001All start. >> All right. Welcome to the Shabbo Good Area School Board of Education regular monthly meeting. Monday, September 22nd, 6 at 6:30 p.m. We are beginning Chris. Okay. Tim Charger >> here. >> Deborah Buunner >> here. Luke Kakowski >> here. >> Travis Neville >> here. >> Richard Pon >> here. >> Matt Malar >> here. and Julia here. Please 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. Okay. Uh before we begin, I would just like to state that um several board members prefer paper. So they have paper and and many um prefer devices to look at their agenda. So they are looking at their agendas and
002not playing cross word games just so everybody knows. All right. So, um the first thing on the agenda is the approval of minutes for um Monday, August 25th, 2025. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve the minutes of August 25th, 2025. >> I'll make that motion. Support. >> Motion made by Travis, support by Matt. Any discussion, questions? Chris Lucoski, >> yep. >> Richard Pon, >> yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. >> Deborah Buunner, >> yes. >> Matt Larch, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Loila, >> yes. >> Okay. I just have um one thing I would uh like to bring to everyone's attention on the board because I just kind of got it set in my mind how things should actually be legally for our committees. Our committees um always have
003to be posted um at least 18 hours prior to meetings. If the meeting if the committee is on a regular day of the month, they need to be posted by date. They should be posted on the website and on the door of the board office. Committee meetings are open and the door must remain open and uh public comments must be filled out just like during this meeting to keep record of it. Any questions about committees? That's the committee's chair to make sure that that has happened. Um, any questions about that? >> Okay. So, the next thing on our agenda is um superintendent report. Vice. >> Thank you, Julie. Uh, I just I got some handouts I'm going to give to you guys real quick. I'm not going to read them to you, but you can
004uh take a look at them when you get home. A lot of this stuff we talked about in our committee meetings and our cabinet meetings, but uh on one and I tried to save some paper so that everything's two-sided, but the side I'm looking at right now is just a reminder that on October is it 8th? >> Uh we have our first uh PD day. Uh we have a rough draft schedule there. Students will be released at lunchtime, but students and staff will stick around and that day that afternoon is going to be dedicated to artificial intelligence. We've created a uh with the help of Jamie Huber and the COPD, we have a building representative from each building that is now part of a uh AI cohort and we meet uh frequently with uh cohorts
005from other school districts within our region and we have um um a group that's leading us but that they're going to come and actually talk directly to all of our teachers and staff on the 8th. So there should be a lot of connections, we're hoping, between our cohort, the other district cohorts, and actually working directly with this person when they come and present to us on October 8th. So that's right around the corner, October 8th, half day for students, and then the afternoon will be dedicated to professional development. On the other side, I always like to give this to the school board. This is uh this is Dr. Rice's um um strategic educational plan and he has eight goals in the upper right hand corner I guess it is. But if you take a look
006at those those are very similar to our strategic plan goals. So you know I want to remind people we're going to be talking about strategic plans quite a bit here at the beginning of the school year. But it starts with the state and if you read those eight goals you'll see that we're making some positive steps in those broad directions. So that's kind of where we take our lead first and foremost is from Dr. Rice and the state. And then after that, I've met with all of the um You want to take one of these, Tim, and pass them down? Um I met with all of the committee chairs. I met with most of the boards individually. We uh last spring we brought in our consultant uh from is MA was it? Yes, I believe.
007Um he came in uh Greg Janicki came in and it was time for us to review our strategic plan which we developed two years ago my first year here back in 2023. And again you'll notice that the strategic plan that we developed in 2023 is very broad as well. Very similar to the way that the Michigan um strategic plan is developed. But what I like about this is I've been working with uh the different committees and different school boards uh individuals and we've come up with a little bit more specific goals under each of the five pillars. So these five pillars that we started off with in 2023, you can see underneath them, they're not quite smart goals. We don't want them to be smart goals, but they're just kind of a point us in
008the correct direction, right? Um we talked about this quite a bit in some of our committees. You know, leading the school district is like turning a ship in the night. You know, it takes a very, very broad, long turn before you can get in alignment with some of our goals. So, we've been turning for the last two years. Some of these goals are a little bit closer to than others, but these these will be in front of us all, building principles, board members, district administrators to make sure that we're all pulling in the same direction. So, now this is tonight what I'm going to ask you guys to do. I think all of you already know this, but this is uh the first reading of our new uh district uh strategic plan moving forward. So,
009this is still a rough draft, I guess, is what I'm saying. If you feel as a board member there's something we want to add, delete, change, uh we have a month to do that, but next month we're going to come back around and we're going to finalize this and ask for a final uh second reading. And then what's going to happen then next? I've already talked to some of the building principles. I'm going to turn these over to the building principles and they're going to start working on their my kit goals or their building goals. So, they'll they'll they'll each develop each building will develop two to three my kit goals and hopefully like ours is linked to the Michigan plan. Hopefully, the building plans will be linked linked to the district plan as well.
010So, I know Jessica Yearling is here. Um I I think has everybody met Jessica? Have Jessica, have you met everybody? >> Jessica is our new uh Jamie McClintic. Uh she's our new curriculum person. So, let's give a round of applause for Jessica. Sorry I should have should have introduced you first. Uh but Jessica's already hit the ground running. Um she's been here for two weeks. It seems like two months, but she's been working very hard, meeting a lot of people, building a lot of relationships, but she'll also be working handinand with the uh building principles just like Janie Mcclintic did when she was here for the past two years. So, I'm not going to read all these to you. Take them home. We got a month. This is a first reading, but most of you
011have seen these, especially if you're a chair of a committee, so you already know what you're looking at. Lastly, before I turn it over to Jamie Huber, if you would take a look at this handout, I got two things here. Um, one is I think as a school board this past summer in the spring of last year, uh, I think one of the things that we all agreed to is take a keep a closer eye on enrollment. And if you take a look at um one of the sides, there's enrollment as of today, I believe, wasn't it Chris? It was at night. >> Yep. So this morning I had Chris run this report and you can see that uh we have the high school, inter intermediate school, East Elementary, and the Inesse Academy. We have
012grade levels, preK or negative1 all the way over to 12. And you can see that the the total is 1482. um last February when we did count day last February of last school year um our enrollment was 1458. So if you compare February to as we get closer to October 1st we're currently exceeding that number which is a good thing. Uh my understanding I know since I've been here and I and I believe looking at the historical data uh for the last 15 years as we all know Shboen school district has has gone down in enrollment every year for the last 15 years and we're hoping uh that with the addition of some of these new programs and doing some of the marketing campaigns that you guys are are aware of the commercials the billboards
013going up that we can increase enrollment. So, it's going up a little. Uh, hopefully it will continue to go up instead of go down. That would be a good thing. Any questions about enrollment? So, it's 1482 right now. October 1st is count day and last February it was, 1458. I would like to point out a couple things on your enrollment sheet, though. 27 uh that's the prek enrollment, right, Diana? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, that's that's 27 students we wouldn't have had if we didn't add prek this year. Um, also you'll notice just a couple anomalies. Our largest class, sixth grade, is 130 students. Our smallest class is first grade with 75 students. And also talking about adding program uh we have uh our EMC cohort ne not this year but next year we will
014be sending approximately 20 students to a fifthear institution either north central or to ACC. And when those 20 students go, if all of them go, Marty, what is it? What are we at seniors? 20 We're at 26. Yeah. So, not all of them are going to go to either ACC or North Central. We hope a lot of them do. But if they do choose to go, that'll add a 13th column here, right? That'll be that fifth year. And if all 20 of them go, we all know it's not about the money, but the FTE is 10,000 times whoever goes to a fifth year institution. So that that will help fund the EMC program just like the FTE will help fund us over preK expenses for teachers and aids. On the other side, um I'm going
015to switch to the last thing that we're going to talk about here in the superintendent report and that's the CTE millage that's coming up. I sent this email out and if you've read my last two Sunday soups, I've talked about the CTE millillage that's coming to us on November 4th and um I brought a guest star, Jamie Huber. Uh you guys all know Jamie, the regional superintendent. Um he's really the the one behind this and has done a great job on getting this stuff out and about and so that people know what's going on. And the most important thing is when people walk into to the uh to vote on November 4th, they're not surprised by this, right? We want to inform them. We want to make sure they have all the information that they
016can make a good decision. But the last thing, you know, listen to Jamie speak, we don't want anybody going over and say, "What is this?" and have no knowledge of what's going on in November 4th. And I think if people know the facts, I think the majority of them would hopefully most likely vote for it. But ultimately, it's up to them. It's our job just to provide the facts. And I just wanted to show this first screen here because this is something that Jamie Huber and the COP ESD provided us. You can see that there's a link for every school district here. And if I click on our school district, it provides a whole bunch of resources that I have as my at my disposal as superintendent of Shboan. These are all things that Donovan
017Communication, a group that we work with and subcontract with. They these are all um ideas, videos, all kinds of other types of information that I can use and send out my Sunday soup or I can push it out to building principles or we can print it out and send it out. Tim, can you hand out that right there? That flyer. Here's another thing that the COPD did. Please take one and pass it around. I have a stack of flyers that the COPD has provided us and I've given them all to the building principles and we you hopefully you will see these around quite a bit. uh either on desks in main offices of buildings when you walk in and visit. But that flyer right there is very informative as well. And you'll find it's not
018telling anybody to vote yes or no. What it is what it's doing is trying to provide people with good information. So there's one for you and I'm going to turn it over to Jamie Huber and he's going to give you a little bit more information about the upcoming millillage. >> Which one did you want up? >> Yeah, we can we can start there. >> Right there. Okay. Good to see everybody again. Uh, seems like the school year has been a good start and thanks to these fine folks over here. Good to see your faces as well. Didn't know you're Green Bay Packers fan. I can't say that I have Browns here at home, but uh I was on for the first time. All right. So, this doesn't run that Spencer. So, this is on email
019here. >> What do we got here? So, if you just scroll, if you There we go. Yeah. All right. I got you. >> All right. I see. All right. So, thanks again, Spencer, for the intro invite. And and honestly, a lot of the leg work and groundwork has been here, but this is a long time coming with a lot of communication and partnerships. the last few years that I've been here since 2021 and coming to present, you know, we started with this idea of if kids can go away to sports camps, why not have career camps andmies each summer so they can connect with careers and employers right here in our region? And that's kind of just grown to be quite honest. We started with a a Marshall Plan grant in 2019 and it's just
020continued to snowball with momentum and kids starting in middle school saying, "What's next? What's next? What's next?" So we started with eight camps in 2021 across the larger region and this last summer we had 49. If that tells you anything in regard to the need and kids are saying what's next? What's next? That's what's driving this. And then also with 75 different steering committee and employer partners and agency partners, they've also been working as a part of a group to try to eliminate barriers to create more of these types of opportunities. And that's really the focus, eliminate barriers to create opportunities. And that's kind of led us to to where we're at with the millage proposal that's coming up on the ballots uh November 4th. But to give you a little background first before we
021go there, we're not trying to recreate the wheel here. I want to show you an example. And this is from our neighbors. This is really funky. >> There we go. I got to look up here now. The screen. So this is this is not COP. This is our neighbors to the west. Sham. Um COP is one. There's 56 ISDs in the state. We're one of 15 uh regions that do not have a CTE millillage like this. Shm, our neighbors to the west do. They have since in the '9s if I recall. So this model is really what we're talking about. And I'll show you a little bit as we get into the website. But you see these dash one. I want you to notice every single district across because of the the funding support has
022programs for everywhere. Every district and their students. Okay. So, and then you count the numbers. Pelston, I'd love to give it as an example. Any idea how many students Pelston has enrolled? I know you're going through enrollment numbers. >> 162 >> as a high school. So, 500 500 K12. >> Helson had six CTE programs located and available to their to their um to their student population at the high school. And again, the difference is I was a building trades teacher. The typical shot program and the CTE program are on two different levels. That's that's not one and the same. The CTE program, if Ryan McClintic were here, he would tell you that it's connected to business and industry as as guidance and partners. There are specific standards and industry recognized certifications. So, if you were
023to count across this whole region, there's 53 different programs. Every single district has them. And that's part of the consortium model because I like to use Paskki. I was a Shbboan grad, so we always compare to Paskki. And the one good thing is you see they have eight programs, Shbboen currently has nine. But here's the difference from a consortium model where Shbboen has nine programs internally. By working together with districts geographically close to them, I count 30 programs that Paskki kids have access to because of this type of consortium model. And that's where the power is in coming together across the region through this type of millage campaign to have access. So, every district has it just as every kid could. Um, and that's really what this is all about. That's all I'm going to
024talk about with Sh. We'll jump right into our stuff. And thank you for getting the flyers out with Spencer. Um, and I do have copies. If anybody else, and I know there's some I see when I walked out there, but the whole point is, um, as Spencer mentioned, this is anformational campaign. Campaign Finance Act, nothing. Vote yes. You can't do that. But we want to make sure that everybody has the information so that they're an informed voter for coming up for November 4th to what this means, what it doesn't mean. And just as you saw in that Charm example, all of those different programs are at local districts. That's exactly what this is designed to do through a consortium. As an ISD, we do have to run and collaborate and and facilitate a regional millillage,
025but that doesn't mean the dollars go to COP and stay there. Of course, we would get them initially, but then through a formula, we would distribute them to each of our districts where the programs are. The more programs you have, the more pro students you serve, obviously, the more dollars you would get from this type of millage if it were to be supported by voters on November 4th. But the partnership, you can see all 10 districts are joined in and and want to move forward with this um initiative, and that's why it's coming before our voters um in November. All right, this is really funky. There we go. So, I encourage you if you haven't already, come to this website. It's www.ct4cop.org because our students today aren't tomorrow's skilled workers. Um, so we're going through
026to show you this is a one mil for up to six years, the first six years. Um, starting in 2026 if it were to be approved. And if I click right here, this is everything you need to know about the millillage. And and as you're in your travels, please send people to this if they have questions, reach out to Spencer or any of our local district superintendents for what would this mean for your districts because ultimately which programs you decide to run or add or enhance the ones that you currently have. That's a local decision. That's not going to come from COP. Um, but this is an example of the signed ons. Every all 10 superintendent signed on a dotted line that said we're going to work together to create a consortium of programs more
027so than any one school district can create alone. Going back to that charm model, that's really what we're looking to try to create because if you keep in mind the goal, more opportunities for kids to connect through skills that they can see their futures. And the beautiful thing with this is those futures need to can be right here in our communities. We all chose to live here. We need them to see the opportunities that are right here with the employer partners that we have and that are are in this region and because they may not know otherwise or effect there's all the signatures and this was back in June. All right. So if a website has a thousand words and a picture has a thousand I think this video does a lot of justice to
028run through quickly what this is all about and and what it could potentially mean uh for the region. So, as long as the volume's good on this sensor, I'll hit play. You good? >> We'll find out. >> Coming through here. >> On Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, voters across the COPD region will vote on a CTE village to create and expand vocational and technical education in our schools. Currently, four of the 10 districts in our service region have career and technical education programs with 60% of our local school districts not having these types of programs. Because of this, our region is considered a CTE desert. With voter approval, the millillage would expand CTE programs and vocational opportunities to all 10 area school districts, ensuring that all interested students have access to hands-on training and resources. The
029November CTE vocational mill proposal would have a property tax impact of up to 1 mill, which would sunset in 2031 after 6 years unless renewed by voters. Our cumulative property tax levy rate ranks as the fourth lowest out of 56 intermediate school districts across the state. 100% of these funds generated by the CTE vocational proposal would be used to strengthen existing programs and create new opportunities for our students, employers, and communities. >> Manufacturing, the trades, these are meaningful, powerful careers. And if we can build this up here, build this workforce up here, we can build a Europe economy. >> COPD is one of 15 out of 56 intermediate school districts in the state without a CTE village. Meaning that our students don't have access to the same resources and programs that others do across the
030state to connect them to high wage, high demand careers in our region. Our CTE summer camps andmies for grades 7 through 12 are well attended and well reviewed by attendees, parents, teachers, and business partners. Total registration has risen by more than 280% since 2021. The 49th camp and academy sessions offered this summer is up from just 8 in 2021. Since 2024, business, industry, and community partners have worked with COPD through a steering committee that's focused on eliminating barriers across our region to help foster vocational and technical education and connect students with skills and careers within their communities. >> CT does not mean that you're going to be a carpenter all your life or that you're going to be a welder all your life, but it's just as valuable knowing what you don't want to do.
031So it students choices, >> stronger partnerships between schools and local businesses, innovative CTE and vocational education programs, and a commitment to student achievement can help build a more skilled workforce that would benefit students, communities, and businesses in our region. So, [Music] I'll keep scrolling through the website a little bit to show you what's here. And these pictures, by the way, are actually all of our region's kids. There's kids in here, too, from this past summer's camps andmies that were that were mentioned. So expanding access, you can see in partnering together, there's a lot of opportunity here and there's a lot of employer partners that are engaged in our camps andmies that that want this. But what I love most is we have students now that they've they've gone through these camps andmies for four years
032and they're saying what's next and what can I why can't I do this in my school has nine programs access in the example or the example to 30 gives a lot more opportunities and the employer partners are out there so you can see across the CTE desert which is a my comes from my school data I don't put that so the plan here's the ballot proposal um with the ask is statutoily for up to 1 mil um on November 4th that would generate that dollar amount across the region for $4.8 $28 million which would then flow to local school districts to enhance and expand. Shboen, you have nine programs. These would support those nine programs. You can also expand and be supported, but you're also going to gain access regionally to other programs around in
033partnership with other local school districts for programs that you may not have currently. The goal of this is not to create the same programs and compete for kids. That's absolutely not the case. We need more opportunities for for students in this area, not less. I think this is actually a point of pride. Um so the there's 56 ISTDs in the state and you saw it in the video. We're one of 15 without a CTE millet and it takes resources to provide these type of opportunities. So um being fourth from the bottom just as a little color commentary. The other the other three on that list are AMA, ESD and Alpena. Uh ICO just to our south and uh core ISD are the bottom four in that region. I don't say that as anything other than
034a point of pride to be mindful of our taxpayers and the dollars. We do a lot with what we have. But when you can see across the state when 41 out of 56 have these types of resources and these types of opportunities, why this ask is important to bring to the voters for consideration in November. And why now is a question that we've gotten a little bit. Well, if we continue to wait by the time this goes to voters and then plans are in place, that's two years out for these programs to start. And if you think about a typical four-year high school kid, that's half of their career. So, we're losing that group. So, now's the time to at least ask and bring this for the voters. So, we have a lot of speaking
035of asking questions, this is all about information and making sure making sure that folks are informed. So, this is an FAQ section to the websites and this is this is going to continue to be built upon. Um, so there's a there's a question. Hey, if there's questions, send them this way. All right? Right? And then that way we can get those questions answered and responded to either individually depending on the nature of the question or if it's a bigger question certainly update the website with that type of information so folks are informed through and we talked with a couple folks earlier today about this. I don't think it's any surprise with the the world we're in, the labor market that we're in, CTE is certainly in demand and we want our kids to have all
036those opportunities that others do across the state so they see their futures right here in our three county region and the employer opportunities that we have across this region and it's really school's opportunity to connect them to what's in this area because they may not otherwise know and that's part of the work that we've done with camps and with business trips and it's just kind of gain steam. looking forward to the conversation. I encourage you um to to check this out, help spread the word about what this is, what it isn't, and really get the word out in the community about what does this look like in our communities? What would it look like for the students here in Chbuan and really across everything with that? What questions might you have? >> So, it seems
037like this is more about not necessarily adding additional classes like within the school, right? Because I mean we only have like x amount of kids and if we added more programs in the school would probably cannibalize other things to this seems like it's more about like is it summer programs or are some of these programs would they go like year round? They would be in schools where programs for instance in an ideal world I would love if this was if this ends up getting approved by voters in November six years from now us showing a map similar to Charm. These are programs in schools. It's sharing students across regions because as Shbboen has nine current programs. It doesn't mean Shbboan adds 15. It means Shbboen has access to maybe three in Meno, four in Anaway
038and and five in Indian River working together so that you can share students so they can get more opportunity to connect to connect with their future. So, is it like are they like going to work with employers? Then I I guess I'm just kind of confused as to >> like what does it look like? Because I know what our programs at our school look like. Yeah. >> Like is this more of you know maybe only one or two kids may do you've got lots of different programs out there. I I guess I'm just not sure. >> Well, for instance, uh health health occupations. >> Okay. >> I'll give you that as an example. Certainly a need. There's definitely a shorter short >> like somebody wants to be a nurse. >> Yes. Perfect. or other other
039other you know what I mean yeah doesn't offer a health ox program but what if mino city did they you could send a kid there from your school to share maybe Mino city sending or Indian river that's the force multiplier effect during their school day funds would be flowed to the local districts to support that so that you're opening opportunities for them to have that type of CT program that they don't currently as an example here in choir now obviously if we were to look at some of the other areas where there's no CT programming you can see where That's certainly beneficial, but even for Shabboan, that force multiplier and working across the region, that's one of the questions that we're getting asked for these students that have have come through this. Well, I we
040we have partners with both McLaren and Mson with uh health and and career or health camps. I want this. Why don't I have this in my and why can't I have this as a part of my regular school schedule? The other benefit is through workbased learning, which I know Shboen does at the senior level. Um my son's taking advantage of that, but it's connecting students to their career interests right here with employer partners. So it is in the school day. Matt is through more programs by working together collectively across the consortium than any one district can provide alone. That helps answer. >> So you're also but you also talk about too like expanding the I know the summer camps are popular with a lot of kids. So um in this dollar amount this would also
041continue the summer camps andmies um that are offered through COP but that's a very small portion it's like 3% of the overall that would continue these programs going forward where they're currently grant fun >> okay >> great question other question >> I have one question I mean right now so if I I'm understanding this correctly uh six out of 10 school districts do not have a program at all. >> Correct. >> We have nine, Gaylord has six, and then after that a couple school districts have one or two. >> So, if we go back to that map, uh Joelberg has two and Inland Lakes has three. >> And this question has come up because we are we are already have nine. >> Um it's not like we're going to be adding more programs, but uh
042essentially there'll be more revenue to support those programs, right? >> This this is considered a CTE enhancement. It doesn't hurt existing programs. It just provides funds for you all to continue running and enhance those programs while also expanding across the whole entire region. So, >> and currently I think the way that because we are a millage uh desert, we're only generating and it fluctuates I know every year, but around a million dollars to support our region. Is that correct? >> I guess I we get zero cop does not get any dollars for CTE at this area. So, I think you're probably talking Perkins dollars. Yes. >> Which Ryan is the CPIT director. >> Correct. So, but >> that's a little over a million, isn't it? >> I don't want to quote that exactly, but there
043are federal dollars that come into play with these programs that we could also leverage when we expand this versus what what the region's currently seeing. >> Would would the Perkins dollars be impacted as well or would we >> more programs would would equate to more Perkins dollars provided we have a federal and state budget going forward because currently we don't, but um that you would think that that would that would naturally follow, >> right? >> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? >> Jamie, when you talk about enhancing the the CTE programs and schools to take advantage of it, would that be like helping with the transportation costs? >> So, part of the formula there's um the 50% of the dollars from the proposed formula would would be divided up by the number of programs for
044instructional costs. So, yes, that would be there. Another piece is is um equipment and then technology, maintenance, transportation. There's a section for that to offset cost so that students could be provided with transportation access in other areas. >> Yeah, no problem. Julia, I think you >> I was just going to say I appreciate all the work that you put into this because this is a this happens. This will be amazing for our students. I know there's a lot of uh students who not a lot but a few students who have asked me about those health programs and we're wishing that they could get into that and so that would give them the opportunity. Well, not then because it'll be gone. >> Exactly. >> But it will our students do, you know, have more choices those
045things. So >> by partnering together, there's power in that across the region. And the interesting thing with any type of millillage like this is obviously the dollars COP facilitates the the millillage, but ultimately the dollars flow to local districts like your own to run programs. This is a decentralized model. Some places, if you look at Traverse City or bigger areas like that, they have a countywide center where they have built a tech center. >> That's not what this is. Being mindful of taxpayer dollars. We want these dollars and programs to go right to school districts where kids. >> You're not going to do what Kazoo just did to build what a hundred million dollar tax center. That's crazy. >> So being mindful of taxful taxpayers dollars, you can imagine the cost of building a center.
046We cover 2100 square miles. We need to be mindful of logistics and also taxpayer dollar hours to be smart about where we offer programs and this will ultimately do that without having to build a center and things like that. So >> did Powder Puff just get cancelled? >> Gives us half an hour. >> So other questions I >> I would like to also thank Jamie this has been very strategic and intentional. Um he's been sharing his plan with us for over a year, right? You've been working on this for a year. Are you getting any type of I know it's hard to tell right when what which way people are going to vote, but are you feeling pretty good with the work that's been put in that this has got a pretty good chance to
047pass? >> Well, I mean ultimately all this work is it's up to the voters. So along those lines, so some of the background work that we did um spring of 2024, we actually sent out 10,000 postcards about 10,000 postcards to survey and see. So we had 69% response to that with no other information about a 1 mil ask in this area. So we did did do that kind of straw poll if you will and then obviously seeing kids continue to go through our camps and academy session wanting more wanting more hearing from our employer steering committee partners saying we need this and then letting schools be the the uh the conduit. So we have sent out uh hopefully I'll have them uh that should have been this weekend 25,000 postcards. So, we've had good conversations
048since uh and some calls from that. So, that tells me thatformational campaign of getting the word out is working. Uh Carly's gotten this into the Van Tribune for us. So, we're we're there and uh superintendents are are doing a good job because ultimately it's the community's voters and the voice from local districts that's going to matter the most to connect with their voters as to what this means here. So, um social media and things like that are coming to play. So, we're hitting trying to hit every every angle we can to get the word out as to what what this means for the region and why they ask and um ultimately it's up for them to decide. So, so far so good. >> Do you have any idea with like the schools that don't have
049any programs like what they would be leaning on more doing? You think they're looking to probably send their kids more to like the other places that already have them or >> No, the goal with this just like with Charm is every district has has some of their own programs, but it's also open to the region. So that would be the only play from the consortium side. What the ultimate decision of what programs get run in local districts is a local district decision. From a consortium model, we're not looking to create competing programs here. We're looking to create more opportunities for kids. So to that point, Matt is there are business partners in various communities. I think agriculture, I think um Cadillac Products over in Roger City area. We have a lot of strategic partners. Prescott
050Electric and Gas City has alignment program right there. That's they're they're a partner in our region that certainly could do that. So, it's about what employer partners are out there because that means there are employer opportunities in our region that we need to connect kids through and land programs in schools where they don't currently exist. And then those are open within logistical boundaries and and reasonleness um to kids across the region, not just not just one district. So, that would that's kind of the guiding factor and really a difference between a traditional wood or metal shop. They don't have the business industry influence and partnership that a CT program does. All right. Thank you, Jamie. Appreciate your time coming in. >> And that's it for me, Julie. >> Okay. Moving on. Um Oh, next is
051the curriculum committee update. We had a meeting on September um 16th. Um it was Jessica's first meeting in our district and we're very happy to have her. Uh we had a um presentation from Joe Durk on con on on the constitution presentation and then we went over some old business kind of to bring everybody up to speed of what has been happening in our district with Molly and Copeka the school family compact and um our uh homeless foster care things our absences and those things. We went through that and then we started out with new business where we talked about uh the curriculum uh goals that we have that we would and we took a look at those and made sure that they were on target of what we wanted. Uh we talked about Constitution
052Day on um September 17th, how something was happening in every building, every classroom to to uh talk about our constitution. Um, and then we went on to the testing windows for NWA and talked about uh, Malia and Quebec continuing on this year uh, working with um, language arts and finishing up math. A little bit left to do in there and then going on with language arts. Uh we talked about app appe uh we're not uh using um rooms. It's a little difficult for teachers to use. They don't really like it. They really are choosing to go back to class dojo. Trying to keep it a little consistent at least um K6 with class dojo and then power school seems to meet the needs at the high school. So we're uh thinking about going back that
053way. Uh we had uh we talked about intervention periods for all grade levels and also using a saber screening tool at the high school with MTSS. And then uh was for both most things for the interventions and and the um for academic and behavioral. And we also talked about a need for a title one teacher at uh the intermediate school and Ben was interviewing candidates this week and then we had no public comment and that was the end of our meeting. Any questions discussion? That was our curriculum committee meeting. Okay. The next thing on our agenda is the acceptance of retirements. We have two people who have put in for retirement, Jason Friday and Lisa Gibbons. Um, uh, I think I heard Jason say today he's been in the district for 28 years. And Lisa,
054I'm not quite sure how many years. Do you know how many years she has in? >> 32. thought it was in her letter. Yes. 32 letter 32 years. >> Um so um they are looking to retire. So I am looking for a motion to accept the retirements of Jason Friday and Lisa Given at the end of the 202526 school year. >> I'll make that motion. I'll second >> motion made by Travis. Second by >> any questions? Um Lucy, >> yep. >> Richard Pon, >> yes. >> Tim Tar, >> yes. >> Deborah Buunner, >> yes. >> Matt Malaria, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> And Julie Loa, >> yes. >> I just would like to say that motion was passed with regrets. It's hard losing people of that kind of seniority in our district.
055Um, but that's what happens. They retired. Going to a better not better to a better. Um the next thing on our agenda is the approval of early graduation. Uh we have two students who would like to graduate early. They have met all the requirements for graduation and they have a life plan in place that they would like to get started on. So I am looking for a motion to approve the early graduation in December of Jadiah Jadiah Temple and Caitlyn Dupri. I say that right >> Julie. Can I just add that with successful completion of this semester? >> Okay. Yes. Thank you. >> Make the motion to approve the early graduation of Jada and Caitlyn. Second. Okay. Motion made by Tim, support by Deb. All in favor? Oh, no. All in favor. Chris, >> yep.
056>> Richard Keon, >> yes. >> Tim Tarf, >> yes. >> Deborah Buer, >> yes. >> Matt Lar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Lo, >> yes. Okay, the next thing on our agenda is the and before I go on, congratulations to them for getting their ducks in a row and getting that accomplished early. Uh the next thing on the agenda is the finance and building and grounds committee update by Matt. >> Okay. Uh first thing we had the uh blue liners which is the uh hockey team uh parent uh fundraising organization came and asked the district to uh take back in pain for the game officials. Um up until this year they've been um paying that on their own and everybody in the athletic committee and both the finance committee supported uh
057the district doing this given that it's a game day expense. Um I think it's slowly we last year agreed to pick up their busy transportation which is for non overnight uh stays and uh paid for the coach I think a few years before that. So I think this is kind of their final request and talking to them and the district for um you know kind of taking back those expenses that you know are really should be district paid. So they were very appreciative of that. uh probably end up being somewhere between six to $7,000, no more than 8,000. They get uh mile they have to pay mileage for some of the officials, so they didn't have an exact amount, but um everybody thought that was a reasonable thing. Uh lower went over the monthly budget
058numbers. Uh the state still hasn't finalized their budget. So, um, you know, they they just heard Spencer kind of discuss that a lot of districts around the state are having to borrow money to make payroll, um, pay other expenses because they didn't manage their money properly in the past. Um, our district has quite a bit of funds in reserve to withstand um, for quite a long time, so we don't anticipate having to borrow any money in order to make payroll or pay our general expenses. Um we anticipate you know budget will be passed in a reasonable amount of time. So that will not affect us which is a good thing. Um so then we talked about um the uh curriculum update and again uh because the budget's not passed we weren't sure about it. the
059free reduced lunches would still go on, but again the school has a healthy uh balance in that uh food service account as well as our general fund account. So we all agreed that you know if the school has to fund it for a while that we you know we're not going to start charging kids for lunch or anything like that lunch or breakfast that we currently provide. So um that was just kind of kicked around but again we're hoping that state does what they're supposed to be doing. Uh just had a brief discussion about uh fund balance. Uh for those of you on the board a year ago, we all just had a discussion and felt like 25%. Um is kind of the the surplus goal. Um just in talking with everybody, we felt that
060that was good to keep it there. And it's really not something that's set in stone. just if we start to approach that number even drop below it. Uh we just kind of had the discussion that we'd like Spencer and Laura to, you know, talk to the board, let them know and see what kind of, you know, why why it dropped below that, what decisions we may have to make in order to um you know, get it back above there or you know, see if it's a kind of a temporary thing or more of a long-term problem that we need to address. So really just kind of a target to keep your eye on, but um I think we're pretty well north of that right now. So not in any immediate danger. Um just had a
061discussion about FOYA policy review. Currently we charge a fee for somebody that submits a FOYA and that's going to stay the same. Um there's a there's a healthc care reimbursement for um the staff who um I think they currently they paid like 3% into for retirey healthcare. This they no longer have to do that individually and the state refunded um I think a portion or that 3% for like the last year. They didn't refund all the money that the staff paid. So, we're currently um refunding the money to the staff that we received from the state. I think there was a shortfall of approximately $25,000 that we're waiting to get some more guidance whether the state's going to pay out that additional money to, which I mean I would kind of makes would make sense
062that they would, but um we're just waiting to get a little more information on that. They haven't really provided a whole lot of um guidance on what to do with. We're not the only district that that's happened to. Most districts were not paid out the full amount. Um, teacher expenses. Um, currently the buildings are assigned a budget. We just all agreed that I think Spencer is going to talk to the building principles that they're each, you know, going to be given a a general budget for, you know, equipment or expense supply, teacher supplies, and they're going to manage their own buildings and what they allocate to the people at their buildings. They know it better than than we do. Um, but I don't know what they ended up deciding, but I know Spencer was going
063to talk to him at their next meeting. Online learning proposal that everybody saw last month. Um I think that's been we are just informed that that's going to be tabled till later in the year to allow for more marketing time in order to get students as we would need them by October 1st to um make a difference for us. So that'll probably pick back up in the spring. I I would guess that subject um this staffing update they're working on filling the premier sub positions first. uh security supervisor has been tabled um just because I know there's some discussions about possibly a second SRO u just some different possibilities. So we're just kind of waiting to see still before we pull the trigger on that. And then Steve just gave a a pro update on
064several projects. The covered walkway um is in the design process still. uh we had to switch uh to a new architect firm and or engineer firm and uh Steve said they're working on that. I think he's hoping to have an update by the 1 of October. They're working on that. Um the CTE fencing and the drift indoor this uh new firm Three Rivers. Uh each project has each of those projects has to be submitted to the state for approval. So that could take a little bit longer than just bidding it out. Uh the baseball softball fields are going to get recompacted because of drainage and erosion issues. They have to lay down some new uh d new diamond dust and regrade uh several parts of those fields. Um we had the they had the walk
065through in East Elementary. Steve said there was quite a few firms. Uh the bid opening is going to be October 2nd. He's hoping we get several um firms to bid on that. He was pretty pleased with the overall attendance. Uh we talked about the updated strategic plan and uh we just talked about kind of getting some more followup with site logic. Um talked about briefly that the with the track and the tennis courts um looking like they may not get done this uh fall. the track probably most likely won't because um there just been some issues with with Ruth Riley and then we're hoping that they'll come and do the 10. They were supposed to start on the 15th of September. Obviously haven't started on that yet. So I think time's kind of winding down
066on them here where they're either have to get going or they won't be able to do it. We'll have to probably rebid that out for the spring. And that was it. I just have I just had one question about the um the walkway. Was that is the tent a done deal? Is that for sure something that's going to happen? >> Yeah, it's something we talked about today with uh Ben and the intermediate building if if since the covered walkway won't be completed prior to winter. We're invest I know Steve is uh pricing out tents right now just as a as a potential option. So, we're looking into that. I know uh Ben Schlly has been working with his group over there with Ashley and and looking at uh when it is bad weather is are
067things that need to change a little bit because right now correct me if I'm wrong Ben, but parent pickup is going pretty well. >> Yep. I mean, >> as long as it's not snowing and raining outside, right? >> 12 minutes one day. So, that was pretty good. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, when the weather comes, it's going to definitely change things a little bit. We have >> another plan that we have if we need to. how we dismiss and look inside and kind of exit from that. >> Yeah. >> Any any questions for Matt? Discussion. Okay. The next thing on our agenda is the payment of bills. I need a motion to acknowledge the payment of regular and bond invoices in an amount of 1,242,81528. I'll make that motion support. >> Motion made by Tim,
068support by Matt. Any questions? Discussion. Chris Luke Kakovsky. >> Yep. >> Richard Pon, >> yes. >> Tim Tarj, >> yes. >> Deborah Buunner, >> yes. >> Matt Marek, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Lo, >> yes. Uh the next thing on the agenda is the approval of the MASP conference fees. Uh right now uh Deb and I are going and Spencer is going to that. So we need approval to or the payment of the conference fees. So I need a motion to approve the payment of the MASB conference fees and the amount of $898 for July and And in your packets there is a listing of each one of those. >> I'll make that support. >> Okay. Motion made by Luke. Um support by Travis. Any discussion, questions? >> Luke Kakuski. >>
069Yep. >> Richard Pean. Yes. >> Tim Tarot. >> Yes. >> Matt Larard. >> Yes. >> And Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> I have to say upstate. So does >> Deborah Buerate. >> And Julie. Thank you. >> Okay. The next thing on our uh agenda is the board policy update by Deb. Okay. We uh met likely on uh September 9th and finished up the final series um of this year's updates from our lawyers. Um under the 5000 series um that deals with students curriculum and academic matters. Uh most of those we already had the policies and we didn't make um much change to anything. Uh 5304 um we did we chose to keep the policy as is that uh public private students may not participate in district provided athletic and extracurriculars. Um we had to name
070our homeless liaison and truency officer for the district. Um there is one piece that we may have to come back to. Um and it's in regards to being a title one district and I apologize but that should have gone to curriculum and I wasn't able to make it that day to the curriculum meeting. So we may have to come back to that 5405. Um we have all of the necessary forms for parents to object to materials in our library. Um we have the necessary policy for graduation requirements in regards to personal finance. Um, we chose not to add optional language that would allow a student to that was short credits to walk during the graduation ceremony. Um, we had to identify that we acknowledge our top 12 academic graduates and that our students need 22
071credits to graduate. Um, we chose not to add some additional language that was suggested to direct teachers to minimize homework and for building principles to publish grade changes um, procedures. We left our Michigan model sexed curriculum as is in that we teach sexed reproductive health and communicable disease instruction. Um, 5509 C and D were new and they basically stated that the district cannot require attendance students to attend or perform at a political rally or religious ceremony. Um we have language already regarding age appropriate suicide prevention and plan to keep it. Um, we have a threat assessment available through our ISD, so we don't need to create our own at this time. Um, we do include the healthy kids application at KOHA in our registration packets. Um, we chose not to add policy to create a
072closed campus at this time. We already have policy allowing IEP meetings to be recorded. Um, and again, we chose not to deal with the policy encouraging teachers to minimize homework at this time. Um, and finance those two policy questions Matt covered. Um, so that wraps up our updates for this school year. Um, I just want to add that the um policy committee has been meeting um every the last few months, sometimes twice to get through all of those policies. And um while we were going through that, we did uh go come across several policies that have to do with onboarding um board members. So we are going to meet a few more times and go through the onboarding process and um and make a onboarding packet so when we get new board members we can
073give them more guidance on what a board member actually does because I don't think there's anybody who's ever gotten on the board and said oh this is exactly what I expected. So, so I think that uh going through that and creating that will um will make a big difference for new board members to come on. Um, I do want to pass out this uh document that uh we we do have adopted as a board which our board members have not signed in several years to see if we want to keep it or if we want to add to it, subtract it, change it. We can modify it in any way. But I would like every board member to kind of look through it and then um either uh give it bring it bring it back
074to us so that we can get it back to us somehow so that we can um go through and um kind of make a draft so that the next time we can bring it the next meeting we can bring a draft of this and and and vote on what we want to do with it. So there's So, um, >> did everyone get one? Okay. So, um, and if you if you look at these were all all of these things that are in here would be a good thing for new board members to see and know. So, um, they're all based on our policies. uh some I started looking through and trying to connect the policy to each one of those but that takes more time than I had but we'll work on that in the
075policy policy meeting also. So you can just take a look at that and get back with us on that. Okay. So any questions about that? All right. I need a motion to accept the board policy updates for the 4,500 Syria series with the except with the exception of 5405 policy 5405 is that still >> I'll make the motion to accept the board policy updates for 4,000 and 5,000 series um with the exception of 5405 support. >> A motion made by Tim, support by Matt. Any discussion? >> Yes. >> Luke Kakowski. >> Yep. >> Richard Pan, >> yes. >> Tim Tar, >> yes. >> Deborah Buuner, >> yes. >> Matt Lar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Loila, >> yes. >> Okay. Next thing on our agenda is the athletic committee update by
076Travis. >> All right. We met on September 11th. Um, we talked about having there was a vacancy for the after school FAP position. Marty's not here. I was going to ask him if they got that filled in the last 10 days. Uh, we've tabled the Hall of Fame project for now. Um, turns out MHSA is going to ask all new teachers and coaches to have CPR AE certification. So, we're working on getting that done. Um, Matt talked about the track project. Like I said, it's going to get delayed. Uh we talked about winter sports fees for officials. We're going to switch to this arbiter system which is going to be a lot more easy to track as far as taxes, things like that. And discuss the athletic director hiring process. We're not exactly sure what
077that position is going to look like, but we've got some ideas and and hopefully we can maybe kill more than one bird with that stone. And that's it. Any >> questions for Travis? discussion Chris. Nope. >> What time? >> 8:30. >> All right. So, the next thing on our agenda is the approval of overnight field trips. Uh we have uh the band overnight field trip on October 24th through 25th. The girls golf regionals on October 6th through 7th. Hockey away games, overnight trips on uh November 14th through 15th, December 19th through 20th and January 30th through 31st. DECA states on March 5th through 7th and anticipated if they qualify DECA International Career Development Conference on April 25th, 28th. So, I need a motion to and we do have all the paperwork that and then the
078permission slips that they'll be sending out in our packet when all the paperwork is filled out. >> Motion support. >> Any discussion? >> Luke Kakowski. >> Yep. >> Richard Pine, >> yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. >> Deborah Buunner, >> yes. Matt Lar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Boila, >> yes. >> Hey, um, we also would like to recognize a donation to East Elementary from the Kanas of $500. So, we thank them for that. We appreciate their support of our schools. Now, it is time for public comments. Okay, it's time for uh public comment. So if there is any public would like to approach the board saying none meeting a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make a motion to support. >> Motion made by Matt, support by Travis. All those in
079favor I Thank you for coming. >> That was a record. Nicely done.