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Okay. Is there any further discussion? Speak up. >> Yeah. I would like to know why we're doing this when we literally have a meeting Monday and you've ruined everybody's last vacation. >> I have attorney's advice that this is okay to do this. I have direction what

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to do to conduct this meeting and you're not even required to do an agenda to tell the public what you're only required to post that there is a meeting. You're not required to post the agenda items. That that is not the law.

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And so it's not posted what it was posted incorrectly cuz I did not ask for a close session and we we did not have to post to tell the public what it was what what what the agenda was.

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That's the law. You do not have to post an agenda. You just have to post notice. And so now we know that we're correcting this to a state complaint. So, can I have a vote, please? >> The brown,

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>> yes. >> Fortress, >> yes. >> I'm I'm going to vote yes, but I'm unclear about what the agenda even is if I'm being honest. >> Fox, >> yes. >> No. Yes. Motion carries.

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Okay. Public comments is next. Anybody wishing to speak? I have nothing here. So, please approach the podium, state your name and address and bring up um your paper

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so we have it. Are we calling? Go ahead, Miss Mitchell. >> Okay, go. >> Good afternoon everyone. My name is Don Mitchell. Address is 1216 East Terry, Hazel Park, Michigan 4830. As everybody

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knows, I've been up here enough. I'm going to ask some of the same questions that I've been asking this whole time. You talk about transparency. Where is the transparency in the investigation that was done on the board

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last year? We as a community, taxpayers, parents still have yet to get an answer. Where is it? We're spending money after money over this. Why?

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The students deserve better. The staff deserve better. All you guys are collaborating behind closed doors. It's already been stated four of you have voted to get rid of Amy, Dr.

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Wilcox. How it you're violating more terms. But that's okay for you guys to do and nobody else. What has Dr. Krooppy done, Dr. Will Cox,

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I apologize, done to deserve what you guys are doing. It was proven before she was okay, hence her being back. But you guys just keep spending spending on nothing.

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frivolous BS vendetta. She is at all the sports events all over this district. Where are you guys hiding, driving around together? Tell me you're not talking together and don't aren't

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agreeing with each other. So we already know Darren had said at the last at that previous meeting that he was coerced that he just went along. Okay. So you really think we believe that the answer

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is going to be different? No. There will be more after you guys talk. >> All right. Thank you. And next is Miss Jackson. Jennifer Jackson, 139 West Robert Avenue. Um, the rumors are already all

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over the place that Monday's meeting there's going to be a vote to um terminate Dr. Wilcox's contract. um that there's something going on behind the scenes that you guys are trying to find all kinds of things to

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attribute to her directly or find something to terminate her. Can we just find out as a community like what your issue is? We pay a lot of money for our students to get an education here. My children have been

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going here since they were in preschool. Okay. Every single day they could be here. And Dr. Willox has been the superintendent the absolute majority of that time. One of my children just graduated.

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I have seen this district change for the good over the course of their entire educations here. I failed to see what your issues are as board members. And since you've not

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divulged any of us here who show up when we hear these rumors, you're damn right we're going to speculate on what it is. You need to provide answers to this community on what your problems are as

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board members. You need to give us an idea of what it is that you have such a problem with that woman right there and the job she's doing in this district because from where I stand, my kids are getting a quality education. They are smart. I

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have a daughter who's going into AP classes next year. I have a son who is very active in sports in this district. Your son coached my my son for two years. We're tired of this and it seems like

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it's a game with you guys. Oh, have the meeting meetings settled down with attendance? Let's try impulsive [ __ ] Tired of it. Figure out what you're going to do, stick with it, do it, and

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then deal with the consequences after. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, anybody else wishing to speak? So, what we normally don't do is respond to the people that speak. Um, but I'm going to address the first leave that we

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put Dr. Wilcox on. It was in the newspaper. It's the only reason that I am addressing it. We had our auditors quit after nine years. We had our finance director leave shortly after that. After that, we went almost in

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deficit at 1% money um fund balance and that was all in the newspaper. What that first the findings letter was released uh by Dr. Will Cox's attorney and it was in the newspaper all of those steps. So

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I don't know what more you want to know about um that that first uh leave. It was to investigate the money. The job of the board is to provide oversight for the money for the taxpayers

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and it is to secure an education for the students that are here. You may speak at the end of the meeting. Um, you expect more money as garbage than >> I'm not. This is why we don't respond because this is not supposed to be back

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and forth. That total investigation was $59,000. It was not a million,2300,000. It was $59,000. So, I'm not going to comment on that any further. I'm going to move along with the transparency of why we're here

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tonight. >> I would like to make a motion, Beth. If we are going to wade into discussing the findings of that investigation, none of which had to do with a fund balance and deficit uh staff member leaving. Um I would like to make the

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motion that if we are going to discuss it that the board wave the attorney client privilege regarding the initial investigation into Dr. Krooy's leave in 2025 and disclose the information to the public. House party. >> We We are not discussing the >> We just did.

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>> We're not discussing the letter because >> we just spoke about it. So, if we're going to wave into >> We just spoke about it. >> If we're going to wade into waving the attorney client privilege of that, especially if we're going to give the impression to the public that any of the findings in that investigation were

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related to a staff member leaving the audit, a deficit, or if unbalanced. Those were none of the findings in that investigation. And I we all know that. So if we are going to imply that to the public, then I my motion is on the table that we wave the attorney client privilege regarding that so that the

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public can see what the actual findings of that investigation were because those were not them. I I think it's unfair to imply that to the public that is watching. I I know that those may have been points that you brought up in order to initiate the investigation, but those

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were not findings and it is not fair to imply to the community that those were. >> You're correct. I didn't give the findings. The findings were that co money was co-mingled and we did not have a wellness policy that is mandated by the federal law. That that was the findings and that was also in the

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newspaper. You do not co-mingle money. Period. So that was the findings. So you made a motion. >> Is it state that you didn't before you disclose this conversation here? You didn't ask my opinion. You're making

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comments to me as an employee. didn't ask if I want a close session or an open session. So you I just want to bring that up. And also that report was already shared with people. So I would respectfully ask it to be released as well. It it was sent to an employee that was underneath me fe.

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>> So there's a motion, a second. >> Yep. >> Okay. Roll call. >> The motion. >> Did you I didn't hear you. Did you say my name? >> Yes. >> Yes. Yes. >> Fortress. >> No.

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>> Fox. >> Yes. >> Leaf boys. >> We're asking I just want to be clear what I'm saying yes or no to. We're asking that we release the findings. >> I'm happy to answer because I made the motion. So, I'm happy to clarify it. I I

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think that if we're going to be discussing it in peace or in parcel that my motion was to wave the attorney client privilege and make the findings of that investigation to disclose them to the public whether that be in writing, whether that be us talking about it. I'm >> well, we haven't even talked about

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anything yet tonight except the agenda. >> You did bring up and and violated the Open Meetings Act again by not asking me if I wanted evaluation information done in public session. So, the the findings >> I would just it I think we're talking about a lot of different things right now. If we could vote on the motion and

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then move into something else. My motion is to wave the attorney client privilege of those findings and release them to the public. >> So, the findings were already released to the public. So, I'm going to say no because the findings were already released in the paper. >> They they were not? No. >> Okay.

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Are you a no? >> I'm a no. >> I'm a no. Motion fails three to three. Okay. >> I want to um just state that it was already released to an employee and the school is worth violating. >> Um okay.

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I would like to speak to the um MDE complaints. >> Can I do that? >> Uh well, first of all, I just want to make it clear. We are not addressing the letter that was supposed to be in closed session, that attorney client letter.

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We're not addressing that first the results of the first complaint and that is foable anyways. There really isn't a reason for a closed session. That is public record from the Michigan Department of Education. So, but we're

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not discussing that complaint. That attorney is not here and I did not request a close session. So, if you want to continue, I just want to be clear. We're not discussing that letter. So, I um put a copy of this second

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complaint, not the first one, which is the one that she's talking about, the second complaint, on everybody's table. Um I I for transparencies with the board, I thought everybody should see it. Um that one's still under investigation, so there's not a lot I

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can say to it. Um except for what I sent. Does anybody I know it's late. Did you have a chance to look at at it when you were sitting here? Did you have any questions? >> My questions are when is this going to stop? >> Well, I can tell you this is unreal.

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>> The reason I I filed these complaints is because that staff members, several staff members, not one or two, several staff members came to me with concerns about our special education population and the services that they were or were not receiving. into you cuz they know

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your hatred for it. So regardless of why they came to me, it was a concern and it is part of my job to make sure that our students are being serviced. That is part of the oversight. So I I sent in a MDE complaint because

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it cost the district nothing. It cost us nothing to have them do the research and the investigation for us. So the packet is some of the information that the teachers provided me that shows

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some alleged lapses in the students um services. And so this state this is our chance to get together as a board and talk about it. And so I'm putting it out there so we can all talk about it publicly with

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everybody getting the same information. I um I first want to state that uh we did training and I sent that to you guys again last week about operations um who does operations who doesn't and

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within those policies talks about in all the training that we've done if there's a concern you're to come and sit down with the superintendent um you're also not to take that information from staff you're supposed to bring it to the superintendent. So within this piece that you see here, everyone that really

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is under investigation and uh unfortunately we will get a improvement plan because for this whole year we've been addressing the junior high and their lack of completing their IEPs. Um there's emails to this that will be

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uncovered and there's an investigation that's still ongoing that we should not be sharing here at this meeting. Um but we have been aware I shared that with Mrs. Hitten early on um as she gave her private notes that again breaks the

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trust of the superintendent and sent it to the state which makes all your notes voyable and also um so in that time when we found out we sent weekly meetings from our special ed director. We sent supervisors to that spent the majority

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of their time. We worked as you're supposed to do to try to teach and to change. And when changes did not occur, staff members were disciplined through progressive discipline as well as administration. All of which you would have heard if you

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would have agreed to mediation, which in their letters they say which we asked our board member who should have come to me because it's my job to oversee when they when I find out things. It's not my job to implement. it's the building

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principles and the teachers and when they fail to implement then there there is an issue. So I think that if you had come to me and spoken with me about your concerns as is your job as a board member then you would have been able to sit down and hear the

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steps that we've done and I had shared with Mrs. Hinton that there were concerns and that we were working on them. So from a district level, we've done a tremendous amount to address including some staff members are no longer with us. Some have been

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disciplined up to suspension. Um and so that is the process. The first one that we had that centers around certification is an improvement plan like everyone else. Unfortunately, we did not find out till the report came

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back that some of the days were out of compliance. So an improvement plan has already been put in place between for the administrators and the state is coming out to train. As a matter of fact, on June 20th, Dana Billings, who

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is a representative from the state, um put an email out to the entire state that they are going to have regular meetings to deal with the facts around the difficulties in certification and substitutes. years ago when we had

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substitutes, we had substitutes that were teachers. Now you have substitutes that have 60 hours of credit hours that don't have bachelor's degrees. So you can only have teachers in place for a period of time and you have to understand the

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difference between school days and days, permits, waiverss, all of that this entire state is having difficulty with. So it would have been >> Dr. Wilcox. >> Yes. Can I interrupt for a point of order, which is allowed by Robert's rules? Um, I'm going to make the request

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that we don't continue at this time to review this document. Um, this I understand that it is redacted um with name, but there is absolutely personal identifying information that is in this

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packet. Um there are names of teachers, there are class periods, there are it is I can tell you right now that I have an idea of who one of these students is that is mentioned in here. Um so I am both concerned that we are reviewing it because this could potentially be a Furpa violation. This definitely

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identifies individual students. Um on that same note, I'm a little bit concerned although these are redacted so I don't know who they are from. It does appear that a staff member was sending personally identifying information regarding at least one specific student

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to a board member's personal email. And it concerns me that we are reviewing this in a public session when that information could be made public and additional people could be able to identify the student very easily. I I don't think that this is appropriate to

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have on our tables and it is definitely not appropriate to be out to the public. It would uh >> also a violation of our own protocols. >> Yeah, FURPA it includes more than just a name and there there is personally identifying information in this packet.

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I I think that if we are going to review it, we need to take steps to redact it further uh before it is made available to anybody else because it will not be difficult for someone to figure out who at least one of these students is. I I didn't want us to get too far.

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>> Well, there's also notes in there about uh comments about staff as well, which is um not appropriate either. >> But I can guarantee the public as well as the board of education that my job as superintendent is to put procedures into

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place and when we find out there's concerns is to address them. It's not my job to write IEPs at a building level or make sure staff are doing their job. It's my job to give guidance to my administrators in order to do so. And the first thing you do is train,

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support, and when that doesn't happen, then you have to hold them accountable in different ways to progress and discipline. And I again would be happy to meet with you, Miss Leon Boyce, for other further questions you have. Um, you did refuse mediation. Okay. Anything else

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>> on that topic? No, >> because we're probably in point of order, right? >> I again, if there's something else to discuss, I'm just going to request that we at least put this off to the side and if we do come back to it that >> No, that's fine. >> That it be amended further because that does worry me that >> Okay.

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>> especially if we're waving the attorney client privilege and talking about it in the public. these documents are foyable and I'm going to request that they not be so that that individual student information is not released to the public. >> Additionally, this could totally be non unfounded. We get state complaints or things that happen all the time in

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school districts and they're often found not to be an issue. So to bring them in front of here to try to shame the administration um is is not the spirit of trust in working together. >> I don't think it's about shame. I think it's about us not knowing about it

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>> about any of it. >> Well, you wouldn't know until it was >> within the last year. >> Um, you wouldn't have known until it was over. >> I guess I wasn't speaking. >> You wouldn't know until it's over. And unfortunately, I asked to have a meeting

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with him in the future with our attorney who is a um was a special ed judicial judge uh who specializes specifically in special ed and we should be having that with him. who did this investigation is working on the other one. We have a

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current legal case in process. >> I didn't hear what you asked, Heidi. What did you say? Why were we aware of this? I mean, this isn't something that just happened overnight. This stuff goes back a long time. And

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it's why weren't we aware of it? We had a couple special ed teachers come to the podium and I would have thought at that point you would have addressed some of the stuff their concerns at that point of of course we addressed things at the

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building level as they should be with people directly and we we did it through professional development our director of special ed having meetings every Monday with the staff. We also addressed it through progressive discipline. That is not something that really is a board

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situation. And I addressed with my principal the concern early on when some students did not get service and we had to pay for some services. Um we absolutely did address it in that way. You don't always know every single thing that happens within the building. Um and

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if the board member had sat down with me, which is protocol when staff come to you, you have all agreed and passed that protocol. You're to come to sit down. And if you had come to sit with me, you could have heard all of that situation of the things that are working with us. This um is highly unlikely for a board

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member to file against because yes, it does cost money. Whenever there's a special ed complaint, you always bring the attorney into it. >> Okay. >> All right. will then I am going to amend the agenda and motion that superintendent Dr. Amy Wilcox be placed

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on non-disciplinary paid administrative leave of education investigation potential policy violations >> and legal and legal violations. >> Your second I thought we were not allowed to amend

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the agenda after it's already done. >> Yeah, that is what he said. But again, >> you your attorney said that last time. I again I I want to share what I shared with um Bev this morning that as you're trying to remove me for first of all there was like five hearings filed by

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Miss Leafroy's constant calls to the state constant calls to the ISD over concerns that not having a sub in place for the right amount of time is not a superintendent issue and it is my job to push this through. This is not just

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cause to put me on leave um nor a violation of me policy-wise because I was not aware of the substitute issues until after the complaint was put into place and the results came back. Even the staff thought their days were correct. And the second one that is done

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again we were addressing that we were addressing that through progressive discipline and have all that information to the state and it is further a violation to of a board member to be speaking with staff on an ongoing basis because they share it across the district than the conversations that

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they've been having. Unfortunately it's a small district. You also, Miss Lebron boys, gave something that said here that you asked about the statements referencing a corrective plan and student corrective action plans. The corrective plan included the decision only requires changes to the district's

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procedure regarding a substitute teacher permits, which is not in a board policy. It does not require any student level corrective plans. If they were ordered, they would be listed separately, but none were ordered because they found no lack of services to kids in the first

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complaint. So, you are placing me on leave for a complaint that you and staff members have put together through emails. You and the board president by the notes that you gave of our private conversations um highlighted which also includes staff

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members names and comments about whether people liked them or not in that which is also a violation. um you know, no one uh I can't be responsible if a teacher does not um

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teach what's supposed to be in the classroom. It's my job then to make sure that they do do that. And I find it strange that we received an email that you were putting me on leave tonight from the four of you that this is out in the community and that Bev, you knew what to change the agenda and you have a

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motion to put in place which means that you guys did seek out and get approval from the attorney um ahead of time. And so and I also want to say that you violated the open meetings act by not asking whether or not I wanted to go

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into close session. So there is a motion on the table. Is anybody going to second it? >> I second it. >> You also need to list the reasons and the policy violations which is part of my rights under my contract which again requires just cause.

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>> We'll address everything when we get to that step in this process. >> You have to do that here. >> Um >> no. Is there discussion? I didn't hear the motion and I don't I want to be clear what I'm voting on and >> you already know what you're voting on.

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>> Yeah. >> I make a motion to put Superintendent Dr. Amy Wilcox on P nondisciplinary paid administrative leave penning the Michigan Department of Education investigation into potential board

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policy and legal violations. You literally have so much time on your hands that you are going to grab and grab and grab every single day for something cuz you do not like her. >> I will say that over and over and over again. This is sad and pathetic. >> You're doing this for our students. You're not doing it just to her. You're

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doing it for your high horse. I get it. You're doing this to the students and the community who are upset. >> If students aren't being serviced, isn't that they are being serviced? It literally said there was no interruption of service. zero.

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>> So, they're being served. Sorry. >> Ready to vote? >> I I just want to say this is nobody's going to believe this, but I specifically asked not to be included in any of this discussion. >> It's the truth.

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>> It's the truth. No, it's not a little late. I'm telling the truth. >> It's the truth. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't involved and I was not. So for it to be said that I'm part of the four is not true. And just like to the

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other discussion, you know how many years I paid taxes for no students in this school district? 30. Over 30 years. So please don't say that. You know, exactly. And I respect that. If you know how many hours I would spend in this

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district to help students and and to help teachers and all that, I would SPEND A LOT. >> JUST IT'S NOT GOING to do any good. Just let us vote. >> I just want it to be clear. You want to hear my opinion, but you don't want to hear it. Isn't that weird? You want to

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hear it, but you talk over me cuz you don't want to hear it. So, I'm done. Okay. >> When is the when is the this >> second investigation? When is the >> results coming? >> Yes.

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>> August 24th. >> So, I do have one question, and I'm not trying to be mean, Darren, because I know you love this district. You put a lot of time into it. If you love it, then what are you doing now to these kids? This has been a haywire of two years of craziness, of back and forth.

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Do we have a superintendent? Do we not? Do we have good teachers? Do we not? Is someone mad at someone? Like, what are we doing? We did not get voted in to look this dumb. >> There's I'm not saying we look at I'm saying this is sad. We are supposed to be here for these kids. >> There's a motion on the table. I'm

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>> And I believe I am for the kids. I have paid for football scholarships. I have paid for clothing. I know we all especially you of all people. I know that for sure. All the dedication that you've done. But I I'm here for the kids and I think that's one of the reasons

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why we need I I need to support this because I am here for the kids and I think a change would be better. >> I DON'T I DON'T HATE I DON'T HATE I don't hate >> We do need another point of order

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because we're what we're leading and I know that it's just emotional >> but again what we're leading into is saying a change would be better. We cannot predict the results of an investigation that does not even exist yet. That's true. >> I just want to like >> and you are true with that. >> He just said he doesn't want you.

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>> We're just We just walked oursel into another lawsuit and we like we literally cannot afford this. >> Okay. >> There's a motion on the floor. Can we please vote? >> Take the roll call. >> So, it's paid administration leave for one month until this investigation

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happens. >> Yes. before school starts paid administration and there's no kids. >> It's paid administrative leave until something's resolved. Yes. >> Until something's resolved. >> Okay. >> I'm not putting a date on it.

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>> I said I didn't put a date on it. >> Okay. You just couldn't hear it back here. that. Thank you. >> Mhm. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Eaton. >> I want to clarify two things prior to

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voting. The first is which one this was very clearly a half-hazard meeting that was put together with the intention of dropping this motion onto the table to begin with. That could not be clearer. Uh which is again going to cause a significant fiscal distress. Um, we did not learn

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our lesson last time and we put a superintendent on a surprise leave and found out that, uh, we had violated policies with open schools. We had, uh, ruined some things with the state. Uh, we paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. The investigation itself may

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have cost $59,000, but we paid two salaries for over 6 months. Uh, we paid significant legal fees. Um, fiscally, this is very, very irresponsible. Um, the motion itself concerns me because the Michigan Department of Education

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does not investigate board policy violations. So, even the result of this investigation is not going to lead us where it where it needs to be. Um, whether or not a decision is made to place the superintendent on leave, I don't know if a lawyer from Trun was not

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able to make it tonight when this was all put together. Um, and they are not able to advise us appropriately, but the motion itself is confusing. the motion itself doesn't make sense because we're waiting on the results of an investigation that has nothing to do with our board policies. Um, which is a

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violation of our board policies in and of itself. So I both in procedural and fiscal good conscious I cannot support that. No. Yes. >> Yes.

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>> No. >> Sorry. Motion carries 4 to2. So I would like to also amend the agenda to appoint Mr. Griff Mills as the interim superintendent until further notice

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tomorrow on July 23rd. >> Would anybody attach? >> Do I have a second? >> I don't even know who that is. So I >> Nobody knows who it is. They don't know either. >> I highly doubt that. I if nothing else, I have to say that this is nothing but I

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further support that this was this entire meeting was performative just to put this in place. I I don't understand how you think we're going to afford this. >> I >> because they have tons of money now, right? >> There there was ample opportunity when you were having dozens of discussions

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with an attorney at Truan in order to give us a call this afternoon and say this is who I'm going to appoint and at least give us a chance to Google who this person is. >> Why would they be that person? But you purposely hid the true purpose of the meeting so that we were here flatfooted

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and had no idea. I we can't in good conscious support an interim superintendent. Somebody that is going to lead us into the next school year and we we know his name. Where did he come from? What are his qualifications? Who recommended him?

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>> Probably true. >> It's what it is. >> Any more discussion? I want my questions answered. >> Anybody else has 30 years experience? >> Who recommended him? Beth, >> I'm not divulging.

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>> We are board members. We deserve that. >> Be transparent. >> You all need to be. >> You sat up here and said transparency when you first got here and now you can't even with your own board members. >> We are board members. We deserve answers.

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>> Our community deserves answers. And you're giving us nothing. You didn't even speak to us about this. >> She doesn't care. >> Of course. >> Okay. Vote. >> Roll call. >> Can you give us a little bit more

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information on him? >> No. She said she can't. >> You said he had 30 years. What? What? >> Can you give us more information? >> Excuse me. I cannot hear my board member. >> Well, I'm sure he told her OTHER >> What do you mean? You knew this was

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coming. >> She knows. I did not tell them. And you're not going to believe me, but >> you all drove together. >> I drove here because I couldn't drive. >> You know what? You all go out and party together. So, you all talk also. hours. You

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>> call the question. Just vote. >> All right, we're just voting. >> What? >> I voted yes. Who's next, Miss Buo? >> Okay, move on to the next subject when you don't want to talk about >> who's next, Miss Buo. >> The Proud Boys. >> Yes. >> Beaten.

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>> I'm not voting for somebody that I don't know. I don't know where they came from. I don't know why they're recommended. I don't know how long this was put in place. I that the lack of communication is it's literally criminal and I hope that

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I hope that eventually you stop getting away with continually breaking the law. I there is absolutely no way this this Mr. Mills could be amazing and I hope that he is and I hope to have a conversation with him and I hope to be blown away by

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his expertise. But the fact that this was put in place for this amount of time and the >> and anything I mean not a simple word of communication about what your plan was or who you were attempting to put in place. This is a board of seven people.

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We are required to be informed. We are required to have this information. You are violating board policies right now by not providing us with any information in order to arm ourselves with the ability to vote. How do you expect us to vote on a person that we don't know?

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Absolutely not. No. >> Okay. Who's next? >> I guess we have to have a superintendent. >> What's that? I can't hear you. >> I said yes, we have to have a super. And my mic's on so I don't know why. Yes.

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>> Fox. >> Yes. >> Um I do want to say real quick, we are voting on something. We don't know the pay. We don't know what they're getting. We We know nothing. So, how are we voting to put somebody in here? We don't know what we're paying

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them. We don't know anything. And you just think this is okay. So, absolutely not. >> I >> All right. Motion carries 4 to two. >> Um, public comment is next and I have

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Miss Jackson first. Thank you. >> Jennifer Jackson again, 139 West Robert Avenue. A little while ago, um you addressed the audience, specifically myself or Dawn, about the cost

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associated with the investigations last year and claimed that it was $59,000. I want to remind everybody that we also paid for the superintendent Dr. Cost at $800 per day and that was for about six months. In addition to uh paying Dr.

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Wilcox's salary because she was on paid administrative leave, there was also additional investigations that spurred from the first investigation. So there were several law firms that were being buil. Um so

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our board president is being highly disingenuous by sharing that information with us as taxpayers. Mr. Fox, we all are owed more appropriate leadership than from you. I

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also want to remind everyone here there is an election in November. Hinton is on the ballot and so is Miss Lafrais. Vote them out. >> Okay, I have Gail.

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I'm going to slaughter that name. Senio. Selenico. I apologize. I know I slaughtered it. >> Sorry. Good evening. My name is Gail Kangelo. I'm the proud parent of a Hazel Park graduate.

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I'm here tonight because I'm really concerned. I listen. I watch. I read. I know school has zero tolerance on bullying. And as I sit here tonight, I'm watching it. >> Yes.

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>> I am watching it in living color. Yeah, >> you all are on a witch hunt for one person. Now, if a student if four students come against one student and was brought to your attention, they'd be expelled. Now, you're saying that you want to

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replace Dr. Wilcox. My question to you is, what are the qualifications of a new superintendent? >> Is it loyalty? Yeah. Integrity? Yeah. Honesty? Yeah. putting the children before

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herself. Yeah, she's sitting right there. My daughter was a special ed student in your schools from kindergarten to 12th grade. 9th grade when we were on lockdown,

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the special ed department decided to put her on a non-diploma track. One phone called to Dr. Wilcox and that was straightened out. You said that you were over the special ed department.

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Where were you? Cuz I called. >> I'm sorry. What? >> You said that you were over part of the special ed. >> No. >> No. >> No. >> The only one that come to my daughter's defense was this woman sitting right here. If you were looking for a new

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superintendent, look right there. Rehire her. She's what we need. I don't need people in a sandbox throwing hissy fits. Y'all are adults. Y'all have children looking at you, looking up to you. And what are you teaching them? Bullying is

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fine. No, it's not at any age. It needs to stop. Our money needs to be used for better things, better schooling, better programs. And not one of you have got anything to

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say. Not a one. >> Which is really amazing because y'all can run your mouths when the when the adults aren't standing here. November is a real short jaunt away and it's election time. You might want to

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think if you still want your seats. And I have um Don Mitchell. >> Do you want me to state my address and all again? >> No, that's okay. >> Okay. Again, as she said, Don Mitchell, first of all, you guys talk about transparency. Where

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is the transparency? All we've had is lies tonight. You guys have it's been admitted numerous times. So you not going to give the answers when you get investigated again? You're going to hide them, too. We already know the answer. I

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hope channel 7 contacts this board because you're useless. Every one of the four of you, Darren, I know you have cared for these kids. Bev, I know you've been there. Debbie, I know where you've

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been there, but where are you now? Sure as hell not for the kids. It's for your personal benefit. What is that doing? Here, let's take the money away from the kids and spend it on [ __ ] For what? But you say you're for the

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kids. Come on. Again, with the elections, you need to you're you should be ashamed your name is even up there. Let's get Jason that belongs up here, not you.

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Again, the four of you have already made your votes prior to walking in this door. You knew what was going on. So, don't play dumb with us. We're all here in support of Dr. Wilcox. Every one of us. How many people are you guys got?

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I'm here to support you. >> Would you like to see the text, but I'm sure you've all seen it already. As if that's not proof, the whole community as an alumni, as a taxpayer, as a parent, as a longtime volunteer, as

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all of you know, and a community member, I am ashamed of you guys. Completely ashamed. I don't even want to admit I went to school here, and I'm sure a lot of these other kids don't. I know my son that just graduated this

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year says, "I don't want to tell people I'm from there. They're a bunch of idiots." H I wonder why. Look what you just did to the community. You're micromanaging everything else, but where were you to look into the

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special ed stuff prior? Oh, no. We'll wait and play it and then try to blame Dr. Will Cox. Get the hell out of here. You know it's [ __ ] just like I do and the rest of these people. Quit dillydattling.

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You can walk away now or you can rehire her or get laughed at when you guys don't get elected cuz we will be on the streets. Get your asses out of here. Okay. I have um Heidi Sharp. >> Uh good evening. My name is Heidi Sharp.

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I'm an attorney at law at 43260 Garfield, uh Clint Township, Michigan. I do represent Dr. Wilcox. I'd like to place each of you on a litigation hold. I'll be sending formal notice tomorrow, but if you're unaware, a litigation hold indicates that you need to keep all documents, and I am listing your emails,

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your text messages. Mr. Fox, I saw you texting and googling during the meeting. So keep all of your searches, your emails, your text messages between each other and others including councils and members of the school board, the employees, personnel, and anyone as they

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will all be subject to litigation in the future for Dr. Wilcox. A litigation hold also means if any of those documents are not available in the future, obviously you can check this with your own lit litigation council, excuse me, your legal counsel, and we request them and they're no longer available, there will

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be a presumption that you destroyed them because they had things that would assist our case. Thank you. And just for the record, since I was pointed out, I was not texting anybody. I was looking up this Griff Mills cuz this is the first time I heard his name.

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So that's what I was doing. Is that okay to do? >> Is that okay to do? >> Why would you? >> Cuz I didn't know it. This is for Chris. That would be a turning point.

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>> Chris Johnson. >> You don't know. >> You just made yourself better. >> Let's let Chris. >> Uh, state your name and address, please. >> Chris Johnson, 23781 Crosley. I have two

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points. One is I wasn't able to be here for the beginning uh public comment section and I just wanted to say thank you to the school. Uh we had a scheduling issue with junior Vikings and the school was able to let us use the field between Scott Park and the junior high for football practice. We're using

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the auxiliary gym and the junior high for cheer practice. Incredibly accommodating. We're incredibly grateful. Thank you guys very much. And the second part is essentially what we're talking about is contract law, employment law. I hope as a taxpayer that you guys have had all your tees

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crossed, eyes dotted because it's going to be expensive and I hope that everything is as it should be. I'm not pretty to any of the suing legal stuff. I just hope it all works out. Thank you.

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Now that you know it is not a problem. >> Okay. Are there any further comments? >> I would like to make a brief comment, Bev. Um I would just I would like to make a brief comment to at the very least the parents of special

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education students at Hazel Park Junior High. uh based on the information that we have on this table, I would encourage you to at the very least uh request a review of your students records and the activity that has taken place in their powers school records because it is while I would like to keep their information private, it is very clear

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that that information has been emailed to the personal email address of a board member and you the the appropriate procedure is to either lock down their records or to engage in some fura questions on your own. Um, I don't want

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to disclose specifically which students they were, but if you are a special education parent at Hazel Park Junior High, I would encourage you to do that. There is a chance that your students records have been shared inappropriately. >> Okay. Anybody else?

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I have a motion to adjurnn. Support. >> All in favor? >> I I in favor. >> Did you save these for ours? You turn back in. >> You turn them in. But don't turn back in. You turn back in.

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>> This one's for everyone. >> Okay. Heat. Heat. I do. I do know that you were really