Ready? I'd like to pause the Hazel Park Board of Education Committee of the Whole meeting to order at 05:30PM on this 08/18/2025. It's on a beautiful night. Can I have a roll call, please? Yes. Here. Sorry. I can't hear you. Darren told us to be louder. Becker? Here. My gun and Wardress? Present. David. Fox? Yes. McBride? Here. Vertee? Here. And then Here. I need a motion to approve the agenda. I make a motion to approve the agenda as written.
To support. Motion by Heidi. Support by, I think, Monica first. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. Porters? Yes. Rudi? Yes. Dean? Yes. Second? Yes. Fox? Yes. The Freundlich? Yes. I think it's Yes. Alright. That brings us to public comment on these papers. I lost my little statement. So I'm just going to ask you to please state your name and address. Be respectful and confident. This meeting is a meeting of the Board of Education and public for the purpose
of conducting the school district business and is not to be considered a community public meeting. The board has provided two opportunities during the meeting for the public to address the board respectfully. Personal attacks unrelated that disrupt the meeting will, be asked to stop. Board members will not engage in comments. Be assured we are listening carefully. Rules are posted on the wall. If you have any questions about what we how how we do this, and the first person is Kayla McGinnis.
Kaelin McGinnis, 1337 East Granite. Donald sent a text to the superintendent on 01/24/2025. Donald asked for his contract that he signed and for his EduStaff info. It was then forwarded to the school lawyer and HR. In the text from the superintendent to HR and the school lawyer and coach McGinnis it states, quote unquote, Please see the message above from Don. Please give him the contract for EduStaff. Please also give him a time to come in and see his personnel file per
policy and copy what he requests. Please send over anything you have as a personnel file. Thank you. Then Don will go on to ask several more times for his contract and EDUStaff info via text for months to follow, to which he will have received no response on it. He He didn't get anything until he included the board on an email and it was already too late, to which we have those text messages if you need them. I would like to know why the wrestling position was open when their season doesn't even start until November.
Under Schedule B page 83 it says, quote unquote, sixty days before the start of all future seasons, HPEA members interested in a coaching position must notify the AD and association president in writing that they're interested in the position. So why was the position open in April? That's well over sixty days before the start of the season. Why the rush HR? Then your AD at the time said he felt rushed to fill the position. Why was it so rushed?
Who was rushing him? Why was the position filled instantly? And how did this person get the position over another applicant who had much more experience than him? And I'm not speaking about my husband's resume. You cannot seriously be using MMA as experience in folk style wrestling. If you let these people con you into believing MMA is the same as wrestling, then I truly feel bad for you. You legitimately had an MHSA official come up and tell you that MA doesn't translate to wrestling to your face a couple weeks ago.
Let me just say this, last week at the board meeting, a parent, mind you, that doesn't have a wrestler, came up here and said those were my husband's wrestling shoes And that he put them on the mat to show his quote unquote retirement. They were in fact not his wrestling shoes, nor did he mention retirement. We had several wrestlers that those that had those shoes and I sent the board pics of the kids who had them on during their matches. Coach John purchased them for the kids that didn't have any. A wrestler may have retired their shoes on the mat.
My husband did not. So the lies need to stop. My husband's shoes can be seen in pictures of of open map if you'd like to look them up. And yes, we did move our children for their safety. They're no longer in the district because because coach McGinnis was forced out by retaliating employees. Retaliation is real with your staff, and it's been proven time and time again. And yes, Donald has been offered multiple coaching positions. He wanted to at least be able to choose the person that goes under him to lead his wrestlers to victor to victory. Also, I passed down an envelope to the board.
Go ahead and open it. I'd like you to know, do you think this hiring process was a bit biased now? With everything I've submitted to you, you should be able to put two and two together. There is corruption taking place in your schools. It's time to fix it so that you can move on with a mentally healthy administration to lead this district. Thank you. Thank you. Outlaw, Dean Lloyd. Hi, Greg. Ian Lloyd. Hi, Greg. Ian Lloyd. I just it really hurts me to see you guys in this type of conditions. Like, the culture is so weak that we have, you know, HR not knowing when
to go on vacation. It's traditionally never in the summertime. That's the bulk of the hiring process. It'd be like if for physicians, like, formally as a clinician at Beaumont. Oh, it's COVID. Let me go. I'm just gonna go on two, three weeks. You know? And that's the justification why all of people and errors occurred. Or it could be, like, the pendulum is she's really grieving. Very no experience, not no ability to possibly lead and and avoid these legal errors,
these barriers. So I think this is a self inflicted wound. It should go on the rating poor rating of an individual in that position. If the investigation that I requested panned out that any of the the, you know, errors did occur, you root cause, you kinda trace it back up to the top, then it negatively reflects on the performance of, let's say, the direct supervisor right above that individual. It goes right into the category of poor management, poor inability to hire up and
maintain a standardized process for hiring. I think what it people who don't have that, like, the institutional memory, let's say being here and involved, there is a point where we receive recommendations that HR from Oakland School should be leased. And that was around the time that, 2010 agreement, where, let's say the 2015 agreement that doctor Meisinger signed in, there was purview that they wanted us to cooperate with
the Oakland Schools' HR. We prematurely exited that purview and oversight. And what happened is everything derailed. And we had the deficit elimination plan on track like Pontiac. Pontiac paid off $52,000,000, and they did not they did not reach a point where they said, we got this covered, Oakland schools. We want you out of our hair. And my guess is is that because we had a bond that was brought forward that should not have been brought forward. And so the reason why none of the books were accurately maintained was that information's
privilege to Mackinac policy. And then someone would have saw it and they would have saw that the true nature of our deficit and they would have said, hey, Pontiac paid off 52. Hazel Park's back in debt, but they want fifth 150,000,000 at an interest rate that's cost prohibitive. You can't do it. We knew it as a a community. Now we have two self inflicted wounds we're resolving on the HR front. You can't even move forward any real business. You've got people coming up to you wanting to be first in line for a
raise. That is the opposite of, performance in the in the highly qualified category, notched down on each one of them individuals. And there's also a disrespect that's occurring. Leaders do not bring forward ideas to the board that they know has fiscal constraints like hiring. Right at this moment, there's sabotage occur occurring when there it's tone deaf in HR. Oh, let's just, HR and admin, let's just keep plowing forward with raise requests for
admin only. Forget we have three unions we have to to give the same to. My recommendation is we need Oakland schools to come in here, fill any gap in HR service, and to to give them confidence that we are doing we're on the up and up over here. And if you lease it, it's supplemental. You could cut the umbilical cord to it at any time. And we might even get people that know what they're doing and avoid all these situations. So I have also requested to be on a community team to discuss, like, the
finances and no response that's adequate. I'm gonna let you know there's no invitation coming from the school. I may have to begin facilitating the focus groups with the permission of the city, and I intend to do that. And because right or wrong, we need to a steering committee to right size this district and figure out what our spending priorities are. If Luke Killett didn't get his four year award, please get his Varsity four year award. If he didn't, I I'm ending that on your job too for wrestling.
I'm gonna take a minute to read this because there's, there's a very fine line between freedom of speech and what's being said, at our podium. This is from the open meetings book, and it says, however, comments that constitute a personal attack on an employee or board member totally unrelated to his duties is prohibited. Complaints can a school board adopt a rule that prohibits citizens from publicly con criticizing
or making complaints against school employees by name during public comment? No. So as long as they're not making up something about personal life, that tells me they can say just about anything. No profanity. No accusations that are personal. But if it has something to do with somebody's job, I read this as you cannot stop public comment against an employee or a board member. So it's very uncomfortable. I've been dealing back and forth with people not liking what's being said, so I
researched it. And that's how I interpret it. Next is John Piodi. Hello. Thank you all for your time. I guess this is it. The last time I'll be here. You know, I'm just wanting to support coach McGinnis. Again, the decision has been made. Last week, it was admitted that the decision was made and to move forward. So that's where we're at. So at least there's some acknowledgment. Just I mean, it was honor working with Don and showing him the paperwork, everything that's involved. He's never coached anywhere, but I've coached a lot of places.
And, you know, I would go have lunch with the kids, walk in school, have no issues, go work out during the day when I work nights. No issues. They treat you with respect, and that's definitely not what's happening at Hazel Park unless you're friends with certain people. But whatever. It's a shame. 90% of kids who play sports, you can ask them who was the influence in your life, and they'll probably say a coach.
And that's what coaches do. We take these kids under our wings. I understand today's society is a little bit different. It's a shame because I look at, like, talk to other coaches. They coach when I did and it's a lot of one and done and scoot them out the door. And I'm thinking been talking to him and thinking about it. And Larry Nassar was a doctor. He wasn't a coach. He was a horrific man who did horrific stuff. And if that's what everyone's worried about, his coaches like that, we get fingerprinted.
We get background checked. We get everything. Ninety nine percent of coach ninety nine point nine nine percent of coaches are great people. And if that's the mentality is let's not have contracts, let's not have any records because of liability, then that's wrong. Utterly wrong. So if Dan Campbell last year took the Lions, won the division, the NFC North, he, took him to playoffs. Won a playoff game one game away from a Super Bowl. Coach Gere, I don't think I read in the paper after the Super Bowl that the Lions fired the coach coach Dan Campbell.
I've never heard of someone who would win their division, the MAC, get coach of the year, take two kids to state, and then get fired or let go. It's absurd. Horrific. And, I don't know. Something's gotta change. If you guys wanna get rid of sports, get rid of sports. Just come out and say it. We're not gonna have sports or treat coaches with some respect and dignity. We give up our time for our family. We give up a lot of stuff for these kids because we love the kids.
No one ever wrestles from retiring. I mean, no one retires from wrestling. I started in 1974 and I'm still into wrestling. Different stages, coaching, go back, ref, go back. People call you up. Hey. Go you know, Hazel Park needs to keep doors open. Go back. You never give up your wrestling shoes. You may take a break. How many people got angry at work and said I'm not coming back and someone heard that? Or I'm just had it. I'm done. Until you sign a resignation letter, no one's done. And that was never done. Coach McGinnis got railroaded.
A lot of people have gotten railroaded. And, it's a shame. Really is a shame. Don, it's an honor. It's time to move forward. They made their decision. I'd call a good attorney, Mike Morris. Have a good day. Don McGinnis. Don McGinnis, 1337 East Granite. I'm here to bring up some of the stuff that you guys said at the last board meeting. You guys, as a board, turned around and said that you guys do not follow your procedures.
You do not follow your policies, and we and it goes all the way down. I heard that from the superintendent that it got messy. This situation is messy. I heard from HR that I did apply, and they were on vacation and left stuff open, meaning they didn't do their job. I have nonstop with state and communication all the way through. I have shown the proof. And if any of you guys want more proof to sit down, I'll be glad to do it, To show you guys word from word, this is just what I
have on text and emails. This is not what I've done in person, or when I see them, or ask these questions. You guys stated at the last meeting that you guys had to hurry up and hire a coach due to for the camps. I definitely were asking about the camps for months and ahead of time. There's there's really no excuse for it other than the push out of the forcing me out. And I understand that it was you know, I have conflict with the higher ups
of the school and it with that click, and it really does affect your home life and all that. And, yeah, I've never said I've not wanted to quit. This is tough. Being a coach in HDP is tough. I coached youth for almost ten years here now, junior high for three and a half years, high school as a head coach for the last three years, and before, assistant coach under Michael Floody for two years. And it's tough. And it's tough here. Like Coach John just said, we talked to I talk to wrestling coaches every week.
It's only tough here. Why is it so tough here? I have asked multiple questions, and I had multiple meetings with the superintendent asking why is it so tough to be a coach here. Why? I I I don't know how much more I can come up here and just keep saying the same things over and over other than the facts that I have proof of, the text, the emails, all the above. And And I do wanna make one correction that, was said last week as well. I applied before I found out the coach was the job, which was on the,
call on the thirteenth was to turn in the gear. I didn't find out till the June 20, which I have the call log from the superintendent and athletic director back to back when I found out on the twentieth. I applied before that, so I just let you guys know that was an incorrect data to say. And I I'm not a big fan of how they kept on saying hearsay last week of what I was saying. If you guys want me to say, let's have a meeting. I will sit down with all my facts, and we can discuss this altogether.
So you can't keep saying he said this, she said that. I will show the proof that day and have what I have. For several months now, you guys in your board meetings have said that you guys do not follow procedures and protocols. The superintendent changed she I believe they said over 20 changes last week for the hiring process of athletics. That sounds like there's an issue there. And if there's not an issue there, what changes were there? Why was it changed? Why was there that many changes? If it wasn't towards me, why didn't they get back to me when I have
numerous text messages and emails? If it wasn't towards me, why would the banners took down with my face on it? If it wasn't towards me, then what was it? Thank you. Thank you. Have, Joseph Hillock. Joseph Hilla. A little while ago, you had, one of the buddies that I wrestled with in high school, Ian Lloyd up here. The wrestling community is a really strong community. We developed these, friendships early on. It's also helped us in academics. We aspire to do well so that we can wrestle and compete.
This is something that we love and that we wanna do. And we only have one go around. So it's very important that you could keep a coach, especially one who gives back so much. Right? And because these kids entrust in them a lot. So it's very important. I've had three boys that have wrestled for, Donald McGinnis. And, you know, he's he's a tough cracker, but, you know, it instills a lot of fortitude into them. So I think this will go far, with them. I have, my all my boys graduated in high school at the Hazel Park, right?
I'm not so certain if my youngest is going to because he's always did well in school. From elementary, awesome. Middle school, awesome. Ninth grade, first semester, awesome. Second semester, I took my eye off the ball. I didn't check on those grades, and they they dived. And nobody called me or anything. That's my fault. But I thought, no one's good. Right? So I got his report card, and I almost fell out of my chair. So, I don't know how many kids are in the were in the freshman class, but I felt like maybe there could be some due diligence on the staff's part
to maybe, you know, they know the history of his, his grades. It's highly concerning to me. But I definitely will do my due diligence wherever I take him. So because, you know, you had a rough go in that second semester. So, highly concerned about that. Wrestling is very important, and and so are sports as a whole. Right? Like I said, they got one go around. And these kids, you know, they're much tougher than they were when I wrestled, but, their hearts are in it. And I've seen first year wrestlers really, really, really do well.
And they really wanna do well in school, and they will make lifelong friends. So, I highly, highly, highly hope that you will look at this whole process. And, going forward, well, you really do need to take the kids in consideration because, it you know, what what are they gonna, you know, look back on and say, you know, I like, my kids had, like, five coaches. Right? And that's that's ridiculous. I mean, they've wrestled their whole life. They've all started at the age of four. You know? And because we saw Kehada, we had the pleasure of having my oldest.
You know, he got to wrestle for him for the underdogs, you know, early on. And the community is just an awesome thing, and it and it'll go far. So hopefully, going forward, with academics, you know, I don't know how many kids were in the freshman class, now in the sophomore class, if they could, you know, kinda touch base and say, hey. You know, what's going on? I've seen that you've not turned I don't understand the whole grading process. I'm still learning on that. That was that was a kick in the pants because they kept telling me my boy kept telling me they they haven't graded it yet.
I don't know what that means. Have you turned it in? Yes. But they haven't graded it yet, so I don't know what that means. So, you know, the the breakdown of communication was definitely, you know, a tough thing for me to grasp. So I'm hoping that that's something that you could really, do your due diligence and, you know, communication with with parents, maybe even, you know, calling a special meeting, whatever it is. You know? They need to, there's another one of the cats that I wrestled with since he's, you know, we were the gray wolves. So that's another one. That's back in the eighties.
So that's it. Do better. Go Vikings. Thank you. So we just have one person, come in, which is Gary Harrison. State your name and address. Oh. However Good Oh, yeah. I just wanted to make a comment. People can't just keep coming in. So when we reach thirty minutes, which is after your five minutes, people will have to wait until the end. Because people can just keep coming in and coming in. That's not against you, Gary. So, go ahead because you're in the time frame. K. You got several several of you know, we, I'm here because all this nonsense and
through city you know, I have great friends that are top of the top of the charts when it comes to wrestling and, that's what Catholic Central, you know, stuff gets brought to me in in the middle of conversations, closest friends. And I'm like, it's a mess here. And I'm here to, you know, let you guys know that you got Donald McGinnis and Patrick Wright fighting over each with each other. They they're fighting over a job that this guy should've got a call, at least
a call saying, you didn't apply, Donald. Apply. I don't you know, that's where the you know, that's where loyalty stands for me. I I'm just like, when I talked to Donald about it and I seen all these texts and Jim Patterson, you know, I don't know. So there's some somebody not doing their job here because these two should not be at it because, you know, you see through Facebook, so and so said this, so and so said this. What kind of look is that for Hazel Park?
It's not a good look. This is about the kids. And for kids to come here and give their what, you know, Donald parents you know, I know growing up, I had mister Morrow. And he used to call me in his office and say, Gary, you ready? We need you, you know, you ready? Always I'll never forget that guy in a million years. He he did so much for me and just mentored me even till the day he died. You know, just go to his house in Birmingham and, you know, you know, putting
his wife in a, a home and just just the connection I had with him. And that's kind of connection you have when you coach. And they took this guy off the job, not even a phone call. Where's the phone call, Jim Patterson? You're the AG. Why isn't there a phone call saying, Donald, you didn't, you didn't apply? Donald, this or or you know, someone didn't do their job, and it it doesn't look good. It's outside of Hazel Park. Other coaches, other big time coaches, other athletic directors that I've talked to, it doesn't
look good. Another thing is I said I would take over the youth wrestling. And without a youth program, you ain't gonna have a, junior high program or a varsity program. When I coached the started the the Hazel Park wrestling program, like, seven, eight years ago when, mister David stopped, I had several kids that were all state wrestlers that went to other schools because they didn't wanna go to Hazel Park. Well, my son's coming back.
He's seven years old. I'm coaching him. I said I called Charlie, the AD, and said, Charlie, I'm willing to take it over. Let's make it happen. Okay. Let's let's do it, Gary. I need a place to practice. Is there a place to practice for Hazel Park to wrestle? I don't wanna be practice last time I came, there was a school fire and they put a a half a half a mat in Webster for 35 kids. You know, Greg Richardson, you know, went out of his way to bring it, and I did call make a call to Amy.
We made it happen that night, but that's not acceptable for it wasn't acceptable to make 35 kids wrestle on a half a mat. I am willing to put my time and effort to make sure we have a wrestling program. And if you guys want this to happen, if you guys want I'm not charging. I'm not I'm doing it because I wanna do it, and we got good people that are willing to help. I'm not here for problems. I'm not here for drama. I'm not here for b s. You know, I stopped ro coaching the wrestling program because Ford Motor Company made me
go in afternoons. I, you know, I have to provide for my family. I'm on midnights now. If you guys wanna make this happen, we can make this happen. If you don't, then we'll go from there. A couple other things that you know, Amy, I talked to you, and I have no problem with I don't want drama. I don't want and I told you flat out. I don't want let's just do our job, and it's about the kids. And what happened here with the head coach, this kid took Hazel Park to two,
state, tournaments. That hasn't happened in a long time. I'm just saying there should have been a phone call, and you got him and Patrick Wright fighting over each a job. It's not their fighting. They're fighting over the kids. They're not fighting over this could have been stopped. I'm just saying there's a there's a mix up somewhere that caused two guys. They're passionate about the job. Time's up, Gary. Time's up? Your time's up. Okay. I just want you to know, and I don't want no hard feelings. I appreciate you all. I hope we can, if guys wanna start this program, we'll do it.
Thank you. Hey. So our first order of new business is personnel, the invest certified staff increase. I would like to go back. I'm I'm, passing that to missus Kales. Yes. So we have in front of you on the memo are the four certified staff members, that, Invest employees. As you know, we, pay them a percentage of their foundation allowance. So these salaries are taken from that percentage. As a note, the last person, he is being caught up to be, like the
bottom step for the certified personnel for HPEA, which is traditionally what we've done starting out, employees with Invest. Anybody have questions? I just wanna make, a couple more statements. I know there's been some questions about how does this work. Well, Invest is our school. They are our staff, and we, way before me, I call that BFA, we made arrangements. We made arrangements, for them to be our vendor. So how that works is is those are our kids. They graduate with high school diplomas.
We hire, and it's kinda changed over time, different employees for them. These are the teachers that are now getting teacher salary. When Invest started having the difficulties that we all are having by finding enough teachers, they kinda changed the way that they were paying teachers to more mirror ours, and so these are the employees they do that with. And then they hire their own bus drivers and and the pair of professionals, but we also flow funds through them through the EL grants to make sure that we can, help offset that with the dollars that they bring in because they have more
significant English language learners. So, these are our kids, our schools. Some of them are employed by us, some of them are employed through that third party vendor. I hope that is, more specific for you. It's good for me. Okay. Okay. Next, let's see lead pay increase. These are, this is an increase for the people who are in charge of latch fee at the different locations. Some of the responsibilities include handling all the paperwork and collecting payments. They're the person in charge when a parent has an issue. This is a simple 3% increase.
They are a non union employee in that particular position when they're going to be lead. Do you want me to say that again? The latchkey leads at the locations are a non union position in that capacity as the latchkey leave. The paraprofessionals that work with them are are in the paraprofessional group, so they are in the contract and received the increase that was already written into their contract. In this particular position, these four individuals are, considered part of the unaffiliated or nonunion. Okay. So they sort of take on a different role before and after school.
Okay. Sorry. I I heard that differently and it confused me, but now I think They're often the first to be there and the first to leave. They work directly with, miss Rubinsky or at the, Webster with, Heather, needs for their classrooms. Okay. I remember you do pay someone to be in charge of latchkey, and you have a position such as that. I also remember there was questions about the, childcare fund. So our childcare fund has done well for many years. It is only recently that we started to eat into that a little bit, which then remember, we spoke with you guys about keeping the amount the same in order
to do that and that we'll have to pay attention to that in future years. These three salaries of a 3% rate are not going to be eating into that fund balance in that manner. It's just a matter of how many kids do you have, and, that also determines how many last key parents that we have in that program as well. So I think probably in the next year or two, we'll have to look and see how far we're comfortable with that balance, but one of the wonderful things is is that we've been able to provide latch key to our staff for free, but also at a low cost to our community. How many hours a week do these people normally work?
Around twenty in this capacity. Twenty hours? Could you talk me under the mic, please? Because I can't apparently hear you. Oh, I said how many hours do they work in a week? Around twenty hours. Anybody else? Okay. High school media technician. So we did have our media para retire at the high school this year. We are looking to reinstate what was what's called the media, technician at the high school. This person will be stationed in the media center, helping with the students checking in and out, load our Chromebooks, you know, chargers, things like that, helping with managing any
of the technology at the at the high school, and then, you know, answering some tickets and things like that, throughout the day to assist with the staff as well. We waited. At one point, we had one of the media technicians, Ann Barb, in there, and then we removed it out of there to serve other schools. And so now, we're requesting to put it there. We probably will also look at maybe putting one of the already hired media techs in at the junior high as requested, and go back to that old format now that it'll be equitable between those schools. And we'll just take one of our current media people and put them at the
junior high, see who might want to do that. I have a question. What requires it to be twelve months? What would they do in the summer? Oh, boy. In the summertime. You are, getting staff members' devices. You are, updating them. And then when you don't update them, they can't print like the junior high today. And, they are also cleaning devices. They're making sure any broken ones are turned back in. They are, looking at the classroom projectors, and it is a full summer job. Oh, the Chromebooks that have to go in and out. I I do have a question.
Will the media technician also be cataloging books and checking in and out books? Our students don't really check-in and out books, unfortunately, but, yes, that would be made available. If so, but she would he or she, whoever would be hired, would not be watching kids. I think we've made that really clear that their job, you know, if a teacher, someone else would need to be watching the kids. Their job is not to sit and watch kids. Their job is to effectively, help make sure the technology gets fixed in that building in a timely manner. So I think some of the, the Media turnaround.
I can't think of the word. Curriculum includes having to check out a book or two, if I remember right. Is that still Doctor Dulles, please. The case where one of their segments, they have to check out a book and and do a report on it or whatever. I know when Amy McIntosh was there and I was there, she would always have to bring her classes down. I don't know if that's still a thing or not. So since we transitioned to American Reading Company, our core, one of the components of that is that all classrooms have core. They have what they call core and non core novels that go with the units,
plus they have additional wide reading libraries at all different levels in every classroom. So the the they are still doing some of those same types of things as it relates to the content area they're reading and their writing, but they do not necessarily need to go to the media center because we have all those resources in the classroom. Okay. That's great information. Thank you. You're welcome. Anybody else? No? Okay. We have the executive director for the Hazel Park Coalition, Community Coalition. Yes. So, as you can see, one of the things that we did on hiring the
coalition director is that individual because they're actually hired as it relates to the board of the HPCC while that branch has flowed through that organization has its own board. And so through that hiring process, one of the things that we identified that individual in their hiring letter was that if they met the outline goals, they would be eligible for a 10% performance bonus. And so what you see represented on that, memo is that we, gave a $2,500
amount in December based on the significant movement toward those goals. And then following the performance review, we noted that, miss Williams also, completed all of the MBA goals. So based on the hiring letter and based on the fact that that is fully funded by a grant, so that is not coming out of the general fund. This will be fully out of the DFC grant that we are asking that we can move forward with the rest of that promised performance fee as related to the goals that she met.
Anybody questions? No. No? Okay. Thank you. Special ed. Hair professional for preschool. Okay. So Oh, thank you. Welcome. This is for an additional paraprofessional, at Webster Early Childhood Center. We last year had four classrooms of braided preschool. This year we are working towards two to three classrooms of grade at preschool and two GSRP classes that will have students with special needs.
So we need to add an additional special education paraprofessional to support those students in the classroom. These are students who have the support written into their IEP. So this is, certainly a service and a support that that we need to give our students and one that will make them successful and have everything that they need, to learn greatly. So it's paid from the general fund, this, special education funds aren't used because it's
preschool? Well, special education, is within the general fund, and then within the general fund, you get reimbursement based upon the year before's expenditures. So yes and no. It's, yes, it's, reimbursed for special education because it's for a special education purpose as opposed to just a PERA, but it's really based upon revenues and what percentage the state is reimbursing on a year to year basis. I hope that makes sense. Anybody else? The state reimburses the special ed funds.
Is that what you're saying? Yes. The state has a reimbursement for, special education funds on a yearly basis. We'll wait and see how what they do this year. Okay. So we're up to policy. I met doctor Wilcox and Darren. I've spoke with mister Sutton. He's going to pick dates because it needs to go around his schedule. He also would not he he really doesn't wanna work with seven people, but it's our decision. Seven at one time creates a lot of discussion. If we do three, we do have, two opportunities at this table to add to
it or change whatever we would like to change. So it's on the last of the meeting to select different committees because there's negotiation committee and a discipline committee, and we'll have policy committee. So, I know, Monica and April are interested. I am. I don't know if you want seven days or if you wanna I mean, seven people or if you wanna do groups of three. When he did his presentation, he said takes about five months. He's done it in three, but he really doesn't like to rush like that.
So we can And it would be Mrs. Kales and I from the administration that would join in on on the policy work. So Would you wanna do it? I need to do it. I do because I'm the one who's really pushed for the policies. I'm the one who's been initiating it for the last eighteen months. We're gonna discuss that. That looks like an agenda item later. Yeah. We're gonna discuss that. Yeah. Yeah. We'll we'll come back to it there. I have buildings and grounds next. Yes. Webster Water Main. Webster Water Main. Water Main. Yeah. So, we, gave approval to do some concrete correction.
And in doing so, mister Richardson recalled the fact that the water main underneath has been repaired several times. And so, years ago, they said, you know, the next time you, you know, go pull that concrete up, you need to go down and replace that instead of patching it. So it is our suggestion that we go out and we repair the water main instead of, patching it, and then we put the concrete down so that we don't end up having a water main break and we have to pull the concrete back up again. So that that is our recommendation. These dollars would be coming out of the sinking fund.
There was also a request to know how much dollars are in the sinking fund. I thought we had done that with the different times that it came in, and so we will do that again where it shows how much is in the sinking fund and when we expect additional dollars. And then we will, start putting the items that we put in the sinking fund so that we can have a maybe a quarterly update of how much how many dollars are in there as we're making some suggestions on work that we do. Sounds good to me. I think we did get the same thing about balance, a couple meetings ago. I thought so, but I I Okay.
That sounds good. We'll do it again. Any questions? Any money? Entryway carpets. That's next. So if you remember, when we did the hall after we had the water, damage, we put at the athletic entrance that black mat, which has proven to be very helpful. And one, all the kids have to walk on it. It's there all the time. It stops some of the salt going out, and it's been very helpful. So one of the things that, mister Richardson thought is that at the entranceway and where all that tile is and some of the tile is broken up as well when you first walk in at the front, a very large one, that we would
replace that, with put it not replace that. We would put the carpet over that. It would stop some of the messiness coming into the hall, and also we need to repair that. So we wouldn't repair it, then we'd put the carpet over. And then we would also have carpet in the additional main entranceway. So it would be at the high school entry door, that's the big piece. The, in the back, there's two other entrance doors, and then also an entrance door 20. It was requested that I get pictures, and so I will get pictures, but unfortunately,
I didn't get them today. I'll get them to you before the weekend. Is it a tripping hazard at all? No. Not at all. As a matter of fact, it's probably nicer than the other carpets. We would then remove those doors from the carpet, monthly rental that comes in and cleans it, so that would be permanent, and it's much easier to clean. I'll send a picture of what it looks like and then what doors we're talking about. Finance, the CRG renewal. Yes. So, last year, we did the maps, through the school, but it is an, general upkeep that you have to continue to pay for that to get you can't quit
and then come back again. So, as a matter of fact, I have to tell you that today in our safety meeting with both Ferndale and Hazel Park, they commended us on the fact that our maps were so well done. But it allows us to make any updates that we need to. And so it's a general, yearly amount that that we need to pay in order to have access properly into those. I just have a comment. At at the at Lansing this past weekend, that these maps are mandatory. They're you have to have the maps in Yes. By law. I didn't know that. And our maps were old in many and that was part of our safety assessment
that was done. And so this was that step from the safety assessment that the maps or that sorry. That the Maps. The maps, not the mats, the maps, needed to be updated. And so this keeps us and we can change classrooms or anything else that we do. So, it was well to update that. Darren can kinda tell you that he used to do that himself. It was brutal. New technology is good. This is insane. I'll rent the maps. You're welcome. There there's one in each class There's one in each building, and then you have to have them in the classrooms as well. That? Mhmm. Yeah. $5,350.
On a yearly basis. That's for the whole school. So I had to do the high school, and it took me, like, two weeks to do the fire ones and then assign for the tornado ones. And mister Murmus actually laminated them somehow with some disc queen or something. I don't know what he did, but, yeah, it was a it was a process. Okay. I think the next one is is a must must have too. Munnet I don't know how to say it. Munnetrix. So Munetrix is our transparency reporting. It is required, to have transparency reporting. Reporting. Reporting.
Both. And so when you click on that, it has a variety of mandated things that we have, there. There used to be two different, companies, and they somehow became one, and this one has a majority. There also used to be funding that would pay for this for us, and I have not seen it for the last couple of years. So, that grant was taken away and pushed in other dollars we have received. Questions? Anybody? The only thing that I request is if we could get a list of the renewals that we have.
We approved quite a few of them last the last few months. Mhmm. And if we could just get a list of those so you know what we have and can expect in the future. That is a great use of that three year plan to have those items right in there. Yes, it is. November 1. If that works for you. Works for me. Alright. Bus cameras. So we have a new bus, and in that new bus, come cameras and also the ability for parents to track and for also for us to be able to see those buses in real time.
You approved these in the past. What we didn't approve, however, was a spare attendant and co pilot, camera unit, which that camera unit, when one goes down, has to be sent back in. And so we're adding that in when I met with Gina Brew. So this is what it costs to put them in there, get them going, but it is fantastic. Anybody that has a child riding on a regular route can just put it in there, know when you have their child out there, see when their child gets off the bus. And it also gives us the ability to not, pull recorders. You can go in just like our cameras and see what has happened inside those
buses by the film. Is this for all our buses or just the one? Just the one. The other buses have it. Are the parents since this is it says live video, can the parents see their kids on the bus? No. The parents cannot see their children on the bus. That would probably violate for seeing the other children. But what they can do is see the bus and where it's going, and Gina said that she shares a pamphlet with the parents so that they are aware of it. So the annual subscription, that would be renewed every year? It would be. Yeah. Because it's $8.28
for each bus. For each bus? For each bus. So you already pay this for the other buses. This is for this bus. The annual subscription would be $8.28. How many buses? We have eight. Eight buses. So we pay eight? Around 8,000, right? Yeah. Alright. The next thing is Hazel Park Youth Assistance, support, annual support. So this, is an assistance that we are requested for every year. It's moved to 3,000 from 1,500. I think we bumped ours up last year. It somehow made it all the way through the payrolls without coming to you for
approval, So I pulled it back out again and said you need to approve it and the amount to go to youth assistance. Alright. Perfect. Budget update for August. The long awaited update. There was not anything in the board packet, so I handed out, a a sheet for you to look at along. And I think Brad's pulling that up on the screen. What we'll go through Hi, Sharon. Is really we have not closed out or finalized everything for the twenty four-twenty five school year.
But in preparing for the audit, we were able to identify where there's some, where we have some pick ups or maybe took a hit on a line item. So these are kind of where we're seeing some variances to better project where we will end the 2526 the 2425 school year. Originally, we budgeted to have a deficit fund balance of 333,000. With the changes that we're seeing, we believe that fringe benefits were over budgeted.
We might be using a little bit high of a percentage rate, and also, I I think there's a little bit of duplication with grants and general funds. So we're looking at a few of the processes so that we can tighten that up a little bit. But right now, we're about 866,000 favorable in fringe benefits. We were unfavorable with our SROs, and, Crystal and I had asked Matt, you know, did you specifically put this in the budget? And I think that part of his budgeting process, not doing the line item budget,
but rolling some things in different, it was not included in the budget is what we ultimately, determined. So we did take a hit for that. We know that that is an existing and an ongoing expense, so we will be sure to include that in future budgets. We have not yet recorded, but we will have, a retirement sick pay after sick day payout that will be hitting. We have, Good Guy received Medicaid receipts And I think that's really where, doctor Papazian
Broadwell's area does a lot of the Medicaid billing, and we received a 100,000 greater than what we budgeted. That that was an exciting time. Our reimbursement grant from Treasury, they approved us for a $150,000, and that was for expenses that we've already incurred. So it really truly is reimbursing us back. We had some exceptionally high audit fees, and that was one of the the things that they were covering with the reimbursement. We received, prior year money.
Miss Gressley has really worked to get our McKinney Vento funds from other districts that were owed. And, just from Detroit, she brought up in about a $100,000 of prior year funds this year. Center program, we assess an indirect cost to cover, you know, our overhead costs that the the program would incur. The expenditure budget was overstated for the center program. And so that means what we the percentage of what we would collect on that
overhead was overstated. So in general fund, we'll receive 358,000 less than what was budgeted just based on their actual expenses. There was and this looks like this has been in the budget for a little while, but, assumed to transfer $80,000 of fund balance from food service to the general fund, and that won't be occurring. There's not extra funds in food service. We were favorable on the instructional services for so our substitute teachers, our EDU staff.
So we had a pickup there. And other purchase services were favorable to budget. Some supplies were favorable to budget. And a lot of this really is probably grant spending or or, you know, grant budgets. We don't have really large school budgets. Our capital purchases excluding the, electric buses, those were favorable to budget, and we were favorable with our tuition payments. So the line items that we've detailed total 1,900,000.0. So we as of right now, we have a a revised projected fund balance for
the 2425 school year of 1,570,000.00. With some of the changes or things that we were made aware of in trying to close out the 2425 school year, some of the items that we've listed, that we just went through, and some of our assumptions in that, we we think we really will be about break even. We've already put in a lot of efficiencies into the budget. We met with the board with you for that.
So, we think we'll be about break even. So, we are projecting that we would be at a $1,500,000 fund balance, at the end of the next year. Just below that number, you'll see, that there are some notes that go with that because there are still so many unknowns that's really just based on what we do currently know. The state still has not finalized their budget, and, I see a lot of analysts serve. It's really, really creating a hardship for all of the districts.
One thing, this doesn't really affect our general fund, but I think that it is something that we do know and is really important to point out is that our students will continue to receive free breakfast and lunch in the district. So that's really a great thing and that's I think that means we really we won't need to supplement the food service fund with general fund dollars. Oh my. They did say this weekend that that's very possible that will go away, so it could be up in the air still.
No. No. No. Commodity eligibility. Because we're CEP eligible and not, the part that got all those funds that went to all school districts. So they got breakfast, lunch, and we also do dinner. So due to our poverty rate from Hazel Park, we received for the last ten years CEP and that is still funded. However, I think you're right, Bob. There's new information coming out all of the time, changes. And then another thing that I think we were able to do that will really help us in the 2526, we received a half million dollars from the Ballmer grant.
And this year, the main focus was hiring promise navigators and to work through that. And because we didn't get them hired at the very beginning of the year and we didn't have the full staff, we have funds that we received, that we haven't spent. So we were able to carry that over into the next year, and that will help cover the cost of our after school programming. Our homework assistance, tutoring in in the various programs. So that's another piece that will help us, I think, to be at break even
point for 2526. Anyone have questions? No. No questions? Alright. Thank you. Financial report July. Is that what you're gonna, present the financial plan? So there were two, financial reports. Last month's wasn't approved, so I wanna make sure we brought that forth and, Crystal and, can talk about that so we can make sure that we answer whatever questions the board has, and then also this month so we can answer any questions there. What's the date of July? Well, it says financial report July, financial report August.
Yes. So July is June, and August is July. I remember that. Bill run is not If the bill run is July is for what we normally would do. Questions? Yeah. Yeah. But our July July was it was just a concern as far as, a date, on part of the financials and the the credit card payment, the EFT sheet. That's what July was, for June's information. So I did email sorry for interrupting. Are you No. You're fine. Okay. I did email a whole bunch not a whole bunch. I was pretty limited this time. I had maybe 10.
And so, did you email the answers or I would. Would you like me to speak to them a little bit for the group? Do you want here you go. They came like as we were walking in, so Well, it was a little earlier than we were walking in. I walked in early. I got out of work early. So there was a question about, the budget to actual page. And, one of the things we said is that our budget for the 2526 school year was rolled. But then we made adjustments based upon what we knew. And that was some of the work we that we did when I first came
in and that they had also done ahead of time. So everything won't be the same. We made adjustments that we knew. Then, the question was about CNG newspapers at 18,000, and so we do that for open enrollment and back to school advertising that is done. Sometimes that payments are backed up for when they turn it in, but that's all of your, enrollment pieces that you see that are out there. I'm gonna let you explain Chartwells because, Crystal. Okay. The question was how did Chartwells, pretty much work? So we pay them on a monthly basis.
I think you had asked if we pay them on yearly. So what is a monthly basis that we receive, invoice for? And basically, it just breaks down their labor cost, the cost of the invoices they, receive from their vendors. We also do get rebates, as in well, they receive the rebates. Sorry. And then we get the full refund of that. So what that means is that if they get a discount or the best that it was explained to me is, like, sometimes when you get a manufacturer's coupon. Right? So instead of them keeping a portion of it, we actually get rebated the full
amount back. So when you see those, Chartwell invoices, you'll see where we have a portion of that, deducted from the net cost that we pay. And then So I guess I was sorry. A little confused because it has like, it broken down. There's staff, and they it was individualized. So I'm like, so then I was confused. Are we paying actual expenses based on what their expenses are? Yeah. And everything's funneled through the, food service fund.
Okay. So it's not like we a set amount that we necessarily pay them every month? No. It's not a set amount. And same thing with the fee that you had asked about. It's not, and I can get more information on that as far as the percentage and how that fee breaks down because it is different, per month. It's not a fixed rate. And and it's part of the contract that we agreed to, and we could certainly make sure we have those contracts somewhere so we can look at it. I think I have them. I just didn't have time to imagine to look for it. But this is the first time I had seen it or maybe paid attention to it broken down like that.
So that was I was like, wait a minute. What is all this? So that's a lot. Well, I think it's good to ask these questions because I think you're gonna see things broken down a lot differently now as they're working through some of the funding mechanisms. We asked about $90 for graduate school. We do have a grow your own grant that we do pay for schools, with that as well. And so, you know, they turn in their receipts and and we pay for items. Do we pay for graduate school or just undergraduate school? For your own pace for grad school. Yeah. For your own pace for grad school. I mean, I don't understand. It was the wrong one. I was in grad school. Well, I you you have to commit to the school district for three years then
to for those positions. Also, the bill run translator services. I'm gonna dig a little for the other service. This is a different translator services than the pilot that we had, which was a 247 call in one. Okay. Because it was kinda hot. That's all. Yes. But we are obligated. We have a lot of parents that don't speak English, and we need to give support too. And, in special education, when they are coming to meetings, we need to be able to have a translator service for them to actively participate in those meetings.
And that would become part of the specialized cost that you did. Just to note, in the the names in payroll are not the, you have to live list the description as payroll. This is a vendor's name, which they must Oh, okay. It was just I I just didn't wanna The Amazon bills, we haven't removed anyone's access. We're in the process of, doing that. Secretaries right now are not ordering through that process. They're sending Jamie and I their request, and we're gonna be developing, a selection of things that we purchased. And so, right now that's not, quite adjusted all the way yet.
And then under Brett Richardson, Home Depot, this is the paint sprayer that we purchased to do the parking lot, that we had to return because it didn't know what we needed and he's looking for another one. Okay. I just have two questions. Hop, skip, and jump for $15,003.72, is that for summer school? Is that just a rollover from the end of the school year? It could be yes. I don't know. You'd I'd have to go back It could be both. Typically, I'd be Do we use it for summer school? Because I guess Yeah. Students, to access.
If any of our students, McKinney Vento students, were traveling here, then yes. We would have to. And then my other, last question is d pool cleaning, cleaning services for $5,560 for just One fellow. Perfect. So that's covered by the grant? It's covered by the grant. And I just had one. I see we paid Tron over $6,500 Are we still getting bills from them and what are they for? I'm not sure if that was the last bill that we received. The last bill we received was less than that.
It was $9.60 something. We do we did have a couple bills that came in, and then we we certainly can provide to the board if you wish to see them. And then I think there's Alan Loughborough that came in as well, which Yes. President Hinton, I think that should be the end of Alan Loughborough at this point. There were three bills. Good. Good? I hope. Would the board like copy of those bills? And it would need to be more timely. Yes. That often happens in in, attorney firms. So we will provide, this weekend, Allen and the true law bills that came in.
About Clark Hill? If we're gonna do legal, we may as well do all legal. Sure. We can do Clark Hill. K. Thank you. Yep. Alright. Anything else? Anyone? Alright. We're up to other parent advisory committee. Doctor. Pappasian Brown. Yes. Very excited that we have two parents that have offered their time to join the parent advisory committee. This is a committee that will work directly with Oakland Schools on behalf of Hazel Park Schools as the these two, parents have offered their time to be our liaisons
to go to those meetings. You'll see on the board memo there that they will participate in the development and review of the Oakland Schools Plan. They'll give input on matters regarding improvement of special ed services, attend and participate in meetings, disseminate information and share ideas with Oakland Schools, and provide Hazel Park families with opportunities to be informed of the special education processes. They will mentor members in encourage collaboration and effective partnerships.
So we're really excited to participate in this, with the goal being that we'll have our own PAC committee here in Hazel Park that our parents will join and, do these same types of activities. So I don't believe either of them are here tonight, miss Warren or miss Hahn, but thank you to them. It would be my recommendation that they are our representatives to the schools. Did Danielle Orrin do it before? She did. She did. It's been a while, so Yeah.
How nice that she'll do it again. And we're very excited. Both of them are very excited to participate. E2, subject, new course approvals. Okay. I would rather say back in college. Yes. Can't get us can't get it straight. Go ahead. That's okay. So, as you know, last year we transitioned to a new online course provider, and that was subject.com. One of the things that they've really tried to do is continue to expand their course offerings and especially continue to stay relevant with it. So, especially, continue to stay relevant with it.
So we certainly have an opportunity through some of these additional courses, not only to cover the basics, but we also have some additional AP courses like ABR history, AP music history, which we do not currently have, as well as courses, such as cryptocurrency. So one of the reasons that we are bringing this forward is that school's earning, and we have some great new courses that our students will have access to. Certainly, this most, especially impacts Michigan Cyber Academy and Viking virtual.
But we also have students at our high school that use some of these during the school year. And then in the summer, we have our students using these for both credit recovery and sometimes diploma enhancement. So we believe offering and, improving these courses, and we saw all the summaries of them, not only supports all of our students in meeting the credits that they need to, it also gives them an opportunity. I think there's actually one on how to do public speaking, which I thought was very interesting for students as well. Gives them an opportunity to do some things that are expanded, both in our virtual
settings as well as in the summer for our high school. So we have written this forward for, hopeful renewal or renewal next week. I did wanna say that there is one course that I missed. It's called financial algebra. And as you know, financial literacy is one of the key pieces as part of our credits that students need to have, and we like to make sure that there's a variety of ways that they can get that. Currently, there's financial literacy. A lot of times, you can do that through economics, but we're happy to report that they also have expanded to a financial culture.
So while that's not listed in this memo, I can make sure to update it for next week. I just kinda wanna point out that it says, there's no additional funds that have to be disbursed for this? No. This is just expanded. So we already paid for that for the, twenty twenty five, twenty six school year. That was done in June, probably, June, July when I brought that approval with all those different types of things under for curriculum instruction. These are just their expanded course offerings that are not currently approved in the district.
And so we need to make sure to follow as we would a board protocol in getting all its courses approved. Alright. Thank you. Grants. 31 n and six. Doctor Papazian, since you wrote, will you prepare will you present this one? Sure. We're doing the 31 n. Okay. So this grant is, to provide students services, and what we use it for is for staffing. It can provide, funding for additional social work services, BCBA, psychologists, etcetera.
We are excited. I'm really excited, not only about that Medicaid, but also about this grant because, we did receive the grant, and we will be able to keep our additional social worker. So we have an additional social worker that works amongst the three elementaries to support. So each of them have their own social worker, and this one spends two days at Hoover, two days at United Oaks, and one day at Webb. He works solely with non special ed students, so he's doing, groups with our students
such as anger management or good manners or how to be a good friend. And I have to tell you, the kids love him. They run and cheer when they see him, so it's really exciting to have a social worker there that's, you know, in and out of the building a little more, but just brings that element of fun and the element of these groups that they can be in with their peers that's really positive. We've also used the 31 n for BCBA, at the district level.
Our board certified behavioral analyst, did work in a clinical setting for a very long time. She has lots of experience but truly she travels around and what she does is she takes referrals from teachers and social workers and goes in there, really digs in and collecting, data for students and making positive behavior support plans that work, that are very data based, that are very rich in content and heavy in strategy.
And our peer professionals and our teachers, our social workers really do appreciate her, being a part of their team. So really exciting to get this grant and have those two professionals, back on our team this year, ready to go and paid for. So And that's a repeat from last year? Yes. We received this grant after you had already hired the BCBA, so it helped take care of that cost. And then we were able later in the year when they had extra dollars to write for the social worker. What's really exciting is we got them both right out the hatch.
So a continual savings to the school district because we would not have done that elementary social worker. No. Otherwise. So, I have to comment. I took the safety and security workshop this weekend and this answers his number one thing was to build connections and relationships with kids is the safest thing you can do. He said you can buy cameras and locks and all sorts of things, but you need to have relationship with your students and get to know them. And this brings family, parents, so it sounds perfect.
Sounds very good, and especially if they're excited you have to have that connection with with the students. So awesome. Absolutely. Thanks for giving that. Well, I'm glad that you've prepped us because we will be giving a presentation at some point in time at our new look at, the safety and security and how the students is around the center and all the supports that we have. So those are items that we have to protect kids, but it doesn't go away with all the other, pieces that we have in his part school. So you that's great. I don't know who presented, but he sounds great. That's a good work story.
Yeah. That was very good. The next one is the Legacy. Right? Yep. Doctor Dolmage. So we had the opportunity to apply for the 35 m grant, and the 35 m grant is one of the grants that is supporting literacy in the state of Michigan. There are actually two. One is 35 m and 35 m. We also apply for 35 m. Cross our fingers, we're gonna get that. What we wrote for was to provide training and a program called Orton Gillingham that really just supports and continues to build our students' foundational literacy skills.
So we wrote that grant around supporting some additional training for our kindergarten and first grade teachers where those are really key skills to build, as well as, training and also materials and resources to support the implementation. And and Orton Gillingham is often used, when we're looking at dyslexia, and there is a state committee, and I believe we shared that doctor Dolmage is on that, And we found out today that doctor Papazian will also be on that committee for the state. So kudos to the work that we've been doing here in Hazel Park in the
science of reading, which is what this all leads to. The letters training, Orton Gillingham is what the state and states across the country are leaning into. Thank you. How much does this branch? 288842. 280 something? Yeah. 84 It is, 288842. That was close. Safe part. Nope. Get those kids reading. Thank you. His of Heart Community Coalition Drug Free Communities grant. I'm gonna let, doctor Domiches, I believe she's the vice president of the organization. So we are, bringing this forward as year three of the Drug Free Community grant,
and that is the grant that supports the Hazel Park Community Coalition. And we first heard that, and that's why it says 2,023 in the year 02/2023. So twenty three, twenty four, twenty four, twenty five in the year in year three, which starts October 1. On their books, 2526. Probably, you know, recall this one. I'm gonna remind you, when we got that grant, it is a five year grant. So we know we will refund it for five years. So this is just the continuation of it. But in order to have a continuation, we have to submit some pretty significant reporting
on the work that's being done. I know miss Williams came a couple of board meetings ago to talk about the work of the coalition, and, the coalition's really moved forward and really expanded in a way that it hasn't before. So we are excited to continue to get this funding because what it allows us to do is not only have the executive director, but we actually have hired for the first time a project coordinator, a very dynamic young college student, whose mission it is to support in a capacity when she graduates much like this. And what they're really focusing on is building the youth action board.
And we've already recruited three students at Hazel Park High School to build up that youth action board. And we all know, the message coming from adults is meaningful. The message coming from someone's peers is even more meaningful. So, excited to get that grant, excited to continue that powerful work. And that is also part, as doctor Wilcox talked about, the student system support. That is part of this whole big picture of the system support that we have in Hazel Park. Do we have any questions? Awesome. Thank you. Is that great. Is there an opportunity to reapply at the end of five years?
Yes. Okay. So, typically, most coalitions end up getting the second five years. So that means it would say, we will probably get funded for ten years. So it's less competitive the second round? It is. Okay. That's nice. As long as they continue to fund it. Correct. And you know, they've talked about pulling funding, but they did miss my card. Fantastic. Thank you. Calendar. Yearly calendar. We're not we're not ready for that. I apologize. I didn't catch that on there. President Hinton, you and I need to talk about first. I compared it and I thought this is the same thing. So I thought tonight you were gonna be okay. I thought that was good.
You're correct. Alright. And I guess the minutes are on here, so we know that those minutes are gonna come right. Well, Trustee, Portress pulled them and I just wanted to find out why so that we can make those corrections to bring them for the committee. Okay. I'll look at them. I'll pull up my folders from last week and send you an email. Thank you. Okay. And board goals, we need to set some goals and this is just just a thought. I that, is that first, I thought if each of you sent me five, I'll
compile a list. But I'm thinking if each of you sent me three, it's goals for us as a board. That would be 21. And I'll give you the list, and then we can, narrow it down. Generally, they do three, three to five. In the past, we did things like community engagement. We went out and had, listening times with the community. We went out to dinner for, doing some team building, stuff like that. So it could be that we all pledge to take, one class, or that we
pledge to get the first award, from MASB. So if you would just, send them email them to me and I'll give a list, and then we will choose from there. Because the school year's, like, creeping right up here. So So is the goal for one year from Yes. From, like, September to June? Yes. Okay. Do you want these by Monday's meeting, or is this just a heads up to get started? No. I would like it by Monday. Okay. Because it's gonna be done by August. Right? So September 20, you can start.
Yeah. Okay. If you could do it by, by Monday. Because then, and I if I remember, you were gonna try to do some kind of activity to have them so they could pick up before the meeting, like, with stickers or something along your way. So just hoping that they got to the next meeting earlier. Remember. Yeah. Let's talk about that. Yeah. Okay. The next thing, the negotiation committee. Now, I have not paid a lot of attention to that over time. I think we just had one person. You would know doctor Wilcox. I know we had Laura. We had Rick Nagy.
I don't know if it was presidents or if it can be any one of us or more than one. I believe that we had two, to three. At one point, we had three, because it was separate committee, because it was personnel. So you can have anywhere from one to three people joining in on that. We have negotiations with the secretaries coming up, right around the corner, maybe next week. And then we also have GSRP will have negotiations with, and then we'll also have central office staff which you'll have negotiations with. Then, of course, in January, we'll start all over again with the other units that we haven't, I think it's the end of almost everybody's contract.
Yeah. Okay. I'm just gonna continue with the other committee and and the, policy committee. So the other one is the discipline committee, and I think Monica was on that with, Dawn Rice. So it was two people and policy called for that. Correct? Mhmm. Yes. So so I I was just gonna say if somebody else does wanna do policy since I did say I would, I would like to see him discipline. It's easy for me during the day if, like, things are pulled in. I know a lot of people work and can't get out, so I wouldn't mind seeing you on that one. I'd love to do policy then.
That would be nice because you know how it works. The discipline committee, if you remember, sits down and works with the students as they return from potential expulsion, makes recommendations to the board, and then we also tend to have them meet with those children on a regular basis just to it's really a meaningful committee about getting students back into the school and doing what needs to be done. So, it's pretty fantastic way to be with kids. Okay. And then negotiations. Anybody interested in the negotiation? Maybe, I would do it.
Madam president, I would do it. I would too if you guys wanna do it. If nobody else wants to do it. You can have three if you choose. You can have three if you choose. One to three. Just no more than three. I'm gonna do three, and then if somebody can't make it, we're good. So alright. Darren, Monica, Beth. And discipline is, Monica. Do we wanna do policy? Do we wanna go by his recommendation since he's experienced with three, or do you wanna do seven? I think three would be I think I'm I think three would be best.
I think it might logistically be You're quiet, mate. We can't hear you. I'm sorry. Yeah. Pull it in. Sorry. I think three would be best. I think with just logistically, it would likely be difficult with seven. I agree with Nathan. I would love to be on policy committee because that'll force me to study them. So, what I liked what he said I mean, we have two opportunities to add to it or change it because it comes with the board and opportunities to add to it or change it because it comes with the board and we can do that. So, April reached out earlier, and, Heidi, we're not, let's see.
Debbie, Nate. I still need a disciplined person. I would help with the discipline if nobody else wants to do the group. Nate, what do you wanna do? Well, I mean, I'm I'm open, so you just go wherever. It sounds like discipline may happen a lot more during the day. Yes. And it sounds like so that would be difficult for me? Yes. For sure it happens during the day with Gifted. Yeah. That that would be difficult. I'd be up for policy. Is that the right time? April, May, and Nate. Yeah. But I can't go on discipline either. Could you do negotiation and then have Darren not do negotiations?
Is negotiation done yet? You wanna be an alternate? Yes. Negotiate is is, Could could we do an alternate for policy? Because, you know, people do get busy and can't make it or he's gonna give us dates, then we'd be can we ask him that question when we speak to him on Wednesday only? Because I don't know how he does it. I would say if he we do a section at a time, it would be able to do it that way, but I'm not sure how he's presenting it to us. So if you're there and then you're doing it and then you haven't seen him yet, that might be difficult.
Okay. Alright. And you guys can just say wherever you want. I don't think it's it'd be okay. I'd be on discipline and negotiations. Okay. Then I get it easy. And do what? I get it easy. I don't have to tell you about it. You're gonna be alternate. I see what you did. You're gonna be smart. Let's see that circle you walked in. Can you tell me what it is again? Circle you walked in. Tell me what it is again. What's the decision? We will be somewhere. For which one? Negotiation and discipline. On negotiation, Darren, Monica, and me. And disciplines, Monica and Darren. Thank you. Okay. Alright. Any is there any other business? Anything? I just I just hope we can. Just if I could, we didn't put it on here, but, one, I wanted to
clarify some conversations about free and reduced. CEP is still, very much a thing. And when parents are enrolling, it's important that you fill out the free and reduced form. And not only because it continues our CEP qualification, which means free lunch no matter what, it's a federal program, but it also helps us provide our 31 a dollars and our census for our rescue. So inside when you're registering, there's a form for that. We ask that you fill that out. That's really important. If it's not filled out, we're gonna be having our secretaries call because we don't
wanna lose leave a dollar on the table for us. I was on a k twelve call today. K twelve is the alliance with the, different counties, And, I would look out for media releases tomorrow regarding the budget from, educators everywhere. Can't really say much other than that, but the budget is still not, there's not talks happening about the budget and there needs to be. And I met with Mike McFaul on Friday who kinda confirmed the same thing. So we're gonna need to put pressure. I'll send you a letter tomorrow that maybe you can send out as well, but we need to let them know that we want a budget for our kids.
Figure out somewhere else what the roads don't take from our budget. So, that. And then we have about 3,104 students today. Now there's ins and outs that are constantly happening. We have something called an enrollment school. So parents, if you think you're enrolled, but you've never brought up your birth certificate, you're brand new to the district, or you're a kindergarten parent, you do have to bring up your birth certificate and other information to the district office. We will be open from eight to three where you can come on up and we can help you enroll.
But it's really important because when that day comes and it's time for you to get a class, you will not be assigned if you've not completed your enrollment. Also, Monday, well, today's Committee of the Bull. Tomorrow is the Hazel Park Junior High scheduled pickup from eight to eleven. Wednesday is the junior high pickup from eleven to three. So there's a little bit for everybody that can kinda work in your schedule. Thursday is Hazel Park Viking Day. Freshmen are 08:30 to ten. Sophomores are ten to 11:30. Juniors are 12:30 to two, and seniors are two to 03:30.
And then Thursday is our new staff academy from eight to two. And then guess what? Teachers are back on Monday. Students are back on Wednesday. It's important to get here the very first day. Okay. Thank you, missus Henderson. Yep. You're welcome. So, back can probably comment. We have Caitlin McGinnis. This is, three minutes this time. Caitlin McGinnis. 13370 Scranton. I would also like to state for the record, we did not take the picture that was circulating online. There was some speculation that it was us. It was indeed not.
We were already on our way up north when the picture was taken. Just wanted to clear that up for the viewers. I'm thankful for the person who took it. It makes a lot of sense now. Have a fabulous evening, ladies and gentlemen. Gary Harrison. Gary Harrison. I just want to, reiterate. I'm willing to, coach the kids. I don't care what level it is. I don't wanna be an assistant coach to nobody. I'll do what it takes to help. You know? There's a lot of stuff going on in Hazel Park. I talked to Amy Croupy missus Croupy. I think highly Amy. A lot of people say this about it.
Amy when I coached the the youth program, I called Amy in the middle of night. It hap she made it happen. So if you guys can if you guys are willing to I'll coach the bar I'll coach the high school team. You want me to coach the high school team? I'll be the head coach of the high school team. My credentials are second to none. You can run that across. He's a part all the way through Michigan. All state wrestler, Olympic wrestler, you know, took second in, high school nationals. I'm, you know, I'm willing to give back.
You guys just gotta be a little, you know, how do I say it? Like, let's let's work together. Miss Hinton, I remember miss Hinton when I went to high school, great woman. Like, I love that, story you had about relationships. I'll never forget you, miss Hinton. I'll call, like, I have to call home or whatever. She was always willing to help. Always help kids. I don't know if you guys wanna make this happen. Like I said, I'll I'll be the varsity coach. You wanna be my credentials are second to none.
MMA wrestling is not the same as it. High school wrestling, college wrestling, Olympic wrestling. I don't you know what you gotta pay me. Don't pay me. I'll get I'll give it back to the kids. This is about the kids. Thank you. Donald McGinnis. Donald McGinnis, 1337. Use credit. Again, I wanted to bring up how many times the retaliation is real, how many times that I have brought it up to not even to the ADs, multiple ADs, to the superintendent, to the board for years now, all these same issues.
We had special meetings. We had all that. We went around the table. You guys have certain people have promised certain things. They have lied to me. I have voice recordings. I have text messages. I have emails. I have all this proof. And I understand that you guys say, it's just Don McGinnis. You have to remember, I've been in the district my whole life. I have never left Hazel Park. So when have you heard my name just recently of these issues? It's not like I've been bringing it up and I'm a whistleblower for ten years.
No. These are the facts. This is what's going on in your guys' school. This is what you guys are allowing. You guys are allowing staff members that are not qualified in positions. You guys are allowing the click to happen. You guys are allowing the bullying that is happening, and that is all true. I know it's true because I'm firsthand right here telling you it's happening. And you guys might be mad, and it is getting a little ugly. I agree. I agree. But why is it why did it get this far? What didn't somebody do to make it get this far?
Ask you the question, did they really do their job the right way all the way up? Did they? Did they do what they were supposed to do? Because I tell you right now, I've been in multiple meetings with multiple people saying that I can have use the weight room, Saying and then they turn around and say I can't use it. I even had HR in that conversation saying why? Why? Why? And those things still never happen. The facility use. The thing, you guys hurt this year's wrestling program, not just by hiring a new
coach, by not allowing the open mats, not allowing the right camps, not allowing what these kids deserve. I shouldn't have to ask a 100 times to get a trophy on the wall, a plaque on hanging back up, a banner, a sticker that's three years old that we achieved three years ago now that's not on the wall. You guys need to do better. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Board members have any comments, announcements? Amy did vote for mine for scheduling this week, but, I do wanna thank, a
few of our staff members who jumped into action right away with our student athlete. I'm sure it was scary, but I thank you guys for being there and being at the hospital and being supportive to them. I love that you guys took a cup of coffee and donuts today to the fire department. That was awesome. I did wanna thank all of our especially twenty twenty six parent volunteers. I had a parent reach out to me from a different district and said how jealous she is that our parents are literally kicking butt at fundraising to make sure that these seniors have a great time. We even did the Royal Oak Fest, and this parent actually goes to Royal Oak
and was like, we don't even do that. That's our city. You know? So, kudos to them for just going outside the box and pushing hard to make sure that they are gonna give these seniors what they deserve. And then I just wanna say congrats to all the athletes that tried out this past week. I know tryouts were for multiple fall sports, and I'm very excited for, all the fall sports to come. I just wanna, briefly Kevin, how you and I went to Lansing, and, if you ever get a chance to go and take those classes, they're so beneficial.
I learn so much. Every time I go, I come back renewed and excited to to move forward. I took a really cool class on advocacy, and they had us they gave us a topic of, that's currently aligned. And they told us that we have to support it or oppose it. We had to come up with our reasoning, and then we sat in front of a panel. Very, the panel was the other people in the class, but I was still nervous. And I'm particularly interested in advocacy, so that was fun. A lot of case studies, a lot of things that you hear and you learn,
and, every opportunity you get to education, I told somebody, education is never a waste. So, and that's how I personally fail, so anybody who has the opportunity to go take classes should. Anyone else? Yes. A couple of things. Thank you to Annika Gregory for our contract books. I'm so excited when I saw that email, and I'm so excited to be able to sit sit down and actually look at it. I asked I sent an email to doctor Croupey regarding first aid kits. I was hoping to see that in her weekly notes, and it was not there.
Just if we could have a follow-up next week on where we stand on those, if we provide them to the coaches, is every sport does that every sport have them? And has the swim coach received one back. The wrestling used theirs. Also, our staff is allowed to take vacation whenever they so choose so, whether it be summer, Christmas, winter, whatever. If it's approved by their manager, which I'm sure this employee did, have it approved.
For publics people in public to say things that are unrealistic. It just blows my mind sometimes. But I do appreciate public comment and wish people would come up more. So leave it at that. Thank you. I'm gonna pass you fine. Anyone else? I just wanna add to our schedule, that for our newest students, our newest learners, that there is also an opportunity this week, Thursday, for, young fibers and kindergartners to
come and meet their teachers in their classroom. No schedule to pick up because, you know, they just they're just there. But stop in with your school supplies, meet your teachers, get to walk the hallways of the schools so that you have an opportunity to know what your babies are going into before they start. Mister Foxy. Mister Rogers. I have nothing this evening. Thank you. Okay. Me neither. Okay. So exciting. Next next week's next week's school. And You got a rough the huddle. Oh, yeah. Huddle. She said, oh, yeah. The huddle. You gotta run through that huddle, Bob. I would like to request a closed session on Monday for eight a complaint.
Just a moment. Just a moment. Just a moment. Just a moment. Just a moment. Just a moment. Just leave it. A closed session on Monday, please. A complaint against an employee, and I I'll talk to talk to you after. Stupid funny. I thought it was a pretty good meeting tonight. We've not reached a lot. I'm sorry that mister Harrison feels that way. It's difficult and we're working on it. We are listening. It says we are listening and we are listening. Does anybody make a motion to adjourn?
Make a motion to adjourn. Subtort.