CAS Board Meeting 8 25 25

001Five weeks. >> All right. Um, welcome to the Shboen Area Schools Board of Education regular monthly meeting, Monday, August 25th, 2025. It is 6:30. Julie Loila >> here. >> Tim Tar >> here. >> Deborah Buunner >> here. >> Luke Kakovski >> here. >> Travis Neville >> here. >> Richard Pon >> here. >> Matt Laruk >> here. >> And Heather Lake >> here. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. [Applause] 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. >> The first thing on the agenda is the approval of minutes. Anybody have any questions about the minutes of July 28th, 2025 regular meeting, July 28th close meeting, and the August 19th special. Um, not seeing

002any, I need a motion to approve the minutes of the July 28th, 2025 regular meeting, July 28th closed meeting, and August 19th special board meeting. >> I'll make that motion. >> Support motion made by Rich, supported by Travis. Any other questions, concerns, discussion? Luke Kakuski. Yep. >> Richard Pan. >> Yes. >> Tim Cara. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buunner. >> Yes. >> Matt Lar. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Loila. >> Yes. Okay. The next thing on the agenda is the board president report. And I just have an announcement I would like to make. Um, often you may see board members using their computers or their phones in order to look at the agenda. They have chosen not to use those trees up so much and not print the agenda unless you are

003like me or me. I still need a printed copy. So, I do have a printed copy, but they may need to refer to that at some time. And next thing on our any any questions about that? Next thing on the agenda is uh the superintendent report. >> Great. Thank you, Julie. If you guys take a look at the uh screen, I have a short PowerPoint presentation for you. What's so funny, Ben? You saw it earlier. >> He doesn't take it short. >> But I also wanted to um this summer I am uh representing uh the Kefir boys, Liam and Seth, I believe. Right. >> Yes. >> This uh I I ran across them. They were they had set up a shop uh at the softball tournament this summer and they they made these out of

004their 3D printer. Is that correct? And then also uh they have a device that allows you they were selling some um wallets and then they with the ability to engrave on the back of it which I I couldn't help myself. I had to. >> Those are those are nice wallets. >> Yeah. I And this here goes really well with my shirt. So pretty cool stuff. That's very cool. So always like to show off some student work. Uh welcome back. Uh today was new teacher orientation and we had a great day today. Uh Deanna led the day. Um everybody was there for the cookout. Administrators, we had a couple board members. Thank you Julie and Tim who came to the um cookout this afternoon. Had some great conversation with some new teachers. New teachers had an

005opportunity to meet with their metro teachers. So, looks like we got another really good group of uh new teachers joining our our teacher teams in all of our different buildings. Tomorrow, um we are going to have our district welcome back morning. We're going to have breakfast in the morning at 7:30 and then we're going to have some professional development throughout the morning and then we are going to have uh Marty, where's Marty at? The t-shirts, are they going to be in tomorrow? There was some question whether or not her t-shirts would be in. Apparently, they they're under the wire, but we're going to get them here tomorrow morning. We're going to hand them out to our teachers uh after our PD session in the morning, and we hope to get a a group photo of

006all of our district and staff that are willing to take a picture and put the shirt on. That's the key. Um uh in in the new gym. So, we're looking at we're actually having a photographer come in. Uh I think we're looking at a couple pictures possibly. one in the bleachers, one around the new uh headdress C on the main floor. That would be a great picture, too. And then get those up on the website, too. I I I really enjoy looking at uh some of the other school districts as they start their first days and the teachers come back and the students come back and share all this kind of excitement and and stuff uh with each other on Facebook, on social media. So hopefully tomorrow we'll have some some smiles and some uh

007some pictures to share. Wednesday is going to be we changed we were going to do sports dress up day on Tuesday but we thought well since we're giving out t-shirts and we want him to wear those t-shirts um we're going to change sports dress up day to Wednesday and that's a big deal because uh Deanna has uh held on to the spirit stick most of most of if not all of last year right spirit stick winner so uh we're coming we're going to bring the spirit stick the first competition for this particular school year is going to be wear your favorite sports jersey or your sports t-shirt on Wednesday and the building percentage the the building with the highest percentage of participation wins the first spirit stick competition and there's a big challenge going on

008hoarded it all of last year and I know there are some building principles that are looking to challenge uh Deanna to hold that sports or that spirit stick for a couple of weeks anyways Um, this right here, I'm going to Julie, you got one of these already, right? We talked about this um earlier today, but I think I have an extra copy for everybody else if you want to take this. If you recall in our last board meeting, um Julie talked about the strategic plan. This strategic plan, which is all up, you see it hopefully everywhere in your buildings, in the district office. It's posted everywhere. Uh that was devised my first year, which is was two years ago. It took us six months to to create uh the strategic plan. And the strategic plan's

009not changing. But what is changing is some of the some of the things that we the action steps is what I refer to them as the things we're actually going to do in each of these five pillars to try to take one step closer to what the mission and vision is of those particular goals. So, on one side of the paper I just gave you, you see that? But on the other side, flip it over. On the other side, it breaks it down a little bit differently. And I'm going to I'm going to uh present this next next month with an updated version. You guys that were here, was this December of last year? Um approved this um actually was the year going into 2425 back in December. And the goals are going to remain

010the same, but if you see the bulleted items on the bottom, some of them we've already achieved. Some of them we are still working on from a year and a half ago. But some of them we have new ones. Uh we have new administrators. We have new ideas. We have new goals. So what I'd like to do is update this version and put in some smart goals that support each of those five pillars and then bring it forward to the board for approval. And as we talked about when we created this two years ago, this again will be our northstar. this is kind of the umbrella in which everything uh kind of resides and we want to make sure every year that we review it, update it, and make sure that it's accurate and it's

011still pointing us in the right direction. So, um I'm challenging the administrators to I have a few of them. I'm going to share them with you here today. Some ideas of some things that we uh still need to do and some new ideas that we need to add. And if you guys have any ideas, which I'm sure you would not be afraid to share them with me if you did, uh we would love to have your input as well. Uh pillar number one, I want to start with this pillar. It's not necessarily in any type of chronological order, but I want to start with uh culture and climate first because to be quite honest with you, I think culture and climate is the most important thing that we can create here in our school district.

012Last year we had PJ Caposi. For those of you who remember, Michelle, do you remember PJ? He was great and he talked a lot about culture and climate in the theater when we brought our entire staff into the theater downtown. But one of the things that we want to I want to make sure everybody understands before we move move forward and talk about how to support culture and climate. What's the difference? What is culture and climate? When I talk about culture, I'm talking about a shared beliefs and values of the entire school district. These are things that um the way PJ Caposi talked about it he said it's our personality right it's it's something that has is kind of um it can be changed but it's very difficult to change you know you know people

013when you get older right 35 40 or getting close to 50 like I am uh your personality sometimes is a little bit more rigid and doesn't change quite as easily so think about that um every school in our school district has it has a personality And it's it's a compilation of all the teachers, all the administrators, and it's the things that we do every day. Up there it says the traditions, the norms, and the expectations that shape how people in your school or community interact and work together. So culture is the big picture, right? It's kind of firm. It's it's ingrained. Uh it's kind of hard to do a quick change with culture. To change culture usually takes years. Now, climate is different and I and I like what PJ Composi said last year when

014he we talked about describing climate. Climate is how you feel. Climate is like the weather, right? Climate is, is it raining outside? Is it sunny outside? And how does that make me feel? So, when we're talking about culture and climate within our school districts and within our schools, we're talking about kind of what's the personality or the ingrained shared beliefs. And then also when you walk in there, what is the feel that you get when you walk in the building? Right? Every building I've ever walked into, you immediately feel like, man, I'm I feel safe and warm and welcome. Or some buildings, unfortunately, you may walk into you walk up to the counter and everybody ignores you and you're like, geez, does anybody see me here? Right? So, how do you feel when you're in

015a building, when you interact with other people? Um, that's really important for us. So what are some things that we have done in the past to improve the culture and climate in the past two years when we started this strategic plan? One big one for me is with the fact that last year we had zero expulsions. We brought zero expulsions. Uh Ben and Marty brought zero explosives to the board last year and I believe that's a testament to a change in culture and climate and a belief that they believe in in regards to um uh using interventions and restorative justice practices. So they felt very strongly that they wanted to do whatever they could to keep kids in their building. And the year before, if you recall, we had six expulsion hearings. So that's a

016significant change. That's a quick cultural change, but that's led because we have new administrators at the high school and they feel a little bit differently about how to deal with students that are in a bad way. Also, we established a safety committee this past January. I want to thank Julie for supporting me and creating that committee. We've had a lot of great conversation, a lot of discussion. I think we've really moved the needle in every building by getting together, sitting at the table, having Ron Fenland, the building principles, having people from the county, having people from the city sit down and just talk about how can we make our schools as safe as we possibly can for our students. That makes me feel better, right? I think we all agree it's it's it's really difficult

017to um say that any of our schools are 100% safe. But by meeting, talking, addressing the issues, we're taking steps closer every month, every day. I think also something that's going to create culture is our prek program. Deanna's going to have an opportunity to get with kids uh a year earlier and teach them how to I think Michelle said it best the other day, how to do school, right? So, that's culture. Getting kids in there show I was in there the other day and they were showing showing them how to line up to go to lunch. That's extremely important for a pre-K student, right? Or kindergarten. That's don't take that lightly. Um, and then I think also one of the biggest things that's going to impact the culture in the near future is the fact

018that we've moved se uh second grade over the intermediate building and seventh grade over to the high school. And that's a huge undertaking. Don't take that lightly. Um, and I think that will have a significant change in culture, especially to our eighth graders. Our eighth graders are no longer alone. uh they're going to be uh coupled with the seventh graders and I know Marty and Ben has spent a lot of time on trying to keep those students in one section of the high school and trying to create a junior high feel for them. They're going to have classes together. They're going to play sports together and now that 8th grade is not stuck between, well, am I in high school or am I in middle school? So, a lot of stuff we've already done. I

019don't want to um I want to congratulate those folks who are involved in these processes, but also what else can we do in the future um to try to improve culture and climate? What are some new things that we can add? Smart goals, action steps. Uh before I get to that, I just want to give you a quick update. Correct me if I'm wrong, Deanna, but prek, uh we have currently 26 students talking about preK. So that's going to be two sections this year. We do have uh 32 is the cap, right Dana? Um I wouldn't be surprised if we have a a rush here before the start of school and get closer to that 32 number, but right now we have 26. Between now and next year, uh we're going to we're going to

020gauge student demand and if we can get enough students to create one section up to two sections, that would be our goal, which would be another 32 students or 64 students total. But right now, we have two good strong sections ready to begin this year. And again, that's going to impact our culture down the road. These students are going to have an extra year of how to do school. Uh the K numbers, since we're in talking about East Elementary, K numbers were a little down. Last I talked with Deanna, they were about 82. Is that still the case? >> Um we've been getting um registrations daily. >> Yeah. >> Um trickling in still. So I know that's that the number is higher than that and we'll continue to >> Yeah. And kindergarten notoriously is late

021late comers to the party. Uh so I wouldn't be surprised if we get to closer to our goal of 100 uh by the time and really ideally the optimum number is 125. The reason that I say that is if we have 125 students that come in as kindergarten if you divide that by five that's 25 students per section. And that's kind of how we are set up K through 8 right now. I believe 2 through six is five sections every grade level. So if we started off with a kindergarten of 125, that would be five sections and that would kind of fit in nice and and in line with uh grades 2 through six. Um some other things that these are some of my these are ones that I brought to the table this afternoon

022at the cabinet meeting. These are kind of like my pet peeves. I think we've moved the needle a little bit. I still think it's something we can work on and I don't think it's anything we're ever going to be perfect at. It's never going to be 2 plus 2 equals 4, but cell phones are getting a lot of attention throughout the state, throughout the country. And talking with Marty and Ben, we have some ideas of how we can get our arms around that a little bit more and how it can be less of a distraction in the classroom. So, I sent you guys all an email, all the administrators, all the board members a couple days ago. We have some ideas. We're going to try some new things. But right now, I know in 18

023states that uh the state is starting to step in and the state is starting to tell schools no cell phones in your buildings at all. If you bring a cell phone in, what a lot of these states are doing is they're collecting them at the door and then they got these nice new intricate little safe pods or something that they can put them in and then the students get them on the way out. We're not doing that yet. Uh, I hope we don't we don't feel we have to do that yet, but we do want the understanding that every student has a Chromebook. So, there should be no need for a student to pull out their cell phone for educational purposes. So, I believe the goal K12 or now preK12, and I'm not sure how

024many preK kids have cell phones, but you never know anymore. Um, is to, uh, zero zero cell phones out during instructional time. uh they can depending on the building there's going to be some safe zones where students can check their phone before school after school passing period and lunchtime. Is that correct Marty? Um but other than that in the classroom don't want to see them, don't want to hear them. If we do then there's a process of trying to educate them on how to handle those cell phones better. Bullying has improved but that's something that we're always working on. And vaping is still crazy to me. So vaping is one thing we talked about. I don't know if it's getting better. Uh Marty and Ben, what do you think at the high school level? >>

025I think it's getting better because we're reducing opportunities. >> Okay. Uh vaping is scary to me. That's probably one of the things that's really difficult to control. kids are really caught up in it and um but we we have it on our on our radar and we're working towards uh some ideas on how to ideally eliminate vaping is the goal but at least decrease the use of vaping in our schools in particular the high schools where it seems to be most rampant. Approving attendance is something that we're focusing on. the Ben uh Schlly and the building principles are working on a new check sheet kind of going through and making sure we don't miss any students and we have a process at 5 days, 10 days, 15 days and 20 days now. Is that right,

026Bench? >> Yep. Just gives us a protocol to follow. So, we're all pretty >> and that's something that all uh all buildings are going to use >> and that'll keep us kind of consistent. So, if you have a kid in the elementary school, they're being treat being treated the same way as a student at the high school. And I think all these things are just a few examples of some things that we're working on and we'll continue to work on and will be goals under culture and climate or at least how to improve culture and climate in the future. That's the email I sent out. I hope all you guys got it. If you didn't click on that link, I was reading over the weekend about and at that time it was 17 states, but

027now it's 18 that are stepping in. And we want to keep local control, right? We don't necessarily want I don't think we have to or hope hope not. I don't think the state has to come in and tell us how to manage cell phones, but in 18 states they are. So, who knows? And I was talking with some some of our guys that are in the know and they say that Michigan is talking about it, but 18 states throughout our country are already making movement on it. This is one of my favorite quote by PJ Fleck. And when we're talking about culture and climate, the reason that I show this quote is because I can I can have these ideas, the building principles can have these ideas, but until our teachers and more importantly our

028students understand and respect and uphold these ideas, we're really not going to be as good as we can be. Uh Charlotte Danielson, somebody pointed that out today. Was that you, Marty? Charlotte Danielson, when we evaluate teachers, you know, the only way that a teacher can get an excellent in their rating studentled >> when it's studentled, when students are teaching students. So, when we're talking about culture and climate, we're talking about uh I remember back in the day when I was in high school and everybody felt, hey, we none of us like bullying. The administration doesn't like it. The teachers don't like it. And guess what? 99% of the kids don't like it. When it ever raised its ugly head, we had kids, not only teachers, administrators, but kids also say, "Hey, we don't do that

029here." When we can get to that place, that'll be a good place to be. Uh today, Tim's going to give a safety committee uh report, but I just wanted to mention we are going to push forward. I know um Sheriff uh Ross brought to the committee the uhou for the cce dispatch and I know we talked about it last month and since last month I've talked to our attorneys they agree that thisou does not violate furpa and that the cce um having access to our camera system in emergency situations is a good idea. So, that was brought to the committee uh today. The board will get an opportunity to vote on it and I'm assuming that we'll we'll pass that tonight. And again, that's just another step towards trying to create a safer environment for

030our children. Any questions on theou Tim? Is there anything you want to add about theou for in terms of CCL? >> Okay. Okay. So, I think we're good. And if you don't know, uh I I I don't know a lot about cce, so I looked it up. Shboan, Charlottville, and EMTT County Central Dispatch. So, they're the when when a 911 is dialed, uh, emergency communication center that serves those three counties is who has access to our cameras. And right now, Ron, how many cameras do we have? >> I've got 142 views just at the high school alone. >> Just at the high school. >> Yeah. >> So, 142 views just at the high school. So, if there's an emergency situation and uh they they need access to our cameras, god forbid, an active shooter situation,

031they can pull up and they can they can direct uh those first responders, they can direct them because they have access they can they can tune right into our cameras, which obviously would be extremely helpful in a an emergency situation such as that. So, that's pillar one. Pillar two is communication. I just have one quick slide on that. We've done a lot of stuff. I want to make sure we haven't forgot about the things that we have done. We changed websites a year and a half ago. Aptag, I think that's been huge for us. We've tried some new things this summer. You may have heard our radio interviews. Um, that's again to promote, hey, Shbboan is a good place to be. If you want to bring your child here, we have a lot of great

032educational opportunities. Everybody did a really good job except for Ben Schlly. Ben, you had need a little bit of work, but I really liked everybody else's. No, you did a nice job, too. Thanks. I'm just kidding, man. He's so sensitive. Um, we also created a commercial, which I don't know if you everybody's heard our commercial yet, but Mike Grizzale um has uh and that's going to run for a few weeks up to the start of school. And hopefully, again, the idea is that we can increase enrollment. Um, I think when I first got here two years ago, we hired Jordan Anderson, and he's done a wonderful job to be our full-time tech uh, coordinator. He helps us with our communications, making sure that they get out, if they're messed up, he can fix them, all

033kinds of good stuff. I've been doing my my Sunday newsletter for a year and a half now. Haven't missed a Sunday in a year and a half. I know you guys are waiting for the first one that I do miss. Um, and then we we're now it's also starting to become contagious. I think uh if you were um uh if you went to the fall athletic parent player meeting, Jason Friday was impressive, invited uh any parents or players that wanted to come into our high school auditorium to talk about our new athletic code of conduct, which today the board is going to have an opportunity to approve. But I think Jason did an excellent job. We had how many people showed up? >> 84 showed up to the fall athletic committee. And it didn't have

034to be just fall athletes and fall parents. We just opened it up anybody who maybe your kid plays in winter or spring. And I think we're going to do it again in the winter one more time if people missed it in the fall. But we're seeing other groups and departments starting to push out more communication, especially two-way communication such as that. That's really important to be able to talk to people face to face. And then also Julie has given me a new task. I don't know if anybody knows anybody who has billboards, but uh Julia said, "Spencer, get out there." And I love the commercial, but I would even love more a billboard. So, we're going to work on that next. Pillar three, personnel and leadership. Uh this kind of shocked me when I thought

035about it the other day when we're looking at our personnel and leadership pillar of our five pillars. We've hired six administrators of our nine in the past two years. So, the only ones, the old-timers, and there, you can tell Ben Wilson's a new guy, a rookie over there making noise. But, uh, Marty Mix, we've hired Ben Wilson, Ben Schlide, Ashley Napple, first, this is her first year. Chris Jules was hired when I was here. I was fortunate enough to sit on that interview committee. And then tonight, we're going to be recommending Jess Jessica Yearling. Is that right? Yearling, guys. Is that how you pronounce her last name? and we are really excited about her joining our team. She couldn't make it here tonight, but she's coming from Alvette School District and I have her I

036just have one copy, but if you want to take a look at her resume, uh the things that she has done in regards to curriculum director, please go ahead and take a quick flip through that because it's impressive. And I want to thank Deborah. She was a part of the interview committee and did a wonderful job. But it was uh hands down uh especially this late in the year to get somebody. She works for Olivet school district. She gave them two weeks notice and she's starting on September 8th here. So we're real excited about what with Jamie McClintic. I also like to say she did a wonderful job for two years and she's off to bigger better things working at the COPD. I'm really happy for her. I think that's going to open up a

037lot more opportunities for her. I was really concerned about filling her shoes because she's done such a great job. But I think we were really lucky to to land this uh young lady and she'll be joining our team soon. The other thing I'd like to mention besides, you know, when you when you have a six out of nine administrator changeover in two years, that's going to impact your culture and climate. They're coming in with their own ideas, their own their own way of thinking about things. But I also like to say this morning, the new teacher orientation, great teachers again. We are for for a state and a country that is in a teacher shortage. We seem to be knocking it out of the park with finding some teachers, too, cuz we got two good

038ones here today. Where'd they go? Did they leave already? Oh, there they are. Maybe maybe we didn't. Uh but we got two wonderful uh teachers here today um that uh Ben Schwai is going to be talking about in just a second, but uh just so that you guys are aware. I know sometimes we we it's hard to keep the board all seven of you up to date, but fourth and sixth grade in our intermediate building. Uh the the enrollment numbers have went up significantly in the past two or three weeks. >> Yeah. >> Uh what were you saying? 49. >> I think we're at 49 new releases summer and a lot of them in the last three weeks. So contractually what that does is that puts us at a position where contractually uh Michelle would

039remind me is that we would have to give these teachers an aid or we could hire another teacher and reduce class numbers and then um not have to worry about adding an aid. Once we um exceed that magic number in the contract, we would have to hire an aid. I'm I'm of the mindset that instead of hiring an aid, why don't we go ahead and hire a teacher because that's what's best for kids, right? Reduce the section numbers, get smaller classrooms. And we were very lucky to find two great teachers at the last minute, the midnight hour to fill those roles. But the good thing is it's been driven by enrollment. We didn't expect 49 students in the past two weeks in the intermediate building. And we were very fortunate to find two excellent teachers

040to fill those roles. I will tell you this though, how many how much I know the answer to this, but I like asking Ben. Anyways, uh how much how much classroom space do you have left in the intermediate building? >> Zero. >> We're actually making some space in the library for one of our employees to do some of our work because we're pretty >> Yeah. So we are we have five sections grades 2 through six and there is no space left in the intermediate building. So that's a good problem to have. >> And when you think about it uh every student we know FTE I'm not I I just I I'm I got my CSBO you know in the back of my mind uh is $10,000 for every student. So enrollment has been an issue

041which I'm going to talk about here in a minute. But I'm I'm I'm suspecting that since Proctor and Gamble shut down and the hospital shut down, every year since our enrollment has went down, never went up. I'm assuming and hoping this year it's going to go up because that is how we get our general fund revenue is through enrollment. So every year it's it's not a lot. It's 20, it's 30, it's 40, but um we need to turn that ship around and it sounds like we're about to do that this year. So and that'll bring addition. We always talk about, you know, how how do when we're when we're it seems like when we're talking about budget in our finance committee meeting, we're always talking about reducing expenses, reducing expenses. We got to cut cut.

042Well, here on the other side of the fence is we also can increase enrollment, right? We have CT programs that we can advertise. We have nine CT programs. We have a new EMC program. We have a new preK program. If you're moving to Northern Michigan, Shabboan is a pretty good place to be. Pillar four, academics. I know we spent a lot of time on this, so I'm going to buzz through this real quick. Uh Jamie McClintic and the building principles of Molly and Capeeka have done a wonderful job with our math curriculum. And I know Jamie before she left, she shared with the board, I believe last month, that our math scores are the best that she's ever seen. Matter of fact, I think I quoted her here. Um, she had been here for 17

043years before she left and never has she seen math growth like this like this. That far right uh column there is unbelievable. And we want to correlate and associate uh those test scores with our curriculum work the last two years. Um, we're thinking that it's starting to pay dividends already. And like I said, Jamie's been in this district for 17 years prior and she was really uh impressed and uh we've shared this with the curriculum committee a couple times with the board and hopefully those numbers will continue. And I will tell you the four uh the four summer days that the teachers have worked on their curriculum have been wonderful. I always think summer is for curriculum work and we've paid uh our teachers to come in for four days and I would say probably

044over 90% of our teachers have taken advantage of that and now coming into day one they have their lesson plans they have their curriculum maps for math and now English language arts were starting this year and we've employed Mali and Capeeka for three days each month so they're going to come in and they're going to work with each building and make sure that we continue to push that envelope now shifting from math to English language arts and hopefully within a year or two we'll see some improved English language arts scores. If you go back to the English language arts data, you can see that we had some modest gains in English language arts, but um not like math, right? Not like math. Hopefully, we'll see all green in the next year or two. That's the

045goal. The last pillar is finance. Uh this is this is Matt's favorite uh subject, but here are some things that we've been able to do in the past years uh two years that I've been here. One is uh when I first got here, we were really I want to say fact I guess on savings from our Esser money. We got $5.2 million in three years from Esser money. And we did a smart thing or the people before I got here did a smart thing. They put it in the bank. So, right now, our surplus is somewhere around $7 million. And the board said, "You know what? We never want it to get below 25%." And since I've been here, it's never been below 25%. And I still believe it's hovering around 30%. But we got

046to keep an eye on that, right? We got to make sure enrollment keeps let's let's get enrollment going back the other way. And let's keep those expenses down and make sure that our teachers are deployed efficiently and effectively. And I think that 25% surplus is a very uh obtainable goal for the next few years. Also, one of the things that we did when I first got here that we weren't doing before is now that $7 million is invested and earning interest. Somewhere approximately $50,000 a month. We're earning interest on our savings, which we weren't before. But Matt challenged me. I remember when I first got here, Matt Matt said, "Spencer, if you do one damn thing, get that money invested." And I said, "I can do that, Matt." and $50,000 a year. That's not chunk

047change. >> It's a month. >> It's money. Yeah, that's a lot of money over a course of a year. Yeah. >> We also hired Crystal Pylon. Pylon, is that right? Uh >> she's doing a wonderful job for us. She's uh I just want to mention um she's uh been added to our business manager uh team. She works with Laura. She works with the curriculum director. She works with Marlene. She's been a wonderful addition. And having the right people in your department, in your area is huge. And we are really fortunate. Again, good people uh is really making a difference here at Chboa. And don't forget, just last November, we passed a bond for $22.5 million. Last November, we're putting in a new track this fall, a new tennis court, and uh we're going to begin

048work on the elementary building in in the spring of 26. Right, Steve? That's correct. >> Anything else we got going on? >> Iness is going to have the new bathrooms and new controls to the revelation. >> Yes. And in the past uh two years, that's wrong. It's I think it was eight or nine contracts. Uh Marlene Marlene's not here. Marlene and I have negotiated I think it's either eight or nine. It's not 11. Two of them have been since combined. But we have um successfully negotiated uh nine contracts in the past two years. The other thing I'd like to add to that is that every one of those contracts that we've negotiated historically in Shabboan when they negotiated a contract, first of all, I can't believe we have nine or 10 contracts, but when we

049do negotiate nine or 10 contracts, um they were historically done for one year or two years. I'm I'm happy to state that every contract that we did renewed in the last two years were three-year contracts, which is great. It means we can take a year off and don't have to look at each other for a year, right? We can say, you know, I'll get back and start negotiating with you in a year. So, it's nice to have that little bit of a break. Also, we talked about enrollment. I don't want to have to beat that up too much, but we need to keep an eye on the prize. And there's a couple different ways that we can grow. I think the diamond in the rough that talked with Chris quite a bit about is online

050learning. We've already mentioned Ben has zero class space left. The high school is getting close to full. We're expecting more prek students. If we're really looking to add significant amount of students, there's a lot of homeschool students in our area and also students who are using other online platforms besides ours. And if we could bring 25 or 50 of those to our online school, uh that would be significant increase in revenue. We had a group come in and and present a proposal to the curriculum committee and the finance committee this last month and we're contemplating uh obtaining their services to try to expand our online learning platform. Here's another thing I I just you know I this is not why we do these things but I just want you to think in the mindset of

051a business manager. We're adding prek. We never had that before. That's 32 students this year, 62 students the next year. And we're adding EMC. We're into our second year of EMC. We have 25 students in junior as juniors approximately 25 students uh seniors. Uh the our first group will be fifth year next year. So if we if we jump ahead one more year, we're going to have 62 preK students that we've never had before and we're going to have 25 fifth year students that we never had before. That's almost 90 students and somebody's got to pay the bills, right? Uh, a lot of that money that's going to be coming in, that additional money will go to pay for those prek teachers, prek aids, and pay for that community college tuition. But we're going to

052bring those students will bring back to the district to help pay for some of these services, these new services that we're providing, uh, almost $900,000. The number, if you guys want to jot this down, last year we ended, our enrollment was 1,458 students, 1,00 we want to go up from that number. As a matter of fact, if you take a look, this was February's count day information. And on the count day in 2024, just to give you an example, two years ago at the end of the year, we ended the year with 1494. Last year, a few months ago, we ended with 1458. That's 36 students less. That's been happening every year for 15 years. It's unsustainable. So, we need to change the trajectory and start bringing change that. And it's even if it's only

053five or 10, we got to stop the bleeding and bring more students in. Here's something I also like to do. I like to compare compare yeartoear. And there's a couple anomalies in there if you take a look. And I'll do this again in the fall. When I took a look at the end of my first year, 2024, for example, if you look at kindergarten, we ended the year with 129 students. The weird part is the start of 2024, just a few months later, we only had 112 students. That's a decrease in 17 students. The question is why? I don't know. But now with preK, we're hoping that if we get more kids in a pre-K, they're going to opt to stay and be here through kindergarten through 12th grade. Because if you remember in my

054previous slide, what's the optimum number? 125. And when that group came in 2425, that 90, that's one of the smallest uh kindergartens that we have, right? And Dan, is it still around 90 now that they're going? Yeah. Has it? Okay. So right now we're at 82 incoming kindergartens. We'd like to get that up to 100 because that kindergarten hopefully those kids will come in at kindergarten, stay here every year all the way through graduation. The other anomaly, if you take a look between 8th grade and 9th grade, in 8th grade we ended the year 102 students and then started the next year with 121. So we had 19 more students come into our uh school district as freshmen. And I I I I assume that there's a lot of reasons for that. A lot of

055kids from local areas want to have their high school experience in our school. So they move here, they transfer here, school of choice here. Also, we have a lot of our uh feeder programs are K through 7 or K through 8. So they have to find a place to go to. So that was kind of an unusual anomaly there that we had an increase of 19 students uh from one year to the next. And then finally, you we've already talked about some of the things that we're doing this summer. Tennis courts, track, elementary building using bond funds. There's the bond schedule. And we're going to continue to work on increasing enrollment. We believe by adding programs when people people what a beautiful area to live, right? And we are there are 10 school districts in

056our coopdeeny tiny schools. So if you're moving to Michigan, northern Michigan, and you're looking for a good school and you have children, Shabboan is the place to be. And compared to Gaylord, Gaylord has six CTE programs and we have nine. We have nine CTE programs. We have more than Gaylord. So to me, Shbboan is a destination district. I know that's a buzz word, destination district, but if you're looking to move up north and you're looking for a school with a lot of opportunities, Shboen is the place to be. Uh just real quickly, um I was interviewed by a weird guy on Friday. Not sure who he from bridge. Nice guy. A little strange. He was asking me some strange questions and I didn't really know um how to respond, but um he's from Bridge, Michigan,

057which apparently they do some positive stories about stuff going on in Northern Michigan. And he asked me a question that I wanted to share with you guys in closing. And that is one of the things that we have here in Shabboan, which is an anomaly, is we have a an unusually large amount of poverty. Our poverty level is over 80%. But our test scores that I just showed you are above the state level, right? We're we're at or above almost every grade level in math and English language arts. And the question that he posed to me is, do you know that most schools in central and southern Michigan, their scores are the opposite of yours? They can't meet state standards. They are below the state threshold. How do you do it? How does Shabboan do

058it? you have the same amount of poverty as this school district over here, but this school district can't get those results. And to me, I told him the simple answer to me from my perspective is it's about the people. We have a a great group of administrators and we have a great group of teachers. I know Deanna the other day was talking really highly of the teachers during kindergarten camp. They really knocked it out of the park. And if you talk to any of our building administrators, they'll tell you uh their teachers are wonderful and they're the ones that make the difference and that's why we can get the results that we can get for math and also for reading. So, I hope I didn't go over my 10 minutes. Uh but are there any

059questions? Was it Can I go over 10 minutes? >> Just a little bit. >> All right. Sorry. Thank you. I'm done. I'll stop talking now. >> Okay. So the next thing on our agenda is the curriculum committee update. Fortunately, this will go quickly because Spencer covered most of it. So So uh the first thing we did was uh we had a presentation by Molly from Molly and Quebec and uh Spencer pretty much went over everything. One thing I just really want to highlight is um she said something there that made me think, wow, we are doing it right. She said that our district is the first in the country in the county to implement a seven a K12 intentional teaching based uh curriculum on standards and student needs. So we are like setting a pace

060up here in Northern Michigan which is is very uh can't think of the right word. Exciting. Thank you Ben. exciting for for our district to be doing that. Um Spencer pretty much went over everything else. So on um the next >> I took it care before you >> That's right. Thank you. And the next thing we talked about was our meeting with the online learning proposal which also talked about which would uh bring uh more revenue into our district by reaching students not even necessarily right in Shuen but outline districts or maybe even districts that are a little lower down. you talked to us about a program where they increase their students by what was it couple thousand? >> Uh Barry and Springs um they're they're the uh innovators of online school. Uh they have

0617,000 students online now. Uh they bring in $7 million in uh so excuse me 70 $70 million in additional revenue to their school district >> and they are school district our size. So by doing that, putting out satellite programs in other areas, not necessarily taking our students into online, that is not the purpose of it is to take our students that are not online online, but to hit the market. They actually came up here and spoke to Spencer about possibly doing that and trying to take some of our students. So So if we don't do that soon, uh somebody else will come get them. So, uh, the next thing on there was the family compact we talked about. Um, it it's and then it's part of the updated strategic plan. It's distributed u, uh, to

062offices, parent teacher conferences, sporting events to parents. Um, we've done that for years and years. We have a little updated one for this year. uh comprehensive needs assessments which was our data collecting that um Spencer also showed up there. Um, one thing I wanted to shout out when you were doing that, but I didn't, was it looked like 11, 10th and 11th grade did very poorly, but that was because they don't take the test, right, Marty? They don't they don't they don't. >> Yeah. So, they all don't do that. So, it was not like real results, but everybody else did amazing. Uh, and they probably did, too. We just don't know because on on that part on that, uh, data sheet. Uh the next thing we talked about was a student handbook update. The work

063is continuing on that and hopefully uh they'll have a a final copy for us to look at soon. Uh we had summer school report by bench slide. The summer camp was very successful. Uh the students enjoyed both the learning opportunities and the social interaction. We talked about the personal finance course that we had at the high school. they are um purchasing a new resource for their curriculum. Uh and we've talked about staffing updates that uh Ben has increased his classroom so much that we need to air a couple teachers and that was the end of the meeting. Any questions? Hey, >> can I ask about in our last board meeting we approved 126k expenditure for the ELA curriculum and there was a concern by ordering it so late whether it be here in time doing

064those >> I think where yeah I see thumbs up over there by the building principles I think Jamie made sure that I'm sorry go ahead >> the one issue is we didn't bank on so many like the influx of students we're going to have to order a few more books to accommodate you know 125 plus for grade level which is a good problem to have here. >> I just the concern is whether we'd have it from the start of the year. >> I I think I think you guys are going to get it. That was one of the things that Jamie said if we could get it approved at the last board meeting. >> We had already been communicating with the company that we would get the resource. >> Yes. Jamie had already talked to

065the company prior to the board meeting and said if it's approved, I'm going to get this out to you and it to you in the morning and she got that taken care of right away so that they are here. Any other questions? Okay. So, the next thing on our agenda is the new hires. And uh we have >> Ben's going to say it. >> Yeah. Ben Ben's going to talk about um the hires of his building. >> You ready? >> I'm ready. Uh well, before I do that, I just I want to recognize real quick um just to uh second what Spencer said, um the group of teachers we have in our district that they're just amazing. I mean, look at the the process that we went through uh to to move classrooms. I just

066want to recognize them because we still have teachers now with the with the increased enrollment, moving people around. We have people that are moving right now. So, it's it's been it's been a lot um and and just to to say, you know, we just we're very fortunate to have the teachers we have. And so with that being said, um this summer we've hired four new teachers or well hopefully uh four new teachers by the end of this meeting. Um and and we you know we've added to this team that I think is already a great team. And so we have two people that we're we're going to put up today uh that I think fit in very well with us that they're hardworking, dedicated. Um the first person that that I'll introduce you to is

067Marley Smith. She's right over there. She actually is a born >> Please stand. I can't see you. Where you at? Oh, there she is. She's from Shboan. Uh, born and raised here and and went to school here. She has been teaching the last 5 years in Portland public schools, I believe, at the middle school. Um, and so she's coming to us with with five years of experience there. Um, where she's going to be in our sixth grade. And then we have Charlotte Ashley who's right next to her. Um, she was one of our prepar LR aids and so she finished her education while doing that. And so she'll be getting her first teaching job. Uh, she's we're looking at putting her in fourth grade. Um, and again, both uh both educators we're we're excited to

068have as a part of our team. Forward thinking, great with building relationships. We're excited to add them to the team that we already have. So, >> and I would just like to mention uh Ben recommends uh the teachers to me and then Marlene and I meet with them and uh have a a short interview. And uh the one thing that u both of these uh new teachers, it was very clear uh Marley's coming home, right? Yeah. >> And then um Charlotte made it very clear that she only wants to work in Shabboan. So talk about people invested in the community. I think we again nice job. Hit two out of the ballpark today. >> And uh also Spencer talked a little bit about Jessica Herling. Uh she'll be our new director of curriculum and instructional

069support and she will be coming around September 8th. She said, >> "Yeah, she's uh currently because it's so late in the school year, she was actually um beginning work. The um Alvette uh school district where where she's currently employed uh started school already. They have students. So, she put in her two weeks notice. Um she she let them know a couple weeks ago that she was in, you know, in the hunt here and interviewing and going through the process, but she still did want to give them, which I which I believe which I support 100%. uh she's put in her two weeks notice and she'll be here to to start full-time on September 8th. >> And um also we have Sean McNeel as a varsity girls golf coach. Do you want to say anything about

070that? >> Absolutely. Everybody knows he he's a legend to the hometown here. He's a great guy. Um with the retirement and whatnot, he had to put his resignation in just to follow the the state guidelines for that. He then reputed when the post goes back to come back. So he'll be returning as a new hire if that makes sense. Kind of an oxymoron, but he's returning as a new hire for our girls uh golf program. >> That's great. It's great to have him back in building too. Yes, I agree. Okay. So, any questions about any of the hires that we're looking at? >> Okay. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve the hiring of Shawn McNeel as varsity girls golf coach, Marley Smith, elementary teacher, sixth grade, sorry, sixth grade. Charlotte Ashley, elementary teacher,

071fourth grade, and Jessica Poland Yearling as director of curriculum and instructional support for the 202526 school year. >> I'll make that motion. Motion made by Travis, support by Matt. Any further questions or discussion? >> Chris, Luke Kakowski, >> yep. >> Richard Pon, >> yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. >> Deborah Buunner, >> yes. >> Matt Lar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Loila, >> yes. >> I missed it. I should probably All right. Um motion carries. Next >> congratulations. >> Yes. Congratulations. >> Okay. The next thing on the agenda is approval of resignation. Uh we have two res uh yes we have two resignations. uh Jamie McClintic, director of instructional support, and Mallerie Schlide as the school social worker. Any questions about that? Okay. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve

072the resignation of Jamie McClintic as director of instructional support and Mallerie Sly as school social worker. >> I'll make that motion. Motion made by Deb support >> by Travis, >> questions, discussion. >> Chris Liv Kakuski, >> yep. >> Richard Pon, >> yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. >> Deborah Muner, >> yes. >> Matt Lar, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie Lo, >> yes. Okay, moving on to finance and building and grounds committee update by >> Okay, I'll try to go over the stuff Spencer didn't talk about. >> So, we just had uh Steve's purchasing a uh new used Caterpillar forklift. Um all the other ones you got 40 years old the one you had now it's 40 years old. >> So time for a new one. Um Steve they unload a ton

073of stuff there at the bus garage. So they need something reliable. Um, we also talked about uh potent a potential CTE partnership opportunity out in the bus barn for um students who are in the auto program if they would be interested in working with Steve's mechanics on the bus that during school or after school hours for I think maybe like there's about an hour and a half window potentially. Um, uh, Steve also said that they are a CDL training facility. So, students interested could potentially obtain a CDL certification as well. Um, I think they need to talk with the our CD program and principles and see if it's something that's feasible or not, but it was just something that was discussed. I think there might be some interest from a few of the kids in

074possibly doing that if it's permissible and and possible to do. So, there'll probably be more hopefully be more updates on that in the future. Um, Steve went over current projects and some future projects. Uh, the covered walkway is still um being uh in progress. Uh, the original architect quit, so we're having to review the project and still get a drawing before we can get that going. Ben's just going to stand up there in umbrellas until a couple extra. >> I mean, $5,000 of umbrella get you a lot of umbrellas. that. >> Uh hopefully that'll get done somewhat in the near future. Um fencing, we're going to be putting new fencing uh around the CTE area where the garage door is just um kind of secure that a little bit better. Obviously, the new tennis courts

075that'll be ripped out and new uh also. And then um back by the intermediate school playground there, I think to kind of fence it off there uh by the basketball courts. uh make it a little more secure back there for the kids. Uh they fixed the access to the drift in. Uh we have the tennis court that's going to be uh on tonight's agenda. Basically, we're reducing the footprint there going down to three courts. There'll be one tennis court that also is to be a tennis court, pickle ball court combo, and then the other two kind of lanes will just be pickle ball courts. I think there'll be four in each spot. So there'll be a total of 12 pickle ball courts and then you'd be able to play tennis on one of them. Steve's

076getting some cornerable nets to be able to reconfigure those as we need. um where this will be similar like the track project where we're just going to put down the the ashvalt surface here in the fall and then when we do the track surface the rubberized part we are going to bid those um both at the same time uh to do the track and the tennis court because the um Reese Riley was essentially just get a contract some money then just charge us on top of it. So, um, Steve is going to take care of getting that, uh, put in this summer and be warm. Uh, obviously we talked about the East Elementary stuff. Um, Steve's is going to be able to do some purchasing of the HVAC units directly to save us a few

077dollars and looking at any other of those type of things as the project goes on where we can try to save a few dollars potentially by just buying things directly ourselves. Um Steve did replace some sidewalk repair around the district as needed and he's got to do some work in the bus garage as some of the um supporting beams there I think by his garage door starting to rust out pretty bad. So he's going to get that fixed up. And then we just had a brief update from Marleene about uh the ongoing Marlin Lowry lawsuits that seem to come every year. So as usual they get thrown out in the court but continues to file him. He's probably cost the district about $30,000 um over the lifetime of him doing this. So Freddy, you know,

078Marlin, can you just ask him to stop? It's just a waste of everybody's time and money. Um uh we talked about the online school stuff already. I think everybody at the finance committee was also in support of doing it. Um Laura gave us a brief budget update. she's waiting to get more information from the completion of the audit before she provides some kind of final year end numbers from last year. Um we talked about enrollment. Uh we talked about the CTE millillage that's coming in November that'll be voted on by everybody around here. Um it would generate about $4 million regionally. We would expect to get about a million dollars of that. um that would help fund our CTE programs and um hopefully be able to do some more stuff with that, but obviously that

079would have to be voted on. Marlene and Laura have implemented the new payroll and uh accounting system. They said it's working good. Um no, they kind of I think it worked through their issues hopefully. Uh we talked about the staffing updates that we just voted on. Um, safety and security. We have that coming up with theou. I get that. We'll discuss that later. Um, athletics. Uh, we we I mean I think everybody's seeing the new um rates to get in games. So, we lowered them for for kids and families to uh uh get in games with hopefully getting more kids. And then we also talked about in increasing the bus driver rate uh 50 cents an hour substitute bus driver rate. Um that's on the agenda tonight. And then we talked about um sports officials

080payments. Um the the current manner in which we are doing that um needs to be changed since the way we're doing it isn't really the right way to do it. So, um, we're hopefully ready to hear update on how that's going to get changed ASAP. So, um, that's pretty much it. >> Any questions to Matt? Next thing on our agenda is the payment of bills. I need a motion to acknowledge the payment of the regular and bond invoices in the amount of 977,5 $17.98 >> support by any any questions about information. >> Luke Kusky, >> yep. >> Richard Pean, >> yes. >> Tim Taran, >> yes. >> Deborah Bua, >> yes. >> Matt Larara, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> And Julie Mohiva, >> yes. Okay, the next thing on our agenda is

081the um substitute bus driver new wage that Matt just reported on. Uh I need a motion to increase the substitute bus driver wage from $17.50 to $18 with a minimum of two and a half hours. >> I'll make that motion. >> Supportion made by Deb, support by Travis. questions, discussion. >> Is there anything you want to add on that, Steve? Or >> no. So, currently it's a 2.5 hour minimum. Um, so they get 4375 pretty much everyone. So, it'll increase to $45 a month. And then they have to take a sports trip or something like that, it would be a flat $18 an hour. Chris Liv Kakowski. >> Yep. Richard Pan, >> yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. >> Deborah Buuner, >> yes. >> Matt Larara, >> yes. >> Travis Neville, >> yes. >> Julie

082Loila, >> yes. >> Okay. The next thing on the agenda is approval of the tennis court bid, which Spencer has spoken about. Um, I do want to say it did come in of $50,000 less than when we this came across us last time. Um it's $253,760 since I think it was what 3 >> 314. Um they are doing the surfacing later that's not included in this. >> So um >> but they are going to paint the lines on it so the kids like would be able to use it. We just won't have like the rubber >> kind of that final surface until next summer but the kids will be able to use it >> in the spring. Yes. >> Okay. Any questions about that? >> Am I allowed to say? >> I'm sorry. We We

083do not take um >> I do have a question. What kids would be utilizing this tennis court these classes for the middle school or high school? Both. >> Yeah, they use it quite a bit. And um I know Ben Schlly uh his building, Adam Bur, the PE teacher over there, would use that facility quite often. And then um the high school as well. And If you guys aren't aware, it it was uh we reduced the footprint so that it will come in um about about what we budgeted and the the the surfacing you ideally, and correct me if I'm wrong, Steve, but once you lay the asphalt down, you need to let it cure for a while before you put the surfacing on top of it. And we were getting price gouged on the surfacing

084because the company that we were contracting through were also throwing their, you know, their percent in as well. So, we really think this will be great for our PE classes, but also um it will be available at night on the weekends and in the summer for community members as well. We are going to put a pickle, it'll be tennis courts/pickleball courts, so they can be used for either or. And as you guys know, pickle ball is uh huge right now and growing at a very rapid pace. But during the school day, it would be designated for student use only on school days. Stephen, did I forget anything on that? I know. We pretty much uh >> I covered it. >> Yeah. There's no way we'd be able to get to service this fall anyway just

085because of the weather condition. A certain temperature pretty cold quick, you know. >> And this is also being paid out of bond money, right? This was part of our November bond. And when we agreed that when we explained this to the community that this portion of money would go towards this project, so it can't be spent on anything other than tennis courts. Correct. >> Correct. And the the amount is what our PE teachers asked for too. I asked um Mr. Bur and Mr. Schulz and that they said that amount of course would be ideal for what they want to do. Okay. >> I I've just been here and been through the school system. I've never used those courts in my life and I've never seen anybody use them in my life. So it just seems

086>> tough for me to swallow that cost. But if that's part of the bond money, I'm certainly feel better about that. >> Okay. Yes. >> Um you you may have um there's a paper right out there. >> I do have one. >> Okay. >> I just didn't hear the name of the company that's doing it. >> Riley Riley. >> Really? >> And you got a lot of bids, different ones >> or just one. >> You you you will need to speak during public. >> Okay. Well, forget I'm sorry. >> I didn't know about that. >> If we don't follow the policy, then it gets, you know, like like a snowsole. >> Okay. Um, all right. So, um, any other questions? >> No, but I will say I tell Travis earlier, I was driving out Robinson

087Road past going towards Harbor Springs the other day. I think it's 10:00 in the morning or something like that. You had that park on the left hand side after you cross 131 there. >> Right by their baseball field. Yeah, visual pickle ball courts and people are out there using it. Not kids, but >> I think um we had uh tennis courts that are were very dis but uh the um we didn't have pickle ball. That's the thing right now. >> Bur and Bur has like all the he just doesn't have a place to play pickle ball. He's got all the stuff to do it. >> Got that barn full of stuff. Yeah, he says he has just needs I think he might have him kind of just do it on maybe put some tape or

088something out there, but like he he's got >> I think they play football. >> Yeah, I know. He said he's got the stuff to do. He wants to do it cuz the kids >> it's more it's something more that the kid the kids can't play t like tennis is hard, right? If you don't get tennis lessons, it's pretty hard to get. >> Yeah, we don't have a tennis team. >> It's hard to play tennis. Pickle ball is easy to play. I mean, you got 80-year-old people can do it. I'm sure that park out when they redid that area. >> So just something >> they have like a disc golf out there too >> where you watch those kids play tennis. They just try to whack it over the fence. It's all they do. But like

089do this. >> Yeah. Tennis hazard right now. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, any other discussion? >> Okay. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve the tennis courts renovation bid for Retha Riley in the amount of $253,760. >> I'll make that motion. Support >> should be made by Travis. Support by Matt. Questions, discussion Kovski. >> Yep. Richard Pean, >> yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. >> Deborah Buuder, >> yes. >> Minar, >> yes. >> Travis Nel, >> yes. >> And Julie Loila, >> yes. >> Okay, so the next thing on our agenda is um board policy update by >> Oh, you guys are going to be so excited. Policy is so exciting. Um yeah, I know. Uh, we hit the 4,000s. Um, which in your first does everybody have the summary I'm talking to? Um,

0904102 basically dealt with employees rights and the first bulk of those items that I have listed for you were just pretty much verifying that we had the appropriate language in the appropriate places. Um, if you drop down to the last two bullets, those were actually new things that we had to insert, um, Michigan passed that earn sick time act, um, for part-time employees. So, we had to implement some of those, um, choices and Marlene said it was best not to change the the period um, our 12-month period for when employees can earn it. So we basically took her recommendations on adding our ESTA um information and we had to clarify that any sick time earned could be taken in half day increments. Um in the 4200 section under employee conduct and ethics, the first several

091bulletins were again um just identification of who does what in the district. If you jump to 4213, this was a new um item that we had to add in and we made uh the choice of if we had employees on staff that would be considered as conflict of interest positions, meaning a spouse would be uh another spouse's supervisor. That we would simply have the board notified of that situation. Um 41G, we chose not to add a policy that would re allow um folks to record uh image of students, parents, co-workers, non-public meetings given that there was an educational purpose. Our basic stance is if we don't have to add it, we don't plan to add it unless it deals basically with something that we're currently um accustomed to doing in the district already. Um on

092the back side, another one that we did have to do some choosing on. Um yeah, if we were in a reduction of staff scenario, um when a reduction or recall decision involves multiple teachers that had the same effectiveness score, seniority would be the determining factor on who would be recalled first. So we had to identify how that would operate in the event we ever have to go into a recall mode or a staff reduction. and everything else up there we pretty much already had um and didn't have to make any changes in the 5000s under students curriculum and academic matters we did have to address the third bullet down basically the lawyers gave us you have to choose whether or not students are allowed cell phones or they are not allowed and then the policy

093has to be built from there. So, as you saw earlier tonight, we have chosen Spencer took it to um the building principles. For now, we have chosen to let them remain that they can have them, but not during academic times and under the policy that was shown to you earlier. We also had to address 5301D on truency. um we were uh had to choose whether or not we wanted to add anything to a list that was provided as an excused absence. Um and we chose not to add anything at this time. And then we needed to identify what our policy is in 5301E um as how we deal with truency. And currently at 10 days of unexcused absences of parent letter is sent, 15 days the school reaches out to truency. 20 days school petitions

094the court. Um and through our discussions one of the common problems um that keeps coming up and I see that you guys have already addressed it is this idea of a parent will call in and say well it's my choice they're not coming today and they want that to be excused. So that's not an excused absence. So um and in some buildings apparently it was an excused absence. In other buildings it was not. So we are um trying to crack down on that a little bit. Uh and it followed through with even policy suggested by the lawyers. Uh we do have one more small batch to do of policy. So we'll try to tackle that um at next month's meeting. And I have a couple that we referred out to other committees previously, but I

095didn't um put that list together, but I'll make sure that they're included in our last batch of policy for next month's approval. >> That's it. >> Okay. So, we have a update, but next um time if we finish through, we will go through the approval of this. >> Want to finish them all up? >> That'll work. >> Yeah. All right. Okay. So the next thing is approval of MASB delegates. Um Spencer uh sent out a email about the MASB delegates that were needed. Uh Deborah and I contacted Spencer and said that we would like to go. Um it is at um in Triber city and um the actual delegate uh conference doesn't the delegate portion of it does not cost the district anything but there is a conference that's going on with it that you

096probably would like to take advantage of a couple of the classes and things that are in that. Any questions about that? Would anybody else like to go to that conference to uh be an alternative if something were to happen and one of us could not go because we can send two people? >> What a >> It's in Trevor City on October 23rd. >> Questions? question. Okay. So, um I need a motion to approve July and Deborah Bruner as Shabboan area schools MSB delegates for 2025 2026 school year. Um I I believe since that it's my name is in this I should abstain from this. So, >> it's still there still be enough people left to pass it or not. >> We hope. >> Right. >> Okay. So, >> Chris, >> um, we need a motion.

097>> Oh, we need Yes, we need a motion. Sorry about that. We need a motion to approve Jula and Deborah Buuner as boarding area schools MASP delegates for the 2025 2026 school year. I'll make that motion support. >> Motion made by Rich. Support by Travis. >> Now, Chris >> L Kakuski. >> Yep. >> Richard Pean. >> Yes. >> Tim Tarot. >> Yes. >> Deborah Mun. >> I'll stayain. >> Okay. Matt Lar. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> And Julie Stain. >> Sorry. >> All right. Uh, the next thing on the agenda is the athletic committee update by Travis. All right. Okay. First, we decided that uh we had such success by having varsity coaches at one at a meeting a few months ago that we'd like to do that every month. Invite all

098varsity coaches to show up at meetings. That's been helpful. We get a lot of good input from those uh people. Uh we changed our athletic entrance fee policies uh moving forward into the school year. Students will now be $2. That's for home and away students. Uh adults, same thing. $5 home and away. Uh $10 for a family. And student season pass has been reduced from $70 to $40. And senior passes have been eliminated because seniors 60 plus and veterans are admitted free. And that's again home and away, which is exciting. uh fitness center utilization. We have that great facility out there. We want to use as much as we can. We're still looking at ways that we can maybe get a female only FAP class. Um looking at trying to get maybe a female instructor

099for that. That's where we just need more numbers to make that happen. Uh trying to get somebody trying to get a class in that fitness center every hour if we can. Even if it means we're bringing in a class from the middle school, which I think would be really cool. I we haven't really looked at the dynamics of that yet, but um zero hour right now. Now they're running an FAP class and it's over 40. Uh so our thought is if we can limit that then those kids can get into other sections during the day which would maybe warrant another instructor, different things and would help us out. Uh yeah, we're looking at one over hour for the middle school. We have changed our academic standards significantly. Uh grade checks in the fall usually weren't

100run until week six. Uh we're now going to start running them week four. figuring that's enough time for teachers to have some grades in. Uh and then we're going to change our overall academic eligibility requirement to five of six classes. Students at all times must be passing five of six. And when they are when they do when they are failing something, we'll give them a sort of three-week rolling chance to get it get it up. The idea being not we're trying to get we're not trying to get kids off of teams. We're trying to get them help and support. So week one, we'll give them the warning to improve the grade. Week two, there's a probation period. If they're still ineligible in that class on week three, um they can still attend practice. That's something

101we want to make to make sure they're doing, but they can't they're not eligible to compete contests at that point. Uh so Jason, Marty, and Spencer, we're going to finalize that before the parent meeting. You guys do that? >> Yeah, it's the athletic code of conduct has been updated. Should be part of your pack packet and um >> for approval tonight. Correct. We're still way up in the air with this Hall of Fame thing, this playboard. We got a lot of ideas, but it's kind of back burner right now. We're still talking about see what we can figure out. Uh CPR and first aid uh and AED certification. Right now, only head coaches are required to do that. We're looking at ways to and MHS SAA has been kind of toying with trying to make

102us have every coach be able to do it. And our thought is, hey, why not? So, if we can get us a program in place, I guess the new teachers are still required to do that. >> Is that true? So, if we could somehow expand that, maybe again just looking at ideas move forward, we get every post to do it. >> Did that help? I'm sorry. Did that that law just change? I thought it did, didn't it? >> I think we'll need to look >> I think there might be some legal precedents that just happened like last week that we'll need to look into >> since the meeting. >> But I do know that uh Deanna's already got uh CPR set up for new teachers, right? >> Yes. >> And who else was it? Or

103is that just new teachers? Um, your teachers also my preschool teachers have to stay certified as well, >> right? So, and and we want to utilize that and maybe use the same group to do CPR training for the other folks that need to as well. >> She can do up to eight people in training at one time. >> Okay. >> This just in. >> Well, yeah. She uh talked about last week's safety meeting. All coaches are required. >> So, MHSA did pass that. So, every single coach, which is great. Sounds like we're starting to work on rounds. >> And now Jason Friday has a lot of work to do. Marty, >> maybe he does. >> You hear that? >> Uh, we're looking at middle school seat teams. The way that works would be this. Imagine

104they have you got two teams of 12, maybe seventh and eighth grade. We'll say this for example. And seventh grade, seventh grade team plays and maybe only eight kids are on the floor through the game. And then the eighth grade team, same thing. Uh, now you got four kids that didn't play in one game, four kids didn't play in the other. we could combine those kids who didn't play and have a third game C game. Lots of other schools in our area are doing that. We're looking at ways to do it. Uh again, just maximizing playing time, which is always a great thing for athletes and parents. See if we can get that done. It really affects basketball and volleyball in particular, sounds like. Uh let's see. So, conference banners, we're still that's not complete,

105which is crazy because I feel like my first ever athletic committee meeting, we approved that. So, can't believe that's not done. Um, we did change a bunch of athletic code of conduct stuff, mostly minor tweaks, but uh different language about exempt from expectations, JV, guaranteed play playing time, things like that. They're all pretty minor. Uh, facility equipment updates, we covered a lot of that. Tennis courts, we covered that. Track, everybody else, what's going on there? Baseball fields need sand, diamond dust, and the whole time I'm thinking, man, that sounds really expensive. You know, diamonds are expensive, but they meant the baseball diamond, and it's going to get dusted with sand. So, it took me a while to put that together. >> It's good thing you're not >> We're here every Tuesday. >> Yeah. Uh, we

106did get a second quote on the wrestling match, which is something very much needed. Uh, we gave Jason the approval to pay for the least expense of the two. So, I I texted him a minute ago to see if he had ordered that yet. I still don't know. Spring Sports soccer can still host games until the construction begins on Gordon on Gordon Field, but it sounds like we're really close to having the language done on getting that contract right to have the field torn up and the track redone. Uh so we'll see how long that lasts. Uh additional topics, we really it's a great idea having the band at the Fourth of July parade, but number one, it's summertime and second, it's Fourth of July weekend, so getting them together might be difficult, but we

107were looking at seeing if we can do that. Um, it'd be cool to go. Why not? We should have more of a presence in that. JB football, we were worried about a very low roster number. Uh, we've since bounced that up with a couple juniors who've agreed to play down and a couple kids who've joined us. So, now we're at 16, which is much more manageable. Uh, it's going to help us a lot. >> Is that that was for what the JV >> J football? >> Yeah. And they played really well at the scrimmage the other day. >> They were dominant, I would tell you. >> Um, we are going to co-op with Sue St. Marie. We have one athlete, Mason Johnson's great kid who plays football for me who wants to play uh lacrosse

108in the spring and s the Sue has has a program and they've offered to take him basically. We'll go out with him and that'll be pretty cool. Uh Emily Mahoney is going to cover varsity football, basketball, wrestling, soccer, and JV home events as usual. She's doing a great job for us. Uh hockey, we've had a request from one of the hockey parents to for us to help out with official fees. Finance committee is going to take a look at that. Did you guys look at that? >> No, she's meeting. >> Okay. Nice lady or something plays for me, too. Uh, middle school cross country. Looks like we're still leaning on coaches. Did you guys Did you get an answer on that? >> I I believe I interviewed somebody. Um, you know, if not, I'll do

109it. We were just concerned about the best garage only be banned by Tammy from certain times. That's something I think uh next year uh I'm going to look into getting somebody in there that could, you know, be supportive and either be able to >> Yeah. >> have some leadership when I'm not there. Um but if you guys can't fill it, I'll make it work. >> I believe they interviewed. >> Okay. It'd be great to have. If you guys don't know, Steve's a competitive endurance athlete. To have that kind of mentorship for the kids' be fantastic. So, if we can make that work, that would be great. And that was it. That's athletics. >> Oh, was it on the list? [Music] >> We got the golf simulator. >> They didn't order boosters, but it's not put

110in a room or anything. >> Okay. So, we're still figuring out where that's going to be. Yep. >> Marty's trying to put it in his house, but we're trying to store >> Spencer wanted it in his house, but we said no. So, >> it'll be next to his office in the building here. >> And that's paid for by the >> booster. Yeah, booers. I think that's great for a golf team. >> Hey, any uh questions for Travis? No, >> any questions for >> Okay, >> sports. >> All right, so the next thing on our agenda is the uh approval of the 2025 26 athletic code of conduct. Um that's in our packet and I believe Spencer that this came from Truan, correct? The athletic code of conduct came from uh Jason and Marty and a

111group of folks who created it. The the student handbook is from which is not quite finished yet. >> We're hoping that that'll be available at next board meeting. >> Well, I'm telling you what, if you not have a template to do this, this is like a lot of work and awesome. You hit every single thing in here you possibly could. It's very impressive. Uh, has everyone had a chance to go through that? Okay. Any questions about it? Okay. So, um, I need a motion to approve the 2025 2026 athletic code of conduct. >> I'll make it. I'll support. >> Motion made by support by Travis. Any questions? >> Luke Picusky, >> yep. >> Richard Pon, >> yes. >> Tim Tarot, >> yes. >> Deborah Buuner, >> yes. >> Matt Larch, >> yes. >> Travis Neville,

112>> yes. >> Julie Loia, >> yes. >> Okay, the next thing on our agenda is a safety update by Timart. Um the last safety committee uh meeting was held at East Elementary last Thursday, the 21st. Uh Deanna hosted that and took us on a tour of the building and expressed uh um well kind of give us a walk around on up updates that are coming with the building and a few concerns. Uh so some concerns are based on the current condition of the school, some conditions are on on just things to keep an eye on as we move forward. Uh the the issues that she currently has is problems still with the the speakers and uh emergency flashing light system and also the playground area or the norththeast uh entrance door area would be would

113uh could use uh some sort of fencing considerations. So that might be able to work be worked into our uh fencing budget, but we have to have additional discussion on that. Um uh also the uh air quality alert system is working well and according to Steve the ventilation system for the crawl space is >> everything's installed and operating >> up and running. Um high school signs the team over at the high school which consists of Marty Ben and Ron um implemented this is one of those deals where you get a big bang for your buck. And what they've done is they've implemented new signs based on feedback from law enforcement and students as far as the readability and uh you know the visibility of the signage. So uh we'll be changing to a black background

114with white letters. Uh the signs have been ordered and um it looks like uh it's going to be a you know pretty much a no-brainer and a and a home run on the on the signs. What the plan is to implement them at the high school first. get in get into the school year a little bit, see how how that works out, how they're received, and if they're still good, then we can look at plans to expand it to the other other buildings in the in the district. >> I think the signs have been received, haven't they? Have we gotten yet? >> The templates have been >> Oh, the templates. Oh, okay. >> Yeah, they used paper to do some tests around the buildings. So, had some actual actual tests and all of that for

115probably less than $800. So, >> and thanks to Steve on that. >> Okay, a fencing update. Um, we're looking at I think we went over this with building the ground, so I don't think there's any need to go over the the fencing again. Um, board office security gate. Um we had more discussions about this and the latest uh latest suggestion was to look at putting up an actual wall with an ingress ingress door because uh the the fencing is not going to it's not going to work for uh fire fire requirements. Number six item is uh K9 searches. Uh the plan is to do uh two K9 searches annually. Um we had a little bit adjustment to this. the plan to have the uh searches will be announced but the date and time and location

116of the of the searches will not be publicized. Um the scope would be lockers and not vehicles. Um there there's a procedure been established for the search and um kines would be trained uh to detect uh drugs, bombs and guns. um re reunification process. Uh the current site is the ice arena but I believe that is the reunification site strictly for the high school intermediate school. Um whereas uh and probably east whereas inesse would be um a church down here. >> Okay. Okay. So um uh basically the the the last drill was uh four years ago and we concluded that every year there's a there's typically a change to some degree in staffing and that uh the reunification and and a lot of our our procedures should be uh presented to the to the new

117people on board. So that will probably drive us into more annual um review and uh exposure to that to those uh procedures. Well, actually that what's on here is we said every other year, but I think after that is when we had the discussion about that, you know, we have we have demands every year from from staff. Um active shooter training. Um it's currently held every other year. Uh and again this would fall into the last uh comment about um and trying to um uh expose the new hires to the polic to the procedure. So we're going to look at doing that probably earlier in the school year. It makes sense to do it at the beginning of the school year. Um and also alternate annually with a reunification drill. So I guess that that

118was also prior to discussion annually. Weapon detectors um would be intended as deterrence. The estimated cost of 90,000 per unit. Uh the high school would require three units and staffing to operate it. There's a lot of discussion that has to take place on this before anything happens. Uh so that's u TVD. Uh the shades for the classroom doors and windows, those have been ordered and delivered and uh Steve uh said that we would he's going to be working on getting those installed, but they won't be uh completely installed till sometime well into the the school year. Um safety expenditures. Um, we requested a a baseline for the the the budget for the 2425 school year to uh try and plan for the budget for 2526. Um, uh, so the just getting started on that and

119since the the safety committee is relatively new as of January, this is just a logical a logical uh step to uh to follow. uh cardiac cardiac response teams and AED requirements. Um Amy Brewbaker presented at the committee. I also talked to Amy again today over at Thunder Bay. Um what it is is the she's she's received a kit which is a duffel bag with a CPR a complete CPR kit that is intended for instructional purposes with the students. And I think something Spencer was alluding to, there is new uh Michigan uh legislation uh House Bill 5527, which is uh which demands a cardiac emergency response plan and um uh all students from grade between grades 9 and 12 are to be instructed in CPR and the uh the entire program is actually uh financed by

120grants because it is demanded by the state. Um but just just on a side note here, uh just as an expansion of Thunder Bay, um they've got uh uh five new or a total of five now exam rooms versus the previous three. Um uh there's a new nurses stations and they've essentially doubled their staff. Okay. Uh, one other thing that came up, uh, uh, Ben had mentioned in the in his item 13 here is, uh, emergency communications app that we're going to explore. Um, uh, and Ben Ben Wilson is actually, uh, on the hook to provide some information at the next safety meeting. Is that right, Ben? I like that idea. >> Both both of those both of them reported positive experiences. >> Uh student transportation um after after two weeks of new traffic flow,

121MD dot study may be requested. Uh Todd Ross has uh five officers plus Ron to assist with traffic until stabilized. And I think Ron also don't we have the PD involved in this also? Okay. >> So, we have quite a bit of coverage for the first uh um I don't know how many days or if it might have evolved into weeks of school to to you know deal with the new traffic changes uh because of the changes in the campuses. Um SRO expectations um we're trying to define theou or or job description for our SRO. So what we need to do is we're we're canvasing the opinions of all the uh stakeholders and get that uh condensed down into a final eventually down to a finalou or a job description for approval by the board.

122Going to start out this Friday. I'm going to be meeting with um Ron uh Sheriff uh Ross um Rich and uh Deb and we're going to get the ball rolling on that. And that's just work in progress trying to get everybody's input and opinions so we can come up with a final plan that that uh satis hopefully satisfies everybody. Just looking over my own handwritten notes here to make sure I'm not missing anything. I think that's everything from me. >> Any questions? >> What's that? >> Any questions for Tim? >> No. >> Hey, thank you, Jim. Okay. So, the next thing on our agenda is the approval of the central dispatch, the emergency situation camera access. Everybody has a copy of that. Um, >> question correct correct me if I'm wrong. They they would uh

123the CCE dispatch may access assess access the student the school's access. Thank you. The school's security cameras in real time under the following emergency conditions. Active shooter incidents, bomb threats, immediate threats to life or safety of students and staff, after hours alarm, suspected criminal activity on the district property. So, and uh that would be the only time that they would be allowed to use. So, any questions about that or anything else that's on here? >> Well, actually, sheriff and Ron safety answered our question. I know bed and I had a lot of questions. You know, when they get live feed during say a shooter incident or whatever, they're not recording. We're the only ones that record. They also cannot go back historically and look at our recordings. So, and it's only for the central dispatch

124and it's really for them if they're responding driving from where who knows where to the school. They can say, "Hey, the guy's outside the west wing or he's out there." You know, they can help them before they get there. It's the best thing. The other thing is they track for not only training purposes, but testing. I think once a month they have to test it, they can do it, but they log that in who's there, who's doing it every time. >> Get that report. >> Yep. Yep. It's all It's all tracked. So after, you know, our concern, I think, was both someone recording from there. I mean, yeah, they could use their cell phone, whatever, but uh everything's logged. So, and they can't go backwards and see. So, I don't have a problem. You know,

125they answered. Yeah. It's only during It's not like someone could call up to say, "Hey, here guys, you know, can you take a look at this camera for us?" You know, it's got to be like a 911. >> We ask them, we Okay, turn it on. Yeah, they they didn't get it from either legal or from us. School administrator said, "Hey, we got to work 911." >> They can turn they turn it on. >> Yeah, >> I know there was some concern about Furpa violations. We contacted our attorneys. They looked at theou that the county building provided us and they said that it looked fine. So they uh our attorneys uh told us that this looks like they they reviewed uh many uh agreements like that with other school districts and with their dispatch, local

126dispatch, not just in our area and it's very similar to that. It's not and nothing is unusual. >> Cameras in locker rooms, bathrooms, other privacy related. >> I think they get the full access to whatever. >> I don't think we have cameras in the locker room. I hope that's what I'm asking. Just privacy. Jordan can pull the report. We don't have to wait for the report to be given out. You can check it at any point to see the last actually if we're on it or if they're on it. Anybody that's just >> that's transparent on both sides. >> What's that? >> It's transparent on both sides. You can see when they're on, they can see when you're on. >> No, just Jordan system. It's a school system. >> Yeah. Yeah, there was some speculation

127that they would have access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That's not the case. >> It's only during emergencies. It's the lie. >> Yep. >> Any other questions? Okay. So, I need a uh a motion to approve the CCE central dispatch emergency situation camera access. >> Motion support. Motion made by Rich. Supported by Tim Chris. >> Luke Kusky. >> Yep. >> Richard Pon. >> Yes. >> Tim Tarot. >> Yes. >> Deborah Buunner. >> Yes. >> Matt Marichek. >> Yes. >> Travis Neville. >> Yes. >> Julie Lohila. >> So the next thing on our agenda is >> Yes or no? Yes, sir. >> Oh, I'm a yes. I checked myself off. Doesn't that count? I'll check you off too now. >> Hurry. Thank you. >> Uh I'm moving ahead quickly here today. Apparently too

128fast. Um anyway, uh the next thing on the agenda is the public comment recognition and I am going to just read our our rules. Area schools board of education recognizes the value of public comment and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on district matters. We request that each individual participant complete a public participation form to ensure that responses are appropriate and properly focused. Uh first area schools bylaws number 254 public participation at board meetings. Um before addressing the board, please state your name and address. Each participant statement is limited to five minutes. No partic participant shall speak more than once during the meeting. Public comments of personal nature are prohibited when comments are unrelated to the manner in which the board member or district employee performs that person's duties and

129comments cause a substantial disruption to the meeting. So, uh, public comment anyone >> step right up stay there if you want. >> Christina Morton from Shabboan. Um, I appreciate that there's going to be extra help during the first couple days or weeks of school for um, parent pickup and students leaving and it was mentioned there was going to be a new traffic flow, but I haven't seen anything posted what that traffic flow might be like. So, will something be posted ahead of time? So, I kind of know what that's going to look like. >> So, Christina, did you fill out a paper by any chance? >> Okay. So, if you could do that before you leave and hand it to me and I will get that question to the proper person which building our high

130school high school. So, I will get that to Marty so he can get back with you on that. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? >> I guess I should say who I am and why I'm here. I'm Nan Ding. I'm a citizen of Shuen. I've lived all over the United States, raised six kids with an ex school teacher, ex fourth grade school teacher. And I just like education. And I noticed when I went voting that there was only one person up for the school board for the voting. I thought, well, that's why isn't there any more support? So, I thought I would like to go to some of the meetings and see what's going on. And so, I mentioned it to a woman I met at the chamber and she sent me the schedule and

131I'm just here. But I'm very impressed with the statistics of the achievement with our low uh ratio of money made here and the high ratio of achievement in education that should be publicized. that you go on the radio, the TV, and the news. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Thank you. And did you fill out a paper by any chance? >> Did you fill out a paper by HS? One of these papers. Oh, well, I didn't think I was going to say anything, so I didn't >> Sorry. Just quickly before we adjourn, I I I would be remiss if I didn't mention that u of all the wonderful additions to our teams, Chris has done a wonderful job. This is her third school board meeting. So, I I always leave the best for last. I >>

132thank you. >> Okay. If there is no other public comment, I need a motion to adjourn. >> Make that motion support. >> Motion made by Matt, support by Travis. All those in favor? >> I motioned. Thank you.