001Hey, welcome to the board of education special meeting Tuesday, May 27th, 2025. Um, at 5:00. Yes. 5:00. Julie Liva here. Tim Tar here. Deb Buuner here. Matt Monarch here. Luke Kusky, Travis Neville, Richard Pon here, Heather Lake. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we are here to discuss the approval of the state emergency forgiveness days. Um the governor has uh get given 15 days that could be given. We are we need eight days to make up the days that we have lost. So, um, we're looking to make that decision discussion. Any any questions about that? I'll just uh clarify a little bit. I mean, we're fortunate that unlike other school
002districts in our area, you may have noticed that Mechano City and um Joberg and Wolverine have already extended their end dates. they extended their end dates because they used more than their nine days during the winter. So, we only use nine. We use exactly the amount that we're allowable. Um, so we don't have to add any days regardless. Um, and now uh this this just for clarification, what you guys are voting on here tonight is um the ice storm days. So, the governor said because there was a lot of schools that took more than eight days. We took eight, some took 10, some took 12. So the governor said um up to 15. So what what the proposal should or needs to be is uh well what we're discussing in particular is those eight days,
003right? If we want to wave those eight days. If we don't, then we would add those eight days to the end of the calendar. But it doesn't have to be eight. No, it could be anything you want it to be. Maybe I mean some school districts might say, "Well, eight's too much." But maybe we need to get, you know, maybe we need to get back three or four or five of those days. You could, you know, that could be an option as well. So, any questions? What would it take to add 5 days back as far as pain in my head? Uh, a lot. It it's just the the the bad thing is is that there's just so much going on. Um I mean we have uh credit recovery summer school starting immediately when school
004gets out. We have a curriculum a teacher curriculum committee camp that starts the week that uh we get out. I mean you're just pushing everything uh down the road a little bit further. I fear if if if we if we didn't approve this that it would it would essentially eat up or at least feel like it eats up the majority of June and you're really not going to you know get the get that break that you feel that you need between the end of the school year and beginning of a school year and just to push everything you know we got a lot of stuff planned. So, I think it uh it would be my recommendation. It would be best if if we took advantage of this opportunity um and and approved all eight days
005because it would be a lot of work just to even add a few days to the end of the calendar. I think you also have to consider that a lot of people have vacations planned for Oh, yeah. these days. And so now you're teachers too and teachers staff and parents and students. So, you know, we may not meet the numbers we need to get the state funding every day in school, right? I mean, there'll be some people that just won't show up for those last days, even if Yeah. I I think that I I would even um you know, I would hate to speculate, but I I would be concerned. Our attendance rate, if we were to add any of these days um after June 6th, it has to be at 60%. To get full
006funding for the day, I think that would be a challenge. I think it would be a challenge. Um that would be both for teachers and students. I mean I think some teachers, you know, they got stuff planned too. They would I would hope that they would uh come to work if we asked them to come to work, right? If they were required to come to work, but I'm sure they would be real thrilled about it if they had to postpone a vacation that they had been planning for months. And the same with the parents and the kids. I think everybody's ready for that uh that break. It's hard to postpone the vacation. There's money involved. Yes. reservations, all those things. Okay. Okay. Questions? Okay. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve forgiving the I'm
007just doing forgiving days. Forgiving. This says we're giving eight district closure days, but it can be any day you want to think in that amount of days in that area caused by the catastrophic ice storm of 2025 contingent on the Well, the governor did sign. This was done the other day. So here, let me read it again. You can you can make up any motion that you want. Okay. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve district up to 15 district closure days or up to eight because we didn't miss more than eight. Up to eight district closure days caused by the catastrophic ice storm of 2025. I'll make a motion. Support. Motion made by Deb, supported by Matt. Any further discussion? Um, Tim Tarot, yes. Deb Buunner, yes. Matt Manarek, yes. Richard Pon, yes.
008Julie Loila, yes. Motion carries. We are public comment. Would anybody in the audience like to speak at the podium? Oh, come on. Some of the students come on up and tell us how you feel. I think that's a big thank you. Seeing Seeing none, I need a motion to adjourn. I'll make the motion to adjurnn. All those in favor? I motion to journ at uh 50 seven. Do everybody see the committee dates for June? I I just kept it the same. Unless you want something different, I'll just keep pushing out the same dates that we've been using. So, come on up and we will sign. And that was pretty smart. Wait till yourself. Yeah. Do you have time to stick around and talk to Julie about the what do what do we need to talk
009to her about and the probably anything else? Is that it? Did one of you guys want to second like support that last motion to you? Nobody supported for the minute. Thank you. I didn't hear it. So, thank you. Thanks for coming, Matt. Logan's disappointed. He wanted more days of school. I wanted more days of school so the kids would be gone. Get them out of the house. That's your real deal. Uhhuh. Now I got to keep them working.