001Good evening. It is 5:02 p.m. and we are calling our special meeting of the board of education to order. We will start with the pledge of allegiance and I will ask Mr. Roshan to please lead us in the pledge. Is everyone ready? No. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Amen. Thank you so much. We are now at item 352.25. Roll call in attendance. Mrs. Hines, please. Mr. Ambros, present. Abby Mitchell, present. Dr. Weaver is the excuse absence or I have not heard from him. Okay. Miss Hines present. Mr. Cox present. Mr. Roshan present. President present. Okay. We got six uh six one I guess. Thank you. We are now at
002item 353.25 citizens comments on agenda items. Mrs. Hines, do we have any slips for comments? tonight. I don't see any. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to 354.25 finance committee review and discussion. And at this point, I will turn this portion of the meeting over to Mr. Ambrose. All right. Up tonight, first uh we have Miss Grove, uh coming to us to talk about some middle school resources. Good evening. Hello. Okay. I'm here to talk to you about two different um requests that we have for the board to consider approving. One is on behalf of our middle school science teachers. Um you may remember uh prior to our financial situation, the middle school science teachers had begun a two-year adoption process to adopt a new resource for grades six through eight. Um they were about a
003year and a half into that process when our situation occurred last year putting a halt to our adoption process. Um once we found our place ourselves in a better place um we were given permission to continue that adoption. But at that time our teachers were underway with um some of the supplemental resources that you had approved for them um in light of the situation and they were going forward with that. Um, one of the resources or the resource that they had really grown attached to uh during the course of this was the Sabah resource they were piloting. This resource was called um explore science and that's what they were piloting just before the financial situation took place. Um, as a result of our pilot being halted, Savah was generous enough to allow us to just
004continue using all of their resources for free with no cost to the district or our teachers or students or families um for the entire year. At the end of that um year, and like I said, we transitioned into the next one with some supplemental resources. Our teachers revisited that pilot and were ready to move forward with um actually requesting an adoption of full resources from Savah from the board. Just before they were about to do that, our Sabah rep um although she was extremely excited and appreciative that they were um ready to make that move and to partner with Sabah, she said in good faith, I have to tell you that in the fall we're launching a brand new version of this resource. So, we would not want to um commit you to a contract
005with the resource that we're about to enhance significantly. So, our teachers uh were excited about that. Um although they were very excited about getting their resources in hand in the fall. So, as a result, we are looking to pilot the new experience science resource from Savah. Um, this will allow our teachers to experience the new and enhanced features that um come with the updated version of that resource. So, um, Saba came in, they gave a full presentation to all of our sixth and science, seventh and eighth grade science teachers and, um, we would like to move forward with that pilot. Um, typically there is not a cost involved in piloting. Our partners are usually very generous with their resources during a pilot. Uh but since we utilized all of their resources for free last year
006and we still have all those resources, um we and and they were great about the fact that when we said, you know, we're not going to be moving forward with purchasing something, they said, no problem. Keep our resources and and use our digital resources for the remainder of the year. We understand things happen. Um so when we wanted to pilot again this year, they again were um very excited about that pilot partnership, but those resources on average cost $122,000 uh to run a pilot and that's generously what they had already given us, $122,000 worth of resources. So to ask them to do that again with a new resource was maybe asking a bit much. Um so as a result um we did ask that Sava uh provide us with a quote in which they are
007again very generously providing us all the teacher materials needed all the student materials needed all the digital resources for the school year. What they are asking that we pay is that we split the cost of the science kits that go along with the units that we're piloting. And you can see in the diagram here, um those kits are very costly. They're around $2 to $3,000 a piece. And so they are still paying for half of the kits for all of our classrooms. Um, and all of our classes in seventh and eighth grade because we have multiple hours, remember? Um, and we are asking to pay for the other cost of the kits, the other half at a cost of $41,4468. That would for be for the entire year that we would have those resources. Questions?
008Yes, Miss Ty. Um, quick question. I know some years ago, uh, I don't know if it was like 2020, but we did approve a curriculum. I know it's a science curriculum. What age group was that? Because I remember, uh, it was it was a National Geographic or, um, 2020, so science curriculum. Yeah. might have been was amplify elementary because uh middle school has not had science resources in at least a decade. Okay. They've been kind of peacemealing things together prior to me um coming into the middle school realm. They were really just peacemealing things. Yeah. Cuz I know one time we had an issue where we approved some science. It was the I'm not going to say which one it was the curriculum but the teacher didn't even use it and then they went to
009something else. Yeah. We had one of our middle schools using when I came to this position, they were using um an open resource from RISA. We had another one that was using some supplemental resources um specifically explore learning which commonly known as gizmos. Um and then sixth grade was using these old um like peacemeal um binder type things. So they've um all been utilizing different resources and we at least got them on the same page over the last two years as we were piloting and then with the supplements that we were approved to use last year. Um and this they're very so they're extremely excited about getting a resource that is 68 and that's something that they can consistently uh work from and like a policy. Could they make it where everything is, you know,
010across the board because I see you peacemail and everything. It makes it hard for everybody to keep the test scores like consistent and it's very difficult to have common assessments and compare data and talk about instructional practices when you know we're using different resources. Well, thank you for your investment in that. Appreciate it. Yes, Miss Mate. Thank you. So, I'm just wondering if we decide to go with this after a year of piloting, do we know what the cost will be? Um, total. Okay. No. And then the science kits, those are consumables, correct? So, is that correct? So, so I'm asking that to say like, hey, if we went with this resource, we would make an initial purchase and then would we have to purchase consumables each year for the kids? Yes and no. So
011the kits are primarily um not consumables but you need consumables with the kits but Sabas says we do not recommend you know we don't even provide those because that is something you could obtain much at a much lower cost than you know we materials for the kids right so will science need consumables absolutely but they always do so we would plan for that as well okay one um other piece of just a followup to the question is I would like to know the total cost, right? So, if we decide to purchase it so that we have some idea and we're not having people pilot something that we turn around and say, "Oh, wait. This is more than we expected." Do you know what I mean? Just so we have a better idea. If you could
012do that, that would be great. Just as a followup. Sure. Thank you. So, I had a couple of questions, but you gave me a new one because you said since last year when we approved this, it has been an update. So, is it updated every year? Well, if we move forward with an official adoption of requesting an adoption from the board, it would be for several years. Usually, we do five to six years is our average contract. So my other questions are so what grades took advantage of this sixth, seventh and eighth? Yes. Okay. So I um the question I have is how did the kids do? Um was was it friendly? Was it easier for them to access it? And how was their grades? I would like to see data around the improvement of
013their grades because with the eighth graders, that's the year that they take the MSTEP, correct? Yes. So, did it increase that in did it increase their data? Yes. Performance? Oh, I'm sorry. Um, so they saw significant improvement in engagement and so forth. It's a very hands-on uh phenomenabased curriculum. So, it's very engaging and the kids really responded well to that. Um, in terms of their data, we will probably know more at the conclusion of this year because they will have just used that for the one year and we gather data as we're utilizing the resource, but we're only doing selective units. So teachers can use the resource the whole time. But in terms of gathering data, we gather data around some common units so that we make sure that okay, everybody may not be using
014this with fidelity for, you know, um their earth science unit, but when we get to electrical, you know, current, everybody is going to use this resource, nothing else. and we're going to do it with fidelity. And then we're going to gather data, not only formal data like test scores and so forth, but also informal data around, hey kids, you know, what did you really like about this? Was this easy to read? Was it easy to follow? Those kinds of things. So, um, that will be all a part of of what we would bring to you. So I think what I heard you say is that if we do the pilot program again, so based on next year and last year, we won't be able to get no data until next year. You will have data
015from us doing it this time because we weren't supposed to be doing it for the whole year. Okay. when we were piloting it, we were only doing it for a semester, but then the financial situation took place and it halted our pilot. So then we couldn't we were continuing just with this free resource. So will any data be available before we make the decision now? Yes. So yes, I would like to see the data and the see if it was see the data. Yes. Well, that would be part of when we actually this is just the pilot. So, this would be where we would collect that data. Okay. And then we would bring that to you before asking for a full adoption. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, you you will have all that data. Okay. Yes.
016Just one last question. How many uses do we get out of the kits? Pardon me. How many uses like for the science kits? Do we get to use it like one time, a few times? Oh, no. You get to keep them. They're good to go. They're not Yeah. So, can you use them multiple times? Yep. Okay, cool. Thank you. Yes. As long as as teachers can keep them all together. Yes. What kind of support are they going to provide our teachers in terms of of training in service for for teaching this this uh updated uh material? Yes, they provide full professional development and support throughout the year. And uh since this is an upgrade, how did the teachers receive the the outgoing model using a term that I would use in automotive? You know, we
017went from 24 model year to 25 model year. So, how would how was the the last round received by the teachers? So they were very excited with the last round which is why they wanted to move forward with actually proposing an adoption but that's when SAS said hold up time out we have a a new product coming out with all the things you love about explore science called experience science which will have some enhancements that we didn't have. So that's what we're going to find out if they like it as well or better or all those things. Mr. Cox, let's talk about the that a little bit more. What what kind of enhancements? Well, one is the phenomena based um unit. So they have um developed the units in ways that there are more experience-based
018um enhancements. So students will um one have more labs and interactive experiences. There's there's videos that they've added to the um modules. They call them units modules. Um they also have embedded some things that are for let's say you had a teacher who unexpectedly was out um you know had to leave for a week, right? Unexpectedly. and we have a guest teacher in the classroom. There's videos and enhancements that allow the teacher to go back and see what was already previously learned so they can then prepare for the next days um instruction. So that's going to be very helpful. Um they've embedded a lot of visual supplements and differentiating um instructional strategies within the resources for the teachers. then um allowing them to share those with the kids. Thanks. Yeah, sure. Mr. Oshan. Yes. Also
019um what tracking process do we have during this implementation where we can um track um the students growth as we're uh implementing this curriculum? So we do all of this is part of the curriculum adoption process which this isn't really that is this is just the pilot. Um so through this we have various tracking um we have rubrics that are developed with the team of teachers. They develop they go through an intensive process of establishing what it is that we need for our students looking at the data. Um what do we already have in resources that are working well? What are we missing? Where are the gaps? We look at those different things. We look at the standards. Have any of those varied? Um we work with the high school. make sure that we're aligning
020with them. Um, and then again, fifth grade, make sure that we're in sync with them. Um, it's a whole process and then we bring all that to you. Will we be able to like mid semester, midyear kind of look at that data as we go along? Well, they're going to do um what we call evaluative modules. They're going to do two um per grade level. one in the second quarter which would be kind of like Novemberish um and then again one in second semester early on so more around like February and that's what they're going to gather data on and so forth. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay, I got one just to follow up to what Mr. Roshan asked. So, will that be coming to the board or that's not It would all come
021as part of the final adoption process, right? Thank you. Sure. I know this is a little out of the norm. So, I don't It's not that it's out of the norm. Yeah. Uh there's a list for me and this is how I feel. There's a list of like 13 or 14 things and the individual application of them and how they work into the overall mission is what you know you've been doing the work for for two and a half years but the the question that I have is okay u if we would have gone through with this two years ago it would be obsolete this year. Yep. And so it's certain that that's going to happen again for next year. Absolutely certain with everything that's going on. I just so this expenditure and all the
022expenditures uh the thing that's in the forefront of my mind is uh how do how does all this fit in to where we're going? It seems to me that this is a tool for the teachers. Correct. Keeps them it keeps them on segment so that they're in keeping with the the general knowledge of that subject so that the kids can build on that as they move through the different grades. Right. Correct. But before this we were using something that was basically downloaded from Google probably. Uh they were supplemental programs. Okay. Well, thank you. Yeah, sure. Well, the only problem I have with it is because uh we don't have any data of the process of the progress. Um because when uh Mr. Rashelle asked you said that they would do it twice. So every quarter
023they will be doing it or every report card marking. We should know if our kids if the students grades are increasing by each card marking. And so the classes that are using this, we should have some kind of data to be able to go on to make a informed decision about this. And we don't have that. We don't have no students in front of us telling us how they learned it. We don't have no teachers. We have in the notes, we have the teachers that want to move on to the next phase, but like um my colleague said, you know, I'm concerned about the upgrade and every two years it'll be a upgrade cuz things change. You know, we every day what you had yesterday was old and that's going to be that way with
024everything. Absolutely. Everything. Absolutely. But this is a healthy price tag. Yeah. And if I may, I I think so a couple of things for me. I understand the upgrades, right? I I I get it. I understand it. Um I think maybe having a comparison of saying like, okay, we utilized it. We piloted for a year. These are what they told us the upgrades were, right? so that we have some type of comparison of this is what was in the 2023 version and this is what's going to be in the 2025 version. So that would be one piece of it, right? Okay. The other piece is as we talk about data because we've already piloted for a year, there should be some type of data to say this is why we want to pilot the enhanced
025version, right? We want to continue with this. The third thing that I lift with this is just to understand and hear a vision as to where we would like to take middle school science, right? What is it that we want our middle schoolers to leave Wayne Wesley and going into the high school? What's that knowledge base for them that we want them to have that's necessary for them to be successful at the next level? So, those are some of the pieces for me that I think are missing. Not saying that this isn't good. We just have some missing pieces. Yeah, we've I this would normally not come to you because there would normally not be any cost to this. So, you're kind of we're kind of inserting this in the middle of a process that
026normally you we wouldn't bring to the board. So, I think that's where it's there might be some misunderstanding because this would be in the middle of the process. Um so, it wouldn't be so that would all come to you at the end of the process. But because there's a price tag to it, there are some pieces that have to come because it's a price tag. So, we shift. Okay. You know what I mean? Like we do it this way when there's not a price tag, but then when there's a price tag, we have to ask questions, right? I have no problem with that. And I understand what you're saying. That's why we don't have these pieces here today because this wouldn't normally come to the board. Well, maybe we can get those pieces and you
027can come back. you know, the data, the um company, they can come in and explain it to us. And, you know, if we can get those pieces, I know it will help with my vote. Okay. And it's not that I don't think that this is valuable. Absolutely. It's just that I knew in the back of my mind, we already have it. And they said we can use it. So, they're going to enhance it a little bit, but we already have it. But we won't because they're not going to let us keep using their resource for free. This would be the new one. When's that going to end? It it will end at the end of the school year as soon as we I thought at the beginning of the presentation you told me that they
028told you in all fairness uh over the last year. Yeah. When our financial situation occurred, okay, that they let us continue using their resource for free. One thing, one thing I do want to um bring to everyone's attention, they did kind of let us use it for free. Um $122,000 worth of resour So, um you know, they could have allowed us to just purchase it and you know, not let us know. Um so, yeah. Are there any other questions about the the science portion of uh of Miss Gro's pre uh topics tonight? All right. Uh middle school ELA curriculum. Okay. Um this is being brought on behalf of our English teachers at 6H. Um they are looking for some new novels and some replacement novels for the ones that they already have um at a
029cost not to exceed $28,000. They have coordinated with our high school counterparts and our content leader at high school to ensure that these um titles align with the work and does not overlap with any of the titles that they're using at any of the high school levels. And they plan to use these for obviously to support their standards as well as literary elements, lit circles, um to build fluency and comprehension um and would be used for uh whole group instruction as well as small group instruction. Yes. Yes. I just have one quick question. Um, with the literature, I know Wayne Wesley has a high transients, you know, with the kids. Yeah. How many like is it a problem getting some of our books back with the kids moving in and out the district and stuff
030like that? Additional purchases or We will keep these in class so they would not go home. They would be done with instruction in the classroom. Thank you. Yeah, sure. Yes. So, I think that was my question also. So these are hard copies and they classroom books. Correct. So as I look at this, so one, two, three, four. We have four sixth grade classes uh in the district. We have a lot more than that. Yeah. Okay. So let me rephrase. We have four English language art classes where they will have these books in it. So is it four classes that these books will be housed in? at each building. Okay. At each building, right? Yes. Because I'm just looking at the number of books for the classroom. 275. Yes. That's So that's per school. That's for
031all three schools. Collect all three schools. Okay. Okay. I mean, all right. You're right. All right. I was just looking at the number, you know, um about how many students in the class, but I understand it more. That's why it helps to what you call them ask the question. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Some nice books. But um so you said the books will remain in the classroom. So the kids will engage in reading the novels in the classroom. Yep. And they they do a lot of read aloud. They do whole group instruction. They do small group instruction. And Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And then are there graphic how how are we meeting the various Lexile levels? Yes, some of these titles are graphic novels. Okay. Yes. So they will have a a a choice. Some kids will
032be able to read it as a graphic novel. Some kids will be able to read it correct as a Okay. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Sure. I guess my last question would be about replacing the book. Yes. Was any amount put in here um for the budget amount in case books had to be replaced? You know, they do get tow up to make sure that if the books is tore up to make sure that it's still enough books for all the students for sure. And yes, we put some extras in here for each school, each classroom to make sure that yes, they have some some extras ready. Thank you. Sure thing. Any other questions for uh regarding the the English curriculum? I don't have a question. I just have a comment. Mrs. Gro, thank you so
033much for the work that you're doing with both science and ELA and standing there and um fielding our questions. So, you bet. No problem. We appreciate No problem at all. For sure. We appreciate you. I was just saying it makes it feel just that much more official because you're at the podium. Yeah. Yeah. May I just add I like the cabinet room better. Yeah, it does feel. Thank you, Miss Grove. All right, Miss Brol, I believe you have some uh Good evening everybody. Elementary math. Yes. Yes. So I am coming to you with a request to approve um the purchase of K5 math curriculum. Uh the total cost you have in front of you is 817,000 and change. However, uh it would only hit 669 in change to the general fund because we applied for
034a grant in August that MDE sent to Resa and we were able to get funding for that. Um which is one of the reasons we wanted to take an opportunity to go through the curriculum adoption process for math this year in elementary. Um, a little bit of history. We in 2001 adopted everyday math at the elementary level. And then in 2013, we were provided as elementary teachers uh, K6 actually at the time because we had the 56 school an open resource of Eureka math. Period. 2001, everyday math was adopted. 2013 teachers were given an open resource. So long overdue. Uh what we have been doing though in the last several years is using is customizing our our resource which was Eureka math. Um and but we were spending costs on printing materials. So in the
035last five years we've spent about $300,000 in printing materials to print the open resource as it was. So there's just a little bit of history kind of big picture in the last 25 years with math and then just within this last year. Um the things some of the things that you were asking about like what is the vision of this work and who was involved in this work we started that in August this year for the K5 math adoption. We partnered with Rhysa and Risa partnered with Edward Ports as well. And so even though we have a very robust and thorough um curriculum adoption process, we took advantage of $150,000 and partnering with them and leveling it up even more. Um so it started with a small team. We created our vision. We then invited
036other teachers across the district. ended up with about 45 teachers who were part of this process who piloted materials and um every every grade level was represented and every one of our 10 schools was represented when we piloted in the spring. The data that we have is not student achievement data from the pilot time. It's hard to compare the data between a fraction unit and a multiplication unit when you're doing two different units from two different curriculums that you're piloting. Um but the data that we use is is based on the rubric that we developed that was on what was in the materials. So was it based on fluency, how well was that provided? Um student discourse, math tasks, assessments, teacher usability, all of the things that our team prioritized, that is the data that
037we use to um help make the decision. Something else around professional development. We that is lined up and the cost from the company is in there as well from I Ready. They will providing be providing professional development for our teachers over the summer. Um optional 90minute optional virtual that we'll send out to all of the other teachers who don't attend. We will also have an optional um from Rhysa who we're partnering with um around the math essentials because that is one of our focus areas and then for all district staff August 22nd when they come back to school um but those who are really eager to jump in and get to know the materials they can as well as every single teacher had access to the materials digitally um because the company let us do
038that not just for the pilot teachers. So they all have access to everything digitally now too. She answered all your questions. You what? Yes, she did. She was She was writing it down as we was asking. Well, I was asked not to have an actual presentation. I could pull one up and share all that visually as well. But just with the questions, figured I would share some of those pieces. So, this this program is for K to five only. Correct. Mrs. Brolan, you may not have it in front of you, but you mentioned the vision that you guys um established. Do you mind sharing that vision? Do you have it with you? Can you share it? I will. Yep. And so we developed this as a small team and then we brought the larger team
039together, refined it a little bit. Uh it is it is wordy, but just bear with me. So cultivate confident, reflective learners who are equipped with the problemolving skills to thrive in a changing world. All Wayne Wesleyan students will engage in and have access to an equitable mathematics learning environment that promotes opportunities for productive struggle through you guys. I'm older than I want to admit to. Hang on. Promotes opportunities for productive struggle through cognitively demanding story-based task instruction. Fosters resilience and critical thinking through studentled rigorous discussions. includes formative assessment with data that drives instructional practices. Empower students to work collaboratively to explore multiple strategies and perspectives for problem solving. And lastly, through these rigorous practices, students will connect math concepts to real world situations, helping them understand the importance of math in their daily lives and
040see themselves as mathematicians. And then from this vision, those key areas like the productive struggle, the equitable discussion practices, the assessments that made up then our rubric that was sectioned off that they had um different criteria for each that they could um score. Got it. Okay. So then two follow-up questions to that. Thank you for sharing the vision. I appreciate hearing that. I'm curious to know so we have a plan for professional development for staff. How are we engaging parents into this new curriculum? So that's one question. Yeah. And then the second question that I have is just wondering how do we include or involve student voice in the selection of this particular curricular resource? Yep. So going to the student voice piece first. Some of our teachers did actually do a survey with their
041students between the other resource and I Ready. Um it's well so that was considered but with our lower L it's really tough to say right what do you like better because probably what you're going to get is if this was harder I'm not going to like it as much right which it might have been better for them or if this one had was on color you know student workbook that we were given they're going to like it better so um that was not a heavy factor at this level honestly um and just some teachers collected feedback from their students and did surveys. Um, so parent involvement, we have communication letters. So we share with parents that we were doing the the pilot like kind of beforehand. Um, and then when we go into doing our
042um implementing in the fall, their parent letters for every unit, so that way they're involved with it. Um, but we we have not honestly planned any parent nights or anything like that yet. Right now, it's just communicating that this is the tool we're using. And then at the start of the year, okay, here's kind of what every unit looks like when you get started before it. Um, so that will be once our teachers get a better handle on it, then we'll be able to then say, okay, let's bring our parents in and we can show them what we're learning, how they can help their kids with their with their learning, too. So, I think that's kind of a next step. Okay. I think that's just thank you. I think that's an important piece, right? Because
043the students need that support at home and the way in which we teach math has changed drastically, right? And so a lot of times parents just don't know how to best support their kids just because the math has changed. I mean, and like I'm a teacher and I told my son at fifth fifth grade and above, you better pay attention in math because there's no support at home. So you better just pay attention cuz I'm not a math I'm not math is not my thing right. So just thinking about that and like you know sending home letters it doesn't really you know parents need to see it and feel it be a part of that process. So I think that'll be an important piece. Yep. And we have some bright spots um of people who
044are already doing things like that that we can just multiply across all buildings. So like last week on Thursday night at Schweitzer Miss Fesso and her team let a parent university. I don't know if anybody was able to be there or heard about it or saw u but they let a parent university and so they brought in parents and the teachers actually did a number talk which is one of our key pieces and important in math essential anyways they practiced that with the families as if they were students so they could experience it right so we have some things that we can multiply and do across all of our other buildings but not in that planning yet but so thanks for lifting up So is this digital learning or paper and pencil learning? Both. Both.
045Okay. Yep. So with this we get um the the printed materials. Our elementary teachers are always wanting our printed materials in front of the kids hands as well. So the cost of this covers the student workbooks in print form. They also have digital access. The teacher edition in print form which they also have digital access. Uh, and then a nice thing though with this is like with a lot of our materials now, the digital access is like it's a slideshow. So everything that the kids are seeing in front of them. I was in a classroom the other day. Like I was sitting next to a kid like I was a kid doing the math and everything is on a slideshow and it's lined up just like it is in the student workbook. So it's both.
046Y I just had a question with the curriculum. When you guys get done with books, like what do you how do you recycle the old books? Do you donate them or like from you know how you guys change up curriculum, you have old books and stuff like what do you do with the old ones? Do you sell them or I can speak to that. So in general, so a couple of things with um elementary, we we order a lot of things as we go and you'll hear that with studies weekly next in a second here, but we order or have teachers order so they're just ordering exactly what they need. So like the math that we've been doing and using, every teacher ordered what they needed from our print shop. So there wasn't excess. However,
047sometimes there are materials in excess and I have been part of that as well. So there are a few different um I don't know book buyers, but I don't know what their real title is, but they will come out and they will purchase materials that they want because they know that they've got a warehouse that they they can sell them to. So, we've we've got uh a few of those who will buy materials for us in general. In fact, I just called them to even like small little books that we don't need anymore. I had them go out to a couple schools and and look. So, we do try to get something back from them. Uh if we can. Thank you. The old never does the actual company who sold them to us want to
048buy them. I will tell you that that has not happened in the last seven years I've been in this position, but we try. Mr. Oshan, um this the cost is um over 800,87,000 total. So over the next five years, correct? Okay. Have we done like a cost analysis on comparing other programs that that to compare that like how mean? Yes. So I got um before I do a pilot for any uh material I say give me your platinum cost. So we started with 20ome materials just because we asked every teacher what do you want us to look at so we kept it on a spreadsheet so we could be able to say no why right when somebody then comes back to us we want to be able to say why those things were no I
049do not have the cost of all 20 of those because they they didn't make it to the short list but on the short list so I had three different quotes um from the our top three in the end this was uh less expensive than the other two. So, I do not let that factor into the team when we're meeting. I don't want them to know because I don't want them either way to be thinking about it, but I know behind the scenes and I've got all my quotes sitting there. So, this one was um actually less expensive than the the second choice. So, yep. And we didn't pay for any pilot materials. They always try and end up saying no when we ask, but we might purchase this. So, okay, fine. Any other questions? All
050right, on to the the elementary weekly. So, I think this was just um an FYI, but I am here to talk about it anyway. So, studies weekly, this is just a renewal. We have been using this since um COVID. It is a digital and print resource for um for social studies. And when talking about like the cost and how do we know who's using it, who isn't, we our teachers have had a let me back up. Our teachers have had a um open resource access since 2013 with the Mesa units um that are developed by the state. uh when COVID hit we had an opportunity to well and we needed to provide something else for our students right for them. Uh so we started working with studies weekly and we have some teachers have continued
051with that and not the online uh open resource of MESA and so every year in the spring by grade level by school we ask if they are going to use the digital the print or both. And so every year we have the the tightest quote possible. Uh so we know that we are just purchasing what is going to be used in our classrooms. So did that again this spring and the results are in front of you with a cost of $28,000. Any questions about study weekly? So, this is basically like the weekly reader I would have grown up with. Uh, the same idea, but it is longer and it actually looks like a newspaper. So, it folds in half sort of this way instead of sideways. Um, but it's rich in text, but it has
052some games in there, too. But, and it has more content. You can get more out of it. So, it's like a week's worth. Okay. Whereas the ones you're talking about are really like one lesson worth, right? Yeah. Is this being is this being taught in the is this being done in the classroom or is this something that they taking home and just throwing on the table? No, this is what they use in the classroom for use in the classroom so it don't go home. It probably does once they're done with it at the end of the week, but it's not one of those additional things that here you have this, take this homework packet. This is what we're working through for the week. Here's our learning. Then you take it home. Okay. Because my my
053concern would be that they would be taking it home. Like if we was taking the newspaper home and just, you know, Okay. Yeah. At the end of the week, but not it's just here take it and maybe read it, maybe don't. But yeah, for instruction. And what grade is this for again? I'm sorry. K5. K to five. Yep. Any any other questions. All right. Thank you, Miss Br. No problem. Have a good night. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Mr. BB. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening. Uh I'm here to present uh basically five renewals specifically from technology. Uh and I'm going to start with the Moselle Manager license renewal. Uh and once again, we're requesting approval for Moselle Manager for the iOS and MacOSS system. Uh Moselle Manager basically allows us remote access to our iPad
054and Apple computer fleets throughout the district. basically basically works as almost like an app store which allows us to download into to uh the different Mac products as well as send out you know apps and other things without having to bring the uh Mac products into our area for uh for you know to to to uh to provide that maintenance. So, the total cost of the renewal is $49,500, which will renew the night license from June 20th uh 2025 to June uh 20th, 2026. And this will be charged to the general fund. Any questions? Miss P, did we use um CO funds, art funds for this last time or did we No, this or um not our What am I trying to think of? Thank you. No, this was our general fund. Okay, it's always
055been a general fund. Yes. Okay, thank you. I just I remember it coming before. I just can remember what funding source. Okay, any other questions about the Moselle product? Okay, I'll move on to the renew renewal of the incident IQ uh product that we have. Um so basically it is an asset management system and the purpose is to ensure that the organization's assets are account count account count account count account count account count account count account count account count account count account count accounted for deployed maintained upgraded and disposed of when necessary. It ensures valuable technology items such as computers smartboards are tracked and used appropriately. Our most uh impactful uh piece when we brought on Incident IQ has been uh our ticket management system, our help desk system. So it's been a great asset
056to us. We brought it on a little bit after we started uh coming out of the cyber event and attack and so we have added it to our everyday help desk system and it's proved to be very valuable. Um so we are asking uh this cost for renewal is $40,33367 but keeping in mind that when we added incident IQ we were able to change and move from our recent uh excuse me our destiny destiny resource manager which will save us $12,89120. All right. Any questions about incident IQ asset management system? Moving on. Uh my next item is the renewal of informed K12 online form system. Uh and I know we've been uh in discussion around this in the past. Uh but this is our employee absence requests, pro payroll process, conference approvals and reimbursement, mileage
057reimbursement, budget uh transfer requests, etc. And so this is a document that excuse me, this is a product that we use that moved us from hard copy documents and paper uh and moved us to an electronic system. Um so the total cost of this renewal is $45,449 and the license is from July 1st to June 30th, excuse me. Uh yeah, June 30th, 2026. Uh and so just so you all know, this is a product that we've talked about in the past. So we did explore a few other uh companies that offered similar products. One was called Bamboo uh HR, which also our HR department is is looking into different software, but it was extremely costly. So we did not pursue that. But then we also looked at uh incident IQ who has a similar product
058and we found that the inform K12 was cheaper and once again it's a system that we already have in place and that is working. Any questions on um inform K12? Just one question I'm I'm asking about this one and then some of the other ones that you um just recently went over. Sure. Are we looking at a price increase on any of these from last year to this year? There is a small price increase. I don't have it with me, but it's it's I don't know if you remember this one what we had for a short period of time because we we we went with it and then I think for like six months, but I don't have that in front of me, but I can get that information to you. I'm just curious um
059because there's just a lot that has gone on. So, just wondering, you know, what what are we looking at in the difference in price? Yeah, but it's not a huge difference in price. Thank you. Mhm. So, this uh the informed K12, this is the the one-stop shop, field trips. Yes. And all that. Yes. Um heard some complaints about about this from from teachers in the past and also currently um that it it doesn't seem to always be a one-stop shop for them. um especially when it comes to arranging things like transportation. Um what can we do to make it possible so it truly is a one-stop shop that they're not going into K in form K12, fill out everything they need for the for their field trips and then having to fill out another form
060and trying to work with transportation to make sure they have what they need. Sure. Um so no, great question. Uh since then we we shared those concerns with the team uh at inform at inform K12 specifically uh to address some of these uh issues and concerns. The thing that we found though was was still the same that it's just like any other process like paper. It's caught on somebody's desk. Somebody hasn't opened it up. Um so um there's been been more to kind of bring that those those forms in front of you. So maybe folks in here can kind of attest to it will send you an email reminding you that you have this form that is waiting on your approval. For example, I can get to so they do everybody districtwide. You get an
061email when you have a form to approve. So if you're truly checking your emails in a timely manner, you can go in. It is set up like a one-stop, but what happens is if somebody doesn't have an account number or they have the date wrong or things like that because those are part of the checks and balances. So if you put the wrong date, I then send that back to you, right? Because I'm not going to approve it. So I think with teachers, rightfully so, that has been of well this form keeps coming back to me. The reason why forms would come back to me or Mr. VB or even to a classroom teacher is because some of that information is incorrect. Um, but it is truly set up that if everything's filled out um
062um appropriately and everything's correct, it literally can go through in a day. It's just a matter of having everything correct. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions in form K12? All right. So, I'll move forward with uh Fortnet cyber security renewal licensing software. Uh so once again we're requesting renewal fortgate uh allows us protections around specifically around our devices as well as our servers. Um it is probably one of the most well-known products uh in the cyber security uh industry and along with that we also use a product called bit defender. Um so specifically coming out of the cyber attack um it is a kind of a proven uh uh tool to help prevent once again that same kind of thing happen to us happening to us one more time. So uh the total cost of
063the renewal is $32,523.96 and it will renew from June 20th uh 2025 to June 20th 2026 uh if it is approved. Any questions about Fortnite security, cyber security? I just have one quick question. Okay, so today I got into this really neat networking group and it was a a company called I think it was macrocon and they were talking about the cyber security and it was a program not sure um powers school you know is it something kind of similar to that with the cyber security not so much with cyber security power school is very similar to what we use called we use myar like our our data system so powers school is very similar to that u in that it it performs multiple um multiple tasks in terms of building schedules um basically student
064information system, parent information system, but it's not so much around uh cyber security. Oh, okay. Thank you. No problem. Any other question? I have just a qu a clarifying question. So foret cyber security I know it says renewal. Is that a renewal because we got this this is one of the things we purchased after the cyber attack or do we already have this and we're renewing it? You know, that's a good question. I I believe we got it. No, go ahead. I'm sorry. I I have the dates here. We had we had it before the cyber security for this technology. Okay. So, we had that in already in place before now that we use it extensively when that when that happened. Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's the one-year threat and now that we actually had
065a threat, we just, you know, we've had it like as a just in case. So, it's Yes, we need this. I think to Mr. Viv's point, it kind of just certified that cyber attacks can happen and this is why we have those. That's correct. Right. Yeah. But we did have it. I can't tell you how long we had it for, but I know that we've had it I think as long at least five years how we been that was been our cyber security. Okay. So then I have a follow-up question and this is just because I'm trying to understand. So am I hearing us say we had it but maybe we didn't utilize it to its full capability and now we are utilizing it to its full capability or they we they probably were more
066they four night how many nights But they uh they they were more engaged in the process where when the communication with us during this during that cyber attack um based on the situation more than anything because if they're just looking at that stuff, you're not probably getting as much communication back and forth. And I'm I'm not an expert on this, but I know that just uh the executive cabinet executive cabinet was involved in a lot of these conversations. So I know now that I wasn't never in any of those conversations till we had that. So that's why I'm saying we were engaged a lot more than we were before. It's the you know, we had that coverage, but you're really not hearing much from them when things aren't happening. Okay. So I think I understand
067now. So we have it as a coverage, right, to support us in the event of a cyber attack. But if we don't have a cyber attack, we just it's it's almost like an insurance like you're homeowners, right? Like okay, I'm there now. I thought initially it was preventative. So that's why I was like, wait, something's not adding up for me. But now it adds up. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Nothing like a clarifying question. All right. Any other questions about Fortnite? All right. Uh and then the last uh piece is for really Mel. Uh this is our phone system that works in conjunction with MOSS. Um and so once again, we're asking to the board to approve uh payment of 35,29 uh from July 12th, 2025 to July I got this typo. July 11th, 2026. Uh
068and this will be covered by the general fund. Basically, this is uh paying to maintain the current phone system that we have uh for the next year. Any questions? H how long have we um been with this service? This phones? That is a good question. Um I don't I can get that information, but it it's been a long time. Uh and we are looking look we're looking at some other companies as well. Okay. Yep. in the process and and as we're going into hopefully the bond, we're looking at some other phone systems as well because we've had this for a long time. Okay. And I I was asking that because um if we had it for a long time, is there room to negotiate um a lower price because we've been with them for so
069long? I don't necessarily know that there's a the ability to negotiate in terms of the price that they have. Uh and Moss has been pretty we work with them in a number of areas, so they're pretty solid on price. Okay. Um but we're we're also looking at a better product uh over time because once again we've been with them a long time. So Okay. Yeah. One question. Yes. With the phones and the cyber security. So those phones are linked all together because remember how the phones was out when they had that ransomware. So was that the same company? How does that work? Do I'm sorry. I'm probably not explaining it correctly. So I'm just, you know, with the cyber, you know, attack that we had and then they kind of disabled like the phone lines
070and with that company, do they have like any guarantees or something with that company if something like that was to happen again so they don't get locked? We don't get locked out of our phones. That's a great question. So as as you talk about the cyber attack, once again, it's it's not so much once you have a cyber attack, can can an attack not happen or happen to you? The question is if or when it happens, what is your level of backups in terms of you maintaining information monthly, weekly? How far you do your backups go? So that when if you have to cut your system off, you know what I mean? Because you you see a cyber attack, you cut off your system, but then how far back do you have to go in
071order to uh secure secure the information? So our team does a really good job of updating and making sure our backups are in place uh so that once the system is restored, you know, the it's it's operational once again very quickly. So thank you. And I I will say we've learned a lot uh through this whole cyber attack and how we do business is probably changed quite a bit. Thank you. You're welcome. My question is so this is the service that we use now? Yes. because our phones, we had phones out today. Well, um I can speak to that. Yeah. So, it there was a line that there was that was dug up. Okay. In a certain area. So, this that's like totally different. Yeah. So, that's what was going on today. Yes. Okay. Yeah.
072And so, they found that and we've got a team out replacing the fiber now, but and they're working on it now. So, Okay. But not it's not a cyber attack or anything, fortunately. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Mr. BBE. Thank you all. Have a good night. Thank you. You, too. Miss Curry, who's filling in for Dr. Oily tonight? Uh, Miss Claire. Um, I'm filling in for Dr. Oily. Um, we are asking you to approve at the the board meeting um a three-year contract with our secretaries. They're called WHISA. Um we it's attractive uh package. Um we try to keep our good um employees, retain them and get uh good employees. Most of these employees live in the community and uh they're also kind of ambassadors for us in the community. Um it describes
073uh the the differences here. In the first year it will cost us 248,952. Year 2 308 326. Year 364 736. Um any questions about the contract? Mr. Cox, do you have any questions? No, just happy about it. You are? Yes. Okay, good. We always strive for that. Anyone have any questions over the the contract for the secretaries? Is this transportation? Secretary. Secretaries. Thank you for your work. Dr. So very much. Okay, I'm next. Um, the next uh contract is with boss. It's uh the brotherhood of specialized uh skilled trades. It's our mechanics, electricians, plumbers, um heating and cooling people, and see if I can find the page. It has the dollar amounts on it. Here we go. Year 1,8006. year 2 88 252 92 898 for this group. It's it's pretty small, you know, small
074group, but they keep uh keep us happy. So, we're trying to keep them happy, too. So, this is the uh Yeah. Yes. Mrs. Claire, can you speak a little bit about the qualification bonus? just what is that? Yeah. Okay. So, this year when we negotiated, we had something called a retention bonus and it we wanted to make it a reason for it like um besides just you you came back, thanks, and here's a bonus for this year. So, it we looked at each group and if we had an attendance issue, we would make okay, you can get the bonus, but this is the criteria. So with every group, we looked at, you know, we can't just take this away from them. They're used to it, but can we put some strings on this that will
075also help us, you know, get in the, you know, our operations. And so with this group, they they pay a lot to maintain their um certification. They've gone to, you know, school, stuff like that. and in order to maintain that with that's what we're attaching to their um to their bonus. So, we're calling it that for them. And you'll see a theme here as we renew as we uh negotiate these. We've attached the that bonus to some something that we can get out of it other than they just came back to work for the year. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Um this is um we'd like to renew our um food service contract with Aramark. Um we got them I think started last year. This is our renewal and um we have I have to
076get board approval for that. Um it's a 3.1 increase and it's only 5,700 an estimate of 5,728 93 more over this next year. Is this a annual uh renewal? Annual renewal question. I'm not sure how do we um go through the process of renewing full contract. Is there um other vendors, other companies that we go through? What does that process look like? Well, we the employees are ours. That's why it's such a small amount. You know, the the food service people are ours. So, we're contracting with um you know the employee the director the person that runs the program is paid by them and they're in this contract and um sorry uh I can speak a little bit to it. The director is the only employee for for air. Okay. And to go back just
077a little bit just to give you some uh background and some of the board members were aware of this. Um we had some issues with Airark going back uh three years ago. Um they replaced their um food service director. It's been like night and day. um they they um and I've been with different um food ser or food companies for for schools and we did look um outside um and uh this was two years ago and we uh they I can't say enough about um what they've done in the last at least two years. Um and I you guys probably should feel this too because you were getting emails and you would still be getting emails right now if they weren't doing a good job. um because right away people will send emails to either
078uh executive cabinet or the board when the lunches aren't right or the food isn't right. So if you haven't heard anything, it's usually a good thing and I I know that I have and I oversee food service so I can speak to that personally. If I may add, I I recall that circumstance and the board uh was invited to have a lunch similar to the lunch that the children would have and that was the only experience we needed to make a change. It was terrible. We wouldn't have fed it to our own children and these are our own children. So along those lines, you know, as a we look at the contracts and some of the things that we've done, what can we do to pick up the kids lunch cave a little bit, make
079suggestions, get input from them in regards to making the the food quality or products uh you're saying like a higher level? Yes, that would be. I would like them to have uh more delicious and more nutritious nutritional food available to them and to the people that work for us that work with this do they have you know if they could change this they change this I can't speak to what they I know that right now the director works directly with them in regards to their suggestions for things they were very instrumental in our afterchool feeding program and I want to compliment them on that because we have the after school feeding program at both of our high schools that any student that's involved in any afterchool um activity uh airmark feeds them and them those
080meals I've actually had them myself because I've went over there before not this year but last year for like their games and stuff before games and they did an amazing job and the and the people who serve it do an amazing job too because you know sometimes you get kids after school and they're a little bit rowdy um they were able to control that space and be able to at least get to the right person to control those spaces. But we're still doing the after school feeding program. And they're doing that for us. U which is pretty unique to school districts to have that opportunity for comprehensive high school kids that stay after to have some type of a meal at the end along with our breakfast program too. But I can just speak to
081that's something that's pretty unique to our district. So is there something else that we can do? Yes. you know, we can say, you know, we can up the game, tell them to spend, you know, x amount more per lunch uh towards healthier. We do have a lot of grants, you know, uh they want you to buy local produce um from nearby, you know, places, farms and stuff like that, which, you know, we don't uh we're able to do apples and there's some stuff like that around. But, um yeah, if we want to if we want to our our food service program, uh when I show you the budget, it does make money. It's not it's a profitable uh you know it's not huge but if we make a decision that we want to spend you
082know uh 20 whatever we decide more on the lunches uh we can do that um we don't our lunches right now are free to the kids um Mr. Tokco, don't we have to go out every five years? Every five years we have to go out for a bid. But to your to your question or at least I'd like to know for for another $20,000 a year we can offer. I'd like to know that your initial and I would like it to be less processed if possible and more nutritious. You know, your initial question is a is a solid question in regards to yes, we can have we done that with them, but no, we we can. It's coming to our attention. um our um our students would should play a role in that and our
083buildings level leaders too to know what they're getting currently and how we could upgrade it. I I think you know the if a kid is not fed correctly um going back to Maslo's hierarchy of needs um we're not going to be able to educate them. We know that. So to me and I think everyone that that in our cabinet this is very important. So it's not just a hey we got a company that gives us lunch. This is as important as our curriculum decision. That's right. The food has to be it has to taste goodally sound and everyone else is getting a cake around here. Let's take care of that. I don't disagree with you, but I think they need there needs to be a process and not just our input, the kids who are
084the people who are eating it. Yeah. Yeah. And I would recommend getting at the high school levels and the middle schools, the student councils involved in in talking about what they would like to see in terms of of of food. Um because they're the ones that are closest to to the student body. They represent them. Yeah, we've heard that from the board uh in probably in the last past year more than I've heard it in regards to getting student voice. So, I do agree with that in regards to hearing from them and letting them know and to Miss Curry's uh statement that we did when we did do when we had to renew them because it was a five-year process and I was here I think it was right my first or second year. We
085did get uh the students to give us comments, feedbacks, our building leaders and so on. But I I think it's a great question and I don't think we're wasting enough time. We haven't put enough time into that because what the students are eating is important and it has to be important to us because it's not important to us, we're not going to be able to change it. Yeah. And just to follow up, I agree with everything that has been said. Are we um currently providing options for our um students that don't necessarily eat pork, our students that are vegetarian? Yes, they do have options for sure on that. That's I think that's state law. Yeah, you have to have that. And then We also to Mr. Cox's point providing um and I guess this kind
086of answers this question but just along those lines of the variety of foods right because we have so many different cultures attending our schools so are we providing a variety of cultural choices I think we are given a variety I don't think to the the extent or the level that we need to so to answer your question and that may come out through the student surveys right correct and I And I know I I completely agree with the comments. I know I didn't want to interject, but the only reason I'm even doing it is because I oversee food service, but I 100% agree with food choices and feeding kids correctly. I going back when I was a kid, if I you know, if you didn't if I didn't have food at school, it would really
087it was going to be hard not to have a meal, you know, not being fed after school and and the lunch and breakfast. I Some kids will say they hated the school and I loved them, you know. Yeah. So I I can tell you it's important to us. So Scott, I do think you hear the board saying to move forward. Yes. Um looking at some to to spend some money if we have to too. And when the wait till the other schools find out they get coffee and cake after one comment I want. get in a row. Uh is um if we can implement some type of annual student um group, student council where they annually uh give us surveys on, you know, what the food tastes like. Not just a a a black and
088white survey, but some type of group within our district, within our school district to where they can say, "Okay, this year we're going to look at this for our for our meals and how can we enhance that?" So, so this something that's already in place so we don't have to say, "Hey, let's turn in let's send out some surveys, but have the students every year involved in the process to I can talk to the director and have him throw put those surveys out. The reality is it's going to happen this year for sure because it's come to our attention. I'm glad it did because Mr. Cho, they probably do a tasting like you bring in a whole bunch of foods and you bring in students and they do a tasting." Yeah. annual tast good idea
089you could probably all this conversation is good I mean it is because food is important I mean just like I said we had an hour of uh curriculum it's it's as important as what we uh the curriculum we use to teach our kids so last question yes um just in regard with the food program um like what cuts are we going to be having any cuts with our free breakfast lunch and dinner with things nothing that's came through and I think that I'm not speaking for the board or for everyone here but I think even if we did we would make sure that the kids had it anyways we would eat into the provide it for you it's that important to those kids especially the kids that are dependent on it right now we started
090the after school feeding program at the high school like three years ago some of those kids are dependent on that meal now absolutely that might be the only meals they're getting that's are the breakfast lunch and dinner that we are providing and the weekends I think they get to bring home. Yeah. Some stuff to get back some buses in a backpack or something like that. That's why I'm concerned so much about the nutritional value of the food, not just carbohydrate offerings that you know satiate you temporarily. It's got to be quality. Correct. And and we can do it and should do it. The key is if the the if it's there, the kids are going to eat it um if they're hungry. But we got to make sure that it's it's good. that they're eating,
091not just stuff that, hey, we fed the kids a a honey bun and an apple. Right. I I don't disagree with you at all. And I think this is the first conversation that we've had with the board regarding this and I I uh I love it. And as my colleague said, you know, if we contacted the kids at the high school and the kids at the I bet they would the first thing out of there, they'd throw one of those offerings right overboard. You know, there's got to be something that's last for sure. And uh and there might be something out there they're not getting that we can and I can speak to Brian and actually once we do that at some point at one of our meetings um going into this this school year
092I'll have uh some feedback regarding that survey and what we're doing different. And I do like uh Miss Curry's suggestion of actually bringing uh some sample to the students to try to see what they like and what they don't like. But I that's good good conversation. Yeah. Any other questions about the food service? All right. Moving on to the Masel. U Masel um is our current insurance um company for all our insurance need. Um we went out and started you know our insurance is going up up up every year. So we went out and um just just to get a ballpark uh figure we got a estimate from another um company setse and that's just one we'll I'll get some other numbers too but um mazelle requires a year in advance to uh if you
093want to uh leave them and go to another carrier. So, I'm asking uh for the board to approve us to change insurance companies, but that would be next year, wouldn't be this year. But the other company is $116,100 less than the current uh insurance company that we have. So, that's enough to feed some kids. Miss Hines, uh, one question like even though we're changing like the companies, will the benefits be as rich or will they be worse? Like sometimes it's insurance. They, uh, they quoted us the same that we, you know, we gave them our policy. They, they quoted us, uh, the same. Um, but we might look at, you know, have some conversation because the price between a 5,000 and a $10,000 deductible is quite even more savings. So that'll there'll be some discussions
094over the year like how many you know how many claims would that be and the savings and trying to offset that and a lot of times you have those supplementals it saves a lot of money too with the employers and the way the employees don't have to pay as much with those deductibles that kind of cut some of the cost. Oh this is not employer this is not health insurance for our employees. This is our um buildings um oh okay property property. Yeah, it's all it's it's all that. Okay. Now, the old claims stay with the old company and um they continue to settle those and the new starts with the new. Oh, that's good. Thank you. So, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Okay. So, Juel, thank you for this work. Mrs. Cla, I'm sorry. Thank
095you for doing this work and even lifting this and noticing, you know, that we needed to look at something different. I'm just wondering um if we notify them and say, "Hey, we're not going to renew." Right. But then as we start this process, we realize like, oh, there are some better things over here. You know what I mean? Like maybe we should stay. Will we still have that option to go back to them? Okay. Perfect. And we wouldn't have to wait a year to go back. We gave them a year. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for Miss Claire about about the insurance? Okay. Um me again, property taxes, the L4029, we've given uh copies of those in uh preparation for a vote next, you know, at the next meeting. Um this is required by
096uh law that we get your approval before we tax our uh what do we say the people in our communities. So there's two here. Uh Dearborn Heights, they're both the rates are the same for some reason. Dearborn Heights does it twice a year and the others do it once a year. Send their tax uh tax bills out. So, um we're still going to we're going to get our full 18 mills because remember we went we got that uh hedge voted in. So, now we get that full 18 mills and um the debt is at 4.48 and the sinking fund is 804. So, Um hopefully we'll vote that in for our next meeting. Those will have to be signed that evening because the county the cities want them right away. We've already provided drafts, but they
097won't print the bills until we u give them that signed copy. Okay. One more question. Oh, sure. Because I know that one year we had an issue with the overcharging with the county and stuff like that. Did they get everything squared away so it won't be a problem in the future? Right. Yep. That won't happen again. Okay. Thank you. You want to talk about that? Where is it? It's It's coming up right now. Okay. I can talk. Let me talk. Okay. Go ahead. Um so today we met with um our bond committee and we went reviewed our uh a bond application that next uh Wednesday we're going to take the treasury. So we went through that with all um stakeholders in that process um to make sure the information was all correct before it goes
098to Treasury. Next Wednesday will go to Treasury. Um just to give you a little bit of background with the treasury. It'll go to treasury. They'll go through it um with a fine tooth comb to make sure that everything is correct. Um and then they'll get back with us. I'm sure, you know, going through this process, they always find something in that that they want different. Um but we will be on a phone call next week with Treasury and then we will be bringing it to you on the 16th to vote on. And if you guys have any questions, you can ask. It's $125 million. It's no increase in taxes to the community. Um, and if you uh I kind of my helpers, they stuck this in your spot and um it's just a I thought
099it was a very nice document showing where we are against other people uh as far as our syncing fund and our um bonds. And as you can see, we're like right, you know, we're below the average. Um, so I feel like we're being pretty good about our build, especially because, you know, we're a large district and, you know, our buildings. Um, I wouldn't say they're old, but you know, they got They're old. Okay. Um, so I I feel like this makes it shows that we're being pretty responsible with our dollars, that we're not uh going crazy. We're right in the average there. The bond marketing campaign will really pick up um in the July, August, September going into the November vote date. So you guys will be getting more information. But I think like uh
100um Miss Claire said, the number one thing to uh to to make sure that you broadcast out when people ask you questions is it's a 0% increase. Um which is is is you know that's one of the major focuses by most of our voters. Um of course the stuff that we're doing are needs that we we need that we're just following through on some of the projects from the previous bond and uh to keep our buildings warm, safe, and dry. It's not a one of these big wow bonds like a a whole bunch of different things that uh you can do outside of the scope of uh the the major um components like roofs, parking lots, uh heating, cooling systems, we're basically making sure that anything we didn't finish in the last bond, all of
101our buildings are going to be uh the same. Um and and so we we're providing all of our buildings, especially um Walker Winter will be getting all the upgrades that the other uh district buildings got in the previous bond. So that was the building that we're going to put the most money into in this bond. And as I said, we'll be talking about this uh for the next four months right up till November. Any questions? I have a question. And I don't know how timely it is because kind of behind the eightball, but you know the traffic around our elementary schools as parents continue to come to the school to pick up their children. Uh well, it it you know exactly what it is. Perfect timing for that question, Mr. Cox. We uh we just
102made the decision to I been working with the police chief in Wayne and in uh and in Westland. So, the district is going to be purchasing those signs, those 25 miles per hour signs that go in front of schools. I can say personally, they make me slow down. Um, so I do think that they're productive and I think that will definitely make a difference. Getting back to your uh your comment in regards to the traffic patterns. We are going to take a look at that too and have a professional take a look at our traffic patterns at a couple of our buildings for sure. But they are going to put speed bumps in front of uh Taft. Um city of Wayne is putting the speed bumps there along with when we put that sign up
103there. I think that's going to help that situation. But I truly believe that situation is a little bit unique because of the narrowness of that road in front of if you guys know what I'm talking about. Um, and just how that traffic pattern, if you could go back and put that building in a completely different place on that property, you would have a it would have changed everything. It just every time I go by there, I'm like, God, why did they put this building here? This caused all the traffic problems. Yeah. Um, I have no idea why why someone would do that. It's not my expertise, but I know enough to know this is why there's a problem here. Um, but there is uh, it's a good question because we are going to look at
104traffic patterns and I'm just going to go off the top of my head uh, Wildwood T. Stop there because right there the property exists to bring cars in in a loop. Yeah. And get them off that uh, and get some of them off that street because once they fill up the street that's when it gets hairy. Yeah. So, correct. Anyway, no. But we are looking into that because we if it's not every day, it's every other day. I'm getting a a concern from either a parent, um a principal, um and and those those there's we have three right now specific buildings are really struggling with it. I I I asked a couple parents that were waiting for the kids without telling them who I was, just asking them a question as I'm driving by. Uh
105I could tell you that the level of frustration was very high. Yes. the level of um and just in my career uh of parents that take their kids to school now and they don't take the bus has increased dramatically especially in our district too. Um so that the the the the traffic patterns weren't designed for 300 or if you have 500 kids they weren't designed for 300 of those parents to drop their kids off and pick them up. So that issue exists in every in every district. I can speak to that because we had the same problems on their districts I've been to. So, buildings were not um built and the traffic patterns were not built for at least half of the parents to drop kids off. So, that's that's what we're going to struggle
106with. That's going to be an ongoing thing. And I think most districts deal with that. And that's what I try to tell parents and administrators that this is this is not any different. It's just the the way society has changed and parents feel more comfortable driving their kids to school than taking the bus. But it's been changed for some time now. I agree. We passed a couple of bond issues without dealing with it. So, well, we're definitely going to look at it. With purchasing those uh stop signs, those digital stop signs, will the cities uh Westland or Wayne maybe u pay for the implementation of it, putting it in? We're going to have that conversation because they they have come to us regarding it. So to not say too much, but we have we're going
107to have that conversation in regards to where we could either split the cost. It benefits them, too. The biggest thing that we're going to ask the the police departments and and they they've been very supportive in this process, but the biggest thing we're going to ask them is to enforce it. If you've ever been on uh Marquette at any time, you're going to see someone pulled over. Um and I know it could have been me several times, too, if I didn't see that sign. Yeah, especially when I started working here. Those signs work. I I can personally say they they they help you to slow down and I think West the Westland Police Department does an amazing job in regards to monitoring uh Marquette uh because you I very rarely can you go by without
108a car being pulled over. And I think when we get those they'll have a better opportunity and they're going to when we place them, they're going to uh uh be with us where we place those signs, too. that it's going to be conducive to them being able to monitor it. Because if you're not giving tickets, to be honest with you, with those signs, then they're useless. Because if people don't see people getting pulled over, then they can just see that sign and say, "Whatever. I've never seen anyone pulled over." I can speak for myself that Marquette is always someone pulled over. Yeah. And it's awfully easy to to go faster than 25 in Marquette. It sure is. And if we can work with the the key is with these signs is being able because we
109we're not the ones that going to be able to enforce it. The key is to have that relationship with our police department to be able to support us and and let's just be honest, give those tickets because people aren't going to slow down or not going to and if you don't if that doesn't happen, these things will will be is not as productive as they should be. Probably. Any other questions? All right, Miss Claire, let's uh move on to our year-end uh budget resolution that we are going to have to vote on next meeting. Um, so I have a PowerPoint and then I have the two budgets. So, I'm going to do the PowerPoint and if you guys want to flip around on the on the budgets or you can look at the PowerPoint and
110ask questions about I will go over these uh afterward after I do this. I just can't I'm not I'm not good at it, I guess, flipping back and forth like that. So, I'm going to do the PowerPoint first and then I'm going to go over each budget for 2425 then 2526. So, I got to do this machine here. You know how to do it? I don't think that worked. No, I think I do this one. Okay. So, um some of I'm just uh some of the reasons what what goes on in each fund. You'll notice when we see the financials, we have a lot of funds. Um probably probably the most well the most I've ever seen at any district, but I'm sure there's there's uh others that have a lot. So, the first fund
111is the is the the b the biggest one, the general fund. Um this what goes into it is local, state, federal um uh other financing sources which is basically RESA could give us money and uh fund modifications is when we transfer money back and forth from uh other funds. So the locals property taxes, athletics, rental of our buildings, we get interest, we get Medicaid. I'm just going to mention too I I continue I kept that in. I'm gonna make an assumption that Medicaid will continue this year. Um, we get p per pupil funding and state categoricals uh from the from the state. We have uh federal grants. Um most of them go in our grant fund, but there's a few that uh that are over here. Um yeah, under other funding, like I said, is
112mostly RISA. And then uh fund modifications are indirects you get from your grants general fund and transfers from other funds. So, um, okay. Sorry. This is Okay. Did I Yeah, you had the right one. All right. So, on the general fund, this is where we're going to end up this year. Um, the estimated revenue is 139,000. Expenses I estimate, and we'll see the detail when we get to the actual or you can see them on those statements. Um, I'm estimating an income, net income of uh 1.2 million. Our fund balance will go up a little bit and uh it'll bring it to 24.12%. I have updated these um expenses to include the new one. No, now I want to One, two. Okay, I've updated them for the new contracts. Um, this year all we had
113was uh well, they're always upgrade, you know, increases, but this year was the teachers and the uh principles, but uh next year I'll have everybody's new ones in there. I've updated it um for everything I know, everything we've gotten so far and and any anticipated revenue. Um I've looked at where we are with expenses and um increased it to where I think we're going to end up at the year end. Oh, for the 2526 uh general fund, I've increased I mean the revenue. The only thing I've done, everything looks the same on our budget for the revenue except I've increased it $400 a student, which is very modest. That's the lowest. So, I wanted to go worst case scenario, we're going to get the 400. Uh, and that's why I used it. So, for 2526,
114there's unknowns. Obviously, we don't even have a the state doesn't have a budget, so we're just we're going with uh $400 and keeping Medicaid at this point. Um we may have the sale of the land might go through next year and it might go I don't want to spend that money before it's in the in the house. Uh we're hoping the state revenue goes up and that we find new grants. We're always searching for grants. Our fund balance uh for 2627 is estimated just to go up a very small amount. I've included a curriculum in that budget for a million dollars of curriculum. And that is the only changes I've made for the for the following year in the G except I increased uh for the raises and that's it. The special ed fund is
115used for um it's funded by state aid and Wayne Resa gives us uh money to run that program. We get uh indirects, we make the indirects and we get a rent to do that center program. The fund always has a zero fund balance. We um whatever we spend, we get reimbursed um by RISA after they take after we allocate a portion of our state aid to it. The grant fund, these are some of the grants. Uh we had just a teeny little bit of ESERT this year. Um, we're going to have a large uh grant filter first um to do the water filter the where you the kids can fill up their water bottles. Title we're we're probably going to be at the same. We're hoping that it just stays the same. This fund always
116equals zero because the grants uh we only spend what they allocate us. If we don't spend uh don't spend it, it has to be deferred. Um the grant fund helps us by covering expenses that would have been paid by general fund and it also gives those indirects. Food service when we look at that fund it it it provides a profit uh small a profit every year it's we get some state federal and local funds for that. It um it also we also do some catering and alle cart sales besides the children um eating free and the getting the money from the state. Our sinking fund is is used for repairs uh to buildings um not the large expenses like the bond but some repairs keeping those buildings up. if um you have to do all
117that in your general fund, it really is hard. So, and this is also used between bonds. If something really bad happened to one of our buildings, at least we have something we can use even between those bonds. Uh this year we're b uh we approved buses again. They usually take two years to come in, but I put it in 26 27 in case they do. Um, we're we're on that constant rotation of buses and security cameras. We always are buying. And then the bond fund, the bond fund, we uh expect it will end this year. Um, we will have fully uh spent our funds and we're going to have to pay some arbitrage fees because our interest was higher on that bank account than what the uh state allows us to get on the bonds
118debt retirement. It just pays off the um the payments that we still owe from the um from getting the bonds. So, we sell the bonds, but there's a there's a part of it that we have to cover through a debt retirement fund. School activities are all of our kids clubs. Um, they're funded by donations, fundraising. We have some scholarships uh where people have bequested us funds to um give a scholarship in the name of a person or for a purpose or reason. Um I budgeted a small increase in fund balance there. Overall, it's been a good year. future's uncertain, but we're in a good place. If things really do go bad, we we do have a good fund balance. Not that uh I ever want to touch it, but if I have if we have
119to, uh it's there as a cushion. Um we've provided we finished all the contracts. You will be approving the rest of them at the next meeting. So that is over. We have provided our uh employees good good raises, but we're going to be diligent. We're not going to have extra staff um in for general fund. Things will be funded by grants or we won't be doing them. Um, so I'm asking for you to approve these budgets at the next at the next meeting because I feel that we're being pretty reasonable in our expenditures. Okay. So, um, I'm going to go over these really quick. Um, 2425. We'll just go fund by fund. If you have any questions, stop me. So, this is the general fund where I'm saying that we'll have the 1.2 million in
120uh adding to the fund balance. It's not a huge amount, but uh we did have some cost uh for 181,000. There's some debt fees we had to pay by borrowing that $30 million. Um there was cost in issuance and stuff like that and and that'll go away, but this year it's in there. Um, like I said, we only did the 400 in the state revenue. Otherwise, it's the same. And these have been um these are estimated at where we're going to end up this year based on what I can see in the ledger at this time. Any questions about general fund? I have a question. So, I thought about with the um $30 million loan, I thought we put that in I I don't know the names, right? But we put it in something so
121that it would um generate interest and that would be the money that we would use to pay the interest on that. Is that not right? Okay. So, the $30 million um when I show the investment report, you you'll see that there's never the 30 million on there because it's held in a trust account between us and the state of Michigan. And in August when that's due, that state aid note is due, they're just going to go and take that take that money. It's in a special account that's only allowed to make as much interest as what we would have paid. So, we're not allowed to, you know, at first I thought, oh, well, well, at least we'll get the in. No, sorry, not allowed. Um, so that will go away from We do have a
122liability on our books for it, but that'll go away. and uh they will um so we're not getting any interest on it but we're not expensing. We do have a little bit of interest in the time we had the money before it was transferred to them. We did uh earn a little bit of interest but that has to be um paid. So that's the 180,000 you just that's the 180 but that 180 is also there's a lawyer right there was fe there was cost in borrowing the $30 million that you know that that we can't do nothing about. Yep. That makes sense. Now I just wanted to make sure because we talked about it and we talked about it kind of being a wash but then it's a wash except for those costs that we
123Yeah. Incur to get them. Yes. special ed. You'll see that that's a zero bottom line and we don't have a fund balance there. Um, but that uh it does, like I said, send us send us some money over to general fund. Same with the federal and state grants. The expenses equal the revenue. There's no it's not made to make money. It's to offload some of our expenses from general fund and get that indirect food service. You can see this uh the year we've made 357,490. That's after we get 300,000 on that fund modifications. We're taking that general funds taking that for um running you know it costs to do payroll. It cost it's the indirects. So, we're taking 300. If the program ever got to where it wasn't making we of course we wouldn't, you
124know, we would take less, but we still have a good program going and we could, like I said, like you asked, we could upgrade that food and and eat a little bit, you know, not make a profit on uh on it. sinking fund. We have uh we've haven't had to dip much into this. Uh that's why we get about two two and a half million of uh property taxes a year and that roll that fund balance keeps rolling over. Um we are buying the buses. Uh that's what's under transportation. And then we have some other smaller projects um in facilities bond fund. You see uh we're going to use up the whole rest of at by the end of the year it'll be completely expended. You'll see revenue. There's no bottom line there. There's no
125fund balance. It's over. We'll set up a whole new fund for the new bond and it'll have a separate bank account and we'll be accounted for completely separate. And then our debt retirement um we made our payments in May. We have a little bit of a fund balance there and um that's a pretty much almost all of it goes out pretty much every year in the payments. And then this is the school clubs um just a short a little a revenue uh net income of 43,000. That's all for the 25. What? 24 25 year. That's That's it. And then Do you have any questions about 2425? No. Okay. 2526. It's not going to be a lot to look at here. I have, like I said, the $400. I increased the state revenue and also um
126included the new raises and included 100 oh 100,000 uh a million for uh curriculum. So, this is the first, you know, budget. Of course, it's not gonna it's not going to be accurate. Things are going to happen. Um, and I'll do another amendment in December, half year at least, and we'll go back and see how things are going because we'll probably get more revenue than 400, but I'm not going to I'm too scared to put it in. What was the count base? What count did you I use the same everything the same. If we stay the same and we only get 400, we'll still be almost, you know, at break even. So, I'm sure it's going to be better than this. So, you're using the same pupil count as last year? Yes. And you're estimating
127right now 33.5 million as a fund balance as of June 30th next year. Yep. Which would be a 23.35 Mrs. Claire, when you said you put the um contracts in here, the other two that haven't come to us are included as well. So, all four Yes. Everybody's raises are in here, even the ones that you haven't approved yet. I know, but I'm putting worst case scenario here. Okay. I'm going all the way with the I was wondering if Lana is going to have something to say. What name? Melanie Amina signs. Yeah. Quick question. Did the didn't the governor do like a raise for the per people funding this year recently? I think they were talking about at Mino Island or something. She was going to do an increase. Um nothing's been approved. I think that
128uh the house has a number. The uh the governor has a number. Um who else? Everyone has a number and the lowest number is 400. So I went with the lowest number. You went to the lowest number? 400. Yeah. 400 per pupil and using the same pupil count. That makes sense. Till we know you really want to mid July. That was smart. Maybe I said something. No one cares when it goes up. You're right. The special ed basically. I didn't even change it. It's zero. Bottom line, I kept everything the same on there. Um, well, you don't know how many kids or, you know, just it's everything's up in the air. So, it's pretty much it's just the same thing. Uh, again, same thing again on the grants. Uh, we'll get new grants. Some will
129fall away, but it just doesn't affect uh the bottom line. Um, none of like title we left the everything's going to be the same. So we know something food service the same pretty much gonna make now you know obviously in my uh when I do the next one if we decide to you know upgrade the food and stuff uh it might have a different fund balance but we're not going to be in a deficit at all in that fund. Okay. Okay. Sinking fund. We're going to be spending some money next year. Um, we got the filter first. Those filters, they're giving us 800,000, but guess what? It costs a million dollars more than that to do to do it because they're going to give us the things to put in, but we have to knock
130in the walls and plum and do all that. So, that's a um a million dollars estimate to put those in. And what do I have in here? the additional buses and then I just have a million in there for whatever may happen in the year something bad happens I won't have to come back to you and ask if it's under the million I'm okay if it's a million I I have to come and ask uh bonds it's just empty look wow it's gone this is there's no bonds there's no bonds in that year and debt retirement. I'm going to assume the same. We're going to pay those payments in May and we're going to uh get get about the same amount of money. and the inter the uh student clubs. I put a larger um
131fund balance, you know, just uh a little bit more than I did this year because I already know that it's not all that uh great this year. They spent pretty much. So, that's all of I know you're getting tired of me, but we if you have any Okay. State aid, there's nothing, no new revenue on state aid. It's pretty much just a given us the same amount every month till we get to uh this is what our eighth payment of our 12th. We'll have four more of these. So yeah, there's nothing uh nothing new on here than there was even on the state aid school uh update. Uh the only thing they're talking about is early warnings and indirect cost the rates they developed they do it every year. So there's nothing uh there. Uh
132we don't have any uh early warning. We don't have any of these issues. So we don't have to worry about that any more. um from check register we spent 4 90 859 on all funds in the month of May. If there's ever anything on there you want to ask about, you can always ask ask me, send something. the investment report. Our cash is still uh strong. We're just a hair under what we were uh last month. We are um the general fund actually went up, debt fund went down because we made those payments in May. And uh the other funds pretty close. So general fund covered that difference pretty much in debt. We pretty much have the same amount of cash. So, that's pretty good. All right. What's next? Okay, I'm done talking. Thank you
133so much. The crowd erupts and applause. We appreciate you. She stopped talking. Thank you. We appreciate you. No, thank you so much for the details. As much as you may seem like it wasn't detailed, it really was for us and thank you for explaining it all in layman terms. So, we appreciate that. We are now at um item 355.25, citizens comments on non-aggenda items. Mrs. Hines, do we have any? Nope. All right. We are now at 356.25. Um in terms of superintendent comments, Mrs. Curry. Um thank you. Thank you to the team for presenting tonight. It was a wealth of information. Um, next week, as you know, is our last week of school. We're down to three days, so we truly hope that everybody has a restful summer. And that I just wanted to share
134that I will be on vacation during the June board meeting. So, I will not be in attendance. I'll be on vacation with my family. So, yeah. So, thank you. Thank you. We are now at 357.25 adjournment to a close session. I am looking for a motion, please. So moved. Support. Miss Hines, will you please call roll? Mr. Cox? Yes. Mr. Rashan? Yes. Miss Hines? Yes. Uh Mr. Ambrose? Yes. Miss Ambby Mitchell? Yes. President May? Yes. 6. Thank you. We are now moving to close session. The time is 7:02. bringing us back. Um it's 7:45 p.m. Looking for a motion to move us back into open meeting. Support. All in favor? Thank you. Um at this point, prior to um going into review and recommendations, I am very happy to report out that the board completed
135the evaluation of um Mrs. Jen Curry and she received an effective evaluation. Yes. And with that, I would just like to say to her, thank you for your service and your commitment to our district. We have really enjoyed um working with you in this role. So, thank you so very much. Thank you. And next, we are at 359.25 review and recommendations of the board of education. And I will start with um Mrs. Hines. Alrighty. Well, we had a great time. I appreciate every work that you did on the board. Um, I was excited uh today. They had a grand opening for the Recovery Action Network of Michigan. It's a really good uh organization that helps people that have addiction problems. Um, I've been doing a lot of work with Robbie over in Hike and uh
136so it was open today. So, it's on Wayne Road. Um, so if any families are having any issues with like addiction, things of that nature, it's a really good organization. Um, it was fun to be able to uh give uh lots and lots of kids over maybe like what 500 diplomas over the weekend. Um, I've been bragging to all my fellow Wayne alums that Wayne Memorial did 17.5 million dollars in scholarships, which is super amazing. And I think John Glenn did 3.5 million. And um I like to attribute a lot of those scholarships to the upper bound program. Uh but I went to high school as an upper bound. I think that made a big difference in my life choices and being higher educated double master's degree be on the board of education. So those
137kind of programs are really important um to have and I'd like to thank all the kids for all their hard work and you know being graduated you know and as a board member helping them take their next steps in life to be successful and hopefully they get really good careers on whatever they decide to do. Um and then there is an event that we're hosting where I'm actually helping put it on. It's going to be a charity event at City Hall in Westland June the 24th um from 6:00 to 9:00. We have the honorable chair Alicia Bell is going to be our speaker. We have Tina Williams the grant writer and we have Melissa Sampi our uh council woman and we have a spoken word person coming out. And the nice thing about this charity
138event um it's being sponsored by the city of Westland Leavonia Chamber of Commerce. We got Schoolcraft College to support us. And the money that we raised for the charity event at city hall is going to go to families in the community. um like Wayne Westand Inkster Rhulus Wayne all the way to Detroit to help the families with food, diapers, clothing, wipes and child care vouchers because it's a lot going on in the community. So we want to you know bring all the communities together for this amazing charity event. And I'd like to say that's all folks. Thank you so much Mr. SS, Mr. Roshan. Yes. Um I want to thank everyone that presented today. Um I want to thank the district as a whole. Um, I know we have three more days next week, but
139um, I think this year has been a successful year. I want to thank Miss Curry for her hard work. Um, um, being me being again um, a new school board member this year. I was um, just curious on how information would be uh, disseminated, how I'll be able to just be caught up to speed on everything. And Miss Curry definitely assisted in that. I appreciate her for that. Um, I want to um, also uh, thank the U. congratulate the seniors in our district. Uh last week we had our graduations. Um it's my first time attending um um all of the uh graduation ceremonies and um I I enjoyed uh um congratulating the seniors and being a part of that ceremony and uh even speaking to the seniors after the graduation. They were excited and I
140uh uh uh encouraged them even more to you know go further um than where they are. And u I just want to uh also thank the parents for uh being involved and um look forward to uh this summer and also next year with some new things coming. Thank you Mr. Hawks. I have nothing tonight. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Ambress. I want to start off by thanking Miss Curry for her her service here to the board and and for all that she's done. Um she's been a a great help to me also as a as a new board member. I want to congratulate our our seniors uh for all the hard work they've put in these past 13 years in their education. Um looking forward uh to seeing what what some of you have in
141have in your future. Um I want to thank also uh Miss Claire. There's been a lot of uh financial things we've had to discuss tonight that she's had to put a lot of time and effort in putting together uh because we are required to approve our year-end budget and to approve a new budget next year. and we also have some other initiatives going on that she has taken the lead on and also for um having the other presentations about curriculum uh here tonight. Uh Mr. president though I would like to see if we can at at some point it's great we have the schools come in and talk to us about what's going on in these within their buildings but maybe during the summer next year we we have the curriculum uh directors come in
142and talk about uh the programs that we've approved in the past and are going coming up for approval next board training and talk about the progress that they've made with those. Thank you. It's funny you said that. We had that conversation in the student achievement committee at the last meeting around that piece and the return of investment. So, thank you. Um, Mrs. Abney Mitchell, I said earlier, good evening everyone and thank you to all the presenters for taking our questions. And yes, it will be excellent to have the students come in and the staff come in to talk about their experience with the things that we buy for to help them with education in the district. And also I would like to congratulate the seniors of class of 2025. We had more than 722 students
143to graduate over on Saturday. This week we had middle school um promotions and elementary promotions. And I'm just so happy for all the students. I'm happy for the whole district as we begin to look into the warmer days and start to enjoy the summer days. And also I'd like to um remind everybody that June is gun violence awareness month. That's what this orange pen is for. Every year in June, I have a gun violence awareness um march in the city of Ingster. Um I pass out um gun um locks, information about safe storage. Every year, this is my fourth year doing it. So, I'm very excited about that. And um it's also pride month. I I encourage everybody to take pride into their self, your thoughts, your belief, whatever they are, take pride in it.
144And don't let nobody tear you down for what you believe or who you think you are or who you want to be this month. I celebrate you. And also um I just want the kids, the students, the families, the all of our staff, whether teachers, bus drivers, all staff, administration, you know, just to have a fun and happy summer. And thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Abney Mencho. Um to keep my convers my um comments brief, I would like to say congratulations to the class of 2025. truly enjoyed the graduation um or commencement ceremonies this weekend. Really would like to lift a thank you to not only the parents but the building principles and their team, their staff, meaning teachers, all that touch kids throughout the school year um to see everything come together so nicely.
145Um just want to say thank you for all of your hard work this school year. also um in attending honors night just very impressed with our students and their accomplishments. I also had the opportunity to um participate in judging the national history projects at Wayne Memorial. That was a phenomenal time just talking to the students and seeing the work that they put in to um their projects and also seeing the devices that we um voted to purchase. So seeing those where the kids created websites just really nice experience. Um to echo some of my colleagues, I do want to say again, thank you to Mrs. Curry as well as um her team, Mrs. Claire, Mrs. Marky, Mr. Tokco, everyone. It's just been a um phenomenal year, and I am appreciative of everyone's hard work. And
146I also want to say thank you to my board colleagues. We have um accomplished a lot this year as though this school year. Um, and just thinking about where we were this time of year ago and where we are tonight, it feels really good and I just want to say thank you. And with that being said, I'm wishing everyone a happy, relaxing, fun summer. Stay safe. And I'm looking for a motion to adjourn our meeting at 8:55. So moved or 7:55. All in favor? Eight.