May 28, 2025 - Board Meeting

001Mr. Powers, to your seat. Mr. Powers, to your seat. Do that on your time. Not mine. All right. I think we're we're rolling here. So, I'm going to call to order the special board of education meeting of May 28th, 2025. I have 6:31 p.m. And we'll begin as always with the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag. Mr. Richards, could you call the role, please? Mr. Green, present. Miss Knox, here. Richards is here. Mr. Venatilli here. Miss Burkemeer here. Mr. Powers here. Mr. Sunnyberger here. We have a quorum. Uh, at this time, I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. So moved. Seconded. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Vendatelli. Comments, questions, or concerns? Uh, hearing nothing. Can we call the role for the approval of the agenda, sir? Miss

002Knox, yes. Mr. Vinatelli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyberger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Miss Burkmeer. Richards is yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. All right, moving on down the agenda. Our first item is the MISD bianial election. Uh, this resolution is to consider designation of electoral representative for the June 2nd, 2025 MISD bienial election meeting. Revisions to the revised school code require school districts to consider the designation of a representative who will vote on behalf of the district in the MISD board of education elections. So in front of you um I'm sorry thinking about the other the other item agenda. Um there is uh the attached is the resolution. Uh, and on that resolution, I'm looking through here expecting to see some names on there. Why was I not? That's what I thought, too. But they're on they're

003on my agenda for the regular meeting, right? I'm sorry. Does anybody have the list of three names? Look, I just saw them. So, they must be on our regular agenda. I apologize, guys. The the candidates are Edward V. Farley, incumbent, Donald R. Hubler, incumbent, and Ian Colin McCain. Uh so at this point I will entertain a motion uh to select two to select uh to designate one as our primary voter and then a second off of that list as uh an alternate. Oh, the board has one vote. I'm sorry I didn't check this coming through my email. Um, all right. So, I need to entertain a motion for uh one of the Anchor Bay board members uh and an alternate to the elect the two candidates on Monday, June 2nd, 2025. Um before we do

004entertain that motion, uh I will remind everybody that if for some reason graduation doesn't go off tomorrow, um that uh it'll be scheduled for Monday, June 2nd. I think our graduation will need to be here by 6:45. And I actually don't see the meeting time listed on here. Is it like election day where it's throughout the day you can pop in? Okay. Yeah. I mean, as long as it's a a window of time, I can I can do it. Okay. Provided it doesn't have to be later in in the evening. Right. Right. I'm assuming you're attending graduation. Is that your plan? Uh, yeah. I would I would I would be attending graduation. Okay. if it gets uh delayed. But um so sir, are you making a motion that uh you would be our designate for

005this? I was I was gonna say so basically you have a 3-hour time period. You may vote from 400 p.m. through 7:00 p.m. Is it Warren? I can be there at 4 to do it. So if nobody else is is just, you know, this has been their life goal to attend this and be the voter. Um I assume this is the MISD office right on Garfield. I'll take one for the team and do it in room 2011. Yep. On the second floor right by the ele. So it sounds like I've got a motion from Mr. Powers nominating himself. Do I have uh an alternate as part of that motion to Mr. Power? Second that that you'll go. Oh, I'll be the Mr. Vendetti wanted to be the alternate. So, is that your motion, sir? Yeah,

006I guess. Okay. Yes. I need a support for that, sir. I file that motion. I can hear surface music playing. Um, all right. So, I've got a motion by Mr. Powers, supported by Mr. Benitelli, that Mr. Powers will be our designate, and Mr. Benitelli will be our alternate. Who are we voting for? We have to also pick two of the three. Yep. So, why don't we um move on that motion? Do I have a second? I do have a second. Y any comments, questions, or concerns about those two nominees. All right. Uh hearing none. Could you call the role for that, sir? Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Vinatili, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Richard is a yes. Miss Burkemeer. Mr. Sunonnyberger. Yes. Bill, do we need to uh decide who we're going to elect

007or we does that happen in our meeting today? All right. So again, Mr. Farley, Mr. Hubbler, uh, and Mr. McCain are the three candidates. Farley and Hubler are both incumbents. Uh, the only thought I have is, uh, as far as Mr. Hubler is, is that, um, he's heavily involved in MFB. Um he's kind of everywhere with that. That's he just got elected in the last six months I think. So um so with that being said I would uh I personally would believe that he's he's very dedicated to the to what we're doing at MISD. He's very dedicated to education and if he's at a national level at this point uh I certainly don't see that there be any reason not to elect him to this. Um, but I am certainly open for discussion for any

008of the three. Does anybody else have a preference? I personally would prefer to see a fresh face. Um, so my, you know, my preference would be to go with the non-incumbent at least as one of the choices. But I would agree with Lisa. But I do like Hubler as the other. Okay. So, we're thinking McCain and Hubler. Lisa, are you okay with that or are you thinking that you would rather go with Farley over Hubbler? Do you have a preference there? I I know you the ISD if more than I have. So, I mean, I would prefer to only vote for one, but I I can be amendable to that. Well, do we have to select two? What's the board's pleasure? What do you guys want? I mean, I can I I'm I'm not I

009realize that that's probably not a popular opinion, but So, I uh I'm fine with with adding a second candidate on if that's what everyone else wants to do. All right. So, at this point, I'll entertain a motion as to which two candidates we want to select. Anybody feels comfortable making a motion, feel free to speak. If not, we'll select none and we'll move on. Go ahead. Well, I was going to say based on the interest of the board, it sounds like we're going to select uh Mr. Donald R. Hubler and Ian Colin McCain. Uh that's the motion I'll make is that we vote for those two individuals. All right. Do I have a second? I have a second. Do we have any discussion? Am I like I always say I don't want to be difficult

010right before I I be difficult. But am I required to vote how this board authorizes me to vote? I have no like I can't show up that day and be like, "Oh man, I see something here. I don't like run a muck at this." Okay. All right. That's fine. Can't fill in here. All right. So, I've got a motion and a support. Um any further conversation? Hearing none, Mr. Secretary, please call the role for this vote. Uh, Mr. Venatilli, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Miss Burkmire. Richards is yes. And Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. So, we've uh selected Hubler and McCain for your vote on uh Monday, sir. Uh continuing down the agenda for this special uh special board meeting, I have a hearing of the public. I have no

011um requests in front of me. Uh so, hearing that there, seeing that there is no one that wants to address us, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So, moved. Second. All right. All right, I've got a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I. All those opposed. We are adjourned at 6:42. We will reconvene into our regular board meeting at promptly 7 p.m. All right. Good evening. I think we're going to get started. Uh I'm going to call to order the regular board of education meeting of May 28, 2025. I have 7 p.m. Uh, if we could stand for the pledge of allegiance. Five Mr. Richards, if you would uh call the role for us, please sir, Mr. Sunnyberger here, Mr. Powers here, Miss Burkemeer, Mr. Venitelli

012here, Richards is here, Miss Knox here, and Mr. Green here. All right, we have a quorum. Uh, at this time, I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda as it has been presented. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Sunnyburgger. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none, Mr. Secretary, could you call the role? Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Richards, is a yes. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Miss Burkemeer, Mr. Powers. Yes. All right. Motion carries. Uh, moving on down our agenda. Our first presentation and resi. Try that again. Presentation and represent preventative. Boy, I'm going to just struggle tonight. Maybe I need a water. Um, we're going to give Mr. Farley an award for his participation at the meeting. Um, Mr. Farley has uh Nathan Farley

013has been with us for for the full year. uh and he has kept us a breast of what's going on in the district in terms of things that have happened in the past in terms of fundraisers and what's been successful and what our schools have been up to and then he's also kept us a breast of what's happening and what's coming in the future. So uh we appre appreciate all of your efforts uh and we know senior years are tough uh with everything going on and appreciate you making the time to you know to come and visit us uh here monthly. Uh so as such I have uh an award I want to give you and then we'll get the board together and we will get a picture with you before we send you off

014to the Greenland. That's where I'm assuming the shirt is for. So, I'll still give you the plaque even though you're going to Okay. All right. Uh, up next, uh, Miss Gonzalez is going to present our support staff employee of the year. Welcome to the podium, ma'am. Okay. Good evening, board. Uh, it is my pleasure to um present to you our first ever support staff employee of the year, Miss Kathy Hazelpin from Middle School South. Kathy, can you join me, please? So, we received um 20 27 staff members were nominated. Um Kathy received seven nominations from across the district. Um and we are so honored and pleased to present this to her. Kathy's co-workers think highly of her and value the work she does with the students at Middle School South. Her principal, Phil Leona, had

015this to say about her. Kathy exemplifies the qualities of an outstanding employee through her tireless work ethic. Consistently going above and beyond to ensure the resource support center runs smoothly at South. As a servant leader, she prioritizes the needs of others, often stepping in to assist colleagues and students alike with a warm and selfless attitude. Her student centered approach shines through in her daily interaction. Whether she's helping a student increase their level of understanding on a performance task or offering a kind word of encouragement, Cathy's professionalism is evident in her meticulous attention to detail and her ability to handle even the most challenging situations with grace and composure. She is a true asset to the team at South. So Kathy, it is my pleasure to And you get to get a photo with the rest

016of us, too. There are drawbacks to every award. There's drawbacks to every award. All right, as long as we have Miss Collins, Miss Gonzalez at the podium, we shall continue with our recognition. That word out. I'm not sure what's going on. Long day. Okay. All right. You're up. Good evening. So, uh, tonight we'd like to celebrate, uh, our retirees. And with that, I would like to call up Sue Weber. She's a cook at Middle School North. So, Stu started with Ankor Bay. She started as a sub and then became um a food service employee. Her hire date was 98 of 2000. And for 25 years, Sue has gone above and beyond to make sure every student felt cared for, building lasting relationships with students, staff, and families alike. Her kindness and commitment have brightened Middle

017School North each and every day. From a warm greeting to lending a hand, Sue made a difference in so many lives. We are grateful for all the hard work and love Sue has poured into North into the North community. over the years. So Sue, enjoy this welldeserved next chapter. You will be deeply missed. And her co-workers shared with me that when Sue started at Anchor Bay at North, she said, "I'm going to retire from North." So that day, 25 years later, is upon us. So congratulations, Sue. Can I have this for you? Next, I'd like to bring up again Kathy Hazelton. So, Kathy was a paraprofessional in the RSC room at Middle School South. Uh, she was hired August 29th of 2001. Uh, Kathy is always smiling as you can see. Uh even in even

018on the tus toughest of days, she remains the beacon of positivity. She works in the RSC room, but her impact can be seen buildingwide. Job number one for Kathy is making connections and building relationships with the students she services. Whether it is a student or a co-orker, Kathy is there to help. She works tirelessly to make sure her students succeed, often collaborating with their teachers to make sure the student has all that he or she needs to complete any assignment. Kathy's retirement is bittersweet. Though we are happy for her and this new adventure of retirement she is about to embark on, we are sad that she is leaving and we will not get to see her every day. She leaves a legacy of being a compassionate, hard-working, caring, and the glass is half full kind

019of staff member. Thank you, Kathy, for everything both big and small, especially for the students who needed you. Thank you. I'd like to bring up Rebecca Exin or I'm sorry I get you to all the time. Ericson, I apologize. Rebecca was she's a teacher at Lighthouse Elementary. She was hired August 28th of 2000. Rebecca started her career with Anker Bay at Macccants Elementary. During her time as a technology teacher, she taught every grade level across many of our buildings. She currently teaches second grade at Lighthouse, where she's been for approximately the last 15 years. She is a wonderful co-worker who collaborates regularly with her grade level partners. Rebecca likes to help where she can and never hesitates to accept requests for help. She is the go-to person. She is a dedicated teacher who works tirelessly

020for her student success. She will be missed by her teammates and is wished the very best for a long, happy, and healthy retirement. Thank you, Rebecca. Next, we bring up final teacher that's retiring, Cindy Bowman. Come on up, Cindy. So, Cindy is a resource room teacher or a yeah, resource room teacher at Nalret. She was hired August 23rd, 1995. So if you look up synonyms for the name Cindy Bowman, you would find words such as supportive, positive, encouraging, and determined. She is someone who goes above and beyond in everything she does. She loves her students and staff over the years. She has helped countless students, families, and organizations succeed. Heidi Stevenson, her building principal, wrote, "Cindy is very honest and will always tell it like it is, even when you don't want to hear it."

021She has been known to tell it anyways. She is genuine and authentic. That is what people respect about her the most. She advocates for what she believes in, and for that, she showed a true calling for the profession. Just when you think there was no one to help, there would be Cindy, ready and willing to help. No matter what the task, she was there. When former and current students are asked about Mrs. Bowman, they tell you their sentiments are the same. And they will tell you when they thought there was no one else there for them, there was Mrs. Bowman. She never gave up on them. So Cindy, we wish you the best and thank you for all you have done for the students of Ankor Bay, especially those who needed you. Thank you. All

022right. Uh, with that, we're going to take a short recess to celebrate our teachers, but my four teachers need to come up on stage and get a picture with the board before we do that. And then we'll take a five or 10 minute recess. I think there's some cake floating around here somewhere. Uh, and then we'll reconvene. All right, we're going to call the meeting back to order and resume our agenda. Uh again, congratulations to uh the four retirees that were here and all of our retirees from the district irregardless of what position they're in. We appreciate their service. when you hear the stories of 20, 25, 30 years, it's it's amazing. So, we as a board appreciate that uh tremendously. With that being said, we'll move on to the superintendent's update. Mr. Jankowski, thank

023you. As they're pulling up my presentation here, this is the latest update on most of this again will be bond. Okay. And first slide. Okay. So where we are at now is the high school phase one. That's most of the addition is now kind of starting to wind down. So it's punch list has been issued. The completion items and startups of equipment so they can test all of that final cleaning and final inspections. And that's primarily the state building, the state fire, state mechanical, and then the St. Clair health department. Next slide. So this is the current state of the restaurant. You can see it's coming along very nicely. So, right now they're just getting ready to um test the equipment, make sure all the connections are good, and all of that will be operational.

024Next slide. And this is the this is just the latest thing they put in the beverage station um for operation. So, this is one of the last pieces that has to go in. Next slide. High school phase three is the final set of bathrooms, the media center which we just began um demolition on on second shift. The athletic wing now in the U I'll show you some pictures there. The sports floor ceiling tiles have been installed and then once school is out it will be the commons balcony flooring. So then it'll be consistent like with what's in the hallway. That checkerboard pattern upstairs will now be removed. Next slide. This you can see this is the engineering wing and so they the ceiling has been installed that um temporary wall will come down once school

025is out. Next slide. This is again the ceiling tiles have been installed. Now this is the student success area and that will also we'll have access to to that as well as part of the next phase of inspection. Next slide. This is the what will be the wait room. And so they're just preparing to put the flooring in. But you can see from last time the ceiling has now been installed. It's been painted. So now it's just up for flooring and then some minor um other things in the equipment can start being um installed. Next slide. And this is what is the current weight room. This will now become the um wrestling room. And so what they added in the corner there is actually a small storage office. It's so they can weigh in and

026do things like that in private. The padding is also been updated along the walls. They've done that with the weight equipment in there so that we could extend the use of the weight room before they make flip-flop the rooms. Next slide. So right now the high school roofing we've just passed over about 50% complete. the middle school south, the old storage building out by the tennis courts has been demolished. That is being replaced and we're finalizing the summer schedule. There is a potential with this one, and we knew this going in, I mentioned it last month, that some of the areas mainly because we have to vacate the automotive area, auto shop, bring everything here that's going to be moved out. So then they can begin work on that. So there there is a possibility

027that might not be done until the end of September. Next slide. Lighthouse. Right now they've been doing demolition that's been ongoing at second shift. They've also been running all the wiring for the fire alarm and also now with the new emergency alert, the clock system, the phones, everything else. And then the rest of the abatement work will take place once school is out in the first week of summer. Next slide. So this is where it stands now for Lighthouse just so you have an idea. So they've taken out everything just in preparation for them to come in and do some of that abatement work and then start installing like partition walls and this will actually end up being a support staff um office area. Next slide. And again just a different angle of the the

028same area. So, they'll work on this and then um the goal is to have everything kind of torn out and all that by fourth of July so then they can start putting it together in order to meet our uh August 20th deadline. Next slide. Middle school north already on the we pulled ahead some spaces in the northwest corner. So, that drywall is going up. Pain is actually going up in some of those areas. Um the insight work you can see the playground um they're most of the site work there has been complete so they're getting ready to um actually hopefully install the equipment soon. Next slide. And you can kind of see where they're at. They have the levels the walking path um is laid out and everything. So they're they're getting close to where

029they can actually start building um everything on the site. Next slide. And again, this is the drywall. You can see now th those were um steel partitions. Now the drywall's up. Now um paint is going in. So they're preparing for flooring and ceilings and and the rest of the uh electrical work. Next slide. And this is what was the life skills room, but now is being updated. So they had to replace all of the piping, the gas piping and and so on um for the student station. Next slide. And you can see these are the univvents or or the heating and cooling units that are going into the classroom. So those are being staged and and ready to be installed. Next slide. And as part of the next big phase of our bomb project has

030kind of moved forward. So on Wednesday we um last week we sold the next series. This is series two if you recall. It's a five series bond. So first series was about 27 million. Second series is just over 54 million. So we had eight total biders which was very good because um with some of the uncertainty we had been seeing kind of in the buildup only like three or four biders or um you know maybe five. So to get eight was really good. Part of that which helped is our um bond rating went up. So because our bond rating went up, it made it more attractive. Our low bid was total interest costs with all fees and everything is 4.84%. Um this is under what we projected because we took a very conservative approach. So

031we estimated 5%. Um, so that basically will free us up to have about another $520,000 to use for bomb projects because we're not paying the cost. We also expect the chart on the right shows you the latest um yield curve. So what we do, and this is just kind of a refresher from before, we're buying. So this chart goes from 3.8 up to 5%. So we were able to get um under 5% and what we'll what we end up doing is we invest that until those projects we have to pay for those projects. So right now what we're looking at is this little bump right there. That's the four months. So for four months we can invest that and we would get just about 4.45%. So that helped offset um a lot of the interest

032costs. Now, you can't we're not as lucky as we were with the first series of bonds where the interest rate was actually higher, so it was inverted. So, we we were able to sell those bonds. They were about 3.8% and we were able to invest at about 4.5%. They don't let you, it's called arbitrage. They don't let you keep anything extra. you can only offset your interest costs, but if you recall, that's been between three and 5 million already that we've been able to get back to offset those um borrowing costs because of um the yield curve where it's at. So on this one, we'll probably net somewhere in between there. So again, we'll we expect to see significant savings on the interest rate and um in order to keep us ahead of inflation and

033everything going forward. Next slide. So thus far out of the $170 million bond, we have only spent 20 just over 23 million if you include what the work that's going on at the middle schools and all of that. So that's an additional 9 million. So 32 million have been committed, 23 million have been installed and paid for. And then this next 54 million will be um mainly the the middle schools and then the two large elementary project at Ashley and at Nal. Next slide. And after a lot of work from the transportation team, we've been working they've worked on just dozens and dozens of scenarios. So basically just trying to make sure that we could kind of stick to these times as much as possible. So middle school north will start at 8 a.m. next

034year. Middle school south will start at 8:20. This is pretty in line with what we had said last year when we did all the public meetings. main reason middle school north is it's just we wanted to make sure that we could guarantee especially from the far north end that those buses could get back the north and then the south um instead of doing it revert. So um and it's something that we'll look at because as bus drivers get more and more accustomed to those routes then we'll be able to make some adjustments as it goes along. Questions? Um I might have missed it when you were talking about the high school renovations. Um do you recall or off the top of your head like which um phase the heating and cooling stuff? So the heating

035and cooling the um the controls were actually part of the very first one phase one. So those went in and then the chiller which is the air conditioning unit that's been just ongoing the entire time. So we started that even though it was part of phase one, but we didn't do it until we didn't need air conditioning at that point. So then it was it started going in in about October and they've been and it's massive. It's um think of about the size of like a a large semi. Um, so part of that is still going on and part of it will also be picked up when we're doing um if we go forward with the energy um pump cuz I I just know that I think there's been some days where there's not air

036or there isn't like heating still. So I was just wondering when we were going to be Yeah, we've been limping along with the one chiller till they to get that. But now I believe that one um there it is up close to being I mean Cory can actually or you want to chime in on that. Okay. So, they're both up and running. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those two days I know was tough, but Okay. Thank you. Anything else? I have a Thank you. Um I didn't think of this until you mentioned the punch list. During the tour, I remember there was some epoxy issues. I can't remember the robotics room. Do you know if that's been corrected yet or is that still on the punch list? So that I know the flooring issues,

037those are punch list and they're still on the list. Okay, thank you. Because we also have the hallway out there that we have to fix some things on that addition. The start times, we've got fifth and sixth graders starting 20 minutes sooner than seventh and eighth graders. Is that caused by logistics or is was there other It's mainly logistic. Okay. Got a couple of questions for you, sir. Um, have we posted the start times? They will be posted at tomorrow morning. Okay, great. So, we'll hit all of our socials with it. Yep. Because I know we're getting a lot of questions and parents are starting to get a little stressed out about timing of things. And I will say that I think the 20 minutes will probably be just about enough for our parents to

038get from A to B because I was seeing emails and talked to some parents that are concerned about driving their kids to school. They're going to have one at each. So that's good. Are we going to um refresh my memory? The walking path at North, is that going to be asphalted? That yes. Okay. Uh and then I had someone inquire about the damage and the current conditions of our high school parking lot. um where we're storing roofing materials and equipment. Apparently, it's like an off-road course out there right now. Yeah. So, that's where all the roofing equipment is. So, the the goal is that if depending on when the roof is done that we'll fix it once like all at once and but depending on how that project goes because they have the same deadline

039of middle of August. If not, then we have like plan B and plan C. They could use the the turf field if they have to. We talked about using the other parking lot just um west of there. That's because of the bands in there, right? Yeah. Is that parking lot actually striped like at the football field? There is. Yeah, there is separate striping there. Four. Yes. At 5 yard intervals. Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. Uh anybody else? All right. Hearing none. Uh things, sir. We'll move on. Okay. Thank you. Uh we will move on next to the 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

040them personally and not included in the public forum. Administration will follow up with concerns within 48 hours of the board meeting. Please keep your comments to three minutes per board policy. It looks like Kelly R. Yes. It just make sure that that microphone is is on so folks at home can hear you. If it's not, there should be a talk button right there on the front. On now, you hear me? Great. All right. Thank you. So, I'd like to bring I emailed you this morning, Mr. Green, and I emailed the whole board on this earlier. Um, the role family would like to bring to your attention an ongoing unsolved incident. One of your staff members, I won't mention that in this presentation, but I believe each of you have that in an email form already,

041right? But on April 22nd, we met with the school representative to address the misconduct, unprofessional behavior, discrimination, and bullying um involving this individual. We received written responses from the district. Subsequently, we met with Mr. Jenowski and Mrs. uh Gonzalez, is no longer here today, um who assured us this matter would be addressed. However, as of today, uh the issue remains unresolved. Uh as a result, I emailed the entire board uh with the blow actions, right? Our concern uh our concerns. I emailed the board our concern. Uh after a routine question after a softball game, I had a a unfound report of assault filed against me. Actually wasn't filed. It was reported, right? There was no nothing substantiated whatsoever. We believe this was a form of retaliation and act with serious consequence. As such, our daughter's

042academic process and participation in AC athletics is directly affected. We've had to remove her from a hostile environment costing her spot on the Anchor Bay softball team. We are aware of at least one other similar incident with this individual uh that happened last year in 2024 and never uh uh uh excuse me adequately investigated or drafted or resolved and the player no longer plays softball for anchor bay due to this. If you look at the Anchor Bay administration regulation uh define bullying as an act of subsequently interfering with educational opportunities, adversely affecting participation in school activities due to emotional distress causing disruption in school activities, retaliation against those reporting bullyings uh strictly prohibited. Despite this, this individual was allowed to discuss the matter publicly, embarrassing me at multiple uh uh Anchor Bay event and pointing

043at me right in the in the audience telling people that security was there to protect her against um we received a letter that there was going to be an unbiased uh investigation. Um however, we don't believe this has taken place as this individual was allowed to still participate with the individual she was accused of harassing, manipulating their their information that was given to the security officer, uh showing retaliation. And as recently as today, she stood outside the freshman hallway and in a video that I sent to you, Mr. Green, said she's not moving and then laughed even though there's a no contact order in place with this individual that Mr. Jenowski knows about, right? Further violating the district's policy. Additionally, the district's policy requires prompt impartial investigation of bullying complaints with clear steps in a

044formal investigation and resolution. The staff handbook also outlines standard conduct from employees including prohibitation and intimidation, harassment and breach of confidentiality and consequently uh or excuse me and discourtesy to parents and students. We have addressed, we have uh witnessed violations of these standards by this individual, including breach of policy, continue to talk, continue to conduct, excuse me, continued contact with parties invol involved in the investigation. We are deeply concerned of this behavior and an unbiased investigation could not have occurred under these circumstances and that the institution bias was present in meaningful resolution. We respectfully request the board of education to take as three things. Conduct an impartial third party investigation into the conduct of this individual and the district's handling of these complaints. Second, ensure that all district policies regarding bullying, harassment, intimidation, employee conduct

045are fully enforced. Provide appropriate uh remedies for our daughter and others affected by this individual, including support of their academic and athletics participation. We believe every student deserves a safe, respectful, supportive school environment and we ask the board to uphold these values and ensure accountability and resolution in this matter. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Uh the only other uh request I have to address the board is from Terry K. want to hear me. Um, there's been a few instances, one with my daughter and son-in-law and myself recently had issues with Middle School North with my grandson's 504 plan. Um, we had several emails bantering back and forth with the principal, counselors, and administration, which we did reach a compromise. Um, but we also received a very aggressive and harsh email from the principal. I tried

046to get that addressed. Nobody's responded as to the harshness of that email. Um, I also have heard, which this is a rumor, but you can check it out, that two Anchor Bay employees have transferred their students to Middle School South due to their plans not being enforced at Middle School North. I would just like to see that all investigated because it's not going to do any good for these kids not to get the services they need and to be successful. That's what I want for my grandson. I want him to be successful. Um, I have a few questions in regards to, and it's more specific in here, specific questions as to how people are interviewed for positions, who decide, who has the final determination of who gets those positions. If there's five people doing an

047interview, does the majority rule as to if this person is qualified or not? So, I do have questions in regards to how that hiring process happens, but like I said, I'll forward the board members this email and wait for your response. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I have no one else who has requested to address the board. So, we will move on our agenda. Uh, Mr. Superintendent, anything in the communications area for us today? No communications. All right. Uh I will move on to the consent agenda. Items on the consent agenda are of a reoccurring nature and are voted on as a single item. Any board me 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 is the

048board of education approve the consent agenda, minutes, personnel report, financial reports, and bills payable. I will entertain a motion to that effect. I'll make that motion. I will second. A motion by Mr. Venatelli, supported by Miss Knox. Comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none. Could you call the role? Mr. Secretary. Mr. Vanatilli? Yes. Miss Knox? Yes. Mr. Sunnyberger? Yes. Mr. Powers? Yes. Miss Burkemeer Richards is yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. All right, we'll move on to new business. We have quite a laundry list of new business, including some award recommendations. So, I will ask for your patience before I start reading. Didn't bring my glasses and a little too much sugar, I think. So, uh, let's move on to the MISD budget resolution. At the April 2025 annual meeting of the Mcome County School Boards,

049the MISD budget was unanimously approved. Under new ISD legislation, the general fund operating budget must be approved by each individual board. Deadline for this resolution is June 1st, 2025. At this time, I would entertain a motion that the the board of education either approve or not approve the MISD board uh budget resolution as presented. I'll make the motion that we approve the MISD budget resolution as presented. I have a second. Motion by Mr. Vantali, supported by Miss Knox. Comments, questions, or concerns? I think Miss Burkmeer, this was your meeting, right? You went to the budget meeting for us. So, I think we've already talked about it. I'm not sure if there's anything else we want to cover or any questions we may have for Miss Burk Meer before we move on this hearing. None. Mr.

050Secretary, if you would call the role. Mr. Vanatilli, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Richards is a yes. Miss Burkmeer. Mr. Powers. Yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger. Yes. All right. Motion carries. Uh, item number two on the agenda is the MISD by annual resolution. Revisions to the revised school code require school districts to consider the designation of a representative who will vote on behalf of the district in the MISD board of education selection. Uh, attached. You all have a resolution to approve designation of Brian Powers and our alternate Dominic Vendotelli to elect two candidates to the vacancies on the MISD board on Monday, June 2nd, 2025. In our previous meeting, uh we had selected and uh voted and approved to uh give our vote to two candidates, uh Don Hubler and Ian Colin McCain. At

051this time, I would entertain a motion to that effect. I will make a motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Sunnyburgger. Comments, questions, or concerns. Do you also have to say who we're voting for? I think I did. All right. How much sugar have you had? Uh, no. All right. Want rest of my cookie? I have my Okay. I will pick. Hearing none. Aside from that, please call the role, sir. Miss Knox. Yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Miss Burkmark, Mr. Venilli, yes. Mr. Richards, is a yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Item number three under new business uh is uh revise policy 2006, personal electronic devices. Uh I will read uh policy 2006 again and then uh we can have some discussion if we have a motion to support. We're

052revising policy 20006 personal electronic devices. The school district reserves the right to prohibit the possession or use of electronic of personal electronic devices on school district property or at school district related events. For purposes of this policy, personal electronic device means a privately owned device that is used for audio, video, or text communication, including cell phones, personal laptops, smartwatches, earbuds, headphones, and other wireless device connections. Away for the day requirements. Students are not permitted to to use or possess personal electronic devices during the school day unless required by law. Personal electronic devices must be turned off and kept out of sight in lockers or cubbies. The superintendent may develop administrative regulations consistent with this policy. The recommended action is that the board of education approve policy 206, the revised version, personal uh electronic devices. I

053will entertain a motion to that effect. I will make that motion. Second. Motion by Mr. Veten Datelli supported by Mr. hours. I will open it up in case the board has any comments, questions, or concerns. We discussed this at length in previous meetings. I'm very much looking forward to this. I know there's some concern and there's individual cases that may need to be taken into account. Um, but I think overall this is a very good policy to put in place, especially during these times. I think kids using cell phone way too much, as we talked about in the past, has some pretty detrimental effects. And I think this is a step in the right direction. and I hope other school districts take note uh seeing how this is implemented and hopefully they can find a

054way to implement in their districts as well. Miss Burker, um I just know that as a board, you know, we've toss this around for quite a while. Um and I appreciate Mr. Richards for staying the course and keeping us focused um on the issue. And I know, you know, we started talking about this maybe probably more in depth maybe last December. It was myself, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Green that laid out a lot of the um the way that this would look um and then kind of move forward. And um obviously we have two new board members um since then. But um I'm I'm excited that we're moving forward with this and I think it'll be great for our district and for our students overall. It'll be have a learning curve, I'm sure, but um

055I think the the benefits will will outweigh um any inconvenience in the end. Anyone else? Uh I I do want to just talk about what I perceive to be one of the biggest objections that I've seen out there about why we should not do this, and that is um active threats, school shootings, things like that. Like I just hear over and over and over again about how you can't take phones away because I need to be able to communicate with my child if there's an active threat. And and I certainly understand that we're all parents up here. I think all of our instincts as parents would be to want to communicate with our children when they're in danger. Um I can tell you that law enforcement does not share that view. Uh, and I can

056tell you that because I took the time to meet with Chief Blackburn with the New Baltimore Police Department and Director Basset at the Chesterfield Police Department. Uh, they were both very gracious with their time. Um, because I wanted to get their feedback on this to make sure I was not making incorrect assumptions about this idea that why would we want students distracted on their phones during an active threat? And I can tell you, law enforcement does not want our students texting or calling with their parents. They do not want them calling 911. They do not want them texting each other in the building to say, "Here's what I'm seeing. What are you seeing?" They don't want any of that happening. It it muddies um the response. It makes the response slower and it makes them

057less safe. So if if your objection to the cell phone policy is my child needs it in the event of an active threat, law enforcement will tell you that that is literally making your child less safe. So um I just putting that out there because I again we're all parents and and all of our instincts would be to reach out to talk to our child to are you okay? What can I do? But that that's not making them any more safe. So, um, and I'm I'm in full support of the policy, but I I wanted to put that out there because that's the number one objection I see. Anyone else? I just I do want to circle back too because um what he said kind of raised um another thought in my head, but um

058also in speaking of what you know what I saw um particularly online about a lot of comments um regarding this policy was the concern of enforcement um and you know a lot of disbelief that um we'll be able to enforce it well. Um I I share some of that concern to some degree. Um you know and so we're still kind of working through some of that. I know um you know we have a committee of the board meeting next week um to kind of help go through some of that. The committee you know as of our last meeting it was more um of the belief that we should have administration dealing with all of these concerns and taking them out of the classroom. Um and that's because you know for the consistency sake of dealing

059with it which is I will say a change from how we first um in fairness it was that is a change from how we it was first presented um and how this might look in terms of possibly disciplining a student who's you know non-compliant with the policy. Um reasoning for that, you know, it would be teacher teacher concerns for one. Um you know, if our idea to remove the cell phones from the classroom or from, you know, from the students during the school day is to, you know, remove the distraction. I don't see how having the teacher having to deal with the one student who's, you know, infracting the policy is removing the distraction. and it's just adding to, you know, more problems in the classroom. Um, further, you know, to kind of send them

060down to the office to be dealt with would be in, you know, the committee's idea would be more consistent um because the office would certainly know if that student was already sent down today um and dealt with once versus um you know, a teacher who's in their own classroom and doesn't know what happened for a second hour and having to follow up on that. Uh so that's another piece of it. Um and you know the other is just consistency and fairness in how these things are dealt with. Um you know contacting parents um knowing you know who's already who's already been down this road and where things have gone. Um obviously having the same people deal with it over and over would be better. I know that probably sounds daunting for possibly the beginning of

061the school year. I'm hopeful that that won't be um as daunting as it could be um with a with a new policy going into place, but um that's what we're kind of working through and waiting through right now. Um but I do want people to know that you know we've heard that concern and um the concern about you know whether you know whether we'll be able to enforce it and uh we're working on it to that end. Um so the committee, you know, is looking we're looking to meet, you know, with administration next week as well to kind of keep working through those um steps, but that's kind of where we're at. Um and looking to go forward with it, but um obviously, you know, this is about the approval of the policy, but I

062thought I'd give that update. Anybody else any comments or questions? Yeah, I was just going to mention, you know, to Miss Burker's point that we are meeting with administration. policy continues to uh look at different scenarios and do what's best. And Miss Burke already touched upon it. Um you know, we've been working on this for a long time. We talked about it for a long time. Went back and forth with different scenarios, different ideas. Um, I think most of us have toured, you know, the high school building and and um, you know, just to see, you know, the amount of students on cell phones, whether it's in classroom, you know, walking down hallways, just, you know, it it's uh, I'm looking forward to uh, seeing, you know, where this um, you know, new policy goes

063and and, uh, Mr. Venice already mentioned it. you know, I think it's a step in the right direction and and you know, I think I mentioned at the last meeting, it's good to see other school districts reaching out to us and, you know, trying to understand what our policy is and, you know, so they can implement the same pro, you know, same policy. I think that great policy. So, I would agree Mr. Janikowsky mentioned, I think it was our last meeting, that he's got after we had our first reading and after our social media that he's gotten multiple requests from local districts and some not so local district that really want to take our policy if it's successfully passed tonight and consider putting into their schools for the the start of next year. So, this,

064as I've already mentioned, this board has made it clear that we're not going to be the followers when it when we're coming to these policies that we may not always make popular decisions. Uh, we did that when we put armed guards in our schools. To Mr. P's point, I I can't guarantee anybody's safety. There could be 250 armed guards at our high school and it doesn't mean that something may not happen. But we spend a lot of money every year on uh safety and security from our director that we hired uh be almost two years ago I think in July. Um through those armed guards and the discussions that this board has had, we have a full-time uh school resource officer at the high school. We have a full-time Chesterfield officer and we've been adamant

065and clear that we want a full-time officer from New Baltimore for our new Baltimore schools and I I think that's going to happen sooner rather than later as well. So, I agree with everything that you guys have have said. This has been on our plate for probably at least a closer to a year. It's been talked about, kind of kicked around. Yeah. We finally we finally listened to him. Is that what you're saying? Um, and I do appreciate I have stepped away from the policy committee. I do appreciate the passion that you guys are taking with this policy and and aggressively is not the right word, but passionate. Passion is the right word. Know that you you guys are sitting down with administration and you are making valid points and you're listening to our administrators,

066you're listening to our teachers, and you're trying to make the decision that's right for the district. And this isn't an easy one. This isn't again this is a policy to Mr. Venitelli's point that we're only trying to do what's best for our students and to what everybody has said I I support 100%. And again I applaud the policy committee because this isn't an easy policy to push through and I know that you guys are are having heated passionate debates with administration and uh our teachers and and the union and such. So I I can't say enough that I appreciate the time you're putting into this. Uh, anybody? Anything else? Um, I've been the only one that's been on the fence and that's why I appreciate how long this takes to get through policy and first

067reading and so on and so forth. Um, I I was on the fence, but the biggest thing for me is that we are already doing it at South and Mr. Lona has I mean it's successful. So we already have um success in doing this and I really hope it works and I agree with you know look you know working with administration on making sure uh what's circle you know compliance is is uh the same across the board that's obviously the the toughest part policy committee administrative regulations have to deal with is how do we enforce it what are the steps what happens how does it escalate so like I said I can't say enough I know you guys had multi-hour meeting and there's probably going to be another one coming up next week. I really

068really appreciate it because I I know what's involved with those meetings. I know how draining they are. Uh try to make the decisions that's best for you know for everyone that we all of our stakeholders. With that said, are there any other comments before we uh move on the motion? Could you remind me again who my motion maker was and my supporter was? All right. If there's no comments, questions, or concern, anything further, uh, let's go ahead and do a roll call vote on this. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Richards is Yes. Miss Burkemeyer, yes. And Mr. Sunnyberger, yes. All right, motion carries. Again, thank you guys for the time you've invested. I know it's it's been a hot topic and I don't think that's going to go

069away anytime over the summer with as as many events we're going to make it out to. So, um I I know I saw it on the on our district Facebook page today. So, I know it's it's the the communication is out there. Um anyone at this point who says they don't know about it, haven't seen it, haven't heard about it, um quite honestly might be living under a rock because we we it's it's out there. Lots of discussion. I'm sorry. They probably don't have their phone. Then they don't understand the problems that are coming with having them. Um, all right. Let's move on. Uh, next item. Item number four, our policy first reading policy updates to 5014. Uh, supplement not supplant for Perkins uh, Perkins V. Perkins 5. I was thinking either you didn't give

070me the rest of the V or it's five. 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. So, this is just the first reading as you guys have become accustomed to. If for some reason you want to discuss any of those policies, they they were shared with you in your packet. Uh there will be a second reading at our meeting in June if you would prefer to uh review them and can adjust them address them prior to taking any vote then. So does anybody have anything you want to throw out there of any of those topics? We can certainly discuss it. Now I I just had one I just wanted to clarify on

071the safe storage of firearms. I we are simply redistributing information from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. We as a district are not making any recommendations or telling people how they should or should not store firearms. We're simply telling people this is what the state health and human services department recommends you do in your home with the safe storage of firearms. Correct. Exactly. Yeah. the the state requires, as they do on many things, we have to put out a notification that explains what the new law is about safe storage. Thank you. And generally, Mr. Powers, these go these come from our attorneys. Um, and then they're reviewed at policy if there's any issue before it actually appears on our agenda. Is that the consensus of all these changes? Um, is basically the um

072law firm that we retain has sent these recommendations to us. Yeah, this is part of our it's quarterly policy update yet. Is this Miller Johnson, right? Yes. Okay. And would you be able to just briefly summarize uh and maybe we can discuss this at the next meeting, but just a quick summary of what changes are going to be made. Miss Burke, do you have them in front of you? So, a lot of times these are just minor language changes probably that resulted from some other school district, fortunately not us, um being in some sort of legal altercation. Um so, for example, um under the business um 5000 section of the board policy, um there is a new piece. Yeah, I I can take that if you want. Adhering to the fiscal requirements set forth by

073the US Department of Ed. That part was um about the Perkins grant funds and with the changes with the um Department of Education nationally and how those that money is changing, you know, how how the changing of hands of that money between federal government and state government and basically putting us in compliance with kind of the the current ongoing situation. Yeah, it's a pass through. So the money goes to the IST. The IC then gives it to us. So we just have to say that we are in compliance with everything as well even though we're even though the IC is the fiduciary. Yep. And then another section was the facilities and operations. There's a section regarding threat assessments which we already had in our policy. They have changed it to be called behavior threat assessment

074and management team as opposed to threat assessment and suicide intervention. Mostly just saying, you know, that suicide intervention is still part of the policy, but that's not like the only or single focus. Um trying to see safe storage of firearms obviously um was added because of the new law. Um school crisis response and closure. Um the addition was that beginning with the 26 27th school year, the district shall adopt and implement the standardized response terminology developed by the department of state police in collaboration with school safety and mental health commission. It's just putting everybody on like a same terminology um so that you know people can communicate and departments can communicate more effectively in a crisis. Um see and then um an update to the ADA section. Um regarding therapy animals, um the district permits

075the use of therapy animals in a manner consistent with the administrative regulations developed by the superintendent. Um those again were just um recommendations to make those changes because likely um somewhere somewhere in the state of Michigan a district came up with a problem with what was currently recommended by the same law firm. So just tightening things up. Thank you. Additionally, we send our director of safety and security. We did already send her to like phase two of the training. um that the mental but it's actually Michigan State Police are putting it on and a lot of these topics especially you talk about the safety and security stuff um the BTAM the behavioral threat assessment uh all that is covered in that training so um we're really fortunate that a we have Amanda on board and

076b that we could afford to keep her u a lot of districts are losing they lost the grant funding and they are letting go of their director of safety and security so um I guess if I'm going to have a plug for, you know, anything as we move through our budget. Uh, we need to try to find a way to to retain the staff that we have that's dealing with our safety and security. Any other comments or questions before we move on? This might be a little out of place, but school safety is one of the issues that I take very seriously and it's it's been a burden on me to think about this. I was reading over the changes and it occurred to me that one of the arguments we hear over the cell

077phone policy is I want a chance to say goodbye to my child before something happens. And I thought how sad that we're, and I don't mean to bismerch anybody, but how sad we are as a society that we're fighting harder to say goodbye to our kids than we are fighting to keep them safe by addressing America's problem with the proliferation of firearms. So that's going to be that's just my opinion and I I'm glad I got the chance to say it. All right, anybody else before we move on? Thank you, sir. All right, hearing none. Let's move on down to looks like we're going to do some field trips. Uh the first one is basketball team camp. The girls basketball team camp will be held at Northwood University June 27th through June 29th, 2025. They

078will have eight students and one chaperon attending. They will travel via personal vehicle. The recommended action is that the board of education approve the girls basketball team camp June 27th through 29th, 2025 to Northwood University with eight students and one chaperon. What's the board's pleasure? Make a motion to approve. We'll support. Motion by Mr. Vanitelli, supported by Miss Burkemeer. Comments, questions, or concerns? One quick question. Is that a chaperon in addition to the coach for the B girls basketball team or is the basketball coach also considered the chaperon? The the coach is the chaperon but they also have um the college also provides like supervision as well when they're there. Let's open up a school. That's uh to me that that that's fine. I know we to I mean obviously the for me the ratio

079is fine like that's not an issue. I think one person could watch eight students. I I think we just had a uh field trip in the past where we had one student who was going with one chaperone and there was some concern about you know what potentially could be said about interactions that have taken place with that one chapron. So just to protect everybody in that case uh in that case we it behooved us to bring a second person along just to help with that. I'm wondering is it the board's pleasure to have that same kind of thing happen with this field trip? So I think in that situation it was more that it was one student, one adult, you know, and so it in an unfortunate situation, you know, it's like one person's word

080against another. Um and so because there was only one student even, you know, the idea that then we need to send another adult so that there's a third party. Um that was kind of where that rose from. Um I you know if you think that there should be two for this I mean that's fine but I I just wanted to clarify I think that's where it was born from that day. One student was going on one student and one adult and that was kind of the concern was that you know and we do it for that and we'll do it if if it's gender. So if it's boys and girls then want a male and a female. This is all female and a female coach. And I don't recall that exact event, but this one

081um probably different. And that it's a large group of of athlete gathering, so there's going to be other supervision and and things like that. Um yeah. Anyone else? All right. Hearing none, Mr. Secretary? Mr. Vinatili? Yes. Miss Berkeley. Mr. Sunonnyberger. Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Richard, yes. Miss Knox, yes. And Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. Moving on to the next field trip is Band Camp. Band Camp will be held at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, July 27th through August 1st, 2025. They will be traveling via school bus with 130 students and 20 chaperones. The recommended action is that the board of education approve band camp travel to Central Michigan University July 27th through August 1st, 2025. I'll entertain a motion to that effect. Motion ahead. Motion by Mr. Sunnyberger, supported by Miss Knox. Comments,

082questions, or concerns? I'm sure um you're really happy to see that they brought it back. No, it's always been a concern of yours. You know, you noticed how I annunciated Michigan. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Keep our money here. Keep our money here. The band show theme is coming home. So, yeah. Bidding. Say that again, Jamie. The band show theme is coming home. Promise heard it here first. We We our band does very well. I was actually inappropriate time, but very proud of them when I saw them at the Memorial Day parade marching. Sounded really good. So, um, we typically come home with some pretty pretty good awards from these camps if there's competition that take place there. Anyone else? Hearing none. Mr. Secretary, Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Richards, yes. Mr.

083Venili, yes. Miss Burfire, Mr. Powers. Yes. Motion carries. Moving on to the agenda. Item six, MHSA a 202526 membership resolution. Annually, the district approves the Michigan High School Athletic Association membership resolution for middle and high school athletes. According to attorney Michigan attorney general opinion number 4795 of 1977 any local board of education which desires to voluntarily join the MHSAA by adopting the rules of the association agreeing to enforce those rules with respect to schools. The recommended action is that the board of education to approve MHSA membership resolution for the 2025 2026 school year. Anyone feeling like they want to make a motion? I'll make the motion. Motion by Missed by Mr. Power. Comments, questions, or concerns? Um, just for clarification for me, if we do not approve this, then the um we wouldn't be able

084to play other schools within this uh group. You you can play schools. You cannot play in the state tournament. Gotcha. And this is the only um Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. The It's the only Michigan option. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. We discuss this every year. We don't like it, but we do it to give our kids the best um option to compete. Yeah. And and we do not pay anything for them. They they make all of their funds off of the state tournament. Got it. And of course I always interject at this point in the discussion that the MHSA is not government entity. They are not affiliated with the state of Michigan. They are a privately held familyowned company outside of it. Oh no. They have an amazing three or four story building. Um might

085be an openhouse. Nothing. I don't think but it's up that way. Any other comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none, if you call the role, sir. Sure. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Power, yes. Mr. Sunnyberger, yes. Miss Burke. Mr. Venatilli? Yes. Richard? Yes. Uh, Mr. Green? No. Motion carries. All right. Item number seven, award recommendations. We have several. Uh we're going to start with the band uniforms. And while I'm getting this prepared, I can certainly tell you that we've all noticed that our band uniforms are old and outdated. Uh and I'm glad to see that we're we're hoping to approve a purchase of band uniforms. The board of education approved the last purchase for band uniforms on April 7th, 2004, 21 years ago. A marching band uni uniform generally has a useful life of 8 to 12

086years depending on the material quality, care and cleaning, storage conditions, the frequency of use, and the repairs and maintenance of the uniform. All of which can extend the overall lifespan of the uniforms, which clearly we've done. Having said that, the district has continued to utilize the band uniforms 9 to 13 years past their useful life. It's time to replace them. We have partnered with Stanberry Uniforms LLC, both past and present, to secure competitive pricing through a consortium of the OMNIA partners. The recommended action is that the board of education approve the purchase of new band uniforms for the Anchor Bay High School marching band in the amount of [Music] 144,46852. Do I have a motion to that effect? Motion. I'll support. All right. Motion by Mr. Sunnyberger, supported by Miss Burkmeer. Comments, questions, concerns? Have

087Have they been order because this says order date 414. Is that just the date that they provided the quote or have they actually already been ordered? Well, we we've have them reserved in order so that we can get them as soon as possible. So, they're ordered pending board approval. I prov Okay, this says that um estimated delivery date is 180 days, which yeah, kind of gets us unfortunately through football season. Is there any way that they get here in time for football season or is that likely not to happen? Yeah, it's unlikely. Can we order Amazon Prime? Amazon Prime. Yeah. Is that a plug? Conflict of interest. He's sponsored to say that. I just want to um add Are you all done? Go ahead. Okay. I just want to add um you know obviously you

088know thank you to our band program um for their absolute thriftiness and reusing the uniforms that they've had for quite a long time. Um you know I'm sure that was a that was a tough sell year to year and um but you know these are long overdue and uh hopefully it won't happen this way again in the future. Um, but I'm glad that we are providing them at this point. Anyone else? Yeah, I would like to thank, you know, everyone that worked on it. It was a long process just to the ordering process, you know, to pick some time. So, I know uh, you know, the Bamboo Club worked, you know, uh, with Mr. Brothers, um, you know, the ordering and everything. So, I know it was a long process. I'm glad it was able

089to get finalized and and brought here today. long overdue for sure. And I am disappointed. I'm glad you saw that we won't have them for uh for football season next year. All right. Any other comments, questions, or concerns? Hearing none. Mr. Richard. Mr. Sunnyberger. Yes. Miss Burkemeer. Mr. Green. Yes. Miss Knox. Yes. Mr. Richards. Yes. Mr. Vinatelli. Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Motion carries. Uh item B on our award recommendations is uh a student technology award. The district is recommending that the board approve an award to People Drive Technologies for the purchase of the new student devices for the high school as well as the computer refresh for teachers at the high school mccants and great oaks in the amount of 1 million $18,23.94. The student devices are a mix of 340 laptops and 510 Chromebooks

090at a cost of $487,593 and 30. This will ensure devices in all classrooms at the high school. The award also includes the purchase of 487 computers and laptops for teachers at Macan's crate oaks and the high school in the amount of $530,610.64 as part of the district's device refresh plan. All devices are expected to arrive and be deployed as soon as possible. All devices were purchased off the REMMC schedule that is bid by the state of Michigan. The recommended action is that the board of education approved the technology devices award to peopledriven technologies as presented. I would entertain a motion to that effect. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Tony Burger, let's talk about it. Anybody have anything? We use people driven. Uh we they've won the bid

091multiple times. Tim backs them. So this makes perfect sense. I agree. Anyone else? So this will make it one to one at the high school, too. Yeah, we'll have enough carts that every Yeah, they should every student would have at the bikes, but they're we're not sending them home. I just would have in class. Yeah. So, this is probably a good time to interject that uh one of the big concerns that's been brought to my attention is that students use their cell phones at the high school level for doing simple research, googling things, looking things up. We will still have that option except it'll be on a school district issued device uh tied in through our school district Wi-Fi where we control what sites they have the capability of going to uh on their computers

092because we can simply lock them out through our our portal. Are there any plans um because I mean I don't see it in the rationale but um to provide more like in the near future like at the middle schools or anything. Yeah, this is if we this is part of what we kind of again we kind of did the same thing. We reserved this before um April 2nd so we got what we could and had that reserved. So then in the future we'll again we'll do the same thing in order to make sure that we can get it. It just we had to get whatever we could do in order to deploy it. One, it had to be in in the country and like on you know that we could get it in time. So

093that that's kind of what this is and then we'll we'll go back and you'll see there's other things that will kind of come up too with the interactive displays and so on. But will do we have a plan in the future um I don't know short or long term to add more Chromebooks for like our goal is everybody to to basically every teacher would have their cart their cart. Yeah. Okay. Are you comfortable putting a time frame on that? Oh I know you got to work through technology and then people in finance are a bit tight with the purse strings. Yeah. I guess that's what I'm wondering too. Not so much. I mean, when we can get them delivered, that's another story. But yeah, that that's when can we will we do you plan that

094we would afford or you know, well, part of that is that's this bond series. So, when we have the bond resolution, so that'll be part of that because that we we have money that'll be in there for that. So, there's that. It takes I like 60 days in order to get that funding and then in order to to start doing that. But really our biggest concern is it's the ordering and when can you get them because after co they had finally gotten back to hey you could now get them and you could get them six to eight weeks. Now that is not the case because everybody was buying up everything they could to beat any price increases which have been sizable at this point. So, um, but yeah, that's the plan. Anybody else? One small

095quick question. Do you believe that there's savings using the R EMC schedule that is bid through by the state program? Yeah, this is the what the state does is every spring they kind of do a survey and say, okay, who is looking to buy computers or whatever. It could be anything that's on there. Um, the REMY bid site and then they go to like um various companies and they say, "Okay, bid. this is what we're looking at is this many devices or or whatever and so you you tend to get like really like much better savings because the basically the state is saying this is what you're going to see. So you have a larger number and so it drives that down then they just the state just breaks it up for districts to have

096anyone else. All right hearing none I think we have a motion on the floor sir. We do. Um Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Miss Burkemeer. Mr. Venitilli, yes. Richards, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. All right. On to item C. Uh, wait room equipment for the high school. The Anchor Bay School District received bids for weight room equipment on May 9th, 2025. Bids have been reviewed by Corey Wy and Jeremy Spiza. It is a recommendation to award the weight room equipment to design to wellness in the amount of $110,587. This project is funded through the bond. Is that a 23 bond or a 22 bond? 22 and one we passed on. So this project is being funded by the 2022 bond. Uh the recommended action by administration is that the

097board of education approve the award to design to wellness contract to provide and install weight room equipment as stated in the specification in the amount of $110,587 as presented. Do I have a motion? I'll make the motion. I'll second motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Beniti. discussion. Are we um purchasing due to the the larger uh weight room and what are we doing with the older equipment? It's a little bit of all. Corey can actually give you an explanation. I didn't hear your question completely, so if you want to ask again. Sure. Sure. Um, are we doing the purchase because we're expanding the size of the weight room and what are we doing with the older equipment? So, the old equipment, um, we're looking at probably putting at middle school south what is still

098salvageable. My understanding is most of the equipment is between 15 and 20 years old. So, we are replacing um, whatever is in poor condition and then what is in better condition will likely go to middle school south. Anyone else? If Miss Wley's at the podium. Yeah, I'll ask her. So, a lot of the line items had we good? Okay. A lot of the line items had a specific uh I think it was rogue um or equivalent, right? If the or equivalent part comes into play where they want to substitute items, do they come back to you to get okay for that or they are they do that without without coming back to you? Right. So the um recommendation that we're making to you is all rogue equipment. Okay. So they did provide alternates. We did

099not accept any of the alternates. So it will all be what was on there. There won't be any. We're getting exactly what we wanted. All right. Thank you. Anyone else? I take it unlike the uh uniforms there's no life well I would probably say the life expectancy in this stuff is probably 15 years 20 years as well about 15 thank you I do want to call the board's attention to this is the lowest bidder uh that met all of our specifications matter of fact they were lower than everyone else in total some that didn't meet our specifications all right motion on the floor any further discussion hearing none Mr. Mr. Richards, if you would. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Vinatilli, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Richards is Yes. Miss Miss Burke Meer. Mr. Powers, yes. Mr.

100Sunnyburgger, yes. All right, motion carries. Um, did you let Mr. Rathbon know that we were going to be spending this much money? Yeah, that's why he's bouncing out. Okay. Fire's trying to stop Cory from talking. Hyperventilating there. The this is for uh solar at the high school award recommendation. The recommendation is to approve a solar award for the bid submitted by Eco JVA of 2,995,000 even. EcoA was not the low bidder but produced the most savings. Additionally, Eco Jiva during post bid interviews demonstrated the most capability to successfully navigate the DTE interconnection process and deliver the project on time. As you will see in the attached presentation, we believe that the bond I'm sorry, that the project will produce a significant savings for the district of over $2.5 million. The project would be funded by

101energy conservation bonds separate from our 2022 voted bond. Recommended action is that the board ed of education approve the solar award for the bid submitted by EcoVA for $2,995,000 as presented. Do I have a motion to that effect? Did I scare everybody by I'll I'll make that motion. Okay. Motion by Mr. Venitelli, supported by Miss Knox. Uh I see at the podium um has recovered from his seat and has made his way to the podium. Uh as well as he brought Kurt who is our um uh our owner's representative on many of these projects. Gentlemen, correct? I also have SKer with us um from so he came in case we have any questions for him. Great. Thanks. Thanks for attending Kurt to uh go through the slideshow for you. Thank you. I tried to keep

102that brief for you tonight. Um next slide here. Okay, there we go. Um as we mentioned before we put this out to bid. The goal was to uh maximize the savings and minimize the cost of the district to capture also the uh the IRA rebates that were out there for the roof with the investment he already made on replacing the high school roof. Um we look to do this on a guaranteed basis to again guarantee the savings and the performance of the equipment and to look to long-term investment of a 25 to 30year equipment warranty. So, that was what was put out to bid uh the end of April. Bids are due back um May 16th and then uh here there we go. The results uh we had two very highly qualified uh biders uh

103both EcoDA and Enter Logix. Um, Ecodiva's bid was uh $2.99 million. Enter Logix's 2.6. Uh, their system Energic system design was slightly smaller than Eco Divas. Um, an initial uh look, the the proposal showed that we asked them to calculate the savings and to show us those calculations so we could review them. um enerlogics initially had higher savings but when we went through they didn't follow the same methodologies that we asked for uh for calculating those savings. Uh so actually the savings once we went through them and validated them uh the the ecoa savings were actually the highest. Um the other thing that stood out to us was the type of guarantee. Uh these projects can be done basically through what's called an option A or option C. And basically that means you're going to

104option A is you're going to take a one-time measurement and validate the calculation. The other is to actually use the utility bill. And the utility bill uh comparison is actually by far the best uh type of guarantee to get. So that also stood out. Um some other things during the interviews that stood out uh for Eco JVA was that um they had the most experience with DTE. Uh Mr. Dryer actually used to work for DTE. He's very familiar with the company and he's also done not only many interconnects with DTE but actually of this size which is a fairly large size. There aren't that many interconnects they put in um of that size per year. Um the uh the warranty on the panels or on the excusually I should say on the uh production from

105the panels is actually 30 years. So we've managed the cash flow to go with that. Uh I did want to point out that the panels um they have a strange uh guarantee on the panels. Now I'll let Mr. address that in a minute, but manufacturers now guaranteed the panel 12 years, but the production of the panel 30. Um, I put in there that you there's a uh net savings of $2 million after paying interest 2.5. That's in the next slide. This is kind of a financial summary. uh adding in the ancillary cost for uh bond council uh bonds uh uh we also have uh a tax advisory specialist that we'd recommend uh working to make sure those IRA rebates are the procedures are followed maximize those uh with the return on project I mentioned $2.57

106million over the 30-year life Also, the rebates that we'd be getting back, that's the specified amount. Uh, we'd be getting back 171,000 we believe on roof and about 846,000 solar for just over a million dollars of our and we did figure those at the lowest uh rate which was 27%. uh there are higher levels that can be obtained to focus us material source materials but we don't think that those would fully qualify so we won't conservative on those and cash flow I apologize for that there's a lot to show there so it's pretty think should have that in your packets the uh couple of the takeaways are it's 15 year we assume 15 year uh repayment on the energy bond. Uh the guarantee period is five years, but we would put work into the contract

107that that be extended that the owner wants to make it sponsored with the loan for 15 years. Uh we typically see guarantees after we've seen project pay for itself and validated over a couple years that the extra 10 or 20,000 a year for that guarantee. And then we also included a uh $150,000 in year 15 to replace the inverters and also do maintenance. The the project actually has a positive cash flow the first six or seven years. It goes negative up through year 22 and then comes back to very strong savings net savings produc that uh if any questions anybody any questions from either of the three gentlemen at the podium Mr. hours. Can you clarify this warranty? So, the panels are are warrantied for 12 years, but there's a production warranty of 30 years.

108Does that mean after year 12 they're guaranteeing that they'll at least manufacture the panel for us to purchase if it's out of warranty? Is am I reading that correctly or no? I would say no. Okay, good. Okay. Would you like to ask? Does that seem kind of insane? Warranty. quite understand you have questions. This says 30-year manufacturer production warranty/12year panel. So what just clarify the difference between 12 years and 30 years and what what this means. Yeah. The this these are for the five facial panels which is what we recommended. So the performance warranty or the production warranty these are utility gate grade panels and a lot of the utilities and investors want performance guarantee or production warranty for 30 years that has been a market desire. So product warranty is when there's a failure

109of the the frame or things of that nature. That's the product warranty. But most in our experience we've been in business for 16 years now and typically we don't have that issue. Most often the issue becomes the panel start degrading in performance over time and that's what the utilities and others insisted on the manufacturers pro provide performance warranty or production warranty and that's what happened with it. So these are utility grade panels. They're not going to degrade. I mean, they're not going to fall apart. The production warranty is most important, and that's what everybody is really banking, but there's still an 18-year gap. Like the the savings of 2.57 million is based on a 30-year project, but they're only guaranteeing the panels for 12 years. Correct. uh they're guaranteeing the the actually the manufacturer is

110guaranteeing the performance of the panel for 30 years. But how can you guarantee the performance of something that you're only guaranteeing itself for 12? That that's why I always have a problem with these things because I feel like we twist ourselves into knots to make the numbers work and and like I feel like this should be able to be explained a lot more clear than it is if this is such a great project. So let me step back. Um a few years ago the market was very consistent with the product warranty and performance warranty was it used to be 25 for product that means that uh the product itself the warranty for that performance of the panels also goes along with it because as the UV light falls on the panel and there will be

111a degradation of the performance. So that used to be also 25. They were all consistent until utilities started making requirements for we were talking about 50 megawatt 50 times or 100 times. They insisted that hey I wanted these manufacturer to stand behind these panels for product warranty for 30 years. That's what we want because that's how we get paid because they saw there was no failure on the product itself. the performance was most important for all this industry and that's why the manufacturer changed the whole uh warranty description. Unfortunately, this is now the global market. This is how it is. But I understand your concern about the difference between 12 and 30, but all the utilities are all using the same panels. That's what we offer. Sorry. in there. That is Did we lump some

112s some at 150,000? Is that what's in there? Is that what the 150,000 is in your for lack of a better description that we budgeted in year 15 or 16? No, that was that was to replace inverters. Okay. Degradation is built into, you know, the savings that you'll achieve on the panel. Okay. So, if I'm understanding this correctly, if your 14 rolls around and we have frames or panels or something that breaks, it's not going to be replaced under warranty. However, the degradation of that equipment on of those panels is built into the project. So that cost is essentially accounted for at the start of the project. Is that am I understanding that correctly? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Can you um can you tell me what the overall uh cost savings is over 30 years

113for the district? I I wrote through your slides about like I saw like a million. Yeah, we can go back. That's the 2.57.57. All right. So, the only savings including the um the uh rebates and whatnot is 2.57 over the 30 years. Y I'm spending 2.9 but getting 2.57 back. Well, that's the net. Well, that's after you've repaid all of your costs, then you have a savings of 2.5. All right. Okay. Thank you. Being able to uh control the demand of the building. The demand is how fast the building is using energy. How many KW of power it's drawing at any one time. And one of the things that was unique about EcoVA's proposal is that they use AI as well to uh shift the demand around the different areas of equipment and also to

114actually monitor when the uh the the solar is would overproduce to be able to uh do extra cooling like on the weekend uh and cool the building several extra degrees so that come Monday you don't have to use your chillers as hard to uh to achieve the cooling you need. So it's actually working to very smartly to use the system to use any excess capacity in the system at key times and to also make your other equipment run less. So, and then one thing that we question people would be on that portion of the savings, they're only budgeting about 3/4 of the savings they calculated for that part. So, the utility savings, those are in there with the 25% on what they expect. use of AI in driving the uh saving fire and helping extend

115the life. Mr. Yeah. Um, I know we, this got asked last time, um, and honestly I don't remember where we ended, but if in the event that our roof needs repair, um, say in, you know, in the next 30 years, um, who is responsible, if we went through with this project, um, if we needed, you know, just a local roof repair, something done on our high school roof, um, who who is responsible then at that point for removing the materials, you know, and then replacing them, putting them back, um, you know, together. The district would own this. So, it's not third party owned like so the if the district wanted to prepare and the district would contract third party electrical to move the systems out of the way. They'll be rack mounted modules. They'll be

116they'll sitting on the roof on clip piece that don't damage the roof. Um, but for the warranty of the system, would do we would we need to maintain like use a certain kind of certified person to do that at that point? I mean, like if we can't just throw our employees up there to move the system around and maintain the warranty, I'm assuming. No, the the to move or to work on maintenance system. Well, not to. Yeah, I'm just saying to have to move the system like remove it so we can repair our roof, you know, and then to put it back. We'd have to use some sort of certified tech or the the contract has out yet, but ouration in that contract be that you are the only to have anything done. But ultimately

117we want to have someone that's like certified electrician that's qualified to handle disconnecting moving that system. So it be solar and electric move it and to put it back and re-energize it. Um, one of the things that is involved in pulling all this together to make perfect that the roofing warrant is maintained. So there are the proper inspections by durap and letters so that they inspect it before you know during and after and issue letters back saying yes properly so that not voing any that was part of the reason as well rack on the system. So metal racking put together set on split piece ballasted uh and structural structural engineering that all of the weight all sign put together so that your rook And if you need that area. So this is probably this is

118a difficult question because you know it would obviously depend on the size of or scope of what you would need sorry moved but I mean what is a what is a going do you even know what is a going rate um of labor you know to have somebody have to you know move a move a portion to repair your root I mean just wondering what are we signing up for in you know potential costs I Not not to to criticize any of the work you've done, but I think, you know, we we know just through our work and with the board and warranties and things like, you know, unfortunately a 30-year roof is never really usually a 30-year roof, you know, something the size of the the high school. So, while our roof is going

119to be new, you know, my concern is that we're going to incur costs along the way that are going to eat at this um 2.57 net profit. My other question is more for the board because I know we have real estate agents here. um you know, we're looking at a $2.9 million cost for this, you know, and and then we'll net 2.57 um over 30 years. I'm just wondering if we purchased property um for $2 million, what's what's the average return um you know, on empty property over a 30-year period in Michigan? ish. Think it depends if you use Jill or I to buy it or not. I mean, we're not paying there. There's a lot of variables to that that there's no hard and fast number, but while you're on that topic, I do

120want I believe we and correct me if I'm wrong, please. We brought up the roof expectancy issue at the last meeting and I believe he said you get to a certain point where if you need to remove any of this equipment to repair the roof, it's not feasible to to pull it off and put it back on, you're buying new equipment at that point. So the roof the roof lasting as long as it's supposed to last is critically important to the numbers in this equation. And I guess I don't remember if I asked this at the last meeting, Todd. If I did, I apologize. Would our roof warranty cover replacement or recovery costs for solar equipment if the roof didn't last as long as it was supposed to? And it cost it it resulted in

121us incurring more costs to replace the solar equipment because the roof didn't last as long as it's supposed to. Well, yeah. I would say, you know, um assuming it's no, the roof is guaranteed to last 30 years. So, they would have to step in and repair the roof. If if for some reason it failed, they would have to step in and repair the roof. Yeah. No, I understand. I understand that. But I believe this gentleman told us at the last meeting like if you don't get life expectancy out of your roof and say 20 years into this, you have to pull the equipment, the solar equipment off to to replace the roof that didn't last as long as it was supposed to last, it's probably no longer cost feasible to put that same equipment back

122on. At that point, you're buying new solar equipment. Did Did you not tell us that? Okay. Yeah. So, that's what I'm asking is would we be able to recover those costs from the roof company because their roof didn't last as long as it was supposed to and now they're making us incur extra solar costs. We did we did those kinds of things to make sure is balanced at the right point and of course the wind load also there was higher than this particular location. We handled all those things and they put a new TPO roof. This been now eight years we have not had to move anything. In fact, they had some of the problems, but the you know, nothing to do with the solar array area. So, it's if it is done right, if

123the the roofer has done their work properly and is a brand new roof and you do this solar system, you should not have this situation. But the question is valid. You could have some other act of God where something happened. Now you have to repair the rope. The solar panels on it and of course your building insurance is going going to cover the rope repair and the solar work that has to be done. But again, I'm kind of giving based on my experience in terms Todd of that insurance claim is Yeah, I'll just wait. We need like almost a rider that, you know, have the insurance agent come back out do an assessment. This is our new roof. This is our shiny panels. No. So, I I did reach out to set if if there

124was an act of god, you know, some sort of wind or lightning strike or something, you know, fail that damaged the roof or the or the panels, our insurance would cover those. those claims. The other thing I'd like to point out is that although yeah, the the cost is $2.9 million, but um if you look in that third green column over, you know, we're also getting a rebate of about a million dollar back from the IRA. So, when I when I look at this, I really kind of look at it as a $1.9 million because you're getting that million dollars back right off the top. And honestly, that's one of the things that has made this project more attractive. Without that IRA rebate, it would certainly be less attractive. Word question. I will agree that

125Massachusetts does get Okay. Anybody? Anything else? Okay. Okay, we have a motion on the floor. Could you remind me again, sir? Motion by Mr. Vinatilli, supported by Miss Knox. That is to um approve the solar award for the bid submitted by EcoDA. Uh Mr. Carter, have you ever worked with EcoVa before? Um St. John's school. Uh both of those, this be our third project if the word were to be awarded with that company. We have no affiliation with them whatsoever. Uh just that we found that their uh their engineering was thorough, their savings calculations were extremely detailed and thorough and accurate. Um and uh their experience was strong and all projects with other projects that they have gone stellarly solar. How long ago did you do Westwood? Um four years ago. Is that about right

126five years ago? And are they seeing the returns that you calculated from the get- go on this on that project? Um I know that the uh first we were involved with the project for the first uh two years I believe and after that we haven't been working savings but the savings the uh solar production was was those were both power agree that people want and they installed them. They own the system and then they had guaranteed production to the district. Um and the uh all the the outputs of the system were okay board. Any other questions? All right. Hearing none. Uh Mr. Richards, would you call the role on this um approval? Mr. Vinatilli, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, no. Miss Burke. Mr. Richards is yes. And Mr. Green, no. Believe

127that's fourth Easter, sir. That counting correctly? Yes. Motion carries. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Moving on to the next item. Item E on our award recommendations. Uh, districtwide teacher chairs. The Ankor Bay School District receive bids for a total of 290 task chairs to be used district-wide as listed in the bid specifications. It is recommended to award the task chair bid to Office Express the amount of $49,972.80. This project is being funded by the 2022 bond. Um the recommended action is the board of education approved the award to office express the contract to provide and exchange the amount of $49,972.80 as presented to you. Do I have an entertain uh a motion to that effect? I'll make a motion. Second motion by Miss Burkmire, supported by Mr. Powers. Thomas in question. Um, are these chairs

128being replaced? No. Well, these are not. Yeah, these are future. That might affect my vote. Really? I don't know if I have a conflict of interest or not, but my first assignment in this district was Miss Sheridan's room, and she has the most gosh awful rickety wooden squeaky chair. So, I would like to see that. I've been after her to get it replaced for a long time. So, she might not replace it, though. She She likes the chair. She's not here. So, did we um canvas the teachers just to see what style they'd like or anything? No, we we did pilot some. Corey can actually give you So, we piloted some at Lah this year. So, if you see the quantity, Lahi was left off purposely because we did furnish Lah this year. So, basically,

129they have adjustable arms, adjustable height. Um the you know the width will change with the arms. So um yeah feedback's positive though. Pardon me. The feedback is positive. Mhm. Yep. I haven't heard anything negative. And no one's laying on the floor. So right, which your board might be, but that's okay. No problem, Mr. Janow. for the chiropractor adjustment. Uh, further comments or questions hearing none. Mr. Secretary, you would. Miss Burkmire. Mr. Pard, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Richards, yes. Mr. Venitelli, yes. And Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. All right, moving on to the next item. Item F, gym floor refinishing at uh Middle School South. The Ankor Bay School District received bids to sand and refinish the gym floor at Middle School South. It is a recommendation to award the gym floor sanding and

130refinishing at Middle School South to all court in the amount of $43,000. This project is being funded by the 2022 bond. The recommended action is that the board of education approve the award to all court. the contract to provide and install weight room. Uh oh, what happened here? I'm not doing weight room equipment. Uh that the board of education to approve um all court to provide and install the to sand and refinish. Wow, this is a sand and refinish the gym floor at Middle School South uh as stated in the attached specifications in the amount of $43,000 as presented. Sorry, that was so tough. Um, yeah, that was me copying pasting, so I apologize. Yeah, my laptop's not even on, so I I'll make the motion. Good curveball. Motion by Miss Knox. I'll seconded by

131Mr. Venitelli. Discussion. Uh, what's the need for I assume South Middle School south's gym floor. What's the specific need for that to be refinished versus the other gym floors for other schools? I didn't hear you. Why Why is there a need to refinish this gym floor as opposed to other schools? So, Middle School South is actually in the rotation this year to be done. Um and we wanted to put a new logo on it with um the middle school realignment next year. So, that logo will match the high school. So, they were already on a schedule for a sand and refinish. Okay. And have we worked with this contractor in the past? We have. Okay. You trust their work? Yes. this they they they're the ones that did the high school and middle school north

132as well. Gotcha. And we replaced those floors, right? We did. Flooding at both of them. That was gym. Yep. That was the ox gym. The main gym didn't have damage. No. No, it was the ox gym, but Okay. This being done this summer. It is. All right. Yep. Anyone else hearing? None. Mr. Richard, Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venatilli, yes. Mr. Sunonnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Miss Burk Meer. Mr. Richard, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Motion carries. We didn't change the logos for um for South, did we? There was there's been no change to our strategic plan or anything, right? No, we're go Well, we're going with the the new district logo. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Uh moving on to item G, preschool furniture. The bond team has reviewed the furniture recommendation to provide storage solutions

133and teacher workstations in the renovated fifth grade classrooms at Middle School North. Furniture is provided by NBS Commercial Interiors. NBS Commercial Interiors has applied the ENI cooperative service contract to their pricing. This is the same cooperative we have used to purchase the recent district furniture. Bay school district is a member of the ENI cooperative allowing the district to make purchases at the cooperative pricing which has been competitively bid meeting all purchasing requirements. There's a recommendation to award the fifth grade classroom furniture as listed to NBS Commercial Interiors in the amount of $267,486.50. This project is being funded by the 2022 bond. The recommended action is that the board of education award NBS Commercial Interiors the contract to provide and install furniture as stated in the specifications the amount of $267,486.50 50 cents as presented. Do

134I have a motion? Before I make a motion, um, we are actually on preschool furniture and you said fifth grade. And then just with the copy paste, I want to make sure that we're reading the appropriate information. I did say that and now I am doing fifth grade. How did I miss? We should be on the fifth grade furniture. Yeah. Yeah. Because I got E. I got F. You got G there. Yeah. I do not have G. I need it back. Um, yeah, we can't even move on. So, this amount I've got, it should be $223,65659. Yes, but I read the motion for the fifth grade classroom furniture. So, nobody made them. Nobody made Nobody We didn't make correct. So, I have to reread the preschool furniture. But we can't re I still can't do

135the fifth grade motion at this point because it's out of order on the agenda. That was what I was getting to, right? Correct. Yep. You can go back to So, we're going to go back to preschool furniture. The administrative team, including Todd Wrathbun, Corey Wy, and Carol O'Shea have reviewed the furniture recommendation to provide early childhood furniture provided by NBS Commercial Interiors. NBS Commercial Interiors has applied the ENI cooperative service contract to their pricing. This is the same cooperative that we have used to purchase recent district furniture. Anker Bay School District is a member of the ENI cooperative allowing the district to make purchases at the cooperative pricing which has been competitively bid meeting all purchasing requirements. This project is being funded by grant funds. The recommended action is the board of education to approve

136the recommendation to award the early childhood furniture as listed to NBS Commercial Interiors in the amount of $223,65659. Do I have a motion for the early childhood burning? I will make a motion. Appreciate that. Thank you. Second motion by Miss Knox, support by Mr. Sunnyberger. Comments, questions, concerns. Hearing none, uh, Mr. Secretary to call the role. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Mr. Richard, yes. Mr. Venitelli, yes. Miss Burkemeer. Mr. Powers. Yes. Motion carries. I believe we are on item H. G was paper clipped to F. All right. Item H. This may sound familiar. The bond team has reviewed the furniture recommendation to provide storage solutions and teacher workstations in the renovated fifth grade classrooms at Middle School North. Furniture is being provided by NBS Commercial Interiors. NBS Commercial Interiors has applied.

137The ENI cooperative service contract to their pricing. This is the same cooperative we have used to purchase the recent district furniture. There's a recommendation to award the fifth grade classroom furniture as listed to NBS Commercial Interiors the amount of $267,486.50. This project is being funded by the 2022 bond. Recommended action from administration is that the board of education award NBS Commercial Interiors the contract to provide and install furniture as stated in the specifications the amount of $267,486.50. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion. I'll second. Motion by Miss Knox, supported by Mr. Penitentelli. Comments, questions, or concerns on fifth grade furniture? Perfect. Hearing none, we will move on to a roll call vote. Sir, Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Vancill, yes. Mr. Sunnyberger, yes. Mr. Power, yes. Miss Burkemeire. Mr. Richards is yes. Mr.

138Green, yes. Motion carries. Item seven, I pizza bid. Although Little Caesars key icing is slightly higher than the other vendors, our food service department recommends awarding the contract to Little Caesars based on the following factors. Strong student preference as demonstrated in their taste test results. Increased alleart revenue. Uh due to the high student demand for Little Caesars, we receive an increase in alle cart sales of extra slices. This added participation will offset the higher cost to maintain overall budget balance. Proven track record. We have worked with Little Caesars for the past six years and they have consistently demonstrated professionalism, reliability, and excellent customer service. In addition, high satisfaction with their responsiveness, delivery, and overall partnership. We believe continuing our relationship with Little Caesars will best serve our students preferences and maintain the high service standards

139our district expects. The recommended action from administration is the board of education award the pizza bid for a two-year contract to Little Caesars. Do I have a motion to that effect? So moved. We'll second. Supported by uh Mr. Power, supported by Miss Knox. comments, questions, discussion about the pizza. Mr. Green, what uh what was the total for the pizza bid for two years? I was scrolling through here and I correct. So that it's uh the second page of your recommendation has uh three vendors listed and the price per pizza for cheese, pepperoni, and veggie. Um I do not believe when I read through this earlier that we are making any minimum or maximum commitment. Uh, correct me if I'm wrong. No, it it's just it's the number of pizzas we order. Gotcha. Um, do have

140a question about this. I think pizza is sort of like a ongoing tradition for public schools. Is there anything else we can feed kids besides pizza? I mean, it is a pretty easy go-to, but the nutrition for that is, in my opinion, pretty poor. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. So, we do there's always different lines. So, there's the regular I guess it would be called what was the hot meal before and then there's also pizza. Then there's like sandwiches and things like that. And the nutrition in these, that's why it's special bid because it's whole wheat. It's not it's not the same stuff. They have to meet the federal guideline for um lunches. Okay. So, the idea is that by offering whole wheat that it's going to be a healthy alternative to other brands of pizza

141for Well, it it's it's not exactly what you see if you were to go on to a Little Caesars. It's it's has much different requirements. It has to hit certain minimums and and it's not the main thing that we they they have a variety of things that they can choose from and pizza just being one of them. Sure. Yeah. But I mean we're we're still offering it and still kids are going to they're still going to go for it. I mean that and it's it's fine like I said like I don't you know we don't need to change the whole menu right now but it just seems like you for for at least from my perspective you know if the kids are going to go to a public school why do we even have pizza

142why not just go with the other the sandwiches the healthy alternatives or whatever else we might be able to offer them just not really give them the choice to choose unhealthy things if they want to be unhealthy they can grab roll-ups from home or mom can have them pizza they can microwave at school or something like that but just offer specific specifically what would be good for their nutritional value because even though we're offering whole grain um or or whatever sort of alternatives to the pizza it, you know, from my understanding of nutrition, like there's really nothing you can do to to dress it up. It is going to be bad for whoever eats it. It's it's going to lead potentially to, you know, getting used to eating this type of food long term. And

143so that's just kind of my my uh my two cents on on I don't know, picking pizza as a food. I guess followup question. Is this for uh lunches or for events or for both? This is lunches. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So that's Yeah, that's kind of the point. Um but yeah. Okay. Well, I I just wanted to understand a little bit more about that. So the federal guidelines establish um minimum nutritional value that goes with all food. And as crazy as it sounds, we can actually sell cookies in our schools because they've got flour in them. And they they meet they check those boxes. Um, but also in addition to that, in order for a meal to be reimbursible in the state of Michigan, we have to provide a half cup of fruit with that

144pizza. Um, and I'll tell you quite frankly, most of our kids probably throw it away, but if they walk out of that line without that half cup of fruit and I think milk, too. Um, we we technically we're not supposed to get reimbured for that. If we get audited and whether they eat it or not, it's not our problem. It's just that they take that half cup as they're walking through, whether it's an apple, carrots, whatever it might be. Um, so there is some additional value aside from just the slice of pizza. Personally, if it were me, of course, I'd be tossing the the veggies or whatever in the pizza, but so that's no surprise. Yeah. And I'm I'm more of the mindset of like, well, if all we offered them was veggies and and

145fruit, then they would not toss that stuff. They would have to eat it because that's the only option. Otherwise, they go hungry. And it's sort of like a tough love situation, but I, you know, I think they would be able to get through it and it wouldn't be, you know, so so bad. So, I will just speak from experience with two middle schoolers. You do not want even more than two middle schoolers that are hangry. Yeah. They'll just whatever is they will be unmanageable, right, is what will happen. I I can tell you that um every district across the country has a pizza day. As crazy as that sounds, it there it is the biggest and highest demand item. Matter of fact, we we it's already we talked about the alle cart, which means somebody

146coming and buying an extra one. You'd be surprised at how much that alle cart piece actually offsets and provides money back to the district that we can use for our food service fund to buy new equipment. You wouldn't think it, but you get to high school, you know, how many high schoolers you know that eat one piece of pizza? My 22-year-old will eat a whole large if I put it in front of him. Oh, yeah. I know. I've I've been there. I've been that type of person that's down with a whole pizza all by myself. No shame. Um and and I get it. That others enjoy. Dominic, how much nutritional value was in that whole pizza that you put on? Sir, it was terrible. That's why I'm on a diet, Mr. Powers. Um so fine.

147Uh I appreciate you guys in those I got down and I didn't have it together. So I don't know what you guys are worried about. Those fruit cups don't go to waste, Mr. Green. get recycled within the school only if they get put on the table. We have a I know at South they have a big bowl and if you don't want something you put it in the bowl and it gets reused only if you put it on the table. They do a pretty good job. I don't want to belabor this anymore, but I would say but you will. We've we've taken away their cell phones tonight. I don't think we should take away their Little Caesar's pizza. And cell phones. They're not getting I understand that pizza is not the most nutritious thing, but

148they're kids and part of being a kid is enjoying a slice of pizza. So, I'm I'm good with this. Just think of it this way. By taking away the phones, we've avoided the whole Fast Times at Ridgemont High situation where the pizza gets delivered at the pot. So, you got to give him the pizza. Anyone else? Please call the RO. All right. Mr. Power, yes. Miss Knox, yes to pizza. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Richard is a no. Mr. Venitelli, no. Miss Burker, pizza. Pizza. Pizza. Pizza. Mr. Sunonny Ber. Yes. That's a yes. Yeah. Right. All right. So, you have five to two there, sir. So, the motion carries. Yes, sir. And I hope no one beat you up by the dumpster at lunch hour. I like pizza. Just not That's all I'm saying. Little say

149at this point. They're going to save a buck. They're based in Detroit. Well, save a buck. Even Domino's. Are they still headquartered in Arbor? I don't even know at this point. Yeah. Where's the Jets bid? Jets must not like us. They're based in Texas. You know how I feel about anything outside of Michigan. Item J, classroom interactive displays. the rationale. The review team met to conduct a detailed overview of all findings, discuss all options, consider initial and long-term cost models, evaluate overall and individual contractor abilities to complete projects, and to provide anchorbased school district with a high probability of success. The team reached consensus on this recommendation after a thorough consideration of all bids and detailed product specification. The recommendation is that the board of education approve the contract with income technical services group Southfield

150Michigan in the amount of $555,687 and no cents for classroom multimedia systems base bid plus an additional $30,855 for teacher stations to be paid using the funds from the 2022 bond proceeds. Do I have a motion to that effect? I'll make a motion. I'll second it. So, you give him computers, but no pizza. Yes. Motion by Knox supported by Venditelli. Let's discuss it. Um, I did have a a well kind of questioned, but um I believe you went over this with us before. It's just getting late and I'm not remembering. I know we we talked about not changing the the boards and still having the right on board or right like the white boards. Okay. Can you go over that a little bit? Ah, there we go. We do have we do have Todd over

151at the podium and I'm guessing our representative from our selected vendor. Yes, I have Justin here. Can you answer the Is that microphone on, Todd? It is. Okay. Yeah. Uh good evening everybody. Um yeah, the uh the new panels that'll go into the classrooms at the high school um provide infinite whiteboard natively as part of the operating system. Um so it it's the opportunity for the teacher to not only write on the the whiteboard, but it can be saved and and reused. Um but it'll go right over the section of the whiteboard that they're they're currently using for um the projectors that they have in their classrooms already. So the space that will be given up on the whiteboard um is where the live does that answer the question. Perfect. So this is only for

152the high school only for the high school. We had discussed in curriculum about them not wanting to lose their whiteboard space. So this is more like modular, right? Yeah. I do want to point out they were the uh the lowest bidder out of the five that were reviewed. Todd, did you review this one yourself? What's that? You reviewed this bid yourself? I did along with Justin and we had uh Tim as a part of that. Bill was a part of that. Okay. Anyone else comments, questions, or concern? Is it going to be your company that does the work or are you subcontracting? Uh no. I I'm actually the technology part of the technology consulting firm that works for the district, Communications by Design. So, um I'm not directly affiliated with the company that'll be doing

153the work. We put the the bid documents out. We work through the review process with you guys and then manage the project. You know what kind of carts these come on? What's that? You know what kind of carts these come on? Um yeah, I it's I'd have to look, but yes, it's a four-wheel kind of like a mobile TV stand. There's a specific part number for it. If you want to know exactly which one it is, we can give that to you. All right. So, this isn't a uh a fixed system. It's a it's on a cart. So, there there's four that are part of this project that'll be on carts. Um two for the media center and two in classrooms for specified use that the teachers requested they be on carts. Every other scenario

154will be a permanently mounted IFP or a projector in the classroom based on what the teacher want. Anyone else? Mr. Secretary, call the role if you would. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Venelli, yes. Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. Mr. Powers, yes. Miss Burfire. Mr. Richard? Yes. And Mr. Green? Yes. Motion carries. Moving on to item number eight, bond ratification resolution. On May 21st, 2025, the district sold its second series of bonds totaling 54,364,000. Upon sale, Phil Janowski as the authorized officer, accepted the purchase of the bonds by Jeffre LLC, the purchaser, as being the best overall bid. The resolution before you this evening is required for the board to ratify and affirm the acceptance of that offer. The recommended action is that the board of education approve the ratifying resolution. Its second series of bonds totaling 54,365,000. I

155will entertain a motion to that effect. If somebody is so moved so moved. A second. Motion by Mr. Power, supported by Miss Knox. discussion hearing. None. Roll call vote if you would be so kind. Sir, Mr. Powers, yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Richard, yes. Mr. Vinatelli, yes. Miss Burkmeer. Mr. Sunonnyberger, yes. All right, the motion carries. Moving on to item number nine, a student reinstatement. Uh earlier today, the reinstatement committee uh met here at the administrative offices and at this time I will entertain a motion if uh one of those committee members is so inclined to make a motion. Um in your motion, uh please indicate whether you wish to uh reinstate the student or not reinstate the student. First, we just go with reinstatement. I guess we could just entertain a

156motion to reinstate the student. Vote yes or no. So, is anybody so inclined to make a motion to reinstate the student? May I have his number, please? I don't have it written down. Sure. His number is 014357. 014357. So, I would entertain a motion to reinstate student 014357. I will make that motion to reinstate student number 014357. Do I have a second? Second. All right. Uh motion by Mr. Richard, Mr. Sunnyburgger. Um do we need to have any discussion? Are there any conditions that need to be put forth into this that you would probably have to be amendable to with your motion or are you both comfortable with returning without conditions? We were okay with returning vote about condition. All right. So, it looks like we have a motion on the floor. Any uh comments,

157questions, or concerns? I What I guess how do what are we doing here? We We had two out of seven board members sit in this session. We know nothing that was talked about, nothing that was said, and then we're supposed to make a vote on whether or not to reinstate a student who was expelled for some pretty serious reasons. like I don't understand how any of us could feel like we have information that we need to reinstate this student. All right, that's fair enough. Um I I can just answer that part of it is the state has a process and that you have to have a certain number of committee members and they have to have certain representative and so that's where the committee meets and then they make their recommendation. So the only other

158So I was going to say the only other option would be for the entire board to convene for the um for the reinstatement hearing. Mr. Jakowski and I did talk about that and I felt like having three people at there would be sufficient. Um if you feel like I misguided superintendent in that and your preference is to have reinstatement hearings um I certainly have no problem moving forward with that. I know we've done what do we want to call the the warning with the committee um where we've had two or three board members that sit down. Um but like I said, I am amendable to moving forward if we want to. Would that be done in closed session like the expulsion hearings are? No, it would have to be in open. Yeah, I recall doing

159reinstatement hearings in close session the past if I'm not mistaken and in close session with all board members. Some of the reinstatements too were um due to just the law regulations correctly the motion ended he had basically I think there's one item involved in yeah no we I we've done also as a committee based on it it again it depends on what the individual case is and what the stipulations are in in front of the So the stipulations of the case would determine if we can have that reinstatement hearing be heard in closed session or open session. Well, if again it depends on if it's a safe schools violation, if it's not a safe schools violation, if it's u because I know the summary was kind of provided of exactly what the the student had

160and then um and there were some there were four conditions in this that the student the committee felt that basically the student met. Correct. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, there's there's four conditions um that we came up with prior and in this particular um at the expulsion. Correct. At the expulsion, we came up with four um you know, four stipulations that the student did meet all four of them. Um I'll say, you know, I'll I'll a couple things to me. Um, you know, I think all of us did receive an email this week in regards to another expulsion and some of the things that I personally witnessed today uh was encouraging to see the student um you know uh definitely I think the expulsion did change him you know a lot of positive uh feedback you know

161with we had a district you know he had a a meet he had a meet with Mr. Lona on a monthly basis for example and Mr. feedback was pretty high. Um, you know, is highly effective and a lot of communication. Um, you know, the student is definitely more engaged. Um, you know, a lot of the memories I have going through the expulsion hearing, there wasn't much, um, you know, comments from that student. And today was like a a different student sitting, you know, in front of myself and Mr. Sunonnyber. Okay. Were the um, was Mr. Mr. Sonnyberger in the original expulsion hearing? No, that would be my only concern. Like I'm fine with committee, but I would prefer that the original people if possible who were at the expulsion hearing come in again because I

162think uh we see different things and different tones and then you have a a comparison like you Mr. Richards can say, "Oh, he was not talkative. Now he was I saw this change." And I think that'd be more beneficial in presenting that information if it's done in a committee. So I I think we're to a point where we uh we need to figure out if we do we already make a motion on this. It's been a long night. Okay. So I'm okay with that. But I think if we want to get into the specifics of how we handle the next one, we should probably save that for even our our comments, you know, tonight rather than tying it to this because I certainly want to hear from, you know, and if you're not comfortable approving

163this because we didn't go that route. Uh I guess it's certainly at this point though, we could probably schedule the parents to return and schedule. Yeah, we just there's a deadline that we have to do by we'll have to check those dates. So you remind me it's 10 days for 10 days from when they did their application and then the board has to move within 10 days after that. Yeah. Just um I think it will it'll wait then. Um yeah. Um so you said there's four conditions I guess. Would you be able to tell us a little bit about this student because I don't recognize him by the number. uh what exactly did the student do to get themselves expelled? If we can talk about that open session, is that possible to talk about? And

164then what were the four conditions that he followed, he or she followed that allowed us to feel comfortable bringing that student back into the school district? It was essentially it's on inappropriate comments that were made in in school and then those um the four conditions. I got you got uh the four the four conditions were to enroll in virtual classes as assigned by Anchor Bay staff and complete all classes assigned which includes weekly two-way communication via email to meet with Mr. Lona monthly as scheduled by Mr. A consent of two-way communication between the students therapist and the anchor bay counseling staff enroll in summer school as assigned by Anchor Bay Middle School and the counseling staff. We did also uh receive a letter from uh the students um counseling staff um you know that kind

165of wrote some pretty positive praises in there. Um, you know, that's something that we also put in consideration. You know, a lot of the feedback from the council or the uh counseling office that sees him, I think it might have been on a weekly basis. Um, so the appearance could also bring the uh, you know, the letter too. Are you that answer your question? Yeah. No, that that's fine. I just seen that there's a email that was sent out. It looks like my address was not put on that, but I see the conditions that were put in there and so that makes sense. Thank you, Mr. Powers. You're good. Everybody else is no comments at this point. And like I said, let's let's open some conversation uh when we get to the end of the

166meeting about we want to handle this in the future. I think the last thing that uh I just want to mention that um I obviously sat in on the meeting as well as Mr. Sunonnyburgger and um I would not make a motion nor keep in mind that you know it was a committee that met today was myself, Mr. Sunonnyburgger, uh Mr. Jenowski, Mr. Lona, um we had a a teacher, Mr. Wagner um that um saw that you also had the student prior and it was an overwhelming uh unanimous decision. Um, and I would not recommend or make a motion to bring back a student that I I didn't think uh would do well within the Anchor Bay School District or still have any type of threat within school. All right. So, we have a motion.

167Um, I support any Mr. McDonald. Any further discussion? All right. Let's call the role. Mr. Richards is a yes. Mr. Sunnyberger. Yes, Mr. Powers. No, Miss Burkemeer. No, Mr. Vinatelli. Yes, Miss Knox. Yes, and Mr. Green. Yes. Motion carries. Uh, let's move on to I believe our next topic is a volunteer appeal. As part of our recent policy update, we institute an appeal process for those parents who wish to volunteer or accompany students on field trips. Current practice is to hold parents to the same restrictions the state places on district employees. The appeal process will allow each parent to speak about their appeal for five minutes and then the board will vote on the appeal. Tonight we have one appeal from parent A. So why don't we hear from parent A and then at that

168time I would entertain a motion if one of the board is so moved. Is the parent here? All right. So, um, we don't have a motion on the floor at this point. We can make a motion to table it. We can make a motion. Whatever. What does the board feeling like they want to do with this at this point? Uh, I'd like to make a motion to deny the appeal for parent A. All right. Do I have a support for that support? Motion by Mr. Benitelli, supported by Mr. Powers. Uh comments before we vote on the motion. Just to clarify, uh the vote in the affirmative is to deny the parent appeal. Okay. So, voting yes is to Gotcha. Just want to make sure I got that clear. And just to um clarify too, the

169parent has only one appeal or what? So they come back each year or even like next month you're saying like could that parent come back? That come back next month they can make it and if it you know even if we were to vote no on an appeal process is a parent allowed to come back the following year also. Okay. So, we have a motion on the floor to deny uh the appeal of parent A. Correct. Call the RO, sir. Oh, it's approved. Then they're approved. It's approved. All right. So, so first just for the sake of discussion without getting too detailed, having read the full background report in addition to what was stated in the in the letter, the appeal letter, there was additional for me troubling information that that makes this um a

170yes vote for denial. All right. Anyone else? We we won't go into detail, but I I concur with Mr. Powers's assessment of the record. Uh there was a mention of something that had taken place 14 years ago. Uh but as the report comes in, there's some pretty egregious activities that have taken place, a lot more recent than 14 years, which makes me uncomfortable with parent. All right. Any other comments? Did did we get any notice like that the parent wouldn't be able to make this ahead of time or we we Okay. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Mr. Richards. Mr. Venitelli. Yes. Mr. Powers. Yes. Mr. Green. Yes. Miss Knox, yes. Mr. Richard, yes. Miss Burkeman, yes. And Mr. Sunnyburgger, yes. All right, motion carries. Next up is item 11, Chesterfield facility use. The Charter Township of

171Chesterfield seeks approval from the Anchor Bay School District to use Great Oaks Elementary as a voting precinct for the years 2025 through 2028. The facility use agreement is attached. The recommended action is that the board of education approve the Chesterfield facility use agreement as presented for 2025 through 2028. Is anyone uh so inclined to make that motion? I'll make a different motion. All right. You have the floor, ma'am. Um, so based on past experiences and treatment, I would like to make a motion that we do not approve the use of Great Oaks um, at this time for uh, Chesterfield facility use. I will support that motion. All right. I have a motion by Miss Burkmeer uh, supported by Miss Knox that we do not approve the Chesterfield facility use agreement. Discussion. Can I go first?

172Uh, Miss Bergman, just real quick, because if we fail this vote, then it would then, my understanding it would then approve them to use Great Oaks. So then if we have the vote be to approve it and it fails, then that would just then deny the uh the motion for what the uh city of Chesville is trying to do. I believe her motion is to not approve the facility use agreement, right? Which would require four votes to do so. But if we did it in the inverse, it would take four votes to approve that. In which case, like what you just what we just what I just did. Yeah. Yeah. Um No, you're right. So I Right. So you're prepared to modify your motion, ma'am. I am. Um I will. Let's see. think out loud.

173How about I'll just resend my motion. Just to be clear, if nobody makes a motion and nobody seconds a motion, even though it's on the agenda, it doesn't exist, then we move on. Support fails for lack of support. So, you have rescended your motion? Yes. I assume you rescend your second just to make sure we're covering things. You're not picking up the ball and running with it. All right. So, we're still at the board level for conversation. Uh, anything further? Does anybody wish to make a motion? Is anyone so inclined to make a motion? I I would like to make that motion. I I think we we do have a representative from Chesterfield and I think we should hear them out. So, I'd like to make a motion that we approve uh Great Oaks for

174uh for use as a voting precinct. All right. Very good. Uh I have a motion. Do I have a support? debating purposes, I'll support. Okay. Uh I've got a motion to support. So, back to the board again. Um comments or questions before um before we we move on with this. Yeah, just to open up the floor a little bit. I think a lot of and and correct me if I'm wrong here that there's frustration among the board by how the election was carried out in previous events. Um, and I, if I'm not, if I'm remembering this correctly, there's there's some concern about how the voting precinct was opened up during while class was in session. Some parents and concerned about unknown people being able to access their kids while in their class. So, yeah, if

175if it's the board like to allow the represent Well, let's let's talk about that first. Yeah. Okay. Um, first of all, and again, anybody jumped in that was here, correct me if I'm wrong. Um, this right sugar sugar bush was was the issue uh after they leased uh a certain amount of space. Uh we weren't informed that they were going to be using it as as a voting poll and early voting I believe was the issue because that's why we were in we were in session. We wouldn't have been in the building had it not been early voting. Um and then I think the second part of that is that we received a bill uh I think it was for our bond. Yeah. So, can you can you remind me again, Phil, what that situation

176was with the That that was the operating millillage. Okay. For our operating village on the election, Chesterfield didn't have anything on the ballot. Yeah. Um can you remind me if you have that number or Todd, how much we were build? The original bill was approximately 50,000 for the operating millage to use uh Chesterfield probably I'm guessing their municipal run. Yes. in which we challenged then and then let's just put it out there now. How much should we actually we settled around 30,000 and that was because we challenged it back through the state and did we have an arbitrator make that amount you guys came to basically we kind of got got it down to there were a lot of things that were on there that weren't necessarily pertinent to the election and so we were

177going to challenge it further but at that point the cost to to reduce it would have been greater with to our legal counsel. Okay. So, we negotiated the the reduced amount. Before I do turn it over to the gentleman at the podium, please state your name when you do start to speak. Does anybody else have anything else they want to throw out here before I just want Yeah, I just want I just want to clarify real quick. So, the the 50 to 30,000 that was just due due for the election for the bond just for the operating. Yes. Because we were the only item on the ballot. That's Mr. Yeah. And my my objection personally comes um different from the I mean the sugar bush that was that was another issue. But my objection comes

178more from the treatment that our district has received from the clerk's office and trying to even rectify positions situations like this. But the last time I believe that we had a election and Great Oaks was utilized, which is what they're requesting, um, you know, we had a, you know, items were moved, all sorts of things without really, um, and it might have been part of their agreement, but there there's just been no like decency kind of going back and forth. And I just don't have an appetite for it anymore. I mean the treatment um of from the clerk's office particularly. So and I apologize sir because I I frankly do not know who you are and this may have nothing to do with you. Um so please don't take it personally but um that's that's

179kind of where my background comes from. I know I I I do recall there was something that happened with the Great Oaks building before. Yeah. There was um or there was some event and basically they were setting up for that. there was a donuts or muffins with mom or donuts with dad type thing that was set up and mildly destroyed. Um, you know, and and not even as much as like a courtesy of, you know, hey, we do have to move this, you know, it's just and and add on to it the sugar bush, add on to it the the election billing. I mean, it's all the same department. I love Chesterfield Police. I I I don't tend to I don't want to make a poor relationship out of the whole but I just you

180know what like the clerk's office has not impressed me. So So before I turn it over to the podium, does anybody I'll bring it back once and then again while he's up here feel free to ask questions. You stand up the podium. That's what happens. You got a target on your back now. So just real quick, Phil, what legal obligation do we have as a public school district to open our buildings up for public elections, if any? Um generally the according to our attorneys there is no obligation. Um you're entitled to charge fees if they do use it. U generally school districts do because there's always a partnership you want to get along with community but that's yeah so we do charge Chesterfield for these. No we have not generally you do not because Yeah.

181Yeah. All right so you're up. Good evening. I am Mason Bzinski. I'm the election coordinator of current at the um Esville Township Clerk's Office. So to begin, um I suppose to touch on the question of Sugar Bush Elementary. Um we have a resident in our community. Um she has reached out to the board multiple occasions. She has a child that was attending straight start program there and some issues arise with our lease agreement um with early voting prior to us acquiring the building from the um school district. We are taking preventive measures make sure that's not happening again tomorrow. Ironically, we are meeting with head start to talk about the 2020 um sick election which is the gubanatorial. So, Linda Azar from the county will be coming. We're going to talk about the security presence.

182Um, as most of you are familiar, Anchor Bay Middle School South has police present. Um, we do have routine patrols now. We co-opted a continuing operation emergency plan that addresses this. Um, more often than not, schools don't tend to meet on election day to provide quiet voters. However, um the Head Start program that was a Kurt Buffalo and um there was back and forth between the clerk and that was before my tenure, so I can't speak to it, but we did identify the deficit and um I don't want to name the individual, but we've been in communication with her and she is part of the solution. She's also met with director Basset at our police department to um bring awareness to the situation that the vulnerability of these children with voters coming in and out.

183Um second to that, the bond question. So 2023 I began right when the election began. Um the quote that was put together the cost estimate excuse me was put together for reimbursement to the board 100% that came to you guys in ill favor. Um I met with Mr. Rather and um Miss Randazzo and we did sit down and comb through the bill and reviewed it against the compile law. What are ordinary and customary fees that schools districts pay for when they ask for a special election? Um again that was onus on the previous incumbent as well as myself. It was transition period for the department. However, I do want to note that we did reduce the bill. Um Lance Cruz called for an election in May and that bill ultimately failed. They did pay just

184about as much as you guys once it was all settled and again I had 100% ownership of it at that point in time. Um I understand the strain on the relationship and there's not much to add there to say you know it won't happen next time. Um perhaps I would say if the board is immunable and it um willing to take action, we try it for one more trial basis for next year just for continuity of the voters. We did spend um quite a sum of money to consolidate our precinct and create all the collateral that warrants our polling locations. As Mr. Jinowski noted, um the school district is not inclined to provide us any spaces for polling locations. Election law makes it that we have to use buildings that are 503 nonprofits. School districts

185are clinical and arily the relationship tends to be good. Um, obviously this one's strained and I would like to demonstrate that we are on the up and up. We are refining our practices. I came from the city of Arbor before coming to Chesterfield, so I'm still learning the song and dance a little bit here. Um, but um, Miss Bergmire, you did mention the event. I believe that was the August election. We had the primary and the tables were set up nicely in the gym and cafeteria um, area. We were coordinating with Miss Wy and Miss Benoy in their office. Um, something did transact with us essentially rearranging the room for election day. Um, unfortunately by the merit of what the compile law is, we are the chief election administrators and that was just an event

186that we couldn't plan for and it was unfortunate that we did cause quite a strain on the custo staff as well as the event for the following day. So, we do apologize for that. Um again, we we appreciate the consideration the time tonight. All the concerns I do have um jot it down here. I hope this kind of signals that we are taking serious action to restore confidence in what we're doing. But again, um it is pleasure. I appreciate the time. So, I'll bring it back to the board while um Mason is still at podium. Does um does Chesterfield pay Lance Crew School District for the uh the use of the the schools? We do not. So um one thing that was noted at the beginning of my tenure was the formalized agreements. They've been

187more of a handshake, if you will. Um Lance Cruz has the same exact resolution adopted prior to Mr. Howell taking over at superintendent of the district. Um I would encourage you all to reach out especially to Randy Baker. Um we use Green Elementary as well as um Higgins and we haven't had any issues with the staff there. Um so I don't know if it's a facilities operation um on our side or the clerk's office entirely but there is a ruffle in the process that we are working out but no we do not compensate for anything in that sort. Um it's been just purely transactical neighbor help neighbor. Yep. Anyone else? How many days will you need Great Oaks for for the elections? Uh from it looks like 2025 2028. How many days on site will

188you need to be at Great Oaks? Yep. So for 2026 it would be two election dates. Um in the letter that I drafted to Mr. Tinkowski and I de Christopharo. Um for 2026 is the August primary and then the November general. So those are your groupatorial elections and then in uh 2028 we have presidential again. So it would be four days in total unless a special election was called on the off years. Um in the letter I did note that the township board this year may be calling for a special election for us for a mill question for our parks and recreation that was considered at our previous township board meeting the item did fail. Um the early voting side of it that is now fully contained within Bush Elementary. Um again there was a

189lot of history there and na and um lack of respect essentially. So that is all contained in our apparatus. Everything else again is just the one day that they election are all about do. But there is a reduction in foot traffic since 20 uh 2022. We had a proposal that passed as a constitutional amendment that allowed early voting as well as expanded mail and voting. So our foot traffic has decreased significantly. Um, but that is a point of consideration as well that I might add. So, you won't be using Great Oaks for any early voting? No, I just want to make sure I heard you correct. Right. Yep. Our early voting site is fully contained in one building. And again, we are coordinating with Head Start and Palm County um to ensure the children um

190have you know adequate security that they are blocked off from public that we are taking these proactive measures and that is um being led by our office. Again, we did identify that we had a afteraction um meeting, if you will, um following our August, November election that um entailed our internal stakeholders. We didn't necessarily reach out to school districts yet. We have to hone our craft internal before we reach out to you all and have a you know Q&A essentially what worked, what didn't work. Um but again we are looking holistically and we do know that there are some uh kinks in the armor if you will with relationship here and we're hoping to build back that bridge and demonstrate that we are meaningful in our gesture. We are trying to co-op the relationship that

191is without issue and has a genuine level of respect. I just you know the clerk's office we're taking over for the day or luck. Uh anybody else I have a procedural question Mr. Green or Mr. Enkowski. If we approve this for the years of 2025 and 2026, let's say we do approve this and something happens, we don't like it, we want to resend this motion, can we vote to resend access to the from the clerk's office to use Great Oaks. Um, we have to look at the agreement and see if there's a recision. May I provide some detail to that question? Sure. So, um, if that is the case and within the board's perview, uh, we would just need notice 120 days prior to the next scheduled election that allow us time to redistrict. We

192would have to send out voter registration cards to all those impacted. Um, Great Oaks served as a polling location. Um, so those north of 24 that um are that would be east of 94, everything west of 94 is Higgins. So, um, we would have to notify roughly 9,000 people. pay your polling location. But um that would be the only criteria that we have a question to Mr. Jen Pascal. So um in I guess your past experience, is it common where school districts are not charging um townships and cities for elections? Is that common or is it Yeah, that's generally the case. Every district I've worked in, we've never charged. Right. Well, the townships will charge us for different millages and whatnot, but the district doesn't charge for the use. No. And just to add a

193little context, the charges that are customary and routine. Um, elections are very personnel heavy. The people that you see on election day or processing ballots, um, that's the bulk of our cost. Ballot production. Now, the county um, does ballot production at the failed state for our office. Um, and this is just for the state of Michigan as a whole. local unit administers, the county organizes. Our ballots are all watermarked now due to authenticity. That was a initiative by clerk Bini and that has increased the ballot cost significantly. For instance, I just ran the numbers for us to have our special election for a park and direct proposal and because that election affects all residents of Chesterfield, everybody's eligible for a ballot just on the ballot bill at $13,000. So the bills always come and it's

194you know for a lack of better words what the hell and then you know we look at the nuts and bolts of it and a lot of what we get it's all generic like for instance there was a question I remember watching I think made the point we're getting charged for you know recall we didn't have that virus but they're grouped together in generic things like what we call precinct tax they come with all the oneoff of what you might need to run an election if it's election general election and Again speaking to that bill, it was wholly misrepresented and again we did take meaningful action to remedy it. Myself and at that time our deputy clerk did uh come out here to the administration office. Again we met with the director make a you

195know meaningful impact to help reduce that. for the clerk to be there to take a bill. But we're we're trying to we're trying to, you know, uh reassure this relationship that we're trying to build the intro and we're not just this monolith that works off. Um so with Great Oaks, for example, on the on these proposed election days that the school for Great Oaks, it would be closed, but we would still have staff there whether it's custodial or whatnot. Open, close, stay all day. Yes. I think we traditionally ever run PD days I think on on days. Yeah, generally that's Yeah, that'll be a PD day. We do have staff there may not be in that building. Maybe at the high school that large auditori and we have other buildings that are used right as

196well. Right. Right. But there there's at all times there's some type of staff member that's within the the school. Yes. Okay. And we do have uniformed officers at all polling locations on election day. Now we um reduced from 19 precincts to 10 but at four locations. So there's someone at Green Hagen Great Oaks as well as Sugar Bush routinely patrolling. Um for instance one probably run in Higgins. It's a bearded school. Um and it's just this labyrinth of voters tend to get confused at the decision points. Do I go right? Do I go left? And that was part of our emergency plan. We identified that that was before call. So um Lance Groves on the 9th is considering um modifying our facility use agreement to use Lance Groove Middle School heat quite perfectly centered availability

197and voters don't have to wear off that path. Um so again we're we're taking action. And it's a matter of identifying that we've made mistakes and knowing that our willingness um again it would be it would be beneficial for us and for our residents um that we maintain great oaks and that we demonstrate this know perhaps we only renew this for next year that we can reconsider at that point or within it we are continuing to make the same pitfall sake. M um yeah I appreciate you coming out here. think that um the township is attempting to repair this relationship and you've acknowledged the the shortcomings and not placed blame. So I I really appreciate that. Um so I'm I'm inclined to give it another chance. Thank anyone else. Two questions. Am I to understand

198we have children in Sugar Bush that are going to be in the building at the same time as the election? Those are the head part of the county head start program. They're not our students. They're not our students. Yeah. Because we are now out, but they we the sub lease space for the Mcome County Head Start. But why do those kids have to be in that building at all that day? Generally, the the program required to have them in there and they they're okay having them in there. They There are districts that still run school on election day. Yes. Now we um if if you're denied today, what is your plan B? Um at this point, we'd have to consider other facilities in the area. Um Anchor Bay north of 23 against territories. So we'd

199have to consider looking at churches or other facilities. Um again, schools are plentiful. Um they're usually reflective of the populations in the area. That's why it's usually blocked up that we work with them. Um we do have a couple contingencies. They're not ideal and just on the administration side for the voters, not just car duties, but confusion is rampant and if we tell someone that their polling location has now changed twice in four years, they're going to be a little annoyed with it. Um, for instance, last year we had our consolidation plan. We sent out four rounds of collateral, a voter guide, a postcard, ID card, first class letter to inform people of the changes and then created signs to go at the old polling location, say you are here, you now vote here. that

200sum of money cost to about 100. Um again, there's a cost to be incurred, but why we're really trying to maintain where we are to provide basics for the voters. Um again, our poor behavior is going to reflect on the voters. They know how to vote. It's just when we start changing venue and places and things, it feels overwhelming lead a little bit to the voter question. Does my vote really count purposefully? it just it's our relationship but again it's not your guys to own it is our I do acknowledge that um yeah I won't be that for here all right anything else last call okay remind me again who's my motion maker and my um ordered by Mr. Richard. All right. And the motion is to approve the facility use agreement with uh Chesterfield

201so that they can use Great Oaks. Please call the RO, sir. Mr. Venatilli. Yes. Mr. Richard is a no. Mr. Sunonnyburgger. Yes. Mr. Power. Yes. Miss Burkmire. Miss Knox. Yes. and Mr. Green. Yes. Motion carries by my count. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Looks like you guys are all righty. Uh, we can move forward and and like Mr. Janowski said, um, I hope we don't have to use our our out. All right. Uh next is uh admin sorry administrator agreement pursuant to discussion at the April board meeting. The Anker Bay board of education has sought to develop a separation agreement with the district administrator. This agreement will be in effect for June beginning June 30 of 2025. The recommended action from the superintendent and administration is that the board of education approve the separation agreement as

202presented. So I will entertain a motion to that effect. A motion. Second. Motion by Mr. Sunberger, supported by Mr. Powers, discussion, comments. It looked to me like it was what we talked about in close session, like there was no real deviation from that. Correct. Okay. Anybody? Anything else? Um, is this I I know that I I believe that it said something about, you know, not discussing the terms, but as a public board, we can Yeah. share what the terms were. Um, can we do that? Pull it up. Well, Miss Burkmire, I believe there's a component of wages and then a component of healthcare. Right. Right. I can't remember honestly. Wages were right. There's two numbers there. It's Yeah. Basically six months um compensation and then um up to a year of health insurance, right? Subject

203to the individual. Yeah. Meaning other health insurance. Exactly. Other Yes. equivalent there. Yeah. Correct. You're right. Anybody? Anything else? Hearing none. Mr. Richards, would you mind calling the role? Mr. Sunnyberger? Yes. Mr. Powers? Yes. Miss Burkmeer? Yes. Mr. Venitilli? Yes. Mr. Richard? Yes. Miss Knox? Yes. And Mr. Green? Yes. All right, that wraps it up finally for our uh new business agenda. Um, I assume you guys are good to push forward to get through the last couple topics we have. No one needs to take a break. So, let's move on to points of pride and we'll start with Mr. Sunnyburgger. Lots of good events this month. Um, we hit Mamma Mia, hit a couple of concerts. I attended um money night. Did you guys know that we gave about a $100,000 to our students for

204scholarships? That was an amazing night to see all of that happen. Um, that's about it. All right, Mr. Powers, just wanted to publicly thank uh Chief Blackburn, New Baltimore Police Department, and Director Basset with Chesterfield Police for for their time and willingness to meet with me and discuss the safety component of um our cell phone policy. I quite frankly wasn't necessarily expecting them to to be willing to to put themselves into that uh discussion, but once once I brought up the the public safety or the school safety component, um I I emailed them emailed them both on a Friday and by Monday they had both replied saying, "I'd love to meet you." And um I can say after meeting with both of them that that they want to be involved in these discussions anytime school

205safety is involved. um and they um both of them unprompted were very complimentary of the relationship that our district has built with local law enforcement um over recent years um when it comes to school safety. So um I would just encourage our district to continue to to build that relationship and to know that they want to be involved in the discussion anytime school safety is involved, even if it's involved with something like a cell phone policy. So again, I wanted to thank both of them for their time. Mr. Vandelli, nothing. Nope. Uh, drive safe, guys. Appreciate it. I think after um points of pride, we'll we can discuss the concerns about reinstatement hearings. Yeah. So, I thought we'd roll that into the board committee update since it technically was a committee that met today. Okay.

206Abbreviated committee. So, we definitely want to have a conversation. Miss Knox, um, congratulations to our retiring teachers and our support staff person of the year. And I'm excited for the students and parents tomorrow. Um we'll be well the students will be graduating. The parents will have completed another step in the parenthood journey. Um and I'm excited for us because that is the most fun thing that we get to do as a board. Most of it's um difficult and so that's it's nice to have that day to see the students. So let's hope for good weather. Miss Burkmire. Um I just want to say congrats to our graduates um our retirees and Miss Hazelton as support staff of the year and to all of our staff um making it through another year and uh best up.

207Um I'm sure the summer will go faster than anyone wants. Um but it's overall, you know, it was a pretty safe uh healthy year, you know, for our district overall. Um so, um yeah, we're almost there. Yeah. Um and I will see everybody at graduation. Mr. Richard, we got a couple. Congratulations to Anchor Bay's all county academic winners, senior Ryan Luca and Kaden O'Donnell. Congratulations to Lillian Foster and Faith Young who have been named international top performers in marketing management team decision-making at this year's DECA International. The Relay for Life is sponsoring Trucks for a Cir Middle School South on Saturday, May 31st from 1 to 4. Bring your truck. Congratulations to Miss D. Safano who was selected as Mcome County Make a Difference Award recipient for outstanding dedication to Anchorbase students. It's welld deserved.

208Middle school south orientation for 7th grade is August 19th from 10 to 12. 8th grade is August 20th from 10 to 12. Orientation includes schedule and lockers, tours, pictures, and team building events. Congratulations to S Sarah Kessle on being named captain of the month at Middle School North. Sarah's always looking out for others and steps up when needed. She's deeply involved in student life including student council, dances, softball, and the DC trip to name a few. The Anker Bay cross country preseason meeting for girls and boys is tomorrow at the high school in S200 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm. Congratulations to the Anker Bay High School patient care technicians students for passing their certification exam. Anker Bay cheerleading triyouts is June 3rd and 4th at the school north commons from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Congratulations

209to the varsity softball team on their Mac red division championship. I was able to attend the ROC military ball the other night. It was a great event. Congratulations to all the all the cadets that are graduating and to the ones that were also promoted. Anchor Bay North orientation is June 10th at 6 p.m. Come meet Mr. TDI and get a building tour schedules and lockers. Congratulations to Kathy Hazelton. She's been obviously tonight named uh support staff of the year. Her hard work and dedication to make a difference. Awesome job. Mr. Green mentioned it earlier. It's great to see the Anchor Bay band and Junior ROC represent the district at the Memorial Day brand new Baltimore. Always great to see him representing our district. Well, congratulations to middle school south 212 winner McKinley Mir. And my

210points of pride uh this month is congratulations to the class of 2025 and congratulations to the teacher that retired. Thank you for your years of dedication to our business. So I agree. Uh I attended the awards. I missed the uh scholarship night. Uh I did get some details on that, but I went to the awards banquet which the awards uh ceremony which was the next day. Uh and I think there's 432 graduating seniors roughly and I think 324 were at the awards ceremony uh receiving either you know letters or accommodations or certificates. So, it was pretty impressive and I'm glad to hear that we're getting the air conditioning up and running in the uh in that venue over there. It was a little warm. Um reiterate again the band and the ROC at Memorial Day

211parade. It's always great to see them out. Again, thank you to our retirees. Uh 20 21 22 25 years is a long time and I really appreciate their dedication to all of our kids. Uh and then obviously tomorrow's graduation. Look forward to seeing the parents and and It is really a time where we get to kind of step out of our board roles and we actually get to enjoy ourselves and and have a little fun, talk to the kids and uh and again if those of you that are new, if there's somebody that is coming to the graduation, you want to pass hand them their diploma personally, bump out whoever's on the way, whether it's uh uh Mr. McKenzie or Mr. Janowski, give them on the tap of the shoulder and say, "I got this

212one." Uh, so that's one of the cool perks of being a board member is make sure that they have their cell phone or you have your cell phone so someone can grab a picture of of you handing that person their diploma. It's it's really it's really cool. Um, and let's go to legislative update. There's really not much of anything going on with legislative update. Everybody is awaiting the house budget. They did the consensus revenue estimating conference and then the house said that they would put their budget out. But now this will be the first time in my memory that we will probably enter June without a house budget and it doesn't bode well for having the budget done because as a board by law we have to have our budget done before the end of

213next month and it doesn't look like that will be kind of set. So I don't think we right now I don't anticipate seeing the state having a budget before September if not October. So with that said I know I give Mr. Ethbund a lot of grief about the purse strings and everything else. Um it's all in good fun Todd because you know as you know the marching orders of finance and this board is always to keep those purse strings tight. Um and we're going to be in that same situation trying to project next year where you guys are really throwing darts. uh and trying to guess based on best available information that you have in the last couple years, you guys have done a good job with that and actually met your projections that you

214didn't have any information. So despite giving you a bunch of, you know, grief, um the finance committee really appreciates what you guys do and then what we can bring to the board uh because it's a significant improvement from where we were, you know, 2018, 2019, 2020. Um, with that said, um, I know the executive, uh, committee is going to be meeting probably before the next board meeting. Yeah. Uh, I think I heard the policies meeting. Um, I'm going to assume finance and finance because yeah, finance because of what happens at the executive hopefully. Well, that and at some point we will get a house budget and then we have to have we have to have our budget hearing before we do the actual budget at the next meeting. But right, can I ask something before

215we get on to the committee stuff? Sure. But the House budget um just to get it on the record, there is a there legally they have a deadline to meet, don't they? Not really. But I mean, but legally it's written. There's a date. Well, yeah, there they're supposed typically they present it at a certain time, but they can't they it can't be enforced, right? the pro there is a legal date in the in the laws of the state of Michigan that says the the legislature has to have their budget in on this date. The only problem is there's no penalty for not having it done. That's the sticking point here. What happens if we don't have a budget on time? If we don't then they they will basically we get penalized for that. Interesting. And

216not only that, you have to pass a budget that is not supposed to be a deficit budget. And the the problem we have is we have the we have the governor, we have the senate and the house. Normally we'll get that and we'll know it's somewhere in between. Those are our parameter. We have no idea what the parameters are. And that's because we there's no there's no penalty for not doing it. Yeah. Any other committee updates? All right. So let's open the floor for some conversation. We'll call it our reinstatement committee um that met today. Okay. It's not an official committee, but it was just a committee of uh three plus district employees. So, I'll just open open the floor. Let's talk about it. Um first, just like the I had no idea this committee

217was being made. Uh maybe if there's an email ahead of time, I should have seen. That's that's my bad. Um I I think there was that that's the other point. So, I also didn't get an email about what was going on with that, too. So, if that could be corrected going forward at the very least, uh, I'm more of in favor of having the entire board. I know it's late nights. I know it's we spend an hour or so. Um, but I think having all the facts in front of us as as a board, being able to make those decisions would give me a lot more confidence in terms of because it's it's, you know, we're all individually voting to reinstate a student. I I think for at least myself, um I would like to

218have all the facts in front of me and be able to personally verify and hear from the student directly before I make a decision to reinstate. Obviously, I voted yes today um because it was just one of those kind of situations. But, you know, going forward, that would be my preference. I want to make sure I understand, Bill, that we we could do that, but it'll it'll be an agenda item that we'll be discussing publicly. Yeah, we'll have to get some clarification because they they changed kind of So you have to have a representative, a teacher on there, you have to have an administrator on there, which obviously we have administrators all the time, but they get other people on those committees as well. And um it it varies based on the age of the

219kids and when they can apply for it and then how many days between there. But yeah, we could do it. If it happens between a board meeting, we'll do what we do like a special meeting or something like along those lines. Maybe I'm misremembering it because I feel like we met as a reinstatement committee. I mean to my knowledge I don't remember a teacher coming but I could be wrong but we met as a board at the time I believe without giving too much info like at one time it was the student that I think you were included on it but we all received a recent email about like you know that was like an update on that student and how they were doing. So, I feel like we all met as a board in

220that scenario because I I know I was there because I remember specific comments that were made um regarding, you know, the students return. Um, so maybe I'm wrong, like I said, because I don't know if I was just happened to be a member that was there that day, but that's what I'm trying to understand like what the difference is like what we're doing now or why we're saying we can't knit in close session. It was in the conference room when we did it. Oh, see I'm remembering when we were in like a library. Okay. So, I'm not Yeah, I remember. You're right. I remember the library. No, we have done we have done believe two or three that are um after that were like this with the the the committee as prescribed. Um, no. I

221I mean I would have to I would have to look for the thing, but I believe those were recommendations to there were I don't know call it pre-expulsion like hearing for that. Um, do we recommend them to go up to the full board? Oh, maybe that's what it was in the library. We had a teacher. Didn't they show up with a counselor? I I don't remember. Yeah, that was that was Yeah, we'll we'll look through we'll just go back to the record and see where we're at. Yeah, I know it's hard to get all of us together, especially when we have deadlines with, you know, reinstatement hearings, but I would at least appreciate if um and sometimes email isn't the quickest way to get a hold of one of us, like but whoever was at

222the original hearing that they could be considered first. Um because really kind of the way you look at it now, it's like all the onus is on Mr. Richards like he's he's like I'm backing this and we know the rest of you are there but you don't get to speak about it. We only hear from him. Mr. Sonny Berger wasn't there the first time. So and just in a way of protecting an individual board member's integrity and everything too. And just for my own um explanation, you know, it had my my vote today had nothing to do with the individual or anybody that was in that meeting as opposed to just my own unfortunate experience on the board where I one time relied upon the word of somebody else and made a vote that it

223is probably the only vote that I regret at this point on the board. And so I I won't do it again. And so, and that's where, you know, so for me coming, you know, having to, you know, it's nothing against Mr. Richard's words or Mr. Sonnenberger's word. I just I can't for my own to be able to sleep at night kind of thing. So, I um it makes it more difficult for me. So, that's why I would prefer everybody to be involved. But um where I'm coming from, we have 10 days to respond once they Yeah. Once they select the committee. Yeah. Once they set the once they put their official response in um then you have a set number of day that you have to do it and then it would you're going to

224look into if it's open session versus yeah Brian did you have some comments? So, is it the pleasure of the board that we want to first of all get our legal opinion, make sure we cover our bases, but is it the desire of the board that we want to convene as a board and have these discussions? I think that's that's and it's a two-part question. If your first answer is session, well, I say your if your first answer is yes, we want the board to meet. Second question is, is is this board going to meet and open to have this discussion? So if it comes back and I these hearings all kind of run together trying to piece them together. So you want to refer it to the policy committee I think that's a great

225you guys are meeting next week right I mean I know your agenda is full and we keep putting we can meet some other again in in August on that issue but I would support whatever the board wants to do when Phil and I talked about it like I think we've done them with three let's do another three. I mean I it sounds like I mean I would like it to be the full board. It sounds like Dominic would like it to be the full board. Um I So are we saying I'll say I could just say for myself like I can't ever vote yes without me being there. So I mean that's always going to be you know so if we don't do it that way that's always and I'm not trying to force you

226into saying that but that's always going to be like one down and if someone else feel that way it sounds like hope I mean you're going to let me we'll get an opinion on whether it could be closed or open. Um Brian no I was just you kind of answered my question. Are we stating it as a fact that we can't do it in close session? We're going to find that out. We have to do, you know, for me, it's just frustrating that we can go into close session to have this incredibly detailed expulsion hearing and then when it's time to reinstate them, it's two board members and it's like if I were to vote yes for that and someone a concerned staff member or a concerned parent of a student say, "Well, why did

227you vote to reinstate this student after what they did?" And my answer is going to be, "Well, Dennis said it was cool." Like I yeah I don't think it's fair to Dennis. I don't think it's fair to me. You know I think it like it's um I think there's got to be a better way. We just got to find out what it is. I don't think we're going to resolve that policy meeting and then you guys Yeah. We might not have it by the next one, but we'll do another one. Yeah. 100%. Well, even even just for the just for the student, you know, we'll have Yeah. So I have a question. And we do I think the term is called a committee of the whole where all the board members are there. Uh it's

228not necessarily like an open session but it's still open public but it's not recorded. We don't make any decisions. Technically if you have a quorum it it's open to the public unless there's so then you have to kind of work through that. But yeah. Yeah. But I mean like when I took the uh you know the uh MASB courses that's one of the things that I almost distinctly remember them discussing was having you can have committees of three board members so it's not a quorum but then you can also have committees of the whole. Yes. Where it's not actual voting session. It's more or less just anformational session where you can gather information but it it still technically if you have at least a quorum then it's it's technically has to be open to the

229public. You don't have to have public comment. I believe if memory served correct in that situation there's a lot of districts Dom that don't have committees per se they get together every two weeks for us let's say every other Wednesday and on that first Wednesday of the month or second Wednesday of the month we discuss what's being discussed in your committee still open to the public it's a public meeting um and then there's really no action taken at that meeting and then the next meeting the reg let's call it the regular meeting is when any action would be taken from that and there's been we've had discussions you guys in particular you guys have been on the board we've talked about changing to that format we never can seem to come to a consensus is

230that really the direction we want to go um and it's probably something we should undertake I don't know maybe as as January draws would that be you do it at your organizational when you set your meeting date you know so that would be something that maybe in January we say hey look we want to we want to have two meetings a month and the first one is called informational um if you will committee type stuff and then the second one is is normal. So, you know, that's certainly something we can undertake. Um so, it sounds like there's a desire of the board to figure out, Bill, what we can do. Um and then if we can do it, it sounds like we can do it in close session. We can always throw an attorney opinion

231on there, but and then go into closed, right? And our attorney give us an opinion on disagree. Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay. So, we're going to let we're going to let Phil get an opinion on that for the next policy and we'll put it we'll throw it over to policies plate for now, but I want to do whatever you guys want. You're comfortable with and you all have very valid points about, you know, letting someone back into the building without personally laying eyes on them. We kick them out by laying eyes on them, right? Your points are valid. Motion to adjurnn. Comments, questions, or concerns? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjurnn. 1038. Back up Sher. 1038. Quick.