001It is 6:30 p.m. calling our um school board meeting to order and we will start with the pledge of allegiance and I will ask that everyone please stand and Mr. Cox are you comfortable in leading us in the pledge tonight? I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you so much. It never gets old. This time, can you please call Mr. Ambrose? Present. Miss Abd Mitchell Mitchell. Uh Dr. Weaver present. Miss Hines present. Mr. Cox, yes, present. Mr. Rashad, present. President May present. 70. We have everyone here. Thank you so much. Moving on to item 363.25, adjournment to a close session. I am looking for a motion. So move. Support. Thank
002you, Mr. Hines. Will you please call RO? Mr. Cox? Yes. Mr. Rashan? Yes. Miss Hines? Yes. Dr. Weaver? Yes. Mr. Ambrose? Yes. Miss Abney Mitchell? Yes. President May? Yes. Motion carries. 70. Looking for a motion to move back into open session. So moved. Mr. Board, Mr. Hines, will you please call ro? Mr. Ombres, yes. Miss Abney Mitchell, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. Miss Hines, yes. Mr. Cox, yes. Mr. Roshan, yes. President May, yes. 70. Motion carries. Thank you. We are now at item 365.25, citizens comments, agenda items. Do we have any? I didn't see any. Did anybody um turn in any agenda items, Mr. Sam? ready. I'm ready. You may start. Okay. Um I am up here. I was up here last month talking about superintendent. I am up here opposing the hiring tonight of the
003new interim superintendent on 367.25 25 of Katherine cost to be the interim. There is no resume listed in this board packet. Why is that? What is the board trying to hide? Yet again, how was this applicant selected and or brought to our district? Was it with the proper channels? Didn't know much about this, so had to do research. There is an article that goes and gives more negative drama that will follow her here from April 2023. Why do we need that and want that here? Also, she was hired in January 2025 as the interim superintendent a Hazel Park district. Why is she leaving that district and coming over here after only being there for a few months? What is going on? There is no resume, no information given to us tonight. I dare say that
004this is considered shady practices and that these are being presented to the public. How long will this interim superintendent contract be? Is there going to be a long extended one or is it just going to be a one-year contract? Reminder to this board, please that backdoor dealings, non-transparency, nepotism, nonaccountability are just a few of the items that have gotten our district into these problems in the past, let's say, six years. Let's not look backwards, but forward and get us out of all of this. I still support the current, as of right now, at this time, the current interim superintendent. She got us through the issues with Dr. Holt, with Dingan. She's been doing wonderful. I think she should continue on with this. I supported it last month and I'm here again to support this. We
005have no information given to us by what we found except what's in here giving the little reader saying that we have a new interim that's going to be voted in today. Why didn't this district, the community, the stakeholders have a say in any of this? None of us got the survey. Yes, I'm only a community member, but I'm still part of this. I still live in this district and just support this district. So, how come there hasn't been us having a voice in all of this? Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments at this time? Thank you. We are now at item 366.25 consent agenda and I am looking for a motion. So move for Mrs. Hines, will you please call row Mr. Cox? Yes. Mr. Rashan, yes. Miss Hines, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. Mr.
006Ambrose, yes. Miss Abney Mitchell, yes. President May. Yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Next, we are at item 367.25, appointment of Dr. Katherine Cross as interim superintendent. And at this point, I'm looking for a motion. Move approval. Looking for support. Support. Discussion. Is there any discussion at this time? Oh, one quick question. Is she here in the room? Yes, she is. She's right over there. Oh, okay. Right there. Okay. Yes. There is no further discussion, then we'll um look to call roll. Miss time. Miss Abney Mitchell. Yes. Mr. Ambres. Yes. Mr. Rashan. Yes. Mr. Cox. Yes. Mr. Reaver. Dr. Weaver. Yes. Miss Hines. Yes. Miss May. Yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you. At this time. Yes. And at this time, I would like to invite Dr. Cost to the podium to share with us. Thank
007you. Thank you all. Um, first and foremost, I'm I come here very humbly. The opportunity to serve your students and your community is something that um I will not take lightly and I will work tirelessly connect with the community, connect with the staff here to keep all the good things that Jen Curry has done moving forward. Um, she has been outstanding and I look forward to being her colleague and working with all of you in the the months to come. Um, I can answer just a question. I was in I was blessed to be able to help Hazel Park. They had uh a superintendent who had a leave and the superintendent returned and so that's why I was um I overlapped with her and they're back in good standing. So, thank you all and I
008appreciate your vote of confidence tonight. Thank you, Mr. Next, we are at item 368.25, 25 return of Mrs. Jan Curry to assistant superintendent role move approval support looking for support the board thank you miss um discussion Mr. Hines will you please call roll Dr. Weaver yes Mr. Cox yes Mr. Ambrose yes Mr. Rashawn, yes. Miss Abney Mitchell, yes. Miss Hines, yes. President May, yes. Motion carry 70. Thank you. We are now at item 369.25, Board of Education Committee reports. Mr. Roshan with the student achievement committee report. Yes. Um, we got our student achievement committee uh Tuesday, June 10th, 400 pm. Um, at attendance, Miss May, uh, Shannon Roshan, um, Miss uh, Miss Kate Brohol Bro, I'm I apologize. And, uh, we welcomed, um, we started at 4:04. Um, Miss Miss Bro, I'm pronouncing her name
009or incorrect. Miss Bro, she provided updates on our preschool fifth grade uh preschool to fifth grade curriculum. Key points included a proposal um by Miss May uh for a student survey regarding um a philanthropic um and potential PE um bicycle program um that would cost the district uh under 10K that will um provide bikes for uh our kindergarten students to teach them how to ride a bike and our PE program. discussions also highlighted the need for um for the for the elementary art show. Um uh Miss May introduced accelerated kids for coding instruction. Um uh emphasized their support for multilingual stu students and professional development. Uh not uh some notable things the math assessment team is scheduled to meet um to explore AI in assessment. Um I expressed my interest in uh uh being at
010that meeting. Uh we also talked about uh parent and community engagement. The committee discussed forming a district-wide parent committee. uh uh Miss Marky and uh we'll invite Miss Johnson to the uh July meeting and Mr. Roshan uh will consult and we'll consult on adjusting the meeting times to better accommodate members. Uh student we also talked about student support services. This uh this topic has been postponed until July with a request from uh Miss Curry to pres uh present to be present on the current and present on the current uh support services available including uh behavioral and academic resources. Uh there were no citizen comments and um we adjourned at 455. Absolutely. Thank you. Are there any questions for Mr. Roshan? Uh, Mr. Oshan, tell me more about the bicycles for the kindergarteners. Uh, yeah. So,
011after a 29-year career in the insurance business, I'm just wondering how many teeth we're going to lose with this and how many times we're going to get sued for it. Yeah. So, uh, nationally, uh, at the, uh, at the, uh, national school board conference, uh, me and Miss May, uh, came across a table that, um, that will provide, um, bicycles, um, for the dis for a district under 10K, I think it might have been $9,000, provide bicycles and a whole, uh, curriculum on teaching uh, kindergarteners how to ride bikes. Uh it's like a one-time assessment and they have a whole curriculum and uh we just suggested Miss May brought it up and I I concur with her and we suggested that uh we just take a look at it and see uh would it be
012beneficial to our district brought to you by the Michigan orthodontics partnership and yeah certainly of course absolutely we talk about kids getting more exercise getting off devices just giving them that opportunity. So yeah, something to look into. Absolutely. We can put down Mats. I presume they keep the bikes, right? We keep the bikes. Yeah, we keep the bikes. We keep the bikes. So we just continue to rotate the bikes through. Yeah. I guess they grow so fast in about 3 weeks they don't grow anyway. Any other questions? All right. So we'll move on to item 370. Review and approval of business service finance and facilities. Mrs. Clare with the recommendation to approve middle school science pilot resource purchase. As presented at the June finance committee meeting, we're requesting approval to purchase middle school science pilot
013resources from SAS Learning Company. Per the recommendation of Sherry Grove, executive director of middle school curriculum and instruction. This resource has been presented and approved by the curriculum council. I recommend the board of education approve the middle school science pilot resource purchase at a cost not to exceed 41,446 and 8 cents which includes teacher edition text teaching materials digital access for all students and teachers labs videos all student consumables these costs would be covered by the general fund. Thanks for your consideration. Thank you. Do we have a motion? Move approval support call for support support. Hinds thank you discussion. Uh yes we had when she pre when Miss Groo presented this we had so many questions and I just want to say thank you for the followup emails. Um they was very benefit to beneficiary
014to me. So um my only concern was just I'm like a numbers person, a graph person just you know how was it benefiting our students and our teachers and you supplied that and also like it was mentioned you know when we didn't have the funds those partners partnered with us and let us basically have the pilot program for free. So, you know, one hand shakes the other and we need our community partners. But I just want to thank you. The next day you followed up and I really appreciate that answering every question that the board members had. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Anyone else? Mrs. Hines, will you call roll, please? Dr. Weaver. Yes, Mr. Cox. Yes, Mr. Ambrose. Yes, Mr. Roshan. Yes, Miss Abney Mitchell. No. Yes. I'm just Yes. Miss Hines,
015yes. And President May, yes. Motion carry 70. Thank you, Mrs. Clear. We're now at the recommendation to approve middle school ELA resource purchase. Okay. As presented at the June finance committee meeting, we are requesting approval to purchase middle school ELA resources per the re recommendation of Sherry Grove, executive director of middle school curriculum and instruction. This purchase will include hardcover classroom novel sets for all middle school ELA and sixth grade classrooms. These classroom sets would include current new titles as well as replacement novels for the current sets that have been lost or damaged. This request was presented and approved by the curriculum council. I recommend the board of education approve the middle school ELA resource purchase at a cost not to exceed 28,000. This quote is based on Amazon business consortium. These costs would be
016covered by the general fund. Thank you for your consideration. Move approval. The board discussion. Mr. Hines, will you please call ro Miss Abney Mitchell, yes. Mr. Umbro, yes. Miss Hines, yes. Doc, Mr. Rashawn, yes. Uh, Mr. Cox, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. President May, yes. Motion carry 70. Thank you, Mrs. Clear. Recommendation to approve elementary math curriculum purchase. As presented in the June at the June finance committee meeting, we're requesting approval to purchase elementary math curriculum per the recommendation of Kate Br, executive director of elementary school curriculum and instruction. This purchase will include the the purchase of I Ready K5 student workbooks, teacher editions, digital access, and manipulatives for five years from the curriculum associates. I recommend the board of education approve the elementary math curriculum purchases at a cost not to exceed 817,000 6363. This
017is a sole source purchase and would be charged to 23H grant 148,462 and general fund 669,17413. Thank you. Thank you. Looking for a motion. Move approval. Hines and Weaver. Thank you. Discussion. Quick question. And when we purchase this curriculum, how long is it expected to last? Like five years, 10 years or like estimate? You think? At least five years. Okay. Thank you. I would probably more. Um, sorry. That's okay. We go ahead. Um, no, we had a vote. Any other questions? Mr. H, will you please call row? U Mr. Mr. Rishan? Yes. Miss Hines? Yes. Miss Abney Mitchell? Yes. Mr. Ambrose? Yes. Dr. Weaver? Yes. Mr. Cox? Yes. Miss May. President May. Yes. 70. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Mrs. Clear. Social studies. I'm sorry. Elementary Studies Weekly renewal as presented at the June finance
018committee meeting. We're requesting approval to renew the studies weekly subscription per the recommendation of Kate Brol, executive director of elementary school curriculum and instruction. Studies weekly is provided to our K through5 students to support social studies learning. I recommend the board of education approve renewal of studies weekly at a cost not to exceed 28,19524 which will be charged to the general fund. Move approval support discussion. Mrs. Hines, will you please call roll? Mrs. Hines, yes. Mr. Cox, yes. Mr. Ambrose, yes. Miss Abdney Mitchell. Um, yes, Mr. Rashan. Yes, Dr. Weaver. Yes, President May. Yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Dr. Oily, the recommendation to approve proposal manager renewal. Thank you, President May. As Daryl be the executive director of technology and innovation presented at the June 5th, 2025 finance committee meeting. The district would like
019the board approval for the renewal of Mosil manager for iOS and MacOSS systems. I recommend that the board of education approve the renewal cost for 49,500 which renews the license from June 20, 2025 to June 20, 2026 which will be charged to the general fund. Thank you for your consideration. So moved. support discussion. Mrs. Hines, will you please call Mr. Rashan? Yes. Miss Hines, yes. Miss Abby Mitchell, yes. Mr. Ambrose, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. Mr. Cox, yes. President May, yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you, Dr. Oil Lee. The recommendation to approve incident IQ as Darl BB executive director of technology and innovation presented at the June 5th 2025 finance committee meeting. The district would like the board approval for the renewal of modules subscription licenses and implementation services for incident IQ and integrated asset management
020and help desk system. I recommend that the board of education approve the renewal cost of 40,33367 which will be charged to the general fund. Thank you so for your consideration. So move support discussion. I just want to share, you know, for our community and everybody that's listening um via um YouTube or video. Um we are able to pass most of these motions because at our June 5th um committee meeting, our finance meeting, which is open to the public also, we discussed it. So I don't want nobody to think that we just pushing through these and have not had discussion about them. That's all. I just like to clarify things for people. That's all I have. That's it. Mr. Hines, will you please call that? Mrs. Hines. Yes. Mr. Cox. Yes. Mr. Ambrose. Yes. Dr. Weaver.
021Yes. Miss Abby Mitchell. Yes. Mr. Roshan. Yes. President May. Yes. Uh 70 motion carries. Thank you. Dr. Oily, the recommendation to approve in form K12 as Daryl will be the executive director of technology and innovation presented at the June 5th, 2025 finance committee meeting. The district would like the board approval for the renewal of the use of licensing for inform K12 and online form system. I recommend that the board of education approve the renewal cost of $45,449 which renews the license from July 1st 2025 to June 30th 2026 which will be charged to the general fund. Thank you for your consideration. So move support discussion. Um I just have one thing that I would like to say is that I know that um in the past it has been lifted concerns about the K12 uh
022informed and just the process of getting things through and I would like to thank u Mr. BB for lifting that in our um special meeting our finance committee meeting and talking about the hiccups he and um Mrs. Curry and what has been done to address those. So hopefully it will be a smooth implementation this year with that. But thank you for lifting that, bringing it back to us. Um, if there there's no other discussion, I will ask Miss Science to call roll, please. Mr. Ambrose, yes. Miss Abney Mitchell, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. Miss Hines, yes. Mr. Cox, yes. Mr. Roshan, yes. President May, yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you, Dodger Philly. Uh is it for tonight for the net cyber security as Daryl will be the executive director of technology and innovation presented at the
023June 5th 2025 finance committee meeting the district would like the board approval for the renewal of the Fordet cyber security software. I recommend that the board of education approve the renewal cost of $32,523.96 which renews the license from June 20th, 2025 to June 20th, 2026 which will be charged to the general fund. Thank you for your consideration. So move support discussion. Mrs. Hines, will you please call roll? Mr. Cox, yes. Mr. Roshan, yes. Miss Hines, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. Mr. Ambrose, yes. Miss Abney Mitchell, yes. President May, yes. 70 motion carries. Thank you. Dr. Oily, Mel support renewal. As Daryl BB, executive director of technology and innovation presented at the June 5th, 2025 finance committee meeting. The district would like the board approval for the annual licensing renewal for the district-wide phone system maintained by
024Moss Mel MIBBS. I recommend that the board of education approved the renewal cost of $35,29 for the Moss Mel business phone system licensing from July 12th, 2025 through July 11th, 2025, which will be charged to the general fund. Thank you for your consideration. Is there a motion? Moved. support. Support Hines. Discussion. I have a question. Okay, this is a typo because it's a July the 12th um 2025 through July the 11th, 2025. 2026. Good catch. Thank you. Um I know um Mr. Bey spoke at our June 5th meeting, but because we had so much trouble with our phone system, can we have the opportunity to have him speak now or no? Sure, if you like. You want to speak about how it's going to be better next year? The new well, new and improved. I
025know it's a renewal, but you know, I know he had conversations with them. All right. Thank you. Good evening to the board. Um so yes we've definitely made some upgrades related to the system uh in terms of really expediting what we do in regards to our backups in result of we have any other kind of uh situation or cyber attack and whatnot. Um but once again, we have fortified the system um and and it's been tested and proven. Um so we're looking forward to next year and we believe we won't have any issues or any problems and we're still working towards a few repairs that we had from the cyber attack, but for the most part we're set and ready to roll uh for the next school year. Thank you. We appreciate you. No, you're
026welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Mr. Ambrose. Yes. Miss Abney Mitchell. Yes. Dr. Weaver. Yes. Miss Hines. Yes. Mr. Cox. Yes. Mr. Roshan. Yes. President May. Yes. Motion carry 70. Thank you. Mrs. Clear. Approval to for food service contract renewal or recommendation. I'm sorry. As required by the Michigan Department of Education, I'm requesting approval to renew the contract for the food service management for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 with Aramark Education. This re renewal was uh has already uh received MD approval. This is their first calendar year renewal or fiscal year renewal actually of the contract since the contract was awarded to airmark at June 2024 board meeting. This a award was a result of MDE request for proposal process and the recommendation
027of the district's food service management bid evaluation committee. Under the terms of the original contract, both general and administrative fees and management and management fees charged by airmark on a per meal basis may adjust with inflation. The 2025 2026 proposed increase for general and administrative fees is 3.1% and the proposed management fee increase is 3.1. This equates to an increase in general in administrative fees of six uh a little over six cents per meal and an increase in management fees of a little over 5 cents per meal using 1,684922 as the total meals served in 2324. This equates to an overall fee increase of approximately 5,72873. The fees paid to Aerark are funded through revenue generated by the district's food service program. Thank you. Approval support and I'd like to speak on it. Absolutely. Have
028we talked with Aramark about our more nutrition, more delicious uh initiative? Um to Tokco is going to do that. He knows about that. Yeah, he's he's just taking that on. Okay. That's a no. Would you like to talk a little bit about that meeting? There's some meeting scheduled. Okay. Do you want to talk a little bit about that? I know it's a follow up from the conversation we had during the special meeting. Well, we we uh you know, talking about the food service contract. And for those that might not remember, a couple of years ago, uh the board the board met and had lunch and what we had for lunch is what the kids have had for lunch. And man, that's all that needed to happen because uh we put a change right then in
029the way we wanted to be treated. And to their credit, they have stepped up and uh and we're interested in them stepping up more. Frankly, we'd like the kids to have food that's more nutritious. Maybe it costs a little bit more money. Maybe it takes longer to prepare. Uh we would also like the food to be more delicious. And we're in a, you know, we're in a position to be able to do that. And after all, this these are our kids. So, you know, you're going to spend $40,000 on a copying machine. I'd rather spend the money uh so that kids have excellent excellent meals. So that's what we're trying to do. Thank you. Um with that, if there is no other discussion points, Mr. Hines, will you call a roll, please? Dr. Weaver, yes.
030Mr. Cox, yes. Mr. Ambrose, yes. Mr. Rashawn, yes. Miss Abby Mitchell, yes. Miss Hines, yes. President May, yes. Motion carry 70. Thank you. I'm not sure who's doing this one. The recommendation to approve the notice of withdrawal from Maso or Misl joint risk. That's me again. Okay. Um after a thorough review of the current insurance coverage, I'm writing to formally recommend that we transition away from our existing insurance provider um Mazel effective um which is a year from now. um we have to give a formal notice that we will be leaving them. Um I um they've been a good company over the years, but uh I've gotten a quote for 116,000 uh less from uh another carrier. So I need a motion. So, uh, allow to let them know that, uh, we would like to
031transition in a year. A motion, support, discussion. I'd like to say, yes, we recently received some information about districts being told that they weren't covered for something that might well be an eventuality. And because there's so much uncertainty right now that you know in terms of what's going on in Washington and how it's going to affect Lancing and how it's going to affect us. I just wondered I would like to read every single word of the quote to make sure that there's no difference in uh you know how claims that incurred but not yet reported uh and all of the other contingencies that can happen. As you said, we've been with Masil for a long time. And you know, it's easy to come in when you're the when you're the new guy and come up
032with a better price. I don't know if I'm ready to you're I remember I asked you is it it's absolutely certain that we could tell them we're not going to renew with them, but still renew with them, right? In a year. Okay. I'm I'm good with that. You said in a year before we change anything. Yeah. This is just uh giving them a one-year notice, right? But we can still change our mind within that one year. Okay. When you said one year, I thought you I was want to just make sure I understood. Okay. Thank you. I'm I'm I'm good with that. Okay. You have something cuz my concern was, you know, you said that they have been good to us, but the rates has been increased. Did we, you know, sometimes you can tell
033them that, you know, I found a cheaper carrier. Can you guys um you know, can I get any comparison or you know um negotiate a little bit? Right. I got the especially if they've been good to us. Yeah. Um I I got the new quote for this this coming up year and it's um the 116,000 more than even Yeah. I'm just wondering like he said, you know, sometimes it can be something up under that we missing or something cheaper, a higher deductible or something like that. Yeah. I mean, this just gives us the ability to do it. We don't have to. Um, but I do have I have to give them a year notice. So, if we uh you know, we can do what what is the total amount that we give them? $863,21 per
034year is the um our renewal for this year and I have a quote for $747,12 right from another carrier. So you are the person that reviews those contracts. Do we have legal look at those at all or No, we've never done that and I'm I don't know. I have legal look at some contracts. Okay. If they're uh confusing or like selling the property, I don't feel comfortable, you know, stuff like that. I have them look at that. Okay. But um I can certainly have them look at this. But again, it would be like in a year I'll have do some more analysis. I'll bring it to you. You'll have another opportunity to tell me no at that time if you want to. Yeah. As long as our rights are reserved. Yes. 100,000 is a lot
035of money. You know what I'm It ain't a $50,000 in um increase or decrease. That's a lot. And compared to next year and a lot of things is going to happen between now and we don't even know ourselves. Nobody knows. Mr. Ampers, you want to say something? As long as that we have the ability to to shop around, I don't think it hurts to see what other companies offer, but still have the ability at the end of day to go back to Masel if that's what we want to do. I think it's a win-win because competition could be in our our benefit with this. Absolutely. So would Maso be the same price or would I'm sorry would Maso be the same price or they we go back to them and say hey we decide to
036keep y'all so now they oh now I raised this well they'll give us a new quote you know this is the quote for this year this year and they'll give us a new quote for that for that be $50,000 more could be you want to say something Mr. Yeah, but that that kind of nails it right there. Um, no, I guess that's fine. I'm still fine with the Yes. I'm almost wondering if the board of education should every single year as soon as we uh agree send them a letter that we're going to cancel next year always reserving our right to go out for keeping them on a on a footing where they know that it's our policy to look at opportunities and and uh just do it as a matter of course. That's a
037good idea really. I like that. I like that. No other discussion, Mr. Yeah. Um, and thank you for that hard work because I'm we're in the insurance industry ourselves, you know, and a lot of times with the prices, it's kind of hard to negotiate and they're always going up. So, thank you for doing the due diligence and saving us that 116,000 because that's money we can use to the classroom. So, thank you. Yes. Thank you. Nothing else. Will you please call Miss Abney Mitchell? Yes. Mr. Ambrose? Yes. Miss Hines? Yes. Mr. Roshan? Yes. Mr. Cox? Yes. Dr. Weaver. Yes. President May. Yes. 70. Motion carries. Thank you. Recommendation to approve the 2526 tax levy. Is that ML? Um yes. Um, I'm asking you to approve um the L4029 that uh allows us to um tax
038um our um cities and uh for this next year move approval support discussion. Mrs. Hines, will you please call Dr. Weaver? Yes. Mr. Cox. Yes. Mr. Ombres, yes. Mr. Roshan, yes. Miss Abby Mitchell, yes. Miss Hines, yes. President May, yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you, Mrs. Claire. I believe this one is Yuasa. Recommendation to approve resolution approving application for the preliminary qualification bonds. Qualifications of bonds. Um, we had a preliminary meeting with the state. We uh made some corrections and we have sent that on. I'm just asking for um your approval for the state to um go ahead and approve us for uh to go forward with $125 million of um bonds for the use of a roofs um uh technology parking lots primarily Walker Winner and Walker Winter that didn't get done before. So
039move support discussion. I just have one question and looking at the documents um for the subtotals by grade and I don't know if this matters or what this is but like they have the enrollment. So they have the proceeding preceding five-year enrollment and then they have the current enrollment and that number doesn't seem to match our enrollment. Is that how does that work? um the innovative academy um they there was some question of whether that would continue or not. Um it doesn't affect our ability to go forward. Um so they um discounted some of the the amount of the kids in the innovative academy. So it um we probably could have argued but it didn't make any difference for the application. So I didn't bother. Okay. There whether that trend would continue. They were questioning
040whether that trend would continue. So it we have enough utilization in our buildings. It didn't affect the application. So um so the enrollment trend not the program itself continuing. Right. Okay. Right. They um and it it it wasn't what they were questioning it. It was just you know whether that you know it's it's been a nice increase and it's like big and they don't like things changing big. they they they want to spread that and so um they didn't want to accept that it was going to keep going on that trend so they um you know they cut it back a little and I uh didn't affect our application at all. So uh I wasn't going to argue with them. Okay. Thank you. Just notice the difference. So Okay. Any other discussion? Seeing none, Miss
041T, will you please call roll? Miss Abney Mitchell, yes. Mr. Ombres, yes. Miss Hines, yes. Mr. Rashan, yes. Mr. Cox, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. President May, yes. Motion carry 70. Thank you. We are now at the recommendation to adopt the 2425 general fund operating budget, the final amendment resolution. Okay. I was um I can do whatever you want, but I could go through the PowerPoint and then if you just have questions on the individual budgets um I won't, you know, uh bore you again with that, but I can certainly do that if that's what you want. Um so, um you'll be approving the 2024 2025 final budget and then the 2526 original budget. the um starting one. Okay. This is a lot of technology for me. Yes. Would it be appropriate at this time to
042ask the president since the board is already seen if we could dispense with the presentation? So the only concern that I would have is just that the public may not have seen the um numbers. The public wasn't invited to the last meeting. They were but they we didn't have many present and we have quite a few here this evening. So I think just going through the PowerPoint sufficient. Okay. Um so in the PowerPoint I discuss what is general fund, what is going on in the general fund, um and uh property taxes, uh rental of buildings, Medicaid fee, um the state our PE per pure per per pupil funding and state categoricals. off. We get a little bit of federal in the general fund, but it's mostly in our grant fund. Um we get money from
043RHA too um for special ed um that uh an enhancement mill and a special ed millage and then we have um indirects that we get from per um doing the grants. So general fund gets a little bit of that. Um the estimated revenue for um the end of the year is uh 139 million 93782 expenses a net income of 1.2 2 estimated fund balance of 33 442129 would bring our fund balance to 24.12 which um is obviously nice. Uh MSBO recommends a 15 to 20% fund balance. So that is um definitely positive. Um the purpose of the fund that is to educate children, run the school buildings, provide transportation, uh state reporting, pay bills, salaries, benefits, and support, uh classroom, um needs as whatever's needed. um for the new budget for general fund only thing
044I've done is I added 400 per student uh in the revenue because uh on the revenue side I didn't add anything except the 400 um there's all kinds of talk and we still don't know yet the state doesn't have a budget so I didn't feel comfortable they're talking about giving us more money but taking away some of the categoricals so it's just a game of moving the money around So, I just stuck with the most uh conservative of just if we only get $400, um additional revenue probably will be forthcoming. Uh additional state revenue, new grants, uh sale of land. Um, so and also I've estimated in the new budget the new raises and um the purchase of curriculum of a million dollars that we've uh talked about this evening. Are you okay? Okay, one
045more. The special ed fund, it's funded by state aid Wayne Re and Wayne Risa. It's our center uh program environment. It nets to zero. Uh we all it doesn't uh we do get some indirects and some rent but um there's there's no loss or gain on that fund. I estimated um the same for next year because I have no better except uh until we know the how many kids are going to be in it or anything. Um the grant fund uh is title esser uh there's filter first at risk this fund always nets to zero the expense is equal I just estimated the same for next year until I have uh more information it will always net to zero doesn't affect the fund balance it doesn't have a fund balance food service um they pro
046it provides indirects to the general fund and um it's uh we get federal funds, state funds, um adults, uh sales, catering, alleg um which we will be using part of to have a higher grade food. Uh this everybody gets cake and coffee. Yes, we're having we're having fillets fillets in the classrooms from now on. Um sinking fund is uh property taxes and interest and that funds used to do uh major repairs to buildings um buses. Um we've used them for security cameras. The bond fund, we will be finishing that up this year. This will be the last time we see uh that uh bond fund until uh the year after next. Um they're for the large upgrades to buildings and you've as you've seen our buildings, it's it's done a lot. Uh made them real
047nice. Debt retirement, we're just paying off uh costs related to the bonds and I left that the same. the payments are pretty close to the same and the taxes uh they'll be a little higher, but it's pretty much just to pay that that fund off. All of our um funds, you know, are positive. It looks good for this year and next year. We are it it will still have a positive towards the fund balance but not as much because we're going to be use using some of um we're going to be using some of our cost for uh curriculum. So that's it. All right. Thank you so much. Any questions? No. Go ahead. So your um $400 um per people is based on about how many students? I use the same uh number that was
048on the state aid status report. No increase in students. Do we have a motion yet? Yes. No, she was just asking her question from her presentation. So that's why we do it. All right. Now we'll take a motion. Oh, good one. Discussion. Oh. Um, discussion. We did already. Yeah. No, you just had a question for the thing. So, we have two separate motions. Yes. Sorry. I was just doing the first one. Okay. We got it. So, this one everyone knows is for the 2425 amendment. All right. Mrs. Hines, can you please call roll? Mr. Rashad? Yes. Miss Hines? Yes. Miss Abby Mitchell? Yes. Mr. Ambrose? Yes. Dr. Mr. Weaver. Yes. Mr. Cox. Yes. Miss May. Yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Thank you. Now, we're looking for the recommendation to adopt the 2526 general fund
049operating budget resolution, which you've gone over that as well. Do you have more? Yes. Okay. I'm turn over. Do you have more? No. No. Okay. I I kind of did them both together. That's what I thought. Okay. So, now I'm looking for a motion. So, move discussion. Just a comment. Yes, ma'am. Thank you so very much for all your hard work and dedication. We appreciate you and hope you have some time to enjoy yourself for the summer. Thank you. Miss T, will you please call roll? Miss Hines, yes. Mr. Cox, yes. Mr. Ambrose, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. Miss Abby Mitchell, yes. Mr. Rashawn, yes. President May, yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you. Next, we have the review, I'm sorry, item 371.25, review and approval of administrative services. This one is in regards to the Michigan
050High School Athletic Association membership resolution. Move approval support discussion. Does anyone have any questions? Miss Tines, would you please call roll? Mr. Rashan. Yes, Miss Hines. Yes, Miss Abney Mitchell. Yes, Mr. Ambrose. Yes, Dr. Weaver. Yes, Mr. Cox. Yes, President May. Yes. Motion carry 70. We are now at item 372.25, review and approval of policy and administrative regulations. Dr. Oily, policy 206. As presented at the May board meeting, I'm requesting approval for the updated policy and administrative regulation changes as recommended by Kevin Sudden, attorney at Miller and Johnson for the discipline alignment policy 2006. Looking for a motion. So moved. Support discussion. I have a question. So, we're looking at policy 20006 behavior, but under behavior, there's the personal electronic devices, and there seems to be a recommendation there. Is this fallen under that, or
051is it just Yep. So, everything that was shared in the um May uh board meeting highlights the items and it was slight changes as far as uh technology was concerned in the 20006 behavior portion. So when I asked about that at the last one, I was told we weren't doing that. So this is the one about the away for the day requirement. So is that where we're now voting on a policy for no cell phones? No. Is that the way I'm reading this? No, these are just the in the document that was shared, they had some language that was added. The red the red Yep. I'm reading it. Whereas away for the day requirement, students are not permitted to use personal electronic devices during the school day unless required by law. Personal electronic devices must
052be turned off and kept out of sight in lockers or cubbies. And I thought we were discussing this. I didn't know this was going to be like this is where I'm trying to figure this out. Is this the Yeah, this is what we're doing. This is what's being presented to the board at this time. So, we have the behavior under 2006 under student code of conduct. That's what my understanding was because I asked about this last time and I was told we weren't doing that yet, but now we are doing that. We're doing the behavior, the update to the Yep. So, all of the behavior and then we're also including a no cell phone policy under that. So, all of the recommend recommendations that were coming from uh uh uh Mr. Sun are what's being
053recommended today. Okay. Thank you. Um any other discussion? I'm confused. What did you say? That the items that were provided to the board at the previous board meeting is what's being presented today to be voted on to be voted on to be implemented. Yes. So not for it to go to our policy committee for them to draft a committee. So this is for policy. It was presented at the possibility and now to be voted on to be implemented for the upcoming school year. Okay. Okay. Okay. [Applause] Is this time sensitive? Well, these are recommendations that we'd like to get implemented for next school year. So, for me, I'm not comfortable with the cell phone one. We were supposed to have a discussion around that. We were supposed to have community engagement with that one. I
054asked about it at the last meeting and was told that we weren't this wasn't a part of that. So, I'm I'm a little confused on this and I asked um had a conversation as well with um Mrs. Curry about it and we talked about it being a part of a a bigger conversation than just coming through in this manner. So, I'm not comfortable with that piece of this. The other pieces I'm comfortable with. So, and that's just me. Well, if I may, I certainly don't have any problem regardless how I feel in its current uh uh state talking about it because I think one of the issues that was brought up, okay, we're going to establish a policy, but who's going to enforce that policy and what does that look like? And uh I I
055voice support for control of the cell phone issue, but I want to know exactly what we're what we're doing, what we're getting into, what we're going to change the policy, too, and how the administration is going to address that because what we're really doing when you tell a student, a child, that they can't have their phone is you're taking property away from Americans and they just don't like that. You know, it's their property. So, just to clarify, every school already has technology uh rules that they're asking kids to follow. This is just board govern or governance that's going to be districtwide that speaks to how we see some of the changes that need to be made. But what are the guidelines? So we tell them to put the devices away. We don't want to see
056the devices period. You know if they put them in their locker, they put them in their bag and then the property come up missing. Where is the liability? And you know, we just need to have conversation with the community and and most definitely our staff. You know, how it's going to be enforced, who going to be responsible for it? Is we going if is our teachers going to spend 30 minutes a day telling people to put property away or sending them to the office? Is they going to be disciplined and how and what and all that? So, at this time, if the board doesn't feel comfortable with this uh motion with this recommendation that's being made, I understand. I just had a quick question. Go ahead. Isn't some of these things already being implemented in
057the classes already? Yeah, different schools. So, the high schools treat technology a little bit differently than the middle schools, and it's not that much of an issue at the elementary because they don't have the same access to cell phones. Um, but I can tell you that most of the high schools are in alignment with how they treat cell phones and the middle schools have all rolled out different approaches how they want to treat technology. This just gives us a little bit of a guide. it makes slight changes to what's already in our in our policy. I would um I would like to say that I am in agreement with the no cell phone policy in our schools because of the behavior that um that continues with our students as a result of social uh media.
058Um, however, with that particular portion, it might be good for us to uh remove that wording until this board has a chance to get together and discuss it. I I have no problem with the rest of it going through, just the cell phone policy. Let's pull that out. I make a motion that we would pull that portion out of the behavior until such time as this board can convene and discuss it. Support. Yeah, we support it. And I'd like to have a wider conversation, not just with the board. I would like the teachers to be I'd like to hear from everybody who's going to be affected by this. Absolutely. There must definitely need to be a policy. I agree with that. Yes. So, thank you Dr. Weaver for the amended motion. Um, we had support.
059Any other discussion? Mrs. H, could you please call Miss Hines? Yes. Mr. Cox? Yes. Mr. Ambrose? Yes. Dr. Weaver? Yes. Miss Abney Mitchell? Yes. Mr. Rashan? Yes. And President May? Yes. 70. Motion carries. Thank you. Dr. Oilia is the artificial intelligence policy. As presented at the May board meeting, I'm requesting approval for the updated policy and administrative regulation changes as recommended by Kevin Sud and attorney at Miller Johnson for the AI policy. So move support discussion. I would just like to say I am happy to see that we have been able to bring this policy forth and that we're moving, you know, in that direction and being able to provide or introduce our kids. They already have it, but showing them how to use it properly. So, thank you um Dr. Oily, Miss Curry, and
060the policy um committee for bringing this forward. If there isn't any other discussion, Mrs. Mr. Ambrose. Yes. Miss Abney Mitchell. Yes. Dr. Weaver. Yes. Miss Hines. Yes. Mr. Cox. Yes. Uh, Mr. Rashan. Yes. President May. Yes. S. Is there a motion carries? Thank you. We are now at the recommended policy and administrative regulations as recommended by legal firm under separate cover. As presented at the May board meeting, I'm requesting approval for the updated policy and administrative regulation changes as recommended by Kevin Sutton, attorney at Miller Johnson for the administrative regulations. Thank you for your consideration. Looking for a motion. So move forward discussion. Mrs. Hines, would you please call Mr. Cox? Yes. Mr. Rashan, yes. Miss Hines, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. Mr. Ambrose. Yes. Sammy Mitchell. Yes. President May. Yes. 70. Motion carries. Thank you.
061We are at um agenda item 373.25. Review and approval of human resource items. Dr. Oily looking at the WWSA contract. As presented at the June 5th, 2025 finance committee meeting. The district is requesting board approval for the WHISA contract for the term beginning July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. Our goal as a district at the beginning of bargaining was to provide a competitive and equitable contract to attract and retain WISHA members and we have successfully accomplished our goal. Thank you to the WHISA bargaining team and district bargaining team for all your hard work to complete this contract. And at this time I present the contract to the board. Thank you for your consideration. So move support. Support discussion. Mrs. Hines, please call ro. Mr. Cox, yes. Mr. Rashawn. Yes. Miss Hines, yes. Dr. Weaver,
062yes. Mr. Ambrose, yes. Miss Abby Mitchell, yes. President May, yes. 70 motion carries. Thank you. We are now looking at the Brotherhood of Specialized Services contract. Dr. Oley as presented at the June 5th, 2025 finance committee meeting. The district is requesting board approval of the boss contract for the term beginning July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. Our goal as a district at the beginning of bargaining was to provide a competitive and equitable contract to attract and retain boss members and we have successfully accomplished our goal. Thank you to the boss bargaining team and the district bargaining team for all of your hard work to complete this contract. And at this time I'm presenting the boss contract to be voted on by the board. Looking for a motion. So moved. So board discussion. Mrs. Hines,
063please call. Uh Mr. Rashan. Yes. Miss Hines, yes. Miss Abby Mitchell, yes. Mr. Armbrose, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. Mr. Cox, yes. President May, yes. 70. Motion carries. Thank you, Dr. Oily. 25 202526 staff recognition and appreciation days. I'm requesting that the board approve the 202526 staff appreciation appreciation days as proposed. The dates listed are to recognize individual employee groups for the important contributions they make to the overall success of the school district. For administrators, it will take place on Thursday, October 16th, 2025. For the maintenance personnel, will take place on Friday, March 6th, 2026. For pair professional, teacher aids, and teacher assistance, it will take place on Friday, March 27th, 2026. For volunteers, it will take place Monday, April 20th, 2026. For secretaries and IMC clerks, it will take place on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026.
064For transportation, it will take place on Tuesday, April 28th, 2026. For teachers, uh it will take place on Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. For nurses, it will take place on Wednesday, May 6th, 2026. And for communications personnel, it will take place on Monday, May 18th, 2026. Thank you. Looking for a motion. Thank you. support support discussion and how are you recognizing them? How are they being recognized? We'd work with our communications department and ex our executive team to figure out a way to highlight them on that day. Cash that's how that's what they are. Oh, good contracts have been ratified. That would be appreciated. Discussion. Mrs. Hines, will you please call roll call? Mr. Rashawn. Yes. Miss Hines. Yes. Miss Amy Mitchell, yes. Mr. Ambrose, yes. Dr. Weaver, yes. President, I'm sorry, Mr. Cox. Yes. President
065May, yes. Motion carry 70. Thank you. We are at item 374.25, a recommendation to change the July Board of Education meeting date from July 21st to July 28th. And I am looking for a motion. Support. Oh, I'll make a motion. Looking for support. Support. Well, I'm happy to I'm happy to vote in favor, but I think that's going to mess me up anyway. I mess you up. Yeah, I don't think I'll be here. No, I can't support that. Any other discussion? Looking for a vote, please. So, Miss S, will you please call RO? Yeah. Mr. Ambrose? Yes. Miss Abney Mitchell? Yes. Dr. Weaver? Yes. Miss Hines? Yes. Mr. Cox? Yes. Mr. Rashan? Yes. and President May. Yes. Motion carries 70. Thank you. We are at item 7 375.25, citizens comments on non-aggenda items. Mrs. Hines,
066do we have any? We have one non-aggenda item. And it looks like we have Miss Melinda. Is it HS Harris? Harris, I'm sorry. Yep. Come on out. Welcome back. Been a long journey with the sick brother in Arizona, but I'm hanging in there. So, do you want to tell me when we start so I can You can start now. Okay. I want to thank um Kimberly May, John Curry, Shannon Roshan, Kate Bro, and Kim Marky for all their support and expertise communication skills. You have given hope to parents and volunteers that our voice matters and you truly listen and care versus shutting people down. Times are hard enough in the world we are living in. We always need to listen and respect others. You have including all the other members of the board shown that
067you have empathy and truly care about people. You have all proven is not about power and control or how many master's degrees we've had. You have made me proud to say and share with other parents that the board of education will help you in your time of need. Also, at this time, I would like to compliment Wildwood on the field day I participated in, and it was so sweet. A volunteer came up to me and asked me if I needed a bathroom break. I was very impressed. Then, we also had the school picnic at Wildwood. I would like to praise Miss Babiaak, the PTO, and all the volunteers for making it a joyous occasion for all families. The picnic was impecc impeccably organized. The PTO staff was consistently making sure all bases were manned and
068volunteers were given instructions and on their duties and identified properly as volunteers. Praise to you all, including the volunteers. Wildwood, you are doing a great job welcoming your volunteers and parents. I want to give praise to the teachers, the school staff for all their hard work. Mrs. Ho did a tremendous job getting her children ready for all the concerts and she deserves recognition for all her hard work. Great job, Mrs. Ho. I also want to thank Mr. Cox for bringing up the healthy food, which is something I worked on with Mr. Furka before. Okay, so let I started with all the positive. Let's brainstorm and let's review the Wayne Westland district handbook and student code of conduct. I recently discovered that our district suspends kindergarteners. This is just an example. Kindergarteners slaps another child and
069the child is suspension suspended, sorry, and the suspension letter states number 29 and the student code of contact states assault and battery. I'm not promoting violence, but what mindset do we give to our little ones when they find out they committed assault and battery? It sets in their mind at a young age that they are criminals. I ask all of you here to think about this and we can address this at a later date. And I also want to thank the district for compassion for me regarding my sick brother. And God bless you all. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you too. There are no other comments. We will move to item 376.25. Interim superintendent comments. We do not She did not leave any for anyone. Right. Okay. So then we
070will move to 377.25 review and recommendations board of education. We will start with Mrs. Abney Mitchell. Yes. I would just like to say thank you to everybody for coming tonight. Thank you for everybody presenting. Thank you Alex for the outfit. Look out. But um June is gun violence awareness month. Um our school district um we do have gun locks um at each school and um the schools that's open during the summer. I'm sure they still have a supply. If you need a gun lock, you know, lock those guns up, keep our babies safe. I am a advocate. I I do a gun violence walk every June in the city of Inkster. I wear my orange ribbon the whole month. So, it's important to me. And also, um all the staff that's not working this summer,
071please enjoy yourself. Take some time to spend time with your family. All the staff that's working this summer, enjoy yourself. Take some time and enjoy your family. and have a nice safe and happy summer. Thank you. Thank you. Um Dr. Weaver, I would just like to give a welcome to Dr. Cost. I look forward to working with you. That uh are my comments for the evening. Thank you, Mrs. Hines. Yes. I'd like to congratulate Dr. Cost as well. Um, I'd like to thank um all the students that did amazing job this year. I brag about my students that did $17.5 million in scholarships. Drop the mic. On top of 3.5 million that John Glenn, that's a really great achievement. I mean, that is just our kids are of excellence in Wayne Westland. Um, that's just
072really amazing that we have the staff and the students that are willing to really put the effort to be successful. Um, and I'd like to um talk about a summer program. Uh Pastor Jean Overman is having a free summer program um at Camp Inspire. It's going to be from uh July 7th to August 8th from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and it's for third and fourth graders. Um her phone number is 734797806. And um you know, we definitely love free programs for the kiddos in the summertime to give them something to do. So that's going to be a great program. Um, and then, um, another thing, um, I'm the president of the Way West and Kowanas, and we heard some sad news that St. Mary's was having a hard time with their food pantry. So,
073um, as the president, we decided to, uh, work with the Kowanas, and we're going to do like a food drive over at the Westland. So, we have a box. So, if any family wants to donate um, some non-p perishable goods, that'll be great because that is our community. We are a community. And you know, lack of food in the summertime can be quite scarce for our children. Um, I also have another event. We're working with the city of Westland, Leavonia Westland Chamber of Commerce. Um, I was able to get uh Wayne County Community College to sponsor school craft, Twins Auto, a lot of different organizations. We're having a charity dinner at the Westland City Hall. is going to be um Tuesday, June the 24th from 6:00 to 900 p.m. And the money that we raised
074for this uh nonprofit purpose hands is going to go to food, clothing, formulas, uh diapers, child care vouchers, and wipes. Um they were talking about like how Michigan had a really high infant mortality rate with some of the children and I didn't even know a lot of kids pass because they don't have money for wipes with infections and stuff like that. So, this is, you know, really big issue and a lot of times with the families when you're trying to decide to buy food, clothing, some things kind of lack. So, um, I'm definitely excited about this event. Um, we were able to get the, uh, Wayne County chair, commissioner, uh, Alicia Bell. She's going to be our main speaker. Tina Williams with the grants. Um, we have a spoken word artist, uh, Lauren Soell, and
075we have Melissa Sampy, one of our city council members, is going to be speaking. And we were able to get something from the governor's office. They're going to bring a proclamation down. So really it's just a community event. It helps all students in Wayne Westland and that helps on top of our family resource center so it doesn't take so much you know from them as well just spreading the risk around. Um and that is it. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Ambrose. Just want to welcome Dr. Cost to the district. Um looking forward to working with you and uh wish everyone um take this summer enjoy the time especially our teachers um and recharge and because actually end of August will be here before we know it. Don't you say that what you don't say. And
076uh I'm just proud of the the great school year that we've we've had in this district. Um like Miss Hine said, 17.5 million at Wayne, three and a half at John Glenn. I remember years ago when my son was at at Wayne, Wayne alone only had 5 million. So to to to see the growth in terms of scholarships that our seniors are getting and that's because of the hard work of of parents, teachers, and administrators. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Roshan. I'm sorry. No, Mr. Cox. Thank you. Sorry, Mr. Roshan. I'd like to uh I'd like to mirror what Mr. Ambers just said about the teacher. Nothing gets to the students that doesn't first go through a teacher. Nothing. And when we're talking about the telephone policy in the district, what we're really talking
077about is not interrupting the teacher, trying to help the child learn. And we'll come up with something hopefully together uh that works good for everybody and allows us some new tools. You know, we're we're at the dawn of a of a new opportunity in our school district. And really, I'd like to point out that in spite of the fact that there's been a lot of anxiety and frustration, in fact, one of my colleagues on the board a couple meetings ago said that they were even wondering whether they wanted to stay on the board. And I can understand the frustration and the anxiety. You work so hard at something that you care so much about and you think you're going backwards and you just you want to stop it from going backwards, but you just can't
078because you won vote. And that's been a very tough thing when you're on the board and the vote doesn't go your way on something and you have to afterwards get with everybody else and go down the road they're going down. That's not an easy thing to do, especially for people that are dedicated and everyone up here is dedicated. Miss Sample got up and uh and talked about community involvement in the selection of a superintendent. Well, one of the things that I've learned up here is that you can't hire the best person you think for the job and then expect all of the troops to charge up the hill when that person says charge up the hill. Everybody needs to believe in the mission. And I think that we need to do the superintendent selection a
079different way than it's been done in the past. In the past, the board of education would hire some type of a consultant that would assemble the different people that were interested in the job when the job was available, which meant you had a window of that much time for someone who might be looking for that kind of a role. What we have now is an opportunity through Dr. Cost, who represents more experience as a superintendent than we've had in this district in a dozen years. I think gives us the opportunity to find that person. But I think we need your help to find that person. We need you involved in that process. We need you to understand what the board is looking for and what the board wants to achieve. And we need to have
080your help determining exactly what that is, what is possible. We have the money. We have the curriculum. The contracts are settled. There's no reason we shouldn't be full steam ahead on this together. And I know it's not going to get done properly unless we do it together. Over the last several months, there's been teacher after teacher after teacher coming up telling us what they want us to do. Well, now we need them to be involved in this process. That's what I think. Everybody in the community because it's not our side and your side. It's all our side. We just have a different role in the same organization. cooperation and being able to forget what happened last week because it doesn't matter anymore. I know members of this board of education have been able to do
081that. I'm asking for the community to do that and work together in the spirit of taking advantage of this unique opportunity and time to get something that the district could really benefit from. So that's what I'm looking for. I would like to thank Dr. and all of the people representing the different employee bargaining units that sat down and did the work to get us to the point where we could approve contracts. Thank you for all of that. Um, what else? Oh, I just wanted to mention that the bond fund that uh was mentioned tonight was completed without any trouble at all. Have you seen anything like it? for four or five years they worked in this district and the board never heard a whisper about a problem with the construction crew. And when we first
082uh implemented that bond, the the board had done a lot of conversation about should we get a construction manager to handle this? And I remember Tony Spizac at the time and Gino said, "No, we can handle it." And there's $130 million worth of construction and look how they handled perfectly. So, thank you uh to you guys and that's all I have tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Roshan. No comment this evening. Okay. Thank you. Um so for me, I just want to first of all start by saying thank you to Mrs. Curry, her team, as well as the teachers and the staff for a phenomenal school year. Um and I definitely am wishing everyone a wonderful summer. I also would like to take a moment to welcome Dr. costs to the district and um say
083that I too look forward to working with you. Um I want to speak just a little bit about the telephone policy or the cell phone policy and I want to be clear and just sharing that I'm not not in support of a cell phone policy. I really am just concerned with the implementation of a cell phone policy. So it is very easy for us to make a policy and then we go on about our day and we leave administrators and teachers to have to enforce that policy and that's why I think it's important for us to have a conversation around what that looks like so that we're not just voting on something and then walking away from it. Um so I just wanted to be clear on that piece of it. Um the other thing
084is I I do appreciate the words that um Mr. Cox shared. Um, I echo those words. I appreciate what you said in regards to um, doing a superintendent search involving the community. Um, information will be coming out with a tenative timeline as to what that looks like and it should be coming out between I would say no later than the end of the week um, if not tomorrow. That um, communication will also include um, information or I would say like a a small vita of Dr. CS and I'm going to own that. I should have had that in the um board packet and I apologize for not having a small veita in there. That that's a miss on my part. So I do apologize for that, Miss Sample and to the rest of the community.
085Um but information will be coming out and um with that I am looking we have a followup to board of education questions but that's not going to happen. And so we move to 37.9 to an adjournment. So move support. Support. All right. All in favoring quad at 8:30.