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okay good evening the time is 6 o'clock we're going to call the February 10 20125 Oak Park Board of Education meeting to order okay I did I did it on time that time Miss GRE please call the rooll Clark here Corin here Elvin here Tyler
here har manang here here Scott here Madison okay uh trusty Madison did let me know that she was uh in route back to the area from out of town so I'm not sure if she's going to make it or not but uh let excuse as far as I'm concerned since we have we had that conversation uh we will go to uh item number two which is the approval of the agenda the agenda will share with everyone prior to today's meeting are there any questions concerns relative to the agenda that's
hearing now without objection we'll pass a motion to approve the agenda by unanimous consent is there an objection to doing so hearing none the agenda is hereby approved we'll go to item number three consent agenda we have two items on the consent agenda this evening approval of the minutes by January 27th approval of personnel actions uh as of today and there were um several on that on that item uh are there any questions
or concerns relative to the consent agenda okay hearing none without without objection we pass a motion to approve the consent agenda by unanimous consent is there an objection to doing so hearing none the consent agenda is hereby approved we'll go to item number four presentations and that is our students of the month superintendent AB go ahead thank you president uh welcome uh this is uh an amazing moment for you to celebrate your children's accomplishments
well we're going to do uh slightly different because we do have a basketball game later on we're going to allow Nova to go first and then we'll do lesser and on down what we do ask is as the principal comes up and your child comes up if you could come up with them and so we could take pictures and post them on social media um I'm assuming that no one has an issue with that
okay so with that being said Mr f good evening everyone good evening my name is Derek Faulk and I am the proud principal of Nova Academy that is right across the parking lot it's the best way to put
it and here today I have M she and please forgive us cuz we are trying to get the students in and they they are actually in route so I have Mrs Sheik and I also have Miss mlan Miss mlan come on up and I'm going to turn the mic over to them so that they can present the students hopefully they'll be walking right in the first time I don't like being first you want to wait maybe just to ensure that they're here so I could do that he's right here that way when
they're here got thank you okay so if we could have linger and then after linger if we could yes ler can definitely go the beacon of light the let's do it l all right hello good evening everyone good evening um I want to thank everybody for coming this evening welcome to board the cabinet thank you so much for being here to support us on our student of the month festivities and I am honored to go first as
the leser rebels we both resilient empowered brilliant ethical loving and self assured which my babies definitely are so I put ours right under here I have my wonderful staff and team here as well as support we are going to start first with Miss Ava Williamson and her teacher Miss Samaha is going to come up here and speak on her behalf
so shy all right good evening everyone today we are honored to recognize our student of the month Ava Williamson from the very beginning of the year Ava has shown an incredible dedication to learning always following directions and staying focused on
what she's supposed to be doing even during free time she chooses to challenge herself by asking me for extra work her progress since the start of the year has truly been outstanding and we are so proud of how much she has grown Beyond her hard work Ava is also a shining example of kindness she's always treating her classmates with warmth and respect both in and out of the classroom Ava we are so lucky to have you in our young FES family keep up the amazing work
a and then your lesson okay we honey you got smile oh we need one picture thank
you thank you okay for our second student of the month we have Miss braxon Moore Braxton I know you is she awake okay yeah they never shy a lesson y'all this is a brand new uh moment so come on Braxton you can do it so we're going to call Braxton more oh and then well Miss Clark can you come up here and speak a few
words for uh on we have come know what she mean until you get in front of everybody you just free well good evening good evening thank you for having us and I would like to present this award to Braxton surprisingly she is nervous she is one of my most outspoken students ever she is
a bundle of joy she comes in smiling always wanting to give a hug and everything so I'm surprised that she's shy but I get it to a lot of people um Braxton is just a joy to be around she loves making friends loves being helpful even when not being asked to she'll help us clean around the classroom or she'll want to read her favorite book My Little Pony or anything with Minnie Mouse so we love that too and then she'll always ask me or my co-teacher Mr Peter to read with her or she'll ask a friend so
this is to Braxton who is a very friendly person hopefully she can show that to you a little bit later yes girl come on all right we it took a teddy bear ready say cheese
okay okay thank you for honoring my leser rabos who will graduate with a bachelor's degree right so we are getting I'm turning it over to the esteemed uh principal of the pepper panthers Mr Emanuel Haley you know you've been doing this
for a while when one of your former students is now the parent of a student for a month good evening everyone I am Emanuel Haley and I'm the proud principal at the Dr James in Pepper Elementary School located at 24301 Church Street on the north side of yall all right tday well I am so proud to be
standing before you to present one of Pepper's finest teachers who will be presenting our student of the month I would like to present to you Mrs Deanna dinard good evening everyone good evening so I selected two students from my kindergarten class the first
student that I selected is Kelsey Washington Kelsey works well independently and she also works well with others she has no issues when asking for help when needed when she isn't following the expectations she has no problem with apologizing and trying to do better she exemplifies our classroom expression of we learn from our mistakes her smile is infectious and
it lights up the classroom Kelsey has made so much growth and I'm very proud of her congratulations Kelsey any parents or family members
ready the next student that I selected is John Anthony John comes to school every day and is ready to learn he does his work well and gets along
with everyone in the classroom John will always take accountability for his actions he is a great leader and he's always quick to say sorry without even being told to do so John is very kind and mannerable John upholds our social contract daily and I admire his positive attitude way to go John you
I now present to you my f my friend and colleague none other than Mr Derek Faulk
well good evening again and I'm back so would the team Nova please come on up again my name is Derek Faulk and I am the principal of Nova Academy that is right across the parking lot and I have two of my distinguished staff members Mrs Chic and miss mlan that will introduce our fine students who's going first oh I just
found out out all right good evening everyone good evening thank you so much for waiting for us my name is m mlan and I do teach at Nova I teach all the fun classes I get theater and foreign language and speech and all the fun stuff but I also get to do some real work with my kids and I got to tell you the reason I'm here this evening is because of Destiny she has been my student
for two and a half years years and I've got to tell you one of our jobs at Nova is to stand in the Gap and another one of our jobs is to bridge the gap but we can't do that without kids that don't show up and when I say show up I don't mean in the building I mean in their hearts and in their minds and in their Spirit about themselves and this generation of teenagers is facing a lot of things a lot of things that look pretty scary
I think that's me going off somewhere uh that can look pretty scary they're also facing a lot of things that they don't know how they're going to come out and as a teenager we kind of deal with that every day as a teenager and then to have the whole world pile on top of that makes it pretty tough something else Destiny and I have in common I'm a mixed kid so is Destiny and sometimes mixed kids feel all alone in
the world we sometimes feel like we don't have a nation we don't have a culture we don't have anybody we don't belong in a particular camp and that can be really lonely and a lot of times mixed kids don't run into a lot of other mixed kids because sometimes they're really high achieving or they're really interpersonal and they don't go out in the world and expose themselves because it can be dangerous this young lady is one of the bravest people I know I personally don't
have the gum to be a teenager in 2025 I'm almost 60 and the phone was still attached to the wall and there was no internet or a 24-hour news cycle and to process all of that information on top of being a kid who's just outside of the local tribe on top of just all of the things that go on how she shows up every day with a smile she shows up every day whether she's confused or clear
and she puts her head down and she does her work and when she's confused or she doesn't understand something she doesn't climb into the corner she finds her way to the front and she asks for what she needs and as soon as she gets a little bit of information she's Off to the Races and one of the reasons I'm so proud to introduce to you tonight Destiny Richardson as my student of the month she started the year in 11th grade and by October she leaped
into her senior class class all right she is on track to graduate and she is knocking it out of the park every day and whenever the lines get a little bit blurred she finds me or another adult and she gets right back on track she hasn't wasted any time she hasn't wasted any energy and a lot of the world has pushed back on her and I'm so very proud of her ladies and gentlemen my student of the month Destiny Richard
proud that is for you and this is for you and any family
okay good evening my student of the month is javante Evans I've had the honor of having javante as a student since last year and this year I've really seen him make some huge strides his hard work and dedication and his positive attitude has not gone unnoticed and I'm thrilled to celebrate his achievements he takes ownership over academics
and he has become a leader when we have conversations in Google meets in the morning or throughout the day he spearheads them and he is a role model for his PE that is why I chose him as student of the month because he has matured and wants to excel with his academics now he has a few words he wants to say right okay he was so worried he had to speak congratulations um Family he has a huge family they're here that's why
I a little bit I would love love it thank you for your support all of you
I have the plow oh have the proud proud pleasure I'm trying to get the Mr fondin Key Elementary is coming up
good luck all right uh hello families hello board members my name is Mr fondin I'm the assistant principal at Key standing in for Miss deila Prince our principal who couldn't make it this evening so I'm standing in for her uh first I'm going to uh introduce a student is amunet here so one of our students isn't here so I'm going to read what
her teacher said about her um cuz she demonstrates our key core value of the month which is integrity her name is amunet ker third grade her teacher is Mrs Ford so amyette is a very kind and considerate young lady she is a hardworking and focused student aminet exemplifies all of the key Falcon's character traits she goes above and beyond to assist her fellow classmates and she always has an encouraging word am is
a joy to teach and to have as a part of our Key School family let's give her a hang now for our student who is here um I would like her teacher to come up too tanas Staples let's give her a hand and Miss Henderson is our kindergarten teacher Miss Henderson is going to have a word or two to say
oh and they get gifts too that's how Kei does it you understand so good evening um I have the pleasure of introducing to you guys Tanaya Staples Tanaya Staples is a very positive hardworking responsible student who exemplifies excellence and integrity every day tan is so wonderful every time I walk around the classroom to check
on on their progress she is always always doing her work and working very hard she follows directions first time given she helps her classmates and she is a wonderful role model for all of my students she always turns in her homework on time and she is always respectful to all of her teachers and classmates with all this being said I know she will be a scholar throughout her school career she has a great foundation and she is a wonderful
student let's give her a round of applause good job
look at that
all right I'm going to introduce I'm going to introduce the principal at OPA Mr Douglas Island you bringing off all the stuff I heard Mr say that they get gifts key but he must didn't know so
all right good evening everyone my name is Doug Island I am the super proud principal of Oak Park Prep the prep um and tonight I am super proud to honor two of our students our first um Livia if you can come on up please you'll see that she is finally rocking our student of the month t-shirt her wonderful teachers have this to
say about Livia it says Livia has been chosen for the student of the month because she is a joy to have in class Livia not only tries hard she secedes with Excellence she is not selfish about her learning either she wants all who are around her to soar as well Livia makes a point to help others so that they too can shine not Einstein shine but shine I know they shine at Einstein but you know we shine at op
too Livia is the embodiment of there's enough Sunshine for everyone Livia is going to shine by doing her best being prepared asking questions and sharing her thoughts and ideas to grow far beyond her potential all right congratulations Miss Livia give me that for her all right also Mr the next swag bag they get some socks to go with their shirt all right I love
it swag bag and a certificate M we can get you come on up take a picture and then we got this some awesome signs let them know let them know we get you
all right our other shooting um had actually had a basketball game today so he wasn't able to make it m say d was going to try to fit it in but it was going to be too close to make
it um and that student name is Adrien Mitchell all right but I wanted to recognize him um as well and adrianne's teachers had this to say about him that Adrian is a leader in the in the making whether it is in the classroom or in the hallway you are bound to catch Adrian making great choices that will inspire others to do the right thing Adrian is kind courteous and respectful to both teachers and students he is focused engaged he's he is a focused engaged participant in his classes and Adrien tries
his best in class and chases after goals he has set for himself Adrien leads by example he embodies the idea that Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching all right so let's give it up one time for Adrian he also receive shirt sign socks we do how we do just announce it
at the half time of Y have to step it up some of yall have to step it Up all right coming up next our wonderful assistant principal Mr Mario Evans from the high school yeah I appreciate that good evening everyone uh my name is Mario Evans I'm on here on behalf of of Miss
reita Williams the principal of O Park High School our first student she was rep she was uh given her um recognition parents weren't able to make it um student Naomi B 10th grade student um she was nominated by her science teacher Miss Daniels according to miss Daniels Naoma is a wonderful young lady who exhibits everything an O Park student should be she's an overall outstanding student though she is quiet she will step out of her Comfort comfort zone to participate and help others Miss Daniels
notes naom demonstrates excellence in academic performance character Behavior effort social responsibility and attendance Nom loves reading playing games especially roadblocks she has five siblings and she's the second eldest she plans to be a cardiologist or something big when she grows up she aspires to win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing something amazing come on the inspiration to be great comes from within her favorite subject is math she aspires to attend a
college University of her CH choosing somewhere near beach it is with great pleasure that the O Park High School administration recognized and present our sophomore Knight Naoma as our rep recipient of the scholar of the month of January our next student NAA Burns her and her mother are here right now not going
to do that yes n has been nominated by her science teacher Miss Lloyd according to miss Lloyd NAA is strong in academics her character is all about respect and I hear she likes to run hahaa Miss L notes NAA demonstrates excellence in academic performance character Behavior effort social responsibility and attendance Navea is a value member of the O Park High School ladies track and field team she assisted
with the 2024 track and field State Championship win n has been on running track for 7 to eight years and has a passing for track and she loves her Track Family NAA likes to shop and hang out she travels also and is just getting home from New York where they repres where they competed against uh proam it was a proam track and field event they competed against professional athletes as well so it's pretty pretty amazing she's a big family person and will choose family over everything she loves
her mother her grandparents and her brother they are her go-to people for everything Na's favorite subject is chemistry she plans to be an anesthesiologist and already looking at Louisiana State University or Kentucky State University as options for post-secondary Education it is with great pleasure that the Oak Park High School administration recognize and present our our sophomore night Navea Burns as our rep recipient of
scholar of the month of J J we have you C several gifts for her all the you're going to sh
next up Einstein Elementary
she got the swag bag too swag sorry we did hi good afternoon good evening Miss Provena proud principal at Einstein Elementary School there there was some changes because I was waiting for my parents to be here they both confirmed that they would be here but they are not here so neither one of my families are here at our meeting today and I do apologize for that but we'll still honor them um so we had LC Lindsay in second grade um LC is
a wonderful example of a or sorry first grade first grader who shows kindness and teamwork she was always ready to help her classmates whether it is sharing supplies or explaining an activity to someone who needs help during group projects she works hard to include everyone lyrics positive attitude and willingness to work with others makes her a valuable teammate in the classroom LC is the first one ready to shine her sweet smile and use her kind words to uplift your day her sweet and Gentle Spirit can quickly warm your heart even on a tough day she treats others the way that
she would want to be treated I don't think she knows any other way than to just be loving and happy and that's swag and then uh we do have next Lauren Robinson in fifth grade Lauren uh comes to school every day ready to work and to do her best she is attentive and helpful and is an extraordinary classmate to her peers she maintains an a average both her focus and her participation is topnotch Lauren does
not just Excel academically she acts with kindness and Care in all that she does she treats others with dignity and respect she is a model student and the epitome of what it takes to shine at Einstein Elementary School because that's where we shine I know Mr Island tried to steal earlier but yes she is an epitome of what it takes to shine ated Einstein Elementary School thank you take pictures I'll
take pictures at school good okay um this takes us to no let's uh got quick break let's see what time it is 6:33 we will do a five minute break to allow all those families who don't want
to sit here with us for the rest of the evening to depart but you are more than welcome to hang out with us uh for the next hour and a half should you decide to do so uh we would love to have you in any case uh we'll give you five minutes we'll return for quick five minutes and we'll come back
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we're back so uh we go to item number five reports we have one report this evening for our superintendent Mr abdulahad floor is yours sir thank you very much um I apologize I missed the whole report but I wanted
to say a few words about Shay I'll introduce you guys to her um she is I know I beat a dead horse with this but she is a 2011 um graduate of Oak Park High School um so she's returning and come back home to provide an opportunity as she was provided um she did her Bachelor in
English and education then she did her MERS in curriculum instruction she's currently a doctoral student um with Birmingham under uh Dr M Robertson so I did call him be and and told her hey do you mind if um we steal her and she said no I think it would be a great fit um tell her thank you there's no thank you Cut Throat
out there no but no it it was um she was doing her intern there and she's said nothing but amazing things she's already hit the ground running she started today um and she is really going to take our departments to to the level that you want for our students to Excel and so congratulations congratulations another thing
um I want to speak on is like I I know we have games going on but we have a presentation happening in 15 minutes at the DIA and I'm going to read you about the recognition that one of our students that's being presented an award that has not been offered
to Oak Park in over 20 years so um I'll read that right now and that's where um the principle is with the Fine Arts teacher at 7 p.m. at the historic Detroit film theater located in inside Detroit Institute of Art the 2025 Scholastic IC award ceremony will take
place this event will honor the most creative and talented High School artists and designers and the dedication of their Educators in southeast region which includes Oakland leier hon mome santac and St Clair counties this year will be the first time in over 20 years that Oak Park has placed in this competition Scholastics is the oldest
and most prestigious Fine Arts competition in the United States and we are very proud to announce that our 11th grade student Amari Kendricks has placed with a silver key award the equivalent to Second Place Amari and his jewelry teacher Miss jacqulyn Hamilton will be part of the celebration tonight if you wish to see his work it will be uh as as well
as all the outstanding Works in southeast Michigan it will be on display at the College for Creative Arts studies from February 11th through February 28th wow okay so that is um for cre studies you yeah yeah so um typically Country Day just I mean with the endowments that they receive they usually so this is
like remarkable for our students who we just started jewelry last year remember we were talking about uh expanding on and enhancing Fine Arts and we already play second place great so um so it's um and then we have students in New Orleans performing in band and then we have basketball games so it's really inspirational uh to me just to see the second generation that's coming up uh I
always feel like we have to do right by them because the students that you see today will be your future doctors and leaders and educational leaders and superintendents and everything lawyers and everything and it starts at a young age and so it does move me it's it's nice to see passing the Baton to um the younger generation and and so this it's
near and dear to my heart um I believe at this time that's all I have for my superintendent report do you know where the where it be on display at at uh CCS uh I'll find out but it's um I'll find out for you and just send you thank you yeah let me just see if in the email it stated if you all other
understanding word it will be on display at the college for cretive studies it doesn't say where but I'll find out for you exactly thanks yeah let me know I know this 1993 CAD that's on the board there oh Wonder all right um all right thank you for that any questions on something superintendent AB had already covered something you covered nothing okay you said something that he covered
he covered yes I have something that you covered which is other students in Oak Park have been receiving some scholarships so piggybacking on what you just said is a great introduction to what I'm about to talk about which is um we had a student that's at the uh high school that's under the um Financial Legacy teacher Miss Woods uh they received the MC the uh McDonald's of the Michigan black history um
makers of Tomorrow $1,000 scholarship also we had uh a shout out to our band U Mr Akin uh we had I believe it's four students $60,000 for each student and they didn't just get the 60,000 but some of them had academic um uh scholarships where they get a free ride so I wanted to bring that out and Mr Haley is left now um I saw him
on Channel 7 News over the weekend and um he did an excellent job as he always and the one thing that he said is reading is a g a Gateway um is also a key to their future and that just stood out to me and what that program is is the um scripts Howard um program where they have um
the community they give money for books which is over 20,000 uh Scholastic books and when they get these books the children they get five books per uh student and we were actually uh according to uh Glenda Lewis she said that our school was her best and I just was just in tears but I did want to say that you know we are a title well his school is a title one school and that is where we have 8
% of uh the students there receive uh reduced lunch and I just want to say we're 100% free and reduced district one oh there we go we're 100% uh uh fre free and reduced so we don't charge our students so we're Title One District yeah okay understood well I just want to say you know thanks to the students for just never giving up you
know just keep on going and you know achievement it pays off thank you thank you we come to item number six which is public participation public participation is one way Communication in which members of the public are asked to address the full board you understand that board members are not able to respond um you want to read the public comment because the Oak Park Board of Education values excuse me public meetings not just meetings in public we we
welcome public comments on school issues speakers are asked to express themselves in a Sil manner with due process for the dignity and privacy of others who may be affected by public comments the P public comment portion of the meeting cannot be used to make personal attacks against a school board member or School District employee that disrupts 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 others under the law of defamation and mean or invasion of privacy such as comments may result in legal liability most comments can be concisely stated in three minutes and the board respectfully as the comments remain focused on the topic or issue and not be directed at a spefic specific Personnel
or board member so do I read I'll ask you you call are there any members of the public wish to address the board and you can go through okay so who's first um Dawn Summers greetings
distinguished members my name is Don Summers I'm the vice president of the Oak Park Education Association we are grateful to be moving forward in the right direction with the passing of three letters of agreement with our board of directors just last week we are hopeful they'll be passed uh with the Board of Education this evening those are um in regards to dues deductions pa23 Basics and some evaluation language we also
came to an agreement last week as it relates to the arbitration the OPA dropped the arbitration with prejudice finally we're looking forward to completing excuse me our final three elways in March thank you thank you thank you is there anyone else yes is Miss Elita Elita Elita t are you
how are you so now say anything bad about anybody that's against the rules hi so I am Alita Tri and I am the President of opa and I wanted to come tonight and kind of talk about what I said the first time I came here when um we started New Year that I wanted to work collaborative with the district to make sure that we were all on the same page um we have had some long meetings um we did we were
able to come up with some great loas I'm hoping that you guys will look at them and hopefully get them over tonight but I just wanted to reiterate my goal is to always be a partner with the district and realize that we put kids in front of everything all the time so whenever people talk to me about stuff I'm like well would you do with that child how are we helping that student and that has always been my um I'm probably one of the biggest
cheerleaders for o park because you know that's my thing there nobody talk about them I did quit last year but I was pretty good at it pretty good at it but with that being said um it was so great to see one of my babies up in AA as you can see we were embracing each other and Destiny also because we have to make sure that we are looking at all kids and give them the opportunity to be a part of these clubs and so forth but once again I am here because um I'm excited to continue this work and as long as
we keep kids at the Forefront we can't do nothing but go up and I know I got my pepper Panther paring in the building baby go around the hall for me I also watched that video today of Mr Haley and um was there when um channel two right seven one of those people one of those people not a detroiter sorry um it was amazing to see those kids pick five books to walk in
and actually shop and not have to come out not one penny and so I want to see that in all the buildings that that' be me I want to see it everywhere so hopefully we can expand on that and Mr Haley has gotten that for the past four years for my understanding and so kudos for him on that one and again once again I am here to support and be a thought partner with the district uh I'm quite the Spitfire but at the end of the day it's always about the student stud for me and thank
you guys for having this moment um letting me speak oh and I live at 17 to10 Cherry Line Detroit Mich again 48221 I was supposed to say that first thank you are there any other cards oh that's it anyone else wish to address the board once twice okay uh go to item seven action items we have two of those to evening uh one is for the cons I don't think
they heard you when you said going once going twice is there anyone else who would like to address the board anyone anyone that that's where I was going you got yeah you were with me on that you were with me thank you no no one else all right thank you got a hand up there little one he just raised his hand oh you want to address the board come on yeah it's okay come
on what you want to say come on let him up let him up he is a member of the public and wishes to address the board you will you we cannot stop members of the public from addressing the board here let them up you going to get us in trouble come on up what you want to say come on microphone just I
saw that hand I am here today I love my mommy she she is she work here I love her she she do awesome things here I love it I
the and I want even make him fill out a car there's no extra raise on there anyone anyone else I don't know if anybody wants to come behind that anyone else all right out of the mouths of babes all right we are at item 78 consideration of bond ratification resolution trusty Clark always has these things up you ready roll please resolve that the board approved the
bond ratification resolution prepared by Bond Council and presented by the administration for the sale of the district's 2025 schooling school building and site bond series 3 R made by trusty Clark seconded by trusty Corp second and go ahead and you have a question yeah go um I just noticed that the res uh the resolve uh doesn't indicate what board can we get that just added o Park Board
from the board it's on our agenda because your Authority Li does the does the board have an issue with us adding o Park to it we usually have even okay does the board have an issue with with us adding o Park to board hearing none We'll add it okay no there's no issue the the motion belongs to the floor no no one has issue we just add o Park the board all right any questions on the motion okay hearing N
Miss G please call the rolek yes yesin yes uh yes Scott yes and Tyler yes okay that motion passes go to item uh seven the election of one candidate for mby Region 8 board of directors uh does anyone have a strong feeling of any particular candidate I do go I believe that we should nominate
Dr Anisha D Hannon I read her bio I watched her video she seems like a great candidate um she's very strong with education she is the current president of the board and I think she'd be a great candidate okay thank you Anisha Anisha I I I read it as well so yeah so um the next words out of your mouth will be I move I move that the Oak Park School Board cast their 202 ballot to
Dr Anisha Cannon to the MB board of directors Mo made clar second by trusty corpor we got the CNC Factory going on over here you had to be there if y'all if you if you're too young you wouldn't get it okay okay all right uh anyway um any question on the motion no I just like to just it's not a question but it's um comment comment I would say that
is also a great um Choice uh for the masb um this person is from uh uh I mean Pontiac and also there are other board members that are also from Pontiac and I think that she will be a great uh candidate for the uh Board of Directors for masb thank you any others okay Miss G please call the rollman uh yesin yes Scott yes yes
yes and yes okay that motion passes we'll go to item eight call for close session uh I move that we enter Clos session in accordance with Section 8 C the open meetings act for the purpose of dis dis discussion relative to negotiation and bargaining strategies trust uh motion made by myself seconded by trusty Clark any question on the motion Mr G please call the rooll yes yes yes yes yes motion
passes we will go on the close session uh you the star of the show tonight what is your name Sir Jackson all right Jackson you the star of the show tonight well done well done and see you when you let
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10A approval of letter of agreement
between the O Park Board of Education and the O Park Association so you're you're you want to amend the agenda to add that under 10A you get okay so you want to amend the agenda so I move to amend the agenda to add all that you see under a not all of it just the just the the Bold part under item 10 so 10
a we'll call it okay so I don't have to say I make the motion to ad you never say I make the motion your first words are I move okay so I move that the board accepts the administration recommendations for the following action items approval of the letter of agreement between the O Park Board of Education and the O Park Association item 10A all right so I'm going to tweak that just a little bit so we're going to add item 10A approval of letter of agreement between the Oak Park Board of
Education and and and the Oak Park to the agenda Education Association not education isn't there so Education Association so we're going to amend the agenda to add item under on open meeting we don't have another place to do it uh 10 a approval of letter of agreement between the O Park Board of Education and the O Park Education Association Fair everybody good with that okay you everything okay everybody's good with that so we're going to amend
the agenda to add that item and then we will take that item right after we amend it fair okay uh I'm um okay the motion is ma or second second second okay Miss Greer uh you got to are you going to read what's wrong nothing yes
yes Elvin yes we're voting on there yes Scott and we were voting on the amendment to the agenda now we're getting ready to vote on what we just had y okay so we good okay now everything under be it resolved all right be resolve that the O Park Board of Education has thoroughly reviewed the implication benefits and impacts of the letter letters of agreement between the Board of Education and the
O Park Education Association regarding news deductions evaluations PA 236 and to withdraw grievance number 1019 2023 with prejudice and to modify work working schedules o Park Board of Education formally accepts and approves the letters of agreement as presented thank you motion made by trusty Scott here second second second by trusty Tyler questions on the motion he career please call the rooll
Clark yes cin yes Elvin yeah Madison Madison's not here Scott yes per M yes and Tyler yes okay the motion passes uh we will we will now go to item 11a information item assistant principal at pepper and Einstein Elementary Schools Miss Fenderson the floor is yours once again yes thank you um so the elementary and secondary school relief relief which is known as Esser funds um provided by the federal legislation were
critical source of financial support um for our district during the covid-19 pandemic however with the expiration of these funds um it is necessary to consider making some strategic adjustments to maintain the quality of Education support of our students um the loss of eser fundings will lead to um the sunset of the culture positions um we recognize that these position provide um are crucial in fostering a
positive School culture and addressing student behavioral issues um to address the leadership Gap and provide the necessary support the district proposes the creation of two assistant principal positions um one at Einstein Elementary School and the other at pepper Elementary School um these buildings have also have student enrollment numbers that are near or above for 100 students um making additional additional administrative support necessary um these positions will be created and
filled in accordance with the Collective Agreement between the district and the association of the O Park School administrators um the creation of these positions is a strategic response of the loss of the Esser funds and the resulting of the leadership Gap and again the increased um student enrollment numbers these will provide the necessary support to ensure that the continued success and wellbeing of our students are at the Forefront so um we will be back to
present this information um to you um at a later date but we do urge you to consider approving this proposal to maintain high standards of education and support that our district is committed to provide questions Clark um I know the pool is not very large right now for educators so and knowing that how long do you IP it would take to find someone to fill these roles so surprisingly our
principal and assistant principal um position postings have large number of responses um so we just experienced that with our um AP position over at OPA um so we had maybe about 33 or more applicants um that applied of the position okay I was just ask to ENT you have a question no to extent possible that we kind of we know how that
affects us on the on the financial side when when it's time for us to to look at this okay all right and and where those obviously where those dollars are coming from but how that affects us on all right anything else you have more no that's it okay thank you all right um it takes us to uh item number 12 board and administration Communications any Communications from members of the administration from
members of the board trusty corporate I have a few questions for the administration um the one question that I had is um um what does the survey look like so far with uh DM bur can we jot down your questions and get back to you so we could be prepared keep going so we could run down well the other thing was um what day it was
today Monday Friday um HBCU night was at the Pistons game and I uh had the opportunity of um joining them I was invited and Jesus anyway so they had it it was it was so so nice I'm sorry where some people on the floor where some people on the floor doing something I I'm going to get okay all right go you going to get to that part okay all right I'm going to let you get to that point so if you first
I wanted to say this because our students I just so wished I would have you know had like at it at a as a field trip cuz it was just that great they had where you can you know you they had a section that was they had um state of u the Central State you know was there but they had where you can get a HBCU t-shirt it came with a ticket and then they had the little emms that represented uh which either
fraternity or sority you or were with and then they had it where so um you know when it's time for defense the um audience is like you know you know they're introduced to getting loud but they had the actual HBCU um sororities and fraternities you know said hey get loud then they had had at half time uhhuh tell us about it come
on what' you say come on carry on oh no I thought Heather said something oh okay oh then at halftime they had every I have it on video I want to show you guys it was so awesome and they had every I mean they had every single sorority every single fraternity they were doing their their I don't know what it their Vans what do you call it stuffing thank you stuffing so it was just so nice and it was um welcoming you know for
Black History Month and there was also one thing it was a student um that received an award for black history I had it in my notes um but it was a student that I think they received a black history award um essay um but I wanted that student to come so we can um congratulate that student um because I thought that that was amazing cuz I remember you know being in schore writing those essays you know like who am I going to pick cuz that person
couldn't pick that person but I want to uh really have that person come and then I think the last thing that I had was um had the opportunity to take some masb classes I sent the board uh emails in regard to um the finance uh um shortfalls that I class I had and I also had the opportunity to have the class on construction projects which is actually great because we're having the activity center
being built and they gave us a lot of uh great pointers as a board on how we can go in and we can you know see the um the the process or the I should yeah the process you know with our hard hats on and uh that's pretty much it I just encourage everybody to get into these masb classes um because as a board you know it would be effective again if we had committees or even our workshops uh because in class that's all they kept talking about is the Committees the Committees
so again you know that way we don't have to come into one meeting and just talk and people get bored if one person's talking and then that way you know we have already spoken about it we understand and we understand what we're voting on as a board so to your point about the workshops um we I did reach out to Mr abdulahad and told him like I think we should do one Rel to um to a finance a specialized Finance topic that
I think will will give everyone some clarity on something that he was talking about I think the last week um so we will do that uh so that way everyone kind of kind of a one onone uh on that one topic which is a you know specialized Topic in finance um I do encourage everyone to take masb classes uh for your development if you take something and you like it you're more than welcome to share the materials
with the board uh if they give you something hopefully they give it to you um electronically so that you can send everybody a copy of it that would be great uh if they give it to you hard copy you more than welcome to scan it and send it to the rest of the board so that everybody has a chance to review it and I do want to just add that in regards to the bond like the bond that we passed that has a lot to do with financing financing and also our um our meals and our construction you know
everything is is is put together under financed of our budget of what we have you know for the uh for the so but just to correct a few things meals have nothing to do with the bonds no no bond is a bond meals are meals cuz then we just sell bonds right but then we have construction bonds yeah construction is pay for lockers or
what have you right Building Development it can yeah it can so so to your like that's exactly why we need to just do so we don't want I'm not trying to mix it up I'm not saying meals and bonds are are the same what I'm saying is is that when you have the Committees then you have those questions and then it will basically just I I don't think we need even a committee for that I think we need a session to to discuss it ab and so um in fact let's add that to the
agenda for so we can schedule it at the next meeting I I could get something in April that's fine you want that's fine yeah we'll put something we'll figure out a date in April Miss Pat we'll have Baker Tilly come out and because we have the budget amendment for the next meeting so okay that's F Well I just want to get a date so if we add it to the agenda to choose a date okay that's all so if we can do that that'd be great uh Miss Murphy can he
read why don't you come on up here help us in this meeting come on the longer you take the longer it's going to take us to end this meeting come on come come over here with me you have something yes um I took a class this week on the msap um this week as well and it was a great class um then I just want to know from the superintendent when will we have our walk through of the school will we get that this year so we're going to
do one during break okay we're we're planning in right now we talked about possibly Thursday or Friday okay um so they could have a route for us because I want to take you to see the pool being buil and show you the ins and outs of the last series of bonds what it thank you so we're planning for either the Thursday the 23rd
he's not Friday okay okay thank you so kindly gentl hold make sure she's good you good you good trusty Ty I'm good I'm I'm great gent that I saw in the doorway did he deliver the food or cook the food for us at the he's the chef TJ oh yeah can you send him a message that that was that food was great yes you just did oh we're not on
TV we fair to get love the food thank you yeah I I Can Do I Can Do I can do one better on that I'll send them a thank you note all right all right okay we ready okay so anything else from other members of the board no okay we're at a German go the board's next meeting will be at 6 p.m.
Monday February 20 24th 20 2025 at the Oak Park Schools administration administration building my man