Good evening. Welcome to the Monday, November 17th Board of Education meeting. If we can all please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for our wishes Stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And we'll have a moment of silence please. Thank you. Moving on to recommended actions, approval of the proposed agenda. We'll take a motion. I will make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Support Any questions or changes? Ms. McDougall
Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. National? Yes. Lang? Yes. Ret? Yes. Yellen? Yes. K. Yes. 2.02. Approval of the October 20th board meeting minutes. Madam Secretary, Madam President, I've reviewed the October 20th board meeting minutes. Everything appears to be in order. I make a motion that we approve as presented. Okay. Any questions on those? Ms. McDowell Youngs? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Fashion? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Yellen? Yes. Kish? Yes. 2.03.
Approval of the November 3rd board Workshop minutes. Madam Secretary, Madam President, I've reviewed the November 3rd workshop minutes. Everything appears to be in order. I make a motion. We approve as presented Support. Any questions? Okay. Ms. McDougal Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Han? Yes. Lang? Yes. Ert? Yes. Yellen? Yes. K. Yes. 2.04. Approval of the October financial reports and bills. Mr. Treasurer, Madam President, I make a motion to approve the October financial report and Bills finance committee met prior to the meeting.
Um, went over October. Financials, everything appears to be in order. And thank you to Michelle for always doing her best with the information she has provided, which at this point is limited. So Support, Motion, and support. Any questions about the financial reports and bills? Okay. Ms. McDowell Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Han? Yes. Lang? Yes. Ret? Yes. Yellen? Yes. Kish? Yes. 2.05. Student discipline case number three. Uh, yes. The Board's discipline subcommittee held an expulsion hearing on Thursday, November 6th.
Uh, based on the information obtained at the hearing, the subcommittee members unanimously make the following recommendation to the full board regarding student case number three. The board's discipline subcommittee recommends expulsion through the end of first marking period with home-based services and special education and special education support. Successful completion required to be considered for readmittance. And this should say through first semester. So, excuse me. First marking periods already passed. I apologize. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve as presented.
Support. Any questions? Okay. Ms. McDougal Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Yes. Lang? Yes. Ert? Yes. Yellen? Yes. K. Yes. Case number four. Yes. The discipline subcommittee held an expulsion hearing today, um, prior to this meeting. And based on that information, we make the following or the, the subcommittee makes the following, uh, unanimous recommendation to the full board regarding student case number four, the board's discipline subcommittee recommends expulsion through the end of the school year 25 26, with BVL Services
and successful completion of court classes required for Readmittance, along with participation in summer school with a transition plan. Take a motion. Motion support. Any questions? Just in the, uh, memory of former board members. We who always like to reassure people that this, these decisions of, um, when students are disciplined, um, don't come easily. They do. Um, they make recommendations to decide what could be best to, for that student to get the time
and, uh, clear the path for them to improve their future outcomes, as well as the students that are in our building. So, just wanted to say that. Thank you. Any other comments? Okay. Ms. McDougal Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Yellen? Yes. K. Yes. Thank you. Moving on to 3.01, the consent agreement. There's, um, organization sanctioning requests. We'll take a motion for that section. I make a motion that we approve the consent agreement.
Support. Any questions about any of the sanctioning? Saw? There was a few new ones out there. So no spend down plans required. Okay. Ms. McDougall Youngs? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Han? Yes. Lang? Yes. Ert? Yes. Yellen? Yes. Kish? Yes. Moving on to presentation 4.01. Early childhood update. Yeah, we have the whole, the whole cruise here tonight. Uh, that's awesome. So I'm happy to introduce the board formally our new early childhood coordinator, Amanda Klein and her team. Um, Amanda's done a great job in her first few months on the, on the job here.
Um, she admittedly doesn't know everything, which I think she's learning as she goes, but she's got a phenomenal team to support her and including assistant coordinator Elizabeth, them. So I'll turn it over to them and we're happy that you're here. I'm used to talking to three and four year olds, so this is a little bit different. But, um, I just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity just to share the early childhood, um, programs and what's going on in all of the classrooms. Um, special thanks to Elizabeth. She's been a huge help for me. Um, wealth of knowledge as well as all of our supporters here, classroom teachers, latchkey, teachers assistants, associates.
So thank you for allowing us to, um, present. Um, so this year, whoops, I should go back. Um, this year our child early childhood programs serve approximately 178 preschoolers across nine and a half classrooms. And our teaching team includes 27 educators. Um, each have yearly specialized training that they have to, um, do in early childhood, along with 10 latchkey classrooms, 13 latchkey teachers, and 157 latchkey kids across the district. Alright, So our first program
that we're gonna talk about is Parents as Teachers. Hello. Um, each of you we're given a brand new brochure thanks to Buffalo Wild Wings. They, um, submitted a grant for us and so we were able to update our, um, brochures for the program. And I'd really love it if you would read the testimonies. 'cause I think that is probably the most, um, telling of what a great program parents', teachers is. And it's four parents in the Grambling School District who have children birth to Five. It's an intervention program and, um, a support program.
So Parents as Teachers, their motto is that parents are the first and most important teacher, um, for our children. And we support our parents to learn more about early childhood development and, um, we do developmental screenings and make sure that they're getting any kind of resources or support that they may need, including, um, healthcare and things like that if they don't have it. So we have, um, four parent educators, um, that range in different education and Associates high school.
Um, two of them are completing CDAs. We were able to add an Arabic story time, um, which has been fantastic and it's brought in another group of people, um, to participate in the program. And that has been really awesome. We did have a Spanish story time and we're hoping to re redo that again. Um, we have about 92 families that participate. Um, some do home visits and the rest kind of participate in classes that we offer Monday through Thursday. Um, and we have 137 children that we serve. Right now.
Every one is screened for developmental delays and I'm so proud to say that my team got the Blue Ribbon, which is a NASH part of the national organization. And that means we met 80% of, um, quality markers, which is not an easy feat. So, um, we're a small button mighty team and I'm very proud of them for that. Alright. Okay. I'll also present about the Great Start Readiness program, which is Michigan's, um, free preschool program. That's also an early intervention. It is part of my leaps free pre-K for all.
Um, right now we have four and a half classrooms and we serve 84 children. There's 18 half day students and we have 66 full day students. Um, this year we've really focused on more tier two interventions to support our, our children with social, emotional and fine motor needs. Um, we have a great need in Grand blank for, um, GSRP as we always have. And, um, I had to send 85 interest forms of parents who wanted to attend here elsewhere. Um, and so I try to support them in getting into programs
around Genesee County. Um, all of our lead teachers, um, have a teacher certification or a bachelor's in early childhood, and most of them have master's degrees. So we have a very highly educated staff. And our associates, um, teachers range from having a CDA to a master's degree also. So we have a very well educated, um, oiled machine to work with our children. And we added third assistance this year, which is a requirement from the GISD. When you have at least five students in your classroom
that have IEPs, um, or possible IEPs, then you have to have a third assistant in the room to support. Um, we meet with parents also for educational and developmental, um, help. We, um, we have a parent educator that also works with some of our GSRP families directly. Um, our teachers do a lot of work. They do data collection, authentic assessment for 37 different data points for development and academic markers.
So that's about two notes per student per per marking period, which is three collection points. So it's a significant amount of notes and it gives the parents a very good overall look at how their students are progressing and what they could do, where their strengths lie, and how they could help them, um, grow. So thank you. These are just some pictures from our program. You're okay. Um, the next program that we wanna talk about is our Children's Garden Preschool. Um, it services three and four year olds.
It's half day or half week options as well as, um, five days a week. And right now we have 94 total kids enrolled, which is 54 56 4 year olds and 38 3 year olds. Um, our teachers have, three of 'em have CDAs and two lead teachers have bachelor's degrees in early childhood and have their teaching certificate. So in this program, just as well as GSRP, we're working on fine motor communication, um, different little experiments the kids are doing. Again, fine motor is a great need, like Elizabeth said,
as well as our speech and communication. Um, so these little projects allow them their little curious minds to grow. Um, here they're working on some community building, building their own little community nursery rhymes, being able to retell, um, and teach their classmates too. Um, the other thing that I talked about at the very beginning is latchkey. We have four rooms at the Perry Center, two rooms at Cook and Mason, two rooms at Anderson and McGrath and two rooms at Reed. We have approximately 137 to 157 kids in our morning latchkey district wide
and 112 to 136 kids in our PM latchkey district wide. So there, they get to work on just fun projects being kids, you know, they've been in school all day long. So, um, just that working on some socialization, some free play, some fun things, projects. Um, and then during our half days where elementary and middle school have conferences, um, we've been putting on some, um, field trips for them to go to. So this is just recently from last week. We had a magician come to the Perry Center and it was a hit to say the least.
Um, another program that you may or may not know about is our Go and Tell program. Um, and it's a language rich and rich environment that focuses on a small group, small group, classroom-based service delivery model. And they do in-class support and pull out services for Children's Garden and GSRP kids. Um, but they also provide walk-ins for speech and language screeners, evaluations and services that are referred to, um, for preschool aged students within the whole district but are not yet attending preschool. Or they may attend a preschool that's outside
of Children's Garden or GSRP. And then our last program we were gonna talk about is our summer camp program, which I have yet to experience. Um, but I've heard amazing things about, um, I know they go, they go on some field trips to Ziggy's. Um, they have a lot of exploration that's do that's going on. I'm, I'm pretty sure I've heard that whatever a student is interested in Mrs. Stewart will make it happen. Um, and then they ended their year with this big foam party, which I think I also heard bystanders were coming by, wondering if they could also join the party.
Um, so I think it's a great thing that that Grand Blank has to offer kids in the summer. So to end, we were just, you know, trying to figure out how do we fit into Grand Blank's, um, district strategic planning. And these are just some of the examples. Like Elizabeth said, we're focusing on those tier two interventions. We all just had our professional development on MTSS model. Um, our parent communication is once a month. Um, we've been sending out newsletters, just briefing them on what's happening at their child's preschool. Um, we've also have some community partnership. We're working with the Grand Blank High School Teacher Cadet program. We have kids from Mott, GCI, um,
and then we have that early Childhood Expo in February coming up. Um, and then we also just started back doing some transition meetings from pre-K and how can we transition them best to our K 12 system. Um, so that actually I thought had pretty good feedback at Ed camp. Um, and then like Elizabeth said, we have Parents as Teachers program and then hopefully, you know, at some point we'll have that early Childhood center, um, and adding our ECSE kids to that program for some full inclusion. Um, and then just, I put some little things in here, what some parent testimonials are saying about
Children's Garden as a whole. Uh, this has everything to do with the staff as a whole. Um, everyone from the security when you walk in offering like kids and families, a big warm, welcoming smile to teachers out in the hallway, assistance out in the hallway, associates out in the hallway, um, just making everybody feel very included. So, on behalf of all of us, I just wanna say thank you for letting us, um, present here tonight. And do you have any questions, Kim? Yeah. You want to introduce your team? Sure. Yes. Okay. So we have Mrs. Weich, she's 3-year-old teacher. Mr. Mrs. Valentine is our latchkey, one
of our latchkey teachers here at Perry. Mrs. Stewart, 4-year-old preschool. Ari is latchkey as well. And then in the back we have Rachel Rubis. She's an associate here at, um, GSRP. Ms Juliette Poer is also A-G-S-R-P lead teacher. Allison is also A-G-S-R-P lead teacher Shannon. And then right next to her are Melissa, are our go and tell, um, teachers. Awesome. Did I miss anybody back there? No. Okay. No, I think it's really impressive when we talk about the scope and, and the things we're proposing here at Perry in the future.
You know, when I first started at, at central office over 10 years ago, the, the volume of programs and options we have for our early childhood educators or for, for early childhood students and for our families is pretty impressive here. You know, between going on go, going on, go and tell parents as Teachers, children's Garden, GSRP, I mean there's just a lot going on here and they play by a totally different set of rules than the K 12 system. Um, but these, these folks do a great job for, for our youngest learners. So thank you for being here. Go ahead. Um, so I'm just gonna reiterate what he said.
Um, if you wanna set up your kids for success, parents as teachers and Children's Garden, those programs are the way to go. I started both my kids there, they went all the way through. You get the best crafts, they're amazing. They're still hanging up. Um, but also I wanted to just welcome Mrs. Klein. I've worked with her for over a decade and I feel that we are really fortunate to have someone with your expertise and your experience come to Grand Blanc and lead our program. I think we're really fortunate to have you. So welcome and thank you. I had a couple questions. The, uh, summer camp program, is that just for students who are in your programs throughout the year
or is it open for anybody? I think It's open for anybody. Open for anybody. Um, okay. And then my other question is, how can I come to Arabic story time? I'll send you the, I'll send you the date. Thank you. Yes. Okay. Well I have to tell you, I am a thousand percent behind as parent as teachers. I fell on it when my daughter was probably about a year and a half old. And it was wonderful. And I still remember Donna, she would come to her house and do the little evaluations every six weeks and she loved her coffee table. 'cause I had, it was oval so I had no sharp edges on it
and it was right at the right level. And I still can't get rid of that coffee table. It's downstairs because this is where the kids and it's all dented up, you know, from the kids playing on it. But, um, Donna was amazing and just really gave us the sense that we were on the right track. Yeah, here are some things to look at, but you know, luckily we didn't have a lot of developmental issues with our kids. But just having that fresh set of eyes to let us know what we can do as parents to do better, it's an awesome program and I'm really glad it's still here. Me too. Any other comments?
Yeah, no, uh, I loved hearing that you added an Arabic story time. It's great. Uh, intro, I think to a new culture and to a different type of learning. Uh, and next time you bring a magician, feel free to let us know. That could be fun. Okay. Any other questions? I just have one question with the parents As teachers, how does that, do you advertise for that or how does that get out? Tricky. So yeah, so we always walk that tightrope of capacity and advertising. So we do advertise somewhat
and the, the brochures are new for that reason. But it is a little tricky because we are limited in space and, um, you know, staff. So, but yeah. And um, a lot of our, um, our parents or former parents refer our, all of our, um, staff in preschool refer to, especially if they know that a parent might need some extra support or resources or things like that. So then if we did do an early childhood center, could we expand a lot of these programs in terms of how much service?
Yeah, that's the hope. I mean, because of the licensing requirements and staffing requirements, I, I mean if you could serve as a cohort of kindergartners based on the, the four year olds, based on the, the guidelines these folks have to play by, we'd need a campus the size of the high school. So we're never gonna get to that type of being able to meet that type of demand. But that is the intent is to try to, try to expand it to the extent we can. Thank you everybody. So we don't normally talk, but my son has gone through probably four
of those programs starting at Go Tall with Melissa, summer camp with Jess parents, his teachers with Elizabeth, where they identified fine motor issues very early on and he still has some concerns there. He's been in speech since he was two. These ladies mean a whole bunch to me and my family and it's been a great program. Um, I just don't ever come to these meetings. I wanna publicly thank you for what you've done. My kid was in probably five of those pictures and I still think his photo is right outside there. So it's come a long way.
And it started very, very, very bumpy with Ms. Martin over there. So just, he's come a long way since, since those early programs. So thank you. Thank you so much for being here. Yeah, thank you you for Having us. Great job guys. Um, and you guys are welcome to stay or if you'd like, we take a couple minutes here, you can scoot on out for the evening and get ready for your day tomorrow. Good. Thank you so Much. Thank you. And while they're segwaying out, I'd also like to mention you guys can start to go, but, okay. Alright. Um, I know we have some people from instrumental
and vocal music here from the high school and I think this would be a good time for them to maybe be excused as well. I think the board's aware that they're making some structural changes with some of their supplemental program programs. That's really new. Um, they're right in that transitional time. So if they don't mind, we'll we can cut you guys loose. And what I would propose is that maybe Feb, once the dust is settled a little bit, maybe February or March, we can invite you back to a workshop and we can talk a little bit more, um, informally about how things are going. But we really appreciate you guys being here tonight.
Thank you so much. Okay. Moving on to 4.02 Student government, Ms. Genevieve. Good evening everyone. Um, I have a couple announcements mainly just from the staff around the school. A lot has happened field trip wise, um, to start at the end of October, all ninth grade students were able to attend a field trip to Eckelman Holocaust Museum to further their learning as they read Night by Eli Whistle, sorry, and English nine. Here. They got to explore
and learn about new artifacts as well as listen to a second generation speaker. They were very thankful for the strategic plan for helping them set aside funds for this as well as the museum for generously covering student ticket costs and partially reimbursing busing. The trip was very successful and the students learned a lot on Friday, November 7th. G-B-A-H-S Corral attended c U'S Corral Vocal Arts Stay. Students attended master classes where College voice professors heard that then worked with singers throughout the state on their solo singing
question and answer sessions with working Broadway actors about careers in music. And currently attending CMU College at singers about singing opportunities at the college level and listened to the choirs from other high schools around the state. Additionally, corral performed at their, their fall concert repertoire for the head of, uh, corral Area at CMU Dr A Amen Edie, he praised the Asem Ensemble for their hard work and excellent singing, and then gave their corral advice and some ideas on how to improve their performance and singing technique in general.
It was an incredibly full 14 hours, but Corral came back motivated and energized to apply Dr. Edie's advice to their winter concert repertoire. Senior James Keeny was featured in an interview on the big screen at Ford Field after the G-B-A-H-S marching Band's 2025 state championship performance on the, on November 1st. He represented our district, community and high school very well and everyone is very proud of him in the 2025 marching band. Ashton Tripp has shared a recording of the interview with Dr.
Rwa, sorry, all word. And Mr. Dr. Bo for anyone interested in viewing. Um, the grand blank Varsity Girls swimming dive team, RSVL champions, which is their first team wins since 2020. And their third SVL title in program history, uh, the grand blank thespians are putting on the production of almost main Thursday through Saturday this week. And all per performances are at 7:00 PM ticket sales can be accessed online. Uh, I know they're on their Instagram page bio, but I don't know specifically where else.
Um, and then the fish food drive at the high school is also happening this coming week, Monday through Friday, of course, during which students can bring different food and hygiene products to their first hour classes and they'll receive points based on what items they bring in. And the top three first hour classes will earn a prize of, I believe donut breakfasts. And all donations are greatly appreciated for that and will be donated during feed the bus. And that's all I have for now. Thank you. Questions for Genevieve? I just have one and I don't wanna put you on the spot, but we haven't talked about this in a little bit early
decision was November 1st are, which, where are you at with all the college apps? I ended up applying to two school schools. Early action, not early decision. Okay. I've, um, I've heard back from MSUI got into James Madison College, a residential school for political science and, uh, international affairs. Um, and I also got into the honors college at MSU. I'm waiting to hear back from you of m. Good for you. Congratulations. Thank You. I think the choice is clear though. I'm also applying to a couple schools regular decision, so I'll hear back from them too. The honors Program is pretty cool. Yeah. But I do want to say good things come
to those who wait, so I forgot. I'm totally outnumbered now. Okay. Um, moving on to new business, um, 5.01, emergency operation plan resolution. Yeah. Um, I'm here to ask the board to pass the resolution to adopt the latest updated EOP plan. Um, I believe it was sent out to you guys last week, but, uh, this year's change is, are pretty small. Bottom line is just some personnel changes and some calendar changes. So, um, the big changes will be next year.
So Chris is working with, uh, Schafer to kind of reise what we're doing. We have a 597 page and it looks like we can kind of structure that down and kind of re redo that. So a little easier to read. So, but for this year, it's just a pretty minor personnel changes, um, and some dates. Okay. So let's take a motion to approve the resolution. I'll Make a motion to approve Support. Any questions for Jeff? Okay. Ms. McDougall
Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Ert Yes. Yellen? Yes. K. Yes. Thank you. 5.02 OLA fall updates in policy. Uh, the joy of policy has arrived. Um, so I won't, there's really not a lot here to cover, which is actually nice. So we're gonna start with, um, the revised policies. I'm looking at the agenda, uh, 1422. We're gonna start with that one. That is, so what they, what Yola did is they just took, um, policies all related to something, um,
to the discrimination and things like that. And they combined them into single policies. Instead of having three policies related to one thing where you're going to look for harassment here or discrimination here, um, they've just combined them all into one policy. So policy PO 1, 4 2 2 is a combination of that previous policy along with the addition of 1 14 22 0.02 and 16 22, 22, 16 62 into one policy. Um, so it is 20 pages long now, but all the information is in one place so
that if somebody needs it, they can go to that and find it. That first policy is the administration policy, uh, regarding harassment and discrimination. Um, I'm gonna jump ahead a little just to cover the other two right now. Policy P 0 3 1 22 is pretty much the same. It's just, it relates to professional staff instead of administration. And then the information in P 0 4 1 2 2 is also the same information. It just applies to support staff. So those three are separated out depending on, uh, which, which category you fall into.
So that is for, for those three policies for harassment and discrimination, the rest of the policies 16 23, 22 60, 22, 60 0.01, uh, 31 23, and 41 23. The only changes as you read the, through their, their minor language changes. The, but the most important thing on them is the office of several rights information has all been updated and it's now in DC instead of Cleveland. So all of that information had to be updated in those policies. So I'm going to make a motion that we, uh, approve the first reading of these policies as presented
along with rescinding the policies that we are getting rid of because they've been combined with the other policies Support. I just wanna thank Meredith because it's a lot for one person, and then I know I asked her questions on 'em and she is quick to res respond and clarify it to me. So I'm sure other people have done the same thing. So thank you Meredith. You're welcome. And I'm also gonna thank Linda. She sent, I don't know if everybody got this, but I got a color coded addition so that I could very easily link everything together. And so when I went to find all the policies
to put them together, she had, it was so organized, it helped a ton and I appreciate it. So just wanna throw that out there too. And this is one of our key roles as board members is to implement policy. And so I'm, I'm so proud over the last several years that this board has taken that ju that responsibility very seriously. We've got Meredith who's been leading the way in that we take the time to review these policies and know this is what we're doing. So thank you very much. Okay. Any other comments or questions about the OLA updates?
Okay, this is the first reading. Ms. McDougall Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Yellen? Yes. K. Yes. So we'll have a second reading at the December meeting? Correct. Okay, great. Okay. 5.03 Summer tax resolution. Ms. Thank you. So this resolution is a resolution we have approve every year. It allows the district to levy a hundred percent of our taxes in the summer. Uh, we do that to help hedge when the district does not receive state aid
for the month of September. It allows us to maintain healthy cash flow with the tax proceeds that we would receive. Otherwise it would be spread out throughout the year. So it's a critical time for the district and it's important that we continue to pass, um, this resolution to do a hundred percent summer tax collection. Make a motion to approve. Any questions on that? Ms. MacDowell? Youngs? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Yellen? Yes. Yes. Yes. 5.04 PA 1 52 resolution.
That's me as well. There you go. So this is another annual resolution that we bring forward to the board, um, to adopt every year. That's annual. That's very re sorry. Um, the district would, um, in order for the district to collect an 80 20 cost share model with our health insurance plans for our employee, a board has to adopt that. Otherwise, the district would default to a hard cap, which is set by a CPI index every year. In layman's terms, this allows us the district to pay 80% of a total healthcare premium
and pass 20% onto the employee to contribute as opposed to going by the hard cap, um, model. And that's pretty much it. That's a lot of words that just say 80 20 cost share model. Okay, we'll take a motion. Approve Support. Any questions for Michelle? Okay. Ms. McDougle Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Han Yes. Lang? Yes. Ert? Yes. Yellen? Yes. Cash? Yes. Uh, next 5.05, the superintendent evaluation process and timeline.
Okay. You wanna go over that with everybody? Sure. Yes. Um, so we, uh, for our new board members, We have to approve or we have to evaluate Dr. Ward by the end of the year. Um, and so he's gonna be sending out his evidence in show in, um, how he's worked on the goals that we've set from last year. Um, and that will come the week of Thanksgiving ish. And then, um, you will have until the 6th of December. It's a Saturday. So I tried to give you a couple, at least a weekend and a half to be able to sort
through his information. You will get an email from me with a Excel spreadsheet basically that has our evaluation tool on it. Um, it talks about the requirements set to meet, um, you know, meet or, or needs improvement or not met, um, his goals. And then you can put your comments down at the bottom for each category. Um, and then when you're done, send it onto me and I will compile all of that information and, um, compile all of our comments.
And if, and the way that Marty did it in the past is he kind of, um, randomized the comments into one. Um, so that if you were uncomfortable, um, with, you know, if you didn't wanna own each of your comments, um, no one could really tell who said what. But then it turns out when we go to close session and talk about his evaluation late in, in our December meeting, that we usually are, like I said, that this is what I meant by it. So I, I don't know if that's necessary, but I'll still do it if you guys want me to.
It's, but it turns out that we mostly just say, I said this for this reason. Um, but just let me know what you're comfortable with and I'll keep doing it that way or, or not if you want. Um, and then at the evaluation time in December, we'll go through 'em and we'll come up with a consensus over what score we feel he's earned on each of those different categories and give him a, a thing. So, um, that meeting I think is the 15th. I believe so. So by the sixth I might be able to do a couple days.
I was just hoping for two weekends in there too myself. So I, I split the difference. So a week and a half for us to go through his, um, stuff and then get the evaluation completed, and then another weekend and, um, and a half for me to compile it all and, and bring it to one if that works. But if you have any concerns over that timeline, if you need a a little bit more time, just let me know. Okay. Any questions from anybody? December 6th. Say that again? Yep. Call me Marty. You got Marty's email feedback? Yep. Okay. Information and reports.
Well, I, I'd like to start with, I, I'm really looking forward to the evaluation process this year. Nothing Is different. Yeah, just, um, no, I all seriousness. I want to thank our, our board and our community support for our fall sports season that officially came to a close. I know our football team didn't make it as far as as they wanted, um, but I know that, you know, the loss of Logan Welch kind of hung heavy over them for that Clarkston game. So I don't necessarily think that we got our best, best, uh, performance. And I, it's understandable why, but, um, we were happy to support, you know,
hosting the memorial for Logan Welch and for former our teacher Jamie Auer from West Middle School. So we're both very well attended and the families greatly appreciated the board support, um, and the work that our operations department did. You know, that's another event that Jeff's people have to take on, but they were great and it's the right thing to do. So thanks Jeff and his team. Um, happy Thanksgiving to everybody, you know, I hope you enjoy next week. Um, with family and friends. A few reminders coming up quickly is, um, our Winter Wonderland senior event is on December 18th
at the, excuse me, December 16th. December 16th from 11 to one we'll be hosting a luncheon for the seniors. That's always a, a fun time. Um, we'll follow that up in the spring with the spring performance of our play. I know Yasmine may speak to this, but the holiday dinners at Zen on the fourth, which is the week after Thanksgiving. So that's coming up pretty quickly. Um, we also just finalized a date for our core team retreat of December 11th. We have two action plans that were sent back to strategy teams for rewrite. So it, I don't think we're gonna need to block off of half a day or an entire day.
So I think right now the plan is to have that meeting virtually. So if you were part of the core team, um, we'll get that invite out to you. And then, you know, a couple big dates that are on the calendar. December 10th, we're going to treasury for the Bond app. And December 15th we bring that formally to the board for passing resolution to approve the Bond app. So it's all coming together pretty quickly. So if there's no further questions, that'll conclude my report. Sure. Uh, first I wanna say, um, to the Hagen Hour family, the Welch family and the entire West Middle School families now is, is truly,
I mean, they've gone through a lot. It's, it's the beginning of the healing process. It will take a long time. Just the impact that both Jamie and Logan had on the communities had on the students. It, it was amazing. I remember I didn't have Mrs. Hagen hour, but I, I heard stories, uh, of the infamous noodle that she had, the pool noodle she would use. Um, but I just know, you know, all my friends who had her said just how amazing of a, of a, a teacher she was. Um, secondly, I, I got
to shadow one of our students. I got to shadow Jake Morrow for a day. That was, um, uh, an, an interesting experience. Um, definitely I, there was some notes that I took, uh, some things that I think as a board we should discuss regarding cell phone policy, uh, and how it's implemented. Uh, but overall it was a a great day. I was able to meet more of our students, meet more of our staff that I hadn't gotten to meet before. Um, I will say that Rachel Kenny assigned me an assignment, an essay
to write, which I still have not completed, but I plan on writing one for her. Um, but yeah, no. And then we got to attend the, uh, the, um, MASB conference that was very, very informational. I loved it. It was so much fun. Uh, the classes that I got to take the, um, breakout sessions. Great. It was a great time. Um, but yeah, no, I hope everyone has a very happy and a very, uh, safe thanksgiving and, uh, I look forward to getting that bond
resolution at the 15th. So thank you. Just wanna wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving. Also, a congrats to the girls swim dive on SBL Champs. I know many of them will be heading to states. And then also congrats to the football team. I know that my family and I had a lot of fun this season cheering them on. So now we'll just cheer for Goodrich. And that's it. Uh, similar to Ethan and, and Kelly. Um, just wanted to thank the support, um, you know, here in the board setting for the other support emails, social media posts. Um, it's, it's not a fun time,
but like you said, during the reflection, you know, it's the, the tough times that bring us together and just the support, whether you knew, you know, our staff members or our coaches, um, folks from other communities have reached out. I thought Clarkston did a, a really classy move with the, the, uh, moment of silence before the football game. So that was really cool. So just wanted to say thanks to the community. Uh, in regards to that, um, I spent an, a wonderful Saturday down at Wild Lake Northern for our Palm competition, um, watching our daughter and the Palm team compete. Um, they took, I think second, third, and seventh.
Um, and the competition was really, really stiff. So they, they did great there. Um, really fun to watch the, um, the new Aquatic Center host the water polo finals, which was really cool. Um, if you haven't been to a match, they're, they're quite interesting and quite entertaining. Um, but I mean, to have that level, you know, state finals is as good as it gets. So nice to see Grand Blanc host that. Um, I know Mr. Tripp left, but, um, I'm a big marching band and band fanatic, so congrats to the, to the, uh,
instrumental groups on their, um, competitions and their, their accolades. Um, it's fun to watch them. And from a distance, I know Mr. Lea is smiling. So, um, looking forward to winter sports kickoffs. Good luck to our martians. Um, our winter concerts, our, our winter performances and, uh, happy Thanksgiving. Um, So I am looking forward to the Thespian show this this week. Um, it looks like it'll be very, very cute. It's short little vignettes, is it called or whatever.
Um, and so it's a little different format. It'll be, it'll be fun to watch, um, tomorrow for the Fish Food Drive. It's double points apparently with the, um, so if you can bring those stuff in for tomorrow, that that would be good. All week though. Keep on bringing things in to help support the FISH program. Um, I was able to attend that Holocaust, um, museum trip, um, with my son in the ninth graders. And, um, the kids were very, very well behaved. The information was very good. Um, the museum was nice, and it is, it was pretty, pretty nice
after the tour that they all got to sit together and listen to, um, a daughter of Holocaust survivors. So that second, um, generational perspective there, um, that they include in that experience, it's very good. Um, I was able to attend the Mason's Veterans Day program, the Mason Elementary School Veterans Day program. And they did an outstanding job, um, honoring all our military and, um, first responders. And, um, as always, uh, they did a, a really nice job. The kids did a fantastic job. Um, I was able to attend, uh, the Genesee Career
College and, sorry, Genesee County Career and College Access Network. There's three C's in there, so I always miss one. Um, they did a presentation at the ISD and um, it's just a good reminder that they, they offer so much support for our seniors in our building at the high school. They have a, um, beyond graduation website. It's www.beyondgrad.org with a lot of information to help kids, um, know what to do next, uh, guide to college planning.
They have the FAFSA information, of course they have, um, information on Michigan's community college guarantee, but there, there's a lot of information on their website for our families. Um, we just want to remind people of that and, and let them know, um, Toolkit toolkits. It's really well done. So, um, that was a good presentation. Um, I, um, attended, I stopped by the state water polo, um, experience or hosting at the Aquatic Center as well.
And it was really cool because there were, you know, families from the schools that were there playing, um, or waiting their turn to play. And some are like just chilling in the lobby downstairs. And some are upstairs and there's tables all set up with their food that they bring. And everybody had their own spaces. And then the tables along the hallway, they had more space to just hang out. And, um, the volunteers from our program that were working at said that everyone was super positive with the feedback and with the layout and the space, and of course the pool. Um, so that was really fun to see. Um, I, uh, talked to a few students
and they told me their secret weapons when they play. It's, uh, definitely a very cutthroat and interesting sport. Um, um, the, the annual leadership conference at MASB was really good. Um, got a lot of good information and I look forward to that January workshop, um, to talk about that. You already did that. No, you didn't. I double check. And then, um, you know, just to, to encourage again, our buildings, um, with everything that we've experienced recently, um, in the community
to just continue to support our students and, um, and not to, not to forget about the trauma that they've had and, and to continue to, um, do what, you know, work with them and, and do what they can, um, to help our students get through a very difficult time, uh, that they've had lately. Uh, the Grambling Educational Foundation met yesterday, or last week, Thursday I should say. And we had like 12 different grant requests. I think they know that November we're feeling like generous and, and you know, thankful for everything.
But no, they had some great ideas, great, um, ways to help support their students. And in that two hour meeting, um, we approved like nine almo just under $9,000, um, toward grants for dis for students and staff in the district. So that was a pretty productive day. We felt a little like Santa Claus, didn't we? Mm-hmm. So, um, that was a great meeting. And then, um, the Genesee County Association of School Board member meeting is next
week, our November meeting. It's just a representative meeting. I actually can't attend. So, um, are you the alternate or is Ethan the alternate? I can't remember. Um, it's Thursday next week. Evening. Not wait, it's Next week. There's, oh no, this week, This week, this week guys. Sorry. Not next week. It's in three days. It's in three days. I know. It's short notice. It's Thursday. Yeah, you're, yes. Yes. But if you're not, if you're free Thursday at six,
um, I could use that. Thank you. Um, but, uh, it's just a regular meeting. And then we do have our holiday dinner on December 4th. Please let Linda know if you and a guest want to come as soon as possible. RSVP. And, uh, happy Thanksgiving everyone. Thank you very much. We've covered so much, so I don't have a ton, so that's good. Um, just with the, with, um, with Jamie and Logan's passing, I just, my heart goes out to West Middle School, but also their, their leadership who has just been, um, absolutely amazing through all
of this and the support of the community. Um, I was just looking over the weekend, um, in the view there was a big thank you to all the fire departments and all the police departments and everyone who showed up, uh, during the issue with the church and our community just within Genesee County, but also beyond the borders. Like they've been amazing, um, this year. And I just, that support just helps. And when you are struggling and when you're at your hardest, that's when everybody comes together and it really is GB strong, but it brings everybody up.
And I just, I just really love the community support this year. Um, the only other things that I have on here, the conference was great. I had a great time. It was a wonderful conference. I really, really love the one on safety and security and the legal one that I went to that was also excellent, uh, on policy. And, uh, last we will be adopting is a board, uh, fish Family or two, depending on the size that will be coming. Linda's gonna help us coordinate that. Um, when that happens, everything will have to be in before our next board meeting. So we'll be, uh, arranging drop off here
and getting that all together so that we can, uh, help support the community. Thank you. I just wanna echo the comments of my other, uh, board members and to wish everybody a nice Thanksgiving. Um, couple things, what Meredith mentioned about our Fish family, um, Linda's gonna help us put together a Google sheet. So once we have the family details, look for your email. I'll shoot out a text to make sure, you know, to look and we can sign up for everything. I think the drop off deadline is December 15th,
which is our next meeting. So we really need to get stuff to central office the week before. And Linda's gonna help us get everything over to G-B-U-M-C for the drop off. So we will communicate that, um, as soon as we get it. Um, Trevor mentioned the winter music, um, event. Um, what'd you say? December 16th. 16th. Um, I've gone the last few years. I know Yasmine, you've gone and, you know, a few of us have gone. If you can make it, it's a great thing. The seniors who attend really like seeing us there.
Um, Trevor does a great, great job answering questions, especially with the bond coming up. Um, if you can be there to show your support, that would be great as well. Um, I, I was able to attend Jamie's memorial service and Logan's service, um, yesterday and, and it, I am, I'm so thankful that us as a district can provide a place for these families to host these large events. Um, they're part of our family and I think it's wonderful that we're able to do what we do.
Um, also recognizing it's a lot of effort on our staff. Um, yes, we hosted the Saginaw Valley Girls Swim Championship. That was great. We hosted the Boys Water Polo State Championship. That was great. Um, we're gonna host, uh, division three semi-final game on Saturday. That's great. But it's, you know, we think about our, our, what we do for our students, and then we're at it on these other events. So I just want to give a shout out to Jeff and his staff and Jared, um, for everything you guys been doing to make these events happen.
So thank you very much. I appreciate that. Okay. Um, you went over Yep. The county stuff. Okay. Public comments. We have one comment tonight. Um, Sue, and you know, the drill Sound like, you know, there's a line here. Um, Sue Hendricks, grand Blanc, Michigan, obviously, and I'm just up here as I almost always do to confirm that one, as a community, we really appreciate the support that you guys give to protecting our students, you know, and making sure that we are maintaining our diversity,
our equity and inclusion, so that all our students get exactly what they need. And that's really important because schools are a basis of our community. Um, I just wanna reiterate that the opposite of that is conformity, inequity and exclusion. And that's not what we want. There's gonna be more and more pressure as you've already experienced on our students, on you guys as the board or on our schools, to start abandoning those principles. And I just wanna encourage you when it, you know, as it gets harder and harder that we continue to protect our students.
That's it. Thanks. And happy Thanksgiving. Thank you, Sue. Happy Thanksgiving. Okay, moving on to closed section. Closed session. We'll take a motion to adjourn a closed session to review legal opinion. I'll Make a motion that we adjourn to closed executive session Support round the table, or Ms. McDougall Youngs. Yes. Anderson, yes. Fashion? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Yellen. Yes. Kish. Yes. Thank you.