001We're going to call the meeting. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Let's call the roll together. Member Steel here. Member Lionwell here. Member Frederick here. Member Hillsboro here. Member Hol Brook here. Member Dean here. Member Lake here. Uh, anybody wish to address the board? This is their chance. Now or never. Except for you, Dr. R. That's visitors delegations building program presentation PM. All right. Okay. I got the clock going. 5 minutes right until you're done. Yeah. If you can get it done in three, that's I can do that now. I don't know if you we'll walk on up here with any knowledge of
002what we have done, but I mean I'm not sure how this is going to be five minutes. Well, I'm not going to go through all that. Okay. Um no, the intent today just do a report an update on what we've been doing over the past um four months uh working with the district so you understand what is in those booklets that we distributed today. Um I think you already have like a draft version of those that Paul um sent to everyone. So um honestly I'm going to try to be brief. Um but I just wanted to give you an overall view of what the work was in order to uh for you to understand what is put into those booklets that you have there. Um basically let's see if I got it right. Yes. So
003this work has been done with u a group of um uh staff that we work with and with with Paul Flynn all together. Uh we did a series of interviews and talks with them. Um but we also had a TMP team that was working in different instances during these months and we were assisted by uh OAK the right construction manager um with all the pricing of all the uh infrastructure needs that we you know um found in the buildings. Um so this started in on January 27 and I don't know some of you may remember I was here introducing our team at the time. Um but before that very same day we were doing our first walk through the high school. Um and this is all of course focused on the high school building. So
004um we started that day. Then during February, March and April, we had several walkthroughs because we've we brought different people from our team to look at different things um architectural and structural needs in the building, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing. And we also brought a civil engineer to look at parking lots, driveways, etc. Um on May 7, we started the program assessment. We had our first meeting with a group of uh your staff. Um May 15 we did a programmatic walk through. We're going to talk about that a little bit. Um I would like to explain that to you a little bit more in detail. And then uh we had a a a very an excellent meeting with your staff uh because we had a lot of we actually handed a survey to them and and
005we heard a lot of things from them. we had a lot of good material that contributed to the program assessment um report um and then in June June 6 actually I think it was when I delivered the first draft for for this so a lot of work that happened during this month um but although we have done all that we're we only covered the first uh phase of what we described when we had that meeting before which is a discovery phase and it's basically trying to understand your building, trying to understand your needs. Uh we're going to start our exploration phase uh shortly and then um all all that ends in a recommendation to you to the board members. Um so um that will be um prepared for you to see what the steering committee
006that we're going to be working with and what your community members uh will be willing to go for in and your ball in election. And when we work with all this um as you can see there we have a facility condition assessment and the program assessment. Those two are the ones in your report. But we we also work with a with a district vision and plan vision and mission and also the um you know the your uh strategic plan and um we have to now look into the community and and see what what are the thoughts there and of course your finances will work with your financial advisor uh to see what the opportunities are for the district. Um you have seen this I think many times. I can't believe that Apollo already framed that
007and put it there for you. Um, but basically what this tells you is that we have completed this. Um, and that now in August we're going to begin the exploration phase to see what uh conceptual ideas we can bring to the table to see what opportunities we have. Um, as I mentioned before, we work with your vision and so we use what what you already have put together and use this for our program assessment as well as the strategic planning that you have set up. So let's talk uh a little bit about the facility condition assessment. That is pretty much 50% of what you have there. Um, this is a an assessment of your infrastructure needs. That's basically what it is. So, we we have gone around the building, look at the exterior of the
008building, um including roofs, walls, uh doors, windows that need to be replaced. Um we look also inside the building. Uh we added finishes, case work, um interior walls, doors. Um we look at the facilities, uh the athletic facilities and your parking lots and driveways. Um, also we brought engineers that were um, inspecting your mechanical and electrical and clamping systems. Um, we also look into ADA requirements. We're going to talk about that a little bit because there's a lot that, you know, uh, we can share with you. And then life safety and security, including building access and security um, systems in in in the high school. Here are some of the pictures that we took during those walkthroughs. And those are the pretty much the sheets that you're going to see in your report where we
009identify the needs here and then we categorize those needs and um in different with different timelines what is needed currently what it could be delayed a few years and so on. And this building summary is actually showing that um the different categories you know that in in your buildings all the way from administration to your classroom space what is critical that needs to be taken care of in the next 1 to 3 years. Um what is nearterm 4 to 6 years longterm 7 to9 and extended life 10 years plus. Of course, these categories are a little subjective, right? Because something that we consider that let's say a boiler that we consider could go, you know, long term if if it breaks in the next year, you know, there is going to be a little bit
010of um flexibility there if if it needs to be taken care of. And thank you OAK for providing all the pricing to to this. You can see that basically the infrastructure needs that we identified if we had all the money in the world that want to go and fix the building uh raise up to $54 million. Um the the pie charts are very useful to show what um where are those needs in the building. you know, um, if you have a chance to see, I don't know if this is clear enough, um, but mechanical and plumbing and electrical are taking pretty much a third of the needs of the building. And then the building exterior, so your doors, your your windows, your roofs, um, including instructional spaces are taking another third of the building. What
011you can see there is something that is nothing new to you. I'm sure that you probably have the same perception. The areas like administration is very very small cuz that is something that has been renovated you know recently. Um your athletics, your cafeteria is a little better shape than the older part of the building. So um nothing shocking over there. It's pretty much confirming that that is what is happening. And then these um values are actually based on priority. So priority one which is the current needs is taking almost 50% of um of of the overall needs of the high schools. So that is one um one approach that we had when we started the assessment. The other one is a program assessment. And the program assessment um you know we try to explain it
012a little bit like um is a relationship between your your high school the learning environments that are there and then your vision and and and your strategic plan. Right? So basically is does the building support the programs and the curriculum right and those are things that are not tangible in when we're looking at the infrastructure if we look at the infrastru infrastructure is not going to tell us that maybe the media center could be used in a different way or maybe the classrooms are too small and I'm just making this up right um or maybe you know uh you you're in need of collaboration spaces is perhaps um so all those all those needs and the alignment between how the building is functioning and how it could function is what we we look when we
013do all this work. So there's also a walk through with that group. It's a completely different team and um and we look and uh categorize every every section of the building with different colors to understand exactly how how instruction is happening in the building. So like I said, we look into every single space since, you know, we started with a welcome center administration all the way to athletics, arts and and dining. Um so that's basically um you know all the all the items that were debated in the first meeting with that group. um the you know the alignments um the a series of thoughts you know that that they share with us and and the intent was to actually compare idea learning the future of education and competences. So what do you want from your
014students? what what do you want them to um what skills they are developing and see how your high school is actually providing the right space for that for for those outcomes that we're looking for. Um this was all done and with a framework that I'm going to explain in a minute but you can see here competency is one of them standards and how do we compare to standards um viable curriculum so is that curriculum being you know being instructed in the right spaces and effectiveness with teaching and safe supportive and collaborative culture. Um so we categorize those in functional activation and sensory. Functional is you know is are the functions that are happening in those spaces the right ones. Um activation is what happens in those spaces when the students are actually in the process
015of learning. Um and sensory how do they feel in those spaces? And it was very interesting because when we received all the responses from that um survey, there was over 50 me staff members that responded to that. Um there were so many so so many comments about the building that we had to actually divide those in different categories. So we look at comments related to safety and security the infrastructure itself that was in fact already covered by the facility condition assessment but they had a lot of comments about that obviously a lot of comments about um the temperature and the air quality in the building um the organization of the building you know what it takes for them to bring the kids from here to there how they circulate in the building how staff members
016go from one place to the other. um the design of the instructional space. So how your classrooms are uh contributing to the education that they want to deliver um the technology that helps them sensory experience and pride of place and in many cases you know it was some of these things are related to simple things like do do I have natural light in my in my classroom right how do the kids feel when they walk into the classroom is it too hot one day too cold a different day right th those type of So, when we put all that together, and I I encourage you to to read through their report, you're going to see a series of these uh rings that kind of um give a grade to how the building is performing and
017you can see where it is performing, better or worse. Um I didn't want to go through all that detail because it was going to take a lot longer than the five minutes that I already have taken. Um but you see that we are we're like in a 60% that is not ideal right so when we do those comparisons um that is what we find out but the intent is not to be negative and tell you things that probably you already suspect um but try to find opportunities for alignment and see how we can contribute to improving those. So I mentioned these before um and some of these are kind of hard to read but there are many that actually talk about you know the technology or you know um collaboration spaces for collaboration spaces that
018need a different type of furniture. Um a lot related to temperature controls. Um a lot of how the students flow in and out of the classrooms and some limitations that they have. Um, so, uh, certainly, you know, if you can take a look at that and in the report would be great. Um, and and these are a little more I tried to make it a little bigger to see if, uh, you can see something, but I think you're a little far from there, but um, you know, is there even space for growth that within the building, right? Can we grow into some adjacent spaces or if we want to put an addition for any needs that the building may have, is there an opportunity for that or not? Um so please go go through that
019detail in your report um when you have an opportunity. Um so that is something that it will be part of our next steps. Um because it's easy to evaluate and uh estimate the cost of repairs or you know rebuilds in your buildings but it's not that easy to actually see what we can do with a building and what we cannot do. And that will be our next phase which will be the exploration phase. So how does that work? So based on all that information that we have received, what we're going to come back to you and to a steering committee that I think is being uh put in place as we speak that we would like to start working on that probably by the end of July. Um so we would like to bring some
020conceptual ideas, right? Um so we see I'm going to give you an example. So, this doesn't mean that it's going to be that way, but I'm going to give you an example. If we see that there are classrooms that have some limitations that cannot be fixed by just fixing the the windows or the flooring, right? I mean, the limitations could be space that it doesn't allow for collaboration, doesn't allow for students to work in different modalities of learning. Um then we may say well what happens if we replace those classrooms instead of fixing them what will be the cost we you know we're going to be assisted by o and we can compare both and say well does it make sense to invest in something that still is not going to deliver you know what
021you need. Um, in some cases, some of the fixing work could be so um, extensive that probably is going to cost us more than just rebuild or build something new. And I think that that's probably what is in everybody's minds. I'm not discovering anything here, but I'm learning from you guys and and learning from your building that um, we need we need to be creative because um, unfortunately we have cost limitations, right? Um and that is another factor that is going to come into this exploration phase because we will put together those conceptual ideas bring it to you. That steering committee is going to say well I like that I I don't like that but what happens if we do this? So, we're going to go back to our drawing table and we're going to
022come back with some refined options until we find the one that actually everybody kind of like and you know want to want to do. So, that's going to take some work as you can imagine. That's going to be pretty intensive work. uh we would like to meet like every other week or every 3 weeks depending on you know the work that we have to do for the next meeting and have that back and forth work with a committee and and then get also I think that we're working on trying to set up some community engagement uh sessions as well. So if we, you know, if we get to a point where we feel that it could be something positive for the school, let's see what the community thinks about it and and listen to them
023and and see what their reaction is. And if we have to make some adjustments, we'll make some other adjustments until we got the right program for cold water. So the intent is work on this from August to uh early November. So we have August, September, October to do all that work. Um because you have a treasury date so far December 1st if I'm just first week of December. Um so that means that uh we have to come to your board meeting in November with a recommendation that steering committee will bring and say this is what thing with what we think that it should be done to improve the high school. Um and that that will go to state treasury that date. We'll have to put that application together and work with OK as well. And
024then um after that we will help you with the campaign that will happen during the winter pretty much. So that it wasn't 5 minutes for sure. Um but that's all I have unless you have questions. You'll still get a moment. Uh when you're working with this steering committee, uh do you ever come up with plans where you would bond for different numbers? Like build a brand new high school 79 million, repair the one we have for 54 million. Mhm. Uh, and the pros and cons fix the critical for 30 million, right? And the pros and cons because it's not comparable to build a new one versus fixing what is broken or what needs to be replaced, right? You don't get the same outcome. You still will have some ADA issues that are not fixable in
025the the existing building. And obviously when you do new it will imply it could imply you know like you're going to do everything the way you need it right and put in the place you want. Um partial renovations and partial replacements if we want to talk about that um have more limitations because basically your school has to function while the construction manager is doing the work. So there are very there are many factors that come into place when you're working with the steering committee. money of course. Um then what you can do, you know, we will try to be as creative as possible and maybe maybe entertain some ideas that you're going to say you're not going to do that. That's all right. You know, I better show it to you now. You tell me
026no, we're not doing it. That you know, regret it later and say, why didn't we do that? So um so we're going to we're going to look into what what can be done and what can we cover with the money that we will be able to get right. Um I think it all comes to that there's site limitations as well um the construction happening during the school year also. So yes, we'll we'll look into from here to here, but you're going to come up with a single re recommendation. That's the that's the job of the steering committee. We are not going to recommend that. The steering committee will evaluate all the all the information that we will bring to them and uh we're going to make it work. So if anybody here is going to
027be part of it, get ready to work because you had to you know, we're going to make you do a lot of exercises and when the bond doesn't pass, what's didn't why why that why not? Why are you thinking that way? Previous experience. Yeah, I've been on the board. Yeah. Yeah. But I think that I mean I think that I mean Paula and I have been talking about this and I know that Tom has been part of the same conversation. I mean that oh Paula is trying to take a you know a fresh start here. Um, and also I really appreciate that he's so open to be completely transparent with the process, right? Because some other people I tell you that summary that I showed today uh don't want to show it. And I asked
028Paul said, "No, I want everything to be absolutely transparent here." And that helps with your community when your community sees that everything is they broadcast it and and part of you know the the the whole process and they can have their opinion as well and if we do you know our our meetings I bring those people and they can give their opinion. Um we hope that all that you know will make them own that same program and if you achieve that point is when your community are going to go and vote yes. If if they don't own that and they and there's mistrust or they don't know exactly what's going on because things are not being transparent, everybody's going to tend to say no. I I'm not sure about what is going on in schools,
029right? So I I better say no. So, I think that be transparent and and communicate um is probably the best the best thing you can do and hope for the best, of course. So, Tom's going to give us a 10% discount. There you go. Can you beat that? I will do whatever Tom does. You're on the clock. I thought my He used my time up time. Thank you, Mr. Bond. Of course. Thank you. Anybody else have some questions here? All right. Thank you, Thomas. Nice to see you back again. Good to be here. You have lots of knowledge. Whoa, look at that desktop, man. Look at that desktop. Holy cow. I couldn't function. There's no way. I'll tell you what, you do have We didn't get this with the last architect, you know. So, you're
030already one up. All right. Okay. Approval of the agenda. Additions and deletions. Are there any I do have an amendment to the personnel recommendation to We'll do it when you do it. Okay. Appointment of the executive secretary of the board. I wasn't ready. Board of Education may appoint an executive secretary to the board. The main functions of the position are to record minutes of the board meetings and carry on clerical duties. Da da da. Be resolved. Board of Education appoints Heather Harvey as the executive secretary of the board at her current hourly rate inclusive of regular and special meetings and duties assigned outside regular clerical responsibilities for the 2025 2026 school year effective July 7th. It's back dated 2025 and be it further resolved that Heather Harvey be deputized by the secretary of the board
031to carry on all the activities the duties required of the consolidated election coordinator for the school district inclusive of the annual election and any special elections during the 2025 2026 school year effective July 7th 2025. Is there a motion? So move support. Any discussion? Heather, is this the document that we'll sign up? Yeah. Do you know when the when you have to sign to run for the school board next year? It's going to be July sometime or June. Register. Not yet. Okay. All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. actually have the appointment of the executive treasur of the board. The executive treasur of the board of education is appointed annually during the district's organizational meeting in July. In such manner, the responsibility of the administration school district money is placed in the school district's chief financial
032officer business manager to do several things. P Arizona board of education authorizes the district's chief financial officer to carry out the financial administrative duties of the district for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Is there a motion? So move support. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Next we have the designation of depository bylaws of the board. Uh the background under the precision provisions of the laws of the state of Michigan including but not limited to active number 40 of public access. Uh be it resolved the board of education approves the designation of depositories resolution designating where public funds collected including taxes shall be deposited as present herewith. See the attached document. Is there a motion? So move forward. Any discussion? Look like they get every bank in town. Uh we'll member
033Wbrook. Yes. Member Steel. Yes. Member Dean. Yes. Member Billsboro. Yes. Member Lion Welch. Yes. Member Frederick. Yes. Member Lake. Yes. Motion passes. Next, we have the resolution authorizing the signatures on checks issued by the school district for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Um, president, superintendent, and chief financial officer are authorized to sign checks from the following funds. The 2018 debt retirement fund, the building and site syncing fund, the general fund operating accounts, school lunch fund, payroll checking account, pettic cash checking account, flexible spending account, preschool fund, the elementary school activities account, Lake Middle School activities account, cold water high school activity account, athletic activity account, and the 2018 capital project fund be further resolved that the superintendent, chief financial officer, athletic director, and only in emergency situations ations. The secretary to the athletic director authorized
034to sign checks from the following account. The athletic officials account be a further result of superintendent chief financial officer or authorized to sign checks from the following account. The 2018 bond construction fund be further resolved. The superintendent chief financial officer payroll manager be authorized to transfer money from the general fund to the payroll accounts for payroll costs. Be it resol fin and resolve that the superintendent chief financial officer be authorized to transfer money between accounts. A roll call voted. Oops. We need a motion. So moved. Support. And I guess you're going to fill those names in. Yeah. Okay. So we have to do the roll call. Roll call vote. Member Lion Welch. Yes. Member Frederick. Yes. Member Billsboro. Yes. Member Hullbrook. Yes. Member Spiel. Yes. Member Dean. Yes. Member Le. Yes. Motion passes. Next, we
035have a resol resolution providing for the holdings of regular meetings and service of notice of special meetings. The board is required by law to annually update by its bylaws concerning the holding of both regular and special meetings. Uh the be it resolved the board of education approves the attached resolution providing for the holding of regular meetings in the service of notice of special meetings for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. See the attached resolution documented. Is there a motion? So move support. Any discussion? These dates aren't going to conflict with anything, right? No. I hope not. We've changed it in the past. Uh, what the heck is this? A Raider. This one's a Oh, roll call. Roll call, too. Yeah. Uh, member Frederick, yes. Member Billsboro, yes. Member Dean, yes. Member Hullbrook, yes. Member Lion Welch,
036yes. Member Steel, yes. Member Lake, yes. Motion passes. Next we have uh subject of public and closed meetings of the board of education. The background is amended provided that every meeting of the board shall be open to the public except those closed sessions called for the purpose of defined by law. Uh be it resolved. The board of education resolved to abide by the public acts 261 of 1968 and 267 of 1976 is amended for public and closed meetings of the board of education for the purpose of discussing strategy for negotiations with various labor units throughout the negotiation process holds strategy sessions and closed meetings and all other purposes authorized by the public meetings act where it is desirable to do so. Is there a motion? So moved this work. Uh any discussion? All in favor?
037I opposed. Motion passes. Next we have the appointment of legal firms and legal consultants be it resolved. The board of education retains the firms of Trum Law Firm, PC of Lansancy, Michigan, and Miller Johnson of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a local law firm that deemed appropriate by the superintendent for legal services relative to the 2025 2026 school year. Is there a motion? So move support. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Uh let's see. Next, we have minutes. Oh, yeah. Approval of the minutes uh from 23rd. Yeah. June June 23rd, 2025. Is there a motion? Some move. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Next we have the consent agenda personnel recommendations. Okay. And there is an amendment to this one which is um the varsity football coach. But relative to certified
038staff recommendations, the board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ Allison Macan for the fifth grade teaching position at Lakeland Elementary effective the 2526 school year pending background check. Board of Education approved the administrative recommendation to employ Rebecca Heaton for the full-time multilingual director position for Cold Water Community Schools effective 2526 school year. The board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ Robin Schwarz for the full-time dean of students position at Cold Water High School effective the 2526 school year. The board of education accept with regard the resignation of Ashley Seckler as counselor for Lake Middle School effective July 21, 2025. Relative to support staff recommendation, the board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ Haim Muhammad for the part-time ELLL support personnel position at Lakeland Elementary effective the 2526 school year
039pending background check and the amendment relative to extra duty staff recommendations. The board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ Jeff Scorfar for the varsity football coach position at Cold Water High School effective the 2526 school year. Does the high school get another police officer? Uh, yes, they will be. Um, that is the decision of who it's going to be is the decision of the chief. So, he's actually working on that currently. Okay. And I hear the question, will the high school be getting another SRO to replace Robin Schwarz? Oh, that was going to be my question. And the answer is yes. Okay. Historically, did we have input on that? who? Well, I'm sure they will, but I think he's at the first step right now. So, do we have all the teacher positions
040filled at this point? Now, is the fifth grade one the last one we needed? I believe we're still working on the the Yeah, the young five position and the um additional ELLL teacher at Max Larson. Okay. And then the ELA 6 through 8 intervention teacher at Lake Middle School is still there. And the intervention ELA teacher at Lake Middle School. Close. We're close. I thought winding down. We're winding down. [Music] Um, why did we have to appoint Jeff Scorbar? Because he retired. So when he retires from education, he retires from all of his positions from everything. And then we have to reappoint. higher. All right. Yep. Uh next we have the approval of the June accounts for payment as submitted. Be it resolved that the following accounts for June be approved for payment as follows.
041General fund accounts in the amount of 2,610,962. Special revenue accounts in the amount of $234,7542. [Music] Thank you. That's the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? Some move. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Next, we have the discussion items and reports by the director of curriculum and grants report who is conspicuously absent. but has been working very hard. I know he's he's he's trying to keep his wife happy. Well, that part, but happy wife, happy life. Um but he has been I I think I mentioned before he's been working very hard with with uh staff um from administration all the way down to teachers to um to have some input into the new literacy programs and how uh he'll be able to use state uh grants upcoming grants 35M and 35N
042to um to provide the the cost for the the program and the professional development. And we just found out this week that the state at first with 35M was saying, "Nope, you have to you have to choose and purchase what literacy curriculum you want." Um, and the teachers were saying, "Well, we would really like to pilot some programs and see." And so the state has changed direction on that now. and they're allowing they they pushed back the deadline for purchasing of stuff so that the um schools have an opportunity to pilot different programs and see what they feel best fits their needs. I know there was a question um that came to us by Kate that um can we get a list of what um programs are being used in what buildings and that type
043of thing cuz it is a lot um and it's a lot. So I'm going to make Mr. Dancer do it since it's his baby. So, when he returns tomorrow, he's got we'll we'll let him know that he's uh been asked to put that information together for everyone. Yeah, sounds good. Okay. He submitted about 20 action items. Yeah. Yeah. We got a lot of got a lot of work to do. So, superintendent report. Um I don't I I don't have a lot uh since we just met two weeks ago, but I did want to um mention the the budget. Um, we still have no clarity from the state or federal legislators uh regarding the budget. The district is in good financial standing, so we we believe that we're going to withstand any uh potential shocks that
044might come. Um, but uh, State Senator Lindsay was on the radio this morning and said that he wasn't even sure how close they were yet. Um we we've heard rumors that it could be September before they come to an agreement. Um he did not say that. He just said he believe he believed they weren't very close. Um but October 1st is the fiscal uh start to the legislators um budget. So that's when we used to get it back back before Schneider. So we'll see what happens there. Um the bond we we talked about uh invitations for steering committee will go out this week. Thank you to those of you who suggested names. Um and the summer food program that that Chartwells does uh last week last week Monday June 30th served 512 kids which equates
045to breakfasts and 3584 lunches for a week's worth of food for for kids. So that is an outstanding number and uh I didn't get any word from her forget it for today but I think it's so each child got seven breakfast. Yep. And seven lunches. Seven lunches. Yep. For 5 days. Yep. No, for seven days. Seven days. Seven days. For seven days. So they get they cover them over the weekend, too. During the summer. Yeah. Okay. Yep. I thought they got them all on one day. They They do. They do. They get them all on one day. Yes. They get a bag full of food for Monday through Sunday. They can feed their whole family. All right. Thank you. Let me see if I can get to where I'm supposed to be here. Action items.
046We had a quorum of the board who suggested that we take all of the action items and approve them all at once. Okay. So, we have 16 action items. Uh, one is to renew the one-year contract of alliance insurance for mental health services. A request to approve the district-wide professional development advisory committee. A request to approve the quote with Navigate 360 to schoolwide behavior intervention and monitoring uh system for Lakeland Elementary School. Request for to approve the quote from IXL Learning. Request to approve the one-year subscription to CRATE. Request to approve the contract renewal with learning a request to approve the contract renewal of GoG Guardian teacher subscription. Request to approve the renewal with the NWEA for testing services. Request to approve the quote from Pioneer Valley Digital Reader for renewal of services. Request to
047approve the contract renewal of the district remind subscription. Request to approve the one-year subscription with a recess for the Dr. Robert W. Brown Aquatic Center. Request to approve the quote from Navigate 360 for Lake Middle School behavior support programs. Request to approve the contract renewal for the grape seed licenses for elementaryaries. Great. Request recommendation to approve the contract with high reliability schools for level two support. Request to approve the invoice for the don's on-time services for replacement of the rooftop HVAC system. Recommendation to approve the Xerox purchase agreements for new copier printers for Cold Water High School and Lakeland Elementary. Is there a motion? I need a motion. Second. Where were you, Bob? You What did I do? You were part of the quorum. You were supposed to say I second. I couldn't be in
048her. She got She got in. She beat you to the punch. She did. Is there any discussion? Yes. Yep. Go ahead. Go ahead, Jim. Lay it on me. Um, tell me a little bit more about the 360 for behavior support at the middle school. How are we going how I understand about 360 on phones, right? But how are we going are we putting that on their Chromebooks? How does it work? It's it's on any type of No, I don't believe that it'll be on the the Chromebooks. Um, but it it could be I can get more information for that. That was a Mr. Dancer question. Um but they are um I believe it's it's any type of um of any type of system that um I'm looking at the wrong one that um will put
049on any of Yeah. put on any of the devices. So are we going to have them on their phones? Are we No, we can't put anything on kids. I know. especially what we just discussed, right? Is it going to be it's something that works digitally and wirelessly, right? If it's the same as Help me out here, younger people, it's the same as 360. It's um not like the one where you are you thinking of the kind where you track people? Yes. Where you can spy where they are. It's different. I was just googling it. It's like Yeah. Yeah, this is completely different. It talks about like disruptions and disrespect and I think it's where you can monitor it. Maybe they're using it in place of like we use Skyward to put that data in. Now,
050I don't know with those two schools cuz I see Lakeland's using it too. If it's a way to do it outside of Skyward, I don't know. And is it something for all the schools to look at? I don't know. Well, and I I think that's the the question that I asked Gary was each building wants to be able to look at how they track student data differently. Um but so I think that's that's part of it as well. I don't believe this is the one where you track what the kids are doing on on it. It's just it's it monitor keeps track of their of their behavior referrals and and those that have access to it, whether it be the administration, the teachers, or support services, um will be better able to make those connections
051than what we have now. Help better serve the kids. Okay. And the families, Mr. Yeah. The mental health services, is this brand new for the next year for the Alliance? Yeah. Yeah, this is brand new. Yes. So, this one um is this is a a telephone service that if it will be for any um Cold Water Community School employee or any member of their immediate family that if they are in a time of mental stress, they can they can call this service and they will be linked directly to a therapist, someone not someone to schedule a meeting. Um but it is 24-hour a day, 7 days a week access to mental health services and this can be done privately. Absolutely. Absolutely. Um all of those all the HIPPA laws are in effect. All we will
052get as a district is we will get a report on how often it's being used. So if we offer this to our staff and it's being used, there's no increasing cost. The more it's used, it's a onetime flat fee. But if we find that nobody's using it, we can go out and and try to promote it again. Or if it's a service that the staff feels that we don't need, we don't have to renew the contract. It's only for staff, not for students. It's for it's for staff of Cold Water Community Schools and their immediate family. So if if they have children who are students, but it's not just for students. No. Okay. Yeah. It's it's an insurance benefit that we give to to contracted staff. Okay. Thank you. Yep. My question was for this
053navigate 360 for Lakeland and it must be the similar question that Claire asked. Can we have Mr. Dancer address that? Okay. You'll get an email tomorrow. Well, it doesn't have to be. He's quick like that. He is. Okay. Oh, he's back Wednesday. Sorry. You'll get an email telling me you spent a lot of money, but it but it all came from grants. Where? Most of it will come from grants. Some of the curriculum stuff, if it can't be covered in grants, will come out of their building funds. And the grant money is going to come to us anyway, even though they haven't come up with a budget. Maybe. Well, that's a state grant. Yeah, maybe. So, we're we're we're kind of Gary and I are kind of in limbo with some of this stuff. for
054getting it approved. But if we don't wind up getting the grant funds, Gary and I both agreed we'll look at building budgets and let them decide if this is something that you really really want, we can afford it out of the building budget or how are we going to make it work. So Gary and I are in communication about that. So the ones that we already have the money for the grants like the um at risk funds and that kind of stuff, we'll put those ones through. But anything else in here that's covered out of a grant that we don't know what that money is going to be, we're going to hold off until we know for sure. Okay. I think Heather, we should have a roll. I You too. I said that. Oh, you
055did? I did. I said Well, why didn't you say it louder so I could hear it? I didn't pass along to you. Did we? You're the vice president. Well, you're supposed to be helping. roll. Okay, let's do a roll call, though. Yes, sir. Uh, member Dean, yes. Member Hullbrook, yes. Member Lion Welch, yes. Member Steel, yes. Member Frederick, yes. Member Billsboro, yes. And member Lake. Uh, yes. So, that passes all of those action items. And who knows when the next board meeting is. It's always something. It was on that list. It was on the And it wasn't on my No, because I couldn't pre that. It had to 25th. August 25th. 6 o'clock at administrative service center. Yes, sir. All right. We're journ. Thank you. Thank you.