001Okay. Uh, welcome to the Shorgan Area Schools Board of Education meeting, Monday, February 23rd, 2026, 6:30. Chris >> Julie >> here. >> Tim Tarjac >> here. Deborah Buunner >> here. >> Luke Kakuski, >> Travis Neville >> here, >> Richard Pon >> here, >> Matt Malar >> here, >> Heather Lake. >> Please uh stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. First of all, we have some um amendments to our um agenda. I need a minute. I need an amendment to approve the East Elementary asbestous bid. That would be 10E. Amendment to approve the board of education conference request. That's 10F. Approval for JB uh softball coaching recommendation
00211E and to add an additional close session to discuss board member cont conduct and complaint. I'm looking for a motion for those amendments. >> Motion made by Travis. >> Support by Tim. >> Tim Parek. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buunner. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Richard Pean. >> Yes. >> Matt Archek. >> Yes. >> Julie Loila. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, next thing on our agenda is the student recognition and Sandy S. is going to come up to the high school is our best time of the meeting. We look forward to this to hear all the wonderful things that are happening with our students. Okay. And hi everyone. We're going to start with some bitter chanc. So I don't personally know Chance, but I know both of his parents very well. Um, one
003of them I had as a former student just All right. So, um, on behalf of Zach Wright, one of our teachers and also one of our wrestling coaches, um, he is proud to nominate Chance Wcowski as student of the month. Chance is a smart, hardworking, upbeat, and very respectful young man. He's enjoyed having Chance in his leadership and ethics class in the second quarter. He's always friendly, participates, and has a great attitude. Chance is also on the bowling team, the golf team, and makes straight A's in school. Chance is an outstanding young man with a very bright future. And Mr. Wright says he's looking forward to hearing about the great things that he does in the years to come. Okay, our eighth grade student of the month is McKenna Brock. She right now is playing
004her last basketball game of the season, so she won't be joining us, but I will read shortly from Mr. Erno's letter about her. So, McKenna, as an eighth grade student, has performed very well in her advanced algebra class. She's shown a very good interest expanding her algebra skills. She takes it upon herself to verify work is completed as required. She works well with peers, students, their uh sorry, supports their efforts and assists where she can. It is therefore with high honor that Mr. Arno uh selected McKenna Brock as the eighth grade student of the month. Our ninth grade student of the month is come on up. So I don't have Tegan in class either, but I have coached her in the past. So uh she was nominated by Mr. Yos and he says that he
005has had the pleasure of teaching Tegan in his US history course this year. The main reason Mr. Yos nominated Tegan is her work ethic and eagerness to learn. From the beginning of the school year until now, he has seen Tegan grow in her attitudes and abilities. She's the first one to participate in class discussions, lead groups, dur group projects, and ensure everyone becomes involved and pushes to see both sides of an issue. She is polite and kind to everyone she meets and truly makes his job as a teacher easier. Kegan is was an obvious choice for Mr. Yos, and he looks forward to seeing her continued growth over the next few years in whatever path she chooses. Our sophomore student of the month is Audrey Reading. But I don't think Audrey is here. So Audrey
006was nominated also by Mr. Yoast and he said it is his honor and privilege to have nominated Audrey Reading for student of the month in his AP class. Um he teaches his a AP class essentially like it is a college course. So, the expectations are higher and the content is more difficult than your traditional high school course. Audrey has navigated through these increased expectations and she never gives up. Sometimes it's not easy and she does doubt herself, but she continues to pick herself up again and again. And this is why she was an obvious choice for Mr. HOST. And our junior student of the month is Keeper. Go. >> Okay. And I did actually nominate Liam for student of the month. So I selected Liam as the student of the month for his honor as
007as an honor in this class because of his outstanding class participation, leadership, and strong academic drive. Liam is one of my students in my advanced junior English class. He consistently pushes himself academically in all of his subjects and I've observed that he always asks very thoughtful questions and contributes meaningfully to class discussion. Liam works exceptionally well with his classmates showing respect, cooperation, and a positive attitude. He gives nothing but his best effort in everything he does. sayy goalie. >> Okay. And from Shuan High School, our final of the night is senior James >> Hudac. Thank you. So, James was nominated by Mr. Blcowski and he says that he has the pleasure to recognize James Cluch as the 12th grade student of the month for January. He is in Mr. Bcowsk's secondhour woodworking class and he
008selected James because he has demonstrated a strong work ethic, responsibility, and a positive attitude in shop. He is a consistent worker and is eager to learn different aspects of the woodworking field. He has taken the initiative to grow his skills and try new techniques as well and continues to be an impressive student. James are also called Jimmy. I've heard Jimmy is always willing to lend a helping hand to classmates. He sets a positive example in the shop by staying focused, working safely, and supporting others when they need assistance. And Mr. Bcowski again looks forward to seeing his continued success in the future. Um, next we have Kangas to domin academy. >> Hello. Um, Mick Kangas will study teacher academy. Um, we are going to do our student spotlight. Uh we like to call our students
009spot ladies. We like to highlight our students not just for their academic successes uh but also for the success that they're having uh in overcoming life's challenges. Uh so we do two one for our inerson students and one for our virtual students. So first we'll start with our inerson. This is a student that I and all the other uh teachers know incredibly well. Z Franka, get off here. So Zayn has been with us. This is your third year, >> I believe. So >> Okay. So Zayn has been with us for three years now. And I I won't lie. Okay. So it's it's been, you know, a little bit of a little bit of a struggle sometimes. >> It's been fun though. >> But it's been fun. But it's been fun. And and and Zane can
010uh can sometimes get really into it. You're really into the work. And sometimes he's going to goof off. But you know what? I'm always going to come away with a smile on my face when he's on Zane in the classroom. So, um, it's been an absolute pleasure to be your teacher. Zayn is on track to graduate this year, which is incredible, which is on time for him as well, which is great. And he has been really locking it in this year to make sure that he can graduate. He's been doing an awesome job. We're so proud of you and how far you've come and everything that you're overcoming that we're super proud to give you this award. Okay, for our virtual students, we got Olivia Benjamin. Come on up. >> Okay, so Olivia uh joined
011us last May. Um and ever since then, she's been one of our hardest working virtual students. She contacts us pretty much every day. She's always working. Um, and she is going to be graduating this year. Um, she's always super polite in her correspondence with us. And, um, we're super glad to have such a hardworking student and someone who we don't have to, you know, are able to uh, contact us and get some work done. So, thank you so much, Olivia, for all your hard work and congratulations on all the success you've had. Also, um, we wanted to ask what was it that you were planning on doing after you accomplished? >> Um, I'm not 100% sure actually. >> That's okay. That's okay. Well, whatever you do, we know you're going to be successful at it.
012So, um, congratulations to you. >> Okay. Thank you. Now there are lots of people in this room that are here to support these students and without you we may not see what we have right now in our students. You are a big part of their development and how they have grown into these wonderful people. So I would like you to stand up so we can give you an applause. At this time, I'm gonna ask um Sandy Safford if you wouldn't mind taking a picture. Are you going to do that? >> We have We have a couple at basketball. We'll get them tomorrow. >> Okay. So, and Mr. Kas, you'll get yours. >> Okay. All right. Perfect. All right. So, moving on. >> Okay. At this point, We're going to scoop. So, you got more chairs.
013>> Oh, yeah. >> I know. in our agenda is the approval minutes. >> I need a motion to approve the minutes of the January 26, 2026 regular meeting. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Rich >> Richard. >> Yes. Tim Tarject, >> yes. >> Deborah Muner, >> yes. Matt March, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> And Julie Loa, >> yes. >> Next we have um data report by >> I don't know. Round of applause or not, but what >> I said I will always cheer for you. >> Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. So, uh we have a couple different times a year that we look at data pretty heavily. Uh we at the beginning of the year we get data um when students come into uh the classes to
014find out where they are and then in the middle of the year we kind of check to see how we're doing and then at the end of the year we check again to see how we did on our goals for the year. So our midyear data just came in um after our last board meeting. We closed the window for NWA. So, uh, that's why we're not giving it until this point in the year. And, uh, NWA specifically is what we're going to talk about, um, tonight. I'll be very brief because I know that you have other things that you need to do, but NWA is something we use as a benchmarking tool. So, uh, at different points in students education, we want them to be at a certain level. The benchmarking tool tells us if
015they're meeting that standard or not. So we start with benchmarking and then if a student is not meeting the benchmark then we do a screener to see where they are uh falling below. Those are also called diagnostic assessments and then we intervene based on the screeners and diagnostics and then we have formative and summitative assessments. Formative tells us how we're doing in the moment. So a lot of those are done in classrooms with quick checks, pop quizzes is what they used to be when we were back in school. um exit tickets. So on the way out the door, teachers will say, "What did you learn today? What's the question that you still have?" Um sometimes they'll start class with a bell ringer or board work. So they can say, "What we did yesterday? Did you
016retain it? What do I need to do?" Summitative is after they're done teaching. So this would be like a unit assessment or a chapter test. Um then we have state testing, MSTEP, PSAT. Um these are the tests that we do in the spring that are pretty high stakes for us as a school. We know that assessments um like MSTEP are one piece of the puzzle, but it's an important piece for us as a school because it is how we're rated. And then career and college readiness um we take it used to be work keys. Now it's called the win assessment and that is a basic skills test. And then we have SAT which is the college readiness entrance exam. So that's kind of the uh continuum of assessments that we use. So this is NWA
017math data. So we have fall, winter, spring, and then the increase. Right now we don't have spring because we haven't gotten there yet. So this is a norms reference norms referenced test. So we look at students across the whole United States of America and they take the norm across the board for that grade level of student. So that is where this number comes from. Right here in this column in this column. So the norm for kindergarten here you'd see is 142. Our students came in and our mean at Shboen area schools was 141. So we're within one RIT of and that is a specific measurement. The RIT is I can go into that with you if you would like to talk about it and I'm not going to do it right here. Um, but the
018really exciting part is that we get to see, so our kindergarteners came in and this was the mean RIP for that group and this is where they are mid year. So they've already made an increase of 10 points which is above the increased norm. So the green is really good. That means that we are above the national average. Uh the yellow means we're within one rip point. And then if there was nothing highlighted, that means we're right at it. So there was nothing that we were more than one rip point off of which is huge because if you look at the standard deviation it's actually a lot bigger than one usually so we are very close to the average uh I like to see the growth piece of it this means that what we're doing
019here is making a big difference we started a lot of initiatives this year um we're working on guaranteed and viable curriculum particularly in math which is why these scores are super exciting for me because it shows what we're doing is working. Um we've also started the FIM which is a formative assessment tool that we're using and uh we also started power hour. So kindergarten through sixth grade students have at least one hour of intervention built into their schedule every day. Jessica, before we move on to that, can you um I just want to highlight a couple things. First of all, this is uh my third midwinter review and this is the first one we don't have any red on it. Right. >> That's exciting. Right. And that's that's uh a lot of green and yellow
020means that it's just one point away. But also, I just wanted to reiterate to the board members, if you take a look at third grade, uh 16 was the growth. That is phenomenal growth. >> So, the norm is eight points and ours is double the norm. >> Yeah. So, our mean RIT increase was 16 points. >> And you can make a lot of assumptions there, but one of the assumptions that's pretty clear to most administrators, including the building administrators over in the corner, is that you've got a really good group of third grade uh teachers that work really well together. >> And order to have that type of growth in one year and exceed the norm, almost double the norm in growth is incredible. So, kudos to uh the intermediate building and those teachers in
021the third grade level. They're really knocking it out of the park. And the other thing that we talked about is that fifth grade did a really really good job. Some things that people wouldn't know is that fifth grade has the largest amount of students with IEPs. So that's students with accommodations, modifications, and for them to be one point away from the norm. That fifth grade group of teachers, once again, credit to those fifth grade teachers and really doing a lot. You can see that their uh mean RIT score is nine, exceeding the norm that is five. and having a very, you know, a a challenging student population. That's a really great job by the teachers. So, congratul stood out. Thank you, Jessica. >> Yeah, and one of the things instructionally that we've done with K6
022specifically is common formative assessment. So, when we're looking at what we're teaching, uh, teachers, no matter which class they're in, they have a common formative assessment assessment, meaning you have maybe three math problems, but every teacher is giving the same three problems to make sure that every kid in that grade level is understanding the concept. Um, and then their power hour groups are um drawn from each class. So, kids are working on specific skills, not just for that classroom, but across the whole third grade. So they're really able to target what they need. >> And are we are we ready? I'd like to ask you a question real quick. Jessica, put you on the spot. We've been working on, as many of you know, we've been working on our math curriculum for two years going
023on three a little bit, right, with some of the formative assessments. Is it fair to say that some of this uh progress um seeing so much green, seeing so much growth, is there a correlation between our curriculum work and this? Do you assume? >> I would make that assumption. It is hard to boil it down to one variable because we've had several different variables. Um I think instructional leadership matters. I think having a guaranteed and viable curriculum matters and having interventions where students are matter. So you can't really pick one thing, but I would say that it's a strong correlation between having that curriculum work done and having students performing well. >> Great. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Any questions about math before I move on? Okay. Uh for reading, you're going to see much
024of the same thing. Uh we have a little bit more yellow here. We're a year back from where we were with math with uh the guaranteed and viable curriculum. And what that means is that there's a guarantee that we're going to teach all of the standards throughout the year. And that it doesn't matter which teacher you have, you're going to have all of the standards taught. So, you know, you've got Mrs. Buunner teaching one third grade class and Mr. Neville teaching another. they are going those students aren't going to get a different experience. They're going to get the same educational material. It might be delivered a little differently, but they're still going to we're going to guarantee that they're getting that third grade curriculum. So, with reading specifically, um you'll notice kindergarten, they came in
025here so that so when you start kindergarten, that's really like letter sounds and uh letter recognition to start the year. So, we did well with that. And then when we started moving into um sitewords and CBC where we've been having to do blends um we're we dipped a little bit but we're still only one RIP point off and we're really close to meeting the norm. Everything else is at or above the mean RIP growth substantially above in some cases >> and no red. No red this year. >> No red. No red. That's the big one. Um, so one of the things over years of working with data and specifically middle school and high school students, sometimes you see a big dip um in middle school and high school scores. And the great thing is that
026we don't see that here. So specifically when you're looking at sixth and seventh grade, we didn't have mid-year data. Um, there weren't quite enough eighth graders to have a statistically relevant group there, so I didn't include it. Um, but 9, 10, and 11, they don't do midyear NWA because they're doing finals for their classes or their midyear exams. So, we don't want to bog them down. Uh, we do that in May well enough. We don't want to do it two times a year. So, we don't have that here. Uh, but you'll see we're still increasing and students here are already outperforming the norm for the end of the year Brit. So, we're in mid year through and we're already outperforming where we need to be at the end, which is fantastic. So there are graphs
027in here. This is shared with you. If you want to go through all of these, you are welcome to. There is um one of these for every single one. These are more for teachers and when we meet with uh grade level groups to kind of go through. Um but it's the same data that I just shared with you just in a different format. And then the last piece that I have for you um the ELA and SAT, PSAT scores here. Uh, I know it's a really busy slide. I decided to put it all together just for the ease of seeing it all in the colors all together. Um, we still have a lot of green, which is really promising. What I compared here was state average, our COPD average, and then Shabboan. And in all
028the ELA and almost all of the math, you'll see that we are above both the state and COP average. Um, or at least one of them. So, for example, here in seventh grade, we are above the state average, but not quite the COP average. So, we're we're leading in a lot of those areas as well. We do know that even though we're leading, we still have some work to do in these areas. and that's where our curriculum work is coming in. Um, and then with PSAT and SAT, uh, that's where a lot of our work is going to be focused on having that guaranteed and viable curriculum for secondary. It's a little more difficult because you're not doing basic skills. You're doing a lot of higher level thinking. Um, I've also been talking with some
029of the high school teachers about We have a lot of students who have alternative um, I guess classes. I don't want to say alternative. So, they're taking either CTE or dual enrollment courses. they're not taking a standard English 11 class or um like a composition class or trigonometry right up to the SAT, which makes a big difference if you don't have a formal class where you're in that routine of doing that math or that ELA every day. Um so we're talking about ways that we can uh prepare students for the SAT and help them kind of get back into that mode of test taking because it is a pretty rigorous test. questions about >> looks good. Thank you, Jessica. >> That's all I have for you. >> Good stuff. >> Uh the next thing on
030the agenda is the board president report. And um the only thing I have is I just want to remind uh the board that there is a uh conference spring conference coming up. So you take a look at that. you decide you want to go to something on there, just uh contact Chris and she'll >> help you >> through it. >> It's in L, I believe, Lancing this year. Am I right, Rich? Yeah, Lancing. It's May 1st and 2nd, correct? >> Um, okay. So, the next thing on our agenda is the curriculum committee update, which is me. And um >> Oh, yeah. I always >> Are you trying to skip over me, Julie? >> Yeah, but you better do it. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Am I going too too long for you? >> Okay. Uh superintendent
031report. Uh I have here to work. There we go. First thing I want to talk I I like to share uh some positivity, but uh I don't know if you guys know this, but Steve Fleming is doing some crazy stuff right now. Steve Fleming is our transportation director and our building and grounds uh director. Very busy man here. But right now he is actually I can't this race consists of 158 miles of fat tire biking in the snow. Then he snowshoes for 101 miles. They start in Marquette and go across the up. So he's doing that right now straight. No breaks, no sleeping. I think the whole thing takes like 30 hours straight. So if you and he's pretty passionate about he does a lot of this Iron Man stuff but I wish him the
032best of luck. And then this today this afternoon we we got everybody after our cabinet meeting sent him a picture team Fleming uh to kind of uh cheer him on a little bit. But I thought that that is that's incredible. I wish him the best of luck. So very cool. Um, I want to just I want to talk real quickly because sometimes we just look at data, we look at the product and we don't talk about, well, how did we get to the product? One of the things that all the building administrators and Jessica over there in the corner as our new curriculum director has embraced is the idea of PLC's. And if you're old as I am, PLC's is not anything new. Richard Defor in the 1980s, he was the principal of Stevenson High
033School in Lincolnshshire. I was teaching right across the street from him. So I got to rub elbows with him. He's now since passed unfortunately, but he was the original founder of what we call today professional learning communities. And what Jessica was showing you, I want you to kind of make a quick connection here, is that it's because of the PLC's we're following this model that I believe and I think all of us believe that we can make some of the green gains that you just saw that uh Jessica shared with you today. There's four questions that you live by if you're a true Richard Defor old school PLC guy like I am. The first question is what do we want students to know? And this seems like a very easy common sense question, right? But
034really what Richard Dor was getting at is do you have a curriculum? Right? Are you teaching to your power standards? Right? Are you not wasting time talking about things that are not a part of your curriculum? Time is very important. So to have a really good plan of what you're planning to teach is extremely important. We've been working on math for two and a half years since I got here and we're still putting some bows and on on the math curriculum as well even after two and a half years. That's how long it takes to build a viable and guaranteed curriculum. Two and a half years we've been working on math. We've since uh added English this year, right? And we don't want to overwhelm the teacher. Some of the teachers that are in here
035might say, "Hold on a second." You know, pump the brakes. You know, we're still trying to figure this math math thing out. What, you know, give us some time to digest English. But they've been very good. And when you talk about what Jessica just led to, um, how will we know if they are learning it? She talked a lot about formative assessments. That's how we know if they're learning it. So, we know what we want to teach them. That's the plan. And then throughout the process, we're doing formative assessments, which means we're checking to make sure they're actually learning what we're teaching. Right? That's really important. But what is even most important is that we give them time, right, guys? >> You sleeping over there, Ben? No. >> Okay. So, and and we you've heard
036me argue for time uh for two and a half years. The one thing that teachers don't have enough of is time. We spend our half days, our PD half days. A lot of a lot of parents wonder what the heck are you doing in the afternoons. What we're doing is our teachers are getting together. They're looking at their formative assessments. They're comparing it to their curriculum plan and they're trying to figure out if they're reaching those goals. Are we teaching what we're planning to teach our kids, right? And then the third question, what will we do if they don't? You've heard a lot of stuff about this thing called MTSS. That's where that comes into play, right? Ben Schlly and Jessica are are going to create a a learning afternoon for us. What's the date,
037Jessica? >> March 4th. >> And Jessica and Ben Schlly have been uh really diving taking a deep dive into MTSS. And what that is multiple tiered system of support. And what's most important about MTSS is what we refer to as tier one support systems. And that's what they're also doing when they're meeting with those PLC times. They're looking at their formative assessments, but they're also talking as teachers. Hey, some of my students aren't learning what I'm trying to teach them. I wonder why. And they need help. If they need help, they go to tier one interventions. So, when we talk about what was that that you mentioned, power, >> we got power hour. What else we got? We got intervention class at the high school. What was the other one that uh is that power
038hour at the elementary school as well? >> So they call it power hour at the intermediate school and power hour at the intermediate school too. But now we know we know what we wanted to teach. We know if they're learning it or not and if they're not learning it then we try to get them help right and the first first level of help is in the classroom with the regular teacher. If that doesn't work we move on to something called tier two. That might be a push in or a pull out trying to work with that student individually on what they're trying to what they're trying to improve on. So that's question three of the PLC four questions. The last one which I think sometimes goes um unchecked or unnoticed. The fourth question kids al
039often um we don't get to them. It's kind of sad but when you go through one, two, and three and you only have an afternoon, right? That's going to take up a lot of time. What am I teaching? How do I know my kids are learning it? And if they're not learning it, what am I going to do about it in an afternoon? That's a that's a tall task. If you got four or five teachers, grade level teachers, like the third grade teachers, four or five teachers sitting around talking about that stuff. That's a full day. If you just try to accomplish uh questions one, two, and three, but question four is the one I'm always concerned about. It's because we have a lot of really sharp kids in Shabbo. And a lot of times
040the sharp kids, the kids that get an A and they're not feeling really challenged in the classroom, we forget about them because they're no trouble, right? They're getting A's, you'll be fine on your own. And quite often we leave them to their own devices. But the reality is, and we need to find time for four as well, is that when students have when they're not being challenged, we have to find some enrichment. We have to find something. Maybe it's an upper level class. Maybe it's AP. Maybe it's dual enrollment. Whatever the case might be. But we don't want to just forget about these kids because we're so focused on one, two, and three. We forget about four. So that's something that is near and dear to me that we continue to challenge those kids who
041are doing well. They need our time and attention just like any other kid does. So that's how we get that green. Right, Jessica? Would you agree with that? >> Thank you. Just want to make sure I'm on the right track. >> I'm with you. >> You're with me? Okay. Okay, now I'm going to get into some business. Uh, this afternoon, our cabinet meeting, we went over the agenda real quick, and I just want to give you a few things that, uh, maybe we can kind of, uh, help expedite the, um, meeting here today. But, uh, you're going to find, we've been talking about these for a couple of months now. Some of these documents are in their second month, 60 days reviewed. So, they are up for um, approval. You guys as board members have
042had an opportunity to look at these uh documents, ask questions, and now we're going to vote on those today. Okay. Hopefully hopefully we get support. Hopefully they're pushed forward. But the curriculum guide, I know Marty is very excited about that, right Marty? >> Overly, >> right? Because you can't do what without it? What? >> Thank you, Jessica. I was trying to That was a softball I was looking at. >> Come on. >> We take care of >> Yeah, you do. Um, so curriculum guide, we got to get that approved tonight because the high school counselors can't start scheduling for next year until you guys approve the curriculum guide. We've been talking about it for two months. So hopefully you got all your questions answered. We can get that approved uh here tonight. AI guide. Uh,
043thank you Chris and all the building principles, but you guys, artificial intelligence, we're one of the few school districts in the northern region that does not have an approved guide yet. And I have to be honest with you, this is a boilerplate. It's a baseline, but at least it's something. Okay? Because we got to get something. And then right now, the problem with every school district in the state of Michigan and throughout the country is how do you stay up with how fast artificial intelligence is growing? And right now, we don't even have a guide book. So, before we can open up AI to our students, we have to approve this guide book. Then, I've challenged each of the building principles, grades 4 through 12. They're going to meet with their grade levels, and they're
044going to share this guide book with them. But most importantly, after they share the guide book, student adult guide book, there's a a waiver form, right? A kind of a sign off. I I sat through this training and know everything there is about artificial intelligence. Now, no, I know enough to open it up, but uh we can't legally allow our students access to artificial intelligence until we've taken them through this training as a grade and then that they sign off. And parents also need to be aware that this is going on as well. Um, it's coming. It's passing us by and we're chasing behind right now. And I know we've been talking about this AI guide for two months as well, 60 days. And hopefully we can get that approved here tonight as well. Um,
045our new food service director um has brought forward a new wellness policy with some um edits, some changes, some additions. He's shared that with the cabinet. You shared that with the board meeting several times. It's in your packet. Um it's all good stuff. I don't need to read it to you, but we've been talking about that for 60 days as well. The Compass MOA, you guys already did action on this two a month ago. You already approved Compass to have access to the live version of our videotape to help with safety and supervision with our Compass people, but we didn't put it in writing yet. So, um Tim suggested this. Thank you, Tim, for suggesting that we need to get that in writing so that it's concrete. And next year, what we'll do, I think
046most of you know this, hopefully, we have an annual agreement with the county because the Compass uh program rents two or three of our classrooms every year depending on need. So, we're just going to include this next year. This this what we're going to add because we're the year's already started. It wasn't a part of the original agreement. We're going to add this uh memorandum of um understanding here today and I think you guys we've beat this up pretty good for the last 60 or 90 days too as well. So I think you got all your questions answered and I think we can get that approved here tonight as well. And then lastly, our second bond issuance is ready to go out. Uh if you guys remember last November, we got uh the community supported
047um the passage of our of our bond. We extended our millillage and that brought $22.5 million in additional revenue to the school district specifically for what the things on the bond requested. And that biggest one that I know all of us are most concerned about is East Elementary, right Dana? Where you at? She Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Dana's very excited about this by the way. You could tell by the smile on her face. But we're going to start spring break. We we uh because we moved second grade over to the intermediate building last year. If you go into the elementary building where the second grade classrooms used to be, those we're going to be able to get access to them. We're going to put a a a wall in the hallway to keep students on
048one side, but we're going to have on the other side that end we're going to have access to six uh classrooms and we're going to start work this spring break, right? And we got some little things that we're going to get done because the goal is this and I think it's a challenging goal. If we start in spring break on East Elementary and do everything that we want to do to that building, it's going to take us at least if if we don't run any if we don't run into any snafoos, it's going to take a year and a half. So that means spring break to summer, all of summer. Everything at East Elementary that we used to do in the summer is going where to >> Okay, just checking, making sure you're you're following
049along. So that that includes kindergarten camp. That includes all the stuff that we used to do in East Elementary. That includes uh elementary teachers who might want to get into their classroom. Everything is there's going to be there's already I saw that. What the heck was that big machine out front? I don't know. But um there's already going to be a lot of stuff going on. So for safety purposes this summer, everything that we usually did at East Elementary is going to be moved over to the intermediate building. And then we come back to school next year and we're going to do whatever we can during the school day. Obviously, it's going to slow down. It's going to ramp down significantly. We got students there. We got winter coming. But the next summer, we should
050be able to finish this project. And if you see the list of things that we're attempting to do in a year and a half, it's it's it's a challenging list. And it's going to cost uh out of the $22.5 million that we got in um in bond revenue, 10.5 is going to go directly to East Elementary. So by the time East Elementary is done, it's going to look nice. Ann is really excited about that. I can tell over there. Um, also we we've been talking about the emergency operation plan in the student handbook. We're still picking at that. That's not ready for approval. So, we're going to push that off uh maybe another 30 days, if not longer. We want to make sure we get it right before we bring it to the board for
051approval. So, real quick, any questions about any of these? I know Deborah, you're the chair for the policy committee. You've dealt with a lot of these directly. Did you have any comments that you want to add? just a lot of review and we're all I think we're taking it very seriously. We want to get it done. We want to get it done right. >> Right. And I think us meeting monthly with Julie being a part of that. Crystal's done a great job. Uh Chris, thank you for your help, but this is a lot of work here. I mean, it it's a lot of work. So, and Deborah, you you spearheaded most of that as the chair for the policy committee. We appreciate that. Now, real quickly, moving through. I know Heather's here. She wants to
052hear about the 27L funds, right? Sure, why not? Uh Heather and I have been talking quite a bit. As you guys know, we've been in negotiation process with the union. Uh we've had a group of union representatives and a group of uh negotiation team representatives. We've met several times. This was actually a part of last month's superintendent report. So, I just want I just want to review. Not going to read it to you again, but we've done this, right? We've met with the teachers union. We've negotiated how to handle this money that's been provided to us by the state and we are just reminder it's a one-time stipen probably never going to happen again. Thank you state. Thank you governor. Um and we've went through the governance and compliance piece of this and for we've
053been talking about this for two months as well. But now in your packet you have another memorandum of understanding MOAU whatever you want to call it and I think we're ready to approve it today. And some of the some of the stuff that um we ironed out between the last meeting and this meeting is that we decided as a group that uh the part-time employees are also going to get a full stipen. And we talked about um what is going to be the gross amount. The gross amount per employee is going to be $800. That's the gross amount. The net amount may be different because it will be you'll have individual deductions. Some people might want to put in their 403b. Some people may be uh in a different tax bracket. So, the gross amount
054is going to be the same. The net amount may be a little bit different in folks uh paychecks uh when they get that net amount, but this is going to this is nice. This is nice that the state has done this. Um and I got word from Marlene today. and she made it official. And I don't know if she told you this, Heather, or not, but March 26th. Did she talk to you about that? No. Okay. I believe March 26th, this is a lot of work for Marlene. Marlene does our payroll, the only person that does our payroll. So to add this to 200 employees paychecks with everyone being a little bit different based on individual deductions, that's quite a challenge. So, a big a big shout out to Marlene and uh she is guarant
055I should say guarantee. I hate my don't we're trying our very best to make sure um that this will end up in the uh March 26th um paycheck for all of our 200 employees that are going to be impacted by this. Also, I've talked with Deanna. Um, I was not going to take um a part of this stipen, but I'm eligible um just like um all employees are. But, um what I've decided to do instead of not take it, I've talked to Deanna. What I'd like to do is donate my whatever's out left after $800 to East Elementary. They have some the March book fair coming up >> to reading month. >> So, I've already worked with Deanna. I'd like to donate my portion of my stipen to the east elementary so that they can
056go and they can pick out individual teachers can go and pick out some individual books whatever they see fit for their particular grade level. So um and then all of this money is also as we talked about in the past it's reportable and so it's going to be taxed it'll be part of uh teachers pensions. So for those uh teachers who are close to retirement, that's a good thing, too, because this is extra income that could impact their pension payment moving forward. Any questions about 27L? We've been talking about it for three months, so I think we nailed it. And thank you, Heather, and and all of the uh we had we also had the union rep for the bus drivers, Rob Duffany was there as well. And then also Chris, uh the representative for
057the custodians was there. So uh they did a great job. in representing their constituents. Just a real quick summary, we got a lot of stuff going on as far as building and grounds. Steve is usually here to talk about building and grounds, but as I told you, he's up in the up and he's on a bike right now or snowshoes. Where's where where's what's his snowshoes right now? >> Is he in snowshoes? So, the bike part's already done. >> He's actually warming up right now. He just teed me and he's he's at a warming station. So, >> well, tell him I'm doing his job for him. So, wish him the best of luck. But Steve usually hands the handles the updates for building and grounds. Um so I'll just give you a quick um these
058are some of the things that we talked about the most uh most recently. We've already talked about East Elementary. Uh middle school bleachers are going to be replaced this summer. The middle school fencing is going to be completed this summer. That's going to keep all of our lovely intermediate students in the recess area in the playground. No one will be able to enter. No one will be able to sneak out. Um, Ben Shaw applied for a grant, got a grant for a greenhouse, so that's going to be kind of cool. We're going to put that up this summer as well. The middle school covered walkway is under redesign. The track and tennis courts will be completed this summer. The athletic the athletic elevator at the high school we've talked about quite a bit. We're almost
059done with the plans. We're not going to have time to get it done this summer. So, it looks like it's going to get pushed into the summer of 2027. And the bus just um Steve just uh informed us at our last building and grounds meeting that after this bond um after the 22.5 million is brought in and spent a portion of that is to replace some of our old buses with new buses. And when we're done with this bond, seven, you can't see it, but seven of 13 buses will be new. So when we're done with this bond, our bus, we should be in a pretty good bus situation and not have to worry about buying a new bus for quite some time. I just talked to John Hman, our new f food service director.
060He has a goal of replacing all the dishwashers in each building. He'd like to get that done this summer. I support him in that. And then Inesse Academy, we're still uh talking about the redesign. We really need a a shower/b out here for our kiddos and the alternative ed and we're still working on that design. So, any questions about that? I know Steve's not here. He's usually really great about answering their questions, but just wanted to give you a quick update on building a garage. Matt, did I get everything? >> I wasn't there. So, >> Oh, that's right. Rich, you were there, right? >> You got it. >> I got it. Okay. Athletics. Uh, our athletic committee meeting met. Just want to give you a couple um updates. We have two bowlers, one wrestler moving
061on to individual state competition. Is that correct, Marty? What are those athletes names? Uh Evan Pette is our wrestler. Uh Merrick Crips and Jacob >> and that that's individual state competition, correct? >> Awesome. So, congratulations to them. They're making uh Shabboan very proud of them. I had an opportunity to go to a couple wrestling meets this year. Um didn't get an opportunity to go to any bowling meets, but I heard there were quite a hoot. A lot of fun. Um boys basketball, that's not that's a mistake. That should be districts, not regionals. We're hosting districts this year. So, right now there's two games going on tonight if you don't know at the high school. And then the winner of the Gring uh I think Kingsley was it Kingsley >> game uh they're playing tonight. Whoever
062wins that game, we will play Wednesday night. So, it'll be home. So, Monday, four teams are playing. Wednesday, we'll play the winner of this game that's going on tonight. And then Friday at 700 p.m. is the championship game. So, that's pretty exciting stuff to be able to host a districts at our own uh home basketball court. I'm very proud of the court. You guys have seen the gym floor, the new bleachers, the new fitness center. We're deserving of hosting the district. So, should be a good time. And I think you guys know our boys basketball team is pretty good, 16 and six. So, um hopefully we're in that that that finals game on Friday. Head coaches, you're going to be approving three head coaches. Uh tonight we have for you Tracy Tamlin, girls head track
063fall fall cheerleading coach Mariah Myers who was our winter coach this last winter and uh we just I just learned today uh Morgan Brand is going to be our JV softball coach. We still have one spring coach opening that kind of uh creates anxiety for me because spring is right around the corner. We're still looking for a girls assistant track coach. So, if you know any good uh girls assistant track coaches or assistant track, um we still need one more to finish. Is that correct, Martin? >> Yeah. Aren't you a a good co track coach? Don't you have your track history? >> Good supporter. >> Oh, okay. All right. All right. Um and then due to retirements, just we we have these posted. As you guys know, Jason Friday and Tom Markham are retiring and
064based on the the uh OS uh guidelines, we have to post their positions. They may very well want to come back and if they do we will obviously consider them but they have to be separated. Their employment has to be separated for 30 days. So we have to teaching coaching everything after 30 days in the summer. If if we can find them they'll probably be on the golf course. I know Jason Friday will be he'll be tough to find but uh if they are interested in returning uh we'll definitely be uh considering that. Also more retirees tonight. You'll be approving three more uh retirees. Anne Douglas, Richard White, Laura Wyman. We're adding them to the list tonight of our five that have already put in their paperwork and they're taking advantage of our early retirement
065incentive. And if there are I think there's some teachers out there. I heard somebody just dropped off a another retirement letter today. if teachers are close, and we have a lot of teachers that are that have 30 years or more that are eligible, but if they want to retire this year and and take advantage of the early retirement incentive, they have until March 15th. So, I would suspect we may get a couple more by March 4h 15 because that early retirement incentive is pretty nice. if you're going to if you're going to retire this year, you want to make sure to take advantage of that because that's that's a nice incentive for teachers. And then also, John Hman is not here, but our food service director um just gave us a appreciation dinner for our
066board members. Like to thank those board members that were able to attend. John Hman and uh his assistant. I think everything was handmade, right? Is that what he said? >> Delicious. >> Crab cakes and all kinds of good stuff. So, um, last month was appreciation month for board members. John said, "Hey, I would like to do something for all of you." So, he wanted to, that was his idea, not my idea. So, John Hman, our food service director, is the one that wanted to show appreciation for everything that you guys do. So, thank you, John Hman. And then lastly, um, I've been, you guys know I have a coin. We've been doing the cheese coin, right? And it looks something like this. Um, and we've told the story about what the what the coin is
067for. And, uh, in the last month or two, uh, we've given, uh, five people, uh, this coin just as a something as as a as a token of our appreciation for everything that they do. Uh, just real quick, I'd like to, you know, remember who those f folks are. Rob Duffany was brave enough to allow me to ride on his bus one day, so I thought that was that was worthy. Uh, Judge Viznaugh and I presented at the uh, the superintendent conference together and again he carried me. Judge Viznaugh is great. We talked about the Compass program. We have since had a couple calls from people that uh, came to our presentation are interested in in copying our program uh, because they need a program like ours and they don't have one. Julie Loila for
068some reason signed up for a second year as president. So, this is kind of a badge of courage for you. And then >> and then Marlene Alexander and last time uh Steve Fleming. Um he's doing a great job and again Steve has gone uh on his tour today. I would like to add one more person to the list today. Um Chris Nesbbit if you would please stand up and come over here please. I would like to just talk a little bit about Chris and I know you guys if you have anything to say but we stole Chris Nesbbit from the high school last year, right? Sorry, Martin. But um I will tell you I've been in this game for 35 years and um we have a really great group of district employees on this side
069of the building. Crystal does a great job, Marlene, Laura, Jessica. And I I got to tell you, I was a little worried when we talked about bringing Chris over from the high school. First of all, the reason is the high school, if you ever been in the high school office, like at 7:30, it's just crazy. It's crazy. They're running around with fire extinguishers trying to put out fires everywhere, but it's like I mean, it is really heavy. And here it's a little bit more docile. Every month we got to prepare. Chris does a wonderful job helping me prepare and get the information to you so that we can look organized in front of all of you. But um one thing that I I wasn't prepared for, she's really brought um and I think you guys
070can attest to this because she's also your assistant, but she brings an element of culture and climate. She's really bringing us all together. I mean, at the district level, you get a little jaded after, you know, getting yelled at so much. Sometimes you want to hide in your closet. She pulls us all out. She that picture that we that we took today for Steve Fleming. That was her idea. She made the the dang sign. She made the sign. She forced us all out into the hallway and rel some of us reluctantly. I She's got to twist my arm sometimes, but I I I see the impact that she's making and I just want to make sure that she is recognized here tonight. And I think you guys see it and I know you guys over
071there see it as well. So, Chris, thank you very much for your service. And here's your coin. >> Any questions? I think that that does it for me. Um, I'm sorry I went a little bit long, but hopefully this will make some of your decision making a little bit faster when we get to some of these items for approval. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Spencer. I always appreciate your updates, keeping us informed. Um now the next thing on the agenda is the curriculum for the update. So on February February uh 16th I think last 17th last month we had a uh curriculum committee meeting. Uh the first thing we talked about was uh the midyear data that uh Jessica put out for everybody to see. And I just want to say how amazing that
072looked to see no red on that data really is uh something new and different that we have not seen in a long long time. So I I really appreciate the hard work that Jessica put into it that each and one of the buildings, the teachers, everybody, every single person who has reached and touched those students to help that happen because that's amazing to see. And anyway, the next thing we talked about was the um there is a dyslexia law implement implement implementation coming up. Um it's going to be a shift especially for grades 4 through 12. Uh we talked about the tiered interventions MTSS and that will be critical in um implementing that law. Timeline has been established with significant work ahead of us to do. uh MTSS focus is is with 318 funds are
073available to support interventions and grade level proficiency which is how we're paying for subway public schools also to get the high school um involved in MTSR2 that will help in that area. We have a PD PD day coming up on March 4th. Jessica talked about that also. Uh next thing we talked about was dual enrollment. EMC and CTE were scoring expansion of the dual enrollment to 10th grade. Um EMC has had uh it's a myth that EMC's program is ne negatively affects our TCTTE program. In fact, because we are um partnered with Alpena Community College, uh that is actually helping our program, those kids can go right into um have a certificate after one year of being out of school and we wound up finding what the job is at CTE. Um next we talked
074about EMC students. 89% of the students participate or have participated in the CTE courses. So EMC is working in that area. Uh next we talked about the curriculum and compliance deadlines. The maps are due on May 8th for district review. Teachers will have the opportunity to write revise them at summer curriculum camp. Our goal is to get them up on the website so that if uh community members, parents, someone moving to our district, they can look on there and they can see exactly what we're doing with curriculum. Um just want to put another uh another can't think what you call it, but uh uh for our um guaranteed and viable curriculum that we have, we are just about there in math. We are working on language arts right now and we are one we are
075the only district in um the cop who has that at this point. Correct? I'm correct on that right. All right. All right. So and and that is a big reason why our scores were the way they were. Um the next thing we talked about was title six and special education updates. Uh we have 178 title students in our district for title six that uh funds um support pair professionals um special education case load numbers are being reviewed already any questions board members okay so the next thing on our agenda is um the curriculum guide for the high school um there are no changes to the curriculum guide this is the second reading so U we need to make a motion to approve or to table. So I'm looking for a motion to approve the curriculum
076committee guide for 2026 27 as pres presented. I'll make that motion motion made by Deb >> support by Tim. There any questions or discussions before we vote? Okay. Chris >> Richard, >> yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. >> Deborah Buunner, >> yes. >> Matt Malar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Loila, >> yes. >> Okay. The next thing on our agenda is the student handbook. It is also um a second reading. It is not ready at this point. From the discussions that we've had in committees, we would like to table that. So I need a motion to table student hand book until further. >> I'll make the motion to table the handbook. Support >> motion made by Tim. Support by Travis Chris >> Richard Pan. >> Yes. >> Tim Tarot. >> Yes.
077>> Deborah Buunner. >> Yes. >> Matt Marchek. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Loila. >> Yes. The next thing on our agenda is emergency operation operate operations procedures and um we would also like to table that. Um we do have we do have one in place right now. It it expires at the end of uh the school year. So we have until then to get it done. We want to make sure we get it right. So right now we need to table that. So I need a motion to table the emergency operations procedures handbook. Make the motion to table the EOP. >> Motion made by Tim. Support by >> support. >> Richard Pila. >> Yes. >> Tim Tarjek. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buunner. >> Yes. >> Matt Malar. >> Yes. >> Travis
078Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Loila. >> Yes. The next thing on our agenda is the AI guide. Um this is the second reading of this. Um board members have had two months to take a look at that. Um any questions or discussion about it? >> Have all the building principles signed off on it? Because I noticed that the committee didn't involve anyone from the high school. >> The the ai Yes, they have. Yes. >> Okay. Oh, >> the high school's good with it. >> Any other questions? All right. So, I need a motion to approve the AI guide as presented. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Tim. >> Second by Rich. >> Richard Pean. >> Yes. >> Tim Sarah. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buuner. >> Yes. >> Matt Malar. >> Yes. >>
079Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Loila. Yes. Okay. The next thing on our agenda is the acceptance of retirements. Um we have three teachers who are retiring. Um and Douglas who is at uh the intermediate school or Wyman from intermediate school and uh Richard Wait from the high school. um together they are many many years of teaching experience in our district. They will become missed. Um but we have to let them go. We can't say no. So, so I need a motion to accept with regrets the notice of retirement of Dan Douglas, intermediate school teacher, Laura Wyman, intermediate school teacher, and Richard Wait, high school teacher at the end of the 2025 2026 school year. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Travis. >> Support by Tim. Any discussion? >> Richard Keon, >>
080yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. Deborah Buuner, >> yes. >> Matt Malar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Loila, >> yes. Next thing on our agenda is stable finances. >> And we have an update from Rich, I believe. >> Yep. Yes, Rich is going to do it. >> We had a meeting on February 17th that started at 10:00 a.m. and drove out all the way to 11:30 a.m. >> Thank you, Spencer. But the biggest thing was the site logic update. Uh they did a poll a push pull meeting at the end of January in which both Tim and I attended and which they come out with a very they now have put together a timeline for all the construction going on at East and at the high school and they will be
081sending us shortly I hope the 30,000 foot schedule not all the individual steps in each one but the major major ones. Uh the biggest thing that we discussed was the abatement of the asbestous at east over spring break. That bid was open Friday. It was open Friday. I guess we're supposed to try to approve it tonight, but that took up a lot of the meeting by the abatement starting over spring break. Uh that will keep us on schedule. I don't know if anyone's been by Side lately, but there is a huge escalator parked in the front yard now. They people will start uh staging equipment and staging materials behind fences. So, they are ready to get going. Uh we're going to try and keep the par pickup at the south parking lot uh not interrupted.
082Uh there will be I guess it's it's not the whole parking lot isn't used that much. So we may fence off part of it for storage. And the biggest thing also over spring break is we have to get rid of all the not get rid restore all of the library books that are in the library at the east into a temporary storage area. Uh we did get to meet with the new not new uh Nate Sheridan who's the project superintendent will actually be the guy here in Shbboan on the construction site. Uh the time will time will line will be given to us. Uh we went through the elevator. I think they're going to push it to try if they maybe'll try and get the foundations for the elevator put in this fall, but the
083elevator won't be done until 2027. Uh the amended budget uh there's delays in our federal resources coming in so we won't be doing an amended budget until the March meeting. Uh Spencer already talked about the 27 LAA fund. Uh we talked about the culinary position. Uh sounds like it's going to be internal which is good. We also had some other savings on the 31A funds. So big discussion on that. uh the exterior design with big discussion about trying to get all three buildings east CIS and high school to kind of match. So they're talking about how to bid that out. Some of it is just really just going to be sand blasting and painting. The buses, a special ed bus and a normal bus were already ordered. They'll be delivered in August of this year.
084And then they should be able to get another special ed bus and another uh general bus uh next year. And then like Spencer said, our bus fleet will be pretty well up to date. Uh some of the other things we talked about were there's some safety issues in the bus garage that we're going to try and get squared away and fixed. And that's really about it. I already mentioned the bleachers, stuff like that. So I think that's about it. >> Okay. Any questions for Rich? Right. The next thing on our agenda is a payment of bills. Um I need a motion to acknowledge the payment of the regular and bond invoices in the amount of $513,6651. >> I'll make that by >> support by Tim. >> Richard Pan. >> Yes. >> Tim Tartac. Yes. >>
085Deborah Buuner. >> Yes. Matt Malar. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Loila. >> Yes. >> Okay. The next thing on our agenda is an approval of the uh 20 SSA section 27 LO A. And um Spencer talked about that and we had that in all committees over the last year, probably the last month and a half or longer. And also at the negotiations. Um, are there any questions on that before we put a motion motion forth? Okay. So, I need a motion to approve the letter of agreement for distribution of the monies obtained from 27L. I'll make that motion. Motion made by Deb. >> Support by Travis. >> Richard Pan. >> Yes. >> Tim Tar. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buuner. >> Yes. Matt Malar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >>
086Julie Loila, >> yes. >> Okay. Next thing on our agenda is approval of a resolution authorizing the second bond issue in in insurance. Sorry, insurance. Um, I need a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the second insurance of bond monies. I'll make a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the second issue issuance of bond monies. >> Support by Rich. >> Motion made by Tim. Support by Rich. >> Richard. >> Sorry, Chris. Chris. >> Richard Pean. >> Yes. >> Tim Tarot. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buuner. >> Yes. >> Matt Malaruk. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Loa. >> Yes. Okay, the next thing on our agenda is strong communications with the policy committee update from them. >> Do you want to take care of here? >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> All
087right. So, actually, you know what? Um, we are trying to become less paper. We sell a lot of paper. So I am trying my old age to use the computer. >> Uh all right here we go. All right. So the next thing on our agenda which we added 11B is um the approval of the elementary asbestous removal bid bid 10. Uh, I need a motion to approve the East Elementary as a asbesus removal bid submitted by Quality Environmental Services LLC in the amount of $95,000. >> I'll make that motion made by Travis >> or >> support by Tim. Any questions about that discussion? Chris >> Richard Kean, >> yes. >> Tim Tarek, >> yes. >> Deborah Buunner, >> yes. >> Matt Marek, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Loila, >> yes. >>
088Okay. The next thing on the agenda is approval of the board member conference request. Um, and is made an a request to go to conference. MB C MASB M A >> MASB CBA 315 anatomy of audit virtual class on March 19th 2026 in the amount $125. So I need a motion to support that. >> I make that motion. >> Um motion made by Travis >> support by Rich. Any questions? >> Yes. >> Richard Pan. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buuner. >> Yes. >> Ma, >> yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> And Julie Loila. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, wow. We have a policy update. >> Rich most my update. Also, um, we've already talked about we approved the school wellness policy. Um the uh one of the reasons looking at the emergency operating procedures um
089we're trying to look at some ready medade um resources there instead of reinventing the wheel. Um so we want to take a little bit of time and a look at some samples there. Um we talked about uh the ai guide. Um, couple of things. We were unable to get an answer yet back from um, the lawyer to make sure that the handbook is in place. Just a matter of how to fill out some of the pieces of whose name goes on the form. But those are all the things we're trying to get worked out so that they're nice and tidy and hopefully in place for a lot of time. Um, we are going to meet again on March 17th. Perfect. Any questions for them? So, we do need a motion uh to approve the wellness
090policy policy number 5707 amendment. Um, that's the one from John has had a chance to look at that. Uh, we made I made a motion to approve the suggestion changes to policy 5707. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Deb >> or by Travis any questions, discussion? Richard Pan, >> yes. >> Tim Charac, >> yes. >> Deborah Buuner, >> yes. >> Matt Malache, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, yes. >> Julie Bohila, >> yes. Okay, the next thing on the agenda is approval of Shbboen County Probate Court Compass MOA. Um, Spencer spoke about that in his presentation. Also, I need a motion to approve the MOA between um Shabboan area schools and Shabboan County Probate Court. >> I'll make the motion to approve the MOA between Shabboan schools and probate court. >> Motion made
091by Tim. >> Support by Rich. Further discussion. >> Has this been presented to the court yet? Has judge business seen this? >> Rich, I can't hear you. >> Yes. I was I was asking if Judge Viz seen this yet. >> Okay. Yeah, he has. >> Okay, good. >> Okay, Chris. Richard Pan. >> Yes. >> Sim TJ, >> yes. >> Deborah Buunner, >> yes. >> Matt Malar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Loa, >> yes. Okay, the next item on the agenda is the athletic committee update. Hi, Travis. Uh Spencer covered a lot of this in his update, but uh we skipped a couple things. There's a crack in the concrete of the new track that'll be repaired at the contractor's expense in the spring. In the springtime, we'll be able to use
092it for training, but not meats. So, it won't have that hard rubber coating on top. It will be strike though, so be able to practice out there. There's no spikes. Uh staffing update. The AD AP, which is athletic director, assistant principal hiring process is underway. Got some good resumes coming in. Excited about that. Uh operational updates. District will be assuming the cost of the stadium internet which have been paid by the coach I think in the past. And outside gym users, what I mean by that is people who are not supporting people must provide a building use form and proof of $1 million liability insurance policy if they want to use our facilities, which is And then we've got a new rocket board out there and the you guys have seen in the lobby. It's
093pretty awesome. We're trying that system. see if we like it and hopefully we can move it into other buildings as well. That's 100% Chris Nesbbit. Nice job. And that's the Fred >> and not just analytics. Correct. >> Oh, it's all kinds of things. >> All kinds of things. >> And there more and we can keep continuing to update it. >> It's like a living website. It's pretty cool. >> Um, any questions for Travis? Okay. So, the next thing on the agenda is the um hiring of three coaches. Um I a motion to approve the hiring of Tracy Tamlin as the girls varsity coach for the spring 2026 season. That's That's not right. Hold on. I Yes, that is right. Something is missing out here. >> Girls varsity. Okay. So, so we were going to put
094them all in one motion. So, I need a motion unless someone asked to pull them out. I need a motion to approve the hiring of Tracy Tamlin as the girls varsity coach spring of 2026. Morgan Brand Brando, softball coach for spring of 2026 season. and for Mariah Meyers as varsity cheerleader coach for the 2026 season. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Travis >> Port by Tim. Okay. So, >> can you can you can you can you amend your motion to say J softball coach, not softball coach? I mean, that could be interpreted as the varsity softball coach. Maybe. >> Yes. Well, we should we should redo the motion then. We need to make an amended motion, which is fine. So, we're going to make an amended motion to mo an amended motion
095to the to approve the hiring of Tracy Tamlin as girls varsity track coach spring 2026 season, Morgan Brando, JB softball coach, um, spring 2026 season, and um, Mariah Meyers as varsity cheer coach for the fall 2026 season. I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Matt. >> Support by Tim. >> Richard Pon. >> Yes. >> Tim Tarek. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buuner. >> Yes. >> Matt Malar. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Leva. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, now we are to the um point of public comment. I do have um several on uh the same subject. So as we go through this um if you would like to consolidated that would be fine. If not that would be fine. Also um I would like to refer you to the rules. Um
096There is a five minute limit of speaking. Um I will call as they were handed to me. Um I do have one question I need to answer to before we can proceed. I'm not quite sure the answer. One of the people who would like to speak does not live in Shabboan, but they do have students in our district. So, is that usually you have to live in the district, but they do have students in the district. I'm not positive. Um, I mean, I believe the assumption would be since since their parent has students in the school district, they would have a right to public comment, but I'm not determining, >> but that's what I would >> and I know it's not in Robert's rule anywhere, so that's fine. Okay. >> We can make an exception,
097I believe, as a board. Would you like that in the form of a motion? >> Um, just in case there's any issues with it. Yes. Let's make it Let's make a Let's make a motion to make sure that it's okay with everybody. So, I would need a motion to allow someone who lives in out of Shuan district but has children in the district to be able to speak at public comment. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Travis. >> Support. support by Tim Chris >> Richard Pon. >> Yes. >> Tim Tarjek. >> Yes. >> Deborah Muner. >> Yes. >> Matt Marchek. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Lira. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, um the first person is Jamie Gfall. If you'd like to step right up to the podium.
098Before you begin, I would like to remind you not to use names when you are speaking of our of the because um we've already had a letter from Jamie. So, we know who people if they're talking about the same thing who that person is. And to be fair to the person and just as we would a student or an administrator or a teacher, we would not use their name in public comments. So, I'm asking you not to. can enforce that. >> Am I okay to use your name and um Spencer's name relation? >> Yes, definitely. >> Okay. >> All right. >> So, um by now you've all received a copy of my letter of complaint against a member of this board of education and I would like to reiterate to this board that I've never
099met the individual and I don't know any of you other than what Lil I found on the internet. And since we've never met formally, I wanted to introduce myself so that you could put a face with a name. Hi. Um, though we've never spoken, I knew my concerns were received by this board because the board member that I implicated in that letter immediately went on to social media and wrote this. Dear haters, this is a final word. Even if everyone of her claims were accurate, nothing described would constitute a breach of any law or governing guidelines. pursuing an investigation would only squander public resources. Suck it. You know who you are. Hoop emoji. The time stamp was February 19th at 5:54 p.m. And I do have that screenshot. Um his next post, a re-shared post
100said that >> Mr. Pan, are you paying attention? >> Yep. We do not we cannot have um people in the audience speaking out during public comment or at any time. That is our board policy. That is what we go by. The board we do not we do not shout out. We do not talk. We are listening. >> That's that's complete disrespect. >> I got everything electronically. >> We It's okay. >> Still listen to the speaker. >> I know he's listening. No, don't worry. >> So I do have that screenshot saved and um his next post was a re-shared post and it said, "The beauty of a man is this. The same hands that would cradle his newborn are the same hands that would destroy anything that threatens them." Then an AI generated picture of Vladimir
101Putin holding a copy of his post reviving masculinity and uh then a chat GPT generated images image that he apparently made which said feminism is ugly anti-life anti-f family anti-truth he generated that image several times with a blue-haired woman eating a plate of food and pills and then again only where she's same except obese and then he generated at at least five of these images within that 24-hour period with subtle variations. So, with all that, the next day, Friday, at 4 p.m., I met as scheduled with the board president and the superintendent. Um, I invited my father with me and he is also concerned about this individual's social media content. My father is a resident of this district. He cares deeply about me and my children. His only two Jill grandchildren attend Shuan area schools.
102His concerns matter. I knew that either the superintendent or school board president or administrative assistant in the building shared the details of that meeting directly with the implicitated board member because on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. after our meeting, he posted this tips for professional meetings. Fact check your facts. Don't cry. The word triggered is weakness. Read the material you're discussing. Don't bring a parent. For clarification, I've included audio recording of that meeting in the drive with the sources in case it has not been shared with you. Um, Mr. Bird said he would send notes to the board and I didn't expect that those bird notes would say things that I would like I was crying or that I was triggered. The audio will provide context for you if that's what you read. I hope you
103will listen to what I had to say in my own words. And um after seeing this board member's post on suck stack with that information, I emailed Mr. Bird and Miss Lila for a copy of the notes that they sent to the board so I could look them over for accuracy. Mr. Bird responded to me promptly on Monday morning with his notes and they weren't entirely congruent with what I wrote in or what I said in that meeting which is another reason why I'm glad I have audio. Um I didn't even know that the individual who received the book was recently expelled. So that was a new information to me. So more importantly though, Mr. Bird's notes made no mention of my father being present at that meeting. They made no mention of me crying
104and they made no mention of me being triggered. Um, these details are important because remember the board member implicated clearly knew that these details from that private meeting and he posted them on his substack where I would see them. More information about me was provided to this board member than I was informed was provided about me by Mr. Bird. So I asked this board to consider this. You don't have to answer me, just keep it in your mind. Did Miss OA or Mr. Bird tell you that I was triggered? Did they tell you I cried? Did they tell you I brought my father to the meeting? Because someone told this information to one board member so that he could share it on the internet. And as I explained in my letter, I did not grant
105you access to the links and the sources yet. and because I hope that this board will hear enough about the parents sincere concern to investigate the matter and provide me the responses I requested from you all. Um, if you're willing to investigate and respond to my letter, let me know and I will release the sources. Um, I can I have a drive. It's a Google Drive and it's full of the collaborating supplemental material that that is referenced in the letter. And um thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for your service to the community. I appreciate what you do here. I don't know how you have any time left to be posting stuff like that on the internet. crying is okay. I'm just >> um if if there are outbursts just I'm just going
106to say this right now. If there are outbursts, I will be asking you to leave and if necessary, we will have you escorted out because we cannot have a we we cannot have outbursts because it interferes with what we're doing. >> I'm sorry. I had an outburst. He wasn't even using right right now. Right now you're having them also. So this this is you cannot speak. That's the way the this board is. You cannot speak to the board. We will speak to people at public comment. They can come up here. They can speak. That keeps our meeting orderly. That gives us a chance to do our job so that we can do our job. And if at the very beginning of this meeting, if you were if you noticed, we do take it serious and
107we have already planned a close session to talk about public comment tonight. So just so you know that that has already been happening. We do take it seriously and anything that is brought to the board we do discuss as a board. We can only discuss as a board when the seven of us are together. That is the o well s there has to be four. There has to be a quorum. That is the only time we can discuss anything as a board. So we have rules we have to follow. One of the rules is to keep an orderly meeting. It's no disrespect to you and I wish and I hope that you will not disrespect our board. The next person is Eric Hall. My name is Eric Hall. I live at 6869 Chipoa Trail. I
108have a daughter in ninth grade and a son that's in 11th grade here in Shboen. Um, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, districts across the country dismissed school employees, district personnel, and even board members for negative comments made on their private social media accounts, and rightfully so. As a former teacher, I understand that school employees are held to a higher standard than most professions. The same expectation applies to board members whose responsibility it is to ensure that all students are represented and valued equally. Unfortunately, that standard is not always upheld. when board members publicly post post statements such as quote racist jokes are the funniest jokes end quote or claim that quote female teachers don't know how to handle boys end quote or suggest that quote bullying and hazing serve a purpose end quote serious
109concerns arise even more troubling are comments like quote there are not many marriageable women anymore about.5% of US women between the ages of 15 and 49 meet all six criter criteria fertile, not obese, unmarried, not unvac, not vaccinated for COVID, not on SSRI, and not on hormonal birth control. End quote. I will not begin to unpack the implications of that statement as I have a 15year-old daughter and certainly don't think she's m marriageable because she's 15. What I will point to are the facts. In this district, 49% of the students are female. Approximately 12% of students in this district are minorities. 49% of the district's staff are female. 69% of the district's teaching staff are female. These are not abstract numbers. They represent real people who deserve respect from those entrusted with leadership. A board's
110code of ethics may limit available actions, but it does provide options. a board member can be censured or removed from committee assignments. If this board truly believes that all students have value, then stepping down would be appropriate course of action for this one particular board member. If the board chooses to do nothing, however, it risks appearing complacent and by extension supportive of this these statements. As a board, you have an option to do better to protect, represent, and respect every student and staff member in this district. I have been an employee for 25 years in this district. I love Shabboan. I love the staff here. I love the students here. This is unacceptable. >> Thank you. >> Hey. Uh, next person is Jenna Lynhol. I almost called you. My name is Jenna Lynholm and I
111am a mother of four children in this district all in the um elementary and intermediate school right now. I'm here tonight to call for the resignation of a board member and if he will not resign, I call for this board to remove him. Let me start with a simple question. When you appointed the board member, did anyone on this board perform a basic Google search? Because I did. It took minutes. A simple search would have revealed that the board member has been removed or placed on leave from student facing roles in two other school districts. In 2012, while working as a teacher, he was arrested on drug charges and placed on leave. In 2021, he was fired as a coach for using his podcast to viciously attack an eighth grade student with profanity. The district
112called the conduct inappropriate, and he was terminated. Two red flags this board missed. Additionally, a simple Google search would have also revealed the board member has published writings promoting a version of masculinity that lists violence as a positive and desirable trait. He has suggested that women are illogical and promotes misogynistic views. You appointed someone who was deemed unfit to work with students by the judgment of two separate districts. If you knew and you appointed him, then your judgment should be called into question. If you didn't know, your negligence should be called into question. If what you know now doesn't move you to take action to remove the board member, then your seat on this board will be called into question. Thank you. Hello, my name is Merritt Brandt. Um, I don't have children in this
113district, but I care about my community. In February 2025, I made a complaint about a board trustee to Julie Loila. I'm right. That's right. I showed her several videos of this board member's podcast that had caused me to be extremely concerned about his moral fitness to be a board member. Those video clips included this board member telling a story about a dad teaching a fourth grader how to fight so that he can defend himself after he was bullied in school that day. Because that's important. Another clip in which this board member characterized coaching girls as a disaster and they could not be motivated like boys because they get too emotional and they fall apart. The third example was a video of this man's podcast about how schools fail boys. It's clear by viewing this board
114members videos and other publications that his only concern with our schools is boys. He espouses gender bias in his brand. He makes frequent derogatory inflammatory statements against school systems. His he has a personal pursuit of changing school structures to better suit the needs of boys and is currently marketing those to school superintendent around the nation. The most recent publication I have seen by this board member was dated February 16th, 2026. I viewed this on Substack. The title is school is failing boys. In an article filled with sexist rhetoric, he promotes the views that schools are coal crushing boys. He accuses, quote, "The modern education system is a soft bureaucratic assembly line that treats boyhood like a behavioral disorder." Another publication I read on Substack was titled masculine attraction and how women f it up and
115that was Christmas Eve containing this graphic representation stating career women make inferior mothers. His public statements show a consistent pattern of gender-based discrimination. He has an exclusive focus on males while diminishing girls, women, and public education and its structure. Our school system deserves fair and equitable representation regardless of gender. This board member's entire brand and his beliefs do not allow for that. His brand is built around one-sided ideals and masculinity. I respectfully request this board to conduct a full and complete investigation and take the necessary steps to censure and remove this board member from his current trustee position. I have included for you a printed complaint and materials and if you need to see the videos I could forward them to any board member or airdrop them. Okay. Kate Lindsay. Uh, please consider this uh
116as part of my formal complaint. I'll be giving a paper when I'm finished. Um, I'm a local community leader. My name is Kate Lindseay. Taylor um president of a local organization here um in town called Straight Area for Fairness and Equality are safe. I also happen to be a godmother of a child who just graduated early in December due to ongoing sexual harassment and bullying um in high school. I originally wrote a complaint in May of 2025 and uh submitted at the school board meeting. I handed it to a woman um whose name I didn't get and I never heard from anyone ever again. So I didn't don't know if it was lost or disappeared. Um but I've amended it here to reflect the current situation as she's now out of school. So, but it's
117through that situation that I learned about the board member um through which I'm going to be discussing um how do we represent area schools to the rest of the state and to the rest of the country who becomes the face and the voice of the school board and the mouthpiece through which the opinions of the board are shared. It appears as though one board member has become the loudest mouth of peace through which the opinions of the board are shared. And it ultimately appears as though these shared opinions at the very least um are beloved or favored by the board because it seems as though um everyone has gotten behind. I've heard that other people have filed complaints or or brought complaints to the board and that they've disappeared as well, but um I am
118just a little concerned because I I've read the posts on this board member's uh site that say that they are in contact for the past four years, quote, this is a quote. For the past four years, I've been emailing superintendents all over the Midwest with tips and tricks. So, this board member, they are trying to share their brand of masculinity, and they are doing so um uh in a way that is letting people know that this particular brand is marketed. He is an expert. His expertise is that he is a school board member and a coach. Therefore, school board and the coaching position give him legitimacy and expertise and he can sell and market his ideas and his books. Um, does the school board want to be known as a board whose mouthpiece promotes misogyny?
119This is another quote. Ladies, for the last time, neither do your career, money, nor your education makes you more attractive to any man worth the Stay fit, keep your hair long, quit the tattoos, and dump the feminism. By the way, I'm a proud feminist. A feminist is merely someone with the radical belief that women are people, too, who deserve equal rights, equal pay, and equal say in relationship and in life. Please bring me that white coat. Thank you so much. And and who should be allowed to decide whether and when to have a career or family and those choices should be made with their input or they should be their their soul decisions. Apparently, feminism is one of the is the bane of this particular board member's existence as they often post about it as
120though the notion that women are people too is the worst thought that anyone ever had. I asked the board to consider their own code of ethics and whether or not the board member may have betrayed this. Code of ethics point one indicates that the board member's primary concern should be the educational welfare of the students attending the schools in the district. When a board member says that school is not for boys, I doubt they're putting the educational welfare of boys to the highest level of priorities. When they reposted, quote, "Col is was a disaster for femininity with a bullseye emoji, were they thinking about the educational welfare of the girls in the district?" Code of ethics in point six asks that the board member quote render all decisions based on the objective evaluation of all
121available information exercising independent judgment. Indeed, it expects that board members come to the board with a fairly average set of values, mostly middle-of the road values. We all tend to share, you know, within a certain spectrum, neither extreme on one end or the other. Can a board member with extremely misogynist views? Misogynist unless you fill his ideal version of what he believes a woman ought to be, seen but not heard, paid less than men, or ideally not working, fit and not fat, who believes that feminism is death. This is all on a substack. >> Excuse me, but your five minutes are >> okay. Well, uh, he's in violation of codes a code of ethics sections 1 6 7 10 and 14. And those that's up the big one that's number 14. He is utilizing his
122role as a school board member. >> Okay. Thank Thank you. What's that? >> Okay. So, um, >> hello everybody. My name is Martin. I've had several kids go to the school system. I have grandchildren in the school system. So, I do care about the school system. So, I came in here to talk about a certain book I had heard about. But I must say first, I'm rarely shocked, but what I heard today, I'm very shocked at the things that have come out of this person's social media about his I'm amazed. I'm amazed he's even part of the school board. But maybe, you know, he didn't look into his past. So, like the young lady said earlier, correct that still. But anyways, on to the book. So to my understanding, I thought all books that are
123allowed to the children, they have to go through some kind of process to be allowed. I'm not sure if the board agreed to this book to be passed around to students. It sounds very unsolicited to me. I've not read this book, but I I'm assuming it came from the gentleman the podcast I listened to the social media. I pretty sure the book's probably vitual and misogynist also, but I'm not sure. Maybe I'll actually poison my mind and read it someday. Maybe. Anyways, um that would be to me if it's allowed. Any person can give a book to a teacher and they can just give out this book. Whether it be the Bible, Howard Zen of People's History of America, Mind Comp. I'm assuming you wouldn't want that. So, back to the book. I think you
124should all maybe look at this book. If you're still going to allow it to be given to the students, maybe reconsider it. That's all I have. >> Okay. So, the board their policy is to not comment on on um during public comment. But we do take you seriously. We are meeting in close session. We are we are doing two close sessions. This is the first pull session we are going to do with um um eval the mid evaluation for Spencer which we are mandated by law to do and then after that we will come back and we will give our we do all motions in public and then we will again go back into close session and we will discuss the cont conduct of of um the board conduct that public comment that we have
125gotten. We will issue a public statement after we um are done done with our our our investigation. Uh Spencer has done an amazing job of starting that investigation. Uh we will um come back after our close session and then we will give our um not we don't know what we'll give because we have not had the discussion yet. So we will come back after close session. So at this point I need a motion to go into close session. Oh wait one more thing. If your phone number is on here, I will personally call every one of you um within the next couple days. Okay. Um so I need a motion get to the right page here. A motion to move to close session for the purpose of a superintendent midyear evaluation. >> That motion >>
126support motion made by Matt supported by Tim. >> Hey, thank you for coming. >> Oh yes, Richard. Yes. >> I don't like You have the camera. >> Yeah. Okay. Returning returning from a close session. Um during close session, we went through um Spencer's midyear evaluation. We um decided on some specific goals out of our strategic plan that he should um focus on. And he's doing a great job right now. And we just want to see that communication has been excellent. He has communicated every month at the board meeting. He communicates to us what's going on in the district as we're all in different committees and close all of our committee work together. Now, I need a motion to go into close session. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Nat. >> Support for
127um Tim. a motion to we're going into close session but close session. It's late. Close session to um >> discuss the public comment. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Yes. >> Tim, >> yes. >> Buuner. >> Yes. >> Matt. Yes. >> Travis Neville. Yes. Julie. >> Yes. We're opening up as well. recording. >> What? >> Not supposed to be recording. >> I'm not recording. >> I know. I'm just saying. >> Oh, that has to be recorded. >> And that there's not supposed to be recording a >> Oh, no, you are not supposed to. >> No, I'll put my phone. >> Oh, yes. No, you are not supposed to be recording. >> So, because we have a recording right there. You can watch that. >> Okay. Um, after discussion, the board has decided that further facts
128are needed to determine a course of action. We need additional time to consult with our attorney. We will schedule a special board meeting in the near future to go over our findings. I will personally contact each person who participated in public comment and um >> motion to adjurnn. No, we don't need a motion. I would like to um adjourn the meeting. All in favor? >> I