Come on. Come on. Our next student we would like to highlight is Quinton Jackson. Quinton is a joy to have in class. He's always willing to help. He's very knowledgeable in math
and takes pride in always getting the math problems right. He's never lost for words. Enjoy talking and dancing like Michael Jackson. He will be missed at le Next we will have a student of the month
from Einstein Elementary. Good evening. My name is Sarah, principal at principal of Einstein Elementary School. We are going to honor two of our fourth graders tonight. Started with Um, the fourth grader that Mills has
nominated for student of the month of disease prevention has demonstrated outstanding perseverance, integrity, and determination throughout fourth grade. Morning and afternoon, she comes into the classroom ready to learn and determined to do her best. Adise consistently completes all of her
assignments to the best of her ability, earns excellent grades, and turns in her work on time. She approaches every day with enthusiasm, and maintains a positive attitude in everything she does. Throughout the school year, just naturally steps into a leadership role
in the classroom. She often helps her classmates by explaining how to solve math problems, completing activities, or working challenges. She is also quick to encourage and support others when they are having a difficult time, helping them refocus and be successful. Because of her leadership, kindness, and
willingness to help others, her classmates respect her and often forget. Adise consistently demonstrates effort and determination even when faced with a challenging task. She exemplifies all of the Catherine's traits by showing respect, courage, kindness, and
integrity in her daily action. She takes ownership for her thoughts, her words, and her actions. and strives to do the right thing even when no one else is watching. Adise is accountable for her choices and understands how her actions affect both her and her and others. She
also manages her time and responsibilities well arriving prepared every day and completing her work with care and responsibility. Most importantly makes a positive impact on our classroom community. She's a role model who contribute to creating a
supportive and encouraging environment is a joy to have in class so you So next I'm going to call our teacher white is going to
fourth grade student of the month. After being away from school in September, while dabbling saroma, Haiten returns with a smile on her face and an extremely positive attitude. Every day she comes in with a bright smile and determination that inspired everyone
around her. She was proud of how far she had come, open about her journey and eager to reconnect with her classmates and teachers. Despite the challenges she faced, she consistently showed remarkable perseverance and inner strength. Her courage, happiness, and willingness to share her experience has
made a lasting impact on our classroom community. And we are so proud of her. We are so proud of her. Kaitlin is honestly the strongest girl I know. And I'm so happy that you'll ever like meet in your life.
I don't know her face with risen above the other And then she gets to ring the bell. Next, I'm proud to introduce Mr. Adam Carter, assistant principal at the
elementary school. >> Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. Again, my name is Adam Carter, assistant princip elementary. It's a pleasure to to be here tonight to introduce our students. Before we start, I just would like to to uh acknowledge
and thank all our board members uh for for countless amount of hours you all have put in to help improve our keep going. So, I appreciate I appreciate you all. So thank you all.
>> Okay. Uh our first student is a second grade student by the name of the king spins in this wood class. The king but for the king uh he is a student for showing all of the key core values. Our key core values are academic pride,
positivity, integity, respect, diversity, and excellence. And so, uh, a statement from Miss Woods, the King Sims has shown tremendous perseverance this year in second grade. He works hard even when going gets tough. He is kind to
others and always shows his best effort. He is a true leader at T Elementary and who who is always choosing to show integrity. So congratulations again of second grade. >> All right, up next we have uh Leah
Brown, third grader in the fourth class. Leah, come on up. girl. >> So, uh the steering you hear all of our students are extremely excited, but is the daughter
extremely proud and so is okay. Our third grade student Leah Brown displays exemplar academic achievement and behavior in all that she does. She is a model student who always leaves with kindness and is a positive
influence in our classroom and school community. Lee is a joy to have as a student and consistently demonstrates the key elementary core values every day. I look forward to seeing what the future holds with such a great student like Leah and that is from her teacher
Mrs. Would you like to come up to >> Would you like to add anything? Mr. >> Okay. So uh again congratulations to Leah and if you all would like to come on please I don't At this time, we will have the acting of
Pepper Elementary, Mr. Sanders, who's going to come present the Pepper Elementary students of the month. >> Good evening. >> My name is principal at elementary school. I'm introduce you
to my staff members out. It is my pleasure to nominate Cyro Brown for student of the month from Pepper Elementary School. Cyro has exemplified many of the character traits from our social contract this school year. He is respectful, responsible, a good
listener, hard worker, and most importantly, kind. I can still picture him on the first day of school taking another boy by the hand and showing him where the bathroom was. The other boy had forgotten where it was. The kindergarters don't go down the hall very much, and he was feeling really shy
and nervous about it. And Cyro just took him by the hand and led him down to the bathroom, waited outside for him to be done, and took him back to class. I often and taking it upon himself to help others, classmates and teachers alike. It's just the type of kid he is.
Kyro is a dedicated learner, especially when it comes to learning to read. He has worked hard and perseveres that may come this way. It is my honor to present and recognize Zoe, a fourth grader from Pepper. She
has been an absolute joy to have in both STEM and our science support that I do with the fourth and fifth graders this year and she brings creativity and genuine excitement to everything that she touches. Whether she's troubleshooting a circuit, designing a
habitat diarama, or working through a challenge that isn't going the way she planned, Zoe approaches it with the exact mindset we hope to build in every young scientist and engineer. She doesn't just complete projects. Zoe
inhabits them. It has been a privilege to watch her grow this year and I can't wait to see what Up next is Herman from Good evening everyone. I am
the principal of Academy and I'm so happy to meet you all tonight. I have two students in the state class of fifth grade that I've had the pleasure of working got great, lovely sixth grade students and seeing
them grow over the years and these two students are really a great representation of what we want for all of our new life. So, I would love to call up and I only saw one student. was supposed to be here, but I didn't
see him come in. Come in, I'll come back. But Mario has been selected at June Student of the Month for his outstanding character and dedication to learning. Mario consistently demonstrates kindness and respect towards his classmates, teachers, and staff members. He approaches each day
with a positive attitude and a genuine enthusiasm for learning. Always eager to participate and grow academically. His willingness to help others and his commitment to doing his best makes a positive role model within OPA middle school community. Congratulations to
Mario and this is a welldeserved recognition. Gabrielle Irving come up. She is a perfect example of what we love again. Gabrielle Irving has earned this honor of June student of the month for her bright attitude, strong motivation, and
commitment to excellence. She consistently strives to succeed and approaches challenges with determination and confidence. Gabrielle is known for going the extra mile to support her friends and assist her teachers, demonstrating both leadership and compassion. Her positive influence, hard
work, and dedication make her an outstanding member of the OPA middle school family. Congratulations on this welldeserved wonderful achievement. We do have Next up, we have Dr. Williams from the
Oak Park High School. >> Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. Williams, the principal of OKAR Kite School, and I have two amazing scholars that I'm going to present to you this evening. The first scholar is Jaden
Randolph. He is a current 11th grader, but he's class of 2027. So, we can officially call him a senior. Okay. Jaden was nominated by his teacher, Miss Binda, who describes him as a great kid and a perfect example of
in Oak Park High School night. She shares that Jaden is thoughtful, hardworking, and consistently he consistently demonstrates integrity in all that he does. Jaden is a dedicated student athlete. He's a part of our Oak Park High School night football team
where he plays dinner. Not getting through him. Outside of school and sports, he has a strong interest in animals and reptiles, and his favorite color is blue. Looking ahead, Jaden plans to attend Michigan State after high school and he is considering a
career in either anesthesiology or veterinarian science. Uh both fields reflect his interest in science and helping others. And Jaden is highly motivated to build a successful future and he is motivated by money.
Jaden is also a proud uh he has proud uh deep family connections to Oak Park. Uh his mother, two uncles, and brothers are all OPHS alumni, making him a part of a very strong night legacy. It is with great pride that the Oak Park High School administration recognizes and
honors our rising senior Jaden Randolph as our scholar of the month for June. Congratulate. Okay. And my next scholar of the month is a rising sophomore, Miss Autumn
Parker. Come on up, Autumn. Autumn was nominated by her teacher, Mr. Orlando. And Mr. Orlando uh states that uh she's an awesome young lady. She has excellent
attendance. She puts forth her best effort on every assignment and consistently exceeds expectations. Autumn is polite, kind, and always willing to help other students when they are in need. Autumn has a bright future ahead of herself, and he is proud to have recognized her in her
accomplishments in her ninth grade year. Uh here are a couple fun facts about Autumn. She is of course an outstanding OPF scholar who uh continues to excel in both inside and outside of the classroom. She earned honoral
recognition for semester 1 with an impressive 3.44 GPA. Uh she is a proud member of the OPs marching Legion dance team. In addition to her academic and extracurricular accomplishments, Autumn
recently participated in our first mathematic Jeopardy competition. So that was just last week where her team earned second place. While she once considered math to be one of her favorite subjects, she has developed a strong interest in science
and history. Autumn describes herself as an explorer who is always looking for new hobbies and experiences, and she enjoys interacting with others, but she also values opportunities where she's learning and growing independently. When asked about her future, Autumn shares
that she sees herself becoming either a therapist or an entrepreneur. Although she's still exploring her path, she knows uh she enjoys challenges and is excited about the possibilities ahead. Autumn is also deeply connected to the OPAR community. Her father and
grandfather are both OPs alumni, giving her strong family roots and a sense of pride continuing her family legacy. It is with great pride that the old Park High School administration recognizes and honors our ninth grade knight Autumn
Parker Scholar of the month. Next, I'd like to introduce Mr. Mario Evans, the principal of Nova Academy. Please give it up. >> Good evening everyone. >> I would like to bring up Wells, my 10th grade student.
>> She's being honored today for her academic transition. She came to us and she demonstrated academic transformation in school year. At the beginning of the year, she faced challenges with completing her assignments consistently and often allowed distraction to impact
her academic pres performance. Rather than allowing those challenges to define her, made the decision to take ownership of her education and commitment committing herself to grow. Her transformation reflects our core values of accountability. Began making
intentional choices to separate herself from graduation. with great consistency. She filled maturity by recognizing what was was getting on the way of her success and taking responsibility and improvement. Also represented out outstanding
achievement because people her progress because the record of effort, perseverance and strong commitment to learn and ask to advocate for herself has helped her grow academically and build confidence in the classroom. Her journey connects also to the vision of the future because her habits and
development help her support her beyond the school year. Growth is not just about completing more excitement. It's about developing discipline, focus, and belief that she can continue to improve. Academic transformation is a powerful example of what happens when a student
grow over excuses over distress. We are proud of the progress he has made and excited to see what she will continue to accomplish. Congratulations to Next up, I would like for Daniel Robinson Turner, a fifth grade student
nominated by Daniel Robson because represent Nova's identity. Daniel has consistently demonstrated what it means to be respectful and respons responsible member of our school community through his daily actions, positive attitude, commitment to doing
what's right and becoming a strong example of the values he through the school year. Daniel has represented our school identity with pride and integrity. He treats his peers, teachers and staff members with consideration, helping to create a wonderful and supporting learning environment.
His respectful demeanor is evident in the way he communicates with others. sometimes we know response to challenges carries himself both inside and outside the classroom. Daniel also exemplifies a core value of
accountability. He consistently follows through with expectations and demonstrates strong commitment to his academic and personal growth whether completing assignments class discussions and that has been on doing the right thing and represent in a positive manner. his he has shown he is a student
others can look up as a positive example his dedication to to represent no values made a meaningful impact on those around them and others their culture of respectability in our school community we are proud to recognize Daniel for embodying the values of nurturing relationships vision of the future and
accountability for his character action and commitment of representing the best of him recognition congratulations to Daniel being student of the Congratulations. Um, we have one more award to present. I would like Mr. Carter to come up and
presentation. >> All right. Good afternoon again. Uh, this presentation is for special person. On behalf of all of our schools, staff and Oak Park students, we want to
express our fierce gratitude and appreciation to you, Mrs. Murphy. You have been you have been an outstanding commander and chief. Your leadership, support, and guidance have had a tremendous impact on
our entire school community. Throughout your service, you have lived with integrity, compassion, and a genuine commitment to the success of every student, staff member, and family in Oak Park. Your dedication to Oak Park schools has not gone unnoticed. The
time, energy, and care you have invested in our district have helped shape a stronger community and create opportunities for college students to succeed. Your influence will be felt for years to come. As a small token of our appreciation, each school has prepared a
gift to thank you for your services to open schools. While these gifts are simple, they represent the deep, respect, gratitude, and admiration. we have for everything you have done for our students, staff and community. Thank you for your leadership and your
unwavering commitment to our students. We are truly grateful. Hello everyone again to our inim superintendent on behalf of our executive director of private culture and communications I
hope I got that right in public relations. Yes. I just want to in her actions express that she wanted to be here to do this as well but she asked me to say a few words and I'm delighted to
So, Miss Murphy, I can say so much about you as your as superintendent. The title is truly fitting because you are a super in every sense of the word. Your case is
welld deserved as you successfully done work in the entire school district with 3,000 students and 289 employees and you do it with such grace. You do it all while wearing high heels.
I can't even imagine. You are the definition of grace under pressure. I have watched you step into a position that was unexpectedly delegated to you overnight and immediately double
you day after day. You show up ready to take care of business while wearing a smile on your face and a positive attitude. Whenever someone asks you how you are doing or I ask you how you
are doing, one word says it all. That tells me sometimes it can get overwhelming and but again you handle it with grace and I have visited several buildings throughout the district today and many
staff members wanted to express their appreciation for your leadership and your dedication. They wanted me to convey their gratitude and acknowledge the positive impact you have made in the district in such a short time. Your
leadership has not gone unnoticed and the respect and admiration you have earned is welld deserved. I thank you OSPA. Thanks you for your unwavering commitment to our district,
our staff, our students as you an example of perseverance, resilience and servant leadership. It inspires those around you and myself every day with sincere gratitude. I speak on behalf of
messenger of the child center and our principal M. I am president. >> No problem. >> And I just want to public meeting. I just want to say thank you to all of the staff and students who
are board president opportunity to me to continue to lead and guide the district under your guidance and leadership. Thank you to the staff, my principal, my executive team, all the family, everybody for your trust in me, your belief in me to
continue to keep this ship. It's been an honor and a privilege and I often say I don't get to do something. I don't have to do something. I get to I get to do this. So, I just want to say thank you for your love, your trust, your dedication, appreciation.
I'm going record the YouTube video and put it in my uh Google Drive, my staff, family, and students of the park. Um, okay. At this time, we'll take a brief brief so that everyone can get a
chance to get going if that's what you choose to do. Um, congratulations to all of our wonderful students of the month. Well done. Congratulations on the successful completion almost. I feel of the 2025
2026 school year. See you guys later on in the year. Congrats to the village and the including me for raising such amazing children and congrats to Miss Murphy and the rest of the board members
for making this school year. So, um thank you. You guys can get going and the time is now 6:40. We'll um we'll begin back at about 6:45. Thank you so much. item. We will resume with item number
five, presentation. A lagarda security. Good evening every morning. security company has requested to come. it over our director with us for our senior operations manager with us 15 years
of combined extensive security experience district very several different school districts several charter programs and
universities as well portion there is our parttime portion part things that districts top portion there are very very similar in many ways and then we also work
on a full basis supporting their educational programs reading programs Over the years, we've really been able over the years. So many school districts had a lot of the similar training
requirements that we as our required training programs for our officers helps streamline coverage especially with our cross train officed
and certified but also have experience When you combine that train all of our officers through really helps make these people much easier from an operational standpoint.
One of the things that I always make sure I point out is that not only do we provide the training, our own inhouse trainers, but one of the most important things that whe require training and
compiance. So CPR first intervention every single officer is a completion card that
institutions website easily verify all their training. I believe that it was done instructor's name. One thing that I have offici
one of the things that we've kind of always built on is our training program. A couple of other topics that you see there two very important requests recommend anyone not school districts
basic training identify what crisis that interaction youth interaction I think is very very important we added that another customer that actually our officers all of those are very very
good training forces for our officers Obviously they get several hours of hands on training with our operation staff with our incant as well as our clients is that we have
an ongoing training schedule for all of our so many officers not just in school districts but throughout metropolitan Detroit that utilize a lot of this training. And what that benefits for us and for our
customers is that very very little down, very very little time. If you need a new officer, if you're adding to your security program, if you have to have an officer replaced, what have you, not waiting to get trained individuals in
this school district, for example, require that all training be done prior to assignment go through verification and get Mr. approval. This will help speed that process up to make All of our
all of our clients receive highly trained individuals. Um, one of the biggest questions that we always get is how do we handle a call off? How do we handle someone not showing up? And it's
a multi-tiered answer. But basically, we have our 24hour command center man command center that is tracking all of our officers in addition to We do have an app based
software program that all of our officers are on that utilization that the officer is typically pretty small. So it's not you know half a city or anything like that. So we can actually program it to specific school
districts and specific schools. Um but in addition to that because of the amount of schools that we have in the area, we have a large pool of crossrained officers that again work at multiple multiple school districts that
are always available. Um, our office is 15 minutes down the street from you and all of our operations staff are always in the area in the zone. So that if we do have someone that hasn't shown up for whatever reason
there almost immediately automatically goes open so that our real time the same director of operations is that post is open
that post for us and that's a big concern for a lot of our a lot of our customers is something that you don't want to have a lap when you're in students in the morning and this is a great tool for us
to help us make sure that we have all of our folks covered. I did talk about our floers. Uh it's our it's been our longtime policy to always have uh one trained cross training floater for every three to four officers that we have
assigned. Um therefore we have a large pool as I said that is always open. and always available to recover those posts when needed not just for calloffs for TTO anything that comes along continuously uh fill
that post another concern a lot of people have is retention summer what do you do how do you hold on to people um there's a reason I have that one of our many hiring ads up there if you look at us on
our social media especially Facebook, you'll see two things. You'll see officers getting awards and you'll see a we're hiring. That's because we are always hiring. It's not because the turnover is because we're one of the most successful companies here in Michigan. We always have new business.
We never have an indepth of their officers with the district for various things summer school program and things like that within four to six weeks of school our operations team and HR working on
placing our officers who aren't going to be needed during the uh the summer months place them that's available to them that fits their needs geographically financially
it's a big undertaken on our We do school districts, but we've always temporary business over the summers. We never have an issue with that. As a matter of fact, for whatever reason needed us to cover summer school
starting tomorrow, we have plenty of officers that are cross that have received all the training that we require. I mentioned the other thing that you're going to see on our social media. Um, one of the reasons that we are
successful is one of the reasons that we have officers that have worked for us for 15 years, 25 years, you see the graphic there. The fact that they're all part of our family oriented, family operated company. And one of the things
that we instituted a long time ago is recognition of our officers and rely our customers to send us feedback via email or what have you. Um, and we nominate all of our our officers for awards and those rewards all come with cash
bonuses. something that I don't think many of our competitors really do and it really helps strengthen the relationship that the officers have because we want them embedded in our family and then we want
them to be embedded into your community which is very very important because all the school districts that we do are very very diverse. Every school that we do is different from one another. We want to make sure that we have the right people in place and we great to make sure that
we're not just filling the position that we're providing each individual that is going to fit their culture the environment that that they've been chosen for. One of the things that that we do we always want to be in touch with
initiatives programs that you have going on kids hearts we've done those initiatives with other school districts not only do we support them but we want to be a part of it whether is a button or a lanyard or a shirt. We want our
officers to buy in the culture of the school that they're assigned to. And I think that's pretty much it. Didn't want to take too much time. So, and Angela and I are available for any questions that you may have.
you answered a lot of questions that one question I did have with regards to training cultural comparably cultural obviously district lots of black kids.
We want to make sure that there's a understanding of how >> absolutely here is a lifelong certific I think everybody I've ever known. I can guarantee you he's not certified.
I know started a long long time ago officelic. something like that when we're putting putting together our training program. A lot of times
I know like you did your homework. >> No, I like it. So, I really like to know that's what we've been doing for years and so you answered a lot of questions. You really did. And my first question is
I see that you all train. >> I'm sorry. I don't. I'm sure I'm sure one of our instructors are are aware. Um I'm not sure. listed in the RFP that's required but
again I would imagine that more than you're so amazed how you know >> no 100% is one of our required >> specializ I know I know what I'm I think that's very
situation services and so that's something that we would definitely don't want to es with it, but you still need that other component that I'm looking for. I'm not hearing that's really not
that. And so, u that's one of my my main questions and then other questions for u for retention for uh call off that's been a major issue.
with the current that we pass throughout the last I believe I can say 10 years it's been major major and so um I hear that you have a system in place
but outside of that system how does um how does it work really within that system because I think I get that you have a system but a lot of times we say you have a system that system really does not So like I said, it's actually a
multi-ear system. Number one is our command center human interaction that are on top of things. The first step is whe We have a command center
comes in so that they elementary school starts everybody from our everybody. I said leave that post open so that one of our crossraotted
One year contract Okay. official. Okay. issue that I have. that you know all the third parties and not getting much top $25 an hour and they're not getting
as much as you know the 18 and so I still have an issue I can't break it down for you as far as payroll taxes and things of that nature but it's a it's a pretty hefty costending on the
workers insurance company taxes are much much lower cost as much overhead. security compared to some of the other bus drivers.
Of course, we're all here asprofit companies as well. compared to costity. What are we paying right now? start at the same rate. >> Yeah, there's annual
company. But you know, I think that's my part of my problem that I have. Part of my problem that I'm have we paying We're not invested in the people that the problem and we started a new company now. I
think the company that we just looked at the other day, I had some issue with them, but I don't have issue with them paying the money because they $18. They're giving more. 19. Right. Right. understand
everything else. for everything. But now we want all of us and I have no disrespect now. I got a problem now. Yes, it was a problem with with some of the stuff that they had, but I didn't have a problem
with the money aspect because we have to invest. We have to pay we have to pay our teachers. We have to pay our security. We have administration. Administration has been the top heavy. been so heavy for the last three years
and no one else has gotten. So you mean to tell me that the teachers are about to get a raise so we don't just get that and then these are the ones hold on sir and these are the ones that protect and make sure every go home safe every day
every all students all 220 uh staff and not have a problem because That's not fair to them that you're coming in here saying right now as you being the director, you're coming in
here saying that we have to save money on security. I got a problem. So maybe that or it don't come to me saying that we need to save on security. So I'm not
I'm not saying that security is not I've been here over two and you give me a number I can make it number. So you tell me what that budget is so
that I can really know what I'm dealing with. But I'm still pocket and this is what I'm supposed to work. >> But if we would have said yes to the other company, the other company was paying more. So what's the difference? I think the other company is it wasn't the
money issue why we asked for security. You know what ended up happening with other companies that they didn't follow the correct >> that was their misreading of the RFP because in the RFP 32.
So when they came up and that's always where we number that was once they get a raise and they worked all year and they not
everyone gets a raise somewhere every six months or something they work all year that's not fair to them and these people are putting their lives on the line we just had an incident outside and they out there they put their lives
on the line for us and I think we should make sure they're compensated right That's just not fair. Y'all know security is my passion. It's my heart. I don't I don't I've never I've never in
a budget. So when you said that to me, it triggered something because at the safety of our kids, that's our number one priority. People are not going to bring their kids to our district that they don't feel safe in first of all. And then the second piece comes to education. So you have security and
education go hand in hand. So we cannot just that is fair to say we do 32 offices and they still don't have one more question. I I would appreciate everything that
you're saying. One thing I will point out, you try to price things, but also your officers. And the reason I pulled this screen up is
We discussed this internally and felt as though the current pay was actually spot on for about your area. Out of all the schools, all the educational customers that you see on there only
just to give you guys someight that security offic that these are the people that trusting with our kids. But from a business standpoint, I just wanted to make sure that that was pointed out to
you. One school district on the pricing page in the proposal. There are Thank you. Any other questions? >> All right. >> Thank you. Thank you.
>> All right. So, now we will move on to item number 5B. Kimberly, our may adjust specialties for retreat in norms review. Welcome. Good evening. It is a pleasure to be here
to share some information or hear the work that participated in three weeks ago. It was actually um if I'm not sure that um the board so
I was contacted by your intern board and so and I had a conversation about what was needed from the board. Um we discussed what was needed for the board. We um decided that we focus on
governance roles for the board as well as more. And so on Saturday we did some work on understanding the role of the board. What is board governance? We developed some agreeable norms. We also
developed or talked about our beliefs and came up with a shared belief and I think most importantly we were really able to work on the consensus. So we just did a
lot of work around what does it take to be an effective board right and also understanding that or realizing that many of the board members are new board members and so how do we grow together right and so with I'm here this evening
just to present the outcome from that work. So the shared belief statement is here and this is a combination. One of the things that I think I really want to lift or highlight is that we work on the shared belief statement. Each board
member wrote their own belief statement and then we posted those one in the room and gave each member the opportunity to look at and then from there I took that work and um utilized AI to develop a a
development. But what was important about that work was that was present that Saturday had the opportunity to see that they all believed in the same matter of the approach to getting everyone maybe had a different path that
they wanted to take to get there but everyone wanted to get to the same and so this is that shared belief statement and it reads we believe every student in Oak Park deserves a safe supportive and inclusive environment where dedicated
educators unlimited resources and strong partners work together to ensure each child has every opportunity to learn and I don't think anybody can argue with this right and when I say that not only
the board but community school this is what you want for your child the board goal and so from there we talked about establishing three to five goals to work towards and these goals are all
around and so the first goal not only I'm sorry for just mentioned not only are these four goals but it's also how we're not going to hold our
school system and any system that we work in when you have goals they have to be measured to determine if we are indeed the goal and not just meeting the goals but we have to do in terms of maybe tweaking those goals, right? Because it sounded good. We thought we could do this, but now we're
looking at it and saying, "Okay, maybe that was a little more than we were ready for. Maybe we need to scale it back a little bit or maybe we hit the goal so bad, we're ready to do another goal." Right? So with that, the board first goal
reads, "All current city board members will complete the PBA 100 courses by May 31st, 2027. This project will be reported to the board with completion certificate submitted to the board president upon
finishing each course. So to talk a little bit about that, MSB offers CBA courses, which are board courses that help members learn more and more about governance. There are courses around data, there are courses around
safety and security, just tons of courses, right? And so the um series run I believe all the way up through the 300. And so what we agreed upon was that because this was such a new board member would engage in at least
your basic board, right? And so you see how that would be measured. We also wanted realistic on the timeline. So, some may finish before May 31st, 2027, but we know that we have that time. The CDA courses are about three hours long. They
tend to offer conferences. They can also be taken online. So, you do have some options on that. They can also um will come in and do those courses with the entire board. Therefore, the board
is now the together and then they're talking about how this actually applies to you have some options on how the next goal reads all board members decisions once a decision is made by vote or
consensus all members commit to refraining from public stakeholder concern to the board. So again your board president doesn't mean that you all have to
vote once the decision is made of you during that discussion period when a motion is made to give you a position. the opportunity to say
it's a discussion minds are voting no where goal is the board will implement and follow the established agreed upon board norms at the next regular The board president will facilitate
checking each on our norms. Everyone is good. It's a real simple check. Um, your fourth board goal is the board will review student outcome data will review student outcome data monthly during regular board meetings as
presented by the superintendent via extending student outcomes dashboards. doesn't have to be something that you start with something small on your
know this is what I'm reporting right so this is where you all are your governing and monitoring the progress of because you're putting money
on the money that you're investing in. And then finally, the board will review and revised presented to the full board. And this one we may have to speak a little bit because it's June now.
I'm rushing. Sorry. Um, but we may have to see the timeline on this one as well as the um committee of it. currently revisit this
and I know you weren't able to see them the norms that we pretty simple norms start on ask questions right so that you have clarity that's your power as a board member is
to ask questions one big rule or one big is no surprises no surprises at the table if you have some information you get to the board Right. your intern. Then we talked a lot about treating each
other and we took some time out to define what understanding that there's a culture. There's a culture at your house. There's a culture in your workplace. And so sometimes we use words and we assume
everybody know what respect may look like in my home. It may not look like that. So when we come to the table and say I expect you to respect me and I'm like well I am respect we wanted to take that
and so we came up with three sub points for that which is to address and challenge ideas and individuals and sometimes that can be hard work. So if you're not because your heart is
in it, then you're not at that table, right? The other piece I as the presenter and as a human being right tools for that right and then
listening for understand. So these were our norms and I believe you guys are going to vote on the normation of our next step as the board to accept established goals and norms and for implementation of
the to work with you all and I think I need to pause for just a moment but I did not record any information about myself. Um so as chair from my superintendent
Murphy my name is Kimberly May I am an adjunct with the Michigan school board. I am also an educator and I am also a school. So um I
come to you all this work for me all of the different as me was so important because you know that one of the things that I really was that our babies are always and so when we sit at the table we have
to be positive how we interact with one another because we tell our kids we have expectations for them you know do what I And that's what I just had good conversation on Saturday
and I thank you all for that. It was very comfortable. It was very dialogue and I have to commend either you because your passion and your love for We appreciate you.
Okay, we will come to item number seven, public participation. Tyler, can you please read the public comment board of education value public public meetings, not just welcome comments on
something. I apologize everybody. We are going to report item number six report. I apologize. Thank you, Tyler. Um, superintendent. Thank you. >> Thank you, President US. come back, but
I just want to make sure I use this time to highlight the wonderful things that are happening in our school district. So, first, um, again, thank you to Miss May. It was a wonderful Saturday. Thank you to my board for sacrificing that time. Trusty Webster had a whole birthday party to get to. Trusty Tyler
was pressing her way but had other obligations and uh, Trusty Corp came after work. It was just a beautiful Saturday and I appreciate the time, energy, and effort that our board members put in to make sure we're doing the right hard work uh for the children of the old park and children and staff of the old park school district. So, I
wanted to say that publicly. Um it is a labor of love most certainly. Um the first part of my presentation and out of it I'm so sorry, but I'm starting here at the podium uh to demonstrate um executive director north
and um who is our director of technology is working so hard on our um school our district website and one of the things we're excited to announce is the um addition of virtual tours on each
of our school pages. So, they've been working very hard. Uh, director Nor has been collecting a lot of video footage along with our photographer we contracted with. And then Jim N and Brandy have been working so hard to get this uploaded so that parents who are interested in our district can if they can't make it out um before they apply,
they can certainly click on to our school pages. Right now, we have um key elementary and high school soft launch. So, this is a soft launch. We got some more work to do, but Jim and Brandy are working it out. I just want to show you
really quickly uh the OPs virtual tour and um each school will have different areas of the building of classrooms and eventually we'll have students and parent testimonials attached to these uh school tours that
parents can click on. So I'll just show up in each brief video. So, that's just one example of a virtual tour. Again, um parents will be able to click on each school, go to their school ling page and click on the virtual tour
over here on the side. Again, uh at this time, we highlighted Oak Park High School because of our beautiful Hoffman Planetarium, our um our uh esports lab. Shout out to Cole will over at the high school, our winning esports uh club and
team and then our math lab, our just all of these wonderful things that we have available uh for the children of the Oak Park School District. And again, you can go to school landing pages and click on the side uh for the virtual tour. All right. So shout out to Jim and
Brandy North making sure that our virtual tours are getting uploaded to our website. A couple of thank you to thank you to the center line public libraryes and for donating material to the media center. We greatly appreciate the
collaboration with our media specialist Mr. Mip. Shout out to Einstein and in the audience there. So Einstein or the Einstein talent
member Einstein got talent hosted by coach Watson and the Einstein team last Thursday we had two teachers Mr. Jeff and Dr. staff member Mr. stage as well. Big round of applause to Miss Fuji and the other team for such an
amazing spring concert. It was such a beautiful concert with their recorders. Okay, for our children, um a big shout out to another staff member, Miss Frier, art teachers. He took over bring our
show idea to the next level. This year we coordinated our first annual electives fair. So we always have like science fair all of the things but they coordinated night over there. The children had a chance to showcase all of their talent
during Alexa night. It was a great success and it will definitely grow for next year. Every elective showcase their craft and highlights performance sports impact administration and more. And our students and families
truly enjoy enjoy the experience. Also shout out to messenger dogs with dad. It was a wonderful the weather was perfect. All the dads and folks and people that adopted the kids just for the day came out. It was just a beautiful sight of
And shout out to Mr. Wester coming to hang with their kid over there. And it was just a beautiful day. Weather was perfect. The top dog was there. Ice cream, all of the DJs all over the place. The kids were just
the smiles on their faces. So shout out to early childhood and And last but certainly not least, we talked about this after graduation, but the 2026 girls track division one champion.
Coach, coach Brandon Giles and our women track team. They took home the G1 title for the fourth year in a row. And of the last 11 years, they ranked at least nine out of those 11 years. the last four
state champions. So, so shout out to those girls and our winning track host, Mr. Bren. And we do look forward to continuing and that's superintendent. We will now move to item number seven.
>> Because the Board of Education value public not just in public. We welcome public comments on issues. Speakers are are asked to express themselves in a civil matter with due process of privacy of others who may be affected by public
comments. Public comment of the meeting cannot be used to make public attacks on school board members or school district employees that disrupts the order of community and are totally unrelated to the matters in which members of of
employment perform his or her dut. Most comments can be expressed stated in three minutes. The board respectfully ask the comments remain focused on the topic of not directed at any specific person or board member. I'll first start
with my name and I serve as vice president. And before I even start, I Someone say that support
at all possible. So, as we wrap up this school year, the teachers are inquiring um as to when the guidelines for grading policy um will be set. There hasn't really been an update since
per our contract, this is something that should be reviewed every year. Um the student code of conduct needs some updating and we have no attendance policy and we have no idea how and when the cell
phone policy will come into play. The laws have been passed and we're waiting for to put together a policy so that can be implemented. We're looking for um all of this to hopefully be done before
startling to you know put things in place. And so we're asking for your support and looking into those things so those U of course is willing to collaborate
with the board and um do what we need to do on our part so that not only do you know where we're coming from and hear you know voice of the teacher but wanting to extend that to work hand in hand. Um, we respectfully ask for some
immediate action um as it relates to a standardized districtwide telephone policy that aligns with the state law. As stated before, an updated student conduct that restores clear boundaries and a
redefined, excuse me, a refined grading policy that upholds high academic standards and a systematic administrative support to combat chronic Not sure if you know that
I wise it's okay for individuals that we want everyone to be on the same page and we're ready to work with you and roll out whatever new initiives that we can this fall. And last but not least, on another note, the staff at Oak
Park Preparatory Academy would like the board and the district leaders to know that principal Doug is a heart and soul of we believe in Doug and his unwavering leadership is the precise reason why so many of us are still here. Many of us
are uninterested in facing many of us are uninterested in facing the future of without him. Bringing is about restoring support, identity, civil and passion for our school community. He champions both his staff and students
with dedicated excuse me with a dedication that cannot be replicated for the future and success of we truly belong. Please bring him home or
Thank you for your time. for members. Before I get started, I wanted to draw especially as our district. Um having the pleasure of listening to the district teaching learning about performance and strategies to decision
growthary I got to see how our instructional leadership are taking action towards When I was reviewing dates for this upcoming May, I was excited to see that. I was happy to know that our board was
also taking over the past year. Each one of these presented with opportunities for growth in learning. However, not all learning can come from being learnable courses and continually
as well as identify areas for both as well as how you're going to adjust as our fabulous instruction. Thank you for your time. number came up
94 years semester coaching 9,000 people years. years. I did ask
months or years or whatever. Everything young man wrote me a letter said he apologized that statement. suspended seven days out
of my favorite taling. Senior night after I was a middle school teacher always that couple months earlier
is a game. I said, "Don't be good. calm down. Somehow somebody else got by the way against the previous administration
and I said that they had our culture. This seemed to be an opportunity. By the way, when I was none of those people that were there, I thought they going back and forth.
invited and they were gone and I didn't think nothing My point is matter of fact when I got this email the other day I'm not coming back to work I worked hard and I had
I've been coaching the last four years, but they don't let me go. state title. But the whole time I cate the wrong way, you know, I had two years for honoring the people that saved my
life. I wasn't here that day. I was two days after and I was here, but I wasn't invited. Four years I waited for the gentleman
to the hospital. They were all messing up. at my hospital. I didn't want to hear walked up and take that suspended and I'm still All I know is
opened up again. I don't know. But the people that basically the whole letter was written on I spent the letter of the young man
James I have them all on my phone if I want to call it they would all show up wherever I wanted to but for years I wait for that not a picture with superintendent just
say hey good email is my email at the end of the way five other jobs opened up and I've been I can't get a job.
think my best friend can tell my parents 25 years 9,450 because people I don't know where the
paper is. I don't know those people and I've been fighting for these kids and I don't need to be here. As a matter of fact, I teach amach. By the way, that's not right.
I got 17 more still played on the team of seven years a was I was supposed to believe somebody
don't belong anybody including those. >> Okay. So, what we'll do probably with this later. Okay. So, we should be hearing something from her office within the next couple days.
Okay. All right. All right. Thank you. We appreciate the fact here a long time. >> All right. So we're going to move to item number eight, action item 8A, adoption of new resolution and proposed
amendments to the open school board association osba bylaw. Resolve that the board approve and adopt county board association proposed policy position regarding
client bylaws amendment number two. >> All right. All right, Mr. >> All right, that motion is passed. We will now move on to item number 8B, approval of Tartwells management and privacy.
Um, what do you want for the demo? Okay. We call that the board accepts the administration recommendation to approve the 2026 2027 renewal agreement and sign acknowledgement with cartwheels, including a management fee increase from
to 0.0582 582 per meal. An administrative fee increase from 8,343 to 8,592 per month for the county month allowing the district to continue full service
operations for the 2026 2027 school year. Need a second. >> All right. Motion made by myself and seconded by Trusty Tyler. Any discussion on this motion? So, it's just an increase that we're paying them for.
>> All right. >> Yes. That motion is approved. We will now move to item number. Approval of the contract with Lagarda Security Services for School Security Services.
We have to get into the 22nd. Can we make a resolution without the ramifications? Um, we have a transition period between our current provider. Um, there was on June 30th.
Our next board meeting will start June 22nd. It's a lot of moving part time, but if the board doesn't feel comfortable, we'll do what we have to do. But those are some of the um factors on the we
will get the updated um fee schedule that will include a dollar per hour addition. Um and we can bring it back to the board. It just will How would that work?
>> So, our current staff will remain until they will still be here. We just need to make sure we have >> I'm sure we understand. will approve it now without I think we have people
Yes. I think we have people that will transition and grateful that we made a decision to give them a tight number. table motion for room 26.
All right, we will now move on to item. We will now move on to item number eight D. Approval approval of the 2026 2027 certification of tax levy L429. Resolve that the board of education
approved the 2026 2027 certification of tax levy form L429 as presented and authorized in submission to the appropriate taxing authority. Motion made by myself seconded by Tyler.
Any discussion on this motion? All right, M. >> Yes. >> All right. We will now move to item number that motion is passed. Thank you. On item number 8, resolution adopting
board norms. Be it resolved that the board of education hereby adopt the board norms as presented to guide board conduct communication and governance adopted this day June 8th 2026
made by most made by myself by trustee Tyler I mean any discussion All right, that motion has been passed. We will now move to item number nine, call for close session pursuant to section 8 of the Michigan Open Meetings
Act to discuss strategy and negotiation matters regarding the proposed school calendar as negotiated with the bargaining unit and related collective bargaining agreement matters. All right, we will now go to close session. You're welcome.
ously voted to come back into open circuit. Um I move to amend the agenda to add approval of the proposed 2026 2027 school calendar and school and end times of action item 11 A.
Um, I move that the Oak Park School Board of Education approve the proposed 2026 2027 school calendar and school start and end time as presented by administration. Um, second
motion made by myself, second by Titer. Any discussion on this motion? M. >> Yes. >> All right. That motion has We will now move to item number 12
uh information item. Item number 12 a 2025 2026 final amended budget reading. Good evening. Christmas years ago. It hurts. It hurts.
only here every day. And so for me right now but not for there is a healthy but in that plan you don't want
to safety education of$undred,000 salary. We can pay at least for you.
I believe that we continue working together well on our way sometime. have to go back to fair negotiation. But we had a former superintendent
to lie. Now he's coming here today to say Dr. came here million to go back. I thank you for your So that's my go
to we can't pass a budget with so there are some decisions we're going to have to make and these are some of the major areas we've already um you know some alignment uh some
things that are nice but not necessary but protecting the major two areas of safety and security and educating our students. We are committed to things that are furthest away because we have to preserve the reason
we come to work every day for children. So these are it kind of like because it look different
because special education can't compe specialized services that we would never sacrifice the needs of the children. So legally and ethically we are to make sure we meet the needs of
all children. So one of the things we're thinking about we have a lot of contracted services to speak probably but if we perhaps do a little bit more digging around um recruiting and retaining staff that are higher than that. We don't have to pay
for contract. Um, but we would never mate or remove any of the legally required services for our children. We're just looking at those areas that we can probably tighten up. I will say though um I did an interview on on
Friday with a writer who's writing about the power of early childhood education but also special education and special education The needs of our children are going up this way. >> The money is going down this way. There have been no increases in special
education funding, but the needs of our children are increasing. So that's one of the reason why we also share the information about the county and tell people how to vote, but these are some of the ways we can increase because the needs are increasing.
There's nothing I can do about that. I can't providing you know services uh occupational therapy all of these things these are required but we believe the
most important because they are you know those are the most vulnerable among us. So we're not going to any of those required services for children we're looking at those areas you know for example we have to transport a lot of For example,
the federal government did not give us any money to provide additional support for homeless requirements to support them. So for example, one of our contract services for transportation alone thousands of dollars to transport
students that are under um along with you know some other things that the federal government took away the funding. So now we have to where that money is going to come from security. So those are the things we're committed
to and find a way to get our district back because you know when you say specialized services I'm like came up with. So, thank you so much for, you know, the
transparency of where we thank Okay. All right. So, we will now move to item number 1267. Any communications? Any communications from >> Mama? We made it. We have just a couple more days left.
They have been it's been an unprecedented year but as they have to show up they continue to show up and so out for our children it is a labor of love and all of the things right that we take care of the least of us so shout out to them we're almost to the end
parents thank you with that being said just a couple of uh communications and we have a whole week I'm sorry I updated email um of promotion ceremonies so tomorrow Good morning, Pepper Elementary. 9 a.m. at
the high school. 9 a.m. Pepper Elementary at the high school 12 p.m. tomorrow Prep Academy at the music hall. Okay, they paid for that. Okay. Uh, Wednesday morning is elementary at 9:00 a.m. at the high
school. Thursday is Einstein Elementary 9 at the high school. And uh Friday is the last day of school for the 25 26 uh school year. And then our summer program, summer um and summer school for
credit recovery for high school begins on Monday, June 26. But those are all the announce. >> All right. Thank you so much for that communications from the board of education. I had the opportunity
to be a judge at Einstein. >> It was really good. All the parents out there Shout out to all the graduates. This is the season we were um we had the pleasure of course attending the high school graduation which is amazing. I
haven't been to a high school graduation and so just to see the excitement see everyone in the community show up all of the family, friends, all the people and the graduates be so excited and the program be so engaging.
14y old was there because she wanted to see what you know high school was all about and she said that she enjoyed the speakers which is not something you would typically 14y old so um I just want to give a shout out to all of the graduates for that experience and then also a shout
out to kids amazing my husband attended my son wonderful Congratulate all the seniors. I senior graduated this year. I know all the hard work that all the parents put in the teachers. Thank you.
I understand it. But I want to say about the graduation probably my third graduation I've attended. Um not at all. It was very engaging. I say my
daughter's graduation I fell asleep and I did not know that at some graduation they could not acknowledge the validator which they did not um at her graduation. Um and I was very pleased to see that our uh students were
males females that was so um congratulations to all the seniors and moms and dads. We did it. Some of us got a long way to go. >> Okay. So, I also wanted to touch on us having the pleasure of going to the Oak
High School class of graduation. Thank you to Andrea Phil and Dr. Rea Williams and the whole administration for the hospitality. Um, it was it was fun. You know, I think I wanted to express my gratitude for allowing me to deliver the
board of education address. Thank you. That was awesome. Um, thank you to Miss Fuji for the concert at T that I was able to attend. It was so awesome as usual. Um, we love um Miss Brandy North was celebrated for
her wonderful cont contribution to our staff during conser. So that was um her moment to be appreciated. It was um that was great. Congratulations to Brandon Brandon Jobs and the girls track team. And I also wanted to touch on
Legender with that my daughter went with her granddad while her dad is away at work. Um so that was awesome. And again we have four more days.
four more days of school. Um, unfortunately Zoom trip was cancelled for tomorrow. I'm sad, but whatever. I get to go Wednesday. So, um,
so congratulations to all of the teachers, to all of the students, all of us for Thank you guys. So with that we have reached the item number 14 which
is adjournment will be held on Monday and the time is now 8:42 and this meeting is adjourned.