[Music] Hey, good afternoon. How you doing? I'm fine. Okay. I would like to call the Flint Board of Education regular board meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Board members, as I call
your name, please reply present for the record. Trusty E King, Treasurer Luna, present. Trusty Viper, present. Vice President McIntyre present. Assistant Secretary Treasurer Moose present. Secretary Perkins present. Myself
President Mike Neil present. Six present, one absent. I would now call upon Secretary Perkins to read the district mission statement and first statement and the standards of practice. Okay. District mission statement. It is the
mission of the Flint School District to develop a community of learners who are prepared to live, work, and contribute in an everchanging society. The Flint Board of Education standards of practice in order to provide outstanding
leadership and better serve the Flint Community Schools. We, the members of the Flint Board of Education, commit to the following standards of practice. Number one, we will be consistent in our dealings with each other as well as
students, staff, and community. We will model trustworthiness and honesty in our relationship with each other, with our superintendent, and with our constituents. We will focus on a common goal of
providing the best education possible for the students in the Flint Community Schools. We will respect the diverse views that each of us bring to the organization as well as the view of others that we interact with as we carry out the business of the board of
education. We'll be open and authentic with each other, our staff and community. As we work to make decisions, we will focus on issues, not personalities. Our decision Oh, go ahead. Our decisions
will be student centered and based on objective facts. We will practice good listening skills to better understand our fellow board of education members and constituents. Thank you very much. I
seek a motion and a second to approve the minutes from the April the 8, 2025 board committee of the whole meeting. April the 16, 2025 regular board meeting and the April 28, 2025 special board
meeting. So moved. Support. It has been properly moved and second. Are there any correction? Seeing none, the motion to approve the minutes from the April 8, 2025 committee of the whole meeting, the
April 16, 2025 regular board meeting and the April 2825 special board meeting will be conducted by roll call vote. Board members, I call your name. Please say yes or no for the record. Secretary Perkins, yes. Trustee Booze, yes. Vice
President McIntyre, yes. Trustee Refer, yes. Trustee King, yes. Treasure Luna. Yes. Myself, President Mike Neil. Seven yes. Zero no. The board will now hear comments from the public. We ask that you state the reason for addressing the
board and that you limit your remarks to three minutes on matter within authority of the board and not address individual by name. The presiding office of the board should have the right to limit the number of person who may address the board on the same subject. Please state
your name before beginning to speak. Is there anyone from the public who wishes to address the board? Seeing none, at this time, there's a misprint in here. This person is we're skipping
E. I would like to ask Superintendent Jones to proceed with the enrollment and recruitment initiative briefing. Yes. Thank you, board of education. Um just wanted to update you on a few things. Uh first of all, Mr. Green will be doing
his presentation in June per his uh contract. He will be presenting to you all in June. Uh if there is a meeting that the board decides to schedule before then he uh I did talk to him today. He is willing to have any conversation that the board would like
to have. So he is coming in June to do the presentation. he's been meeting with our team uh with about data and um that's when that's when he's coming forward. Okay. Um so what I wanted to make sure uh I want to keep you up to
date with our enrollment initiative and recruitment. I sent you today uh some of the work we've done so far. Uh myself and Miss Montgomery uh was on Mid Michigan Now uh yesterday. That's going to run uh for uh at least the next two
months. Good. Um, we we also uh have three commercials uh that's going to be running as well. So far, we're going to have more. Every school's going to have their own commercial uh that's going to be running to highlight again, we're targeting the schools, not the district.
Um as as you all know, families don't join districts, they join schools, right? Uh so uh we've been in schools for the last couple of weeks since we talked uh filming and making sure uh that we had our media team. Uh Miss Kim
Willis has been very very very very busy uh making sure that things are happening. So um just a brief video of some of the work that's going on. Just one of the videos that we're putting out tomorrow uh along with uh a school videos that you're going to see uh after
that. So, Stephen, I want you to play this video and then I want you to show uh the homes video as well. And uh also before you do that, um tomorrow we'll be on the radio uh myself and Miss uh Montgomery again talking about the
recruitment efforts. Uh we're we're we're getting some feedback and we're going to take down the data of of what it looks like. Uh how many uh views and all of that information that you asked for. We're taking that information down as we go. Uh before I show any videos,
are there any questions about the enrollment and recruitment initiative that we can help with? If not, you can always email me. You know that or give me a call. We have yard signs coming. Uh Miss Booze, I know you've been asking about that. Um we're
we're getting the event list together. So, if there's events you want to participate in, uh let me know. uh so that you can be at the popup events and tables as well. Uh everyone's going to be a part, the principles, community school directors, attendance agents,
central office, everyone. Yes, that's a good point you made. Any event that if I want to be at an event, would I have accessibility maybe like and pick up a table or something like that? Uh I wouldn't let you pick up a table, Dr. Joyce, but we we can make sure that we
have what we need. Yes. Okay. Yes. Just give you a call to help and let me know. So if we we can have a teacher or principal there as well if if there's an event that we believe that will be impactful for the district just let me know. Okay. Thank you. So, here's one video just highlighting
um north the north end. Two videos that's going to [Music] highlight showing some of the up-to-date work at Bronnell. [Music]
This video here is for social sites Tik Tok, uh, Facebook X and it will be on our website as well.
[Music] Flint Community Schools is still the
best choice. And the next video is uh one of our principal videos uh that's in draft. Uh but I wanted to make sure you can see the draft. Moore. Yes. Hello, my name is Moore. I
am the Esteemed principal at the Premier Middle School Home STEM Middle School Academy home. Hello, my name is Diana Moore. I am the esteemed principal at the Premier Middle School Home STEM Middle School Academy. Home STEM Middle School chapter of the National Junior
Honor Society. So, we are proud to announce our first class of inductees was held May 14th, 2025. We look forward to another great year with our inductees and those that are to come. Well, at the Premier Middle School, Home STEM Middle
School Academy, we have brand new classroom furniturees. All the classrooms have been painted. We have new lighting. We have new HVAC system. Therefore, we have air. So, in hot days, we under the air conditioner. We have a
brand new office in the front. We have a secure vest of view. We have upgraded technology. We have updated our gym facility. We are enrolling students now. You can come in. You can go online. You can start the pre-enrollment process. We
look forward to having all new enrollies for the 2025 2026 school year. We want all your children bring them on back here to Homestead. That's what you going to hear on every video. Um so we we wanted to highlight the princip. So, those are just a couple of
videos. Every school will have one. We're just underway. We're underway. And so, we just wanted to make sure you all were able to see those. Any questions or thoughts? Yeah. Superintendent. Uh, is there a way that you could send
that video out to the board so we can post it on our own social media? Absolutely. Great. Superintendent. Also, um, when you talk about the STEM, some of the the parents may not know exactly what that means. If you could put that
in there about the six weeks to 8th grade. Okay. That would be important. I think Mr. Jones, I would like to see paraphernalia are, you know, um, the jackets and the logos in either students and those that's talking. I think that
would make a statement. some of our students in their spirit wear spiritware and then the um the administrators or teachers in like a I guess everyone has a fleece or something with um Flint Schools or something like that. I think that that will help.
All right. Thank you, board president. Thank you. U please continue with the action item. All right. I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 1.13 personnel recommendations. Uh madam chair. Yes. I make a motion to
approve item 1.3. It has been properly moved and second. Is there any discussions? Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Thank you. Trusty Luna. Yeah. I was just wait. Is that me? Okay. I was just going
to say I think it's a good choice the individual you pick but also the position will be very useful as you move forward with these new initiatives whether it be enrollment this high school uh the ongoing and future renovations and just having better help
for you to leave the district. So good job on doing that and getting that filled. Thank you. Got it. Trusty Rifford. Hi. Um I just questions just for the retirements and also the um resignations. I didn't see those questions on the Say that again. I'm
sorry. Retirement and it was one retirement looks like for the district and then we had two resignations. I didn't see that. Maybe I overlooked it. Miss Montgomery, um, she's asking for the Say it again. It was in last week's
packet. Okay. Okay. So, Miss Beer, please make a note to make sure to send that to the board members uh from last week's packet. Thank you. Does that help, Miss? All right.
Are there any more questions or comments? Seeing no further discussion, the motion to approve resolution 1.13, personnel recommendations, will be conducted by a roll call vote. As I call your name, please say yes or no to approve the motion. Secretary Perkins,
yes. Trustee Booze, yes. Vice President McIntyre, yes. Trustee Rifford, yes. Trusty King, yes. Treasure Luna, yes. Myself, President Magnus, 67. Yes. Zero. No. I seek a motion and a second from the
board to approve resolution 11.8, authorization to move Nether Cut to Freeman. Still moved. support. It has been properly moved and second. Is there any discussion? Seeing no further discussion, the motion to approve resolution 11.8, authorization to move
Nether Godard to Freeman be conducted by roll call vote for members. I call your name. See you yes or no for the record. Secretary Perkins, yes. Trustee Booze, yes. Vice President McIntyre, yes. Trustee Ruleford, yes. Trustee King, yes. Treasurer Luna. Yes. And myself,
President McNeel. Seven. Yes. Zero. No. Right. I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 11.9 authorization to move ALA to Southwestern. So, support. It has been properly moved
and second. Is there any discussion? Seeing no further discussion, the motion to approve resolution 11.9 authorization to move ALA to Southwest conducted by roll call vote. Board members, as I call your name, please say yes or no for the record.
Treasurer Luna, yes. Trustee King, yes. Trustee Rifer, yes. Vice President McIntyre, yes. Trustee Booze, yes. Secretary Perkins, myself, President McNeel, seven yes, zero, no. Madame President,
yes. Seek a motion to batch items 11 11 um is it 11 11.8? No, no, no, we already did eight and nine. I want 11.10 through 11.19. Okay, hold on.
11.4. There's a motion on the floor to batch 11.110 through 11.19. Yeah. 19 11.19 19. Yeah. Yeah. It's supported by King.
Is there any discussion, Madam Chair? Yes. Uh my my re reason for batching is we had a very lengthy discussion um last week during the cow and I don't think any other uh questions came up. So just um to that was my
reason for requesting the batch. Thank you. Is there any more question? The motion to batch 11.10 to 11.19 will be conducted by roll call vote. Secretary Perkins, yes. Trusty
Booze, yes. Vice President McIntyre, yes. Trustee Rutherford, yes. Trustee King, yes. Treasury Luna, yes. Myself, President McNeel. Seven. Yes. Zero. No. Thank you. No. Madam Chair, I make a
motion to approve the bash item. Thank you. Support. If been properly moved and support any discussion, Madam Chair. Yes. I just have one comment. I don't know when in the future, but maybe sometime in the future, you and
the superintendent, if a lot of these items were discussed thoroughly in the cow, can we maybe put them in a consent agenda where we just approve it in one kind of vote? Again, I know we haven't done that these last couple years, but just something to consider in the future
if a lot of these questions have been answered because essentially a consent agenda is approving the batch items, but just using that different phrase. So just you know something to consider in the future you know based on the board I I think that's a good idea especially
after we conducted in the cow. I don't like doing bad doing the cow because I like for the public to hear everything uh and it's not there that we badge and they don't get an opportunity uh to hear it. But once we do cow and we coming in
here just to do action, I don't see a problem uh doing a consensus uh uh agenda, but it's the pleasure of the board. Thank you. Any more comments? I think that's right.
Thought I did. Oh. to approve the badge. We did. Okay. The motion to approve the badge 110 to 119 will be conducted by roll call vote. Charger Luna, yes. Trustee
King, yes. Trusty Rifer, yes. Vice President McIntyre, yes. Trustee Booze, yes. Secretary Perin, yes. And myself is a yes. Seven. Yes. Okay. Um, I seek a motion and a second
from the board to approve item 21.20, approval of consulting proposal from Dr. Wanda Cook Robinson. Madam Chair, support. It been properly moved and
supported. Is there any discussion? I lost my place. And and would the board like to hear from Dr. Cook? Yes. Yes. If you can come up, please. Dr. Robinson. page that Yeah. And the proposes on page 81 if you want
to hear evening. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Mic is on, but I don't know if I need a mic. I'll use my teacher voice. Okay. If that will work. That's fine. Hopefully we bring in a room. Are are there any questions board members that
you have for uh Dr. Robinson? Yeah, I do. Dr. Cook Robinson, could you explain the U mentorship program with the A MASA? Yeah, with ML MLI MLI. Come on. Yes. MLI provides
coaches, executive coaches, and support for super singing superintendent. But each program is unique. What I will be doing is sitting down with Superintendent Jones and we'll be looking at his role as superintendent. Then we'll look at his skill set in each
of those areas and we'll decide where he needs support, where he does not need support. We'll talk about the basics, the ABCs of being a superintendent. As you know, no superintendency is the same because the context is different. So he
and I will put together a personalized plan of which he will be able to share with the board and he will be able to tell you these are the things that we're going to work on in phase one. This is what we'll work on in phase two and then he will also be able to come back and share with you these are the things that
Dr. Cook I and I Dr. Cook and I worked on and then he can tell you I didn't like this and I didn't like he tell you how you do too. Okay, sounds good. Yeah. Are there any more questions? Good question. Madam Chair, who's it? Trusty
Rford. Is it Cook Robinson or Cook Robinson? But I answer anything. No, I'm I'mma call you what what the government wants you to be called or what you earned. Um, hearing that, which is a great thing. I
um from my perspective, we have a lot of vendors in the district and one of and I actually sent this to Mr. Jones today and I just I I don't know but I would ask that if there's any overlap, you know, to kind of streamline because we
have a lot of moving pieces in the district and um my ask of you is are you able to say we don't need this? Am I able to if you see something that you know we don't need, are you can can I'm just going to speak for me. Can I
depend on you to say we don't need this? If I'm empowered by the superintendent to do so, understand my role in the district is to be a tool to the superintendent. If he empowers me and lets me loose, I will definitely do that. In fact, Kelly and I have already started looking at some ways that we
think some things should be interdependent, okay, that are there, okay? But again, I am not an independent agent that comes to Flint and starts to make decisions and those things. But if he empowers me as I work with Kelly to identify those things and forward it to
him, I will absolutely do that. Will you make suggestions? Yes, if I'm empowered to do so. I want to be clear. I'm his tool. If he says, "Dr. Cook Robinson, this is the area that I I need you to work in when you're working with Kelly and the team and all, then I
got to stay in my lane. But if he empowers me to get out of my lane a little bit, I will certainly, you know, I will do that." All right. I guess one of the things you don't know what you don't know and with your experience and being a consultant for him, he can only
get better by utilizing your experience in some areas and and um just hearing your wisdom. I mean, you've been there. So, I guess um you coming on, I'm looking at you as an asset to the district to kind of curtail some backst
steps that we may, you know, run into because we we got a heavy lift coming these next three, four years. Absolutely. And um to have Superintendent Jones as sharp as possible and to be able to delegate things to keep his focus on the main
thing, which is student growth also. But, um you know, he's going to be stretched. So, I'm just looking to for you to come on to come on to be able to help, you know, and I I guess for me, I
I don't want you to feel like, well, I can't say anything. I mean, okay, that's that's the purpose of you, you know, being here because you can identify some things that we would be oblivious to. So, I'm in full support of you coming on board, but I just want you to move help
us move the needle, if you will. Thank you. Again, you know, I'm a tool for this superintendent, but you know, when he and I are having our sessions together confidentially, I might say some things to him that I might not say publicly, and you know, he will internalize those and look at how he
wants to use those, but publicly when he sends me out in the district, he has to empower me to identify those things. The staff has to know that that's my role. He has to empower me and tell the staff that and for me to bring it back. But what most impressed me to take this on
was that when I met Kevlan, he's not afraid to say what he doesn't know. That's good. He is not afraid of that. And I said, I can work with that. Because you know, some people know everything, if you know what I mean. But he is not one of those individuals. And if he doesn't know, in fact, we've had some conversations and he said, I
haven't experienced that. What is that like? And we have those conversations. So if the board will empower him to empower me, that would be great. You got it. You got it. Trusty Perkins, I just wanted to say I
really like the name of the new Flint Community University High School. I thought that was really, you know, a drawing card. And uh I I really like that. I think that'll give incentive for the scholars to come. Well, we're going
to need our vice president to help us with the University of Michigan Flint. I'd like to see the University of Michigan Flint. I'd like to see Michigan State. And for the engineering, I want to see Lawrence Technological University. If you're familiar with Lawrence Tech down in Detroit, they're
the top 5% of engineering um colleges in the country. And I had lunch with their vice president yesterday and told them about Flint and they're ready to have that conver. All right. Well, praise God for that. Yeah. Uh I think we all know your like
background and resume but could you just share a bit of highlights of what is your experience in K12 education? How much time y'all got? You know you just I would love to I would love to. Well, let me tell you a little bit about my credentials. I have a bachelor's degree
and from Michigan State University in special education. Go green. Uh with a minor in fine arts and social studies. I have a master's degree from the University of Michigan in curriculum. Go Blue. Curriculum Development and Supervision. I have an ED specialist
degree from Wayne State University with approvals as a supervisor of special education, a teacher consultant of special education, and director of special education. I have a PhD in instructional technology. My PhD was in
program evaluation and my minor is organizational development. From there, um, I taught for a number of years, 10 years, special education at Mcomering Intermediate School District where I had an opportunity to teach
special ed emotionally impaired boys 11 and a half to 17 and from there I went to work in curriculum and moved over to Oakland schools from Mccoming immediate over to Oakland where I became their curriculum resource consultant. There I worked in
professional development, training and particularly training and professional development with adults. While there, I held several positions including department director for the instructional services unit and then assistant superintendent for performance
and instruction and that was for the entire county of Oakland. I then was promoted to associate superintendent and from there I went to Southfield because I wanted to be a urban superintendent. So I went to Southfield as their associate superintendent for curriculum
because curriculum is my first love and was able to move into the superintendency and I was superintendent for Southville public schools for 10 years. While we were there we were the first in Michigan um to
um do AYP in a fashion that earned us a credential. I developed University High School which was a partnership again Vice President McIntyre with the University of Michigan Dearbornne where we had two schools. I had a university
high school I had a university K8 MacArthur K8 and those two schools were fever schools. Our first year, our university high school made the top 10 in the state. And their graduating class, and you can imagine when you get parents to want to
come and do a new school, it was like twisted arms. But the first graduating class of 66 students earned 3.6 million in scholarships, including a gate scholar. My regular high school, which was Southfield, where I had 400
students, only earned 3.1. So very very successful. From there I decided that I when I grew up I wanted to be an ISD superintendent. So I went back to Oakland schools where I became the first
African-American woman and individual to be an ISD superintendent in the state of Michigan. I was very proud to be able to um assume that position and I had 28 local districts, 21 charter schools, and
about 240,000 students. While there, I was fortunate. I was superintendent of the year for the state of Michigan in 2013, a national finalist for that position in the country, and then in 2021, I was superintendent of the year for AASA in the country. Oh lord. I was
also You scared me. I was also um recognized by cranes in 2021. Every five years they recognize the top 100 women in the state and in 2021 I was named in that cohort along with our governor.
Madam chair, the reason I asked hear about her background is because we got friends people we we work in politics. Anyone can call themselves a consultant. I mean like I can call myself a consultant right now. I'm not. But this woman has a deep experience
both academically but also leading multiple organizations, schools, districts. I want the people to know that we're not we're not hiring someone off the streets. We're having someone who's very experienced who can work with our superintendent to advance our students and their achievement.
Thank you. You're welcome. Anyone else? Madam Chair, I want to go back to her. I just want to make one comment. Oh, let me get dark because you spoke before. I don't want Okay. You sure? It's just one thing. Okay. We have Ketering. I I I cannot not admit we have Ketering um
University right around the corner from us, which is one of the best. So, we got So, we need to get them involved. Yes. I hear you. Yes. They are recruiting. We have I think I saw two in the last two years, we had three students that got a full ride. And I think a gend one of our
graduates last year he won the bill of Melinda Gates and I think we're doing very well in um recipients Flint Schools with the Bill of Melinda Gates. So I I I think we I think from top of my head I can count about five scholars that have won it throughout the district. So we
definitely got some good fertilizer soil for you to uh get your hands dirty in. So welcome aboard. Thank you. Thank you Trusty Booth. Yes, Dr. Cook. I had a chance to uh meet with you and talk with you in uh December. Yes. And you
provided us with a lot of uh information and I want to thank you for taking time to come, you know, to share with us that Saturday. It was a long day, but we had a great we had great conversation. So, I feel confident in you uh you know,
helping us to um lead us to a successful school. Thank you. you spoke on Justine. Yeah. And thank you so much for uh braving the the bad weather and the rain to to come
here um at the invitation of the superintendent. And I'm really pleased that you're just able to be here. I know it's it's it's not necessary, but it's very much welcome. Um, I would love to just highlight the fact that we had I at
least in my opinion um an incredibly energetic, empowering meeting Saturday morning um a workshop that was public but we only had one member of the public who was able to attend. So I just kind of want to to say it in this meeting as
well to say that um we had a lot of excitement. We had a lot of stakeholders. Um, was it I'm sorry, Monday. I'm see Monday. Saturday was exciting, too. Saturday was exciting, too. Okay. Uh, Monday. I'm losing track of my days. I'm
sorry. I've been out of power since Thursday night, and it's kind of put me in a loop. Um, but yes. Uh, and also referencing, um, our our retreat, our board retreat that you were at. Um, so it's not like you're a
stranger to the district. You've been here helping us do the work kind of behind the scenes. Um, I know you've been a a big supporter and cheerleader. Um, it's helped in our relationship with the GISD, with Dr. Tunnyl, and also with
the MDE because your reputation precedes you. So, having you on our side helps us secure the grants, secure um foundation money. Um it's you're kind of the glue that's helping us, you know, pull things
together. Um and when we talked about the campus, the new the possibilities Yes. that are there for this district, you said something I've I've been saying for a while that there's a window of opportunity and we have to take
advantage of this. We owe our community, we owe our students, we owe our family. We owe Flint this this uh this work. We finally have a chance to build something
great to bring community schools back. Um we had, you know, another discussion about that. We're going to make a new high school, maybe a campus, you know, involving the cultural center, the planetarium. I mean, we this the sky's is the limit, but we also need input
from the community. This is a community project, right? And I've always said that even if you don't have students or or children who go to the schools, community schools is about community, right? It's about adult education, continuing education. It's about just
having a space for us to come together as a community. And so I just kind of wanted to highlight that because, you know, not everybody can make all of these meetings. Our our board retreat was open, but that, you know, that was that was a while ago. and it was also um
uh a little farther away and then our Monday night. So, we're going to try to have as many meetings open to the public um you know to get people involved and we're we're calling out to the public to to get involved because this is a very
exciting time. So, thank you. Say I the last one. Uh well, go ahead, Miss Perkins. I just wanted to say I wanted to know what was the name of the national award that you and Sister Tracy Davis got. Oh, I forgot
that one. Yeah. Yes. It was the Effie Jones Award. The Effie Jones Award is given to an AfricanAmerican administrator who has presented their district in a positive light and they have accomplished something innovative
in their district. And I received it back in 2021. Effie Jones was one of the first African-American superintendents in the country. She is in the congressional record of 1989 along with the 22. But an interesting fact, the first
African-American woman superintendent came out of Michigan. All right. And what year did uh Sister Davis get hers? I think she got it in 24 or 25. I was on the stage with her, so it must have been
it must have been this past year. Okay. And I just and I just got inspired. I mean, and all with all your credentials and when you specialize in curriculum, I think that's that's the heart and the
crux. And when you also said you weren't worried because Miss Davis is expert in data. Yes. That really, you know, drove it home for me. And that's why I made the statement that since you weren't worried about that because she was
there, that made me feel real good and real safe. Thank you so much. Thank you. Well, all these accolades and stuff. Uh but I the reason we are speaking like we're speaking because the public did not get to hear a lot of things that was
going on in the back and um when we first start this initiative uh trying to have a retreat in order to have a retreat we had uh to bring uh bring people together that uh was torn apart.
Uh we had to build a relationship up and we started out with a game. I just want to let you know how we got here. Rolling, what do you call it? Rolling, not scrolling. Her husband didn't uh invented this game because uh we wanted to be able to work with our partners and
down through the years um that was uh a big wedge against us. We had our own ideas about who these peoples are. But her husband and friend invented this game. You couldn't be on your cell phone. You go from table to table. We
had Beecher. We had GISD uh uh Hamdy uh Superintendent Luna uh Cliff and we really got to know each other. Trustee um uh King was there, some of the uh
board member was there and we started building that relationship and one of the president at GISD then we start to talk about a retreat. Uh but we had to be a relationship before we can get to where you was at. And um we began to build in that relationship. We had to
retreat. We wanted to publicly be there, but we needed space in place where we can have those conversation. And then I met with Dr. Rice uh a few years ago when I was the president and had a little power with him, but he he gave me
information. and everybody that has came forth in my present, I took their advice and he began to teach us how to be a relationship and how to work with our superintendent. So, here we are now. We there to retreat. I really appreciate you what you have done uh for the first
time in my I've been on the board five years like I said in the first time in history that we have you have something to say. Oh, I thought you were saying something. So for the first time in history, we have an opportunity to be a certified board. Took a lot of work. Oh yes.
Congratulations. Yeah. I um before maybe before three or four years ago, we uh we took a initiative that in order for we just didn't want to be traveling just going on you know a lot of time you go on trips and stuff
but we want to make it rewarding worthwhile. So all our board member became a level one. We have probably level two, three, and fours probably going into vice. So, um, working with Superintendent Jones, uh, we began to build this partnership and relationship,
and we now it's just time for the, uh, the public to really see why we was traveling, what we was doing. We was building relationship. Um, Mr. Parker told me about you and and then and so when the top people are telling you who
to talk to and then I went we went out to Vegas and I get this call you need this lady called me and they called her and it happened to be Tracy Davis. You need to listen to her. So I think we got a great great big team here. Uh you're
working with the superintendent. Uh I'm I'm one of the quickest persons. I have a MPA and all of that and PhD. But um it's okay to say I'm ignorant certain things and we've been running these boards the same old way, the same old way and I think that she does the board.
She doesn't cross over right now. So uh she's training with us. I have learned a lot that we're working with and we're doing. So all because it started with the uh retreat building that relationship and I have to say uh Superintendent Jones has been with us
working with us and now we going to the greatest phase of this retreat is getting that building up. So I appreciate you. Nice seeing you again. Thank you. I don't have any more question. We just won't keep going on and on. Mr. Jones, do you want to say a final remark? Um I think it's all been
stated. Um the mentorship is a piece of the work. um really getting us ready for programming for what the future looks like for Flint Community Schools. Uh trying to bring an end to the drop uh where we are finding that our scholars
are uh leaving at the sixth seventh grade uh level. Um that is a big piece of the work of why we have uh Dr. Robinson here is making sure that we're looking at models in this district that will work and with your empowerment
board of education u Dr. Wanda Cook Robinson is going to be supporting me to do that and um working with um our new CIO and our academic department to make that dream a reality. She's already thank you for the
opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, seeing no further discussion, a motion to approve item 21.20, approval of consulting proposal for Dr. Wanda Cook Robinson, will be conducted by roll call vote. Board
members, I call your name. Could you please say yes or no for the record? Treasurer Luna, yes. Trustee King, yes. Vice President McIntyre, yes. Trusty Reford, yes. Trustee Booze, yes. Secretary Perkins. Yes. Myself,
President Mike Neil. Seven. Yes. The motion pass. All right. All right. Continue. Mr. Academic. Yeah. Resolution 25.3. I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution
25.3 authorization to implement the minor services policy through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Grant FY25. Some move to support. It has been promptly moved and second. Is there any discussion?
Seeing no further discussion, a motion to approve resolution 25.3, authorization to implement the minor service policy through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Service Nurses Grant FY25 conducted by roll call vote. Secretary Perkins, yes. Trustee
Booze, yes. Vice President McIntyre, yes. Trustee Reford, yes. Trusty King, yes. Treasure Luna, yes. Myself, President Mike Neil, seven, yes. Zero, no. I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 25.4
authorization to roll out lab testing policies. So move support. It has been promptly moved and second. Is there any discussions? Seeing no further discussion with the motion to approve
resolution 25.4 authorization to roll out lab testing policy will be conducted by roll call vote. Board members I call your name. Could you please say yes or no for the record? Trustee rele yes. Trustee King, yes. Treasurer Luna, yes.
Secretary Perkins, yes. Trustee Booth, yes. Vice President McIntyre, yes. Myself, President McNeel, seven, yes. Zero, no. Let's end that part. Board members, we're going into remarks from um
individual board member. Do any board member have any comments or remark before we adjourn? I do. Trusty Perkins, I want to say that the awards ceremony at South West, I mean at Grace Emanuel yesterday was just super. I was so
proud, especially that one young man. I can't remember his name, but he got so many awards. I said he going to have to bring a wagon or something in here to carry everything out. Jacobe, I was just Jacobe. I was so honored and proud of the entire room and pa and uh pastor um
superintendent Jones ended up serving food. Oh wow. Before it was all over and he allowed uh uh Trusty Rutherford and myself to speak on behalf of the board and I I thank him for that. Uh it was a great time. It was good to see as many
scholars get awards from every A&D and then we had a alumni from Northwestern Vossberg was his name and he was uh from the class of 65 and uh he spoke really well and gave out a lot of
scholarships and it was just blessed and there were many parents there also and uh uh it was just blessed and I just Thank thank him for the opportunity to speak last night. Any more comments from
the board? Seeing no further comment, the board of education will hold its annual budget hearing on Wednesday, June the 18th at 5:30 p.m. at the ALA. This meeting is
adjoined at what time you got? 7:16. 7:16. Can't get no better than that. Take your stairs to the back, please.