Call the regular meeting to order, please. Miss L, please call the role. >> Mrs. Cohon, >> here. >> Ms. Hammond >> here. >> Dr. McFaten. >> Mr. Rickman >> here. >> Mr. Shepard >> here. >> Mrs. Walker. >> Mr. Walker
>> here. Cor has been established. Move on to item three, 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
>> moving on to item four approval of the agenda. I'll enter a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> So moved by Miss Kahune >> support. Second by Miss Hammond. Any questions or comments on a motion on
the floor to approve the agenda as presented? >> Hearing seeing none, please call the role. >> Mrs. Cahoun, >> yes. >> Miss Hammond, >> yes. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker, >> yes. Motion passes.
>> Move on to item five, citizens comments. At this time, we ask you citizens comments. Please state your name, address, and come to the lector. abide by our three minute rules. And if you wish to have a a
comment that needs a response from the superintendent or administration, please come up to Miss L and please give us her and you will receive a response to 72 hours. The floor is now open for citizens comments.
Second call for citizens comments. Hearing seeing none, move on to item six, board of recognition. In the board of recognition, we have item 6A, student 6A1, homecom 226, top five, Mr. Superintendent.
>> Yep. Good evening, uh, community board staff. Love to see everybody here. I don't see our top five students. Um, so, uh, they're probably off doing their thing. They were recognized at the board meeting. I don't know if I would be back either if I was
a a senior, but they were invited. Um, but for the record, we we celebrated them at our graduation. If you happen to not be there, it was a beautiful It is posted on our um YouTube channel. Um, but we wanted to recognize our top five students, uh, Lama Baker, Johnson Baker,
Christopher Walker, Jasmine Hernandez, Roger Slater, and Maris Jones. Um, we want to give them a big round of applause. and and as I stated at the uh graduation for the first time and we can't figure out how many years um the the district's
uh scholarship fund has um again um allocated $15,000 in scholarships to those top five students. So that's another a promise that we will continue to do as long as we can. Um thank you to the the donors from back whenever that started to to donate those funds for our
scholarship um our scholarship fund. It's been I mean I think it goes back over 20 years. >> Go back >> back >> further longer than that. >> Go back >> 40 years. Go it goes 60 or 70. >> It goes a long time. Um but uh so thank
you to all of uh those families and donors that that made that possible and and still to this day here we are over 40 50 60 years later we're able to um bless uh some of our students. So keep up the good work to them. And wait a minute. Thank you to their
teachers counselors that helped make them the top five. Let's get him a round of applause. >> Move on to 6B honor 6B1 our teacher of the year. All right. This is a fun night. This is the best meeting of the year for me. This is uh a lot of celebrations and all a lot of positive
things. So, we want to acknowledge, we've already acknowledged them a couple of times before, but to officially at the this is our last final meeting of celebrations. Want to acknowledge our teachers of the year. If you can come up uh when I call your name um and we can publicly acknowledge you. We know we've
done some things with the ISD and privately, but we want to just to do that publicly and thank you. So, um with that being said, I don't see for the high school was Mr. Antoine Pilgrim. I don't see him here. middle school was Mrs. Melissa Marino
again. Come on up, Miss Marino. And uh at the elementary, Miss Megan Jenovich a little token of appreciation and thank you. >> You all these >> Mr.
Can you come in front of the camera? >> Come on over here. Watch your step. We got to get a photo out. Take our picture. >> I'm not done, but let's do it. And I got a new phone. So I might work.
>> iPhone. >> She's trying to get air. >> Okay. >> Good. move on to 6B2 retirees. Okay. Um this year we have three retirees and we always try to uh we like to do something
as a district to just acknowledge the dedication and the commitment of our employees, our staff that uh have given their life to this field uh which goes even beyond Mount Clemens. And so um we have three of our retirees. One of them is all couldn't be here tonight. But
first and foremost, I'd like to call up and if if you can come up here, we'll do a picture again with our retirees. Um, let's start with 28 years of service,
Mr. Tom Hannah. >> Hands up here. celebrated your 28 years of exceptional service and commitment. Thank you. WE APPRECIATE and next up we have from Simo, Mrs. Lisa Brooks.
This says with deep gratitude for 33 years of exceptional commitment and service. We're going to get our official. >> Let's start with uh let's look up here. Let's look right here. This is Mr. H. >> Mr. Brooks over here. We need help for
them. >> You dig your photographer? >> Hey, I'm trying to get more money. >> Okay. CONGRATULATIONS just really quickly, you know, um we thank you for your service uh to our
kids, the many lives that that they both have all three of them have touched. Uh we just appreciate you. It is it feels good to see people retire in this field. I'll say that as a person that still has some time to go. Um and we know how hard it is, you know, in this field of
education to make it and to make it to retire and that many years of dedication is a true testament to your service. We appreciate you. We couldn't be here or do it without you. Um and so thank you again to your families that have given us to you and have dealt with us. The
sacrifices, the late nights, early mornings, meetings, etc. we appreciate you and uh it it takes a village and so thank you for being part of our village and allowing us to be uh be here with you. So to our retirees, we appreciate YOU volunteer here. We ain't put
>> ahead. Last but not least, another um acknowledgement. We're going to we're doing something else is different for me since I've been here. It's the first time we've done this. Uh we talked to our sec our high
school and elementary principles and we for every year we might do two a year. This year we're doing one. We are acknowledging uh volunteer of the year. So with that being said, the district would like to recognize Mrs. Ashley
Granado. THIS is in recognition of uh your outstanding service as parent advisory committee pack president during the 2526 school year. Your selfless service, dedication, and unwavering commitment to our students, families, and school community have made a lasting impact.
Through your leadership, collaboration, and tireless support, you have strengthened family engagement and enriched the educational experiences across Mount Clemus Community Schools. With sincere gratitude, we thank you for all that you have done. Your contributions reflect the highest ideals of volunteerism, and we are truly
appreciative of your time, energy, and heart for our district. Thank you, MR. You guys keep catching me off. Congratulations. Moving on to item seven, district quarterly updates and item seven 7A
principles 781, Mrs. Stalls from GSRP. >> Yep. >> Good evening again. We have M Mrs. Blue Stars is coming up to present on our update um every year just for the community for those of you that are here. So you know uh at least three times a year if not more for the
community for everybody and and you can go back and watch videos. Uh, you know, transparency is a goal of this district and this board. And so, we like to present and give updates on our student achievement and some of our um, uh, all of the things and the factors that we consider to to me and that we measure
here in the district from academic to behavior to attendance. And so, uh, the principles uh, three times a year at least give an update and we start with our our GSRP. Mrs. Stall, >> you all have a hard copy in front of you. Board.
We started the school year back in 2425. 46 students from the school area attending semin we had let's see 40 I'm sorry 46 of the 24 25 students in enrollment continued on with supporting the Mount Clemen
School District by joining them in kindergarten for that uh year. So our as you can see by the pie shape our numbers have they're increasing. Here's an enrollment in 22 23 is when I uh joined as the coordinator for GSRP.
We had 72 students. Next year we had 80. We dropped to 65 and we dropped to 52 this year. And the reason why we dropped is the governor of Michigan created a wonderful program, preschool for all.
It's always been great start readiness, but now we're also adding prek for all so everyone understands what we have available in the state of Michigan and it's one of the few programs nationwide. We are ranked number six in the country
with our GSRP preK for all program. What happened in 24 and 25 was that over 200 new classrooms were opened for the 4-year-old preschool programs. So, that's a lot of competition. But I will tell you, even with that competition, in
April, we accepted a new enrolly into our program. So, we're fortunate that all through the school year, if somebody came knocking on our door or called us, we were able to welcome them into our family. So, it's we are still growing.
Even with a lot of competition literally around the corner, there's the uh our staff, myself, uh Tara who is our secretary, Missy and Miss Kelly, Deanna and Kim, Maddie and Alen, Ashley and Shondaanda. Those are our staff. Those
those are what make our program very successful. The children relate to them very easily and the families just love them and they wish that they could stay another year with us, but we must push them on to kindergarten because that is our goal is to get every student ready
for kindergarten. These numbers are a little bit hard to read, but we have we did a chart both for the winter program, which is um the fall, and then also the spring. every
every grading period we showed the below expectation, meeting expectation, and then exceeding expectation. And when we flip to the fall to the spring, you'll see that our numbers did hit the exceeding
expectation for everyone. So, we start out low, but as we end into move into the spring, we end up very high. areas that we focus on social, emotional, physical, language, uh, literacy, mathematics,
and cognitive. So, we we do our best to get the students ready for kindergarten. We also invite well we're blessed in that kindergarten invites our program all of our students to come spend a portion of their day in the kindergarten
classroom so that they understand that when they start that first day of kindergarten all the toys are now put away. All the cs are put away so they get a taste of what it's going to be academically for them as they transition
into kindergarten. That is our main goal with our program. >> So Lou, this is the this is the spring assessment. >> Yeah, that is the spring assessment. And you can see there are darker numbers at the very far end. So that is our goal
every year is to make the light end very very small and get it darker at the end for the spring. So each each month we do a field trip. We
are fortunate with our budget that we are allowed to do a field trip. These are some of the activities that are being done in the classroom um to increase social skills, academic skills just to get them ready to be able to
focus and listen to the teachers. Again, preparing them to get ready to listen to the kindergarten teachers follow their instructions. So, you'll see some classroom activities. You also will see um field trips. This is uh Stan the Fireman. He's very well known in Mount
Clemens. One of the things that we do with our field trips and our excursions are we support the local community. And the local community when we call and we say, "Hey, we'd like to schedule a an appointment a date with them." They're real excited to know that we're coming
back because we come back each year because every year we get a new group of four-year-olds coming through. This was the apple orchard. They were dressing up. We had Santa Claus come.
Again, these are uh just random pictures of the children in the program. We did have the reparium come. The children are hesitant at first, but as you can see, they all join the picture to make sure they hold
that wonderful boa. And no, I will not be in that picture. I will take it, but I will not be be in it. This was part of our field day on the left hand side of the picture. The children really enjoyed that. So,
one last comment for the um board. These are my tic tacs, but I want to thank all the board for your commitment to the Mount Clemen students and their families.
So, I'm going to pass them out to you. While she's passing those out, I just want to um just a few points. >> Uh so throughout my tenure here, Mrs. Mrs. Stalls and I have been in communication and and just talking about being intentional with uh when we talk
about GSRP, I think oftent times. >> All right, Miss No, uh disability, we need you. Um, I think there's a uh sometimes there's a misconception that uh some folks may have and I think it's
important for the community to know that uh GSRP isn't just about play and fun. And so I asked her to make sure she is showing our students growth and and and having uh the assessments that they use throughout the year that they're monitoring just more than play but about
their growth socially um academically and things of that of that nature. And it's we have a a unique opportunity and that we've been discussing with the building leadership of having our GSRP in the building with our elementary um school. And so the two leaders in the in
the building can collaborate and be very intentional with uh the things that we want to see our our kindergartens able to do when they enter into preschool. I mean enter into kindergarten from uh GSRP. And so uh we we really working to be intentional with that and appreciate the staff there. They've been doing a
great job and u making sure that we're pushing our kids and trying to grow our program. So, thank you to our GSRP staff. Next up, we have our Simino Academy principal, uh, Mrs. Tina McNeely. >> Hello. Good evening. Oh.
Um, all right. Thank you. Thank you for being here tonight. Uh, I think we've got some nice data to show you and to share. Um, so our enrollment, um, this is the ECSE, so early childhood special
education program. Um, in um, sorry, I don't know why I didn't put my glasses on. Uh, in spring of, uh, 2024, sorry, uh, there were 42 students. So those are half-day students. Um, so for an FTE, that would be uh, 21. uh in spring of
2025. Last year there were 46 and this spring there were 39 and then um seminal uh kindergarten through fifth grade. So this is our enrollment. The blue is fall um oh I'm sorry
no it's actually I'm sorry I didn't change it. This is spring. These are spring numbers. Um yeah I changed the data but I didn't change that. Apologies. So this should be spring of 24, spring of 25, spring of 26 >> on the bottom.
>> I think >> so that's total on the bottom is ECSE plus um seminal proper but um so I do apologize for that. Um but so the blue was two years ago, red was last year, yellow is this year. So we had 80 uh kindergarteners at the end of the year.
Um 70 uh first graders and 83 second graders. So and there were also 73 last year. So that was a nice big jump. Uh 64 third graders, 64th graders, which was 52 the year before. And 55 fifth
graders, which is also up. So that's nice to see that they're hanging in there um at the end. And then our enrollment for ECSE plus uh seinal um was 407 in the spring of 200 of 2024
401 last year and this year we were at 4 um 16 that's for just seminal and then together seminal and ECSE this year we ended the year with 455 students total.
Um so NWEA um some data there. We did focus a lot on um instruction and growth. Um so this is a kind of a new graph uh showing that fall to spring growth. So one year's worth of growth. So these are the number
of students who met their growth goal. So this is really important because we're this is where we're closing the gap um and showing that where that real learning is. And then the goal is that eventually it will um not eventually but it will uh end up with um achievement
and proficiency. So we had um 56% of our kindergarteners u met their growth goal at the end of the year. 73 first grade, 61% of the second grade, 24% of third grade, 58% of fourth grade, 64% of fifth grade,
and um all of our students, 56% of all of our students met their growth goal. Um and so this one shows proficiency. So um prof proficiency would be uh at that area where we want them to be um where they are um
proficient at the end of the the school year. So um this was uh in the end of last year compared to the end of this year. Uh kindergarten um just a little bit of drop there at 34. Um first grade
went up to 41%. Uh second grade 39%, third grade 21%, fourth grades 31% and fifth grade 18%. So some nice goal uh growth there uh in proficiency and uh
that was in math. So this is in reading. Um so again this is the the growth or growth goals um compared to last year four years worth of growth and this year a year's worth of growth. So um some nice growth there and then
these are the same proficiency for reading. Um so those are students who have met their proficiency. So some of the things that we were doing to promote um the students uh taking those standardized tests uh MSTEP and
NWEA um taking those things seriously at the end of the year. We did have a MSTEP celebration. Um so part of the celebration was talking to our third, fourth, and fifth grade students about the importance of the test, how to take the test, what kind of things to take
seriously, those kinds of things. Um pumping them up for taking the test. And then there was a celebration at um the end of the year. Not yet, sorry. Um, so at the end, um, we had a a boba and, um,
um, ramen noodles party for our students that met proficiency on last year's MSTEP. So, um, so those fourth and fifth graders who were proficient. So, and then we did tell our fifth graders before they took the MSTEP this year that if they made proficiency, we would
send over their um their party or their gift over to uh here so that they could also uh get a um a little fun day if they met their proficiency. Um and then we also did so this was our
our NWA growth celebration. Um so we decided to have a um a Sunday party. So if a student met um their growth goal um in one area, so either in math or in reading, then they got to participate in
a Sunday party. So they got to have their ice cream uh choose their um their topping and then some sprinkles or something on top. Um, we did have we all wore um t-shirts uh to to promote it before the students took their test. And
then if the students had got met proficiency um on their growth goal, sorry, on both tests, then they got to get a neato. And I don't know if you know what needs are, but it's like it's like the same things like the Beatles in
the 60s. Like they go absolutely crazy for Neidos. So, um, so if they got both, then they got a Neidato as well as their their ice cream. So, they seem to really enjoy that.
Um, some more pictures about the their ice cream. Um, okay. So, attendance, uh, we really did focus on attendance this year. Uh we had uh last year there were 181 students um with uh severe chronic
absences and this year we ended the year with 121 which is a nice Yeah. Um we kind of led with the mantra this year that they have to be here in order to learn. So we really pushed that. Uh a couple ways that we did push the
attendance. Uh we did have our bikes for attendance. So, we had a drawing um and the students got to put their name into the drawing every week. So, they had to be there every day that week. They got a ticket. Um we made a big deal about it and then they got to put their ticket on Friday at lunch in the bucket. Um and
then we would draw from that. We started with just bikes. We did give away 22 bikes this year. Um yeah, so that was wonderful. Um we started then to add in we started to add in some other things
to get um more excitement. So u we started to give away some popcorn um Takis and uh just on a whim cuz I have a a son and he asked for a neato and I thought oh I'll get some nidtos and then you I mean the screams when I said I was
giving them a needle was just it was incredible. So we started giving away Neidtos as well. Um and then at the end of the year, you can go ahead to that. Um in June, um we ended up giving away six bikes, uh one per grade level. Um
and then we did have our final the grand prize, um was the um the big bike and also uh they got to be principal for the day. So that was um Mr. Dwayne Jackson who got to be principal for the day. He had his own badge. Um, and he made a
rule um that the staff could wear uh jeans and casual stuff for the rest of the school year. Um, that was his his thing that he did. >> Cut them off every time. >> Yeah. He was like super excited there. He had Yeah. That picture he had his
badge. Um, he had a walkie-talkie. So, that was field day. So, he is out there helping with the kids on field day. Yeah. He loved it. Um and then we also had a few best day evers. Um we had a pretzel truck um that came twice. Um students didn't know when the best day
ever was going to come. Um so if they had good attendance up to that point, then they got to participate in um the food truck. And we then um the last week of school, we had 55 students that had amazing attendance. Um so we had another
ice cream party with them. And this time we had Pop-Tarts. It was a Pop-Tart ice cream sundae. Um, so it was loaded with sugar, so it was at the very end of the day. Um, and they got to choose their Pop-Tart and then their toppings for
that. So that was a lot of fun. Um so our discipline um also you know a big focus was on discipline and trying to keep our kids in school and um mediating issues that they might have so that we could keep our kids there and so
they could learn. Um so in the spring of 2024 there were 99 um suspensions in spring last year uh 90 and this year we had 79. So, it's going down. And some of the reasons that it's going
down, um, a big focus on intervention. So, we are continuing with our PBIS roar cart. So, that's where, uh, the students get, um, punches on a card, um, for doing things that are awesome. Um, and, um, then they get to spend those punches
in the roar cart every month. Um we try to keep really cool things on there so that they want to earn those. Um we also um you can go ahead. Um uh focus on a restorative classroom environment. Um so students can um work through their
problems and they can understand um the reasoning behind not just the things that you have to do but why um and how to talk through their problems and the reasons why something might not be acceptable. and then also focusing on and implementing trauma-informed
resilient schools. Um, and we'll be doing a lot more of that um with the staff this coming school year. Um, and then we also implemented monthly character lessons. Uh, and we'll be next year we're going to also do um weekly so
each kid each grade level um we'll do a morning meeting with every day of um the week. That's where we'll start in each grade level on a different day. So, and then we'll talk about those character traits that um we want the kids to um
epitomize and um yeah. Okay. Um so, here are some um just some fun pictures. We had family curriculum nights. Um so, just some pictures with those. Um you math night, reading
nights. Um um and then some field trips, grade level field trips. Um I believe this one is both of these are the science center. Um and then another science center and then some more science center.
They really enjoyed that one. Um we also had the reparium come. The kids love that. Me not so much. Um and we had an Earth Day tree planting. Um we had a group of ladies, the aka they come every year. Um and we planted four trees right
outside the cafeteria wall there and kind of um they also we tried to beautify the um the property there, the campus, adding some flowers and weeding and just making it look really nice for the spring. Um and so then then we had
the student council, which is new this year as well. Um the student council then spent some time in the afternoon about a week or so later um picking up all trash and all that nasty stuff that kind of flies in. So that's that that
group there. And then we also had a lot of teacher appreciation fun. So in the middle there um was a game that we played. Um I like to play games with the staff so that they're having some fun and with each other. Um so that was we played Scrabble. Um and then on either
end we had a um dress up day um which was dress like a staff member or student day. So we had a student who dressed like me um and she even had her badge on there that said Mrs. McNeely. It was really cute. Um and then on the right um
the student there dressed as um Miss Dickinson. So, I think she she like knocked it out of the park there. Yeah. Yep. Perfect. Um, and then lastly was our field day. So, picture of our field day on uh the
end of the year. >> I usually Yeah. You got questions? Go ahead. >> Yeah. >> Tina, Miss McNilly, Mrs. She has a question for you. >> Question. >> Oh, sorry. >> So, um,
just in the future, I'd like to see past years and how they compare to this year. I know that the kids transfer from grade to grade, but you know, um, seeing those different changes in the years for the kids would be really good data for us, I
think. Um, so on the NWA NW >> are you talking by grade level? >> Yeah. >> So cohorts together. >> Yeah. >> Is that what you're talking? So one cohort has that >> that comparison from year to year. Does that make sense? >> Are you talking about cohorts? So as
they go from kindergarten to first grade to second grade. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Just showing us that yeartoyear change with for the NWA. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And then um on the total discipline, I think everything is great. I'm not being critical of anything. I
just would like to see total numbers. So total number of kids in seol and then how that compares to the number of discipline. Um >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Yep. So there were 455 kids
>> and so there was 100 that we or 150 that were disciplined, right? >> There were 79 suspensions. >> I'm sorry. Chronic absences. >> Chronic absences. >> Yes. >> Correct. >> Okay. Okay. So, out of 400, 150 had chronic absences, but it was down from last year.
>> Correct. Yeah. And then on the other end, 55 of them had fantastic attendance. >> Fantastic meaning like less than 10%. So, less than 10% of the school year. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Um and then
so on the um discipline side, the same thing, just the total number. So just if you can put it in the graph so we could share that data for upcoming initiatives. >> Okay. >> To the residents of of uh Mount Clemets.
>> That would be good. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Um for like uh chronic absences as well as discipline is it number of students or is it number of incidences? So, like can somebody be absent for like 10 days and then 10 days another time and that
count as two for the same student or is it just students with chronic absences? >> Um, so those are students that have it it would be so it's likeund it was 55 students who had less than 10% of the school year absences. So those absences
are accumulative depending on so they're based upon the percentage of the school year. Does that make sense? >> Point is is that students with dis incidents >> incidents. So, so like one student could have like five, six, seven incidents and correct drive that up. >> Correct. Yeah.
>> So, the discipline is the number of instances, not the number of children. >> Correct. >> Okay. Okay. >> Can you just notate that in the graphs? >> Yes. >> Just providing more information so that it can be
>> shared, >> right? Yeah. And if people see it, they understand that it's not children, that it's just instances, >> right? Yes. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> So, uh, just really quick, um, to while you're here, I was going to say this at
the end, but I don't want, uh, the seminal staff or any of the staffs to stay tonight as I'm sure you would like to get your summer started and do something else. But uh we appreciate all of you the hard work the GSRP ECSC simol the the all the research
talks about the importance of the foundation and it's clearly being established we focus on when we say the whole child when you you may see these as pictures or going to the science center those things are experiencing they're huge in the development of our kids socially academically um we talk
about developing the the the mind and body and the spirit of our kids and and through those activities and the things that you do that are outside of ABC's one 123s, they're just as important. So, um those experiences help shape lives as well. We appreciate all of you and all
that you've done at uh at setting those that foundation. I I got excited looking at this data for what's coming to middle school and our future as they metriculate u to our secondary complex. So, thank you all for for your dedication, commitment, good work um and
onward and upward we'll continue to go. So, thank you. >> I have the uh Miss Kahome um don't ask me any questions because I might not have the answers on this one, but um I have the pleasure to present our secondary um
data. Our principal couldn't be here today, so I'll do the best I can. Um Miss L, can you go to the next slide? We'll start with we as you know everything we always do is built around our strategic plan. Our
purpose is right there. So um it is important for us as we take on initiatives as we take on whatever we're doing the our our district leaders know that this is our foundation is it does it fit into who we say we are and what we're going to do in our strategic plan. If that is no then we have to do
something different. So we led with that um enrollment. Next slide you can see uh the middle school enrollment 23 24 school year we had 142 last year 151 and then this year
170 middle school students. Next slide. High school enrollment. We started off in 23 24 with 227. Um we last year we had 242 and this year 248.
NWA data. So we don't have uh growth data here which is is equally as important as Mrs. McNilly uh communicated is we need the growth in order to close our gaps because we have
students that come to us with gaps or maybe some deficiencies. The growth is just as important because we really want to look at kids that are growing um double time, right? We need kids to grow at least a year and a half to catch up, right? Um and so uh that growth data is
just as important as the proficiency. But here uh they've presented the proficiency data for fall math. You can look at by grade level. You see it's self-explanatory there. The lighter bar is for spring 2025, last year's uh data versus this year's spring data. So
you'll see the number of students that were proficient um uh on the the on our NWA. And so self-explanatory. Yep. You're looking at now. Go back to that miss for a second. That last slide that was math. All right. Go ahead.
And then here we have reading. So in the spring 20 21 of our students, sixth grade and uh of 25 spring of 26 or 38 and so on. So we have some growth in in all areas um in different grade levels
uh indicated there. So, good work for our secondary staff, our our middle school, high school reading. Again, you see the bar graphs from last year, percentage number of students uh versus this year. And you see our secondary um 9th and
10th grade has some increase significant increases. And 11th grade and 12th grade are areas that we're continuous continuing to focus on and um and we'll continue to do that. uh fall math,
spring, self-explanatory. We see some growth in ninth grade. We had 33 of our students proficient. And uh in this year's spring uh assessment window, we had 71. 10th grade
42 to 33. 11th grade 37 to 47. And uh 12th grade 37 to 27. attendance data. It's kind of uh a little difficult to interpret, but um looking at chronic
absenteeism the same way we look at it across the district. Um and it's tiered the number of students and it's it's self-explanatory there. Tier one, two, and three. Um what they indicate at risk, satisfactory or moderate, severe chronic absenteeism. Um number of
students, 96. So 34% of our students were um in in the high school were at tier three which was severe chronic absence severe chronic absences missing 20% or more. Um tier 2 moderate chronic
absences we had 88 students and tier 1B was 37 and tier 1A was 11. What's important is the percentage and and I want everybody to know this the percentages a lot of times in in our
work we use percentages but um what I've asked the principles to do is make sure we put the raw real numbers too because I I sometimes it gets lost in humans right we we see percentages and we I need I need to make sure that uh we all know how many people we're talking about
right percentages can mean anything but we these are actual people so it's always important to present percentage as well as Uh the number all right middle school attendance the same. Go back
you can see the number of students uh severe with severe chronic absences 21% moderate 32% um at risk and satisfactory. So we have 40 um 40 students 23% of our
students sat with satisfactory missing less than 5% uh of day. So that is not too bad. I apologize because we don't have the comparison from last year right there but we can we'll get that and get that
presented. Discipline culture and climate. Um this is the disciplinary suspensions quarter 1 uh quarter first this quarter for 2023 24 there were 29 I mean 79 this quarter there were uh last year there were 69
and this quarter this year there were 28 suspensions in a high school and then you can see suspensions per year uh for the high school and you can see a significant uh decrease in suspensions from two years
ago. 24 with 79 and 26 with 42. And that's for high school. Next, middle school. We got to do some work in middle school. We had a a really interesting group this year. And uh our middle school
suspension numbers uh have gone the other opposite way, right? As you can see, we would like for them to go down. Um but they have gone up. Um and and we're working to do better with empowering and developing the skills of our our teachers uh and also empowering
and developing our students um to manage themselves and and working on those behaviors. All right. Uh some of the principal celebrations filled the following teacher vacancies even though some of them are not currently filled. uh where we had two at
one point we had two teachers certified teachers for social studies certified middle school math teacher certified art teacher um dropout prevention program I know that's been something that was important for us you know myself I work directly a lot of times with uh Miss
Terry our counselor as well as our principal on ensuring that u we are are catching our kids and making sure that was something that was big for you all when I first got here was making sure we have a plan and being proactive with monitoring ing uh students that are
potential uh potentially um at risk for dropping out. And so we've been really intentional with meeting with them throughout the year um putting plans in place and making sure that they uh are finishing. So that's in place. Academic accountability coach has been working, Mr. Rush has been working um as academic
abil accountability coach to monitor students and that are below 2.0. Um mandatory study table for all student athletes under a 2.5 GPA. um walkth through and what we always we we talk about often in our cabinet meeting what
gets uh monitored gets gets done and so our mccrail power walkthrough data our principles had goals to hit a certain number of walkthroughs um where they go in through and they observe and give feedback to teachers throughout the year so that was has been implemented this year um and conscious discipline
training for all the staff in the district have been trained in conscious discipline and that's the social emotional seal program that we use to to really empower our students and staff and give them strategies um to to manage their their emotions basically and and understand the states of the brain.
Next, all right, that's the end for the secondary complex. I can also want to add uh another highlight for the secondary complex and I think Miss Terry, correct me if I'm wrong. these the numbers are are better than they have been in the past, but we have
uh six early college students uh that participated in early college this year and six dual enrollment students that participated this year. So that's important for us to increase that number. >> Did I forget anything? Secondary. Okay, thank you.
>> Uh yep. Next up for actually let me just say my piece too for secondary staff. Thank you while you're here. We appreciate you. We appreciate the dedication of hard work. We know it's not easy. Um as I as I say all the time
and it's never easy. We just get better at doing hard but your commitment um is impacting this community and impacting our kids. So we appreciate you and your commitment and um and thank you. Next up, it's kind of y
Next up is kind of secondary, but uh central office, but this ties in. I asked Mr. Pitman, our athletic coordinator and our uh pupil accounting um director to present on athletics and just give an update on our athletics for for this year. >> So, Mr. Pip.
>> All right. Thank you. Um real quick, I just want to say thank you to all our staff, our teachers, everyone. I know it's kind of hard when you get student athletes after a Sunday or a Friday game. Um you deal with them in class, but we appreciate you giving them the empathy, but not the sympathy making them do the work. So, we appreciate all
of you. Um just real quick about our athletics. Um we always start with team GPA. Um as you see from 2024 to 25 to 25 to 26, our boys basketball decreased this year from 3.2 to 2.9. Um our girls
basketball increased this year from 2.7 to 3.0. Our girls volleyball team went from 3.8 GPA to 3.6. Our football team went jumped from 2.4 to 3.1. Our track and field jumped from a 2.7 to a 3.3. Our wrestling program jumped from a 2.3
to a 2.9. Our cheer program went from a 2.9 to 2.8. And our cross country went from a 3.6 to a 3.4. Um, I put our team records on the side of our presentation right here. um just showing that you know it wasn't a very successful season in all sports but we are growing in the
classroom. That was my biggest focus when we came in to make sure we had student athletes and you'll see in the next side what I mean by student athletes. Um I do want to point out this year for wrestling. This is our second year actually having wrestling and to have two state qualifiers in wrestling this year was huge for us. One of our
students um I can't say what anything that was going but it was a big growth for him. Um and I'm pretty sure you'll see the celebrations on our online. And um Miss Wallace is also doing a presentation for him for Mount Clemens giving both of the young men plat. So
that's a big deal for it. All right. Okay. Just real quick, just to update on our new hires and upcoming events that we have. Um we did hire a new football coach this year, Mr. Marlin Neighbors. Um he couldn't be with us today. Um he has three younger students and one on
the way. So, he was on dad duty tonight, but he's also going to make his way to meet all our board members and everyone. We were actually able to hire Marcus Nem this year. Um, one thing about Marcus, we've never had a coach just to come in and specialize in just one event. Um, we
were actually able to bring in someone to come in and just coach hurdles this year and as we see, we had a state qualifier in hurdles this year. Um, in the 300 hurdles and in the 100 meter hurdles. So, that was big just to have someone come in, spend his time, and just focus on one event. That was big for us. Um, and next school year
upcoming events. Um, we've been selected by the state. I know a lot of you know that we hosted our regional track meet this year for the state. That was huge for us. But this year, they actually picked us to host the girls volleyball districts and regionals, girls basketball districts, and our boys basketball districts this year. So,
we're going to be pretty busy in from fall to winter hosting these state meets. And that's just not for us. That's for our whole state and our whole district. So, that's something big. It won't just be us woring another school. It will be six to seven schools here competing for those districts and regionals. So, we get to put us on the
map a little bit more. Um, we have two graduates of our top five were student athletes. Our number one was Lema Johnson Baker. She was a track and field qualifier this year. Uh, she also was one of our top volleyball players this year. She was our number one student athlete and she was our number one
student in the school, our number one graduate this year. Uh Christopher Walker was our number two this year, but he was a state qualifier in the 100 meter dash and he was a member of our 4x4 team that made it to the state meet. So that was pretty good to have our number one and number two student. There's also student athletes. So let's
do it. >> Well, thank you guys for everything. >> Yep. Thank you, Mr. Pitman. And so why while Mr. Pitman is up there, those of you that know Mr. Pitman, um he's a very uh humble when it comes to those things. But I I want to say this for the record. When I first got here, I don't I don't
we may have had one or two official sports. I don't know how many official teams we actually had. And one of the things I challenged Mr. Pitman with when he came in as our athletic coordinator was getting our kids more opportunities um athletically. And I mean, he's been I got to slow him down now, right? We got
things planned for elementary. Um I mean, but we have opportunities for our for all of our students, our girls, our boys. said I always do we always p them together we have to make sure we have things for the girls too for everybody we can't just have just boy things and so we had a girl a girls flag football team I think one of one of the only ones
in our county um not that many but um but to our coaches >> who I mean you see out here now when you came to this meeting that are committed working over and beyond to Mr. Pitman to the team. When you get selected to host these district and regional things, it's from the MHSAA. It's kind of like the
state level. That's everybody can't do that, right? You have to run a quality program. You have to have some character. You have to have a uh reputation that precedes you. And so, um, Mr. Pitman and athletic department, all of our coaches that are committed, dedicated are really, um, putting us in
that light with the with the state at the state level. And so, that's why they're choosing us. And so we appreciate you and your dedication and all your hard work. And we're always looking for more coaches. >> Always. >> Always. So see Mr. Pippen if you're interested. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Last but not least,
>> I I have uh the pleasure of introducing our uh special populations coordinator um to give an update. I asked Miss Magnamer to give us an update. So I'll turn it over to her. and in her first year of being la her the end of her very first year of being with us. So, Miss
Magnamera. >> All right. Thank you. Good evening everybody. Um before I get into all my slides and you'll have a copy in front of you guys, um I just wanted to say thank you to everyone here tonight and also just all district employees um for
pouring into our students every day um our students with special needs. So special education is not a place. It's a continuum of services and we meet the child where we're at. So just because you don't have that special education certification on your little teacher
certificate doesn't mean you aren't pouring into our kids every day. So I truly appreciate each and every one of you um and all the hard work that you put forth for our children. Okay. So, I just wanted to start off by going over some numbers with you guys.
Um, I pulled the stuff that I presented in December versus June. So, this was kind of a midyear check-in versus the end of the year. Um, we've seen an increase in our special education numbers for ECSC and GSRP from December
to June, which that's pretty typical. For those of you that don't know, once a child turns three years old, they transition from the MISD early on program into their local school district. So that's very typical to see an influx in numbers just as students
get older throughout the school year. Um we did also see an increase in numbers at Seinal. We saw a decrease at the middle school and an increase at the high school and as well as an increase at St. Mary's. Um, and we also on the
bottom have numbers of our total special education count as well as students receiving special education programming, which would either be pullout support or a fully self-contained classroom. And we also see speech services and social work
services. Um, I think it's important to note that social work had quite a big increase of students. We know our students come with a lot of social, emotional, and behavioral needs. So, when we look at special education, that's not just academics. Um, and
making sure they're performing in reading, writing, math, and all of that good stuff. We also want to make sure we address those behavioral concerns as well. I think it's also important for us to note, we know it's super important to
identify students who might have a disability and provide them those services, but it's also important that we're constantly monitoring students and their progress. So during the 2025 2026 school year, we had five students that
exited special education. they no longer qualified as having a disability in the school setting, which again, this is just as important because we don't want to have students um removed from the general education setting if they no
longer need that support. So, I think that's important to look at as well. Um this year we had 18 students that had an initial evaluation, which means they did not qualify for special education previously to this school year. Um and
if you look historically the number has come down quite a bit and not just in Mount Clemens but everywhere in the past especially after COVID at first we saw a lot of overidentification of students for special education um
behavior is not always a disability. Deficits are not always a disability. So really making sure that we implement interventions in the general education setting and not overqualifying students is something that we've really worked hard on this year.
So for this school year um our staff has worked very hard but these are a few things I think it's important to acknowledge that we worked on um timely IEPs and evaluations. We worked very hard on um just ensuring the importance
of deadlines. We tried to hold IEPs two weeks ahead of compliance. Just building good habits and staying ahead. Um and although it was a little stressful at the end of the year, we held all of our IEPs that were due in September before the end of the school year. So, I think
the stress will be worth it and we will thank ourselves when we get back to school. Um, something else we focused heavily on was visuals and AAC. Um, on this slide you see a picture of a coreboard which some of our students utilize to support their verbal
communication. If they're not necessarily using their words yet, they might point to symbols or have a device that generates those words for them. And for other students, that can support their comprehension as well, accompanying that with text. and really
focusing on honoring all modes of communication has been a big focus for us as well. We've really tightened up on our manifestation determination reviews um and what that kind of looks like, making sure all of our paperwork um is
in compliance and we're doing what is best for our students. Um, in MDRs, that is something when a student with an IEP has more than 10 days of removal in a school year, the IEP team comes together and they determine if it's a manifestation of their disability or
not. And we provide services for those students that go over the 10 days to make up for those removals. Um, some other points of pride that I would like to acknowledge. Um, we added a full-time social worker at our secondary complex as well as a part-time
social worker as we acknowledge that our students do have a lot of those social, emotional, and behavioral needs. Um, they've both been a great asset to our schools and our students. Um, I know we've talked about this before, but can't help but talk about it again. Mrs.
O'Neal won um our prestigious make a difference award from the MISD. Um something else that we worked on this year over with our early childhood special education program as well as the staff at Seinal, we worked on creating a transition guide for our students
exiting the early childhood special education program and transitioning into kindergarten. We met as a team. We filled out rubrics for all of the students and we aligned their placements for the following school year to keep them in their least restrictive environment and set them up for success
for the following year. So that was a huge collaborative effort and I appreciate everybody that was a part of that. Um something else this year we've done a lot of collaborating with the ISD. We've had consultants come out to put on professional developments as well
as some student centered coaching which has been a great experience. Um something that I'm just super proud of and grateful for is just all of the staff's um growth and openness to feedback. I know you guys probably dread
getting tinet messages from me that are like 20 paragraphs long about how we can improve our paperwork and things of that nature, but they always um improve it with a smile and continue to get better and better doing what they do every day.
So, I I really appreciate it and I see you guys and I appreciate you. Um, so these are just a few things. We've had a lot of growth this year, but the grind never stops. So looking at next school year, um some things that we
kind of want to focus on in our department is data collection. Um why we do it, how we do it, and what we do with that data. Um it's not just for fun or for graphs and pretty aesthetic. It's what are we going to do with it to drive our instruction and see better outcomes
for students. Um, something else I think that's very important is navigating crucial conversations and that might be with other staff members or parents. A lot of times when we see initial eligibilities for families that can be kind of a delicate conversation. So just
going over strategies of how to present that to people and support families I think is super important for us. Another thing is case management kind of dividing and conquering. Um specific eligibility categories will
have specific service providers being in charge of the meetings just so not one person feels like they need to take it all on themselves. Um and finally inclusion and least restrictive environment. Um just continuing to find opportunities for our students with
disabilities to be included with their general education peers. So, those are just a few of many things. >> So, thank you guys. Does anyone have any questions while I'm still up here? >> No. Thank you. >> No, thank you.
>> Thanks. >> So, I I just want to say this for uh for Miss Magnamera. I am um we we had a a central office uh celebration the other day and I said this to a few people and and to her but she and and she knows
this but uh Miss Magame has been like uh if this was if if I was a a GM of a team or head coach is like my number one draft pick like our needs and our for our special uh our special education students were so great and so
underserved um that and what she's done in a here getting here and making sure our kids are served and making sure that she's a champion and we are champions for all kids is is unmatched. And so it feels
good knowing that uh there's a a a partner that is out here in our buildings with teachers having those critical tough conversations pushing the narrative and making sure that all kids are served. And so I'm very proud of the work you have done in her first time in
this role. um she has she didn't talk about some of the compliance issues that we had that she has gotten us out of and those are celebrations uh that she she hasn't mentioned but we appreciate you and what you're doing for our kids and our community and uh and I know our families uh appreciate you. So thanks
Miss Magnary Robin. Did you did you have did you want something? Did you have Okay. He's like me. >> No. >> Moving on to action items. Under action items, we have item
A under consent agenda, we have AA A1, appro May 20th, 2026, regular meeting. And then AA2, June 10th, 2026, committee of the whole work session. 8B approval of the bills for payment. 8B1 made bills
for payment or I will enterain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> So move for the consent agenda. >> Move by Miss Hammond. >> Support. >> Support by Miss Walker. Any questions or comments on a motion to
approve the consent agenda as presented? Hearing none, please call the role. >> Miss Hammond, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahoun, >> yes. >> Dr. McFaten. >> Yes. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker,
>> yes. Motion passes. Move on to item nine, business committee. Our business committee 9A 225 to 2026 final budget resolution. A1 the general fund.
9 A2 food service. 9 A3 student activity 9A4 the debt fund 9 A5 capital improvement I'll entertain a
motion to approve the 2025 to 2026 final budget resolutions as presented >> I move that we approve the 2025 2026 final budget resolutions as presented which includes the general fund food
service, student activities, debt service, and capital improvement. >> I second that. >> Moved by Mr. Rickman, supported by Miss Kahoun. Any further questions or comments on the motion on the floor to approve the >> Yes. >> Go ahead, Mr. Rick.
>> The uh finance committee met uh with the financial team on this matter. We reviewed uh all of the entries uh for the 2526 uh school year and we generated 17.1
million. We had a fund balance of 7.8 8 million from the 20 June 30th of 2025 which gave us a total available to appropriate of 20 24,997,000.
There was expenditures of 17,719 which gave us a fund balance of 7,277. Any further board comments? Any questions? Any know, please call the roll. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahoun,
>> yes. >> Miss Hammond, >> yes. >> Dr. McFaten, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker, >> yes. Motion passes. Move on to item 9B. is a 2026 to 2027 proposed budget
resolutions for 9B1 general fund, 9B2 food service, 9B3 student activity, 9B4 the debt service, and 9B5 capital improvement. I'll entertain a motion to approve the 2026 to 2027 proposed budget budget
resolutions. I move that we approve the 2026 2027 proposed budget with a including the general fund, the food service, student activities, the debt service and capital
improvement with a total proposed revenue generation of $16.5 million, a estimated fund balance of June June 30, 2026 of 7,888,000
which makes a total available to appropriate of $24,48. the total expenditures of 20,222,017 with an estimated fund balance of June 30, 2027 of $4,186,418.
of that, excuse me, um, expenditures. $2.5 million of that expenditures is a carryover uh from LA from the 2025 26 budget uh for the capital improvement
uh which will be it shows the uh the uh the increased uh uh expenditures over uh revenue uh for the projected budget. And the projected budget is based on 810
uh students enrolling in school. The uh finance committee uh reviewed and met uh on this uh proposed budget uh and we recommend adopting the budget as presented.
>> Any second? >> I thought you were just going to do a motion to approve it and then talk about it. >> I did. He did. I did, didn't I? >> No. >> No, you did a motion and then you talked about it. >> She didn't second. >> We didn't. Nobody seconded it. But it's
all good. It's all good. We second. >> I bet you second. >> You did. >> Hey, that's not my fault. >> I'm getting ready as you're as you're stopping to talk. I'm like, >> any further questions or comments on the
motion to approve the proposed budget budget resolutions for 2026 to 2027? Henderson. None. Please call the RO. >> Who second it? >> I did. >> Mr. >> Mr. Rickman.
>> Yes. >> Mrs. Cahoun. >> Yes. >> Ms. Hammond. >> Yes. >> Dr. McFaten. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shepard? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walker? >> Yes. >> Mr. Walker? >> Yes. Motion passes. Move on to item 9 C. Contract renewal/extensions
under 9C1. Variety Food Service. I'll entertain a motion to approve as presented. >> Moved by Miss Kahoon. >> I move that we >> recognize. >> Go ahead. >> Moved by Mr. Richmond, second by Miss We
approve the uh contract renewal extension to variety food service as presented. >> Any questions or comments on the motion to approve? We also met on that and uh this is a
second uh renewal uh for variety food when we uh entered into I think it was a five-year agreement was one one year with four uh rollover years if if that's the the desire of the district as you
all know the state is heavily involved uh in food service contracts heavily involved and they approved the uh excuse me, the presentation of a variety food service. So, we're we're pleased and
recommending that we give the second extension. >> So, just so I'm clear, it's the second of four possible >> correct >> extensions. >> Yes. >> Any further questions or comments on the motion forward to approve >> hearing none, please call the role.
>> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahoun, >> yes. Miss Hammond, >> yes. >> Dr. McFaten, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker, >> yes. Motion passes. Move on to item 9D,
2026, refunding bond resolution. I will entertain a motion to approve. >> So move. >> Moved by Miss Hammond. >> Support. >> Support by Miss Walker. Any questions or comments on the motion
on the forward to approve the 2026 refunding bond resolution? >> We have comments. Um the board talked about this uh at our at our work session uh last week and just for the FYI to the community. Uh we're refunding we're
putting u proposal resolution to refund the bonds that were from 2017. Um it will be no change uh to the taxpayers. Uh but it's a position we're in position where we can borrow money at
a lower interest rate that will allow us to pay off the bond uh earlier and we we pay less interest uh on on the loan. So again, it's no no changes uh current
changes to the taxpayers. Any further questions or comments on item 9D? Hearing see none, please call the row. >> Miss Hammond, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahoun, >> yes. >> Dr. McFaten,
>> yes. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker, >> yes. Motion passes. Move on to item 10, human resources. Under item 10 A, new hire 10A1, secondary principal. Mr.
Superintendent, wait motion. I mean, I would entertain a motion to approve the new hire of secondary principal. >> You can let him make a recommendation. >> Make recommendation. >> Yeah. You want to make recommend
like a deer in headlights. >> Yeah. I caught her going through some files. The district is is recommended we're recommending the uh the hire and um placement of our Mr. Shelby Johnson as
our secondary uh principal. Um if I if I may, I want to read a little bit about Mr. Johnson. Um Mr. Johnson brings more than 40 years of educational experience to his role as middle and high school principal at Mount Clemens Community Schools. A veteran educator and
administrator, Johnson began his career in 1985 as he served as teacher, instructional coach, principal, and school improvement leader throughout Michigan. known for leading academic and organizational growth. He helped increase student participation in NWA
assessments from 20 from 215 students to 223 uh to 57 in 2023 uh students in 2025 representing 136% increase while also improving student achievement, school culture, and family
engagement. A native of Inkster and a graduate of Taylor Center High School, Johnson earned his degree from the University of Michigan where he has a four-year where he was a four-year letter winner, Big 10 champion, all-American, and team captain in track and field. He also uh holds an advance
advanced degrees in educational leadership from Wayne State University and is completing his doctoral studies through the University of Michigan Flint. In addition to his work in education in education, Johnson serves as Wayne, a Wayne County Sheriff, reserve deputy, Michigan youth chair for
USA track and field and a track and field coach at Divine Child High School. He is committed to building a culture of excellence, leadership, accountability, and opportunity for all students in Mount Clemens. And he's sitting back there hiding. Oh, he's moved up.
>> Mr. Shelby Johnson. >> Are you going to meet me? He's ready when you need him. >> Right here. There he is. Um so that is our um our recommendation to to hire M. Johnson and and once you vote we maybe if he wants to say a word or two. >> Heard the recommend.
>> I move that we approve the hiring of secondary principal Mr. Johnson as presented. >> Moved by Mr. Rickman. >> Support by Miss Hammond. Any questions or comments on the motion on the forward to approve the hiring of
secondary principal Mr. Johnson? Hearing now, please call the role. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. >> Miss Hammond, >> yes. >> Mrs. Kahon, >> yes. >> Dr. McFaten, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker,
>> yes. Motion passes. >> Congratulations, Mr. Johnson. Welcome, Mr. D. Come on up. Good evening. Thank you. Thank you very much. Very much. Um I'm humbled and I'm honored to serve the community. Um I'm
anxious. I'm excited. Uh I I didn't know you going to read my bio. So I'm I'm really humbled at that. But um I look I'm looking forward to doing a lot of things here to be honest with you. Yesterday I was out on the on the track and the football field moving some
stuff around. I'm a busy person. So, um but nonetheless, I I'm make time to to hopefully make the impact that uh that the community can be proud of and hopefully um I can live up to your standards. Hopefully, I I believe I can,
but if not, just let me know. >> Just let me know. All right. Thank you. >> Welcome back. >> Welcome aboard. >> Moving on to item 11. curriculum 11A heerty I'll enterain a motion to approve
>> purchase of heerty >> so moved >> moved by miss hammer second >> second by miss kah kahung any questions or comments on the motion on the for to approve purchase of heity >> I just want to I just want to make a statement like people that are here that
have not been to previous meetings they see us just rolling right through these things We um re we went through a lot of this in our workshop which was last Wednesday. So we do a meeting a week before the regular meeting and that's where we discuss a lot of this. So if you see us going through it really quick
um I would just suggest you come out to our workshop where we discuss a lot of the nuts and bolts behind all of these things. So that's all. Thank you. >> Thank you for that. Miss Cahoun. Any further questions or comments? Motion forward to approve.
Hearing say none, please call the role. >> Miss Hammond, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahoun, >> yes. >> Dr. McFaten, >> yes. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker, >> yes. Motion passes.
>> Moving on to information items. Under item 12, superintendent's comments. Mr. Robert giving me the mic again. All right. My job tonight. >> All right. Um, just a few last things. I I I want to really acknowledge and and and
uh give a shout out and make sure that all of our district staff uh know how how much they are appreciated. Um, when I started here three years ago, um, I I was excited. I didn't really know what to expect. I just knew it was going to be good work and hard work. And uh we
have worked as a district really hard hard um to to have the impact that we're having. It may not always show up in uh the state numbers, but it shows up because you show up every day in our
kids' lives. You make a difference. I don't care what your role is here. If you're a secretary, food service, you make a difference. You have an impact on our kids whether you know it or not. Sometimes it's just a high. Sometimes this is just a I see you. Um and the
student achievement will that that's coming too and it's growing and um that will that will um happen organically. But if we continue to love our kids, we continue to have high expectations, challenge them, um not accept no, not
not tell them what they can't do, we'll continue to to grow this community. I believe that the same thing I believe when I first took this job that we can change this community from the inside out. And that's what we're doing here. And it's because of the people that are in this room, that are in this district, that come here every day, stay late,
leave early, come back, sleep in the in the in their classrooms. Um it's because of you. So I appreciate all of you. We have to uh while we have a lot of success, we have a lot of work to do, right? is nowhere near finished. But we it it is important in our work that we
take the time to stop and and um and celebrate and acknowledge the growth because you can get burned out in this work very easily. As most of us know, this is not for the weak. Uh everybody can't do this. It's easy to judge and um
and point fingers and and say what you could do and what should be happening when you don't sit in front of these kids every day um that come to us. And so I appreciate every staff member. A big shout out. I wouldn't be possible. Uh my success as a superintendent
wouldn't be possible without this board support. Um we we have tough conversations. You all don't get to see those all the time because when we come here, we're a united front and that's what it should be and that's what makes our district function. Um like any other family, we fight in the house, but when
we go out in public, uh we're together. And that fight is always though, I say that jokingly, but that fight is always for the best of this district and kids. It is always that. So when I say fight, I'm not talking about resistance. I'm talking about challenge and and and comfort and challenging comfort. And
that is what we need to continue to do as a district. So I appreciate this board, my central office staff. When I say my, I'm saying my. You guys know I'm against saying my and I. But the people that that that make this thing go are the people that you see here and you sometimes you don't
see. But our central office staff, we have a team, I'm telling you, that is is unmatched. We have people that and and the reason it's unmatched is because the people care about kids. They care about people and they are committed to doing whatever it takes to see this. When I
first got here, central office staff that are still here that were here when I first got here, they were all leaving. I said, "Just give me give me a couple of months. Please just wait." Like, you know, I don't even know who's on first yet. And they stayed and they're still here three years later. So, I appreciate you. I am who I am as a superintendent
because of you. Um, you make my job easy. I love coming here every day just like I did when you first called me for this opportunity, and I'm grateful to be here for another five years at least. Um, and and I plan on being here until uh God says I'm not supposed to be here.
So, thank you to to the staff, this district, and this community. I appreciate you. Our parents, our support, Miss Granados, I she she didn't know what a parent president was. I seen her. She was always up here. I said, "I need you to be the parent president. You need to join. We need a parent group." And she has just taken that and and run
and and has run with it, has been a huge advocate for us in the public, with our parents and community. And so, I appreciate you and all of our parents that have just uh trusted us with their kids. If you want to see success, if you want to see the impact we have, I invite you to go to next year, please make it
your business if you don't do anything else, even for our secondary, elementary, I don't care what level you work at or teach at, try to go to other levels, uh, graduations and celebrations, man, if you could have seen our kindergarten graduation, if you wouldn't there, you missed that, you missed it.
If you didn't see our GSRP graduation, you missed it. If you didn't see our ECSC 2 graduation, you missed it. 8th grade, I missed. I had a a family engagement, but I heard that was powerful and packacted. And then our high school, I mean, if you need to
smile, if you want to see if we having if we're having an impact, come to those events. These our families are proud, our kids are proud. We are making a difference. It will show up all uh eventually it will continue to show up academically, but we are making a
difference in lives. We are creating people that are going to impact the world right here at Mount Clemens. So, um I appreciate all of you. I couldn't do it alone. I don't do it alone. And um and I don't take that for granted. Um with that being said,
mark your calendars. Our September 11th is our our next second annual golf outing. Um I know Mr. Slack's mad at me back there because uh Mr. Slack, I'm putting you on a committee. Yeah. So, Mr. Slack uh wants to wants to be at the golf outing, but he's that's the same
day that we have a school and so he's like, "Mr. W, I need you to change that." So, we're going to put you on the committee so you can work it, Mr. Slack. But we just try to coordinate um that with the um all alumni uh weekend that the all alumni event happens every second Friday and that's been going on
for ever. And I'll get ran out of town if we had to go off outing uh on another day. But it is uh it's for our alumni base. they come out. We had over a hundred people there last year. Our first one ever. It was really nice. So, mark your calendars for that. Um,
and I want to just last but not least in case they watch the video cuz I go home and I watch these uh a couple days from now. I want to thank my family for supporting me and um dealing with me and and and the work that I have to do and and and I don't stop doing at home. So, for my family that's watching and we'll watch this because I'll make them watch
it when I watch it later. Um, thank you. I love y'all. That's my comments. Anyone have any questions for the superintendent? Moving on to item 13, board comments.
Start with Mr. Shepard. >> Sure. Um, superintendent, when when did school end? >> When did school end? >> When did it or last? when when >> I'm very surprised this many people showed up uh to a board meeting uh after
school ended. So, um very commendable. Thank you all for >> That's right. >> And um >> if Tina made you come blink twice, it'll happen. >> But uh yeah, just um I love the work
you're doing with this district and um just hope it continues. Uh there's too many individuals to think and I believe we've already done that. So uh those are my comments. >> Thank you, Mr. Shepard. Miss Hman.
>> Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Roer. I also want to thank teaching staff, the subs, um the administration, the volunteers, the parents for another successful school year 2526. we do have room um for growth, for
improvement and as Mrs. Lou said with um GSRP and preschool for all the importance of social emotional having them social emotionally ready for kindergarten to see them move through also helps with the de development of
children and also the um implementation of our curriculum that we have. we should be seeing an improvement with the um development of the children and their success as well. And congratulations, Principal Johnson. Welcome aboard and it's glad to have
you. And that's all I have for tonight. >> Thank you. Moving on to Miss Coahone. >> Um I just wanted to say congrats to the teachers of the year. Congrats to the retirees. Um, I know it'll be boring at
home being retired compared to what you've had to deal with for the last I don't know how many of her years. Uh, Miss Granado, um, I understand from, um, being at a PTA when my son was in school just how important
that position is. Um, so thank you for all you do. Uh, and just keep doing it even though it's hard. Um, it it's noticed. Um, and congrats to Miss O'Neal. You are such a blessing to so many. So, just know that we love you.
Everyone does. And thank you for all you do, the hard work and the dedication. I know you do it cuz you love it and you love the kids, but you're awesome. Um uh I think what the seinal faculty is
doing um to help with the learning attendance and the discipline and being creative. I think every year they just it's it's incredible to me what like new ideas they come up with. It's it's just amazing. So um I think it's great. Keep
going. Um you are making an impact. Um, I did want to say, um, thank you to the faculty, the admin team at Mount Clemens for your hard work, dedication, and making a huge impact. Your unwavering dedication is always always noticed. Um,
Mr. Pitman, um, showcasing the GPA on the, uh, and in that data. to me, I really enjoyed seeing that because that is very crucial for student academics. So, I appreciate everything you're doing
to showcase that regarding the students um and their academics um and athlete athletic um things in Mount Clemens. Um and outstanding um to the faculty for for bringing more of a spotlight to
Mount Clemens with the AC with the uh athletic part. That's awesome. Uh, Mr. Johnson, welcome aboard. Um, hearing your bio, I'm anxious to see what you're going to do.
>> I I am really anxious. So, I'm going to I'm going to be watching and I can't wait to a year from now and see what you've done with Mont Clemens and secondary. Um, and I just want to make sure that
um, my comments when I ask about data and when I make comments when they do quarterly things, it's not because I want to be critical, but understanding being critical sometimes makes you want makes you want to be better. And
understanding that data and learning where that data starts from and ends up helps us grow as a district and helps the kids and the faculty grow as well. So know that comes from a very good place and not a place of like I want to
make the bad stuff known. I want to see good data and I want to see the district grow um and get better all the time, especially when we have future initiatives like bonds and we have to showcase that data to the residents in
Mount Clemens. We we have to answer to those residents. our data in Mount Clemens has to um has to be shown to the residents of Mount Clemens and they're the ones that vote on the bond to pay for things in the school. So data like
that is super important to residents because they want to see how well the district is doing. So that that's why I'm super critical of certain data. So um with that I just want to say have a great summer. Enjoy yourselves. just really enjoy it because it's gonna
go fast. September's gonna be here in no time. So, those are my comments. >> Thank you, Miss Walker. >> Thank you. I just wanted to echo all my fellow board members comments. Thank you to the teachers and the staff. We can't
do this without you. You're it's all about you and about how much you love and care for our kids. So, we can't thank you enough for all you do. There are no words. And to the superintendent, ditto, you're it >> and you're doing a great job >> and I'm proud to be part of this board.
And Mr. Johnson, welcome aboard. It's going to be a wonderful ride. Those are my comments. >> Thank you, Miss Walker. Mr. Rick, thank you. Congratulations to the members of the
graduating class of 2026. outstanding job. I know four years ago when you entered the high school, some of those students were leery uh if they could make it. Even six months ago, there were a few
students that were leerary if they were going to make it and they persevered and they made it to Congrats to the top five. um to be in the top five of a graduating
class, it exhibits their ability to go the extra mile to excel above and beyond what they're expected to do. And I just have the talent that these young people
bring. I'm just excited for their future and what they're going to do in their future. And all this was possible uh partly because of a lot of educators in the Mount Clemus Community School District along with other support from
family, friends, caregivers, etc. But it started in the classroom with with the teaching staff uh here at Mount Clemens uh for for the students to for our professional teaching staff, all our subs. Uh congratulations to the work
that you do every day. Sometime it's unnoticed, but it's never unnoticed. You may not be recognized for it, but the work you do, it is noticed and is needed. Um, Mr. Hannah, wish him well.
28 years of service uh to the district. I wish he was still here. I would say some I would say a whole bunch more things about how I used to thump him in the top of his head when he was a little boy, running around acting crazy like he didn't have no sense. Um, but I won't
say that uh to Miss Brooks uh uh for 33 33 years in the district. I mean that that says a lot uh for her as an individual uh to commit that much time in the district
and she's going to be missed. and Miss Allora uh who wasn't here able to be here this evening. She also had 30 plus years uh in the district and I was here when they came and they stuck
with us through some hard times and those of you know you know we've had some hard times and for someone to stay with us for 30 years, 28 years, 30 plus years, they went through some hard times, some good times, some bad times,
some more hard times and then some good times. So, they're getting out when we're we're in a good space and we thank them for their service and that kind of commitment it's hard to replicate and uh to them I wish them well in their
in their retirement. There are a lot of things in this district that people do that could not be done that we don't know about and they're all volunteers. Um, so many things that go on in the school district are done by people that
are unknown. You never hear their names. You might not see their faces, but the impact that volunteers make on this district is immeasurable. And I know that for a fact. So, Mr. Bado, uh, we thank you. And I've heard
the story uh when you were first approached uh by Superintendent Roer uh to be the PT what's what's her the pack the pack chair >> and I know you are hesitant and you didn't know what what what it was all
about and um here you are a year later uh being appreciated and for the services that you provided and what you made out of that position not knowing anything not knowing what to expect and what the outcomes that you've had uh
from providing those services. We are truly we truly appreciate that. Uh last, Mr. Johnson, welcome to the family. Once a bather, >> always a bather. >> Those are my comments. >> Thank you,
>> Dr. Matter. >> Thank you, sir. >> You try to be very brief. >> Excuse me. sum these up in three words, but uh at the leaders with the topic of our retirees, our teachers of the year, our presentation, the welcome of our new
principal, the students, the graduates, and the three words are simple. Congratulations. Thank you. We're welcome. Those are my words. >> Four. >> Thank you, Dr. McFaten. Told you he was going to be brief. >> He can't count, but you know, he was a
brief. Well, you know that that third word, that fourth word, you I tried to get you off my mouth. So, >> I'd like to say thank you uh to our admin team for bringing the presentation uh today and continuing to do that to be
transparent to not only the public to but to us us as a board um on our different areas for need for improvement and where we are. Congrats to our teachers of the year. I'm not surprised that Miss Marino uh second year in a
row. Uh I'm just say that. Um congrats to our retirees. I got to know Miss Brooks over the years. Um also just going to school with her son at Oakland having that conversation as well. Um and this shows the the amount of years that
these folks have uh been in our district shows the great commitment that they have to not only our students but to their families as well. I think that needs to be noted as well. Um, I'd like to thank this board for continuing to work together to find solutions um and
just continue to do the work that's needed to improve this district. So, Mr. Johnson, welcome to the CLEM. Um, this is going to be a great role. I think we're going to work very well together and continue to improve the secondary complex
and summer school starts next week. So, let's give it up for that. Um, and thank the team and Miss X and Miss O'Neal back there for being the coordinators for summer school. I know they'll be fine with just chilling at home during the
summer time, but they love this being around the students. So, they do this with all the hearts and just looking forward to the next school year um and what we have planned. And I'll just say
to the board, um, email, continue to email me with any ideas. I don't recommend send me ideas for the board retreat. Have any ideas? Uh, just text, call, email. Um, those are my comments. >> Move to adjourn. >> Second.
>> Moved by Mr. Rickman, seconded by Dr. McFaten. >> Please call the role. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. >> Dr. McFaten, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahoo, >> yes. >> Miss Hammond, >> yes. Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker,
>> yes. Mega journeys at 8:27.