She's not gonna be here today. Oh, she's not gonna? Okay. Who is this? It's 701. I'll call us to order. This is the, regularly scheduled 07/14/2025 East Lansing Board of Education meeting. Miss Hochor, if we get a roll call. Alright. Mister Martin? Here. Doctor Lyons? Here. Doctor Edsall? Here. Miss Farris Hyland? Here. Doctor Chambers? Present. Doctor Torres? Miss Taika? Here. Alright. Thank you, miss Hecht. Trustee Torres, can you read our mission? I don't know, Torres. Trustee, Lyons, can you somebody who's on my mind.
Trustee Lyons, can you read our mission statement? Yep. Our mission is to, nurturing each child, educating all students, and building world citizens. Thank you. The next item is the approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? I move that the Board of Education approve the agenda of the 07/14/2025 regular meeting as presented. Second. It's moved by trustee Ferris Hyland, seconded by trustee Tychoek. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Motion carries unanimously. Approval of the minutes? I move that the Board of Education approve the minutes of the following meetings as
presented. 01/2025, regular meeting. 02/2025, closed session. Second. Alright. Motion was by trustee Ferris Hyland, seconded by trustee Lyons. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. The next item on the agenda is recognition. So So trustee Farris Holland, do we have any recognition? Nothing submitted. Alright. Thank you. And then we'll move on to the superintendent's report. Superintendent Lakow. Oh, okay. Thank you. I just want to continue to share the first day of school for students is
Monday, 08/25/2025. And one change to, this first day is that it is a half day for the entire district, including middle and high school students, which is a little bit of a change. In the past, the half day has only been elementary. It's for everybody this year as, negotiated. I want to share that our McDonald Middle School athletics, moving forward, will be operated and supervised by ELPS. Starting this fall, East Lansing Public Schools and McDonald Middle School will be operating the middle school athletic program that's been run by the City of East Lansing for many
years. This transition of responsibility and oversight has been a collaborative effort between the school district and the city, and we're very appreciative of the years of service and support by city staff to operate this program for our students. More information will be shared in the coming weeks. The first offering for middle school students will be fall cross country, and we will be seeking a middle school athletics coordinator, and a posting for that position should be out this week. It will just be a part time position to coordinate the middle school athletics program. I also wanna start sharing a board meeting location change beginning with the August 11
board meeting. So beginning in August, the current room where board meetings are held will be converted into a classroom for use this school year. Once the new central office building is completed, board meetings will be held in that location. But in the interim, beginning with the August 11 meeting, board of education meetings will be held in the McDonald Middle School auditorium. Again, this is just temporary until the new board meeting space is completed, which should be by the end of the calendar year. And, finally, ELPS health clinic update. Mobilization and preparation of the site will begin this week, so you'll see some construction
work for the clinic taking place at the far east end of this building by the small parking lot on Old Hickory, and the scheduled date for substantial completion is 09/19/2025. Oh. Yay. So we'll see some action on that this week. Awesome. I also have, I gave you a packet with that was provided by Clark with some updates again on our, bond. I actually have a couple extra. Trish, you probably see it live. But will you send those out there to our folks in the audience? Would you mind? Thank you.
Just, some updates. So starting with the Administration Building, over at Tower, metal framing is 90% complete, so you can see all the perimeter walls are almost up. Setting roof trusses is scheduled to begin later this week. A lifting plan has been reviewed by the Clark Construction Safety Group. That's just highlighted right now, I think, as a result of a construction accident that took place a few weeks ago on another site. Electrical raceway installation in the perimeter walls and plywood wall sheathing is scheduled to begin,
today. So there's a few photos of the exterior, metal walls. And starting to move here with the high school addition, the soil erosion permit has been issued by the city of East Lansing, and soil erosion measures will be installed tomorrow beginning tomorrow. Central excavation will mobilize equipment to the site, on July 16, this Wednesday, and begin removal of concrete and stripping the topsoil. Directional signage for the pedestrian entry is in place. Fenced installation is complete. Trees have been relocated from the front entry area to the northwest area of the
site, those that could be saved and, replanted. And then the memorial trees that were, up in the front have been relocated to the east side of the site to preserve them, when we figure out where they should go back to, whether it's the front or another location on the site. Clark will work with administration here at the high school for that. And then there's just a few of the photos of the fence and signage, and some of the trees that have been, replanted and removed here at the high school
to get ready for that construction. Awesome. And that is what I have today. Alright. Thank you, superintendent Leko. Are there any, questions or comments for the superintendent? On time, on budget? So far, yes. Yes. Yes. I know. I started to remember that. That accident was had nothing to do with East Lansing. It was elsewhere. Off-site elsewhere. Yes. Yes. That has just I would say it just increased the attention to that around the, the construction world. Correct. Yep. Thanks for clarifying. That was a very sad story. Mhmm. I'm grateful that we're preserving those trees.
Mhmm. I think that's, a thoughtful addition. You could see a scenario where it might save a few bucks to not save those trees, and I'm glad that we did. Yep. Absolutely. Anything else for the superintendent? Alright. Let's move on to the consent agenda. Can I get a motion for the personnel matter on the consent agenda? I move that the Board of Education approve to the consent agenda to include the following. A, human resource action item one, hiring of Latoya Benson as a conditional hire pending obtainment of certification, one point o FTE counselor at McDonald Middle School at MA step
five effective at the beginning of the 2526 school year. The individual will be paid at a daily rate of $250 until certification is received. Second. The motion was made by trustee Taikaaki, seconded by trustee Edsel. There's no discussion on consent agenda items, so move straight to a vote. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. I don't know. Do we have miss Benson with us? Okay. Alright. The next item on the agenda is public comment. This is the time, to address the board.
I typically, if there'll be public comment, I would have blue slips. I don't see any blue slips. Does anyone wish to make public comment? Alright. That being the case, we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is board discussion. I have not heard from any board members who wish to bring anything up during this time, but we like to leave it open, in the event that there is something that we need to discuss. So are there any outs for board discussion? Alright. We'll move on to, the next items on the agenda, which are the, at will employee contracts.
Can I get a motion? I move that the Board of Education approve the contract for administrators, supervisors, and exempt at will employees from 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2027 as presented. Second. Motion was made by trustee Edsall, seconded by trustee Taikage. The contracts have all been provided to the board in advance of the meeting today. Is there any discussion on this topic before we move to a vote? Right. I don't think there's going to be any discussion, so we'll move to a vote. All in favor of the Atwell employee contracts, as presented, please say aye.
Aye. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. The next item is, closed session. We need a motion for closed session. I move that the Board of Education go into closed session pursuant to section eight c of the Open Meetings Act related to collective bargaining. Second. Moved by trustee Hensel, seconded by trustee Lyons. All in favor of the motion oh, we have to do a roll call vote for a closed session. So, miss Heck, could we get a roll call vote? Mister Martin? Yes. Miss Leko? I don't vote. Oh, sorry. You hit the Okay. Doctor Lyons? Yes. Doctor Redsell? Yes. Miss Perez Hyland? Yes.
Doctor Chambers? Doctor Torres? Miss Taikaki? Yes. Alright. So the motion carries unanimously. I know we have some folks here in the audience. We will continue the meeting after closed session, but while we're in closed session, we're gonna we'll ask you to step out into the hallway just for a moment. And when that's over, we'll reopen the doors, and everyone else can come back in. So, A moment. Yeah, how how how many moments it takes. And they popped in later. So Were there attachments? Oh, god. Amanda Moran. The ones that the ones that are sex his dad passed away. No. Oh, no. Oh my god.
Because they already told me. Marcus is telling everybody that his dad passed away. And that's not true? And it's not true. Well Okay. We have not been notified of anything. Okay. Thank you, everyone, for your patience. The closed session is over. The next item on our agenda is committee reports. Activity technology committee. Trustee Lyons? We have not met this summer. We'll, begin our meetings back in the fall. So I have to get a meeting on the schedule. But Alright. Thank you. The facilities committee, trustee Ferris Hyland? We have not met. We'll meet again in the fall.
Very good. Finance, trustee Edsel? Meet in the fall. Intergovernmental relations, trustee Torres isn't with us today. I don't I'm not aware of any updates with that committee. Personnel committee, we did a most of our business for the year over the last month or so. So, I don't foresee any meetings in the near future. ISOA, trustee Taika? We're meeting again in the Alright. The policy. Policy. Oh, I didn't I'm sorry. Policy committee. Trustee Ansell. This past meeting, we went over most of the policy updates from Troon.
All but four of them were pretty insignificant changes. Policy committee just moved them forward. They weren't items of information. They will come up either at our July 28 or our August 11 meeting, for board vote. And then, policy committee will, discuss the the four remaining policies at our next meeting, which should be in the August, which might have to be changed. But Thank you, trustee Edsel.
Sorry. I skipped over policy. Sorry. The, the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Education is 07/28/2025. That, meeting date may change. So we'll be in communication in the days and weeks ending up. We're waiting on the contract. We're waiting on some personnel issues, personnel hires. It they might happen before that day, but it might make more sense to do it at the August meeting. So that will be to be determined. Are there any other announcements before we adjourn? Alright. Adjourned at 08:02. Thank you all for being here. Thank you.