001Uh, I will call to order the regular board of education meeting of June 25th, 2025. Uh, scheduled for 7 PM now starting at 7:17. Uh, and we will begin as we always do with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Secretary, if you could please call the role. Sure. Mr. Sunnyburgger. Here, Mr. Powers. Here, Miss Burkemeer. Excused. Excused. Sorry. Mr. Venitilli here. Mr. Richards is here. Miss Knox here. And Mr. Green here. Uh board, the agenda that you've got in front of you uh is pretty lengthy. Uh I anticipate we're going to be here for quite a while. We do have two close sessions scheduled tonight.
002And then for the public's knowledge, if you haven't seen the uh agenda, I do expect there will be board action taken after the close session, which for this board is is not really traditional. Uh however, some of the stuff we're discussing in those close sessions requires us to move on them. With that said, I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda as it has been presented. So moved. Second. Motion by Mr. Venitelli, supported by Miss Knox. comments, questions, or concerns? I do have a question. Uh yes, sir. Coming out of close session from uh the collective bargaining agreements, and we're going to be taking votes on on those agreements. The way the agenda is written, they're all just kind of grouped together. Are we going to be voting individually or are they is it
003all yes or all no? So, that is the pleasure of the board. Uh I believe we probably want to vote on them individually. Is that correct, Mr. Superintendent? It's totally the prerogative of the board of the board. So well I'm asking because if you know if basically just as a quick we'll go through each of the contracts but like some of them are all teamster so the language is all kind of similar across and then one is ask me so it you can do it either way you want but if so like like there's five different groups represented by the teamsters right if if a board member was okay with four of the five are is it is the only position a board member can take is to vote no No, all of them. You
004can Whoever makes the motion can I make a motion for these four or I make a motion for the five? I make So, okay. Do we need to amend that now or is it just the way we discuss it when it comes up? You can the way you discuss when it comes up. As long All right. Thank you. And certainly quite frankly, we can have a discussion uh as we get to each of the the four major groups. Uh you know, if the pleasure of the board is to separate out one or all, we'll do that. Okay. Um, did we approve the agenda? We have not. We have not. We uh have motion in a second. Perfect. Could you call the role on that, sir? Sure. Mr. Venitelli? Yes. Miss Knox? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes.
005Mr. Richards is a yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger. Yes. Motion carries. Moving on the agenda that you just approved. Item D, superintendent's update. Uh, Superintendent Janowski. Okay, they're pulling up my presentation. Okay, next slide, please. So, just giving you updates on the bond program. Um, you can see the temporary wall came down. This is the engineering wing. So, this would actually be the band hallway. You can see to the left of that picture, the band practice room. So that area is now in its final stages waiting for inspection. Next slide. Also the this is part of the punch list from the addition. This is the hallway down to the auto shop and restaurant. So there were there was a an issue with some tiles that were mismatched because there were a different batch. So
006they were they they've rectified that. They're working on the um the finish on the um robotics and engineering area that's still to come. They haven't figured out a total solution yet, but that's on the agenda. Next slide. This is now the new weight room. You can see the walls been down and this is where it was I think like a week ago. Next slide. And you can see they're putting in the the flooring now for the um weight room as that goes forward. So that is also reaching its final stages. Next slide. This is the media center. And so you can see that is kind of in a couple stages of they're still doing demolition, but they're also starting to work on the ceiling as they're putting things back and new lighting and everything as
007we're moving things out um more towards the center. Next slide. This is also on the left hand side. You can see it's another shot of the um media center on the right side. You can see this is this was approved last year by the board, but now this is the mezzanine level. We had changed the hallway um tile. We're doing the same thing. So, this is out into kind of the commons area. So, now it will match all the way throughout. Next slide. This is the one of the science rooms now at Middle School North. You can see new cabinetry is going in. The ceiling grid is installed. Next slide. This is the life skills class. So you can see the walls have been installed. Cabinetry is also going in waiting for appliances. Ceiling grids
008in the eight the uh unit vent that's on the right hand side there for heating and cooling has been installed. Next slide. This is also the uh science lab. being or no this is the instructional side where the classroom is for the uh life skills as well. Next slide. And you can see this is now would be the northeast corner of what will be the fifth grade hallway. On the left hand side you can see when they were doing the demolition to open up those classrooms because we're creating larger classrooms. These classrooms were smaller. They were just over 700 ft². Now they'll be right around 1,000 square ft. And you can see with those walls have been cleaned up. So now they will go and partition those into larger classrooms so teachers can do center
009programming and things like that. Next slide. They're also already in this is would be the northwest corner. You can see on the left hand side they had the framing in for the hallway lighting. We redid the the ceiling grid and so you can see the new lights there on the right hand side. Next slide. And then this is the playground area that is being installed. So, they're getting ready. This will be the the black top area. Um, next slide. You can see the swing sets are already in. So, this is over by the bus garage. You can see in the left hand side there behind the swing set. So, all of that is moving forward. It's been tough because we've had a lot of rain. A lot of rain in a lot of areas. Next
010slide. Same thing. walking path that is going in as well. Next slide. And then this is the storage building um at South. So it's by the tennis courts. This is the one that was in great disrepair um when I first got here. So finally we are um going to replace that so that they have someplace safe and secure in order to store everything. Next slide. And you can see the footings have now been poured. They are there. The walls were going up. Next slide. And then this is now lighthouse. You can see ceiling grids are going in. Next slide. This is it was a classroom, but now this will be for um our ancillary staff. So that they will have offices in the one wing. This will be for the early um childhood special education
011wing ultimately when it's the early childhood center. Next slide. And this is just more you can see um doorways that are being closed up or moved based on where the walls are at. So that is being done as well. Next slide. And that is the where we're at with construction so far. They're making a lot of progress. We had a little setback with the rain when we got like 5 ines of rain in one day. Thankfully at Lighthouse, the one area that we had a problem because we were already planning to fix it, there's it's basically a roof drain that we were doing similar what we did with Great Oaks, if you recall last year. Thankfully, since we had the furniture moved out, since we had everything else, it was just some carpeting that um
012we're going to have to replace, but otherwise there there was just the sheer amount of water and that hopefully will be good. The nice thing is Great Oaks, what we did last year that worked with that. Even the baseball field, which we've had issues, that actually held up very well under that monsoon that we had. So, um, what our goal is always to have all the demolition and then at the older buildings, there's asbesus baitman have that done by the 4th of July roughly and then they'll start putting everything together to have it done by August 20th is is the hopeful date. Any questions? I have one quick one, Phil. Um, in the new weight room, the old ROC room, what are their plans with the old offices that they have there? Those offices will
013just be offices for um that area. Okay, so we're leaving the offices. All right. Thank you. Okay, all right. Hearing none. Thank you, sir. We'll move on to item E, hearing of the public. Those who wish to address the board on agenda items may complete a brief request stating their name, address, and the subject of their comments. Remarks about specific employees should be directed to them personally and not included in the public forum. Administration will follow up with concerns within 48 hours of the board meeting. Please limit your comments to three minutes. It appears as though I've got one person who has requested to speak to the board. Uh Christina R. Tonight, I wanted to share my disappointment that this board granted the continued usage of your schools to Chesterfield Township for voting. I came
014before this board January 25th, 2023 for a parent volunteer appeal, and this board asked me for transparency and accountability for the safety of all students. Because of the denial, I obtained legal counsel and had my record expuned. I prepared a speech. I practiced it. I wore appropriate attire and came before this board to plead my case for a second time for a crime I've already paid my dues for 12 years prior. Something that happened far before I became a parent. Yet, this board was given the discretion to determine what kind of parent I get to be to my special needs daughter. But I came before this board because I understood the gravity of why your bylaws for students, parents, and staff were in place. I respected them and I came asking for redemption and a
015second chance. So, I'd like to reintroduce myself. My name is Christina Ross and I am a proud parent advocate to my non-verbal autistic daughter who's been a student of yours for three years. I am the parent who spoke out about the safety concerns during early voting at Sugar Bush Elementary. The issue was handled with zero accountability or transparency from both the township and the school district. The special ed students, the special ed students were used as lab rats to test the clerk housing nine consecutive days of early voting. That's 300 unvetted residents in and out of that building amongst your most vulnerable student population. Clerk Barry told me to watch the school board's May 28th meeting that supposedly vindicated her of any liability. She said that Phil Janowski admitted to lying about the matter. So,
016I had to hear this confession, a recap of that me meeting and some corrections I felt were worth mentioning. Mason Brzinski stated it was a matter of ironing out the kinks in regards to issues surrounding uh sugar bush. That statement at the expense of our special needs student safety as deplorable. Anker Bay's lease agreement stated no voting would happen until the sale of the school in August. Multiple families pulled their children out of schools for early voting. That's upending seven consecutive school days to special needs students who thrive on routine. Mr. Janowski, you were asked by another board member, "Am I to understand that we have children in Sugarbush that are going to be in the building at the same time as the election?" To which you responded, "That's the county's program. Those are not
017our students." That answer is unacceptable. May I remind you that the ECSC students were your students in the building at the time of this took place. their safety by your own board of education bylaws should have been of paramount importance. You all said to me, "Parents, we hold parents to the same standards as our staff." It is you who sit on this board who then need to lead by example. I asked for answers and I got countless people in leadership passing the buck. My advocacy is far from over. Imagine yourself in my shoes. My child is unable to verbally communicate her needs, wants, or ask for help. My goal here is not to create tension. It is to create and build trust between a fractured that's been fractured in the infancy stages of my daughter's
018school career. I need to be able to trust you and accountability is a first step. Thank you. Um so the board is aware um Christina did deliver a large packet of documents. So I will have the superintendent's administrative assistant scan them in and get them emailed out to each of you. All right, moving on to uh item F, a budget presentation. I believe you'll be returning to the podium, Mr. Rathben, and I am hoping for a little bit shorter presentation than the last one, sir. No, it's the same one. Present. We talked earlier during the budget hearing about the 2526. Uh you should have before you in your hands the final 2425 budget. So that's what we'll be presenting here. Um and this should be pretty brief. There aren't too many significant changes um from
019what you approved back in January. So um again you'll have a number of columns on yours uh focusing on the third column. This is our final budget that we are proposing for the 2425 school year. So you can see there uh we are present proposing re total revenues of about $82.6 million. We're Mr. Rathma can you reference us to the sheet that you're referring to? We have a stack of stuff up here today. Uh, which document are you looking at? Do you do they So, it's Yeah, it's gonna Okay, this one. Okay, got it. That's right. Thank you. It's gonna look It's going to have columns much like the presentation we had earlier. No, more like this. Oh, that way. All right. Is that No, that's not that one. Not have those. I hope. Hang
020on. All right. I think this is it. We have it. Yeah. The 2526 original budget general fund at the top original budget should be the 2425 I have final final correct 2425 final budget that is the page yes that is the page I'm sorry yeah all right 24 final budget do you have that to display on the screen I don't believe We do. Okay. All right. I think we're on the same page, sir. Okay. All right. Let me start again. We're going to focus on that third column, the uh 2425 final budget. Um we've got a few changes that are coming through uh for that final budget. So, we're looking at uh a final amendment to our revenues, which will total 82.6 almost 82.7 million. For total expenditures, we're looking at about $78 million there.
021Um, and then we're proposing to have a profit this year of about 3.7. One of the things I'll remind the board is that the sale of Sugar Bush is included in that number. So, you're going to have to kind of think about, you know, $2.8 million is included in there um for this year. So, talking a little bit about variances, um that final column, you can see we had a a pretty significant variance in our state sources. Um you can see there an increase of about $1.3 million that would consisted of a number of items that occurred after the board approved the budget in January. So, a couple of those items were we received our 147G money, which was a reimbursement for all employees that were contributing 3% to healthcare. Uh we reimbured all of
022those employees for that. And so that was about $673,000. We're going to continue to reimburse them into July. And so, um, that was unfortunately we were promised and we're going to see it in October, and then it was November, and then it was December, and then it was finally February or March, I think, before we got it. Um, same kind of thing happened with 31A. There was a lot of conversation about that. We received that, I believe, in our May state aid payment. Um, and that was an increase about $545,000. And then we also received an adjustment later in the year for our prior year adjustment to the um special ed and that's part of that swap that we're starting to do where we're swapping out federal funds and we're getting state funds in in
023lie of those federal funds. So um that was for last year we did a partial swap. This year we're doing a full swap. So that we picked up about $385,000. And really those three things kind of make up that 1.3 variance uh for instruction. Um you can see there we're we're looking at a variance of about $796,000. Um that's an increase. Rec. You'll recall me talking about the revenues above. We have that same $673,000 of expense flowing through. So when we reimburse the teachers for that 3% we get the revenue from the grant but it's also an expense to us in that grant. So that 796 largely consists of those 147g expenses in the amount of 673,000. So that's the variance there. Um I'll draw your attention now on the some of the supporting services
024to the operation uh I'm sorry pupil transportation. You can see we had a decrease about 183,000. We thought we were going to be able to get uh a bus uh a used bus that we were looking at. Um it doesn't look like it's going to happen until next year. So, we're really kind of pushing that purchase off to next year, adjusting the budget down for this year. And then finally, um in the outgoing transfers, so we had uh a couple things happen there. You can see that's increasing by about $293,000. So, um, part of that is we talked about earlier that single line that, um, Congressman Herel was able to get through for us. Uh, we've got about $565,000 in there. And then we also have a decrease or I'm sorry, we also have a
025little bit of a um increase, I should say, in our electric charging stations. So that was that DTE grant that we talked about earlier that we won't have next year that we did have this year. So that's kind of what led to those those increases there. So uh this is the budget that we're proposing to the board this evening. Uh you can see there the beginning fund balance is about $14 million. We've got our uh amount that has been committed uh by the board for about 2.8 eight. And that leaves us with an unrestricted fund balance of just under $15 million. And so that's uh the proposed budget for the board this evening. I believe that is an agenda item later for you to approve. Are there any questions? I'd be happy to take any
026questions from the board. Don, is the new bus about a h 100red $100,000 and then the electric ones are about 300,000. Is that uh electric are closer to about 415? Okay. And a traditional bus these days depending, you know, obviously size is an indication of price, but uh if you're looking at, you know, a larger 77 passenger, they're about 160. Now, we've seen dramatic increases in the last two years. And that's why a lot of times if we're able to find a bus that's two or three years old, uh it's a dramatic price differential. So, all right. Anyone any questions before we move on? All right, hearing none, we'll move on to the next item on our agenda. Energy bond project presentation. I believe that's you again, Mr. Rothbun. And I believe you got a
027colleague to join you. I'll be presenting. Yeah, I'm having Ron Stimik join us. Ron is with Centrex. He has been here in the state of Michigan 32 years working in the energy sector doing this previously for Johnson Controls. Ron is now with Centrex and uh we've had a lot of conversation with Centrex. Um they're being very aggressive with their pricing which we appreciate. um it's made it very uh very attractive for the district to work with Centrics and so what I have on the on the board and I don't know if you can blow that up a little bit. No. Okay. So I apologize but you should have a handout in front of you. Um it looks a lot like this. You've got it. Okay. So on this a couple things before we get into
028the presentation itself. Um I want to make a few uh statements about caveats here. So these are projected numbers that we're going to talk about. Um one of the things that we talked about with the board before any project is approved, we will bid that project out. We will go through vet all of the vendors. we will bring you what we think is the best um deal or the best project for the district and that will be presented to the board and you will have the opportunity to determine whether or not we want to do that project or not. So that is that you know tonight we're presenting what we think makes sense. Uh but again we will go out and bid this and bring it back to the board. So I want to make
029sure that everyone understands that. Um this presentation is also going to um play into one of the resolutions you see later today and that is the resolution for energy bonds which comes a little bit later in the uh program here. But um what we've done there is we've done a not to exceed $11 million. So, we won't necessarily go out and get that much money, but we wanted to make sure that we had plenty of cushion and that we wouldn't have to come back to the board if it creeps up a couple, you know, if Ron's able to find a couple more projects that make great sense for us. We have that flexibility now to change a little bit. So, uh, again, all these numbers are, you know, kind of, uh, worked up. Certainly, Ron
030and his team have spent a lot of time going through and trying to work up the numbers. They took audit um tours through each of the buildings to count up the number of light fixtures, look at the boilers, look at the condition of the chillers and all those different things. And then they came back to us with a proposal. So, what I'm going to share with you tonight, and I apologize that it's not a little bit bigger on the screen for everyone, but um I'll just kind of quickly run through all of the projects that we're looking at. Um and then we'll talk a little bit about how are we going to pay for this? How do how does an energy bond work? How are you going to pay for this? So, some of the
031projects we're looking at are uh lighting improvements. Uh you may know at the high school, we've made a lot of lighting improvements. Um throughout the district, though, part of part of those improvements were envisioned in the bond if we were going to touch those areas. Uh by that I mean construct in those areas. Middle school north being a good one. Phil gave you a uh a slide tonight where you see that entire wing on the I guess it's the uh east end of there I guess is uh completely being um or maybe it's north end being uh taken down and so the lamps the lights that are going in there um that was in the bond because we knew we were going to do that but on the other side of the building the uh
032sixth grade wing um we didn't have any lighting scheduled for that. So, we are now going to be doing more than we had envisioned in the original bond utilizing these funds. And final caveat, then we'll get into it. So, I apologize. You'll remember we had Bart Melo go through and do an assessment of our facilities. They talked about $280 million as being the number that we needed to address every single thing in the district. We passed a bond for $170 million. So, there's a $110 million gap there. We're not going to cover all of that. We're going to come for a portion of that. But what it is is allowing us to get to projects uh that we wouldn't have been able to do previously in the bond. So, we're going to also be able
033to pull a little bit out of the bond. Um, and the reason for that is we know that our bond that we passed is a 10-year bond. uh inflation is going up. CPI was 2.3 in the last 12 months. If you multiply that by, you know, 10 years, you're looking at 25% increases. And so, we want to make sure that we'll have enough money in the bond to do everything that we promised our public we would do. Okay. So, here's some of the projects. So, we're talking about lighting, and that lighting would be throughout the district. There will also be some uh compliance lighting, and this is in case of an emergency. So if if the lights, you know, if there's a problem, if there's an emergency, this will come on. And I believe um
034now this is a a code requirement, isn't it, Ron? Yes, it is a code requirement. So we will now be in code for all of those areas. Um we're also looking at some uh water conservation measures that make a lot of sense. Uh we're looking at some uh controls that we would implement and we're also talking about uh some kitchen utilities. So right now all of our buildings are metered on the same meter. But what we would do in that situation is we would actually meter our kitchen separately and then that money would be charged to the food service fund rather than the general fund. So that results in general fund savings and uh our food service is very healthy these days because of the everybody eats for free. So it's it's really going to
035be able to uh sustain itself and it's good for the uh general fund. We're also going to do quite a bit on boilers and pumps. A lot of our boilers across the district. Again, this is an area where some of the work we're going to do was in the original bond. So we're now pulling that out, freeing up some of that bond money. But we're also doing some additional boilers. I think at Lighthouse there's four boilers, right? And I think we had two in the bond originally with the energy bond. We're going to do all four. So, um well, I take that back. We had to replace one already. So, I guess I'll down to three. But, but uh that's that's the intent. Chillers and pumps. We've got a lot of chillers and pumps that
036we're going to address. Rooftop units and air handling units. Those are some of the things. And then finally, we've got a few miscellaneous on that second page in of your handout. We've got a few miscellaneous things. Those are primarily air conditioning for uh the technology closets to make sure that with all of the servers and routers and uh equipment is properly cooled so it doesn't uh fail under heat. So those at a very high level is uh what the projects we're looking at the total right now. And again, this is an estimate estimate. It's a educated estimate, but we're we're projecting a little over $12 million would be the cost for all of those projects. I'll also draw your attention to those last two columns that I have on the handout. You'll see there we've
037got an amount for uh utility savings annual and annual O and M which is operation and maintenance. So part of the thought on this the operations and maintenance is if we have an old boiler 25-y old boiler that's breaking down from time to time and we have to service it when we put in a new boiler at least for the first 10 or 15 years we're probably not going to have to service that. So there's a savings to the district in those operation and maintenance uh costs. Um then the the the second column there is that annual utility savings. So, if you add those two together, you come up to about 4 and what? $30,000. $434,000. Or maybe it's a little more than that. Um, what is it? I'm having a hard time seeing that
038wrong. Yeah, I wear my glasses either. Uh oh. Well, oh, somebody's gonna have to help. Yeah, somebody's gonna have to help us. We're both blind here, I guess. Uh, but we're looking at uh savings from those two things. About $434,000 I think is what it is. Um, I don't know. I'm sorry. Yeah, $439. So, flipping to the second page, what I want to talk about a little bit is Thank you. is um in this graphic and again I apologize you can't see the whole thing but what we've done on this particular graphic is we're what we're trying to do is we're trying to make the business case to the board here tonight as to why this makes sense. So not only are we going to accomplish some projects that were not in the bond we're
039going to be able to pull some of the bond projects out and pay with energy bonds which will um free up some money in the bond. But um the dollar amount that we're looking at that you can see on there is about $12.2 million for the entire project. The capital contri I'm at the very top. So we're assuming a 20-year loan period and you'll see that in the resolution later tonight for the energy bonds. We're looking at about a four 4% uh cost in terms of interest on roughly $12 million worth of projects. We plan to fund about $5.8 million of those projects directly out of the bond, but we're going to do about seven or eight million worth of bond projects. So, what that means is we're going to part partially do it from
040the bond, but we're also partially going to do it from that big number that you see at the bottom. 6.1 million is what we're looking at financing through the energy bond. So, that's going to cover part of those projects that were never in the bond. That's also going to cover some additional projects uh that weren't envisioned in the bond. I'm sorry, I said the same thing, I think. And then but it's also going to cover um some new things that we we're we're doing and yeah please important aspect of that is that being oh sorry uh an important uh specific aspect of that is all the scope of work that you're seeing that that you know that Todd's talking about here each one of those line items generate energy savings and so that that comes
041back to the general fund. You're spending that money anyway, giving it to DTE or SEMCO, the utility companies. You're taking that money back from them and then you're using that savings over time. So, it's net neutral to the general fund, not a negative impact with this financing. And that savings is then generated to pay for everything that's being paid for outside of the bond proceeds, devoted bond proceeds. All right? So, it's completely a self-funded program from money that you already have from the 2022 bond because that scope is in that bond. We're pulling that out because that it it has savings for this program. And then the rest of it's being generated by those other improvement measures that Mark that Todd talked about that um that are not in the bond that generate what we
042call lowhanging fruit stuff that pays for itself quickly. So you could do these other projects and you know that still need to be done even though they're not in the bond. And so it ends up it's a very financially uh strong project. It's it's it's supported legislatively. All the savings that are generated in it are completely um guaranteed by us. If there's a shortfall in the savings, we cut you a check for the difference. All right? So, there's added layer of of risk protection for the school district when you fund these type of projects. So, I'm going to walk you through and and I'm going to just go in detail as to what Ron just talked about right now. So, you can see on that first uh column, we've got the years. So, we're looking
043at a 20-year bond, and that's why you have 20 years there. Um, you can see in year one, we've got some savings under electrical. So, this is the supply, how much electrical you're using. If we have more efficient uh lights and so forth, we're going to use less energy. There's also what's called a supply charge. So, what that has to do with is anytime you hit a peak, you pay that supply charge for the rest of the year. So, if we can bring that supply charge down, that's savings to the district. So if you kind of go across natural gas, water, the kitchen, utility monitoring, and if we look at the O andM savings, you come across to that total savings. And again, I think it's about $438,000. So what we're saying is by doing
044all of these measures, we're going to save $438,000. What we're also saying in the next column is the payments that we would have to make to finance that $6.1 million that I talked about above are going to be $444,000 every single year. Now, those aren't paid out of the bond. Those would be paid out of the general fund. And the idea is if I can save $440,000 in utilities, I can use that $440,000 to pay for all of these projects. Now, the good news is um you know, we're looking at uh about a 20-year bond, but the actual life uh or what we think the return on investment will be is about 13 or 14 years is what we'll when we'll, you know, really see all of that return coming back to the district. So,
045um, only thing to add to that is that, um, legally when you're financing these type of projects on a 20-year basis, the total mean average useful life of all the improvements combined, it's the same thing as like the state bond application process in the state has to has to exceed the term of the financing. So, the mean average of all the improvement measures that the useful life of all the improvement measures that we're putting into this this specific project is right around 23 years. So, it exceeds that number, but it pays for itself in 13.7. Yeah. So you're getting another nine years of supplemental um savings back in the general fund after that year 14. You I mean coming back where you don't have a payment anymore and you know and you're paying for those.
046All right. Yeah. So like to give you an example um you know if you had uh you know let's say a chiller and the useful life on that is 15 years. You can't you know spread it over 25 years and pay for that over 25 years. you've got to make sure that you're paying for that in the useful life of that asset. And that's really what Ron was getting at. So, um, you can see here that essentially we're going to continue to work at these numbers. We're going to continue to refine these numbers. There may be additional savings as we really dig into things. The cost of the project could come down, could go up. We're going to bid every project, but we think this is kind of our best guess as to where we
047would be. And right now the project is pretty much self-balancing. So we might have to in those first couple years um you can see in the column next to the payments where there's $444,000 for the payments there's a measurement and verification. So like Ron said these savings we will come to an agreement and we will sign a contract that says um these savings are guaranteed. So, if we come to this and we say $438,000 is guaranteed to the district in savings, like Ron said, if they only generate $300,000 worth of savings, they have to write us a check for the difference. And so, we'll take that check along with our savings and that will allow us to make our payments. So, you know, in a lot of respects, this is a a great deal because
048we have guarantees in place and we know that the work will pay off as we're projecting because if it doesn't, they will make it up. Um, so the long and short is this shouldn't cost the general fund anything. It should be whatever savings we garner from the projects we're doing is going to go to pay for the cost of financing this these projects. And that's really how these energy bonds work. Um later in the uh in the uh evening we will have a resolution like I said that will come before you. It's for $11 million. I showed you $6 million. We've built in a cap. Uh financially we're capable of going to 11 million if we wanted to, but right now um the savings really talk about being able to go out and get about
049$6.1 million financed without dipping into our general fund. So that's what we're hoping to do. Um the resolution will come before you tonight and at this point I would take any questions that the board has on this presentation. Could you remind the board uh you've planned a 0% increase under your electrical for years 1 through 15? Hey, I'm having a hard time hearing you. Sorry. Um you've planned no increase under electrical for years 1 through 15. Can you remind us why that is? Which one? I'm sorry. The electrical cap that we have that for 15 years. Can you explain that? Yeah, I would be happy to. So, we signed a deal um with SMCO for our our energy supply um I think two years ago. It goes into effect next month. And so what happens
050is we are capped at 7.5 cents per kilowatt hour and we'll be capped at that for all of our energy for the next 15 years. After that, it'll start going up again potentially. But, you know, that's that's actually hindered the the business case for doing this a little bit because we're getting such a good rate right now that it makes the business case even though it's strong, it makes it a little less strong u because we're getting that guaranteed low rate for the next 15 years. Normally, you would see that utility go up 3 to 4% every year um and maybe more. So, um, the fact that we're flat, they aren't able to show those savings for those years because the utility isn't going up. So, um, the fact that we've still we've got that
051agreement in place, we'll continue to utilize that agreement and we will buy our energy at 7 and a half% or 7 12 cents per kilowatt hour. But, um, we will we also have even with that, this is a strong business case to move forward on these projects. The last thing I'm going to leave you with is the other nice thing about this is we're going to be able to avoid some of the inflationary costs down the road. A lot of this work was not scheduled to happen for three or four years down the road. By bringing Centrex in and Barton Mallo continuing to do what they do, we're going to be able to accomplish these projects much faster and therefore uh not be subject to as much inflation. you know, a boiler four years from
052now is going to be a lot more than a boiler today. So, we think by accelerating some of these projects with Centrics, we're going to have savings there as well. Mr. Powers, you've made several references to this allowing us to pull items out of the 2022 bond and instead use this energy bond. So, if we're if we're pulling items out of our 2022 bond and paying for it out of this $11 million bond, what's what's being done in place of what we're pulling out of the bond that voters approved? Sure, I'd be happy to address that. So, uh, Mr. Powers, the as I as I discussed, there was a study that was done by Bart Malow for $280 million is what they said our our needs were. We only had a 170 million. I shouldn't
053say only $170 million bond is is quite a bond. So I thank thanks to the community for that, but it leaves us about 110,000 110 million short of what we truly need. So to try and answer your question, there's going to be a couple things that we would do is we will look at what those savings are and then we have actually worked with Bart Melo and generated a list of projects that currently are not in the bond, but with these savings, what projects could we do? So we are in the process of identifying specifically we and we have a lot of them already. I think about $14 million worth of projects we've identified. But um identifying those projects and then when we have those savings then we can say okay do we want to
054pull this project into the bond. So we would actually substitute and be able uh you know one project for another um inside of the district. And the other part of it is it's to give us flexibility because we when we passed the bond nobody anticipated like inflation being where it's at. we've been good so far, but as that goes on, we want to be able to have breathing room. And the only way we can do that is if we kind of do that ahead of time. Um cuz that could very well be the case. I mean, some things depending on how tariffs go, depending on how um inflation goes, we want to be able to the the first goal, and this is what we shared with them, Centrex, and and everybody was we need to
055guarantee what's in we want to do in the bond first and foremost. And so that's part of it. and we want to just stay ahead of of kind of inflation and those rising costs. And then at the end, if we do that, and this is part of it, and we have funds that are left over, then we can go back and do more of those other projects in order to kind of um make sure that we're we're tackling as much as we can and just getting the the best bang for our buck that we have. Who's who's making like, you know, I mean, I get it. There's I mean if my last name is Barton or my last name is Malow, I'd love to get that other 110 million of projects done to get the
056280 million that that they've identified. Like who's what are the checks and balances to make sure that you know these thing these projects are are necessary basically the board everything goes as it goes through everything gets bid out and then the board approves whether they want the project to happen. So even on this the board approves the overall um plan, but then we bid out each of these items as they go. And the nice part about this at least is there's a backs stop and that they will guarantee you are going to see the savings or they will pay that. And so there there's actually it with the guarantee there's less risk than normal because if we don't see the savings that are going to generate then they have to kind of backs stop that.
057And certainly you know when we bring that to the board for your approval you know we'll have done and vetted those projects and made sure that we believe that they make sense before we bring it to the board. But Bill's right. Ultimately, that will rest with the board. If you guys think it's a bad project, we won't do it. So, we're essentially pulling items out of the bond to finance them through this and then we're going to do stuff that's above the 170 million scope that needs to be done anyways. Is that is that what you're telling us? That's part of it. But I would also like Phil said echo that part of our concern is when we get to 2030 in the bond, you know, right now we've kind of priced out what we
058think a boiler will cost. We've built in a 10% contingency in case it's more than that. But if it's 25% more than we originally budgeted this by pulling some of those projects out of the fund, out of the voted bond, we will have a couple million dollars to address projects like that that are overrun because they're 10 years down the road and nobody was able to adequately estimate the amount of inflation or tariffs that took place um over those 10 years. So it's it it is to potentially do additional projects, but more than that is to build in a little bit of a safeguard so that if the pro if the cost of the projects that are in the bond is more than we we can afford out of the bond is more than was
059budgeted in the bond, now we've got some additional savings to address those items and make sure that we are able to pull off every single project that we promised we would pull off in the bond. Yeah. I'll give you like one example would be steel. Just a lot of our we we use structural steel and in and a lot of things beams things like that. When we did this we had no anticipation that there was going to be steel tariffs. So right now it it the projection is roughly it's going to add about 5% to the rest of the bond as we do steel. So we need to hedge against that as much as possible. So it who knows I mean if anybody can predict kind of where tariffs are going to go that's that's
060kind of the big thing and inflation but this will just give us the ability in order to kind of see those through. Now if you know everything happens and and in a year from now those tariffs are gone and as we get into especially the elementary buildings and steel comes down because we can't get it. They don't really make it in the United States. So then it's going to be subject and then we're we're running ahead now that could free up some money that you could do some of those other things. So we could do more boilers, we could do more things like that in order to kind of accomplish those things. Um like with everything we try and just like with the budget, we try and be very conservative because like even this it
061doesn't have a lot of like the Simco rebates, the the other things because we don't know where those will be at that point. They offer those generally, but there's additional savings. And those savings, I believe, if we get those, they go go to the district. Correct. Yep. Sure. Do Yes. So, we're we're trying to find the best business case where it's kind of a wash. It gives us the amount of freedom that we have and then then as it goes through, the board gets to pick each project as it comes across. The only other thing I'll add is this did come in front of the finance committee. Uh, and I see Kurt's not here. I know he was out of town today, but uh you know we have a consultant that really is kind of
062an intermediary between you know us and Centrics at this time and he was in support of it at the finance committee meeting. Yeah, I think you guys have met Kurt a couple times up here at the podium. He's he's what they refer to as an uh owner rep, which basically Yes. He he helps us to navigate the projects with Centrics. Um, I I I've learned so much about energy services contracts. Uh, I can't believe it. I had no idea how these things worked until recently. And, uh, thanks to Ron and, uh, also Kurt on that because, uh, I don't think I could have navigated that without their help. Is, um, is Centrex working with any other school districts within Michigan? And if they are, are they meeting or exceeding the projections that they've given us
063here tonight? right now. Uh I right now a couple things with that is that Centrics in Michigan and Indiana um we're we're a nationwide organization, but we just started a subsidiary a year ago here with Centrics, but I've done over a hundred projects and $300 million worth of work in Michigan myself, the legislation that supports these efforts. Um my team wrote with the help of Senator Kypers out of West Michigan. Um and so we've got a lot of knowledge. Our whole team that came over is all from Johnson Controls that have been doing this since 1997 with me. It's all my all my teammates. And so, so from that standpoint, we bring a boatload of experience, but it's more on the individual basis, not necessarily the Centric's name. Okay. Um, to be to be transparent
064on that and so we're looking forward to making you guys a showcase. So, Anchor Bay would be the first school district. Yeah. For Centrics. Yes. In Michigan. Yes. In Michigan. Thank you. Yeah. We've got all kinds down in the south, but in Michigan, this is just So, you're working with school districts down south in other state. You're currently working with other school districts outside of Michigan. Yes. And the numbers that you've proposed to them are similar and you're meeting or exceeding those savings as well. Yeah, every school district's a little bit different just depending on what improvement measures have been done already and what haven't. So, that's hard to answer directly. Um, you know, I mean, but the whole idea is the same. Okay. is is that we do these improvements, we generate energy savings,
065we guarantee those energy savings and then use that savings out of the general fund to pay for the improvements. Sure. And it's all budget neutral. So there's no negative impact to fund equity or your general fund balance using money you're already spending today just differently. Okay. Thank you. And Todd, you mentioned uh our school uh food fund. Um there's certain restrictions on what we can spend that money on. we can't raid that fund for anything that's really outside of of lunch services or breakfast services, whatever that might be. So, um the ability to save some money out of that fund um is a tremendous value for us. You know, we're not taking out the general fund. Um right, we can charge these costs and that's why they're broken out separately, the kitchen utilities directly to
066the kitchen versus the entire building. And we can't do anything. We can't break that apart. So, um it is a savings to the general fund and quite frankly, how much do we have in our uh our food service fund? Well, you know, I I don't I I'll get you close. I don't know if I know exactly. It's several hundred,000. Yeah, it's I think it's, you know, close to eight or $900,000. Um, I think that uh we've got about $300,000 that in our spendown plan um that we're I guess the state of Michigan doesn't require it anymore, but they you know, they would like us to do that. So, you know, unfortunately, you're right. We can't use our general fund money or we could use general fund monies. We could also we can't use food service
067monies to pay for those improvements, but we can use energy bonds to pay for those improvements. So, by using this, we're not really dipping out of the general fund. We're dipping out of energy bonds, and the savings will be about $183,000 in utilities to the general fund that will now be picked up by the food service fund. So, um by separating out the utilities. Yeah. And then and you know, right now they're they're continuing to add profit every single year. So, they have enough money to pay for those increased costs and it saves it out of the general fund. So, um, that that's a huge I mean, you're you're you're talking about 290 thou the payback on that is less than three years. So, it's a great savings to the general fund. Any other questions
068or comments from the board before we move on? Just I I missed it at the beginning. The the gentleman with you, Todd, where is he from? Uh, go ahead, Ron. I'm Ron Stimick. I'm from Centric's partner. You're from C. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else? Thanks, guys. Uh hearing nothing else, we'll move on to our consent agenda. Uh items on the consent agenda are of a recurring nature and are voted on as 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. Recommended action from administration is that the board of education approve the consent agenda, minutes, personnel report, financial reports, and bills payable. So moved. support motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Powers. Comments, questions, or concerns. I
069only have one. Uh, traditionally, Mr. Jankowski, and it's it's been just a little bit since we've mentioned this. Um, the board previously requested resumeumés for anyone that's being new hired outside the district. I don't think you guys would object to still getting those uh as part of your packet. So, um, when we're approving, we can have a look at who we're hiring, kind of where they're coming from, what their background is, what their education is. Um, just to make sure that we're, you know, that we're making the right choice. Again, that's just on new hires, Mr. Superintendent. Okay. Anybody else comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none, Mr. Secretary, can you call the role on that, please? Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger. Yes. Mr. Venatilli. Yes. Richards is yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion
070carries. Moving on to new business. Uh, first item up is the energy bond resolution, which is the presentation that we just had. The energy bond resolution before you tonight will authorize the district to issue up to 11 million in energy bonds. The goal in doing so is really twofold as you just heard. One, we recognize that the 2022 bond is a 10 to 12 year endeavor and that the cost of the projects at the passage of the bond continue to get more expensive. By leveraging energy bonds, the district is able to ensure all the projects get accomplished and acts as a hedge against inflation as the superintendent just mentioned. Secondly, uh expediting the timeline of these projects will result in a greater utility savings for the district. The energy bonds will be paid almost entirely
071by the savings generated from the energy savings that result from these upgrades. The recommended action from administration is that the board of education approve the energy bond resolution as you have it in front of you. I would entertain a motion to that effect. And I won't be reading the entire uh resolution because it's about 30 pages and nobody will survive my voice for that long. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, support by Mr. Sunnyberger. Uh comments, questions, discussion. I know we just had a lengthy presentation, but if anybody has anything they want to add before we move to a vote. Um I did have one question. It's coming up later. It's talking about our plumbing. And so I'm seeing the water conservation and the energy bond and just I guess making
072sure that those two um are cohesive so we're not doing do you know what I mean? Two things for that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to like do new plumbing and also have water and then have to go back and and do double work on things. So to kind of and I know here she can actually already thought of that. So yeah, what you guys are going to be asked to approve later is actually for bottle fill stations. So this is totally separate. That would be um need or your it would be flush valves um for like your toilets um sinks and things like that just to adjust the flows of each of those device each of those um units. Um, overall I think this is a very conservative approach which is classic Todd and
073Phil. And I see saving money. I think the last four years we've been doing a lot of spending, planning, all of that. And so now I see that you're kind of fine-tuning where we spend money, how we get money, how we can offset costs. So, um, I do appreciate the energy bond. Anyone else? Any comments, questions, concerns? Hearing none. Since we're uh about to borrow $11 million, could you please call the possibly about to borrow $1 million, please call the RO, sir. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Sunnyberger, yes. Mr. Powers, no. Mr. Venitelli, yes. Richards is no. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Uh on to item two, the Centrics contract. The administration is recommending the approval of the Centrics contract. Centric was the winning bidder of the RFP to provide energy construction services to the district.
074Centrics has years of experience in the sector and providing a very competitive rate to perform the work. By engaging Centrics, we will be able to accomplish about 6 million in bond projects approved in our 2022 bond application. Centrics will be able to perform many of the upgrades to our lighting, boilers, chillers on an expedited time frame, which will allow us to save more money in utility costs. These utility savings will impact the general fund bottom line and allow the district to pay for a significant amount of the upgrades from those utility savings. Please note that any projects undertaken by Citrix will be board approved prior to their implementation. As was discussed a little bit ago, uh the recommended action from administration is that the board of education approve the Centrics contract as presented. Do I
075have a motion to that effect? Make that motion. I'll support motion by Mr. Vanitelli, supported by Miss Knox. Comments, questions, or concerns from the board? Hearing none, uh Mr. Richards, if you'd be so kind. Sure. Mr. Vinatilli? Yes. Miss Knox? Yes. Mr. Sunnyberger? Yes. Mr. Powers? No. Mr. Richards? Is a no. Mr. Green? Yes. Motion carries. Uh, moving on to item number three, the resolution for the school bond loan fund. The district participates in the school loan revolving fund and every year is required to perform a fiscal analysis to determine if the tax revenues collected from district taxpayers is sufficient to pay the district's bonded debt obligations for the school year. For the 2025 20226 school year, it is anticipated the district will have excess funds of approximately 2,779,196 that will be used to pay
076the outstanding balance of the roughly 12,799,949.68 currently held by the school loan revolving fund. The resolution before the board authorizes the payment of the excess tax funds to the school loan revolving fund in satisfaction of the port of a portion of the district's outstanding debt. Recommended action is the board of education approve school bond loan fund as presented. Do I have a motion to that effect? I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Mr. Benitelli comments, questions or concerns on this payment hearing? None. Mr. Richards. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venatilli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Richard is yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Moving on to item four under new business. Uh this is the original budget approval for next year's budget, the 2025-26 budget. Uh as we
077have had a presentation here tonight on that. Uh the rationale is the board will review the proposed revenue and expenditures for the fiscal year 2526. The recommended action is that the board of education approved the original budget for 2025 2026 as it has been presented to you this evening. Do I have a motion to that effect? I'll make the motion support. Oh, gotcha. I think I think you did. Um, motion by Mr. Vanitelli, supported by Mr. Powers. Questions, comments, or concerns? Hearing none. Mr. Richards. Mr. Venatilli? Yes. Mr. Powers? Yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger? Yes. Richards is yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Green, yes. The motion carries. We have a budget and we met the deadline, which is great because the state doesn't seem to be too concerned about getting us accurate numbers. So, it's a little
078bit of a little bit of a a dart toss, which again, I appreciate how you and Todd conduct that and conservatively look at it as Miss Knox already referenced. Next item on the list is the final budget amendments for the current year 2024205. The enclosed final budget represents proposed amendments for the 2024 2025 school year. The recommended action is that the board of education approve the final budget amendments for 2024 and 2025 as they have been presented to you this evening. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Thank you. That was close. All right. All right. Uh motion by Mr. Vanitelli, supported by Mr. Sunnyberger. Comments, questions, or concerns. Hearing none. Mr. Secretary, Mr. Venitilli? Yes. Mr. Sunnyberger? Yes. Mr. Powers? Yes. Mr. Richard is a yes. Miss Knox, yes. And Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries.
079Moving on to field trips, something other than money. Um although a lot of money for parents. Middle school south 8th grade trip to Washington DC with four staff and 10 parent chaperones traveling April 3rd through May 2nd of 2026 is the first item up. Did you say April 3rd? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Um, April 30 through May 2nd of 2026. The recommended action is that the board of education approved the middle school south 8th grade Washington DC field trip on April 30th through May 2nd. Do I have a motion? I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Sunnyberger. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none. Mr. Secretary, Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Mr. Richards, is a yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. The other
080item under field trips is the Cedar Point field trip, middle school south, Cedar Point reward trip with 16 strapons on May 21st, 2026. Recommended action is that the board of education approve the Cedar Point field trip on May 21st, 2026. A motion. I'll support motion by Mr. Sunnyberg, supported by um Mr. Richards. Uh it looks like there's 16 chaperones going on this trip and I'm going to guess got to be probably 150 kids. I know we're kind of throwing dart because it's Yeah, it's this is the one that's the reward trip depending on how students are and all of that. So um we don't know exactly how many but I mean you can basically pass it with that provision of of 10 to one or something like that. Yeah, I know. I saw Mr. Latona
081out there. I think if if we run into an issue with chaperones, please make sure it circles back to the to the board. Is that something that will be um set in stone like it's if we don't have enough chaperones for all the students coming in, is there anything to stop the uh staff from going ahead anyway or how do we make No, we'll come we can come back to the board depending on what we have. Yeah. Okay. You volunteering for the trip. S point's a lot of fun too so I imagine. There you go. You have another volunteer. Okay. Well, you got another chaperone. That's 17. Yes. Historically, there are many parents that drive down there separately if they could. I certainly did for both of my kids. So, Sunnyburg's 18. All right. So,
082hearing no further comments, questions, or concerns, please call the role on going to Cedar Point. Mr. Sunnyberger, yes. Richards is yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Motion carries. Item seven, policy. Second reading. We're going to be updating policies. Whoops, excuse me. Uh 5014, supplement, not supplant. It's Perkins. Uh 6002, safety and security. 6003, Firearms and Other Weapons. 6004, School Crisis Response and Closure. and 8002 Americans with Disabilities Act and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act section 504. Recommended action is that the board of education approve the policy updates as presented. You should have them in your packet and this is from Miller Johnson who is our policy law firm and makes these recommendations uh annually. Do I have a motion to that effect? So moved support. I'm sorry.
083Who was my motion maker? Mr. Power supported by Miss Knox. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none? Sir. Sure. Mr. Powers. Yes. Miss Knox. Yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger. Yes, Mr. Vinatili. Yes, Richards. Yes, Mr. Green. Yes. Motion carries. Moving on to item eight, award recommendations. This first award recommendation is for district districtwide plumbing upgrades. Rationale here is that the Anker Bay School District accepted bids on June 10th, 2025 for district district wide plumbing upgrades, bottle fill stations. After post bid interviews, we recommend awarding the contract for district-wide plumbing upgrades to Thumb Heating and Cooling in the amount of $350,410. Although Thumb was the second lowest bidder, they have demonstrated the capacity to complete the project within the required filter first grant timeline. Thumb heating and cooling has the necessary staffing and resources to ensure timely and effective
084efficient project completion aligning with the grant's objectives and compliance requirements. Project is being funded through the filter first grant. The recommendation is the board of education award thumb heating and cooling the district-wide plumbing upgrade contract as stated in the specifications. the amount of $350,410 as presented. I have a motion to that effect. I'll make the motion. I'll second. All right. Motion by Miss Knox, supported uh by Mr. Vetelli. I have Miss Wy at the podium uh for any questions that you may have of her. Go ahead. Yeah, I have a quick question. So, with regards to it looks like Sorry. Um looks like Eur Mechanical is the lowest bidder and what was the determination determining factor to deter say like they weren't capable of doing the project as well as uh thumb uh heating and
085cooling was. So during um our post interviews questions were raised that um didn't feel that they could complete the project within the timeline. they were going to use their service technicians as fill-ins um to, you know, come when they had time. In addition to they didn't answer the questions for like the mason work and electrical. I wasn't confident that all of their costs were associated in there. I felt like we would have some change orders coming our way. Um in talking to Thumb, they have a dedicated service team that will be out here. they felt confident that they would have the project completed by the end of the summer. Um the specifications we asked for was the end of December. So we are very pleased with them trying to push it through to you know
086for the start of the school year. Um the grant is a total of $385,000. So it is being completely funded by the grant. I like I said during postit interviews it was very apparent um to us that we thought would be able to you know do it within our timeline um without change orders. Okay. And so when you say when they're bringing out service technicians you mean u technicians that were not part of their company that they're sort of contracting out to do the work. would be technicians that were part of their company, but if they were on service calls, so if they didn't have a service call, it seemed like then they would send send a service tech our way. So, it didn't seem like they were dedicating a certain group of technicians to
087us. Um, I wasn't confident we would make the timeline by December, let alone the filter first timeline of June of 2026. Okay. We talked about this a couple months ago in building committee, correct? Mhm. There, if I remember correctly, there was a portion of this project that was not going to be covered through grants. Have we not got there yet or is it all going to be covered by grants? So, the first round of funding, it's just for bottle fills. Okay. So, Eagle has not come out with a second round of funding yet. So, the funding for this is strictly bottle fills. What is not included would be the filters for say our kitchens. Okay. So that's not on here yet, but it's not a requirement yet. So our bottle fills have to be installed
088by June 30th of 2026. So that's still coming down the road, the portion that we're going to have to pay for. And we still don't know what that exact number would not have to pay for it unless it's being funded through the filter first grant. Okay. All right. So you don't have to comply with it unless we're getting funding. What is the $3,900 ad for LK? What is LK? So they um Thumb Coast originally bid Oasis filter or bottle fills. What we have currently being installed through the bond is LK. Okay. So we had they had an alternate for an additional $3,900. It just made sense because we've already got LK going in district to keep them all uniform. That makes sense. And this grant is a uh state requirement if I'm correct. Right. The
089the bottle. This is all part of the filter first. So you have to have one bottle fill per 100 students per building. Okay. So this is all right. Okay. So this is the requirement that we take. It is a requirement. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments, questions or concerns? Hearing none. Um Mr. Richards. Sure. Miss Knox. Yes. Mr. Venatilli. Yes. Mr. Sunnyberger. Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Moving on to item B. Under award recommendations for a server. A number of technology updates are being made. By the way, thanks, Miss Wy. Uh, a number of technology updates are being made to the district, including public address upgrades, digital clocks, and an emergency alert system. The demands of these technology implementations necess necessitate the addition of new servers to host the
090technology applications. The addition of these servers will also provide redundancy and failover to ensure the applications remain running in the event of a server failure. The proposed award has been selected off of the negotiated the pre-bid list contract and meets all of the state bid requirements. Administration recommends that the board approve this purchase in the amount of $65,427.3. So the recommendation from administration again is that the board of education approve the award to MCMP TSG at for $65,427.3 for the project services. And in your packet, you should have the quote. And I would entertain a motion to that effect. I'll make the motion. Motion by Miss Knox. I'll second. Supported by Mr. Sunnyberger. I have Mr. Rathbun at the podium for any questions, comments, or concerns. Todd, can you walk us through what the REMMC
091uh bid process is? Yeah, REMC is uh a program that the state of Michigan does um for certain technology and supplies and so forth that are utilized by public schools as well as other uh governmental units across the state of Michigan. And what they do is that they will go out and uh they'll solicit ideas from what what people would like to buy and then they will take that to the vendors and they will say you know we're going to have Chromebooks for example um give us your best price on Chromebooks. So they go through that whole vetting process with this supplier. They get the most competitive bids from folks uh who are willing to bid on those particular items and it streamlines the process a little bit for schools like us because we can
092go to the REMY get a great price and we know that it's been thoroughly vetted, thoroughly bid and we're in compliance with the state of Michigan. It allows us to go a little bit faster as opposed to being being required to go out and bid it ourselves, which is uh at least a six week process. Sure. Statewide program. It's a statewide program. Yep. Every school has access to it. Thank you. Anybody else? Hearing none. Uh Mr. Secretary, could you call the role on that, please? Sure. Miss Knox? Yes. Mr. Sunnyberger? Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Mr. Venitilli. Yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Uh, next up, item three. The board of education moves to a close session for student discipline pursuant to open meetings act section 8B for student discipline. Uh, the recommended uh
093action of the administration is that we move into uh close session for that student discipline. Do I have uh a motion to that effect? So moved. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing nothing. Could you call the role, sir? Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitelli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyberger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. We will move into close session at 8:37. um board, if you want to take five minutes to um get a breather, get some air, uh we will meet in the conference room after that. All right. At this time, I would entertain a motion to come back into open session. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. comments, questions, or concerns hearing none. Uh, Mr. Secretary,
094you can call a roll call vote, please. Miss Knox, here. Mr. Venitelli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Richards is yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Uh, following our closed session, board members, what say you? There is uh in the student discipline matter for student number 08881. Uh the recommendate recommended motion is to suspend the student for 30 days of which 22 days will be held in obeyance pending the completion of four conditions. The first condition is the completion of title 9 training provided by CARES. The second is to avoid any cell phone violations for 60 school days. The third is to have a one-on-one meeting with the principal in the building before the beginning of the school year. And the fourth condition is to prepare a statement from the student to be
095given to the principal at that meeting. I would like to make a motion to that effect. I'll second. All right. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venatelli. Comments, questions, concerns? Hearing none. Uh, Mr. Secretary, could you call a roll call vote, please? Sure. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Vanilli, yes. Mr. Sunnyberger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Richards is yes. Mr. Green, no. Motion carries. On to the next agenda item. Uh the board of education moves to a close session for collective bargaining strategy pursuant to open meetings act section 8C. The recommendation is that we uh we do move to close session. Do I have a motion to that effect? I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. Comments, questions, or concerns. Hearing none. Please call a roll call vote.
096Sir, Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Mr. Mr. Sunnyburgger. Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. We are back into close session at 953. Thank. All right. At this time, I would entertain a motion to go back into open session. So moved. Second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Vanitelli. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none, please call the role, sir. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Mr. Sunnyberger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. We are back into open session at 11:32 p.m. That's what I said, 11:32. Appreciate those of you that are still with us. Um let's continue on back down our agenda uh with the first item after the close session. Item one is administrator contract extensions. The following administrators are being presented uh
097for contract extension as an anchor bay school district administrator through June 30 2027. Uh the recommended action is that the board of education approve the administrator contracts through June 30, 2027 as presented. Do I have a motion? I'll make the motion. I'll second. I have a motion from Miss Knox, seconded by Mr. Venitelli. Comments or questions, concerns? All right. Hearing none. Uh, call a roll call vote, sir. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venatilli, yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, I'm sorry. We're just voting on on doing the voting. Correct. We're not. We are reviewing the item one, the administrator contract extensions and approving all of the contract extensions for those folks listed in that motion that should be attached for you. They're individuals. Individual contracts. Okay. We're not on number two yet. My bad. We are
098not on number two, sir. Yes. You're Yes. Yes. Yes. Richard's. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Motion carries. Moving on to item two. We are going to handle um all of these contracts individually. Uh I'm sorry, all of these um TAS, tenative agreements individually. So, uh I will start uh with item two is the teamsters. So, uh, first up is the approval of the Teamsters tenative agreement as has been presented to you for the director's group. Do I have a motion to approve that tenative agreement for the director's group? I will make that motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported uh by Mr. Venitelli. comments, questions, or concerns hearing? None. Uh, Mr. Secretary, could you call the role for the director's, please? Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Vinatelli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, no. Mr. Richards,
099is a yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. That approves the tenative agreement with the directors. We are going to move on to the next Teamster group which is the coordinators and supervisors. At this time I will entertain a motion to approve their tenative agreement as has been presented to you. I'll make the motion. I will second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none, could you call the role for the coordinators and supervisors tenative agreement, please? Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Moving on with the teamsters to item C is the building administrators. I will entertain a motion at this time to entertain uh to approve the building administrator's tenative agreement as has been presented. I'll
100make the motion. I will second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none, Mr. Secretary, if you'd be so kind. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitelli, yes. Mr. Mr. Sunnyburgger. Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Uh, moving on again with the teamsters to item D is our central support staff. I would entertain a motion to approve their tenative agreement as it has been presented to you tonight. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. questions, comments, or concerns? Unaffiliated. So, um I recant my statement about Teamsters. However, that doesn't change that we can vote at this point on No, I appreciate that they ended up on my list under Teamster. So, um that's okay. Um so, I have a
101motion and a support. Uh, any other comments, questions, or concerns? Uh, Mr. Secretary, if you wouldn't mind. I think you pretty much know what you're doing by now. Yes. Yes. Yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitelli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Uh, Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Moving on. Item E. Under the teamsters is our office managers and secretaries. Uh I would entertain a motion at this time to approve their tenative agreement as has been presented to you tonight. So moved. Seconded. Motion by Miss Knox. Supported by Mr. Venitali. Comments, questions, or concerns? Mr. Secretary. Miss Knox. Yes. Mr. Venitelli. Yes. Mr. Sunnyberger. Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Richards. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. All right. We'll move on to the ASME group. Uh unless somebody has an objection. I am planning on doing
102the ASME group as one approval for the custodians, the bus drivers, and the food service. So, uh the recommended action is to approve the tenative agreements as have been presented in front of you tonight for the custodians, the bus drivers, and food service. Do I have a motion to that effect? So moved. Seconded. Motion by power supported by Venitelli. Questions, comments, or concerns about that group. Hearing none. Uh, Mr. Secretary, Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. And Miss Knox, yes. Sorry. All right, we're going to move on to the non-affffiliated group. Uh I am going to separate out those I guess it's four groups, three groups, including the superintendent. Uh the first group in the non-affiliated category is our technology group. At this time, I would entertain
103a motion to approve their ten of agreement as presented. I make the motion. I will second. Uh motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. Comments, questions, or concerns. Hearing none. Mr. Secretary, please. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Vanitelli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries on the technology agreement. Uh I move on to item B uh and seek a motion to approve the assistant superintendent contract uh tenative agreement as it has been presented to you this evening. I'll motion I'll support motion by Mr. Sunnyberger supported by Miss Knox. Uh comments, questions or concerns? Hearing none. Mr. Richards. Mr. Sunonnyburgger. Yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Item C is the super superintendent contract adjustment. Uh per MCL 380.1249B,
104the contract governing the employee employment of a school district superintendent or intermediate superintendent must include an appeal process concerning the evaluation process and rating received. This subdivision applies to a contract that is entered into, extended, renewed, or modified on or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this sentence. That's a mouthful. Accordingly, the recommendation is to add language to the superintendent's already approved contract extension that the superintendent may appeal any evaluation rating less than an effective rating by notifying the board president in writing within 30 calendar days after being informed of the evaluation rating. The appeal will be handled according to the process current arbitration clause of the superintendent's contract. The recommended action is that the board of education approve the superintendent's evaluation appeal process as presented. I will entertain a motion
105to that effect. I'll make the motion. I will second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. Questions, comments, or concerns? Mr. Secretary, if you'd be so kind. One second. Miss Knox. Yes. Mr. Vanitelli. Yes, Mr. Sunnyberger. Yes, Mr. Powers. Yes, Richards. Yes, Mr. Green. Yes. Motion carries. On to uh item two, under the superintendent contract adjustment. According to public acts 224 and 225 of 2023, beginning in the fall of 2024, effectiveness ratings options have changed through June 30 2024. There were four categories ineffective, minimally effective, effective, and highly effective. Subsequently, those categories have changed to three, needing support, developing, and effective. At the most recent evaluation meeting, the superintendent earned 100% of the available points on his evaluation. Therefore, he would have been awarded his contractual performance bonus of 2% under the system that
106was in place at the time his contract was adopted. As discussed at that meeting, the board would adjust the contract to the new evaluation requirements when making the annual contract adjustments to comply with new state laws, state pension requirements, etc. This proposal is to revise the bonus language for this year and subsequent years, which is currently 1% for effective, 2% for highly effective. instead changing it to 2% for effective as that is now the highest level that the superintendent can obtain. The recommended action is the board of education approve the superintendent evaluation bonus adjustment. At this time I would entertain a motion to that effect. I'll make the motion. I'll support motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. Um comments, questions or concerns about this change? Hearing none. Uh, Mr. Secretary, if you wouldn't
107mind calling the role. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitelli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Moving on to item five. ABA proposed letters of agreement. Attached are two letters of agreements between the ABAMEA and the district. They are largely a result of the middle school reconfiguration. The first details with the first deals with ensuring educational supervision of recess/ lunch and ensuring our teachers meet their contractually obligated release time. The second LOA speaks to seventh and eighth grade sports and ensures that coaching staffs are sufficient to meet possible increased number of student athletes. Recommendation is that the board of education approve the LOAs between the ABAMEA and the district as presented to you this evening. I would entertain a motion to that effect. I'll make the motion. I'll support
108motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venitelli. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none, Mr. Secretary, would you call the role, please? Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Miss Powers, yes. Richards, yes. Green, yes. Motion carries. Item six, new Baltimore Police Contract. The city of New Baltimore will provide a school resource officer full-time for 8 hours a day for 180 days. Please refer to the attached agreement in your packet with the New Baltimore Police and the Anchor Bay School District. The recommended action is the board of education approved the agreement with the New Baltimore Police for school years 2526, 2627, 2728, and 2829. I would entertain a motion to that effects. I'll make the motion. I'll second motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Venetelli. Questions, comments, or concerns. I see Mr. Rathbun
109making his way to the podium. Yeah, I just wanted to um bring to the board's attention. We talked about this a little bit in the finance committee and there were a couple points that were asked before we brought the contract for the board. So, um I believe it's in clause number two or provision number two of that contract. Uh the two items that um I think were brought up during the finance committee that were we were asked to address before presenting this to the board was one if the uh officer is not able to be there for some reason that we would prorrate the contract for that for that day when they're not able to be here. Um we have successfully added that to uh the second clause there. And then the other item that
110was an import to the finance committee was that we would have consistency of that SRO meaning um there was some concern about the shifts and how how long they work and whether they would be there the full week. We have also modified the language to make sure that the SRO is the same person that will be reporting on a daily basis. So, it won't be a situation where um you know, if I'm working a 12-h hour shift or something like that and I get all my hours in by Wednesday, then I'm not there on Thursday and I'm not there on Friday. These are eight hour shifts and it will be the same SRO that's reporting there. Anything else, Mr. P? That's all I wanted to share. Just that we had addressed those concerns. So, those
111were definitely two concerns that we had at finance. Uh I will only tell the board that this is pretty much in line with uh a review of Slair County as well as Chesterfield which we did look at at the finance committee as well. Uh and actually I think uh probably shouldn't say it out loud in case the chief's watching in New Baltimore, but I think it's actually less money than what we pay Chesterfield. Um so this has been something that has been a long time coming. Uh and I am glad to see that. Um Todd and Amanda were able to work it out with Chief Blackburn over in New Baltimore to give us this full-time officer to service uh Lighthouse Middle School North uh and Ashley. Anybody other comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none, sir.
112Move to a roll call on that. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venitelli, yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Congratulations, guys. I I really appreciate the hard work you put into that. It's been a lot six, seven years coming that we wanted. A lot of credit to uh Chief Blackburn as well. He was instrumental in getting this done as quickly as we did. That's great. Um, moving on to item seven, retirement resolution. The resolution before the board this evening is to address the result of a recent court settlement by the Michigan Public Employees Office of Retirement Services, also known as OS, related to the Batista case. That case dealt with how ORS was calculating final average compensation for employees that had a der derelictus. Wow, that's that's a big
113word. It's it's too late for that. I'm skipping it. Effect on employee retirement payment amounts. The underlying issue in the case was that OS was concerned that districts were artificially inflating administrator salaries in their final years of service for the sole reason of inflating those administrators pensions amount. In the settlement, it was suggested that boards should pass a resolution indicating that increases in the salary award awarded were not for the sole purpose of spiking an employee salary so that they will receive a higher pension amount in retirement. Administration is recommending passage of this resolution indicating that the board has not provided increased compensation to employees to purposely and possibly artificially increase their retirement compensation amounts. Recommended action is that the the board approve the retirement non-spiking resolution. I would entertain a motion to that effect.
114I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Knox, supported by Vendatelli. Comments, questions, or concerns. Hearing none. Mr. Richards. Miss Knox. Yes. Mr. Venitilli. Yes. Mr. Sunnyberg. Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Richards? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Motion carries. Moving on to other items of discussion. Uh let's get started with points of pride and we will start with Mr. Sunnyburgger. I was dismayed today when I um saw the social media post about Fortis. Um it's terrible on so many levels. Uh first of all just the obvious stuff. Uh the if you don't know the post was that we two more board members voted to get rid of Foris. Completely untrue. Obviously, two board members by themselves can't do anything. Second of all, this has not been up at a meeting at all. Um, going beyond that, every
115single one of our reputations was at stake at the social media post cuz who are those two people that voted no? We have no idea. Second of all, Foris, if they're telling somebody, the the the person who made the post said, "I called Foris." If Fortis is telling people two people voted no, I mean that puts Foris's reputation on the line too. Social media is you have to be really careful cuz that did a lot of damage and it it put a negative light on our district and that really irritates me. So that's it. Thank you, Mr. Powers. Uh we lost uh one of our students this past week and um I I've been thinking about that family a lot. I I don't know them personally, but I I've uh they've been in my mind
116a lot this week and um just want to offer my condolences to them and and I hope they have people around them that can help them through this and I hope that they're able to find uh find peace in their life at some point. And I uh it's just sad that anytime we lose one of our students and and I hope I hope they're doing okay. Just been thinking about them a lot. Thank you. Nothing Mr. Manitelli, Miss Knox. Um to speak to what Mr. Sunonnyburgger said and then to play on what Mr. P said is we're trying to teach our children to use social media responsibly and we are not doing it ourselves. We are getting rumors out of control in Bay. Um there was false information out at least twice if not more
117times this week. Just go go directly to the source, email or call a board member. call the superintendent and just say, "Hey, did this happen?" If it happened, we're going to tell you because we had to do it here publicly. So, it's not a secret. Um, and if it didn't happen, we'll tell you it didn't happen. And things can get cleared up much quicker that way. That's it. Mr. Richards, that is a lie. All right. I'd like to say congratulations to class of 2025 and good luck on your future endeavors. Uh, Anker Bay is still hiring for SAC and GSRP programs. If you're interested, please reach out to HR. I'd like to recognize the Lighthouse Student Council as part of their community service project. They use funds to plant flowers at the new Baltimore Police
118Station was as well as the new Baltimore Fire Station. Congratulations to the high school patient care technician class. All 12 students that took this certification class passed and are now certified patient care technicians. The kindergarten bus safety event is I know I can't believe I say this August 12th for Lahi Nald McC on Wednesday the 13th grade oaks lighthouse in Ashley. Not trying to fast forward summer. Um Ankerbase summer basketball camp is July 28th through the 31st through for children ages 7 through 14. To sign up, please reach out to Mr. Celeleski. If you haven't already heard, middle school North starts at 8:00 a.m. next year and middle school south starts at 8:20. Congratulations to junior Kelsey Cole who is part of our advanced graphic design class. Her image was chosen by the Chesterfield Challenge
119Veterans Home and was placed on their van. Great work. Huge congratulations to Ava Sysma, a third grade a third grader Miss Thompson's class at McCon. She was the only student with perfect attendance. Boys and girls tennis camp is July 7th through the 10th for grades 1 through 12. If interested, reach out to Darren Weir. Congratulations to Tyler F and Isaiah D on being selected to the high school baseball all-star game at Kame Park. I'd like to recognize the Anchor Bay Fishing Club that raised funds to sponsor Great Oaks and Lahi Elementary School. They'll be getting the Michigan United Conservation Club tracks magazines. I'd like to thank the high school assistant principles, high school principal, as well as Mr. Titi, Mr. Latona, and Mr. Celelesi who participated in our last policy meeting. were able to talk
120about plans to make our district-wide cell phone ban a success. Thank you for your time. Also, due to staff survey feedback, I did request uh backpack usage be added to the next policy meeting so we can discuss what the next steps are with backpacks. Thank you very much and enjoy your summer. So, I'll I'll start with actually probably an apology to my fellow board members. Um, I actually had the in uh attent in intention of having a moment of silence for our lost student. So, even though it is much later in the night than when we s sat down at this table, um, I would still request a moment of silence for that student if you would all join me. Thank you. I I I really appreciate it. I can't imagine what the family is
121going through. Uh so my thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of that student. Uh and as well want to call attention to the resources that the district has available um for, you know, for the community as a whole, for our students and for our staff that that knew this uh individual. uh and that I believe that we have uh Sherry's kind of heading up that Sher Kenward heading heading up the any type of concerns that anyone may have or needs to reach out for help. Um please reach out to Sher Kenward at the high school. I know, you know, no one's there, per se, but uh you can get to her voicemail and leave her a number and and she can get back to you with resources and support because I know
122this is equally as hard for um our staff as it is for for students. So, I appreciate that moment of silence. On a little more positive note, I I need to give a shout out to Corey Wy and Superintendent Janowski. Um the Bay Rama festival was in the park downtown New Baltimore over the weekend and on um we had a a a flood out essentially. I'm sure some of you saw the pictures of the water flowing down the stairs like it was a white a white water uh rafting trip. uh flooded the park and uh Superintendent Janowski and uh Corey Wy put together fairly quickly, when I say quickly, within an hour, a team that was able to let the Bayama folks into Middle School North and they were able to conduct their pageant there
123uh in the Commons. Uh so that is greatly appreciated and as well as Mr. Titi who's who suddenly showed up on scene um to offer his help as well. So that was awesome. I think that is the type of partnership that I'm looking for out of my superintendent and my directors where they are if if we're able to help in a situation like that that we can jump to action that quickly. Uh and I know it was already mentioned that we had some flooding I think in Lighthouse. Um you know Corey and her team was already there and pulled themselves away from there to make sure that middle school North was ready to go. And I the Bay Rama committee sends their their greatest appreciation to you and to Corey. Uh let's move on to
124Legislative update as has been the case for I don't know most of the last year, not much is going on. Just for comparison, if you were to take this first six months of last session when it first started, there were 119 public acts that were passed by that time. So far, five. One of which, the only one that pertains to school was the snow day forgiveness for those that were up north and the ice storms. The big thing is, and I should check, yes, there is a slight chance that today is the last session day before July 1st, which is their statutory deadline that they self-impose to have the uh budget set that So, it might happen, but I doubt it will. We're looking at it's probably going to be September or October because they
125are out I believe all of July. They will not be back until August. Um so that's it. Um committee updates. I know we talked a little bit about a finance committee meeting and reviewing all of those contracts that that were approved tonight. Uh so I appreciate that. Uh it was quite a lengthy meeting. Uh, and then the executive committee met with Superintendent Janowski to review the contract changes that we legally were obligated to make or were recommended. Uh, as well as everything else that came in front of the board tonight. Um, does anybody else have a committee update that they might want to share? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Second. Comments, questions, or concerns? All those in favor of going home signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed? Motion
126carries. 12:01.