I'd like to call the Hazel Park Board of Education business meeting to order on this Monday, September 22 at 6PM. Roll call, please. Eaton? Here. Becker? Here. Fortress? Present. Fox? Here. LaFromboise? Here. Vincent? Here. LaFramboise is absent with notice, and our superintendent is not feeling well tonight, so she's not with us either. I have next is approval of the agenda. No. Pledge of allegiance. I'm sorry. Please stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now, may Madam president, I would like to, move that the Board of Education accept the agenda as written. Support. Okay. Moved by Darren and support by April to accept the agenda as written. I'd like to amend, remove the personnel recommendations and put them in the regular action
items because I'm gonna have to, abstain from voting on that. And I would still like to do any other Okay. And I would like to move the, FASB festival as an action item, also as the item. DD if he's moving the teachers to see his age. Okay. So let's put those just before the superintendent's report. Sure. Is that okay? Yeah. Okay. Oh, personnel and lesbian. Okay. Motion to accept the changes? To see if there meant this Yes.
Okay. Please amend the motion. Motion amended to move those two items from the consent agenda. Retain support. And April retains support. So, roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Becker? Yes. Fortress? Yes. Rotimi? Yes. Yes. This yes. This brings us to special order of business. I have Knights of Columbus. Knights of Columbus is first. Hello. My name is Jerry Perotti. I'm the trustee of Bishop Murphy Class Consul over in Warren. Closer Closer to your microphone. I can barely hear you here. Okay.
My name is Jerry Perotti. I'm the trustee from Bishop Murphy counsel thirty two fifty seven over in Warren, formerly of father Dolan Council that was in Baker Park. And I have a check to present to, okay, the principal of, Jardine School. This is from our church and I I got a check here for a thousand dollars for, to run on the news however you have to.
We really appreciate your effort and support. Well, you're welcome. So that's Thank you. Thank you, sweetie. Thank you. Thank you, mister Peratt. I think it's always greatly appreciated. You very take care of our kids over there very well. Thank you. You know, if I could just add that, you know, I remember them thirty years ago, you know, presenting and awarding funds like that, and and it's been wonderful. And thank you. You're welcome. We used to we used to have more, but we don't stand in the street anymore because Right. Don't blame you.
See, you probably have less. Thank you again. Hazel Park Community Coalition presentation. I don't see our a Promise Zone presentation? Good afternoon, board. How's everyone doing? Very good. Thank you. How are you? Good. Thank you. For those who don't know me, my name is Fernando Monje. I'm the executive director of the Hazel Park Promise Zone. If you're not familiar with our work, I always come around this time of the
year to do my little presentation and put us back on the radar. But we are your local college access network. We provide college access and readiness education to our high school seniors and really all high school students, through financial, scholarships, assistance, a bunch of different services that we help, help out with. That's all good and all. We talked about that every year. The one thing I want to talk about this year is the exciting changes that we have made to the Promise Zone, particularly around the Hazel Park Scholarship, Hazel Park
Promise Zone Scholarship, starting with the class of 2025. In the past, we used to prorate our scholarship based on when students, would join the district. We got rid of that cost. Now if a student qualifies, they they just get the scholarship based on different factors. As you know, if you don't know, a student needs to qualify to use a scholarship. In order to do that, one, they need to fill out the FAFSA application, but they also need to be residents of the Hazel Park Schools District. So students graduated from here while also living here. We are also, we have also been given more permission by the state to use
our money broadly more broadly. So in the past, we used to only be able to pay for tuition and fees if students attended colleges, universities, trade schools, whatever the case, whatever they want to go to. Now we can actually pay for anything that counts as an educational expense. And so beyond tuition and fees, we can pay for room and board, we can pay for transportation, we can pay for off campus housing, we can pay for groceries, we can pay for books and supplies, and all of that comes out of the scholarship fund. It's great because, you know, students don't just need to pay for classes, they need to pay for other stuff.
And then finally and most excitingly is that we have increased the dollar value of our scholarship. As As you know, students can either attend Oakland Community College for free or they can use that money, the equivalent of that money, to attend somewhere else. Now that equivalent of that money, if they go somewhere else, has increased from what used to be $1,500 cap. Now we've increased that by a couple thousand dollars with the hopes that every year, based on how much money we spend, we continue to increase that dollar value. Now we can potentially, depending on the situation of the student, pay for up to the full cost of attendance of a student's education, which is what we've been shooting
for since we were founded. Right? Of course, that's still case by case. Student has to fill out the application. We review I review myself every application, based on, you know, what kind of balance a student has. So exciting changes. We can pay for more. We can cover more stuff. Just wanted to let you guys know about that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's good news to hear the expansion like that. That's very good. Teacher tenure? 2020, '25, '26.
Teacher tenure. Miss Kales. So it is a pleasure to present, this evening. We have 20 employees who have achieved tenure with Hazel Park Schools and I will go ahead and read off all their names. If you are in in attendance, if the board would like to get up and shake their hand, that would be amazing. Done. We do have at least one one staff member here, so. So in no particular order, we have Shawn Johnson, Jasmine Step, Kelly Gill, Catherine Mingle Lovett, Sherry Northrup, Shelby Platt, Gina Ritz, Adam Shirley, Keeley Slater, Emily Snyder, Devorah Ishikas,
Olivia Pawar, Taylor Bryant, Carleen Elliott, David Higginbotham, Gabriel Farris, Kimberly Daniel, Monica Vanas, Charlene Wilson, and Rhonda Vratzke. Congratulations to these staff members who have achieved tenure with Hazel Park Schools. We are so happy that you have, chosen to continue your career with us. Okay. That brings us to, public comment. So I have a little note here that this meeting is the meeting of the
Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting 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 that are abusive, obscene, or relevant that disrupts the meeting will be stopped. Rules are posted on the wall if there are any questions. And, we'll start with Ian Lloyd to state your name and address, please. You have five minutes. Do we have a timer?
I believe we do. We have an arrow. Good evening. My name is Ian Lloyd. One second, Ian. I think are we do we have the timer? He's working on it. There you go. There you go, Neil. Hi. So I just came to, discuss some roundabout ways of just offering input for our deficit elimination planning. Again, with, like, just the, you know, kind of the historical timeline, I'm kind of the old fogey, so I've been around and and remembered it whether I was a
citizen or an employee here, where I tried to bring articles and things that could be helpful. So a friend of mine was on the school board in Pontiac and, you know, once nearly bankrupt, they emerged from oversight. I I have an article I think I forwarded, and if not, I will, from the Detroit Free Press by Laurie Higgins, October 27, 10/17/2018 that the Pontiac School District
has been released from state oversight five years after a 52,000,000 deficit forced hang on. One second. Oversight at the, five year after $52,000,000 deficit forced the state to declare a financial emergency. The district enter into a consent agreement, with the state in 2013. At that time, the district's debt was ballooning, enrolling was declining, and bills weren't getting
paid. The district was released from oversight, Friday, and that was in 2018. So, where I'm going with this is we prematurely exited from oversight with Oakland Schools. And why that's important is because the Pontiac School District has been released from state oversight five years after a $52,000,000 deficit forced them to go into it, and they had a substantial amount of money that was forgiven.
And I'd a quick, you know, AI overview. In December 2023, the state of Michigan passed legislation that gave forgave approximately 18,400,000.0 in outstanding emergency loan debt for the Pontiac School District. That's, pretty amazing in the larger context of things. It makes me feel like the guidance that we were given when the sacrifices that I went through as the teacher may have been ill saken.
And some of the choices could have been if we kept the oversight, we get the like, kinda have the close proximity relationship to Oakland Schools. And then let's say we do this in ten years and we're forgiven of some money. And then I keep going back to how do we keep this thing afloat when we got our deficit and how do we keep the morale up? And then I it I've forwarded articles from Madison Public Schools' five year deficit elimination
plan. That's not a fun plan. I lived it. We didn't have a copier. But when I came back, like, ten, fifteen years later, we were still just emerging from this, terrible time with that when our instruction was impacted by by what product we could give to the kids. And it wasn't good that special ed budget tightened up. Right now, if if I was a forecaster, I would suggest you to sever ties with special ed with Oakland Schools and let them take all programs back.
At the worst, they'll give you a higher rate right now. If you they beg you to keep it, but and it's not good in our interest. We can't even sever the data off of our, dashboard. The data with those many students with disabilities are impacting our high stakes testing. And I'm a school social worker. I'll just give it to you now. They're gonna reduce the money to special ed here at company, and our exposure is too great. We should not be relying on them to balance our budget, and we should be
doing zero cost transfers from center programs into our budget. And that'll be very tempting to resist. I see I have limited time. However, I would like you guys to do a historical review of this and see how much money can be spent on instruction. If we can shrink and do it, exit out of bankruptcy with restructured everything, it's very small, we'll have a healthy district, and then we can put all that money into instruction for the children. Thank you, mister Loyd.
I have Anne Erickson Kalt, our county commissioner for Hazel Park. We're done with public comment. I think our community coalition representative just came in late. Can we go back to her? Yep. Good evening. Good evening. Hi. As mentioned, I'm Anne Erickson Galt. I'm the county commissioner for District 3, which includes Hazel Park, Madison Heights, and part of Troy. And I'm here tonight to make sure you're aware of a brand new program called Rx Kids. Rx Kids is offering, financial assistance to expectant mothers and to, mothers and newborn children.
Just pulling up my information. It just recently expanded to Hazel Park as of 09/01/2025. It applies to any infants born on or after 09/01/2025 or expected mothers who live in the city of Hazel Park. To apply, people only need to go to rxkids.org and fill out a fairly simple application. You'll need some documents to verify your residency and so forth. But it should be a fairly painless application process.
I just wanna make sure that people in Hazel Park know about this wonderful program. It's providing, dollars 1,500 to expectant mothers. And, babies, receive $500 a month during the, per month for the first six months after birth. So wonderful program. It's going to, do wonders to help make sure that people, can be, secure in their housing, have money to buy things, especially a new first time, parents to have
money to, buy necessary things for their children. And, some little income along the way, during a time when most women find themselves, with reduced earning capacity. So, if you have any questions, I'll be happy to, stay after and, talk to any of you about it. And, if you at any time, if any of you have any questions about anything that the county is doing, or feel free to call me, my phone number is (248) 320-5798.
I have business cards I'm happy to pass out. That's my cell number. You can call or text anytime. Thank you. And is that an Oakland County program, or is that a Michigan? It is a, program that's spreading throughout the state of Michigan. Oakland County did make a financial contribution, but it's supported by a variety of foundations and charitable organizations. And I think the state of Michigan has already also made some contribution. OLSA has contributed to it. So there's a lot of various contributors in this program.
It was begun by, Doctor Hannah Mona Tissue. Many of you may remember, who was instrumental in bringing to light the, lead, pipe crisis that they had in Flint. And, she's just an amazing advocate for children. This is her new, her new baby, so to speak. And she's just tearing it up. And I'm hoping it'll go nationwide. It's a great program. That's wonderful. Wonderful. Yeah. Thank you. I have, business cards I'm happy to pass out to all of you in case
you can at least rattle off my, phone number too. Thanks. Nice to hear good news like that. Yeah. You can just leave them with her and we'll wrap them in for you. Yeah. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next, I, oh, we're going to bed. Yes. Yeah. The Hazel Park Community Coalition presenter has joined us. Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much, for having me back, this evening and my apologies for my tardiness. Last time I was here I talked a little bit about who we are and
what we do. And today I wanted to come back and just take a little look at the data, talk about what it means and how it informs our strategies and just our daily activities and the things that we do. So the objectives for this evening is just to be able to understand some of the key trends that we'll be looking at, see what the data reveals, and then be able to interpret the impact of the community. We'll review what that means for schools and the community overall. And then last, how we guide our strategic actions. So reviewing how the data informs our priorities and then also making sure that we
review opportunities for school and community collaboration. So if you don't recall, our mission as a coalition is to lead and facilitate data driven community based initiatives that empower HP youth and families to choose a chemical free lifestyle. And hopefully this will result in a reduction in substance use among youth, specifically those youth in fifth to twelfth grade. The way that we do our work, everything is anchored to that mission and so our actions seek to reduce things at both an individual and an environmental level and we do that in a couple of ways.
Our data sources include the MiFi survey, and we work in collaboration with the district to anonymously be able to collect data from students so that we can understand their perception and their thirty day use patterns. And then most recently we also launched a coalition survey which is also anonymous and we hope to be able to administer that on an annual basis in collaboration with the district. And then lastly we also hold focus groups directly with students usually in a class room setting. And so when you think about those two types of data, we have the qualitative
data which is the focus groups and we have the quantitative data. In the qualitative data piece, we got some interesting information from students. This was in a ninth grade classroom setting. And so students were able to identify that, yes, drug use has specific impacts to brain development, lungs, so on and so forth. But they didn't know that they felt that marijuana was less harmful than your other drugs. They shared that vaping is the most common and is seen as trendy partly because
it's flavored and it's easy to get. And then the access is widespread. I know as the district knows very intimately, you know, it can be obtained in the household, so it can be obtained from family. But then they also shared they get it from friends. One of my, Clutch Your Pros moment was when they shared that they pick them up off the ground and use them. And then they get them online because it's less guarded. And then lastly, I included a quote because the students were saying that they can see billboards everywhere and one student was like, Yeah, it's right by my school.
Like you look up and it's right there. When you talk about the quantitative data, I do have a handout I wanted to provide you all with so that you can follow along. Okay. Thank you. So this data is taken directly from the MiFi survey and there's, two components. One is the mental health data and then the other is what we refer to as thirty day use data. Meaning that in the past thirty days, students are reporting some type of use. I've kind of highlighted three areas of this report and I'm happy to go over
the report in full with anyone who's interested. But as you'll see when we look at the percentage of students who used marijuana in the last thirty days, the Oakland County average is eight point six percent. Hazel Park's average is nine point two percent. And then when you look at at the breakdown between males and females, you'll see that females are reporting usage five times the rate of males. That's very significant. Then if you come over and you look at the mental health data, so we have the females using marijuana at five times the rate of males.
When you look at mental health, fifty three percent of females are saying that they feel persistent sadness or hopelessness. And that's at a rate of fifty three point three percent. So there could possibly be some correlation here. Of course, that would take some deeper dives to really make that connection. But this is over twice the rate of males. The last point that I kinda pulled out from that sheet is that one in three students report living with someone who either indulges in alcohol or drug use. So this socializes the norm around use and really is a risk factor for substance
misuse in the future. So that's why the work that we do is so important, the education piece for both families and students so that they understand the impact and they can be equipped to make responsible choices. Especially considering that students' brain development really doesn't stop till around 25, 26 years old. So we have those insights. What do we do with them? Well, we have some national prevention frameworks that we use and we employ them in both the individual and environmental level so that we can have some impact.
On an individual level, that looks like the drug lock bags that you see us give out. We were at the hometown hunt. We gave a bunch of those out. We're at the resource fair. We're doing that. We also have prevention education in schools. So we have workshops that take place probably on a six to eight week rolling basis and we're touch we're touching we're we're connecting with students, on the objectives related to those workshops. And then we've also partnered with the district on their build up the park, series to be able to do the same for parents. And then last but not least, this year we finally started building our youth advisory
board. We were able to hire a youth coordinator who's really been getting into the high schools and connecting with students and identifying those student leaders who wanna serve as ambassadors for HPCC. On an environmental level, we've, activated a drug deactivation station at the police station so people can come to that community space and they can get resources. And then as we've kind of talked about in those past few slides, we're collecting the data that helps to inform the the work that we're doing. So I hope I didn't speed through that too fast. I was kind of conscious of being late so I was just like, But if
you want to connect with me, you can email me. You can give me a call. You can stop by the school. I'm happy to walk through that sheet in full. And I'm also a share I'm also happy to share out on the data collecting that we're doing on a regular basis. So feel free to connect with me. And then if you wanna get involved, we have a number of ways for you to do so. We do have spots for parents to join the board especially. We welcome anyone, but we really want parent voices, at the table. We always have spaces where people can volunteer so we can expand our reach.
We are just a two person team, so every volunteer helps. And you can follow us on social media. And then if you would like to donate, there's a link for that as well. But thank you all so much. Thank you. That was a very good report. Thank you. Can you email us this? Yes. Absolutely. Okay. Next, we have the consent agenda. I made a motion. I'm sorry. Should we close public discussion first? Because we didn't get a chance to do that. I'm sure nobody else had. Oh, would anybody else wanna speak? I never did that before. Fine. I'm just Anybody out there? No. Everything. It's just that we got interrupted and I just wanted to make sure that we're
you know. Thank you. Motion for consent agenda. I move the Board of Education accept the consent agenda as presented. So, Board. Motion by Heidi and support by Monica to accept the consent agenda. Can we have discussion? Yes. Discussion. Okay. I just have a couple questions on the conferences. There's a couple, administration people that are going to the introduction to school business conference in Lansing. It looks like it's this week. They're right on the border. Average is wondering if I can get clarification.
Does those amount, one was $3.85 and one was $4.30, does that include room? One of them, when we submit the request, also includes, like, the, expected amount for mileage. So that Julie and I, the just coworker, is riding together so that we just didn't So you're commuting? We're commuting. Yes. You're not staying overnight? Okay. Perfect. And and is that the same for the conference in January? Correct. You're commuting again? Mhmm. Okay. Perfect. And then I guess my other question is I see that two, community reps are
attending some conferences at Oakland Schools, and I was wondering if it was open to all the community reps and just the other two chose not to come. For me, or All of them, are you talking about the one on Wednesday? Yeah. It looks like there's one on Wednesday and one on November 5. On November 5. All of them should have filled out their paperwork and, I believe we're all going. Okay. Because I did not see the Hoover and I and I didn't see the So Chloe's is a different one.
We have two of them at a different VA. Yeah. I think those mentioned on Monday. Yeah. That Piper was going. Oh, they look like they're both the same. Were these? All all of us will be going on Wednesday. Okay. Alright. I just didn't see the other two on here. That's all. Anybody else? General comments boot camp. Yes. Yes. Thank you. IFC. Family. Sorry. Boudini? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. New business. Additional paraprofessional. Yeah. For the public, this this may seem, not discussed a lot, because Monday night, Committee
of the Bulls, when we go through all of this and have the discussion, and we're open for questions. Any board members have questions, but we should be able to this is, like, the voting meeting. And last week was the discussion the main discussion. So we can always discuss and have questions. But anyway, new business I have. I need a motion for additional paraprofessional. I move the Board of Education approve the additional addition of one special ed paraprofessional as Supportive.
Is that It doesn't say where? UnitedHealthcare. I was trying to finance but then I I've tried to make the motion. Our medal says you will. Okay. Motion is made by Heidi and second by Monica. For the additional paraprofessional, United Oaks, Roll call, please. Fortress? Yes. Rudin? Yes. Deaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Dixon? Yes. Motion carries six zero. Junior high MTSS teacher. I move the Board of Education approve the addition of one MTSS teacher at Hazel
Park Junior High, supported by the 35 n reading grant. Support. Okay. Motion by ID support by Monica to hire the junior the MTSS teacher for the junior high. Any discussion? I forgot that last time. Okay. Roll call, please. Fortress? Yes. Verdin? Yes. The evening? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries 60. Additional custodian? I move the Board of Education to approve the additional of of one custodian to
for the Longfellow Building and to fill in as a sub as presented. Did you support Monica? Yes. Motion by Heidi and support by Monica, Savannah, or the additional custodian. Roll call, please. Fortress? Unfortunately, I'm a no until we get our, audit got completed. Ruthie? Yes. Dean? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Vincent? No. Motion carries four to two. PlayLabs. Motion for PlayLabs. I move the Board of Education approve the partnership with Michigan Stage PlayLabs for the
deliver delivery of a twelve week after school program, enrichment program, in drama and creative creative arts during the 2025 in the amount of $10,000 from the Baltimore Community School Extension Grant. Yeah. That's that's wonderful. Okay. Roll call, please. Fortress? Yes. Ruthie? Yes. Heating? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Dixon? Yes. Motion carries, six to zero. School Summer School incentive as bats.
I move the Board of Education approve the allocation of funds for the Summer Discovery Grant to purchase as bats in the cost of $23,625 as student attendance incentives. Support. That was, Grant, right? Yes. Yes. No. Okay. Alright. Motion by Heidi, second by Monica. We give our students a shout out for attending and getting the incentive. That's pretty impressive that we had 104 students. And I was just elementary.
And I was kindergarten. Yeah. It was it was a spectacular summer, for sure. Would you say it was, like, 75% attendance or students? 75%. Yeah. Or more. Many of them had more. Excellent. Yep. Okay. Roll call, please. Wardrose? Yes. Routine? Yes. Dean? I am abstaining from voting for this only because this is not an across the board incentive, and I know that of those 104 children, two of them are mine. I feel better for the sake of transparency abstaining from this vote. Yes. Fox? Yes. Good chance. Yes. Motion carries, five to one, but it's, abstaining.
I've never had an, abstaining, so it's not like a no. It's Okay. Language line. I moved the Board of Education We skipped, Scholastic Books. Yeah. Did I skip? Yeah. Scholastic Books. Oh, yeah. Okay. I see now. Because the beginning is summer school incentive, summer school incentive, but they're two different subjects. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. It's the last I move the Board of Education approve the allocation of funds for the summer summer school discovery grant to purchase Scholastic Wilkes for elementary and junior high
students who attended summer school summer discovery in the amount of $23,625 Support. Motion by Heidi and second by the memo. Can I On our memo, it says $24,362 and 15? So can we just amend? I think maybe you should just Yeah. I'm gonna amend my motion from 26 23,625 to $24,362.13.
And that's for a 199 students, 48 a 148 elementary, and 51 junior high students that attended summer school. And I will continue to support. And that's awesome too. Is there any more discussion? Mhmm. Okay. Roll call, please. Borgers? Yes. Brisbane? Yes. This one is across the board and didn't come with the benchmark or performance metrics. So, I'm okay with this one. Yes. Becker? Yes. Parks? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six zero. Language line? Move the board Board of Education approve the concept of language line in the amount
not to exceed $9,000 Support. Motion by Haidt. Second, by Monica. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Portress? Yes. Ruby? Yes. Dean? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six zero. PowerSchool, Open Schools, action item. I move the Board of Education approve the contract for PowerSchools with Open Schools as presented. Support. Okay. Motion by Heidi. Second by Monica. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Board address? Yes. Vertean? Yes.
Deaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six zero. Favor music. Renewal motion. Move that Board of Education approve the purchase of proper music in the amount not to exceed 6,300 as presented. Support. Motion by Heidi. Second by Monica to, do the Quaver Music renewal. Any discussion? K. Roll call. Fortress? Yes. Regine? Yes. Deaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes.
Vincent? Yes. Motion carries six zero. High school elevator action item. Now, we didn't have discussion. That's new. Do you have something, doctor Dalman? She can hear you. Anybody? We can just say that, to be in compliance, we need to have repairs done to the elevator the motor of the elevator at the high school. Correct? Yes. Yes. So that's your motion to Yeah. I know the Board of Education include replace the elevator motor and install a solid state starter at the Hazel Park High School at a cost not to exceed $35,767.74
as presented. Support. Everything is so expensive. Very expensive. Motion by Heidi, second by Monica to repair the high school elevator. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Fortress? Yes. Does anybody know if this is gonna come out of, what fund? Yeah. It's general fund in the middle. Okay. Virginia? Yes. Stevens? Yes. Becker? Yes. Beck? Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries six zero. Elevation? Move that Board of Education approve the purchase of Elevation in the amount not to
exceed $14,000 as presented. Support. Motion by Heidi, second by Monica to Do we just wanna kinda explain what elevation what it is? Missus Domage, Doctor Domage explain what it is just so people know. Okay. Yeah. Sure. Absolutely. So, elevation is a tool that we use to monitor and stay in compliance with all of our, requirements to support our English language learners. It helps us track the data. It helps us provide professional learning, and it helps us really, again, satisfy all the
outlined items in title three. So, one of the things that I mentioned last week is that we have limited EL staff and obviously most importantly is our EL staff working with students. And so this tool really helps reduce doing spreadsheets and manual paperwork to really improve the work that we're doing and improve the delivery of support to our students. Okay. Thank you. Roll call. Fortress? Yes. Regine? Yes. Deaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Vincent? Yes. Motion carries six zero.
99 d, grant funded social study materials and resources motion, please. I move the Board of Education approve the estimated budget of the amount not to exceed $20,000 Support. Motion by Heidi and second by Monica. Is there any discussion? This is the grant that has to be oh, sorry. Go on. This is the grant that has to be expended by the end of the month. Right? Correct. Okay. September 30. I was just gonna let people know it too. Again, this is a grant. Mhmm. And it's just a budget. Yeah. I'm glad. I wanted to say too that it was a grant that again, and now we
have two more. It's awesome. A lot of work going into those. Roll call, please. Yes. Ritchie? Yes. Peyton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Vincent? Yes. Motion carries six zero. 99 d grant funded social studies conference. I move that the Board of Education approve the estimate budget of $10,705 and for up to five staff members to travel to the National Council of Social Studies Conference, NCSS. Support. A motion by Heidi and second by Monica.
Do we know who those five? We have not selected them pending and for approval. Okay. But we will make sure that we are going to, try to make, an elementary at least have one elementary and split the other four or three among junior high and high school. So we have representation for you. Across the board. Mhmm. And again, this is coming out of another grant. The same grant by the way. Same grant. Same grant. But it is a grant. Okay. Roll call. Fortress? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries six to zero. 99 d, grant consultation compensation.
I move the Board of Education approve the payment of 8,100 for cons consult consultation fees consult consultant fees, and they have funded by the 99 d budget. Support. Okay. Motion by Heidi and second by, Monica. Do we wanna say anything about that? Still same. Still same. Thanks. I'd be happy to if you'd like to Grant's doing great things. Yeah. Absolutely. So through this grant, when we actually wrote the grant, we really, tried to include
not only K-twelve, but higher education. So we do a lot of partnerships with Oakland University. And we worked in collaboration with Oakland University to really, write and deepen our social studies units and really had a wonderful time collaborating. It was a great partnership to have higher education, think about that k 12 rule and also our k 12 rule. Think about that higher education rule, and their ability to bring some very strong, writing opportunities, some very strong deep understanding of social studies to really make sure that our
students get the best they can through our curriculum and instruction. Thank you. Anybody? Okay. Roll call. Yes. Regine? Yes. Deaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six zero. Epic math initiative. This is just an informational item. It says action on my agenda. It's crossed out. It says informational. Does anybody have anything? You got it? I certainly can speak to it. Sure. Yeah. Let's see if you would sense. Sure. So, the EPIC math initiative is something that Oakland Schools started last year with, designated
schools in Oakland County. It targets supporting and growing math achievement in grades four through six. And through this grant, we have an opportunity to have a consultant from the ISD support us. We have opportunities to go to professional learning at a reduced cost. We also have opportunities to take, staff through some free high level training that would otherwise cost about $2,000. That's something that we get free of charge because we are part of EPIC initiative. There is no exchange of funds so the the district isn't giving funds to Oakland
Schools and Oakland Schools isn't giving it to us. They're coming in resources and time and a consultant. Okay. Wonderful. Thank you. Take that help anywhere we could get it. DocuSign. I move the Board of Education for the purchase of DocuSign in the amount of $5,265 as presented. Support. Motion by Heidi. Second by Monica. Any discussion? I don't remember seeing this on on last Monday. Yeah. We didn't talk about this at Committee of the Whole. And don't I Brad? Can you help? Do we not pay for this through PowerSchool?
Doctor Sam? Yeah. No. That is separate. There's a PowerSchool signature sign, signing agreement that they do, but DocuSign is used by early on and, yeah, mainly used by early on. Okay. That makes more sense then because they don't go through the traditional enrollment. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. You're welcome. Any other questions? No. Thanks, Grant. You're welcome. Okay. A roll call, please. Borges? Yes.
13? Yes. Dean? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Hoover Media Center. And will the Board of Education approve the repainting of Hoover Media Center as presented? Support. Motion by Heidi. Support by Monica. Any discussion? Just for clarification and just for transparency, the amount is $13,569 and it consists of removing, the media center wallpaper that's horribly falling down and repainting it.
Yeah. And I'd like to add, it's being proposed because we have a famous artist, Coving. He attended Hazel Park for a short time and went to another school, Wayland, is is the artist. Anyway, he's gonna be visiting and and he did draw a picture at one time. And so, we wanna get it chip shape when he's here. So any other discussion? Just that we're also manifesting that he chooses to draw another.
Yes. Yes. Yeah. Roll call. Rogers? Yes. Rudy? Yes. Dayton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes, sir. Yes. Motion carries six zero. Winter sports purchase of equipment. I move the Board of Education approve that winter sports purchase not to exceed $15,100 as presented? Support. Motion by Heidi and support by Monica. And that's, uniforms, right? Yeah. Not all of it. I you know, we asked for clarification on the tumbling, and I've not been in
my emails to get that, unfortunately. Has anybody seen anything? I haven't seen anything yet. Because I was gonna ask the same thing because we kinda both asked about it. Well, I used the word equipment. Is mister Clint still here? It was unit clothing. I don't think so. I I spoke with the coach. She she said it was Tom for a Tom Logan coach. Understandable. I know that we talked to other coaches too that, like, it was only a certain amount per kid. Sometimes kids used to pay for themselves, sometimes they didn't. So that's what we were trying to figure out. Can't answer that. The way the way I understood it when I asked the question, it was answered
that Tom, the previous athletic person, ended up paying for it out of the athletic fund, and it's been going on ever since. And that's why they wanna keep doing that just to make sure that the kids get the correct instruction on tumbling so they're not hurt. That was my answer to the so it was previously done. Should we table it since we're unclear?
I think we should table it. I mean, it's only a month they still have time for competitive cheer to get somebody in. So So do we amend of doing the rest and just not Yeah. Because it's not compassing yet. So Yeah. Correct. I'm okay with the tape. I'm okay with removing it. I make I'm I'm in my motion to remove the tumbling for, further discussion in October. I will still support. Okay. So we're approving everything else that's on this list? Yeah. Okay. Because I don't wanna hold them up. Yes. Okay.
Okay. Now I'm confused. So are we doing partially approving this? We are going to approve everything except the tumbling. Okay. Got that, miss Spooko? Everything but the tumbling? And the tumbling will be on for next month. For next month. Okay. Alright. And then I'll make it clear. Give me two seconds. My brain's spread today. Are we doing math? So we're I I made a motion to approve the winter sports purchases for $10,400
removing the tumbling for later discussion and that's what we're Continue to support. Okay. Motion by Heidi, second by Monica for the new motion. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Fortress? Yes. Petit? Yes. Keith McLean? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Vincent? Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Huddle Roll motion, please. Move the Board of Education approve the renewal of Huddle program at a cost of 12,400 as presented. Support. Motion by Heidi. Second by Monica.
Any discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Borges? Yes. Brittain? Yes. Dean? Yes. Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six to zero. District improvement plan. I move the Board of Education approve the district improvement plan as presented. Second. Okay. Probably no discussion. Okay. That was a lot of lot of reading, a lot of discussion last week. So, roll call, please. Parker? No. Ruthie? Yes. Peyton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox?
Yes. Yes. And did I hear did did you say no, Megan? I did. Okay. Five to one. Motion carries. Designee of asbestos resolution. And would the Board of Education have to remove the resolution oh, do you need to Let me read it first. Yes. Don't we need to do it so it's Yeah. I'll read it and then we can motion because it is the resolution is offered by So whereas Congress has enacted the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 and the Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated final regulation requiring the district to inspect and reinspect
buildings, take and analyze samples of suspected asbestos containing materials, perform assessments, submit a management plan to the designated state agency, and perform various other tasks, in accordance with 40 CFR seven sixty three. And whereas the district is required to designate a person to ensure that the requirements of the regulations are properly implemented. And whereas the board of education believes that it is in the best interest of the district to provide the designated person with protection against liability arising out of our efforts to comply with AHARA, which is the aforementioned asbestos act.
Now therefore it be resolved that the superintendent and her designee are hereby designated to ensure that the requirements of the regulations promulgated under the act are met. The Board of Education shall indemnify the superintendent and or director of maintenance and operation, and such individuals shall be entitled, without further act on their part, to indemnify from the Board of Education for all expenses, including the cost of investigation and defense, amount of judgments, and amount of reasonable settlements incurred by either of them in connection with, or arising out of any claim, action, suit, or proceeding, in which either of them
may be involved by reason of their acting as such designated person on behalf of Hazel Park Schools. This indemnity shall include all acts of such individuals, even if deemed to be acts of negligence on their part, but shall not include indemnity for acts of willful misfeasance, bad faith, or reckless disregard of duties in the conduct of these responsibilities. The right of indemnification shall ensure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of each individual and shall remain enforced even through such even though such individual shall no longer be an employee of Hazel Park Schools.
All resolutions and parts of resolutions, insofar as they conflict with the provisions of this resolution, be and the same are hereby rescinded. We can motion. That's the end. I move the Board of Education approve the resolution for the asbestos designee as the with its superintendent and maintenance supervisor. Verbatim in the resolution is director of maintenance and operation. And I for the sake of the public, that that person is Greg Richardson right now. And I support. Okay. Any discussion? I think it might just be worth mentioning that this was a bunch of legalese,
but it's something that's just required, and it already exists. We're just changing the designated person, as they're titled in the act from an employee that resigned his position to a new person who has undergone the training. Alright. Thank you, April. Roll call. Board dressed? Yes. Rudin? Yes. Speeding? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Can I have a motion for the board goals? I I move the Board of Education approve the board goals for the 2526 school
year as presented. Support. Any discussion? Just to clarify that what our goals are, are each member members should attend six school or community events, develop a policy on fund balance, post by by annual retreats, attend free and doigible relationship relationship building events. Okay. Roll call. Wardress? Yes. Routine? Yes. Dayton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes.
Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Okay. Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Board calendar? I move the Board of Education approve the Board calendar as presented. Support. Is there any discussion? Motion by Heidi, second by Monica. Roll call, please. -Orta? -Yes. -Routine? -Yes. -Hayden? -Yes. -Baker? -Yes. -Fox? -Yes. -Yes. -Yes. The motion carries six to zero. Motion for the handbook revisions and updates. I move the Board of Education approve the revision handbook for the 2526 school year as presented. Support. Motion by Heidi. Support by Monica. Is there any discussion?
No changes from Committee of the Whole. Correct. But you're glad that's done. I am. It's been running for running and running here. We're just trying to make it work. We're just trying to make it work. We're just trying, aren't we? It's a lot of it's a lot of work. A lot of changes with laws and all that stuff. So, roll call. Board address? Yes. Regine? Yes. Beaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Wax? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six zero. Readmission of students. And we have a way to schedule one. Discipline. Student discipline. Yep.
I move the Board of Education approve student discipline as presented. Support. Any discussions? Motion by Heidi. Support by Monica. Roll call. Yes. Thirteen? Yes. Deaton? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Readmission of students. I move the Board of Education approve these students to reenter Mesa Park Schools as presented. Support. Motion by Heidi. Support by Monica. Roll call, please. Yes. 13? Yes. Dean? Yes. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes.
Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Teaching diverse history grants. Informational. Doctor Dolmage? Yeah. I was wondering on that one. So we presented the grant a while back, so I need need to seek some clarity on what that's referencing. Okay. Because we we voted on I'm wondering if, all that 99 d, those three items, they were part of that grant. Okay. Mhmm. Okay. Thanks for the information. Yeah. And then freedom of information, that's just informational Mhmm.
For us. So and now I have personnel that we add it. I move the board of education approve the personnel recommendations as presented. Support. Motion by Heidi and support by Monica, to approve the personnel as presented. Any discussion? Roll call, please. To address? Yes. Ricky? Yes. Dean? Yes. Perkins? I abstain for, conflict of interest. I'm sorry. What is the conflict? Familial conflict. Con yeah.
Familiar conflict of interest. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries five to one. FESPINE, festival trip. -And the Board of Education approve that that FESPINE Festival trip, in amount not to exceed $4,600 Support. The motion by Heidi, support by Monica. And just there were some questions during the committee of the whole about fundraising and, the, director agreed to have the students raise a $100 through fundraising, efforts to offset
the trip. So thank you. Okay. Roll call, please. Georgia? Yes. 13? Yes. I I think I okay. Never yes. Sorry. I was looking at the wrong, I was looking at the old memo. Yes. Absolutely. Becker? Yes. Fox? Yes. Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Next portion here, we have the information from doctor Wilcox on the enrollment and the fundraisers. And the next item is request for future agenda items.
Anybody? No? No. Calendar dates, I don't have those in front of me. It's first Monday in October will be the next meeting. Sorry. I don't have that. Is that, like, October 3 or something? And then we're back to public comment. Anybody wishing to speak? We do have a meeting tomorrow, I believe, on Yeah. Yeah. We have policy committee tomorrow. Oh, yes. Thank you. Yes. Policy meeting tomorrow is, what, 05:30 to seven? Yes. Five yes. Starting that important work. Seeing nobody for public comments, I have board member and administration comments.
I just wanna say that the carpet looks great at the high school. I got to go in there the other day, and it really does make that furniture just look sharp. I don't know if anyone else been in there. I know that's why it was nice, but the carpet looks really nice. I also want to acknowledge all of our sports are in full swing. Everyone's doing amazing. I've got to go to most of the sports so far, so I just need to catch up on a couple. I wanna say congratulations to all the teachers, especially everyone that showed up. It's nice to have you around. We still have you around. And I did just wanna ask, I sent an email about a week and a
half ago about policy and why HR was not on policy anymore and I've not received any information back on that. I just feel that HR should be on our policy when she's the one who's supposed to be upholding and dealing with policy, in my opinion, the most. Okay. Anybody? Yes. Congratulations to the band. They received second place and woke me up at bright and early ends before seven on a Saturday morning. But they were playing their little harps out, which kudos to you for getting seconds.
Nice quick meeting. Thank you. And, the alliance. If I could, I would like to thank the administration that all the buildings and even central office for their hard work and dedication, especially in these trying times in the past few weeks where you've had multiple injuries, multiple situations, and, you know, we get texts right away about it. And and I just I'm like, wow. That's a lot. And, when I worked here, I didn't realize how much it was, but, and and
it's usually handled quite well. And, it's always handled quite powerfully. I've never heard of anything that, you know, regarding to, you know and the poor people that have passed. And, I mean, we really need to you guys are wonderful for reaching doing what you do, and so thank you. And it goes to all the administrators. Can I just make a quick announcement? I should have done it at public, announcements. So tomorrow evening is another family event. It's at the junior high from six to 07:30.
It's called choose your own adventure. We'll have math activities, science activities, STEM activities. It's all districts. So all district means all families, can come. There will be teaching different math games and science activities. And the way you're gonna choose your own adventure is on the way out, we will have a boatload of science and math games for you to take one home with you. So choose your favorite one, and then you can take it home with you.
So that's six to 07:30, tomorrow evening at the junior high. That sounds so fun. It's gonna be great. I hope lots of people come. Are you doing I have it on here for, build up the Park Tools to Help Students Thrive. That'll be at Webb? That'll be at Webb and that will be on October 7. Is that the same like you're saying that Junior High, Build Up the Park? Yep. Build Up the Park are all kind of family events. This is more of a family one. The build up the park is typically more like parent university where we feed them,
we'll give them dinner, we'll do, childcare so the parents can go off and learn and then we play with the kids, which is my favorite part. And, and then there's usually parent learning of some kind. So we have several throughout the year. I believe the flyer is on the website and I will make sure each of you gets We do have to change a few, places, that we're gonna So some of them are changing. We have one at United Oaks in, November called Din, Dinner and Data.
And we're gonna be talking about the map data that families get and how to interpret it. And then we're gonna be giving away turkeys. So we've got a bunch of them. Come on down. Tomorrow night, though, is really important. Very good. Thank you. Yep. Can I say one more thing, Beth? Sorry. I did just because you started talking. I do know that one of our elementary schools is a little low on their closets. Yes. So if anybody has any children's clothing, sizes ten and under or around is what they were asking, if you could donate them, that would be greatly appreciated.
Can you what school is that? I believe it was Hoover. Mhmm. Yeah. Yep. And you can bring it here or to Hoover. Thank you. I'll make sure they get it. Sorry. Thank you, ma'am. Obviously. I wanted to say thank you to mister Perotti and the Knights of Columbus. That was a really generous, donation that they provided to the students of Durden. I know he expressed some dismay that it was lower than in the past, but, obviously, what what you give is what you give and that's amazing, that that's what you have the availability to to provide to the young people that are over there. On the same note to the Promise Zone, being able to really remove some of
those barriers that students had to attending trade schools college after their graduation from Hazel Park, being able to offer that that financial boost and remove that prorated amount is amazing. I wanna say that we've been talking about it for a while here. The state has still not passed its budget. It is September 22, so it's really unlikely that they will do so by October 1. So it was always urge your legislators legislators, to get to work and get that
done. But I would say even beyond that, to urge our legislators to not only pass their budget, but to pass a budget that is appropriate, to meeting the needs of students across the state. Especially this past week, we've heard a lot of talking points about, borrowing money and needing to support infrastructure. But, you know, we up here in this building, in this district, hopefully everywhere, understands that education is our most important piece of infrastructure and that the state aid budget should not be borrowed from, by any means.
And then I also wanted to, maybe to a specific subset of parents just based on, some discussion or comments that were made earlier, to make it very clear that Hazel Park Schools supports all of our students. Whether you live in the city of Hazel Park, whether you do not, you are a student of our schools, and we support you regardless. Would also like to say that, this district supports students regardless of their learning abilities or their disabilities. If you have a special education student, your students are supported by this district.
It is not only a federal mandate, but it is the right thing to do. Disabled students are safe here. They are supported here. They will continue to be. Not only is it a federal mandate that these local school district provide a free and appropriate education for their students, but it is it is the will of the people and it absolutely, will continue here in Hazel Park in Hazel Park. Alright. Thank you. Set. Yeah. I echo what she said. Thanks, Mr. Perotti in Mexico on this. You know, that that helps a lot.
Thanks, miss Gault, for coming out. And it was the Rx Kids? Is that what it is? That sounds like a great program. Hopefully, our young mothers can take advantage of that. Both mothers can take advantage of this too. Mothers mothers and mothers are probably good. I know that a lot of times the younger mothers are, you know, little more I misspoke. I apologize. Promise zone, again, also that's a great program. I love hearing about it every time. Thanks to our teachers. You know, congratulations on your tenure. It's been nice to see some more of what we we appreciate what you do.
It's great to see the school in full swing right now, athletics and clubs. I saw the they got the play coming. And so they had stuff set up at the high school, and I'm really looking forward to seeing that and the band, you know, and everything's in full swing. I know everyone's busy. I know a lot of teachers are tired probably getting in the bed early, these days and administrators and everybody. So we we really appreciate what everyone is doing, and, we're looking forward to the school year. Everybody's so awesome. Good comments up here tonight. I I just have a couple of things here.
United Oaks is they're taking the Camp Hazel Woods trip on a Saturday, September 27. I thought that's pretty cool. And then, Hoover, they have truck or treat. It's not till October 16, but people can get ready now. It's like the days fly by. And, Webb has picture day, October 1. And junior high, this Wednesday, they have a meeting on their Washington trip from six to 07:00. So that's, exciting. I think I don't know if those would be, like, the fourth year of that,
of that trip, which is wonderful for our kids. Our Vice City football team won again, so go Vikings. They're they're on a they're on a roll. They're doing great. And so that's all I have. Thank you, miss Galt, for coming too. If anybody has questions, she's here. I passed out the cards. I also could be wrong. I think October 1 is count day. Yeah. So please come to school October 1. That's normally why Web does picture day that too? Yes. We kinda do that on purpose. Yes. So you get your pictures, but you're there. And, we've also had sugarcane, October 30.
Friday is October. The thirtieth. Is it just That's for me. So Friday is a half day, and, the goal of that day also is a parent and guardian communication day. So So that's an opportunity for our teachers to reach out, via phone calls or email to make sure they connect with families and just, share some some great wonderful things about their children. Awesome. So can I be halfway through our records? That's right. Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second