Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to call the Flint Board of Education special board meeting to order at 05:01PM. Board members, I call your name. Could you please say present for the record? Treasure. Trustee King? Present. Treasure Luna? Present. Vice President McIntyre? Present. Trustee Booze? Present. Secretary Perkins? Present. And myself present. Six present, one absent trustee Rutherford. The board now hear comments from the public. Seeing there's no public to hear comments, we'll move to the next agenda.
Board member, at this time, I need a motion and a second to go into closed session regarding attorney client privilege. So moved. Support. It has been properly moved and second, that we meet in the closed session board member when I call your name, please say yes or no. Georgi Luna? Yes. Trustee King? Yes. Vice president McIntyre? Yes. Trustee Booze? Yes. Secretary Perkins? Yes. And myself, yes. Six yes, one absent. Trustee Rutherford. Board are now to meeting closed session in the small meeting room.
Where you stand at? Right there. Right there. Right there. Oh. Test. Test. That one. Test. Test. Test. Testing one. I would like to call the special board meeting back to order at 05:54PM. I seek approval for the board to follow the attorney's recommendation for the litigation of the settlement. So moved. Support. Support. It's been properly moving second. Are there any questions?
Seeing no question to move, the motion to approve, following the attorney recommendation of a settlement will be conducted by roll call vote. Treasurer Nona? Yes. Trustee Rutherford? Yes. Trustee King? Yes. Vice President McIntyre? Yes. Trustee Booth? Yes. Secretary Perkins? Yes. And myself, yes. Seven yes. Zero no. Seeing no further vision, the board declared the special board meeting to join, at 05:55.
I would like to call the Flint Board of Education Committee of the whole meeting order to order at 09:56PM. Board members, I call your name, state present for the record. Trustee King? You're present. Chair Looney? Present. Trustee Reliquitt? Present. Vice President McIntyre? Present. Trustee Boos? Present. Secretary of purpose? Present. Myself, president McNeil. Seven years, zero absence. The board would not see comment from the public saying there's no public comment and
no one in the audience. We will move to the next item on our agenda. And I turn the floor over to superintendent I'm sorry. Forgive me. I now turn the floor over to trustee Relican for the human resource portion of the agenda. I would like to call the human resource committee of the whole oh, I'm sorry. I would like to call the human resource committee of the whole meeting to order. I will now call upon superintendent Jones to present actions to the board. Thank you, trustee Rutherford. I seek a motion and a second from the board to move resolution 1.3
personnel recommendations to the regular board meeting on February 18. Madam chair. Yes. I move to approve item 1.3. Support. It has been properly moved and supported. Are there any discussion? I have a question. Sure, trustee Boos, go ahead. What is recession of offer? I mean Oh, I understand now. Never mind. Okay. Alright. You withdraw your question. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You sure? They withdraw. No. I'm asking you. Are you withdrawing your question? Yes. Yes. I am. Okay. Alright. Anyone else have any discussion?
Alright. Seeing no further discussion, the motion to move resolution 1.3 personnel recommendation. Okay. You said approve. You said approve. Are we approving this? I made a motion to approve. Oh, you made a motion to approve. Oh. Thank you for the correction. Hold on one second you guys. Seeing no further discussion, the motion to approve resolution 1.3, personal recommendation, will be conducted by a roll call vote. When you hear your name, please say yes or no to approve this motion. Treasurer Luna? Yes. Trustee King? Yes. Vice President McIntyre?
Yes. President McNeil? Yes. Trustee Boos? Yes. Secretary Perkins? Yes. Myself, trustee Rutherford is a yes. Seven yes, zero, no. Like I said, in your board packet, on page five is information item 2.2, retirement and resignation. Do any board members have any questions? Seeing none, I do. I wanna thank the board for allowing, mister Jones to be able to have that conversation with that individual that he desired to have last time we met. I think it's just important that he have the latitude to pull things and have
further discussions based solely upon his discretion. So with that being done, thank you, superintendent Jones. Do you have anything else, mister Jones? Nope. That's it. Thank you. Okay. Seeing anyone else have a discussion? For No, ma'am. Alright. Seeing no further discussion, I declare the human relate the human resource committee of the whole meeting adjourn. I will turn the floor over to, Treasurer Luna for the finance and operation committee of the whole portion of the agenda. It is now 05:59PM.
Wait a minute. I think Yes. Finance and operations. Mhmm. I think we're good then. Okay. Alright. Thank you, trustee Rutherford. You're welcome. Thanks. Alright. I now call the finance and operations committee of the whole meeting to order at 05:59PM. I will now have to call upon superintendent Jones to present action to the board. Thank you, trustee Luna. I seek a motion and a second from the board to move resolution 11.13, authorization to pay an invoice for emergency services at Southwestern to the regular board meeting
on 02/18/2026. This dates back to the December problems we had at Southwestern. Mister chair? Go ahead. I move to approve item 11.13. Support. Alright. It's been moved by trustee King and supported by trustee Booth. Is there any discussion? Oh, this is just for the record. President McNeil? This money that we're looking at, I think, is the one that's gonna be for profit reimbursed by the insurance company. Oh, yeah. Discussion Friday. And so this is Oh, it's coming out of general, but General fuel. Reimburse the insurance.
Awesome. Anyone else? Alright. Seeing no further discussion, the motion to move resolution 11.13. How was it approved? I'm sorry. Approve. The motion to approve 11.13 to pay invoice for emergency services at Southwestern to the sorry. To pay for emergency services at Southwestern will be conducted by a roll call vote. As I call your name, please say yes or no to approve this motion. Trustee Wellerford? Yes. Trustee King? Yes. Vice president McIntyre? Yes. President McNeil? Yes. Trustee Boos? Yes. Secretary Perkins?
Yes. Myself, Treasurer Luna, yes. The vote passes seven zero. Alright. Moving ahead. I seek a motion and a second from the board to move resolution one one point one four, authorization of a proposal to replace a heat exchanger pump and valve at Southwestern to the regular board meeting on 02/18/2026. Mister chair? Go ahead. I move to approve item 11.14. Is there a second? Second. Alright. There's a motion to approve resolution 11.18 by trustee King and supported by secretary Perkins.
Is there any discussion? Mister chair. Please go ahead. I would just ask that we allow the individuals that's doing this work to be here, to be able to speak to it. I just don't feel comfortable just approving it, and they're not here to speak to it like they have been in the past. Okay. Mister Jones, do you think you can address some of the questions, if possible, for this? I I I can't address this. Yes. I I've I've been involved in this conversation, but I do understand the, trustees' acts, but I I would say that we have do you want me to speak to
it? Go ahead. Okay. We have, Point of order. Point of order. We spoke about that in the last No, we didn't. Well, didn't we speak about that in the last session? When we Yes. It was raised. That issue was raised, and we spoke about that in detail. So the the the problems we had before at Southwestern did involve a heat exchanger. Yes. And they they did speak to a heat exchanger. Now the the the unique thing about this heat exchanger is this heat exchanger has
not been changed since the conception of Southwestern. So it's wear and tear. Oh, okay. It's wear and tear. So it's a certain section of the building, and it's causing several classrooms to Get cold heat. Yeah. So we're not we don't have to cancel school because it's it's not, causing the heat to go below, you know, 65 Yeah. Or 68. It was However, the the insurance company has been reached. It was it was it was it was the the insurance However, the the insurance company has been reached, and this is wear and tear, and this is something that
the district has to replace. Right. So we did do our homework with that, as it pertains to trying to get this I tried to get it in under the, you know, the insurance claim that we already have. Mhmm. So this is a heat exchanger. We did get a heat exchanger fixed before. So, it's sort of somewhat the same type of issue but different, but we cannot we cannot get the insurance to pay for it. Okay. So did you have any questions, Joshua Laferre? And I That was I wanted to make sure everyone understood this was something new. It wasn't Okay.
That's why I had, about it. But this is the same thing, but it's just something that we have to we have to pay for it. No reimbursement at all because of personal wear and tear. I just wanted that on the record for the public to hear. Okay. Thank you. Mister chair. Was there anyone else who wanted to speak? Alright. Seeing no further discussion, the motion to approve resolution 11 teen 14 will be conducted by a roll call vote. As I call your name, please say yes or no to approve the motion. Trustee Rutherford? Yes. Trustee King?
Yes. Vice president McIntyre? Yes. President McNeil? Yes. Trustee Boos? Yes. Secretary Perkins? Yes. And myself, treasurer Luna, the motion passes seven zero. Board in your packet on pages 32 to 35 is information. Item 12.1, monthly check register. On page 36 is your information item. 12.2, disbursement by account monthly report. Do any board members have any questions? Mister chair, I would Trust me over. I'm sorry. She President McNell. No. No. Go on. Go ahead. I wanna bring if everyone could look at page two of four, where we it's,
Genesee health plan invoice number one two three. Page what? Could you repeat that? Page two of four on the check register. Oh, it's page two. Page two of four. Oh, two of four. Two of four. I'm sorry. And you go all the way down. It's a 131,640 thousand and 30¢. Everyone see that? My reason for bringing that is because we we're already contracted with Genesee Health Plan. And this action item that's coming up, they're doing the work.
We just they're more than capable of doing the work. And I just wanted to just see what we I wanna wanna pay attention to what we pay them to do, and to get to familiarize ourselves with with them because they've been in the district, I wanna say, since the water crisis, if I'm not mistaken. And I believe we're underutilizing Genesee health plan. So I wanted to everyone to see how much we are paying them. Alright. Thank you. You got it. Anyone else have any questions?
Trustee vice president McIntyre, go ahead. Yeah. And on that page, third from the bottom. It looks like we're paying the city of Flint for fire. Again? And 17,000. This one is $2.00 4. The same page. And I thought I was I was like, this is 17,000. Miss Cleves, are you on? 204. So in my mind now so we might have to take some more direct action
because we'd had a discussion that we weren't going to be reimbursing the city of Flint. We pay tax. Oh, we don't pay that. I mean, we that's their job. And to to to charge us a surcharge for their job, which they haven't done an arson investigation and followed up with it to actually find out who the culprits are that set that fire to hold them accountable. For us to be paying a surcharge of over $17,000 is is absolutely ludicrous and
should be unconscionable for the the city of Flint, and shame on them. So I'm just wondering why it's just sort of there and we just sort of do it as a matter of course, even though it's not the desire of the board. Miss missus Cleeton, did you wanna answer that? Yes. So, we have to like, like, firstly, I just said, we have been paying the invoice. If that's something in the future that we need to hold off on Yeah. Then we can definitely take a look at that, but it came to account payable
to pay that we owe. President McNeil or sorry. Vice president McIntyre, are you done with your question? The board would need to make a motion. Yes. Okay. President Ngo, go ahead. Motion that we do not. This issue came up when we were speaking with some of the representative. There was a flaw, when they they was asking of what the city is doing for us, and we told them about these fire invoices. So I just think that you have to seek a motion, put it on a record, and so that they are not to pay, the fire marsh. Ma'am, Ma'am, sir.
Ma'am, sir. Go ahead, ma'am. Go ahead, professor King. I would I would recommend that we do a governance meeting, put that on the agenda, and we seek legal counsel about our options around, hey. If we do not do x, are we prepared for this? Because knowing people that's in office, I I can see legal being used later down in line, so we could make a statement by saying, hey.
We're not gonna do this. But anyone can make a statement. But also, anybody could put us another court process for, you know, for a reason. And this is a plausible reason. I ain't not paying what it is, and then we have to go through this battle again. I would rather us have a governance meeting. We have a, we talk to attorneys. Here's can we talk about our options? And then we move forward based off that. I hear my colleagues around, hey. We should not have to be doing that. Yes. There's also another argument around, hey. We'll take care of this. Take care of that. I'll phone up the information. Yes. I've, this is is a question that I'm sending out.
There are I know you guys are not aware, but there was a legal opinion concerning this. We have not just follow-up on what you're saying. If that legal opinion is still out there, then we can call back through and see if at least they'll have a copy of this discussion came up. There was a legal opinion about us in these buildings, and we need to make sure until you hear from the board.
Alright. So I see you have a hand up. Are you done with your comments? Yeah. You know, with that being I'll get with that being said, I would highly recommend that we get that legal opinion to review ahead of time. Have our governance meeting, if we need to have conversation around what our options are. And so we prepare for things to come after that that decision is made. I think now, in my opinion, hey, we paid it, cool. We we make it, we making that that concession now, but then we also be prepared as a board together as a unit to understand how we we will be
moving forward in case that happens again. But I don't think we should be going trying to take away something now, but more so let's move forward and get on a get aligned together, and then we can talk about our actions moving forward. That's my opinion. Okay. Secretary Perkins. Well, I'm pretty sure I remember us getting a, opinion from the attorneys when we had to pay that $26,000 for them breaking into the schools and that, the city of Flint. And we just shouldn't be arbitrarily just paying them.
We you know, they they got a onus to show us what we're paying for, and that needs to come across the board. So that's where I'm at. Vice president McIntyre. Yeah. So we did discuss this. We did look over a legal opinion. Attorney Gardner did come to us. It should be available. I'm not sure where it is. We'll have to pull it back up and and re forward it, because it was attorney client privilege. But I'm concerned with the fact that this is actually just in here and has
been paid. And, I think we're gonna have to maybe revise, the check register and reviewing the check register and looking at invoices that that just get automatically paid, because this is very concerning to me. The fact that it was just done. So it looks like we're gonna have to like tighten things up. So, yeah, I'm gonna recommend that we call a special meeting, a special governance meeting
of the whole to address this among other things. And there were a couple of other items that I believe Trustee Luna and King brought up in previous meetings that need to be that they would like to have addressed as well. But this is I'm just how did this happen? What did it happen before we can have Right. I know it did happen. That wasn't my question. My question was how?
How how did it happen? Are are you finished? I asked a question. No. I answered. Okay, sir. I wasn't sure. Yes. I did. I don't know. Miss Cleese, can you speak to that? Sure. So I can share the part of the purchasing process. So what happens is, purchase order is created, the invoice is attached, and then the department head approved the purchase order, and then it goes to accounts payable for So So it it would've went through the process. Who who approved it? Purchasing. Right. Who? Purchasing.
So I can look up to who approved it or all our operations, So alright. So So whoever creates the purchase order to go to the department head to approve to answer your question. Question. The department head Mhmm. Of operations. And I'm still confused. So, like, doesn't don't things come to the board for approval? With, you know, like boilers and pumps and extraneous fees and things.
I mean, I am just, so why did this one get rubber stamped and other ones are brought before the board for approval? Because Mister Johnson? Mister Johnson. Anyone who can answer the question. I'll answer by saying we we pay consumers. Mhmm. We pay bills that come in. And this Those are legitimate. So I I probably won't have an answer that you would like, but I'm gonna tell you what. We we pay consumers, we pay water, and we pay bills that come in. We pay city bills that come in.
There are several city, treasury bills that we pay that's on here. And that's what we do. We pay the bills that that come into the district of consistent things that happen. If the board would like for us to bring every consistent bill that comes in to you, then that's something that we can talk about. But these are I would like to talk about it because consistent isn't being billed for arsons that happen in our district or it should not that should not be a consistent bill. So if I create an invoice and send it into the district, it's gonna get
approved and paid. If I create some I don't know. Shoot. It's just like this school breaking up. So okay. So I I get it. I get it. This isn't you're right. It is not satisfactory to me. The because the answer is, well, it was on an invoice, and it was an invoice that was sent to us, so we paid it. That doesn't make any sense to me because that's not how it works. Then it was stated that this is an invoice that was a regular type of
invoice. No, it's not. Getting charged for arson isn't a regular invoice for the district or it should not be. And I'm concerned about how these kind of decisions are made about things that just, you know, sort of end up not coming before the board. Alright. So I'm trying to wrap my head around what we're gonna have to do policy wise and I can't even believe we're in this position to ensure that this doesn't
happen again. Okay. All right. So I'm done. I'm not Thank you, Vice President McEntire. Thank you. Trust Rutherford Rutherford, I'm gonna be President McNeill next. Next. Miss Cleaves, thank you. It sounds like you received the invoice with supporting documentation. Therefore, you didn't see any outliers. You forwarded on to the process which deals strictly with operations. The board is not operations. The board is the board. Operation is mister Jones.
This invoice looks legitimate. May not like it, but we're in the business of paying our bills because there was a time when Flint schools was known not to pay their bills. If we're going to build a $140,000,000 school, we should be a district that pay their bills. And, if there's a issue, then I I trust that you, miss Cleave, would flag it and take it to the attention bring it to the attention of mister Jones. And mister Jones had the wherewithal to make a very good executive decision as it
relates to the integrity of the district. So, mister Jones, thank you for paying the bill because it's it's the city of Flint. We live in the city of Flint. And, I'm quite sure the documentation supported what it cost. That doesn't seem like a huge price compared to what we paid in the past. But I do believe that if we would have a conversation with the, government of the city of Flint, maybe conversation could lead to some support in some type of
way. But I think this just is, I would say, a customer service and a community relations, type of partnership or collaboration to kind of dissolve something like this. But thank you for paying the invoices. This check registry looks a lot better. So kudos to you and your staff. I wanna make sure that if I criticize, I congratulate you publicly at the same time. Thank you. Thank you. President McNeal, go ahead. I wanna caution my board. We have a board duty as it's come to operation as well as I just
want to do to make sure that operation is doing going forward. In your new policy, as we talk, the state got with us three or four years ago about this. Once a check register is printed, then there's nothing you can do about it because it's printed. I went to the state with this and I've been in court and stuff. So here's what the policy says. Under your neoli policy, this is the responsibility of the board of trust treasury. You're to receive and deposit all district fund, maintain custody of school district account, your
finance financial records and reporting, keep accurate financial records, provide regular finance report to the board often and monthly, prepare annual financial statement. As it comes to the disbursement of fund, you're supposed to pay your bills approved by the board. You sign checks or authorize electronic payment, budget support, assist in preparing in preparing the annual budget, monitor budget compliance throughout the fiscal year, compliance and audit, ensure the compliance
with the state. And it goes on and on in your neota policy. One of the thing is, that they talk about is that when we get this check register, we should not be at the table talking about payments that has processed and went through. It's irrelevant at this point. Because a lot of thing that you have concern about goes to the treasure. Treasure comes out, he reports to us, he's telling us how much money is coming in, where this money is going out.
If there's a issue with a vendor, then you take that back to your committee. But this check register is a final document, and the state don't warn us, and you guys wasn't here. It's a waste of time to argue about the check register because they have their process, how they process checks. If we as a board have a problem and understanding our role is treasured, it's detailed everybody. That's why you have committees. It tells in Neo what that treasure is supposed to do.
And we are looking for that treasury to bring us these information. So if you got a concern about the check with the check register, something on it, then I'm gonna go to mister Jones or you can put it in the communication law. So we're still talking about the cab company and all of this. But we can still go back and look at it. Although operation did it, but we can go back and question those prices and look at the contracts. But you can't do it from this floor right here. Thank you. Thank you.
If anyone else wants to speak, they can go ahead. I can kinda conclude and we'll close it out. So it's a couple of things. Right? Number one, if we get a fine from the city of Flint, I assume it's within their legal rights to issue us a fine. I that that's my assumption. I could be wrong. Wrong. I don't wanna get in the habit of contesting, and then we can get into further mess. I don't like paying having to put money towards a fine that could have otherwise went to the classroom, teachers, or capital improvements.
But with that being said too, the root of the issue is we have 400 acres of vacant properties, many of which that have buildings on them next to students, families, one that's attached to a senior center. So how we get less of these is, number one, we address the root issue, which is vacant, blighted properties within our neighborhoods. I live by one. You live by one. Some of us don't, but I know I do. I see folks break into them, do drugs by them.
It's just a thing. But two, you know, I do think in the interim, it's incumbent upon us to work with the city of Flint to mitigate these issues. They get it. They have their own issues. Right? There's blight throughout every neighborhood that they're responsible for. So I think there's a space for collaboration that's intentional, that addresses short, medium, and long term issues when it comes to these fines and our properties that terrorize neighbors, students, and families. So with that, seeing no further business, I declare the finance and operations committee of
the whole meeting adjourned at 06:24PM. I turn the floor over to president McNeil, for the board committee of the whole portion of the agenda. I seek a motion and a second from the board to move action item 21.2, concentric student reengagement pilot. Madam chair. Second. Madam chair. I was trying to make Oh, wait a minute. What's going on? We got they're back to they've been prompted moving second. What you're trying to? Yeah. We got started. Really, we got to really start to wait until I recognize it more so we
don't get all these conversations. Yeah. If I do not recognize whoever's chairing, if they do not recognize you, you do not have a voice to speak and it's not being rude, it's just Robert Louisa. Thank you. Yeah, madam chair, I wanna make a motion to approve item 21.2. Thank you. I second. Thank you. It'd been propping moving second. Is there any discussion? Yes. So, while I can appreciate Trustee King's enthusiasm, again, this is something that we need to, that I think needs to be moved forward to the next meeting, not approved
tonight. I would like to have discussion and a chance to look at this agenda item. Well, it's open up for discussion now, right? Yeah, correct. Right. But this is to he he made a motion to approve it tonight. We can still discuss it because you have to take it both when we go through or not. Yes, I understand that. My objection is to approving it tonight without moving it forward to the board as a whole, to the regular board meeting.
So That was my objection. Point of order. We have procedural objection, but there can be a discussion. If it doesn't move forward, the the board would vote no, after we or are you trying to make a motion Point of information. Question. Point of information. Question. What's your what's your information is? Are you aware that I'm just having a discussion and and the actual words that I said were what I meant. I'm not making a motion, I'm pointing out that that I'm not in favor of
approving it tonight, that I would prefer to have it moved to the regular board meeting. And that in general, everything that that has been, every motion that has been made tonight has been a motion to approve tonight, as opposed to best practices of moving it to the regular board meeting. With the previous action items, I wasn't adverse to that because we'd had a little,
we'd already discussed some of them. We had, you know, we had special board meetings where some of these items were already discussed and there was ample time for the public to give feedback. But this one in particular, I think needs to have have further discussion and input and time for the public too. Thank you. So I will not be voting for it tonight. I know Concentric has come before this board twice, both with two presentations and answer
our questions and public meetings, actually within the cube. I know for a fact that Doctor. McNeil reached out to me several times to just read this before I came, and I did. I didn't have any questions in particular, so I'm cool with approving this tonight. I will say a couple of things, though. You know, this contract, if I read it correctly, is $105,000 and it's school specific. That's roughly 10.5 students that we need to recruit to pay for this. To me, that's low hanging fruit. The the the the the the the the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the couple years to pay for, you know, programs like this to help compensate teachers, parents, and other staff to help recruit students in the community and around the community. And so think about higher level initiatives where it comes to targeting out ed students, early childhood students, you know. Recording in progress.
Anyways, my point was, this is a very micro initiative. Right? It's school specific. But just as we look at both the broader enrollment and marketing effort, this money is an investment. I think we should look at different things and then combine them together in a cohesive effort. So I'll support this tonight. I've seen the company present twice, do q and a, and I've never read this before I came here, so I'm in full support of this. End the motion. Thank you. Is there anyone else with any Madam chair? Trustee Roecken? Again, I wanna reiterate Genesee Health Plan, community health workers, who we are.
Mister Jones, do you know the I see this is a 131,000 DHEC. How's it going? Wait a minute. I just wanna ask him a question. No. No. This we're on I know. I know that you But you can't change the I'm not changing it. Would you let would you just I got the floor. Please, ma'am. Mister Jones, what is the total price for Genesee Health Plan? I see this $1.31. No. We can't do that. I can do that. Point of order. That request is denied because you're here. Would you please let me finish? Trustee Mallory.
This is not please. I have a pen. Go back today. I'm not going back to Stop it. You're not gonna tell me to stop it. But you gotta let me I have the floor. Point of order. This is not your coming. Point of order. What is your order? And what is your point? When the president is speaking He wasn't determined. Well, you can do something about that too. Take the vote. Call for it. Now the issue the issue is that we're talking about this particular item. That's what I'm talking about. And we can't go back and try to do comparison. We either we're gonna I'm gonna speak.
This is about enrollment. This is about getting it. This money is for the children. And it we did people have been here twice. We are on a deadline. This is a pilot program. We got to start immediately as we had said last night, a $105,000 this district has is for the better outcome of our students and enrollment.
I know we are not sitting here going back and forth when we know two and a half years we got to keep the ball rolling. We bringing in some expert to help with enrollment. Been here twice. There's nothing else really to discuss because the money is not going to pay no light beer, not going to pay any water. It's going to we got 2,700 some kids in this district, and this money is going out to do community engagement and outreach. Why are we having such deep discussion of movement when this proposal been in your
thing for the last four days? And we cannot use this platform to compare contracts with other contracts. So the question on the floor, any discussions as it relates to item number where am I? I still had a floor. 21.2. And I denied it. 21.2. You can't stop me from talking. You cannot. I have the floor. So we already have a contract in place with Genesys order. So why are we adding money to order.
Order. This has nothing to do with Genesis. Yep. Proceed. Because you're getting a kickback. That's why. I I have the floor. To show that. I I have the floor, and I I just want to I just want to say that my objection was purely procedural. I am enthusiastically in support of this program. And so I don't want it to seem like I'm just, you know, putting up objections to this. So I withdraw my whatever my I mean, I didn't have anything formal, you know, that I applied anyway.
But what I'd like to say is that I will vote for this because I do think it needs to be voted for and and done, done quickly. I just wanted to, you know, keep up appearances or not not appearances, but to show that we're being transparent and we're providing time for feedback and doing things according to best practices. There's nothing that we're hiding from anybody, and your, trustee Luna is right. We've had ample opportunity to, you know, to to look at their present at least,
you know, and I'm Just wanted to say that, I read it. I'm all for it, and I think it would be advantageous for us to move forward. Seeing no further discussion, the motion to move action item 21.2 consent to student engagement pilot will be conducted by rules of motion.
Yeah. To approve it. Oh, yeah. To prove it. So we're going for approval of 21.12. Secretary of Perkins. Yes. Trustee Booth. Yes. Vice President McIntyre. Yes. Trustee King. Yes. Treasurer Looney. Yes. Trustee Relative. No. And myself, yes. Six yes, one no. Motion passed. I just wanted to say I went over to Southwestern this morning. We had the parent engagement, and and I I opened it up because I had to dash over to my local. Because as you know, it's been eighty nine years today that we became organized labor
across the country. And the union hall was packed. Everybody from the prosecutor to the treasurer, the county clerk, everybody was there. And, judges, everybody. So it was a great turnout, and it just showed the solidarity. And I want us to emulate solidarity across this school board and everywhere else because, you know, we we supposed to be one voice working together for the betterment of these scholars, and that's where I'm at. So thank you.
Madam chair. Proceed. As as as a trustee, I don't go along to get along. I use my own mind. I want the public to understand that I am not a part of a corporation. I'm a part of a board. I do not I am not someone's board member. I am a member of the Flint Board of Education. When something comes before this board and I know we're not being responsible with money, I'm going to speak to it. So when you hear me comment, it's factual.
So I don't care if individuals don't agree with me because I don't agree with them. But what I will not do, I will not cow down to a dictator. I will not. So I want the public to understand that I'm elected to represent the people, not my purse, not my pocket, not to add to my resume, but to see that the students, the faculty, and this community get the best out of me that they could possibly get.
And I challenge all of you, if you're having a concern, to have a conversation with superintendent Jones. And superintendent Jones would make sure that that information get to the entire board so you don't have to worry about it being filtered. Thank you. Are there any more Manager? Yeah. I do wanna, give a couple shout outs. So the the federal flood budget, which is the transportation, housing, urban development budget passed house, about two weeks ago.
So I do wanna thank mister Jones, mister Jamerson, mister Parker, and our lobbyists, specifically Omar Sims, for kind of supporting that effort. I know we talked about a while ago about how we make investments that seem a lot. But as we work to work with enrollment consultants, our lobbyists, that money we spend on them does have a return if we're successful. So thank you all for that. Number two, I know it's a dead horse, but I'd be constantly, but, you know, we all get these calls about blight. The one I got two weeks ago was from the Brennan Center, from their director.
It is kinda being talked over about how we can help them out because Stewart is attached to that, and it's right by the parking lot where seniors Park has to answer it. I know that we're looking at how we can work with our partners to mitigate, homeless and vagrants from doing things around there. I guess, last month, there's folks who were, like, living in Stuart or plugging their electricity into Brennan. So it's been an issue for them, but it's being addressed, I think, in a proactive manner. Thank you for that too, mister Jones. I appreciate it. Thank you. Anyone else? I would like to say I enjoyed the presentation yesterday about the, you know, the
progress of the site. You know, that was enlightening to me because it seemed like it's been so long since we, you know, have even been close to moving forward to having a new high school. It's been years. You know, we just dealing with over twenty years of neglect, you know, with the Flint schools, with the properties and everything. But it was nice to hear that they are moving forward on cleaning that property up so we can see demolition. Now, demolition gonna be exciting.
I wanna see some some brick coming now. Yes. Any more comments? I'm gonna speak to the public because my name has been definition of character on my name. I'm seeing an investigation. I've been accused of a kickback. On tape. I want to I need an investigation to show if I'm taking a kickback. I'm a 6 figure woman. I don't traveling big for nothing. I don't borrow nothing from nobody. I don't eat off another person's table. I can handle myself.
I don't need a kickback. I don't get evicted. I pay my bills. And everything I get, I get from the sweat of my bra. I find it very, very offensive that I am accused of moving this district forward and this board trying to do the best for this district. Get the kids together. Get the teachers together. And someone stood to a stoops to a level and accused me of kickback. I want an investigation done, and we'll pursue with a lawsuit.
If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. If you're wrong, you're wrong. It's one thing to get angry, but to sit up and tell a lie on a board member and a public event. As a man thinking in his heart, so is he. When you're so broke, you can't pay attention. This is what results of it. On this note, this board is meeting is adjourned. Our next meeting is February 2026. June.