##VIDEO ID:gxi1iQdRoIA## e e e e e e e e e e e time is now 6 o'clock I'm going to call the Oak Park Board of Education um organization meeting to order uh and we're going to start right away with the swearing in so if trustees if truste Clark trusty corpin truste elect pman tanks trusty elect Scott and trusty Tyler with all stand please today we are swearing in our newly elected board members with the oath of office please raise your right hand and repeat after I'm not going to do like he did mine and read the whole thing I just say Okay um please um please stand with your right hand stand up and here we go you two okay let's go I do solemnly swear I do or affirm that I will support I support the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Michigan and the constitution of the state of Michigan and I that I will Faithfully discharge Faithfully discharge the duties of the office the duties of the office a member of the Board of Education a member of the Board of Education of the Oak Park School District of the Oak Park School District according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability [Applause] congratulations let's do this let's get this one thing out of the way real quick Miss Greer would you please call the rooll here here herein hereon here Scott here here all right and we have now all of our board members any of you want to say anything I know you have some family and friends in room I'll start on the right truste par tanks anything oh other than thank you my husband for coming to see me today where's your HB over there and his support I saw he the one taking the pictures all right all right okay um just uh thank you everyone and happy birthday to my husband he turned 40 today happy birthday you have to put his business out look good I put it off happy birthday happy birthday trusty Corp sure I want to thank the community all the stakeholders um for a victory of electing me for the next uh six years and thank you you all for coming out tonight we really appreciate you guys JY Scott um I also thank you for electing me I'm excited for the next four years I'm excited to grow and learn and be more part of the community and I'm just I'm ready for this ready all right trusty Tyler I just want to thank the Community First of all for electing me um I definitely want to thank God for giving me opportunity to serve I thank God for my family being here just thank God forone um especially want to give thanks to one of the board members that mentored me Miss Max she always be remember and so I am grateful for this opportunity to serve the school board I am grateful for what God is about to do among all of us I'm grateful to be a part of this great team okay all right very good well stated um we're going to keep rolling and with our uh with our first the first of our meetings this evening um usually I give people a chance to go if they want to but y'all seem like y'all are so engaged and ready to to get involved in school board business so let's keep it moving um roll call we already done that we go to approval of the agenda the agenda was shared with all of us prior to today's meeting um are there any any issues on the agenda okay without objection we'll pass a motion to approve the agenda by unanimous consent is there an objection to doing so hearing none the agenda is hereby approved we go to item number five election of officers for 2025 26 uh with we're getting ready to open up the election of officers for the 2025 26 calendar year excuse me school year thank you uh and we will start with the office of President I will call for nominations I will confirm with uh the individual that they would agree to serve and then we we will um call a motion so we'll start with a motion anyway um and we'll go through the motion and we'll see if if they're elected it we go to the next one if not we'll we'll go again until we get an uh a successful person for one of those offices okay questions all right we're going to open up the um nominations for the office of President um so with that is there any nomination for the office of president I nominate okay um so with that then I would say second let me let's state it there a motion I'm sorry was a motion we'll get it so um so I move so basically the way we would say this is I move or let it be resolved that uh Aisha Tyler the elected president of opart Board of Education January 13th 2025 through the January 2026 or organizational meeting you good with that yes sir okay second second okay made motion made by trusty Tyler second by trusty corpin um any question on the motion Miss GRE Madison no Scott yes Perman no Tyler yes Elvin no cin yes and Clark no okay that motion fails um are there any other nomination for the office of President I would like to nominate Al Elvin to remain our president okay so we'll phrase it in a motion um resol that alurn Elvin Al sorry be elected president of the I know she was going to get me if I didn't of the O Park Board of Education effect of January 13 2025 through the January 2026 organizational meeting is there a second okay motion made and second it motion made by Clark second by Madison uh any question on the motion Miss G please call the rooll Madison yes Scott no Perry Min tanks yes Tyler yes cvin yes cin yes yes okay motion passes all right so we will go to um I'll continue to Ser against President the next year we will go to the next um item which is Vice President uh is there a motion on the vice president I would like to nominate PA Madison for vice president okay uh let's say a motion resolve at p Madison the elected vice president of the O Park Board of Board of Education January 13 2025 through the January 2026 organizational meeting motion made by Clark is there a second seconded by trustee uh fman tanks any question on a motion he n miss m Jes yes yes cin yes Clark yes Tyler yes Scott yes and Madison yes okay motion passes congratulations congrat congratulations all right we will go to uh secretary are there um we're going to open up the nomination for office secretary any any motions for that there a motion for a secretary okay go ahead um I would like to um yes yeah oh I would like to nominate uh Tiffany I mean Heather pamman tanks Heather pamman tanks okay let put in a motion resolve that in the partain to be elected Secretary of the Board of Education effective January 13 2025 through SE through the January 2026 organizational meeting motion made by Madison second seconded by truste Tyler any questions on the motion discussion I assume you accept I accept Okay m g please callvin yes yes Madison yes Tyler yes Scott yes Clark yes car M yes okay that motion passes unanimously congratulations day one let's go jump let's jump into the phras in all right uh we will go than you everybody we'll go to uh item D Treasurer uh their nomination for the office of Treasurer um yes Corp I nominate um myself Dawn corpin for treasurer okay as there so um let's put it in a motion resolve that and I know you accept because you nominate yourself resolve that uh trusty corpor trusty Dawn corporan be elect the treasur of the o Board of Education effective January 13 2025 through the January 2026 organizational meeting is there a second yes seconded by trusty Tyler any question on the motion m g please call it wrong Tyler yes Madison no Scott yes no no yes you got one more no um all right so that motion fails we'll go and if there's another one is there any other are there any others I wanted to nominate trust okay um I'll put in the motion resolve that trre Clark the elected treasurer of theart Board of Education January 13th 2025 through the January 2026 organizational meeting the motion is made by trusty Madison is there second second by trusty Tyler do you accept I do okay trusty Clark accepts are there any questions on the motion hearing Miss Greer Alvin yes no Clark yes yes Scott yes yes Madison yes and Ty yes okay that motion passes congratulations your um we'll go to item number six back signatures um I'll do it for tonight and I'll um the motion uh for item number six you want resolve that the O par board hereby authorizes the use of thank you signatures of andand Clark for signing checks drawn upon District funds except for transactions for which other signatures have been authored by the board such as contract agreement the board further authorizes the following School Employees to conduct such transactions superintendent director of business and finance or okay all right uh motion made by trusty Clark is there a second yes okay seconded by trusty Tyler thank you trusty Tyler uh a question on the motion any question hearing N Miss G please call the rooll cler yes perank yes C Yes Alvin yes Tyler yes Madison yes and Scott yes okay thank you that motion passes go to item number seven designation of Bank depository for district funds um trusty Madison you have it in front of you you want to read it yes be it resolved that the following Brokers dealers safekeeping institutions pool accounts and banks are recommended as depository institutions for school District funds and other public monies coming into the hands of the treasurer Brokers dealers safekeeping cerica Securities Huntington Capital markets JP Morgan Securities LLC J JP Morgan clearing courp multibank Securities PNC Financial Services Group ped accounts m i LF public financial management pfm Banks Bank of America coer Bank 5ifth Third Bank Flagstar Bank Huntington Bank JP Morgan Chase Bank Level One bank PNC Bank n n TFC Bank okay uh thank you for that rather motion trust trusty Madison motion made by trusty Madison there second on that motion seconded by trusty tanks any question on the motion hearing N Miss G please call the rooll Scott yes Tyler yes Madison yes yesin yes yes okay we go to item eight designation of boards attorneys um I read you want to go for it again okay resolve that the Board of Education authorizes the administration to utilize the services of the following legal firms as counsel to the board in the Oak Park School District in matters as specified for the 2025 calendar year firm of Miller Canfield Paddock and stone firm of Miller Johnson truan Law Firm PC okay um motion made by trusty Madison is there a second on that motion second seconded by trusty Clark question on the motion hearing N Miss GRE please call the roll Herman KS yes Tyler yes Scott yes Madison yes Elvin yes yes CL oh okay sorry thank you all right motion passes uh we'll go to item 9 a for those of you who are here we're going to take a quick um you know five 10 minute break in between the two meetings so give you time to either take some pictures or if you want you can um so we'll be finishing up in the next few minutes here on this one uh 9A um truste truste the Oakland School budget uh and so we need someone to serve as a trusty on the open school budget committee um go forth you have you have someone that you want to serve on that committee myself okay um there's a mo a motion uh I'll read it for you resolve that the Board of Education appoints uh trustee Dawn corporate and serve on openland schools budget committee second I can't say we don't have we don't what what's wrong was about to say that's we don't yep oh that's on me yeah that's I second why do I have a as a motion then I we think we took this motion last year no I'm pretty sure we did I didn't make this up we just appoint we always appointed a person for that okay and you want to be the one to do that yes I think the person last year was I don't think okay um we sure we don't do you can for consensus you can ask and then if it's TI then you can you we don't we subcommittees the subcommittees you you could appoint maybe yeah that's the subcommittees what I was thinking I these I thought we approve because they're a voting member in yeah all right so we're going to pass a motion on this one we resolve that the Board of Education appoints trustee D corpor to serve on the open school budget committee Don has made trusty Corp has made the motion is there a second on that second second it by trusty Madison any question on that motion all right m g you got the okay yesy yesin yes yes yes yes and yes okay motion passes congratulations on your appointment thank you okay we're going to Item B Oakland County School Board Association government Relations Committee we need an individual to serve on that committee and potentially an alternate but the that one individual so I'll read it the way I had it from last time I don't know if it's changed opar Board of Education must Appo a trustee to ocba government Relations Committee the appointed trustee will be asked to attend GRC meetings serve as our board's Conta for legislative Communications and share information with this board meetings at last check were currently held first Wednesdays of each month 6:30 to 8 um and one point they virtual I'm not sure they're still virtual they they Chang they're in person okay so now they're in person um is there is there an individual willing to do that to represent this board this is you know an important important committee as well so um represent this board on that committee okay no one all right we'll have to come back to this so we're going to table I'm not going to hold on to this we'll table it we'll come back we don't have anyone right now I I could put it in the next we're have to like coer or something bribe no I'm joking all right um so we're going to table that because we don't have anybody that's that's that thre their hat their name and the head on that okay uh so motion withdrawn all right public participation we come to the part of the meeting where the public has the opportunity to address in order so desires public participation is one way Communication in which members of the public are asked to address full board with the understanding that board members will not be able to respond I'm going to read these for today and then uh I'll be passing this on to you U uh because the opart Board of Education values Public public meetings not just meetings in public we welcome public comment on school issues speakers are asked to express themselves in civil manner with due process for the dignity and privacy of others who may be affected by Public 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 dis that disrupt the order of the meeting and are totally unrelated to the manner in which the member or employee performs his or her duties speaker should be aware that if statements violate the rights of others under the law of defamation or evasion of privacy such comments may result in legal liability most comments can be concisely stated in three minutes and the board respectfully ask the comments refrain focus on on the topic or issue and be directed as specific Personnel of board members are there any members of the public who would like to address the board I have one card so I asked earlier if there's anyone that wants to address the board please fill out a card if you would like to address the board please fill out a card but we do have one now and that one they're actually out in the hallway is Curtis C ctis ctis give her the opportunity C can I let the mayor speak first and I come out May okay well we we need to get the mayor card that's fine okay speak first I come first uh I'm maryan mlen lucky enough to be the mayor of the city of Oak Park thank you for having me at your meeting congratulations to all who were elected thank you for um for doing something to make Oak Park schools better um that doesn't benefit you that benefits the community so this is a gift um to the people of Oak Park and we appreciate it thank you um an announcement Public Service Announcement mot the Michigan Department of Transportation is doing major construction on on 696 now they had been doing construction like out to Novi uh where they had Eastbound and Westbound traffic on on one side of the expressway while they fixed the other but they had problems with that because the emergency vehicles couldn't get through if there was a problem so there is going to be um eastbound closed um from Lasser road to I75 starting March 1st going two years so we are going to be um from Southfield to Hazel Park eastbound 696 will be closed starting March 1st um from Northwestern Highway to ler March 10th this will affect Oak Park and Berkeley and Royal Oak and anybody in a car in the in the area uh why are they doing it it was we remember back when it was built in the 1980s well had been patched and patched and patched and um they they need to stop patching and actually reconstruct it now so and there's 60 bridges for them to do so there's going to be upgrades down the road and headaches for drivers for the next two or more years um we will get more traffic eastbound on 9 10 11 12 and 13 Mile um they're also rebuilding our Church Street Plaza if you remember there were icicles hanging and a couple years ago they did a repair and it didn't work there were more icicles when they were done than when they started um so they are rebuilding the plaza they wanted to make it smaller and Oak Park refused to make it smaller uh we get the same park that we have right now and um uh there's also spring construction if that wasn't enough uh Oakland county is building up Shephard Park they're putting in so that Wheelchairs and strollers and uh anybody on Wheels can get around easily they're putting in um they're fixing up the shelters they're they're moving the kitchen from where it is to the opposite side so it'll be a new kitchen um it will be it'll be when it's done it'll be delightful this summer it'll be a mess going to the park and for two years it'll be a mess going down the expressway um uh just heads up they're going to be giving us uh information regularly M will on what's happening with the 696 and we will on and and Oakland County will on on fixing up the park so you can go there and get information at least weekly updates um and we are putting in a new event Hub um between the library and City Hall that'll be just fabulous for our concerts of course there won't be concerts this year because they're going to be building the event Hub and they're going to be fixing uh the park so it's going to be a difficult summer I think for us um but thank you for your time and again congratulations and thank you sir for um for uh letting me go first thank Mr Samuels Daniels Oh Daniels s sis s yeah man sis forgot who I am Daniel oh Daniel forgot who I am does this not look like a ass yes thank you Mr Daniels okay I I mean you have great pmip but this one for sure they talked that it when I was going to school congratulate everyone here congratulate the new and old members but hey I'm here I'mma be one of those persons that's working on 696 um our company um would be doing that um so y'all be ready but anyway I'm I'm here for business you know the business that hand is this um I always come here I always come here with welcome open eyes from you and so continue to do what we have to do and that's the skill trades and jobs I could promote I want all every member of the school board member to have a tour to Detroit carp M right Training Center in Detroit and the reason why I want that tour for one all y'all to come and and um visit our facility because our facility is free our tuition free our books free and we pay our students to go to school anyone who joins our apprenticeship program do not have to pay anything for four years they don't have to pay anything they can make from 880,000 to 100,000 200,000 and up once they complete our four-year apprenticeship program it's been out here that mayor has brought to my attention that was been someone been telling the school district that the schools the students have to wait no they don't have to wait it's free and it's free to not only Detroit students but Oak Park students and the Oak Park District's um residents as well so I'm I'm continue coming up here to promote skill trades and I hope that we can get this career fair going for 2025 y'all know how I am about the career fairs and the importance of the career fair is to introduce Theo the students that's graduating transition from high school transition from college to get involved in the skill trades that's what our students is lacking skill trades it take them farther than what people may say it took me far you know what I mean as a journ carpenter a journ in welder I also attend our International Training Center out in Las Vegas also that's a program is also available to the students of Oak Park our International Training Center where they would meet everyone throughout the United States and throughout North America I happen to be working on one of the biggest projects throughout North America that's the Gordy how international bridge I've been on that bridge for six years from the beginning to the end we have completed that bridge but we're going to be completing other projects we have a lot of work here in the state of Michigan and through our prip program each student each resident will be have the opportunity to work some of those big projects that project that the um mayor spoke of 696 project that was that's going to be spearhead by Toby construction that's a $240 million job a three-year job i' rather see some of these students that's here in Oak Park graduate coming into that job and coming into our program to get these markable skills and I'm going forer that and continue to keep comp up here in Foster that among you school board members and I hope and pray that this year 2025 that we can get some graduates from Oak Park School District to be a part of the skill trades thank you thank you Mr D Daniels yes I won make sure I said it right so thank you Mr D um that takes us to uh there no more public participation that takes us to item number 11 which is ajour um the the time is now 6:30 if nothing else without objection we'll pass a motion to adj the meeting by unanimous consent is there a mo is there an objection to doing so okay hearing now we're going to adjourn at 6:30 for this meeting we have another meeting that we need to go into we will give we'll start at 6:40 e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e thank you good evening uh again the DAT of January 13 2025 the time is 6:40 we're going to call the O Park Board of Education regular meeting to order Miss Greer please call the roll Mar here yes I mean here Alvin I'm here Madison here Scott here Harman here and Tyler here okay uh that um that we do have a quarum we'll go to item uh number two which is the recitation of the District mission and vision um okay go ahead go ahead one of y'all make a decision and let's go oh yeah our mission is to create an inclusive learning community that provides the best academic and social social experience by educating the whole child one child at a time our vision is cultivating Visionary leaders and compassionate citizens engage in the global Community thank you uh we'll go to item three which is the approv of the agenda uh the agenda was circulated prior to today's meeting but what we need to do is we need to add two items to the agenda so if we could go and add them at 9 for um uh action items we're going to add action item 9A which is board committees and action 9B which is board meeting time um both of these will call on truste corporate to provide and it will that moves Communications agenda adjournment down um any so you have questions on the agenda if no questions on the agenda so uh without objection we'll pass a motion to approve the agenda by unan the uh amended agenda by unanimous consent is there an objection to doing so here and none the agenda the amended agenda is hereby approved and we'll go to item number four uh consent agenda we have one item on the consent agenda this evening uh is there any concern with that item which is the um uh the one item is the Personnel actions there any concern with that okay uh hearing n then we'll pass a motion to approve the consent agenda by unanimous consent is there an objection to do so and and let me let me stop before I before I when I do that does everybody understand what I'm doing when I say unanimous consent if you don't let me know and I'm happy to explain everybody gets it okay all right if there's no objection then we are hereby approved on the consent agenda and we will go to uh the reports we have one by our superintendent Mr Abdullah had Mr have the FL short thank you uh president Alvin uh and trustees congratulations um it's um your sacrifice is um appreciated in um welcome is um hard to um be in service like you guys um are doing and it's very much appreciated and you will see the fruits of your labor um through time so I want to congratulate those of you that are new and those of you that are returning um I also want to talk about um to the parents and and people that are uh watching us um on YouTube we do have early dismissal this Wednesday um it's a 2hour early release uh districtwide also as a reminder to parents the end of the car marking ends this Friday so I'm sure you should be getting calls uh from teachers from parents from principles um depending on where your child um is in the grade process and the assignment process and then we also have um Count Day for second card uh for second year uh second half of the Year February 12 as you know um that we get 90% of the funding based on the first count 10% of the funding based on the second count um funding is is crucial but we are not um we don't desire to treat it any differently than an instructional day I know a lot lot of people will do things um our our vision is that every day counts every day matters um and that this is not a oneandone kind of a thing and finally um this Monday and in honor of Dr King we have the second year um of Revival because it once did exist in the district The Keeper of the promise um celebration um this year we're doing it bigger than last year we do have the um dyc Coming um with um Mr White those of you that know him he he's coming they're they're going to have some performances for us but this year the middle school high school and Elementary are performing um and so we are trying to take it to the level where it's a celebration uh it is at Oak Park High School at 9:00 a.m. uh in the auditorium we do have a lot of performances we also have a lot of um students that have won scholarships um I'm I'm sorry not scholarships but awards for their recognition in either poems or um essays so uh please join us in the and we created finally we created um new Facebook pages for several schools now so Key Elementary now has a new Facebook page um Einstein had one pepper is uh restarting theirs Opa started theirs Nova's in the process of working on theirs and Park High School um and we do communicate a lot there and we do celebrate our students there uh along with Instagram um we don't do I don't do Twitter or Tik Tock Okay I accept it for my kids but I don't I'm not a Tik tocker um and with that being said that concludes my uh report president Al thank you any questions of superintendent based on his report what day did you say was the keeper Keeper at the 20th 20th got this Monday Monday thank you anything else and there's no school sorry there is no school for students for that day okay if uh nothing else then we'll go to item six public participation uh come to the part of meeting where the public has the opportunity to address the board if s desires public participation oneway 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 uh I'll read the public com guidelines now for the last time okay for me because the openart Board of Education values public meetings not just meetings in public we welcome public comment 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 board member or School District employee that disrupt the order of the meeting are totally unrelated to the manner in which the member or employee per performs his or her duties speaker should be aware that if statements violate the rights of others under the law of defamation or invasion of privacy such comments may result in legal liability most comments can be decisely stated in three minutes and the board respectfully ask to comments remain focused on the topical issue and not be Civic Personnel of board members uh if there any anyone wants to address the board did anyone pull out a card I don't see any more cards you want to address the board again yeah okay go ahead okay um okay I just want to add re read address that um the having the the board members to to take a tour through the M re C carp uh training facility it's called Detroit carp M right Training Center Detroit um I would like that to try to see can we can get that um done get that make that happen all y'all get a tour through our facility through our school it's um the one of the finest in the nation uh I think if if when when yall visit it give you a really a good eye give you good understanding what this is about you know I mean it's all about these these kids about these students to get these trades and get these get this certification and um so we have so much offer we just also um implemented another part of our Hall which is Lev 23 which is dealing with solar panels we have 10 big projects coming up with solar panels from all the way up to esav back down here to the city of Detroit um and each contractor 10 contractors ask for people and each contractor ask for 50 or more people and this is 10 different contractors um that's is with solar panels Sol panel U Ministry um I just like I say I love for y'all to come to our U school and see and y'all see the students um do their performance there and also you'll see where you think it should be important that kids get that education free education why it's available it's been there for three years now in place and I don't think no one is doing that the C is doing is not only giving them free tuition free books and we paying them go to school what I mean by paying to go to school is the days that they are in class they get that same $25 $27 $30 an hour for those eight hours they won even be sitting in class without even making their money they will be making their money those eight hours and it's just I just important I just wanted to see um because we did a career fair I I like to continue to do career faing and invite other skill traits in here it's not just the Carpenters it's the mill rights we have we UniFi with the mill rights if anybody know what M right work is when Chrysler GM Ford goes down when they need someone want to change out the caders and the machines and the things for the Builder cars that's what the mill rights do they are united with the Carpenters so it's again I will hope and pray that this year be 2025 that y'all all please come and enjoy ourselves and we can I can make it happen you know I'm saying where yall get lunch you have to pay for anything just come up there and just have a nice time take a tour and see how good Hightech things we got for the students thank you um super dad I don't know who the liaison is for that facility but if we can work through somebody set up get some dates some dates in time not like one some op like some that we can choose from that might work also if you have students that that might be interested in that maybe it might make sense for them to go do a field trip there um not necessarily us so much as it might be for them um now I don't want to I mean you however you guys need to work that out that might make might make sense as well okay okay thank you sir um we'll go to item ding what um we'll go to I'm talking about me we'll go to uh I guess the first set of action items because I wasn't paying attention close enough to put it under the first set so I put them on their own action items later on um sorry about that we'll go to first set of action it we got authoriz authorizing the issuance and delegating the sale of five this series three uh um oh if we have anyone who wants to read that okay go ahead TR resolve that the O Park Board of Education approves the resolution authorizing the issuance of the 2025 School building and site series three as presented by the administration thank you now this was uh we talked about this at the last board so I don't know if our I don't if you touched on this earlier or if any of our board have question they got a little to the meting okay all right so we're good to go then okay so we have talked about this at the last meeting I feel comfortable moving forward are there any questions on this item hearing Miss Greer I need a second need a second our second oh sorry thank you is there a second don't trusty corpin thank you let's go yes cin Yes Alvin yes Madison yes St yes Herman TS yes en yes thank you the motion passes go to item eight information items we have two plantbased consultant position for pilot program um and you are you just you want to just talk about them all I could talk about oh you're doing this one and she's got the sorry go ahead y so we were awarded she's like no I don't want to talk about that go ahead we were awarded a quarter million dollars uh only two districts in the entire state of Michigan got that money and we are one of them so this is a strictly vegan only diet and the exploration of that um and so we are getting a consultant to help us with the ingredients in producing a menu um Einstein was the school that Chartwell selected as their pilot so they will be providing a um vegan modified um plant-based meals uh for students to sample um and I believe that MD is um trying to see if this was or if this would be a successful Venture going forward giving that there's so many different kids with so many different diets and so um part of that agreement is that we have to have a consultant uh almost like a executive Chef's B specifically for the plant-based um our goal is to have it done this fiscal year right we talked about fiscal year so by the end of this fiscal year um and although the a year salary would be 70,000 a because of the months that remaining would be less than that again it's not coming out of general fund it's coming out of this particular um grant that we were awarded okay any questions on that you want to know where you signed up to eat CU that show I had two questions one was right um that modified what do you mean by modified when you mean what are they modifying you know the meals you say well the meals uh I I don't know if they're modifying they're creating new uh plates new dishes of so I apologize just mod that word modify modif it's modifying current offering yeah yeah all right yeah and the other one is um would that also include the snack machines like the sodas this this is actually food made from scratch oh plant-base I told you but but if you going to go to the this is just lunchtime you saying yeah okay no board members can't come I was going to try it so can we taste can we sample sample the food I'll let you in that day that you go and the chef comes and and modify y' let y'all call me when they bring [Applause] steak item y'all G to stop with the way I do item uh item 8B k through2 math and professional development coordinator and K2 Ela continuous Improvement coordinator okay you want to talk about these yes sir I can I can do these good evening to our board our newest trustees um for joining us our our superintendent and our uh cabinet members and to our audience members um I am Shaya Murphy the director ctor curriculum for the Oak Park School District and I'm just here to do an informational item regarding two uh specific positions that uh will be joining hopefully the office of teaching and learning uh for our school district uh these are based on the vision of our superintendent we're trying to restructure some of the supports out of the Department of teaching and learning and so these K12 curriculum um coordinators will be funded through 23g Grant it is not a a general fund position it we funded through Grant Monies to in in all Essence to provide reports to our staff and our students um to close the achievement Gap um so we're trying to bring on these two coordinators to work directly with staff and directly with students um to uncover some of that learning loss that we had during Co and that remains um so they'll be supporting modeling lessons helping with uh lesson planning providing professional development looking at data and and deciding on interventions for students and helping to helping the teachers to implement those so if you were in the district beforehand or were aware we had Katie and Jay who used to be in the office teaching and learning so these are their roles uh just restructured to provide that level of support uh for our staff and students so they will be in buildings directly supporting teachers directly supporting uh students in order to close that achievement Gap and again it will be funded through 23g which is a grant specifically designed to meet the needs of uh staff and students in recovering that learning loss we we blend a different grants so just say 23g and and others but but the idea is that it is not uh hitting our general fund budget it will be uh uh supplemented through grant funding um from various sources um to make sure we're trying to as best we can to provide those supports for staff and students any questions for members of the board okay thank you how thorough no questions all right we got item 9A action items again and the first item on 9A is board committees and that's it yeah just the board committees don't worry about the other one we already had it all right no you we made we took action okay well I can um withdraw that we'll table it go to um so 9A which is board committees trusty per go ahead all right um we select committees um usually every year during the organizational meeting and there were two committees that I uh wanted to be a part of which is the Personnel committee and also the finance committee so I uh would like to um be appointed to those two committees so we don't currently have those so we need to we need to establish them Oh I thought they were there last year we definitely don't have a Personnel we definitely don't have a Personnel okay well we can andish so we would need to establish those if the board chooses to do so then I would have to to choose or so okay let's put this in a formable motion let's see if I can help you out a little bit um so um trusty corporate moves for the establishment of the uh of two uh excuse me of the personel and finance committees second motion made by trusty corpin seconded by um trusty Madison uh trusty corpin the floor is yours to provide rational okay so um being uh certified as a board member um I had taken a class in regard to the Committees and how important it is for the board uh to be engaged with the administration um on those you know on those meetings or even uh you know learning uh what we can do better uh in regards to having um an Insight on you know the personnel and the finance um so I'm asking that we add these on um to be a more effective um board okay are there any questions or comments okay I have questions so the Personnel committee would be focused on what um the Personnel committee will be focused on the hiring the you know sitting in on some of the hiring process uh or not just the hiring process but learning what vetting uh of each person or just you know sitting with let me let me put it this way because I don't want to get misunderstood when we are hiring and when we are um firing and when we are vetting um sitting in on that committee you get to understand as um the HR department is a very critical Department um we have uh students um you know that are that are um enrolling uh we will get the opportunity to uh watch or you know see or be a part of the um enrollment process uh that this board has not uh actually uh seen and just basically you know just being a part of that that that committee would actually help us understand the process also okay so you want to understand more about the hiring process hiring the the um process of enrollment um the process of the um you know like we have all the programs such as the mcken program you know we will be a part of that we will be you know meaning we will be able to assist if you will okay and the finance committee the finance committee um is actually a committee that will be able to be a part of um learning the uh codes learning um how as the finance director stated you know there is a part of the physical year you will learn that you will be able to um understand the finances of school finance and then you will also be able to understand that when the budget is due when the budget is how the budget is preparing for the audit and just being a part of you know of understanding how the finance of school Finance go so I know the rest of we having comments my here these are um in the past we've had committees and they didn't function chairs didn't meet uh didn't call meetings we had we didn't meet now I know we've got a different board make up at this stage of the game but based on your explanation for what these are to do like for example the um the Personnel committee those are the functions when we start talking about hiring firing that's the functions of the administration and that's their swim Lane that's not our swim lanane so for me I'm it's a no I'm I'm going to vote no for that reason and then for on the finance side we we operate as a committee of as a of the whole and in general we've had an opportunity on the finance side to delve into everything we want to know um and there's a question and people have a question they ask it and everybody gets a response um we just went through a an audit and it was a better one than the year prior um and so you know and and for the findings that were there there wasn't anything that would lead me to say we need increased oversight at least for me uh those findings had nothing to do really with with anything that any any Mal or nonas on behalf of the board or the administration so I'm fine with leaving things the way they are personally okay well um as you stated um the yeah these committees as you okay as you said you feel that these committees don't meet I I I wasn't a chair of a committee where we did not meet however the Committees are very conducive to the board we should be a part of the administration when it comes to vacancies when it comes to um understanding uh the role now you said that uh we have we haven't any questions we have we ask we can get that's not what the Committees are built for committees are built to be a part of like the committee as a whole we don't meet as a committee of the whole we we should have uh works that work studies or we don't have that prior to yeah but but I'm just saying that to understand that as a board we have to have these these insights of what we are as a board and I just feel that the class that I taken in regards to committees committies are very important they are very important and contrary to what you're saying um and to my fellow board members I strongly ask that you guys take the committee class and you will probably feel the same way I feel very well um anything else from any members of the board all right if it passes then we we'll we'll we'll put place um board members on the Committees but I'm still not exactly sure what they'll do so we'll have to do some research on that uh so I have a question when we had the committee before I don't know what you mean by you don't know what they so two of those committees never met one didn't meet that's the one that you cheered you recall that yeah that was during Co yes I do and then um during that time all of a sudden they stopped meeting like it just did and it never accomplished any goals or task it didn't do anything it met yes we had a few meetings and nothing came out of those meeting it was a policy committee that was your committee nothing I was on that committee and none of them ever we had about three meetings let's say and nothing came out of that at all we didn't do anything meaningful measurable at all I'm not blaming you I'm just saying that's the truth so at this stage that's why I'm like there's nothing that I feel personally this is just me talking I'm not speaking for anyone else that we can't accomplish as a group that would be accomplished based on what you just described in a committee meeting so that's that's where I'm at personally the board can make a different decision and we'll have to go from there if it does right and we are entitled to our opinions correct everyone is this is understood but that policy that you're speaking on to defend myself you shouldn't have to defend yourself I didn't say anything to impune you I said that nothing came out of the committee it wasn't about you you you just said me you named me you said it was your committee you were the chair and I was on it and it was during Co when Co had just happened when um and then that's when we didn't have a meeting because we were dealing with the covid situation and I believe it was um minam that I remember in one meeting that we did have and Jamie was in that meeting that's correct So Co did happen and I will repeat that and then that's when we everyone was affected by Co we met virtually and we nothing happened as I said covid had mentioned had started people were passing family members were dying so therefore it was hard for me anyway to meet back but we didn't have and then jimie was dealing with a lot with the district but with that saying that is why I am asking for this board we have four new board members and I feel that once the board members continue to take classes with masb they will find how important it is to be a part of the Committees and to become a part of the whole or to be a part of the whole the committees as a whole because it's it's helpful it it's it it's definitely helpful and and right now we have way I mean way too many new board members that that wouldn't we got trusty go ahead finish up and then we got trusty and I'll come um and that that actually need to be as a whole and know what as a whole is okay that's it thank you trusty Ty yes um my only thing with with the Committees I know it was in the past in order for me to just get clarity on what all the Committees function would be um I would just ask that to us more clity or so that the new Meers because it's a new thing you know and so you know what commit do you know what is the function of it I know that you know you saying for oversight of U personnel and oversight of finances but what does it really really do and so I would just ask you know for more clarity on the function of it you know maybe a later or something because like you said um we do have several I know you've been here before but just to see what does the committee do I don't even know what they do before I even just make a v on it and so I would just ask for more information on my got you uh trust I'm okay okay trusty Madison okay nothing what do you want to do you want to call for a question I will call the question okay well I did hear uh uh the board memb state that you wanted to to come back to know what committees are we can table we can table this uh to the next meeting what it consist of you know what I'm saying because it's new I'm I'm saying you understand I understand we all are at board but you see saying to break it down into committees and then we all are a board so I understand the president's um view on it that we operate as a board but what does the function of this individual breakdown of two committees do that's all I would ask that I would get more clarity so you have two options um you we can call a question and get an answer from what the board want wants to do or you can pull pull the uh pull your motion and if you want to come back with something more comprehensive to give them an opportunity to to respond and and maybe put something in writing and get it before our next meeting and we can go through it then um or we can just take it now so it's up um I would like to um come back to this okay because because uh the board member stated that she wants to learn more about it before she but you don't have to do that I'm just saying I respect I respect exactly what she's saying so therefore it would not be just my word or your word it would be what she would learn of you know what a committee is so so then you want to withdraw the motion I would like to withdraw my motion okay all right the motion is being withdrawn um and uh trusty corpor in is our next meeting in two weeks is that enough time for you to develop something enough time okay so can we add that to the agenda for um the 27th and trusty corporate will provide you with documentation she withdrawn both or one she withdrew there was only one motion on the floor the other item she wants to table table which one the the tabling is the time the meeting time meeting yeah yes okay and what's the other one and the first one was uh board committees and if you want to be more technical the establishment of board committees put that okay we good okay all right we're going to go to item number 10 then item number 10 is board Administration Communications any communication from members of administration for members of the board any Communications yeah I have a communication I would like to um congratulate all the new board members I also would like to um say that uh check your emails for the masb classes um you have uh uh onboarding classes that are going to be available soon for a new board members um I highly suggest that you all take those classes because it will actually open open up you know your mind uh it will also open up your experience to what a board member is actually uh uh their duties are thank you trust corporate anything else from MERS of the board trust madon I just wanted to say congratulations to everyone thank you thank you that's it thank you anything else from members of the board Ty you want want to give shout out to your mom mom's good r with me all the time Mama's good all right d all right um our next meeting is 6 PM Monday January 27 2025 here in this same room if nothing else um and there's no objection to adjournment we will adjourn by unanimous consent is there an objection to doing so time is 7:18 we're hereby a Jour thank you