You don't know. [Music] Tell me what they have. She has the biggest [Music] Not happy. You want this [Music] by confused. Oh yeah. [Music] Favorite [Music] I didn't know what to talk about. Are you going to record? I'm going to record you. I'm going to record. [Music] Oh, I have [Music] Good evening everybody. We'll be starting in a couple of minutes, but uh before we do, I want to encourage anybody uh who wants one, please go help yourselves. We have an amazing array of desserts over there on behalf of Mr. Kokinsk's uh culinary class that produced it for us. Uh please go. service. Please go grab a drink, grab a plate, settle in, and we'll get started in just a couple of minutes. Thanks for joining us. I just got to cook. I just got to cook. Let me pull another chair. Hold on. Wow.
2025 auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria are all going to be getting enhanced Wi-Fi coverage. Once the Wi-Fi coverage is expanded, it will easily cover the areas to get those two cameras, the only two cameras back online. At the same time, um, Ricarda security cameras, we have nine. We're going to be adding at least two more to just, you know, even improve our security. And this is being done in in in coordination. I believe u he's working with uh I want to say uh Mr. more and I believe also miss if I if I remember correctly um there's an option of community oriented policing services a cops grant through the US department of justice and so working to secure this federal funding for an enhanced workata system which should be really really an improvement so uh so just to keep everyone updated on on that those security features we're always trying to improve our security um we're also in the process of adding a remote entrance system.
Good evening everyone and welcome to the June 4th, 2025 select board meeting. I call this meeting to order at 7:04. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast live by WACA TV and live stream on Facebook. Remote participation is available using the Zoom video conferencing platform. Recording in progress. Thank you. Any disruption with the video conferencing platform will result in the platform being shut down. In the event of a disruption broadcasting will continue on WACA TV and live streamed on Facebook. Those who are listening and watching on Zoom uh please use the raise hand uh icon if you would please.
I don't know where you're going. Yeah. Oh yeah. Hello. Welcome to the second half of our show. Thank you so much for everyone coming. Uh for those of you that don't know me, I'm Samantha Schultz. I have been basically the interimm music chorus teacher since the end of January while Audrey Thompson has been away on her maternity leave. But um it's been such a pleasure to be here with everybody and hearing all of these fabulous singers. Um but I thought that it was very fitting for us to start the second half of the program with the song that says keep the music going. So we're going to keep that music going. This song is a fun upbeat song that speaks of the joy of making music together and making music that comes from deep within us. So, we hope that you enjoy this. [Music] My voice.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Let's do that again. Closer. Closer. If I could have you settle in, stop waving at your children. You're distracting so we can get this party started. People who are still coming in this room every year is like back to overflowing. Find a comfortable chair at this point. Make yourselves comfortable. If you've got an empty seat next to you, could you raise your hand? Nia. Na. Nia. All right. I'm going to take a minute now to remind you appropriate audience behavior. was being such a good guy. You will see New York. I would love to introduce our amazing because Thank you. Good job. [Music] Well, apparently in the dark suits you. I think next year I'm going to sell tickets and only the nice, well behaved audience members will be able to sit up front. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for coming.
a turnaround sneaks around the net. Sneaky Calibris gets herself a goal. Good job by Mana to put the Spartans up four to one with just under three minutes to go. Spart number nib. Good offensive setting by the Spartans getting a bunch of shots and working really hard to grab those loose ball rebounds. [Music] Jordan back up on the draw. Be a redraw. Here we go. Come on. Come on. False start by the Spartans. Grafton will end up with the ball. Scallion gets the ball. Quickly gets the ball over the restraining line. gets it over to Marrison. Marrison feeds it in to McGrath. Gets temporally displaced. McGrath turns around. Good work by Grace Freel to keep McGrath out there. Okconor with the ball. Gets called by Kenna Marino on a call. Okconor will get herself the 12 meter mark. Looking to find a cutter. Nobody there.
which stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So, in terms of roll call, um all seven board members are here. Two members of our uh executive team are here. Casey Dat is not with us this evening, but Melissa Baines is. So, we have almost a full complement of people. Um, so moving along, there is no public comment. We're going to get right to um our main event. So tonight is the final meeting of the Brookfield Board of Education with our current administrative team, Dr. Burl and Dr. Mary. We have so much to celebrate and reflect on. And as you can see, we've invited a number of very important guests to be here for the occasion. We have wonderful and highly accomplished students, staff, and executive team members who will share the spotlight tonight. We are glad that you are all here with us.
We had a good meeting or sorry, last month we had a good meeting. Very productive. Um, if you were absent, please check those out. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented? Oh, sorry, the minutes. I think Sarah's there. Okay, thanks. Sorry, I should turn my zoom back on. Okay. Um, second. Thanks, Jamal. Okay, fantastic. Moving right along. Um, does somebody have the agenda? Sorry, just real quick. Oh, just and then all approved. Oh, all approved. Thank you. Um, all in favor? Okay, great. Any nays? No. Okay, we're good. Okay, so moving right along here. Sorry, I don't have the agenda up. I got to open it here. Let me let me read it. Okay, thank you. Sorry, just like I need a bigger screen, more things. Um, if you want to do a quick call for public comment. Okay. Is there anybody out there that would like to join us for public comment?
What happened? I see one. [Music] I don't know. It was [Music] That two seconds ago. We were like one [Music] Say it. Say the right one. [Music] What? You think you're [Music] Good evening everybody. My name is Kelly Hammer. I'm the director of student activities here at High School and I would like to welcome all of you to our annual celebration of our clubs and activities. Uh this is the 2025 EHS activities awards. This is a great opportunity uh that we have each year for our adviserss um to uh recognize and celebrate those students whether they're freshman seniors um who have done amazing things in terms of contributing to the development to the excellence um to the um building and growing of our clubs in these extracurricular spaces. Um and every year we look forward to this because it's a great chance uh to reflect on everything that our students have been able to do this year and every year.
As you can see, we have the fence just about complete. This remote entrance system where visitors and guests can be given access to our campus from outside the permanent fence. So, so just to kind of uh in a nutshell, the campus fence is going to have two main entrances. Uh the school office at least six staff will have multiple iPads, at least probably three iPads where they all can have access. all six staff members over there to monitor the gates, especially the gate by the school office. The district office is also at least six staff members that are here right now. We're going to have multiple iPads also to monitor this gate. So, you're going to have six sets of eyes here with multiple monitors. We're going to have at least six sets of eyes over there with at least three iPads. And so, another feature I've asked Mr.
And if you have any questions or you want to participate in citizens participation or a discussion that we have throughout the night, just raise your hand and we will call on you um when we have the opportunity to. Okay. So, uh the first uh order of business tonight uh and I was happy to sit in for briefly uh the citizens academy. This is their wrap-up meeting and uh graduation I would say. So, uh, I'll turn it over to Michael who, uh, ran the program, began the program several years ago. Thank you, uh, Chairmani. Um, yes. Uh, tonight was our concluding session of the second annual Ashland Citizens Academy. It's been a wonderful class. Um, I was just commenting kind of at the end how this class, it's like the engagement has just continued to increase. I don't know if like you just felt more comfortable um as we've gone on.
Your voice. and together our voice. Our voice now forever. [Music] Oh, happy and [Music] happy and w and [Music] together. We [Music] are broken. [Music] We feel like my heart [Music] deep on and for you. The music [Music] La on and on and on. And all and [Applause] As you can tell, they have a lot of fun together. Our next piece, a traditional Hebrew folk song, is actually a love song. Beyond the difficulty of learning the pronunciation of this music, the Hebrew style includes includes a lot of syncopation. Um, which means that the students really needed to be mindful of the timing of each of their entrances. So there's there's some splits that happen in the song as well. So you're going to hear different parts and um we have our course a little bit mixed together between the two schools. But you will notice that some students are singing and some are not.
Thank you for your patience. I know that as big as this room is, it's really small for all of us. So, I like ask you to be patient with each other to make sure that every seat we can fill is filled so that maybe a few more people who have to stand can stop. I'm going to remind you of appropriate audience behavior now. Just like I do with the kids when they're in assemblies, when someone up here is talking or playing, you are listening. You're keeping your hands and feet to yourselves and you're gonna remember good audience behavior clapping at the end.
There she gets double teamed. A little bit too hard of a hit by Grace Howard as Okconor now will get herself an eight meter attempt. Connor takes a step. Another save by Jenna Holly. Jenna Holly quickly getting it up to M. Whitmer. You saw me always tough in transition. Mack Whitmer will go by one, two. Just keep going with it, Mackey. M Whitler off the post again. Nice attempt by Mack. Whitwer as Grafton quickly in inbounds the ball. M Whitler there to disrupt it temporarily, but Grafton comes up with it. Albertson has it. She's quickly moving it up, looking to get the ball over the restraining line. Good work by Albertson. She's getting double teamed. Good work by Kylie Marino this time to knock the ball loose. Angelina Trillio picks it up. She gets the ball over to Kenna Marino. Kenna Marino gets the ball over the restraining line.
We're going to start with a focus on our students. Then we will acknowledge our building and district teachers of the year. After that, we will be treated to Miss Argo's update on the Wiskanir French exchange trip. Uh we will then introduce our interim assistant superintendent. Finally, we will welcome a few invited guests to share their reflections on working with doctors Buril and Manny. Um, Mr. Belinda, I guess we're starting with you. Please come down and introduce this year's Latin scholars. We have a fancy podium thanks to um thanks to Miss Sakura. All right, we should be on. All right. Uh, thank you for having me here. I got to look around. Thank you for having me here this evening to introduce uh our Latin honors scholars. Uh this is the first year that we're doing this. Uh in previous years uh we have recognized uh top 10 students and several years ago and through a presentation to uh the subcommittee of the board of ed of CAPE as well as talking to the full board we made the decision that we have a significant number of kids who have earned um honors beyond just the top 10 and we wanted to make sure that they were recognized appropriately.
Any callins? Any So, I don't I don't see anyone in the queue. Okay, we are great to move on. All right. Can you pull that agenda back up? Yep. I'm going to while I grab it here. Okay. So, we have a we have a guest tonight. Um, we are going to hear a report of the Annabber draft land use plan. Um, and perhaps hear how it might relate to the public art commission. And we have a guest, Michelle Bennett, who is the senior planner with the city of Ann Arbor. Um, we're very excited to have you, Michelle. Thank you so much for taking some time to fill us in on what's going on. and um I'm sure the commissioners are very eager to hear what you have to say. So, thank you so much. Yes, thank you all for having me this evening. Um can you all hear me?
Uh they do it in the name of the school, in the name of each other, in the name of making this a great place to go to school. And so we feel very lucky for the work that they do for art clubs and activities each year. So thank you to our nominees. Um I'd like to just start with a quick uh thank you. I want to thank all of our uh reps for coming out tonight. I'd like to thank our adviserss for being here, our families for coming out and for supporting. Um our administration, Miss Lenny is with us tonight. Miss, Miss Jared, they are always constantly supporting our clubs and our programs and what whatever asks we make. They say yes. Uh Dr. Bogus is here, Dr. Gentile earlier. It's great to see them and we know that their support is constantly continual. Um we've got um uh Mr.
Simon to focus on is our school safety team that includes Mad, Mr. Mr. Slomo, Chief Tivot, Deputy Richardson, Mr. Jones, Mr. Cotton, and Mr. Simon. They have the Rakata application on the cell phones. So, trying to see if we can also make sure they have access to not just the six iPads in both district offices, but especially Chief Tibet, Mr. Young, Mr. Cotton, uh, Deputy Richardson, uh, Mr. Simon, they're always moving around. So, more sets of eyes on the main entrance points. So, that's just kind of a summary of where we are with security. We're always trying to improve our security cameras, our features and uh this grants is is a real good opportunity and so we will keep you posted on that and um Mr. Morris's helping Mr. Simon and Mot. So that's where we are with a little update just an ongoing um with all of our cameras not just the Vicata but the real only two of the 40 that are not working and we're trying to get that fixed based on the information I shared with you.
Hopefully that is the case. But uh they have spent the last several weeks learning about Ashland um operations, Ashland government, how it works. They've got to meet um a good significant number of our department heads um and interact with them and ask them questions and learn all about the town. Um, and in the process, uh, we've all gotten to know each other, uh, on a more personal level, and they've gotten to know each other as well. And so, you know, one of the goals of these of this program is to increase engagement and encourage engagement. And I expect to see I didn't say this at the end, but I you know I expect to see many of your faces um at u maybe looking at boards and committees, but you don't have to do that to be involved. That's what we talked about. you know, several of you showed up at town meeting um for the first time, which was great to see, but uh like I said, if you're like the last class and now we could have a little bit of competition going on here.
And that was intended to be um one school singing one verse, another school singing another verse. So you might catch on to that. But uh here is Dodie Lee. [Music] I [Applause] [Music] need to love being happy. He is love. [Music] away. I mean [Music] TV far away. [Music] Gyne. All [Music] [Applause] right. So, believe it or not, we're at the last song of the evening, and as I understand it, this was voted on uh by the students before I got here. Um, it is a piece that I think most, if not all of you will probably recognize, and my hope is that you will leave humming it with a smile on your face as you do. Um, before we sing it though, I do just want to recognize there is a solo in this song. Uh, but what we ended up doing is I had them audition in groups, those of them that wanted to, and they all did so well, it was very difficult to choose even one or two.