##VIDEO ID:3OBp_W-4YHI## e for for for for for e for for for for having a Corum president I call this meeting the board of educational order the board would like to welcome the audience and thank you for attending viewers can watch dap's Board of Education meetings and committee meetings live on demand at any time at www.t caps.net board please R rise and join Miss Dylan's third grade class at Willow Hill in the pledge of allegiance to the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay for the appointment of temporary secretary I hereby hereby appoint Stacy hosac board recording secretary as temporary secretary until such a time as the secretary of the board of education has been elected we are at the review and approval portion of the agenda um do we have any motion for for the approval of the agenda or any changes I do have a couple oh sorry go ahead no you can go first um I just wanted to pull a couple of things off consent and one of them is item e the sex education Advisory Board appointment co-chair and I guess make that 11 I think that'll be uh d uh F or discussion item F rather okay F yeah yeah yeah I see D I don't see e but whatever um and the other one is one of the policies I just had um one small thing on it and it's the 3410 the opioid antagonist and that would go to 11 c3i okay any other changes yes I also had um the 3211 B policy uh that could be moved to a discussion item C3 I had C3 I too but I'm guessing it' be one off that okay and mostly I would like to pull SW policy 33 three gifts and donations okay and I and I'd like to pull F please gr acceptance mogy any others um I do believe procedurally that was one that was me that was meant to be removed but it was in our packet as well 342 I don't know if it it should just not be in consent and should be removed I believe yeah we'll remove that and we'll bring that back next month with some more technical changes we get we're waiting for some information from June of a newest a new update that's 342 not 3408 402 and again that is just removed and we bring back to committee next month I had a question I think that's more things we P so we made new year new board we made the sexed thing 11f and there's no 11 uh oh and I also had thank you because I had originally that's why I told joh is I would like to P an organizational meeting uh in I number two designation of daytime and placee 2025 to a discussion item I'm sorry where are you I we should just say what we like to be 11 discuss 11 that's that's E Yeah others okay we take a motion uh to approve the agenda as amended I move sorry I I never get to do it um I move to um move the consent calendar as amended I'll second all those in favor say I I all those oppos n motion Carri Dr Van Wagner could you just for everybody's convenience could you just summarize now what is item think good take a minute that's going to take a minute if you want to sit and wait we can or you want to move on and then we can once we get it fig out all right okay we are on to number five the election of officers in the agenda um nominations are in order for the office of President are there any nominations I will nominate Scott Ser president of the Board of Education that's organizational meeting on January I think Beth got it I'll say are there any other nominations Scott Newman bailes the individual nominated for the office of President voting will occur for one in a time in order in which the names were nominated the first name to receive four votes is elected for the office Stacy please conduct a roll call vote for Scott Newman Bale president trusty Raymond yes trusty pack yes Trust trusty Ballinger yes trusty bird yes trusty Moon Moore yes truste Schmidt yes and trusty Newman baale yes thank you for the photo compliments okay I declare by a unanimous vote Scott Newman bale as president of the Board of Education until the organizational meeting in January of next year thank you for the opportunity to serve as the acting chairperson more business that I think I've ever had the newly elected president will now preside I know I did uh joke that if this was one of going to get kicked out of now is probably the time because this is going to be a confusing one uh um but uh moving on to the next uh item nominations are in order for the office of Vice President are there any nominations I'm nominate Erica Moore to serve as vice president of the Board of Education until the organizational meeting in January of next year I second are there any other nominations okay there is one individual nominated for the office of Vice President voting will occur oh sorry um Stacy please conduct a roll call vote for the candidate Erica mour trusty B aler yes trust bird yes trusty Pat yes trusty Raymond yes truste Schmidt yes trusty Moore yes truste Newman yes I declare by uh unanimous vote Erica mum is Vice President of the Board of Education until the organizational meeting in January of next year uh moving on to secretary nominations are in order for the office secretary are there any nominations I nominate Josie Binger to serve as Secretary of the Board of Education until the organizational meeting in January of next year I second I I didn't know if anything Beth so I guess we be there um are there any other nominations okay uh there's any one nominations so say please conduct a roll call vote for candidate Jersey bingers trusty bird yes trusty pack yes trusty Moore yes truste Raymond yes truste Schmidt yes truste Binger yes trust Newman Bale yes motion carries uh the I declare by unanimous vote jie Binger as Secretary of the Board of Education till the organizational meeting in January of next year Stacey thank you for serving as temporary secretary and the newly elected secretary will now assume assume secretarial responsibilities uh nominations are now in order for the office of Treasurer are there any nominations I nominate Andrew Raymond to serve as treasurer of the Board of Education until the organizational meeting in January of next year I second okay uh are there any other nominations okay there's one individual nominated as office of Treasurer Stacy please conduct um a local vote for candidate Andrew Raymond moonar or trusty moonar yes trusty pack yes trusty Ballinger yes truste bird yes trustee schmidth yes truste Raymond yes and truste Newman Bale yes I declare by unanimous vote Andrew Raymond as treasur of the Board of Education until the organizational meeting in January of next year so that concludes the that portion uh so now we can go onto the establishment of board committees and representatives um so we did have we obviously have the executive committee which is president vice president and rotating member um but we do have curriculum and finance which are are two standing um committees we also have a number of other committees and I believe I had heard of a few comments of like we wanted to clarify a few other committees as well from board members F to add those I think specifically ially Central grade one Vis I think that was the only one but um and then um The Wellness uh nutrition oh it's here never mind so I guess we can start with the two standing committees which is curriculum of Finance um do we have uh I guess we can start by who wants to be with this is the fun process so would I it is and then Finance um and Ty are you okay to serve on finance yeah okay well that's the least dramatic discussion we've had so no be an alternate with finance and then usually there's an alternate with curriculum there's curriculum and finance both have an alternate Sor yeah thank you for making that point I would be happy to serve as the alternate for finance I would like to she you okay I'm happy to be alternate for or Ty if you want to be alternate for curriculum sure generally speaking there's a lot of yeah we do have an official alternate but there's usually at least one member who isn't so we usually go everyone can if they want have the opportunity to be on at least a couple of meetings so so I'm hearing Ty is the alternate for curriculum Beth for finance um and uh again I'm sure there'll be plenty of availability for everyone to do some of both so that seems to be established um reinstatement committee as a standing committee um curriculum chair board president and then we have theal alterate already I think we're going to be hopefully late on those this year and then nutrition and fitness uh formally health and well-being um I who now when we go through this I guess I the reason I wanted to make sure we added this is is we obviously have to balance out assignments to different things um so obviously if someone wants to do more people don't that's fine but if everyone wants to do different things so be cognant of if there's things you really want to do yeah we could do them as a group or we can do them one at a time but nutrition and fitness is there people who want to be on nutrition and fitness I would like to be I mean I'm I'm also interested I'm also interested in sustainability though too okay and I guess that's what we could that's I think it would be easier for us to say which ones we do and then fill them in personally is that way yeah and not picking on you best but if you want to be on the mall you can then sh say you know what I scratch this one or that and then um and if someone only wants to do one I think that would be fine too so we go through and Sati sustainability and nutrition um I would like to be on sustainability okay and I'm happy to be a alternate for the nutrition and fitness team I just um I've served I think the longest on that committee and just think to step down and let a couple other board members serve on it I think is is a great thing so um I'm happy to be an alternative and and normally we haven't really had communication like if someone can't attend that meeting so maybe we could add that if I don't know yeah I don't usually know that when those meetings are happening so we'll just have to change practice on okay yeah because then yeah either of you can't make it I'm happy to join in so then we also have the central grade Vision the as well vision and if we need an alternate on sustainability and also happy to yeah and I was on it before so what's the the central grade well you know that's really just an ad hoc group it's it's a visioning committee that is led by the architect John dancer with Corner sound correct and so we gave them a list of names and we included spots for two board members again can't have a full Committee of three um so there are two we do I we originally had three board members showing interest so I talked again with only two so I talked to Scott and this is how Scott thought would be best to identify the two board members that again it's not an organizing it's not it's just serving with all the rest of about 25 20 to 30 20 to 30 community members judge staff in that building to serve just as a part of that visioning committee working with the architect who's leading that work yeah and all of these other committees I should have said that too the obviously the finance exac and curriculum are chaired by the board members whereas all the rest of them are called we are pointing someone to that has a separate person leading that whether it be a facilitator or a chair and I had expressed some interest of the central grade visioning but I also was on the visioning for monor and so I felt like it was a really fantastic process to see from start to finish so just you know the other two board members who haven't been through it I think is a good thing so um if for some reason that doesn't work out and someone has to step away I'm happy to step in that's so is there anyone else who wants to be on there okay last you Ty mentioned did you say you wanted to be on Cal no just you Andrew um I mean if there's I can be an alternate I'm happy to do that it sounds like this sounds like people want to do it you ER alternate for if needed somebody with that and then same with sustainability an alternate if we needed somebody could we could do yeah so so Josie and be Josie and Beth is that and then Erica is at Al and then I'll step away from sustainability hopefully continue to have a very practical approach and I'm under a fairly safe assumption that anything that comes out of those are going to come to finance committee anyway so I'm happy to let other people I mean most things do said it's uh yeah so of this I Central grade visioning I have Josie and Beth alternate Erica nutrition and fitness I have Beth and Ty alternate Erica sustainability Ty and Holly alternate Josie um that's is that correct yeah it's F me is everybody feeling this is balance though because I I too want to make sure everybody has an opportunity to serve on could you repeat it one more time can we go through Stacy go through each so curriculum sorry I didn't so curriculum is Josie Beth thank you I don't know why I had a c as official alterate and then finances Andrew Erica Ty with Beth as the official alterate um and then Central grade visioning we have Josie and Beth with Erica as alternate nutrition and fitness Beth and Ty with Erica as alternate sustainability Ty and Holly with Josie as alternate and then I did have we did have one clarification which just need board input on which is we we've run into a situation a few times where when the chair so when the chair when the board president is not here the vice president takes over if the vice president and the president are not here by definition the secretary o calls a meeting to order and the rest of the board nominates a presiding president for that meeting that's easy for committees there's different ways you can do it it's at the election if the board does not dictate and the chair is elected by the committee which is how we do it then there is no necessary de facto second Vice chair there's no Vice chair of the committee of the committee any of our committees any of our committees well we only have two two I guess uh so if the chair is not available is there should there be a default chair is there someone is it the next name person is it the most senior board member since I don't really mind mind to be honest who it is but I've been asked a couple of times what the process is and I don't have uh I've always just done the nextor senior person I would probably agree just because they've probably had the best chance of having some history having some history and chairing a meeting probably or committee meeting previously all right so that's how we go to going forward laughing I'm over here of course you would agree it's me I'm not disagreeing I'm just teasing you at least two more years Andre like I think you should actually un alphabetical reverse alphabetical leave me hey what if I'm not here I'm thinking yeah then then you have a if Eric and on here then we have a two or threeway tie yeah play Rock Paper Point yeah and and I would I would go further to add just so we've had the conversation it's the most senior person left on the original uh slate of people scheduled to be at the meeting because then what happens if you then add someone else to the meeting later just uh so it's it's a it's I said I want to make sure we're just clear on it because otherwise it could become unfair thankfully we're not a contentious board but try to put some structure in place was always um all right so that I think is all of the Committees then we also have um round table which is rotated and the superintendent Board of Education supervisory committee again rotated so we don't need to assign that one thing that we do have is Bard office hours um I think we've seen very mixed results we had a really bad run then we had a little pickup run I had sneak peek of my report out I had I had one person come and see me uh in December um so I don't know we've talked about if we want to do something different I'm open I I feel like it's not very engaging like people don't seem to be using it I don't know if it's the location if it's the time so I would like to get some input on that because I you know for me like anybody that I know who's come and I've usually had somebody show up um parking is always an issue it seemed and and just being downtown and parking at that time of night for some reason I don't know it seems to be an issue for people I know I had to park the furthest away that I had to park like that when I did it yeah so I'm wondering if I don't know if we can have it in a building we can we can certainly have it building soon so the only thing I'll CAU you we ran into this with Erica you might be the only one in the building by yourself oh true so when we did when we did that originally at Boardman and you know we had a couple of issues we had to move it to the reception area too because there was no one to like be near the door to see the door right so I would just suggest you try and do it somewhere where there may be people general public area just I would hate anybody be by themselves just and another just um for you know if staff want to show up and have a conversation and they're uncomfortable coming into like a a building I think you know I think because we had talked about maybe doing it before a regular board meeting and you know having the hour before but I I think you know if someone wants to come in and not be recognized that they're talking to a board member I just and yeah I think being alone in the building when there's contentious things happening is uncomfortable so um or you're there by yourself you for like an hour Library what's is the library tattle yeah yeah tattle might be that could be a good I was thinking books a million too yeah it's only one time a month and it's we might be able to reserve a room one time another pH I had was Trevor Pie Company farther west on West Front Street you know not the one that's down by state leader but the other end oh yeah Front Street because parking is you know yeah access more accessible there more available yeah so I think I mean I'm trying to try different we can maintain it as it is same hours and just change the location indust show Ted open till 8 mhm so if you would like I could we could call over tomorrow to uh tattle and see if we might be get a permanent spot we can room we could do that if the board wanted to try a different location is at least we'd be happy to say try and and see if we can get that reserved I think that's a good idea and then if if we can kind of see how that goes and then we also talked maybe about alternating virtual like some Zoom meetings to you know people that can't show up for the meetings so maybe we try in person at the library and and hopefully it'll you know get more people out because they can park easier and yes maybe re-evaluate after the first couple three or three meetings or something Dr be great what what are your since you alternate between inperson and virtual to your superintendent monthly you do get a different group of folks you know you have some that struggle maybe to be able to get out of work or get home maybe they have child care or you know meal or whatever that is so at least you have a venue every other month that they want to be in person but if they can't you know it's just it it's a it's a good mix that way you know do you see consistently higher attendance no but I think I see different people that wouldn't you know do one or the other sometimes I think that's a good maybe people not as techy and then other times I have people that you know are on the road maybe they work and travel you know so it gives access either way is the parking at tle pretty pretty available I go there all the time usually reading get a book on the way so what about the V so sounds like tattle is way to go that we want to go what about the virtual option we want this is discussion this is yeah we're kind of doing it now that that I guess we couldn't technically approve it though because then it would have been approved okay so the discussion item will be approving but yeah that's why we strugg I mean I'd be aimal to trying I think we should do every other I think that's it I do too just and see and then we could see how it goes after yeah June or whatever yeah yeah for mixing it up if it's not working so and and I live I love the library and they're a partner of ours and there's a really beautiful children's G knew you were going to get that while got to so assuming that that is available uh we can post it as provisional prove it as provisional today later um that's what we'll go with we'll try to get that set up and if we're successful or not we'll let the board know and we just randomly assign Ty if you need to trade it's believe me I'm the king of all Traders I traded out everyone uh last so um but you can just switch it with that another member um okay so that I think completes is there any other scheduling questions one question and then as we WE Post the schedule for the student advisory Council kind of so we can plug it into calendars and board yeah board members will get their rotations right it was a little bit more vague last year for there's in whoever is attending as the rotating member has it on their calendar okay cuz you remember it's only how many do how many were there do like four a year technically you'll get one every two years sorry if you went last year you they were good it was very good um yeah and then we should start the rotations like taking into effect what just happened so okay any other uh assignments uh representations or committees okay then we officially approve that in discussion as well but um so moving on now sorry to uh deepen the agenda but public comment uh we have public okay the board has set aside this time for public comment and individuals address in the board should have one opportunity to speaked to 3 minutes individual should not make personal attacks unrelated to actions affecting the school system and we strongly encourage common courtesy and constructive feedback detail rules and procedures including a complaint processer outlined board policy 2504 Stacy first speaker is Megan Quigley good evening my name is Michael I was I'm speaking ASC tax very troubled to hear employ from sex education curriculum for minor children in school what concerns me most is the agenda that's being pushed upon them when I read through some material I wonder how sex side for social change inclusivity and Catering to less than 1% of the population is helping our kids I wonder how educating our kids about lgbtq or deig is improving them academically because when I looked at the stats I see Central High School per principal Burger in an October 20 2024 letter stating that last year 48% of students are proficient in math and 47 in both math and English and West isn't doing any better her principal es burn September 2024 letter St that 42% are Prof proficient in math and 41 in both math and English that's 574 kids out of around 1,400 that are meeting State Standards this is insane and scary to me what's even more startling is the percentage appearance that attend parent teacher conferences which is around like 40% for Central and astonishing 10% at West TC Central is ranked 46 in Michigan West 92 shockingly TC high school is 332 with a graduation rate of 22% so again I ask myself how an employee from pled Parenthood which clearly pushes a specific one view agenda would be beneficial to our children that we were obviously feeling big time why are we even adding more to the sex side curriculum reproduction and sex haven't changed most minor children do not relate nor identify as such in fact according to michigan.gov June 1st 2023 there are 3,950 minor children ages 13 to 17 who identifies as lgbtq that's 03 of the Michigan population so in travor city that percentage would be almost non-existent yet for some reason a handful of adults keep implementing a sexi curriculum that gives preferential treatment to a population that barely exists while the rest of our kids suffer and get indoctrinated sex education in this case is just a euphemism for radical gender ideology as well as inappropriate and misguided information things that this board support such as seeus appears to be hostile towards abstinence programs and religion it also strongly just discourages any anti-abortion propaganda which plain Parenthood also emphasizes if you're going to include lgbtq information then you should include all of it such as a suicide rate amongst this population which is four to five times higher than that of our kids it also according to the APA and DSM gender dpor is a mental disorder yet you keep wanting to push this in a public taxpayer funded school stop trying to normalize it because our kids are not doing better our kids don't need affirming sex education they need to improve on their test scores and academic abilities and stop talking and implementing things that aren't contributing to our kids academic excellence and we the taxpayers are not going to fund pet projects that have absolutely zero relevance in the learning Arena my family personally pays over $16,000 to teaps every year the only concern that we should have as a community is what what we're going to do to for public comments thank you than speaker is Bill Weisner Bill Weisner Travers City didos to what she just said and um this is a letter that I sent out to 2,000 people you folks got it too I presume uh I'm just going to read it and uh it's dear tcaps Board of Education and admin and all Lela County Schools Boards of education and admins plus forwarded to over 2,000 total now it's over 4,000 Lelo County employees and tcaps and log County Northwest head and Northern Michigan Educators in general friends and Pastor friends and area leaders and to all 148 Michigan legislators the House and Senate Michigan plus to every American citizen who is concerned about the sexual grooming of children I'm forwarding Dr Scott Lively's my Christmas present to you offer for a free prepublication PDF copy of his new book entitled Nazi Germany's dirtiest secrets and why they matter to teaps today or America today I am encouraging you all to take advantage of this great opportunity and download it immediately for free so that's the opportunity you can download it um and then pass it on to your friends and hope that it can strengthen the anti-g gromer movement and rescue Americans children from the coues of the lgbts I download it uh up until I said December 21st 2025 it would be obviously January 21st 2025 a week from tomorrow next Tuesday I attached a copy of my Christmas present to you promotional business cards uh that's what I just gave to you and to some of the people here and U on there gives you an address Scott lively. Scot lively. store I think it is and you can get your free copy so and here's some pictures from the book this is the front cover right here that's the front cover Nazi Germany's dirtiest Secrets here's the back cover it's no longer secret and uh here's a closeup for the back cover so this is what was in Germany's Hitler's Germany and it was carried over into America uh on the back cover I I encourage you very much to go to the website get the free downlo um and that's basically it check it out Scot lively. store and and there's 500 books in the library promoting homosexuality let's get this one at least on the other side thank you next speaker is Nicole Hooper evening everybody nice to see you again it's been a while um I would actually like to pick you back off of what Megan quickley um and she addressed regarding having the employee from planned perood on the sex Advisory Board committee I know you've already made your decision and this is just a formality but um stressing that it is not appropriate for an employee of an organization such as this to have influence on our youth and our schools secondly it's not appropriate to teach sexuality diversity to our youth um since this is a direction you're taking there should be equal representation such as Thrive Medical Clinic um not sure if that if that clinic has come across your emails or any Communications but it would be nice to have all sides represented um and then for those tuning in online or sitting in in um here today you may think since you don't don't have kids in the school system that your comment falls on deaf ears and doesn't make a difference but I would like to remind everybody you pay taxes therefore you do have a say and your opinion does matter and I encourage you to come to the board meetings or email the board with with your comments and suggestions and feelings um thank you so much that's the last speaker okay thank thank you um moving on to superintendent report def to Dr Van okay uh legislatively uh we are in a new legislative year um we have now uh we have a speaker of the house Matt Hall from the Richland area near Kazo um is the speaker the Republicans have taken majority in the Michigan House of Representatives um by I believe a four vote margin and we're trying to still figure out chairs have not been named yet to education committees um or uh Appropriations any of those for that matter I did have the chance to talk to representative John Roth today about some of that and so he's uh thinking probably by the end of the month they will have all the chairs and and committee assignments in place and so uh really that's kind of at a hold interestingly enough um very unique the governor has announced that she's going to propose her executive budget um in uh towards the the third week I believe of January um before the State of the State address that's the first time I've ever seen the budget released before the State of the State address it's always for ever ever as I remember it's always been the State of the State address first so that'll be interesting um consensus Revenue uh conference was on Monday um it showing about a um uh a billion dollars well over a billion dollars between uh general fund and school aid fund they're saying right now that school aid fund is sitting at about 350 to $400 million um in excess of what they originally estimated um which is good news as well as um a good amount still left over from last year so we're hopeful that that means some decent news as we go into the school aid um there's a lot of things on the the table though Road funding is a major uh question and the issue with Road funding is that that is partially funded by sales tax dollars for and and part of that money goes to schools when when the gas tax happens the speaker the newly elected speaker has uh uh given his thoughts he wants to see all of the money from the gas tax go to roads and so there would have to be a replacement for that money for schools and that has not been identified of what that is it was kind of like oh we'll find it and when you have a temporary source that can dry up that could mean a catastrophe for schools so it'll be interesting to see um as that work goes on um you know I will remind the board the last time we had divided government um the state's fiscal year is not the same as ours it goes October 1st to the end of September um so there is if history repeats itself um we saw that we did not have budgets until 1 2 in the morning October 1st three 3 weeks after school starts and you might remember we have to adopt a budget by law by July 1 so we very well may have to guess on a budget um that we wait you know a few months before we'll actually even know what it is so that's a tough part that is a very good likelihood but hopefully um they're able to somehow come to an agreement uh before the July 1 deadline that they've imposed in the past year um under Governor Snider and Governor Whitmer so we'll just um have to see where that lands any questions on that as well any news from the Senate the Senate is still Democratic democratically controlled there's no there were no changes there were no Senators up so you're pretty much your committees you know all those assignments all the same there were a couple that left the Senate um one from Midland specifically um and that se as uh will have to be put up for a special election um and so that could possibly put a tie into the Senate um if that were to flip to a republican seat but as of right now the governor and the Senate are democr democratically controlled but what I was thinking was if there are no major political changes within the house or the Senate yeah then do they have their sense of priorities and are they talking about those and they they will and do you know they've already kind of put a couple of big items non-educated education related tipped wage is a major one right now um that's out there um so you know they and I think that you know road package is even on their mind too um I think uh you know there's a couple there yeah Economic Development so it'll it'll be in the end is not high no it's not right now but you know it and it's just you know the first two bills is all were dropped you know in both both chamber the other day so it's very ceremonial almost so we won't know until right now you know they're they don't have a counterpart in the house to talk to they don't have a chair in education even Appropriations for that matter um so it's going to be a while and it'll start to emerge what those are but um even you know even masb right now has not come out with their priorities yet um that is something I had the chance to talk to Jennifer Smith they uh lead uh a lobbyist and so that'll start to be formed here over the next month obviously the governor is going to get out there real fast to kind of put that card out there so we'll see what reactions are we'll see you know we've had the chance already to begin talking to our local legislators um three key things for us uh our transportation categorical is huge it's not funded we had the three years of funding temporarily it's not guaranteed next year and that's huge for us um the second is mental health and school safety uh funds again that we had half of it last year than what we had the year before and the third is an increase in the foundation Grant again we had no increase in the foundation Grant last year to caveat that we did get some support on the retirement side but we did not move that that uh formula for our foundation as it has almost two 2x every year two times what the lower higher funded districts we're getting so we'll see where that goes that's the conversation that I've had with our local legislators I think they're very receptive to those ideas in both Co both caucuses but we'll just have to see what's the speaker agenda and where does it all land it'll be very interesting to see if the Magic School Bus the electric bus yeah uh helps in your cost in transportation yeah we'll see so um the only other thing is there there is one key bill that's sitting out there um interestingly enough there were six bills that were in the House of Representatives that were passed that were not sent over to the governor by the clerk and now the the new speaker has he has his own Clerk and right now he's refusing to send them to the governor and one of them is a health care bill for public employees that changes the cap and um the uh um 80% rule that we have and so right now the speaker has said he's just going to hold on to that get some uh legal opinions on what he has to do or doesn't have to do uh it's unprecedented never happened where they kind of didn't finish their work before they left and there's six bills sitting out there and he has just decided I'm not going to send those to the governor and we don't know what's going to happen so um that definitely has an impact uh for us and our employees um so we're just going to keep an eye eye on where that happen goes and I I would not be surprised to see it end in a lawsuit and uh we'll see but we'll keep you updated on that as far as that goes as well uh Dr Wagner was one of those the expansion of Health Care coverage to families from individuals um the part of it you know there's some pieces in there right now the bill as it's read is just does stay you know with some parameters of what you have Christine G might be able to add to that if you're speaking of the one that directly relates to um our uh District Public Schools really what it does is it um increases the cap and it sets a new floor that didn't used to exist so it's it's really not about expanding opportunities it's about it's about cost and the share between employee and employer there were different languages and things being done at the last minute that's where it landed but again it's sitting there not sent to the governor and uh I don't know that it's going to we'll see wouldn't mean the employer would have to make up the difference this one is correct and so um that's uh pretty much it for legislative and it's going to start going fast um District highlights um teps received 250 gun safety locks to distribute to parents uh from the Michigan State Police and uh their Community Services Division any TK's parent is welcome to stop by the main office uh between 8 and 3 am uh 3: p.m. rather of West Senior High School and Central High School um and the superintendent's office between 9:00 and 4: here at the Glen Lumis administration building to receive a free gun lock gunlock installation instructions both English and Spanish are included and are also available on Project SAFE uh child safe website and again those are first come first serve and I appreciate that uh that Grant also uh Central High Schools Alpine Ski congratul ations to our girls Alpine ski team who won the pataski harbor Invitational top 10 finishers include Quinn Gerber Aaron hail uh Kellen cry Elise bosen Avery tager Rocko Elkins Cooper gber Dill Ramon Rao rather Trevor subtle as well so congratulations ER any update for West High School West um girl uh West girls took uh Second and West boys took first Central boys took second excellent no I'm sorry Central boys took third actually they had some some crashes some dnf so all right so ski season is well on its way snow conditions are good and getting better as we get through the weekend by the looks of it here um I have also some updates um I'm going to include it talk more in the school safety update with some aeds know we had some board members Josie had some questions stuff that I want to get to um but before that um I do have uh a tenure item that I wanted Connie to go over and then an update on safe R to schools whicher after that yes just please join me and congratulating uh teacher Barbara Anderson for successfully completing her probationary period as required by the state and as of Wednesday she will have officially acquired tenure with teaps so we congratulate her for that achievement thank you congratulations again so um we've had a lot of questions um we are working right now on a safe route to school's Grant with the Crossing on Frankie Road um it is actually uh requirement under the safe road to school's Grant we actually have to have that as a part of a project for West Middle School um you know the trail does go uh around by Meer all the way up to West Middle School to the Y and even out it'll eventually connect to West High School a part of our work out there um but Ginger has been actively working on that safe road to schools Grant so I've asked her to give a update of what we've done so far where that's at and we that'll move forward so J sure so as you know the safe uh routes to school Grant is a very complex and multi-layered uh grant program so we have uh had some in-person meetings with the Michigan Fitness Foundation Who oversee that grant program and they uh pretty much have a an individual that's assigned to the case for each school that is applying for this grant which is has been very helpful so in addition to uh working one-on-one with that uh we have um began the process of working directly with West Middle School to do the uh data Pro portion of the uh Grant and what it is is each layer of this grant requires an approval process in order to go on to the next phase so at this point what we are doing is we are in the phase yet of collecting data so we have had surveys go out to West Middle School students and we will continue to keep uh pushing out that survey uh at West Middle School they do have time on Fridays during their advisory where uh they do things such as surveys so it'll just remain on that docket for a couple more rounds to ensure that all students who would like to give uh their input can do so and in addition to that the questions include things like how do you go to school do you ride in a bus in your parents car do you walk ride a bike whatever we also have to do uh just in classroom tallies and that is done three consecutive days in a row and um I do not believe those are complete yet because of the fact that it generally will line up with the next part of our phase which is uh the audit portion so we also have sent out a message about a month ago to all parents of students who attend West Middle School and the questions were very similar how do you take your children to school um and would you consider anything different if opportunities with better paths existed lighting things of that nature so we do have quite a few number of the parent surveys that were returned we are required to have a 20 % uh response rate and um the the responses I asked for an an update for the meeting tonight and it looks like we're currently at 18% so we're just a few surveys shy of meeting that requirement so we'll um quickly be able to um complete that one after the surveys we'll move on to the audit portion and what the audit portion does is we utilize volunteers we need to do counts before and after school on pedestrian in traffic bike traffic um in in different areas that would make up that Corridor of Frankie Road Silver Lake Buffalo Trail area all of those areas that uh you see traffic coming in and out of at West Middle School so for um what we also will have to do for that is take a mapping process and identify every single household for students who do attend West Middle school so uh that P portion has also been submitted so we are waiting on that we do remain on target completely with all of the uh preapp phase of this timeline uh so far everything has gone smoothly as uh we had hoped and basically we will continue to work um soon once we receive that that go ahead to the next phase we will get back together with all of our collaborators including the Grand Travers Road Commission State Police and all those who have volunteered to be part of the safe routs to school team we will then get together to complete an action plan and then after that is when we do that actual final request for funding major grants through safe routes to school do provide $300,000 for infrastructure there is also the opportunity to have an add additional 15,000 for any type of uh possible programming that could exist along with that initiative which would be more or less um the soft work that goes behind promoting promoting the use of trails and biking and walking and things of that nature um the safe routs to school team is very clear that the general timeline for this process to receive approval from the work we we began uh generally is a 2year process so we're we're solid ways in and uh we'll continue to work forward to uh do what we can do to improve that area for all the students other questions how commor is so you need to the school needs to be a certain age in order to qualify for a safe routes to school Grant and there building or the age I believe it was 5 years at least 5 years old I think is what it was five or seven I don't remember and so monor is way too young right but given the two-year process it's going to be nudging that fiveyear period it's what a year but you have to start earlier it's five years from when you start so oh boy but that you know it qualifies as being right there so it's that you know we would have improvements on that Crossing um you know the bigest part the the part that is you know discussed when we met with the Road Commission in Garfield Township is the Meer side of the road that's probably the biggest part that um if you go there and look at the topography it's a very drop off so a concrete pad has to be poured with some Ada access um with the lights and all that just for that piece of it is probably around $100,000 um I did have have a question from somebody is well do you have to wait for this grant could you use Bond dollars and so I I did get the chance to talk with Chris I Marino from trun who's a specialist on bond dollars we do not own that property we can only use Bond dollars on property we own okay so that couldn't be used at all on that side of the road some on our side of the road some of that element could but most of that all that work is on the Meyer side we have met with Meyer twice um along with Garfield Township and the road commission Myers has expressed interest they would be a part of this but um they would not put anything in writing yet um they only they be a part of the process and so going through that I think a Goodwill is there Scott had the chance to talk to their lawyers as well um has had had a personal connections with some who really was able to get the ball rolling for us to have some of those more conversations with their legal team in Grand Rapids um but uh you know that's that's the big piece that would be a part of this because for kids to get to the apartments and stuff for instance on division to get to West Middle School go across that go the Buffalo Trail right there up to do we have I mean so we've just went through this with West Middle uh in 20 2019 do we have and I know those kids live in in Fitz viiew and and Bay Hill and and a lot of that data was there we did do the Audits and I know they're probably saying we can't use that now but two years is rough I mean two years especially after I've been hearing concerns for the past year and now we're saying well we're going to put a crosswalk in which I think now says like yes parents are going to park there and walk across so I I mean I mean I know we're out of options but you know I'm not thrilled about two years and I will tell you that the state police actually has said they recommend increasing the speed limit on that road right and I know they're tied I understand school's own speed and crosswalks are tied together but um I I don't know what the solution is but uh considering what happened I'm just I'm just not comfortable with two years interesting and the road commission um we did meet I think a part they said that they would be willing to talk to the state police and re and ask for a reconsideration State Police said when they did a study that there were only three kids that walked that they found walking or biking to school during that time of that study we didn't think that was right um but you know we definitely are going to try and continue to Advocate talk to the road commission I think there's some new leadership in the road commission I think they're they're willing to do some of that they are planning on redoing Frankie Road um not this summer but the following summer so we've had the chance to walk we would like to see even some sidewalks maybe on the other side of the road in that element but um you know alls I would say is if there is another source for funding out there um you know that I'd be more than happy to talk to anybody and willing to again we'd have to take that to Meyer it is Meyer's property Meyer has to give that okay from that standpoint to do but that would be the the biggest hold up from that standpoint and then you do have the financial component of a crossing guard have to consider pretty conn't said about like the making sure they had the rad commission sayate police recommendations too though so I don't know even if we could even if we could use Bond dollars even if it would make a difference because I think that that everyone needs that process whether we like it or not the process to go through um because I know just for your reference T that there was a lot when we first trade not only did we get not back but yeah they reced increasing speed limit and was great there wasn't a great working relationship so I think we took yeah we've reset that part is there so the 18% response rate Ginger is there any way that we can Target those families that are more likely to be walking or that we know walk um to try to get more of that response rate up so we can make sure to at least hit that well we will certainly meet the requirement it just we didn't know with our first attempt what rate we were at at okay and so we just received that parent number today so we will simply just include in the West Middle School newsletter um a secondary plea for their parents to provide that data and it won't take very many names to to fill up that requirement okay when did you say that survey was launched we did that right around Thanksgiving yeah isn't that also on Frankie Road where the big trucks come into the back of Meer it is it is you know we had a lot of debate around that originally the original design of of Monas had a second exit but because of that um it the road commission denied it because and they've said that it has to be directly across you might remember we had this conversation um a year or so ago about that it's not directly across from that and so one time Meer considered closing it if they' have closed it we' have been able to put a second exit there but they didn't they put speed bumps left that gate open that does not allow us to be able to have that second because they need exit yep and it's timing you know it's it's not busy all day it's beginning and end of school and it's monory and just to be clear the the Meer Crossing is not something that is um necessarily recommended by the school right you know we do have we do have parking in the back um if you go right where the track building is uh there's parking right there the Buffalo Trail runs right next to it um when I go there I know uh Dan we mentioned this yesterday I park right there the Buffalo Trail is right there I'm able to take it right around by the playground come in right around the building and get in so there is an ability to park there that's safer in that element but a lot of people want to be quick and fast and try and do the Meer and and uh you know meer does still have some liability concerns but for the for the good of the cause they were willing to be a part of the conversation and deeply but they they want that thorough process completed from that standpoint maybe the Fitness Nutrition committee needs to encourage people to do that little walk and again I know that Tracy and monor they've communicated that you know that um place to park and that element I think you know that when it's maybe track season it gets a little busy but beyond that um it's a pretty open lot right there to be able to park in and we did put lighting there so there's lighting to be able to be so if it is dark in the morning or evening there are flood light type lights right there right uh just right next to the Buffalo Trail and and we do maintain that in the winter time we do plow it and we do salt that as well about how far is it um uh distance-wise like 50 ft between where the parking lot is and the nearest entrance to the building 40 yard 40 yards I just walked it at 430 not even half a football field yeah and it's an incline it is a little bit not bad but a little bit well and I mentioned this to John earlier you know before we we had Park and stroll so a lot of our Town through the programming piece the educational encouragement piece and um and if if education and encouragement can be a solution to this you know Park and stroll and messaging that to families um obviously we can't make them do anything um but it did seem to work like we had a park and stroll the Eastern from the Civic Center we had Park and stroll from uh you know thoroughly to to Central grade to get the kids The Wiggles up that was the message to get the Wiggles out before class um so uh I those used to be up on all individual school websites too I I believe they've been taken down since so um anyways if if infrastructure is going to take two years maybe there's some things that keep families safe um between we should do some little things like calorie counts things like I mean there's there's lots of science between just moving before class I mean even if it's just 40 yards I mean that that can help so um but again I think those are we provide those as options to families you know here's options car Line's an option the bus is off you know an option but also this park and stroll can also be an option 2017 I was just looking at this 2017 we did the bik W uh Walkin bike audit at West Middle any other questions on any of that okay um so for recognition um I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation for our Board of Education and the tireless work that you do in your dedication to the students and families of Trevor City area public schools January is board appreciation month a time to recognize the invaluable contributions of individuals who who serve our local school boards you volunteered countless hours to relentlessly support all students in achieving their full potential by maximizing individual excellence and success these are not easy tasks your decisions often involve difficult choices and require our careful consideration of diverse perspectives you face challenges with Grace and professionalism always prioritizing the needs of our community we know that your work can be demanding with long hours and frequent meetings yet you consistently operate with honesty transparency and fairness you demonstrated a strong commitment to the T Cap's vision mission and values as our board is defined in the compass strategic plan thank you for your unwavering support of our students teachers and staff your service makes a real difference in the lives of the young people in our community so as a token of our appreciation we have a little notebook there uh with your name on it you may remember by that is a office supply um component so we're able to provide office supplies um so again uh um we appreciate everything you guys do the time you put in um the pay is horrible um which is nothing by the way no pay noay this is this is thee and and you know again hours and evenings out from your families and work and we just appreciate everything you guys do and uh and thank you for all your support thank you I love the cards from the kids yeah so you also from Blair Elementary School yeah go bob cat so you have some cards there that that we shared with you to show their appreciation and and so hopefully you get a chance to get some laughs and enjoy and and be able to see the fruits of of uh what you do to help kids each and every day and that is all for my superintendent okay thank you thank you to Blair Elementary yeah every single one before the meeting yeah they are somebody mentioned Taco tickets and I'm like oh my God you adorable okay um U moving on to board committee reports and discussions um just first if I have to get up I'm having a throat issue and I just FY if I come and go I standing just put Eric now as vice president and standing if I have to leave uh board committee um report uh first up is curriculum committee by truste Erica M perfect so I have a bunch of report out tonight so I'm trying to be as I will try to be as concise as I can um so if you have any questions or I'm moving too fast just please don't hesitate to stop me so our curriculum uh committee meeting was held on January 7th um we called the meeting to order at 8:32 there was no public comment we moved right into procedural items uh the draft committee meeting uh minutes uh remain as posted no changes um we reviewed the 20242 tcaps District course catalog updates um Jesse Holton uh who is our chief academic office officer for secondary reported on the updates for the 2425 course catalog we also uh had some um updates for the 2526 District course catalog um which will start taking place this winter um both of these items uh were moved to the consent calendar tonight uh we then uh uh had a recommendation from Britney Kay the director of curriculum and instruction regarding the sexed Advisory Board um which we will discuss uh later in uh in the meeting um again this is a 2-year term um and uh so that was on consent but pulled off for discussion tonight um then we all then we had a field trip request so this uh it's a 10th grade Advanced art photojournalism um students traveling to Peru this is March 21st and 29th of 2026 uh this has already been approved but uh West Senior High wants to add uh a few Central High School like four to five students um in addition uh so we're just asking for that to be approved um and and uh again this was added to the consent calendar uh we then moved on to informational items and we had um our learning series and went through some curriculum updates so the first update uh was is regarding Elementary Ela and math so uh Miss Britney K provided an overview of how the district provides high quality Ela instruction she h highlighted the adoption of CK CK uh during the 2024 school year that there have been some um classrooms piloting uh the early adopters and J JK through five classrooms and all JK through five uh classrooms districtwide will be implemented uh by the 2026 2025 26 school year uh then Mr Dan tidworth provided an overview of the elementary math curriculum math expressions uh the school year K through five staff calibration is taking place on understanding essential instructional practices um and uh meaningful fact fluency practice so next school year there will be some changes to uh math expressions it's actually just the publisher um everything else is pretty much staying the same um it's basically like a new um yeah a new brand that's right so from hotton mithin hardcour uh will now be a hinaman um and then we moved on to secondary uh and had courts workor review so miss hon reported there will be no new secondary curriculum introduced in the coming school year but wanted to provide an over overview of the grade level course review process that the curriculum team started this year um so this uh we had aissa vandery who is the teacher librarian at Center High Central High School came in um she's the district curriculum specialist for grades uh 6 through 12 Ela so uh miss vandery explained the district's Course Review process where teachers um with history of teaching the courses come together for Onsite um come together onsite to bring ideas learning and questions back to other teachers so this is the first time for example they're taking like the history teachers of the same grade and bringing them together to talk about you know what is the West Side doing what is the central side doing and how we can um uh work together um through that process so really great excited to kind of see what they uh what they uh will you know Embrace as we move forward in this new process um and again um this is you know they talk about their observations instructional rounds and meetings and then review professional development which encompasses external and internal staff Lear learnings um and uh Mrs Vander added that um these teachers are really looking they're looking forward to next Year's review so the process has been really great uh the next item on the agenda was Martin Luther King day um reviewing lessons and materials so um it is a half day of school which is Monday January 20th and Miss Britney K reported um that uh some different grade level um rollouts regarding uh Dr Martin Luther King um and a few books that are being recommended with some learning so that was that was great uh and then we just had our Su uh celebrations and successes so um I'll try to roll through these quickly so robotics teams have both been doing competitions model un teams at Central and West have been underway uh Central grade school did a toy drive for Trevor City Fire Department West Middle School had a reenactment of the pivotal points of framing uh the Constitution uh Danny gor's work she's a one-on-one Aid at Long Lake just they just wanted to recognize her going above and beyond uh English language learner had an annual family potluck for students and their families I believe this was at Travers Heights it was at Central High oh Central High okay uh West Senior High hosting uh the first ever girls wrestling tournament which is pretty cool um CED classrooms and we had a 100% participation in computer science week and qued teachers uh Ben Boyce and Tracy partman in regards to Leading that school's successful creative explorers program uh there were lots Amazing Music performances throughout the month of December hopefully you guys all got to go see some uh and then Central High School's 11th grade students who visited northwest Michigan Works as part of their talent tours where students got to learn aspects of different careers um West does something very similar uh other than that we adjourned at 927 and our next curriculum Court committee meeting with a new curriculum Bo um committee will be January 28th at 8:30 a.m. yep um next uh oh yeah sorry the next Ser report out is financing operations by truste B okay so we held our board finance and operations committee meeting on Thursday January 9th we um convened at 8:15 a.m. there were no public comments we approved the minutes from October 31st and then we briefly discuss the board organizational meeting items that are on consent today those are the designation of depositories investment of funds and signatures required for school district accounts along with the resolution to authorize summer property tax collection in 2026 we always do these a year ahead so um again those are on consent tonight we also uh talked about and thanked mahogany foundation for a $10,000 Grant to the student support network um that will be on under discussion later at the request of a board member and then we had um the uh under our bid services and purchases portion of the agenda we reviewed the administration's request to approve the purchase of a robotic field painter not to be confused with a robotics field painter but this is um basically just to line all of our courts and Fields for soccer B basketball baseball not basketball sorry not basketball football okay no basketball basketball all right all the fields okay lacrosse you D it so um what we learned was that the district you know has been using staff members and this takes basically up to six hours um to line a field and so this uh Turf tank robot um will take substantially less time so we approved um putting it on the consent agenda an amount not to exceed $64,000 and this will be funded from 2024 Capital bond funds so it's one of our very first uses of our newly past fond um it does come with a six-year warrant warranty and training and service two times a year incidentally this is also the same Turf um field paint that uh t-base has been using for their soccer fields for the last year um moving on to capital projects we got an update from Paul twing on uh the Central High School and West Senior High Innovation and Manufacturing centers AKA stem Labs um which are due to be opened for student use the last week of January there are a couple boxes that need to be checked before then um furniture will be delivered there will be a fire inspection uh to issue an occupancy permit but the aim is to open the last week of January for student use and finally Christine Thomas he'll gave us a finance update um so basically a heads up to the board that um our original budget for this year 2024 to 25 which we originally thought would have a shortfall of $3 million now the administration is thinking that could be less to the tune of $2 million so our first budget amendment will come through uh the finance committee and the board in February um how do we get this great reduction um even though there haven't been supplementals you might wonder basically this came from in part the sale of birth of ooss which was was $516,000 that closed on January 3rd there were also some carryover funds from last year um delayed expenditures from last year and finally a $1.2 million Grant um that is used for the curriculum purchase of ckla that truste mmore just mentioned um so instead of using um curriculum dollars that came out of a special Grant U moving on to looking to next year um Miss Thomas Hill just noted that at the moment the administration is looking at uh potential budget reductions for next year basic based on the projections uh that Dr Van Wagner has alluded to as well um there may be decreased funding in certain categoricals um specifically Transportation safety security and mental health as well as at risk funding um based on the new state form formula for allocating dollars we also possibly could have a decline in student enrollment next year and finally of course there's always that question for the legislature of how much is that increase in the per puple Foundation going to be and an Administration has uh estimated that we need roughly a $500 increase per pup next year to balance the books so um that's all in flux to be determined but just you know everyone needs to be prepared um and then finally Christine Thomas Hill just gave us a preview of the many expenditures from the 2024 bond that will be up in the next couple of months um I won't go further out than the next two months but I did Total it it's nearly $22 million coming through finance and the full board um the big ticket items are West Senior highs circulation um so parking and driving so hopefully we've learned a lot of lessons on that over the years and then single use bathroom Renovations all that collectively will be $8 million estimated Traverse Heights is going to have a classroom and cafeteria addition that's estimated to be 4.5 million Sabin former Elementary School um that the renovation is there to the tune of $5 million the ELA Elementary curriculum adoption that Erica talked about $1.2 million from a grant school buses 1 million save and facility storage 1 million and then minor items are new Chromebooks for students to the tune of 800,000 lockers at Blair and Court elementary schools 150,000 um permanent music classroom um dividers in a couple of elementary school or all elementary schools excuse me $50,000 total and then finally k through eight um window shades to the tune of $50,000 um and then we adjourned uh in less than 45 minutes and our next board finance and operations committee meeting will be Thursday January 30th at 8:15 a.m. in this building all right thank you um board executive committee uh report out by uh ER Ms uh so board executive committee was Thursday January 9th uh we called the meeting to order at 401 uh no public comment um procedural items the minutes remain as posted the draft committee meeting minutes um and then a lot of things that are on the agenda tonight obviously board policy updates uh standards of practice Blair housing project act uh we did our agenda review for the January 13th tonight organizational meeting and January 27th study session um then we went on into informational items um so uh Human Resources uh Connie Taylor uh had an update regarding Staffing uh you're not giving that update tonight are you no okay so real quickly she just had shared that there's a number of coaching job opportunities posted as well as open positions in food service and various full-time uh and part-time Aid positions um to help with budget projections the district has extended the retirement early notification incentive from December 20th 24 to February 1st 2025 to allow maybe for some more people that want to put in for their retirements uh and have that incentive um at this time the district has received 27 confirmed retirements or resignations from the T from uh the tcea uh and one other item is uh that we threw out there that Central grade uh is looking for volunteers to coach their elementary basketball program they have 19 uh elementary students that are anxiously awaiting to play basketball but we're really they really need a volunteer basketball coach at Central grade school so um and then from there we had a Communications update from Ginger Smith um Ginger Smith shared that uh enrollment uh uh information sessions are taking place during the month of February for junior kindergarten and kindergarten fifth grade into sixth grade and 8th grade into 9th grade um the dates and information are posted on the district website um other than that uh Dr Van Wagner gave us an update on safe routes to school which we just uh talked a little bit about and uh the next uh board exec is scheduled for January 30th at 400m and we adjourn the meeting at just just about 5 4:57 that was it all right thank you um next report out is superintendent Board of Education advisory committee um reporting out again by Erica M this is me so this was one of my big things when I um joined the board six years ago was to have student voice at the table um so through rotation my uh I actually got to finally sit in on this advisory Council uh which was um God I don't even remember the date of this uh December 17th um so it was great um right before the holidays so probably not as uh big of a percentage of kids there but I do appreciate the kids that were there uh Maran Swank who's with Northwest Ed actually facilitated and she did a fantastic job um facilitating so we we had a welcome and inclusion um uh um time I guess um and then uh had a reflection on the grading practices which was reviewed from the last meeting October 15th uh and then we went into uh student voice so broke up into groups of three or four and talked about um academic integrity and artificial intelligence so it was interesting uh to hear the kids talk about what admin should know and why is this important um so they reported out on on some of that artificial uh intelligence that they're seeing uh in the schools and then we spent the rest of the meeting really planning for upcoming meeting topic so marann did a really great job um started with 16 different ideas from the kids as to what they thought was important and then we narrowed it down to um the top six uh six items that that the majority of those kids felt like were would be good topics so um just a really good job for these kids um expressing what their peers are saying at their schools um and really that that was it so um the next District student advisory council is February 18th at 3:45 here at Glenn Lumis and so I think I don't think we know who is attending the next one yet and that's okay I think it's hie is you I can yeah so that was it okay good stuff and I really appreciated the focus because it was December 17th and you know I think we had a day or two left before break so yeah it was great and I just want to say I didn't know that this was your brainchild um but I I for those of you who might not have remembered this a couple of years ago when I went to an masb annual leaders ship conference I attended a session where they were talking about trying to formulate one of these councils and they were struggling people were struggling to get students involved and I piped up and said we've just started one and we've got 25 to 30 kids and they're like how did you do that gosh and I think we have 50 I think there's like 52 right now we have a lot in sport we have a lot in sports and band right now so they can't all come right but we still had a good I mean considering almost then to school we still had 20 focused and but compared to having one board one student at the board table which is something some districts have done to have one student rep I mean this we really get a lot more input yeah so I really appreciate it thank you both for starting it Yeah ironic that I was the last board member to actually parti it's okay it's it's all good um okay next up is nutrition and fitness um two report outs I don't know if you want to have if you Beth and I are going to kind of team um so basically we met on January 9th um and uh we had a discussion about getting a district license for professional development for PE um so there was a peanut grant that uh actually allows for this professional development um each license costs $375 so we were discussing from an elementary perspective how do we do this do we do you know every um every PE teacher at elementary so um just each school yeah or yeah exactly um as you know the PE curriculum was just recently purchased um before there was no curriculum um they were the the PE instructors were creating the curriculum themselves so um there's also some extensions with that curriculum that are available um and so those cost extra and so there was a discussion around um possibly having pto's fund these extensions that our PE teachers are are w um and then share those extensions throughout the district so I thought that was um a good discussion again um keot is is a grant Dan had to clarify this for me earlier but it is a grant it stands obviously an acronym for stands for something but currently uh we have a program um in five of our elementary schools um grow it try it like it so they're presenting to kids um maybe a new vegetable or a new something or other and they call the kids in to actually take T it and then give their feedback to um our nutrition uh program um and uh Tom shared that it's very successful that kids really enjoy being a part of the process especially around those food choices um and so they're going to reapply for this grant in April to continue this program and hopefully go to different elementary schools uh then we had a food service update from Tom um we had a conversation around combining Wellness the wellness committee and the sustainability committee together at the building level um so we'll kind of see how that shakes out um they're discussing similar things like recycling composting gardening um and so how can we uh coordinate those conversations um and possibly getting student council involved um on these committees to implement them within their schools um the mde there's a grant coming for buying local produce um and on that not a new Orchard um which is called wch I think it's wch Orchard on the Peninsula um they are um supplying apples and some other things to teaps and said that it's been really great kids uh have given some really great feedback uh Tom also talked about that there's uh a clean label there's a new process coming down from the state um on clean label so basically labeling of food so they he just gave us an update on that and then we had a leap update from aana Dearing um currently we have 5,630 students um that participate in leap of course this could be multiple Sports it's not necessarily 5,000 kids but um different sports um and different activities and we talked about how we can help pay for all of these kids to participate um when there's costs and fees involved um we also talked about getting volunteer Co coaches at the elementary level um again Central Elementary School has 19 kids needing a basketball coach uh so we talked about maybe trying to connect to our senior community um to volunteer with leap and also possibly um talking to our teap students or our recent graduates and maybe you know kids that have graduated that maybe played basketball or played uh you know for part of the wrestling program maybe they can help uh to volunteer uh with some of our leap programming through TCAP so maybe help that communication um what else Beth anything else I took terrible notes at this meeting so that was my rendition of the meeting but that was a a lot of it try to get the name out uh into the community more to see if we can get more community support for some of these things um and then we talked very briefly that we may also want to look at uh some other things like THC use and alcohol underage drinking those are harder to get into yeah yep okay thank you and then uh Board office hours I I'm reporting out for December 19th I had uh one uh visitor it was uh uh Mr weasner and I had uh pretty much uninterrupted the whole time and it was uh uh I think we talked about many philosophers and uh I I'd say it was a a fairly productive and uh positive uh meeting as well so um the next well the next Board office hours pending uh approval which will be posted on the website is uh is a a trusty pack on January 23rd again we'll have an update on that on posted on website and social media with location and time if that is the case um moving on to see on consent yeah sorry there is consent we just made so many changes I feel like we've already covered this as well moving on to uh consent uh do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar as amended I I move to approve the consent calendar as amended second second those in favor say I I those say nay motion carries uh moving on to discussion first discussion item uh board education standards of practice um I think everyone's aware of it Ty just say you're aware we every year we've we've had a kind of like a expectations of board members um with a few minor changes and I do have really m a couple of really minor changes I would propose to this and that is in number two um it says monitor the implementation of the three-year strategic plan I put it as current strategic plan because we are in a year that we have a strategic plan that will hopefully be changed to a new three year I'm okay to leave it at 3 or two but I didn't know if it should just say or the Strategic plan I interpreted that as whatever strategic plan is in place at that time so it is current that's fine but if we if we change it to a fiveyear plan then we got to change this just remove three year I just remove three year so to the current or to the Strategic plan yeah mhm again I don't think we are changing and I agree with you but just um the districts a strategic plan the monitor the invitation of the district plan also fine um and then in number three really minor I I we don't have a specific continuous Improvement plan as it would indicate so I would say removing the word uh and plan to commit to continuous Improvement regarding student achievement is that something that we were required we do have a district Improvement plan and school Improvement plans so we have Improvement plans yeah but I don't know that's what it's a reference to I think it is I think his point is it's it's referring to but not articulated as that yeah well it says regarding student achievement each school so and throughout the district so that is one and the same yeah so I think it was because then it goes on to model continuous learning in our roles as Board of Education members so I think it's more to the point of continuous Improvement so you're trying to say it's many things of continuous Improvement not just a singular plan because what plan is it we' got at least two commit to to Improvement plans to to commit to continuous Improvement regarding student achievement at each school which I think is more will encompassing and to the point again very minor and I don't mind if they're thrown out it's just uh for like each year we change a couple words on this I have a small small suggestion to um with the last number number seven specifically the last two bullets 7c understand that we have a special moral and ethical imperative to serve each student and that we will equitably allocate resources based on student need in 7D recognizing work to meet students academic and non-academic needs in order to ensure that they are ready to learn you know I I love that and and I guess I'd like to see that um higher um and not that maybe they're ranked in importance but I'd like to see number seven moved up to number four one two and three address student learning and student achievement um and again uh you know I think those two things align with our mission and our vision and our values around relentlessly supporting all Learners uh success for all um so I I I love c and d and I'd like to see them higher I don't know that we have ranked they're definitely don't ranked they're definitely not I know that but I don't like to see them on the second page and that's um so I I mean you can take it or leave it but I I do think those are two very important uh bullets that I'd like to see moved higher I definitely don't mind the only question then comes is that I don't I don't necessar want to spend 20 minutes of ranking them in l no so I will tell you that when it's printed it's a longer form so there it's all on one page and that's what it would look like on the district website I can grab it no you're fine it's I just show it I mean it's not a big deal but I I just again I think just a spotlight those two 7 C 7D um one two three address student learning and student I'm okay to to move seven up to four if everyone else is I you obviously as long as we not don't have to debate any order beyond that I'm fine with it if every if anyone else all of seven all of seven all of seven yeah up to four to four and everyone else will go down one but it will be on it is all on one bigger page I think I mean I'm just going to say I think by doing that that then you putting out the message that something is less important and I don't think that was the intent of the standards of practice I think the standards of practice in my opinion are those um those values and um that we are held to and so I don't look at number seven as any less than number one or number two um I think once you start making those changes I think that's the message you're sending and then I do think we should rank them say we're going to get into can of worms um so that's just my my opinion and that's fine so and that's at the discretion of the board I'm fine to also leave it on that because that's exactly what I wanted to avoid so if there's any lot of these kind of one goes into the other goes into the other and then we could definitely take this is a document we do every year so like we we haven't massively updated it for years that's fine I mean I'll try again next year too yeah we you also do not have to number them you could build them and again show ranking four five and six have to do with governance um and we don't need to group them either and again this I I didn't I wasn't involved with creating this and so if it doesn't work out tonight I'll try next but just refer to you like yeah yeah ER may have been the one only one who was around when this was developed so I think that you're bringing it up help I am yeah so if if I think that for what we're hearing is we'll leave it the same for now but at the same time is I'm really okay to next year review yeah I think we're due to review review it um and make any more changes too so yeah for what it's worth from an editorial perspective I I see number 7A and and B being more governance oriented and then C and DB you know it could go either way it kind of spans the groupings of 1 through three and four to six you it's a nice ending to this too I think it's a strong ending to this but I'm you know I'm really amenable to whatever the majority likes I am also but it's out so just we don't have to have a formal vote unless it's delicately placed but is it it leave the same with those order but Point her is said we probably AR you to go through it a little bit more detail but um okay so if we're okay with the just the changes then uh do we have a motion I I just wanted to say one thing well actually two things overall I I just having been on the board for four years I think these standards of practice have really served us well um we just made these minor tweaks here and there um but you know we we all do have a responsibility to represent the district in a professional and ethical manner including our appearances um not to say we all have to wear business suits and I certainly will not be exposing my midriff but just want to make sure that everybody is is aware of complying with the with the student and staff dress codes at a minimum um and then secondly regarding 3A it's a little strange that they group The Board of education's continuous learning in with the you know commitment to The Continuous Improvement plan but I just want to remind everybody that Michigan Association School boards does have its annual leadership conference this year in in our backyard Grand teris Resort and it'd be really nice if we had a strong showing there um filling the table um and as the the biggest District but you know in close proximity to that then the and plus plus there are the quarterly opportunities some of which are virtual you don't have to travel anywhere but um yeah so I found a lot of value in that I know other trustees have and just want to put a plug in for that can we have that added to Calenders too like just the annual leadership conference thanks plus I've been asking Dr Van Wagner if we could invite these uh people who attend to the Patriot game here and and so we were talking talking about doing something along that line for an evening that's a great idea build the stadium two yeah yeah it's the last week in October not you're talking the February one yeah no the February winter Institute is totally virtual but the alc annual leadership conference late October and Beth is right it does we looked at our calendars last year it did overlap one of our major football games so I bet you get a lot of takers who want to come in downtown D City aw so did we just have the consensus of the couple of grammatical changes that you made so I would move that the Board of Education adopt the 2025 standards of practice as amended I second uh Stacey please get out to rollal vote truste Raymond yes trusty pack yes trusty Ballinger yes trusty bird yes trusty Moon more yes trusty Schmidt yes and trusty new yes motion carries uh next agenda item school safety update founded Dr Van Wagner yes so um in celebration of national law enforcement day last week on uh January 9th I'd like to recognize our uh police officers who are dedicated to our district on a daily basis officer Justin Nolan is the SRO at Central High School and provides assistance to any teap school within the city limits he's also recently featured as our top-notch Tuesday staff member of the week Deputy Jessica K station out of West Senior High School and covers West Middle School as well as thee elementary schools on the west side of the county she is a Grand Travers County deputy sheriff and Deputy McKenzie uh kryer has recently been station at East Middle School and covers TC High um as well as the elementary schools on the east side of the county and again really appreciate all of the support of the Trevor City police department and the Trevor City uh city council um that we've worked with for our Le on at Central High as well as the Grand Travers County Sheriff's department and both uh Garfield Township and East Bay township that help to support uh those deputies that are there we really appreciate all the work that these officers do um in playing a key role in keeping our students safe while also fostering positive relationships with our school within our school community and I think you know that's one of the things that I think when we started this Venture is we really felt was important is that there was that fostering of positive relationships and I can't tell you the amount of positive feedback I've had from different people in the community students even in that and the relationships with the individuals because you know I I think the fear is having the wrong individual in those roles and looking that as you know a negative but I think that so many positive relationships and you see these these folks at games and concerts and so many activities that our kids do and so uh again want to just recognize them and appreciate the support from our our governmental Partners in that work also want to give you an update on aeds uh beginning next school year Michigan law will require every school in the state to have an emergency cardiac response team and protocol in place I'm pleased to share that tcaps is ahead of schedule and already has these plans in place at each School a key component of these plans is the use of ads and uh Patrick uh again who is our our uh our school safety uh uh director uh continues to apply for Grants to secure additional devices and training supplies the district already has a strong AED program with at least one device at every Elementary School and sports venue and at least four each secondary school if awarded the latest grant for the Thomas Smith Memorial foundation will help update training supplies at aeds to locations like Transportation vehicles and further equip emergency cardiac response teams um we are also fortunate um that recently we received uh four ads um to our secondary buildings each of our secondary buildings of our our four largest they were provided um by Farm Bureau and the Agents so at TC West the Jill Irish agency at TC Central m Michelle Pearson agency TC uh East Middle School Jeremy chome agency and TC West Middle the Benjamin aan agency and you might know Ben's a former employee of ours uh worked with our facility staff and is now working with F Bureau so appreciate all of those donations of those aeds look forward to the applications in waiting to hear on from uh again the uh um uh application that was submitted with the Thomas Smith Memorial foundation and we're hoping to get more and appreciate all of uh Patrick mcmanus' work on that and we'll continue to keep you updated if we are able to receive those I have a question do you have an AED in this building we do so is the requirement that you have one per building but the goal is to have it in every wing of every building eventual goal we'll see how many we're able to get well as resources keep coming we'll keep adding them as much as we can to be able to try and do that and then I read some place that there was going to be training for the for your team will that training be open to other staff or will it be to very specific right now I think it'll be just that staff but um one of the things we have recently added is CPR training as well so we have Patrick and Kendall and Kendall in our human resource offices have been trained in C Paris trainers and so they are working across the district to continuously provide it's a requirement now of teacher certification I believe and so that's one of the things we wanted to make sure that we had some trainers and so they're working hard on that Kendall's very pregnant um but still going she's rolling with the with with the CPR training and uh and so so uh we appreciate their willingness to go through that training and some provide so hopefully that's something we can add more of a in the future um but you know we have had different trainings with our administrative team of the AED as well as stop the bleed kits some of those elements as well Patrick McManus did that training with our administrative team year or so ago I want to say at monor uh that we had so continuing to work continuing to work on those opportunities do you offer it through your health education classes um that I don't know I will check and see I know there's a cpri unit but I don't know about the full certification of American Red Cross training from that no we we don't offer that to students uh we do the basic CPR we just don't have staff that are certified to do that on that yeah but it might fold out you know it might be hopefully we get more we'll tell you you know it it is it's quite a bit of work to get that training and we have just enough need for staff right now that we're really really pushing you know to try and have enough just to do that but you may remember what we are continuing to expose kids to it when our students went our fifth graders went to the mson um Health day they had the mannequins there and were teaching them the basics of CPR and that element so again multiple ways that we can try and introduce our students to that because every once in a while a kid is presented with an opportunity absolutely thank you I just wanted to add too that our transportation managers are also trained and so all of our bus drivers go through the CPR training and a training on the required time frames they come down and cost it like you the no EDS in general not a ton but you know I think that there's a lot of GRS and Foundation probably more it used to be really pretty rare to like it's like oh you got an A like you're top of the line now got one short like there's event one I don't know the answer but I'll find out of cost you think when you get into mass production then they should have come down I know it's also medical so nothing comes down sorry is it did you say is it through American Heart Association or Red Cross that we're getting all our training um we are going through the Red Cross Curr I thought so yeah that's what I thought Red Cross and so the requirement for 2025 to 26 is it for all teachers and administrators or just teachers it's part of your certification correct it's part of teacher certification by mde it's now a start used used to be that they wouldn't issue um a teacher CT and until it was completed but based on the lack of trainers staff have a certain period of time to complete that um for their teacher certification thus one of the reasons we decided to try to offer it internally we're also seeing a number of our administrative assistants requesting that so we're trying to build that into some of our early release days and you know other days where they can get that training as well because they're likely going to be the ones who will encounter firsthand when those situations come through as well as obviously some of our Healthcare AIDS and so forth making sure when they're working with vulnerable students that they're prepared to assess when necessary okay um might make a suggestion if you're at the point um we've reached about the two-hour component for our students that are in the audience so if the board would want to take a pause for a minute yep yep that's uh we can do that and then uh so students if you can come up with your sheets and uh go to any board member and uh we can you are welcome to stay to the end of the meeting as well just to be clear so you can also get them say now hey Dr Van Wagner mispronounced last sorry nicey did you say oh my gosh to do it of Mom I said hi and your dad are you ready for Monday supposed to be like 5 de I'll be gatekeeping which I didn't know it was going to be that cold yeah without windsh uh you don't need myt you don't need my I mean I'm just trusty actually newly elected did you hear Dr Wagner mispronounced your name I was like I almost correct but then I was like no just going too fast you guys don't you don't have to but you can stay if you want Oh My Gosh and you're I know your dad and I graduated from high school together uh Chris K man I tell him Erica Moon said hi ER Moon hey con of the you social good to see you guys I've got them that you can have them right after we're done can you go make a couple of cop I'm going to run they the brand new ones right just the ones we're going to discuss just the ones on discussion the two are we three discussion yeah yeah these are just that's a revise we have we just have extend the recess to the other all right so I'm going to ask a quick question while we're at a pause um yes um we have a few policies here I realize you don't have copies of them would you like copies of them Stacy could print those off real quick they were in our they different from our package yeah they were in their package so you have them dig in I'm good I've got them in paper Okay couple people have asked for hard copy so I I will get mine on the phone you just put three of them off okay 30 to 11 do it so go I'm a little offended the students didn't want to stay for board pile I like we can bust out policy in 6 minutes I wasn't so sure so I'd save them yeah you s you made some kids roads might be getting worse so you just wanted not you have Tove with them you go I drove out from East Ling yesterday and I did but that that bad part was CLA St John's and that was the worst roads I've ever been on yeah no kidding isn't that crazy how the wind just you know the different jet stream can cut through a certain area like going up and like people had their flashes on so I was slowing down and then literally all the cars just like going off and I yeah and I just broke it and I can I've got four-wheel drive like S Tires everything just literally Tammy Oran just wonder perfect they don't see says discussing I said that to okay all right I think um all right we can uh start back up we're still missing one trustee but uh we can catch back up the question was is so now I think everyone either has a hard copy or I'm working on getting um but we can start on the uh the next agenda item which is uh uh board policy and we did add we originally had two board policies which I think we can start with those two and then do with the other three we get C would you like me to address those please do all right um so these are really pretty straightforward we have two new policies that are both statutory both required um and they're based on some changes in the law just by way of history previously whenever we've had a request for accommodations it's generally been associated with a disability accommodation um disability that meets the definition under a da previously pregnancy was not one of those conditions in general so just a general um pregnancy without complications was not considered a Ada qualifying disability and therefore we were not under the same obligations to meet with that staff member discuss reasonable accommodations we've seen some changes there's been changes in the law um there's a new act it's called the pregnancy worker Fairness Act and basically what that does is say that similar to a Ada qualifying if someone is pregnant um and they're requesting accommodations during the course of that pregnancy we would sit down and have an interactive dialogue with them same as we would with other disabilities and determine whether or not we can reasonably accommodate them without undo hardship to the district so essentially it's just extending that and including pregnancy as a qualifying disability if you will for purposes of providing accommodations any questions on that and then also similarly we've always had an obligation to try to accommodate staff members in terms of any religious accommodations that they may be requesting but again this new one new new court cases new interpretations is basically providing that same interactive dialogue if someone comes to me and says hey this is my religion I'm asking for this particular accommodation we would determine whether or not we could again reasonably accommodate with without undue hardship to the district um so they're both pretty straightforward but board has any questions I'm happy to try to answer for you okay any questions on those two specific policies I'll also note Dr R noted during the executive committee now with drun we only need to do one reading so if you uh make a motion to approve these two new policies today will be our first reading and it would become effective for the district no need to bring it back next month which is nice it kind of expedites the implementation of new policies for us okay I move that the board of education approve board policy 4105a pregnancy related workplace accommodations and 4105b religious workplace accommodations for employees and applicants as presented second um any other questions sty please conduct Ro St is not here um need Dr Van Wagner she you be designated as her do I have oh boy never done this part I you can just go around the circle here yeah just I start made the motion and then the second and you end with the ER you made the motion who seconded I did trusty Moon more yes Rusty Raymond yes Rusty pack yes see trusty Ballinger yes trusty bird yes trusty Schmidt yes and trusty Newman yes motion carries thank you thank you um okay and then uh do you do you want to wait till we have the hard copies I think the next one is um policy minute we just wait this a second which one it's actually very easy it's the only thing I'm asking is it it has a on emergency preparedness B notice and Reporting and there are three things listed under notice and Reporting number three the final one says document all instances of opiate antagonist administration at school and I would I would like to see added including the reason for the medication what was given and the recipient response you I'm sorry repeat what you would like changed or added I just want to add a little bit more specifics on the doc what your document number B3 C3 B3 yeah B3 and so instead of a period after school put a comma and say including the reason for the medication what was given and the recipient response and the reason is is sometimes you can give a medication and have no response you know or so you'll have some variation on it and that might be useful to know especially when you're reporting off and transfering just suggest that this policy is very specific for the statutory requirements that would be the board adding additional requirements I believe what we have in terms of the um op antagonist in the building and Dr Ren Christine please correct me is the naram and so it's always going to be the same medication it's always going to be for someone we suspect of an overdose um and so I think you're adding additional layers but that's at the discretion of the board the the thing is sometimes you give more than one dose not often but sometimes you do again that would be at the discretion of the board that would be Beyond what's statutorily required I'm I'm assuming that when you say document all instances of administration that would probably include if there's I would hope so Personnel involved but I would the the thing that I'm afraid of is when we start adding things then we exclude other things right so if you're going to add something you say including but not limited to or something like that okay but is there a is there a guidance that went with this policy or I mean to guess sometimes there will be we're working on the well I I stand corrected there may be I have not directly look to see if there's one correlated with this but we're working on the admin guidelines now or including where possible like that you don't exclude yeah yeah Connie do you remember what this this policy the only revision was the word parent par3 that's correct yeah that's correct we went move from Neola to tr was this a new policy for us that we approved over the sum um I'm not sure if we had previously adopted because the opioid requirement to have the antagonist is new but we may have had a corresponding one with Neola but it it's all based on the statutory requirement within buildings so as you recall we have now a requirement to have epipens for allergic reaction and axic reaction similarly now this opioid having those on site is also now a requirement I guess I'm just saying I would imagine there's probably some pre predetermined form that's being filled out when you do this so that predetermined form probably has all of those things that you're requ I know I carry n I'll just let you know like on the sites anytime we get to a situation which this could be a possibility pretty much you're on the phone with 911 and you're listening to the directions of the medical you know staff as far as like what to do and where how to respond so well it's pretty simple to administer s it is very easy to administer yes yeah so I guess the biggest thing is was it effective so really the biggest thing you have is including outcome but how I'm into the Student Records I guess you would know the yeah no it would be well wherever you're putting that you I'm I'm assuming because it says something about you're going to collect data doesn't it say that docent yeah just document all it's just what if we administer we document yeah yeah and just you'd sort of like to know that they responded to it I don't know I don't know if you can legally know that though if you if you look to breath better does obviously I don't know if you can tell other people again I also wouldn't want to make medical medical determinations of what worked and didn't and how effective in that element as a school teacher or superintendent for that matter and if you look under A2 it does talk about when we're administering it we may only administer it if we believe that the person is having um respiratory depression well opioid related overdose on school grounds and you're going to have to understand that what that translates to it did but as you know Jesse at most likely we're going to be on the phone with 911 to determine these are the symptoms that we're we're witnessing and they would potentially suggest the administration of our cam do do they have or does the school carry those strips like the fenol test strips and things like that no I've seen those kind of similarly like they're given out next to the Naran so that people know I'll be perfectly honest with the addition with apart from your typical first aid in CPR that we really have two things that by virtue of Statute that has been an additional responsibility placed upon districts and that is to maintain for the allergy related and now for opioid related so it's a pretty small carve out you know so we've not really extended to other levels of Overdose and those sorts of things that would be something we would call 911 and have them come and administer their appropriate medications the three say the three things you you wanted to go the reason for the medication but you're feeling that that's covered when you get on the phone with the EMS and then what was given and in this case it'd be pretty standard right but just to name it and then recipient respondents my suggestion is is that we consider that we can talk about that in the administrative guidelines if we create it okay that there's always the the specifics generally of practice are generally in an administrative guide okay and that would also include if there is a particular form that should be completed there's forms related to some of these and again I have not researched to see if we have a form a standardized form remember that take a little note when we go through administrative guidelines sometimes when you get a patient we kind of like to know what happened in the field you know and it helps you a little bit when you're trying to get your ducks in the row getting things um organized for the best way to deal with the patient situation I can totally see how a state or local public health authority might want this data but it's not statuto required and so that's where us making a medical call well for instance if a person I mean out of the board suppose a person's having a stroke and you administer an Ouran it's not going to change the level of the stroke because that's not the treatment for what's going on and it might it's a rule out at that point but on the other hand if you feel that the oral report is enough then the or report is and and again I just I I appreciate the perspective from a medical position not an educator right and the the like Miss hon said I mean typically you're going to be on the phone with 911 and those First Responders are going to be documenting from their perspect their medical perspective not sure that's the responsibility of the Educators that's probably administering this so I think they're going to have their own documentation as they're probably required to do and again we'll have what was it was given well they're recorded and we document them we document all the 911 calls and if it was a chronic health issue we would then put it into healthare plan for the student in addition but you know I'm I'm just looking at it from being the nurse in ER bad bad position it's not a bad position no just different just a different one different perspective yeah I was just curious Tammy and Dan too from your experience in the building buildings have you seen a form for these kinds of circumstances no I I I go back to I guess the documentation process is going to be quite lengthy like this would be a major event in any school if this did happen once we call 911 even the high schools and my experience in middle school also um and the documentation on our end through Power School would I think cover most of the things that we've discussed here nicing that student record we don't get into too many details especi we don't we don't make a medical call within that we definitely document you know our observations what we did what order we did it in uh there'd be a pretty lengthy debrief I think with the administration team after something like this happened to kind of go through these steps and again with this policy we're going to have to determine what that is if that's what it is or something different and that'll be in the administrative guidelines okay okay um we well first I mean are we I mean it sounds like it's in the hands of minist yeah well no we're going down because there's no motion to be made well we do have to we have to yes we have to adopt that one um I'm okay to do one at a time so I'll make a motion to approve policy 3410 antagonist as presented second jie uh sty please W work I was was going to give it back to you but work jokes trusty Raymond yes trusty Binger yes trusty bird yes trusty Moon yes trusty Pat you cannot you MP just gave us a ruling you cannot do that by the ruls conflict of interest yeah unless unless it's a conflict of interest and that's fine like really that is the point is it's okay that we don't have to have unanimous trusty schm yes yes motion carries and I mean that respectfully just by rules yeah we had this discussion and came out with a clarification on it just a couple months ago make sure you get that to you but it did say there was very narrow reasons you can pretty much conflict of interest was in y and then so kind of that's where I was 3211 so the next one uh policy uh that was added from consent is uh post issuance compliance 3211 this was uh printed out as well for everyone and everyone does have a copy I'm deferring to Dr B Wagner for clarifications over can I take it yeah please do this was at my request um for training and education I actually had a conversation with um TR um our uh Christopher iron Marino that works on all of our bonds and our post issuance disclosures it actually is not required by law to complete annual training and the reason I'm asking to strike it is he couldn't even recommend what kind of training we could take and so I believe you can strike the second sentence and then the very last sentence would just start with training not annual which number was that it's the very end of 3211 h so you'd keep the first sentence as is and then the second set uh you would end it after uh debt compliance officer period you would strike the debt compliance officer will complete training at least annually and then in the next sentence you would strike the word annually and start with training may be provided to additional Personnel who assists the de compliance officer so the legal Authority for this was a regulation no so originally um if you look at that sentence the under h there was a missing word so the revision was just to add the word annually to comply with the last sentence that highlighted it to Christine who then reached out and said we've never heard about what so if there is a requirement for training what is that training and children said we recommend training but we don't know what that looks like and there's no requirement to do it annually so it is definitely best practice we'll continue to make sure our staff is trained um especially if there's changes and things need to be made but to bind ourselves to an annual training when that annual training doesn't even exist that we know of um is above and beyond what is necessary so I'll make a motion to approve 3211 post issuance tax compliance as amended State please condu trusty Raymond yes trusty yes trusty Binger yesy BD yes trusty P yes trusty yes trusty Newan Bell yes motion carries uh next discussion item is an item pulled from consent it is number 30 uh B policy 3303 gifts and donations uh Ty I think you had I was I it was I'm yeah actually so we we talked about this policy um during executive committee review and um Dr Van Wagner pointed out that under our old Neola policy the threshold um was $10,000 and now true and it has changed to $20,000 and he he did say and it's manifested in the mahogany Foundation donation that's on our agenda today that he would like to continue the practice of a $10,000 threshold but I just wanted I thought it came up like very quickly at the end of our meeting um that maybe this is something we want to align our policy with our practice whether it is 10 or 20 either way um you know especially if there's ever any turnover down the road amongst ourselves um if we want to keep being informed if it's $10,000 or 20 or move it up to $20,000 I thought uh that the except the exception that we talked about was because the donation was made before we adapted uh or because of the 10,000 donation and it came in over a couple months time and so to keep it just uh acknowledge the 10 ,000 but keep the policy as is with 20,000 moving forward was my understanding that was the conversation but I think that um secretary Bal is talking about maybe do we want to does the board feel differently it's not a statutory requirement right the 20,000 it's totally discretionary I just feel like if some organization or individual does donate $10,000 I think it's wonderful for us to be informed and to publicly acknowledge them if we move the threshold up to 20 you know it's just a higher bar that where they might not get that public recognition so that was that was my thinking it could be $1,000 it could be $5,000 apprciate I mean $10,000 would be big yeah I mean I'm also okay leaving it at 10 I'm I was just trying to read the law to make sure there wasn't a unfortunately the law references of the law so we take a little bit but either way obviously it would be more inclusive than that and Yola hasn't changed it from 10 to 20 no what you're suggesting is lowering it down to 10 so if there even like the statute would be the ceiling so you guys can set that at whatever is your discretion I guess I would ask the question though of you know if we're saying all donations are brought to for recognition or approved by the board um it would have to be a minimum of 10,000 is that what you're suggest well that was the neol policy right that wasn't a minimum like you could still recognize a donation below 10,000 M but you're giving the superintendent authority to accept a donation well this one would give him the authority to accept a donation under 20,000 anything over 20,000 the board would need to accept yeah and that piece I'm not sure how it Compares I'm not concerned about that before if it was over 10,000 the board had to formally accept it okay yeah it's not not so much who accepts yes the public acknowledgement because if the board is not accepting it then it wouldn't even be on our agenda and it wouldn't necessarily be publicly disclosed I mean personally I would like the superintendent to accept any gifts of any amount as quickly as possible there's that I don't want to be like give me your money next month it's like I'll take it I'll take it now but um so I would if anything I mean uh you could add board notice to that and leave it the same so like mhm um so uh donations any I mean really any donation over X number of dollars will notice to the board that way he can legally accept it so you're separating the two just an FY right I think that would be a better outcome as well I don't know what the regulations say though Connie like again we're talking about floor and ceiling here so I mean if it said that um we'll let Dr Van Wagner accept anything up to 50,000 then I'd have to do some research to say if the statute would allow that what we're suggesting is lowering that bar to 10,000 from the 20,000 that trun has in here so what she's saying now is leaving it at 20 so he so legally he can accept whatever he's allowed to accept no that's that's going to be just having a uh any donation above X doll will will give notice to the board so it doesn't there's no I think it's an exception accept the donation personal property exceeding 20,000 if I can make a suggestion I would ask that you put that in admin guidelines we're happy to bring that to board finance and operations under informational items it's just a matter of putting it exactly in the policy versus putting an abant guidelines we're happy to keep letting the board know of those it's just a matter of whether it has to go to the full board for approval or if it's just an informational item y so that's fine too so I guess we would ask in the administrative guidelines that the board is notified of any donation you leave it at 10 over five whatever number you 10 if that if 10's been the practice for years I think that sounds great we ask that you include that administrative guidelines otherwise it can remain is I'll include that and then number three we keep as is here in this policy is that what you're thinking 20,000 yes we'll leave it there but in administrative guidelines we give Bo board guidance to include any notice to the board over 10 if it is legal for the superintendent to accept donations of any size that's also fine with me like you said like you suggested it's the public acknowledgement piece I'd be careful a little bit because you know if there is something and it has a string attached or you know there's some component there I think I think it's best probably for for the board at least to make sure that and again Beyond us possibly right that there's not something there oh yeah I took this donation but we also have to you know have a second graduation for somebody and the larger the donation the higher the likelihood that there probably why there a Dollar that's probably the safe dollar somebody wants to have a graduation cuz Grandma couldn't make it so give us we'll give you 50 Grand if you do a special graduation for my kid because that's kind of what number five says addresses is donations accepted by the district will be used for any specific purpose identified by the donor yeah consistent yeah so long as it's legal an extra graduation might be legal so there I had one one time a check for $25,000 and look forward to his kid starting in the football game oh why no not yep so I think so it would remain as as presented so we don't have to make a motion right we do because we P off consent so it's not approved we need Pro it yeah okay so it would just be the change in parent is the the change that you're adopting everything else will put in ad yeah the one so approve board policy so I'll make the motion to approve approve board policy 3303 gifts and donation as presented second right second Stacy please conduct a rcal trusty Raymond yes trusty Moon more yes trusty Ballinger yes trusty bird yes trustey pack yes truste Schmidt yes yes motion carries uh so moving on to the next discussion item which is now lab property housing uh project deferring to Dr okay so um we've been talking about this project for a long time and this is really just step one of multiple steps so reminder we uh we were a part of a group of of Education entities uh in our region that um requested an appropriation from the state legislature of uh and we received $5 million for a housing project for Ed Educators and education support staff um we've been working with a uh we put an RFP out as a group and had multiple entities that uh submitted that and um we had a uh the group selected a group called s Solutions um out of the Detroit area that is a uh nonprofit uh uh developer and they partnered with Cunningham limp who is a construction management company has done quite a bit of work here locally um last thing I can you might know is the TC um the curling Center they did uh they've done a lot of work the old Kmart out there um theyve different projects in town so they they teamed up to the RFP response and they were the selected group so we've been working with them for over a year and a half um on the project of working talking about costing it out ownership all those different elements and uh we're to the point where our first step is that we as the education entities have to create a legal connected entity and that's very careful we've worked closely with Gordon Vin wearing at trun we as a a public body cannot create a LLC or a for-profit or anything from that standpoint what we can do is really create an interlocal agreement and as it's been debated it's really was decided Northwest Education Services was the entity that received the $5 million from the legislature and is the fiscal for that um and then we've all along debated different places for this project and as the four entities we felt that uh Blair Township next to Blair Elementary was a location that we all were pretty excited about um inter in set for the Arts is you know can kind of by halfway point that element um we I think we're excited about having this nice new development right next to Blair Elementary we think there's potential for student recruitment staff even again we're recruiting staff for Blair Elementary how cool would it be to live right next door um all those elements so we've talked back and forth about what the units look like all those things um and you know we're at this point of settled on a duplex structure we had some issues with sewer and water in that area there's not enough sewer capacity in Blair tone chip so it has to be septic um we can bring water we did bring water from well to Blair Elementary about two years ago two or three years ago and so we work through that we don't exactly know quite yet how many units um we have one more hurdle of some financing that we think we're very very very close to um a program that in the past has been called The Missing middle um that allows us to to get between 80% and 120% Ami and that deals with the um affordability component while don't want to you know confuse words of of you know lowincome affordability but you know it's something that we are hopeful um that is Affordable for our Educators um Misha does set the Michigan State Housing Development Authority does set the rent standards because the money comes from the state in the next pot especially from mishel will be a part of that um but this is a unique the first ever state project that we have figured out we believe working with senir the legal language to make it eligible only to Educators and education support staff K12 by law cannot limit where those people work in K12 so it can be anybody across a region so really to an extent we are just stewards of a region although we think our teaps folks and the other entities will have a great shot at some of the units we think we're probably somewhere between 50 and 75 units right now depending on cost and where things come in but that's a little bit cart before the horse the first step is um Northwest Ed and tcaps will be the lead entities of the interlocal agreement and interlocking Center for the Arts and Grand Trevor area Catholic schools will be secondary Partners um and and really that's because we have a financial stake in it we will uh we would be selling the property um that's there I think the last time we talked it was around 9 Acres um I did did provide the board today with a map that is not a done deal map um that's the last map we've had uh there will actually have to be a survey an appraisal all those things yet to be done once they know exactly how many units and where that fits in um but as I had showed the board that we do have a drain field that area so it does have to be shifted somewhat but um in the end sener solutions would be the owner um working with Cunningham limp as construction management we have talked with Gordon with trun quite a bit about what we can do for protections deed restrictions all those kind of things to ensure the entity uh maintains of what it's supposed to be um we will get into that but before we can do any of that I need the board to consider um approving the interlocal agreement um between the four entities um and the documents as presented and authorizing me to sign that inter local agreement so my I think you just answered my question but I'm going to ask it I already had it all in my head but so the details of like running with the land the deed restrictions running with the land that stay with the land no matter that comes next I don't even but next but it comes in the future okay you know the board at some point will have to approve the sale of the land of and that's where the rubber will meet the road for the board to feel comfortable that how whatever we'll have Gordon you know present to the board all those protections that are legally allowable you know we're trying to work exactly through that of if it can be a DED restriction or it's something different we also know Mish is going to have some requirements we will get there we're just not there yet so really this this commits the board to nothing other than the interlocal agreement there will be steps forward and where really that rubber hits the road for I think the board is when it comes time to sell the land to senir that's where the protections and those things I believe the board will want to speak with Gordon Wun about what those things are yeah perfect so I sorry I was just going to I have something real small that's probably going to get caught in um you have tcaps address in here as 412 Webster yeah it's been chct so if we can if you're good with that as amended with that we'll make sure that Gordon gets that fixed from that standpoint it's in here twice I think yeah we we were given it as a PDF so we just had to give them the feedback caught already so it's too early then for us to say that once we did the property transfer that we would be able to stipulate that teaps wouldn't be responsible for any future maintenance that is correct we're not there yet Administration that will all be a part of that agreement understanding you know and we debated back and forth like ownership and staken ownership I think all the education entities in the end we felt like there's a lot that could go wrong with that yes you know that we don't want we're in the we're in the role of Educators you know we were a bit over our skis if you will as as superintendent you know like that figuring figuring out all this I've learned a ton at the same point we you know we don't want to have to have the capacity of being property managers everything that entails with that you know we feel good that we've laid the groundwork for what this could be and help provide some housing for educators in our region that's never been done before and hopefully that can be copied in other parts of our state and be that that Beacon for the first to do it beyond that you know the only thing we've talked about is maybe each of the entities be a part of a referent group if there that the a pot of money would be created to have um improvements in the future maybe such as like a gazebo or a pavilion that we may have a referent group that we would give feedback you know on what that might be other than that that's the only thing we've talked about responsibility and it would be a volunteer responsibility even of that in the future but again we're not there yet when that time comes is really when we decide to actually sell the property that's when a lot of these kind of things you'll want to have answered and I would make sure that we have Gordon here to really talk through that and then the other thing is now would these be people that are currently employed or contracted yes you have to be a K12 educator or basically have to work currently for a K12 school so if this is a person who potentially wants to retire you know and they want to use this as their new home I don't you know my guess is they're going to have to be a K12 employee when they at least start it those are rules that are going to have to be worked through with Misha and those elements you know we're the first to do this so we don't know what those boundaries are we know the boundary stops at we couldn't say you had to be a tcaps or an interlockin or a Northwest employee we can't do that but we could say you have to be a K12 employee in a school district is the farest then that's never been done going that far so this will be the first one we found the the legal language to make that work but beyond that that is it which we can already do because of the appropriation correct it was right which we learned from California and San Francisco when they did theirs that it passed legal muster mustard some things go up in smok in California so true but uh but we want to make sure that that uh that this is done correctly and that that uh you know our people are protected the district's protected and that we're able to make sure that the project is done correctly and sustains what the what the meeting is for yeah because youd also hate to have to have to decide between something that really benefited the schools and help maintain this project that just needed a little bit of help yeah but like I said and we'll rely on on lawyers you know that we're going to need guidance for through that completely this is like very like there's an idea you start it's basically like starting a company and then you forgot the details of what it's there and it doesn't you do have a sorry can we do Jose's question then we'll come back to your question yeah my big question was the 30-year time frame for this um how the lawyers came up with that time frame because that is a long time frame and there I didn't see an escape clause in here either for the parties until after 30 years and then when it up for annual renewal then the parties could you know withdraw with 180 days notice so I just was Cur like I thought that maybe that's consistent with what the developer wants as a contract I don't know as much as the developer I think it's Mish with the funding and the length of time it's going to take to be able to pay it off is my guess of that that on because I do see possibly there being some language in there that if for some reason this was to go bankrupt or something that element we may have to have a clawback option you know to make sure that it ends up as maintaining as the entities intended so that that's my guess from our conversations that we had with Gordon right there or that the land couldn't be sold to somebody you prefer correct correct again these are all like points that just starting out yeah it's again because it hasn't been done before it's not like you can look at the guideline but so my only comment if I can is just that I mean I'm full support I think it's a fantastic project for our region and you know the words uh Workforce housing and affordable housing are thrown around pretty loose in this resolution and I just want to make sure we're clear that 100 you know Workforce housing 120% Ami um and that we're okay with that right 120% Ami means 800 a month for a studio $2,000 a month for a one bed $2,400 a month for a two bed and that 120% Ami is consider considered affordable to a single person earning $75,000 a year or a couple earning $86,000 a year and the county I believe moveed their Workforce housing number down to 100 80% 8% so I just you know because we have to be prepared when we people hear affordable or workhouse or a Workforce you know you know $2,000 a month for an apartment may not sound affordable uh to the public so just something to consider as and that's not for tonight but next time yeah and and Al be the thoughts the debates on that um the 80% Ami money is much harder to come by um from the state and we're facing right now the ability probably to pretty quickly we think a chance at getting the 120 we've always envisioned a second phase that would be at the 80 Ami you know to be able to do that we would apply a second R through Mion for funding for that but um you know it it this is really a hard project to be able to get funding for and we kind of feel like they've tailored something for us because the governor liked the project so much but it falls within what's what been called The Missing middle and so that's it wasn't even I mean to your point doing Economic Development it's always been annoying with the terms thrown around but it's probably more affordable but um really the key I think that we struggle with most is it's available um and that's one of the things I think we' struggle with Talent retention is is it's like even if they have somewhere to move there's no availability I'm all for more more better right but as long as we're comfortable with say $2,000 a month and I I don't know exactly what a teacher makes maybe a teacher does make 75 grand a year but um if they're very experienced but anyways but I I again uh wonderful project full support looking forward to helping but a new teacher makes around 46 with experience which is generally the new gr but so clearly plenty cover later um but this is just getting the inter local so we can literally our first step so we can have start having those discussions the contract would Trump this right a contract with with Etc so you would have some kind of Escape Clause if you know in 15 20 years correct you know there was no longer the contract will be with the entity not the district you know where we have a a a a problem a stronger arm both Northwest Ed and us is that we have a financial component here that we can you know like I think the deed is going to be a huge part and we we control that and Northwest Ed controls the $5 million appropriation the other two entities not so much they're they're along as secondary Partners but I think we're going to have if you will the muscle of what are we want as tabs the intention to be I think is going to fall within the sale of that property but I think Gordon's going to a little bit above my expertise Gordon's going to have to definitely weigh in for the board on exactly what is legal and what those things can look like and does that mean that interlockin and um Grand Travers uh gtax would would have few they would have fewer or possibly zero housing units reserved okay no we will have no more than any other school in the region you know we are literally doing this somewhat grus for the purpose to be the Trailblazers to provide more for our and do I do I think that some of our folks will benefit absolutely but it's a it's very much a lottery kind of system for those entities of K12 Educators and support staff but were the largest employer more more names than they have yeah right from that element you know but how that works that'll all be done under Fair Housing standards and all those things as required and that won't be us that will be S that have to run that operation yep okay and again this is literally just the very first so we could even start having those um discussions and then uh well I'll make the motion here save Angie the trouble to uh move that the Board of Education authorizes Dr Van Wagner superintendent to execute the sponsorship agreement inter local agreement for the Blair property housing project as presented all right um do I have a second second JY uh Stacey please to roll call V trustee Schmid yes trusty Ballinger yes trusty bird yes trusty Moore yes trusty P yes trusty Raymond yes and trusty new yes motion carries uh the next discussion item is added item e designation of days times for meetings um I know we covered some of the stuff on on this but we have have a formal adoption but there are still a couple of um debate items that we need to go I think firstly there was a clarification which was a good one from Andrew I would like to move the office hours scheduled for March 20th to the week before maybe on March 13th March 20th is first night I guess of spring break prob is it the night before spring break starts I remember I had this problem two years ago it is it's the Thursday so spring break starts on I take it you didn't have great attendance I that's right you did so I think we just do it schedule it the week before there's no yeah objection okay and there's nothing else on the conf assuming that nothing conflicts with it on that District calendar um and then the other item that I did uh print out and lead to is and we don't have to decide uh all the study sessions today um it comes up frequently and we are now in jary so we already have one in January 27th which we had designated as AI because we needed that we felt we needed that earlier is that still okay is that it is I know that Evan and his team and uh Jesse and Dan have been working with him and so I think that they are preparing for that okay um and then we had board relations on February 24th I don't know if we had a firm proposal of I think we had ideas but I don't know if we had a discuss an actual I know if that was just something I put in as a as that's what I've heard but I will confirm before we get into that I guess strategic planning um I did uh have a conversation with Nick scare before the board meeting um he has agreed to reluctantly partially with a few Clauses in there that we have to still a thing so I will tell him it was a mostly agreed that he will um most do the two the the sessions um we do have some work to do on the data portion if you other things to make it so it does fit in with his schedule but assuming we can cover those so essentially he wants a sec we're going to need to get a second party to do the data the survey and data collection work and he'll will facilitate the two so I do have a couple of of groups that I've recently been introduced to um and I'm I'm going to try and get some conversations and quotes from them what that would look like that I can present to the board thank you I was going to say remember last time we had a couple of quotes that included the data and the right all the bid we put an RFP out originally for that so yeah they I mean three years ago they offered to do both first at price and he wants to delineate that he say he yeah he he he told Scott my understanding is he would need that separated and somebody else would have to do that work so like I said I've been recently introduced to some folks in especially in the Grand Rapids area that do this work for a lot of entities so I'm going to re-engage them and see what that might cost wise and such be and and present that to the board did we put out an RFP for facilitation this time no so do we is it appropriate amount of what he did three years naturally this was just a I don't think he was planning on saying yes at the beginning of the conversation to work um so I think he said he was going to send Dr Wagner a proposal and how it could work um so there's still some details but that would take two for facilitation and then I think we did another yeah we could have another one finalize it or pre so we have three put on there right now we may only need two but we have three um and so the question is is I did ask all board members to give any uh items potentially for study sessions I included them as given um and every board member has a copy of that I'm okay again I don't think we need to necessarily designate all because as we learned last year some things just come up quickly we may need need an empty one uh as a backup you know mid year and late year so I think we should probably leave a couple at um pretty much we're already going to be scheduled out until almost summer here so again the board relations one is in there I cannot remember if there was actually a firm proposal um and how we left off that one but we do have some of the other examples yeah is that this is one that's pretty much at the board's discretion it's not my discretion so I need you guys to tell me how you want to do it if you want those meetings if you want this particular topic how you want yeah if you want a particular process for selecting it that's also fine does not have to be done today at this table um but I do need guidance on how we're going to select topics for those could we possibly since we do have a study session on artificial intelligence in two weeks could we all contemplate what you've put together and vote you know discuss and vote at that study session on AI or you could just put on the next board meeting too like I'm like it doesn't have to again except it's February 24th so it's very soon the 10th is the next Bard meeting and then there'll be a study session on the 24th right so I don't know that two weeks is enough time so you could definitely the 10th is no I'm thinking like if we're going change the 10th 24 so if we're going to have a subject I guess and so to your point maybe we just decide on the 24th this board meeting and then we can do any other ones we have a a lot more time at that point because we' got we're going in strategic planning pretty quickly after that so did you mean Monday January 27th board meeting uh at the study session study session is Monday then I like I think if you want any if you want to change the board relations or change that February 24th we would do that probably today I mean you could do on the 27th but we really try and leave any voting off of study sessions that's the whole point of study session so right like I would prefer to either do one today or again we don't have to have AUD do you want us to leave board relations as theud right now it's board relations do you want to leave it there or is there something else on the list that you want to place in there what is most important to the board what is the proposal for the board relations one that's kind of where that was one that I think youo has come up a few times that was the only one that was actually on the docket at the time so there was Ai and board relations so those were the two that went in there um I do not have a proposal yet board relations which is why I said is leave it there and we can figure it out what it is or we can take one off the list I don't mind this is again your guys everyone's not you but all of us um I think we've talked about the board relations for a while and I think that's why it got put on correct is to possibly bring somebody in that would just kind of review our role and um that was where we went to with like we talked about having Tim Quinn come in and talking to us um so that was where we had on the 24th right so that was the most I didn't know if there was a more expanded but there was definitely like a focus level with someone like him Quinn and he previously we haven't had conversations since last year on whether this date would work or if he's willing to do it if we're okay to leave it there we could leave it at that and reach out to him and just ask specifically about that date I think so I think so if he can't do that date then then we'll re-evaluate and maybe um pick another one yeah yeah yeah not have one that night not have one more time against exactly like we did have a lot of meetings that was the point was we can cancel some if we need to yeah just again it's not my decision to make and I feel like at least have to have this conversation publicly and then we can that gives me enough room to maneuver so so so we would approve it with those we wouldn't necessarily have subject it would be subject to be determined for the future um strategic planning and we also would have to confirm with Nick if he can a date we can make that call tomorrow to try and find out so we got a few little work to do but so there could be definitely be a there will be a revision of some kind but um I think we got enough to approve it uh as as is so motion uh yeah we do make a motion to approve the 2025 Board of Education notice of dates as amended second second all right um any other discussion Stacy please conduct to loal trusty Raymond yes trusty Moore yes trusty Ballinger yes trusty bird yes trusty cat yes Schmid yes new yes motion carries the next discussion item which was again uh from consent is the sex ed committee um that was uh requested by trustee Pac um Beth I would refer to you thank you uh my concern is um that the person that they're choosing for uh the second co-chair for the sex education Advisory Board is an employee of the local plan Parenthood and uh it's my understanding that she is probably a very good uh educator but she still comes from a specific perspective and it's sort of it seemed to me a conflict of interests similar to having um rgr um RJR tobacco representative chair of public hospitals lung cancer board or having uh a marijuana distributor chair of public schools um medical use Committee of some sort um it just seemed like in a committee of 22 people there should be another person um that would balance it not necessarily be the co-chair and I don't know I guess my feeling is that it could go back to the committee and see if in consideration they could find another person there would just be less of um um uh person that was demonstrating something that might be questionable to certain approach to the community I yeah and for other board members I definitely not because of the same reasons I realize that it's a very um sometimes divisive uh subject that I don't have a lot of those concerns but I also don't like the perception of any potential of such concerns so for me it's not uh ideal just because of that not because of the concern of are just the ception but at the same time is um and I did I think the request was made and there was an update of uh that Dr vaner did receive from the committee of that was the only we as Dan McGee who's been the head you know kind of that element so I shared with the board he had Jesse had had the opportunity to get information from him that that that was the only individual that was nominated um and step forward um but you know again it's the board's perview on that element of accepting or if the board wanted to send it back they can have that conversation so I don't know what other again my comments more about perception and I don't have those concerns but I don't know if anyone else has any concern on perception either so so I'm just going to bring my experience forward I have had the opportunity and the honor of serving on that board um before I became a chair or a board member and um and and and actually there were fewer people on it at the time but there was a very good cross-section of the community including clergy including conservative people including doctors that the majority of people were Physicians actually and um the person that they're recommending is is um highly qualified and I think the subjects that people are concerned about are not something that can even be cons considered under State policy or law during those conversations so I I'm not going to be I don't want to be in the position of second guessing the committee who knows what they're doing and they've done a very good job and um they made a recommendation that they all stand by including those conservative cross members and clergy and Physicians so I don't you know feel like and there is no additional power to this position correct there's no power to it it's a co-chair it's a leadership role though she makes no no votes um that supersede anybody else's that I understand and that I appreciate and her knowledgebase um I would hope would be excellent but I think that it's the perception because they are the largest Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortion services in this country um and has been for years it's not a glitch um and you're right at this point state law um protects from that but there's also been some some discussion in the state legislature about changing the law to be a little bit um less rigid particularly for for younger kids um less rigid meaning that you could talk about abortion you could talk more about some of the things that really tend to divide us um I believe that good sex education um is important I don't know that you start in kindergarten um and that's where the seus uh which was reference material that was part of the packet with the sex ad materials that were given to us back in August um and I I just think there's some concerns about it was it was it was in the packet but it was referenced that they did not theyed it but they did not not use it they did not use it but they included it saying that they were having to do they were considering modifications for the next year and and they were talking about some of the things something that they were going to look at I don't think they said that they were going to consider that any of that as modification I think they said they considered it and didn't use it they didn't use it I don't think they said they were planning on using it or considering no it was reference materials for for the next year for the next round of modifications this is the but this is the entire committee not one person this is 22 people who listed every single piece of information that they looked at in coming to their decisions whether they used it or not or whether they were going to use it or not it wasn't just a we need to have more voices at the table I think well I mean my question is is do the do the recommendations from the from the Advisory Board always come to this body for approval this is a first that's an interesting question that's a first by policy yeah when we adopted the term policies this was a new policy for us so it does this is the first time this is the first time time because we adopted the policies in late last year I have no problem with it then I mean if it's coming to this body from that for us to recommend I have no problem yeah and would we be having the same conversation at the co-chair was like a Catholic priest I I I just would like to add that um you know having served for six years we have co-chair we have watched in the process of how the sexed committee has chosen not only its members but also its co-chairs and um you know there is a very set process of how they do that and so the trusting of that board and just like you said there are Physicians there are parents there are teachers I do believe there are very conservative voices on that board um I really appreciated the the speakers that um you know very AR they were very articulate but I think some of the things that were shared were are not accurate of what that committee actually does that's State mandated education for sex education um and so there are certain things we have to do that's why we go through this procedure and it's comes before the board and so um you know I just trust in the fact that they and according to Jesse um it's the only name that was brought forward um no one else stepped forward to serve in that role and so um I support I support both um Ian mcgurn as well as Carrie uh in that role to bring two clarifications so Jesse got that information from Dan um who's LED that so just make sure that Jesse who's who's LED that group as we well know secondly it's been a part of that seak bylaws and those components under state law the everything has to come to the board for approval we just now have it in board policy so but the practice because of the state law and the seag bylaws have always required it to be bring before the board so this isn't the first time but there is a a a corresponding now board policy that also double backs that up okay I I remember them bringing uh introducing i m last year but it wasn't a board vote correct it wasn't this is the first as far as who's on that committee I don't know I truly do not know who is on that committee well it's it's listed on the website you know and um and actually I looked for the website and I couldn't get it I found it it's there yeah it's there and and how people get on the and how people get on the committee you know in 22 you know yeah so I mean but it's I don't know I I have a question about how we uh approve co-chairs and all of our committees including Maybe Central grade you know visioning committee but you know um I I I don't have a problem approving their recommendation any other comments or questions and again like my my comment was I don't think you know it is it is something that I think we strive to it's a a subject that is causes so much controversy when it probably shouldn't and and part of what we've done very well as a group is put as much that of a side and so mine was purely coming on on the understanding be's position I do understand it greatly because I think it is something but my point was big it's like okay was there a choice made it's like no was there was one and no one else and it sounds like they tried to get someone else and they couldn't do it so um yeah so that was my angle any other questions or comments my only um comment that which you all know is that that by law our sex ed curriculum can't deviate from State requirements and prohibitions and so regardless of who the co-chairs are um or the committee members for that matter they can't revise our our curriculum our sex curriculum in a manner that would be illegal and without approval of the board without right this is all presented before the board too any changes to that curriculum so yeah that's the big thing on a curriculum will'll get any changes this year mhm but as John has said curriculum doesn't dictate uh the whole class experience so attitude is is contributory to a certain degree and I think that's why um to have someone that is Planned Parenthood um I just think it's conflict of interest it's very serious but she's not teaching the class she's not teach the advisory committee but all of that comes before us before it goes out to the kids but it goes back to but it goes back to it's not just what's on paper and your leadership is not just what's on paper you know if that were the case then we probably live in a very different world okay so I guess I'm wondering where anything that has been anything that we've approved so far has gone a rise somewhere no I haven't said that okay and I don't mean to done a Fant I feel like a fantastic job at right threading that needle of right requirement and you know not getting off track yeah I mean I guess I what I'll say is I I see your point I think there everyone has implicit biases and I would not question I would not personally call in question someone's judgment and and their intentions um unless they gave me a reason to do that and to this point if there's 22 members on this committee there's 20 other people that had the exact same opportunity to step up and be a co-chair true and so you know this was the individual that stepped up to do it and no one else challenged that position I mean I I have a tough time when people challenge it after the fact when they had every opportunity to step up and there were 20 other people that could have done that role so I'm I'll I mean I'll Trust the the committee in the process um even though I totally agree with you that there is potential for conflict but from what I've heard there's there's no reason to think that there's conflict plus there's multiple layers of oversight all the way up to the seven of us I I hope Spring's etor and thank you for that and just a reminder that by law we do have to post um to the public it goes in the correctly from wrong record Eagle um our website others of the process for that if somebody is interested applying for one of those positions I believe they're three-year terms and when those come up uh we do have a process for that and so if anybody has an interest they can apply I'm to be on that committee as required under law and I think most importantly the all of us have a strong commitment to that process of keeping it as transparent and uh yeah and if there it clearly states within their bylaws in there if there are more applicants than seats it is a random draw any chance somebody has that website handy advisory counil yeah I'll come and look at it after oh I just wondered if somebody could read it out loud to the just for the public but just the URL disle advisory it's our normal tcaps.net parents health information backs slash okay so I would like to make a motion that the Board of Education appoint Carrie Erie Smith as the second co-chair of the sca I would that sorry second uh Stacey please conduct trustee Moore yes truste bird yes truste Ballinger yes trust p no trusty Schmidt yes trusty Raymond yes trusty Newman B no yes motion carries um uh next discussion item is item G donation for the foundation yeah just real briefly that was me but yeah real briefly I just want to Spotlight the generosity of the falconers Meredith and Dan for their ongoing support of our kids and to highlight Josie's questioning uh during fance about uh goals for our student support network and John's comment about being more strategic and with with how we're presenting our needs to the community and I and I look forward to that and and I think we're ready to do that and on that I'll make a motion uh to cons to accept the donation of $10,000 from the mahogany foundation for the student support network second Josie um any other discussion just to to we can have other discussion too but there is definitely uh yeah thank you so much and this is obviously something that I know near to a lot of us um super exciting that we've had a few agendas now with donations to sh support network and I do know we just had a $10,000 donation from the West Shore Bank yeah it was actually um they they beat their goal I think it was up to 10,700 so they had wasn't a syo that that donation would um be a little bit different because it's not one check yeah so I'm I'm I'm looking forward to being more strategic you know especially again 7D uh you know the non-academic needs in order to ensure that all of our kids are ready to learn one thing you'll find when have a students SP know I try and make sure we cover it as much as possible and let the public know that this is a critical need um the donations uh we're having plenty and I think I believe there's another one that I just I believe is pending another board member told me that yes I I told you but I don't know that it's formally that so we yeah we'll continue to make sure that we you know formally announce and once they even have all that information we'll get it offici you know with the superintendent report again if it's below 20,000 I would like to just reiterate to Dan and meridith wner um of their kindness and and thinking of tcaps and and supporting the students support network and also Ty thanks for pulling it off just to thank them again I know we've acknowledged in all our committee meetings um but just very appreciative of their generosity so amazing amazing ask question about the student support network does this extend just to teaps students this District or does it extend the student support network yes mckin vento and the work that's done under the federal Grant is a five count grant that Katie works with okay and they are not combined funds they're they're not they by they're very separate funds by law okay I do want to encourage potential donors to look at our student support network talk to Ginger Smith or maybe Katie to um if you have any extra money laying around you know I haven't talked to too many fun groups that after they hear what it's about have not made a donation so I think it's just about spreading that no it's not aood it's a great way to spend $110,000 and take it off your taxes I just had a quick question so are the falconers related to former I believe it's his brother yes y lovely that's awesome thank you again yep so there is a motion on the table um and a second uh without any further discussion Stacy please conduct a roll call vote trust yes trusty Binger yes trusty bird yes trusty Moore yes truste P yes trusty Raymond yes trusty Newman Bale yes motion carries um thank you again um that does end the discussion item so we are now on to public comment number two uh looking out Bill you're not eligible so there is no additional public comment uh so we're on to close session um so we are now at the Clos session portion of our agenda may I have a motion for the board to go into close session it's a long it is best um I moved at the Board of Education go into close session for the purposes of Consulting with an attorney on pending litigation Kimberly Gilbert as personal representative for the estate of Json William hog Hogan vers Travers City area public schools at all case 24 CV 01329 in the United States District Court Western District of Michigan as Allowed by Section 8 e of the open meetings act because such a discussion in Open Session would have a detrimental Financial effect on the school district's litigation or settlement position and to dis and to consider a privilege written attorney client communication attorney Communications dated December 10th 2024 under MCL 15. 2431 G as Allowed by section 8h of the open meetings act I second second uh any discussion Stacy please conduct trusty Raymond yes trusty Ballinger yes trusty bird yes trusty Moon yes trusty yes yes yes uh the higher five pass motion does carry we're now in Clos session we will return to this room and the feed uh when that is done for for for w for for for for what for in we return to open session we are now in Open Session uh closing remarks so welcome to First board meeting um and uh thanks Stacy um this is Stacy's last meeting with us for we had the distraction of Christmas that she managed to escape so but we are fortunate to have Tammy as her replacement and uh we will look forward to um thank you everything for that you've done so I didn't bring you flowers and I feel bad cuz Beth always uh out does does me but that's uh I do appreciate you greatly so not always not always um so with that you still have time to shower her with gifts I know was just in case there's any comp I think there's some hot water in her future so so uh do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting I move to adjourn the meeting second second all those in favor say I all those po say nay meeting a j