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I think's good okay um Wrong by one minute so I called the Hazel Park Board of Education Committee of the whole meeting to order on February 10th 2025 at 5:30 do we have a roll call beon here Becker here Fortress present box
here FR boy here reie here here uh approval of the agenda motion I I make a motion to approve the agenda as written word any discussion on the agenda no uh wait maybe no we're good okay rule call foress yes R yes Beaton
yes Becker yes Fox yes the FR Boy Yes K yes so I have a public comment I have a couple of people here I have Ryan Bishop State your name and address and you have three minutes ran Bish 1309 East Milton I came a couple meetings all
right uh ran not sure it not um I came in a couple Mees ago to talk about the lock situation I just want to bring it back up to the board's attention see if something can get done about it and then and today when I was looking at the agenda documents before I came in I was going through the uh credit holder account activity and on page 99 there's a very large charge for $1,785 to RI in equipment I
just wanted know more information about that and that's it okay we'll get that information before the meeting I think when uh we get our budget report we can ask some questions all right thank you and I have Miss suul suamp 123 East Cas um I'm here tonight I just have a few questions
I know you have safety committees and I'm just kind of curious why we don't have any security sitting in on the safety committees when you have them we have the Dena student who oversees uh the security team but we have Security in each building and I think it would just be kind of nice to even rotate security to set in on these meetings my other question is I'm on the athletic boosters and we were told we had to remove oursel from school with our uh our uh
supplies and I'm asking that maybe the board would rethink and give the boosters back a closet we do it for other outside activities we got dance we got Junior Vikings we are storing their stuff and we are a scholarship fund for students so I'm asking that the board would consider giving us room back in the schools and to Mr um Bishop's question I work at the high school in security the only thing in our building that has the same keys
and locks are the teachers doors so if we have a sub it's easier to get into one room from another but we do not have keys for the outside exterior doors so I don't see it being so much of a safety issue that way and that's all I got thank you thank you um you don't have anything about power school did you have anything on Power School suit no no nothing okay all right thank you uh anybody
else so we're on new business new uh hiring a pair of professional this is Kale's good evening I am coming today uh we have a candidate who is um wanting to work for the district uh this particular candidate does have a felony charge um
and so I am bringing it to your attention that we would like to come next week with a Clos session and discuss the background of this particular candidate uh just like we have in the past um so that is why I'm here anybody have any questions there discussion time no questions what school um it would probably end up being at the junior high oh okay and you're going to bring that we'll bring the record in the details to the close session next week yeah we'd have a brief close session on just like
we did before um and then uh should we accept we would bring the name out at that time okay okay thank you okay uh next is uh would it still be you oh well thank you for the resumees that we asked for and then policy I'm going to delay we'll talk about that another time because we need to dive into policy buildings and grounds and I have promised Navigator so I thought that
was Mrs K's or Mrs uh gley uh what hand up date were you looking on the pr Navigator it's just on the just as update so I wasn't sure what you guys were looking for I wasn't sure I don't know who put it on the agenda or if there was a question about it anybody have question I didn't put on it nope it it's just like we forgot to eras it is it posted I guess yes the elementary positions are posted okay all great thanks uh Long
Fellow is best this is Greg or Carla oh miss gley Mrs Gresley yes hi um I am um uh kind of helping with the Longfellow because that's going to be my my movement there um and one of the things that we could not put in the grant is this environmental check that um we needed in order for us
to get permits and move forward so the construction company is ready we've ordered our stuff and as they were going through this um we can now get licensed by the city and not the state we can get our permits from the city because we're an assembly and not a school so we've changed some of that but in order for us to move forward we uh were told we needed an environmental inspection and because an inspection can't be be associated with the construction company we have to pull it out of the Grant and
have it have it uh paid by us so I brought it to you hopefully we can get it passed tonight so that we can move forward we're ready to go we got the Hammers in hand and and things ordered any questions so this is coming out of the general fund not the fund for the community school fund correct correct um like like I said unfortunately um I uh we've been
meeting to catch up on this um this project and the general contractor said this is something that they really cannot be associate they we can't invoice them we can't because it's an inspection they have to be not part of it is it a disallowable expense of the Grant from the state or is it just not able to be completed by the construction company that we had already approved it it cannot be put into our grant from what I understand it is not in
our part of the million dollars okay so then I my question is this is testing for environmentally unsafe materials I'm assuming correct and I do believe that we did get an inspection two or three years ago and again I'm coming into this a little late um I think this was all something that was taken care of by someone else so I'm now taking this this piece over um but I believe we did have a portion of the roof that had asbest on it that they
came and they have to go in and make sure that it's safe in order for the pardon me they have to reinspect the repairs they do yes thank you my only question is if we don't get a clean bill of health so to speak do the repairs come out of the grant like the removal come out of the grant yes that all of that would come out of the grant it's just just this one inspection has to be uh done without outside of the grant
so basically a million dollars is riding on on $5,500 kind of yes I'm sweating up here I don't know if you can see it I'm I'm going to go on blood pressure medicine tomorrow so I'm just letting you know so that's any any other questions and I apologize had I kind of I I wasn't involved with this in the beginning um so I didn't understand that it had to be done um I'm just catching up with it um and um I again I apologize for the
late notice and the hurry hurry I have a curiosity question is and this probably for um Mrs isart I use your name Crystal know Crystal for a long time um is this included this 5,000 in the budget that's been present or will be presented tonight I would say no to as well because we didn't we wouldn't have put it in there until we okay I was just
curious which is fine I just I so um and again we are um so moving forward with this as soon as we can get this and um yeah is this something that needs to go out to bid no it's it's an environmental inspection it has to like I'm having in an En environmental inspection tomorrow at the junior high because I have to child care license our buildings in order to do after school activities it's a new state law so all
of that that is is happening so this environmental inspection thing is just something we do that and fire inspections and in order to have people in that building we need to make sure it's safe okay okay right need a motion I make a motion to approve the inspection of Long Fellow in the amount of $5,500 support you need further discussion
okay uh roll call ran for yes Eon yes Becker yes Fox yes brown boy yes yes yes motion carries 70 for your this is kind of like Jeopardy you got to get the Motions in quick and the seconds get a buzzer now you can stop sweaty okay you know president can I ask a
question something we've already went over I thought I heard that they said that they posted the elementary jobs for promised Navigator isn't there a position open up at the junior high also was that posted uh the we have an employee transfer into the position at the junior high we did not post it it is not a union job it didn't require being posted so we have a grant funded employee who moved from one Grant funded position
to the other Grant funded position okay good with that thank you Chrissy you about the attitude um I have door update next is Greg Richardson here he ended up uh uh not feeling very well so he is not with us tonight okay um I know that they are finishing up the the work at the high school and I
know we the $500,000 Grant came in so from the cops the cops Grant so we did get that much towards the doors in the uh in the budget so have Junior High wood Chef Dr kinsky um I don't believe she is with us tonight uh but there is a memo that she communicated that this is for the Middle School um and it's to increase opportunities for middle school students um
in their wood shop class the money would be coming out of the career Readiness Grant in the amount of $533 anybody have questions about that I'm super excited because that our um wood shop there has been not used for a while so I'm super excited it's coming back she's excited too that's great that it's coming out of a grant have we received funds from their Grant yet that one we have yes okay thank you
all right uh the budget do we have to vote on this or we not that well that will come back on the 25th it's not as urgent we made so much now we lose track of when we vote when we done all right well first of all if I would want to start with uh reviewing the audit first um I want to apologize for the presentation last last week or the lack thereof I know there's a lot
of information that was shared some of it was was uh very complicated and kind of eluded so I I just wanted to clear up a couple of things and and discuss uh or or give you guys the opportunity to discuss anything on the audit now I kind of summarized it up in about four pages um the aitor touched a lot on page 16 which is the government wide uh information the government wide basically does nothing more than
add all the funds together um we as the district we keep this the fund separate at all times um that top portion that $6.6 million uh is actually on the second page which is Page 17 and we'll discuss that in a minute okay now she talked about opab the net pension liabilities and things of that nature which are pretty pretty difficult things to understand um the opab
is other post employment benefits is basically the health care for all the retirees um they are significant um there's a 700 $80 million liability and the state says that our proportionate share is 2% so they assign that $3 million to US and say this is your portion and it's also the same with the net pension liability at negative $60 million there um the the liability is $4
43.7 billion at the state and they say your proportionate share is 2% so even if we paid our share of $60 million we'd still owe $60 million all right so it's not it's not something that we need to concern ourselves with so even if our net position is in a negative $39 million don't put any stress into that okay uh they the state believes that our net pension liability will be uh paid off
in 2040 and uh the opab is paid off this year so that could be uh positive next year please don't stress a lot about this here this is just High Lev stuff and the Auditors probably shouldn't have spent as much time as they did on this because it's just really confusing does anybody have any questions on this anyone anyone no I hope I cleared it up just a smidge um it's just I have sorry I have really question you said we
we're going to pay paid off in 2040 so is it like a grant no no the state believes that the the the the net pension liability be paid in full by 2040 all right so right now the state owes $ 43.7 billion in pension and they say that we're 2% so this is your amount that you would just magically owe right so it's not a true number it's not it's not something that we can ever pay off you
know if if we pay off the $60 million next year we still owe $60 million we're probably still going to have that 0 2% of the net pension liability that they're just going to magically assign to us until the state gets it until the state pays it off so we're looking at a projection and you know uh 15 years from now that number it should steadily decrease over time with us doing nothing more than what we're doing okay um it's just the number that they arbitrarily give us based on the payroll portion that
we pay so they say you're 2% you know a place like Detroit would be probably a 2% you know so we're a02 which is very minimal of of a large number okay so are there any other questions on that now page 17 uh the next page this is really the the nuts and bolts of what we do um that
highlighted number there is really what majority of the people focusing on that that $992,000 that was that would be our fund balance if it's going up then we're doing good if it's going down then we're doing bad and that's really what the state looks at that's what we're really concerned about um so you see on that far right over there's that $6.6 million that was on page seven or page 16 on the top of the page that's where that 6.6 comes from but if we're focused not
anything on this page it's really just that one number um the audit is is very very detailed there's a lot of information in there and you can get lost in some of the weeds and some of the items they want to talk about and it there's a lot of information there long-term Deb and and what every fund has but at the end of the day when we're looking at something that's important it's really that number there that that have highlighted that 992 does anybody have any
questions on on this page either all right so the next page would be the recommendations the Auditors make recommendations uh and and they can make any kind of recommendations they want um we what we try to do is absorb those recommendations and make the the changes in order to not have the same repeat recommendation year-over-year um the
the Food Services fund is it's always continued to be a problem for us because we do generate you know 150 to 200,000 a year and that just keeps compounding itself if you don't put a spend down plan together and that's because we do such a great job with our food service um but we did look at the high school and we fixed a lot in the cafeteria there and we did spend that down um we just issued a check for 750,000 for some of the work done
this year so this won't be um a recommendation for next year uh the year-end closing processes for determining pay payables there was a invoice that was supposed to be within both years sometimes you get a DTE bill that says June 15th uh July 14th and you have to determine which year you're going to put that in uh as long as I have 12 months of expenses I usually think that I'm okay to put it in the next year or the previous year depending
on that 12 months and that's really what that's about there so uh I we talked to Crystal about it and she will uh make a a list of all the items and make those determinations as they come you know uh we need to have 12 charges for all utilities so as long as that's there then we are we're good there um and that's what the auditor told us was it was just a split one that should have gone both years the school district should perform
a assessment of capital asset schedules um our Capital assets are old uh there's a there was a file we have an Excel document that's it's really old uh and some of it's missing descriptions now we can go back and try to put some descriptions in there uh but it it is um a very old document that's been passed down as it goes along so that's something that we can we can look into to make those Corrections and uh try to try to have a better you know um
system uh for the upcoming years as uh the current fixed assets it's there's all the information is there all the applicable information it's just you know the land itself might might not be so specific to say well it's Edison's land or whatnot so we we can improve on that a little bit um the capital asset purchases um we we want to make sure that we're reviewing those and uh I I believe with Crystal really looking over the
budget that will be able to meet that as well an example of a capital asset a capital asset is something that should be uh long-term um Pro usually it's equipment that we buy such as an oven for the high school or something um and those are over our threshold usually about $5,000 and we capitalize it um and record it
appropriately okay thank the school district should monitor the budgets more closely throughout the year we make about four amendments that's that's a lot of amending of the budget so basically what we want to do is is follow a little bit more closely uh we don't want to propose a budget at you know we're going to add 500,000 to fund balance and be $5 million negative that that's not a good reflection on close monitoring of the budget but I believe that we are sufficiently amending the budgets
um person it's a little bit too much because we already have to start working on the April Amendment right now and then the June Amendment so it's it's it's really difficult to do all those amendments we don't really have student count until October we don't get state aid until October so anything between June and October it's really it's really just a estimate at that point you know once December comes along we got to clearer picture we're we're steadily getting
clear as we go along um and there's things that we talk about like like the F $5,500 that we didn't budget for we didn't budget that individually per se but we do make estimates as we go along we use three threeyear averages we add you know 3% CPI on some things and and really uh work hard to put together a good budget for us okay so once we put that 5,500 in we'll take a look we'll we'll increase certain lines we'll other
lines will be decreased and so forth okay we should question it says that in the general fund it with a negative impact of $5 million in the general fund so is that like 5 million in line items or 5 million in the fund balance yeah that's that's we were a $5.9 million fund balance and we we we decreased it by $5 million to get to that $1 million fund balance $992,000 so that's really what they were
saying is you know uh don't propose our final budget at 500,000 and then turn around be $5 million negative that does that's not that's not good budgeting to them I I would say it's not good budgeting in period but um you know we will try to do better than that okay for this next year now the school district should Implement in controls uh surrounding submission of reports and retain support um there's
some things such as maintenance of effort that we have to spend more money on special ed students year-over-year and what we do is when we submit those reports to the ISD we want to retain the backup unfortunately whoever submitted that information didn't have the backup so that's why they made this a recommendation um and and going forward we should be able to retain that information um and I showed Crystal what I submitted every year so we kind of kind of work through those things uh but we always want to have support
for whatever we're submitting you know that that's in general the school district should ensure all draw Downs are completed within 60 days this was really our biggest issue with that $1.8 million for federal funds that we didn't receive within the 60 days everything that happens between July and August needs to be really put back into last year unless it's for the next year so we we we buy software that's usually for the next year and they'll they'll charge you on July 15th and that should go into next
year but anything that comes in in that period of time we have until August 30 to recognize it um so that's where uh September 17th when we received Title One title two title three and title four was was delayed and we couldn't recognize that in the current year which really put us in the bind that we're in um so right right now Crystal should be pulling down funds every month M so we
should never be that far behind you know uh you know you know Ida is a million dollars title three or title one is 700,000 so uh that's it's almost $2 million that you know you divide that by 12 that's $80,000 a month that we should be getting every month to help our our cash flow the school district should review uh books for activity and cash balances um that's the the junior VI
Vikings piece I we want to make sure that we we we keep it separate and the last one is the it environment controls this is information that should have been obtained from uh the I obviously that information was not given to the Auditors um Brad does an excellent job and on our cyber security risk ISD does a lot as well and they have we have servers
backing up thata and and the ists controls a lot I I'm sure Mr Fox can elaborate more than I can on that um but they they do a sufficient job and these again are just recommendations and we'll follow those recommendations we'll put a put processes in place so that way we don't have these recommendations again okay what really matters is are the the findings the audit findings are what mde and is concerned about though they're the ones that are going to get
us in trouble uh material weakness for internal controls over financial reporting um uh we had a lot of adjusting entries at the end of the year um when I when I came in uh we were making some entries and And when they see large entries they they question those um you know your PE card entry is a large entry but it doesn't get questioned like uh at the end of the year all of a sudden we we make a Mad Dash and make a lot of things happen
and that's what what this was about and this was a repeat finding uh from the prior year so Crystal is monitoring things and making the changes as we go along so a lot lot has to do with uh we do a teacher audit in September uh we put everybody in the correct areas we we we budget title 100% where way it should be and then we're we're not making adjusting journal entries at the end of the year uh to to correct a lot of things it's more of a
ease of transition into to there okay does anybody have any questions on that I I just have a quick question but so we had a one repeat finding the one you just said right what happens not we're going to have it next year but is it just hey for your information or do eventually the state say wait a minute you can't keep doing this well the St the state looks at that and they might want to perform a title one audit all might take take a look and say hey um they don't have their
together let's come in and make ensure that everything is good and so um that welcomes people that we we don't really doing an audo with mde is a lot of work and it puts a lot of stress not just on ourselves and it'll put on Stephanie and Dr cost I mean it's just it's a lot of work and um this just invites them hey let me pay attention right here okay um if we don't have any findings they they think that we're good
and I mean title title's usually on a three-year rotation anyway but um this will will'll invite them a little bit sooner okay good if I could interject we do have a title one audit in March on March 11th and 12th will'll be here is that the routine three year so the second one here is um deficiency in internal control over compliance and not
compliance with parental involvement uh this we must spend 1% on uh parental involvement we have a little bit more uh budgeted this year uh we have $925 for each school and uh Crystal will follow up with the with um the principles in order to spend those funds we can't necessarily we can throw the biggest pizza party welcoming to the parents and they got to show up if they don't show up we don't really encourage a
lot of cost and that's where we try to get the the the parents to be engaged into what's happening in the district and um sometimes that can be difficult we're at the whim of the parents you know if they don't show up then then we we can't obviously spend those funds so all we can do is try to monitor it uh and and push the principles to have more meetings more engagement more more things okay but it's only 1% right now all the the SCH schools are at
$925 that are targeted schools which is pretty much all the elementaries but so we're not talking about a lot of money here we're just talking very very fine amount do they have to spend that by June they have to spend it by June yes and usually you know you want the parents engaged in the beginning of the year you know in the October time so you're you're trying to to get them to come in and and and and give them you know documents that you'll buy for them
to to read and help them engage their students so um you know there it should be spent probably by April is time and you don't want to start engaging them at the end of the year that's defeats the purpose but um we want to use it for this year and you want to do it as soon as possible does anybody else have any questions on those all right Brad if you could
jump into the the budget presentation please all right so this is the budget amendment number one I um kind of I I put the budget the Second Amendment budget and I I I made a mistake on on that document so I I'll make that change sorry I what I do is I upload into the system on the second amend change and I I'm I'm just goofy work that's just my fault am one yes it should be it should
be I'm sorry I I'll make those a line uh so our revenue revenue summary our state funding our foundation allowance did not change it's still at $968 per student um the Blended formula is 90% in the fall and 10% in the spring the spring was in the February count um our our fall count is not audited as as of yet which is the October and uh
the February account is is has been audited um so our FTE is a blend of those two at 2952 we've been pretty steady um there's also been an increases in uh additional categoricals 147 which was which is Myer's rating or Myer's funding um there's also some local grants increase and we'll review those a little bit more in a minute the
federal funding uh we continue with our grants for the title and Ida and essers three is finally done with the last portion of 60,000 for this year um that's good to be done with those Esser funds Matt when you say the February audit um for student counts that is is it based on the prior year so last February is what is audited and that's the numbers that are used yes this is so that's at 10% it's weighted 10% % and
then October is at 90% Okay so we've submitted our documentation to the state and then we just have to wait for the desk AIT to come come along so this is still as of the other day was still un audited at this time uh they'll they'll fix it if there's any adjustments they'll make those adjustments but what we're going off is 2952 at this point and the foundation allowance could change depending on how they vote well the governor
just a $392 increase to make it even 10,000 that would be about $900,000 for this District um but that is way up in the air okay we still have the Senate and the house and and they'll have to propose that so um and that will be for next year it's not for this year at this point that makes budgeting even that much more fun yes it does so here is our uh State a per uh student summary uh we're still at that 9 9608
we did receive some significant increases from you know 2020 at uh 8272 which is good uh 3 92 is only 3% you know CPI has been uh the Consumer Price Index has been all over the place really high lately so a 3% increase is is is is nice but I I we' prefer the five 7% to stay stay up with all the rising costs the next page
is uh the enrollment count you know we're hovering at that 2960 Mark 2950 so 2952 is where we're at um so that's pretty steady right now um we we receive a lot of students from from mome and from Wayne Counties and Oakland County as well um so that it's a good good good to be steady uh you don't want to be declining because then you're losing
out on Revenue um and and you want to be really steady Edy there so that's good do you know who's included in our enrollment like is invest included is the Michigan Virtual Academy included in our enrollment no the mvca is not no the preschool the preschool is included everybody's included yeah okay but not not gsrp no not gsrp uh I'm sorry the kindergarten it's kindergarten 32 so no preschool just kindergarten 12 and not
the virtual cuz that's not really us right Michigan cyber Academy is but not Michigan virtual Charter again not that one the VCA that's the one where we receive a portion of the funds and we we give we give 97% to them and we keep 3% for ourselves as a revenue right so the adjustments we made for taxes rentals and other local items
um our state aid changes you know when when we first start we we estimate what things are going to be and then as we get closer we we kind of know what some of the items are coming in as um we increase the the the revenue based on projections um the federal funding we went through all the grants uh and put those in there double doubling up the Ida and um Title One from last year we
also Chang for the new categoricals and any new grants that would be included into this amount all right the next page this is kind of where this is where we were having the discrepancy from 1.8 to 2.5 Heidi when you look at 1.8 you're looking at Ida title title three title three again and
title four that's really that portion of the 1.8 that the Auditors said that we did not earn amount but when we look at read 180 grow your own you know 11bb um and some of those other ones uh such as 35a that comes through the ISD CTE or CFE from the ISD it it it accumulates up to $2.5 million it's really coming from last year's uh portion into this year okay
okay um this is all money that should have been recorded in last year uh Title One title three title four all these really except for read 180 and Ida were received on the September 17th date Ida have we received Ida yet from do you know um from the yes okay and then re 180 we have not received as of yet correct idea came from open the schools money
Y and and that's why we want to build them on a monthly basis as well so even with Ida at that that amount we we want to get those funds every month because that's $80,000 right there you know so read 180 we haven't received as of yet we've received the 175 175 so uh in our budget we have 300,000 um so if it's 17 five then that
would have to be reduced now okay um and there's a lot of moving Parts you know when we talk about you know the interest that we were going to pay on borrow borrowing the $12 million those those kind of things are always kind of moving along you know but as as things come too light we we have to make those adjustments all right the next would be the expenses we looked at uh all the all the positions within the district and took actual
cost what we know now from the last one would be your your increases in health care costs and things of that nature um services and supplies we took a three-year average and then did the you know 3% and and some some of the items so that we really have a lot of expenses in there uh the 400,000 for interest for borrowing the 12 Millions there as well and and that really makes up
that 1.8 million do if we get any new grants such as say we weren't accounting for the cops Grant then you see those increases but but grants and such we're going to have revenues and offsetting expenses so um you'll see changes on both sides when when when those come through all right so the next one is the difference now the the you will notice that the original some of the numbers that the bottom are different from
the first original that was proposed the reason it is is because the beginning fund balance is actually known at this time and so with the reduction we we we we use actual numbers rather than estimates when we first do a a proposed budget in June we use estimates at that point but as we get further along in the Years we'll we'll true those up to actual numbers right so the first original put us down at a fund balance of a 83% in this
first amendment we are looking to increase our fund balance to a 2.41% and that's going essentially from 1.8 to 2.4 so we're looking to add about 460,000 at this point uh but there's a lot of movement going on a lot of a lot of fluidity on this on this budget um just like if we were to pay back the $8 million you know on this Friday you know that interest on that was 78,000 not
the 400 that we're looking at and if we paid the whole $12 million back it'd be$ 132,000 so there's there's savings that we we could potentially do there um but it's all about money management lining up the cash flow and man and monitoring it that way does anybody have any questions on this here this is this is a projection correct this is what your best estimate
best estimate yes as of the information that you have right this second so the original is what now we have the actual numbers from before right so our fund balance at the end of last year was 83% no it was 1.8 so it was 9 192,000 uh and now it's I'm projecting it to go to 2.4% to 1.4 million and if we can get to 2 point if if we can get to $2.8 million
then we're at that 5% that's really where we want to be so why is there .83 at the bottom I'm a little confused because that was the original budget that we proposed would go down another $500,000 so you go from a million to $500,000 that's essentially 83% of the expenditures and then if we go from 992 we add 460,000 we're going to 1.4 which is two 2.41% okay
yeah I understand that number it's just the first possible not right that's correct where are you getting the money to raise the fund balance are you cutting some line item how how are you getting it up to 1398 well essentially we're carrying over a lot we're carrying over that 2.5 million in revenue from last year um so there's there's a lot
that goes into one one .4 million 400,000 there's there's a lot that goes into there a lot of revenues um uh 147 would be one of them we estimated on 147 at the end of the year what it's going to be based on uh last year's numbers so we increased our 147 Revenue based on what we received last year and that increased it uh approximately I would say 500,000 on that so so if we're using carryover
money yes then next year we could be dealing with the same thing because we're not going to have carryover money we have carry over money now but we won't have that in the future so that's yes okay okay so it's kind of um it's kind of Blended that's why on the next sheet I I put without the carryover okay and so when you look at last year um I'm sorry the original budget we
should have been at 5.35% that's where we should have been we shouldn't have been our Treasures watch list we should have received all the money that was due to us but as as you can see this first amendment we would be um $2 million over spent and we get back to that 2.41% fund balance okay so it's basically taking out the revenue that uh should have been in last
year adding it to the fund balance our beginning fund balance which gets us back to where we would be at at this point so they we're what I'm saying is we're approximately $2 million over budget right now with all the current expenses that we have to to this point yes three so all the raises we gave last year and all the all that yep so last
year we should have been really 2.5 negative this year we're about 2 million so we want to strategically make some some changes and and and itemize out some things that we need to make some changes to and just what happens if we don't get to the 5% we're supposed to get to well we have to we have to report to treasury what our game plan is what we're doing
what what changes we make and then we have to do a cash flow and really monitor it and submit it on a quarterly basis to them it's it's a lot of extra work so we're doing a lot we're going to have to do a lot of extra work for that you know um ideally they're going to want to see us on a trajectory to get to 5% or more you know do we have a time limit to get there um the sooner the better I'm no
I'm not sure on that get back with you though I thought I read somewhere that it was 3 years we have to submit a three-year plan to be at a at the 5% yeah we do have to submit a three-year plan we got to do a threee projections but what's that is that so if we don't make it we're not going to make it next year do we have to do another three-year plan um i' have to take a look I I believe
we have to update it every year if if we're not heading in the right direction they're going to want to see an updated plan every year if we turn around we're headed in the right direction they might uh stick with the original plan that we submit I can confirm with them soon so no matter which way you SCE it we overspent by a few million dollars that's correct so our next steps would be uh diligent our spending
um continuously reviewing all expenditures and contracts um and monitoring ex Grant expenditures what can we put into the grants to make sure that we're meeting the requirements and maximizing our dollars and we'll just continue evaluating the budget as it goes along you know um we can do another amendment in April and and project that out and just continuously monitoring the situation we don't have it
here but I was looking at our um amendments from last year before we got the actual numbers in and it was like riding a roller coaster was up it was down it was up again it was down again and I understand that it's just a budget but I'm fearful that that's going to be the trend again with this I understand we don't we don't have
a large cushion here there's not I mean $400,000 sounds great on a $50 million budget is not a whole lot okay um what we want to do is is budget as close as we can but we also uh want to take everything into consideration so um we we can re-evaluate the budget as we go along you know as we do another amendment and we can uh figure out which way we're going I mean we can look at we
can work on the next budget tomorrow that's and continue to monitor so we're looking at another amendment in April if and then another one in June if it's so in yes no we have to do a final projection uh final budget in June of every year we do the initial the the proposed budget and the final now whether if we want to do a Amendment between now and in June that that's up to the board if if you guys would
like that we can fulfill any agreement that you would like um you know for me I think it's a it's a bit much but um we can the minute cuz the minute I'm done with one budget it's like I'm turning around starting another budget you know and there's so much information it's it's it's really laborious to do this right but we we will be happy to comply with whatever is requested right I get it we used to company worked for we toed
it every month so I get it's a lot of work um so the June from coming from the corporate world the June final budget should be pretty close to your actual numbers and it wasn't last year it was way way off yeah I can't speak to last year but I tell you the history before that which we would always we'd always end up better than what we were okay um what
I would do is right now we're budgeting 95% of our local taxes we're still budgeting that so if we get 100% we we would add money to revenue we'd always we're we're estimating 90% of the center fund program indirect and so with that if it comes through coition gets a better we're in a better position we're we're overestimating on some of the expenditures so um what we're going to say
is all in between now and then this person is going to work 100% then they go on leave or they they they leave themselves or something happens but we're budgeting that person at 100% so we should see a pickup there uh we overestimate on you know Dental Envision at times so uh LTD there's all kinds of of of stuff that we we maximize it because we're going to budget for that person there and if they leave and there's a good pickup and someone comes in at 50,000 compared to leaving it
90,000 that's a good pickup for us you know um and I don't want to budget 100% of local taxes if we're not going to get it you know and and what I'm going to do next after this is we're going to pull up the budget itself then I can walk you kind of through some of those items so you kind of know where things are at and what the changes were okay so this is just a high level right now that we're speaking on but as we get into the next segment I can go over
that budget individually with you okay so we're going to continue to monitor the budget to make good decisions all right so if we look at our general fund deficit Surplus and they started in uh 2018 we were significantly negative at you know four $4 million and we we increased it we made some changes and and we're we're going to try to get back to some of that um right now we're
issuing AP checks once a week um and we want to slow that down we want to control our cash flow so we can maximize interest rates and and really have control over our spending we align up our our PE cards with uh the state aid we we make larger uh payments when state aid comes in around the 20th of every month and when you do that kind of stuff you're able to you know pay that $8 million back and and feel comfortable going
forward um at least at least that dollar amount so I believe that we we can get back to where we were it's just uh it's going to take some time do anybody have any questions or I have a question where is the $12 million is it reflected in here no the $12 million is on our balance sheet so it basically it's a liability right now
we going to owe back to Huntington our our 400,000 in interest is in this budget okay and at the audit it was mentioned we would maybe pay 8 million back so we would still owe 400 we you know you know if I pay the $8 million back I owe 78,000 on that 8 million if I pay the whole 12 million back then it's 132,000 so right now we have budgeted 400,000 so there's a it's fluid everything
is fluid so it's a little bit if we just sit on the $4 million we're not going to owe $400,000 you know what that number is I I don't have on on top of my head cuz I didn't ask for it you know cuz if to me it's 8 million or it's all so uh but that's going to take some leg work on the team here in order to make that happen if if we were going to decide that yeah I'm wondering how we're going to pay off the other for the interest because you're going to have to cut
things out of the regular budget right to come up with the money well our budget currently has out of adding 400,000 we still we have that 400,000 in that budget oh so if we didn't have that 400,000 we'd be sitting at a million dollar okay uh which is you know the problem is when we get to lower fund balances we have to borrow money to to pay our our our invoices and such and that cost money to borrow money which puts
us in a further home we were when we were borrowing you know when I when I first started in 2018 we were borrowing the $12 million and paying 400,000 in interest so it really hasn't changed much um but it's it's money that eventually we didn't have to do anymore so it's like found new money you know which is is a good thing and if we can just reduce some of that it'll be a pickup in the end so with so with this fund balance that we have right
now we're anticipating having to borrow again next year because we're not going to have enough to cover right away it depends we don't have to do a cash flow analysis and we we we sit down we do that in uh May June time then we do the proposal to you guys we have to fill up the forms to the state we we got a lot of work to do between now and then make that determinations okay so sometimes you know um I used to like to keep a little bit of money on hand and so I could sleep at night you know cuz you
know people that are going to worry about paying the bills is going to be one of one of us over here right so it just it's ease of mind you know sometimes is is worth worth the money that we could save is there a reason why we don't get uh a balance sheet you want a balance sheet yeah I would like to yeah you I me a balance sheet says a lot okay I I mean no I I just asked to there a reason why
we don't because it's it's uh the the reason the reason you don't is probably because it's misleading um a lot of times you know state aid you know is two months behind right so we we get payments in July and August for last year or for the year before that um there's sometimes uh we we put liabilities out there for accounts payable and that number um you know we reconcile that we mon the balance sheet
all the time uh but there's numbers on there that that might throw someone off and I I I would I wouldn't be uh hesitant to hand that out I mean I I wouldn't mind reviewing it with you if you have a question about it but um there's just there's it's getting really into the weeds I believe you know and if what's important is what what our revenue is and what our our expenditures are yeah but our cash flow is important too based on the conversation you just had
with yes our cash flow is ESS cash flow based on the balance sheet right that's right that's correct that's why we we but we we bill out uh cafeteria funds a month after that's why we're doing the federal funds a month after um the ISD has proposed that maybe they could give us our money for our Center Program in in advance to help help with our cash flow issues so we can explore
those options you know um right now the the center the center fund owes us money because we didn't get you know state aid until this month we didn't get it until last Friday you know so it the the balance sheet looks like oh well the all these programs owe the general fund dollars which then could be misleading so cuz we have all the funds in um in their separate accounts on the balance sheet
you you'll be able to see those so you saying ISD Oakland schools yes so they would give you a loone would there be interest on that no what they end up doing is um they they owe us for the center program and So based on they they they pay it out uh monthly or and they make other payments quarterly so what they could do is do a good estimate on the payments and pay us all that want that way we're not struggling with cash
flow and that's something we could talk to I believe her name is Karen it was Terry it was Terry okay um we could talk to her about about making that happen so there's options we just at at the point that we needed to borrow that $12 million our options were not going to it's not going to be a lot of money per se that was going to save our fund fund at all and so we had to make the determination at that point in time you
know back in November that we needed to borrow the 12 million all right so but there's ways of of doing certain things like having the accounts payable you know giving her a budget and holding to that what they can spend at that point cuz we're really at net 14 um so we get a we get an invoice in in two weeks we're cutting a check you know really um but but we could be a net 30 with the vendors and they're just as happy as long as they're getting their money so there's certain things that we can do to
slow that down in order to hold on to our money to make sure things are are are meeting their criteria okay so it's amazing our budget was 40 million 5 years ago to 56 million 16 million in 5year increase but I'm looking at Transportation it was 585,000 1,123 and this year it's 2,253 for transportation
what in the okay how how do we TR ready to go that bad is that what you're telling me all right BR can we go to the revenue let's talk about the revenues first well there's it's sometimes you know when when you have the grants it could be misleading um so we have the revenues here and you see we went from the proposed budget at 6.3 to 8.6 you
know we have the the Reed 180 Grant at 300,000 we're budgeting again 75% of property taxes uh but that increase is uh about 800,000 from last year then we also the Balmer Grant is is put in there as well 575,000 is that under other transactions the Balmer Grant no that's under the local so we're going to start at the top we're going to go the local that that 8.6 million the difference between 6.3 and 8.6
is all that I just spoke about okay and when you look at the state that's our state aid uh they did cut the 147 funding the U they went from 16.89% of 10.58% which reduced it uh our actual in 23 24 was 37 million so 39 million is more in line with what I would expect from the state aid our federal
funding uh you see that went from essentially 2 million last year to 4 million this year and that's because of Ida and title funds that we did not receive as of last year um that number should be significantly higher mat is that 7 million when we had uh Co money 2122 yep that's correct and so as we spent Co down there was gears there was sers one two three and all them there was section
23b there's all kinds of funds that were getting thrown at us at that point in time um which you know there was corresponding expenditures to those exp uh revenues um but that's why it's kind of misleading when you take a look at some of this stuff uh the other transactions those are going to be um those are going to be the transfers from the uh acting te doll um so
the ISD does a millage for us and we we get a passer on that it was a significant increase on that about 500,000 from last year so that's why that's slightly up from that 300,000 original estimate and then below that it gives you kind of where the T property taxes were uh one two and three are what was collected in in that or one one and two are what collected and three is what our estimat is going to be for this
year uh and and that is at 95% we want to go to the next page there for me Brad all right so our basic programs are all our direct instructional uh at the elementary middle school high school um that's what's what's in that area it's basically uh $22 million it's about a million dollar up uh we are going to um you're going to see a little bit
of increase into added needs based on um $ 331a uh so that number was going to go down a little bit that 22 million and that 10 million below it's it's going to go slightly up at the end of the day you're looking at about $33 million for direct instructional needs you have pupil support pupil support is going to be your uh Health uh your OT PT uh Speech people um that's what that is
there so 3.8 we last year was $4 million this year is at 3.9 uh that decrease is most likely is due to the U rate decrease uh the instructional staff uh that's going from 3.9 last year to 3.7 again uh the 147 rate uh at 7% is a big number to reduce
by the general Administration this is going to be um this is going to be the board office this will be also Dr KY or Dr C cost and their their cost that goes into their um this is for the audit and also um lawyer fees the next one is the school administration these are going to be your principles this is where we
also do um we do uh some testing um and WEA testing and things of that nature below it is the business so this is the business you see where it went from 750,000 the 12 and that's because of the interest we put the 400,000 in interest rate there okay operation and maintenance this is uh this is for anything that
operations this is really Greg's area also uh Safety and Security so if there's anything that has to do with SRO or anything of that nature that's where that would be um the transportation I know you talked about that that is our budgeting for our $1.6 million grant for the electon electric school buses that's where that cost is is is put right there that's the difference between the 1.1 in
the $2.2 million okay um we haven't procured the buses yet that's an it's a you know a grant we we have not procured the buses as of yet and and if we if we don't do it this year we we are recognizing the revenue but we also have the expenses budgeted so that way if this goes away we don't spend any of it it'll be an offset Net Zero okay um central office the central is
going to be your Human Resources this is technology Communications um all of that there um you know we we're essentially going up the smidge different from actual from last year and these are the increases that we talked about such as you know um the salary incre increases now the other this is the other is going to be Athletics so we have Athletics and we also have the cops Grant there that's where we are going to replace the or um so that's
why you see an increase there as well our uh Community Services budget um it's more in line with what our community services expectations are um our debt service 33,000 that was for the police officers that we owed the city uh we paid that up last year so we didn't need a budget for this year the payments of the subgrantee this is the payments to the promis zone this comes through state aid um so that's not going
to change at 594 th000 that's what that number will be so that's just a flow through from the promise zone is that what you is that what you said yeah so that uh those funds we recognize at the beginning of the year so there's no reason there should be any kind of difference between now and the end of the year in that line okay neither with the debt service at that 33,000 is gone um so those are really lock step there the transfers in the transfers in are
from the center program and and things of that nature where we get uh any kind of transfer from any other fund into that area we we charge cafeteria we could charge the uh the latch key Services Program um we we we could get revenue from those areas based on indirect and then transfers out that's our debt service so we do have the the debt obligation for um the energy bond
that we borrowed um that's only got a couple years left on that and so that's where we come down to the $46,000 uh with the ending balance as of $1.4 million with the 2.41% a question transfer in does that include the rent for the Head Start classrooms no that would just be local Revenue so transfer in is when we charge IND direct for cafeteria or indirect
for the center program that's what that would be okay so your local revenue is going to be miscellaneous it's going to be interest on um you know the bank account your PE card rebates that you get uh Athletics anything in athletics will be there
um you also have the local taxes you have technology fines and fees and you know your library finds of fees and things of that nature that's that's going to be your local your state would be um your 31a you're 147 your special ed re re re re refund of the 51c you know 51e for special ed so Federal is going to be title Ida uh title
3 you know uh title 2 and all those um and then it's the other one I'm sorry trying to do it off my head other transactions those are going to be um those are going to be your Medicaid uh rebate from uh the istd along with any kind of istd leveraged
millage rates for us so we do generate a good portion of that do have any questions can we go back to the electric buses just for a second so I can und understand so did we already get the funds from that Grant we we had the 1.6 million yes we did collect them we collected it last year on our state aid yes okay so how long do we have to to purchase the bus buses they have to be purchased by June of this year uh I don't I don't
believe so I think it goes until the 26th uh because we you know the buses I believe we have to buy four buses at 400,000 which leaves us about approximately 20,000 and put in Chargers I believe don't quote me on that but I don't think a charger is going to be 20,000 which is it's going to be an issue that we're going to have to address later on I think it's about 100,000 in charger or something of that nature I I don't know the specific but I I don't believe we're funded
uh sufficiently to buy them and charge them to buy them and to charge them is it and we have to buy how many I believe it's four four but we already have the 1.6 milon we 1.62 yes we yes that's correct so that's a c that's another cash flow thing that we have this money that we're using for other things besides the buses is is it set aside no it's not set
aside no no it's in there yeah but the buses themselves aren't in the budget buses themselves are in the budget that's why I went from 1.1 to 2.2 1.6 of that is the bus those buses yes and and didn't you buy use buses well these are specifically for electric buses only I know oh just that line item
is no CU I remember a vote that they also bought what three used buses bu used buses yes yeah this is a grant specifically for electric buses but I'm saying that that line item that's there that amount of money included the purchase of the old the used buses yeah that would be correct I'm just trying to get a feeling of why that's so much besides electric buses it's also any buses that was paid for that's correct that's correct correct you get me you following
me now I do I do well if I look on the history of Transportation we're at 3 400,000 a year correct and anytime you buy a bus you know a bus a new bus is going to cost you about 100,000 we get used buses at significantly less than that um but uh you know that's those do go in those area so whatever we do an expense we try to put it towards the functionality of that item so when we talk about any
doors or cameras we try to do a safety Safety and Security which goes into operations and maintenance which would be a 266 function I don't need to bother if you guys with those functionalities but that's where we would put those costs this isn't just buses right this I mean is mckin vento transportation included in here and other it's all Transportation it's all Transportation the bulk of it the reason we're going from 400 unusual to 2.2 is because the $1.6 million electric bus well you're
not going to fully expense that you're going to capitalize it right you're you're going to buy 1.6 wor the bus is it's going to be a capital it's going to be a capital asset you you are correct so we're not going to expense 1.6 you're going to you're going to expense the whole thing yes and then we depreciate it on our fixed assets over the the longevity of the item so that 2.2 is probably overstated no no you
think that's a good number even with the depreciation if you're buying 1.6 wor a buses and you're adding them to your Capital asset you're not going to pick up the 1.6 in expenses we will pick up the 1.6 in expenses uh the capital assets is a balance sheet item right but you're depreciating that off we do depreciate that but that's all on the balance sheet that has nothing to do with the expenses so when depreciation expense is an expense it it is you are correct you're
going to spend the 1.6 on your cash flow yes but there's going to be a footnote in the audit that's going to say that we added the 1.6 million in capital assets and then they're going to depreciate I believe it's uh I'm believing it's 10 years so they would depreciate that portion but our expenses will incur the $1.6 million it's not we we we can't
um not have that we can't uh you know recognize the depreciation that way does anybody else have any questions no doesn't look like it great thank you thank you thank you Crystal that was
a lot of work thank you thank you um we need a motion to approve the budget I make a motion to approve the budget as Britain support okay motion by Heidi support by April any discussion okay
call for yep Eon yes Becker yes Fox yes yes yes hint yes so now I have Edison camera purchase so we had a um walk through of the Edison building um about a week and a half ago
I'm sorry you had a what a walk through building walk through of the building with the um Dr Krauss and the secretary and myself um just looking at camera spots where there's blind spots um and a lot of the buildings that we just did the camera upgrade for the district a lot of the large hallways we put in two-way cameras so they would see both ways in the hallways at Edison when they upgraded Edison they were focusing just like on one view of basically an exit
door um so there's a lot of blind spots there there's parts of the building on the outside that don't have camera coverage um where stuff can happen and we wouldn't know um and this could pose a security risk to the staff and the students um so bringing it to the board um to see to see if they'll move it forward for next week for nine cameras um the cost for the cameras is 6,182 um and I have not to exceed 7,000
just because of other materials for um for the cameras like mounts brackets stuff like that um and this is going to be done in-house if we were to contract and hire this out you probably would look at around a $20,000 estimate I would imagine so these are the same cameras that we also put in place throughout the district um that are good um pixels and give us good shots and good views anybody have questions so
this is all in there's no additional cost for installation or no we're doing it inh housee so we're running the cabling doing all the installation ourselves so okay well we'll vote in at the next meeting in two weeks it is paid out of Center fund yes Center fund um I believe they said 31aa Safety and Security F okay all right thank you R you can volunteer to help hold a wire all right
oh you do it I'm a professional so next is the language line pilot and I'm going to stand in for Stephanie who is um helping her son plan his wedding uh tonight they went to a venue to to get some ducks in a row and so she's got lots of good things coming her way um the thing that that is I think unfortunate is that there was a lot of
good work being done prior to the audit and prior to the budget conversation um and so we recognized that we're kind of in un Uncharted Territory uh but something um Stephanie had been working on quite hard was uh to be in compliance with a title 3 audit that was done and title three supports our students um who uh
do not have English as their first language um we recognize that enrolling those families and being able to adequately communicate with them is sometimes a challenge uh Stephanie went to the county and uh found the language line pilot um or language line which was being recommended by Oakland schools the wonderful thing about it is it's
24/7 there are over 400 languages and families can access the support of that Tool uh virtually and it has a very low cost um per minute or per usage uh and by that I mean things like 64 cents So a family wouldn't use it forever but it would be to enroll to make sure they understand um the routine of school for
that child until the school can can help that family so it's kind of a bridge so she and her team had been doing all of this research and work they would like to Pilot it for uh a a small section of the the people and families that we have and um she had initially you know targeted an amount of not to exceed $6,000 I asked her today
I said could we do a smaller pilot for less than 6,000 and she said absolutely so I think it's just good information for all of you to have and as we continue down the trail of um how do we have corrective action on our budget we can keep this in mind okay anybody have any questions so we were at when we had our title three audit we weren't in compliance on this um
I'm going to have to check with her okay to see if that if it was a recommendation or if it was something that we needed to take action on this would be a wonderful tool especially for enrollment when I was doing enrollment um we've had quite a few students that or parents who didn't speak English and luckily one of our uh directors spoke French so we were able to have her come come down and and you know do the speaking so my opinion is that
I mean if we get if we can um enroll one student that pays for the uh you know I would assume this is a year you know a year program to help us um with the communication because it's so hard you know parents want to know what do I need to do next um what you you try to explain to them birth certificate they don't understand that um so it would be very important to have I'm wondering if there's an option to kind
of do um double duty here and spend some of the parent engagement funds um on the language line pilot I know I've gone I I've been at parent events at my kids school and I have translated or kind of like passed over messages a couple times um so it seems to be kind of a natural thing that if there's an event like that taking place that we may be able to pull it from some of that too that's a great thought thank you I have a quick question so it's it's per minute is there a cost to um
bring the program here or is that 6,000 the estimated minutes we'd be using it it's like a subscription sir so you pay by use six month it says it's a six-month pilot so I'm I'm assuming that's it's at a very limit a limited number of schools and departments for 6 months but it is a subscription so after the six months no it to initiate it
and then depending how much usage from that website we would have a certain login um and then they would calculate how many minutes we had utilized in the cost so so I guess that's my question is the 6,000 to to buy the subscription and then the minutes are on top of it or are we guesstimating the minutes too guesstimating the minutes gu okay I did quick math and it breaks out to just over 156 hours of service at $6,000 with the to be
conservative I was aiming for the 64 minutes um in Spanish interpretation it's a little bit cheaper for other languages but just for the sake of doing it so I mean that's a lot of hours you can get a lot of bank for that bu yeah and communication is key especially during enrollment time right yeah for sure so okay there if we can I'll look into the parent engagement option as well as well as the compliance and get back
to you all right great it sounds like a really useful uh program uh check register and credit card statements this is where Mr Bishop's question for the 19,000 whatever somebody can find the line item it was on um did you have it I think it's on the credit card bill the very last page page nine and what it was it was for the The Lift Chair um
that was approved with the board last our last board meeting I believe um and that's where that was from for the special education what was it for the wheelchair lift the wheelchair yes oh wheelchair lift where was that at for a bus there was I'm sorry it was for the activity chairs that were approved there was four different activity shairs approved for the um
sxi program oh that's what it was apologies I made it confusing me okay all right um that makes sense I do you have questions anybody um I just have um on the credit card if that's we still on it Sullivan Fleet Services for $1,535 that was one of our buses that um it's a towing company that um broke down in Lancing so we had to get it towed
to kalamazo I believe it was was it on a field trip yes was that I I understand that it was an emergency it already had to be done but does that have to go through approved by the board since it was $10,000 excuse me so should that be enough I understand
that it's already on I don't know what the limit I don't know I thought it was 5,000 I can confirm just a sheet and we can approve it next week yeah you no no no I I can confirm understand it was an emergency and it had to be done but just so it's transparent yes that was it down the credit card cheet for me I only had the $199,000 one in answer it so we're good oh you guys taking
it easy on me this week I was there was you're getting off easy crystal yeah I do have one more I'm sorry um only because I didn't understand what this was um Miss Haron is usually buys like costumes and uniforms and whatever but there's an an item on here for AutoZone yes so um it was recently discovered that that may be actually some fraudulent activity so actually called Huntington and they're they launched an
investigation um and they said that it could take six to um 8 days before we receive a temporary credit and then another six to maybe eight weeks before we get a a result so and in the meantime the um that card has been closed um and then as soon as I get would that be for all of those purchases cuz I see Estates everything except for the Office Depot everything else all of those were project yes oh so Office
Depot is accurate it is accurate okay um were and I did not there's on the front cover there says there's a fee charge of $25 and that's normally if someone's not using oh here it is it's on Cara Beach's Kendall had it too yeah if they don't use their um and I can get the exact threshold of uh money 2500 usually get those weed I know we have in the
past I just want to so you should see the the credit um next month okay I usually have to call they they won't just do it ahead of time for me I tried that's it that's it okay that's credit C that's go checks oh yeah you're not that easy will we get an update when we um find out about that Chris Heron's C cards the what if it it like not seeing
she is but if to make sure that it was fraudulent and that nothing oh yes yeah as soon as I get um some updated information from Huntington I'll let you guys know absolutely you go first go first no go first yeah went first last time yourself um on page one what is Pro Care therapy what what is that for the very last thing that is are um is that our oh that's
what it is okay I knew it was one of our nurses so the occupational therapist physical therapist okay I didn't understand why SLP was for this so um okay then and there's a bunch that um says book and I'm assuming that's like um that's on page four yes um that's actually when I'll get a better description with that but it's actually when um they're at the games and they're helping out get
about $40 each game um I'm not entirely sure if Leisha was or I probably shouldn't name huh is that what it that's what the book stands for statistics yeah usually we don't name it that way usually it's like game worker or whatnot so stats yeah stats which I just didn't understand what book was like I knew it was a game thing cuz they're always $40 but I didn't understand what book was there's also one there on clock I assume it
would be the clock Runner I guessed that one um I don't have a lot um wisan theatrical for dance costumes are those for the Vets or is that for something else um they order for the all of the dance teams so I can look in see exactly which one it's for no it's for the dance teams yes
um on page 16 50% deposit at United o and 50% deposit at Hoover what are we depositing for the vender named Joseph gold I'll have to
look that up my apologies the fences is that the fences okay for ho and United Oaks I'm sure it's the 50% deposit okay perfect do you know when they're doing that sorry um yeah I'm sorry I'm I know I'm not supposed to speak but um I did speak with Greg before the meeting he did talk to Joe gold who was doing them um he's waiting on supplies to come in they should be in within the next weeks um also they were waiting for the weather to break a little bit and needed to
be not Frozen um so we're looking about 3 weeks um for production um my last one is on page 22 um hops giip drive for $37,000 it says MVA support do we pay for mv's hops given back we pay for um I don't believe so M act
MV mckin vento act oh Michigan Virtual Academy yes MBA is p 22 it's not Michigan Virtual Academy got you okay yes that was all M okay that is they're the same they're the same right um I was just kind of curious there was a CG newspaper um for 28 $2,881 so you
want that is our journalism class and they put out got you got you I'm like I haven't seen anything in the newspaper recently but that makes sense we used the grant fund so we prepa her to the end of um January we're hoping to get R funds or do something out of our page seven basis for our event
$200 you said page seven for our event a good I do not know that off amsky is the fender that's at the high school I can get that information for you I do not know that off hand um senior maybe was it a senior yeah it shows it's for a senior event but I don't know exactly seems kind of pricey for faces
um merette a conference 450 was what page uh it's nine I just curious what whose conference that was I should have went back and looked but I I'm not sure okay
yeah I don't recall off hand but I can grab that information for you um page 15 the basketball supplies for 8,660 I think that might have been the is that the Hoops I just want to that was the remaining balance okay and then the doors we know that for
what is the MBA report Creator plugin on page 14 for 6920 December or January is meaning that's for us to do report cards and transer that's right MH it just looked like
it was paid to a person I I have one more oh Oakland University um 32,000 is that um own that's what I have perfect thank you one person or several people multiple
M I think it's at 11 in the um 11 budget okay okay that's it thank you Crystal thank you thank you so now other under other we have student services presentation you there we go making it
good evening president K Dr cost uh tonight we're here to present to you our seclusion and restraint reduction plan at the beginning of the year we implemented this um as a larger group a focused group um that we put together that has parents um employees Advocates advocates yes and ourselves and um we're here to
present some of our data to you tonight so these are our goals that we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year um as you might remember um when the seclusion and restraint data came out from the Michigan Department of Education it was found that Hazel Park was one of the highest um recorded school districts in inclusion and restraints um with that information we put
this team together to ensure that we got those numbers down um and set our set three goals for ourselves the first goal being that we would reduce the number of Elementary grades 1 through six uh students exper experiencing seclusion and restraints by 30% our second goal was the reduction of male students experiencing seclusion restraint by 30% and our third goal was to reduce the number of students with an emotional impairment experiencing
seclusion and restraint by 30% uh and this really just kind of highlights our reduction plan cycle um and so if we look at number one talking about the review the revised school code so that really was focusing on this new school um Public Act 394 uh which was adopted in 2016 um by uh the state legislature really that indicated that you know
the only time seclusion and restraint should be utilized is if it is a focus of immediate danger um and that it's an emergency so what we did is we reviewed that with our staff across the district um at one of our professional development days at the beginning of the year so that was our staff that works primarily with students um in special education um and then our second was to really create that oversight team um so that was looking at our Kip team team um so our key identified Personnel uh within our building so we're
talking about you know School psychologists social workers speech and language Pathologists administrators um those key individuals uh the third is really collecting that school data um and you know really kind of looking at it um and disaggregating that uh amongst the information that we've received um and then creating um our reduction plan itself um so that's meeting with our stakeholders currently right now we're meeting on a monthly basis with our seclusion and restraint reduction
U group but we were meeting at about I think every two weeks um and so we've been able to kind of bring that down and then just kind of modifying and reviewing as needed as we move forward okay so this was a a pretty significant undertaking from a large group of people to make this magic happen and we are really excited to share with you all of the ideas that came up out of our focus group uh we generated some of them we worked with staff
um and staff of all kinds so our ancillary staff our teaching staff administrators pair professionals um both Union presidents were on board so this was a significant undertaking as we also said there was Advocates and we have a Schoolboard member on our team so we were really really excited to have that much support and that much um True True Grit in the fact that we had a lot of people on our side that wanted to make some real change here in Hazel Park
so we started that focus group um and as Mr nabl said we had bi bi-weekly meetings we move to week monthly meetings now um there's a quarterly Behavior newsletter that's put out for all staff as well as administrators that gives information data tips and resources that they can share with families um so far as professional learning we uh went to a model
of Crisis Prevention and Intervention which you might know as CPI um to ensure that all staff were trained to start the school year we also now have monthly sessions so any new staff is captured in that monthly session so they're not going um very long at all when they're when they're moved into the district um without being trained and they are not allowed to work with students alone until they are trained so that's an important important component to know uh Mr
noblock and I worked really hard uh to put together an emergency seclusion and restraint policy review which we did with all staff it was very intense review we reviewed the law we reviewed each and every component of seclusion and restraint and what it meant with our staff members so that they started the school year 100% ready to go I want what did we we actually met with um a member of the staff of mome Intermediate School
District today who came out to our building um just to get some information about their implementation and what we're doing to make this this difference and one of the most notable differences you mentioned to him was the frequently asked questions you want to kind of mention sure I think this was probably the most powerful point of our of our team and the implementation of change that we were able to do was really just informing um and so through that process we were able to allow staff to ask
questions because that's normal we all have questions and we know that nothing is always truly black and white there's a lot of gray um and so that allowed our teams whether it be par professionals or professional staff uh to ask questions we kind of had a um sheet on the wall that people kind of come up to like a parking lot ask questions and so we really came out with a pretty comprehensive list uh after questions that we were able to answer and then review with um our attorney uh through Clark Hill and then you know really kind of give our staff
peace of mind so that they had that information moving forward that they their questions were fully answered and so um I think that that really allowed them to feel comfortable with the processes that are in place the next thing we did was to ensure that each and every school had a kip team which stands for key identified Personnel that is a component of the law through mde um people on the team that are noted are the administrator there
has to be a mental health professional and could be your board certified behavior analyst your social worker your counselor maybe your school psychologist that's the kip team that's coming together so if in an event a student is disregulated to the point where they need someone to step in other than the classroom staff they are able to come on site and really Implement those strategies with a deep understanding of mental
health um that is able to help students um hopefully regulate that behavior and make some changes with that we also have medical training for all of our key identified Personnel where they meet with our district nurses and they're taught things such as looking for labored breathing or things that might impact a student when they are when and if they are secluded are restrained so what we did is made a fully comprehensive model to ensure that
medically students are safe as well as staff and that mentally and emotionally they're safe as well as staff we also uh put together training to make sure that all of our school social workers did the star Commonwealth training Pathway to trauma certification and clinical um study so all of our school social workers have taken these two components the second component the clinical study will take place in May
so they are all certified um trauma trainers so we have one at least in each school next we have Edison Center they've been really um creative in how they're using their seclusion rooms as you know when we started out the year we have significant number of centers I believe a total of 17 seclusion rooms at Edison Center Program um and the question question was how do we use those rooms if we're going to really cut down these seclusions and I have to tell
you that Dr Krauss and her staff have stepped up to that challenge they have created safe spaces for students calm down rooms um instead of using those centers to seclude students they're using them to ensure that students are able to regain reregulate and take some time and then reenter the learning environment um so we also developed uh our student in crisis flowchart that we were able to provide throughout our
buildings with our bcbas and our bcbas uh that helped us with that development um and we've created monthly team seclusion restraint problem solving um opportunities where we've been able to again meet with our teams and a lot of that also um kind of goes along with meeting with our bcbas as well um we've developed processes with student file reviews our FBA so our functional Behavior assessments and positive behavior support plans um um seclusion and restraint reduction student plans uh so that's separate from our FB and and
bips so really kind of what are we doing to ensure that that's not needed uh developing the type of procedures which would be updating seclusion restraint forms to reflect an increase in substantive data so really why is that needed what are you doing so not only you know is that important that we're following mde regulations but also kind of pulling back and and of course we know that you know emergency seclusions and restraint are used just as that in an emergency situation if there's immediate danger um and in that event uh
we really want to make sure that data component is there really looking at that anene that behavior that consequence component why was it needed what was done and what can be done moving forward so that it we can reduce this from truly ever happening again um updating our debriefing forms uh to reflect that collaboration so with our school teams and our families um and then really kind of going through that auditing process uh through our department and looking at that information as it comes through uh to Mr dblock and I read every single seclusion
and restraint form and we ensure that they are detailed and comprehensive and if if we are looking to see if the law was followed if there are questions we always go back and contact the team so that we have a deeper understanding of why that seclusion or restraint was used uh and then last uh utilizing our piloting of that uku program um that was a big component that we've utilized at primarily for really our Elementary classrooms over there um and that we've also been able to move to
other buildings throughout the district as needed so here's the exciting part da our numbers so if you take a look at this in the year 2023 we had two this is going to be from September to December comparative uh 283 seclusions and 113 restraints in 2024 we were able to bring it down to 19 seclusions and 177 restraints with
a decrease in seclusions of 264 and a decrease in restraints of 96 totaling an overall yearly decrease in seclusions of 93% and an overall decrease in restraints of 85% which are some really really big numbers we just reported our first um our first set of numbers to the Michigan Department of Education they are thrilled with our progress um so that's really exciting for us um to have
MDA reach out and give kudos for these big changes that that truly everyone in hisle park is is working on uh and this was our PBIS School climate survey um done by school Personnel um and so just kind of highlighting the questions that we have there and then you have underneath um you know what the target score is at about three and above which looks as though that is the average for um you know many of our buildings kind of highlighting United Oaks the junior high
school um and particularly Edison as well um with some of those questions that have been asked uh within that uh School climate survey so this is the the pre I know we talked a lot about at the beginning of the year that that survey to see where staff was and then we will resurvey at the end of the year to see where they are and to see if we have improved um their feeling so far as school safety so like Mr noock said youo um hpg and Edison we're not meeting
that three which is our Target score through PBIS so we are still watching that and ensuring that all of our components are implemented um to really make sure our staff are feeling heard and are feeling safe and we always always encourage our staff to reach out to us because even though sometimes we may have students that are disregulated um we still are obligated to follow the law and um really file the guidelines by Michigan Department of
Education and the federal government um idea to ensure that every student has access to a free and appropriate public education so there are going to be those those certain times where we have to work through Behavior plans and we have to revise and revisit but it's important to us that our staff here that we're there for them we want to hear their feedback and we also want them to have a full understanding of why things are happening uh so
defining imminent threat and emergency so again as we uh kind of talked a little bit about at the beginning of this presentation really just the fact that this was something that we shared with our staff which we felt empowered them with that that information so really just focusing on um that Public Act uh 395 of 2016 um you know that the board districts uh superintendent to adopt as an administrative guideline a local policy applicable to all district administrators staff and contractors that's consistent with the policy issued
by the Michigan Department of Ed in connection with the requirements of Public Act 394 um that this policy is to accomplish the following objectives promote the care safety welfare and security of the school community and the Dignity of each pupil encourage the use of proactive effective evidence and research-based strategies and best practices to reduce the occurrence of challenging behaviors eliminate the use of seclusion and restraint an increased meaningful instructional time for all pupils and to ensure that seclusion and
phys physical restraint are used only as a last resort in an emergency situation and are subject to diligent assessment monitoring documentation and Reporting by trained personnel as we spoke about um Hazel Park School District further defines an imminent risk to safety as the reasonable expectation that serious physical injury injury will occur at any one moment and that physical restraint or SE inclusion should not be used except in the situations where the child's Behavior poses imminent danger of
serious physical harm to self or others and other interventions are ineffective and should be discontinued as soon as imminent danger of serious physical harm to self or others has dissipated and this was a very big discussion that we had within our focus group too um really kind of defining what that imminent threat was and um and that's what we kind of came to with that highlighted so we will and we will bring to you um the highlighted components we will bring that to you for approval
because that is what our seclusion and restraint focus group really focused on adding to our board policy and and not having it so um simple they really felt like there was some more definition and some more detail that needed to be added to our board policy so we will bring that to you for approval um as the year progresses so here here's our big uh goal results as of December our first goal was reducing the number of
elementary students um as of December 31st we are at a 94% reduction our goal set at 30% goal two was the number of male students um as of December 31st we are at a 96% reduction and finally our number of students with emotional impairments as of December we are at a 94% % reduction so we are at over 60% what we set our goals for this year
and that truly is due to strong leadership support our Hazel Park team pair professionals our security guards teachers ancillary staff administrators parents everyone that's really jumped on board um and jump two feet in with us to get this accomplished I think thank you
um I also want to mention that we were contacted by an advocate um from an advocacy group and we are Mr nabl and I um not only were we contacted by the mom Intermediate School District but a state representative also wants to meet with us regarding our model how we did this and how we are getting such great results here in his Park so we are really excited to share our story and brag about Hazel Park schools and all of the great things
we've been able to do here so thanks thank you good job I have to say um last month you did child find and this month you're doing this absolutely fabulous all the details all the progress fabulous thank you uh next we have grants I don't know if there's any comments we can uh put that on the next
meeting okay um we'll move on to the targeted support and Improvement any comments anything there this actually should have been on the general not a committee of the whole uh topic but do we just want to move it to the general then what's inil do we just want to move it to the general meeting then table it and move it to the next time I think move both of those
the grants and the targeted support to the next meeting and then we have summer school I'm skipping minutes I'm not sure what minutes what that means with uh summer school we talked about the minutes last time um I think um trusty Fox wanted them more detailed and when you read them they're they're more detailed but some of them are way way over detailed so I was just wondering just to have a discussion about maybe finding a
happy medium in between that I was just wondering if maybe um is it I don't know how this works but could we have a committee with this the interim superintendent and with Miss bucko and um myself and somebody else on the board and just kind of sit down with them could we do that instead of because Miss Buckle is not here um I mean there's just a few questions that you know I don't know and then
could bring it back to you I I don't know I think that's a great suggestion right with you you do that so I would just feel more comfortable in a smaller setting and then whatever we find that out then we bring it back to the board and say this is how we're going to do it or how we suggest to do it and then maybe have a vote on it I don't know okay so sounds good just an idea sounds good Darren so besides
Darren would there be anybody who' be interested in doing that I'll do it okay thank you perfect so summer school do you have something Dr C um I do again uh Stephanie and her teams have been trying to put plans into place uh we received notice that we got a $450,000 Discovery Grant late last week um that
is going to offset the majority of summer school do you have information I don't but if anybody had questions this I'm not as rantic as I was earlier so um the the 450,000 would cover the K8 portion so that looks like it's going to be a go the question that we have is to do the high school recovery would be
120,000 and where is that going to fall within our budget conversations um Stephanie wanted to start getting her ducks in a row and uh so if it is approved and we later find out that we cannot do the 120,000 from the general fund then she would just scale it back to bk8 but wanted to start planning and and
so was looking to um just get you thinking about it is there a way that we can get some maybe some data on how many how many kids participated in the program last year how many students it affected I can answer some of those questions okay um there were uh this is just K through n this is rising first grader so our kindergarten going into first and rising up to Rising ninth graders we had 177 students
grle I think that yeah trusty Fortress is asking about the rising kindergarten camp and then the credit recovery which is so anything like outside of those parentheticals of the summer Discovery thank you because those would be the general fund expenses gotcha I only know this summer school stuff at nauseum um fores discussion I I mean I I I've seen this in action I've seen a
lot of the kids benefit from it especially the ones that have um are on the verge of not graduating by half a credit or uh you know um ones that uh need a little bit of help because they messed up during the school year um I I I think it gives them a second chance because there is some kids that just need that second chance um know and I and I like the idea of uh you know seeing if the budget you know is
stretched to the max that we can't do it then um M Dr delmage is able would be able to reduce that down or to adjust it probably as we get closer to um how many kids have signed up um you know and according to the budget I mean I that's just my opinion so I have a really quick question so the for 50,000 covers Rising first graders through Rising ninth graders so the Early Childhood that would have to come out of the general
fund too uh yes I there may be another fund um I think on either side so it be the credit recovery kids in the top and then there's uh the the preschool kids I'm not sure if there's another fund I am kind of the middle person for the rising uh for graders through Rising nth there could possibly be more grants out
there possibly I don't know if she wrote about the preschool kids I know that they have a program um but I am not sure how it's funded I want to say that I I feel like there's something out there but I am not familiar with it I apologize I wish I would have gotten more information so what I can do is I think the uh the first question was how many Early Childhood children participated as well as
credit recovery yeah last year and then if there are grant opportunities for either of those I have one additional question it's kind of a finance department question so was any of summer school in the budget because we do it every year it was in the budget and how much was budgeted for that I okay we usually put it in 31 a well it's very very
important so if we got to dig in that budget and stretch to find it it's it's important for all those age level of of students so uh we'll work hard looking for that money it's a pretty robust program too I think when we have all the ages kind of covered it really is such a great summer programming so it's always successful y I think it's worth I mean especially to Dr gley and the rest of the administration's credit too
I know that she's the only one that's here right now um we talked earlier about Balmer grant for Community Schools and the summer Discovery Grant which is funded through Balmer is a different fund so it's it's not the one we mentioned earlier it's an additional $450,000 specifically for summer out of school time so that's a really significant investment that bomber is making in Hazel
Park and for good reason okay um next I have committee appointments on here anyone consider um any of these Jamie did the nice description and sent them out to everybody um we can make the appointments official at the next meeting but I'd kind of like to get an idea of what you're interested in um doing who want I would love to
be on open enrollment committee and um the government Relations Committee that's the Oakland School um the a a y okay and then the open committee anybody else I thought you wanted the E too well I don't want to take them all that's too I talked to Nate about Ruth geesi
do you want to do yeah because of time reasons I thought that was a good fit because it's a lot of phone calling if somebody needs need uh help yeah you call the committee and do I agre Goode with you is there anything else uh no no that's good I'd like maybe Ruth gley and uh maybe open enrollment
also anybody else know anybody else have any thoughts yet or you I'd be happy to work with um Oakland schools as the liaison I've worked pretty well with them for a number of years I'd be happy to expand that okay I'm thinking like the youth assistance and the museum might be every other month so you know you wouldn't have to go because our time is so
taken up here that would be every other month are you staying the youth assistance leison pardon are you staying the youth assistance leison yeah okay but because you and Debbie are both on youth assistance do we need need another of the Aon what's that aren't you and Debbie both already participating in youth I don't like to use this as a l just so another board member gets to see what it's about okay that's fair but we're there we can always report back what's going on so um let me know
there's a few more I could do the honoring HP oh oh that's a good one for you and then uh the museum representative which representative Museum it's underneath youth assist Museum okay honoring HP um is a good one for you you're all good for everybody everyone will learn something new on each committee so let's see
then uh enrollment if nobody else wants to do it I could do enrollment since I have a lot of knowledge with that okay then I can be the youth assistant that takes care of that so there's somebody Monica I don't mind any of them whatever works for you yep well okay and then you do premis on meetings correct I do so okay all
right I'll I'll write up that list and it looks like we're covered pretty good and the next thing I have is board protocols um I went through okay most of ours was taken from Berkeley we had like three different uh school districts we had Evendale hotton Lake and Berkeley so they they all run pretty much the same however I went through and and I'm going to give this to you and we can vote on it next time these were the additions
that I think are important that I'd like to see so um I'll just pass them out and then uh next time next meeting we can vote but it's like simple like we have the calendar for the whole year but in October I thought we should add the first budget amendment cuz we have the second budget amendment on the calendar but we don't have the first one so some of them are just really simple are the items in red the updates
so do what are the items in red the updates I think attachment before okay and and that has new ones she'd like to see do we have kind of a highlight of what the updates are so that we don't have to go through it like word for word you know what my copy didn't have the updates this one here I we just got did we get three copies last meeting or something it didn't have the red updates like the one in board books is the one that I'm looking at you would see them online when so in board books we
have things highlighted and red so there updates Beyond those yes I don't know one two something sticky has happens nine little changes she's going to pass out so we have like public comment is going to go to five minutes and 3 minutes at the end and we haven't voted on it but we need to that's on here to make the adjust for the minute so some of them we've already discussed so um make sure I give that to
before we go and so now we're up to public comments anybody wishing to speak for public comments it's the Carla show today I am so sorry Carla Gresley director of Community Schools 7979 Bri Brook Drive it's ly Michigan you have one minute that's okay um first of I thank you again for approving the inspection today Mr xeres is the one
that always took care of that so again you know as we're digging out we're finding out some things so I appreciate that today um also I am going to speak a little bit on the resource fair at the board meeting probably in public comment um but it was very successful we had more uh participants our vendors were very happy I will announce that the firefighters won the chili cook off again again
um but I will so um and then one of the Chartwell um participants actually got second place and my daughter one third place so so um but it was really successful and I I will talk more on it so thank you for again for the approval holy moly and um I'll be talking about that resource it was pretty awesome that was your one minute scar
off hi all right Mr light your name and address 92 until next month and then 992 East me I just wanted to possibly be a link a bridge between the community and the board I know there's uh some PBIS and the FBA and the restraint I'd like
to be on that if you could we can set up our Arrangement where I could I'm a licensed Master social worker yeah just yeah see me after okay um and then one comment about the budget I think we really have I would hate to think that the board is going home with the gravity that I felt related to the budget and the community here for you to to weigh all of those you know decisions that are
heavy on the head we're here we got your back we're going to come through with this uh get you know some stable budgeting uh I I don't personally like that we had to play catchup to get to where we're at uh and it was disingenuous about the not having the $12 million loan if we could get a like a almost like a repitch for and just one more minute please um I'm asking for accommodation um
so uh if we could if we could get that included into it and all those additions for the 12 million in the interest and repitch it to the public I'd really appreciate it all right with the balance sheet okay thank you anybody else okay motion to adjourn I nobody want to wait there's one more all right Mr Bish hello I just
wanted to respond Sue hemp's comment about about the locks security doesn't stop at the front door oh one minute one minute oh sorry security doesn't stop at the front door and they take the extra minute to grab the right key instead of just giving him a generic master key like it's a waste of $700,000 like it's just common sense okay thank you thank you now I I hate to ask this ask
for comments sorry can we please put on the agenda the resource fair at the beginning learn some more yeah I think that would it would flow better and be yeah you under presentations and I promise I won't take extra time I promise honey you can take as long as you want you're you're one of my favorite noise oh God it's on TV I gotta be careful um and then could we also put on the agenda I mean this is just a suggestion you can say no right now
uh storage for the athletic booster club because I know they're paying for Storage storage and maybe um the inter room superintendent could ask talk to Greg and see if there's anything available okay and then bring it to us um just a suggestion and then uh this I would like to see I don't know how to go about this cuz I'm kind of new I've seen it done but I'm kind of new
uh the I would like to maybe go into executive session to talk about safety to talk about the locks to talk about because I don't know being that I know that some of you have probably gone into close session and you probably know what happened you've talked to the Greg you've talked to the superintendent you've talked to you know what the procedures are but it would be nice to get us all caught up you know since I am kind of new and other new people on the thing so if we could do that cuz I
know we can't talk about that in front of everybody or on TV because of the you know um other than that that's all Happ sorry those are all great thank you yeah thank you anybody else any comments I have one comment I just want to remind everybody that the um promis on dinner is coming up on February 24th um we are still looking for donations we definitely need more people to purchase tickets it's a little bit uh smaller this
year for some reason um so if you if you go on our um hear prone Facebook page there's a link on there to purchase tickets for that wasn't there a link in our email too yes okay I saved it multiple emails I'm sure Fernando sent me I know I saw at least one so I saved it so I could do it all right uh thank you for everybody who spoke and the presentations were phenomenal congratulations on the um reducing I I don't want to
say it backwards restraint and seclusion reduction I think that's where we say it right and I'm glad the resource Fa went well I was there at the very beginning by didn't St long that's it April yes um I think it would Echo that comments about the resource fair and I'm excited to hear um Dr Carla Gresley talk a little bit more about it if we have it as an official agenda agenda item um and also that this upcoming Wednesday February 12th is our count day um all of the schools
will have some really great events in order to kind of celebrate that um obviously we heard how important it is to have our per people amount for state aid um so I know the weather's going to get a little bit weird but make every effort that you can to um have your kids there on Wednesday so that we can move forward thank you I just want just want to thank the district I know I took some classes i b did did Nate
did you did too um they're always beneficial and great information um one of my favorites was and we talked about this the last four years I've been on the board is maybe doing a dis assessment of the board especially with um maybe some trust issues or the Public's portrayal of us maybe I think that would be a good step for us to take as a board um we did I was did sit
in on the um class on the processes which was really helpful thank you were in that one too so yeah I appreciate I was actually going to acknowledge something like that that's on our um additional Lo board protocols like it with the trust and stuff we do like it says on here I will not step outside my role to Governor orce see the management of the district by seeking to participate administration of the day-to-day operations having trust in our intern superintendent or Carla or our staff like that is
very important it shows that we trust them that they're going to do their stuff so I know it wasn't always just about that part of it but um I feel like we need trust you we need to trust her we need to build more trust and within ourselves like you said um so that that class was great for me yeah I agree those classes are phenomenal and to take learn a lot like what Darren was asking about close session about safety that specifically spelled out in the open meetings act
something that we C their first and should do and I think you're right uh want to thank the all the speakers that uh came the presentations uh it's great to see the work that uh Megan and Kevin and the whole group is doing uh the resource fair was great so I I missed that because I was doing training but uh yeah just looking forward to uh continue working together Dr C um I want
to say thank you to uh so many people in the district who are helping me in this transition and I uh I am so impressed by what happens on the day-to-day level with our children in our classrooms it's just the level of Engagement is incredible I'm I'm taking a back it is it is so and I took the president's workshop for two days from 9:00 until 4:00 was a
very good and Saturday they inspiring um I just wanted to say our next meeting is on the Tuesday instead of a Monday because Prison is on that Monday so it's Tuesday February 25th um and then have a nice break next week is break so have a good time go sleding or skiing or or go to Florida I don't know but have a good time and I motion to adjourn motion to
adjourn of board Happy Valentine's Day