001Good evening. Calling the Wayne Westland Community School District Board of Education meeting to order. Our first item on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I am going to ask that we all stand and Mr. Cox, will you please lead us in the pledge? >> Well, actually, we have some students here. >> Oh, I'm so sorry. Maybe Mr. Lane can uh >> Mr. Lane and we have Sebastian. >> I lost my big chance. >> Brianna [laughter] >> and Dave. I was moving and focused. I'm so sorry. So, we're going to ask Sebastian to come forward. Brianna and Dave. >> All right. Our Elliot Eagles, let's go. And whenever you guys are ready, >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
002stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. But do not go anywhere. Please stay there. We are going to ask Mr. Lane to share some information about each of you all. All >> right. So, I'm going to stand off here a little bit. So, our first one, uh, we have Miss Miller, the classroom teacher is here. And we have Brianna Schmidt. She's a fourth grader who has been a student at Elliot since kindergarten. She's incredibly kind to all students in the classroom. She's always finds way to brighten someone's day. She is very respectful and responsible student in class. Her family says that she is on the service squad where she helps in the morning, in a classroom, and also at lunch. She likes reading, listening to music, and
003dancing. When she grows up, she wants to be a police officer. [applause] >> Our next student is a fifth grader in Miss Alibaby's class, Dave Johnson. What she wrote is, "Dave Johnson's always uh actively involved in school events. He's very passionate about basketball and aspires to play in the NBA. He can actually beat me in basketball with his eyes closed. [laughter] His worth, ethic, and drive truly is admirable. Uh Dave excels in all subjects and continually looks for ways to improve. He is a great role model for his peers. His parents shared that he enjoys coming to school. He likes to start his day off bright and early to get to his service squad job. His favorite subjects are math and science. He is currently a student council president and is excited to help his
004school grow together and make school a fun place to learn. uh when he grows up he'd like to either be an engineer or work in a technology to create the next big thing. He is grateful to be asked to say the pledge tonight and thankful for everyone every opportunity that is given to him. [applause] And we have a third grade student. Miss Lazad is here tonight to represent as well. Sebastian Jo. Uh he strives to be a soaring eagle and the best version of ourselves. Sebastian continues comes to school each day with a smile on his face and a positive attitude. He's a leader in our classroom in all areas of the school by being safe, respectful, and responsible. Sebastian does his personal best each day and wants to succeed. He is kind to those
005around him and is always willing to lead a helping hand. He is such a joy to work with each day and is a wonderful part of our school community. He even made sure I got everybody together to practice today. So, his family says, "Sbastian is very loving and easily gets along with others. He has a unique personality and the joy he brings to our family makes makes them very excited to see what he will accomplish next. [applause] certificate. Show your certificate. >> [applause] >> So I just like to share our focus for our school year is together we grow and this is the reason why right here. >> Wow. [applause] >> Okay. Thank you guys again for being here tonight. You did an awesome awesome job on leading us with the pledge. So, thank you.
006And we are now at agenda item 174.26. Roll call in attendance. Mrs. Hines. >> Mr. Ombres, >> present. >> Miss Abney Mitchell Mitchell. >> Dr. Weaver, >> present. >> Miss Hines, present. Mr. Cox, >> present. >> Mr. Rashad, >> present. >> President May, >> present. Motion, I'm sorry, 70. It's too early. >> We are moving today. Thank you. [laughter] We are now at um item 175.26, 26 adjournment to a close session. I'm looking for a motion. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Let the record show that at 6:05 p.m. we are moving into close session. >> It is 7:04. I am looking for a motion to move us back into open session. Please support. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. We are readjourning our meeting at 7 7:04 p.m.
007And at this point I am looking for a motion to amend our agenda to add um 31A to add a 31A resolution. >> I Mrs. Hines would like to um amend the motion to add the 31A to the agenda. >> Thank you. Support >> support. >> Discussion. Mrs. Hines, will you call roll, please? >> Yes. Mr. Ambrose. Yes, >> Miss Abney Mitchell. >> Yes, >> Dr. Weaver. >> Yes, >> Miss Hines. Yes, Mr. Cox. >> Yes, >> Mr. Roshan. >> Yes, >> President May. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. I would next like to read a resolution that I am looking for a motion on um regarding the acceptance acceptance of funding pursuant to section 31A of the state school aid act. Whereas section 31A of the state school aid act of 2025
008offers funding to support school safety and mental health. And whereas section 31A9 conditions the receipt of this funding on the following criteria. One, affirmative agreement to be subject to a comprehensive investigation into a mass casualty event. two, affirmative agreement to wave any privilege that may otherwise protect information from disclosure and three agree to comply with a comprehensive investigation. [snorts] Now therefore, be it resolved that one, this board of education, to the extent required by 31A9, hereby agrees to be subject to a comprehensive investigation into a mass casualty event, to wave any privilege that may otherwise protect information from disclosure with respect to the governorappointed investigation into said mass casualty event and to comply with the governorappointed comprehensive investigation. Two, the waiver of privilege is pro is prospective and should not be construed to wave privilege
009prior to the acceptance of funds pursuant to 31A of the state school aid act of 2025. The waiver of privilege shall be in effect only until the funds subject to 31A 9 of the state school aid act of 2025 are exhausted or as such later date as as may be required by law and should be narrowly construed to the minimum waiver of privilege required to qualify for such funding. And three, the board of education hereby accepts pursuant to 31A of the school state school aid act of 2025 to support school safety and stu student mental health and I am looking for a motion. >> I'd like to motion that support >> discussion. Mrs. Hines, will you please call roll? Dr. Weaver. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cox, >> yes. >> Mr. Ombro, >> yes. >> Mr.
010Roshan, >> yes. >> Miss Abney Mitchell, >> yes. >> Miss Hines, yes. President May, >> yes. >> Motion carry 70. >> Thank you. We are now at item 177.26, recognitions and presentations. Mr. Lane, thank you so much for your patience this evening. You are now up with your building update for um Elliot Elementary School. Good evening board. I just like to thank you all for inviting us out tonight, our students. This has been a a great honor for us to be able to share about Elliot. As I shared before, uh this year our theme is together we grow, right? Uh the so the first slide I have here is just our school demographics uh information. Um so you can kind of get a picture of where we're at currently. Um so one of the things
011that we've done, we've kind of aligned this so around tier one instruction um MTSS attendance. So as we go through tonight, this slide right here is just showing our focus around our attendance goal. And for Elliot, one of the things that we wanted to focus on is community meetings. And what we felt is that if we're building out our community meetings within the classroom, so minimum twice a week where they're meeting um through that social emotional component, it'll inspire students to want to come to school. Uh this graph here is kind of showing um chronic absenteeism. So looking at last year with the data um overall and and keeping in mind the blue area that we have here is just a small portion of this year but last year for the school year we were
012at 50.56% um chronic absenteeism and currently for this school year at 39.9%. As I go through we'll kind of touch base a little bit more of what that looks like and what we're trying to do. The next slide here is really talking about our attendance daily rate. Um what you see here um at the top line is called CIS uh reported attendance. So what that is is if a student attends the school at any point during the school day. So you see that on average we're averaging 90% or higher. Um the other part that you see the green line which dips down and comes back up. What that is um is if a student comes in that they're they're attending. So they might be there in the morning, they might be there in the afternoon.
013Um so at some point in time that's what their attendance would be. So that full day report that you see on the top is just did they attend at any point in time during the school day for the the daily attendance rate. Um so things I want to highlight in this area. So a lot of our schools and elementary school um have some of the similar supports, but one of the things I want to lift is this school year at the end of last school year we finally got an attendance monitor. Um so they just kind of came right in towards the end of the school year. So this year we've had the attendance monitor from the start of the school year. Um so that's been a great impact uh on our community. Um and
014you can kind of see when our report in terms of where our truency was at the moment. Uh the other piece I'd like to highlight too we talk about the attendance support is through our monthly PBIS. So while a lot of our elementaryaries are PBS schoolwide Elliot we have monthly assemblies um in in those assemblies we focus around um a focus of uh being about um being positive um in that we recognize a student as a soaring eagle recipient. So that's based on what character trait we're looking for that month. Um, and then students also have the opportunity, we have a school store, so we have community partners that have donated things. Students are able to go in and use those um, points at their school store. The other piece I want to highlight is
015our food pantry. So, while other schools have a food pantry, um, at Elliots, uh, we've been able to maintain ours. And as I go further in the presentation, I want to highlight something special that's going on in our community currently. [snorts] And just to kind of highlight some of the things that were going through it, you see at Elliot is our book vending machine that we just had. It just started this school year. So, our soaring eagles, not only do they get recognized um as a whole student in front of our student uh community, but they also get to go and then select a book of their choice to improve their literacy as well. One of the things that came out of our um school improvement plan last year and our um just kind of
016find out what our community is looking for is one of the things we wanted to focus on is really focus on bully prevention this school year. So, we had a week-long bully prevention uh week for our students. Um so during that time period we also had be a buddy and what you'll see on the right hand side that is some of that coming together and that Friday they got to build a buddy and then bring that buddy to school to kind of help put bullying to bed type of thing. Um another huge impact is that just not to stop there. Um, so just last Friday we brought in um an assembly called Higher Impact and again just going back over that with our students uh high energy um about what that looks like in terms
017of um helping students make positive decisions in the community. Um and I'll touch base a little bit more on this one here, but I just want to highlight real quick. Um so we've really tried to partner with our community. Um one of the biggest things is we just had a um at the end of Halloween we had a um trunk or treat event. Um, so again, reaching out, who can help us? Um, we don't have a PTA. We don't have a uh PTO. So, what other ways can we go about to still make sure our community gets to have those same experiences that were provided before? We reached out to Wayne Memorial High School football program and they came out and they lifted the candy. They got the candy where it needed to go. We
018had over 30,000 pieces of candy and we ran out of candy. Um, but every kid got to go through, but it was just something amazing to see and just hearing the community members talk about that as they were going through. One of our focuses that we have again around tier one instruction in MTS MTSS um as you're aware this year the district has I ready math is what our teachers are implementing. So one of the things that our staff want to focus on is being intentional. So when the students the staff they're going to analyze the data that they have from their assessments and then make decisions to drive their instruction. So from that data they're going to make informed decisions around their math instruction. And another thing that we added the second part of
019this is the MTSS focus. Um, so we've been having uh monthly student support meetings and monthly MTSS meetings through grade level wise, but this year again the district focus is really around differentiated instruction blocks. So we're doing that as well um and monitoring what that looks like and with that we'll hope improving our overall academic progress. So this is part excited about um I'm not going to touch base on the two first bullets because I'm going to get into that very shortly. But when we did our perception data last year from our staff, students and um parents and staff uh based on that perception data, the vast majority of our students felt that they uh the teachers know and care about them and help them feel proud. So we're really excited about that from the
020data. And the other part was based on perception data staff are highly satisi satisfied with our school improvement process. So it's it's one of the things that we've been really working on and you'll hear a little bit more about that in a moment. So we talk about data um in this part here NWA. I just want to highlight that uh last school year at the start of the school year when we talk about reading our students were 40.96% of the students were at or above grade level and then coming in this school year with all the work and things that were being implemented last school year. What we found out is we had a growth in reading. Um so 46.27 of our students were at or above grade level. So we saw a percentage increase
021there. Another piece that we saw if we look at the bottom part so that was reading. So in math with a lot of the initiatives and things that are going on in the district to support around reading our math actually grew quite a bit. So uh last year we were at 28.97% of our students were at or above grade level. And so this year in this uh fall when we took the NWA test 39.47% of our students were at or above grade level. So really excited about that growth that our teachers have been doing in our students. This next slide gets into uh Wayne West on instructional level expectations for reading. Um, so again, some things that have been implemented in our district and these next slides that you're going to see is what we're
022really like where we started at and where we've where we've gone. So this first part is about uh phonics data. So our first two beginning graphs of this is really talking about our kindergarten um and our first grade. And what you want to see is there are four different cycles. And as you go through the cycles, you'll see in the beginning that green and that yellow starts to increase uh starts to increase. So we're really excited about to see the growth that was happening from first cycle. So that's taking place the beginning of the school year last year till the end of the school year. And you're seeing the growth that's been taking place in those areas. And again, the hope is that we'll see the green getting larger and the red decreasing. So in
023this section here, we're looking at our second and third graders. Again, you can see at the start of that cycle one where they were and how much they've grown from the cycle by the time they get to cycle four. And we're really excited about where our fourth grade and fifth grade were. So you can see at the beginning where they were at the beginning of last school year and where they were at the end of this past school year. One of the things um so this year we're focusing oral uh reading fluency. Um so this was our first um in the fall. This time was our first round of data. So we're getting ready to do a second round of the data component of this in December. So we're looking for really looking forward to
024what kind of growth have we seen based on our other data in our other sections through those four different cycles. Will we see a similar growth pattern along this as well? Uh the other piece I want to just highlight um real big points of prides here is um additional school committees focused around so um we really dug into our school improvement last year and um what our community was saying and so we've created committees uh multicultural parental involvement staff wellness and uh student recognition. They meet once a month and they're driving force behind a lot of the initiatives and things that we're doing. Give you example that community meeting I was talking about that's listed here. Um I meet monthly with the community. Um I invite them in just if I had a PTO or
025PTA uh we have an agenda we go through there's this is what we're doing. This is how we could help out. This is how we can build our community. This is where we need to grow and then open it up for other suggestions and things of that nature. Um so just tying that. So if our community says hey um we're wondering you're doing attendance letters now. So what about X Y and Z? I take that information back to our committees and that committee starts making informed decision. It's not Mr. Lane making those decisions, but it's our school community within our group focusing that as well. The last piece I'd like to add is we're doing our first ever turkey trot. It's the I think it's the 25th, so it's that Tuesday before we get out
026of school. Our gym teacher put this on. Our student council partnered with that. So we're doing a canned food drive. when I talked about that uh food bank that we have and knowing what's going on in November, um we're actually raising canned goods right now to replenish our food bank. Uh so we're really excited about that. So our whole school community will get to run some type of uh distance and when they come across they'll get a medal, but also that food is going to go right back into our community as well. So I'd like to share a big highlight of what's going on at Elliot. >> Any questions? >> Thank you so much, Mrs. Hines. >> Yes. Um, so with you guys being like a um like the K through four, what do you
027think is causing the chronic absentee problem? Like is it a parent situation? Like um in your um >> so so there's a lot of different factors that go in. One of the biggest things is that right now even with the district we're partnering to kind of say uh monthly, hey what are ways looking at what our current attendance policies and procedures are? Uh, one of the biggest things when when we talk about that absenteeism, um, with our attendance monitor, reaching out, hey parents, did you know that if you take your child out before this time, it's considered an absence if you come in before this. So, it's a lot of right now our baseline piece is thatformational part of our community. Um, we're looking at right now like even if the tardies and things of
028that nature, um, some of our families just didn't know that, hey, if you pull your child out at this time, they were coming in, maybe they were commuting in and trying to help out or they were arriving a little bit late. So, we start having those conversations. Hey, what can we do? Um, other conversations we're having this year with that attendance monitor is, hey, your child's eligible for a bus. Why don't we get them on the bus so that they can get here and get home? And that's helped improve that as well. So, those are some things that we're looking in as we go forward. Uh, and then again, that student recognition committee is going about and saying right now we're recognizing students for that positive attendance monthly, but they also said, you know what,
029some of our students may not get it every month, so now we're also doing it quarterly. So the students that have been that hit that attendance threshold that they've decided to recognize will be recognized not only monthly but quarterly as well. So those are things that we're working on currently. >> And I like that vending book machine. That's pretty cool too. >> Thank you. Any other questions? Mrs. Abney Mitchell, >> I just want to say thank you for presenting and thank you for the students. And one of the things that I appreciate about your students that you had tonight, they represent your school, your demographics in your school based on the numbers of the demographics. I appreciate that. And also my question is the student achievement peak data is that based on individual or classroom?
030>> That's based on your the classroom and grade levels wise. >> I mean individual classrooms. So we can dig about dig a little bit deeper to see individual classrooms. The data that's presented to you tonight is grade level wise. >> Okay. I'm sorry. I'm asking the wrong question. So it's for the whole grade. So it's not individual students. >> Correct. >> I guess I answered my own. She's looking at me like you answered the question. >> I just looked at you. That's >> Thank you. Well, I appreciate you and I appreciate the students and keep doing what you're doing and send us an invite. We like to go places when our calendar allows us to. So, send us invites and we'll bring some canned goods over there. >> No problem. >> Absolutely. Mr. Lane, thank
031you so much for your presentation. Um, I do want to say congratulations on the growth data. That's awesome. We don't always celebrate growth. We look to see that proficiency, but that growth is huge. So, congratulations to you and your staff and your students. >> Thank you very much. >> And then I just have one question for you in regards to the attendance monitors. Do they do home visits as well? So, the district used to have it where there was a certain threshold that the home visit would be taking place, but they're revisiting that now because what they what used to be in place, uh, that company no longer exists with us. Um, but when we have gotten through to to kind of answer your question, if we identify a student like, hey, what's going on
032here? Our team will go do a visit. So, I in the past have I gone and took another staff with member with me to say, hey, this student hasn't been here for a while or what is that? We have, but it's not a part of that attendance policy procedure at this time. >> Got it. Thank you so much. And then I have a question for Dr. Cross. So you're good. >> Dr. Cross, do other schools have attendance monitors? >> They do. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Lane. Really appreciate it. >> All right. Have a great night. >> Thank you. >> And next on our agenda is um Mrs. Amanda Fonden and Mr. Madden. >> Oh, I'm sorry. And Molly Hester. Is Molly here? >> So, I'm gonna bring him up here.
033So, good evening. Um, I just wanted to come and do a really a final training wrap-up for Madden for everybody. So that's why we're here tonight. So I am Amanda Fonden, the supervisor of mental health and support services. And then this is Madden. Madden, introduce yourself. Touch. Touch. >> Hi. Hi. [laughter] >> Hi. Madden. [laughter] >> So Madden is now a one-year-old golden doodle. And we received Mannon. He took about 3 years for us to find the right program, vet everything, and we were matched up with a wonderful organization called Canines for Change. So, Madden um Canines for Change works with breeders to get the perfect temperament of animals to either be facility dogs who work in schools and hospitals and police departments and then service dogs. So they have a very high level of
034obedience training and skill task training and they have the right obedient to be working with our students and staff. So Madden came to us, he started training at birth with Kines's for change. So they start with training and looking for things like the proper temperament and just making sure that they're going to be a great fit for the different environments that they work in. So they start very young. They stay with puppy razors um up until they're six months of age. And really, they listen to the school district and what we want um from a facility dog to the extent that we didn't even know which dog we were getting until about 5 days before we met Madden. So, they really want to find out all the different things that we need. So when Madden
035was six months old, we traveled to Kines's for Change, which is in Diamondale, Michigan, about two hours from here. And are you pressing that? It's not going to be for you. So um we went and picked Madden up and Molly Hester and I who is a first grade teacher at Hamilton participated in puppy boot camp. And from that point, Madden came home and he officially became a part of our school district. And so from there, we worked with him for the next six months doing intensive training. So he was receiving training from Kines's for change every single week, but he was training every single day. He also had public access rights at that time. So we were taking him into all different kinds of environments to prepare him for this role. So, he has been
036to First Step Shelter. He's been to the movies. He's been on school buses. He's been around loud machinery. He has been near our um custodial, I call them the Zamboni machines that go down the hallway. Um but all of those things while he was still very young to prepare him for this role. So, when Mannon turned one years old, he was ready to take his certification test with Kines's for Change, which just happened in October. So he turned one in October. He took his certification test with myself and also Molly Hester. We had to certify as a team. So he passed with flying colors and he is now an official uh facility dog certified. He will reertify every year with his same team. And so just with that, I just wanted to share and thank
037a few different people. Um, so the first one would be our Corewell school-based healthc care centers who connected me with Priority Health who was looking to sponsor Madden. Um, next would be Priority Health who sponsored Madden and all of his training and the first year of his life which included things like microchip, vet bills, food, and the like. It approximated about $13,000 in training. and Kines's for Change stays with us for the duration of his employment in Wayne Westland schools which will be approximately 10 to 12 years. >> And then I'd also like to thank Kines's for Change because they provided all of the intensive training and like I said will be with us through the duration of his employment with Wayne Wesland. I'd also like to thank our district leadership um Dr. CS, Dr.
038Jefferson um just for being so open and supportive and all the things that we needed to prepare Madden for this role. And then also Hamilton Elementary. So, Kelly Michaels, the principal, Molly Hester for really um Kelly gave Molly a lot of flexibility when it came to his training and his needs so that he could be the most prepared he can be to be working with our students and staff. And then just again um Kelly Michaels at Hamilton for being so supportive and open to this program. So that is all. Um I have some trading cards for all of our board members um with Manet's picture and then his QR code to his social media is on the back. I encourage you to follow him and just be a part of his life. So that's all.
039>> Thank you, Amanda. I would like to say thank you to you. I know that um this was a lot of your time and that this is a very you're very passionate about Madden and the work that you do for our students and thank you for that because without your dedication we would not have Madden. So thank you. >> Thank you Amanda. >> Thank you [applause] >> Amanda. Is he part of the union? [laughter] Oh, Amanda. [laughter] Next on our agenda, we are at 178.26 citizens comments on agenda items. >> Do we have anyone or anything? >> I didn't see anything. All right, we are next at 179.26 consent agenda. I am looking for a motion. >> So move. >> Thank you. Discussion, Mrs. times. Will you please call on the vote? >> Yes. >>
040Um, Mr. Ambrose. >> Yes. >> Um, Mr. Rashawn, >> yes. >> Dr. Weaver, >> yes. >> Miss Mitchell, >> yes. >> Miss Hines, yes. >> Mr. Cox, >> yes. >> 70. Motion carried. >> I would like to vote. >> We forgot. I'm sorry, Miss May. I'm trying to find my paper. >> That's okay. My vote is yes. >> I don't know where my paper was. I just had it. Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you. Next on the agenda 180.26, Board of Education Committee reports. We'll start with Mr. Ambrose with the Finance and Facility Committee report. >> So, the Finance and Facility Committee meeting uh was called to order on Wednesday, November 6th at 5:00. Um in attendance was Mr. Ambrose, Miss Abney Mitchell, Miss Hines, uh Dr. Cost, uh Miss Claire, uh Mr. Montaine, Miss
041and Miss Marky from the board, uh with some community members, uh Abby, Tyrese, and Dorothy. Um we started off the meeting uh with Miss Marky uh talking to us uh on behalf of Dr. cost. Uh thanking everyone for their assistance and support with the bond initiative uh and that we're grateful for the community support that we had with getting this initiative passed. We then heard from uh Mr. Montaine um about uh two emergency repairs that happened to our buildings. Uh these were below the threshold that needed board approval but were for our information only. uh one regarding the uh loading dock at the career technical center uh needed a hydraulic repair and then at Taft Elementary uh we needed some uh sanitary sewer line work uh and and those were were handled uh coming from
042the sinking fund. We then heard from Miss Claire about the state aid and our check register and investment reports. Uh we had a brief discussion after that um regarding our federal uh aid that we received due to the government shutdown at the time. Uh Miss Claire told us that we weren't being we were not affected as a district at this point. Um and the government has since uh passed a continuing resolution. So uh they're funded. Um, we also had a uh brief discussion over our our account numbers that we just received and how that was going to impact the budget. Um, Miss Claire is beginning to prepare her uh state the revised budget which will be presented to us in time for January's board meeting. So, uh, with that, um, we close the meeting at
0435:22 p.m. as there was no pressing business. >> Thank you so much, Mr. Ambrose. Next, we have Dr. Weaver with policy and procedure committee report. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see policy committee on the agenda. >> No. Okay. Remember, I sent an email stating that policy committee did not hold. So, the agenda was amended to take it. >> Okay. I'm just going by agenda in front of me. Sorry. Um, next we have 181 point I apologize Dr. Weaver. Um, we're next at 181.26 review and approval of business service and finance items. The first item that we have is the recommendation to approve installation and maintenance of speed limit signs. Resolution. Mr. Tokco. >> Good evening board and community. Uh, my resolution tonight is the resolution authorizing installation and maintenance of speed limit signs. Whereas
044the city of Westland has approved the installation of speed limit signs on or near properties owned by the school district and as and whereas the Wayne Westlane Community School recognizes the importance of promoting safety for students, staff, families, and community members within and around the school zones. And whereas the school district agrees to assume responsibility of the installation and ongoing m maintenance of all approved signs or all approved speed limit signs as designated by the city of Westland. Now therefore, be it resolved that the the Wayne Westlane Community School Schools Bo School Board of Education hereby approves that the school district will install and maintain all speed limit signs approved by the city of Westland at the district's sole cost and expense in perpetuity. Um this has been a um a combined effort with us
045uh the school district and uh the Wayne Police Department and uh the Westland Police Department. So for us to be able to get these um is great for the community, for our staff and our students. Um we've worked with them on and we will continue to work with them on location and follow through in regards to um monitoring those areas that we um we place those signs in. So all of our schools will have these in front of them uh when this um initiative is complete. >> Thank you. Looking for a motion. >> So move >> support >> question >> support >> discussion. Mrs. Adne Mitchell. So you said that you when you said Wayne and Westland police. So we do have schools that's outside of Wayne and Westland. What about those district? >> Yes.
046Canton too. They will they all all our schools will have those signs in front of them. >> So that's Ken Remless and Inkster. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> So every school that we have in the district will have one of these speed limit signs in front of it. We've worked directly with those two police departments in particular um on those on where the placement's going to be and so forth. >> Okay. And my other question is cuz these are subtle panel lights. Correct. >> Correct. >> Cuz when we drove past week after we left finance meeting, the ones right here at John Glenn, they was out. >> I agree. They were out and I think I'm not sure if they were even on today because I don't remember seeing. They're on today. >> They're on
047today. Yeah. They have they're so solar powered. Um, and they have a battery backup, too. So, it's not just So, say for instance, we're in the winter and we get 10 days of no sun, right? >> There's a battery backup with them, too. >> Okay. >> So, yeah. And there must have been a situation with that. And our guys obviously um and I remember driving by there. I think it was last Thursday or Friday. I didn't see them on. >> It did make just like I said before, this they it makes me slow down. I can tell you that. So, I think it works for for the majority of people. Absolutely. >> So, it's a good thing to have. You think it's something that's irrelevant, but it's really relevant when it comes to our kids
048crossing in those spaces and where we locate them and so on. >> It they are absolutely and they do make you pay attention and slow down and it causes me to be three minutes late from my meeting, [laughter] >> but you don't get a ticket >> to to the police uh to both uh police stations. Uh they they monitor those too. you can't come by here during the week and not see someone pulled over um >> on this street here and anywhere else that we have them right now. So, we have them at a couple of buildings. >> That's a good thing. Thank you so much. >> Yeah. >> Anyone else? Mr. Weaver, Dr. Weaver. >> Um couple of questions. First of all, who is normally responsible to put up speed limit signs? Is it
049the cities or is it the state? I I think it's in combination and the county whenever you do something with um speed control city and county first usually it goes that way. That's been my um I guess knowledge of how that works. Um so that's why we had to take it to the city of Westland and get approved first. Uh, I'm not sure if they have to take it to the county for these, but I'm sure if you put up a um one of those uh stopgo lights uh where kids could press a button, they would have to go through it's it's a it's a tedious. You just jump through a bunch of hoops when you do anything with that lighting. Um when it comes to um just setting [cough] setting them up and where
050you can do them. But with these, I know for for this project in particular, we had to go through the city. So the city of Wayne and the city of Westland. Um we have one school in Canton and and uh we did not have to go through their uh department. Um but we went through both of them. >> Okay. The I guess the part that concerns me is the imperpetuity. So, um, is Wayne and Westland and our other, uh, parts of our district, are they reigging on a responsibility we have or is this something extra that we want to do? >> This was actually our initiative. Um, they supported it. They supported and actually uh supported everything during the process of doing this. But when it comes to maintaining, that's on us to make sure
051that they're they're uh properly maintained. Um so yeah, that is this is part if you're talking about the ownership of these uh signs are ours. Um we wanted the support because we had to have it to too. Not that they weren't supportive, but they we had to go to the city to get the the okay for these. Um but it's our responsibility. It's no different than um um on one of our fields um that we have. It's district property because of the fact that we're installing them. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. We would have loved for them to do that, but it just wasn't going to happen. They said they didn't have the funding. Wayne was the one who approached us first. Uh this is going back two years right now uh to do
052these. So, this has been a process to get this to happen. So after this, all of our buildings, correct, >> will have these signs in front of them >> and that'll come sooner than later because right when we get the if this goes through tonight, uh we will be ordering everything we need at that point and uh and work on the installation as soon as next week. So that's how quick this will be. The turnover will be. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> So correct me if I'm wrong. We voted last board meeting to approve the signs, the purchase of them. Yeah, >> this is just the approval from the cities where to put them. >> Correct. And it's a basically we have to go through this is a a resolution to go to the
053city of Westland combined with us. >> So yeah, we already did approve them. >> So this was the piece where they wanted an actual resolution. They didn't accept the minutes. Correct. >> Correct. Yes. >> Yes. This is exactly why we're doing this. >> Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? >> All right. Mrs. Hines, will you >> One more question. So, I just thought about something kind of off charts, but I know they've been having a lot of solar energy and stuff going on. So, if something happened like some flare with those um is there like some type of insurance that would cover that those speed things a lot of energy stuff going with the sun? I I I can't I'm not going to answer that because I'm not really sure. But I know that if based
054on the sun and not having um the energy to to operate those, the battery backup would sub uh would supplement the device uh to run. I don't know like if you're saying it got hit by something. >> It's like this weird solar energy going on. They've been talking about these solar geostorrms and stuff and spikes, you know, of energy that just >> I think that these devices are so small. I think they're talking about some of the things that run uh what you're talking about because I have heard what you're talking about some of that solar those solar panels and solar devices run whole cities. I mean, >> this is going to this will be very minor in that big uh picture um of us having to deal with that. I really don't think that
055we'll have any issues with that. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Cl please. Thank you. >> Dr. Weaver, >> yes. >> Mr. Cop, >> yes. [snorts] >> Mr. Ambrose, >> yes. >> Mr. Rashad, >> yes. >> Miss Abney Mitchell, >> yes. >> Miss Hines, yes. President May, >> yes. >> Motion carry 70. >> Awesome. Thank you. Next on our agenda, we're at item 182.26, interim superintendent goal of date. So, as a district, we use the MASSB tool for our superintendent evaluation and part of the process is that um we periodically receive updates on the goal process or goal progress I should say from um Dr. Cost and so she's going to share that with us this evening. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Um, so for the the viewers at home, I came on board
056um in July, the beginning of July, and was uh just thrilled to see how school started in the fall. Um, it was such a a positive experience seeing new kindergarten students starting with, you know, their teachers and learning routines on buses and things like that. Um so uh by now we have staff and families and students kind of in their routines and uh parents have learned the expectation expectations for pickup and drop off mostly. Um uh we have our bus routes down. Breakfast and lunch are in full swing. Um dinner at the two high schools. We have two SRO's in place. All of the safety drills for the fall have been completed. And it was very heartening to see how seriously this district takes safety and just making sure students and staff alike are protected
057and have what they need to to come to work and be in school every day and be safe. Um, November brought excellent news of the bond passing, yet it also brought challenging news of our enrollment uh not being where we thought it was going to be. Um, but overall, I've very much enjoyed being a part of this district and and working with the colleagues that I have and and all of you. I was able to have one-on-one meetings. Um, and and really learned a lot about why you do this work. You're not paid probably it's two cents an hour for the amount of time you put into this job and um your leadership really does make a difference. So, I've I've really enjoyed working with you to move the district forward. So, that being said,
058um I have two goals. uh one of which aligns with our strategic plan and that was to have uh common assessments in K5 math and ELA and 612 [clears throat] and core subjects uh which includes ELA, math, science and social studies completed and developed by June of 2026. So, so for people at home they might be saying well why is this important? So common assessments would be common tests and and they would be given at relatively the same amount of of the window of time. Um but why it's so important is if we have a fourth grade student for example at at Joe school, right? We want the similar experience to be hopping in a fourth grade classroom across town. And um that's important because we want to deliver the same educational content, the same
059standards, and make sure that the students no matter what school you go to, no matter what teacher you have, are getting the state standards and what our district says is so important. So, uh the common assessments will provide us a way to make sure that happens. They will provide data to drive instruction. So if we have pockets of students who are doing very well on a concept and other pockets that aren't, we can say what did those teachers do and can we replicate that in other grade levels or other classrooms. Um it's also a way for us to know are we preparing our students in terms of what the state standards are? Are we doing a good job making sure they're going to leave our doors knowing what the state says and knowing what we
060know is so important. So, Dr. Jefferson, thank you because you jumped into your role, I think September. Um, she started by doing a comprehensive review of what curriculums we use in every grade level, in every subject, and that really provided the foundation for us to create now these common assessments. So, if you stop in and say hello to me, you're going to see a gigantic wall chart that has what curriculum, what grade levels, what PO number, what date it was board approved, and when we're going to need to review it to update it. So, thank you for for that hard work, and I know your department really came together to to provide that. Um, so right now our executive directors and our grade level leads are working on the common assessments shoulder-to-shoulder with teachers. So
061in December when I give you another update, I will have more um a more comprehensive list of where we are. >> That's awesome. >> So that was goal number one. Quickly, goal number two. Um, we we discovered that students perhaps weren't knowing all the opportunities that this wonderful district has to offer. And with that, I I'm talking about dual enrollment or our CTC program or um or our hybrid learning. And and that's to no fault of anybody in a large organization. It just it just happens. And so my second goal was to increase awareness. I I want to put trumpeters on the front lawns to to say all the great things we have available to students. Um Jenny Johnson and um and and Scott and the rest of the communications department took this goal by
062the horns and helped me create a series called Did You Know? and they have not only been um brainstorming ideas with me uh because they have been here for a long time, they understand how important it is that students know that they could go to a firefighter academy for example or some of the health opportunities. And so with this did you know um I have been going around to various sites interviewing students to spread the word tell our story about all the wonderful things students can do um and the opportunities they have and the supports they have. So that has um taken me to a number of schools. We've branded it. Uh Jenny has done story boards. We've went to WEIA. I think um Mr. Mr. Roshan, you had gone there too and I had
063a very similar experience that you did as far as just watching dual enrollment for example or college um early college classes. And so how can we leverage that through social media? I'm not saying any of it's gone viral, but it's on Tik Tok, it's on Facebook, it's on our website and Instagram. So again, we're trying to use ways students can find out, families can find out. Oddly enough, um I think we're also going to get teachers recruited because once they see what Wayne Westland has to offer, they're going to be want to be a part of this. So I'm I'm excited and I look forward to the next month of hard work and then I will report more to you. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. Are there any questions for Dr. Cross? >> Just
064want to say thank you. Thank you so much. We are now at 185.26 review and recommendations. No, I missed one. Did I? >> No, I did. I skipped over comments. I'm sorry. 183.26 citizens comments on non-aggenda items. All right, we are at 184.26 [laughter] inter um in terms of superintendent report and comments. Dr. Cross um first and foremost is just a huge thank you to our community for the support and the bond. Our bond um was so important. Uh Mr. Tokco has been on the road as have all of you preaching to anybody who would listen about keeping our students safe, warm, and dry. Um, and and just to put into perspective our fund balance, while Juel has done an outstanding job, we don't have $125 million to pay for boilers or roofs or parking
065lots. And um, I just could not tell you how meaningful that this will be for our students for years to come. So to the community, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. We are now at 185.26 review and recommendations board of education. We're going to start with Mrs. Abney Mitchell. This evening, >> good evening everyone. I just want to say this year has been a great year working with my colleagues. Like I said, we enjoy invites. We get invites to go to schools, to plays, to different events. And per our calendar, we able to make it. But when we go, we enjoy it so much. Um all all this new this new school year 25 26 we have been visiting the schools meeting the students and having great conversations with the
066students. Last week I had the opportunity to take my grandson who was a former student at John Glenn and the career tech. He graduated in 20 20 um one and um like I said he was a former student over at the career tech and we went for the Thanksgiving buffet and we [snorts] had a good time. We talked to the students. We talked to two three chefs. I I told them I'm not going to remember their name but um I just want to say it was pleasant the students from the when you enter from the greeters to the weight staff to the servers to the to the head shelves and the shelves student shelves. I took pictures with them. They allowed me to take pictures with them. Um we pointed out all the um seniors
067that I'm going to give them their high school diploma on graduation day. So, we had just a great time. It just feels so good to be able to go out there and be with the students. And um the same day I had the opportunity to go to the um EMU bright future celebration, I was there u maybe about able to talk to two or three students before I had the emergency, but my family stayed and they had a nice time. So it's just like um it's so rewarding to be able to do those things. learn something and also even working I'm I just want to commend my colleagues so much just working with them. We just recently had a workshop um um to set the timeline for the superintendent search. But just to be able
068to be each other ourselves and be on the same agenda, it just makes you want to go home happy even though you don't want to be there on a Saturday. We went over some of some of our colleagues, some of my colleagues, we went over for coffee with the state senator um last week. That was very intriguing. [snorts] So, I just want to say thank you to my colleagues and I want to say thank you to everybody. This is the season to be thankful and happy Thanksgiving. Eat some turkey. Eat some turkey. Eat some turkey. And thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Ambers. >> Want to thank the community for uh for passing our our bond proposal. Umund $25 million for a lot of things that that are needed. Um, I know the students, especially
069at Walker Winter, are going to be very appreciative of the uh the things that are going to be done to that building because unfortunately with our last bond effort, uh they didn't get the work done that they needed. I had a great time um this past week. I got to spend a few hours with uh probably some of the cutest uh students we have here in our district at at Stlemeer um spending time and and reading a story with them. It's amazing how curious kids are at that age and the questions they have and the excitement they have in their eyes when someone takes the time to talk with them and to to share a story. It made me miss my kids being that age. >> Yes. >> A few weeks ago though, we were
070up at some of us on the board were up uh for some training and uh the one thing I would like to to have the board look at um and Dr. cost. We have a building in this district that in my opinion it quite frankly is underutilized. We're using it for our students uh the career technical center and our students are getting some good use out of it. uh preparing them, especially those who aren't necessarily ready for college, to be able to have a productive way of make providing for themselves once they get out of high school. But there are some adults um who can't necessarily afford to go to community college um that could use some of the programs there on a night basis to be able to to provide better for their families.
071I know this because I was one of those people almost 20 years ago when I took advantage of the automotive technology program and Mr. Dr. Mark Batco was one of the teachers and he's still here at this district working with our young students um and preparing them to be technicians. But there's there's a lot we could do to help not just the children in our community, but also some of the parents who are struggling and maybe just need to up their skills just a little bit to be able to find more meaningful employment. Thank you, Mr. Ambrose. >> I'd like to thank Mr. Lang for that wonderful presentation about Elliot. Um, I also like to thank the citizens for passing our bond. Um, that was just really great to see the success of that passage.
072Um, again, as Mr. Ambrose said, I'm glad we're going to be able to really take care of um, Walker Winter because they were, you know, got left behind. And I know um usually campaigning there's a little section in Romance I always go to to see the residents and I just kind of noticed like a lot of the kids in that area due to like the um the garbage places they have those heels they like the asthma because one time I did Yep. The landfields the landfields I'm sorry it's getting late and just kind of noticing like when I was in the schools it was hot in there they didn't have air conditioning how miserable it was for the kids. Um the teachers had to turn down the lights and give them popsicles. I mean it
073was really bad. So I'm really glad that we're able to take care of those kids over there. Um let's [snorts] see. Um oh so I was able with some of my colleagues to go to um bright futures fall festival um over at Adams. That was really fun with Dr. C some other um members. Um I like the room with the sensory where you had like the py we made like >> poperri >> and that was a great program. My son actually went to Bright Futures some years ago when it started. So, it's a really good program. Um, I was able to go to 12 Angry Men play that they had over at John Glenn. So, that was kind of cool. Um, one thing I did like about it, um, I was just kind of driving
074past. I seen those posted like outside the school. So, those kind of help. Now, with the enrollment, I did notice one thing. There's a few schools that are taking a lot of our kids like AIA. I see like their signs everywhere. I haven't seen Detroit public schools, River Rouge. So they're like really all in our district with signs kind of piling our kids. So we have to probably do a little bit, you know, maybe putting some more, you know, some of the corners of Wayne Westland and certain areas to get some more of our kids back. Um, I was able to go uh with some of my colleagues to see Senator Dana Pekki and I was glad we was able to do that because there was some bills that was kind of sitting on her
075desk and to kind of be able to get two sides of the story to see, you know, where things are going on with um our senators and our legislators. So that was a really good um meeting out in Ingster. Um, I like to say too, um, I was talking to Dr. Cost, how I was really impressed about the letters programs when it comes to like the literacy and I've actually been talking to other teachers in other places and other schools like, "Hey, we got this program in Wayne Westland. It's helping our kids." So, I think thank you for bringing that to my attention. Um, let's see that that Oh, um, I just wrote some things down. Oh, and and another thing that Mr. Ambrose was saying I do agree with. Um I remember back in
076the day they did have those night classes over at the career tech and I know a lot of the teachers they really you know enjoyed working that night you know and it was really helpful in the community. So I would like to kind of invest and see like what can we do to bring that back and then two the nice thing with our legislators is we have a really good relationship with them in Wayne Westland. So a lot of times we can ask for them to create something in Lancing to bring a bill to bring funds down because when we had Jefferson Burns a lot of times like the state reps they brought money back for different things. So, it's possible we can just kind of get creative with that. And I'd like to announce
077too, um, so, uh, one thing I do love is literacy. So, I'm the president of the Wayne Weston Kanas Club and we meet on the, um, first Tuesday and the third Tuesday of the month. So, u, we have a partnership with the Wayne Westn Salvation Army. Um, we're working with Hype and um, I [snorts] talked to Robbie and Hype said they want to do a lot more of the Wayne West school. So, they want to get more involved in, you know, like different time, different programs and stuff like that. um they had the trunk or treat that the hype and there's like over 3,000 kids there. So that's a really good partnership to really you know kind of do a little bit more with them. But um with the Kanas um I really want to
078get this. So so far we have a key club at John Glenn High School. We have over 50 kids as registered. Um we was able to get like $500 from the Mayor Westland. We got 200 from the police department. Um the Plymouth Kowanas gave us $500 for our kids. So I want to kind of start getting those at some of the elementary. So they have um a Kauanas um a K kids. It's at the elementary schools. They have a Kauanis builders at the middle schools, a key club in the high schools and then and forth on. But with those vending machines with the books um we give out free kids. We work with a lot of literacy. We actually did a food drive for St. Mary's to um bring some food. But when we had
079a trunk or treat, we gave out over 125 free brand new books. And to see the kids are really excited about the books. They were just so we ran out of books. It was awesome. So I want to work with some more of the libraries like the Wayne Westland Canton Inkingster like some of the libraries and see if we can do some book drives to get free books out to the families you know kind of some programs. So I really like that with those books that was really neat and u but the meet is going to be tomorrow at 5:30 at the Westland library. And that's all I got right now. >> Thank you so much Mr. SC Mr. Rashan. >> Hey everybody. Um first I want to uh thank the students today from Elliott
080uh for doing the pledge and Elliot's uh presentation. Um uh throughout the year I've put on I have on my schedule to visit every uh school in the district. It was a lofty goal but Kim Marque has helped me out to schedule that and I've been doing that and today was one of the visits. I had a ball. I visit um um uh Roosevelt Elementary and I visit uh uh Walker Wy today. Uh visit Roosevelt. I got there and um I u met with uh Principal Watson and u Secretary Sandy and I came in and um uh Secretary Sandy, she scolded me. She said, "Hey, when you come in the building, you come in, but don't let people come in behind you." There there was a there was a grandmother behind me. So, I called
081myself being a gentleman opening the door, and the grandmother looked at me and said, "That's right. You don't let me in [laughter] for school safety reasons." I said, "You're absolutely right." And I just appreciated that that they um even though um it was all in fun and gesture, but they were saying, you know, we we take pride in our students safety, uh getting in the building and uh talked to uh principal uh Watson. He showed me around the building. We went the lunchroom and I was just going to talk to a few students just to, you know, get a little more information about them and see how they feel about the school and just lunches and just have a conversation. and he was he stopped the whole lunchroom and said, "We have a special person
082here." I'm like, "No, no, no, no, hold on, don't wait. I'm not ready." And uh and gave me the microphone. I began to talk to the fourth and the fifth graders. And and uh we had a moment where I had them challenging each other, "Who can be the loudest? I know you're not supposed to be loud in the lunchroom." Screaming and excited. And I got so excited. I said, "I'm coming back for recess." They were like, "Yay." And I looked at myself and said, "What did I just [laughter] I have to come back to recess now." Um, I just really enjoyed myself at um at Roosevelt. I as I was going out, you know, I was dressed for my board meeting. I had a couple things. I had my badge on. Student came up to
083me and say, "Hey, are you an FBI agent?" [laughter] I said, "Why is this your badge?" I said, "Is this I said, "Let me tell my badge." I said, "No." Um, but just the the the questions the students would ask me and uh just very you can tell the the school spirit in uh Roosevelt, they really enjoyed me. I um the principal said, Mr. Watson said, um um tell them go road runners. And I said, "Go Road Runners." They was like, "Go Road Runners." And they were just so excited. uh seen the Roadrunner flags in the hallways and um they have a program where on Fridays they wear red and the the the staff the class that has the most people that have red on get a prize and get recognized and I just look
084forward to going back to Roosevelt. Uh great experience. It was so good. I was headed to uh uh Walker Winter and ended up getting there late because I spent so much time at Roosevelt. got to Walker Rener and um talked to Principal Smith and he um I apologized. I told him I'm going to come back to spend more time. Just things just kind of ran over, but we went to the lunchroom and had a great time. Met with students and staff there. So, I'm just really proud of this district and what we're doing. Um another thing about Roosevelt, I didn't know we have a swimming pool in an elementary. >> That's like it's it's unheard of. I'm like, we need to promote what we're doing in our district. We have some great things going on
085in our district. So, just had a great time um uh today uh visiting schools. I look forward to visiting the rest of the schools. Uh, on another note, I am a part of an organization, uh, National Black Male School Board Association, and they're having a sneaker ball for, uh, uh, education, uh, December the 6 here in the district at um, at uh, the hype gym. Uh, it's a sneaker ball where you, you know, you dress up, but you wear your sneakers. But they're raising money for scholarship for students that are going into education. Uh they asked me, they said, "Um, is the district coming out?" I said, "Well, I guess I do need to tell the district." And [clears throat] um we had uh someone sponsor over 50 tickets for the district and um they
086said just tell the staff, teachers, pair professionals, anyone that's a part of the district that uh they could come uh for free. So I'll talk to uh Dr. cost and see how we can get the word out to everyone that uh would want to attend, parents or anyone in the district. Other than that, uh go Lions. [laughter] >> Thank you, Mr. Roshan, Dr. Weaver. >> Thank you, Madame President. I'd like to uh echo my fellow board members, the community. Thank you so much for entrusting us with these bond monies and um we appreciate so much the community's effort in that. Also, I would say to some of my fellow board members that this district did have an adult education program at one time. um is I believe 10 years or more um ago, we uh
087had to stop it because it was costing a lot of money and the enrollment had become pitiful. Now that was then, this is now. If we could make figure some way to uh make it revenue neutral um I think that would be a great thing. Also um I would like to thank Dr. Cost for sharing with us um about her goals and how she's working at her goals. We were all in the meeting when our attorney said, "If you want someone you can trust, bring in Dr. Cost." And um I believed him and now today I believe him more. Um I want to thank you for working so hard on your goals, leading this district and the transparency you have. Thank you. That concludes my comments. >> Thank you, Dr. Weaver. Mr. Cox. >> Thank
088you, Madam President. I'd like to echo my colleague, Dr. Weaver's comments regarding uh Dr. Cost and your efforts, specifically the first bullet point part that you discussed tonight. I I see there a resource for our school district being able to have a mini lab, if you will, to determine whether or not some educators in some buildings are doing something and getting a better result with with it being all amalgamated together. You can't differentiate that data out and and concentrating on that as you have is I think is going to pay great dividends to us. Uh, also on the 14th of November, you sent a uh, memo with the uh, September and October and November bus route cancellations. And as I looked at that uh, that sheet of all the cancellations, I noticed there are none.
089I notice there are no cancellations uh in the month of October whereas last year there were 50 routes >> 50 >> you know you're talking about uh our uh the number of students count there was over 4,000 students in the month of October alone affected in November mber Dr. cost uh none last year 29 December 31 routes I mean it's it's when when uh we initially met the last thing that you asked me is do you have anything specific for me that you would like me to concentrate on and I said and of course I've been screaming about this for since co it's been like this since co and you said you would address it and the door got shut on that. And I'm very grateful to you on behalf of all of the parents
090who have to at the last minute figure out some way to make it all happen. Uh thank you on their behalf. I want to also thank uh Mr. Lane for uh for staying here the whole meeting >> and for the great energy that you have going on at uh at your school at Elliot. So, uh, as my colleague, uh, said earlier, this has been a remarkably, I think, successful board. And tonight, even though nobody talked about it, I thought the board made a very selfless decision to put the community and their needs before the school district's needs. And I thought that was the right decision, and I thank you for it. That's all I have. >> Thank you, Miss Mr. Hacks. Um, I'd like to thank Sebastian, Dave, and Briana for leading us this evening
091in the pledge. They did a remarkable job. I'd also like to take a minute just to say thank you to Mr. Lane for the work that you're doing at Elliot. Had the pleasure to attend your open house, so I was able to see firsthand um and then hearing the um report out this evening. So, thank you for all of your work and the work of your staff. Um I'd also like to just make a correction to something I said last month. I thanked John Glenn's students for the haunted house at um the trunk or treat and it was actually Wayne memorial students. So I wanted to go on record and make that correction. I'm deeply sorry for that. I want to also just as we've talked tonight about data data that you shared Dr. CS
092and just um things that are happening all the positive things that are happening in the district. The data that Mr. Lane shared. I also would just like to share that I had the opportunity to be at a um multilingual learner department meeting with Wayne Resa and in that space our um Wayne Westlands multilingual department was given a shout out for their data. And so I want to share that our um grade eight ML students outscored the state and the um county in math on the [applause] MSTEP. And so that is something that I think is remarkable and understanding that I'm going to say less than five years ago we didn't have a department and now we have a department and this just speaks to how we are servicing the needs of our students and understanding
093that we have a variety of needs and how we are addressing those needs. So I wanted to highlight that. Also want to take a moment to just say thank you to the um community for passing the bond. Also thanking our bond committee, the work of the board, especially um Mrs. Hines. We know how tirelessly you work to be really out in the in the community and um promoting the district and getting that bond passed. So, thank you for your work with that. Um I also want to not just only say thank you to Dr. Cos, but to the executive team. Um, just knowing the work that has taken place and some of the shifts and some of the changes that have occurred and and to be at this point and for things to be running
094um, as harmoniously as they are and really having a focus on our students and on student achievement. I just want to say thank you because everyone just came together and it really jailed and so thank you for that. Um, Mrs. Abney Mitchell Mitchell mentioned this, but I also just want to echo it that we did meet as a board on November 8th to discuss our superintendent search and that process. And so that meeting is not only on YouTube, but we also now have a link on the website that is specifically for the stu the superintendent search. And so any information that is needed, any questions that you have, you can click on that link and you can re see the timeline. You also can see the um recording from the meeting and at that meeting
095we discussed um not only the process the timeline but also some of the things that as a board we we are looking for as in terms of characteristics of a superintendent. So all of that is online at this point in time and as we continue through the process because we will have um community meetings coming up with staff with parents with um community members. Those dates are also posted and that information will also be easily available on that link. And I do believe [clears throat] I covered everything. And again, I just want to say thank you to everyone for being here this evening and also to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. And with that being said, we're at 186.26. I don't think we have any followup to board questions right now. >> Nope. And so
096then we now are 187.26. Ajournment. I will make a motion. >> All in favor? I