001had to start that like before resil probably have been there. I think we should stay in town. >> Maybe I should just stand here. >> Okay. >> Right on. >> Um, welcome. This is a meeting we look forward to every year because we get to see some of the uh stars um graduating. Um and it's a wonderful event. I should tell you we have a very dedicated board member tonight who is dealing with some back issues. So if Tina gets up and moves around, it's not because she objects to what you're saying or is not interested. She's trying to get comfortable. So if you would indulge her that way. And with that, I'll turn it over to Kean. >> Well, thank you, Dave. It's great to see everyone here tonight. And I'd like to welcome
002everyone watching our live stream this evening. Hope everybody had a great spring break. Um hopefully this warm-up will stick around and hopefully it'll dry out a little bit, too. Uh real quick before we get started tonight, just want to remind the community and everyone here tonight of the upcoming 2026 VCS bond election, which will be held on May 5th over by Adam. You can see uh we have some boards and some information. There's some cards on that table if you're interested in more bond information. Uh I'm highly encouraging everyone uh to go to our website and check out the bond video that we made that highlights all those projects. And I want to thank uh some students that helped me out. Maya u you can watch her um on the big screen. She did a
003great job. Um so again, please vote. The vote is by May 5th, but please vote um as soon as you can. I appreciate that. Uh very excited to kick off our recognition season for the class of 2026. Um it's a great time to celebrate the success of our seniors and also at the same time to thank our hardworking VCS staff for pushing these kids to the finish line. So I want to thank our staff as well. Um so seniors, how many days left? Someone doesn't know exactly. >> So, we're going with 38. >> They like it so much. >> They just want to >> Oh, they were they wish it's more than 38. Is that what you're saying, Miss? >> They're thinking June 5th with everybody else. >> We can vote on that as a
004board. >> You want us? >> Oh, congratulations seniors for sure. And and I hope your last days at VCS are extremely memorable. Make the best of them. Uh, I'm going to turn it over to VHS principal, Mr. Brush, uh, for this spec special recognitions this evening. Mr. Brush, good evening. Thank you, Mr. O'Neal, members of the Vixsburg Board of Education for this opportunity to celebrate an extraordinary group of seniors. It is an honor to recognize them this evening. Over the past four years, these students have set a remarkable standard. Of our 15 Suma Kumadi graduates, each have earned a GPA above 4.15, an achievement that speaks their discipline, resilience, and commitment to excellence. Collectively, they have completed more than 150 AP and dual enrollment courses, consistently choosing to challenge themselves at the highest levels. What
005makes this group truly exceptional, though, is how they have balanced academic rigor with meaningful involvement beyond the classroom. They are leaders in athletics, the arts, student organizations. They have performed on stages, competed on fields, supported peers, worked jobs, and give back to the community. All while maintaining unwavering focus on their goals. They represent the very best of Vixsburg High School. Talented, driven, and deeply connected to the world around them. Before I introduce them, I have to tell him how many real days of school you have left. because I have a senior and he knows 22. >> 22 real days of school. >> Geez, Adeline, you got to be so excited right now. You went from 38 down to 22. >> 22 more wakeups. All right. First up, Renzel Royal. Where the hell is orchestra. So,
006pretty much weekly we have hourly rehearsals and I'm the section leader for the violas. And then on top of that, I do chamber gigs. So, I have a little quartet that and we meet in addition to rehearsals and then we have performances throughout the years. So, kind of expanding my musical prowess, I'd say. >> Awesome. You're also an excellence and education award winner. Who was your significant educator in life? >> So, I brought my Camzy math teacher this year, Mr. Alshiri. He's both my calculus teacher and my physics teacher. I think that he's really just like kind of brought in what I wanted to do in college. I never wanted to do physics in college, but I think that him has like he's like really changed how I see like what I see mathematics is
007like. So, that's kind of where I wanted to go because of it. So, >> awesome. plans for next year. Where are you going to go? What are you going to study? >> Um, I'm going to Michigan State University. I'm in their honors college and I'm also going to be in the Lyman Briggs Residential College doing physics and math as like a double major, I think. >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight? >> So, my mom was here for a few minutes, but then she had to leave because she has work. And I wish that my other my my dad could be here, but he also has work. So although my parents weren't here for a little bit or they weren't here to stay, um I'm really grateful that I have friends in right there.
008And um uh my family is supporting me because this week there's a lot of we have a lot of recognition. We have NHS tomorrow. We have excellence in education Wednesday. They're going to be there for all of that and they were really sad that they couldn't be here to like stay. But >> yeah, that's why we're recording. Yeah. Congratulations. Adeline. So Adeline is a four-year academic award winner who's also earned her AP capstone diploma. That means she's already passed six AP courses, their tests, and that includes research and AP seminar. She's a member of the Big Red Machine marching band, president of Model UN. Adam, what's your favorite class and why? >> Oh, AP research for sure. Um, so I took that one last year. Um, thankfully, Miss Chzn is my favorite teacher of all
009time. Like, hands down. She's made the biggest impact on me um in high school. But, so I'm very fortunate to have gotten to take her class three years in a row. Um, AP research was just a door opener, world opener for me. Um, I am a very career oriented person. So, it's really cool for me to be able to build my own curriculum with that. Um, and I ended up writing my paper about cultural sensitivity in theme parks, which is a huge passion of mine. If I have talked to you, I will talk your ear off about theme parks for hours and hours on end. But, um, it was just absolutely insane. I got to build a huge community in there. Um, and then on top of that, I was able to use my work
010in there, um, to foster some professional relationships with I worked extensively with a professor from Purdue, Dr. Christian Rogers. Um, and with his help, I was able to apply to the International Attractions and Amusement Park Association um, research symposium and present down in Orlando with the help of the Vixsburg Community Schools Foundation grant that I received. So, that was an amazing experience. That was awesome. And we talked about this earlier in the year, but who was the youngest presenter there? >> Oh, it was me by a lot. It was funny because there was a lot of people there and and uh I was asked I was like, "So, um, where are you doing your graduate program?" And I was like, "I don't know. I could not tell you um where I'm doing my graduate program
011because I have not yet decided where I'm going to do my bachelor's." And they were like, "What?" And uh I like there was like other professors there presenting, there was doctorate students, there was master students. I was I was the youngest in the room probably by 10 years. It was absolutely bonkers. I wasn't prepared until I walked in and then I was like, "Oh, you all are much older than me." But >> so what are your plans now for next year and what's your course of study? >> Um I am also going to Michigan State University next year. I am through the honors college studying experience architecture um with a focus in theme design um and then a minor in Spanish. >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight? >> Um my parents Amanda and
012Brandon Berry are here and then my little sister, my best friend in the whole world, Ella Biri. Um so she's here as well. >> Awesome. Sophia Bry. >> All right. So, did we win? >> Um, so we were at a soccer game at Schoolcraft up 20, but the it unfortunately got cancelled for thunderstorms, >> but I could make it here tonight. >> Yeah, that's that's important. Venzelle was talking about how busy everybody is, and Sophia was like, "Oh man, I'm really nervous about this because I have a game and we'll see." So, four-year academic award winner, took 12 AP classes at VHS, recognized as an AP scholar with distinction, member of the Big Red Marching Band. Big Red Machine marching band, involved in theater. What position do you play in soccer? >> I play the
013right outside back on defense. >> Nice. Do you like defense? >> Yeah, I played it my whole life. >> Your whole life? Awesome. Favorite classes? AP Art, AP Psychology, AP Literature. What do you like best about those classes? >> I think I just like exploring like human connection and the minds and just understanding that and I like to explore that through my art and AP art and I've really focused on like human connection and how time can change that. >> Awesome. What are your plans for next year? What do you plan on studying as well? >> I'm also heading to Michigan State University. >> Go green. the honors college and I'm studying psychology and sociology. >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight? >> My mom Melissa Diaper and my dad Don. >> Congratulations. Kayla
014Chisum. >> You ready? >> I'm ready. >> So Kayla is a four-year academic award winner. She took 12 AP classes at VHS, also a recipient of the NHS leadership award. She played softball, volleyball, ran cross country, all at the varsity level. What is your favorite sport and why? >> Um, softball. I've been playing it since I was out the womb basically and I'll be playing it in college, so got to have some sort of love for it. >> In position, >> um, infield utility. >> Nice. Awesome. She's a member of AIM Higher, NHS, and her favorite classes at VHS were AP Spanish and AP Psychology. She's also an excellence in education award winner. Who is your significant educator and why? >> Miss Coning. She's right there. >> Wave Money, let's give her a round of
015applause. Um, I chose Miss Doning as my significant educator because she takes teaching outside of just the job description and makes all of her students feel welcome in her classroom at all times. And despite being only having her for a year, she's had one of the greatest impacts on me as a teacher. And she makes school feel like an opportunity as opposed to a chore. >> Awesome. >> Plans for next year? You said softball. So, where are we playing softball? >> I'm not going to Michigan State. I am going to >> I'm going to Eastern Illinois University where I'll be playing softball and I'll I plan to major in nursing with hopes of specializing later on hopefully in travel or aesthetic nursing. And I plan on minoring in Spanish as well. >> Awesome. And who's
016with you here tonight? >> My mom. She's right there. Hi, mom. Congratulations. Luke Deal. So Luke is a four-year academic award winner with a 4.2 GPA, a member of NHS, the varsity football and baseball teams. He was also all conference, all region, and all state in football, and all conference in baseball. Favorite class, strength and conditioning. What do you like best about that class? Yeah. So, I have a lot of like academically challenging classes this year and I feel like strength is a good way to like challenge myself other than just academically and uh it's a great way to like compete with my friends and bond with my coach as well. It also helps on the football field. >> Awesome. Works at Dicks Barrett Smokehouse umpires for little league. Also volunteers for all the youth
017football camps. And you just found out you won a $2,000 scholarship for Arbor Financial. How did you win that scholarship? >> Uh well, I applied >> and uh they liked my essay that I wrote. So, >> what was your essay about? >> I wrote about uh how I tore my ACL my sophomore year in football and how I came back and had a successful career. >> Yeah, they mentioned in the email how well written the essay was. So, congratulations. So, what are your plans for next year and what's your question? >> I'm attending Northwood University to play football and I'm majoring in cyber security. >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight? >> My parents, Brian and Heather. >> Awesome. Congratulations, >> Maya Gman. >> So, how tennis? Because another one that had a sporting
018event. >> Um, I won. >> There we go. against play well. So >> awesome. So Maya is the validictorian for the class of 2026, four-year academic award winner, graduating with a GPA, AP Scholar with distinction, and has earned her AP capstone diploma. Favorite class is AP Seminar and AP Lit. What do you like best about those classes? >> Um, so AP Seminar just kind of like opened my world to research. It was just a beginning, you know, introductory research class and I got to learn about soft versus hard infrastructure and you kind of get to shape your own research in that and I got to learn about um how we can incorporate sustainability in lowincome communities which was really interesting and Miss Kosa also was a great teacher to introduce me to research. And then
019AP Lit, love Miss Sakoning, big shout out to her. um she does a great job just like leveling up, you know, your writing skills and she did a great job teaching that curriculum. So >> awesome. You're also NHS president, DECA state champion, student senate member and a member of the varsity, cross country, and tennis teams. You were also an excellence and education award winner. Who was your significant educator and why? >> So my significant educator is Mr. Wills up there. Coach Wills, >> raise your hand. Coach Wills. >> Um, he has had such a significant impact. Just makes me emotional. But, um, he has really shaped how I am as a leader. He is so enthusiastic. I work with him through the Vixburg tennis camp every summer. I have since I was like seven, maybe.
020Um, so at least 10 years of my life. And through that camp, he works with over 80 students every summer. He learns their name by the second day. And he is truly one of the most dedicated people I've ever met. And that inspires me every day in the way that I lead groups and work with people and communicate. So I am truly so grateful to him. >> We also made a decision for where we're going to go to college next year. >> Yes, we did. >> Yeah. So where are we going to go and what are we going to study? Yeah, that was a tough decision, but I decided um I'm going to go to the University of Wisconsin Madison um for pre-law and specifically focusing on civil rights law or environmental law. And I
021don't really know what I'm minoring, but >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight? >> Um my dad Brett and my mom Katie and my grandma Deb. Awesome. >> Congratulations. >> Haley Ha. All right. So, Haley, four-year academic award winner with a 4.2 GPA, also a member of NHS, was on the varsity volleyball team and helped work multiple volleyball camps for younger students. What do you like best about playing volleyball and helping the younger students learn the game? >> Um, I feel like it really like opened up my opportunities to like meet new people and like make new connections outside of school. And then I liked helping the younger kids like um explore something that I love doing and like teach them that you can have fun like in high school too and outside of
022school and make new friends along the way. >> Awesome. You also said your favorite class is AP Spanish. What do you like best about AP Spanish? >> Um Spanish has always been like pretty hard for me. Um, but Miss Lamers was like a huge person in that and helping me um, learn it in like a different way that I had never thought about and like she makes it fun every day in class and easier to understand. >> Awesome. Now, where are you going to study next year? What are your plans to study? >> I'm going to Michigan State University and I'll be majoring in business and I'm unsure of what I'm going to do specifically, but business to start. >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight? My mom and dad, uh, Doug and Jod
023have a congratulations. >> Are you a huff? So, Avi is a four-year academic award winner, graduating with a 4.2 GPA, recognized as an AP scholar with distinction. Um, also earned her AP Capstone diploma. She also earned her global and Michigan seal of biiteracy and was a star in 42nd Street. So tell us about that. >> So we started working on tap workshops all the way back in September for this show that we just had two weeks ago and I really got the chance to develop my skills over time in tap dance. And then we had auditions in December and I found out that I got the part then and I was so excited. And we would have rehearsals for 3 to four hours a night. So I would be tapping for that long and it
024would be five five days a week and it was a lot of work but theater is such a wonderful thing where you get to see an accumulation of all of the hard work that you've put in pay off in those big shows at the end. So it's so worth it. >> And they say that tap is the hardest dance to learn. So most schools will not perform these shows because it's just too hard to get people to do well in such a short period of time. It was tremendous. Um you're also a member of the wind ensemble. You enjoy volunteering for its societ or camps and that's theater camps. Tell us what do you like best about being in its and helping with the camps? >> I love being able to work with younger kids
025who have similar passions to to me in theater and then taking those skills and making it fun for them and then getting to see them enjoy what I also enjoy and enjoying teaching it in the process. >> So, what are your plans for next year and what's your course of study? I will be attending the University of Michigan and I will be studying data science and minoring in Spanish. >> And who's with you here tonight? >> My parents are here, Greg and Sarah Huff, and my little sisters, Blair and Sienna Huff, who will be starting their high school career next year. >> Awesome. Congratulations, >> Michael Johnson. So, Michael is a four-year academic award winner, NHS member, and he earned his global seal of biiteracy. He was also academic all state in football. He was
026also voted team MIP his junior and senior year for football and played travel soccer and helped coach kids soccer camps. What did you enjoy most about coaching the youth in soccer? So, I remember as a little kid playing soccer in Kazoo and it was just always such a great thing to get to play around with the other kids and look up to the other coaches and I just hope to kind of help other younger kids to have the same experience that I had and you know help them falls fall in love with the sport that I love. >> Awesome. You said here that your favorite class at Vixsburg High School was AP psychology. Why did you choose that class? First of all, like Adeline said, Miss Jeznney is an amazing teacher and I think that
027she balances the student teacher relationship as well as the educator teacher relationship and or educator student relationship and it just makes school so much more fun and it helps you to look forward to something in your day. >> And also psychology is going to help me with my major which we'll get to in a second. But I just think it's a great way to learn to communicate with other people and just make relationships throughout my career. >> So, what are you where are you going to go next year and what are you going to study? >> So, I'm attending the University of Michigan and I'm majoring in media communications and minoring in psychology. >> Awesome. Who's with you here tonight, Michael? >> Just my mom, Christa Johnson. >> Awesome. Congratulations. >> So, Tony is not
028here. Anthony Marcase. Um he's a four-year academic award winner, a member of NHS. He earned the global seal of biiteracy, was academic all state and football, and was the BCAM award winner for basketball. His favorite class was AP Spanish. Mentioned the same thing that a lot of people said, "Miss Lamers makes learning Spanish fun." Um he enjoys volunteering for the Lions Club, community events, youth camps for both football and basketball. He also wanted everybody to know that when he's not studying or playing sports, he's playing Rocket League where he's rated diamond three. So, I had to look that up. That's in the top five to 10% of all players. So, pretty good, I guess. Um, he's attending Michigan State University to study mechanical engineering, and his parents, Tom and Mary, are super proud of him.
029Anthony Marquez. All right. Hannah Moyer also had a tennis match tonight. How'd it go? >> We won. >> Awesome. Congratulations. So Hannah is a four-year academic award winner, a member of NHS. She earned her global seal of bi literacy and was recognized as an AP scholar with distinction. plays varsity tennis and is in the Big Red Machine marching band. Also a member of Aim Higher. Her favorite class was AP research. What did you enjoy about AP research? >> Uh my favorite thing about AP research was that we got to um research or learn about a topic that we were passionate about, which I researched how hermit crabs are affected by noise in their environment. and I'm very passionate about animals and their environments. >> Awesome. Um, you also enjoy working for the Vixsburg Arts Youth
030Advisory and Kids Court Learning Center. You volunteered for a ton of Vixsburg summer tennis camps. What did you like best about that? Um, like Maya said, Coach Scott Wills, he's very fun to work with and I love seeing the kids every day and teaching them the sport that I love. >> That's great. So, next year, what are your plans and what's your course of study? >> I plan to go to Western Michigan University to study elementary education and psychology. >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight? >> Uh, my mom and dad, Jimmy and Chrissy, and my sister, Avery. Congratulations. Everett Rajens. So Everett is a four-year academic award winner, a member of NHS. He took 13 AP classes at VHS and is graduating with a 4.39 GPA. He's a member of the track and
031cross country teams and is in the drum line of the Big Red Machine. also an excellence in education award winner. Who was your significant educator in life? >> My significant educator was my cross country coach, Coach Mo Heis. He's been my coach for four years and through that time, uh he's obviously helped me become a better athlete, but he's been somebody that I could come to and has helped me just as an adviser for a lot of skills in my life. And he's been super impactful to the person I am today. And that's why he's my significant educator. >> Awesome. Fun fact about Everett, he can juggle, just won't do it in front of us. So, we asked him to. He He said he'll do it with a mag. >> Got three water bottles up
032here. Let's see this. >> Um, he also volunteers for the Kalazoo dropin daycare, Meals on Wheels, and the Can Shine Bike Camp. Tell us about those experiences. >> Yeah, so of those, my favorite was probably the I can shine bike camp. Uh it was just a very rewarding experience. We worked with children with Down syndrome and their goal was to ride a bike. It was a dream of theirs. And one week in the summer, uh you were a coach and my child, well the kid I was working with was Will. And it was just super fun to see him work through the training sets and very rewarding to see him ride a bike at the end. >> Awesome. What are your plans for next year and what's your course of study? I'm going to Michigan
033State University and I will be studying electrical engineering. >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight, Ever? >> Uh my father, Paul Rajins, is here with me tonight. >> Awesome. Congratulations. >> Maddox Roslin. All right. So, Maddox is a four-year academic award winner who took 11 AP classes at VHS. He's a member of NHS and earned the global seal by literacy. He's also a member of the varsity tennis and baseball teams. Maddox, you said your favorite class was AP Spanish. Why do you like that class so much? >> Yeah, so first of all, um, knowing a second language like Spanish, even though I might not be very good at it, um, is really a valuable asset when you are going not only into the business world, but into the real world after college. And um
034like most of my peers have said, Mrs. Lamers is uh just a really impactful teacher and she takes an extra step and goes, you know, beyond what is actually supposed to be taught and she could tell you what everyone's like weekends were like and what they got coming up. So yeah, it's just an amazing environment. >> Awesome. Max um says again, haven't seen this yet, but he can solve a Rubik's cube in 30 seconds. So, kind of like Tucker, I'm taking their word for it, but that was his claim to fame. We asked him to do it. Um he said, "Uh, can't do it." Um yeah, but maybe maybe, you know, before senior walk, something like that, I'll bring a Rubik's cube because it'd take me days. I'd have to peel off the stickers and
035everything. Um, you also volunteer for Weineberg Farms 12 Baskets Food Pantry. Tell us about those experiences. >> Yeah, at uh at Weineberg Farms, it's owned by a uh elderly woman and me and my friend Jake, we go over there and just help out with all the small tasks that, you know, might be hard for her are easy for us. So like for example lifting heavy heavy boxes or bending over to pick weeds just any way we can take some stress off of her. And then for 12 baskets um I sorted through all the donated clothes and just made sure they're ready for people that need them and also help with the food drive like loading up people's cards or cars and uh making sure everyone's fed. So >> awesome. What are your plans for next
036year and what's your course of study? >> Uh, I will be going to the University of Michigan at the RAW School of Business, uh, studying business administration. >> Awesome. And who's with you here tonight, man? >> Uh, my parents, Ruben and Liz Roslin. >> Congratulations, >> Sana Sutherland. >> How tennis? >> It was good. won. >> Awesome. Congratulations. So fun. They all have different matches, so it's good. And it didn't rain on you at all, right? No. >> Perfect. So Salana is a four-year academic award winner, a member of NHS, Model UN, and DECA. Also recognized as an AP scholar with distinction, plays varsity tennis, soccer, and cross country where she was team captain. Favorite class, 2D painting and AP psychology. Why did you enjoy those classes so much? >> Um, well, I liked APs.
037Like everyone said, Michney is just a really good teacher and I think the class does a good job of like um teaching you new things in different ways besides just like on a Chromebook or something. And then 2D painting was one of my favorites because I've always loved like art and I think Miss Lacy does a good job of making like engaging like projects for us to do and it's like painting. So >> awesome. You also volunteer for the Vixsburg drop-in daycare, Sunset Elementary, and 12 Baskets Food Pantry. Tell us about those experiences. Um, well, the Kazoo drop in daycare. I've been volunteering there for like four years every summer and I just help with the kids. Um, I like play with them, prepare their food, and it's just fun because I get to watch
038them kind of like grow up and make friends with them, I guess. >> That's awesome. >> And then I also do like the food pantry like said earlier, which is just loading carts. And then like sunset, which was Monday, Wednesday, and Friday every day in seminar, we would go over to sunset and help the third grade classrooms like read and like help them do their work in small groups. >> Fantastic. So, what are your plans for next year and what's your course of study? >> Um, I'm going to the University of Michigan and I'm majoring in CCN, which is biocsychology, cognition, and neuroscience. >> Awesome. And who's with you here today? >> Um, my mom Sonia, my dad Steve, and my brother Sawyer. Awesome. Congratulations. All right. Last but not least, Jake Vendor. So, Jacob
039is a four-year academic award winner who took 10 AP classes at VHS. Is also a member of NHS. He's a member of the varsity soccer team where he was two-time team captain and academic all-state. You stated that your favorite class was anatomy and physiology. >> Why did you choose that class? >> Um, I just found it really interesting to learn like how the body all works in like unison in order to like keep you alive and all the different systems that have to come together in order for you to function. >> Awesome. It also says that you volunteered for a local farmer 12 baskets food pantry and helped with youth soccer camps. What are the some of the things you've done to help with that farm? >> So, at the farm with Maddox and I
040where we've worked, it's for Stacy Weinberg and it was a really interesting kind of opportunity because I wouldn't have been able to do stuff like that without the volunteering. So, we like he said mostly we did we operated some like heavy equipment like farm equipment. We've shredded hay bales, built fences, taken down pens, cleaned their barns. She's got like five barns. A lot of work. um >> you know, just a bunch of stuff to help her out. >> That's awesome. Now, next year, where are you going and what are you planning on studying? >> So, I'm going to the University of Michigan. I got direct admit to their nursing program. So, with plans to become a nurse andist after college, work with anesthesia. >> Fantastic. And who's with you here tonight? >> Uh my parents,
041Corey and Jeff, and my grandparents, Jim and Sue. >> Congratulations, Jacob. Mr. O'Neal, I proudly present to you Suma Lai, class of 2026. Well, congratulations to you all. Very, very impressive. Congratulations to the significant educators out there. Uh, what an honor as an educator to to receive that. Um, I know I'll see some of you Wednesday evening at the awards. Um, but just going to encourage all of you to continue to um, finish this year strong and enjoy it. Make the most of it. It goes by fast. Uh, these next three weeks, four weeks, then open houses. That's a lot of fun. So, I just hope you all have a great time with all of that. And thank you for representing Vixsburg Community Schools the way you do. I'm always so impressed. Um, so thank
042you. Yeah. Um, you're a very impressive bunch and thinking the rigor that all of the classes that you took. Back in the day, I went to a high school did not have calculus, did not have AP classes, only had two years of foreign language. And here you are just doing amazing academic stuff. But I think even more important the the volunteering and the giving back. And it says a lot about your character. And I I that that you are wonderful representatives of this community, of this school, and of your families >> and for your parents. You obviously had a lot to do with these kids, getting them places and and encouraging them and disciplining them when they needed it. And you should be very very very proud. And I can't think of a bigger honor
043and a more meaningful honor for an educator than to be recognized by a student because that's why you went into this to try to have an impact. And I heard so many names mentioned and that's just marvelous and congratulations to you too to to have made a difference in in these students lives. Um are there pictures to be had? Yeah, Jessica, you want to come on down and direct? >> So, um parents, um obviously you if you want to stay for the rest of the board meeting, >> you know, >> it's fun. >> It's always a good time. Uh >> Mr. We're going to uh kind of dismiss. We're going to have uh the pictures of the top 10 and the award winners um that way. >> Yeah. and then we'll just take a little
044break so that if everybody else wants to clear the auditorium, you have time to do that. So, thank you for coming and congratulations. and I can finish up my report. >> Okay, we'll uh we'll get back in session and the floor is Keven's for the remainder of his report. >> Yeah, I just a few things I wanted to comment on tonight. Um if you recall, Lancing, they've been on spring break. they are back and before spring break if you recall Governor Whitmer had um issued her budget re recommendations. So currently in Lancing we have the House and Senate appropriation subcommittees. They're fully engaged in that process. Um so that work's going on line by line. But the big uh event that's coming up that we have our eyes on is the upcoming consensus revenue estimating
045conference. That will be this May. that will kind of be the the final details that will have that updated revenue picture that hopefully the lawmakers will take uh during this process and as we say um every month let's hope they deliver a budget on time uh unlike last year. So I will keep you posted on that. Um hopefully I do have an opportunity to uh go to Lancing in a few weeks and I'm hoping to uh meet with some legislators. Um, so I'll keep you posted on that as well. Uh, with that, uh, there's not much more going on in Lancing, but I do want to draw your attention to our important dates. Uh, and I want to thank Tamara. She really loaded a lot of dates in May in here because here we go
046with senior events um, in May, even though we'll have a board meeting in May um, just to have those on there. But this week, just a reminder to the board and the community that we have our last 2026 bond proposal community forum opportunity to hear more, ask questions. That will be in the library this Thursday here at this high school at 6:00. And then exciting for the high school, our senior day of service is also coming up. That will be April 24th. And I do know uh if you know of any um families or elderly um people that need help with their lawns, they're always looking for that. So feel free to reach out and we'll we'll uh um get Rachel King in touch with you on that. Um and then when we kick off
047May, of course, it's celebration season, so prom May 2nd. And then we have lots and lots of things. Uh again, I'm going to go back to don't forget to vote the election May 5th. Um a big day and then we'll we'll move into the half day on the 6th and then our big senior walk on May 8th where our seniors walk through all the schools. Always an exciting day. Um and then you can see the rest of the events coming up. Hardy Hustle, we'll have the senior honors on the 14th and then the big night commencement May 21st. Make sure that's on your calendar. seven o'clock in the stadium and then the following week we'll have Pathways graduation. And so lots of exciting opportunities to celebrate our wonderful and precious children here in Vixsburg. Um
048outstanding senior class. Looking forward to all these events as we move forward. And with that, that's my report. >> Very good. We'll move on to reports and public inquiry. We have a dairy bid from Crust Farms for 2026 27 school year. Sarah Dyer will fill us in on that. >> Good evening. I know we're wrapping up the school year 2526, but we are looking forward to 2627 in the food service department. So, we sent out um dairy bids to three companies, which would be Cedar Crust, Prairie Farms, and um Country Fresh. And the only bid that we received on time was for Cedarrest Dairy, which is our current milk supplier. And that bid would be for $92,61928 for next school year. And that is my recommendation. >> Is that much change from this year? >>
049No, it's almost exactly the same per carton. >> So that's exciting. >> Yeah. >> Were you surprised to only get one bid? >> I was. I thought Prairie Farms would probably um bid, which they did, but they sent it in much after the deadline, so unfortunately. >> Okay. Is that who we had last year? >> No, we've had zero questions for probably four years. >> Any other questions for Sarah? This is an action item um below. So, now's the time to get more info. Okay. Thank you very much. Uh item 2B is proposal for Prism's VR uh math curriculum and uh Denny Ree and you Okay. Good evening, Board of Education Superintendent. Uh, the Prism's VR math curriculum. So, this year was our our first year working with Prisms and it was a pilot. Uh,
050we were fortunate enough to get a grant for the foundation last year for the equipment. So, what we're asking for for the next year is the student license fee. We're looking at the algebra 1 and geometry classes specifically, so around 250 students for next year at a cost of $15 uh per student license. What this grants is full access to all the software for Prisms as well as the teachers getting to go in and see how the students are working through uh the virtuality lessons and getting the data back from their success on those. So, the reason we brought the uh Prisms VR uh to the high school over the last couple years is our math department has noticed as we go along uh a lack of engagement uh by some students. So, being very
051passive versus active during class. The purpose with uh the Prism virtuality is once you put those on, you're in it. Uh you can't do anything but uh go ahead and participate and be active in the class. It also answers um for the old traditional question, why are we going to use this? Well, this is it. Each of the modules or each of the the lessons through here answer a why for a specific content that we're going through in that class. Uh the prisons VR company has a lot of modules in the algebra and geometry realm right now. As far as the statistics and the calculus, they only have one module in each. uh some of the advanced math, pre-calculus, they have a few, but those are all still in development. So, we're going to stick
052with just the algebra and geometry for right right now uh because that's where we see the most lack of engagement is with the younger students and really wanting them to get comfortable uh with the mathematics at that time. uh some of the other things that we're looking at besides the engagement and the real world applications is uh the development of the spatial reasoning the 3D concepts and seeing that uh very important uh John Hetti looks at discovery based learning uh being a great way as well as direct instruction to learn mathematics uh release a little bit of uh mathematical anxiety and foster a growth mindset in in some of the students where we have seen a little bit of a drop off is in in think of this as a natural when you're in a
053classroom and you're listening to the teacher, you can act like you're paying attention and going along and the teacher's answering questions, but they might not single uh you out, you know, but once you're in virtual reality and you're there, it's just you working through this. And so if you hit a bump in the road and you might not know how to go on to the next lesson or the next level or the next concept, it's you struggling through this. So to give the students the idea of resilience, a little bit of grit, problem solving, working through something that you might not necessarily know how to do. We have seen some students um kind of push back on that like I don't want to get on the goggles today. It's not because they don't enjoy that
054part, but it is the part where it's you and you are moving forward and you are starting to have to learn and you can't just be passive or look at somebody else's paper or, you know, ask the teacher a question every two seconds. I'm there to help, to guide, to give hints, but they're really working on this on their own, and that really strengthens uh the mathematical concept and development. So, we're hoping to continue this partnership with Prism VR uh for years to come. Our science department is also looking at this uh potentially for virtual labs and such. Uh so, do you guys have any questions for me about how we're using uh this and the mathematical concepts or the Prisms VR company uh in general? Yeah, Tina, >> I don't really understand how you
055So, you're working through this thing. The student is >> Yes. >> Oh, I don't get this. How do you get into that so that you can see? >> Yeah. So, I can see. So, the nice thing, the the license, if you don't have the license, um I can't necessarily see what they're doing. They're just kind of going in there on the software. Uh there is a teacher dashboard with this. So I can quickly go in and kind of screencast and see exactly what they're doing. >> Okay. >> So I can help in that way as well as if they turn their wrist over. There's another couple applications on here. There's a a help button. >> They can get hints that way. I like them to go there first. >> But uh each of the teachers
056I suggested go through all the modules first on their own. And as I go through them, I can see like oo I can see where this area is going to be a problem, this area is going to be a problem. I write down or anticipate where I think students might have an issue. So, I kind of already know going in. But being able to have that teacher dashboard, I can look exactly where they're at. I can see how many times they've done something, what they've tried, maybe they're making a a small mistake with a negative sign or they didn't read the instructions properly. So, that's an excellent question. So, I'm glad you asked that. >> Thanks. >> It would seem that your goal is particularly with the students who are struggling to try to bring
057them up. Did you see grades improved that you had less you were given less Fs and D's. >> Uh that a little early to tell. It's kind of like a more of a baseline this year. That a couple of things we've done to gather data. Uh one at the end of each module there's a soft survey. Students kind of are asked questions about the module. Did they like it? Did they learn from it? Uh but then towards the end of that there's a a common form of assessment which means there's at least two or three questions about the content uh there. And where I'm seeing the growth is if I were to just teach this by me sitting in front of the class or talking about those types of things. Uh some students would pay
058attention, some students are not. But where I'm seeing more of is when I'm looking at those two or three questions as assessments. I'm seeing growth there and it's growth from all students, not just a small group of students that are choosing to participate. So that that is really I think where we're getting our bang for our buck. >> Are there any questions there? So how did you even decide to purchase it or to >> Yeah. Uh excellent question. So a after being more experienced in a few years with this uh I I think over the last five or six year I've looked at man there just seems to be a lack of uh engagement or some disengagement by groups of students especially after the co time which is very understandable. So I I started researching
059ways to get students involved and and we're doing other things in the math department besides just this. We're looking at some vertical learning things through K Resa and we're bringing those in uh more team based approach to problems. But I eventually found this idea cuz now math and physics are my background and that's uh the creator of this program Anarupa uh those have the same background there and so I started reaching out to schools that were close uh cuz I wanted to see it first >> and we eventually uh landed on Berian Springs and uh myself, Mr. Foley and Mr. Bruss did a visit down there. We watched it and specifically as you had mentioned, we watched it at their alternative school. Uh students that generally would not have been successful or have not been
060successful and to go in there and watch those students how engaged they were uh how they were learning. I could go through after a lesson and I started asking them questions uh about the content and they were giving me the answers and they could talk to me about it. Uh I thought that was pretty impressive. So that's kind of what maybe sold me on it was going and watching it firsthand versus just the the hardware and software itself. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> It's fascinating. >> Yeah, we're we're putting the kids uh you know, right in a nice tech way. Um, not only are they learning the math concepts, but you know, you see this on on TV with kids doing robotics or uh people at Boone doing simulations before
061they actually get out there into using the actual equipment. So, we're also giving them an idea of how they might use this in a job in the future. Uh, as well potentially. Who knows what's going to happen in the next 10 years with tech. But >> Jen, did you want to add anything? >> Denny said it perfectly. Um I guess um I just wanted to take a a second to explain that we do have a really involved curriculum review process when we take a look at our resources and um um it's never it's never the prettiest thing that we go after. We always are taking a look at our data. We are really taking a look at where uh we have growth. Um and as Daddy mentioned, we had some growth to do in student
062engagement and this seems to be a good fit for a supplementary resource. >> Yeah. Any other questions? >> These licenses, they every year does a student need a new license or >> Yeah, it is a year-by-year license uh fee. If we do bring along the science, so it's $15 that gives you the math package. If science comes along with their virtual labs, it's an additional five only. So, it' be 20 altogether. Yeah. So, it is a yearly cost unfortunately. uh that cost us that's in there also includes kind of the maintenance the downloading of the new modules uh any tech help or issues that we have during that time as well. >> Is this for middle school and high school or just >> uh they do have middle school programs. Uh this is just for
063the high school at this point. Uh but we have invited the middle school teachers to come over and take a peek and and get involved themselves. We'd love to to see them do that. There are actually more middle school modules than there are high school in here. No pressure. Well, thank you very much. >> Thank you for your consideration. >> Thank you for, you know, going the extra mile to try to >> try something new and and see if we can do better. Uh, next is item 2C, proposal for purchase of Chromebooks funded by proceeds from the 2020 bond. Adam Wal. >> Good evening everyone. My name is Adam Wals. I'm your director of technology services here at Vixsburg Community Schools. Tonight, I'm bringing forward our annual Chromebook purchase request for the 2026 2027 school
064year. This request is a part of our regular device replacement cycle and is intended to ensure that students across the district continue to have access to reliable instruction ready technology. Chromebooks are a daily tool for teaching and learning. They support our classroom instruction, our local and state assessments, communication, and access to the digital resources our students and staff use every day. This purchase helps us maintain that access without interruption and keeps us from falling behind on our replacement needs. As we built this request, we focused on both instructional needs and fiscal responsibility. We are recommending that these devices be purchased through the REMC pricing rather than other distributors. REMC pricing allows schools to take advantage of education focused cooperative purchasing and helps us secure strong pricing while maintaining consistency in the devices we deploy and
065support across the district. Board members may notice that Chromebook prices remain remain elevated compared to earlier years. A key reason is the current component market, especially um sharp increases in memory and storage has um greatly increased which continue to affect overall device pricing in 2026. This purchase also reflects a strategic approach to device selection. Rather than purchasing one model across the board, we are recommending a combination of the Lenovo 14M for our secondary students and the Lenovo 100e Chromebooks for our elementary students. This allows us to match the device to the level of need while balancing our overall cost. The higher spec devices are being purchased where that adds um durability and performance while the lowerc cost model um helps us meet our broader student deployment needs in a more budgetconscious way. the devices while
066well sorry will be distributed across the district um based on student enrollment current inventory and device age and replacement priorities within each building. This is not simply an equal split from building to building. It is meant to be an equitable and practical distribution based on where the need is greatest. In addition to the devices themselves, this request includes licenses for all 800 units. Those licenses are necessary part of the Chromebook deployment and management. They allow us to securely enroll, manage, update, and monitor the devices within our district's environment. We are also including protective cases for 500 units. This is a practical step to help protect the district's investment in those Chromebooks. The cases can reduce accidental damage, help extend the life of the devices, and lower the repair costs over time. It's important to note
067that the ces cases being purchased are intended for the secondary level only as those devices travel back and forth from home and school. The cost breakdown is as follows. 500 Lenovo 14M devices at a total of $167,000. 300 Lova 100e devices at a total of $78,900. 800 licenses at a total of $23,600. And 500 protective cases at a total of $12,875. This brings the total purchase request to $282,375. Overall, this is a planned annual investment that supports our student students learning, maintaining operational efficiency, and reflects the responsible stewardship of our district resources. We're asking for the approval to um move forward with this purchase so devices can be ordered, prepared, and deployed for the coming school year in a meaningful manner. Thank you. What questions may you have? >> So, is this 25 or 30%
068of the total number of Chromebooks? Are you like about every three years you're turning over, every four years? Is that >> Yep. Yep. So, every year we turn over somewhere between um about 25 to 30% of the fleet. Um this allows us to upgrade um the incoming freshman class as well as the incoming sixth grade class, which gives them about a 3 to four year use on those devices. um which just um it's a it's a much more um significant turnaround time for us to make sure that we're staying in compliance with state regulations for state testing, which is one of the biggest needs um for the um that um change. Um as well as then um the change in our elementaryaries to make sure that we are continuing to cycle out and keeping our
069devices between a five and sixyear um window so that we're keeping reliable devices for their state testing as well. the devices that we retire, do they is there anything any value to those? >> There is unfortunately very rarely any value. Um, Chromebooks, unfortunately, um, as well as much technology, as soon as you cross about the six to sevenyear threshold, um, their value plummets off significantly. Every once in a while, there'll be a reseller that comes along, but when you look at the fees in shipping because they won't cover your shipping fees, um, you're barely coming out even at times, unfortunately. Steve, I have a question for you. We're paying this out of the the bond proceeds. Is the next bond proposal we would pay for technology out of that as >> Yeah. I mean, we
070have anticipated continuing this program with the next bond issue. >> So, there are dollars allocated for >> devices, network infrastructure, and that type of thing in the next bond. >> So, that's $250 to $300,000 annually. that does not have to come out of the general form. >> Absolutely. And it's more than I mean that's these are just the device uh replacements. I mean when we're talk about um SEC, you know, security and switches and updating cabling and access points and all of that stuff. It's uh you know, it's probably closer to a half million a year. >> Oh. >> Um so it's it's a significant line item. I do want to um just recognize Adam and um tell him I appreciate uh you know we've been talking about memory costs and all that and you
071know you really um I appreciate your due diligence and trying to find the best um solution um we're going with REM but you know you went beyond that to get additional quotes um which you know REMC fulfills all our bidding requirements but um I appreciate that you went the extra mile to try to find some additional quotes and so I just yeah appreciate your work on that. >> Thank you. >> So Adam, when do you when do you need to purchase these though? >> Um the current market is kind of all over the place. Um so the reason we wanted to bring this forward so early is so that we could take advantage of trying to get ahead of the curve. Um there's great um urgency in the current tech world right now in terms
072of uh inventory just from distributors alone. >> Um last year we ran into the problem of like inventory fell um very quickly and unfortunately Chromebooks came later than anticipated which you know created a mad dash for the start of the school year to make sure we had devices for students. Um, so we're looking to avoid that this year and trying to get ahead of the curve um and and making sure that we've got those devices in hand and that we're not putting the stress on the staff or the students um to get those devices in hand on day one um for um all of our needs. >> Okay. So I don't understand. Um so we have to pass this bond to pay for this no 2020. That's what I thought. >> Prior bonds where we
073still have proceeds. Gotcha. I was um in responding to Dave, I was >> just reassuring that we will continue to, you know, if the bond should pass, um we'll continue to have a dedicated stream of revenue to take care of that. >> I see. Okay, makes sense. >> Anything else? Okay, thank you very much. Nice presentation. >> Thanks, Adam. >> All right, we saved the best for last, Steve. >> Yeah. Well, um I'll keep it brief. That might be the best thing I can do there. Um I'll just go through um the normal monthly budget progress report, make a few comments and answer any questions that you guys have. Uh this includes activity through the end of March. Um and on a year-to- date basis, you can see revenue uh total 21,547 371. That's lower
074than it was at this time last year um both in terms of dollars and uh percentage. Um, a large part of that is just timing difference. Um, we'll have some additional revenue coming in. Um, we've got some federal reimbursements that we're working on. We'll see those come in. Um, on the other line, we've got some, uh, we're just behind where we were at this time last year with certain payments from, uh, Kesa and then we've just got some timing differences on the state. So, um, when I consider those, we're a lot closer to where we were at this time last year in terms of percentages. On the expenditure side, um, total instructional expenditures came in at 13,484. Um, just not quite 60%. Uh, and you can see how that compares to last year, a little
075bit below. On support services, uh, those total 10,74,000. Um, again, pretty comparable to where we were at this time last year, a little bit below. And you can see there's breakdown for athletics and community services. And so, total expenditures on a year-to- date basis for 24,663,000. If I look at the second page of that report, um includes expenditures by object code, um you can see that salaries and benefits year-to- date 20,67,000 or not quite 62% of the annual budget. That's a little ahead of where we were at this time last year, but not by a dramatic amount. Um and then you can see there's breakdown for purchase services, supplies, capital outlay, and other. And again, we're um tracking uh pretty much as we would expect a little bit um on a percentage basis um between
076this year and last year. So, it's uh budget season for sure and we'll be uh anxiously waiting for more developments out of the state of Michigan, including the May uh as Keven mentioned, the May revenue consensus estimating conference. Are there any questions on this report? All right. If not, then uh second item in my report this evening is just an update on the district's investments. Um this should all look pretty familiar to everybody by now. Um investments are broken down by each of the different funds that have dedicated investments. Um we continue to see interest rates trend down but very slowly at this point. Um, so we continue to still uh earn, you know, a significant amount of uh investment income. And just as a reminder, each of those funds, the building and site funds,
077the debt service funds, those are uh all legally restricted on how uh those monies can be spent. So when we earn investment return in those funds, the revenue has to stay with that fund. Um you can see that uh we continue to do reasonably well on a year-to-ate basis uh just for these accounts uh through uh my uh we have uh year-to- date earned 365,715. So any questions on that? If not then uh that will conclude my report. Thank you, Steve. Uh, our next uh, agenda item is for public comment. Meetings of the board are open to the public. It's the time the board conducts the business of governing the school system in the public arena. This is not intended as a meeting with the public with ongoing dialogue. Staff may follow up with you
078regarding issues raised during comment time. Please exercise the quorum and respect laws regarding privacy and defamation. Please do not refer to students by name. And speakers are limited to three minutes. And we have one person, the illustrious Dusty Morris. >> Yay. >> Oh, and you want to >> I got the timer going. >> You got the timer going. >> I'll try to keep it under three minutes. >> Usually does. You're pretty good. >> Well, uh, thank you school board and and administrators. Uh, I'm Dusty Morris, president of EA, and I'm happy to share these stories of our members going above and beyond for our students. Uh, here's a fun story out of Toby Tatum Odell, uh, lead to uh, led Toby in an amazing fundraiser for the Kids Heart Challenge, which raised $25,000 for the
079American Heart Association. Uh, Tatum also kicked off the annual mileage club program at Toby this week, and the students have already run hundreds of miles. They are encouraging each other and they are setting big goals. Uh Melissa Sparks, Jay Bennett and I, as well as Tim Fuller, although he's not a member of the VA, um are very proud to share that two of our lead actors from our musical 42nd Street were nominated for the Sutton Foster Awards for outstanding performances. They will receive some private coaching and perform in a showcase that exhibits the best talent in Michigan high school theater. Uh the adjudicators had lots of great compliments to say. Um, but uh I'd like to share this one above all. Quote, "The choreography was exceptional, arguably the most impressive I've seen at the high
080school in quite some time." End quote. Um, so that of course is big big kudos to Melissa Sparks as you guys saw and heard um her teaching them to tap dance. You heard Avi talking about how hard they worked all year long. Uh it it's pretty impressive. Um, some of our AP teachers at the high school were awarded an excellence in education grant and will be attending the annual AP conference in Las Vegas this summer. And uh, also high school teachers Ally Lamers, Lindseay Chhatel, and Jesse Doning uh, applied for a Bardin grant to attend the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning Conference in Grand Rapids before spring break. They said that they learned a lot about uh technology from different experts and they are already using this in the classroom to aid student
081learning. So thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> All right. We move on to board action required. Uh we have approval of the following board meeting minutes. Uh item 4 A1, the minutes from March 9, which our usual meeting. Um I need a motion. So move approval. >> Move approval by Tina. >> Support by Ron. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I oppose. >> Item 4B, approval of the dairy bid from Cedar Crest Farms in the amount of 92,61928 for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Approval. Move by Tina. >> Second. Second by Lucas. Any discussion, questions? Okay. Lucas, >> yes. >> Lisa, >> yes. >> Tina, >> yes. >> Ron, >> yes. >> Rick, >> yes. >> And yes. >> Item 4 C, approval of Prism's VR math curriculum. >> So
082moved. >> By Tina, >> second. Second by Lisa. The back pain's moving things along here. Uh, >> any discussion or comment? Okay. Uh, Lucas, >> yes. >> Lisa, >> yes. >> Tina, >> yes. >> Ron, >> yes. >> Rick, >> yes. >> And yes. >> Item 4 D, approval of Chromebook purchase using proceeds from the 2020 bond. >> So moved. >> Support. >> Lisa and Tina. Any discussion, comment? Okay. Lucas, >> yes. >> Lisa, >> yes. >> Tina, >> yes. >> Ron, >> yes. >> Rick, >> yes. >> And yes. Item 4E, we have approval to extend the following administrative team members individual contracts for the 2026 2027 school year based on evaluations uh through from through 2025 2026. And item 4E1, we have all the principles uh A through G and with the board's
083approval, we can do it that way. Keven, do you want to make any comment about that? Uh no, just truly appreciate all the hard work and dedication that my principles uh and directors display on a daily basis. Um very excited to have them on the agenda for um uh for the contract for next year. >> And I move approval. Are you doing all >> We're doing uh all the principles uh E1 A through G. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> And so we have a motion. >> Second. We got a second from Rick. And that doesn't have to be. >> Yes. >> Oh, it is a Rick. Okay. Lucas, >> yes. >> Lisa, >> yes. >> Tina, >> yes. >> Ron, >> yes. >> Rick, >> yes. >> And yes. >> Uh 4E2 are directors and
084supervisors and coordinators. And we have A through I as listed. >> So moved. >> Support. >> Tina and Ron. Any questions, discussion? Okay. Lucas, >> yes. >> Lisa, >> yes. >> Tina, >> yes. >> Ron, >> yes. >> Rick, >> yes. >> And yes. >> Uh, item 4 F, approval to extend the following non-line position contract for 2026 27 school year based on evaluations through 2526. And that's Tim Fuller, performing arts center manager. Um, why is that handled a little differently, Keven? That's not listed as your usual directors. I forgot why that is. >> Yeah. Uh Tim isn't part of the administrative team. Um so it is just kind of a um a nonline position. >> I see >> in the district. >> Okay. >> I'll move approval on that. He's done an excellent job
085over the years, I think. >> Second. >> And second from Lucas. >> Any other questions, comments? Okay. Lucas, >> yes. >> Lisa, >> yes. >> Tina, >> yes. >> Ron, >> yes. and Rick. >> Yes. >> And yes for me. Uh approval to extend the following contract as per contractual agreement. Item 4G1. That's uh Steven Goss, our assistant superintendent. >> Who is that? >> Move approval. >> Tina. >> Support from Ron. Comments, questions. I really personally appreciate that we have somebody who's an accountant doing this and it increases my confidence in the financial u aspects of the school and I really appreciate what you do a lot Steve >> we all do >> yes we all do that's true >> so did we have a we did have a motion okay >> Lucas >> yes
086>> Lisa >> yes >> Tina >> yes >> Ron >> yes >> and Rick >> yes >> and yes uh item 4 is Second reading, approval of the following policies. And we have H1 through H14. And just as a reminder, six of these are policies being eliminated because one that we've rewritten. And it really essentially is two separate policies that apply to different groups. So it it it's not as many as it looks. And this is a second reading that we had. And if with the board's approval, we'll try to if we can knock off all 14 of them at the same time, that would be >> so moved. >> Moved by Lucas. >> Supported by Tina. Questions, comments. Okay. >> Lucas, >> yes. >> Lisa, >> yes. >> Tina, >> yes. >> Ron, >>
087yes. >> Rick, >> yes. >> And yes. And with that, that concludes our business for the evening. It was a very enjoyable evening. Thank you all.