Board of Education Meeting, February 24, 2025

001good evening we will call our um board meeting to order today is Monday February 24th 6: p.m. um we are going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance we have two students with us this evening from Rosevelt McGrath Elementary School we have guser bahadi in meline Maine and I also believe Mr Watson is here to join them all right ladies will you please join us I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible and liberty and justice for all thank you good job Mr Watson do you have anything you'd like to share could I get a picture of them really quick of course got some this is a proud moment oh that's a selfie we don't want that hey

002thank you come on out here guys real quick you're not done yet come on so Goose Ro body come over here and madine M these are two outstanding leaders in our school so these two students we selected to come and read the pledge because they were our most recent student principal of the days and this is a really honorable position so we're thrilled that they could come so Goose Root's a fourth grader and mine's a fifth grader now here's the cool thing they have similar interest I can brag about a lot of things number one they're both leaders and number two is they both love art what your parents said and number three is they didn't want to brag about they didn't want me to brag about them so just the fact that they came

003and they had the honor to come here and do this and they were great outstanding principal of day so we just I appreciate both you and your leadership and what you do to support roselt McGrath Elementary School congratulations appreciate you guys thank you so much next on our agenda is cic oh I'm sorry okay I have certificates oh lord they're so fancy I didn't want to touch one more time Mr Watson [Applause] all right so next on our agenda is roll call um I will do it time Mr Ambrose present Mrs abne Mitchell present Dr Weaver present Mrs hin absent Miss may present Mr Roshan present and Mr Cox present thank you next we are moving to agenda item 28425 a recognitions and presentations this point we will have the renaming of Wayne Memorial High

004School pool and I have a resolution that I would like to read resolution of appreciation and acknowled acknowledgement of the service dedication and work of Coach James mcpartland whereas James mcpartland has served Wayne Westland Community Schools as a physical education teacher for over 35 years and whereas during his service he has diligently served as the head coach of the Wayne Memorial High School swimming program for 18 years receiving 15 combined League championships and whereas Mr MC Parkland has was named as a member of the Wayne Memorial High School Hall of Fame in 1994 and whereas Mr MC Partland was the founder of the Wayne dolphin swim team where he served as head coach for over years whereas Mr M Partland was the lead official at the mhsa swimming state championships and served over 20 years

005officiating at the mhsa state swimming finals and whereas Mr Partland taught lifeguarding CPR first aid in aquatic skills classes allowing students to obtain jobs as lifeguards and swim instructors at local pools and whereas Mr Met Partland was a Community member aiding the effort of the building of the Wayne Recreation Center a member of St Mary Parish and Wayne and a member of missa MCA the Michigan inter Scholastic swim coaches association now therefore be it resolved and known to all that the Board of Education of Wayne Westland Community Schools hereby dedicates the Wayne Memorial High School pool and that it be Hereafter known as the James J mcart Natatorium I am looking for a motion so move I'm done with double duty hold on one second I'm so sorry that was Mr Cox and Dr Reaver

006correct Lana Lana I'm so sorry and now I will any discussion this point all right so then I discussion discuss so at this point I will call for a vote May yes Mr Roshan yes M Dr Weaver yes Mr Ambrose yes Mrs abne Mitchell yes and Mr Cox I thought his name was already on it yes I would like to call Mr mcpartland down to receive his nice plaque where is he miss mcpartland okay Mrs [Applause] okay that's okay that's okay [Applause] I would just like to take a moment I don't know if I need this um to thank the board and for the this great honor of my husband he was truly an amazing man Not only was to his brothers and sisters which there were 10 in his family but also as a

007husband a father a teacher and a swimming coach he put so much energy into everything he did and he always had us striving to be the best we can possibly be and I have all this amazing swimming parent would you all please stand up come on you got stand up family and friends all family and friends thank you from the bottom of our hearts thank you I would like to ask Mr Mike Gruber to please go to the mic here thank you so much uh I just want to take a couple just a brief moment I want to thank superintendent Curry for her work um on getting the pool helped me dedic dedicate and rename the pool I want to thank Mrs Marky for her hard work I want to thank the board for taking

008this on and resolving it it's Lo long overdue like Mr Cox said I have had the pleasure of knowing Jim mcpartland for 50 years he was my coach he was my mentor he was my colleague and most of all he was my friend and we miss him every day and what you see here is the love and Legacy that a good man lived a good life and you see the love and support that you see in this room for his himself for his wife his son Jimmy and his daughters Jill and Jamie um we really appreciate that now I've already talked to digital One Source who does all of our signage for the district um we are as an alumni swimming group are privately funding um some signage that's going to go inside the pool

009and outside the pool as well um we're going to get that ordered here in the next week or so and i' I've got some things I want to do in the pool first and then we're going to have a big dedication ceremony as soon as that's done which obviously all the board will be welcomed to attend you will be invited to that ceremony whenever that is hopefully sooner rather than later because one of the things that as we looked forward to I never thought I would have to do this pool naming postumus but we lost him so quickly and when he was alive I mentioned that we were going to do this and he was adamant about not having his name on that pool but I knew what it would mean to his family um

010and to all of us who had the privilege and honor of knowing him and I've had the privilege of um being the boys and girls swim coach at Wayne since 1991 and I also took over for him thank you when he decided to step down with the Wayne dolphin swim club I've also been the coach of that almost 20 years now so for him to leave that in my hands I really appreciated The Testament that he had in me and the support that he has always given me and my family as well so we love him and we thank you again for all your hard work and your resolution to put his name on that pool so thank you very much thank you for those kind words next on our agenda is the building update

011from Mr Mark Watson for Roosevelt McGrath Elementary School and as Mr Watson is go ahead making his way to the um Podium if you all would like to exit you may at this time or you're welcome to stay Thank you thank you so much for coming out oh where you think you're going yes sir doing good how you way oh you just got the told me to tell you she didn't say when you told us good evening good evening what an honor to follow such an amazing event I didn't know that was going to happen and I was making connections as we left um we one of the great things about Ros grath is we do have a pool um and it's part of our adaptive PE program and I just met some amazing people

012who have a traditional background that use that pool so I I my heart's just open and smiling I love it so that was great so I'm Mark Watson a proud principal of roselt GFF Elementary school and they asked me if I had a chance to come and brag about my school I said yes yes I would so this is an amazing update for an amazing school full of amazing students and staff so Rosal McGrath our school mascot is the Road Runner our school color is red and our students live into each and every day our positive behavior expectations which is be safe be responsible and be respectful and you'll hear more about that as we move along in the presentation our schools made a of 452 amazing students we have 16 General Leed classrooms and

013seven self-contained classrooms which consist of two kid Garden three first grade three 2 grade three third grade two fourth grade three fifth grade two sxi classrooms one SCI classroom 3 ACD and one po High classroom out of our 450 students 130 students are receiving special education services we have 10 multilingual students and our ethnicity race and special populations consists of 38.9% African-American .9% Asian 45.6% Caucasian 6.2% Hispanic 7 Middle Eastern 6.6 multi-ethnic and 1.1 Native America that's the picture and snapshot of our amazing School wouldn't be that amazing if we didn't have them awesome staff and um our staff is just an outstanding piece in the picture you see too we were still holding on to the hopes for our lines so that was that picture was still in our heart um a proud thing

014is 50% of our staff have been at Rosevelt M for 5 years that's a great connection and a a great tribute to the the uh past of what we do at Ros McGrath in the new and Innovative process that we use now two really outstanding staff that we have amongst all of them is Amy K because we can never pronounce her name so it's Amy k um she was our food services employee of the year for 2425 in care of usage was the elementary Wayne Westland teacher of the year 23 24 so that's those are proud moments and proud staff some unique staff that associated with roselt McGrath we have a behavior coordinator a parent coordinator and two adaptive p teachers which I mentioned we do have a pool and one of our adaptive p

015teachers does work in the pool and swim with the kids so attendance is huge we need our kills to come and we we love the fact that we celebrate tenance each day and we're proud of our attendance rate our average daily attendance rate as of today is 90% we celebrate attendance throughout the year students earn Road Runner Buck attendance certificates we'll talk more about Road Runner bucks as we move along students can redeem awesome prizes from our PBIS Road Runner store with their Road Runner Buck certificates our average daily attendance rate increased from 85% in December 24 to 90% in February 25 and we did a lot of celebrating attendance throughout those months so we're really happy to see that specifically through the sicknesses and and kids getting the you know the winter Blues it

016was really nice to see that increase so the next slide shows um four amazing students who have as of 100 days of school they're they have perfect attendance so we celebrated them with certificates and they got some Whoppers of some Road owner bucks that they can spend at the road in our store some other random attendance celebrations we do throughout the year we like to celebrate all aspects of attendance is we celebrate like if a student was there 100% all week we'll pick random weeks and we'll celebrate those students who were there the entire week and we pick random weeks to do that we also have for example if a class was there the entire class we celebrate the entire class for a celebration of attendance as well and those kiddos who get there on

017time we like to celebrate those too that's an important thing so when the kids are on time we pick random days and they get certificates for that so with those Road owner certificates for attendance we also get Road owner bucks at Roosevelt McGrath for being respectful responsible and safe and what they do with those certificates and rotor bucks is they get to go to the the Road Runner store and they get to buy just an assortment of awesome prizes that are funded through our PTO and our PBIS support and then a lot of its Amazon support from parent volunteers who support that and Supply that so it's it's awesome there was a gigantic I know a picture of it just gigantic teddy bear and everyone wanted it and it's gone they got it so someone

018earned that it was awesome relationships and student well-being is an important part of any school but we really make that a a tribute to what we do and a focus of what we do at Roosevelt McGrath building and maintaining that's an key piece is maintaining strong positive relationships with students is a key to our success at Roosevelt McGrath all staff greet students each morning a lot of smiles and high fives are occurring we focus on community building the first two weeks of school we have student Le morning announcements every day we use restored practices to solve student challenges we have student emotional support groups proactive social skill lessons regulation strategies deescalation and conflict resolution strategies calm down areas in classrooms checking checkouts and breaks we just want to make sure we have an opportunity that

019everyone feels comfortable and heard and listened as students and their voices there everyone and we have opportunities for that to occur in addition to all the relationships we build we offer just an more amazing assortment of experiences for our students our fifth grade Camp our students go to camp for free our philarmonic Orchestra visits or the philarmonic of Orchestra visits are third grade there's plenty of zoo trips app or trips and Arbor Hands-On Museum uh our kids all throughout roadel McGrath loves our unified gym experience uh we have a talent show Fun Run Trunk or Treat uh holidays we had grin Santa the Wayne Police Department and our Road Runner come to visit for the holidays we visit the stem Center at John Glen High School and we offer basketball flag football cheerleading and piloting

020soccer soon to come for third grade and second grade one of the amazing things that we do each and every day amongst all the support of kiddos is making sure we're focused on achievement each and every day making sure that goal setting is occurring making sure that our students know what their target is and making sure that that's a focus so we made sure that they're here attendance is important we make sure our relationships are strong and then we continuously look at our data here's a snapshot really of where we're at with our end NWA the kidss take NWA testing in the fall in the winter and at the end of the year in May and we're proud to say and happy to say then reading their 34% for reading across the board and at

021math at 41% so what that tells us that we're on track that we tells us that NWA tells us that 50% of kids should be meeting their RIT scores by the end of the year and we're on track to meeting that if not exceeding that so we're very happy about that some points of Pride about Rose McGrath our student leadership team is vast we have safeties service Squad a newspaper announcements and our classroom leadership positions and like you met our principal days our community involvement and Partnerships are amazing and support all of our community members we have a homeowners association that adopts families for the holidays uh First Congressional Church of Wayne supports food for holidays and the First Congressional Church also provides coats for kids uh really in the beginning of the Fall they

022start to support us with getting coats in the hands of kids we have a great relationship with our Wayne fire department and police department and this was new this year our vision van which was amazing they screened 127 students and 63% 63 students received new brand new glasses free and it was it was awesome and they were showing those glasses off it forced me I had to go get a new pair because I was like man you guys have great glasses so it was awesome now we wouldn't be who we are if it wasn't for our McGrath our Rosevelt McGrath PTO they provide such function as our fun fair our Book Fairs someone's special dance Trunk or Treat popcorn Fridays a fun run Penny War spring flow flower sale and so so much more our

023student leadership selects uh student council spirit days and this is just a snapshot of what a spirit week and day could look like at Rosevelt McGrath you know there had to be lions in there we had to get them in there so a really important position that kids earn is that when students spend their Road owner bucks at the road owner store all the road bucks go into a big barrel and then a couple times throughout about three or four times a year we'll select randomly select a rador buck to be the principal of the day and it's an exciting time um we really make it a big deal we amp it up the kids are reminding me all the time when's the principal day coming and it really builds up the enthusiasm for the

024hard work they are for being respectful responsible and State it is not easy to do it's an important piece so we take great pride in it so you met the two former principal a days so each year we have three to four principles of the year so what do they do for a principal day well they meet they have a heavy agenda we build a great agenda for them they usually have a meeting with the superintendent or someone from central office um they meet with the fire department and the Wayne Police Department to talk about safety things and things that support the community um they read to classrooms they support um each other with the lunchroom making sure that choices are being made in rotor bucks oh and by the way they also get a

025McDonald's lunch which is the big thing they get to bring a friend for that so it's a great day they're already kids are already asking me when the next one is so the exclamation mark of Ro Roosevelt McGrath is our road runner red Fridays this all comes back down to relationships relationships relationships and we're very proud road runners um as we said our colors are red and we are the road runners so every Friday we have a little competition and it builds a lot of spirit and support and connections to our school so between our K3 or excuse me our K2 our 35 in our McGrath classes the students or class that has the most red or Road Runner gear Gear wins that week and they have a huge flag that hangs outside their classroom

026and they just go at it they the competition is is awesome it's it it and I love it I love it I love it so when I get there on Friday mornings I'll come in I do my walk through everything morning and I'll see a class and I'll teacher will look at me say yep so and so they didn't wear red today I'm like we got red for you we'll get we'll get red and they love it so it's a really great um it's a great attribute to making sure that we support each other and that we are very proud to be at that school Roosevelt Road Runners are very proud and each and every day they're they're happy to be there and Fridays we really just laid on on thick so well thanks for

027allowing me to present about Roosevelt McGrath are there any questions thank you any questions I have a few questions Mrs AB Mitch um I got to find them so your pool is that a classroom swimming it it is a classroom yep it's adaptive PE for our students in Rosevelt in the McGrath wing of our school our selfcontained classrooms so it is absolutely a classroom the teacher and two of the Paras are train to be in the pool and then there's two pairs that are outside the pool on the deck and they do all their physical education in the pool it's an amazing experience come by sometime it's it's awesome thank you for the invite I sure will and also your parent um coordinator what what is that our parent coordinator is like the pulse of

028our heart in our office so what the parent coordinator does is help bridge the liaison to new families coming they lot we get a lot of calls a lot of questions about coming from different areas she helps bridge that Gap and she talks about the great things that we have at Ro about McGrath she's our like Lees on and then when we have kids and families in need if parents have some questions about how to reach something it's confidential if they need some support with food or clothes they they reach out and our parent coordinator is at liaison that piece is so valuable to us it's paid through our title funds our leadership team elected to have that position and it's it's so valal to our school thanks for asking that that was a great

029question too so is like is that like the only parent group you have or do you have another parent group so the parent coordinator is a specific position that's in our school but we have a PTO that is our parent group okay do you have any other questions um I think those are the only ones that I mark thank you so much for presenting thank you thanks for the questions go R run around yes I just had a quick question come by a Friday I didn't forget you Mel but go ahead yes so this just quick question so I am concerned about what's going on you know in the nation with the Department of Education um would that have like any impact on your program at mcgarth no okay thank you I was worried about

030that and if it starts to seem like it we will have a good conversation so it's it's something that's I'm glad you brought that up it's really at all of our hearts it's tugging at us so we are continuously reviewing any new updates but we are continuously moving forward with all of our initiatives following each and every step of the law thank you thank you so much thank you great question thank you are there any other questions Mr ran I just want to say thank you for um the work that you guys are doing I look forward to coming over there I appreciate that to uh be a part of the uh the red Friday yeah Ro Fridays where my red yeah our next principal to day I'll send you guys an invite if you

031want to come meet them I should have done that sooner absolutely abely absolutely thank you for the question quick question um as far as student achievement the um the um nwea how often um do they um test I see it's uh for the winter yeah they test in the fall the winter in the spring it's a nationally normed test thousands of students across the nation take that test so that's why it's one of the most valid tests that we use that we like to use as data to see where we rank amongst our peers across the United States okay yeah with that um with the results of that test I'm question I'm wondering what are the the trends from this year from last year are are we progressing where where are we so our Trends

032right now are kind of very parallel to where we were last year okay um we do a lot of goal setting so what it would look like is in in the winter after we take the test we would look at our leadership team and our classrooms would look at where we are in our data and what it looks like for for example two years ago we did a huge celebration of doing uh data um goal setting and we were at around the same spot with 30% 34% and 50% or 41% math and the goal is to get everyone we want to get to 50 55% of having all those students meet their RIT and what we did was we goal set just like we're doing today and we saw a great movement from December January

033when they're taking the test to May because they're Now goal study they know where they're wet the students will know we have classrooms that will create charts for their own classrooms like a scoreboard a very a very um supportive scoreboard that will show hey this is where we're at this is where we need to be so this is The Benchmark in the winner that helps push us to get to the spring so what I love about your question is it does let us reflect on where we were in the past and we know we're kind of on track where I confidently said hey we should be right where we need to be and if we can get and when we say 50% of kids meeting their RIT that doesn't mean the kids who didn't meet

034their Rit are failing that means they're getting there and they're close and the great thing about NWA is it meets them at where they're at so for example I could have I'll have 30 students in the classroom but those 30 students are going to be at different levels NWA tests and set them at every different level where they're at so if a student tests one day their score is ranked against where they were against kids at their level Across the Nation so they're not really against or rated against someone in their classroom the Norms show us where they are Across the Nation and that to me is an important snapshot of where we're at so great thanks for the question I appreciate that one last question with the data that you guys get how do

035you guys communicate that with the parents so the parents can kind of get involved with so could we do a better job at getting that out daily via the school yeah I think but the classrooms with um the parent conferences help support that when they come in they'll go through NWA data they'll go through report card data they'll go through objectives of what they were going to meet we also have PTO meetings that we'll talk about where they are and where we're at as far as testing specific data results though yeah you hit it we probably need to get a do a better job at sharing that but we've had in the past we've had data nights where parents would come in and learn about NWA um Jen and I presented NWA years ago one

036of our my favorite assessment pieces so that's a great reminder to get more information out to parents and get the conversation going about that great great thanks thank you thank you yeah absolutely thank you are there any other questions thank you so much Mr Watson for your presentation very the opportunity [Applause] thanks next on our agenda we are looking to move into close session I am looking for a motion so move thank you Dr Weaver support support thank you Mrs abne Mitchell all in favor thank you we are going into close session at 6:33 entertain a motion to move into an open meeting so move thank you Mr PX support thank you Dr Weaver all in favor thank you we are now at Agenda item 28425 five recognitions and presentations our first presentation is from

037Mr Toco around Elementary Athletics thank you um I'm going to have uh Jenny Johnson and Maria mitter um are going to be doing a presentation on our elementary athletic programs uh I'm going to just uh kind of tease it a little bit with um five years ago approximately 5 years ago we started uh the Elementary programs at the elementary with flag football um and then went from flag football to girls basketball and boys basketball and now they're going into soccer uh this spring uh the two individuals that are going to speak tonight have done an amazing job um in this space um to keep this going um we've done this I know they're again I don't want to ruin their presentation but they've done this um throughout the the last five years they've been a

038huge part of this and I just want to thank them again I know I've done it before but I really want to thank them for keeping this rolling for the kids um and go ahead you two all right good evening um president May and Board of Education um thank you for having us tonight and to uh Mr too's credit none of this would have ever been possible without his vision and um bringing this to the district so we began as Mr Toco mentioned in 2021 with our first season of Elementary Athletics and it was simply out of a need of uh we were a recreation desert we became a recreation desert in this community with the Bailey Center closing in 2012 in Westland the Wayne Community Center in 2015 closing which has since been beautifully

039renovated and opened by hype and um but we we became a desert and so our community our families didn't have lowcost affordable Recreation opportunities so we brainstormed and and thought about what were some of the wants and needs based on our our programs that were at the middle school and high school and that's kind of how it all grew from there so uh we are also the home of the meteors in comments as many of you know and uh competitive local football league so there is tremendous desire for uh young people to be playing uh Recreation programs here in the community so we knew there was a need get your clicker working Jenny this is kind of your thing it's going back so again it kind of grew out of the our we were losing

040our athletes so we knew that our many of our basketball players and our football players were rostered on Leonia Churchill and Belleville and River Rouge and and some still are but we're working um very steadily to win them back and to keep them here but we know that we're losing those athletes at those transition years of six grade and e8th grade so we again want to help grow our programs and build our feeder programs which is the next slide about um if we can build a base and give kids some exposure that when they get to Middle School they've had some exposure had some experience in those different athletic programs and then as they get to high school they um really know where they're going and what they want to offer and and whatnot so

041it all grew out of this need as to kind of how we got started so I'll let Jenny talk about how we kicked off and you're on you're on that all right click is I've got the clicker duties as Maria mentioned we did start in 2021 and we started with the flag football and cheerleading program to Mr toco's credit he really insisted that we have these programs these fourth and fifth graders come to our high school Fields he wanted us to split the time between Way Memorial High School and John Glenn High School because just as it's important for the kids to have these opportunities to play sports it was just as important to make sure that they know their part of Wayne Westland for life and that they get to play on their future

042High School sites and it is really cool Maria and I have lots of feels about this program but it is really cool on Saturday morning to see 50 60 kids on three different flag football fields whether you're at Wayne Memorial or John Glen High School so that that's great that started with the success then right now we moved right into gosh from that fall season we moved right into our basketball season oh clicker not doing it for myself to right now we have fourth and fifth grade students that in the fall flag football is co-ed we have cheerleading and we have girls basketball then in the winter which we're in right now we've got boys basketball and cheerleading going to put a little plug out there we have two boys basketball games left this season

043this Saturday March 1st and next Saturday March 8th both are at John Glenn High School we have games at 9 10 11 and 12 free attendance concessions available for for purchase and we promise you'll have a good time get there early though because the stands do fill up and then the thing if any of you have walked by the Communications office you'll see a huge sucker net in our offices right now we're doing a pilot program in the spring for our second and third graders one of the really cool things over the past couple years is this has really become a tradition in our elementary school and we now have our little kids knowing when they get to fourth and fifth grade that they get to do this they get to participate so we wanted

044to try to have something to offer to our younger kids so we're going to do a four-week soccer program our pilot program starting in April end of April I think yeah we're going to start at the end of April it's going to be on a Saturday they're going to do a 1 hour practice and possibly a 1 hour game if their attention span is that far and yeah we're GNA if we still need coaches we still need Co anybody wants to coach our second and third graders we are looking for coaches we're looking forward to it again these little ones are going to be on the high school sacer fields and football field so we expect it to be a great time and then the benefits we talk about giving the kids the sports opportunities

045Maria talked about how we didn't have a lot of recreation in our area anymore that's very true from us doing this and you pitch in when you can from us doing this the past four years we've seen these other benefits that I don't know how you measure them except to see it every Saturday when you're there first thing is this is no cost to our families we offer this program entirely for free we give them a uniform we give them a coach we give them practice we give them playing time we give them certificates or awards at the end and we give them a great time and when I tell you their families roll in deep to come watch these kids thank you you've been there tell me ladies scorekeeper yeah yeah many yeah many

046they'll they'll bring 10 to 12 family members to come watch these games um the grandparents and the aunts who come especially who are not from this District still to this they can't believe that we don't charge admission to get in and that they can just come and watch this program and the thing that we hear a lot is I've never heard of anything like this before do any other schools do it no no other schools around here do not do this this is something that is really unique to Wayne Westland I will add too and and Scott has gotten a sappy text for me on a Saturday going this is the most amazing thing ever cuz we do get in our Fields when those stands are full and the kids are just excited to be

047there and the parents are excited and the dads are running up and down the court and cheering on and um it like if you really want to feel good after a bad week come Saturday mornings and um it it's absolutely worth every Saturday that Jenny and I get up and have to be there at 8:00 a.m. we love it and we wouldn't change it it's been really cool this year because we've transitioned from having our high school kids our high schoolers like to sleep in on Saturday mornings so it was a little challenging getting them to come and referee so we went with our adult referees who typically do the high school basketball games and some of them didn't quite understand when they came that this was little kids so we had to explain to

048them these are fourth and fifth graders they've never played before they're not going to understand the coaches are on the court with them and you kind of get the look from the Ws at the beginning of the game that great what did I get myself into every single ref who has come has said to us can I come back next Saturday this is the coolest thing it is my time up no okay so seal benefits yes it Fosters all kinds of Goodwill benefits we talked about family engagement our stands are packed we get about a thousand people coming in so right now we've got 500 athletes between our basketball players and our cheerleaders 500 athletes that come in they easily bring a th000 Spectators every week so we're talking you know you don't get some

049of that engagement for some of our other activities happening some of the other thing that we did we recognized that concessions is people want concessions when they're at games but that is not something Jenny and I wanted to take on we tried that one time and um so we've turned to our um Elementary ptas and pto's and so they sign up to man the concession stands and bring in all the concessions and then that's how many of them are fundraising for fifth grade camp and all of the different activities um that are going on so with that so it really the return on investment we have to be competitive if if we're going to retain students and we're going to attract more students so this is a way we're doing that um so in the

050next couple slides we'll talk about where our numbers how our numbers have grown so with the first one being um flag football next slide please so flag football was our first uh sport that we started with um in 2021 and we we contract with rcx sports and they're the ones who own that NF flag um the name and everything in our area so we're the only school district in Michigan that's doing this and um with it so we started with 108 students we're now we have 141 students that that's just doing flag that doesn't count the cheerleaders that are out there and um that's one to two teams per school it's a six week season and it is a good time rain or shine we're out there and I know um many of you have

051been to some of those games so it it really is it's a it's a lot of fun but that's that was the first uh season that we started with and then Jenny's going to talk about the other so cheerleading is something that wow sometimes our cheerleaders if you've been to a game they can outnumber the athletes on the field they love and they have grown the program so what you're seeing with the past few years that we have with our cheerleading specifically you can see those numbers there we've grown fall cheer and winter cheer but our kids are starting to own this program they're starting to be captains they're starting to get a turn to lead cheers to ask their coach hey can we try this cheer they made me a little nervous the other

052week when they asked if they could do stunts and I said whoa St I'm going to tell you stunts at the fourth grade level is a cartwheel so so we said okay okay that was fine but they're they're bringing their own to it and they're really owning the program and they are so proud to be able to wear their shirts and their jerseys to school and let the other kids know that they're part of that team basketball has continued to grow as well we have again one to two schools or one to two teams par pardon me per school we do the girls basketball November and December before Christmas break and then as we said right now we're in our boys basketball season it's a little bit longer of a season because we come back

053end of January we just had midwinter break so that's why we're going all the way until March we have seen numbers climb there too so in 2022 we started with 146 girls basketball students now we're up to 161 I will say many of those girls also are cheerleading so we're seeing a lot of return students just like a lot of our boys who play basketball they're playing playing flag football too so they're getting every opportunity that they can and then sucker oh this one's me too as we mentioned soccer is coming this fall we're excited that our little kids are going to get a chance we're going to see how they like it we're going to see how we like it and we're hoping that that's something we can maybe move forward with to see

054if we can continue to have something for our little kids again just to start building that pipeline so the kids are getting excited and they know what's coming and they have something to look forward to and as of today we just sent registration out today we already have one of our schools is already capped we already have a full team for one of our schools so the parents it's it's a thing they know they're excited I will add to is the coaches of these teams with the exception of flag football because their model is uh volunteer parents and actually we've had some volunteer staff too um the the coaches are are our teachers our um they our staff and they it is remarkable how it's really cool to watch them and how they're interacting and

055watching and working with the kids and so that's extremely rewarding you'll see one of our coaches here from um I think she's at Edison and she's been with us all every year like many of our coaches are returning coaches and work with the kids and you're one of our scorekeepers right here yeah we have one of our scorekeepers yes yes um so we we do employ and and give um opportunities for our staff as well so uh we're currently serving right now this year over 1,200 students that number will climb with the addition of the uh soccer program we're going to cap the soccer to uh one team per grade just to again see how it goes or one yeah and uh so this is one team per school and um again there's no cost

056to our families for this not not admission only if they want to buy some popcorn otherwise it's completely free and that definitely is what makes it um attractive for our families but how do we fund this so right now uh we've been funding this with grants and uh this year we're funding it with our service learning Grant um but hype Athletics was able to secure some funding through the state aid budget with the help of Senator Camal and so we have Robbie darish here from hype Athletics Ali s who's the president had to leave early he had another commitment so so he apologizes but um hype was able to secure a big old check for us to continue our work so [Applause] $34,320 and last but not least we are continuing to explore our sixth

057grade participation and see what that looks like and maybe explore doing some intermural offerings for our sixth graders because we know our seventh and eighth graders get a lot of opportunities but we know that there's some gaps with that sixth grade so we're in the process right now of exploring that and and minimally we'll do um 7v7 flag football next year with that group so and um I would like to allow um rabie Darwish to say a few words and on behalf of hype and thank you uh I just wanted to say uh on behalf of Ali Sayed I'm sorry that uh he had to leave um on behalf of Ali Sayed in hype Athletics I'd like to thank uh the Wayne Westland uh school board and uh this is incredible uh to uh basically

058uh invest in the future in in sports in in the youth uh we are investing in our youth and um in team building in resilience and um I'm really um excited to see what this brings to our future and hype really believes in all of you and uh please continue to do your work um continue to protect our children uh to the administrative staff to all the teachers day in and day out to the unson heroes that puts all this together uh your work and um I just want to thank you thank [Applause] you so with that are there any questions that you might have miss Ma yes uh thank you for the presentation and rather than a question uh Robbie if you would uh please extend to Mr SED our appreciation it is it

059is the school board that is grateful for hyp athletics and his work and I know it isn't just this this community that he gives back in but every Community he's in he's done an exceptional job I wish him great success and appreciate very much his partnership with our school district thank him on my behalf he's a great partner hype's a wonderful partner of ours absolutely Dr Weaver yes uh I just wanted to say thank you for all you do this is a wonderful program and U I had a question and I'm not sure this is a proper time but I'm just going to ask it do we have a separate insurance rider for our kids or should we have that's a great question Mr toes have covered on our policy our school district policy okay

060so there I'm talking about from any athlete from fourth grade to 12th grade that we have participated okay it's a umbrella um policy right okay I know that the question probably should be more for um juel who's not here at this point but I just from being involved in athletics and athletic recor and so the umbrella policy will cover all of our athletes in that situation they can buy individual insurance too that is that is on top of that but there's a umbrella for kids in our district okay I I was just wondering whether the insurance is only for school hours or uh most of our athletic events at the high school are after hours anyway so I believe that that policy would cover days and uh and hours outside of that I I don't

061want to be for sure on that one but I believe that would be the case because most of our athletic activities occur after school hours oh thank you yeah thank you Mrs hind yes I'd like to thank you guys for all that you do this is amazing when it comes to our young kids when it comes to fighting depression obesity so thank you hype so much even with Westland when we lost our Recreation Center so this is really nice to have the kids come out and I also like to thank hype as well because they help with our literacy with the Kanas they actually partner with us twice so with the school district and with the literacy program so thank you so much for all you do for our children thank you uh Mrs Abney

062Mitchell and then Mr ran I would also like to say thank you to H for all that you do and to the ladies I would like to say thank you I've been there on a couple of Saturdays and one of the things that impressed me is once said when I was there is to have a high schooler being the referee that was really very impressive and thank you for what you do ladies and thank you hype and keep on doing it you going to have to let that check go though still got check all right thank you Mr I want to Echo the rest of the board thank you I have the opportunity to uh a few games and truly it was it was great I saw uh parents grandparents great grandparents come out stands

063were full um I came to one game and stayed for another game it was just fun to see um quick question uh as far as the the coaches are we looking into ask asking some of the student athletes to be coaches uh just to keep that pipeline going that District um we we have had in the past and that is something so the employees are right now the coaches some of them have taken on quote unquote student interns maybe students that they're working with or something and had them come help students can't be in charge of students though so they would have to work through that adult coach but yeah that's a great Point great yeah we' worked with them with as being referees yeah great great good to hear but again great program I

064haven't seen anything like this in any other District so great job we're unique thank you so much and please make make it out to next next two Saturdays now we'd like to take just a second to get a picture with Robbie and Mr Toco and Miss May down in front with the check if that's okay it's a good thing they sent their good thing they sent their most handsome guy [Music] I I just want to see him get a check to somebody cuz he still got it come on J go down there go here I really think he truly did all did all the work on that one he deserves that listen Jenny said and sh are you depositing that check right now is that what you're doing take a couple more [Music] [Applause] thank

065you thank you oh he thank you extend our appreciation I think it is yeah have to watch the hambur thank you for that Mr Toco thank you so much do you have another presentation I the B uh tonight we're going to do uh two meetings ago in December we did basically our celebration from our bond uh that started in 2018 tonight is going to be a kickoff or a tease for our bond that's coming in November so we'll be asking the community to come out and vote um for our bond uh one thing that I really want to uh Express in this um before we start the presentation is that this is a zero uh increase bond to the community so there'll be zero cost to the community when we come and we there'll be

066a marketing campaign that's going to start as of today as we move forward but we'll be pushing out um more of our marketing materials for the Bond as we move forward um tonight we have um Bill and Gail um from TMP and we have Doug Underwood from uh from McCarthy Smith that will be talking about the bond um talking about some of the um job or um things that will be doing to our buildings in regards to things that we did not get done um in the previous Bond and the focus of our bond moving into it is going to be warm safe and dry buildings um our focus is also Al um based on needs um based on the number that we'll be working with this uh bond that will be coming in November

067will be based on the needs of the district to our buildings uh the the gentleman and Gail who was speaking tonight have been working on this for over a year in regards to figuring out where we were at with the previous Bond and what we need to work uh what needs to be done within the district to our buildings and the next Bond so most of the the projects that we were unable to complete that would focus on warm safe and dry will be addressed in this next Bond um for I talk too much I'm going to let them get um started on their presentation for tonight well good evening um it's could to be back after a couple months um so tonight as as Scott kind of talked about just wanted to give you

068guys a quick update of what we've been doing really over the last year year and a half um in and must be on auto play or whatever but anyway there were a group of us um Wayne wesland the facilities group Technology Group TMP architecture and ourselves that um kind of set out to begin assessing facilities the condition of the facilities not so much the condition of the facilities themselves but things that were nearing the end of their useful life within the buildings or on the envelope of the buildings so I don't know why that keeps doing that but anyway um a lot of what we were looking at um again really came down to what's the use life of some of the components that are still in the buildings that have not been touched or

069renovated um within the last you know couple bonds um so may just be a talk through um so one of the the second bullet there there were some buildings uh I.E this particular building Walker winter uh Elementary School the Wayne wesland Innovative academy uh buildings and grounds and the transportation building that were not touched as part of the 2018 Bond um that especially at Wayne Walker or I'm sorry Walker winter Elementary School we will be going through to give that building kind of the same touch and love that all the other elementary schools within the uh in the within the district got in this last Bond again uh you're just kind of seeing this stuff go through but we looked at HVAC equipment that was on the end of its useful life um roofs parking

070lots classroom Furniture uh technology equipment and some of the upgrade of of devices that have been purchased uh even earlier than the 2018 but also in the in the 2018 bond that um maybe hadn't been tough so again as Mr Toco said it was really um kind of assessing these the the facilities from a warm safe and um uh secure uh atmosphere type thing when we went to to look at these um so our findings you know and where we're at right now and we are really still in the discovery phase of putting this together we've uh put some ass Associated kind of cost together just to get an idea of where we're where we're sitting we're around7 million again what does that mean that doesn't mean a whole lot right now because again we

071are just now beginning to kind of explore this and as we get into uh talking with committees and and certainly staff and those types of things that number is going to that number is going to move around um and then this pie chart just kind of shows currently how that 117 million is is kind of being distributed and I'm assuming you guys have this in your packet so you can you can see uh the percentages for for each of the items there okay thank you well thank you president May for inviting us uh to the meeting tonight to talk about this and I'm going to take a just a little bit of a step back here because um I want to just show you what the kind of process for determining a bond program looks

072like I know you won't read this but the blue part is Discovery and as Doug mentioned we are um completing and and really are completed with our walkthroughs and identifying all the bricks and mortar kinds of upgrades but now we're heading into kind of that soft part where we really need to engage with staff to talk to them about kind of what's happening in the classroom so we're heading into the final stage of Discovery we are going to be conducting what are called aligned learning workshops with staff there are I think four different uh workshops planned starting in a couple weeks heading through April where we will actually invite all staff to participate in these sessions where we're going to talk about trends in classroom furniture and and Technology what's going on in that classroom

073and how can these items support better support teachers to make students more successful so we're going to get feedback at these workshops about what works in their classroom what would they like to see different how can we provide more flexibility more kind of just just more ability for them to be successful with their students so those will be taking place in March and April this is just a flyer that uh we're sharing with staff to invite them to these sessions and we absolutely are going to encourage all of their voice to be heard at these sessions it's very interactive and the purpose is to gather this information get this feedback so that District leadership can really digest this and understand where they want Toe with the classroom Furniture component of of what they have identified

074as kind end of useful life items there once that is done May and June are really the months that the professional team will work with District leadership to hone in on that absolute Bond scope you know what is it that really comprises the scope of this Bond moving forward because at the board's approval we would then move into preparing the department of treasury's bond application and we have a date locked in with the state for June 11th so if the board approves the bond scope to move forward then we would be ready and prepared to meet with the state for um their approval on that uh Bond application obviously from there I mean there's a lot of legal and election things that happen but then we would move into the campaign phase and we would

075be working with the district to prepare a very robust communication package uh working with Jenny so that uh really the everyone in the community is educated these pieces that are shared on the screen were from the past Bond program where we really took care to to make sure that all community members would have different tools whether they were hard copy or digital to really digest this understand it um and have a place to learn about the benefits and features of the program yes thank you and are there any questions thank you Dr waver um question is to Doug I want to make sure that um because of crowds that we have had at our meetings I want to make sure that a new boardroom is part of this uh believe it or not there has

076been discussion yes oh I want more than discussion I hear you okay thank you thank you anyone else I can say one thing I I do want to reiterate that it will be a 0% increase to the community because that will be our focus and I I know as uh time moves on you're going to hear that um from me at least and from the people that were up there tonight um to make sure that's very clear to the community and then the warm safe and dry ass aspect of what we're looking at thanks thank thank you great job thank you thank [Applause] you next we are at 28725 citizens comments regarding agenda items do we have any forms thank you yes agenda items is this the only one okay uh GW front and World

077Way Memorial High School it was more about just the bond I know that they said that they came around and looked but I'm wondering if they're going to actually talk to teachers about the rooms that do leak or the windows that you see gaps between the actual brick and the Windows like if we pushed really hard some of the windows would fall out of the buildings because I can see the outside I'm not going to but I'm just saying like so I can't say that I've actually seen anybody in my room looking and I moved rooms this year so I know my old room leaked when it rained really hard so um and I know that we're talking about like student desk and things like that but what about teachers desk as well like we're

078sitting in the same seats so the teachers that sat in when I went to Wayne High 30 years ago so I understand that the students but teachers also need desk drawers at work like if your desk breaks you're lucky to find another one somewhere in the district or in the basement that might not be as broken as the one you're using right now so I'm just wondering if that's also part of that Bond so thank you thank you do we have any others all right okay seeing none others or no others we will move to 28825 consent agenda at this time I'm looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so move thank you Dr Weaver do we have support support thank you Mrs abne Mitchell discussion Mrs Hines will you please

079call roll yes uh Mr ran yes Miss Hines yes Dr Weaver yes Miss ABY Mitchell yes Mr Cox yes Mr rrose yes president May yes motion carried 7 thank you we are now at Agenda item 289 point2 five Board of Education committee reports Mr Ambrose the um finance committee meeting uh for uh February 13th uh 2025 was called to order at uh 5:31 with the following in attendance myself uh vice president uh Lana Mitchell our secretary uh Miss Melanie Hines uh interm superintendent Jennifer Curry uh our Chief Financial Officer juel CLA Mr Gino Montaine uh the director of Maintenance and operations and Miss Kim Mary our our board Administrative Assistant um after some brief remarks we heard from Mr montine uh he had two proposals that he wanted to present to the to this board

080meeting um the first one is the purchasing of lift and stairs for the high schools in order to be uh High School pools in order to be ADA Compliant uh he stated that there was a public bid opening on February 4th 2025 and he recommends that we purchase the equipment from barui Aquatics um for approximately $52,500 uh with funding coming from either the the bond and or syncing fund um the board members asked questions to Mr Montaine regarding the construction and the materials used for the lift and lift and stairs and the weight capacity uh he stated that the construction materials would be PVC and would consist the stairs and a handrail with a weight capacity of 400 lb and that it would should last 20 plus years uh the second thing he brought before

081us was the liquidating of school district Surplus equipment um Mr Montaine said that periodically the district will take obsolete or in need of M Equipment or uh equipment in need of major repairs to auction he discussed that they would like to send the the following to to auction um The District's old salt truck um that was recently replaced and some old uh musical instruments from our District's instrumental music program um the instrumental music program uh within the past few months have received some some new instruments and these ones are that we would be sending to auction some are playable some uh some will need some uh some repairing could be used for parts for another for another District um following Mr Montaine we heard from Miss Claire um about the state aid report uh the

082only state aid that we received this month uh was due to reimbursement for uh board training um there is also some other funds from the state coming for uh reimbursement to some of our staff who have paid into a fund for health care after retirement um that'll be uh the payments were made in March and October from from our uh District members and the district will be refunding that money to them uh the investment report Miss clear stated that the uh fund at the time was just over uh 57 million um that's down about a million from from last month uh that was expected uh and the interest rate was also dropped um it was uh 4.61% last month and it's now at 4.46 and she went over the check register um the district spent

083uh just under $6 million for the month the Jan anuary and some questions were asked about the expenditures uh following Miss CLA uh we moved to the comment section portion where Miss Curry thanked everyone for being flexible um for the finance committee meeting uh we moved the time uh from a special board meeting uh to an online session just for the committee because of the weather that we had uh come in that um Miss Abney Mitchell appreciated everyone's flexibility and working together uh Miss Hines thank Miss Curry for attending the recent Chamber of Commerce meeting and is looking forward to the partnership between between the Chamber of Commerce and the school district uh I thank Miss Curry for her uh community events that she's held um I also stated that um I'm not a fan

084of using online meetings for the finance committee um and using the online meetings should be an exception and not the rule um and my goals as Treasurer and being in charge of the finance committee is to provide some level of transparency to the public and as a committee we are going going to work on ways to uh to be more transparent because that is what we heard from from the voters the meeting was UN adjourned at 6 6 p.m. thank you are there any questions no thank you so much moving on to um agenda item 29.25 review and approval of business service and finance Mr Toco yes thank you uh based on the results of the public bid opening held on February 4th 2025 I'm requesting the board approval board's approval to per purchase two

085handicap lifts and stairs for the high school pools to ensure ADA compliance if approved the purchase will be issued to barzoni Aquatics and will not exceed $52,400 cents and will be charged to the bond or the sinking funds approval Mo you ready to call R because it was motion actor I mean Mr support yes I moov approval and you got support I think I know I'm waiting on Miss to call RW I'm sorry I was waiting on Miss Hines to call RW well I'm sorry is there discuss discussion yes I was moving I got a question can you repeat what you said about the LIF again it's going to be where it's going to be at Wayne Memorial and there's going to be one at both uh Wayne Memorial Pool and the John Glenn pool

086okay no I thought you said that it would be up under something oh no NOP it's it comes up uh it's kind of on the top of the surface and then it allows the individual to go into the water yeah I just didn't think I heard Wayne Memorial that's all yeah both of them any other discussion points all right sence will you please call Dr Weaver yes Mr rrose yes Miss Abney Mitchell yes yes Mr Cox yes Miss Hines yes Mr ran yes president May yes motion carries thank you Mr Toco moving on to the recommendation y I am requesting board approval to liquidate items from the district Surplus as discussed at the February finance committee meeting all proceeds from proceeds from this uh auction will be returned to the general fund motion so move

087support discussion if not hearing any Mrs H will you please call RA Miss ABY Mitchell yes Mr umbros yes Miss Hines yes Mr ran yes Dr Weaver yes Mr Cox yes and president May yes motion carries 70 thank you our next item is 29125 review and approval of curriculum instruction and assessment items Mrs Curry thank you I recommend the board approve the 15 day virtual learning instruction day plan under MCL 388.13 2 which allows school districts to utilize virtual instruction for up to 15 days within a school year under specific circumstances move approval support so we have approval and support discussion Mrs Hines will you please call roll Mr Cox yes Miss Hines yes Miss ABY Mitchell yes Mr ran yes Mr Ambrose yes Dr Weaver yes president May yes motion carries 70 thank you

088next on the agenda item 29225 Michigan Association of school boards board of directors everyone received a packet from both Mrs murky and Cheryl Huffman from masb looking for a nomination for the board of directors for ASB from the packet that we received would you all like to have a discussion in regards to that we nominate somebody yeah okay well I would like to nominate Dr Anisha Anisha Hannon from hanac schools if there are no other recommend no other nominations what does she do of your scho right now she is there she's on the school board she is the school board president oh okay I'll second that nomination I support it thank you any discussion M SS will you please call roll Mr Rose yes Miss ABY Mitchell yes Miss hindes yes Mr ran yes Mr

089Cox yes Dr Weaver yes president May yes motion carries thank you our next item is 293 29 3.25 board committees um so there are two recommendations here the first one is to dissolve um the ad hoc property committee do we have a motion so moveed support support thank you discussion yes Dr Weaver I am against this motion as you know uh there are times when the property committee it's a lot of hurry up and wait but there are times when the property committee needs to get in there and um uh interact with u interact with the administration to move forward decisions that are on the timeline for that reason I am against dissolving this committee thank you any other discussion yes I would like to speak as well I'm against dissolving the ad hog committee

090um because it was pretty helpful when we decided to sell Marshall and again as Dr Weaver said certain things we need to do in a timely matter with the property committee so and especially with the bond stuff coming up and I think it would be a good idea to keep the committee as well any other discussion so I would like to just add that the reason why um I brought forth the motion is because our finance committee is actually call financing facilities and so keeping that in mind understanding that those properties can go through the finance committee there's been a lot of discussion about the number of committees that we have and people not being available to meet for those committees and so that was why I lifted this I just wanted to add that

091piece as to why it was lifted um because I made the motion uh I thought it was a good idea you want a property uh disposition committee you can establish one in Absolut a second it doesn't take any time at all and if you have a committee a standing committee even if they don't have business they have to meet you mean so I I don't care one way or the other though so I just don't I clean up the junk dra if you can there's no property right now that we're talking about so anyway and if we talk about any it's going to be brought forward to the board anyway whether there's a committee or not right for vote Yes yes any other discussion okay seeing none um M sence will you please call R

092Mr ran yes Miss Hines no Miss Abney Mitchell yes Dr Weaver no Mr Cox yes Mr Ambrose yes and president May yes okay one two three four yeses and two NOS thank you the next recommendation is to dissolve the ad hoc superintendent evaluation committee um pretty much the same well I'll leave it at that is your a motion so move support support thank you discussion so I I'll just add that this was another um committee that was a ad hoc committee under the circumstances every board member should be a part of the superintendent evaluation process and so that's why the recommendation is being brought forth to dissolve this ad hoc committee if there's no further discussion I will ask for Mr sence to call vote please yes Mr Co yes Miss ABY Mitchell yes Mr

093ran yes Mr rrose yes Dr Weaver yes Miss Hines yes president May yes motion carries thank you next um we have discussion around our standing board committees so just wanted to again for the sake of transparency um make sure that everyone was aware our community that we have two standing well actually three standing board committees finan and Facilities policies and procedures that also includes strategic planning and then our um student achievement committee which was just recently created and as of now Shannon is sorry Mr Roshan Shannon rosan is um chairing that committee and so with that I'm going to leave the floor open for any type of discussion that needs to take place and that committee will have another two members on it and I have I did ask Mr ran if I could be

094on that committee um and the reason why I asked is because I've always asked for this committee since I got on the board and so I would like to be a part of that um and so the there is opening for One More correct you have not selected your person okay there are no other no other discussion Mr ran is also on policy just so you know that so um we don't have another member that would like to be on the student achievement committee um I would like to join okay okay is Mr Ran's committee that's why I'm not saying anything please please come thank you all right so with that we will now move to item 29425 review and approval of human resource items Dr a Philly thank you president I'd like to make

095a recommendation to the board that Christine Doyle become the next assistant principal at John Glenn High School uh Miss Doyle comes to us with a bachelor's of science from Central Michigan University a masters of arts from Central Michigan University she holds a professional admin certification and um professional education C certificate she's previously held positions as a high school math teacher at Detroit Midtown Academy a middle school high school math teacher position at Crescent Academy in Southfield a high school math teacher position at Advanced Technical Academy in debor Michigan a high school math teacher position at Lincoln Park High School a high school math science teacher position at Crestwood high school and most recently she was an assistant principal at International technology um Academy in Pontiac Michigan and I'd like to make a recommendation that you

096become our next assistant principal at JN Glen thank you is there a motion so support discussion Dr Philly thank you for um having Mrs Doyle here this afternoon or this the early part of the evening for each of us to meet her um with that being said Mrs Hines will you please call roll Mr Rashad yes Miss Hines yes Miss ABY Mitchell yes Mr Ambrose yes Mr Cox yes Dr Weaver yes president May yes motion carries thank you we are now at item 29525 citizens comments on non agenda items do we have any you can hand them to Dr wer no pass down please thank you thank you Miss Jennifer day hi my name is Jennifer um I'm a previous Wayne High student class of 2003 um I'm here to represent um Melinda's daughter Elanor

097Chan who can not be here tonight she's smart as a whip she's six years old and Sh already knows how to spell her name uh her mom is Melinda Harris but she's actually a true shine through marriage and she said I'm here because so I could support my mom um my mom likes to support the teachers and my mom also loves kids um my mom is a hard worker this is a six-year-old myu uh thank you for helping my mom and I just want to add she advocated for me for about 20 years years and I just you know want to thank her for that thank you thank you thank you Melinda Harris do we have a thing that shows where the minutes start like City Hall I can't remember or do I just kind

098of you just tell me when I'm done I am going to tell you in one second there's not a timer up here so I'm going to set this timer really quick on the iPad here and you may start thank you my name is Melinda Harris I'm a long-term volunteer in the Wayne Westland school district my husband has also volunteered over the years we also participated in the parent policy meetings at stle Mayer had start when they had limited parents um needed to meet guidelines for funding three generations of my family have resided in the Westland community and we take immense pride in that my only sibling and brother Tom has been Afflicted with L Garrick's a crippling life-threatening disease he has also contributed to the community and gave 18 years of his life as a

099Westland police officer and Sergeant today I am here because I have had problems communicating with the school and the district last year was tough in the beginning of the year there were misunderstandings between myself and my children's school meetings were conducted and the end result was all was supposed to be well when the meetings subsided great things started happening with myself and the assistant principal he and I were working together on more in classroom parent volunteering for myself and other parents he even brainstormed an idea of a parent volunteer Friday he also impressed me when he took my suggestion to replace the kids snack cart with it had like junky foods with healthy food cart and he allowed me to bring in my healthy samples to show him unfortunately at the end of the year

100he was transferred and with the transfer went all our brainstorming and ideas for the future then I was back to Step One feeling alone and doing this by myself at the beginning of the school year I was out of state for a month tending to my brother as soon as I came back I was eager to volunteer and I put in my ey chat for the day after I returned I patiently waited for my ey chat to be emailed and returned by the district and it was never turned in sadly after this I was told upon other things that there were would be no volunteer opportunities for me this year at my son daughter's school and that they would think about it for next year going forward I tried the channels on the district website

101and it stopped at the director of Elementary level I was not giving any of the meetings I requested from the district I also feel from previous conversations from admin that when we are advocating for our children that some of our concerns as parents should be validated and not used against us as negative or a parent that is a nuisance here's a note for the teachers upon research using parent Volunteers in your classroom has many benefits it often outweigh the intimidation factor of hearing having a parent volunteer in the room typically admin should love when you have parents working as partners and can make a positive difference in your classroom conclusively there is nothing I would love more than to communicate to be heard to discuss all sides have peace have kindness love come back to

102me and my family during the family hardship of my brother being seriously ill I also care for everyone at the school I love all children I've always gone over and Beyond to avate kindness to children in the district I do want to let you know with these bonds that I've went out walking myself a few years ago promoting parents to pay the $6 on their taxes to promote remodeling in the schools I was out there actively doing that I got this award for volunte also got a certificate from Miss Paige and the teacher last June that is your time I'm sorry thank you thank you I did want to give praise to Mr ferker though he was the one that was helping me thank you thank you Kim K hi my name is Kim Katz

103I really can't say it better than she already said it I've been a volunteer um in different areas of Westland for the last 10 years I was born and raised here moved away for a while came back but um Melinda has always been one of my best friends I know her better than anybody and I know how much she cares how much she wants quit it she loves people she loves children she loves to make a difference she even um she has disabled children disabled adults help out at the church and she helps them learn she helps them in any way she can and I've seen her do a lot with the city with anybody that she can help she does um even with animals but um I know she wants to volunteer more at

104the school any way she can but if you guys give her a chance or I know it's not the board itself but uh that's all I have to say thank you we are now at item 26.25 interim superintendence report Mrs Curry thank you um we are very proud to announce that our district is one of 19 in Michigan to be awarded the future proud Michigan educator Explorer Grant the Mich M Department of Education allocated 625,000 in total and our district will receive $20,000 These funds will support teacher educator classes at Franklin and Stevenson Middle Schools providing our students with valuable hands-on experience working with younger children and inspiring them to explore teaching careers in their own Community um Second and secondly in in celebration of Black History Month students across the district are participating in

105activities such as Spirit Week readers and learning about historical black figures schools are sharing Community Resources to help families engage with local events and education materials classrooms are also incorporating discussion projects discussions projects and creative displays to highlight black leaders achievements and cultural contributions we are making strong progress in recovering from our recent Cyber attack um most systems including the internet cameras copers printers phones faxing and badge access are now fully operational our investigation has not confirmed any compromise of student or staff data we have set up a cyber technology restoration Hub to keep our building administrators updated and we'll be working with an external cyber security firm to audit and strengthen our security systems and lastly since the fall the transportation department has made Staffing improvements we now have 52 drivers covering 50 routes

106two substitute drivers and two drivers training one is set to complete training by the first week of March and the other next week additionally there are 23 attendants assigned to 22 routes and we are also going to be establishing a committee to work on other problem solving situations to make sure that we can get our kids to school thank you thank you Mr Cox oh I'm sorry I'm just jumping because obviously I'm tired I apologize we are now at 29725 review and recommendations Board of Ed Mr C thank I'm moving I have nothing tonight thank you Dr Weaver uh yes thank you madam president out of some of our discussion earlier in the uh closed session I would just like to say to the other members of the board that I believe it important that

107this board elect Mrs Curry our superintendent as our next superintendent so that we can give her a fair evaluation of the job that is actually hers uh interim suggests short term and I would like to say to this board if we want a boardroom full of people uh with pitchforks and everything else uh the I think the worst thing that we could do is to think about a social or a superintendent search and I believe in the next month or two that we should award her the job thank [Applause] you thank you Mrs H yes I'd like to thank the students that did the Pledge of Allegiance I'd like to congratulate our new principal um also I'd like to congratulate all of our wonderful teams in Wayne Westland our sports teams um the I think

108they had like the basketball team the bowling this I'm just really super excited about our teams that we've been doing I'd like to um also thank Jen for doing those Community conversations um I've been in on the board almost like 12 years that's the first time we actually had like an event like out in Canton so it's really nice for her like really going out to different communities and being more active so I definitely um appreciate appreciate that and I want to also say that I am proud of what you've been doing um as you stepped into this role I ifan you put out a lot of fires with the $17 million then we had the Cyber attack then we had the teacher contracts I mean it's been so I'm really really impressed and thank

109you for just you know holding this this this school district together we definitely appreciate that um I also like to say um I was really excited that you guys came to the uh Wayne city manager luncheon and what I like to do is build communities like build Partnerships and relationships those was really good of having Way West in there we had like local 900 we had some people that wanted to partner with like smart dorsy College just different organizations that really want to partner with the school district and even they can help us with additional funds you know different programs so you know even when it comes to career paths that's one thing I like about working with the chamber is that we can um you know put these different businesses with these students and

110give them other opportunities so that's a really good thing there um I was able to go to the mdp convention Saturday over um in Detroit and um and we was working with like our labor unions you know with our staff our mea um because a lot of things going on nationally so just you know getting that support um I was also able to get elected to be on the Executive Board of the congressional district and on State Central Committee so the nice thing about having those relationships is having those relationship with our politicians and like when we have our legislative lunches and our breakfast you know that's how we get our funds is how we get bills made we work with our lobbyists to kind of get some of our needs to Lance in so

111it was nice being able to go to that over the weekend um and tomorrow um we have the way Westland Kanas Club we're actually meeting at the Westland library at 12 o'clock so we meet on the second Tuesdays of the month and then the last Tuesdays of the month and that helps with the literacy because we have an issue with you know children reading so this is a really good program and we have a lot of volunteers we have a group over at John Glenn High School the Key Club so a group has sponsored for the kids we have like I think 30 something members over at the high school so we're working working on different literacy programs and then I was able to partner with the Michigan Small Business Development Center and I want

112to get this out to the community we're doing free classes we start to start small businesses um so the first one is going to be Thursday March the 20th 2025 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Wayne library and this is going to be the one to start a business and I'll get the Flyers out and it's for all the families in the district anybody who wants to start a family is free of charge these programs that they have with the Small Business Development Center and then the next one's going to be Thursday April the 10th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and it's how to form a LLC at the Wayne Public Library from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. so this is something good even our students anybody can come it's like no age limit and

113it could be something like entrepreneurship type thing for free at the library so we'll definitely get those out and I think that's it if you want to start a family who do you what you [Laughter] do I think she meant to say Mr rashan I was going to say because we get paid by the student so just saying if that's something you want to do go for it I just want to thank the staff and the um administrators and the volunteers for all the hard work you guys been doing um and also hype Jim again I think it's going to take us to Foster Community Partnerships to really grow the district to where we want to go um I also look forward to chairing the student achievement committee um there are a few things I

114really want to key in on with the student achievement committee um one is uh curriculum development enhancement uh another is datadriven decision making and uh third thing is uh professional development for Ed for our Educators so I look forward to doing that and growing our district and improving our district thank you Mr Ambrose I want to Echo Mr osan's uh comments about those who are volunteering in our district thank you few weeks ago a few of us had the opportunity to attend the champions of Wayne banquet these are are students who are working with with mentors some of them are teachers and some of them are members of the community who give up their time to help these students set goals and to help them work towards accomplishing those goals the parents who volunteer on

115the sports program we we heard about tonight the small acts of that make a difference thank you thank you Mrs Abney Mitchell yes I would first like to thank the students stud from um Roseville um mcro for seeing the pledge and they um principal for his presentation um and I would also like to say thank you to we had the opportunity to Scouts um inspired iner over the weekend um two 499 hosted a event for inspir iner troops which is tro um 204 I mean I'm sorry 2024 and um Sarah um um hug is in charge of the um um Club scouts at David hick so the troop um $499 they hosted a event for our troops over the weekend where they taught them about cooking building a campfire pitching a tent um roasting marshmallows

116it was a very nice event and um our students was happy and they appreciate being able to go they went on the bus free of Transportation um Sarah is really working hard with this troop um um 2024 and iner inspired um they have free swimming lessons during the week um it's a whole lot of opportunities that she was able to get um for our students and um it's very appreciative I think um she started off with maybe about a handful of um Club Scouts they was here in January and I think they up to almost um 83 now so it's a blessing for the students in iner to be able to go out and learn how to swim for free and you know and um just like um Andrew and uh R just said Shannon

117said we had to have volunteers cuz the volunteers is our meet here you know it get things done I volunteer in a whole lot of programs with my grand kids through the school district but volunteering is very important and I just want to thank that troop um they were senior citizens and you know know you like senior citizens volunteer but to host us on the Saturday they didn't have to do that so I'm very appreciative and they a free bus ride so that was very nice for us that's all I have thank you thank you everyone for your comments I would like to um thank our students gura and meline for leading Us in the pledge this evening I also like to thank everyone for all of the presentations and the volunteers supporting our District

118programming we have many great things that are happening in our district I had the pleasure of attending the Glenn Hall of Fame induction ceremony I do appreciate that invite and it was my little sidebar I had the opportunity to see Mr Buckaloo and everybody knows how I love Mr Buckaloo so that just made my day um I also attended the Wayne High student achievement banquet where over 200 Scholars receive checks for meeting their academic and or social emotional learning goals so again as I said we have some phenomenal things happening in our district I'd also like to thank Miss Mrs Curry and her team for the lovely evening at the um Community engagement dinner that took place in Canton in Canton it was a um great casual way for families to learn more about the

119district to ask questions and to make suggestions to keep the district moving forward and on a side note dinner was delicious so I strongly encourage our families to come out to the next one which is taking place on Thursday um I also just wanted to share another little side note this weekend I had the pleasure of attending the U ofm um gymnastics meet against UCLA and I quickly learned that we had a Glenn graduate that is a phenomenal gymnast on the um U ofm team so just outstanding to see her perform and did not know when they announced she was from Westland I was like in the program looking and I'm like she's a GL graduate yay so just wanted to share that um her name is Paige Daxton it's very exciting and finally this

120evening the board completed the midyear progress check-in with Mrs Curry and I'm happy to share that we are pleased with the progress the district is making on the two established goals for the year the first goal is to enhance transparent communication and strengthen relationships between families schools and communities the second goal is by 2025 all teachers will provide evidence of Competency and implementation of MD's liter literacy Essentials that's for prek through 5 and disciplinary literacy in grades 6 through 12 as measured by 612 surveys classroom observations and data conversations and K5 will be measured by foundational skill and nwaa data we concluded the meeting by adding a third midyear goal around improving our supports and getting our students to school so we know that we have some issues with transportation we would like to take

121a look at how we can improve that so we've added that as a goal as a board um to Mrs Curry and she was very excited to take that on and to work collaboratively to um work on that and so with that I would like to entertain a motion for an adjournment yeah no we're not I did but 29 sorry I'm moving fast I apologize you guys let me slow it down we do have another item 29825 which is the followup to Board of Ed questions so do we have any that we need to share out uh we can share out one about the bond and Mr Toco feel free to chime in I know Gwen when you mentioned um teacher um Furniture I think we look at that like technology right when we all

122got technology teachers got technology too so when we say classroom Furniture we mean all furniture in the classroom is that correct yeah we're we're in if I if I can Scott in the handout that we received tonight there a little card here and it says you are invited classrooms of the future this is the staff engagement session I was going to hand this to you before we left we're in I'm not trying to so so you're you're going to have the opportunity they've already they've already yeah we're in the discovery stage of this in regards to uh projects and why I said warm safe and dry is because that is will be our focus in regards to we're moving forward and I wanted to be very clear with that but um just to your questions

123we're going to be reaching out um like Mr Cox said to staff so we're kind of in the Discover like I that's where we're at we're in the discovery uh part of this process um and then one other D I know that at the last month's meeting someone was asking about AP classes so we are um looking at our offerings for advanced placements and dual enrollment and working with individuals to make sure that we can give them classes that they need which doesn't not necessarily mean we can offer every single AP class but we can at least list them see what's available and then depending on the enrollment in those determine which ones we run so thank you than you now I'm at 29925 a j all in favor you have support and then support

124support and all in favor