001Okay, >> welcome everyone to the Taylor School District readily scheduled board meeting of November 6, 2024 where our mission statement is to educate, engage, and empower those we serve. And our mission state our vision statement is that we will be the innovative destination district where all succeed. This meeting is called to order at 6:01 p.m. Miss Block is here. Mr. Heath >> here. >> Mr. Morris >> here. >> Mr. Thomas >> here. >> Mrs. Thomas is absent. Mrs. Shufelt >> here. >> Mr. Wright is absent. We have five in attendance. Everyone will please stand and face the flag for the pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> All right. On the
002agenda tonight, there are board and discussion items. Are there any revisions of the agenda? Hearing none. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as stated? >> Motion by Mr. Heath. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Morris. >> Mr. Heath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas isn't here. Ms. Shoefelt. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright isn't here. Miss Blackazy. Yes. That carries 50. Number four on the agenda, scheduled reports. Our first one up, the 2023 2024 Taylor and Morgan annual audit report. Michael McKenzie, Taylor and Morgan partners. >> Good evening. My name is Mike McKenzie. I am with Taylor and Morgan. We have a brief PowerPoint presentation to go over the financials. everyone has a printed copy. We also have PDFs. If printed things are
003are not for you, um, read through it. If you have questions that I'm not going to cover because there's many pages that are not reflective in here, reach out to me. The, uh, business office knows how to get a hold of me. Uh, please ask questions. Uh, so the 2023 2024 financial statements. Um most important part is the opinion. Uh we issued an unmodified opinion. That's the best you could possibly do. It is basically the standard. We would not be issuing a report that didn't have one, but that's what we want. Uh we audit you guys under generally accepted auditing standards and then governmental auditing standards because you are a local government. The biggest thing that we always pay attention to is enrollment. The vast majority of the money you get is reflective of kids
004coming in and out. You know, for many years, I should drag this uh out longer. Uh but you guys had been kind of declining. You picked some up. That's great because next slide. The state foundation allowance is how you get a lot of your money and it's finally starting to go up. Some schools broke $10,000 this past year, which is great. Um, as I'm sure you're all aware, all the fun federal programs are over. There's no more Esser money. Uh, you're probably not going to see anything fun like that. So, this is where most of your funding is going to come from, which is how it was precoid, and we're just going back to that. Uh so in terms of where your money came from, like like I said, the vast majority, 45% comes from
005that foundation allowance of money to do with whatever you please. Uh there's a piece of that pie that is also property taxes. You know, the state kind of sets a standard. Whatever you collect in property taxes kind of gets taken out of your state aid piece. Works the same for everyone. And then you have the various restricted uh state grants, federal grants, things like that. Um, but for the most part, you're looking at state money. So, where do we spend our money? You guys are in the business of employing people to teach kids. Uh, 85% goes to salaries and benefits. That number has creeped up from what was 75% for like everyone forever. And everyone's seeing it go up mostly because of the retirement rates and things like that there. you know, for every dollar
006of payroll you spend, 35 cents goes to pensions. That's a lot of that's a lot of money. Um, everything else is very much ancillary to your payroll. >> Next one. >> Uh, so where do we land? General fund. You know, since COVID, you guys have been steadily adding to fund balance. That was I believe a a planned thing of you know there were programs that allowed you to supplant that previously that was a big no no. Uh so we have built up a war chest of thing of of money that will hopefully keep us going for a time being. So we we over over we spent what we received which is great which has allowed us to build up this really nice healthy fund balance. Next one. Um, how we like to kind of like
007look at this in a reasonable way is what what does this mean compared to other schools? So, we can only look at a year ago um with what the state provides us. But fund balance as a percentage of expenditures, most schools had 22%. Which is enough money to fund your operations for 40 days. You guys were at 38 39%. So, you had about 70 days of cash or your resources on hand to to spend your bills. Um, it's like someone who has a $75,000 income having 30 grand in their savings account, which is a substantial amount of money for someone making $75,000. The next one, um, biggest number that you really see on your balance sheet there is, uh, due from other governments. Your year end is in June. State aid rolls through the next
008two months. you have collections, things like that. So, basically, the year ends, but it's not really over. And we collect back this money. It's a substantial, you know, $20 million. A lot of money that kind of floats out there, but in line with your operations, in line with everything that you do, we're not dragging things out further. Nothing to be worried about. Just a really big number. to the next one. Uh, food service is the thing we always keep fairly close eye on just because you will get nasty grants from the state if you are keeping too much fund balance, things like that. You guys were, you know, budgeting right where you need to be. Uh, you guys have always been pretty good on that one. You'll find out from the state very quickly if
009you're not uh spending your money appropriately there. >> Next one. Uh, special you guys run your special education and your uh restricted things in separate funds. Uh, so what we do is kind of keep track of every year of like what are you bringing in on special ed, what are you spending out, what's kind of going back and forth. This year you guys were very close. I think it was in the order of like $100,000 instead of $500,000 that went back into the general fund with the special ed big picture stuff. Pop over to the next one. the retirement rate um like I was saying you know the a huge amount of your payroll burden then that was 31% is going to this unfunded misters liability you know they still owe a bunch of money
010this year I mean if anyone's actually looking year-over-year great for you the other postmployment health benefit like the health insurance part is overfunded now because they are contractually obligated to put this money in this bucket this money in that bucket and they put too much money in that bucket, but they can't do anything with it yet. I think they're still attempting to figure out how they're going to even these things out. But we have a positive number instead of a liability. Not anything that's really going to be meaningful because you have no control over any of these things. You, if you look at the front of your financial statements, you have a huge liability, hundreds of millions of dollars. That is your portion of what the state owes to all the retirees. You're never going
011to pay the money. You pay it in that little 30 cents per dollar thing, but you have to show it on your financial statements. It just makes it all look confusing. I don't understand why they did it, but them's the rules. And so, that's what we have to do. And really, this is a big problem because we pop over to the next slide. Our retired teachers are kind of coasting out and the number of teachers since kind of COVID started is angling down. So, you have far fewer people, I mean, this is the problem with every pension that exists at this point. You have far fewer people putting money into the system than taking money out. The number of people taking money out isn't coming down at all. Don't expect it to come down anytime
012soon. And this is why you spend 30 cents on every dollar on this thing. And what the real rub is, you know, we I was talking earlier about, you know, the state foundation allowance going up. They give you a ton of money every year to turn around and hand it back to them. They give you a huge uh mipers onetime credits and stabilization funds. All all this money, billions of dollars that could be used to do other things that really just gets handed to you. You recognize it. You turn around and write a check about 5 days later to give it back. It just is, you know, it's like I said, it's this thing you don't have any control over, but it has a huge impact on your financials. Uh, and it makes doing a
013real analysis of what you have going on in terms of expenses and revenues and liabilities, it makes it feel weird because there's all these things that you have no control over. It's not your spending. U, but that's it's what we got to show. Cool. Next one. No real big accounting changes this year. Um, we adopted a accounting changes and error correction, which is not terribly relevant. You guys didn't do anything. uh if we have to make changes, they've just changed the way in which we do it. But we did it, so not a huge deal. I think that's all I've got unless there are questions. There are no big pool upcoming Gazsby announcements. Fairly standard year. You know, I thought everything went really well. Um yeah, you know, we we we've talked about before, you
014know, the way that you guys spend the ESR money, you built up fund balance. Now you have to figure out how you're going to live in that esserree world. I don't see any more federal money coming down the pipeline to you. You know, the state has been doing very small targeted grants and you guys have been I mean we have a ton of little they just give you money sometimes. You don't even know what it's for. Um that is where most of the funding is coming at this point. I don't see a lot of new stuff coming. I believe uh yeah I mean that's really it. I don't know of any new big programs that are happening. So, does anyone have any questions about the audit, the audit process? Anything like that? >> No questions.
015Anybody? >> Do you have anything to throw on? like he said, we have a lot of restricted grant money that we just have to >> figure out how to implement and support, you know, the programs of the school district, which is a wonderful thing. >> Y and it it's >> it's grant money. >> It's a it's every school in the district. Everyone's getting money with then being handed the problem of, okay, now figure out how to spend it. At at risk has been a problem for years with a lot of schools where they're carrying millions of dollars where they're giving you money. So every month they give you half a million dollars in at risk. That's probably wildly wrong for you. But if you don't spend it like you still got it and you don't
016give it back, you just kind of like carry it forward in this number forever. And schools are very consistent. I can spend exactly this much money. and the state completely disregards that and just says, "Well, I'm going to give you more, but you can't just spend more because it's so it's so narrow as to what you can do with it. So, it it's a problem because it does build up your fund balance. You have money. It's in your fund balance. It's in that number we talked about, but you can't just spend it on whatever you want." Um, so keeping an eye on that stuff, making sure that if they're giving it to you, you're spending it down. Great. uh you know concerns for next year very minimal. year very minimal. We're going back to We're
017going back to the normal federal the normal federal programs where programs where everyone knows exactly everyone knows exactly what they're what they're supposed to do. There's no supposed to do. There's no question as question as to what title one money is to what title one money is or isn't or or isn't or title two or any of these title two or any of these other things. other things. Child nutrition is going Child nutrition is going to continue to continue being what it is. No being what it is. No surprises. surprises. Hopefully Hopefully nice easy audits after co I can't wait. >> So do we. uh you know concerns for next >> So do we. We hope this nice easy audit continues for years to come. >> Right. Yes. I I would like no more crazy
018federal programs where they give people millions of dollars to say we don't know how you should spend it. You figure out how you should spend it and then I have to come in and figure out if you did it right. Yeah. It's not fun. So yeah, if anyone comes up with questions, my contact information is in there. Dr. Hill has my contact information. Michael has my contact information. Please contact me if you have questions about stuff. I'm more than happy always to talk with you guys about whatever it is going on. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. McKenzie. >> Have a great night. >> Thank you. >> Your next schedule report is workers comp presentation. Peter Clark, our attorney from the Snooki, Curts, Damler, and McCabry. Uh, >> whoever wants to go first. Yeah. Do
019we have any Do we have a way of getting Mia up so we we can hear what she's saying? >> Is she online? >> Zoom. >> Yeah, she's on the Zoom. Yeah. >> Does she need to raise her hand? >> I believe she's in already. Let's see. >> Hi everyone. Can you hear me? >> Yeah. Yes. Okay. >> Awesome. Yeah. Perfect. >> So, thank you all for the opportunity uh come out tonight. If had asked us to come and talk to you a little bit about our work works comp program and the long-standing relationship Taylor schools and Gallagher along with along with me Brian Clark were kind of the main contacts for anything on the brokerage side. Uh Mia from our third party administrator uh Gallagher Basset is on the line and we have here
020as well. So we appreciate um the opportunity. So I'm going to start just by giving a quick overview of kind of what workers comp is. I'll keep it high level so as not to put anyone to sleep last night watching the results. So it was pretty pretty entertaining, I'll tell you that. Um, so along with our program, um, there there's a brokerage aspect. We place coverage for the school district. Um, Brian will touch on that, but work comp really is is this feedback? Is that better? Um, so I want to touch on just a few things. It wind given us a kind of a some bullet points. Uh, how do they qualify? So, how how does one qualify? You qualify for workers comp by having an injury that arises in and out of the course
021and scope of their duties. So there has to be a causal relationship to what they how they were injured and there also has to be in the course and scope of their duties. That can be it's fairly broadly defined. Um but the work work comp is kind of governed by the statute. The state of Michigan uh it's been around since 1912. So before that injured workers could go back and and sue their employer became kind of hard to to recover kind of clunky through the legal system. So they cleaned it up. So now it's really a no fault system. Similar auto in a way and in exchange for that the employer only or the employee only gets a portion of their wage. So they get a limited amount they can collect. Uh usually it's 67%
022and it's an average weekly wage kind of the top 39. It's an average of 39 or 52 week uh weeks worked. Um workers comp really covers four components. It covers wage loss, medical benefits, dis uh retirement or I mean rehabilitation and death benefits if that is the case. Unfortunately, we don't see a lot of schools thankfully, but we've had a few. If it ever happens here at Taylor, just so you know, um or any of related school districts, um you do have to report it to OSHA as well. you have eight days to report that they get pretty upset. Even if it's not a workrelated injury, any deaths on campus, it's always good to keep the folks good folks at OSHA involved. Um, just a little sidebar. Couple other quick things when it comes to
023wages, there's a schedule for how they get paid. So, days 1 to 7, um, typically there's, if they call it a waiting period, on the eth day, their wage benefits begin. um if it goes beyond 14 days, it's an automatic payment. Employees continue to get um the TPA will kind of come up with reserves and they're going to tell you on that. I think that's a big part of the presentation today. Um as far as benefits go, uh benefits under work comp in Michigan are for life. So if there's to be an injury at the workplace, it's for life. Um, a couple benefits that we have as an employer or you guys have as an employer, uh, you can choose and direct their care for the first 28 days. Typically, that's done at a local
024clinic, an occupational health clinic. Um, a lot of benefits to that as far as directing care, making sure they're getting appropriate treatment for their injury so we can get them back to work. Ultimately, we want to get employees back to work. That's that's the big goal here. um we can direct that for 28 days. After 28 days, they can choose to go elsewhere, but it doesn't always get that place, but occasionally we see it. Um when it comes to financing, there's typically two ways we see it in public ed. I've been in I've been in public ed for 20 years now. Um we usually see first dollar programs or a self-insured type program. And you guys are currently a self- insurance program. Uh Brian's going to touch on how that works. And a couple things
025I just wanted to touch on when I give anytime I give a presentation on like a work comp 101 to people who are new to schools or new to the industry. Um there's four things that really kind of I encourage employers to focus on. So the first being um promptly report your claims. So make sure there's a process in place so employees know that if they're injured on a job they have to report their claim. Um insurance uses the terms promptly. It's uh it's it's an interesting kind of generic term um but it's within a reason of time. Um the longer a claim goes on uh the worse they typically get. So in my experience um you know we we track lag time reporting we call it. So we'll we can let you know if
026your employees or if you guys as an employer are reporting in a timely fashion. Uh so we want to make sure we have that. Um promporia claims kind of delays a chain reaction. the longer a claim goes, typically the worse the injury gets, the greater the cost to the district. And if especially when we're self-insured, we want to make sure we avoid that those higher costs. Um there are statistics out there if a plane if a if a claim goes unreported um longer than four weeks, that cost is going to go up 45%. Um significant. So the numbers bear it out. Um, the other big three success factors is pick pick a clinic that you can work with, understand, have a relationship with them. If you guys have issues as you go along this endeavor
027uh with your clinic, reach out, let us know, let GB know. We'll we'll make sure we get that helped out. Um, the other last two are kind of relevant to the f latter part of the discussion here. Um, a return to work program. If if if an employer can can start off with a return to work program to bring employees back um I think we all look at it as well why would I pay an employee to come back if he's already getting wages um really makes them feel included makes the transition back a lot easier. Doesn't have to be to their original job. Um they could come and maybe they could sort papers for the board meetings. I don't know. We've had hall monitors. have famous stories of, you know, injured employees. Um, especially
028like during COVID and, you know, before we all had all this security, but we'd have big green lounge chairs set up in in the lobby just kind of as a security checkpoint. So, there's a lot of things people can do, you know, picking up paper clips, I don't know, we have we have a lot of jobs we can do, answering phones, things like that. I kind of make light of it because I you get skeptical a little bit in the word comp world, but um, and the last thing is communication. So when I say communication, it's typically communication between the employer, the employee um the employer uh the TPA and the employer and um our legal counsel really really is important, really helps u makes things go smoothly, makes everyone feel involved and make sure
029there's no misunderstandings because again we want to get people back to work. So that's kind of my quick 101. It's an hour presentation in like six minutes. So uh feel feel free to ask any questions as we go. Right. >> Thank you, Travis. So, my name is Brian Pierce and I work for Gallagher with Travis on the brokerage side. So, we actually help place the insurance for the workers compensation. Would you mind advancing the slides, please? >> Thank you. So, to kind of jump off of Travis's point, we'll talk a little bit about who the parties are involved, uh, who we are. We'll talk a little bit about your program, how the premium is calculated via payroll. We'll talk about the coverage structure and kind of what the actual limits look like for your program.
030And then GB will jump in and talk a little bit about claim reserving. And then Peter was going to talk a little bit about uh some timeliness and penalties for late reporting. So up top, Arthur J. Gallagher, that's Travis and I. We are the broker. We place the coverage on your behalf. The next group there is Gallagher Basset. That's a different division of Gallagher and they're your TPA. So they handle the claims on your behalf. And then the last group there is your defense attorney for defending the district for the work complex. There's really two main parts to a workers's compensation policy. There's a workers compensation part. So that's part A and that's exactly what we think about injured workers on the job. And then there's another portion part B which is called employer's liability.
031That employer's liability is for cases where we are grossly negligent. Uh the kind of example that comes to mind immediately is if we had maybe a a building a vacant building and there were all the things conditions that are prevalent in vacant buildings like uh mold and asbestous and things like that. If we knew about the condition of that building and we sent an employee in anyway and we didn't give them the proper PPE and they got injured, that's a textbook employer's liability claim. So, two separate parts of the workers compensation policy. Uh the states included here are Michigan and then your program has a $400,000 self-insured retention. So, we talk about your policy being self-insured as opposed to a first dollar program and we say that, but it's really protected self- insurance. So, you
032are responsible for the first $400,000 of each and every claim and then after that it jumps into our limits with uh the two insurance companies on the program. We talked a little bit about uh kind of how the policy is structured, but how it's priced is based on payroll. So payroll and then it's broken out into class codes. And class codes are determined kind of by the risk level of each kind of category. So the bulk of your payroll is in the professional class code that has the lowest rate. I'm sorry, clerical has the lowest rate, but professional is also a very low rate. Um, and then kind of in risk level, people like your garage employees or your janitorial, those folks are going to have a little bit higher rate per $100 of payable.
033So that's kind of how the premium is calculated. And then this is how your coverage is actually structured graphically. So on the left side is your workers compensation piece. And like we said, you are responsible for the first $400,000 of each and every claim. And then the Gray Insurance Company comes in and they provide the next $200,000 in limit. And then Bridge Access Solutions comes in and provides the additional limit on top of that. And to Travis's point, the workers compensation coverage is statutory in the state, so set by the state. Uh, and then the other piece of this is that employer's liability. So, you're responsible for the first $400,000. Then gray comes in with the next $200,000 followed by bridge for the next million. And then that box over on the right, the green
034box, is called your loss fund. So, you don't fund your loss fund directly, but you can't spend more than $2.9 million in claims in a given year through that self-insured retention. So, it would have to be a catastrophic year, really, really bad year. But there is a stop loss in this program to stop, you know, a really, really bad situation from occurring. And with that, I will turn it over to Mia. Before I do that, does anyone have any questions regarding the coverage that you have? >> Thank you for having us. >> Thank you. Sorry about that. I muted myself not realizing um I couldn't unmute myself again. Um good evening everyone. Uh thank you again for having me. Um as Travis and Brian have kindly introduced me. Uh my name is Mia Mackis and
035I am the client service manager um within Gallagher basket for Taylor school district. Um I also have the pleasure of working with Dr. Hill and Taylor on the liability and property program through the Mazel pool. Um apologize I'm not there to be um in person tonight. I'm physically located in Columbus, Ohio. um but did have the opportunity to visit on site for our claim review this past August. Um so my first slide here is just some of our shared objectives. Um here at Gallagher Basset, as your thirdparty administrator, our goal is to partner with you and your employees um to create a safe work environment um and to minimize the impact of all injuries um by treating your employees with respect, empathy, and ensuring that they receive excellent and timely care. Um, with all that
036in mind, doing it in also the most cost-effective way possible. Um, if you want to go to the next slide, Brian. Thank you. Um, so this slide here. Um, I wanted to discuss reserves tonight. What are reserves? Um, so reserves, when a claim comes in, um, our adjusters or resolution managers as we call them, um, will assess the injury for an estimated total cost. To do this, we utilize the diagnosis. We assess current treatment guidelines um as well as lean on the wealth of experience from our claims team. Um Holly Robblock, who we talked or Brian had mentioned earlier, is our designated adjuster for Taylor. She has over nine years of claims handling experience. Um her supervisor, Tammy Woolsh, has over 40 years of claims experience. And Karen Hissong, who's also on the line tonight,
037I don't know if it'd be possible to unmute her as well. Um, sorry Karen to put you on the spot. Um, but she's our branch manager. Um, who I believe also has, uh, just as much experience as Tammy. Um, and has been on the Taylor account since you came to Gallagher Basset. Um, and when we estimate our reserves as best as we can from the receipt of the claim and then we continue to adjust the reserves throughout the life of the claim. Um, on the net or Brian then if you click through. Um, the reserves are divided into three buckets. Thanks Brian. Um the first one being medical which is pretty straightforward. So cost of all medical care or estimated cost. Next bucket would be compensation. So this would be any cost associated with paying
038wages to the employee either weekly wages, um state awards, settlements, etc. And the last bucket is expense. So this will cover anything that's left over um like legal bills, index searches, surveillance, social media searches, etc. Um the next slide um just to give an idea of how the reserves are continuously worked through. So the timeline initial reserves are set within 30 days of receipt of the claim. Our supervisors review the reserves every 90 days for accuracy. And in addition to the human touch, we have software which utilizes specific state and injury type algorithms. um they'll go through review the reserves um you know through our IT um and then if there are any questions or concerns there's an alert sent to the file if the reserves are low um and then our resolution managers or
039adjusters take responsibility for verifying that the reserves stay current and accurate and then uh Gallagher Basset also does a random annual audit to help ensure accuracy as well. Um so today you'll notice the theme I'm kind of going with is the reserves. So we have some suggestions today to help streamline um the claims process for Taylor to reduce time and add value to the overall partnership and um process for Taylor schools and Gallagher Basset. So our current reserve structure allotss for um Dr. Hill to have $400 of reserve authority on medical only claims and $10,000 of reserve authority for lost time claims. And then any reserve increases above this level have to be approved by the board um based on the board schedule. Um the average medical bill for Taylor for the last program year
040for 7123 through 63024 was about $745. So most of the time this is not an issue. Um, however, we have had a few hiccups that I'd like to discuss um and make the board aware of any potential delays and um Peter and I can kind of tag team to um as well as Karen any state penalties that could potentially happen um with the way the reserves authority are currently set. Um so the way any questions so far? >> No, I don't see anything. >> Perfect. Um, so what I did here, so this was a bill that actually came through for Taylor. So on the left hand side, that's kind of our best practices and the way that most clients have the reserve authority set up. So that's somewhat of an ideal way for the claim
041and the reserving process to flow through. And then on the right hand side I have what happened with this particular bill through Taylor just trying between our process and then the schoolboard process just to give an idea of um potential penalties and and a better way to flow. Um so you can see on the we received the bill originally um on 86 2024. So in Michigan we have 30 days it's a pretty strict timeline to get the medical bills paid. So, this bill came in for a surgery. It was $115,000. Was received via mail on 86. By the time it got into the hands, got scanned into the system, got approved by the adjuster because the adjuster has to look at it and say, "Yes, this is related to the claim and a reasonable treatment,
042it got over to the bill review objection on 8124." So, in an ideal scenario, at the time, the adjuster would email the client or email Taylor with a reserve rationale saying, "Hey, we got this large bill. It's a reasonable surgery. Here's what I anticipate the claim's going to cost." And then the reserves post on the file. What happened on this particular claim is Holly had sent out an email with the reserve rationale and there was an agreement for a partial approval for 25K um for the reserves at the 821 board meeting or somewhere associated in there. The partial approvals unfortunately don't really help us. They kind of leave us in the same spot. The medical bills for workers comp can't really be adjusted or negotiated. The money's due. Um, so we were kind of in
043in the same spot there with the additional email traffic on our end as well as Tailor's. Um, so as it progressed and it went through the bill process. So the bill process can be pretty rigorous. There's four layers to it. Um, to give an idea, it starts with we get the bill, we reduce it to the state fee schedule to make sure there's that, and then they get all the way down into the details of like, for example, for that surgery, hey, you charged us for 10 sponges, but I think that you only needed to use five for that surgery, so we're only going to pay you for five. So, in that process, the bill got reduced to the $48,000 roughly, and then went back to the adjusters's desk on 93. So, with our 30-day
044timeline, this payment is going to be due by 96 because we got it on 86. So, if we had gone through the traditional reserving method, the reserves would have already been on the file. The bill is going to come in, no problem. It's going to automatically process and pay. Because we only had that partial approval and we had to wait the additional two weeks till the next board meeting on the 4th and the adjuster only getting it on the 3, there was very little time to turn it around for the adjuster to review it properly to get it over to Edwina and we could have potentially missed the payment time which there'll be a 3% fee of the medical bill that the medical provider can pursue. So, in this particular real life scenario, Taylor would
045get hit with roughly a $1,400 late fee should the provider decide to pursue it. And then there's also the non um you know, um cost repercautions, um you know, a reputation with providers for late payments, um upset claimments, um and just other things that happen when we pay bills late, which we don't want to do. Um any questions on the scenario or what happened here? >> I see none. >> Perfect. Um if we move on to the next one, just as an overall, I pulled the data from our last program year for that last year. So our total medical payments that were made by Taylor were $254,000 uh you know, $893 roughly. So, if we had this delay with paying because of the reserve issue, you could potentially be looking at roughly like a $7,500
046penalty or fees each year. Um, so with that, I really appreciate everyone's time. And what I'd like to ask kind of my point in showing all this um is if the board could consider potentially giving Dr. Hill, um, additional authority on reserves or if we can get an overall increase on authority from the board. um or having some sort of outlet um if we need to in an emergency increase the reserves. Um I understand the concern with cost control. We're ultimately using your dollars and for Taylor, I recognize this is tax dollars. You know, you have a community to answer to. Um and as your partner here at GB, our goal is to always be transparent. Um so we can provide reports at any time giving an overall view into the program. Um we're always
047a phone call away. um we are ultimately stewards of your money. So um and we take pride in this and um if there would be any way to kind of uh shift or make any changes um I think it would ultimately benefit both Taylor um and and Gallagher Basset. Uh, and I don't know, Karen, do you have anything you want to add or you think? Looks like she's muted still. Oh, Karen, she's muted. There we go. Hey, Karen. >> Hi. Can everyone hear me? I can. >> Okay. Okay. Good. No, actually your presentation was spot on. So, um I think we pretty much hit everything. Um like you had said that you know what we're used to is just having you know the reserves on the file so that they're there when the bill comes
048through and there is no delay. So that is the ultimate goal like um Mia indicated. >> Thank you Karen. And this last slide here, just because I didn't like how much of a lag there was with receiving the bill and bill review, although that is typical, I just threw in as it is so intense, the bill review process had a net savings for Taylor last year of roughly $380,000. That would be as opposed if we just paid every bill that came in. So, just to give an idea of the um intricacies with that and the benefit. Uh any any questions for me? I see none. >> Perfect. And I think Peter, if you're ready, pass it on over. >> Yeah. Hi. Hi, everyone. U this slide is is about the penalties and I think Mia
049um covered it largely um already. The 3% that you can get dinged uh by a provider for not paying a medical bill in time, it can add up. Um, you know, and then the the $50 a day for for failing to pay on time to uh to a claimant uh up to $1,500 for medical bill uh or for wage loss. But I think more important than that is, and Mia touched on this too, is, you know, if you got a compensible claim and you've got an injured worker, you want them taken care of. You want them to receive the benefits in a timely fashion. So, you want to make sure that the money is there to get that to them. And you know, yeah, it'll upset a claimant if if it's not there and you
050don't want that. But, you know, from my perspective and you know, as a defense attorney, you know, you're going to chase them to an attorney and then they're going to initiate litigation over something that doesn't need to be litigated, which is going to cost you. And I think you know the slide on that 3% with $7,000. You know, you get into litigation over something that doesn't need to and I've got to show up to court on a compensible thing. You know, it can outpace that. So you know those are very important consideration um when considering how you are going to what kind of authority you are going to give uh to Dr. Hill um and turn to Galler Basset to uh to adjust these claims and you know they're experts and that's what you hire
051them to do and you know I've got experience with a number of different third party administrators and you know they're they're excellent so uh got to give them what they need to do their job um is what I would say. I have a question based on the slide that she said that they got the bill on the 6. The email was sent on the 12th. Our board meeting was the 25th and the bill came in at 15 but was reduced to 48. So they wanted us to approve 115,000 and originally it was reduced to 48. So what happens with that other money like that difference? it it stays in reserves. Um and and they probably reasonably anticipating and I'm not familiar with that claim per se. I'm going to speak on behalf of Karen Mia.
052Yeah. >> Um that they're anticipating that there's going to be some more costs that this person is probably going to need more treatment. They're going to be off work and there's going to be exposure there for wage loss benefits and that's why that reserve is there. They're not they're not squandering your money away. It needs to be there to handle a claim. And sometimes claims can be over reserved. They you know that can be adjusted over time but it's important because you don't know that their crystal ball is a little you know cloudy maybe as far as what the future may >> there seem to have been a delay getting the information to us and I know in a lot of our meetings our concern with the claims that um Dr. Hill brings to us
053is that there's not enough information for us to approve or deny. And so that's where the delay comes from us. It's because we as board members want to know why. Why are we doing this? Like what happened? And the information that she gets from workers comp gives us minimal information. Oh, this girl needs x amount of dollars. Okay. Well, why? Like what happened? and we're not just going to give hundreds of thousands of dollars when we don't know what happened. So, we asked her to go back and get we need more information for us to approve this amount of money. Uh, and I'm not saying it was that particular claim, but it might have been a different one. And so, on our perspective, I mean, I'm not going to give out hundreds of thousands of
054dollars. want to approve hundreds of thousands of dollars with just because a email came through that said that's what they said. >> Sure. Well, if I may >> some details to it. >> So, we could also Oh, I'm sorry. >> It's okay. >> Say we That's That's great. That's why I'm glad we're all communicating because we can put a form together if you want or I don't know if you want to work with Dr. Hill or we can send one over that is like a template if you let us know exactly what you need. I also think it's important to notate that the reserves aren't necessarily dollars that are spent. So they are worst case scenario as you said like it's not like we're taking asking for 115 and immediately putting out 115. That's like
055with the bill review and everything else that's going out. So it's not necessarily cutting a check per se. It's it's reserving for the lifetime of the claim. But I understand the concern but if there is a specific form and then I think it's also important we the best way to because there are things that pop up too. So we have to like if we get something the day before a board meeting and say there's not enough time for us to go back because sometimes we need to go back to the medical provider and say hey we need more information from you. Um it the timeline is just um making it difficult. Um but but I understand. So it would it help if there was a a template that could be approved by the board or
056>> probably a template of what I would need to take to the board for reserve already. So when we you know I realized the board wanted more information, I gave a template to Holly. So whenever she requests funding, you know, I asked her for specific things. So we already did that. >> Well, and I think it's I don't know. I think too we just want to gain trust because we would not throw out numbers. I mean, this is what we do, right? This is our job. We want to take the work off your plate, not add more. So I understand the review. Um, but we certainly wouldn't be throwing out numbers that we don't feel are are accurate. Um, and I can pull some data too, at least in prior years, cuz can I because
057before too, because my understanding because I'm somewhat new to the program is it used to function with authority at a lower level and then it recently switched to the board. So, I'm wondering was there a particular claim or was there a particular financial that didn't line up? I'm wondering how um if you have the information on the claims, how can we help or what more can we provide? >> So with new administration, you know, uh I like to be transparent and we have uh board policies that say that, you know, the superintendent CFO can't go over the bid threshold, which for us is 29 29,500. So if we need to go over that then we need to go to the board unless we have you know authority by the board to just play pay the
058claim and you know I talked to the board the board you know they set an amount but you know this is how we're proceeding and that's the reason why we're all you know having this conversation today to see what can be done to support our workers. comp program. >> I understand not wanting to give out hundreds of thousands, but can we up the reserve authority to like 50, something that might cover more? 10 is comparatively um it's pretty low um compared to what we would normally see. >> We can always take it underation. We can always take that under consideration. >> Be great because the only other thing I do want to point out too, if there are the penalties that are assessed, they are the responsibility of the district. So like in in this
059scenario where there would be I just I'm concerned cuz if the idea is is to reduce cost, I think doing it this way, you're you're probably looking at more of a a situation where cost will increase. I I understand the the function but it's just the functionality with the TPA relationship. Um so that's why I felt it was kind of urgent to bring forward. Um okay. Um the board will take under consideration, you know, your request not necessarily at at this venture, but then they'll come back and say what they decide. We we hear you and we understand, you know, what the law says about it and that we have to pay and we consider all those things. >> Thank you very much. >> Sure. And if there's anything else I can provide, uh, please
060let me know. I'd be happy to do so. >> Right. >> Thank you. >> That's it for me unless anyone has any questions. >> Does anybody have any more questions? >> Not at this time. Thank you very much. Gentlemen and and ladies, >> thank you. >> Okay, going forward our discussion items. Number one, overnight out of state field trip request Washington DC. Celia Sharo, are you on I believe you're online. >> Yes, I I'm okay. Um yes, I am um a teacher at West Middle School and we are planning our annual Washington DC trip. Um this time it's with Gettysburg and uh we have about students and parents come with us. Um the kids see Arlington, Gettysburg, um all the memorials, the museums, the Capitol building. Uh we take pictures in front of the White
061House. Um it's and our the cost is 1,150 and that includes everything including their food, the hotel, the bus ride, and it also includes a full refund program. So in case anybody cancels up until the day we leave, the minute we leave, they can get their money back minus a deposit. That's pretty general day that you leave. Any questions? Anybody else have any questions, comments? >> Nope. >> Okay, thank you. Number two, overnight out of state conference request, Atlanta, Georgia, Jason Gribble. >> Good evening. Little background information on this. In March of last year, Rhysa applied for a grant to secure funding to Wayne County to develop an aviation and aeron knowledge program. This initiative was introduced to Mr. Wagger at a Wayne County superintendent meeting. Naturally, we are interested in being one of the
062host schools giving our proximity to the Metro Airport and our status as a current CTE and host school in our area. Since then, we've participated in several meetings with Wayne Resa, Wayne County Community College District, MIT corporate partners, and other interesting school districts and CTE programs. Through this process, Taylor has emerged as per her location to serve as one of these three host districts in Wayne County for the Aviation Aerodox program. To better understand the needs and development of such a program, RHA is coordinating a site visit to schools already offering similar programs. Approximately 20 Wayne County administrators will be participating in this trip which includes attending the MAO MA AOPA symposium to introduce us to the curriculum that would be involved in this. We are also going to be visiting two other schools that
063have a CT aviation aeronautics program while we're down there. One of them being in Alabama. Uh details of the trip and the agenda are in your packet. Um, and this is the email could should have came from our the deputy superintendent Bess Gonzalez from Wayne Resa. Uh, funding wise, we've submitted a request for funding to the MD to our MDE title coordinator for approval under title 2 and title four funding. Um, through conversations with Mr. Wagger and myself, we also have allocated funds within our own budgets to be able to provide professional de development for the cover of this cost as well. Um, and knowing that our vision statement is being the innovative destination for the district definitely fits with underneath that scope of our vision statement. Are there any questions regards to heading down
064to see what we can do about getting aviation program here at Taylor? >> Was Carly Bernard offered this trip too or >> pardon >> Karly Bernard was she offered to principal? >> She she's been going to the meetings as well but she can't go off on those days. >> She couldn't go to the meeting. >> Was she offered to go? Pardon? She was offered to go. Yeah. >> So, we're hoping that these titles will cover this. If not, there's funds coming from somewhere else. >> I don't Mr. Wager's a >> Yeah. in uh I don't know the exact number off the top of my head, but you know, in the superintendent's office budget, we do have so much money that is set aside for uh professional development. And that uh when we reviewed where our
065budget was last year, we cut that back because we spent nowhere near what was uh in my budget. Um, and so far with what we spent, there would be room to pay for uh as well if need be. Obviously, we're going to try to use title funds to purchase purchase it first, but if not, we do have coverage for it. >> Thank you. >> Okay. All right. Number three, past survey renewal. Emily Graham. Good evening. I'm asking the board to renew the Renaissance, excuse me, learning quote for the past student surveys for grades K through 12. This survey measures students perceptions regarding three major areas. Their curriculum readiness and access, student perceptions surrounding work habits and the importance of attendance, and their relationship with peers and staff in our schools. Um, teachers and administrators use
066the survey results to surface student needs that may need to address in our MTSS and our my kit planning. The purchase cost is 51,970 and this will be funded by 31A funds. >> This is something that we currently have. We're just renewing it. >> We're renewing it. Correct. We used it last year. Any questions? >> Thank you. You're welcome. Advanced authorization to hire, Mr. Wager. >> So, yeah, this is one we have been periodically coming back to. Um, and this is something that we are continuing to see such turnover in um our instructional staff and with our support staffs. So we are again coming and asking for that advanced authorization to hire uh not for administrative positions but for those particular ones within the TFT and within 26M. This allows us to get uh people
067into whether it's a bus driving role, a parapro role, whether it is a teacher in front of kids. It gives us a lot more timeliness to make sure that those needs are covered um where we can get somebody started pretty quickly and then uh not have that delay till we get to a board meeting. We have found that sometimes those delays are causing people to uh reconsider and take another job offer because we can't quite get them uh in place as quick as can be. One of the things we also discovered today is that um you know there was a survey that kind of went out and we had heard back from a lot of other districts and this seems to be the norm that a lot of districts are going to right now that
068particularly when it comes to support and instructional staff that they are do using uh advanced authorization to get people uh into those needed positions as quickly as possible. >> Thank you. Are there any questions? Okay, the next item up is policy updates, revisions, the first reading. >> So, uh, last week, uh, we had a policy committee meeting and we talked about the needs for adjustments to what we currently have in policy for Title 9. And Title 9 is um, a civil rights law that went into effect in 1972. It is uh states that in the education realm that no person in the United States shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
069Um how that has been interpreted uh the guidelines that have been put in place have changed uh various times in history since 1972. Uh the latest round of those regulations came out in 2024 and it expanded what the scope of sex discrimination meant to include discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity. And uh since then though uh those regulations came out and several court cases were filed and there have been several different rulings that have come out. Uh, one of the ones that particularly affects the Taylor School District is Kansas versus the Department of at the US Department of Education. And where this kind of affects us as the file the the groups that filed this lawsuit include Young America's Foundation, Female Athletes United,
070and Moms for Liberty. So any of those organizations who have children in various schools, those schools now end up as an injunction to stop the regulations that went through in 2024. And uh Taylor High School is one of those locations that has been named as as part of that injunction. So, we're kind of living in a spot where our policy isn't quite up to date and we also have a situation where Taylor High School has to remain on the old policy until that resolves itself. So, we're in a unique spot that most of our buildings can proceed with the new regulations, but one of them currently cannot. So with that in mind, what we're bringing forward as uh our suggested change to policy is we're trying to put a little flexibility in here to make
071sure we are meeting the legal requirements that uh are part of the 2024 regulations and we are also trying to make sure that we are meeting the legal requirements of the injunction that is in place uh that affects Taylor High School. So what we are uh proposing for our policy changes to our language, excuse me, uh in board policy 2266, we are recommending a change to state the United States Department of Education has released guidance that the 2020 Title 9 regulations will be utilized for complaints of sex discrimination involving those schools included on a federal injunction list prohibiting the United States Department of Education's enforcement of the 2024 Title 9 regulations. The United States Department of Education's regulations and guidelines concerning Title 9 are currently subject to ongoing litigation and subject to monitoring that could
072impact the policy terms contained herein. If any provision of this policy or any application of this policy shall be found to be contrary to law, then such provision or application shall not be deemed valid and subsisting except to the extent permitted by law. But all other provisions or applications shall continue to be in full force and effect. Essentially, this policy language is giving us the flexibility to meet the needs of both of these situations. And quite honestly, uh, as we just went through an election last night, we're going to see an administration change at the federal level, there is a good chance that these regulations could change again in the future as well. So, it does behoove us to have something that is flexible. Um, in our administrative regulations, what we set behind the scenes
073and how we handle such uh, Title 9 claims, we would then spell out how we are going through and which of the regulations we are following for which buildings. But this language here at least in policy gives us that flexibility piece uh going forward. We did have one other policy that has to be adjusted in the same regard and that is board policy 2264 and board policy 26 2264 also governs complaints of sex discrimination involving all portions of district that are not included on a federal injunction list prohibiting the United States Department of Education's enforcement of the 2024 regulations. This includes, but is not limited to, central offices, maintenance facilities, and other schools not found on the injunction lists. The United States Department of Education's regulations and guidelines concerning Title 9 are currently subject to
074ongoing litigation and subject to monitoring that could impact the policy terms contained herein. If any provision of this policy or any application of this policy shall be found to be contrary to law, then such provision or application shall not be deemed valid in subsisting except to the extent permitted by law. But all other provisions or applications shall continue to be in full force in effect. Again, giving us that flexibility piece uh as we navigate uh both these court rulings and like I said, any kind of future changes that could be on the horizon. >> Thank you, Mr. Wagger. Does anybody have any comments, questions? >> Uh, just a quick question. So, we're just adding in the green portion. We're not are we we're not removing all the cross part. >> We would be removing out
075the crossed off part, but a lot of that crossed off part is what we're going to be doing in the admin regulations at this point. So, they would exist in how we are doing it in practice, but the green part is what we're inserting for the coverage for the policy piece. >> Anything else? Okay, thank you very much. Number six, action items. Number one, overnight out of state field trip request Washington DC policy 2340 and policy 8640. It is recommended the board of education approve the following overnight out ofstate field trip request West Middle School, Washington DC May 19th through the 23rd, 2025. Is there a motion? Motion >> motion by Mrs. Shufelt. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Morris. Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas is
076absent. Mrs. Shufelt. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is absent. Miss Black is a yes. Mr. Heath. >> Yes. >> That motion passes. Carries. 5. Number two. Overnight conference request. A O P A. Foundation High School STEM Symposium policy 6550. It is recommended the board of education approved the overnight conference request for Jason Gribble to attend the AOPA Foundation High School STEM symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, November 17th through 20th, 2024. Is there a motion? Motion by Mr. Thomas. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Heath. Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas is absent. Mrs. Shufelt. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is absent. Miss Block is a yes. Mr. Heath, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> That motion carries. 50. Number three, pass survey renewal. House Cy 6320. It is recommended the board
077of education approve the software licenses that support the instructional program of the Taylor School District. not to exceed $51,970. Funding for the software will be paid out of 31A. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mrs. Shufelt. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> No, that wasn't a Okay. Mrs. Thomas is absent. Mrs. Shufelt. >> Yes. >> Now, Mr. Wright is absent. Miss Black is a yes. Mr. Heath. >> Yes. >> Now, Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Okay. Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Okay. That motion is carried. 5 to zero. Number four. Advanced authorization to hire policy 3120. It is recommended the board of education approve advanced authorization to hire non-administrative vacant positions in TFT and 26MTSSA. Individuals hired under the advanced authorization will be placed on the next regular
078board meeting agenda. Is there a motion? Motion by Mr. Thomas. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Morris. Mrs. Shufeld. Mr. Wright is absent. Miss Vakazi. Yes. Mr. Heath. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas? Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas is absent. The motion has carried. 5 number seven superintendent report Mr. Wager. >> All right. Good evening everybody. Um I have two things that I uh just wanted to uh mention really quickly. The first is uh regarding our graduation alliance partnership. So we started this last year. We got the approval and uh at this point what we put graduation alliance in was to meet a gap that we were missing with students who may have already uh dropped out, disappeared, basically fallen off our roles uh but never finished, never completed and
079got that diploma. So, Graduation Alliance, we entered into a partnership with them. Uh, and we gave them essentially a list of every student who didn't quite get across that finish line, but we had no accounting for and they were no longer within our school district. Um, we also put this in place as that uh if there were particular students who were struggling with uh either how they were performing in Taylor High School or even in our virtual learning program TVLA, there was an opportunity for a set number of students to to possibly take advantage of this as well. At this point, we have uh 54 active students within Graduation Alliance. uh the vast majority I would say 80% of them are ones that we have recovered uh that were not going to school anywhere at
080this point. So we are talking about people who may be 20 years old 19 years old. I do it all the time. I call them kids but in reality many of them are adults and it's great to see them back and see them doing their best to come back and complete and get that diploma. Uh what I am proud to say at this point is that we should by the end of the month be expecting our first two and we only started this like I say less than a year we've had this program in place but we should have our first two complete their diplomas uh by the end of this month. So that is fantastic news. It's a great thing uh that we've been able to provide to our community and um again I
081want to say kids but to these adults to these students this ability to to still get what they need to be successful in life. The other thing I wanted to say, I am proud to say I know every single board meeting since August, I have talked about the Wayne County and uh RHSA enhancement mill renewal and that did pass last night and so that is a great benefit to us as a school district as I've said all along. uh depending on the year and what has fluctuated uh but typically a million and a half to$2 million dollars uh that we can use to to for our programming costs and our needs here at the Taylor School District. So I'm very very happy and thank everyone for going out and supporting that uh last night. >>
082Okay. So what's the age again for the alliance? technically like uh if we wanted to we could you can go down even as low as I'd say around eighth grade but we're not doing that as current it's mainly like I said we've been trying to do recovery and the max age is I want to say around like 26 is that we're at yeah >> is it 26 okay that was in my head but I wasn't sure >> yeah and we've even had a unique opportunity graduation alliances come to us and they said you know there several districts around us that do not use something like graduation alliance. So, they were actually reaching out and saying, "We know we have kids and there I go with the kids again. Uh, we know we have people in
083other districts who uh may want to take advantage of this opportunity." So, they were looking for those that already used graduation alliance and saying, could we steer some even though they weren't people who left Taylor schools, maybe they left in one of our neighboring districts, but would we be willing to take some on? So we are doing a trial basis with them where we will take 10 other students on and uh try to help them get across that finish line as well. >> Okay, that's a success story. Does anybody have any questions, comments? Okay, we will go on to number eight, our consent agenda, policy 166.1 and policy 6470. Number one, minutes from the committee of the whole meeting of October 16, 2024. Number two, minutes from the regular board meeting of October 16, 2024.
084Number three, minutes from the special board meeting of October 24th, 2024. Number four, consolidated items, payment of current bills, certified, non-certified, and administrative reports. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Thomas. Is there a second? Second. >> Second by Mr. Morris. Mr. Wright is absent. Black is a yes. Mr. Heath, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Thomas is absent. Mrs. Shufelt. >> Yes. >> That carries five to zero. Number nine. Items scheduled for next agenda. Wednesday, November 20th, 2024. We have good news on the agenda and also uh is it a presentation? >> So I'm excited that we put this in here. Um that uh for my student advisory group uh we talked about our last meeting. We're going to talk about it in our next
085meeting next week. But essentially I am asking them to come and report out the work we are doing as part of that team. uh as a regular item that we have in the board agenda so that you get feedback exactly of where we're going with our student leadership as well. >> Okay. So, those are our two items on the agenda as of right now. Number 10, public comment policy 167.3. Okay. Thank you for all who are able to be 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
086address 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 to monitor their own time and no one 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 fashion. We will start with those in person. No, Tom. Okay. Now, is there anyone online? There's no one online either.
087Okay. All right. We will adjourn to close session number 11 on the agenda, policy 137.2, 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 8H material exempt from disclosure by the state or federal statutes. Is there a motion? Motion by Mr. Thomas. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Morris. Miss Black is a yes. Mr. Heath, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Thomas is absent. Mrs. Shufeld, >> yes. >> Mr. right, is also absent. We will convene in close session at 7:14 p.m. Okay, we're returning from close session at 9:04 p.m. and there is action after close session. Okay. Motion to approve the reinstatement panel's recommendation for student number 01-11062
088024. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mrs. Shufeld. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Morris. >> Mr. Heath? >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas? >> No. >> Hey, Mrs. Thomas is absent. Mrs. Shufelt, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright is absent. Miss Black is a yes. Uh, the motion carries 4 to one. Student reinstatement number two. Motion to approve the reinstatement panel's recommendation for student number 02-1106 20224. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mrs. Shufeld. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Morris. Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas. >> No. >> Mrs. Thomas is absent. Mrs. Shufelt. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright is absent. Miss Black is yes. Mr. Heath. >> Yes. >> That passes 4 to one. So, the motion carries. Number three. Motion to
089provide authority to settle workers comp number 01-1 1 062024 in an amount not to exceed $82,500. Is there a motion? >> Motion by Mr. Heath. Is there a second? >> Second. Second by Mr. Morris. Okay. Mrs. Thomas is absent. Or Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Shufelt. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ray is absent. Miss Black is a yes. Mr. Heath. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Okay. Motion carries five to zero. All right. The next uh thing on the agenda, board member comments. >> I'd just like to say congratulations to all the newly elected board members. >> Thank you, Mr. Heath. Good evening. >> I would like to uh tell our board member who is still a board member and unfortunately not a state representative that uh there have been lots of people
090who have lost a first election. He's won two already. Um but uh one of those people was Abraham Lincoln. So there's always tomorrow. Yep. Any other comments? There is a foundation fundraiser coming up on the 16th. Um, dueling pianos and we were all invited to the 26mm Christmas party. Everyone, we got that flyer here. If you can make it, it's a fun event. I know in the past the Thomases have been there. And did you get to make it last year, Stephanie? >> Yes. >> Yep. I went once. It's a It's a nice to do. Tom's not here anymore for us to say, "Hey, but you know, and they do a nice job on it." And they It's a nice way to spend some holiday time. So, and then there's the last chance to buy
091a t-shirt if you haven't done it yet. So, um, and I got soup from the soup sale. I want to mention this. Um, the kids are doing ethnic lunches now. First one is German. That was, uh, November 1st, but I believe the next one coming up is the 14th, 15th. Yeah. >> Soul food. >> Soul food. So, and then after that there's other ones and you can uh look them up on our on uh their website and uh it's from 11:50 to 100 p.m. on the days that they have special meals. So, all right. If you can make that, please do so. Um I love the tomato soup. So, all right. Anybody else? Nobody's got anything. You want to go home? >> Okay. Is there is there a motion for adjournment? >> Second. >> Okay.
092Only one of you can motion. So, who was first? Darl. >> Okay. Stephanie, were you second? >> Yes. >> Sure. >> I think Sure. >> Okay. Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. Mrs. Thomas is absent. Mrs. Shufelt. >> Mr. Wright is the absent. Miss Black is a yes. Mr. Heath, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris, >> yes. >> Board of Education regular board meeting for November 6, 2024 is adjourned at 9:10 p.m. Have a good night, everyone, and thanks for joining us if you're still here.