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e [Music] e e good afternoon everyone I would like I would like to call the Flint board education regular board meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. board members I call your
name could you please say president for the record trustee King present treasure Luna present truste reliford present vice president magto present assistant secretary treasure booze present secretary Perkins present and myself
present s pres no absent I will now call upon secretary Perkins to read The District's mission statement and first statement in the standard practice 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 Ever Changing 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 each other as well as students staff and
Community we will model trustworthiness honesty in our relationship with each other with our superintendent and with other 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 view that each of us bring to the organization as well as the view of others that that we interact with as we carry out the businesss of the Board of
Education we'll be open and authentic with each other our staff and the community as we work to make decisions we will focus on issues not personalities our decisions will be student centered and based on objective
facts we will practice good listening skills to better understand and our fellow board of Education members and constituents thank you I seek a motion and second to approve the minutes from the January the 15 2025 special board
meeting and the January the 22nd 2025 regular board meet me Madam chair yes I make a motion we approve the minutes from the January 15th and 22nd board meetings support it has been properly moved and
second are there any corrections CN none the motion to approve the minutes from the January 15 to 2025 special board meeting and the January the 22 2025 regular board meeting will be conducted by roll call
vote as I call your name say yes or no to approve secretary Perkins yes trustee booze yes vice president McIntyre yes trustee reifer yes truste King yes treasure Luna yes and myself yes 7 yes
Zer no the board will not hear comments from the public we ask that you state the state the reason for addressing the board and that you limit your remarks to 3 minutes on matters within the authority of the board and not address
individually by name the presiding officer 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 and address first before beginning to speak is there's anyone here from the public
who wish to address the board come forth hello hello can I pull your mic up a little thanks better yes okay my name is Destiny Krueger I am a 9th and 10th grade ELA teacher at Flint Southwestern
and I'm here to talk about the hoodie and cell phone policy that we have in our district I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today I would like to address two policies currently in place the no cell phone and the no hooded top policy and
share why they no longer serve the best interest of our students or School environment I understand and respect the intentions Behind These policies rules and dress codes are put in place to create structure maintain safety and Foster Focus as an educator I deeply
value accountability upon further reflection I've come to realize that without considering the broader context in real needs of our students we might be doing more harm than good the student code of conduct states that hooded tops could conceal the identity of the student or
cause unsafe conditions while I understand this reasoning I believe we have an opportunity to approach this policy with greater flexibility especially with our new camera system we're spending significant time and energy policing cell phones and hoodies when we should be addressing the real
crisis in our school which is student attendance with 92% of our students not adhering to the attendance policies first semester we need to ask why along with why we are not fully utilizing synergies tools like rooc calls for absences and tracking
infractions instead we're relying on paper referrals and focusing on cell phones and hoodies while absenteeism goes unaddressed students also waste instructional time walking to and from room 61 for passes which Synergy could streamline instead of enforcing
arbitrary policies like the cell phone and Hoodie policy we need to focus on why students aren't showing up and how we can create an environment that encourages attendance safety is to Priority especially with the increasing frequency of school shootings however
while our policies are well-intentioned they inadvertently teach students to hide items like cell phones which sends the wrong message we should use metal detectors for their intended purpose not to search for phones rather than policing cell phones and hoodies we
should foster trust and responsibility by allowing students to manage these items responsibly and appropriately trust when extended motivates students to act with Integrity this isn't about eliminating structure but about teaching responsibility allowing students to use
personal items appropri rately while maintaining safety students having their cell phones before and after school it that promotes safety also especially when you have we have an incident like we did last week where students were out waiting for the bus with no communication additionally we need to
focus on addressing the root cause of absenteeism to improve student engagement finally I'd like to point out the gap between the capturing kids Hearts program we've invested and we've invested in in the way some of our policies are being enforced we preach kindness and respect students are often
greeted with negativity and hostility at the door because of the rigid enforcement of the cell phone and Hoodie rules if we allow capturing kids Hearts principles greeting students with kindness and a genuine desire to make them feel welcome this can set the tone for the entire school day and help us
build stronger relationships with our students in conclusion I urge the board to reconsider policies that are consuming so much of our time and energy yet aren't yielding the results we desire let's focus on solution that create a positive safe and account and
accountable environment for all students together we can reimagine how we approach structure and responsibility in a way that respects both students needs and our school's values thank you very much Madam chair Madam sh has a question
hold on one second uh we can't ask question no I don't want to no I want a copy of what can I have a copy of what she read point of order point of order that's why called her and asked her oh no I'm sorry hold on one second hold on one point stop right there please
stop doing public comments board members I know if she wants to you to have a copy I think she wants a copy of what you just read and if you don't have a copy could you send it to uh she can
you can send it to a Pam do you have a copy of what you just read yes oh you have a copy okay give it to her and she'll make the board have thank you very much no because we normally don't do that talk to
you we didn't hear that just we okay yeah she wants to keep it yeah sure okay thank you sorry about ali confusion thank you no worries uh Dennis feifer um I come
before you today to want applaud you for your central um revital revitalization plan however that comes with an asct and the asct is if you plan on revitalizing that do you plan on
abandoning more schools within our community because right now the enrollment is stagnant or going down and if you Revitalize Central are you going to then in turn close more Community Schools in our neighborhoods so where's
the plan that you're going to boost boost enrollment for this new project and what is the plan for the schools that you plan on abandoning like NE cut that's going to decimate the community and that neighborhood what's the plan
for uh mckenley that is a Dumping Ground like where is the plan for all these bladed properties throughout the city and I'm not here to throw stones I represent the city I have we have our own problems I understand that but
when is the Board of Education going to step up to the plate and help our communities that are feeling the pain mckenley has been closed for probably a decade now and every property around that has felt the the economic decline
of a closed school and having it being a Dumping Ground of all the trash and debris and people living in there sleeping in there building fires in there doing whatever else at some point this board has to get with
maybe it's the mount Foundation again do something with these existing properties I know that we tried selling them mckenley was never on the list to sell what's the plan for that because the schools directly impact the
housing properties the amount of taxes everything else in that community so when we and and once again I applaud you for doing something with c but if you're going to end up closing Eisenhower or if you're going to end up
closing another school to backfield to to go into this new wonderful school or whatever it's going to be you're doing more harm to the outside of the community and not just the downtown I get it Central's downtown it's a
priority to to do stuff downtown but the neighborhoods where people live are being decimated by the abandoned and um Left Behind schools whether they be uh occupied or not occupied at some point this board and um the community
members have to stand up and say enough is enough board them up tear them down do what you did uh at Washington if you're not going to do something tear it down do something do something with Eisenhower that or nethercut that's
about to be closed don't just boarded up and let become the next mckenley of a Dumping Ground do something thank thank you councilman and I encourage each one of you all to stay to the end of this um meeting and we have some some exciting
news for you addressing those issues that he said um we got the answers for you that's the purpose of this meeting tonight so thank you anyone else have any more comments any more come please come for hey how everybody doing
today hello um my name is valicia we and I used to go to Brian elementary school and I'm just backing up for the Young G the gentleman said about the
school based on the children so based on I mean for you guys to hear me out and cuz I'm interested in and Brian Elementary so I mean here we go step one hey for
the um apartment complex that I'm trying to make I want to make Bryant Elementary School to a a small studio apartment complex so hey for the apartment complex it will be a small one and two
bedrooms and unit for Briant Elementary one full bathroom and it will also have a laundry room and for the kids I will have the gym room
based on a a um game room for the the children I will also have a cafeteria room for the sitting area based
on okay is I'm reading this right I would have a cafeteria for a c area that you can watch TV and eat breakfast in the morning and drink coffee and as well for my tenants I will
also have a movie room based on for the tenants and I will also have my tenants I mean is it's appropriate because based on it's helping the community out for the tenants that don't
have any transportation like a small Salon in the building based on a barber shop and we'll have a playground as well I will like to have a ATM money machine
for the tenants based on they don't have transportation to get nowhere as well love for my apartment complex to have a pool in it as well love for the building to
Bone be upgraded by chance if you guys can please and lovely to hear me out to do something with Bryant Elementary School steady tearing it down and doing something around the community to help all the people that's around the
community out part two and as well what my little girl say I will have a my room in it for the movie room a store and as well for the tenants on the
other side of the building what it say of the building it will also have another s area that you can send in and thank you very much as well it will have a
small little store in it that might send it excuse me ma'am we have 3 minutes your 3 minutes okay but I would like for you guys to know like what you guys with Bri Elementary School point of information I
can answer your question later but your three minutes is up if you got some more information that you're reading we welcome to see it at the board but okay so end we can do comments So based on I can give the paperwork and to you guys cuz also from what I've been told that
y'all was trying to to demolish it thank you very much for your comment we can't respond back and forth the 3 minutes up thank you okay is there any more comments from the public do we have your contact information do can you give her your
contact information okay do do you okay we can't go back and forth okay okay thank you very much we'll get the cop thank you since there's no further comments from the public we'll move on to our
other agenda at this time I would like to seek a motion to change the order of the agenda to move governments after the presentation we we're going to add what I'm seeking to do is the first item on there we're going to make that the last
presentation so your first item would be number four or number four would be your last item Madam president yes I move that we amend the agenda to put item F
presentations next in line um before e thank you and G support hold on one second one person wants to ask if there's any you're in the middle of a motion
in proceed with the motion and we address that seconded I second it been second it been to move in second that um item F will become e and e will become F this can be done by roll call
vote any discussion everybody mind is set secretary Perkins yes trustee booze yes vice president McIntyre yes trustee reifer yes trustee King yes treasure
Luna yes and myself seven yes and Zer no before we move forward it is the policy of this board that everyone has an opportunity to speak and sometime people come in they probably don't know our process the person that did not get to speak for public speaking I want to give
you your three minutes I hear that there was a person that wanted to speak and did not get this chance to speak nomally with public speaking you can stand in line or and we can call you as you come up uh and that's pretty much high so forgive me because we didn't know that
someone else wanted to speak proceed good evening everyone um I was coming up to address the issue my daughter attends Southwestern Academy and a week before Christmas break your name please my name is Courtney Rutherford okay and a week before
Christmas break I understand that Southwestern has the no cell phone policy there and my daughter gets in trouble she brings her phone to school but three Mass guys pulled up at her bus stop demanding she get in the car she
took off running with no cell phone she couldn't call me and let me know she had to wait till she got to school to let me know what was going on Wow thank you wow yeah we going to work on that that's my concern
so can we can we have your contact number yes somebody know you uh you don't have to say it public you can just give it to the administrator okay thank you very much glad your daughter is okay wow at this time I would like to ask Dr
Pam Pew to come forth from the Michigan Department of Education to join us on the stage is Dr Pam Pew right oh thank you good afternoon Dr Pew for those that don't know you you can introduce
yourself and um the purpose you're here uh to uplift the community and give us some input proceed absolutely my name is Pamela Pew and I am president of the Michigan Board of Education here for the
state of Michigan and um no stranger to the community of flint and thank each and every one of you all for having me here and as you all know I am here as a colleague and uh Dr Rice from Michigan
Department education our superintendent of Public Instruction send his regards he uh knew that I was coming here and had an opportunity to talk to him but just really wanted to come uh again as a colleague because we know that we're
facing unprecedented times um we are facing a time when our freedoms are being tested like none other and this is a time where we just really don't have the answers uh but we have everything that's
being thrown at us by our president of the United States of America and since being in office just 30 days today I believe Mark's 30 days he's uh put out an unprecedented 65 executive orders as
we know the president is only one of three branches of government and um unfortunately he unilaterally is throwing out executive orders that are somewhat confusing he is calling for and we heard
this during the election cycle uh the elimination of the Department of Education the US Department of Education and what the Flint Community needs to know as well as communities across this state and country that that will be be devastating uh whether they totally
eliminate the department or whether they defund the department um and again this is that time when they're talking about purchasing Greenland in Canada but we have to think about our children our children um most particularly in
communities Like Flint who are were just starting to see historical budgets that dig us out of the hole um and we have a long ways to go but tital $1 to the tune of $400 million across this state that
means it impacts our urban communities as well as our rural communities our special education programming that we know we have a long ways to go since its Inception decades ago um Ida um has not been adequately funded but now we're
looking at 10% of our dollars that come from the federal government being removed and I see you superintendent shaking your head you're probably looking at these numbers um so we know that that's looking at the elimination
of the US Department of Education then when many of us were enjoying our Valentine's Day evening there was this notice that came across from uh the current US Department of Education
stating that uh they were reiterating and making sure that they were pressing down dismantling diversity equity and inclusion Dei programs within 14 days or that these programs would lose their funding and I
know that these are things that you're grappling with superintendent as well as superintendents across this country the unfortunate thing is that Dei has been the term has been used so loosely
it has been used to describe people who look like me it's been described to look to to to talk about women it's been described uh it's been used to describe people who help people that look like
the children that you serve um it's been used to describe our lgbtq community so there's a lot of commun uh confusion that is out there but what we know is that number one an executive order
does not supersede a the Constitution uh state or federal laws uh this was a directive uh that really could infringe upon um civil rights laws uh we also know that just
calling something illegal does not make it illegal because we have teachers right now Educators who are thinking that it is illegal or being told that it is illegal to teach about our
history and our AG attorney general um Nestle has come out and talked about uh what is considered illegal and unlawful something coming out of the president's mouth or being Inked on a piece of paper
does not make something a law and unlawful um just looking at some calls to action um so these things have been thrown out
into the air they're they're being challenged in court many of the challenges uh our state through our attorney general has signed on to uh superintendent rice has issued uh guidance to the field to superintendent
Jones and his counterparts as well as um hopefully boards have seen that guidance and again this guidance pertains to uh undocumented children um it uh immigrant children it pertains to um
indoctrination or or curriculum and there's been a few others uh that have been uh addressed through this through the legal system and through this guidance that has been provided through Michigan Department of Education um what I I've been telling
people to do is to get in touch with their Boards of Education to get in touch with you all to come and tell you that they support you in standing firm standing strong ensuring that you're
seeking legal guidance before taking action to what most of the many of these executive orders that have gone through the judicial system so far there has been uh restraining orders and so
they're held up in the court so not acting fast but go to get legal counsel what what I've asked on February 3rd uh even before this last love letter came out from the US Department of Education I asked attorney general nessle to
provide guidance to districts so that uh districts aren't inadvertently um um violating current current uh civil rights laws so we're hearing of people whose contracts
are just being stripped from them and we have to admit that superintendent Jones you have counterparts that are loving this moment in history because it's providing them the cover to do
something that they've wanted to do you you don't want to do that we don't want to do that so there is a pause time to pause make sure that you are getting legal guidance uh before taking action
as a result of these executive orders that again do not supersede um going through Congress uh if that's where they should be going do you all we're a local control state so
curriculum is you all are the people who decide what curriculum goes in school so make sure you all know your Authority um and so Dr Rice also put out
um uh guidance and a letter and also tagged to that uh a legal opinion that's that precedent as it relates to our immigrant children that they belong in our classrooms they have a right to be
in our classrooms and you all can stand on that guidance as well um and so you know outside of seeking legal protection and clarification think about resolutions that you all want to
pass uh that speak as one unified body on how you stand on these issues um looking at how you're embedding Dei into policies um mobilizing Community this is
a time for Community to come together like none other this is a time that we have to set aside the differences and and come together and work together hosting Town Halls um because one of the things that
I'm really emphasizing as a black woman um who understands that I have to play that that role at that table is that this purposeful confusion and what I
call the intended unintended consequences is going to impact the the the dinner tables the pocket books of black brown uh lgbtq um communities we're already
seeing monies being withheld uh there's a list that's going around that shows like the list of of words that you don't want to be affiliated with some of us it's it's hard for us to unaffiliated ourselves with you know number one if
you're working in a community that's predominantly uh black and brown people you're going to be servicing those people so there is the purposeful confusion with what diversity equity and
inclusion is with diversity equity and inclusion um especially the inclusivity part our children who are special education in special education programming they're going to to get it coming and going they're going to get it
from the uh defunding of the Department of Education side again in places where we've never BR been adequately funded they're going to get it from these uh anti- divers equity and inclusion um uh
directives as well so um again this is a moment to pause come together as community and really uh through good legal councel um before you act before you act
uh you know some people think of going to get legal counsel um after they've acted so if that if that makes sense so before you take action on
these directive order these directives um which many feel are unfounded and um the Dei uh I've asked Dana Nestle to give guidance um and hopefully she will um we're also asking the governor to
speak up uh on the diversity equity and inclusion pieces um so I thank you all for for this opportunity and just allowing me to come and share with you thank you uh Dr P I really appreciate your time and effort and the
work that um uh Dr Rice and the team is doing uh as we move forward I'm going to talk to my board members right now board members uh we're going to give you one round of question
because we got a a long agenda and you can ask your question and she can respond so you have one uh question to ask or one round trustee reliford um hi Dr Pew how are you good how are you
and let let me start by saying I might just be writing the answer question down and coming back to you getting back to you okay mine is real straightforward um can we I I haven't seen the um guidance from Dr Rice nor the um letter so could
you make that available to us or absolutely and and and the last guidance to the field probably go ahead it's in it's in the update that I sent to you all uh with the links okay my reason for
that is something changes every day this is true so it's for me um I'm I'm I mean I guess I'm no different than anyone else but as things Chang I think the main thing is the main thing and I guess
for me me which laws are we following at any given time I would definitely like that to be in it you know are we I know nothing has been changed in Congress the Civics I recall is Congress M La exactly but um I know things have changed so I I
just want to be cognizant of what's going on and and I just press upon you and your office to definitely make sure that information gets down as soon as possible and it's coming Fast and Furious again I started with saying we are just in unchartered ter territories and when I was saying about getting the
legal um advising and hopefully and and one of the things that I mentioned to AJ Nestle is just being able to respond quickly which we have been able to respond quicker than some some
areas but to the point about seeking legal guidance is act as if you're following the law that was that those laws that have been on the books because these
executive orders have not gone through Congress most of them are are in the courts because of that so so laws have not changed of course thank you and um for the records um the Atlanta
Communications through our superintendent they are working at the top with legal team as they get the information superintendent Jones sends it out to the board and once everything all these Official Guidelines and everything get then uh get in place then
we will begin to formulate how we're going to move but right now we're moving strict directly as you stated superintendent Jones is working with the people at the top and he passing information down to the board uh and
hopefully we get in that I seem to be getting in a timely manner uh thank you next question trustee McIntyre good evening Dr Pew thank you so much as usual here you are uh you've
been a solid presence and we really appreciate you coming to an awful lot of our our board meetings and showing your support um and that activist background that you have I appreciate um and I appreciate your your
calls to action so I don't necessarily have as per se questions to ask you but more just to thank you for lifting up our focus on resolutions um I believe
that we will be following that in the the days if not um uh to come to make resolutions about where we stand as a unified board um and to call to the community to come together to come and
speak out to be at the board meetings and to lift their voices so that we know that we're not alone and that we're unified and together um and to embed Dei into our policies we've been diligently
doing that um but to keep it's more urgent than ever so I just wanted to say that I appreciate that um I guess my ask to you would be just to you know keep it up to keep keep up the communication um and um I've been
impressed with what the attorney general has been doing in terms of leading the way for some states to you know to push back against some of these you know illegal moves that have been made um by the executive office and so I guess my
ask to you would be to um you know help us you have a more direct line of communication with her um to help be a conduit it with what we need in the Flint School District to to attorney general Nestle and and to keep that up
that's that's all I have for now I appreciate that and I'll be looking to you all too because you'll be hearing you'll hear and you'll see things going what's going on on the ground um I was on my way some to Jackson yesterday and uh someone was calling and they were
talking about ice agents that that were in the in the area um and I I will say that I have been disappointed diversity equity and inclusion is one that we've not seen met
with the same urgency and expediency um it will impact yes the history that our children are being taught in schools but think about all the work that's being done that could be
misconstrued as diversity equity and inclusion let alone the good work that is being done that is diversity equity and inclusion and so we're going to have to call on allies and friends and leaders such as yourself to be firm in
those areas and again um like you said we go step in Step hand inand um with with the legal uh team but again it's it's no different than any other orders that we've or directives that we've just
referred right back to this there's no changes in Congress there's been the the judicial system has not um um you know told us to act otherwise thank you thank you anyone truste Perkins uh Dr Pew
thank you for coming um I'm one of those 50s and 60s babies and so being an activist in a union R we fought many battles like this in the past and we made great Headway
I'm going to sit still for a minute and take my direction from our leadership but just know that the word is going out everywhere we need to make our communities understand what this really
means and often times they don't especially in the urban areas they don't understand it right so we have to do a better job of communicating what this really means to all of us they don't they don't get it
you know I've watched a lot of things in the school system some of these children the simplest things they don't understand we've got to do a better job of that and I'm hopeful that we will but
I'm going to take direction from the leadership here and then we going to talk about it and then we're going to be about it that's where I'm at thank you any more question from the board yes trusty Luna
thank you uh thanks Dr for coming here tonight um my comment's really about how we can look to the state to protect our vulnerable student populace um in particular I'm thinking about the immigrant immigrant students who are both documented and undocumented
in our schools so legal citizens and the children of folks who aren't in the most clear status right now um I'll be real I think of things in dollars and cents often times and I know the high Mark for the K12 enrollment was in 1970 and we
had about 2.1 million students in our K12 schools we at about 1.3 million and that's just due to our aging population folks like you know Millennials and younger folks not having as many kids as our parents did but really the one
bright spot in the entire thing is if you look at places like Dearborn Detroit and even here in Flint the biggest growth that we've seen in our enrollment even though we've overall lost students is from immigrant students from all different statuses so if in theory were
we were to lose these students through deportation or even just not even coming to Michigan that's a huge financial burden and impact on our District's long run and long term so that's in the back of my head um I know tomorrow some Mile St going to uh a form about immigrant
students and just how that looks like for us in this community so just want to express that thought and concern absolutely you're spot any more question from anyone that has not thank you very much Dr PE look
forward to speaking with you thank you I look forward to working with you all and we are going to stand strong we are going to stand firm yes we are in unprecedented times and we need to make sure that people realize that that that
is going to impact our economy um oh one more thing superintendent Jones I'm sorry I forgot forgive me sure uh thank you Dr Pew it's good to see you um my comments is for the stakeholders of Flint Community Schools and those that
are in our community that's thinking of being a part of Flint Community Schools we've been in training for diversity equity and inclusion for the last two years our administrators have been trained our teachers are trained uh we're
continuing to train and we won't stop um the other comment I want to make is that we have every one of our classrooms have diverse classroom libraries on purpose because when our
black and brown uh Scholars open the books they need to be able to see themselves we're going to continue doing what we're doing we're going to continue doing what we're doing um and we won't stop but we will
follow the law and our Board of Education um the day that these executive orders started coming through every one of our board members were concerned and wanted to make sure that things were happening we immediately
began to get information uh from our attorneys and we sent that information not only to our board of education but we sent it to our principal so that they know how to handle if ice walked in the door so all
of our principles have been given that information uh how to handle who to call which is your superintendent and we will be at that door to protect and to do what is right we will follow the law but we will
protect our Scholars and that's what we've been trained to do and that's what this board has called for us to to do so we're going to continue to do that and we thank you we thank Dr Rice for being an advocate for Flint yes uh not just Flint Community Schools but Flint period
and we're going to just keep doing that work and I I I have to say um and I appreciate you and I appreciate that we do have uh superintend such as yourself and Dr Rice uh at the state um he was off a couple of days and I talked to him
each of those days and each time I was like like okay how you feeling he was like we're moving forward we're moving forward we think that we we're standing on the side of right and we're standing on the side of the legal legal right as well so thank you all AB the last thing
I want to say is I don't want our our Scholars our parents and our teachers to get sidetracked from what we supposed to be focused on that's true we're supposed to be focused on the education of children and we can easily get sidetracked about what's going on on the
news what's going on on Facebook and all these other places and then it turns our mind away from educating inspiring and motivating children we're going to make sure that we bring the latest and greatest information forward that's our
job we want our teachers to continue to teach our counselors to continue to do great things uh with our Scholars and getting them ready for college and we want them to know that we're ahead of this with Dr Rice with our ISD uh
partners and others in the community that's concerned about this the center uh we're ahead of this and we're going to continue to stay ahead of it and having you come today is a part of being ahead of it so we thank you for your time thank you very
much thank you Dr now i' like to turn the floor over to trustee Boo for the introduction of our next presenters good afternoon especially to the audience thank you for coming and staying for this
presentation you will not be disappointed I would like to ask um they already coming forth we have the associates from the urban superintendent collaboration incorporate
in green Education Services to join us on the stage and please introd ruce yourself and proceed with your uh presentation just to say good evening president I
think excuse me one one second proceed okay Tracy you can proceed okay thank you good evening president Alis McNeil superintendent Jones and them board we are super excited to be here we've had some opportunities to engage with you about
the wonderful work that you're doing and um superintendent Jones when you just said like the focus is on education sometimes the world gets us away from the focus and the focus is the students and student outcome so I am so happy to hear you always continue to say that wherever I see you at it's not just
about sitting in the boardroom that is something that you live and breathe every day um and also president McNeil when I met you what you talked about as students and one of the things that when we had an opportunity to speak to each one of you you talked about students and that is so powerful because I believe
when we talk about students experiences in our system that starts at prek because we're going to talk about graduation the road to graduation is not their senior year the road to graduation starts in prek and it is prek through 12 and the 12th grade is a summation often
times you know graduation is an expectation for students we got to get to the point where graduation is a nonnegotiable um because they have to exit into the workforce or go onto a high schill career or a college and they need to be ready for that but that has to be really really grown from day one
so we're going to talk about a graduation initiative we're going to talk about data we're going to talk about some opportunities how to build it not just with the board the superintendent and the staff but the community the students and the stakeholders because everyone should be owning the work around our students when
they come to us to graduate Mr Green good evening everyone I I will uh forego some of the things that I do want to talk about until later until my it's my turn but I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you guys and I'll go ahead and let Tracy go ahead and get started with the presentation I think we're we're
almost ready okay okay so while he is bringing up the PowerPoint I will start with a little bit about me I'm no stranger to education I started off teaching third grade at an atrisk elementary school and
I've probably had every job from that third grade to a reading specialist to a title one specialist to an area superintendent to a deputy superintendent to a superintendent so I really understand the nature of the work you do um it is not always easy work for boards and superintendents and I kind of smiled when I was over there and said
well do I miss board meetings or not but what I do miss is is when we have an opportunity to change the lives of students so as he brings up the PowerPoint just a little bit about me what I currently do um is I work with Asa and Howard University for the urban
superintendent collaborative and we take cohorts of sitting superintendant and future superintendant and train them on the work um board relationships Budget Finance stakeholders You Name It Whatever hits right um whatever is happening in the country right then it's
hot when we heard about the cell phone policy um that's not just here in Flint you hear that at board meetings across so we bring thought leaders together who are struggling with this who has been successful and we train them on those things to bring them back and as a result of that my partner and I opened
up the urban superintendent collaborative where we meet with superintendents across the country as a think tank and we share ideas thoughts we meet up and talk about what's working but with a focus on student outcomes and what's working in districts for students
are you bringing me Clicker okay because I can keep talking say I can quickly introduce myself and if you guys feel comfortable walking around and talking because I know when you're doing presentation you like to do body movement but you feel comfort you don't have to be glued right there today I
appreciate that President McNeil I do love to get up and walk around but uh know those think I'll try to S my seat today appreciate that okay well why while we're still waiting to get the PowerPoint up and ready I'll go ahead and quickly introduce myself I'm W green the president and CEO of green Education
Services and I'll tell you a little bit more about me I think I didn't really get a chance to do this earlier um but uh I got into education I got into education basically uh on accident I did not want to be an educator my parents are both Educators
my father was actually a PR uh a minister as well and I saw the struggles that they went through to be an educator I'm sorry thank you my voice is heavy I thought y'all could hear me okay so I was saying that my both my parents are
Educators uh my mom actually taught sped which I take my hat off to all sped Educators by the way uh and my uh father was an English teacher and I did not want to teach based on that but bottom line uh when I got into education I fell
in love with it I saw a need and I had I was really good at really helping kids uh Master certain skills and I wanted to take that not just to the kids I was working with but to the entire community especially my community and so that's when I really got into strategic
Priority One The Scholar Focus um the next two slides I am not going to read to you if you're in the in the packet we provided you but it's just the excerpt from your objectives from your um strategic plan and then the next page is
your actual action steps of what you wanted to see skip Ryan he's trying to keep up with me [Music] so we talked about the objectives next one and we talked about performance indicators here's where it gets big this
is all the stuff you know there's nothing new in here it came from your strategic plan the next slide is what I really want to talk about so when you think of what that means to unwrap some of the rich dialogue we had was around what graduation rates were what do they look like for students are we on track based
on your 5% so I took an opportunity to build um some examples of action steps I'm part of those action steps is when I had conversations with Dr um superintendent Jones and when I had conversations with Miss Phils Kelly I think she was over there we were trying to get information about what are the
things that are actually working and everyone's excited about and where are areas that we could actually improve so when you look at this first page there's a performance indicator that you have outlined as a 5% then I jot it down some action steps like how do we get there
right like how do we get there and then measurement of that evaluation how do we know we're doing well and what does that look like for students and could the board and the superintendent articulate that in such a way that board members understood that and that the public understood the work that you were doing
for students um if you take a moment and you look at page 12 in your packet so page 12 is under under the Strategic priorities they're not number so if you go to strategic priorities oh okay I'm sorry yeah the
reason why I'm doing this because it would be a hundred slides if we put all of this in so I put an example of one up so you could see how we broke down the particular action steps and measurements but we actually went through every performance indicator under that
objective that you had for your strategic plan and talked about specifically what could measurement and evaluation look like to know if you're actually hitting the target goal that you set forth for the district um working with superintendent Jones and his team we can figure out those things
where the board feels like um we're not too sure about that or oh yes we know we are hitting the target for instance are you making your annual goals of a 5% graduation rate every year based on your priority um and if you are great but
when we take a deeper dive Maybe black males aren't growing at 5% and then what do we need to do and look at that differently um one of the things that somebody in the audience brought out talked about um attendance um engagement and those pieces if you take an
opportunity to look under under page four which this wasn't in the presentation but she had brought it up so if you look under data collection and you look under page four you'll see some of the ideas that we
propos OS for data collection is of course disaggregating which means separating out graduation rates by ethnicity by special needs by SCS and see if they're growing but we also looked at attendance and engagement what's happening drop our rates
happening because kids don't go to school they get behind then they drop out um but what we do know is when kids come to school their freshman year they're actually on track to graduate something happens between the ninth grade and the 12th grade where they drop out and what we want to do is really
take a deep deep dive into that data work with superintendent Jones and team and figure out like what is going on so when I talk about a graduation initiative I'm just telling you a snapshot of what that could look like for us to get a deep deep understanding we got to be in the district we got to
understand the culture we got understand the climate what has worked what has not worked um how do kids feel about graduation how do parents feel about graduation in fact do parents even know what it takes to graduate per state law do kids understand what it takes to graduate for
state law so we're going to look at a few of these pieces and then I'm going to share some examples that I've shared with um members of the board and every and you all felt that the whole board should see some of these examples and um if we move forward talk about how do we build a graduation Initiative for Flint
Flint first um graduation should be our schools and Flint should be their first choice and as I know you are planning on building an amazing school that I can't wait to see but the school being built is just the shell it is the building what happens in the building matters for
students also and how do we bring that all full force together as a team collabortive so that everyone understand the purpose that when kids walk through the doors we really want a 100% graduation rate for every kid every kid now some of those kids might be on alternative assessments right but
families and the board and the superintendent we should all believe that every kid who walks through the door has an opportunity um next slide so the road to graduation I put this up so it's not like this is my first rodeo I actually know how to build a
graduation agenda and I've done it but when you see those kids those kids were in the kindergarten when they took those pictures and we talk about building a system in which it's embedded for graduation we have to start with our babies too right like the graduation and the handoff the matriculation starts
prek-k K1 2 3 4 5 6 7 until they matriculate to the 12th but we shouldn't hear about grad graduation soon as they get to high school we should be talking about graduation as early as when they come in because they should have something to Aspire to and understand
the why in The Learning and for teachers also and and the staff to understand the why but also to understand the challenges so when you look through the data book I'm going to talk about what are challenges what hinders kids from coming to school and that doesn't happen in high school we know that kids drop out as early as seventh grade or kids
miss a lot of days of school and Elementary so then the handoff isn't always always smooth so we're going to kind of go through this road to graduation and talk about what it could look like but actually it would be built with the staff the board the community and the students so that it would
permeate the system from prek to 12 next slide please I'm big on student voice um we can talk all we want about a graduation initiative but I do believe that we should also make sure that students are having a voice in their learning always laugh as a superintendent I would say
some the kids was like you so old Miss they because we don't do that no more nobody you're only old people are on Facebook okay so I got to get an Instagram and a Tik Tok right but what are the kids doing too and I think kids have an amazing opportunity to share um how they feel about school and they have
advocacy and agency in their road to graduation and what that could look like can you click on strength and voices for me I think that's a hot link if you loaded it and if not we'll see and he's going to stop the commercial but I want to give you a snapshot of
what it could be how do we bring kids into this work and families education issues really care about they're inspired by other student voice projects from around the district and by the end of the day we hope that they feel ready and excited to take on big meaty
educational issues at their own School site this voices conference is meant to inspire students to use their voice and create change not only in the classrooms but throughout the district Our Generation has the ability to change our world and Empower what on in our schools
well the beginning I was very nervous I've never spoken in front of for before but um I quickly learned that I just have to be myself on stage and it went really really well and like it's nice to have people listen to you and like hear
what you have to say thought a good opportunity to um learn stuff about myself and like help other younger students with like maybe some problems out there okay we're not going to watch the whole video that's enough but what I wanted you to see is how students are
talking about how they feel about school and what you don't see in there is that the board members the superintendent Chiefs like all the employees we invited parents like come listen to what the kids are saying right so while we're making decisions about their lives because all of you will be making
decisions about their lives what are they saying and do they have an opportunity to have agency and choice when they talk about these things now I can tell you you know kids will say why can't we eat McDonald's and what lunch that's not going to happen because we got federal guidelines right but when they say something like well why can't
we walk out if they're doing it across the country and why do we have to be kicked out of school if we do H so I look at the policy I said so you have 11 minutes to get back in class let's make a deal right like and so they walk out peacefully they walk back in and they have voice and choice and they believe
that the adults listen to what they had to say now that takes a little practice right kids have to trust you to make sure that can happen but those are the kind of things that as you build a graduation initiative we want the kids to have a voice in this piece too next
slide so what does that look like well the first simple thing is I shared a sheet with the entire board is do kids know what they need to graduate in families and one of the things we did as a system and I was talking to superintendent Jones how could we build
a system where if they knew they were on track um when you wait till their senior year and they're behind 15 credits you're probably not going to get them to pass but if we were on top and being reactive in the ninth grade all the Freshman this year who's missing classes
how can we get those credits made up beforehand so we're not waiting forever to get that and this sheet would be used or whatever counselor so this is part of the work we don't know like we have to sit with counselors how do we do this better does this work for you what doesn't work for you what would you like to see um but it actually keeps you on
track if the kids's graduating so if you say you want to have a 5% increase we should be talking about how many freshmen are on track to graduate now how many sophomores are on track to graduate and if they're not on track what do we do to get them on track as part of a larger initiative and that
might be remediation I know we talked about credit recovery with Miss Kelly she talked about some pieces what it's worth working do kids like Credit Recovery is it Saturday school but what are all the things we can do differently and be Innovative to ensure that the kids who are not on track get on track
so the by the time they get to their senior year we don't have those issues and what why I put two sheets up there because I want to share the first sheet the Dorothy Day sheet was the first version of the sheet and that sheet was really only about graduating at the
basic requirements and as we had parent meetings parents were like my kids want to go to college too so what are the requirements if they want to get into college what are the requirements if they want to get into the local college and is there any opportunities where their scholarships right so we work with our universities which I know that
Michigan has a lot of this if you meet this requirement you actually can go to school for free for a kid who doesn't know that they might not meet the expectation but if they know that there's something at the end they might work differently and how do we do that on a continuous basis because we know
they hear about it I know the councils are sharing this information but sometimes it doesn't land and it doesn't land with our parents I think earlier we talked about the community that like we're here but we don't know um um trusty Perkins and how do how do we get the community to know this could
be afforded to your kid I share with people all the time my parents did not graduate from col High School I actually did not know kids didn't graduate from high school I didn't know that that was a thing because it was a non-negotiable in my house even though my parents didn't graduate it was a non-negotiable
um and so sometimes it's not just the parents but like sometimes it's the school system who have to step in and tell kids they can do it next slide we talk about the work of the board we talk about the work of schools and the superintendent but family engagement is so important so as we work
to look at these pieces um working with the superintendent team how can we beef up family engagement so that we understand that the road to graduation is not their senior year why it's important that kindergarteners come on come to school every day right why is it important for third graders to be at
school every day as most as they can right looking at those pieces I bet you if you look at a Dropout and you look at their career they probably had risk indices way before they got to high school um and how do we attack those risk indices to ensure that they are
successful I put the slide in here because I am a believer next slide that the master is no greater than the servant so I did not ask teachers to do home visits if the super superintendent wasn't doing home visits so I would do home visits with teachers and you know there's a little shock factor in there
superintendent Jones when you show up um but it also says how important it is and it's also important that board members actually did home business too to understand like what was happening in the community now I will tell you this is a Monumental task right but you start
somewhere and then you grow it because it shows how committed you are and how you want kids to graduate we talked about like the potential opportunity of doing a back to school you're not on track to graduate knocking on doors showing up we love you what can we do to
help you get to that point what do you need we are invested in you 100% so as we look at the students you can say you good you yeah no no good right into where I'm leading to um part of the other thing that we did was we sent letters every year to
freshmen welcome to your high school we want you to graduate this is what we have for you um and then as we evolved we sent letters to kindergarteners their families this is what we need you to do um in those freshman letters we actually
sent a magnet and in the magnet it was their ticket to graduation to welcome their their freshman year you already have the ticket you just got to make sure you work to get into graduation but moreover there was a qar on that graduation as you can see on the picture
the little black q and if you took a picture on that qar next slide it would take families to a landing page that was specifically dedicated to graduation requirements anything they needed to know about getting their kids to the Finish Line often times in
systems the rules change they change what the curriculum is how many credits sometimes so as that change parents will be able to look and see what that was when they clicked onto the link so that magnet that you saw actually was an information agent for parents because as
a superintendent I couldn't even register my kid because our web page is so wonky we think it's easy and clean but sometimes that's not for our families so how do we make it simple for families um part of that work we did and I share with Dr Jones is building the
support of telling your story you guys are going to do amazing work and continue to do amazing work but if nobody knows about that amazing work but the few folks in the audience and the people watching how will they not know the good work that's happening for students so we built out a countdown to
graduation to share with families next slide um and of course we use Facebook but it was on Instagram and Tik Tok too and I just want to show you an example of what a kid had to say about the road to graduation next slide it should be a
hot link if you click on the phone this the center of the phone I hope it works that's my man he tells a good story go back like click in the middle of the phone oh there it is I think it popped up for you all right four buses every single
day I've been doing that for the last four years um it was raining and it was snowing I still came to school still came to school that's my resilience it's like don't let anything weather Mother Nature you know people like don't let anything weather Mother Nature you know
people you know homework you don't don't let that don't let that push you down because there's always a tomorrow always going to be a tomorrow when he walked through our building doors four years ago with his grandma we made a promise to her and to him to take care of him through the end which was easy because
he is such an amazing Joy this young man will walk into a room and make it Glow it does not matter like he said what the situation he is always smiling the reason why I chose Christina lefon I don't want to use any profanity but she is one heck of a counselor okay you know
when I'm climbing up a hill when I start to stumble and fall my legs get tired she's right there Boom come on let's go we got to get up this hill right quick it's really the bond with him too I it doesn't even take a word sometimes I just look at him and say Tyrie and he's
like I know Mrs LF my teacher Mrs Nelson I have to give her a big shout out she like pushes me pushes me like T you got this you got this you got this so that's why my favorite subject right now is government my main thing I want to do is I want to help people cuz I a really good socializer and I just like
socializing with people I like talking I'm like enthusiastic about things I like I come up to people like how are you how are you like I just love helping people especially kids cuz that's our future you know I love kids I have a nephew and a niece right now I'm an uncle you know so I love kids my
grandma's my biggest supporter like that's you know it's my grandma then maybe Mrs Liu number two I'm doing it for myself but I need to do it for my grandma like she's been there you know she's raised me like a you know right R she like molded me she molded me into the man I am today so it's like I got to
I got to appreciate her I got to do everything I can that's like my primary priorities my grandma so much of it fell on to him those four buses a day and the family trials and tribulations that they have been through to see him stick it
out and get to where he is today just makes us so proud to call him a panther and have him as part of our family thank you see the superintendent never had to go out and tell the story because we could capture the story with the
students and not only the students celebrated the adults the teachers and counselors who are working in those buildings every day and I know high school can be tough but I'll tell you something it was amazing to meet his teachers when they talked about how they love kids and what they wanted to do and
help and we have amazing teachers right here in Flint that you might not even know shaking hands and getting kids to where they need to be I mean I don't know about you but the catch and it was cold and Reno so he had snow so four buses to get to school I didn't even know that was happening and
he wasn't going to school because he didn't have money to get on the bus right but whatever challenges our kids face it is our job to ensure that we take out those challenges and give them the best opportunity um when we started this graduation rate um initiative push
the leftand side cuz graduation numbers are you get an overall number but the left hand side says a subgroup so it's some black students students with disabilities right and you see the 63 Point difference but when we finished when I left in 2019 the difference was
only 31% because what you really want to get to is one dot really that's the goal close the gap the achievement Gap might be how students produce but when we think about the students every adult in the system owns the opportunity Gap what
opportunities are we not affording kids because of policy because of things that we do actually takes away from them being successful next slide so when I left in 2019 it was a a great leave but to have an 86%
graduation rate from 63% probably is the highlight of my life um because it when you think about taking over a district when only six out of 10 kids graduate and then you get to eight out of 10 kids graduating that means no matter who you
are when you walk through these doors whether you have an IEP whether you are black whether you are second language whether you chubby like me tall like him you have an opportunity to get a diploma and we see you as you come through those doors and we understand our families and
how do we do that work together and I know you are doing some Monumental work already but how do we strengthen that so that every kid in this system has an opportunity and know that they will get to the finish line and onward to college if they want to go how do we bring families in the fold how do we bring
stakeholders in the bowl cuz I can tell you I mentored a kid as a superintendent and it made the difference in that kid's life but also had Community leaders helping out saying hey I checked on Johnny because we had risk in dis season Johnny didn't come to school and maybe because Johnny didn't have food that night or whatever it is because it's
hard to get to every kid um but we had a graduating class of 5600 kids so I think we did all right to raise the numbers um but that's just one example how do we build it together where it's meaningful for Flint also but you also see data and
progress monitoring on the way so now I'm going to hand it over to Mr Green thank you Tracy so I think I've kind of already introduced myself going to the next slide please and the only thing I want to highlight on the next slide here is that uh I was an
elementary and science teacher although that's not what I wanted to teach that's what I was chosen for and I was very proud at the end of my service to actually have a 90% math proficiency across the board that was one of the things that I walked away from with a big smile I've already talked about some of the other points that with Mathnasium
and the firm starting so also have a leadership team that's and my senior leaders are actually on this SL on the next slide you will see Jessica Quinn my chief of staff who's a former no other way yeah my Jessica Quinn who's my chief
of staff uh you some of you met her uh last time we were here she's a former curriculum director and former principal and then I have Dr Frederick Murray who's my senior vice president of op operations and he served many roles in actually Jackson Public Schools being one of the largest school districts in the state of Mississippi the largest
urban one for sure and he served everything from uh principal to superintendent uh in that building next slide so about the company we were founded in 2008 and we're based out of uh Madison Mississippi and over that time we've
served over 60 school districts including the state uh Department of Education we ENC C have around 80 Consultants on the team working both parttime and full-time with an Advisory Board consisting of superintendents principles and Educators and we've been in uh currently
serving 19 schools districts uh in three different states Mississippi Louisiana and Alabama and again we are based out of Mississippi so the majority of them are there we also have can say that uh we have we can have' grown from me just just me working
as a math and science consultant to now a full service consultant company providing Services uh throughout all levels of in education but we primary focus being on job and better professional learning specifically in underserved communities we specialize in helping
school districts and their teachers and their schools rather reach their all their goals and we emphasize that partnership piece we discussed that last time I was here but what I want to talk about before before you go to the next slide well you're already there that's okay go ahead to so when you think of Mississippi when you hear the word
Mississippi what do you all think of what what picture comes to your mind what idea comes to your mind I see your life from Miss reference country absolutely it's okay anybody else I can tell you some of the things I've heard catfish
Blues somebody said Elvis but country is being the first thing when I first went to the military that's the image that most of the people that I met when I said Mississippi oh man you sit on the uh front porch with uh toothpick in your mouth a banjo
whatever that kind of thing right but that's not all that's in Mississippi and I don't know if yall have have you any of you heard of the Mississippi miracle any of you mississipp the Mississippi Miracle yes in education so what what what that
boils down to that's been a national uh concept that's been out there now for the past few years and the the miracle is of course Mississippi started at the bottom and back in 2013 you can see what our scores were in 2014 we actually had a new
superintendent to come in uh Dr Wright and Dr Wright made a lot of changes immediately one of the focuses she wanted to do was to focus on reading and of course math scores but primarily reading because reading is the foundation for most of it right so you can see the progression there from the
time she came in office in 2014 to what we uh actually put up 22's uh data and 24's data as well and you can see when when you start from the bottom it forces you to actually take some a really hard look on what you really uh have have
been doing over these years and finding some solutions and that's what we did in Mississippi we actually came up it wasn't just really a miracle it took a lot of hard work a lot of dedication a lot of planning and sticking to the plan and actually altering the plan as needed
according to what the data shows and that's what we do as a company go to the next slide please the green weight is something that I developed maybe about 15 years ago and the gist of it is we start with this concept of job and bettered professional learning which is not what
I was taught to do as a consultant I was taught initially to go into the room and just basically sit in the back take notes and come back out and have a discussion with the principal or the administrators about what I saw then we could do some workshops idea type stuff
and that's not what we do anymore we come in and we actually work with teachers work with students to make sure they understand not not just give them Theory but show them the work that we do so that's what that phrase when you see job embedded that's what that really means for us we also have a data
analytic coaching piece that ties into everything that we do so all of our Consultants have a a data piece that ties to the cons the uh students that they're working with and with the teachers we have those growth-based uh uh interventions and those are basically
set up to make sure every kid has a plan every teacher has a plan to increase their overall School stores that affect the accountability model and last but not least we really have true dialogue with each other trying to figure out exactly what's going on you know what is
our plans what are we doing right what are we doing wrong and how can we best improve and I'd like to quickly share with you a little some data pieces on what we do now the first one is basically some school districts that we provide services in and what I did was
just I put a clip shot a clip rather of just the 22 and 23 scores but in these three districts in particular we worked with those districts any way between five to uh to eight years and all of them when we first started there was enough and they're currently uh C's and
B's I think there as of 24 one school district was a c and the other two were still be's next slide please again the same type of snapshot but this breaks down elementary and middle schools in some districts and you see where we provide services across the
board being Ela science math and even data next slide and in high schools we of course increase that to you provide services in US history leadership and uh other subject areas that they meet especially data so if you take a look at what we've done over the
years it we we really moved needles and that's what our job is to come in here and help you increase whatever uh goals that you have uh making sure that we are hitting those points across the board so how can we help we can can help by implementing
those that tailored coaching that focus on teachers and then tutorial solutions for each student that you're working with that we're working with we focus on those kpis where we're meeting those uh goals that are set for you guys we actually have uh unbiased data reports uh improve Data Systems where
we're improve the culture of discussing data uh we focus on try to re reduce those teacher burnouts and teacher improve uh teacher retention and we also try to focus on those solutions to help relationships across the board with style
stakeholders what you can expect from Green number one is a true partnership we want to make sure that we you know that we are a part of this team you will see a sense of urgency with us that will reflect the common goals and values that we have we you'll also see a commitment
for connecting to the community and staff last but not least you will see no not that's not yet last but not least we've been doing this again for over 17 years and we are confident that
we can help with this initiative of Flint first we believe in you and we want to be a part of this team so I'll turn this back over to Tracy to get more into details about Flint first well now it's time for the pop
quiz for the board so you have a 5% graduation rate I just want you to think about if you hit your 5% next year in 2025 what would your graduation rate be I'm not going to take papers and grade and I'm just asking you the
question if you hit your benchmark what would the graduation rate be because that's in your strategic plan that is the guy that guides you through this work right and so what we talk about in building a graduation initiative plan is looking at your
strategic plan and as you can see I did a little work and and pulling some of the out as I talked to Kelly When I Was Here and talked to um Dr Jones how could we improve upon the data collection it would be impossible for anybody to come up here and say we can do X Y and Z and
don't say we need to do some pre-work right like maybe you are hitting your goals but maybe it's special education where we're struggling or maybe it's students for the right we need to understand what you understand and what the superintendent says you know what this is going really well for us but you know what we need to do a graduation
initiative and we need to be out in the community and we need to send pap the kids like it has to be a plan built off of like what is the need and understanding the data as it applied to your strategic plan um because you should be going through that strategic plan and progress monitoring and saying
is this working is that not working and how you make decisions especially in a time where we talked earlier about budget cuts and maybe money won't look the same where are you putting your money as it comes to outcomes of academics boards have tough jobs because you got to talk about all kind of stuff
that's unrelated to students but the most important job is the job that is related to the academic success of students right and we should be thoughtful about how we do that in a deliberate and intentional manner so when you look at this I'm not reading this word to word that's just an overall
objective of the plan what it looks like can you go to the next slide um we talked about graduation is not a senior initiative sometimes when you say graduation initiative people go straight to high school but we do need an entry point there's no way to attack every everything at once we need to
build a thoughtful plan where we can see gains and help students so as you look at the graduation initi plan there has to be some data collection um turn to the next slide we kind of looked at some ideas but we would have to work with superintendent Jones and his team to determine are these the correct areas as
it aligns to the board's initiatives are there other areas where we take this out but these are some of the things that we looked at um for us but in order to get a clear shot of what those items would be we would have to spend some time in the system and understand the data understand do you understand what the
four-year cohort is for graduation versus a 5-year cohort cuz that happens you have a four-year cohort rate and sometimes you have a five-year cohort rate um next slide so we built a plan on some stages stage one two and three and what will we
do and so part of stage one is actually coming in engaging the district talking to the board what is it you feel you need talking to supran Jones and what do you think and how do we work collaborative together this work cannot be done successfully with us all not being a team with a single vocus and the
idea is like bringing students back to Flint and why kids want to come back to Flint right because you have this you're going to have a nice building coming up right and you're going to have High graduation rates but how do you tell your story is that story actually out there because it's one thing for you to tell your story it's a different thing
when a mom is talking to another mom in the story and say oh no this is what happened to my kid and they did this this and this and then it becomes that much more powerful so how do we build those people out um as you look at stage two you'll see we talk about focus group with stakeholders students parents District staff collecting information we
talk to superintendent Jones what is it you want to hear like what questions might you want to hear from the kids what would you want to know and build that information together as a team and then we'd analyze School climate engagement and needs and then review resource allocations are there in alignment is that what you were thinking
sometimes you're a new board member and there's so much information that comes at you from the system like whoa right and sometimes you've been on the for a while or sometimes you just watch the board and you know what to do but how do we bring that all together so when you come together to monitor your strategic plan with those initiatives that it is
aligned and you see yes we are making growth toward this or maybe we need to tweak this or maybe that didn't make sense when we wrote it and maybe we need to do an addendum but you don't know unless you have some data to measure the progress so we looked at how do we come in and collect the data synthesize it
look at Trend gaps um I've started to look at some gaps I mean they're pretty much but you probably already know like sometimes males don't score as high as females um but if you really look deep we looked at secondary but we also went back and looked at some of the scores in elementary and trended them out um over
time and what does that mean because when you talk about a graduation initiative not just about seniors like how are kids doing in the eighth grade how are kids doing in the 11th grade on the test and all those high stake tests that they take and how do you talk to superintendent Jones and superintendent Jones shares with you the work that he's
doing to continue to move that needle up so it's not a secret for the board of the superintendent or the community we are all in it together next slide okay so when we were having a conversation right that's the end of the presentation with Mr GRE but we were having this
conversation I was sharing with superintendent Jones and the board President part of what we do at the urban Academy is connect folks um to other folks doing good work open up resources is a nonprofit and they are coming out with humanizing mathematics um National pilot framework
they will be piloting this framework at 50 schools across the country to see how it works it is really driven in this work when we talk about Dei and cultural competencies that math work is deeply embedded so kids see themselves doing math so if you look at some of your
scores I was like looking at scores and say maybe this might be a great opportunity for them um regardless of if we are approved or not this is on the table for you if you want an opportunity to have one of your lower performing schools in elementary be a part of this pilot for free they would get all the
materials and they would get um professional development at zero cost to see like do can we see a difference this math next slide is actually built by my very good friend Dr Christopher oh you went the other way Dr Christopher Charles um Dr Christopher Charles has
taught math at the college level at the Collegiate level and he is a Visionary around this work and I told them if they decide to pil it we're going to bring you in here Chris to talk to them for free you come in for free um to talk to him about the work um because what he knows as a black male his struggles from
learning math and where math didn't make sense to him until he met a teacher that looked like him and he said then it all started to click in so how does that work so here's just a free opportunity next slide please for you all to decide um specifically for you superintendent
Jones if there's a school that you want to like look at it you have the web page you do not have to but it's an opportunity that you have if you want to let a school pilot it for free and have a deeper dive and happy to have him speak to um a school that's interested and that you might be interested in and
what that would look like now time for questions yes I just been thank you and thank you all for being here tonight I just been taking notes so bear with me as I go through them but I'm thinking about our stakeholders so our kids our staff our leadership our
colleagues in the board the Flint taxpayers and then I think about what's in the presentation and I think about our partners at the Flint Center for educational Excellence at Michigan State universities um you know our partnership with the State Department of
Education and also our partnership with the CSM Foundation then I think you guys you're consultant so you are vendors um I want to make sure that any decision that I make uh is a good use of our taxpayer dollars or in other systs
also dollars from our partners who give us Ms to support programs like these so I want to know what's not already done or duplicative with our partners at the CSM Foundation or at this the Flint Center for educational Excellence or MSU
or at the state level and how would you distinguish yourself from them and then my second question is uh what's been your experience working with urban districts Like Flint in aging states where we have
less than 3,000 students when the majority of the population is black so I'll start with the first one okay um we don't know everything that they do the other organizations but part of the discussions that we've had was about it should not duplicate efforts right um
because that is a waste of money so I'm I used to sit up there just like you I would never put my board in a place where as they have to approve boards that they would have to say well we thought it was better what we tried to look for is where would a good entry point be and based on a lot of the data we know from members of the staff talked
about that there's strong work in the elementary levels but they feel like that as they go to middle school and secondary school some of that kind to weakens this is just from what we had in a meeting as a group together so we would not want to duplicate efforts actually that's why we talked about we
got to come in and pull the data we should be working together and looking at the gaps so that we ensure we close those gaps but that can't be done until we get into a deep dive and work with the superintendent to do it okay and then the second question was
what's what's an example of a similar District where we've done work and there been improvements but specifically an urban District where the state's aging where they've been you know mostly black students in a declining enrollment well for me this is kind of a unique situation uh I have worked in urban
districts before but nothing that was that matches exactly what's happening here in Flint okay um but the the the results are there I mean we worked in J Jackson Public Schools uh for four years and during that time every school that we worked in went up from whatever level
they were in most of them were F and we focused on elementary and middle schools at that time and you see you saw a tremendous growth there now we're no longer in that District because things happened but bottom line uh we had high success there and I moved to actually
into that area just to make sure I was a part of that team across the board so uh I I can't really speak exactly to answer that question but we have experience I know I have as far as the work that we've done and I'm sure that Tracy has some very similar experience too so I'm
going to speak to my work particularly um I think some of the challenges in large urban districts are some of the CL challenges in small districts especially when it comes to African-American students finishing the Finish Line um if I think about the work in three districts that I've been at um we've had
challenges when you look at the disaggregated number of closing the gap for students with disabilities and students who El and African-American or minority students specifically um and you have to do the work a little differently culturally um some people will say oh it should all work for
everybody but it doesn't right like it is very different when I'm having a conversation um with a family who believe that teachers don't like their kids or think that the teachers come with something already against their kids so you have to have deep conversations and
understand the work around like how kids feel so that's why I live with student voice do we have an issue with how kids feel about how people feel about them in the system first or vice versa um and then we created a plan that looked very different I mean we had a plan that
attacked African-American males and Hispanic males straight out and were families upset yep but their graduation rate was 50% less than everybody else's so you got to do something different that difference I think looks different for every Community what works in one
Community won't work in the other community but you don't know that until you pull the data and have a good understanding maybe we do this work and and Dr Jon said this part of it is great thank you very much for this data this data we already got that right so how can we work through that and build a
longer term plan but until we truly get involved with the community and get some assets and learn what's working and talk to Dr Jones and I know Kelly and I have had some conversations uh about her love language and what works we wouldn't be able to give you a definitive answer of
what would be different but we give you a definitive answer of what we could do based on what we've heard from the board members already and what challenges we see in the data and also how you progress monitor your data whether you use us or anyone else right it's important I feel like as a board member
and a superintendent if you're saying a 5% graduation rate and nobody here could write down that answer or maybe you did great but if you didn't like you should know you should know where the system is moving toward right and how do we do that together and if that can be done and there's a way to structure that
maybe that's all that's needed right like so we're not saying everything but we don't know everything until we really get in and look at that data and see where the needs and frankly um superintendent Jones and I talked about like here's where he sees a real real weakness here's where he sees a real strength we do not want to duplicate
efforts because you for sure are the fiary responsibility of the board to take care of the money right and I and I get it look I mean like I work in business I know words like Innovation you know data driven opportunity but I'm just looking at this contract it's you know it's over three years of six
figures and I'm thinking in my head if we're already doing this work then what would be done differently than the current work being done because there are gaps right we don't have a 100% graduation rate our our students had 100% reading in math if they were we wouldn't have you here in front of us
but I just worry about okay if we're already doing this then what are we doing wrong and what we do different and how do we justify that when this three period is over for to approve it and if we if there were gaps that were being filled or there were gaps that you guys didn't need to come in with this price adjust because it's not you know it's
not inexpensive but I can see why it would be at that at that level so that's where my heads at I would ask Mr Jones if he could uh through the the president you know I would encourage you to really engage your leadership and your school staff and our partners in this before we
approve it to know what your recommendation is but that's that's my suggestion because I I'm not sure if who who they spoken to within our EOS system what's being done now and what's not being done but they couldn't list what wasn't duplicative and that is a concern
for me yeah so I I'm not under the understanding that this is a action it no no no no it's it's just it's it's it's just information presentation I'm just saying that's where my head's at yeah yeah okay okay thank you trust
hello okay thank you thank you for coming um I'm it's a lot of information it's a lot of of data um I'm really encouraged by what I see initially um and uh I
think like I said I'm I'm encour I'm still processing um but I want to address some of the things that truste Luna said because I'm coming at this from a very different angle
um for me this whole concern about duplicating efforts and the fact that you can't answer that or something it's that's not that's not the right question like that's not your responsibility in a way
we have partners that since I've been on the board I have been admonishing and calling out for not being Colonial overseers and being true Partners to the
district what we have I see is a land grab and a grant grab and a nonprofit industrial complex that is taking advantage of our district because we have a lot of Grant and title dollars we are we're a district that
that isn't comparable to another District we're a unicorn for a variety of reasons um being that we are the original Community School model and I think I've mentioned this before that Community School model goes
back to 1926 where it was originated by the M foundation and Frank Manley and it was predicated on segregation um so there's a lot that's right with the community school model but there's a lot that's wrong with it and we have
MSU the center for educational Excellence used to be the what the Crim what youth Quest the Crim Foundation it's Crim 2.0 I I'm I find that insulting we we criticized our so-called
partners with the Crim Foundation we had a lot of criticisms about how they treated our culture and our climate and and how the actual students and staff were interacting with the Crim Foundation now on paper it looked great right they got the grant
money they got the grants but in in action it didn't necessarily always translate and so the Crim Foundation youth Quest went away and it got replaced with the center for education Excellence um M
Foundation um like I said MSU it's not whether you're going to be duplicating these Services it's whether these Services right now that are being provided by these so-called partners are actually the right service the right things that we need and what you're
suggesting what you're offering wouldn't necessarily be duplicating the services but I'm going to say it out low um and it's not going to be very popular in some circles it might be replacing some of these services and in my
opinion and I'm just a single board member it's time some of these things got replaced and I've been calling for this since even before I've been on the board um some of these things are not working we've gotten too complacent some of these institutions some of these
nonprofit corporations have gotten too comfortable with the grant trough that's been churning out money and salaries and programs for decades now that may be a moot point in the future because we may
not even have money we may not even have a Department of Education title dollars or Grant dollars but right now what I want to see from the board is to investigate and to look into what it is that we need whether these so-called partner ERS
are providing any of that and whether we want you to provide it in addition to some of the unique things that you have to offer like maybe you can be doing it better right and because I'm I'm looking at some of these things and I'm really
encouraged by your success rates your results about how you're going at it because some of this this way that you're approaching data is frankly a lot more I'm a sociologist I teach data I teach research methods in
my view I'm getting some of the answers that I've been asking for a long time that haven't had any any any answers I mean the questions I've been asking that haven't had answers like why is this happening like why do we have a grant
for example a fiveyear Sig Grant and all of our programs get cut when we have a Sig Grant what we have a school Improvement Grant and I know I I'm beating a dead horse I how many times have I said this you've all heard me say this before but under the Sig Grant we
got rid of dual enrollment AP classes our IB program and all of the special you know Improvement things that that Grant was supposed to bolster so I want want answers and the answers I've gotten haven't been forthcoming or they've just been
inadequate and so what I guess what I want is to have us do a deep dive and look at this now I'm not saying we take any action necessarily now but we need to have a a bigger conversation because it's not for me it's not taken
for granted that MSU the center for educational Excellence the M Foundation are going to continue to to do what what they've been doing because it hasn't worked so that's where I'm at right now I still have questions I still have to process this
so thank you trusty rer all right thank you thank you all for your presentation um for me you guys are a breath of fresh air um I've been one to ask for data I
would love to go back as far as 2017 sure up to current and I think the data will speak for herself yes and with you all stating I think I read somewhere that you stand behind your work and if we're not satisfied you're willing to give back some of the money yes ma'am
that was the next thing I was going to address that speaks volumes thank you absolutely I don't think any partner has ever said that yes' um what was important to me was the data I read it it's a lot of information but my conversation with your chief of staff at
the dinner that that sold it for me because her approach was as if um a white canvas um you all approach districts where they are not where you think they are or where they should be
but where they are and based on where the state wants them to be um for me you put it in writing you show it you can explain it and looking at you all's credentials your credentials kind of mirror what you're
saying and I believe you all care and when you care about something it's not about the dollar it's about the results and with the direction that the district is going you all are what we
need because what's going on is not helping it's not working because when you're succeeding at doing something you show your work yes I haven't seen it yes and this is my third year on the board so I say to you all I'm I'm leaning
towards a good yes and based on what I I haven't seen everything but based on my conversation again with your um chief chief of staff and just her conversation and about the data and how you all use your information that you gather
firsthand I like empirical data I don't like secondhand and to utilize that to put together your processes and your plan that works for me so thank you for this time thank you truste king um thank you for your presentation um I was
listening to it thank you for this bundle of information for me to digest I would uh I would ask my colleagues to I mean um our chair of academics um we have a community of the
whole we allow our um superintendent and um academics team to present that information that's requested from our colleagues um about the programs that we have right uh we can actually do that assessment I think that's what's the
board has not kind of engaged in in a while right because we was focused on fixing some internal struggles right becoming functional becoming financially um literate basic on school Finance right then moving forward with high school there's a lot that we have been
talking about right there's been some steps to our progress um the next step I believe which what I hear today is a good conversation to have at academics C to allow our academic team to present hey here's all the programs I'm hearing
colleagues say they they don't see the data hearing colleagues say about programs that just got reinstated right I think it's just time for us to have that academic discussion and that's what's on the agenda because often times
when we have academics on the agenda there's like look at the agenda now we have so much before it we never have time to really dial in into academics like as I hear my colleagues want so I would recommend us have our academic
chair we call the academic committee the whole allow our superintendent to present um the programs that we have and the questions and we come ready for questions and we send them so we able to be answered and have that discussion um because some of the things I mean
we've been presented to several times about academics from MSU Partnerships with all kind of Partnerships right if we want to do a deep dive into the programs that we have let's do it I'm all for it um but thank you for coming right I I
appreciate the um information also highlights so what you um which are proven your track record your track record I appreciate that but what I hear from my colleagues is I don't know from what the district is presenting which and I would say we do know but we also
set aside time to actually focus on specific academics that's in my opinion um I would be for having academic how we have that conversation first before we approve something like this right um so we all have a good grasp that should be my
request okay excuse me U we have to go um point of information point of information we're going to go by round then if you want to speak a Perkin going to speak then you can add okay that you know so they can just keep it I was just going to let him know this is just a
presentation yeah it's not an action item thank you trustee uh Perkins thank you for coming I I I I really was intently listening to the presentation and I feel like um a lot of
your presenting would be of benefit to this District because I'm looking at the growth that I saw in your presentation and it's like put your money where your mouth is you know kind of thing with me
um one major thing for me is the elementary students I think that's the the the foundation of where our Scholars will learn and I liked all of of the
action items that you presented I thought it was just really on point so I kind of lean with um sister truste reliford on that one so I'm I'm leaning just like she is on that
one thank you trusty boo I'm fine I'm just I just wanted to say thank you again too for presenting and um and I was going to address a truste king you know we're not uh voting on anything right now we're just we
letting them present present so that we can hear what they have to say thank you uh I think I need to do a little point of information here based on uh last week you guys were supposed to be here and we had the council and uh
we as spoke about you doing your presentation here and there is an action item on here uh and it's a couple of things that's on here but for me to speak on what I have heard we had you
guys to fly in um a week or so ago uh meet with some of the uh executive team the academic team put on a presentation a great presentation you guys work very well and gathered data from that
presentation and I think at that particular um at Southwestern was the principal your executive director your chairperson Linda boo myself and uh vice president McIntyre along with the
superintendent staff one of the reason that I reached out to you and your company was that for four years I sit on this board and this board was
clueless about understanding the data of academics I reached out to you to ask you to be a consultant and help this District get out of this this downfall we've been here four
years we done invested $156 million from the north side in these different schools $156 million door Rider brell's home and our children you stand before
us and you say we have improved 1% I think the parents we owe these parents when your parents and your constituent is reaching out to you when are you guys going to do something different your teachers are calling when
are we going to do something different and they deserve that they deserve that the parent deserve that the parent and the teacher help guide this board and making the necessary decision that we need to make here it is
2025 and this dist spent $156 million and the enrollment is still at $2700 every time you talk about closing schools you closing communities you
closing minds and even the poorest mother which I was one time I wanted my child to have a decent education I wanted to be a single mom is go to work knowing that that I do not have to drive
across town for my child to have the same academic right here in the city of Flint our children can do better I they can do better but we've been doing this for 20 some years when I
came on this board four years ago we still doing the same thing it's embarrassing to be in the newspaper it's embarrassing when I was school scho is in the newspaper and our children is like this here and the base is Reading
Writing and arithmetic we focus more on closing School than academic this is the first time in four years four years on this board this is the first time that the
student is talked about in this compacity first time that we can just sit down and have this conversation this board does not understand the data we don't understand what you're talking about that's why you ask about the 5% we
don't know that we got to learn how as a board to have a policy you said that you was counseling that you come in and you be a consultant for the board help us help the community and get a grip on these children education while we have
the opportunity to get a grip on this educ ation number two you offered something you didn't I didn't ask you for nothing I was telling you about we're trying to close they want to close a school in a high tax paay area and we
call um repurposing and closing repurposing closing rather than close this particular school not to call it out it's nethercut here you come in with a program free off in human math going to
pay for everything that's in it for our children they worth whatever this contract say I don't SE no throw away more money than that but when it come to this
education it's a it's a problem we're not saying nothing wrong with MSU can continue to do what they're doing but this Board needs you to help us help this community help the teachers I listen to the teacher I am not for
closing schools what I'm for is building a pro a program where parents wake up every morning and say my child is going to a school that address their issues we don't have curriculum what you're
talking about that addressing this issue I think collectively and cality we can work together on both side of the fence evident there's something missing 15,000 kids here in Flint only 2700 wants to
come to your school we got to listen we got to hear some guts and put these children first that's right I've been here four years I'm tired of talking about land I'm tired of talking about closing I'm sick of it my last two
years in 2026 I guaranteed you we going to to raise the level of Education the little money that we got it behold all of us to invest that money into these children
they deserve it the teachers deserve a race they deserve it they deserve it they've been poisoned that have had the pandemic but one thing I can say about this board every s a dollar 150 some
million dollar along working with the superintendent we didn't steal nothing am I correct we didn't take nothing we didn't have to give nothing back because what we wanted to renovate and bring that Community back up but you cannot build a beautiful
house and not put something in it that's right I'm saying today it is an action item you don't flew here once you don't flew here twice and it's time for this boy to make a decision I would love to see nethercut school have this program
and re purpose it because it doesn't have to be closed if you put something in it if you anybody else want to speak if if you don't mind ID like to quickly address I'm sorry go ahead M no you don't spoke anybody else want to speak
uh anyone else have okay ter you how many rounds hold on one second did you want to speak no no I I I'll wait yeah I can go ahead Mr keep
speaking okay uh ter you have anything you want to say you could you can um never mind never mind I I you good I'm okay I'm I'm
okay you have anything I was to call for the question I did okay you can you can call your well I'm calling for the question Point there's no motion on the floor is it no we were just having a discussion and I think the discussion probably if
there's no more discussion M I would be remiss if I didn't say I understand the data I'm sorry I I'm just I do I I think a couple of us do up here so let me just say that you are we a couple of us understand the
data but if you don't have it you you can't and you know analyze it but first of all well now that's a good point okay yeah my nerves got bad when you said that but um I think that
foration go ahead did you guys just agree you know I need you not to highlight that that that was a question no but when it comes to the students I think I my record speaks for itself the students and the teachers um that's the core
district and if this is going to one put our partners on alert um as they say game on let's go that's right you know somebody else done enter the field that they beating their chest this what we can do and you've had
all these years to do what you're going to do and I looked at the M with the um mde report and I saw the 1% and that's unaccept yeah 1% is
unacceptable and it looks like that's been the last couple of years of being 1% and we're better than that so I'm that's that's yeah wow M Madam
chair um yeah I I do got to say something I'm sorry um I don't want to minimize the work this district has been doing as it pertains to academics
because for two two and a half years now um been on this board um we've finally finally become functional stable leadership Civic Civic I mean uh civil discussion at the
table this District in the past right you had the Board of Education trampling arguing back and forth you had an unstable leadership there's an unreasonable
expectation for us to think that we supposed to Skyrocket after this district has been misled through to due to lack of leadership prior to us
here now that we in a position to lead civil at the table respectfully disagree our superintendent we approve our superintendent for a 5year contract we have a stable leadership at the table we
have stable leadership in our um internal ranks now giving our Administration team the win to fly versus Kurt telling them that's where you see a 1% but what I see currently right I see growth gr
inside of not just our our superintendent our principles and our teachers I don't want to minimize the work that has been put in you have teachers used to be live I mean watching live stream 5,000 views to
chaos we no longer have that you don't have to have worry about teachers worrying about what happened at the board meeting last night and educators are you don't have to worry about that now it's up to us as as a Board of Education that that's now functional and
and and strong and United to demand more I'm with you with that but I don't want to minimize the fact that now we have became stable and functional that's when we start seeing growth but we prior years we haven't seen growth due to the fact of unstable
leadership now we have it I just want to make sure I say that because it is um it's frustrating to hear us talk about plans and you you know uh closing buildings because at the end of the day
student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change adult behaviors changed at this table and until we continue to change right student outcomes will change closing buildings I understand it I understand I've been through all the
school closures I've been through them the only one at the table been through school closure I get the effect yes I do but keep keeping buildings open with low um low utilization rate closes opportunities for kids that when you have non-certified teachers teaching
them I'm I'm hearing it to my colleagues I just I cannot go without saying I want to commend the work that we've been doing yes we can do more but to hear the minimization and and and and that that that um comments it was just I I just
couldn't leave it let it go because you got to give us credit for being fun and civil at the table as we supposed to be that's expectation finally getting there and I'm excited to see what we do moving forward with the civilness and the functionality thank
you do board members have any more comments yes I want to say is your mic off is your mic off your mic is off no you need to put it closer okay do you board members have any more comments I do want to address our trustee King I
don't think we me iing anyone what we say it is time to step out of the box and move forward as it relates to growth of a of a child of a student it's easy for an adult to grow because all you got
to do is kind of sit back and listen and pay attention take some classes so if there any dysfunction that is because of it's a lack of ignorance however we're talking about the growth of the students not the adults we are not
putting down any Department in this board every car should have a spare and right now we need that spare because we're running out of time and if we going to turn this around
because I'm requesting this a plea in order for us to get through this legislation we're going to need parents to bring your children back to Flint Public School amen the reason that I
have you here you've been talking to my ear you've been speaking to me been here 20 years created a school Early Childhood school Ed RIS school and parents kid your children can read
achievement is about confidence we got to build this community confident back up our children should be happy getting up coming to Flint Public School charter school had just as many problem as we have they don't have all uh certified
teachers they have a belief system even when the child is felling we're saying that I'm asking these expert to come in to give us a helping hand for your children this is about the children
we're going to have to gather niiz we're going to have to come together as a community you're going to have to come back into these Public Schools where Flint has control over the academic we have control in this public school we have great
teachers we have great substitute teachers and let's not forget our parent professionals let's not forget our neighborhood association and I called every last one of them and some of you on Zoom cuz I wanted you to see you've been asking me
I got special need need kids I got handicapped kids if I die today you got grandmother raising children if I die today I'm not I'm concern that they won't make it to the next level I didn't come on this board to
make sure the adult have a better Behavior issue I came on this board and I took a oath for the greater outcome of the children and I really thank you what you have offered us I would like to move forward because every if you I'm not
saying that I can read the data but on the data that you give me but I don't understand where this data is coming from this is what I'm talking about I can you can give me a spreadsheet you can put on the greatest PowerPoint I cannot dive into that and find out where
Little Joe at where little Mary is at what's going on at their house why are they feeling the board has that responsibility and the four years I've been out here and I heard a couple of my trustees I've been listening to them they have issues they wants to get out
into Community we wants to get involved in a whole lot of things but we got to understand this academic it's easy for you to come in here and show me a bunch of bullet PS and that's good but this is lies up on the board this not putting anybody down the Board needs to
understand and listen to the community that is what we're doing I appreciate you I'm not going to hold you up a long time and if we can pass this up I would love to see this in NE cup repurposing yes ma'am and I appreciate that but I'd really like to say a few things before I
you guys are done um first of all I want to thank you guys again for the opportunity to come and speak with you and I like to address a few things you you mentioned the concept of doing something different you're looking at different that's what I've been doing all of my years in
education so one of the things I want to make sure I made clear um we have uh been doing this for 20 years and the reason why I've been have survived so long in this business which is a very cutro business the reason I've survived
so long is because we make a difference where we go people call us when they are in need and we come when I was asked to come to Flint I just thought about the idea okay wait why would I come to this cold place up here why would I come to
this place I mean but I came on my own time you know because I want to make a difference that's what I've been doing that's what I care about I'm not here to necessarily make money yes I don't want to go broke doing this and the people that work for me
need to make a living but I want to make a difference and that's why we're here and I don't know what else is going on in your District but I can guarantee you they're not going to make a difference like we do now one more thing IID like to really address that you mentioned earlier Miss reler and that's the fact
that we do guarantee the work that we do we do that in every contract that we offer because we basically come in that's why we have to go through this process because we have to figure out exactly what's going on and then lay out some specific goals that you all agree to and then we go forward from there now
those goals are going to be measurable and we will have constant reporting from us to show that we are actually working toward those goals whether we're being successful or not you'll know and last but not least I want to just make sure that this is clear
too uh when it comes to making a difference in a district we don't just want to come and make money we leave money behind we give back to the communities that we work in all the time and so I don't know what's been going on up here but I do want to be a part of what's Happening
Now and so I'll leave that up to you guys to decide that thank you Tracy while being a former superintendent I just keep locking eyes with you keev Dr Jo super superintendent it is important that we work together cuz
there is so much information that the superintendent and his executive team have that will help us craft a plan that is based on need um and for improvement for the system um and that can only happen when
we take a deep dive What I Hear trusty reler say is she got the data she know it she own it right then over here well I ain't never seen the data right there's a discrepancy something is happening in the system and we all have to have open minds maybe it's that you don't understand the data and how do we
make it plain enough for you to say oh I got it right and maybe those conversations aren't happening or maybe they are happening um but I want to be clear about this work is definitely a partnership with the superintendent and his team because that's the only way we're going to get to a better outcome
and then to trusty Luna like I have to tell you when you said vendor um I actually Urban superintendent collab as a group of superintendents who do work we partner with folks who want to be partners not vendors we don't take everybody's money cuz everybody in for kids um one of the things that I liked
about Green Solution was how many people have come to this table and said if we don't do it we're going to discount or give it back or give you more money like we're not going to just take your money and say oh well it was the kids we want to work with people who want to work with districts and give back I think when I sat down with the superintendent
and the board president and they told me the story of Flint I haven't even told you my history of turnaround around I turn around schools and I turn around districts right because I care about kids because all the money in the world don't change the child's of life if they exit our system and they're not prepared then that is on
us each one of us and we have to highlight the teachers like so when we talk about the work when I saw the graduation initiative there are people in this buildings that you might not even know doing amazing things how can we highlight that and bring that to the Forefront with the superintendent and
the board right notice I keep saying the superintendent and the board and the board while I know that the board is Contracting us that work can't be efficient and effective if we are not working as one and that would happen after we come up with a plan that the
superintendent would say yes this makes sense to me this is where we could grow cuz this is already amazing yes but I do believe anytime any system thinks 1% is enough then I ask them would they want to be the 99% left behind not for my kid
and my kid had a special education she had an IEP she graduated on time and went to fouryear college and got done because there's a high expectation for every kid who walks through the door thank you and we appreciate the opportunity and the opportunity might be not might not be the right opportunity
but we have had discussions so that is how we showed up today based on discussions we have had and how we could support okay thank you thank you Tracy Davis and Wendell green your presentation was very
good we appreciate you both taking time to come all the way to Michigan to present to us and our audience it was a pleasure thank now I'll turn this meeting back over to the board president thank you trusty Bo and green education board member I'm seeking a motion and a
second from the board to approve the urban superintendent collaborative and green Education Service proposal board president I uh make a motion to approve the urban superintendent collaborative Inc and green Education
Services proposal is there a second support who chair I'm sorry I am oh okay I'm sorry um Madam chair where there was is been a a motion by Claudia Claudia and approve and
second by Linda boo have been prob move and second is there any discussion yes I do um where where did I thought this was just a presentation not an action item so I'm wondering where on the agenda that we agreed this was supposed to be action item versus a
presentation because I didn't come here today I came here to listen I didn't come here to vote on a contract we just got today and not yesterday not last week thank you right so I'm not done I'm not done done so no okay not yet point
of information is it a motion always in order yeah it's motion second yeah and he just having a discussion he's saying how you yeah yeah yeah yeah 100% I'm just speaking my uh okay my comment yeah I just I wasn't prepared and we talk
about no surprises right I wasn't prepared to uh vote for a contract tonight and if I'm not mistaken right this is contract and here we talking about right that's what we voting on okay thanks M truste uh Rel I wasn't ready to
vote either but after the presentation why wait thank you any more discussion trust me I just I just wanted to say um you know I said that I was still processing information and that
doesn't mean I'm not ready to go um I'm going to be processing information because you're the the type of Partners who are always going to be given me a lot of homework I can see that so and I appreciate that and that's what I've been asking for and that's what I need
um I I'm quite frankly surprised that there's Surprise by my colleagues or my other my fellow trustees because this isn't your first trip to Michigan right um and we've had a lot of information you've you've done a presentation before
this is the public one this is the one we're sharing with the public um so I appreciate that and you know um I look forward to working with you if if this goes through any more discussions seeing no further discussion
the motion to approve the urban superintendent collaborative incorporation and green Education Service proposal will be conducted by roll call vote trustee King no truste reliford yes trusty Luna yes secretary
Perkins yes trustee bus yes vice president McIntyre yes and myself yes six yes one no the motion passed we look forward to working with you all thank you very much we have I
know you guys got to get on the road and you got to catch a plane but right in the back by here Pam can probably assist you we U make sure that you have something eat refreshment and um we will be having a Dr harll on he's coming next and in the
future like not necessarily right now we would love for you to meet with him because something different it it would fit seamlessly with what you're doing and he's one of our is he on now is he coming on CU I'm to call you okay now I would like to turn the floor over to
vice president McIntyre for the introduction of our next presenter and this would be by Zoom we oh there he is okay uh so um right now I'd like to introduce uh a very uh
good friend of mine a colleague a fellow sociologist uh he was a former uh president of the Michigan sociological Association he's a professor at the Henry Ford College uh Flint native Flint born and raised his his dad's still
living here uh I I'm I apologize Dr harbell I can't remember your high school but I told you you had to give your own introduction so without further Ado I'd like to introduce um Dr Calvin harll uh to the board and to the the
community because he's got a lot of exciting things to share Dr Harville good evening can you all hear me okay yes okay one wonderful wonderful you know how these microphones are one day they're working fine the next day they are not I want to make sure that you all can hear me well first of all I like to
say thank you all for allowing me to come into this particular uh uh space I see this as a privilege I want to give a greeting to The Honorable Board of Flint public of Flint Public Schools um I want to I guess start off by saying that I am
not a benline Outsider who thinks they know what's best for FN or what's best for the kids in FN or what's best for the school R in Flint I actually care about Flint as um Professor McIntyre has said I was uh born in a raised in Flint
um this is my first time hearing that another cut is going to be closing I am a um I went to another cut school and then I went to Flint Academy the real Flint Academy on mlen street and then we of course transferred over to Flint Southwestern Academy I graduated from Flint Southwestern Academy um I am as
um vice president McIntyre has said professor of Sociology at Henry for college but today what I wanted to somewhat talk about is a organization that I work with or a group that I essentially uh am the coordinator of we I coordinate something called the black Mill and queens focus group it's an academic and social support network for
students on the campus of Henry for college however we work outside of that particular College what we essentially do is we do everything to make sure that students are going to be successful not only in terms of college but in terms of getting the necessary skills that they need to go forward to graduate from
college to transfer to the next to the next place space and do whatever it is that they essentially need to do now one of the things that we always focus on is that we do not focus on how things should be I think too often we focus on how things should be how things uh need to be we have to focus on the realities
that are at hand so we have to focus on issues such as food and security focus on issues such as housing and security focus on issues and I love what you all were saying about having the parents involved but we have to focus on the reality of the situation that some parents are just not going to be involved and so what do we do as
Educators to essentially fill in those particular gaps and again notice I'm not saying it's some type of of an achievement Gap we don't believe in that we believe in in an access Gap and what we argue in terms of the focus of the focus group is that as long as students have access they can be successful in anything and they will be successful so
as I said we're an academic and social support network what our research has found this is the research that I've done within my particular group and this is some national research as well is that students academic problems lot of times we dismiss students we discount students because we're always operating from a deficit from a deficit model what
we have found is that these academic problems really are more or less social problems I.E if I'm suffering from food insecurity how can you expect me to engage in Reading Writing and arithmetic if I'm suffering from housing in security how can you expect me to want to read the next WT Whitman poem stuff
has no meaning to me and I want to be honest with you I was one of those students that did not have a connection properly in terms of school I don't want to say anything bad about this not a a critique of Flint public school this is a lot of just me just stuff just didn't con connect connect with me it wasn't
until I was able to find those types of connections to where education became extremely extremely valuable for me so today and I'm not coming here again to to uh ask you all for something I'm coming here to sort of share and talk about some of the work that I've been doing because every time that I volunteer in Flint every time that I get
a talk in Flint one of the things that I keep getting asked is how come your group um does not serve Flint in a Sor how come you all not working in Flint so for example my group my college my college students ought um uh come and they volunteer in places so we volunteered in several of the churches in Flint several volunteer days in Flint
my students while they were Vol while they were volunteering they've done tutoring they have uh you know R to students did math I remember once we were volunteering at a church a young person said U said uh doc do you know how to do any math I said I know how to do it but I have some students here even better than what I am his mother
actually went home got his books brought the books back and S him down with one of my students for about 3 hours while they worked on math on mathematic this is what my group essentially does in my office for example when I talked about loal social social support I have an a complete food pantry a clothing pantry
in my office we offer tutoring I have personally contacted every college and university in the state of Michigan because we want to make sure that our students are going to be able to trans to transfer so we have all of their information right there in my office at our fingertips for students to essentially have access to another thing that we want to make sure that we have
in our office so that students have access of course all these things can be done online but that assumes that everybody has access to a computer it assumes everybody has access to an internet and that's just not the case so within my own office space we have computers and I'm there with the students to sit down with them when it's
time for them to transfer to go to the next college or to go and do whatever they need to do whether it's filling out job applications or whatnot we even have a a clothing a clothing shelter we always talk to students about how they need to be able to present themselves but we don't do anything to assist them so one of the things that I have in my
office is we have have suits and ties and skirts and shoes and things of this nature so the students can actually go out to their jobs I teach students how to tie ties and things of this nature all of the time so we're talking about those practical skills that often we we're not discussing in terms of those
things that are also important along with the pedagogical or the academic skills that are needed in terms of Education that are needed in that are needed in terms of school some other things just as a quick side note that my group essentially does we take students to colleges um to to universities we are
Henry Fort college so of course we are always focus on our students transferring into other spaces and so one of the things that we actually do is we set up those transfer uh systems to make sure the students are going to be successful not just at Henry Ford but getting off to the University of Michigan or Grand Valley State or wherever it is that they're going to be
trans wherever it is that they're going to be transferring at in fact on the very first day of school so your first day of school I'm already talking to students about where are they transferring to and so literally your first day of school you don't have any credits whatsoever I'm already talking to students about where they going to be transferring to and of course where are
they going to graduate school and that's extremely important what's important about this is that we started off as a retention based group my group we're no longer focused on retention if you if you are part of the black belus focus group you are going to graduate and not simply just graduating just barely make it out my students are graduating going
on with honors and again going on to the fouryear schools and I have several students that have went on to graduate school several students that are producing graduate degrees right now at this particular moment and so one of the things I want to make sure that I just sort of talked about and I don't want to take up too much your time it's you know the things we are doing but one of the
big things that I've been trying to connect with in terms of the city of Flint is every year we have uh conferences okay uh we have uh uh two conferences a year the of the black woman Conference of the black retention and success conference at these conferences we've tried to make them into a onstop system a One-Stop system
whereas you can get everything that you need in this one day so the typical conference course you come in there are a couple sessions you have a keynote and you done at our particular conference we have everything that you could possibly need to make you successful and to learn you and teach you about the campus
culture to learn you and teach you about college success so we have the plenary sessions okay and of course we have a general theme we've had sessions on things such as financial literacy we've had sessions on things such as uh law enforcement we've had sessions on things of course in terms of history and some
of the basic or the traditional academic things that you would see at at a conference then of course we have our Keynotes our Keynotes have come from our keyos come from all over the place our last conference uh we had a gentleman dril Houston who was a dean of Dentistry at the Ohio State University we just found out that this conference coming up
we're going to have Dr Jason Young who is a professor of history from University of Michigan an AR in fact I saw my colleague Dr uh Pamela Pew that was there earlier speaking to to you all she spoke at our uh Dr Pew will have to correct me I think it was our second annual Ence of the black women
conference back in 2022 and she did a phenomenal job so we have we have the best speakers that come and actually work as mentors for these students on top of the conference though we have colleges and universities that actually come to recruit students so if you come to one of our conferences we have the
recruiters that are actually right there on you know on the campus I'm talking about everybody of course we want everybody to come to Henry Fort first of course right on then transfer into other into other spaces but we have everybody there you going to name a couple University of Michigan Grand Valley Fair State Wayne State Etc and I cannot tell
you how many students had never heard of some of these schools they found out about them at the conference they were recruited at the conference and then they end up going to these schools in the fall or going to these schools in the next year okay um the other thing that that that we do is because of the distance we always have what's called a
historically a historically black college and university virtual tour because of the distance sometimes they're not able to come and visit us so we always have a virtual tour out of about 10 and so uh hbcus we've had at least 70 71 of them actually visit us virtually so the students will be able
to to have access to those particular people to those particular resources and many of our students have G on to be successful within those schools and be recruited by those particular schools one of the best things about this conference is the entire conference is free um we went from a conference our first year was 2019 we started off with
182 students thator 182 participants which of course is wonderful that's a nice size conference our last conference we had over 525 participants and so what ultimately happens is that um in many in many cases we're connect ected with uh many of the high schools in the Detroit metropolitan
area in fact we've had folks come as far as from Ohio Maryland Virginia Etc to be at this particular conference but a lot of our students come from the Detroit met metropolitan area from uh Southfield schools which of course is by the Detroit metropolitan area ifen etc etc I've been trying to connect with Flint
because I would love to see Flint uh uh come to this conference get some of the information get some of the resources in fact many I forgot to mention this we have a number of professionals that actually come to the conference and they are recruiting uh students are getting internships um students are getting jobs Etc when they
are Dr Harville when when is the conference exactly absolutely oh yes I was I was getting I was getting I was going to get already there's excitement and we want to know oh wonderful well I'm happy to hear that there is excitement the conference this year is Friday April
25th 2025 yes Friday April 25th 2025 I thought I was saying that wrong I'm sorry and that's on that's a Friday April 25th it is at Henry Ford college at Henry for college in Dearborne Michigan 511 Evergreen Evergreen Road and again the entire conference is free
let make sure I mention this we have a free strolling breakfast and we have from what I've heard and out of an unbelievable buffet style lunch everything is free for the students and again the the the things that we're able to do at this conference is simply amazing hang on just just a minute
doctor yes of course were you saying I didn't hear the date I didn't I didn't I didn't hear the dates clearly just repeat and maybe maybe slow down a little bit because there I'm used to I'm used to having conversations with
you okay but thank you but we're getting a little bit of an echo in the in the auditorium we just need to get so and and there was a question it's free right it was because everyone keeps going how much does it cost I'm like
keep saying it's free how many the question is how many students in Flint want to go because they can go for free and you were even saying you were you would provide buses members too yeah
absolutely for board members we've got abely we can have buses you're talking about all the food everything it's it's a good time it's you make connections might get cre all right say the dates again he's already said it twice all right I'm going to slow down and you all
will have to forgive me I got in here and I got excited as I always do when I told myself I was not going to be excited let me slow down some the conference is going to be Friday April 25th oh APR 2025 Friday Henry College 25th yes yes
yes yes yes and I'll just throw this out here right now we already have our keynote speaker Dean Adrien Washington from the old Baltimore Community College who's going to be at our exess of the black wom conference that's going to be Friday October 17th 2025 I put that out there now for you
Friday October 17th is also another conference like this man is prolific I don't think he sleeps and he's offering this as I mean here we talk about green Consultants they're talking about you know prek through 12 this is a
seamless anti- prison school to prison pipeline right here if we can if we can go uh this is what Dr harell specializes in he's been do how long have you been doing this how many years have you been doing this uh I want to be honest with
you this is why I know the program is wonderful I never wanted to go to college myself my mentor at Grand Valley State University started this particular program and when he started the program the work that he was doing I became a sponge around around him and he was the
person who really got me involved in terms of how powerful education would be I won't say what my grade point average was before I got into the program but after getting into the program my grade point average shot right to a 4.0 with consistency and all of a sudden I know my mom was happy cuz I started talking about going to graduate school and so if
we say how long my students always joke and say that I'm the oldest member of the group and the longest term member of the group this will be my oh my goodness this will be my 30th year as a member of the group now as far as the group itself it's been going strong um every time I went to a different school for example
in graduate school I started this particular group now at Henry Ford is been going strong for about nine about nine years okay so this program just to to re rate to the board is a nine-year program it's successful it's it's it's
scalable it's replicable and uh Dr harll has has resources and um uh the ability he he's he's completely gets grants and funding for this in fact I think you've had to bat people away people come to
you with money saying here you go because it's such a successful program and so it's you have your your blackmail retention program and your queen program so you've got you've got at least a couple of programs you also have your
virtual HBCU um uh tours where you actually have uh um uh colleges come in and and recruit and also to give students a direct line to community colleges uh to
to technical programs to to other Alternatives um besides going on to school you're you're saying you do you do like uh financial literacy things like that it's it's about supporting the whole student wherever they are for wherever they want to go and here we
have a native from the Flint Public Schools himself who's very successful who just wants to bring it back home because he's doing it with all these other school districts throughout Michigan and other states and yet his own Hometown is
not collaborating with him as as of yet it's been it's been a few years we've really been trying to work on this so I just kind of wanted to bring him here to kind of show you the resource that we have he's willing to you know to to help out and lend his expertise and and and
maybe we can you know develop our own program through his consultation yeah Joyce um I want to thank you for your presentation uh vice president MTAR what I would like to do we move this over to academic as whole he's sending us all
those information where we can really sit down and analyze and see what it is that we need I I kind of got an idea what the conference is but we need to have an academic as a whole and Dr hav can provide you that information because it's kind of like 9:00 and we lose yeah
and this was this was kind of an introduction and I really appreciate you waiting for a couple of hours I just want them to you know at least get you in front of the board because like you said it like I've said it's been a couple of years um and I want to get this moving forward right away um as
soon as so so we would love to um uh invite uh you know have him have you come so we can talk to you you know even even in person um and I I know you're here a lot uh and then we can we can
move forward with an academic plan or you know get more information and and also if you could send us the details about the conferences um and we can get working on that and and and signing people up okay thank you does anyone questions yeah I got a question we set
the conference in April right a 25th 25th of this this year right every year every year are we going we are we trying to do this year yeah oh um we say we going to have academic committee meeting hm we going to have academic committee meeting about
this I mean that's that's the idea I'm I'm reaching out to the board like you how how would you like to proceed with this okay got you so we just so for this presentation we have an academic committee meeting we're gonna go over the details for that yes is it possible that I can speak to him and find out
more information I just want to see is that a possibility that I can have a conversation with Dr car Dr harell I want to be honest with you I've been trying to reach out to the to the uh to flip public school since
about 2018 when when it first started I and I can never get in contact with any with any in contact now right rightor so so super I'll get your number from Miss Laura and we'll give you a call perect yes I just I I didn't know you know how
far you know who else do s to get in contact with I've been trying to reach out for a spell now every time I come to the to Flint and give a talk people say how come you're not working with Flint with Flint Public Schools I've tried to uh reach out on a number of different occasions okay with with with re this is
not to you Dr harell with respect uh superintendent Jones I have given you his number multiple times and he is actually tried to to contact you multiple times and has left messages and sent emails and so we've had conversation I don't I don't have his
number we've had conversation about BR you do I've actually shared it with you but but we're gonna we're going to follow up on this now that it's the balls rolling and I I really appreciate that yeah we will get a meeting yeah is that do you have anything is
there any other questions for Dr harell I just would like to know what city or state is the event hosted in academic it is in Dearborn Michigan dear Dearborn Michigan yes we are literally one block away from Detroit I mean
literally you'll see the sign that says welcome to Detroit which is one block away from us the Dearborn Michigan yes okay it's at Henry Ford College okay thank you yes are there any other other other questions is there any last thing that
you didn't get to that you want to I mean knowing that we we'll have further conversations and more in-depth conversations is there a last of thing that you want to say yes I just want to say thank you all for the for the time
i' I've want to work with Flint again I'm uh homegrown love Flint uh very important to me I really appreciate what the president was just saying in terms of the need to make sure that that the kids have resources and again I'm not trying I'm not a benevent Outsider saying that I know what's best for the
students anything of this nature you all do that work so I know that you know what's best but anything that I can do I would just love to see the Flint students there these other students from these other districts around the Detroit metropolitan area they have a great time at this conference many of them all of a sudden they're excited about going to
college or becoming you know Architects police officers law Etc I would love to see if the Flint kids can get that and so if you all are going to have children coming just let me know and y'all tell me how many buses y'all y'all need I'm going to make sure Flint is taken care of thank you I really appreciate it
thank you so much thank you certainly thank you my friend thank you so much um okay I now turn the floor back over to the board president thank you very much at this time I would like to
continue with the agenda item and turn the floor over to secretary Perkins for the BR home Cube update and presentation secretary secretary per we had a wonderful meeting uh with our Brown
homes community group last week we are moving forward with the community group and the work with the cube at this time I would like to ask superintendent Jones to proceed with the cube presentation
okay M yes M um due to the the late hour at 9:15 I could we get through the action items first and put this on our next agenda I can ask I think we need to go and
proceed we don't ask the community neighborhood people to come out it's not going to take but a few minutes proceed Mr Jones they should have came first then okay well our neighborhood group has has left um because of the late hour but we
do have uh Miss Karma Lewis still here we do have Miss LaTasha Wilson still here and so I'm just going to ask if Miss lat Wilson will come Miss Karma you can hold just for a moment uh if there is something you want to say I I will
make room for you okay um I just want to we're going to make this brief um and we can go more in depth at a later time so thank you Miss Wilson for coming um Miss Wilson is just going to assist and just
talking a little bit about um The Early Childhood work that we're doing uh but the our board president along with a uh couple of other board members did an executive walk through with many of our
partners and neighborhood group at brell Holmes uh about a month or so couple of months ago yeah a couple of months ago and uh the entire board did not get the opportunity to hear about this information uh it was sent to you but
you did not get an opportunity to kind of hear from Miss Tasha and and myself which it's leading us to other work that uh the R4 committee and our partners is doing um as the board spoke of uh about
a month ago the work that we're doing with our partners is excellent work uh our partners has come along to support uh Flint Community Schools but Flint Community Schools is leading out the work and the work that we're doing over at branell holes is unique
work um we're the only STEM Academy in the Flint area uh we have a stem campus brell Holmes is now a stem campus and we uh are serving children from six weeks
old all the way to eighth grade that's right six weeks to 8th grade at that campus um that's extraordinary MH and that is unprecedented in our area and so um I want to just acknowledge the fact
that um we we did this work as a partnership Flint is leading this work out uh the board of education has led this work out with approvals to ensure that $40 million I heard somebody say in
comments today that we're leaving um all the other areas uh to ruin and that is so far from the truth we put $40 million into the North End of flint and I don't know any school district
that has done that uh in the last 10 to 20 years or even more that has put $40 million into the North End of Flint uh that is unprecedented uh and Flint has done that work so um that is not a true statement
that Flint is leaving all other communities to ruin uh Potter Elementary we put over $10 million into that area and uh we put more money into Doyal ryer over $7 million into Doyal Ryder so uh
this board of education along with this Administration is not leaving our communities to ruin um what we are doing is we're revitalizing our communities and regenerating um assets into our community uh with the work that we're
doing so miss Tasha I'm going to ask you just for a moment as we talk about the work that we're doing in this strategic partnership uh with not only our Flint neighborhood group who has been instrumental it's about 45 of them that
uh was just with us with Miss Claudia uh uh about 25 of them was with us but it's about 45 that come strong uh to talk with us uh and miss Claudia was on that call with us and and most of us were present but they are instrumental
in picking colors they're picking what the building should look like they've been instrumental into the Early Childhood they're instrumental every other Friday in in our meetings Miss Janette Edwards and her team um has been
uh very vocal about making sure that we have some comfortable seating for some our more mature folks right as well as making sure it fits for our children so miss Tasha uh thank you for your time tonight would you talk just a little bit about what we're doing in early childhood over on the North End of flint
and this being a pilot uh for what we want to see in the future of Flynn schools okay good afternoon well good evening everyone um it's a pleasure to talk to you this evening and I won't be long because of the time but we wanted to just highlight what's going on on our
brell stem home stem campus with our Early Childhood Center so just to give you a glimpse into what we have currently here at Flint Community Schools for our early childhood Learners our four year roads we do have currently nine classrooms operating for with our
gsrp that's the great start Readiness program uh grant funding so those nine programs two are located at brell two are at door Ridder one at DTM one at Eisenhower one at Freeman want at nether
cut and one at Potter so we are extremely proud of our early childhood programs we have sustained a lot throughout the years but we have remained strong within our uh in within our buildings and so one thing that I wanted to point out tonight about our
brell hom stem campus that uh superintendent Jones just pointed out briefly is that we have a seamless transition happening on that campus through Partnerships with G card and GISD Early Childhood we are able to
service students 6 weeks all the way up to 8th grade so what does that mean that means I could be on that campus all the way into 8th grade and get ready to matriculate over into high school and you don't find that on many school campuses this gives us the opportunity
to make a strong home school connection with our families something that we have been missing and that we want to bring back to Flint Community Schools we can't do it without the Partnerships at this time I know the board has called for us
to bring Early Childhood back to Flint but I want to just say it it never has left those teachers that are in the gsrp program are your Flint Community School teachers those are Flint teachers who are working hard every day with our
four-year-old uh students and so you may look around the city and years ago when our Head Start program moved out of our uh buildings there was a agreement made that some of our buildings would be
leased out to other entities so that they could host programming for our four-year-olds so we wouldn't lose that particular programming so if you look at our our Summerfield building though that building is leased out to GISD our Cummings building that building is
leased out as well the difference with our brell homes campus that building is not being being leased out and I think that's a misconception that some of our um community members some of our staff members are having that building is our
building that's our programs and we are partnering to make that seamless transition uh from six weeks into 8th grade and so I just wanted to make that clear that's one thing that makes us stand out from the rest that gives us
input when it comes to curriculum when it comes comes to community um programs that we want to see happening with our families we have a stronger voice because that's our program that we're running and so I just wanted to make sure that we are all on the same page
with that and we're very proud of that I'm very proud that we started in the building um we opened up January 6 and I'm proud to announce that our classrooms are full so and that's that's an
accomplishment and you would be surprised the number of people that have called and have asked for our our programming and we are just so happy that we're able to offer that I have six folders on my desk right now for students who are ready to start on
September 24th over at brell and so that is an accomplishment for us and we don't want to just stop here at the brown and homes campus we want to take that on all sides of town we want that to be the model we want to lead out and we want people to see this
is something that we can do for our families this is something we want for our families and we need it on every side of town so I just I can't sit here and not thank the um brell Holmes neighborhood association because they
have been a strong voice for this project I can't uh not thank you all the Board of Education fore to proceed with this project I can't uh ignore the leadership of superintendent Jones uh
Miss Kelly fields and our academics office the whole entire executive team because we've had all had to have input in this and it does take a team and one thing I really want to um say is that at
the last presentation here that we had it was mentioned that prek starts the road to graduation we are the Foundation I'm proud to be part of the prek program because I know this is where it starts and so we have to have a solid
foundation for our students I taught prek for 16 years and that is my heart that's where it's at I wouldn't do anything else if I had to go back and do something else I'm going back to that prek room so I just really want to to just push that we have to put our
attention also and keep the focus on our earliest Learners because they are our future there will be no high school if we don't have those little ones coming in so we have to put that uh emphasis on early childhood education I also want to thank the M Foundation the center for
excellence everyone that has a voice in helping us with this project and I do look forward to more projects to come so to add to that um Miss uh Wilson the community engagement would not have
happened if the center wasn't working with them every other week bringing them together not only going coming to our meetings but going to their meetings and they were instrumental in getting the data with our Scholars uh instrumental in getting the data with the community
and even folks that do not attend Flynn schools that information uh was vital in bringing things along and connecting the dots but this was an in this was inspired board members by many of you that came on and said
um that you we have to have forums we have to get our community involved and community community community and in seeing that Vision we did that bringing the right Partners together to ensure the success in what we're doing today
and I believe if we stay on this path of always including our neighborhood groups in all of our school areas and also including the partners that are instrumental in bringing those groups together and helping us I think that
we're on to something great for our district and when you talk about those schools that's been renovated uh and when you talk about what we've done over at the campus here uh Bron Holmes you're seeing increase in enrollment in those spaces but I think it's important to
mention that the programming in those spaces is important as well and I heard that earlier and that is important and the programming that's going on with Miss uh Wilson uh in our early childhood and the stem programming going over on that on that campus is really making a
difference for our Scholars so hats off to also the principles uh in those schools and the staff that's making a difference in that area so that leads me into why we asked Miss Karma to just be here uh don't want to put you on the
spot uh but I was able to have a conversation with her and talking about what does a new high school mean to Flint Community Schools and to also Flint kids alog together Miss Karma you don't have to come but if you would like
to just have something to say you can I know the hour is late but I know we've had conversations about it and she is the president of uh the neighborhood United Clint neighborhood United and so
she doesn't have a mic over there uh would you hand her a mic thank you and I'll be very brief I appreciate what you guys are doing working with the community as well as the students the parents because it
definitely takes all of us all of us we're all a part of the Flint Community I'm happy that we're going to have a high school the work that you're doing with the elementary schools up to eth 8th grade perfect thank you for
that that will lead them to this brand new high school that we're going to get yes it's going to be renovated I do understand that but in my heart of hearts it feels like it's going to be brand new just like brell Holmes just like the other schools door
Rider it's going to be brand new thank I'm excited thank you thank you and so with that and the reason why you're important in that because when you talk about the central campus we need support from our community to come and talk to
us about what are you looking for right what do you want to see and so that's why we went after a proposal for schematic design and we have won that proposal for schematic design to start talking to our community and and what
I'm hoping that the board will do tonight is uh accept it uh 7 $50,000 uh schematic design for a new high school accept it we've we brought on plataran to help us move into that
space with our community and start the community you can go to the last slide go to the very last slide and we've done the roll work uh leading up to the end of the brell and the cube uh which tomorrow uh those of you who are able to
come and sign the last piece P of Steel the beam signing at 12: noon um and sign that last piece of Steel tomorrow at 12:00 noon but leading us over into the next phase which is let's talk about a new High School the last slide is not up
there there you go and so this is the next step board members is to work with uh Miss Cara Lewis the central neighborhood group and and also our partners the center and the foundation uh um so that we can move into what we
just did and accomplished at brell homes we met with our neighborhood group we want to take that prototype over into we don't need to change anything we just need to take that over into the cultural center and do the same thing we've done
with our Brownell holes group and so my hope tonight is that you accept the 750k um schematic design uh from the foundation and we move forward with meeting with our neighborhood groups
meeting with that R4 committee and and move forward with trying to build us a new high school so thank you Miss Lewis thank you Miss Wilson uh thank you to our partners and the work that we're all doing together thank you for your time
thanks for staying do any board members have any questions okay I have one quick question um transportation do they provide transportation for the little ones you know um that was one the question a couple of parents Miss Wilson uh the
question is do we provide transportation to the little ones okay yeah we we do not okay thanks okay thank you thank you superintendent Jones you're welcome I now turn the floor back
over to the board president thank you secretary Perkins and I call on superintendent Jones to present action items to the board we have to don't we have to do this yep right here acceptance of the
[Music] schematic 5.1 yeah page N I think we here the same P I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve resolution 5.1 acceptance of schematic design Grant from the my
Foundation support you SE a motion mam chair yeah go ahead I make a motion we uh approve item 5.1 yes second oh support
so no she count she said he asked for the motion you said support he have to make a motion make a motion yeah then he made the motion then you can support right okay okay okay is there any discussion Madam chair yes yeah um I was pointing the truste
Perkins because I thought she would make the uh the motion she she jumped in I'll joke in aside I'm just going to be I'm keep this brief um this is a true partnership that's going to involve us working with the neighborhood groups like we have talked
about all board members the community the administration and a partnership with the CSM Foundation um I think truste McIntyre said it best at the meeting we had in January this is a true partnership that's built on trust I pulled that from a quote from East
buer magazine so that's why I had pulled up but I'm looking forward to us approving this and you know in a couple years seeing that High School build where our kids start at 6 weeks and end at 12 years and then go to college or military or whatever skill trades and hopefully stay in our city so I'll be
supporting this tonight not there any more discussion I would just like to make a comment um most most of the individuals in the community think that we're just going to renovate the school but my my thought is that we are going to build a new school
is that correct that is correct okay uh some there's conversations about keeping some of the Nostalgia which I don't think any of us are against uh but making sure that we have those conversations and of course Bard nothing is done without your approval so it's
going come to with but there was convers about keeping some of the brick right some things of that nature and and whatever is you know we can keep we we will uh I think that's a great thing um and there's some opportunities in that
for signatures on bricks and things like that so there's different things that we can do to keep that Nostalgia but it is a new building it's a new building and if I could respond to trustee uh boo I would just take a look at Detroit Grand Central Station that's a complete new
building but they kept that old fill everything else is new that could be a model for us okay yeah the Detroit Grand Central Station oh okay I Haven seen Michigan Avenue okay any more discussion seeing no further discussion
the motion to approve resolution 5.1 acceptance of the schismatic design Grant from the mod foundation will be conducted by a roll call vote board members are call unit name please say yes or no to approve this this motion secretary Perkins yes trustee booze yes
vice president McIntyre yes trustee reliford yes trustee King yes treasure Luna yes myself yes s yes Z no MREs yes here we [Applause]
are go ahead super I think it's human resources page 10 you uh want Mee yeah you do it then wait a minute it's been our latest meeting a year page 22 on page 22 right I
understand yeah but I thought it was she's chairing we already saw this didn't we oh we do that in the count okay I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve resol resolution 1.3 authorization to approve
the letter the the letter of agreement for competitive event scheduling position where I M chair yes I make a motion we approve action item 1.3
report it been properly moved and supported um is there any discussion Madam chair yes can can um it be explained to the HR chairperson what this is competitive events
thank yes so we have an interim um athletic um person Mr Mike mbrook um what we the Loa we have for the beginning of the year we would had hoped that we would have been finished with some of the work that's behind all of
that but we're not we're still negotiating with the Union so we need to finish we need to have him continue for the rest of the year so that we have someone handling the competitive Sports and supporting the scholars in in that
space so we need him to continue doing what he's doing for the rest of the year because it was for six months yeah any more discussions saying no further discussion we would take a roll call vote to uh set
resolution 1.3 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 relber yes trustee King yes treaser Luna
and myself a yes seven yes zero no I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve resolution 1.4 authorization to approve the letter of agreement for temporary assignment for special education teachers to support student count Madam chair yes I make a motion to
approve item 1.4 is there a second second support is have been properly moved and second is there any discussion is there any discussion seeing no further discussion a motion to
approve resolution 1.4 will be conducted by a roll call vote as I call your name please say yes or no treasure Luna yes trustee King yes trustee reliford yes vice president McIntyre yes trustee boo
yes secretary Perkins and myself a yes seven yes Madam chair yes I make a motion to batch item 1.5 one 11.1 11.2 hold on one second uh what page we are now we are on
12 right here no I'm talking about in your package are here hold on we approve Point there's a motion on the floor to Batch who number did you say uh trust 1.5 11.1 and 11.2 there's a motion on the four to
badge 1.5 11.1 11.2 is there a second second been Pro properly is there's a motion and it been second is there any discussion mam chair yes I would just say because we had to
cancel the cow last Wednesday because of weather I had the chance to review most of these items I think there was a few changes because there was a revised packet but I feel good with batching these and approving these tonight as opposed to having to wait another month to
approve is there any other discussions Madam chair yes um I don't have a well this is just for batching but I I do want to pull something out but I'm okay with batching loans I could pull something out so do we need to make
a motion to pull something out or so you're making a motion to pour something point of information yeah can my colleague ask a question now I thought that's what she said she said she want to pull it out she have a question that's my question will I be
able to pull something out if we batch it okay thank wait wait a minute can she pull it out after we batch or before we batch she needs to amend it if she wants to you need not vote for it you can amend it and pull it out and get the vote or
say no can I question uh point of information trustee McIntyre oh no it's not point of information I'm sorry go ahead go ahead yeah so so again I don't recommend that we batch things especially in a hurry like this it's
late I know that we're all tired but these are some important things we didn't have a cow last week so we didn't have a discussion or any discussion things have changed um I really think we should address each of these individually
um especially because trusty relerford has concern is going to pull it out this is going to take more time extracting a motion or extracting one of the the uh the actions than just going
through them individually and and again I just I'm I'm just tired of of these batching things it's not good policy it's not uh a good practice thank you it can be conducted by roll call vote we
been motion and been second board members there was a motion to bch 1 point one 1.5 1.5 11.1 11.2 will be conducted by roll call vote treasure
Luna yes trustee King yes trustee reler no vice president McIntyre no trust secretary Perkins no trust St boo no and myself as a no 1 2 3 four five
NOS so I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 1.5 Personnel recommendations Madam chair I make a motion we approve uh 1.5 support if been uh motion by truste loone is supported
by trustee King board members there's any discussions Madam chair yes I'd like to have um the central office staff pulled and sent back to committee please make a motion to send that back to committee there's a motion on the floor to point point of she made a
motion of order we're in the middle of a motion we're in the middle of discussing a motion so we can't make another motion wait a minute hold on thought we wait a minute hold on we we're in discuss in discussion we in discussion in
discussion motion has been made to approve Personnel recommendations 1.5 it's been seconded we're in discussion we're in the middle of a motion so we can't make another motion we're in the middle of a motion right so it would either be that we don't vote
for it or no no you can't make a motion in a motion M there's a motion on the floor to approve these items we have a board member that like to have an item taken out but we writing a motion can we make an amendment to a motion it's
appropriate always you can make an amendment to the motion to extract that item that she's talking about am I correct not at this point not at this juncture at this point we would either have to have it withdrawed with withdrawn or you know I don't know what you're talking
about there was a motion on the floor and the board member has the right to yeah amend the motion you saying that they can't why if we have in discussion I'm confused justar
from I I mean are you you making a motion to amend the motion you make an amendment to the motion is that allow trusty R for are you make an amendment to the motion to extract that uh Central uh Central
office staff out sure I'd like to make Amendment to the motion to extract out the central office staff there is there a second support have been motion and
second is there any discussions yes I'd like to understand why we would be doing that and the board has already approved the reorganization MH and that particular position I just like to understand
um point of in information he's making a point of information wait we in a discussion no we're in a discussion and he's making a point you were you were I'm not supposed to make a point no no no you were in discussion but my point of information
is and I'm trying to figure out a way to put it into a form of a question because we're not necessarily approve approving or just you know it's just it's just pulling it out we in discussion on the amendment I guess what I'm just asking is I just wanted to know some more
information we that's why we having a discussion hopefully that you can get that information while we having discussion uh truste relevant any particular reason why we pulling that out I don't need no reason I mean first and foremost with this situation right
here this position had another dollar amount on it and this position definitely goes against Dei what what point of information who made that point I I am um trusty rer how does LSS
project specialist admin building um goes against di you want me to answer that yeah please CU you fire a black girl and put a white girl in this position okay thank you for telling me your thought process okay mam uh trusty Looney let's not go too far you guys
just trusty I didn't want to go that far so through the you to the superintendent to the HR Director um could you just give us some reasons why you asked the board to approve this recommendations just so we can hear them again so just to let you
know the board already had approved the restructuring plan a couple of months ago so this position came about because the board had approved the restructuring plan we interviewed the person for the position and we had already said that we were eliminating the previous position which was the data technician position
so that's the reason why it's coming across yeah and thank you for that you're welcome um and I just wanted to remind the board you know we did some great work when it came to this restructuring a few months ago remember that meeting we had it in the admin building we had some good questions in
that um I forget the specific vote count but I think it was a strong majority My worry is if we go back on this or send it back it then begins to muddy some of what we were doing and maybe gives doubt
to how we're moving forward with the district when it comes to educating students um people may get the perception we might do the same thing again when it comes to how we're working with partners and remodeling our schools or even potentially working with new
partners when it comes to recruiting teachers retaining them giving them a better stien for their compensation so we already voted for this um previously I um tend to leave it to HR
to hire the folks um based upon their own processes I'm not sure about the Dei piece um but I I do trust the process and I I really don't think this board should approach what we've done in the
past and when I say past I mean the past 10 20 years where there may be the perception that we serve as a labor dispute tribunal are we nitpick all the um um personal recommendations I'm going to trust our
HR director's been doing a great job the last year and a half and the supr on this and vote that we approve the recommendations Madam chair trusty King I have a question uh M Montgomery um is this a new LSS project specialist is
this a new um created BR yes it is so there was no one in this Ro correct before anybody you got it so this is a new position that someone applied for a brand new position brand new position got you thank you this is the this is the position that the Board of Education
in 25 said don't call it this call it this the board made this name up yeah and we went with what the board requested so this is nothing new this is what the board requested and this
is this is how we proceeded Madam CH sorry again if I'm not mistaken Mr Jones this this position was supposed to be a admin admin assistant or secretary right correct but also if I'm not mistaken if you can remind me um our you colleague
said that the weight of that job does not match the title right and then we okay got you that's the one thank you madam chair yes I'm not concerned about the title I'm concerned about the position that's that's why I ask that it
be pulled out the Personnel going into the position I don't care about I'm not I'm not concerned about the title but we are definitely uh a fair district and um everyone will be treated fairly it is my understanding when we
made these decision first I think that position price was the six six figure and then I see where you reduced it down or to I don't recall it that it had to be that particular person to take that position there's other legalities
question that I understand where my colleagues is coming from and that still can happen but is I began to think does that really make it sure that another person that someone had in mind should have this position that would be the
question for HR which I'm not privileged to ask so there's a position that the board approved and there's other issues as it relates to this position which the board probably would uh address so based
on that we did put this position in place we did change the title I'm still trying uh I'm just doing discussion as we look into this
here so what is the board anymore discussion I don't know what to say go ahead um all right uh so the way I see it we have recommendations for employment that come before us
yes they're based on the HR Director doing their job and following the law and it is not our role as board members to micromanage those decisions to go
into Personnel files to go into the weeds and to be deciding who or who is not the most confident for these jobs that's what the HR department is for they have processes and procedures
they're governed by law um it's a misstatement to say that this goes against Dei Dei is diversity Equity inclusion and that's in policies this is about labor law so we've got we
definitely have laws about equality and equity and labor law but again that's going into the weeds that's not what we're supposed to be doing um if there's something that is concerning or concrete
that is that the board does need to address it can't be just vague inuendos and just sort of what's going on here that that is not appropriate it's I don't even know if it's legal um we're not supposed to be
talking about people especially by name not that we've mentioned any names we are talking about we got a board packet here it's public there's a person's name in it we should not be doing this um
I my role as a board member and as a trustee that's overseen fiduciary interests is to follow along with our restructuring that we already agreed to
and to leave it to HR to do the high level decisions that the board has made and to do the nitty-gritty or to do the details we should not be in the micromanaging or the nitty-gritty that
is my opinion now if there is I'm speaking I have the floor if there is something concrete that is being some assertation that is being made that has legitimacy that is
actually based on fact or data some accusation that's being made Then There are rules and policies and procedures for that as well we do not want to get into a lawsuit or into litigation anything having to do with
employees of this District so I would respectfully request that the board take a deep breath and and and step back and just do what it's supposed to do and if there's any issue that maybe we can remove this and have another discussion
or consult with legal opinion or or whatever it is that we need to do but this is not it thank you madam chair TR I will not share it in this open meeting but it needs to be pulled out
and discussed reason for that is not getting in the weeds as the HR chairperson as the HR chairperson it is my responsibility as a
HR chairperson to make sure we're within our rights and every employee in this district from the conception of Flint Community Schools has a right to address the board no yes they do they can come and talk to
the board if they go to that mic we are here to service this District we are here to service this district and when something go against Title 9 or title one or any type of law that
we're that you know you must address it doesn't mean does not mean you have to dig into the weeds but you must do your due diligence so I say to you all when you do not know the facts please don't
please don't throw out misinformation thank you trust Luna Dan you yeah um I wanted to respond to trustee McIntyre I agree with what you she said
and this board doesn't have I don't want to get I don't want to go into this RAB but I do want to stay this L this board doesn't has not created a Dei policy yet but it can and there's model policies across the state within the national St
School Board Association and they tend to work well when they're implemented well with this I want to be clear um I'm going to support this that we approve this recommendation tonight and I'm urging every last one of my bar
members to do the same thing this is sudden a bad president if we do things like this we've had this information for weeks where this could have been asked in advance and it's bad for staff attraction and retention when we do this
if you've gone through the HR process and then the night of your approval for the board which tends to be hey folks have done their due diligence your job could be at risk of not getting approved that's not going to attract the best and the brightest from the
classroom teacher to the parpro to the people who serve in the administration to the folks who clean our classrooms through a third party vendor that's my personal opinion but I think we need to not go back to that when we first started out that this board together obviously a couple years
ago I think questions are purely valid and all that um but I just I don't think this is a good decision and a good president to set I think we should move move forward with approving this trusty so I do need to State for the record because I object to this in
the strongest possible terms because I do not want to be complicit with violations Public Relation or public uh it's so late you guys human resource violations like I I know enough about
this to know that this is not what we should be doing and this is not okay um and it is my opinion that if in fact this is how it's going to be like moving forward that um uh I I will I think we
should just move this this particular motion forward and just vote for it um but because of the the situation that the trustee is putting this board into I I I'm going to recommend that we remove
her as chair from the human uh Relations Board okay thank you but right now there was Amendment on the floor and this is we are we done with discussion there's Amendment on the floor to remove this
item central office staff from the agenda you can vote it up or down yes uh to do it no to keep it can we be clear on that so we can make sure every board understand okay so what we're saying she was making an
amendment to pull out this uh central office staff position just go back to committee and to go back to committee um the question that I'm going to ask the board if you agree with taking it out to go back to the
committee it's a yes if you agree not to send it to the committee and keep it going the way it is are it's a no did I say that right yes ma'am board members I will conduct the roll call
vote to the amendment to the motion if you want to take central office staff out of this package say yes if you don't say no we all
understand secretary Perkins no trustee boo no vice president McIntyre no trustee Lona no trustee riford yes
truste King no and myself would be a no one two 3 four five five no one six no and one yes did I get everybody y I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve resolution 1.5 Personnel
recommendations Madam chair yes I make a motion we approve recommendation 1.5 support it will be conducted by a roll call to approve a resolution 1.5 board members I call your name please say yes
or no secretary Perkin yes trustee boo yes vice president McIntyre yes truste rifer no truste King yes treasure Luna yes and myself a yes six yes one no Madam chair yes
I make a motion that we remove Melody reliford as the chair of the human resource committee there's a motion on the floor to remove um trustee relif is the chair for the HR is there a second say there's no response the mo
the motion fail due to a lack of second board member then your package information regarding retirement and resignation do any board member have any questions what's the information is that for you trustee uh king that's that's
follow down oh okay seeing there's no questions or keep going keep going I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve resolution 11.1 authorization to purchase boiler maintenance testing Madam chair yes I make a motion we
approve action item 11.1 support it has been propped to move and second is there any discussions Madam chair yes I want to give Mrs CLE a moment just explain the reason for this just so she can give us some context and lame terms yep no problem so with our
new boilers and even our older boilers we have to have regular maintenance done so this is just making sure that we're meeting state requirements and having all the testing work done on yeah and the reason I asked that question is you know we get these board packets in advance so we can see this
but if we can just give the public a 15 20 302nd uh you know summary like that is helpful as we approve them because sometimes we can be going through this quick and I want to make sure people know what we're doing so thank you Mrs Cleaves any more uh
discussions see no further discussion wait wait we on 11.1 about the boiler did trusted M did you hear what she said about the reason no I'm I'm sorry we was can you please restate Mrs
Cleaves problem I I apologize that's okay so we're required by the state to have certain inspections done on our boilers so this is just the routine maintenance on all the boilers to make sure that we're um have all the testing work done
and is it so it's coming from the from the general fund yes the operations budget is $40,000 like a routine amount annual cost yes it's annual cost I mean that's
what other districts are paying for this yeah just can I just add one thing you know what I toured some of these old boilers and saw the new ones it's like night and day M like oh I I'm just I'm just for context it was like a seven-year-old boiler that had no kind
of like buttons on it as opposed to a new one where it had a whole computer in it you should have seen the boiler in my house when I moved in the 1920s one I I I know I just wanted to I'm not up on boiler maintenance cost so it's nice to be reassured that we're you know getting
charged a fair amount and that that's what it is so thank you it wasn't any question on your decision or the process at all thank you no problem and we did seek three quotes and so that's how we were able I appreciate thank you for the information thanks are there any more
discussion seeing no further discussion the motion to approve 11.1 authorization to purchase the boil and maintening testing we be conducted by roll call vote board members are call your name say yes or no secretary Perkins yes truste boo yes vice president McIntyre
yes trustee reliford yes trustee King yes treaser Luna yes and myself yes s yes I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve resolution 11.2 authorization to purchase electrical work Madam chair yes I make a motion we
approve action itm 11.2 support who supported Perkins is there any discussions Madam chair yes uh through you to Mrs CLE could just kind of do the same summary for this that okay yeah yes so at Doyle Ryder we have to get the elevator up
upgraded there so this is electrical work that needs to be done to support that um elevator refresh work there are there any discussions seeing no discussion we will conduct the roll call vote um authorization to purchase electrical
work board member call your name please say yes or no secretary Perkins yes truste booze yes vice president McIntyre yes trustee reliford yes trustee King yes treaser Looney yes and
myself yes seven yes I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 21.10 exposion of student is there a motion to accept the
exposion of the student Madam chair yes I make a motion to approve the exposure is that support it been properly mov and supported is there any discussion Madam
chair yes um when it comes to exposion of students and reading this it states based upon the evidence submitted at the hearing the evidence submitted at the
hearing was not credible and that's concerning when you submit [Music] information and the
information point point of go ahead I have to correct you on an exposion do board member cannot have any discussion as relates to the exposure we voting it up or not we can't go in to the detail what the direction you're
going in so you can vote it up or no that's only option we have we don't have any discussion or right to discuss what happened at the exposure that's always been the policy
uh truste McIntyre can I ask and this you can say yes or no if I can ask or not is this expulsion the re is it are we legally required to
expel this is the reason why the student is being expelled like a legal thing that's put on us and we don't have leeway to to make our own decision as a it's hard for me to it's hard for me to answer you without okay going into I wouldn't bring this forward to you
there's there is things that I want to make sure that um well let me just say this I we would I wouldn't have brought it forward if we didn't need to do it that's all I can say and keeping in mind when explosion
come before the board that's why we have the hearing you normally have three board members uh you uh at that hearing and you can you can stop it or you can let it go forth apparently the board member move forward with the exposion
and that's all we can say is point of information through through you to trusty reliford trusty reord were you on the board on the yeah she was committee but we can't discuss it in DET truste King you on the committee yes
and park if I may finish I just want us to make sure that we make good decisions that that's all I won't go into details thank you and that's fair and I think in the future we need to have more legal and training on
exposure and how the board should address it uh because every student has a right the parents have a right this board is not privileged to expose that right uh they can vote it up or down if you accept its exposion or you're not
cuz we don't even have the detail we only can go if it's passed in your three board members and whoever you approved it it come before if it doesn't approve it doesn't come before us is there any more
discussion do we have a uh zero policy for for certain incidents yes yes okay yes and carrying fire Firearms or drugs would be like a zero tolerance in most
cases illegal substances would be in most cases okay and I think those States in our student um handb it's in it's in the handbook okay any more discussions see there is any more no
more discussion we conduct the road call vot uh secretary Perkins yes trustee boo yes trustee King yes treasure Luna
yes vice president McIntyre no truste reliford no and myself is a no the motion passed for yes three no I seek a motion in a second from the
board to approve resolution 21.11 lease agreement with the Flint Soapbox Derby and L ballot fol Clore Rico I tried how you say that again mam chair yes I seek a motion to
approve so second action item sorry I was shwing pie of care action item 21.11 support any discussions yeah Madam chair yes I want to commend um truste King who
sits on the repurposing committee and also uh yourself and trusty McIntyre for kind of bringing these together I know we talked about not just buildings and closing building but you know bringing stuff back into the community I know specifically the woman who runs this
organization at by Lake FICO she worked in the bilingual program so she has a deep connection with the Flint Community Schools um the program was currently house at a charter school they outgrew that space and they're looking for a
larger space um so when I think about this opportunity from that perspective number one it's given back to the community because it brings back some programming into the Flint Community Schools but number two this program has hundreds of students who have been enrolled with over the years so I think
of enrollment numbers helping our students you know come to our schools and stay in our schools from not just one kid but the whole family I know trust keing worked on the Soapbox Derby piece if you want to talk about that but I think it's a good idea a approach how
we repurpose schools but I will say one thing I don't think it's the only model to do it but I think it's a good first step and at some point maybe we could put some policy behind it but I'm really proud of the work of the folks who were involved in it thank you I'm ask any more discussions
justy I'm in in general I'm I'm in favor uh but I do have I do have a couple of questions about I'm trying to find it uh I think
it's 43 page 43 got to be um I know more about the ballet FICO than than the soap box derby um so I'm wondering why they were put together why they're not in separate
uh negotiations um I would prefer them to be separate so that we could each each entity we could deal with on its own if something falls apart with one I don't want it to you know be contingent they're totally
separate so yeah so yeah if I could add um so the idea behind this there was two two organization that wanted to U lease space right um so in the resolutions it talks about it's not uh director superintendent to negotiate with both
not in tandem right together but they still have their own separate negotiation point of information yes so you're saying these two organizations want to lease space from Pierce Pierce yes may I speak I mean unless you know
so I'm still on the floor yes yeah you may know more okay that's not entirely true okay um I did I was able to uh to speak with the director of the ballet fororo and she would actually she would
have preferred if you would have contacted her directly um or at least spoken to her before making this initiative and um she wants to to view the space so it's not that they
they want to enter into a lease agreement it's it's what what what I'm objecting to is that we're not we're not doing our due diligence with the organizations and the communities that we're involving oursel with we need to point of information if
I may um could you could you explain to me what do you mean by due diligence in your terms well you're entering into uh or here's a and and I'm assuming you wrote this yes by yourself
or with input from by myself this is a resolution yes so okay so this that's not influenced by by no one I'm not trying to like no shade honestly honly I'm just trying to get you know I know you I I get it you know how my mind
works yeah so I would really like us to figure out what the needs are of the groups the organizations and the communities into which we're entering into these
agreements and that involves not a top- down decision- making process but you know actually reaching out to say if we're looking at El Bal FICO to actually talk to the people that are involved with that and say hey what what what do you want because they don't know if they
want Pier or not they you know they haven't seen it they don't know what the condition is in talking with this organization they've got different hopes dreams and desires that don't necessarily involve Pierce so I'm just
kind of wondering what this push is for Pierce I would like to see and I'm asking the rest of my board that maybe we have uh agreements with these different organizations to enter into
conversations about how best to collaborate and serve them as opposed to say hey we're going to enter into a negotiate a lease agreement on Pierce for this group um and this group doesn't know anything
about it and mam chair I would like to see us have something where it's like um we're agreeing to collaborate with this group and let's figure out the best way to do it because what if Pierce
doesn't work right what if it's not suitable um and or maybe we could set up a tour and then have this agreement come before the board or have conversation that so that's kind of what what I'm requesting I want to thank you trustee
King for actually doing something and bringing this before the board because uh I think this is important and it needs to be acted on um it's just I think that there's maybe if we could tweak tweak it a little bit because uh having talked to um uh the director she
doesn't know if if Pierce is suitable so could I Madam chair proceed oh trusty king um so uh trusty McIntyre hearing your concerns I hear it um I would if you known that before I would have you know would appreciated a call and we could have worked something out right um
my number always stay open open lines of communication with me I will also note in here right uh it doesn't make um the El balet the AL balet group force them into the agreement they still have the option to say no I don't want to do that this
tell this directs give superintendent to direct hey you you can negotiate work with these two groups okay if if El say no I don't want Pierce okay so he don't have to work with that one group about Pierce right let say she want to um the director want to come back and say Hey I want a different
building all right cool if she want to Shadow the building before she go into leas agreement terms she can work that out with the superintendent it gives a superintendent autonomy to go into uh talking process to work with these two groups to see if they want the lease agreement with Pierce it's not more so
we're forcing both the lb for f f okay sorry I'm so sorry and then the Soap Box D not like we forcing them down to it right they still have the option say no I don't want to go there right it it just make sure the superintendent knows the director of the board is to put
somebody into Pierce put a Spate put somebody into Pierce to make sure it's not a vacant building again right um so I think the per the director still has the right to say hey I don't want to do Pierce after she sees it she can work with superintendent Jones and tour the
building and and say okay cool this might work or she may have a different decision so I I agree with that I think you're missing the point of what I'm saying so I appreciate the the the uh intention but I'm saying this isn't the for me this isn't the right thing I
don't want to vote for this I want to vote for making a resolution to enter into some kind of a community agreement um uh with each individual entity so with a separate with a flint soap box
derby for example and elb Folklorico um that's that's what I want and uh or what I'm suggesting or again it's late I'm sorry I'm getting to the point where I'm stumbling on my words but I didn't
know about this you wrote this and submitted it and and I saw it and I was like what what is this where did it come from and so I called Sue and we talked and I said do you know anything about this and she said no and so um you know
communication goes both ways like it it's we just need to have a better process and I'm not criticizing I'm just saying this is what I would like and and hopefully we can work on this as as a board moving forward and if maybe we can
amend this to separate the two and to maybe strike out Pierce um you know cuz I I don't know I don't know anything about the Flint soap box derby like if they want to use that and and stuff like that but but do you know what I'm saying
like I I would like to have it just a general point of information I I I just got to intervene because it's late point of information okay and I I think supposed to be a question but the question is that you're saying that you want this to be separate I just want to
give a little information the soapbox people been involved with this situation and I can see cuz they're here but so I'm trying to clear you you want him to just take uh that part out uh Bell take that off
that's what you were saying I I'm suggesting that we create two uh resolutions one for the Flint soap box derby one for El balet F cloro and the Soapbox Derby if they want to
include Pierce that's fine um but at least with the ballet fororo if we could just keep it open-ended so that it is either Pierce or another place that is suitable yeah and I agree exactly with you because I think when we
first got started and you have a lot of detail with the ballet group and that I think we should pull the ballet out of it but we should move forward with the soap Bo going uh the soap box box group going into peers CU they have that's what they asked for that's what they
wanted and we we really need to get somebody in there so I'm I hear what you're saying this cannot pass through because we got two enties on it and we can't have it like that I can hear what you're saying because I know you're working with uh and give trusty King CR
we didn't know that uh I knew you did he didn't know so but we're saying that we're I guess the motion we're having a discussion you making uh Amendment to the motion that we take something out so we can move move forward yes yes soad
and just can I just say yes one thing and I just want to make a uh I just want to make it clear um in terms of like any conflict of of Interest I do know Sue's son from like a decade ago when we did theater together but I have not been in
contact with the family or it's not like there's a an overlap of interest and I haven't been necessarily working with Sue we've gotten into contact in the last couple of days because this has come up and I understand the interest
and I'm very much in support of any type of uh bilingual programming or anything that this this group which I know has been around for a long time can offer all right so Madam chair okay sorry so Madam chair if I'm
hearing this correctly at the pledge of the board I think this board can do two things at once but separate I may make a an amendment to the current resolution to strike El F Lal from it okay and if that passes then
we would get empower the superintendent to talk to these folks about that lease space then I would like to make a separate motion to adopt this resolutions with the amendment that gives Alo F lorico the flexibility to
just pursue what they think makes sense does that makes that would be okay all right so Madam chair I make an amendment to remove El Le for gloro from resolution 21 2011 is there a second support it's been
motion by uh trusty Looney supported by um truste King we have had the discussion is there any more of the discussion seeing no other discussion we'll conduct a roll call vote uh to strike out uh
lb uh from this resolution board members I call your name sir uh trustee boo yes trusty reifer yes trustee King yes treasure Luna yes vice president
McIntyre yes secretary Perkins and myself is a yes six yes one absent Madam chair yes I make a motion that we approve the amended 21.11 support that it's been properly moved and second is there any other discussion
on the same discussion 21.1 seeing no discussion uh we will do a roll call vote to 21.11 with those Amendment uh trustee boo yes vice president McIntyre yes
trusty reliford yes trustee King yes treasure Luna yes yes myself a yes secretary Perkins away Madam chair yes okay this this one probably requires I'm I'm going say it slowly based upon the
feedback that I got wait we just are we moved we did you're not doing another discussion no no it's just it's it's it's a motion it's a motion that I'm making so I make a motion smash make sure I say correctly because I don't want this to
get screwed up in the minutes okay I make a motion that we adopt you know what I I'll let do it I would strike so but I would if it serves if Mak and other colleagues I would just
strike keep the same resolution strike so boox Derby and Pierce Elementary um from the resolution and then just move forward like that does that make sense make sense see well you would have to insert Flint Community Schools in place of Pierce so you would strike Soapbox Derby
but then where Pierce is at you would insert Flint Community School s space so you want to okay all right Madam chair yeah I make a motion to remove uh Flint so box derby from the
resolution and Pierce Elementary instead of Pier Elementary we replace it with Flint Community Schools and that's a new motion yes okay support and we still talking about 21.11 yes okay so wait just to be clear point
point of order we approved an amended version of 21.11 to strike out a B for gloro my understanding is we're approving an additional resolution that mirrors 21.11 but Strikes Out Pierce
Community School Pierce elementary and in place puts Flint Community Schools and Stripes out the Soapbox Derby so kind making a blank so in L layman's terms we we're approving two resolutions one for soapbox that's specific to pierce and then a separate resolution that includes B for gloral but is not
specific to that specific building but it could include Pierce but yeah yeah within Flint it's kind of like a blanket yeah okay there's a motion on the floor forgive me if I miss all of this we're going to remove uh the soap box and pi and we're going to place it with Flint
come in uh think community school so this will act as a blanket um resolution yeah is there any more discussion if not we would take a roll call vote secretary
Perkins truste boo vice president McIntyre yes trustee reliford yes truste King yes trust treasur Luna yes and myself yes by yes to no I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve
resolution 21.12 approval of 2025 HBCU tour you no is there there a motion you better make that motion that's your area oh support make a motion support oh thank you
guys it been prompted move in second is there any discussion yes yes so what's the the Foundation again it's the same Foundation we used that went last
year given okay so given the presentation that we had from Dr harll and that we could potentially have free resources and a different thing I would like to suggest that maybe we postpone this for
further committee discussion um that's fine but you you have a chance has to lose the seats so sorry what you may lose the seats but that's fine if that's what the board wants to do as long as kids get to go I'm fine but you
you these seats are due on Thursday we well I'm just I'm just telling you okay so I'm just I'm just I'm just a little frustrated because I've been trying to you know get this movie this is $4,400 that's you know okay in the
relative scheme of things but on the other hand here we are again funds General funds General funds here we are again you know we've got to make a decision by Thursday what it's by tomorrow by tomorrow so you would have
had this decision made um Mr Joe okay I I'm just I don't want to lose opportunities for the scholars but on the other hand this really just rubs me the wrong way I like we have we have other resources I that
have been ignored could I um so for compromise in my mind right so with the I forgot the doctor what's his name that came to car Dr car Dr Carell um superintendent still have to talk to him you know create that camaraderie right
and he does it every year I say that um we give our Scholars we we pay for it this year right because we already got the tickets to the seats Scholars already familiar with those students that's going going on the tour right um and then next year you know um after
come become um come before the academic cow right we have time so for next year the students can get acclimated and know where they're going for the next year right but I think we should still give our Scholars an opportunity um to go this year and then next year we can you
know still doesn't mean that we can't work with Dr carel between now and then but next year we could probably Focus there too or we can do both right it doesn't mean like it's not one or the other uh but I think we can just do it today Madam chair yes um with what what
um was proposed tonight it's just four students so with Dr Harve other students can have an opportunity to go so I I I didn't understand the um I don't know I I don't want you to feel like we didn't hear you with Dr haril which we did but
we know with this with this um particular tour the students went on before last year so we're I think the families are comfortable the students are comfortable and they there's a relationship there and um I think in the future we could definitely expand
because that's only four Scholars thank you on this one so I just wanted to share that just one more thing has nothing to do with what was stated but there's two seats currently I I'm asking you for four
because if somebody else don't pay I I want our Scholars to have those other two seats and I've already spoke to the foundation so there's two seats currently but I'm asking you for four so we don't get caught up in having to come back just in case there's two seats good
point all right so I just wanted I wanted to be clear on what what we currently have and they had cancelled this or you would have had this earlier this year but this was cancelled until last month at the end of the month and then that's when I found
out trusty Perkin and when these children go to the HBCU there are scholarships immediately for those students tied to those particular and in in in in our neighborhoods it's just you
know a lot of kids don't even know about it and then I'm thinking back last year when the scholars got back they were so excited because they had never been introduced to it you know my my daughter
was a recipient of the HBCU tour and so I support it thank you all right okay we can kind of move forward I and I have to say that I would not I would support this um we kind of like in the middle of
a race we got some information that we didn't have before this even hit the board I trust I respect what you're saying but I just don't want um seeing the faces that we had last year and the hard work that our our colleague just love you know was trying
to get HBCU uh on the map we got them there and I just think we should move forth with this and work on uh a committee and making sure with Dr herel coming up that we work on that because we got time to
do that and like truste relev said there's other students out there that could use them but right now I just think we should move forward is there go ahead yeah I I agree I mean I support this I I I loved the results that we got
last year the the only thing I'm saying is that I'm just disappointed that we didn't move forward with the momentum from last year and really follow up so that we could do more this year and that um like I said with with Dr Harv's program it's been around you know he
said himself at 30 years and he's been in it with he's been leading at nine um I think it just I just want to underscore the importance of having our own program for all of our Scholars um
and doing it in a way where we have you know support from the communities we've got funding that won't necessarily have to come out of our our general fund and that um uh we do it inhouse um you know I think one of the things that that we
bandied about before and that maybe we can pursue like in other committee meeting is maybe uh you know having you know Michael and Haley clack you know be be mentored through you know scaling up this this program like doing you know
having our own do it for our own kind of thing and and having it on a scale where all the scholars get to do it so I want to support this for right now and hopefully we can keep pushing it so that it's even bigger and better next year
okay and we can move that over to your academic have further discussion seeing that there is no further discussion the motion to approve resolution 21.2 will be conducted by Roll Call Secretary
Perkins yes truste booze yes vice president McIntyre yes truste reliford yes truste King yes treaser Luna yes and myself yes seven [Applause] yes at this time oh Lord we got two more
talk about at this time I would like to turn the floor over to trustee King on for information item 22.3 the repurpose of peer School you already talk about that oh yeah we already did that we we already did that one so um oh my god oh at this time I would
like to ask superintendent jnes and Miss field to continue with information item 26.2 the Flint partnership District Benchmark Review summer we are we we are um this is a compliance of our partnership agreement right um and we we
must bring this before the board and I must sign after the board has been given this information and get it back to mde so we we must do this tonight do we have good evening board
it's good to see you this evening um as as superintendent had mentioned this is part of our Flint School District um Benchmark Review summary it is a requirement by the state and part of our partnership agreement that you review with this feedback form um shows that
all of our schools are on track I think the most important um pages that you'll want to pay attention to are going to be on pages nine where it shows that our um that our schools are all on track uh for the partnership agreement in addition to
that it also shows on your page 10 you'll see where our bench Mark scores for the 2022 um starts with a school Composite Index and then shows growth for every single last one of our schools that are in the partnership agreement um have made not just some gains but markable
gains with our school index stor where is this is this in our packet it's it's in the okay thank you I'm so Pages um the yep nine and 10 are probably the ones that are the most marketable that kind of like lay out for you what the
whole gist of the um of the uh particular literature is about um in addition to showing that we have met our we're on track for all of our schools and that we have met the goal for being on track for our district they also provide feedback to us which we have
already implemented many of the things that they have mentioned that would include mtss work letters training um culture and climate dare to lead with book studies and the brne brown book that we've done uh many things around community engagement processes and
systems and then celebration and growth of those particular um areas of where we've made marketed Improvement and again as the superintendent had mentioned this is a um review for the the board to make it also states that he has um reviewed these with the board
president um Dr mcneel and then as well as uh superintendent tund Cliff for the GISD and if there's any questions I'm able to answer those for you there's no further questions or comments All man said Thank You
superintendent Jones and Miss FS thank you board member your package is uh Vortex monthly update for January January do any board members have any questions M yes I know we got to go so I'm be quick I promise on Vortex no
sorry I thought you had thought I thought you have board comments my bad I heard it's getting late I heard I heard board comments I'm ready to get out of here so I can say what I got to say all right okay do any we need remarks from the individual board members we want it
to be short and quick do any board members have any comments or remarks before we are join M chair yes uh I get we didn't have the cow last week but we really got to get these and this not really it's not criticizing anyone else but I don't think it's fair that we have
neighbor members who are volunteers at not only this meeting but the ones that Miss Perkin and Mr Jones do throughout the last year to have to wait this long to speak they have families are here on their own dime they're not getting paid for it so let's be more cognizant of that next time and moving forward it's just not fair I mean we all chose to be
here because we chose to run we have staff here but we definitely should PE them at the top of the agenda if they're presenting thank you my personal opinion I think it was no Mal intention but I think we should definitely keep that into consideration uh and then number two to um just because we have disagreements on
the board doesn't mean we're not not working together we get a lot of stuff done and we just showed the last few amendments that we passed that we can agree on changes and move forward so I want the public to know we're not fighting we're just going through a healthy debate and that's totally fine I
have my opinions they have theirs and if we don't agree we don't if we do we do bottom line thank you mam me oh I just really was um trusty Luna just took the words out of my mouth I specifically said something to um VP
mckinty for that reason that a disagreement is just that it's I don't take it personal um we've come too far to uh take things personal but I just asked um everyone to just continue to move forward our goal is to take this
District to the next level with the announcement of the renovations going on at Central all eyes are on this District yes and they're looking for a reason not for it to happen and we have to make sure we don't give them a reason a lot
of things are going to come our way individuals want to see how can we make those critical decisions can we have a difficult conversation amongst ourselves without any guardrails and we're showing the work we can it's okay because the
kids are dependent on us so I just ask us just to keep keep moving forward and it's not personal at all yeah Madam chair uh uh I'll Echo the sentiments of my colleagues uh the way we were able to um have a healthy
discussion and even compromise even at the table right that's a sign of not just growth right but leadership that we know our community has been lacking for some time right um it's wonderful working with this team uh we may
disagree you know I may disagree and you know that's fine you that's what we do uh but the way we're able to still uh get the business done listen to Long presentations um and still get it done I'm I'm proud of the work that we're
doing and we'll be continuing to do but thank you all yes there any more uh superintendent no I just wanted to say real quick that yeah I I I appreciate everybody uh for the extra hours that they put in uh for this meeting I mean
that we did have uh extenuating circumstances with the with the weather which is one of the reasons why this this meeting was so long because we did not have the cow which is kind of sometimes we need that cow so that we can do that work and we can split that
up so hopefully this will not happen again um we were doing a lot of good work and thank you trustey King uh for pointing out how how well we're working together I think it's it you know it it just speaks to that the we just want what's what's
best for the district and and trusty rord I admire and respect you enormously and I I I I'm I know that you know that it wasn't personal it's I disagree with like you know what how how it was being done it was it was just structural and
you and I will be on the phone and and and we'll we'll smooth this out and it'll it'll all be good but uh um I mean that's just just kind of how we are we have to that's what makes a good board is is the agreements and the disagreements and then and then coming
to to the end of it so thank you all I appreciate every one of you superintendent Jones y so um in that vein uh Board of Education we have received um your standard of Excellence board award certificate of achievement
from masb uh this standard of excellent board award Boards of Education when all board members have received their level two Award of Merit award level so this is to you Board of Education and this will be going up in the administration building
so congratulations to you all thank you thank you those hand claps was like Randy Watkins on coming to America when one clap we all clap one clap we are clap one clap we are thank you for that Mr johnes and I just want
the public know normally our board we our meetings are over about 7:30 8:30 at the most but we had different circumstances and family come first children come first and if it have to cause a delay to make sure that our
family and our kid voices are heard then we had to make that uh choice and uh hopefully you can always go on zoom and come back uh but you hopefully you won't be here this long again our next board meeting
is March the 12 at 6:30 here at ala seeing no further business of the board I declare the board me meeting a journ at 10:49 this the longest ever