001No. Can you guys hear me? I was talking. Can you hear me, Shauna? Through the computer. Hello. Yeah, I can talk. Can you hear me? Okay. Can you hear me? All right. I'll keep it short and sweet. Uh planning for the unified Special Olympics has been going really well. We have a record number of students that are going to come and be athletes on the day. We have 436 students coming to compete. Um there has been so much community support this year that we are blown away. And we are going to have we're having a circus theme. So, we're having um kind of some circus themed events of the day. We're going to have throlling magicians. Um some other things. We're actually having a helicopter that's coming to touchdown and take off during the event
002outside. Just kind of a few different things that are happening. Uh and we have of course our partners that are coming to work the day and volunteer. We have the entire sports plex to ourself, which is different than last year. So, we're hoping that alleviates some of the congestion at lunchtime. And we're just excited. We hope that everyone can come and be a spectator. Oh, you guys can hear me. I did not know. Okay, no laughing, Mrs. Thomas. Um, anyway, it's going to be fabulous. Please, everyone come. And it's from 9 to 1 on the 23rd at the Sportslex. Tons of stuff to see and I know it's going to be a great day. If you need anything or have any questions, you can always email me or call me um at work and I'd
003be happy to hook up with you there. And uh just really looking forward to the day. Bridget, can you >> hear me? >> It's all good. Yay! Technology. >> Can you hear me now? >> Now I can day still. >> There's a little bit of a lag. Can you hear me now? >> Yeah. >> Do you need any volunteers still? >> So, we always need volunteers. It's like a just that what is what drives the day. Um we need volunteers as early as 7:30 that morning and we will last year we were packed up by 1:30 and done for the day. Um and really just the whole day went by so smoothly. um with having the whole place this year, it's just going to be that much easier. We actually got some additional funding from
004um Southeast um Michigan, Special Olympics Michigan this year. We used for like totes and some additional things that we could transport more easily, make it easier on our volunteers for setup. Um so it shouldn't be a scary proposition. So we hope everyone comes and helps. Awesome. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thanks, guys. Sorry for the technical problems. motion >> motion by Mr. Meyers. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. >> M. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas. Mr. We have scheduled They're Do it while we're So the online audience can hear. >> Okay. Number two, pre-enrollment campaign. Miss Emily Graham, assistant superintendent for elementary curriculum and resiliency. >> Thank you. I'm just clarifying. Do I need to be speaking into a computer or am I good? Good. Is that good? Okay, mics
005are working. Awesome. All right, so you may have noticed these amazing reenrollment flyers scattered scattered throughout the district. Um, these were student authored. Um, there's three that are in circulation. So, um, congratulations to the students who designed these and then subsequently won in the contest. Uh so Taylor schools will be engaging in a reenrollment campaign from May 1st to May 31st. Um this involves parent connect. Um and when you scan the QR code or type in uh the web address to the URL, you will be taken to the parent portal. Um there are some of our families who have never accessed the parent portal before and that kind of came to light today. You'll need a username and a password to access that. So, if you have not before, you will be getting that information
006tomorrow. Um, and also instructions on how to access it and what information is shared uh with you accessing the parent portal. So, you might be asking yourself, why reenrollment? Why do we need to do this? Well, I'm going to tell you. Um, we're completely transitioning to an online system, and this will streamline a lot of our processes. It's going to help eliminate registration errors like entering a street when it's really a road or not having updated information for phone numbers or addresses. It's really going to help us become current so that we can more easily communicate with our parents and families. All of the documents will then be uploaded into the platform. So instead of bringing things to be photocopied by our pupil accounting department in including immunization records and um uh 504 plans and
007things like that, everything will be entered into the system by the parents which will make uh updating documents that much more easy. Um and you can also use the parent portal to access information about your child. So grades, report cards, I ready data, um those things are all coming for our our preK5 buildings. Um but they're already in use in various capacities that are secondary. So the first time that you do the reenrollment, it'll take you about 45 to 60 minutes to get all of that information in. You're going to have to completely reenroll. So you'll add your names, the siblings, but also your address, your contact information, and upload your documents. What's cool though is that each subsequent year, it'll only take you about 10 to 15 minutes to go through and click that
008the information is the same. Your address didn't change, your phone number didn't change, maybe you need to upload a couple of uh new documents, but it is really easy to go from one year to the next to make sure that your school has all of the correct information for your child. Um, I'm asking you from the bottom of our heart to please be patient with this process. Our entire district is transitioning to this. Uh we need to get everybody on this platform. Uh so there's going to be a lot of users, a lot of traffic, and we anticipate that there are going to be a couple of bumps in the road. As the bumps are identified, the the principles are doing a really good job of um notifying our technology and pupil accounting department so
009that we can fix those and make everything accessible for families. Um your school secretaries, but also pupil accounting are here to help. So, feel free to call up there if you're having uh problems with the enrollment. There are kiosks uh set up throughout the district. Um I encourage you to come to the the board of ed if you're having difficulty with registering at home. We can help you here. Um, and that the real cool thing is we're offering prizes and incentives for classrooms that have 100% participation, are the first classrooms to reach 100% or uh that have the most registrations for their school. So, you will be getting remind messages. You'll see this on Facebook. We'll remind you at uh the board meetings. So, uh, please participate with the reenrollment campaign so that we can
010transition to this online system that will suit everybody much more better than the paper system that we are currently utilizing. So, with that, I will pass. Thank you. >> Are there any questions or comments? >> Hearing none. Oh. That's awesome. >> Yep. With stuff like that, you can interrupt, John. >> I just want to thank everyone involved. I I think uh most of the people who I talked to when I first came on board in August and September uh and having like I said left and gone to other districts for a few years uh this was common practice in other districts that we had eliminated a lot of the paper things that uh we were still doing when I came back to Taylor and this was a focus of mine. This was I was like,
011we need to get where we're are not relying on, you know, sending home emergency cards every summer and then whether the kid remembers to bring them or they leave it in their locker, their backpack, they gets lost on the way to school. Um, and so I'm just really proud of everyone involved and thank everyone involved because this was a a change that I I really wanted to see when I came back. So I'm happy to see this on on board and rolling. >> Don't forget that the dog ate it. >> Yeah. Okay. Any other questions or comments? All right. Thank you, Miss Graham. Okay. Discussion items. Number one, moving services. Gary Kent. Okay. Oh. Oh. Can everyone hear me? If we unmute our computer, will it work? Oh, I can hear Kyle. Okay. It is
012what it is. Hello, Gary. >> All right, you're good to go, Gary. >> All righty. So, thank you everybody. I apologize for not being there in person. Um Eric Camel and Real Point here to present an award recommendation for move vendor services for this summer's um you know projects that we're doing in the new furniture. So the the four project sites that are going to be affected by um the summer's either construction or whatever it might be are Eureka Heights, Holland, McDow and Meyers. So um three of the schools are being affected by construction. So Meyers and McDow will need services to move out uh the contents that are in the libraries and stage them in the uh gymnasium and then the mood bender would come back in at the end of summer and relocate
013those into the new libraries that are going to be under construction. Um all four schools are going to have contents delivered to them from the move vendor. So, the proposal does include move contents. Eureka Heights. Uh, the teacher contents will obviously be packed up by the teachers. Move supplies would be delivered by the move vendor and then they would move all those contents over to uh either Holland, McDow or Meyers. And then all four schools would have the furniture removed for from it by the move vendor. It's cheaper to go that route. We talked to the furniture vendor interior environments. They're priced a little bit higher. So, the moveer would come in at the beginning of summer, remove all the furniture from the three buildings, Meyers, McDow, and Holland. Uh Jack and his team would
014get in and clean the rooms, and then they'd be ready for the new furniture that's arriving at the end of summer for those three buildings. Um again, decommissioning would begin at the end of or beginning of July. Overall, the the cost to do all this is $106,522. We had budgeted 120,000 in the bond for this, so it became an underbudget and um which was obviously a good thing. So hopefully you guys heard all that and I'm not just talking to myself right now. Any questions? >> Uh Gary, with the construction, you said that Jack's team, the company will come in, remove all the furniture, and then Jack's team will clean the rooms, and then the new furniture will go in. How's that going to go with the schedule of the construction? Great question. Yeah. So,
015so they would come in and remove the furniture from the classrooms that are not affected by construction. Um, Jack's team is going to work, you know, those rooms wouldn't be affected by construction. So, they wouldn't get dirty while construction's going on. So, it'll actually allow Jack's team to get in there, scrub and wax floors and get the rooms clean, you know, like they would typically throughout the summer for for the fall for when students arrive back at the buildings. Cool. >> Any other questions or comments? Uh I do want to say as part of this as well um Mr. Gribble has been working on uh providing if we can like some of our organizations like NHS who we have students who we know need service hours uh he has been out there working on a
016plan to get those students to help the teachers who would need to box up their own things uh as well so that they could earn hours at that time and we can provide that help uh to those uh staff affected. Is there going to be a schedule put together for the staff and is that going to be communicated to the staff of like when the when their stuff needs to be boxed up and everything? >> Gary? >> Yes. Yep. You know, we're actually working on that right now. Um we have a draft and we're going to talk about that at our bond team meeting on Tuesday. So tell teachers, you know, when boxes are going to be dropped off, um what colors to label their boxes depending on the end of location for each uh
017teacher. So and then when you know what to pack, when not to pack, things like that. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Okay. Thank you, Gary. >> Thank you. Okay. Thanks, Sh. Okay. Number two, zero eyes firearm detection. Mr. John Ross, Michelle, you're presenting to Okay. >> All right. So, we're going to talk about zero eyes, but first just a quick update of what we've already done. security district what we're going to talk about. So as you know from my really long presentation about let's say like >> okaygo we had a deployment solid cameras are up everything went great better than expected along with that we did four contacts so it's integrated very well together what that means is that the door is open more than 20 seconds and all of a sudden we
018have alert say we're open here it's a name door something to us And also we have a shot of that door that door that video see who may have come in and out of that door. Every door that's covered with camera. It's not perfect but there's almost every case there's a nearby camera. So there's a couple of technologies that we've already implemented with cameras. Obviously they're talking about reaction react to something video it's not something that is proactive helps us prevent I did tell you though service that it was the beginning of a process could be proactive it's a technology where it grows and I told you that these cameras the system that we're on will never be anything like they are the day we got their old that. So they overengineer hardware which is
019why they can warranty these things for 10 years and then because they're doing that process with the hardware we can now expect to get firmware updates that just increase what these cameras do over time. So it's just continuously adding functionality. We we've also had some testings going some buildings where we're using intercom systems door control about the door contact door control just like a building access and environmental sensors detection detection that go all these systems kind of together very one of the things that'll be of interest The elevator system that we chose was chosen perfect for the reason because they have elevator controls built into it which means that on outside and inside of the elevator has access to it over at west already have that control in place. We're simply going to be this,
020but we're simply just going to be adding some hardware that's much less expensive than recreating the wheel. So much of what we've already done already exists and we're able to move forward with that project, too. So, my next point is that I've talked about integration and how it plays well with others. So now let's talk about how it plays well with what we're about to uh talk about. Um so Zero Eyes is an automated AR or AI uh recognition platform. It can detect firearms as soon as they're pulled out within 3 to 5 seconds. That 3 to 5 seconds is an AI detection that goes back to an operation center where there's a trained individual that will then quickly check that image. And if they determine that it actually is a firearm, then it goes
021to the proper authorities. What happens from there is up to us. However, I think uh Michelle and I have talked and we would want the authorities to be alerted first and we would also be alerted in tandem with that. There's no chance of false positives because of the human interaction with it. So it's not just AI and AI alone. It goes from AI to a human to a staffed operation center. Then it goes to the authorities. The authorities can react within that 3 to 5 second period. It's 100% cloud-based and it integrates with the current system that we're on right now. So there's no worry about having to buy any hardware or software. This is the software piece. It runs cloud-based and there's nothing else to add. Simply uh our cameras just simply send a
022feed to the cloud-based servers. The AI picks that up, detects it. Like I said, there's a human at the other end to verify that so that we're not getting false positives and that the police aren't getting involved when they don't need to. This is going to go in all the instructional buildings being that that's where we originally put cameras at the beginning of the this whole security project. So, it wouldn't be going anywhere else uh other than the instructional buildings. Uh Randall and Taylor Parks are the exception because because of their future, we did go ahead and put campers in those buildings currently. The cost breakdown is pretty simple. We were we were given a $160,000 grant to move forward with this project. So, what we're going to do is frontload this project with that
023$160,000 the first year. It'll be a it's a three-year term and for years two and three, it'll cost 24 $24,000 and uh $24,250. That's for years two and three. That would be uh I believe that would just be a general fund expenditure. We're if we sign this and we move forward and we can get a PO issued by the 15th of this month, they'll wave the $10,000 installation fee. So that won't be something that would if we don't take advantage of that, it'll be tacked down to years two and three. After years two and three are over, after that original three-year term is up, the system's roughly $70,000. Um, I'm guessing that that is probably going to get go a little bit higher after years two and three are complete. And we actually realize that.
024So, you want to aim high to 75 or $80,000 a year. That's probably going to be the more accurate price. Now, with this process, we're doing 257 lenses. Um, some of our cameras have multiple lenses, up to four actually. And so what Zero Eyes did is they took their engineers, they looked at our maps, and they made a decision that there's a good, better, and best solution. Honestly, the good solution just got tossed out. It wasn't good coverage, and they admitted as much. The better coverage was was sufficient. It covers everything outside and it covers all the points of entry as well as crossroads and hallways and then areas where in previous threats or previous situations they found that people are brandishing a weapon prior to actually bringing it out. Things like under stairwells and
025that sort of thing, hiding places. So they've identified those areas in that situation and so we decided to go with that that scenario where we go with 257 lenses. There is another scenario that's much more expensive where every lens is used but after looking at the maps we decided that that's not necessary. Michelle's got more excited stuff. >> Okay. So with zero eyes um they will come in and they would and they train everyone that would be involved in it. So they agreed that they would not only train our staff but they would train above um Taylor Police Department who our cameras tie into. So if if there were a school shooting, every second counts. And that's basically what we try to do is count cut that down, cut that down, cut that down. So
026this summer when we do the um Taylor police and down river SWAT active shooter training then zero eyes would come in during that training period and then train everybody and that wouldn't be an additional cost. So and the other thing I'd like to do is thank Stacy VMI for writing the grant and actually giving us the the the first year and then um we saved you $10,000. It's like a coupon. Thank you. Is that is that all guys? >> That's all. Yeah. Is there any questions about the system, its operation or its reach? >> I have a question. >> Sure. >> How do you are we going to have random tests of the system like like have like a police officer come on the property and and and pull a gun out. Pull a fake
027it to be a fake gun, but pull a >> We were we were going to do that during like the active shooter training. >> Okay. Just to make sure Yeah. See how the system picks it up. 100%. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> Because John Ross is real good at the details of that. I'm a hands-on person, so I like I want to see it. >> Is it any weapons? Any sort of weapon, or is it only specific weapons? >> It's a firearm detection system. >> It's not It's not knives. It's not any other things, but it it would be like long guns, handguns. >> Would So, is this like a entire is it intertwined with our camera system then? So the AI will be basically in our camera systems trying to detect firearms. Correct. And
028then it'll flag it and send it to the police department said, right? >> Yes. >> So does the police department have someone that's monitoring that or is it just like an alert that pops up and it's like it would be more or less if we called 911 and said we have an incident of whatever concern and then they would respond to that in that manner. So, is that electronic feed to the police department? That I don't know. But it would be it would be an emergency in the most emergency way you can think possible and it would go directly to our local police department so that they can act on as quickly as possible. >> So, is it more of a reactive system then? It's when something's happening or is it preventative? >> It's a
029preventative system and that's that's why I brought that up earlier. So I thank you for bringing that up and the way it becomes preventative is so going through these exercises and we've been talking with the zero eyes and we talked to another platform called evolve as well and zero eyes was uh a little less expensive but zero eyes was the one that was actually approved by the state of Michigan with the grant. So, we decided to go with him. And one of the things that we learned was that the average school shooting uh it takes about seven minutes per response. A lot of a lot can happen in seven minutes. Whereas, if you have your eyes on something, then Oh, I'm sorry. No. The average school shooting doesn't start for about seven minutes. So, what
030they found is that on average a school shooter or it could be somebody going into a store or anything. They will brandish a firearm seven minutes on average prior to an instant incident actually occurring. They're mentally preparing. They're they're physically preparing, loading, whatever they need to do. Ain't talking about this. I'm sorry. And so that se what we're trying to do is take that seven minute process >> and we're we're bringing that down to seconds. And again, that's that 3 to 5 seconds that it takes the human to say the AI picked up something. >> Yeah, I agree. That's a firearm. Let's get somebody on site as soon as possible. Not only that, but one of the things that we didn't talk about is that they can inform the officer which camera that or which
031lens that they saw that at. >> And so I I think part of that training is visually doing that with our our local law enforcement to let them know that if they said camera 13, they know which quarter that's in, they know which room that's in or they know which area outside it's in. So it it's part of the training is just getting everybody on the same page. with the same terminology. And again, taking that seven minutes from when an incident may start to 3 to 5 seconds. And if if an officer gets there within one minute in that case, because we know how close they are to us, then we've essentially taken off that average six minutes at the end. He may be able to prevent something from even starting. And >> I don't
032know if you remember, but when we initially picked the vicata cameras, this was part of the reason that we went with them is because we can keep adding on, adding on, adding on. We don't need to say, "Oh, now we like this system better." Then we now we have to start over with this system. The other thing was is that we chose Vicata and the police department had cameras and they ended up choosing Vicata because we had Vicata, too. And now they have access to our cameras. So the minute they get the call, you know, the the police will be sent. However, the dispatcher can pull it up and say, you know, it's it's it's this person. They're wearing a no shirt. They have this kind of tennis shoes on and it's constant constant feeding
033feeding feeding information. >> Is this also going to be located at our like athletic fields and for like sporting events or whatnot? Like are there cameras? >> There's cameras outside the school. >> Nothing at the aletic. Yeah. nothing at the athletic analysis. We It was something that we talked about doing in the future. Uh for example, football field outside the high school at the time didn't have a data connection, but with last year's - we just finished up that project. So now there is fiber out to the press box and and so we're capable now of putting out something like that. Uh, I guess the the downside to that is there's an onoff switch to power down that whole press box. And so there there's no backup to that system. So unless we're leaving everything
034powered on all the time, then it's not really very useful. >> Okay. >> And again, I just want to clarify like anywhere that has our BATA camera system, this is going to be working with that. >> Yes. Anywhere in a school building. Uh, it wouldn't be if you see cameras here, it wouldn't be here. Um and then if if we end up putting some cameras on the outside and Taylor parks for the next school year, it wouldn't include them at this time. >> Okay. >> Can this system initiate the boot system like the zero eyes? Can it initiate a lockdown? >> It cannot. However, we have the tablets and all the schools and so it's a oneb button access to to start a lockdown. So as soon as something like that occurs then we could
035do that. Now I have talked to engineers over at the blue company and we've discussed the uh the option of potentially mirroring the two systems but because of the way that the systems that we purchased they're all Bluetooth uh rather than actually on our wireless or wired network. There's really no integration point there. uh we do want to do that and do want to follow up with them over the years as their equipment gets better and maybe we integrate that into our systems but we've talked about it. It's just not something that we're capable of doing at this moment. But yes, in a perfect world, we want all citizens to talk, right? >> Again, that's another reason why we want in the first place. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> I do want to
036say as well like um the current budget proposals are being put forward in uh Lancing on what's going to go into school aid, what's going to come in future grants. Um there seems to be some proposals out there to further add money for school security. Um so there are potential avenues in the future that might open themselves to cover some of these costs uh by grant by uh instead of general fund. uh we can't say that for sure because it's you know depends on what they decide in Lancing but uh there seems to be a commitment to uh still funding some things for school security >> because because once like this is just the next step for us and and we have other things that we would like to later on when we get money
037to do and that would be like Verata they have an alarm system that we can tie in that actually would is would be even better than the price would be better than what we pay now for alarms But we want to do one thing at a time. >> Yep. >> Maybe maybe we want to do two things at a time. I'll probably be talking to you guys in two weeks about that. >> Just waiting on some final books. So that that's kind of the finale of this whole project is integrating some of that stuff in there as well. Many of our schools have barely a handful of motion detectors in them. This would make almost every camera on campus a motion detector, which increases the level of exposure if somebody got into the building. And
038again, uh the authorities can be called first or we can be called first. Uh in our case, we don't want to get the authorities involved on false positives. So, we'd be able to see the camera who was in there first just to make sure they're not one of our own. And then if we verify that, then we get the police involved. It could cut down on police cost coming out to the buildings, too. >> I'll see you in two weeks about that. >> Yeah. Well, and I'll say, too, like because I know we all sat in a demonstration of this and it was pretty impressive to see, you know, in action of where the AI picked up something like whether it was uh in somebody's code, whether it was something they were brandishing, and it
039was pretty quick that the people behind the scenes uh identified and made a call of that is or isn't. So, just in your guys' thoughts, you felt that was pretty accurate. Like, I thought it was when I watch it, but I just want your your thoughts, too. So, >> yeah, >> we're going to see it in action when Zero Eyes comes out, get the system up and running. Their engineers will be on site to do their own testing with test pistols, that sort of thing. Uh, and then like Michelle said, when we do our training with the FA Police Department, they'll be able to do the same thing. make sure that it's it's not just again that it's actually working for us. >> Anybody else? >> No. >> Thank you. Thank you, Michelle and John.
040>> All right. Number three, curriculum development proposal. And that's Emily Graham again. Hello again. Um I am here to share uh that we would like to develop a new K5 uh math curriculum. Um we have had everyday math um in the district since 20 2008 and I which is 16 years and I remember its implementation because I was here in the early literacy facilitator uh capacity when Liz Bidd was hired to help implement that. So, um, it's time, uh, everyday math is built on the on a spiral foundation, which relies heavily on the fact that students have received all of their instruction in previous years and it builds upon itself. Um, you'll hear when people talk about everyday math to trust the spiral. Um, which means that they may the teacher may not have introduced
041a specific topic, but that you're you have good faith that it has been introduced in the past. our chronic absenteeism and our transient population has really um does not lend itself for that curriculum to be very successful. Um so it was necessary for us to pivot. So over the past seven months we've had 35 classrooms piloting two different math programs reveal mathematics and I Ready classroom mathematics. The teachers received training. They implemented the programs into their classrooms and they met to discuss the pros and cons of both programs. The teachers were then given a vote for which program would be the best fit for Taylor. With a 66 to 28 vote, I Ready Math um I Ready Mathematics, the comprehensive program with a multiaceted approach to teaching and learning was the overall winner. Um so
042I'm asking for permission to adopt that uh curriculum today. Are there any questions, comments? Okay, thank you, Miss Graham. Um, now we'll hear from our CFO at Winter Hall Workman's Comp. Thank you. Okay, so this is the district's excess workman's comp insurance. Um, it's a $5 million limit. The policy effective date is from July 1st, 2023 and it ends on July 1st, 2025. Uh, this payment of 68,535 is the second payment of the policy premium. the district has already paid the first um premium amount of 68,000 and we still owe an additional 68,000 for the policy. And so I am coming to ask for permission to pay the second policy amount in the amount of $68,535. A little bit more about this policy. The minimum retention amount is 2.9 million. Aggregate loss limitation is 600,000.
043Aggregate limit of the policy is 5 million. Did anybody have any questions? Okay. Hearing none. Thank you, Adana. Okay, with all the discussion items out of the way, Mr. Wright, would you take away the action items? Moving on to item number eight, action items. First up, we have moving services policy 6320. It is recommended the board of education approve and enter into a standard move contractor agreement with Oregon moving services pending final negotiation of terms by district legal counsel. The total contract amount for this work will not will be not to exceed $16,522. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Heath. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. Thomas. Mr. Heath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Meyers? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Miss Shufeld? >> Yes. >>
044Mr. Wright is yes. Miss Block. >> Yes. >> That carries 70. Item number two, zero eyes firearm detection policy 6320 is recommended the board of education approve the three-year agreement with zero eyes. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Meyers. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. Heath. Mr. Meyers? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Missel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ray? Yes. Miss Block? >> Yes. >> Mr. Heed? >> Yes. >> That carries 70. Item number three, elementary curriculum proposal policy 311. It is recommended the board of education approve the curriculum proposal for K5 I ready classroom mathematics. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Meyers. Is there support? >> Support by Mrs. Thomas. Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Miss Shufeld.
045>> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Block. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers? >> Yes. >> That carries 70. Item number four, workers compensation. It is recommended the board of education approve the 2023 through 2025 access workers compensation payment not to exceed $68,535. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Myers. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. Heat. Mr. or Mrs. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Miss Shupel. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Block. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heed. >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers. >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. That carries 70. >> Superintendent report. >> Good evening everybody. Um first off um I want to give a huge shout out a thank you to everyone involved uh with putting on law day. So that
046involved a lot of people today. um from Judge Shackleford, her staff, the staff at the courthouse, the police department, Michigan State Police, Wayne County Sheriff, FBI, City of Taylor, um and Miss Emily Graham, and our elementary principles and staffs for making this happen today. I had the pleasure of making it over there, uh towards the end of the event, um and see the last group from Randall kind of go through the different stations. Uh the students were really treated to um seeing a lot of what goes into law enforcement and a lot of the different tools and things that they use from whether it be the equestrian division from the sheriff's department for or the robots that are used for going in for detecting uh bomb threats and uh used by the bomb squad. So
047it was quite an extensive item. Uh, and the thing that really spoke to me being the former social studies teacher that I am is when they did come up and go to Judge Shackleford's courtroom and they went through an actual exercise of electing uh, leaders and they really geared it to our third grade students of saying they were going to elect the mayor of Bikini Bottom. And it was uh, various characters from Spongebob that were on the ballot. Uh, so it really spoke to where they were at. She did a great job of saying like these are the rules. Like how many of you here and seven years old at least well that's how old you're going to have to be to vote today which really expressed that point of what we know as you
048know being 18 years old is the where you get that right to vote. So just a great experience overall for our students and so many different people went into that work today and I thank each and every one of them because it was a great time for all of them. Uh the other last thing I want to mention today is uh this has becomes a very busy time of year in our schools with uh going out and celebrating all the great things that our our kids do and all their accomplishments. Um I know it started for me a couple weeks ago when I was working with the teacher cadet program and I told all the seniors in the room I said get ready. This is just the start of many handshakes and certificates and things
049that you're going to be handed. Um, but what goes along with that is in all this time of celebrating those good things, I do want to encourage our students that they need to uh celebrate these accomplishments, but do it responsibly. Um, this is a time where we do see increases in uh some poor decision-m and we don't want to see any of those kind of tragedies. So celebrate, enjoy. You did some great things. You have great accomplishments that you are going out to celebrate, but remember to do so responsibly and safely. And I want to put that message out particularly to our seniors as we go through this season. >> Thank you, Mr. Wagger. Mr. Wright, consent agenda. >> Item number 10, consent agenda, policy 0166.1 and policy 6470. First, we have minutes from the
050April 17th, 2024 regular board meeting. Second, we have consolidated items, payment of current bills, certified, non-certified administrative reports, and request to hires. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Meyers. Is there support? >> Support by Mr. Thomas. Miss Shufelt? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Blot, >> yes. >> Mr. Heed, >> yes. >> Mr. Myers, >> yes. >> Mr. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. That carries 70. items scheduled for the next agenda which will be next week, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. We will have good news and our student representatives will be from Holland Elementary. Public comment >> just a correction that stuff will be on May 16 15 >> May 8th is a special board. >> Yeah, but we said we could have good news and student representatives. So, thank
051you All right, public comment. Thank you to all who are able to be here with us tonight and online tonight. We understand the importance of continuing to keep all 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 name 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
052to monitor their own time and know when to conclude. So all who wish to speak will have an equal an 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. Are there any person to wish to address the board? I'm Lynette. I'm gonna try to get uh what I have to say in three minutes. Um but first I want to just say um I Oh, I'm Lynette. 7287 Mayfair Street, Taylor, Michigan. Um I just wanted to say that um I really appreciate the student cadet program and Miss Roberts. It is amazing. Um my daughter is super excited about going into education. um she was
053up here talking like a few weeks ago, but I just want to say how great that program is because she did not know what she wanted to do in her 10th grade year. She went into the student cadet program, loved it. So, I just want to like push that program. That's amazing. And Mr. Roberts is amazing. Um the other thing I wanted to say is the robotics team was amazing as well. Um Sam, who was talking to you today, is also in music. Um, she also is the tech person in Greece. Um, for drama. Um, so music spreads far and wide. Um, that's why I'm a big supporter of that. Um, um, so is Grace. Actually, the other person that was talking, she's in chorus. So, just FYI. The other thing that I wanted to
054say is like, um, I had sent a letter. I had come up here before to ask for, you know, kind of like a budget and, um, I know that Mr. Ror has put that in. I requested him to put that in. And also Miss Moore, the course teacher, I don't know if she has done that yet, but I know Mr. Waroric has, but we're going to send out a letter of like what the boosters do. Um, we've actually put in a lot of time, money, and effort this year of trying to help students. Um some things we wanted to also thank the Taylor Foundation because they also send um our choir and band students to see plays which is amazing. We got to see Wicked um which is cool. So we we thank them for
055sponsoring the music program as well here. um things that we've done um that we're going to put out a letter just so that we together we have 150 to 200 students in the program. Um uh things that we have bought was for the awards for the 2023 and 2024 um uh which is like $600. We've also uh done the wars for choir which is $472. Music for uh competitions. We also pay for them to go to the competitions which is $627. Accompaniment for that is $900. Um sitdown competition $600. We also helped last year students to go to band camp up to $6,000. Um, marching band supplies, some of the supplies, color guard, needed a sound system. We did that. $150 halftime props, drum wraps because, you know, we got a hodge podge of both
056high schools. So, they they don't match. So, when you march with that, looks terrible. So, we paid for that, which is $872. Pit supplies, uh, $469. Halftime show was $1,600. drum major camp. It I mean it goes on and on with a total of $19,551. Um what I'm asking for is to pay for music for the marching band program which is $1,000 and the show is $2,600 and that would also help each student uh decrease the cost. So that's kind of what I'm here for. um and pay for I know the budget's going in, but that music is we have to buy it by Monday, which is $1,000. And the drill is due by August. So, it's next year, but we have to buy it this year because practice starts May 21st. Jennifer Ferguson Bearinger
05723636 Irving. Um, just to expand on what Lynette was just talking about that it basically the boosters and that's not counting all of the donations that we've gotten from our wonderful businesses around our um parents that that have put in money for we we did breakfast for the kids on some of the competition days. We've done packed lunches for the kids because a lot of these kids when they come they don't have a meal and stuff so you know when and they're gone all day for competition. So we make it we've been making it a point of trying to feed our kids and everything. So that $20,000 was all strictly out of booster money that we've done fundraising for for um so it would definitely help if we can get some assistance. Um band camp
058this year has gone up. It's $650 a child and we've got multiple families that have multiple kids in it. So if we could get some help with that and knock that cost down. We're doing fundraisers left and right to try to help the kids to raise some money for it and stuff, but anything we could get it would it would absolutely help. Um, I also wanted to say thank you to everybody who's helped me out over the last couple of weeks where we've been trying to recruit for marching band and I everybody's been helping with like sharing the flyers and the information and stuff and I really appreciate everyone's help at all of the schools and the board office and Mr. Wagger and Shauna and stuff for getting all of that information out there because
059it it really helps so that we can share it across all those platforms and reach as many of our students as we can. Um, and if anyone's free next Wednesday at Henry Ford, I'm sorry, not Henry Ford, Wayne County Community College here on North Line, um, we have our final band concert of the season for the high school. Um, it starts at either 6 or 6:30. I'm not sure right this minute. 6:30. But you guys are welcome to join us. Thank you. >> Thank you ladies. >> Good evening. Bob Simpson, 8510 Williams. Some of you've already seen me a couple times up here over the last year and a half. Just wondering, is there a a resource that I should be reading to find out where the new high school status is as far as
060Are we going to make a budget? I know the answer to that already. Um, when are we breaking ground? When are we bidding? Things of that nature. Simple stuff. I'm up here just as a local resident, but I'm telling you, people are wondering out there for $130 million bond. Uh, the stuff that was mentioned before by Plaran Crescent is not even nickel dime. That's penny antique type stuff. This high school hopefully is a great marquee for the district and I'm wishing you great things. Thank you. Is there a place that I should be looking for this information? >> I can reach out to you and provide that information but I will gladly uh Sha electronically. >> Yeah. And you submitted it to Shauna when you for coming up today. Correct. >> I did but I'll
061send it to you electronically tomorrow. Okay. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Thank you. Are there any more in person? Are there any online, Sean? Oh, okay. >> Adjournment to close session. Miss >> item number 13, adjournment to close session policy 0137.2 pursuant to Michigan's open meetings act being published act 267 of 1976. And as amended, I move the board convene in close session pursuant to 8H material exempt for from disclosure by state and federal statute. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Myers. Is there support? >> Support by Miss Shel. >> Mr. Wright is a yes. Miss Block. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Myers? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Missel? >> Yes. >> That carries 70. The board will go into close
062session at 7:27 p.m. >> Okay, we are back from close session at 9:55. We have action after close session. Mr. Right. >> Our action item after close session whereas article >> uh so our action after close session is where whereas articles two and three of the Michigan Teachers Tenure Act includes notice requirements regarding the non-renewal of probationary teachers and whereas the board desires to provide notice to of non-renewal to minimallyffect effective and ineffective probationary teachers. Therefore, the board authorizes administration to provide notice to minimally effective and ineffective probationary teachers of non-renewal pursuant to articles two and three of Michigan's teachers tenure act. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mrs. Thomas. Is there support? >> Support by Miss BL. >> Yes. Mr. Keane, >> yes. >> Mr. Meyers, >> yes. >> Mr. Thomas, >> yes.
063>> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Miss Shupel, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright is yes. That carries 70. >> Okay. Board member comments. >> Uh, just congratulations. Box Pink. That's pretty awesome. >> Yep. That was cool. And, uh, congrat came in first, second, and third. >> Yep. And congratulations to the golf team last Friday. They ended up uh tying for seventh or eighth place out of 36 teams um in a tournament down in Riverview. So, they're doing good things. >> Great job. >> Um I just want to give a shout out to the drama club. Uh this past weekend was their performance of Greece and me and Miss Sheel attended. >> It was awesome. >> It was a really really cool performance and extremely well attended. There was about 150 attendees they said that rolled through
064and were at the actual play. So it was I mean wallto-wall people very warm inside of there. >> Very warm but it was >> very very very packed feel support for the kids. So it was awesome. >> Awesome. >> Okay. I just like to remind everybody that uh graduation and all the senior events are creeping up on us. It's May 1st. It's also teacher appreciation month. So if you appreciate your teacher, tell them about it. Um, but the parade is a lot of fun and also that is the same day as Special Olympics and if you want to volunteer for that, please do so. Anybody else? Okie dokie. I'll take motion for adjournment. >> Motion. >> Oh, did I make Mr. Heath. >> Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Thomas. >> Mr. Heath?
065>> Yes. >> Mr. Meyers? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Shufelt? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright? >> Yes. >> Miss Black is a yes. That carries 70. We are adjourned at 9:58 p.m.