of the Malcolm board of education to order. Call the role, please. Mrs. Cahoun here. Miss Hammond, here. Dr. McFaten, Mr. Shepard, here. Mr. Walker, here. Mrs. Walker, Mr. Rickman,
present. A quorum has been established. Excuse me. Next on the agenda, the pledge of 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. Cough was sneezing. Couldn't get it out. Next on the agenda are citizens comments. This is the portion of the meeting where the citizens of the Mount Clemens Community School District can address the board within their question,
comments, and concerns. Uh if you would like a a specific written uh response to any inquires you may have tonight, uh we have forms back in the back. We ask you to fill those out and drop them off with the secretary. Uh also
be mindful you have three minutes by which to make your inquiries. Uh you may not receive a particular response. to your inquiries. We ask that you stand, come to the microphone, and state your name and address. Last but not least, I ask that you address all questions, comments, concerns to the chair. The
agenda is now open for citizens comments. Second call, citizens comment. Last call. Citizens comments hearing or seeing none. Moving the agenda forward. Next on the agenda are action items. Under the action items
this evening this evening, we have action item agenda number five. Under item five, the consent agenda 5A, approval of minutes. 5 A1, the August 8th and 9th, 2025
board retreat work session. 5A2, the July 16th, 2025 regular meeting. Consent agenda item 5B 5B1 approve approval of the July bills for
payments. 5B2 July financial reports consent agenda item 5C union wage agreement consent agenda item 5D, student ID.
Consent agenda number 5E, painting. Consent agenda item 5F, new hires. F1, um, Audrey Hayes. F2, Atra M. F3, Lynn W.
F4, Jacqueline Gilman, F5, Alicia McNary McNamera. Consent agenda item 5G, the MHSA resolution for the 2526
school year. The chair will entertain a motion relative to the consent agenda. Some move moved by member D. Walker to approve the consent agenda. Is there a second? Second. Second. Member Hammond.
Any questions, comments, concerns regarding the consent agenda? Hearing or seeing none. Call the role, please. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss Hammond, yes. Mrs. Cahoun, yes. Mr. Sheepard, yes.
Mr. Rickman, yes. Motion carries. Excuse me. Agenda item six, MASB 6A, resolution for the annual leadership conference uh in Grand Travis
Resort, October 23rd to the 26th, 2025. The chair would entertain a motion relative to the agenda item 6 A1. So moved. Moved by member Hammond. Support.
Second member D. Walker. Any questions, comments, concerns regarding the motion on the floor. Hearing or seeing none, call the roll, please. Miss Hammond, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Mrs. Cahoun,
yes. Mr. Shepard, yes. Mr. Rickman, yes. Motion carries. Next item on the agenda areformational items. Item seven um information coming from the business committee 7A. Are
there any questions regarding the financial reports? Item 7B, contract listings. Any questions regarding item 7B, contract listings?
Excuse me. Hearing or seeing none, moving the agenda forward. Next on the agenda, item eight, excuse me, superintendent's comments or whatever. Mr. Superintendent. Good evening. Good evening uh with the board community,
proud uh staff over there. Uh it was a great day today. Um thank you all for that. We're able to fall through and show up this year for our back to school bash. Just a few updates. Um, first I want to start off before we get
to current events. I just want to um I've mentioned this before, but just give a um we posted on our social media just appreciation to you all for the great board retreat we had. I thought we um did a great job collaborating um and
you all worked well together and we worked well together to, you know, just help move us forward and took, you know, gave up some of our weekend and I appreciate that and and it takes that commitment and um from you all uh to to help get us where we need to go. So, I just want to congratulate and thank you
for your commitment to our our community, our students, and our staff. And it's because of you, you know, although you don't always get the glory, it's because of you that we're able to do the things that we do. I say this often. I say it all the time. Uh uh I actually said it earlier today when I was asked a question about our board and
things like that. I said, "My board is I don't have any problems. My board is very supportive of the things we're trying to do for this community and um and and we get things done." So, thank you for the great work you all did and and the commitment and time away from your families, extra time away from your
families uh for our board retreat. and a lot of great work came out of that. And and a special shout out to to Dr. Barrage who who helps facilitate our uh board retreats and uh she does a great job as you all know and I think helps us really dig deep and and get to some some
depth of of substance and and things that are that are relevant and in best interest of our organization and for our students. So just wanted to start by saying that. Uh just have a few updates. Uh nothing too long. Again, today was our back to
school bash. Uh we had uh we just keep growing. We had over 350 u parents come out, uh families, community members, people came out. We had a number of uh vendors and community members show up. I want to give a special shout out to
Karen Hines, our staff and student recruiter, a position that you all approved two years ago that has been paying uh dividends on um um on the recruitment of our of the students that we have brought in. Miss Hines led the initiative to get the back
to school bash um together and get the vendors out, the advertisement, the marketing, and I just want to give her a shout out for all her hard work and dedication. And of course she if she was here like I we we spoke earlier, she uh
passed the the congratulations on to the people that supported her, the team she had behind her, which is teachers. Everybody came uh came out to help her. The committee, I believe it was a few of our secretaries were on her committee, our principal, and and some other uh
district staff. But uh everyone came together to make it happen from our custodians to our teachers to paras everyone was here today. new staff showed up. It was a beautiful site. People who haven't even officially started until next week. Uh we have a number of our new teachers here which
shows the uh mindset I think or the buy in or the commitment to the people that we're bringing on board. So uh really excited and looking forward to um the continued growth in our staff and and the culture and climate that we are working to create. So again, thank you
Miss Hines for all your commitment and dedication. Thank you to all the vendors for coming out, all the donations, all the volunteers. We couldn't do it without you. Um and uh we'll, you know, continue to try to um make sure that that that everyone's work and commitment
is uh is seen, heard, and appre and appreciated. Uh next up, something I need to talk to you about. I mentioned this before, but I would September's board meeting. We can talk about this afterwards um after comments.
September's board meeting is always falls for my the Mesa conference that that date. So if you want to discuss maybe moving that or if you guys want to have it without me, you know, I hate missing board meetings. I love board meetings so much. I wouldn't want to be here. So we can discuss moving that to
the following week if possible. Um I want to also remind everyone about our golf outing. Um golf outing is September 12th is going really well. Mr. Monk is on that committee. Mr. Giles, who's uh
retired. Um Mount Clemens, athletic director, coach, um I believe teacher in the building as well, but Mr. Giles is uh on that committee and Mr. Pitman, we meet weekly and I'm just planning it for our golf outing. We have 80 golfers avail uh spots available for golfers.
We're going to need some volunteers. We got about 10 volunteers right now. We have about 45 golfers signed up. Um, and Miss Metador, Kelly is helping collect the the financial side of the golf outing. Miss L is helping out with the marketing and everybody's chipping in
like we do. So, just want to make sure that's on your radar. We're we're going to do, you know, a big push as we get closer to the date. But, um, things are looking good right now. So, thank you to that committee for coming out and um helping support uh our first annual golf
outing, the first one since I've been here that I did. Um human resources and nothing in really in detail, but I don't know if we have it. Do you have a number yet, Jen? Were you able to pull it together? Um I didn't, but if I remember right, it
was probably I think it was about eight to 10 at each building that we were trying to fill and um you have eight right now. Yeah. So, and then three um pending.
Yep. So, we and that's positions. I just want to give you a little soft update on teacher positions. I know Simino is pretty much there. I think there's one spot that's not committed to yet. Still interviewing. Um so, we're close to really being fully staffed at Simino. That team over
there is really happy about that. Um secondary is still interviewing and adding people. There's a couple people in the hopper meeting waiting on acceptance and fingerprints and background, but um we're in a good really good spot with team. Everybody's feeling really good about where we are. I'll say since I've been here, we've had
more interviews than for the positions that we've had posted than ever. We haven't even when my first year people didn't even interview or apply for the job. So, um something is something's going well where people are interested in in in at least coming to see and uh
we got some really good um uh new hires, a a lot of people with experience, some people that are fresh out, but a good balance of um skill set I think is going to add a lot of instant value to what we're trying to do in in our um in our
in our district. So, we're really excited about uh the first day of school for the first time. Again, still a few spots to to fill, but uh we're confident that, you know, we'll get there. And, you know, the goal has always been uh
you know, we we can't expect the results without highly qualified people in front of our kids every day. You know, sometimes you get lucky and there's some you know, some diamonds in the rough, but you know, this you got to have some experience. You got to have you got to be trained. And even then, uh, getting in front of
those kids in that classroom is still tough. But when you have some people with some skill sets, um, especially working with, um, dem a demographic like ours, communities like ours, it's just really, it makes you very hopeful. And so, um, that's where we are. So, we're
proud of that. Those efforts continue. Um, I wanted to introduce why everybody sees we're in our dress down today. This was our staff shirt for today. All the the district wore these for our back to school bash. Um, but I want to She just ran in from the ISD. She's been running around here like crazy. Wanted to take a
second to introduce Miss Magnamera, our new um, uh, special populations coordinator. Welcome. [Applause] Uh, her resume, you guys have seen the board have seen her resume, you know, when I believe when we um, brought her
forward to you initially for hire, but she comes with a lot of experience. Most recently, she's from Frasier. um she was in a CI classroom, has a ton of uh experience and in some other capacities behind her and we really it's been really good already. She's hit the
ground running meeting with parents today. So, we're excited about the uh our future and our needs. You all know what those were with our our special needs students um being represented and making sure that we are in compliance and all those great things for our kids. So, uh she's been meeting with staff,
met with the principles already and so welcome. anything you'd like to say? Um, I'm just happy to be here and I'm eager to meet the kids and I've already had the pleasure to meet a lot of the special education staff and they've given me a lot of great input. We have a lot of exciting ideas and things in the
work. So, I'm happy to be here and share my passion for special education, the staff, students, and family members of this community. Thank you. Well said. Um, and you have a flyer in front of you. first football game away already is here next week. Um,
so mark your calendars. Um, we've emailed this out to you, but I want to give you a hard copy as well. Mr. Pitman is, you know, all over the place. So, you know, you you all are always invited and welcome out to come and cheer on the bthers and our students. We're looking forward to um a great season. So, and
last but not least, I just say this. you know, we don't like to celebrate until butts are in the seats, but our enrollment is looking very positive again. Um, actually, this might be I'm hopeful that this could probably be the best year in the last out of the last
three as far as numbers. It's it's it's looking really positive. I don't know if I've shared this with you. What one of the things we restructured was our enrollment process. We we have now become uh uh central office uh central
enrollment versus at the buildings and things get spread out, lost, move, lost in the shuffle, hard to stay uh in contact with just a lot of possibility for mishaps to happen when it's all over the place. Long story short, Mr. Pitman, we have centralized enrollment. Mr.
Pitman has been just crunching it out like this is this place has been as busy as I've ever seen it since I've been here all day. Parents coming in, people coming in, applications, folders after folders and and our uh Miss Miss June in our high school office has been really helpful and pro helping him process what
she can. but he's been getting as many students in as as possible and um we think we're going to, you know, we'll finally have a third year of uh increased enrollment and which we can officially say we have a trend um and looking forward to that. And so when
those numbers are finalized, we also know we have some transient families too. So when that dust settles and it's clear what that number is kind of looking like, I'll I'll give you a more firm number. But in the meantime, it seems like the word is getting out of what we do for our students and how
and how we service them. And uh it is the uh the number one as I always say the number one marketing strategy in my experience is how you treat your people and and what you do you know for your students that will that will sell itself for lack of a better term. So um we're
very hopeful and a lot of a lot of other great things coming but I'mma cut it off there. I got a question regarding the the centralized enrollment process. I think it's a great idea. Um, have are you aware of any issues or problems because
historically you would go to the elementary building to to register? Are we Yep. we have any issues with lack of communication or people not knowing where to go? No, that's that's it's um it's going pretty well. So, if they do show up there, the secretaries there will help
guide the people over uh to this campus and and sometimes some people just drop something off and run, but they'll get it to Mr. Pitman either way. But so, as of right now, it's been pretty seamless. Um the only issue we have that we're also working on is when you when you
when you put our address in Google Maps, it send you to Henry Ford door behind the building. So, people got to figure out how to get around here. But uh actually Robin is working on that with Google to get a a new pin um dropped now. We talked about that in the school. Um so as soon as that's done that
that'll help out. But no, it's going it's going pretty good. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Agenda item nine, board comments.
Miss Ham, thank you. It's good to hear all the positive things that's happening at the school district and I enjoyed the back to school bash and thanks to all the staff for it was wonderful to come out and see the
excitement. Thank you all. That's all I have. Thank you, Miss Kahoun. Um just real short today. Um,
good job on the advertising and the promotion. Like this what I've been seeing is finally what I've been wanting to see. Um, so like it's on a daily basis that I see your advertisement.
That's what that's what gets the word out. Constantly showing up where people are is what you're is what is what will get you noticed. Um, so great job on that and great job on your marketing team and everybody for
just all the different marketing for the from the billboard sign to the Facebook ads. All of it. All of it. Incredible. Um, the videos too. Fabulous. Um, welcome to the new member. Welcome the new members to the Mount Clemens
district, all the teachers, employees. Um hopefully it's going to be a great year for them and they'll see all the amazing things that the district has to offer and then the amazing kids that go here. Um and then as always, thanks to
the staff, faculty, and to you for doing an an amazing job continually three years in, walking the walk, talking the talk, doing the job, and going above and beyond. So kudos to you guys. That's all.
Thank you, Mr. Walker. Thank you. I want to say thank you to all the staff around the district for helping out with the back to school bash and helping out and wearing many hats over the summer with different things that we need to need done around the
district. I'm looking forward to the start of the school year and welcoming back our returning families and our new families as we've seen today with the many different families and diversity of who we serve around the district. Um,
and welcome to our new staff. Um, welcome to the CLM. As we say, um, we're a big great family. I know you guys will do well in your roles. And that's all I have. Thank you, Mr. Shepard.
I have a question. Uh, for item six, the annual leadership conference, Grand Traverse Resort. Did we make any motion on that? It was under action items. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. Um, I I just want to um uh say uh back in like January, I said
that I could go as an alternate. I definitely could not at this point uh being down to one car and uh with all the other issues I'm having with my health. uh from the auto hand. Uh so um I don't know if that was part of the resolution
or what, but uh so I'm just saying that. Um so uh I attended the back to school bash uh briefly. I was on my way to work from physical therapy and uh love the turnout, love the enthusiasm. Uh again,
the energy, the uh passion that you bring to this school district uh can't be measured. And uh I thank for that. Mr. Superintendent um congratulations for hiring the special uh special needs coordinator. I'm sorry. Is that the
population special population? Sorry. Um we we discussed it uh here and uh privately. Uh it's a position that's very much needed uh from my observations uh both uh behind this desk and uh working over in the office. Uh so um I
hope uh I hope you enjoy it. Um I know there's a lot of work that needs to be done. Um a lot of it is uh probably making up for uh work that could not be done. Uh but uh I I'm judging by your resume and uh just meeting you briefly.
I'm I'm I think you're up to it. And uh other than that uh hope everyone's ready to go back to school. And uh those are my comments. Thank you, Mr. Shepard. Dr. McFad. Well, so much so quick. Um, another
school year is about to start very soon. I feel like it already been started for me, but it's um a great thing to be feeling where I want to welcome the new students, enrolles, and also the new staff to the Mount Clemens family. And the signs of a very effective board
meeting is a very expeditious board meeting. So I want to say congratulations to my fellow board members and let's go Mont Clemens. I'm ready for the school year. Yes, sir. Those my comments, sir.
Thank you, Dr. Mcb. I'd like to begin by saying welcome uh to our new staff members. Uh thank you for showing up to the board meeting. We put a face with a name. and hopefully we'll see eventually
we'll see those other names that we approved tonight and put faces to them as we welcome all of you to the CLIM family. Um, couple of things on August the 26th. I'm this for the board members. uh if you're available, August
the 26th at 8:00 a.m. is the welcome back staff breakfast. Um so if you got time to to stop in um just to say hey or have a bite to eat or just to converse,
that's on August 26th at 8:00 a.m. the welcome back staff breakfast. Also on the first day of school, we'll have the student clap in uh as we that did last year. They're going to uh do
that again this year. And uh Terresa McGary is uh leading uh that effort. So once again, it will be at the first the first day of school uh the student clapping. I I've said it, you know, in the June
meeting and July meeting and here it is August already and it's it's that time again. I was able to come up and spend some time uh at the uh back to school bash uh today and I talked to a lot of
the vendors and they said it was a lot of activity uh in the building. Um they we had served more meals than we had food. Uh so that indicates that we we had a a big a big crowd. Uh it had
thinned out a little bit. I got it around 12:30ish or so. Uh but it was still a lot of lot of folks in the building and a lot of activity uh going around in the building and uh a lot of community support support with with
vendors uh that are willing to uh step up and assist the school district uh when and needed and whatever expertise that they can bring uh to our staff and students. And that's always welcomed uh here in the district cuz
many people may not know it or they might not admit it. But many of the things we do we would not be able to do if it was not for the volunte the volunteers whether you be parents or just be citizens. Uh you provide a
resource and activities and that we would not be able to do if it wasn't for uh your willingness to volunteer and be involved. and we we say thank you uh to all those folks. And it's here
next week we got to you know welcome the staff back then after Labor Day while we welcome the students back. Um summer is still here and I'll always say enjoy the rest of your time off that you have because it's it's it's drawing nigh. Uh
earlier in um the superintendent's comments, Superintendent Roer mentioned about uh school board members not getting glory or showing any glory for what it is that we do. Uh and I when you
said that, it made me think that I didn't do this for glory. Uh the glory that I get personally is when I see our students being successful. that that brings me doesn't have to bring me
personal glory but I I know uh that that brings glory to me seeing that those students that walk through our doors uh when they exit our doors they are being successful students I mean and su successful students as well as
successful community members battling bthers are back out on the field uh we you can look at the website for the uh uh schedule. I think our first home game is
September the 13th. It will be on a Saturday. Usually our games on Friday, but this is a Saturday game. Um that'll be our first home game after 2011 games. Excuse me. Those are my comments. The
chair would entertain a motion to adjurnn. I move to adjurnn. Moved by member D. Walker. Support. Second member Dr. McFaden. Call the role, please. Mr. Walker, yes. Dr. McFaten,
yes. Mrs. Cahoun, yes. Miss Hammond, yes. Mr. Shepard, yes. Mr. Rickman, yes. Motion carries. I got to do a re I need a doover. I got to do a day of Dr. McFad. Oh,
we're allowed this time. Yeah. Thank you, sir. We had talked about um we had a board retreat uh this past weekend and on Friday and part of Saturday part of the activities that the board was involved
in uh was team building activities. Uh what we did uh we broke out into groups uh three group three two groups of two and one group of three. So that's something two something like that. It was three groups. Um and she g each
group had a different scenario. One scenario was budget constraints and facility utilization. Another uh scenario was boosting foreign language and dual enrollment. And the third scenario is community engagement for non-attenders.
Uh and what Dr. Barrage had the board do was work in small groups brainstorm. Uh and each of those scenarios you had to you had to answer questions and those type of questions were identify the core issues in those scenarios
uh to connect alignment with the district mission and at least one of the district goals and and these were these were tasks that the board had to work on in terms of how we respond uh to those scenarios. propose a strategic response
including action stakeholders and measures for success. Anticipate potential drawbacks, setbacks or community reactions on and how to address uh those community members with those and then identify one potential
goal. when she we were led that we to utilize our strategic plan, our existing uh goals that we have and to encompass all those scenarios and come out with um what well excuse me
response uh from the board because this was a board activity. Uh Saturday we resumed uh the work session. Excuse me. We once again broke out into our groups indivi our individual groups and came up brainstorming with she asked us to come
up with three to five board ideas for board goals. Uh then we reported and we came back together and I think there were five or maybe six ideas uh that the board um there was consensus for to move
forward and we'll be working towards that and to finalize those goals. So so that was just my doover. Are we are we going to be voting on those goals and Yeah, that's why I that's why I said we will be working working on it in a
future meeting. I can't say right now but yes. Yeah. Move to adjourn. No, it's already been moved. All right. We already No, I was It was on my vote. Move three. We had You was in the vote, right? It was to me, correct? Yes, sir.
Yes. Okay. Meetings adjourned. That was a long yes. Meetings adjourned at 7:03 p.m. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. [Music]