001I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. At this point, I'll ask the board to uh review the consent agenda items and uh let us know if anybody would like to pull anything. >> I would move to approve the January 26, 2025 regular actually 26, not 2025 regular board meeting agenda. your uh Oh, okay. So, you want to move on to the agenda? Wonderful. Um, I just I just have um Well, is there a second to that? >> Second. >> Okay. Um in the discussion I just have to ask um I was just notified uh that uh there was a little bit of a administrative oversight somehow and um administration would like us to
002include the Wilson good news uh as well as Lincoln good news. Uh so um if the uh board would be uh okay with that then maybe perhaps a motion to amend the motion uh would be in order. >> I move to amend the motion by adding the words adding Wilson Elementary good news. >> I would support the amendment. >> Okay. Very good. Any discussion on the amendment of the motion? Hearing none. All in favor raise your hand. All right. Very good. Thank you. We have uh a motion carries. Uh and so we can now vote on the amended motion uh to approve the meeting agenda with the addition of Wilson. Good news. >> We will uh just they'll need to say 2026 and there are the dates listed wrong. So okay, >> thank you for
003that catch. All right. So uh we have uh a motion to approve the meeting agenda with the addition of Wilson good news and also we will observe the proper date. So uh any further discussion of that hearing? None. All in favor of that raise your hand. Any oppose? Same sign. Okay. Uh looks like we had enough to carry. So, uh, that motion passes. Um, we have a meeting agenda. That brings us then to, uh, our reports and presentations. And I think we were going to go Lincoln, Wilson, and then the athletic presentation. Sound all right. [clears throat] >> We'll do just the regular order. I think uh, the L Lincoln uh, athletics, then Wilson. >> Okay. And then Wilson third. All right. Very good. >> Let's proceed. Lincoln, come on up. Right back there. Yep.
004Yep. Wrong cable. Bummer. [snorts] >> Can I request more time? >> All right. Uh, good evening. Uh, thank you all for allowing me to represent uh, Lincoln Elementary this evening. Uh as we get going, we're going to be talking about some good news, some things that are going on uh in our school and in our community. Uh we'll talk about some positive trends that are happening. Uh and also talk about some recent academic growth uh that we had from our u recent NWA winter um winter testing. So be sharing that with you tonight as well. One of the things you you may be aware of uh but at Lincoln, just like many of our other schools, we continue to work on growing our environment, our culture that our students uh uh work in each and
005every day. And part of that is our PBIS uh program uh which with the focus on ROAR uh ROAR standing for uh R for respect, O for organization, A for positive attitude and R for responsibility. Um and these are a big focus within our school. We have behavior matrix of how our students should be behaving around the building. uh from the hallways to the cafeteria to the classroom to the bus uh just based off these roar expectations. We continue to work on that and grow that uh with our students. Uh each week uh we have students that are nominated for our ROAR and Golden Lion students that are recognized by their teachers. And at the end of the week on Friday, we do a morning announcement where we announce the winners and the students come
006down and they've won a prize and we have a picture and uh put that in our weekly newsletter. We continue to build on that as we go throughout the year. One of the other parts of our PBIS program is our kids zone which happens every Tuesday starting at 2:45. This is a really a great program that I was impressed with here uh at Lincoln and continue to want to work with the staff and the students to continue to grow it as well. Uh it's a program that not only allows students to have fun uh because I know because every Tuesday the students come to me asking are we going to have kids zone? Uh so they're always excited to do it. Uh but it's a great opportunity not only where students get to do fun
007activities but another part of the program is where the students are actually working. they're assigned jobs. Uh so they're getting an idea that not only do they get jobs, but they can get paid for it. So it's teaching them not only uh to do positive behavior, but they're also starting to learn on how to do those things that they're going to have to do as an adult later in life when they maybe have a job and they're earning money and taking care of that and how to spend it. So it's a really great program that we do every Tuesday that helps support our PBIS and our pro in our school. NWA. I know I'm sure you hear a lot about that. We test NWA three times a year, fall, winter, and spring. We just recently
008closed the um winter session at the end of last week and uh um went went in and was starting to look at our data and it I'm always excited to see, you know, how are our students doing? Um you know, that's the nice thing about the NWA doing it three times a year. We get to see how our students are growing. Uh we'll talk a lot about writ scores. These are scores that kind of show us how the student is thinking at that time. Uh maybe if you know a little bit about the NWA, it's a different design test that you know as I take the test um if I answer a question right then the next question uh will be a little bit harder. So it's adaptable. If I answer that question wrong, then
009it might give me a little bit easier question and it just starts to give us an idea of how that student is thinking at that time of the year. Hopefully, what we'll see is that as they go through the year, uh we should see a positive trend of their thinking increasing, meaning that they're growing through the instruction that we have. Uh the other thing you'll you'll hear a lot with NWA is achievement. uh where we take a look at percentiles and seeing how our students are comparing at that time maybe based off other grades on average across the nation. Uh so your your growth is showing you the the real progress that's going on whereas achievements giving us a little snapshot how they're performing at that time. One other thing we found with our winter
010scores is our students are currently growing faster than their national peers. uh which is which is wonderful to see. That's what we we want to see our students that are growing, but they're growing faster than their other grades across the nation. So, that's a great thing to see. Um fall to winter uh scores uh prove that our strategies are working. All the different strategies that are brought to you throughout the year that we're implementing from new curriculum like into math. um we're seeing that those are working with our students and that's that's encouraging that we're heading the right way. Here's some of the growth that we saw this this winter academically. Every one of our grade levels saw an increase in their average rich scores from from fall to winter, which is what we want.
011We want students to through all that instruction, they're growing and how they're thinking. Uh nice to see at our second grade level, our math showed the highest gain uh this this round. Uh their overall scores jumped up 12 RIP points, which is a which is a really great increase to see. Our fifth grade reading also had substantial growth of nine points from fall to winter. And then our fourth grade math gained seven RIP points while maintaining a strong percentile. So, we're seeing that the strategies are working, our teachers are working hard um delivering that instruction and our students are growing throughout the year, which is exactly what we want to see. And that's to me, anytime we see this kind of data, uh that's good news to share with everyone because that's why we're here.
012Some of the other highlights with uh our good news is we see with our culture, one thing I've learned this year is we really have a community that is dedicated to their students. Um for example, our fall parent teacher conference uh we had 86% of our families participating in that and that was a growth from the year before. In fall there was only 65% participated. So, we grew by 21% this year. That's that's fantastic to see. Our families are really involved with their students and their growth as an as they go through their education. Uh in December 2nd, we had our Title One Literacy Night event, which was an amazing event focused on uh kind of like an escape room type theme where the the families and the students were going around and trying to
013figure out uh puzzles in each room that was set up. and over 54% of our families participated in that event that evening. Earlier this year, I'm sure you know from uh the parent participation uh survey that um perception uh survey that the district passed out to all the schools to fill out. We had 51% of our families fill out that survey. And by survey standards, that's a really great active amount of people taking the time to answer that survey and give us good data. uh in helping us to shape what we do next with our building absenteeism. Uh what are the things that's been going on since the um especially since the pandemic all across the nation we've been there's been a big increase in chronic absenteeism uh especially here in the state of Michigan
014and started to look at our our attendance data and as I looked at that this year saw an amazing thing that's going on at Lincoln our chronic absenteeism which is defined by the state as when you have 10% % or missed 10% or more of the school days eligible. So of 100 days in a school year, if the students missed 18 plus days, they would be considered chronic uh chronically absent. We uh since the 21-22 which was our peak year right after the pandemic uh we have dropped 15.7%age points in our chronic abs absenteeism which when you look at one that's a 44% reduction. On top of that we have outperformed other Michigan schools across the state who only recovered um by 5.1% mark. So we're we've recovered faster than all the other schools in
015the state of Michigan and also coording um when compared to national recovery since the pandemic. So again that's credited to our our staff who've built a a culture that the students want to go to each and every day. It's credit to our families who are excited about what we're doing at Lincoln and want their student to be there each and every day for instruction. community. Uh, one of the things again that I've learned this year joining the Alpena community is we have a very generous community that really loves to support our schools and we've had several uh generous donations this past year from here on Shores Fellowship uh the Red Hat uh Hubard Lake chapter um St. Paul's Lutheran Church, our sheriff's department giving us different donating different uh school supplies, hats, gloves at this
016time of year uh to help our students um and our staff throughout the year. So again, we have great community support which we appreciate and that's always good news. And a good news thing that we'd like to share that's coming up this Friday. So, all I turn to all that uh everyone that's here this Friday we have our Lincoln pancake fundraised dinner. Uh it's 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. You know, feel free to come and then uh taste some of those great pancakes that I'll be uh dishing up uh working hard. You know, it's hard work to make those pancakes. Uh tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for student uh children. We'll have raffles with different baskets. And by golly, if you've got a game player out there, we've got a switch that you can
017buy raffle tickets for as well. So, we're excited to enjoy this uh fundraiser this this Friday. And so, if you got nothing better to do, come join us at Lincoln and see all the great things that we have going on in person at our school. And of course, just wanted to share some pictures. We've had a lot of great events this past year. Uh activities going on with our students. We've had the students from the high school come multiple times. The they did a Halloween event with our students. They came and read and did different math things within the classrooms. Uh each and every Monday and Thursday, we have a couple of high schoolers that come and support our fifth graders and help them with math so that they're ready for uh junior high next
018year. Um we've had our literacy night uh our donations um and our students uh of the week that are being honored. So those are some of those pictures that we have there. Again uh we we we're a school that is moving in the right direction and we're seeing that with academically. We're seeing that with our attendance and just our community as a whole. So, thank you very much for this time to allow me to share some good news of what's going on at Lincoln Elementary. And thank you to the board for all your support throughout this this year and years before I was here and years to come. Any questions? >> Yes. The best kind of presentations. No questions. Thank [clears throat] you all very much. >> Just one very much. >> One clarification. I
019think you said 100 school days and 18 absences. 185 school days. Thus the 10% marker. So if anyone's paying attention to that piece, it's 180, you know, the 10% of that. So >> I apologize. >> Thank you all. >> Great news indeed. Thank you. [applause] >> All right. Someone's glasses right here. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> All right. Okay. I swear this worked earlier today. I was here at 3 o'clock. So Gotta give it a second hopefully. There it is. Perfect. All right. So, this is my new uh athletic app. Um it's just you can go on uh Google uh Google Play or Apple Store. It's completely free. Takes very limited time to to download. Um and it has every sport on here, live updates. Uh it's awesome to see. Uh my biggest concern was like
020out of town. We're playing out of town, you know, and no one knows the score. People are calling me, calling the parents, all that kind of stuff and no one knows the score. So, right now it's just live updates. Um and trying to get all of our coaches to obviously uh get behind it. It's very new. It just came out a couple weeks ago. Um but as you can see, like our winter sports are using it right now. Basketball, wrestling, swim, uh hockey, and uh you can post pictures in there as well. So, this is a couple weeks ago. Um, and these are open to the public. And this is the plan is to have all the, you know, parents and fans download this app. Um, if you go right to the homepage here, click
021on teams. These are our three, uh, sections of the year. I'm just going to go to winter because that's what we're in right now. All these bells on the right hand side, they automatically are stayed on for notifications. All you have to do is if you're uh, you know, you don't want to listen to, we'll say, hockey notifications, you just click the bell and it turns it off. you don't get anymore, but they always stay on until you click them off individually. Um, I'm going to continue using hockey here because that way if I mess anything up, at least it's my team. So, [clears throat] um, again, our schedule's on here. This is what we uh have upcoming. Um, this uh this weekend we're down in the trend showcase. My roster is right on here.
022You click on the 2025 roster. Has all the boys names right on there. Sponsors are being uploaded right now. Like I said, this is still very new. Um links for hockey. We don't really have much. This is our previous game. Our purple game was on Friday. So just a little uh show of what our sponsors was. All the kids lined up with all their their brand new jerseys on there. And then uh your contacts are, you know, your uh your team and then also your coaches are on there. So best thing about this is right now we have so many different apps for messaging because everyone's trying to figure out what's going on. Um, like for example, my hockey team, we use WhatsApp and then another team uses BAN, another team uses whatever else. All
023of our uh messaging per team is going to be on through here from now on. Um, there's no one-on-one messaging. Everything has to be in a group of three or more. Um, you message your coaches, you can message your team and your coaches, you can message just your team, you can message your parents. Every parent can download this app and you can add your parents into your team, you know, your basketball team, your hockey team, whatever team you're looking for, and they can uh that way they know what time the bus is leaving or what time they're going to get home from wherever. Um, another cool thing is I'm going to go to our last uh away game or one of them. So, this one right here. I get a lot of questions on away
024games and where the games are located. Um, and right here you can see the address is already pencileled in there. And you click this address and it brings up your maps right away. Links right to it. Super easy to use. Um, and it's uh, so far it's been going pretty well, but I needed a a way to get out to the public so they can see it uh, firsthand and download it right away. Um, right now I have two 229 downloads. Um, 229 downloads as as of today. Uh, which is awesome. Um, I can track the downloads right here on my phone, which I learned today. So, that was fun. Um, a lot of our downloads right now are students at our high school, which is that's fine. They just started messing around a little
025bit more. They've been uh more open to me about it and giving me their feedback on it. Um, it's uh but it's super easy to use. Uh, it's it's kind of a one-stop shop for athletics. I plan to continue using it. Um, I do plan for the future for next year because it does cost uh, you know, Bullfrog is the app that's uh, designed it for me. Worked with them for uh, I don't know, 3 months or so designing all the stuff inside of it. Um, it is $4,000 a year. So, my plan is to next year roll out a uh $15 charge for each athlete. Just a onetime thing in the beginning of the year. It doesn't matter you play five sports or one sport. Still $15. It will cover the $4,000 because then
026the end goal it is obviously for our athletes and our parents and also our community. So, um I think it's very affordable in that, uh that sense. Um but all of our stuff is on here though. Go to Fanzone, for example. We use GoFan for every sporting event and almost 95% of the teams we play out of town are also on GoFan. Our final forms are right in here. This is what you need for your physical and to get started in the beginning of the year. Um this is where you can watch the games. This is where uh this is also our website's already on here. Um, and then also the D donation page is on there as well. Um, the only I do need to add on here is our sponsors, uh, which they're
027all sent to Bullfrog. Um, I can't upload them, uh, through the app. The company has to do it for me. Um, on top of that, there is going to be a web web page that is going to be designed. I just got the name approved three days ago, though, so they're building the web page out right now. So, if you don't have a smartphone, it's not the end of the world. um it will be all linked to the web page and you can go around your computer and it'll uh show up there. It'll just be it's a wild Alpena Wildcat Athletics is the web page. This app is just Alpena Wildcats be it's the first thing that pops up. So um but supporting every level. This is all through, you know, this is sixth grade
028all the way through 12th grade. Every sports is going to be on here. Um and like what I've been doing with hockey is trying to keep up with between periods. I have a little bit of time, try to put the scores in between periods or you have a nice family member or a um parent that wants to help you out. Um had a couple of those already, so that's nice. Uh but it's just cool to see uh you know people using it obviously and I know it's it's it's it came out right around January 1st, so obviously we were in school so it was hard to roll out right then and there. Um but so far it's been uh it's been a hit. I haven't had any complaints about it and I'm obviously open to
029to feedback on how the layout is or um you know how it looks. But I think right now it looks pretty clean and uh it's pretty easy to use and um like I said a lot of fans and a lot of parents and have been appreciative of it and then now my high school kids. So yeah, >> any questions? >> No questions. I um well maybe I actually have one actually. So I've been using the app for a couple weeks thanks to Jess sharing it with me. Jess has been helping me out with this. >> So um it's been fun to get notifications. I have them all turned on and so to see, you know, what all the sports even that I don't typically watch, get the notifications at night and see what their scores
030are. As a parent, I love the idea of not having multiple apps because I know with like tennis, the coach was using one app, parents were using another app and it w it's just gets to be a lot. Can you just when you talked about um no like one-on-one messaging, so like if a kid has a question, they can't just text their coach or how >> So it automatically has to it won't even let you do it. Let me go to a hockey uh page real quick for you. It won't even bring it up. So, I go to hockey, then I'm the, you know, the coach of this team. So, go down here to messaging members. These are my members so far. I go down here to add uh you know, we'll say player. Type
031in Trey. Maybe actually won't let me do it because I don't have all of them added in there. So, right when I go to click on their name, a player's name or a coach's name, it will automatically come up with a red line says it will say need to add one more person. Okay? >> So, no matter what. So, and I mean in the hindsight, most coaches or most teams have two coaches anyways. So, just put both coaches in there. But, kids can't message back and forth either one-on-one. Um it has to be you know set through your coaching staff or you have a team manager I guess if you will. >> Yeah. No I like that from like a safe sport perspective just that you know that there's limits um coaching >> it's like
032in all of our coaches stuff in the like we do those classes in the beginning of the year and that's like the number one thing is agree especially with technology and messaging. So I think it'll be a lot easier for our coaches not to worry about multiple different platforms and it's just one one-stop shop. And then also, I mean, I I'm the admin on this uh this app, so I I oversee all the messages anyway. It's not going to go through every single message, but >> Yeah. But they're there for you if you need to. >> Exactly. Yes. >> I'm sorry if I missed this, but is there a place in here for tickets then, too, or you going to put that? Are you going to >> Nope. Tickets are right here. >> So, I
033go back to my home screen here. I go to fan zone. Go fans right there at the top. Okay. Okay. Yep. So, I mean, we have obviously tickets in, you know, on cash tickets, but Goof Fan's our only one we really use. So, yeah, go right on there and it'll take you right to the link. It'll show you all of our games right then and there. >> Yeah. And I think too, it was about October when um whoever was doing the gifts read probably 20 or 30 donations to Bullfrog. So, thanks to everyone who donated. >> Yeah, we have quite a few. It was. Yeah, I cornered all of them at the same time. It was perfect timing, actually. So, >> um yeah, it was uh it was pretty easy. Um >> I can read
034them all off again, actually. Uh, I have uh RNR doc service with Zach Russo, Northern Lights Arena, Freeze Hydraulics, Cataract Collision, uh, State Farm with Sam Rumbles, Ska Vision, uh, Alpena Ace Hardware, Alpena GMC, uh, Tom Heis with HTSS, and then, um, Jordan Suzwitz with Suzix Works Media. So, got all of them at the same time. It was super generous of them to listen to my pitch and I cornered them in the side of the room so they couldn't leave. >> [laughter] >> Um here's a quick question for you. So um when parents receive notifications like through final forms and those will they have to get the app to receive those or will they still come to email? >> Nope. They'll still go to final form. It's just I mean I mean emails are just
035you know they they are missed. Emails are that way. I mean the hindsight is like we can send email final forms out emails all the time. We do already. But if I can do it through email and then also through an app, that way there's two ways to, you know, both see see both of it act, you know, hopefully you see one of the messages rather than don't see either one of them. So our biggest our biggest problem with is is like communication with per teams per per parents. And I understand coaches don't want to talk to every parent individually. So if there's just an app that's easier for a group message, you can put all the kids in there and all the parents in there in one message or you can put all the
036parents in there if you want to be the, you know, the coach and just say, "Hey, we're going to Traverse City tomorrow. This is the time we're leaving. and we're going to stop here to have, you know, breakfast or lunch, whatever. Our bus should be uh arriving back in Alpena at X time. Make sure you're there to pick your child up at this time. So, I think it'll make it a lot easier with communication and uh you know, down the road. >> Yeah, that sounds great. >> Yeah, that's the plan. >> So, >> any other questions for Ben? [clears throat] >> No. All right. >> All right. >> Thank you very much. >> [applause] >> All right, >> Wilson, you're up. We'll give you pick up. Oh, what is the >> Okay. Why won't this
037get pulled up? >> No. >> Chcast or what do I have to do? Oh, it just came on. >> Maybe presentation is not about technology. [laughter] >> You see this anywhere? Oh my gosh. Okay. Okay. Help. [laughter] Pocket and I am on the leadership team. I also teach third grade. So I will be highlighting um field trips and learning in our community. Field trips play a vital role in supporting elementary education by extending classroom instruction into real world contexts. Places that seem ordinary in everyday are surprisingly places that many students have never experienced. These experiential learning opportunities strengthen academic understanding, enhance student engagement, and promote the development of essential social skills, confidence, and cultural awareness beyond what traditional classroom instruction alone can provide. Furthermore, field trips contribute to long-term learning retention, reinforce the relevance of
038curricular content, and support positive outcomes and academic performance, attendance, and student behavior by offering inclusive multi-ensory learning experiences accessible to all students. Field trips support pillar number two and four, family, community, and partnership and whole child development. [snorts] Hi, Christine Shabbat teaching kindergarten. Um, family volunteering opportunities. Uh, we love finding meaningful ways for families to be involved in our school um in in our commun in our school community. And there's many opportunities both big and small to support our students throughout the year. Volunteering doesn't always mean being in the building all day long. Even a little time can make a big difference. Families can help by serving as field trip chefrons, assisting with school events, or supporting fun programs like the popcorn popping book fair, school store, or the school carnival. These roles help create
039me memorable experiences for our students while keeping our events running smoothly. For those who enjoy working directly with children, volunteers are welcome to help run a classroom station during ELA or math small group sessions, provide at home reading support, or assist during special classroom celebrations. Um, every contribution, whether behind the scenes or in the classroom, help strengthen our school community and show students how important teamwork and family involvement truly are. We're grateful for any time and talents families are able to share. >> Good evening. Um, my name is Brandy Gapsky and I am the instructional coach at Wilson. Um, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about philanthropy. And I did put a little um quote on the side of the slide that says, "Giving back is one of the most effective ways
040to build empathy and self-efficacy, which is the belief that you can make a difference." And um as you've heard, we get many supports in from families in our community, but it's nice for the kids to have the opportunity to feel how it feels when you give back. So, um some of the things that we do at Wilson that give back to others is that students, um oftentimes make holiday gifts for different family members. Um, oftentimes cards are made to share our appreciation for the different staff members in our buildings. And the students have also done food drives and other projects that reach outside of our building. So for instance, this year um our students collected 157 pairs of gently used or new shoes um that were shared with third world countries through the Sprat Methodist
041Church. Um they also created students also created care bags. Um they collected items. Each grade collected a certain item and then they put them all in um hand decorated bags with cards and those were given to um friends together to share with families in our community that are affected by cancer. And then um we had some first grade students who also made little goodie bags for the seniors at Besser Senior Living and um treated those seniors to their own holiday concert. So they went there to sing for them. So they so they really enjoyed that as you can see in the photos. So, um, not only do we appreciate all the support that we get, but the kids like to feel that feeling of supporting others as well. >> Good evening. My name is Ann
042Smith. I'm the school success liaison at Wilson and part of the management team. And I got to put because I'm old, I put on my glasses. All right. So, I'm going to be talking about community partnerships. Um, I work for NESKA, but I'd like to say I'm embedded at Wilson, and I won't change a thing. Uh, community partnerships. Wilson students know that their school, family, and community all work together to help ensure that they are supported academically, emotionally, and have the resources to be the best individuals they can be. Some community partnerships that support our students are McKenna Vento where they gifted us a brand new washer and dryer and we now use that especially in the winter that when the kids come in from recess and all their items are soaked we put them
043in the dryer so that these kids have nice clean dry items to wear home from school. Also, if a child gets a food spill, we can quickly change them, uh, wash their clothes, dry them, and then give them back to the student at the end of the day. And that also helps families out. Uh, McKenna Vento has also given, uh, some of our families gas cards. The United Way um, at Christmas time this year adopted 24 students at Wilson, which equals 11 families. During the ice storm last April, I had uh one of my cases, two little girls, uh who are being cared for by their grandmother. They had no heat. They had no money to even get a propane tank going. They had no way to heat their house. Uh I reached out to
044Neka and they gave a $150 gas card the same day so this family could have heat. Uh, NECA has also helped us out with a um a family who had a severe bed bug infestation and NESA also helped uh fund a brand new futon for the same family so the kids did not have to sleep on the floor any longer. The Boys and Girls Club has sponsored memberships and has also provided transportation. We have uh been very lucky to have multiple churches um as the principal at Lincoln stated that have uh provided lots of winter gear for our children. Um also we have an outdoor food pantry if you are not aware uh that was actually built by grandparents of kids who go to Wilson. Uh so the churches have provided food pantry donations and
045outdoor sports equipments. Uh we've had anonymous individuals from the community come in and adopt 12 families this year at Thanksgiving where they provide a full Thanksgiving meal from beginning to end so that these families can have a Thanksgiving. We also have had again individuals from the community. They paid rent for a family so that they wouldn't be evicted. They adopt students and our families for Christmas. We had one uh cattle farmer who donated 50 pounds of grass-fed beef to our students and families this fall. Our staff go above and beyond. We've had multiple families who have emergencies. And I'll send an email out. Uh for example, last uh fall, we had two children come to this school district to our school literally with nothing but clothes on our back on their back. and this two
046staff went above and beyond and within 2 days we had everything for that family. Um, as I mentioned earlier, our outdoor food pantry is utilized quite frequently. It was sponsored in the news a few months ago in our little fiveminute news clip. And um, at Christmas time we had an individual donate several hundred of dry food so that we could keep it stocked. Thank you for letting me share some of this wonderful news with you. >> Okay, we're getting it together. I swear. Um, we've talked tonight about pillars, statistics, and decades of experience. But these faces on the screen are the real why behind our work. Every year of experience and every ounce of community support we receive is dedicated to one thing, ensuring these smiles remain bright. We do all of this because these
047children are the heart of Wilson and they are our future. [clears throat] >> Thank you very much. Thank you very much, >> Mrs. Marcelo. I'm sorry you lost sound on the I know Eric Hansen got a message. Your husband texted me. Everyone's disappointed they couldn't hear your presentation, but they said it looked great. So, sorry you lost sound. So, [laughter] >> have we solved our sound and uh recording issues? >> Okay, great. All right. Well, thank you to everybody who presented. That was really wonderful. Um All right. So, uh that brings us to our uh uh public comment time and uh again I think uh we all know the drill. I would just like to add uh today um if you do have comments that are critical of u the district uh or an individual
048I would just ask that uh you know for civility's sake um let's uh focus on your experience um and uh what happened to you rather than making accusations about an individual staff member. So if your comments do go in that particular direction, uh focus on your experience and the district rather than uh necessarily pointing fingers. Uh so if you do have those sorts of comments, uh I would just uh ask that you adhere to that. Uh so um anyway, um would we have anybody would like to come up and give public comment? My name is Barb Beish. I live, vote, and pay taxes in the city of Alpena. At the workshop meeting on January 12th, there was a discussion regarding setting a certificate certification training goal. Board member Eric Hansen started a conversation regarding Hillsdale
049or Heritage versus MASBY training. I researched the differences of these trainings and found the following information. Michigan Association of School Boards or MASBY and conservative aligned organizations like the Heritage Foundation in Hillsdale College highlights a divide between traditional state approved nonpartisan governance training and ideology reform oriented education. The key differences are ideology is designed for nonpartisan public school governance. Hillsdale and Heritage are explicitly ideology focus focusing on conservative classical education. The scope MASBY covers the mechanics of schoolboard operation, law, finance and policy. Heritage and Hill Hillsdale focuses more on curriculum content and ideology alignment approval. NASBY is a standard for Michigan public school board training with with official recognition from the state. I watched a video for new board members. Heritage recommended a second offer. Hence common law. In summary, MASBY is the standard state
050approved nonpartisan choice of schoolboard professional development, while Hillsdale and Heritage offer a more politically conservative alternative focused on specific ideology and curriculum changes. Board member Sarah Fritz stated that she's attended NASBY training, both the conference and Zoom training. NASBY provides a transcript of all training you attend. If you were an employee, as I was of my Michigan hospital, I would follow my Michigan policies and protocols. You would not follow on's policies and pro protocols. Why would a public school board member serving on a nonpartisan board not use Massby training opportunities? Remember, you were elected by the con constituents to serve all students on a nonpartisan board. Please get your training from Mansby. Thank you. [applause] My name is Diane O' Conor and I live in Alpena. About two weeks ago, I sent an email to
051this board with a question and since I'm still waiting for a response, I decided to bring that question to the board this evening. In the spring of 2025, the majority of the members on this board were moving toward instating the Fair View bathroom policy that Trun Law and the ACLU advised against, saying such a move would incite a lawsuit. At the time, it certainly seemed prudent to follow this advice, but board members Lawson, Dazinski, Castain, and MacArthur wanted yet a third opinion on the Fairview bathroom policy and sought out Coleman Law for that third opinion. Ultimately, these same board members voted to add Coleman Law to the APS payroll despite having a s 65-year relationship with Trun Law. Seems redundant and certainly a waste of taxpayer money, but nonetheless, that's what we got. Since Coleman
052was added to the payroll, it would be a legitimate assumption on my part that the current board president asked Coleman Law their opinion on the Fairview policy. However, I don't recall that Coleman's opinion was ever made public in either written or verbal format. That was the question I had in my email to the board. What was Coleman's opinion on the bathroom policy? If this board president didn't request an opinion from Coleman, I would ask why. It seems the sole objective in seeking out Coleman was to obtain a third opinion on the bathroom policy. At least that's what the public was told at the time. I know questions aren't answered during public format time comment time, but I will request that our board president answered two questions during the board information time. Question number one, what
053is Coleman's opinion on the Fair View bathroom policy? And question number two, why doesn't this board president answer emails? Thank you. [applause] >> Thank you. >> Who was next? Seeing no one uh rising for a public comment uh further uh we'll continue. Oh, we do have one more. Come on up. >> Uh, this is a little bit of a longer letter, so we're going to split it between the two of us. Is that okay? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. Here we go. [sighs] During a post-practice session on October 13th in the Alpena High School weight room, my child was physically assaulted by one of his own teammates. The insult The assault involved my child being punched and stiff armed into a glass wall, causing his head to strike the surface. The coach that
054was in a in the room with him was present at the time of the incident and is a permanent floating sub was aware the assault occurred and asked my child afterward if he was okay. However, the following issues still remain unsolved unresolved. Uh failure to follow mandatory reporting policy. Alpena public schools board policy 8400 requires immediate reporting of any physical assault or criminal act on school property to law enforcement and appropriate district administrators. This did not occur. Staff knowledge and inaction. A staff member was present at the time of the assault acknowledged the awareness by checking on him and yet failed to report the incident. Lack of parent notification. My husband and I were never notified of the incident by the school. We only learned of it four days four days later from another parent.
055Student safety and medical concerns ignored. My child was feeling dazed and unwell after being struck struck and pushed into a glass wall. Symptoms consistent with a possible head injury. Despite this, he was allowed to continue participating in athletic activities. No medical evaluation or concussion protocol was initiated. On October 17th, between 11 and 12:00 p.m., another parent brought this incident to the attention of three separate school officials. And I won't name because the person is sitting in this room. I only learned of the incident 4 days later on October 18th from another parent after he had played in that night's game. After asking my son after the game, After asking my son that night after the game, he explained everything that had happened. Told us he did not say anything to anyone in fear that he
056would lose playing time and that he had absolutely no business stepping on that field because his head did not feel right and he felt dazed and horrible after the incident. After the game on October 18th, my husband and I entered the locker room to speak with a coach regarding the assault that occurred in the wait room. The conversation became heated due to our growing concern and frustration as we believed we were being misled. During this conversation, we asked the coach directly about the incident. The coach repeatedly stated that he had no knowledge of any such incidents and denied being aware of any assault involving involving our child. My husband and I spoke with a certain person outside the locker room regarding the assault that occurred that occurred [clears throat] during this conversation. We asked him
057directly whether he was aware of the incident involving our child. >> Good. Would this be a okay time to switch readers? >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. um right here, but just don't say that. >> Uh it was stated that he had no knowledge of any such incident. As a result, we believe the uh coach person knowingly misrepresented awareness of the incident, further delaying parent notification and preventing us from taking immediate steps to protect our child's health and well-being. This inter interaction raises serious concerns regarding transparency, honesty, and adherence to mandatory reporting responsibilities by district leadership as a result of the heated exchange that occurred uh from October 18th stemming from our attempts to train a truthful information of the assault of our child. Uh my husband was subsequently issued a do not trespass letter. At
058the time of the decision was made, it had not been provided with the full He had not been provided with the full and accurate context surrounding the events that led to the confrontation, including the physical assault of our child on the 13th of October, the failure of staff to report the incident as required by district policy, the fact that multiple school officials were already aware of the assault, the misrepresentation by staff regarding their knowledge of the incident, the delay of the parent notification. The letter was issued without a full investigation to an underlining cause of the confrontation and without consideration of the school's role in escalating the situation by withholding accurate information. This action action effectively shifted focus away from the assault and the staff failures and place punitive measures on a parent who was
059advocating for his child's safety and well-being. Issuing a do not trespass letter under these circumstances raises serious concerns regarding fairness, due process, and retaliation. As a parent, I'm devastated by the thought that my child prioritized a game over his health. I am deeply saddened and disgusted that individuals in leadership positions created an environment where he felt this way. roles that some people should not be in if they cannot put su student safety first. What if my child had gone to bed the night of October 10th and never woken up in the next morning? Oh, 13th, sorry, my bad. And never woken up in the next morning. We as parents would not have known anything had happened to him. I am respectively requesting the board look into the matter of the entirety and conduct on an
060independent review of the events surrounding the assault on from October 13th and the subsequent actions taken or not taken by district staff and administration. I also ask Okay. >> Okay. Uh would you uh just wrapping up, I'm I'm considering you all sort of a delegation from your family, but would you both state your names and uh your uh area of residence? >> Lisa, my name is Lisa and I'm a parent here in Alpena. I reside here with my son. >> Yes. >> And my name is Melissa Kaplan. >> Great. >> All right. Very good. Thank you very much. Anybody else? Okay. Uh if that's it, uh we'll move along to our consent agenda. I move to [clears throat] accept the consent agenda items as listed in our packet. >> Support Okay, great. Um, is there
061any uh discussion of the consent? Well, actually, we usually don't discuss that, I guess. Um, and I don't think there's anything in there that needs a roll call, so we'll uh go ahead just have a vote. All in favor of the consent agenda, raise your hand. Any opposed? Same sign. All right. Motion carried. Uh, we have an approved consent agenda. Additional items uh requiring board action. We have the uh annual summer tax resolution which I believe was discussed in the workshop. >> Motion. >> Yeah, there is a recommended motion there written out. I'll make that. Um I'll make a motion to accept the preamble and resolution as presented to impose a summer tax levy of 100% of annual school property taxes on property in the school district and request each city and or township to
062collect the taxes. >> Second. >> Great. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion on that item being a resolution, we probably should uh have a roll call on this one. Member Minhardt. >> Hi. >> Member Dazinski. >> Hi. >> Member Hansen. >> Hi. >> Member Costain. >> I. >> Member MacArthur. >> I. >> Member Fritz. >> I. [clears throat] >> Member Lawson. >> I. Motion carried. Thank you. Okay. That brings us then to our uh subject of the Raymond engagement survey and we have literature coming around. So this is just a a hard copy of the the contract that I shared uh in the updates and we looked at uh was it last week at the uh workshop meeting. So the uh two years for well uh sorry four years uh two
063administrations of the Q12 and two administrations of the um pulse surveys which would give us uh four years of um Raymond engagement data. [clears throat] And if you look on page three of this the total estimated fees for the four-year engagement is 39,000. Um and there would be other additional costs if we brought them up as you see um you know travel and things like that. We I don't think we utilized those additional costs in the first time around and now that we've uh gotten [clears throat] two administrations under our belt. I don't anticipate uh bringing them up for uh further services. Um so we would um I think amend the motion to put that uh estimated amount of $39,000 in there. Yes. 39,000 for four years. Uh so that would be the recommendation uh
064from administration for anyone who might choose to make that motion. I move to accept the Raymond contract for $39,000 for four years of services as presented to the board. >> Support. >> Okay, we have a motion and support on that one. Further discussion. >> I was just curious where it says the um three to six questions we get to create or customize those. Are we already have those set? Correct. How many are there? >> Um are you looking at the Q12 or the >> pulse survey? >> Yeah. So we did that for this uh past administration. We can either do the same questions again which gives us you know linear data or we can customize it. Same with Q12. We have the option to do the 12 questions and then um I think we did
065three or four open-ended questions on top of it. Um so we can it's open to however we want to do it. >> Okay. I was just curious too with these surveys um are we able to use any of this for like evaluations and stuff with administration and that so we know places where we need to improve on not just >> well what do you mean for the evaluation? Well, I mean being able to use like comments from staff stuff stuff like that for evaluations for administration and stuff then when we get these evaluations >> it's not uh it's not really a part of if you're talking about principal evaluations or my evaluation. >> Yeah. like any administration. I mean just I mean when we look at these surveys and we score like I believe were
066we the 29th percentile >> I think for employment wise being able to correlate that with areas to make improvement throughout all different areas of administration. >> So separate from the evaluation process we do that. Um so what happened the first time around was um we got the Q12 results and then sat down with uh the administrative team. They looked at their building uh data or their department specific data and then um at first time we met with every staff uh to go over those results and they um the principles. So I introduced the data and then I stepped out of those conversations so the principles could talk with their their staff and come up with action steps that they'd like to implement to improve upon that data. So they've been implementing that and it happened
067at central office as well. Um we've been implementing those um goals. We're calling them Raymond engagement goals um starting back in 24 I guess when we did that. Um and and part of that was looking at the verbatim comments that you're talking about and so like all the principles have gone through as have all the administrators and read through those comments and look for themes. Um Raymond if you remember kind of group them in themes uh when they put the results together. Um so we from that perspective we do it's difficult to go to a specific comment or something and attribute that directly to whoever the administrator is. Number one we don't technically know who wrote that comment or what the full context of it was. But um you know our administrators have seen all
068and our staff have seen all the verbatim and and the full battery of data there >> and there there isn't a a uh numerical value assigned to any of that that could be tracked or you know that could improve or is there >> the verbatim? Well, the uh just in general in the uh in the uh that section where you know we're getting uh comments about u you know uh the uh staff's impression of of you know how things are going with administration, how they feel, that sort of thing. >> Yeah, there's no quantitative part to that. But the um uh and we we can do another uh touch base on the data uh maybe in February or March just to if we're going to administer it again in the spring here. Um it'd probably
069be good to just kind of do a a refresher with everyone on how it works. So all of the numbers, you know, the our goal is around the overall engagement average. the buildings all have one for their building and if the the department is big enough it has four or more employees then there's um I'm sorry yeah I forget how many of the I think they need 30 well I'm getting a little confused but there's many of the reports in our larger employee groups also have those ratings those numbers by like the teachers responses by the IIA responses um and even I think it breaks it down to our administrator responses. But there's always that, you know, if there's not enough data to keep it anonymized, um I think that's a word, anonymous. Um then
070you won't see a number in some of those spots. But the buildings do have a a number for their uh uh building. Again, some of the the employee groups have a number um that we can look at uh you know, drill down to that regard. But the uh verbatim simply uh looking at those comments, >> I just have one question, Eric, and it's more procedural. Um the motion on the table is for $39,000. The uh paperwork here says an estimate of $39,000 plus potential extras. Are we binding ourselves or locking ourselves by setting that number specifically at 39,000 or how would we manage that from a procedural standpoint if it's over and above? >> You could question I suppose we could amend the motion to u to include um optional uh >> what you call
071optional additions >> or perhaps some complicated >> optional services. >> Okay. and and maybe just a minimum of 39,000 and that that offer us, you know, we can do that amount >> just leave it. >> That's certainly reasonable. Just leave it alone. Okay. Comfortable with that. Yeah. >> Mhm. >> All right. Uh, further discussion. >> Okay. Hearing none, let's have a roll call. >> Member Fritz. >> I. >> Member Minhart. >> I. >> Member Costain. >> I. >> Member Hansen. >> I. >> Member Dazinski. >> I. >> Member MacArthur. >> I. Member Lawson. >> I motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you. So, just I think we'll plan then um do it. I it would make sense to do the Q12 in uh the spring and then we do get uh four years. Um and
072if we want to do that then we would do kind of a Raymond refresher uh in March um and then plan to administer in April or May. uh to the staff if that works for everyone. >> Sounds good to me. Okay. And that uh this will be the second full Q12 that we've had. >> Yes. >> Yeah. That'll be interesting to see. >> Okay. Great. Um that brings us to new business, the uh human resources staff update. Update. Michelle. >> Hello. We have a couple of new hires, professional staff, Christopher Arrington, who's a temporary special special education teacher with us. We have some new support staff. Gary Orander is a relief bus driver. Lynn um I'm drawing blank end names today. Kunt Kuntz um as food service helper. Um Siri Pokerinski is a food service
073helper. Nicole Ferguson is an instructional assistant. Kalista Bulmar is an instructional assistant. Kimray Irwin is an instructional assistant. And Samantha Schmidt is an instructional assistant. And then we had a couple of resignations. Sarah McCoy, Samantha Sakarsski, and Eli Irving. And I just want to say um 31 years of service from Mary Hannah as a lead custodian over at Hanks has retired. So thank you Mary for your years of service. And we also have Gloria Woolshik as a custodian over at Hanks as well with 10 years of service and both of them have retired. So we just want to say thank you to both of them. >> That's suffer. Sorry. [laughter] >> I was waiting for you on that one. Yeah, I I took phonetics, but it didn't go well. [laughter] Thank you. >> Thank you.
074Uh the administrative recommendation is to approve the hiring of the new professional staff after completion of proper certification, testing, and other HR requirements. >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion of the motion? Hearing none, uh show of hands. All in favor? oppose. Same sign. Motion carry. Great. Thank you very much. All right. Now we got to uh charitable contributions. The mic is still on. >> Go ahead. >> All right. We have Hungry Hippie generously donated a gift card valued at $25 to support the students of Lincoln Elementary pancake dinner and breakfast raffle. Alpena Alona Area Credit Union gave a generous monetary donation valued at $1,000 to support the Alpena High School Success Program. Alpena Alona Area Credit Union gave a generous monetary donation valued at $75 to support the students of the
075AHS knowledge bowl team. Alpena Alona Credit Union gave a generous donation valued at $100 to support the students of Alpena High School. Lorie Stefen of Real Estate 1 generously donated two library books valued at $17 to support the students of Lincoln Elementary. Here on Shores Fellowship generously donated hats and mittens valued at $100 to support the students of Lincoln Elementary. The VFW Post 2496 generously donated hats and mittens valued at $250 to support the students of Lincoln Elementary. Alpena Aona Area Federal Credit Union gave a generous monetary donation of valued at $100 to support the students of Alpena High School Z Club. William and Elizabeth Anderson gave a generous monetary donation of $300 to the Edward Buick CTE scholarship fund to support the students of Alpena High School. Prescll Isle electric and gas co-op gave
076a generous monetary donation of $1,500 to support the students of AHS robotics team. Alpena High School received the following generous donations to support the AHS leadership food baskets. Lisa Leonard generously gave a monetary donation of $100. Cara and Jeremy Prele generously gave a monetary donation of $100. Pompeo's LLC generously gave a monetary donation of $500. Recommendation the motion to accept the gifts listed above with gratitude and thanks thanks the donors in writing for their generous gifts. >> Support. >> Very good. Any uh discussion of the motion >> hearing? No further comment. All in favor of the motion raise your hand. oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Very good. Thank you, sir. All right. Uh that brings us to letters and communications. And it looks like we do have a letter from a community member to read.
077It's not going to take three minutes. That's all right. This letter was sent to the board from Joanne Pinkerton. A trustee asked a good question. Is there any third party that could take a subjective look at the finances of APS to see if there are any changes or improvements in the budgeting cost-saving measures that would save the district money that could be used to benefit the students and employees at APS? Her question was met with suspicion and defensive answer. This is not an insult to Mary's ability to account or keep track of the numbers. This was not a 1 + 2 equals or 1 plus 1 equals 2 as Mary's job entails and the auditor's job requires, but a where can we do better financially type of question. As a taxpayer and your employer in
078Alpena County, I would too like to know and would like to know why her question was dismissed. As a majority party taxpayer, this is about transparency. This is about honesty. This is about cost-saving effectiveness. The defense the defensive and dismissive response by the superintendent was suspicious to say the least. Mary's job is to add the numbers, but it is the trustees that are ultimately in charge of the finances of Alpena Public Schools, and she has every right to ask these type of questions. Many businesses hire third party subject subjective looks into their finances to find cost-saving measures. Again, as a majority taxpayer, I would too would like to know. >> Okay, that's it. Thank you, Summer. All right. Uh then that brings us to our superintendent update. >> All right. Well, it is uh board
079appreciation month and so we have >> it's partnership deal between me and summer. I fully disclose that. Just a >> token of our appreciation. Thank you. >> We'll see. Very nice personalized uh uh folders uh or uh what would you call that? A uh portfolio. >> Portfolio uh with u plenty of paper to take notes. So thank you. It's beautiful. >> Thanks guys. >> Yeah. [laughter] Thanks Summer. Uh I I just want to appreciate you know uh truly in in a time where uh it is difficult to step up and uh you know that uh a lot of people have a lot of opinions about how these jobs should be done and everything. I do appreciate you stepping up and and taking it on because it's not easy. So um I feel like we're heading
080in the right direction and I'm happy to work alongside of you. So, happy board appreciation month. >> Thank you very much. [applause] >> Uh it is hard to believe our first strategic plan summit was uh three years ago next month. Uh that's when we brought 50 to 60 members of the community, staff, students together uh to talk about our old strategic plan and see how we needed to update it. Um [snorts] so it's that time again uh we committed to coming back to the community uh we've been doing it in many ways at many meetings but officially um as a summit annual summit. Uh so I had some free conversations about how we structure that. Um originally we did it on a Saturday. Uh that was [clears throat] changed the following year uh to tagging
081it on to I think our regular board meeting. Um so I would propose that the format be the same as it was last year where we try to keep the February regular agenda pretty light and then move into the strategic plan summit. Uh again, we've got three years under our belt of doing this so it it seems to flow smoother and more efficiently each year. Um, so with that, if you're okay with that structure being that way, it would be on the 23rd at our regular meeting. So, we try to keep the the regular meeting agenda brief and get through that quickly and then go into the the community summit um strategic plan summit. >> And both the regular meeting and the summit would be at the Wildcat Den. >> Yes. Yep. So if that's
082good, that's the plan we'll we'll go with. >> There appears to be consensus. Any other comment from the board? >> My question. >> The only thing was just to kind of follow up from uh last year. I know in October we were going to have talk about like cell phones and I know I asked about Andy possibly coming in with the internet and Chromebooks and stuff. Are we going to have a chance or opportunity to do that in the next few months? Yeah, Andrew slated for the workshop in February to come in and talk about filtering and all things technology. >> Perfect. >> And then the uh I don't think the governor signed it yet, but um obviously the the cell phone ban is making its way through uh Michigan uh as far as state
083law. So I think we're in pretty good shape to just kind of move into that. But yeah, so and then just a reminder because there was some changing um the workshop is the 16th. Uh so that's President's Day. Um it's the 16th. It was originally scheduled for the 9th, but someone is not in town on that day. >> Summer. It is related [laughter] >> superintendent conference. Uh and then just a reminder, so safe routes uh safe routes to school came uh at the workshop and uh we had some conversations there. I've actually had a couple of people reach out to me about supporting writing those grants. Um so we do have some options. Again, the next step is I do need to meet with uh the other uh city, township, and uh road commission to
084just see where we're at. But we will be um administering surveys to our students um and our families um probably I would say we'll get those out maybe late February uh early March. And that's one of the first pieces of data that we collect uh to then build the rest of the plan. So, just a a heads up, uh we'll be talking with our administrative team uh at our ad staff in February about the surveys, which are real simple, but um they go to third grade and up. And then we do some just, hey, how'd you get to school today? Uh questions across the district to gather that information. And then once we have that, um we move into the second phase. And I think that's it for me. [clears throat] >> Okay. Uh thank
085you very much. Um that brings us to information and questions from board members. And uh I w I will address uh there was some comments made with particular note uh to uh uh to me. Um for the time frame that was mentioned, I believe I was out of the country on vacation. Um so uh I will uh I'll go and see if I can find that email. And the there was u there was the the comment was a little misleading. Um it made it sound like we'd put uh Coleman Law Firm on our payroll. Um and uh I would not call it payroll arrangement. Um if uh they bill us uh then we we paid them. But uh last uh there is no uh current um u formal u statement or or formal opinion to
086the board um on that policy. And as I recall the last time we talked they hadn't even built this yet. as yeah as far as I know. Um so >> they haven't sent us a bill. So >> So there it is. Other board members questions or comments or information? >> Um I do want to bring up about um not letting parents know about the incident that did happen. um about the one mom that did come up and speak. Um just from medical perspective wise, if that kid did have a concussion and was not evaluated and got hit again in that game, we'd probably be having a different discussion. So, I think it is important to figure out where [snorts] where we misstep or how the parents did not get notified and make sure we correct
087that. We don't want anything serious happening to our kids. Okay, thank you. Anybody else? Okay. Uh, hearing no further comments, uh, questions or information from board members, uh, we do need to move into a close session. Um, negotiations under MCL 15.268C. Um and the uh recommendation would be a motion to meet in close session under section 8C of the opens meetings act to hear a report on local negotiations and information on the process. >> I will offer that motion >> support. >> Can we clarify are we taking any action afterwards people there are saying >> there will not be any action. Uh so if you're here for the meeting and uh you uh you feel like you've got a general sense of what's going on, uh you if you leave now, you will not miss
088anything um except u a uh a gavvel stroke to end the meeting after the uh after we come back into open session. So thank you. Good question. All right. So we have a motion on the floor. Any further discussion, questions, issues? >> Let's have a roll call then for that. Summer Member Dazinski. >> I. >> Member Hansen. >> I. >> Member Costain. >> I. >> Member MacArthur. >> I. >> Member Fritz. >> I. >> Member Minhart. >> I. >> Member Lawson. >> I. Motion carried. All right. We are moving to close session. Thank you all very much. We'll be we'll be staying in here.