001e e e he's like if you w to go to you want to go York chic [Music] that's okay okay something else I got then I think school was like eight grand for tuition on the board and everything with the scholarships and the money I made in summer I could pay for it all right if everybody could rise for the pledge I to the of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all Bob you do the roll call please Jim here hi B here fine Palmer here Johan here here please not 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 the
002public comment if signed up can I have a motion for the agenda support all in favor yes excellent and we are on to reports discussion and 2A East Elementary yes so uh very happy to have Anna aliman puton here and she is going to do a report for East Elementary I don't know if it's a report thank you last children and so thank you so much um so this year we have a music teacher at East Elementary her name is Carter gold and what we thought I would have loved to have brought the children in and have them share some of their um Talent with the new instruments that were purchased but instead decided to do is to do a video so she created this video to share with the board this is [Music] second
003little blind boy in the front was his birthday today so he brought rheal for our first and second grade Winter concert we would especially like tol the instruments you're to see our and second time as a result of the community passing next you'll see this walk second grade class performing a few selections from our Winter concert we had so much fun learning our music and Performing hope you enjoy [Music] oh [Music] now [Music] stand [Music] is the last [Music] and [Music] let [Music] and [Music] thank you so much foring the time to watch [Music] our thank you now now we know who to thank for the snow today right [Music] all right excellent um the dog down quarterly report all right so start off with our sales um this quarter we grossed about $3,100 and
00418,240 just like to know also uh Saturday December 4th our most recent Saturday sold 3100 bucks because we were there all day Rob compc and that's a graph of our overall sales um it is actually quite nice having the accessibility to have this graph um used from Square which is the it's actually changing it name block but we got this right from the app that we use on our iPad as soon as we make a transaction all the information in put it into this and it's categorized into what we get and this is how we're getting all our numers and we're able to see Trends based on the time obviously time people on lunch break um some of our bestelling items are the ultimate Stadium coat which we got in last year and we sold
005a lot of those um then we have the bulock head decal which we had a ton of them and then we sold them all to the rocket um football program for the helmets and we have the champion R Scout jacket it's the the jacket with the Grandville um on the right it's very classic and then the hall Ru white s um unfortunately we have been affected by by the supply chain um we have lots of people come in looking for stuff but we haven't gotten new stuff in a really long time I believe we ordered hats back in May or June and we still have not gotten [Music] them also in association with the school store our Deca program uh a lot of things that we learned from the school store are overlap with Deca
006we're going to be talking about some of the qualities that we learn from that as well later on so this year in our DEA program a lot of kids are also in the school store class and Merchandising class that are in our NE program um we have 74 this year uh 30 are returning most of them have graduated tends to be a a higher upper classman group uh that's just because we're trying to advertise the other groups as well and because it was requiring business classes join it initially our biggest struggle right now is we're trying to raise funds and we're trying to do that for our membership fees registration and transportation costs um because unfortunately this partner does not for our district conference which is at fa State University this year it's going to
007cost us about 5400 bucks give or C we trying to raise this money uh through local businesses uh who have created a partnership with us as well and like I said before we have membership registration hand the buses um then we have our state conference for qualifying members which is in downtown Detroit we're there for a weekend it's a great time last time we were go was two years ago we didn't have a conference last year because Co we did but it was virtual not exact same thing where you're going shaking the judge's hand then making that presentation and then our International Career Development conference this year is in Atlanta Georgia we're still for the price determination on that because it's also depending on the amount of students that qualify and we'll also figure out
008flights hotels and all that jazz when it come time um just to add that we had 43 members last year and all 43 qualified per state just for a rough not not only because they learn those skill sets themselves from their experience in business classes or classes they take may like economics but also also from teachers and then us as a board we we take the time out and then we invest that time in the students in order to get them the stuff they need to know also we have our school-based Enterprise which is a paper on the school store it's a 30 page paper this year it has been completed already um it was great accomplishment with me in Santana as well as Drew we also have our Thrive Community Service events which also
009allows some students to get down to intern through development conference this included the Wood Haven Church Summerfest Metro Cruise rille fall and the you'll see a picture we also have the stock market team which Joe will talk about in a minute that ends in just a couple days December 10th and they're currently fourth place in the central region which includes about 10 states huge accomplishment out of 776 teams and they're currently 47th Place in the nation out of 4700 teams just the other day there was over 5,000 teams and but some of them had to Dro out because they had to invest in certain stocks and portfolios but some of them dropped out because they either didn't invest or they saw that they were too low on the on the ladder and they Dr out
010these guys are 47 it's just him and Jackson G me so they're doing great for that four days just to know I believe it's top 25 in the region I believe top 25 in the region they automatically qualify to go out International Conference with only four days fourth place so that that is Malia this is Taylor gri Force Jackson Gibney Jake mckenny man alcatara and Alex Clark at the a den diamonds event this is a dinner where they went they helped out uh and we got some fundraising as well also a little bit to add on about school Bas Enterprise we're working on our fourth year of gold recertification as you see in the corner uh we have three gold recertifications this is based on the paper that we Brint and we submit this and
011it essentially is including all the aspects that we had within the school store we talk about inventory we talk about the accounting we talk about our sales we talk about the lessons that we learn within the school store and the merchandizing class uh for many students within the school based Enterprise and the school store it provides their first bit of work experience they aren't working in high school because of their academics but for others who may have had a job already it provides them another opportunity to build management supervision leadership skills and also marketing uh just to touch again on Thrive chapter campaigns this is where we go on Community the community and we just promote what we do as well as just build that relationship between community and school so this included our Chamber
012of Commerce meeting with Granville Jon Chamber of Commerce as students we were able to connect and network with people that were already in the business field and not only did we reach out and I got some business cards personally which I could use in the future uh but we also got to learn some lessons and some advice for post high school we also had a new higher sale than the diamond like I said before uh gr B Fest we've also written letters to Congress uh and we also have our de wall which is posted in front SCH class in high school team M with Jackson G and the stock market team we've been training for about two to three months I thought it would be interesting to kind of share this uh portfolio analysis with
013the board as I feel that stock market game and the tools it provides for de really really benefits them in terms of their financial education as bra touched on we are doing pretty well in the competition I believe Mr said this for the first time any Rand team will be heading to ICDC um I just want to touch on quick what we do so essentially I'm a Trader personally um my strategies involve finding overvalued stocks and shorting them usually this will be or the phrase buy the hype sell the MS that's essentially what we do in our trading strategy it's a little more complex than that that's the essentials me and Jackson have been trading for about two three months and essentially we have just been finding these extremely overvalued stocks and striking getting short
014which is essentially for those who don't know our investors themselves basically going short against the stock is betting against it you're betting against another team in football something like that you're essentially want the stock to decrease in price you it's overal um currently about 47,000 long stocks I generally have I have BU as a hedge so I use gold as a hge basically just in case there would be a severe Market pullback that would protect my portfolio I also a stock SPS I believe that it SBC have a huge upside potential in terms of gains they have it's the Virgin Galactic company they send people to some of that um and our value of shorts what that essentially means this parentheses means is it's a negative number that number I believe was 40 or 50,000
015you want in in a trading circumstance when the value of the shorts decrease that means your portfolio increases in value so we made about 40 to 41,000 I think as of today that that number is a little old as it takes a day to update on the actual stock Mark index I think we're up to about 41 to maybe $42,000 in total profit two what two two and a half Mon and then next slide here I've got my slow down I have sorry little I know this a little simple analysis here but see that usually go but what we have here is essentially this bar here is the f retracement I use that to base my support and resistance levels and where I take a trade now this stock is my personal favorite to short
016it's called dingo Ventures or BD is TI symbol essentially what I did here is we narrow this down to being extremely overvalued as you can see price shot up rapidly due to a news uh news in I believe it was a merger but it didn't actually go through so as price declined uh you see if that bottom of that red box that's where we started thinking of going short so that bottom of that top F retracement level there and we started entering our position on 9913 so be September 13 I know it's a little blurry in the bottom there you can see kind of those little intervals there so we entered first short 913 I believe 2500 shares and then price uh decreased pretty severely I didn't cover my position until actually we still short
017this stock and I'm probably cover in about you know two three days but we also took as you see the price kind of came back up after that midle and I took another short position there and we're riding that down now so basically we've gone short at 959 and we are currently at about 25 almost three times TR nice so thank you and then I total profit on this trade floating is about $22,000 um so you found a nugget you found a nugget um Deca personally for me I have grown as a person quite a bit um it has really opened up many doors for me and for any parents here students are young enough here is a great great opportunity not only is it going to make you a better public speaker it's also
018going to allow you to network with people but I think it actually just makes you a better person in general the things you'll learn uh you when when I went to the states two years ago BR mentioned it was actually eye opening you see almost how the real world works but from a high school form if that makes any sense it's essentially adult uh political business transactions but in a high school form I think it's extremely eye opening and really just a great experience we got about 225,000 students for blot and we're growing so please for us oh yeah so just a couple skill sets too that you adap from this you have the adaptability side of it uh and the creativity as well if you haven't experienced a moment or student if you haven't
019heard about what de really is and what we do essentially you're just given a piece of paper and it has a business problem what whatever area of business it is you have 10 minutes or so uh and you have to come up with a solution for it you have only 10 minutes and you're not giving the information beforehand and you go in and with things that you already know walk into that room and present to a judge what your your solution would be for and so that's the creativity side of it also with inovation it is really helpful because a lot of high school students if they haven't like gotten a job yet um the your first thing out of high school or college is a job interview and it really helps preparing for that
020and just public speaking and talking to an adult on a professional level yeah and that's the exactly the association that we have at the school store as well is that it could be the first professional setting that they get in and then Deca is just that next step as well uh these are our seniors that are in Deca this year this is one of bun of dat report for the Shark Tank not to brag or anything but my team won and my team out of six people uh we won a 2500 bu scholarship uh what was it it said uh come up with something that will make the holidays easier for something so we devel my group developed an app easier to narrow down choices these are our seniors like I said it's like when
021you have 30 people returning and you have a big drop off from the year before it's just because we have a ton of seniors graduating that's why we're so out to push for new numbers this is our entire chapter this year might as couple people who maybe have like a soccer practice or something this is one of our beings they're all thrown up the deck of diamond and yeah all we have so thank you guys for your time nice job thank you very [Applause] much three 2C property discussion we should probably just skip that I don't know how you top those two now we're gonna give property a little bit of property year right right Heather yeah so we were approached um to sell a 04 piece of property that we own and just to
022give you an idea of where we're talking this is South Elementary so here's H Navajo coming through and as we come down here um some of you are familiar with the path that comes through here um and it connects to this neighborhood over here this this where you see the orange line going through that box is actually owned by the city of Granville and then if you continue down the 40th the path comes down through here and it's I'm you know apologize for that orange line but it's another 0.04 piece of property that we own over here um so we would not lose our connection to 40th but the individual that approached us owns this piece of property here and this is their home so they're you know looking to approach the two and we'
023just like you to have discussion tonight um we don't have a purchase agreement we're looking at anywhere from what we believe would be around 7 to 10,000 if you were to go that route and that so it's just that blue area there what's the purpose of us owning that that small sliver well I think at the time it was it was provided two access points from there um but then when this area was developed over here yeah that that path the idea of that path connecting that development um it goes right through there and there's a um there's some electric over there Y and then that piece down there at the bottom we do not own that that larger that just the right of that this is not that is our okay the people that
024okay that's the one she's talking about yeah that's the he can you provide some background as to other adjoining properties encroachment uh Pudo agreement that they thought we had um and then pullbacks where we Tred to enforce our lot lines in the past can you provide any details on that anywhere on our property line so you guys might be able to so we've had issues since I've been on the board um and it kind of came to a bubble I think about 10 years ago between nine and 10 years ago I think but over the years people that have had their property lines touch ours like to assume they might want to gain another 10 to 30 feet and we have enforced that over the years they have attempted and it's never friendly I mean
025it's never a fun thing let's put it that way um but we've always told them no so in this situation since we keep telling people no my perspective is why would we allow it to happen now because will we not create some neighborhood issue or disgruntled people that also wonder why now why weren't their options considered when they asked us to purchase additional land and I would have to go back if you're talking 10 years I wasn't part or pretty of that so I would need to go back I know Deb Deb had to be the hit man on that one did it R also Mak a trip out there it was something about someone's fence there was multiple properties some had just they would plant trees or Shrubbery Park area and some there's another
026one well the Cent Park is where we allowed like the gra Vine remember the great Bine situation but um here we've had you know people plant people we actually put in a fence that's where Ron had to go out there so from myp perspective is there's a I guess it's it's our land we bought it I think it could create problems if we considered the option to sell it I understand the piece and the location that it's on but who's to say we may not do something in the future with that land so I don't i' I'd rather not set a precedent the other thing and I mentioned this to R before the meeting is situations like this are not well documented right you don't know about it Raj doesn't know about it and I
027think when we have these discussions you need to have some kind of a document or an archival process some simple spreadsheet that has a summary of what the discussions were so that you understand the historical precedent that previous boards had set it not only the number one thing is it helps current boards understand the situations better so they can make a more strong decision sounds like a great goal for a superintendent in the future that that he or she could leave for someone else as a legacy thing spreadsheet already started it just doesn't include the discuss yeah we have I'm not saying that I'm saying know discussion the encroachment pieces do we know how wide that blue strip is is it wide that you could put a drive in there someday or is it like
028four foot wide I was just curious if you someday that you wanted to develop so the a great question right is there intention to develop that other piece that are partial is that what's going on because it doesn't make any sense to attach it to the piece of property to the left it's they're attaching it to the piece of property right so is there intention to develop that and is that something we should be having discussion on there are we interested in that piece do do you know what they want to use that for come on this hey they make any more land oh I didn't I mean I've been in a lot of Little League games in that corner there but is that is that like it's not Wetlands or something is it like
029it's to the right is right is to the right Westlands or not where that path goes through or not I don't think that where your cursor is I don't think is but I thought to the right was no it's not there's no water there okay ones are across the street yeah so Bob you're saying that the people who live on that yellow line or orange we had told them they couldn't have certain land here's where I believe it was okay I believe the issue occurred on these pieces of property okay okay there could have been other but these were the three because they were the farthest from the school and the way the trees go and the land right right okay but you remember the issue that we had and at some point someone that
030in administration may have told them they could do it but no one ever had any formal documentation on it so that's why Ron had to get involved yes yes and for the audience Ryan kff used was our superintendent prior to Roger so is the recommendation from you Rog to sell it or no we we that's why we have it for discussion some you know a Community member brought it to our attention we brought it here for some discussion and we figured uh you know we have some people that have been on this board for a while that if there were any historical things might might know a little more about that plus the fact is we uh you know it is a very small strip of land and if it were if we were talking
031this we would say we would have said no right away but when it's that small and you already have a couple access entry access areas uh exit access areas we thought it was at least worth discussing okay I don't know when the shot was taken then I can suppose many think that looks like a fire to me say yeah I know that happens because I was told today above that that's all ours that is our fire somebody bring the marshmallows so the other thing that I I was aware I was made aware of today Raj was e and loose yeah uh there's stuff on our land out there that may be big and metal should we call Ron to go with you [Music] no okay well I think we have the information we we need
032for right now unless I hear somebody really eager to sell that looks like we're we're not we're not going to consider it at this point um I do think it's good to go back in history I know we have you know we definitely have our all our historical stuff property but we can look and see did you guys talk about this at board meetings we did it was a big one Deb Reese was in Heather shoes and I think it was eight or nine years ago all right I was yeah I believe Dean was on the board at the time okay I'll see if I can go back and find find some uh some information just just for some clarity [Music] how you been good how are I'm good okay thank you appreciate it all
033right that was a good discussion now I gotta put my glasses on all right as written in the board bylaw 016 7.3 public participation at board meetings the Board of Education recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on District matters to permit fair and orderly public expression the board shall provide a period for public participation at public meetings of the board and publish rules to govern such participation in board meetings and in board committee meetings the rules shall be administered and enforced by the presiding officer of the meeting the presiding officer shall be guided by the rules per by 016 7.3 they are listed on the back of the public comment form so we're Scott do we have any more okay
034cool all right so we got about maybe six or seven and as a reminder um participants shall direct their comments to the board so that is the podium right there so you're speaking to the board and then in addition if um we just treat folks that are at the podium with kindness and consideration that would be awesome so I am going to call on our first gentleman here Micah Perkins and as a reminder five minutes at four minutes I will interrupt and just give you the reminder that you have a minute [Music] left two reasons I want toce to you guys tonight hope you say hello to um first of all I'm relatively new in this in this position about five months ago I waser so if I say something please contribute it to that
035um so the the reason I hear in my day job capacity is that there's probably no news to anyone here that the trades are aging out the average age on construction not good especially physically demand that spoken to a couple of you about this but it's my goal to get front of every school board in the area I cover cover R man State um skill trades more than ever before are becom a adoption for kids coming out High School you want to change the perception that the trades are a fall back position for very smart people I've ever with a bit of background about myself I actually have a teaching license I'm probably the only say that because when I graduated in 2002 that's what I wanted to do I wanted to teach hist the
036Boomers did not retire so um I had to change plans the long story short right I'm glad I made that transition I truly enjoyed my teaching education and the experience I had in that time but the skill trades has given me so many different opportunities I was completely aware of I grew up in a family that was not trade family I just happened into this by accident more or less and that's a problem that we were having more and more in this our community because most of our plumbers and H techs and other people Texas most of our shop classes are G you're fortunate to have a shop here um and so if you don't have family member in the trade something know you're probably not going to get that ancillary connection that you get
037when shot scho so trying that's my also my just wanted to thank my heart sister she experienced a lot so I just wanted to thank you for right thank you Micah all right next Carol p hi car from Township and I know everybody knows what's going on with CRT and all the masks vaccines and all that stuff and um I'm not going to talk about it a lot I just I believe that it's a fight of good verus evil and a lot of is country and around the world that need more more than the have and for that reason I just want to say a prayer for our country and the people here tonight Lord we come to you tonight with a prayer of Thanksgiving we are thankful for our count fathers who chose to
038build this nation I word and for the freedom of protection you bestowed upon us we thank you for the many blessings you have given us blessings such as an abundance of food and ability to earn a living the way we choose Gas and Electric to keep us warm in the winter and cool in the summer a rip over our heads and doctors to heal us when we're sick we are truly a nation of blessings from God but Lord we also acknowledge that we have taken your blessings for GR it and we have turned our backs on you instead of continuing to include you in our lives we have G PR prayer has been removed from schools only to be replaced with pornography our nation of unity has become a nation of division over the past
039few years we have turned aor of one another rather than love Lord we ask that you change our hearts we ask for guidance and direction from you to help us treat others with love and respect we also ask that you lead the school boards teachers teachers unions and principles to do the morally right thing for our children convict their hearts and direct their paths to do what's right and good Lord it is obvious that we are in a fight of good versus evil riots in the streets are being encouraged stealing has been accepted in some parts of our country illegal immigrants are being brought in against the law and law MERS being thrown out the window this can only be the work of an evil agenda led by ungodly man we ask that you stop
040the evil that is overtaking our country we ask you to put obstacles and confusion in the way of people in power who want to destroy our lands we also ask that these powerful workers of wickedness be removed and that they be replaced with people who stand for your righteous cause and lastly we ask you to Open the Eyes of people everywhere reveal the truth to them and expose the evil that is happening here and around the world give us all courage strength and your wisdom to fight for our god-given freedom and give us a Heart of Thanksgiving for the beautiful country you have graciously blessed us with thank you Lord for hearing our prayer tonight in Jesus name we pray amen thank you Carol okay name [Music] jamesma last week the Kent County Democrat sent
041out a memo soliciting attendance at tonight's meeting Ottawa County DS also joined the effort apparently they felt that this elected board needed protection from the and I quote group of unhinged attackers referring apparently to the parents of grand District student they also said quot we are prepared to stand up to these bullies will you join us let me give you Webster's definition of unhinged to be highly Disturbed unstable deranged un and once I have been coming to these meetings I have not witnessed any display of these characteristics by those who have spoken to the board members what I have seen and heard have been the passionate and educated commentary of parents care and concern for your children so perhaps the real unhinged boies in this instance are the ones who responded to the call for
042Mob rule at this board meeting tonight in an attempt apparently to intimidate into silence those that have shared a different point of view those aics will no longer work our world is Awakening the rule of law shall be restored respect for differences in all their many forms will replace the force and coercion used by those who are intelligent when they don't get their way the insanity of medical tyranny will give way to the honoring of The Sovereign to choose for themselves what treatment are non treatment is for them no more propaganda that Shields the truth with deceit no more Ling cheating stealing and destroying our god-given rights of decency and Freedom the decline in Morality In the doctrines programs and procedures within the Public School Systems is of genuine concern to many emphasizing sex sexual
043orientation same sex bathrooms obsessing on pronouns and supplying sexually explicit materials in school libraries is inappropriate focusing on AC academics with the role of public schools encouraging music art drama and sports to enrich a child's life experience is the domain of Education let children be children not subjects of indoctrination ity is at a Crossroads we are we are in a spiritual battle between the dark and the light the dark imprisons and the light freeze for all the issues and distractions that show up daily there is in truth only one thing going on we are either choosing to align with an oppressive government and human tyranny Where We Are choosing our alliance and aliance to God May We Choose Wisely J my first part of my speech covered all that so I'm part ofs like the
044English language pronouns mean more than feeling it's not that us parent our group we are not attacking LGB community heterosexual sexuality can stay out of our schools as well like period like it's getting getting ridiculous kind of like broken record coming up here talking you guys the minute we're done talking you guys go on great to all little JM and Lacrosse you never address us you never said anything remotely to any of our concerns at any board meeting maybe in a private conversation but when you guys call for old news isn't that from the board meeting before I could be wrong but maybe you know like acknowledging that we come here time and time and time again and we'll be here again in two weeks and rattle off the same thing um yeah we have
045a problem with division in our country right now a big big problem in the Grandville School District um you know like my mom said with the Democrats you know I i' sent Scott Mel a couple of the screenshots spoke with him last week kind you know let him be aware of what was happening you know I thought we were the minority thought we were a small minority group and now we got the Democrats calling out for everybody in Kon Ottawa County to come on by and show solidarity for the board and it's not that we're against you guys supposed to be so instead of staying and listening to the rest of this we will be at 2327 Wilson Avenue the VA Hall until 8:30 working on our recall Mission with three of you guys up
046there so if anybody wants to join that's where we'll be until 8:30 thank you Ronda bargen cross EV mobilize us according to unhinged attackers have been attacking students staff Administration and the Board of Education in Grand this is an egregious why no one has been attacked to these small students no one is unhinged we are passionate emotional and angry at times our children are involved for Peete sake we just want the born Administration and teachers to do their job and only their jobs there is a group of intelligent caring patriotic Conservative Christian critical thinking parents that are concerned about what is happening in our schools we're not a small in this community nor in this country parents are standing up and making their voices heard across the country we are a diverse group of parents
047and we don't all share every single belief but as a rule we believe in science we believe there's only two genders and it is a fact determined by your DNA anything else is a fetish or a sexual preference which has not no place in school we believe life begins a conception how can water be Proof of Life on another planet but a heartbeat on Earth is not we believe that you will never eradicate a virus with a vaccine scientists know this scientists know how viruses behave they mutate they become weaker and more contagious in order to survive poorly developed vaccines such as the ones we have also cause more mutations the fear monitering on mainstream media is ridiculous and I don't know what the school has done regarding their policy but letting vaccinated who have
048Co or close contact not quaran and requiring those that aren't vaccinated quarantine is total forth because we all know that if you are vaccinated you can still get catch and spread Co actually everybody I know currently that has it was vaccinated lot of good also these parents this group of parents we even brought in a subject matter expert to explain that masks don't work our children have a right to a free education and studies show they don't Lear as well with the Mas folks like to say we need because of the kids mental health well those people also don't seem to acknowledge the role that masks play in damaging their mental health here's the critical difference between the two groups the people calling people with conservative views divisive are the divisive ones we want to
049be allowed to do what we feel is best for our children no one is making you do anything with your children we are not demanding you know that you can't wear a mask you wear a box of mask like we just don't want our children to be forced to wear them we believe the school needs to stay in its Lan we send our children to school to learn math English and social studies parents are the primary teachers of morals and values and the teachers and administration need to leave that to us sdl is a way around a child and their family's privacy it's a way around parent permissions it's a way around sex ed guidelines parents know it and you all know it the people spreading hate are the mea the Nea the local president
050of the Union along with whom I assume to be his buddy a former band teacher check out social media there sure seems to be a lot of fear of a small vocal minority if folks are emailing other districts and countywi political parties we which didn't seem to too much for we are a grassroot group of folks trying to do what we feel is best for our children we parents want deserve and have a right to have a say in what is taught in our schools it is in the boards schools districts I don't know which one mission statement they but they to work with parents All We Have Heard in the past eight months of attending these meetings are plating platitudes from Mrs buck and we've been called conspiracy theorists by Mr Barrett and those
051things don't fill the bill of working with parents or doing your job as it is it says in theine there while there had been a few rockus meetings a few months back it is also suspicious to me that Mrs Bu The Limit clapping of the meetings now when the meetings have been quite simil in recent months this is completely unwarranted and will not stand as shown currently and at the last meeting to do so is also against the law according to the open meeting act not the behavior I would expect of the president of the board of Board of Education are our children her first priority or her power questions I've never had answered every worded them so that they can be answered it's been acknowledged by the administration that there are teachers outside their
052laying has it been acknowledged that someone wasn't their job to allow that to happen has that person faced consequences for not doing their job has someone been tasked with getting roog teachers back in their Lane and keeping them there and is that person the same person that let them get out of their Lane I sure hope not thank you and I'm going to go hang out with some of my supposedly unhandy friends I'm Blake Missour I come to you geving yet another school shooting this time our state carries the bloody B of our nation's Collective obsession with guns violence and soul crushing callous of action to protect the most vulnerable in our soci last Friday I attended the Michigan Education Association Board of director's meeting which I I heard testimony from The Zone director of
053Oxford's region regarding the unfathomable pain and suffering of the students staff and families of that Community despite the proclamation uh the proclamation uh of a parent in our community a month ago these events are not false flag operations with paid crisis actors serving at victims to this day I am astounded at the absolute ignorance of such a statement and yet this completely untethered belief in similar pervade our society from mors to our stools to the highest reaches of government we Face an epidemic of intolerence misinformation disinformation and outright ignorance throughout our land which is paralyzing our ability to confront the very real challenges we Face how many more children need to die in our schools before we take action how many families will suffer lifelong pain and suffering reliving the loss of family and friends
054from such a how many more communities will carry the scars of school shootings for generations to come make no mistake every person in Oxford Michigan woke up that Tuesday Morning believing that it will never happen here I'm calling on the this board to pass a resolution supporting the students Bill Bill of Rights for safer communities this resolution stems from the 20 8 student young violence Summit in Washington DC It Was Written 100% by students from across this country including two from Michigan one of which is from Grand R who met in Washington DC for a three-day Summit to address this issue they Workshop discussed deliberated and collaborated on developing these recommendations this was a student Le initiative some of the measures include allocate sufficient funding for mental health programs including that not limited School based
055Safety and Security initiatives violence Intervention Program programs healthare services including counseling and mental health evaluations to be provided by trained racially and culturally diverse team mental heal professionals reduce the stigma of mental health and illness by educating students and faculty and mental health establishing support networks such as peer counseling creating Pathways for anonymous reporting identification and mention of at risk you based on mental health and alternative childood experience evaluations to promote responsible gun ownership by requiring safe storage policies and modeling gun licensing similar to Driver's Licensing along with 11 other measures to take actionable steps in reducing the violence our children are enduring in our communities I also ask the board to forcefully denounce any legislation that would arm teachers or staff in any capacity the challenges we face in education our city from teacher
056shortages Recruitment and Retention issues sub shortages mental health educator mental health wellbeing coping related stresses and attacks on our boards Administration uh teachers and staff from misguided community members across our nation these events from last week highlight the fact that we also carried the burden of life and death on our shoulders it's long past time we stand up together and call for Meaningful change thank you thank you B all right that is all for public comment um could i r a consent action could I have a motion to move support all in favor yes yes excellent so first item on the agenda is Personnel action it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the following Personnel actions uh new Employments ctin Buck nurse 1129 21 Derek ther bcba Behavior coach 13222 Lauren Hoffman bcba
057behavioral coach 2022 can I have a motion discussion um sure and just for the record bcba stands for board certified Behavior in case you were you were wondering about that I figed we probably get asked that uh question so um nothing that John anything we just looking at ouris structure talking with Jason NSS our BCB will focus one of them one students designed around the science of behavior look those tier two ander three interventions things might be able to as well excited to have trained in the science behav us so we're going to do a roll call vote and I will be abstaining you want to do a roll [Music] call i b yes yes yes all right next item ghs course proposal in total law and public policy am I'm gonna make the recommendation
058first yeah right okay yeah it it is this got to be official it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the following proposal for intro to law and public policy a new social studies elective course at Granville High School this elective would teach students about public policy the criminal justice system and government at a deeper level than introduced in the required government course this skills based course would provide students the opportunity to research create proposals present information collaborate with one another and partake in healthy civil discourse through the St structures of our Democratic policy law criminal justice systems can I have a motion so moved now we're goingon to go discuss this all right Ashley and Adam are here to talk about this Ashley is our government teacher and well as us us year
059also serves as National Society director and was as you guys know M surviv I just want to make sure that she is here tonight to introduce social elective course that she has proposed to our uh her Department uh School Improvement team and our district school Improvement team and now we're here in front of you guys so hand over to Ashley uh to discuss why she came up with this proposal and what it about uh yeah so you're summary was really great it's just that we have students that are interested in government and economics at a much deeper level um and they don't have a senior elective that currently serves that purpose and so I have a lot of students that constantly ask me like what can I take senior year they're really interested in going
060into law they're interested in going into public policy anything like that college law so this would serve is that senior elective um we currently have some social studies electives senior year but they more focus on like topical Global issues or psychology so this would serve for that and it would be more of a Project based course that would allow students to really dive deep into our Criminal system and just different economic social foreign policy allow them to research and to investigate some of the issues surrounding those areas can I start got it I've been waiting oh my God I'm in love with this course so in looking at this uh summary syllabus that you provided one of the things that immediately comes to mind is how do you balance the current discourse in this country
061within this course you're going to teach is that part of it um so I would say yes to some extent like out all of these different issues that we look at right predominantly I would say with more of the public policy side yes like I would reare students to look at both sides of the issue and have a discussion about the pros and cons of both sides of the issue and so I would say that that is built into the course it's not taking things from one side really investigating and looking at how those decisions and kind of how both sides would approach that cool that's my first question I'm let everybody else I'm wondering have parents been involed I know some team but how parents been engaged in this um So currently um this
062would just be important to remember on um classes for high school they go into the class um curriculum guide and then as students schedule they look through there and there's a description on there so in the development phase of this there's not we have members on our school yeah that's what I was thinking are there parents on that school Improvement team because I think this is going to be an issue with social policy and what you talk about in your class and what you're not allowed to say and you know we'll have a whole line of people here it's something that you say wrong and I I just want you to be aware of that um I really believe that um it's one which I thought oh boy you started talking about government and you
063got to be careful right and I I guess I'm just saying you got to recognize it um so influence may not be from the kids you know and um is it going to cause issues with your classroom I mean that's one of the things I'm concerned about I guess I'm not saying it's gonna happen I'm not saying you're not you able to manage but and and I I appreciate that I think that Ashley's this class is not to dive deep into whether you were right WR is that project Bas of learning how to make sure that you look at a public policy problem is and that and have to see you inevitably have to look at different perspectives on public policy but you know one of the questions that came up in our district team
064was similar to this and like anything else it would be an approval process through Ashley to make sure that there are just some H topic issues that maybe don't have their way into the classroom at this time and actually we have an approval process on so I think there are some great examples you know we're experiencing it right now with mass mandates and Vac those are policies that are influencing you know people's feelings and um you know actions and things so I guess I just want to make sure that I'm sure you are but I'm concerned about that so I want you to be knowing that I'm concerned and I think that is definitely um be aware of I think that I kind of phrased it perpectly this is not meant to be a course
065right this is meant to look at broader scale foreign policy policy social policy very small part of the course and any research-based topics would of course have to be approved through me naturally I would try and steer away from those current hot button issues for that purpose and you're talking about the fundamentals of this yes so how many other districts in Kent and or Ottawa County have this kind of a course say a combination like I created probably not many I know that there are several schools that have just an in law course um there are several schools that have more of like I know um Forest Northern actually talked to a teacher that kind of had like a public policy similar course like it was a little bit more Project based which is kind
066of where I got the idea to kind of merge those two um I've always thought when I was doing my student teaching actually at West they ENT law coures so I just thought that they hand over with they T that was really cool as a way to really kind of me that need for students and so I just figured in a semester there was a good way to kind of combine both of those things and those grou is there an AP course that fits the majority of this that they could get that you know that golden star so I am the AP Government teacher I will tell you we go into a very surface level of all these naturally we are a semester AP government class so I will give you an example example I
067spend about two days on civil rights got it where I just don't have time to go weeks into those different topics so for the students that want this and I think you're G to find a lot because it's so cool um is there a curriculum out there for AP that fits this that you could adapt to and still have them hit it is there a is there a path to AP for this or no AP class that fits this social World us um e Andy yep so will there be one section of this so that that's dependent on how many can sign up for it so typically right we have our scheduling the interest happens and then if there's 60 kids we schedule them in there 60 kids might be one section each semester depending
068on how the master schedule shakes out it could be two sections one semester but'll a semester course and that's how we'll go through it but it's based on the interest of the students will there be prerequisites then for this what are your thoughts um so not necessarily ideally I did Envision this being a junior senior elective because it would definitely help them to take government Recon first yeah um that being said taking the and so just with the nature eled [Music] options what do you when do you plan on offering this because oh okay my daughter is taking public policy and she's a senior so that's why this would be great for her love her to get in this out my son would love to take this second semester yeah exactly yeah so see there
069you go [Laughter] [Music] aesome think it's great you know this rocks I think it's incredible you should feel very proud I mean the entire curriculum team but you actually you know you know a lot I I took business law when I was in college but I didn't get anything close to this piece of it because I bet you're going to get a lot of interest as to what if if Junior's a perfect level for this because they could decide do I want to get into that side of the world a little bit more and they have that little bit more knowledge so nice job really appreciate you gave us I think the thing it's GNA be interesting and is that yes to your points but I My Hope for this is that it helps students
070learn how the appropriate how yeah um when it comes to so many of these discussions I mean I guess that's kind of the ultimate to allow and to teach students the skills to be able to have a proper discussion from both sides not walk away heated not walk away upside and understand that that is just a part of life and that's a that what a great way to practice that environment exactly y so bra excellent all right let's take a vote on this all in favor of item 4 B the ghs course for intro to Law Public Policy please signal with a yes yes all opposed excellent congratulations uh next item summer 2020 Chromebooks it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the purchase of 1,100 D Chromebooks at a price of$ 7,125 the
071purchase will also require $33,500 for Chrome management licenses and $8,000 allowance for device cases the total approved purchase price is $298,700 [Music] um anual purchase that helps us refresh student one devices um pref it with saying we're coming to you obviously a little bit earlier than we normally do normally um we coincided with the spot bit State comes out however as everything going on right now supply chain technology shortages all that kind of thing we really want to get this order in as soon as possible to make sure that we have devices we get in stock and get ready to excellent good idea any this is normal cost um it is touch higher than the devices we purchased last year but it is still State okay anybody else nice job on price W okay all
072right we will do a roll call vote being it's a like large price tag you bomber hiar yes Dean yes Wonder Jim yes yes all right so wal is going to stay up has more money it has recommended the Board of Education approve the purchase of 26 Cisco model 9300 network switch is 26 Cisco 9300 Network expansion modules 26 Cisco 1100 power supplies necessary cabling and Licensing for a total purchase of $ 33,44 78 C can I have a motion so move support all right wal so again this is something that we would probably have waited a little bit you but um because Supply ch issues um what this does is the wi Network infrastructure in the district is fine it's running serving the district just fine um a few years ago we did um
073upgrade the wireless infrastructure so all of the wireless access points that are throughout the des access student homebooks and iPads um those wireless access points can actually connect to the network with a faster connection what we can provide our existing can provide now so a cost effective way to provide the F wireless access is to purchase a f switch that goes in each Network closet there 26 Network Clos Network so this would put one of those bathroom Network switches in each Network closet and that which then Prov wirel access stud are these replacing or supplementing these are suppl okay what perc faster are they like so right now um the wireless access points connected a one gab speed these switches provide a 5 G oh that's awesome you need that teachers yeah when we're adding
074these switches so we don't ever have to I'm not saying there's not too much manand don't ever I don't think I'll ever say that but when it comes to these they don't they don't just replace something that's out of date in that process what I mean kind of help me understand I know they go to five and capacity and how many it's going to handle incoming is this like first priority when something comes in do these have the the capability of doing that and then it draws to the older ones it does have the capability of doing prioritization we aren't currently doing anything we do the only prioritization of never traffic we do right now is voice traffic phone traffic alwayss you want reliably um but other than that the core network switch that sits
075downstairs and Powers the old Network districtwide um has more than enough bandwidth to provide these switches that then provide more okay but it doesn't make sense to um purchase new switches for every switch in the district right now because you know a phone doesn't utilize wouldn't take advantage of that additional bandwidth um teacher laptops that are sitting on a desk they have a one GB connection so they would take advantage of more bandwith so this is kind of targeted um upgrade of network infrastructure to provide more most stud mostly students I mean obviously some staff utilize the the wireless networ with their laptops but mostly student the uh if I can just ask another question with regard to books so we're buying each one of these from a different supplier chome infrastructure and yeah might
076as well took all three because we have all three right now pretty much it's probably your budget for the year um well at least for equipment uh when it comes to what we have here um not all of them are available on Remy so they are um the Chromebooks are remsey pring and um the Chromebook that we're recommending is the Dell 31 that we had good experience okay all right and then the network infrastructure to get the pricing on that it was a mix of the there's a Oakland Statewide Bid And there's a my my thank you there's another state so [Music] it's nice okay okay great thank all right again we're going to take a roll call vote on this hi bar yes Wonder Jim yes danan yes Palmer yes F yes all right
077the trifecta Walter is gonna stay up one more time it is recommended the Board of Education approved the purchase of a Dell EMC hybrid storage Appliance this is a deal $65,100 door access security cameras all a variety of services um we currently or we um in 2018 we replaced our primary storage Appliance with a Pure Storage array it has um instead of a spinning hard drive in it it has memory chips so it's very fast um however we have some storage um for example uh the high school does a a program based for a lot of data it doesn't necessarily need to be accessed really fast but it definitely needs to be sorted back up so we've been utilizing two older gell storage appliances to store some of the less frequently accessed data and those
078two storage appliances are between 10 11 years old and so I looked at um renewing the maintenance on those appliances because like I said they're still storing critical data for the district um and cost benefit analysis it really just makes more sense to replace it with one newer hybrid storage Appliance as opposed to trying to um get maintenance on those two appliances so this Appliance has a mix of that Speedy uh flash storage and still um the spinning hard drive fer storage type um and it's actually fairly smart how it it will take data that is accessed frequently and put it on the fast storage and data that isn't accessed is frequently it'll put on that that slower spinning disc so this is kind of a cost effective way of getting more storage uh server
079infrastructure um but being able to balance between cost and speed do we have any cloud backup so how does this tie into that so this doesn't necessarily this is local storage so if I'm a student over in high school and bring up my video project it's going to pull it directly off of the storage Appliance as we're accessing it we do back up nightly to uh aure Microsoft aure cloud storage it backs up so our data gets backed up to a storage Appliance that's out of centry park because it was the first I could get away from the administration building and then that Appliance every night backs up to Microsoft assur cloud which backs up on the east coast and the west coast of the United States so hopefully if there was some major natural
080disaster or something that of we pay for that we do it's actually fairly cost effective the monthly bill has ranged anywhere from4 to $60 wow yeah and we store we go back a year so I store a Year's worth of thanks W to talk about beautifully done as always all right we are going to take a roll call vot one more time Dean [Music] yes yes so the next meeting will be Monday the next meeting the last meeting of this year will be Monday December 20th at 7M here at the adman building and we stand Jour thank you for coming for