Call the meeting of the Mount Clemens Mount Clemens Board of Education to order. Please call the role. >> Mrs. Cahoun >> here. >> Miss Hammond >> here. >> Dr. McFaten >> here. >> Mr. Shepard. Mr. Walker >> here. >> Mrs. Walker. >> Mr. Rickban
>> here. A quorum has been established. Next on the agenda, the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all. >> Next on the agenda are citizens comments. This is the portion of the meeting where you the citizens of Mount Clemens Community Strict can address the board within your questions, comments, concerns. We don't have a roster set up like we normally do today. But if you
want to make comments, questions, concern, we ask you come forward, state your name and address. Uh be mindful that you have three minutes by which to make your inquiries or or concerns. Also, be mindful you may not receive a response to your particular inquiry here this evening. If you would like a
written response to any question that you have, we ask that you fill out the questionnaire sheet and return it to Miss L and you'll receive a written response to your question uh within 72 hours. Last but not least, I ask that you address all questions, comments,
concerns to the chair. The agenda, excuse me, the agenda is now open for citizens comments. Oh, >> you can just come up come up come up forward since we don't have >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Good evening board of um board of education. My name is Zena Ridley and I am coming on behalf of the North Broadway Church of Christ um outreach committee and these are um two of our
committee members, Lori Andrews and Diana Cobbs. And we come on behalf of your athletic department to give a small token of our appreciation, a donation of $500 to your athletic department. Oh, that's great.
We're glad you accept that. >> Yeah, let's get a picture. Thank you. >> Okay. >> And turn around to the camera, you know. >> We on this camera first. >> Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That camera. >> Thank you very much, North.
The agenda is still open for citizens comments. >> All donations step forward. >> Second call. Citizens comments. Last call citizens comments hearing or seeing none. Moving the agenda forward. Next on the agenda item
five, the presentation by Yo and Yo 5A from presentation of the 2024 2025 audit. Mr. Superintendent Good evening board community um and everyone else that's here. You already
said it. You know we have this uh every year part of my responsibility financial fiscal audit and we all know my three years now has been here and guiding us along and so we are excited to to hear the report out and I'm going
turn it over. >> Thank you very much. Uh it's always a pleasure to come to uh Mount Clemens. Great things are happening in this district, that's for sure. So kudos to the board and the administration, the teachers, the parents, the families, everyone else who are putting in the hard work to to to build a great
district. Um I got a I have a very nice pleasure to give you your audit results tonight. So every year we go through and we audit the books and records of the district. Um, that process includes assistance with preparing the financial statements, evaluating the internal
controls, and looking for compliance for federal, state, MDE requirements, and making sure that you're compliant with the state and federal government. At the end of our test work, we give this audit result, this audit opinion, and it says, "In our opinion, the financial statements are free from
material misstatement," which is a really good thing. That's a that's a clean audit opinion, and we want to see that every year. So congratulations >> to Jen for sure. That is an easy paragraph to read those audit results but to get there the audit
procedures we use are pretty complex. Um first we have to understand those internal controls. We test them. We review policies we review procedures. Our team comes out and we perform a risk assessment. We look and say where is the district at risk? Um from a financial
statement or compliance standpoint. We do substantive testing. um analytical procedures. We review your pension and OPED obligations and the data that goes into those. We always implement uh um an element of unpredictability, something to keep you on your toes in the district
to make sure you don't get comfortable with the same questions year-over-year. We are under governmental auditing standards is a little higher level of of assurance. Um and then we do that grant and compliance testing pretty intense. uh the financial statement preparation and
then we finish up with data collection forms, MDE, ISD and other submissions required to stay compliant with the state and federal government. One interesting thing happening this year is is there's a backlog at the federal level. Um right now they're
currently closed and we don't have a compliance supplement or approval from the federal government to issue a single audit report. That's the audit report over those federal funds. So right now we're on hold with that. you and every other district and every other uh federal submitter is on hold. We are in
the process. We will get the audit report complete, separate the two, audit report and single audit report, and we'll be compliant with the state of Michigan and their requirements. Just know that that federal audit won't be issued at the same time as it normally has in the past, but we'll get there in time.
All right, now the fun stuff, the numbers. The pallet sheet is that snapshot in time when we look back to June 30th. Um, a substantial portion of our assets is cash. That gets us through that August or that September state aid l where we don't have state aid. So, we got to make
sure we have some cash in the bank. Uh, we also have due from other governmental units. That's our July and August state aid as a receivable. So, our total assets in the general fund were about 10.5 million. Some of that spoken for uh through accounts payable, money we owe
for bills as well as salaries payable. Uh and then some unearned revenue stuff we haven't uh gone through the process of spending yet. Total liabilities accounted for about 2.6 million in the general fund and that left us left us with a fund
balance of about 7.8 million. Some of that is already earmarked um or assigned by the board when they did their budgeting process in June um for your June approval most recently. Um that was about uh uh 3.2 2 million and that
leaves about $4.5 million unassigned fund balance. Good so far. Where we get our revenue from um obviously the the the local the tax collection and the state aid. Um state aid is the number one driver of that
proposal A remember your your local portion is sub subtracted. So in total it was about uh 13 million 13.3 million that comes from proposal A funding. That's local and state. And then federal government made up about 1.8 million for a total revenue in the general fund of
about 16 million. Our expenditures go out in two categories for the most part. Um in direct instruction and all supporting services. We also spend some money on community services um capital outlay and then some debt service in the general
fund. That was about 14.4 million. and we transferred out of the general fund into a capital project fund for the for the building about 3.4 million on the next page. That reduced our fund balance um net change in fund balance of
about 1.8 million for the year going from 9.7 to 7.8. The next page is the general fund comparison to the the budget. Um so your actual is in that column and your final budget is in the column marked final. Um
the difference between those two are are generally over or under spending in those categoricals. In total we were under budget by about 1.8 million by the end of the year. Any questions on that? Um to get a little visual, there's a pie
chart in there. Um again, that state aid makes up the the the state portion of about 8 million and local portion. So that's about 88 83% of your total revenue of all your revenue comes from proposal A. That's why it's so important we advocate to the state of Michigan to
give us a proper foundation allowance and making sure that we educate kids in the school. Um FTEES times foundation allowance gives us the combination of those two numbers. Federal makes up about 12% and then interd district sources that's generally from the the
the local RISA um is about uh 5%. Another way to look at spending is by object code. So that's salaries and benefits. Salaries and benefits make up about uh um this year it was it was a lower percentage. Um so it was about uh
38% but that included a 20% almost 19% that went out as a transfer of expenditures. Um that went out to the capital project fund to to fund those expansion projects and the buildings. Purchase services made up about 36% or
about 6.2 million during the year. The next one just shows a bar graph over time of the fund balance. Um we've seen some nice um increase in the fund balance creating a healthy fund balance. Um this year we spent some of that down.
That's that uh that decrease substantially due to the the transfer out to the capital project fund. And then the next one is just that is an analysis of the per pupil revenue and per pupil expenses. Uh we typically want to see the revenues obviously higher
than the expenditures in every any given year. um that that would indicate we're um a fiscally responsible district. And so last year of 25 we were about 19.7 million or 19.7 19,700
uh revenue per student and expenditures of about 17,791. So the results of some of that things we didn't identify any material weaknesses which is great. um no significant deficiencies. Our federal program, we did test title one. So we take that
program and we break it down. We test expenditures and salaries and all the other components of that program to make sure you're compliant. The result of that was no material weaknesses, no significant deficiencies, and no non-compliance. So well done on that.
Some other required communication you'll receive is a governance letter. It's the same letter we've provided in the past. It outlines uh your responsibility and our responsibility as part of the audit. Um in there significant risk of material misstatement. These aren't risks
directed toward you or areas we saw. These are risks that we see across all districts. And so those are areas we test as part of our test work. Um that includes management override of controls, making sure that the controls in place are not being overridden by management's decisions. um improper
revenue recognition, making sure revenue is recorded in the proper period. Again, these are just items we test during that that audit process. And then if there's any historical material weaknesses or signific significant deficiencies, we want to target those areas as well to make sure that we're still free from
those issues. So, we were free from those issues. Well done. One comment, those are best practices we have. That's a management comment. Um budget, there was a budget overage in title one, something to maintain. And I know we've already talked about it several times, but just making sure that we're spending our grant dollars in accordance with the
approved uh grant agreement. >> Yep. So, there was an overspending of a category in title one. I can't tell you. I can't remember which one it was. Just one line item in title one was over budget. So, remember how title one works is we go to the state of Michigan and we put an an application in and say this is
how we want to spend our allocation of title one. And we over spent one of those categories by more than 10%. Which is a just hey, let's not do that again. So, yep. Absolutely. >> The reason I say that is because a lot of a lot of people don't understand
in-house staff how grants work and and title works, right? You we have to spend what we said we're going to spend. And so, that's what I was getting. >> And that title one budget is very specific, right? So, if it says you're you're going to buy Chromebooks with Title$1, you can only spend Chromebooks
at a cost of $350, whatever you wrote into that grant application. Um, same thing, you know, any of those items in that grant application are very detailed and that's all you can buy with those funds. You can do amendments, you can change that, but you have to be forward thinking on that and think way in
advance. All right, that was a very quick overview, but a well well done audit. Thank you very much. The finance department Jen did a great job this year. I appreciate you being available and and upfront and providing information timely and accurately. Thank
you. >> Thank you. >> You mentioned a uh single audit report being held up um because of because of feds. Um do you see any issues with the reports that that we're that we're waiting on uh dealing with the title
one? Title one is probably a majority. >> Yeah, great question. So, typically, and I'd like to say typically, right, those uh compliance supplements, just like the federal government tells you how you can spend those dollars, your Title One application says you can
you can spend them this way, our audit testing has to be done according to their rules as well. Typically, year-over-year, those rules don't change a whole lot. Um, so what we've tested was last year's compliance supplement. If there's any changes from last year's
supplement to this year's supplement, we'll have to readress those. But I really don't think there's anything like anything out out of the out of the ballpark that's going to be totally different than what we've already tested. So, we might have to tweak our language on some of that. We may have to test some additional items, but it's
it's routine. So, I'm not concerned about that at all. And again, we're this was being held up at the federal government before the shutdown, and it's still going to be held up after the shutdown. So, we don't know when that'll happen. We're hoping within the next 30 days, but who knows? >> Thank you.
>> Yep. >> Any additional questions, comments, concerns? I just just briefly go back to the uh chart. Uh I should have asked you when when you were presenting it.
It's dealing with the uh local local funds. >> The revenue pie chart revenue. >> Yep. General fund revenue. >> Uh can you you said the local um is a little short of 5.5 million 30%. Can
you briefly just tell us what what the local resources are? >> Yeah, that's going to be tax revenue substantially. So take you back proposal A 25 years ago. It's been a while. >> She don't know anything about >> go back to proposal A and they said
listen this is how we're going to fund schools. We're going to take the number of students the FTEEs and we're going to give you foundation allowance. We're going to multiply those together. Then whatever you collect locally on your 18 mil local property tax, we're going to take that off and we the state will pay
you the differential. So, proposal A says every district get gets the same amount. I'm using air quotes on that for those that can't see me. Um, every district will get the same amount, the same foundation allowance. Um, that's your total revenue you're going to get and that's made up of local and state
revenue. That's the big bulk of that state revenue portion. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. Great questions. Thank you. Any other questions, comments, concerns?
I have to say kudo to Jen and her staff >> for sure >> doing an outstanding job. I applaud that, too. >> That's a team of I was going to say that during my comments, but that's a I really want to
emphasize that, right? That's a that's a team of three people. So, that's that's just Jen, Kelly, and Nikolicia. Um, and >> don't forget about the other hats they wear wear in that process too, right? >> Yeah. Like and and they do multiple things, but to I just think about uh
the first time I sat through this process and the feedback and and what they walked into and have been working to adjust and clean up, for lack of better words, um is and all the other hats that that they wear. Um so we couldn't do it without them. And um we I
always it's a joke within our office about how tight Jen is with us spending money. Um but it's for a reason and I think I need every one of the things that you all uh tasked me with taking over this this role was a sound a
financially sound and responsible budget and and that's been a priority for us. And so I feel confident in having Jen in that position in the team making sure that we're doing what we're supposed to do. Um and but also making sure we're getting our more importantly getting our resources to our kids and uh that's and
that's been our emphasis. So good job. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Have a great evening. >> Thanks. >> Talk to you soon. >> Next on the agenda action items. Item six, consent agenda. 6A, approval of
minutes. 6 A1, the October 8th, 2025 committee of the whole work session. 6 A2, the September 17th, 2025 regular meeting. Consent agenda item B, approval
of bills for payment. B1, September bills for payment. Consent agenda item 6 C, Middle Cities Resolution 6C1, Workers Compensation Group. Consent
agenda item D, pay scale proposal for non-UN members. Consent agenda item 6E, GSRP copier/printer. The chair would entertain a motion
regarding the consent agenda. Sir >> moved by member Cahoun to approve the consent agenda support. >> Second by member Hammond. Are there any questions, comments, concerns regarding the motion on the
floor? And just for the sake of those who may watch this telecast, uh the consent agenda item, we're not we is where you vote on something where you don't discuss it. We discussed all the items uh in the consent agenda in detail and
sometime to nauseium at our board work session which happens the Wednesday prior to our regular board meeting. So it's not that the board doesn't care or the board not paying attention. We've already gone over all these items and we're just reviewing them um and just
coming here and to approve them. So, it's not that, you know, nobody cares what's going on. We we've already discussed these items. Any other questions, comments, concerns? Call the roll, please. >> Mrs. Kahung, >> yes.
>> Miss Hammond, >> yes. >> Dr. McFaten, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mr. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. The motion carries. Action item seven from the business and finance operations 7A yo and yo A1 the 2024 2025
audit report. We've heard the audit. The chair would entertain a motion to receive the audit as presented. >> So moved. >> Moved by member D. Walker. >> Support. >> Second. Member
Shepard. Any questions, comments, concerns regarding the motion on the floor hearing or seeing none, call the roll, please. >> Mr. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Shepard, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahoun, >> yes. >> Miss Hammond, >> yes.
>> Dr. McFaten, >> yes. >> Mr. Rickman, >> yes. Motion carries. Informational item 8, business committee 8A, financial reports. Any questions, comments, concerns regarding the financial reports?
And we did get an answer regarding the question about the pay $38,000 >> 32,000 >> $32,000 to K through the city for KS >> and it's the last payment >> and it's the last >> no more after that. It
>> it should not be. If it is, it's something fishy in the water, right? the part. >> We got to fix our own parking lot now. >> Maybe they'll give us a check. Informational item 8B,
contract listings. Any questions, comments, concerns regarding the contract listings? Hearing or seeing none, takes us to the highlight of the evening, superintendent's comments. It won't be long this time. So I know
what you getting. >> I didn't say no. >> I did the long meeting was yesterday with our cabinet meeting. >> We had an extensive meeting yesterday. I'm still hearing about Westfield. So I'm going to be quick for the sake of
the team. Um just again just we have already acknowledged the finance team with Jen but with Jen's leadership. So just excited about that. uh and appreciative for the work that we do. As Jacob alluded to that team also does a number of roles. Jen is not just the
CFO, she's also human resources, which is a task in itself in any organization. So, um and then Kelly and and Nicolia do multiple things with grants and you name it. So, we're we're small but we're mighty and u very proud of the team. Um
a few updates. There's a lot of things to talk about. We'll save some for our next meeting, the celebrations. But homecoming is this weekend as as you all know. Um Friday is a parade, tailgate, and a football game. This week has been spirit week for the kids, and they've been doing what they do and having a
good time. October 30th is the trunk or treat at Simino and GSRP, right Lou? 30th. Um more information to come for that posted on our website and and on our social media. So we have volunteers and people come out and help support the kids and and have some celebration. A
lot of great things are happening from curriculum to uh student special student services. Uh just getting things in order. Really focused on the instructional side of uh of our program now. Right. We foundation is kind of set now. We're really hitting uh student
achievement really hard. um and and trying to focus on having a u a valuable uh curriculum, making sure our students, all students are getting serviced uh and um their needs met. And so >> Alyssa and Ricardia have been working
diligently and pushing our our district forward with um meeting meeting our kids where they are, but also having high expectations in the classroom. So bringing some norms, instructional norms, datadriven decisions and instruction to our classrooms is our priority right now and our principles
are on board and our staff is on board. And so um really excited about the future direction we're going there with with with their leadership. Um last one I I'll finish with this. You have in front of you the board does uh enrollment. Today was the final day for
uh the count window and uh we're just pleased to say that we have increased enrollment again uh for three years in a row. So I think that's a celebration for everybody. Um for our fall count we are at 100 I mean 860 kids uh total. That doesn't
include um our GSRP students and or students from St. Mary's. And so when we talk about how many kids we service, our GSRP is typically gets up to about 60 to 80 kids right now. I think they're pushing 45 to 50, but by the Lou has packets on her desk now. So when I talk
about how many kids are in our district, you know, it's over 900. I would say it's over 900, but then we al we often talk about from a financial perspective the FTE who we receive funding for. So I shared that with you all too. So, um, and and Miss Kahoon asked me for this
and I think it's a good something to share because I know there's a lot of narratives that float around the, you know, we're proud that out of the 860 kids that we service, 804 of them are from Mount Clemens. Only 6% of those
only 6% of those students uh are school of choice kids come from everywhere else which I've said this before you you know and I'm I'm I'm excited that we're servicing our community but school of choice impacts everybody and people benefit from them too. So um but that I
think it's important for that information to get out those school of choice kids they come with funding as well. Um, and as long as they're not taking up a seat from kids in this district, in this community that taxpayers are paying for, um, the more the marrier, you know. Um, but we
overwhelmingly 94% about we service our community and I don't know that that's clear. So, thanks for asking for that to make sure we lift that. Um, but thank you all um for allowing us to do these things that we're that we're getting done. And I tell I tell this to people all the time from the success we're
having and from the finance department to curriculum uh special populations whatever it is this board and whatever people think this board is is allowing it and uh supporting it. I'm not just allowing it. I'm going to say supporting it. So we appreciate you. This is all of
our success. Without you supporting it we wouldn't have these celebrations that we have and we still got a long way to go. Uh our staff is working tirelessly. are uh we are I think it's safe to say we are also from a human resource perspective as closely to fully fully
staffed that that we have been since I've been here with certified qualified teachers. I think we have a maybe two positions uh a few a couple positions at the elementary and a couple at the secondary. But overwhelming I think overwhelmingly um the number I'll get that we'll get
that exact number of certified teachers is is is is uh is up from when I first got here at least you know for for three years. I just know the impact I'm looking over there Mr. Fringer the impact we just met recently and had a discussion about the the impact that has on the building
right it's is it it makes a difference you know and again those we a lot of our students have a lot of needs and we need really skilled people our kids deserve and need the best and so uh we're seeking and still seeking the best candidates to put in front of
our kids every day and I'm trying to work to create an environment where it's attractive to those highly qualified uh staff members and people that want to work in our district. So, um thank you all for your support. Those are my
comments. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Superintendent. Agenda item nine. Oh, are there any questions of superintendent? I'm sorry. Agenda item nine. Excuse me. Agenda item 10, board comments.
Miss Hammond. >> Thank you. I'm just gonna off the superintendent with the exception of um thanking North Broadway um community outreach for their donation to the athletics department. I appreciate that. >> Yep. Absolutely. >> And that is all
>> something formal coming too. >> Okay. >> That's all of my comments. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Goon. Thank you very muchelcome >> for the generous donation. It's going to be well spent. I'm sure.
And uh anybody that would like to donate, I'm sure we're open to more, right? >> Absolutely. >> Okay. Hello. Um congratulations Jen and your team. you guys work so hard and just walking into
the district uh when I started being a board member and seeing where the financial aspect of the district was and where they are now. Um kudos to you guys. You guys do an amazing job and you
know your job very well and thank you. um seeing that the district is out of a deficit and making money for the last two years because of the faculty, the leadership, the entire team at Mount Clemens
every month. Kudos to you guys for doing such an amazing job, working hard every day, no matter what. No matter what gets thrown at you, there's a lot of negative things out there that still continue to be sad and you guys walk with your heads held high.
Congratulations. Keep doing that. Um, everyone that's going to homecoming, be safe, have fun, enjoy yourselves, make memories, take lots of pictures. Um,
and um, I have one question. Do we have any number or can you get a number of families that are in the district that don't send? just as a curiosity if you if you had that number at all or if you could
get that number um because that is also um a lot of people say that kids don't send their kids or families don't send their kids here and I'd love to to see that and then you know if there if if it's true let's do something to improve it and if it's not true then quit saying
it right like let's have out there right we always talk about numbers and KPI right we need to have those things so I'm looking forward right Next month is the month that they come, the principles come and they talk about what's going on in the district. >> What?
>> Yep. I'm looking forward to that. Um and then um I'm glad to see that the numbers um I'll just say what I wrote here. Um there are narratives that are getting pushed out
um that most of the families send their kids elsewhere. And what we're seeing by the numbers uh the numbers went from 714 in 2023 24 to 770 in 2024 25 and now
804. And these are in district in district kids. That means they live in the district and the families send their kids here. So, um, we need to make sure when we're speaking that we're speaking factually, um, and not, um, and not
spreading, um, information that's incorrect. So, um, keep up the good work. Thank you so much. Those are my comments. >> Thank you, Mr. Walker. >> Um, that's very hard. um in your job
dealing with finances, um to deal with all the rules and red tape of federal and state government as I kind of figure with my current college classes and uh dealing with Gatsby. Um
also kudos to uh the girls volleyball team and their game even though they lost yesterday. It was great to see the seniors for their senior night. Um, I know that they worked hard this season. Um, many of the girls is the first time playing. Um, but they were very tough
during the season and it was great to see. Thank you to the North Broadway Church of Christ for their donation. Um, it's very great to see everyone come together to support the district and um, thank the staff. Uh you
guys do many jobs um that the superintendent asked you to do that we asked you to do as a board and your work doesn't get lost or forgotten. Uh I can say and just uh an FYI for the rest of the board
as the policy chair we have 11 policies that need to be revised or updated. I know that the policy committee will be meeting next month. Um, so just look forward to that. Many of these has to do with the the Michigan
Department of Education or different cases and rulings for the federal government. Uh, so there's not any wide range differences or changes. So just look forward to that and making those updates. And that's all I have.
>> Thank you, Mr. Walker. Mr. Shepard. >> Um, again, uh, thank you. to the North Broadway Church of Christ uh for their donation. Um I see donations as more of investments uh when it comes to um
putting it towards children and um I know that the uh the Bible uh says that uh given it shall be given unto you. So I'm expecting uh I'm expecting that to be more of an investment than a donation. Um,
I think this district was kind of on the way of being um subject to death by a thousand paper cuts and um I I think we're really in the right direction. Uh this audit's great and I think uh that's
a testament of course to the business environment but also that um the turnover has um slowed down quite a bit. Um, so thank you for your leadership, Mr. Superintendent, and uh again, I'm
hoping you're uh recognizing your uh business department as you no doubt do. Uh, also one of those things about the uh the death by a thousand paper cuts. Um,
the uh as we're talking about hiring uh the the website for um open positions is so much better right now. So, I'm hoping uh we're seeing dividends in that. And uh again, kudos to everybody for
that. Um I know I'm thinking of something also business >> is it for the what's it? Okay. Yeah. HR and business office. Uh yeah, wearing a million hats, but um but y'all are pulling it off. Uh the numbers don't
lie. Even if um even if people aren't around to see the culture change, which is evident as well. Uh so again, uh thank you, Mr. Superintendent. And uh those are my comments. >> Thank you, Mr. Shep, Dr. McFaden.
>> Thank you, Mr. president. >> Well, we all going to say thank you to North Broadway Church of Christ. That's that's a given. And um that took me by surprise actually. I mean, it's not not the surprise that North Broadway Church of Christ gave the donation. It's just that the fact is, you know, our athletic
department needed to help and someone stepped up to it. So, I want to say thank you again a thousand times over. Um the biggest conversation at this table is the audit and um I know a couple of my colleagues here on this board we sat through many CFOs, we set through many audits and we also accept
through many um financial crisis but that audit speaks volumes because of the fact that we are actually budgeting this district in a responsible manner as we are budgeting under what we project to receive and give and we are functioning
quite well. So, um, Jen, I'm just saying congratulations, Jen, but you are the the head of the team, but your whole team, I want to say thank you and congratulations, and I'm really saying thank you because you have came in and cleaned up a mess of numbers that was swept under the rug. Uh, I want to say
swept under the rug, but you can always fudge numbers, move numbers around and make them look the way you want them to look. It's like statistics. You can take numbers and say something says this, but really it says something else. So, I want to say thank you for showing an honest perspective of our numbers. I
mean, that's a really big deal. Um, and we know some of our sister districts, I'm not going to say any names, uh, to your right and to your left, they like to p their numbers and it comes out at the end, it's still going to come out. So, thanks a lot.
Homecoming festivities are coming up. I do hope people come out and support. Wear your red and gray. Uh, it's going to be cold. It's going to be wet as always. We need to talk about that date because it always seems to be cold on homecoming for us and raining, but nonetheless, it's still going to be a
great homecoming. Um, my fellow board member, uh, Miss Kahoun, you stated something that was quite evident to be stated, and that's factecking. I have heard sayings that two out of three families send their children to different districts. I don't
know if that's true or not, so I'd like to see the facts on that. I heard that um some other resources spent over $2 million for K Community Center and I know for a fact that for the last more than three years we've been putting $32,000 every year into fixing the
parking lot. So I just want to make sure the facts are out there that the district is supporting the community as community supports the district. We are still moving forward and doing the things we need to do. Um, I also want to thank our our my board members, all my colleagues are on this board because even though we thank our financial team
and our superintendent, I think the fact that we made the decisions to make the right things because we do go back and forth and fight with each other and it's it's a worth it's a fight worth having. But I want to thank all you guys because um without the votes here at this table, nothing's going to happen. I want to
thank all of you. Um, you know, I'm not going to get too long with it cuz I'm already long enough. >> But everything looking great. That's my comments, Mr. President. >> You sure? >> I'm moving slowly cuz you have
>> Well, I'm going sound like a broken record and repeat myself. Um kudos and thank you to the North Broadway Church of Christ specifically and particularly the outreach crew. Uh we definitely appreciate uh the donation which Mr.
Shepard said investment. Uh happy elated to see that we have a clean unqualified you say unqualified what does that mean? That means that's the clean that's the best you can get.
Um, we had no material weaknesses, no significant no significant deficiencies. Uh, I remember three or four years ago, well, when Jen first came, you know, um, we had quite a few material weaknesses and quite a few deficiencies. Uh but
under her leadership and her team um 3 years later we have no material weaknesses, no significance no significant deficiencies. Um, sound like a broken record, but kudo uh to Jen and
her team for for an outstanding uh job and in keeping our books clean and keeping us floating and doing uh what we're here to do, and that's to educate kids and still uh be able to have run a
fiscally sound uh responsible organization. So, uh to superintendent and his team, uh congratulations and kudos. uh and keep up the good work. Also glad to hear the fact that we have
we have very few vacancies in our teaching ranks. Um to begin a year school year off with a lot of subs or permanent subs. Uh it's it's not impossible to gain any student
achievement, but it's a lot lot lot lot lot lot lot more difficult when you have a sub in front of students as opposed to a certified and qualified teacher. So, hats off to the superintendent and Jen,
your human resources team, uh, for beating the bushes and getting us good quality candidates that actually said yes and signed the contract to become of the Mount Clemens, uh, family. So, again, Mr. Superintendent, your team, uh, uh, thank you for, for that
leadership. Um, I'm requesting that the business and finance committee and the personnel curriculum committee meet uh sometime before next month. Uh, that was one of our board goals is that all our standing committees would meet minimally
by monthly uh for updates and um and and trends. As been has been stated, the homecoming game is uh this Friday. Uh we like to see everybody's face in the place uh to cheer cheer the team on the team. Uh we
fight hard. Um we fight hard. We just have not been successful but we've been competitive in most of our competitions. The same thing u piggybacking on Mr. Walker's comment about the girls volleyball team. Um just like the
football team when you come up ninth grade sometime this is your first experience. Um some young ladies their first experience at volleyball. Uh several of the young men, it's their first experience in playing organized contact football. And you come
in as a ninth grader and you're on the varsity team and you're playing against stronger, more talented, more, you know, more practiced um bigger uh teams, seniors, juniors. Uh but our guys are
hanging in there. they they get battered and beat up a little bit and they come limping off the field, but um they still go out there and and give their best effort. So, to Coach Pitman and his coaching staff and to the team, uh kudos, congratulations, and good luck
and hope to see your face uh Friday night at the homecoming game. I believe those are all of my comments. I'm not going to go back. Takes us to agenda item. >> Mr. I just can I say one more thing? >> Hey, we got a Dr. McFaden in there.
>> It's nice. It's It's actually just one thing. I just want to give kudos to Dante. Dante is always giving us the updates um and on like what's going on, like what's what activities are going on and I'm so grateful to you that you do that for us. um just sharing in in a
text and then also online just being able to always just be there to um just speak truth um when things are out there and being said about the district. I get I try to get on as much as I can, but John, he's always there just being able
to be um truthful and calm in his responses even though sometimes I know that he probably is intense on the inside. But um so I just want to give kudos to you sir. >> Thank you Shayla. >> Agenda item 11.
>> Motion to move by member Kahoon. Second by member Walker. Call the roll please. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mr. Walker. >> Yes. >> Miss Hammond. >> Yes. >> Dr. McFaten. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shepard. >> Yes. >> Mr. Rickman. >> I have something else I want to say.
>> Yes. Motion carries. Meetings adjourned at 7:16 in the PM. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.