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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] brother King good afternoon I would like to call the Flint Board of Education regular board
meeting to order at 6:31 p.m. board member as I call your name please stay present for the record trustee King treaser Luna present trustee rifer absent vice president CL present assistant secretary treaser McIntyre
present secretary Perkins present and myself present we have six present one absent I will now call upon secretary perus to read the district mission statement and first statement in the standards of 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 everchanging Society FN board of education standards
of practice in order excuse me to provide outstanding leadership and better serve the Flynn Community Schools we the members of the Flynn Board of Education commit to the following standards of practice number one we will be consistent in our dealings with each
other as well as students staff and community two we will model trustworthiness and honesty in our relationships with each other with our superintendent and with our constituents number three we will focus
on the common goal of providing the best education possible for the students and the Flint Community School we will we will respect the diverse views that each of us bring to the organization as well as the views of others that we interact with as we carry out the business of the
Board of Education we'll be open authentic with each other our staff and Community as we work to make decisions we will focus on issues not personalities our our decisions will be student centered and based on
objective facts we will practice good listening skills to better understand our fellow Board of Education members and constituents thank you board member in your package
approval minutes I seek a motion second to approve the minutes from the August 14 2024 Committee of the whole meeting August the 21st 2024 special board meeting August the 21st
2024 regular board meeting regular board meeting and the August 22nd special board meeting and the August 22nd 2024 special board meeting it has been prop to moveing
Second are there any correction seeing none the motion to approve the minutes from the August 14 through August 22 2024 will be conducted by a roll call vote as I call your name say yes or no to approve the motion secretary Perkins
yes trustee McIntyre yes vice president clatt yes truste riford trusty King yes treasure Luna yes myself yes six yes when AB we would not hear comments from the
public the board would not hear comments from the public we ask that you state the reason for addressing the board and that you limit your remarks to three minutes on the matter within the authority of the board and not address individual by name the 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 begin to speak and is there anyone from the public who would like to speak name and address
yes my name is Mr Betts I'm a Student Success coordinator at nethercut elementary school my address is 3117 Norwood Drive you I can't hear your name thank you you might have to pull a little closer so I can get your name clear yes ma'am you would you like my
first name yeah Brandon b r a n d n bets Betts 3117 nor Wood Drive Flint Michigan 48503 my name is Mr Betts I'm a Student Success coordinator at nethercut elementary school as you can see I just
wanted to um publicly affirm our our leadership um I'm not sure if I'm able to say their names yes um Mrs cook and master um she is an amazing principal um over the last two years she has made um great progress in uh math and reading um
throughout the District of believe we're top three um our educators are amazing I have a great relationship with all of them Miss Spencer Miss SCH Miss milikin Miss Mrs Barnett um Mrs Jackson and Mrs
Desmond um these are just uh amazing women amazing Educators they've allowed me to work with their students we've done restorative circles we are digging in on our PBIS um expectations throughout the the school in the
classroom in transitions um I also brought some flyers to events that I would appreciate if you all would show up to we have a talent show October 18th um I would like to build relationships with you guys I I
want to be able to be a familiar face so I can understand what's going on in this District I'm originally from Grand Rapids Michigan my wife is from here I've been living here about four years I'm currently a a student at M to become
an educator um I just appreciate the the the love and support that they have given me um I'm hired in through the GISD but since I've been at nethercut um it's changed me just to be able to work with these students in their families um
it it gives me a different purpose before this I was working in irrigation but I knew that I had a a bigger purpose and a greater purpose within this district and there's a need a big need for um relationship um empathy
understanding as well as leadership and I I appreciate you giving me an opportunity to speak and hopefully I'll be able to see you in the near future at some of these events and build a relationship with you guys um throughout um building this community up and and and just being um the best that we can
be for these young people um to have something to look forward to so thank you for my time I appreciate you good evening Felicia neyar in person direct hire speech language pathologist Durant tont and early childhood evaluation team I unfortunately arrived
late last week after public comment time was over I would like to let you know of my disappointment in the decision to let Mr Stewart blat physical therapist go Stu came to work for Flint Community Schools through a third party company
the year after I did and gave all of his his all to our students unfortunately his contract was discontinued just before our first intercession and Labor Day and the ISD provided physical therapist left on a previously scheduled
trip the end of last week I do not remember how long she will be gone but she is now solely responsible for providing physical therapy to all students serviced by Flint community schools that have physical therapy included in their IEPs including the
outlying head starts and gsrp programs that we are required to service um so if a student is a flint School resident School District resident but attends EduCare or Summerfield or Cummings or van wi we are required to provide those
services for them if they need speech Physical Therapy occupational therapy or School social work as well as to do evaluations in addition to that I wanted to speak to you to discuss comments made during last week's meeting I believe it
was during board member remarks and I think it was truste relerford who commented about keeping those involved with the school shooting in Georgia in our thoughts and prayers and that it could happen here but of course we all hope it won't I don't know who made the
decision as to when to hold the Potter rub uh ribbon cutting ceremony but having it on a school day with students present in the building in a building where some doors do not lock do not close and student sa safety is a
concern was not a wise decision having strangers walk through the building was asking for trouble thank heaven nothing happened additionally I know that several staff members from other buildings myself included would have liked to be there to support our
co-workers and thect District we were unable to attend however because it was held during our work day when we discussed issues last year that we were having with the restoration of our um agreement restorative steps and things
one thing that the staff was asked for was to participate more and encourage participation of our co-workers in support of the district we were unable to take the opportunity to do that in this case I hope it went well and that
and I ask that in the future the staff's ability to participate staff input on when the best time to have something would be and most importantly student safety all be taken into consideration thank
you good evening board members good evening thank you for this opportunity need to uh stand before you um I think um each and one of you have a flyer right here we're going to be putting on this black tire fair are raising funds
for our our youth program our youth program going to really uh emphasize or try to get more students INF flen involved in this this this power of pack uh program right here it's going to have a component education program which we
going to emphasize more so than the sports aspects of it but when you look at the sports aspects of we got some really powerful hitters we have college coaches that's going to be involved in this former college
coaches uh former professional athletes and high schools um um All State um players we believe this concept that we going to be uh putting together will be uh a partnership that we trying to
generate with with more uh support within the Flint community and um I know Firs like me when I played Sports and had uh somewhat of academic program it allows me to lead me towards the other aspects of life to know how to um hold a
job go to a job and and work through life emphasis itself and we think that's a really important part that we um need to have our youth around to the city of flint and a lot of the um uh people that going to be involved in this program board members and as well
as coaches and instructors our Flint uh former students that's the main thing so when you look at someone coming from the outside maybe don't know the fabric of Flint we bringing that extra type of support concept that we need and we see
today is more needed than ever within our um our our youth because our youth lot of time as you know don't have don't know the um the history and maybe you know because of uh not homegrown as I would think about a lot of people
concept may be coming in and not really um bringing the experience so we're going to be bringing a lot of experience hope and we looking for um a lot of support uh within the Flint community so this is one of the aspects that we going to be um uh working toward so uh in the
near future I'm sure that you will be seeing a lot of information towards this uh event and many more events that we're going to have within the city of Flint thank you okay all right thank you thank you did that's it my name and address or no no no I can't remember did
he get the name and address oh could you repeated okay my name is Sam Sam Stewart address is 3213 Forest Hill Avenue lifelong citizen okay thank you all right thank you appreciate you
all are there any more comments from the public good evening my name is Allison Montgomery Little John I am a parent I have three sons that attend doy Ryder Education Center and my family is also a
school of choice family we reside in afteron school district so I first wanted to say that my children transferred to do Rider from Pierce and I am pleasantly surprised at
door rer um we didn't know where we would send our children to um because we had been disappointed in Flint Community Schools and my husband and I decided to go to the orientation at door rer and it was that orientation after meeting the
principal Dr Coleman that we were thoroughly impressed with her and encourag to enroll three of our children into that school building and to stick with Flint Community Schools excuse me I attended um the first parent meeting at
door Rider yesterday um with family engagement Advocate Miss Roberts and my experience at that parent meeting was over whelming because of the amount of support that was in that room and I am
very happy pleased and overwhelmed with being at door Rider so I hope that filling um continues um and I'm just really happy to have to made a decision that has um stuck with uh Flint
Community Schools Dr Coleman and her staff um are really a gem in the community Community um my only concern um is the fact that Flint Community Schools is the lowest paying School District in the area which causes a high
risk of the district losing qualified teachers as well as gaining qualified teachers so it's my hope that the Board of Education will work diligently to create a lucrative package that will
convince qualified and genuine teachers to both apply and stay committed to Flint children thank you so much y'all have a good evening thank you very much is there anyone else for public
comments saying n i Now call upon CFO chander Cleaves to present the action items to the board good evening I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve resolution 1.9 Personnel
recommendations so move it has been propt to move and second is there any discussion seeing no further discussion the Motions to approve resolution 1.9 will be conducted by roll call vote for remember as I call your name pleasee say
yes or no secretary Perkins yes trustee McIntyre yes trustee King yes vice president CL yes trustee rord yes treaser Lona yes and myself yes seven
yes I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 11.2 authorization to purchase and install new playground so move support it has been probably moving second is there any discussion I just
got a quick question yes where's the pro the playground going be located the playground be located at the shelter of Flint okay Mr CL what was your question just kind of hard to hear you um my question was what location would the playground
be located oh for 11.2 yes ma'am pack so shelter flp that's what you said is there any more discussions yes I trusty I would like
um the public to be made aware of this grant um um which is going to provide a new playground for the shelter of Flint uh through a I don't know much much about it so perhaps you could maybe
Enlighten us um my concern is because I didn't get information about how many um bids were made for the RFP um and how how did we get to the
ultimate decision to hire this particular company um I have not priced playgrounds recently I mean this seems like a fair a fair price but I just kind of wanted just a little bit more
background please sure so we're in a Consortium and so we were able to the Consortium is through the state of Texas so we were able to not have to go out for bid and use the playground boss um
vendor to be able to purchase this equipment okay forgive my ignorance but can you explain that did you about being in the Consortium how does that relieve us from
RFP bid proposals so what happens with the Consortium is they've already done the bid work so you can go in and select a vendor from it's a co-op program so you're able to go in and select a vendor so you're able to go in and say if you want playground equipment and they'll
show you what vendors will provide it and the reason why it was done that way is it was the grant is set to end I wow okay I wasn't aware that that's how we could do things I'm going
to have to look into that further mam chair trusty Luna yeah um you know reading the I was absent last week because I was in a PD and DC but reading the um the board
packet uh it makes sense to me that we approve this and I give my reasons why I'm supporting it tonight um number one it's from it's not from general fund dollars it's from American Rescue plan dollars that are specific to homeless students um I know we have a fair amount
of students to fit that population so to give them some support where they possibly could live in Flint I think is very important um and then three and I may word this wrong uh Mrs Cleaves but I'm GNA use my own kind of layman's terms
but the Consortium is kind of in my understanding is kind of like not quite like shared services but that Co-op model where we have access to folks doing the work for us we pay a small fee and we get equally competitive uh bids
that have been bedded by professionals and we've done it before um in years past I can't speak to the specific one I can recall maybe one last year but uh and I'm cool with it and I'd be supporting it but I think your questions were great uh trusty McIntyre I mean they they need to be asked so people
understand what we're doing here Madam chair yes uh trustee Rel um I just want to confirm the address is 9 is it 924 Cedar Street is that where it's going to be built at yes okay so it's 924 CED Street Flint
Michigan 4503 all right thank you any more discussions see n it will be conducted 11.12 by roll call vote as I call your name say yes or no secretary Perkins yes trustee
McIntyre yes vice president CL uh yes trustee rord yes truste King yes treaser Lona yes and myself yes board members I would like to open
the floor regarding the appointment of Lorie cint Public Library board Madam chair yes so uh number one I've known Brian Lin uh for a long time I'm sad to see him go but he's been there for so many terms think he wants to take a
break from that specific role so I want to thank him for a service um with that being said the folks he spoke to spoke to for reappointment specifically Mrs Stanley and Mrs kale I know personally
so I support their appointment I also uh trust Brian's integrity and recommendations I do somewhat know Miss Muhammad but I will support her appointment as well and finally um I've known Mr uh Asen sucaro my entire life
both personally professionally and I think he'd be a great addition to the board um but besides him being qualified through his executive leadership nonprofit leadership and just involvement in the community I do know that the board does not have any Hispanic representation on it so I think
that's good to add that uh voice as we move forward make these kind of appointments so I support um all three reappointments and also the new appointment with Mr sensio zukaro are there any more discussions trust yes I'd like to Echo
that support especially for um Mr asencio zuro zukaro excuse me uh apologies um I do know that in the years previous that we have had um uh a very
good partnership with the latinx center and I wish there could be more and I see this as a first step towards solidifying that um uh that partnership um and I
really encourage it I think he is I have been very impressed with his work and again I would like to see more of that especially as it relates to the the relationship um with the Flint schools um and in terms of the the rest of the
appointments um I thank everybody for uh for their service for that and so I will be supporting this thank you any com yeah Madam chair yes uh just a request to ask um could we send
um that policy that's listed in there can we send that to the policy review you know when we have it so we can adopt it is the one to sit here yes do you need me to send or you just get this what are you say I'm say can we can we put that on the agenda for when
we do governance for that specific policy so we did we put approve that I check and see with way we he be coming in and we can talk to him about it but I assume that we had addressed
this uh when he first got started with uh Neola but I check and make sure and there no problem thank you I make sure Mr Vice President get that any more discussions just a quick comment if
everyone else speak spoken I didn't hear you just a quick comment if everyone else has spoken okay for the second round can I go ahead see yeah so just looking at the terms um specifically Mr
Lin's turn uh Mrs Stanley's terms Mrs Kale's terms um they did expire uh between one and two years so maybe just move them forward we could be a bit more proactive in making sure we make the reappointments or new appointments in a
timely manner for example right if Mrs Stanley's term ended uh September 3rth 2022 maybe 3 months in advance or some kind of fixed period We Begin the vetting process for appointments or reappointment just to you know make sure we don't have people stuck there or we not in compliance with
our own policy um and then two you I just want to speak again to uh the folks who are reappointing but also Mr sens zado he was in DC with me this past week and advocating uh Mr zukaro we we were in DC
this past week um both speak into the mic I couldn't hear you can you hear me now yes thank you I was just saying speaking to his credibility we're in DC this past week advocating with folks like Senator Peters Michigan speak speaker Joe Tate um obviously me for Flint schools and him for his own
organization but that caliber of people we need to advocate for our library because we do have you know oversight over it so good appointment but those are my comments thank you I want to respond to what you just uh spoken out as relates to uh these
appointment coming in in a timely manner uh the library uh Miss Rita Stanley has been working with us back and forth we've been back and forth they requested this uh right when we changed policy and we had to go through the Neola policy
and and implement this into neol so the timing was perfect when they did it has no um bad reflection on any part is just that we had to go through Neola because we left fboe and we went to Neola and we put in
1181 uh in Neola that we would continue this so um but I hear what you said but normally they come in uh during the summer month when term they always give us two or three months notice uh when these terms come in and who they recommended okay thank you for that
context yeah thank you see board is agreement with the appointments of these boards for the glory Co Flint District Library board moving on to our second item you want to know do we have to vote
on it in the past we didn't uh vote on it um but if there something you guys want to implement in your um policy we could because we remember we went from FBO e to neas to this so
um normally the board members would appoint if they had brought somebody in like we appointed Andrey that's who we appointed they appoint their boards we ar Muhammed represent Clint Community
School m president I I think we should uh vote to approve okay uh the the you know the nominees um to make sure it's all you know in record and I agree so I seek a motion to
approve the uh Gloria Co District Library board Madam I'm sorry I thought you as of 9184 okay go ahead I still got the four yeah you can make okay I'd like to make the
motion to approve um what is that 11.2 22.4 okay all right um item 22.4 support support if we got a second okay this motion will be conducted by roll call vote board
members is I call your name please say yes or no secretary Perkins yes truste Leonard yes truste Leonard Luna yes forgive me I've been up all night trustee King yes trustee
reliford yes vice president clack yes trustee McIntyre yes and myself is a yes six yes motion passes seven yes our next agenda on the board on this
package is the statement of Flint Board of Education regarding the cens of a board member I want to bring the public up to date um there was a complaint filed against
our board member we had to farm and thorough investigation and that investigation was completed I am giving a statement to what we uh responded to I would not elaborate
on the details of it but this is a statement from the Fint Board of Education uh we has a board member of seven and I support my board member and we are providing the statement as this August the 22nd
2024 board meeting the Flint Board of Education passed a resolution censoring board member Melanie rord for violating board policy the board also voted at that time to suspend his willingness to pay for board member reifer to attend
out of state conferences at the district expense board member reify was the only board member to vote against the resolution the board's resolution is the conclusion we hope to multiple multiple
we hope to the multiple complaint against board member reliford submitted to the board in early 24 three separate complaint against board member relevant was submitted by three separate longtime employees of the
district the the complaintant included a senior administrator a building principal and a senior Administrative Assistant each of the complaint alleged that board member releva was spreading
false and defamatory rumors about these employees creating a toxic work environment and undermining their ability to serve the district in response to the complaints and to avoid any appearance or bias the
district engaged an independent Law Firm fed with expertise in thirdparty investigation to conduct an independent third party investigation of the complaints that inves investigation included a detailed review in including
interview with the complaint board member reliford and other the results of the investigation were reported to this board in detail written report dated June the 21st 202
four the report concluded that all three complaints were substantiated by clear and convincing evidence that board member relevant violated numerous board policy including the board's
workplace safety policy the board's anti-harassment policies and the board's ethics policy in the interest of transparence and in the effort to restore some of the
confidence in this board and District that may have been eroded by board member Rel for egregious conduct here the board will be making the investigation report available to the public with the consent of the
complaintants it is this board hope that these action demonstrated the board commitment to our common goal of providing the best education impossible for the students in the Flint community school and supporting the district's amazing
leaders and staff who work so hard to make this happen that is the end of this statement m c please continue I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 25.3 authorization to purchase approved
items from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services nurse Grant has been probably move in second is there any discussions seeing no further discussion the motion to approve resolution
25.3 authorization to purchase approved items from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services nurse Grant will be conducted by Road call board members of that call your name please say yes or no secretary Perkins yes
truste McIntyre yes vice president clack yes trustee reliford yes trustee King yes treasure Luna yes and myself seven yes I seek a motion and a second from
the board to approve resolution solution 25.4 authorization to purchase approved items from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services clinical therapist Revenue funds fiscal year 25 it's okay
support is properly mooved and second is there any discussions seeing no discussion the motion to approve resolution 25 four will be conducted by roll call vote board members as I call your L please
say yes or no secretary Perkins yes treasury Luna yes trustee King yes trustee reliford yes vice president clatt yes truste McIntyre yes and myself yes seven
yes I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 25.5 authorization to renew memorandum of agreement with Dr Rays medical director for the school wellness program
support I made motion I made a motion I make a motion that we accept uh resolution 25.5 authorization to renew memorandum of agreement with Dr Reyes medical director School wellness
program thank it's been and move and second is there any discussions no any discussions seeing there's no discussion the motion to to approve resolution 25.5
will be conducted by roll call vote board members as I call your name please say yes or no secretary Perkins yes truste McIntyre yes vice president CL yes truste reort yes trusty King yes
trer Luna yes and myself yes I seek a motion and a second from the board to approve resolution 25.6 authorization to renew memorandum of agreement with Valencia o medical social workers for the school wellness
program support is that been prop and move and second is there any discussion seeing there is no discussion the motion to approve Revelation 25 re resolution 25.6 will be
conducted by roll call for board members as I call your name please say yes and no secretary Perkins yes trustee McIntyre yes vice president clack yes truste reler yes truste King yes treasure Luna yes and myself yes seven
yes I seek a motion and second from the board to approve resolution 25.7 recognition of constitutional day and Hispanic Heritage Month it's all moved support it has been properly mov in second is there any
discussion yeah one one quick comment sure I know it's uh mandated by the federal government if we receive funds to have Constitution Day it's yesterday matter of fact but maybe next year we can have an event in the community um just had from basic conversations and
seeing social media posts a lot of folks in this community don't understand how our government works at Federal level um and not even making a joke about I'm being dead serious we could hold an event for the community maybe at the library maybe at one of our schools but it'd be helpful just to give some basic just like pamphlets out stuff for the
students because I got to tell you I've spoken to some of our third grade fourth grade fifth grade students they have a way better uh idea of how our government works than most of these adults let me go back not most a lot of these adults so I think it'd be a gra to me next year to educate folks and
pl thank you just to uh piggy back off uh trusty uh Luna I believe you had it right most of the adults um but I I think that it would be o it would be in our best interest to look for civics back in our curriculum
um and make that mandatory um a mandatory class to take for credit in order to graduate like when we went to high school I think that that would be in our best interest as the district try CL as I can recall was you
teaching a class something on C at one time yes you and I thought that was really great there's something we can look at I we don't know if we can make it a mandatory class but uh as a board I think we could look at bringing Civ back and that's something we can discuss as a
whole with superintendent John some someone else is saying something truste King Nothing seeing no further discussion the motion to approve res resolution 25.7 will be conducted by a roll call
vote board members I call your name Secretary Perkins yes truste McIntyre yes Vice President Clay yes trustee Rel yes truste Keem yes charia lunar yes and myself yes seven
yes I seek a motion in a second from the board to approve resolution 25.8 authorization to sign memorandum of understanding with Michigan State University Fellowship of instructional leaders so
moved it has been Pro to move and second is there any discussions seeing no further discussion the motion to approve resolution 25.8 will be conducted by roll call vote as I call your name please say yes or no
treasure Luna yes trustee King yes trustee reliford yes vice president CL yes trustee McIntyre yes secretary Perkins yes and myself a yes seven yes board members thank you m c board
member in your package is fex monthly update for August do any board member have any questions seeing there's no questions or comment we move to remarks from Individual board members do any board
member have any comments or remarks before we are join M chair proceed yeah just a quick comment um as we look towards our next fiscal year I think it would be in the best interest of the monor program at DTM to see if we can
partner our acquire grant funding for a full-time FTE to run that program I know they've recently hired some people who are certified teachers in that program and it's like not mistaken when I did my research the only public monory in the
county so it really is unique um when it comes to how we educate students so it wouldn't help I think it would be beneficial if you had a full-time administrator run it um often times in districts we task our administrators either at the office or the principes to do like another task when it's like the
third or fifth priority I do think the students and the families who are part of that program deserve a full FTE in the future um so hopefully we can identify some funding whether it be federal or even like with the local philanthropy Madam chair proceed
um first thing I I would like to in addition to U trusty treas Luna is mentioning um I think as we Vision you know as Flint Community Schools you know as we grow and keep going forward um Vision larger not just monor just at DTM
having monor having their own building moner school um there's a model of this at uh in Grand Rapids Grand Rapids have a mon high school they have elementaries they actually have their own school um I
think it's something that as we go forward and we look at um later on and you know District planning right um do that right if you have a full-time administrator might as well just give him a building and actually program to run you know so um just want to Echo that U but also I do want to um
acknowledge Potter um Elementary ribbon cutting ribbon cutting that was an amazing event for our community to see the renovated buildings that um we're actually doing um that is an amazing School building and we're you know we renovating the plans right in our
buildings to make sure that our Scholars deserve um and be able to have a modernized learning facility and environment uh to that's conducive to learning um but thank you madam chair brother um I would be remiss if I didn't
respond to the statement that was made on my behalf um regarding censoring me I don't have a problem with that but however as a board member whenever employees felt as though they feel as though they've been harassed or a hostile work
environment we have what you call a compliance officer which the Federal Law requires the compliance officer to convey a report of course that never happen but we last week they talked about um a 10e
teacher 30-year Stephanie Pascal and in regard to removing her as a teacher and also Carla Roberts put in her resignation after 30 years of service so when I hear a censorship and I hear
complaints accountability is not attack it's just holding you accountable when something is placed in my name and I reported to the superintendent never did I talk to any staff members I talked to the superintendent that's our only
employee so every conversation I had with the superintendent he referred it to the individuals and the individuals he told them to write a complaint I'm okay with a complaint but make sure it's investigated the right way so you have
Miss Roberts and you are also have Miss Pascal the district is going to end up in litigation for not doing what's supposed to be done I didn't violate any policy and procedures but you have two board members up here the president and assistant secretary who just was sued
for $690,000 and nothing happened to them that went to court m is just words so I say to you all take it for what it's worth and as they say look at the source thank you
thank you anyone would like to respond proceed um yes uh I would like to address the montor teaching um uh my own
children participated in montor education um out of all the available options and it was in in Flint schools so we are grateful that that was available and I fully support that as a pedagogical option because it seems that
a lot of parents are opting for that and it is a big draw um I'm interested to hear truste King's um account of um K through 12 montau education which is new because if you don't know
anything about Monas education uh Maria monor only advocated through the first grade because that pedagogy is a coup 100 years old um it's a little it's a little old it's been updated so I'm glad that we've seen it uh brought into the
21st century so to speak I don't know a lot about it I just know that my kids still refer to um their work which is what kids do they're they're responsible for for a portion of of work that they have on a tray so
um I also would like to advocate for other forms of educ tional pedagogy for example if we are pushing Maria monasi um a Italian um European I think we could
also push for Mariam kabas who is currently an educator who promotes abolitionist education um and if you look her up on Google uh you can see a lot of what she does and the the curriculum that she
Advocates and so so I would recommend that um and I am still I don't know even know what the word would be to describe I'm still disappointed that we eliminated the IB Program which was a very successful the
international Balor program at Southwestern um speaking of programs that attract parents and families this was very successful and it in my mind in my opinion it was unnecessarily
eliminated and I still have questions to this day about how a successful Pro uh program was eliminated in um even in light of the teachers and the students uh we do know we have our
one of our alums uh kesan Wade was one of the last graduates of that monis of not the monory the the IB program and he is graduating this year from Cornell um so I would really like us to look
into um bringing that back um bringing back stronger AP courses there are a lot of curriculum choices I want to be careful about mandating curriculum however because that is something that is specified by by state and federal
guidelines um and I always get a little wary when Board of Education members step into curriculum decisions I will leave that for the experts um and I definitely have my opinion but I think that that is something that we need to
be careful about in this climate in this day and age of overstepping our bounds as board members um on that positive note I just want to address the statement that was made by the board president on behalf of the
entire board because we are a board that speaks as one not as individuals and when individuals do speak they are speaking for themselves as a person they can say they're speaking for
the board they can say they're speaking as a board member but make no mistake liel is liel you can say that it's just words but there are actually rules regulations
and laws governing the use of words hate speech is illegal Lial is actionable um and and you can take action if somebody lials you we have
found in our investigation which I might add cost almost $40,000 to the Flint school system for the errant ways of one individual board member that we were required to take because they were
found with the preponderance of evidence under an investigation with an outside independent Source no matter what they say can you commit liable while you're refuting liel I
think that's I don't even know if that's a thing um But continuing to lie to cover up more other lies to cover up previous lies is not acceptable and I need to as a person as an individual as
an individual board member add my voice in no uncertain terms to condemning the statements made by trusty reliford that were wrong that were
inflammatory defamatory and found Beyond a preponderance of evidence to be wrong all of the procedures were followed as they should have been no
matter what she says about what she thinks the procedures should be she's wrong she is wrong in fact and she is wrong in sentiment and I apologize not only for the board but for
myself as a person as an individual to the victims of her statements I am so sorry that those lies defamations and statements of Lial were uttered out loud
were were repeated and spread and caused you damage harm and emotional distress among many other things we've done everything in our power that we can as board members the
worst we can do is sanction another board member which we have done we have voted to sanction truste reliford for making false and harmful statements point of information I am
speaking point of information there was no was a derogatory statement is points were put in my name by staff memb I am speaking I have the FL you do not have that not a point of information asking a question
did not ask a question I speaking at this point proceed M McIntyre your point of information my it's a question right no you did not my point of information point of information is if something is in your name that is not derogatory
that's a fact if that is a stat question is that is not the question is if it's in your name is that not a fact the question another question is if it's alleged that a superior is given a subordinate point
abusing abusing information point of information order this is not the time yes it is you had plenty of time to have this conversation proceed Miss McIntyre after M McIntyre proceed with her statement I
will make my final remarks and we'll go into meeting being a join we are not getting ready to redo a trial here and another point of fact because it keeps being brought up and I am no longer going to be quiet in defending
myself there was a $690,000 judgment in the school district that was a insurance payout settlement it was not a action taken against myself and Dr
Joyce Ellis mcneel it was a settlement that was made by an insurance company and it did not involve myself and Dr Ellis mcneel there are
facts that are true and facts that are not true and for trusty reliford to continue to repeat lies misinformation is just continuing a pattern of smearing
individuals of trying to cause distress and I will not stand for it anymore Joyce Ellis mcneel and I did not cost the district $690,000 take that up with middle City's
management which settled a lawsuit which can be brought by anybody at any time and in the past with the Flint Community Schools have has been we are known to be a district where you just Sue so that you can get a payout so that you can get
a settlement and this is the first time the board has stood up to a lawsuit that is not true that was not true there was a settlement because it was considered to be financially more expedient to make a settlement than to
draw this out in court I have information I have facts there is documentation if anyone would like to know but to to to keep repeating this
lie that there was a lawsuit against myself and Dr Ellis mcneel it is just simply not true and we did not cost the district $690,000 the district did not pay anything zero
and I am done and I am available for comment after the meeting if you would like further information but this has to stop now thank you thank you try perin I just wanted to say this is the weekend that
we're the HBC use is in Detroit at Cobo it is uh 10 o'clock Saturday I was going but I would ask for that you all keep my sister in your prayers I have to leave Friday she has developed covid and she's
got multiple blood clots in her lungs and and the other one has a large blood clot in it so I've got to leave so um travel and Grace and uh I hope the kids enjoy themselves cuz Miss Phils Kelly
Phils said she was going to be taking some of our children and I'm excited about that and they were asked to bring their ACT test or SAT test along with um transcripts transcript transcript transfer transcript transcripts and so
um they can potentially get scholarships right then and there and be accepted into the school system so I'm so proud and so happy to make that announcement thank you thank youy uh first I would like to thank all
the speakers that came out um I do plan on participating um second I am taking 25 of my students to the uh conratulations to um the Expo down in Detroit my daughter is too okay yep I'll be there on Saturday I was hoping that
that we brought some of our Scholars out but I'll be there um and it is open to the public so if you that are in the audience would like to bring your Scholars or students out um it's at Cobo Hall on Saturday from 10:00 to 3 there will be 50 universities hbcus included
um and like secretary Perkins said the students have the opportunity to be accepted on spot um and also apply for scholarships and receive financial aid and everything like that uh and also if you want free tickets just go on event
bright and you can apply there and and if you do that then you know excuse me I going to get to that I going to get to yeah what she said yeah but he had theor go to event briak but um also I would like to correct
myself because I did missp speak earlier when I spoke about the Civics um and the curriculum so thank you trusty King it is in our curriculum and it is a requirement by the state so I wanted to correct myself and put the correct information out there for everybody that I did confuse by giving wrong information again we do have Civics in
our curriculum um I believe that's all I had um yes president I want to thank everybody I want to thank you for your comments Ms and then I want to make a final comment uh as relates to board
members board members has two obligation and that is to serve this District board members are not protected or governed by the attorneys when you do
an act that is not board related when you hear of a lawsuit between four board members and you don't have the detail and we got a little gag on it that is because in the past prior to some of your board members getting here
we had our very unethical board members and Leadership position that Abus these those those position did a lot of unlawful thing under the fboe that's why we had to get
rid of F Boe and run to Neola because fboe was designed to break the law and the law doesn't care if you are ignorance the law is the
law we have a ve excuse me a very strong board now took me three years trying to get a board that understand board business this is a certified State Certified board every seven board members
that meant you are be able to govern yourself we could not go to this torney General in the past because they expect for us to govern ourself and when you running a
dysfunctional board as it was in the past we had a coupe over take of the board we had a lot of things that board members because of your presence I'm the president of this board I have
no Authority I'm the voiced for the board I have no power only Power I have is one vote you have no power to go around abusing people changing document changing people's contract making people
life un just bearable because you hold a title and it took us three years to get to this point the governor wants to see us govern this board that include me and anybody
else now we are protected because being on this seat you could get suit as long as you doing board Duty we have insurance for that we are protected we cannot take the superintendent do what
we want to do with him say what we want to say to people disres respect the guests that come here disrespect the teachers that is not board DOA that's board ignorance so as I say this today we are going to govern we are going to
be board members so look how far we have gotten and three years ago we should have been there and doing something what truste Kean is talking by monor but we lost a lot of time so on that note
if you don't know what you're talking about and we're trying not to say who did what but board members you cannot do what you want to do you cannot alter people's
contract you cannot have checks written to your attorney friend because you the president those are unethical and un illegal stuff it just so happen you have two standing board members is here that was part of that process and
had to get through that process so on that note could I uh I forgot to acknowledge staff members can I do that I want us to end on a um a good note um I want to
thank our two speakers that came up and acknowledged our staff at another C and door writer um we have amazing building leaders in our district um that that go above and beyond for our Scholars every day to create a culture of positivity
and for them to thrive right um I think it's important for us to note and differentiate this board is not the past right as we going forward trying to recorrect some of the past mistakes this board is a new board trying to work are
working together to make this District better than what we what we had came into it right um but I do want to make sure we acknowledge our our two principles Dr Coleman um Miss cookie Master over at nethercut but they do amazing work and it's it's good to
see them um lead a good building and um lead this lead the district thank you thank you and thank you for coming in and sharing your um the good time with Flint Community School we have spent millions and millions of dollars and I'm Not Too Proud to Beg I'm asking this
community to give this District another chance think about bringing your children back to Flint community school once we can get the capacity up and enrollment up money will be not an issue for this
board to pay our teachers a livable wage that is equal to other around our district and we cannot do that without that enrollment coming up we have done as much as we can go go uh
with the um Opera money and that's money that we have gotten we have renovated uh we have investor still wants to help us but I'm asking the community now we need your help to help us get this enrollment up and the only
way that we can take better care of our teachers give some of the people that come here they got good ideas and they wants to help but we cannot run this District off of th000 some kids and give livable wages I appreciate every one of
you that's stuck with us as we trying to work through these difficult times we have good teachers here do not under estimate plint Community School teachers they are good and I know they are good because I have worked with them what we
need parents to do is work with your student 15 minutes a day on reading 15 minutes a day on writing 15 minutes a day on rithmetic help the teacher help your student the Board of Education will hold
its next meeting on Wednesday October 9th 2024 at 6:30 p.m. seeing no further business I declare the regular board meeting to join at 7:41