Board of Education Meeting- June 8, 2026

0016:46 we're going to start our required public hearing regarding the 202627 budget and I will turn it over to Miss N. >> Good evening. This is our required annual budget hearing. So I will be discussing fiscal year 2526 ending budget as well as 2627's initial budget. Budget assumptions for 2627 for our uh traditional student count we went no change. So a zero per pupil loss or increase. General open enrollment gain of 100 students that includes the 25 additional that we were board approved earlier this year. Specialized open enrollment is a gain of 25 students and then shared services a gain of 50 students. Mipser's retirement rates when they were announced are going down for the 26 27 years. So those were reduced by 5.89%. Benefit changes are going up. So those were increased by 7

002and a half%. state aid funding. Uh we still don't have a estimated state aid budget, but in all three branches it was a 250 per pupil increase. So that's what we've moved forward with. And then uh human resource contract obligations. So those are the contracts that were settled for 2627. Those increases are reflected in these numbers. So for your general fund, your beginning fund balance as of July 1 of 2025 was 28,970,592. estimating to bring in $138,980,022 but spending $143,25760 resulting in um an excess expenditure of 4 million 4,225738 leaving us with an ending fund balance of 24,744854. $4. The asterisk just insticate indicates these are all estimates until we're audited. And I can give you a true final ending fund balance. Fund balance percentage if we spend every dollar we're estimating in the budget

003would have us at 17.28%. You'll note your ending fund balance for 2526 becomes your beginning fund balance for 2627. So that's that same 24,744,854. We are estimating bringing in $143,99,260. uh with restructuring and efficiencies spending $144,858,65 leading to deficit spending or revenues over expenditures of um $1,758,85 leaving the district with a projected $22,986,049. That fund balance would leave us at 15.87% 87% at the end of 2627. General fund budget. Again, just a different way of looking at so you can see the major categoricals of where the expenditures sit. Instruction being obviously the bulk of what we spend in the district at $87,951,843 in2526 increased again to reflect those contracts in 2627 to 88,540,930. supporting services. Those are all the auxiliary services we can offer in terms of speech paths and uh social work counselors. Those

004kind of things sit in that group. 52,181,11. Again, an increase into 2627 of 53,357,026. Community services, those are um a lot of that is your community ed pieces. So 65,922 and 2526 some reduction in spending in 2627 of $581,586 payments to other governmental agencies, facilities, acquisitions, and prior period adjustments. The bulk of that in 2526 is the purchase of the CTE house. So that's um 288 371 in 2526. We are estimating putting $200,000 into the house in 2627. So that's where that number is coming from. And then other financing uses are the bus installment purchase agreements. So um estimating 2,1 178523. We have several balloon payments this year that are um kind of falling off of the books, but we're currently in the process of seeking another for 33 school buses. So, not knowing what

005those numbers are in totality, I've just left them the same for now. All that to say, total expenditures tied to what you saw on the previous slide of the 143.2 in 2526 and 144.8 in 2627. Community Education Fund Budget, also known as your early childhood center. Their beginning balance uh for the fund balance was 1,364 364,029. Estimated revenues $3,690,51 expenditures of $3,869,100. excess revenue um or expenditures. So, they're spending slightly more than they're bringing in at $178,749, leaving them with an estimated fund balance of 1,185,280. Again, that carries over to their beginning fund balance for 2627. Estimated revenues 3,217,459. Expenditures 3,424,93. Again, spending more than we're bringing in for $26,734, leaving them a fund balance of $978,546. School lunch fund biging fund balance of 2,422,616 revenues $4,17,552 expenditures $4,493,53 spending more than they're bringing in,

006which is what we would like to see in this fund because we currently have an excess fund balance finding. So we're trying to spend that down. So spending 385,951,000 this year, ending fund balance of 2,ion36,665, carrying that over to beginning for 2627 spending or excuse me, bringing in $4,17,552. Spending $4,864,27 again, working to spend on that excess fund balance. So spending $756,655 leaving a fund balance of $1,280,10. If they can manage to spend that full fund balance, we should be outside of the excess fund balance finding, but no promises because we have to kind of see how that all plays out. Independent Television Fund Budget, their beginning fund balance is $690,468. We received $218,000 um from Independence Township. They are estimating to spend $21,990,000 or $990 of it, leaving them about $6,000 they're putting into

007their fund balance. So 696478 rolling that into 2627 again the same $218,000 we received from Independence Township. Uh estimated expenditures are 182,745 estimating to put in $35,255 into their fund balance leaving them with $731,733. Special revenue fund budget. This is what used to be known as student activities or your internal accounts. Uh there was a gazsby that required them to bring them into our traditional financials and and adopt a budget for them. current uh they started the 2526 with a beginning fund balance of $358,638 estimating to bring 1 uh1,240,500 spending $1,467,88 revenues uh expenditures over revenues of 227,38 leaving them with a fund balance of 131,330. 30. Carrying that into 26 27, not knowing what kind of fundraisers and what is coming, adopting about where we sat in revenues and estimating that they won't spend

008more than they bring in. If they spend more, they can't spend above what they carry over into fund balance. So, they can't spend more than $131,330 [clears throat] over any revenue they bring in next year. And that is the end of all of your funds that are required to be adopted. Any questions? >> Um, for the sake of the public, we are required to approve this budget before the state has approved their budget. So, we work with parameters that we work with Miss Nag and the rest of the administration that we talk about at other open meetings and that's the numbers that we have here. Um, so thank you for that. This was very easy to follow. Um, I appreciate it very much. Are there any questions or comments from the audience first? What about

009the board student reps? Any questions or comments? Okay, we will take action on this later in our meeting. Uh right now we will take a four three minute recess and then we will start our regular meeting. Thank you, Miss. >> Thank you so much. 10:00 we will call to order the regular meeting of the Carson Community Schools Board of Education. Uh if everyone could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> 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. >> Practiced. >> Miss [clears throat] Allen, can I have a roll call, please? >> Yes. Nope. >> Uh, Mr. Hire >> here. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Degan >> here. >> M. Love >>

010here. >> Mrs. McInness >> here. >> Mr. Ne >> here. >> Mrs. Crane >> here. >> Mr. Clark sends his apologies. He had a family obligation and could not make it tonight. This meeting is a meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community hearing. There is a time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in agenda items three and nine. Item two is approval of the consent agenda. May I have a motion, please? >> I move the board of education approves the consent agenda as presented. >> Support. Motion's made and supported. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any oppose? Say no. Motion carries. Item three is the citizens request to address the board.

011Under item 3.1, you can request to address the board on about any topic that is on tonight's agenda. And that is behind me. Under item nine, you are welcome to address the board on any topic. When making comments, please state your name and address. Direct your comments to the board president. Each person may speak for up to two minutes. Per established procedures, the board will not respond to questions or interact with the speaker during public comment. Miss Nag, would you mind looking to see if anyone has signed up? They have not. Thank you very much. Item four is the superintendent update. Dr. Ryan, >> thank you. I want to kick it off with a boom. This past weekend, our construction uh tech um team competed down in Atlanta at the nationals uh a national competition

012for construction. And those team members, well, first of all, as it was said, when the dust settled, um, Clarkston U placed in the top 10 in the entire United States. A four-person team, including Duncan Ruby, Carson Strait, Aiden Newton, and Justin Walsh competed in areas that included framing, plumbing, masonry, and electrical work. And it was over four days that they had to show their skills and really sometimes, you know, like when we compete with uh team rush in the worlds and and come in in the literally the top couple in the United States, we kind of I don't think we fully really actualize and realize in Clarkson how not only fortunate we are, how amazing these programs are because right behind them, you know, to have a team to be in the top four, top

01310, excuse me, uh looking at in the country is absolutely absolutely amazing. I also want to give shout outs to their instructional team that was there on site. They traveled all the way to Atlanta with the team was Neil Granlin, Jaden Wood, uh Adam Goring, uh there to support along with uh the families of the students I know that were on hand. Um this was an amazing showing in so many different areas and uh I think it goes in the proud tradition that we're building here in Clarkston and with Mr. Goodman and many others help in the audience uh well Mr. Goodman tonight working on that whole piece that the board of education has greatly supported in terms of purchasing a home in Clarkston for the construction uh tech students to be able to refurbish

014and prepare for selling and really you know again adding in their skills learning something and beautifying our community. Uh as we come to a close close of a school year it just leaves me with kind of a full heart. I love to see what we're doing not only in on athletic fields and in the classroom in terms of excellence that we've shared across this year, but to see our students doing it in the trades uh makes me more more proud than I can even barely express. So, I just want to thank that entire team for the all hard work. Uh we're going to do a good job because obviously didn't get, you know, all the people in our community out here tonight to make sure that um this news is spread uh large and wide.

015U there's a lot of recognition for all the hard work that's deserved. So that is uh my point of pride uh looking at some of the bigger things I'm also very proud about as I see summer start. Um you'd be remiss if you've traveled down Walden Road and haven't seen what's going on at the junior high with the hundreds of Masons uh literally erecting a building from the ground. It's amazing to see now behind the high school. You see that they're tearing down tennis courts and they're preparing parking lots on the event lot uh to be paved. Um there's new carpeting uh going in that's 24 year old carpeting. I was with the the um vendor and the uh individuals that are part of the install and some of the leadership at the early childhood

016center talking about the things that 24 year old carpet has seen in an early childhood center. And I can't repeat them publicly tonight, but I'll just assure the community 24 years is long enough. And uh we're really appreciative to be able to with the community support to be able to do a lot of these projects. We're putting all the resources uh to good use. And uh a final note just on congratulations to all our students and staff and finishing another school year this past Friday. A lot of hard work put in a lot of excellence and uh I'm just very very proud as we go into the summer. Uh lastly, in addition to all the summer work that we're going to be doing, uh we're doing work in the classroom, too. We're very proud again

017of the board board of education support and our instructional services group and the expanded summer school offerings and uh engagement we have. I think most people realize that summer is a big time. What they call the summer slide. It's literally coined that. And uh in Clarkston, we're very very very much pushing back against that. And I I'll even put another plug. We're able to do a lot of these things. again support of the community that we finally have air conditioning in our elementary schools where they can not be in a sweltering, you know, 90 some degree day, which inside one of our buildings with the the way the windows work easily gets overund and some degrees um for them to be able to learn during the summer because, you know, that's really where it's at.

018So, nothing but appreciation uh for our board, for for our administration, our teaching staff, and all of our support staff uh as we go into summer. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Ryan. That moves into our present presentation items. Uh item 5.1 is recognition of and please tell me if I'm saying this wrong, Matt Voxar Foundation donation kio. >> All right. And I'm going to invite DJ Zula to join me. Um Matt Bozar, right? >> Oh, is it Bozar? >> Yes. Sorry. Yeah. >> By the way, I did ask the Google and it said Boxar. So, [laughter] doesn't seem to make sense, right? So, I would like to lift up and recognize the Matt Bozar Foundation. This school year, they've donated over $23,000 to support our kiddos in playing sports. Um, and as well as

019having some AED devices um installed at the high school and the middle school, we already had some, but it this was an additional need and they stepped up and said, "Hey, how can we help out?" So, it's just a wonderful gift that they provide. I could tell you different stories of students who this was this is like their lifeline of being able to play sports but not being able to pay for it and they are allowing them to do that. So it's a beautiful gift that they're doing and I'd like to give DJ Zulu, one of the founding members of the Matt Bozar Foundation, a moment to talk about their foundation >> and Clarkson alumni. >> Yes. Thank you so much, Stacey. Uh thank you to all the board members and Superintendent Ryan. uh and

020admin. Um we appreciate everything that you all do to keep our school system running efficiently. Uh my name is Donovan or DJ Zula. I did graduate uh from Clarkson High School in 2015 and uh I'm the president of the Matt Bozar Foundation and I and my fellow board members are are honored to receive this recognition from from you guys. A little history about us. Uh in 2016, a handful for uh former CHS students, myself included, had an idea to give back to this amazing community. Uh the Clarkson community that we grew up in and the one that supported and cheered us on during all of our competitive years. Um this idea grew into what is now the Matt Bozar Foundation, named after our best friend and original board member, Matt Bozar, who suddenly passed away

021in 2020. Uh, our mission is a simple one, just to to finance pay-to-play fees for financially challenged student athletes in CCS, regardless of gender, age, or sport. While Clarkson like outwardly appears to be an affluent community, there are many residents and families that are struggling to make ends meet. Uh, we want to ease the burden of those families and get as many students involved, helping them to ultimately have better emotional, academic, physical, and social success. Uh therefore, our application process is a simple one. Through Clarkson Community Schools and working closely with Stacy and pres uh principles of elementary schools and gym teachers, uh we we identify those uh families in need and they simply just fill out an application that gets forwarded to us. Um and we have a final approval at our monthly board

022meetings. Um, and I just real quick I wanted to share a couple statements from those applications that we've received uh to show the need from our community and as well as the benefit of what we do. Um, some parents and family members wrote, "He really needs this and the opportunity to do other sports to keep busy and not get caught up with the wrong crowd. My child is super excited to try something new and further her love of running. This will be the first time my son participated in a school sport and he's eager to take part. I am a single mom that would like my kids to stay active in our community. His family has suffered through some very traumatic events. Mom is working hard to support him. Allowing him to participate will help

023his mental and physical well-being. Having this assistance will not present a financial burden to his mother. One student that we sponsored wrote a thank you note to us stating, "Thank you to all the people who work at your amazing foundation. Thank you for paying for my scholarship. I really enjoy powerlifting. Thank you and God bless." Uh we're proud of what we accomplished in just a few years and know that our funding has added benefit to freeing up Kaya and Clarkson athletic funds for other expenditures that help us. The idea of funding the two new AEDs that Stacey said came from after reading an article um about state mandates for AEDs in schools. And even through funding even even though that that state funding was cut um after inquiring into CCS's status, we found that the

024middle school had zero AD and the high school needed an additional unit. So although it kind of deviates from our initial mission, uh Matt, who our foundation is named after, was pursuing a career in emergency medicine. So, we found it, you know, in his memory, we would we would buy these AEDs for the middle school and the high school. Uh, going forward, we hope that you will all join us at our fundraising events, including a Uker Uker tournament in January. Um, that's held in Clarkson. It's it's usually at the the Hilltop Brewery. Um, and the Bozar Bash is a party that celebrates Matt's birthday in the the first Saturday in May, and it's usually at Mr. Be's. Um, our events are great fun and feature some great raffle packages. So, we encourage you to follow

025us on social media at the Matt Ozar Foundation. And, um, thank you so much. And on behalf of Matt Bozar Foundation, thank you and go Wolves. >> Thank you so much, Mr. Zaza. Does anybody have any questions or comments? >> I would just very much like to thank you. I am sure Mr. Bozar would be incredibly proud that his name is living on this way. And I have to say I'm very impressed that just a year after you graduated you you became part of this board and you you founded it right in the beginning it was 2016. That's pretty amazing. >> Yeah. >> Um I'm very impressed and just thank you for all you do for our athletes and and also for recognizing that I think it's really important that though we do seem like

026a very affluent, you know, community, not everybody has that same level of affluence. So thank you for all you do. We appreciate it. >> Of course. >> Well done. Thank you. >> Thank you. OUR [applause] next presentation is our recognition of Meridian Award winner Jessica Kimmel. >> Thank you. >> Good evening and thank you for having me. My name is Tim Peno. I'm associate executive director for the Michigan School of Business Officials or MSBO as we're commonly referred to. Uh MSBO has over 4600 members throughout the state of Michigan. Uh both that work directly in business management and operational services and or those folks that support that industry in in one way or another. I'm here tonight to present Jessica with one of our highest awards, our Meridian Award of Excellence. The purpose of the

027MSBO Meridian Award of Excellence is to acknowledge successful practices in all areas of school management. Recipients are chosen by a selection committee that includes uh one of our board members, uh member of an ISD, and three members from local districts throughout the state of Michigan. Winners are based on the degree to which the program or project enhances the overall effective operation of a school district and whether the program can be applied by other schools. Jessica's project is a perfect example of meeting all of these criterias. Her program, sharing our story, focusing on our custodial culture of pride, really enhances all of these individual aspects of this award. This initiative has strengthened this district's culture while reinforcing the essential role of facility staff in student success. Her initiative was launched first as a facilities department culture

028building program to regularly highlight and celebrate the work of the team. The program requires minimal financial investment but produces significant cultural returns. Any district can adapt the framework to spotlight their facilities department, build morale and strengthen organizational relationships. So, on behalf of MSBO, I would like to award Jessica this >> and a check to your foundation for $1,000 on Jessica's behalf. >> Wow. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Thank you so much. Does anyone have any question? Going to get a picture, Miss Allen. Yeah. Does anybody have any comments or questions? >> Just a quick comment. You know, throughout this year and uh the way Jessica really has done an amazing job of highlighting um our maintenance and our custodial crew across the district. And I think a lot of times you can just say, "Hey,

029good job for doing something." But the way she did it, I was actually looking forward to it because there was more of a story associated where you felt like you really got attached to a situation, an event, and there was some back uh background to it that kind of keep kept you engaged. And I think I feel like after a year that I got to know the crew a little bit better, and it's it's great when we can kind of reach out as a district and as a department to really highlight the work's being done. So even outside beyond award, which is absolutely amazing, uh just the work you've done within it has been incredible. And I just want to say thank you on behalf of every everybody here. It was amazing. >> Great. Thank

030you so much. >> If I could also add, I I work with facilities folks all around the state. Wes and Jessica, they're two of the best. So you have the best here at Clarkston. So you should be very proud. >> We are. Thank you so much. >> I need a picture. Right over here. You can hold the check if you want. [laughter] And I'm going to come this way. >> [laughter] >> Start swag. >> Yep. I agree. Thank you very much. Uh, our final presentation tonight is Miss Mahoney and Miss Puzzio talking about our strategic plan, giving us an update. Thank you very much. >> It's been it's been a great year and super excited to celebrate all the work and um pieces that we put in place and the results that we're seeing. So,

031just highlighting the strategic plan. Um, our mission that Clarkson Community Schools will provide, it's that chess piece, uh, challenging, healthy, engaged, safe, and supportive. That educational experience, always in partnership with families and our community. This picture is beautiful. It was just taken a week ago. Here's our graduates at at Pineob. And this is our vision is that every student in that picture they're wellprepared to lead a successful fulfilling life uh to embrace you know their future uh with much confidence. So we do have four pillars of excellence. Again our academic excellence and student success is written first. When we surveyed our community, this was top priority to see success in our students and how we prepare them with knowledge, skills, and experiences to thrive academically, to again succeed in future careers, whatever path they choose,

032and to certainly to be able to contribute to their communities. Um, we have the strategies there that we're leaning into um with every pillar. And so, we're super excited to speak to what's been happening this year. So at the elementary level, um we've really leaned in to MTSS and the work of this uh tiered support structure. We continue to focus on tier one and much of that happens through our coaches at each elementary site. Um I will say um I was looking at data recently where we have taught further into our pacing guide than we have ever and more lines. So the more content that we teach, the more experience that they have in content around especially around literacy and math, we see stronger success. So that continues to grow and I do believe it's

033the partnership that our coaches lean into with our teachers. we focused on um coaching cycles and so that's where our coaches sit with our teachers to plan um and put action plans together to reflect to look at data and then continue to revise. We also want to celebrate that tier 2 which can happen within the classroom as well as pull out with intervention um and that's you know again progress monitoring and receiving u um a highly researched intervention with fidelity. Again, we're seeing strong results. Um, our professional learning really centered around the essentials, which is um given to us by our general education leadership network, which is GELM, and our literacy and math did lean into those essentials uh to to continue to learn. We did have recognition at three of our title buildings, Andersonville,

034North Sash, and uh Pine Knob for consistent um growth over time. And we even did a special staff meeting at North Sash where they were in the top five of the county for literacy and math in um looking at students compared in schools to them. It was a huge celebration. Again, we continue to see, I think, exceptional growth. And within those three buildings, we have doubled and tripled our intervention staff um to meet the needs of kids. Just this week, we started summer programming. Um and that is about 140 kids uh sitting at Bailey Lake or Clarkson L. We have 25 staff leading learning again focusing on literacy and math as our it's a two-hour um three days a week and we're doing it for three weeks and then we pick it up for another

035three in August. So this is really powerful. Um we do offer an online piece in July and so we see that um keeping learning alive in their summer months really helps kids as well. EL education um as you know it was a two and a half year study when we looked at four resources for elementary literacy which includes reading, writing and word study. We did adopt e education in January and the professional learning uh began um immediately. We have um embraced this new uh resource with our coaches and we are starting to plan hard uh for the fall. So we have three half days prepared in August for our teachers to engage in the launch of EL education and what that looks like for them and then the continuous support throughout the year. We are

036super excited. We are super grateful for the purchase of this resource. It's been a long time coming and um we know it's a big overhaul yet our teachers voice is still very excited about this new research. We videotaped our current teachers who engaged in the study. um sharing lessons, sharing feelings, what they thought, and so we're excited to celebrate uh their voice as well in the professional learning of August. Uh our next is math labs. Every teacher at the elementary level engaged in a math lab this year. Um it was um facilitated by Rachel Ratitz and the math coaches and the focus there was on formative assessment as well as differentiation. And so again, teachers love going into other teachers classrooms and to experience the learning and then to be able to reflect and plan

037together. So that was a huge uh piece I think that a celebration in terms of professional learning. We partnered with um our special ed department about math assessments and what they can look like when students have an IEP and how do we modify and accommodate. And so that was a really nice partnership to look at assessments in that way. The next piece number five is we held leadership labs here at in Clarkston. They were facilitated by Oakland schools and this was primarily focused on leadership and what that looks like. Our principles joined our coaches and for literacy we looked at EL education and what that looks like in the classroom and for math we looked at what does differentiation look like in the classroom. So, it's powerful when principles can engage with coaches in a

038leadership lab and to talk about what does this look like? What can we expect? What do you notice? And so, that was a growth opportunity for our leaders as well. ELD morning interventions. We had 15 students that were picked up by a bus early in our North [clears throat] Sasha community. They were brought to school and engaged in literacy intervention with all three interventionists. And so this was a powerful way to get them at school learning before the school day started in an intervention way. Students ran in. I was there. I witnessed it. They were super excited, engaged with their their teacher. And again, I think we see are going to start to see strong results because of that. our ELD resource pilot is um undergoing again these are a population that we definitely want

039to pay attention to and to support and so Ketta Krauss uh along with CC Puzzio we're engaging in what that re resource can look like we'll be bringing that to TLC and so that's a beautiful piece to celebrate as well we are ending the year with a unified district schedule at the elementary this is for K5 all schools will begin at the same time. We will have all third grade teachers teaching math at the same time. We will have all fourth grade teachers teaching literacy at the same time. There's going to be some flexibility with rotations, but this is a unified way, I think, of teaching. It offers a lot around uh professional learning communities, not only within each building, but we could meet virtually with all second grade teachers um at times throughout the

040year. So, I'm super excited to see what this can bring. Again, I think it protects the pacing guide um with less transitions and again, I think we're going to see a stronger result um with engagement in content for children. I want to celebrate math olympiate is going to start happening in every building. That was kind of um a piece that was just for pockets. These are our kids who are highly interested in math and good at math. And so it's somewhat of a competition within the county as well as our spelling bee at TLC. We did honor we had a fourth grade student. Um she competed with maybe she was fifth grade. Anyway, she competed in grades 5 through 8 and took fourth place in the county. So these are really nice opportunities to um

041advance our advanced kids and celebrate um their work as well. We did try new teacher learning this year with elementary and secondary. We held four sessions after school led by our subject area coord co coordinators. So these were all new teachers to Clarkston and this allowed us to just have kind of some one-on-one time with them and to bring them up to speed with who Clarkston is and what we're learning at the elementary level. The asterisk means we really need to lean into this next year and that is we really need to look at our learning feedback document which is our report card at the elementary level. I think with the new elementary uh resource in literacy as well as we need some updating um with our learning feedback documents. So that will be revised

042and then we know we have that co-curricular study um that we'll be looking at. It's an opportunity to really think about what we can put in front of kids uh during that um 45minut block. So that's the elementary secondary similar. We really lean into our MTSS. We continue to focus on tier one. We finished our mindframe learning with subject coordinators as well as principles. And these are behaviors or thoughts about how we think about our practices. Again, we're keeping our four initiatives aligned with reading apprenticeship, fame, building thinking classrooms as well as restorative practices. our secondary coach. Um we have a new one on board this year. Um Shawn Wood went back into the classroom. We've hired Fawn Phillips. Uh she was a virtual teacher. She was a science teacher. She was a subject area

043coordinator uh for science. And so we're super excited to have her on board. Um she does have an expertise in literacy, which I was really drawn to. What does literacy look like in other content areas? So, we're excited to continue to grow uh tier one. Um at the secondary level, Laura and Shawn led quite a few learning labs around the initiatives. We also um went and invited new teachers with their mentors to join a learning lab so that they could learn together and then have time to plan together. So, that was a beautiful lab um to experience. I think we held four different kinds of labs this year for secondary. We did start some learning around the universal design for learning UDL and this is what we do for our lowest level learners. We do

044for all it benefits all kids and so we continue to grow that. Next year we'll be partnering with Brandon um which is what we did this year. We had seven teachers administrators as well as special ed join the learning together. Um there were labs at Clarkston, there were labs in Brandon. I think it was beneficial. If we have enough teachers that we can pull together, Clarkston might be on its own next year. I'm still working through that. U but I think again this is going to benefit tier 1 instruction. We had several resource studies uh completed at the secondary level. We had secondary math grades 6 through 8 which we are going to extend into this year. We adopted a US history book for grade nine. Um we're going to be offering a new AP

045course in business. We adopted heritage Spanish level uh rotation of C and we did adopt a new whole class novel uh long way down for grade nine. We engaged in a pretty robust assessment book study. There were 50 of us, the entire sack team, administrators. Sean was a part of it. I was a part of it. Um we had teacher leaders and we engaged in four different assessment books uh about assessment. What does that mean in the classroom? And there was many many things that I think were lifted up of what we could look at. Um I think the strongest voice in what we decided on next year is we're really going to take a long a strong look at what is a learning target in every classroom and what is the success criteria to

046meet that learning target make it visible refer to it and then also feedback and so which really aligns with our FAME initiative. But when students know exactly what's expected of them, um I think it's going to benefit again their success, their engagement. Um especially when it comes to assessment, AI collective, um being part of the AI collective team here in Clarkston as well as Oakland schools, partnering with Lori Banzac, as well as two of our TS uh Merca Webner and Sarah Mastie. Uh we worked hard around artificial intelligence. We'll be holding a whole half day at the secondary level in August around this. But we did launch student guidelines and staff guidelines when it comes to artificial intelligence. And so we want to continue that. We don't want to, you know, drop it and and

047not speak to it again. So we're looking at also some of the Friday professional learning days to pick up that piece around artificial intelligence. So we're really leaning into secondary for that work. Um, I think that's where it's probably the strongest and most alive when it comes to learning in the classroom. And so we'll continue to learn together around artificial intelligence. Again, new teacher learning. This probably wasn't as successful at the secondary level, but we did offer four afterchool opportunity to come and learn about the initiatives. Um, I think we might think differently when it comes to new teacher learning next year, possibly throughout the day versus after school, but um, I think it was a good try. And then PA46, this is the law uh from our state around literacy and dyslexia. There's a

048much work um to do this coming year around this law in terms of how do we screen secondary students? What does an intervention look like? Um and as well as uh progress monitoring. So the professional learning around this law will happen next year and then we need to be ready in the fall of 2027 uh to launch um all the initiatives around PA46. So would love to do some board workshops around this law and what that looks like uh for secondary. I do believe we are ready to go for elementary and so the focus will be in grades 6 through 12 next year. So our second pillar is well-being and personal growth. This is an extension. Last strategic plan we had whole child and we're expanding that work. And the goal is really to nurture

049the whole person by addressing the mental, the emotional and the physical well-being to ensure lifelong success for students and staff. So when I think about behavior interventionists, currently we have had interventionists at North Sasha, Andersonville, and Pineab. And we were examining the need to broaden that across all seven elementary schools. And so this year we've been collaboratively working with the special ed department understanding what the needs are. And so next year we will be entering in that all seven elementaryaries will have a behavior interventionist and all seven elementaryaries will have at least one social worker to support the needs of our students. They will work collaboratively together on those needs and understand the interventionists will be there to help support teachers in that tier one learning. What does that look like to address behaviors in

050the classroom? They will also work on that tier 2. how can they work with students who might need some extra supports in the classroom or even in small groups together. And so that is work that we've worked on all year and we'll see the fruit of that next year when we enter in with having all seven buildings collaboratively working together to have that support structure. The four C's is something that we have at the elementary level. Nicole Cruz is our subarial coordinator for well-being and whole child and this is something that we've started and we're going to continue to work at that and those four C's. The first one is collective beliefs and so wrapping around what are the beliefs that we have about students and the way that they behave and what we need

051to do to support them. What is then the climate that we want to create in our schools in our classroom? How do we communicate with each other with our students with their parents? And then what does that culture really look like and how do we build that? And so we will continue to work on those four C's. Our behavior interventionists will be key in helping to even expand that even more so in the classroom in the buildings um at the elementary level. The third one we have had three of our elementary schools using this survey. It's called the eye wellness survey and it's about once a week. Sometimes they'll even do every other week where there's just seven questions about students and what how things are going for them. And it helps to give some

052supports to understand where are kids needing something. And we have had success in understanding that there are some kiddos who weren't presenting in any way any any behavior or anything, but their survey were helping to realize that there might be some things to connect with. and it gave the social workers andor the behavior interventionists some opportunities to connect with students. And so we've actually realized that there are some things that we were able to co connect with our kiddos earlier on before any behaviors even showed up because they might have been more internal pieces. And so we are going to do that across all seven elementaryaries this next year. Everybody K12 it um went through a CPI training. Our special ed department has that crisis prevention and they they have a a greater reach of

053what that means. But for everybody K12, what are some of the things that they might see in the classroom and how could they help mitigate some of those if they notice those behaviors? What are some of the moves that they might be able to make? Nothing about having any secure holds or anything like that, but more just verbally and recognizing where kiddos are at. So all of our teachers, K12 and support staff went through that learning this year. Attendance is one of those that has an asterisk. We have started to look at that and examine when we think about our attendance. We are recognizing especially after COVID there is an increase in students who are not present at school and we understand then the impact that that has on their learning and their understanding and

054their connections in the school. So looking at the data, working to understand what that is. The county is also uh shifting a little bit in the way that they have practiced and so instead of at a certain amount 10 15 that it goes to a truency officer, they're looking to have that really go through CA. And so how do we have a collaboration that has Clarkson schools and what are the protocols that we we can put into place to help support families understand what the needs are understand the difference between chronic absenteeism and truency which there is a difference and I've just recently learned and so I'm engaging in some learning along with D Smith to examine what are some of those nuances and what are then some of the protocols we can put into

055place in our district to help address some of those needs. As we heard the map posar foundation, just having that collaboration that helps to create that well-being for our students to participate in things outside of just the academics and have them be part of a community and what does that look like? Mckin Vento with the retirement of Anne Moer. She was our liaison. And so I've been working with D. Smith and Stacy Youngerman as we really think about how do we support our students who are experiencing homelessness. We have almost 40 students this year who have experienced homelessness in some way. And so what are the things that we can put into place? How do we understand that? How do we have structures to help put things in place to help provide resources? But also

056recognizing there are things that we can't do and we have to help give them other resources to be able to reach out. Um and so that's just an ever evolving thing that we are doing. And then in November, we kicked off the be the light fridge. That was a uh grant that we had our female construction students build a shed that we have [clears throat] the fridge inside of. We then have a pantry. And it's something that it is a community base that you give what you can and take what you need is is our tagline for that. And um it's been incredible just the couple times that I've been there to help organize or to drop off food and people coming and the stories that they're sharing and the impact that it's having on

057them to be able to save some money, family members who are experiencing cancer or just, you know, job loss and what that is. Those are some of the stories I've had just by being there and and doing that. So, it's one of those things that I even get to see on Facebook where someone saying, "Does anyone know anything about a food?" and somebody that I don't even know. I've never even heard their name and they're posting about the free age. Well, do you know that that's at Renaissance? So, that's an incredible resource that we have for our district. The third pillar is new to us and this is district, family, and community engagement. And so, the intent of this pillar is to foster the meaningful relationships with students, staff, families, and community partners to promote

058trust and active involvement. And so how what does that look like to engage community into the the work and how do we help build be better together with everyone to um working collaboratively. The first thing is the family engagement conference that Nancy Mahoney and D Smith and I attended in this fall and really learning and understanding how do we engage? It's not just involve. It's not family involvement. is family engagement and how do we recognize the needs of families and how do we incorporate that into it. At that conference, we learned that there is a chapter in Michigan that's called my family and there's multiple chapters and so there's like a division for our area that we've been engaged in. And so D Smith has participated in some of that and as a result they

059applied for a grant. So D. Smith worked with Nancy Distlrath, our elementary science social studies coordinator, along with um Sheila Wakowski and looked at a young fives career exploration where they had a vet come in and talk to our young fives about what it means to be a vet and talk and even showed them x-rays and they had little pets that then they could do activities with their families. And then they everybody got a book that they could engage in some learning. And so there were some resources to help families how to engage in play that's also learning and using things that are just in their home. They didn't have to go buy anything to do that. And how could they do how can they do that in their classroom or in their home, I'm

060sorry. The la the next one is international night. This year we had international night. There were well over 500 people who participated in that and it was a lot of excitement and bringing in community members and recognizing and and honoring the different cultures that we have in our district. And the night ended with a some performances of different things and it was incredible to see the entire audience dancing Bali dancing together that they were led to. And so when you think about how do we honor it's not just about food but we got to do that but there was also some activities and how can we look at some of the the cultural pieces that enrich our Community collaboration. We've been working with multiple entities around Clarkston and bringing them together to understand what does

061the community need, what are some of the things that are happening in the community and how do we communicate with one another? How do we get some of that out? So, we've worked with a lot of different people. There's a connecting clerkston app that Katie Hes, if you've heard her, she has um created and how do we have that to recognize what are some of the volunteer needs and how do we post that and how do we collaborate so that we are actually working together to um have kind of bookend things where we have in the end of September we have the taste of Clarkston and then the beginning of November is the community impact weekend. In between there is kind of a month of doing. What are the things that we can do to

062help recognize the different volunteer needs that are across our entire community? What are the things that we can help and collaborate and give back to other people in our community? So that is a collaboration that started here with a conversation that I actually had with Chris Rogers and D. Smith and just kind of said what do you think and what if and it's grown to an incredible group of people who are really thinking about how can we bring community together and then academic service learning they have had over 71 projects in our district across the district and that's included schoolwide as well as multiple um classrooms and so if we look at this flyer there was six six over 6,000 students who were learning in a part of that there were seven schoolwide projects that

063included 114 teacher leaders and 43 unique community partners that we were partnering with. So I can show you like you can see there's just a lot of different connections. And so when we think about the opportunities that our students have from very early on to give back and recognize the world beyond just Clarkston and the impact that that's having as they get into the high school and making some of those connections, it just becoming a natural part of who they are and what they do. Even at community awards this year, Renee Weaver Wright was recognized as as just a beautiful person um servicing our community and she was the original start of our academic service learning. So our last pillar operational and staff excellence. We provide high quality staff operations and infrastructure to cultivate an

064environment of safety and success. And so we think about if John were here, he he would celebrate this year that we filled all positions. Um we were never um in a in a state where we were trying to find people uh for positions. So it really speaks, I think, to our culture and we are a desired district and that's a huge piece to celebrate. Jessica was here and I wish I know Sean you you mentioned this but she really put out these beautiful pieces through email about um our facilities and what they do not only for the building but for children and staff and it just it was a really nice warm fuzzy way to connect um us I think with her people as well. organizational charts were completed. Um, and so that I think

065it's important as a staff member um, and whatever role you might have in this district that you understand where you fit. And so those were completed. Um, we are partnering with an outside firm to complete job descriptions for every role in the district. And so John has led that. Very proud of that work and we're excited to see the results of that. Internal accounts process is streamlined. So, we we look at our new hire, um our assistant superintendent of finance, and um already the process that she's putting in place, even um in partnering with me with our curriculum. Um it's really nice um to have those streamlined, and it's been um very very organized software for accounting that was purchased um to help I think with our finance department. We look at the beautiful building

066that's being built um our junior high and again we are building a building while it's occupied and it's working. Um super excited as we advance then into the academic wing um which would be our next our next piece. So the gym is amazing and I know the academic wing is going to be just as amazing as well. Our county millillage is coming up. We're excited uh to have this opportunity for um the county to go to the polls. This could result in increased revenue for the district. We're excited about possibly having that. Number nine here, upgrade. Um we've upgraded all of our clocks announcements. This is part of our safety um protocol. And then we are going to have a new safety response. >> Yep. Which is called I love you guys. And Beth Clark

067will be leading that. We do have some professional learning led by um her and her team next week for our leaders. And then um we'll have an all district um Clarkson High School and the PAC in that first week of learning with teachers. So that will be new as well. And that is our strategic plan for this year and and the work that we've done. I just want to sincerely say thank you for the support, guidance, thoughts that you share along the way when it comes to workshops and these meetings. Um we've done a lot. we continue to grow and uh there's much success with I think the work and I just want to thank teachers and and our principles and um especially I just feel like we're becoming more aligned um our our leaders

068are becoming more um instructional mindsets and supporting coaches. Um so it's super exciting to see the work. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you very much both of you. Uh does anyone have any questions or comments? I'm going to try to make a stab at this because there was just such a wealth of information there. >> I would say 99% of all of that is something I already knew about. So, I say kudos to the administration and his team for communicating to the board all of those types of things. None of those were like that's the first time I heard about it. And in a district as big as we are with much work that you're doing that could easily something slip through the crack and administration not communicate that to us. So I say

069kudos number one. Number two, every element of that is the culture and foundation of what Clarkson Community Schools is. It is so integrated that there isn't um today we're doing this and tomorrow we're doing that. It's all so tightly weaved together that it just works like a welloiled machine and you don't see the separations between we're doing this today and we're going to do that tomorrow because we're doing it every day all the time every day. And it just it's hard for me and I can't imagine what the community if they really tried to wrap their head around all of what you just spoke about for how long? 20 minutes maybe. How much time and effort that takes out of your day every day. And that's not all that you just do. There is a

070whole other part of everybody's job description that isn't even part of those items that you outlined. And so I just want to say how much I appreciate our administration, our administrative staff, and our superintendent for his leadership in this school district. >> Thank you, Mrs. McInness. Does anyone else have anything? I also just want to reiterate everything that Mrs. McInness said. Um, trustes, I actually have a book that Mrs. Mahoney gave me, the academic service learning, our past projects, and before you even said all that you said about the community partnerships, because that was one of our we talk about it every time we have any goal setting, I was looking through and it has the list of all of our past ASLs and or the community partners. I was just amazed at how many

071local community partners there are. local Clarkson businesses, the Clarkson community, the Clarkson Historical Society, the Michigan DNR, Carriage Town Ministries. Um there's just so many which I think is amazing and this book alone is amazing at just how much we've gotten our kids to do um on top of everything that Mrs. McInness said. So, thank you. >> I just want to add again appreciation for the entire team. But one thing I just want to highlight as well is this is our second goaround uh collectively as an administrative team and a board going through a strategic planning process and equally kind of as a student of how things work. you know, constantly studying the human interaction and and trying to really push improvement in a legitimate and uh positive and systemic way uh as you highlight

072uh Tristan McInness and looking at how we kind of had different areas, you know, 50% brand new areas, but there's a system now to go after things. And some of the most impressive work that I see, it's not just like tossing spaghetti against the wall and see seeing what sticks. It's systemized where we've developed kind of an internal philosophy with this group here is in Clarkston, we can do anything, but we can't do it all at the same time at once. And that led to looking at a scaffolding of plans. When you talk about a five or six years uh strategic planning cycle, it's not that you're doing everything slowly and building it up. You're really looking as many different things as you saw there tonight. you're really looking at portions of it that different

073uh sectionals will be emphasized and then kind of put to bed and other sections picked up over the five or six years and they're interconnected. I think that was a really astute observation there. They're not all, you know, looking at how job description is done is tightly t to looking at how we're doing student supports and are we getting it right on the coverage and uh it would be easy to kind of gloss over but you know it becomes where the system or the culture is bigger than any any superintendent, individual, administrator or teacher that we're all part of something that's bigger than any of ourselves together. And I I just without our board of education support to this and what you guys have done whether you've known all your your knowledge of it and

074and letting them you know our team collectively to kind of get to new heights with that encouragement of swing for the fences and make mistakes and uh I don't know how many times I heard trusty Irish say that you know make some big mistakes you know not in a way that's going to be p pushing us back but try for the fences and then when you don't get it right try again until you find an avenue that's successful and uh that really typifies and Um, I'm just so proud of of of the team and that I get to be part of something with you guys that's uh collectively so important for our kids and our community. >> Thank you, Mrs. Mahoney and Miss Buzzio. We appreciate it. >> All right, we will start our action

075items. Trustees, we know there's been some difficulties with the Did you have something? I'm so sorry, Mr. McNotton. I just had a question for Miss um in the academic alert you mentioned something called the universal design for learning. I wondered if you could provide a little more about what that is. So there's a there's a coordinator over at um Oakland schools and she's leading this work around we call it UDL um and it's for example closed caption you know that's that's utilized for maybe um >> students who you know need to hear that added but that benefits all and so we think about all the kids who are put on a 504 because they need preferential um seating or they need an assessment read out loud Why do we need a 504 to state uh

076those pieces to service children or students for their success? And so it's really about it's okay to do that. It's okay to do that each and every day for all kids. And so it's really learning about all those little pieces that we can put in place in a classroom every single day for all kids. Um even though it might benefit one, but it might benefit 10 or 15. Um, and so I think research is showing that that really adds to the engagement and success of kids. And so it's really learning all those pieces that we can start practicing. >> Thank you. >> That look good? Okay. Thank you. All right. So trustees, I know we've had some issues with the board packets. Um, the uh the action items start on the second part of the

077board packet, but on top of that, Mrs. Allen actually shared in your email um her drive which actually has each one listed out individually if that's easier for you. Um so uh at leadership we've actually talked about a couple of things that will alleviate all of these that we're we're having. We've looked at some different issues or different solutions. So we are aware and everyone is working hard to fix it. Thank you very much Alen. We appreciate you. Um, so that being said, let's go ahead and move to our action items. Action item 6.1 is approval of the personnel changes. May I have a motion, please? >> I move that the board of education approves the personnel changes as listed on the attached sheets. >> Support. >> Motion is made and supported. Are there any

078questions or comments? >> Madam President, I'd like to make some comments. Um, by my calculation, there's approximately 11, in my eyes, exemplary teachers from Clarkson Community Schools that are retiring. Many of them I know personally. Some I don't, so I'm not going to go listing names because I think they're all as equally exemplary. Um, I think they'll leave a big hole that we're going to have to fill and I want them to know that their departing isn't going unnoticed. Thank you, Mrs. McInness. I had similar thoughts as I looked through the list tonight. Does anyone else have any questions or comments? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed, please say no. Motion carries. Item 6.2 Two is the approval of the instrument purchases. May I have a motion, please?

079>> I move that the board of education approves the purchase of instruments from Washington Music Center for a total of $175,663.80 as presented. >> Support. >> Motion is made and supported. Are there any questions or comments? I would just like to note that the funds for this have come out of the 2022 bond. Um, seeing no more, uh, all those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any oppose, say nay. Motion carries. I'm just trying to get down to them. Sorry. Um, item 6.3 is approval of the purchase of the Myar student information systems system. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the purchase of the mystar student information system, also known as SIS, in the amount of $24,226.17. >> Support. >> Motion is made and supported.

080Are there any questions or comments? >> A question. Is this a new module in the system that we already have? >> This one is specifically related around uh shared service. Okay. And uh we found that our current system that operates with the rest of the district um has some deficiencies when it comes to the greater diversity we see among all of our partnership schools. And this literally will save uh thousands of man hour, women hours, uh person hours, sorry. >> Perfect. >> Uh inefficiency within the department. Get it right. >> Thank you for that explanation. >> It's all right. Just made me think the delegate assembly Uh, all right. U motion made and supported. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. >> Item 6.5 is approval of

081the purchase I'm sorry. Item 6.4 is approval of the purchase of portable radios and chargers. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the purchase of the portable radios and desk chargers in the amount of 60 $63,68455 as presented. >> Support motion's been made and supported. Are there any questions or comments? Uh note that this the funds for this came from a local grant uh our safety security director Beth Clark procured um >> Oakland schools >> from Oakland schools. Thank you. All those in favor please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. >> Item 6.5 is approval of the purchase of the Clarkson High School Fieldhouse scoreboard. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the purchase of the scoreboard for

082Clarkston High School in the amount of $114,446 as presented. >> Support. >> Motion's been made and supported. Are there any questions or comments? >> I have a question, please. >> I'm just curious. Um, my recollection says that our scoreboard currently was a named scoreboard by McLaren. Am I correct? >> Believe that's correct. Yes. >> And I'm just curious if we asked them if they wanted to reup. >> That's an excellent question. We I don't believe we have. And uh there is a small general fund. Um >> so I'm just saying if if the order isn't placed and we haven't done anything, I know My connection at McLaren has spoken very highly of their collaboration with Clarkson schools, especially for the special ed program that they have that takes students over to McLaren. Um, so I'm

083just thinking that McLaren might be open to a small little gift to put their name back on it on the new board. >> Yeah, they could take it take I guess I would go to make sure there'd be no general fund. Uh, >> correct. I mean, if it's possible, then that's great. If not, we can we can still move forward the way we the way it is, but I just think outreach to McLaren might be worth it. >> Mhm. >> We can still approve it as is. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, we have the approval to go forward. >> Thank you, Mrs. McInness. That's a great idea. >> Uh, all those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. >> All right. This is not sorry it's not approval

084of the final budget. This is adoption of the resolution. Right. >> It's approval of the final budget. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh item 6.6 is approval of the final amend amendment amended budget resolution for 2526 school year. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education adopts the resolution approving the final amended budget for 202526 as presented. >> Support. >> Okay. >> All those in favor? We >> may I ask a question? >> Sorry, Madam President. This is not something we've seen in this format before. So, I'm just curious if we could get some information as to why we're doing it in this format versus what I've done for 19 years. And if what we've been doing for 19 years is wrong, I just want a little explanation as to what

085this process is about. >> No, thank you, Mrs. McInness. Uh, Miss Nag, would you mind? >> So, this is your formal legal uh board resolution adopting the budget. Uh, it's what I've done for the past 13 years in a prior district. So, it's what I know. Um I believe it's what should have been done in the past but I can't speak to that. >> Okay. So this is the adoption of the 2526 budget which we are >> final budget. Correct. >> Resolution for adoption of the Clarkson Community Schools budget. >> I'm just saying the title doesn't say final budget. >> It just says resol >> budget amendment. It doesn't say it in the title, but it does say it in the first paragraph. >> And so, because we're making a motion and we're going to

086sign documents about this, it just seems, of course, it's different. And so, again, there's the understanding that this is a estimated final budget just like all the budgets we do until we have an audit report. >> Correct. >> And we don't even approve the audit report to this extents. >> And so that's why >> we we do approve the complete audit report. >> Correct. The >> but the sheet that you're looking for is like two pages later now. It was the late ad today. I don't know if you looked at >> I do believe I have the the new packet here, >> but it's on page 28 of that second file >> of the original budget for this coming year that bar. >> Yeah, it's the next agenda item, but it has the final amended

087column in here, >> but of this bar, which is got to get my thing out of the way. Sorry. Give me a moment to move. >> This bar starts on page 20 and the resolution starts on page 21. >> Won't let me get over there. Okay, I see what it's gone. But the numbers are reflected in that chart on page 28. Correct. Correct. >> Yeah. So, it >> we just never saw all the verbiage behind resolutions in the past. But if you look at page 28, >> it's just a lot of legal mumble jumble that we've never done before is what my point just is, isn't so it just there's a lot of numbers and the trying to correlate those back to the spreadsheet. I'm sure the numbers are accurate. I mean, I haven't tit

088for tat every single number, but I'm just saying it's a lot and it's something new and I'm just looking for an explanation as why we're doing it. I've never seen it before and that's all. included. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Yep. Absolutely. >> We appreciate it. Um >> we we do believe we looked into it. We do think that it is something that we're required to do. So that's why we're starting we're doing it this year. So um okay, motion has been made supported. Are there any further comments or questions or discussion? Anything? Okay. Thank you. I need a roll call vote. Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Love. >> Yes, >> Mrs. McInness. >> Yes. >> I will say it doesn't say roll call. >> Yes. >> I know. >> Mrs. Oh, got to go back up

089here. Sorry, Mr. Clark. Mr. Hire. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Crane. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Did you want to ask me? >> Oh my gosh. Men, how [laughter] can I miss you? I have because >> I'm treasure, too. I'm so sorry. Miss Egan. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. [clears throat] Item 6.7 is approval of the original budget for 2026 27 resolution. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education adopts the resolution approving the original budget for 2026 27 as presented. >> Support motions made and supported. Are there any questions or comments? Miss Nag is still up here. She presented this for us at the hearing earlier. This is our adoption. Okay. Seeing none, I need a roll call on this, please. Mrs. Allen. >> Yes. >>

090M. >> Yes. >> Miss. >> Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. This is my last question for Do I ask for a motion for approval or not? or do I just ask for a motion for approval because we have the we have the right to not approve this the next three line items. >> We we can discuss and then option if you so choose. >> Okay. Uh let's discuss approval of the OCSBA resolution opposing school funding tied to attorney client privilege. So OCSBA sent out uh three amendments, one to their resolution and two to their bylaws. This first one is for the resolution and it is a very simple resolution. It is simply one sentence that says OCSBA opposes tying any school funding to waving the attorney client privilege. Um the rationale for that

091came up after section 31A, school safety and mental health. Um, is there any discussion on this before I ask for a motion? >> Okay, thank you. >> I I I think this one makes sense. >> Yes, I was in favor of this as well. Thank you. May I have a motion, please, for the OCSBA approval of the OCSBA resolution amendment opposing school funding type to attorney client privilege. I move that the Bourge Board of Education approves the proposed resol OSCBA resolution opposing school funding tied to waiver the attorney client privilege as presented. >> Support motion made and supported. Any further questions or comments? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? >> Is it a resolution? >> No. >> It is their resolution. And it's just us amending

092it or approving their amendment. >> Voting to support it. >> Yes. Uh item 6.9 for discussion is approval of OCSBA bylaw amendment. Uh first bylaw amendment. And I did print because I wanted to have everything would be adding language to elect to article six election of board of directors. The proposed amendment would um it says a member district that pays dues directly to the association may appoint a trustee to a seat on the OCSBA board of directors. The language reads, "The intermediate school district pays annual membership dues directly to the association and is therefore entitled to appoint one trustee to a three-year term on the board of directors. If the ISD chooses not to not exercise their right to appoint a director, the board of directors shall be notified in writing within 30 days of

093a board of election in of a board election so that the seat can be filled by election. I >> I think this is absolutely ridiculous, completely unnecessary, and is further pushing OCSBA in a direction that it should not be going. I think OCSBA's primary purpose is professional development networking for our county school board members. And I think it has gotten increasingly political and bureaucratic. And I think it is an abomination of the purpose of what the organization should really be. And I think the self-importance of some of the people pushing these ideas is problematic for our future and our collaborative nature of what we want to accomplish as a county. And I think we should oppose this and encourage other districts to oppose this because the ISD has no um additional influence than any of

094other local school districts in the county when it comes to OCSBA. We're all working together to network and we should be coming together for that purpose and that purpose alone. >> Thank you, Mr. Hire. Do we have any further comments? Mrs. McInness. Madam President, um, as the board president of OCSBA, I don't know how many years ago now when this kind of started, when that is Oakland School paid the $6,000 stipen, it was originally intended to create a coffer of a budget because there wasn't one. Um because at the time there was a perception, long-h held perception that the OCSBA CASBA was under MASB until I called the executive director one day and he said, "Oh my gosh, that old thinking got changed years ago and we never told anybody." So OCSBA had no bank

095account so to speak except for the dues that we pay to the state that we then get a percentage back for our CASBA operation. And in those early years OCS Oakland schools paid that stipen to help build up a budget. And um one of I have a couple questions I that I would have entertained asking the board of directors uh before they moved forward with this and that was um how is your budget now that you do you still need Oakland school to pay your $6,000 stifen? Uh I agree with Mr. Hyer. I think that this is a power play to ensure that Oakland schools has a reputation that they think they're entitled to. I think the word entitled was actually in the motion paperwork and um I think that they've gotten too political and

096they like to try to speak for all the districts and I think that there's some good work that they do do, but I think there's a lot of overreaching going on. Um I would think that if any school district wants to pay $6,000, tell me that they can't appoint a board member. So it's if Oakland schools is paying 6,000 and Clarkston wants to pay 6,000 and we haven't don't have our seat filled, would we not be able to have the same benefit? So I don't think the 6,000 should entitled them to a seat. These seats are elected by our constituent board members throughout the Oakland County and um I oppose this I because I just don't think it's necessary. >> Thank you. There any further questions or comments? I also oppose this. I think that

097the board of directors is elected. Full stop. That's just how I feel about it. So, um, can I have a motion to either approve or oppose the OCSBA first bylaw amendment? >> I'll move to vehemently oppose the bylaw amendment regarding district trustees seats getting ridiculously awarded to the ISD. >> Support. Motion has been made and vehement no vehemently made and supported. >> Are there any further questions or comments? >> That that is proposal one in this package. >> That is that is bylaw amendment one. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes. Yes, of course. Um okay. So a yes vote here would actually be a no vote on the ballot. Mrs. Allen, >> yes vote signifies vehement opposition. >> Yeah. Or just opposition. All those in favor of opposing bylaw amendment one, please say I. >>

098I. >> Any opposed? All right. Motion. Motion to oppose carries. Item 6.10 is we're pulling this for discussion again is the final bylaw, which is to ensure that the chair or vice chair of every OCSBA committee is a member of the board of directors. So, >> so once upon a time, um, the OCSBA had a legislative committee, as it was called at the time. And we went out of our way to make sure that the chair of the legislative committee was not a member of the board of directors because it represented an additional leadership opportunity to bring somebody along. And it wasn't the board of directors controlling what went on in the committee. We have gone so far from that idea and I'm fine with some change cuz granted over 20ome years things are going

099to change and I'm fine with that. But we have gone so far from that to where it's board of director control of everything and I think that is not the direction that we should be going. I don't like the old language. I don't like the new language here. I think this needs to be completely revamped to allow people to step up and serve in a volunteer leadership position within our county to get some experience and maybe they'd want to be on the OCSBA board of directors at some point, but we don't particularly have a lot of people jumping up and down saying, "I want to join this control group of people that want to put their finger on everything that goes on in the county." And like that is not the purpose of OCSBA. And

100I think we have a significant alignment uh difference with the vision. And unfortunately, like we don't pay dues directly to OCSBA. We don't decide whether we're a member or not. We just get a say because we're in Oakland County. Um if we were able to decide on our membership, I think that changes things because we could, you know, decide maybe we don't want to be a part of this if the the purpose isn't aligned, but that is not the case. And so I would uh oppose this also. and note on our ballot that we want changes to the existing language as well. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Hire. Does anyone else have any other questions or comments about this? >> I would just agree with what Mr. Hireer said. I mean, I remember the time

101when we had I think it was Dave Randles that was heading up chairing. >> Is that what the government relations committee is that >> that's what evolved into? >> Yeah. >> From the legislative committee. Yes. >> Yes. It was a legislative committee that was 100% information flow, >> right? >> And it was coordination of, you know, who's going to Lancing, who's going to Washington DC. Um, it was just helping to get everybody the information and the the logistics that they needed and coordinating is is all it was. And now it's turned into this position taking entity um that there's still some information flow. Um, but I think it's gone in the direction of being political and taking stances on our behalf, which we don't necessarily, you know, agree as a board, right? If you go

102as a legislative representative from our board and sit on this committee, which we can appoint somebody, we do every year, >> um, but like we do not sanction that person to speak on our behalf on any of those positions. So, it's it's not any sort of true delegate assembly kind of thing. And I think that's just way too much bureaucracy for an organization that is there for information flow. I mean the ISD absolutely has a formal education advocacy component that is controlled by the superintendent. Um and the superintendents work for the boards. Like we don't need another avenue at how to how to put our thumb on here or make make certain [clears throat] groups more important. like this is just it's a volunteer information flowing kind of thing. >> I brought wanted to finish

103that there was in my perception a lot of redundancy being done at Oakland County School Board Association that we already had the capabilities of like planning a a a pseudo behind the scenes at the Michigan capital things events like that which no one signed up for because we already had one. So, um, I just wanted to make a point that, >> you know, that's that's how this is coming across is that there's just like creating another layer. There's more redundancy and I don't need two organizations, you know, offering a tour of the capital and meeting with my state legislators. You know, when I brought this up before, I was told that the the GRC because there is a state MASB has advocacy and obviously we've been very involved with that and that this this OCSBA's

104GRC is centered more on county specific items. So m Madame President, I I think the justification that they provide this provides a better two-way communication vehicle is actually works against this because I think if a person wants to gain some experience and be um break into the um the group of some very senior board members that are part of OCSBA, of which I was one and I stepped down for exactly the reason that I wanted New Blood being there that I fear that it's not going to encourage anybody to stand up to be a board U committee chairperson because all they know is a board of director members is going to be appointed on top of them to babysit them. And I don't think any board member across Oakland County is going to willingly take

105a volunteer position under the dynamics that I think we all see to have a board of director member babysit them. And so I think it's actually going to cause nobody to step forward to be a board member and therefore OCSBA board of directors will be the committee chairs for all the committees and it will stagnate the organization and it will not allow it to grow. >> Thank you very much. especially with all of your history with the association. I appreciate your perspective. >> Thank you. >> Okay. May I have a motion to approve or oppose OCSBA bylaws amendment number two about the committee chair and vice chair requirements? >> I would move to oppose the committee chair requirement proposal to bylaw amendment and note on our ballot that we do not support the original language

106either. >> Support. Okay. Motion's made and supported. Are there any further questions or discussion? Again, a yes vote here is to oppose it, which is a no vote on our ballot. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. And that is all of our very fun action items for tonight. Item seven is a report item from our student representatives. I'd like to take a quick moment and introduce you all to uh I almost called you Lauren. I'm so sorry to Emerson Rinky. Um Emerson was one of many. We had a few. We went to our sophomores looking for next year's junior representative and she applied for the position and administration um narrowed down the pool to a final two. Then Mr. Hire and I interviewed the final two and uh

107we chose Miss Rinky and we're very excited to work with her. As you can tell, she's already very excited. She's actually not even appointed yet, not a junior, although you are now. You just finished sophomore year. Um, she's incredibly impressive. Um, I'm looking forward to getting to know her. She's got some great ideas. And so, thank you very much for being here tonight, Miss Rinky. And with that, I will turn it over to Mr. McNotton to give the student representative update. >> Thank you. Uh, students last day of school was last Friday. Uh many of us had exams in the last few days of school and worked hard to finish the year in a positive way. And this last month AP exams were held um in about midmay. So it was a busy month of

108testing overall and I think we I can speak for everyone when I say that we're looking forward to summer um to a little bit of relaxation after all that testing. Um juniors recently went to a presentation put on by CHS counselors about preparing to apply for college. Um, I thought that it gave us good advice about planning the application process because um, it was all right there in one place and it made things seem a little bit easier than um, uh, having information all scattered. Um, and it was a good organized way to um, start planning the application process. Um, I also wanted to congratulate Clarkson seniors on graduation. Um, I'm confident that they all have great futures ahead of them, whether at college, trade school, or the workforce. The senior walk was a really

109meaningful event um as always and it provided me and my peers a chance to reflect on all the memories that we have have made with those in the senior class. So I thought that was um I'm really glad that we put that on to uh to look back on where they u have come from and look forward to the future. Um like Mrs. Crane said, "Emerson Rinky has been chosen as next year's junior student representative, and I'm looking forward to working with her to help provide students input on how to improve the school district, and we're excited to strengthen the student representative program going into next school year. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. McNotton. I just like to remind everyone that we it was one of our goals to grow this program last year

110and we we had a very slow start. I think uh January was the first meeting we had it, right? So, Mhm. >> You know, so we missed a whole semester. So, we've we've talked a lot about how to to do this in the upcoming year and we're really looking forward to it. So, >> I I was just going to add that to a large extent, we're you know, we when we approved our policy, we want it to be sufficiently vague and open-ended and this program continues to um evolve and reinvent itself and and um probably saying we're winging it is maybe a little too cavalier. Um but we are you know working with the students to try to get as much input as possible to craft a process and a procedure and and formalize it

111a little more as we go forward. So appreciate the the students um coming along with that and uh growing you know as a board along the way. I think it's really helpful to have the student perspective and you know Mrs. Crane and I have have uh brainstormed some of the pros and cons and you know now that we've done it, how were we going to improve it, what would we have done differently? Um and if anybody has any input on that process, I'm sure Mrs. Crane and I would be open to it. Um, and you know, we're constantly asking the the students, you know, what that looks like, cuz this is a very challenging task to say that I I would say as a, you know, full-time elected board member, it probably takes 2 years

112to get up to speed on, you know, what you're doing up here and to feel comfortable. And, you know, we're throwing a student in who, you know, you're living some of the decisions that we're making. Um but the legal nuance and the procedural aspect of the job like is extremely intimidating and you know in a sort of a max term of two years it's you know h how do we maximize what the experiences for both the students and the input that we as a board and community can get. So um it is an ongoing project for us and I'm excited for what our next year brings >> too. Thank you. Anybody else? No. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Um, item eight is discussion items. Our first discussion is an update on the

113core values. I know we talked especially during the strategic plan tonight. I and I've heard at least from one or two board members the term culture of Clarkston and we've talked about that for years and years and years. So, we did try to capture it uh in a workshop about a month month and a half ago and we brought this to you last month and then we've tried to tighten it up and send it back. What we would like to do next after this discussion is send it to the administrators who were in the room when we did this and get their feedback on it too. We really want buyin from everybody at every level. So, um if anybody has any comments on that, I'd love to hear them. So just before anybody jumps in,

114I tried to um take a really high level capture the thinking from what was in the room right afterwards and that's was sort of our first draft and what we started with um because obviously we don't meet I we have sort of an every two week scheduleish um and I didn't want to lose the thinking and so I tried to capture that and then we got some input and had some discussion at the board level and then um at the leadership ship level and I tried to take all of that feedback and incorporate this in here and and Mrs. Crane and I and our goal group really bantered about this and um we didn't quite wordsmith every single word on it. Um but we tried to capture the essence of what that discussion was um

115you know there's a there's a piece here of where all right we're going to combine six ideas into one and then it becomes meaningless and nebulous and so I I didn't want to go in that direction. Um, we're our goal was to try to stay in the, you know, four to seven range for what we came up with and I think we ended up with six on this list if I if I counted correctly. >> Yes. >> Um, and so this is our chance as a board. There's no deadline for us to approve this. So, if we want to discuss it six more times, um, we can. I'm not sure that's a particularly wise use of our time. Um, but there is no pressure to say, "Hey, we've got to we've got to vote on

116this and approve this." And so any additional input that you have good or bad um you know that this would be what we would I'll say publish and go by. It's it's the word of what is the core value but also the explanation behind it of what the heck do we mean by that? Um and you know as a reminder like the goal would be that this defines our culture and we would use this in um you know I'll say hiring fire and evaluating would be the business terminology I would use and >> [clears throat] >> um I don't want to put any more undue stress on Mr. Lceto while he's recovering. Um but you know how we do that in a very legally prescribed evaluation employment environment will be to be seen. Um but

117I think this is definitely an important piece to to figure out are is somebody the right person you know to to be with us here in Clarkston. >> Thank you Mr. Hire. Thank you for all your work on this too. >> I have a question. Yes. >> Do we see this as something that we would revisit maybe in the same cycle when we are updating our strategic plan or what like what's the thought? I I think it makes sense to to sort of treat this like board operating procedures where we do an annual affirmation. Um, I think kind of a deeper dive of, you know, is there anything we want to unpack here or tweak could be a, you know, more of the three to five year strategic planning cycle. Um, you know, I think

118time will tell if if, you know, maybe after a year of this, we get some feedback that, you know, hey, this one doesn't quite land or, you know, as we're using it, um, you know, it this doesn't fit or can we tweak this? I mean we may have some tweaks in the first year but I like I wouldn't expect us to have new core values on an annual basis like these should last these should outlast any strategic plan you know any administration any board uh member or board in its entirety. I mean, this should define what we're all about here. And part of the reason to define these is because they they are sacred to us. And we do want to make sure that our culture continues regardless of any changes at any level. If

119you we have a new principle, the culture of that building should not go in a different direction than the culture of our district. >> Right. And and that's I think really important to solidify what what we are all about here. And I think while not the the intent and I don't know that this may be how we want to use this but you know the other goal component that we'll talk more about in our retreat is that elevator pitch concept of you know what are what are our competitive advantages. Um I think some of this speaks to that of you know what what is the differentiator you know that we bring to the table. And sure there are a lot of technical sort of reasons why our student achievement is growing you know against the

120averages and trends of of others and we're very proud of that and that's a tremendous accomplishment of ours. Um, but how we talk about why that is is is potentially more wrapped up in this kind of concept rather than, you know, we're doing MTSS, right? Like that doesn't mean much to anybody outside of our organization, right? We know exactly what it means cuz we spent years learning about it and perfecting it and tweaking and improving it. Um, but the components in here of of uh, you know, well, most of these probably really fit of like, well, that's what MTSS is helping us do. That's sort of the technical aspect of, you know, hey, we we put students first always and and we mean that. And, you know, what does that look like for us? >>

121And they're the measure of it. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. For sure. >> Which I I really like that last >> phrase. >> Which one? Oh, >> about students. They're not just the purpose of our work, they are the measure of it. >> Yes, it's it's a good reminder. >> I think it's very compelling. >> Yeah, for sure. >> Um, there any other questions as we >> we'll give this another little bit of time and then uh we'll put it I'll put it out one more time for email and um then I'll send it to the administrators for their feedback. >> I I like um providing it to the administration. And I think that's a a good um route to secure the last bit of feedback. I know I gave my feedback. I was looking for

122it. I can't find it. Um and I I feel like this version uh is a little more close closer to what I was thinking we were looking at. I am looking forward to some kind of elevator speech. Yeah. >> You know, a two second uh two two minute not too many two sentences maybe of something to be able to say. um other than like I like to say that we're the premier district in the state of Michigan. So >> it's the truth. >> Um >> and I believe that with all my heart. So >> So do I. >> And I think like this would be something that you know, let's say first day of school back and we have all of our staff in one spot for probably the only time of the whole year.

123Like for sure this would be something like we would we would have early in that meeting like that. this is hey this is our culture everybody you know and we do a bunch of other group meetings based on professional learning communities or buildings or departments and I mean these would be things to start with to the point where like everybody should know what they are and what they mean and if somebody's doing a good job with one of these like it should be called out >> you know if somebody's not exemplifying these well that needs to be handled privately but it's a good good tool to sort of discuss where we need to be and maybe if we're not there on some of these you know to say hey remember this is what we agreed

124we're all about you know let's let's come along so I think how exactly we implement it is you know really largely up to the superintendent once we you know provide our direction um but I think there will be you know I would call it a core values speech that largely follows this sort of outline that is a little bit more human and how you would describe it but this would be the essence of it that you know we would use pretty regularly >> ad nauseium I would say to the point we're like you could not >> know what they are >> well I also think as we go into our retreat >> that when we start building board goals annual goals >> they should be tied directly to this >> it should be something that's

125okay we're weak in this area or um where's the evidence that we're doing that something like that you know those are the things that we should be thinking about is how how does the board you know support that? >> I bet you're right. Yeah, Mr. Ne. >> Yeah, thank you and Mr. Hire for all your work on this. I do I really like this version. I think a lot of particularly the difference between what we saw last time and this. I think this is much much closer to what I was looking for and I really like some of the tightening and the language that's present here. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Appreciate your feedback. And just to m what Mrs. Egan what you were saying I think like our vision and our mission along

126with our core values like everything we possibly are doing as an organization has to fit and and it can't be a stretch right like that is the box that we exist within that we purposefully narrow up you know to say hey if it's outside of this box it's not it's not part of our organization. there might be somebody else who can fill that need um for the community but that is what we are defining as our you know core purpose you know our core values you know where we're headed >> Mr. Mr. McNotton. >> Um, I wanted to say that I I think that this is a a very good set of core values. Um, when we get these values finalized and and an official, I think that it would be very important to both

127communicate them to the community and to the students. Um, because um I think it's it's primary purpose would be among among staff and things like that. But I think it's important for both students and the community to know what our core values are. So both to understand like what our goals are and to see um I think that if students can can look at the core values of the district and see am I experiencing this in my experience in the district. If there's something that it's like I don't feel like the district is providing this for me. I don't feel like um this core values being fulfilled in my educational experience. I think it would be good to have the uh core core values really communicated so that students can can uh look at those

128and see. >> I agree and I very much appreciated you're being part of that whole workshop because like as you said this is definitely more for staff and administration but I want to know that you are feeling that from your teachers and administration. So yes, Missy >> allowed. Okay. Um so I guess as my opening remarks to the board, I'd like to second exactly almost what Boon said. It was something that I was just about to say. Um I think especially a lot of what I've heard from my peers are very in line with the six um core value where you are committed to as it says doing everything we can possibly do to continuously improve student achievement based on data, research and clear evidence. I think that is extremely important and I think that's

129what the students expect from the board. So I agree. I think it's very important to share if approved these core values with the students. Um, and if approved, I will be keeping them on hand myself, too. So, yeah, I appreciate everything said here, and I second what Boon said about sharing it with the students. >> Great. Thank you very much, both of you. >> Yeah. And plea, please think as um the summer is a little bit slower time like, and we're probably going to tweak these and we'll get some more input from our um larger administrative team, but like think about what and how a roll out would look like. Um, and even to some of the different age students, you know, obviously it's different in elementary school at how you could, you know, grasp

130some of these concepts are pretty hardcore um for a, you know, a six-year-old um compared to a 15-year-old in high school. So, I'd love your input on those things. >> For sure. Thank you. All right. I appreciate everybody's feedback and everyone's buying on all of this and all of your help. Um, our final discussion is a policy update. Uh, one of our other board goals was to evaluate and possibly move to a new um, provider, which we did. And I just want to thank Mrs. McGinness, Mr. Ne, and Mr. Clark. I think you have put in what' you say 18 20ome hours in meetings as we move. >> So, if you could just give us an update and then I'd like a discussion on how we move forward. um with this. >> Thank you, Madam

131President. Um over the course of March, April, May, June, four months just about um three board members, myself, Mr. Ne, and Mr. Clark met with our attorney and various members of the leadership um team to go through each and every single policy in our platinum policy manual. um our attorney will tell you that he has never seen as many policies um in any school district than in his time than the one that we have. Um he initially gave us uh we he segmented the uh policy manual into different um groupings bylaws 1,000 2,000 etc. And each of those are based on staff, students and administration and [clears throat] other things. and we put on the screen the actual policy manual and we had a matrix that his he and his staff had gone through the

132policies and their what I'll call a template policy manual that they start with and they read our policy and they looked at is all this language cuz it's most of our policies are probably on average four pages long. So to try to read four pages and adhere to everything four pages say can really put us in a quandry sometimes because um it just it's just too much information. So he would associate the policies to the template that he provided us. I would say 70% of the policies are dictated by law. So in his policy format, he would say this policy regarding students records is Michigan MLC code and the number number. So then we're covered. So then we would go through the policy. I would say my recollection is that there is maybe five policies

133that we kind of put in the parking lot that we might be currently doing it differently now than he how he was recommending and or that takes is going to take a greater conversation from the board to decide where the board wants to go versus us three board members who were part of this committee meeting to decide for the board such as um a naming policy a cell phone policy, a um expulsion kind of came up sometime that we have a policy that we might not 100% be following and so we asked uh for the administration to provide us a recommendation as to how they might like to word that policy uh in the new policy. uh personnel changes was perceived differently than what we do right now, which is approve them each month. And

134under the template from our attorney, that process wasn't going to be necessary. Um and board compensation is uh was something that he wanted to put on the consent agenda every July where we just set it and have a high level policy that says the board gets compensated and is yearly set at the annual organizational meeting. So those are one, two, three, four, five that I recall. I would ask Mr. Ne if you recall any that we had put to the parking lot that we wanted the full board's input on. >> No, I think you hit the five that I recall as well from my notes. The the only thing I would add to your excellent summary is even though a lot of our current policies restate the law and we're going to eliminate those references,

135there will be a link a active link within the policies. So if a member of the public wants to know what is this law, they can click on it and take it to that I think the Michigan legislature website or something like that >> or federal if it's a federal law. >> Correct. >> This this also seems to alleviate the fact that every time the law changes we then have to change the policy which is what we were doing all the time. >> Correct. Or even worse the law changes and we forget to update our policy which happened our review demonstrated that happened many many times. >> Right. Right. So the next step will be for us to get documents from um Kevin Sutton, our attorney for a first reading. Um we can schedule a

136workshop and we can also schedule board sending him information so that he comes to the workshop potentially with some questions already being able to be resolved. We'll then go to a second board meeting to have the final approval of it. 30 days then the administration will sit down once we finalize our policies. the administration will sit down and develop new uh um new guidelines for administrative guidelines. Once those are finalized, we will have 30 days to approve those. >> Okay. >> And that's something we have never done before also. So I would I would add that to something that's kind of new from our current process to the new process moving forward. >> In your opinion, do you think that we need to have our attorney at the first reading? I think that the amount

137of change that the policy man from the policy manual we have to what we have now is great enough that Kevin would be very happy to come and discuss the nuances with us. But like I said, I would like for us to have the information first potentially as we would with our administration, send him some questions that we might have so that when he comes, he can walk us through that and be prepared to answer the questions that we might have. >> Okay. I mean, I I thought that the idea of doing the first reading at a workshop when we can really dig in and then the second reading at a at a board where we approve it was is anyone else does anyone have a problem? >> And I would I would warn you

138too that the the two process the the old manual versus what will become the new are apples and oranges. It's it's just not going to be [clears throat] there's not going to be a employee dress code, student dress code, administration dress code, three policies for the same exact thing. >> Well, if you like any kind of um recommendation on how we read it before the workshop, I would appreciate that. I just I just wonder like does it make sense to try to do all this at one in one shot or are we going to get more bang for our buck maybe taking an hour at three or four different board meetings and chunking it up? >> Well, are you would you be then asking Kevin Sutton to come to each of those board meetings too?

139>> That would be my only >> I don't think so. Well, I I have like more of a organiza an organizational question too like because we're really changing the flavor. Do we see policy will we sunset policy committee and then policy becomes a committee of the whole board? >> No, I still think there will be a policy committee. >> Okay. that I would I would suspect that there may come a time that we'll go, oh, does the policy that we have that Sutton, Kevin Sutton decided to we that we agreed to take, is that adequate enough? Does it need to be expanded? I do think that there's still going to be potentially um a need for adding policies. He may he may then tell us, well, that's covered under this law anyways. And so all

140the details is inside the law. We might not know that from the outside. He knows the inside of the law. >> Miller Johnson still provides updates too, right? >> And they do still provide updates. >> Policy committee would probably be the first pass on those updates. I'm thinking >> I think they I think Kevin said we probably expect on average two updates a year absent some kind of unusual circumstances. >> What I remember >> not only law changes, >> right, >> but potentially >> well a cell phone policy. I mean a cell phone wasn't the deal. It wasn't, you know, right. Exactly. >> There is some there is technology in there and it speaks to student handbook and that kind of stuff, but maybe something arises within AI that we feel is not adequately addressed

141in our policy and we ask for a revision to it too. So I can see that there still potentially something that we might suggest to him that we want to visit. Is this adequate enough? and he may he may just come back and train us that yes it says this and this is how to interpret it because it's a it's a little bit more >> it's I who know it's a lot more condensed >> so do you think it would be better in one fell swoop for first reading or three or four hourong sessions I just saw you shake your head miss >> I I would just add on first of all the work done by trustee Clark McInness indeed was exemplary to hang in there cuz it was it was a lot and I

142got to sit in there ringside for most of it. And uh I I guess I was expecting an experience which was like we were doing nuances between policy and what could be removed or not. And I was more shocked that you know I thought maybe I was seeing things when previously I was like where was that what policy and I thought I saw I remember it being in three different places and it it was actually in three different places but usually it would be the first one I looked and I thought I was really lucky >> but the level of redundancy in it was extraordinary. >> Yeah. I'd use the word extraordinary also the the level of really things that had no business being in policy that were like you know we have a policy

143encourage parents to come visit their school or some you know it was something that was very non like operational or really maybe that's a poor example but there was another whole category and then as uh Trish McInness highlighted you know a lot of the things already in the law and it was almost you know I thought it was going to be like a spring cleaning for the policy it felt more like afterwards that our old policy set was more like something out of hoarders. We hoarded policy >> and then now, you know, we kind of have a much more streamlined and and I think for parents and for our community, everybody and for board administration a much more usable um set of information. I don't think it's exhaustive. I don't know how you would go.

144I think you were trying to describe to us that if you had them both next to each other, you would not be you'd almost look at the finished product of the other one and trust the fact that all the the dead weight has been cut out of it. >> I really appreciate the way that our trustees looked at it. Anything that was kind of differing, even though that it might represent a change in policy, but it was also a tradition in Clarkson. It's something that the way we do business we took a time out on and it was put I think very effectively on the parking lot and I think also to the credit of the trustees and administration the stuff that was more balance of power pieces nobody felt like well I really want

145to own this or you need to own this or you know how are we going to get to the bottom it's more like okay this was how we used to should we continue on it nobody had a problem or should we examine something new so in that light I think it would be a very collab you know focusing on where we saw the differential control that might be more eyebrow raising or hey why did why why is it like that if we focus on that over a meeting or two um I think you guys will get really really far in terms of uh collectively having a finished product that's not only operationally effective but we'll also inform the administrative guidelines and be a lot more in a way protective of the school district because if

146a policy is not followed becomes an immediate liability no matter how ridiculous the policy is. So that was kind of my experience. >> It's kind of it was kind of like a spring cleaning and I think when the administration goes through the um the uh administrative guidelines, I think that they'll have a they'll have a time for many of these kind of policies here where they're going to stop and think about is what we said we were doing what we were doing and if was it effective, was it ineffective, can we do it better? And I think that they'll find themselves finding a much more streamlined administrative approach to our policies and implementation of them rather than you know the one example a from a situation a couple weeks ago was the policy says 180

147and that's what it says but we gave 150 and that's not what the policy says. So we uh we turned and asked administration. They said, "What what do you want?" And I said, "No, no, no. You tell you give us a recommendation of what you want to follow through." >> So I think there there'll be a little bit of house cleaning on the administrative side and we did a lot of house cleaning. >> For our for our next step, do you recommend one? Yes, I one >> one workshop >> because you know because you can go down a rabbit hole >> that is just not going to >> I just need to know how to schedule the first reading. So >> I agree. I agree with that beginners. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >>

148And I would make that the only thing we're doing for the workshop. >> How uh how big is the new manual? >> Maybe 30 pages. >> I'm sorry. >> How big is the new manual? I don't >> about 50 some pages. >> Yeah, maybe. >> Okay. >> All right. compared to three or 400. >> Interestingly enough, as this is tied in discussion items, I feel like the as as my what I try to push with our administrative team, policy is great and we absolutely need to have it, but if you follow your core values as I kind of put the two conversations together, I feel like that I conquered 95% of uh questions I would have, right? >> And I and I that actually made me feel really good. you know, it's kind of sticking

149with your values and you do the right thing. And strangely, you don't have to lean back into a policy to explain it. >> Don't need a lot of words to say we do the right thing first. >> Well, I mean that that's a great point cuz like sort of stating the obvious, right? Like policy is our gadget >> to I'll I'll use this word a little bit tongue and cheek, but to control the superintendent, right? It's like we draw a box and we say you can do whatever you want, but this is these are your boundaries. And and very shortly before I was elected and got on the board, there was a time when the board would ask for certain things and the superintendent wouldn't comply with those things. And so I inherited a policy

150manual at the time that was like the superintendent shall provide this report with these details at this board meeting, you know, and and I'm looking at that and I'm going like that's ridiculous. like that report isn't even relevant anymore. Why is that in policy? You know, and we're so far beyond that because to your point what you just said, right? Like the core values are the most important things, right? Like students first, like integrity, relationships, you know, all those things that we live and breathe on a daily basis. Like that's what really matters to us and that's why we want to capture them. If we're doing those things right, the rest takes care of itself. I really I absolutely double down on that. We found several references to reports and policies, some dating back to,

151believe it or not, 1990. >> Oh my gosh. >> So, there's a big flurry in June of 1990. I don't we don't know what was going on during that month, but >> yes, I do. [laughter] >> I heard all about it. >> 10 years later, it was still fresh. >> Okay. >> Funny. Okay. Thank you. I will I know how to move forward and I will get that scheduled. And I again appreciate so much the hard work that you did. Um, Mrs. Booie, can you just check to make sure that no one has signed up? Thank you. All right. Uh, item 10 is information items. Our next board of education meeting is Monday, July 6th. We will start here at 5:00 with our organizational and regular meeting. Then we will move to our retreat. Uh,

152may I have a motion to adjurnn? >> I move to adjurnn. >> Support. All those in favor please say I. >> I. >> We are adjourned. Nor has voted.