001Call the meeting in order. Rise for the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Can we have a roll call? Okay. Wonder here. Vanex here. Stephens here. Gardine here. Campbell here. Dhan here. Hibour here. All present. Thank you. Uh please note as a courtesy to the members of the audience and the board of education, please silence your cell phone. Public will only be able to speak during public comment if signed up. Do we have any public comment? I don't see anybody. That's no. All right. Um first item is the approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? So move. Support. All those in favor? Yes. Opposed? passes
002uh reports agenda board members report. We'll start with Joe. Uh I have nothing tonight. All right. Keep her shorter. All right. Good. Amy, um I actually attended a conference on uh the use of AI in higher education. Um but there were lots of takeaways about AI and its use in education that I think are going to be very relevant to secondary schools. Um so I learned a lot. Um it was, you know, exciting but also a little bit concerning. Um but I'm happy to share uh some resources that I got. They were all quite helpful. And how do you address it? Particularly when you have students who are submitting work using AI. Um whereas you as the instructor knows it was done with AI, but there's it it gets really difficult with academic integrity. So,
003um, I got some really good recommendations on how to handle that. Um, so I've been doing that. Um, and my kids have been enjoying the various camps and activities through community ed. Um, they're definitely filling up their schedule with that. So, we've been doing that. Good. Good. Thank you, Bob. No report. Thank you, Sally. Um, I had an opportunity to have a great conversation with a former student of Granville schools. She graduated last year. Um, she was in the elelll department and uh she just has secured um two things. She's going to community college and she's got a job in a daycare center um which is the area that she would like to work in eventually. And um so it's just a a great success for our district because she just made such huge strides
004when she was here at Granville Schools and I'm just really proud of her. Um been had a chance to spend a week at the Outer Banks with my um youngest daughter and her family and a bunch of friends and uh had a lot of time in the surf and sun and that was a lot of fun and and have been enjoying uh reading numerous books this summer. Yeah. So thanks. Great. Thank you, ma'am. How you got? I'm good. Um, from the parks and recreation board, um, police in the parks starts in in July. So, it's every single Wednesday. There are five Wednesdays in July and those go from 1 to 2:30. You can look at um the parks and recreation um Facebook page or you can look at the police department's page for Granville and
005they do an excellent job. All the kids come. the parks department, parks and reccks department donates some money so that they can give kids different prizes for coming. They'll have special visitors like they've had um they've had uh the mascots from the um from the white caps to the rise to it's it's just very fun. They do a really nice job of bringing all the kids together. Um they had their cadets there last year and oh my gosh, those kids were all over them. It was really fun. um um summer football, hockey, cross country, lacrosse, everything is it's amazing how hard these kids work. It's fun to watch. There are several um just involved for us. There's a lacrosse tournament. There a couple lacrosse tournaments. There's a hockey showcase this summer. Football is working so
006hard. Cross country does a lot of work in the summer. Um and mentioning hockey, we have our 50th year this year. So, we're hoping to make it super special. Uh, we're looking for different I if you have any contacts. Um, our board, our booster board is really looking for an alumni kind of a database so that we can bring people in. It's kind of interesting because we'll also be bringing people in from uh the other Bulldogs at Fire Center since we played with them until we split. So, uh, that's kind of an exciting, fun initiative that we're going to see all year from the hockey team and just going to a lot of open houses, which is so much fun. Well, always good food. I got leftover kilbasa from one, which was awesome. So, um,
007yeah. So, summer has summerred. It's starting. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Not a whole lot. Just attending open houses like Amy. Uh, several of those. Good to see kids from the past years, too. the older siblings and u friends of theirs. Um the pickle ball, just mentioning the parks and rack, it's awesome. Like Granville has the four pickle ball courts. We've been playing with my boys in the evenings a couple times and it's it's crazy how busy those are. Like they're all six courts are full at 5:30 usually. Um and you get sometimes you got to wait, but it's they get a lot of use and they're really nice compared to a lot of the places that I've been. So that's that's pretty cool. Just I Amy and I were talking before the meeting like
008just as an FYI for people this is the 50th year of hockey but it it's our hundth year of football was n would have been 23 and uh we didn't really realize it till we started look like coach Dagel asked my son to look back into conference championships and stuff like that but he figured out that 1923 was the first year that Granville had a football team so that's that's pretty cool if you see the football right now their workout shirt says established 1923 so it there's a picture here that's pretty cool it's been around that along and then both my boys are coaching football tonight with the the high school camp and it's it's cool to hear like Jason's son and then Carter Brooker the kids that you know they graduate that are helping
009to coach uh the you know the younger kids that are coming up. So that's that's pretty cool. Yeah. But that's all I've got. Good. Thank you. Yeah. For myself um obvious belated Father's Day uh to the guys here and uh to those that serve as a father figure and and fill in for that. So, uh, congratulations to you guys. It's it's a lot of work as you know, right? And, uh, it's great to have your moms and your wives there with you, but there's a lot of work that the guys do, too. So, congrats to you guys and happy Father's Day belated. Um, uh, for myself, open houses, open houses, open houses, right? You've been a lot of those the last couple weeks. Um, so it's great to see the kids and get a chance
010to celebrate them and, um, all their accomplishments over the last 13 years or so here within the district. So, um, really cool to see and and to celebrate with them as they take their next steps. Um, uh, trying to think here. Anything else? Oh, and congrats to the baseball team on their run. Um, they did a nice job. I think they just wrapped up when was it last week or they Valley. Yeah. Grand Valley, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, they had a nice run, it sounded like. Yeah. Yeah, they did. Yeah. Nice run. Yeah. So, congrats to that team and um for their all their success. And that's really all I have at this point. So, okay, on to you, sir. You bet. Thank you. Uh, gearing up for a grade 25 26 school
011year. Uh, working on staffing. Uh, we have a a TA on contracts that will be presented tonight. Um, election resolutions brought to you tonight. So, we've been working on a lot of that stuff. Um, looking at 2526, our emphasis is on teacher and student clarity and ensuring a guaranteed and viable curriculum, which I think I mentioned to you in the board update. Um, excited about the year ahead. I don't know if you know this, but we only have two more board meetings before school starts. So, we're getting we're getting there. So, I know summer you said summer's beginning. Uh, I think summer we're well into summer and we're uh it'll be here before you know it. And I I'm excited because I love love love that time of year. It's my favorite. So, uh, that's
012all I have tonight. Great. Thank you. Mhm. Um, any old business? No old business. All right. Um, on to the consent action agenda. Can I get a motion? Support. All those in favor? Yes. Opposed? It passes. Regular action agenda. Uh, 5A, the sinking fund um restoration and operating mill election resolution. It was recommended the board of education approve the attached resolution which will place an operating millillage renewal levy and a sinking fund uh millillage restoration levy on the ballot before the electors at a special election to be held Tuesday, November 4th of 2025. Can I get a motion? So moved. Support. Okay. So I gave you some information in your board packet and we've been talking about these tonight. Uh we're focusing on the operating millillage renewal. Uh, and that is a true renewal in
013that it's it it stays exactly um the same. Uh, just to, you know, to help people remember, it's a nonhomestead properties only. It's a renewal millage rates that are currently in place. As we mentioned, the state of Michigan requires us to go for an operational millillage as part of the funding we receive from them. Uh, so so we have to do that. It's not something we choose to do to get our full foundation um allowance. Uh this again um is a request of 19 mills. You can only levy no more than 18 mills, but that 19 helps us if there is a roll back to keep that m maintained at 18. Uh the term for this uh is four years. We know a little now. Remember two years ago we were having the same conversation
014and said, "Well, let's go for two years and see where we're at." We decided this time we know a little more about uh rollbacks and so on. So we decided to to go for the four years. Um here uh you can see the 18 mills generates um what it generates 18,87,559. And again uh it represents about 20% of our general fund revenue. Our general fund revenue is spent on what? It's spent on our greatest resource, our people and and our programming. So uh so this operation mill goes to towards our staffing and our programming. Um, if you're wondering exactly what it goes towards the second part of this and the the the resolution is all one. It's operation and syncing. That's why they're we're talking about both at the same time. The syncing fund millig
015renewal. Um, a little background about that and I want to hit on some of those. Um, first passed in 1996 at 1.4 mills and it was a 10-year term and we've passed it um again two two additional times. I know on my the very first year we were here um we had to renew it um to get to the the 10-year term that we're currently serving. Um they are subject to heavy roll backs um and uh we were rolled back from 1.4 to 1.3502. Um and in addition to that um now technology and buses can be purchased through that and with our technology bonds dropping off very important uh that we're able to do that during the sinking fund. So um so this is a restoration. Uh it's restoring it back to the 1.4 mills.
016If you're wondering what that cost um a home uh owner, you can see down below uh a home that's $200,000 as an example, that difference is $9 for the entire year. And you can see as it moves through, if you had a $500,000 house, it would be $24 for the entire year. So, so by rolling that back to the to uh the 1.4 4 from the 1.3502. That's what the difference would be for people. Uh syncing fund goes to obviously with this would be technology, buses, and all those things people don't like to spend money on at their house, things like roofs, things like carpeting, flooring, and so on, boilers, all those things that you go, you know, man, I'm so glad I I had to buy a roof and and spend that money. So
017syncing funds are are kind of looked at as a pay as you go type thing. So they've been very popular here in Granville and in other places. So those are the two just a summary of the two um that we have there. Do you have any questions, Raj? Yeah. When we um did the first review of this back six, eight weeks ago, I think Mhm. We were going to keep it and not increase it. Every all the scenarios that Heather provided to us were at the current Headley limit. What is the justification for changing it? That was the operating mill. We said we were going to keep it. We didn't say that with the sinking fund. And the main reason is because of the technology and the bus piece that's so important by restoring that
018back that that bit, little bit as an example, $200,000 house, $9 a year. Um, we had decided that that was the one we were going to restore. Okay. But we did say operating millage was a true renewal that we were just going for. And I understood that, but when we went through all the different headley changes, I do not recall that we actually stated that. The one thing that I do appreciate with this one. So for the operating millage, don't have any concerns. Um for this, I'm at least appreciative that you say increased that you don't play the game of Headley. Mhm. Because we are now what 32 years since Hedley. Mhm. Majority of the public do not even understand it. Yeah. And the belt language does say increase in there. Um it has to
019to me it has to is the proper way of doing it because now you're not playing games. Yeah. I just don't you know people don't trust government because they play games. Let's just not play games with our public. You know the trust is too high to risk it. Agreed. Um, any other questions? Yes, you do. Um, so you have a firm that's going to be helping with the marketing, so to speak, all of this. I I would because I I love that graphic. I think that's a very important one for people to see in terms of what little difference that's going to be. Yeah. From, you know, the 1.35 to the 1.4. Yeah. I I I'd really love to see that and we we had talked about that and we thought that's that's the bottom
020line and people want to know that how much is this going to cost me and that's why we put these down so whatever amount your house cost you have an idea of what you're going to pay for the years right because I think sometimes it can be misconstrued that well I think in our last meeting wasn't the per pupil uh uh costs going to the or the amount that we'd get per pupil was like 335 or something like that. Did that get amended? That was No, that was that was for the enhancement. Oh, the enhancement. Okay. But I think it's important that um that it's not conflated like that the $611 doesn't mean that's what each person's going to pay, you know, each household's going to pay. I think there's sometimes that confusion. Yeah. Yeah.
021Yeah. So, I like this graphic. Yeah, I agree. I agree. And we'll definitely use that in in some of the literature we have in our our discussions we have with the public. And it's a it's a tough thing too because it does get confusing because again, you're talking about taxable value, not the value of the home. You may have bought the house, you know, for that, but that may not be what your taxable value is, right? Or or that may be what your house is worth now if you were selling it, but that's not your taxable value because you've been in it for 20 years. But that's not Yeah. So, it's it's hard it's hard to it's hard to get that out, right? So, um because like you said, people don't understand it to your
022point. Um so, okay. Any other questions? Any discussion? All right. Want to do a roll call on this one? Let's do that. Van, yes. Steph, yes. Guardian, yes. Dan, yes. Campbell, yes. Wonder, yes. Hour, yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you. On 5B, the GED agreement for 2025 through 2027 is recommended the board ratify and officially sign the master agreement between the Granville Education Association and the Granville Public Schools. Can I get a motion? So, move support. So, uh you had in your board packet uh the agreement uh the contract here in red you had, uh the changes and so on. Uh we have Mr. Gali here. Mr. Galme was part of our group uh that met with the uh association with the GA and he's going to give you a little bit of a
023summary of what this agreement is. Yeah. Um so kind of going into it um kind of had a goal of saying that we start that VA at about 50,000. Um and the step rate uh step 30 rates would better align with both districts. um we kind of match those with destination districts with that rate of pay and we want to maintain that net increase of of 2%. So that was kind of goal going in and so looking at some of the highlights and we went through that piece um we met that goal um there was an increase in that starting rate for new teachers to $50,94 um and step 30 in the MA and MA plus 30 align with those local districts. Um we maintained that net increase of 2% through some reductions and new
024hires. Um we were able to maintain some rates in that schedule B and C portion. Um increased a few positions especially in that schedule B doing sorry schedule B doing some work in there. Um the other part of that uh were some highlights in that contract. um able to um build a little bit of accountability in the certifications, some professional development pieces um and parent teacher conferences with some of the language in there. Um and then um some lead time change um as kind of match that has the law um from PMLA um and then able to increase that amount of money allocated for tuition reimbursement um for our staff for get those credits. Um and then um and and then it's a wage reopener for 2627 to just account for that unknown piece of
025our budget um and what amounts are in the coming year. So that was kind of some of those highlights there from our conversations. We had a lot of meetings all the way from um starting probably February, March this last week. Mike, um, with regard to, um, education reimbursement, you were at like 172 or something like that for a semester. What did it change to? I think our our I can't remember the number. I have to grab it here. And then how many times did we hit that number? Like staff is are they are they requesting it? Yeah, they are. Yes. And are are we maxing out? We are. Yeah, we we are definitely. It's a kind of a pool um where people get their their stuff in and um but yeah, we're getting we we
026max out or close to it every time. Okay. So, are there a lot of people that lose out with this? I would say no. Good. There really aren't. Um, we try to be, you know, if if somebody had several CLA, we we try to be there, I guess, the best way to put it when when people apply and and try to make sure uh everybody gets something if possible. And and Bob, some of that new language actually kind of leveled that a little bit more because some are getting a little bit more and a little bit less. Try to level that language that we learn helps with that as well. Good. Good. Is there anything that holds them here afterwards contractually? Like if we pay for a portion of that schooling like regards to Yeah.
027Say someone say we put someone through and they get their master's degree. Do they need to stay now for a year? Anything like that? No. Okay. Okay. Just curious. You get your masters, you're probably not. Yeah. That's what I kind of figured too, but you never know. Another district wants to get your masters. Um, with regard to schedule A, um, how do we compare to other districts in Kent Ottawa County? That's one I don't know the great answer to, but um, to be honest, Bob, John did a lot of that work separately with those. Um, I think that we're pretty comparable. Yeah, I don't know. I Yeah, we're very comparable. We're we're in the top top tier of uh, schedule A without question. Okay. of the I mean the red items there was I was
028surprised there was more than what I would have thought there was from changes from one to the to the next but what would you say would be like the if off the top of your head like the biggest change or most would have the biggest impact of anything that's in there you know I don't I think one of the the things that were were nice is having some conversations some really good conversation about professional development um you know I think our conversation also about that tuition reimbursement was really good conversations in there as well um just some understanding. It's a great conversation with our uh youth and also about um you know just building some of those relationships with our with our staff in regards to how do we have more accountability for certifications? how
029we make sure people are doing those things they need to. Um I think the one component that was pretty great is looking at um uh doing some of those compliance pieces that we have to do with uh the GNC or whatever those are like patch um having that component in there and added that nice will be a nice piece as well. So have they voted I don't remember do we vote on our first before they do or has it been passed by the staff yet? We should vote first and then they would do final. I didn't know if they because it was not a contract. I just didn't know if they like voted ahead of time to to they didn't agree to it or not. But I was going to like the question I asked
030last time is what percent did it pass by. Okay. Tomorrow is the phone. Correct. Just curious on how happy they are. I think they're very very happy. I think our relationship is good and they knew and we knew this and I told you that before this was not an easy one because financially um we're not in position to give a whole lot um and I think you know um the groups getting together having the dialogue and so on came to that understanding but there were a lot of wins that I think we were able to do to support our association and I think they returned the favor. So, um I I think it was a win-win uh without question. You know, the wage there's a wage reopener after year one. So, we'll see financially what
031happens um and you know, have discussion. We we had that ability to open that up and have the discussion then. So, but um I think looking at getting our teachers to that starting uh at 50,000 or above was important. Um and to get get everything um you know, you had to do some smoothing to get that to work. Um and so I think uh you know, your your beginning and your end have a little more than your middle does. Um because the middle had a lot before. So there's there's a lot you know some creative smoothing that happened there to make it work. So um we're you know uh very happy with our relationship with them. I know two of them are sitting right there. So uh very but very happy with the relationship and
032very happy with the way it went and I'm don't want to speak for you you too Aaron and Troy but I think you're probably pretty happy too. Thank you. I have a question about some of the language that was included for your itinerant staff. So like your social workers, SLPs, OT's. Um I noticed that their administr uh special ed teachers were provided with administration time for documentation which I think is really critical. But have you considered case load caps for um sort of all of those folks um and kind of developing something like that because I know that can be kind of a struggle. There are kids. Okay. Yeah. Any other discussion? Next job. And I'd like to say that I'd like to commend Mike. John, John plays a huge role in that. Heather plays
033a huge role in that. Um Kayla did as well. I just like to commend them for the job they did. And I also would like to commend our association for um continuing that great relationship that we have. So, thank you very much. All right, let's do a roll call vote. Campbell, yes. Gardian, yes. Dhan, yes. Steis, yes. Wonder, yes. Vanek, yes. And point of order. Oh, right. Do you're right. Bob and I have to excuse ourselves from this. No, I don't. I don't have any interest in a teacher. Oh, because your son's on the Yeah, I Yeah. Yes. So, you Okay. Thanks, Bob. Yeah. and hyper. Yes. Motion passes. Great. Thank you. 5C. Um it is recommended the board ratify and officially sign the master agreement between the Granville Educational Support Staff Association and Granville
034Public Schools. Can I get a motion? Salute. And again, Mr. Mr. Gum is here. That same group worked with our GESA contract and uh he'll give a summary of that. Yeah. Yeah. So, um kind of goals going in looking at our our contract is looking at um increasing our recruiting um by increasing starting pay rate and honoring those long-term employees with increases beyond that top of the scale piece um still maintain that that increase of 2%. So again, you know, kind of we looked at trying going into that their goal um to reduce um from six to three steps at 1% increase to help raise that starting wage that was formally at step four. Um and then we increase starting at five at year five apply to the hourly rate to retain employees. So we
035kind of hit that top one as you mentioned of increasing um recruiting and so on. Um we added state inspection stipen for our mechanics um is a nice a nice piece. Um and this year our library supervisors are added to our guest group. Um so um just to help kind of increase their recruitment potential for them. Um then of course we change the lead time change the match with the as the law is MLA. Um and then same with that for the 26 27 budget. Mike, um, with regard to bus drivers, how are, um, how do they like this particular? Um, they I think we're pretty happy. Um, they're predominantly the ones involved our increase, too. So, they're I think they're very happy with where we're at. I think that was some of the conversation
036when it came to that base pay and so on is that potential, you know, trying to get them to kind of stick in that job. Um, so I think they're quite pleased. We had a lot of conversation also about um folks that help out during the day in recess and stuff. Um, and they were happy with that conversation and supportive that they we want more consistency of folks that are five days a week opposed to a couple days and stuff. So, it was good good conversation. I think they were quite pleased. Okay. because I know we have, you know, there's a little bit of contention. I'm just going to say a little bit because I'm not going to go any further than that. Um, with regard to the bus drivers, union versus non-union, and just,
037you know, always want to retain staff, want them appreciative of what we're offering and trying to meet as a good employer. with that. I I think they're very appreciative of our efforts as a district to try and get them some of those full-time pieces as well that came out the conversations. They're very appreciative that we look at trying to get them some opportunities to be in the schools to do the numbers. And you look at that as a component as well as some of those um what was it the top end scale and working on those like longevity pieces? I really appreciate those. Okay, good. Any other questions or discussion? Great. Again, nice job. Thank you. Can we get a roll call? Wonder Jim, yes. Campbell, yes. Nanette, yes. Stephness, yes. Verdine, yes. Dehan, yes.
038And Hiburn, yes. Motion passes. All right, seeing there's no uh public comments, we will wrap up the meeting here. The next next board meeting, the Granville Board of Education will be Monday, July 21st, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at the administration building. We are a journey.