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Part 1 (Video ID: xrmRDA3PZak):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Call to Order and Mission Statement
- 00:00:51: Approval of Agenda and Minutes from Prior Meeting
- 00:01:34: Recognition of East Lansing High School Journalists
- 00:04:00: Recognition of Student Representatives and Special Ed Bond
- 00:06:43: Student Representatives' Final Update and Introductions
- 00:10:43: Farewell and Congratulations to Outgoing Representatives
- 00:12:39: Superintendent's Report: Student Voice Survey, Swatting Events
- 00:14:25: East Lansing School's Emergency Response Protocol (SRP)
- 00:19:58: After-Action Review of Swatting Incidents and Community Concerns
- 00:23:45: Board Member Questions and Discussion on Swatting Incidents
- 00:32:23: Public Comment: Kathleen Brady - Special Education Concerns
- 00:35:51: Action Item: Intermediate School District Budget Approval
- 00:36:34: Action Item: Twice a Day Letter of Agreement Approval
- 00:37:11: Action Item: Equivalent Payment to 27l Recommendations
- 00:38:30: Action Item: McDonald Middle School Band Trip Approval
- 00:41:11: Action Item: Approval of Kristen Susty's Contract
- 00:42:37: Action Item: Lindsay Lanowinski - White Hills Principal Contract
- 00:44:27: Committee Reports: Academic, Facilities, Finance, and Others


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At 07:01. Can we get a roll call, please? Here. Trustee Myers? Here. Trustee Myers? Here. Trustee Chambers? She's excused. Trustee Perez? Here. Trustee Taikaki. Here. Student representative Jada. Here. Student representative Taikaki. Here. And superintendent Taikaki. Here. Alright. Thank you very much. Trustee Taegaki, can I now hand you our mission statement, please? Yes. Our mission statement is nurturing each child, educating all students, and building world citizens. Thank you.

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Can I get approval of agenda? I move the Board of Education approve the agenda of the 05/11/2026 regular meeting as presented. Second. Moved by trustee Martin, seconded by trustee Torres. Any discussion on this? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Can I get approval of minutes? I move that the Board of Education approve the minutes of the 04/27/2026 regular meeting as presented. Second. Moved by Trustee Perez Hyland, second by Trustee Martin. Any discussion?

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All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Alright. I'll turn it over to trustee Martin for our recognition. Thank you. A few things to get to today. We will begin with, some recognition for East Lice East Lansing High School, journalists. Got this announcement. This year was won for the record books for our student journalists at East Lansing High School, our award winning yearbook, SYNDEAD, earned an incredible 41 individual state awards, including

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seventeen first place finishes, the most first place awards in program history. The staff also earned the highest possible honors at both state and national level, including a Spartan ranking and an All American designation. Our student newspaper portrait brought home a program record 52 individual awards across 22 different student journalists, including several freshmen earning first place recognition. Portrait also earned a Spartan ranking for only the second time in program history. Together, our publication staff earned 93 total awards out of a 103 submissions, the second

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highest total in the entire state of Michigan. Special congratulations to Jess Milock and Aya Howard for being named to the Allstate student journalist staff, with Jess also earning a statewide scholarship recognizing her as, Michigan's top yearbook journalist. These accomplishments are a reflection of countless hours of interviewing, writing, editing, designing, photo photographing, storytelling, but also the incredible support of our entire school community. We're so grateful to our staff for welcoming student journalists into classrooms and helping support

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storytelling that captures the heart of our schools. We also know how fortunate we are as a district have Cody Harrell leading and supporting students in this way. Care, mentorship, professionalism, and opportunities he provides through these programs continue to elevate student voice in journalism at an extraordinary level. We're so proud of these students, their leadership, and the work they continue to produce. The future of journalism is incredibly bright at East Lansing High School. So congratulations to all those students and, and to mister Harrell, for the those impressive

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awards. I like that they call them Spartan awards or Spartan designation. That's that's kinda cool. Some other very important people to recognize, our student representatives. Is this your last meeting with us? Yes. That is so good. Okay. So, I'd like to to recognize, Tanya Diagea? Diagea. Diagea. Diagea. Tanya Diagea and Megan Meghia. Or My Maya. My Maya. Sorry. Mya Meghia. I It's not like you've been here for a year. Yes. I I'm having a hard time reading today.

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You guys have been wonderful this year. And so so happy to have you here, but also excited to see what comes next because I'm sure you're gonna do great things, and I'm sure you're gonna tell us all about it when you go up there. Couple other student representatives who have been, essential to the board this year, Mason Adams and, Kyla Caldwell. They're they are the student representatives on the academic and technology committee, and they have, been great to work with and are valued contributors at our meetings. That's all the recognition that I have.

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Awesome. Thank you. And we do have, for our student reps, a gift for you and then for our two academic attack committees. So we'll get those to them. But thank you so much for, coming to our meetings and, giving us a bunch of information, and you all are up next. But unless anyone else has anything to say or others, any other recognition. I I do want to recognize the voters in Ingham County and in particular the voters in East Lansing that passed the Special Ed Bond, Tuesday, that will lead to

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a brand new Beacon Center and a remodeled Heartwood. Abby said this morning, 70% of East Lansing voters voted in favor of the millage and I can't be more proud of my community. Alright. Any other recognition? I'm not hearing any, so we'll turn it over to our student representatives. Hi, everyone. We're so happy to have served as your, twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six school board liaisons. That being said, we have one last update for you guys, and we also have our featured school board liaisons here tonight. So, like, the biggest talk with the school right now, academics wise, is definitely the

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AP exams. So they've opened in full swing. I think it was last week and this week pretty much wrapped it up. So we today, we actually have, like, a CALP AB and stuff like that testing, and then we also have, like, music theory, I think, today or tomorrow. So all of those have started to ramp up. And then along with that, all those courses have pretty much round up, so people are working on, like, their final projects and all that kind of stuff. We have two weeks left, and I think they have, like, four items for three after this week. So, yeah. And then multiple stores also have had their senior nights.

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Yeah. I think that you have been, like, two varsity sports with you and then also have, like, a probably, like, a 4.1 GPA, so that's a pretty big deal. So should be over to, like, National Honor Society. All of our hours have been due I think they they were due in April, but the induction of, like, the new members and the board was tonight. So we wanted to congratulate all the incoming members and, like, the board. And we wanted to thank miss Seka and, mister Smith for all the volunteering opportunities they've provided. I know they've worked really hard, especially, like, mister Smith and mister Sake have worked really hard for, like, the, I think it's a new ish thing, like, the Excel

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tutoring thing. So we just I was part of that this year, and it was really cool and it was amazing. It was so easy to get my hours, and it was also, like, great to, like, actually, like, help students within the school. So, yeah, we just wanted to, like, thank them for that. Yeah. And then also, we wanted to shed some light on prom this Saturday. Very exciting. So although tickets for both both prom and post prom, post prom is just like an after prom event at High Caliber with a bunch of games and stuff like that. Some loose ends like the seating charts and stuff like that are being finished up. So we're looking forward to that event.

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So it's 7PM this Saturday at the Kellogg Center. And that morning we also want to encourage students and parents to come support Jazz Band one at the art festival that morning, which is also a pretty cool opportunity for music programs since, like, they finished almost all of their last concerts. Mhmm. And that kind of wraps up pretty much everything we have. So we're just gonna have Ani and Carmen, like, say a little bit about themselves. Okay. Hi. So as I mentioned, we are your new school school board liaisons for the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven school year. My name is Ani. My name is Carmen.

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We're both rising juniors. I am a part of the tennis team. I'm the treasurer of Students for Gender Equality. I'm excited to be able to represent our high school this year. I've come to a few of the meetings with my sister, so I think it's a cool job and, yeah, I'm excited for everything that we get to do. I'm also part of the tennis and golf team, and I'm a student representative for UNICEF Club back at East Lansing High School. And I'm also really excited to be, working with you guys this year. So thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Welcome. Alright. Yeah. Get your get your caps.

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And then you can leave. It's a nice night. Night. You get to take your nameplate. I know. Do that? Yeah. Oh my god. Yes. They weren't renewals. Thank you so much. Do you need photos for your scrapbook? Yeah. Do you want a gift? Do you want a photo? Yeah. Of us. You've given a really thorough report this year. Exactly. I like that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Should we think just come behind us? And so can you remind me what's next for for you two? Yes. Yes. I'm going to ask you in my What's going to do?

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I'm going to the University of Michigan. I'm going to university in Michigan. Well, we're both doing pre law. So Nice. Alright. Congratulations. It's my law school reunion this weekend. Oh, really? So Yeah. Good luck. Where'd you go for law school? Virginia. Do you have any? Virginia? Oh, well. Michigan is our rival. So everywhere I go. But can you My mother went to U of M Law School. Thank you. Yeah. Congratulations. You guys you'll do great things. I can't see Thank you. Wait to see what you you do. Yeah. And thank you for the thorough representation. As miss Lycos said, it was always you were solid, you brought it, and we

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appreciate it. So thank you. Of course you tried. You did very well. Great. Yes. Thank you. Alright. We will now move on to our superintendent's report. Superintendent Reiko? Thank you. Our my student voice, my student voice perception survey. Our students have taken it. Many of our families have and our staff, but we got an extension for one more week hoping we can gather some more family voices with our survey. So going back out again with my report, it'll go back on social media.

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So it'll be open until this coming Friday. And we really do review all of this data. We have an opportunity to receive the data, by this by school building so we can really, disseminate a lot of different data from what we receive. And we use it for action planning and goal setting. So it's really important we do, get as much representation as possible because it's really valuable data to us and we do use it. Athletic physicals offered at East Lansing High School Health Center. We have one more day of scheduled physicals there, which is Wednesday, May 13, from

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8AM till 06:30PM. And you can schedule an appointment by calling the number here, or visit the health center's website. And getting their physical now will cover all of next year's, activities that would require athletic physical. And I want to, just make some comments and answer any board member questions, regarding our recent swatting events at East Lansing High School. Following two recent swatting events at East Lansing High School, I'd like to share some additional information regarding our emergency response to incidents like this.

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East Lansing Public Schools uses the standard response protocol, SRP, from the I Love You Guys Foundation. We moved to this language in 2025 pending an expected statewide adoption requirement. This is an effort by the state to get all districts and law enforcement agencies to be talking the same language when crisis or emergency internally or externally or even

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in the community. The first one is called hold or room hold. I think, that kind of replaced the shelter in place we used to use. And hold or room hold is just a little more, I think, targeted in terms of knowing exactly what to do. It's really hard when you to hear like, when you hear shelter in place, it could mean a few different things, but room hold is just remaining, in our rooms or areas, locking those doors, and clearing the halls. We use them for a variety of events, sometimes in the building, some mostly in

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the building. Like, it could just be a medical emergency where we need to get, a stretcher or a wheelchair or someone, some medical help and wanna have that privacy, in the hallway. And sometimes we use it if we have, a student who just might need some additional support and to maintain their, anonymity and integrity. Sometimes we would hold kids in a room to be able to do that. One way we used it on Friday was so the, law enforcement and the bomb

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sniffing dogs could go through our common areas and hallways. So we use a room hold, which business goes on as usual within the room so it's, students are not locked down. They're just held in the room but with business as usual. But it allows us to maintain, what's happening in the classroom, if we're just if we just need some space and time in the hallways. The next one is a secure mode, which we're mostly across the district in secure mode at all times with the exception of secure mode means we would limit visitors

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coming and going. So we're always our exterior doors across the district are locked at all times, except for during arrival time. So we would use secure mode if we if there's an issue in the area that could turn into something, and that we just want to monitor or eliminate, at that time anybody coming and going. We were in secure both Friday, and then, when we go into lockdown, that is automatically in a secure mode as well. So the next one is lockdown.

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That replaces we used to have internal lockdown and external lockdown with the old language. This is just lockdown. It means we locked interior and exterior doors, lights off and out of sight. This one was utilized Tuesday when the threatening call came in to East Lansing High School. The next one, evacuate. Leave the building to a specified location. That location, while they're pre, identified, they can, they can vary depending on how far away we need to go. In the case of last Friday, we just needed to evacuate the building.

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We didn't need to go off-site, so we did evacuate out to the football stadium or the athletic stadium before, before dismissing for the rest of the day. And then shelter is one, that's more about for hazard and safety. So it would be what we would go into if there was a tornado warning or a hazardous material leak of some sort. We would call a shelter, but the response to that varies depending on what the incident is. So those are our five options now that have replaced the old shelter in place,

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interior lockdown, exterior lockdown. They're posted up throughout our classrooms. We utilize there there's actually a parent guide that I've linked, on the back here that this will go out tomorrow, so that, parents, guardians, families can, and I linked it in many languages, but they can also review these different responses to emergencies. Staff training and drills occur regularly. Buildings are required to complete three lockdown drills each school year, one scheduled during nonstructured time like lunch or passing time.

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Additionally, administrators, safety team members, and others participate in emergency response and other school safety related trainings on an ongoing basis. I've also reached out to our partners at East Lansing Police Department, Meridian Township Police Department, and Michigan State University's Police and Public Safety Department to invite them to a facilitated after action review that would be facilitated by Jason Russell with Secure Environmental, Consultants, which is a school safety consultant partner of ours. And this will be an opportunity to discuss what went well in each response along

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with areas for improvement. In addition, East Lansing High School principal, Ashley Schwartzback, and her team collected feedback from high school staff so we can be responsive to their needs as well. So, on Friday Friday's swatting incident did, elicit a heavy response from all three of those law enforcement agencies. Mondays only East Lansing Police Department, responded to that, but, I've already received, responses from two out of three of those agencies who want to come participate in an after action review.

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Jason Russell, we've asked him to facilitate it. Just he he's familiar both with the law enforcement side of things, but also with the school side of things. He's worked with East Lansing Public Schools since about 2021, so he's very familiar, again, with our district and our community as well and can act as a more of a neutral facilitator in a situation and, meeting like that. And I would say overall, student and staff safety was prioritized. And I was think I'm thankful that no one was ever in danger On both

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days of our sweating events, I think it's just important to note that there were numerous other sweating calls both in Michigan and Northern Ohio and other parts of the country. I know that on last last Friday, Alma Public Schools shortly after, I think theirs was right after ours, received a very similar, threat and then Tuesday, Napoleon Public Schools in Jackson County had, had a similar threat about 15 before hours. So, there's, I don't know, maybe a little bit of a feeling of some relief

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that I don't think East Lansing was a target of this. We just happened to be, the target that day, but there were many others. I know last Friday there were a number of zoos around that were also, received threats and other organizations. So yeah. I know. I think Toledo Zoo was one of them. And then I know just last Thursday, there were at least four schools in Northern Ohio Northern Ohio who received threats as well. And when I read some of the descriptions of them, they were very similar to

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ours. Some of them were, Shaker Heights, which is, one of our MCN partners, they were also the victims of two swatting calls in this in the past week. So, there's a little rash of it right now. Actually, there's a few of us participating. I think it's tomorrow in a webinar with, Jason Russell and SCC on kind of getting more information when from these calls in order to be able to respond the most appropriate way, especially if they were to continue. And, you know, I had a a parent ask me, like, what are you gonna

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do if these continue? And, unfortunately, we can't control that piece of it. You know, we'll continue to implement our protocols. We'll continue to on the conservative safe side as we do, and hope that we become wiser. Law enforcement is looking for some support for from some other detective bureaus that have more resources than just local law enforcement does to see what they can do about tracking these calls, although it's really, really difficult in the age of AI to track these calls and find the origin of them.

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And then finally, before I take any questions from board members, if, community folks have specific questions, feel free to reach out to me directly, and I've included my email here. We are very intentional in not making our emergency operations plans public so that we do not disclose information, response plans, or maps that may make us more vulnerable to someone who may want to do harm. So we do not publish those. They are exempt from FERPA, but know that they that state law requires that we have them and that they actually, the board will be asked to take action on

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an updated one before 2026 based on a new state template that became available, at the beginning of last school or this school year. So we'll be updating those with the help of SEC and, looking at doing that also on a county wide level so that our responses and many, of us will share law enforcement agencies who respond. So speaking the same language, having, very similar or at least consistent plans and how we operate and how we respond will be helpful to the folks who are supporting

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us during those times. Not gonna lie, if we're stressful you don't you can prepare and prepare and do drills, but when you're in the moment and so much information is coming at you from so many different, different folks who are there, different means, You have to make just really quick decisions, with the best information, best decisions and information you have at the time. And I'm I'm really proud of the way our folks responded. I think they centered, student and staff safety and, and and not just physical safety

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but, mental health as well. So but I'm happy to take questions from any board members. Any questions? You mentioned that, one of the drills that happen every year is during non structured time. The the second flooding incident was after dismissal, so that would have been a non structured time. So there was okay. I had been wondering if they had, like, experience in what to do in that situation as opposed to when it was the structured class to class to class schedule. Yes. We have to do one in a non structured time every year.

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So again, you know, students, they're more familiar with taking guidance from their adult in the room, of course. So they'd absolutely. It was about ten minutes after dismissal when the second one when that call came in. So, buses had left. So a lot of students were out of the building already, but not everyone. And there was a high school staff meeting going on, but there were still a number of students in the hallways moving from one place to another, you know, who just had to, respond when they heard the announcement over the PA to lockdown, and

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they found the nearest space and locked themselves in until they were dismissed. I just wanna say thank you for preparing all of this. It's very thorough, and I appreciate all the work that went into, being transparent to the board and the community. Welcome. Take care. I I will second, trustee Edsel. This is You always gotta copy me. Yeah. That's very thorough. Couple of things I wanna say. First off, thank you for sharing this language, the, the five action steps, because those are fairly new.

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And, and as much as I follow this, I had my own difficulties kind of I I I'm I didn't realize what the different phraseology meant when we were getting updates about it, so this is very helpful. I think most importantly is the second to last paragraph where, you say that, of course, student and staff safety is our top priority. And I know that, I think you did an excellent job of prioritizing that and making that a top priority. One thing I think you sell yourself short on, superintendent Leko, is that you spent

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a lot of time in the high school after the first after the second incident supporting people who had been shaken by what happened. And, because they are these events are they shake you. They are startling and, unsettling. And, I know the superintendent, like, has spent some time at the high school with people who were processing it. I think that's, excellent leadership and something that she should be committed for. Thank you. I did bring Penny with me. We had an extra dog on hand as well. And, I don't know.

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I'll just say there were there we had a maybe not the best response to a situation. I can't remember if the folks here are gonna help me with it though. Was it last fall or two falls ago? Two falls ago. It's two it wasn't last year, it was the year before. Yes. At White Hills when we had a Oh, yeah. Yeah. PA announcement from the high school that landed in White Hills. And, we and honestly, I mean, while we had some areas big areas to improve

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there, some of that learning definitely informed how I handled things this time. So, I think that, again, the learning that we'll take from here will help us inform will help inform our moves next time even better. I also wanna give a shout out to our administer our high school administration that were like angels in the halls on Tuesday. So thank you very much for your swift reactions as well. Yes. Thank you. As someone who doesn't have a high schooler yet, and kids who are in middle

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school and elementary, having that information confirmed, after, you know, the events, but still in a timely fashion was very much appreciated. The transparency and just the communication. So, I appreciate everyone that, you know, had to be put in this situation and you, you know, made sure all our students and staff and faculty were safe. So I appreciate it and thank you. Hopefully, we do not have to both do this again. Okay. Yeah. And I will once we have the, after action review, I'll I'll come back to

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another meeting and just share some of the outcomes with it so everyone's aware and and inform our our stakeholders as well through my report just of any, takeaways that we get from this review. I think it'll be really helpful. I think, you know, we were still kind of processing after Friday over the weekend and, you know, coming off of that incident Friday, and then Monday is our first day back and we're debriefing, talking about, you know, what to do differently, what went well, where were some areas of growth, and then to turn around again on Tuesday

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and and do it again in a different different type of setting, different time of day, different type of call. That one came directly to the office, whereas Fridays came through a nonemergency number that went to 911 dispatch. So just, I think we've learned a lot through these as well. I don't wanna ever have them just so we can learn, but we can't ignore what we are taking away from it and how we can make some improvements. And I think they'll be really helpful to inform our our updated EOP this summer

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that we'll work on as well. But, you know, it's something simple as typically we would plan for a communication point person. And then what we kinda realized in the moment was the high school was sending out communication, to high school families, keeping them informed, which is different communication that needs to watch the whole district. But because the response Friday was so heavy and so much of the community was aware of it because because they could hear it or see it or knew connected to it. Or if you drove by, you saw it.

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I mean, it was I don't know how many police vehicles, but a lot. And, and everything was blocked off and the perimeter of the site was secured. But, I don't know where I was going with that. But I just oh, so that I think we realized as we started communicating, we do need two layers, you know? And I I think when we're planning, we might be kind of thinking, okay. We need a communication point person. Well, that was great too. And then, like, one of the days, the person we'd used Friday was out on Tuesday. You know, we just had to switch it up.

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So thinking about making sure we go two to three people deep, you know. And then I also, you know, learn, that, like, I can do, bright arrow messages through an app on my phone, you know, and I didn't have that yet. We were still had been using laptops. So, you know, there were some absolutely some learning that took place that I don't think we probably would have in place had we just sat down to plan this. So not like there's a silver lining, but at least there are some some good takeaways from that that we can, take forward with us.

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It's also a good reminder to all of us that no two incidents, situations are ever the same and there's no one size fits all response. It's so many layers and so many people involved and everybody doing their best. Oh, and then last thing I have on here, thanks. Yeah. Just some important dates at the bottom. One more this year, Memorial Day, two weeks from tonight or two weeks from today. So there is not another board meeting in May. The next one isn't until June 8. Graduation at 07:30PM. That's a half hour time change, on June 4.

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And the last day of school, which is a half day for everyone in the district, is Friday, June 5. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments for the superintendent before we move on? Alright. Not hearing any, public comment. Do we have any public comment? Alright. Well, we're getting this, so I'll read our public comment. This is the opportunity to address the board. Speakers are to combine their remarks to five minutes. If a speaker requires more than five minutes after all other persons who have requested to speak during this time of the meeting have spoken, that speaker will be allowed

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additional time. The superintendent or other district staff may comment to clear up or avoid significant misunderstandings. And, we have Kathleen Brady on special education. Good evening. My name is Kathleen Brady. My son, Aiden, is a seven year old, nonverbal, first rate student in the classroom in the special education program at White Hills Elementary. Over the past few months, I have raised concerns about IEP implementation, staffing consistency, communication, behavior documentation, and support support needs.

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Recently, we finally had a more honest conversation during meetings with staff and administration. I truly appreciate that honesty. For the first time in a while, I left a meeting feeling cautiously hopeful that we may be moving in a better direction. But I also need to be honest as a parent. I still need to know that the situation is continuing to be looked into seriously and not simply treated as temporary fix or Band Aid over a larger concern. I still have questions about how things became this inconsistent, why communication and documentation broke down, what happened with staffing and implementation, and who was responsible for oversight, and what

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plans are being put in place to make sure this does not happen again. As we approach the end of the school year, I'd also like to make sure we are already planning for next year so these same concerns are not repeated. I appreciate the conversations that are finally happening, but truth is rebuilt through consistent action over time, not just one productive meeting. My goal is not blame. My goal is accountability, consistency, communication, and making sure students receive the supports they truly need. I wanna believe we are moving in the right direction, but I also need to

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I also need reassurance that the district is continuing to look closely into these concerns so that real and lasting improvements happen, not temporary ones. Thank you for listening, and especially thank you to the board members for continuing to listen to families on these concerns. Thank you. Any other board comments? We'll close, public comment, and we'll go to, any board discussion. Alright. Not hearing any. We'll move to our action items. Can I get a motion for the AM Intermediate School District twenty twenty six twenty seven proposal proposed general fund budget?

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I move that the Board of Education adopt the resolution in support of the proposed twenty twenty six-twenty seven and intermediate intermediate school district general fund budget as presented. Second. Moved by trustee Edsall, seconded by trustee Taika. Any, discussion on this? I think it was an item, so, information two weeks ago back in our board package. We discussed it at finance, today. Financial director did not have an issue with budget and neither did I. Alright. Let's, move to vote. All in favor?

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Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Can I get a motion for twice a doubt letter of agreement? I move that the Board of Education approve the letter of agreement between the district and the East Lansing Educational Association, ELEA, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFSCME, administrative assistance, and East Lansing Education Educational Support Personnel Association, ELESPA, paraprofessionals. Second. Moved by trustee Ferris Hyland, seconded by trustee Edsel.

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Any discussion on this? I'm hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Can I get a, motion on, equivalent payment to 27 l recommendations? I move that the Board of Education approve equivalent payments of $975 to 34 district employees who are not included in the 27 l educator compensation grant funds letter of agreement totaling 44,000 from general funds. Second. Moved by sec trustee Edsall, seconded by trustee Martin.

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Any discussion? I'm not hearing any. I don't know. I have one thing. Yes, please. Just for anybody who's thinking, $975 times 34 can't can't possibly equal 44,000. This does include FICA retirement, those other costs in it, which is why. So we just want to be clear that that's why it adds up to what it is. Which is also true in the motion we passed previously, correct, in the reward award for the other categories. Correct? Yes. Thank thank you for that question. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes.

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I get a motion for the McDonald Middle School Band and Orchestra day trip to Chicago, Illinois? I move the Board of Education approve the trip request for a May trip to Chicago with McDonald Middle School Band and Orchestra students submitted by mister Lars Lehr, mister Rosen, miss Rosin, mister Thornton, and, miss Piety. Second. Alright. And I believe we have miss Pays and mister Razan here. Do we have any questions for them, or would you like to give any information

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or say anything before we move to a boat? We we smooth we've moved to we used to do an overnight trip, Well, and I'd say, I my I have a sixth grader who's new to band, and he's

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already so jazzed about all the trips and things. Like, that's you know, he'll he'll do band for a hundred and eighty days out of the school year for, you know Well, then he he one day. We're not trying to keep people through the No. He No. He He's not trying to keep people through the No. He He's not trying to keep people through the He's not trying to keep He's not trying to keep people through the door. He's not gonna make money. But thank you for doing it. I know it's a tremendous amount of effort. So thank you. I do want to say I do have, a lot of graduates of class of 2020 and 2016 who also, Mr. Roslyn, was brave enough to take on those trips for a number of years and over. They speak very highly of those trips.

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One more so than the other, because the other one kind of forced to do it because her older sister did it. But, yes, those were great trips. And thank you for continuing to do that for so many years. So this would just this would be charter buses early in the morning, coming back later in the year. Coming back very late. Yes. I'm trying to do that. Everybody in this room, thanks you. Yes. Alright. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Alright, Camry. I get a motion for approval of contract, for miss Kristen Susty, East Lansing High

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School Dean of I move that the Board of Education approve the contract for miss Kristen Susty, East Lansing High School Dean of Student Success as presented. Second. Mhmm. Alright. Motion moved by First Island, seconded by trustee Ted Kratky. Any discussions? Alright. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. So I'm gonna introduce you. Kristen is here. Yes. If you'd like to come up to the podium and introduce yourself. Very short and sweet. I'm very excited to start next fall.

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I've been a social worker for the past few years, and so excited to be part of East Lansing High School. I worked in different places before, but this is a place, I think, that I wanna stay for a really long time. So I'm excited to move into a larger role, have a little bit bigger impact, work more with more students and more systems. So thank you so much. Thank you. I guess I should've said this earlier asked for discussion, but I wanna say that I had an opportunity to work with the sincerity, during my year on the Mental Health Advisory Committee and tireless doesn't begin to describe the work we've put into that

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and I know you're gonna bring that to your new role as well. So thank you. Alright. Can I get a, motion for approval of, contract for Lindsay Lanoweski from White Hills Elementary Principal? I move that the Board of Education approve the contract for Lindsay Lanowinski, White Hills Elementary Principal as presented. Second. Alright. Motion by, Tristy Takaki, seconded by I don't know who I heard. At least it was a Okay. Any, discussion? Alright.

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All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. And Good evening, everybody. That was impressive. I don't know that I've heard my last name pronounced correctly in the past decade, so thank you. You already know this. You have a nice, like, phonetic. Perfect. So thank you to the board. Thank you to, admin in the district. Thank you to the phenomenal teachers and the parent that was on the hiring committee.

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I feel extremely grateful to be here tonight. I'm really excited. Really, from my first conversation with superintendent Lyco, from the staff members that I've met, I've I could tell the E LPS really puts kids first, which resonates with me because that's kinda what's at the forefront of my mind is doing what's best for kids. That kind of dedication is exactly what drew me here. As I step into this rule, my first priority is gonna be to listen and to learn from the people who know White Hills best, the staff, the parents, the students, so we can keep moving forward together.

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So again, thank you for your trust and your support. I'm really looking forward to starting. Alright. We will okay. We'll move to our committee reports. Academic and tech, I know Tara is not here, but, Chris or Steph, if you had any any updates. We were there. It was a no. It was it was an interesting meeting. We also during, we also did a phone call during that meeting. That was Oh, yeah. It was on last Tuesday. Yeah. It was last Tuesday. We definitely were there. There was, you there was things you discussed.

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Yeah. So you didn't think Tara did prepare us us that she wasn't gonna be here. And then I'm sorry. Let me pull up my notes. I think she turned in the notes already. Okay. So don't worry about it. Alright. Or she will. We had we had report next week. We had we had a very good discussion of the ways that we're using technology in the district and areas that we wanna work on moving in to the end of this year and next year, ways we can support teachers, especially at McDonald Middle School so that, we're making the best possible use, in the classroom.

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Christian did a wonderful job of walking us through the Securely filter. Mhmm. I can't remember a lot of it because it was very technical, but there was a lot of time spent. And then I did yeah. Sorry. I didn't have the notes prepared because Terry didn't tell us that we were gonna present. But yeah. We were I just kinda put you on the spot, so don't worry. Sorry. Mark, I don't know if you had anything that you wanted to add or you could I mean, I don't know why I could possibly tap that. We'll get that. We'll get the note. That's his way of saying. He does. I was there too, but, you know No.

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I left halfway through it. Yeah. Alright. We will move to facilities committee. No report. Moving on. Finance committee. Trustee Anderson. So we had three items on our, our finance agenda today, and two of them were action items. The, the ISB, budget and well, actually three of them, the 27 l letter of agreement and the equivalent payment for twenty seven l. And then the third was the almost last final look at the twenty five-twenty six

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budget, and the big plus out of that is it looks like the draw from fund balance won't be quite as large as originally anticipated. Don't have a final number yet, but hopefully by the next next meeting. I'll also just add so that folks know I should've or could've mentioned earlier that the 27 l payments will be, coming out on Friday, May 22. So it's about it's not this Friday, but next Friday on an off pay. So all the teachers that were waiting to hear that you can come back. Right. I know. Might as well tell you. I know.

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Might as well tell you. Yes. Those will be coming out a week from Friday. Thank you. Intergovernmental relations, trustee Torres. Nothing to report. Personnel committee, trustee Martin? No report. Policy committee, trustee Hansel? No report. We meet on the eighteenth at 01:00 in this room. And Trustee Takaki, I. We met last Wednesday, the morning after the bond proposal passed, so the mood was light and heavy. We've got a real deep dive rundown into the budget that we just, gave our support to, and that was it.

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K. Alright. So our announcements for the next regular scheduled meeting of the Board of Education is 06/08/2026, so no other meeting in May. We'll see you in June. Any other announcements? Alright. We will adjourn at 07:50. Thank you all.