Special Board of Education Meeting, May 4, 2026

001Good evening. It is 6 pm and I am um very excited to call our special board meeting to order. And with that, I will ask that everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God. indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Amen. >> Thank you. Mrs. Hines, will you please call ro? >> Yes. >> Ambress >> present. >> Miss Abby Mitchell >> present. >> Dr. Weaver >> present. >> Hines present. Mr. Cox >> present. >> Mr. Roshan >> present. >> President May >> present. We have 70. Thank you so much. With that, we are at the item or yeah, at the point where we will um accept citizens comments on

002agenda items. Do we have any? >> Nope. All right. Next, we are with recognitions and [clears throat] presentations. And we do not have any for this agenda. I'm sorry, we do have one for this agenda. The reason why we are here. Um I will now turn it over to Dr. CS in regards to our financial transparency and recommendations. >> Well, welcome everybody. Thank you for um juggling another night on your calendars during a very busy month. Um I am uh confident that we're going to have a great dialogue, some discussion and uh get your feedback. And uh we have done this same presentation to our leadership team of administrators here, our union presidents. um some principles took it upon themselves to go to their staffs as well. And so we wanted to bring all of

003that information and ideas to you tonight uh and let you hear what we've been hearing and see [clears throat] if we're on target or if we've missed something or if we need to think about something differently. So, by the end of the night tonight, I am hoping that uh we will have a good understanding of why we have a shortfall this year. Uh we'd like to look at the projected fund balance for the end of the year. Um we're going to talk a little bit more about the process we use to uh get ideas from all stakeholders. We're then going to carry that forward and see what this could look like for 2627. Um, we know that uh an enrollment task force has been hard at work. It's also a third goal of mine. So,

004we're going to give you an update to that. The reason that ties into this budget conversation is because enrollment is is how we get our our money. So, they go hand in hand. Um, and then last but not least, we're going to tell you next steps and timelines. So, without further ado, I'm going to turn the show over to Juel, uh, who's going to go through a couple slides, and these are the exact same ones that the the leadership and the unions have seen, uh, that talk about why we are where we are right now. So, Juel, >> okay. Um, so we budgeted a loss of 9.3 million for this year, and the reason is we've lost 300 students. So, that's the three million Um we increased staff and transportation this year that was a

005million. We decreased the state decreased categorical which which was 4.785. So that kind really hurt us. We had two [clears throat] employees coming out of the service learning grant. They are now in general fund and I'm not expecting we're going to be able to get 200,000 from food service this year for indirects. um because they're serving less food, they'll make less money. And they also bought a refrigerated truck this year. So, I budgeted a 16.3% fund balance at June 30th >> that that's where we're going to be, right? >> That's where we're going to be unless we get some more categoricals. And so far, we really haven't. So, carrying this forward into 627. We are thinking that we're going to get 250 because both the Republicans and the uh Democrats are talking 250. So that

006it's pretty agreed upon that that's what's going to happen. If that does, we'll get an additional 2.4 million. Um however, we will have wage increases of 3.3 for just general fund non grants. Um we projected another loss of kids, which would be about a million. Um, a curriculum, math curriculum that's necessary is 1 million. And if that 9 million carries over from we lost 9 million last year, there's no reason to think that we would have the same except for these differences. So, if nothing changes, we would end up with an 8.4 fund balance. in 2627. So we have in order to keep around a 16% fund balance, we have come up with 7.9 some suggestions for cuts that would get us around 7.9 million next year. [clears throat] >> Angie, you want to talk

007about the process? >> Sure. Um, so the process for kind of how we have come up with those proposed plan of some savings has been several um executive cabinet meetings with our leadership team and then uh the transparency and input sessions. Uh we had uh one meeting with our leadership council which includes all the administrators and um supervisors, executive leadership and then we met with all six union leaders and we then have this board workshop today um and then hoping to come back again kind of around to to uh those groups including the enrollment task force which I'll talk about in a minute and And then there is a legislative lunch coming up as well. And that's just another opportunity for us to talk about the categoricals for different funding things that have negatively impact

008Wayne Wesland to our legislators. >> May I ask a question really quick? Um Juel, can you talk to us a little bit about the categoricals that we lost? What were those categoricals? Well, the biggest one that really hurt is the 5 million. It's 147 A4. We don't have any 147A's at all this year. These are UALs that come in, but there's no out. We get to keep the money. So, that is the wor, you know, the worst one. Um we also 147 A2 that was 3.5 million and uh you know we do have some those are big numbers but we do have offsets. Um they gave us uh 1 million69,000 for something called uh healthcare I'm sorry it was 1.4 a healthc care offset. So, um we got 147E went down by 272,000. Um so,

009what with what we got extra and what we lost, it's a net of what I had over here. 4.7 in all the districts this is this happened to you know I looked at uh put and I looked at Leavonia they've all budgeted losses for uh in their second budget for this year because of this so um and I don't know that the legislators, you know, realized what they did to us because, you know, they gave us an increase in in our C in our foundation, but then they took away the categorical, so it wasn't lost to us. So, we're going to be meeting with them uh discussing that, you know, that because they've been patting themselves on the back that they gave us such a great uh package this actually Thank you. Really, just one

010more followup. So, it we didn't lose, did we lose any categoricals that were related to instruction? Because I know like they had, you know, put like the literacy grants, all these different other little grants, but we didn't lose any of those. here. I just did our V. >> It went, you know, but also our numbers went down. >> So, a lot of those are per pupil. So, okay. You know, they some of them went down, but um >> they weren't a loss, >> right? Okay. Because we got >> we got the mental health, you know, that 31A and our 31A went up >> over $2 million. And you know to someone that you know a legislature probably thinks well look you got this money but that's not general fund. It can't be used just for

011anything. They're they're restricted so it doesn't [clears throat] help I mean we're happy that we got it but it doesn't help our general fund. >> Thank you Joel. >> Did that address your 31A question? So 31A, we got extra money because other districts didn't take the money, >> right? >> So that you said it was about 2 million. >> Yeah. The mental health grant went up went up because other ones didn't take it. No, actually it's 3.4 million. I'm sorry. That was the increase uh in the mental health grant from last uh year. So we're getting u 3.4 million ua um Our literacy supports we got of the early literacy targeted instruction. We lost that but they gave us something called literacy PD curriculum supports a 35J. So we ended up better off than we

012were but those have to be used for only certain things and they don't help our general fund. >> Right. I didn't when you said did I didn't answer my 31A question. Are you talking about the conversation we had? >> Right. >> Okay. No, that question. Oh, that was you, Joe. I'm sorry. I was like, is it me on Sorry. >> No, my question around 31A when we had our update meeting was just we had that additional like 800,000 and how we were planning to use that, but I wasn't asking that at this point. >> It is a question. >> Capturing kids hearts is 31A funded, right? >> So, that is a big piece of it. It's spread over two uh fiscal years, but there is a big piece of capture kids hearts that were using

013the 31A entitled. >> Yep, that's what she said. But it was like it was that and it was um I think school psychologist and something else, but then it was still 800k left and I was asking, >> okay, >> what did we gonna talk about that today? But I wasn't there yet. [laughter] >> I let you guys get there. >> I'm sorry, miss. I'm hiding a question. >> Yes, I have a quick question. I remember some time ago we used to have the Wayne Westland language. It was in our legislators some years ago. Remember when the proposal 8 went down and we had special language to Wayne Westland with our legislators? >> Know what that number is for? >> Anyway, so what they did they had extra money that went to Wayne Westland schools that

014the legislator put out for Wayne Westland schools. I wonder if there's a way we can bring that back to help us from the shortfall because it was some years ago we used to have it to pass it in Lancing but it expired but it was the Wayne Wesland language and it was additional money they gave to Wayne Westland school because of the pupil funding and the proposal a so um maybe I can ask if they can revisit that maybe it was just for Wayne Westland. >> Yeah. Well when we have the legislative lunch we hope you are there >> to uhate for us. [clears throat] >> Any other questions? I got a question about the categoricals. So when you gave that information, you gave numbers, but that don't tell us what the money went to.

015What was the cut? >> Well, like what it paid for you, >> right? What it cut out that we are all cate these are categoricals that can be used in general funds. So there was no >> those weren't those aren't special, you know, like you can use them for anything. Okay. Cuz I was just thinking that, you know, when we didn't get the funding, when y'all say categoras, it was certain things that we didn't get [clears throat] the funding for, >> right? But they are still those were general fund categorical, so they weren't uh grants restricted. They could be used right in your general fund. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> So, I got one more thing. When um I used to work for the city, Rashidita had these programs. is called the um

016[cough and clears throat] this is called the community project funding and it's certain money set aside for Congress for certain like projects and grants that's already pre-allocated and so I talked to her people to see if I get back on the list because the municipalities and the school district using they have like really big like 1.2 2 million $2.5 million grants. So, I'm going to see if I get back on that list to get some of those. So, that can help us as well, especially with Rashidita, you know, being our congresswoman, and they have certain money set aside. Well, um I'm going to be coming up to a grant that we, you know, um we're hoping to get that they have our name, uh listed, one of four. So, um we just want some things

017changed about it that so we'll be trying to beat them up a little bit at that. uh lunch in to and and I'll one of us still talks about it. I'm not sure whose slide it's on, but we'll be bringing that one up. >> Dr. Weaver, >> um Jules, several um hold on just a second. I got it. The old man has uh invaded, so hold on just a minute. Um I'm sorry. I'll come back to it. >> Okay. Um so now talking about uh next year. So our goal was to get that seven um.8 7.9 million decrease so we can still have reasonable fund balance. Um did you want to Alex talk about the layoffs or do you you want me just generically? >> All right. So I want to just emphasize that $3

018million is an estimate. So basically what happened when we had our lawsuit [snorts] enrollment, we had to staff a little bit differently this year. So what that meant was we went and looked at the contract language and we looked at the loss [snorts] at each building uh across the district and we had some reductions in uh FTES across the district. So at the elementary level and at the secondary level, we had a roughly 18 allocations that we went down. And then by doing that, that kind of led to our displacement process that's been going on for the past few weeks where essentially people that got bumped out of spots because there's less positions in their building, got on a list of displaced teachers. And in that throughout that process, we would call people in seniority

019order, and basically they have the option of uh what vacancies we'd have. So we looked at our retired uh teachers, we looked at vacancies that we'd have for the upcoming school year, and that led to people picking their position that they were qualified to teach. We then led to that leads us to uh people that are going to be laid off at the end of this school year. So, we'll be sharing a list of names with you guys. Um when we look at all of the displaced teachers, the layoffs and the retirements, there are some positions that we have to rehire. And the goal is when we're rehiring uh positions for retirees, we're going to try to hire them at a lower level. So when we look at our layoffs, when we look at the

020positions that we're going to backfill at a lower level, and we have a couple of positions at the board level that are going to not be backfilled, we know that they're going to be retiring going into next year. It gives us a savings of a couple million dollars. And part of the reason why I said that's a bit of an estimate is because we don't know what we're going to hire some of those positions back at, but the goal is that we hire them less than what we were paying them this school year. So that's kind of an unknown. you want to talk about this. >> Any questions on that? >> That's right. >> So, the the next one that we talk about property sales um the 500,000 is the Marshall. Um that one we

021should be collecting on um this fiscal year. And what I mean by that is by the end of June um actually tonight is at the city council meeting presenting um proposal to get the brownfield um funding for uh to support or to yeah for them to get it for the and we get a portion of that too and I'm not exactly what that portion do if they do get that [snorts] from the city they'll we'll get a portion of that the 300,000 that would be on top of that is for the ketering uh property um that they put an offer in on and that we accepted. Um so that would be the 800,000. Um the last time that I spoke with them in regards to when the demo would be uh they're looking for the

022demo of the Marshall property to be uh sometime within uh early June or going into the second or third week of June. And it all depends on the brownfield funding. they're going to do it regardless, but the brownfield funding would support the demo. Um, I know there's been some articles and stuff out there regarding the city. Um, the city is not demoing that building. Um, that I just want to make that very clear. Um, I just spoke to them on Friday. Um, they are demoing the building and the building was sold um or the property. Um, obviously we sold that to them. So, I know there's been I know I've seen for sure Um, channel 7 did a spot on it and it the city has nothing to do with the demo. Um, if you

023guys have any questions, you could ask. >> I got one more question. >> Yep. >> So, with the property with the inksters, I know we're in the middle of that like um like so whoever buys same thing like the py with the marshall be the same thing. We'll get like a little sum of money just like Marshall and Ketering. >> Correct. >> When we sell that property. >> Yep. they would um I mean it's it's they they have told me too that they're they were interested in in at least one one piece of that property in that space um for construction in that space. So depending on where we're at with that that could happen too >> thank you >> okay the next item we're going to including the layoffs. And we're going to um

024spend extra effort on reconciling and getting our health insurance uh lowered or um less by 200,000. We also have got a company that is going to pay our coaches if they're a coach that is not another employee. That's all they do is coach. They'll be paid by a third party. We will not have to pay OS for them. So they'll be a $100,000 savings on those. We've switched to set seg starting 71. Our uh insurance is $160,000 less than the previous than this year. We're increasing our fees. We have not increased them since 2012 for uh people that use our buildings. And some uh you know on Sundays we pay double time on Saturday we pay time and half and in many cases we're losing money by renting the you know the building out because

025we're not charging at least the cost of those people. So those prices had to go up. Um we may lose some people but we were losing money on them. So um that had to be done. Juel, can you talk to the reduction of the superintendent salary? >> Oh, I'm sorry. I skipped something. Okay. Um, we're only paying one superintendent now. In December, our other superintendent fell off of our uh we're not paying him anymore. So, now we're only paying one person to do that job. So, that's a savings of $300,000 or more per year. You can stop me anytime. >> I just have one question. >> Go ahead. >> Yeah. With the um renting of the buildings, I know a lot of the churches sometimes rent and maybe to increase maybe we have more churches,

026you know, more community uh people, you know, rent the buildings out at a price to kind of help, you know, they have we have beautiful facility over at Dery, you know, something like that and really kind of reach out to community if they want to rent out a We have a kitchen all nice, you know, for certain community events to pay just like you do the city of Westland to rent out those facilities. >> Yeah, we do have churches now that rent on Sundays. >> Yeah, maybe you just increase the price. Say, hey, we got to pay, you know. >> Yeah, I mean that's what we're doing. And we have a letter going out. This will start 71 the new prices. We have we have a letter going out to all of our current uh

027renters and then our prices that we uh have on the internet will be you know they'll be increased so that any new person will see the new prices and maybe we should get together with all the you know groups like at one time you know have like a little meeting so that it's not because about relationships you know what I'm saying and there's a lot of churches that don't really have churches because I know John Glenn has a couple I know lanterns and stuff like that they go and maybe just have them come together maybe might even have more come out. Maybe they might split because I went to one church um and they were sharing the building. You know, one would have the half session, another would have the half and with Glenn that

028they can just have certain times. You might even have two, you know, to make up the difference of the cost, but maybe have them all come together like one maybe even a whole committee with our religious groups and stuff like that because we have a lot of churches that support the Wayne Westland schools and >> Yeah. Um most of them that support us are in their own buildings. [clears throat] Uh we checked that any of the ones that are renting are not uh >> I don't want >> like partners. Let's say that that way. >> And some might not even know that's an option, you know, too with the rent. [cough] [clears throat] >> Well, yeah. I mean, we don't really advertise. Uh that's for sure. Uh just the people that find out about it

029or they see it on our website. um >> because it might be worth it even with because um I know like you know miss Dr. Weaver knows about it's really difficult to find church buildings and they're super expensive. So, a lot of churches would, you know, use our buildings to save prices even, you know, they have to pay a little bit extra with their maintenance to take it because it's super hard and very expensive to find church buildings >> knowing that space because having to rent some stuff out before for business. We're our prices are reasonable and they're going to see that even our increase that we did >> are still reasonable. I do I don't think there would be anything wrong with reaching out to the churches and telling them why. Uh, and I

030think that can be done. But just looking at what we increased, we're still in a good space. And I honestly don't believe we're going to lose anyone. Uh, because even if they tried to go outside of our district, I'm talking within five miles, they're not going to find anyone because we're still reasonable with their prices. So, I think we've done justice in that space to keep our partnerships, but also knowing that we haven't increased I don't since I've been here, I know we haven't increased. I haven't had it in 15 years probably. So, we have been pretty good with that. But I do agree with you at some point the conversation. Uh I don't I don't think they're going to be get the sticker shock that >> that we think they get from it because

031I looked at the prices and kind of compared where still >> and also >> I'm sorry Mr. Rashan was next and then >> excuse me. you I think you answered one of my questions was um are we doing marketing for our buildings to rent them out. Um and you said we're not really marketing. >> Not right now. >> Right. Not right now. >> Something. >> Okay. >> You think we should do? >> Yeah, we probably should. >> Uh but my second question was outside of churches, uh what businesses or organizations is renting our building? >> Uh so football >> uh is a lot. uh driver's education. >> You guys want me? >> No, go ahead. >> Um >> Aaou maybe. >> We we ran out and I do also want to mention that we uh

032there was a situation we run in tournaments. That's going to be a cost savings too to the district in regards to there was a little bit of miscommunication regards to uh who was paying for the for the tournaments that we have internally. But there's also outside entities that run our spaces out for tournaments, too, because we we are unique because of Wayne and how we have the basketball courts on at both buildings. So, it's a great place to run tournaments. In the summer, uh we rented out for um I can't think of the name, but it's a huge organization uh for Little League football. >> It's m you would probably enjoy coming by there. When I say it's our most attended event in the whole year, it that it is that >> and it's in

033the summer and it's in July. Is it Alex? We have it. >> It's huge. And uh we rent that out. We also get concessions for that. Um so we are in a space that we we rent a lot of our facilities [clears throat] out. Um so the increase, like I said, is fair and reasonable. Um and that's just by looking at other districts surrounding us. And I don't think it's a bad idea to market that even more because at this point we're almost our our facilities are being reused seven days a week. Um but >> I think if we did some work on some of our our other fields like baseball and softball, we could rent those out for tournaments because those are huge to rent that out too. >> Scott, along those same lines,

034that was one of the things as Angie goes over some of the things that came from our enrollment task force. >> Marketing is going to be a big piece of it. We'll talk a little bit about some of the targeted marketed efforts we're going to >> also um grad parties um wedding receptions things like that uh could be in the marketing too. >> Doesn't have to be companies center. >> Okay, >> Mrs. Mitchell. >> Yes. I was going to ask about you when you said staff double time and triple time. So, who is the staff that's having to have to um provide services for those events? >> Uh building and grounds anytime in one of our facilities is being used, we have to have a at least one sometimes it's more building and grounds people

035and Saturdays they get paid time and a half on Sundays they get double uh no triple. So the person in building and grounds to say like the person um aren't they um salary people? No >> custodians are hourly. >> No they hourly all of them. >> Yeah >> even the supervisor. >> No the supervisors are uh salaried. >> Okay. Yeah, that's what my question is. Cuz most times that you have a position that you can work over 80 hours or work on the weekends, they be salary. But I see the union person said no way. [laughter] That was my question. >> Yeah, they're salary, but they're in a union. >> Yeah. Oh, >> and really it's the hourly custodians who are putting in the work. >> Oh, really? I mean, because I guess because when

036I was in management, I always had salary positions and the weekends and whatever. I had to be there no matter what. Yeah. And just so you know, we don't charge our own kids uh for in when they're using our buildings. These are outside individuals. >> Okay. >> So, if the people are all ours, we don't charge for the building. Oh, thank you for adding that. But yeah, we figured that much. >> Okay. And we are going to try to reduce our legal expenses by 50,000. Um, something that we've never done before is our middle school. We the spectators are going to start paying when they come to see their children play. We don't charge anybody to to play the games, but we don't charge right now middle school uh families to come to watch their

037their kids. And we were the only team in our uh we our previous league, which is the KLA, that did not do that. So, us doing that is not going to be a shocker for uh the parents at this point because they had to pay when they went to other other facilities >> for middle school, >> right? And we aren't charging the other kids parents when they come to ours. You know, we're not paying, nobody's paying to come to these gates. >> Yes. >> And I have one quick question because I know you guys have to decrease the transportation cost by the 500,000. >> Um, but what I'm concerned about the whole straight up news and the diesel prices and the gas like how much can we estimate? It's kind of hard to tell with

038it being up and down, but I know it's going to cause a negative with the budget with those high costs with the transportation. Um that's true. Uh I have heard talk that uh we might get a categorical for some additional funds this year because of the prices of uh fuel. We'll again we'll talk to our legislature when they hear but this past winter has you know been rough. Uh we had cold super cold weather. We used a lot of salt, a lot of overtime because of our being uh building in grounds people, you know, having to uh come in early. Uh [snorts] constantly through, you know, had a lot of overtime to keep that ice and snow under control. So, it has been a bad year as far as uh fuel for sure. [clears throat]

039And do we have reserves with salt because I know we had bought a whole bunch the last time. Remember one year we didn't use it and we kept it in the reserves. How are we doing with the salt so far? >> Almost everyone in the county uh was in deficit this year. So they were borrowing from from Wayne County. Us included. We had days that we were we were down to nothing. Like we when we got done and then the next day, thank God, we got a delivery. So [clears throat] we were in a bad place, but we were there was a um definitely a deficit of salt in Wayne County last year for sure. But yeah, I know what you're talking about. We usually have a surplus and we keep that surplus for the

040following year. Uh that would be great to say we could do that this year. Um we we buy our salt through a consortium just like everyone does. So that ends up being a a price and that's why everyone was impacted by it this year. But yeah, I think it's a great idea to do that. But you never know what's going to happen in the winter depending on like we didn't get a ton of snow this year, but we got a lot of cold uh mornings with uh sleep and stuff like that. So we did have and all of our vehicles that remove snow um obviously [cough] are run [clears throat] on fuel too. So >> and one more question. Is there any talk of having electric buses? Would that help or be worse? >> I'm

041going to speak personally and then I'm going to speak for our our transportation uh director. I I don't think that is the the way the direction that people are going right now with electric buses. I think there's been uh issues with electric buses and that's not that's throughout the country. Um so uh that's my personal opinion and that's I think that's the that would be the opinion of at least the people within our space about moving forward with that and I you know with the cost savings of electric compared to diesel right now the way diesel prices are uh hopefully at some point there our gas prices will get back to at least some normaly um but yeah if you were saying to buy them right now I don't think long-term impact they're a good

042good decision and I think a lot of people have figured that help. So that's like I said, that's my personal opinion. >> Thank you. >> Okay. We're going to decrease supplies by 100,000. >> I'm sorry. So I know they started asking questions, but the decrease for the transportation to 500k. Can you talk a little bit about that? What is that? >> Like is that >> we we had additional standby drivers and additional aids over the course of the past year because we having a lot of canceled routes. Uh we knew we couldn't sustain that for a long period of time, but we're still staffed very appropriately. So even with a reduction in some of those additional drivers will still be in a good space for routes not to be cancelled. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you.

043>> Uh the supplies 100,000 um and again we were talking about the 2.4 4 million. We are expecting 250 more per per kid. Um cutting the legislative representative. We put 20K, but I think it's actually more than that. Um, we're going to sell uh any unused items out of our warehouse that and uh in the van >> in the van to uh get some extra money. If I could elaborate on the the services of uh the legislative representative, that's Kelly Cawthorne Consulting and um that would be David Lad. Uh right now we pay 32,000. And when I look at what we're getting compared to that price, I I think we could do it a different way if we still needed to retain him. if we still but not spend all the [music] 32. >> Are

044these the two new vans that we just bought? >> No, there's uh it's one van and it's it's uh older. >> Okay, thank you. [clears throat] I got >> I'm sorry. >> Well, I'm still um thinking about transportation because we just invested this school year a million dollars and now we saying that we going to cut half of what we just invested in there. >> Yeah. So, we're not going to be making significant cuts, but we do have drivers that additional drivers that were hired. So we would reduce some of those or to support that space as we lose some of those drivers. We're not going to hire them back. So we're not going to be making deep cuts, but we have more drivers than we I would say that we need that we can't

045continue to pay those uh those prices. >> Yeah, I understand that. But then I think about what that would do to our families again because we not getting no cause now that the buses are being cancelled and you know when you go back to cutting the staff. I don't know. I guess um I was thinking maybe it was a overthink and now it's going to be an underthink. I I don't know. We don't have the answer. That's why we all working together. It's not a complete cut of those. It's just a It's >> an additional 10 were hired above what we needed. We're going to cut we're going to scale back a little bit >> because those standby drivers um are being paid when there's routes not canceled, >> right? Oh, okay. I understand. So,

046they were standby drivers that you know you getting paid. >> Okay. >> But if not needed, you're paying them and I think maybe the pendulum swung a bit too far and so as a savings to reduce them. [snorts] >> So, was we like paying them four hours a day that they was on standby or how did that work? >> Well, they would just be there almost like substitutes like that are reporting to work and we utilize them when we need them. >> And here's the thing, if we ever needed like let's say there was a shift in the other direction, we can always hire those people back. >> Right. Okay. Okay. I mean, it's just a by it's it's more than half. It's half of what we just invested. >> Okay. >> We really just

047need people to come to work. >> Yeah. Yes. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. I agree with that. >> That's all I had right now. >> Did you have something, Andrew? >> Nope. >> Oh, I thought I heard you say something. >> Yeah. Um, so 31C is a very exciting grant for us. It's a lowering the class size grant and um we're very excited that it is finally out and it looks like it's really coming to fruition. So, um unfortunately we can't kind of quantify uh monetarily what that means. Um it could be is as much as $16 million or less than that, but as one of four named school districts um it's Wayne Westland, Benton Harbor, Moskegan, and Flint. Um and so those we are all guaranteed a piece of 31C assuming we apply

048which we will um but we don't know [cough] how much of a piece we will get and then that will indicate what we're able to do with that money but it is um important to mention that it has to be used to lower class sizes and I think you know kindergarten would be a priority for Wayne Westland. Um, having said that, a portion of the grant that we're going to talk to about the legislators too is that as written now, 30% of your 31A funds need to also contribute to lower class sizes. And currently, we so that 30% then would need to be shifted. I mean, there might be a little give there if it's supporting classroom sizes, but that would shift to general fund. So, that actually could kind of hurt the general fund,

049but you can suppant in this grant. So, we could use 31c dollars to um pay teacher salaries in those spaces where you're reducing class size. So, I know that's a lot to say, but it's very exciting, but we won't know the dollar amount behind it. Um, but it certainly will be a huge financial relief. Um, >> and if that if we are fortunate enough to get that money, we'd work with the union because there were some people based off of some of the staffing that we had to do over the past couple months to give people that might have got bumped out of those spaces an opportunity to return back to those classrooms. So, that would be not only a benefit to us as far as uh lowering class sizes at the lower elementary space,

050but it would give people an opportunity that might have gotten bumped up because of seniority, an opportunity to return back to those uh classrooms. And we would need to outfit more classrooms because if you're the classrooms have to run um 16 17 students. So then you would need more classrooms for whatever grade you're indicating that you're going to lower with K3. >> How is the building utilization going? Because I know with the bond and certain buildings have to be having like uh 85% utilization. How is those numbers looking districtwide? because I know with the smaller classes, do we have the space for that particular grant to get additional kids? >> We do have the space. We don't have the space to do it K3. >> Okay. >> Um because we are such a large district,

051but we we do have the space to do it um K and K1, but we also want it to be sustainable. So, just looking at some rough financial figures, it if we did it just kindergarten, we could sustain it potentially three years depending on how much we get. if we did kindergarten in first grade, then you lower how long you can sustain it. So, it may be more like a year and a half. Um, so just looking kind of at all those pieces, but we'll know more once we write it and hopefully receive um I think I'm confident say we will receive something, but we don't know that dollar amount yet. And it is a competitive grant. Other schools besides the four can apply and get grant funded by 31C. So, it's just important that

052we um apply and do our best on the application and see what we can get of that. >> So, um Weaveranda, >> yes, >> Mrs. Abney Mitchell, >> my thoughts, and I know we're getting a presentation and we're kind of talking back and forth with um you know, our high schools are built for 2700 to 3,000 kids. And we have u what 1300 at Wayne Memorial and I'm not sure how many at John Glenn. Um, I've seen this happen before in uh in different districts where they create a space by blocking off um certain hallways and allow u kids to to utilize that space for learning because we're paying heat and electricity and everything else for very large buildings that we've had for many, many years. Um, you know, I I hate to even talk

053about school closings after what we went through several years ago, but um, you know, we're we're going to have to start thinking toward the depth of our cuts. Thank you. I wanted to say so that 31 C grant is for K through five. >> K through three. >> But you can choose what grade band you apply to keep at 16 or 17. You don't have to keep kindergarten through third grade all at 17. You can choose. We're going to do kindergarten. You could choose third grade, I suppose. But um does that answer your question? Yeah, because I what what I was thinking of, you know, um we really need to do something about our um our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders >> cuz they going to high school not ready for it. You know, back

054in my day, you didn't even go to high school until the 10th grade. You know, it was seventh, eighth, and ninth grade. um they don't have the grades, they don't have the maturity, and you know, if we can do something to cut that class size or either put something or Yeah. >> Yeah. Um I don't disagree with you, but 31C is specific to K3. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I just have one quick question with that particular grant. Um is there where you guys can find additional funding for programs or grant money for children with autism? Because I work in early childhood education. And I noticed it's like a huge um issue with autism, especially like early learners and it takes a lot out of the classroom and having behavior specialists to deal with that on

055top of that grant because it's I mean a lot of work. I see some of the teachers I'm like oh my gosh it's like really difficult like when we have a lot of the kids with autism and the early education like for specialists and smaller classroom sizes because you got to start early to get them with the routines and all that. So, is there any way we can look for additional money for the autism spectrum? >> It's not specifically indicated for autism spectrum and we do have act 18 funding for um those categorical classrooms, but um and a lot of kids in kindergarten wouldn't necessarily um maybe be diagnosed or have that label yet through the schools. However, 31C can be used for other things besides teacher salaries if it's in a classroom that is

056being reduced as part of this grant. Okay. >> So, I guess just in a >> like if you were to put in aids to support the uh classrooms that could be that money could pay for those aids. >> Yes. Okay. or if you need certain materials to support, you know, visual schedules or something devices um that are in those reduced classrooms to support kids with autism that we could use those monies. [clears throat] >> Thank you. >> You're welcome, >> Weaver. >> I don't appreciate being called by my last name alone. Thank you. Um also um we have uh options that might be available to us in the uh in the space of um not only our high schools but also our middle schools. I just wanted to bring that up too. Um, I don't

057think we're anywhere near capacity on any of those. I may be wrong, but I just wanted to mention that too. Same space. >> Thank you. I do have a follow-up question. First of all, I just want to say thank you for um your work and looking into this grant. Um, the other piece is do we know the length of the grant? And I don't know if you said that at first, like is it for one year, two years, three years, >> but you get it in you get it initially and you have three years >> of which to spend it. Okay? And if you spend it if you do so many grades that you spend it all in a year and a half, then you spend it in a year and a half, but you

058can use it for the full three um without having to re >> Okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. This is the grant that we're going to try to get that 30% down that we have to match through our 31 uh A. Um so this is the unknowns. So that 31C we were all clapping and happy and stuff and then we had to like stop. There's all kinds of ifs and buts and everything about it. So, we're trying to [snorts] not be jumping around. So, happy about that because we don't have it in hand yet. Um, our retirees and how many of those positions have to be fil, you know, will be filled. So, that's an unknown. I mean, we know there's going to be some uh some positive numbers, but we don't know the

059exact number. Um, of course, fall enrollment, um, we budgeted 100 down. Uh, we were going to budget 100 down for next year. Um, but we, you know, that's an that's an unknown. I mean, we're hoping some of the things we're doing are is going to make a difference. But, um, also we, you know, we don't know if they're going to increase or decrease the categoricals. We're hoping that we kind them into, uh, being more positive towards us. Uh and also we don't know what the revenue from the bus patrol that's going to be starting in the fall. Our buses are going to you be taking those pictures will be getting um revenue from those tickets and we get a portion of it. um as it takes a picture of the uh cars that pass the

060bus and uh the city gets a portion, the the court gets a portion and then we we do get a portion. So this summer we'll have that'll just be test. It'll take pictures of people. It'll send them the ticket, but they don't get charged. And then in the fall it'll be when we get back to school, it will be live. And uh yes. >> Um so I know we put those speed monitors. Will we be getting revenue with those with the city as well? Those new speed that were put by the schools that we approved or >> No, those are just for >> Yeah. No issu. >> Okay. [snorts] Thank you. >> That would be nice though. >> Would be nice. Any other questions? >> ENT. >> Okay. So, with enrollment, um, Alex and I,

061uh, headed up an enrollment task force. We're pretty excited about it. And >> actually, could I jump in on this one? >> Absolutely. >> And then turn it over to you. >> For sure. >> Um, so we're going to kind of transition gears here and talk about uh revenue generating ideas as far as how we can bring families back and how we can bring new families here. Um, so the first part of understanding was getting our arms around a mobility report. And for the people at home, those are reports that say where children in our our district go or choose other schools as well as where we bring students from other districts in. Um, and that's called a mobility report. Uh, one of you had asked um about where we are bringing students back and

062so there is a print out on your place. It has all of the school districts where we um have students coming from them to us and there are reasons for example like they just choose us over their home district. uh they might prefer um some of our programming. Some are uh labeled as homeless foster care. Those are probably more transient students. Uh but we also have center-based students who come from other districts to hear for our act 18 programs. Uh we have parents or employees who are parents who bring their children here. And uh we also have families that move midyear. So this was a breakdown of where we are bringing those children from and what communities. Um interestingly enough, Westwood uh is is high on that list for us as is Romulus. And so

063this information lets us know where we can target. Uh we've talked about do we send buses to some of these communities to make it easier for parents to have access and we're in those conversations right now. Um but just more information to help us know where we're hitting the mark and where we need to to maybe change our game plan a little bit. Uh we hired a [clears throat] marketing firm, Plumg Good Marketing, and that firm is uh telling our story, if you will, and targeting parents and grandparents. Mr. Cox, you're included. Um, and we have had over 300 families request more information and a staff member has been able to reach out to them and give them more information, set up tours, put them in contact with the principal. Uh, Chris Swanson has done

064an amazing job uh with the interest in our virtual program and that has been fantastic. To date, we have nine students registered for sure who are coming to us next year as a result of this campaign. So, it's more than paid for itself, and I um anticipate more interest over the summer as families start thinking about where they're going to be next year. Um Dr. Weaver, to your point, we have hired Plant Moran to do enrollment projections for us. And part of what they're going to do is do things called heat maps that show where students will metriculate to in the next five years so we can start looking at how do we best utilize the facilities we have. And [clears throat] when we were talking to um union leaders and leaders in the district

065here, we talked about short-term, which is summarizing the list of what we have right here for you tonight. And long-term thinking, this would go in the longterm thinking box. You know, if we need to look at utilization of schools, how do we move programs and do it in a way where it's going to be close to the students we know we have? Thank you. So, um, you answered the question why Inkster was not on the list because they do not have a district. So, but Westwood and Taylor where we have the most students coming from, those are also schools that service the Inkster district, >> the Inster community. So, I just wanted in case you wasn't aware of that. And the other thing you said something about Plant Moran, we um we hired them to

066do something. I thought we ended our contract with them. >> We ended our auditing contract with them, but they are also uh they have a division which does enrollment projections. >> Okay. Right. >> Any other questions? >> That's it. That's all I can think I remembered. I have a question. Um, are we uh our marketing firm, are they uh targeting students that have addresses in our district, sending them flyers or whatever the case may be. >> So, that is something that's being done in house. Uh Jenny Johnson and her team worked with um some organizations that were able to determine which houses had school age children. And so they are getting uh print material. They're getting invitations that you know you are accepted. Please come to Wildwood Elementary. >> Okay. Thank you. How many uh

067school age children in Ingster don't attend the Wayne Westign School District schools? >> Do we know that number? >> I am not familiar with that right off the top of my head. >> We're a better deal than the rest of them. You better say that >> at top I think we took 60 students if I'm not mistaken. >> So I don't know if it's more than that now but I think the initial was 60. >> Am I right about that? >> Moana would know this for sure but it's way more than 60 that we have. >> Absolutely. I mean, >> talking about hundreds. >> I've been trying to get a um a number from the last past couple of superintendent >> because Hicks is almost entirely um >> Ingster. >> So, I I'm positive that

068it's more than that at this point. >> But is the question Inkingster school district or city of Inkster? Because >> those are those are two different >> there's no school district. >> Well, when the district dissolved though, we did pick up a a certain portion of those. You're right. You're so right. >> So Dave, what is your question? That the Easter School District or just the ones that could go to Westwood, Taylor, and Rumblers? >> Yeah. What I'm getting at is really based on something Dr. Weaver said about eight comments ago and he's talking about if you look at the trend line for our enrollment you these temporary measures aren't going to solve our problem. >> That's right. >> This this line is going south a lot a lot quicker than Juel can juggle whatever

069she's got to juggle. We have to concentrate on this and this is the con this is the conversation that we had five years ago, six years ago when I said we have to identify 300 students currently not attending our school district that live in this district and get them here because that money will make a difference for us. Well, there's a lot of children in Ingster that aren't going to the Wayne Westland School District and I'm like why not? Let's go get them. Why aren't they? >> We know they do better here. >> Well, it look like we got um some coming >> from the Rum list and Taylor and Westwood district. That's um >> over00 to to do a a report that would just capture Ingster addresses and see how many students we have.

070There are many population dense neighborhoods in and around us. You know, I'll give you for an example, Plymouth Canton, uh Plymouth in Canton, there's a neighborhood, a uh mobile home neighborhood right near 275 southbound. Uh and it's student rich there. our buses stop there and drive away with a half a million dollars every morning bringing them to our schools. There are other little areas like that that we I think that we need you know uh and in Romulus we need to be looking at at people close to us and to what uh you said Dr. Cost in terms of the the transportation infrastructure based upon all the conversations I've had I've been involved with this school district. That alone is the one big issue. How moms and dads get kids where they want them to

071be when there's no transportation. We're spending a lot of money on transportation. In fact, we spend more money on transportation than we should just so we don't leave a kid. I'm think this is the answer to our problem. The kids are out there. We just need to go get them. Maybe they don't even know we want them. Besides, >> so I know for the fact that American International [clears throat] Academy is getting a lot of our kids because I actually toured the buildings. They went from one campus to three campuses. So they are really getting a lot of our kids and they have buses that go all the way out. And I know there was a section in Westland, the south section, and I know Art Warren was working trying to make sure they're in

072the Ramen School District, but they wanted to be a part of Wayne Westland. I know they had petitioned the city of Westland and they're trying to get some buses. I'm not sure what happened with that, but they wanted to go to our school district that section that south section of Westland like south like middle bell vanour that little area that carver subdivision. >> Yes. Yeah. That's one of those little areas talking about >> the kids the kids that have left the school district the kids that are in the academy the kids whose parents have taken them out we're not getting them back. We're not getting them. They stopped at a new restaurant. They had a lousy meal and they went somewhere else. They're not coming back. There's a lot of kids out there that we

073could get it here next year if they had a way to get here. And it doesn't take huge numbers to make a big difference under these circumstances. >> Thank you. >> I think that um Dr. Cross shared one time that um Dr. Philly said something about having the bus go back to the city and pick up his >> Yeah. So, we were waiting to hit that on this next slide. >> Oh, that's next. We too fast. We moving too fast for y'all. >> Well, I jumped the gun. So, I'm sorry. Your slide was before mine and I tried to jump ahead. So, that was my fault. >> We just get excited about enrollment. >> I know. So, the enrollment I agree um >> with you that enrollment is where it's at. that that would be

074how we um you know to keep cutting isn't sustainable especially when you have increased contracts. So enrollment is the key and so this enrollment task force that Dr. and I um have started is a robust group of administrators and leaders in um trying to reach every area union leadership um principles um somebody from kind of each somebody from athletics and we've met with this group and they had a lot of great really quick ideas um and then we kind of started to shift them into more long-term short term and I think above and beyond the marketing firm that Dr. cost talked to and um Dr. Oily can speak to it a little bit is busing into those designated areas [clears throat] outside of the district. Also, before we get to that, um in addition to

075some of those neighborhoods or um areas, we we also found in the mobility report that we have virtual students that live in Wayne Westland Community School District that don't choose our virtual. And that's certainly perplexing because it's not brick and mortar that they're choosing something else. it's it's virtual and it's probably a very similar virtual maybe even exactly the same option but it's not ours. So doing marketing to um that virtual population which is growing. So that's a space where we really need to spend some time because that's a very um cost effective to bring in uh virtual students is is ideal. So that's one of the um you know options we have or something we're going to work on and then I'll let Dr. Oily talk about busing into designated areas outside of the

076school district. >> Yeah. So before I talk about the busing into those designated areas, one of the things that came out of the task force as uh Dr. Jefferson said it was a lot of great insight from different leaders throughout the district, including union leadership, where they basically said, "If you provide us a list of people that we've lost, we can collectively start making those personalized calls to people selling our district so they can hear from actual employees." So, that's something that we're generating right now because I do agree that it feels a little bit different when you get like um just a an artifact without hearing a voice behind it versus hearing from someone that says, "We we miss you. come back home. So, that's something that we're going to be putting together and

077working through uh collectively and I do appreciate the union for suggesting that because that's going to take more than what we have just in the uh board office. But then the busing situation, I 100% agree that is the biggest line item when it comes to getting uh our our our finances back in order is having kids return. And we do have a large amount of kids that live within our boundary lines. Uh Scott and I have had the opportunity to uh meet with Chad and with uh different um uh high school leaders around the designated spots that we would uh start with. So, this is something that we're not waiting on anymore. We've talked about it at length across this district about uh being wise with our resources and we do have the the bus

078drivers, we do have the transportation. So now we're identifying those um locations and going into next year we are going to have different spots where we're picking up people strategically to come to the school district. Our our folks at Waymore have already provided us our list. Our folks at John Glenn are working on their list and um it is going to be a change of the routes, but we have to get that done pretty soon so our bus drivers can bid on those going into the next school year. So, that's going to be uh something I know Scott can speak to it, too. Uh it's been something we've been talking about for a while, but now we're gonna we're gonna act on it. >> Yeah, I think it's it's almost and I I agree with

079uh Mr. Cox. We've been talking about this since I've been here. It's imperative that we do at this point. We have multiple cities uh school districts that run buses through our district right now that actually have bus stops um in our district. If you guys have ever seen, all you have to do is drive through the city on any warning and you'll see multiple buses coming through and there and we've heard from um multiple people like uh Dr. File said uh from Wayne Memorial and from John Glenn that know there's uh populations that have been um brought up already in this meeting like small populations of people of students that will come here. Um I I I really believe uh like I think there was several people already made the statement that's going to be

080the biggest impact that we can make in regards to uh from a financial standpoint because we're we're based on FTEES. The more FTEES we got that's where we get our funding from. So I do believe that's going to be uh one of the best things that we can do and I agree with Dr. Oilia. We have to be able to advertise that sooner than later so kids start making choices uh now about where they're going to be in the fall. And I think that you're if we talk at this time next year, I I'd love to say you're going to see hundreds of kids come to our district. >> And not to belabor the point, but there's local districts right now that their enrollment has skyrocketed because they've been intentional about running buses. And we

081just have to do the exact same thing at this point. we're we're competing for hits. So, that is something that we're going to start talking about uh publicly pretty soon. And we're already putting those routes together so we can bid them out for our bus drivers. [snorts] >> This uh the idea that when we look at the numbers and we see where they're going and we're going to sit down and have a meeting and we're going to start doing things that we should have been doing this all along. We've been talking about this for years. and and we have to adopt I think as a board a philosophy that we always have to act like we're broke. That that's why my emotional appeal at the last time regarding travel. This is just the kind of

082thing you know when you're members of the board you want to do well in this job. This isn't a job you get any training in. You get contacted once you get elected to the board by the Michigan Association School Board, the National Association, Rhysa, the Wayne County Association. Every single one of them gives you a list of things that you can do to educate yourself and be a better board member and you're excited about it. I understand all that, but how it looks to the outside when you're having conversations about people not coming back to work. Then a question is, well, how valuable was that? It just it puts this we need to always act broke up here. I think we need to we should have been doing this stuff. When you think about the

083foundation allowance, you don't have to be very successful [cough and clears throat] with this to be real financially successful. You're talking about getting uh losing our uh lobbyists for $30,000. you know, and and I'm not saying I think it's a bad idea, but there's a reason lobby lobbying is so effective. And if you don't even have somebody sitting at the table, three three students from one of these areas could solve that problem. So, I I I would like to see if we're going to use a marketing department, I would like to see us ask them a question. How can we market to all the people that would like to go to our school district that have never been asked and and should be asked should be told what these opportunities can can provide you. We

084might be surprised. And with respect to our virtual program, our virtual program is really good. >> I think the one of the reasons why people aren't using it is because they don't know about it. I can speak a little bit to that. I don't and some of the board members are here presently. We utilized my virtual which was a virtual platform when uh during co that are kinder K through 12 um were in that space and just by looking a digging a little bit deeper into the same um data that uh Dr. Jefferson talked about um the majority of our kids that were losing to virtual spaces are in that space and I just happened to look made a phone call looked up what where the location was. It's in in the Aenddale school district

085which is far enough away um that why would a student that lives in Wayne Westland Inkster Romulus that we are we have right now make that decision to go out there. I truly believe it's because that what's happened is they got them when they were about the third grade and they they kept with them. But we have to make a contact with them because that's how we lost those kids because they they basically they have to go out there two to three times a year. So have to drive out past Pontiac when they can go, you know, right down the road. great conversation because even though their student may benefit from virtual, Wayne Westland has things they can benefit from, stay virtual, but be part of our athletics, they can be a band. >> When

086we when we had this conversation, we got some money from the federal government. We had to create a virtual program. And I said, okay, if we're going to create a virtual program, let's do it for for a permanent program, not just to get us through this. Let's if we're going to put money into it and time and energy, let's make it something that can survive beyond because we've got people living all over the place uh that would love to take advantage of it. But I'll tell you, after spending a life in sales and sales training, I can tell you why people don't buy. It's because nobody asks them to buy. >> That's right. >> You sit there and you have a long conversation with them, but you never actually ask them to come. I think

087the key to what you said more than anything, the people that do know why they want to come here, it's how they get here. And I think we can we we're going to win in that space uh by giving them an opportunity to get here and then get home. Uh that's that's been the biggest uh roadblock for and that's talking to people that work outside in communities that that live they work in Wayne Westland, but they live in River Rouge. They live in Ramulus. They live in other cities that know that listen, you run a bus through here, you're going to pick up at least 20 kids in just the neighborhood that I'm in. So the key that and I you're not the only everyone has made this statement in regards to its transportation. It's

088getting them there and getting them home. And if we can do that, I think we win. So >> Mr. Oh, >> if we could go back, we just spent $2 million on Chromebooks. I think the report was that we have over 13,000 of them already in the district. Why are we continuing to buy by buy by Chromebooks? If we lose 3600 in a year, which we were told, then we should only buy 3600. Does that make sense to, you know, I don't know how many Chromebooks are represented in $2 million, but it'd have to be a pretty good amount. So, um, I certainly would have changed my vote if I had a chance to go back. We don't. It's been voted in. But that's something we need to really look at in the future. How

089many of these things are sitting on the dock somewhere, things like that, because that has happened before. >> And I think just from a curriculum, instruction assessment standpoint, and Dr. and I had conversation about this just the other day. We do need to um have kind of a vision or a plan with technology and devices and what's sustainable. Um and so I know we we've been thinking about that and talking about that. >> It's raining replacing that amount of them isn't sustainable. [clears throat] And um I I also like what um Mr. Cox was saying that you know in sales and I just like to say people do like to be invited but we are missing our our best source in the district is it's our students. Our students if they was part of that

090marketing program where they can send out and invite their friends and and cousins and stuff to come and go to the same school with them. We would have these kids from these districts. You know, if we had a student sitting up here with the board, we would have students in the audience. We are missing our greatest thing that we have in this school, which is the students. If we get them on board, we can get more students in here. >> This sounds expensive. >> Yeah. Just >> It sounds like we need to adjourn. [laughter] So take properties blow it off the roof. >> Take cover. >> So a few months ago, Mr. Cox uh stood up here and he and I'll use this as an illustration. He talked about vouchers and being a golden ticket,

091but we already in a sense have have vouchers in terms of our foundation allowance in terms of of students. And looking at [cough] this list, Garden City, we're getting 121 students. Um, and I'm just looking at the all the all the students close by. And then I look at my neighborhood. I live in Canton. >> Doesn't anyone want to see what this looks like? >> Yes. >> Five minute recess, please. Madam President, >> who want to see it? You want to see your car lifting up in the air? I want to see how bad this is. >> Oh, okay. >> Um, there is uh I just looked on Detroit Doppler radar. Heavy storms are moving through and the pink part of the map is glowing. So, >> and they're not quite here yet. >> Want

092to find out my Auntie M is okay, [laughter] >> but To Mr. Cox's point, I live in one of those sections in Canton. I I live in Glen Ridge, which is a a park just south of Michigan Avenue on Hagerty. In the years I've lived there, I have gotten flyers from Plymouth, Canton, Romulus, Yepsilani, Van Beern, and Taylor public schools. I've gotten flyers from four different charter schools within the city of Canton. I mean, the township of Canton alone. And the I've rarely got anything from Wayne Westland and when I did it was our semianual newsletter and the one that we always looked out for was the one with the bus routes because we wanted to know what time our kids were going to leave. I'm glad to see we're finally going on offense instead

093of being reactive. My fear though is is that it with We'll just look at the data. The birth rate is lower than the population replenishment rate. That that's a fact. We're not having kids like we used to. And And when I look at our to Dr. Weaver's point, our high schools, 1300 at Wayne Memorial, if that's if that's the actual number, that is way underutilized. I think I think it's higher than that. But, you know, we're I think this short-term plan is great, but I think we really need to start looking also long term because otherwise if we just keep reacting year to year, we're not going to get out of this situation. >> But just to speak to that point though, we have a lot of students that still live within our our boundary

094lines that just don't come to our school district. And yeah, my community is one of them. There's a whole section of Canton that are that's in our district that goes to Plymouth, Canton, and Van Beern because it's easier for them to get to their schools when our bus drivers don't show up. You're talking for Wayne Memorial and John Glenn, it's almost 5 to eight miles for some of those kids to walk. They're not going to walk that. But when they can walk a few blocks over and pick up a bus to go to Van Beern or Plymouth Canton schools, that that's a that's a no-brainer. >> And it's like I say, when when that happens after your kids's been left at the at the corner three times and they're freezing and they're crying, you say,

095"Dack with this." >> and you make it make a move and you don't come back. And you know, I hear complaints from parents in the Plymouth Canton district because I go to church with them and they they feel their kids get lost in the shuffle when they get out of elementary because there's so many at that level where we tend to have probably more success reaching out to those kids [cough] because all their friends because of the elementary schools getting, you know, the bus situation that we've had for so long that we allowed to to happen for so along. All their friends now are in these other schools and they're not going to pull them out in high school so they can >> No, they're not. >> Yeah. >> Just to go back just a

096little bit. Um the marketing firm, how often do they report out to us? Um is it weekly or >> Every two weeks. Okay. Um Okay. >> Any other questions? >> One more. >> Sure. And like the other board members were saying, I usually when I campaign here, I go to all the neighborhoods and there's a section in Romulus, but it's really far away. Like when I actually go to the houses, when I door knock like in can way out, it's so far I would be scared of the student, you know what I'm saying? If they lost the bus, this is so far like the boundaries because it goes way out to Lily, way past Vanour, like really far. And they go to Wayne Memorial, you know what I'm saying? That's like the closest school and

097it's super far. Now, we did do something with Jen. The last time there was like a area in Ramen, a little section we had like those like we're going to do again like those different meet and greets. So, that was pretty helpful as well to let the parents know because I I walk the neighborhoods and people from way west they don't go visit those areas. I guess I'll finish. Okay. Um yeah, also somehow we need to advertise that uh we have our busing is uh better. I mean it's better than last year for sure. You know that we aren't missing routes anymore. But also um on this uh particular slide um uh we're looking into having diverse meal options so that uh some of our um multicultural um people would feel comfortable because we can

098you know serve that uh food for them. And we're advertising our free sports that nobody pays uh all the way through from kindergarten to high school. and our strong music programs. Uh they're winning awards and um and that that so that that brings us to um you've you've highlighted a lot of of good things that we need to go back and get some more information on and think about. Uh is there anything else that we have not considered at this point >> with respect madam president permission [clears throat] with respect when Dr. We was talking about the populations at the high schools. Is is it feasible at all to be to cold storage portions of of either building still continue to use the building but shut off a portion of is there any savings to

099be realized? Doing that is uh just being in a district prior to this that we we did um do that. Um, this cost savings is not significant. I know when we have older buildings, you put a lot of money into older buildings in regards to heating and cooling depending [clears throat] on the roof or the new heating and cooling system. But it's you can cut off um portions of buildings and right now in any building that you go to that's not including this building, we're doing I think we're doing a great job there. that uh operations department right now will turn the heat off, the air condition off, and we're doing that in spaces where we don't have human beings in in in those buildings. But when you're talking about just cutting off a section

100of it, it's the cost savings is almost minimal just because of the fact the building's so big, you're going to end up losing heat. It's because that's the most the heating and cooling buildings uh is the most expensive part of of a building. So, it's almost impossible to do that because you're going to end up getting that carry over into other buildings. So, it's going to take more uh to heat that. It's almost like I have dual zones in my house. If you turn it on just upstairs, you're ended up, you know, your downstairs is hot and then then it ends up have coming back down. So, it is it's hard to do that, but the cost savings is minimal in that. And when you start talking about buildings, if you're not actually closing them

101and demoing them, the cost savings is minimal. >> Yeah. >> Um and you have to demo them now because if you don't demo them, you're going to have a charter school come scoop them up or somebody else buy it, sit on it for a year, then sell it to a charter school. And that happens. That's happened in every district prior to me coming here. And that's the one thing I do not want to happen here. >> So, excuse me. Is there anything that should not be on the list? >> That is a good question. >> I think uh Dr. Cost in order to answer that um I do not want to get down to 8.6%. I think everything is on the table plus more. Um, I love our employees, but for example, I saw earlier

102that we hired a couple of employees on a grant. The grant ran out. Now we're paying them. I'm I'm not sure how that works. They should renew the grant or um we, you know, we should not go forward in the hiring process. in my opinion >> that um >> also because that's what I'm familiar with when you are working on a you are being funded your your employment is being funded on a grant and the grant ends and it does not renew. I always thought that you don't have a job. I have been gone to different positions because grant funding did not renew. I didn't just go back to the um the regular payroll. I was out of a position and had to apply for another position in the in the in the place I

103worked at. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember shortly after I joined the school board, we had a want to say it was a strength and conditioning coach that was on grant and we had to let that person go because the grant funding dried up. Um, and so that begs the question, why didn't that happen this go around? They don't it it been a whole lot of goounds since I've been here that you know that they moved to um general fund or the employee stayed and each one I have question and got different answers. So I don't know >> um sometimes the employee is is uh the position is critical and there's an opening and we just we you know if we move them over into it. I haven't seen that neither.

104But >> well, I mean Esser, we did. >> No, >> they went right [snorts] back being teachers. We pushed them into Esser, took them out, and they just became teachers. They were supplanted. So, these two positions were odd, you know, like we were able to uh I don't want to say it was a supplant, but these people we were able to cover their cost by a but we can't do we couldn't really do without the these two individuals. >> So, they were essential. >> Yes. But that's even with the 31A the information that we received with um staffing um I believe eight psychiatrist I don't have it in front [clears throat] of me right now so I don't want to quote so what's going to happen to those people when the grant when the money

105is gone >> that new grant that we're applying for the 31 uh >> I think about 31A right there's additional funds in 31A A and we used um growth works mental health clinicians in the secondary and we're using those excess funds of 31A to bring mental health clinicians into the elementarymentaries. I think what our question is is when those grant dollars um are no longer available which hopefully they continue to be in 31 we wouldn't want to push those into general fund >> right >> it it would have to be the end of that program if you're being fiscally responsible I think is what you're >> those Those are contractors. So, >> yes. Yeah, if they from Growth Works. I just Well, I think I did know they was from Growth Works, but I also

106I think we got two teachers. I don't have the paper in front of me, but it was two teachers. Was it two teachers? >> Two positions. Okay. Yeah. So, I think what happens is there are positions that are in the general fund and then when we get a grant, if we can move them over into that grant to give relief to the general fund, then that's what we do. But then when that grant runs out, we have to put them back in the general fund. >> But I think it's just being clear on that. When that happens, then that, you know what I mean, helps to not look like it's a position that was created using a grant, but then we moved it into the general fund when that grant. >> That makes sense. That

107makes sense. >> Yeah, that makes sense. >> And and that's that's the way it's been for years and years. It's we're not getting extras. We're just trying to figure out a way. >> Okay. Okay. Any other questions? >> Next on the agenda. >> So, this conversation was important to have because Juel has to do her final budget revision in June and with that then create the 2627 proposed budget for all of you to look at. Uh we really wanted to be transparent with our our staff members. Um, we heard feedback that they felt like this was done by just a few people in the past. Rightly or wrongly, we wanted just to make sure we were hearing all voices and getting all suggestions on the table. So, uh, following this, we're going to go back,

108tweak our numbers a little bit, um, and then bring you a final proposal as well as share it with all of them. >> I do have one other question. So with the 31A there was 800 800K 840K. So are we looking to move any positions from the general fund into that grant with that 840K or what are we planning to do with that 840K that we have sitting there right now? I believe that is the money that is earmarked for to add the schoolbased clinicians to match the elementary from what currently is growth works to move secondary um just because that is such a a need and it's been >> we just started it in middle school and high school but to provide some equality with the elementarymentaries to have schoolbased commissions out of those

109monies is >> okay thank you >> uh Yeah. Oh, just um if um Dr. Cost can give us a follow up on um what Dr. Weaver was saying about the size, the size the students in the building and what the student size what the building is capable of holding the capacity of students that we could have and also if we can get any information back on my email that I sent out um to find out about how many Inkster students we have in the district. Absolutely. >> And um 31C I think um I thank you for the presentation you guys. >> Thank you all for this very informative. Um next on the agenda would be citizens comments on non-aggenda items. Do we have any Hello. It's more about agenda items because wasn't sure what was

110going to be talked about. So, um [clears throat] I guess I just have a couple of different things. When we go renting the facilities, um like the idea, but I'm wondering if in renting the facility, i.e. if I want to hold a tennis tournament, right? Because I don't want to have to fight outside sources to rent my own facilities. Does that make sense? Um because I know we have that problem sometimes now when other parts of the district want to rent rooms at Wayne and things like that and they don't know that things are already going like historically things have already been held in those rooms over the summer and then people just sign rooms out so I don't know if that can be fixed. Um transportation cuts I'm I'm I struggle with that. I

111know that was part of the presentation. Um, due to whatever was last year and the year before that if there weren't buses here, we went through divergent. So, I'm wondering or driver I don't know. It's close to divergent. So would that if we cut these positions, would we have to go back out to um getting other buses to take us to tennis or baseball and things like that? Um the speed signs that were said were approved back in like November, do we know a time frame of when they're going to happen by Wayne or was that just Westland? I guess I'm a little confused on that. Um, the enrollment piece. I love that we want to talk about sports and everything, but there was nothing educational besides music, which I'm not saying that's not important,

112but what about our AP programs? What about the STEM programs? Are we here for sports or are we here for education or both? Like, I'm I'm um I'm wondering who was on the enrollment task force, unless I missed that at the beginning because I was late. So, I apologize on that. And then when it comes to the Chromebooks, if we actually had the parents pay for the broken Chromebooks, I think that might help keep them in better shape. Um, I mean, I know that my staff computer is probably on its last legs, so I'm not sure if that's going to be part of a new bond or something, the technology, because as we all know, technology ends after so many years. Um, so those are just my thoughts. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments?

113We are now at um interim superintendent superintendent report comments. >> Uh I would just like to take a few minutes to thank our team of Jules, Scott, Alex, and Angie for uh doing all the feedback, the collection, synthesizing, and being able to get us to this point to present this to you. So, thank you. >> Thank you. We are now at um review and recommendations board of education. Um I am going to go first today and then I will select the others. Um so in going first I'd like to first of all just say that I truly enjoyed um the STEM event that took place maybe two weeks ago. Um to W's point speaking about the academic some things that I learned that I was not aware of and I talked to Dr. cost about

114the fact that we offer an SEAL um section at the elementary level for students, which was just awesome. And the kids actually made their own um like little fidgets, which is really cool. But a lot of people don't know that we offer this, right? That we offer um the innovation courses at the middle school and kids are flying drones in the classroom, right? So again, just putting all those awesome things out that we do. Um, educational leave for kids is another selling point. Um, we offer some phenomenal pro programs and I know that was mentioned a little bit just in terms of the virtual, but just that in person what the opportunities that kids have that surrounding districts are not offering. And I don't know if we don't know that surrounding districts aren't offering those

115things, but we definitely need to promote those. Um the other thing and I shared this with Dr. Caus I did um this weekend had the opportunity to attend MASB's um spring institute and um those I I do attend at no cost outside of um room and board but I was able to share some information with Dr. cost immediately. Um took a class that I had taken previously around the open meetings act found out that the rules the law changed and some of our things are outdated and we need to address those things. So I just lift that because you know of course I'm not trying to um take anything from students in this district and attending courses. But it's also important that as board members we continue to grow and because we can't grow a

116district if we don't know what's going on educationally. So that's just one thing that I'd like to lift. And then the other piece that I'd like to add is that as district administration and some of my um board colleagues are aware I've been dealing with some f family challenges this year. And as I've shared often the role of president is not about power, it's about responsibility. and my priority right now is my family. So with that, recognizing a competing priorities and consulting with my family, I have decided that it's best for me to transition the role of president effective at the close of this meeting to someone who was able to give it their full commitment at this time. I want to be clear that I will remain on the board as a trustee and

117I'm fully committed to the students and all of the stakeholders of this district. Um, and again, thank you for the opportunity and it has been an honor serving as your president. And with that, um, I will land it to Mr. Ambrose and then we'll call it out. >> I want to thank the executive uh, team here for >> for an informative presentation. >> Um, Good. >> Alan Malali, uh, former CEO of Ford, uh, he used to hold these Thursday meetings, uh, with with his team. And as all of us know, before Allen took over, Ford was not in the best of shape. and uh they would go through their their scorecards um kind of like what kind of like uh what we go through sometimes in these board meetings uh with with the buildings how

118they're doing and everyone kept on saying it was all their scorecards were green. That couldn't be the case if your company was losing $6.8 billion. There's there's something wrong. and he he kept on telling his team, "Hey, this can't be right because we're losing all this money." Eventually, one person stepped forward in the meeting and and had himself had his team as a red that they weren't meeting their targets. And tonight, I think we finally came to that here. This is where we're failing and this is where we need to improve. And so the ride down hasn't been fun, but I can tell you working at Ford, that ride going back up was a lot of fun. And and now we're kind of back on that downward swing again, too. But being a part of

119that team, we're starting to bring it back again. And I know we can do that here, too. that it's going to take all of us together working as a team, the board, the executive team, the employees, and even with our communities that we take in as a district. And we have we do have some strange relationships there, too. And so let's start working together and let's put some of the the little infighting that we we have at times uh on the back burner because those little side fights don't help anyone. And the last board meeting was an example of that. So that's all I have for tonight. >> Mr. Cox, >> thank you. Uh I don't agree at all with those comments. That's representative government in action is what that is. And when something is

120important, uh sometimes you're in conflict with each other. That's okay. It's okay to be in conflict with people on ideas. That's what we're here to do. If we don't discuss those things here openly in front of everybody, they're going to think we're not talking about them at all or it doesn't matter to us. So, for me, uh I'm going to keep being emotional and passionate about this very important job. In my opinion, all of these all of these talks about money has to keep in mind that number one, we have to serve our students. Number two, we have to take care of our teachers because nothing everybody in this district does can get to the student unless it gets through a teacher. And the third entity that we have to take care of is this

121district. Not us, the district. If the district isn't strong, it can't do any of these things. When when we adopt a budget through the charity jewel, when we adopt a budget and we say we're going to spend 20,000 on something and then it comes to pass that we've spent 30,000 on it, how does that 30,000 get approved? How is it that we can spend that if the budget was 20? Who authorizes the the the over and above what the board has decided? >> I guess if the board is the one that is spending it, they would have you >> but the but the board in the case of the board the board isn't spending. Individual board members are spending it but the board didn't meet and make a decision to spend the money. >> You

122don't care. Right? Who made the decision to spend the money? And where else is that happening? If we tell uh ABC Elementary School that they have $100,000 for this and they spend $150,000, is that okay? >> No. But if if it would be me, I guess that would take responsibility for that that I I wasn't going to say no. >> Yes. You and this is the point of my whole conversation. You were put in a very bad position because you as a financial officer knew what the budget was and you were asked to overspend that budget and the board didn't approve it. We can't do that anymore. Okay. [cough] Can't [clears throat] do that. That's all I have. Thank you, >> Mrs. >> Yes. I just want to say I do appreciate the um presentation

123today and also I do have um my comments about our um training that we went to in Texas. I was going to share the classes I took and how did they benefit me and how did I think that they would benefit me in the district. But it has not been the time for me to do that. Today was not the proper time because of what was on the agenda and the other time we was here was not the proper time because of what was on the agenda. But I haven't forgot. But I have to say is that when I push this young lady to be the president, I came with her. And it's important that I'm right here now. Am I leaving with her or am I gonna take out the next six months and

124finish this year that our um that we was voted to have or take a chance that a motion would be made to remove me again. So, I haven't came to that answer yet. But it's obvious that I have a speech problem and I get caught up on words. This lady right here being in the in the educational district for more than 30 years, when I'm trying to say a word, she automatically know what it is. She does not put words in my mouth. She has been a great help to me and for me. And for that, I am honored to sit by her and to be her vice president. You know, we we talk about it all the time telling we teach our kids not to bully. I go to discipline hearings because somebody was

125being bullied on on on social media. I come here and get bullied across this table. Anybody can see, you know, anybody can hear that I'm struggling with my words, but I know how to comprehend everything that I read. And the things that I don't know, I ask questions. And I think if I'm dealing with professional people, they will answer the question. If not, I dig for my own self. So I say that to say I deserve the same respect that I give my colleagues across this board, our parents that's on social media anonymously and everything like that. You know what you teaching your kids? You bullying. You bullying. And everybody then told me, my pastor, my children, the president then told me, I don't even have to comment. But I am not a racist. I

126am not biased. I just ever since I've been here, be fair. Be fair. We have students in Ingster. We have students in Rumlas. We have students in Build a relationship. build a relationship. That's all I've been asking for. If that makes you believe that I'm a racist, you can believe it. But I I can go home and sleep at night cuz I know where my conscience is. It has been said that we didn't support um Dr. Cox and you know, we had a conversation with her. If she feel like the support is not there, then you know we can talk about it. You can disagree with somebody, it does not mean that you don't support them. We disagree with people every day. We disagree with our spouses. That don't mean that we don't love and

127support them. The work is ugly up here. It's not easy. But we all should be able to leave a board meeting with our dignity without nobody talking about them or without somebody. This that's not polite at all for us a board member to tell somebody we'll meet them out in the parking lot. And Dr. Oily, I just want to apologize to you about the last board meeting that I ran. And I want to talk about the last board meeting I ran cuz our president wasn't here. I don't know if y'all noticed or not, but the people that came out here for Inkster to support the mayor and support the city of Ingster, they was they didn't have no kids in this district right now. They kids had already graduated. So I know the people personally.

128So they was retired teachers from Ingster district and retired grandparents that used to sit in the classroom with the kids and shopping the pistols and everything. So I was sitting up here I was very emotional. So I did not run the meeting properly and I asked my colleagues I asked them to forgive me for that. I am very capable of running a meeting. So, um I just want to say thank you. I enjoy what I do. Even when I leave a meeting and be frustrated, I appreciate what I do because I know it's making a difference. I know it's making a difference in my community. I know it's making a difference with my grandchildren and ju just in my family. So, um I don't know am I stepping down with you or not? I still

129ain't got the answer. We came together. We going together. I had to step down as vice president. President as vice president for the Wayne Westland School District. >> That's unnecessary. It's all right. I take it back. I am not stuffing down. Over four weeks ago, Mr. Cox made a motion >> that was supported by Ford Bo board members to hire Dr. Cost. I am proud of that decision and I believe it was the right decision. However, his motion was to immediately get into the process of contract with our superintendent. So my question to you is, have you done that? You >> talking to me? >> Yes. >> Yeah, I have. It's okay. >> You're you're still president till the end of the meeting. I think I heard you say that. >> So you didn't say

130who you were addressing, Dr. Well, >> and I'm not doing this with you. So to answer your question, yes, >> don't ask her. >> And Dr. C knows this and you talk to her and you can ask her. It is on the agenda for the May 18th meeting. >> So yes, we have been working on it. >> Thank you. Because it's been over four weeks and we have not heard. >> Dr. C asked that we wait to the May 18th meeting. Dr. cost. Will you please share that? Cuz I did not stand in the way of your contract. So, please share. Did that you asked >> on May 18th? >> Did you ask for us to wait till May 18th? >> On May 18th, we will discuss that. >> Did you ask for us to

131wait? >> Because I called you and you said, "Let's wait till May >> because of the Ingster property." >> Yes. So, you asked for us to wait because I was putting it on that agenda. >> Correct. >> She didn't say that. So, um, also I want to, um, talk about the blatant disrespect that has been shown to me earlier by our board president by calling me Weber or Mr. Weieber. I always call you Madame President out of respect. It doesn't matter whether you like somebody or not. It has nothing to do with it. When we're on this roster, we call each other by uh by the surnames that are designated. So, um, I'm glad that I don't have to take that from you anymore. I earned my degree and I expect to be called by

132my degree as others in the district are. I've never known Kevin Sutton to drag his feet at all. That's why I asked the question and also um unless anything has been resolved with the Inkster property that I do not know about, this thing needs to be put back in the cracker jack box it came out of. Thank you. Those are my comments for this evening. >> Mrs. Hind. >> Well, I'd like to say happy teacher appreciation week. So, I appreciate all of our teachers. Thank you for your service. Um, two, um, I'd like to say that we did a really good job hosting the MSAB dinner. Um, we had a lot of school districts here. The food was amazing and given the tour was just just fabulous. Um, one thing I really love is our

133students and the art when it came to the pictures and just like the graphics. It was really, really awesome. And then a lot of the school districts complimented us on how beautiful our career technical school is, our kitchen, all our programs. So, we were able to really show the spotlight and I hope we can do more of that in the future. Um, so I stood on the Wayne County Women's Commission and we had our fourth annual resource fair. We had over a hundred vendors there. We had 88 registered, over a hundred vendors and over 600 participants. So, I think that was one of the best resource fairs we ever had. And I made sure I went to every table, got all the information, I'll bring it back. And I also have like the list because

134those people we can use to do different events with our staff and our students for career opportunities and prop and maybe sponsors, sponsorships and stuff because a lot of times the sponsorships is due to relations like a lot of the credit unions. Um like I have a really good relationship over at Girl Chevrolet. They gave us a lot of hype. So really just developing those relationships to kind of figure out ways to help our students which is pretty cool. Um, and I just had a quick question. I'm not sure if Dr. Cos knows or not. Um, but in the spring, and I don't know if I'm out of sorts, but we used to have like a a career fair with the kids over at the career technical center, and I know we had a lot

135of changes in administrations and with our career college readings. I'm not sure if we're still having that because I met with one of the guys from um the construction um [clears throat] and they said they haven't heard from us. So, and >> it actually happened last week. >> Yes. Okay, good. So, I wanted to definitely make sure we continue doing that. and then adding more vendors. Um, and I was able to see the play Frozen at Wayne Memorial and that was super awesome. The cast did a good job. I wanted to see the sister act over at um, John Glenn. I'm sorry. I apologize I wasn't able to make that because I wasn't feeling well that day. So, um, kudos to our kids. One thing I really would like to see, I don't know, maybe

136in the future, but I would love to see Wayey Memorial be in the college or the school of creative arts or performing arts because it's like really good with the band, the theater, and maybe one day having that designation because we can get a lot of students coming into our district if we have like a school of performing arts. It helps out. And let's see. Oh, and I have some really good news. I'm super excited. So, I will be a speaker at the Charles H. right museum uh May the 15th at 7 o' 7 7 o'clock so I'm in this organization called the society of twisted storytellers so I have a book that came out unleashed so I'll be able to kind of speak at the Charles H right Museum is really amazing there's like

137hundreds of people there so um if you guys need a ticket I'll put it on the website but I'm really excited and that's really nice too because there certain people that I meet in these organizations like Monica Morgan she's a famous photographer world renowned photographer so I'm trying to get her right to the district and some people we have a lot of people that's in the film industry. They have a a studio. It's South Dakota Collective Studio. So, I'm trying to bring all that stuff here like additional resources for our kids. And um there's another organization. They have a really amazing aviation program. So, I know with Wayne County, they're doing a lot with aviation and drones and stuff like that. So, just bring those opportunities to the kids. Um tomorrow, we also have um

138the Wayne Westland Kanas meeting. We meet every first and third Tuesday at the Westland. And with literacy being very important with Wayne County, our school district, um I definitely will reach out and maybe have a bigger plan next year to get to the different schools like the principles that's interested in those programs because we do get like a free like hundred books from Detroit one downtown to pass out to the students. And let's see, one, two, three, four, middle school. And that would be it. Thank you, >> Mr. Rashan. >> Thank you. I'll be brief. Um, thank you for this informative financial uh, report. Uh, I think that um, as long as we continue to have healthy and respectful dialogue uh, in our board meetings um, and put our students first, make sure we're putting

139our students first. Uh, I believe we have a capable staff and leader to uh, make our district a stellar district in this state. not only in this state but in this nation. I'm committed to that and I look forward us us um making the pendulum swing upward where we can move forward in a healthy um with a healthy district and um um healthy environment. That's all >> I'd like to make a motion to um for um Shannon Rashid to be president. Rash Sean wish to be president if he would accept it and um Andrew to be vice president if he would accept it support >> discussion >> this is new to me um I if if I'm nominated um I I don't have a problem with it and I would accept it um this is

140new we had this discussion, you know, but yes. >> Roll call vote. >> Mrs. Hines, will you please call roll call >> Mr. Cox? >> No. >> Mr. Rashan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hines? No. Dr. Weaver? >> No. >> Mr. Ambrose? No, I don't think my work is done as treasurer. >> Miss Abby Mitchell. >> Yes. >> Miss May. >> Yes. Motion filled. >> I'd like to make another motion for Mr. Rashard to be president. And who wants who would you like to work with? >> Miss Gwyn. I think she'd be great as vice. At this time, I will entertain a motion to adjourn our meeting at 8:05. >> Support I