you you hello welcome come on in there's still some seats in the front row I promise we don't fight I would like to call the regular meeting of Hazel Park Board of Education to order today March nineteenth two thousand eighteen roll
call please here all right I would like you to stand as castor Barry David of Landmark Community Church will deliver our invocation immediately following
with the Pledge of Allegiance father we thank you for the spring season that's coming up thank you for the blessing poured out upon us this day we're grateful for all the favors you shower
upon us we thank you for our superintendent together with our staff that run the daily district operations and for our elected Board of Education members who shouldered the ultimate responsibility for the district resource
we ask their blessings upon them we're grateful for our indispensable heroes of the homeroom our teachers who work tirelessly to deliver quality education to our students
tonight we asked four-year direction in every discussion and wisdom for every decision and we will thank you in Jesus all right can I get a motion to approve agenda I move the Board of Education
accept the agenda as written I support it any discussion on the agenda all right roll call yep no yes yes Hammond yes yes
yes all right that moves on to public comment so before we move on a special order of business we want to remind the audience but if you'd like to speak to please fill out a slip of paper there on the counter back there and turn it in so that we have your information I do have some already so we'll go ahead and get
started as a reminder we are committed to listening to all of you as you get up and speak if you can please try and keep it to three minutes or less we have several people that want to speak tonight we want to make sure we have enough time to get through everyone as we have a full agenda so when you come to the podium please give me your name
and your address as you begin to speak first one I have here is teen Imani [Music] that's donated by the hundred company dresses and I was hoping that we would be able to that we have some space maybe
at my school so we could have some she will donate some money too though I mean so many people to the dresses already reached out on Facebook see if I can have some girls or some ladies that are willing to do some alterations for free
or a small cost and they're already on each other like people for shoes prom dresses that are used that they could donate um soon as girls to come in maybe once or twice before prime check out the dresses and they want to buy over twenty dollars will donate some
back to the school but I thought that's something that that school so well thank you for bringing that to
us that sounds fantastic I will defer to dr. Kirby can you do some follow-up to make sure we can yep and I would I would just have you contact mr. Daly directly who I believe is here and I haven't worked in a mechanic Crouch can help set that up and
organise that for you which is really exciting the next person I have here is Shawn Thompson I'm sure what kind of benches are you
may come father cement benches we have cast molds that are plastic molds that we put cement in and there's two by four seven of them going on the top and there's one for support so you want your
spot right the first time thank you that sounds wonderful we should be deferred Minister Richardson and missus Grassley so this is Grassley's the principal and mr. Richardson is right back there as well and some mrs. Grassley can say where she might like the modern
playground and mr. Richardson can kind of say where he think that might work as well so they'd be two great people thank you so much what a fabulous fabulous all right the next flip I have is for
Conor Johnson add on to the safety one of which is mainly the door switch one of the things was to keep them open
slightly open which I still have many questions about that along with having the teachers have to take off stuff on the windows I'd like some question those questions to be answered and why that is alright so I know I'm aware that there were some recent policy changes
communicated I'm not allowed an answer but let me ask dr. creepy would you like to follow up with this young man or help or would you like to address sure have you happy to have you come and sit down and we can read some of the research and some of the stuff around safety about why we do that for fire code and for some of the
research about that about best practices all right thank you to invite him to the superintendent in on Wednesday yeah we could do that as well specifically addressing to safety in the new policy yep there's a superintendent
superintendent chat this Wednesday at what time 6:00 to 7:30 fix this and the regional media center but I'd also be happy to sit down with you there's some book reading there's also some things from the nature National Safety Council on that and also some fire safety codes
about things over windows I wanted to reiterate the superintendent yet for everyone in the audience just so you know that that safety topic was going to be covered we've had a lot of discussion on that recently yeah because it has grown a is a concern to the students of high school absolutely absolutely thank you for bringing your concerns
all right next one I have is Jackie shirt I said that right okay um recently it cannot get those school shootings and teen suicide and all that out of my thinking so I went up
to talk to the vice principal of the high school mr. Brown any trouble part of the problem is we can't enforce you know they're teasing her friends so they're gonna call their friend ugly or nerd endure it's between friends so how
do you punish that I don't see why it's difficult to give a child to detention for custom in school or for using putting people down it doesn't seem like
that would be a complicated thing so couldn't we just change that in the school rules could it be if you're a common tone a bad name or using foul language at school you get a detention after Sarita tensions you get suspended
if you have to be but there's lives on the line we cannot wait for it to be I can't wait for it to be my kids I don't want it to be any of your kids so I
guess I just like an answer that question so if I'm understanding you correctly your concern is that the your how the handling of the discipline for bullying or for cussing in the school is that they talking about I mean teachers and principals and
janitors should be eager to turn that in considering it'll teach a fourteen-year-old to behave themselves before they're ever arrested for assault before they were learned what recidivists of midst well thank you for
bringing your concerns no I'd like an answer to the question dr. creepy how would you like to dress her well I would ask you to meet with mr. Daley about the discipline call me back I think so mr. Daley's right here in the audience and I I would ask you to join him and set up a
time to sit down and meet with him about the discipline in high school so he can address any specific things that have happened and if that isn't satisfying to you that you call my office and meet with me could you do that I don't see where the discussion needs to be but yes
I will hello Rick Negi 1-1 90s to Annabelle Avenue I just have a couple concerns I want to bring to the board first one is the district calendar that we have we're still having a conflict
with that I know at the beginning of the year we had a conflict at the junior high with the dance they had like two other things going on at the same time which was a big conflict for us in the building this last time web day I know they changed something at web so it
didn't conflict' with the drama but we just had our glow dance and it's at six o'clock and all of a sudden they had a free swim at the high school which was a big conflict because when you're paying for the glow dance and you can go to swimming for free you're definitely
going to lose some of your students so I think that needs to be addressed to make sure that there's no conflict with anything in the district for the schools and the last thing I have the conference's elementary junior high are still at the same time and there's
parents that have students at both schools and they're complaining about that that's a big issue so just upstate take a look at both of those issues all right thank you thank you I know that the those a good timing
to bring it up as we're getting ready to look at the school calendar for next year I know that I've noticed the conference is on the same - do you have any you know just that I know that that is a piece that we're addressing as conferences on the same day you know be
addressed on yeah the district calendar we want to be the primary source so we always know what's going on for sure and that is a work in progress thank you um did we receive anything
else any other people wanting to make it public comments I don't lecture the check real quick are we good okay all right let's move forward to our special order of business we have our Teacher of the Year awards dr. poopy
so I'm really excited that we have Teacher of the Year presentations this evening that's always one of the beautiful things that we get to do here and one of the nice celebrations is to celebrate our teachers so we have names that were nominated by the peers and
present peers and parents in the community for the Oakland County outstanding Teacher of the Year they were submitted to Oakland schools for consideration and all of their guests will be invited to a special program in April 30th 2018 so I'm going to read
briefly to you a summary of each nominees nomination so first Tanya Wilson at the elementary school at Edison max [Applause]
you get to come to me first then you'll get to go to the board so you have to wait up here with me so tanya is a teacher at Edison max where she teaches all k5 subjects she majored in special education emotionally impaired at Eastern Michigan University where she received her Bachelors of Science in
1998 she continued her to education receiving her master's of Arts degree in 2007 from Walden University and she's taught at Edison max since 2001 and we all know being a teacher at Edison Max is truly a gift so we really thank you for that she builds relationships with
each of her students so that if she is available to engage with them in instruction her students see her as a role model in someone that gives them behavioral and emotional support her classroom is a special education classroom of 10 students grades K through 5 each student is at a different instructional level so
each student's instruction must be differentiated tanya does this by using grouping of students and pair of professionals to ensure that each student is instructed at their grade level curriculum tanya has been a mentor to several teachers and is currently mentoring two teachers this year she's had several student teachers she's
building it she's a building leader sharing information offering support and volunteering to present professional development to her peers her Carlat her colleagues right tanya is an amazing person with an uncanny ability to take her students perspective and use that
information to make them successful especially with autistic students she has a gift in her ability to communicate with autistic students getting them to follow directions or change behavior she speaks to them in a magical way that helps them understand a parent wrote
when Tanya walked in the room for the first meeting I immediately felt calm and relaxed her energy and perspective was incredibly comfortable comforting her reassurance that my child would be okay was so needed and her continued communication this progress was so helpful she lives and breathes the
definition of what a special education teacher needs teacher should be and she truly does that I don't think there's ever a time that I do not see you smiling and full of so thank you for all you do and congratulations on your nomination [Applause] [Applause]
our next person is Barbara Wilson at the high school alternative school it's just so very modest but we're gonna have to make her stand up here she's not one
that likes a lot of attention so barb is a teacher at the high school of Hazel Park advantage teaching grade six through 12 science classes she received her bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University she has taught in the alternative program which was known as
The Breakfast Club her entire Hazel Park career beginning in 1990 to the present Barb consistently designs lessons to intellectually engage all students in the learning process depending on what time of the year it is in which course she is teaching students take the lead
role from hatching and raising chickens growing tomatoes in the classroom handling all aspects of dissecting lessons which I am NOT going to go to know and taking care of the school garden which if you've been out there is absolutely amazing Barb's ability to understand each
student's needs is what makes her teaching unique she is able to adjust her instruction so that all students are reached and can understand the material being taught a colleague writes I've had the honor and privilege of working with barb for the past year and a half in
that time I've gotten to know her and immediately recognize the love devotion and dedication that she exhibits to her students and team on a daily basis barb has dedicated her entire career to teaching the students of Hazel Park alternative school she has weathered staff changes building
changes curriculum changes new protocol new initiatives recessions cutbacks and the changings changes that evolve within a school district over the span of almost 30 years when asked why have you never left her response is I like it
here I like the kids I don't want to leave them I think about them I worry about them a parent writes mrs. Wilson is the kind of teacher I wish that everyone could have she is more than just a teacher and goes above and beyond her students by making a personal connection with
I can remember thinking that the alternative school ain't meant giving up hope and the teachers didn't care as the kids that attended these types of schools are troubled but barb was the first person to contact me introducing herself as a science teacher and assuring me that she would be there every step of the way I can't say enough
or even begin to show my gratitude for her crossing our path and being a part of my 4 children's lives and if you know anything about barb you will know the amazing work that she has done for the students of the alternative school thank you for all you do [Applause] [Applause]
Jamie are you accepting for Anita okay that would be great our next person is Anita Dux who unfortunately cannot be with us this evening and I know we all have anita in our thoughts and so I'm going to ask that Tammy receive this for Nina and
that we clap for her the same way as we were at the meeting you gotta stand up there - yes we could face timer Anita is currently teaching sixth grade
project lead the way and Hazel Park junior high school she received her bachelor's degree in education from Oakland University in 1995 and her master's in education from Wayne State University in 2000 I needa began her teaching career with Hazel Park at Webster Elementary teaching teacher all
subjects as a fifth grade teacher in 1995 to 2006 she then moved to the junior high teaching sixth and seventh grade science from 2006 to 2016 and moving to Project Lead the Way in 2016 mrs. Duke knows how to get students
interested in learning through a variety of instructional strategies no matter when you go into her science classroom or Project Lead the Way classroom all students are participating and engaged and actively engaged in the lesson she finds relevant ways to meet the needs of all students and she willingly meets
with students before school at lunch and after school to reteach as needed or to accelerate learning opportunities a colleague writes as a new hazel as a new teacher to Hazel Park anita has been an amazing mentor even though she has a lot of responsibilities at the junior high she still finds time to go out of
her way to make sure that I have everything I need she has made transitions go more smoothly with her wealth of knowledge and understanding I hit the jackpot when I was paired with her entering the junior high and I do not know what I would have accomplished half the things that I had this year without her understanding his assistance a parent
rights as a grandparent of three students that live in the district I could not be more pleased with mrs. dupes she treats every students as if they were her own children mrs. goopes is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure that each student is successful and feels cared about she's a positive presence in her
and her enthusiasm and positive attitude is contagious mrs. goopes help right almost all of our k-8 science curriculum she is extremely amazing and extremely dedicated and just a wonderful wonderful person and I'm so sorry she can't be with us tonight but we should celebrate
her all the same we have somebody from miss Cory here she is not here tonight so is there anybody from web to except on Julie's behalf Sarah Sarah can you
accept our honorable mention at the elementary level is Julie Borg and Sarah thank you for accepting do you want to stand up there for us as well Julie is a third grade teacher at Webb elementary school she received her Bachelors of
Arts degree in 2006 from Aquinas College and went on to earn her master's in education in 2014 from Grand Valley State University she came to Hazel Park from Washington in the fall of 2016 and she brings the curriculum to life through the creation and an execution of
exciting lessons in all subjects and has a way of capturing the attention of all students julie has a very diverse group of third grade students she thoughtfully works to meet their individual social and academic needs and provides carefully planned and differentiated instruction in all subjects a colleague
writes Julie has been only teaching for two years in Hazel Park because she has set the world on fire with her passion for teaching her desire for learning and compassion for people Hazel Park is a district that is reinventing itself it was our great fortune to have a star fall from the sky with Julie's name on
it if she would have landed a job in another district she would have shined but in Hazel Park the timing couldn't have been better a parent rights I think the most incredible part of what Miss Park teaches is compassion the students follow her lead and including my student whenever possible they emulate her
kindness her incredible gift as a teacher gives all children not just the tools to meet for their economic goals but to be kind to people as well and she is truly amazing she helped lead staff development the other day to all of our elementary teachers in the area we couldn't be more pleased to have
Julie as a teacher in our district all right that concludes this special order of business the next is our consent agenda we will take one vote on this this includes our minutes and finance reports and notes of appreciation and we had some donation
letters so can I get a motion I know that the word of education accept the consent agenda as presented roll call yeah yes
all right there is no unfinished business so we'll move on to new business item a is the Longfellow renovation bid recommendations there are I made a recommendation that we take one
through 10 as one item and this is Longfellow renovation you with the Edison men's program none of the dollars are coming from anonymous companies the park that's coming from the grant that we receive to renovate Edison for the
next program to come in from out of Oakland schools I second that motion all right discussion do we have someone here that's going to talk about any of these bits like to hear about them they
can summarize them I would love a brief summary since you came out here now yeah I mean it's great to be here on a nice day what you have in front of me is or a front in front of you is the start of a process
that is going to be very positive for the district through our construction managers we have spent time to get bids from the various construction areas that are going to be needed to renovate portion of the Longfellow facility that
is necessary to bring it up to code as far as the state goes and also to make it user-friendly for some of the staff that is going to be there for the next 18 months so what you have in front of you are some of those bids now when I say bids there are a lot more
than that because really the construction manager went out publicly to get these bids and there's a number of contractors that are added to this the competitive numbers are behind this what you're seeing there usually there's
two or three bidders in each of the categories typically we select the lowest bidder the lowest qualified bidder I'd like to say because we spend time trying to analyze whether the bids are complete or not completed so what you have in front of you is the beginning of the process to work on the
Longfellow facility and with that I'd open it to any questions you might have about either the process or the budget I should also mention that each one of these is watched for the overall budget because the ISD set a budget amount and
these are within those numbers does any have any questions and then okay then when do the bids have to be in by like well the bids are already in we've opened them what you have in front of you is a compilation of those bids and we're asking you for their recommendation to move ahead and
start with these contractors these are the ones that have been selected I might add to that each one of them the construction manager sat down with each one of these bidders on a one-to-one basis just to make sure that they were qualified and that they understood what
was him supposedly in their proposal and I reviewed everything and it made sense to me so thank you for coming to speak all right can we get a roll call on this [Applause] yes all right item B is the Longfellow asbestos
removal can I get a motion on that I'm of the board of education accept the recommendation from arch environmental group and improve the proposal from qualified abatement Services Inc to remove the asbestos related materials in preparation for the construction work at Longfellow Elementary School as
presented all right discussion on this yes there's a there's a number of things that are outside the construction manager review and you have two of them in front of you tonight one of them is the asbestos removal at the law facility there's a number of areas that
have to be removed prior to any reconstruction or demolition that goes on such as floor tile and there's some pipe wrap insulation now I don't want to give the false impression that all asbestos is being removed from the facility it's just the areas that are going to be touched by the contractor so
what you have in front of you is that small amount of areas that are going to be touched before the contractors come in to do the other types of renovation again our consultant went out and asked for bids and I think there's two or three bids there quotes that were
provided we pick the lowest sort of the lowest qualified bidder and that could meet the timelines our intention is just do that of course while there's nobody in the building and we want to get that going as quickly as we can because even though contractors might be in the
building we would prefer to have that limited in scope how is this affecting in the open schools budget it was when we put a bid to or when we put the estimate together this was included in
that but because of insurance items that asbestos is not under the construction managers it's a separate one but it is budgeted for and accounted for in the total project cost yes there is it's eighty seven hundred dollars I think I
put in my record wait any other questions alright roll call yes Hammond's yes yes yeah yes all right item see the moving
bid from I was in max to Longfellow I need a motion I knew the Board of Education accept the recommendation and improve the hiring premier relocation for new Edison max - oh and fellow in the amount of twenty two thousand nine hundred fifty two mass presenter I second the motion discussion can you talk to this please
this is another one of those items it is the construction managers of area that they're responsible for I think it makes sense to use an outside firm to do this move it's a very quick process it's going to happen happen in a week or so
time because the school ends at a certain time and you have to move into the Longfellow building we ask premier moving to provide this cost to us you'll notice that there's only one cost the reason for that is it was a consortium bid through the Intermediate School
District and they hold those costs for anybody within the county that wants to use that avoids having to rebid each time that you ask somebody to move you the firm has done a number of moves both in Farmington Novi Northville Pontiac so they're very well versed in it we've
also met with Michelle the principal there to get an early start and our hope is that if you approve this contract tonight our next step would be to meet with the staff and start getting boxes to them early to talk to them about what this process looks like to have them
purge some of the rooms that they might not want to take to the other building because really this move has to happen two times it's the first time to the Longfellow building and then the second time back to Edison Maxo we wanted to get a qualified person and
that's why we are using this room and it is budgeted also in the Auckland schools thing yes yes
all right item D - Hazel Park High School hot water pipe replacement can I get motion I move the board of education accept the administration's recommendation to approve the proposal
the removal of asbestos pipe insulation and replacement of the hot water pipe we did use a Park High School Harrison I second the motion discussion you just looked like this is this funding is coming from the sinking fund this is coming from the sinking funds
they happen over he's got it we had a good discussion that's thinking fun I've got it down we know it will be back
glory thank you all right if there's no further discussion let's get a roll call mr. Hampl yes yes Hinton yes Hammond's yes mr. temple yes No yeah yes all right this moves on to student
achievements dr. creepy were you gonna speak to this but just that we wanted to include in the packet we have a lot of students that have some really outstanding achievements that we've placed in the board packet we have our Hazel Park junior high so
low and sound old results and we're really pleased with the outstanding students that received superior ratings so that you can see inside there and we have two three four did you want to read all those names no okay they're in the packet and we have the Division two ratings as well excellent students just
again our band or finger high PN continues to just do an amazing job out there as well and then we also have students from Nancy sly in our packet that I hope people take the time to read of our students that have just again
done a great job at at both local state and national art competitions and so we have to continue to be proud of the outstanding art program that we have at the high school that we continue to expand upon these are the kind of things that our students we should be really proud of what our students have been
able to do and then we continue to have outstanding winter sports scholar athletes in both in competitive cheer wrestling boys swimming bowling and girls basketball so I'm just really proud of our continued athletes that our
scholars is right where scholars first and then athletes but it is really difficult to do to have great grades what's even more difficult to be in a competitive sport and keep those grades up as well so kudos to the Hazel Park students athletes and those in band as
well that lesson just goes to show you about all the great programs that we're still able to offer here it's really great right um so next item is the he's a Community Coalition update good evening
everyone hi hello it's been about two months since seeing everyone so I got a couple updates for you January 29th we had a successful narcan training we had around 60 people there from all different sectors we had teachers community members nurses it was wonderful we gave out about 60 to 65
narcan kits for those of you who don't know narcan is administered to people who overdose on opioids so it just gives the EMS is more time to work on the person get them to the hospital get them the treatment that they need so it's wonderful we're looking to plant a bowling night during spring break as you
know we've done dollar skate days in the past during winter break and mid semester break a thing for the high school in the junior high so for this it's like the same thing we noticed at this time you know some kids may not go away for spring break they may be alone their friends may not be around so this
is just to give them an opportunity to engage with other people they may not know give them a fun activity to do with their friends and their family members so more updates on that soon starting in April we're looking to start a face the facts campaign other coalition's within
Oakland County have done this face the facts is pretty much putting perceptions and misperceptions about substance abuses within your community out there in the public so my area that I'm looking to target is the high school I'm specifically talking to high school
students we want to talk about marijuana because April is 4/20 you know there's a lot of stigma around that so we're looking to address that by every week or every day leading up after Spring Break posting 1 to 2 facts about perceptions that you see in like TV the movies you
may get around from your parents community members whatever it may be and then at on 4/20 which is a Friday just holding like a seminar or like a little come up to the table and talk to me about like the real facts the federally-funded facts the governmental whatever it may be just to clear up some
misperceptions that our students may have about marijuana looking to April at the end of April April 28th this prescription drug take-back day we're working in correlation with our local police department so with this what any
community member can do if they have any expired opiates within their cabinets and their purses in their car you know like you may have like 60 whatever it may be in your purse and so let's say you put them in a ziplock bag you bring them to the police department there's a big drop off box under like right when
you go down the stairs right in front of the counter you drop them off in there no questions asked and then at any day we take them to a location where they can get incinerated and it's just a big thing to get people to bring out their opiates that where they're not sitting in the cabinets that's sitting in the purses to where your children can get
into them who maybe want to use them I want to sell them to their friends whatever it may be so April 28th just remember that that's all on Facebook so look for that we're also looking to do panel discussion so we really want to start this thing where every month we have a panel discussion
on the different topics so looking at May we're looking to talk about opiates because it's a huge epidemic in the United States right now from there we're looking to talk about human trafficking vape pens because I know a lot of people have a lot of questions about bathing and what is vaping alcohol that type of
thing and then if anyone has any suggestions on youth that may be interested in helping with our events or participating at all please send them my way my email is Jared gage oh that's G AJ OS and he's part schools org we're looking to get new members anyone that's
interested please just contacted me we talk to me whoever it may be where we would love to have you guys thank you one we have two of our youth yeah on our board that are in the audience that have done great participation and going to so we're really lucky to do that but I
just want to stay over a year and a half ago a community member reached out to me new who is in charge of coalitions in Oakland County and came to the city and asked about starting a coalition in our community and we were
really fortunate that the school district was able to kind of step up and try to help until we were able to find Jared and so we're really really lucky that we were able to find Jared there's been a lot of wonderful things that have taken place and we've been really able to join some other coalition's and learn
a lot and really thank you for that and had it not been for that community member that had reached out to the city this would have never happened it was really great that she was able to do that we're just trying to create a healthier Easter Park in general that could be with one person it could be with 50 people if you have 100 people
you know sometimes we're saving one life that's all that matters so thank you so you had a great after it's nastic Turkey I'd like to add you know I don't think that people realize that the coalition worked part of that is the signs that you see around the school that says like eighty four point three percent of students have not
smoked a cigarette a lot of those signs a lot of that information is as work out of the coalition and doing surveys here with our students in our community to understand we're to really target those areas where we need to support our children and in the community yeah and it is a joint effort between the city
and the school district and other people in the community and so thank you for those young ladies that are helping Jared out as well hope to get some more students that might want to be involved in that it's a really great cause all right thank you moving on to item G there's FOIA request
for the month I don't know if there's anything we want to say about that but we received some and provided and responded accordingly okay next item is a district employee perfect in attendance would you like just for information we continue to celebrate as
we know attendance is our tenants eyes always difficult for students and staff as well and so we should celebrate we continue to send those certificates out it's something small but just to thank you for those that are able to come to work every day you know especially with the flu and everything else that's going around that's really difficult but we're
really proud of our staff and we are very grateful for those that can come to work every day so thank you especially with the Sun shortages that there are in the across the country yes thank you alright next we have our personnel recommendations we have to separate
these because we have people with conflicts of interests so um can I get a motion for the sp I move the board of education accept the administration's recommendation for the ask me employee group as presented I second that motion any discussion all right roll call yes
no yes yes yes yes yes and Ken and I abstained you a familial conflict sorry next item is the HP ei- Ocean I move the board of education accept the
administration's recommendation for the HPE a employee group as presented any discussion on this I do the ones that are on leave that are and we have to do any action with the ones that are requesting
or anything not going to do them all here peaches - okay it was just making sure that yeah so I think everything we've received is in here in his current right now okay any other discussion all right roll
call sure yes Canton yes yes yes yes no yes yes item 3 HP pa pa HP PA can I get a motion I'm in the Board of Education accept the administration's
recommendation for the Aged PPA employee your best presented well suck it in discussion Rokoff flat yes and yes I'm staying through the Copeland Hammond
yes to the familial conflict no abstain due to familial conflict Adkins yes next item is IU OE connect in motion I move that the Board of Education accept the administration's recommendation for the IU OE a playgroup as presented I
slack on the motions any discussion roll call no yes yes yes stained due to familial conflict item 5 unaffiliated
boys Megan motion and with the Board of Education accept the administration's recommendations for the unaffiliated employee group is presented I second the motion any discussion I would just like to say I know that what we're seeing is some of
the end of the year things come through we want to thank you for those that are retiring and put in a lot of time and dedicated service we're gonna miss miss miss you going forward but we know that that's part of life is that we have people that move on we'll have more coming on it's kind of
the circle file that works well any of Broco know yeah sly yep and then yes mr. Hempel yes Hammond's yes mrs. temple yes abstain do - I'm feeling a familial conflict this is okay yes this time I
guess I would like to share with the community is that we have received numerous letters in our packet and you have the reasons as to why and many of these people are leaving and they are not leaving due to any mistrust or I think I gated that's going on in our
district they're either leaving for better gain a different kind of employment or just just to change that this kind of struggle that we have here in Hazel Park is that we're not able to offer the best paying salary compared to some of our other districts that we continue to struggle with so just wanted
to share just that little snippet again this is a personnel so we're not able to share everything that I thought we could share a trend that I saw and I was reading over these notes thank you alright let's move on to our next item the girls varsity soccer overnight trip can I get a motion move the Board of
Education improve the overnight trip for the girls varsity soccer team is requested alright second the motion any discussion sounds like fun girls it looks like they're gonna do a tournament and ice go it off go to May 19th if there's no further discussion of
questions then we'll go to roll call no yes mr. hempel yes tenkan yes Hammond's yes mr. temple yes spot yes thank you yes alright item K in the school drinking
water program can I get a motion for this I'm the Board of Education and approve the agreement between Oakland County and he's the parks schools to accept the 34 water fountain stations for free I have a nice second that Alright discussion on
this so then this woman came out I received a personal call from Helene Zack who has a vested interest in Hazel Park wanting to make sure that we applied for the drinking fountain grant and we did and we're really excited Greta was able drag Richardson our head
of our maintenance and custodial was able to go around with his gentlemen and take a look at what will happen is that we will receive 34 free drinking pumps there was a $500,000 grant that was set aside for drinking fountains throughout Oakland County and we're really excited
to get 34 of them for free our gentlemen will put them in on their time as they can they won't all go in all at once some people love to do it as we can and all we will have to pay for is filters does that happen so hopefully there'll be some fun fundraising between Peters and other organizations to get water
bottles in unfortunately they're not for the high school they are for junior high and down that's where the grants were but this really lies in the beliefs if we think about our belief statements are caring healthy safe and respectful environment as is provided for all this is a really great way and important for
our children to be healthy they're also in lines of our strategic plan that will empower our stakeholders in order to develop high achieving students through strong community relations and collaboration a really great collaboration with Oakland County that took in order to provide offerings to
our students here in Hazel Park and that will maximize our resources to include high quality education by fostering financial stability preserving in utilizing quality facilities and integrating state-of-the-art technology so not only are we integrating state-of-the-art technology but we're
increasing our facilities and being smart well they're doing it because they're first and then finally when we think about the blueprint one of the things that you do in the blueprint we talk about how we allocate our resources based our student needs and so it would be
very wise of us to accept this free a piece of equipment for our students because we're thinking about how we're using our money to one develop our school funding and to be equitable transparent and flexible about Road apart-er schools to think about our students needs so one of the things we
talked about is to start thinking about how our strategic plan and our blueprint focuses in on decisions that we're making here and so I'm going to respectfully ask you to agree to have this agreement between Oakland County amusement park schools so that we can accept these 34 water fountain stations
we will receive two more to another grant that was written at Webb school that will be delivered and installed free of charge for us any other just just for the community I know dr. cookie went through all the strategic plan and
all this stuff is here behind us and I don't know if everyone that in the community understood what she was citing off to us and I part of our learning and training as a board was aiming espías had kind of communicate what all this jargon is up here better to our community so what she was doing if she
was tying you back why we're doing this and what this means for our kids back into all these reasons our goal statements or teaching plan and each of us have a book up here the hazard teacher plan in color that we believe they asked dr. cookie to provide that to
us on each of these action items of how they have how they benefit our kids and how it ties back into what we as a community decided was our mission and vision and our goals that were continuously working on so as you know you hear her kind of say back should you plan back to blueprint back to all these
things that we have going on that's why I saw a whole bunch of blank faces so if you'd like to ever have a copy or anything like that it's on our website or if you want to come here and snap a picture after the meeting that way you kind of know that these are the things that we're constantly working on and we're trying to find things that go up
and underneath those to really tie back to what our mission and mission and vision is as a community for our children so thank you Rachel all right roll call yeah no yes hamton
yes those cameras yes yes yes next item I'll the approval of food service contract can I get a motion in live the Board of Education to accept the administration's recommendation and approve the contract renewal with Chartwells for the student else program
for the 1819 school year all right second the motion
all right discussion and so this is a
one-year contract extension and I recommend that you approve it we think we can get him to do two years that were obligated to do one year at a time I'd like to add I like to come in and Samantha's great work I've had the
opportunity of joining the Wellness Committee here in our district it's a really great thing there's Samantha's brought to our district with her grants and creative thinking to get our kids to eat healthier and smarter or insane and I think that I'm learning from her as much as I think our kids are learning
and there's definitely more to come as we kind of expand upon that and Samantha's got really great ideas how to outreach into our community and start on educating our students and our parents about healthier eating and better eating so I just want to say thank you for
being here and all the hard work you do and yeah no increase I'm okay she also instrumental in the breakfast for the high school [Music] yeah she's got some new products that
last time you heard the Wellness Konishi sent us home with and they were I have people work try them and they were really jealous it's what our kids are eating sure um we had last Friday we had a visit from state legislators and it's been a great partnership with United Way
we've gotten a breakfast car we've gotten other grants like the General Mills grant that we just got for $3,000 for the high school and then one for the junior High's we're gonna be getting a hot breakfast cart for the junior high and then the breakfast cart in the at
the back door was grant from action for Healthy Kids so we're very fortunate to have gotten grants but last year our average daily participation for breakfast was 105 right now we're about 335 a day at the high school so it's
been significant one day last year we hit 444 so so we're starting to introduce new products because I kind of feel like the students are even though they're creatures of habit there I think getting a little bit sick of the same stuff so we did just start doing
smoothies so which I haven't a huge hit there so yeah so we're doing a lot of great things and we're going to continue we've had a great wellness committee meeting and some new things coming out of that or the menu backs nutrition education for the alimentary menu backs
and we have a lot of great ideas going on thank you very much thank you so any other discussion from the board alright
roll call no yes yes yes as they did a familial Catholic and Ken yes all right moving on to item and purchase of a school services vehicle can I get a motion please I'm in support
education accept the administration's recommendation and improve the purchase of the vehicle you choose compete at the school services vehicle I presented would you be a catalyst I second the motion thank you mom can we have discussion
about this can you sure it's one of our delivery vehicles was I'm in an accident and could not be recovered and so our insurance companies that assets have sent us a check for $13,500 I spoke with the district folks I spoke with Craig
and I folks book with Sam and asked if we wanted that same vehicle that we wanted to replace or something else they said really a cargo van would be a better choice less expensive better on fuel and so I went to the state site for
the bids contacted defenders we ended up with I asked first if they had any used cargo vans which might save us a little money they did not so then they we got two bids on the cargo vans I took the least expensive one that was the GMC I
spoke with Samantha and Greg and that vehicle is ready for us to pick up and they did at the bulkhead partition partition so that if you slam on the brakes we don't have projectiles hitting the driver finally make my motion be
specific for the GMC cargo bay on the which is the cheaper that's it - okay I second the motion thank you all right any other discussion yeah I just wanted to be known that the difference and the money is coming out of the general fund that's correct the
11,000 yeah and we discussed this at length at the finance finance committee and tried to ask lots of questions to see if we had explored all other options to try to prevent having to spend money on the general fund but this was the yes she said there was no used vehicles this
was the best option this is an immediate need since there was an accident and we are without a vehicle so Amy and we did receive insurance money yeah their insurance yep okay any other discussion board all right roll call no yes and
yes 10 notes Hampel yes yes yes yes all right next item n is the 2018-19 budget
presentation okay good evening so before I do this presentation which the next time we have a budget presentation I will be turning it over to Phil matching
who is here in the audience so bill would you raise your hand because unfortunately we will be losing Laurie in the next couple days and Bill will be taking over as your new assistant superintendent of Finance in the school district so we look forward to having
him join us and stepping up and and doing these these budget presentations in the meantime so this evening I know that this is probably one of the harder presentations that I've had to do in my three years and it is not one that we do
we've done with not a lot of thought about the process that we're going through today but in doing this as we talk through this a little bit later I'll ask you to approve some staffing and that staffing is the draft staffing that we have in place for next school
year this budget presentation we've spent a lot of time on since December really looking at every possible way that we can to reduce the deficit but what is has to happen in Hazel Park is that we have to for the 1819 school year
have a balanced budget we don't have a choice and that has to be in place and we have to present a need up plan to Treasury that represents a balanced budget with the information that we have today here and now and and as we know a
budget is always a moving target and depending on what happens at the state and depending on what happens locally and what depending on what happens in the federal level that may change from time to time and so long as I go through this presentation I'm Laurie may step in and
she may correct me or you may have some questions and please feel free to stop along that time what we've tried to do is we are looking at this budget is try to keep intact as much as possible the purpose of a school district which is
k-12 education and I think over the last three years our focus on k-12 education will stay intact as much as possible as we've gone through this we're not saying that in doing this that there won't be some left's and rights that are very
uncomfortable for all of us but we're doing the very best that we can to find the proper cuts that are the best with the least amount of effect on our children K through 12 so some things to talk about before we get moving is that
this is a living document as things change as people retire as people decide to move on to different jobs as the state gives us more information as the governance governor's budget comes out as the federal government gives us information about grants we will be moving our budget left and right and that'll be the same thing as we develop
our EDA plan which and the etup plan for the audience is a plan that we have to give to Treasury to help us to get out of debt and that's not an option that we have and for Hazel Park if we do not follow that EDA plan we will be taken over by an emergency manager in Hazel
Park could cease to exist so it's something that it's not really a choice it's something that we must do and have in place and in in October next year we may have a different view on what's happening because depending on our students that we have enrolled and depending on where the funding is things
may look a little differently so that all depends as long as we're in a deficit situation the Treasury has a lot of approval for what we do they make the decisions about approval so anything that we spend we have to send at a certain budget limit limit over them for
approvals earlier they said we can only have a one-year approval on our funding for food all contracts and all agreements can only be made for one year here in Hazel Park and that's the purpose of why that is and so we can only have one year approvals on our contracts and agreements we'll need
to continue to make annual adjustments and continue to focus very heavily annually and and throughout the year on changes that happen so that we can make sure that we stay in line with this plan over the next 12 years we hope to have in place we've been very conservative in
this plan on our enrollments and on the funding that we think are coming in from the state because we just don't know where the state will be or the federal government at this time it's not real clear so right now the amendment that we had earlier shows the annual deficit
this year to be 1.4 million dollars and that our ending balance in 2017 was 5.6 so that shows right now that the deficit could grow to seven million dollars and we continue to borrow state notes to fund this deficit the Treasury is aware
of this deficit and we've been working very closely with it with the Treasury and they say we must have a plan given to them by May 1st 2018 that's really not an option and so by 2018 we must have a balanced 2018 budget given to them with no
deficit and we must have all tentative agreements in place for all of our unions that's really not an option it must be in there and so we must also have a plan in place to pay back the deficit so May 1st is coming very quickly and that's a quick turnaround
for us to have all those plans in place so when we think about the budget process we have to think about what increases in decreases we think might happen we've worked really hard to come up with possible reductions and there it's not anything that anybody ever wants to do it's a very painful process
to go through but we've done the best thing that that we think we can do to keep that k-12 core in place we will have to work with our labor groups to get those tentative agreements in place as soon as possible and look at different long-term loan plans to try to make sure that that Eid
app can be followed and then before May 1st we have to present to the Board of Education they have to approve it and then we turn it in to Lansing and they make a determination on whether or not they will even approve this Adept plan we've been working really close with the ISDN and very closely with our
internal staff to come up with potential changes and potential adjustments and we believe in conversations with the Treasury that they will approve a 12 year plan for us so here's the assumptions we've had we're assuming that we will potentially have a
per-pupil state aid increase of $100 there maybe more than that but right now conservatively that's the amount that we are resting our budget planning on we also know that right now before people start rien rolling or registering that we're going to lose a hundred students
based upon the graduation that we have and the students moving from the junior high to the high school so the budget assumptions that we are using is a loss of a hundred students if it's higher than the staffing that we present today will be adjusted we also have balanced
our grants usually we have some carryover but the way that we're using our grants this year which is directly on staff we know that we will not have any carryover on our grants and so we are using grants balanced at the same amount that we've received right now there has been no knowledge from the
federal government if we're going to get an increase of grants or a lowering of grants and as staff retires as you see inside this book we utilize those staffing numbers actually into our spreadsheets to make adjust adjustments about where we're going in the money
that's saved and realized we also know that special education students in the center program have increased and we are estimating tuition increase and that's included and we really the focus has been to minimize the most impact to students and staff as we've planned any
questions before I keep going what if you don't have your negotiations in place by May 1st they will assign an emergency manager to us and enable come in and they will decide what those those cuts will be if they have they said that
I may have already said that if we don't have that in place we'll assign us an emergency manager yes that's already been on the table so you can have like a month to get this done yes and at the same time are you planning a special meeting in order to
have this done because we have the one meeting in April if we are the agreements that we don't have done at that point in time we will have to have a special meeting so you can see here's our changes here and we'll go through this that we have our deficit here and
then you look at the loss of students a hundred students means a loss of the district of a sudden seven hundred and eighty three thousand dollars if we have an increase of a hundred students per pupil that's an increase of three hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars we also have an increase in our
s retirement coming on to us next year and so with that calculation there looks like there will be an increased cost of two hundred and four thousand dollars actually two hundred and five thousand dollars if I round that up so you can see we're going to go through this with you with the cost and pieces that we
have to get to the bottom line about where we need to be next year because of this change we are recommending and we'll be recommending to you in a motion later on that unfortunately we will have to remove the preschool program academy and a and a half time of an early on
person at a cost of four hundred and thirty two thousand dollars to the school district this is approximately ten point five this was funded by thirty one eighty dollars but unfortunately given this given where we are we're going to have to remove this we still will have the gsrp program and so there
still will be early childhood services but unfortunately will not be able to provide as many early childhood programming right now we are recommending seven early elementary staffing changes and a savings of six hundred and thirty two thousand dollars
right now when we did this PowerPoint we had two retirements we have a couple more since then we will be eliminating the elementary tutoring program and a savings of $61,000 this was grant funded before and unfortunately those grant fundings were cut last year we agreed to
fund those last year out of the general fund but unfortunately that's one of the recommendations that when we worked with administrators and others that we said we didn't feel like we were getting a bang for the buck and that this might be a better cut than other cuts that could occur farther away from kids and from teachers elementary
summer school this summer will be cut we do have a small grant that will fund a Literacy Project and so we will we will run a literacy summer school that's totally grant funded but all summer school that's not funded through tidal programs or any other programs which we don't have any title funds for that will
be cut there'll be 2.7 reduction in junior high staff changes and it cost a savings of two hundred and five thousand dollars we will also eliminate the junior high summer school program as well as the bridge program in a savings
of sixteen thousand dollars this to originally was funded in title one funding and remember last year when the title one funding was cut we agreed to fund it out of the general fund so we will not recommend to do that this summer but we do have potentially a grant that will fund some summer school
and we'll recommend that once the grant is secured so you can see if we don't have grant funding for it we're not going to be recommending it we will also be recommending to eliminate the past after-school tutoring at the high school as savings of fifteen thousand we are hoping that our relationship through the
Wayne State will be able to pick up the past program and we'll be having conversations with Wayne State University shortly we'll be recommending didn't decrease in the high school staffing a 4.0 and the savings of three hundred and forty-one thousand dollars
and this includes a retirement we believe is coming will also be recommending the elimination of Casas programming for 12 students at a savings of $26,000 we've already stopped Saturday detentions that was one of the
recommendations about from the administration we've continued Friday schools but they felt like Saturday detentions we didn't have as many and so that's a savings of seventy four hundred dollars we're recommending an alternative scam staff member a reduction of one and a savings of eighty
thousand dollars we're going to try to consolidate as much of the weekend activities to the high school and we believe that will save around two thousand dollars of custodial overtime so as many of the things that we can happen try not to have them at the junior high or other programs try to
have them in one building that way there's not multiple custodians working we're looking to reduce the curriculum budget by a hundred thousand dollars oh sorry about that and we'll be looking to eliminate the
adult education program ten staff members this will eliminate a hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars a year from the general fund we currently have two buses unfortunately that need to be
replaced this will be a cost so now we're going back the other direction of a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars to the general fund and we have a cost of special ed tuition that will cost to the general fund of our students in special education Center programs of
a cost of two hundred and forty thousand dollars we have a one-time staff charge that will drop off in the next school year of two hundred and four thousand dollars and we're reducing one central staff person of a savings of seventy thousand dollars
we also next year have some debt service payments that are dropping off at a cost of a hundred and two thousand dollars and then we have two hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars worth of changes this school year that we changed and those changes then are carried over into
this budget to continue on and then we have four hundred and twelve thousand dollars of other staff changes that we'll be making and then we have an estimation of a hundred and eight thousand dollars of anticipated unemployment costs that gets us to five hundred and ninety four thousand dollars
to the positive and why is that important because in order to do a twelve year deficit elimination plan next year we have to cut an additional five hundred and ninety thousand dollars to just do a deficit elimination plan for twelve years if we went for a ten
year deficit an elimination plan we would have to find another two hundred thousand dollars in the budget next year to cut if it was an eighth year we'd have to find another three hundred thousand on top of that and if we went five years you would see we'd have to cut even more and we've really cut down
as much as we can without starting to touch k-12 education and we will be able to see that in my staffing proposal later what questions right now can I answer for you on the other page the I think it was the special ed tuition why is that
why is the tuition so high on that is that something we have to pay that is something you have to pay for the students that are attending the jardine program there's nothing coming back to us on that you do get so when we have students that attend the center programs and because
we run the center programs when the tuition changes we do get a reimbursement for some of the operator costs but these are our students that are attending Jardine so again as I said before none of this is easy and so we
will be meeting with the gsrp program and preschool Academy tomorrow we will then also be meeting with adult education just so that they can have further conversations we did not speak with people beforehand because we needed to speak with the Board of Education ahead of time and then we'll send a
letter out to the community one of the most important things that we can do is remember that in order to make sure that we move forward in the best direction is that we reenroll our kids in April right and that we work really positively to keep our enrollment up be really positive about the things that are
happening because there are fabulous things happening throughout the district you know early childhood through adult education but k12 there are amazing things happening for our children here in Hazel Park I do with the adopted in the early childhood
maybe Laurie can answer this how much money was coming out of the general fund to support those programs so the adult education which is item number 17 you can see far to the right that there's
five hundred eight thousand in a grant that was helping support that it was all in the general fund but that's a net zero the general fund was contributing to the program one hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars so that's what we were paying into it yep in addition to the grant so it wasn't self-supporting
so normally you would like to have a program any program like that be self-supporting if the grants five hundred thousand dollars you run the program for five hundred thousand dollars so when we see that it's not able to run within the means that it was given that's why we made the adjustment
yes we are part of the work of that Adult Ed program is to help with the vendor programs and so one staff member who helped with all that work and the vendor programs will be kept so that the amount that we contributed was actually
higher but we can't cut all of it did that answer your question yes I was looking at the 170 and I thought that's didn't for the number of people right okay right we were trying to document the things that we can actually save
from the general fund non program dollars so the early childhood was taking from the general fund as well yeah the early childhood had no other support correct that was although that was all general fund we didn't charge any tuition it was a free program there
were no grants or anything to support that still a good program but when your money's this tight you really have to look at every and you see some of these are small cuts we looked at every single dollar if somebody brought up an idea or of savings we try to explore it it's the
biggest amount of that building rental well between staff and building rental because in the pastor was talked to moving it I don't know where to move honestly so but that was always and part of that had been being
charged to the general fund and part of that was being charged to the grant do they have many cuz there's so much online learning yeah there's yes there are students that there are students post 21 that are yes
there are there are students there's a yeah so when will you know if they accept a twelve-year will they allow that and answer before you put this stuff in or will they know they may they
may have they may after May 1st tell you to cut more but you know that we we feel very positive and the work that we've done with Tammy and Cindy and Bob and Laurie and Josie that that they
felt very supportive of a 12 year plan or we wouldn't be heading down this direction but you don't know right until it gets totally turned in and so we can we believe that this is our best plan to put forth and that it's reasonable and doable you know the the big thing is
right we we need to do something that that also we hope in the long run as we have a 12 year plan that we can kind of show you actually we can kind of show you what this looks like and I can have there it is
there's your 12 year plan and Laurie can talk to you a little bit about that you can't really see it and eventually the board will get it but we have a plan put in place that also eventually has some salary restoration we have to have that and as things happen positively you know we we have to have that piece in place
and if we have to be cutting millions of dollars every year we know that that's not going to happen so if you're looking for is that we look at category of revenue and expenditures so the top part of that is actually talking about how much we get from the state and
how many kids we have and because you have bender programs here we've broken those out separately because while they're funded while they're funded differently - so they're funded differently and the expenses that go along with that are different so we pulled those out you'll see when you get when you can actually see the small
writing that every program is broken out separately so when you adopt a budget or the budget amendment and we do that by function this is loosely by function with more detail so they're getting down to how much are you allowing for the increase in utilities how much are you lying for the increase in insurance
how about healthcare for your for your staff members and so this plan has to be tight and we're trying to be conservative so that they will approve it and then from the first slide of the presentation remember things change in every single day I've tried to be
conservative so that we don't have if once we get this plan together everything that comes along might be better but there's never a guarantee with that and we have some other things coming up after this that you can look forward to possibly making a change in this plan as well
but we're going to run it out so we have some older years there and we have 12 years for the plan and then I'm showing the next year that it comes out balanced so we'll go through that in detail go ahead I think the important takeaway here from when I remember when dr. Wanda
cook Robinson was up here just a few months ago was that you know she's talking a lot about this research collaborative I don't know people in our community understand what that is it's a statewide initiative that doesn't study on how much it actually takes to educate a child right currently right now you see what our numbers are is like
seventy five hundred dollars to educate a child um is what we get here in Hazel Park really this study says that it takes about ninety five hundred dollars at base to educate a child we're not including the special education students we have here our children would need
other types of programs that are running here so we're already two thousand dollars behind the 8-ball if you will with what we what were being given to educate our students the other thing is is on top of that when I was a state came in during this last year when we
budgeted in October pretty conservatively when we were on par they took away our title title unfunny in our thirty one eighty dollars and they kept cutting us so in the midst of trying to get our budget numbers during the fall in the winter there kept cutting us and then we so then we assumed that we were
on par to get those funding and then we weren't so I don't think we were that far behind with meeting our goals but we still were behind and then would not be receiving that grant funding to prop what you saw tonight the cuts are being proposed our programs that we had actually decided to use out of the grant
money and then when you don't have that grant money it pulls it from the general fund so that's kind of what we have right we were we were allocating that you were gonna because if receive a payment it's gonna be direct deposited into our bank and then somebody said sorry it's not here and unfortunately we thought we
could continue to offer some really great programs and as we were talking about this K through 12 is what were mandated by the state to offer through our kids and we have to make really hard choices so we hate to be in this
position but I think that we're in a lot better position with our checks and balances with Oakland schools being in our department dr. coupie being here bringing bringing this knowledge test and not trying to hide it like the in last administration test but bringing it forward and saying let's be creative and
work as a team to adjust what the state doesn't understand about education I think that we're seeing that nationally and we're definitely seeing that locally and hopefully as long as we get everyone comes to the table and negotiations the next month
really constructively and wanting to settle quickly we can get this in and we can remain control here in the local level and said of somebody else coming in and trying to take us over and tell us how we sherwin our district so we're asking our community to continue to
entrust us register your kids send your kids to school and everybody our staff our community to be supportive of one another as we go through another tough time and unfortunately in the education climate that were so that's all I had to say I hate these
types of meetings you did a wonderful job the two of you and our staff are everyone kind of pitched in and where they thought the cuts could come so this isn't just a top-down thing dr. koop II asked admin ass buildings asked us where
we thought we can maybe make a cut or two so this is done collaborative to be done with this deficit elimination plan but uh if 12 years is what we're hearing from Oakland schools it's not the best thing but maybe it might be
more manageable so we can wade through the waters of the state telling us how to nut candidates enough money to educate our kids quite frankly I do have one more on the castle that we're cutting we offer those classes now at the high school so that program really
isn't being cut because we already have it right well we don't offer all the protocol the classes that they offer no but we do offer AP classes that we didn't offer a classes when it started and so we can't offer both I mean we
could but then you're gonna have to pay that extra piece and so the recommendation from us administrative Lee was to not offer Casa and offer the classes that we have back here then to pay the extra fees because you're also not only what we saw there was the cost of the classes we didn't also factor in the transportation that we have for the
students as well so that was just the general fund classes and so we saw that there's a transportation cost that we have so those classes don't interfere with any of the kids that have already started for credit-wise know they'll be able to so they'll finish out the school year and then next year that they'll
come back and they'll take classes here within our environment so nothing will be taken away from the kids while they're currently in credit or attaining increased us by another two hundred four
thousand dollars Laurie's gonna speak to that three point six two percent and then there's a new calculation so each school district was asked to go out and bid all of their services and then a lot of districts went ahead and contracted
services and now they said the money's not coming in to ORS and it's not because they're contracted services and so there's not enough money in ORS and so they're going out with a new operations calculation and they will be
charging districts a little bit more to fill the needs and ORS so the issue is since the calculation is new it hasn't been completed I have a placeholder for the calculation but I do have the 0.62% and they're pretty tight to your salaries so there are two pieces to that
that make up that number hundred thousand is the new calculation that I have a placeholder for the rest of it is the point six two percent which is the increase in the amount the RS has this year so if we would have practically serviced out the whole district we would
have been charged a lot more yes you actually are doing quite well because you kept your drivers and you kept your custodians even though what a great cost to them as well and I can tell you from turn your buildings they're gorgeous your floors are shiny you have pride of
ownership everybody that is working hard I mean I couldn't believe the classrooms that we went into they were amazing so nothing but kudos it's just we've got to get through this hump and I did want to reduce as little as possible to keep
things going as well as they are thus the twelve year plan no absolutely if you told us slit your wrists and do it in five I could do it but I don't think you'd end up with the same district that you have now it's really awesome
so are the with this is this a plan of every year of an additional two hundred for every year you need to save that money so saving five hundred thousand dollars once isn't going to get seven million so you save the five hundred
ninety thousand dollar range of of years for the reward no ro is that an increase of 200,000 every year where they're just going with a lump sum this year and then tagging out more next year this is the living document piece we don't know yet ask
your legislators whenever they decide that's what we'll do it'll be law but I do I did want to speak to the length of it I mean you could do anything you want their numbers you can make the numbers talk you can force it to five years but you won't have the same district you have today
and I think you want to protect that k-12 program those buildings those staff as much as possible which is what we've been spending a lot of time doing we're doing some deep diving on this stuff like I said you've got some pretty small cuts there but every single penny counts
and every suggestion was followed up thank you any other discussion thank you for the presentation I know a lot of work was put into it a lot of thought I appreciate that
all right we're going to move on to our ballot language resolutions so I guess can I first get a motion on the operating millage replacement I make the Court of Education approved the resolution allowing an upper email at
replacement proposal to go on the August 7th 2018 balance I second the motion all right could you introduce it and then I know I need to read the research so let me go over both because it's it
can be done quickly here so we're going to ask for a replacement operating millage and that's because when we reviewed your revenues you're not currently collecting the 18 mils for your operating now the state assumes 18 mils so if you're not collecting it
you're just walking away from dollars and so we wanted to go ahead and go out for that and that's a replacement and that would be good from 2018 to 2037 so how that looks when you vote on it asks for 22 mils you can never
collect more than 18 as the Headlee clutch calculation is done and it rolls back your number they're 22 mils is used to replace it so we're hoping that for the whole time you'll be able to collect 18 mils if at some point that rolls back far enough that the 22 mils doesn't
cover it you would do another replacement so it's called a Headley overwrite finance terms the second one is a replacement sinking fund millage you currently have a two mil sinking fund and at the time you did it there
was some legislative change in work and at this point you can actually do a sinking fund that would include security and technology and so what we would like to do is replace the existing 2 mil with a 3 mil and allow it to be used for both
the replacement of systems as you have right now for your buildings as well as security or technology items so timing is very good it's an even year it's 2018 there are actually two state elections
that you can piggyback on for almost free to be part of this election process and so August 7th is one election opportunity November 6th is the other and you can decide if it didn't pass on
the 8th on August you'd have 7 days to get everything back to the county clerk to go ahead for the November election so what I'm asking you for to do today is approve these 2 ballot proposals to go forward in August and then at some time later you can decide if you want to go
ahead and make it automatic that if one or the other did not pass that we could automatically take it back to the county any quite you have to look on your face ok so the current status of your operations millage is that you're not
collecting 18 mils as assumed it's been reduced over time it was identified when you last did your tax levy that 64 point or 64,000 $788 was lost because your millage rate is at seventeen point five eight
three so it doesn't sound like a big change in a number but what it's levied against millions and millions of dollars of tax assessed value it's a lot of money and because I can't walk away from that I have to recommend that we do this especially since you can do it
right now at almost no cost and then again it's it's not authorization for 22 Mills through December of 2020 2037 to offset the Headlee over reductions so I mean I'm a tax payer well I see any tax increase that usually tends to be a so
for the operations millage this is only levied on non-primary homesteads so all of you will vote on it if you're at home if you're a business owner you would pay it or if you have recreational property or a second property in Hazel Park you
would pay it but as a homeowner you were not so it's just a good way to vote support your schools let's get back up to the state aid calculation the way it's assumed so that we don't lose that money now the sinking fund is a different
situation as far as being a local tax payer you would vote on it and you would pay it so it's going from two to three mils and this would be for you were approved in 2016 through 27 we're going to take it from 19 to 2028 for ten years
and you're currently collecting about four hundred and five thousand dollars for two mills wait I'm sorry 274 two mills so we're probably going to be just about four hundred thousand which is an increase in 135,000 which I can tell you you do not have that kind of money in
your budget right now for security or for technology so this is your opportunity to get those kind of dollars I heard the students talking about security everybody's concerned about it right now this is a way that we could get dollars that are not in the budget
at all to use for those things so the building committee is sitting here with me so you can tell me if you think we should have the sinking fund [Laughter] so the next steps would be that to have
the board agree to either one or both of these proposals you would go ahead and really need to get a good communication effort out so this school district is not allowed to spend money to try and sell these two things you can give the facts you can say this is the voting date please go vote so you really need
to get all of your booster groups your parents your families your PTAs get the word out so they understand what this means to our school district these are dollars that are an opportunity that we can actually make a difference in the
school district questions on either the millage is or the process okay all right
so this time I will read the resolution all right resolution approving and operating what motion supports automatic from August to November so do you need
either feet we do my motion I say move that the Board of Education approved the resolution allowing an upper you know it's replacing proposal to go in there August 7 2008 teen ballot and if it does not pass to automatically file that to put it on the November ballot all right
so the resolution approving an operating millage replacement proposal to be voted on at a school election the following preamble and resolution were offered by number dressier Rachel note and
supported by member rewsey Hammonds Ware has at 336 public X of Michigan 1993 as amended proposal a amended the state school act 8 act by guaranteeing to each local school district a base foundation allowance per membership to pool whereas under proposal a in order to receive the
full guaranteed foundation allowance per membership people the school district is required to levy 18 mils of operating tax on all property in the school district except principal residences and other ready exempted by law where has the school district selectors previously approved an 18 male operating tax
millage expiring on June 30th 2021 which millage has been reduced by 0.4 1 3 7 mils as a result of the robot oral backfired by the Michigan Constitution otherwise known as the Headlee amendment whereas in order to receive the full guaranteed foundation allowance per
membership to full the school district desires to replace restore and extend the authority to levy to 18 million 15 tax and increase the prior authority to protect against future rollbacks under the Headlee amendment whereas the school district is of the opinion that an
operating tax replacement proposal should be submitted to the electors requesting a twenty two mill operating text millage to replace restore and extend the current authority to levy the 18 mill operating tax millage and to protect against future rollbacks under the Headlee amendment whereas the school district desires to be presenting the
operation operating tax replacement proposed with the electors at the special election to be held on August 7th 2018 whereas the school district is a Michigan general power school district operating under the revised school code as amended and as such the school districts elections are governed by the
Michigan election law act 116 public X of Michigan 1954 as amended the Michigan election law whereas the Michigan election law requires that the school district certify the ballot language for any proposals to be voted on at a permitted election date to the school districts election coordinator ie be a
clerk of the County of Oakland not later than 4:00 p.m. on the 12th Tuesday before the election date and whereas the school district desires to approve and certify the above referenced operating millage replacement proposal and to authorize the superintendent and her designee work or designee to submit the certified ballot language for the
operating millage replacement proposal to the school districts election coordinator for the special school election to be held on August 7 2008 een now therefore be it resolved by the Board of Education of the school district of the city of Hazel Park County of Oakland Michigan that number one the replacement operation operating
millage proposal attached hereto as Exhibit A is hereby approved and certified to the school districts election coordinator for the submission to the school districts electors at the special elicit school election to be held on August 7 2018 number two the superintendent or her designee are authorized to submit
the above certify proposal to the election coordinator in no later than 4:00 p.m. May fifteenth two thousand eighteen number three the superintendent authorized to revise the above certified proposal at any time prior to submission of the proposal to the election coordinator to accurately reflect the portion of the requested authorization
under the proposal which is a restoration under the Headlee amendment as a result of the Headlee amendment rollback which may occur in 2018 after the date of this resolution number four the superintendent or designee are further authorized to take any and all actually required of the Michigan election law to regard with regard to
the school district special school election number five all resolutions and parts of resolutions insofar as they conflict with the provisions of this resolution are hereby rescinded so now we can go ahead and vote I'm sorry
that's that's the recommendation that we read that in full so was there any other discussion on the operating millage before we vote on it okay roll call no
yes yes yes yes all right now we will do the sinking fund millage can I get a motion please I know that the Board of Education approved the resolution allowing you thinking fund millet replacement proposal to go on the August
7 2018 ballot and if it fails to put it on the November 6 2018 ballot so exciting any additional discussion on this this was covered by mrs. Hart now already okay I'm going to have it go ahead and read this one it's a little
bit shorter resolution approving a sinking fund millage replacement proposal to be voted on in a special school election the following ramble and resolution were offered by member rachaelh note and supported by member Christie slack whereas the voters previously approved a sinking fund
Milly's levy in the amount of two mills permanently rolled back to one point nine seven four zero mills which levy is set to expire with the 2026 levy whereas the Michigan law was amended in two sixteen to expand the allowable uses of sinking fund villages to include school security improvements and the
acquisition and upgrading of technology but this amendment only applies to sinking fund millage is approved by the voters after 2016 whereas the school district has determined in order to continue to improve and maintain its facilities and to authorize the expanded allowable uses for security and technology it is necessary to ask the
voters to approve of sinking from Amelia to replacement levy for a period of 10 years being the years 2019 to 2028 inclusive whereas the school district desires to present the sinking fund millage replacement rolls up to the electors at the special school election
to be held on August 7 2018 whereas the school district is the Michigan general power school district operating on the revised school court at hold as amended and as such the school districts elections are governed by the Michigan election law act 116 public acts at Michigan not 254 as amended Michigan election laws whereas the Michigan
election law requires the school district certified the ballot language for any proposals to be voted on at a permitted date to the school districts election coordinator I eat a clerk of the County of Oakland not later than 4:00 p.m. on the 12th Tuesday before the election date and whereas the school district desires to approve and certify
the above reference sinking fund millage replacement proposal and to offer the superintendent or her designee to submit the ballot language for the sinking fund military placement proposal to the school elections coordinator for the special school election to be held on August 7th 2018 now therefore be it resolved by the Board of Education on
the school district of the school district of the city of Hazel Park County of Oakland Michigan that number one the sinking fund military placement proposal at a tier two as Exhibit A is hereby approved and certified to the school districts election coordinator for submission to the school districts electors at a special school election to
be held on August 7 2018 number two the superintendent or designee are authorized to submit the above certified proposal to the school districts election coordinator no later than 4:00 p.m. on May 15 2000 18 the super number three of the two superintendent or designee are further authorized to take any and all action required on the
Michigan election law with regard to the school districts election and number four all resolutions and parts of resolutions insofar as they conflict with the provisions of this resolution I hereby or send it so now is there any additional discussion ready for roll
call no yeah yes yes yeah all right thank you for being patient vocals are very important I didn't mean to make light of the fact that we do need those resolutions we will be working to educate the community and share the word
about the facts about those to make sure everybody understands what's being asked the next item on the agenda is the 2018-2019 staffing okay what a let all the audience know that we will be uploading these presentations into our board packet so the community and
everyone can look at them and and review back at them and so I know there's been a lot of information tonight so they will be up there for everyone to see so this evening I will ask you to present the staffing as listed for the 2018 2019
school year and so inside the packet what I have presented to you for this evening is our current staffing as as as as we see so what I plate for you here is I have a current enrollment of students and in each of our schools and
you can see the trends and so what we've done with staffing and a lot of the staffing that's taking place in our recommendation tonight much of it is based on enrollment and so this is what you've seen in years past but normally it's in a large spreadsheet so I tried to do it in a little different manner
this year and so up above here are our early fives and our two fifth-grade enrollment obviously we don't know about our early fives yet that takes a little bit of time as our children are coming out of gsrp in and they're rolling to kindergarten and we don't have all of
our kindergarten enrollment and so and the same thing down here below is I have our numbers of students in our special ed for us here so what we do is we take a look then at our enrollment and we make projections on our classrooms from there
in the past two years what I present it to you as I've said I'm gonna ask for an extra kindergarten that I'll have you approved now and hold on to that or I'll have I think third grade is about ready to the split and so I'm going to ask you
so I'm not doing any of that this year we're really staffing on just the basics and if we have an enrollment bubble then what this will make us do is come back to you and have that conversation it would come back to the Finance Committee and well I will recommend as we look at that eat up then and say here's where we
are with the eat up where are we splitting wise and so that's a little harder in kindergarten as by contract we can't go above 32 students but in the other grades there's some other decisions you can make based upon our contract and enrollment so you can see
that we're still recommending an early 5s classroom that were reducing kindergarten by one section that we're also reducing first grade by one section in seventh grade second grade it's remaining the same in third grade we're
reducing by two sections in fourth grade we're going up a section and in fifth grade it's remaining the same and that's really based upon the enrollment trends nothing else going through in art it remains the same in music it remains the
same in PE it remains the same but in steam we'll be reducing that down in conversations with administration they felt like we could continue with this same strong steam Elementary program at the elementary level but web requires a full-time steam teacher due to the fact
that they have so many special they have so many special education programs there and to provide teachers with their time and so and well we would be providing a half-time teacher at both Hoover and at
United Oaks due to the grant we currently call them title one teachers we're going to be changing that because what it really does is makes us think more of our Title one grants we'll be changing that to be called MTS s teachers so next year you'll see a different title but it's the same concept those are our intervention
specialist will reducing each school by one full-time teacher if the grant increases and comes back differently then we may come back to you and say these funds have are higher than what we thought they were from the federal government and so this would be an area where we definitely
could increase that base upon federal funding and there's no change in technology no change in our psychologists there is no change in our special education funding other than we're moving 1/2 of a teacher from one building to another just based upon
student enrollment so at our elementary our current staffing is eighty two point eight our staffing for 2018-19 is seventy five point eight our reduction is seven FTE a majority of that is based upon student movement
I've already started taking a look we have a lot of retirements coming in and we have some teachers that will be going and so free early confident that that that would be a comfortable shift for us in the school district questions about
elementary at the junior high you can see the shift we have a reduction of about 18 students in the junior high and you can also see the special education movements that are happening and this is a moment of time so I also will continue
on a weekly basis or bi-weekly basis to update the number of students because we do have students moving in and out of Hazel Park so at the junior high we'll be doing a reduction of an English teacher in a reduction of a math teacher
but science social studies will remain the same computers art are our electives are the ones that are really really tight but we've reformatted to the schedule so we're able to take that 18 student reduction and change that the
way it is we'll be keeping the same project lead the way choir will remain the same PE will remain the same but we will reduce one title one teacher or an MTS s teacher so that schedule is built in but that again may change if we have
an increase of title one funds all other things are remaining the same other than we will have an increase of a point five special education teacher that it will come down from the high school so there won't be any hiring or firing there there's just a reduction of
0.5 from the high school so we had 39.6 at the junior high this year we will have 37 point 1 a reduction of 2.5 teachers at the high school you can see the staffing right now there's looking
like a reduction of 70 students at the high school for next school year you can see right now in English we're remaining the same teachers the number of teachers we have tend to have a high failure rate in our English classes and so right now until
scheduling we're leaving English the way it is the same with math math is a place that our students are struggling with but we are reducing one science teacher and one social studies teacher all the other classes are remaining the same except a point-five special education
teacher there is also the loss of the behavior Dean that's in there as well so that's your 3.5 so we went from 48 point six to forty five point one a reduction of three point five when the students schedule you might see some other
changes that occur we might find some other holes that we haven't found in our staffing and we might come back to you early childhood you can see here that we currently have seven gsrp teachers and associates the change that we have here
throughout here is a reduction of one of the supervisors we had two will reduce to one we additionally have a full-time early on teacher and do the caseload we're recommending that to become a part-time teacher we additionally had five early childhood classrooms
preschool teachers we're reducing that down to zero as well as five Paras so we had 28.2 staffing it's currently recommending 17.7 a reduction of 10.5 at
the district office the recommendation is you can see that everything is remaining the same other than it does it's not really changing think it's a real a misnomer so I just want to kind of break that through back to you guys is that we had a reduction during the school year of our SAS person
that left us from Oakland schools and so that reduction shows up there there was a so there's a financial savings in there but there's not a change next year from what was currently in place right now at this moment in our Center
programs you can see the change in the numbers Jardine will be losing about 20 students next year the real point out a lot of students leaving the jar down and graduating we hope to encourage some other students to join us from Jordan but you can see that so we'll be
reducing one classroom at jardín for next school year and then also a transition specialist that haven't currently already this school year but we're putting it in the staffing so 40.2 staff members this year and 38.2 next
year it's a reduction of two at the advantage program we currently have five teachers we've currently will remain the same we currently have two special education teacher and that's where our reduction is happening to advantage the recommendation is move down to one
special education teacher so we're going from 11 and advantage down to 10 and that reduction would be one special education teacher at adult education we currently have 12 staff members and we would recommend in 2018-19
a staffing of 1 remain and that would be to help doing the scheduling of our vendor programs and can hit continue to assist with that and that's down to reduction of 11 to adult education so one of the things I think I would say to
those that are listening to those that carry on is that I know that this is very very difficult but we do know that getting out here early and having some of these conversations for those that are in early childhood in an Adult Ed that would help facilitate them looking
for jobs some of those jobs could be very much internally as movement starts to happen in Hazel Park and other districts around us for those when we look at the cuts that being done internally k12 we need to remember that there are retirements there's lots of people that are looking
to retire as well as there's others that will look for jobs and so I always kind of try to remember for everybody take a breath relax let's have some conversations before we panic because there's very much it's very likely that if you remember at the last layoffs I
came in to a long list of layoffs and before I left those layoffs right almost everybody was asked back on those layoffs and so we want to really think about before we panic over our jobs and those things as well so I know this is very difficult it is not anything that
any superintendent or any board member wants to be a part of or in a community member for that manner so the next step is requesting your approval of the staffing for 2018-19 and then we will begin to work with the buildings and
identify people in positions based upon administrative procedures and board policies and then again a lot of changes could happen in the meantime based upon enrollment we could end up with more students starting to enroll and then we also could have a grants that increase and that could change some of the
conversations here and then retirements will continue to give you updates at board meetings regarding this information any questions with some of the enrollment forecast for next year could you just explain you said that we're graduating a large class
and so that helps I mean that's where some of your numbers changes right can you explain the bubble I think I've heard you refer to it as right so when you look at the high school program and I look back here you can see that our
total number for 2019 we're projecting 836 students at the high school and we currently have 907 and really what it is is we're graduating a larger class and the freshman they eighth grade class coming in from the junior high is
smaller so again open enrollment starts April 1st and we're going to actually right before spring break send out the re-enrollment to all of our current students and in a memo that I will send out in the next week will be a reminder to parents the best thing you can do for
us as we're looking at teacher positions etc is to rien last summer we did a lot of ice cream socials I'm gonna start asking that maybe we have some enrollment nights before the school year ends to try to get people in here to enroll that's the best way for us to
start going we've already already started making calls to children coming out of preschool Academy remember which is the whole reason we did preschool Academy is to get people to enroll in kindergarten as well as gsrp to get them in here to enroll early so we can really look at those kindergarten numbers so
that's the best thing we can do right is communicate to say come on in and kindergarten parents and enroll we have to kindergarten nights also we have a second one in May to enroll people as well I mean it's it's in in Michigan and fortunately Emel said Illinois in
Michigan unfortunately whether we like it or not the funding since proposition a right proposal has really been based upon numbers of students and that's really where that happens the way to change this right now for Hazel Park is
our number of students we are cut down to the basics I think this still provides us with appropriate class where they're not over running you know when I walked in some of them had class sizes remember of 45 and what-have-you
so we have to be really conscientious of that and so that's the conversation will keep coming back to you about that other questions I think we need a motion for this still right yes please
can I get a motion for staffing please support of education of proof is staffing for the 2018-19 school year as presented second all right any other discussion on this this is just a start some cuts all right you're
still looking like future for the following school years or how's this work so so these are the staffing cuts that and we've already the other ones are programmatic cuts that we won't recommend to you these will take take
care of what we just presented to you tonight so this puts in place getting us on the roll to that five hundred and ninety thousand dollars that we presented to you tonight what we're not bringing to you what we'd have to bring to you those people that we've pink slip
and so that would come at a future date and we would have conversations obviously we have conversations with people first and then we would bring those to you and different people would come at different times you know some of them are not Union some of them are Union so those happen in different ways
and so but this is we've presented to you tonight a tremendous amount of cuts there might be things because every day we continue to look for ways to save district for the money because you know truly our piece has been we want to keep
cuts as far away from children and from the staff because we know the amount of cuts that they've taken in the past but our goal also is to keep Hazel Park functioning independently which we know that that I think that's the goal of
board of education as well is is to in collaboration with Oakland schools in the finance Department and you as a Board of Education to be able to make decisions independently as a board to continue to do the great work that's been happening here in the last three years for kids and you're starting I hope we get to that point tonight you'll be able to
start seeing the results that's really happening to it for our students in Hazel Park and they're remarkable all right Broco no yep here yes can't been yes mister Hempel yes mrs. Semple yes come on
yes Adkins yes next item on the agenda is that he's a park youth assistant sponsorship do a motion for this I make a motion to approve the payment of one thousand five hundred for the one-year
sponsorship of the Hazel Park youth assistance discussion all right welcome mr. Hempel yes yes yes
Hammond's yes No yes yeah yes all right next item is curriculum update we have I guess animes Hays / high school course
proposals I would like to bring forth a two-year consideration for two new high school courses both of those are very in line with our goal to really increase stem in career in college readiness as well as align with our visions of highly
ambitious math and science and I'm also our strategic plan and our mission of really innovating through technology so I think as as we talked about really helping people understand that are very aligned with our goals he's one of the reasons that we are bringing forth these courses the first one that I'd like to
bring to your consideration is Project Lead the Way principles of engineering course this is actually the second course and the foundational practically the way courses currently we are looking at we currently we have three sections of introduction to engineering and this
is really just the next course in that pathway we feel that this is definitely something that our kids are going to benefit from it's going to really inspire them in terms of some of those STEM disciplines and their future aspirations and really as I said the next pathway course for project Lee the
way if we are going to go to some of the further courses what we would be proposing to do is that we currently have three sections of introduction to engineering we would replace one of those sections with principles of engineering and the recommendation is is
that moving forward we would again have that as an elective credit so students could earn science math and/or visual Performing Arts credit for that and that would be a full year course one of the things that we think is really a
with this course is really it's again focusing on that whole critical thinking ban little pull and math skills it's really very project-based as one as metric one of the things that's really a big component of that course is that it's going to bring more opportunities for our students to engage in robotics
and programming and coding which we again we know our skills that we really need to support and bring forth for our students another real beneficial piece of this puzzle is that our current project Li the way teacher Eric Vader already has training he came to us with a tremendous amount of training so it really would
not incur any cost in terms of training so we are bringing forth that for your consideration and we are recommending that that is approved you'll notice that there are some costs for materials and those materials would come out of the curriculum budget and well within the
budget cuts that we made to that curriculum so we are recommending and asking for your consideration and proving that course yes how many students do we have taking these classes the engineering courses I don't actually
have those exact numbers but I certainly could get them for you again we have three sections of them I think it was approximately we were trying to limit those courses because they are very project-based courses and they really had needs smaller numbers so kids can really engage I don't have
again exact numbers but I certainly can give those two this is a classroom credit during the day time yes absolutely this would give the ones that have taken the intercourse the next yep it would be the next step that is the prerequisite is the introduction to
engineering course I move that we accept the administration's recommendation and prove the high school course Project Lead the Way principles of engineering as I second any other discussion all right roko no yes Hammond yes can't then
this mister Hempel yes mrs. temple yes flap yes okay yes all right the next day I'm with the lean fundamentals so this is the second course that I wanted to bring to you
tonight and once again it is very focused and in line with all of the STEM disciplines and our strategic plan really innovating and really pulling kids into some active engagement and above and beyond just those great foundational principles what this does is really connect us with industry so
this opportunity actually came by way of our connections with Oakland University I as you know I've done a lot of work with Open University School of Engineering as well of a school is it as well as the School of Education and out at Oakland University they have a lean Learning Center and lean manufacturing
is really a strong component of many organizations both internationally and nationally and it's really a core skill that really companies and really higher ed organizations are really looking for in students and what this does is it
really brings forth teaching kids how to function as a team in teams it's very simulation based there's a lot of opportunities for them to apply critical thinking math skills a lot of opportunities to interact with
professionals in the in the field and in addition one of the really big positives to this course is that after they go through it they will actually have a certificate of completion in lean manufacturing which they can put on their resume and one of the really
beneficial pieces to this is that they are piloting this course they have currently done it in Clinton Dale schools with a lot of positive success and they're looking for other school districts that are willing to do this and other high schools to give them feedback they have worked very closely
with Oakland University to design a really foundational curriculum that is built on Common Core State Standards and then is aligned with all the things that we are really paying looking for in terms of our visions of math and science another big benefit is that because they are piloting and they
want feedback gives it's of no cost to the district they are giving all us of all of us the materials from I have a book if anyone would like to look at it a textbook that was written primarily to work with high school students they are asking for no dollars associated with
that and in addition to that our Project Lead the Way teacher who is the one that we are considering because of his background would also have the opportunity to go to a lean Learning Center and take a course that is normally a $2,500 course for free so it's one of those opportunities for our
kids that really is so beneficial it really connects them with industry and really in our estimation it's a win-win because there's no cost to our kids but they're gaining a lot from it so we are asking for your consideration improving that as well we accept the
administration's recommendation improve the high school course lean fundamentals as presented information any other discussion yes it's gonna be like a daytime class as well yes absolutely so currently Garrett teaches two courses
called introduction to technology we are going to replace one of those with this course but this course really has a lot of components of technology involved in it as well as it has both face-to-face and online and a lot of simulation based
experiences so we think it's really going to cover a lot of things that they introduction technology course currently covers so with this being what happens like how long of a pilot program is it going to take these kids from ninth grade to twelfth grade or at one point are they're gonna say we're done with
hazel you know we're done with the your pilot program now here's the fee because if that's the case I would say don't even jump into it so this is a semester course when I went to talk to them I said you know just a semester course isn't gonna work for us can you at least
extend it to a year right now basically what they're saying is is we're going to give you these materials to use free at the end of that pilot we're gonna ask throw new materials back but it's really an really small amount we keep the small amount to
you though in terms of the materials fee them chairs are really not very expensive so we could certainly purchase those as well I mean literally maybe well my thing is is that you know and then I think these are great programs I like the stem and all that or steam whatever
but I think we're jumping in and a whole bunch of different little things so instead if this is going to cost the district money which could be a great program I would rather to us just keep what we have in place and saying hey thank you but you know we can't put out
any more money we've got we've got all these different things going that's costing curriculum money and this is just something added and I'm afraid that you know we're cutting we need to save and it's something that's great but at the same time you know we have to look at it a different angle I think what I'm
understanding from this is that it's a pilot for one semester to say hey if our kids are interested in it it's no cost us so we're to write a little program to replace it with that's my spot we're replacing a program don't replace the program we're just replacing one class
to put this class look at the program practically the way still here so yet when you started Project Lead the Way just like we did in the junior high you had to start with many classes up the beginning and then you have to have options for them to move into so then the freshmen coming in has the basics and then the other children have to have
options of where they can go - right and just like what we just did approved on the last one here's the next course and once we get in and it's great then that's where the cost starts coming because now we have it in place we like it but now here's the cost and then here's the cost for the next one and here's the cost for the next one and I
think that the one is great I'm just I have concerns about this did you say it was gonna impact for the whole year familiar you asked a birthday year so there would be no cost next year right so after that point we would have to make decision on whether we've continued it based on the feedback absolutely it's
a pilot they are looking to pilot it and really feedback from high schools I am more than happy to give you all the curriculum if anyone would like to review it it's I think it's one of those opportunities it and I appreciate you understand where you coming from in terms of the cost but it's one of those
opportunities because there is no cost this year that really can give our kids you know it's certification and a lot of information and opportunities that they're not normally going to have and I want to just remind all of you that they teach lean manufacturing at nine-mile the UAW plant and that's what they teach
to their employees this is this is huge for the company I work for word little company and this is just preach to preached and preached about at all of our facilities so I mean this is a big deal for a ticket that certification be able start out in the company right after high school to be able to have
that certification as should go on a resume if if I were to get an applicant to come into our assembly facility with it on their resume that would put them above the other applicants I mean we hire at that facility with the high
school diploma so and we were see that come if they would get to the top of the list question at the bottom of the paper it says still pending as a point five science or math credit what does that already use to so we really need to dig
in and make sure that what credit we're applying to it is appropriate so it's going to be an elective credit and it could be a science or a math or official Performing Arts and usually with those courses it's not one of the other students can select what it's going to be applied for when you look deeply into
the content it looks like one of those well we'll definitely your fall into either science or math okay alright any other can we move to a roll call okay no yes Hammond's yes Canton feels mister Hempel
yes yes yes yes all right next item is the high school summer school proposal move that we accept the recommendation approve the
high school summer school program is presented I get a second I second of this motion looks like it's $39,000 to come on their use with our 31 80s I
would like you to present is that correct Karla it's the $39,000 gpus for 30 31 8 yes that is correct and in short for the most but I'm here to for a year who love the high school summer school program which would run as
it has in the past it will be a six weeks program June 25th through July 27 where students will receive free breakfast and lunch we are reducing the amount of staff this year we're asking for a total of seven teachers where the majority would be the credit recovery
online teachers and we are looking for one face to face teacher there preferably would be one of the math teachers as we talked about earlier because many of our students need remediation with math and the credit recovery courses or online would be for
remediation or acceleration the cost as you see is thirty nine thousand three hundred twelve dollars for those seven teachers which would include the teacher hourly rate their benefits the hours per day which we want to through eight
thirty two three four days a week six weeks and the cost for the class for students would be forty dollars per class are there any questions if pretty much is going to be running the same way as it has in the past for the high school summer school program and I'll be back shortly or next month
with the update for the literacy for elementary I want to point out that one we increase the cost we doubled the cost where the students and then also one of the reasons why is is so important is that what a write it helps our high school students catch up and if if they
didn't take some of these classes and we have large number of students we'd have to program farm during the school year so the cost of 39,000 is less than a teacher during the school year so it's really important that as we looked at the other program cost this is one that actually saves us money for the amount
of students that end up taking classes any other discussion questions all right no yep yes yes yes enrollment update did
this just have continued to include our enrollment for you and will continue to update this town an ongoing basis for you at every meeting thank you alright I know we have a few more items I guess I want to pause this point to make sure the board wants to continue with the
final items on the agenda I know we're running a little long tonight me fine with you okay we're good we're gonna finish all right superintendent update so we have NWA
aimsweb data presentation so I'm happy to have the opportunity to come back to you to discuss our most recent round of NWA testing in addition to NWA testing I also have some slides in here that talk about aimsweb plus we didn't bring that to you last time but
we think it's important because we have a lot more information and that's really going to show you some of the improvements that are making and really help also helps us really improve some of the things that we're doing with our classrooms informing our instruction as well as our intervention model so the
first thing that I want to talk about is that there is a much larger extensive report that was developed that dr. poopy has that we hope to have an opportunity to share with you at a later date when we have more time to dig in so this really is just a snapshot of some of the highlights that we found with the data
and some of the celebrations as well as some areas that we continue to need a focus on them so one of the things that I have always started these presentations with our rich scores it's what we're used to seeing and hearing about with nwe scores as I dug into it though what I really wanted to do was
say okay so we've been doing this for two and a half years what are the trends that we actually are seeing so what I chose to do rather than just showing you the rich scores from this year was to compare it to the performance of a winter last year 2017 and this first
slide right here is summarizing math and you as you can see there a significant change there so basically what this is is showing that for example in let's just say let's look at fourth-grade here
in the winter of 2017 on average the rit score of our fourth graders was 194 point 5 and in the winter of 2018 it's at 199 as an average and you can see if you look at the whole graph that really has cared carried through all of our
elementary grades even into our junior high level as well now one of the things is really exciting about that as that as you know math has been an area that would really tried to focus on we have the brand new curriculum and a curriculum in place and even in one year we're seeing a big change in our
students so the blue line in fourth grade with that either red line would be this new thousand seventeen so if they're in fourth grade in 2017 they're in fifth grade in 2018 and the red line
yes and so what this isn't so just sit and I'm glad that you brought that up I was going over that this is not necessarily cohort data what this is really looking at is okay when we take our pool of fourth graders last year versus our pool of fifth or fourth graders this year
what were their average rate scores but you can determine from here that there are some grade levels yes that are dropping but overall what we're seeing from one grade level to the next is an increase now with the RIC scores that really just that's hard to contextualise so some of the slides I'm going to show
you the next couple of minutes are going to get you a better sense of the girls they were making this one right here is really reading and once again we see that the average scores on you know from
winter 2017 to winter 2018 we've seen some nice brook where you're really seeing the change you know down here in our kindergarten classrooms you can see that carried out k12 throughout the presentation the key takeaway from that is that it's so critical that we're
building strong early literacy in early numeracy skills because as we look at our students as you go up you can see that the increases are kind of decreasing as soon as we build those strong foundational skills in our early literacy and math that's gonna start to
close that yeah so the next area that I'd like to look at and this is the really exciting area is our the percent of our students who are meeting growth projections so for any of you that have received those reports you
know that when you get that report it says this is your child's RIT score and this is the this is the percent growth that we expected them to see we have some really nice growth especially in our Cape whoops our elementary level down here where we
have 66 percent of our students meeting their expected growth goals that is significant and I'm going to show you in a minute how it compares to last year of the percentage of our students are meeting those profiles once again look what you see here strong strong foundational skills in our
lower elementary we're still meeting on number of our students meeting their growth goals in our upper elementary and junior high just not a significant but still meeting this is really just a graphical representation of that it's a little bit easier to look at so
basically the blue line or the bar shows our observed growth and that diamond shows where our schools actually land it so it's really critical that one to see that diamond with in depth uber here's where you can see if it change so
once again this is the percentage of students in 2017 meaning their growth goals compared to the percentage of students in 2018 beating their growth Falls look at what we see here in kindergarten and this is a really critical piece here - because these kids
are committed to our school district for the first time this is really talking about the impact of our curriculum right here last year in 2017 50% of our students remaining their expected growth goals this year
66% significant increase you can see that carried out throughout all of our elementary grades you can up into our junior high in terms of our eighth grade question that's different students each year it is different students each year
and norm like I said normally we show you cohort data but since we can see that that patterns carried out every year it's certainly different students but we can see our year year that it's maintaining that definitely it's a pattern that's really maintaining across
all years but it's growth so that's a different conversation if Madison rope did you get a degree here and so when we talk about wanting to develop Ward goals and to say what are we looking at what you want to develop is now we're able to
have almost a three year trend and so when you want to say how much expected growth would we have at third grade now you can look at three years and say which is what the state does Greg you look at things what is an average 3-year growth and when you get longer periods of times before the three years ago we
didn't have that W a we didn't have data so now you have this to say all right well I'd like to see this amount of expected growth and you also have national norms that you can look at so what would that mean and so you you do want to start looking at what is hazel harms expected growth for a third grader
what is it for a fourth grader and you're starting to see that rise from year to year and then you can develop some Hort goals about what those expectations well I think that what's important about this is its individual student ruffles so basically when they take that ripped
test or than when they take that NWA test in the fall there's an expected amount of growth that they assume that the students are going to achieve based on national norms and that's what this is showing so this is based on individual students meaning their
expected growth goals that's why this is really really critical yes it has to do with the rit scores but it's not just looking at a first-rate scores it's looking at how much growth that individual student make and are they meeting with the growth goals for them individually so that's what this information is showing so this to me is
even more helpful and even more powerful than what we're seeing with the RIC scores because it gives you a better glimpse or about a snapshot of the impact that what we're doing is having on kids big differences are happening and you're gonna start to see that carried out throughout this whole presentation and Stephanie one of the things too I just
want to mention is that the state will start grading us not only on proficiency but also on growth and when we can release that to you we'll be able to show you that through the m-step so they're waiting that proficiency that an NWA but on the m-step for us when they rate the school
districts and as dr. poopy shared we will be sharing that once it's embarked upon and embargoed but we did see a lot of growth in our students last year and it carried out through em stuff as well we're not talking about necessarily the proficiency those are different the
proficiency sports are different than growth but we were seeing some nice growth in those two and we are looking forward to bringing that forth as soon as we can so once again this is just that reading that glimpse of reading you can see that we have a lot of areas
where we're doing really nicely however we know there are some areas that we have some pockets that we need a focus on so what we do with this data is that once we look at it we look at it at the district level we look at the building level we also have student teachers looking at it on their own
class we know this is an area of focus in first grade we know that our 5th grade is an area of focus we also know that our this is invest over here so that's not necessarily something that we're spending our whole total focus on but it
is something that we are considering and working with as we look at what those students are performing how they're doing as well it's not really a measure
for high school overall and invest is a an organization that it would be very helpful for so you would give it to high school at-risk students more than you would for a general population of high school so invest chose to because of its at-risk population give it just like we
give it at our alternative high school so once again that you can see this is focused on the percent of students that are meeting their growth norms again this is personal growth norms and you
see large large differences in terms of the percent of students meeting growth goals and yes these are different groups of students but it's still important to see that our kindergarteners last year only 44% of them met their growth goals
this year 65% of those students so we could sometimes attributed a little bit of a change to the fact that that's a different group of students but this isn't a difference this is a huge really large impact and you can see that carried out again through our elementary
grades a couple's two screens man big difference fourth grade is doing great and then followed by eighth grade and that happened back I think we might have a problem because we have a so many transient the kids move so much from
here but I just noticed fourth in eighth grade this one right here yeah the fourth grade and then down and say mind that other it's just kinda weird it's the same grades I just was wondering and in again it's a it's a big conversation
among us when we look at this data but one of the things that I wanted to point out that I think you're going to start to see that he's a trend is that if you recall last year it was actually third graders we had significant issues we'd go up k12 and
then boom third graders than our four and five would be okay and our junior high we've always kind of hovered around the same spot one of the things that we're not seeing is as many dips in third grade this year so what that's telling us is that things that we're doing k12 all the impact intervention
their work with our curriculum which we've really dug in on and our lower elementary is starting to make a difference but those are definitely areas that we're looking at and something that we really need to study and look at so I'm not going to go
through all the slides here did you wanna interject but one of the things that I think that we brought out very strongly in most our presentations is the performance of our students in our
subpopulations and this I believe is significant information I have the privilege of having all of these presentations in front of me when I look at this data and what I noticed was last year a couple of our subpopulations the
gap wasn't huge but there was a significant gap if you look at the trends here even the trend line of how much it's increasing between our subpopulations I can tell you this some are black or african-american sub
population last year was at this point on a downward trend and was significantly lower I could certainly bring those presentations back to the board just to review those as well at another time this is huge for our school district there's probably not a whole lot of school districts I know we've set
this before but it's even closing even more significantly where you're going to see this type of data it really speaks to the fact that really we're focusing on all students and really meeting the needs of those individual students we will go through these quickly I know it's late I'm not going to take you
through all the slides but I want to spend a little bit of time on this too because this takes us back to those rich scores but what this is doing is it's comparing it to the national norms and this is another really really important area of growth because what this is saying if you
notice the green bar is below range the red is within range and what that's talking about is in terms of the risk score and there's a standard deviation deviation of a little bit higher or a little bit lower the scores could be so
that's within the range that's kind of it would be a little bit below or a little bit above and we have students that are above the norm what I want to point out there's some of the changes that we're seeing so this is going this is just strictly this year now so what
you'll see is the fall compared to the winter what we want to see is we want to see something like this an increased number of students above the norm we want to see more students within the
range and then this being the lowest of all so you can see right here look at the change here in second grade we went from 34% of our students above the norm rate so this is comparing it to the national norms now which is a conference
conversation we keep happening and now we have forty five point six percent of our second graders above the norm rate that's not something that happen in all of our grade levels would even see some nice patterns here so first grade in the fall we have 26% above the norm rate
compared to 34 this is an area we've talked about we know that we still need to build this up but we still see some increases here one of the things that we really need focus on here is that in the fall we had 47% of our students in third
grade below range that's decreased to 39% so again maybe not that trendline that we want to see with significant growth in terms of above norm down to a middle range of within norm reducing the low range but we're still seeing a lot of growth and a lot of
progress and this is that same information for grades 5 6 & 7 we know that these are areas that we need a focus on so we actually in some of these grade levels we've had some decreases so this is definitely a conversation that
we're having what we're doing at the building levels is we're digging into this data and we're asking the questions we're going through the problem-solving driver and putting actions in place to really intervene and build these groups of students up so the last set of slides is really
focused on Ian's webplus there is a tremendous amount of data frames webplus I've only brought a snippet of it because the true presentation probably has about 65 or 70 slides which I would not have done to you and a lengthy board
meeting so basically what this is showing is this is giving us a snippet into the transition in terms of they call tears that really show a nice visual of the impact of what we're doing basically the green tier is what they're
categorizing it as students who are at a low risk for not meeting their spring targets the yellow as you can see up here the key is noted right up here in the presentation your students at
moderate risk for not being the spring both fill truffles and then we have our students at high risk this right here is showing you information for kindergarten and again once again I did not show you all grade levels I just pulled a few select grade
levels for you to see and you can see significant change that is really impactful and one I might add is also significantly similar to what we're seeing with NWA that's a really really important piece because we're not only
seeing it one type of test we're seeing it in another type of standardized test and that means that the results that we're seeing are really really adequate and really solid themselves so basically what you're noticing is that transition here this is our early literacy and this
is our early numeracy again literacy skills huge we know that's a key critical component of what we're doing here and getting those things in place it's going to impact for years and years as we start to close that gap this is just a glance into a more visual way of
looking at that in addition to the Tier transitions which is what you saw in the previous screen it also talks on our students performance compare to national levels and you'll see right down here I'm not going to read all these but you can see it in your presentation as well for example if you
look at our kindergarteners what we notice is the average gain for this group was 50 points compared to the average gain nationally of 37 points in terms of growth that's significant a real celebration where we can have I
believe it says the early literacy skill growth rates for 70% of this group we're above the national norms that's a huge huge celebration and one that we really need to say you know what as we said we knew we had to put the hard work and we need we knew we had to put that
curriculum in we knew we had to dig deep and it would have impact and that's what this is showing so once again this is our fourth grade you can see the same thing here maybe not quite as dramatic but you're still seeing a lot of change well of course we want to see is we want
to see this green area the low risk get bigger we want this right here to be the second and then we want this to be the smallest and that's what you see over here in math one of the things that I wanted to point out that I think is really really important is that we've
sort of expected our ela in English to increase because we've been really digging in for two years on that and this is the first year with math we didn't know that the impact would be as significant as fast as as it is and it definitely played out that way and one
of the things that I think is really instrumental is that was this very strong foundational curriculum plus our elementary teachers have had two years of understanding of how the curriculum works they've had two years of understanding what those frameworks can do and see and it's really showing an
impact in our students this is our sixth grade - your transition again this is an area that we are definitely focusing on because there are some areas where although we have a lot of celebrations this is an air that we really need to focus on because we have to ask the question you know how
is our Tier three or more effort students increasing rather than decreasing at this point but we did see a nice area of growth and math for our sixth graders and again brand-new curriculum been an area that's really something that we need to focus on and
we're starting to see some games and then here is a snippet of our eighth grade as well again reading it's pretty flat we really didn't see a big change but that's good at least we didn't see a big increase in to our more at-risk but
you can see here with our math it's an area of focus for us so once again this is just really giving you a snippet into aimsweb aimsweb also has a national benchmarking data that we can share with you at a later date but I thought it was important for you to see the tier transitions because that really gives a
good visual and it also helps you see that our data was consistent between MWA names web Plus so I think I've talked about most of these things right here is that really what this data suggests and
I'm always going to say suggest because this is only two and a half years of data and we don't you know this is only initial implementation of curriculum so that's why I always use the word suggest because some of the overarching conclusions are that the ela and math curriculum along with the instructional frameworks are having a significant
impact on growth especially in grades K through four the intentional focus on building strong early literacy and early numeracy skills is having an impact on student achievement over time and that's referenced with their performance and shift in our 3rd graders and our 4th
graders as well and really the performance gaps between our subpopulations have continued to decline and this piece right here I think is one that we should really be proud of is that the gaps between our students and the national average which we always continue to compare ourselves to which
we should are starting to decrease we're seeing big growth and print and change in that so some of the actions that we're taking again there's a lot of conversations about this in the schools and we're doing this not only at the district level we're doing this at the building and all teachers have access to all of
this data on their individual students so we have opportunities to triangulate or look at multiple data sources which we know and we're looking at data is important one snapshot doesn't tell the whole story so it's really critical to look at multiple sources because all those data points tell you a little bit
different information we know that so basically another action that's occurred is that we have more building networks utilizing this data if we think back to our blueprint model we have the district network that guides the decision making at the district level
and we have our blueprints that are doing that at the building level so we have this information not only being discussed at the district network but filtering down to a lot of conversation our building building network which was occurring last year as well but there's just an expanded conversation I had an
opportunity about two or three weeks ago to melt meet with all of the elementary principals and also the Junior High Principal and the conversation was and it was exciting to me because they reached out to me and said we want to spend some more time with you and understand how to use this data so we're really digging into the data and we're
using it we're not just doing it just to test kids and get data we're using it another really big area of action is our continued focus on becoming more skilled at using the problem-solving driver and that's the way that we really as a system and as an organization look at
data have conversations about data and make decisions that really inform instruction and interventions we know that we need to continue professional learning opportunities to understand the new curriculum and instructional frameworks especially in grades six through eight who as we know are near
one we know that our elementary have had two years of this so they really understand it so now we really need to dig in with our junior High's teachers as well who are doing an amazing job there's re changes and impacts happening but we just need to dig in a little bit deeper and then continue professional
learning focus on and give the NWA names web plus assessment tools again we don't just want to use this data and have kids looking at or students taking assessments just to take them we really want to make sure it's really something to inform what we're doing and then it's really giving us an
opportunity and as dr. koop you mentioned now that we have this two and a half years worth of data to really dig in and develop some really solid really strong short and long-term growth goals and performance benchmarks for our school district so hopefully inside
you're feeling a little knot a little bit a lot of pride for what's being what's going on in the district hopefully any teachers that are listening in are feeling really good about the work that they're doing because as we know when you start making changes like that it really demands a lot of you to really dig in deep to
reflect on your practice and change and all of our teachers are rising to the occasion so I was actually really excited to come to the board tonight if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer those and as I said we are hoping that we have an opportunity to maybe spend some time at maybe a another
opportunity to really dig in deep and pull in not only this but also our PSAT data which we haven't looked at and hopefully that can coincide when we get the OK from the state to share some of our accountability data that just recently came out I know that we've been
talking about doing like a separate data meeting there's so much here and the presentation we got was the full presentation was like 65 pages and I know that we we've been talking about an opportunity to kind of dig in that with you you and dr. Kirby and kind of see
what's any of you some of those questions you guys are asking at that at the grade level so she was some of those great levels where we see there's maybe like a decrease or we really don't know why so we know maybe how to kind of support that as a board so looking forward to like a separate meeting not
at 10 o'clock at night on a Monday well in one of the things I was going to say and I think this board members brought this up is that this is not cohort data right and I think it's important for us to look at that so at a later time it would have that cohort tape so we can really say you know what's happening to
our students as they're going up in our system and that's another critical critical piece that we need to reflect on an answer so I'm really excited about everything in this I was so excited to go through this a sad Saturday knocks I'm exhausted here yeah
compared to where we were three years ago we had no data what we had no insight we had nothing to measure our growth during the year I just think that we're leaps and bounds from that and now we know exactly what areas we need to focus on we can see the effects of what we're rolling out this is huge because
before we only had the meat for the m-step once a year we weren't doing anything really with it because it came out so late and all that so I'm excited about this I my seventh grader brought home her results we went through her individual map results we could see her last I was at five or six assessment um mapping I could tell where this she's
staying in her her percentage or when she drops and she's in seventh grade and she didn't meet all of her objectives and then I look at this and I see oh there's some stuff in the seventh grade that maybe she's she's among a trend she's in so anyways I I I was excited to be able to review this with her I think as a parent you're giving us data on how
they're doing and where they where they they measure and what their percentages are and so is this is really this is really good information I agree that we do need to spend some more time on it so that we can all kind of absorb it and see and set some some board goals that are data-driven so we know to expect as
well anybody else I'm at all right um if that's it then we will move on thank you very much you Stephanie alright legislative update no legislative date update tonight I think you have plenty
in my weekly letter thank you community engagement committee is there an update and I think we can skip that for tonight and do it in another time thank you alright any board member administration comments to wrap up I just like to thank
you being separated I'm encouraged to bring some of these hard topics into conversation and your presentation tonight that's not easy to talk about especially in the climate that we're in so I appreciate you putting something
together that's easy to understand and we really hope that our community members will understand them as well and stop being so cruel on social media I mean it so we want to enact our our bullying policy here at the school district we need to stop being mean to
each other and we definitely need to stop the means of a superintendent who's trying to drive this change here in the district that we're trying to leave so I'm just gonna leave it on that note that let's all work with the team let's pull together as a family and much just
navigate these treacherous waters together so thank you just something really quick so you know don't be afraid to contact your house representative Robert Wittenberg or your son at representative in st. Gregory about the lack of funding for schools in
Michigan it's an election year they're listening so call them up email them hit them on their Facebook page something let them know that we're watching and we need more money for school and I just have something real quick um the
Wednesday I think it was last week Wednesday or Thursday the day that they had the big the walkout day and the other team today okay um I didn't find out like on Thursday or Friday that some of the kids had and parents were
concerned that with security they were told that the school board wouldn't hire an outside security firm to keep them kind of secured and you know they want the you know the administration that asked for it and I just want to make it
clear that we did it was brought up to us to hire and sighs security firm but in my head it was more of an outside security hall monitor firm so we did vote it down but it wasn't because we weren't worried
about your kids because my kids are going to these schools too so your kids are just as much important as mine so I would never ever if there was a security problem that was offered to us they would benefit us that I would never vote
it down but I just wanted to be clear that that was brought up at this I don't forum whatever but we as a board we have the year children and our host interest and we would never ever put them at risk
that our schools are safe and we will continue to make them safe oh my god I make a motion we adjourn parents