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Part 1 (Video ID: https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/i-P7YFZryO9zQNfciKbAQTp5wv5_PLoa/media/1010985?showtabssearch=true&fullscreen=false):
- 00:00:15: Meeting Opening: Pledge of Allegiance and Recognitions Overview
- 00:00:53: Recognizing All-State Band and Orchestra Student Achievements
- 00:06:39: TSD Mission Moments: Student Documentary on Native Plants
- 00:14:54: Documentary: The Importance and Impact of Native Plants
- 00:20:43: Q&A: Student Discusses Education, Native Plant Initiatives
- 00:22:43: Brief Break, Band Students Leave, General Consent Agenda Begins
- 00:23:49: General Consent Agenda: Approving Minutes, Reports, Memberships
- 00:25:00: Personnel: Approving Special Education Teacher Contracts
- 00:26:44: Business Agenda: Enrollment Projections Presentation Begins
- 00:27:34: Enrollment Analysis: Birth Rates, Projections, Public vs. Private
- 00:36:25: Enrollment Trends: Construction and Immigration Law Impacts
- 00:38:42: E-Rate Bid Package: Upgrading Power and Athletic Wi-Fi
- 00:42:34: Bohlen Park Building Renovation: Locker Replacements Approved
- 00:49:49: Troy High Paving and Track Replacement Project Approved
- 00:52:38: Furniture Package: Smith Middle, Troy High, TCT Purchase
- 00:53:52: Public Communication: Parent Concerns about IM Math Curriculum
- 00:58:01: Public Communication: Christina Stefanik's Math Concerns
- 01:00:48: Public Communication: Robotics Team Facility Proposal
- 01:03:49: Student Reports: Extracurricular Activities, Achievements
- 01:09:29: Board Member Comments: Announcements, Gratitude and Updates
- 01:16:20: Meeting Adjournment: Survey Requests and Final Remarks


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We have seven of our board members present and three, I guess two. Two of our student reps today. We always start with the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand up to the Pledge of Allegiance. I, I promise 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. All right. Today on our agenda, we have two recognitions.

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Mr. Palladino is going to help us recognize our band and our orchestra students. Thank you very much, Mr. Ani. Members of the board, doctor Michalski, I'm thrilled to be here tonight to recognize our All-State band and orchestra students. The Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association All-State ensembles represent the pinnacle of achievement for student musicians in Michigan. This program brings together the most talented instrumentalists from across the state to perform at the annual Michigan Music Conference in Grand Rapids. The selection process is rigorous, objective, and highly competitive,

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typically involving around 2500 students vying for only about 400 available seats. Adjudicators listen to the recordings without knowing the students name, school or director being selected to participate in all students. All-State ensemble is a prestigious achievement. Students participate in an intensive three day rehearsal schedule led by nationally renowned conductors and clinicians. The experience culminates in a professional level performance at the De Vos Performance Hall, in front of music educators and families from across the Midwest.

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All students being honored today put on stunning performances and represented the Troy School District with immense pride. Our orchestra teacher, one of our orchestra teachers, Miss Claire Murphy, is here with us this evening to introduce our talented students. This is Murphy. Okay. Thank you. Official. Before I introduce, our musicians, I want to say that there is a music festival going on at Troy High today. So many of our musicians are performing tonight. I see a couple of the Troy High students just filtering in.

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I know they're going to try to come here, so hopefully maybe I'll start with the middle schoolers if they're here. Actually though, I think all of Smith Middle School is performing today, so of course. So I will announce them and, we will, hope that they can be here. So, I guess it doesn't matter if I start with the high school, so I'll start with high school. Gabriella Murphy from Athens. If you can come and, get a certificate. Chloe Kim from Troy High, Junghwan Kim, Rowan, Kim, Yuna, Kim,

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Leon Ma and RL sung band from Troy High, Daniel Cao, Aaron Chuck Choi, Angela Park and Isaiah Dionne. Paula Carpio, Khalil Ron Mark, Landon Taylor, and Brayden Williams. Christina also our Allstate Jazz Band, Ryan Deller and Brad Zapata. Those are our high school All-State musicians. And we also have a handful of middle school students

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from Larson Middle School Evan Kozlowski and Tebow. Mateo I know, I know Evans here. I don't know if Tebow is and from Bolen. Annalise Bijlani, William Chen, Sarah Cho, Joyce Cao, Anderson Lee, Alora Lee and Nathan Lee from Smith, Trent Pappas, June Kim, Sally Huong and June oh. On behalf of the instrumental music teachers in Troy, I would like to

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congratulate all of our wonderful all state participants this year. I know firsthand as a teacher and also as a mother, how much work and dedication goes into preparing for this prestigious recognition through a blind performance, audition process? I know that it is an honor to be recognized as one of the top musicians in the state of Michigan. So congratulations. The press. Yeah. Go! Just to give you a very brief, background on how the process is, run. Officially, it starts in September. When the audition material is given to all the students in the state of Michigan,

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and they have just over a month to prepare, a variety of scales and two professional level excerpts that they must perform at an exceptionally high level of proficiency. Their performance must stand out above all others to have a chance to perform, in these elite ensembles, and I've heard them firsthand, and they're absolutely amazing. So incredible. Remarkable musicians. So you should be very proud. So please give these wonderful musicians a round of applause. Where do you want to go ahead and join them and we'll get.

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We'll get everybody together. She's. I mean, I've been introduced to the general. And, parents, if you want to come up to the front and grab pictures, please feel free. Don't be shy. Come on up here. Okay? And students, stay there because we have some parents. Want to get some pictures as well. Jump in there, folks. I'll be sure. Thank. I want to also recognize Emily Joy Walker, our,

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coordinator, for Fine Arts. Join the group as well. Thank you. Emily. Right. I'm excited to be here. To move on to our TSD mission moments, where we will be, recognizing some Athens students for a documentary that they put together for this evening's mission moment. We are proud to introduce students from Adam Burns's class who produced the documentary short, Why Native Plants, as part of an environmental journalism project project for a grant from the Knight Center for Journalism at Michigan State University.

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The aim of the project was to incorporate more native plants into school grounds and curriculum, which fits within our district's goal of sustainability. Not to mention, there's a lot of work going on around the district when it comes to needing to plant. This project won the Michigan Award at the Coastline Children's Film Festival and has been featured by Wild Ones and Rochester Pollinators. It was the first film selected from the state of Michigan for the Youth Climate Report, an initiative from the United Nations that features student videos on an interactive map to document climate stories with communities.

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We are excited to share their work with you this evening. I have Mr. Adam Burns here to talk more about the project. And. Well, good evening everyone. I have Olivia Lee with me. Cecilia is at her powerlifting banquet, and Samantha Sandy is sick. So we got to recognize Michelle Dotson, who is the environmental teacher that we partner this in, Marie Woodland, who helps us along with the science portions, fills in a lot of gaps for me. I think this documentary, usually and video, we kind of come at the end of something

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and this one's a little unique and that we hope we're at the beginning of something and kind of pushing this out there because as Steve just said, there's a lot of construction happening out there. And, I guess this first came to me, this idea of native plants. My son had soccer practice behind Costello. I don't know exactly how big that is. I don't know how much the school owns. It owns up, but that's a lot of grass. Right? And grass, it turns out, while we come to accept it as the way things should look, it might not need this thing environmentally.

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It doesn't really add a lot. That doesn't give a lot back to us, other than making us feel like this is the way it should be. Whereas native plants, do so much for the environment, literally from our own backyard. And, the cool thing about this project, I think she mentioned, and these are my students, that they are, I think that these are all my students, but I've only ever had Olivia in my class. The others came from film club, and that was how Olivia came to me as well, because we started on this project last school year and, probably the coolest thing to come out of it, I think, for the students.

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And are these authentic, organic community partnerships and the people that they get to meet. So, plans for ecology, which is based in Troy, Wild Ones, which is a nationwide organization, but through North Oakland is the chapter we looked at. And then Rochester Pollinators up in Rochester. They got to meet with all of them and review them and really hear the importance of it. So to that end, I want to turn over to Olivia to talk about, those partnerships and what she, Yeah. So, hi, I'm Olivia, I'm a senior at Athens High School,

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and, I really love this project because I. Well, I kind of came up to Mr. Burns, and I was like, Mr. Burns, I want to do something with film in my future. And how do I get started in music? Well, I have a start for you. And so you kind of. You kind of forced me into this, but it was probably one of the best, because even though we've had, like a few errors, such as the very first interview, we may or may not have showed up to the house unannounced and waited in the driveway for quite some time until he pulled into the driveway to a film set.

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But it was really fun just working out all of those kinks and ending up, like, with a project that, like, was Wrecking night. Like when we went to something. Like what? When we went to MSU to share it just all of the other students my age saying like, oh my gosh, that was so like the film was so good. And the B-roll and it was formatted so well, and that if you were to ask me, I would think that that's like professionally done. Like that's always something that's really cool to like, be able to like, receive. But also like in the grand scheme of things like this project has

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gotten as far as, like United Nations recognition. And so it's kind of just really cool because it's something that we probably the furthest we had to drive was out to, MSU, but other than that, it was just like a quick field trip to a house in Royal Oak, a quick after school field trip to like a house behind dairy Queen, and another one to downtown Rochester. And it was really like it was just in our backyard. And it's gotten me this far. And so I really enjoyed being able to see

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how much I can do with just a little bit of expertise. So a little bit of experience or even like a little bit of, budget. We did. I've had it, but I don't even know what the grant was. But we, probably used it mostly to, the drone footage, and gas mileage, but. Yeah. So I really enjoyed it. And, it was actually really cool. It was a really great experience. Wonderful. And. And I guess, just a couple things.

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So this grant is through the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State. Michelle and I have gotten it, and this is the third or fourth time. And, you get $2,000 split between the two classes, that you can use in support of the project. So the video portion has been used for we have ideas for the, environmental portion. And we also got to go to Michigan State to meet with other journalists. We got, mentorship from a journalist. And, that's really cool because we are in video in the distribution kind of business.

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So very cool to get into these festivals. Very cool to be in this youth climate report for the United Nations that came through a festival that we had submitted to, and they said, we would love to put it on this. And we looked at the map and it's the first one in Michigan. So that was very exciting. And just all the things that come along with it and, I think probably the best thing to speak for is the video itself. So, Olivia, if you want to pass those out real quick, we have a little gift for you because just a reminder, things can start very small with native plants. And, I think our vision with this, once we get into

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more of the science portion of things, is just what an impact. You know, a little native plant garden can make even just the space of this podium up here. It will bring life to it. A native garden to me seems very much more alive than perhaps what we're used to. And there's opportunities to, to monitor from a scientific nature, to look at it through an artistic lens. And that's why I think this blended so nicely. So as we look, as you know, I've been in Athens, I've seen these fields turn over and there might be space to fill in, whether it's by a retention pond or just anywhere it could fit in.

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You could get a lot out of it. And, I do want to note how special this is for a really a first project for it's it's above and beyond, so take it from there. It's so large diversity in the garden. James might look overgrown or out of control, but everything has a purpose and every plant thrives because this is where they are meant to be. Jane's garden is a native plant garden. Nobody comes in this yard that doesn't say, well, the yard is a statement in itself, a statement about the role of humans in the landscape and the part we all have to play.

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It's a showcase that brings visitors in to explore and purchase native plants for their own gardens. But her yard wasn't always like this. When we moved here, this yard was just like every other yard on the street. It was just grass. She planted trees in her yard, but with the trees came saw flies which she thought needed to be removed. I would invite a lighted thing with a match and burn it, until one day I was sitting on my porch and a chickadee came to eat those caterpillars in that website

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and I thought, oh wow, would you even witness? And what started her on the path of her life's work was the power of native plants, native plants, or plants that grow in a specific region without human introduction. They have evolved and adapted over thousands of years to the local climate, soil and other environmental conditions, which, according to ecologist Brendan Nolan, establishes vital relationships. Native plants are all about ecology, which is thinking in a systemwide way. When you put this plant in the ground, what type of relationships is it going to have with things around it?

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This flora, fauna, as it's an evolutionary and we're talking thousands of years have come together to create this relationship. These relationships are the foundation of the ecosystems. Native plants often require less water, fertilizer and maintenance than non-native plants, and they support birds and insects by providing food and shelter. This support, according to Rochester Pollinators founder Marilynn Trent, is what makes native habitats so important. Both tree supports 564 species, and a gingko only supports three.

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You think and extrapolate and keep exchanging plants and support 115 species to back a petunia. Three. Of course you're going to lose so much. And they also soak up so much with their root system. The grass roots are about this short and so the soil is very compacted. But these native plants have roots to go 6ft to 15ft. You're soaking up thousands of gallons more than a lawn, because native plants soak up 90% more. Because native plants are so beneficial, their absence is quite stark

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and with over 40 million acres of natural habitat replaced by lawn in recent decades, they increased pesticide use, light pollution and loss of native plant choices at local garden centers has a catastrophic impact on the pollinators. Nothing in this yard would be in bloom without pollinators. The crabapple trees wouldn't have crab apples. We wouldn't have any, seeds on the flowers, you know, for them to carry on and and propagate without the pollinators, life on Earth extinguishes without pollinators. Yet the habitat that sustain them continue to be destroyed.

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Why are people resistant to native plants? It just it frightens people that to think that you're asking to put all native plants now and then get a lot of complaints, because it does take a few years for the plants to bloom, and people aren't used to seeing what they are used to seeing. But what I found is once people start working and planting with the native plants, they start understanding them better. Once people have a better understanding of native plants, they can rethink their relationship to the environment.

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The problem that we've always had is that when you placed humans above the ecosystem as if they were not a part of it, that created a disconnection. One of the biggest hurdles of native plant gardening is to learn to let go of control of the landscape. Everything that you start to plant doesn't always stay healthy or is not the right place for it. Letting go of having to control is a really big part of having a native garden. You have to let go of seeing holes in you in your plant leaves

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because somebody you know needed to do that. The whole conception of what a landscape was, was the picture, right? Because that would stay static or like a living room. You want you set these pieces out right and then it's supposed to be that way and then you're in control. So part of this is that it's a little bit of letting go, right? It's like you manage things differently. And once you have let go you find new ways of connecting. I come out here every morning, walk around and see what's what's new.

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And every morning there's something new. You start seeing and relating to nature more that you're not going to the store and oh, it's time to buy the begonias. What happens is because they're perennials and they come back every year, it's kind of like your friends are back. You know, they come back every year and you start having a rhythm of life is happening that you can relate to. The whole idea with native plants is that your experience being a part of it, and that it's creating a relationship with everything else around you,

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which I personally think helps with your relationships with other people. And that's the that's the building block of all of it, right? It's it's community. Though the environmental outlook for the world is bleak with native plants, you can have a positive impact in your own backyard. Live. If you'd like to come back up, we have a certificate for you, Mr. Burns. And, do we want to ask. Do you guys have any questions for Olivia so we can know? All right, so I have a couple. So my first one is about you, You're graduating.

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What's next? What do you think you're going to be doing with your family at the start of the year? I was planning on going into film, which is what got me started on this. But throughout the year, I, I started I took the careers in education class because there's always been like a backwards. So I was like, okay, I'll go into film, but a film doesn't work. I'll be a teacher. But through that class, I've decided that I want to be an elementary school teacher. So I'm going to be going to, Oakland University to study elementary education.

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Oh, good. I have a son. I have a son in film. It is a very hard life, I guess. My second question is, how do we start? What's your recommendation? Is Byrne's question. He actually has started. I have found the best thing to do is just try to mimic whatever nature does. So take him out, sprinkle him on the ground, let go of control and see what happens. But, honestly, that has worked the best for what I do in my art.

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Like nature seems to know best. I feel safe with the milkweed. If you have a wet area that's really, really good. They're great. Thank you. All right. Thank you for you have a certificate for me? Yes. I'm going to say I that the candidates. To go with you. Yeah. True. I, I don't I didn't say. That. Yeah.

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Take me take a quick break and have any students come in? Yeah. You for the recognitions. Okay. All right. Keep in mind and get a picture of them. Okay. Do we have any students who were from the band and orchestra that, came in later when we gave the recognitions? I guess not. Okay. All right, well, we will take a brief five minute break, and students who are here for recognitions and their parents, you're welcome to leave.

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Or you're also welcome to stay for the rest of our business as well. Thank you. The certificates for the band. Okay, everybody, we're going to get started. Yeah. All right. Next. All right. Okay I got to use it. Right. All right. Next on our agenda is additions and deletions. Do we have any comments? All right. Any public communication on agenda items. We have three that are non agenda items. All right. We will do that at the end.

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So next then would be our general consent agenda. And let me get that going. So so. Ready. All right. Under our general consent agenda we have the minutes of the February 3rd, 2026 Board of Education workshop, minutes of the February 24th, 2026 Board of Education meeting. Treasurer's Report of January 2026, budget Amendment Number two. Schools close to open enrollment and then Sex Education

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Advisory Board membership approval. May I have a resolution, please? Mr. Hart, be it therefore resolved, that the Treasury Board of Education takes action to approve items eight through F of the consent agenda. Support. All right. Resolution made by Mr. Hoppe, supported by Miss Potts. Is it all right? Any questions or comments on this topic? Okay. Seeing there's none all those in support of this resolution, please say yes. Yes. Anyone who opposes please say no.

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All right. Resolution passes. All right. Next on our agenda is personnel. Mr. Jones. Good evening, Deacon Chesky and members of the board. This evening, I have for your consideration, three special education positions. These vacancies were created due to midyear retirements, or departures. And, we've been fortunate to be able to, to, have some candidates to recommend for you this evening. So with that, it is recommended that the Board of Education approves the issuance

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of a probationary contract to the following teachers for the 2025 2026 school year Trista Chen, 1.0, psychologist at Troy Union Elementary. McKayla Elliott, 1.0, level three teacher at Athens High School and Sierra in School 1.0, board certified behavior analyst at services. All right. Thank you. So we were asked to consider a resolution for elementary and secondary personnel. May have. Go ahead. Amina.

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Resolved that the Board of Education takes action to approve the aforementioned personnel recommendations as stated above. Support three moved by Mr. Lee, supported by Miss Sandler. Any questions or comments on Mr.. Seeing none. All those in favor of the resolution please say yes. Yes. And those who opposed say no okay resolution passes seven. And thank you all. Thank you John. All right. Next on our agenda curriculum. Do we have any items.

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There's none this evening. Wonderful. Thank you. Nick. That brings us to business agenda. We have a few items. Our first is enrollment projections. All right. Good evening. Board. At our winter retreat, we did present this in full, to the Board of Education. But we did want to make sure that we presented this, at least the key points from this presentation, to the board and the community in attendance tonight. So, quickly going through so we partner with point. We're in real point every year. And we've done it for a number of years now.

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So they have access to databases that, they can utilize in order to pull some of the demographic data and some of the projection data. Ultimately, looking at other districts across the country and combining that into a comprehensive report for us. So, this is something we leverage every year as part of our budgeting process. So just quickly looking at all this into some demographic data real quick, and then looking at the district wide, enrollment projections. So just quickly looking at Michigan births. So this is a chart from 2000. Sorry, about a year ago

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showing the total number of births across the state of Michigan. So as you can see, much like the rest of the country, we are in a somewhat steady decline in terms of the total births, each year. So something that, you know, we, we manage as part of our budget process specifically for Oakland County, you can see it's somewhat steady from year to year. Kind of fluctuates a little bit over time. But all in all, about 12 to 13,000 births per year. And Oakland County, and then as a percentage of those births, you can see the smaller, darker blue line there, about 5 to 6% of those versus the amount of kindergarten age students.

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In any given year. So that's a metric that we track over time as well, just to see how many kids are we actually going to be getting in Oakland County of those births? And then how many are going to actually trickle into our school district? And then this is just an overall, projection of Michigan school age population. So from age 5 to 17, you can see here, we're kind of on that downward trend. Past 2022, there were 742,000 school age children. And then it'll level off around 2035. So just about ten years out, before they're projecting, that to start somewhat increasing, into the 2040s

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in 2050 time frame. This just represents over, from 2002 to 2020, just by school district. Where did those, birth rates ultimately increase or decrease? So you can see for the tri school district, they're, circled in blue. We had about a 2.1 to 3, three point percent decrease on overall, students from 2002 to 2020. And then just looking at it from a city perspective, you can see there, this again is kind of projecting out.

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So there's a projection over the next 30 years looking at us specifically, they're highlighted in blue, between 500 to a 1000 student loss over the next 30 years. And that is in line with kind of what we've gotten each year from clamor in real point as we get our projected numbers that will go over here in a minute, and then population trends by age. So as you can see, the the different colors there represent the different decades. So 2010, 2020 and 2025 for last year. Then 2030. So you can see that there's, somewhat of a decline in the, in the younger age brackets from, you know, birth, you know, about age 29 and then after age

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30 and onward, up to over 65, you can see somewhat of an incline. So the growth that the city is seeing is actually older individuals coming into the city over time. So, for us, ultimately we look at that and we recognize that we're not getting the school age children coming into the district. Unfortunately, we had point ran real point put in this slide this year. So this question often gets asked of the community of how many of our students actually go to public schools versus private schools. So, you can see here Troy school districts on the top.

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We got Oakland County in the middle and then the statewide average there on the bottom. And what this represents, the lighter blue color is the percent of private school students within the Troy School District boundaries. And then the dark blue is the amount that actually attend a public school, which could be any public school for that matter, within the district boundaries. That's just how they track that, metric. But ultimately, you can see as you progress through from, over on the left here, we have our preschool age kids, and then, first and kindergarten and the grades one through four, five through eight and then high school. So you can see which is to be expected.

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We got more from that birth, to kindergarten age, just because a preschool, for us, we we have a waitlist for preschool. We just don't have the facilities to accommodate that. So, those families typically have to rely on a private, preschool. So you can see as we get through up into the early part of elementary school and in the middle school, that number does taper off and to about the 89% range, which you can see compared to the county is ultimately less county average about 13% and then statewide is about 12%. So, with respect to K through 12, I think we're doing

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pretty good relative to our peers. And all of these slides are on board docs too. So for the community members that want to take a deeper dive into these, they certainly can pull those up. They're publicly available to us. So, household incomes, you can see over time, that in line with the older generations moving into the city, you start to see somewhat of an increase in the higher incomes as opposed to the lower income households. You can start to see those numbers tapering off over the last ten years. And then the home values, that one kind of goes in line with that. We do have some charts on here.

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I'm not going to go over these in detail, but however, I thought it was a good statistics to show us, given the wide ranging diversity in our district and community to show over time the different countries that people are immigrating from, into this school district. So those are out there for anyone that wants to see some of those trends. And then just jumping into the pupil enrollment projections. So we have two different methodologies. Method one and method two supply brand uses method one. That's their more conservative approach. So they're going back about six years of time to to generate

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these projections versus method two is a little more, less conservative and actually goes back about two years. So we like to look at both just to see if there's any anomalies. You know, looking back over the last two years compared to the last six years. So district wide, this right here kind of shows the different cohorts going from kindergarten through 12th grade. So you can see, at the bottom here, we break out our young fives, our special ed in our alternative education programing. Since those are not in traditional buildings, our Young Fives is over at our preschool building,

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and then our special ed, we track kind of district wide, totality, given the different funding sources for those programs. And then our alternative would be, like TCS as well as some of our black programing, just an alternative delivery model for those. So, everything above that though is just our general education buildings across the district. So you can see as a fall of 2025, the total enrollment was 12,043. So that's kind of what we're budgeting for this year that's based off of the actual numbers. And then looking into next year, about 160 or so FTE down.

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When you look at all of that. So we'll use those numbers. Those have been pretty steady over time. And thus far pretty accurate, which helps us tremendously as we go the budget to so you can see, by fall of 2030, planning is looking at about just over 11,000. So we talked about that, by that 2030 timeframe, about a thousand student loss total. So, we're we're trending in that direction. So that's something that we factor into our budget each year as well. And then this slide here is always a good one. So this breaks it out from K through five middle school and high school. So you can see the elementary school up there on the top line.

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And then we got our middle school on the bottom, and then the high school numbers actually in the middle of those two. So, we'd like to get a nice breakout as we look at all of our elementary buildings and middle school buildings as we're planning for construction, all of that, these charts really help show us a breakdown, by level of where we at our across the district. So it also helps gives us somewhat of a trend line there too. So, again, just an important data set for us to consider. And then this we had them as well as we looked at our School of Choice program, where we've added 100 FTE this year coming up, and then 6550 and the current school year.

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We wanted to get a better feel for our resident only projections. So we actually had plant ran back out our school of choice numbers to see where are we at from a pure resident standpoint. So, you can see there that the declines obviously are right in line with what we had on the other slide. So there's still, a steady decline each year. As we get into, the 2030 timeframe. So, we're looking at about 400 ish FTE by the 2030 timeframe based on today's numbers. So, that number has slowly dwindled down over the last number of years.

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And then this is the same chart, but with residents only, as opposed to with all students included. There. Any questions from the board? Any questions? I have a couple of questions. First one is I we keep getting asked this question often and, as we keep getting asked, like, there's so much construction going on in Troy, there's so many buildings coming up, so many houses, so many apartments, and yet our student population is not is is going down. I know you kind of alluded to it. Could you help explain that to the audience and to people watching?

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Yeah. And I think that's where you're starting to see a lot of, older citizens moving into their, into this district because of their incomes being higher. They're able to afford those newer homes. The new homes that are going up are typically eight, $900,000 homes. So something that we don't typically see a or a preschooler moving into with a younger family. But one thing point Marianne did point out to us is even though our numbers are lower at kindergarten, we're actually seeing modest growth, through as they progress through our system. So I think as families

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incomes do go up, they are more able to move into this district. So we may be seeing people move in in elementary, middle school level maybe. Yeah, they're moving in as they progress. Like you're actually seeing the cohort increase a little bit over time going to kindergarten through 12th grade, which is in line with, I think, home values and income levels. Okay. All right. One other question. I asked this question to plan Moran folks as well. At the workshop, is there's a lot of changes in immigration laws that are happening. And as having almost 30% who are foreign born,

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do we anticipate any changes or did they include any of that into the projections? Yeah, that was the two slides that they included. They don't foresee or project any significant changes to our enrollment because of immigration policies. But they did think it was prudent to put some type of slide in there just to show the volume that we do have coming into our district. So they don't anticipate any changes because of that, I see. Wonderful. All right. I know in the questions. Thank you. Dan.

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Maybe we can move on to our next agenda item. We are asked to consider the E-Rate bid package stand next year. So I guess that that's so our E-Rate. The PAC is a combination of two projects. So we have under uninterruptible power supplies. So those are just, basically battery packs that keep our servers running in the background. So we're upgrading the, the ups's in the back room here at our main data center. And then also this would cover the new Smith Middle School.

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Given that it's a new building. So, we did have that bid come in at $126,000, and then it will be about $94,000 of that would be E-Rate reimbursable. So we'll get money back through the E-Rate program, through the federal government. And then there was one voluntary alternate of $6,875 that's just to relocate some electrical, receptacles in that back room. We're trying to shrink down the footprint, to make it a little bit more condensed of a footprint. So then allow for additional conferencing space back there.

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So that's what that voluntary one alternate was. And then the other part of the project was adding Wi-Fi at both high schools, Troy High and Athens, within the athletic complex. So with all that, that connectivity that's needed, from an athletic perspective, we wanted to make sure that we had everything appropriately wired out there. So that low bidder coming in at 429,004 31 E-Rate will reimburse about 40% of that. So just under $200,000, we'll get back from the federal government. And then there was one voluntary alternative, 45,009 95.

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That's to upgrade the the cameras or the Wi-Fi server on the back end. So our current one is about five years old. So it was nearing end of life. But if we purchased it as part of a bond purchase, we can roll in licensing to that. And then we don't have to put that into a general fund. So the vendors issued that as a voluntary alternative, which we will be accepting as part of this. Okay. Wonderful. All right. We asked to consider a resolution for this E-Rate packet. May I have a resolution, please? Back to for the back,

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be it therefore resolved that the bid for the E-Rate backpack be awarded is attached here to in the amount of $669,138.36, and that this amount be approved as an expenditure of the Capital Projects Fund support. All right resolution moved by Doctor Phillips and supported by Miss Potts. Any questions or comments on this? Yes. So Sally's so right now this is going to go under the capital Projects Fund. But we do have some opportunity for reimbursement under this one. Yes.

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So E-Rate funding the way it works is once the projects complete, we submit that and then they send us money. If the amounts that are listed in the board packet and then that dollar amount gets deposited back into the bond fund, then it's just a pure offset to their the total cost that we have. Who are they. I'm sorry. Who are they. The federal government. So the E-Rate program is through the federal government. Okay. So specific projects more geared towards Wi-Fi and networking. They do provide some funding to the district to do those projects. So hopefully we'll be able to recoup most of a significant portion depending on the project.

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It ranges from 40% to up to 75%. The UPS. All right. Any other questions? All right. If no other questions, all those in support of the resolution, please say yes. Yes, yes. Those who opposed say no. Okay. Resolution passes seven and no. All right. So next we are considering Bohlen Park building renovation project. So from the workshop till now, there were just a couple small changes. So I'll go over those briefly for you.

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The one of which is metal panels. So during the post bid process, as we were interviewing the low bidder, they didn't have a physical sample just yet. So we're going to delay that until April. That way we can get the sample and verify that it doesn't meet our specifications and desires for that project. So as soon as we get that, we'll push that to the April meeting. Just as we did with the roofing. Just given the low, post bid interviews. The other change was the lockers. So the low bidder purely did what was best in the sense that we were removing the existing

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lockers, storing them, and then bringing them back into the new building. Two of the next two low bidders, bidders two and three, gave a voluntary alternate of here's what it would cost to actually replace those lockers. So as we've talked as a team more looking at what TMP, our architects actually spec for new buildings, the, the existing lockers that we have in Berlin and Larsen, based on our operation team and their experience with them are not, very positive. So the lockers themselves are what they call, welded lockers. So they're basically the entire locker is one giant piece of metal

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that gets affixed to the wall. So it's good for things like in a sporting locker room or athletic facility where you have heavy equipment hanging and, and maybe they're banging on a harder things like that in a hallway or corridor. You can go to what they call a knock down locker, where it's, it's basically pieces that are pieced together. So it's still durable, but it doesn't mean you don't have to worry about damage from students or anything like that, but you're not hanging super heavy equipment inside of these lockers. But given that it's piecemeal, that's a little bit cheaper than the welded ones we currently have,

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but then the maintenance of them as well is also significantly easier, because there are pieces and components that you can replace. So the ones we currently have have been fixed over time. So there's there's cosmetic fixes that are pretty noticeable on the outside of them. And then the last piece was Bullet and Larson are the only two buildings that do not have master locks. They have a different brand. So this proposal that's presented to you tonight would upgrade them to the master lock? To keep everything consistent across the district. So the change for that is a about $102,000 total.

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But that would be then replacing all the lockers with brand new lockers as opposed to paying to store them offsite. And there's likely damage incurred as part of that process too. So, we did get the second low bidder, with their pricing came in at 272,000, but we're going to back about 70,000 off of that because we're not going to do the athletic, rooms. We're only going to do the corridors with this proposal. So it'll actually come in about $70,000 less than what's listed on the the approval. So the Athletics will use the same old lockers, the well with ones

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which are more terrible for those purposes. So let's see. All right. Any lockers any bigger than new lockers, are they? I don't question do you know if they speak the same exact locker I think. Yeah. The lockers have, to be so for P.E., there's corner lockers for class. So it's really just like a pair of shoes. And I'm sure they're very small. And then the larger lockers, then the PE for sports and football, so that there's things like pads and one that are able to be sorted out. So there's a variety of sizes to them.

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But the corridor lockers that the ones that the students are going to be using every day are they fit the exact measurement that they currently have or are they bigger lockers? Smaller locker has height 14in wide. They're the same size as what you see at bowling at large. Yeah, okay. Different than what you would see a track is so ample and they're the same locker size. So they're a little wider which fits bags in there better. And ankles. Yeah. And the lockers are able to be differentiated for different students. Needs to get them open. Yeah we have a lot of locks that need to be replaced as it is.

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So this is just going to give you a brand new set of master locks, which is then consistent with all of the buildings. We have some special order padlock locks for student. Certain students that they have a number. Yeah, like a digital okay. Any other questions? What are we going to do with the old lockers then? Just as part of this process, we the demo company that we'll be demoing all about, and they have actually said that they would be willing to do it for the scrap. So they are going to take them and recycle it and scrap it, and then that's their fee against their fee.

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I said, okay, let's get in it. All right. I guess we need to consider the resolution may have a resolution, please, Mr. lease, be it there for resolve that the bid for complete renovation of Bowling Park Middle School, including architectural, mechanical, electrical and structural work, be awarded as attached hereto in the amount of $20,185,066 and that this amount be approved as an expenditure of the capital projects support. Okay. Moved by Mr.

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Lee, supported by Mr. Hart. Any questions or comments? Additional support. So this amount is pretty in line with what was initially in in the bond proposal for what we were expecting, the market, there weren't any surprises. It's usually within a few hundred thousand dollars, but everything thus far has been in alignment. Okay. So I felt okay. Just for the for the public skate,

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when is the work supposed to start and when do you anticipated complete? So the project's pretty much the week school's out. We'll start moving students out to get. We have to move Smith and first to the new Smith, and then we'll be able to move bowling out. But all of that will start essentially, the Monday after school is out. We'll begin our process. But the goal is to get, bowling transferred over to Smith, the old Smith building. They'll be there for the entire next school year. And then the goal is to have this bowling renovation done the summer of 2027.

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So that way, fall of 27, they're moving back into their new space. So it starts second week of June of 26 and goes on all the way till fall of 2016. Month 14 months okay. All right. And what do we do with the furniture that's there now. Wasn't furniture that's currently Apple and Park all of that. The good furniture and useful furniture has been dispersed to our buildings that are not getting new furniture for a little while. And then for those pieces that are not being reused in our other buildings here, we're working in partnership with making donations. Okay. Wonderful. All right.

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Same thing with the tech. So any of the tech in that building a couple years old, we're going to move to other buildings, that are due for some upgrades for now and then, bowling. When they move back, we'll get new tech in their new building. Okay. So starting fall bowling will be at the old Smith. Yes, that's the thing. Okay. All right, all right. We, we need to, all those in favor of this resolution, please say yes. Yes, yes. All those who oppose anyone who it say no. Okay. Resolution passes seven to no. All right. Next, we are asked to consider the Troy High School

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paving and track replacement project. So no changes from the workshop with this one other than the contingency amount was added. And, so that's something that we had in the original document from your workshop. So, we added that in, so a 10%, 10% contingency, this document I believe, was requested to just show, obviously the track replacement as part of it, but then there's some paving work as well. So you can see there the, the paving on just the different sides of the track, as part of this project and then obviously the inner part of the track there too.

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So that's fine. Okay. So we may have a resolution for it, doctor Phillip Park, be it therefore resolved, the bid for stadium paving and track replacement be awarded as follows. And that $1,426,070.80 be approved as an expenditure of the building site and sinking Fund and the Capital Bonds Project Fund for fencing contractor Nash. Nationwide Construction Group, in the amount of $143,862. Site work.

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Contractor Delco Services in the amount of 483,000 asphalt and surfacing A-1 asphalt paving in the amount of $669,566, for a total amount of $1,296,428, plus 10% contingency of $129,642.80, for a total project award cost of $1,426,070.80.

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Support. All right. Moved by doctor and supported by miss. Please. Any questions or comments on this project? Mr. Lee, you know, we talked about this, the workshop just this this is going to complete the the athletic facilities and and work at Troy High. Yeah. Athens got theirs last summer for the track portion. And then Troy has the summer. Okay. And then this should be it for sure. Okay. All right. Any other questions? If no other questions, all those in favor of this resolution, please say yes.

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Yes, yes. Anyone who opposes please say no. Okay. Resolution passes seven and no. All right. Next on our agenda is a consideration for furniture package for Smith Middle School, TKT and Troy. Hi. So yes, as you mentioned, this, project has a all of the new Smith furniture. And then it does have a significant portion over at Troy High. So this is kind of phase two of their furniture upgrades as well as, all the classroom furniture for TCT. So in total, this package is 4.25

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million, using consortium pricing. And then, it'll be expanded through the 2023 bond fund. Okay. All right. May I have a resolution, please? Sandler. Be it therefore resolved, that the furniture purchase for Smith Middle School, Troy High School, and Troy Center for transition for an amount not to exceed $4,255,132 through preexisting bid contracts, consortiums as outlined in the memo from TMP dated February 26th, 2026,

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be approved as an expenditure of the 2023 Bond Fund support. All right. Moved by Miss Sandler, supported by Doctor Phillips. Any questions or comments? All right. Seeing there's none. All those in favor of the resolution, please say yes. Yes, yes. Anyone who opposes Feliciano resolution passes seven. Oh, no. Okay. This finishes the business part of our agenda. Thank you. Dan. All right. That brings us to the public communication on non-agenda items.

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And I'm going to call your name. And you have three minutes to address the board. Mrs. Une and talk and the Antioch. I'm sorry I got you on uncut. Okay. Good evening everyone. My name is Anka, and Doug and I have been a Troy District parent for 12 years. I have three children in Troy school District, two in Athens High School and one at Hill Elementary School. I have a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mathematics

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and another master's degree in computer science. I thought mathematics at Oakland Community College for 12 years, from arithmetic to calculus, including geometry. I have been tutoring students for over 25 years in almost all levels of math, so I have a pretty strong mathematics background. I am coming here as the frustrated parent with your choice of curriculum for mathematics the illustrative mathematics. I believe that this curriculum puts our children on a path of fear

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for failure. My children started this new curriculum with geometry. I had high hopes for my oldest son studying geometry. He has always been an ace student, but he didn't quite enjoy algebra one. So I was hoping that geometry is going to be love at first sight. That could open doors toward engineering or architecture, but we were caught off guard with this new curriculum. He was on the pilot group being a guinea pig for this curriculum. He would come home frustrated that he didn't understand anything

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in math class. I tried to help him, but I had my hands tied. I couldn't understand the teaching, the way of discover theorems and postulates. With all my math background, I couldn't help my son. He started to go see his teacher after class to get extra help from her. Almost the whole class will stay after class. This was an honors geometry class and everyone was struggling. At some point my son told me he is hoping to pass the class. I wrote emails to his counselor, to the principals

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about how this curriculum is a joke and students are not understanding what they are being taught. No one ever contacted me back. I was met with total silence. I have been talking with other parents as well whose kids are going through similar struggles. They don't know what to do. Those who can afford higher outside help. I have been contacted to tutor students with this new curriculum and I had to turn them down. I have been asking teachers from Troy District what they think about this curriculum.

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They don't like it. They see it doesn't work, but what else can they do? This curriculum provides little to no structured practice for students to build fluency in mathematics. Repetition and practice are essential for mastery. There is lack of clear instruction. Students are expected to discover math through discussion rather than being taught clear mathematical methods. First. And I thank you so much. I have a little bit left. Can you send that information back to us?

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You can email us the rest. Okay. So just my last sentence. Okay. Sure. Troy should strongly consider a different curriculum. What is being done now will not prepare many students for higher level mathematics and it would be sad to realize in a few years that the whole generation doesn't know math. Thank, thank you so much and sorry for misspelling you and mispronouncing your name. Appreciate it. Next speaker is, Mariana Paracas. Good evening.

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My name is Mariana Paracas. I hope you've had a chance to review the Facebook post by Boland Park Middle School. Long term sub Christina Stefanik. Harris sounding the alarm bells on the I am math curriculum. There are over 70 comments from parents who agree with her concerns, and I think that feedback is much more valuable than anything you'll see from the survey results. I was disappointed in that survey, which I hope you've seen because it failed to ask substantive questions. But to be fair, I would argue that the most meaningful survey responses are the ones that will come from the teachers.

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Has this board ensured that all middle school math teachers will have the the opportunity to respond honestly and without retaliation? Because after speaking with multiple teachers over the years, I continue to hear concerns about a culture of fear surrounding this curriculum. This needs to be addressed directly. The survey should also explicitly ask teachers whether they would support returning to the previous curriculum with an honors track. Beyond the survey, I'm concerned that you're not being given a complete picture of student performance

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the district adopted here to help assess the curriculum, but that data is limited since there's no premium comparison. You should also be asking why it hasn't been presented. We do, though, already have clear data available through M-step. It's not complicated. To make a fair comparison, you simply remove all students who have tested out both from current and premium data. And by the way, the district should be transparent about the dramatic increase in students testing out. Once those adjustments are made, you'll have an accurate view

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of how students in the I am curriculum are actually performing. We already have two full years of this data. It should be presented clearly and discussed openly. As for the curriculum itself, I initially saw no harm in allowing the leaving that decision to administrators. I've been most concerned about differentiated classrooms, but I've come to learn that teacher input wasn't meaningful. Include meaningfully included, and that many decision makers lack a strong math background. I urge you to speak directly with teachers

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and learn how these decisions were made in the past. Because their expertise matters. Finally, I ask that you act now in time for the fall 2026 school year. Our teachers are capable and experienced and they should be empowered to teach the best curriculum starting now. There's no reason to wait. It's not okay to continue this experiment on our children, and this cannot become an issue for the next school board election. We already went through one middle school cycle and our students don't get that time back.

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This needs to be addressed now. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right. Next we have Mr. Patrick Shaw, who will also have a couple of his students come Keegan Khan and Isha Chawla to speak with him. Good evening, board members. My name is Akon and my name is Asia Travel. Okay. We are proud members of team 2 to 6 the Hammerheads. When we spoke last on the tour, Mr. Shaw showed the why behind our mission. Some of you saw that mission in action at our sponsor showcase on February 26th.

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Tonight, I want to show the world specifically what the Hammerheads accomplish during this past weekend, we competed at the District Lake City event, ranking third overall and finishing as of finalists. More importantly, we earned the Impact Award, which is first and foremost prestigious judged award and recognizes a team's long term community impact. This win qualifies us for the Michigan State Championship this April, and marks our 10th consecutive District Impact Award went across for. Other teams are facing similar setbacks. The adults are not.

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Teams 8728 competed at the Marysville event and got sixth place and earned the Control Award for Excellence in Robotic Systems. In addition, the AIA East Bounding Box team 43 and 84 competed at the Milford event and were seventh place there. If we had a dedicated facility here in Troy, our performance could be even stronger. Right now, our high school team has to commute to Lake Orient every week just to practice on full field, which between driving, set up and clean up, takes an additional hour of our time where we can be working the travel limits, how much time we can spend

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iterating on a robot and refining our strategies with the local facility, we can maximize practice time and to our more students and reach our full potential at every competition. Here's the reality of first in robotics. By the way, numbers 85% of teams operate on private homes, meaning access depends on whether the family has a garage to spare. That is not a talent problem, it is an access problem. Weekends and school buildings are not available for middle school and elementary school teams, and high school teams lack a full field practice space. A dedicated facility would mean every student

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enjoy has a seat at the workbench, regardless of what their home looks like. We bring national recognition to twice a year after year we have the accolade, we have the corporate sponsors. We have the talent to compete with anyone in this state or we do not have is a permanent home. Neighboring districts Royal Oak, Novi Lake Orian Avondale have already made this investment. Troy has always led in academics and in excellence. We should be leading here to. We are asking the district to partner with the Troy Robotics Foundation to establish a dedicated robotics facility for all Troy students. Let's give our teams a space that matches our ambition.

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Let's start building futures in garages and start building it in a center Detroit and its citizens can be proud of. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. All right. We appreciate it. Thanks. Congratulations on your wins. Yeah. Thank you. All right. That concludes our public communication section. We have our students, our student reps. Next. Are you how are things that are used? All right. Good evening everyone. I hope everyone is having a great time. I can't believe it's already halfway through March.

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And I'm very excited to share about all the fun things I. So first, coming into the extracurricular side of things, our Science Olympiad team competed at the Oakland County Medical Science Fair competition, and we're very excited to announce that our camera team placed fourth in the county many, many miles across all events. And so we have secured our slots to compete at the Michigan Science of the tournament this April. Now for the science Fair close. Our our students will actually be competing in the Science and Engineering Fair of Metro Detroit tomorrow at Huntington Place in Metro Detroit.

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Our students have been working all year on their research projects, and we're very excited for the great results that we'll be showing tomorrow, for our friends and modeling club. They've also been incredibly active as the friends at this club is wrapping up their competition season with their final invitational, as they just competed at Novi High School and our model UN club just last week, travel to Michigan State to compete in the MSU Model Event Conference. Just last week as well, we had many of our juniors attend the Career Accelerator programs match day to meet their local business partners for their upcoming free internships

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and through the program, they have our students matched with local business partners in Troy, like for a while and horizon Bank. And so they will be able to gain pre-professional experience in the field that they're interested in. And we would like to thank Mrs. de Belotti, Miss Montana, Mr. Monaco and doctor Rich Huskey for this incredible opportunity for our Troy students. Now on the school wide side of things, we just held our annual Shamrock Shake down. And for those of you who are unfamiliar with the event, Shamrock shake it out as a recently started tradition at East,

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and it's a noncompetitive basketball tournament that we hosted in collaboration with the Troy Center for transition, and we had the TCT. TCT compete with other teams like the Bloomfield Blackhawks, Avondale Panthers and the Madison Eagles. And it was such it was such a fun basketball game, as the entire high gym was decorated and green with shamrock leaves, and the energy from the audience was really incredible. And that's it for March, and I can't wait to share more that during the next meeting. Thank you, thank you. Any questions for you?

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All right. We actually did. We're told that Chloe could not make it today. And so also is Sarah from Athens. So, Isabella. Go ahead. I would think so. Troy. Hi. Good evening everyone. This past month has been a lucky one at Troy High for the incredible achievements across academics, athletics and student activities. Starts 24 students are presented Troy High at the Business Professionals of America conference in Grand Rapids, also known as BPA. Of those, five students placed in the top two in their event, notably Madison, which is a senior one at two awards,

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she earned second place in Digital Media Production, which was a solo competition, and then a podcast production team, which which she did alongside two other people keeping up with the business theme. At 3032 Troy High, Deca students qualify for the International Career Development Conference. Also just, as I say, DC, and Atlanta, Georgia, which is an incredible achievement. It's a very competitive competition. So it's a very big deal. And we wish them all the best of luck as they compete in Atlanta and mathematics. Ten students represented Troy High at the Math Steel game hosted by

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the University of Michigan, Flint, where they demonstrated strong problem solving skills and had a very successful competition. Moving on to foreign affairs, our Model United Nations team has also had a very busy month. They attended at the Michigan State University conference and brought home seven awards. In addition, Troy, Athens and IU East hosted a collaborative, collaborative conference that we do annually. So it's called One Troy. Typically it's held at Troy High School, but this year we decided to switch it up and Athens hosted, and it had a very impressive turnout and it was very fun.

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Athletically, our swim and dive team sent, ten athletes to the state competition at Oakland University and for girls varsity basketball. The team fought their way to the district finals, but ultimately ended up falling to Athens in the final game. Incredibly proud of all of our athletes for their hard work and dedication and light of Saint Patrick's Day, our league leaders organized a new initiative called Golden Greetings for freshmen. These Saint Patrick's Day themed goodie bags included some treats and even a hidden golden ticket for one lucky bag. Just another thing that is trying to do to, you know, make the freshmen feel more comfortable.

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Looking ahead, Troy has excited to celebrate Spirit Week next week as we head into spring break, and I'm wishing everyone a restful break and a happy Women's History Month. Wonderful. Thank you. Any questions for Isabelle? Not. All right. That pretty much brings us to our other other, All right. And I'll start at that end. All right. Thank you. Tonight I have two items. The first is a help wanted ad from the Troy Youth Assistance. So if anyone in our listening or viewing audience is interested that we,

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the tree assistance group, is looking for a treasurer starting for next year. So if that's your sort of thing, please contact, the Tree Assistance Group, who's actively recruiting a treasurer. And second, I'd like to thank the district for acknowledging this board for our Mssp Award of Distinction. I'm really proud to have the opportunity to sit alongside folks who value, leading by collaboration and learning together in order to get the award of distinction. Every board member has to be a member of merit, which means we all have to do classes on a regular basis

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to improve our skills and learn skills to be the best board members we can. School boards, have three big purposes. One is, hiring and or supporting our superintendent. The second is, implementing and supporting our budget. And the third is and probably the most important is our eye on policy. That means the decisions we make around what happens in policy that our, esteemed superintendent works to bring those into action to the school district. So I'm really proud to have the opportunity to learn alongside all of you. And I will continue to hold up my end of the learning as we continue

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to work hard as a team. So congratulations and thanks for acknowledgment. Thank you. No, it's past me. I don't have anything right, doctor Philippe. Just, Because at the last board meeting, this board passed a resolution, approving, that the countywide millage, be allowed to be put on the ballot for Oakland, school board, Oakland school District voters. Other districts did that. So just be advised, that you will have an opportunity to vote on that millage.

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And then I have also have an ask. The Troy Foundation for Educational Excellence is hosting its golf outing on June 9th. I believe it is. Know. And so, if you are a golfer, we would love to have you if you would be inclined to want to be a sponsor of that event. Again, we would love to have you. There's there's details on the Troy Foundation for Educational Excellence website. About that out. Thank you. I just have one item about this. So,

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you all know I was involved with the invest in my kids ballot initiative, and I just wanted to update everyone on that, that, the group has decided to, stop at this point in time. They were to at a little over 250,000 signatures. So they were a little over halfway there. But considering they needed those by the beginning of July, in the time, we wanted to be realistic about attaining that. So that has been tabled for now, although they are looking to see about,

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moving forward in 2021, either with something similar. So it thank you, Mr. Hall. Just real quick. Happy almost spring break. I also wanted to put a plug in for Lamaze, which is coming in the middle of April. I was a theater kid, and I was surprised when I was a theater kid. But I, hold it dear to my heart, so I just want to let everybody know tickets are on sale, and I know spring break is going to happen. So it's been moved to April really fast. So I just want to make that look,

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I don't have a whole lot. I it is this Friday, so I want to those families that are celebrating, I want to wish them a happy eight. And then, we'll also have Easter at the, towards the end of spring break. So, just a happy. I eat an Easter to the families before we come back. In April. Wonderful. Doctor McCaskey. Yeah, just a couple things. I mentioned Cap Day. Thank you for mentioning that, we had 100 students, who matched, a little under 100, actually. We're going to have a match day two.

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There were some students. Couldn't make it to match day one. We'll do that a little bit later this week. But that will total, around 100 students who matched with over 40 businesses and industry here in Troy. So it's a great opportunity for those individuals to be involved with that. The Iowa Art fair reception will take place on the 24th. Of this month at five, 5:00. That is in the cafeteria area for those that might be interested in that, the, love of reading event is at Athens at 530, on the 24th as well.

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I said same day 24th. Yes. So anyone that might be interested in that will take place in the cafeteria in that gym, for those that are interested in that, I'll also just mention that we had our third of our, the third meeting of five of our school finance engagement group. That is a group of individuals you've heard me share, that we're bringing together to talk about school finance in Michigan and how that impacts, funding and in particular the budget and in the Troy School District. We're specifically focusing on the budget in the Troy School District.

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So doing a deep dive on that, and recognizing that everyone couldn't be a part of that, we we have, Mr. Trudel and I have, after each meeting, have done a podcast, with all of the slides that we shared with that group. So if anyone is interested in seeing those, that all three of them are now available on our website, you can watch those. We talk about funding in general. And episode one, in episode two we talk about revenues. So where the money comes into the district and and where does it go when it comes into the district?

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And then episode three, wow. Which we just had last week is, is our expenditures. So where does the moneys go? And and so forth. Our next episode, we're going to talk about some of our, ancillary funds. We'll talk about bond and we're going to talk about, the, enhancement millage as well. We will do a follow up video, after that to share with the community. It will be out shortly thereafter. And then on the fifth, meeting, we'll we'll kind of do a wrap, and get some feedback from that group. So, it's been a while. Well, attended engagement has been great thus far,

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and we appreciate those individuals that are part of that process. Also, reminder conferences this week is this week and as was mentioned, where we have, spring break right around the corner, Professional Development Day on Friday of this week. So, I know our staff, our teaching and learning team worked really hard diligently to put that together for staff. So very quick going on as we round our way to spring break. All right. Thank you, Doctor Chesky. I want to start off with wishing Saint Patrick's Day for everybody. Like I said, I also want to wish, the end of the Ramadan season and go further.

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That also coincides with, Indian festival called O'Grady. It's a new year. And we are going to celebrate that on Thursday and on Friday. I do want to so all the celebrations, I do want to congratulate our teachers of the year. We had, three amazing teachers who were recognized last week, I guess three weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago. Okay. Mrs. Mulligan, you said her name. Miss Mallard Park, Mrs. Gilbert and Miss Christina Reck. Congratulations to all three of them.

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The one thing I do want to add is, surveys have gone out to parents, as people have mentioned, a public communication for, parents of middle school. Matt. Please, please, please take the time and fill in the surveys and send them back. It's absolutely important. All your feedback is important to us. We all pay attention and listen to it. And surveys have also gone out to students as well as teachers of these middle school math. And we will look at all of that feedback. We are going to be deliberate and thoughtful and think through all the

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aspects and decide on the right, a right way to proceed with the curriculum. At the last week's workshop, we also reviewed in depth about our budget, and we are investigating ways to balance our budget and looking at all our options and thinking through quite, quite deep into all of those as well. Please be assured we are paying attention to all the things and doing the best to, to take everything into consideration. So that's all I have. And our next workshop and meeting dates.

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Excuse me. Okay. Our next workshop is April 7th. Tuesday. Right here. Yeah. April and an April 21st is a regular meeting. April 20th. Okay, let me look it up. April 7th and April 21st is the Board of Education meeting at 7 p.m.. Right here. Well. Meeting adjourned. Have a wonderful rest of the day. All right. Okay.