um this meeting is called to order at 7:02 p.m. good evening this is a regular meeting of the ferndell schools Schools Board of Education being held on Monday August 19th 2024 our meeting is being video recorded and will be posted on the
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you uh 1.1 roll call misser elter here bumer here har here Turner here president dookie here thank you thank you item 1.2 approval of the agenda after review of the agenda are there any items
that anyone wants to update yes um item 6.1 the request to approve the dynamic plan facilitator um move it to superintendent update
um and then item 6.7 the request for the support of Ferndale Public Schools code of conduct move up to a new number nine for an update and as a result everything after that will be
shifted by one increase so we go 6 through 15 Jackie wait code of conduct becomes number five she said number nine oh got it okay no you're good superintendant update becomes item
8.1 instead of 6.1 yep okay um and then the dynamic plan facilitator then becomes 8.1 under superintendent update and then the the last thing item
number nine move to superintendent update and make it an 8.2 so 6.9 becomes 8.2 yes going to repeat them one more time 6.1 um becomes
8.1 6.7 becomes number five which makes everything else below it increase one and then 6.9 becomes 8.2 yes well the code of conduct still be voted on or no no no it doesn't require
a board vote is not policy it's I got that okay other than these changes does anyone have any additional changes to the agenda and without objection and with unanimous consent the agenda is amended at or the agenda as amended is
approved item two public comment this is a time for public participation in the meeting the Board of Education intends for the public to have many opportunities to address the board and administration of their school district these include phone calls face-to-face meetings Community Gatherings public
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update good evening everybody good evening evening so we wanted to come to you tonight to give you a little recap our summer school programing ACR the district we have Cory we'll talk about e
e summer school in this we'll get it started with our elementary thank you to the cabinet and to the board for having me here to talk a little bit about summer school can everybody hear me okay okay
um so I have um we'll start with joy and we'll start at the end um meaning this was what our students did on the last day of summer school we had a celebration of learning where each class um went
through several activities throughout the day and they started with what we learned or what we loved about summer school so this is just an example of one of the classes so just at a glance I guess you could see that they love math there's like two or three students that
love math um one said they love being creative um some kids on other um boards really enjoy just the friendships so overall it was a positive experience for our six week program and so just to highlight it was
a six week program it was an 8-h hour day students arrived at 8:00 in the morning for free breakfast and they departed at 4:00 in the afternoon and so that day was split into two parts they had four hours of an academic program
and 4 hours of enrichment AKA Camp um we had originally 140 students that enrolled 100 students walked through our doors but the overall average was about 85 students that fully participated in the program and that put us a little bit
higher than 79% average attendance rate um we incentivized it a little bit we offered weekly field trips and I'll talk about that a little bit later on the next slide um we did some collaborative work with Wayne State University it was a
very Community focused program especially during our enrichment program because the students all had a chance to visit the library and spend some time there learning about the resources learning about how to get a library card and just a story read aloud with the um
the Librarians from the Youth Department um we also got kids into the community because we went to on a walking field trip to uh smoothie place we go to um Tropical Smoothie um and then there were
some local businesses not necessarily fale but local businesses that we used to support our enrichment program um and then we made sure that we were communicating regularly with our our families as well as um teachers were
being communicated with me um through weekly newsletters and that's just an example of following through with the Strategic plan of empowering through communication so every week I made sure that staff was updated on what to expect for the
upcoming week by Sunday afternoon and then I reached out to families sent out our coordinator to family's email and um teachers also communicate it regularly with their families so
meaning every week they sent um families a news letter about progress what to expect what was coming up um and this is just an example of the meet the teer communication that was sent out by all of the summer school staff members okay so getting into the notes
and bolts of the academic program students had an hour and a half of English language arts um they had an hour and a half of math and then um the ratio for our students to teacher was really good in the lower grades um
Rising first graders um second graders um and Rising third graders just a 10: one ratio so kids were definitely supported by their teachers and then in the upper grades um we were hoping 15 to
one but with enrollment being a little bit lower we were able to have about 12 to 13 students for every every um every teacher um there was par professional support um we have the Foster grandmothers who are very familiar with
our lower elementary students and um when I added rigorous curriculum the kids were challenged it was not like they were coming to just hang out and do easy stuff we really held them to the fire in terms of making sure it was
standard standard space and that's all from Summer Discovery they provided us with the curriculum materials um books worksheets booklets everything was provided through summer Discovery and the lenia curriculum
program and now the fun stuff um on our first day the theme for summer school at the elementary program was the Olympics I figured if it's the Olympics nationally and internationally why not so kids made um flags for their country
for their class we did some stem so students were able to get outside and make solar ovens um we did several um stem based activities we took a visit to the University of Michigan um
environmental interpretive Center um so they got a chance to just not only be in nature but got a chance to do some investigative work there um and then there was fun so we checked out um the Martin Park Splash Pad that was a hit
for our lower kids um I thought maybe it was a little too young for our older kids but I'm sure they would have love to have gone we just didn't make that happen for them and then there's our wonderful Everett Pine um director of the youth services there at the library um this is the second year that the
students have had a chance to visit um to visit their local library um and then I forgot to give a shout out for the bellal Nature Center of course it was the weekend that the beach was closed because I wanted the kids to dip their toe in we weren't swimming but I was like we're going to go and dip our toe in and then I got the notification
there's ecoli in the water so we did not do that but it was still good it was still very fun and then our last day as I said was a celebration of learning right there we have um Miss ran Foster who does like
bubble therapy experience and she brought these huge tubs of Bubbles and kids just had fun learning how to just enjoy being students and celebrate their hard work there was face painting there there was a gallery walk with all of
their what learned or what we loved so it was just truly a beautiful day the it was supposed to rain that day but um the weather was on our side it rained a little bit but we were able to make it a great experience for kids so overall um year three for me as coordinator each
year it just gets better um I was a little concerned about the facility it was great the the secretaries were there from UHS they were amazing the rooms were great so it all worked out I
worried for nothing but it was a great program thank you thank you so unfortunately Mr Turner couldn't be here tonight his slides so uh middle school program Rising sixth through eighth graders like
the elementary program six weeks uh four hours of academics four hours of enrichment uh four days per week basis Monday through Thursday 115 students enrolled 92 showed up average of 80% attendance they also
took weekly field trips um tried to build in as much student voice and choice as possible really in the enrichment part of the day we were able to entice several friend of Public School staff
part of our grant from Summer Discovery and the Balmer group allowed us to to compensate teachers at a much better rate than we had in the past we're able to to get many more fale staff
involved and Mr Turner also sent out weekly updates again similar to to the elementary program about an hour and a half of ela every day hour 15 minutes of math students teacher ratio a little bit
higher but still 20 to1 on average made it nice for the the students and the teachers and there was also a pair of professional support to to further reduce those those ratios like Elementary is the RoR curriculum
the the goal so the the curriculum is aligned to come for for both math and Ela and the students were presented did their last year's grade level standards but the power standards to really get
them ready for the next school year so every day four hours of of enrichment got to choose from stem Arts kind physical activity movies and board games and they went to CJ Barrymore Cy
Park Urban Air they also went uh ping at Madison Park Bowl students who didn't go bowling got to play some Olympic them games you see all of the the staff
awesome before we go to FHS USS can I ask a question about the curriculum and this might be for Miss Morton too I'm just curious about the like what was the teachers response to the curriculum like it was new um they'd never seen it before did they enjoy it
did they find it rigorous just any reaction to the there were mixed reviews they absolutely loved the MTH okay and for the English language arts um some of the book selections they were concerned
personally there was one particular book for our Rising fourth grade student they were reading about the Civil but the background knowledge for that kind of project it was it was it was a little bit of a a tough push for the kids and the teachers felt that so they
started to supplement they looked at the standards and they started to supplement with other materials that they felt that the students could connect to because the kids just didn't have that historical context experience understanding so it's a little bit of a
you know did you find the text to be culturally relevant it was very much so and that that was the whole purpose of why L chose that b but in reading it and I heard from fifth grade teachers they used that book at the end of fifth grade
but it was being presented to R so it's almost like I'm glad you now we talked about high school and University High School Credit Recovery so unlike the k through eight summer
school programs which are really geed to Preparing students for this coming school year FHS and UHS have what we call credit recovery program so students were able to recover credits that they had missed the school year or years per High
School had 164 students participate UHS had 95 those 164 students that FIA High School completed 251 credits across multiple content areas there were two students who went into the summer
missing some credits they were able one one of those was actually able to complete their credits so they could Graduate University High School students completed 102 credits again across multiple disciplines giving us a total of 353
credits the high school and University High School part of the program did allow for optional in school participation first and last weeks and Mr blowy had the the
best ad he had full room I should say both weeks not both some challenges that were faced rizon 10th graders needed the most credits to be recovered biggest Focus moving forward
will be supporting those 10th now Rising 11th graders to make sure that they can get back on track and stay on track for graduation make sure that we are supporting students and helping them pass during the school year we be a
focus this year and then one of the experiences one of the issues that we came up with Mr Cory actually experienced this a little bit during the school year last year the program we use e2020 is an online
program with AI we're fighting a battle in some ways it's fortunate that the AI box complete a course in about 30 seconds so it makes it pretty easy to know when students aren't really doing the work but but that is a an issue
where we did have to audit all of the classes that had been completed through the the summer to make sure that students were really doing the work and more learning the content can I answer so I can clarify when we're saying like Rising 10th
that's a 10th grader going into 11th or Rising 10th means are going into 10th grade this school year com okay so this means ninth graders correct last year n
graders so just I'm sorry just to clarify had the most Rising 10th graders but the biggest focus is rising 11th graders yeah sorry so I apologize yeah so I think what Miss Castle was alluding to here is the 10th
graders obviously we don't want anybody to be behind but the rising 11 Traders have one year less to get all of their credits caught up so that's why she suggested focus on those soon to be 11
this is totally off is I'm going back here wise our ninth graders those would have been Co wise our sixth graders is that right like our [Music] beginning Mr ma this seems like a lot of
students doing Credit Recovery I'm guessing this is a person percentage of students that needed it do you have any sense I don't need exact numbers but like back of the envelope did like 75 take advantage of it
50 I I would say between 50 and 75% of the students who needed it got at least one of the credits I will dig into that number and come back at committee yeah it's just year over year
you know less like what's the exact number for this year but just as a district kind of to Sarah's point also but like postco what are the what are the trends what are you noticing that kind of thing
okay it oh sorry sorry no not a question I was going to make a comment but I forgot you still had to go com no I'll comment you um so uh TC same summer program
we've run um for the last several years um we had 199 uh people which Together High School age 169 adults which is 22 and plus uh that's a total 368 um participants in our summer program um you can classify it as credit recovery
um it's just ongoing classes U for the adult population um July 1st like everybody that's a new school year year we don't really do semesters in the adult world it's just one long semester from July 1 to June 30 so uh those individuals who enrolled for summer
school on those 169 um that's secured funding for the adult ed population for this year um out of the pupil population the 199 you can see that 60 of them were were brand new pupils so um new to the district um we retained all 60 of them
for the fall which is I think um one of the more important aspects of our summer program since it is a a free summer program compared to the surrounding districts around us and how much they charge um there is a possibility students take advantage of us but to retain all 60 uh for the fall is
fantastic um as far as classes complete you can see we have 199 classes complete between the two populations um so which is a pretty significant number in such a short period of time um as Tom alluded to earlier the we experience that all year so we
become quite experts uh at TCC on identifying those issues the AI is you know something moving forward we all need to be paying attention to there pros and the cons um more so though the AI like Tom mentioned is very easy to identify because it's just it's a computer and it just doesn't know how to
go slow it just boom done um it's the other components um in today's world like uh the quizlets um FY those types of websites um the Quizlet they have an app now on their phone where you can just hold your phone with the camera up to the screen and it'll highlight the
answers for you that's much trickier to determine you know and detect because again the student is still taking their time through when you look at their pacing it's a lot slower Pace but again um looking at their percentages um and things like that so how to identify
those um we have some strategies um recorded online I don't want to give away all of our inside secrets buta um so they don't know some of the things that we can do um like the Trojan force model so um these are things that we um have taken advantage of and so it wasn't
really an issue for this summer um and you know the three teachers we had leading the way um so um standard little above average as far as our courses complete and our seven graduates um you know that's typically where we are a little bit above average I wouldn't brag and say too much but so on
[Music] par thanks thank you thank you okay so now I just want to say thank you to you to your teams anyone involved in summer school it's a Herculean task
and you get almost no break from the Academic Year and then you jump into summer school and then you take a breath and now you're back into the academic year without any break it's like 10 years ago the New York Times did a huge
constitutional study about um you know the learning loss over the summer and what it means for kids to have enrichment programs especially kids who whose
summers are not about enrichment programs so I as I'm listening to your report like that that New York timesm article is going through my head and I'm thinking about the commitment of you all
to make sure that this 400 kids and Learners had something substantial to do this summer and how it will help them going forward especially in this postco reality so I'm I'm just
incredibly grateful thank you thanks everybody number four enrollment updates good evening good evening so I just like to give an update from our time together and committee as a whole
changes that have made since then and also explain some of the some of the questions that have been asked so just for the record our district enrollment is strong for the 20242 school year enrollment has seen a positive trend year-over-year
comparatively and this indicates a strong position to reach 2024 25 headcount enrollment projections the new energy and presence of leadership working the ground gain in the community will continue to enhance enance our current recruitment efforts continued
efforts to engage the community and Market the district through radio print media Direct Mail pieces have been successful the table below shows District enrollment projections for headcount student data this document will share where we are currently with
regard to achieving the projected enrollment for this year so this table outlines what we've already recapped as far as the enrollment projections done in conjunction with our demographer uh
Dr uh Delan mahai uh and then as of 81624 FPS total enrollment is at 38 3080 students in our myar database or 97% of
the projected headcount is already banked in byar which leaves an additional 82 students uh that will need to reach reach the Target now of course targets are just that they're targets of projections so we currently have students that are in our pre-enrollment
status in my star and as of ag16 there were 97 students in our pre-enrollment that number fluctuates goes up and down so it's it's sort of fungible in that it's it's an indicator of just how healthy we have in the bank of students and we have to find out if they're still
willing to come the longer that number stays High the less likely those students will flip to enroll because they may have made other choices to go to other districts but it's a healthy gain since the last time we spoke where the number was at 77 so there's 20 more
students in pre-enrollment than the last time but again that's not incremental could have gone up could have gone down if we took those students into consideration then our total enrollment would stand at 3169 which would be just
at our projection actually that's that's 90 we would have hit our our projection at that point that's a typ so the link to the building level data we've updated that data to reflect up until August 16th you'll see that
there's been some healthy movement since the last time we talked and so now we're at 380 3080 students there was a question about school of choice and since I've received clarification question from the board
regarding exactly what we'd like to see so we will run that data against the School of Choice numbers that we open versus the School of Choice numbers that we have enrolled what I've shown you in this document at the bottom uh if you click
on that link link to building level data it just went I got just as a summary statement at the bottom I took a look at where we stand with regard to our School of Choice students as a as a percentage of the
total enrollment that we have in head County we're roughly at 1,4 School of Choice students so if you speak in terms of our district we would have about a third of our at school of choice that number I have all the details I can attach that as well to break it down by grade by
building so you can see where our School of Choice numbers hit I will also as part of that follow up to the question that was asked take out tce well take out UHS and see where our numbers stand because if you think about it UHS is one
large chunk of that 114 student so where would we be in absence of that program having a unique school choice that now so I wanted to give that update and wanted to let you know that based on the question we received from the board we
will make those reports available regarding School of Choice as we stand to the approved spots that you all have approved this year and I'm sorry I realized uh before
I got here I had drafted an email and and did not sent um just a couple questions about numbers for the um UHS there were like drops in our numbers for our 10th and our 11th grade from just a couple weeks
ago do we know like what or why we would have the decrease and same with our like our tcec numbers very large drop so as as the weeks progress the data is clean so some students are taken out that it either dropped or no longer interested
or changed their mind so these numbers don't just always incrementally increase uh I can take a look at that one though the 119 to 104 in the 10th grade at UHS um but I'm I'm almost certain that as they as they wash through the data
and students are taken out and put in based on whether not they decide to continue to enroll those numbers can can fluctuate yeah I know that with enrollment secretary back like their job has literally kid by Kid calling to confirm
so I would imagine that it might have been some of those have decided to go elsewhere or so it would have been confirmed prior and then have decided to go someplace else in the meantime and actually two one other factor is that this indicates the rollover data so it's
the data that we'll find out specifically about the TC was one just in like a large number which gr I know that progr so in the past District policy for some reason we always drop DC TC drop
all the pups and then reenroll them when I came I understand logic that so we compromis do an intent to return you know um so we hand out to all of our students at the end of the school year receive those back those students we
roll over it's also difficult unlike a Traditional School where you just roll from 9th to 10th and so so forth our students are all over the board of credit so we can't just roll them like schedule wide so um we drop those who don't fill out the Intensive return form um and they we make those calls and then
they come back so um I wouldn't be to that happens every year okay with ours and again we don't want to also um fall you know have have the wrong impression either if we just roll over our 340 student population there will be a high
percentage of turnover typically with an alternate school so we don't want to put 340 you know over the summer that's number although we will enroll much higher than that um so were about 75% so you don't see that number
reflecting of the 75% yet in the next I mean mid September will be well that number and Carl and I we we talked about so we didn't have all my buness we've had conversations about that how being adult
and they pull that out so U we're waiting to see those games come back sorry just one more just from commit if we can still see that cohort data to see like where we fall as to n through number of students in nth grade
last year to 10th grade now enrolling and where numbers kind of continue a trend for sure sorry I didn't have no you're tot so that concludes my presentation today regarding the status of our enrollment uh at this time are there any
[Music] questions thank you thank thank you brings us to item five code of conduct good evening evening so I was uh I was
so excited when we had our our staff Leadership Retreat then um superintendent hibler she announced her five pillars of Excellence and ironically the revisions we made are in that alignment so her five pillars were attendance collaboration data driven
decisions transparency and self-reflection and I think the revisions we made you'll see help facilitate all of these pillars of Excellence that uh superintendent hler wants to focus on for the school year as you see the first one School
attendance which is on page 10 um and we push out the uh PDFs for board members so you can go over if you would like to see it at your own Leisure but on page 10 we have a more detailed language for School attendance in the revisions all
right student attendance expectations we have the effects and consequences of irregular attendance excuse absence defined chronic absenteeism defined as well uh levels of chronic absenteeism as we all know our our district is
suffering from chronic absenteeism but not only our district but nationally I think most parents don't know the difference between treny and chronic absenteeism your truy is unexcused absences versus chronic absenteeism which is all your absences excused
unexcused suspensions Etc uh our School attendance team uh it labels the function of our School attendance Team every school should have a school attendance team okay evaluates data of for the school as well as
individual students and promote strategies to improve schoolwide progress and student attendance also we have interventions and support for students that suffer from chronic ABM and treny uh the the segment I'm I'm
sorry the uh part of School attendance is just way more detailed okay on page 18 we implemented uh strong language for sear seizures we have it obviously in our board policy but never it was never in the student cool
implementation of language regarding search in seizures uh the difference between individualized student searches which you have to have reasonable suspicions so it highlights that what reasonable suspension is is and what it what it is not okay as well as locker
and desk searches as we know anything that the board owns we do not need to to notify or we don't need reasonable suspicion to Surge this is where our uh the revisions of our code of conduct get a little meaty but in great detail okay on pages
31 through 32 we've implement the implementation of the tier interventions uh the previous code of conduct does mention that we do function with multi-tier systems of support but it's ambiguous um on page 3132 we get into
real detail of our tier one interventions which are basic classroom strategies for teachers our tier 2 interventions targeting strategies for teachers and support staff and our tier three interventions administrative and additional student support staff support
we also implemented our levels of consequences level one consequences level two consequences level three consequences and level four consequences and they pretty much correlate with our classifications of PR those are on page 33-
34 on page 34 our responses to student Behavior implementation of of language for discipline of students with disabilities parents and additional stakeholders have wondered and asked about having a separate code of conduct in the past this implementation provides
Clarity that our student code of conduct is indeed inclusive to all students but discipline may vary in accordance with state law for students with disabilities when applicable implementation of language for discipline of k k through2 students
School administration should attempt to avoid assigning any form of suspension to K through2 students suspension for K through2 students may be considered if it is determined that there is imminent threat of serious harm to that student
other students are stabed that cannot be reduced or eliminated through District level intervention and support implementation of language for discipline for grades 3 through 5 School administration should attempt to limit suspensions for grades 3 through
five on page 35 in the code of conduct we have classifications of infractions in the behavior Matrix level one infractions are listed intervention support and disciplinary actions for level one infractions uh you go down to level two three and four uh I want to
highlight that we're we're focusing more on interventions and support rather than consequences okay so on excuse me the best thing that I like about is just the RP and restorative practices I believe the way that we have set up the
revisions for our code of conduct it really really assures that we're being restore it really really ensures that we have Personnel assigned to the interventions that we say we have resources highlighted with functions listed in Personnel assigned
that's a big thing for our kodaka uh we highlight our mtss team right now we don't have it to Fidelity uh with the Cod OFA if we is necessary before us to move forward with certain interventions and supports or even consequences that's
going to be uh we're going to have to take that flight sat team which is student achievement team Southeast coal ition which is one of our partners communities and schools youth assistants our RP coach which is new behavioral intervention in school counselor school
social worker so we also have new violations that's been implementing the code of conduct a11 which is teasing disrespectful or other unkind Behavior bo1 threats of violence intimidation BO2
profanity obscenity towards students B3 profanity obscenity towards staff B9 interference with movement of pupils in and out of schools between schools or between home and assigned school a lot of that would uh be in alignment with our buses when we have kids that that
misbehave on the bus uh B13 verbal altercation B16 fighting B17 the difference between fighting is when you initiate a fight b19 sexual harassment which is first and is different between a c which is a level three offense of
sexual harassment B24 other prohibited conduct C C13 other illegal conduct and c16 other egregious conduct determined by District level staff that would only be implemented with uh with uh
superintendent hibler's uh approval I'm sorry have a question about B24 B24 so other prohibited conduct obviously I'm G give you an example we had an issue at a particular school and
a kid was um urinate okay on the stat we couldn't find anything that was in alignment with our our our our violations so the particular administrator didn't know what to put so that helps us kind of cover you know
some ground in terms of violations that may not be listed in there specific so that that's pretty much it um again we can push out the drafts to you so you can see it and you can you can review it
at your own Leisure uh anybody have any questions concerns ah everyone turned to look at me now you understand first thank you to you uh for leading this effort for
getting stakeholders input um it's a very long document and we so my question is not about the specifics of the document but about
implementation and maybe you're not there yet but for me it seemed like one of the things we encountered last year was there was a code of conduct but it wasn't actualized in all the places that needed to be actualized so if if you've
gotten to that step it would be great to hear just what the implementation plans are okay so one is only is 12 Pages longer than it was previous last uh code was 41 Pages it was also long I'm
sorry a little long I I would say this we're building up our capacity for restorative practices with our staff okay so we have a plan to do that that is the Catalyst for everything thing that that we're talking about right now and I would think I would say the
provisions that we have in place that are collaborative that are data driven that you know that we talk about with the five pillars of Excellence that superintendent hibler has I think it forces us to facilitate the things that we say we're trying to do so for example
if a kid gets suspended or gets in trouble for uh vaping or you know having you know a controlled substance we have Southeast Coalition are our building we need to utilize it right so when a kid gets in trouble we know we need to find
out why is this kid baking why is this kid smoking uh Southeast Coalition can help us as well we have parent conference we have a plan when this kid comes back in we have restorative agreement uh and we have things in place to help support this kid and if it
doesn't if it doesn't address the behavior then we also still have suspension if that administrator deems it you know necessary so but we have things in place where we have to abide by I think having mtss because we need
we have to have it we have to look at data uh for me RP coaches which we know is a new position in the district anyway that I'm leading they're going to be doing monthly data or conducting uh data analysis where we're going to look at
academics we're going to look at uh attendance we're going to look at Behavior we're going to see how we can improve these and come up with strategies and meet with admin and Etc so I think mtss of course I have to get with tan because she's leading mtss so
we need to come up with how regularly they are meeting how regularly the School attendance team is meeting I think that's another thing to establishing a school attendance team as well so and if I could chime in too just a little bit I think another U another thing that we saw last year with the
lack of awareness with the code of conduct was also when you did see the code of conduct um there were a number of items that were not developmentally appropriate to just blanket um give a disciplinary action it just was not
representative of of our students um so having it where it's a bit more scaled where we can see like oh we should focus on these areas these um um infractions for K to2 3 to five
second Etc so I think that um it both gives the leader a guide and also as a staff member I know what to expect if I'm referring a student for a certain you know um a violation as well so I think that it kind of captures a couple
of those pieces too very long I don't I don't Envision anyone reading it cover to cover but more of a reference right um so all can know and I mentioned just um sorry teachers and leaders are also parents they would know what to expect
and I think that's the transparency part of it but where for example K through2 I was and again we know K through2 you you try your best not to suspend shouldn't be suspending capable to but at the same time we have a kid that's challenging and we want to know
do they need a IEP well you can't get the data if they're not in class if you keep removing that child from there long term you're not going to be able to service that kid to give them what they need because we have to have data they have to evaluate the kid you can't do that for that kid if they're in the
classroom even though they may be a bit challenging to and this is I don't know if this is four coded conduct or different does this go for like I know it's like Steps like you know you number of infractions do they like are your
level ones like if you had an A1 and then you had an A7 is that your second infraction 11 to7 or is it still your first with an infraction so a like for example a11 I'm just making up num yeah yeah so a11 teasing disrespect for other
kind Behavior so after each occurrence obviously it's Progressive the supports are progressive and the consequence can potentially be Progressive um a11 could potentially turn into to bully you know the first part if especially a kid we
have to educate first you know obviously P bullying is a pattern of behavior right so you let them know what bullying is so all right we you had an offense to that we told you what with bullying is you continue to do it you can't do that maybe here's a restorative agreement
where you're pledging not to bother this person or understand the error of your way if you keep going then now that's bullying it just advance to bullying but every time we need to be contacting the parent uh meetings with the parent trying to have restore the practices
when when applicable but making sure that we're transparent every step of the way I think it helps everybody from the administrator from a parent like yourself and some of the teachers so when this happens they can see these are all the things we should be doing right
now if your kid does something and you know the principal is trying to put them out you know all right this is not what yall supposed to be doing these are the supports my supposed to have from my kid these are the people that's supposed to be helping my kid and the these are what we supposed to be doing so I think it's
level accountability for every I've got sorry I'm just I'm just trying I'm thinking through all this stuff like okay so I've got so many in my head I need to like so if I if my student they I'm G just the A1 failure to follow
instructions they did that that'd be their first referral to all of those sets you a teacher whoever it was would talk with me we'd have that parent meaning and all the interventions that are there then if they had a um let's say A3 use of
electronics or no I'm not going to pick that one A6 inappropriate displays of faction would that be a step the second offense or a first offense because it's for that inra these are all the separate entities you know for that infraction okay specific one like okay so when you
talk about for example you use level level one infractions a infractions honestly in it see this language in there before they they submit a referral they need to document all the redirections and intervention supports that they tried to give in this kid so
for example I shouldn't get a referral from a teacher about refusing to follow directions unless that parent I mean that kid I mean I'm sorry that's that teacher has at least had a communication with that parent because that I mean as as a parent that that that that's the
worst you don't want to hear from you know Katie first right right then when you get to a meeting then you find out that your kids's done 18 things they you communicated yeah so like I said it forces our teachers to have some level of communication it forces our teacher
to focus on classroom management okay as well it focus our administrators to support teachers with classroom management to try to keep you know kids in class rather than saying hey what do we do when this kid act up you know we really need to focus on how
do we keep that kid in the classroom and redirect that kid and keep him engaged so he doesn't another one I don't I cannot remember the name of it the um program that we use that
tracks yeah the Panorama where we talked about that it could track um students records too so like if a teacher was having like if we have an A1 or something can that be track like where do we track with we going a
teacher it's in class like do we have that okay I I would tell you this and maybe I shouldn't say it maybe you know they're probably going to throw something at me okay but honestly I don't think it's fair I think we need to have a separate tracking system because
for example let's say your kid ends up transferring to another school and you have every single thing on there the kid probably never got suspended but it looks like your kid was a monster or just peripheric at the other school so I think that's something we need to
navigate where we can have something but put serious incidents in my star and probably keep you know some stuff at school level depending on what I don't know how that's going to look but I just think that's never fair to a kid you know so Mr Rickman so interesting that
you bring this up I I agree with you there um and I'm wondering if we as a board and with your help can talk about some kind of policy that supports that because there are districts that do what's best in the best interest of kids
so when like when kids move from elementary to Middle School it's like a fresh start right like it could have been so those things don't necessarily roll up unless they let's just say they were Seas everything else is cleared but they they do that by
policy so I think it's something worth discussing I do to I would love that because that exact situation happens more than we think like we've literally had students who are simply trying to you know apply to a different high school for example and you know you give
them their my sty report and is every I'm talking about every single log since they've been in kindergarten so it looks like more than what it really may be and has truly prevented students from being able to attend certain schools so they're calling can you please take this
off can you give me a revised report we're like I can't bagle your you know it kind of puts us in a predicament when really they're simply trying to do what's best for their kid that's it they want a a true representation of their kid then there's also been situations
that have happened where um a student that is say they're rising from third to fourth grade fourth grade teacher can look back at all of the things that they did in third second first grade too and make a judgment about said kid that's
how they you know um interact with the student upon the first meeting it it just clean slate is fair I would I would be very happy to see that you have some District still dealing with zero polic I mean zero tolerance so I'm at F we had
this happen where kid is trying to go to another school district was in a fight Maybe you know having some words online and I'm just sitting in my classroom kid comes and hit me what do I get suspended for even though I didn't start a fight what's going to be on my record potential fighting so when I go
somewhere else it's going to look like I was fighting at the school and it's my fault I could be a potential minutes so on paper anyway so I agree with with Sandra my next one like I don't know if it's say you WIP at school we had a
certain time like after so many years of see does something or a B drops or some timing of like being able to just that like like anything else you should be able to show that you've made that Improvement and if you don't have any more fights after X amount of time
or even just like drop down even of like if you've had three occurrences of biting but yeah like after a year it could drop down one or whatever else to do something I'm I'm excited by you know about the work we've done I'm excited about the work we're about to do
I'm excited for us to try to implement restore the practices to Fidelity uh and we're going to try hard to build up you know all our teachers capacity all our staff capacity and just continue to to build connections deep relationships and try to give every kid a sense of
belonging and that's why I love me being an athletic director so we can push kids to be a part of sports extracurricular activities because we all know that that makes it more conducive for them to be successful before you sit down Mr rcky I don't know if there were any more
questions I just wanted to publicly thank you um for your work this on this um and leading this work in this committee I think it is very difficult to develop a code of conduct that has student agency and what's right for kids at the center of it and like as I look
through this um new updated code of conduct I see it all throughout um and I think that it very much so speaks about what is at the root of what Ferndale is and who we are um and I think that we've captured that the team has captured that
and what I see so I'm just thankful for the work I'm thankful for slowing down to go fast there was a time we were like we just need a little bit more time to get this right and um it feels like we are much much closer to to where we need to be and where we were around this time
last year so just wanted to publicly thank you appreciate it thank you all Yes um nobody's um if if everything is put in my are parents able to see their child's like
when something's been like anything that's been put in the system do we know I don't know online but you can always get it printed out might was whether or not like if a parent wanted to ours is to say we want to have parents that know what's going on um so
mine just how to both ways how a parents knows there way to check to say like I've so I think that's an administrative decision are you asking is it possible yeah I'm asking is it or is it something are you asking is it possible or is it currently happening those are two very different questions because it's not
currently happening answer that's the answer you're looking for right what I looking for I hope we get to a point where you don't have to do that you just you know because you've been in conversation with the principal the teachers you know everything you know
and that's the transparency so but hopefully we get to that point we going to keep growing we going to keep fighting a good fight and you know we we we here to fight it we're not actually here to fight we're here to fight support the children
got it I do have a panorama question though is it possible to see trends of students with certain levels of consequences not consequences
but so I know where you're going but I think it's unfair to ask for that Trend data when they just no I'm not not necessarily to ask for it now I'm just saying is it Poss future forward yes okay my star definitely speaks to Panorama okay so but that specific
question you're answer asking I need to find out like okay with the levels only asking because I wonder if we could see how where the kids are in the next maybe three years how the new implemented code of conduct could have improved our trends
amaz well can I say one thing I'm going to go sit down hope you are you are you are well I'm gonna say this so like before we can we can Institute this we we have to we got to get with George
obviously and see when we got to get all these violations in there okay uh my star and you stop me if I'm wrong Sandra may know better than me she wor Wayne I I'm not I'm not the biggest biggest fan like myar is great I don't know if
we have the best version of it okay or maybe we need to do better let's let's talk after the minute okay okay well I was about to say we need to do better with uh navigating our data agree I told before I got it y'all was GNA throw something no we're not gonna throw not
gonna throw anything at you you might need some mind star support training I might know some people that can help all right I take that all right all right all right have a bless one thank you I just wanted to say exactly what Camille had said just thank you Mr Rickman for all your work this has been a long time
coming um like you said we had to go slow to go fast so I think we're at the right place now with you guiding the ship on this so thank you for that and just for awareness for the public um we moved it out of an action item because it's not a board policy it's an
administrative guidelin so therefore we did not have to take any action to approve it tonight can can I ask and also when um what the plan is for rolling it out to yeah to schools to staff and then to families
tomorrow literally no I'm serious literally it'll be U Mr Rickman as well as um tawai Robinson tomorrow first day our district PD day full staff and then of course when we get into buildings they'll do a little bit more specific of
what they look like in the buildings but they'll dig a little bit deeper make sure that they under understand everything and then we'll continue to develop and focus on how we're going to do these things um do they understand what all the it may be an understanding piece of it right where do I find these
things who is the intervention person for this like how does it work in our buildings all of that will happen during your building PD Wednesdays Etc but tomorrow is the big reveal it is this is what it is they'll speak very high level globally and then we'll bring it down to
the building classroom and then when does it go out to will I get posted on like the welcome back honestly like once we did this it was thank you all right item six consent agenda 6.1 request to approve minutes of the
special meeting Committee of the whole June 4th 201 24 6.2 request to approve minutes of the regular meeting June 18th 2024 6.3 request to approve new hires resignations and transfers 6.4 request to approve bills
and accounts June and July 2024 does anyone wish to remove an item from the consent agenda for questions or discussions later uh seeing none I entertain I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented I move moved by Jonathan second seconded by Jackie
roll call M sheer El TK yes bmer yes har yes Turner yes president dookie yes thank you thank you with five yes votes the motion passes and the consent agenda is approved item seven action items please note that all action items being
voted on tonight were discussed in- depth at Committee of the whole meeting held on Monday August 5th at 6 pm. we invite encourage community members to attend our committee of the whole meetings which are also open to the public uh item 7.1 request to approve
the board meeting scheduled for the committee of the whole and the regular board meeting for the 2425 school year uh I'll entertain a motion to approve item 6.2 request to approve the board meeting schedule for the committee of the whole and the regular board meetings for the
2425 school year I will move second I'm pausing for a second are you sure okay I'll entertain a motion I will move move by Jonathan and second second by Jackie
roll call M sheeper bulmer yes har yes Turner yes elter yes president dookie yes thank you thank you with yes votes the motion passes in item 6.2 the request to approve the board meeting schedule for committee of the whole and the regular board meetings of 2425
school years approved just so that you realize a sidebar there was a possibility that our superintendent and a deputy superintendent had a conflict for the first Committee of the whole that they have navigated out the conflict uh item 7.2 request to approve
the school revolving fund annual loan application good evening even um we discussed this at the committee of the whole and this is the annual resolution this is an annual resolution
we we are part of the school bond Loan Fund and this year we are projecting that we will need to borrow about $329,000 so we are asking you to approved this resolution to borrow from
the school bond Loan Fund I will entertain a motion to approve item 6.3 request to approve the school bond revolving fund annual loan application just clar
7. two it's actually 72 it's 72 yeah you said six oh sorry 7 point two yes I'll move move by Sarah seconded by Mary any discussion on the motion thank you
very roll callman shepher yes Turner yes elart yes bmer yes president dookie yes thank you thank you with five yes votes the motion passes and item 7.2 request to approve the school bond
revolving fund loan application is approved item 7.3 request to approve the annual Financial resolution it's page 81 that help thank you um we also discussed this at the committee of the whole and these are our
annual Financial resolutions um these mostly stay the same but we did add uh Christian Wright the accountant to authorize and transfering I'll entertain a motion to approve item 7.3 request to approve the
annual Financial resolutions move move by Jonathan second seconded by Sarah any discussion on the motion um just a second yeah did we I know we discussed at committee a couple of
changes but my apologies were they in here they're here okay yes yes I to say like to thank you to making those changes and making the notes what the funds were for so we knew which bank accounts they were so that hope hopefully clarify for kind of years
thank you D I do have another question okay in the bank that we got rid of did you see anything that we had or were they just sitting there they were just sitting yeah but the chase not the the like Credit Union One yeah
the other one yeah okay thank you no we didn't approve it yet uh yeah roll call Miss sheer Turner yes elter yes Boomer yes
yes president dooky yes thank you thank you with five yes votes the motion passes an item seven 7.3 request to approve the annual Financial resolution is approved item 7.4 request to approve the second read of the Title Nine
policy good evening everybody good evening my pleasure to bring to you this evening res revised Title 9 policy 22660 um uh designed for us and uh with our uh uh personal changes into it uh we worked
with Chun Law Firm on this uh as a reminder along with this policy 2266 is revised to remain on the books for any incidents that would have occurred prior to August 1 when this new policy was implemented uh also involves the repeal
of a series of NE policies that are rendered uh obsolete by the implementation of this new policy true so uh we continue to monitor the legal landscape in terms of this policy and watching how this develops but uh right
now we are um planning on implementing this new policy approv by the board SE happy to answer any questions anybody might have I want entertain a motion to approve item 7.4 request to approve the second read of the title 9 policy so
moved by Jackie second seconded by Jonathan any discussion on the motion thank you Tom roll call Miss sheer elter yes bmer yes yeah Herer yeah president du yes thank you thank you
with five yes votes the motion passes in item 7.4 request to approve the second read of the title 9 policy is approved uh uh item 7.5 request to approve the Oakland schools IGA
Amendment again as we discussed a couple of weeks ago at the committee of the whole we are asking for approval of increasing our Tech integration specialist provided by openland schools from a halftime to a full-time
position um to to offset some of the costs here we would reduce one of our for Tech Personnel from Oakland schools Oakland schools is confident they can provide the same level of service for all of our needs but our
teachers will be much better served by having a full-time Tech integration specialist then that Financial um result would be a savings of about $23,000 over the remaining life of the contract
I'll entertain a motion to approve item 7.5 request to approve the oakin school's IGA Amendment moved by Sarah second second by Jackie any discussion on the motion I just want to say thank you for
working with the Oakland schools on this and thank you to Oakland schools for their partnership I will pass that I have one question because I missed the commit yeah um is there a trigger if we
feel like we're don't have the level of support that we need like they're saying we won't feel it but what happens if we feel it a Shar so nothing okay sorry that um there's nothing
formally um but they have they're great Partners to us and we have no doubt that if we call and say this is not working that we could revisit this IG would in my no I would agree wholeheartedly you know Jeff Sharp
actually came to us with this you know we we reached out to him because we wanted to keep Kelsey have a full-time Tech integration specialist we put our heads together and he's the one who actually went to the
current Tech supervisors said hey if we move to this can we provide adequate support they had lengthy conversations and then consensus was without a doubt they could provide the support that we would need you know if if somebody's
computer is acting up they should not see any significant additional time as far as getting some attention so okay thank you for answering all the questions
we did have a few couple weeks ago okay I apologize if wor uh roll call Miss sheeper did you bumer did we have a motion yeah we did
okay yes yes Turner yes elter yes resid DUI yes thank you thank you with five votes you're welcome the motion passes in item 7.5 five request to approve Oakland school's IGA amendment is
approved item [Music] seven item 7.6 request to approve City of Ferndale lease of Kix Center grounds sure yes yes okay all right so
um in the committee of the whole we discussed um the city of ferndale's interest in um um presuming uh lease of the kulet grounds um that would include the playground the green space and
parking lot for Community accessibility um so it is the recommendation of the superintendent that the school board authorize Ferndale Public Schools to enter a new lease agreement a 12-month lease agreement with the City of Ferndale for the playground in parking lot green space at
the former kulic Center while the district contemplates its options uh for the closed property the physical property would not be included in the lease agreement proper I'll entertain a motion to approve item 6. we
have there at lease yeah we don't have a lease oh we don't have a lease we don't have a lease we would we would be negotiating a new lease for 12 month period so we're not really we can't approve this until we actually have the lease physically in the packet for us
C so we can change the wording of this to say that we would approve you to we can authorize negotiate all right so let's amend the motion right so we need we need to I'll
entertain a motion to approve item a different item right it's a request to authorize District administration to negotiate a lease
new yeah with the City of Ferndale of the cck center ground you get that to negotiate a lease with the City of Ferndale of the cck center
ground okay okay I'll entertain a motion to approve item 6.8 a request to authorize Administration to 7.6 7.6 request to
approve uh request to authorize yeah we got a we got a request to approve to authorize District administration to negotiate a lease with the City of Ferndale of the Kulik Center grounds question sorry is does there need to be
a move to actually amend the name no before you no okay we're we're amending the motion now okay I'll move wait nope read it one more time please I'm sorry request to
authorize District administra no request to approve to to authorize District administration to negotiate a lease with city of fale of the Kulik Center ground it sounds funny draft elase I
mean we're not they're not really negotiating it yeah devise a new lease renew a lease lease renew is lease into June they're negotiating a lease renal okay at least
be brought to us for approval corre okay sorry so do we still need to rephrase that no no okay the way you read it then it's fine all right move by Sarah I'll second it second uh any discussion on the
motion roll call M sheer har yes Turner yes El tur yes bulmer yes president dookie yes thank you thank you with five yes votes the motion passes in item 7.6 the request to approve to authorize District
administration to negotiate a lease with the City of Ferndale of the Kulik Center grounds is approved item eight you're welcome superintendent's update good evening um so I would love to um take a moment to
um talk through the um Dynamic plan facilitator as was discussed at the committee of the whole um just to go back just a bit I am proposing the um approval of um the use of a dynamic plan facilitator to walk us
through our Dynamic planning process um for this school year um but before we do so um I do think it's very important that we're very clear on what the services are that the facilitator will be able to provide and ensure that it
will meet the needs of our community so before um I seek a approval I again would like to just take a moment to go through exactly what is included currently in the current proposal um and just talk it over with the board
ensuring with the understanding that um the facilitator is more than willing to adjust to meet the needs of our community um so with that understanding I'll just go to the slide where it kind of unpacks what is included in the costs
um and would just love to hear a little bit more about what what we're hoping to see um so that I can ensure that it is included in totality in The Proposal so of course um phase one is this the um phase one and two is data
collection so it would be essentially what you would imagine the stakeholder um input meetings some inperson some virtual some survey but essentially um assessing the current state of the community um and determining where we
might go from there to determine what our goals might be um so this will be as it stands now this is completely facilitated by the facilitator um and that is um phase one
and two I know that the stakeholder imp put is the most important piece of this so I'm going to hover over this component just for a second okay and just get any input and see where the what the will
is so on page the previous page well right up there where it says phase two right now it says District staff will facilitate the stakeholder data collection so we want to make sure that
that specifies that the cons will do that and that's truly the agreement okay because um just um as discuss that component will be really important and I agree with the what the board discussed
last time that there may be hesitancy to give me the same feed B staff might feel a little hesitant to give it to me than they would to a stranger right so we want to make sure that we're getting true authentic feedback so I agree that
in FA too that it will need to be facilitated by the facilit that anything else specifically as far as the stakeholder data collection can you can I'm sorry I'm G
pH just phase one real quick the outcome data collection can you remind me that one one more time so outcome it will it will look back at our current current strategic plan okay um and ideally there would have been annual updates of how we
progress towards the goals we do not have all of those but it will still be the review of what has been done with the previous strategic plan where are we to current to like what way we want to continue working okay and that'll be
done by as it stands uh the facilitator will be doing that component as well okay so then for phase three really want to dig into this one because this is the dreaming andv visioning piece um and this would include a
two-day um facilitator Le board retreat so this is where literally all of us here will have a chance to what in 10 years where do we see Ferndale Public School what's our Dream what's our Dream going so this is with on um so before we even
dig into the data we dream first it's important that we dream before we see the actual data to potentially dispel or change our dream like that
um um so again um that's the first component is dreaming the en visioning which would include the review of the data collection any thought I mean even as far as do we need two days a two-day Retreat is a one day better it's two
days realistic I saw Jackie shake her head do we need to I guess if we're just envisioning and throwing out our vision I don't see us needing two days but maybe there's more to this that it's
just not being so I think one is dreaming and you said two or visioning is actually going into the day dreaming and visioning is a part of the retreat but you just dream before you Vision oh so we also are going to impa unpack the DAT days like dreaming
and then a day is you're go or or dreaming and visioning now looking at and then looking at the data okay then that makes sense two days and again for clarification I unpacking the data that's collected in phase two today
okay phase four strategy development so now um we've had a chance to take a look at all of our data all of the stakeholder input we dreamed we have a vision we know essentially at a very
very high level what our goals need to be now is the strategy development so what exactly do our goals need to be um what is bubbling up from the stakeholder input that needs to be a part of the Strategic or the dynamic plan and it
needs to be bubbling up like what's our strategy to ensure that we capture exactly what the stakeholder input and what our dreams and Visions St so according to the calendar this the strategy development
as it stands will be over the course of actually three or to four months as it say say there's a strategy development meeting December January February a couple in February so it looks like it's building up
there oh my thought was I am unsure of if we need that many strategy development team meetings facilitated by the facilitation so again I'm thinking about cost savings for the community the facilitator does
live out of state so that would include travel virtu you know inperson is much more Rich than a virtual setting um so I think that if we are looking at Cost savings that may be an area we might
want to think about reducing and not reducing the development session but does it need to be facilitated by the facilitator and more than capable just a thought just a minor typle up above November just changing it
to 24 oh okay yeah so so I'm so the four months are of phase four is earlier it's going into like that's number four meeting in
November it actually start from October as it stands now but this is of course assuming we started this process truly in full August so it would definitely need to be some timeline adjustments but
I'm thinking that reducing those amounts pushing them back just a bit m and those are like full day meetings or what are those these are kind of like two hour essentially like I'm picturing PLC
time two hour or if it depending on which group we're meeting with which part of the committee I would think but it is not full day so as of right now do we have it where the facilitators doing these during these four months as of now as like the way
the proposal is written now she's facilitating all of it well I would say if you feel strong enough to do some of the facilitating I personally be okay with that would it be done still virtually there so there are some we hadn't mapped
out which sessions she would facilitate in person which would be virtual um as it stands I believe this proposal speaks of four in person and that also includes those two virtual those two days of the board
Retreat too so two of these already are hurt in person but my thought is that that would be necessary so you're going to discuss with her about okay reduction and it
looks like it's two in each one of those months so they did one and we did one oh mhm that so it's not like your in the full load like here there's two if they did one and we did one like my thought is using her the
like in person the majority of it of for lack of better words the cost would be stakeholder like frontloading the majority of her work to that part in the beginning with the data collection with the stakeholder input Etc yep in
the beginning more in that September October is what like what I will ask the proposal to be updated with the boy when I think I think about the two-day Retreat do you think that's something that we could do like we just give up one of our
Saturdays just so we can instead of utilizing two days worth of her we could do a morning Retreat of dreaming have lunch and then do an afternoon Retreat of visioning yeah if she can make it work in an eight hour in one day give that visit to somewhere else yeah
it might even be possible for us to do pre-work that allows us to accelerate what happens in our time together or even if she's working with you if she was possibly virtual that day and then
you're really just helping with the facility and then we can really just use her for more important meetings that be from the way that the proposal reads right now that's where the bulk will be is travel is be
strategy sessions and things like that so I think that there's some opportunity to scale back in those for sure I feel it's one of those like have her when they the facility when the team first meets to get everybody on board make
sure everybody's good and on the same page almost like towards an end with a illusion but like in the middle to be able to allow set M so she I can almost even Envision so like right now it says this
District so I can proceed at that state phase six like where we're at the refinement phase coming back in is there anything else from The Proposal that kind of stood out to you um I remember the that just the whole piece around the dynamic plan making
that as clear as possible um versus the says a lot of strategic plan and we assume that she's talking about Dynamic plan but ensuring that it's as clear as possible um how this is a living document making it a
dynamic there anything else just want to make sure I think we we talked about whether or not she had a referral for you to talk to someone who had worked like another District that had worked with her one of
the yeah just so you can have that conversation because they also might be able to say give a recommendation in in R this this happened this is her skill set and in retrospect we wish we would have done X
in this area or something like that I don't know I mean it's a mix bag sometimes when you get those references you got someone who's very candid and super helpful and sometimes not and you can usually usually tell but I think there's always something to be said for
doing that diligence so um Miss Wright and I um will meet with Dr Peterson um share this feedback talk through an adjusted proposal um I would assume that would impact um the bottom line cost as well
um once we have the updated proposal I will share with the board for your consideration thank you for that discussion is very helpful for me thank you uh
8.2 Ferndale real estate land swap okay um this is also um another agenda item that was discussed during the committee of the whole um and it was also um an idea that
was um proposed or discussed some years ago prior to co right um um so this this time this actually includes the KCK Center proper the building itself right
recommendation of the super intended that the school board authorized Ferndale Public Schools to reopen discussions of Lance swap with the City of Ferndale that would alleviate the school district of the responsibility of the demolition of the pros Kix Center
and Grant the school district full ownership clean title um of its uh athletic facilities including a portion of the tennis courts the baseball field up to the 50 yard line of the football
field um again this is to reopen negot discussion with the city um and my thoughts are there may be uh although there was draft language um perhaps presented before there may be something
else that you like to see in the agreement since now we're talking about the environmental impact and the demolition of the pro right maybe there's some time langage that we want to include in the deal um so the agenda item is present
for contemplation appr I I don't think you need our approval to Center discussion um I think it I missed Comm of the whole so um yeah just whatever's in we we trust
you to bring back what and negotiate for the what's in the best interest of the district I'm not going to give the final okay but I've had one cursory conversation with the city manager since our committee of the whole and so there's Absol absolutely still interest
um by the U City Council and securing thank you we look forward to hearing how that turns out all right uh item nine informational items any superintend oh you got anything else in your superintend upate
no I do uh 9.1 budget to actual report the budget to actual report for July 31st 2024 and it's early in the year but we're on
track are there any questions no still early so [Laughter] thank you Don thank you right item 10 consideration of any full consent agenda items we didn't have
any item 11 our next Committee of the whole is Tuesday September 3rd 6: PM uh item 12 our next regular board meeting is Monday September 16th 700 p.m.
item 13 Eagles Point surprise comments I guess I'll go first um just want to welcome everyone back uh officially to the start of the school year um I hope everybody had a relaxing summer and has come back refreshed staff
students teachers families um and I also want to acknowledge and thank um Deputy superintendent uh right for coordinating all of the moves and the logistics behind shifting summer school and moving
into the buildings and I know that um it took a lot of work to coordinate that and I appreciate what you and your team have done as well as the staff who had to move during the summer while also working and um making sure that the district still ran in the summer even
though students weren't in the classroom so that's my point of Pride thank you go um I my more I guess comment of just very excited for the new school year excited for uh the new lower elementary opening up um I will say like I hope
that families give everyone patience during this time as it is a new building and everyone will be figuring out the new routes to get to school and from school and everything related to it um but I know it's a lot of work in the background to make sure with all busing and everything else going on um getting
the building ready and everything else with it um but definitely looking forward to being able to start that and having that Vision come come to life with the building so thank you all we'll go next um I'm also just
very excited for this school year we have a lot of plans and ideas that we have been working towards and implementing through your teams that I think we're going to be able to really get our hands dirty this year and be able to do some of the work that
we've been hoping for so I'm just very excited to see our outcomes for our plans this year um I have a lot so um in addition to the summer school programs we also had Middle School
orchestra Camp High School orchestra Camp the marching band was just an inter locking for a week all of those are um all Hands-On deck events so we're super exciting to be at interlockin uh to see
the 2024 halftime show and I encourage everyone to uh catch it at some point I I don't know if the boys soccer team won tonight but they won their first game last week um I want to shout out the
superintendent for walking the tra track with community members this summer and making herself available to the community like that I want to shout out Ann Perry from Pleasant Ridge for designating last weekend's porch oh yeah
event a fundraiser for the marchie band which brought in like6 or $1,700 which is amazing um I want to mention tomorrow's Welcome Back event here uh not here
anymore can't point out to the football field um down at the high school and all the people who are working on that um so it's a super exciting time for the district and um a lot of work goes into
these early days so just grateful to everyone who's putting that time in we go if you would well I'm gonna my point of Pride um is overall the operations team and I work with the teachers so you're you're absolutely right there's a lot of work
that goes into school during the summer you wouldn't believe it and um we're excited that the teachers are back to see some of the work that's been done uh in their classrooms that they requested um but just a big shout out to student transportation also that's ran summer
school transportation and camps and other trips and Partnerships with Pleasant Ridge um um and then the maintenance team right the M the mighty three that's what I like to call them is we have three maintenance uh team members who just getting it done just one work order at a time and our
custodial staff that pulled out Furniture clean carpet put the furniture back all all that good stuff so um and just a big shout out for all the hard work that they've done over this so um I would love to my point of pride is um the leadership team fale
public schools which includes the cabinet Team all of the principles Vice principls um all directors um this summer very few took full vacation like very very few there would be times I would go into buildings thinking I would
be alone the principal will be there with their light on just knocking it out just just working and things like that during their vacation to ensure that the schools are properly staffed clean um um all things operational are
in place they are ready to go the amount of time and work that went into next Monday is is there are no words there are no words and I think that it has made things um while it may feel Rocky a
lot um I just can see Monday I know that it's going to be great and I think that we are incredibly lucky to have type of Educators that will work the way that they work work um and I feel very lucky to be a part of that team so I just want to give them a shout out um and thank
them for all that they did over this summer and it was it was significant in a lot of ways um to get us ready for a strong start to the year um yes so I Echo all of that I I too um want to give a shout out to FIA
and her whole team with all the moves and all of the you know closing a building opening a building reopening the clo building like with all of that happening in the lovely world of social media and I can remember the last time the District closed the building we did not hit this
the airwaves of social media so I can can't tell you how I was just waiting for the day of seeing a desk outside and like 99 comments of like how we put a desk outside okay so um and that's just
like minor right all of those moves and and I mean to Camille to the admin team like I can tell you that I've been in and out of these buildings as well and past the buildings and there's always someone working and it's like Camille will tell you I like it's summer like
take a break and I just I hope that that means that you all are energized and ready for when the kids show up cuz they're coming they sure are and I do to want to Echo what Sarah said please families pack your patience for week one
of school and drop offs with buses and pickups with buses and other families and cars because it's going to we can have the best plan and until you actually walk that route drive that route and compete with
the buses and the cars and the Walkers you never know what it's going to look like so I'm asking please please please it's going to be great when the kids are in the building getting into the building we just want them all to get in there safely so I'm asking please AC your patients on day 1 two 3 and four
because it will change every day will look differently um and to the kids I just want to have an office in the new Elementary building all me too it's bright and colorful and it's
perfect all right so with that um item 14 request to go into close session with the board and superintendent hibler to discuss the superintendent's goal for 2024 or 20
2024 2025 to need a motion for that I will move sheer yes elter yes bmer yes yes president dookie yes thank you thank you we will go in a close session in what
five minutes 4 minutes okay 4 minutes four minutes all right so at 8:55 good night everyone