And >> all right, it is 7:03. I will call us to order. This is the regularly scheduled October 27th, 2025 meeting of the East Lancing Board of Education. Trusty Taiki, can you Oh, actually, sorry, I
need to do a roll call. So, uh, Miss Hok, can we get a roll call? >> You're going to be the >> Trusty Martin >> here. Trusty Lions not here. Trusty Zel >> here. >> Trusty Ferris Highland
>> here. >> Trusty Chambers >> present. >> Trusty Torres >> here. >> Trusty Taiaki >> here. >> Student representative Djaga >> here. >> Student Representative Omegia >> here. >> And Superintendent Leo >> here.
>> Thank you. Uh Trusty Taki, can you read our mission statement? Our mission statement is nurturing each child, educating all students, and building world citizens. >> Thank you. Uh the the first item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda.
Can I get a motion? >> I move that the board of education approve the agenda of the October 27th, 2025 regular meeting as presented. >> Second. >> The motion was made by Trusty Ferris Highland, seconded by Trusty Torres. Is there any discussion before we move to a
vote? All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I. Any opposition. The motion carries unanimously. The next item is the approval of minutes. Can I get a motion? >> I move that the board of education approve the October 14, 2025 regular
meeting minutes as presented. >> Second. >> So the motion is made by Trusty Taiaki, seconded by Trustee Chambers. Do we have any changes or discussion of the minutes? >> All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I I any opposition?
>> The motion carries unanimously. Next up is recognition. Trustee Ferris Highland. Is there any recognition? >> I do have one awesome item. The marching band joined the Michigan Competing Band Association last year and is one of 60 bands that competes throughout the fall.
Last week, they placed ninth in flight 2, which earned them a trip to perform at the state championship finals at Ford Field this Saturday at 11:14 a.m. They are one of 50 marching bands from the state of Michigan that will be performing their 2025 show, Beacons, on
Saturday. The Marching Man has 143 East Lansing High School students in grades 9 through 12 and is directed by Dave Larzelier with percussion instructor Kelvin Dugan and color guard instructor Anna Treat. So quite an honor and they're so great >> child of a band.
>> Yes, you'll be there. You're going >> be there. I already have tickets. I just have to say like I mean I did marching band back in my day. It was nothing like this. Like the artistry and the like production that is involved. And I think
that our show is spectacular. But then going to the semi-finals on Saturday and seeing some of these other bands, too. It's just extraordinary what these young people do on the field, like I could never have imagined. So, I'm really excited to go see the band on Saturday.
>> Congrats to them. >> I I'd like to add something. >> Yes, please. So on Thursday, October 23rd, I um presented at the Smithsonian National Youth Summit panel that was hosted at MSU and two of our teachers,
Julie Barage and Emily Xan, um repped East Lancing well. They took our students there. There were uh students from Waverly and I can't remember the other school district, but East Lancing was presented well and um did a great
job job at um really stumping the panelist uh with qu some really difficult questions. Um but yeah, they did a great job and I it was great to see um East Lancing colors out there um at this at the at the summit. So
>> cool. Thanks for adding that. >> Awesome. That's very cool. Is there any other recognition from other board members? I love that it's an airline schedule 11:14. >> And listen, you they I mean we have 143
participants in our marching band, which is big, but they are all big. And so the and when they say 11:14, they are not kidding. Like and they move through those bands get on the field and get off the field. The next one is ready. like
it's some logistics uh extraordinary presentations there like yeah so they they they will perform at 11:14 I am confident >> that's awesome >> and it's just a really great experience to get to go down the field where uh you know you see it on TV you know it's
really a neat thing to get to do >> so cool >> all right thank you um the next uh item on the agenda is our uh student representative report uh You guys can come on up. >> Put some clothes on. It's cold out
there. That's the mom in me. I don't fall. >> Um, good evening everyone. Tonight's we're going to give another like just basic schoolwide update, but I also first wanted to add that I actually went to the youth summit thing. So, it was actually a really good opportunity. So, I'm not exactly sure who to thank for
setting it up, but I just wanted to also get that out there. >> Oh, cool. >> Um, question. >> Thank you. I actually had three and they never got to any of them. So, um so basically Powderpuff happened last Thursday and it was a really big success
with the seniors winning and the Trojan community um raising over $4,000 for the Carmonos Cancer Center at McLaren. Um it's the most we've ever raised. And then on top of this, our very own Liam Fryer, who's actually sitting in the corner right there, um a cross country
runner, qualified for um the cross country states, like in their regional event last Friday, and he was like the only qualifying member in our whole cross country program. And um we also have Kinley Kefir who qualified like for the golf state like regionals. So we
have a lot of great talented students. Um over the weekend I actually participated in this uh UNICEF key club and pickle ball hosted their uh yearly pickle ball tournament to raise money for UNICEF. Uh students had a lot of fun and the winner actually the winners
actually turned out to be hair orange and Mr. Paddock. So yeah, congrats to them. >> And then also like a followup on our last update about the marching band. They had a really successful day like performing at all the elementary schools and it's like a great way to get some exposure about like the performing arts
programs early on. And I also wanted to add on like the Saturday thing. They won like ninth place in flight 2 and they've also won best percussion. So they're getting some like extra awards there too which is really nice. And they're going to be performing at Fordfield this Saturday. Um and then the girls swim team ended
their season recently along with um other fall sports. However, we wanted to shout out the senior class this year. um they've remained undefeated in the pool in their pool. So basically their home meets um since their freshman year. So they're a very talented class. And we'd
like to give a special shout out to junior Ava Harmon since she's qualified MSA which is basically like the swim state finals. And then we're also coming off a very rewarding win from last Friday. Our varsity football team beat Holt. I'm not 100% sure if they had a
place in the playoffs before that, but I know that they do now. And I'm pretty sure they have two confirmed games with one of them being this Friday which is Halloween. And yeah, so there's we're hoping like for some great student turnout there. And then later in November, we also have our school's MSAN
students attending their trip. Um I don't know where was that. That's like you guys have to fly there, right? >> Yeah, I think it's to Virginia. >> To Virginia. And then I don't know I don't think this was in our report, but we also have Model UN has their like um CAS conference coming up. So that's also something that's going on.
And then um yeah, so generally it's just been a very busy month. We're coming close to like early college application deadlines as well on November 1st and we're all just like looking forward to like preseason workouts, tryyous, and the beginning of all of our winter sports. So thank you for your time and we wish you guys have a great Halloween
or whatever you're doing on Friday. >> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Thank you. >> How are you again? Good. >> And congratulations, Mr. Pricer. That's That's impressive. >> Um, the next item on the agenda is our
superintendent report. So, I'll turn it over to Superintendent Leo. >> Thank you. I have a much shorter one this week than last meeting. And yes, you are going to Virginia. You're going to Alexandria City Public Schools for MCN conference. So, we'll be sending a group of students with um some of our
staff chaperones to the MSAN student conference here uh in November. Uh first of all, no school for students this Friday, October 31st. It's the second of five professional learning Fridays. So, there will be no school for uh students Friday. Staff will be here. Um, also I
want to announce that East Lancing Public Schools is considering a new HIV STI prevention and sex education curriculum for high school health classes called Rights, Respect, and Responsibility published by Advocates for Youth. The Michigan aligned version
of rights, respect, and responsibility has undergone review by a team of district educators, administrators, and parents and guardians, and has been recommended to the ELPS board of education for consideration. As part of ELPS's curriculum review and adoption process, members of the school
community, caregivers, parents, families, educators, staff, and students are all welcome to review lessons and materials, ask questions, and provide input about the recommendation. The board of education will take action on this recommendation at the December 8th, 2025 board meeting. The open house will
be held Wednesday, November 5th, so that's a week from this Wednesday, in the hub at East Lancing High School. Uh the open house will run from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. with a presentation from 6:00 to 6:30. And there will be pizza and light refreshments available. Um, and
then just a couple things repeated. I've attached the school calendars for current year along with 2627 and 2728. Um, that will go out with my updates this week. Um, one more push with our social media. You can really see what's
going on on a daily basis here in our schools. And then I've added some additional important dates um beyond this Friday. Uh, again, new this year, we have no school Thanksgiving week. So from November 24th through 28th there's
no school. Uh we have our third Friday professional staff uh staff professional learning day which is Friday December 12th and then winter break from December 22nd through January 2nd. And that is all I have tonight. Thank you.
>> Thank you superintendent Leo. Do we have any questions or comments for the superintendent uh about her presentation >> information for next week? I think we do. I think there's gonna be a lot of happy people that those calendars are final and out there. So, thanks for getting on that. I I know that that's it's hard to
get all that stuff out for three years in advance, but it seems like people make plans pretty far out. Um >> Yep. No problem. >> All right. So, the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. Uh can I
get a motion on our consent agenda? I move that the board of education approve the consent agenda for the following item. A, new hire. Hiring of number one, hiring of Cindy Vu 1.0 FTE social school social worker at McDonald Middle School at MAT step 13 effective
uh date of October 28th, 2025. >> The motion was made by Trustee Chambers, seconded by Trustee Edel. There is no discussion on the consent agenda, so we will move to a vote. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I.
>> I. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. And I believe we have uh Miss Vu here with us. Is that right? Now, I don't want to put any pressure on you. I don't put you on the spot. Uh but it is our custom to invite new hires to come to the podium and introduce
themselves and say a few words. Uh it's optional, so you don't have to do it, but you are invited to come up if you would like, but again, it's optional. >> You can just say hi. Yep. >> Welcome. >> All right. >> The look of terror on your face. I
wanted to give you an out. >> Welcome aboard. >> You're afraid of us, but not middle schoolers. >> All right, we'll move on to the public comment section of the meeting. Um, I don't know that we have any public comment forms today, but if you'd like
to make public comment, there are blue forms that you can complete. I don't see anybody picking up a blue form. And I don't think we're going to have any public comment today. So, um, I'm going to close public comment and move to
our presentation. Mr. Neielsen from Mayor Cersian on audited financial statements. It's hard to grow on you. >> This is fun. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Does everyone have a
bound copy of the audit report? >> Two now. >> Excellent. >> To see this one. Alrighty. Well, first I want to say thank you to Dory, Lisa, Scott, and the team. Um, we certainly ask for a lot as part of each
audit each year, and I just want to say thank you. Um, our requests were responded to timely and accurately. Uh, so we certainly appreciate that. Couple of notes before we get into the financial statements themselves. Um the first one is that uh you did spend more
than 750,000 in federal expenditures for fiscal year 25 which if you recall that's what requires the single audit or the federal compliance audit. The 2025 compliance supplement which is uh that's a document that comes from the federal
government. That's what tells us as auditors what to test when we do our single audit testing over the major program. Um that has not been released yet. So the report that you have in front of you today is the auditor's report on the financial statements
themselves. The single audit reports we can't issue until we've seen that compliance supplement. So that is now required by the state of Michigan by MDE to be submitted uh within 30 days of the issuance of the compliance supplement. So we have the
testing done. It's all completed. In fact, we tested the child nutrition cluster as our major program and I can tell you preliminarily that we don't have any findings. Um, so that's good to report. I just can't give you the final stamp of approval quite yet until we see
those final reports from the government. So, just want to let you know this packet is about 10 pages shorter than last year's. So, Gazsby 101 was a new accounting standard that was effective for fiscal year 25.
dealt with compensated absences. So it under the old standard you'd have had to had an acrruel on your governmentwide financial statements that so that's your statement of net position. It's not the balance sheet for the governmental funds. Um so you would have had to had
have had an acrruel on that financial statement for basically terminal payouts. So when someone retires what are they expected to be paid? The new standard has that included, but it also includes earned but unused PTO. So most
districts in the state had a pretty significant increase in the compensated absences liability that's recorded on your statement of net position. That liability doesn't impact your general fund fund balance. It only impacts the statement of net position. So I'll point
that out as we go through, but wanted to mention that was new this year. is out of about a $1 million increase in that liability. So about a million dollar decrease in net position. Um let's see, you had a new bond. So that's something to note that certainly
plays its way out throughout the financial statements. And then with that, let's go ahead and flip to page one. Page one is the independent auditor's report. The opinions are the the first two paragraphs there. It notes that we audited the accompanying financial
statements of the governmental activities each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information of school district of the city of East Lancing as of and for the year ended June 30, 2025. In our opinion, the financial statements
referred to above present fairly in all material respects the respective financial position of the governmental activities, each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information as of June 30, 2025. That's a clean opinion. That's the what most people
would call it. I'd call it an unmodified opinion, but clean it works too. Um that's the highest level of assurance that we can give as auditors. So kudos there. A lot of hard work goes into that um goes into the accounting throughout the year in order to get to this opinion. Our basis for the opinion is
described below that we do conduct our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards as well as government auditing standards. The next section talks about management's responsibility which is to prepare the financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
or GAP. Page two talks about our responsibility as the auditor. Page two has five bullet points that I'll call attention to. In the middle of the page, we do exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism during the audit. We perform
a risk assessment uh that helps us to identify areas that may have higher risk in order to um really um hone in our audit procedures on those areas with potential higher risk. The third bullet point, we obtain an understanding of internal controls that
are significant to the financial statements themselves. So bank reconciliations, cash receipts, dispersements, payroll, those are the items that really drive the activity in the financial statements. So we want to understand what controls are in place there to make sure they're operating effectively. The fourth bullet point, we
evaluate the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonleness of any significant estimates. And then the last bullet point, we conclude whether in our judgment there are any conditions or events when considered in the aggre in the aggregate that would raise substantial
doubt about the district's ability to continue as a going concern and we don't have any concerns there. Last section on page two talks about the required supplementary information that's included. That's your management discussion and analysis. That's also the budget to actual information.
Page three has a paragraph relating to the supplementary information that's included. So that's aside from management discussion and analysis, aside from budget to actual, it's the combining schedules in the back and it's also the schedule of expenditures of
federal awards when that is included in this packet since that's issued separately. That's a separate report. You'll see that at a later date. The last section on page three there talks about other reporting that's required by government auditing standards. That's on page 84 and 85 in the back and we'll get
there at the end. Page six, we are into management's discussion and analysis. Yeah, the the table there on page six is the summary of the statement of net position. So these are full acrruel basis numbers that we're looking at here. So, as a reminder, when I say full
acrruel, that means I'm taking all of the funds of the district, general fund, special revenue like food service or student activities, debt service funds, capital projects funds, combining all of those, and then we're adding on capital assets and long-term obligations. That's how we get to the full acrual basis uh
financial statements. So, just a couple of things to note on page six and page eight, and then we'll go more towards the information you're used to seeing. Um you had total assets at June 30, 2025 on a full acrual basis
of approximately 189 million. Total deferred outflows were approximately 25.1 million. Uh on the liability side, well, one thing I actually wanted to mention too on in the total asset section, you'll see current and other assets that
includes cash and cash equivalents that is up as of year end as a result of the bond proceeds. So, I mentioned a couple spots we'll see that play out. That's one of them. Under the liabilities section, uh, current liabilities sits at about 7.8 million. That's down a little bit from the previous year. You were
able to use some of your unearned revenue during the year. Spend that down. That reduces the liability. Total liabilities were approximately 181.6 million. You have deferred inflows of about 34.5 million. And then you've
got total net position of a negative 1.68 million. Um, and as a reminder, it's pretty common to have negative net position for a school district in the state of Michigan. Getting close to zero though.
Page eight or close to a positive number I should say. Page eight uh shows you the results of the operations again on the full acral basis of accounting. So, the only thing I will mention on this page is that um if you were to take
revenues minus expenses, you've got about a $10 million improvement in net position uh from 2025. Page nine has some pretty good historical trend information. Uh particularly the first
section under property taxes shows you the millage rates for the past 5 years. Those should look familiar. Under the state sources section, you have the per pupil allowance over the past 5 years, noting that that did not
change from 2324 to 2425. On page 10, you have the five-year uh historical analysis of the student enrollment counts, and you were up approximately five from 23 24 to 2425. Page 11 has some of the information that
you would be more uh used to seeing. Page 11 has an expenditure comparison by function. So this would be your fund level uh or modified acrruel basis uh information here. Total instruction uh expenditures were
approximately 32.6 million. They were just over 32 million in the previous year. Pretty consistent. Similarly, uh, under total instruction support, that's about 12 million compared to about 11.8 million in the previous year. Um, down under the rest of the
expenditure categories, the business office line item, that one does stick out a little bit. Um, there was a a fairly large tax chargeback or abatement that was recorded in that line item uh during fiscal year 25. So, just in case you were wondering why that doubled,
that's the majority of it. Total general fund expenditures for 2425 were approximately 58.4 million. If you if you look down a little bit further to the last two lines, you get the 2024 capital projects fund and 2025
capital projects fund expenditures almost 2.5 million or a little over 2.5 million uh between the two. That's the new administration building and the high school additions. There's some other things in there, too, but that's the majority of it.
On page 12, you have the general fund budgetary highlights. Again, with a five-year trend analysis on your budget to actual for the revenues, um, you budgeted a total of 57.6 million. You came in at 57.3
million. That's a variance of pretty much 0.5%. That is excellent. Similar story on the expenditure side. Budgeted 58.778 million. Actual results came in at 58.36
million. That's a variance of 72%. Again, excellent. Nice job budgeting. Page 13 has a summary of the capital assets. One item to mention here is in that table in the middle of the page where
your capital assets are. The second line item down is construction in progress about 2.3 million. That's the administration building and the high school improvements. Under the long-term obligations, um you did have a new bond issuance, so that did increase your total long-term
obligations, but you also made your required payments during the year. So that helped to decrease that slightly. And then you've got factors bearing on the district's future listed at the bottom of page 13 and on to page 14. First one is student enrollment. So the
district did project an enrollment increase of 25 students for fiscal year 26. The second bullet point is related to the foundation allowance. Your original budget for fiscal year 26 included a $392 per pupil increase in the
foundation allowance. At the top of page 14, we have the 31 section 31A funding that is estimated to be reduced by $366,000 um in the fiscal year 26 allocation.
Retirement rate, uh certainly the ability of the state to continue to subsidize the stabilization rate remains a concern. The second to last bullet point, uh, Ingam ISD Board of Education approved changes to the distribution of the special education funding to the locals
beginning with fiscal year 26. Changes in that plan are estimated to reduce the district's funding by 317,000 for fiscal year 26 and then increase it by 483,000 in fiscal year 27 resulting in a net increase.
And then the last bullet point talks about the employee contracts, the latest to be approved on September 8, 2025. All right, let's go to page 16, and I'll keep this rolling. Page 16 and page 17
are your full approval basis financial statements. We saw the summarized versions of those in the MDNA, so I'm going to go ahead and jump right to page 18. Page 18 is the balance sheet. For the governmental funds at June 30,
2025, you have four major funds. That would be your general fund, your 2025 capital projects fund, 2024 capital projects fund, and the 2019 syncing fund. The rest of the funds are considered to be non- major. So, they're just smooshed together into that total
non- major column. um cash and cash equivalents about 17.1 million at the end of the year. Total assets across all funds roughly 46.5 million. And when I mentioned earlier that cash and cash
equivalents were 17.1 million, you also have restricted cash related to those bonds of a roughly 21.7 million. On the liability side, total liabilities across all funds were roughly 7.2 million.
do have a little bit in the way of deferred inflows of resources for about 213,000. If we back those numbers off from total assets, we get total fund balance across all funds for the district of just over 39 million. The general fund fund balance as of year end
is just under 15 million. Of that, the amount that's considered unassigned is roughly 13.2 million or 22.6% of general fund expenditures. Total fund balance for the general fund is roughly 25.6% of general fund
expenditures. And then you've got, you can see the 25 capital projects fund and the 24 capital projects fund. Those have over $20 million in restricted fund balance as of year end. Page 20 is what I'll go to next. We have
the statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balances for the year ended June 30, 2025. Again, you have your four major funds, general fund, the two capital projects funds, and the syncing fund. Total revenue across all funds was
approximately 25, sorry, 71.7 million. Had the wrong line item there. So, total revenue 71.7 million. Uh on the expenditure side, if you go to page 21, you'll see total expenditures of roughly
74.5 million across all funds. Uh a couple lines below that, you've got net change in fund balance for the general fund was a decrease of just over 1 million. Uh you can see the big increase in the 25 capital projects fund
of about 18.7 million. A decrease in the 24 capital projects fund of about 2 million. Total net change in fund balance across all funds was an increase of approximately 16 million. I'll back up for a second. If you go to
the top of page 21, you can see there that the debt service principal repayments of about 5.6 6 million as well as your interest at about 4.3 million. Couple lines below that in the other financing sources section you can see the proceeds of the bond issuance
approximately 18.2 million that's in the 2025 capital projects fund. In your non- major funds you can see that refunding bond proceeds of about 12 million and then the payment out to the refunded bond escrow agent of about 12.5 million.
So that's where the bond plays out. Let's go to page 26. Page 26 gives the reader the financial statements a summary of the revenues and the expenditures of your two capital projects funds that are active. The 2025
capital projects fund and the 2024 capital projects fund. The thing I wanted to mention on this page is that first paragraph talks about the 2019 syncing fund. It is audited in accordance with section 1212 of the revised school code. We audited
approximately 85% of those expenditures and had no findings. So that's great. The second paragraph talks about the bonds where we are required to audit those in accordance with section 1351A of the revised school code. We tested
approximately 88% of those expenditures and had no findings as well. So that is great. Page 37 is what I'll go to next. Just a couple more things here. Page 37 is the detail of your capital
assets as of year end. Uh, I just wanted to mention here again, you can see the construction in progress of approximately 2.3 million in that additions column. And then if you keep scrolling down, you can see some other additions. Uh, for instance, the building and additions line item for
798,000. That's auditorium lighting or a lot of it. Number of other investments into the school district um, uh, capital assets, but wanted to mention a couple of them there. Page 38 is your detail of your long-term obligations.
The table at the top of page 38 starts with general obligation bonds. You had additions of approximately 31.3 million. That's the new bond and the premium. You had deletions of approximately 21.3 million. That's your annual payments that you were making. As well as the
payment out to the refunded bond agent. The second column is compensated absences. Uh that beginning balance of 1,916,000. That's the restated number. So, you did restate that number as of July 1, 2024 for Gazsby 101, that new accounting
standard that I said was effective this year. The ending balance and compensated absences was just shy of 2 million. All right, let's go to bottom of page 39. You can see the future principal and interest payments that are due,
just in case you were curious about that. Page 55 is what I'll go to next. I believe that's the budget to actual schedule. Yes, lots of great information in the rest of the footnotes. Um, but I'm going to jump to the budgetary comparison schedule for
the general fund for the year ended June 30, 2025. Again, here we can see the original budget, the final budget, and the actual results for the general fund. So, the original budget showed a projected draw from fund balance of approximately 1.9 million.
The final budget showed a projected draw from fund balance of approximately 1.1 million. The actual results came in with a draw from fund balance of just over 1 million. On the revenue side, your budget to actual I mentioned earlier that was
about a 0.5% variance. That was excellent. Same thing on the expenditure side where it's about 0.7%. Uh that means you have a positive variance on the net change in fund balance line of approximately $130,000.
Overall fund balance roughly 26% of total general fund expenditures. What this page tells me is we've had excellent fiscal accountability during fiscal year 25 from the budget we adopted to what we
actually did um shows that result. So kudos there. Page 71 is what I'll go to next. Just one thing to note before we see our final report. Page 71 should be the combining balance
sheet for the non- major special revenue funds. The food service fund balance is still uh slightly over the max that's um set by the USDA. MDE may require a spendown plan. Just to mention that it's very common in the state for the food service fund balance
to be over the max. So page 80 is what I'll go to next. And I'm just going to point to you or point out to you on page 80, 81,
and 82, you can see the detail of the capital projects expenditures and the syncing fund expenditures during fiscal year 25. It'll show you by location where those amounts were spent. So on page 81, you can see the majority of it did go towards the middle school and the
high school. Page 81, majority went towards the high school and the administration building. Same thing on page 82. Page 84 is the last of the pages that
we're going to visit tonight. Page 84 and 85 is the auditor's report that's required by government auditing standards. It's our report on internal control over financial reporting. If we had any material weaknesses,
significant deficiencies or other audit findings to note, they would be in this report and we don't have any. So, it's a clean report today. So, that's excellent. Any questions on the financial statements? happy to entertain them.
I jumped past the retirement footnote. I'll let you guys read that at your leisure. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> All right. Is there anything else for Mr. Neielson? I >> think so. >> Okay. >> All right. Well, >> thank you. >> Thank you for being here.
>> Do you have any idea how long before the you'll find out about this? >> I don't. No, I have not heard anything in terms of when they expect the compliance supplement to be released. Um, what I have heard, and I don't know that it's public information or uh
approved public information, but we have heard that they they don't expect any significant changes to the testing we're required to do. Um, so we have operated off that in designing our tests for this current year. Um, we don't expect any significant changes, which is why I can
preliminarily say that no findings, but I can't I can't rubber stamp it yet. >> Is that something being held up by the federal government shutdown? >> Yeah, that Well, it is now certainly >> before that. >> Yeah, typically we get that document in
May or June every year and it's almost November. We don't have it yet. So, >> six months. >> Yeah, unfortunately. But once we get it, it will be issued within 30 days. That'll be filed with MDE perfectly on time um according to
their requirements. So, and then I'll mention uh Kenzie sitting out here was the team lead on the audit this year. Um so, she did the majority of the work. So, I just wanted to give her a thank you as well. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And there will be an afterparty where
we'll be reading the um the contents of this report with Mr. Neielson page by page. >> Page by page. Yep. Um, >> we'll have a powerful >> Everyone is That's a public meeting, so everyone's welcome to be there for that. >> I'd prefer an interpretive dance. >> Yeah.
>> Book clubs ever. >> Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you. >> Kudos to Lisa. Yay, Lisa. >> Yeah. Everybody who took part in that, that's a it's a heavy lift. And so, thank you. >> All right, the next item on the agenda
is board discussion. I've not heard from any board members that had anything on their mind, but um obviously this is a a place where we can talk about these things that come up. So, if there's any board discussion, uh go ahead, you know,
put it out there. Um, someone from Glen Karen reached out to us to thank us for our support for the um the letter. Um, was there an update? Did she give us an update on that? >> Well, just that what was passed.
>> So, the city city did vote in favor of uh blocking trucks from coming down Harrison of a certain weight class. So, there's still a missing weight class that they're going to work with um to to eliminate all the trucks coming up over that hill and then potentially coming
down to the um but that's that's in progress. >> I have noticed the traffic is up there and I think it might just be related to all the construction happening on 127. I don't know why, but the >> there has been more traffic on that road >> on Harrison.
>> Yeah. On Harrison. >> Yeah. So, and there's a big bottleneck there where that intersection is with Sagenol. >> Um, so, um, well, and thank you for taking the lead on that last week. >> Yeah, I just wanted to give an update.
Thanks for the technicality. >> I just have one thing I want to give you a heads up that you'll be receiving from me. So, new this year with our budget is we have to um decide whether or not we would like to opt into the 31A um school
safety and mental health funds. And this year they are tied with some stipulations. And so, Trun is recommending that the board um take action on whether or not to um opt in to
these funds. I have uh a trune uh opinion letter on how to go about doing that. Um along with MDE FAQ about these funds that I'll share with all of you. We have until November 16th. So we would uh take action at the November 10th
meeting on this. It'll be on our finance committee agenda for next Monday. Um so that group will hear about it then, but I will get you all the materials so you can review them in advance. Um, we're still looking, we've discussed this at our superintendent meeting, our county
meeting last week, and um, we're also awaiting two other legal opinions just from two other um, law firms because it's not typical that the board would take action to um, whether or not to opt into these funds because it's not been the way it's been done in the past. Um
but with the stipulations that are there um I think it's worth discussing and taking a look at right now um with the money that's allocated um for 31A for the state it amounts to about $140 a pupil um for East Lancing which would be
just over $500,000 and if that would be the minimum if other districts opt out our per pupil amount would go up. So, uh, we use those funds for, um, a lot of personnel. Our safety team at the high school and our safety team at the middle school are
both funded through our 31A funds. Our district mental health coordinator is funded through our 31A AA funds. So, um, it's, uh, very significant funding to us, uh, for us. And um pending anything
uh at at this point um I would recommend opting into these funds. I'd have a hard time um not accessing these funds. I think it would uh increase vulnerability to our district if we didn't access and utilize our school safety and mental
health funds. Um but there are some new stipulations that are tied to opting into those. So I will share them. I'll send them out to everybody. Um, like I said, it'll go to finance committee, but I'll also make time um to talk to anybody else if you have questions about it. But that would be on our agenda for
November 10th as an action item. >> Okay. >> These are state funds, correct? >> Correct. >> So, it's not like we have to let ICE officers into our buildings, right? That stipulation. It's really more about if there's a mass casualty event at your school, what we're kind of agreeing to
allow access to and um and what we may be giving up um in terms of some um attorney client privilege there. It's uh I think a lot of this from my understanding is written as a an outcome of uh some of the
investigation at Oxford. And so this is I think trying to uh put some pieces in place that uh would uh probably uh offer more transparency um if there was an investigation with uh for a mass
casualty event. So, um definitely worth taking a look at uh and understanding uh what those uh stipulations are, but uh at this point I would um without any new information um still pending. I'd
recommend that we still access them. So, to come just give you a heads up. >> Well, thank you for that. And um I will say that you mentioned that this funding is essential for a lot of our
safety team members and um I've had the occasion over the last few weeks to speak to some uh middle school teachers and parents um specifically and they've been very impressed by the performance of the safety team um in the building
and just the way that passing periods, downtime in the hallways, it seems like things are going really well. >> Our seven individuals between the middle school and high school are every single one of them is outstanding. We've really really got a nice um nice group of
safety team members. >> Truly, >> they really really connect with our kids and but do and the adults, but they are really a really great group. So, we are very u very fortunate to have them. >> Yeah. Very. >> All right. Well, stay tuned. More to come on that for our next meeting.
>> Safety team month. Right. >> We'll have to have to create one. Seriously, every day. >> Every day. >> Every day is safety team month. >> All right. Is there anything else for board discussion? >> Okay, we can move on. Uh the next item
on the agenda is our action items. Can I get a motion on action item A, audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2025? I move that the board of education accept the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30th,
2025 as presented. >> Second. >> Motion's made by trustee Edel, seconded by Trustee Taiki. I know he just had a a lengthy presentation about these statements, but um does anybody wish to have does anybody have any more questions or comments before we move to
a vote? >> All right, we move to a vote. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. The next item is policy update. >> I move that the board of education
approve the update of policy 5420 sex education as presented. >> Second. >> Motion was made by trustee Edsil, seconded by trustee Ferris Highland. Is there any discussion on this topic? >> Just a little background. The paragraph that was removed was redundant. Um, Trun
determined it was redundant. We asked that question back to Tron. Um, and so that's why it's just delayed uh after the uh other policies that we've approved in the last couple meetings. >> All right. Any other discussion on this
policy update? All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. >> I. Any opposition? >> The motion carries unanimously. Uh the next uh item on the agenda is our committee reports. The first is the
academic and technology committee. That's uh Trusty Lions is the chair of that committee. Um Trustee Chambers serves on that committee. Do we have any report from that committee? >> I believe we're waiting till Mr. Dobson is starts. >> Yeah, we haven't. We have not. Well, we
had but not since the last >> I don't think we've Yeah, I think you're right. >> Okay. Uh Mr. Once once we get Mr. Dobson on boarded, I think we'll have plenty of work or Dr. Dobson on board, we'll have plenty of work for that committee. >> Yep.
>> Facilities committee trusty Ferris. >> Um we're trying to get in the books a meeting November 6th at noon. So we'll hopefully meet then. >> Finance Committee Trusty Edel. Uh, if you'll all pick up your books,
I'm turned into >> Don't you dare. >> It's the last It might be the last time I get to make you dare. >> We love that annual joke. >> Listen, we discussed this in depth at finance. Um, I actually missed last meeting, so I think Abby did an update
in my uh absence. Um, so we're good. We meet Monday uh at 1:00. Do we know where are we in the hub? Do we know? Okay, >> thank you.
And you know, I this is a lot, but I suspect that the city's books are a little bit more complicated than this. >> Have you seen their online budget, though? >> No, I haven't. >> It's kind of a joke. >> Okay. >> Expenditures, revenues, total. I'm like, really? That's the detail that you give the
community? Yeah. Anyhow, >> well, yeah, we have all the the legal stuff that we have to do these audits. So, >> I was wondering that, too. I'll find out maybe or maybe not. >> Intergo intergovernmental relations. Uh Trusty Torres,
>> we have um our meeting, our next meeting October 29th, 9:30 to 10:30 at the hub. >> Very good. October 29th is Wednesday. >> Yeah. >> Uh personnel committee, uh nothing to report at this time. Policy committee, trustee at Soul.
>> Uh we meet Monday um at 10:30 in the hub. and Ingram School Officers Association at Trusty Taaki. >> Uh we are meeting next Wednesday the 5th in person at the Beakman Center for a tour. >> Cool.
>> Oh, that's that's cool. >> You going to get a grand tour and everything? >> Mhm. >> Oh, very cool. >> Want to come? >> When When is it? >> Uh 8 8:30 in the morning on Wednesday. >> In two days? >> No, on the 5th. >> On the 5th. >> That'll be the day after elections.
You're going to be up all day. Is that election day? >> Well, it's the day after election day after day, >> I might still be up. >> Yeah. >> All right. Now, uh the next item on the agenda is announcements. Our next
meeting is November 10th, and it's going to be back here. Is that right? >> Yes. At >> at November 10th, 2025 at 7 p.m. That's all the announcements I have. Are there any other announcements? All right, we will stand adjourned at
7:54. Thank you all for being here. See you on November 10th. >> Thank you.