meeting of the board of education for Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. [laughter] >> This meeting is now called to order. >> Okay, we have a roll call, please. >> Yes. Miss Smith, >> here. >> Mr. Rento, >> here.
>> Miss Hinrich, >> here. >> Mr. Walker, >> I'm here. >> Are you okay? >> I'm fine. Mr. Hall >> present. >> Uh I myself am here. Miss >> I am present as well. >> Wonderful. >> Uh we will now stand for the pledge of allegiance.
>> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. [clears throat]
Is there a motion to approve the agenda? Mrs. Hinri, >> I move to approve the agenda for the regular board of education meeting Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 as presented. >> Support. >> Motion made by Mrs. Hinrich, supported
by Mr. Walker to approve the agenda. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion passes. We will now move to announcements. [clears throat] First, um it's been a
minute since we all met. Uh just want to bring attention to a few things. There have been a couple of parent ambassador meetings. Uh really uh encouraged by those. The last one was just last night uh and got a lot of really good feedback from some parents. So, thank you to
those parents who are participating there and providing us with feedback. [clears throat] Um, I know that there is a um there are two board members who are hosting a a coffee and conversation to collect feedback from the community.
It's being planned for Saturday, April 11th from 9 to 10 at the Blue Hat Coffee. I just wanted to mention that those are not board events. However, uh board members are interested in collecting feedback. There may be more than one or two board members there to
collect that feedback. I think there are some parents here who attended the last one. Um those again are hosted by board members um on their own uh and not by the board of education. Uh but again, we are always interested in receiving uh
feedback from folks. Uh March was reading month and many of us have had an opportunity to read uh to class me uh classes. Um the kindergarten classes are my favorite. Um a little biased but uh that was really really nice. And so thank you to board members who had an
opportunity to do that. I know the visions talent show was a couple weeks ago and I heard that that was a blast. It usually is um amazing. So thank you to board members who were able to attend that. Uh the rise and thrive awards were
just a few weeks ago as well. Wonderful opportunity to recognize students who have uh made some really great choices uh and uh are are pursuing really great things. Uh it's really good always to uh see them acknowledged and uh rewarded
for those efforts. Um I also wanted to shout out the math club at Steam for a few accomplishments. a parent reached out and let me know that there are two um high school students who have been coaching the math club at Steam every Friday. Thank you to those students who
have been doing that. Uh several students represented the Steam Academy uh at the math counts. It's a Detroit Metro chapter on uh in February and won fourth place. And two students went on to the state competition held at Grand
Valley State University on March 14th. And the coaches received a coach award for mentoring an award-winning team. So wanted to congratulate both the students at far north Farmington who are coaching and also uh the team at uh Steam. And
with that we can move on to public comment. We have [clears throat] two opportunities for public comment. Uh but you only have one opportunity to make the public comment. We provide two options so that people who get here early can get in and should they wish to get out, they can do so. Uh and for
those who uh couldn't make it to the beginning of the meeting, they can make their public comment a little bit later. We have several here. So I'm going to start with uh Rachel Taylor. And just as a um >> Okay. Uh yeah. Yeah. Sorry, caught off
guard. Yeah, didn't hear expect to hear your name first. Um so yeah, during [laughter] during public comment, um we ask that you address the board. Uh you will get three minutes to provide your public comment. Usually board members do not respond. Um on occasion, we might if
there's some followup necessary, but uh just know that this is not the opportunity for a two-way dialogue. gets more for us to hear from you and then uh if there is followup required someone will follow up with you uh after the meeting. [clears throat] Uh after Rachel
Taylor we will have Jennifer Dawson and uh if your public comment relates to a particular person or a child please give some thought to whether anonymity would be more appropriate uh where it would be more appropriate to not reference a uh student's name. Okay.
>> Thank you. Welcome. >> Thank you. Um, I'm [clears throat] here tonight to express my concerns about the current third grade classroom structure at Forest Elementary. While I understand the intention of the team teaching setup may be to maximize resources, we cannot
ignore the very real impact this model has, currently has, and will have on our students learning, safety, and well-being. First, the sheer number of students, which is around 60 children with just two teachers, is deeply troubling. That's not a classroom. That's a crowd. Even the most skilled
educators cannot realistically provide meaningful individualized attention in that environment. Students are far more likely to fall through the cracks, especially those who need extra support. At the same time, students who are above grade level, those who may be quiet,
compliant, and follow the rules, are often overlooked because they're not demanding immediate attention. These students may appear to be doing fine in a group this large, but without appropriate challenge and engagement, they can stagnate academically. Small [clears throat] group instruction may
occur in this setting at a ratio of 15 to1. But for many students, whether they are struggling or advanced, that level of attention is simply insufficient. Likewise, when there simply aren't enough adults to engage students directly, technology may fill that gap and can create an overreiance on their
devices that can hinder social development, reduce engagement, and negatively affect both physical and mental health. Beyond academics, we need to look at the health, safety, and security of these students. Even under normal conditions, overcrowding increases stress, noise
levels, and the potential for conflict. Even more so for students who are neurode divergent. Many of these students thrive in structured, calm environments with clear support. A large busy classroom can be overwhelming and may lead to increased behavior
challenges and mental health issues. Not because of the student, but because the environment is simply not meeting their needs. This puts additional strain on both the students and teachers and disrupts learning for everyone. There's also some concern regarding the MUI grant funds that are being received.
The concern is simply that the funding is the driving force beyond behind this classroom setup. Are we really putting money ahead of our students interest and needs? Ultimately, we want what's best for our children. This model as it stands does
not set them or our teachers up for success. I urge the district to reconsider and prioritize classroom environments that are safe, supportive, and truly centered on the needs of every student. I would like to add that I am a current third grade parent at Forest.
>> Thank you. >> Hi. >> Hi. Uh before you start, I'm just going to announce the next person. We have Jennifer Dawson followed by Charlie Gerulnik. >> Got it right this time. >> Hi.
>> Hi. Good evening. Thank you for uh giving me the opportunity to speak tonight. I am also a proud Forest parent and the parent of a child who will be entering the third grade in the fall. I love our school and I love our community and that is why I feel it's really
important to share my concerns regarding the third grade classroom at Forest. Over the past several months, we have talked with either parents that have had a child go through this classroom. I have talked with parents clearly that have kids in the third grade right now
or parents such as myself who whose child will be at forest in the fall for third grade. What I'm hearing so far about this classroom, I have a lot of concerns and it's really disheartening. I want to be clear with the board that this is not about the team teaching
model. I'm fully supportive of that. We see it working really successfully in the fourth and fifth grade classrooms there at Forest. This is not about the third grade teachers. I hear they are amazing and they're great educators. The concern is the classroom size. Right now
there are roughly 60 students in a classroom with two teachers. Right now the current second grade class has um three class sizes with three teachers. I'm as research knows as re research shows consistently smaller classroom
sizes allow for more individualized attention and better outcomes for students. So, I'm having a really hard time understanding why we're moving in the opposite direction for third grade when it is such a pivotal year for those students. It's when students transition
from learning to read to reading to learn. It's when foundational skills really take hold and when gaps can begin to widen if students don't get the attention they need. Some of the concerns we've heard from the parents clearly the noise level. With that many kids in a classroom, there's elevated
ceilings and kids are having a really hard time focusing and learning in that environment. It's my understanding there's no assigned seating in that classroom. Kids are on bean bags. Kids are sitting on the floors. Kids are fighting for a seat to the point where
there have been uh physical altercations between students regarding seats or also [clears throat] students having anxiety causing them anxiety not wanting to leave the classroom because they will lose that seat. To me, that is the problem. I know there are families who have already left Forest because of this
classroom and there are other families considering leaving Forest because of this. It's heartbreaking and I don't want that for our community. I fully support staff retention and creating a positive environment for educators, but above all and most importantly, I want to ensure that our children are
receiving the attention, support, and quality education they deserve in a setting that allows them to thrive. This isn't just about class size. It's about whether or not our children are truly being set up to succeed. And right now, I don't believe that they are. Thank you
for your time. >> Thank you. Next is Charlie Gerulnik followed by Sha Shapiro. [clears throat] >> Hello everyone. My name is Charlie Guerrnik and I'm here tonight as a representative with the local high
school robotics team, the Hackbots. Um it has been a very exciting couple of weeks. Um we've completed two district competitions and we've done extremely well at both of them. I'm going to start with Jackson. Three weeks ago, we competed at Columbia Central High School
in Jackson. Uh, and I'm proud to say that the Hackbots won the entire event. Um, [applause] we are [cheering] the first pick of the First Alliance and we went undefeated all the way through playoffs. Um, I'm
also proud to announce that we won the engineering inspiration award for our work within the school district and the community um in terms of STEM advocacy and engineering and innovation. Um, last week we competed at Churchill High
School in Leavonia. We did very well there as well. Um becoming a finalist um being the first pick of the first or of the second alliance. Um as well as winning the engineering excellence award for our robots design and creativity. Um
I'm also very happy to announce that I won the first leadership award um for my leadership within the team and the community. Um, I'm very proud to say that I'm the first Hackbot in the history of the team to win this award and I'm very excited for where our team
is going to go. Um, I'm also proud to say that we did qualify for the state championship next week in at Sagena. Um, and as my friend Braxton will tell you about, we're doing lots to prepare for that and I hope to see you all there.
Thank you. [applause] >> [applause] >> Uh, next we'll have uh Sean Shapiro followed by Bill Loveway. First off, Charlie was very smooth up here and I'm really nervous. So, that's really Well done. Well done. Well done,
Charlie. Um, I'm not I don't have a big spiel. Um, Dr. Dr. Coffin gave a really had a chat at Forest a month ago and this is also about the third grade cast classroom. Um really following up for what Rachel and Jenny spoke about. It's we had that meeting and again I really
appreciated the opportunity for the feedback and we had a lot of back and forth then and I know when that meeting ended one of the big kind of notes and takeaways were hey we're listening we're going to take all this into account and we're going to look into things and not going to use all your time today but
basically my it was important for me to be here today because a lot of times someone shows up and they talk and everything like that and then the next meeting they're not there so it was important for me to be here just vote with your repeat whatever word you want to use that this is still very important to me and many people within the
community of students at Forest and want to make sure that the feedback continues to be a point that the school board continues to follow up on and that the concerns are heard. So really if if need anything more please relisten to what
Rachel and Jenny said because those two things are I reiterate all of that. So thank you very much. Thank you, Bill Lubaway followed by Teresa Toth. >> Good evening again. Uh I have a half an hour presentation here. Uh so I'd like
to go through my outline. I because we wouldn't get through all of it. I did handouts. And so the first handout is I never understood why you guys do we do rotten on MSTEP just like everybody else in the state of Michigan.
And I finally occurred to me that it's probably because you teach using the NWA map and their fancy charts and everything and you don't make a connection between the content of what's in that and what the state is asking in
its accountability for MSTEP. Uh the second thing I have is you'll have a green book ahead of you. Those are my expectations. Uh I'm making sure that this gets distributed to others besides the school board here. Uh and I
I've done a pretty good job, I think, of getting that out and I'm going to distribute more. But it's going to be my expectations. One of the expectations in this is that we actually set a
literacy proficiency budget. Something that we haven't done before. And as a matter of fact, we've been well, we haven't done it. We should do it. It's plenty of time. The state's 44th in the country in terms of reading
prof or educational proficiency. And I think uh this gets at some of the issues. It would be nice to be able to discuss those. So with the budget uh I thought we need a a proper budget hearing, not the uh twominut uh you got
any questions at the board meeting. Uh and I'd like to see the budget MSTEP score in there. Uh, I'd like to distribute I'd like to see the budget details ahead of the uh uh the board meeting when they approve the budget and
uh explanations instead of pie charts which is what this other chart is. Uh explain stuff to us instead of just holding up pictures. Hold a real budget hearing with dialogue like you are doing with capital. You're actually meeting
with groups of people to discuss the capital and I haven't heard of a public meeting that you've had that discussed our abysmal literacy performance. Have you done it? Did I miss him?
And uh I I would like to have in the good old days I actually attended a budget meeting ahead of the presentation to the board and that was with the superintendent and finance staff to actually discuss stuff instead of waged
at us. >> Thank you. Uh Teresa Toth followed by Braxton Channy. >> Hi guys. Thanks so much for having us today. Um, I'm also a force elementary parent here to express my concerns for
that third grade classroom. Uh, my fellow parents here did a really nice job explaining what those concerns are. It's it's the class size. We love our school. We love our team. We love our admin there. I have felt nothing but supported by them. Um, I think the only piece that I really want to add there,
one of my questions to our principal was, "Show me the research. Show me the data that says this is a better model. this is how our kids are going to learn. All of the research, all of the data that I was provided was on teacher retention that this model is to support
teacher retention and by all means that is very very important. But is it more important than the cost of our children learning? Is it more important than their mental health? For some students, their physical health sitting on a floor all day long is not healthy for a
student. Um, so really just adding to that point of where's the data, right? I know education is a a lot about data. Where's the data saying that this model is the best model out there for our students? Um, and then I want to parrot
what Sean said of communication. What what is the dialogue happening? um what is happening in these leadership positions of is this really the right model that we should continue to move forward with to allow parents to make the best decisions for their children. I
have a child with ADHD at home. She's not going to thrive in a classroom of 60. I need to make the best decisions for my kids, but I can't do that in September. I need to be doing that now. Um so I I ask that that communication
starts to happen. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Uh and Braxton Channy is the last public comment card I have for the first public comment card period. If there's anyone who wishes to make public comment during this public
comment period, please uh fill out a card and uh drop it in the box next to Miss Colleen scripture. [clears throat] Welcome. >> Hello. Uh hi, my name is Braxton Chang. I'm also part of the 3414 Hackbots. uh
the team at Farmington High School. And yeah, like Charlie said, we just came back from our second comp at Leavonia. Did very well there. Same with Jackson. And we're trying to see how make it our way to states and and hopefully worlds after that. Um, a couple things that we
need to do with our robot to make some make some changes that might help us get to the state level is we need to make some changes mechanically with our robot, especially our indexing method. Um, at Leavonia, we noticed that we weren't getting good enough throughput
with our with the balls, which is the game pieces. And while everything else in our robot was t was doing very well and um actually it was getting slowed down by our indexing method. So we got to try to figure out something where we can change that. Another thing that we
could do electrically is our robot is um very power hungry. So our robot when it's going on the field doing its thing, it typically likes to brown out, which is basically eat or take so much energy
in that the battery can't really sustain it and it kind of slows down, makes things sluggish. So we need to try to figure out a solution for that outside of the actual robot and actually some somewhat a strategy. Uh our strategy leads have been working very hard trying
to make new um autonomous periods um autonomous running period section things like that for so that um we could be able to uh perform better at states and maybe take it up take it up a step from
our district competitions. Um, other than that, we just got to keep waiting and um, hopefully you guys can catch us at states. You can also watch it online also. >> Thank you. >> Is the states this weekend?
>> It's next weekend. >> Thank you, Braxton. We appreciate you. Um, congratulations to the Hackbox team. You guys are doing a great job. >> Uh, I have one more announcement to make about uh, The Little Mermaid. Um it is
playing on April 16th, 17th, and 18th at 8:00 PM at Farmington High School. So, um I'm a big fan of our music department, our arts department, our plays. If you have
not been to a show um at either the uh middle school or the high school, you are missing out. I would highly suggest that you make these um again April 16th, 17th, and 18th um at 7 p.m. Tickets are
$5 for those five and under and $12 for students and $15 for adults. That ends public comment. Uh let me just check one more time. Any further public comment? All right, seeing none, we're going to move on to our next item uh on
the agenda, which is items from the secretary. Sorry. Uh, the board has received communications regarding the Farmington High School IB Castle newsletter, the March 2026 edition, the custodial staff appreciation, coffee and conversation
followup, graduation requirements, uh, Farmington Steam Academy math counts team recognition, tornado drills, uh, and the Mississippi miracle from the Meno Center stood. The board acknowledges all communications and responds as appropriate. A list of
correspondents is included in the board packet which is available on the Farmington Public Schools website. >> Thank you. Uh next is the legislative update. >> Uh yeah, the um the House and Senate are on spring break and they are expected to return on April 14th. So there's not
much to report. So >> thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Reninto. And now we'll move on to district updates. Dr. Coffin. >> Uh yes. Thank you, President Williams. It's so good to see everyone here uh back at the table. Uh I want to also
welcome everyone back from spring break. I hope uh all of our uh families had a restful week surrounded by their friends and family. Um as we head into the final stretch of the school year, I want to share how much I appreciate the dedication of our staff, our students,
and our families. This is always a high energy, busy season and it is teamwork that ensures that we keep providing the meaningful learning and and experiences and support right up to the last day of school. It also has been a busy few weeks since we last me met as uh
President Williams alluded to uh and I've had many fantastic opportunities to connect with our community. One of the highlights was sitting down with our teacher cadetses. Seeing our own students prepare to become the next generation of educators is such a
powerful reminder of our why. Along those same lines, I joined our high school principles for another student roundt. The students shared insights on how we can continue to reimagine high school the high school experience to better fit their needs. I also spent
time uh as many of our board members did uh with younger learners serving as guest readers in several of our elementary classrooms and at the latest FAPEN event that was structured around supporting supporting the joy of reading. And today I enjoyed our last of
this school year, the lunch and learn with our Longacre friends uh with stu with the students there. Their candid and informal conversations are always a highlight providing such a refreshing perspective on our schools uh and more than something you can just get from a
board report. Thank you for to the entire board because each and every one of you have spent time spending uh time in these conversations with our students this school year. I also participated in a superintendent focus group that provided feedback on regional solutions
to best support our student schools and the wider uh community. Prior to this meeting, uh the board heard information on the status of our 10-year facilities and programming plan that is now coming. We're wrapping up all of the information gathering. This
consists of feedback from our stakeholders that will inform our work for decades to come. We have another opportunity for community feedback for the future of FPS this Thursday from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. right here in this boardroom. All are welcome to attend and
share their thoughts and their ideas. This past Saturday, we did hear from our robotics team. Uh it was really great. I was able to be there for uh some of their competitions. The best part for me too was chatting with the students and the staff who support the Hackbots. Beyond the
impressive work you guys do with the robots, what really struck me was hearing about the lasting impact that this experience has and continues to have on their postsecondary career paths. It's a perfect example of the
kind of meaningful learning that we strive for. Speaking of meaningful learning, I now want to call up to the podium principal Crystal Ballard um to share a recent recognition for our amazing North
Farmington High School students. >> Good evening. Thank you for having me. I am Crystal Ballard. have the pleasure of thinking strategically and moving barriers and hurdles so that my teachers have the opportunity to make sure that
our students thrive. And um two staff members who are incredible teachers at North Farmington High School um are here this evening. Um and I just want to speak a little bit about them um before I get into recognizing our students. Um
when I became the principal in December, they were uh two of the teachers that met with me and it was clear that they were passionate about the experiences that our students are having. They talked about um wanting to bring more culture and community to our school. It is not uncommon for them to go out of their way to seek different types of
conferences to learn more about ways to engage the students of today and not using the same strategies that we did for students back in the '9s. It is not uncommon to see them welcoming students, giving them kind words and smiles and fist bumps um and Hershey's kisses in
the morning and taking opportunities to have dance breaks during the day and creating opportunities through our pep assemblies where our students are engaged and celebrating and they're constantly trying to figure out how do we do more? How do we do more? How do we get our students involved? How do we
make this fun? How do we create opportunities for our staff to thrive and love our students in a way that is very supportive? So, I'm very grateful to have the opportunity to work with them. Um, they work very hard, needless to say. Uh, they are Wendy Marshik and
Kim Sharplin who are here. Uh, they are the Senate adviserss. So, in addition to their responsibilities during the day, they're also meeting with our students at 7 a.m. planning and doing all of this engagement to make sure that we have meaningful opportunities for not just
the students that are part of our our senate, but our entire student body and our staff. Um, so would you all like to come up and recognize our students? >> Thank you, Wendy and Kim. >> [laughter] >> So, as stated, we have a number of students um that were recognized at a
recent conference and Wendy and Kim will identify those students. Um every year the student senate attends the state conference. It's an opportunity for students all over the state to come together um and share leadership ideas, share fundraising uh school spirit ideas
um with colleagues of theirs from all over. Um the conference regularly brings in about 2,000 students every year. Um we had several of our students recognized for individual awards um including Leah Sowski who won the um was nominated for
the student of the year. Lucian Ruskin who was nominated as a um unsung hero. We have um a variety of other students. Um Wendy Marshik was nominated as adviser of the year. Um, [clears throat]
we had students that presented a showcase. So, they presented their ideas to other students um around the memorial tree that we had planted at North Farmington. Um, we also had students present another showcase that did not move on to states.
Um, and we had Mallalerie Duvio do a um TED talk style um presentation on um her friend who passed away at North Farmington last year. It it was beautiful. Um only seven students in the entire state move on to
the state competition for that. So we were very very proud of her. Um in addition to that um a variety of students. So Leah Lucian, Laya Bohanan, Christian Greery, Mallerie, Victoria Sharplin, Jonas Samino, and Wayan Kennedy were part of a group that
applied to win um the what is it? The moment one, which one is it? Wait, what is >> exceptional service? >> The exceptional service. Thank you. The exceptional service award. And um we were about one of 20 students in the state that were awarded that. Um these kids worked very hard on the
presentation. Um, it was pictures, it was describing the purpose and things behind that award. Um, and they they did win that. We encourage you to please stop by North Farmington. We put up a showcase that has our little award in it. Um, in addition, we also had three students interview for the state student
senate, the board of delegates. Um, Victoria Sharplin, Daniel, I'm gonna say his name wrong. >> Gretchen. >> Gretchen Prov and Skyler Smith. >> Skyler Smith. Um, and that is the first time we only had freshman apply this year. And so we're very hopeful that we
will get a a freshman on our >> state and we have Elena Rino who is currently on our state student board. So I'm sorry. [laughter] >> U this is the first year that we received a lot of awards. So the kids worked really hard. Um, and like
Principal Ballard said, we are trying to change the culture, trying to get rid of some of those ideas. So, we did have a lot more students come forward and a lot of our freshmen. So, we're excited about them and hopefully one or two or all of them will make the board of delegates. >> She's just here.
>> As you can see, they are very passionate and constantly doing more to improve the school culture. Um, as stated, please stop by. There are amazing things happening every day at North Farmington High School. Our teachers are amazing and our students are amazing as well. Thank you for having us.
>> Oh, and any any if you ever want to do we call them motivational mornings. Um if you would ever like to participate, if you would ever like to participate with us, please let us know. Um we've handed out stickers, candy, candy canes, um and pencils just welcoming kids to
our school so that everybody walking into our building gets seen and recognized that day. >> That's awesome. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Thank you, uh, Principal Ballard and
North Farmington High staff. I really appreciate that. The board will be asked later on in the meeting to approve a re a resolution recognizing, uh, the exceptional service project award. And uh just so the board is aware, this recognition places North Farmington High
School among the top student leadership programs in the state. So uh just simply impressed with everything that our students and our staff are able to do. >> May I ask what was the project? >> Um so our project um unfortunately North
has experienced a lot of loss in the past four years. We've had for three years, four students over three years um tragically have lost their lives out of our building. Uh and we wanted to have a concrete way for students and families to recognize those students as always a
raider. So we um purchased and planted a tree in the back out by our tennis courts. We contacted the families of students that we had lost um and staff that we had lost and invited them to paint a stone in honor of their loved
one. Um we held a small ceremony and the families were all able to place their stones around the tree. Um we also we won a grant from Harington Foundation. Um and so we will also be cursed in the bench >> um to sit back there um as a way to
recognize that you know the all the >> and where the tree is I attended that ceremony and it was very touching. Um where that tree is is in right behind the student parking lot so that when the
students do come up there is a memory of them there. It's beautiful. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. That's all I have this even. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Coffin. Um we will now move to reports
from board committees. Mrs. Heinrich. >> Yes. Um the finance and facilities committee meeting met Monday, April 6 at 2:00. Myself, Dr. Blau, and um Mr. Hall were present along with various board
members. Um I want to compliment Jennifer Kaminsky in her office. Um she put together a budget to actual report that she shares on a regular basis and it's just another way of um checks and balances monitoring expenses on the
budget um as we go through the year. So she shared that with the finance committee and um later on in the agenda there's a review of the um 2026 27 budget parameters and
assumptions. And so we were able to preview that and give our input um and um make some suggestions of um pres or what things we thought that the the rest of the board would like to hear. And um
that was pretty much it. And I just want to reiterate that these finance and facilities committee meetings um we don't make any highle decisions. We just preview the information that is shared with the whole board. And so all of the
things that are discussed at the prime at the finance committee meeting are brought to the full board for discussion. And so we just provide input before it comes to the board. Um and that was it. Thank you. Thank you for that reminder as well, Mrs. Heinrich. I
appreciate that very much. Um, we will now move to discussion items. The first one relates to uh a review for a technology per uh purchase. Dr. Coffin. >> Yep. So, I'd like to welcome Mr. West Prescott, uh, director of technology to the podium to share information on the
requested firewall upgrade. >> Good evening. Uh, [clears throat] we have before you a recommendation for a new district firewall. Uh firewall is a piece of equipment that uh essentially protects us from unwanted traffic
getting into our network and keeps everybody inside protected. Uh our existing firewall is 5 years old and has reached um the end of its useful life and it's undersized for what our current needs are. Uh so if approved, we would
purchase uh a new firewall from Delta Network Services uh with 5 years of licensing in the amount of $125,333.74. And that is excuse [clears throat] me that is uh planned for in our 2020 bond. Uh it a portion of it is eligible. The
-ate rules work a little bit different on a firewall than they do on other devices. There's about 25% of it that is rate eligible. Are there any questions? Mrs. Smith, thank you for your presentation although it was brief. Um, thank you. You've been
here since three. Um, this is for 5 years, correct? >> Correct. >> And then you will come back in 5 years. I won't be here, but you will be coming back in 5 years. Correct. >> Correct. >> With another update. And
>> Yes. >> And redoing. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. You're welcome, >> Mrs. Henry. >> So, is this for the next school year or will this be installed this school year? >> Uh, it will be installed after July 1st. >> After July 1st. Okay. And because I have a question
>> or at at or around July 1st. Our licensing on our current uh firewall expires on July 1st. >> So, is this something that protects us from like cyber attacks? And is it also something that protects students from
going out to inappropriate? >> Yes, it it is one tool that does that. We have other tools that do that. Its main purpose is to um prevent unwanted traffic from getting into our network and directing the traffic that is leaving our network to the appropriate
places. >> So, and and I have a question because everybody has their their Chromebooks or their devices and then they take home >> Yep. with them. So, when they take their Chromebooks at home, does the firewall protection extend to where they're using
it at home or do their parents have to have their own protection? >> Uh, so typically your home network, whatever provider you have, has those protections built into the equipment that you have in your house. Um, we do have filtering software on all of our student devices that filter them whether
they're in district or out of district. >> Okay. So can the students theoretically like bring something from home into the district and will the fire law protect? >> They cannot. >> Okay. >> They cannot print they cannot bring something from home to the district.
>> Bring I I mean when I when I say bring something from home like bring a threat or a >> oh um >> or something like that something inappropriate on their computer that can get into the districts or does the firewall protect that? So the firewall doesn't protect that when they're at
home. We have software and services on their devices that prevent that from happening when they're outside of our network. >> All right. Thank you. >> Mhm. >> Yes. >> Just curious, you know, offhand how many attacks you have per day, per week. I know I've been at places where there's
thousands a day that are trying to attempt to >> We I don't have those statistics. We don't have a lot. A lot of ours are mitigated at the ISD level. That's right. So we have um at Oakland schools we have DOS mitigation um on our network
there. So when if we do get an attack they get well one it gets mitigated within I think it's 2 to 3 minutes um and remediated within about 10 and we we do have alternate connections so if we do experience a DOS attack we can move
those that are being affected to uh a different connection. >> Mr. Paul >> with the uh firewall. I know it's a um a device, but also it has uh software updates to um to better um keep up with
the attacks and everything. So the firewall is normally a a one-way street pretty much in which that the um information getting into the system. Correct. So, think of it as uh kind of a
gatekeeper or a I guess a a traffic cop um so to speak. So, it's it's telling, you know, if if a request is made from the outside trying to get in, it says, "Okay, is this legitimate? Can this come in?" Yes. Okay. It passes it to where it needs to go. If you're sitting, you
know, at your device and you try to go to google.com, excuse me, [snorts] the firewall is the the last thing that you hit before you leave our network and it says, "Okay, is this allowed and where should it go?" If you tried to get to an inappropriate site, the firewall is going to say,
"Nope, you shouldn't be there." And you're going to get a message that this has been blocked by the firewall as and it'll give a category, whatever that may be. Now are the uh firewall for the students are there uh are they protected from going on certain um I would say
like a roadblocks or a a a type of um system a group play in which that other people can communicate with these kids or is that blocked or or is it >> so so there are the firewall blocks things by categories typically. So if
there is a Roblox for example um would be a game. So if we have games blocked on the firewall, Roblox is blocked. If Roblox a lot of times uh sites won't be categorized correctly necessarily on the
firewall. So if there is something that's not categorized correctly, we either recategorize it or we can block that specifically. >> Mrs. So if you have an older student
>> at home, not a Farmington Public student >> Mhm. >> like a college student >> that is in it. >> Mhm. and they need and the younger student wants to take the Chromebook or whatever home,
can that older student or child break that >> no >> firewall to get in so that the other, you know, like a fire stick or something like Okay. >> No. >> So, our devices that the students take home can only be logged into with a farming with an FPS account.
>> Okay, good to know. Uh I had a lot of similar questions. Um one was how what is the life of a firewall? Sounds like it's five years. Um some other questions uh like whether we're talking about a
hardware or software firewall. I I don't know whether that so it's both. The the firewall itself is an appliance. That's about 10% of the cost that we're talking about here. The software is really the the most expensive portion of
it. So the software I think for our firewall last year I I'm not going to give you a definite number but it was about I think 20 right around 20,000 for just for licensing. >> Okay. Um I given the questions that I'm hearing from board members I I think it
might be a good idea for us to have a conversation about security and safety at a future meeting. Um and uh uh I think that might uh spur some additional questions. So um we can get you more detail on maybe what the board members are might be interested in at a later
date. Thank you guys for the questions. Mrs. Hinrich. >> No, I mean just the way technology everything [clears throat] is changing. I mean is 5 years too long of a window? I mean is it something that should be reviewed every year >> for the firewall? No. So the firewall
this is a new newer model. Um the one that we have now is we could probably get another year out of it with licensing, but again the licensing is about 20 to $25,000 a year. Um this one is a a larger device that will allow for
more through more internet traffic, I guess. So more throughput. Um so it's right sized for the size of the district. So we're not going to the firewall, like I said, is the the last thing that you hit when you leave and the first thing that you hit when you come into the network. and all of the
traffic is that's the choke point I guess for so if you have a firewall that's unders sized your traffic not all of your traffic is going to get out as quickly as it should and there's not all the traffic that's gets in will get in as quickly as it
should and you'll drop connections and you'll think oh I don't have internet and then it'll come back and we've experienced that before but we do have 5 years is a good we will get updates and anything that we need in that 5year period, >> right? My understanding is that the
software updates will account for some of the changes in technology during that 5year period of time. >> Yes. Okay. All right. And Oakland schools provides a manpower to monitor this. >> Say that again. I'm sorry. >> I said Oakland schools provides a man I mean because you know the firewall you have to have trained people to
administer it. >> Yes, we have a team. >> So that's all through Oakland schools. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. Our entire tech department is through Oakland schools. There's this house with us. Yeah. And if you guys would like to have a cyber security discussion, I would love it. >> Yeah. So, I I think we w will I'll take
this back and hear from board members exactly what they're interested in hearing about. But I get the sense that it would it it's a good time to understand what's going on in this area given the increased activity uh and um risk in this area. So, thank you for that.
>> Yeah, you're welcome. >> Okay. I don't see any further questions. So, thank you for this presentation. >> You're welcome. Thank you. Uh, I think we're ready to move into the 2627 budget development. >> Yes. So, uh, I'd like to welcome Miss Jennifer Kaminsky, assistant superintendent for business services, to
the podium to provide a review of the 2627 budget development timeline along with parameters and assumptions. All right. Good evening. It's hard to believe it is already uh the beginning of April and we are
talking about next year's budget already. We are in the last quarter of our current fiscal year 2526 and here we go talking about 2627. So I wanted to start off with our blueprint just to keep this at the
forefront. Um and this is really our design for um everything we do around that student experience. So, our vision and mission, our lifelong our our profile of a lifelong learner, um along
with community input, and then you can see all of those school system and elements of which budget and operations is one of those. And we're really, you know, one of the the pieces behind everything that touches all areas within the district, including supporting that
student experience in the learning environment. So, the budget timeline uh 42627. Um so, later this evening, and I'll uh bring this up again as we finish up this
presentation. Um this evening, we're asking the board to approve a resolution to conduct the public hearing on the budget. Um and uh on that our public hearing will be on June
2nd, excuse me. Um so also this evening we're reviewing the assumptions and parameters for the 2627 budget. Uh we'll have that budget document available on Thursday, May 28th for the board of education to review.
will conduct the public hearing as well as review the tax levies um and essentially discuss the proposed budget with the board of education on June 2nd, 2026. And then we'll ask the board to approve
the budget for 2627 as well as set the 2026 tax levies on June 16th. And this is so that we have our budget in place by July 1st um which starts our
our operating year. So our per pupil foundation allowance and I'm going to talk a little bit about our 2526 budget and what things look like um on on that end. But just to start off, our per pupil foundation allowance is the
largest funding mechanism uh within our budget and it's made up of several different portions. Um we collect property taxes. So 18 mills on our nonhomestead properties, those are our
businesses and that's just over $3,600 per pupil. We also collect through that hold harmless millillage 1,876 and those are on our homestead properties.
Uh we then receive the the balance through state aid and there's two pieces uh that I want to highlight for state aid. So you can see the larger portion is $6,300
and we also have a 20M and that is $103 per pupil. And so last year even though that state provided that uh significant foundation allowance increase of $452 holdarmless districts were limited in
the amount that could actually go into their foundation allowance. So, it was put into a separate categorical and I really just highlight this. Um, some of you may remember we had 20J funds. They were a separate categorical item and those are the first things that are
eliminated when the state runs into uh budget troubles. And so, um, obviously with it not being a part of our total foundation, um, we just are very cautious and I wanted to make everyone aware of that.
So some of our largest sources of general fund revenues. So obviously 60% comes through the state uh in the largest items are foundation allowance, those categorical revenues such as the
uh retirement funding, grants, uh special education funding. The next largest item is 29% of local revenues. And that's really the property taxes that we collect, interest, Medicaid, as
well as some preschool tuition. And the next largest is inner district, and that's about 8% and that's that PA18 special education funding that comes uh through from Oakland schools.
So the last largest piece is uh federal uh sources and so I wanted to just highlight some of the bigger grants um that we currently receive. So our idea special education funding about 2.6
million we receive about a million in title one and then title 2 three and four uh is about 600,000. Again, currently we are um in the final
year of this filter first grant uh to update some of our um water uh fountains and then Head Start funding. And so I have an X through that uh the Head Start
that will go away on July 1st. Um, and I believe we did communicate that with the board of education through a board brief. And that's really due to changes in the requirements of running a a Head Start program. We have allocated dollars
in our title one program though to take care of the children that previously qualified through Head Start. On the general fund expenditure side again for 2526 you can see the largest portion is
salaries and benefits. That's about 82% uh purchase services. Um, and that's really, you know, our custodial services contract, utilities, subc costs, uh, software license fees, repairs and
maintenance, and conferences being the largest, but at about 11%. Uh, next largest are supplies about 5% again all of the teaching supplies, textbooks, um, any of those instructional
materials, utilities, our natural gas and electricity being the largest and then our fuel um, as well as tires and batteries. And then the other category, the remainder is about 2% so special
education tuition payments for those students attending center programs. Um uh in other districts we have uh tuition costs for ACE which is accelerated college experience
uh virtual classes as well as dual enrollment uh building and site improvements and then those operating transfers to our capital projects funds. So some of the key assumptions um that focus on uh maintaining that
high quality instruction as well as uh that high programming uh that we've been talking about for the last few years. So focus on literacy. So our e skills block which is um a K2 foundational skills
program. Wit and Wisdom which focuses on K5 ELA. Again, we have math uh and we are um in um the first year I believe of illustrative math and that's focused on
the middle and high school levels and everyday math at the K5 level. So some of the other areas of focus um so opportunities for teacher collaboration
uh focusing on middle school teameing models. We're looking at our staff and student ratios. Uh focusing on staff retention and maintaining that that quality staff uh for all of our classrooms
as well as safety and security. Uh so additional supports for students, acceleration for those uh students needing that higher uh challenge environment, interventions to help support students uh uh who might need a
little more support and then our social emotional learning um and and the mental health aspect. So, some of our budget development factors. So, factors that we've considered are the governor's school aid
budget that was released in early February. Uh the current state economy, enrollment projections, federal funding impacts that are known at this time and then maintaining a fund balance that falls within the board's
policy of 10 to 15%. So now we'll talk a little bit about the [clears throat] parameters and assumptions uh for 2627. So pupil enrollment, we did receive our enrollment projections
um from uh Plant Maran Real Point and it did show a decline of about a 100 pupils for uh next year and in talking with them in further depth, there has been a birth rate decline in Oakland County.
And so we do capture uh a consistent percentage of those live birth rates uh within our our uh enrollment. And so naturally we're going to see a decline
um in in enrollment. And while we thought we were fairly stable, that's what was talked about last year. Um those projections did change. our actual numbers did change for 2023 which
impacted things moving forward on the foundation allowance side. So the governor did propose a $250 per pupil increase. Um we are going to include at this time uh $200 per pupil increase in
our budget assumptions as the House and Senate still have not released theirs. So we do like to see uh what's proposed uh from all three bodies uh before deciding on anything. Categorical funding um will increase
slightly. Again they provided for increases in special education at risk as well as bilingual funding. the federal revenue uh side mainly a decrease due to um not running that Head
Start program effective July 1 and all those other recurring programs uh are are rolled forward at uh a flat amount. Interdist revenue will also be considered flat. We did receive
projections from uh Oakland schools uh within the last few weeks. Um and so our uh there will be no increase there. And then our nutrition services fund does continue to contribute for indirect
costs uh which do help support the general fund um as well as as paying for some of those noon supervisor costs. on the expenditure side. Uh so wages and benefits, we're projecting an increase
and that's really to uh budget for those at the negotiated levels for contracts in place. Replacement savings. So right now each year we start off with uh budgeting for 10 teacher retirements. And so that's a
replacement savings of a higher paid teacher leaving um and typically hiring in uh a lower cost uh teacher. And then as we get closer to setting the budget, if we find that there are a lot more
retirements, we'll factor that in as well. Uh the myster's retirement rate um is projected to go down. It's been set by the state. Uh it's down about 2.4 percentage points. Um although two years
ago they did tell us we were going to be declining by 5.75 uh percentage points. Um and we're still not up to that level. They're still over two uh points that it needs to come down.
uh fringe benefits. Our our health costs seem our claims costs continue to be in line with the current budget that we have in place. So, we'll uh be increasing that by 5% to account for that natural increase in costs. Utility
costs a 3% increase. uh custodial costs uh will budget based on our awarded contract and then those transfers to our capital projects funds. So $600,000 to the bus purchase
maintenance fund and 300,000 to our technology other projects fund uh to help with future costs in both those areas. So current unknowns uh again funding for 2627
the house and the senate still haven't re released their budget bills uh so and they are currently on break. Uh so hopefully sometime in April uh May they'll they'll release theirs. However
um we don't know when that 2627 budget will be approved. Uh, will it be approved prior to July 1st of 26? I've heard we're not going to get a budget until the elections are over. Um, so,
uh, we're unsure. As you probably remember, last year we didn't have a budget until October. Um, and at that point, we're already into our operating year by 3 to four months. um enrollment and staffing. Obviously,
we've used projections for enrollment for that budget side, but that also drives our staffing uh that we put in place for the next year. [snorts] And then our federal and state economies and continuing to monitor um some of those
funding impacts as well as the cost pressures. So again, just to re to uh recap, uh the first item on this list is asking for the board's approval of a resolution to
conduct that public hearing on our budget. And uh so this is the document that's within um your board packet as an action item really just asking you to set the budget hearing for June 2nd,
2026. and I can answer any questions there might be. >> Mrs. Smith, so um great report. Um I only have one little
and it's nothing big. Um as you know, we do have a lot of people that come and naysay to find things that we don't do right. Um so I'm looking at page six. So, picture this. I'm a still Getty
right now. Picture this. You look at where you have uh the numbers, right next to the numbers, in front of the numbers, it looks like we're in the negative. Can you change that? because
all we need is for someone to take that information and turn it into what they wanted to read. So if you can find a happy face or a aha [laughter]
or something so that you or this board or anyone won't be under attack. That's the [clears throat] only thing other than that it's great. It looks great.
But if you can change that, >> okay, >> one thing because we will have people that will share this and then it'll go back. Well, look, they in the negative. So, if you change that, we'll be fine. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> I I thank you for that. And I think um some of us have better eyes than others. Um >> this I got an extra pair. Yes, you do. You [laughter] do. Um it it may be helpful to also um outline where we're
approximating um and where things are are are negative. So um that that could be helpful as well. Um I was going to mention, are there any other questions, comments? I was going to um ask I saw it
as part of your presentation. I assume it's something you're continuing to think about. Um, I saw uh federal and state economies and I wondered whether specific to gas prices whether there's been any consideration to, you know, an
increase in this year's budget for gas and all things requiring transportation. Um, so I don't know if there's an uplift in that or you're just holding steady until you uh get more information on that. So, we are part of a cooperative
agreement that we purchase our gas through. And so, it's purchased at a price at the beginning of the year. Um, and so the the changes in the gas prices don't hit us right away. They take
months and months and months. Um, and hopefully by that time the the gas prices will rebound. Um but we are locked in right now so there is no need to to increase that at this time. >> Thank you. >> We asked that at our financing facility
meeting as well. >> Thank you. Um I also appreciated that this budget presentation feels very responsive to a lot of the things that the board um has asked for um in terms of helping us understand what's been prioritized,
what's included in the budget. So, I wanted to offer a sincere thank you for that. I'm sure I'm going to have some more questions as I continue to dig through and I'll send those to through the committee chair um uh to to you uh Mr. Hull.
>> Yes. Uh for the excellent presentation. I was um privy to see it yesterday um and everything or I just had a question. So for the pupil enrollment on um
page 11 that if it's continue to so so this is a Oakland it's a Oakland County um problem. Do you know what's besides the obvious but what's causing birth rate to
uh decline? you know, really just families choosing to have less children. Um, overall, um, we've seen spikes at different points. Um, you know, where people tend to have more children. Now,
it's on on the decline. Um, so can't really, you know, answer that um fully. >> Only counting this. We not >> It's not just Oakland County. It's actually the entire state. uh the state is declining overall and continues to
>> [clears throat] >> um we've seen many presentations that have talked about um you know we used to have 1.7 million of students. We're down to about 1.4 million statewide. You know
either people are leaving the state um again people aren't having as many children as in the past. >> They're expensive. Yes, they are very expensive. [laughter] [gasps] >> So,
um, Mrs. Hinrich, >> I have a question. Um, and I I didn't ask it ahead of time because I just thought of it today, but back, you know, you give dollar amounts for some things and some you don't, but on the page where you talk about our um, literacy investment in literacy and our
investment in math programs. So maybe for the um June presentation when you come to actually include dollar amounts with that because just in response of some community members want to know how much we're we're actually allocating and
investing in that. So I think maybe for um communication methods um dollar amounts for those things would be um would be helpful. Um and I and I just really I just want to make sure that you know you know how much you appreciate the work that you're doing. There's just
so many unknowns um you know as far as the funding from the state and the budget and I just heard on the news today you know the proposed federal budget is looking at cutting $ 8.5 million in K through 12
education and so you know the school districts are hit with those and have to make adjustments when the things come through. So it's kind of a living breathing document. So just want to know we really appreciate your your um you
know attentiveness to all the details. >> Thank you. Thank you Mr. Rento. >> Yeah and just a quick reminder um coming from the the government relations committee um at Oakland County. One of the things they wanted to remind everyone if they want to do something urge your legislators to pass the budget on July 1st. That's the biggest thing
you can do. It's but it's it's required by law. just remind them to uphold what what do their job what they're supposed to be doing. It it really hurts districts as as uh mentioned if it goes into October and things like that. >> Thank you. Thank you colleagues. I think
that ends our questions at this time. >> Okay. Thank you. [laughter] >> We will now move on to public comment. Um this is our second and final opportunity for public comment. Uh if you have public comment, please submit a card or or write out a card at the back
of the room and bring it to the front. Um just another quick spiel, folks have three minutes. Please address the board. Um if you have comments that are specific to a student or a staff member, please use caution in stating names uh where protection of privacy would be
more appropriate. The board will respectfully listen and generally does not respond to public comment. Um Mr. Uh, John, I'm sorry. >> Truce. Sorry, my handwriting is terrible. I was trying to make the first session in scribbling. I My kids write better than that.
>> That's okay. [laughter] >> Um, welcome. >> Thanks. Um, so hi, nice to see uh a lot of you again. My name is Jonathan TR. I'm a parent of uh two first graders at Forest Elementary. Uh, like a few others who have spoken earlier, I'm here to
express concerns about the third grade situation at Forest. So, Forest is in its second year now of a combined class team teaching approach, which is essentially two full classes, the whole grade really, 60 kids and two teachers,
um, all in one room, one large room. Um, parents of kids in that class, and I think there are some here today, as well as other teachers in that building have really described this whole thing to me as as a quote disaster. Um, they say
kids can't focus. They say it's loud. There's tons of time on computers. The kids don't have assigned seats. There's sort of this open office seating arrangement. There's a lot of bullying and fighting about the seats. Um, it sounds like they're repurposing a lot of
parapros who already have busy full-time jobs to help really manage the chaos in that classroom. To me, this all feels really experimental. uh and it seems like it's not working. When we've expressed
concerns about this, uh what we usually are told is, "Oh, they're not like in that group of 60 all day. Come come look and see." And you'll see we have them in two groups. There's some on this side of the room, some on this side of the room. And I appreciate that, but I think that's kind of proving our point that a
a cohort of kids that big of 60 kids is better off in smaller groups. Um, and we would say yes, keep them more separated, but keep them separated in separate classrooms all day um with just with their home room teachers. So, for
example, if we had uh three teachers for 60, um I think most parents would rather have the traditional three separate classrooms of 20ish uh kids than uh than the mega class. And I really get all the points on the
team teaching and everything. I get all the benefits of kids having multiple teachers and everything. I I just don't think the juice is really worth the squeeze when we're weighing it against how well kids can focus and behave uh in
a large group at that age without looking and seeing what's my friend in the other group doing right now. It's just it's just a lot. Um, finally, I think I I really hope parents can get an answer on what next year is going to look like uh with enough time to make an
informed decision on what they want to do uh next year. Uh, so I don't think another cohort of kids should come into this third grade situation without every family being told what this is going to be like and with enough time to decide if that's what they want to do with their kid or if they want to go uh
somewhere else. Well, thanks a bunch. Thank you. Is there any further public comment? Any further public comment? Okay, seeing no further public comment, we're going to move to our next agenda item, which is action items. First item we have on
our agenda is the nutritional services purchase which was um presented at our last board meeting. Correct? >> Is there a motion, Mr. Walker? I move that the board of education approve the
purchase of a combined oven for Gil Elementary School from Stafford Smith Incorporated in the amount of $43,867 utilizing source well pricing and funded through the nutrition service fund per
the MDE approved food service spendown plan. support. >> Motion made by uh Trustee Walker, supported by [clears throat] Trusty Smith to approve the purchase of a combi oven for Gil Elementary School from Stafford Smith in the amount of
43,867,000 utilizing source well pricing and funded through the nutritional services fund. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, may we have a roll call vote, please? >> Yes. Uh Mr. Hull? >> Yes. >> Mr. Walker? >> Yes. >> Miss Hinrich?
>> Yes. >> Mr. Dinto. >> Yes. >> Smith. >> Yes. >> I myself am a yes. And President, >> I'm a yes. That motion passes. Thank you very much. The next item is approval of furniture. Is there a motion? >> Mrs. Heinrich. I move that the board of
education approve a furniture purchase not to exceed $50,000 from the general fund to replace transportation staff lounge furniture and furnish Maxfield Education Cent's hallway waiting areas using utilizing OMNIA
contract number R240112 support motion made by Mrs. Heinrich supported by Mrs. Smith to approve a furniture purchase not to exceed $50,000 from the general fund to replace transportation staff lounge furniture and furnish
Maxfield Education Cent's uh hallway waiting areas. Is there any discussion? Yes. I appreciate that um Mr. Paddock uh went out um sure that Dr. Coffin because
she's done purchases as well. Um, I really appreciate that the bus terminal is finally getting some furniture. Um, if you go over there as a um, person that have ridden the buses um, and sat
in there with the bus drivers, it's not good. And so, thank you to Mr. Paddock and everyone that helped him uh, to do this. And I really appreciate this. So, thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing
none. Uh, Miss Secretary, may we have a roll call vote? >> Yes. Miss Smith? >> Yes. >> Mr. Reninto? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hinrich? >> Yes. >> Mr. Walker? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hall? >> Yes. >> I myself am a yes. President, >> I'm a yes. >> Uh, next we have the resolution to hold
a public hearing uh for fiscal year 2027. Mr. Walker. I move that the board of education approve the resolution to hold a public hearing on the fiscal year 2027 budget
on June 2nd, 2026 and wave the reading of the resolution. >> So motion made by Mr. Walker, supported by Mrs. Smith to approve the resolution to hold a public hearing on the fiscal 27 budget on June 2nd, 2026 and wave the
reading of the resolution. I just want to point out that this is our public hearing. We've heard a number of times that we don't have one. This is the public hearing on the uh budget. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? That
motion passes. Next, we have the resolution uh recognizing North Farmington High School for statewide recognition. >> I'll read it. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> No, no, I was going to read it. >> Oh, yes, Mr. Rinto. I move that the board of education approve the
resolution recognizing North Farmington High School students and adviserss for earning the exceptional service project award at the 2026 Michigan Student Leadership State Conference and wave the reading of the resolution. >> Smart. >> Motion Bane by Mr. Rinto, supported by
Mrs. Hinrich to approve the resolution recognizing North Farmington High School students and advisers for earning the exceptional service project award at the 2026 Michigan Student Leadership State Conference and wave the reading of the resolution. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I.
>> Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion passes. All right. Uh, we now move to our consent agenda. >> Mr. Walker, >> I move that the board of education approve the April 7th, 2026 consent agenda as follows. Item A, approval of
minutes. Number one, March 10th special meeting. Number two, March 10th close session meeting. Number three, March 10th, 2026 regular meeting. Number four, April 6, 2026, finance and facility committee meeting.
>> Second motion made by Mr. Walker, uh, supported [clears throat] by Mr. Rinto to approve the consent agenda. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion passes. Are there any reports
from board representatives? Seeing none, uh, we now stand adjourned. Thank you colleagues. >> Thank you.