001right good evening of Education meeting on the request e Mr secretary here Sun here here all have agenda in comments question by say hi excuse me sorry uh item D on the agenda is uh a presentation from Set seg uh an educational uh Excellence award and I assume we have somebody here with the the big check superintendent Janowski will get that into the ATM oh we'll take we'll take both we don't want to double dip but we'll take both yes right over in front of the podium and make sure that green light is on if if you'd be so kind all right good evening my name is Bridget Briggs this is Tony speac here with me and uh we're here um representing setag foundation and Michigan Association of school boards to present an educational Excellence
002award to the uh anchor Bas science special program everybody hear me okay might not okay um so the science special is one of 10 extraordinary programs that were chosen this year from applicants around the state so that's pretty impressive one of 10 um I'm going to refer to my notes here because I want to get these number right over 2400 students have enhanced their Science Education raising the science proficiency rate from 36% to over 62% and advanced proficiency from 05% to 33.6% science special let students perform experiments and demonstrations to see science in action and apply to life experiences utilizing the scientific method so those are incredible numbers um it is our pleasure to present you with a $2,500 check as well as a trophy and then you have your um yard sign as well
003so thank you sure yes we're all going yes there is it's oh I do believe we have our science some of our science teachers out there come you're welcome two we have the box there we go okay we let pH handle the money just noten want that down there I will do that well thank you to sets for coming out tonight we appreciate the award and our Science Program appreciates the W and the recognition that we know they all deserve so it's great to be recognized on a Statewide level for for our achievement so that's greatly [Music] appreciated sinus infections will get you uh moving on down the agenda our next presentation I believe is going to be from Mr Mcdonald our director of secondary education on our Kaleidoscope winners good evening board uh superintendent
004Janowski Community uh it is my honor to uh make this presentation tonight on our Kaleidoscope winners every year um our students in elementary and and Middle School in their language arts classes submit writing uh samples to Kaleidoscope and they uh select one winner uh from each school and tonight um we are blessed to have uh the winners here along with their uh in most cases teacher and principal and what I'm going to do is just uh kind of call them up and we'll bring them up uh give them an award and I'll let the principal and the teacher tell you about that writing sample but these are uh some of our best writers and all these writing uh sample or uh pieces get published into a magazine so they are going to be published uh
005authors so without further Ado uh from Ashley Elementary we have Mrs vanal and Dylan stanik you guys here Mr McDonald after they're done rather than be seated if we could wait and get a picture with everybody that would be great yeah we'll do we'll do a big uh big picture I forewarned them of that they might be up here for a minute and as you come up if you could kind of stand up front face the board and whoever's going to talk uh can take the mic sure hello um I'm April Beck and I teach fifth grade at Ashley and Dylan is my student and his writing piece was called winning districts and Dylan is an avid hockey player and so he wrote about what he knew um about um a game where they were
006playing for a district Championship it had a lot of action it had a lot of great description and sensory details really kind of getting a sense of what it felt like and cuz it the game went back and forth um with the score and they ultimately ended up winning um and it was just a really great story we are just ex extremely proud of Dylan and his writing and all of his academic achievement and Dylan is also a true Ashley All-Star so we're glad we can recognize him tonight and we're going to present Dylan with his winning certificate and Dylan if you could just stand out in front yeah stand out there and we're going to call up um no yeah just right up here then we're g to line up so next we will
007have uh from mcant I see principal uh seski here and Mrs Georgio want to come on up with their student uh uh Zachary uh zelenak am on up hi everybody I'm vinca Georgio I'm a fourth grade teacher at mccans elementary um this is Zachary zelenak and he wrote his story called Jamie the star um I found a lot of similarity between his um major character in his story and himself he the character in the story was very hardworking showed a lot of persistence um was a leader was a team player and those are all the things that Zachary is on a daily basis he worked really hard on his story um his editing his typing um and he just gives it his all every day and I just want to tell you congratulations and I'm
008very proud of you nice work uh yes absolutely I want to you know with Zachary his leadership by example throughout our building on a daily basis really makes us McAn strong and you know we're going to miss him next year as he goes on to the fifth and sixth grade building but his leadership skills will never be forgotten so thank you is agary outstanding and now from lot Elementary I think Mrs White is here and we're going to introduce to you um Ellison Davey okay this is Ellison Davey or Ellie she's one of our fifth grade students and she is one of our truly wonderful Labradors over there she does a great job a great leader but also a great writer her teachers unfortunately couldn't come tonight they both had things going with their own
009children but they both remarked about what a great creative writer she is and it's very evident in the piece that was submitted it was called um the day I met Bruno which is about her dog that she met and we get a lot of those kind of stories all the first time in but hers was really unique and because you could really get a sense of it all the feel of it all and one of the really neat things that she said was she was playing with her dog the first night that she had it and the dog was ripping away at her pajamas and she felt sad but that was okay because she was so happy she had a dog so it was really cute I mean very very thoughtful in her in how
010she wrote those details so um so we're very proud of Ellie here and that she's repres representing L great job Ellie and now from n Elementary I would like to introduce uh Heidi Stevenson the principal and Miss green uh the teacher of Bradley bomarito on up hello my name is mallerie green I teach first grade at nld elementary and I would love to introduce to you Mr Bradley bomarito he wrote a letter to the Grinch telling him that Christmas is not about presence it's all about spending time with family and friends and people that you love and if you know Bradley you know that he has all the qualities of a Kind sweet boy and we are so so proud of him and I would just like to say congratulations to Bradley um he is
011one of our youngest I would say recipients of the collidoscope award he he was selected by our reading and our writing committee and they read the piece and thought it was just very unique and special and he just brings a smile to everybody's face um all throughout the day and the week so this is Bry and congratulations to missen for working so hard with all of her first graders thank you all right and I'm gonna stick with all the elementaries we're going to go to Lighthouse next and I'd like to call up um Mrs Strickland the principal and Audriana ha is Audriana here not here and come up and tell us a little bit about her perfect and I'll give you Audriana is a fourth grader at Lighthouse Elementary in Miss garvey's class so I'm
012here representing them both uh her piece was Chicago it was written as a personal narrative as a road trip uh with her family to Chicago in her piece she used a lot of descriptive language she actually use some language that you could hear her voice in the writing um when I spoke to miss Garvey about her qualities in the classroom she is dedicated a hard worker very caring and compassionate with others and we are very proud for Audriana there she is and here she is come on up right up here Audriana there you go perfect timing here you go congratul ulations thank you all right next we're going to move into our Middle School winners and oh Great Oaks thanks Ron that's I should have never went out of order Great Oaks all right sorry
013about that with Great Oaks we're going to bring up principal Ron medley and Mrs fillinger the talk to introduce Kora offer and we're going to talk a little bit about what she wrote good evening I'm Michelle fillinger from Great Oaks I'm a fourth grade teacher and Miss Cordelia offer is in my class um she used her amazing imagination to write a story about talking raccoons it was a very creative and funny story it had great dialogue and a great lesson and we are so proud of her and I just want to add on uh congratulations cor we're very proud of you and one other detail about her story too the raccoon I think you didn't mention the story but I'm pretty sure I went to Anchor Bay because it was really good at math so
014so congratulations we're proud of you and we're gonna we're gonna miss you next year great job Kora all right now we're going to go to Middle School okay and from middle school north um we have Mrs Breeze here to introduce um adri Adrian uh shat good evening I am Mrs Breeze and I'm honored to introduce Adrienne shut Middle School noris Kaleidoscope winner I first had adri when she was in seventh grade for journalism and knew then her writing was something special so was delighted to see her name on my class list for our new class creative writing that was first semester ad's writing is top-notch and I have so enjoyed witnessing her creative growth her K her Kaleidoscope piece is titled flickering lights and is about a person and their dog she leaves much for
015the reader to ponder it is intriguing and thoughtful with intentional word choice and really beautiful technique congratulations adri and I hope will continue writing and sharing your Flawless craft with the world okay and um our winner from South was not able to attend um I think I heard they had a Redwing ticket so hopefully they win tonight uh but I do want to to recognize our winner uh from from South uh Carter Muscat and he wrote a a piece called Weezer and I'm not sure what it is and uh so I won't make anything up but for Carter congratulations to Carter and our kidis fope winners um and we would love to get a picture with the board congratulations maybe make two rows everybody perfect like again congratulations katos scope winners uh I do want
016to point out that one of our students um that wrote the Chicago Piece and if you guys know I'm lifelong michigander she closed it uh with at last we left I was still half in Chicago but here's the part I like I like it here in Michigan though so it's important that we retain Our Youth and and students out of high school and out of college that we keep them here in Michigan so um I appreciate that sentiment okay in staying with Mr McDonald um one of my other favorite times of the year is the teacher of the year award Mr McDonald yes it is uh absolutely uh one of the best days of the year we get to go around and uh surprise our teachers of the year and I could tell you that
017that there was some really surprised uh teachers and uh tonight we're going to tell you a little bit about um our teachers of the year and when I call you up if the teachers uh could come up uh and and the board I believe has a gift for you and then we'll stay up kind of like we did with kaleidoscope and do a picture but I'm going to start with Elementary and and tell you about Kelly Moore Kelly has taught 22 years in Anchor Bay uh she's a fifth grade teacher at Kelly has also taught kindergarten third grade and Technology um Kelly has embraced our uh CBE initiative and uh creates I got a few words few words Kelly uh she has embraced our CBE initiative creates a highly engaged learning environment where her and
018her her students take ownership for their own learning this type of classroom is even more important in a fifth grade level as It prepares them for Middle School in addition to her highly engaging classrooms she addresses her students social emotional needs while maintaining High academic standards uh just a quote from a student statement these are things I'm reading are things that her nomin nominating uh person uh said about her and also um they includes sometime state or statements from students and parents one of Mrs Moore student said Mrs Moore is so kind she explains everything very well she is calm and doesn't get mad Mrs Moore is there for all of her students I introduce Kelly Moore Elementary teacher of the year closer one more time for Mrs Moore next I would like to introduce
019our Middle School teacher of the year Mr Ryan Lombardo from middle school north on up Ryan Ryan has been a teacher in Anchor Bay for eight years he teaches sixth grade math at Middle School North some of the things is nominating uh staff member said about Ryan is that he creates a highly engaged classroom he uses Tik Tock to engage with his or connect with his students along with his friendly personality Ryan is also a teacher who has taken a leadership role with our CBE initiative other teachers and administrators have observed his classroom to to get ideas uh on how they could also uh teach the way Mr Lombardo does in addition to his teaching Ryan also coaches football and basketball I would like to also point out that he hit the game-winning shot last
020night at the scholarship game to beat the seniors I added I added that part oh I got a little bit more hold on student statement uh about Mr Lombardo students said I I had Mr Lombardo as my sixth grade honors math teacher although it was a higher level class Mr Lombardo taught in a way that made math understandable and engaging during his lessons he would relate uh the examples to real life scenarios I always enjoy going back to his classroom in the mornings to visit and get a piece of candy Mr Lombardo will always be one of my favorite teachers as he is a role model to all his students One More Mr Lombardo is a very helpful teacher uh to not just me but everyone who needs help or is struggling he's a very
021kind teacher to everyone by showing us that uh showing us student students that he cares for us and our future Mr Lombardo our Middle School teacher of the year yeah no congratulations all right last and certainly not least I would like to introduce um our high school teacher of the year Mrs Anne harms Ann has been a teacher at Anchor Bay High School for the last 12 years she's a social studies teacher and is currently teaching honors US history history and sociology like like our other nominees an could have won this award many years she is a model of consistency and does all the little things that makes a great teacher Prof things like she's professional with students and staff and administration she's dedicated she's kind she's enthusiastic involved in and involved all the positive
022traits that you can think of she has them student statement uh one of her students said when I took Mrs Harm's Sociology class uh junior year I learned so much she show me that teachers can make a genu that can teachers can make genuine connections with their students it's not every day that a teacher remembers the little details about your life and that uh Jester alone make made me feel valued Mrs harms is a great teacher and always knew how to keep us engaged in the lesson another student said I think Mrs harm Mrs harmes deserves to be teacher of the year because she goes out of her way to ensure that everyone understands what she's teaching she takes complex topics and simplifies them she establishes personal connections with her students even if even if
023it's something simple like asking how your day has been uh going when you enter her class our high school teacher of the year Miss har group shot anyone taking pictures is welcome to to come up and be up front so we'll get a quick group picture with the board and then to celebrate our kaleidoscope and our teachers of the year there's some cookies over there so um Mom and Dad maybe you want to let them get a head start because the board is probably [Music] hungry e I that okay we're going to take a five minute break that way if you would like to grab a cookie and if you would like to stay for the rest of the meeting that's fine but if not you can also take this opportunity to have a good
024evening we taller except for him a couple other ones all right I'm going to call the meeting back to order at 7:38 we'll continue on our agenda with the student council update from Mr Farley thank you and let's not omit important details about last night it'll it it'll be all right good evening at today's meeting we had a very special visitor superintendent Jen Kowski joined us for question and answer session and yes he did get asked a snow day question the students enjoyed the visit and the information that Mr Janowski shared thank you Mr janowsky for taking taking the time out of your busy day to meet to meet with us and answer all of our questions the building updates are as follows all the elementary buildings are celebrating marches reading month with lots of
025fun and creative activities to get students reading fourth and fifth grade students will enjoy performance by the middle school and high school jazz bands on Tuesday March 18th exotic at Lighthouse an exotic there will be an exotic animal assembly on March 18th they are still collecting no se blankets for children's hospitals the schoolwide talent show was all month student students participating are filmed and then the video is shared schoolwide during the daily announcements at L last week there was a book fair at Great Oaks for March's reading month Friday are dress Fridays are dress for the reading Rodeo butter bra the butter braid fundraiser ends on March 21st at mccant the book fair ended today at Ashley The Book Fairs this week at NR second grade held a concert on Monday book buddy fund there
026was a book buddy fundraiser this week at Middle School North a pep assembly will be held on March or Monday March 17th njhs is collecting glasses for the Lions Club next week is Spirit Week with a different theme each day at middle school South March 3rd through 7th was Wellness week with a different theme each day popcorn day was March 5th during lunch 6th 7eventh and eighth grade counselors have met with all the students about scheduled classes for next year March 19th will be the student of the month breakfast and at the high school the the book club is hosting a book fair this week charity week raised $1,200 with all proceeds going to Kines for warriors Deca and BPA will be competing in state finals this week and last night was the scholarship basketball
027game by a miracle the staff won for the first time in nine years Middle School teacher of the year Ryan Lombardo scored the winning basket shout out to to him thank you that's great like I said I left at the end of the third quarter I didn't think there was any chance the staff was going to come back so great for them yeah Mr Farley you said njhs is collecting eyeglasses do you know where we can drop those off at I do not but I would say just the main office okay thank you any other questions all right Mr Janowski superintendent's update if you be so kind okay Tim is pulling up the presentation this is basically a quick synopsis of um what was at the community Forum I know um a few of you
028were at The Forum for the bond just wanted to give a quick update especially for those people that could not make it so Bond schedule just so that we can kind of show everybody where we're at we are about to hit we are here you can see on the left hand of the screen we are about to enter the large kind of multi-front um approach for the uh Bond Bond budget Oh Hang on [Music] we're yeah you can see so we're still wrapping up the high school which will wrap up in the fall in the first phase of the high school before we come back to it later and then middle school north south Lighthouse and then we'll we will start going through the elementaries budget wise we'll go on to the next slide and
029then again you can see on the left it kind of shows what was allocated per each building and then you can see the darker shaded area shows how much money was has been um spent so far out of those percent those allocations and on the right hand side you can see out of the $169 million Bond we still have 138 million so so we are approximately 20% of the way there and with a 10-year bond and being through the first two years so we're we're on Pace we're we're where we should be budget wise and time wise next slide so just a quickly run through some upcoming projects so again this is the lighthouse renovation so there are two wings that we're going to focus on that will be the original School building from 1949
030that's along Washington that's the lower left hand side there that's in red and then the will Lee Wing which is mostly just carpeting lighting things like that um and then the flooring and any ASB bestus abatement that needs to be done throughout the older portion of the building next slide also what we'll begin as soon as the weather allows there will be a small um playground that will be on the Washington side up against the building this will eventually be for the ecsc students it'll be fenced in they'll be able to use that as part of um the eventual ecsc Wing next slide and then as well the we have progress going I shared some pictures last time but this is just kind of overview of Middle School North as we are enlarging classrooms so
031if if you recall the previous classrooms were just over about 600 square fet or so and now those classrooms will be about 1,000 square feet and then they're working through so right now they're actually working on Section A but section b and c will move up that will constitute the fifth grade wing and then in future years what we'll end up doing is going through the specials areas that's D and F and then we'll update e and H which is um e is some special areas and H is actually the sixth grade wing as like goes through next slide and this gives you kind of a rough idea of kind of where it's at now um a lot of logistics with this because we have to move things around we're also thinking about future years
032of where can we slide things in order to give them access so they can start construction like we we kind of did with the um a area I talked about so life skills right now the science labs are there there will be a music room and art room which those will actually be flipped um because of we needed um water and it was easier now so we we're flipping the art in the music rooms there so they will have those areas um available and then we'll work through the middle of the building and then we'll pick up the sixth grade so that that's how those phases will go roughly about a year or two for each of those phases next slide this is an overhead view of the um playground that will go in at
033North so this is over if you look in the lower leand corner it is by the houses um to the west and closer it's behind the school closer to the um transportation garage this will have we did surveys with the um fourth graders and they told us they wanted a walking path so that goes around the outside a field to play football and Sports basketball court two this probably end up being two pickle ball courts there's an outdoor seating area that'll be covered that also will double as an outdoor classroom there is a whiffle ball field that will be here there's a GaGa ball pit don't ask me what that is exactly I know they they play it it's kind of um yes and swing sets they will have they also have feeding areas on
034top of that as well next slide this is kind of a rendering a rough rendering of kind of what it looks like just focus on the other areas um plan is on the whiffle ball field we'll have some wind screening kind of like what is at the transportation area next slide and this is what's going to go on at South so South is going to have as soon as we are able to move everything out from the auto shop at South that will go to the high school and then they will have a really nice large um band room to um house the the seventh and eighth grade band and they will have some two practice rooms and an ensemble room and storage for all the instruments and then also as part of that the
035what is kind of like the the what it would be the west side of the old autoshop area will be a small engine repair and then we'll have District some storage for district things at the very end where the bay doors are there so that will also begin um pretty much as soon as we're allowed to move everything out for the auto shop next Slide the other major project that will be going on and this was already approved by the board um I believe two or three meetings ago is we are going to Ru the entire um High School it is a large project so that will be I believe it's like 500,000 Square F feet that they're going to work on um we are going for the extra 30-year warranty so that will have
036that and then we're still looking at can we add solar arrays that will help offset energy costs next slide another project that's going to start um this will probably before the board next month for approval the begin in the summer is we are going to go through and do clocks phones emergency alert um public address system that'll be an integrated system and all of that will will be available will work interconnected so that one one of the things that we had remember from the strategic planning for those you that were there we have clocks that actually have the right time so that'll be good those clocks will also have displays on them so we can send messages if there is an emergency or something you can also they'll have lights on them so if it's
037say code green they can return to the building um code blue code red whatever that is then that'll communicate it as well it'll also tie into the phone so now each um phones will also serve as that so we can have messages that are sent it'll all be interconnected and we'll also add additional or in in some cases new speakers on the outside so if people are outside whether it's recess or at the high school they're at JM outside they'll also be able to be notified as part of all that and this will go all buildings we'll go through this we know for some of them we'll have to kind of go back and make adjustments but we wanted to have this all in place and so the hope is we'll start with the the
038current construction areas because a lot of this has to be in place in order to get final occupancy and then we'll work through the other buildings and the goal is to have it um as much as possible before school starts in the fall but by the end of November is the goal to have it complete next slide this is the the next major part we this is we talked about it at the billing and site and kind of shared this but this is a good rendering of and we shared it at the community Forum of what the this is the following year so this would be summer of 2026 and you can see it's shaded so the addition for Ashley are in blue and basically what you'll have is the green our major Innovations a
039lot of what we're doing larger classrooms putting in some collaboration spaces some ancillary staff offices there so then the green area here that's at the North End of Ashley will now be the upper elementary third and fourth grade then the blue area at the South End will be kindergarten in the current kindergarten classes and then we're adding on second and third grade the classrooms in the middle this is the same concept we're kind of using for all of the elementary school plan so you'll have upper Wing a lower wing and then you we're pulling the public areas kind of more forward so you can see here the blue area in the middle that will be a new library we're following if you notice there's kind of a theme across their buildings where they have these
040curved fronts so it's kind of following that same approach then more of our our offices ancillary staff will now have a place as well and then we'll have special ed classrooms that will be in the interior there's be four of those and then the rest of our specials will be in the center so upper L lower L they meet in the middle public areas that used to be buried kind of in the school now will be more at the Forefront next slide this is the the now this is um nrit and again kind of the same approach so what you'll see is one of the challenges we've always had with NR is in the middle the the entrance is buried so a couple years ago we put a small Awning in front so people could
041actually find the entrance now we're going to bring that forward so bring the the office out that's what you see with the curved section again at the front that will be library with with offices as well the challenge with NR is right in the middle between the the blue and the green here is the boiler room and the just the sheer cost of relocating The Boiler Room made it not feasible so we do have the what used to be I think three Renovations ago the main office because the bus if you recall the bus sop was here this was the old old old main office will become for ancillary staff and then again what was the media center will now be divided that will be for stem and for the science specials kindergarten will be
042acrossed here in the beige area they're already nice size rooms so it's it's a not as intensive then you notice here at this Wing these are already these are added in the last renovation they're already about a th000 square feet we will then enlarge these ones so you'll have kindergarten first grade second grade all of your specials in the middle special education in here and then we'll add some additional bathrooms here so we can update that and then you'll have third and fourth grade out the back as well so again centralizing your specials separate wings for upper and lower moving the public areas out there's still one area we're working on which is trying to figure out how to rearrange the Kitchen in order to um make it a full cookie kitchen so that's where
043we're at with nrit next slide and questions on this we do have just we're putting this out there again we put it out for every time it's on our website as well but if people have questions feedback we add it to our frequently asked questions that are on the website as well and so if anybody has input or questions it's online Mr um I may have missed it but during the uh for the high school roof that's going to be a summertime project I take it that will be yes they'll start staging that at like soon just bringing the the materials in and then they'll begin yeah can we just make sure too that um when they set up their staging area for the project that it doesn't uh interfere with our summer events too
044so that's my only concern so thank you the the high school roof I know we talked about it at building committee meeting the potential to add solar is that something that all has to be decided up front before we do the re-roofing or can that be added after the fact no we actually um we were there were some if you remember when we actually I think you weren't on the board yet but when we did the alternates for it there were two alternates one was for a more dense um like membrane that goes on the roof and that was I believe was just shy of 200,000 if we took that option and then there's what's it's like a DSE board that goes on there as well and the nice thing about that is typically if
045we didn't take those options it would have been a 20-year um warranty for the roof so it was about 1.9 million and then you'd get um a 20-year warranty but for just slightly more it's like 380,000 or something along those lines we can add 10 years to that warranty and set the stage for solar when we do that so we're still working through um one of the one of the the unforeseen challenges with that is I don't know if you recall when we joined that electricity Consortium for solar and the board opted to go because there was a company that we were part of and they wanted to build some solar fee fields and all of that and they said okay we'll we'll be able to offset some of yours you have to kind of
046tell us what you want for like what percentage of your power and we'll guarantee your power your rate for S and a half cents a kilowatt hour we were like well if we can get a locked in for 12 or 15 years at that rate let's put 100% down most people were putting like 10 15 and we thought we'd never get to that and they came back and they said we got you covered you're locked in at 100% of your power at seven and a half cents which is great considering Ontario was planning on putting a 25% fee on there so we are good with that right now the challenge with the Soler is if the getting the payback in the short term because we're locked in at that low rate for so long it's
047like the and there's all these variables that you go into but roughly it's like $60,000 we have to pay a year to have it and then you see the savings after year 12 well part of why we're trying to do that is to help offset and and hedge against inflation so we're we were hoping to get Savings in the first 12 years because that that's when the rest of the bond is going on so we're still reworking all of that to try and get some I mean if we can get at least even I think it's for the long haul it it's worthwhile because like we could offset something like you know 25 30% of our electricity which would again just help because after that 12 years like I can only imagine what it would
048be at that point in time so any other questions Tim can we go back to the overhead view of the playground at Middle School North so how close is this going to be to the bus garage is that the corner of the building sidewalk that I see right under the yes yeah so that's that's actually um middle school north and um yes yeah it's not right up next to it because you know there's the fence in the area it's it's right by the houses and then there's there's some Gap there so I don't see a fence on your drawing um surrounding that playground area there yeah there are well there there this is fenced on this side there are um gates for the roadway which we'll actually update keep people so on each end of
049the of this of North there be a gate yeah okay um just a couple of comments the the fence that is that runs along those condos uh I believe belongs to them it's in a pretty bad state of disrepair um first and second there is a creek that runs along that fence that if there's any any type of rain um it fills with water okay so I don't know if that means you're going to put a second fence up or how you're going to keep those kids out of that mess because it's it's along the fence but it's probably 10t wide okay and I gu I know we had engineering look at that so I we'll check to make sure I'm sorry a ditch or a uh let's call it a ditch and the runoff
050from the condo complex goes into that Creek that's why it's and then there's some drainage cut into the field also that runs from the school to that fence line so just hav't taken our look at it and I just want to make sure that we've got the gates up and that we're we're fencing and securing that yeah we we'll check that yeah actually yeah um I think that was that's all I had okay thank you anyone else all right thank you we will move on to the hearing of the public I don't have anyone who has signed up to speak is there anyone who wishes to speak before we move on all right seeing none we will move on to item J on our agenda Communications we do have a communication from the Michigan Association
051the school board that one of our board members Mr Don vitelli has achieved level two as a board member they sent us a letter today so you must have taken enough classes to get enough points you are now officially a level two board member thank you congratulations thank you I appreciate that thanks for your dedication Don I know it takes a lot of time to take all those classes yep all right item K consent agenda I will entertain a motion at this time Mr President yes sir I'm will support that motion but with the provision that we fix the typo under the volunteer appeal of the last week last meetings minutes what item number is that do you happen to have that in front of you we don't they don't put it they don't have
052it numbers it just says it's under the volunteer appeal section and you want to change I would like I would like the minutes to reflect the actual roll call vote as opposed to the typo that we have in front of us so if I recall the actual roll call vote was um the eyes were Powers Knox Sunny bger Richards and Burk Meer and the Nays were green and vendal is that your recollection it sounds correct to me yeah all right so I have a motion on the floor to um accept the agenda with that change do I have a second I'll second all right motion by Mr Sunny bger supported by Mr vitelli comments questions or concerns hearing none uh Mr Richards I'm gonna have it call the rooll on that since we did make
053a change to the uh agenda sure Mr Sun bger yes Mr vinelli yes Mr Powers yes Miss burkmeyer Mr Richards is a yes Miss yes Mr Green yes motion carries moving on to new business we have several items to discuss tonight the first is an MISD budget review delegate each year the MISD holds their budget review meeting asking every school district to send a representative for a presentation regarding County Services programs and budget review this year's meeting will be on April 17th 2025 at 6:30 p.m. at the mome ISD room 00 so at this time I would entertain a nomination for who our delegate would be so the floor is open I Believe Miss burme has attended in the past yes I'm not volent toing you just I heard she did too I thought I'd
054see if there was someone else that wanted to attend um or it's open for nomination so I was going to nominate her treasurer if Miss Burk me is looking at my calendar I will be in that area during that time again there we go how convenient I will so um if the treasurer is busy I might be busy during times looking at my calendar I don't know if I'll actually be in that area during that time but I'm happy to be an alternative level two now he doesn't have time for so important say I got to take classes there's important things I have to he didn't even get his calendar out I don't know if I was paying attention the whole time but all right so I have a motion on the floor to nominate
055Miss berkem do I have a support I support didn't you make the motion no I didn't who made the motion didn't you no no you did you did well you said she no I think she said she's she would I nominate all right I think I would like to nominate Miss Berk go have a second I'll second comments questions or concerns just let us know if you can't make it all the treasure I'll I'll make some space my busy schedule for that would you amend your motion then to include that Mr venitelli will be our alternate in the event there's an issue yes I would like to amend my motion to make Miss Burk our delegate and miss Mr vatelli our alternate if Miss berkem is not in that area at that time that is
056very specific and I feel like you've had enough of me already all right who supported you supported okay so you still support yeah okay any more comments questions or concerns okay hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed nay let the record reflect that Miss berme voted no so now I actually believe well I think we're good aren't we all right we're good there your n has been noted all right let's talk about some field trips uh the first one is a field trip for the Varsity Cheer Camp Anchor Bay Varsity Cheer Camp will be at the Kalahari Resort in Ohio July 25th through the 27th 2025 with three chaperon and 26 students attending they will travel via commuter bus the recommended action from Administration is that the Board
057of Education approve the varsity chair Camp July 25th through 27th 2025 traveling to Kalahari Resort in Ohio with three chaperon and 26 students I would entertain a motion to that effect now you're G shy that's fine I'll go ahead and um make that motion I'll second motion by Miss Knox supported by Mr Powers comments questions or concerns is that three chaperon and the coach or is the coach one of three chaperon it says three chaperon and 26 students yeah so it's just yeah just three in yeah because the next one you there looks still looking for a third you'll see on the next okay so I forgot where we left off when we talked about chapon per student ratio last time did okay so we're still deliberating on that as it is right now that's
058uh a one to8 and a half ratio if my math is right yes in I guess Mr Jankowski in your opinion is that a good ratio for shons of two stud yeah especially for high school one to 10 is is is great and typically just for overall like as you go down in younger grades and we have fewer students and and typically because you get a lot of parents that go on those trips as well okay works for me then all right any other comments questions or concerns hearing none all those in favor signify signify by saying I hi those opposed nay I will be voting nay and we all know why I'm voting nay in Ohio all right moving on to the next field trip nothing against the The Varsity Cher it's not about
059you guys um the next field trip is the junior varsity cheer camp Anor Bay junior varsity cheer camp will be held at the Bavarian in Frankenmuth Michigan July 14 to 16 2025 with two chaperon and 27 students attending they will be traveling via rental bus the recommended action is that the Board of Education approve the junior varsity cheer camp July 14 through 16 2025 traveling to the Bavarian Inn with three chaperon and 26 students well yeah they are looking for a third they only have two right now but they're hoping by that point in time that they'll be able to have sobody it's just so far out that people can't commit at this point all right I will entertain a motion to that effect I'll make the motion can I i' would like to make
060a u a different motion sort of similar Robert's Rules is difficult for me so I apologize I'm order we have a motion on the floor okay nobody second it yet so it's not correct so you can make the motion can fail for a lack of support there you go and then you can make another motion if you would like So currently we have a motion on the floor by Miss Knox to approve the trip as presented how about how about we do it this way I'll support and then we'll go to comment period and then I'll we can amend it perfect motion by Miss KN uh supported by Mr venali comments questions or concerns Mr benali one tiny thing um with the recommended action it says three sha runs and 26 students I just want
061to make sure we're not going to cause any issue because I know how Schoolboard voting Works what we kind of say is what has to be carried out it looks like there's 27 students attending and we want to make sure that we allow three chaperons and 27 students in Rec men in action it's just a numerical thing probably a minor detail would have probably most likely never caused any issue but I just want to make sure we're dotting our eyes and crossing our tees with that so you want to amend your motion um is Miss Knox amicable to that yes the one the commiss Mr you're amb with that all right so the motion has been amended to reflect 27 students and three chaperons and the motion maker and supporter are both okay with it
062oh you're right it does you're right it does and so does the uh actual um application has 27 the recommended action said 26 yes okay okay so we have a motion on the floor uh supported by Mr venali um any further comments questions or concerns we only have two chaperon but we're trying to get a third but if we approve this they can go with two correct no no they can't so was for three the okay so they have they're required to get the third in order for them to go three and 27 okay gotcha okay I'm good anyone else uh hearing no further concerns since we modified the initial motion I'm going to go ahead and do a roll call though Mr Richards sure miss Knox yes Mr vinelli yes Mr Powers yes Mr
063sunburger yes Miss Burk Mr Richards is a yes and Mr Green yes motion carries moving on to new business item number three the bond team has reviewed the furniture recommendation provided by NBS commercial Interiors NBS commercial Interiors has applied Cooperative pricing is applied in phase one and two Furniture award WS cost includes furniture for areas in phase three at Anchor Bay High School quote number 38618 for $17,400 for the Student Success engineering common engineering offices athletic offices and film room quote number 38611 for 325,000 62 for the media center and quote quot number 38615 4 for $ 31,2 19148 for the yearbook area it is recommended to award the furniture as listed to NBS commercial Interiors the amount of $514,000 44514 this project is being funded by the 2023 Bond the recommended action is that
064the Board of Education approve the award to NBS commercial Interiors the contract to provide and install Furniture as stated in the specifications the amount of $514,500 Miss Knox supported by Mr vatelli comments questions concerns Mr Powers uh just help me understand the award letter said says that this is good for five years with another fiveyear renewal that's what it says but then when you go through the quotes like almost everything like the the amount of time for the scope of work is like three four days like at most three four weeks so what what is this fiveyear period That's being referenced in the award letter I don't understand what what what that means I I believe it's because based off of when okay so it's more like we're we're agreeing to all this now but
065the work may not take place for whenever we need that over because depending on construction okay and then uh the only other question I had was it this is all subject pricing is not include the removal or relocation of existing product have we already done that or is that going to be something we have to pay sep that's all done okay I'm good on this um on this bid I was Cory part of this process yes yeah and this is just just because I think this the first time with the the the new board members so this is part of Consortium the state sets up consortiums for certain things like technology Furniture um school supplies because they can get better volume pric Ing and they basically ask who's going to if if you're going to
066be buying computers or furniture or whatever and they kind of set that up so by going through the Consortium it's already everybody's bidding on it already because they already put kind of like placeholders for this is for this year this is what the the costs are for that so then so it's kind of pre-bid on a per item basis so then that's how it gets priced out because then they're it's the consortiums across all districts and so on so that that's how you get a little bit um better pricing than we would if we just went out on our own any further comments or questions hearing none uh Mr Richards due to the dollar amount of being spent you call the role a motion by Miss Knox yes Mr ventilli yes Mr Powers yes Mr
067Sunny bger yes Miss Burk me Mr Richard is yes Mr Green yes motion carries moving on down our agenda uh closed session appears to be next on our agenda so at this time I would entertain a motion that the Board of Education move to close session to review written opinion from legal councel pursuant to 81h of the open meetings act mcl1 15268 1H so move second motion by Mr power supported by Mr Sunny Berger comments questions or concerns hearing none would you call a roll call vote sir uh Mr Powers yes Mr Sun Berger yes Miss Burk yes Mr velli yes Mr Richards yes Miss dox yes and Mr Green yes motion carries we will move into close session at 8:17 p.m. all right at this time I would entertain a motion to come back
068out a Clos session so moved second motion by Miss Knox supported by Mr venitelli comments questions or concerns hearing none Mr Richard you call the role to come out of Clos session miss Knox here yes thank you Mr velli yes and also here Mr Powers yes president Mr Sun bger yes Miss Burk me yes you're here Mr Richards yes and here Mr Green yes and I'm mostly here yes and here half here all right uh a close session at 9:15 pm we will move down our agenda to board comments and points of Pride we will start with Mr Sunny Berger uh let's see this past weekend uh the band hosted msboa festival at Anor Bay High School and whenever we give our students a chance to shine they absolutely do not disappoint all of the
069all of our bands that performed got excellent ratings um I was also a volunteer and I was in the concession area and it takes a whole Community to pull stuff like this off but there was a food service service worker from Anchor Bay I think her name was Morgan I'm terrible with names just outstanding above and beyond she gave up her weekend to be with us and she didn't have any skin in the game and as a band parent I'm so thankful as a board member I'm proud that uh Morgan's one of our employees so good job everybody who pulled that uh Festival off thank you Mr Powers volume helps um Miss berkem and I got to go watch the middle school north choir today perform at Stony Creek and they did a wonderful job
070uh they got a rating of what was it Lisa one is that the rating highest rating they did a great job so congratulations to our Middle School North choir um and then I uh I attended the community Bond update on Monday uh I think there was about what 40 45 people there I really wish more people would have been there because you know we we get these updates at the board meetings and and Phil shows pictures of all the updates and when you kind of see him in person it's it's a lot more impressive than uh than the pictures make it out to be there's uh a lot of exciting things going on with with the building upgrades uh at the high school I can only imagine what what it's going to be as we
071roll through through the bond over the next many many years I think it's an exciting time to be a student uh in this District because of things like that um we were going through the meded you know the new medical education room and and they have a pretty much a Mach Hospital in there now with with like eight or nine hospital beds and I I took a video of it going through because my older daughter graduated a couple years ago um and went through that program and when I went home and showed it to her I can't repeat what she said but she was pretty jealous that that they have that now so it's it's good that we're uh we're getting those upgrades and um you know that the it's just impressive some of the
072things we're doing so um if you're not paying attention to what's going on with the bond I think you should because there's a lot of good things um that's all I have thank you thank you sir Mr vatelli Miss Knox um just like everyone have a safe and fun spring break Mr Richards sure s and sweet tonight uh kindergart Readiness night is Tuesday March 18th at 6 P pm at Anchor Bay High School congratulations to Donado poach now who was Middle School Sal's first 212 Award winner I'm not sure what 212 Award winner is but I did call Mr Tona find out do you know what 212 is yes 212 is it's it's on actually front of the school it's when it's that one degree difference when water boils become Steam and then it can
073power things and power engines so on so it's the kids that make the difference that go that one degree more very cool like it I'd like to thank the parents students and community members that attended the community Bond update the event was well attended the tour it was great to see all the updates congratulations to Middle School South 212 winner for March Grace Clark anchor based softball Youth Clinic for grades 3 through eight is Sunday April 13th from 11:30 to 3: if you're interested reach out to coach Downey the ABA Dueling Piano fundraiser is Friday April 11th at younger Irish Tavern all proceeds benefit anchor based scholarships congratulations to Julet T who was named most valuable player in the ma the Mac white awesome job also congratulations to coach TD who was awarded coach of
074the year it's awesome job and thank you for your hard work passion and representing ankor Bay in a positive manner the annual Middle School baseball camp is March 15th from 8:15 at noon at the Anor Bay High School Sports plex if you're interested reach out to the Anor Bay High School athletic director congratulations to Middle School North caps of the month Kristen Breeze Kristen should earn the triaa award all around awesome Kristen is an external I'm sorry eternal optimist friendly to all help and a Helper and a problem solver thank you Christian for all you do to make North a better place the Anchor Bay Relay for Life team is holding a fundraiser at the Texas Roadhouse on March 20th from 3:00 to 10: p.m. congratulations to the Anchor Bay High School quiz Bowl team
075who took third overall at the Blue Water league and third in the Blue Water tournament uh the school store is also selling bleacher seats and new hats have come in I bought one the other night pretty cool uh my point of pride is tonight the teachers of the Year congratulations still teachers here at Anker Bay thank you thank you sir Miss bkme um as Mr power said I also attended the uh Michigan U school music um Coral festival today it was held at Stony Creek High School um to watch middle school north um I think South is going as well just not today it's a couple Day event um and they got a dis a division one so they qualify for the state Festival um so congratulations to miss kin and to the students um
076I know that they've worked really hard um and they typically last year as well they took on um a song as well as this year with you know foreign language in it as well um and they still manag to do very well so it's pretty impressive um and also want to just extend my congratulations to all the Kaleidoscope winners um as well as the teachers of the year and everybody have a good night so I have just a couple of quick things um again I want to congratulate Mr venali I think it's pretty awesome that you're going through the M masb classes appreciate your dedication to your to your district and to your students thank you uh I also want to mention again uh the basketball game last night was pretty awesome um I'm a
077little shocked again that the staff pulled it off but in the end it's all about raising money for the scholarship fund uh and I attended and there were quite a few people there A lot of seniors um the senior area of the seating was uh was pretty Rowdy pretty reim unctious saw some great dunks um some three-pointers that were just ridiculous that how far out they made them from uh but in the end again the the staff somehow managed to pull that out uh congratulations to our teachers of the year uh always one of my favorite Awards to give out and as well as Miss birkmire mentioned the Kaleidoscope uh winners that we presented Awards to um it's always cool to have some really really creative great writers in the district uh with that we
078will go to Mr Janowski on the legislative update really the two things in the legislative update first is budget we're still waiting for the house to drop their budget they normally would do kind of a proposed budget they did something last week where they kind of came out the whole they're kind of in preparation in case it goes beyond there could be a shutdown or something that wouldn't be until October so they went and basically passed a paired back budget of basically there's about 20 M 20 billion in the school aid fund of about 15 billion of that with a $1,025 per pupil allotment and that was really um contrary to what you're hearing from other people it's 25% cut it which would be if that was the thing it's just really to make sure
079that schools do not get held up by it is is their purported strategy that way you at least get your foundation allowance and then the categoricals that they would pass would come as part of the budget deal so that's but they still haven't sent out their actual proposed budget so we're still waiting on that the other thing is there was a big um to do about there were nine bills that were in lame duck that did not get sent over one of which was on healthc care and the healthc care bill was even though they passed it in lame duck they didn't send it over so there's a lot Su on that and really both sides won but the basic gist of it was they said yes you should send it over however it should
080have sent you you can't have a one um session cannot buy the next session to do anything so then they just voted today that they're not going to send those over so that that there will be more lawsuits going forward on this but at least for now that um healthc care bill is is basically dead I would say for at least this school year and we'll see what they do kind of going through the rest of the year and that's all any comments or questions yeah go ahead that's spending bill that they the stop Gap spending bill that's not going to pass the senate or get signed by the governor is it they they're just putting down a marker basically is their thing it's creating chaos when yes I think that's the idea the the
081big question is are they will we have a budget close to July 1 we normally we don't have it by July 1 but at least it's close otherwise if they're saying they see October 1st which is the state um deadline then that could be a challenge going into the the next school year anyone else all right I'll open it up for uh board committee updates any committees that have met I know only been two or three weeks now since our last meeting uh anybody want to [Music] share you ready go ahead yeah uh technology committee met and uh we discussed installing new uh digital clocks alarms for all the hallways and classrooms and I think that'd be a great way for keeping time and keeping things consistent for any sort of alarms and Communications that
082need to be had between classrooms great anyone else meet did f have Finance meet since then didn't we no we met before the last one no I met that same day as technology no we did you were there an hour before me because I showed up an hour early and realized that's right we booted you out yeah yeah uh I don't remember having anything too drastic that came on of Finance Dennis is or anything oh yes sure we we did talk about a invoice that was received from the city of New Baltimore for sidewalk replacement uh that was related to sidewalks that were replaced around Ashley and middle school north by the city of New Baltimore Lighthouse and lighthous as well that's all I've got on that uh building just real I mean 90% of
083what's going on in building is Bond related so Phil covered it all in his his lengthy update uh Corey is finalizing um getting ready to send out the the filter bids for filter first so we will probably see uh that in June for us to approve uh uh we got a grant of $385,000 which probably will cover roughly half of it so um but yeah she expects to send it out to bid in May and then have it to the board in June for uh for us to approve so other than that it's all Bond related work so on the filter first will those then likely be installed for next school year a lot of for the are you talking the water bottle yeah part of it is so we'll start through that process what
084we can do as part of the construction will go in and then the rest of it it really depends on as the funding goes and as that works forward all right anybody else else I just wanted to add on to the technology committee we did have discussion about when we get onetoone um devices devices thank you for our students um how we'd go about either Distributing keeping them in the classroom allowing your own so that's that was just a preliminary discussion so we're going to keep delving into that but just want to have that on record that we've already started looking at that anyone else I have the privilege of introducing uh the policy committee uh Matt and has been meeting um and so beginning at the next board meeting we'll have a first reading
085of a policy we are updating um it's not a brand new change but it is a significant update um where Anchor Bay uh the board is moving in a direction where um we plan to dis how should I say that generally be a cell phone free uh school day so um for clarification just to not cause Panic um the cell phones um students you know we understand that likely students need them for after school issues the phones can come into the building remain in somebody's locker or cubby um powered off during the school day and then um they can take them back home or remain you know they can have them for after school activities but that's the direction we're going um so in the next board meeting we'll be having you know begin policy
086readings um for that we also I probably should add um we the board is also looking the policy committee is looking at making some discipline uh policy changes moving forward um so those uh will probably be coming into the student handbook or code of conduct um for the next school year so um if we can get that out um in time but um those are kind of the things that we're talking about in the policy committee I I guess I'll throw in a a comment about your first policy update and certainly um many of us watch the governor's um State of the State where she shared details of of her desire to have a policy or law crafted at a state level um or to support school districts that wanted to create policies um widespread
087to restrict cell phone usage so it's certainly nothing new I'm I'm glad to see that the policy committee is taking that on um but it is something that is starting to gain traction throughout the country not just here in Michigan so I don't know if any anybody else had a comment they want to throw in about that or we just wanted to move on I just want to add something to it as well so I think that the way the policy is drafted the conversations that have been had about it um it's a very responsible way of handling this obviously there is going to be accommodations for students who absolutely need it um but ultimately the idea is to get kids off of technology and back focused into their curriculum um getting them away from
088any sort of social media distractions I think is ultimately a good thing and we'll be ultimately beneficial for their future educational success thanks Mr venal anybody else before we move on all right uh hearing none I believe that's all of the items on our agenda tonight so at this point I will entertain a motion to adjourn second motion by Miss KNX supported by Mr venitelli any comments questions or concerns hearing none all those in favor of adjourning signify by saying I I here all those opposed motion carries meeting is adjourned at 9:32 p.m. yeah