good evening um the time is 6:03 and we're going to call the uh April 22nd 2025 Oak Park Board of Education special meeting to order
miss Greer please call the role clark here corrin present elvin here madison here scott tanks here uh the okay
here we're good okay the agenda was uh circulated prior to today's meeting um it's not long on paper but it is a comprehensive discussion on a few topics
i don't know how y'all we in summer school long but u it is what it is uh in any case uh the agenda is here before you and it was provided prior to today's meeting are there any concerns
relative to the agenda okay hearing none without objection we'll pass a motion to approve the agenda by unanimous consent any objection to doing so okay the agenda is hereby approved we will now go uh to public participation we come to the priority of the meeting
where the public has the opportunity to address the board if it so desires public particip public participation is one way communication in which members of the public are asked to address the full board with the understanding that board members will not be able to respond trusty Perez would you please
provide the public comment because the board excuse me because the Oak Board Education 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 school
district employee that disrupts the order of 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 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 ask that comments remain focused on the topic or issue and
not directed at specific personnel or board member okay thank you are there any members of the public who would like to address the board do we have any cards no cards any members of the public who would like to address the
board okay hearing none we'll go to item four presentations we have three of those one of those the first one of those uh involve deals with school finance um we've talked about uh some of this at nauseium at length and we've asked for uh there there are members of
the board that have asked for study sessions and things of that nature i can't think of anything um other than you know academic performance of our students that's just as as important um so uh luckily we have um Mr nelson CPA
Jesse Arnel a CPA from Baker Tilly and we have our own Dr shri Foster here to to present foster yes okay uh here to present um and so with that I will be quiet get out the way and let them have the floor thank
you President um members of the board good evening Superintendent Abdullah community members and cabinet and district employees yes we have Mr nelson here that will provide us with a very comprehensive detailed thorough presentation as it pertains to the
overview of our voted bonds i kindly ask that if you have any questions we provided some index cards that if you can write down your questions for all the presentations that will be before you this evening and we as cabinet members and um presenters will provide
responses in our weekly board updates this Friday so if you can just let us know which question which presentation um the question and presentation it pertains to we'll absolutely provide you with a a thorough response without further ado we'll have Mr nelson great
well again thank you very much for your time i really appreciate the board's time tonight very excited to talk about this topic tonight we'll be talking about an overview of bonds we'll really start high level you know what does a school district in Michigan voted bond issue
we'll get into state programs we'll get into options how do you look at construction the bond issuance all those different components we'll walk through in tonight's presentation and then certainly as Sher said if there's questions followups um certainly I'll get those back to you and then we'll
also look at some specific information that works for our park school districts as well with that why don't we go ahead and jump in slides here so our first slide that we're going
to look at is actually in the lower right hand corner page number four presentation paper and what uh page number four does is it gives us kind of a big picture overview you know we've got five to 10 minutes we're working together what is a
voted bond issue for Michigan school district so on the left hand side what a school district is really asking community is a question and the question that's being asked is do you the community allow us the school district
to go out and issue a maximum dollar bond amount to do capital improvements buy equipment purchases for our school district so if you have the sample ballot language you would see up the top 10 million 15 20 $30 million whatever
that bond amount is is not figure that the community member is voting on when they go to the voter booth because there's a referendum there's a voted bond issue so they're approving that item then underneath it there's a paragraph showing what the bond proceeds can be used for you'll see
words such as athletics uh technology purchases uh security improvements refurbishments all of the types of items that these bond proceeds could possibly use be used for the different improvements of the school district
question for you sure um hello i've been through this before but I'm just want to make sure we lay it out define issue bond so what happens is after the voters approve the bond issue we work with the administration we put a bond official statement together uh saying "Hey World
Park Schools we're going to sell $20 million worth of bonds." And then we actually have a sale date when investors give us bids for interest rates what they're going to buy those bonds at and then they will give the school district $20 million that hits a restricted cash
account where you do the sidewalks the roofs and then we have an agreement to repay that bond issue over the 20 25 year period so that's the bond issue part after the voters approve they give you money up front that you have to return over time exactly with interest
exactly yeah no you nailed it it's just like a debt instrument but in this case because it's a Michigan school district bond it has to fit into that got you yep a great question and so that the B the ballot before the voter is saying okay what's the maximum amount of bonds that
we can issue and then what can we use the money for uh for example if we don't put in the ballot language bus purchases and let's say we come in under budget for construction it would be nice to go buy a new bus well we didn't put
bus purchases the community didn't approve that allowable purchase for it and you can't do it so when putting the ballot language together when putting your project together you're working with your attorneys who draft those language for you and you want to make sure yep that's the dollar amount we want and these are
the possible things that we can do with our school district when we receive those funds may I add something that's a very important component because as you recall when we just went through all those esser dollars there was a lot of back and forth of what we use er versus
the bonds and these these type of meetings and conversations are very important in terms of getting engagement from the board members the community stakeholders and things of that nature because when I came on board there was a lot of bumping heads of we want the bonds to cover this but it wasn't approved for that versus
ESSER or other funding sources so the finance and what um operations department is we have to stay lock step in terms of all these different projects and how they're funded to make sure that we're utilizing and maximizing the grant funding the sync and fund bonds and everything that everything is like in
sync yeah it's an excellent point i mean as you're seeing as a board and the state receives funding in many different buckets and you know shares just like working with you is trying to figure we want to do this what is the appropriate bucket what's the legal part of that and the voted bonds that language will set those
approved the election so to the right of that if the community approves of the vote meaning there's more yes votes than no votes then you as the school district are required to levy a dedicated bond property tax mill rate each year to make
the bond repayment we just talked about we're going to issue a debt instrument or bond issue so the investors will give us the 10520 million and then we're going to repay that over 105 years very similar to your monthly mortgage payment although we have annual payments that
are going to have to pay over the year where we're going to get the money from that is from once the voters approve that bond issue we are allowed to levy a specific property tax rate on the community which will collect the money to make the bond payments so the community member is approving the
not to exceed bond amount and then what you're going to be used for it and then you the school district must levy a bond mill rate each year that's necessary to make that payment uh I work with shares each year to recalculate that mage rate uh we get the new property tax values
and that mill rate can go up or down depending on what the bond payment d is due that year and where our property values went to so it's a little bit um uh what the question is and what will happen so if we did a bond election here
we would certainly tell the community members if you approve the bond the estimated effect on your property taxes is X or it's zero or whatever that is and then if the community members approve that you must love your property tax rate to make the bond payment so the
general fund a lot of the other funds that you're using to operate the school district will not repay this bond issue because the community has approved this project they have approved dedicated property tax um the question that I have is basically what you were talking about about the
rates the maximum bond millage rate so in regards to the community you know with the levy um that be based off of the percentage of the um the amount that we're asking
for or does that come after meaning um so it comes after so if we're if we're asking I mean if we're asking the community or either to vote yes or no will they know the amount that they're asking I mean that they're going
to levy so they can vote i mean because you know we're going to point out what this money is going toward so how much will they know how much that money is yes we'll be able to give them an estimate um so you have a great example hey our
community please approve our $20 million bond and if you approve it we estimate that our bond mill rate will not change it will remain 5.9 or hey we have a larger project and we estimate if you approve that we're going to have to raise the
uh to your point because we have a new bond payment right we have our property values and then what is the calculation of the rate to calculate that so we certainly disclose that to the community uh we'll talk about a little bit later that you set up you're allowed to have a bond website where you can give the
actual information and a lot of the times it starts out with hey we're going to do playgrounds x and y and then click here to see what the estimated change in your military would be yeah because I think as you're seeing which makes perfect sense is you know I'm a community member okay what are you
going to do with the money and then what is that going to do under my property tax bill and we've got to provide all that information so they can make a sound decision so towards the middle uh what's called the multiple bond series option and so what this is saying is if you get
a in one election a certain amount of not to exceed bonds approved you don't have to go out and immediately issue all the bonds at once so just an example let's say uh the community approves $30 million worth of bonds we may not go out
and do one bond issue for 30 million we may do 10 million in year 1 10 million in year three 10 million in year five and you can issue the bonds over a period of time financially that's advantageous to us uh and that we're not
paying interest expense on my example $30 million at once uh we also may do that because of construction timing you know let's say we have we're going to replace the middle school road we really can't do that for three years down the road but we don't want to be paying on
bonds or receiving money for a project that we can't even do so there's even a long-term strategy about your long-term capital facilities and then matching up when the money's coming in is when you're actually going to construct those projects um and so that is a very uh
typical process we're seeing for many school districts here at Park we use that same strategy our last voted bond proposal had multiple bond series where you matched up the money coming in with the projects you're trying to complete and we just completed the last series recently this year with that bond
what's the strategic benefit for doing it in a series one is financially that we don't pay interest on all of the bonds immediately so my example I said if we get a $30 million bond passed and we went out and issued 30 million we paying interest expense on 30 million if
we split that into 10 10 and 10 we have years to only pay interest on 10 million we can repay those bonds before a new bond comes on and then strategically uh if there's projects that we know we're going to have to do down the road so again I'm just going to say middle school roof is good but it's going to be
need to be replaced in four years we don't we can have the money coming in when the actual construction project um you stated about you made the example about the 30 million then carrying it out year by year by year up to how many
years can we carry that out so once the voter approves the not exceeded it is eternal uh so then it becomes once the voter approves it becomes to you and the administration about how you want to actually deploy that uh so for example
you going back to your point we will disclose to the community the plan is and just using the 10 10 and 10 and the first 10 we're going to be parking lots roofs uh but in the example where interest rates are really low and we can get a good deal we can sell
the other side of it uh let's say unfortunately economic conditions don't go well and we don't want to take on more bonds at this time to maintain the military well then we can delay those bond sales we can push them back as long as we don't go outside what the voter has approved which is the
maximum doubt about what we can do with the money we have the ability to make those changes if it's advantageous for your project all right so then to the right allowable uses of bond proceeds in this case it all has to be capital
related so capital meaning uh projects which are going to extend the useful life so think of uh you know we talked about gymnasium floors oh gosh we are allowed to buy buses we are allowed to buy Chromebooks or classroom technology
with it uh but what we can't we can't pay salaries and wages for it we can't do maint with it and the attorneys always get into a debate is hey we're going to paint the wall well that's maintenance and we can't use it for the capital but we're going to we're going to renovate the entire wall and the wing
to it well then we can do it with proceeds so this is fine line capital the key being that it has to be used for capital improvements and it's not focused on running the general operations of the school district do you have other funds for that
uh so then kind of just the inverse we talked about the allowable and not allowable uh then obviously we just talked about general fun operating related expenditures are not allowed that's the far right box on slide four okay so just to reiterate we had some
good questions on what is a bond delivery or how do we repay these bonds so just a real simple illustration and again these are made up numbers this is not our school district here is every year working with shares we get a new
taxable value figure so the property values you me everyone we get reassessed every year and they say our values are x and then we have a millage rate in this example 7.5 that's going to generate 5.1 million of tax collections we have a bond
payment of 4.8 million so we're going to bring in 5.1 we're going to pay 4.8 and then that would be an increase in our debt retirement funds of 271,000 so again this bond millary does not interact with the general fund is
its dedicated own its own cash account and it strictly receives money to make bond payments and then you are allowed to keep a reserve and recalculate every year you'll be approving what's called form L429 probably at your June meeting and that's where you will see your new
bond mill rate and that recalculation everything coming in to pay off our existing bond so this is what the concept of what's happening on basis so we do have uh obviously just like anything we do have laws we do have restrictions here in the state of
Michigan regarding voted bond issues uh up at the top we do have what's called a debt limit we can't have bonds that are outstanding voted bonds that are outstanding greater than 15% of state equalized value uh just to make things
more confusing taxable value is one figure state equalized value is another figure for property values difference is state equalized value is half the market value your taxable value is what you're actually allowed to be taxed on and those are two different numbers because we do have
restrictions on how much more in taxes you can pay per year in your property so there is a debt limit we have to track we're not near that or it's not a concern here at the park uh there is the exception you can see underneath that is if we use a state program which we're
going to talk about the school bond qualification loan program then those are not subject to that debt limit and you're allowed to go outside that debt if you need but we do have some restrictions there we count on it but again it's nothing that we're facing here we also have a limit on the length
that we can repay the debt or the maximum period for the bonds so we have a 30-year maximum length we can be 30 years at the longest we can have a shorter term anything less than 30 years and then the other part of that as
far as what's your bond issue length is you've got to be able to show uh that your assets you're going to construct are going to last as long as your bond amortization period so what that's saying is we don't want to be paying on assets so we're still repaying the debt we still have bond amorization schedule
but that sidewalk's not going to last that long right so we know the sidewalk's only going to last 10 years we're not going to do a 20-year bond meaning the sidewalk needs to be replaced and we've got another 10 years to pay on it so there's some useful life calculations that
um who sets the mill who sets the mill rate every week the school district and that recalculation will be coming up be working with and you'll see that on the L429 the June meeting when that comes up so there are some voted bonds
restrictions again 30-year maximum length we do have limit on the amount of debt that we can have outstanding so with that I'm going to move to the next slide so you as board members and and as administrators there's a lot of terms thrown around and then one of those in
the school district voted upon are the terms qualified or not qualified so the state of Michigan has a state program uh which exists to help uh school districts uh get a lower cost of
borrowing for when they do voted bonds and how that works is if you use this program called the school bond qualification loan program we would submit an application to the state and we would say "Hey we're going to I'm going to keep doing the $30 million
examples we're going to ask our voters to approve $30 million at each school building these are the types of improvements that we're going to do this goes in the application this is the estimated payment of bonds to the mill rate." and you submit that application and then once they approve
your project and you go to actually issue the bonds you know we talked about earlier going to get the money from the investors the state will essentially back the bond issue or be a co-signer on that bond issue so what that means essentially is in the event um we park
could not make that bond payment the state of Michigan would come in and loan money to make those bond holders and when they that we get a higher credit score or higher bond rating which helps us get lower interest rates on the market uh here park we've
historically used this program uh and it's been pretty beneficial to us and I think we should you know if we do a voted bond is strongly use it again uh but it's available to you to do that and then some of the advantages and disadvantages because you don't have to
use that program so that's an option uh and then you can see in the middle The advantages is you know we get the stronger credit rating that helps us get a lower cost of borrowing there's also a sub program called the school loan revolving fund which I'll touch in a little bit it does give you the
ability to access that program as well uh the bonds are not subject to that 15% debt limit uh the disadvantages is they do have their rules you know you're using their state program right so they're going to have to fill out the application they do have some rules in the construction process and also they
want 90 days to review that application so if we're going to be voting here that means 90 days in advance of that we got to have our project lined up you got to have everything done and that does shorten our time period as far as your decision making process because you got to give them that 90 days to read that
application so then if we go nonqualified we don't use that program well then you don't need to fill out the application but you also don't get the state's credit rating and you don't get access to the school there's some pros and cons there making that decision why
go not qualified at all you may not is there a reason you may not qualify for that no a lot of the districts the vast majority in Michigan use this program and go for it uh the sometimes I see it you know very large districts just feel
they have a high enough credit score and they don't want to do the application they're not up against the debt limit and they like having that flexibility uh but certainly in southeast Michigan you know most of the state we use that program all the time because you know we know what we're going to do uh myself and your construction team's going to
fill out the application so it's not any burden more on you uh and it's a nice program to have i would say probably and if we were going to do a voter bond issue we probably would again unless some circumstances where we had a short time frame
what's a substantial amount or percentage amount to ask for since we said that um to to help the community understand you know
the you know when you say raise taxes you know that's a that's a really big thing but if they understand that the the calculation is not like if you speak 30 million that doesn't mean it's going
to be 3,000 you know it's a lower percentage so I just want the community to understand that that you know that millage amount is not significant you know in added on to it the uh property
taxes no and we always give that financial information we've got some good examples because you bring up a good point uh we do have an opportunity coming up here with the school district because of where our bonds are going we had some good things go with the last program where there is an opportunity to
get some additional funing we won't have to we would just extend time so in that case to your point and again we'll see because it's a great question is in this uh community members if you'll approve this project and the improvements it's estimated we will not have to change
your mill rate it'll just be extended for a little bit long all right so that's just an overview of the state program on slide seven i'm going to touch just to make things more confusing so there's the school
bond qualification loan program then there's a sub program under that program called the school loan revol i'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on this the reason being that the minimum in the middle to participate in this program is seven mills uh and
our bond mill rate is not near seven mills and we're talking exactly what you're saying about raising property taxes so we probably won't use this program use the school bond qualification loan program if the district ever needed it we would still have access to it but probably most likely
not all right so slide nine gives you an overview of the different entities that help school districts uh get from the idea to completed their voted bond project to the ballot and putting all those items
together uh different groups that are responsible and helping you get information so you can put the program that you want together so on the left hand side municipal advisor uh that's from myself and my firm works on it we're responsible for the financial and capital plan uh so we get many calls of
hey we're looking at this dollar amount we're looking at these types of improvements it's our job to calculate that bond military get you those estimates what are those possible financial scenarios if you issue bonds like this what does it look like we have to get you all of that information so
that you understand if I choose A B or C what does that mean to the property tax mill what does that mean to our funding plan so the accounting the financial part of that process and then when the bond proposal is successful at the bottom it's our job to help you get to
the capital markets to do the bond official statement have that bond sale and complete all of those items so in our last bond sale we worked with Angel and Teres we had a bond ready conference call we put an official statement together everything from getting that money in the bank so you can do those
improvements from the financial account in the middle is the bond council so this is your uh law firm that's working with you on the project they're responsible for all the legal parameters uh can we do that type of
project is that under state law they're going to review the application and then they are the ones responsible preparing the ballot language that the community member will see when they go in to vote on the spond issue so that paragraph that we talked about before not to exceed everything you want to disclose
on that they take care of that and then at the bottom they'll prepare your board authorizing resolutions all the legal documents for closing so that's the attorney who's working with you on the project and everything that's associated then your far right hand side uh is your
construction team and these are the folks they do facility and infrastructure studies a lot of the times they walk around with you and the administration and they'll say "Hey let's go find out where the roofs at where the boilers you know it's been nice to maybe have a STEM building
here we want to do an exception." They're supposed to give you the estimates of what those projects would cost so you know so you're beginning to say "Hey these are the things we want to do at Oak Park." They give you those costs they give you the when those are improvements uh there's many different scenarios but it's their job to do the
construction side of it and then once construction starts they'll be helping you build and track it everything from the construction going forward once you receive the funds so these three entities uh when evaluating a voted bond issue it's their job to give you the different options
the pros and cons everything from their angle so that you're able to make the decision how you want to proceed all right so we've got the financial account we've got the legal and then we've got your construction all right I like the next slide but I also look like it's kind of a board game that
has all these different errors all over the place so it's a great chart to have but we'll kind of talk from the big picture and work our way backwards and done a great job of any questions that pop up so first thing I'm going to do is actually go to the bottom and for a voted bond issue
ideally starts one and a half to two years prior to the election uh the reason that's important is because it's it gives you a lot of time to get a lot of feedback from different people stakeholders that would be involved in the vot process what does the community
what kind of improvements would they like to see they need new auxiliary gym do they want a new pickup at a building you know you get your community feedback or what they feel they'd like to see for the facilities at the schools uh you also get a chance to talk to staff and then you the board so
there's a lot of input coming in to what would like to happen at the same time you're getting facility study feedback from the construction team there you know you have a lot of buildings and physical plant there's some things that we're going to have to do that you know it's not really optional right the
middle school board is going to fail in two years we've got to have heating and cooling right so that makes that a must have we've got to know where those putting us together so you're really building your list of everything that you want to do and then getting those cost estimates so then at the same time
you're providing that information to us as mal advisor and it's our job to then say well if you do a $30 million project here's what the mill rate is going to look like what does this mean to the community how are you going to sell those bonds if you do an option B what does that look like so you're able to
begin putting A B and C side by side and making decisions how you want to line that up and put that together because there can be some tough decisions you know if we're doing a three series bond and the last series is going to be eight years out who's going to go first right
we're going to have one election but series 3 isn't until eight years out well in middle school we'd like to get that air conditioning first well if you do that we got to push this parking lot back right so you can imagine you know working with your staff and your team and your community how many scenarios how do you find that balancing act of
putting it together so it's nice to be able to get that input have that year and a half two years to put that together uh put these financial scenarios so that you do that so then you know looking at step six we decide if we're qualified not qualified we get the financial estimates
we move down to step eight uh and then once using the school line qualification loan program we're through that 90 days the board would call for the election finalize the bond plan and then step election to the community so uh anyway you can see it's estimated about a year
and a half two years just because you want to get that feedback you want plenty of time to make decisions it's not a rush job you're going to feel really good about what you're putting forth because you had a lot of time to evaluate different options so slide 11 gives a summary of the
different allowable election dates that we have in Michigan and then the processes are the key items and when they need to happen so in the top left corner of the box we have three election dates which will happen in any given
year here in Michigan we have May August and November and then what I only key on as far as any project you know what's the deadline and that's going to be your treasury meeting so let's that's the
second item down in that box so if we were going to target a May election we would have our treasury meeting the previous December or January prior to that May so that means at that time we have to know what are our dollars amount we're going to ask the
community we've got to know exactly what the estimated project costs are where we're going to do it in the building and the financial plan so everything has to come together that period of time and you can see from backing up that 90 days of that period how far in advance we've got to work even before we're going to
be at the election if we choose August that's the March April time frame and then if you choose November that's the June or July time frame and then after that you can see the different board actions everything that comes together
all the way to election day which is always that second Tuesday of that so this slide is just to give you an overview of the process or putting it together but just as I talked about in a couple previous slides there's a lot going on even before you get to that
so now we're going to move into more information that's specific to our school district and one of the items that really drives what you can get as far as the funding mechanisms for a voted bond issue what that mill rate is is the
change in the taxable value of the property base uh here within the school district because the property base is rising the military is generating more revenues and that means you can do a lot larger project without having to change that so this is our 20-year history uh
going back from 2004 to 2024 uh you can look in the top right corner and the community has seen really strong taxable value growth we're seeing 9 11% and 9% uh the new 2025 value should be coming out soon but as far as
the property values everything's looking really good really strong and it's great to see that you know talking about how things can change or how we can adjust from the different bond series uh if you look down from you know 2013 12 2008 we
all lived through that remember the 2008 you know property values and housing crisis we can see what was changing at that time with our property values so one of the items that we talked about earlier in the bond series you know what are the advantages to that our construction or financing and if
unfortunately economic conditions begin to move against us we're able to adjust those bond series accordingly should that play out but as you can see in the top right corner everything's been really strong in the area and everything looks good in this area so slide 13 is our estimated bond mill
rate on our existing bonds so what this is saying is if we park never issued another bond issue what is the estimated bond millage rate going forward so the green bars are the annual bond payments uh that we need to
make per year on our existing bonds and that black line is the estimated bond rate so lower left hand corner you know is 2024 moving all the way out to the year 2054 uh one key item to look at is the
difference between 2026 and 2027 and what you see is that the green bar goes down it's over three and a half million and then it drops into 3 million so at that period of time we will have paid off a good of our existing bonds
and our bond payment is going to drop well if we don't have as high of a bond payment then we would lower the the bond military to 4.37 in that example because we don't need to collect as many property taxes because we don't have as high of a bond so that's why you see
that shift going forward at that time uh so it does create you know a very good scenario for the community in that you know we have we're paying off our bonds we do have the bond going forward it also provides the opportunity to to do more capital
funding and not have to raise that rate of 5.98 because that opportunity is going to be coming up with the bonds being paid off uh so it's a nice scenario to have between 26 and 27 you have some options here at the community about how to look at additional capital
funding and not have to raise that 5.98 because that bond is going to be paid off at that time so up at the top this is an illustration so we always get the question you know obviously there's a
lot going on there's a lot planning but let's just put something together for talking purposes or just to be able to understand you know we talked about well what does it mean not to raise the military or what are we putting together so again this is just an illustration it's just made up numbers
at this point so what in the blue I'm sorry in the top left corner this is a November 2026 bond election so that's the timing that's being illustrated here and then in the blue box at the bottom this is showing a total of election of
$29.5 million so lower right hand corner of the blue box that is the figure using this illustration that would be at the ballot language for the not to exceed bond amount so if we walk in the voter booth uh community of Oak Park would you approve $29.5 million for these
improvements that's what they would see in this illustration then above that those bonds would be issued in two series or two phases the first phase being 10 million in 2027 and the second phase being 19.5
million in 2029 so we talked about we can issue an series it could be two or three again this is But just to show you what an example capital plan would look like you would obviously customize a two three four series however you want to do that
but just make sure what you're seeing so then on the far right hand side the if the community was to approve this mill increase it's then estimated that the prop the mill property tax millage rate would stay at
5.98 or there would be no change in the mill rate if they were to approve that so you know kind of talking about our communications earlier in this illustration we would say Oak Park community we're asking you to approve $29.5 million here's what we intend to
do with the money parking lots gross athletics whatever it is and then it is estimated if you approve this election it would not change your rate from 5.98 because we're going to fill in where that bond's going to drop off and we're just going to extend that 5.98 a little bit longer and you'll see that on the
next page so then if this project is approved the gold bar is the estimated bond millage rate the blue line is our existing bonds so then you're able to show uh you know here's where we are today if this
capital plan was approved here's what's estimated would happen if this election was approved now all of these are subject to estimates we can't predict where property values are going to go as we talked about earlier this is the information which will be provided to the community so they can make a
decision to put it back together it's a really nice situation to have or decision to work with uh you know what a lot of school districts from the financial accounting side of it what they want to do is not have to increase their mill rate to their community at the same time they want to maintain
their facilities so it's nice when you can find that proper balance of yes we can maintain our fac parking lot so we don't have to change that mill rate uh so you've got a lot of good options and you've got some time before that decision has to be made so it's a really nice uh scenario for you and some time
to work on it but that's an illustration how that would play out all right so then the next slide is what is the uh capital mill rate uh here at the school district and when I say capital
mill rate we really have two mill rates the bond millage rate we levy each year to repay the bonds so that's the blue box on the far right hand side and then you also have a syncing fund which is a military each year and you are uh allowed to then bring in those dollars
and use those for capital projects as well and so what we did just to bring helpful information to the board is we went from 2005 forward so you could see the history the history of the saving funded on the total mill rate that the community has seen over that period of
time so we just wanted to have that information because it's a a good question want to provide that to you last slide you know what are some example communications what do a lot of school districts do there's been a lot of good
discussion tonight you know doing a voted bond issue it's important to get community input a lot of community feedback and then get the information out there that's factual so community member can make their decision i just pulled this one from Bullet Creek School
District they had a 2024 bond issue and here's some of the information that they put on their website they had highlighted projects on the right hand side they talked about voting information what they'll see on the ballot i've seen it done many different
ways uh but as we talked about earlier the goal is just to be transparent and inform people so that they can make a decision uh you know here at the school district and the attorneys will jump in we're not supposed to advocate we're supposed to be present to them and putting those together just wanted to
show you what some examples look like but again there's many different ways many different options to communicate that information can you um share with the board the percentage uh success rate of a no mill
increase versus a taxable increase and the success rating between the two and just kind of reinforce that we're looking at a no mill rate what the successes are in the state of Michigan yeah I
don't have the exact figures but it's significant i'm sure it's 80 85% higher if you're not having to ask for an increase in the military and that can drop to 40 4550 if you are having to ask you know for an increase in the military
right and just we talked about before a lot of the school districts are working we're trying to find that balance of not having to raise that mill rate and raise and to maintain facilities but you can imagine if it's been I don't know 10 15 20 years since your last capital Well at that point
you're probably going to be having to ask for an increase it's been a long time uh so yes I mean whenever you get that opportunity or see that going forward you want to find that balance it's good to have that planning period you really got a nice scenario about how things have been set up and this is what
we're attempting to do yeah we were working that's what we still continue to improve any other final questions or those are great questions those are good points you know it's been great working on the
prior project and really have a nice set of options ahead of you and then the other nice thing is you know this is not a decision that's you know two weeks away or we've got to do this thing you got plenty of time to get community input put these things together you know that's not having the car off so it's a good option to have before
did I miss it or did you talk about the repayment period uh so the maximum any individual bond sale can be is 30 years so 30 years or less so we can do it really depends on keeping that military at 5.98 but we try
to do shorter bonds if possible just to pay it down it'll kind of depend on the capital And then that's my job is to give you well if you do 25 we do 30 year bonds so you can put those side by side and see what Mr nelson thank you for the presentation are there any other
questions for Mr uh you have contact information all right well we'll get it um so thank you for the presentation much appreciated and um I feel ready to go do your job now
i don't so thank you thank you very much really appreciate your time i gave this thing the most exciting thing but hope you got the parameters you got a lot of good planning options so thank you for your time tonight
i warm we got one with child so make sure we're not doing it for me for the little ones all right uh we're going to item 4 B K12 um did Dr fant make sure she didn't have
anything okay all right um we're going to item 4B K12 curriculum summer school and Miss Mur Mrs murphy is here to present yes good evening to our board our superintendent and our cabinet um
what a wonderful time to come after finance as we uh talk about uh the summer learning opportunities for the scholars of the Oak Park School District we doing this without the whole team i know look they don't put I see one team member over there team member and another team member we feel a little
cheated that we don't have the whole team in here ready to uh set it off go ahead all by myself okay that's my word on tonight uh but I'm going to be uh quick and as as please remember uh because we have a ton of information to get through tonight you have your index
cards if you have any questions uh please write them down and then uh our department of teaching and learning will make sure to respond to them in our weekly Friday updates to the board um but this presentation is specifically related to our summer discovery program opportunity for the uh scholars of the Oak Park School District i am Shaina
Murphy the director of curriculum um this presentation was uh collaboratively completed with um Sherry Bugziger our director of data along with our superintendent Mr angel Abdul Laahara as per usual just as a reminder here are the five uh core value beliefs of the
Oak Park School District um first and foremost maintaining physical emotional and cultural safety um definitely aligned to the financial uh presentation we just received uh building productive relationships with all stakeholders providing equitable anti-racist instruction and practices having
prepared thoughtful successful engaged members of a global community and maximize our resources again related to our financial presentation with transparency and accountability so to kick us off the way we were able to design this uh summer program option
with our superintendent and uh Miss Bug Ziger it is through um funding and partnerships so summer discovery um program um brought to us by the United Way of South Eastern Michigan in conjunction and partnership with the Balmer Group um we um Superintendent
Abdullah Haj and Miss Buckiger u we went out for this grant and we were approved for this grant so we were approved up to $1.2 million so I want to shout out my team member Cherry Bug Ziger working with our superintendent and Dr foster to
get this grant um to provide this wonderful opportunity for our scholars this summer um that funding equates to about $2,000 per student um and this grant only covers students in K through eight however we have other funding sources to cover 9 through 12 we will not leave them out um and the program is
four days per week plus one Friday uh for field trips and it covers staff sal a whole host of things staff salaries transportation materials meals enrichment activities uh field trip expenses uh all that means is we keep the fund balance healthy so that's all
we love to see all right so um all district institutes as usual we break this up into four key areas of transportation um again for summer programming all students are offered transportation um that mirrors our during the school
year so if they receive you know a certain bus during the the school uh excuse me the regular school year they'll get that same busing opportunity for summer um number two is curriculum we always focus on standards based and targeted programming to address student needs um food services we love to feed the babies so we'll make sure we have
hot uh breakfast and lunch for all of the scholars that are attending um summer programming and their staffing we love that our Oak Park um instructional leaders and highly qualified certified teachers and parent educators are pumped and excited um to support us in offering this opportunity for our
students program locations so uh we had to revert back to a few years ago when we're kind of combining um we used to do this a lot many many years ago but for elementary we will be in one location all three elementaryaries in one location this summer um in part due to a lot of the capital improvements and um
facility updates that we have to do in the other buildings so all elementary will be at uh Pep I was getting ready to say key y'all already know will be at Pepper Elementary uh middle school ops and NOVA will all be at the high school but in all totally separate wings again
this is due to a lot of the facility updates we have to do in the other buildings across the district and ESY which is also known as extended school year option for our students with disabilities who require that continuation of services that will also be located at Pepper Elementary how many of those students are there pardon how
many of those uh right now it's roughly about 15 um but the teachers are still gathering their data because it has to be a database decision our summer learning calendar is here um we start June
23rd June 23rd through July the 31st um we go Monday through Thursday with one Friday because of the grant with the Balmer group um we do have to um provide 25 days of instruction um so that 25th day we will make that field trip Friday
um on on or around July the 25th there is no school for in recognition of the July 4th holiday so K8 summer discovery our program anticipated program uh leaders are there on the bottom um we have Mr haley for elementary um academics Miss Prince for
elementary enrichment and Mr island um for middle school summer programming our daily schedule uh now because of the grant with the Balmer Group we have to offer an I believe it's an eight hour day for
children an eight hour day a part of that eight hours I know right let all the all the parents whoop okay look eight hour day sign up okay uh beginning at 7 to 8 a.m we can offer before care and early parent drop off uh buses we will be
running our bus routes um beginning at 7:30 a.m um morning session begins 7:45 to 8:30 that's arrival and hot breakfast and then 8:30 to 11:30 uh oh there's a typo i'm sorry not till 11:30 p.m we will not be offering uh after work here
like like everybody in Oak Parkour day go ahead sign up uh but no excuse excuse us for that typo 8:30 to 11:30 a.m we will offer 3 hours of math and English instruction um and then there will be a lunch break hot lunch is provided and
then um half hour of teacher planning and then we transition into an afternoon of enrichment so we're we're looking to offer a bunch of great opportunities crafting cooking uh sports music all of those things we had our teachers do an
interest survey and we had them tell mentoring all of the things that they wanted to offer our children so we're excited to offer this enrichment opportunity in SEO which is social emotional learning in the afternoon uh the day does end at 3:45 okay uh but that is our entire day for K8 only
summer discovery and as I mentioned the enrichment programs that our staff are highly interested in offering to our children are listed there we have arts music dance theater uh STEM so some science and technology offerings social emotional so mentoring group
interactions and then of course uh it's summertime we need to get our kids outside and moving so PE or physical education sports games outdoor things um to get them out in the sunlight in the summertime and as per usual from our last couple of
years our KA summer discovery our student selection we will focus on students who are at risk um of meeting our benchmark requirements um for standards instruction we will focus on I Ready so we're going to take a look at the spring I Ready data and u specifically invite children now every
it is open to everyone but we want to target it's open to everybody uh Trustee uh Madison uh but we want to specifically target those scholars who needed just a little bit more time to to demonstrate mastery of their grade level content so it is open to everyone but we're going to make a conscientious
effort to reach out to the children who need it a little bit you know we only in school 180 days sometimes some kids need you know extra 10 extra 25 so we're going to make sure we reach out to them but it's open to everybody of course we're going to offer hot breakfast and lunch focus on literacy math and social emotional learning and then do a lot of
community building um those soft skills that our kids are lacking uh that we need to really make sure that we're sending them out into the world as productive citizens in society and that's just a brief overview of our summer curriculum for K8 so for ELA we're doing some direct instruction
make sure the kids know okay these are your sounds your blends here's how you uh find in find the inference from this passage um we're going to use I Ready and then social emotional learning capturing kids hearts we're going to um we we we invested a lot in capturing kids hearts thanks to our superintendent
this year um so we're going to leverage a lot of those lessons that are already uh available to us and then for mathematics we're going to use um our math expressions that we already use and then I ready which all the kids are already familiar with program impact um for our K8 of
course we're focused on academic growth um with that targeted instruction to specifically work um prevent summer learning loss that we know all too well um enrichment so we're so excited to offer these enrichment opportunities that it's just not summer school because a lot of kids don't want to come because it's just oh we just doing some more
reading some more math okay I don't want to go mama but we want to offer these other fun activities um that they can get excited about to come and to be partakers of in our summer um activities social emotional development so teamwork resilience all those soft skills kids
need to be great members of our community and then community building um strengthening those local um partnerships and family support aka providing full day uh summer yes t uh president what is our communication strategy uh on this because nine times
out of 10 you're right you're going to hear especially when you're adolesccents I am in the mood and the parents probably don't feel like fighting with them to get them up in the morning what's the communication strategy to talk about the benefits and all the things they'll receive in order to get
the parents to say you know what you're going absolutely i'll I'll provide a short answer now and I'll provide more information in our weekly update but a large part of the grant is the marketing line item they provide a lot of funding for us to blast it out um exhaust all of
our resources posters our weekly newsletter sending all of these communications there's a line item in the grant that provides us more funding to really reach those families and let them know this is an opportunity that our children have um that they can drop them off beginning at 7:00 in the
morning receive hot breakfast and lunch and get a full day of activities inclusive of academics we're hoping that that draw a full day as opposed to half day i got to make way to come find you know somebody to pick you up um we really believe that our community will step but we did this program a similar
type of programming about four years ago um about four years ago and it was it was highly successful because of that full day you about to go and we're hope again also those enrichment opportunities so mentoring sports cooking STEM gaming we're is that how we're
selling that yes in addition to the fact that you can come and make sure you're getting academic enrichment uh but not forgetting the fact that there are other aspects of this that that you might find appealing Yes all right
absolutely um now I'm going to switch gears a little bit the Balmer group through the United Way um the grant it summer discovery is only K8 and that is by uh by the grant um however we will offer a summer learning opportunity for
our um 9 through 12 scholars as well for OPs and NOVA so for our high school programming um we're going to focus obviously on students who are credit deficient to make sure that they are on track for graduation um and catch them before they get all the way to you know
junior year and senior year um so we will focus on nth nth and tth graders missing ELA and math credits to catch them up um to provide again a little bit more learning opportunities for summer and then for 11th and 12th graders any missing graduation credits um we got
somebody who doesn't agree with summer i know i know right hey look look how she looking at that boo um we will also offer hot breakfast and lunch to all of our scholars K through 12 um and then of course still focusing on those soft skills social emotional learning for 9 through
12 um their uh setup is similar to last year core subjects so we will focus on ELA and math specifically for uh 9th and 10th grade direct instruction and again some kids just needed a little bit extra you know extra time to master those concepts and that's okay that's when we
offer summer learning opportunity um and then blended so we'll use Edmondum um aka E2020 um to specifically focus on those children in 11 and 12 who need um some credit recovery options maybe they couldn't focus during the year some
some you know life happens right so we want to offer those opportunities um for catchup for our seniors and juniors um and then capturing kids hearts and then hands-on activities there's an example schedule it is slightly different from K8 k8 is
the only one that's full day 9 through 12 is a traditional half day um summer learning opportunity in part because we also recognize that a lot of our children work or they have other commitments and that's okay we don't want that to serve as a barrier for them coming to recover some of their credits
um so we wanted to honor that provide them some opportunities to come and uh get that additional instruction and credits and then for another sample schedule for 11 to 12 this directly mirrors what we did last summer for 9 through 12 grade there's nothing
different for this year and finally extended school year this is our office of specialized student services with director Springfield um per IDA we have to offer ESY for children who need that continuation of care and service um via their um from
data from their IEPs or their individual education plans so what is extended school year it provides specialized support for students that require instruction beyond the normal school year it is considered for every child so every child that has an IEP in our district the team comes together to
determine if their data looks like they need additional time right in programming um it is supported by data so all of our case managers and um special education providers are looking at their student data and they are making recommendations to our director of specialized student services um in
conjunction with parent conversations and different things to um determine if that child is eligible or needs or requires um extended school year it is not mandated for every child that has an IEP it is only for students who will truly benefit from extension of services over summer um it is based on their
disability area so not all children qualify um it is not automatic from excuse me it is not based on their uh disability area um it is not automatic from year to year so they have teachers have to look at their progress and their data every year to determine if they are eligible and then um it is not for new
goals and objectives of their IEP it is for to continue what the child has already been striving toward during the traditional school year so this is just a slide that shows um the selection criteria this is by IDA um the federal law that talks about
students with disabilities and what's required um and if a child meets those requirements and they are el they can be eligible for extended school year services now one qualification if a child has an IEP during the year and they do not meet ESY
they can still come to summer school they just won't be in ESY which is a more restrictive environment because that those kids need a little bit more you know um attention and and just a smaller smaller class but even if they have an IEP during the year they can still that doesn't matter they can still
come to summer school nobody is disqualified um and then there's an example of the ESY program and daily schedule now the other difference with ESY if they are in ESY it's mirrored after the 9 through 12 schedule which
means they're only half day because it's summer some a lot of those kids they need that reprie during the or they may have ABA therapy or they may have other things in the afternoon that they can go to um that's only if they're in the ESY programming if they're on the traditional K8 even if they have an IP
but they don't qualify for ESY um they're still eligible to come and they get the full day opportunity um questions i had a comment and the comment that I had is that of course you brought it all
all my questions are really answered but I do say that um I strongly strongly um ask to encourage um as you said you know you've put it out for every um platform for everyone to um be able to know that
their child can come to summer school or take advantage of the bomb the grant the bomber group bomber group um also um getting the word out you know to the parents uh to let them know that if their child is like right now struggling
that when they do come to summer school those points uh extend you know to the following year so if they're behind they have time to make up for the following year so you know they can uh please take advantage i strongly strongly encourage
them to take advantage you know uh of this great summer school program and also the law and we're after the board uh after this presentation our intent is to blast it even more we wanted to make sure that it was you know all things were working
together um but we have a strong push for marketing um to send out communications all of those things we were we're going to go pedal to the metal uh after today did you How many students you can accept uh we are
we open uh there is no cap no limit um at this time as long as we have staffing and space available for student come on come on do you want to um address how we're
opening it up to prospects yes yes uh so our superintendent is always looking for ways to increase enrollment here um in the Oak Park School District but we are also offering it for newly enrolled students so if they enroll if the parents complete the enrollment process for enrollment for the 2526 school year
then they are also eligible to start in summer school so if we have anybody any all families looking for uh enrollment in the Oak Park School District as long as that enrollment application pack and all those things are approved for uh enrollment for the 2526 school year they
are eligible to attend our summer school as well question I ask every I think the answer is always no but um do we offer summer school for advancement at the high school level
do you know what I mean yes I do know what you mean um we have we have we did a few years ago when we had the oil um oil program through Oakland Oakland schools but that is definitely something we will look into for
uh sorry to disappoint you president however eighth graders who are on track they can earn high school credit i'm sorry i don't know if we should have put that on there they can earn high school credit i saw that yeah okay great thank you Shayla she Shayla Wright is our uh
ELA coordinator in the teaching and learning department she helped me put this together um but eighth graders going into high school can earn high school uh credits a quarter of a credit an elective credit um through summer school there was a time many many moons ago
given the gray hair on my face where you could take like econ government in advance of your senior year that's when they offered it um you know I'm sure that there are some people that would qualify for that if we
were able to do it yeah that's that's a great point and that's something I can take a look at with the OPHS leaders and counselors what courses could we provide pre access to over through summer programming that's where that's where you'll start to see some value start to see some some some uptick on enrollment
you mean they tell me I can do it now i don't have to do it later i mean that's true that's true and that was our hope also to uh to provide that for eighth graders because we know you know they're going to they think they've grown they're going to high school they want their summers to themselves but no come
come to uh summer school you can earn some of your high school credit and get a head start um you know on the on your transcript yes i I just want to um I I know what seems to be a condensed presentation has
taken weeks and months of administr administration's time principal meeting that this was not done in uh silo they were working here sometimes would interrupt but most
times they were working um together and processing through all of this to make sure that what you're seeing is a reflection of all the building leadership and so I just want to thank the entire team the principles
um everyone involved for for doing this thank you trusty Madison I just wanted to say that um um the survey that you put out it was it that's what um attracted me to the program cuz um the kids that is always
looking for a summer program literally always like every year and then we're always too late for the community center and like the wording on the survey it just was like "Oh my god they going here they going here." And I was like "So I just wanted to let you know that that
was great everything that you wrote in there I just was like "Oh it get it gets better and better." So yeah I will be putting my kids thank you thank you okay anything else oh sorry trusty Clark
i'll make I I just have one quick question a couple other pass um as far as the ESY is concerned is there a healthy availability for teachers and paras to be on
staff understanding the IEP and what's going to be needed for the students when they come for the duration of summer school yes that's a great question uh we did a staff interest survey and I don't have the numbers right here but I can put it in my update we had an overwhelming response of staff um who
are excited to offer we have a lot of parent educators so to even do full I didn't I was very surprised that people were willing to do 7 to 4 p.m but we have a ton of Oak Park staff um who are dedicated and committed um to offering and being available for our summer
programming par educators teachers high K through 12 TK prek prek through 12 no we're not doing pre-K but the preK staff is available uh to support us in our K through 12 uh but our principles have been amazing uh Mr haley and Mr island
they went with our team um to the training for the Bulma group Miss Buck Zigger uh Miss Shayla Wright our ELA coordinator and it's been truly a team effort uh bouncing ideas off Miss Abdullah Han and the rest of the team and Miss Prince she is so excited to offer enrichment for the elementary like
you can't even tell her nothing okay um she wants to do a play and a this and a that and just just very excited so we are we are definitely excited the Bomber group is like getting great advertising tonight said their name about 20 times
all right we want our money um anything else quickly nothing else thank you for the presentation we don't If your people don't uplift you who i love our team i love our team they are
awesome our team is awesome okay uh we're at item uh 4C which is a presentation coming from uh our director of culture and climate in conjunction with DM Burr we'll be talking about
security uh so uh Mr faulk the floor is yours sir already been I must be I must be like y'all must think I'm like a task master does anyone need a bio break do we need to do a bio break
okay let's do this it is 7:18 7:19 7:25 we start thank you and here we go we are back and we are at uh the presentation for C we have Mr
faulk here our um director of culture and climate to present about um district security so uh Mr faulk without further ado without further ado the floor is yours thank you very much good evening
Oak Park uh board members my name is Derek Faulk i am your director of culture and climate here in the Oak Park School District tonight I'll be presenting a comprehensive security overview in collaboration with John Allen CEO of DM Burke so we're going to
get started in front of you you have your packages it is quite thick this was a very uh interesting task here that we tried to make sure that we we uh did fair with it i want you to if you have
any questions or anything like that I did give you a card please fill that out and I will go over that so that we can get you answers so purpose of this presentation is to summarize a decade a decade of discipline data that is stored
in our student information system called my also going to talk about security training staffing and surveillance upgrades our goal is transparency accountability and a clear road map for continued
safety because there was so much data over the past 10 years from 2015 to now we had to break it up into tiers so the office of discipline and referral services breaks the discipline up into tiers sometimes it's three times
sometimes it's four for the sake of this presentation it's broken up into four tier one is basically minor infractions tier two is moderate disruptions tier three is serious or repeated offenses
and tier four are critical uh in actions involving violence now let's go over tier one minor misbehaviors okay so here are your minor infractions as you can see up here
target class skipping u truency hall sweet play all of those are minor infractions now this is where the rubber meets the road this is a trend graph i'm not going to I'm not going to do trend graphs for
everyone but you can see that in 201516 we actually were above 3,000 but in 17 16 17 18 it was tremendous drop steep from that from that
standpoint there we have been kind of going downward or flatlining for the most part in these infractions i did forget to say one thing and that was that I did take out the co year in the graph it would have just flatlined it
and just been a peak at the bottom here your tier one discipline trends this is again this is per 100 students okay you can see that this graph still remains pretty much the same it did not change much so you can see that we actually
still had that tremendous drop from 1617 to 1718 and pretty much maintained the flat line going across there are a few dips and um mountainous little pieces there but for the most part we were able to capture those things and bring them
back into alignment some of our top infractions include no student ID dress code disruptive behavior skipping class our goals some of the key takeaways I already discussed but in after 201819 no
school year exceeded 405 tier one incidents showing a consistent system control the tier one is the smallest of all tiers at this time 2015 16 there were 79.2 Tier one fractions per 100
students 2425 that number has dropped down to 1.2 tier two tier two is moderate disruption okay that require administrative support here are some of your tier 2
infractions disrespect towards employees refusal to follow I'm sorry i'm sorry refusal to follow staff directions leaving You can see those now here it is the graph the graph
is showing and again this is my star data the graph is showing that in 2015 16 there was a high rate above 1,200 you can see clearly that that is a slope going down and that is tribute to the
fantastic staffing that we had at that time so we have student infractions going down in 17 18 19 21 and 22 we did have a up a little uptick in 22 23 but
as you can see we are on down um slope this is per 100 in tier 2 now this is a little different but the main piece of this is that it did go up in 1819 it
flatlined in 1718 but it's still going down so we're trying to get those infractions to decrease as time well excuse me they have decreased over the decade some of our top five well some of our
tier two um infractions disrespect towards employees refuse to follow directions excessive tardiness use of cell phones and electronics 90% decrease in behavior over the past 10 years less than 300 incidents reported
since 2022 so these are some of your tier 2 takeaways and again is all based on the data that is inside tier three well tier three is serious or repeated behaviors for posing
safety or school environment concerns well you can be you can have long-term suspension for these you can be expelled for some of these so there are quite a few of these major infractions intimidation verbal threats sexual
harassment sexual misconduct physical aggression there are quite a few here i'm not going to read all of them i'll let you for a sec now when you look at the graph here you still have that
same slope going down so your slope is going from your left down to your right so again in 20 2015 16 it was kind of high the team the team um in 1718
started bringing it down and we had a steep came down very steeply in 1819 and again we had a little uptick in 23 24 and now we are actually coming down again
this is our tier three infractions per 100 students tier three well this is a little bit of a mountainous piece here where you can kind of see we went up then we came down again 1718 I'm sorry 16 17 17 18 came
down again for the 1920 and pretty much uptick again at 23 24 and we're starting to come back down again some of our infractions aggression veral threats inappropriate touching harassing
bullying possession and use of inhalance and tier three infractions dropped from 1,157 in 2015 16 down to about 152 physical aggression and verbal threats decreased this
way tier four disciplines here we go with the critical infractions involving vice threats weapons requiring suspension or expulsion inside of tier 4 you will see
selling and distributing drugs possession of dangerous materials explosive fireworks assault fighting threatening bodily harm all of those are tier four infractions that can get you long-term
suspended or extended the graph representing the graph here as you can see kind of flatline from 1516 to 17 18 but here again the staff have worked with the students and that include all
staff um from security to teachers to administrators that actually had that slope going down from 1718 to 1819 school year went up a little bit here in 2223 reaching right about 550 but you
can see that we are bringing that down as of today over the 23 and 24 school year per 100 this is a mountain like a roller coaster but again it's going up
going down but the trend is still a downward slope so we are trying to still work with that and maintain it some of our tier five I'm sorry tier four infractions are fighting threatening bodily harm assault possession of deadly weapons possession
of dangerous materials as well key takeaways 53.8% over overall decrease over the last 10 years in this period 54% drop in in fractions in two years from 23 to
25 lowest count in five years 24 25 had fewest tier 4 in fractions since 2019 security staff okay so for the security staff
overview we currently have 24 officers throughout the district all through DME total security officers currently well we had 24 that are contracted and now we actually have 24 officers that
are working throughout okay behavior interventionist we have two we have Jerome Collins and Ronnie Oion both at Oak High School uh DM B I'm sorry DM B supervisor director Eric Hollow station station at Oak Park High School security
leads Michael Wilson and Stephan Mr wilson is stationed at OPA and Miger is stationed at Park High School at this time I'm going to bring in Mr john Allen
CEO to talk about security hello thank you for letting me uh be able to communicate with you um welcome and uh so the uh the staffing and coverage as you can see going back 10 years um we had probably the most staff
we've ever had at 28 i think prior to that we even had more staff up to I think 32 this does not include So these numbers are your morning 7 a.m to 3:30 in the afternoon it does not include the
afternoon evening coverage um but in 2025 2024 2025 we changed that model and that is though the total staff of 24.62 is actually spread out throughout the entire day so th that number is broken
down um on first shift and on second shift to be able to provide additional coverage for evening events um whereas before we had that amount of people like in 2019 2020 we had 25 people that would only cover uh morning until afternoon
and then we would bring in people on overtime to be able to cover events so we've been able to reduce overtime by bringing in uh staggering our staff and and working them throughout the day um all
right so here we go let's talk about elementary leer Einstein Key and Pepper that was our elementary school they all have one officer okay now this is our structure as Mr
allen was uh talking about so We do four days 10 hour shifts so they that's how they get their 40 hours but you're saying that they missing a day we go to school 5 days we add one extra officer
to them to rotate so that way we keep down our what our overtime and we also maintain a healthy staff person that is not working a whole lot of overtime and we don't cuts down on calls as well this
structures ensures both coverage during peak school hours and it reduces fatigue as I preparatory academy the officer staff in the total assigned positions seven we are fully staffed at seven officers as of today it
was six and then after discussing that with Mr abulah Mr allen added an officer because we felt like there was a uptick in u infractions at the middle school so to give more support to the middle
school staff park high school total assigned is 11 positions currently staff 11 i believe that we just received an extra officer today that would take us to 12 so we are trying to make sure that we
maintain those graph lines and those trends at this day we have no shortages mr alan was talking about the shift structure earlier at Oak Park High School it's kind of important for you to really understand that Oak Park High School is a very busy
place from 8:00 a.m in the morning until 9:00 at night 10:00 at night about 8:00 it is a very busy place so what we did was the team came up and we said "Okay we know we have it covered in the
morning shift from 7:30 a.m to 4 p.m but we need a way to address lunch and a little part of the after school programming so we created a midday so that midday is 10:00 a.m to 6:30 p.m what does that do for us well it
gives um breaks to the morning shift and it also helps to tackle lunch time have you ever been in high school at lunch time it's busy okay so then we have another shift that comes in at 12 now that shift actually takes us to
the end of the day with the football team the band and everybody is there so we're trying to make sure we have coverage throughout the day and this is this is the system that we came up with nova Academy total assigned is one
currently staff one very consistent with that training and professional development well right here you can see we have had many we haven't had many but we have had training um so we have
active shooter training report writing school safety protocols shelter in place deescalation managing fights radio communication and I'm going to bring in Mr al
so some of the different trainings that we've had is the avoiding uh use of force uh um and uh we actually had a a group training on that um as you'll see on the next slide where it talks about security training um we had supervisor
training to assist the supervisor um uh this took place at Southfield and it was a joint training with multiple districts from Oakland County um and uh we did CPR different types of training um and then we also try and have that every summer
where we have one or two days where we bring everybody together uh to be able to have a large training uh session and we kind of pick the location whatever works best for everybody um the we also did uh training during winter breaks uh
so that it didn't interfere with school to school day uh so that we were able to have our officers in working while schools in session uh we went over security officer expectations active listening skills um we did emotion on
the next slide emotional intelligence uh the keys to working more effectively with others we did essential communication tools it was an entire series uh we did employee emotional intelligence series we did one just for the supervisors which was emotional
intelligence and it was an entire series we did DISC which was for all of our managers and there's a series involved with that and then we have our yearly student interaction policy uh that is a process they have to sign off on uh for what they are what they can and cannot
do involving students involving working with parents and teachers and in the building um some of the other training that we have forthcoming we do annual CPR training during the summer we will have it again uh this coming summer uh we we go over report writing threat assess
threat assessments and behavioral indicators uh restorative practices gang awareness and intervention here's a picture of Officer Dean doing active shooter training over the spring
break to the staff this was over the weekend during that week here's the team here we even brought in George who is the person that is over east security and doing at
Michigan Works excuse me and we brought him in as well so actually incorporating and making sure he's at our trainings so about a year and a half ago uh we started a new employee of the month program and so uh that that takes care
of all 400 of our security personnel across the state and into Ohio and in the last 12 months or actually in the last it should be uh it's actually year and a half uh four Oakpoke security officers were honored as the employee of the month um and there's only three
employees selected companywide every month um and they were nominated by either their supervisor a faculty member or a fellow employee um and and they each receive a uh certificate they
receive a glass plaque they also receive a $250 check um these are actually they also uh Mr flanigan also did something above and beyond and he went and got medals and so these are pictures of the the different officers that got a medal along with their award
and their certificate each time they got theirs um and so these were some of the the names u of the individuals that there was an emergency at Oak Park High School um for a Cata and Reginald McCain Robert
Moore and Stephanie Tiner assisted in that that was a pretty serious incident and uh they were they stepped up and and took control of that situation and we really thank them for that and uh we we uh recognize them in our company and our
newsletter and stuff like that technology and surveys well we spent some money thank you we appreciate it evolve milestone in zero
eyes what is evolve evolve is a technology and it's an advanced weapon system where when students walk through a bag detection so you can see if they have metals or they have
anything to weapon it's AI powered device key features is touchless it's AI powered as I stated students walk through without moving bags and this is important because
initially give you a story initially when we took on the task of checking bags we had students lined all the way up to the football field from door 29 28
door 28 so we came up to the superintendent asked him some metal detectors he said get the best we did it that's evolved and that allows students to come in once they come in if it goes red up on there
it makes a notification on the body on the kiosk which is a tablet of where that student has something that could possibly be a danger key features scans hundreds of people per hour with minimal delay live
alerts security teams are instantly notified potential threats with imaging pinpoint that is what I was talking about so if somebody has something on it will pinpoint where it is on their body here is the first day of evolve and
what you will see here is this was the very first day that it was set up at Park High School of course we had our chief come over we also had Mr arberowski Officer Arnowski and Officer Vincent come
over gentlemen The kiosk is the second title he ain't the first one he's the second just so happens he has the same last name he was the person that was a um he was over security from Dean Bur at that time and the person in gray is the
person that set it up mike now what you have here is Oak Park High School we have a two-lane system at Oak Park High School the student in the front the young lady with the white and red on she walked through now I caught
this picture late the green actually turned red okay so she's actually going to go to the right if you see in this picture she's over at the table getting checked the
kiosk is Reggie who came who got the um who helped Mr that's Reggie and they are checking bags now it's still green so now what happened is this young man in the front
he didn't go off so what do we do with him we let him pass through this is if you don't have anything the system is saying you don't have anything then we let you go through here it is at NOVA this is a single system and again students walking
through there nothing that is hindering him he will just come on through and go to class evolve matters because it reduces the bottleneck it increases detection accuracy and improves student and staff
perception of safety let's go to Milestone milestone System is a video management software platform used to monitor and manage and review security camera footage across the school district why does Milestone matter it
supports documentation for disciplinary action legal review reinforces campuswide accountability and deterrenes helps investigate fights theft trespassing and safety concerns
improves real time response during emergencies key feature centralized camera monitoring system and this is another one event tagging and playback so you get to go back in time and see actually what happened i can't go back too far but you definitely go back about
20 minutes high resolution video support user permission and access logs are crucial so everybody does not have access to the camera system you have to
have permission from the superintendent one last thing about the camera systems um we have more than 400 plus cameras as well throughout the district zero eyes so you say you got evolve but why do you need zero eyes
well you got to walk through evolve right you got to evolve but if somebody came in here right now and they evolve will go off zero i'm sorry thank you zero eyes thank you zero eyes
zero eyes will go off okay so it is a weapon detection system that uses our current camera system it's a tag alarm okay has real time gun detection
human verification so just because it went off there's some place in Hawaii that looks at that and what they do is they verify it and then they send out a notification to Mr abdullah myself
Tiffany so that we can immediately address the address the matter when Z was going through it was a very tough piece because they had to link it with our camera system and Opart public safety was there with us every
step of the way because those calls go to them too so when that goes off it goes off at the police station as well it's 247 monitoring constant uh vigilance without additional on-site
staff help stop active shooters so in the event Mr abdullahad and myself we have gone to a few trainings somebody could be in the parking lot and if they pull a weapon the camera is going to catch it the camera catches it zero catches it
okay and then the system starts to run we'll talk about just go back in the past a little bit just so you can know what actually went on school year 2012 2013 metal detector for Nova Academy that was the only metal detector in the district except for the alternative the other alternative school that we had
both of us had a metal detector school year 2122 K9 unit was um came to the district back checks and bodys were used every day at Oak Park High School let's get back to zero eyes a
little bit um I think this is and the alarm went off so let me give you the story the alarm goes off guardian calls they call me okay so they
call and what happens is is that if they don't get me right away they will immediately send out an officer when they send out the officer zero eyes see the officer on the
screen and if you can kind of look right there got his gun see that square right there that's real that's what was sent to me okay so that's letting me know that
somebody's in the building that has their gun okay here's Oprah and student is coming in with a plastic gun for whatever was going on that day system went
off put the box around it they called us said "Dear non-lethal it's a non-lethal weapon but we want to let you know that you got one in the building." Not done yet can it see at night time yeah you
can see it right there in the box send your hand out it's in red he has it for school year 22 23 was placed at Oak Park High School in Nova school year 2425 k9 unit was removed evolve was
placed at Oak Park Preparatory Academy zero Eyes was placed throughout the Oak Park School District full functionality as saying that every camera in Oak Park has zero eyes what does this all mean
well decline in officer count over the year is 12.7% despite the decline per cap increase from 67 to 082 over the decade since 2122 the security presence has been the highest in a decade on a first student
basis tier one two three and four in fractions all decreased reduction officers per 100 from 261 to 22 stated we have implemented the evolve zero eyes and updated our camera camera system to
milestone when you look at the data we're headed in the direct right direction are we done no do we need improvements yes but working with you all working together as a team working with DM B and listening to our
We know that we can maintain a flat line and do even better so we are appreciate you taking the time to hear me through this presentation thank you [Applause]
trusty M i already got my nerves you good you good i'm good okay uh any questions for uh Mr faulk yeah oh I'm sorry superintendent D i I just want to con uh commend them this is another task
that he took on on top of being a principal at NOVA director of security and then I said "Hey Derek we need a presentation and we need it as thorough as possible."
So um I appreciate their their hard work uh and one thing I just want to add the reason we do the behind the scenes is the least intrusive to our students right so this works behind the scenes so
the kids could be kids it's hard to be a kid when you're going through a metal detector getting pat down and there's a German Shepherd going around sniffing and stuff so um our actions are let's
minimize the disruption so allow teachers to teach allow students to be students and allow our security team to do their thing and one thing they took on is they had
to incorporate how I feel about kids into how they're interacting and so now if you one if you see our security team they're family they're not this outside
entity that is just coming they're socializing they're they're you know they're coming to events and and that's a testament to the dedication here and so I just want Yeah I I agree with Derek is there room absolutely we could all
improve uh but I for one am appreciative of your hard work and dedication so I had to say that sorry i had a quick question the evolve is it at every entrance or just like the main entrance so Park High School has two so it's at
door 29 and door now at Nova it's at door it's right at the main entrance which is door one and at two lane open now and it's at the main so soon and it's kind of crazy at
open as soon as you walk through soon as you open the door you got to walk through it but that was the best place that we and to be honest with you and Mr wilson is here he He was tired he
was We all had to go and check all the kids when he got involved you know it was one of the best things ever because what you find is is that a lot of students actually start to change their behavior because guess what they don't want to what stop they don't want to be
checked so it's a deterrent in its own so they're trying to see can I get through this thing without going up so you know so that's and we still wand at the high school as well so you know it's not that we you know if you if you go off at
the high school and we have to check your bag you will get as well in elementaryaries that they only have zero eye elementaryaries do not have evolve correct i have a few questions the first one is
you talked about the active shooting and you spoke in regards to the training that you all um implement throughout you know different people to join them to have the one training but the question that I have is how is it effective if you are having active shooting without
the students well you have active we still have active shooter drills we have lockown drills within the buildings okay so that's one thing but we still have to train our officers as well so that they will part of knowing what they're supposed to do their roles may be a
little different if I'm answering your question correct oh yeah i I just didn't hear you say that you know during the active shooting that you you specified you know who was there but I I just didn't hear him say that it was students uh that went through the active shooting
training well we have drills throughout the school day so through the school year so so when you say drills we're talking about fire drills or active shooting drills you can you can call it we call it lock down drill okay okay so lock down drills if the active shooter
comes in the building then the building goes in lockdown students have to follow a specific process along with their teacher now that's that now you have security right
security has a different role in an active shooter and that's what officer Dean and officer Aronowski was going over with the staff over the break and quite shoot them as well how often is this
done well active shooter is done at least once a year okay what we're trying to do now is we're going to increase that number because we have a little bit of a problem with retention uh with officers and so sometimes we have to do it over
and over again to make sure that these officers but repetition is good because a lot of officers really got it all right sorry um the PA system that you guys approved
I don't know if you want to just talk about that how we have a certain code i I know because President Alvin recommended our PA system can you talk a little bit about what President Alvin
recommended not the clock the countdown clocks in the PA system so In our schools we have a new PA system can say speak and park high school and it's at
open as well the thing is is that this PA system it has clocks up there so the students can see the countdown to go to class that's number one number two it's easy access all you have to do is push a button and you can actually put the
building in lockdown automatically okay we did a whole big training with the with the company and it works really well so it's just a matter of staff getting used to this system because we were used to the older system but it's just it just takes time so it's a it's a
great it's a great system cor is it how how is the data or is there any data stored on the evolve so the events that you have that Are they are they reported in a data format or
how do you all keep track of this as far as the how many students go off as far as how many times that red light go off there is a data log in there and they're getting better with it because I actually asked that same question it
doesn't stay for a long period of time so that is something that I would look I'll look into so based on if it does go off in red as you showed in your uh PowerPoint I guess what I'm looking for is that if that goes off do we have a
person writing it down in a book or you know what if you if it doesn't store long you know for a period of time can do we have data written down like or can we so we could do that okay but this is
what happened so let's just say you walk through and your watch goes off or your cell phone or something we we actually just check and make sure that that's what that is and we let the student go
we do book bag checks if your book bag goes off we go through the book bag a lot of times we find vapes and things like that this is where your your school system actually comes in with your behavior so now that student has to go to the behavior inter or the assistant
principal and it has to be written up so that's where your writing will come up especially if it was something like that we have had students that come in with um vapes knives and it has caught it has caught those students and those students
were uh officially recommended so how often is that make is it because calibration is it a calibration how how how do we know that it's reading properly you know let's say for instance that they just have an like you stated a
phone that goes off like is it are we reporting this to the Evolve um company saying hey you know we we we looking back you know over the years you know we seen this slope what what is really going on uh can we you know like are we
reporting it to them saying you know it's picking up cell phones more than it is picking up a gun i'm just speculating but you know uh is is it that that we do keep that kind of you know um we do not track it does not track whether it is a
cell phone or this was funny you only know that when you check we just only know that when it's checks back when we check the bag or check the student now what'll happen a lot of times when you when it when the system goes off okay
the evolve once it goes off it's going to make a log that it actually caught something okay so Mr allen goes through and it comes off on his pants here it's going to put a square there now it's not going to say that it put a square it's
just and it doesn't know what it is it could be a crockpot or or whatever right it's just going to be I got that from but some students so the thing is is that that's that's what that's how that that's how the system works it's not where it's going
to just tell you that's what that is no we have to check to see what that is like a lot of times kids we got these new vapes so they trying to to the vapor so what we're trying to do is is make sure sometimes they go off sometimes
they don't right because a lot of them are plastic so that's what we kind of run sometimes run into a little superintendent leading the witness Abdullah had go ahead because we do calibrate and we do we we
have the ability to tune it um so no I I think you would address this so I'm not trying to lead the witness i'm just messing with you is it have like smile sometimes dude do you want to talk about Do you want to talk about how it tunes because we have
the ability to calibrate and I think we have it tuned to the highest yes so if it detects too many things we can tune it for a crockot or a rice cooker or Yes all right so it has levels just so you know
for the most part all of them are at the highest level um you can you can decrease the level of detection or you can raise the level of detection up so and then Mr wilson just whispered in my ear he does track so he had
224 times that his evolve went over today okay i just have a few more questions um the other one was in regards to um the deep slope that we saw in your presentation with that deep slope is
that I know you you saying you know as far as like the students or what have you but does that also include the staffing that we that we experienced yes you can't take anything away from the staff we had offic I'm
sorry trusty Tyler at that time was the lead and she did a fantastic job making that slope go down she was a key member of that throughout the district so we can't take anything away from anyone it was a total team effort it wasn't just
one person it was officer McDonald it was in fact at that time officer McDonald Gentry Tiner Wilson you know yeah that's you got all of them so the other one is um about
the training um is the training that you all train the staff um when you say that you know you're trying to fill these spots is that training modified uh in a way to kind of speed up the process to get them placed
i don't think so denver has their own training before they come here and then what we do is we add on so and because we have their director working with me and this matter we continue training
throughout try to create well we try to make sure that we're training throughout the year we're going to get better with it um and do better things and give more training last but not least um maybe you shouldn't stay away so long
perhaps maybe it wouldn't be so thick it wouldn't be so long but please come back soon yes sir thank you okay um really quickly I know we have Trusty Tyler has questions i also noticed that some some of the years were missing they
were there for the um per 100 but they weren't there for the individual counts u I know we were in during that time but there were still clearly some infractions that took place is there a reason why those dates are missing on
the per item just for the co year um it's there for the per 100 the year for the per 100 it's just not there for the each indiv yeah that that was the error on my part okay i was supposed to remove that and I do apologize for that because what it was to be perfectly honest with
you we only had about eight infractions for the co year and it was something that was online and it was in one school got it okay trusty Tyler first of all I want to say thank you to the superintendent for this i've been asking for it so thank you i thank you for this
presentation well put together but some of the data in here I just um don't agree with but it's it's okay but um my first question is what are we doing for the retention of officers because since
I've been here we've been down and today is the first day that you all said that we were fully staffed and so I know when we're not fully staffed we just had a situation about a month ago um the reason that you're here because we didn't have no staff in our lower E
upper E where we got to put tables and and chairs up to for the kids and use the restroom and So we're paying um security to be in those areas so today we're fully staffed that's what you're saying am I correct yes okay so what are
we doing to um Can I just augment something real quick so that includes those areas yes we are making sure that there's coverage in E specific officer right but I'm
saying you're saying as of today we are fully staffed all 20 i think it says 24 we're staff all 24 yes okay because All right then my other question what are we doing to retain because I see that we have a turnover turnover turnover turnover every six months we getting a
new leader every six months we're getting a new leader we have not had a stable leader in the last uh I would say two and a half years two and a half years definitely have not a stable leader in leadership in the DMberg group
for our security we are turning over leadership and when you turn over leadership continue to turn it over you cannot build relationship and that's why we are continuing to have these upspurts that I'm seeing in behavior because and and not to sight from any of you all but
what I'm saying is we have it continuously every six months for the last two and a half years and I've just been here sitting on the board um since uh January getting voted in and we don't switched over twice I believe that's a problem so what are
we doing first question i'm sorry that's my first question that's your first question yes okay well I think what we're doing now is we're working diligently with B&B trying to make sure we get the right people to be here a lot of times people come in they think they want this job
and you know very well aware of that they say "Yeah I want a job." when you got to start walking and talking to kids and doing things like that it they don't they it's too much for them so we had four officers not even a month ago that
started and went to Wilson's building at Opa and they all quit by Monday after we did the training and they went through so it wasn't anything that we actually did was no more than tell them what the job responsibilities were and to get them caught up to speed so I think it's
just about making sure that we get the right individuals and one of the things that I believe that we're doing differently is that once you come through Mr allen and his team you still have to go through our team in HR so you
have to get you have to be vetted by them as well and then you have to also I I became more part of the process to make sure that they are individuals who would possibly stay and we try to make you're a good fit it's just like a
teacher you want you want a good fit for your school and so that I kind of think was kind of the problem sometimes we would just get a body but we need somebody who doesn't mind working with children who doesn't mind working over time who doesn't mind somebody telling
them they have to walk that they got to go outside when it's cold that's So to answer your question I think what it is is just trying to make sure the right people as far as the director
um again and you know being the director it's long hours it's long hours and a lot of people they just don't want to do that um trust they you know and it's just about getting the right people you know the people that when you were
coming through but when we were both here die hards people just it's hard question i see that you have a staggering schedule so with the staggering schedule you only have three or four officers in the morning and I
think that may hinder some of that uh uh teacher um not hinder it it hinders um kids getting to class on time because nowhere's no one's there to tell your the the hallways to get up in class you got teacher taking away from their time
to do security jobs to get them in class and I know we just put in place where the students I mean where the teachers are doing hall duty but that's not the right they're supposed to educate so what are we doing because staging of schedule don't seem like it's working
boosting the first shift so I just hired somebody so the first shift went from that four to eight so that's how we able to get that person in the back hallway make sure that we taking a look at the that door 10 you know that infamous door 10 where you know you know push the door
open anybody walks through there so specifically put an officer back there so that we can actually monitor the staff coming in the students coming in the back so we're still trying to increase the numbers for Park High School we definitely know you and I both
know that four is not enough in the morning and we're working on we're definitely working on increasing that number even a little bit beyond trusty cousin yes your next question yes yes my next question on this training um that you all just had a week ago thank God
that you are having some training now um and so I thank God that um you partnered with the Oak Park public safety so that brought a team together so what are we doing with consistent training um consistent training not just because you all were asked to do a training um
because you all were coming before us i'm talking about consistent training that's on the calendar where we can see development of security because we need true development with gun shootings possible things to be happening because in order for us to get kids people are
not going to come where they're not safe and so safety ought to be our number one priority then I heard you say that um over time cut out it shouldn't cost for for safety of kids so what are we doing to maintain
consistent growth in developing security not just once every other month or six months or year it sound like you only have two so so we have training during the summer when there is no students we also have a beginning of school training
like right before September there's another training we have a training over winter break when the school is shut down for two weeks we usually have a training during spring break or an inter session that you guys have and then we'll have training again in the summer so there is training throughout the
entire year it's not it it has been going on it's not I didn't even know that there was a request for special training it's been it's we've had it and in regards to overtime we are still using overtime there isn't if you have a large event there isn't enough staff at
night to be able to just cover with that one or two people there might be a large basketball game or a large football game where we need additional staff there is still overtime used based on the event that is going on it's just been reduced greatly because before a ton of
employees would work almost every day you ain't had nothing going on wasn't nothing going on when you had officers present when officers are present that reduce that reduced crime period when officers are present but I
hear you saying that that you are now at just a special event you want to say that you added on two and three but I'm saying at the end of the day I still hear you all talking about cost cost it does not cost enough money for us to
lose a kid so we lose a kid because of cost then that's a problem we're losing kids not coming to our district that's a problem and we need kids because I saw in the in the uh the graphic here that a lot of our numbers were going down but
now we don't even have we don't even have a thousand kids in the high school so it ought to go down all right additional questions for good we good okay any question that um the one that you were given the awards to
the um the uh staff i would love to see more awards i think it was only two people maybe three there there was three it was three yeah i was just saying you know cuz this is um a very beautiful district and I'm sure they're doing a great job um at what they're doing and
to give them more awards i'm not sure what the the protocol is to get that award maybe come to work or something it would be nice given out i'm sorry there's only there's only three given out per month okay
companywide you actually you guys the employees here four of them have received not three in a period of time so Oak Park has received the most employee of the month out of the entire company that's a great morale so that that has
occurred we just have a stipulation of how many we give out thank you for clarifying but Steve go ahead i I just want to say I mean everything is valid so if if we have ideas on how to uh increase
retention that's always because we're always exploring ways to increase uh retention so ideas are welcome they're not this is how it's done um and that's the way is is is going to happen so we
we welcome that um and there's an extra heightened Now with all these violence that's occurring in schools you know it's a lot it's a lot not even in Michigan but it's just a lot
and and it does take an entire village so the staff I'm sorry no no I was going to say I would suggest then if we have ideas that we think that that would help Senator and I'll pass them on okay trusty Madison I just wanted to say
thank you um good job as far as um I know when I'm at the games after schools in the middle school um after walking through the metal detector it's a officer right there it's um security just all over the building so I do want to say that I noticed that and I
probably am like one of the only people that's going to elementary basketball games and that's you know after school event that we need security for and you know as well as school huh i said I went just the other day i was there to elementary school yes at school at the
middle school yes at school yep i was there so yeah um shout out to Rocket great thank you so great job um I always feel you know safe and secure and
Okay okay i'm good okay uh thank you gentlemen for the presentation much appreciated well done we come to item number 5 action approval of the Oak Park High School marching bands overnight field trip trustee Clark
resolve that the Oak Park Board of Education approve an out of state overnight field trip for the Oak Park High School marching band from March 10th 2025 to March 11th 2025 to participate in the battle of the band performance at Thornton Township High
School in Chicago uh is there a second so second motion made by Trusty Clark seconded by Trustee Tyler any question on the motion we we've done this before uh the band has performed nicely he's always come back with a report of some
kind somebody getting a scholarship off or something of that nature have that he sent that to me you don't have to get into that today included in update we'll Yeah we'll look for it later um but uh trust that our our our students and and
any chapron will be safe yes yes okay any any questions from the members of board hearing none miss Ger Clark yes culprin yes alvin yes madison yes scott yes herman Tanks
she's not here tyler yes motion passes i'm sorry no motion passes uh we're at item six which is adjournment the next regular meeting of the board is scheduled for May 12th 2025 at 6 pm in the boardroom of the administration building um with
that uh without objection we'll pass a motion to adjurnn by unanimous consent is there is there an objection to doing so hearing over hereby adjourn at 8:28 thank you members of the board if you guys wanted