001May 18th at 7:00 p.m. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Heather Ann Robert? >> Here. >> Nicole Emery? >> Here. >> Don Highstreet? >> Here. >> Number Brackett? >> Here. >> Jennifer Baker? Here. >> William Brady? >> Here. >> Andy Huelett? >> Here. >> Present, we have four. All right. The first one on the agenda here is the recognitions. >> Yep. >> Stars. >> Superstar employees. So, uh today our uh we got one student and one staff member. Uh first up is our superstar student of the month and that is Elena Kobinski.
002Um today I have uh Mrs. Palicki here and also Adrian Luckenbacker to talk a little bit about uh the award that Elena received from Community Mental Health. So, I'll kind of turn it over to you ladies and >> I have the opportunity to come and present here with Adrian. So, every year um St. Clair County Community Mental Health honors reading month and they have a bookmark competition. And this year the kindergarten winner was our very own Elena Kobinski. And Mrs. Luckenbacker is going to give us a little bit more detail and she came with some additional Elena said she's going to get stand up here with me, which I'm >> So my name is Adrian Lockenbacher. I think most of you know me. I am the employee community relations coordinator and outreach coordinator for St.
003Clair County Community Mental Health. Long name, isn't it? Um when I found out that one of our own muskrats won one of our bookmarks, I said I wanted to come down for sure to the school meeting to be able to present Elena. So to give you a little background, St. Clair County Community Mental Health's creative arts contest is done every year and it's created to encourage students to express and wait raise awareness of mental health and wellness. This year's theme is stronger together, you are not alone. It encouraged students to reflect on the importance of connection, kindness, and supporting one another. Elementary school students were asked to create a bookmark that represented this theme. So our elementary school tagline was kindness connects us all. So today I'm very excited to recognize the following student from
004Algonac Community Schools, Elena Kubinski. She's a kindergartner of course at Belle River Elementary School. Her bookmark was chosen as our kindergarten winner. So we have some fresh ones here for you. I'm going to give these to you and if you want to pass them out to whoever you want to, you can have them and I will get you lots more if you want more, okay? So you can show them off. So we're not quite done yet. Um her artwork has been turned into a bookmark along with her other grade level winners from across the country. We have a winner from every grade level. Elena's bookmark has been distributed to all of the elementary schools in St. Clair County. So all the other schools in the county have it and the library system and multiple other
005places. So your bookmark is all over the place. You might go to the library and see it or a friend's house and see it cuz everybody's going to have one. So thank Thank for working so hard on such an awesome design that we can share with others. We hope that you continue to be creative. Remember we're stronger together and congratulations Elena. So please join me in thanking the community model home would like to sta- thank the staff of Allegan Community Schools for their continued encouragement of our creative arts contest. I've been down here before and every time I see an Allegan name, I'm super super excited. Um your students always continue to shine and do well here after year. We appreciate that and we have some we have a certificate for you and a gift
006card for you as well too for being a winner, okay? You're welcome. I'd shake your hands but they're full. You're good? Okay, all right. Thank you. Come this way then. Okay, cool. Amber, can we see the whole thing? >> Yes. >> You got one? You got one? Dish them out. Okay, can we share one with everybody before? Okay. >> Dorothy under pressure. All right. >> Dorothy We got it. Okay. Here you go. Thank you very Good job. You got it. Thank you. Congratulations. Oh, thank you. I love it. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Good job. >> Beautiful. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Good job. That's beautiful. >> Thank you very much. Congratulations. >> Good job, Frank. >> Thanks for coming out, Adrian. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Uh moving
007on, uh superstar employee of the month is Mr. Dave LaCarrie. And Dave also received an honor uh this past month. So, Brooke's going to talk a little bit about that and congrat- >> Um Can I come up here? Um right before spring break, I was told that Dave LaCarrie was being named St. Clair County's Child Abuse and Neglect Child Advocate of the Year. So, this award is a testament to what we see every single day out of Dave at El Gad Elementary in Millside. You know, he's a professional and he's all heart doing everything for the right reasons and really never asking for any sort of recognition or praise. Um his impact reaches beyond just his gym classroom. He really helps out with um students' mental health around us, the physical well-being. He's constantly writing
008and receiving grants um for things for our students that they can get out and do that they wouldn't typically be able to. Snowshoes and fishing poles, that's just this year, but um the main thing that I think has made the biggest impact is the bikes. He got those right when he first started here and every year he gets a new group of kids comfortable with bikes and that's really fun to see the Millside kids over at Algonquin and you know, some of them are just inching along and some are just like zooming after one or two lessons, but a lot of kids don't get that opportunity anymore. Um and he also keeps a full supply of tennis shoes in the gym so no kid has an excuse. They all get to participate every single time.
009Um he's also a team player. When we had kind of some overages, he agreed to do co-teaching so more children could be in gym class at once so it helped our scheduling situation, but it also helped get a bunch more kids moving. Um and also whenever there's like a coaching vacancy, um Dave's always the first call and he always takes it no matter what it is cuz he >> Good morning, everyone. >> He always wants to make sure everybody can participate and you know, work to their potential. So we're super fortunate to have a colleague of Dave's caliber and please join me in congratulating him. >> THERE WE GO. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> GOOD STUFF, DAVE. GOOD JOB. CONGRATULATIONS. >> Thank you. Good job. >> Congratulations. >> That's great stuff. >> Thank you.
010Thank you. Thank you. >> Good job. >> Thank you. All right, next we have Brenda Tenniswood, right? >> Brenda's very >> Did Did Didn't brave it out today and through the through the weather. Um as you know, this time of year Brenda comes by and talks a little bit about the tech programs and the recent budget and her travels over the course of the two months are quite uh quite packed because everybody wants to have their board meetings on the same nights and so she does a lot of traveling, but I really appreciate Brenda coming out annually to kind of give us an update and just so you know, um you know, I Brenda and I um our career paths kind of fell on a lot of the same rivers over in East China and
011mine here in Algonac. So I got to know Brenda for many years and um you know, when as things go with the RESA, it it's always been um kind of interesting the dynamic and the dynamic over there is kind of dependent on who is in charge or who's running uh the RESA at the time and you know, several years ago uh and this is many many years way before Brenda, way before Kevin Miller, um we didn't have a whole lot of interaction with RESA and a lot of that had to do with we kind of felt like we were overlooked at times and thought that, you know, um many of the resources stayed in Port Huron and Marysville and that's really changed with uh with the leadership over there and when I I I think
012my first week on the job, I reached out to Kevin and I said, you know, Algonac will be at the table. We will be there for everything and we will make sure that we're represented because I want what's best for our kids and Kevin embraced that. Brenda certainly does. Prob- probably the thing I appreciate about Brenda the most in this position is um well, she her her goal is to keep the whole county moving together. She understands that sometimes what's good for Port Huron isn't good for Algonac and she acknowledges that and gives us a little bit of latitude to kind of do our own thing, but still support us. So Brenda, thanks so much for coming and feel free to go ahead and get rolling. >> Well, thank First of all, thank you so
013much. Yes, ostensibly, this is supposed to be a very formal presentation and overview of the recent budget. In actuality, this is actually, although it's been driving, one of my favorite things because, um, both for myself personally and for the Reese board, I get to constantly thank you. And that truly is the most important part of this evening. As As Al alluded to, I am incredibly appreciative of the partnership with Al, his whole administrative team. We We collaborate really well together. Um, and I truly appreciate the partnership because it really is about all kids. And you have clearly got some superstars. How awesome that I got to be here tonight to see both the superstar, uh, student. Here her in back in the day, so, yeah, awesome. And then the superstar teacher. So, but it's that
014kind of community feel that I think is such a testament to Algonac, and we truly appreciate partnering with Algonac and working to help support cuz that really is Reese's goal. Um, I will say, you know, much like you as a board when you're trying to do the budget this time of the year, it is a little bit Tracy winces whenever I say this. It's a little creative math. Um, and I don't mean anything nefarious, but I just mean right now, although it looks better this year in terms of having some anchors of certainty, right now, we're going on a lot of projections, right? We don't have the final budget. I will say, you know, from a kind of the budget, if you chew through the multitudinous pages that is the Reese budget, uh, you will
015note, if you compare it to last year, we're pretty flat. Tracy is really conservative. I appreciate that. So, we are trying to budget conservatively to make sure that we can make really good use of our of our funds and community to help support programs and our local districts. So, having said that, I just want to give you a couple highlights, and then I think I'm going to answer any questions. So, one of the projects that cuts across all three of our funds that I'm the most excited about is we do have a bond going. You may or may not be aware that this year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of our Woodland building and our Tech building. So, on one hand, that is an amazing celebration. Woohoo! On the other hand, that means Tech
016Ed and Woodland are 50 years old. And it has been since 2003 Is that all 2003? That we have done any sort of really heavy investment infrastructure. So, at the admin building right now, and you might imagine my staff's uh delight, we are all moving out temporarily for 3 months. Yes, they have made their pleasure at the timing of it well known, but we're temporarily relocating for about 3 months. We're doing work at Tech Ed Tech Ed Ed building this year. And it's things like H vac units, mechanical systems, all the things to make sure that we have safe and secure environments. We know particularly at Woodland, next summer, so a year from now, we're going to be doing some of the infrastructure. We also know long-term at Woodland that we need to invest some
017more in the classrooms, but that's going to be more of a classroom by classroom because of the unique needs of Woodland. So, that's something that we're also budgeting and planning for within the next 5 to 10 years. So, that's something that cuts across all three of our funds. And then specifically within the general fund, that is our our fund that is the most heavily reliant on grants, which is, you know, both of it is certainly a blessing because each year we're watching those grants carefully to make sure that we can continue to provide great services to our local districts. Within general funds, one of the grants that I appreciate the most is 31N. That is a grant that enables us to provide mental health clinicians to our local districts. And what I like one of
018the greatest things about that that grant that I like is it's not a cookie cutter. Often with a grant, they're very tightly written, as well they should be, and you have to meet every single one of the provisions. With 31N, although the allowable expenditures are pretty tight, how that is deployed in the district can look really different. So, we're able to collaborate with our local districts to say, "Where is there a need? Where am I having an additional social worker in a high school be helpful to your district? So, I really appreciate some of the flexibility that gives us to work very closely with our local districts. Professional development, huge thank you to Alan and his team. We rolled out a county-wide PD day that was absolutely amazing. 1,400 educators and teachers on site. We
019used Parchment High School as a site, but so much collaboration around the county. I will say it was a bit of a learning curve. We used a new electronic registration system. There were a few glitches, but we ironed them out. But, we had Many of your administrators were in helping to facilitate conversations. We had people from across the county presenting. What was really amazing is not only the content of professional learning, but the energy. It was just great to see the educators from around the county connecting on behalf of students. Really powerful day. And then, certainly early childhood is probably the second largest grant that's within the general fund. When I look at our early childhood budget now compared to 9 years ago, uh it has exponentially increased. We're really excited that this year we
020served about 650 students in our GSRP classrooms. I always threaten a pop quiz on the number of books. I'm going to do it. But, Imagination Library is close to 700,000 books that we've distributed in families across St. Clair County. Amazing resource. Um Now, we've got longitudinal data that's coming out that really shows the value. We've always known it's incredibly valuable, but now we've got some data to go behind it, which is super helpful. Um also, you know, we are happy to continue to fund college advisors, help defray the cost, because we certainly believe So, we've got early childhood for our youngest learners, but we also know that our students who are looking at post-secondary, whatever that may be, whether two-year, four-year, um some sort of post-secondary training, that many of our students need assistance in
021doing that, and our counselors are very, very busy. So, to then having those college advisors um in the in the schools is certainly helpful. We're happy to help fund them. And I got to say, um the uh Muskrat College advisors are near and dear to my heart cuz I might have had a family member who served in that capacity not too long ago. Um then within special education, again, huge huge thank you to Al and his team. Uh this year we have the pleasure of having a a statewide uh Michigan Department of Education Office of Specialized Education four-day highly intense audit that started this morning. Uh we could not do this audit without everyone's collaboration, so thank you. It has literally been a year in the making. Um I've been in education a really long
022time and this is the most intense audit I have ever seen. Uh this morning we displayed a a video where each superintendent had about two to three minutes to highlight the great things that are going on in the districts. It was very well received from MDE. So, Al, thank you. I know that's not always easy being there and I'm Kevin. You are our champion of your district and it really clearly resonated with MDE, so thank you. Um then CTE, we are so proud of not only our Tech Campus, but also working with our local districts as a core tech in our local high schools. Uh CTE in our local high schools. I think one of our pain points always at Tech is can we add more programs? So, this past year we added a public
023safety program, very excited about that. Our students are giving us great reviews. You know, if you ask a high school student their opinion, they will give it to you. Um and thankfully they've given us some really nice suggestions, but overall really said what a powerful experience that has been. Um we are also looking at work-based learning placements. Every year we've been able to add some additional tools in our toolbox that way to accommodate more students. Still hopeful that we're going to be able to add a program in the in the next year or two as well, just to continue to provide additional offerings in St. Clair County. Um and as part of that, the Career Technical Middle College is something that I think really offers our our CTE students a great opportunity to again in
024conjunction get both the CTE cert but also the associates at SC4. So that's an amazing program that our students benefit from. So having said that, again the most important take away, thank you. We truly truly value your partnership and really enjoy working together at Hope for Kids. What questions might I answer for you this evening? >> Thank you. >> have a question but when you were talking earlier about being able to see one of these presentations, I don't know if you remember but quite a long time ago um when you were uh I think you probably just starting up Aris and you came down we surprised one of our teachers cuz it was the teacher of the year for I can't remember what that category was but um so just uh you're used to doing
025that kind of stuff and it was it never it never gets old, does it? >> No, it doesn't. I will say that distinguished teacher was one of my We kind of stopped doing that cuz many of our local districts now are are recognizing but that was so much fun, the sneak attack on the teachers to recognize um their their excellence. You know, I am so proud to represent St. Clair County. We truly do have amazing educators who really care and are quite expert in instruction. So we're proud to be in St. Clair County and we're proud to be a public ed. Thank you, Brenda. >> Thank you. Very good. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thanks, Brenda, so much for coming. Appreciate it. >> All right, we'll move on to consent agenda items. Do you
026want to make a motion? >> I'll make a motion that the Board of Education approves all consent agenda items including agenda, minutes, personnel items, treasurer's report, and bills listed items A through C. >> Support. It's been supported. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Okay, that passes. >> Information items. >> Yep. Uh just the first one, administrative contracts. Uh as always, uh those will come to you for approval in June. Um that's typical that's that's been typical. They're 2-year uh rolling contracts, so um they will be up for basically 1 year plus a 1-year extension um for all district administrators. Um So, that will be on next month for you. >> All right. We'll move on to administrative reports, Mr. Melrose. >> Yep. Uh we're down to our very last
027I-STEP student testing. Uh we had a student that was on vacation for a while and uh just came back, so Mr. Ranger finished up uh the math yesterday with that student and finished up tomorrow and we will be done. So, that's good and then we kind of rolled right into NWEA testing and doing the the third testing for the spring on that one and they're in the midst of that. Um this past Friday, uh the Congressional 9th District had an art contest um and and we there were 450 submissions overall from different schools. For the first time ever, Algonquin High School uh took first place in mixed media and also took fifth place in the Best of Show category and a lot of that uh fell on the back of Carly Hilanski, one of our
02812th graders, who did an amazing job. Um and then we also had Chloe Funk, a ninth-grade student, who received honorable mention for 3D art. So, again, you're uh great job by the art department. Um also this past week on Saturday, uh NHS had their Color Out Cancer Run. It raised over $5,000 for a community member who was battling cancer right now, so again, uh good uh piece of philanthropy from our NHS. Then uh also this past Friday, our performing arts did uh Shrek um at Algonquin and uh again, they did fantastic job and again, Ms. Maholage keeps on building up that program, which is nice to see. And then lastly, just as I said, we're at the end of the year here, so we've just got a lot of stuff coming up. This week is
029the seniors final exams, and then Friday will be their their last day. Also this Wednesday we have a band concert at 7:00 p.m. in the gym. This Thursday, Mr. Ranger and myself are taking the eighth graders to SC4 doing their annual trip and visitation up there. Um on two next Tuesday, our sixth grade orientation here at the at the school. That evening we're also going to have a middle school dance from 6:00 to 8:00 and we're the sixth graders invited up here to to participate and have some fun. Next Wednesday is also our eighth grade Cedar Point trip. Then that Friday we have a middle school field day for the last hour of last hours of the day, fourth through sixth. Then the following Monday is the high school prom, 7:00 p.m. And then Wednesday,
030June 3rd, we have our middle school award ceremony, which will be in the morning at 8:00 a.m. And then the high school one will be 12:30 the same day, again award ceremony. Thursday is our middle school Metro Park Metro Park beach trip, June 4th. Then that Friday again, senior awards 8:00 a.m. in the morning and graduation 6:00 p.m. at night. Then come around that Monday through Wednesday, final exams and on the way out, so. Busy, busy. Thank you. >> It's that time of year. Home visitation time. Our fifth graders enjoyed their fifth grade camp experience. The kids were excellent as always, and Howell Nature Center does a great job of providing everything they need with just a ton of great activities. And they all returned on Friday completely exhausted, so that's always nice to see
031and the parents are I'm to have them back. The staff from Algonquin and Millside just finished a year-long book study uncovering the logic of the English language. We met about monthly. This was led by April Seely, our literacy early literacy consultant provided by RESA. And she's already put out a little survey to see which book we want professional book study we want to do next year, too. And that's really well attended. A lot of our teachers do that. Algonquin's linked program, they spent the month of April selling socks together. So, the students were paired up and every every morning or every Thursday morning they get together and the socks were like two or three bucks. They were silly socks and it was just nice for them to get the whole store idea. You know, they
032prepared it and sold them and counted their money afterwards. Last week they also went outside together for a nature walk scavenger hunt. Each one of the grade levels did that and they're looking forward to ending their year with a link celebration. We're going to do some games, some kickball, pizza, pop, that sort of thing so they can end their year. It's been a really successful program. So, we're looking forward to keeping that going. Also, our run club ends this week. They've been going for about two months now. They were able to participate in Port Huron for the community mental health run. What's the title of that? >> Run for recovery and it's always awesome seeing our Algonquin students. >> Yeah, there was a lot of them that attended that. And then also they were able
033to participate in the color run this past weekend, too. So, thank you to Mr. Nutter and Mrs. Pazora for doing that. And also, I just wanted to give an additional kudos to Mrs. Mahala because each year so the sixth graders also did Shrek Junior. And each year the kids are just becoming so much more confident. Their their plays and productions are just so much more detailed and it was really impressive this time cuz I did see Shrek Junior several years ago when she first started and just the difference in the students and how everything was handled is really it's really great. Just she does a great job. And also we have tons of end of the year stuff coming up. All the field trips. We want to thank PTO for providing all the busing for
034the field trips keeping costs low. Um we are going to do our sixth grade recognition on June 5th also. So I know that's a super busy day, but you know that's only day Al wears a suit. So we got to get And um our field day we're trying something a little different for grades three through six because um it was just so rushed in the two and a half hours that we have on some of those half days. So we're going to try a full day, run half of them in the morning and half in the afternoon so they're able to get longer intervals of time at each one of the activities. So stay tuned for that. >> Um what time is the recognition? >> 12:30. >> Is that graduation or something? >> Yes. >>
035Yep. >> Well, that's tough to follow. We kicked off May with teacher appreciation week. So all of our elementary staff enjoyed the decades theme and the daily treats. We're super appreciative to our PTO, the district, our families, lots of community members, um all for their donations and recognition throughout the week. I especially want to recognize Mrs. Beelen. She's one of our staff members, but also PTO member, and she was instrumental in making sure everything was organized and everybody was taken care of and felt super appreciated all week long. Um Recently, Mrs. Hume's classes ventured to Flames Gymnastics in Port Huron, so they got to engage in a variety of gross motor play and social engagement. Our kindergarten students have started their ABC countdown, so they'll be reviewing a letter of the alphabet each day with
036some sort of fun activity to go along with it. Um last week, our first graders took a little trip outside to spread some positivity and practice their budding art and writing skills by chalking all of our walks. Unfortunately, the rain erased the chalk, so we'll have to do it do-over. Um We also had the opportunity to participate in what's become an annual event, the ACES event, or All Children Exercising Simultaneously. So, we did that with um Algonquin students, and it was Mr. LaCarrie who once again led it. This year, he did it a little bit different and had all of the Algonquin kids kind of circle around the lot and pick up Millsite, and then we all lined up in the field and had his fifth and sixth graders lead us with the workout. Um
037Again, Mrs. Mahala did a great job, and honestly, I can tell the shows are continuing to increase in engagement and their professionalism because for an hour and 15 minutes, all of our K-1 students were just completely entranced in the audience. So, um that says a lot about the quality of the show. Um and then looking ahead, we'll have our final PLCs of the year tomorrow. We'll be looking at our literacy data and grade levels. We're going to celebrate our growth and start planning ahead for areas of focus in the fall. Then in the next couple of weeks, TK is going to visit the Discovery City. Um Kindergartners are exploring Pine River, and our first graders are heading to Upland Hills. We'll also have our GSRP students back over to Millsite to kind of have a
038field trip to kindergarten as a transition activity for them. And then we'll wrap up with our classroom celebrations and field day. >> Thank you. >> Um Melissa is not here today. She was uh she's out in uh Colorado um celebrating her daughter's graduation. So, that was pretty cool. So, she'll be back with us tomorrow, but I just wanted to update you a little bit that a couple weeks ago we did the portrait of a grad. Um we had a meeting again we're we're we're continuing to move on that project. One more um next week Yeah, next week we have one more before the end of the school year. So, um we're we're making progress on it. It's just It's just one of these things to where uh we want to make sure when we get
039it to the staff and we get it to the students it's rolled out right. So, uh we're continuing to prepare for that and I just wanted to update you on those things for Melissa. >> Okay. Um any board reports? Any board reports? All right, yeah. >> Yep. Just uh just a couple items. Um first off uh state budget. So, um these uh revenue conference was last Friday. Um I I guess positive some positive news came out of that. Um we're we're in a little bit better than projected which um for us probably doesn't mean a great deal in terms of increases, but it probably means that we're not going to get hit real hard. I get I guess that's probably the the one harder than we thought, right? So, where you know, you kind of
040go in there sometime and what happened to us last year a little bit shell-shocked cuz you know, that budget came back so uh negative, but um it appears that we're in a pretty good position. I I am honestly maybe a little bit too optimistic that they will have something done by July 1st. The numbers are there. There's no reason why they wouldn't at this point. A lot of the issues and a lot of the things that they need to agree on. I mean, they're close. They're close on money in terms of the House and Senate. They're they're close on There's a few things that obviously need to be on the table, but I feel like we're positioned to get that done by July 1st. So, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and I really hope that
041happens. So, I'm very hopeful that that's going to take place. >> Are they any closer on getting stuff out of the K-12 fund that that doesn't belong in it? >> No. >> That That's That was supposed to be an issue, but it's but it's not now. >> It's going to be a heavy lift to get that out of there, Andy. I I I mean, it's going to Unfortunately, when they keep draining that money I mean, that's like that's huge money. That's 900 bucks a kid can add money. I mean, that could That's like generational differences when you're talking about adding that. So, it's going to continue to be an ask on our part and we'll continue to advocate, but in the here and now it's probably not going to With the budget as bad as
042it is across the state, I don't think we'll see any movement on that at least this year. But, we'll keep plugging. Um The special education audit that was mentioned by Brenda. Want to thank Lisa for spending a whole lot hours on that over the course of this year. She kind of took the ball and ran with it. Um They will be out here tomorrow and interviewing some of our groups, administrative groups, and teachers groups. And just you know, the way that they've presented to us is that we're really here more for not for an I got you kind of thing but more to work with you and partner with you and try to make sure that we're providing the best services for our students. So Um I I feel good about where we're at and
043Lisa Lisa guaranteed me it's going to be smooth sailing so I'm happy about that. If for some reason it's not well Time to move. We're in good shape. I feel good about it. Um Evan and I are just about finished up. We're just waiting on some dates from some of our groups when you're trying to get your projects together for the summer. Um you know we have so much going on on these campuses between Little League and between summer school and all these different kinds of things that when you want to do stuff like parking lots and floors and it's tough to a little bit of a puzzle to get it worked out but I I feel like we're in a real good spot. We've got a meeting with um we met with the flooring
044people. Think we're okay on that. We're just kind of try to map out some areas to they like to get in and kind of move quickly and I think we'll be in a spot where we could make that work. Um You know the asphalt guy is Jerry Martin and he's a local guy so for him it's um he he's a little more flexible and can kind of go lot to lot as we have things and so you know like I said with Little League over at Algonquin that kind of takes care of the first part of the summer a little bit but he can kind of work around us as we get further into the summer so Uh should be all set for that and then the only other major project is the roofing over
045here at the Ox gym and then the roof at Millside. And so we're all done we're out of the roofing business after that. Those are our last two so Uh last but not least um tonight on the on your action items we have the Chartwells bid and also Jared's here tonight from Chartwells to kind of represent her if you had any questions or whatever, just kind of be here and as kind of always I was really happy uh Debbie from Chartwells reached out to me and said, "Hey, you know, checking in on how things are going, how service are going." Uh, she asked if we could sit down and have kind of a year-end meeting and I pushed her back just to get out of the school year and so second week of June, third
046week of June we'll sit down and we're going to get together and just kind of review where we're at and kind of where we want this program to go and you know, some good ideas, some good energy in that room. So, looking forward to another great year moving forward. That's it. >> If any Does anyone have questions? Absolutely. On to our action items. Does anybody want to make a motion? >> I'll make a motion that the Board of Education approve the resolution as presented setting the date and time for the public hearing on the proposed 2026-2027 budget for Monday, June 22nd, 2026 at 6:15 p.m. in Elgan Ed Junior-Senior High Library with notice of the public hearing to be published as required by law. A complete copy of this resolution shall be attached to the
047original of these minutes. >> Support. >> Mr. Clark. >> Any Who would like to support it? Any discussion? No? Um, can we have here roll call? >> Heather Erneal Roberts. >> Support. >> Jennifer Baker. Support. >> Kimberley Support. >> Liam Brady. >> Support. >> The plan rate. >> Support. >> Ann Gillette. >> Yep. >> John History. >> Yes. >> All right. Mr. Clark. All right, we'll move on to our recent budget and tech program. Does anyone make a motion? >> I'll make a motion that the Board of Education having received and reviewed the proposed St. Clair County recent budget for 2026-2027 adopts the resolution as presented expressing its support of the proposed budget. A complete copy will be attached to the minutes. >> Support. It's supported. Any discussion? All right, we'll do roll call again.
048Heather Ernie Roberts? >> Yes. >> Jennifer Baker? Yes. Amber Bracken? >> Yes. >> Liam Brady? >> Yes. >> Nicole Emery? >> Yes. >> Andy Gleeson? >> Yes. >> John Mastry? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Let's move on to our third action item, which is our food service contract renewal. >> I would like to make the motion. That the Board of Education approves the one-year renewal for the 2026-2027 school year with Chartwells for food services as presented. >> Support. >> Motion is supported. We'll do roll call, please. Heather Ernie Roberts? >> I. >> Jennifer Baker? >> Yes. >> Amber Bracken? >> Yes. >> Liam Brady? >> Yes. >> Nicole Emery? >> Yes. >> Andy Gleeson? >> Yes. >> John Mastry? >> I vote no on it. I vote for Chartwells. >> Oh, no, you can't.
049>> Oh. >> I abstain. All right, motion carries. >> Motion to adjourn. >> Support. All in favor, say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Me. I just want to say that. >> Can I say something really quick? I didn't want I didn't know if I could or not, but it dawned on me in the last 5 minutes sitting here. Sorry. And I should have put this on the record. So, I was the chairperson for the senior all-night party this year, which was just Saturday night, which was an unbelievably huge success. Our kids had a great time. And I just wanted to say thank you because when you walk into that, especially if you had not had a senior yet, you don't know what to expect. You're just handed a bunch of stuff and said, "Here,
050have fun." And I just wanted to thank Ryan because there were so many times where I'm like, "Uh, could you do this for me real quick? And oh, I need this." Ju- Ryan was amazing. Jill Martin, she was fantastic. The woman has the patience of a saint to deal with me. The ladies in the superintendent's office, Mary Davis, um everybody was There's no such thing as a stupid question. Yeah, there is, cuz I asked a bunch of I'm a clinician by nature, not a treasurer, but I mean, it was a lot and it was a lot to to pull off, but I couldn't have done it without the school. And the last thing I want to say, too, is the janitorial staff of Mike Harless, Harold, and Mary. Those people are saints, too. They went
051above and beyond to help us with anything that we needed for questions to, you know, times they had anything to the setup to the cleanup. And without the school's support, it wouldn't have pulled off as much as it is. And I just want to thank everybody that helped, everybody that was uber patient, and everybody that scurried with those last-minute questions that we had and things to figure out. It made the seniors just have an absolutely amazing night. Like, it makes me want to cry cuz it was so much fun. We had 71 kids from the senior class that were able to make it, and they just all had a blast. And they kept saying this is something that they're going to remember forever. So, I want to thank, like I said, Ryan, Jill, the ladies
052of the school, and the janitorial staff, and anybody else that helped support all of that cuz you guys really went out of your way for us. So, we appreciate it. >> Big thanks. >> Thanks. Thank you. >> Right me your turn. >> Sorry. >> They don't have to pull out a 403 thing for you or anything. Darn it. >> Mhm.