001All right, welcome everyone to the Taylor School District regularly scheduled board meeting of May 15, 2024 where our mission statement is to educate, engage, and empower those we serve and our vision statement is for those is that we will be the innovative destination district where all succeed. Meeting is called to order at 6:02 p.m. Mr. Wright >> here. >> Miss Black is here. Mr. Heath >> here. >> Mr. Meyers. >> Mr. Thomas >> here. >> Mrs. Thomas >> here. >> Mrs. Shel here. >> All right. Will everyone stand for the pledge of I aliance 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. >> One time I'm going to make everybody sing my country to the
002what I remember from school. Um, all right. We're going to start out with some great stuff. And we have up first is our Holland Elementary. And presenting will be the principal, Kathy King. >> Hello. Good evening. With me today, I have our Holland cheerleaders representing Holland Elementary. We have not had a cheer team in about five years, so this is very exciting for us. So, please enjoy, ladies. Well, to get one Five, six, seven, eight. nomination for 2024. I Um, can we actually have the cheerleaders just uh come up to the board right here? We have a little gift for each of you. So, >> and we need to get a picture, too. >> So, get that. And then if you could just face your parents, they probably want to photo us, but So, Thank
003you. >> All right. I think that's your coach that if you want to run after. Thank you, Holland Huskies. That was wonderful. So that was great news. But let's go on to our good news. Our good news, the first one today is our uh art mental health awareness art contest and presenting is Marlene Scott. Hello. Um, I think Matt has a clip he's going to show you that was on Fox News on Monday, um, Fox 2. Um, they did some teasers throughout the morning and then the main, um, the main clip was at the 11:00. Um and so this involved our um social worker helped organize um uh I think five of our students submitted artwork to the art contest through the down river council for the arts and it was in combination with Higura
004Health. Um so they partnered up for May is mental health awareness month and the theme was self-esteem. So we had um five students submit pieces. Um they all got put in the show. Um they've been an exhibit um I think the past three or four weeks there at the Down River Council for the Arts. Um and actually one of the pieces um was purchased by someone. So that student was really excited. They they had to like assign prices to their artwork and and someone purchased one of the pieces. >> Um and then tomorrow night is the final reception. So the student that's being interviewed um is one of our students. She's the first student interviewed in this piece. Um her name is Chariss and she's doing a performance art piece tomorrow night at the um
005ceremony. So they ask her about it, she talks about it. She we're so proud of her. She's so well spoken and represented us all really well. So, Fox News Erica Francis has been live throughout the morning and is in wine. Dot. Erica. >> Yeah. So, I asked you guys in that tease, what does self-esteem mean to you? And it's a really good question, right? It's something that I know I have not thought of. I've got Chariss here. She is one of the students that is going to be You don't have your artwork here yet, but you are going to be creating your artwork come this Thursday. But I want to I want to start with asking you, what does self-esteem mean to you? >> Well, I personally through my personal experiences feel like it means
006how someone reflects or sees themselves. Um, sometimes that can be based off of other people's opinions and sometimes it can be based off of what you do or say to yourself to make yourself feel that way >> which is probably more important when we talk to ourselves with positive words and then we listen to that. Right. >> Tell everybody watching what you are doing on Thursday. This sounds really really cool. Um, so it's going to be a visual um live rep representation of how I see self-esteem. Um, I will be painting on a human canvas. Uh, each color representing a different emotion you may feel. Um, because self-esteem isn't just about hating yourself or loving yourself. There's a lot of in between, you know, in between. Um, and I will be reciting a poem while
007doing this live uh, representation. >> Give us the little teaser of what that poem includes. >> Um, okay. Here at the end it says here, "Self-estee, self-esteem is a silent topic of everyday life. To no one is it born. The highs and lows are both important. It's okay to feel torn." >> I love that. You should be so proud of yourself, by the way. And thank you so much for sharing. I know it's not easy to share our feelings, let alone on live television. Good luck on Thursday. By the way, if you want to see this artwork or hear this poem Thursday 5 to 8 here at the Down River Council for the Arts, that's where this is going on. This is going to be like the closing ceremony of sorts cuz you can still
008check everything out until May the 18th. I've got Aaron here. She is uh with the the Down River Council for the Arts. That's where this exhibition is. talk to me a little bit more about what we have here and what we're standing in front of. I I love that this is an interactive art piece. >> Yep. So, uh we've discovered a way to involve the community um and non-artists into um doing art projects. So, something like this is we put these boards up, all these different colors. Uh, someone can pick a color, they can pick an um an acrylic marker and then come over and draw or write or put something in here. Um, and then we can build on that. So, we can keep doing that. Any any visitors to the gallery can put
009on there. And now we have a big gigantic interactive art piece that can live out in the community. >> I love that. And a little bit earlier I actually wrote, "Dreams don't work unless you do." and I'm going to do another one here. But I do want to mention that this is all in partnership with Hera Health. And since May is mental health awareness month, this um exhibition is just an opportunity for these Down River students to express what they think mental health means and self-esteem. I got to ask you, Erin, what does self-esteem mean to you? I It's like a tough question because I I don't know what I would say. Um gosh, uh it's probably the wrong question to ask me because I'm so used to um like providing all this for everyone
010else to do, right? Like I want them to have these safe spaces where they can do that kind of stuff, you know? Honestly, I think like self-esteem is just basically being um comfortable and confident to be able to do what you want to do. >> Look, it was a perfect answer. Okay, I'm going to grab my marker really quickly. Marty, my cameraman, I'm going to put you on the spot, bud. I'm so sorry. Okay. So, something that it suggests that you can do is uh you can write down good qualities about yourself. So, what's something about yourself that you like? >> I know I'm putting you on the spot. I'm going to write it down for you. What's one of your good qualities? Hard worker. Perfect. You can barely see it. And then I'll come
011up with a few more. >> He's gonna yell at me after this. But you are such a hard worker and we appreciate you. Uh for everybody watching, when can they come check this out? >> Um so this exhibit will be on display until uh this Thursday. Um we are having the closing reception. Uh it'll be from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Uh they can uh this week we are open Tuesday 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. >> I love what you guys are doing here. expressing our feelings through art. If only I were a good artist, but I will tell myself I'm good at other things, right? That's part of my self-esteem. I am not good at art, but I am good at other things. And Marty,
012we're going to write down kind for you as well. Kind. All right, I got to find a new color marker. You can't see it. We are live in Wot. Erica Francis for Fox 2 News. Over the last 50 years, Michigan has come to know us. >> Thanks, Matt. So, I mean, I won't I'll be at honors night tomorrow night, so I won't be able to make it, but a social worker I know is going to be there with Charize and and they're super excited. So, if you're able to stop by, um, it should be exciting to see her performance art piece, but I'm sure we'll have it recorded, too. So, thanks. >> Thank you very much. Okay, our second good news for tonight is esports and um your first name is Rick and I'm not
013gonna try to pronounce your last name last name. >> Nope. Um so good evening. Um for those who don't don't know me, my name is Rick Posak. I'm an IT technician with the district. Um, I'm also the coach for the Taylor High School esports team. Um, I was asked to come and give some good news. So, um, we had another excellent season this past season. Um, several of our teams made the playoffs um, for the respective game titles. Um, and we had one who went all the way to the championship this season. Um, our we have a junior named Aaron Mayfield. He was unfortunately not able to be here today. Um, who plays Madden 24, which is football. um won the state championship in his title. Um he won uh second last season, so he
014was able to come in um get his revenge. Um the the student Aaron beat uh was the champion for the past four seasons. So not only did he uh bring home a state title, but he was able to dethrone the current champion. Um current the the student was from East East Kentwood High out in the western side of the state. Um, see, it was a big day for Aaron. Uh, we streamed the match live. Um, there was many people who watched it. Um, it was a big day for Aaron, a big day for the school district. It was a big day for the team to be recognized within the esports community as a state champion. Um, means a lot to me as an employee. Um, means a lot to our team. Um, and, uh, I
015hope it also means a lot to, uh, the school board as well. Um, the program will continue to strive to be the best we can be. Um, I do things for fun, but I'm competitive. I like to win. So, I do things to win as well. Um, if if the kids having fun, I'm having fun, but, you know, it's about pride for me. It's about um showing where you come from. I was a Taylor uh Taylor student as well. So, um, it means a lot. I know it's just video games, but um just the fact that we can still call ourselves a state champion at something um it it means a lot. Um I want still a lot for our students to give them the best program available. Uh we still have a lot to
016accomplish, a lot to do. Um so um once again, I want to thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to speak. Um, we still have a lot to do and uh I hope this makes the district proud and uh we'll start a winning tradition for not just esports but the whole district. So, thank you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you very much. >> And yes, we like to see everybody taking pride in this district. Thank you, Mr. Fosiac. All right. And our third good news is going to be rocks. Not the rocks you throw, but Emily's going to explain that. >> Come on this side. >> No, I'm just going to do a quick intro. >> Please. So you may remember that the board approved myself and all of the assistant principles and also uh
017at the secondary level and then Tracy Carol to attend a rocks training which is a uh ruling hour experiences and it's a training for the facilitators to meet with girls in a semester long weekly program. Um, and there's so many cool things that they do uh to strengthen not only their communication skills, their assertiveness skills, self-defense. I broke a board. I broke a board at the training. It was pretty monumental. Um, and more. So, um, the Laura and Alex Star, who's one of our resilience coaches, uh, put together a video to illustrate some of the girls experiences and they'll talk a little bit about it now. >> We sure did. So, I'm Laura Retay. I am the assistant principal at Hoover and my partner in crime. >> I'm Alex Star and I'm a resilience coach
018at Hoover and at Holland as well. >> Yeah. So, the two of us work really closely together to implement this ruling our experiences program over at Hoover. Um Stacy works very hard over at West and Kelly Trainer and Kesha work uh very hard over at the high school to do the same. So we have a group of 20 seventh and eighth grade female students in our program. Um Taylor High and West have about 15 in each. So together we're servicing about 50 students this semester alone. Um making sure that our girls um work on their confidence, work on their leadership, work on their communication. Um this week I'm really excited. We are working on careers um and kind of developing. We go from like self-esteem and body image and social media to then kind of
019building our future once we've grown those skills. So this week we have a career speaker coming in on Friday. She is a dermatologist. So one of the things for this week is to have somebody in a predominantly male field come in and speak to our students about some of the different challenges that they've had. Do you have anything? It was I just wanted to thank you for supporting our program because it was really really wonderful to watch these young ladies come together and from a resilience perspective. It was magical and I was so inspired by watching them connect with each other and explore topics that were kind of unfamiliar to them and it's weird to say things or share things out loud and talking about emotions and stress and they came such a long way
020and it was so wonderful to be a part of that and I'm really looking forward to going to the training in the fall with my colleagues so I can have my own group and then the plan is to run that um at a greater volume at the buildings and I I can't wait for that and thank you so much. I hope you enjoy the video and thank you for your time. >> So, instead of bringing all 50 of our girls, which would have been phenomenal with all of the uh activities that brings at the end of the school year, um I have a professional principal, a rookie film editor, so this is my best shot. Um please enjoy our kiddos. Welcome to West. We're here with some of my fabulous rocks girls and we are
021getting ready to do some questioning and stuff like that so we can share the awesome program. I'm going to introduce this beginning Haley and Haley's going to say her first and last name. >> Hi, I'm Haley Ryan. >> This is my Elizabeth. >> Hi, my name is Elizabeth Nabime. >> And this is my Aubrey. >> Hi, I'm Aubrey Barton. >> And this is my Joy. >> I'm Joy Grace Kazi. >> Hi, I'm Mara and I'm in seventh grade. I'm Sophia and I'm also in seventh grade. >> Hi, I'm Shayon. And I'm Nancy. We're both in eighth grade. >> My name is London Harrison and I'm a rock girl. >> Hi, my name is Lily Mcnet and I'm a part of the Rocks girls. >> Why did you join Rocks? >> Um because me and her
022were already trying to start something like this. So, we saw the girls group and we thought it would be good and we thought we had would have a space to learn. >> Honestly, I don't know just because I wanted to join something and you know it has like situations of other girls our age and you know it's it's kind of nice to interact with people once in a while. Lily, what has been your favorite rocks lesson or activity so far? >> My favorite rocks lesson has been the healthy relationships because we get to learn about what is not healthy or if people are being like abusive and really in >> what ways has rocks impacted your life? It's taught me to be assertive and not let anyone tell me what to do if I don't
023want to do it without any power. >> It's also given me some power and it's let me find people who accept me and who don't judge. >> In what ways has rocks impacted your life or your way of thinking as a female student, high school student today? more like communicating to people more being more open open minded >> it's important for them like to like build up confidence and give them more self love to yourself it also like it also helps to be to learn to be a leader for other is a like very helpful like area to be around and you meet more and new people that you didn't know and like you >> especially for um other kids that are coming in from like elementary to middle school, seventh, eighth grade, sixth grade
024um they'll need that they'll need rocks I feel because in middle school you really need to be the leader most of the time because a lot of kids are shy but if you are the leader you could make them look up to you to give them an example on You guys have any questions for me or Emily or Alex? >> How many do you want next year? >> I mean, I want to save the world, but um I would love to to work with, you know, 20 girls at each building. So, we're about 10 away. It's a 20week program. So, the thing about it is is it's very like structured. I I tell the girls it's like algebra 1. Yeah, you would love to take algebra 1 again. You I'm an algebra 1 teacher. Um
025but uh we we really want to keep creating like this new powerful group of girls that have done it. So, I promise my girls that are that are going to be there next year that we'll do combined celebrations, combined activities, and things like that. So hoping next year I'll have my new 20 girls plus about the 10 that are in seventh grade transitioning to eighth grade. So the hope is about 60 60 for next year. >> How many staff members currently have gone through the training? >> Yeah, great question. So there's five of us. Um all three assistant principles from the three buildings, Emily and then along we have Tracy Carroll who joined us as the um coach last year. We I mean we would really love to have our resilience team join us. they
026are all powerful females and the one thing I think the three of us say as assistant principles is it's difficult to you know make sure that we're dedicating the time and Alex has been my wing woman like I owe her my life all I could give her was a t-shirt um but I would love to have her join in a bigger capacity la next year um and in order for us to do so they do require her to have the training >> I don't mean to cut you off but Laura's been amazing to work with and it's really inspireing ing to be part of this. Just the the look on the girls' faces when you invited the new batch for next year like you were chosen. You know, we really want you in this because
027we see what you can do in the building already. And to have these young women sit there and and feel the the pride of it was really powerful and to talk to young women about inside boundaries and how to deal with stress and and to teach them at that age is so amazing. So, I'm really really grateful again that we get to do this and we hope to be back next year and show you what we did. >> Yeah, for sure. >> Well, you can come back next year and as many as you can bring, you can bring them with you. >> All right, we're coming as a tribe. We're ready. Thanks everybody. >> Thank you for presenting. So, one thing I wanted to mention quickly is we're working right now to coordinate grant funding
028with Stacy Vespreami to have the resilience coaches all trained. And if you remember at the time when you approved the conference, I was the resilience director. And u my thought was that I was going to go into the fifth grade because this is also a fifth grade program. So by training the resilience coaches, we have two of them that service the elementary buildings. they would be able to have groups of fifth graders and then just like Laura said, we will change the world. So there's that. So thank you very much for coming today. >> Thank you very much. And women will change the world and have all right number five on our agenda. Um and I'd like uh to give you the opportunity I haven't done this in the past. I forget. But if you
029have a bedtime, you can leave now if you don't want to listen to the nitty-gritty. I know everybody has to get up real early. Thank you for coming though. All right, down to the nitty-gritty on the agenda. Board and discussion items. Mr. Wright. All right. Item number five is revision approv approval of agenda policy 0166. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> Motion by Mr. Heath. Is there support? >> Support by Mrs. Thomas. Miss Black. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heath. >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers is absent. Mr. Tons. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Tons. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shupo. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ray. Yes. That carries 70. >> 6. six here. >> Okay. Number six are discussion items. Number one is furniture and Oh, Gary is in the back. How do I always
030miss you? >> Good evening. Uh Gary K plant realpoint here to present a award recommendation for the elementary school furniture for this summer's renovations. I wish I didn't have to follow up that act, but hopefully everyone gets excited about some furniture. So uh this letter transmits an update from plan real point as it relates to the assignment to assist and advise Taylor school district in procuring the elementary and middle school furniture for the 2021 bond program. Uh in the summer of 2022 is when we rolled out the first pilot uh program at Kenyon Elementary and West Middle School. So this this has been a long work in progress and it's been a huge thanks to the board, the administration, the staff and even the students for giving us feedback. I know when we first uh
031rolled out the pilot program, there was six different options for students and staff to evaluate and give us feedback on and we heard the feedback and we got rid of all of it and started fresh. So, um, throughout the past year and a half roughly, we've revised, um, met with staff, had furniture selection committees to give us direction on final finishes, sizing, design selections, and based on all the feedback that we received, interior environments provided a proposal that you'll see in the following pages to reflect these choices. Um, for this summer, uh, the district decided to move forward as buildings are renovated, then we would replace the furniture in those classrooms. So we're not, you know, paying to do it twice essentially. So the summer renovations, we'll have the moving vendor come in, remove the
032furniture that's existing. Then after the renovations are complete, they'll install the brand new furniture. We'll also work with the district's facilities team to make sure the rooms are all clean before we install the new furniture. So this summer, we'd be installing at Holland, McDow, and Meyers. Um, after negotiations, Interior Environments went back to the manufacturers, got some additional discounting, and I'm pleased to announce that the total contract amount for the furniture at all three schools is 562,47747. Um, in this amount, it includes a proposed amount for the furniture, actual hard cost for the furniture of $412,5764, an allowance amount for the music, library, media center, uh, the Crosscat and ASSE classrooms of $149,9143. Uh, the bond budget for this amount was $825,000. So, we're under budget. There's roughly I'll say $80,000 at every school that's
033still remaining. So whether we do teacher furniture or additional storage needs for each each staff member, it's yet to be evaluated. But the good news is we're under budget uh and very well under budget from what was originally in the original PQ app. So it's it's great news. Um in the following pages you'll see the actual furniture selections that were provided. Um and and I think in the last update we showed the renderings of each school. So all good news. And with that, are there any questions on this information? >> So, what's the timeline of delivery? >> Great question. So, it right now the lead time for the furniture that's being selected is eight weeks, which is why we wanted to bring it to this board meeting. Um, so we'll get it, you know, middle
034of July roughly, uh, early July. Um, we'll come back with an update on the remaining classrooms and where that budget fell in based on the allowance provided. those lead items. The furniture vendor said it's not as long a lead time, so they're not as worried about coming and placing that order later. Um, so mid July, we'll hold on to the furniture until construction's completed and then we'll move into installation. >> Do we know who who is a part of the furniture committee for the district? We know >> Miss Emley Graham. So basically I would organize the meetings and then depending on the group that they wanted we would schedule a two-hour block and then we would have you know K2 teachers log on for the first half hour they would log off then 35 teachers
035then media specialists and then special ed directors or special ed uh employees and then after we got a basic idea of what they wanted we put together they'd put together a presentation my office would turn it into a Google doc or a Google survey where then everybody could vote. The votes would go directly to interior environments and then they would proceed. We're still actually working through some of those. We're still working with the media specialist group and all of our CR cross categorical and ASD rooms. That meeting is scheduled for this upcoming week. >> Yeah. So to piggy back on that, that's why we have the allowances figure out what it is. The allowances for interior environments are conservative. So we we do have some flexibility should you know the selections go a little bit
036higher than anticipated and in this amount there's also contingency dollars set aside in installation. So all those items are covered. >> And I do want to say like one of the things I've been very pleased at during this process um considering I wasn't here when this ball started getting rolling um the amount of feedback that has been taken on behalf of staff because uh if I had a crystal ball and would have guessed, we would have been going with a whole different set of furniture choices. But the fact that people were able to speak up, they were able to share what they thought was best for their needs and that we have uh responded and followed in kind, I think is fantastic and speaks well to the the process we put in place. >> Definitely.
037And that's one of the things we heard about one of the I think it was a celebrate tailor event. Someone came up and said, "We understand it's taken a while, but you don't get brand new furniture every day, so better take your time and do it right versus rushing through it." So again, huge thanks to the board, administration, staff, and the students for for this whole process. Any other questions or comments? >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. Second con discussion item is Wayne Resa 2024 2025 preliminary budget. You have that in your packets everyone. And uh for those of you that do not know what waya is, it is our in intermediate school district. All of the um districts in Wayne County fall under Wayne Resa and they do rely on them
038for support in this district. We do um get support from them for it and also for English English language learners and growing our own teachers in that um capacity. So um you've seen the budget, it's here now. Does do you need any additional time to look at it? Anyone? I can't really answer your questions. I'm not part of Wayne Ree. I am part of CASPA, which is the Wayne County School District, but um they support us as well. And that's education towards the um school district members. And I will add like one of their other big supports is uh particularly involves like act 18 classrooms of which we do run act 18 programs for the county. And so they do approving this budget is helps us to continue to be able to do that work
039as well such as through our POHID program and others that we have. >> Is this budget including the county mill that's passed? Is that incorporated into >> No, you're I think you're talking about the regional enhancement mill. Um I do not believe so because the regional enhancement mill does get split up amongst the school districts uh themselves. So I don't believe this should cover that. >> Okay. >> I do believe in a future meeting we will be talking about that very >> it is in here. So, but it it does cover their salaries as well as their steps. Anybody have any questions? Okay. Number three, 2024 2025 board meeting calendar. The only adjustment that we really made to this is um there are no policy meetings on here per se. Um we didn't have any
040this year. So I've I have opted. It doesn't mean that it'll stay that way. We can change it in January and so be. Um but the policy meetings will be special board meetings. >> All right. Anybody have any I mean we're not meeting on Christmas or New Year's Eve. So if you have um anybody have any comments, questions, this doesn't start until July. No. Okay. All right. Number four, contract renewal, administrative assistant for human resources, Mrs. Delator. Good evening. Tonight, I'm asking the board to approve the one-year contract for Miss Rosowski um to uh in the HR department. And um as you all know that two current people that we have are leaving and they've been replaced. So, she's going to help with the day-to-day running of it, but also will be instrumental in um
041training on like the rep report and things of that nature. So, I'm hoping that the board will approve this so that we can hopefully continue to run smoothly. Are there any questions for Pat? Okay, thank you very much. Number five, new position kids on track teacher, Mrs. Um we have been awarded the 23G grant um which is going to support our um hiring of interventionists at the elementary level. Um we're calling these KOT interventionists um because the kind of the the subname of the grant is kids on track and this is a result of everything that we're seeing postcoid and the need to accelerate students. The kids on track teacher will collaborate with educators to support the success of identified students. um they will fit directly into our MTSS plan, our multi-tered systems of support
042um to work with small groups of students primarily in tier in tier three. Uh these will be TFT full 180 uh day positions. They will work in the elementary buildings to help identify these students and will work with these students on a daily basis. >> And this is grant funded, >> correct? 23G. What happens when the grant's gone? >> We have a pretty good idea that this grant will continue at least for the next several years. >> But what if what? >> And if not, we'll be able to supplement with 31A money. >> Okay. >> What is the total amount of 20 >> $850,000? >> That's how much the grant money is. >> Yes. >> How many employees are you looking to hire with that? >> Seven employ. >> And is that 850,000 one year?
043Or is it multi-year grant? >> That would be the allowance per every year. >> Every year. How long is the duration grant >> that we just were secured for the first year, but we have we have confidence that this grant will continue. >> So the grant is one year, but it's secured for that one year. 850,000 to cover seven employees. >> Correct. >> And we have told the employees that if we do not get that grant funding, then they have the chance of not being employed here anymore. Correct. that we're we're asking that this position be allowed to be posted. So, yes, but we've worked with Stacy and Jason and I have worked with Stacy to we could use other funding sources including 31A and title to fill this should they not refute uh renew
044the grant. >> Yeah. And the plan is not to have this in future come out of Jes 31A and title one and we could easily fund these positions in the future. If we had to if we had to pivot to 31A and title funding, would that take away money from other projects ongoing in the district? Would it jeopardize other funding that title and 31A provide? >> It wouldn't jeopardize other staffing positions, but there may be other places where we would have to cut. We feel very strongly that this position is needed to get students back on track at the elementary level um so that we can get more students performing at grade level. And I'll say this, as we have been going through our uh 31A audit, um we have been restructuring a lot of
045the funds in 31A. So we are confident as we've been doing this restructuring that we have the ability to to cover this uh position uh going forward as well. >> My question is going to be when because of you're saying because of COVID, but when those kids are no longer the issue, right? Then what do these teachers do? because like COVID was, you know, my son is a junior and that's when COVID hit when he was in like seventh grade. >> So, we're talking those children. So, when that is kind of no longer the issue, those kids weren't in school, like they've since moved on, then what do these teachers >> like their focus isn't like the COVID issue, >> right? So knowing this is going to be part of our MTSS pro program and
046they're going to be primarily working with our tier three students which are going to be needed more one-on-one. We're always going to need have students are going to be identified for tier two and tier three not just because of COVID but just in general students still need that support. This is going to be that person as a certified teacher working with a with a student one-on-one and having that certified teacher come to the table with all those tools as a certified teacher working knowing how to work with a student one-on-one to get them caught up whether it be they and go through a preschool program or GSRP program or something like that still supporting those students. So yeah, our co students are moved on a little bit. We still see students that are struggling in
047certain areas. So focusing on that tier two, tier three intervention to get our students fill in those gaps is where this person is going to take place and it's going to be their role. >> One of the things right now that the entire school district is dealing with is a disproportionate amount of students that are referred to special education because they are struggling academically. when we strengthen our tier support system and we have a place to put with certified interventionists. This posting is for teachers who have had success working within an MTSS structure. When we pair those students with them, um we have a better chance of making those students uh better able to perform at grade level. Um right now we do have interventionists, but we don't have any teachers that are acting in
048the interventionist role. So, we want to put our neediest students with our high most highly trained teachers and this grant allows us to do that. >> Um, this is more of a question for when the individual like say the individual is hired, they're in a school building, are they expected to be in the classroom pushing in or are they pulling students out of classroom? >> That is a great question. So with a tier three intervention we see a lot of success with a pull out but I can see the intervention is working in both capacities. Co-eing I have seen done really really well where that during the independent work time or small group time the teacher would have a group of students that they would be working with but the interventionist would also have a
049group that they're working with so that the students don't have to be removed from the classroom. That's been a really successful model. So in the essence that a child would be pulled out or a small group would be pulled out since more of a question related to the buildings and how they're going to be during this transition office space is obviously going to be in need. So are these individuals like going to be basically on carts and that's how they're going to operate is kind of going from place to place wherever they can fill in. So, the the elementary buildings particularly do a really good job of housing people wherever they can and utilizing every nook and cranny. If there were some intervention groups that needed to meet occasionally outside of a classroom in a
050hallway, that would be fine. Uh, but we also have some staff members that are not there all the time. Like there are some special ed positions that are shared. Our resilience coaches share spaces. So when those spaces are not being utilized, we would have place for the interventionist. >> Okay. Are there any other questions or comments? >> Yeah. Sorry. >> Okay. >> Um in relation because I'm reading a lot. It says like uh serve as a member of 504 meetings um and then working with IEP meetings as well. I know that in our district that is very consuming. It's a very consuming task. Do we anticipate these individuals being consumed by or being used as the ones leading IEP meetings, 504 meetings, rather than doing the job that they're being hired to do is work
051with those kids individually. >> So the MTSS structure is built around the needs for general education students. Okay? So they would help to create the structures that offer tiered supports in the academic capacity to students. By the time they get to the point where we can track interventions and we can say this student has been in an intervention for three months, we're not seeing the growth that we would expect, there may be something else go that's going on. The KOT would have the ability to say here's the data that goes along with this student. We've attempted interventions. Now, I believe that it's appropriate for us to do a child study. Right now, each one of our schools is handling that process a little bit differently. So this kind of creates a cohesive system in our
052MTSS process. So all students when they're struggling go into this system and then the KOT helps to organize and say now we need to escalate it to maybe a possible special ed referral. So we do not in answer to your questions anticipate that this person will do much more than coordinate with special education to make sure that the services for each student continues >> and they would pass that on and special ed would conduct >> correct. It's a baton toss. >> Yeah, I could see them attending an IEP meeting as a member of the IEP team because they're going to be sharing input on what what interventions have worked, what what's happen, but they're not the one who's going to be responsible for the paperwork and >> I know that's a whole time consuming process.
053I just don't want them to get wrapped up in that if that is the position. >> How many So, right now we're anticipating hiring seven individuals, one at each elementary. Correct. Do you anticipate because I I guess my biggest worry is it's great that we're gonna if this goes through just have one. Is there going to be a want to come back to us for additional positions because I just don't want to see this grow and us not be able to manage it financially. I don't want the district to be put in at risk of that. So the future plan knowing that within another year with the merging of the two elementary schools that extra KOT person would move into the middle school when that combines. So now we have within each building especially where
054the need is right now the with the things that we're looking at developing our MTSS plan and providing the resources we have. I think having the seven will definitely meet the needs that we have >> and not looking at the need to have this at the high school. >> Okay. So knowing that we're going to do it to seven elementary schools going into the 2425 school year. Then when we make those merges going into 2526, we'll have that one person go to the middle school knowing we have that merge going on and also having a foundation with a lot of those students that are going into that middle school building, be able to be there and act as a support for the middle schools and build on that program there. So, as we've been having
055our conversations and looking at how we're going to be building this process, we feel that those seven are going to be what we need. >> Okay, that's all from you, Kyle. Anybody else? Okay, thank you, Miss Graham. Okay. Our last discussion item, 26MTSS, a memorandum of understanding, Mr. Wager. >> All right. I'm bringing forward tonight a memorandum of understanding uh that we uh would like to enter with uh the 26M Taylor School Support Staff Association. Uh this is in regards to uh summer work and staffing of that summer work. Uh for several years we have brought thisou forward to the school board um because we find ourselves in a spot where we do not have enough people to cover uh the summer positions that we have and the work that needs to get accomplished. What
056thisou does is it allows us to uh allow the 26M membership to cross divisions to cover those needs. Um, so really it is just providing us the coverage and providing us the ability to to staff what kind of projects and things we have going on during the summer. And like I said, it's probably been at least five, six years that I know for sure this has been uh renewed at the board level, if not more. >> Yeah. >> So we're saying that there will be 25 to 30 summer employees in the district. >> Uh, that is potentially correct. Yes. With all the different projects we have going on. Is that covering uh grounds crew? Is that covering? >> Yes. All sorts >> summer school and then on top of it all the building projects. >>
057Correct. >> Okay. >> This is actually just more of a renewal of theou that we've had in the summer. We've done a variety of different things in the past as needed. Right Tom? >> Yes. Can we also just I know Jack usually does it before but I know the summer project list that he presents to the board of like what work is going to be done just >> okay now Okay, we will have action items next. >> Moving on to item number seven in our agenda, action items. First up, we have furniture. It is recommended the board of education approve the proposals provided by Interior Environments for a total contract amount of $562,47747. This amount includes a proposal amount of $412,5764 for general education and steam classrooms and an allowance amount of $149,9143 for music
058library/media and crosscatd classrooms. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Heath. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. Thomas. Mr. D? >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers is absent. Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> no. >> Miss Shupel, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Blot, >> yes. >> That carries five. Moving on to item number two. This is a long one. Okay. >> Oh, well, you have to We have >> take the vote first and then you read >> and then you read what it is. >> Okay. >> Uh Wayne Resa 2024 2025 general fund operating budget resolution whereas the board received the Wayne Rhysa general fund operating budget on May 1st 2024. And whereas in accordance with section 3 380.624 624 of the revised school code. The board must
059adopt a resolution expressing its support or disapproval of the proposed Wayne Resa budget and must submit the Wayne Resa budget. Wait, must submit the Wayne Resa board any specific objections and or proposed changes the board may have to the budget prior to June 1st, 2024. >> And now you get a motion. >> All right. Wait, now I do the what? >> Now you do the motion because that's just a an extra. It's the same thing. >> I'm motioning if there's a motion to support. >> Yes. >> Okay. Is there a motion to support? Motion motion by Mr. >> Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Thomas. Mr. Myers is not here. Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. Miss Shel, >> yes. >> Mr. Raises, yes. Miss Blau, >> yes. >> Mr.
060He, >> yes. >> That carries 6. >> And now you read the >> approve. >> The Wayne Resa general fund operating budget for the 2024 2025 school year be supported and that the secretary of the board is hereby directed to submit a copy of the resolution to the secretary of the Wayne Resa board of education along with comments. All right, moving on to item number three, board of education meeting schedule. It is recommended the board of education approve the 2024 2025 board of education meeting schedule. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Shufeld. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. Heath. >> Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Miss Shufeld? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Block. >> Yes. Mr. Heed. >> Yes. Mr. >> Myers is
061absent. That carries 6. Item number four, contract renewal, administrative assistant for human resources policy 4120. It is recommended the board of education approve the contract renewal of Miss Patricia for the position administrative assistant of human resources effective June 30th, 2024 through June 30th, 2025. Salary for the position will be $58,63922 prrated. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Thomas. Is there support? Support by Mr. Heath. >> Mrs. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Miss Shufeld. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Blot. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers is absent. Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> That carries. 6. All right. Item number five, new Kids OnTrack teacher policy 311. It is recommended the board of education approve the new position kids on track teacher. Is there a motion? >> Motion
062by Mr. Heath. Is there support? >> Support by Missel. Missel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Black. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers is absent. Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> That carries 6. Item number 626M, Taylor School Support Staff Association, TSSA, Memorandum of Understanding. It is recommended the board of education approve theou between the Taylor School District and the 26M Taylor School Support Staff Association TSSA regarding extra summer help for division A maintenance. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Thomas. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. Heath. Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Block. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heath. >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers is absent. Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Miss Shoefeld? Yes. >> Okay,
063that carries 6. Back to you. >> Number eight, our superintendent report, Mr. Wagger. >> All right, good evening everybody. Um, last week uh was teacher appreciation week. And I did want to just um officially at our board meeting tonight uh share our appreciation for our staff. And I know Miss Block, you did two weeks ago that did the same as well. Um, and I did want to share that one of the things that I have truly come to appreciate about our uh, staff and Taylor is many of the characteristics that they exhibit on a daily basis that truly make them great educators. And there's many different characteristics you could go into, but there's a few that I had uh, sent out to the staff to thank them for because I think those are the ones
064that truly speak to why uh, we have such a great staff in this community. and that is the the fact that they exhibit patience, adaptability, empathy, fairness, creativity, compassion, and resilience. As I said, there are many characteristics that you could go on a long long list of what makes a great educator, but these are the ones that allow them to successfully reach students because these are the ones where you are actually building those relationships and you are actually meeting kids where they're at and meeting them where their actual needs are. And without those uh characteristics, you are not able to do that work. And I want to just say that I thank every teacher that when I'm out in buildings, um when I've worked with them in the past as a building administrator or even
065as a fellow teacher uh back in the day, these are the things that have always made our community great and I want to thank them for that. Uh the other thing I want to bring up is this is uh May here and we are getting to all those wonderful endofear activities for uh all our levels and there are great opportunities to go celebrate the accomplishments of our elementary students, our middle school students and our high school students going on. And I encourage parents, I encourage community members, please, as you see these events come up, take that opportunity. uh every student of ours has worked hard uh to be where they're at and we want to give them that show them that we support them and that we want to see them get through to uh
066that ultimate day of graduation when they uh reach 12th grade. With that said, there's one particular event I do want to encourage uh the community to consider going out and attending, and that is going to be our farewell parade for our seniors next Thursday on the 23rd at Heritage Park. Uh, one of the things I really love about this event is, um, well, one, it's one of the great things that came out of the COVID era. Uh, we were in the COVID era and we were trying to find ways that you could gather and celebrate what students were doing, but we couldn't do our traditional things that we did because we were on all those orders that we couldn't have indoor events and gatherings. So, this parade kind of grew out of that need and
067that necessity. And what it has become though is you know graduation is a time where graduates have a very limited number of tickets and they have to be very mindful on what family they invite and who can actually participate and enjoy that event. The beauty of this is we can celebrate them as a whole community because it's at Heritage Park. We have that space. we have this time to go and do that celebration. And many of the graduates, their road is not the same on how they got there. Some kids, it was very easy for them to get to that graduation day and school was very easy for them. Some it was a challenge. There were struggles along the way. But it doesn't take away that for every single student, it is quite an accomplishment.
068And this is that opportunity as a community that we can gather and we can show them our full support. and I highly encourage anyone if you're available next Thursday to go and be part of that event. Thank you. >> Um there's two things I'd like to hit on here. Uh Rhysa Wayne Rhysa did send a resolution for National Teacher Appreciation Week, which was actually May 6 through the 10th. and we'll put this online for everyone to read, but uh it does celebrate our teachers and all their um efforts that they put out for our kids. And Mike, you're right. It was one of the things during CO that uh gave us everybody a little hope when it was mentioned. We were like, we didn't know what it would be. Uh but it turned out to
069be something great and we decided um 2 minutes after it started that we would keep this forever. I mean it highlights our community and the kids love it and it is a chance for them to shine and some of them are real creative. Some of them just drive their car around and get out of line and go home. But um it's a chance for them to honk and you know maybe they'll never be in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but they're in this parade and our beautiful Heritage Park is a perfect place for that. So please, if you have a a chance, it's even very nice in the rain, which it has been held a couple of times in the rain. Um umbrella in hand, I have gone to all of them. Sadly, I will be
070uh in the air somewhere between Denver and here this time. So, I'm hoping that a lot of people turn out for it and it's a beautiful day because it is a every terrible thing has a silver lining that comes out of it and this parade was a wonderful event. All right, number nine. in our consent agenda. Mr. Wright. >> All right. Item number nine, consent agenda, policy 0166.1 and policy 6470. First, we have consolidated items, payment of current bill, certified, non-certified, administrative reports. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Heath. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. Thomas. >> Miss Block? >> Yes. >> Mr. Heath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers is absent. Mr. Thomas. Yes, >> Mrs. Thomas. >> Yes, >> Miss Shufa. >> Yes, >> Mr. Wright is also yes. That carries
0716. >> All right. Number 10. Our items scheduled for next agenda, Wednesday, June the 5th, 2024. Uh will be we have good news on on the agenda and it's a secret right now. So, um number 11 is our public comment. Yeah, she just got to read it and then she'll be good. Yeah, >> somehow this always gets buried. Thank you to all who are able to be here with us in person and online tonight. We understand the importance of continuing to keep you all informed and provide an opportunity for you to be heard. Tonight's audience participation will be for all who wish to speak, whether it be in person or online. We will begin with those in person. If you would like to address the board, please step up to the microphone and state your
072name and address for the record. After all those in person have had the opportunity to speak, that opportunity will be given to those online. Please take into consideration common courtesy and keep your comments to three minutes or less. We will provide and assist with timekeeping so that each speaker will be able to monitor their own time and know when to conclude. So all who wish to speak will have an equal equal opportunity to do so. If there are any questions at this meeting or by some other avenue, Superintendent Michael Wagger or his designate will work on getting those answers in a timely manner. We will start with those in person. >> Bob Simpson 8510 William. Um just following up on same question. Uh Mr. Wagger asked me to leave my email. I didn't leave my
073email but same question exists. When do we uh start digging the hole? And uh there are a few predecessors that are important to get there and that is soil erosion, storm water and building permits. noticed to biders in the paper for a couple weeks and maybe a fun and fantastic groundbreaking. Do you do we know anything yet? >> I'll have to answer in writing or in giving you a call. >> I'm sorry. >> I'll have to answer in writing or give you a call. That's the pro. >> Would you like me to write a letter? I I don't didn't want to email because I didn't want my personal >> Yeah, absolutely. Or leave your phone number. I will gladly call you too. Like that's not a problem. just make sure Shauna has it and we
074can get back to you. >> I'll I'll do that. Very good. Thank you very much. And a lot of great news here this evening. That uh was a really fun front end of this uh board meeting. A lot of a lot of great stuff. Thank you for your service. >> Thank you. >> Are there any other uh folks in in the audience? I'm not a resident of the Taylor School District and all my grandchildren are out of college now, but sitting here tonight, I would like to pay a compliment and the uh rocks program that you have and I hope you will also start one for young men if you don't have something like that and also I think it's great the intervention program and especially being for special needs children because sometimes not meaning
075to children will get fall between the cracks of the system. It all it happens in every school district, every state in the nation. So I do want to pay you that that compliment. Have good ma'am. Could you state your name? >> Oh yeah, I'm sorry. Brenda Kramer and that's Kramer with a C. I learned that early in life. >> And you don't live in Taylor but you >> No, I do not live in Taylor that I'm just attending this evening. But I uh just wanted to pay a compliment and when I go back to my own I live in Westland. >> Okay. >> In the fall I plan on asking them what programs they have for young people which I think they should start at elementary level maybe preschool level. Who knows? >> Thank you
076very >> anyone else in person. Are there any online Shauna? No one online. Okay. Mr. Right. >> Item number 12, adjournment to close session policy 0137.2 pursuant to Michigan's open meetings act being public act 267 of 1976 and as amended. I move the board convene in close session pursuant to 8C negotiations 8H material exempt from disclosure by state and federal statute. Is there a motion? >> Motion. Motion by Mr. Heath. Is there support? >> Support by Miss Shufeld. >> Mr. Heath. >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers is absent. Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Miss Shufeld. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Block. >> Yes. >> That carries 6. We will go into close session at 711. >> Close. 1052. There's action after close session, Mr. Wright. >> Right.
077Our first action after close session is a motion to approve the recommendation of the reinstatement committee for student number 515 for a conditional reinstatement. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Miss Shufelt. Is there support? >> Support. support by Mr. Heath. Mr. Myers is absent. Mr. Thomas, >> no. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Shefelt, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright is a no. Miss Block, >> yes. >> Mr. Heath, >> yes. >> That carries four to two. Moving on to item number two is a motion to increase reserve for medical reserves for workers comp claim number 010700-003388-wc-1 Is there a motion that vote >> motion by Mr. Heath, is there support? >> Support by Mrs. Thomas. >> Mr. Meyers is absent. Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Shufeld, >>
078yes. >> Mr. Wright, is he? Yes. Miss Block? >> Yes. >> Mr. Heath? >> Yes. >> That carries 6. >> All right. Next on the agenda would be board members comments. >> Um I would like to congratulate the esports um and Aaron on their accomplishments um and for his state championship. That was super great. So congratulations to them. And also I would like to report that um a few weeks ago the board had approved for the varsity baseball team to attend playing a game at the Muden Stadium and that happened yesterday. Um although we took a loss, the boys had a great time and it was a huge like they just loved it. The experience was awesome. Um and so they all had a great time, coaches included. So, just wanted to report that back
079and thank you guys again for allowing them that opportunity and it's on the books. Um, they get to do it again next year. So, that's super cool. >> Well, I was just going to say I just want to congratulate esports as well. And I would just ask, can the district make a post on social media congratulating that esports champion? I think that's something we absolutely need to highlight when our students achieve something. to that nature that they're the state champion. >> For sure. >> Um and it's also just it's good promotion for our esports program because it is something that has seen major success in the school district. So, >> okay. Well, tomorrow is honors convocation. So, I will be attending that and super excited to do that to see all of our wonderful graduates
080with honors. And that's such a that's great news, not just good news. And then uh please remember the parade, make it a community affair on May 23rd. And uh graduation is on the 29th this year. Congratulations all of you. >> Uh, can I just ask the administration too, when is the honor ceremonies for the rest of the classes? Is that tomorrow? >> That's tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. for 9 through 11. >> Tomorrow at 8 a.m. >> 8 a.m. >> Okay. I just want to be there. So, >> anybody else? >> Okay. We'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. Motion by Mr. Thomas. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Heath. Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Shufeld, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright, >> yes. >> Miss Black
081is a yes. Mr. Heath, >> yes. >> Mr. Meyers is not here. Okay, we are adjourning at 10:56. Thank you everybody.