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001They saw Sarah is coming. She's just a little delayed. So, she'll be here. Sarah calls me. And if you're on your email, you should have gotten the form from you should have an email saying you've got the form. And so, don't do anything. and do it live and all this as opposed to paper just being creative. Okay. And uh you know we we certainly could paper and pencil but I do. Yeah. And then this way we have one sheet with all the tallies on it. It's public. Yes. Even Oh, they'll go with all your logo wear. I did have one question on the minutes. Oh, don't look at me like that. The lawn care bids it was three to two and she said in the past is that just because it wasn't technically I mean

002is it the majority? Yes. Yeah. Okay. be the majority of people members, not the majority of Yes. Okay. I just curious if that's we didn't know that later. Okay, it's 5:30. I'd like to call the meeting to order and ask everyone to please stand for the pledge of allegiance. 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. Okay, give everyone a minute or two more to re review your consent agenda items. Um, is this the appropriate time to ask uh to pull an item for the from the uh consent agenda or should I do it should I ask that when we get down there? I think now's fine. Okay. Well, I would I

003would like to uh pull the April 28th minutes from the consent agenda just to suggest a correction. Okay. Um, we'll move on to uh we need a motion to app well actually do you want to about the agenda for tonight? Do you want you want to speak on that before so we make a change to the agenda for the meeting tonight? Yeah. So, we would uh be pulling item uh F F. Thank you. Uh recycled asphalt from bond work. Um and Simon and AJ can provide more clarification if you'd like. Um what's in there right now is a uh approval of um a deduction in in the costs, which the board doesn't necessarily need to take action on to accept a lower rate. However, there were some conversations about um you know what comes after

004this, the the the mix of asphalt and what we would actually be doing. U so we'd pull this off um do the the right terms here, the milling and the all of that as one bid to uh basically do what we talked about uh pull up the asphalt, mill it. Is that the right term? Correct. Yeah, a separate project. Yeah. And then deliver it uh the whole thing in one uh project uh delivery and um compaction, whatever the proper term is. So again, what's there right now is simply the uh you know, they were going to give us $5,000 back to store it on site. Um but the project is obviously much more involved than that. So, we would come back to you uh with the bids for that whole project um for approval um

005either the uh June workshop or possibly a special meeting prior to that. So, I would move to approve the agenda with uh the elimination of item F as it stands, but also with the addition of the uh Coleman contract as a replacement for item F. And so the I've got it here. Um, and I don't know that the board would need to take a formal vote on signing that. Um, I would open it up to the board. My intent would be to, you know, go down that avenue because I do have the authority to sign those contracts. Um, so I don't know if you want to make it an official motion for the board to again kind of direct or give me the authority to sign that contract. um because there are some things we

006need to clear up with it. He's got the old school district on the the document there. And then I do want to run it by our attorneys as well just to make sure that it's it's good. That was that was my thought that we perhaps would finalize or vote to uh finalize and authorize uh or or or direct the uh the administration to to make the final u final adjustments or whatever to that contract. U and then I thought it would be you know fitting for a board motion. But yes, recognizing you have the uh authority to go ahead and complete that process. Yes. So, I'm good with it either way if we want to make it a Okay. So, we have a motion on the floor um by L Eric Lawson to approve the

007agenda with the removal of item F and inserting um in its place the common contract. I'll second it. Did the motion al I apologize. Did the motion also include the removal of the April 28th agenda? I believe that was also Well, no, he just wanted to do a correction, but we correction that down there, right? Yeah, that would I'm I'm sure that can wait till approval of the that consent items. We can just do that separately in that little group. Very good. Okay. Anything further about the agenda for tonight? Okay. Um if not all in favor a show of hands please. Okay if uh please note that Sarah Fritz was a no. Thank you. Okay. All right. We will move on to our reports and presentations. Lincoln good news. Maybe. Maybe. If you drag your

008window to the right, I think it is. Okay. I might have you cuz I don't work your fine. All right. Hold on. Where are we? I'm not getting anything right. Yeah, it's on the other. You go ahead. It's on the extension. All right. Hold on. and go present. Go to present it for now. Yep. It's not coming through up there at all. Yeah. So, I think if you do want to turn it off that or we can mirror it here. We probably need to mirror it. All right. But I need glasses for that. All right. Nope. These don't help. Sorry. Too much or too little? Uh, I think too much. I asked the question. [Music] Yeah, I got there. But go to device. Okay. Got to present there. All right. Sorry about that. Clearly, we're

009not technology teachers. All right. So, we are teachers from Lincoln. Um, my name is Kate Bonitez. I teach fifth grade. I'm Deian Rezner. I teach second grade. And I'm Barbara Malbury and I teach fourth grade. All right. We are excited to show you guys what we've been working on this year. Um, these are our um school expectations. As you can see, it spells roar. Every single morning the students say these. Respect myself and others. Be organized so I'm ready to learn. Choose a positive attitude and be responsible for my choices. Then of course we have to end at Lincoln Lions Roar. And here are some examples of what we've been doing in academics and programming. Every week our fifth graders go down and read with kindergarten reading buddies. This gets the kindergarteners excited to read

010and share with the fifth graders as well as allows the fifth graders some experience in leadership and taking the initiative to help the younger kids reading. Um at the top we have a picture from our choir concert. The kids were really excited to dress up and share the songs they've been practicing with their families. And also this week first grade is excited to welcome meteorologist John Gross to their classroom to teach them about weather systems. So we have a lot of fun things going on. And then for our child development, our younger students had the opportunity to write letters to Santa and walk downtown to deliver them in person. Fireman Andy also visited the classes to teach about fire safety. Our staff loves to get involved in everything that Lincoln offers. So, here are some

011silly pictures from math and science family night as well as a few of our teachers on Halloween. Lincoln is really involved with our family and community partnerships. Some highlights of our year include Ready, Set, Swim, Bowling, Art in the Loft, and Starbase. And this year, the fifth graders have partnered with 4 and we are creating a butterfly garden in two patches in the front of our school where the students have been weeding and planting flowers. Um we're learning about pollinators and making our own little beehives. And then in the back of the school, we've actually partnered with um Home Depot and they are donating a fence and donating some labor to come out and help us create our first ever vegetable garden. The students started last week planting little vegetables that we have in little

012cups that are growing. And so we're doing a lot of work with that, which has been really exciting. Okay, we had a great time at literacy night where our students were each given a passport and they were able to travel around the world and complete different literacy activities with their families and then they could earn actual stamps on their passports as they did that. And then we also had a a math and science night followed um it they followed an out of the world theme where students and parents rotated through stations including rocket launch and that was done by the volunteers from Starbase and I'd like to add a little bit of something to that. We also collaborated with the high school students and the hockey team this year and we were really pleased that

013they were able to come and do they did a art project for kindness for the um with the students. They did the some of the musicians from the high school came over and this is what really um touched a lot of us was um when they were doing the reading we had a little extra time for the um students to express some um career choices. And in the classrooms, you might hear them say, um, "Oh, why do I have to learn this math?" Well, I'll tell you what, they sat there and they listened to those high school students and the high school students brought in some of the math concepts and I think it really made a connection with why do we have to learn this math? Absolutely. And this year we hosted our first

014annual Lincoln pancake dinner. And so um this was really great. We had a really good turnout from families in the communities. So the kids were so excited to help decorate for this and go down in the gym and get everything ready. And we excited to continue that tradition as well. Scoop. There it is. This week 13 awesome students graduated from Trails Skill Group and they wrapped it all up with a well-deserved ice cream bash. Each session they could earn extra toppings by showing up, staying engaged, and being group rock stars. Sprinkles for effort. Yes, please. Throughout the group, students learn some seriously cool tools for tackling tough thoughts and feelings, like flipping automatic negative thoughts, getting moving with behavioral activation, and climbing fear ladders to take on anxiety step by step. According to them, these

015were the go-to strategies that they found most helpful. And then a couple students share their favorite things they have done this year. My favorite thing this year is the Trails Sunday ice cream. All right, so these are brothers in our school, fifth grader Corbin and kindergarter Landon. And um Corbin's favorite thing was the Trails ice cream party. And then Landon said his favorite thing was visiting the firehouse. Oh, my favorite thing is she This was a fifth grader and the kid kindergartener who loved creating the butterfly garden and going on field trips. And in closing tonight, thank you for allowing us to present our experiences from Lincoln School. Um, Lincoln staff and students are excited to continue to learn and grow every day. And please, if you have any time, I know schedules are busy,

016but please come and see what Lincoln School is doing. Um, we have a great time over there. Um, and we would enjoy having you all. We would love to have you anytime. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Okay, up next we have uh some student council. Do we need uh Hi, my name is Lucy Cook. I am the president. Do we have I'm Calli Brusso and I'm the vice president. Hold on one second. Do you want to connect the slideshow or Oh, yeah. Can we help? Stephan Steph, can you help them maybe? Do you mind helping? Probably true, but oh yeah, maybe not. Maybe not. Yeah. Thank you, Steph. I did share it with who? With Summer. Steph, do you have a Hing? Sure. Not on this. Not on our school Chromebook. She emailed it to

017Summer. So, yeah, I got it. I forgot. Dave had is it? He's pulling it up. Okay. It's okay. I know. I didn't even think about that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It just While he's pulling it up, do you just want to introduce yourselves? You guys introduce yourself. Just do it again. Yeah, you you go for it. Go for it. Um, my name's Lucy. I'm the uh president. I'm Callie. I'm the vice president. I'm Colin. I'm Claire. I'm Ava. Uh, I'm Grady. Thanks, guys. Okay, here we go. Cool. Thank you. There we go. Where we all right so student council just wanted to give a little recap of what we've been do up to this year. Um the student council's mission is to bridge the gap between students and staff to create an accepting and welcoming environment.

018This goal guides our work in making an impact on our school to improve both staff and student experience. The student council has taken on several yearly schooly school events and tasks including popcorn Fridays, game day themes, manage managing new club events. We got a new bulletin board this year that all the clubs are welcome to post anything on. um reviewing and implementing student suggestions using the suggestion box. So this year the student council was lucky enough to ask to be organized the Veterans Day assembly to honor our staff that have served and to recognize students who plan on going into the military. It was a great way to recognize their achievements and sacrifices. Our teacher appreciation week included spirit days like teachers dress like students and representing their alma mater. Thanks to donations from a

019school board member, we were able to celebrate teacher appreciation with coffee, donuts, and mini planters for all teachers in the high school. Uh we we coordinated a successful pre-prompt assembly uh about the consequences of driving under the influence. Um this it was very realistic. We tried to make it as realistic as possible um to simulate a crash. Members of student councils um acted out as victims of accidents. Uh we also had the police and fire department come out and um act as realistically as possible what they would do in this situation. Um and it was treated as if it was a real accident. Overall we had a successful year with events that we hope to continue in the future. Um we are always looking for an input and ideas for more changes that we can

020make within our school. Um, do you guys have any questions for us? Actually, I have one. Um, the suggestion box, which I think is an awesome idea, but I had a couple students tell me that they don't feel comfortable putting suggestions in there in the large comments because everyone can see them doing that. Is there somewhere else or another way for kids to give their comments to you guys? We do have a link to like an online form in our Instagram bio. I know not every kid has social media, but most kids do nowadays. And we do have most of the high school students following that. So, that is in our bio. I don't know if they know about that, but we could try to make that more known. I will add that our Instagram

021has received individual uh messages from students who don't want to fill out the form, but um I know I myself have also received some individual messages just working as on behalf of the student council. Perfect. Thank you. You're welcome. For those comments on Instagram, are those anonymous or do they have to put their names? So, when they message us on our student council account, it'll go to me um as vice president. That's just kind of what one of the jobs is running the account, but it'll come straight from their personal account. So, we will see who it is. Um but if they fill out the form online, I believe it's anonymous. It's totally anonymous. So, the form is anonymous. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Here, I guess. Hello. Oh,

022yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, it's great. Okay. reel program. Have my tech person hook my hook me up here. Thank you. All right. So, I'm happy to share with you some updates regarding our new and improved English language program. Um, I just wanted to start by showing you kind of where we've been. Um, you see like historically we've had just very few students who are English learners in the district and then we had kind of a sharp increase in numbers. So with that happening, that trend happening the last couple years, um we knew we needed to make a little bit of a change in our program and um work to increase our services. Um also within these numbers, our exchange students would be counted in that. Um and then the last two years, we also

023received some students who moved into the area who had more limited English proficiency. Um so they really needed a lot of support to access communication and um education day-to-day. So, this year, um, we hired, uh, Dr. Brandy Shooks as our English language teacher. She couldn't be here tonight, but I wanted to make sure to give her some shout outs because she's been instrumental in making these improvements this year. Um, so she moved to Alpena a few years ago with her family, and she was one of our special ed teachers. Prior to that, she was an English language teacher in um, Kazoo Public Schools, and she still teaches um, at Western. um she teaches some English language coursework for students who are working on their English language uh certificate. Um so she's a great find for

024us in developing this program. She's really an expert. Um so with her addition to our team um we are able to um provide improved direct service programming. So weekly push-in services or pull out services for students. Um she was able to complete all the WEDA screener and WEDA state assessments. Um so the screeners happens at the beginning of the year. Um and then the state assessments happen winter spring. Um and then she will also help support teams in navigating when it might be appropriate to use a native language for NWA testing. Um also um it's kind of tricky to determine when this population might be eligible for special education and there's really a specific process when you're going through that um evaluation. So, um, we've had the opportunity to work with AMA this year and

025refine that process for students. Um, Dr. Shooks writes all the individualized learning plans and progress monitors students progress from those plans as well while she's providing her services. Um, also very important is um the indirect programming that we provide for students. So, um, obviously um, Bry's not able to be with students all day long, so it's really important for her to support the teachers that are with the students. So with instructional strategies, accommodation support, a sit, she gives them all kinds of tips and accommodation. Um she's also been able to provide some family support and um facilitating some um interpreting services when our families need that. So starting this um upcoming fall, um a new federal and state legislation is going to be in an effect for um minimum service delivery minutes aligned to the

026students proficiency level. So, we knew this was coming and we were making adjustments to be able to meet those minimums. Um, so that's why we're um currently recruiting for another teacher so that we continue to um meet or exceed um the service delivery while um making sure that we're still supporting all the indirect services. That's super important for this population. thought it would be fun just to show you just a little snapshot of all the languages and countries that um are represented across our population of students. So our program really focuses in on fostering proficiency in English. So reading, writing, speaking, listening, um those are the areas that we test as well. Um and then we develop those individualized plans. They're really specific to each student. Um and then again supporting teachers and staff and

027working with the students day-to-day. So the the WEDA is a researchbased assessment again that tests all those areas we already spoke about um and it's required by the state of Michigan. Um it's used to determine eligibility for services, develop those learning plans and to measure growth. So um our our multilingual students have um they also participate in all the other benchmark assessments that we provide throughout the district. So we can utilize that data as well. Um and then Dr. Shooks also likes to get that qualitative input from teachers to learn how the students might be interacting with their peers and some of those things that might be harder to measure on um the WEDA that the student might need support with. So all of that information is used to help develop those plans for students.

028Um we've also had the opportunity to use some technology this year. Um you see that little bottom picture there? that's a um a translator. Um so students who are newcomers and have limited English proficiency. Um a couple of our students were able to use that technology tool to be able to have access to their native language so they can um still learn while they're bridging the learning gap for their language. Um also Google Suite has a lot of embedded translating services that they can utilize. Um, and then some of our curriculum materials have embedded accommodations for English language students. And as we move forward with looking at new curriculum, um, as we're adopting new resources, we are looking to see how those resources will provide accommodation support to all of our special populations. Um, so

029new this year, um, Dr. Shooks, uh, pursued the seal by literacy with one of her students. Um so this is given to students who are getting ready to graduate when they achieve um proficiency in English in one and one more one or more languages. So this is not just for our English language students. This could be for any student that's participating in foreign language. Um so it's open um to anyone who has achieved those skills. um obviously it looks good on your college applications and when you're looking for jobs and just develops those um the 21st century skills that we want our students to have. Um so we have our first student for APS that's earned that recognition and it also turns out it's the first student in Northeast Michigan who's um received the seal

030of literacy. So we are excited about that. Um this is just a quick chart to just show you um the amount of um newcomers we have and students who have a little more higher um proficiency in their English. Um and then the second chart you can see that as we received um more students who are English learners um the growth went down which is also was an indicator for us to provide more direct services for the students. So going forward, um we're going to continue to recruit for an English language consultant to help support student services and the direction of the program. Um we hope to provide more coaching support and PD to staff who are working with the population. And because we are um a growing program, we still want to continue to refine

031our procedures and practices and our data review cycles. Um and then we are working on a handbook that we'll be bringing for your approval sometime this summer. So, anybody have any questions for me? Could you go back to the slide about uh where our uh um you know, English language students are from and what languages I thought that was totes fascinating and I would like to learn more about a couple of those languages. Yeah. Yeah. So, um you know, Dr. Shixs could give more details about um the specifics about the students, but we it's a lot more than Spanish. you know, we would think that most of our students would be Spanish speakers, but um we have a wide range of students um um coming from a lot of different areas of the world. Oh,

032thank you. Yeah. Anything else? All right. Well, thank you for your Thank you. Thanks. Okay. We are at the uh first opportunity for citizens or delegations who would like to address the board. Just a reminder, according to board policy 0167.3, public participation at board meetings, individuals who will be addressing the board are asked to state their name, address, and or your group affiliation. Please direct all comments to the board, not staff or other participants. Shall not make personal attacks against a school board member or school district employee by name. Limit speaking to 3 minutes in duration. shall not speak more than once on the same topic unless all others who wish to speak on that topic may have been heard. This portion of the meeting shall be limited to 30 minutes, but the time frame

033will be extended if necessary so that no one's rights to address the board will be denied. Hi, I'm Bonnie Wargo, 8031 Ellsworth in Alpena. Um, I wanted to just come up and say thank you to all of you for participating in the book review and working to improve yourselves as a board. um I think it's really great and the takeaways that I heard people speaking of last time were um the importance of self-reflection and that spending 50% or more time on improving student outcomes is important and I think that was great to hear multiple people say um with that I have two suggestions um or considerations um with the ELA I'm sorry the math curriculum that was presented I heard some surprise sounds when we heard it was 10 years old. Um, and so I

034think it would be important that with school I've heard also that school um, success rates have not been as good as we want them to be. And a really good place to start would be to look at the age of all of the curriculums if we don't all know that. And let's get maybe a rotating review of that on a calendar so that we don't have a surprise that oh this curriculum is sold. Um, also I heard that there's still um interest in continuing to look at alternative counsel and I would just like to ask that before any money is spent in doing so that there's a clear goal for the purpose of arranging an alternative counsel for whatever that's for. Um, also identify really clear criteria when you will reach out to that particular

035alternative counsel and should you end up with multiple legal opinions that are conflicting, determine how that's going to be resolved before any money is spent on this issue. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? I'm Yvan Lefave Johnson. I live in Alpena Township. I'm an Alpena High graduate and a concerned taxpayer. I also wanted to thank you for the thoughtful book discussion at your May 12th meeting. I think it was a great way to help all of us agree on some common ground based on that conversation and on your work and your work on the board. Um I trust that we all agree one of the board's fundamental responsibilities is to advance student academic success. I appreciate that you tabled the proposed bathroom policy modeled after Fairview's policy. However, I'm concerned that a Coleman contract has

036been added to tonight's agenda. It appears that some board members still want to shop at 275 an hour for a legal opinion that supports an effort to harass and discriminate against gender non-conforming students. I ask you to instead focus on boosting student achievement. With that common ground in mind, I have several questions I'd like you to consider. How will a bathroom policy improve student test scores? How will a bathroom policy prevent truency or reduce the dropout rate? How will a bathroom policy prepare APS students to pursue higher education or a career? I also have several logistical questions. Who exactly is going to police the bathrooms and locker rooms? Are administrators going to be standing guard? Are you going to add the responsibility to already overburdened teachers? or do you expect students to police each other?

037What will the punishment be if a child violates this policy? Are you going to check birth certificates, require blood tests, or check children's genitals? I hope that those questions sound as absolutely disturbing and absurd to you as this entire issue sounds to me. Again, I ask you to move past the bathroom issue. Let's use your valuable time wisely and focus on promoting student academic achievement. Please do not vote to engage Coleman for an opinion on the bathroom policy. Thank you. Anyone else? We'll have another opportunity later on in the agenda. We'll move along to our action items. Uh up next will be the uh consent agenda items. And Eric H had a concern wanted to suggest a correction from the April 28th regular meeting minutes. Uh yeah, if you want to begin with that. Um,

038I just uh thought um looking at uh the April 28th minutes uh page 7, second paragraph, um we have Raymond uh spelled correctly at the the title, but then I think autocorrect turned it into Raymond. Um and I just thought for clarity we should just correct that. So with that um I would move to uh approve this agenda with that little change. Do you want to make the motion for all? Well, I mean, I I thought we would do the consent agenda separately since it still has a couple items on it. Okay. So, you want to do a motion just to approve that one separately with that modification? Indeed. Okay. Okay. So, we have a a motion on the floor to approve the April 28th, 2025 regular meeting minutes with the spelling correction. Support. Anything

039further on this set of minutes? Not. All in favor, show of hands, please. Okay. Thank you. That was all seven. Okay. And then we have the uh other two minutes. We would need approval of the May 12th, 2025 workshop meeting minutes. The approval of the May 12th, 2025 special meeting minutes. I would offer that motion. Support. Okay. Okay. Anything further? Okay. All in favor? A show of hands, please. Okay. Thank you. That's all seven. All right. Additional business requiring board action. Up first is the 2025 2026 AMA ESD proposed general fund budget resolution. I think we all had new copies on our table, too. Yep. Statement packet. And this is an annual procedure. It's required for the ISD to have resolutions offering support or disapproval of their proposed general fund budget. Um so as part

040of this um we would record um our statement um those that support or disapprove and uh fill out the attached resolution at the back of the pack um tonight in time for their uh deadline of I believe June 2nd to have those in from the districts June 1st. So, is this resolution on the back correct though? It just says whereas the board received hon or before. Okay. Yeah, we got to re Okay. Yes. Before May 21st, but then approving it by June 1st. So we would need a motion to adopt the preamble and resolution as presented. So moved support. Okay. Anything further? I was just curious with the uh with the with the reduction is that maybe uh just evidence of of sort of COVID money running its course or or were there other reasons

041for that we're aware of for the reduction in budget this year? Um as in the total amount or particular area. Um yeah. Yeah. I guess the total amount it just looked like it was a um the budget amendment. uh had was trimming off uh quite a bit. Yeah. So all the red ink I don't recall in general he addressed in the screencast and so yeah probably those grants all ran out. That's quite a few grants. Okay. So that yeah that's jogging my memory. That's what he said in his uh video that we were looking at that a lot of the grant money is dwindling down. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Uh we just do it looks like on the resolution we can just do a show of hands for all in favor. Okay. All seven. Thank

042you. Okay. Um ESD board elections. All right. So now it gets a little more technical. Yeah. You want to grab your computer? So uh again um there are three openings for the AMD board and so we can select three but there are four candidates and so I shared a procedure. It doesn't have to be a public vote. Um and so if you would we'll do that through a Google form. Um assuming this all goes according to plan. So, you should have received a Google form in your email. In your email, 519 AMA board election. Got it. Oops. I can't get And so being logged in through your uh Alpena schools account, um you open up that form, you should be able to get in and then you just have to vote for three or you

043can vote yes on three. Uh you can either leave one blank or uh vote no on it. Do you want us to click on the fill out Google forms or fill it out in the body of the email? Uh, should do either. Either way is okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. And so if this works, we'll get live results. Extended page. Are you sure? Yes. Okay. And once we've done that, we hit review and submit. Yes. And was it, can you remind me, is it Denny? Was that the one that was out of district? Lenny. Yeah, Lenny Avery is the Lenny from Alona County. It wouldn't let me do it in the email, so we may end up just doing paper and pencil, too. I just thought this would All right, it's working. It's working. Okay. Oh,

044got it. I submitted. You can try it again. Siri, I had to check the box at the top by your email. Ah, okay. So, once you do that, then it should go through. Oh, fill out Google fill out Google forms. Got all hang on. Sorry. Is that all? No, I think just waiting for And then go down to the bottom and hit submit. [Music] There we go. There we go. All right. So, we've got Darren, Jay, and Lisa. No tiebreaker needed. All right. Perfect. Okay. Okay. So, with that then we would need a um a motion to adopt the preamble and resolution to designate the 2025 electoral body representatives for the AMA ESD board of education as presented. I'll make the motion. I'll support. Okay. Anything further? No. Okay. Uh, all in favor, show of

045hands, please. Right. That's all seven. Thank you. And you're able to go to that meeting and take care of that. All right. Thank you. Yep. Okay. Up next we have the custodial supplies bid and then the consumables. So and then come on up. So this is the I'll give you a minute to review. Overall cost is very much unchanged from from last year. We only a slight increase. So you may notice some of the numbers are out of order or missing. Those are items that we removed because we we did not purchase any of those in the past year. So, um, if you're wondering why the numbers are skipped, Simon, is it hard dealing with more than one vendor for this? Uh, not really. No, because they they ship directly to each building. Uh, oh,

046so we don't So, yeah, using more than one vendor is not not a problem. So yeah, they put our orders together by building and and ship them directly, too. So that's handy. And we're only doing it. It's a quarterly order form any for custodial. So they're only doing four orders a year, you know. So not a Does anyone have any questions for Simon about these? I just have one comment. I really appreciate the uh supply price change page that page. I think that's really interesting and useful for looking at the the context of everything. I just have one comment. Have mercy. Like it's so this is a terrible bid to do. It's so tiny. I I'm going to be actually mentioning this again later in my comments. Personally, I'm just going to need bigger break.

047Oh, but anyway, it's great. It's a great addition. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, we can uh we could put it on two pages. So, anything else? Okay. If not, we would need a motion to approve the recommended custodial supplies bid as presented. I would offer that motion. Second. Anything further? If not, all in favor, show of hands, please. Okay, that's all seven. Thank you. All right, up next would be the consumable supplies bid. Very similar to custodial supplies, we're only seeing a actually a slight decrease potentially in our overall cost from from last year. So, and I do have the bags. So, if anybody would like to next to a next to AJ, sample the trash. Sample the trash bags. Yeah. But we're using the same vendor as last year is my apparent low bidder or

048low winner on the trash bag. So, my testing isn't uh I don't have any accreditation or anything like that, but I move to approve the bid for consumable supplies as presented. Support. Anything else? All in favor? Show of hands. It's all seven. Thank you. Refuge bids. Bid questions on garbage. A little easier when I guess you only have one company that can handle it. Mhm. We would need a motion to approve the recommended refuge disposal and supplies bid as presented. I'll make the motion. Second. Anything else? All in favor? Show of hands. That's seven. Thank you. Okay. Up next would be the uh Coleman contract. Yes, I thought there was a lot of good information in there and obviously it's a a contract intended for another district. Um so it would need to be finalized.

049So, um I would uh simply move to uh direct uh the uh administration to uh put the finishing touches um and uh and of course, yes, run it by our other legal council for uh any uh uh tweaks uh and uh and sign and u uh finalize it. I'll support that. Okay. Any further conversation? Okay. I may not be understanding this, but so we have Trun is a law firm, correct? Why are we going to another one? That's what I don't understand. Well, last time having ascertained that Neil isn't exactly a legal opinion, uh, having a second opinion, uh, which might have a different perspective, uh, I think is quite valuable, but we're already paying one law firm, so why are we going to pay another one? Well, also to be clear, um, we're not

050suggesting that we replace Tron. I think I brought that up last time. I think because uh Coleman specializes in constitutional law and issues uh having a second perspective on those issues to be used in sort of a a limited alleart basis uh is really I think if I understand the board's intent uh is really all we're looking for. So you're stating that we're not going to give up Trune. We're just going to have another law firm to have another opinion. Correct. That's what you're stating. Yes. Then why have you voted since 2022? I get my notes out of here to not reinstate Trune. Yes. Because I felt that that other perspective was absolutely lacking. Which is why I'm asking for uh from my point of view. Just let me finish. That's why I'm asking from

051my point of view uh for for this addition to our legal representation. I mean, they're both law firms. They're both they're both um experts in educational law. I don't see why we need to. Well, my own personal perspective on that would be that one firm is is biased uh and I think to receive a biased on what issues of constitutional constitutional law. Um, and I also feel that they're a bit eager to rubber stamp whatever the state recommends and I'd like somebody with a different perspective. That's uh and you don't you don't have to agree. I mean that's just my personal uh view on the matter. Okay. Thank you. I'll just say I I won't vote to support it and just to say because I couple of concerns and is one that we had I

052think called first and never responded and then a week later called them again and they didn't respond and then sent an email and it took almost a week to respond and then when they did it was right before. So I'm just I'm not opposed to having you know another point of view. I just to me I just feel like I don't know that there's a buy in from Coleman if there's or if there's a you know ability to help us when there's such a a slow delay and obviously we can't speak on their behalf of by why it took so long but you know I also just agree that um I'm not really sure I guess I understand either what constitutional law is I feel like all attorneys follow constitution I would think but I'm

053just you know saying rule of law rule of law is the rule of law okay a law firm Yeah. Well, I would just point out that in this day of fiat fiats, edicts and decrees, I would disagree that constitution that the law is constitutional law. And I believe that's why we need a little more information and another perspective. Anything further? So, just to clarify this motion, what is it just anformational gathering or this this to sign this contract? What does it actually um bind us to, if you will? And that's what I'd like to just run by our attorneys to make sure. The way I read it, um it is sort of alleart. We're not obligated to use them at any level. Um they're there if we want to um you know, seek an opinion.

054Now, if this locks us into a minimum of so many hours or something like that, I would again express concern um that we'd want to be a little careful of that. And it I'm not a lawyer. Um you know, just the the legal services I think is what you're interested in, not the litigation services. Um, and I would want to make sure that there's no conflict of interest on signing a contract with an attorney that could potentially and is currently su suing um, public schools. Um, I don't want to get us into a a conflict of interest in that regard. So, I don't believe you're looking for Coleman to represent us in court. Um, so whether that needs to be taken out or not, I'm not sure exactly what to do. And again, I would

055run it by our attorneys to see um we already have attorneys through setseg um and trun also uh represents us in litigation. So again, if we sign on saying we're now using him for litigation, I don't know if that creates a conflict of interest and negates any uh policies that we have in place. That's what I'd want to figure out before actually signing on the line. So this motion is to allow you Dave to explore the option and to look into it more thoroughly and to basically just clarify that. Well, the motion was to work out tweaks, finalize and sign. So, but it gives Dave the authority to look into it and if there is reservation, he can bring that to us. Yes. I would suggest that if if you're not ready to sign it,

056bring questions to the board. Yeah. And you had mentioned the June 1st uh date. He just drew up a contract with a starting date. So, we're not missing out on anything if it starts July 1st or August 1st or any day in between there. Okay. Thank you. Anyone have anything further? I would just suggest a roll call. Okay. Well, I do have a question. So it's alart so we wouldn't we could sign this but we don't have to we'll have to pay if we use it or get their the way I'm reading it but I just want to make sure that there isn't something that you know again fairly confident it's not there because it would probably say something along the lines of a minimum of x amount of services doesn't say anything like that

057but I just want to make sure that we don't sign off on something and then And it just says, um, Common Legal Group standard hourly attorney rate is $400. However, the firm agrees to reduce its rate to $275 per hour for all council legal services for the first year of agreement and 2.85 per hour for the second year. So, we have a motion on the floor. And anything else before we do a roll call? the motion if it's just for Dave to explore the motion should not say in signing. Okay. Okay. Well, I I would ask my motion stand as it is. And again, if uh if he is not um prepared to sign or there are outstanding questions, I have no problem personally with with him bringing this to the board to say I'm

058not I haven't signed it yet. Um but still with the the directive uh uh to sign it would stand until unless he brings such information uh that the board would uh you know move to uh um sort of abandon the project or change course. My only concern is I don't know that you the board has ever directed me to sign a contract that's a power delegated to me by my position and marries the other one that by uh definition are the two that sign it. So again, we've done it in the past where it's clear that the will of the board is that we want to go down this path, but I don't know that we've ever had where the board directs the superintendent to sign a contract in this way. Um, if that's a

059concern, uh, yeah, I understand what you're saying. Uh I would be willing to amend my motion to say uh direct the uh uh administration to engage uh the common legal group as as an auxiliary attorney. Um and whoever whoever uh uh you know seconded might agree or not. Doesn't engage still mean we want to hire them? Indeed it does. That's what I don't want. That's what I don't want in the motion. just explore it but not have anything assigned or engaged. Certainly not not my motion. Well, I would suggest just as a temporary motion that you leave out that third part and just go with the first research and everything and then bring it back to the board and then at that point a decision can be made after all the questions are answered and

060everything. Otherwise, you're directing him to sign something without complete review and something that you may change your mind on. So, that that's all I'm I'm saying. I don't think I'm just saying that the motion at this point in time should not include signing. I guess my question would be why? if everything's fine and I I mean he has the option to come back to us if there is something that's because you're telling him to do it to sign it and what if everything isn't fine then he'd come back to us so he need that's what I'm saying he should come back to you before you put the final motion to tell him to sign it we're waiting to review just waiting for review and to make sure that and I guess everything is So what

061if this does create a conflict of interest? Exactly. And they've already said that you're supposed to sign it. Hannah, can you reread Eric's original motion for I I mean I don't have it word for word. I just wrote down I just did key words that you move to direct Dave and then I just wrote tweaks finalize and sign and then I crossed out sign or engage contract with with Coleman. So summer always records it so that it is word for word. So Eric, do you have your original? No, I I you would it would just be captured by the recording. Okay. Um I didn't know if you had something wrote down ahead of time. Yeah. Um I guess it's not entirely clear to me that there would necessarily be any problems that would be uh

062that would you know prevent him from continuing. Um but um I guess I I would be willing to amend my motion to simply say then instead of engage to pursue the engagement of and again um if there are issues with that you can bring it back to us. Uh but I think the motion should be fairly strongly worded. Uh so if we say to pursue the engagement of that directs you to you know to to just like when we sign off on on trun you know every every July um and uh you know if there were an issue then you would just bring it back to us. Um and that way we would continue and and unless there was something pending that was needed to be resolved by the board. Um that would be my

063only change then. I guess just this contract or contracts in general. I guess I just would feel hesitant about any contract really to say sign it without us seeing exactly what it is. Um would it be reasonable for Dave to engage like we're speaking of uh and kind of iron out the details of that? in I think it's quite clear what the will of the board as at large is that they want this uh investigated and in if in agreement move forward with it which I'm not opposed to but would it be inappropriate to allow Dave that one month until the next action meeting to clarify those so that we can lay it on the table yay or nay and then it comes up to a vote with the clear uh the clear information in

064front of of us instead of whatifs. Um, again, I'm not I'm not saying that I'm opposed to moving forward with this, but is it going to be would it be problematic to allow Dave the time to be able to do that? Well, that that's why I said I I mean, if you want further clarification, I'll amend my motion to to pursue the engagement of Coleman Legal Group uh with uh final board authorization uh at the next formal meeting. Standing as a motion it uh action item at that meeting. standing as an action item of that meeting, final approval. I think that's reasonable and I could stand behind that. Monica, did you second that? I'll go ahead and follow up with the second on it then. Give you an extra few weeks. Okay. So, we have

065an amended motion on the floor by Eric and supported by Monica. Would Would that be more agreeable? Yes. Okay. I I do believe that that is better. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Anna. Technically, with the amendment, you should go back and Yeah. read the amendment and because it you have to you have to read the amendment and vote on that and then Yes. You have to vote on the amendment and then on the final motion. Yeah. And I don't care if you do it that way or not. That's just Okay. You want to read say what we want the amended motion to be. Um, but technically you would say we move to amend the motion by changing the words or adding the words and then then you go and repeat the motion as amended. I

066So never mind. AJ's actually 100% correct in this. Correct. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes, he is. So he's a amended motion. Yep. I don't mean to make it difficult. Just No, you're good. To make it clean. Okay. If that's the right word for it. So, do you want you did you make that motion then or do I because I as the as the president because I can't really Yeah, I guess that is a little I I think AJ's right though. Somebody needs to read the amendment, vote on the amendment, and then vote on the entire motion. Correct. to follow Robert's rules, right? So, the amended motion is well, not the amendment. You just you all you have to vote on is the changing of the words, right? We're voting on changing of the words from sign

067to propose. That's what I was asking is what you want the new words to be. I think Summer, do you have that? Engagement. pursue engagement with the final approval coming from the board at the next full meeting. Okay, that sound about right. Vote on that. Yes. To not the next full Well, the next action I think I said as an action item at the next official meeting. Yeah, I would support that or offer that motion. I guess I could offer the motion. No, but amend approve the amendment. Approve the amendment. We don't have to do anything. Anna's reading the amendment. Yeah, the amendment and saying what we are actually voting on. Okay. So, I just read the amendment. Yep. Just the amendment. The amendment is the amendment to the motion or an amendment of the

068the amendment to the motion. I'm still confused. Just pursue. Yeah, the amendment is the pursue the engagement to an action item for the next full board meeting. That is correct. Correct. Then we vote on that. And that that's what we we vote on that and then we have to go back. All we can do hands on that. All in favor of the amendment. Okay, that is all seven. Thank you. Now we'll go to uh the motion. Yeah, all seven. Yes. And we had the motion was made by Eric and supported by Monica. And we're going to do a roll call on this one. Yes. Member Fritz. No. Member Lawson. Yes. Member Pain. Yes. Member Hansen. Yes. Member Dazinski. Yes. Member MacArthur. Yes. Member Minhart. No. Okay. Sorry about that. That was clear as mud. Okay.

069No, you're good. You're great. I appreciate it. Yeah. Okay. Up next is the Alpena High School Dhouse leak 8045. Change order number six. Simon's back. I should have stood there. All right. I started too. Oh yeah. This is in our packet. the Johnson and Wood pictures. So, we would um need a motion to approve the AHS Dhouse leak contract work to Johnson and Wood in the amount not to exceed $18,28 as presented. I'll make the motion. Second. Anything else? All in favor? Show of hands. Okay, that's all seven. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Simon. Elementary interactive display proposal. Yeah. I know last time you were going to check out the the one that wasn't exactly. So, how did that go? Um, yep. So, we decided to go with um the national sort of satellite

070corp to purchase um when we uh figured out our final um staffing cost for um after school PD uh we have funds to purchase 92 Phillips 86 in interactive boards and that would um complete all um K5 classrooms including art music rooms, health rooms um and special education rooms. Okay. So, we have that was the one that was a little different if correct. Was that the one you you explored the day after? Yes. So, it was the one we met um we had a virtual meeting with the um Phillips vendor the following day. We just wanted to make sure that it was actually as durable as what we had um had before. The other question was we didn't know if it was completely Google EDLA compliant which means that they can basically function any Google

071app without any risk of uh violation of anything. They received that certification um like they confirm they have that as well. So the product was um the lower cost but it um offered the same um the same as what we had uh piloted prior to. Uh should we read this tabulation though then the second page as if that number is written in on all the lines because it that's going to be for for like 1 through 20 21 through 40. Um, so they we what we put here is exactly what they put in their bid. So we just copy the information they gave us. Um, the shipping is included in that number as long as you purchase over 20 devices, but they did not specify um that's the only price they gave us. No, but

072I mean I mean you you have the other ones written in that units 1 through 20 one units 21 through 40 um that we should just read that number as like being in all of these. So the other companies, the other vendors gave us those specific numbers. This is you can make that assumption um but that's not what they gave us as like their formal bid if that makes sense. So the one to the right of that um the STEMfinity brand they actually gave us those numbers. So that's why we put those on the bid tabulation. U National Satellite Corp said that they would be um there would be an additional charge if you ordered less than 20 because of the freight charges. But anything over 20 they are telling us that that is that

073is the cost each. There isn't a lesser cost if you order more. So she's just saying they didn't specify how much those that if we were going to buy 30, they didn't tell us what the price would be. So on this document, we we don't add it in because they didn't specify copy their bid, their formal bid. But we are buying 92 of them at that price is what I'm asking. Yes. Okay. Should we long way? Yes, that is what we're doing. Should we just maybe make the motion not to exceed that amount? That way then it's covered if there is some additional charge or something like that. Is is that what you're kind of So that's in the contract. Um Okay. It won't exceed it. Correct. Okay. Perfect. Mhm. Okay. So we would need

074a motion to accept the bid from National Satellite Corp. to purchase 92 Phillips 86 in interactive displays in the amount of 168,971.80. I make that motion. I'll support it. And just to clarify, um, grant money. Yes. Yep. This is all coming out of grant funds. Okay. Um, can we do a roll call on this one for the dollar amount, please? Just a second, Anna. Um, I'm sorry. You're not for you Stephanie, just a conversation amongst us. Um, I couldn't help but think about our little book now and human or I'm sorry, adult inputs and and affecting student outcomes. This seemed to be one of those things that adults want to input this to to change the outcomes, but I'm curious if it actually I guess it's maybe it's chapter five. He goes into greater detail

075about this. Um trying to remember which at any rate we all learned on a chalkboard for crying out loud and did okay. And now we have to have a digital screen. I'm just curious if we as adults are trying to put in more than is necessary to affect student outcome. AJ, I think you might be remembering that discussion of the computers where the author uh No, it was a different one. That one there was something else. Well, I remember he he was very gung-ho about all the computers and then realized that that wasn't really going to change uh student outcomes in the way that maybe he'd hoped. I think in chapter five he talked about um he worked with a board. They bought a they thought they needed a new curriculum, spent all kinds of

076money on it and went backwards with it. Go ahead. Uh no actually I if you remember at the last meeting I I shared my reservations with it not so much uh for the the adult input but from the screen time perspective um which is something I've spoken about a few times and and certainly needs to be taken into consideration with any screen time especially at the younger uh ele uh elementary uh for for developmental cognitive uh or um executive function is one of the biggest things that that's affected in the youth and there's a lot of very interesting uh albeit not necessarily nailed down uh information on it but it certainly should be taken into consideration and that that was my concern. Um on the flip side of that uh this is the same type

077of thing that's at the schools now correct for interaction. So I had the opportunity to uh talk to some of the uh the individuals that are using it uh in the the students that are using it too and I I do um it was from those that I spoke to loved it said that the interaction with the students was fantastic. um that they were able to engage with it and um so those reservations that I had, although I still hold them and should be taken into consideration, I think that the potential for growth here, especially as the children get a little bit older for interactive is there. Um so I I do hold reservations on both sides, but I I've changed my opinion slightly. I won't say change my opinion, but I'm in support of

078it for different reasons. Well, in addition to that, I wish I could have wrote that book down where where it was. Uh I got an email unrelated and there was a link attached to it um talking about how the uh decline of test scores they can almost see a correlation back to um I want to say 200 it would 2008 I think it was when every student got a advice in school and they say there is a sharp mark of decline. Now I I didn't dig into their study at all. It was just something I read in passing. So just two things that prompted me to say wait a minute. So that's all I And AJ's not wrong. Um there is a ton of information out there that that links executive function um the ability

079to focus on uh anything more than a snippet, you know, a Snapchat type mentality um to devices. And there is some very interesting things. I think that we definitely have to look at that and it should be part of the conversation. um these devices it's kind of it's kind of kind of like AI it's wonderful and it's frightening at the same time right and so technology is what we make of it and I think if used for the right purposes you know we went from chalkboards to whiteboards to these things you know what's going to happen you know 15 years from now but um I think that there is great potential and again those teachers and staff that I spoke to that are utilizing them like them and think that they'll help so I have

080to kind of hang my hat on that. Okay. Thank you, AJ. Anything else? Okay, we have a motion on the floor and we'll do a roll call when you're ready, Summer. Uh, member Lawson, yes. Member Dazinski, yes. Member Hansen, yes. Member Costain, yes. Member MacArthur, no. Member Fitz. Yes. Member Minhart. Yes. Okay. Thank you everyone. And you just going to stay on up there, Stephanie? Up next. Yep. The proposed elementary math curriculum. Thank you for emailing out the presentation since it didn't come up on the screen last week. And I know we went into this quite detailed. Um, so I'd like to go ahead and just put the motion on the floor then to uh purchase the HMH into math K through5 math curriculum totaling $323,694.35 cents spread over five years. Support. Anything further? The

081the only comment and it's not a discussion. It's more of a a comment is uh some of the information and it was brought up in um public comment. You know, our our old curriculum was here for 10 years and or whatever it was. Um it was actually 15 15 years. I wasn't sure but it was 15. So 15 years in in the test scores uh certainly were not uh improving during that time and yet we continued to teach it. And so my only hope or my only uh recommendation is that we have more timely feedback and evaluation so that we're not, you know, seven years down the road and realize this isn't working for us and have to do something different. Um and so I, you know, do urge uh the school to take a

082look at that a little bit sooner, please. And that is part of the uh strategic plan, the long-term instructional infrastructure. Um I was not here but uh you know if you look at the financial status of the district over those last 15 some years um and you see the price of putting a new curriculum into place. My guess is at the time you know when it came up um you know for uh cycled review uh that financial uh status played a big part in the decision whether to move forward or not. So well that sounds like a big adult input not a outcome input there. I I would agree. Um cuz when I mean again when did the district come out of the debt reduction plan? 16. Yeah. 16 you start just catching up a

083little bit. So prior to 16 you know going back to I think 2008 um you know the district was under financial watch from the state and uh having to write their ship significantly. So it is going it is a part of the strategic plan and the goal is to put all of our subjects on a cycle of review and uh you know implementation updating those sorts of things. Um and then to be you know that that financial component is a big piece of it. I think it's important to note that we did update the secondary math curriculum what two years ago or a year ago one year ago. So we're elementary uh ELA was uh two that two and then full implementation last year. Yep. So we're making our way through it and so I

084think that's great. So anything else we have a motion on the floor. Okay. Roll call, please. Memberinski. Yes. Member Hansen. Yes. Member Cost. Yes. Member MacArthur. Yes. Member Fritz. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you to the committee who worked on that, too. Okay. We have the 2025 retirees recognition and appreciation resolution. And I think we usually read this one. This is pretty pretty important. Good stuff. Yep. Would you like me to read it or are you going to read it? Who would like to read it? I think you read it last. Okay. I didn't practice. So, um, a regular meeting of the board of education of the Alpena public schools was held in the Alpena High School. Oh, sorry. It was held in the LP well here held in our um board

085office on May 19th, 2025 beginning at 5:30 p.m. All members present. The pre the following preamble and resolution uh well I guess we need will be offered by someone and seconded by another member. Whereas the Alpena Public Schools has been fortunate to have a dedicated staff committed to the mission of the district. And whereas several members of the staff are now about to embark on new adventures in life away from Alpena Public Schools. And whereas we as members of the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education wish to extend our utmost appreciation for the work that these staff members have done to make education an exciting and joyous experience for the students of our district. And whereas the board of education wishes to extend our sincere best wishes for every happiness in the future for those

086staff members who will be leaving the district at the end of the school year. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education recognizes and appreciates the service of those employees departing the district and wishes them well in all future endeavors. and further that this resolution of appreciation and support be duly recorded and spread across the minutes of the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education on this 19th day of the month of May in the year 2025. And our um we will be honoring these uh staff members. Gabriel Ross, 18 years library instructional aid at Lincoln Elementary. Sherry Schrader, 29 years, lead cook, Thunder Bay Junior High. Tracy Erlab, 30 years dean of students, Besser Elementary. Julie Griffiths, 31 years, custodian, Thunder Bay Junior High. Moren Rean, 31 years, Title One

087teacher at Besser Elementary. Uh, Birdie Bry Hogard, 30 years, office assistant, Alpena High School. Matthew Kohler, 25 years PE teacher, Thunder Bay Junior High. Katie Rondow Thompson, 29 years, Title One teacher, Lincoln Elementary. Kristen Shupac, 29 years. Shuka, 29 years, social studies teacher, Thunder Bay Junior High. Amy Blumenthal, 33 years, Title One teacher, Sanborn Elementary. Christina Coping, 30 years online teacher, Besser Elementary. Melody Zalanzi, 29 years, elementary art teacher, multiple buildings. Melissa Habber Habberl, 31 years, second third grade teacher at Wilson Elementary. Kelly Polley, 25 years, English teacher, Thunder Bay Junior High. Yvet Kushman 27 years instructional aid Alpena High School for that was over that 432 years of service. So we would um need to approve the motion and recognition. Yep. Make a motion to approve the recognition and resolution of retirees as presented.

088I would offer that motion. Second. Okay. Eric and Sarah. Anything further? Okay. All in favor, show of hands, please. Okay, that's all seven. Thank you. Okay. Consideration of the agreement to collect 2025 summer taxes. So, each year we send out letters to all the um townships and to Alpena City um inquiring whether or not they want to collect summer taxes for us. The townships never want to, which is fine. The city does do this annually for us. Um, they do charge us a per parcel amount and this year's amount is $13.78 um per parcel. Last year there were um 5,470 parcels and last year's bill was $5,676.76. Um, parcels usually don't fluctuate very much. Um, I have a list of like 20 in 21 it was 5,421 parcels. 22 it was 5,471. It's 50 parcels,

089but it may have been a like a division of land or some change in the PR um taxing. And then um 2023 it was 5,470 and 2024 the 5,470. So we'll probably be right around in that range. The reason why we do this is to keep our cash flow kind of on a steady basis. Instead of receiving all of our tax receipts in December, we receive the city ones in the summertime. Just helps spread things out, keeps us from having to borrow a couple million dollars and paying 20ome,000 in interest on it. So that's why we do it this way. I move to move into agreement with the city of Alena to collect the district's 2025 summer property tax levy of 100% for the collection fee of $1.3 and 78 per person. support. Anything further?

090All in favor? Show of hands, please. Okay, thank you. Seven. Okay, new business, human resources staff update. Hello. We have new hires. We have three new hires for fall of August 25. Uh Christina Shots is a behavioral consultant. We have Sarah Bedford, secondary teacher at ACES. And Richard Boltz, a PE teacher at Thunder Bay Junior High. We have support staff Haley Hor is an instructional assistant at Ella White. Janice Bradport is custo custodian at Thunder Bay Junior High and Tina Cameron's a food service helper at Thunder Bay Junior High. We had two resignations. One, Ian Smith's a science teacher at Thunder Bay Junior High effective June 30th. And Jason Patterson, a science teacher at Alpena High School, effective August 31st of 25. And then we have one retirement. Julie Griffith is a custodian April 30th

091of 2025 with 31 years of service. So we just want to say thank you and congratulations on retirement. Thank you. Anything further? Motion professional. We would need to Yep. Uh move to approve the hiring of the new professional staff after completion of proper certification, testing, and other HR requirements. Need a motion for that, please. I'll make that motion. Support. Any further conversation? Okay. All in favor, show hands, please. Okay, thank you. It's seven yeses. Okay, charitable gifts. Yes, we have some lovely gifts from our generous community. Uh Emily Telvetska, Chelsea Thompson, and Caitlyn Rouso gave a generous monetary donation of $3,600 towards school supplies to support the students of Hinks Elementary. Little Caesars donated 20 pizzas to support the math title night at Lincoln Elementary. Thunder Bay Curry donated churros valued at $50 to support

092the students of Thunder Bay Junior High School Spanish class uh Cinco deio celebration. Don's tractor sales gave a generous monetary donation of $2,300 to pay off the remaining amount due on the Alpena FFA tractor to support the students of Alpena High School. Dennis and Ruth Rabbo gave a generous monetary donation of $30 to support the McKenna Vento Fit program helping students and families in need. Dean Arbor Ford Lincoln Mercury gave a generous monetary donation of $100 to support students of Alpena High School Kaput. Thunder Bay Electric gave a generous monetary donation of $100 to support the students of Alpena High School Kaput. Besser Company gave a generous donation of $200 to support Kelly Pulley's creative writing project and the students of Thunder Bay Junior High. Ron Lumpkkey donated precious items in honor of former Besser

093music teacher Carol Witherby. A digery dew, autoh harp, electric keyboard, and a wooden tongue drum valued at $500 to support the students at Besser Elementary. Hungry Hippie gave a gift card donation valued at $25 in support of the students for the AHS Kaput senior celebration. Michelle Cornish generously donated gift cards to Applebee's valued at $25 and Meyer valued at $25 in support of the students for the AHS Kaput senior celebration. Move to accept the gift listed above with gratitude and thank the donors in writing for their generous support. Okay. All in favor, show of hands, please. Okay. Thank you. Okay, discussion items. We have the Raymond employee engagement survey. Uh just an update, we've got a meeting scheduled with Cheryl Cooch, you'll remember from uh Raymond uh with their administrative team to go over the

094data from this most recent um administration. That is scheduled for Friday. uh at which point then we'll be able to uh report out to the board at uh the next workshop and uh work to get the the results out to our staff um going forward. Okay. Uh strategic planning and then we have a an academics and programs presentation slash discussion. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, thank you. Let's see if my screen remembers. All right, it did. Okay. So, I've been working closely with Stephan, Matt, and Dave um to uh develop um a system of implementation for our Pillar One academics and programs. And that's what we'll talk about today. Um so, as everybody knows, pillar one, um we're um going to deliver high quality instruction to maximize student achievement. So, in order to do that,

095we're going to design and deliver effective instruction with teacher clarity. Um, and design and deliver an effective instructional coaching system. So, we're going to talk more in depth about the systems for those two areas. Um, those two areas are going to impact tier one or multi- tiered system of support. So, that's going to lay the foundation for tier one for that high quality instruction. So, we are um hitting all areas of our pillar one. um but that this is going to be our focus area um for the fall. So effective implementation of evidence-based practice will have that direct correlation to improve student outcomes. So we um took a lot of time this year to learn about system implementation and change um because we know that if we are implementing evidencebased practices with fidelity the student

096outcomes will come. So this formula um is um aligned to implementation science. So it's really the what, the how, the who, and the why. So um our effective practice um that's our evidence-based measures um systems uh teacher clarity and the Sweeney model. So the Sweeney model is going to be the model that we follow for our coaching system. So the first thing we need to do when rolling out a system is to make sure that the competency is there for our staff. So we need to make sure we're providing strong professional development. Um we'll talk a little more in depth of these areas later in the presentation. Um but you've heard Steph talk this year about the teacher clarity training that has happened at K5. Um the secondary folks had it in the past. Um

097we also have a few of our coaches who are now trainers for teacher clarity. So, we really have that capacity to make sure that all of our staff as they get hired or as they need refreshers, um, we have an embedded system to make sure that they can continue that support. And with that professional development, we're going to have that strong instructional coaching that will help bridge what they've learned into practice. And so to ensure that um we're holding ourselves accountable for implementing our system with fidelity, we're going to set up some instructional rounds for the fall. Um and we'll talk a little bit about that in the future or I mean in the next slide. Um but the instructional rounds are really going to utilize this tool called the practice profile. Um which will

098have the district's non-negotiables identified for teacher clarity in the Sweeney model. And that will help us um understand how well we're implementing the system and make adjustments to make sure that we're implementing with fidelity. And so through those instructional rounds and the data we collect on the practice profile, um the next area that's the who those are our teams, our district teams that are going to be looking at that data and making adjustments. So it's going to start with team time. That's the grade level team or the secondary, that's the content area team. Um, and then that will go out broader to the building leadership teams, to the district leadership teams, and then we'll be able to make those system and instructional adjustments based on that data. And then through all of that work, we

099should start seeing student outcomes improving. Now, we know that it's going to take some time to get our systems in place um with fidelity. Um, so that student outcomes will continue to be monitored, of course. Um, but we would expect some time for all of that to get in motion. So, just to talk a little bit more about implementation fidelity and data collection cycles for teacher clarity. Again, that practice profile is really going to be the tool to measure the stages of development from the beginning developing to full implementation. And we're going to be measuring those district non-negotiables. So that's for teacher clarity, the learning intentions, and the success criteria. The practice profile can also be used as a tool for teachers to self-reflect. They can look at the tool and understand where they're at

100in their implementation process for teacher clarity and that might lead to um support from the coaching cycles with our coaches. Um so that tool like I had mentioned will be utilized in our instructional rounds and this is really our fidelity check team. So we'll have monthly instructional rounds with um some principles, an instructional coach and a teacher represent representative um and they'll collect data using that practice profile within focus areas. This is not evaluative to the teachers. This is purely looking at our implementation practice and uh identifying areas that we might need to make adjustment um and more support. So like I mentioned in the previous slide um that data will then go through our system of teams um and then um we'll be able to have reporting events from those team activities where we

101can share out our findings and our action steps for adjustments and that will go through the building admin central office and then we'll be able to come back to you and give you a report on how our implementation is going for um our coaching model. Um like I said, we're going to be using the Sweeney model for um our coaching system. So the first thing we need to do if we remember our implementation formula is we need to make sure that everybody has the PD they need. So that includes the three of us. We're gonna attend uh attend some PD on the Sweeney model to make sure that we have the knowledge and skills to support our coaches and that our coaches and consultants will um participate in some professional development on the Sweeney model

102as well. And we'll be doing some work with AMA as well for um that um capa to grow our capacity with the coaching model. So as we go through that professional development that will help us develop that practice profile for the coaching model and that will again help us measure our implementation for that system. Um and also what we're going to do is define what coaching is and what coaching is not. And so our coaches have done so much for us over the year especially as we've had turnover and new staff starting throughout the school year. So, we want to make sure now that we've kind of stabilized that we're really looking at everything they're doing and they're spending their time coaching and supporting um uh our teachers that need it. Um we'll also be

103looking at the roles of our CLS. You may have heard us talk about CS in the past. That's the content area leaders. Um so like a secondary crew will have um a cal for their math and so on. Um, so looking at their roles and making sure we're not duplicating um, you know, efforts with the instructional coach and the CLS, we want to grow our capacity and support our teachers to the maximum extent possible. Um, we'll also need to refine how we're going to get our teachers connected to coaches for support as well. So, while that is still going to be a work in process, we are um, able to um, utilize some data in the interim. We can look at the number of coaching cycles that our coaches um are supporting with the new

104teachers. Um the teachers that are participating in the coaching cycles will um will have the ability to see how they're progressing on their teacher clarity practice profiles. So that would be a measure. Again, we're going to still be looking at all of our student outcome data to see how our fidelity implementation is impacting um and that instructional realms pro process is really going to support um that data and also identify um some focus areas for coaching. So, that was a really quick overview. So, you may have some questions and I'm happy to answer them. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions? Great stuff. Thank you. That was great. Okay, we are at the second opportunity for any citizens or delegations who would like to address the board. Good evening. I'm Lisa Ray. I live at

105502 Avery Street, Alpena, Michigan. I am the president of the teachers union and I'm just here to point out something that I probably should have pointed out earlier before this agenda, but on your retirees um notice here. Kelly Pulley is actually years. So, we want to make sure that that is noted. It is in all of our um like newspaper ads and everything that's going out. But I just wanted you to make sure you noted that Kelly is 30 proud years as a teacher with Alpena Public Schools. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry about that, Kelly. I'm Yvan Lefave Johnson. I still live in Alpena Township. I'm very disappointed that you're looking to engage Coleman Legal Group at 275 an hour when you already have Trun Law engaged as your general counsel. Trun represents the majority

106of Michigan school districts. They've been representing districts in our state since the 50s. The firm has a wealth of constitutional law expertise, including free speech, religion, and due process. as a result of all that work and Trun's recognized as the gold standard the premier public sector law firm in our state. My understanding is that Trun issued an opinion that advised you against adopting the bathroom policy which is their professional responsibility per your contract with the firm. Just because you don't like an opinion does not mean the firm is acting with bias. In fact, they're representing our interests. It appears that you're shopping with our taxpayer dollars to get an opinion that supports a radical political agenda targeting vulnerable kids. And that's just disappointing. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, we will move on to letters and

107communication information and proposals. Do have um few emails for you to read that came through to you. Um, so we received the board received 91 emails titled abolishing the proposed bathroom policy. A letter from Jill Nenowitz was in support of the proposed privacy policy. Um then there was an additional letter from Janet Far Fair Fairchild to the board regarding the privacy policy. Um and then I have a few letters to read. We just wanted to announce how many. Yep. Yep. Just what the communication was and then letters that came to you. Okay. The letter from Janet Fairchild writes, "I am writing to urge the board to adopt a policy on student access to bathrooms, locker rooms, and other private facilities that is both legally sound and genuinely inclusive. Michigan law affirmed by the 2002 Roush

108World LLC versus MDCR decision requires public schools to provide access based on gender identity. Departing from the standard exposes the district to legal, financial, and reputable risk. At the same time, concerns about privacy and safety, especially from the students and families, deserve thoughtful attention. This doesn't have to be a zero- sum issue. Rather than relying on anecdotal input from private conversations or student council discussions, I encourage the board to work with students and staff to develop a structured confidential survey. This would offer a clearer, more inclusive understanding of student experiences without placing anyone in an uncomfortable spotlight. Leadership means listening carefully, seeking better data, and making decisions that reflect the core mission of a public school district. I urge you to lead with independence, not obligation, to the shifting priorities of political action groups and

109to ensure that every student, transgender, size, gender, alike, feel safe, respected, and supported. Thank you for your continued openness and thoughtful consideration. Janet Fairchild. Um, I received a letter from Tim Marquott. The school has a restroom located next to the main office in which anyone can use. However, I would not be comfortable with my son or daughter having a designated female or male restroom or locker room with the opposite sex. It is hard to believe I would have to send such an email. I am not a girl dad, but I can just imagine if I was how infuriating I would be if our school adopts such a potentially harmful liberal policy. I received another email This is from Mary LeBarge. I absolutely do not want anyone that is not biologically female in the same bathroom

110or locker room with my granddaughters. The Alpena public schools deserves a big failing grade for my granddaughter's education. You must adopt the Fairview plan to keep all the young people safe. Sincerely, Mary LeBarge. Okay. Thank you. Okay. reports and information from the superintendent and staff. Superintendent update just uh not self grandizing or anything. I did write a column in this week's Alpena news just about if you pass that down just about the upcoming long-term facility study. So just making everyone aware and yes I am wearing the same coat in that picture I am right now. stranger. Uh, and that's it for this section. I give him a lot extras, I guess. Do we need to take up a collection for a new coat, Dave? Yeah, one fits. I just want to say thank you for

111quoting Neil's Boore. Einstein gets a lot of love but uh bore not necessarily so but uh a brilliant physicist. Thank you for for that. Okay. Um information and questions from board members. I just had a sort of a kind of a request question request uh for like big print stuff. I've mentioned this a couple of occasions, but uh I I believe uh my eye doctor is is is in agreement that the chemo may have done something to my vision. We're having a difficulty getting a closeup. Um otherwise, I seem to be okay. But getting a prescription that works close up is proving to be really really challenging. And it's not just the regular presbopia. So, if we could just have like stuff that I can read and and like there was a the the like

112I I said the other day, the questions online um about the book, you know, looking at that um and I did finally find it. I I just can't read it. Um even with this, I mean, I'd have to get maybe a magnifying glass or something. So, just big print stuff for the old guy, please. Thank you very much. I do have a question, too. Um we haven't heard anything about the cross country track coming is that where are we with that? Uh so it's a project that we've been working on for a couple of years uh with Simon and Run United is the primary funer uh that we're working out the details of we will have a small cost for fencing and then they would be covering the costs for everything else. Okay. Is there

113a timeline for um Yeah, they want to have it ready for um the fall season. Um and I think that's reasonable. Yeah, I'm just I'm waiting on some feedback from the DNR on the trail cross. Yeah. Okay. So, once we have all that squared away, then we'll we'll announce it, so to speak. Awesome. Cool. I have a note um in the gifts. Dons Ford gave that amount to pay off the FFA tractor. I'm not sure which one, but I a note to them or a mark for them because uh we didn't buy the next tractor from them. We went with uh Summer's this winter was um but they still were very generous. So kind of a mark for them on that one. Anyone else? Okay. Um, up next, uh, for everyone here, we are moving

114into a closed session regarding a personnel matter and, uh, when we come back, uh, we will likely be taking action. Um so we will be doing that but um if you decide to leave that's okay too. Uh where are we headed? We'll stay in here just additional people joining. Okay so we'll ask everyone to uh leave once we go into close session but we will need a motion to move into a close session uh for personnel. So moved support. Do we need a roll call on this one on personnel? We don't not to go into close. Well, yeah, for some of the close sessions you do, but yeah, it was AJ and then Eric Hansen. Okay. All in favor, show of hands, please. All seven. Thank you. You were late. Sorry. I'm sorry. [Music] I

115ordered a new one. I think they're all messed up. Yeah, I went ahead and ordered another one because I know I didn't wear my school colors last year. I have no idea who that I don't have no idea who I were either. So, okay. Do we have everybody? But okay, we are um back in open are we coming? Are we back live? Okay, microphone's on. We are back in open session and we will need a motion to approve the nonrenewal of a probationary teacher. I would offer that motion. Second. Okay, we will need a roll call on this one, please. Yeah. Member Hansen. Hi. Member Costain. I. Member MacArthur. I. Member Fritz. I. Member Lawson. I. Member Pazinski. I. Member Minhart. I. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Uh, up ahead for advanced planning. June 4th

116is AC's graduation. June 8th is Alpena High School graduation at 1:30 at Wildcat Stadium. June 10th will be the retirement dinner for A.E.A. members at the Apex at 5. Um, all retirees. Aea, all yes, not just A.EA, but yes, all APS retirement dinner. All employees. Uh, get your, uh, RSPs and checks in for summer on that one. June 23rd is our workshop here at 5:30 and June 30th is the regular meeting here at 5:30. And with that we can adjourn.