey, I

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want you to run this is where we're going in Puerto Rico. I need to know what's happening there. We actually have a whole intelligence division that can help with those types of things. So Thank you so much for coming out information.

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>> Very helpful. >> Thank you, Jason. >> So, as mentioned, this uh will go up um this will be on our agenda for June 22nd. >> All right. So we will move on to our committee reports. Um academic and tech

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uh trustee chambers. Yeah. So we um first apologies I missed our um I wasn't here for our last meeting. So I think someone gave um a summary of our last meeting that was scheduled. We did have a meeting that was that there was that I

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take responsibility for not officially cancelling. Um but it was my understanding that we canceled the meeting, but I did apparently did give the cancellation out. Um, so we have there for anyone who feels like they may have missed an academic tech meeting, you did not. Um, apology to our

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administrative team meeting and there were no board members there. Um, but we have not met since the last board month meeting, but I did just want to say since I wasn't at our last um, meeting and just an appreciation to Dr. for, you know, I can't believe it hasn't

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even been a year, but um your guidance and leadership on academic tech specifically, but in general in the district is really appreciated. Um it's been great to have you on the team. >> I screw up tomorrow. We'll still

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>> just replay it. Just replay catch the good news. >> All right. Thank you. >> We have a meeting on sorry August 17th at 12:30 in this room at our next schedule meeting. >> August 17th. >> That's what I meant. August

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>> uh facilities. >> No report, but I'll schedule some things soon now that your bus season is over and we can get maybe and Billy. And yeah, >> we did a whole semiinals last week. >> Yes.

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>> Yes. Good. >> Good. >> Finance committee. >> So, we in our past meeting, last meeting, uh discussed two of the action items and Estrea wants me to read that whole document with the tax rates on it.

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>> Um if somebody wants to pull that up for me, just >> I can follow along on the board and write. Perfect >> calculations for you. >> Um, >> get ready. It's going to be a fun one. >> Yeah, for the people watching at home, um, the budget that we the final budget

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that we voted on did show a draw from fund balance of a decrease in the draw from fund balance of approximately $450,000 uh, lower than what was anticipated. So, that was good. Um, we uh, discussed some hiring issues.

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um that were also addressed today. Miss Cumbrock's retirement from Red Seedar left one position open for the bubble class uh fifth graders there and we filled that tonight. Um this has also been going around the elimination of the young five section but adding an

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additional GSP. Uh previously the reasons for that uh had been discussed and so that section will also be at Red Seedar. um discuss the renewal of the BNA agreement, which I thought was possibly going to be on tonight's agenda, but that must be coming in two weeks. >> Yes. >> Okay.

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>> You'll get it. We just got it back from the city a couple days ago. So, we'll send it to you outside of, you know, as an item of info. We can send it tomorrow. We'll put it in there in action on the 22nd. Um and then

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uh we discussed the original 2627 budget um which will come before us for an action item on the 22nd. It's way early but in uh anticipating a draw from fund balance of about a million but still so many many unknowns um including a big one

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which is enrollment uh since we had approved 184 schools of choice students. Um, and I think the figure you used was five additional students for next year. So, there's a big variation there in what um uh what what those numbers may

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look like, but that's why it's a preliminary budget. Our next meeting is August 3rd at 1 p.m. in this room. >> Thank you. Uh, intergovernmental relations, nothing to report. personnel

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committee. >> We met last Wednesday. Is that right? I >> think so. >> And we have a lunch report. Um the um this is the time of year where we typically would have our superintendent

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evaluation, but as other members of the board know, uh Superintendent Leo has quite a streak going of highly effective evaluations. I think it's uh more than four in a row. Is that right? >> I don't know what it was, but now

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there's highly effective is not a thing anymore. So, um it's but >> two top of the class. >> Okay, we'll just call I don't know A+ or something maybe, but I don't know satisfactory, but yes, enough where I'm on a bianial

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>> anyway. Yeah. So, the state law and uh and Dory's contract would allow us to do a bianial um evaluation calendar and we did it last year. And so, uh, the personnel committee and in consultation

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with superintendent, um, has decided that it that it's not necessary to do an evaluation this year unless there's real disagreement from the board members. Um, but, um, something that Dory introduced at the meeting is that, um, we may want

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to look at the timing of the when the superintendent evaluation occurs in the course of a year. so that it occurs in December rather than June. So, that's something that we're going to look into. Uh we also discussed um the new positions, the uh director of safety,

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security, and student support and some elementary uh student advocate positions that have been posted. Uh well, the student advocates positions have been posted and then we're voting on the other position uh next month. So, or next week. Um, and then there's a a

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couple other matters that I'd like to get with uh Trusty Lions and Trustee Ferris Henabel. So maybe after the meeting we can put our heads together for a few minutes. >> Yeah, >> thank you. Uh, policy committee trustee.

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>> Uh, yes. So we met on May 18th. Um, it wasn't a very heavy agenda. um a very brief discussion of the McDonald Middle School instructional tech issues that Tally wanted and then she didn't

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show up for the meeting. Um >> wow, there are new uh MD guidelines on AI that uh Dory will be looking at soon. Lots of work will be done with academic and tech. Not sure if we'll need any policy change, but um you know, maybe if

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needed, we'll bring Christian to a policy meeting and then continue discussion about land grant acknowledgement. Um and uh so let's see.

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Um again, it was a miss it. kind of like we keep missing Claudia was out that day so we need to further discuss any curricular changes and the discussion still about plaques in the buildings um is ongoing and then the last one is

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about um the renaming small or or small plaques and buildings or acknowledgements and such. And Dory had taken this a while back to the principles and they gave a list of um

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things that they would be considered. And Dory just needs to pull together a draft application for anyone uh who wants to uh apply to have um some sort of acknowledgement at the building level. And that was that. And we need to schedule a next meeting because the new

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TRUN updates are out. So I will reach out to the policy committee after I believe there's a June 17th uh Zoom that I think Tally and I will attend and then hold our next meeting.

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>> Great. Andy Taki is a no update. We've not met and we'll pick up again in the fall. >> All right. Um announcement. The next uh regular schedule meeting of the board of

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education is June 22nd, 2026. Any other announcements from board members? >> Not hearing any. We will adjourn at 8:24. Thank you all. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> I will collect any of these cuz this would be all just take them home and

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throw your ice cycle. >> Yeah, I'll take them. >> There we go. >> Yep. And if you Yeah.