February 25, 2026 - Regular Board Meeting

001Good evening and welcome to the school board meeting. We're going to start it at call to order at 7 p.m. If we all could rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag >> allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, Mr. Vincentelli call with roll call, please. >> Yes. Uh, Miss Knox >> here. >> Mr. Sunnyberger >> here. >> Mr. Venitelli is here. Miss Burkmeer >> here. >> Mr. Cobert >> here. >> Uh, Mr. Powers >> here. >> Mr. Richards >> here. Everyone is here. Everyone's here. All right. Uh, next item, the OLA Office for a new uh, member elect Ryan Cobert. Come to the front. >> I Ryan to

002support the Constitution of the United States. support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State >> and the Constitution of this state. >> The duties of the office of trustee >> and faithfully execute the duties of the office of trustee >> in and for the school district of Anchor Bay and for the school district of Anchor Bay. >> State of Michigan. Thank you. All right. Uh, next up is our student board. Uh, representative I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next up, would any like to make a motion for the approval of the agenda? >> Some moved. >> Great. Motion by Miss Benro. >> Discussion. >> Sorry. Any discussion on the agenda? >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh motion Miss Knox. >> Yes. >> Mr. uh

003Mr. Covert. >> Yes. >> Uh Mr. Sunnyberger. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ventelli? Yes. Miss Burk Meer? >> Yes. >> Mr. Powers? >> Yes. Mr. Richards? >> Yes. >> All right. Motion passes. >> All right. Next, the stu uh student board representative update uh by Madison. >> Thank you. Good evening, members of the board of education and superintendent Janowski. I have the following building updates to share with you this evening. All of the elementary fourth grade students took a trip to the high school for a band performance. Last week, the middle school band students visited the high school as well to work with high school band students to improve their technique. Both middle schools held a staff and student dodgeball tournament. At North a sixth grade team won and at South an eighth grade team won.

004At Lighthouse, the no so blanket drive ends on February 27th. The class with the most donation will be getting donuts. The book fair is this week and student council is planning a door decorating contest for classrooms for March's reading month. At Lahi, yesterday the fourth grade students held a musical concert. The students are adopting a zoo animal. Students are currently voting for what type of animal they would like to adopt. At Great Oaks, the green team hosted a popcorn day fundraiser with the proceeds going to help endangered animals. The student council is hosting a sucker sale at lunchtime to raise money for an end of the year trip for student council and the green team. Student council is also currently collecting baby items to be donated to Turning Point. At Macants, there will be a

005schoolwide popcorn day this Friday. Popcorn will be sold for $1 per bag. March's reading month is this and this year's theme will be the rodeo. By reading, students can earn tickets to a baseball game at UWM Field, formerly known as Jimmy John's Field. There will be a rodeo themed school dance in March. At Ashley, the science fair and math game night was held last night. The student council is hosting a sucker sale to raise money for a schoolwide event. The sale will continue until the supply of suckers is depleted. At Nulit, February 11th was the annual glow stick walk-athon schoolwide fundraiser. On February 12th, a raffle was held for themed prize baskets. Students who participated and raised the most money were entered into the raffle. An annual Smeencil sale is coming. Smelsils will be sold

006for $2 each. This year, students can also purchase a smelly jelly for a dollar. A smelly jelly is scented, twistable, and washable gel crayon coloring sticks. March's reading month theme will be reach for the gold, which is Olympic reading. At Middle School North, the kids heart challenge is finishing up this week. The class who raises the most money will receive a special prize. Students from the high school came at lunchtime to demonstrate CPR, and the middle school students were provided an opportunity to try it out using dummies. Starbase's final visit is February 27th. On February 26th, JOTC is going to take over all the physical education classes. On February 6th, a rock, paper, scissors contest was held for staff and Mrs. Trob won. Candygrams were sold February 2nd through February 12th and delivered on February

00713th. And last night, a high school orientation meeting was held for incoming 9th graders at the high school. The recent charity week raised $1,800 which was donated to the National Down Syndrome Society. The mock trial competition is the second week in March and will be held at the Circuit Court in Mount Clemens. DECA and BPA both have state competitions in the coming weeks. Tomorrow evening is the annual night at the Oscars. Doors open at 6:30 and the event starts at 7:00. The student council competed in a state conference last week and earned an exceptional service award and a star service star school award. March 3rd is the scholarship basketball game. Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be a 50-50 raffle, a bake sale, and a half court shot raffle. The game starts at 7.

008The Spanish three students visited kindergarten classrooms and completed many lessons with the students as well. That is all I have for you. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you. All right. Next item is going to be a budget update presentation. Uh good evening board. So I'm going to just move this over so I can see everyone. Um this evening we are presenting uh an amendment to our original budget. As you most of you are keenly aware, we're required to um pass a budget um by June 30th for the following school year. Uh we did that back in June of 2025 and now we are bringing an amendment to that budget to you today. So, um, I'd like to kind of Tim, if you can pull that up, just kind of walk you through what you're looking

009at here. Okay, there we go. So, in the I I believe you have this as well in front of you, but um the in the first column uh is the amended or I'm sorry, the audited uh numbers from the prior school year. The next column is our original budget that we passed back in June of 2025. And in the third column that is highlighted in yellow, that is the proposed budget and the proposed changes um are in that final column, the variance. And so, uh, what I plan to do this evening is kind of proceed through all of the changes and talk to you a little bit about, uh, what precipitated those changes. Um, if there are questions along the way, I'm happy to take those questions as we go or you can save them

010to the end. Your preference. All right. So, uh, we'll start in at the top and I'll I'll focus mainly on that fourth column of the variances and kind of speak to what those variances, why those occurred and and what is the uh underlying uh reason for those changes. So, you can see for our local uh we initially budgeted about 8.3 $8.4 million. We're now budgeting a little over $8.8 million. That's an increase of about 458,000. Um that increase is primarily due to two items. Uh we had an increase in our local property taxes which is uh the largest part of that. And we also got good news recently that um we have been approved for the discovery summer grant. So we are picking up a portion of that anticipating that um we'll receive some of

011that funding in June of this year. So um that is the variance for that. The next line item is state sources. You can see there a fairly large increase of about $2.2 million. I know Phil's touched on this in the past um in the in prior years, couple years ago, you know, a lot of our categoricals came out by November, and we we really had a pretty good idea of what we were going to get by November. Unfortunately, because of the delays in the state budget this year and because of um some delays at MDE, much like last year, we're continuing to receive categoricals into January, February, um and and we'll be looking at a few more here probably in March and April. So, um those continue to change, but the changes that we've had

012to date, um that $2.2 $2 million. A large part of that is our 27L category categorical that we got. Um that is educator compensation. I think we've had some conversations about that. That will be essentially bonus money that we negotiate with all of our groups um to be handed out to our uh day-to-day educators. Um we also have 35M and and 35N. Those are both competitive grants that we applied for and were successful in getting. Uh 35M was a little over 500,000. 35N is 157,000. And that's one thing I again I know Phil's touched on this, but we're we're being very aggressive in going after all of that funding uh so that we're able to have those kind of increases. Um we also had a special ed increase and we've talked a little bit about

013that, but I want to touch on that again. So, in the past, we received a significant grant through the ISD that was federal money. Um, we made a change about a year ago where we swapped that out. So, we're getting the same amount of money, but instead of it being federal money, it's local tax money. So, that has an impact for us though in terms of how much we get reimbursed by the state of Michigan. So, there's an increase there. And then we also had an increase in our UAL reimbursement. So, um, and those are the items that primarily make up that $2.2 million change. Um, there are probably a hundred different line items that go into that number, but those are the significant changes. As far as federal sources, we can see uh an

014increase of about 824,000. Um, those are that's primary primarily attributed to two grants. uh our filter first grant which is the clean water and the bottle fill. Um and then also the EPA grant for our electric buses. The final one I'll talk about is the other sources and that'll uh be the end of the revenue, but that increased by about 440,000 and that's really part of that special ed pass through money that we talked about. So, we're getting more money from the from the local MISD and that's where we record that through that other sources and transfers. So, you can see there good news increase of almost $4 million on the revenue side. As we move down, you'll see expenditures. The first expenditure we'll talk about a little bit is instruction. That is really um

015all expenditures focused around the classroom. So it could include teachers, parapros, supplies inside the classroom, all those kind of folks. Um, and the majority of the change there is that 27 L categorical that we talked about. So we're getting extra money from the state. We've got to spend that money in order to recognize the revenue. So it's money in, money out. It's it's there's no profitability on that. It's it's just uh a one forone exchange. So, we're picking up that that cost. That's about 788,000 in that category. We also have some special ed increases of about $463,000 in salaries and benefits. Um, and that's really kind of coming out of um the uh moving it out of certain grants and back into the general fund. Um, and then the final thing we have is we

016have about uh $123,000 worth of instructional supplies and instructional software that we've purchased this year um that we're adding to the budget. So that's about um the $1.37 million increase there. Um I won't touch on every one of these but uh for support services for pupil. So we've added a a little bit of itinerant staff we added one position. Um the health care that always varies a little bit because we don't necessarily know in June what our health care care is going to increase. Um but um we also had a few people make an election to get health instead of taking the um inloop cash uh alternative. So that's part of the increase there. And then uh the retirement and FICA of about 147,000 for support services for staff. Uh again, a lot of the

017grant money flowing through there. So our 35M which is primarily for ELLL is going to run through that particular cate uh through that function I should say. Secondary instructional coaches. So, we've added at the we've always had instructional coaches at the elementary. We've started to add those at the secondary now as well. So, uh we've got some additional costs related to that. And then of course the benefits uh on top of those positions. Um kind of jumping down a little bit to um support services. You can see there that um I'm sorry, operation and maintenance, we've got an increase of about $678,000 there. So, we've added a couple custodial positions. We've had some overtime um associated with that. And then we just have some utility increases um and uh we've got some miscellaneous operational supplies

018that we've added into the budget for this year. people transportation actually went down. Um and that's primarily a result of um we did have increases for bus drivers and so forth, but um we reclassified some of the costs associated with purchasing a few new buses into the bond because we had significant savings. So um once we transferred those costes costs, we've reduced our um expenditure amount in the general fund. And then finally, the other sources at the bottom there, you can see about a $563,000 increase. Um, we talked a little bit about this at the finance committee. Um, there was an issue when we did the budget load where it didn't technically load all of the coach's pay. Um, we're not sure why that happened. Um, so, uh, that was about a $350,000 issue, uh,

019that we've now identified and corrected with this amendment. Um, and so that's the majority of that. So, you can see there that, um, we're coming down and that's an increase overall of about $2.8 million to the original budget. So um we are looking at uh total expenditures this year of about 84,365 84 million sorry 365,000. Um we are looking at uh a slight loss at this point I think that's pretty conservative. Um if I had to uh say by the end of the year I think I think we will probably be at least break even maybe a little bit profitable. But um we're taking the conservative approach as we always do and we're looking at about a $219,000 um loss in terms of the revenue over expenditures. The good news is we have a fund

020balance of about $15.8 million. And I'm speaking specifically to the unassigned portion. Um that would leave us with about $15.5 million in the unassigned and that's still about $18.45. four five% of our expenditures. So um in a good spot I think uh generally speaking I think um at the start of the year what were there felt three districts in Mcome County that had projected a positive amount. So um I feel pretty good about this. Um we have a change you can see there of about $540,000 but on 84 million you're talking just over half of 1%. So, um, I think we're pretty close, which makes me feel good about what we're presenting tonight. Again, the numbers will likely change, and we will come back to you in June of 2026 and ask you to provide

021not only the final amendment for this, but the original budget for the following school year. Any questions? I'd be happy to take. Did I hear you correctly that you we still don't know how all those salaries were were omitted? You don't know how that happened? >> We don't. Um, >> are we working on trying to find out? >> I I don't know quite honestly if we'll ever really know why that happened. Um, it was just a glitch in the system. I know that there was some work that was be being done in the HR department at the same time that we were budgeting. And so, we don't know if because those salaries were getting rolled over, schedules were getting rolled over, whether it was just a timing issue. I if I had to guess that's

022what I would say it is but um I couldn't tell you with any level of certainty that's exactly what happened. >> Are we going to add some manual check in the process to check that? I mean you know this is a relatively small group so it was >> only 350,000 but if it was a larger group it could have been a much bigger surprise. >> Absolutely. So yes that is a part of our process is where we go through and we literally look at every single line item through the whole thing. Um, again, I I'm at a little bit of a loss to try and explain that, but you know, we will redouble our efforts to make sure that doesn't happen again. >> All right. Um, I do have a question also. You mentioned the

023uh Discovery Summer Grant. Can you explain what that is? >> Yeah, so that's uh a grant that um Bill really helped spearhead. Um, we had an opportunity to work with the Balmer Foundation and the and the um township um on putting together a summer uh summer program. It's going to resemble in large part what we've done in the past. But the good news is uh rather than us having to charge any of our staff or use I'm sorry any of our students or their parents for the summer school and rather than having to dip into our general fund to offset the cost of summer school uh we will be receiving uh a grant for each of the students making this entirely free for our students next summer. Okay. Very cool. And that's through the Bulmer

024Foundation is is really who's >> and United Way. >> What's that? And United Way. Correct. You're right. Thank you. Any other questions? No. Thanks, Todd. >> All right. The next item is going to be uh the superintendent update. >> Okay. Tim will pull up my presentation and we are after a short break from the beginning of the year based on what the board approved with the next phase. We are beginning construction all over again. And again, this will be the largest probably the the largest phase of the bond overall. There's four buildings that'll be involved. We started at um at South. Next slide, please. So, just so you can kind of have an idea, um, we we kind of talked about it when the board approved it, but just so you have like a bird's

025eye view. Click one more time, Tim. So, this area that's in red, this is what um you'll see most of the pictures that you'll see of the the demolition that's going on that just started. Um and this will end up being we're consolidating the office areas and expanding it. So because we have um at South just the need the demand for support services and ancillary staff and places for them to work and also for security reasons because click one more time Tim the current office is the purple rectangle there and you can see as this is the pattern we're using with all of our buildings where if we're trying to improve sight lines so that they can see and monitor. So you can see on on this one it is the office is set back.

026You can't see the entire parking lot. You definitely cannot see the the north parking lot that's down by um the old shoreliner. So by moving to the red area we can now consolidate our ancillary services. There'll be some special ed classrooms and our counseling and the main office into that area. And this will start kind of a domino effect of we'll move some things. So, um, like the specialized classrooms are moving from one side of the hallway because when we redo the library and the media center, they'll be moved from there so we can expand that area and modernize it on par with what we've done at the high school. Um, click one more time. We are also taking on this green section. This is currently the counseling area and those are all interior classrooms,

027but this will now begin as part of the whole process of developing more career feeder courses. There'll be a school store, there'll be some business classes that will feed those programs, as well as we're going to um create some foreign language rooms that will be there. So, next slide. So, this is what it looks like from the main hallway. Now, you can see this is just north of the main office. You can see our school resource officer there, Mr. Wilson down at the other end. He's standing outside the main office. So that just to orient yourself in the building. So it's walled off and then behind it, they've already made a huge um progress on the demolition. Next slide. So this is what used to be the just the hallway with the exit out. That

028will now become the new secure entrance. Um and then on the right where you see it's kind of the supports. I'll have another picture of this next. That will be the counseling area. On the left side will be the main office area. So, this is the main office area that will be opened up and we're waiting on the steel right now. Once um kind of the weather and everything goes and they can get that in, then we'll have larger windows. They'll now be able to see both parking lots through all the offices and have a much better like sight line and a better kind of secured entrance where people they'll see them approaching the building. Next slide. This side is the will be the counseling area and we're again we're trying to preserve as much

029as we can. So they'll that'll be divided up in separate offices. They'll be the office area at the front. These temporary um structures are ultimately when the steel goes in there's that canopy you might recall from the previous board meeting that'll kind of be over the entrance um just really signifying this is where the main office is and so on. Next slide. Now this is this will be an adjoining classroom. Uh no this is the office side. So this will be um for the ancillary staff and so on. Next slide. This area will ultimately be for a special ed classroom and they'll they will have those there. So now those instead of people being scattered around the building, they'll one those special ed classrooms will be close to the main office and those people who

030provide those services will be right there. So they're not walking kids halfway across the building and so on to get through all of that. Next slide. Just another angle of the same classroom. Um where that's at. Next slide. And then the next thing we're going to touch on and we we have um Olive Corey and our partners from Centrics is this will be later on for the board approval is the energy bond. That's the other half of it. So remember when we talked about it that we're going to try and cover some things that we knew we couldn't necessarily get in the bond originally that we can kind of offset those through the the energy bond that we have. So what we're looking at here is the first wave. It's really two projects that we're

031kind of combining together because that's kind of how the offset will work. It's mainly lighting through the rest of the district and all that. And the the basic gist of this is by doing this now and we will be able to offset basically about $160,000 a year in electrical costs which we know those are gone up considerably. Next slide. So what you'll have is this is basically the bids that we have. So by going with the the lowest bidder on this which is the recommendation basically that 160,000 there'll be about a 10-year payback on that. And then the next slide is on boilers. So we had some boilers in the bond. Those are still planned for that, but the we know inflation's going. We're trying to stay ahead of that. We can pick up more

032of the boilers that um that we're worried about over the short term. And then between the two and the savings that we have, we'll be able to pay for both those within a 15-year time period. So it'll offset with the savings. Now, we didn't we know there's likely we will get um rebates that will go through this. We did we do this conservatively to for a break even on this without those rebates. So, any rebates that we get like you might remember the rebates that we received for the other work that we had. Um that will go back and it'll just shorten that payback period. So, if you have any questions, we do have Corey and we have um Ron and Kurt here. If you have any questions on this phase of it because we'll

033be asking you to approve this section later on. >> Can you go back a couple slides? >> Yes. Can we go back to >> uh a few more? >> Oh, wait. >> One more. That one. Oh, actually uh no, no, no. One more forward. >> Forward one. Oh, >> there you go. Perfect. Okay. Uh I see a lot of wires hanging from the ceiling. Are those electrical lines? >> Um most No, they these are all mostly data cables and things like that. All of the you can see the conduit on the walls that runs most of the >> So what is what is that hanging off the ceiling then? >> Um there most of them are probably like speaker wires that are coming from like the the classroom speakers that are in the ceilings or

034things like that. Mo their electrical does not run through the the platinum basically. >> Okay was making sure. Okay. >> Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. >> Is that is that the end of your update? >> Yes. >> Okay. I just have a question or Yes. So, I don't know if you're aware, but last night at at their board meeting, Chesterfield Township approved receiving 1.4 million through that that Balmer Foundation grant. I don't know if that had made its way to us yet. >> Based on what they discussed at their meeting, it sounds like there's going to be three sites that are used. Chesterfield Community Center, Raid Oaks Elementary, Middle School North. Um, it sounds like 75% uh of the students who go through this program are going to be in our buildings and we're

035providing meal services, busing, staffing, training for the enrichment programs. All the costs associated with that are being 100% offset by the grant. Yes. >> Correct. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Um, did I'm just curious. Did anybody from Chesterfield Township approach us to let let us know that they were doing this at the meeting and there was going to be a lot of celebration and amp and circumstance about this program and and telling the community about how amazing it is? Did were we approached to participate in sort of the the publicity part of it at their meeting last night? >> We didn't we weren't aware they're going to make such a pomp and and >> Okay. because it's it's I'm not gonna I don't mean to sound petty, but it's it's pretty frustrating. >> Like I

036get it. They're the fiduciary. They're actually getting the 1.4 million. They play they play a very important role in that. They're coordinating and organizing everything. They're taking the registrations. >> They're doing all the reporting, but like the real nuts and bolts of the program are we're we're critical to that because they can only handle 200 students. The rest of it they they couldn't do without us. And it's not >> it's not about taking credit. It's about just kind of being valued as as what our role is and our partnership in this. And there was a lot of glad Hanny and and back. You're amazing. No, you're amazing. Well, I may be amazing, but nobody's more amazing than you. Like, it was it was being laid on pretty thick. And it's it's fine. Like, it's an

037exciting thing and and there should be enthusiasm about it. But I I just feel like our role in this wasn't necessarily respectfully acknowledged. And that that that kind of annoys me. And um I don't know. I'm sorry for hijacking your superintendent. >> I mean, we we've worked with them very closely in order to develop and and the >> the if we would not qualify it on our own, right? >> It would have to go through them. >> That's so amazing. Like if I'm a taxpayer in Chesterfield or if I'm a taxpayer in Anchor Bay schools, >> you know, I send taxes to my township, I send taxes to my to my school district and then I see both of them coming together to collaborate on this amazing summer program that's going to enrich >> our

038students for the summer. Like that's something that we should be out there together celebrating to showcase to our community. And I feel like um we weren't really given the opportunity to stand side by side and and and and showcase our role in that. And it's I don't know. I don't like when we when we're disrespected like that. So that's all. >> I was just curious if they even reached out to let us know, but apparently they didn't. >> Yeah. They Well, basically like when anytime that we work with them, it's always who's going first, who's going to have it approved, where is it going to be? And since they're the fiduciary is really them, >> right? >> There isn't anything on our part of that. not like like you'll see with um part of the

039other thing we'll talk about it now is the um aquatic center lease to extend that. Okay. So there's always this discussion it's basically the same lease with the escalators. It's 2% a year going up. It's kind of timed with kind of the bond work because by that point we'll be at the point where we will be doing some overhauls with the um the pumps and the pool and all that stuff. So the pool will be down for a little bit, but again, we talk to them and then it's okay. You guys take it first and then if you're fine, then we'll take it to our board. And so that's kind of what happened. They let us know, hey, we're taking it for approval. That's fine. Okay. Thank you. >> All righty. Thank you. Uh, next

040item is a hearing of the public. Uh, surprisingly I don't have any of the sold out uh crowd tonight. So, I'm going to move on to the the next item. Uh, the next item is going to be a consent agenda. Items on the consent agenda are of reoccurring nature and are voted on in a single item. Any board member may request an item be removed without a vote of the board and it will be discussed and voted upon individually. Uh, the recommended action is that the board of education approve the consent agenda, minutes, and personnel report. Would anyone like to make a motion? >> I would, excuse me, I would like to um remove the personnel report for just some questions first, but we can move forward with I'll make a motion to approve the

041minutes, the finance report, and the bills payable. >> Okay. We have motion in the support. Is the motion to remove the item from? >> No, the item gets removed, but the motion is to approve the other three or do the we'll do the other separate >> motion by Miss Bner. Who supported? >> U Mr. >> Gbert. >> All right. And discussion. No other discussion. All right. So on this should we we're going to remove remove the personnel report and we're going to vote on that individually. >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. So go ahead and call the role. >> Uh Miss Burkemire. >> Yes. >> Uh Mr. Covert. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sunnyberger. >> Yes. >> Mr. Venantelli. Yes. Uh Mr. Powers. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richards? >> Yes. >> Miss Knox? >> Yes. >>

042Motion passes. >> All right. And now we're going to separate the personnel report. >> So my question with the personnel report is um I noticed we're hiring a new allotted bilingual supervisor. Um so I guess in none of the updates was I aware that this was a something we were in need of. But um so can you elaborate on that or >> Yeah, this was part of when we talked about there was a concern that the um actually Todd talked about it as well. Um this is I forget is it 35mm I believe. Um title three federal funding the concern was title three federal funding was going to go away. Title three basically covers your English language services and and um as I've been sharing, we were we were worried that it was going to

043go because typically the federal budgets approved a year in advance. So we knew we had a year before the next time it comes around. So we wanted to get out ahead of that because the other part of the federal requirement was we had to spin off the we're in a consortium with the ISD, but that had to go away as well. Um, so then the grant that we wrote for the state basically approves it's for this position and a tutor and so this is totally out of that grant in order to do that. So it's a grant funed position based off of that. >> So when we do that this is funded by the grant is there a time limit on that or is there >> Yeah. So basically Yeah. So it's we have two

044years for the first round of funding and then it'll qualify for up to three more years of funding and then so it's a grant funed position and then you basically we'll apply for it again and see >> if for some reason the grant disappears >> the position disappear >> position would disappear. Yes. Okay. Um, so also are we required to hire how many people um report to this or will report to this individual? >> It it'll right now it'll basically be two bilingual tutors. One that we currently have that we get through title three funding and then um the other one that'll come out of the grant as well. So I guess what is there a requirement like that it has to be this level be a supervisor or why would we not just hire

045more bilingual tutors or you know people that are directly working with the kids? >> Yeah the way that the grant was written was basically they would supervise the program we have to spin off away from so right now under the current title three consortium which is is being phased out the ISD provides that supervisor. So now we have to do that and we have to provide the supervisor and we have to provide the services and kind of make that up. Um and then the there's pros and cons to that. It's now that when we have a growing population of um ELLL students and the other side of that is because we're now on our own we can apply for more like there's title it's it's not title it's section 41 which we can apply for

046those grants directly instead of having to go through the ISD. typically they did that. Um so now we can kind of qualify for that as well directly because ultimately in about by within five years if the federal guidelines remain the same we have to spin off where we are providing services in grade bands. So it's K2 35 basic middle school and then high school. So you have to have at least one person at each of those grade bands and a supervisor for that as part of it >> but not for five year till five years from now. >> Yeah. So the the hope is if this grant goes along and we do that then we get the other one so that'll cover the cost over the five years as we build up towards that. So,

047I guess maybe I'm just not following, but I I just feel it seems like we would be better served to just have more tutors instead of using the money right now on supervision for only what what is only like two or three people reporting to this person. >> We we need to have our own direct supervisor and that was kind of part of the grant process. So, that's that's what was approved for from the state. I guess what what about the position or the ELLL process makes the state or whatever, you know, tell us that we need like a specific supervisor for these people. >> Well, it's just part of the the the grant process that they have. It's for it's for an innovative program in order to kind of pick that up. So, that's

048kind of how we structured it to to try and get the funding again because we thought Title 3 was going to go away. but we're still responsible to provide those services. And so then it was like okay normally like what we do now is we do reporting that and same thing with WEDA testing and all of that. Um that reporting we just give our information to the ISD then they have somebody that compiles all that does all of the the compliance for it and then sends that on as part of the consortium because they but now that's those are not that's not there anymore. that's going to be phased out. So, we won't have that supervisor. So, we have to have somebody who qualifies for that position that has a certification because even the tutors

049don't necessarily have the certification for it. Um, sometimes they just qualify because they have or oftentimes I would say they just qualify because they speak multiple languages. So, they can do that. So, then we have a certified person now who's going to take that and supervise them. >> Okay. Can will this person be working? I mean I I my understanding is we are in need of like some assistance with the bilingual services. Will this person do any work directly with kids? >> Yeah. Yeah. So they'll be they'll obviously that they'll probably do the weed of testing as well and um and then bring as we expand through all of that we'll um and and start moving towards those grade bands for services then it'll kind of build the entire program. >> Okay. Will we be

050hiring the next tutor for this school year also or is that >> Yeah, that the plan would be to to have it hired during this year. It's very hard to find like evenl it's hard to find people with ELLL certification that can do it. It's the the feds have always kick the can, kick the can, kick the can because you just can't find those. In fact, there's only I think two universities that even offer the certification. So, it's very difficult to find somebody who has that background. Any other questions? >> Has all the grant money already been dispersed or is this going to be like on a year basis? >> No. So they give us basically two years worth of funding and then so this will start and then that'll carry through next year and

051then at that point there's reports that you do and then you can qualify for the second phase. you only can qualify for the second phase obviously in the first phase and then and I think it's it's roughly like three times the amount that we got for this that would carry through the next three years. So now we have to make a motion to approve the personnel report separately. Okay. Would anyone like to make a motion to approve the personnel report? >> Second. Motion by Mr. Colbert, second by Mr. Powers. >> Um, we already had our discussion, so move on to uh calling the role. Mr. Covert, >> yes. >> Mr. Powers, >> yes. >> Miss uh Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Mr. Richards, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitelli, yes. Miss Burkemeer, >> no. >> Mr.

052Sunnyberger, >> yes. >> Motion passes. All right. Next on the agenda is new business. Uh the first item is going to be uh a budget amendment. Each year the state requires districts to set its budget by June 30th, which is often before the state sets its budget. Therefore, we periodically revise the budget to reflect state changes. The recommendation is that the board of education approve the general fund budget amendments for the 2025 2026 school year. Would anyone like to make that motion? So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Mr. Powers supported by Miss Knox. Any discussion? >> No. Can call the RO. >> Okay. Uh Mr. Powers. >> Yes. Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Mr. Venotelli, yes. Miss Burkemeer, >> yes. >> Mr. Richards, >> yes. >> Mr. Covert, >> yes. >>

053Mr. Sunnyberger, >> yes. >> Motion passes. Okay. Uh, next item is a New Baltimore lease agreement. The city of New Baltimore has approved the attached lease for the aquatic center and we are asking for the board of education approval of this lease agreement. The partnership between the city and the school has really worked well with regard to the aquatic center. We did add a 3% escalator to the lease and each year of the lease. The rent amount will increasingly will increase accordingly. All the other terms are the same as the board approved in the past. is is the recommendation of the administration that the board of approve this lease. The recommended action of the board of education approves the new Baltimore lease agreement that is as it is presented. Would anyone like to make that

054motion? >> I'll make the motion. >> Have a second. >> Motion by Mr. Powers, supported by Miss Knox. Any discussion? >> I do have just one quick question. So under the section repairs and maintenance, it describes the landlord, which is obviously us. >> Uh shall be responsible for all repairs and maintenance of major components of the premises, including structural, etc., etc. Um so I guess it's just a point of question. If we bring someone in from the city who's part of a club or whatever sort of circumstance, and they break something, is that individual liable? Is the city liable? Or are we just covering that cost? >> Well, as they're renting that, they would be liable for that depend. It really depends on the circumstances of the exact situation. Yeah. Okay. So, we're going to

055be the ones repairing it, but if we can basically prove that they caused a certain amount. >> Yeah. If it's negligence or things like that. Yes. >> Okay. Gotcha. >> Any other discussion? >> No. Call the roll. >> Okay. Mr. Powers. Yes. >> Miss Knox? >> Yes. >> Uh, Miss Burkemeer? >> Yes. Mr. Richards, >> yes. >> Mr. Covert, >> yes. >> Mr. Sunnyberg, >> yes. >> Mr. Venitelli's, yes. Motion passes. >> All right. Uh, the next item is a group of field trips. Uh, the first one is going to be a field trip for the BPA uh, state leadership conference. The high school BPA state leadership conference in Grand Let me step over. I'm sorry. The high school school BPA state leadership conference in Grand Rapids will be traveling with 17 students and three

056chaperons on March 12th through the 15th. The recommendation is that the board of education approve the BPA state leadership field trip to Grand Rapids from the 12th through the 15th taking 17 students with three chaperons. Would anyone like to make that motion? >> Support. All right. Uh motion by Miss Knox, support by Mr. Colbert. Any discussion? >> Just a point of curiosity. BPA stands for Business Professionals of America. What exactly are they going to be up to? >> Brandon, it's a it's sort of nobody here from DECA, but it's like DECA. So, it's kind of business presentations and things like that. Um it's just a different organization that does that. >> Okay, gotcha. Are they competing or is it just sort of like a informal? >> No, they are competing. So they go and it's

057the leadership. So there's some leadership components as well, but they also will um present for judges and things like that. >> There are they presenting sort of like a business plan or marketing approach. >> There's all sorts of different areas. So it could be marketing, it could be accounting, it could be things like that. >> Interesting. Dominic, just it I missed it the first time because it's in very small font, but at the bottom it says to have students demonstrate marketing skills, public speaking, IT events, and general business skills. So, thank you. >> Yeah, no problem. I general business skills. Very cool. Yeah, I like that. >> Okay. Any other discussion? >> No. Call the RO, please. >> Okay. Uh, Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Mr. Covert, >> yes. >> Miss I'm sorry. Uh, Mr.

058Powers. Yes, >> Mr. Richards. >> Yes, >> Mr. Sunnyberger. >> Yes, >> Mr. Venelli. Yes, Miss Burkmeer. >> Yeah. >> Motion passes. All right. Uh, next field trip is the HOSA state competition. The high school HOSA students will be traveling to Traverse City April 15th through the 18th for the state competition with 16 students and three chaperones. It is recommended that the state that the board of education approve the host state competition field trip from April 15th through the 18th, 2026. Would anyone like to make that motion? >> Motion by Mr. Sunnyburgger, supported by Miss Knox. Any discussion on the HOSA? Right. Call the RO, please. >> All right. Mr. Sunnyberger, >> yes. >> Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Mr. Richards, >> yes. >> Mr. Covert, >> yes. >> Uh, Mr. Venelli, yes. Miss Burke.

059>> Mr. Powers, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. Next field trip is a JOTC drill meet. Uh, Anker Bay AFJC will be traveling to Fort Wayne, Indiana for the Clanderon Clen Clanden Clanden. >> We'll try that one. Drill Me on March 6th through the 7th. They will be traveling with 10 students in two chaperones. It is recommended that the board of education approve that the junior ROC drill meet March 6th to the 7th in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Would anyone like to make that motion? support. >> Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Covert. Any uh any discussion? >> I just have one question. I don't recognize the staff member's name. Is did I miss that? >> Yeah, he's new, right? New uh new chair. >> Yeah. So, yeah, it's our our new second

060um instructor. Yeah. >> How do you say his name? >> Pelli. That was it. >> All right. Any other questions, discussion? All right. Go ahead and call a roll. >> Okay. Uh, Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Mr. Covert, >> yes. >> Mr. Richards, >> yes. >> Mr. Powers, >> yes. >> Miss Burke, >> yes. >> Mr. Vento, yes. Uh, Mr. Sunnyberger, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> Fantastic. All right. Next field trip, the DECA estate competition. The Michigan Decate Competition will be held at the Detroit Marriott on March 4th through the 7th, 2026, traveling with six chaperones and 60 students will be attending. The recommendation is that the board of education approve the DECAT competition field trip March 4th through the 7th, 2026 in Detroit. Would anyone like to make that motion? >> I'll make

061the motion. >> Second. All right. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Powers. Any discussion? Without hearing any, go and call the RO. >> Hey, Miss Knox. >> Yes. >> Mr. Powers. Yes. Miss Burkmire. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ventoy. Yes. Mr. Sunnyberger. >> Yes. Mr. Covert, >> yes. >> And Mr. Richards, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. Surprising. Another field trip. Uh, field trip for the ski and snowboard club. The ski and snowboard club will travel to Shanti Creek. answer that >> Greek >> Creek Greek resort with eight students, two chaperones on March 13th through the 15th. The recommendation is that the board of education approve the ski and snowboard club field trip on March 13th through the 17th at Shanti Creek Resort. Would anyone like to make that motion? >> I'll make

062the motion. All right. Motion by Mr. Powers, supported by Miss Knox. Any discussion. All right. Call the RO, please. >> Mr. Powers, yes. Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Miss Burkmire. >> Mr. Venitali? Yes. Mr. Richards? >> Yes. >> Mr. Covert? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sunnyberger? >> Yes. Motion passes. All right, last field trip. Uh, the field trip for MDOT Bridge Challenge State Competition. The Bridge Building Club's middle school and high school will travel to Grand Rapids on April 13th through the 14th, 2026 with 27 students and three chaperons for the M.Bridge Challenge State Competition. It is recommended that the board of education approve the M.Bridge bridge and challenge state competition field trip from the April 14th through the 17th, 2026 in Grand Rapids. Would anyone like to make that recommend that motion? >> I'll make

063that motion. >> I'll support. >> All right. Motion by Mr. Sunnyberger, supported by Mr. Colbert. Any discussion? without any gun caller roll, please. >> Okay. Mr. Sunnyberger, >> yes. >> Mr. Covert, >> yes. >> Uh, Mr. Ventosi, yes. Mr. Richards, >> yes. >> Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Uh, Mr. Powers, >> yes. Miss Burk Meer. Motion passes. All right. On to the next item. Uh the award recommendations. Uh the first award recommendation is for energy savings performance contract uh districtwide lighting improvement. The uh Anker Bay school district has accepted bids for the districtwide lighting improvements. We are recommending voluntary alternate 2 which includes alternate manufacturer which has met our bid specification. Alternate number two also includes dimming controls for classrooms, gyms, and cafeterias. It is expected that the district will save approximately $158,000 annually providing

064an anticipated 10-year payback on this project. We are recommending CI Engineering Solutions in the amount of 1,337 thou 1,337274,000. The Centrics fee for this project is $280,82754. owner held contingency 5% at 67 I'm sorry 66,863.70. It is recommended the board of education approve the total districtwide lighting improvements for1,684,965,00024. Would anyone like to make that motion? Yeah, I'll make that motion. >> I'll support. >> All right. Motion by Mr. Venitelli, supported by Mr. Covert. Any discussions? >> Uh, just a quick point of clarification. And the owner held conting contingency of 5% is $66,863.70,000. Just want to make sure I got that on the record. Um, but yeah, so this is a cost savings initiative. Is that correct? >> Okay. And uh something we've been kind of planning over the long haul to sort of help make

065costs more sustainable for the district over the uh long term. >> Yes, absolutely. And yeah, basically if you recall, we are part of that consortium where we are actually locked in for the first um it was 15 years of the the for electrical rates. Um so basically we're trying to to get efficiencies because we know that will pop up at the end. So that's where you're kind of seeing this this window that we're on. >> Okay. >> You said 15 years. Does that imply that our expected benefit for this program is 15 years? >> No, the it's payback is basically what we're looking at. >> Well, the payback's 10, but you you said there's a 15-year window to capture. So right now we're on we are because um I think it was two years ago

066that there they were expanding electrical capacity and they were doing so solar projects through my I forget what it stands for but um Todd can kind of help if you um so they were looking for people to to to sign up to get electrical service through this project that they were expanding and so we signed on a lot of districts signed on 5% 10% we said well if we can get 100% and be locked in at at that rate 15 cents per kilowatt hour I believe it is for 15 years so that so like the savings on this for the first 15 years are like actually constrained a little bit because of that but we know that those will pop up at the end of that time window as soon as that goes up it's

067going to go more so these projects are basically combined between that and the boilers, we're kind of getting the light the the lighting which will give us some savings, but over 15 years we'll get that and the additional boilers that we didn't have in the initial scope of the bond. So that's kind of the 15 year we're kind of up against that. Um if that makes sense. >> So this one works like these things always work in that, you know, we write a $1.6 million check. we have to put ours out today um in terms of expense and you know the the people who who tell us we should do this they get their money now the equipment manufacturers get their money now the contractors who do the installation get their money now and then

068we have to wait decades to recover our money it's 10 years from what I'm reading just to break even how many years beyond the 10 are we expected to get the efficiencies from this equipment and continue getting a $158,000 expected savings beyond the 10 years cuz 10 years just breaks us even like we're >> Brian maybe I can try and address that for you. >> Yeah. So these lights that we're putting in and um and talking about this evening the expected life on those are 25 years. So, um, you know, and then we would replace likely the LED light itself, not necessarily the fixture. So, um, this is really, I think the point Phil's trying to make is we're not going for the next 15 years, we're not going to see quite as much savings

069as we will likely see in the last 10 years of the life of the uh, lights that we're putting we're proposing here. Does that make sense? So our our rate will likely go from it's locked right now at 7 and a half% per or 7 and a half cents per kilowatt hour and that lock I think runs for about 13 more years >> and then at that point in time we we fully expect that we will come out from underneath that lock. our rate will come up to whatever market is at that point in time and for those remaining 10 years of life for this project um we will see substantial savings because the rates will be much higher than 7 12 or 7 12 cents per kilowatt hour >> and the the longevity of

070this equipment is expected to last that long. >> Yes. >> Is there any warranty or guarantee that it will last that long? >> I believe yes there is. Yes. >> So, year 15, the fixtures need to be replaced because they didn't last. We're we're getting that replaced at at no cost. >> That would be warrantied. Yes. >> Okay. >> Pardon me. >> I'm I'm happy to have uh our experts come up and talk to that as well. >> But it's very good questions. I'm Kurt Carter. Uh I'm your owner's rep on the project. Um, first I'd like to address the the point about the district shelling out all the money up front and the vendors getting paid. Um, it's actually funded through an energy bond. So, the district's borrowing the money, so you have annual

071payments or semiannual payments, and it's structured that the savings exceed the payments. So um the in in essence the district isn't waiting that long to it should have a positive cash flow throughout the project. Um the second thing is the the uh life of the equipment. The life of the lighting usually is 20 to 25 years. The boilers are longer. Um as uh Mr. Janowski uh pointed out um the the savings is smaller in the beginning because you have a fantastic rate on your on your solar that the district applied for. I mean, you're you're way ahead of everybody else. So, the the savings that we built into the project reflect your specific electric rates right now. If you had been on a rate like most other districts, you'd have seen that payback be a

072lot shorter. So the the the paybacks and the savings that you see do reflect your specific rates right now and the fact that you've got a contract to hold those flat uh for the next um 13 or 15 years. Um and then they then the savings go up. We also have uh this project has two other things in place. One is that um we have it's structured as a turnkey project so that if anything um isn't done right, you know, we have Centrics as our partner. They were the ones chosen. They have to make it right. So, we've got first of all, we've got a one-year guarantee on labor and materials there. So, anything goes wrong, design anything, that's on them. Um in addition to the the um uh the district uh contingency centrics um

073you know as we put everything together they have their own contingency in that if they screw up they have to pay for it. That doesn't come out of your contingency. That's that's embedded in their own. So, uh, that covers virtually anything unless the district just elects to have more rooms done or anything like that. And we even got line item pricing. So, if the district elects to have to not do an area or to change something, we can get those prices backed out uh, as well. So, I don't know if that I think I addressed everything, but if I didn't, please, please let me know. Oh, one more. there is a guarantee on the overall savings for the project. So we put together in fact we were working diligently uh and I expect to have

074the uh rest of the contract agreement back to the district probably tomorrow. We're waiting festivals to come to from Centrics tonight, but where we look over and make sure with your legal staff as well that the guarantee matches all the savings that are in there and then the measurement and verification techniques are also appropriate for each of the savings guarantees. So, at the end of the day, all the savings go into a pot and the measurement verification, various techniques depending on the building and what we're measuring, that all goes into the contract. And if the savings aren't there, then Centrics cuts a check back to the district for the shortfall. If >> this was to pass tonight, uh what is the scheduling looking like for these schools? Are we going to be is this a

075summertime? Um, okay. So, it's not going to affect >> mostly summertime except for the lighting. The lighting is something that can usually be done second shift. They'll do so many rooms at night. They have to have everything perfectly cleaned up before they leave. So, that's usually done uh after the students leave and then it's wrapped up usually by 10 or 11 12:00. Um, other other ECMs can be pulled ahead. Usually, some work can be done during breaks. Um, but the boiler work usually gets done during the summer. Uh, chiller work gets done in the winter. Um, right now we've split the boiler work up into three phases depending because of the amount of work to design all of it. We wanted to get started on it. So, we've got the first phase in front of

076you right now. We've got another phase with four more buildings um for u uh that will be that's out for RFP right now and we'll be doing a walk through buildings on Friday and have and our expectation is to have that in front of the board next month and then the following month to have the third phase on the buildings. We'll have to see on the third phase if those would be installed yet this summer. Most likely uh we'd be working that out for installation the following summer. Okay. And with the updates going on now at uh Middle School South, would this new lighting be installed with the new construction also? >> Yeah, I'll speak to that. So, that's that's been uh a coordination um effort on behalf of Centrics and Barton Mow um and

077and certainly Corey has been heavily involved in that. So, um, what we've kind of done in order to facilitate, um, getting the lighting done in all locations is for those areas that Barton Mallow's taking over, like Phil showed you earlier tonight, um, Barton Mow will be installing the lighting for that particular area. In areas that Barton Mallow is not necessarily taking over, Centrex will be installing um, at those locations. So, you know, we don't have any any work really going on at Lahi and Great Oaks in the next year. So, um that's where they'll be starting with those kind of buildings that are not necessarily um under construction with Bart Melo. >> So, this bid reflects the savings to Centrics versus Barton Melo. Then, >> it reflects the savings from the entire project. So, Barton

078Mallows and Centric's savings. All right. This may have been addressed in the past and I apologize if I forgotten this, but uh are there any going to be any changes in terms of the overall lumosity like the intensity of light coming out from these different lighting fixtures? >> I'm sorry, say that again. >> Is there going to be a difference in the amount of lighting, the brightness coming out of these lights when we change from one to the other >> from fluorescent to LED? Yes. >> Correct. Yeah. >> Yes. uh it should be the uh the lighting in the rooms is governed by uh a national standard. >> So the contract stipulates that those standards have to be followed and the standard actually varies for every single age range, >> a purpose, whether it's a

079gym, a cafeteria, a classroom, an art room, there's different standards, but those standards you've met now have to be maintained and followed. Um they do evaluate if there's any areas that are underlit or overlit. We do try to make corrections as we go and uh we don't want it to be so bright in an area because it's new and everybody says, "Oh my gosh, that's harsh." >> It's difficult or yeah >> likely or the other way that it's too dim. So we have state we do measurements as we go through before and after make sure it's appropriate. So, I think what Kurt's saying is once the lighting is done, there are standards that we will abide by. But I think if we're comparing, and correct me if I'm wrong, a fluorescent light to an LED

080light, the LED light will feel brighter. It'll it will provide more more brightness. I think that's what you're asking, but I don't >> Well, no. I just want to make sure it's The last thing I want is to install new lights and have it be too dim or like you mentioned, Kurt, too bright. Yeah. >> And we get complaints from the public or people who use the building that just you know sort of destroys the whole purpose of the project. >> Well, and I will mention all of the uh we are adding that dimmable capability as well. So >> they will be able to adjust the brightness. >> Okay. >> That that's just overwhelming response when we started doing the construction is people like the dimbo lights. So we did you can see the alternate

081we did add in the dimmer just because all the staff members they would they want to have dim lights. Okay. And I I have another um odd question if you will bear with me. Um the frequency of the intensity of the light. So it there's a difference between like a red light and a blue light. If you have a whiter blue light, it tends to over time make individuals stressed out, makes them feel like they're sort of in a I guess for lack of better terms, like a mental institution. Uh versus a warmer red light makes them feel a little bit more comfortable like they're at home. Are the uh frequency going to be comparable or in a sufficient way to not create undue stress with the different types of frequency? >> It should be

082optimized, so it should be the the best. Yeah. Um you're right. And when LEDs first came out, they were very harsh. They're very blue white. Uh and a lot of people complained about LEDs, but right now >> um LEDs are out that I would challenge you that unless you knew it was an LED, >> you wouldn't know it was an LED. And we've uh the districts that we've done projects in recently, we actually put in um we do test rooms first. >> So the district can see and can select the that's called color rendering index or temperature and gel for the lights so that they do they look orange or yellow white more like daylighting or do they look more blue white? And usually um we're looking for something that is very comfortable to the

083district and the district actually picks that out. So you don't really have anything to worry about in terms of gosh that's bright, that looks different. The district actually gets to select what they want. We do the test rooms. Um the areas that tend to be uh more blue white are areas like gymnasiums, especially like a high school one if you're doing competition. uh those are actually usually selected to be more blue white because they're better for uh broadcasting. >> Same same thing with art teachers. They always prefer that because they want to be able to on the color wheel they want to make sure that you can tell the difference between say like dark brown and black and and dark blue and so on. >> Okay, >> good questions. >> Thank you. I appreciate it.

084So when you say that the district is picking, is there a specific individual or is it based on the building based on the room who picks it? uh the district picks it. It's not really on a room by room basis. That would be overwhelming. You want to be able to standardize what's going in. So, what we usually do is we'll pick a couple of classrooms. >> Uh put those in, let the district, um you know, staff pick, usually it would be, you know, like Corey and if she has uh any other folks that she wants, but we'd be going in to see how does it look, what's the feel, what's the lighting level, and the energy savings. And then, excuse me, then we uh um do the ordering the materials for the rest of the

085district. So, it's standardized. You want to be able to have standard products across the district to be able to replace things from a maintenance perspective. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All righty. Absolutely. Um, and I guess this would just be directed to administration, and forgive me if uh it's my inexperience uh how how things are done, but um so my first question I guess would be um have you had conversations with any other districts that have used this provider before about their experience as part of the the vetting and recommendation process? >> What with the lights themselves or with the whole energy? >> Yeah, this provider. And >> yeah, so we did when we approved them um we basically do we vet them through other districts that have used them and so on and then

086that's how they get approved. So the board approved them as kind of the provider and then what we then they approved the energy bond and then now it's as we go through we're trying to find offsets where we can do the payback and then so we're bringing each kind of projects together kind of on that scale in order to to do that. So yes, we've we've done that before. And and have you guys seen has the board seen the contractual language as part of what we're signing up for? Is that something that happens after the award or have you guys already >> that that was in the previous one to agree with them? But now >> what what'll happen is you approve this project then we go through and we basically we put on an

087RFP and then as part of the RFP process they have to just match what what's in those details. >> Got it. >> Ryan, just to kind of clarify on that. So Centrics is our partner. they they are the ones who will work directly with all of the other providers. Okay. Um our our contract is just with them. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Ready. Any more discussion on lighting or contracts? >> No. Call the roll, please. I believe motion by Mr. Venatelli and supported by Mr. Covert. >> Yes. Uh Mr. Venitelli is a yes. Mr. Covert. >> Yes. Okay. Mr. Richards, >> yes. >> Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Mr. Sunenberger, >> yes. >> Mr. Powers, >> no. >> Miss Burk Meer. Motion passes. All right. Uh, next item is going to be award recommendation

088for boiler and HW pumps phase one. Uh, Anker Bay School District has received bids for phase one of our boiler and hot water pump project. Phase one includes Great Oaks, McCants, and McDonald. It is the intention to have the projects completed by September of 2026. It is the recommendation to award phase 1 boiler in hot water pumps to Goyette Mechanical in the amount of $656,930. Centric's fees for this project total $139,715.95. Total for phase one boiler hot water pumps is $796,64560. I'm guessing on that one. Uh it is recommended that the board of education approve the phase one boiler and hot water pumps in the amount of $796,645,000 and I going to stand corrected. It's actually 65. Would anyone like to make that motion? >> So moved. >> All right. We have motion by Mr.

089Power, supported by Miss Knox. Any discussion? >> Yeah, I just want to add, we talked about this at our building meeting back in January, and because uh Great Oaks, Mac, and McDonald are essentially the same building just in three different locations, uh it kind of made sense to group these together because um you know, the contractors are essentially, you know, doing one scope of work three times instead of coming up with three different scopes of work. So there's some economies of scale and in doing it all at the same time. Um and that's why there's some cost savings on what we budgeted versus um how much this actually cost. So just in case anybody wondered why we would do all three at the same time that that was the primary driver. >> Um I did

090have a question and we've we've talked about this before but I'm wondering if there if you could shed some light on it's probably best for Corey in this case. Um Goyette is significantly lower than the other two. Is there a reason why? Yep. So, um the reason is the type of material that they're using. So, in the RFP, it was not specified whether they needed to use a welded um installation or a victalic, right? Am I saying it right? Vtolic. So, we had um Goyette bid on a Vecttolic system, which saves on labor as well as material. Uh mechanical systems did not. So that was the major price savings between the two. >> What's um what is a Victalic system? >> So it's a tongue and groove system. >> Okay. >> So they're not welding.

091>> Okay. >> They're not welding material. >> All right. Thank you. >> And we have those systems in many of our buildings now. So >> have we ever used Goyant Mechanical before? >> We have not. Um, there are other districts that have that we've reached out to and they come back with very good references. So, >> my question is kind of similar to my last one, too, just from a scheduling standpoint. This is not going to interfere with our day-to-day operations during calendar school. >> No. >> All right. >> Any other discussion? >> All right. We have a motion by Mr. Powers, supported by Miss Knox. Go ahead and call the role. >> Mr. Powers. Yes. I forgot to have the mic on. Uh, Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Uh, Mr. Covert. >> Yes. >>

092Mr. Sunnyberger. >> Yes. >> Miss Burkmire. >> Mr. Venitali. Yes. Mr. Richards. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right. Uh, next item on the list is going to be uh board comments and points of pride. Uh, Miss Burke Meyer, would you like to start us off this evening? Um, I had the opportunity to attend the orientation at the high school yesterday for next year's 9th graders. Um, doesn't sit well with me on a personal level, but um, so anyway, um, just, you know, thank you to the staff. um multiple administrators, counseling staff, um support staff, uh athletic director were all there. Um and they did a nice job with that. Um it did bring up some um questions or concerns um from some parents and myself just in um I just think as a

093district and this is not reflective on the the staff that put on last night's event or anything um specific towards them. I just think as a district, we need to do a better job in planning. Um, for example, uh, what one parent who was sitting by me um was telling me that, you know, they were going over the honors academy for the high school. And if you're not familiar, you have to take a certain uh selection of honors and AP courses to be able to graduate with like an honors indication on your diploma and such. Um, and it's quite a few courses. Um, it's pretty rigorous. Uh, you can't miss any of those courses. So, for example, um, the way it's set up, you have to take in 9th grade honors geometry. Um what what

094a parent sitting by me told me was nobody indicated to us when our children were in seventh grade going into eighth grade that you needed to take algebra to then be able to take honors geometry in 9th grade. So all these students I I say all they may not I don't know how many they would apply to but you know they're automatically out. Um, so they can't even there's there is a difficult way that they can self-correct this by doubling up two math courses in 10th. How many students are really up for that? Um, so I I think it would be good for us to maybe figure out a way to rectify that or we just have to be better with our planning or communication. And like I said, I am not faulting the high

095school folks. I mean certainly they weren't in charge of telling seventh graders what to take you know two years in advance but um it's just it's just something that stuck out to me that we need to communicate amongst ourselves better. Um, but that said, you know, in kind of looking at that honors academy, something else that really kind of stuck out to me was we've done a lot of work particularly with the CTE programs um, you know, and trying to like customize, for lack of another uh, generalization, but allow students to customize their education a little bit more to what interests them or, you know, or where their plans might take them after high school. And in looking at this honors academy, it kind of is like the opposite of that to me. Um, and

096maybe something that we ought to think about um, as a district or, you know, as a building. Um, certainly there's there's students that maybe all of those courses if you're not familiar with I mean it's four years of math, science, social studies, language arts, you know, at the top all AP honors courses. Um, but to me, you know, like I I don't want to single out my own kid, but but just in in the thinking of a personal example, you know, like I my I'll just put it out there like my one of my daughter is looking at like a healthc care field. She doesn't listen to her mom. Um, and I said, "Why why would you want to do this and take all these courses? like you're going to end up having to take

097AP calculus. As someone who also took like three years of calculus in college for no real reason other than I changed my major, it didn't do anything for me, you know, like so if you know that this is the route you want to go, like we're we're kind of telling kids like, well, to do the honors academy, you need to take X, Y, and Z and do all these things. But if they know they want to go into health care, you know, beyond a level of algebra, they they don't need calculus. Um, now to get into college, certainly it doesn't look bad if you can do it well. But I guess we I feel like we've done so much work in trying to customize things. And that maybe we need to look at customizing the

098honors academy into saying, you know, here's all our honors and AP offerings. um you know, if you want the honors designation, maybe you should just have to take x amount of honors or AP courses and not tell a student you must be taking honors, math, science, social studies, all the things. You can be extremely bright in one area and maybe poor in math or vice versa. Um, and so I just think what as we're trying to encourage more students to like challenge themselves in areas that interest them, that would be a better way than than to just kind of pigeon hole the honors courses into all or nothing. Um, because personally, I looked at it even for my own kids like it's a lot. And I, you know, as a parent, I also want you

099to enjoy high school and it's like so you know, you're only a kid once. So, I would like us to look at doing something like that to maybe alter the program in that way. And even if you want to say, you know, like I said, x number of honors or AP credits among four years, or maybe you say, you know, and those have to be amongst, I don't know, two subject areas at least. You know, you can't just focus on one if you want the honors designation. I don't know. There's there's ways to work at it, but um it's just something I feel like we are as a district, we do a good job with CTE and things of trying to really help kids along um where they want to go and this kind of

100looked like the opposite to me. Um in a sense, certainly there's kids that can handle it and can do it and will do great and they still can, you know. Um, and the other piece was it it kind of reminded me um, you know, even even four-year universities are sort of hopefully being pressured in the coming years to get away from forcing students to take courses that aren't relevant to them. And that's what it feels like we're doing in this. So, um, it's just something I wanted to put out there. I don't know if we can look at or consider but um and then say you know with the algebra option um or situation I should say you know not just for the the current students but you consider a school of choice student that

101comes into our district in 9th grade if they didn't take algebra in 8th grade they're automatically out you know like so we're again we're just kind of pigeon holing a lot of kids right out the gate um which is you know certainly frustrating for some So, um, those are just my thoughts, but overall, you know, it was a very nice event. Um, kids seem to enjoy it as much as I think they would going into nth grade. But, um, and that's all I got. >> Great feedback. Thank you. Uh, Mr. Vanitelli, Miss Knox, >> I'm just gonna talk briefly about the robotics team. Um the whoever's doing our social media is doing a great job of getting out there because I'm seeing more and more and more. Looks really really cool. It actually incited some

102conversation amongst me and my siblings, two of whom are um engineers and you know talked about it and we are watching the videos and things. So that's it's really cool to see them doing that and I'd love if they could like showcase something here for us one time just to see what they're doing. That'd be cool. That's it. Fantastic. Mr. Powers, uh just wanted to throw out there that the uh sports boosters reverse raffle is March 7th. Uh this is the the big fundraising event for the year for all of our sports programs and they could they could certainly use some more ticket sales. So, if you're uh available March 7th and you want to have fun and win some some good raffle prizes and support our student athletes, please consider reaching out to the

103boosters and uh attending that event >> And spend money. Yeah, >> super fun, >> Miss Covert. >> Um, nothing for me tonight other than to just say thank you again to all of you for the opportunity to uh to be up here. I look forward to working with you all. And um that's pretty much it. It's weird being the the new kid um in class. So, I appreciate you guys humoring me and and hope that you'll continue to humor me um for at least the next eight months, right? Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Sunnyberger. >> Nothing at this time. Thank you. All right, I kept mine to one page this evening. Uh, Mr. Powers already mentioned it. Anchor Bay Sports Boosters reverse raffles March 7th. Uh, congratulations to Middle School North Captain of

104the Month, uh, Christine Kristen Kristen Thomas. Thank you. Thank you for everything you do. Uh, preschool registration opens up tomorrow for new families. For more information, please reach out to the Early Childhood Center. Please join us for the annual community bond forum on March 9th at 6 p.m. here at McDonald Elementary School. The 13th annual Anker Bay Oscars is tomorrow night at 7 p.m. Red carpet starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are five bucks at the door. Proceeds will be donated to American Cancer Society. Uh middle school swim conditioning is March 16th through the 26th. Contacts um Miss Adams if you're interested. Uh please save the date. Uh the senior scholarship staff versus senior basketball game is Tuesday, March 3rd. Doors open at 6:30. Congratulations to the Anchor Bay band members that participated in the MSBA

105district 16 middle and high school chamber chamber solo ensemble. All the high school chamber ensembles earn the first division rating. Anchor Bay Youth Baseball Camp is March 14th for all youth baseball players in kindergarten through 8ighth grade. Registration link is on the Anker Bay Facebook page. Congratulations to middle school south seventh grade white team and coach Bailey on their undefeated season this year. That's awesome to hear. Kindergarten readiness night is March 19th at 6 p.m. at Anker Bay High School auditorium. Congratulations to the high school varsity girls basketball team as the MAC White Champions. This is the second year in a row that they've won that title. Congratulations once again. Uh, the career pathways open house and skill trades fair is April 13th from 6:00 to 7:30 7:30 p.m. at the high school. The Anker

106Bay Youth Clinic is Saturday, March 31st at the Anker Bay Sportslex. If you're interested, please reach out to Coach Downey. Uh, my points of pride tonight um is or for the I'm sorry, my points of pride for the month uh is congratulations to Julia Tokos. Thank you. Sorry, I didn't write it down. Julia T, as it is on social media on breaking the school record for career points. Uh I've I've been to a lot of games. Mr. Powers and I u were there one evening. We didn't get to watch the uh Were we there the night that she >> We were there the night she tied. >> Yeah. All right. We were there the night she tied. Yo, great player. Congratulations. Uh you know, great accomplishment. Um that's all I have. Um next will be

107yes, legislative update. So tonight we might have legislative news depending on how the state of the state goes that we won't know until tomorrow. I haven't seen anything pop out like on news updates or anything like that. We are in the middle of budget season. So the expectation is whatever comes out from the state of state tonight then next week the house should release their budget again if it's a normal year. Last year that didn't happen remember. Then the Senate will follow up within like probably two to three weeks after that. And then that opens everything up and then that builds until what's the May consensus revenue estimating. So it's always the second Friday in May and they'll sit again and go okay this is all our estimates. We have our preliminary budgets out there.

108And then after that they'll know how much money to spend. And then they kind of agree this is how much money we have to spend. Then they get down to um trying to pass a budget. They keep telling us they will have a budget by July 1st, mainly because they're all up for re-election, so they want to get out and campaign. That's probably it for legislation for really the rest of the year because depending on whatever happens, I don't see anything happening in lame duck that would happen that you'd be able to get anybody because regardless of what happens with party control, they're not going to agree to do anything substantial. So that you might there might only be I think there's five bills that have passed so far. The budget being the other one

109and then that's it for the legislature this year. >> Sounds good. Uh next is going to be uh board committee updates. >> Oh, I mean >> fine was pretty much heard it. >> Yeah. No, we uh obviously a big part of our finance meeting was the budget amendment uh tonight and we talked a little bit about the uh the 27L funding and how we're going to handle that. So that'll be coming before the board in the coming months once we reach an agreement with uh the employee groups on how we're going to handle that. But uh yeah, that's about all we did on finance. >> All right. Um right for German. >> Motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. All >> everyone say I. >> I. All right. Thank you very much. I >> think we

110have to do a roll call vote for German. in there.