And the best way to do that is by working together. So again, congratulations to the incoming board members and to the board as a whole. The BEA is looking forward to continuing to work with all of you. Let's meet the moment with courage and care. Um, before I wrap up, uh, Tom, you reminded me I I didn't have this on my, uh, prepared uh, comments here, but we do also have our May 8th retirement and recognition ceremony at Enticing Cuisine. I I forwarded the uh, invitation to Tom, so hopefully he will pass that along to everybody, and we look forward to seeing you. It's a good time. Uh, good food, good memories. It's it's a lot of fun. So, that's all I have for tonight. Go Bulldogs. Happy Earth Day. Solidarity forever with our brothers and sisters in Besa. And congratulations on your new contract.
And Jeff Springer, Clay, target coach for Northville High School, effective immediately. Logan Julian, band teacher, South High School, effective 811. Meredith Hopper, math teacher, Northville High School, effective 811. Michael Bunnel, long-term sub at Sharp Creek Elementary, effective 811. Caleb Pereé, uh, Spanish teacher, Southwood High School, effective 811. Under retirement, Ricky Reid, custodian, Southwood High School, effective at the end of the school year. Brian Dodges not Snodgrass Southwood High School effective at the end of the school year. Uh termination number eight or 191 terminated April 7th, 2025 under leave 190. Leave will begin April 11th returning uh for the 25.6 school year. transfers. Janelle Ecman transferring from teacher at Metro Elementary to educational competition for WAP effective for next school year 2526. Evelyn Fowler transferring from classroom instructor to teacher at White High School effective 252.6 school year. All the rest of these are all the summer school staff for the schools.
Great resource for us. Yeah. So, we don't use them all that much because we service our kids part ourselves because we have so many support programs that we don't really have to utilize theirs, but we are part and we only pay for the students that they provide the service to pay for that service. So we if they do a 40 day evaluation the student then we pay for that particularation but being part of the collaborative gives us a right to use whatever services they provide. What type of evaluation they do? Why would they go there? Uh so if they're having a student that's having difficulty functioning here at the school uh either working with kids or just having difficulty yeah all kinds of reasons they would do 40day determine what the issues problems are and try to work to help resolve those issues and then they come back to school after that or they might get a recommendation for other than coming back to our school and money that a service that we may not be able to provide.
So, um, how do we expect that to go on the ballot, um, so that it's clear for the community? Well, I think that can be up to the board and how you want to write that language and the resolution. Um, typically like you would give yourself some options to express either uh I think Gilbert just did this on their ballot last year, but it has sell, lease, or exchange on that language. You would list the exact parcel that we are talking about. So it'd be very clear to the community that we're talking about this parcel of land um because that has to be very uh strategic or uh very formally written into the ballot initiative but the language in is in the resolution and I would recommend keeping it the option to sell lease or exchange just in case maybe it's a better maybe it's more advantageous for us to sell instead of lease.
So, we're trying to get our foot in the door, trying to form relationships we can have good articulation to prepare our students to come to Stevenson and also operating operating or offering dance opportunities to students in PE just small segments, but at least so they'll know what to expect while they're here. So, with that, I will pass this over. Thank you. I have my notes. Um so um first off just wanted to share a little bit over the last two years in our rise training um our focus really has been on fostering a strong sense of community among our dancers. Um we've worked really hard to create classroom environments where students not only grow their dance technical skills but they're also feel a deep connection and belonging to the dance class and their peers in class. Um, we have really used the idea of intentional environments to cultivate classroom um, settings that prioritize the relationship building and student engagement by clearly defining what our course roles and responsibilities are.
Uh, good night and good luck. Thank you. Next is BESA President Sue Bottoman or Kevin Bottoman. Sue is Kevin back here somewhere. There you are Kevin. Good evening everyone. Uh nice to see you all again. My comments will be brief because I'm going to step aside and let Jillian uh step up and address you. As you know, my uh personal circumstances kept me from participating in the uh talks on the new collective bargaining agreement, but other members of the executive board, primarily uh Laura Vasillo, uh Sharon Matowski, and our treasurer um who joins me here tonight, Jillian Thor, uh participated and uh with members of the administration, couple of members of the board in uh completing those talks. Jillian's here to speak to that uh agreement and that effort. I will step aside and Jillian if you will take over at this point. Jillian Thor.
Janette Moore, K through8 program coordinator. Second and third grade reading support at Southland Elementary, second grade teacher, Megan Wright. Second grade par professional, Amber Sweet. Third grade teacher, Melissa Deer. Third grade pair professional, Jennifer Kenny. Tenny, second and third grade reading support for Metro North Elementary. Uh, second grade teacher, Stacy Bone, second grade pair professional. Becca Ellie, third grade teacher, Tara Hoppers. Third grade professional, Caleb Black. Minds and Action, level one, Cory Schultz, Cayla Paul, and Janette Moore. Level two, Caleb Paul, Heather Click, and Janette Moore. Level three, Shelby Gibson, Brett Evans, and Janette Moore. Uh, summer learning lab at Southwood Elementary, kindergarten teacher, Patty Steel, first grade teacher, Michaela Vento, and third grade second grade teacher at Kelly Bear. Summer Learning Lab at Metro North Elementary, kindergarten teacher Andy Herring, first grade teacher Angie Benner, and second grade teacher Nicole Knox.
And so that's really what the purpose of it is and the change doesn't affect us because we're a member of the group. We're a member of the group. But uh in terms of uh we don't like if you have a large or regular districts they have kids that are actually have specific difficulties or issues that go to that they go to the collaborative rather than go to the let's say elementary school they go to the press for a specific program that they and they also take care of the transportation. Yeah they do transportation and Lawrence pays tuition for me to students that go there and they can't charge more than 20% any bas. Can I get a motion please? I'll make a motion we accept it. It doesn't affect Can I get a second? You second it. No. Can I get a second? discussion. Discuss.
Um but again that that is determined in the resolution. So on May 13th you can modify that language in the resolution if you so choose. Okay. And then will the draft lease or sales contract be shared publicly before the vote? So the the order of kind of the process would be one getting authority to sell lease or exchange the property then bring forth back to the board um a lease agreement a sale agreement. So there would be multiple steps in which this is this process is publicly shared and brought forth uh and and the board brought forth along in the process with approvals. So and then will we have the opportunity um to allow the community to um like a Q&A session for them to ask questions as far as what the terms would be. I think if we got down to the point of of narrowing down to one partner or one uh vendor per se, uh certainly that individual or that company could come help um solicit or coordinate that Q&A session uh if there was concern over what was being proposed for that property.
Um, consistent routines for our dancers. um implementing um structured peer-to-peer evaluations that help foster accountability and growth for our dancers through our class uh relationship standard. Um this is where students dancers are supported by building meaningful and inclusive relationships and developing their ability to collaborate um effectively with peers throughout their class. Thank you. Okay. So, in the school year of 2023, we're still coming out of those COVID years. And what we noticed that year is that we really need to reestablish student engagement. And we had to again start fostering a genuine appreciation of our art stance. And so last summer what we did is we um decided we were going to concentrate on the dance one curriculum. And so in doing that we aimed at emphasizing dance movement initially and then following that up with um redefining refining their technique and that's completely opposite of what we used to do.
Hi, good evening. Thank you for having me. Um so I was one of the main leaders that was in charge of negotiations along with um there were nine um negotiation team members along with Susan from IEA. Um we worked for four and a half days. Um and we had with administration and then we had Rob and Craig both um alternating days with us. And so thank you for doing that for us. Um the negotiations were smooth. Both sides had similar suggestions and thoughts on contract um changes. We were pleased with the results of our three-year contract. We went from a 5-year to a three-year contract. So everyone is very excited about that. Our contract, which we Tony and I have talked about this, passed our ratification unanimously. every single person in the union that attended the meeting voted yes for it. So, we're super excited about that.
and Tanya Boon 8 or 9 through 12 program programming director coordinator sorry addendum Adam Felts precape Tom Callaway or Tim Callaway and Kale Parson I get a motion second to approve all those HR reports. So, second motion, a second to approve our HR report. All those in favor say I. I.
Discussion, please. Okay. So, looking for an approval and you gave it a lot of stuff. the changes are highlighted. you're only approve you're only u approving the uh the changes um bases but so that's why I'm asking question because we didn't go into detail changes and I mean I understand that we this might not affect financially but it affects the students that uh in this program which I believe is actually yes so so I'm not sure what we have to go to I mean I went through these things but I got confused to a point where I stop so I don't know if I went to approve this I don't know y so you're basically approving all the changes shown. Do you want some more time to go over? We can hold off. There's no time limit on this. Yeah, it has to be done by this month.
And then in the case of a lease, who um who bears the um maintenance costs? that would be uh written out in the terms of that lease agreement. And so um obviously with our limited staff, we would want that lease over to bear a lot of the burden uh with regard to that property. We may receive less revenue, but uh at least we won't have that overhead to manage or uh oversee that. But again, that's kind of down the road when we um establish a individual or company to negotiate with. Yeah. because I right now there's there's no cost to the district for the for the lot and so um Oh well we do m we do have to mow it and maintain so we do have a little bit of a cost for our grounds to upkeep it a little bit cut the weeds okay um I just yeah so that's that's a concern for me as far as like manage you know property like management more than just weed cutting um that's definitely something to consider consider.
Yeah. We want them to know as much as they can technically so that then they can execute that movement. But um so we decided to reformat and restructure that the dance one program and that approach became known as just leap all right and that is because you know we'd give them some foundation so that they didn't hurt themselves but we're like just just try it just go and literally I was literally saying across leap leap just leave one foot to the other one foot to the other um and so what that did it kind of we had very posit positive results come out of that. Actually, we found that there were students who were um taking more risks. They were getting out of their comfort zones. They were supporting each other and having fun. You know, if they were not so worried about the technique of it because they, you know, their new learners dance one, they really didn't know quite what they were doing yet.
Um, some highlights from our new contract include competitive uh compensation for all support staff, additional pay for PAR professionals in the DO and ILP programs. We have 403b match which we did not have before. So, we now join our partners with BEA in that great accomplishment. Um we have new um subcommittee that's going to be updating um our training and uh starting a mentoring program which we did not have before. So we're very excited about that along with the joint committee looking and revamping job descriptions along with evaluations to bring them up to date for all of our members. Uh we will be working with the administration on that and we're very excited. uh dedicated time to all paraprofessionals which not everyone had that time before to collaborate with um our BEA friends and work together to achieve the best goal for our students. And then we had clarity for administration and staff on um evaluation versus progressive discipline.
Any opposed? All right. Just like to mention to Ricky Reid and Brian Snodgrass. I appreciate um their service um at Southwood. Um many years for Ricky. Brian hasn't been with us as long, but uh Ricky's been here for many years, so appreciate their service and wish them well in their retirement. All right, appreciate that. We'll move on to reports. Heartland Career Center, Mr. said the base layer and repairs are done. They're working on the top layer now, so it should go fairly quick. All this hard work is done. Uh on May 8th, they'll have open house of the construction of the house that they built between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. If you want to come take a look at that, it would be fine. Um donations u Mr. Lions, Mr. Mintthornne, and Alro Steel all gave a bunch of supplies to these school. They continue to do that.
Has to be reported on We just received. Yes, we just received it. in April. But there was a meeting on the 12th and according to this changes were started on the 12. So have information after that to bring us. I mean again this is just one of the many things that comes here. We get a package on Thursday and then we need to be ready for that. So according to the letter yeah so according to this letter uh it's basically asking um excuse me to approve the proposed amendment for the first and second final reading by crest board. The final step to finalizing amendment the crest article agreement is for each of the crest members district committees to vote on acceptance of the amendment amendments with crest board has already approved. DSC requires majority of members school committees to approve the vote. So this has already been approved by the membership.
And then um as far as like any depending on what they decide to do with that property um as far as like environmental liabilities um that would then um be inherited by the district. No, I think a lot of that would be delineated in whatever lease agreement with and we can um with help of our our attorney, we can help draft that to where we limit our liability um with whatever is being proposed or or uh yeah proposed for that lot that lot. So, okay. And then um we discussed this last time, but that those funds can only be applied to capital, correct? So, yeah. um if you sell it. So that has to go to the school plant and then it has to there's a formula. It's it's kind of complex, but you have to pay down a portion of your outstanding debt. Um if you lease it, those lease funds um can be um or established to go to the school plant fund.
But then if they got it, they were really excited. They were okay to fail and the other students were cheering them on. So, it really did have a positive impact on our classes and as you can see it um had positive results on our SPS survey as well. So, students really did start feeling that they were able to um you know, we're cultivating this type of environment as we've been saying within our um within our classes and they're supporting each other and so this is what we see happen from that. Um, and this is actually a plus because Oh, hey, look at the little thing you stuck. In case you in case you wanted to know the percentages. Okay. Um, all right. You I don't mind me. I sneak in little things. Adding things. Um so uh and again as John said you know in terms of retention we noticed that you know reestablishing this sense of belonging and um giving these students this form this supportive environment we noticed that they really started seeing the dance studio as their dance family.