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now officially 1 minute late I'll take the blame for that um and we will call the meeting to order at 601 Miss Greer please call the rooll I don't have a gabble so I'll use my fist G please call
Clark here Corin here Elvin here Madison Scott here Harryman KS here and Tyler here okay we do have a quarum um and um I did hear from Paige I know not going
to make it she's making her way in from out of town so I know she's not going to be here uh we'll go to item number two approval of the agenda the agenda was circulated uh prior to today's meeting or any questions on the
agenda car none without objection we'll pass a motion to approve the agenda by unanimous consent is there an objection to doing that yeah I needed to just I mean I'm going wait till you do that do you want to add something or no no so you're fine on the agenda when I get to the first now you have to add it to
that's consent agenda yeah okay all right that's why I continue okay so we good on the agenda all right without objection then we'll pass a motion to approve the agenda by unanimous consent seeing no objection the agenda is hereby approved we'll go to item number
three um consent consent agenda may we have two items on the consent agenda this evening um the minutes for February 10th Personnel actions from
today uh a question on those two items yeah I had a question on Personnel item before we pull it off what's what's your question the question is about the contract um for an individual yes okay we'll pull it um so we're going to pull
Personnel actions in its entirety off the agenda off the consent agenda and we'll move to item 7e and we'll have now just one item on the consent agenda which are the minutes uh is there an objection to
passing those by unanimous consent hearing none then we have passed the minutes that are on the consent agenda and we will talk about the Personnel actions under item 7 e action names okay all
good everybody with me all right very good Don okay all right all right uh so we'll go to item number four then presentations 20242 amending budget summary and Dr
Foster that's me congratulations thank you so much good evening everyone did y'all catch that maybe I was the only one that was was I was the only one that was like what in the world is happening with the agenda I don't know
who is you know Angel was like something wrong something is wrong I don't know who this is so um okay well the floor is yours thank you so much um what happened okay good evening again members of the board
superintendent um uh District employees and community members again my name is Dr Foster I am here to come before you to ask for your approval of the amended budget for fiscal year 2425 what I plan to do is do a crosswalk
of our current Revenue projection and expenditures and kind of explain where we are um as a district as it relates to our fund balance so if you recall June of 2024 um the board approved the budget
I'm starting with Revenue Pages 2 and 3 we start with the revenue you approved Revenue in amount of $7,995 57 m953 n50 what Revenue represents is the money that's coming in from the dist to the
district it's coming as various buckets in this first slide is showing you just kind of the buckets are broken down in sections to give you an idea of how um the revenue is kind of categorized the first is our operating mil local funding that funding kind of looks
like taxes Etc State funding State funding are those dollars that come directly from the state into the district one thing I want you all to pay attention to as it relates to the state budget is when we project our budget as you know our budgets are due by June 30th of the of the school year the
state's budgets normally due by October so that's why it's often times that we have to come before you once or twice a year for an amendment Amendment because we're projecting the upcoming year based off what our current expenses are and what we're proposing for the upcoming year a lot of that will change hence my
reason for the uh amending now Amendment now because of how the state funding came in another category that our revenue is is under grants and that's both state and federal and our re a millage and miscellaneous costs those cost those revenues are things that come
in like um someone may rent a facility or someone's getting a badge replacement things of those nature that's what the miscellaneous is so the amend projection from $57 million I'm proposing an amount of 55 m684
590 page three will give you a more clear breakdown of what that Revenue looks like so again I'll pull out some examples I talked about the local Revenue those are property taxes the monies we receive
from childcare Alat key entrance so Investments those are the monies that we bring in from the interest that we get from our bank accounts from commer bank and other local Revenue we also again have our state revenue so what you'll see from the left the far left the 2425
that was the original submission in June the blue is what I'm proposing now and then the last um column is what that difference looks like so when you see the numbers in Brackets that's a credit because we're talking Revenue so where you see a credit is where the increase
is where you see whole dollars is where a decrease is so looking at the state let's look at a few items we have our special at Headley again these budgets from the state are you know they come about in October of the year so we pretty much overcast what
we thought we were getting this is um so for this year instead of the 13 million plus we have 12 million plus a difference of over a million 31a we had noticed that we were going to get a reduction on 31a cost initially last year was a little over 4 million this
year we 3 point put these classes back on a difference of 157,000 going further down where you see that was initially no budget that means that that's new funding for the year so in 24 25 original budget where you see that there's zero that means at the time
we had no funding under that category or under that under that funding source 31aa mental health that's another big variance from what our projection was from last year because last year we got quite a bit this year as you can see that was a significant decline in
funding had nothing to do with our student enrollment nothing to do with Oak Park specifically it's just the funding that the state decided that they decided to cut that amount of funding for the state across the board again when you see the zeros that's those are new grants that we
pulled in this year federal and state grants Michigan Works an increase of funding for this program we serve as the third party flow through last year 2.2 million this year they were awarded 3 3,391
282 in grant funding a difference of 1.1 million title one uh we have a small increase of 89,000 and an IA flow through we were just awarded another 600 plus ,000 for fiscal year 2526 that was
not you know available at the start of of the end of last year so what we want to I want to bring your attention to are going up one two 3 four five rows row 52 let's talk about those rows so again June
30 we were approved for 57 m953 1950 this year today as of this date I'm projecting Revenue in amount of 55,68255 the next column the next row underneath is what we'll talk about next and those are the expenditures from the
projection into where we are now we are our expenditures are higher than our Revenue last year when we proposed the budget we had a decreased funding of 4 129,290 323 and what that figure is saying after
everything spent after we uh spent all this money all the revenue came in at the end of the day this is what we have left which is a very healthy fund balance of approximately 23 24% last year we approved a fund balance of 13,254
171 where we are now with the projection the difference that you see from the fund balance that I propose in June when I when we project we have to project what we think the expenses will be up to June 30 this 14 million that's referenced here is what the Auditors
came back with us with with a fund balance and that's because when the audit gives us our fund balance that's based on the actual cost that actually hit the books June 30 so what this difference of these two amounts to us was a towards the end of the month in June a eate technology program that we
funded that was a little over a million dollar we knew it was coming but by the time June 30th hit it hadn't taken place yet those expenses didn't really hit until after July which is why when audit has their 14 million they didn't show that expense all in all to say in a good
way that the fund balance that we proposing now is $3,265 318 which is an increase of what was approved from last last year this is a very conservative amount it has a ton of of cushion this money includes all
current positions ones that been proposed today last week and with a very high ORS rate to make sure that we have a nice fund nice you know a nice cushion but but careful at the same time this amount to be honest with you if I was to take every employees ORS rate and even
do a average cost of it this fund balance would have been increased by easily 60 70,000 but for right now going to say an increase of 11,147 so for Pages four five and six these are various breakdowns of our expenses to give you an idea of what
those expenses look like you have instruction instructional support Etc these are all the categories you can see a breakdown of where um the um funding decreased or increased here because we talking about expenses where
you see the the parentheses that is a decrease in funding decrease in excuse me decrease in expenses page five breaks it down even better salaries you'll see a decrease in $421,000 again this is projecting all
salaries through today even um salaries and benefits purchase services mean those are services that we purchase um instead of it being an FTE it can be a software program it can be uh someone coming in and bringing a field trip in place that's a service that we purchase
very versus paying a salary obvious supplies and material Capital outlays are those items that at least one cost is 5,000 or more and then our other cost when you look at page 6 and seven an even more granular breakdown towards
the back of your package you'll have a list of function codes that explain what each function code represents so just for example all these function codes 111 through 119 represents like the grade span so 111 would be Elementary 112 would be Middle School 113 High School
118 preschool and 119 Summer School and Etc so this will give you even more granular idea of exactly what every penny has been spent and then last but not least I'm requesting an amended budget as relates
to our bond Capital project funds as you know we are in the process of selling a third series of our bond in the amount of $2,259 th000 um projecting about 250,000 in interest um with a total revenue of
two uh 22 m509 um the expenditures we still have about 3 million left from this the second series we proposing about 7 million spit by June 30th of this particular bond with the bond issuance cost this amount
represents like fees and etc for those that are helping us maneuver and get the bond through with an excess of Revenue of 15, $373,900 projected fund balance for our bond of Series 3 by June 30th we're projecting
about 15,373 100,000 unspent and again these are your function codes that coincide with those items on page six and seven to give you a more granular breakdown in understanding any questions any
questions for members of the board Don um I had a question in regards to I know the governor just um uh had her state aid budget that she she spoke on and a lot of that uh I noticed that there was
some increases in the pupil size does that was that included into this a projection because her budget came out on February 5th so her budget is for the 2026 year yeah 25 so it starts October 1
2025 this is for the for current oh got you y so any I deal with that crap all the time um any additional questions on but I guess I was bringing that up only because of the pro the projection you
know I still will fall over to the next uh school semester that's why I was the the in number you're talking about yes just how go ahead so in June when we present you the new projected budget you will
see that $10,000 per pupil then if it passes corre and we won't we may or may not know that so we may have to provide that's I was just asking so we're going to project we're going to project status quo and if we get more then we'll amend
more but we're not going to anticipate for more because then we'll have an issue if it doesn't pass that's what I was asking a question for my understanding you know I bet you ENT you that we don't get 10,000 per pup no I mean 10,000 I bet you I bet you whatever
the number is I bet you in the Cent it doesn't end up that way 10,000 is a lot by the by the time the uh the Choppers get a hold of that uh it's got to pass both houses and I don't see what happened um anything else from members of the board on questions
okay I have one sure uh fund balance uh percentage 23.4 or 23.4% yes that's our fund balance that's high no y so you want to want me show you how to do it just so no no okay I'm going to take your word for it you said it that's why I was hoping
to do 18 when I was talking to you g that's where you got it that's that's yeah and just to put perspective you know the state wants District to be above 5% so just kind of give you idea where we are with it because at the point you fall under 5% if anything
happens your roofs just something just blows they just going to blow your budget you're not in a position to get a loan Etc so 23% is where we are okay thank you you're welcome uh anything else from members of the board thank you very much my
pleasure all right go to item five uh reports uh superintendent abdulahad thank you president Alvin um and and as you recall um you asked when we presented you an information item with um two assistant principles and this
budget is embedded in there and we're still coming with a increase fund balance so the two assistant principles um that we presented for you for uh pepper and Einstein are embedded
into this budget and the HR manager and and all of that and we're still with everything that we're doing we're still growing our fund balance so sometimes people on the outside they don't truly see that um I credit the team for their
hard work and diligence and everything that they're doing so I applaud the team for for that um so that answers your request on when you asked about you know can we absorb that we absolutely can and
and and we're still pressing forward um another thing that we are reporting you you should have the board should have received an invite um from our high school U from our uh Elementary principal on a a theater play there's another one that
you should have received um in the evening for the uh readin that went out uh from Miss Murphy one one went out from uh Miss br another one went out from um Miss Murphy uh
regarding the readin um and we will do an evening event with uh Ruby Bridges with uh Detroit youth choir the one that's in District is only for fourth and fifth
graders for our students the one in the evening is for everyone community and and Mr Abdullah who willu be Bridges you're asking me y that's all right I I know who she is you got to follow the
clues man come on okay so she was a fierce Advocate on on and brown I I don't want to I don't want to overo it who's Ruby Bridges trust you don't know of course I know articulating
it will take too long Give me the give me the like don't just don't bury the Le you got it just don't bury oh my do you got it will somebody say who Ruby bridg is please first African to attend a segregated school thank you that's so
that's it that's all I wanted that's it rambling and told them she was going to be there and and some of us got to see her right so that's why that's why I threw that out there sir I didn't mean to catch you up no no my face was red
but um I could feel the heat from my face but um the reason we're not far removed from that and if you see what's happening in politics today it will show you that you're not far
removed from what people have to uh fight for so that is um a play that we've been invited to and the community been invited to so that's I believe this
Friday um and lastly our band is performing I don't know what city in what town in New Orleans president Elvin in case you grow me on that but they are they are attending um and we had the
privilege of seeing um play during our our visit uh trustee Tyler was there accompanying us and they played um um a piece for us and not
phenomenal uh to understand where they where they were and where they are now that was my includer just anyone good just for context um for members of the board who may not be as familiar Ruby Bridges is the young lady uh in the
picture pretty pretty popular picture um being escorted into school by uh Federal Marshals um if you look you Google her name you the picture usually comes up like right away only um so yeah uh what
was that she's only 7 she's only 7 years old which makes her younger than my mom right so that's that's an that's important context that as you said uh it's it's not it's not that long ago and uh if you look at what's happening
in Washington today you don't even need look any further than Target yesterday in Southfield right so um but if you look at what's happening in Washington today we're definitely not that far
removed seemingly we're going back okay you have more so it's it's funny mention Target so um I I know we kind of put the personal action so I'll just tell you a little little bit about each person here
um since we started talking about Target we um Robin who I introduced to you came from the Target World and one of the questions answer was why you know you're
leaving corporate to come in there and something that resonated with me was she wanted to feel part of something meaningful in and um she didn't like I don't want to misquote you but she didn't like the way the
direction Target was heading and so she wanted to either and I don't mean to put you on a spot but she either wanted to work at a non for-profit or wanted to work somewhere where it had meaning and and purpose behind that um and so she's
coming with a strong background in um employee relations uh strategic Workforce Management training development um she served on the HR business partners at Target where she supported multiple locations and Metro
Detroit area leading employee relations and strategies talent management initiatives and culture building efforts that directly improve retention and engagement which is something that we badly need here um she got her MBA from
Roosevelt University and a Bachelor of Science from K State so um we're hoping that you approve this position when it it comes up and the other person that is
also looking for inspiration and um and some of you may have known her and she has been part of inspiring people
um Ivon who is were seeking approval to be the um assistant principal at OPA she used to work here and she wanted to return back home and uh just it it took
me 10 minutes of talking to her when I knew that that was the person for um the job and on a side note I've never seen Mr Island smile from ear to ear as much
as I do today so that further reassures me that we've made the right decision um with Ivon so I'm hoping and seeking your approval and both of these candidates so that's all okay uh
anything for anything that Mr had covered so we don't catch you off guard I want to talk about anything you too late I want to talk about um Miss T this the uh yeah I was going to call her by her
first name but I'm not used to calling her by her first name but I can say that she is a great asset to O Park when she was here my daughter um had a math class she struggled in math until she met this teacher here when she was a math teacher at Oak Park High School and she uh she
be oh I was talking to you oh I'm listening I was just I'm just go ahead I'm just saying I am listening I don't know you talking to me only but you okay um you know I just wanted to say that you know she she was a great math
teacher my daughter didn't understand the math cuz when we were in Ohio they had Chicago math so Chicago math is totally different than Michigan math so when she came she was so discombobulated and she was so frustrated and one day
she came and said I got it and when she said I got it ever since then she's never forgotten and then when I attended OCC I had her her dad was my my professor LCC so I just want to say that the
education goals generation to Generation Um and thank you for applying okay all right anything else Mr D Had cover nothing okay all right we going to go to it number six public participation uh
public participation is one way Communication in which members of the public are asked to address the full board I actually you memorize this by now I said it so much with the understanding the board members will not be able to respond um uh do we have do we have the card
ready yes okay let's go par T let's get because the O Park Board education V values public meetings not just meetings in public we welcome public comments on school issues speakers are asked to express themselves
in a civil manner with due process for the dignity and privacy of others who may be affected by public comments the public comment portion of the meeting cannot be used to make personal attacks against a school board member or a
school direct employee that disrupt that disrupt the order of the meeting and are totally unrelated to the manner in which the member or employee performs his or her duties speakers should be aware that if statements violate the rights of
other others under the law of defam defamation or invasion of priv privacy such comments may result in legal liability most comments are excuse me most comments can be concisely stated in three minutes and the board respectfully
ask that comments remain focused on the topic or issue and not be directed as specific Personnel or board members thank you are there any members of the public that wish to address the board please uh send your card to miss G
please we and the car to miss Greer yes thank you his name Mr Jacob vanl that's correct Mr van on the floor is yours sir wonderful uh hello I'm Jacob vanloon I'm really excited to be here uh I was recommended
to speak to The District board on behalf oh sorry on recommendation by uh High School teacher uh in your District Eric cwell we've been friends for a really long time I am an educator as well uh I've taught in Detroit and Pontiac and I'm here to tell you guys about some
really Innovative fantastic Hands-On State Standards aligned after school programs and grant writing services that my company offers um I have these packets that outline the benefits of working with us and the types of programs that you'd be able to select
from uh one that I just want to showcase because obviously only have three minutes um would be our responsible use of artificial intelligence and uh self-learning of architectural CAD software this is at the elementary school level and at the middle school
level and it produces products uh made by the students that are fantastic for photos and also applicable to uh sources of local and state grant funding I know that Federal is kind kind of up in the air right now with the current Administration but in addition to that
there are architectural competitions that the students can later go into and it provides a path into stem that is kind of underrepresented in a lot of districts and that is one of 20 different programs that we offer I would love to leave these materials with you all just so that you can consider them
and uh please reach out to me at your convenience you didn't have to rush I I don't have you on the clock yeah you you okay you have any other comments I don't believe so at this time but I hope to hear from you all soon and thank you for your time thank you
sir okay uh any anyone else for public participation okay hearing none once going twice going three times anybody say I tried to omit it so um I don't see anyone else for public comment
go to action items uh item 7A is approv of Oak Park youth assistance board [Music] members uh trusty Scott do you have that available um yeah would you mind reading that one for me please sure so resolved that the O Park Board
of Education hereby approve the appointment of the following candidates for membership to the O Park youth assistance board of directors alandrea Clark and Tim shakori Shak thank you and Tim shakori okay uh motion May by trusty Scott is
there a second seconded by trusty Tyler uh any questions on the motion heing not miss griffy I got questions I I didn't see your hand I was sorry it wasn't intentional I I had a few questions first the question was I I did
read uh the motion um but I wanted to ask about is this a appointed board appointed position you say board appointed right cuz we're we're handling the the youth
from our side we're approving this and it was also um it's also approved at where it's approved at the city level that's what I thought our level and the county and the other question I had
was um the functions of this can you tell us the function of what you're going to be doing so I myself and Mr torski are involved with meetings we have a monthly meetings uh the pancake
breakfast that comes up in July um trunk Retreat I'm sure the holiday help program anything that opy is involved in um he would be replacing the outgoing seat of Crystal Van know she's going to be the city manager for
Berkeley and then as well me being on the board and just participating in the meetings and going where they they need us is it at all possible that you can give us the report on a monthly basis because I know the youth assistance is also you know through the court system
as well absolutely I'm more I'm more than welcome and willing I think the idea was for us losing um trusty Smith they needed a liais on and since I've been volunteering etc etc they would want me to be the liais on between what's going
on here to give to them and vice versa so I'm more than happy to give a report have you met the um person that's assigned to our school I have not okay I probably have and I just don't know off the top of my head but I can't call the
name I just thank you else anything else from any any other members of the board girl callor Clark yes cin yesin yes Scott yes tman TS yes and yes he
congratulations buy CL too keep doing what you doing keep doing what you're doing you obviously care and you've already been working with them uh in the past and don't even mention truck or treat you get my money every year so
um we back you see see um all right so we'll go to item 7 B resolution authorizing public entity membership in the West Michigan Insurance Pool for a minimum three-year period truste Clark would you please read that motion you can hear the big ones all right resolve
that the Oak Park board approved the following resolution one the board approved the Western Michigan Health Insurance Pool wmhp amended trust agreement and bylaws and accepts W mh's provision
of self-funded pool health insurance coverage under the public employer pooled plan pep two the superintendent manager CFO or an appointed design is authorized to execute all documents necessary for the public entities
membership in W mhip for a minimum of three years three the board appoints Dr Sharice Foster as trustee and Andrea far as alternative trustee who will serve until replaced by board action and Carry Out responsibilities per the wmh trust
agreement four the public entity will remain a member of w mhip for at least three years five all conflicting resolutions are hereby resented there a second second Ty second second if by truste Tyler questions on
the motion that was a long that was a long cont all right Miss G please call the Alvin yes Clark yes Tyler yes Cory
yes Scott yes and per yes okay the motion passes we'll go to item 7 C approval of Manan the S is silent I would have jacked that up uh cerian audit firm
um any might want to read that for us I read it go forth and Conquer resolve that the Oak Park Board of Education hereby appoints the firm of manner coning in to conduct the audit for the fiscal year ending in June 30th 2025 the following estimated fees for the
services outlined below financial statement audit 35,500 uniform single audit 5,000 Bond capital projects 3500 second okay got second by trusty
corporate are any questions on the motion I have a question go ahead um is it can I ask why are we um suggesting this company um they work with the they work with Oak Park District for several years up until two or three years ago when the district transitioned over to
yo we're just finding that we rather work with an auditing firm that has more experience with K12 budget and um financials versus who we've been with be more favorable in terms of understand how we operate here um were we paying
them more than this y Ando yes almost double double okay 60,000 okay thank you any other questions you ask mine so I'm
good all right Miss G call Clark yes Scott Yes Alvin yes Tyler yes cin yes Herman KS yes see you later yo and yo okay item um
7D uh Baker Tilly Municipal advisor engagement letter agreement related to services and you say I have you read all of the LA ones I'm going to have you read the long one so trusty Clark and you make me laugh prophetic I appreciate that
resolved that the Oak Park Board of Education accepts the agreement letter with Baker Tilly Municipal advisers to furnish and perform the following Services one analysis regarding possible voted Bond issues project
alna say two assistance with completing required Michigan Department of Treasury applications and schedules if required three provide assistance with completing a competitive or negotiated Bond sale as directed by the client four develop
terms of financing and assist with Bond marketing documents five develop a proposed working group list and bond issuance timetable six prepare all post bond issu required documents seven assist with all Bond closing activities
fees the client agrees to play pay the firm and conation for services and expenses incurred as follows a the F firm's fees for services and expenses rendered shall be in con conformance
sorry this is conformance with the fee schedule provided on page A2 B the municipal advisory Council of Michigan Bond issu fee of $450 will be paid by the firm and build to the client as an
expense okay motion made by truste Mark is there second on the motion second thank you we have a second on that motion P tank P tank are there any questions on the
motion that rather long motion I actually had a question that um the total is the starting total of that 450 is that just like a startup and then they charge you as you use them ask
questions I can't even say they charge as they use us like even looking at last year last year the total amount paid was $500 it's more than 4500 if I'm a successful Bond issu it's a lot of work yeah you go to
page a I I I saw it A2 yeah yeah any any additional questions on the motion hearing N Miss G please call the roll Tyler yes Scott Yes Alvin yes cin yes Clark yes Perman KS yes okay we'll
go to item s e Personnel action February 24th 2025 um trusty Corp you asked to pull it off so yes I had a question in regards to the uh the contract where talked about the cash in Li of
um Health cash of Health Care uh Yes actually really medical insurance from in the AM of 400 mon yes ma'am that's
health so do you have is there I was wondering what that was she just answered it I had another question um how much is it for um for the benefits because it it gave the salary but it didn't include the benefits benefits is
based on the plan that the individuals select okay so every employee has the opportunity to elect the benefit plan and we have provide option okay thank you additional questions no okay any additional questions Mr personel yes
okay I have a couple okay all right so um first of all I went on a walk through um well last Thursday last Thursday at the high school and umle if if it if it's not related to one of these people M it's going into it it
is related to one okay okay go ahead yes going into it and so um had a walk through and um walk through was good um saw some things that were good saw some things that need to be improved okay and so um far as the um
the new um gym facility that we going to get it's going to be on schedule and all that good stuff but just some alarming things that I saw um and it's going to lead me right into this uh for the Personnel action uh because there were some some issues that I saw was very alarming with restrooms
restrooms where we had U where tables were um covering restroom doors where students were not allowed to use the restroom and so um in addressing that
um it's alarming that we getting ready to pay um for some uh um HR and we need security because if the kids can't get in the restroom and it it was told to me due to security that we
don't have enough security and so I don't think in a good conscience with me with bathrooms not being able to be used by students um is very alarming and that we
need security because security ought to be our main issue one number one Focus um outside of educating them where kids are feeling safe to come to our district and So within not a good conscience of me to
say that I need to vote on a Personnel action for $85,000 and we need security there was the bathroom was boarded up because they need Security in those hallways and so we ought to be
securing students first and I know that it's several people in HR I'm not don't have no issues with assistant principal because we need them we need an assistant principle Opa due to everything that's going on and so I'm
just alarming and just um not in good conscious of want to pay out 85,000 and we need security because kids are supposed to use the restroom there's a facility that's upstairs has not been in use for over a
year the restroom the bathrooms that's that's a civil right issue to me and so within get good conscience I can't I'm not going to the one I'm not so I don't know president if
we can split them up but we have to do it all together but that's my issue and that's one of my concerns is that if we need security we just had a breach in security we need security and so to in
order for us to say in good conscience for me maybe not for you all but you all didn't do the walk through and didn't get to see it but I saw it tables but kids can't go use the restroom because they say they smoking but I thought we had sensors in the bathroom we thought
we had sensors to sens them when they do in the bathroom and smoke and there's several bathrooms at the high school it's several one upstairs and two was downstairs so that mean the kids have to go there only one two three three more restrooms for them to use so and good
conscious I can't vote for $85,000 salary and no disrespect to you please it's not I just can't vote for 85,000 salary and we need security y'all we need security so trusty Tyler two
things thing one you asked about whether we could separate it we can separated that's what the board chooses to do just need a motion to do that um second to your question to your comments um I don't disagree with you on the and I
want you to just not to cut you off and I went there today I went there today and my my superintendent knew where I was going and my president knew that I was going today and I'm going say this it was they the one door was removed for
them to use the restroom okay because it's the table there the other two were not but we need security so that people can bring their kids and feel safe I mean if y'all don't hear it you hear it in my
voice we need security and I don't know if we need D B to come talk to us as a team uh as a board but our security right now is not good well we boarding up doors and kids got to come from upper e all the way to the front door door to
use the restroom how many security guards do we have so I I don't want us to lose focus about what we're trying to do here we can we can certainly have that talk and I think we should I think it's appropriate for us to question what's
going on the security side so we have students that can go to the bathroom around the building when they need to I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying I just think that we can do both that's all I'm saying so if you want to go and change these out and and we can
ask for a security report so so and Angel and I have had these conversations this is what what trusty Tyler is sharing with me sharing with us I'm sorry she had already shared with me and I shared with uh superintendent Abdullah had about the need for us to do something about the the way things are
structured right now and way I was handled today period so um so I'm not disputing that I don't disagree with with trust Tyler is saying and there's a way for us to do that um and we can ask for that and when
you get to your com comments at the end if that's something you want to you'd like to hear from I'm certain the whole board wants to make sure our kids are are safe so I I don't think anybody would begrudge any member from saying we want to hear more about what's happening relative to security at the high school
and as a byproduct of that the bathrooms being available all of them to to our students um so as we stay on on Focus um we've got we don't have a motion at all so we
need a motion and if someone wants to go one by one we can do that uh but we so I put a motion that we split them when it do one by one can I say it that way how how do I need to say we don't have a motion for at all so if you wanted to to ask that we approve you
name the one then we can do that um hold because we have just we moved it off we don't have an actual Motion in front of us so if you you want to go by name I mean but if you do that then I'll have I will whether y'all prove it or
not it's up to you but I will make the motion for the other one okay that's right all right whatever you do I'm fine with that okay so um what is your pleasure trusty tile um that we separate that we move we we can we can do we we're going to do that anyway so just who do you want to
approve uh Ivon Taylor I I'll approve that one okay so so there's a motion to approve the Personnel action of Ivon Taylor okay second okay
there's there's a second uh is there any un Readiness or any question on that motion question what we're voting on on it's the motion or we're voting on the approval what you mean so we're making the motion are we saying yes or no to
making this separate or no yeah because we're not approving the the whole Personnel actions report we are approving just specifically the one individual because we this was a part of
a bigger um a part of consent agenda we pulled it off so if you want to take it one by one no I just wanted to clarify I don't want to say yes or so we're asking for approval right now of of um Miss Taylor yeah because there several there several
people down there okay okay okay all right so there's only two right only two right okay so we can just go one by one it's fine okay so um pres there's a motion on the floor to approve the
contract of um I'm sorry the uh Ivon Taylor I want to say contract though person Action Personnel action for Ivon Taylor thank you thank you for that word Smith it for me get me together all right uh is there a
second she she made the motion so motion was made by trusty Tyler seconded by trusty corporate okay I'm sorry um as long as you're all right with that yes sir I'm fine I'm fine all right second by trusty all right uh Miss Greer please
call Tyler yes Scott yes Elvin yes carpin yes Mark yes okay that okay what did she say yes yes thank you Perman TS yes okay so that action passes all right and so at this
time then I move uh for the approval of uh Robin Johnson for the Robin Johnson Personnel action motion is made by myself second by second trusty parman tanks is there a question on that
motion hearing N Miss GRE Tyler no Scott yes Elvin yes carpin no Clark yes Perman tanks yes okay that motion passes
um so congratulations to both of you uh and then we will go now to uh information items um which is I eight uh so the long the long and short of it is uh we you know we were talking about
finance a couple weeks ago uh a month ago I think uh there are some elements there's so much involved in finance that you know we you could be here for 10 years and wouldn't understand at all which which is why we have a a guru over
there to handle these things you're the guru um but uh I think we have new I know we have new members I think there's an opportunity for us to gain some additional understanding about a particular Nuance in the finance area uh it so the finance department proposal a
study session to present information on Department's finances including details on the bond proposal and millage I think this is a worthwhile time uh worthwhile opportunity and we should spend some time dealing into this uh I I definitely don't think we'll get any dissension
from trusty corpor so so uh so let's let's let's do this so if we could all then go to our calendars uh personal calendars to figure out um superintendent abdulahad are there dates
you're already propos super know what follow me are the dates you're proposing or not yeah so um after that discussion I called Baker Tilly I talked to Jesse um I asked him to give us some
time to do a thorough analysis of bonds meals which at that time I thought you were talking about meals I thought you talking about meals too so afterwards I was reflecting on how my Mills so um he has time in April
so we could do a good dat to dive on what is dropping when it's dropping what we could do what we could seek and ideas like that April would be because things tend to slow down April would be a good
time cuz you got March the first one students of the month the second one he won't have enough time then you're ready in April then first meeting in April students of the month second one April would be perfect me the
21st no we only have one meeting in April right because the 21st is is is like yeah so I assume you get a you you guys are some of you are on break too or not so yeah we can't we can't do that we
need her here for this one um so when when what if we could do her um a special meeting is that absolutely that's what I was that's what I was planning on so um uh sure I get it Miss
B said the other um Fair not very feris okay I want be sure everybody know I'm talking about about not being here on the 21st but okay so when are when are you out that whole week you're on record for long you're you're you're here some of
that week yes I am uh all that week really I'm not you you out all week no we know where she lives she's not out all week taking some days that week the the week of the 21st to the 25th spring
break yeah that's just you want to do like a Thursday can you do a Thursday or you okay can can we um powwow us and have plan for one of those days during
that is that okay with you guys the week of the 21st yeah the week of the 21st like one of those days if we give you enough time we could do it like a seven that way if other people need to travel I feel I don't go into labor I don't know so I'm for whatever after five but
if I'm having a baby I I don't think you'll make all right so um you can't do that Wednesday we can bring the meeting to you trusty somehow somehow I don't think she's going to welcome Us in the room
for that uh how is the 24th April it's Thursday because Wednesday's no good or the 22 12 huh can you do one of those days the 22nd 2 it's just Earth Day yeah so you we can
make that work all right 22nd April 22nd we can make work trusty corpin I'll be just getting back from a nice long vacation I figured you going to be on a vacation somewhere but you'll be back right I'll be back okay so 4:22
is good iil 2 can we do 6 yeah we can 6 o' I don't know why y'all insist on being here until Rapture like six six is like work say nothing was wrong y'all like to start at 7 be here till 11:00 at
night I don't understand that like yes tamale you say you oh what you say Chris Bell yes thank you very much I was trying to Bri G with tamali all right six o'clock on the 22nd thank you um we're down to
Communications any communication from members of the board I have some trusty corporate um Brad B which is the attorney for masb uh I'm not sure if everyone else received it or not but he spoke in
regards to the um Immigration Act so my question is um the attorneys um Miller and Johnson I noticed that we haven't received any policy changes or ad
amendments to our bylaw so if they can present something is an actual act now and it gives instructions uh that are very prent to who it who would be the designated
person um you know if if ice was to come into our community you know and it it I didn't want to say one line without saying the whole thing but there's a lot of information there and we don't have
that where someone could actually go look uh you know at a at a policy what did you say the Act was Immigration Act so you're referring to the executive
order I would assume one second I'm going tell you what Brad said uh it came from the on it's it's the national school board associations is where he received it from it's a guide and it's called the Immigration
Act and then it and then it goes into the questions and answers yeah I I'll I'll let me read that okay um I I think you're referring to the president's executive order um there's
been no act recently passed which would suggest to me we're talking about the president's executive order um and or the letter more importantly that he wrote that has left everyone and
and their mother their father their cousin auntie and everyone else baffled I don't know that there's anything for us to do because we don't even know what they're asking for us to do no one does not people in um at the colleges uh I I
read about this the other day so no one understands what the Trump administ ation wants us to do and so when we have no knowledge of what that looks like I'm not certain we should be doing anything relative to
policy so if not then we need to bring awareness uh to the board members about this so they can be aware or we can be aware of some of the things questions such as can ice agents now
enter schools like they have an actual uh answer to that question so you know knowing something is better not knowing nothing superintendent Abad so if you recall in our um board updates we
addressed that but we actually created a link on our school website under community/ parents where it says executive orders impact on education um and it talks about what we
know so far we started doing that in January along with links to parents immigration rights attorney general Dana Nestles statement and Trump's actual orders and we created that so parents
could have a link for quick access we did include that in updates but we'll we'll make sure to re include that in there but it's right there under I I think the key I think the key I'm I mean if you gave it to us already and I know you did unless the Board needs it again I'm fine
with you not giving it back to us again you may want to continue communicating that to the parents that's that's about it and as far as I'm concerned um board members do you need a primer on this or do you feel like the information we receive from the superintendent is good
enough I don't that you're fine you're fine all right so as of now we're going to stand p so so it'll be updated will you update as soon as we get we have Community we have big meetings to discuss that we actually
have attorney generals come address us and as soon as we get that information we put that out there I sent to Brandon hey Brandon start this new tab and then we put it out there so but again his executive orders are always changing
then they freeze so sometimes we go slow so we could process everything accurately and then we put it out there one time that way we don't put it out retract put it back out retract I just want to make sure that
everyone knows that it is a real active thing and that it happens and that we should be ready that's all I I think the news coverage on it has been pretty robust um we've but everybody don't watch the news so that's what I'm
saying we've covered it on our website uh We've communicated to the parents yes and they it's been communicated to us uh if there's an update that needs to occur or right now there isn't then then then
certainly I would I would suspect we need to be updated so the parents but and please excuse me but I'm a little passionate at this cuz my father was an immigrant okay so just want the board and everyone to understand I have a
passion for this I I am a child of an immigrant so I'll leave that there and I too am a child of an immigrant so my father is not from here either crazy he's from the West Indies yeah and he never became a citizen but he did well
mine didn't that's what I'm saying well I understand um but I think we we communicated it pretty well well as probably most other school districts nothing wrong with being passionate nothing wrong with good anything else they might come get me I
don't know they're not com to get you anything else trusty cor okay anyone else have anything else trusty Tyler um to my request can we get that request um that you know um informational security like I said it is truly a problem it's
definitely a problem parents is going in school cussing teachers out it's it's just I mean we have to have our kids safe at the end of the day and so and and um with things that is going on and
we um bringing in HR we got three already in there it's just I want to see a change in security and we just had a security brief from our email that we got and so either DM B come talk to us on a strategy plan or what we got going
on and the other piece of this is um you know when we go to these buildings um I'm saying to all our Bo go in and check these buildings go in and see what's going on at the end of the day because that we are the next voice to
the people and so um that we know what's going on and so even in us going in these buildings we got to be treated right period and today I wasn't today I wasn't it was disrespectful so how was you treated I
mean it it was it was not right and so um and I'm ining schools I'm in my community and so I'm just saying that from this point on that all of us as board members we should be able to go in
these buildings check or have extra walkthroughs or whatever and get these buildings on walk through the day garbage cans leaking buildings it's no kids should be able to go to the bathroom that's civil rights why are the bathrooms Clos so
what we'll do if if if you're okay with this trusty Tyler um uh Mr can we get a report out on security plans and and you know as well as facilities I believe the
bird handling all of it so what what is the request because we did a survey we sent the survey so what is what is being requested the the request is to understand what the security plans are
for our schools and how they're being managed based on the Personnel that they have allotted to those schools okay uh it seems to me I'm not speaking for trusty Ty so when if I say something
that's not correct let me know that uh we there is not enough security Personnel because we're closing off bathrooms just because we don't want the kids to go in there yes sir and that that's the concern that I think she's relaying so if we could talk more about
that if that's a part of the plan how are we going to get to a place where that's not a part of the plan what excuse me what we need to do I understand that the school was set up for many more students than we currently have I understand that U what I have
since heard is that some of our students are late going to class because they have to go around the building bathrooms things of that nature then they get in trouble stuff like that so how are we going to manage that differently if we need to do so what is the plan around that um relative to those types of
things so if we can get that much to start I think that would be good it do have to come from you the Ember no I know right so and just to correct something there was no security breach today we had EMS called no I didn't say today didn't today and then on the the
flip side are we good there that request okay on the flip side I want to based on trusty Ty coms I want to remind the board and you heard what she said that she had um you know she had let the superintendent know she was going we cannot show up at these schools and I'm
not saying she did it I just want to be clear so that you do show up but we cannot show up at these schools unannounced we should let the superintendent know we want to go make sure he has someone available for us when we go remember that these folks
still have a job to do during the day and if we go we're taking away from what they would be doing so if we want to do that fair enough but let's if unless you're a parent you're going to pick up your kid or you're going to a game or a function like typical stuff if we want
to go into a school let's reach out to the superintendent give them a heads up I do that anyway like for example it's March's reading month and I'm sure you've all received a communication to go in and read um uh at at ler at least at ler I know I know I
did um and I've gone before so I look forward to going again um but even though I got that invitation I still say hey man I'm going into the school I'm going to do some reading just letting you know so it's no there there's no surprises right and so we have to and
and this is not coming from me like I I called uh Rod green uh who com does a lot of our training and I just wanted to understand how under other districts do it it's not a written in policy but it it is a Unwritten agreement between us
and the administration okay is everybody can everybody we have to give a heads up to come here no you don't need to give a heads up to come here but at the same time you can't come here and just walk in and expect to get what you want does
that make sense like all I want to see so so well so and so might be in the meeting so and so might not be here they might be somewhere else some training or one of the buildings so and so might be doing something else they can't be disturbed at that moment but if you if you give a heads up then at least
that what if so and so call us to come give paperwork well that then then it's okay to come up here without giv up yeah I mean the whole point is like we're not here for gotcha moments yeah right like we're here to to work in concert with the administration so if
you want to come up here let somebody know hey you got time for me to meet with you if they do find you should run all those requests due the superintendent anyway but if for example and I know this happens Miss Greer calls you and say hey I need you to come or
and and really she's too nice she'll come to your home and deliver that stuff it which I keep telling her don't come to my house deliver it I'll come to you but she won't listen um so sometimes if you need to come here and do something that's that's understandable my point is
simply just off the street no wary come in hey I want to come I want I want to meet with Mrs Foster I want I want to meet with Mrs Foster I need to know what's happening with the finances that's not that's not okay
right so you work if you want to do that it's fine talk to superintendent abdulahad get you some time but just know that the time you spend us meeting with these folks means that's time that they're not doing things that we want them to do right so it's
best to set an appointment absolutely best to set an appointment yes Trust talk are you finished yeah yeah yeah go ahead okay all right at the end of the day there do come times when you definitely need to make an appointment but I worked in the school system for 14 and A2 years and board members were
always allowed to come come into the schools and it's not that it's a I heard your one thing that that caught my attention a gotta moment it's not that I'm I'm not suggesting that it's always that well I heard what you said so so I got a rebuttal to it and so um it's not
a got you moment it's a moment of saying hey I'm stopping through today and so but like I said at the beginning yes you do I know protocol protocol you let the superintendent and I definitely let my president know as a courtesy but at the end of the day even in doing
that and I'm just going to my situation they knew I were coming today they knew I were coming they knew it and I was still handled the wrong way and that's my issue and I'm going say it again was your were you deny what the
wrong way I was told to come I was told by the superintendent to come by there today and in that I still let me correct let her finish let her let her finish trusty to come today cuz I told him that it needed to
be taken down by Monday morning and he said okay he said and I said okay I'm coming on Monday and he said okay he told me to go by the principal's office he said go by the principal's office office and then from there I went by she was not available end the day
that's fine I'm good with that and then we I go down and about time I come back they got Mr fault at the door for me that's unacceptable and they knew I were coming who was Mr F the principal of
Nova oh no andir and director of security okay he knew that I was coming and that's my issue it's not that I went and stepped out of something I know protocol teach it I I called when I had it when I did that walk through the next
person I called I got time to stamp it I called my president to let them know because at the end of the day you don't want to do stuff out of order and that's not me not out of order person but at the end of the day there come times when that I believe as board members we should be able to go into our schools
that they elected us for and not to take away and I know the protocol for it is not to mess with the operation of the day and so when you say that that aha moment it caught me it ranged in my spirit the Goa moment and did that got your moment
that's not it and we I think I think I think if we if we if we use a maybe a different terminology for it I wasn't suggesting that that's what you did I say that we should not do that so I want to be clear with what I said I never said that you did a got your
moment I said that that's not what we should so can I be clear now I allowed you to speak so allow me to speak yes policy 6203 you violated today I review the cameras you walked around the building
unaccompanied for 45 minutes that's not true yes it is because I review the cameras on myself and I'll be happy to review now you cannot direct the superintendent to do anything on your own so when you say I told them that
better be taken down by Monday it doesn't work like that policy states when you make an observation you are to let the superintendent know now the superintendent in operations they need a plan they don't just operate no I'll let
you speak I let you I'm going to speak so you went in you walked around for 45 minutes unaccompanied so when the director of security asked you to leave then he asked you to he asked you to leave I
asked you did the board president gave you approval to be there what did you say to me cuz you told me I'm coming on Monday I said to you Tyler I don't want to know
I should have just been clear with you and said no you cannot just so going forward the procedure is St it that way the procedure under 6203 is the following if you would like to see the building anyone apart from the parents
now the parents are operating in your parameters as parents that's totally different but if you're going into another building as your duty as a board member you need approval by me and what
I'm asking and I'm letting you know that you are not to be unaccompanied going forward that was my mistake it will never happen again no I'm still speaking I'm still speaking you cannot be unaccompanied you cannot be
unaccompanied that is policy we had that in the orientation which you attended and the ocba orientation you attended it and it was clear that board members are not to be
around in the buildings now yes you have constituents that you answer to but nothing has to do with you walking around freely in a building where I have students in in school and class in session so now that I'm clear with my
stance on it I'll know how to handle the board going forward all right do something you want to say yes I do go ahead so you're you're saying now that that I just have one question did you not tell me to go sir no I did not
oh Jesus I told you I don't want to know Jes oh Jesus you said tell them I'm coming on Monday I said I don't want to know Jesus okay trust trusty corpor go ahead okay so I just want to go back to how we got here we went on a site visit
it was how long has the laboratory has been out of service a year would that be the so the first time that the that I walked around and I seen it she highlighted it I went back and said Tiffany and find out for me what's going on so it takes time for that to
happen I'm sorry about the eyebrow raise but how so no one knows how long the bathroom's been out so again that's not a clear answer because we have to do our due diligence to find out what's going on so the principal PR principal's not here no I
I'm not about to ask about the principal but in the OR chart or excuse me yes it says board well community board you and then principles under you so at what
point someone had to put that there right for the Laboratories so building principles they supervise their own buildings right so when someone when a board member policy 6203 done because
you're big on policy states states when a board member observes something they are to notify the superintendent immediately let me let me let me stop us really quick this is Communications time really this is not Q&A I thought this
was communication time it is so if you have something you want to communicate you have the right to communicate it but it's not back and forth it's what you want to say so this is not like a Q&A time this is for your time to communicate whatever you want to communicate she communicated what she
wanted to communicate okay I'm going communicate okay communication is Laboratories water fountains should be a part of a daily maintenance we received a survey the
survey had bathrooms for the schools that that were surveyed at what point in that survey that it didn't recognize that these Laboratories were unused or what haveen
however I would like to see a time frame to when those Laboratories can be accessible because this is something that hopefully not get on the front PGE of a new because we have
unop backrounds and Don I think the I think the rest of the board would agree with you and I think as a byproduct of what we asked for already relative to the security plan I think that that that should cover your request thank cuz I I was a parent that walked in class in in
the hallways all the time when my daughter was there if I would have saw that I would have brought it to the attention quickly but I'm just saying you know we have a facilities uh person who should be in that building a lot because there's construction going on so I was just you know I'm just a little
appla that we are now just finding out or when it was I don't know but uh hopefully we can just rectify the situation okay so we that let's make that a part of the request so that should be that should be a part of the conversation that we had and DM should
be able to provide us with some some response I'll Prov that would be helpful but we want to hear also want to hear yes thank you and also how many security guards are there that's a part of that should be a part of the the security plan so I think that you'll be
good okay everybody and we all all set on the request okay uh anything else from the members of the board uh this is the last meeting of the month for black history month and I
would like to say that um I wish I can join that black history you know event that they're going to have but I just hope that one of us or some of us can attend that uh that um black history event and of course that
Ruby Bridges since we were quizzed by our president quiz you y'all get real sensitive tonight I didn't quiz you oh my go but however um that's you know that's all he the one that probably
feel like I quiz him or if anything all right I will be going to the Einstein performance so I'll be there Friday morning you got a little work yeah okay all right good stuff um anything else for members of the
board from the administration all right hearing none um we're at a ger uh trusty T I see you getting yourself together you got it or you want me to do it I never done it I
want to do it on Bott agenda okay okay injour the next the next meeting of the Board of Education will be held Monday March 10th 2025 at 6 p.m. in the boardroom at the administration building thank you um
time is now 7:25 without objection we'll pass a motion to agenda to uh adjourn the meeting at 7:25 is there is there an obje to doing so no here you no we're here by J thank you thank you