certainly Madam president trusty Fields here trusty Townsen here vice president Lee here trusty good I am here president Hawkins here we have five Board of Education members present and two were absent next
that takes us to the Pledge of Allegiance can we all we have six Board of Education members present and one absent uh thank you trusty gainley uh could we all rise uh for the reciting of the pledge I pledge allegiance 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 next that takes us to the acceptance of the agenda is there a motion at this
time Madam president vice president that the Board of Education accept the agenda as presented thank you a motion has been made by vice president Lee is there support for this motion trusty Fields I support thank you supported by trusty
Fields all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to our presentation for this evening which is our budget hearing and at this time I'd like to turn it over to Dr Zachary Ross to introduce this presentation thank you madam president
um we know that each year is it's important for us to uh hold a budget hearing before um the budget is presenting presented to the board and so the this was posted in the newspaper and
at this time I'm going to ask um our CFO Damen Butler to come and um as he is ready to present uh the initial
findings and what he has to offer to the board thank you Mr Butler good evening Madam president I'm superintendent board trustees our presentation um is
optimistic it's so we're on a we're in a good place long term for the uh for the state there's still some things excuse me there's still some things that need to be decided but for the most part we are at a steady state
for uh funding moving forward okay here we go so there's next few slides of just the preliminary information of why we're here what we have to do we are complying with the uniform budget act and uh State and Regulatory laws to make sure that uh the
budget is uh public and everyone has an opportunity the community included has an opportunity to uh see it offer input so our budget parameters would just these These are more regulatory guidance State bulletin 1022 basically
tells us how we create our new uh budget lines we've been very fortunate in the district to receive uh various state and federal grants and as those uh funds come in we have to track them uh in a very specific way and uh gby General
accepted accounting principles and bulletin 1022 uh dictate how we do that so we're we're just following with the guidance that's set out in front of us as Madam superintendent mentioned we posted the notice in the paper as are
required we have to have a a budget reviewed and in place by June 30th going into the new fiscal year starting uh on July 1st the expenditures are uh coming in and we we need to be uh flexible as
things change and we'll go through a few of those changes and uh things that are not already set in stone coming from uh the state again it's a living document and that's where our flexibility comes the district has over 4,600 budget
accounts and we're going through and working through to make sure that the the ones that we have are active and um up to date we're going to talk about the uh general fund food service and uh debt retirement as we are going for closing
out for this year moving forward into 2425 school year a couple of the assumptions that we have building uh the budget is our foundation allowance will be increasing we're not 100% sure what that looks like yet there are three proposals
coming from the governor uh the house and the Senate we'll go through those uh excuse me in the next few slides uh seek is coming to an end at the end of next school year so some of the professional development funding
that we've had and uh we've gotten uh used to Will be going away but as we get closer to that date the uh C executive cabinet will get together and figure out uh New Opportunities we'll seek out new opportunities and see how we'll uh make
up for that difference um leap is in year going heading into year four or five and we're going we're doing well with that to uh share literacy and different literacy campaigns throughout the district idea special education is on on goinging
we're constantly working to improve the services that we provide to our young scholars Title One Two Three for those are continual and we're we're working through those to make sure we're using those funds appropriately so the proposed budget the
our pupil increase the governor's proposal was 200 $241 from the present uh $968 as of today I don't have the uh I don't know whose budget is well whose proposal has
been accepted so as they work at the higher levels to uh get that news out to us as soon as we know we will update and we'll revisit it in our uh first quarter budget update during the next school
year so that those three different uh proposals change the the budget slightly for uh each of the um for our per people amount I didn't put the the amount there because don't want to get a chat from
number and it changes and once the uh the final the final number is uh voted what's your what's your proposal built on our proposal is built on the current number of 9608 so I didn't I don't want to take I
don't want to go say 241 and we end up getting 217 or go 302 and and below so we bu right we stady right where we are so we we expect to see a slight increase but as of today we are going
off of the current per pup uh amount of 9608 so whatever is one of these three proposals will be on top of the 9608 yes you amend it yes so and we will discuss that amendment in uh early early father
next school year probably October October November time frame is when we we'll bring that number back and see what that what changes have come once the budget is published so this is our current um I'm sorry this is this is next year
this is this is next school Year resolution with our our increase in our um from last year state aid from the 9150 to 9608 that's where our state revenue of
increases to $35 million and then we'll continue to have the the transfers and transactions for uh private schools and different um support from the ISD and throughout the county that's where the 7 Mill 7.2
million in transfers covers so we're looking at a a slight increase from last year's budget but on track with our uh with the increase from 90 991 99,100 to
9,600 so our expenditures will remain consistent we have a you know our services for students will remain the same title funds will remain the same so that goes into uh what what goes into
the classroom and services for students across the District transportation um facilities updates we'll talk about Debt Service here shortly the idea is to is to maintain the uh to not to move the fund
balance up or down in any significant manner just because we want to make sure at steady as we are we are getting closer to a drastic cut in funding we don't know what those drastic cuts are it's just the the fiscal cliff is coming
we we just can't say when when we're going to get it changes changes to funding are happening very quickly one main one for us will be uh seek and leap those grants will be ending in the next two years
so we are doing our best to remain conservative in how we plan and spend food service is one area of our budget that we that we have a lot of uh opportunity EXC me again we have the the local
revenue is what's what we build uh in within the school uh local uh local retailers and uh taxes state revenue with and federal revenue come from various grants that we get for uh
our students all of our students still 100% uh free lunch so those uh federal and state grants are keeping us afloat and they have not yet spent you know we can't keep their balance at uh
this amount but they have not spent their allocation were supposed to be doing some work in the kitchen area and so they do have that plan still to do those updates Capital Capital Improvements are
a big part of the Food Service budget so that here are the expenditures for food service so those as superintendent mentioned we're bringing them down and we're working with the food service director to make sure we're going we're we're prioritizing where
those uh improvements will be made it's an ongoing process to as they plan for equipment free place equipment one place we have put repairs in another so it's a it's a balance in that and uh
Food Service Rec now working closely to make sure we get all these funds uh aot and spent properly so our debt fund this this a Chuy area there's a a lot going on but we're still
in the we are still paying off Bond debt the funds that we received from the state paid off the school loan uh repayment program and it it hit the uh various districts differently but we are still moving forward to pay off uh our bonds
and the bonds don't mature until 2032 so we still we have a payment process going through so our uh local revenue is still going through towards uh paying down those debts and we don't anticipate a
significant drop in any of the revenues coming our way so again we're we're pretty steady with where we have where we have been sorry we could go back the next one too but you know excessive expenditures
under Revenue at 1.6 million is that is that money that we I assume this revenue is what we collect taxpayers bond with yeah so the bond payments are the four particularly the four 4.6 million and the 1.6 is what we have
[Music] remain no where so now now that this the the bond the school loan repayment has been paid that problem is we we no longer have that problem when I I see excess of EXP extra. million somewhere
that yes it is yes it is my apolog my apologies so we we are we we are but we're we are not in the hole we're not in a hole thank and I apologize for the oversight okay uh that's uh that's great that's a great
that's a much better to have it apologize that yes yes we we are we are not in the hole are not in the hole that Revenue that is is the state revenue right no this is all local Revenue this is local oh so we're able to carry over and and use it
to pay next year yes okay add that to it to whatever right de bance next year great thank you that mistake will be on the next slide as well I oversight but the
the the verbage is is is backward is backward so in this case the 9 million is the state is the taxpayer money plus the state money or can you can you talk about what so all this is all local taxes there's no State funding this this is all local taxes local taxes and
revenue okay and local Tax and Revenue come from uh various uh areas services that may that we may get transfers in but this is all not none of this is from the state this is all so then the state funding didn't pay this directly they just paid the school bond
Loan Fund debt that we've been acre is that true okay I just want to make sure that I'm thisal clear thank so again we're we're we're steady we're in a good spot we're not in in any don't no need to sound any alarms for
our our tax revenue and expenditures great so our next steps are to adopt our to close out 2324 with our uh our budget and we were we we stayed pretty much on track where we started the beginning of the year which was good for us we didn't
have any any major changes any major moves then we also need to adopt the initial budget for 2425 and any changes that'll be made once the governor's budget is finalized will be updated in the the beginning of
the school year again October November time frame what other questions that you have so the the student told this my understanding question is what what is our student count based on yeah I mean based so you know the numbers are
calculated based on student count projected student count so what is the projected student count so the number I used was uh 3740 and that was information I pulled from uh my school data okay based off of
uh last year's numbers uh school count date from February I did not use those updated numbers this is what's on my High School data currently you say 3740 yeah when you know I I know that we're
anticipating the state funding coming in and and covering a portion of that Bond payment what is the timing like on that is it is it going to hit this year summer taxes or is it going to be next year that it that taxpayers are we have a
meeting with the treasury next Monday and we'll talk about the timing initially uh they wanted everything to hit before June 30th so it would it would be in this year so can let me answer if I can answer that from our
perspective sure they have paid off our portion okay we don't deal with the tax part and that's where I was because they came and asked discuss that and we're like that the tax portion that they deal with with the with
the count County Treasury so people people when we talked to them we said hey that's between the treasury and the county and so someone was here um just recently and they said oh maybe that's oh I was at Blooming wise and they said
well maybe because we got our bill in February and you all got paid they paid us off in April or when did they pay our bill so they paid a they paid the bill I believe in April so maybe because they
paid us after you guys got your bill and so then they maybe calculated after so then you get another bill I don't know so we said please they paid off the they paid off the the school debt in April so maybe they dealt with
the township and their bill and our recalculating people's taxes through the municipality and treasury after so maybe the timing because I don't want people to think okay ycs it's ycs and
recalculating taxes they paid off wcs's debt in April and so what I understand is there was a bill in February and then there's going to be another bill so I'm like oh maybe it's the timing between in case somebody's asking I
think that's probably that makes a lot of sense everybody gets everyone you know those tax bills are issued before we got the payment so I got the same question which is why I'm carrying it here uh and so um that's helpful to know and it sounds like it'll H next year's
summer taxes and we can go to um the County Treasurer if we have more more details so I just because when people told me they're timing I'm like oh that makes more sense to me I was like we weren't paid off then I think I I don't think that that thing passed like had
been signed by the government no yeah so when they told me the time they got their bill it made more sense to me because I was like well we hadn't been paid off at that time we hadn't gotten that zero so I I have a question so in regards to on the budget where it talks
about the debt service the 5.6 million is that number based upon that's not based upon what we used to pay that's uh general fund expenditures yes so that 5.6 is based
upon what we know the actual Debt Service to be for existing bonds correct okay so then now we since we got paid for the real run portion correct of the debt then we don't NE we don't have to
borrow we don't have to do any of that the current taxes um will tax base will cover that pain yes okay we we do not anticipate a state aid note this year or borrowing anything outside of the
bond so I guess just to continue on that why why is it so high then you know I know that our operating debt also was was would have been paid off so is that projection included because this seems like a lot of De service so I combined the payments that we made this
year so and that was it it may drop but just based off of what we paid this year that was that's how I determine the debt service so we we would see the difference but with all the more the more information to come there will be changes but this this is a conservative
Outlook to make sure that we know we can cover upcoming things so you're not anticipating you that high though I think it'll stay steady there'll be some change because of the the payoffs and the the pending payments that we
have coming but I wanted to stay conservative to make sure we were we're good to go I don't want to go too low and we have a unforeseen bump or a change an unknown change that I just wasn't anticipated so
I stayed you know pretty steady to where we were since we still have bonds and pfm hasn't changed yet what we ow they haven't given us a new what our new numbers are we meet
with treasury Monday Monday in pfm so since they haven't given us our new what we like it's like having a mortgage and they say oh you paid off something you've had a double mortgage but they haven't given a new rate
yet so we don't know what that is and we still have outstanding bonds that and maybe this is the same answer I know negotiations have been ongoing they're ongoing and that um you know so
it sounds like we we sort of anticipated flat revenue and we are anticipating higher sta cost we we hope because we're going to be able to pay our staff more um with the negotiation so is that is that calculated in or did we sort of just keep everything flat
that's calculated in due to the payoffs and okay there there was some adjustments in but I as we go too far we want to put ourselves out and in two years we'll be laying deep off and that's not what we want to do sure as well as we know that benefits are
anticipated to be much higher so the additional salaries and benefits are built into this budget even though we kep the revenue left yes thanks screen is locked so there any other
questions r on you to tell me what slides you on we also just as caveat we do ipate like for the Amendments I know there's always a lot less in this part but hopefully this last two the amendments
are going to be much greater because we know there's so many unanticipated the negotiations the the governor's changes and um we know there's also a lot of Cate when he talks about the categoricals we left them the same but
we know we're hearing there's going to be changes in categoricals the seat grant that covers Grizzly Camp yes okay and that's not a renewable Grant well he also is going to um right
now it's not renewable it's running out at the end so right now we know we can count on it this next year but he's going to DC to hear we're hoping they're going to say yes it's renewed but so far we're hearing that there's it it will not be renewed like there's no funding
for it and the leap we have one more year correct yes one more6 27 correct I mean 25 26 yes okay and so we're we're looking for how we might continue funding if there's any other
funds for that if not we'll just find out how to which pieces we can add and remember essers is ending so we've already ways to figure out how to do that we're not in a physical cliff like other people who did not forecast
that out yes I'm on the Food Service f um you were saying that they're they still have plans to upgrade the kitchen and stuff they're not in jeopardy of losing
the money if they don't upgrade and everything are they Well we'd have we would have to but that that's why we have plans that have to keep upgrading but what he said is that there's repair so you plan on upgrading
but then you have a repair instead like you want to buy a new car but instead your the current car you have breaks down so you got we have to actually repair we had to repair um the freezer went out so we had to buy freezer um so
we've had to do other things because we can't get the new thing because we had to do the emergency repair so we've been spending it but we have to do the other things instead and so the other the the bigger
upgrades cost more money and they're the ones that we want to spend the the nice amounts of money at homes and some of the high school has a new line that we want to do and those are where big amounts will be spent but we've had some like some for example those freezers
some of the repairs that have been taken up the time of the of the new director who came in just this year so we're going to spend it we just didn't want you to think oh my gosh they have all this money and there's no plan um Tiffany wrote a really nice plan and
chart worlds is working it's it's going to look really nice it's just this year we got a new director he had to work on an audit you all know we been he didn't know he hadn't been through an audit so Tiffany came worked
side by side with him on the audit and then all the repairs happened um and mostly because we were going through like some of the things with DTE when those it kicked off some of those freezers and some of the things and we actually had to replace some of those
pieces cuz the food ended up going bad with the when the freezer went out when DTE had our buildings out and we had to like get those things that aren't beautiful like when we replac the roofs it we couldn't do the
nice plans Mone is part of no you have food service money can only be used for kitchen for redoing those things you can't use it for anything else you can put a little bit of in kind money it's like a certain
percent like I can't remember all the you can probably well so part the the thing about food service is it it has to go into the operations of some for food service if we can't use it anywhere else throughout the district just there and
the the in kind Services come from support uh basically management uh chart Wells the chart well fees come out of there and the percentages that escap me as well the usually know every line item can't second we're we're looking at less
than 10% for those fees over that's it so the funds that food service generates go right back food service but the the small the small repairs impact the larger but there is a spend plan in
place know Paul Garrett and I work you know closely together to get everything going and make sure we are uh hitting tomor okay with this current budget and all of the improvements we've made with
audit as far as going forward we should be able to meet the deadlines and everything for the reporting times and stuff okay that's great systems and training are improving as we speak okay y you've already brought in what's
his name you've already brought in yeah for the audit we we we are preparing for uh to go through the 23 24 audit we have our uh yeah we we brought back our contractor to help us oversee and he is
an auditor so he he forces us to think and work as an auditor so that we we're prepared for uh creating and presenting information last year's uh transition of our grant director is a year old and know Miss bra
Boon is doing great things putting systems in place we have our team our full team full long-term team in the business office so our training we just came back from uh Tyler Technologies training um we had um the state and federal
grants conference early this year we have some um accounts payable training coming up so we're we're we're con moving forward to create better processes so that we can one get rid of
that right up of timeliness for last year order and oversight thank you for asking so I can put in that this is you checked in I just want like yes but document this other
questions thank you thank you all right next that takes us to uh public comments and I don't see any one here um but we can check just to be certain Miss Hayes thank you so much and lastly that takes us to um the
adjournment of our meeting of our special meeting it is 609 and we are adjourned yes that's welcome e e e e e
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e e e e e the time is 6:30 I would like to call this e e Le if there support for this motion thank you supported by trusty
field all those in favor those oppos that motion carries next that takes us to achievements Awards and recognition and at this time I would like to turn it over to Dr Zachary Ross thank you Madame
President um we're just happy today to have one of our younger uh buildings our Perry Early Learning Center represented by its wonderful for principal Brian Dickerson he's going to come and he has
a PowerPoint also to share since some of our earlier folks aren't able to be here our young scholars but he's here with the points of Pride so I'd like to welcome principal Dickerson to share his points of Pride
welcome principal Dickerson thank you thank you um start vide it's a video the video yes so good
evening I am thrilled to share a special video that highlights the incredible teamwork enthusiasm and passion we witness every day at here this video is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our
team this year has presented us with has presented us with multiple challenges but our staff has shown remarkable resilience and a willingness to pull together for the good of our Perry families and Community the video crafted by Emily
Barber and Megan Carr two of our first grade uh teachers that graduated from University of Michigan uh it captures various aspects of our school life and Community connections day
[Music] real [Music] Rob Valentine's popsicles in thek and of barue [Music] Mark is reading flip night mystery
reading reading night [Music] [Music] [Music] partip learning OPP [Music] one years three years three years years 23 2 25 26 27
2 40 42 all right so the slideshow I'll go through it pretty pretty quick because I know some of the students were kind of quiet on there we couldn't really hear them um so oh I got a
clicker there all right so when I was in the office the students talked about our daily affirmation so this is an our morning announcements every single day um and this is something that we created uh this summer or last summer for our students so what they were saying was I
am smart I'm a leader to I can do hard things and so can you I am respectful when I work in play and I'm ready to learn let's have a great day so our students say that every day we just want to give them that daily affirmation and encouragement to do their best every single
day um so yes say they mentioned our two teacher of the year recipients and they're here tonight so [Music] finalist and received $5,000 for cl supplies um and then was the ycs teacher
of the year that is definitely something to be proud of U oh you saw the young lady at the Newar playground they love our space um it's really age appropriate now they have room uh our nurse loves it too
because it's less injuries everything's appropriate for it's amazing so literacy events must mentioned we have a ton of literacy events this is something that we're really proud of um one book one school is something that we brought on this year where every classroom read the same
book and then we had the author come in and they did an assembly with the students about the book that they the classes read together um reading night flip night uh ton of different things that we did for literacy month uh here's a couple pictures from Reading
night this is the one book one [Music] school so also for reading month our teachers decorated their door so we really had fun with it really pumped up reading month and made it exciting for our students so here's just four of our
doors that we're created um so Ernest was on the stage and we talked about gas in assemblies uh so we did have the football players men's mindset uh the Mad scientists come
in animals that carry Earth Rangers so we really want want to provide students with a lot of experiences and you know a lot of new things that they can really explore you know enjoy at Parish so here's the Emu football players they' come to the building a few times this
year they really engage with the students and have a great time with them so tene staff that was the part at the end so Perry house is one of the largest student populations in the district with 379 students we have one of the highest
retention rates our teachers have 478 years of experience serving our ycs community so and the last one I one of I don't remember which student but community outreach we want to try to bring our community into our building
and really have an enjoyable time at Perry so we started the year with popsicles in the Park which is a new thing that we brought on this year and this is kind of an opportunity to have popsicles meet your teacher um really get comfortable with the building so that was a great time reading night
Valentine's Day uh Dan our robotics team did an awesome job they won an award I think there there they um Miss Miller [Music] um and then we're really proud of you
know our teachers not only do they you know they work hard you know from 8 or 7:30 to 3:30 in our buildings but they also take time out of their own day to you know enhance or really become lifelong learns they want to continue
their education they want to keep building and growing for our students um so here's just a list of all the different either conferences or degrees that they're earning they're really doing a lot so there's our slid summary we're incred incredibly
proud of our fantastic staff and dedicated to staying that Perry and consist consistently improving their teaching and it has propelled our student forward they've created new and exciting opportunities that make learning vibrant and engaging we are
equally proud of our students for their academic accomplishments and active participation in our community events we want to continue to provide New Opportunities and more Project based learning for our students in the future thank you uh excellent highlights and points
of Pride uh thank you so much for sharing all of that with us um Miss Miller and Miss blevis if you could please stand I just wanted to take a minute to just highlight uh your commitment and dedication and years of service to ipsan
Community Schools used to be Ipsy public and you know came together um Miss remind me how many years 22 so if my math is right what is that 64 64 combined years of teaching
Excellence that is outstanding outstanding thank you for everything that you have done for the students in this District let's give them oh you're on M live today did you
know that Miss l [Laughter] [Music] how standy thank you so much and all the Perry Educators who else is here from Perry amazing work thank you all so so much we appreciate you we commend you
and we celebrate you thank you Dr Zachary Ross I'm going to turn it right back over to you for the recognition of the 2023 2024 seal of biliteracy recipients thank you madam President we lifted up and saw just uh
some of the wonderful things that are happening at our Early Learning Centers and then it goes straight to our high schools um because there are amazing things happening from our prek all the
way up to our high schools with our seal of by literacy recipients so I'm going to ask for our El team our multilingual team to come on up because they're going to help us to recognize our 2324 sale of
B literacy recipients the this wonderful team has been doing an amazing job since the board approved um the S of by literacy work um we know this is the only uh seal that has been recognized by
the Michigan Department of Education it's this um this is a true distinction and so I really want to just a shout out to this team who has kept this Focus um and it's a real honor for these
graduates and so I just thank you for I'm pushing these graduates to ensure that these Scholars receive this recognition um is it really highlights the board's um focus on Equity the
district's focus on Equity to focus on ensuring that we know that these a lot of these Scholars um come with they don't come as empty vessels they come with funds of knowledge um many of them from different home countries but then
it also ensures that our students um who don't have this knowledge already they we leave out with multiple languages and we know this is important for our Scholars to leave out as Global Citizens so let me let you um come up and do what
you uh were were were tasked to do so thank you so hi I'm Liz Surman Maryann jger and Celeste green and we are the El team multilingual team and we work with
these kids on their seala by literacy so the students have um completed either the test to show their Proficiency in a language or they have uh come with records from their home country showing that they studied in their native
language in their home country and sometime multiple languages so I have a list of 22 students who have received it already there are a few more that have tested that I'm waiting for the results on still and they they can get that anytime during the summer um I have a
few who may test a little bit later um as well so I'm going to read the names we have Medina Abdul Basir Turkish this is her fourth language English is her fourth language her brother Muhammad
Abdul Basir also Turkish fourth language Karen aalos Spanish Jennifer Beano Cordova Spanish marel Elias V Spanish greal balesa Gonzalez Cruz
Spanish Omar Jimenez Perez Spanish selia Jimenez Vidal Spanish Stephanie hunko Mendoza Spanish anel Martinez Spanish graia Mazama French but again this is her third
language because she speaks others as well wi Vietnamese khed orabi Arabic Abdul Naser orabi Arabic walti P chunis Spanish esta oros
Spanish joer Antonio Ramirez Cabrera Spanish Liz danello Rivas Rodriguez Spanish muhamad Salam PTO Corina Sanchez Leon Spanish Wilber toar Barona Spanish and
ronel Alexander varello Rodriguez Spanish so we congratulate all of them on the hard work that they have completed while here at um Epsy uh high school well we'd like to thank you than
teachers and thank you Dr Lopez for supporting the entire team congratulations to all of our Scholars I just want to say thank you for making this possible for so many students this year we have 254 new El
students in our district in addition to what we had and there are more coming and they want to be here with us so we're pretty happy about it so thank you for all the support um just a another uh another huge uh thanks to uh the team who just
presented these 21 outstanding students on their seal of biliteracy I just want to give them another round of applause before we move on to our next agenda it next that takes us to the recognition of our 2023 2024 retirees of ips salani
Community Schools Dr Zachary Ross I will turn it back over to you again thank you Madame President um I'm going to ask uh Miss mccardy to please come up and it's just amazing as I look at the names of the the persons I want to again thank
you as Mardi is coming up for your years of service I think about each and every one of you and I hear your names I throughout the district I hear about how you are working on teams I see the
impact that you make I walk by classes or go into classes I see how much you've done for this district and although um it's just hard I know some of you have teased so much about you leaving and you
say yep it's time for me to go um but I am just grateful for your service and I know you all are going to do a great job presenting but no you know we always will take you back you don't have to
go Miss mccardy good good evening everyone I this is this is fun and sad yes it is sweet don't want to let go I don't want to let go they want probably want to let go and
then gonna join hug and we will just we have a video that we would like to play first and then we will move forward to calling the name [Music] it's been a great ride and we all know that sometimes rides have come from end
and so now I'm off to another adventure [Music] [Music] [Music] you that they are the artists and it's their creativity that we are here to promote and to
[Music] grow e 20 time the 30 years that I've been here and like I said I'm back again couldn't stay away I wish everyone could feel the same way I do that I'm here doing what I
love the rainbow and so that awesome video was done by Raymond Alvarado and if you had an opportunity to come to the grizzly Awards you would have viewed it there but that's really a great video and then the the child that you saw singing in
the background is what I mean heard singing in the background is one of our students beautiful student second grade I believe and she was singing with her teacher she did a great job so the Union's going to come up with me and we're going to just talk a little
bit about each one of the teachers and read some verbs from their principal and just call them up alphabetically okay so this Jill B so miss was one teacher and she always
has a creative classroom family founded on love she has high expectations for herself and her students and she's always going to R thank you so much and then we will be presenting Union their their
presentation presences will be presenting this plot to all of our retirees with their name engraved but the shipping was delayed so this is what it looks like Jo okay I
promise so Miss Cindy you want to do the the board or no the board you [Laughter] [Music] want do
that oh okay I didn't know how with me sorry and Charlotte Pat feel free to to speak at any time Michael Boward was skill trade for uh in the Aon facilities
Department amazing amazing worker and he's greatly missed um could call on them anytime to get things fixed and it was it was done um Christina Buckley also was part of Mr Rose's team she's a custodian worked here for many many
years she's a little Spitfire I mean she just is she get this done get that done get this done you have to meet her to know what I'm talking about and then we have Miss so Miss Lucy um has been serving students over the decades she's always
supported student she's even been known to do the assignments herself so that she can teach better help the students do it as well and she's most recently from Ericson Elementary and they say that they're going to miss your story
and your history last and I find that to be true when we did Co you had some amazing things on the video oh thank you jire so Kathy has done everything from embracing our differences having a wonderful art classroom many of you have
been there and have had students in her classroom um we just can't say enough about her doing Grizzly learning Camp all of the art projects everything servicing the wise Community as well as the Greater ycs Community for all these
years thank you so much is also a part a former part of Mr Rose's team she was the custodian at the middle school and has I mean it was I and Mr RS can confirm this if you needed it done you could count on her to get
that done there was never any question about what was going to be done if it was extra if it was out of the norm she was going to get that done and you can count and then um we have Mr Robert hesket from Ace m
has been serving it been serving the students online in the uh Ava program for so many years in fact we were talking just now um before this before the board meeting and I was saying I'm G to miss you because I would call on the
phone and say hes is this done H is that done did you get these in you know and it was comfortable and it felt good but he has said that he needs to spend time with his two-year-old grandchild use his camper just just get some things done in
life so thank you oh yes please alwayss [Laughter] and next we have um Shirley Lucas she's a bus driver for the district she was
here before she retired she came back and she's retired again so I tried to convince her she did not want to do that but it did not work out and then we have Mr Rose himself Mr facility guys no he's done a few things
around the district right just a couple of things he was a teacher he was a principal he's been our facility director he's taking on the sinking fund playgrounds TR oh yeah and you know what when we didn't have a transportation
director he did a split roll for us so I mean this just been so many things this just you could go on and on and on that Mr Rose Has Done um I think he took some of his team members with him I don't know you guys what next we have Miss Anita smid so how you
doing just last week I was at Ericson letting her know that she didn't really want to retire tried to talk to her through this but she didn't agree with me and but I first met Miss Smith at Ford and it was kind of during that fire time and she was like oh my God
all 25 30 years of stuff and it was quite emotional emotional excuse me but she got through it she helped other people get through it and she's always there always there with a smile always there with for the children thank youo
[Laughter] me too and next we have Miss Sandy Tod Sandy is known at her building for having a warm and welcoming environment that she has really high levels of expectations for her students and really
high support she her principal said one of her most notable impacts is her positive impact on her colleagues as well so miss s um Larry Utley was the district plumber um he's not present tonight but
you know can't do without a plumber there's been so many times you know toilets have broken stuff like that all kinds of things um and we had Mr Utley to come on in and do it and it worked on our pools various things no crying
there's no crying in the board and next we have Miss [Music] cythia Miss Cynthia I know that you've been here for a long time and Charlotte's going to jump in and say some things as well but her her new principal
um oh my gosh Zach said that he just can't say enough about what an outstanding uh special education teacher she has been and the role model and just the kindness and the wonderful service that she has provided the students in
his one year that he's just completely Amazed by her so Miss Cynthia I'mma let Miss Charlotte take over from here [Music] so next we have mm Miss Lisa Watkins so Miss Lisa and I have my my
whole career here at ycs I have love and and just admiration for my um fellow negotiator making sure that I do things right not always agreeing with me laying
down the law I'm got tell you we've had some time and then she's also a great cook shared so many delicious like monstrous salads if you guys ever get a chance to have one of her salad they are
delicious among other things every day and she does cater I'll let throw that in for so guys if you need someone number one here right here so I mean I absolutely lovely I absolutely love her
and I'm going to miss her and I tried to convince her that she wanted to come back but nobody listen nobody's listening to me nobody so thank you yeah I have to say something on be ofis so Lis I go back to willon too but
the other part of it is she's a union she was a union president for the support staff so she and I work together um we travel with the Union to lasted numerous times you would always say don't forget me don't forget I'm
with you I said okay I got you uh we traveled out state so I'm going to miss you I am heading to pH figure that one out going to philadelph so will miss her and I appreciate all
have done thank have Miss Deborah Woods an associate teacher from per she's not present but she also like went the extra mile because there's times an associate teacher can sub for a
Lead Teacher and multiple times she took on on that role and she did it so well I tried to con you know convince her too that she maybe wanted to be a Lead Teacher but she was happy in her associate role but I'm telling you when she took over her teacher it was seamless it was a seamless she did a
great job and um as I'm watching Everybody my I have sinking feeling in my stomach but I also know that it's a good time for them too as well so I thank you all of you I truly appreciate it and the members of the Board of Education and the superintendent are going to come up
yeah and before we do that um I just want to say and and Dr zachi Ros if you want to say a few words we don't want you to move we're going to come to you um but I just want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts you have left an indelible mark on the students in this community on this community as a
whole and on this District you will be missed you have poured into these students in ways you will never know thank you for your years of dedication and service to ipsan Community Schools please let's give them another round of applause you can we we
listen that's all right right that's all right um we are going to come in the line around to you and Shake Your Hands hug whatever we need to do so that you all don't have to move so we'll just go y [Music]
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again to our retirees and a special thanks to their families friends supporters who came out to celebrate and acknowledge them as well thank you again next that takes us to um our presentation uh our section 98b gold
progress report I will turn that over again to Dr Zachary Ross thank you Madame President at this time Dr Lopez will come to um present to the board the required section 98b go progress report
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teachers because the teers with their students work together uh is it okay M I thank you so much for sharing those exciting data um I realized there's a structure in
which you're required to provide these data um I just cannot resist my my rail against the what what averages don't tell us and I know that you have your eye on that and and um I was really struck um wi
superintendent Norman brought up uh especially with literacy in Wasing County how very B model the distribution is and I appreciate how very different that is than for our teachers in the classroom when you have if you have you know nearly even splits have advanced and students who really need
those tier two and tier three supports and how the economies of scale can be challenging so I I appreciate all the time how incredible our teachers are because I know that you know we are we are experiencing the same things
that the rest of Wasing County and the state are experiencing and terms of like needing to provide those sorts of specialized interventions and and specialized instruction to the students who we really want to bring up and it's a very different thing than if you happen to have a classroom where the
distribution is tightly clustered around that mean we know that we don't have that nobody in Michigan has that um yeah and so I'm glad that you shared about things like like in reviewal mathematics that cohort data is great and if there's
embedded Ed tools that can provide that tier 2 and tier three support in a way that's sustainable for the classroom teachers I think that's incredibly exciting um thanks also for sharing the what sounds like maybe some challenges with the adoption of road maps I know a few
of us got to hear about road maps at masb um prior to the district adopting it um one of the things that was cool at that presentation was hearing from Educators at the those early adopting districts and and hearing their enthusiasm was really
promising which made it exciting when road maps came here um I I would love if in the context of the retreat or at some point there might be an opportunity to hear from our teachers about both the you know the successes and the challenges with that road map's uh
adoption and integration um and I should probably stop talking now but thank you for all that you shared other four questions comments yes trusty gainley um just a a a quick question I I would Echo just the the
appreciation for um you know providing all this data um one of my questions I I loved the the case study of reveal mathematics um I I know that it said that it's still in a pilot is that pilot going to expand is question one and then question two is that there was a mention
on your last slide of an inquiry based um curriculum for kf5 is that also reveal and can you talk about that [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music]
never is okay I would also be reveal is that what's being proposed K5 mathematics would also be under with reveal okay thank you yes vice president Lee
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other board questions um so my question is you know we're about to enter into the summer season and usually we have students that will you know reading levels they won't
have consistency over the summer with reading doing math those types of things my question for you is during the school year just because you know I may talk to a lot of students like you know where your homework at or something like that is this current curriculum that we have
have any emphasis on a certain amount of level of homework where you can have that repetition of doing certain things um I just don't I don't know if that is the case anymore [Music] her question was about homework
[Music] systems and that's students okay and then you had mentioned you know I know in the previous meetings you had mentioned that one of our major barriers are is attendance and so I'm
sure some of that reflects in this data um what type of systems going forward are we going to use to kind of address that I mean because at some point you know we we can't continue to talk about
attendance we have to there still needs to we we need to have some something seriously in place that can address [Music] that of [Music]
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um attendance so not not punitive measures not tying attendance to grades and ways that we know go against grading for Equity but but finding ways to to further incentivize attendance to help Drive the the growth gains that we know
correlate well with attendants so maybe I missing something I I understand incentives for students but how does that correlate to parents being accountable to getting students to school because I just don't
recall growing up and having a choice so it was like you going to go to school but you ain't going to be here but you going to go to school so I guess different time but I'm just I know that would take time but I'm just saying when we're having these conversations that's something we can talk more
about in the retreat but I I mean I think that's different parents parents are different are not like my hear me out when I say this it does not Ma I parents are parents and
I understand we have to shift with time but that does not out what our standard is and how we're going to change that we talk now support in with check so there
me so I started the [Music] end it's been very positive so patterns of improvement so and I agree with you it's what do we do as as a school the kids here so we want to make sure that
we do a good job and so Ence by do parent engagement and do those kind of things at loal school [Music] [Music] and then do yeah we have high expectation but our
high expectation is that we're GNA serve them because they we knock on the door and they all have a special need so we love that we have we thank the board for doing the concentric but every single report is unique every time we get in touch with them
there is a real story on why they not here it's not because they're not trying to get here and even today I told the pr they said if they come after 11: that we tell them to go home nope that they got here and they had a story on why they
got here at 11 and so we need to feed that child and we need to figure out that they need to get a bus than God Toyota is going to get us three minivans cuz maybe we need the car and get the minivan cuz maybe just like me who was
abused when I was a child and it was thank God I got to school and so we need to get them here and have high expectations that they get here and that they get fed and then we
need to get their brain to turn on cuz my brain didn't turn on to after late in high school because of all of the abuse and then get them you know get everything else cuz the you read them concentric
reports there's a whole bunch of reasons it's a lot of reasons and we can you can read the reports they're knocking on the doors concentric is working it's not that they that's why I say it's a different parent my mom they got to school and it's it's a these
these parents have more trauma than our students so I think one of my concerns is or so if if we're looking at having a full picture of what the issue is then maybe we need data from consent so they give it to us every week yeah right so
what I'm saying is but for us to see that so when we're looking at data like this we see the whole picture that's true yeah that's a good Retreat that's that's a retreat that's not to the board members unfair to you yeah truste that's
unfair to you truste Thomson it's true because you're not seeing and I think if we scrape out like the names and stuff then you could it's unfair to you you're not see see what what barriers because then as a board you can say when you come to us and say okay we need this
additional support then we have a bigger picture to provide making decisions on that's additional support so I thank you vice president thank you [Music] they
don't only time additional work after school now I don't know if that's true or not so depending on cont
[Music] read this B you know mean and write about it you know I mean so it's it's different than when we used to get a worksheet you know we're not like that anymore kids have online whatever go
come out with your first dra come back to tomorrow so for us is very very different by different gr level but I do know that is doing that so that's something that we bring to the conversation with the princip
and want Toom because build [Music] right trusty FS together an agenda or something like for these items because I don't want to
take up too much time talking about you know kind of being repetitive of what we're talking about but then when we talk about it we say oh that's an item for a retreat you know what I mean saying so without me trying to talk about it and feel like I'm just beating a dead horse to death are we putting like you know you you know what I'm
saying so um so one thing I would want two things I think I would want to see then on the agenda and it's still on the same thing you're talking about I heard you say something about treny is really not an issue or it's not a thing or whatever so if it's not then we we got to address that still because it's still
kind of what she was talking about as far as students not being there and I know we're talking about we still want to address them as well and still take care of them but that's still an issue you know what I mean so we need to talk about that we need to find out okay if it's not an issue then how do we deal with that if it's not a thing anymore
how are we dealing with that you know what I mean it's because it's an issue and I know it I know families who have that but I heard they're not doing nothing else with that that's a scary thing for me but so we can put that on the agenda that's not what we said but thank you I want to make sure oh he did
make a comment saying it's not that so I think we should make sure we understand thank you thank you you yeah so treny I I would really would like to see that and then another thing that I'm hearing and I talked about this a long time ago and what I'm actually hearing from everybody at this board right now from
the comments is childhood trauma is a thing and I know that last year I talked about this and I wanted to make it a resolution to be honest we talk about those things I wanted to be a resolution for ycs because what I'm even hearing more even more today is we're talking about all these things that are
happening to kids and it's deeper than just the kids it's the parents and you're talking about when you go to their houses so it's an issue it's been a long time issue but I'm thinking if we make it some sort of resolution because you know when you have resolution things happen faster because it's a thing right and we can talk about it all day but if
you put it in paper and you have it as a resolution then you get more responses from different people who want to participate who want to help who want to contribute or whatever like that so I would like to see those two things as items when we have our Retreat to talk about that thank We'll add those to the
agenda [Music] I would that no what the element is we can do it at the retreat yeah so those are my two things I'm just wanted to add something to that y thank you
trusty Fields um any other board comments I'll be very brief um thank you uh for the presentation Dr Lopez um I appreciate the the the D the demographic data and it being broken down by not
only that but also M of instruction that find that very helpful um I ALS o saw something that really stuck out to me which is kind of this realignment mindset and um our focus on high quality teaching practices we know we have a
long way to go we know we've come a long way um and and I appreciate it in the report pulling out that we have to combat still low expectations right and we have to provide high expectations with high
support we have to set the bar and it can't just be we want you to achieve at this level that has to be backed up by this is what we're doing to make sure we get there um and it's all the things that right that that we hear at this table and what we're talking about right
now um we are probably seeing trauma in this community and probably many other communities like us across the country that are dealing with issues that we've never dealt with before from parents on down to children it is real right and so
I know in education we often want a Magic Bullet there is no magic bullet right we have to make sure that we are intentional we're thoughtful we're strategic in how we support how we build and cultivate relationships with young people and with families and I just have
to be honest the school district is not the only place where this support has to come from we have to think about how we leverage supports to support the whole family because everyone is struggling in a lot of different ways
and I think we just have to be mindful about managing our expectations and our Focus because we're an institution where we're we're we're teaching kids a lot of different things and it's an opportunity for them to learn also though we're a
we're a community that cares deeply about who our kids are and we demonstrate that by how we show up how we see our kids how we value their resp respect them and pour into them and so I just wanted to and we do that through an equity lens and I think this was why we
got to where we are I'm not suggesting by any means that we don't have a lot of work that we still need to do but I think it's important to pause to see how far we've come and that Testament goes to our Educators it goes to our families it goes to our
administrators doing this work day in and day out to move the needle in incremental ways and and and the stories behind the numbers um and the last thing that I'm going to say
is what I heard you say Dr Lopez too in connection to to trusty towns and you know our students we know attendance is an issue but I I also know too that what we're doing in our classrooms it seems to me is that we're
maximizing we're trying to maximize the time that we have with them no matter when they show up and and and it might not be big giant you know gains that we see but I remember last year this time sitting
here talking about the sixth and the ninth grade Transitions and how we were seeing such a dip because those transitions are hard and it's harder because many of those students who were transitioning in sixth grade hadn't been in a classroom in a couple of years because of the pandemic and so you
couple that so I just am thinking about all the different things and kind of where we were and where we are um and just thinking about all the things that I know the district is thinking about and the things that we have in place to make sure that our outcomes and our learning is being addressed in real
meaningful intentional thoughtful ways so that that's that's all I just wanted to to kind of say thank you Miss Hayes have well I don't think so unless somebody ran to the bed okay they gave in and left out I don't know if I
missed them uh next that takes us to our consent agenda um is there a motion at this time [Music] thank you a motion has been made by trusty Schindler is there support for this motion thank you supported by truste
towns and all those in favor I those oppos that motion carries next that takes us to um our action item under student affairs and that is the approval for our annual instructional material and our contract track renewals is there
a motion at this time Madam president I moveed that the Board of Education approve the one Spanish for kids quote for a purchase amount of $237,900 to American reading company 202 2425 quote for a purchase amount of $$
48,1 2010 three mcra Hill reveal math quote for a purchase amount of $71,500 for Teacher action research quote for a purchase amount of $38,900 five feev tutor quote for the purchase amount of
$100,000 six mea Consulting service engag School Improvement plan agreement quote for the purchase amount of $ 68,7 750 seven Pediatric Therapy Associates LLC quote for
$35,988 Pediatric Therapy Associates LLC quote for $45,600 retainer for $5,000 per month thank you a motion has been made by trusty Goodrich is there support for this motion support vice president Lee
thank you supported by vice president Lee any discussion on this item um Madam president yes um could I just ask I I looked through these are there any new items here the administration would like to to highlight and talk about these are
odd the renewals so we didn't put any new items on it MH I'm sorry the Pediatric Therapy Associates is that the summer versus the whole year yes summer is number one and
the whole year is number two eight is the Y esy is extend uh the extended school year and then uh Ida uh is for the 20242 is number eight so esy is ex
extended school year oh yeah no no thank you for asking for clarity y all right so just to recap a motion was made by trusty goodr supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those
oppose that motion carries next that takes us to um a resolution for uh our MH our Michigan High School Athletic Association 2425 uh is there a motion at this
time M president uh Madam president this is Trusty gainsley I move that the Board of Education approve the resolution for membership in the Michigan High School Athletic Association effective August 1 2024 to July 31
2025 thank you motion has been made by trusty gainley is there support for this motion support trusty Townson thank you supported by trusty Townsen any discussion on this item see none a motion was made by
trusty gainley supported by trusty Townsen all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to our action item under human resources which is the International Alliance Group poost
School agreement is there a at this time Madam president trusty field move at the Board of Education approve the International Alliance Group host School agreement thank you a motion has been made by uh trusty Fields is there support for this
motion thank you supported by trusty Schindler um any questions or discussion on this item I know this was presented to us um at our last board meeting any question trusty gazley do you have a question uh yeah I mean I can kick off I
think that um I I appreciated the presentation we received at the board meeting um I I guess my main concern is the the fact that it's the teacher salary and that it's 20% so you know I I know that we've had this issue with when we're
Contracting um you know Contracting parent professionals Contracting other folks um the question that that comes up that I think is really valid is you know if if you paid me 20% more then maybe you'd have more people so I feel like that like that it's pretty it's pretty
easy to to to ask that question of if you're if you're paying this company 20% to recruit the educator then why can't you pay the educator 20% more now I know that there are answers to that question and that those answers include one they have le
much less expensive health insurance two they are limited to five years so I presumably they're not vested in the retirement and not going to be don't get the re yeah not getting the retirement benefits so I guess I'd love to hear a little bit about um what um you know
what what math we've done there how we can communicate that to our staff um and also I know we've got some Union folks in the room um I know that we mentioned that we talked to our unions about that but I I just want to make sure that that that we're all on the same page that we that we think this is a good solution
for our Y and it's the last resort so it's for hard to feel last resort the same thing you just said last and and the ml group is right there because it's where those you literally cannot get what's that language that we're trying to
get the Arabic you there's nobody that we there's not an Arabic Charlotte do you teacher if I can find Arabic and that's the we she just told you we have 254 people in the languages we have how how
many Arabic people we trying to get I meant teacher but we got teacher students she they've been giving me reports from the Jewish Family Services see I've been reading my reports Mary she okay you are ass come on here look
they the ones that tried to get the teachers I told y'all I didn't put this okay look y Bor look the teachers have okay J this is the question I asked thank you
it w [Music] me Tex um they are providing teachers to pretty much and WECT language being able to suain we taking kids from
District we know students will get who need to read their and so that's why them to the Char because they offer and that's really and so when look
at our numb next year Geor Family Services have at least 200 more kids for you guys and that's Notting the other kids that come to us over the Rio brand we speak about drama it's real and so we just continue to add more students and
we need to be able to positions language positions and I have to put a PL sometimes for special when we don't have a KC teacher or teacher um because then many times other teachers lose
their planning times and that be tough for them I mean remember you know so it's multifaceted but it's AC the country and you know I can only pray that one day we will put our public schools at the top of the
because students arey I understand all of that and I can appreciate you saying that but how do this company treat the teachers so far from what we talked to the
interactions and teachers he was um a teacher a principal director um and so he knows how to treat people um and so there's a big man of people from various countries um we have heard that we could even get if we don't have
a chemistry teer for example sometimes that can be hard to we get a chca it's not just people want to have that International experience you know and just to
so the incentive I think for the folks and they know they're going go back to the you know years to five years but it's usually they're a little bit younger but they have so many years of experience they're not young them and they just are looking for to learn new
things especially from us well I just wasn't impressed with his presentation I'm sorry [Music] they adjust when they get here exactly
right and so according to all interview not interview but we talked to some of the people in that organization teers with them and they have a whole program to get them acclimated like housing to get you know to get them to um know all
about the you know the area what housing is available here like have one but he did not say that he said he was not responsible for housing their company was respons I guess I heard something
different there because what he said do I didn't hear that and I and he was asking said not responsible yes okay
employes [Music] be you know reason that you can say this is a great organization we were we were impressed with what we heard I mean
some if you're payroll okay employ oh yeah well the the the retirement alone that 30% plus the benefits alone then is way more I mean
it's almost half [Music] that's why I said is half is literally We're Half okay like half half that's why so yeah so it sounds like it's more than comparable so we're
not spending more to fill it's almost half experience they also proficient in English to a c yes
H so if I'm listening to all of this this is this program is really to help with the Diversified student population that we have and not to really impede on the
teachers that we sure typically hire or retain okay absolutely not you yeah they probably the shortage right yeah the shortage they probably it would be good in future situations like this to have the teachers present um because it it
just simplified it I think for me you guys I for them [Music] they tired tired they tired that's
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thank you sh didn't believe me yeah I mean I think yeah I mean what we're right and I think what we're dealing with is what they told me and what we're dealing with is just the realities of where we are and so what I
appreciate is just the Innovation creativity Forward Thinking outside of the box thinking about how can we fill these gaps because it's not like the gaps are shrinking they're just getting bigger and and and so I appreciate Miss Green Miss uh Miss joerger Miss
Tillerson for you all kind of this is not our typical protocol but it was very helpful right for us to how to have this no no no don't apologize we we appreciate that you all stepped in and and helped to kind of like helped us to see it from your perspective because
that that's what we need right like you're on the ground right there every day and you are feeling it and so we appreciate that so thank you for for disrupting we we like we like disruptions we invite disruptions yes we
are and they did bring it to us two two years and we to what what we don't know but see it's been a lot of yeah thank you so [Music] much I guess okay I could that one more
comment go ahead I you know that I know that's that's not normally how we but I appreciate the discussion myig is do our staff want this yeah um and so I really appreciate hearing you know from the unions from the folks who are looking for it so what it sounds like is that we're we're looking at a sort of
targeted positions that we would fill um so I'm so I'm I'm excited about this uh excited to support it I think the biggest thing that I hear from hear about from a um a working conditions perspective when you talk to our staff and and frankly from a from as a parent
is the is just not having enough people right right so so when our um when our science teacher gets pulled out of our elementary school because there aren't enough Subs then my kids don't get science so you know we really need to find ways to to creatively fill those positions absolutely very enthusiastic
about this just wanted to make sure we're answering all our questions yes we appreciate it um okay to recap a motion was made by trusty Fields it was supported by truste Shindler all those in favor I those
opposed that motion carries next that takes us to action item number 10 under business and finance and it's the Michigan alternate route to certification agreement is there a motion at this time Madam president this is Trusty gainsley I mooved that the Board of
Education approved the Michigan alternate route to certification agreement for the purchase price of $63,600 thank you a motion has been made by trusty gainley is their support for this motion trusty field report thank you supported by trusty
Fields any discussion on this item see none a motion was made by trusty gainley supported by trusty Fields all those in favor those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to our uh 2023 2024 year end budget
amendment uh resolution is there a motion at this time move that the Board of Education approve approve the attached resolution for the 2023 24 June budget amendment with a projected
8,857 3657 fund balance ending June 30th 2024 thank you a motion was made by trusty Townsen is there a support for this motion thank you supported by truste Shindler all those in favor I those
oppose that motion carries next that takes to Second resolution our 2024 2025 initial budget is there a motion at this time trusty towns and move that the Board of Education approve the attached
20242 General Appropriations resolution thank you a motion was made by trusty Townson is there support for this motion trusty Fields I support thank you supported by trusty Fields all those in favor those oppose that motion carries
next takes us to our millage rates um L 4029 is there a motion at this time trusty Fields move at the Board of Education approve the millage rates for the 2025 tax rate request l-
4029 as presented for Superior Township ipsan Township and the City of ipsan thank you a motion has been made by trusty feels is there support for this motion thank you reported by trusty Shindler any discussion on this
item um I do have just one question so just um understanding I keep hearing Pria am the back of my mind so this is just to maintain the 18 meals correct yes yes okay all right that's all I need okay motion was PA by trusty Phil
supported by truste Schindler all those in favor those opposed that motion carries next that takes us to a donation uh for our ycs event series is there a motion at this time trusty move that the Board
of Education accepts donations from one o National Bank for $5,000 number two Bank of an arbor for $1,000 for the ycs event series thank you a motion was made by trusty Fields is there a support for this motion
support vice president L thank you supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those oppos that motion carries thank you o national bank and Bank of an arbor for your generous donation next that takes us to action
item we are at number 11 our 2024 2025 renewal of our membership with the Michigan Association of school boards is there a motion at this time trusty Townson mooved that the Board of Education approved the 20242 renewal of membership with the
Michigan Association of school boards at a cost of $7,499 7 C thank you a motion was made by trusty Townson is there support for this motion support president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee all
those in favor I I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the masb delegate election is there a motion at this time thank you we have a motion that has been made by trusty Shindler is there support for this motion trusty Fields I
support thank you supported by trusty Fields all those in favor wait wait wait wait I'm sorry we need to talk Oh I thought we already did that at the beginning of the year we yeah yeah I was
gonna oh I didn't know oh okay so yeah so currently right now I'm not going you are not okay did not know that and I guess I'm the only one going right I
guess yes I will all right okay so vice president you will take that on thank you so much okay Sharon so vice president leag has us covered well it won't be a alternate it'll just be
me yeah Sharon le as Pro Sharon le as okay so you're not going and truste Townson is also not going is that correct yeah we leaving
but you you're just going you're going to go D later a minute hold up up hold up you just gonna leave later I guess you going back to B I know okay
okay so that's Sunday no because no because it's the first date yeah it's it's the back I
literally Sunday you'll come back and you'll leave right okay but when is the delegate me it's not on Sunday no it's it's usually the first night it's the
first night right well we're talking about MB is later that week right if I'm I mean the week before so I think is that Thursday Thursday October 24 yeah yeah right Monday
Wes is Sunday right okay so I'll be flying up late that Sunday right okay I got you yeah you good I'm good all right excellent all right so the motion needs
suggest be um if we could reread trusty shandler if you don't mind rereading that motion to change it so that we have vice president represented uh as the one who will be Shar the new delegate thank
you thank you a motion was made by trusty Shindler supported by Townson trusty support okay okay support trusty Townson I got you trusty Townson all right uh
motion made by trusty schler supported by trusty Townson all those in favor those opposed that motion carries thank you again vice president Lee thank you uh next that takes us to number 12 public comments I don't believe anybody
slid in or slid out um so we're going to go to our discussions any Board of sub any board of Education subcommittee reports at this time we had a community [Music] meeting I don't forgot the day but it was last week we had a wasn't it last
week I don't remember yesterday anyway we had a community meeting okay and they gave us some followup from Lambert about um what they're still doing in their upcoming and still talked about the radio stations talked about um Advertising Signs are here yard signs are here okay oh yeah we can get those
yeah we got some yard sign you know representing that I haven't heard it yet but we got the radio still we're still talking about the radio announcements I'm not they were working on Facebook I'm not sure if they were able to get in yet but they said they have been working on trying to get into our um Facebook page so they can start
controlling that we haven't heard the feedback for that but they're pretty adamant they're going to be able to do that and we have Instagram I think yeah so we our social media is all up was just a question mark on the Facebook but they're doing their thing trying to get us out there reporting for the 10 year
and the advertisement for teachers and student excellent thank you trusty F any other subcommittee reports I have it's not exactly sub committee but I just wanted to report back um from the lrn so the WB
legislative breakfast um was on May 20th superintendent Zachary Ross and I were able to attend um we had a a good turnout from elected uh Debbie dangle spoke to us about some of the federal updates and the challenges with Appropriations which I know um also then
in turn impacts us uh in our federal funding uh Jason Jason Morgan spoke as the vice chair of the K12 Appropriations Committee um and there was a lot of conversation around what the um what Appropriations to the school aid fund are going to be and the differences
between the governor's uh house and Senate's proposals um also there was some discussion around the contribution to mpsers and how to reduce the burden on districts and ensure that our hardworking teachers are getting their retirement um those
that are in that system um we also talked a lot about the um around literacy efforts and that that bodal distribution and the kinds of economies of scale that exist uh for so many of the districts in our um in our County um
and three masb 2023 Award winners were recognized from ycs so president Hawkins vice president Lee and trusty towns and congratulations on your Mas [Music] award thank you trusty goodr any other
subcommittee report I don't have a report because he did my report I can't remember his name principal at per oh Dickerson yes so okay but I just wanted to say I have
a lot of teenagers coming up to me asking me about employment for the summer I reached out to Michigan work and I'm sorry summer works because I thought maybe they had
position to my understanding they started the applic process back in February they told me they reached out to ycs but no one never called them back oh yes and I was very surprised to hear
about that they also told me they've been around to Lincoln Lincoln and an Iber and everywhere you know and they only have one student from Ian Community Schools I that was
heartbreaking to me yeah so I have her name and next year they're going to start in January with the application process okay okay she's got to send me an email but also I want to know come here yes she wanted to come here and do
they presentation and get kids from exelan Community School to do the summer Works program yeah um she also I also want to know who she can reach out to up at the high school so they can start
these kids with the summer Works program so in January they can start the application process because I know last year I was putting it out there because I had got flyers and everything and I was putting it out there this year I
didn't get any information about it so I want to make sure starting next year in January ycs students know about summer Works program so I would give you the name cont person okay Chessa
Williams and she can contact who supposed to be she needs to contact at the high school so we can have ycs students start this program okay and they won't be on the streets do want something F be doing
what was her name charessa Williams with the office of community Economic Development well I don't know who that is but the person I have is a different name a different name but charessa is over it and also with Grizzly learning Camp have them sign up for Grizzly
learning Camp because part of it they can also do some work programs that are paid so if they sign up for Grizzly learning Camp they can also get paid for some of their programs okay all right and the kids is reaching out to me go to ycs and I'm
surprised counselors didn't tell them about stuff I just want to tell you there's two different programs I found that out so it's two different programs Shanisha does one program and there's Michigan work so that's probably yeah Michigan Works is a totally different
program but she's talking about the program that charessa Michigan Works comes to okay I gonna say it's two different programs so just to make sure we want to I just think we need to be in in program as well yes we do because I'm like she's probably I know who you're talking about
then that's with Michigan Works and yeah so we'll fig thank you yes we still need to know about that one too right we'll get the names we'll get it figured out there are opportunities for employment for our young people we need
to know all of them absolutely yeah and you know all they do is get mentors and you know go to school like you know not really work work you know and they get paid for it okay yeah thank you vice president you're wel oh going any other
self-committed report Bo comments I yeah we all got them my guess go you go first you go first u i I'll be brief um I and apologies if I'm stealing it thunder I was so pleased to along with trusty fields to be able to attend
the grizzly Awards on May 15th and I know she has left but I just want to congratulate Miss Levens again on her teacher of the year award and it was such a privilege to e e e e
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