Calls to order. This is the special meeting for the Oak Park Board of Education. Today is January 27, and the time is now 06:00. We'll start with item number one, call to order and roll call. Miss Glert, can you please call the roll? Clark? Here. Corcoran? Madison? Here. Pearmund tanks? Excuse me. Rogers? Here. Scott? Here. And Tyler. Here. Okay. Item number two, approval of agenda. We will approve it with unanimous consent if there are no objections to doing so.
Are there any objections to doing so? Okay. The approval of the agenda is confirmed. We will go to item number three, approval of consent consent agenda. We will unanimously consent if there are no objections to doing so. Okay? Moving on to item number four, action items. Thank you. Recommendation, Resolve that the Oak Park board approves the purchase of 375 replacement iPads from Apple Inc, PO Box 846095 Dallas, Texas 75384 with associated accessories using Apple education pricing
for a total cost of $137,346.25. And second. Second. Second. Okay. Motion made by trustee Clark, seconded by trustee Scott. Mister, can you please call the room? I'm sorry. I'm not that number was just 137th. I'm sorry. Thank you, everyone. +1 37. The recommendation I have is a 143,000. No. That no. That includes the additional. That's a separate and it totals together Yes, ma'am. Between the purchase and the management. So she'll do the next motion.
Uh-huh. Thank you. Okay. Miss Burgamy, please follow-up? Mhmm. Tyler? Yes. Scott? Yes. Rogers? Yes. Carmen Kangs? Yes. Madison? Yes. Corpering? Yes. And Clark? Yes. Okay. We move on to item number four, the iPad management. Does anyone want to read that motion? Yes. Alright. You got it? Recommendation resolved that the Oak Park board approve the purchase of 335 in a room at school perpetual iPad management licensing, utilizing state of Michigan master computing program pricing for
Insight Public Sector 2701 e Insight Wade Chandler, VA, Arizona, 85286 for a total cost of $8,745. Any second on the motion? Say again. Motion made by trustee Clark and seconded by trustee Kerriman Tank. Any discussion on the motion? K. Miss Drapin, please call the roll. Clark? Yes. Cochran? Yes. Madison? Yes. Herman Tanks? Yes. Rogers? Yes. Scott? Yes. And Tyler? Yes. Okay. Motion is passed. We will move on to item number four five.
Information item. Committee appointment, Oakland County School Board Association Committee. Would anyone like to volunteer? I'll volunteer. You will? Yeah. Great. Thank you. So that has been appointed to trustee Scott. Trustee Clark is about to read this. Resolved that the Oak Park Board of Education appoints trustee Tiffany Scott as its representative to the Oak Park City School Board Association, OCSBA, Government Relations Committee, GRC. Do we have an alternate? Do we have an alternate, anybody?
Alternate. Okay. And trustee Heather Perryman takes as the alternate. Okay? In second? Second. Discussion. Discussion on the motion? We don't need it. We don't need it. Sorry. Okay. So miss Greer, can you please follow-up? We don't need a role. We don't need a role. No. No. Awesome. Great. Item number six, public participation. Can you please read the public participation dialogue? Because the board board of education values public meetings, not just meetings and public public, we welcome public comments on school issues. Speakers are asked to express themselves in a civil manner with due process for the
dignity and privacy of others who may be affected by public comments. The public comment portion of the meeting cannot be used to make personal attacks against the school board member or school district employee that disrupts the order of the meeting and are totally unrelated to the manner in which the member or employee performs his or her duties. 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 concisely stated in three minutes and more respectfully ask that the comments remain focused on the topic and issues issues and not be directed as specific personnel or board members. We have, miss Parisi. Hello. Welcome. Hi. Miss Parisi. So application. I feel like you can hear me from here. Hi. For those of you who don't know me. Sure. If she can't because I think we're recording. So yeah. Oh, do you use that? Okay. Even though you can't kinda hear yourself with the audience. Sounds good. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Mikaela Parisi.
I'm a community member here. I moved here in June year, and have been coming to school board meetings since then either online or in person. I am a an educator by career. I taught for eight years before moving into my current role as a policy educator, or policy professional and researcher for the past two years. And I've been really impressed so far with a lot of things that I've seen going on in Oak Oak Park School District. However, I was very upset as a taxpayer to learn that our superintendent is pays paid on placed on paid leave.
And as a community member, there felt that there was no communication about the ongoings within the school district. As somebody who prides myself in being very aware and informed on community ongoings, I felt there has been a lack of transparency about the ongoing investigation as well as other community events or things like taxpayers should be informed of on the community. Community members have a due diligence to be here and to participate, but we know that there are a lot of things that inhibit participation from community members.
And as such, it is your duty as a board member, to go out into the community and spread what Oak Park is doing well, and what areas for improvement are and to get suggestions on feedback. So, my request as a community member is that you be transparent and engaging with the community to get feedback on what is going on in our schools, and what we as community members can do to support you as a board and as a school district. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have any more? Keith. Thanks, Kevin Keith.
Alright. This is a mess. And at this point, pretending otherwise is insulting to our community. All part is sitting at the bottom of the state in reading and math. Student outcomes are unacceptable. And instead of urgency, what we see is chaos and fighting and silence. We have a superintendent under investigation who was still being paid and no clear explanation as to why that is acceptable or how long the community should tolerate it. That alone raises serious questions about judgment and priorities. At the same time, we have board members disrespecting each other on camera, beefing with
each other and discussing each other's personal business off camera while the needs of our student continue to fall further down the list. Let me be very clear. When governance turn into dysfunction, kids lose. This isn't just about incompetence anymore. This is negligence. And the safety failures are even more alarming. The community still has not received a full transparent explanation about how two kindergarten students were able to leave Key Elementary, walk miles from their school, and ended at the old park police department. That incident was publicly reported and it shook families, but yet there has been no
clear, comprehensive community update, no clear collective plan, and and no reassurance that this cannot happen again. That silence is unacceptable. Now let's talk about transparency. I submitted a lawful FOIA request in the public interest because the public has the right to know how decisions are being made, how money is being spent, and how leadership is functioning. Much of this other information should already be publicly available to the district's website, yet it is not. Instead, the response have been delays, public records that are being priced out of reach.
But let me be very clear. Transparency is not optional and putting interest request is not a burden. They are a responsibility. It is okay because I have them anyway. And to those who are on the board that's choosing to stay silent, understand this clearly. Silence is not neutrality. If you see misconduct, dysfunction, or failure and say nothing, you are part of the problem. You are no better than the behavior that you are refusing to charge. Board members do not work for the superintendent. Board members do not work for a paycheck, and they do not work for each other. You work for the voters of Oak Park, period.
And the voters are watching. This community deserves honesty, accountability, and leadership that puts students first, not secrecy, not dysfunction, and not excuses. We are demanding transparency. We are demanding accountability, and we are not going away. And one last thing, those who sit on the board that do not live here, it is illegal and is election fraud. Thank you, and have a good night. Thank you. Okay. We will go to item number seven, call call for closed session. Oh, guilty. Do you have, therefore, resolved that as permitted under the Michigan Open Meetings Act section
eight a, the Oak Park Board shall enter into closed session for the purpose of attorney client privilege. Second, sir. Order. You're gonna go into closed session under section eight one h. Eight one h. Eight one h. Eight one h of the open meetings. Would you like to so I just need to go? Eight one h. Would you like to judge the oath? Eight one h. Would you like to judge the oath? Eight one h. Do you therefore resolve that as permitted under the Michigan Open Meetings Act section eight one h, The Oak Park Board shall enter in closed session for the purpose of
attorney client or group meeting. Second. Motion made by miss Clark trustee Clark, seconded by myself. Miss Grimke, please go ahead. Clark? Yes. Cochran? Yes. Madison? Yes. Herman tanks? Yes. Rogers? Yes. Smith? Scott? Yeah. And Tyler? Yes. Okay. We are now going into clarification.