June 17th. This meeting is now called to order. She didn't Dr. Turn got to come out of close session. Close. Oh, excuse everything that I just said. We are returning from our special meeting for the purpose of adjournment. The special meeting that started at 5:00 is now
adjourned. Now, welcome to the regular meeting of the board of education. This meeting is now officially called to order. Uh, Dr. Turner, can we have a roll call? Thank you for that. Yes, ma'am. Dr. Blau,
here. Missri, present. Mr. Hall, present. I myself present. Miss Williams, present. Mr. Walker, absent. Miss Smith, absent. You have a quorum. Thank you. We will now stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Um, it's a wonderful day to recognize, uh, the spring sports. So,
with that, I will turn it over to Dr. Coffin. Alrighty. I would like to welcome uh Miss Allison Robinson to the podium as we celebrate our spring athletes. Good evening everyone. Thanks for coming out tonight. Celebrate our spring uh
athletes. Thank you for having us here this evening. One of my favorite nights of the year always. So tonight we honor our spring athletes and all their accomplishments. And you can hopefully see from the certificate table here that there are many. Um, so we want to honor everybody, but also make sure that
we're, you know, uh, doing it in, um, a timely fashion. So, here's how tonight's going to run. Uh, we have a a PowerPoint you can see here. Um, and as each team comes up, I'll call the coach up and then at that time, we'll have all the students who are here for student athletes who are here for that
particular sport. You can come and stand across the front here. Okay. Um and then our coaches will give a summary of the season, how it went, and then we'll present the words uh for the students who are here this evening. We're obviously honoring everyone, but you know, um those that are here this
evening, we'll we'll talk a small bit about them. And then I will be passing out your certificates as well and bear with me. Normally, Miss Punzel and Mr. Cahill are with us tonight, but both unfortunately had engagements. So, I will do my best. I'm sorry if I don't know your if I forget your name or give
you the wrong one, but we'll sort it all out in the ends. Um, but I just want to say thank you again for being here. Thanks to the parents, the grandparents, the aunts, the uncles, the family friends who we know contribute to the success of our athletes. Um, I know as a parent of an athlete myself, how much it
takes to make sure your kids get to practices, they get to tournaments, they have food, you buy the tickets, you do all the things that you need to do. It takes a village. Um, so thank you for supporting our kids. Um, to the athletes themselves, congratulations. It is no small feat to do well in school and
balance the sport on top of that. Hours a night, hours on your weekends, getting up early, staying up late. We know the commitment that takes. And congratulations. That really shows who you are as people. And then I want to celebrate our coaches who are here tonight as well. We have some of the best coaches in the world. I will put
them against anyone. Uh, they give of their time, they give of their energy, they come early, they stay late. um and they are so proud of the programs and we are so proud of the programs that they run and the the students and the families that they work with. So um just a quick round of applause for everybody
that's here. Thank you for being here. And without further ado, let's start Farmington High School boys baseball. And I'm going to have Coach Cold come on up front. And all the baseball players, you guys can come up, too. Don't be embarrassed.
That's why you're here. Hey, how are you? Tiger, I saw your jack turkey. What's wrong with you? down. Do I want to get this young season if you want to and then
you'll talk about your three that are here? Okay. All right. And I'll give them their words. Well, um, good evening everybody. I I am Chuck Colding. This is my second year at Farmington. I am gladly uh, you know, I'm extremely happy and extremely proud of the young men
that I have in front of you guys uh, today. Uh the season didn't go as we planned. We were extremely young. I mean extremely young. And we had a lot of injuries, a lot of injuries that affected uh affected us throughout the
season. But um what I am proud of is um once I started, a lot of people didn't know that my stepfather passed right before the season started. So me personally, it took a toll. I was there, but I wasn't there, if you guys
understand what I'm saying. Um, finally, a conversation that I had with one of the dads that kind of snapped me out of it, which, um, at that point, I became Coach Chuck again. you know, I was able to instead of being upset about little
mistakes that young players make, I became a teacher and I started preparing guys and getting guys ready for the summer, which I can proudly proud proudly say that u two of my next year seniors, one has committed, made a
commitment, the other one's made an offer today. I'm not going to say anything. I'm going to let them make the announcement. And then I have uh four others uh three seniors and two uh another junior that are going on visits. So hopefully by the time November comes
around, we will have uh you know a lot of signings. So um what I do want to say is one one of the young men that we have uh that's not here, I want to say he's uh on a fishing trip with his grandfather, a muchdeserved break. Uh
Vincent Peshy. Vinnie was all league, O all O AA, all league. He was academic all league. He was academic all district. He was academic all region and he made the all district team. And I am still trying to figure out why he did not make the all region team. Like I'm I
want to go and knock on doors and ask I want to see numbers right now because uh the young man out of our district, he was second in home runs. He was second in um hits and he led our district in batting
average and also uh what's the other one I'm thinking about uh in um batting average and um RBI's. So, how he didn't make the all region team, I don't know. But hey, it's all good. But what I can
say is that um I'm super proud of uh our freshman Anderson Axe who was all district honorable mention. Anderson go ahead and wave. You know this young man coming in as a freshman
and and again having him on the team. you know, I knew he had the talent, but the way the the the way that he carried himself, you know, made me extremely proud and and I look forward to the next three years and you get to the senior to seeing what you do. But I will honestly
say that he has already um stirred enough uh interest and whether it's the scouts or college coaches. So, I'm looking forward to seeing him develop. Uh the one on the end, Andrew Panky, please raise your hand. He was all district. This is Mr. Everything, our
pitcher. Um, again, I cannot uh stress how hard he works and continues to work to get better. He is another one that he is on the radar. I will let him um talk about his college commitment, but he is on the radar of a couple of scouts. So,
we will we will see how things go for this next year. And uh the one in the middle, um Mr. the broke thumb. Jaden Esserie. Jaden also made our district. Um thing about Jaden is that 25 games in
Jaden had 27 stolen bases. He was batting 377. He was our leadoff hitter and he was the straw disturbed to drink and it kind of when he went down for the next I would say five, six, seven games, it affected Anderson and it affected
Vinnie. So, um, until, um, you know, things kind of kind of they started kind of writing the ship. But he was a very, very, very important clog in our team. So, um, again, extremely young. These two on the left will be seniors next
year. Anderson will be a sophomore. I I have right now nine seniors next year, 14 juniors returning. So, I expect this team to uh make a run at the states, but I I have to humbly say that because I
don't want to guarantee it or any, but yeah, we're going to be good. I I can't say that. So, um is anything This is great. Okay. Um thank you, coach. So, I did forget to mention that after every we get a quick photo up as well. So, I'm going to ask coach to head over there.
You guys hold up your certificates. Parents, if you want need to come up and get a couple pictures, go right ahead. Um and we're all set. Thank you, Chuck. You know, hey, real quick, real quick. Oh, no. Hey, look. This this this lady here, she is everything to me. And and
Mr. and Mrs. Panky, my parent groups, without those three, I look, I will be banging my head against the wall. So, thank you. I appreciate you. Appreciate you. Thank you, Mr. Mrs. Panky. Come on up, parents. Don't be shy.
Okay, thank you. Nice job. Thanks, coach. Thanks, players. And now I'm going to call up coach Russell from Firmington High School girls soccer. And girls players who are here, come on up front. Thank you everybody. Thank you school board for having us out tonight. Um we
have here an outgoing and an incoming captain. Uh excellent. I didn't know you were here. New ha. Excellent. Um, and I wanted to say that um, Maddie on the left or your her left, my right, thank
you, is a one of our few in my three decades of coaching, one of the few uh, players that I've had uh, that was the MVP for two years and also a captain for two years. So, that is quite the accomplishment. As you can see, she is academic all state. Um and then uh Nuha
also Nuha Abdul Malik is also academic all state and um wanted to say about Nuha. One of the things I'm proudest about for her is that um she started soccer as a freshman and became a key player in just three years. And that is
really hard to do because soccer is a sport where most people don't use their feet as much as as you have to in soccer. And uh did a really good job getting better at it. Um, Maddie and uh a couple of other other captains uh were
uh Rebecca Phillip was also academic all state and then Sophia Coaster academic all state. U both Sophia Coaster and like I said uh Rebecca and Nuha all three of them started playing soccer as freshman. Two of them became captains.
All three of them are academic all state. Really tough to do. Um did a great job at that. Uh Lexi uh Kapalungan is again at one of our uh next year captains and it was all OA blue and as
also all division. Matt Meline was also o all OA blue and all division and um so they did a great job this year. I'm really proud of the girls. We worked super hard. We we really maximized our potential and that's really all you can ask for a team. Um, I'm really proud of
the girls and I really appreciate you guys having us out tonight. So, thank you. Don't leave. It's picture time. All right, parents, come on up. Thank you, Coach Russell and girls soccer.
Next, I'm going to welcome um Coach Madison up to the front from Farmington girls softball. [Applause] I just had one slide, right? Yeah. Yeah,
you got you got Um, good evening. Thank you for having me out tonight. Um, so just a little bit about us. Um, from a team, uh, winning nine games last year, uh, coming in as fresh, uh, first year, uh, coach, I
didn't really know what to expect, graduating 11 seniors. Um, however, um, we had two seniors this year and, uh, I came in and they really bought in into what I, um, into what I what I expected.
Um, and our we end up being 23 11 and two. Um, so we, you know, we turned the program around. They bought in. Um, we won a lot of games. They enjoyed the game. Um, and I taught life lessons
through softball. Um, and that's pretty much it. We got Sophia Porterfield. She's not here tonight, but she was all district and all OA. Um, Grace Lamont, who isn't here. She was all district and all OA. Um, we have Autumn, who was all district and all OA. And then we have
Kylie Green here. Um, that was all district, all OA, and all region. First baseman. Thank you, coach. Green family, come on up. [Applause]
Okay, next I'm going to call up coach TK uh for Farmington girls tennis. [Applause] Want to go in the order? Yeah. Yeah. All right. All tennis players, please report to the front.
Yeah. I thought I only had one here, but what a one to have. She was amazing this year. Um, this is Anushka and she was regional finalist at the regional tournament which was excellent. She played, you know, all the way through to the finals and we came up against
against Bloomfield and they're tough every year. So, uh, but she did a great job. And, uh, she also made the all OA squad, so we are happy about that. Uh, as you can see, we had many girls with many awards. I won't go through them all
here uh because they're not here to to accept anything, but um I would like to say that we had a pretty good season. We finished second in the league. Uh we actually tied for first, but we lost because we had one set fewer wins. So,
um and then we also finished third at regionals, which uh if we could have gotten that couple of finalists through the thing, we would have made it to states as well. We missed by only just two points. So, um, we had a nice successful season and I thank Anushka
for all her good hard work this year. Thank you, coach. [Applause] All right. Now, I'm going to welcome up from for boys and girls track, uh, Coach Arnold, come on up.
And all track participants, head on up to the front, please. All track participants. Uh, we're starting with boys, so we'll just have the boys come on up first. Oh, well, everyone can come up then. Come on up. We'll combine. Yeah,
it's a good problem. Yeah, that's all right. All right. Uh, so my name is Coach Arnold. Um, so I am one of a handful of coaches. So, we have our track team together because that's how we run our program. So, on paper, I'm the girls head coach. Um, my co- coach, who's, you know, technically the boys
head coach, Jeremy, couldn't be here. he's out of town. Um, but he sends his regards as well. So, thank you all for welcoming us. Um, so we had a lot of success this year. It was a year of a lot of growth. We had a super duper young team last year. Um, a lot like it's it's at our banquet. Uh, we had
probably double the amount of sophomores this year than any other class. So, it's a very young group. Um, which is a good thing to have. That means that they keep developing. And those younger groups scored a lot of points for us this year. So, I guess overall as a team, we'll talk about those accomplishments. Um, for the boys, um, we finished, I
believe, third in our in the blue division. Um, we had a two and three record, but we were, you know, if you take all the points that we scored, we outscored. It's just we lost a couple really, really close meets to some some really, really good teams. Um, on the girls side, we had one of our better
years, uh, that I can remember. I mean, I haven't, you know, I'm not ancient, but I've been around for 5 years now. Um, so our girls were OA blue champions, you know, league champions, and we were looking back and and on our records, this was, if CO didn't get cancelled,
this would have been our sixth uh division title in a row for the girls. Um, so they had a spectacular year, and we had some regional champions up here. We have some uh state finalists up here in this group, and we had two allstate athletes. Um, so with us tonight is Rachel Hibbs. So she was all state in
the high jump. She tied for sixth place at the state championships um which was remarkable as a sophomore. And then our other one who is not here tonight is Eddie Marie King. She is our shot putter and she placed fourth at the state championships. So it was a very very good season for us. Um we had 11 kids
that went to states and a lot of really near misses. So going through kind of our list, you know, on our slides we had regional champions and um all those different kinds of things. We had a lot of really really close uh really really near misses. So, at the regionals, you have to qualify to the state meets by,
you know, performing so well at the regionals, either in the top two places or hitting a time. And on a couple of our, especially on the girls side, some of our relays were either less than half a second away or we placed third, or else we would have taken, I think, close to 20 kids. So, um, next year, that's something to look forward to because again, we have a really young team. Um,
but in front of us we have Lola Gray, Jessica Anderson, Allison Stevens, Rachel Hibbs, Helen Burkemeer, and then for the boys we got John Howell, Derek Cheetum, and then on the end we got Kennedy Jones and Lauren Murray. And all these individuals were all region, all conference. Again, Rachel was a state
allstate athlete. Um, handful of regional champions. And then Allison was our freshman. She won the freshman Oakland County championships in the long jump as well. So that was very exciting for us. So, we're hoping that we build off of our successes this year. We have a
smaller senior group. Um, so I guess one thing I guess should mention that almost slipped my mind, a couple individuals up here recently, also at the regional meet broke our school record in the boys 4x200 meter relay. Um, so that was great. That was uh John Howell, uh, Derek.
Yeah. Oh, sorry. John uh Jaylen Stevens, Bla1 Ferington, and Hershel McCormack Greamer. So, they broke our school record. And, you know, some of these guys keep keep the work up. We only graduated one of those, so it could be another record going down soon. So, very good stuff out of all of our individuals. Um, and we are excited to
see what the future holds, especially for this group in front of us today. So, thank you very much. Sorry. run it. Still run. All right, everybody's got
Well, you know, that's what my kids for my kids now they All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. No, that was perfect. Okay, now we have uh North Farmington boys golf. Unfortunately, coach could not be
here tonight or if there are any North Farmington boys golfers, please come on up front. Not sure if there are. All right. North Farmington girls soccer, come on up front.
All right. Thank you. Sorry to say coach could not be here tonight either, but I I would like to honor the two of you. If you have any words you want to say about the season, you can come over here on the microphone. Anybody want to talk about it? Yeah, come on over. Um, okay. Hi, I'm Briana Murphy. Um,
this was actually my first year playing high school soccer because I previously played club, but um, I just want to thank Vanessa for asking me a million times to come play for the school. Um, and I had a lot of fun playing. I love the team and I'm glad that we had a
really great season, one full of winning and it was really just a great time to experience it. So, it was definitely one of the highlights of my senior year. Thank you. I definitely could not have done as good a job, so I appreciate it. Um, so Briana, as we see, was all region
and all state honorable mention. Congratulations. And Vanessa Cancer is our other our other participant here tonight. And she earned all state academic honors. So congratulations girls. [Applause]
[Applause] Okay, next I'm going to have Coach Andre come on up for North Farmington girls tennis. And tennis players, come on up front. [Applause]
Uh good evening everybody. Um yeah, so we had a really amazing season. to give you kind of the highlights. Um, we play six uh we play sixth place in the state tournament out of 25 teams. It was the best finish by a North Arington girls
team since 2004. Um, we also came in second place in the white division which is a tough league. Um, so that was really impressive. But then also we came in second place at the regionals um playing Sea Home really
close. So another great accomplishment. Um but more importantly um what's uh especially um amazing is not just the results of this team um but the sportsmanship that this lady these ladies displayed. Obviously these four
which I'll talk about in a second but the whole team um you know they really built a culture of teamwork of camaraderie um they truly care for one another um you know they represented the school amazingly um coaches would always
say um just how amazing our players are and what great sportsmanship they have. So I'm just so proud to coach this team. Um, and so I'm going to say a couple words about each of these amazing young ladies. So we have Khloe Cole here. Um,
so Khloe um was in the regional lineup and she is part of the group who won the all academic um award all all state academic. She is also an OA all league
recipient as well as uh played one doubles and reached the quarterfinals at the state tournament. She pulled off she and her partner who I'll talk about next pulled off an amazing come from behind uh upset against the fifth seed to get
to the quarterfinals. And then next to her we have uh Karina Yuaki. Um she was actually Khloe's partner. So obviously she reached the quarterfinals at at states that won doubles. Very impressive. She is also recipient of uh OA all league um and
also a recipient of the all academic uh all state academic award. And then next to Karina we have Izzy Sterling. Um so she and her partner reached the quarterfinals at states at four doubles which was very impressive.
Um she also is a recipient of the all state academic team award for being you know part of the regional team. And by the way we completely blew out of the water um you know the requirements that's
needed to be all state academics. It's like 3.25 25 and as a team we had like 3.7 something. So it was very impressive what these amazing young women are able to do balancing tennis and still keeping strong academics. Um so congratulations
Izzy. And then next to Izzy we have uh Samantha Kroo. Um uh Sam is actually um a state champion. She won a state championship of free singles. [Music]
Um, something else that's very special is she had an undefeated season. She didn't even lose one set. She was 25 and0 and like I said, didn't even lose a set the whole season. [Music] Uh, Sam also um earned the designation
of OA all league. Um she's a regional champion. Um obviously like I said, state champion. Um and then she received the all state academic regional team honor. Um so I'm just really proud of
all of you guys. Um you know, it was such a joy getting to coach you guys. I look forward to it each day. Um you guys are amazing. Thank you so much for your guys' time. Well, there's one more award. Uh, Coach Andre was our regional coach of the
year. So, congratulations, coach. Thank you very much. You also get a certificate. Hold on. One more. One more. [Applause] And now we have North Farmington Boys
and Girls Track. I'm going to welcome up uh Coach Alexander. Thank you. And boys and girls, why don't we'll do the same as we did for Farmington. Come on up front. [Applause] [Music] Good evening. I'm Christian Alexander, one of your executive assistants for the
district and also a former track coach for Harrison High School and now currently with North Farmington. Um, we had a wonderful season this year. Um, the weather was definitely weathering. We had a lot of uh snow and rain and
wind that that our kids had to go through. But however, um we just want to recognize our students for their hard work this season. So, we are going to start with um Brayen. Brillan James. Um
she might be on the next slide here. I think we have boys first. So, if you want to Yeah. Yeah. That's what she did at the end, right? Yeah. Okay. President James, she was a state qualifier um for hurdles, all region in
the hurdles and 4x1 relay, all OA. And she was our ninth grade Oak County champ in the 100 meter hurdles. [Applause] [Music] Okay, next we have Naa Traml
and Naa I don't know these arrows. She might be in the next one. Yeah, there we go. And Na Traml also is one of our spinners. Rion 4x1 meter relay.
And next we have Isabella Tibido and she is one of our seniors this year. Isabella, see if we can go play fourth place at O AA Blue and ninth place at our regional meet in the 300
meter hurdles. [Applause] And we have Khloe Nelson, all region and 4x1 100 meter relay. And I'm going to recognize our captains who are not here tonight, but we had
Cheyenne Williams and also um Cor Lou, who um were great captains this year. Core will be attending uh Sienna Heights for track. And again, we want just thank um Miss Williams for allowing us to have Cheyenne as captain as well. She was a multi-year um captain for our girls
track team. Okay. [Laughter] And I believe that's it for the girls, right? I'm going to go to our boys. All right. Now, for our boys, we have Alex Hamilton. Alex was all region at
1600 meters, OA champion in the 3200 meters. Alex also is our captain for our boys as well. Okay. And next we have um Caleb Nelson. And Caleb the state qualifier, all
region, all county in the 400 meter dash. Next we have Elijah Moore. Elijah was first place Freshman County in the shot putut. Um and Freshman County also in the discus. Let's give it up for Elijah.
[Applause] Next we have um Arturo Wilson. Um he was a state qualifier all region and discus all county and discus. Then we have
then we have is it Ariana? Okay. Ariana Fled Ariana Fletcher. Ninth grade county first in discus, second in the shot put. Let's give Ariana a hand.
Um for our boys again we had um Alice Hamilton as a captain and we also had Duke as a captain. Duke will also be attending Adrian College for football and also for track. So just want to recognize that as well. Thank you Ari. I'm getting your shift.
[Music] Sorry. Pause. All right, that concludes our presentation. Thanks again to everybody for coming out tonight. Uh we appreciate you and hope everybody has a great summer. Thank you. We'll take a two two minute recess.
Oh, just took it off. Yep. We will now move to um items from the president and we will start with a motion. Sorry. Thank you. It it is
uh we'll start with uh an approval of the agenda. President Williams, I'd like to um make a motion to approve the agenda with the following two corrections under item four items from the president. Item C,
notification of trustee appointment expiration, David Turner, June 17, 2025. It should be trusty appointment resignation. And the other correction is under section X which is a discussion item which is a superintendent secession plan
and that I move that we move that to action items and make it action item J superintendent secession planning. They would leave no discussion items. Those are the only two corrections that I have. Other than that I make the motion to approve the agenda.
Thank you. Um, is there a second? A second. Motion to approve an amended agenda made by Dr. Turner and seconded by Mr. Hull. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all Yeah. Yes. So,
superintendent session planning. Do we need to discuss that before we act on it? We can have a discussion as part of the action. As part of the action. Okay. So, we're removing discussion items all together. Correct. and we'll just do discussion and action as part of the
action items. Okay. Thank you. Any further discussion? We're moving on the the amended agenda. All in favor? I. Any any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion passes. We'll now move to announcements. We have a pretty full agenda, so I'll try to be
quick, but um it's end of the year, so there's a lot going on. Uh first want to congratulate all of the graduates. It was an immense pleasure to watch Farmington Central, Visions, North Farmington, and Farmington graduate. Uh
it was uh also a pleasure uh because there are so many parents at this table that have children who graduated. Congratulations, Miss Scripture, Mr. Hall, Dr. Turner, and uh I'll congratulate myself. Um, it was it was
just pure joy the last few weeks with uh senior all night parties and graduations and graduation parties. I wish every graduate well. I wish all of your families to just bask in this glow uh until they start to get on your nerves
again. All right. Um, next I wanted to recognize that we had an opportunity recently this uh earlier this afternoon to uh have a discussion with our superintendent. I am very happy to report that uh we believe our
superintendent is doing a great job. So we had a really good conversation about performance. Uh we also uh took the time uh to have a really good uh retreat. We have a quarterly retreat. We had our last retreat for the school year. It is
an all day uh event where we really take a deep dive into some really good topics. Um I was really really happy that the board uh got to go through aling. We learned a lot about uh the safety protocols that are going on in our school. Uh I'm really really just
very pleased with our Farmington and Farmington Hills police departments. Uh their response times are impeccable. Uh I learned a lot including the fact that uh we benefit um most cities across the country 90% of them have a police force
of less than 50 officers and I'm very happy about the fact that Farmington Hills has over a 100red uh police officers. They are doing a great job. They're extremely responsive and they are a great partner uh with us in our schools. We had a good discussion around
policy items specifically around student behaviors. Uh I asked this the school district to revisit this positive student culture handbook. And uh in in response to some feedback I'm getting from students, from parents,
from staff around behaviors and inconsistencies in how we uh respond to behaviors. And I think it's very important that we create a culture uh across Farmington public schools and hold uh both adults and students to a
high standard and hold them accountable. And so I look forward to future revisions to that and to uh training across the district on how we're going to handle uh student uh behaviors going forward. We also had a great conversation on data. That's really the main topic of
these retreats is to dig into the data in a lot much more detail than we do here at the table. Uh it's important for board members who are not some of us are not in the education profession to really understand what the data is telling us. Uh we were able to celebrate in some areas and we found some areas
where we you know want the district to continue to uh focus and pay attention. I know we've put in a lot of uh uh new resources and plans and sometimes it takes times to see those things uh pan out but we're really happy with the direction that we're moving in and we
understand and share the sense of urgency is uh what really came across in that meeting. It was a really really good discuss discussion. We also talked through our board goals. Uh we regularly assess ourselves. Uh, as
a reminder, the board had four goals this year. One was related to student achievement, and I think we received some mixed results there. We're proud of the fact that we've got finally established a dashboard. Thank you, Dr. Coffin. where we have goals long-term
and short-term and we're measuring ourselves on a regular basis uh around how we're going to move the needle and become a premier we we are a premier school district but with respect to some of the other measures that people look at particularly around student
achievement uh we know that we've got some work to do around um some of the other measurements we feel like we did a really good job as it relates to uh ensuring that our resources are aligned to our priorities. This is the first time I've felt like we had a really good
conversation about where we're spending our dollars and making sure that it's focused in the areas that we think need the most attention. Uh thank you uh Mr. Hall for helping us reach our goal around um board development. We are now
a board a certified board and uh it's my recollection that a few years ago was the first time in history and uh you help keep us keep us with that tradition. So I'm I'm really really proud about that and then uh we continue to get better and better around around
data and governance. So I think we're doing a really good job. Uh we will revisit goals in August uh as we agreed and develop our goals for the fiscal 2526 school year which I suspect we'll have some some a lot more conversation around
assessments and achievement and student uh achievement but also around long-term facilities planning. The many folks on the board had an uh opportunity to go visit other schools. It was I was drooling a little bit. it
there. Um, you know, there's something about brick and mortar. We're always going to have school houses, school buildings, and we want to continue that premier school district. I want to continue that premier school district with respect to our facilities. What I'm really happy about is that we've done
the work already. Thank you, Dr. Coffin. Around reimagining high school, around understanding what our curriculum needs are so that we can build around that as opposed to building first and then trying to fit something into a structure. So, I I feel like we've done
the right work and and we're at a place now where we can engage the community in a conversation about what we want to see with respect to facilities. I know already through our Cobalt surveys that we want uh better STEM facilities and
that we want better athletic facilities. I want to hear more from our um our our community so that we can you know start planning to uh make sure that our students have what they should have in terms of facilities needs. And that ends
my announcement. I would like to move on to uh an acknowledgement that Dr. Turner is leaving us. He's had enough. [Laughter]
Um he sent a formal resignation uh to myself as that he is resigning from the position of board secretary and board trustee of the Farmington Public Schools effective today at 11:59 p.m. He says that the
opportunity to serve the students and community of Farmington Public Schools during his term has been appreciated. Uh being able to meaningfully contribute to the district's growth and development has been a valuable experience and he wishes us all the best. I want to
personally thank Dr. Turner for agreeing to come back when we needed help. Uh you are a very experienced board member and I've had the pleasure of serving with you 10 years ago. Uh, and I appreciate you coming back, not once, but twice.
Uh, so thank you very much for doing that. Do you have anything that you'd like to say to the public? Keep fighting. You know, it's tough out there as it relates to public education and, uh, you all know it as well as I do. Your children are very important to you, as they are to me, as well as
making sure that we do have a premier district that continues to attract families like my family when we came here nearly 20 years ago. Um, it is still a mecca for greatness and I know we can be as great as we feel that we are. So, carry on.
[Applause] Is this tequila? There is no alcohol allowed on the premises. So, no, it is not. I'm an adult. This Mrs. Hinrich. Yeah. I I didn't have the
opportunity to work with um Dr. Turner previously, but I I really want to thank you. You just did not fill a seat. Um you were very involved, active, um brought a lot of expertise and you know evidence um your last day on the board.
you're working as hard as you did your first day on the board and I really appreciate um you're you're leaving a pretty big seat to fill not size-wise but as far as contentwise and so I hope that we continue to um have this uh you
know meaningful board members continue to um to volunteer their time and give to our district and and we really the whole community appreciate you. It's a pleasure to serve, Mr. Hul. Yeah. Uh, also I would like to uh thank you Dr.
Turner for for putting your arm around me and showing me hey this is this is how you do things in which that you know you you take the you do the even kill type of uh way all options and then you make go with what's right uh what you
feel that's right in your heart. I appreciate that. I appreciate um the way that you you you you a lot of a lot of I guess men don't say hey um let me show you certain certain ways how to do certain things protocol even push took
to me to the side and say hey you know let's try to work it like this instead like that and that takes a a big a big man to actually do so I really do appreciate the mentorship and the continued friendship very welcome thank you we appreciate you and I want
to offer One last round of applause. Back to work. Dr. Turner, we will now move on to public comment. Uh is there anyone who has public comment? Please bring it to the front. Um during public comment, uh members have of the community have the
opportunity to speak. We will hear from Sher uh Cwley first. Uh a timer will be on the screen. You have three minutes to make your comments. We ask that if you um have a comment that is related to a staff member or a student that you
refrain from using their name and the board will listen uh intently. But generally the board does not respond to public comment. Um welcome to the board meeting. Thank you so much for having me. Um I'd like to thank you all for the opportunity to be able to serve your
students. Um it has been a pleasure over the last seven years. had this year the most amazing time and I like to say just from everything that's been presented today afternoon resower and post evaluation we saw a tremendous
impact and increase not only within the students and We all know that selfesteem directly correlates with academic and being able to check the data that we've seen um from the girls that have participated from themselves but also
from their parents and from our staff. It has been a joy to be able to serve in this capacity. I also want to credit you all. We have had other school districts be impressed at the work that we're doing here. For example, the
Kent school district and um they really as well. Um in addition to it's not easy right now being so created with offering not only our core program which is our leadership program but to
also infuse pepper throughout um our academic programs for So sharing um uh oh okay um sharing um with our high school students um the importance of not only just doing those things in school
for SAT and ACT prep, but also high impact activities that will be able to set them apart and be able to help them be more ready for uh receiving those full rides that we're all excited about when our students get. Um, and as well we wanted to make sure that um that we
focus in on the future of of our of our students. And with social media being what it is, um, we are seeing at younger ages girls really being impacted by negative images that they see online through the music and we've been able to engage and even build a gap between our elementary students um, as they're
heading to middle school as well as vice versa with our middle school students as they um, are headed to high school. So, we just want to thank you and celebrate um all of the success that we've had within the district. Thank you all so much for the opportunity. Thank you so much.
Um and I'll just take a moment of privilege. I I have three pretty brown girls and I'm very proud of them. Uh it looks like we got another pretty brown girl right up here. Um the work that you do and and another I didn't know whether
she was in it or not. Okay. Thank you for the work that you do. I I really appreciate it. Um, next we have David uh Velar. All right. Hello. Um, I have always been a proponent for uh diversity, equity,
and inclusion as far as um it pertains to young black boys getting uh as much encouragement to excel in the STEM uh learning as possible. And um it's great to see that we're making progress
in certain areas. Um I really wish that we could get some parental surveys um in order to address those disparities that I have heard and that I when I speak to people um still say exist. And
um it would it would really make a difference to see as we move to the next school year that we um find even more robust solutions in this political climate that we're in which is
trying to undermine the progress that that's been going on. Um I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in a very rough area and um it was very hard to to find that encouragement and and that's the one
thing I like about Farms and Hills is that that there is encouragement but I think like what was said there are there are other things going on in our society that can undermine the the confidence
and um a lot of that can come from social media. A lot of it can come from um the choices that our parents make, whether or not our parents are adequately uh supported by the community because some parents are, you know,
struggling just to get by. Um, and then for some of our children to be um to be really to be really convinced that they're included in in in the in the social cohesion of um of a science class or of
a of a of a program that that encourages um you know a math competition or something to that effect. So um I may sound a little vague. That may sound a little disjointed, but I do think that what I'm saying is understandable. And I
just I just hope that we can we can make this more than just about people of color. Um because a lot of times when it's about people of color, a lot of times, from what I've heard and understand, a lot of black parents and a
lot of black kids feel like that they're last in that group to be considered. Um the Saturday tutoring program is is one big uh encouraging step, but I think that we need others and and like I say, the parent surveys would really go a
long way. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there is there any further public comment? Is there any further public comment? Seeing no further public comment, we will close this public comment period and we will
move to items from the secretary. Dr. Turner. Thank you. Um, the board has received communications regarding four items. First item being media literacy skills. Second was office of Head Start notifications. Third being the Farmington public schools art teacher wins best in show at an art exhibit. Uh,
and lastly, an email regarding concerns regarding principal hiring practices in the Farmington public schools. Uh, the board acknowledges communication and response when appropriate. A list of correspondences can be found in the board packet accessible on the Farmington Public Schools website. Thank you. Thank you very much. Moving on a
legislative update. Yes. Thank you, uh, President Williams. Uh, I have already forwarded to my fellow board members some information from, uh, from the, uh, weekly government relations update uh, from um, last week. Uh, things for you
to take a look at and be aware of. Also, I will be sharing with you from the recent government relations council meeting at the county level some resources from our um our uh legislative representative Lisa Hans connect. Some
uh in particular on the second to last page of the document that I'll share with you, there are some toolkits for contacting our legislators around some of the pending legislation. Um, in particular, I'd like to point out, um, I did forward the K12 Alliance of
Michigan information to you. Uh, according to our Michigan Constitution, quote, "No payment, credit, tax, benefit, exemption, or deduction, tuition, voucher, subsidy, grant, or loan of public monies or property shall be provided directly or indirectly to
support the attendance of any student at any such non-public school." And yet in the current uh school aid budget being entertained, there is a significant amount of money, 40.8 million um
that is designated to go to private K12 schools along with another 170.6 million in scholarships to students attending private universities, marking the first time that Michigan would issue direct per pupil aid to private schools. This
sets a potentially uncon constitutional precedent and um further diverts resources from public school uh students. So just something to be aware of. The K12 Alliance is a multi-county alliance that um uh does great work for
us to try and keep us uh aware of times when our voices are needed to help protect our public school students. So this is one of those times. So, watch your inbox, email inbox for those resources. Thank you very much. We'll
now move to district updates. Dr. Coffin. All right. Thank you, President Williams. First, I'd like to uh ask Mr. Brad Paddock, assistant superintendent of talent development and HR to the podium to introduce uh to make some in administrative introductions.
Thank you. Good evening, Dr. Coffin and members of the board of education. It is an honor and a privilege to stand before you this evening to fulfill one of my most significant responsibilities entrusted in me and that would be recommending candidates for our building level administrative positions. As we
conclude another successful school year, I am filled with enthusiasm and pride to introduce two exceptional long-erving members of Farmington Public Schools community who are poised to assume vital leadership roles pending your approval later this evening. Each of these
leaders brings a distinct blend of skills and experience cultivated right here in Farmington public schools. First, I am pleased to introduce and recommend Miss Laura Coralesi who as the next principal of Gil Elementary, succeeding Chris Sullivan upon her
retirement. Laura, would you please come forward? Thank you. Mrs. Mrs. Corleski began her career with Farmington Public Schools in 2008 as a first grade teacher at Wooddale Elementary School. Since then, she has
demonstrated unwavering dedication and expertise across several of our schools, including Wood Creek Elementary, Lanigan Elementary, and most recently Gil Elementary, where she has served as the tiered support lead teacher since 2024.
Additionally, since 2022, Laura has taken on the role of incoming kindergarten camp supervisor and coordinator, underscoring her commitment to supporting students transitions and fostering their early learning success. Laura's broads experiences across
multiple schools in our district, coupled with her leadership in instructional support and early childhood programming, ultimately equips her to address the diverse needs of our student body. Her proven ability to collaborate and lead with staff,
students, and families make her an exemplary choice to lead and inspire the Gil Elementary community. Notably, throughout the interview process, Laura expressed that serving as principal at Gil is simply a dream in a dream job. On behalf of Dr. Coffin and the leadership,
cabinet leadership, I extend our gratitude to you, Laura, for keeping Farmington Public Schools as your professional home. We look forward to a long and successful partnership between you and the guilt community. Please join me in welcoming Miss Laura Coralleski.
[Applause] Good evening, Dr. Coffin, President Williams, members of the board of education, Mr. Paddock, and the entire Farmington public schools community. I want to sincerely thank you for the
opportunity to serve as the next principal of Gil Elementary. I'm truly honored and humbled by your trust and your confidence in me. Throughout my time in Farmington, I've been fortunate to grow in a variety of roles as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, tiered support teacher, lead, and now
principal. Each of these experience has deepened my commitment to our students and strengthened my belief in the power of public education. I'm especially grateful to the many FPS mentors and leaders who have guided and supported me along the way. It's a true privilege to
continue serving the incredible staff, students, and families of Gil in this new capacity. I'm excited to lead with purpose, passion, and care, and to partner with our community to ensure every child has the opportunity to thrive. Thank you once again for this
incredible opportunity. I'm proud to be part of a district that truly values equity, innovation, and student success. [Applause]
Next, it is my pleasure to introduce to you Mrs. Jennifer Debella. Jennifer, would you please come forward? Mrs. Della is being recommended as the new principal of Longacre Elementary School, succeeding Rhonda Henry, who has recently been appointed as the
district's assistant superintendent of innovation and strategic initiatives. Pending board approval this evening, Jennifer will also begin her role next month. Jennifer has been a dedicated second grade teacher at Longacre Elementary since 2018. Her experience
also includes um prior teaching at High Meadow Common Campus, Warner Middle School, and roles as an instructional coach and equity lead within the district. From 2018 to 2021, she served as the FPS summer read
supervisor, further demonstrating her commitment to student achievement and enrichment. During the interview process, Jennifer articulated a compelling vision for advancing the leader in me program initiative at Longacre while also thoughtfully considering the future
direction for both staff and students at that building. Her insight, dedication, and forward uh forward systems thinking approach make her exceptionally well suited to lead Longacre into its next chapter. Jennifer, on behalf of Dr. coffin and the cabinet leadership team.
We would also like to thank you for your steadfast commitment to Farmington Public Schools and we are proud to see you rise to the position of principal within this organization. Please join me in congratulating Mr. Jennifer Debella. Thank you Dr. Coffin, President
Williams, the board of education, Mr. Paddock, Mrs. Henry, and the Farmington Public Schools community. It has been an absolute pleasure to spend my entire career teaching within Farmington Public Schools. The intentional care, mentoring, and development I've received both as a teacher and a leader have
meant so much to me and have directly benefited the students I've had the privilege to teach over the years. Stepping into the role of principal at Longacre is a true honor. I'm committed to drawing upon all that I've learned from my incredible mentors to help grow,
empower, and enrich the lives of Longacres students. Thank you for this opportunity. I look forward to working alongside our staff and community to ensure our students learn and lead each and every day. Thank you. Um, I want to just compliment uh Mr.
Paddock for the work that you do in um attracting uh and growing our teacher leaders and our staff. Uh I appreciate your retention efforts and all that you do. And I
especially want to thank and congratulate the two folks that uh are now moving into these roles. I truly appreciate the grow growing within Farmington Public Schools and um uh Mrs. Della, congratulations. But Mrs.
Corlesi, I you know um I I this is news to me. I I didn't know about, you know, how this was going to work out or that you were even applying. But I am so so glad to
hear that you're with us and that you're in this position. Gil needs you. You are a passionate, kind, caring person. You're exactly what Gil needs and you're going to step into, you know, Chris's
role and do your own thing. But I just wish you all the best, both of you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. And congratulations. And um you get to join us tomorrow for a meeting. So you you're already right in. Perfect. Uh this past week wrapped up
our 2425 school year. However, the end of the school year brings celebrations, but not an end to learning opportunities. Our summer school programs are well underway. They're filled with students from all ages taking part in either our virtual summer school options, as well as in-person
innovation programs, music camps, summer enrichment programs, and camp intervent invention and science camp. Our educators have also been hard at work over the last couple of days. We had 50 over 55 staff right here in this room
for the last two days for our first ever Farmington Public Schools Inocon. This two-day innovation conference brought together educators and administrators to work on design sprints and school-based planning that helped them build case a
case for change, exploring new structures and models and hearing from local business leaders and our own student entrepreneurs. I continue to be in awe of our awesome educators who are leading the way in reimagining
education. That is all I have this evening. Presidents, thank you. Thank you very much. Before we go to the next um public comment, is that what's next? Oh, yeah. Because we we don't have discussion items anymore. Reports more from Oh, sorry. Thank you
for keeping me honest. Let's move to reports from board committees. Uh Dr. blow. Uh yes, we had a recent communications and community engagement uh committee meeting at which we discussed the uh
uh the uh dialogues community dialogues that we have enjoyed this past school year. Um while attendance varied from a lot to a few depending upon the topic,
we do feel that um that the dialogues were very very powerful and successful even when the group of attendees was small. Um as we look forward into next year, there are a couple of initiatives
that we're considering. One is um a book study that Miss Heinrich and I have been long wanting to do. So, we're going to see if we can get that to happen. Uh we didn't want to interfere with the book study that was already going on around the anxious generation this year, which
we both participated in that was wildly successful um and leading to some ongoing some ongoing work uh together with community members and Mr. Smith. Um but we would like to host uh some book
club style opportunities um together with uh residents and uh board members. So look for that for next year. And we also are considering moving to a a more informal model of creating opportunities for board members and community members
to engage. Maybe more of a you know a coffee and conversation type of a model. So we'll work on that. think about it over the summer and work on it as we get together as committee in the fall and uh stay tuned for new and wonderful opportunities to engage with board
members outside of the the board meeting. So, thank you very much. Uh we will now move to uh public comment because we no longer have discussion items. Is there public comment?
Mr. Henry, I think you know how this process works. You have three minutes. All right. Uh, good evening board members. Uh, first off, I would like to say um, thank you to all those who have congratulated me with graduation and
everything that's been going on these past few weeks. U, your warm wishes have been really greatly appreciated. Uh, and you know, I've just been doing my best to get acclimated to the new new normal that I'm dealing with. Uh, so
thank you. Uh, it's been a lot of fun these past four years and especially this past year and a half getting to speak at these board meetings. Um, and of course it wouldn't be a board meeting if I weren't speaking about the STEM facility. um which I am still of course
hoping to uh get a little more progress on before I'm leaving in mid August for college. Um just because I know that uh I've been pushing really hard for this and I don't want that steam to be lost.
Um, so I'm hoping that this Ford is able to get bids ready and um proposals on those bids created and actually voted on before year end because I believe uh
from what I've just heard that is the goal. But, uh, if that isn't if that goal isn't achieved, I don't know if there's a realistic timeline where people who are currently on the robotics team will even be able to use that STEM
facility come senior year for them. Um, and that's that's my biggest goal is that there are people currently in district who, you know, are aware of this issue and are presently experiencing it.
um it's my goal that they're able to benefit from uh the work that goes on at these meetings. So again, I'm just hoping that, you know, that timeline is still being held realistically and um
there's avid work being done towards it. Uh because it is really really important for these kids that they have that opportunity. Uh and yeah, thank you. Thank you. Is there any further public comment?
Any further public comment? Seeing none, we will move on to action items. But before we get to action items, I want to share these action hero uh items with you. Yes. Don't everybody
gets one. Yes. I'm excited by this. I'm resigning. One, two, three. No, you're not. So, uh, a few weeks ago, um, Dr. Blau, you gave us some purple capes, right? And I've been kind of joking that, you
know, we're superheroes. We do a lot of work and we're about to move on 10 action items in one night. So, I think I think we are superheroes. And so, I want to thank Mrs. Corbett for tuning in and
watching us and sharing these with us. Um, you can do what you like. I am going to wear mine. Yeah, baby. God, because I'm feel seriously
flip over. Okay. Thank you. Yes. I'd like to wear mine as we move into 10 action items tonight. You guys ready? All right. And these are gold. So, okay. They're what? They're gold. Gold. He That's his He He He like And he's got
the black on today. He He He wasn't going to wear the purple. The purple and gold. I'll wear the purple and gold. Well, before everybody leaves tonight, we have to take a picture. Oh, that would be awesome. Yes. You look fabulous. It really dresses up your whole outfit. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. I was wearing it wrong. Thank you, Mrs. Corbett. This is right up my alley. Not necessarily my board members, but I appreciate you guys joining in on the fun being good sports. All right, great. Okay, moving into action items.
Okay, so um is there a motion related to the 2025 budget? If you'll recall, this item was presented in detail at the June 3rd board meeting. And uh I think we had lots of opportunities to ask some really good questions. And I know the finance and facilities committee went through
this um and and in a lot of detail along with providing some comments and thoughts around the budget parameters earlier on in the year. Is there a motion? I usually print. I do. Here I can uh share you I can share this with you.
Okay. There you go. You got it. I move that the board of education approve the form L429 tax rate request for all properties which results in 83039 mills on homesteads and industrial
property industrial personal property 21.2 mills on non-h homesteads and 14.3039 mills on commercial personal property. support. That is the um motion on the
tax levy. Is that correct? Yes. So, we can move on that one. The motion has been made by Mrs. Heinrich and supported by Wasn't that the budget one? That was tax levy. That was a tax levy. That's okay. It's It's okay. We can just vote on the tax levy instead. So, a motion's
been made on the tax levy um to which results in 8.339 mills on homesteads and 21.2 mil mills on industrial property and 14.3039 mills on non-h homesteads. That was
seconded by was it Dr. Turner? Yes. All right, we'll do a roll call. Any discussion? We'll do a roll call vote. Mr. Hull? Yes, Dr. Blau. Yes, Miss Hinrich. Yes, I myself. Yes, Miss Williams. Yes. Thank you. Now for the
budget, which is one item before that one. Okay. Oh, okay. I move that the board of education approve the 2025 2026 general appropriations resolution as presented and wave the reading of the resolution.
Support. Motion B made by Mrs. Heinrich, supported by Dr. Turner to approve the 2526 general appropriations resolution as presented and wave the reading of the resolution. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, can we have a roll call vote, please? Dr. Blau, yes. Miss, yes.
Mr. Ho, yes. I myself, yes. Miss Williams, yes. Carries. Next, we uh need a motion on the second budget amendment C. I move that the board of
education approve the this one 2024 2025 revised general appropriations resolution as presented and wave the reading of the resolution support motion made by Mrs. Heinrich supported by Dr. Turner to uh approve
the 2425 revised general appropriations resolution and wave the reading of the resolution. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, can we have a roll call vote, please? Dr. Turner. Mr. Hinrich, yes. Dr. Blau, yes. Mr. Hall, yes. I myself, yes. Miss Williams, yes. Motion
passes. Thank you. Next, we are moving on to approval of the board meeting schedule. This was presented in the June 3rd meeting as well. Mrs. Hinrich. I move that the board of education approve the 2025 2026 board
meeting schedule as presented. Support motion made by Mrs. Hinrich supported by Dr. Turner to approve the meeting schedule. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion
passes. Next, we move on to the technology per uh purchase which was also presented on June 3rd. Mrs. Hinrich. I move that the board of education approve the purchase of new technology equipment in an amount not to exceed $425,000
to be funded by the 2025 2020 bond as presented at the June 3rd, 2025 regular meeting. Support motion made by Mrs. Hinrich, supported by Dr. Turner to approve the purchase of technology equipment in the
amount not to exceed $425,000. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, may we have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Hall, yes. Miss Hinrich, yes. Dr. Blau, yes. I myself, yes. Miss Williams, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Next.
Legal representation for the 202526 year. This is normally done at our skip one. Did I skip one? Oh, thank you for that. I appreciate that. Okay. Next, we have the Michigan High School Athletic Association membership resolution.
Yes. I move that the board of education approve the M MHSA 2025 2026 membership resolution and wave the reading of the resolution. Support. Motion B by Mrs. Heinrich supported by
Dr. Turner to approve the MHSA membership resolution and wave the resol wave the reading of the resolution. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, may we have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Mr. Hall, yes. Miss Hinrich, yes. Dr. B, yes. I myself, yes. Miss Williams, yes.
Motion carries. Thank you. Now we move on to legal representation. This is one of our annual organizational meeting items. Mrs. Mrs. Hinrich. I move that the board of education authorize administration to cont to contract for legal
representation with the following firms for the fiscal year beginning July 1st 2025 and ending June 30th 2026. Clark Hill, PLC, Collins and Blaha, PC. Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone PC
Miller Johnson Trun Law Firm PC Trun Trum. Is there a second? Support. Uh motion made by Mrs. Heinrich, supported by Dr. Turner to approve the legal firms as
listed in the board packet. Is there any discussion? I only want to mention that these are uh the law firms that we currently have and there have been no significant changes. So I just wanted to make that statement. All right. Can we have a roll call vote? Dr. Blau, yes.
Yes. Mr. Hall, yes. I myself, yes. Miss Williams, yes. Motion passes. Thank you. The next two are related to uh bargaining contracts and I want to thank uh Mr. Paddock for um being our lead
here and seeing these through. Uh the first one is related to FASA or our administrators. Mrs. Hinrich. I move that the board of education approve the tentative bargaining agreement between the Farmington Board of Education and the
Farmington Association of Ed School Administrators, FASA, MEA, NEA, as presented. Support. There's been a motion made to approve the agreement between the Farmington Board of Education and the Farmington
Association of School Administrators made by Mrs. Mrs. Hinrich, seconded by Dr. Turner. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, may we have a roll call vote? Dr. Blau, yes. Miss Hinrich, yes. Mr. Hall, yes. I myself, yes. Miss
Williams, yes. Thank you. Uh, next is the FMC bargaining contract. Mrs. Sin Rick. I move that the board of education approve the tentative bargaining agreement between the Farmington Board of Education and the Farmington Maintenance and Cafeteria Association
FMC MEA NEA as presented. Support. Motion made by Mrs. Hinrich, supported by Dr. Turner to approve the agreement between the Farmington Board of Education and the Farmington Maintenance and Cafeteria Association. Is there any
discussion? Seeing none, can we have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Hall, yes. Miss, yes. Dr. Blau, yes. Miss Williams, yes. And myself, yes. Thank you. This next one is the item that was moved uh from discussion to action, and it
relates to the board's requirement as part of its policy to identify a successor in the event that something unfortunate happens to our superintendent. This is not an appointment of a superintendent. This is
in the event that you know I don't want to wish anything bad on our superintendent but this is a shortterm um matter which will allow the district toi to continue its operations. This is something that we do annually. We identify the person that is the next in
charge if you will for a short period of time while the the board makes a decision about the ultimate long-term successor. uh this person is usually a member of the superintendent's cabinet and so today the uh recommendation is to
appoint Rhonda Henry who was in Dr. Coffin's position, old position as the person who would be that emergency contact. Is the Did you have some of this? I'm just calling. Oh, is there a motion? That's what I was raising. Yes. Thank
you. Yeah. I move I Thank you. I move that the board of education authorize Ronda Henry, assistant superintendent, to serve as acting superintendent in the event of the superintendent's absence with full authority to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the superintendent effective immediately and
continuing through the end of the 2025 26 school year. Mr. Support motion made by Dr. Blau, supported by um Mrs. Heinrich to authorize Rhonda Henry uh to serve as
acting superintendent in the event of the superintendent's absence. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, can we have a roll call vote, please? Yes. Mr. Hull, yes. Minrich, yes. Dr. Blau, yes. I myself,
yes. Miss Williams, yes. Motion passes. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Look at you guys. Superheroes. Very good. Some of that reading was in question. These did not come with super eyesight. Oh, yeah. They didn't. Still need your glasses. Put my glasses back on. All
right. Now, we will move to our annual organizational meeting. This is our annual process where we identify officers for this next year. The first thing I'd like to do is thank everyone who has served in the past year as an officer. Uh I know that it is an
additional time commitment and so I appreciate that and I especially appreciate that Dr. Turner that you not only decided to, you know, um um um accept the appointment but also stepped in as our secretary because I know there's a fair amount of work associated
with that. Um so thank you to all uh current officers and trustees. Um now we will go through the process of identifying who the next uh president, vice president, secretary and treasurer of the board will be. Uh the process
will move as follows. The chair will call for nominations for each position one at a time beginning with the office of president. After a nomination, no second is required. I'll then uh recognize the nomination and ask if
there are any other nominations. If there are further nominations, we will continue to go through that process and then we'll close the nominations when there are no more nominations. If there are no other nominations other than one,
I'm sorry. If there are more than one nomination, we'll do a roll call vote on each of those nominations in the order that they came in. The first nominee with the majority vote will be considered elected. If there is only one
nomination and no further nominations, it will be declared that that nominee is elected by unanimous consent. He'll agree with Yes. Did just going through um did you say there's a nomination? Does it have to be seconded? It does not need to be seconded. But
then does the person have to accept the nomination? The person does not need to accept the nomination. Oh, they don't need to accept it. No. Okay. Yes. Do they can you nominate yourself for that or position someone else has to nominate? You can. There's nothing saying that you cannot do that. Yes, you
can. Mhm. Okay. Are there any Are we ready? Are there any nominations for president? Mrs. Heinrich, I'll nominate Terry Williams for president. Are there any other nominations?
Are there any other nominations? Nominate myself for No. Yeah. For All right. 30 minutes. If there are no other nominations, then it seems weird to declare myself president. Congratulations. Thank you.
Congratulations. Thank you for willingness to serve. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay. The next uh is vice president. Are there any nominations for vice president? This is doc Dr. Blau. I nominate Mr. Donald Walker to serve as our vice
president for the coming year. Are there any other nominations? Seeing no other nominations, Donna Walker will serve as our vice president. Congratulations to Donna Walker. The next office is secretary.
Uh, Mrs. Heinrich. I would like to nominate Dr. Cheryl Blau as secretary. Are there any other nominations? Seeing none, Dr. Blau, thank you for serving as secretary. Uh the next is
treasurer. Yes, Dr. Blau. I would like to uh nominate Miss Heinrich for the position of board treasurer for the coming year. Are there any other nominations for treasurer? Then I declare that Mrs. Hinrich is our treasurer. And so our officers are Terry
Williams as president, Donald Walker as vice president, Dr. Blau as secretary, and Mrs. Hinrich as treasure. Congratulations. Thank you board for this process. Okay, you guys made it easy. Next, we
will move to items from the treasurer. I move that the board of education approve the expenditures as outlined in the expenditure printout dated June 17, 2025 as follows. General Fund 12,290
12,934,735 General Fund Athletics $22,470. Capital Projects 2020 bond fund $636,151. Capital Projects 2023 bond fund $310,541. Nutrition Services Fund $413,457
Benefits Stabilization Fund 1,397,475 total $15,894,829. Support. Motion made by Dr. Mrs. Heinrich, supported by Dr. Turner to approve the expenditure report. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. Uh, seeing none. All in
favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion passes. Is there another motion for the bank and investment institutions? I I move that the board authorize for the 2025 2026 school year the deposit of school funds in the
following financial institutions. JP Morgan, Chase Bank, NA, Kame Bank, Livingston County Credit Union, Bank of America, Citizens Bank, Fifth Third Bank, Fifth Third Bank for Michigan Liquid Asset Fund, Huntington National
Bank, PNC Bank, Flagstar Bank, Independent Bank, First Merchants Bank, and authorize the investment of surplus funds through the following financial institutions: Michigan Liquid Asset Fund, Fifth Third Bank, Bank of America,
America JP Morgan Chase Bank NA Coma Bank Fifth Third Bank and authorize the following Farmington Public Schools signature signitories for the listed funds for 2025
26 Farmington Public Schools authorized bank signitories funds are general fund, debt fund, capital projects fund, nutrition services fund, student activities fund,
and benefit stabilization fund. And the position of signature for all of those is board president and board treasurer. Motion made to approve the banks and signitories as previously read
supported by Dr. Turner. Is there any discussion? We have a roll call. Bank uh roll call for banks. Mr. Hull, yes. Dr. Blau, yes. Miss, yes. I myself, yes. Miss Williams, yes. Motion carries. Thank you.
Next, we have the consent agenda. Is there a motion? Miss Williams. Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Hinrich. I I move to approve the consent agenda as follows. A, approval of minutes. One, June 3rd, 2025 special
meeting close session. Two, June 3rd, 2025 regular meeting. Three, June 11th, 2025 communication comm community engagement meeting. Four, June 12th, 2025 special meeting board trustee interviews. Five, June 13, 2025 board
retreat retreat. B, Head Start director's monthly report. C, personnel items. D recommendation for approval of salary schedule non-unit and E recommendation for approval of salary
schedule non-affiliated NA support motion to approve the consent agenda made by Mrs. Hinrich supported by Dr. Turner. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? Any opposed? Any abstensions? That motion passes. All
right. Are there any reports from board representatives? Seeing none, we will move to the board vacancy appointment. Um, as everyone knows, there were uh originally 16 people who expressed an
interest in joining the board. uh a few of them were deemed ineligible and so we were left with I believe it was a group of 13 uh who were slotted for interviews and one person was unable to make two people
sorry were unable to make their interviews. 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 13 Yes. So there are a total of um I just counted and I forgot one two
11 folks. One, two, three, four, five, six. Yes. 11 people who we interviewed and were considering. They are Sarah Her very I apologize.
Clark Dodie, James Nolan Monks, William Lubaway, Winter Hyrick, Fahum, John Ferris, Kevin J. Hammer, Wendelyn Brantley, Brittany Wright, Amber Richmond, and
Ronald Re Rinto. Uh those are the folks who interviewed for positions. Those interviews took place uh last Thursday on June 12th. Um I will say that I was pretty impressed with the caliber of
folks that um um are seeking appointment. I was very very happy that we got a really good group of of people to choose from. Um for me it's uh you know a pretty difficult position in one
respect but it's also slightly I don't want to say easy in the sense that there are several people that I would feel very comfortable uh being uh at the table. So, I think what makes the most sense is for us as a board to identify
the top three candidates. And I think that based off of um some highle discussions that we had at our board retreat when we were talking about succession planning uh thinking about the type of person that we think would best be suited uh at for the board at
this time. Uh we were thinking about the work that we have to do ahead inclusive of continuing to engage with our community. Uh thinking about long-term facilities planning, thinking about the skill sets that might be needed there.
We also were considering the skill sets that we believe we already have here on the board. And so wanting to not necessarily duplicate some of the skill sets that we already have, but thinking about how we can expand or broaden those skill sets. Uh we also talked a little
bit about wanting to be um more representative of our community. Uh those were the kinds of things that came up. Um and so I think with that in mind, we might be able to start with uh identifying the top three candidates uh
for all amongst this group uh on the board. So I will soon um ask everyone to identify their top three candidates in no particular order. The three people who receive the the
most votes will then go on to the second round. And at that point and the second round, well, let me start with the first round. If a person is tied as part of this pick your top three, if we have, you know, four people because
two people have the same number of votes, we will do a vote off of those two in order to get to our top three. And then once we've identified our top three, we'll have another discussion. And then we will move on to identify our
top two. And we will be asking you to rank your top two in your order of preference, one and two. And the person who is your number one will receive two points. And the person who is your number two will receive one point. And we will add those up. For both of these
processes, we will I will ask you to to write your name on your paper because I will need to for purposes of the open meetings act read off who you are voting for for each one of these processes. Um I'm going to pause because I said a lot and make sure that everyone's following.
Did you have a question, Dr. Bl? Okay. Did do anyone want to have discussion before we um talk about the or put in our votes for the top three? Mrs. Hinrich, I I just want to um thank all the candidates. I mean, I I was really
impressed with I want to thank our community and and in particular, I want to thank all the candidates because I was really impressed with your willingness to serve, um your presentation, your preparation, your willingness to come and put yourself out here. Um and you know, it takes a risk
to um ask for an appointment. Um, and I feel comfortable that we have many, many qualified candidates to choose from. And I really appreciate the community. And I
think that um, however it plays out, I think that our our school district is going to um, benefit from the the um, willingness of our community. And I want to ask that everybody that applied to continue to look for ways to continue to
be involved and continue to serve the school district because board commitment is a long-term um commitment. But there's so many different ways to serve and there's going to be continued opportunities in the future to serve even if it doesn't work out on this
particular occasion. Thank you. Are there any further comments? With that, then I will ask you to write down your top three in no particular order and then uh you can pass those forward when you are when you've completed.
Thank you. Okay, I will start with myself. Oh, do you need somebody to tally? No, I will tally. I've just went blind. I need my superhero glasses. Um Terry Williams, Clark Dodie,
John Ferris, and Ron Rinto. Claudia Hinrich, Ronald Reinto, Clark Dodie, and John Ferris. Thomas Hall, Ronald Reinto, Clark Dodie,
and John Ferris. Cheryl Blau, Ronald Reninto, Clark Dodie, and John Ferris, and Dr. Turner, Ronald Rinto, Clark Dodie, and John Ferris. Wow. Well, um I
guess we all had very similar thoughts and opinions. Um so, um I want to thank everyone who um came along with Mrs. Heinrich. I think that we had a really great group of people and I think this really comes down to wanting to see our
board be more reflective of some of the other skill sets that we think we need. We got a lot of educators in the group and I I love that. I we've felt like we had a lot of that representation already. Um and so I think that that's
probably reflective of of how this came out. So now I think what we need to do is we need to rank um our top two. And so um please make sure that you write your first one first
clearly indicating who is your top choice and who is your second choice. Your top choice will receive two votes. Your second choice will receive one vote and then we will add that up. I miss person. Yeah, me. Oh, okay.
[Laughter] I don't think I need to do the math. Um, do uh Dr. Turner votes for Ron Rinto and Clark Dodie. Claudia Hinrich votes for Ronald Rinto and Clark Dodie. Dr. Blau
votes for Ron Rinto and Clark Dodie. Uh Thomas Hull votes for Ron Rinto and Clark Dodie. And Terry Williams votes for Ron Rinto and Clark Dodie. And so um uh well you guys are pretty efficient and it we we probably need some more
diversity on our board. Um pardon? Not in thought. not not in thought. Um, so with that, I want to congratulate uh Mr. Ronald Rousinto. We will reach out to him and let him know
the news and invite him to begin the process of onboarding. I will say that uh thank you again to all of the candidates. Uh in the event we have another vacancy between now and the end of the year, this is the pool that we
will be pulling from. Um so that everyone knows um we may decide we we will be a new board with a new person coming on and we'll have to decide again as a board whether we want to go out uh and do interviews again with the same
group of people or not. All right. Well, with that said, um I think we've ended the we've come to the adjournment of the meeting. I will call this meeting to adjournment and I wish you all a great summer.