February 26, 2025- Regular Board Meeting

001I spread out sorry I see that all right good evening I'll call the regular Board of Education meeting of February 26 2025 to order I have 7 p.m. and we will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic from which it stands one nation under God invisible with liberty and justice for all all right good evening Mr secretary could you take the role please sure Mr Green Mr sunny bger here Mr Powers here miss Burk me Mr venitelli here Mr Richards is here miss Knox here and Mr Green here we have a quorum we'll begin with uh board appreciation I Believe Miss kenward is somewhere out there there she is welcome good evening good evening Mr Janowski Board of Education and Mr

002Farley tonight is a very special night for us because we get to thank all of our board members and let you know how much we appreciate you we are the best school district in mome County because we have a board of education and a superintendent that works together to support our students staff and Community thank you so you have many gifts in front of you so I'm going to walk you through your wonderful gifts so you have a special edition yeti in front of you uh Anchor Bay Yeti um and you also in your gift bag you have have two anchor base shirts and you also have a CTE black portfolio well and inside of the portfolio you will find a thank you note from all of our CTE teachers and myself thanking all of

003you for all the support that you do for our 17 programs you have a a trinket from Mrs sheron's maker space class you have personalized notebooks from our graphic art students and you have an apple pie made from scratch from our Culinary Arts students uh right now we're going to have two performances um one from mcon elementary and one for Middle School South thanks me than me good evening board Mr Janowski Micon students have two songs from you for you these are our third and fourth graders we're going to sing a song called in this world together and the Anchor Bay fight song and I would like to on behalf of all of Anchor Bay Ives and Elementary specialist teachers thank you for the support that you give our growing children being able to experience

004so many wonderful different opportunities [Music] to e are [Music] e e e all right hello everyone uh my name is Dan Fenton I'm the band director over at Middle School South thank you to all of you for the amazing support that you guys give us in the Band program on behalf of the band program you know just just thank you for allowing our kids to perform thank you Sherry for setting this up uh we really appreciate you and uh this is Anna gespi and Elijah agulo these are two seventh grade students uh who also did a performance for msboa solo and Ensemble received a division one rating which is the top rating that you can receive and they will be performing today green sleeves thank you so much we will be taking a short pause

005the board of appreciation for those of you that that want to get your children home we know it's a school night and we are greatly appreciative for our mcant singers and our future tar that was out there that was upset she wasn't up there I I want to see her in a couple of years what e oh oh e uh Middle School South as well uh for bringing their instruments they sounded pretty good I have zero musical Talent so unless it involves pounding a hammer on a drum I would not be able to do anything to make any kind of musical inclination so thank you again uh at this time I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented I will make the motion well looks like we might be going oh there we

006go Motion by Miss Knox supported by Mr Powers uh any comments questions or concerns all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those osed motion carries moving on your agenda to Mr Farley for a student Congress update welcome thank you good evening members of the Board of Education superintendent Janowski at today's meeting we took a field trip to the Board of Education room to view where the board meetings are held we also toured the HR office offices and Mrs Gonzalez showed us the fingerprinting system and fingerprinted anyone who wanted to be printed everyone really seemed to enjoy the fingerprinting I have the following building updates to share with you this evening all the Elementary fourth and fifth graders grade students took a trip to the high school for a band performance Lighthouse

007is hosting an eyeglass donation drive for the Lions Club the glass the class with the most donation will get an extra recess currently collecting no no so blankets for Pediatric patients at Children's Hospitals donations are being accepted in through february8 February 28th this week is the book fair which ends on Friday fifth grade stud students had a lesson in figurative language and everyone had a dress like an idiom at lah fourth and fifth graders are voting on what animal to adopt at the Detroit Zoo American Heart Association Jump Rope for Heart was held earlier this month there was a schoolwide science assembly on February 5th which was paired with a family science night at Great Oaks there was a schoolwide Super Bowl vote for which team would win the big game the school voted for

008the Eagles Donuts dad was held on February 11th and 12th the book fair was last week a schoolwide yo-yo assembly was held on February 3rd and students were able to purchase their own yo-yos at mcant quarter Wars raised over $4,000 a glow dance was held earlier this month and the students had a lot of fun March's reading month activities will begin soon to include flashlight Fridays student council sponsored a Valentine's fundraiser selling $147 $147 worth of Valen Valentine's Day grams at Ashley student council is hosting a fundraiser candy sucker sale which ends Friday proceeds will be used to purchase indoor recess games for the classrooms the school science school science fair was held yesterday along with family math night which was a huge success donuts with duudes was February 20th at nrit the star wathon

009with fundraiser was held on February 12th thank you to Renee the Forest guard for making the amazing balloon arch decorations the book fair will be March 3rd to 7th Buddy's Pizza dine and donate F fundraiser will be March 6th the second grade music program will be on March 10th a spencil sale was held the week of February 3rd and 997 Smencils were s sold that's a toughy at Middle School North March 3rd the Honor Society will be sponsoring an ey glass donation Drive glasses can be dropped off for donation in the main office office January 31st was the annual dodgeball tournament the winners were an eighth grade team named the pink ponies students are preparing for March Wellness week with a core skill as the focus of each day at middle school South a penny

010fund was fors fundraiser was held for the victims of the California wildfires which raised $150 February 21st there was a rock paper scissors tournament with eighth grader Colt as the overall winner today was the student month of the student of the month breakfast 44 of the seventh and eighth grade students visited the CTE classes at the high school today at the high school this week is Charity week with all proceeds going to k9 for k9's for Warriors The Mock Trial Competition is a Saturday members of student council attended the Statewide student council conference in Grand Rapids last weekend there were over 2,000 students n Statewide who attended tomorrow evening is the annual Relay for Life night at the Oscars fundraiser March 11th is the scholarship basketball game tickets are $5 and everyone is welcome to

011attend with jrtc they are preparing for the head H headquarters inspection on April 2nd which the board is invited to come see the drill performance and they're ALS you guys are also invited to the military ball on Saturday May 17th at Cedar Glen Golf Course on at 6 pm thank you that's all I have for this evening that's actually quite a I do have some follow-ups you're not going to have to hook that and if anyone else knows the answer to this what's a spenil scented pencil maybe I'm a little out of touch there miss kenward all right um quarter races $4,000 what's a quarter race what do you do with your quarter somebody must know they collect all the you basically donate a bunch of quarters in whatever class grade however they want to

012De however they want to divy it up oh that's $4,000 that's a lot of money yeah I if it follows what they normally do like the penny wars if you put a quarter in it's positive but if somebody puts paper money in it subtracts from the other thing oh so you can compat by grade and then that way Whoever has the most so if you you can support Yours by putting quarters or you can put paper money into the duct from the other groups got it okay and I was at the dodgeball at Middle School North uh that Friday night and I've never seen so many parents so excited for sixth graders to try to pulverize eighth graders the there was probably six five 500 people on the stands all pulling for the sixth grade

013teams and they're obviously substantially smaller than the eighth grade teams and they beat a couple of the eighth grade teams a couple of times so there were some upset eighth grade parents in the stands but that was interesting to watch that's my second or third year getting out to that but it's great anybody other comments before I do have two um you mentioned that the RC inspection was on April 2nd and we're invited to the um to the inspection to the J yes and that is at what time I do not have a t time okay and then the military ball was May 17 C GL changing it up this year yes 6m 6m fantastic and the other highlight is obviously the uh scholarship fundraiser you said was March 11 yes okay great thank you

014Mr Farley um moving on we uh our agenda uh we have a CT outstanding students recognition and that'll be back over to miss kenward good evening again every year we are we are we choose two of our top outstanding CTE students and as you all know we have a lot of CTE students so the two um this year that won we went to a breakfast with Mr Janowski Mr McDonald myself and Mr McKenzie on February AR 6 so they were honored at the ISD so right now I'm going to have Mr Yono introduce our two top CTE students all right good evening board and superintendent Janowski and Mr Farley uh said um I'm Jacob Yono and I'm one of the faculty members at the high school in the business and technology pathway and so um

015as she mentioned uh these students earlier this month were recognized that the 35th annual mome Career and Technical education administrators Association award celebration that was held at the MISD uh and these students achievements were celebrated by policy makers administrative teachers and peers from all over mome County so I'd first like to present senior Lily Liden uh who is recognized in the Department of graphic arts Lily excels in the advanced graphic arts program as a fourthe student at the high school Lily consistently demonstrates an exceptional level of talent creativity and dedication every assignment she undertakes reflects her unwavering commitment to Excellence she delivers always 110% Beyond her technical skills Lily exhibits a genuine passion for graphic design and an eagerness to embrace new challenges she is not only a talented artist artist but also an inspiring

016student who sets a high standard for herself and her peers Lily's extraordinary work ethic Innovative mindset and dedication to her craft make her an outstanding representative of what this award celebrates Lily plans on attending St Clair County Community College to pursue a career in illustrating children's books congratulations Lily he and next I am proud to present senior Lily Foster who is recognized uh in the department of business management Lily Foster is one of our most passionate CTE students at the high school she's a true Testament to the power of career exploration in CTE taking over five business related classes over the years Lily is currently the president of our Deca chapter where we have over 115 members Lily is a deeply committed strong leader positive role model and high achiever Lily's strongest character itic is

017her ability to connect with her peers while fostering relationships this year Lily has worked tirelessly on fund development for Deca in additionally she has been Innovative with her approach to spread our chapter's mission and expand our community and local business Partnerships Lily is a de Deca district and state champion and an international competitor she plans to attend Oakland University in the fall while pursuing a degree in marketing I'm also proud to add that at this year's award banquet Lily was the the recipient of the hannes family fund scholarship Lily is a true champion for CT and business at the high school congratulations Lily so Lily and Lily we want to again congratulate you uh on these outstanding achievements and on behalf of all of us in CT at the high school I want to thank

018you for the work that you do that continues to advance CTE in our school district each day so congratulations again and if Bor if you wouldn't mind if we can grab a photo with we love to have Lily squared on the stage e congratulations to our CTE students not only the two that are here tonight but all of them they do a f fabulous job and they're passionate group uh and Miss kenward thank you for what you do with that passionate group of people moving on down a superintendent update is next on the list without further Ado Mr Janowski okay Tim is pulling up my presentation so just going to run through the bond this is a picture of the latest picture of the restaurant the seating area um it's really coming along very nice

019um when this was first shared I was like well this is just a rendering and they're like no no look at the ladder that they're working on it this is this is the real like um seating area so next slide this is just same thing from different um angles we are waiting for on the left hand side where it says shoreliner to the right there will be the the logo will be there um and it's just it's really coming along very nicely next slide this is in the kitchen most of the equipment is in they're just going through testing to make sure everything's kind of connected correctly operating and so on next slide this is an example of the bathrooms we've been working on the bathroom so they replace the hardware in the bathrooms and

020they're um in the process of just updating those to make sure that everything's in operating order and not it wasn't a whole overhaul because the tile was in pretty good shape but it's mostly the mechanical items and we're hoping that we'll see um Energy Efficiency and also um you know less water usage as part of that next slide this is the athletic Wing this used to be the athletic office but if you recall we flipped the athletic office more towards the South entrance um that is not the floor it's covered right now because they're working on the ceiling this will be the classroom that would then to the right will be the expanded weight room and so that is coming along as well they should have the ceiling in there in next few weeks and

021then they'll start working once um really spring break they should start moving the weight room and then on to that next phase of that Wing next slide again just different angles from the same thing just so you kind of see the paint is done they're just waiting on the uh ceiling next slide and again this is the same area just the fixtures are going in there's cabinets and so on that they'll have in each of those areas next slide and then this is actually in the current weight room which will be the wrestling room so there'll be a small office this will be used for when they're weighing people and they needed a private area so they were able to get that over midwinter break that was installed as well and then this is um

022our boiler project that they've been working on so that has been mostly installed there's also the chiller which is on the outside that they're working on that is I think n like 95% complete but that is still in process but it's really coming along a lot smaller than what we used to have next slide we also this was a challenge when they first put all of the equipment in the building there was a whole thing when we had now 20 some years later to upgrade all that was in there and they would have to actually take out walls like the first year when I was here they were in the process of um changing another boiler and they had to physically take out a wall then put the boiler in then they were closing that

023up now we just put a bay door in so then we won't have to do that every time that we're moving this large equipment on next slide this is actually from the next phase this is the middle school this is Middle School North this is standing at one end looking down this would be the northwest corner this used to be a series of classrooms so now they've opened that up because we're basically taking small classrooms that were about 680 670 Square F feet making them just shy of a th000 square feet next slide again this is just same work that's going on with that so part of that is they have to move entrances to doors next slide and again just just it's the same thing just kind of looking at what they took out

024they're getting ready to to now put the Dividing Walls back in for the larger classrooms next slide just another shot of this I believe used to be counseling so there's a bunch of different walls in there so now that it's been opened up as well next slide this is from the hallway so this is looking West from that Wing So on the left hand side those will be new science labs and then there will be the last classroom on the right is life skills and then there will be three class rooms to the immediate right and they'll all be much larger than what we had before next slide and then this is the entrance um again just kind of rebuilding this used to be um this would be the entrance at this is actually at

025the end of the hallway where the the science live would be next slide and again just another shot of kind of where they're at this is they're getting ready to um with the saw cutting and everything in order to make sure that utilities are where they need to be for the new rooms next slide this was an interesting one kind of coming in um every building especially of that era has a vault and when they said it's a vault it is a real Vault there's about eight inches of concrete surrounding that and they had the old giantz door and all they it's something when you get into actually tear it out they said they had hadn't really seen this in other districts because normally you had the vault door but it's not eight inches of

026concrete that's above it so something they came across but they were able to take that out as well next slide and again as part of all of this we have our students in their construction trades get to every other week they meet with the Barton mow team they walk them through the project they talk about these are problems that we ran into these are problems that we're um here's how we're handling it here's how we're staging it so they get to kind of work with the guys and then they they also give input they they will kind talk to them about things what would you like to see here and then we use that to kind of um help shape the project next slide um just last thing is basically we're going to do our

027annual Bond update that's on Monday March 10th and so we will kind of part of that will be a tour of the high school after the bond update and we'll go over all the projects timelines things like that just to kind of give everybody progress on where we're at just um people always ask right now now we we've just about used about 11 or 12% of the bond funds so we are ahead of budget ahead of schedule um and we you know we're making great progress and I think you'll see an the rest of the high school stuff will wrap up over the summer be ready for fall and then the middle school north will um we got a jump start on that that will also be ready for fall questions ahead of budget under

028budget right that yes okay yes we are Phil yes you mentioned or I'm sorry you didn't mention anything but I I I was just thinking as you're going through the slides um the fire drill at the high school or the fire alarm went off can you just give us a little update on where we are with that yeah so the the fire alarm basically they were outside working on installing the chiller that triggered the alarm and then the basically what happens is now with modern um sprinkler systems they're not always pressurized so then it has to pressurize the system there's something called a flow um Monitor and that wasn't registering that the flow was appropriate so then it gave a trouble signal so then it wouldn't let us reset it we had to have um

029basically the fire department said no we know it's pressurizing and so you can still have that you just we had to get it replaced essentially and so they replace that and so we held events until about five o'clock then we did our um we move the band concert to North and then we move the basketball games later and we were able to get officials in to have both of those and then um so they replaced it and we're good to go anybody else any questions thank you thanks Phil moving on to item H Hearing in the public those who wish to address the bo address the board on agenda items May complete a brief request stating their name address and the subject of their comments remarks about specific employees should be directed to them personally

030and not included in the public forum Administration will follow up with with concerns within 48 Hours of the board meeting please limit your comments to 3 minutes per board policy I will start with uh Sarah I want to say the last name one wonderlick don't are and coner and I want to this by saying I understand rumors at this point so what we're fearing though is that there's considerations offer here at McDonald my concern really is will that being new parents makes me not feel excited to thank you um I'm going to ask the board tonight probably twice to allow me to kind of break our protocol I'm going to apologize to superintendent Janowski are you prepared to address that now I I can basically tell you the the funding for the gsrp program and

031all of that from the state was just one year so the governor wants to continue those programs and all that so it really depends on what the state budget how that kind of comes out once once we know and we'll talk about this during the legislative update but once we know where the house is at and they should release theirs the governor is giving her State of the State tonight so I would imagine the house will have their budget on we'll have a clear picture on what exactly that we're offering um we will have programs at ECC and McDonald it's just we don't know exactly what that will be based off of and how those numbers will break out based off of whether the state decides to continue the fund preschool it is in the

032governor's budget that they're going to fund all these things and so then there's um ramifications that kind of come with that and so once we kind of have that we'll know so I'm hoping typically the governor gave her budget I think two weeks ago it was so typically within three weeks or four weeks the house usually has that my one concern is they don't seem to be um looking to have it done by July 1 that's that's usually when our budget year starts so we want to know that so I know there are some people that are like well we can take until October because that's when the state budget starts so but they follow the same thing as soon as we have the house like budget because that's the major you know it's each

033party will have theirs out there we'll have a very good idea and then we'll plan accordingly so without pinning you down you're hoping in the next 30 days is absolutely okay yeah all right thank you sir uh I have three people who want to speak on the the same issue so I in alphabetic order uh Megan blank corn I absolutely is it not on there we go I am here to bring uh attention to the horrific assault that took place on my son's birthday February 19th at Anchor Bay versus L Cruz hockey game however what should have been a night of Celebration with his friends turned into a nightmare when my son vicious was viciously attacked by seven L Cruise students out in the front doors of the Arena Evan has never been in trouble

034he is a kind respectful kid that has never caused trouble and doesn't have a confrontational bone in his body he was just simply there to watch the game hang out with his friends for his birthday and support his high school hockey team that night after celebrating a quick birthday with him so he could get to his friends in the hockey game he arrived at the hockey game at 7:39 at 9:32 I received a horrifying phone call from my son telling me that he had been jumped by seven students from LC and he thought that his nose might be broken and he wasn't sure what else he was sitting in his car injured with a few friends around him there was no adults no security nothing anywhere I was on the road by 9:34 2 minutes

035later immediately calling 911 what deeply troubles me is that I was the first person to call 911 I lived 20 minutes away from the hockey arena despite the fact that my son was assaulted right outside the hockey arena where is the security where is the help where was the staff at 943 Evan was still bleeding and in shock in his car he then decided to re-enter the arena with his friends escorting him to clean his face up only then was he offered any kind of assistance uh I arrived around 9:50 just as emergency responders pulled in the timeline alone highlights the great failure in student safety my son's head was punched repeatedly his head was kicked repeatedly and there are videos multiple videos Evan's assault stemmed from a minor accidental bump into one of the

036LC students despite apologizing saying sorry I didn't mean to they still kept heckling him and then even shoved him he proceeded to walk away and went into the lobby and met up with his friends they waited a little bit and then went to the doors to exit to go to their cars to leave VI group of kids were there waiting for them they even tried to go around them and out separate doors farthest away from them once they got out those doors that's when they all chased after them Evan there are some security failures Evan actively tried to avoid confrontation by using a different exit nobody was there watching any of it the assault occurred directly in front of the hockey rank entrance no security Personnel was present to prevent the stop or attack no

037staff members called 91 911 or provided assistance to my son it took 15 minutes before an adult at a venue even intervened to give him medical help or even call 911 if not for the three Brave students who stepped in pulling the attackers off my son while being struck themselves this could have been fatal this could have been him in the ICU this we'd be having a totally different conversation the videos were captured they have been sent to the high school and I'm sure every student and parent has seen them evans's injuries include severe concussion he has not been back to school he's still out because every time he opens his eyes and he's under the light he his headache keeps persisting he has multiple soft tissue contusions on his head bruising and swelling on

038both ears in the right side of his face significant facial injuries including damage around his cheek eyes and mouth internal bleeding in a bloody nose and lip the these injuries were not minor the brutality of this attack has left my son not only physically injured but also emotionally traumatized the long-term effects of this assault are yet to be determined and all of this occurred simply because he attended a school sporting event I call for immediate action this this security failure demands immediate attention this Cas I can't even say the word failure of student safety demands immediate and concrete action an explanation for why no SEC security was president present at a school sporting event an investigation into why no staff members called emergency service until the student told them his mom called mandatory security Personnel

039at all school events on or off campus it is a school hockey game a full review of Emergency Response protocols for incidents involving student safety accountability for both the attackers and the failures that enabled this assault the fact that this occurred at a school sponsored event is unacceptable no parent should send their child to a school game only to have them return bloody and traumatized no student should have to rely on their friends Brave interventions to prevent critical injury I demand immediate concrete changes to ensure that no other family has to experience what mine has endured our children's safety is not optional this is every parents worst nightmare no student should ever experience what my son went through at a school event especially to top it off Adam's birthday the district has the responsibility to

040protect the students both on and off- campus during school affiliated activities I demand answers I demand action our children's safety is not optional it's your responsibility thank you um moving how about Megan now okay [Music] okay uh my name is Erica schaer I'm an Anor Bay graduate uh class of 92 so been around a long time um the disappointment of not having security at an event like this this isn't the the first time it would be different if something of this Nature has been unforeseen or hasn't happened in the community we have videos of the games happening last season where Dakota was jumping kids and and things of these Natures are happening outside of even our hockey games I know it's part of MHS aa's requirements that there is sufficient security and Staffing at events

041and it just seems it's not happening hockey games are very aggressive they get very passionate and all the students from both schools go out at the same time so my son was involved twice obviously not to the extent of of Amy's son but he was one of the few that was there that night with him and notice no parents around no um teachers you know no adult supervision to help when these kids are having attacking like that if there weren't a few kids stepping in it would have been a different matter of that evening and should not have escalated to this we should have protocols in place for events any basketball game football game my kids are in many sports there's always security at all of these events I get they're on property but because

042they're off property doesn't mean it's still not a school event right the school has a responsibility with that ice rank to make sure these kids are safe and to make sure at the ends of the games that the kids aren't all exiting at the same time so th those are my concerns as a parent um this shouldn't happen thank you hi my name is Megan blinkhorn I am also an anchor Bay graduate class of 1994 um my youngest son was with Evan and Casey he um is a junior my oldest son was on the ice that night um I'd like to point out that these seven kids who aren't just elcn kids um the Lance Cruz United Team come make up um Lance Cruz Lance Cruz North and Richmond um all of the students who

043were at the game that night were at Lance Cruz's next game the administration from the other school didn't even stop them from going to the next games which should never have happened um the hockey team has been asking for security um at their games for at least seven years that I know of my oldest graduated in 2021 and we have been going to hockey games since then and there are parents on the hockey team that have students who graduated back then I know it has been an issue and an ongoing issue for at least seven years um the team manager on a regular basis when she is in the school because she works with the athletic department lets the school know when there are major rivalry games this doesn't happen at all the games it's

044always Dakota Lance Cruz North Romeo but honestly it usually almost always happens at a Dakota game or a lance Cruise game when the students are there and it is an anchor Bay where it is a non this is a conference game and it is a nonconference game parents are security they're not trained in security we have to hope that our parents know what they're doing we're really lucky that we do have one parent who is also a police officer so we have some of our parents who are really great at being security we have some parents who really just don't know what to do or how to handle the students and the kids kind of get away with murder and I don't mean that literally obviously but it's it's hard you have parents literally managing

045the situation that night Romeo had responsibilities it was teenagers taking tickets and two parents that was there apparently the ad was also there I don't know what their ad or their super or anyone would look like um from our school we had the assistant ad and the ad um who I was told left at some point and then from Lance Cruz United there was no one that anyone knows of that was actually in attendance there are actual rules of how many people in security officers which doesn't have to be actual security officers there um this was a major issue last year at the Dakota game where I believe almost 10 students stents from Dakota were then suspended from school none of the Anchor Bay kids were none of the Udo kids were that was an

046issue um so we thought after all the things that happened last year Sheriff was then showing up at all the big games that that would not continue this year however it did when I go to basketball games I'm a sports booster I volunteer at a lot of games when I go to u a basketball game visually I see our superintendent our principal multiple assistant principls security officer officers and the sheriff at a hockey game our assistant ad is always there and that is the most that we I have ever seen at a game this year and previous years we have other Administration there this year we get the assistant ad that's the help that we get at a basketball game on campus there are more than we would need now sometimes the security officers do

047come to our games it's of their own free will on their time because they enjoy hockey um so we ask that there's more security for not only the safety of our parents who could end up in legal issues because they're having to be security um and the hockey team and the hockey parents pay for a lot our children drive themselves to all of their games including Ann Arbor Fenton Flint sometimes we go up North and our kids are driving to these games our parents have designed and built our own locker room and we paid for out of our own funds we also pay for all of our own roughing and we pay for our ice time we're asking for something as very simple as security this is a known issue and it has been a

048known issue for a long time so that is all I have to say thank you thank you I will again Ask the board's um for forgiveness here to kind of address this and and I can tell you as a board I've had conversations independently with several of the board members up here and you can all feel free to speak as well um we as a district don't tolerate this type of behavior from our students and we expect more from those we're competing against I played High School sports uh I remember how intense they were um and it's it's just not acceptable what happened the bo the board is upset the board is upset by it I can tell you that from talking to each one of the members and superintendent Jan kowsky and our director

049of security is upset about what's trans fired there are some challenges that come with where that game is um specifically it's in a different County than our high school is it's certainly in a different municipality than you know either in Baltimore or Chesterfield or uh you know the mome stclair county sheriff that handles the rest of our our SRO duties uh so it's it's it's a bit of a challenge for us to figure out how to to handle that that doesn't excuse what happened and as a district we need to figure out how we get around those barriers to protect our students because that's our number one job here is to educate and protect so I'm going to apologize again superintendent Janowski but I'm putting you back on the hot seat where are we at

050with any type of investigation and any type of plans that were potentially going to put into place for next year I'll give you some a little bit of background kind of with it because I know even like the first hockey game I I went to when several years ago when I first got here it was there was one it was after a game which was it wasn't our kids it was two other schools that was kind of out of control and so then we had the conversation we actually offered to the arena that we would have our our forest guards go and they declined and I and I get they didn't want a third party and they didn't want like because we have four discards are armed but they wouldn't necessarily have to be so

051they said no that's that's not what they would allow we do we actually do pay our own guards to go when it's our event we're the host of that and so we cover that and we we even do it if the other team we've had them turned turned away by other Schools they're like nope we have this you know they can't come in either they're gonna have to pay but we're we're policing this and and I don't disagree that this was we had three people that were there um and the arena only had two people working the front is my understanding and the then I believe again there were students who were taking tickets there might have been four people there but they weren't there from the host school and the host school had one

052administrator there so then our people were kind of even working with the arena people to kind of all of the different things that go on because the other thing with the the arena is there are other events and other public things kind of going on along there so they were helping them kind of put out those fires and then this occurred outside the um egg exit at the end of the game and I've spoken to the superintendent of the host school and said you know we we would help do this we checked beforehand do you have it covered we have it covered um I I don't know why our opponent didn't have anybody there that we haven't gotten that clarified yet um but we have offered in the future we're like we have no problem

053sharing the cost like even the the host School typically hosts that event and so we're like we have no problem like even going in because they did my understanding is they did they said at the next one they did have mome County Sheriff there and so that they had that in place at at the next game which was with our opponent and I I don't remember who they were playing so we we have tried to have like security there and and when but again it's it's up to the host school to to provide that and we're limited by what they they go with so I I know it's no consolation today um but we have employed for about the last year and a half uh a director of Safety and Security Mr Pape and and

054I would ask that you work with her and direct her to figure out and come up with a plan for not only hockey but uh all of our sporting events and go so far as to reaching out to districts that we're visiting and asking them what their security plan is and I know it's difficult for us to lean or Lobby on the ice arena and what they're going to let us do um but I would also ask Mr Pape to talk to St Clair County sheriff and uh our school resource officer at the high school and reach out to other school resource officers at these other high schools that we're competing against you know sports are aggressive basketball soccer is actually one of the most violent Sports I've ever watched in my life especially girls

055soccer I'm sure Mr Po's can attest to that your referees but my point is is that we we have to figure out how to work with these other districts and if they're not going to provide people we need to lean on them as hard as we can and even even mhsaa to come down and say look if this other District's going to provide qualified security and I I will guarantee almost that we can get forus to put on as an additionally insured another District that we're going to visit or or a one-day type of insurance policy or an indemnification or whatever they need to make it happen so that when we're on the road and these in these highly competitive and and other environments you certainly wouldn't think that 25 and dequinder would be a

056dangerous area but they're high school kids um my two are out but I remember what it was like when my son was in high school just four years ago it's a lot of testosterone going on there and I also heard that you know it wasn't a friendly game um you know the the crowds were into it bug ities you know the the complete you know whole yard whole nine yards and uh but I think the first step I think hockey is done correct so our our first step is to have Miss the Pape start looking at you know what's coming up in tennis baseball and just start analyzing where we think we have issues and start putting pressure on these other districts and I would hope that you would put pressure on mcom County districts

057that where you might know the superintendent hey my board's not happy they're concerned and quite frankly as much as I don't ever want to not show up for a contest if we're not feeling comfortable you know couple days before the event email goes out to mhsaa and the other athletic director we're not coming you know we're we're concerned that you know we're going to a place that is traditionally uh it's very volatile and we don't feel like you have this covered because we've asked and you've offered no explanation no plan nothing we're not coming um is that what we want to do as a school district absolutely not we want to compete but if it's not safe I don't want to go there I don't want to I don't want to be one of those

058parents in the stands that's getting involved with you know inter interfering with 15 fights going outside the parking lot these kids in high school are big it's not a joke these are adults um you know even one law enforcement officer showing up there you can call the Cavalry but they're 10 or 15 minutes away and it's just him you know he's not engaging at that point he's just hoping that people stop can talk them out of fighting any longer but we need a plan so I apologize to your to your son um that's horrible and I'm glad somebody stepped in fortunately I'd be one of those people that would step in and you know I'd be in the middle of fighting with you know 14 kids or whatever it might be but um so would

059yeah we're police reports filed and are you file are you filing criminal charges if you can find the okay yeah I'm going to open it up to the board and again we don't normally do this and I apologize that we're interacting because it's against our board policy but as the president I looks like I've been given the luxury to override that for this discussion yeah a couple things that I that come to mind for me and Mr Green you mentioned it but to me if uh the Suburban hockey rank cannot have adequate security maybe we Anchor Bay should look for a new home uh you know you know but Port Heron has to have a hockey rank yes interesting okay for for our own team even though the Romeo was the host of the event

060okay but according to superintendent Janowski that's been rebuffed and again that's getting back to my point where Mr Pape needs to start leaning on these these and you're right Mr Richards that there are a couple other you know there's one over in Rochester uh it's not exactly convenient going to Port hereon maybe is a little bit closer to me that's to me that right yeah to me that should be something that we should be looking into now um you know just to kind of better uh put ourselves in a better position for next year um you know I don't know you know what what's going on with the hockey rank but if they obviously you know sorry I I I understand that but to me I'd rather if if we have a closer rink like

061M Clemens I can promise US full security for full events where we don't have to worry about fights that really need to together 100% And and I think that's what I'm trying to say is to me if if that's the big of an issue it is to me if I own a hockey Rank and I have multiple you know schools coming to me I will guarantee you that you know I'm going to have a full-time mome County Sheriff there I'm going to have a Clinton Township police officer there that would be my guarantee if I can bring in new business that guarantee security and safety you know you know to me it sounds like there's a problem you said seven years this has been going on to me if there's a problem there I mean

062there's a big problem it's going on for seven years and that's concerning to me sitting on this board that I'm I'm allowing my students to go to a you know a a a complex that has a security issue for s years I mean it shouldn't be happening I'm boiling up here you know to me I want to call Lance Cruz tomorrow on question their student code of conduct you mentioned that the students are at the next game you know those things to me are just you know what upsets me a lot too so you know to me if that was you know our students I wouldn't expect our students back at a game you we have a code of conduct as well so I think Jeremy know was kind of where we we stand a

063lot of things unfortunately I hate to say this but now that this happen maybe I and that's unfortunate but you know that the reasoning for it is that that's why we're going to get that access but now is the time to pull in attorneys and start talking about what we can do to make this happen and make sure because you know even the ice arena is probably concerned about the legalities of having our officers there so they they what they should be upset they should actually be embarrassed perfect aand from us all day long we'll we provide it watch the smallest kid at pite high school jump into this fight and push his kid out of the way one male adult one person and it would have never happened or if it started it would

064have been able to stop because it started over here by the of course of course I have not I have not no I was the first one to bring the video four days after it happened for the actual principal sad can you do me a and forward of that to Super superintendent Janowski not that I want to watch because I I see enough of that but and then and go ahead Don please let's open up to the board I'd like you to forward it to us as well at least I want to see it so you can find my email on the board uh web page you have my email address um I want to so does Lance do we know if Lance Cruz has identified those students are they aware of the incident yeah

065okay okay okay and as we're aware at this point in time they have chosen to do nothing to those students or we just don't know we yeah we don't know we don't know okay like all it takes is someone to hold back the whole team allow it's a hun and a game if had to release the LC share Park L making B see that it's happening kids are released an tep for another minutes and then yeah so one thing I want I wanted to ask um or clarify so when when Anchor Bay hosts a game um if we're the host or the home team um we send an administrator or athletic director for that yeah well if we're like home or host okay all the because right gets a little confused back and forth yeah

066and the parents run run the operation just kind of off the top of my head like the the I don't want to say simplest but the to me the best solution would be that we need to work with suburban and whether you know I hate to say this but whether it gets tacked onto our fees for using Suburban but it seems like between everybody who uses Suburban as their home ICE whether it's us or Romeo or Dakota I don't know if that's where they but um you know we need to either pay or you know share the cost of a sheriff or somebody or or or maybe it's a new employee for Suburban that you know makes is present at all these games but somebody that's guaranteed to be there because my my concern in

067listening to what happened here is we can always do our job right but then we're always relying on is Romeo really going to follow through is this District going to follow through you know and unfortunately we don't know until we get there and find out it didn't you know and like you said it's 20 minutes away how do we fix that in the moment and then to not only fix it but then not punish our students or our players you know to say cancel the game or this or that you know like because of a failure on their end right so my my thought is to maybe work with Suburban maybe jointly and and the other districts to say Hey you know either you need to provide this security um you need to provide it

068and Tack it on to everybody because you know that's the only way to ensure that it actually happens and that there's follow through um and that we're not relying on one another um right and I think the other the other piece right right yeah shouldn't be parents respons and the other piece is to have a pro maybe some sort of protocol that happens at these games like you said to where you know fans of one team get dismissed you know in a group go you're get you know get out leave the property or if you're staying for the next game you know you got to go into the lobby you got to you know we're we supervise that release we release the next group we release this team we Rel you know like in in

069a peac meal fashion so that there's it's kind of you know to the best of your ability right like supervise if somebody yeah I don't I don't want to Discount what happen to anybody but you know to some level I feel like because it is offsite we we probably can't you know we can't guarantee that we would prevent any everything but um you know if we maybe come up with like I said a meeting of all the groups where you know we continue to have these issues or the groups that use Suburban um as their home ICE to come up with a protocol that that the person that we hopefully find to be in charge and kind of designate these things um can do to dismiss the different groups and you know maybe keep them

070a little segregated because of how the how the games and the situations can heat up um you know maybe that would be the best way to move yeah right I don't know if you heard Mr Richard's comment um I think his mic is off but his comment was it's it's not your job to be security it's not your job to go you should be out there with your senior kids you should be the moms and dads crying because it's their last hockey game at the high school not worrying about what's happening in the stands or in the parking lot they were there and I just walked away and they were going to get their sons and he was in the lobby he hung out there for a little bit with his friends they went to

071go walk out the front door so he could leave and come home because he knows he's got to be home school night otherwise mom's going to yell him and so they kind of walked out but they went out the farthest door but he in the back of his they were half he wondered he kind of you know but there was nobody there he could have asked for help I gu you know so him and his buddies went out the group to try to avoid it and as soon as he went out the ran after him turned him around and her son actually jumped in to try to deescalate it and then he ended up punching Casey and then he went after my son and then they ended up getting them all on is anybody else

072have a comment before we move on if I may um yeah Mr pow we You' mentioned we've offered in the past to provide our for discards for example and we've been turned up that's in the context of being official event security correct yes what's to stop us from telling one or two of our for dis guards you're going to accompany our hockey team we're going to pay for your time we're going to pay for your entry how can they stop that anymore than they can stop us from sending coaches assistant coaches trainers any or any other support isn't that quite a simple solution or am I am I overthinking well it comes down to insurance and and kind of like jurisdiction I guess for lack of a better term because if it's not I just

073imagine if it was at another District okay imagine it was a basketball game at another District we we can't send ours unless they give like permission because and and I I get some of the concerns like you're going to put somebody a a third another third-party security who may or may not be armed right but it doesn't have to what I'm saying is it doesn't have to be like they're here to be security for the event they're here we're going to have an understanding between our support people from forest for example and our coaching staff that this is the protocol when the game's over the guards will be over here at this Bay meet them here they will accompany you to the bus at you know like just it just seems like a pretty simple

074solution but yeah they they did not want them on the no but why do they have a say I guess is my point when their property it's a private but how can they stop us from sending them to accompany our team any more than they can stop us from sending an assistant coach or a trainer or anything like that something happens and they have to get involved then it becomes that that becomes the issue so that's why we we kind of but something did happen like that that I guess that's my point is now like I don't know I I feel like I feel like if smart people get in a room and and don't leave until there's an answer there's an answer that's not too far away I gu the point I'm trying to

075make I'll tell you hockey is because most Arenas okay yeah that they run it very Bare Bones like I think they only had two people working up front I I typically and they have more people that are working like Z Bon yeah and and I get it because I I think that's the same thing like the Mount Clemens one just changed hands so it you know they're they're on a very tight thing which I get but again you're also running this business that should have security there because you know that that's it and so that's why we were like hey you know we have because I I believe hasn't that Arena changed hands I believe in in the last yeah yeah I guarantee you if if you go to the hockey rank every single school

076that that has a home rink there and says we're leaving unless you fix it it'll be fixed yeah absolutely oh yeah yeah for sure 100% yeah yeah yeah yep right right right I mean you know just just listen to hear that this has been going on for seven years and granted sure they may have changed hands but to me I I think we should be reaching out to other school districts saying where's the new rank we going because if they can't fix it let's find a new rank right but those are discussions that our athletic director should be having and then the superintendent are having at the same time look we're all in agreement this isn't what we want let's set aside who was at fault with this particular challenge this issue everybody has the

077same concern I don't want to sit here next year and have another parent just tell me that same story because the ring can't manage their security I understand that agre agreed yeah agreed agreed anybody else well again um I think superintendent Janowski has marching orders if you will um we need to protect our students and that's what we're here for not only to educate them but to to protect them and um so we we need to make some changes and I think we have the right people in the district to lead the event you know we we look test scores and some other stuff and we lead mome County not only with what I would consider to be one of the stronger superintendant of mome County quite honestly but as well as uh with our

078academics and with our leadership and we put a director of Safety and Security in our district that other districts don't have they're just now considering hiring somebody but some of their funding's been pulled back on that so they're not doing it quite frankly just there's several board members up here supported armed security guards in our our schools did we want them absolutely not it was the last thing I wanted to do but what I want to do is I want that person who's who's a a do bad guy to drive down to the next School District unfortunately and not choose Anchor Bay because you know we're on the news with these things so we're we're talking about them continuously I go by our schools and I see the our Safety and Security Personnel outside during

079a recess at Lighthouse Elementary they're clear and presently there and their job is to not let you hurt our students so we need to take that a little bit further into our Athletics and figure out how we can make that happen so I apologize that your son had to go through what he went through but I'm hoping that I don't have Mr Richard's point I don't want to have another Mom or Dad here telling me your story like you just had to tell us it's not okay I'm sorry concussions are nasty espec sounds like his was particularly violent anybody any anything else before we move on all right um let's move on to item I Communications no Communications all right item J the consent agenda items on the consent agenda are of recurring nature and

080are voted on as a single item any board member May request an item be removed without the vote of the board and it will be discussed and voted upon individually recommended action from Administration is the Board of Education approve the consent agenda minutes Personnel report Financial reports and bills payable I will entertain a motion to that effect can I make my first motion I you absolutely May welcome thank you I will second motion by Mr Sunny bger um supported by Miss Knox comments questions or concerns hearing none sir could you call the role sure will Mo Mr Sun bger hi uh Miss Knox yes you're just fine I understood I I got it continue on sorry you're good Mr Powers yes Miss Burk yes Mr ventilli yes Richards as a yes and Mr Green yes

081all right moving on to new business uh item one under new business is field trips the first of which is a forensic msci spring tournament Don batist the D Drama teacher at the high school is requesting permission to take three to five students to MAA Island May 15 through 18th for the Michigan speech coaches Incorporated Spring Festival there will be one to three chaperones accompanying them on that trip and it looks like they are driving personal vehicles up there uh so the recommended action from uh Administration is that the Board of Education approved the drama field trip request to maon Island May 15 through 18th 2025 I will entertain a motion to that effect so moved I'll second motion by Miss Knox supported by Mr Richards comments questions or concerns they go on the stre

082trip last year I think so you don't think so oh no they did because it was ma yeah yeah they did it's expensive it it's mov assess the parent who goes to mov any other further comments questions concerns hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those opposed OS motion carries next field trip is a request from Jennifer Massie teacher is requesting permission to take 18 students to the Amway Grand in Grand Rapids April 9th and 10th 2025 for the M do State Bridge competition they'll be traveling via school bus with three chaperon the recommended action from Administration is the Board of Education approved the M do Straight Bridge competition field trip a ail 9th and 10th 2025 as presented I will entertain a motion to that effect so moved

083second I'm sorry who made the motion Mr velling sport by Miss Knox comments questions or concerns remind me because I I know I was one that brought it up before but um did we kind of stipulate to have more than one chaperon for overnights or was that only because of we had the situation where it was only one student and one adult that we said two one two one adult okay in this one we do have three chaperon for the 18th right because I know but the one you had just said I was thinking the forensics it says one to oh three that's a good point um well we have a motion on the table let's Circle back to talk about the forensic trip after we approve or deny the request from Miss Massie there's

084no um policy around number of chaperon versus number of students then right generally we try and make sure we have one for every 10 one of 10 okay so I still want to Circle back to that time so um any other concerns with the m do trip for Miss Massie hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed Miss massie's trip is approved let's jump back to the mcsi spring tournament uh on mov and I believe Miss burkmeyer is right this board did have a discussion I thought it was just about having more than one more than one sh that's what I was trying to remember was it because it was only at the it was one student and one adult one adult that was the and that was where

085we were not comfortable so we so this is three to five students and one to three chaperon according to the field trip request we can modify your approval if you want to make it two chaperon a minimum of two chaperon because you can't I can add it back to the agenda and we had that with the session respectfully request respectfully request then I don't think but we will but the situation was that it was one only one student and one adult not so I mean if there's one we didn't necessarily haven't in the past had a problem with one adult with multiple students correct it was the oneon-one so there it's not an issue that's what I wanted to verify by themselves yeah so are you guys okay with leaving the motion as it is

086and no I am well what I think we can do Mr Green is we can have someone propose a addition we can vote to have an additional item put in place right now and then vote to have an additional sha on at no no less than two to the existing field trip and then vote on that motion and then carry on forward to the rest of the agenda I think we already voted to approve it as presented so I I don't know if we can go and ENT around it now no we we'll make sure that's we just need to make sure that Miss ba understands that we prefer two or more another Che probably like because I think the cost oh no this is the expensive one to M that's right Mr I think

087you we we I am not interested in going to Mao not a cost of $600 for he only goes to Lancing only go to Lancing thank you for recognizing yes that's Lancing only all right we have one more field trip request from the BPA business Professionals of America to attend the state leadership conference James Wagner teacher at the high school is requesting permission to take 21 students to Amway Grand Hotel in Grand Rapids March 13 through 18th 2025 for the state leadership conference they will travel via Blue Lakes charter bus with three chaperon the recommended action is that the Board of Education approve the BPA field trip March 13 through 18 2025 as presented I will entertain a motion to that effect I'll make the motion I'll second motion by Miss Knox supported by Mr

088velli comments questions or concerns I think it's um similar but different issue a 1 to7 ratio um it's a little bit close to what's uncomfortable for me I don't know if one chaperon can Wrangle seven students or if that's any issue I guess Mr superintendent would you like to sh yeah for for high school students yeah that's not a okay problem yeah and I think likely two teachers are probably attending this yeah and then what we'll do to just on this form We'll add whatever the The Chaperone you know we're we'd like at least two chaperon and yeah oh for future requests yeah for future requests yeah this one is has got three yeah um anything else Mr Vell anybody else right nope yes no could y all those in favor signify by saying I

089I all those approved motion passes apparently we had four we do have four um this is a field trip request from Deca uh Jacob Yono one of our teachers who we actually saw tonight and is present in the audience if you have any questions teacher at the high schools is requesting permission to take 61 students to hunting Huntington Place uh the Detroit Marriott March 13 through 15 2025 for the state competition they will travel via rental bus with five chaperon and I think it's him and five shaper we're going to be asking Mr Yono to step to the podium there based on the recent discussion I will entertain a motion to approve the field trip as presented a motion yeah go for it motion by Mr Richards can can you find an additional sha sir

090second supported by Mr Powers comment questions concerns from the board uh question about so they're going to be in Detroit for the okay so what does free time downtime look like where are the kids going to go go so the the con the hotel itself is in the Detroit Marriott where we stay and then the actual convention part is at the Huntington place or the competition part is in the in the convention center down there so we kind of travel back and forth between those two venues how do you get from one to the other uh they provide I know it's not a tremendous amount of distance but yeah the walk is about a whole eight minute walk um straight shot that way and then we also have the People Mover but anytime that we

091move down that way we move in groups because you know the way Competition schedule Falls and all that kind of stuff we move with chaperon so it's either the People Mover if the weather's bad or it's that 8 minute walk if not but it's a straight shot down uh that's Jefferson I believe there yeah that's Jefferson and we do have it's five plus me in shron Wise just so okay so we have a total of six correct yep which just barely covers that 10 to one Mr Powers is that your real handwriting on the application or is that AI generated cuz that's the most amazing handwriting I've ever seen you guys this handwriting that's crazy your real handwriting it's an iPad and an apple pencil but it is my handwriting it's did you see it

092did you look at um Alo compliments on the handwriting even if it's on a on a screen thank you oh clearly clearly anybody else yeah so I would like to see more sha runs I Would S like to see I know it's you deal with these students a lot right you probably have no issue with them if they're 61 students in a classroom hopefully less than that but if it's like an after school project you know so but um I'd like to see at least like a one to seven maybe at the max especially if you're going to Detroit and I know they're only GNA be walking back and forth between Detroit and hunon place but if it's one to I think it's like 10.1 students per chapon um I don't believe there's any feasible

093way to keep track of that many students per shapon and especially if you're going to Detroit and there's a lot of stuff even if it's safer now than it was a couple years ago it's still dangerous and so I like to uh see if we can find some way to get more shapon um before I approve this I guess what what options would we have for that you there yes or no well we actually we can make a conditional you guys would have to agree to modify your motion and support we could make a conditional would you be able to get more shaon yes we're talking seven total right yeah seven would be what eight we could make that happen the only reason we're at the number of chapon that we are now is because

094I know the the district policy may be a little bit Lo depending on the actual event so we now I this is just in compliance with Michigan deca's thing so it's a 1 to1 ratio so that's the number that we have but U if it if you wish we can add another chaperon to there and just so we would have our program would cover the cost of that but I'm sure we can make it work for for the approval on that and and I should just reassure you too that we travel a lot and uh we've kind of kind of got our our system down in terms of that um you know so when you talk and when you kind of break that down um one to 10 is is really beautiful it's a good

095ratio but something manageable is usually 15 to 20 per chaperone just just from experience you know this is we travel quite a bit but um if we need another one I'm I'm more than happy to find another one did you lose any students in Orlando never never someone to stay I'm sure so what's your pleasure um you said eight eight would be a good number I prefer to see 10 that it's one to six but if you say it's a good system for one to 15 I mean I'm trusting you with that um yeah and we've taken like our most recent one we took with that number of students was downtown Detroit to Pistons games so kind of the same concept there and like I said we all we all kind of move in in

096groups you know the the travel for any of these things is never not facilitated by a chaperone um but I guess also to if you know maybe you you want to clarify with your your policy or something moving forward and we'd be happy to to that many sh I think before we start really making more decisions on what the ratio is we need to kind of make our own revisit the policy right you know dance around and maybe we should consider if we're going to do a policy change that it's a higher you know there's there's High uh I guess a lower a lower ratio based on Elementary Middle School or high school yeah you know this isn't like hurting cats I mean these are these are and if I may well I certainly agree

097that like it depends on the nature of the thing so I'll tell you you know we take more overnight trips than anything else you know the ratio definitely should be higher for those but if it's like you know a day field trip when we go to one event I think probably could get just my just saying because I we do this a lot when we travel you probably could have a higher ratio so we just approved Orlando with x amount of chaperons and here we are kind of dancing around ratio I think we're kind of we're getting a little sideways here so I I think it's something we should discuss probably at policy yeah right absolutely if you need someone go to Orlando next year let me know yeah of course yeah and just from

098an advisor standpoint too and I will say we love the extra chapon but sometimes more is not necessarily always always better especially if you start to have to bring we love the parent support but if you start to have to bring parents and not faculty and people from the high school it gets a little bit complicated so let's if we could superintendent if we could add that to the policy your next policy meeting just a review great are you on policy yes perfect staying late that night perfect appreciate it um all right so we have a motion and a support any other comments questions or concerns okay all those in favor of approving it as presented say I I all those opposed all right motion carries thank you thank you sir good luck to everybody

099who's traveling for these competitions I think it's uh I think there's you know three competitions and one Educational Opportunity so we're definitely getting out there all right policy second reading trimester graduation credits the proposed change in graduation requirements is a necessary adjustment to align with the transition from semesters to trimesters ensuring that students have a clear and Equitable path to graduation under the trimester system students will have more opportunities to earn credits each year allowing for greater flexibility in course selection and scheduling by revising the requirements we can better distribute the credit load across the three terms reducing student stress and create additional room for remediation enrichment or exploration of electives this change reflects the district's commitment to supporting students success in maintaining High academic standards while accommodating the structural benefits of the triester schedule

100the recommended action for administration is the Board of Education approve the proposed changes in the graduation requirements as presented I will entertain a motion to that effect I will move motion second motion by Miss KN supported by Mr hours comments questions or discern concerns I have a calendar question so we're starting before Labor Day this coming year because of trimesters correct not necessarily because of trimesters but it it does help it's mostly because we're also have the college programs that were okay that's part of it yeah that's part um would that be a permanent um part of of a trimester model is we we can expect to start before Labor Day every year if you start before Labor Day then you finish before Thanksgiving and so the way that we so it's a nice time

101to kind of end it okay yeah this year it's two days correct two days we have two days of uh I mean I know they're half days but two two days in school before Labor Day yeah a day and yeah two days do we expect it to be two or is it going to do we think it'll expand that full week it's really basically with negotiations that we had when we did the letter of agreement um on the calendar was um because Labor Day kind of resets on its time so you know how it's always moving like later in the month and then it resets the beginning that essentially the teachers and everybody are returning basically the same day as they do every summer so it gave us kind of a three-year kind of like

102transition so that they're still coming back like it's like August 27th 28th is still the first day to report okay and so that was kind of the logic behind facing that in but however many days we start early we get out early on the back end at least if not more right so it does not truncate the summer vacation at all because that's a concern about starting back early and you're squeezing our V but it's going to on the back end you're going to start back yeah you're gonna start early correct okay exactly but I also think too that um it's dependent on snow days as well well yeah if you go over don't don't go there right now throw it in there yeah so it's is it a Wednesday Thursday start before Labor Day

103yes so this year it this coming year yeah so teachers would report Monday and Tuesday then a half day on Wednesday and a full day on Thursday and then by law you can't have school the Friday before Labor Day okay all right um other comments all right hearing none uh I am actually going to call the rule call on this since it's a policy change you're going to call the roll call actually Mr yes Mr Richards nice to meet you um Miss Knox Mr Powers yes Mr Sunny Berger yes Miss Burk me yes Mr ventilli yes Richards as a yes and Mr Green yes motion carries all right next item on the agenda is a second policy reading of the athletic code of conduct uh I am actually not planning on reading this uh it

104is attached to your board packet um and it is a uh attached you will find the inappropriate use of the internet and social media update to the athletic code of conduct the recommended action from Administration is to approve this change to the athletic code of conduct so we can certainly have a discussion uh however I would like to entertain a motion to support and then we'll figure out if we want to talk about it I will make a motion second motion by Miss Knox a first second by Mr sunburger comments questions concerns Mr Powers so I'm assuming this came out of some policy discussion maybe from last year and and we're just now getting around to to working on this what what was the impetus behind this the the basic this brings us in there

105have been um Supreme Court challenges that um it it again this goes back to jurisdiction what's the extent that you can kind of reach into things especially in this day of um social media um there were the like one the one that the most recent one was basically it was a um a cheerleader who had an issue with cheerleading team made comments after the outside of school wasn't in school at home on social media and basically they then banned her from being on cheer but you have a First Amendment right when it's outside unless there the the case law is basically there has to be a significant disruption or it has to go directly to all that so they still have First Amendment rights in that regard the other one was um it was a

106student who was um basically created a website and nothing that was basically with a staff member and cats nothing kind of inappropriate or anything like that and then they basically discipline the student for it and they said no again this is there a significant disruption are you mocking the person are you doing anything like that no it was kind of harmless so that this just brings that policy into alignment with current case law and I also will say Mr Powers I don't mean to cut you off but um this was uh we did uh get an update and recommendations from our legal firm so this this actually this one probably actually came from them where they recommend that where you have some outdated policies based on what's happening in the state here's what we recommend

107you should change so I don't mean to interrupt you as well they did they recom so they recommended because we had a lot of like specific examples and now it's we've struck all that out and now it's just kind of very Broad in general was that by Design well part of it is because the technology changes so often and the different transmission of how that you have that and and all that and you don't the main the the main gist of those um cases was the whole what they call the Nexus and the substantial disruption threshold and all that so you you just have to you know we were a little bit more precise on things but those things aren't necessarily by law like issues yeah you have to have all that so yeah that's

108why it's a little bit more broad because okay and then last question why what was like why did they recommend we remove the cyber bullying component because that seems like it it well again if it's not related to school so if they're doing it on because that's that's the overall thing if it's something that is outside of school on their own time then we can't unless there is a direct connection to school we our we don't have that ability to reach that far it's on our um jurisdiction for discipline okay so the point of this is to prevent us from overreaching yeah okay I guess I should ask that first but my bad that's okay thank you yeah no it's that's anyone else all right hearing no other concerns we'll move on to another roll

109call vote since it's a policy change Mr Richards yes thank you Miss Knox yeah Mr Sunny Berger yes Mr Powers yes Miss Burk Meer yes Mr ventilli yes Richards yes Mr Green yes motion carries moving on to new business item three we're going to do some award recommendations uh the first of which is uh some abatement work anchor Bas schools receive bids for aestus abatement work at Lighthouse middle school north and Middle School South on January 27th of 2025 a batement will take place this summer 2025 Nova environmental and Corey Wy maintenance Supervisor has reviewed the bids it is the recommendation to award the asbestos abatement bid to uh building decommission services in the amount of $143,100 this project is being funded by bond funds recommended action for administration is the Board of Education approve

110the award to building decommission services and the contract to provide aestus abatement per specifications in the amount of $143,100 and the um bid tabulation uh you should have in your board packet um so I would entertain a motion to that effect I will second was that Mr Powers not paying attention his microphone's not on so motion by Mr Powers support by Miss Knox comments questions or concerns Mr Powers and my voice sound that much alike yes they do they do do yeah and so the next meeting you guys won't be sitting next to each other got to separate you like separators for the record I have a better beard all right fa I suppose well we're just to point out I don't know if you caught are you going off of the Beards or we

111going off going off of the board recommendation here this is the second highest bidder the the the lowest bidder I should say the first one when they have you have the meetings after the bids and they're like oh we missed large scope of the project so that's they withdrew their bid so technically it's the lowest one after all so they didn't meet the bid specs yes and later with it was like 50,000 off yeah so then they have the option you can do this at that price or you can resend and then they said no we're going to resend okay do you know um do you know off hand where the um asbestos is that they're removing yeah it says it on the um it is a lot of it is it's the the the

112mastic um underneath the tile go um especially Lighthouse for some reason when they replaced the floor I I don't know couple decades ago or whatever they did not they put in nonan as best as tile but they left the Mas underneath which you know you can keep it en capsulated typically you would remove it it's also um the doors themselves the core of the doors because again it's fireproofing and then right um strangely the clocks on the wall really the not the clocks themselves but the Box behind the clock they typically it's like an 8 by eight or something like that the um around that actually has as basus around that and again as long as they're there we're not touching but no we're sure taking down walls and yeah then the door assemblies anyone

113else hearing none uh Mr secretary could you please call the RO yes Mr Green Mr Powers yes Miss Knox yes Mrs Sun Berger yes Miss berkem yes Mr ventilli yes Richards yes Mr Green yes motion carries our next award is Mr chairman I'm sorry to interrupt and I'm a little embarrassed but can I motion to have a two-minute recess you may thank you uh do I have a support for that I'll support all those in favor of a two-minute recess signified by saying I hi all those opposed two minutes two minutes all right we were back and we're going to continue on our agenda with uh under new business of the network switching Communications by Design and Tim seore reviewed the completeness of some bids to determine if the components and labor bid met the

114specifications conducted post interview post bid interviews with the bidder for the network upgrades specifically discussed the systems configurations including components and unique post bid clarifications they also reviewed the contractor provided references conducted a final bid decision based on the bid total and prior experience the recommendation for this project is people- driven technology for the cost of$ 39,5 71 sense the recommended action is that the board approve a contract with people- driven technology of Wixom Michigan in the amount of $ 39,5 71 for Network upgrades I will entertain a motion to that effect I'll make a motion motion by Miss Knox a second second by Mr Vitali comments questions discussion Mr Powers it looks like when they originally bid they were like both right neck and neck 404,000 46,000 and then people driven it looks like

115they pulled uh like almost $116,000 worth of whatever patch cables are um out of their bid was that something that was included in the bid that wasn't supposed to be in the bid or did did they no what a lot of times what you have with contractors is they'll bid and they'll build bid alternates um and then hey you can do it this way but if we do this then therefore we'll deduct and then um you seeing it more and more because that gives them the ability to have a bid but they also have a second kind of bid because they can kind of knock down and then become the lowest bidder if you take that alternate so with with that then so both both contractors had the opportunity to to rework their bid and

116okay and do we just not well they don't they don't get a chance to rework it you get one bid you put it in but we have there sometimes like we'll bid it and we'll say hey we have alternates that we want to see what would it be and then then we decide on those bids okay do we want to do that like I I'll the best example is with the high school flooring when we did phase three we had done the hallways for the wings but then there's the kind of the mezzanine level outside in front of the library and in front of the Wings on the second level so we did that as an alternate so then but when we consider it we consider do we want to go and do that alterntive

117but now more and more what you're seeing our contractors who they're like hey I can save you money if you do this or if we do that and then if we so then we factor that in it's it's kind of their chance of giving options because they're like hey we can do this and it'll be it'll be less expensive and it it makes them a little bitter okay um if I recall correctly we've used people driven before yes we have yes okay did they do our Wi-Fi project that I I don't know off top man Tim can tell you yes they did yes they did okay from off camera anyone else comments questions or concerns right let's find out who wants to spend $ 39,5 71 Mr Richards Mr Mr Green uh Miss Knox yes

118Mr ventilli yes Mr Sun bger yes Mr Powers yes Miss burme yes Richards is yes Mr Green yes motion carries all right on down to our next item number four masb board of directors election masp board of director election board of I'll start again that break threw me off Mr sunburger I don't know if you're going to get my vote next time masb Board of director election is how school board members exercise their voice and decide who governs their Association they're asking for our help to get maximum participation in the 2025 election we represent Region 8 mome ISD with one three-year term open so at this time I would entertain a motion to select a candidate uh to nominate a candidate uh for the board's approval I will open the floor up I would prefer

119to nominate um I believe it's Mr Wallace from Frasier and um just for my rationale behind that is um you know he's I think it's the only candidate from mome County uh wasn't he no there's actually oh there wasint same thing but I I didn't know swalls was know yeah um no you're right there was somebody I think from Clintondale um I just think I think Frasier you know in proximity compared to Oakland and Wayne County candidates um might you know share some of our needs a little bit better um and probably as the best candidate on there in my opinion um to be in similar similar um mindset to our board um so that would be my my preference all right so I have a motion on the floor by Miss burkmeyer for Mr

120Wallace from the Fraser Public Schools a second have a second from Mr vitelli uh any further discussion there are two candidates from mome County one from Fitzgerald and one from Frasier no actually there's a Clint to is there a Clint to so there are three yep but similar size District yep and closer being Clinton Dale or Frasier raser is about the same size this okay yeah so there's there's a motion on the floor from Mr Wallace is there any further discussion uh just a clarifying question we get to vote for one member there's one spot open correct got it all right so we'll do a a roll call vote here um because we are electing somebody um and the again the motion by is to elect uh Mr Wallace as our representative of our board

121Mr secretary sure Mr Green motion by Miss burkmeyer Mr venitelli yes Mr Sun bger yes Mr Powers yes Richards is a yes Miss Knox yes and miss green yes congratulations Mr Wallace um obviously every school district selects a candidate then the highest vote getter um in this region is the one that's elected to the masb which you two guys will uh probably have the opportunity to attend some masb events and certainly the uh conference that is what Phil September yeah it's September October September October and this year I think it might be in travor city um well Phil's looking that up uh moving on item four I'm sorry item five is a volunteer appeal as part of our recent policy update we instituted an appeals process for those parents who wish to volunteer or accompany

122students 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 5 minutes and then the board will vote on the appeal tonight we have one appeal from parent a um when parent a completes um speaking um a board member certainly can feel uh comfortable to make a motion to uh approve or not approve the appeal of parent a is parent a here y would you like to step to the podium correct got it so if there is a motion it will be to approve and a yes or no vote from each member and I I will let you know that you are not on camera e e you so at this time I

123will entertain a motion uh for an appeal to approve the appeal for parent a I'll move to approve it um I'll second motion by microphone Powers second by Miss Knox any discussion comments questions so is it our policy that requires this to be done at a board meeting or is it like state law that requires it to be done at a board meeting so we put a policy in place uh probably about a year ago superintendent Janowski no it's been two years now two years now and the process is that just as as I as I read uh the parent fills out the application we run through the the background check the same standard that we use for District employees um and then a decision is made uh based on what is discovered in that

124background you referring to the appeal part and then the appeal goes to superintendent Janowski okay where he can then override um the determination that that person cannot volunteer yeah um in this case uh superintendent Janowski denied that appeal and the second level is it comes to us as a board to decide if we want to uh accept that appeal to allow and override so Phil said no I am not involved the appeal goes directly to the bo oh it does I'm sorry I thought it stopped at your desk before no I apologize I'm just so it's our policy like we we created this policy okay about about two years ago yeah right but okay I guess I don't want to I don't want to hang her up on on my displeasure with procedure what what

125is the appropriate form to address how we handle would be at a policy committee meeting okay um and then I guess the only other thing is is are is there anything to prevent us from if we do have a an appeal making it item one under business so like and I don't think we're doing it on purpose but so that she doesn't have to sit here until 9:08 when we could have got her out of here at probably 8:08 okay so there's a reason behind it okay good enough that sounds good more more of a discretion thing as the meeting tends to wear on uh people have their discussions and hear what we're voting on and move along okay bathroom breaks understood and the person's coming before for appeal no when it will be that

126it will be the same reason we don't put them on camera no I that that that makes sense and I was hoping there was a good reason and there certainly is yeah like today she would have had a bunch of fourth graders watching her so yeah uh so a motion and a support any further comments can I have a motion I do have a motion you do have a motion yes okay com can I ask so this is the appeal process are we allowed to inquire as to why it was denied originally no there was no there was Den background check coming back yeah oh okay okay got we put it through the the live chat system it comes out and right yeah I I did have a question and I'm sorry for dragging this

127out parent a um didn't we have I know there was going to be discussion I don't know if it ever made to policy committee about like that 10 years we had talked about something's more than 10 years old yeah or am I you specifically talk about a 10 I I know we've talked about sending it back to policy okay I don't know if it I don't think it ever made it there no no we did we had two separate discussions on it on kind of the same thing whether we do whether we do kind of add a thing and and again it's basically I I believe the last thing was no we still wanted it to go before the board okay and remember at the same time the state kind of changed the the law

128on they were automatically expunging certain things yes so then it was like well so that will drop off a lot but we'll continue to do this I the it it's only if they it's only for certain um offenses offenses and typically it's it's drugs or violence or things like that so okay is there anything to prevent us from doing this in closed session yes there is okay okay all right any other comments questions or concerns hearing none Mr Richards thank you Mr Green uh Mr Powers Yes Yes means we're approving the appeal was the motion we're not saying yes to the denial we're saying yes to approving her the motion was to approve her appeal which means she can volunteer she can volun yes yes sir Miss Knox yes Mr Sunny bger yes Miss Burk

129me yes Mr ventilli no Richards is a yes Mr Green no motion carries uh congratulations parent a your uh request has been approved all righty that's my volunteer appeal uh let's move on to board comments points of Pride let's start with uh Miss birkmire um I would just like to thank um all of our CTE groups um for for all of these um generous gifts that we received um as well as Miss kenward and um staff as well the teachers and the staff of those programs um I know they're fairly pretty well popular so with the students and they're obviously able to create nice things um so um I want to thank them for all of that and for the board appreciation items and Mr Janowski um I also want to thank um the the

130parents um of the hockey team that you know came to speak uh to us today I know it's not easy um to talk about some issues and when they become personal um but I think it's it's important to bring these conversations and bring them up and um so we can kind of work together for solutions that are that are best for all of our students um so um I want to thank them for for coming forward and you know being able to do that respectfully and um be kind of willing to put themselves out there after somewhat of a traumatizing event um and that is all I have Mr Richards thank you Mr GRE uh the Anchor Bay Community forum is March 10th at 6 pm at the high school following the Forum will be

131a building Tour on the construction progress at the high school don't miss this opportunity to stay informed and engaged in our community's future congratulations to ankor Bay North student of the month sixth grade Max RoR seventh grade Gabe Shields and eighth grade Max steer I'd like to thank the Anchor Bay School link crew that hosted a coka cram link crew leaders help freshman study for midterms congratulations to the varsity girls basketball team and being the Mac white League champions awesome job uh new student registration for k 11 School of choice for 2025 2026 school year opened on February 13th congratulations The Anchor Bay dance team for taking third place in Orlando at the national dance competition over 55 teams participated Anchor Bay softball Youth Clinic for grades 3 through eight is Sunday April 13th at

132the high school if you're interested reach out to coach Downey big event the senior versus staff basketball game is Tuesday March 11th doors open at 6:30 this is a fun raising event for anchor Bas scholarships for the class of 2025 congratulations to middle school nort student of the month sixth grade Madison sui seventh grade Brianna Newman and eighth grade Kendall zareski the ABA Dueling Piano fundraiser is Friday April 11th at younger Irish Tavern for tickets Please contact Christen Breeze all proceeds benefit anchor base scholarships a little bit about tonight uh congratulations to senior Lily Foster from business management Lily Leiden from graphic arts are being named Anchor Bay School ankor Bay High School outstanding CTE students of the year they were recognized at the 35th animal mome Career and Technical education administrators Association award celebration

133I'm not going to say that twice additionally congratulations to Lily Foster who was recipient of the mcta scholarship ankor Bay is hiring we're looking for custodians substitute custodians preschool assistants bus drivers pair professionals and Sack assistance Anchor Bay Middle School baseball camp is March 15th from 8:15 to new noon time if interested please reach out to the athletic department congratulations The Anchor Bay High School varsity wrestling team and being uh District Champions uh the 12th annual Anchor Bay Oscars are Thursday February 27th at 7M red carpet starts at 6:30 tickets are five bucks at the door all proceeds will be not donated to the American Cancer Society congratulations to Middle School North captain of the month Ted Wy Mr Wy is invaluable part of Middle School North always going above and beyond his role as

134school custodian he's been incredibly helpful with the counseling office move tackling every task promptly and with a smile ankor Bay kindergarten Readiness night is Tuesday March 18th at Anchor Bay High School auditorium at 6 PM I'd like to thank the Anchor Bay boys and girls basketball programs that helped make the inaugural Junior Hoops program a successful event the event was well attended and it was great to see such a large turnout uh points of Pride for me will be um as Miss Burke Meer mentioned um uh having tonight's awards for the uh board appreciation although it's uh not expected it's well appreciated and thank you for all the kind gifts Miss Knox um my comments for this evening is of course to thank the students and the staff um for going out of their way

135for all the Schoolboard appreciation gifts um it's probably one of my greatest honors to be able to serve on this board um probably second behind being a mom some days um and then uh my point of pride is when we heard Mr Farley this evening give us his student Congress update uh all of the philanthropy our students do where it's I don't it's not just about raising money for the school but it's it's still a teaching moment about giving back to your fellow humans and your community and I think it's really great that we do a lot of that here it's not always just to support the school but support you know Lions Club with the eyeglass collection the quarters um things like that so I think that's just another facet of learning that we

136do here that might not um be noticed as as learning so kudos to everybody who gets that done and um takes that extra time and effort Mr Vell Mr Powers um know i' I'd like to thank um all the people who addressed the board during public comments we had uh we heard important things preschool uh safety at uh sporting events and I just think it's important that people feel they can address their board and um be met with an open mind and have their concerns taken seriously and I think tonight was a great exercise in that I think that's exactly how public comments should be um as somebody who uh who came up through public comments and um wasn't always that way I can I can tell you that and it's uh it's very refreshing

137and and I I'm I'm sure it's it's well noted um in the eyes of the public how different things are than they were just a few short years ago so thank you to all of you who uh who met them with an open mind as well uh have a great night Mr sunburger first of all thank you for all of the wonderful gifts that we received for board appreciation uh I'd like to spend just a quick second talking about the student of the month breakfast at Middle School South it was one of my favorite events um every month for two reasons one we get to hold up our students and give recognition where recognition is due and coming in a close second was free bacon and I'm a little upset that I don't get the

138free bacon anymore so but go breakfast well you have an ID so you can get into the building they really are all of our buildings are very welcoming um I guess I can just Echo some of the sentiments um I already said it when they were here they've stepped away the hockey team parents that came um certainly shed some light on where we may have a gap um just not in hockey but across Athletics and and I think that our superintendent has again some marching orders of using his team to figure out we how we can make sure these things don't happen again uh so I appreciate that I also appreciate the board appreciation gifts um I will say despite all the awesome gifts that I will probably dig into the apple pie on the

139way home um it's got to be a good 18-minute drive as one of those parents said and that's a long ride when you have an apple pie in the front seat so um move on to the legisl update from our superintendent just quickly on the masb um conference that's October 23rd through the 26th That's Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday I know I don't know if we had talked before about trying to have board members take the 100 level classes they do allow them at that point that's that's a great way if you want to get started taking those 100 level classes and so just let Sherry know if if that's something you're interested in Fall it is in GR Grand Traverse it is in Grand Travers the sh I thought yep legislative update not much has

140been going on because all of the the main thing that's been passed now is it's the new um attendant not attendance the sickly policy and all of that we've already we've been ahead of all that we've already moved our minimum wage I guess for a district is about $15 an hour so we're ahead of that the the days will be um something that we'll have to adjustments on and how that goes into effect um so that will have to be um looked at mainly with edgy staff and all that because basically they'll end up increasing the fees because that's that's what does and we'll have to adjust um all that the otherwise tonight will be that's the Governor State of the State so we have a meeting tomorrow that will kind of debrief on what

141she kind of throws out there um for those of you last year like we had no idea they were going to do Universal preschool until we they had been tossed around and then all of a sudden there was one line in the uh um State of the State that hey we're going to do Universal four-year-olds for everybody and then that just started off a major push and and they basically got it done um it is just kind of speaking to the the parent it is in the governor's budget if we see it in the house budget then we will begin kind of finalizing that um the challenge is this is the difference in between gsrp and traditional and the different programs that we offer um if if we are kind of obligated if we take

142the gsrp money to offer those programs and to fill those programs first so it's going to be very difficult to if you have this outpouring of people who need that to then you shift do you shift your resources towards that in order to offer that versus do you offer the traditional which is a tuition based and part of that is it it impacts everything it impacts compensation of the teachers it impacts what's the state reimbursement rate and and things like that so we'll closely monitor that and as soon as just for the newer members what we'll do is as soon as we get the house budget then we'll kind of compare that together and then we'll have a finance committee where we start talking about okay what's what's the what are we looking at for

143um a per pupil allotment what are we looking at for these programs how are we going to kind of do that based off of reading the tea leaves that come out of all of that which should happen hopefully relatively quickly because we want them to have I'll tell you now we will pass the proposed budget before the state passes their budget so we are going going to guess and there's just no two ways around that and we'll we try and take educated guesses based off of all of that um and this kind of starts that process it really comes to um the the main hinge point will be in May that will be when they do the next What's called the crack the consensus Revenue estimating conference and so they did one in January they

144were running ahead and then in May they'll do another one and they'll say Okay based off of that this is where we really think we're going to and we have to make decisions off of that so then hopefully if we're lucky they'll at least have a draft budget out by then but TP typically they don't we we have to have a budget hearing so we do that and then we have to pass our budget by June 30th and we have to have it to the state by then the state doesn't have to necessarily do that and so once they have so we do the best that we can and we've been pretty good we are abundantly like very conservative on what we're going to how we're going to approach that and then and it served

145us well for the most part but there are things like last year the security money got yanked out at the last the per people increase got yanked out at the last time I strangely with split party control I think you're going to have a cleaner budget process than you did when you had one party control which is doesn't seem like it should be the case but that's I think what's going to happen so that's it for the legislative update I do want to dovetail on that that you know if I Haven it made it clear the finance committee directive to Mr wrath buun as well as superintendent Jan Kowski is be conservative you know he used the word guess because it it kind of is a guess but um and I've said that when Mr

146Randazzo has been in the crowd that they do an excellent job of guessing if that's the word we're going to use and as you've seen recently not all districts are good as we are at guessing um and it truly is a guess we we're putting together a budget and we don't even have budget from the state and it's happens year after year after year there were years we didn't get it till November um and we're putting you know we're required by law to put something to them by July 1 is and we don't even have our number so um I don't want to say a dartboard because it's a lot more calculated than that but um trust me when you sit in the finance committee meetings and you see the spreadsheet pop up that the

147Todd has that's got 126 tabs on it with all of these factors and all these different scenarios um they're following our directive of being conservative let's not get caught you know under under project and if if something comes our way we didn't expect that's perfect we can find you know some way to give our students a little bit more of the benefit of that money but when we sit in those finance committee meetings like I said uh Rob and Todd and and Phil do an excellent job of of really underestimating what we think we're going to get so we don't have a situation where you know we're draining our fund balance down um you know even if we're just break even for the year that'd be great at this point um but again we we've

148it's been October November we haven't seen num so anyway um board committee update anybody anything you want to share committee meeting you attended had any since last I know there's a several popping up here in the next couple weeks uh however we are um we're back pretty quickly here two weeks in two weeks and then we have a six week Hiatus because of because of spring break so make sure you're looking at you know your calendar that uh that you're here uh and then obviously we'll be spending some time together in the near future at our board retreat uh so I'm looking forward to that uh we're finalizing the agenda um it's going to be packed and somehow we are going to have to try to stay stay on task because we it's tight uh

149it'll be a working lunch with two-minute breaks occasionally um and uh and we'll go from there so if there's no committee updates nothing further from anybody I will entertain a motion to adjourn no Move Motion by Miss Knox supported by second Mr vatelli all those in favor of adjourning I all those opposed it is 9:28 PM have a good night guys