Alright. Thank you, Frank. Good evening. Good evening, everybody. The time is now 06:00PM, and we're going to get our regular scheduled board meeting started. Madam secretary, roll call. VP Bowman? Present. I'm present. Trustee Dooley? Present. President Hannah? Present. Trustee Miller? Present. And treasurer Terry? Present. Yeah. The time. Okay. If we can all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America Can I get a motion for the approval of the agenda? Support. It's been moved by trustee Dooley,
supported by VP Bowman for the approval of the agenda. Any questions? Roll call. I'm voting yes. Trustee Dooley? Yes. President Hannah? Yes. Trustee Miller? Yes. Treasurer Terry? Yes. VP Bowman? Yes. That passes six o. Alright. Thank you. Good evening again, trustees. Moving down the agenda because to consent agenda, can I get a motion for the consent agenda? So moved. Support. It's been moved by VP Bowman, supported by treasurer Terry, to approve the consent agenda items. Any questions? Roll call. Trustee Dooley?
Yes. President Hanna? Yes. Trustee Miller? Yes. Treasurer Terry? Yes. VP Bowman? Alright. Yes. And I'm voting yes. That passed at six o. Alright. Thank you very much. Information from the superintendent and administration, doctor Leverett? Yes. Good evening, doctor Hannah. Oh, I'm sorry. Good evening, doctor Hannah, trustees. This evening, we have scheduled, Honors Health. They have been a long time partner with us, and they were here to present, their community health presentation. And I don't see any representatives from Honors Health here,
and they have confirmed their attendance this evening. So if we could move down to the the LearnWell contract, I would appreciate that opportunity. This is the learn thank you. This is the Learn Well contract for services. The contract is to provide academic services for students at Havenwick Hospital's residential program as Pontiac School District is obligated due to Havenwick being in our zone. And at this time, I will turn it over to doctor Devison. Good evening to everyone. Just wanted to read. We have the contract.
The background rationale. This contract is to provide academic services for students at Havenwick Hospital residential program as Pontiac School District obligation due to Havenwick being in our school zone. The amount is $137,300 dollars for ten months. There will be a monthly invoice in a 13730, and we will be purchasing these items from general funds, and these are reimbursable expenses through section 24.
It is the recommendation of administration that the board of education approve the contract for loan learn well in the amount of a $137,300 for the 2526 school year. Thank you very much, doctor Stevenson. Or any questions? Trustee Miller? What is the title of section 24? Can you provide the explanation as to what section 24 is? Section 24 is special education, one of the, grants for special education. No. Any any other questions? Are you good, trustee Miller? Not particularly.
Can you expand a little bit to give me some some more clarity? I just okay. Special education and then what? So it's a reimbursable that we get from the Michigan Department of Ed. It's for all reimbursable items for, special education students. So it's allotted funding for special education students. What is the, requirement and timeline for the reimbursement from the state of Michigan? Doctor James is here. Oh, I didn't even know she was here because I really didn't know she'd been. Okay. No worries. Sounds good timing. Good time. I said that was good timing. Oh. It was right on time. Good afternoon. Hello.
Section 24, rent we applied for it, last school year. But what section 24 is is monies that, the state provide for any district or anyone who provides services for, like, juvenile facilities or child care facilities. And because we, Havenwick is in our school zone, we have an obligation to provide services for them. They have about 30 students. Their facility house about 30 students. Of the 30 students, about 19 are special education students.
And because of their in our zone, we have to provide services for the students. For the total 30, we provide, you know, instructional, services, academic services. But, for the special ed students, in addition to the academic services, we also have to provide special education, supports and services. And it is, a 100 they well, it stated it's a 100% reimbursable grant. I think they answered a question. I have a question. Do we share this with any other district because we're kind of connected to Auburn
Hills? And am I correct that Haven would do they have a mailing address of Auburn Hills? Because they're right there across the street from Auburn Hills. So I I understand part of that is in our district, but do do we share that with Avondale School District because they're definitely Orban Hills Yes. Or Rochester, all of those the little surrounding communities. Yeah. What part of this is this a one fee for everything or just what's being asked or allocated for Pontiacs? Okay. You have two questions here. So I'm a ask for the first question about the zoning area.
We do not share the finances or the funding with any other school district because it is our zone. There are some addresses in Auburn Hills, Rochester that's still part of Pontiac School Zone. Even like the non public schools that we service, that may be, you know, Auburn Hills or, like, Auburn Hills Christian. That's Auburn Hills, but that's Pontiac School zone. So we are responsible as Pontiac School zone as our zone, we're responsible to service those students. Now the second part was you asked is,
the the amount the, you know, what this funds. This contract funds the, the teacher that we have to provide. So and she is gonna be full time. She is a resource teacher who provides services for the special education students there. So, doctor Jamieson, is this like how we used to do, after school, we go provide those services of homebound? Is this kinda considered some It's, no. Not really because homebound and, you know, if they were it would be a medical situation.
So and they would have to have a a doctor's excuse or a doctor's script that says they're unable to attend school. Well, in this situation well, I guess it is somewhat because in this situation, they are saying they aren't able to attend Pontiac Schools. So if they were able to attend, you know, with the facility, they're unable to attend in Pontiac Schools physically. I heard you mention a teacher's salary. Is this $1.37 300 would be the teacher's salary? So the it's for the salary plus all of the fees and services that the
the this, is a MDE requirement that we have we are obligated to do this. So we and in conjunction with Oakland Schools, who's ISD, who supports us, we were looking for when I say we, I'm talking about MBE, Oakland Schools, Pontiac, looking for someone who was qualified to provide services on-site at that facility. This particular company, they have background with they are able to provide a teacher who has ex has experience and, knowledge of servicing.
I don't wanna say these type of students, but students in this type of facility. So we're almost like a second party because we have employed a service company to provide us with the instructor. The contract that's what this contract is for. Thank you. Any other questions, trustees? VP Bowman and then treasurer? What So point point of privilege. I don't think she ever answered, trustee Miller's question. I think The timeline for reimbursement. Yeah. The timeline for reimbursement. Oh, the timeline for reimbursement is the following school year. So what we
it would be reimbursed for the '20 with twenty five, twenty six, twenty six, twenty seven school year. Okay. So I know that with our special students over at Kennedy, because of some of their, difficult At Kennedy? Sorry. I didn't turn on my mic. Okay. I know that that what are is there a age range with students for this this teacher? So any person, any young person that should be going to Pontiac School District that's in this Havenwood facility, this educator is from the full span from Yes.
She's providing, resource support for all of the students there. And the they are, the students who are currently there, middle school and high school students. Okay. And it's up to age 18. They are appointed by the state. You know, they're ward of the state. Okay. Thank you. Mhmm. Any other questions? I don't know who this goes to, whether it's, which doctor, but on this, it talks about a $137,300 annually for ten months, and then there's another figure, a 164,760
for twelve months. What are we doing? So we're only doing the ten months. We're not doing twelve months. So that's what what what what was requested was the ten months. They was just showing if we utilize the twelve months, but as a school district, we only offer the services for the ten months. Okay. So the LeadWell company will invoice us for $13,730 per month. How much of that is salary? We don't have that information. I can get that information from from you, but that's the the amount that we pay the,
we would pay the contractors is $13,730 a month. So you don't have a breakdown of what these fees will cover? No. They we just it's just an we we're invoiced $13,730, and it includes the salary fees and everything. Thank you. I do have a question for you. The 19 students that I will be serviced, what is their age range? Middle school to high school. Middle school to high school. It only goes up to age 18. Okay. Alright. Well, it's a total of 30. But of this, it's 19 was Yeah.
Special ed. Okay. Yeah. Alright. Any other questions, trustees? No? Okay. Thank you. Then we'll go on down to our action item, then we'll circle back for the honors held. Alright. Can I get a motion for the approval of LearnWell contract? So moved. Support. It's been moved by VP Bowman, supported by treasurer Terry for the approval of the LearnWell contract. Any questions? Yes. I have a question and comment. My concern is that I understand this is grant funded, and and it it says that it's reimbursable.
Number one, I don't know what the, whether it's a 134, a $164,000. What is what exactly is it allocated to what type of services we're providing? I don't know. I know she, doctor Jamieson gave a a blanket with would say that next school year. I don't know what that timeline is. What the deadline is. My concern is that we, will could potentially be out of pocket for this money if we aren't diligent and don't meet the timeline. I do not and and my other question is for this grant,
being that we have more than 19 students in Pontiac School District in our district that have IEPs and five zero fours that we're not meeting their needs, is this grant exclusively for Havenwick, or can it be used to service the students that we that come to the school district every day? So this is just for Havenwick. And, again, this goes back to a compliance issue that we had with MDE, Oakland Schools, and Pontiac School District. So this was mandated by the Michigan Department of Education. Do you have that in writing that I can read it and re reference it?
Yes. We can forward that to you. K. Any other comments? Madam secretary, roll call. President Hannah? Yes. Trustee Miller? No. Treasurer Terry? Yes. VP Bowman? Yes. I'm voting yes. Trustee Dooley? No. That passes four to two. K. Thank you very much. Honors community health presentation, doctor Leberett? Yes. Thank you, president Hanna. At this time, we'll have Jeff Cook and his staff from honor community health has been trusted partners in ensuring our students and community have the health education resources and tools they need
to make informed decisions that positively impact our students' lives. Thank you, doctor Leverett, and thank you distinguished board for giving us this opportunity to present. We have one presentation that will be broken up into two sections. First is our, TPIP program called Taking Pride in Prevention, and then second is an overall presentation of our school based health services that we provide inside the Pontiac School District. So, Ramona Farr is our TPIP coordinator. She heads up our program,
which includes both reporting and, program. Do you have the presentation that I sent you, doctor Leverett? Could you pull that up? In front of us. Our system is down right now. Thank you. Can you call her doctor? She can't do well. Okay. I have a copy, doctor. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Sure. Good evening, everyone. My name is Mona, and I am from Honeywell Community Health. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to stand in front of you and tell you what we are doing. We're gonna talk today about, Taking Pride in Prevention program. This program,
we get funded in 2020 and has been implementing in Panyak schools, Panyak High, Panyak Middle, and ITA since 2020 until the September year. And, luckily, we get the grant back, so we get awarded again. But we need, your approval now to so this I'm presenting the program. And with your approval, we're gonna start again for another five years, hopefully. Okay. What is TPEP? Taking Pride in Prevention program. It is program that is federally funded, through the state personal responsibility education program,
prep program. The TPP program, it is educate adolescents ages 12 through 19 years old on both abstinence and contraception through the implementation of evidence based and evidence informed programs along with addressing these three adult subjects, adolescent development and puberty, health healthy relationship, parent child communication. The goals and objective of this program, the TPEP, the TPEP program's goal is to reduce the rate of teen unintended pregnancy,
STIs, and HIV by delaying the initiation of sex, among adolescents. And this would be achieved through, the implementation of program, evidence based, and strength based program to build skills for dealing with peer pressure and empowers young people to make informed decision related to their sexual health and pregnancy prevention. And that curriculum or program is called Making Proud Choices. It's an evidence based program,
that for that provides adolescents with the knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to reduce the risk of STIs and unintended pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using condom if they choose to have sex. It is based on cognitive, behavioral theories focused groups. The goal of Making Proud Choices is to empower youth with necessary tools and and skills to change their behavior in ways that will reduce the risk,
of an unplanned pregnancy or becoming infected with STI or HIV. Specifically, this curriculum emphasizes that adolescents can reduce the risk, the risk for STIs, HIV pregnancy using condom in a correct correct way. This program, it's is implemented by, by me as program coordinator and by a certified, and qualified health, educator. At the same time, this program cannot succeed without two supportive entity. The main entity of this program is,
CAC, which is community advisory council, that is established, maintained, and renewed every year by us. And participants are recruited from schools and the community at large. And KAG, community advisory council, should reflect the diversity of professionalism and expertise of the members to serve the mission of the council. And what is the role? The role of the tech member is to view and review our program and approve
and support the implementation of sex education in schools, gain community, support and involvement to ensure the well-being of our youth, and to make recommendation for policy and procedures for their program and also help us with the school based health program, policies and procedures. And, also, KEGG, they meet we meet quarterly, during funding year, and the members is representative of the diversity of target population, target area, and a broader community and, include parents, guardian, clergy,
health care professional, school personnel, business owners, and other influential from the community. The CAC members serve as a project advisers as well, and gaining they are influential in gaining program support and providing input and guidance for the program and activities we provide in schools and the classroom. The CAC member also support holding and helping us. We're doing that, but they're helping us to hold a workshop workshop called, Teto, talk, talk early and talk often. It's, it is provided to parents and guardians,
trusted adults, and the brother community members. And it is the one hour workshop and is provided by Bart Fliss, the founder of Parent Action for Healthy Kids. The goal of Cheeto is talk early talk often is a nationally recognized, parent education initiative aimed at helping parents of middle school and high school youth to talk with their children about abstinence and sexuality. It continues to be offered to parents. We can do it in schools.
We can do it in community organization. We can do it also provided in, in church. But at the same time, since COVID hit, we are doing this virtually. And, in the workshop, parents will learn about ways to open doors, to conversation with their youth about abstinence and sexuality, recognize use and recognize and use teachable moment to open the subject and communicate with their youth and provide facts, what they are confident and they have skill to do that. Since we started in 2020,
even this despite the the hit of of COVID, so far to the September, we served around a little bit more than 1,500 students in this course, and this is really an honor for us. Thank you for giving us this opportunity. And just now, I'm gonna and also the other the second the second power that help us also, the YAG. The YAG is a youth advisory council. This year, we we have meeting, bimonthly meeting, and this year, it was very successful board. The youth were very involved. They did many,
activities. They did, the the painting, you know, competence and to win, and it was very nice. So it is very supportive and very nice to see our youth involved in these programs. So now I'm gonna give you the the names of the title of this program. I said they are, 10 session were provided in eight weeks. We combined two sessions inside so we don't take too much of this, teacher's time. So session one is getting to know you and steps to making your dreams come true. And, and we add puberty at that time. So we tell them,
we connect everything. We provide with their future, what they want it to be, and we connect it. If you want this to be, you need to plan from now. You need to act from now and how to protect yourself to get there. And, session two is consequences of sex, HIV, and okay. Attitude about sex, HIV, and condom, and the session four, strategy for preventing HIV infection, and it's called stop, think, and act. And we add how to relationship to it, and the consequences of sex and STDs, consequences of sex,
pregnancy. And session seven, developing, condom use and negotiation skills. This very important session for the youth. They may they do lots of role play to feel comfortable about it. And enhancing refusal negotiation skills, and, also, we integrate, two important, you know, subject or topics to talk about about consent. What is consent? Make it like maybe it's not a consent. Let me think about it is not a consent. And what is consent? And also we talk about sexting and this is lesson,
how important it is and how to protect themselves of the wing dead, and we talk about the law regarding that. Thank you. Any question? Yes. Yes. The age is 12 through 19. Correct? Correct. Yes. And then some of the locations would include, in addition to the high school and the middle school, Owen and Walt Whitman. So my question would be, are the parents informed? Yes. Is it volunteer? Do the students get to without parent approval? No. Be okay. When we let's say we schedule with a teacher and we are in the classroom
next week, whatever it is, and we send a letter. We say we give it to the teacher, and he sent it to to the parents of his classroom. And it is like negative consent, like, if you don't want your child to attend so we don't need a consent. If you don't want your child to attend, this, we're gonna be at this date, and we're gonna provide this program, and we'll put all the information about the program. All the titles and the description we I gave you, it would be in the letter. And we tell them, if you want to exclude your child, you please sign and send it to the teacher, and we'll collect these these consents.
So far, we get maybe two or three. I didn't see a monetary cost when I went through. I might have missed it going fast. Is there a monetary cost for us on the fair? The district. What's the district's cost to have this program? So there's no monetary exchange? You mean be be between honor and With the district and your and the company? Yes. Will it cost us anything? Or is it No. No. No. Absolutely free Absolutely free. Free program. There's no No. Grant money, no exchange of any monetary Nothing.
Nothing. We love what we do, actually. It's a it's a it's a pleasure it's a pleasure and I'd like honor, actually, especially mind me asking, who funds your program? The state. The state The state. Michigan. And DHS. Yes. Through the PREP program. Thank you. Any other any other questions, trustees, or honors? No. Perfect. K. Thank you. Okay. So soon we hear from you, we're gonna start in the classroom. We are eager to be there. Thank you so much. Thank you. So I will be really brief, to respect your time. I'm on page 12, and it's slide 24.
So I'm just gonna give a brief overview of our all of our current school based health centers that we offer through honor community health. Our program is funded through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, and we have we work with the child analysis and health division with the state. Those are direct funds that we receive to help, pay for salaries, supplies, friends benefits. And then we all but we're all we provide in kind services, at about a 30% match.
So, all of our in kind services are covered through Honor, through all of our federal grants that's, support like finance and, HR and accounting. So my name is Jeff Cook, chief of community services, and this is Laura Diaz over here. She's our program manager. If you flip the the slide, page 25 is our mission and our vision of Honor. So our mission is to be your trusted health care partner offering high quality, compassionate care through clinical excellence,
community involvement and patient engagement. Our focus is to create a lasting impact in the lives of our patients and their families. Our patients are supported by a dedicated team of healthcare professionals who are deeply rooted in the communities we serve. We strive to build relationships and and strengthen communities to foster healthier and happier lives. This is an event that we had at Pontiac High School, part of our teen outreach program that we had during the summer. Next slide. Honor Community Health is a nonprofit community health center offering comprehensive and integrated primary behavioral
health and dental care throughout 20 sites located in Oakland County. 11 of these sites are school based, serving the greater Pontiac area. Honor also offers enabling services to remove barriers to care such as transportation, translation, insurance enrollment, and connecting patients to community resources. Services are open to all community members regardless of ability to pay or place of residence, Honor received designations as a federally qualified health center back in May 2015.
Up top is our locations for our primary and behavioral health care centers. As you can see, we have seven, that are located in Pontiac, Waterford. We have one in South two in Southfield. And then our in the orange is our dental Joslyn Smile Center located in Pontiac, and then our, Oakland three sixty care center, which is a walk in center located right off of Woodward Loop, in Pontiac. And then in the in the green are our school based sites. As you can see,
we have a school linked health center that we will be opening in about three to four months in Pontiac. And then our other Pontiac sites is Harrington Elementary School where we will be putting a full time mental health therapist. And then we have one a therapist at Owen Elementary School, a therapist at or I'm sorry. At Pontiac High School, we have a full clinical program, which I'll go into and explain that. Pontiac Middle School, another full clinical program integrating behavioral health and medical.
And then, at Walt Whitman is where we put a full time therapist. Next slide. So our staffing model at our full clinical sites is we have a physician that oversees our entire program. We have one advanced practice provider, either a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant, one master level mental health therapist, one medical assistant, and or patient care tech. We also have a community health worker, a CAHC manager, which is Laura. And then, myself, I oversee the entire school based program.
Our e three sites, that's where we put a full time master level therapist where we just provide mental health, is we have our therapist and then a community health worker that will help the families out with social determinants of health. And it's a picture, a photo of our staff at, Pontiac High School right there. The next slide. Okay. Our mental health services school based, we offer evaluation and assessment, one on one individual therapy as well as group family therapy,
also health education, support groups, and then, a prevention focused health education too based on the needs of the students. Here, the top picture is of our staff at Pontiac, Middle School. Doctor Leverett is in there. We had a we had a a site visit from, representative Brenda Carter that day and then a picture of one of our therapists at Pontiac High School who will go in between the high school and middle school riding therapy. Next slide. Our primary services consist of well child and comprehensive physical exams.
This is we go beyond the sports, exam and sports physical where we, are much more comprehensive. We have screenings and exams, risk assessments, laboratory services. So we have a full lab inside both Pontiac High School and Middle School. We do CLIA wave testing, specimen collection. We do hearing and vision screening, preventative oral applications, spirometry, pulse ox. We can do telehealth, both medical and mental health, virtual visits. We do pregnancy testing and then,
of course, health education. We can provide health ed to teachers, parents, and community members too if there's a need. And, also, with our primary services, we do comprehensive immunizations, both what is required by the school and what is required through our ACIP guidelines. We treat illnesses and injuries, chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, STI, HIV education, counseling, and testing and treatment. And then a big part of our program, we, provide referrals to specialists. Specialists. So if we have a student that needs to be seen by a cardiologist,
maybe a pulmonologist, could be a, a specialist, a psychiatrist, then we will work within honor or, the community to provide those referrals. We will follow-up with the parent and the student just to make sure that, there are no barriers to, for them making their appointments. And our prevention and health education services, this is a photo of, Mona's staff member. Her name is Andrea, and she was giving a, prevention talk to some students. I think this was here at ITA.
Yeah. So, we go far beyond clinical and mental health to meet the needs of the community and and the students. It could be talks on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, HIV, AIDS, and STI prevention, nutrition, and physical activity. We could offer pregnancy prevention as well as suicide prevention, education on trauma, which there is, a lot of trauma with students these days and families, as well as depression, anxiety, asthma. And then a big part of our program, such as, Ramona spoke about, is our youth advisory councils.
They really and our community advisory councils, they are so important in terms of guiding us to determine if we're doing a good job. They also offer feedback on kind of, like, guide us what's going on in the schools. A lot of a lot of things we might not hear from students. So they kinda guide us to let us know if we need to focus more on a different area to meet the needs of the students. Next slide. So I, put together some numbers for you. This was last fiscal year for the locations of Pontiac High School and Middle School
and Owen Elementary in Walt Whitman. 933 Pontiac School District students received services inside our school based health centers last year. 3,677 visits, an average of 3.9 visits per student, were given. 486 students received physical activity nutrition counseling due to a high body mass index. 2,052 students and community members received school based health service outreach information.
Over 1,400 students received group health education and prevention information. So that is all information based on health and wellness and meeting their needs of, in terms how to maintain that wellness. Over 774 immunizations were administered. That would have been at Pontiac High School and Pontiac Middle School alone. 912 risk assessments were administered to students. 917 depression screens were administered to students.
And then all of our sites received an a on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services site survey. All minimum program requirements were met at all sites. And, we also received notice from the surveyors through the state that we had the best site scores in the state of Michigan. So I'm very proud of that. It goes to show how dedicated the staff, in terms of working with the schools, we work collaboratively with the staff, making sure we don't miss anything with the students.
And next slide. So if you have any questions for me regarding any of the services. Alright. Trustee Bibi Bowman? Yes. Are most of the services drop in for students or, community members that you just Yeah. So at, at Walt Whitman and Owen, because we only have one staff member there, it's pretty much for the the the kids of the district, so particularly the school. We can carry between a fifty and eighty caseload students for that one therapist.
So, pretty much, it's for those kids that go to the school. And then if there are other kids at within Pontiac School District, such as maybe some family members, we can see them there. At Pontiac High School and Middle School, we do open it up to not only the kids that go to that school, but, kids that live in the district. And then some outside district kids, they may be able to to come if there's need. And we open that up just because, sometimes families are so transient that they may, go to start off going to that school.
They may move out of the area. We wanna make sure we maintain that relationship with them because they might not have any other means to, for health care services. Nobody in none of our patients or family members will ever get a bill in the mail. So if if we have a family that, has a commercial insurance such as Blue Cross, if there's a deductible or, a balance, what we do is we go ahead and write that off. Each student is considered a family of one. So, if they don't have insurance,
usually at honor, we go by a sliding fee scale based on the income of the family. 99.9% of the students have little to no income or they have far below the poverty level, RPL. So, therefore, there's no co pays. We still accept all insurances, including Medicaid, and anything a 100% of the money that we bring in through reimbursement outside of our grants, and it actually includes our grants, is put back into the services that we provide through that school based site.
Thank you. Yes. Alright. Any other questions? This is just a comment. Want to commend you on bringing the program to the school because as we look at the child, the wholeness and the wellness of the child, these are certainly will enhance their academic growth when we know their mental, stability is there. So thank you. You're you're very welcome. We also provide homeless services. So even those students that are deemed emancipated or even if they're considered homeless where they're going from family to family,
home, we have a a homeless coordinator that we can have assist that family in, either with housing, food, whatever needs they have. And then we do have a homeless remote team that consists of a nurse practitioner, medical assistant, and our homeless coordinator that will go out into the community. They we will, we will go out into the streets and and treat the individuals that are experiencing homelessness. Then we'll go to the area shelters, and we will treat families,
youth, and adults. We go to Hope Shelter, Lighthouse, various other shelters too. So we do recognize that a lot of families are struggling. Our community health worker, we have one community health worker assigned to all of our school based sites. We we need, like, three or four more, but she will assist families if they're experiencing difficulty, with transportation or, paying their electric bill, whatever their needs are, food insecurities. We will work with that family, find them resources. If Honor can provide those resources, we will.
If not, we'll work with community organizations. But transportation is is really big. If there's a there's a student, let's say, that needs to be transported to the clinic, or even the family, we'll go ahead and work that out with them. Of course, no charge to the family. I would like you to, add this to your wrap around services, Christian community response team as an extension because we also help, those families to, stay in their homes if they're facing eviction or security, food deficits, or so we do provide.
So I would like you to put that in your, list of things, and it's called Christian Community Response Team. Gotcha. We're located Downtown Pontiac. Oh, actually. And that will be another, resource that we can utilize to, ensure the development of our students. Absolutely. Would you write that down, Laura? Just yeah. She's my right hand person over here. She's excellent. I we will certainly put that in the presentation. I'll pass that along to I'm I'm sure our CHWs are aware of that organization too. So Yeah. Alright. Any other questions? Thank you.
Alright. You're welcome. Thank you so much for your time. Alright. Next on our agenda under regular working agenda, Board of Education for discussion and approval is the resolution honoring miss Dolores Patricia Humphrey. And the resolution reads as school district of the city of Pontiac board of education resolution honoring the life of Dolores Humphrey. Whereas the school district of the city of Pontiac has been privileged to graduate thousands of talented individuals over the decades who have gone on to dedicate their lives to educating students.
Whereas the school district has been fortunate to employ many of those alumni who have left an incredible impression on our students and community, whereas Dolores Humphrey worked for the Pontiac School District for over forty years, Whereas, during her four decades serving the students of this community, she was known for not only teaching subjects, but also life lessons. Whereas, she graduated from Pontiac Central High School and Eastern Michigan University. Whereas, she was a lifelong and dedicated member of the Pontiac community, serving on the board of Pontiac General Hospital for over twenty years,
attending Newman AME AME Church, and as involved leader for the Pontiac chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, whereas she passed away on 09/20/2025. Resolved, the board of education for the school district of the city of Pontiac hereby celebrates the life and career of Dolores Humphrey and mourns her passing, which is a profound loss for the Pontiac school district community. And further resolve that we extend our deepest sympathies to her family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors,
and further resolve the board of education expresses our deepest gratitude to her service for her service to our community and to the thousands of people whose lives she enriched. Sincerely, the board of education. And this is one of our, VP Bowman. This was her auntie, and this was also, miss Humphrey and her family lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in, and I graduated high school with her son, Keenan. So our sincerest condolences to you, VP Bowman, as well as the Humphrey family. Can I get a motion for the approval of the resolution honoring miss Dolores Patricia
Humphrey? So moved. Support. It's been moved by trustee Dooley, supported by VP Bowman, for the approval of resolution honoring miss Dolores Patricia Humphrey. Any questions? Roll call. President Hannah? Yes. Trustee Miller? Yes. Treasurer Terry? Yes. VP Bowman? Yes. I'm voting yes. Trustee Dooley? Yes. That passes 60. Thank you. Alright. Moving down to the, finance items, reports, monthly financial reports updates. Doctor. Deves Doctor. Leverett. Thank you. At this time, we'll have Catherine from ProNexus come up and introduce herself,
and then she will present the monthly financials at this time. So I'm Catherine Kerkorian. I'm a certified public accountant. I've been, my history is I've, I've worked at Plant Brand for seventeen years, and I've always served not for profits, school districts, and, and, other school entities, private schools as well. So I've kinda devoted my life to the not for profit sector. I've worked with ProNexus now for three years. Prior to that, I was at Financial One, serving various not for profit entities. And,
so I've I've spent my life kind of in in this, in this realm of of what we're looking at. I've only really been here for probably three weeks. We've been here in really, probably fifty five hours or so. But what we wanted to do is kinda show you with all the upheaval of, the unknowns with the state of Michigan right now and with the federal government. What we wanted to look at is your general fund cash flow because we thought that was quite important, and then we'll have the full financial package next time.
So what I just wanted to point out is last year, at this time, at August 31, we started see that top row there? We started this is just general fund. We started with that $29,000,000. Right? And then we were able to move through the year consistently to stay at that fund balance. When we look at the end of the year here at August well, the beginning of this year, August 31, the very, very bottom row, we see the $24,000,000 right there. And, really, at the same place,
because what we did is we we have tax anticipation notes that we've issued in order to make sure budget is funded correctly and consistently, but we paid those off earlier than we did last year. So we're really truly in the same cash position that we were last year. And I think I think if we stay on top of this on a monthly basis, we will be, in in in in a in a good financial position as we monitor it. There's lots of balls in the air as we all know. But I think,
even with the cuts, I think I think we're hopeful to stay in the same spot. And a lot of our capital investment happened last year, so we'll be alleviated with that capital outlay this year because a lot of our improvements were last year. I mean, there'll be continuous improvements, but I think, I think what we need to do is just every month, besides giving you the full accrual financial statements, stay on top of this cash flow. Make sure we're in a position to do what we need to do because, we're Here to do the right thing for the right reasons for the students.
That's what we're here for. And so so we're really excited to be here, and we think we can really help in your, financial department in order to keep you in a good spot always. So I don't know if you have any questions with that. Trustees, are there any questions? No questions? No questions? Okay. No questions. Alright. And we'll see you October 20. Okay. Thank you. Alright. K. Thank you very much. Alright. Next on our agenda is communications, petitions, and delegations. VP Bowman.
Your request to excuse me. Your request to address the Pontiac Board of Education for three minutes is granted with your commitment that all comments will be delivered with courtesy and civility. Failure to do so will result in forfeiture of your allotted time. First up, we have mister Raymond Wiggins. Good evening, members of the board and Pontiac community. My name is Raymond e Wiggins junior, and I have the pleasure of serving as the twenty seventh Polemark for the Pontiac alumni chapter. With me tonight is vice Polemark of the Pontiac alumni chapter,
Don McNeil, Colton Dozier, who is our God Right director. Brother Mayberry, who's an educator, who also has a SAT program that he takes young people through with a very high success rate of what he does. Brother Garell Morrow who is one of the advisors for CAPA lead, and brother Curtis Herdy who is our twenty fifth chapter pole mark. One of our flagship initiatives is our CAPA lead program, a mentoring program dedicated to developing young men into leaders,
scholars, and community service. Through CAPA League, we provide young men with exposure to academic support, career readiness, leadership development, and community service. These young men learn practical skills such as financial literacy, public speaking, and networking, while also giving back to their neighborhoods through service prod projects. Right now, we are proud to serve students from several surrounding school districts. Just Saturday, we had a Kappa League chapter meeting with 27 young men.
But I wanna bring attention to a concern that we have. Out of those 27 young men, we only have one young man that's from the Pontiac School District. For a program rooted here in Pontiac and for a city with such great potential in its youth, that number should be much higher. We are here tonight to change that. We want more Pontiac young men to benefit from Kappa League's opportunities to be prepared for college, careers, and leadership. Our goal is not only to mentor, but to partner with schools,
parents, and the community to ensure Pontiac students are at the center of this program. I invite you to help us by spreading the word, connect us with families, and support efforts to increase participation from Pontiac. Together, we can make sure more of our young men are equipped with the tools to achieve in every field of human endeavor. Thank you for your time and your commitment to the students of Pontiac. One other thing we wanted to talk about is we know with the backpack giveaway, we heard the situation this year.
We jumped in and went and tried to solicit some funds that we can help contribute to those backpacks. I know some of you know, our dear brother Roger Davis who passed, back in 2015, and that was something that he was very, very, very passionate about. We discussed as a chapter one of the things we would like to do in the coming years is hopefully partner, hopefully, with the school district next year, and we would like to bring that back in house. And, Pontiac Capital Alumni Chapter will support that, and we would like to do that and work with the school district to ensure
that this is an ongoing, thing and hopefully you don't run into those situations again. So with that, we'd like to thank you for your time. We are open to meet to figure out how we can partner and make this thing work so that we can get more youth in our program. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have John Paul Torrey. Okay. And that's it. That concludes this. Alright. Thank you very much. Alright. Moving down to board comments and announcements. We'll start, start trustee Dooley. No comments. Okay. Trustee Miller? I have a few.
Good evening, everyone. I want to say happy October to everyone. As you see, I have on my pink blazer. October is breast cancer awareness month. So I am wearing my pink blazer for the entire month of October for my mother, who's a survivor. So, mom, I love you. Continue to fight even though I know she's not watching, but at least I'll have proof that I wore my pink blazer so she can't bust at me. And I'm an adult, and she still busts. I love you, mom, and everybody else who's, with this fight and those that we have lost. Alright. I want to,
welcome she's already left, but to ProNexus. I'm excited that we will have some consistency with our budget, and I just want to say that we deserve that. Our community deserves to understand where we are on our budget. The teachers and staff deserve to know what the district financial status is. And my hopes is that while we while we continue to have a very clear view of where we are when we do things like going to, talks for our staff and teachers and things of that sort.
We have a better understanding. So when we say we can't do something, we have some supporting documents behind instead of we can't do it just because we can't. So I'm I'm hoping that we will do that. And I just wanna remind the community that with everything that's going on, remember, guys, this this Pontiac School District belongs to you, all of you. It doesn't belong to this board. Doesn't belong to doctor Leverett. It belongs to you. So I really encourage you guys to be more proactive with us as we take this journey together because we need everybody.
It's gonna take an entire village to to do what's right by our children, to do what's right. Thank you all, and have a good night. Thank you. Secretary David Smith? Good evening. I really don't have much to say, but, like trustee Miller just said, it's gonna take all of us. We are still in the unknown about what things will transpire with the federal shutdown and things like that. And so, I'm just asking for prayer for for our district, and that's it. Have a great night. K.
Thank you. Treasurer Terry. No comments tonight. Thank you. K. VB Bowman. This was a great meeting. I'm glad that we were able to get in and out of here at a a good amount of time, but I just would like to remind, the Pontiac community. Yes. This is election season. After this election is over, we still gonna live here. So can we please treat each other properly? Can we please treat each other with some decency, dignity, and respect?
You may not support whatever candidate or initiative you so choose to. But with that being said, can we please comport ourselves in such a way to where after this, we can still live here and say hi if we so choose. So remember to treat people properly. And, to my family, I just wanna say I love you all and, continue to press forward to with my, my uncle, my cousins, and just, Pontiac. We we're in this together,
and just continue to move forward. Good night. Thank you, VP Bowman. Alright. I want to remind everybody that this week is homecoming week for Pontiac High School. Invite everyone to come out to the homecoming game on Friday, October 10. Doors open at 6PM. Kickoff is at seven. Parade homecoming parade will start at 04:30PM. And so we just wanna invite the community and all of our students, to come out and join us this week, for our homecoming game.
Also, I want to encourage every registered voter to get out and vote. We have the mayoral candidates and we also have the sinking fund on the ballot this year. It's on the back of the ballot, so don't forget to turn it over. But we encourage you all to get out to vote and support the, sinking fund this year. And I think that's all that I have tonight too. So, thank you for joining us tonight and I thank honors health community for the support that they give to our students and families here in the Pontiac school district,
and I also appreciate the men of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity for coming to support and express interest in being a part, of our students' lives as well. So with that being said, I would like to ask for a motion to adjourn our meeting. Support. It's been moved by trustee Dooley and supported by VP Bowman to adjourn this meeting. Any questions? Roll call, please. Trustee Miller? Yes. Treasurer Terry? Yes. VP Bowman? Yes. I'm voting yes. Trustee Dewey? Yes. And president Hanna?
Yes. That passes six o. Okay. The time is now 07:03PM, and this meeting is adjourned. Have a good night, everybody, and thank you.