001Next item, please. Next item is action items. First special consideration of an action item. Are there any action items on this agenda? Is my microphone on? Is there any action items on this agenda which board members or the superintendent wish to discuss and vote on separately? If there are, we will exclude these from the motion below. I'm looking for a motion to approve all of the action items on this agenda with the exception of any items which have just been excluded from the which would be excluded from this motion by board requests. I know we have to may exclude 29 for separate roll call. Oh, you have to fill Yeah, we've got to fill in fill in the name and um the other resolutions we they could be voted on with the same motion. And
002we have and we have a supplement as well. Be sure you um include that in the number up to 34. So, what I'm hearing is only item action item number 29. 29 that we're Yeah, we're going to exclude. It's 1 through 34 with the exception of 29. Yes. So, somebody make a motion. Oh, you got to read it. You're supposed to You can read the current one through 34 with the exception of 29. I am. All right. So I'm looking for somebody to move that action items numbered 1 through 34 with the exception of item 29 be approved as recommended in this agenda. So moved support motion u moved by trusty Barry supported by trusty petskov. Any questions on any items? I do have a question on the parent square contract number 18. Um I
003know this was piloted and it seems that um the cost for this would be offset by the elimination of the platform currently being used. Do we know approximately how much are we using or how much are we paying for the current platform and if that's in touch? It is in touch. They just can't and we also have another platform that we use for our newsletter which is quite small compared um but the the the offset is not one to one. Okay. Clear about that. Yeah. Yeah. Do do we know how much we're paying in touch? We would save in other areas too like including some of the mailers and papers that would go out in terms of forms because of um how we would be able to utilize those digital services with this as well
004too but we don't know how the number I'm saying as far as intouch is a dollar a student a dollar yeah intouch is currently a dollar a dollar per student that's all I have thank you thank Any other questions? Okay. Can we have a roll call, please? Sure. Trusty Aljme, yes. Trusty Drosio, yes. Trusty Zaher, yes. Trusty Barry, yes. Trusty Pitchkov, yes. President Mos, yes. Thank you. Uh, can we read um 29? 29 or Yeah. And then we can do summary of agenda items. Okay. Just the recommended action. Okay. So you want me to read 29 first by itself? The Recommended action. Just the line. Oh, the recommended action. Sorry. Oh, page 22. Do we have Huh? Yeah. The recommended action names we're plugging in. They only have two. Okay. James Bar. The recommended action
005here is move that the Dearborn Board of Education designates blank as its representative and blank as an alternate. In the event the designated representative is unable to attend and is further directed to cast a vote on behalf of the board for candidates blank and blank. So, uh, since Trusty Barry is the our representative for Wayne County, Resa, I'll We only have two names, so one can be plugged in as the representative and the other one can't be. I nominate you to be the representative. Yeah. Who would like to serve as an alternate? No, I I'll go. Okay. Thank you, Trustee. Okay. Now, you want me to read again? Well, you need the names of the um candidates as well, and there's only two that were submitted to us. So, those are the two candidates, James
006Barry and Linda Jackson. Yeah. Okay. Now, you want me to read again? All right. It's fun pen, huh? Okay. All right. I'm looking for somebody to move that the Dearborn Board of Education designate trustee Hussein Barry as its representative and trustee Mary Pichchkov as an alternate in the invent that designated representatives unable to attend and is further directed to cast a vote on behalf of the board for candidates James Barry and Linda Jackson. So moved support moved by Trusty Barry supported by Trusty Piskoff. uh discussion. So roll call, please. Trusty Aljah, yes. Trusty Drosio, yes. Trusty Zaher, yes. Trusty Barry, yes. Trusty Pitchkov, yes. President Mos, yes. Thank you. Uh just as a point of order, we're coming into the 10:00 hour where we need to vote to extend the meeting. I hope not. But
007we are until 10. We can do that. Trusty Zar can read fast. I think we'll be done. Um, trustee, I'm sorry, Dr. Mleco, you want to comment on the appointments that we just made? Sure. I'm going to call up uh first our uh officially she's been serving in the interim capacity. Um, Nur uh Cherara, who's the just approved as the new officially assistant principal. Uh, congratulations. And we're calling her up right now. I think she has some family here. I know they've been waiting a long time, but you finally got it and I know she's doing great work and uh we appreciate it. So, congratulations to her. Thank you. Um, President Mos, Dr. Malleo, and trustees. Thank you for trusting me with this opportunity to continue to serve uh in Dearborn Public Schools. Um, I
008also wanted to give a special thanks to Principal Zana Jabril and the assistant principles that I've been working with this past year, Caitlyn Ball and Hen Dune. um I have grown to be not only a better leader but better educator and a person working alongside them and I'm excited to continue to work alongside them and be a pioneer. So thank you. Thank you. And next we have the new athletic director of Dearborn High, Mr. David Holly. Congratulations and welcome. we had a very good uh last interview and I I know he's passionate about this job and so very excited. So, good evening. Uh thank you Dr. Mleco, President Mosep, members of the board of education. I'm very excited to uh have the trust instilled in me to lead Dearborn High athletics. I'm excited to join
009Mr. Brill's team. I'm excited to continue the proud tradition of Dearborn Athletics. I'd like to thank my wife Julie, my daughter Megan, my son Trevor, who's not here tonight because he has to work. Uh without them, I would not be standing in front of you today. I also like to thank my Fortson family. Uh for 10 years, they've shaped me, molded me, supported me, and gave me a lifelong of memories. And so I'm forever uh grateful to them. Uh let's go Pioneers. Thank you. Thank you. Summary of items. Summary of agenda items, please. Summary of agenda items. Number one, approval of warrants. Number two, approval of an award to Cogna per board report 24-135. Number three, approval of an award to Quaver Ed Incorporated per board report 24-136. Number four, approval of an award to
010Peopledriven Incorporated and CDWG. Number five, approval of an award to Eton Academy on beha on behalf of Divine Child Elementary School. Number six, approval of an award to Carnegie Learning LLC per board report 24-137. Number seven, approval of an award to Common Lit Incorporated per board report 24138. Number eight, approval of an award to Eureka Math per board report 24-139. Number nine, approval of an award to Klet World Languages per board report 24-140. Numbers 10 through 15, approval of change orders. Number 16, approval of an award to Frontline Technologies. Number 17, approval of a blanket order per board report 24-141. Number 18, approval of an award to Parent Square. Numbers 19 through 22, approval of change orders. Number 23, approval of an award to Spence Brothers and Best Asphalt per board report 24-142. Number 24,
011approval of an award to Allied Construction Services per border report 24-143. Number 25 through 27, approval of non-instructional instructional personnel items for P through2. Number 28, approval of financial statement. Number 29, approval of designation of Wayne Rea election representative or that was separately. Number 30, approval of a Wayne Rea budget per board report 24149. Number 31, approval of a resolution call for full permanent funding of IDEA per board report 24-150. Number 32, approval of donations. Then what do you want to do with 34 and I don't have a summary. No. Number 33, appointment of athletic director at Dearborn High. And number 34, appointment of assistant principal at Dearborn High. Boom. Good job. So yeah, let's put a motion on the table to extend the meeting 15 minutes. Support. May I have a roll call, please?
012Alji, yes. Trusty Deio, yes. Trusty Zaher, yes. Trusty Barry, yes. Pelich, yes. President Mos, yes. Thank you. Hearing is extended. Next item, please. It's discussion. Yep. Next item is a discussion item 202526 board goals by President Mos. Thank you. Um I will turn it to Trusty Al Ji. He does want to have a full board discussion item on one of his goals that I I truly support. So, trust me, if you want to uh give us a summary of um the dashboards that you would like to see um and so we can have a discussion and then a direction for the superintendent to act on. Well, we have a lot of data at the district. uh there's different systems whether it's myar whether it's i ready and so many different things and for transparency purpose
013and for efficiency I know trustee you Barry mentioned earlier requesting data really we should have a method or a way where data should be available to us but not just the board the cabinets the teachers we have a lot of um smart people in the district you know Dr. Patterson Fatma Faraj Lamese all the data is there we just need to find a method to put the data together and doing a a dashboard uh there's different ways of doing it PowerBI or so on but it's a way to take all those datas because when to go back a little bit when I was trying to get some data on um on WEDA on ELL it's in Excel sheets it's all over the plays. But if we invest and allow these different systems, these different hybrid
014systems to be connected to a dashboard, it would allow us to be able to see the data in a way where we can make the right decisions. Um, it gives us the ability as leaders in the district to be able to slice and dice the data and to be able to see the data in a way we want to see it. And you know, I see the the we're there's financials uh investments and I know there's uh we just discussed possibly if you know cuts and so on, but just like anything else, you have to invest to be able to get the data that you want. Mhm. Whether it's graduations, whether it's uh number of students who are ELLL students, whether it's kids that how did they perform in I Ready versus last last year
015versus this year. You could look at the data in so many different ways. And it gives our, you know, the the parents and the public a way to see how we're performing. And it gets into something else that I was going to discuss, but I'll wait for next week. Right now, you know, our proficiencies are low and we need to know what the root cause. Is it ELLL? Is it this? Is it that? So, having the dashboard, the business intelligent way of presenting the data and having it available to us so that no one has to ask for it will be an investment that's well worth it. And I'm I'm willing to answer any question on what that means. questions. Trusty Pushka, I'm just not sure how um Trusty Barry talked about the fact that
016he thought everybody should be um able to ask for this information whenever they wanted it. But actually, we do have a board bylaw that does request that if you're going to um put an orordinate amount of um extra work on a department or an individual to collect this information and only one board member is interested in having access to it that the full board has to um approve of collecting that information. it is part of our um it was approved many many years ago um by a past board um and is part of the bylaw. So my concern here is I'm not exactly sure how easy your request is to um fulfill. Is this something that we are going to have to um invest a lot of extra time and energy outside of the normal
017job of whoever I would assume somebody in IT is what you're thinking of would have to pull so many pieces of information from 34 buildings that they collect on 20,000 students. So I want to be careful what we ask for because when we ask for individual requests for information at a time that we need that particular that's only one piece of information. If we're going to try to say you have to keep up all this data retrieval and have it in one place for any particular person at any particular time. it could be something that could be insurmountable for an employee to um produce. So, I just want to be cautious in how we move forward in um accepting this as uh an easy task. So, I just don't know what this is going to
018incorporate in the in our request. Well, the first thing that you need to look at or ask yourself the question based on the bylaw that you just presented is why is the data not there? Why is it hard to get the data? Why do we make it um an obstacle to get the data by creating a bylaw that restrict? Well, the bylaw is not doing that. Let let me just uh complete my thoughts. So we're making it hard to ask for data, but the question is why is the data not there? So that that's one thing, but when you're investing technology, you're you're investing in it and and nobody has to do it eventually. You you have to have support people around it, but you have different systems out there and they you can't get
019to the data unless you go through somebody and somebody has to put an effort. So just like anything else you're building uh uh building uh for early college you're doing uh you have to invest technology is important for us to see what we need to see. So when we say business dashboard, there has to be a development of a business intelligent platform. Uh Microsoft has one called PowerBI and there has to be technical resources to do that to be able to connect ieda myar uh mstep to be able to get the data. Once you do that that um that cost the development cost will pay later on with the ability to be able to see the data easily and and not so difficult. So it's it's not a manual process but it's a development process
020in the sense of technology development. So, we really need to, you know, we're at 2025. We should not say don't make it hard for people to get the data. Well, let's make it easier for them to have the data available. Um, I I just want to interject on something. um as somebody who is in software development um and I actually been into um multiple conferences uh for the school boards where they have firms that actually can be engaged as far as a contract to come and look at your various data sources and to develop dashboards. So that might be an avenue that we can do uh instead of you know, putting this work on our IT, which is very limited, but and by the way, we thank them for uh putting on the the new
021system for the work orders. I wanted to make sure that they get the credit for that. But I I I believe in in producing um rich data dashboards, you would need to engage an external firm that will come and look at your all of your data sources and then they can combine them and they ask you first what data that you want to show and they could connect all of their data points and then show them uh in presentable dashboards that could be available for board members, could be available for parents and for staff. So, I'm in support of that, but it's it's how do we go about it? Do we engage a third party firm to to come and look at it? I think that that's probably the best way instead of asking our
022own um it to to develop these dashboards and also ask the question, what current dashboards do we have that we present? I know we present external data that comes from the state where parents can go and and see individual schools and how they're doing, but what are we doing also? That's that's probably where we want to start. What kind of data points that we have and what are we doing to show them and there's some that are available from the state from the parent dashboards from the state. So the state does a lot of it for us. Uh but we can talk to Trusty Ojami about some of the detail and I believe with Miss Farage and Dr. Patterson there's a couple other products we've used in the past edicts and munctrics that are built
023for school districts and it may have some of what you're talking about. Um so there may be a way to to go to these sources that have uh some of those data sets and link it and I don't know I can Miss Farage and Dr. Patterson said they had a good meeting with you kind of get on top of that and maybe look at some options. Maybe we proceed cautiously and just look at options of what we can do some of these products. That's why I went over there. I was listening to you. I was talking to Tom. I couldn't remember the name of the product. It was the metrics and edicts that we use. So Tom is able to get some of that good data out of those systems. So it may be what
024you're looking for some of it or it may be a combination, but we can definitely look into this and kind of talk to you along the way and the board. Yeah, I I I would suggest that the the process would start by identifying the type of data that's needed and the type of systems that are available. That's the first thing we need to identify internally. But I agree with the trusty eventually a third party would have to be engaged to help us build the data. Now there might be um in the educational uh there might be educational platforms available that already does that. But when we talk about the state, the state has data for MSTEP. It doesn't have I ready, it doesn't have WEDA, it doesn't have my star for tardiness and absentism. So
025there is there is some data at the state level which I've looked thoroughly but it's not full of what we use. Trust just like Dr. Mico said there's a ton of information at the state uh whatever you want to call it uh uh when I get a client I send them to our website they're able to get more information from state websites. So with that being said, so yeah, I definitely want to support direction we're going. And the good thing is about like sometimes, you know, I think of a report that we had four or five years ago uh and I always ask that report that we went over, can we get it updated? Well, I don't have to ask for that. It's on the It's on It's on the It's right there and it
026should be updated. I guess in the beginning it's going to look a little complex, but after you create it, it shouldn't take that I don't I mean I'm not that guy, but it shouldn't take that much effort to keep it updated. And we need information. I mean, it's it's it's that simple. I mean, like I said earlier, I don't want to sound negative, but uh uh there was a time where I was told you're asking too many questions. You know, it's like, whoa. Okay. And I kind of started to believe that, but I'm like, no, we need these information. you start talking to, you know, teachers, you start talking to other employees and, you know, in order to make decisions that affect the whole district, students, parents, you need that information. So, I applaud you
027for bringing this forward. So, let's see what we need to do. Let's not start with hurdles. Let's start with what can be done. We'll go from there. Okay. Other questions? Thank you, Trusty Alah, and everybody for participating. Next item, please. Next item is board of education business starting with acknowledgement of correspondence. Uh the emails that I received uh responded to them and included Dr. Malik to respond to some of the questions that um stakeholders had. Any other correspondents? Uh Dr. I just want to mention I think the board sees you know we're getting a lot of you know compliments from different staff at different levels and I always send it to the HR and send it to the board so you can see it. So we appreciate the work you know teachers the FSE we're
028getting compliments of how that impact it was. So we always make sure we get it in their personnel file and I always send it to the board and the executive or the cabinet as well to give some recognition acknowledgement and a lot of times it ends up at the board commendations too. Next item, please. Thank you. Next item is board member committee and organization reports. I know we had to forego the committee meetings for today because we have the other business at Henry Ford College. So I would expect the chairs of each committee to communicate with your members and see if you can meet later this month. I'm available to fill in if there are no availability. That's thank you. Thank you. Uh, next item. Next item is board member superintendent commentary. I just want
029to mention that I did attend the um MASB spring institute where I uh partaked in the president superintendent workshop and it was very helpful for me as a new president um to learn about the position uh about relationships and also seeing what other districts are doing in that real. So, um, it it was time away from family, but I think it was very well spent. Uh, Trusty Barry. Yeah. So, before our next meeting, graduations will happen. Exciting time of the year. So, congratulations to all of our graduates and I'm looking forward to these uh ceremonies. Absolutely. We have to extend the meeting. So if I can handle motion to extend the meeting 15 minutes support we seem to be the uh motion move supported by trusty peskov. Can I have a roll call please? Trusty
030J. Yes. Trusty Drosio. Yes. Trusty Zaher. Yes. Trusty Barry. Yes. Trusty Pelichoff. Yes. President Wzip. Yes. Thank you. Uh any other commentary? I I just want to thank I met um some of the cabinet members and uh Fatma FJ Lamese and Adam Mar and I was really really impressed um by their knowledge and and their skills and their accommodation uh to listen to me and to to help me out. So I I do want to thank them and I appreciate it. I've also met with others in the past so thank those as well but this is the most recent Yeah, thank you. I'm also as excited for graduation season, honors night. I know we've been invited to so many even National Honor Society inductions. I apologize if I don't make them because of schedule constraints,
031but we will try our best. Um, there are also I believe we began with the cleanup parades. Yes, they started two of them today at those are happening over at William at major schools. Uh any other commentary? Oh, thank you. Next item, please. Request for information andor future agenda items. I do have a request of information as far as know we brag a lot about our graduation rates, but I I'd like to just get numbers as far as the incoming class that's graduating this year. Um the count of the freshman class at each high school and um that the count that's graduating this year. So kind of the the count of current freshmen and then no the count of the freshman the current seniors compared to the compared to the class numbers four years ago.
032So the same class that's graduating but four going back four years ago. You're trying to see if we've lost students from the Oh the count the overall countenance of this sorry if I can man of the seniors that are graduating this June. Yeah. Got when they entered in September whatever, right? How many of them were there and how many of them arrived? Correct. The class of 2025 basically. Any other requests? Thank you. Um future. Yeah. Future meeting days. Monday, May 19th, HFC policy committee meeting, 6 p.m. at the Administrative Services and Conference Center in the cabinet conference room. And Monday, May 19th, 2025, HFC board of trustees meeting, 7 p.m. at the Administrative Services and Conference Center in the Rosenol boardroom. Thank you. This meeting is adjourned at 108 meeting.