Good evening. Welcome to the mre Monday, September 22nd Board of Education meeting. If we can please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Allegiance Is to flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which is stands for one nation under God in invisible that lives with you, justice All. And we'll have a moment of silence, please. Thank you. Moving on to recommended actions. We'll take a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make a motion to approve Support. Any questions? Okay, Ms. McDougall?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, yes. Yes. Moving on to 0.02, approval of the August 25th, fifth meeting, board meeting minutes. I'll take a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Any questions? Ms. McDougall? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, yes. Yes. Moving on to 2.03, approval of the September 8th board workshop minutes. I'll take a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes Support. Okay. Ms. McDougal? Yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Moving on to section three, consent agreement. Um, we will take a motion for, um, the sanctioning request, the McGrath Elementary, fourth grade Mackinac trip, and McGrath fifth grade camp co mechanic trip. I make a motion that we approve everything under the consent agreement, support. Any questions on any of those? I just wanna say thank you, Michelle Ryan, for the, um, sanctioning requests and making sure that we've got all of it. I know, Linda, you're helping with that too, so it's working well. I think the way you've got it formatted now we can see spend
down plans and everything, so appreciate that. Any other comments? Okay. Ms. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, yes. Yes. Okay. Moving on to section four, presentations 4.01 M-M-A-R-S-P Grant Award. Yes. That acronym stands for the Michigan Association of Retired School Personnel. And we have former teacher, Sue Van Hollenbeck, here to, um, award, uh, our student liaison at McGrath Laia Lewis, with a, as a recipient this year.
So, Sue. Oops. Good evening everybody. Um, I'm here tonight representing Mars, but, uh, I'm the grant director of Mars for Southeast Genesee County, and that includes six schools, uh, in, in Genesee County. And this year we gave grant awards to, uh, three different schools. One in Good Ridge, one in, uh, Linden and Grand Blank. And, um, I'm honored to present the award tonight to Latia. Um, she's,
we had many grant applications this year and would've liked to have chosen a lot more. But, um, our funds are pretty limited now because, uh, the Mars Organization is shrinking. I, I guess because of age and we're not getting a whole lot of new members. Um, evidently the new newly retired teachers aren't really finding, um, that Mars is helping them. I don't, it's been a great help to us. You know, they support our pensions and fight for us all the time.
So I've been a member for 20 years now. 'cause I retired 20 years ago from Grand Blanc, I thought in the middle school science and loved it. But I was happy to retire too. So, um, let's see. This year we chose Latia as a pilot. Um, I talked to Trevor and asked, which we got seven, I think it was seven applications, exact exactly the same from all the elementary schools and Grand Blanc. And they were all requesting a grant
because of the chronic absenteeism in the schools. And they were hoping to be able to do something to help that. And so we chose Agra because they had the most absenteeism. And so I'm honored to present this to LAIA tonight. Um, and I would like her to explain a little bit what she's going to use the money for. Here's your grant. Laia. Thank you. We appreciate it. We plan to use the funds to address chronic absenteeism at McGrath, our focus is building stronger connections with families
and helping them to understand that we are partners in doing what is best for students. We want families to see that we value their students' presence at school, and that they are missed when they're absent. The funds will be used to provide incentives to support this effort. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any questions from the board? Any questions? Um, I don't know if Latia if it was you who applied for the grant or if it was a building as a whole, but I wanna commend you for advocating for their needs and, um, for, for looking for resources to help make these things possible in your building.
So thank you very much. Good job. I just wanna say anything that you can do to help improve attendance is welcome. So thank you very much. Do you guys have any ideas on what type of incentives that you're going to? We talked over Summer, I think like a wheel that the kids come down, like wheel and win a prize and, um, things like that. Awesome. We have a meeting next week. Awesome. Great to hear. Thank you so much. Thank You guys. Thank you for being here.
Yep. And I think that just is an extension of some of the, um, everyday matters campaign that we, we previously ran. I know that was a pretty strong initiative in the district prior to COVID and uh, we've worked with the county attendance task force over the last several years, but we're looking at the acute cases of attendance and trying to run after the kids that are not there frequently. And I think in some ways we wanna also reward the kids that are there and the parents that are doing the right thing. So I think we're turning that on its head a little bit because what we reinforce we're gonna get more of. So I appreciate, Thank you for your efforts. Thank you.
Yeah, thank you Sue. Okay, moving on to 4.02. Um, Brenda Elementary with Mr. Engleman. Well, good evening. Um, thank you so much board for having us come and present. Brenda's very excited, um, to present some of our mstep uh, data. We're gonna, um, showcase and actually have a couple former Brenda students, 'cause they're sixth graders, but they were part of our fifth grade group that did a really nice job. Um, and then I got two current, um, Brenda Bulldogs too. So hopefully maybe we can get them up here and,
and chat a little bit about their experience. So they're excited. A couple of 'em wrote some things down so they're, uh, they're prepared, which I'm excited about. So, um, what I just kind of wanted to showcase is, um, this year or last year, we tried to take a little bit more of an importance into our MSTEP scores and, um, all of our scores we're still wanting to improve higher than they are, but we were higher than what the GISD scores were at. Um, so we're continu to improve. And Brenda, um, is, was identified as a school in fifth grade we were at 52%.
So, um, based on our free and reduced population, we were actually the top five in the county. Um, this year. Dr. Ward shared that with us. And so, um, I kind of wanted to showcase some of the things that we did differently, um, last year. And we're hoping to kind of do some of those things again and see if that, um, won't help continue improve those scores. But I brought some of our students to, to talk about what they, what their experiences was when we did our, our, um, step prep, uh, last year. So Mr. Engleman, yeah, that percentage, what does that Represent? So that was proficient. So we were at 52% in fifth
grade was proficient. Um, which put us based on our free and reduced population that put us top five in the, in the county for fifth grade math. So yeah. So all of those scores that you see there are your percent proficient on awesome ELA and math. Thank you. Yep. So there was a, here was a, um, quick little, um, graph that showed that. So you can see in 2024 and then in 2025, so actually Grand Blanc had four of the top five schools in fifth grade, um, that were top in the county, which was pretty cool to see. Um, so it was Brenda, it looks like Indian Hill, um, Meyers,
um, Bobcat Innovation and then Fenton was the other, um, one in there. So, um, feel pretty proud that Brenda was a part of that. That was pretty neat. So, oh, go ahead. I can just jump in and, and across the county we call those beating the odd schools. Um, and when you look at that, you notice how far that is to the right, that that's percent per the percent of, uh, free and reduced lunch and where they fall in the green. Um, so that definitely demonstrates that Brendan's beating the odds, um, on their state assessments. So some of the things that we tried to talk about, what was our reason for success last year, um,
I put priority on there. It's always been a priority, but I feel like we just kind of brought it to more of the forefront this year. Um, we were very intentional about like what things do we want to do, um, to make sure like kids are knowing that this is a big deal. We put it, I like put it in the newsletter. Um, we had good luck assemblies, um, which I don't know if I can click on that link or not. Can I do that from here? I dunno if that'll do that, that good luck. Or can you click on that? Yeah, there was like, we did a, so right before the grade level did there m step testing, the day before we had an assembly, like a quick run through
and we had played music and they cheered for their grade that was getting ready to go. You should be able, it's pretty quick. It's like 30 seconds. So we had music going and everybody's just clapping and cheering on the grade level 'cause they're getting ready to do their m step testing for the next couple weeks. So everybody did a Big line. Is that ac DC? Yes, we were, we were playing thunderstorm. Yep. It was, yep. Ac, CDC. I don't know if the kids know That's what it was, but the staff knew they liked the Acbc song. Yes. Yep. So we did that. Um, that was one thing we made believe signs, um,
like you see in Ted Lasso, we put those up above the, the doors for each grade level. So when it was their turn in the morning, they got to see that sign before they took their test. We announced it each morning for during our morning announcements and you know, wish them good luck. Um, we also had, um, one of our teachers, the, the reason I think another thing that was so high in math was our teacher looped that year and then they also rotated. And so Mrs. Miller, um, taught math to all of the fifth grade subjects. And um, if anybody has an opportunity, you could welcome to come see Mrs. Miller teach.
She's absolutely amazing. But I think part of her looping with one of her grade levels, 'cause she moved from fourth to fifth that year. 'cause we needed, we had the grade levels was bigger into fifth. Um, so she looped up and then they decided they wanted to rotate that year 'cause they had three. Um, so I definitely think that had another piece to, to look at that. Um, so she's backed down at fourth this year. So we'll see if our fourth grade scores are super high 'cause they're rotating again. Um, but those were just a couple of things that I thought were, um, really, um, important And I thought I was really proud of the kids. So I did bring, like I said, I brought two sixth graders
and they, I called their parents and they were probably like, why is Brenda calling me? We're not there anymore. Um, but they were very, um, eager to come up. So I didn't know if you had questions you wanted to ask them. I think maybe they said they wouldn't mind coming up and just talking about what their experience was like last year. Why don't you do that first last year? Okay. Who wants to go first? You wanna do a Caden? Love it. Come on up. Okay, come. So Caden's a fifth grader this year. Hello. Hello. So what did you, what did you, like, what did you think about like our m step stuff last year? What did you It was hard.
Yeah. What was hard about it? All of it. Yeah. Did you feel like we did, did you do anything that you felt like made you feel like you could succeed? Yeah. Yeah? What did you like that we did? She was on, We cheered you on. Okay, cool. Anybody else on the same thing? Yeah. So Jason's another fifth grader this year. So what did you feel about, What About m step last year with our prep in that It was good, but it was fun, but kind of scary because if you got a bad score you didn't know on until like
your park card Co Lin or Jacoby. Do you wanna share? So Lin's a sixth grader. Hi. Hi there. Um, I, I liked M step. It was like hard to sit in a chair for a long time, but once you like finished you could like, you could like relax and like feel like I got that done. Like, and when you tried your best, you felt like it was, you were, you could succeed more with like all the cheering and the teachers pushing you
to like do your best and hard work. Did you guys write letters to the third graders? Did you do that last year? Um, I think so. The fifth graders would write letters to the third graders to, to wish them luck too. 'cause it's their first time taking M step. Yeah. Jacoby you wanna share? So Jacoby's a sixth grader too. I feel like the M step was like, cool, fun and like, because they were cheering us on and especially when when we went into the gym and they, and we ran around. I feel like that was like supporting us. And since we were the last group to like, some of, one
of the last groups to take the m step and, and the m step testing was almost over. I feel like we had uh, like less pressure on on us. 'cause we were the last people to go in it. Oh, Thank you. Did anybody want to ask them any questions? Any question? Go ahead. Yes. So this was, you've taken them steps several times going into fifth grade. You took it in third. Was there anything that you did to prepare differently or maybe get prepared this time that maybe you didn't do previous years to ensure that you improved your score from year to year since you had taken it before?
Um, I took notes in my notebook to figure out like how the note how, um, from different classes. Like even if I didn't need to take notes and then read Juno's notes in class. Um, so our math teacher, Mrs. Miller, gave us like a packet of like all the stuff that would probably be on the M step. And we would go over like a couple pages a day and we would learn it and then we would feel more confident on those problems on the M step. So we like, we could solve them and try to like not feel so confused when we did them.
So the m step is a test that we have to have you guys take. Unfortunately we don't have a choice. Um, but it's, it's not like it's a grade on your report card or you know that it's gonna make you, um, have to retake a test or not retake it. What, and this is for anybody. What do you think we could do differently or better? You know, Mr. Engleman's looking for always new ideas that could really help again, uh, get the students to recognize that there is still importance
and value in the experience and taking the test and always trying your best. That's what we're trying to help the students recognize. And you always wanna try your best. So what do you think would be other good ideas that we could do to help kids realize that it is an important test? Even if it's not a grade on my report card, but it, you know, any ideas from anybody. But if school's doing good, but I think for like the younger grade, so they still might not like the m step but have to do it.
They could like take recesses and the teacher a tone. This is like a recess. And if you do better, you get more recesses like, like one, but for like more minutes. Thanks Chase. Kayden. They get candy. We did give out, we did give out candy. We did. We had a bunch of snacks. I feel like we should have like a assembly on the, the day before the m step testing week about why it's important and then maybe, you know how like Ds have a day where like it's just a fun day. We might, we might be able to have a day like that for the M step.
That's a good idea. Thank you guys. Any other questions? Well, thank you very much for being here. Appreciate the sixth graders coming back. That's awesome. Hopefully middle school's going well for you. Awesome. Oh yeah, speak. Um, I do know one Thing. This is Lin's mom. Sorry. Yeah, One thing. Um, because I was on PTO, so I was, um, aware of all the things that we were doing. One thing that we did
that I know not every school does is we purchased Reflex. It's a math program. Um, and I know, I don't know what age group they started it, but maybe fourth grade. So it's a, it is a, it's a K five like supplement. Um, so it kind of took over. Extra math was a thing for a while where it just basically gave you fluency. And so we looked at Reflex as a, as a supplemental tool to just help build the kids' fluency. Um, and so K one sometimes uses it, but really second through fifth uses It a lot. It was more, I wanna say like games based. So it made it fun
and interesting for them to want to do it and to learn. Um, I know there was also fracs and just some other things that they were using. So just things like that is also good because I feel like that helped. We've did Reflex for the last couple years. I feel like that might be also helping in the math scores because of, you know, this program it's costs money, but we, we made sure that we've been doing it for the last few years. So I, I don't know if that's helping as well, but it's always a thought. So everything helps, doesn't it? Yeah.
Is that an online program then, or? Yeah, Yeah. Yeah. So I also think because we're, because K five has bridges in Number Corner two and we've been in into that for seven years, I think that has been a big help to have like consistent math curriculum that we've used where I know we're still piloting reading and getting that or we'll be K five through that. But I think being into that now and knowing that every kid knows like, oh, we do Number Corner, we do Bridges every day, all through the grade levels, I think has been a big piece. And then having Reflex as a supplemental tool, um, definitely has been beneficial.
So Amazing job at beating the odds. It's awesome. Congratulations. It's All them. So I just get to stand up here and be proud of it. So thank you. Thank you Dwayne. Great job guys. Okay. Um, moving on next to student government. Oh, what did you, what did Leave? Yeah, We might. Oh yes. You're welcome to head out. Hi Genevieve, nice to have you with us. Thank you. Great job guys. Thank you. Great job. Have a great year. Bye guys. Okay, now we're ready for Genevieve. Hello. Is this on? Can you guys hear me okay? Okay. Just making sure. So I'm Genevieve,
I'm a senior at the high school and I'll be over here every month now. Nice to meet y'all. Um, there were no major events from the staff related to report. However, student government did plan homecoming this past week and have been planning homecoming. Uh, we started planning back in August on the 27th. We met before school started and we purchased our decorations and ICG materials. Um, ICGs inner class games for those not familiar. Um, and then in the past three weeks we've hosted general membership meetings every Wednesday with a decent amount
of people showing up. And during the last week, we've mainly coordinated with Miss Tiffany, who's donated the dance for us this year. Uh, we planned out the spirit week, which we had decent participation in. We made posters, tested ICG games, prep, spirit delivery where we went around the classrooms spreading materials to get everyone excited and ready for homecoming. Um, and we also set up and tore down the homecoming dance. Um, overall student government. We did a wonderful job spreading school spirit and ensuring Hoka was a fun week for the entire student body. And another event happening is this Friday,
NHS is having their first blood drive of the year, which is this Friday. And the main goal is to ensure every member of NHS donates blood at some point. And that is all. Any questions for Genevieve? The dance was outside at the Yes, it natatorium. How did that go? It went well. We didn't have any major complaints this year, which was good. It was less hot too. The weather was perfect. Yes it was. Um, and it was, it's just out on the court courtyard, like The's on the, um, plaza, The upper plaza. The upper plaza, okay. By the concessions. Okay. Genevieve, you're elected
to this position, correct? Yes, I am. Okay, by and how many members are there in student government this year? Well, we have the executive board, which is I think around six members. And then we have, uh, four, uh, class representatives from each grade. That's pretty awesome. Congratulations. Thank you. Looking forward to working with you. And then quick question for the blood drive, do you have to be 18 years old to do that or how does that work? Um, I believe there's just a consent form that you have to sign if you're below 18. And you can start donating if you're 16. But you have to have a parent consent form filled out prior
Our board attorney who nodding his head, so. Okay. Any other questions for Genevieve? I was in the building on Thursday and it was very nicely decorated and lots of red and black and it did hype me up too, so I'm sure it hyped the students. So thank you for your efforts. Thank You. Yeah, inner class games. So did you guys do musical chairs? We did. You did? I missed that. The cone game, whatever that Oh my gosh. That was a food. I really got into that. So, Uh, Genevieve, when does student government meet and in what room? Um, we meet every Wednesday except this Wednesday
'cause we are having a week off because we just, uh, did homecoming. Everyone's having a break. Um, I believe our next meeting is October 1st, which is not this Wednesday, but the following. Um, and then I believe the room 6 27. If you go up the crossing doors at West Campus, it's, and go up the stairs. It's your first room on your left. And then another organization I know you're involved in, uh, youth in government. Do you guys meet every Monday? As of now, we're meeting every Monday. However, there are some conflicts with debate in November. So that may change In room one 12, I believe, or?
Yes, I believe so. Okay. Uh, 'cause I'd love to attend your guys' meetings. Uh, obviously I myself am a youth in government. Um, so I'd love to to come see your, your meetings, but, uh, yeah, uh, welcome to the board. Uh, I know that we've interacted prior. Uh, so it's great to see you here, uh, in this leadership position. So congratulations. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much. Um, next, moving on to 5.01. New business tentative agreement for the care professionals. Yes. I'll turn it over to our director of Personnel,
Scott Turbo, working hard on this for a while. So, Scott, I'm pleased to announce that the Grand Blank Paraprofessional Association ratified the tentative agreement overwhelmingly ratified it this morning. Um, the highlights of the new contract are as follows, um, an increase in pay scale that takes immediate effect on our next pay on October 3rd, which will include a $300 back pay stipend. Um, since we didn't, they started the year without, um, this new pay scale.
Um, the increases are, are pretty strong between, uh, 14% and up to 25% for some members. Um, it is a three year contract through June 30th, 2028. Uh, a new 10 step pay scale with steps each year over the three years. Um, an additional pay scale adjustment annually, depending on where you're on that pay scale is between 1.25 and 1.7% each year. Um, an increase longevity pay at years 20 and 25 that didn't exist before. An increase in terminal leave and sick time payout.
Updated language regarding layoff and recall. Um, official contract language and compensation for paraprofessionals that are called upon to provide substitute coverage during the day that didn't exist before a memo or understanding in place prior. Um, previously you had to work 10 years before you would get a vacation day, and we did add some vacation time for folks in years one through nine. And, um, those are the major, um, adjustments. I want to personally thank the members of the paraprofessional association negotiation team and hope the board will move
to approve this tentative agreement. Let's take a motion. I will make a motion to approve the agreement. Support. Any questions for Scott or Trevor? I just wanna thank you for all your hard work. Yeah, thank you Scott. I know this has been a, a long process, so thank you for, for getting this done. Everyone. Any other comments, Questions? I I want to thank Scott and Jeremy. I know, and I, and we have the camera here and we've taken the hits with the Parapro Association over this. But I think, you know, we've talked about the term better together. It was always about being better together and through the negotiate negotiation process, we knew
that we were gonna give be, giving them increases. Um, it's just a, it takes time. And, um, we want to thank them for coming to the table and sitting with us and, um, I know these guys have been working hard, probably longer than we expected, but that happens sometimes. So thank you both. Okay, anything else? Okay, Ms. McDougall? Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Um, next, I, we have one person signed up for public comments and she does not wanna speak. Okay. Then we don't need to move that up. Okay.
This point we'll take a motion to go into executive session. I'll make a motion that we move to executive, uh, closed session. There is support. Support. Okay. Moving on to information and reports. 7.01 superintendent's Report. Uh, yes. I just wanna let the board know. Homecoming went off about a hitch. It was a great event. Um, big win. I don't know if you've realized, but we're pretty good this year, so I'm Not gonna jinx not gonna jinx. Thanks Jeremy. Um, I don't wanna jinx 'em, but we could have some big things in our future. And I think week eight against a certain Davidson team,
we could have two undefeated teams both ranked in the top five in the state. Um, playing in that stadium to pro probably more than 10,000 people might be the biggest game in Genesee County in the last 15 years, which is exciting. Um, but I did wanna let the board know, and I appreciate the members that were there for the, uh, dedication of Grant Fisher's statue. Um, I sent that on to Grant's mom and to grant himself. Um, and we are going, or we are gonna be putting a press release out probably tomorrow or or Wednesday to the community. Um, I'm also gonna be putting another letter out
to families about our plans for meals, uh, later this week. I wanted to make sure that the, the community is, is recognizing we're gonna continue free meals into October. If there is a government shutdown, that's a risk for us financially. Um, and then we'll evaluate that week to week going into October because I wanna make sure, you know, we're not carrying that financial debt too long if the money's not there. Um, we will, we will take the risk and take the hit if we have to, but, um, we'll see where that goes. Thanks again to Scott on the parapro contract
and all the hard work there. Reminder October 9th, if you're on the core team, um, that's taking place, I believe at the transportation building this year. So we're moving it around a little bit. Um, and I'm not sure how many members have been to the transportation building, but it's, it's really a beautiful facility that's underutilized by the district. So we try to go over there for meetings every once in a while. Um, I there's no questions. That's the, that'll conclude my report. Nothing tonight. Um, homecoming was great, thank you to everyone involved who organized all the different parts
of it, including the alumni, the distinguished alumni, and the, uh, king Queens courts. And, um, but I heard a, recognizing the classes, um, I heard a lot of positive things about the different, um, Parts of that week. And, um, they, and I know I shared with with Trevor, but the buses, keeping the cars away from the tailgating space was appreciated and really kind of gave them a big sense of, uh, relief I think. So thank you. Um, in turn,
should I go right into the, okay, so Trevor, I know you know that the, we we have to, um, at a meeting we have to put on our minutes, your salary schedule, right? With the new ORS um, law that's in place. We have to check on this because we have to somehow put in the minutes, um, um, that what your, the salary, the increases, the two years, like what the increases scale is, so that ORS doesn't question anything.
If there's any type of retirements and like, so, so we have to get that on our minutes. I believe it's on our minutes, but I think it, they request that through foia. Um, and I think we have it posted on, on under transparency reporting. We'd have to go back and look at that when Michelle, because it's a new, but it's that six 7% and it's for correct All. Yeah. Yep. So that's that new law. And I, I don't know if, if it is already on the minutes and posted with the, the his, you know, they say to do two years in addition to the length of the contract
or something, just kind of showing a regular increase of, of growth in a contract and not, And we can check with Jeremy on that and It seems like it's a new thing. So, okay. It's a new settlement. They settled the, the case and um, they identified what the, the normal index or increases were, and it's 7% within my contract. It's not, it's not 7%. So I think we're good. Okay. Um, so the Genesee County Association of School Board members met last week, um,
just starting the year off and talking about the, the plans for the year. You all in your packets have the invitation to the October meeting, um, that is open to all board members throughout the county. Um, it is, uh, please, RSVP to Linda so she can let them know. And if you do R-S-P-V-P, please still show up. Um, you know, we, we purchase food for the numbers we expect, and I know some things come up, but if you can be there, please be there. Um, if you say you're gonna be there, please try to be there. Um, that's in October.
Um, we had discussions about some, um, vaping, you know, across the county, some new resources different districts are using. There is some legislature, legislature, legislature, um, going out right now, some senate bills 4 33, 4 62 to 4 66 about vaping and trying to give some, um, more, more, um, penalties to sellers of vapes to minors and, and just trying to help minimize vaping.
Um, but there is some new technology now out there too, especially with, um, and, and, um, so different districts were talking about different, different things. They have vape sensors, we know we've talked about that. Um, AI is in, is bringing in some new, um, safety options as we move forward. Uh, those might be different vendors at our conferences, some things that we could look, look into. Um, but it, it was a pretty good meeting. Um, Not, not anything,
not not too much of anything beyond that. Um, let's see. Oh, one of the other things that they said about vaping is Judge Manley is cracking a little bit more of a whip on that, on some of that. So if, um, Ryan wants to send some, if there is some type of ticketing or students, then maybe you'll get a better response from the judges. I don't know. But that was just some things that they mentioned. Um, at the, uh, annual leadership conference in October, there is a couple new events that they're trying.
One's a smore night and then there's another, um, it's called, um, ax Throwing something or Other Night. Yeah. Um, it's, yeah, I wrote it down. I have too many notes. I, um, but that one is, we have to register, pre-register, there's no cost, but if you guys think you wanna do it, we could do it. And I up, You guys interested? I'm looking,
Where did I Have it down? It's, uh, Michigan. Michigan State game. I'm so sad about it. I know. Totally gonna miss it. Um, Well Look it up. I will look. I will look it up. I, here we go. Saturday. Eight to 10. Yeah. So there's no time set on the game yet, but if, if you wanna do it, we, we could, it'd be something that we could all do together. Um, and we could just, I could Put It in for us as a pre-registering. Okay. Um, that's it. Thank you Brian.
Uh, a lot of what's said already, homecoming. Um, it was great. I thought the pace of the parade was great. We weren't, you know, running down the truck this year. Um, great feedback from the dance. Uh, great weather, the kids loved having it outside. Interclass games was extremely entertaining. Um, I actually downloaded a decibel meter just to see how loud it got in there. Um, so that was fun. And then I went over to Indian Hill, um, and watched their pep rally with their youngsters. So that was fun. Um, attended some seventh and eighth grade middle school football games.
Um, just really cool just to, you know, see the kids play and compete and wear the Grand Blanc jerseys. So, um, I was a little late to the Grant Fisher dedication. I'm sure it went well. Um, I was in the photo, but I missed it by a few minutes. So, um, wanted to give a quick shout out to the girls golf team as they ramp up for s Vls and regionals. They ranked fifth in the state, so good luck to the girls. And, uh, coach Nicholson and Coach Ban, uh, two events coming up on my calendar.
We have the October 10th for the Indian Hell Walkathon, that's our big one and done fundraiser on the Friday night. So hopefully we have some good weather and a great turnout. And no, I think it's the 10th double check 'cause I think, 'cause there's the, the football games and then the walkathons in the middle. Um, and then I'm excitedly looking forward to Saturday night, the marching band competition. So I'll be going to that. That's always fun. So it's all day, is it just in the night? It's three. He starts at three 30 or four o'clock on. It's in, Dave's open at Three 30, starts at four 30, something
Like that. And if you show your badge, you get in, but feel free to make a donation. So I'll be there. That's it. Thanks. Thank you. Just in addition to the, um, freedom Fest and homecoming, we went to the unified soccer game and I wanna give, I mean, I was awesome, Mr. Pickard and Mr. Thomas set this up. But a shout out to Mr. Pickard because I know that he does a ton of volunteering. They practiced throughout the summer. He's gonna be doing, um, bowling now and they do two hours a week of practice for bowling. He does bocce ball in the spring.
So I think it's a big job and he deserves some recognition. And it was, it was fun. Um, I did go to my Adopt a School, Meyers and I met with Mrs. Cato. That was fun. Got a tour of the building, um, and just got to see the property. And then I, I was a little late because I felt like my email said eight o'clock for the Distinguished Awards dinner. I went at eight o'clock, but I missed the first speech, but I got the other two speeches, so that was fun. I didn't realize that this has been happening since 2013. So then of course I looked it up online
and then I was able to talk with, um, Chris Carmody at the end. And so she kind of shared the history of it. So that was nice. Uh, yeah, homecoming was great. The unified soccer game. What a great game. Uh, I've gone to Myers and Mason a couple of times. Uh, went to Myers last Wednesday. The cheerleaders came to read to the, uh, kindergartner. So that was nice to see. Our, our cheer team. Uh, we had
a danceathon at Mason. Uh, each grade had 30 minutes reserved, so I got there. Uh, I left after ICG drove straight there. Uh, got to dance with some of the first graders with all the kindergartners and then, uh, with fifth grade. Um, and boy, some of those songs they're playing, it's, they seem too young to be playing that music, but they got a professional DJ who was who, uh, kept blowing steam, which the kids would go crazy for. So, uh, that was great. The Grant Fisher statue, uh, it's truly, uh,
a beautiful statue. It's amazing. Um, and then, yeah, our football team is great this year. Uh, pardon my language, that was a hell of a game. And I told, I went up to Coach four afterwards. I said, coach, great game. He said, yeah, the other team was, they were a really good team, but we, uh, he said, we just got lucky. So, uh, yeah, that's it. And I just want to give a shout out to Mr. Ryan and Marcus 'cause it's great having these big events at
the wonderful stadium, but they do a lot of work to make sure everyone's safe. And I don't want you to think that goes unnoticed 'cause it's not always calm in other, um, events as we saw on Friday. So, um, thank you for doing that. I, I know you hear Davidson and lots of crowd, lots of fans. That probably makes you Twitch already. So thank you and let us know how we can help. You bet. Okay, um, future business upcoming board meeting on our workshop on October 6th. And with that, this meeting is adjourn.