I will now call the regular meeting of the Hazel Park Board of Education to order on this 02/23/2026 at 6PM. Can I have a roll call, please? Here. Here. Present. Beck? Here. Robert? Here. Richie? Here. Now can you rise for the pledge of allegiance? Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the consent of the agenda, please? I make a motion to approve the agenda as written. Support. And madam president, I have a, a removal part of the agenda under closed session. If we could please remove the eight h to consider material exempted from discussion or
disclosure by a state or federal statute. It's that end part of the closed session. To remove it. Okay. I didn't even mention a motion. Do you wanna amend your motion? I make a motion to, approve the agenda with the removal of with eight h. Closed session? Retain support. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Squad rest. Yes. Deaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Ortiz? Yes. Wilkram Woods? Yes. Okay. First special order of business, student of the month. We're gonna start with United Oaks first due to a scheduling.
Thank you. Leasia, come on up for me, Leasia. You're gonna go through on that, and you're gonna shake hands. Alright. Leasia. This was written on behalf of, actually, miss Reyes wrote this for us, but we all fully, fully, fully support. I am honored to recognize Leasia Summers as the HP student of the month. She has been the picture of perseverance, dedication, and resilience in my time knowing her at United Oaks. Personally, I've had the pleasure of growing with Leasia for the past four years, one
of them as her second grade teacher. Since then, I've watched her blossom into the radiant young lady that she is today. She works hard through challenges and never gives up on herself. She takes pride in her progress and helps to support and lift others around her. She deserves this honor immensely. I, we, are so proud of you and are truly grateful for your presence in our school community. Congratulations to you. Thank you. Okay. I don't believe my kiddo is here. Isaiah Hayes is our student of the month at Advantage School.
He is a hard worker. He is eager to help his peers as well as staff. He has a positive attitude when facing challenges in and out of the classroom. He goes above and beyond basic requirements and truly cares about the future of his education. He's nice. I am here to honor the Jardine student of the month. He is not here, but James Connor continues to serve as a positive role model for his peers through his strong work ethic, both at school and at his work
based learning placement at Meijer. He is consistently demonstrating respect toward his peers and staff and has continued to strengthen his vocational skills throughout the month of January. We are proud of his growth and dedication. Way to go, James. We are proud to recognize McKenna Menzies as our student of the month at Hazel Park Junior High School. McKenna consistently demonstrates what it means to be safe, responsible, and respects respectful each and every day. McKenna shows that she is safe by following school rules, making thoughtful choices, and encouraging
her classmates to do the same. She helps create a positive environment where everyone feels comfortable and secure. She's responsible by coming to class prepared, completing her assignments on time, and always putting forth her best effort. McKenna takes ownership of her learning and sets a great example for others. Most importantly, McKenna is respectful to her teachers, peers, and staff. She listens attentively, uses kind words, and treats everyone with fairness and consideration. Congratulations, McKenna. Thank you for representing Hazel Park Junior High School.
Okay. From Webb Elementary, we have Josiah Hall. We're just going to ignore that sweatshirt he's wearing tonight. Mr. Sanborn says, Josiah demonstrates so many characteristics of leadership. As a fifth grader, he shows integrity and kindness everywhere he goes. Josiah is patient with his peers and goes above and beyond to be helpful around the school. As a learner, Josiah participates consistently in class discussions and puts his full effort into his work. He challenges challenges himself to try new math strategies, checks his understanding, and completes his
work with detail. He's inquisitive, curious, and a critical thinker. Josiah is well liked by his peers and is looked up to by many. We are truly enjoying having Josiah as a web wolf this year. Great job Josiah. Good evening. Unfortunately, our our student is not here, but I'm very excited to tell you about Akira. Akira McNabb is our student of the month from Webster. Akira has come out of his shell so much since the beginning of the year. His inquisitiveness and love of friends has allowed his vocabulary to explode these past few months. Akira comes to school with a huge smile on his face, ready to have fun.
He follows the expectations and loves to laugh with all his friends. Akira has shown curiosity in trying, new foods, which is a really big deal, and playing collaboratively with friends. Akira shows kindness, empathy, and concern to all he encounters at school. He has so shown so much interest in taking part in class activities as well. We love hearing all the new words Akira says and for his love of school. So I'm gonna step in for a few of our friends, and I'm going to, do Hoover first grade Aurora Donnelly.
Aurora is an absolute pleasure to have in class. Her excitement to learn new things is contagious. She's truly a little sponge soaking up every bit of information she can. As we studied and wrote about owls, I was constantly impressed not only Aura's passion and desire to learn more and more, but also the way that her writing skills have developed and improved. She wrote an exemplary book informational book that I will keep as an example in the future. In addition to being the hard worker, she's also extremely kind, courteous, and generous. She gets along well with her classmates and is always the first to offer a
helping hand when one is needed. She is wonderful, well rounded student, and we are so lucky to have her a part of our class. Congratulations, Aurora. I additionally have, the high school, Connor Thomas, twelfth grade student at the high school. I don't see him here tonight. Ms. Brodsky says Connor is a strong silent leader. He strives to do the best in everything that he does with the conscientious decisions. Connor is always willing to do whatever it takes to do the job well and his integrity is strong. He consistently does the right thing even if no one is watching.
I cannot think of a more deserving student. Mr. Rubin added, Connor is kind, thoughtful, and respectful. He's hardworking, organized, and a pleasure to be around. And finally, Ms. Shirley writes, oh Mr. Shirley, sorry, he might not like I said I called him Mrs. Connor is always on time to class and ready to learn. He's a great student and a great person. Absolute pleasure to have in class. Let's give a hand. I'm gonna do Edison, William Callahan. Okay. When thinking of a student who exemplifies what it means to be a student of
the month, someone who works hard and perseveres through challenges comes to mind. William consistently demonstrates these qualities. He works very hard and is always willing to help others when they need support and does a great job advocating for himself by asking for help or requesting what he needs. William has recently transitioned to the middle school starting at level two. He was incredibly excited to begin this new chapter at that level, and he set a personal goal to continue leveling up while in middle school. His determination, positive attitude, and commitment to growth truly make him deserving of the student
of the month. And I believe that is it. Do we have the junior high representative? Are they here? Let's see. Nope. Okay. Moving on. How about the high school representative? Nope. Advantage representative. We're back. It wasn't today. What's here? I think that it says high school representative. Alright. We're on to item up, Webb presentation. Welcome, Webb. Hi, everyone. I am gonna turn this over to Chloe Heron. Chloe is our Promise Navigator and a former Webb Wolf who has come back to
join us as our Promise Navigator for community schools. And she's doing a great job. I don't know how we would be implementing community schools without her. Her enthusiasm and organization has been tremendous and we wanted to kind of highlight some of the things that we're doing at Webb with community schools. So I'm gonna turn it over to Chloe who's a little nervous. Hi, guys. I just I'm here to talk about what we've kind of been up to at Webb with community schools. So kind of just as an overview, we have eight active clubs going on right now, and then we have four active clubs starting soon.
To date, we have 175 kids that actively participate in all of our clubs. Additionally, we are also planning our next event, which is Books and Burgers. That will be on March 25 if anybody wants to come. We're reducing barriers for families and kind of guiding them and supporting them through it. We're supporting growth and learning, making sure families have their basic needs for a healthy and happy life, constantly checking attendance and coming up with ways to support families to get their kids to school, and we're constantly stocking and providing items in our care
closet. And we just want to give students a safe, fun, and supportive environment so all students can thrive. So jumping in our to our science night that we just held, we had Cranbrook set up 14 interactive stations all around our gym. We had about 90 students in attendance, so about 45 families. During this time we also showcased our student projects all around our school, and families were able to eat dinner, look at their child's hard work, and do activities related to what they were learning in class. So first, for our clubs, we have our first club that started at Webb, which
was running club, which was about first and fifth grade. It was run by our amazing PE teacher, Ms. Blumke. She used a kid's marathon software, so it tracked their miles and their times. We had 25 students actively participate in this every week, and she is also doing right now a girls running club and a third grade running club. PlayLabs was also one of the first clubs we started at Webb. We partnered with Michigan Stage, and students were able to create their own play. So there is no scripts allowed for more room for creativity. We had 11 students participate in this and their performance was on 12/19/2025.
Next we have recorder club. So that was ran by Ms. Fox. We have 15 students that actively participate. They performed at our holiday concert and they put together some birthday songs for our Monday morning meetings and some other stuff that's really nice to see all the students hard work. We have life clubs, so that is run by Ms. Tompkins. We have 23 students in the third through fifth grade life club and 11 students in the k through second grade life club. This is where they are able to learn about the Bible freely, do crafts, and sing. It's honestly a really fun time for all the kids to enjoy. Next we have reading clubs.
So this is also run by Ms. Tompkins. We had 10 actually join the first half and then she opened it up again for 20 students in total. They do independent reading in the media center and Ms. Tompkins kind of conferences with students and helps them if they struggle and this this way they're able to gain reading log hours while also getting help if they need it. For our talent show that we do every year, that is run by Ms. Platt and Ms. Wilkins, we had 11 students join and participate and their performance was on February 12, which was really cool.
And they showcased all their talents from singing, dancing, magic, we had it all. So for our culinary club that is run by Miss Sapp and Miss Krill from Chartwells, 14 students actively participate every week and they learn how to cook with hands on experience and learn how to safely use kitchen equipment and properly clean spaces. For our zoo club, we partnered with the Detroit Zoo and it was also kind of paired with, Ms. Belinski and Ms. Tompkins. We had 22 students join and they all really loved it. They learned all about birds and they did crafts.
They were watching videos, reading books, even it was nicer outside at the time. They were going outside flying their little birds. It was pretty cool. Next we have kind of tutoring. So our first session was run by Miss Hazen, our fifth grade teacher, and now we have a new tutoring starting up ran by Ms. Litteridge, which is our CI teacher. We have about five students in each session to kind of target more of the kids, with exactly what they need help with. And it provides more on one more one on one time to promote growth. They really find it helpful. They're really getting used to it and, seems to be working and thriving and having
them thrive in their classroom. Next, we have YMCA Sportport, which is in collaboration with Y on the Fly Metro Detroit. It's every other Thursday and there's about 25 students every Thursday that switches rosters. It keeps the students active while having fun and this runs throughout the whole year and the kids absolutely love it. So just kind of more of how I'm helping families, I was able to give four students from Webb Elementary School, the opportunity to shop with a hero. So we partnered with partnering with, police and fire all around the surrounding cities.
And they went to Meijer and got like a 100 limit and got to spend it on whatever they wanted. I'm also actively stocking our care closet in Webb with hygiene, clothing, and everything that you can think of just so I have hands on stuff to help with families. I also do a lot of food delivery. Some of our families really that struggle or have a food insecurity also don't have transportation, so I willingly go and drop off some food tour to them just to get them by for the week. I'm also able I have a lot of families who also struggle with transportation. So if they're in Hazel Park District, I am able to get them on the
bus. And overall, I'm just really helping families with any barriers that they may face and also just guiding them through it. So next thing our big is big on our list is attendance. We meet with a small team, to brainstorm ways we can support families to get to school. We come up with ideas on how to support all three attendance tiers and we're rewarding perfect attendance for the first half of the school year with a donut breakfast, certificates, and ribbons. I'm also actively supporting for attendance, supporting families through any barriers that could stop them beyond transportation, and showing families that we love having their kids at school and the
importance of school. And that is it. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, everyone. As you can see, Chloe's doing a great job at that. She's a busy girl. Okay. May I ask a question? I mean, say something? This is a wonderful presentation. Thank you so much. Thank you. I was just wondering, if this since it's so wonderful, if this could be placed on their website under the web somewhere where, you know, where it could under a quick link or something. The it's was well done, and I appreciate it.
Thank you. Okay. I have no one for public comment on the active landscape. Anybody? Alright. Moving on to the consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? I move the Board of Education approve the consent agenda as written. Support. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Deaton? Yes. Christie? Yes. Becker? Yes. Boardhouse? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. New business item a. Teacher and two paraprofessionals at Webster Early Childhood Center. I move that the Board of Education approve the hiring of a teacher and two paraprofessionals at Webster Early, Early Childhood Center.
Support. Discussion? Roll call, please. I'm sorry. This is important. 588. Roll. Thank you. Fox? Yes. Speaking? Yes. Yes. Fortress? Yes. Verteig? Yes. Move for our voice? Yes. Policy second reading. Can I get a motion? I move that the Board of Education approve the second reading of the policies provided by Miller Johnson as presented. Support. There's not there in here. Discussion? I'm gonna vote yes for this, but I just wanna note it that I'm I I still think there's work to be done, a policy for the fund balance.
I reviewed, other districts fund balance that Miller Johnson does, and they're very detailed. So I just I'd like to revisit that. But for the sake of moving these forward, I'm gonna vote yes. Are we having this question? I do think that there's more work to be done but I also think policies are kind of a work in progress because they should always be changing. So, roll call, please. Yes. Adi? Yes. Yes. Purchase? Yes. Fox? Yes. The problem is Yes. Item c, salt purchase. I move that the board of education approve the purchase of 50 tons of salt
at a cost not to exceed $17,050 as presented. Support. Discussion? I just I wasn't here at, Committee of the Whole, so I was not part of the discussion. I'm just curious, 50 tons of salt is a lot. Are we storing it here? Are we storing it at the city? No. The this is truly our we offered to go in collaboratively. That was not, agreed to. So this is behind Webb, and it takes about five tons each time we do our whole district. Do we have do we have somewhere to store?
Uh-huh. We do. We have a salt salt shed back there. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. That was fast. Alright. The enhanced millage resolution. Wait. We didn't go over. Oh, sorry. Roll call, please. Starks? Yes. Prissy? Yes. Deacon? Yes. Turner? Yes. Fortress? Yes. Dover Elementary? Yes. Now, Deacon enhancement millage resolution. I move that the Board of Education approve the enhancement millage resolution as presented. Second. Do we need to read it? We do. Do we have it? Yeah. Yes. Buzz along. I can read it. Like, grab a grab a drink with you.
Need us to read it. I can read it. It's just long. The follow oh, the following preamble and resolution were offered by member No. It's fine. And supported by member Fortress. Fortress. Whereas, section seven zero five of the revised school code of 1976 as amended, section seven zero five, provides for the levy of a regional enhancement property tax by an intermediate school district at a rate not to exceed three mills for the purpose of enhancing other state and local funding for local school operating purposes if approved by a
majority of the intermediate school district electors. And whereas proceeds of a millage levy pursuant to section seven zero five are paid to each consis constituent school district, including eligible public school academies, a constituent school district, by the intermediate school district and an amount calculated on a per people basis as provided in section seven zero five. Whereas section seven zero five provides that a constituent school district may request an intermediate school district to submit the question of a regional enhancement property tax to the voters
of a school election held in each constituent school district, which is a school district. Whereas, section seven zero five further provides that the intermediate school district is required to submit the question of a regional regional enhancement property tax to the voters if the intermediate school district receives a request to submit the question to the voters from its constituent school districts representing a majority of the combined membership of the constituent school districts as of the most recent membership count date. Whereas the intermediate school districts in both Wayne and Macomb County are currently authorized to
levy a regional enhancement millage approved by the voters, which provides greater student opportunities that may include, but are not limited to, reduced class size, enhanced program offerings, improved school safety, and increased staff retention and attraction, benefits that Oakland County currently does not receive. And whereas Oakland County residents deserve the opportunity to provide competitive educational opportunities and similar resources to those available in the neighboring counties of Wayne and Macomb, and voters should have the ability to determine whether to support these efforts for the benefit of their
students. And whereas, the Board of Education has determined that it is in the best interest of the school district to allow voters an opportunity to consider a ballot proposal that enhances educational opportunities by requesting the Oakland Schools Intermediate School District, Oakland Schools, to submit a regional enhancement millage proposal to the electors at the school election on 08/04/2026 in accordance with section seven zero five. Now, therefore, be it resolved that, one, the school district hereby request that Oakland Schools
submit to its electors the question of a regional enhancement millage proposal per for 1.5 mills for a period of six years, 2026 to 2031 inclusive, at the school election to be held on 08/04/2026, pursuant to a ballot proposal substantially in the form attached here too as exhibit a. Two. The school district hereby approves the ballot warning of the Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal substantially in the form attached hereto at exhibit a, providing that such ballot wording is subject
to revision and finalization by open schools may be necessary. Three, the superintendent is hereby authorized and directed to deliver a copy of this resolution to the secretary of the Board of Education of Oakland Schools. Four, the resolution is only a request to Oakland Schools, and the Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal will only be submitted to the voters if Oakland Schools receives a request to submit the question to the voters from its constituent school districts representing a majority of the combined membership of its constituent school districts on or before 03/31/2026.
Five, all resolutions and parts of resolutions, insofar as they conflict with the provisions of this resolution, be and the same hereby are rescinded. Any discussion? I just wanna point out that this is just to go on the ballot. We're making a resolution to say that we would see it on the ballot and people still get to vote for it. Roll call? Rudy? Yes. Wardress? Yes. Deaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. No problem. Yes. Motion carries six to zero, which they all did. I didn't forgot to say that all the time.
Item e, secondary grading and report card task force. I move that the Board of Education approve the $19,440 for staff compensation to support the work of the secretary grading and report card task force. Support. Discussion. I was a little bit confused when I read this over because I don't understand why we're paying, I understand why we're paying teachers additional, but I was concerned, why we're paying counseling staff, administration, and curriculum instructors because to me, this is part of
should be rolled up into their job and we're paying based on the amount that was given in the summary, $67.50 per hour with benefits to these employees. So I was I'm I'm gonna let doctor Dalmadge ask answer that. It's Okay. So I'm sorry it was confusing about degree interest. No. Our administrators wouldn't be getting that amount. Okay. It's really focused on our teachers and counselors are part of the HPA contract. And for any work they do outside of the school day, they are, required to
pay for that. So, given the fact that having this work done during the school day is quite challenging because our guest teacher, situation, it's, it's challenging to do that because we want those qualified professionals in front of students during the day that we try to do this outside of the school day and during the summer. Any other discussion? Roll call, please? Yes. Ortiz? Yes. Beaton? Yes. Benner? Yes. Or Yes. Move our voice. No. I prefer this get pushed off a little while, but the motion carries back to
zero or back to one. Sorry. We have the audit services item f. I move that the Board of Education approve the payment of the UHY audit fees in the amount not to exceed $124,537.50 for the 2425 audit as presented. I second the motion. Discussion? Yes. Unfortunately, Monica's not able to be here this evening as she had a medical procedure that needed to be taken care of. So this bill was sent to me. This bill is because things weren't done in a timely manner and, they had to
go back and redo and redo, adjusting the accounting, items, which we discussed about along the way, which is why an additional person was requested before. Unfortunately, also, Monica did not get the information that she needed until the June time frame. I wasn't quite aware that it was gonna be this much. They did write off another 30,000, but this is something to consider as we are looking at a auditor and and the cost. I was asked what the cost was last year, and what was given to me
is, $1.21 4 oh, wait a minute. That's not right. Last year being 2324. 2324. We have to hold on on this. This is so 2324. What were you getting ready to say? It was the wrong thing. Oh, I don't have that. Okay. And then plant Moran, we have 73,000 for the year 2223. Was it 01/21 for 2324? That's what I thought it was, but I know it's for two years with Plant Moran. Two years with Plant Moran. The way I ran it.
Plant Moran wasn't here. Why did our audit last year? Right. Last year, I don't have the total amount in front of me. I thought I did. We went over this because it is confusing, right, when you're running these time frames. So, I thought it was about the same amount, but I'll have to get back to you. I thought I had that I do not. Okay. When you say last year, you mean two years ago. Yeah. It's We're approving last year's. We're approving last year's, and then the other one was the year before. Yes. Okay. So we're approving '24, '25. Yes. Any other discussion? Some of these invoices are quite old going back to September.
I'm just kind of curious on the delay in getting them paid and processed. They weren't set. I'd have to go back to look to see. I received this just a couple weeks ago with this total item here. They weren't sent to me. I'd have to look to see if they were sent in the other places. And so Amber reached out to me to make sure that they were paid, and thus, I then had a a follow-up conversation with her about the cost, and she explained that why. And, yeah. So I just received this overall bill and, that it was not paid in time.
I know last year, we had a lot of conversation about the cost of the audit. And this is well over double if you consider the fact that they wrote off $30,000? Yes. We were we were advised that this was not gonna happen. And I I just there's concern there on why it's happening still. Well, I can give you several reasons. First of all, I was not here when that went through, but I did go back and review the contract. The contract said additional hours will be at an additional cost. So the contract that this board approved and that was in the packet simply stated
that. I wasn't here during that time. But, unfortunately, preparation for an audit has to begin well before June to have things finished, and that's why we also asked for that position several times because we needed somebody to reconcile. That's something that came up in the Oakland schools. It also came up in the Don Sobey, and we now have additional person purpose person. These are things, I think, that you wanna look into the contract that you signed, when we make a recommendation for an auditor about how that's done, they, at no
point in time, said, hey. This is gonna be double the amount. They called to say in order to get this done on time because those items weren't reconciled, that we were gonna spend additional money. But that happened several times where the books had to go be back and get corrected. So, while I think it's very unfortunate and and you're absolutely correct, it's much more money, we've got to have the right staff in place in order to do that, and Monica really needed the books in in January to get things going in the right direction. So are you telling me that the bookkeeper has been hired?
Yes. I think you weren't here for that. The bookkeeper has been hired. And he's been here three weeks? Yes. Yes. Oh, I didn't see him on the hire list. That was on the last name. I I see. I think he's It was last one. Last one in June? Okay. In January. January. Yeah. June, January. It's the same thing. Don't don't be the middle of it yet. I I know. I'm just Yeah. So he's come in and, I think we we talked about it. He, is doing a great job. Really getting acclimated, has some good experience, and, is very incredibly positive. He brought donuts his first week afterwards.
Thank you to us for making it through the week. Any other discussion? Thank you. Roll call, please. Rajiv? Yes. Fox? Yes. Eaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Yes. Softball overnight action item g. I move that the Board of Education approve the overnight softball trip at a cost not to exceed $5,022 as presented. I second the motion. Discussion? Yeah. I apologize that this wasn't to you, to the Committee of the Whole. We got this afterwards. But given the time frame, it's important we approve this now, and so we bring this, before you, for the dance team overnight.
This is softball. For the softball overnight. Discussion. Sorry. I would like them to, fundraise at least $2,000 towards this. We ask that the drama fundraise towards their event, so I would like to do the same for the softball team. So it was a $100 per student, for the drama. Could we consider a change of that so that it's equal and the same, a $100 per student?
Well, this is a 130. If you divide if you take out the, chaperones and just factor in the students, it's about $2,000. It's about a $133. I don't see that would be a difficult fundraiser for them to do. I have to say that this is a little amount compared to some other things. Like, we paid thousands for football jerseys and things like that when we have so many of them. And this is, like, an amazing experience to go to a college. Yeah. But we I'm not saying that we shouldn't have them fundraise if they can, but
I don't think putting that dollar amount. Like, I think we should ask them to try and fundraise just like we did for football. We asked them to try and fundraise to help lower the cost. We didn't give football an amount. I agree going forward, maybe we can write into the proposal that, the expectation is to hopefully do some fundraising with the thought that we will cover the rest of the cost. But, yeah, I'm I'm I don't know about setting a hard number on that, what
they need to fundraise, but I'm not opposed to promoting fundraising. So did because I don't remember that wrong, but did you set a hard number for for drama, or did we just say We did. It was a $100 per student, of which they raised, and I transferred I sent a letter and we transferred out of their activities account into the general fund. Mhmm. So are we asking or when you started to talk, were you asking that we request a $100 a student? My suggestion was a $100 per student to be equitable to what we did with
drama on their trip. I just feel I'm just I know this might sound mean, but, like, I just feel like the drama club is different than our sporting. It's not. It's still an extra activity, extracurricular activity. I don't think a $100 is unreasonable. So does that mean we'd have to change the motion. Correct? I'm not changing my motion. I I I think it would be great if they could fundraise. I'm not willing to make it mandatory. I mean, we have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on things that don't touch students at all to tell kids that we're not gonna pay $5,000 for them to go on a school trip. I I think it would be great if they could fundraise.
I would love for this amount to be less than 5,000, but my motion is not to exceed. If it's lower, that's great. If it's not, that's fine too. I'm not amending my motion. And and my question is, when are they going to fundraise? Can't do candy bars because that's against the rules in the schools. You're not doing fruitcakes. Oranges aren't there anymore like the band used to sell or the nuts. That's all still there, Darren. There's a lot of fundraisers. You can do restaurant fundraiser. You can do a bottle drive. My son, when he went, they did a bottle drive to for his trip overseas
during COVID, and three kids participated. They got over $4,000. Well, that's why I'm asking for that. It's easy. It's just making them put a little effort into I I just control the fundraising. It's making them accountable. That's why I just that's why I just asked. You know? Yeah. There's a lot of fundraisers out there that they can do. Okay. So the motion on the floor is as is, and it's supported. So we're gonna vote on that motion since she's not changing it. So can I get a roll call? Any other discussion? I don't mean a cutting block. No?
Alright. Roll call, please. Yes. Fox? Yes. Governor? Yes. George Fox? No. Eugene? Yes. Yes. Although I'd love for them to fundraise and make it less. Motion carries five to one. Twenty twenty six national dance competition, item h. I move that the board of education approve the dance team overnight and travel to the national competition in Cincinnati, Ohio as presented. Second. The motion. Alright. You can have it there. That's it? Alright. Just write it down correctly. I have four discussion. Just to there is no cost associated with this. We're just providing the permission.
But why not? It's our kids. We have dancers. Why are we not giving them money to Because the parents are for all your That's part of the, program that that they have figured in the cost. Well, it's not part of the program to send 15 students to a camp for for, baseball. I mean, there's already a room. We wanna give them money. Let's give them money. Madam president, I think there's a motion on it. Yep. I was just any more discussion? Mhmm. Did you say, uh-huh. I know. No. Okay. Roll call, please. Yes.
Fox? Yes. Yes. Rogers? Yes. Pradeep? Yes. With Robert? Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Item, I, the football helmet purchase. I move the Board of Education approve the purchase of, football helmets not to exceed $10,691 as presented. Support. Discussion? So it's important to get this in front of you ASAP because there is a discount, till the end of the month on these helmets we wanted to get to you. I while I would like you to approve this, we also found out today that
they actually may owe us a a refund, and this may cost us nothing. But, need to double check some paperwork on it first. Nothing is good. Nothing is always good for me. Now this is just replacing helmets that we have to. Correct? Yes. Any other discussion? Alright. Roll call, please. Yes. Regine? Yes. Eaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. O'Brien Woods? Yes. Item j, twenty twenty six MSPRA annual conference. I move the Board of Education approve the attendance of the two thousand twenty six
MSPRA Annual Conference March at the DoubleTree Hilton at Bay City, Riverfront, not to exceed $795. I second the motion. Who's going? This is for, Chuck, for the communication, conference. Okay. Any other discussion? Mhmm. Roll call, please. Yes. Garst? Yes. Eaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Thirteen? Yes. O'Brien West? Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Item K, CTE training overnight action item.
I know that the Board of Education approve the estimated budget of $2,555 for one staff member to attend the two thousand twenty six ITW Welding Instruction Conference. Support. Discussion. This is I I think I outlined this, in much detail in the memo, but this is something that our CTE instructors are required to do on an annual basis, and all of this is funded through the CTE grants. They are required to do this type of training to keep your certification.
Yeah. Alright. Anything else? Roll call, please? Fortress? Yes. Eden? Yes. Turner? Yes. Fox? Yes. Britney? Yes. Yes. Item l, MSBO conference. Can I get a motion for the MSBO conference? I move that the Board of Education approve the attendance of the conference for Bradley Wilkins, Monica Papazian, Crystal Mer Discussion?
Oh, did we second? I'm sorry. I missed it. I think Monica said it. Okay. So, this is the conference where they continue to work on their certifications in that area. I just got a little whisper from the side that Julie Drew will be going as well. She got a scholarship to attend. So I guess again, Heidi, free is good for me. Yes. And, and so we're excited to continue to grow our staff and make sure that they're up to date with all the current, information and current certifications through MSBO. I have a question. Could I receive a, report back from Bradley Wilkins regarding, where he went and what
he did? Sure. Of course of course. I'm just joking. He's super oh, I was gonna say he's super excited in order to do that. First, I'm just joking. I have a quick question. Since now more people are going, is the hotel gonna oh, it's just so is the overall cost gonna increase? Well, there's the separate rooms. Julie will be rooming with me, and she'll be on. So no. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that that we keep our motion or change it accordingly. Because our motion originally was for three admin at the same cost. One, two, three, four.
I know, but our original motion says three admin, two attend. And then we got a a thing to add? Add one, but the price didn't change so we could just for is that what you're trying to clarify, Debbie? Yes. That the cost is gonna be $36.60. That's $48.80. $48.80. $48.80. Yep. Okay. So I have the old one. Okay. So the motion is for $48.80? Yep. Any other discussion? Yeah. It's a great conference. I've been there myself, and it's very helpful. Cool. Perfect. Anybody else? Alright. Phone call, please? Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Parker? Yes. Order? Yes. The roadways. I'm always out in for training, so yes. So, motion carries six to zero. Closed session for eight c. Can I get a motion? I move that the Board of Education recess in the closed session eight c for strategy and negotiation sessions connected with the negotiation or collective bargaining agreement. If either negotiating party requests a closed hearing. And who is supporting it? I support. Thank you. Any discussion? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Rodriguez? Yes. Rodriguez? Yes. Move to go to closed session. I make a motion that we go into closed session. Just a board. Wait. You're out. I was gonna say all the excess on the paper again. You know, you had me confused there. I'm so cold then. It should not be that long. You're confused. I don't belong. Motion. Motion. Return from full second. Second. Roll call. Yes. Ortiz? Yes. Eaton? Yes. Prefer? Yes. Ortiz? Yes. Montgomery? Yes. Okay. Request for future agenda items. We have a report Actually, a superintendent's report. That's down here.
I'm sorry. The paper you gave me, it was down here. But, okay, we're gonna do a superintendent report. That alright? Okay. So I did give you some enrollment pictures again. I know you liked it before to kinda show you the ins and outs that are happening within the district. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out, and I also will continue to encourage you, to come and set up a time to meet with me personally with any questions you have about what we're doing, how we're going about it, contracts, anything along those lines. I'm happy to do it. I already have one member that is meeting with me shortly on that. The fundraisers are in there.
We also wanna acknowledge our MASB twenty twenty five individual board award recipients. Bev Hinton has a level five master diamond award. Bev Hinton has a level four master board member award. Heidi has the data skills specialty award, and Monica Reti has the data skills specialty award. So congratulations to our board members who continue to take classes and, grow and and learn and and challenge all of us. So thank you. Our ADK, grant winner for January provides, ADK provides a $50 monthly awards to support
innovation in classroom projects and enhance student learning. Sue Watts was the winner this month, and so congratulations to her for her dedication for creating and engaging supportive learning environments for Hazel Park Schools. I'm gonna go down a list of things that we have going on and another list of some items, and if I miss some, then, I think my partner on the right is gonna jump in to grab them because we've got a lot of great things going on with our community schools and and in Hazel Park schools. First of all, there was an ask about, the pay for Don Sobeys that, will
go in next week when we pay bills. We pay every other week, and last week, we had several people out of the office on a midwinter break. Our yonder pouch parent meeting is tomorrow night at 06:00. As of next week, junior high and high school will be using the yonder pouches, so we have a parent meeting tomorrow night. And, of course, we're ready to answer any questions you have. Doctor Kaminsky and mister Dimas has worked been working collaboratively to set up a a system to put in place. I talked with him today and, they're really taking charge and doctor Domic has been
working with them as well to guide through and make sure those items get where they need to be and and we move. There will be hiccups. There will be some difficulties, but they'll get through it. There will be kids that will bring a second phone, and we will find it when we want them. And, there'll be some things to go along the way. But for the most part, I think what you're gonna find is what we found at Advantage. And in these stories that we're hearing across the country where removal of technology is really helping as a matter of fact, there was an article this week about a school district up north that's removing all technology and going back to paper and pencil
and not having, technology and Chromebooks back in the in the classroom. So we'll see where that research kinda goes. We, in education, we swing to one way and then we always swing back another and somewhat times land in the middle. The semi truck is at the junior high, the STEM truck. You've probably seen that when you went by. We're really excited, to have that out there. Thank you, doctor Dolmage, for getting that through the teaching and learning again for us. It's always exciting to see the eyes of our kids when they go in that. It is a multimillion dollar, semi that Oakland Schools has put together to help kids
imagine and dream about what what it can be in the future and what it is. So it's pretty wonderful as well. Community school night at Longfellow this week, Thursday from six to seven. We have an African American reader that'll be super excited. So everybody's welcome to come and join and be a part of that and and come visit Longfellow. So that's our community school one. We also have the Promise Zone annual auction, Race to College, at 05:30 on March 3. I hope you've bought your tickets and ready to join us, if not a basket. But we're really looking forward to continuing to raise dollars to do the great things
that we're doing for kids. And, it's about time for Fernando to come back and share some of the great things that are happening as well. I'm hearing a lot about students getting accepted into college and where they're going and what they're doing and love for some of them to come and share that with all of you. Beetlejuice is already sold out for Friday night and, Saturday night, on the sixth and the seventh. So the only date we just opened up, March 5. So if you haven't bought your tickets, you better buy it for Thursday because the other ones are gone. I know I bought, I was able to buy Friday night, this morning, and then
I saw later on that they're sold out. So there was very few left. So jump on those now if you wanna go see Beetlejuice. It's got a lot of kids involved, and, I'm always thrilled to see the exciting new things that they continue to do. Wanna remind the community and all of you as well that the strategic planning survey is out. I'm hoping Chuck will be able to get out another, thing on, websites and out, on our social media. So, like, a QR code that everybody can go in to try to if you haven't done it. We're kinda stuck at 99 individuals that responded.
So if you haven't done it, please do it. If you need information, send me an email. We'll get you on that link. We also have April 25, the strategic, planning day, where we'll be developing the three girl three goals, not three girls, and the mission and the vision and see if there's any changes. If you're interested in participating, please let me know. We're at about 25, and I haven't added my administrative staff yet. And so we're about at the number, of of what he's looking for. But if we've got some other people, we do have some community members, and we have teachers, and we have some administrators that are there to join us as well.
So that's some really great stuff going on. This Saturday, our senior class has vendor and rummage sales. It's by our twenty twenty six group at Webb. So if you are looking for some things or looking for some arts and crafts, I think they are filled up as well. This is kind of their final push to help balance, some costs for our seniors, for the all night party, for the senior breakfast, and and also for the only thing is I would like to make sure that, folks know that we are open
Monday from at at Longfellow, open from eight to two for walkers, so the miles without mittens. If it's it's starting to get cold again, and we've had a couple walkers come through. It'd be nice to get a walking club going over there. Monday, it's eight to two. Wednesday and Friday, it's eight to four. We also have cards, senior cards, but you don't have to be a senior. If you're home and looking for something to do, that's on Tuesday from noon to three. We had a rousing game of King's Corner.
We learned a game named seven or called seven, and played. It was big fun. And so, come on over tomorrow at noon to to three. And, if you're looking for something to do, our welcome area is also open. If you, wanna bring, some some knitting over or read a book or do a book club with a friend, come on over to the welcome area. And, that's all at Longfellow. We'll be bringing, to you next month some recommendations for room rentals.
You have people that are wanting to rent to the gym and some of those other community spaces. We also will be bringing you some conversation about an, philanthropic, medical organization that treats families or treats adults without insurance that is interested in leasing space there and redeveloping that space for, for a clinic in there as well. So some pretty exciting stuff happening. I have a question. Somebody asked me about the walking club. Where do they walk? Do they walk around the gym?
Do they walk the halls? Do they walk in the rooms? I'm like, I don't know. Actually, they've been just walking the halls. You know, the hallway is very long, so you get a nice brisk pace and they've been walking the halls. I did have, a couple parents bring kids over Oh, nice. During the break and they they, you know, kinda walk the gym and played around. So Oh, nice. But mostly they walk the halls back and it's unfortunately, it's not a circle. It's it's an l, but you can get a pretty good pace going, if you're
walking. They're very long hallways. So good question. Thank you. Hours of the welcome area? Same as the we're open, on Monday, eight to two, only because I have a meeting here and I can't be there to open the door. Eight to four on Wednesday and Friday. Monday, and then I am there on card day. So Tuesday from noon to three. I might wanna bring my groceries. Please. That's awesome. That'd be great. Grab a friend. And we know over time as we develop this and have rentals that we will
have more that we do. So that's it from us. Alright. I'd like to make a motion to expedite payment to UHY and to school Unisimable advisory services to have them paid by the end of this week. We have contracts with both of them and UHY is majority is over sixty days old. So I would like to see those expedited.
Can you support the motion? I'll support. I just want you to know that, then that pulls our staff off of the other things that they're having to do on those opposite weeks when you're asking to run special runs, and this is the kind of stuff that distracts them from what they're doing. They received John Sobeys just, I believe, at the beginning of last week, and I had been asking for it monthly to give us a monthly one like the board of education had directed me. So it's it's not been delayed. It's in the normal run. So and, why, they know that it's coming as well next week. Any other discussion?
Okay. Roll call. Wordpress? Yes. The problem is? Yes. Deaton? UHY is a billion dollar corporation that I'm not necessarily inclined to take our singular staff off of their regular work for. No. Becker? Yeah. I don't think that it's our role to nitpick every payment. I'm confident that our, staff will get it taken care of. I'm also in the Facts? No. No. Alright. Motion fails.
Two to four. Four to two. Alright. Where am I at now? Request for future agenda items. Kinda just for a moment. We do have a, a workshop next week. We don't really have a topic unless the board has a topic. That would free you up to only have two meetings instead of three this month. Oh, no. That would be great for me. Especially with next week. I'll miss you. But that I leave that to the board. Okay. So is that have to make a motion? Because it's on our calendar of events. Probably. Should I make a motion to cancel next Monday's workshop?
Support. If we don't have a topic, there's no need to come in. There's a motion and a support. I know. Right? I'm sorry. It's okay. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Fox? Yes. Leaking? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fortress? Yes. Ritchie? Yes. No problem. Yes. Motion carries six to nothing. Calendar dates? I think we gave you those. Alright. I have nothing in public comment. So we're good. Okay. And now we did the superintendent report. Any board or member or administrative comments?
Nope. I know, doctor Wilcox said a lot of things I probably was going to say about the premise and some things coming up. But I do wanna remind everyone the premise and dinner is next Tuesday at 05:30 at the gazebo. We do still have some tickets available. If you're interested, ours some of our drama students are gonna be emceeing, which I think is super awesome because they have their play also next week. So they're taking time out. They've been meeting with Fernando and I. We give them, like, some fun facts and some little things to play off on. So I am super excited to see how that turns out. Let's see.
Oh, I did wanna say, so today, there was a beautiful service for one of our, principal's husbands, and I just want us all to keep her and her family in our thoughts and prayers. And then, last Thursday, I emailed president Hinton about the closed session that got pulled today because I kinda feel like some of us are blindsided, and I still have had zero response from her. So I'm just struggling with whether hidden agendas or things being not to the whole
board, and I would really like that to be more known out there. We can't be together at seven if no one's gonna be honest with each other. And dance comp is March 7. It states and it's their last home competition and it is all day long. So if anyone can make it, that would be amazing. Alright. What day did you say? Sorry. March 7. Okay. That's why the play is at Virginia High, I believe. Mhmm. I have some confidence. And that's it. As always, I love seeing the students of the month here. They're they're great. You can tell some of them are more comfortable than others, but it's great to
see them recognized and, you know, we're proud of them. I'll echo the strategic plan survey. Please do that. Everybody, staff, community, students, everybody, do it. Be honest, please. This is important work that we're doing trying to move forward. The web presentation was great. That was it's great to see all the great, you know, activities and extracurriculars that, are being provided to our students. That's all I have. Can I say one more thing real quick? I'm sorry. He talked about the strategic plan. So, like, a week, week and a half ago, Nate and I were the only
ones that showed up for the community day, and we do want to hear what the community has to say. So whether you don't wanna come in or not, please fill out that survey. We were the only ones here for the community night, And it's very important, like, our voices aren't the only ones and we want to hear from you. Alright. Hi. Do you hear everything? I wasn't here last meeting. So I'd like to thank the staff for, board appreciation gifts. Those were very nice and very unexpected. So I appreciate you guys and, see you in a couple weeks. Darren, do you have anything?
I would just like to thank, the Promise Zone, the school board, doctor Wilcox, and Monica for doing the student of the month program. I think it's a it's a well deserved program for the students. It just takes me back every time I see it back in the old Hazel Hero time when we used to do that in the in the studio. And also thank you for everyone for participating tonight. I appreciate it. And I know most of you are at home, but still nice that you're there and the few people that are here. Thank you. I would just say because now we know that we're not coming back until the
ninth. It is February, but it's the February. March is reading month. Check with your school. Check with your library. Everybody has some really great presentations that are going on, really good opportunities for, free books to learn more about, things that are happening, read alongs. I'm sure it'll be in all of our newsletters, but we are nothing without literacy and comprehension, so take advantage of those really cool things that are going to be coming up. Read thirty minutes every day. Okay. And I'm just gonna talk about I went to Washington, DC a couple weeks ago,
and, I learned a lot. There's some stuff coming down the pipe that may or may not pass for law. One of the things that I was IDEA funding, which is a fifty year old law that they said they're going to fund 40%, and they fund, like, 15. 13. 13? Okay. It changes. It's worse. Yes. And so, the push was always for that, although I never think we're ever going to get that. There's a new law about that the schools have to provide home cooked meals and,
changes to the you can serve whole milk, however, the calories in whole milk will make the meal far exceed the calorie limit that you're allowed to have. I didn't know there were so many regulations. And many schools are not equipped with kitchens to make those meals, so we're asking, we asked for additional funding of a dollar per meal and longer time, because if some schools have to build kitchens, they can't do it by September. Well, there was like five or six things that we discussed with our representatives and
our senators, and it was very educational for me. I had a wonderful, experience, and I would do it again next year. And I have been sending stuff to the board because I don't always have a good memory. Anybody else? Motion to adjourn. Support. Support.