001We're going to call immediate order. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge algiance 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. Hall and call. Member Steel is absent. Member Lionwell here. Member Frederick here. Member Billsboro here. Member Hullbrook here. Member Dean here. Member Lake here. Thank you very much. Next we have presentations and building program highlights. branch ISD 2020 2526 budget presentation via Superintendent Chris Jenkins and business manager Emily Jones. All right. Thank you. Uh thank you for having us here tonight. Uh my name is Chris Jenkins. I've been the uh superintendent at Branch for 7 years and it has been a a distinct honor and pleasure to serve uh Branch County, the
002schools and the students. So thank you. Um, I do have Darren Adair here with me tonight. He, um, hasn't signed the paperwork yet, but the board chose him as the next superintendent, and I'm I'm proud to have him, um, be the next superintendent. He's going to do a great job. Also, uh, Emily Jones, this is her, uh, first year as the assistant superintendent of finance and operations. Um, but I think you did come to a couple of these last year, so you kind of know what what's fun. So, so just as a reminder, the role of the intermediate school district is to serve the local schools. Um, at Branch ID, we strive to be a good partner with our local schools. Uh, promoting equitable education for all students, and providing services to our districts to
003the best of our abilities. Here in Branch County, we do that through career and technical education, special education, adult education, and early childhood education. And, um, Emily will be presenting all of our budgets to you today. We have three different budgets, but as a reminder, you only have to vote on the general fund budget. That's the vote that will be taken. And if you have any questions tonight or in the future, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. Um, if you don't know the answers right away, we'll dig for the answers and get get back to you as soon as we can. Thank you, Emily. Good evening, and thank you for having us. Um, so I have a presentation to go through and I believe you all received a copy of that. Um
004so we'll we'll talk through that as we um go through the actual budget here. Um some budget assumptions that were used for revenue for all funds. Um at the time that the preliminary budget was created um we maintained the revenue that we received in 2425. So we um for our property tax levy, we carried over the property tax levy from 2425 into 2526 and used those figures for our property tax revenue. Um and we also maintain state aid funding um and federal funding from the levels we received in 2425 as well. Um we did reduce our interest revenue by 25% just due to a reduction in uh interest rates that we've received uh from our investment um different investments that we have. Um and then we also reduced um some of the state categoricals that
005we received too and a lot of those are one-time funding type um grants that we received through the state. So those were reduced as well. uh the majority of all of our other revenue um was maintained from the current levels that we received in 2425. Um some budget assumptions that we used across all funds for salary and benefits are the fact that the district is currently in negotiations with our um bargaining unit bio. Um much like you guys probably use MEA for your um bargaining units. Um, ours are unaffiliated and we put them up bio. Um, so because we're still in negotiations there, I utilized a 2% assumption for increases for salary, excuse me. And then also any staff who were eligible for SEPs or lanes received those as well in the budget. Um, I
006used a retirement rate of 29.91% that is a decrease of 1.5 1.45% 45% from the current year's retirement rates and then a UAL rate of 15.02% which is actually an increase of 4.44% from the current rates. Um, uh, branch ISC uses the state hard cap levels for insurance contributions under PA 152 and that insurance cost will see an increase of 2.9%. Um, so that's what was utilized in our insurance uh costs for the upcoming year. for spec specifically for the general fund. Um the items listed here give you an idea of what is uh what costs are allocated to the different programs within the actual budget here. Um so under basic programs that's where we would allocate um costs for our GSSE GSRP programs throughout the county. Um adult and continuing education would be for
007our adult ed programs and our GED programs. Uh pupil services would be truency services um in 31 and 31 ed administration. So that is a mental health grant um that we receive through the state of Michigan. Um and then the local districts um hire mental health workers. Um and so branch ISD has a coordinator who oversees that and assists those mental health workers within the districts. And so the cost for that staff member is falls under people services. Instructional staff services in the general fund would be supports through Calhoun ISD um for instructional programming um uh professional development offerings um as well as supports for superintendent as well. um GSRP, adult ed, McKenna Vento homeless grants are all grants that are coordinated through um branch and that cost for the coordination of those staff falls
008under that area as well as well as the early literacy coaches. Um general administration would be costs for the board of education and superintendent and business services uh would be the finance department costs for the general fund. um maintenance operations um would be custodial services as well as um rental and operation costs for our early education programs um throughout the county. Uh pupil transportation in the general fund would be the cost to transport uh preschool students um throughout the county. Um central services would be technology services for the general fund and pupil accounting services through Khoon ISD. Um community services is our Head Start and Early Head Start programs as well as some other community service programs through early education grants that we receive. Um 31N6 payments to LDAS under payments to other government agencies.
009Um LEAs is local education agencies and that is um essentially Cold Water Community Schools. you're a p a local uh school district and um often referred to um as an LEA at the level. 31N6 is that mental health grant um where um the district allocates costs to um that we use to reimburse cold water community schools for your mental health staff under that grant program. um other financing use. Um our early education program has multi-year lease agreements at um Brunson and in Gerard. Um in those when we utilize a multi-year agreement, we are required under GA7 to um recognize the full cost of that agreement both as an expense as a revenue in that initial year of that agreement. So that's why that's um included there. um outgoing transfers would be um any excess cost
010for the school nutrition program for our preschool program. So um we provide breakfast, lunch, and snack to our preschool programs. However, the claims we receive um don't necessarily um cover the costs. So we allocate those to the um grants, the GSRP. So that's what those costs are. um for the special education fund. Um added needs would be um the classroom programming um within the locals for your resource room, the most the programs um to the early childhood special education programs at Lincoln Learning Center to our um programs at Walter Learning Center. So those classroom programmings fall under added needs. Um pupil services would be the itinerary staff. So school psychologists, social workers, OTP, all those extra resources provided for those students fall under th the pupil services. Instructional staff services um is program administration and
011oversight of those uh special ed programs. General administration would be any legal services and audit costs for the special education fund. Um maintenance and operations would be maintenance and custodial services for our Waldron Learning Center and then any rental or operation costs in the local schools for the special education programs contained within those districts. um pupil transportation uh branch ISD reimbures Cold Water Community Schools for um any in excess that you're not reimbursed for the special ed bus monitors as well as a U Medicaid transportation reimbursement as well. Um technology services falls under central services. Um community services is a proportionate share requirement for our federal IDEIDA grants. So we received two grants uh flow through and preschool that require us to allocate a portion of that funding to um non-public school students. So students
012with IEPs in parochial or homeschool or students of the like would receive um special ed services and costs for that fall under payment or um community services there. Payments to other government agencies would be payments for tuition for Michigan School of the Deaf for a student who attends that program in flight. Um outgoing transfers would be a um transfer to the vocad department because the special ed program uses a piece of the career center um for staff to be housed there. And so um we transfer the cost of that back to the ed program. um as well as a portion of the superintendent costs are allocated to special ed and a transfer to the special ed capital projects. Um for the vocad fund, added needs for voced um include the CTE programs that are housed
013at the career center. Um pupil services would be guided services at the career center as well as the early middle college coordinator. Instructional staff services um is program administration and oversight of those CTE programs. Um general administration again would be legal services and audit costs for the vocab program um and finance department for business services. Maintenance and operations would be the maintenance and custodial services um that are incurred at the career center. Um pupil transportation the branch ISD reimbures districts for transportation costs. Um, sorry. We reimburse local branch county districts for transportation costs to the career center um and any uh field trips as well. So we will often send different grade levels to visit as well. So we reimburse those. Um technology services for boke department under central services. Um other finance use is
014a payment for a QAP bond. branch IC used a uh energy uh bond in 20189 school year for some energy enhancements to update lighting and a boiler and of those sorts. Um so that is where the payment for that bond is included. Um outgoing transfers for VOED include a portion of superintendent costs and then the transfer the capital projects fund for VOED as well. All that being said, um these are the fund balance estimates based on the budget the preliminary budgets presented. So the the estimated fund balance on July 1 for each fund is the estimate used in the November uh revision that was approved by the board in November 2024. Um the revenue and expenditures listed here are what are contained within the budgets presented um to give us an ending fund balance um
015for each fund and then a fund balance percent um for each one as a um a percent of the expenditures. [Music] Emily, yes. Which positions in special ed are contracted out? Um we contract out some speech therapy services. Um and we have a school psych position as well that is contracted. We utilize um Hills ISD for visual impairment for impairments. Hi. Hi. Hearing um and um OT through the hospital. Not anymore. Okay. No. when they were getting ready to switch hands, they contacted me and said, you know, ought to find some. So, we were lucky enough to hire an OT and a PT and we have on staff now. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah. I mean, we do provide some VI to Calhoun and we get some assistant tech from them. So, we do have
016an agreement with them. [Music] Thank you. [Music] You're waiting for a question. No, I'm good. What's the plan for the 80% fund balance in the vocational ed? My answer, it's going to be to you. My answer. Um, yeah. So ISTDs are a little bit unique for local districts because we we don't have uh the opportunity to go for a syncing fund. So it's extremely important for our programs because we're servicing the entire county to make sure and have a very stable fund equity. Um, not only to make sure consistency of services throughout the county to to all districts, but also, you know, any building repairs, any um operational cost, any career center, you really want to be cutting edge uh best um innovative uh equipment. So that 80% fund equity is important. um building you
017know uh additions that we that we encounter. So it's we we can't go for a syncing fund if we have problems or if we want to do any you know addition. So that's a little bit of the difference. Same with the special ed. I don't know if you'll remember, but like about 10 years ago, right before I came here, um even though you can see the special ed budget's doing decent now with the 25%. Um, when I first walked in the door, we didn't have enough money to make it to pay payroll for staffing. And you can correct me if I'm wrong on any of that, but to pay, you know, the salaries of everyone, uh, before we got to the time that we got our tax property tax revenues. So, we had to go
018to the local, I think it was Century Bank at the time, and and borrow money from them to make payroll. So another very important reason that ISDAS and the different departments have a bigger fund equity to cover that kind of stuff. So um to add to his answer, we do have an entryway project going on at the career center right now. Um we just did demolition, went through demolition with that. Um the tile was original. It's kind of a add-on to the project we've started. Um, we do have an HVAC project that we need to look at. Our U air pressure in the welding and machining lab is terrific. That's it. It's a huge safety issue. We have to have the door open in the back to make sure the pressure literally doesn't take a
019finger off in the door cuz the door closes so hard. So, we have um and that probably will be close to a million dollars. Um and then um always looking at new programming. Um we have to replace all the the carpeting in the building and just you know the upkeep. So we do have plans to spend that money down to keep the building up to the level and to the standard that the county would like. So it appears that you get enough money to maintain your fund balance at 80% for probably the last 20 years. Yeah, probably. And and um also we've hadly roll backs for for the seven years I've been here. So that tax rate is going down every year. But I mean it's a good and bad thing because it means that
020property value is going up and we're getting more money. But then our tax rate is rolling back which Emily showed and we did have another head roll back this year. So the t tax rate is going down. We hope that helps off. All right. Thank you very much. I guess the Colar Community Schools Yes. the board. Thank you. Would like to congratulate you on your assistance with our district for so many years. Thank you. I appreciate it. And I'm hoping Thank you. that under that new leadership we we get more money. I hope you do too. I wish we could. We can't even uh I can't even get Dustin to share with me. We can't come legal funds. So, we have to like we can't even share unfortunately. Congratulations on your retirement. You don't need
021to stay unless you're just dying to hear this. Well, we're going to go to Quincy and prison. I hope theirs isn't as big as ours. We'll let you know. Uh, next we have the Polar High School Cardinal Academy presentation. All right. So in the fall um I presented to you on our plans to implement Cardinal Academy which is an alternative education uh school within a school housed at CHS. Um and I just wanted to give you some updates but just some quick reminders. Alternative education is an alternative program. It's operates as a subdivision of Cold Water High School and it's designed to serve um to better serve our alternative ed students. And really what it does is it provides a flexible environment and alternative structure of ed instruction um that's through online and the support
022of our Cardinal Academy teacher Janice Rowski. Um it's just different from the usual or conventional conventional way of teaching. Um what it offers is it's an individualized learning for students. It's a calm it's a comfort environment for them. We offer flexible scheduling. So students, some students start at 7:40, some start at 10:00, some leave at noon, some leave at 1:00, some come Monday, Wednesday, Friday, some come just on Fridays. Um to help them find success with whatever's going on in their outside of school lives. Um it's a we have a social and emotional support system with our school psychologist that comes in and works not only one-on-one, but in a group setting um for our Cardinal Academy. And then it's they also have the opportunity to learn to give back to the community. Janice Land's
023community service activities for them in and out of the school building as well. Um and then we also have opportunities for community based instruction. We'll show you later on where Southern Michigan Bank and Trust came and gave a literacy a financial literacy unit to the class. Um so these students that don't typically have those skills, we're building um just a bigger toolbox for them to have success when they leave us. So when we said at the beginning uh what will make Cardinal Academy student successful, these are all the things that we've put into play in hopes that our students will find success. And what I wanted to do today is come back to you and share with um what Janice has done with our students in this program and how it's grow. So let's get
024some of the facts. So all students are considered at risk for one reason or another. There can be these none of these students qualify for special ed, but they need something more that we can give them in the general ed setting. Um whether it's academic support, behavioral support, or just their social emotional needs um that are putting them at risk for not graduating. And everybody who was put in there was on the track to not graduate Cold Water High School. So Cardinal Academy spends the majority of their day in the Cardinal Academy classroom, but students are being able to earn opportunities to attend BACC when appropriate to attend general ed classes. Some of our students take one or two classes outside of the Cardinal Academy room through the day. we let them do the 18s,
025the required just the required 18 credits for state um to graduate and uh it gives them a just a more tailored um set of education plans to get them to graduation. So here's some statistics and when I read these off it sounds like I'm doing great things, but really this is Janice. Um Janice came to us from the ISD and she's been amazing. So, we started the school year off. I identified 15 students and I said, "Janice, these are the 15. Good luck. Do what you can." It grew to 26. Um, which if So, when you think of 26, it doesn't sound like a lot in a classroom, but if you know what alternative ed students and you put 26, all the administrators are shaking. If you put 26 in one room, you're thinking you're
026waiting for a ticking time bomb. Um, that's not the case. Janice and um Annie and their our partnership the three of us and make really Janice has grown this to where these students get along. It's a community in there. It's very cool to see. So what that out of those 26 now remember some came in mid year 17 of them got completely caught up to grade level. So we're talking about seniors that went in with freshman credits. We've talked about putting juniors in with zero credits. J when I say Janice works her her rear end off getting these kids up. I'm not kidding because these are kids that hate school or for whatever reason outside of life can't get to school, they struggle. Um, four students that were not going to graduate the beginning year,
027I just I basically told her like, "Your goal is to get them caught up. Let's try a 13th year." She got them to graduate this year. Um, 92% of students in Cardinal Academy have passed classes, earned credits towards their high school diploma. And out of this group of 26 students, they've completed 236 classes through our Egene egeneuity portal this year in the classroom. Um the good news of this, our goal is for them to try to get them to acclimate back into regular classes. Six of our students will be returning to the regular education um classrooms this next fall. So she has they've either grown in their social emotional needs, their behavior needs or their academics that they feel success and they're going to be in regular classes changing the hours just like everyone else
028this fall. And in addition to that five other ones have now caught up have met the requirements of behavior and academics and will be attending BACC for half days um to get some skills and again four of them have graduated. So out of this we've worked through talked about moving six putting some in moving kids around and so this year we'll be starting Cardinal Academy with 16 students but we have at the high school what's called an at risk team which evaluates students every Monday that people um the staff can recommend to us. We talk to them and that's how they make their way into the Cardinal Academy program through a team decision um what's called our art team. So, just some statistics here. Disciplinary, we're looking at just the Cardinal Academy students. Um, their
029accumulative discipline prior to coming into Cardinal Academy was 578 writeups. These students collectively um got that trophy of 578, but if you do the math, this year they've had 32. Um, so putting them in an environment so they can succeed in their own already shows you that when you think of not only their success, but 578 write-ups in the general ed setting that's disrupting education to down to these 32 are just in that classroom and not 578 going off inside of the school. Um, which is a huge deal. So, just taking a quick look at the classroom. What um we have provided or Janice really because she's went out and gotten money from people and they have the seating, they have couches, they have a ping pong table, they have kind of like a little
030coffee bar, so it's good place to stop in if you ever just want to tour. There's free coffee. Um and that's what the classroom looks like. It's down by the band and choir room just past the art room on your way down there. Um they have additional workspaces, comfortable seating. She tracks their daily achievements and really sets goals for them to recognize all the great things that they do in the classroom and it's for them. They're starting to feel success finally in the school setting. So again, this is just our mission. Our mission at Cardinal Academy is to provide a personalized supportive learning environment for students facing challenges in traditional classrooms. Through tailored curriculum, social emotional support, and a commitment to individual growth, we empower students to graduate with confidence to prepare for a future
031of academic and personal success. Um, she puts my name on here, but it's really all Janice Gowski's. Um, I just help when she asks. Um, and this is in her room and it's super important. I feel it says you belong here and she really lives by fair. Isn't everyone getting the same thing? There is everyone getting what they need to be successful. So that is Cardinal Academy and if you could recognize Janice for all of her hard work. Any questions about Cardinal Academy? Sorry, I tried to go fast. The ultimate goal then to get students back into mainstream classes or depends on the student, right? So, what if we are finding kids that are making lots of success in this program, but we know the anxiety level of going into the regular setting is not
032going to work for them. We're not going to put them back in to fail just to pull them back out again. These are kids that are trying to earn their way. They want the kids that are going back in want to go back in. They're just they finally have the skills that we feel like they're going to be successful to go back. There are some that still want to go back that are not there yet. So, yes and no. Depends on the student. When we say it's tailored to them, it really is. Very nice presentation. Great job. That data about referrals, excuse me, is awesome. That's that's the hardest thing to achieve. So, this is really like when you think of discipline referrals, this is kids finally feeling they belong. Kids who are acting out
033really are needing something. And when you can decrease it, be be fulfilled with something they need. Nice work. Thank you. Well, you've done a fine job with a very valuable program for these students that we're failing. So, congratulations. Uh, next, uh, request for public participation. Anybody wish to address the board? Goodbye. Mhm. Uh visitors, delegations, communications, approval of the minutes from uh April 28, 2025. Is there a motion? So move support. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Next. Are there any additions or deletions? There are there are some additions or amendments to the personnel report. You'll see you'll have an amended personnel report that uh we are adding Caitlyn Partner as a summer school teacher at Jefferson Elementary pending Michigan certification and background check. Adding Aaron O' Conor as a substitute teacher for
034Jefferson summer school and rescending Mira Soulless acceptance of the math teaching position at CHS effective immediately. All right. Thank you. Next we have the consent agenda. No communications. Personnel recommendations. Personnel recommendations. They resolve that relative to certified staff recommendations. The board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ Reagan Price for the first grade teaching position at Max Larson Elementary effective the 2526 school year pending background check. The board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ Kaitton and Partner for the third grade teaching position at Jefferson Elementary 2526 school year pending background check and Michigan teaching certification. The board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ the following individuals for the Lakeland Elementary summer school program. Brandon Coats, lead teacher. Christa Dyber, teacher. Amber Coleman, teacher. Kelly Murphy, teacher. Elena Sysransky, teacher. Rebecca
035Thompson, subteer, Courtney Coats, subteer, Allison Winsky, pair professional, and Brenda Fowler, secretary. The board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ the following individuals for the Max Larson summer school program. Courtney Coats, subteer, and Kirsten Dancer, secretary. The board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ the following individuals for the Jefferson Elementary summer school program. Caitlyn Partner, teacher, pending Michigan certification and background check, and Aaron Oconor, subteer. The board of education accept with regret the rescended acceptance of Mira from the CHS math teaching position effective immediately. Relative to support staff recommendations, the board of education accept with regret the resignation of Hadil Naser from the ELLL support personnel position at Lakeland Elementary effective at the end of the school day on May 30th, 2025. The board of education accept with regret the resignation
036of Iman Shyan from the part-time lunchroom supervisor position at Lake Middle School effective the end of the school day May 30th 2025 and the board of education approved the administrative recommendation to employ Jessica Res Muen for the part-time lunchroom supervisor position at Lake Middle School effective the 2526 school year. Thank you very much. Next, we have the approval of the April accounts for payment and financial statements as submitted. Mr. Be it resolved that the following accounts for April be approved for payment as follows. General fund accounts in the amount of [Music] 2,91,211.38. Special revenue accounts in the amount of $228,9948 and be resolved in the general fund financial statements be approved as presented. Thank you. Next, uh we have the acceptance and approval of gifts via member Hullbrook. All right. Recently, the administration was made
037aware of the following gifts offered by donors listed below. Recognition and approval of acceptance of gifts are being sought. Colar Quanis Club monetary funds for the 2025 2026 back to school assembly to Max Larson Elementary $800. Cooler Sunrise Rotary monetary funds for the ABC Challenge to CH S Interact Club $1,000 Farm Bureau Charitable Fund Tracy Neely Agency Automated External CH CCCS Athletics No Value Listed Cold Water River Solar Heritage Park Tree Planting Grant Monetary Fund Brian Pritchard LMS $5,000 the gracious and continued support The donors listed above sincerely appreciated. We ask the board accept the gifts noted to acknowledge the donor's generosity. Be it resolved the board of education gratefully accepts the gifts as presented and be further resolved that a letter of appreciation on behalf of the board be sent to the donors indicated
038above and worthwhile and generous gifts. Thank you very much. That is the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? So move to support. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Next, we have reports, presentations, recommendations. We have the building reports. They were included in your packet. Do the principles have anything they would love to add? No. I would like to just give thanks to all the board members who could join us last night for joining us at graduation. That was appreciated. And Dr. Lake, you did an excellent job of handing out diplomas and certified graduating class. Thank you. You must not have been talking to Mr. farmer because he said I kept moving farther and farther away from him that he had to keep moving farther and farther to catch up with
039me. Thank you. I figured he was just making me get my steps in. Just look up. The director of curriculum report, Mr. Dancer, have you got anything you would like to address? Not at this time. What's happened to your shoes? Shoes are great. They have no color. Not today. Board committee. We didn't have any committee. We did not. And superintendent report. So in front of you is superintendent report. It's a little short this month, but uh packed good with good information. The first one uh refers to this colorful sheet that that you were given. um TMP, our architect firm, uh and I met virtually today to talk about the bond formation plan, which is what this is called. It's basically a timeline for where we need to be um per month or group of months
040within the next 12 months as we're going for a May of 2026 election uh hopefully for a bond. If you'll look at the far left under discovery, it says determine the district strategy and finalize the schedule. Uh but the next two blue and that's ongoing conversation, but the next two are the facility consition assessment and the program assessment and those two assessments have recently been done. The facilities condition assessment um was two walkthroughs, physical walkthroughs of the building by the architects. the second being just last Friday. Um, and they got done 4:30ish uh just last Friday. So, they are working on their facility condition assessment uh report for us. And then the program assessment was a meeting with the um architect, myself, uh Dr. Hope and um some of the administration and teacher leaders from
041the high school to talk about how teaching spaces and how better to improve our teaching spaces for our staff. Um that report will also be done by the end of this month that they hope and then uh Dr. Hope and I and the architect will be meeting with the high school um staff on the 27th. The 2. next Tuesday um in in order to go over this program or bond formation plan and get some feedback from the the high school staff as well and answer any questions. Um so when we get those report when I get those reports back from the um from the architect, I'll immediately share those with you board members. Uh graduation week, I'll just echo it again, was uh was wonderful. all of the events for the kids uh really makes
042it it it's a lot more special than just one day. So um I want to give accolades to the high school uh not just Dr. Hope and Mr. Sherk but the entire staff there for making it special for kids. Um high school program of studies note last month you were asked to approve changes to the high school program of study and there was um a a mistake that was made in there. So I've given you a copy of of the corrected language that talks about academic letters and senior scholars. Uh for your information, uh there was no need to go back and um reapprove it with board approval uh because the plan was already there. It was just uh one of you keen eyes or more than one of you keen eyes found a mistake
043in there and we appreciate that being brought to our attention. Uh and then high reliability schools update th this year we began the the framework and um our principles took on the challenge and proud to say that completion of level one which is safe and communic uh safe and safe supportive collaborative thank you safe supportive and collaborative culture inside the building. Um and Jefferson Elementary has uh received their level level one certification. Max Larson, Lakeland, and the middle school have all submitted their required components for level one certification and hope to hear back from the committee by the end of the school year and high school continues to work on uh those steps and isn't far behind. So, just an update about high reliability schools because the next step or level two talks about effective
044instruction. So, we'll be looking forward to working on that next year. Does Mrs. Ren get a bonus for any reason or not? She Well, we we gave a big round of applause when we went and I went and presented the certification to her staff last week and we celebrated. A big round of applause. It was It's not a race to get there first. It's to do it right. Correct, Mrs. Reen. Correct. Dr. Lake, you can give me a bonus. I'm not opposed. I think I'm restricted from monetary gifts to employees. I mean, how would it look? You know, people would think right now, people would think there's something going on between [Music] uh discussion items. No action items. We have the recommendation to approve the branch ISD 2025 2026 budget. Be it resolved that the
045Cold Water School Board of Education is received and reviewed that the branch intermediate school district's 2025 2026 proposed budget. And be it finally resolved that the Cold Water School Board of Education supports the resolution outlining the proposed intermediate school district's 2025 2026 budget as presented. Is there a motion? There was a second in there somewhere maybe. Okay, whichever. Any discussion? Roll. Member Hullbrook. Yes. Member Steel is absent. Member Dean. Yes. Member Billsboro. Yes. Member Lion Welch. Yes. Member Frederick. Yes. Member Lake. Yes. Motion passes. Next we have the board resolution designating the elector and alternate elector for the BISD bianual election and giving direction for voting on behalf of Cold Water School Board. They only have two candidates. Correct. For two positions. Correct. Didn't we do this at the last meeting? Well, we picked you
046the last meeting. Now we're picking the people we're going to vote for. Thank you. be it resolved that the Cold Water Community Schools Board of Education approves a resolution designating district selection representative and designates uh member Claire Dean as the representative and member Kristen Lion Welch as the alternate representative be it further resolved that the representative and alternate is directed to cast their vote on behalf of the board for John Bowen of Cold Water and Chantel Paxton of Quincy. Is there a motion? So moved. Support. Any discussion? Roll call. Member Lion Welch. Yes. Member Frederick. Yes. Member Billsboro. Yes. Member Hallbrook. Yes. Member Steel is absent. Member Dean. Yes. Member Lake. Yes. Motion passes. Next, we have the recommendation to approve the 2025 2026 individual employee contract renewals. Uh, this covers the accounts payable accounting
047Aaron Reagan, athletic trainer, Phil Herman, building and grounds maintenance. Uh, Howard Sharpley, director of video services, Sean Watson. Maybe you need to leave the room. Uh, lead mechanic Kevin Creek, maintenance and ground support. Dave Felner, maintenance and ground support. Nicholas Krenal, maintenance and ground support, uh, John Marsh, payroll assistant Beverly, payroll manager Gary George, pupil, uh, accounting coordinator Julie Fitch, transportation supervisor Holly Muckle. be resolved that these individuals will have their employment contracts approved by this district. Is there a motion? So, support. Any discussion? Is this a roll call? No. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Next, we have the recommendation to extend the CFO employment contract. Administration is requesting board approval to extend the employment contract for Cold Water Community Schools Chief Financial Officer Michelle Roby. Be a result of the board of
048education approves a one-year extension of the employment contract by Cold Water Community Schools chief by financial officer Michelle Roby effective July 1, 2025 through June 30th of 2027. Is there a motion? support. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. We had to think about it before we decided to get over. Okay, that was the that Okay. Next, we have the second reading and adoption of the revised and new policies that uh we approved last month. This is the second one. These uh policies are the bylaws and policies of we have field and other district sponsored trips, immunizations, epinephrine, use of medications, student health and well-being and suicide personnel, food services, wellness, transportation for field and other district sponsored trips and the uh recision of The policy be resolved. The board of education approves the
049recommendation that the policy advisory committee to adopt policy board policies previously mentioned on the second reading as submitted. Is there a motion? I'll move it. I see second. Second. All right. Roll call vote. We get discussion. Oh, sorry. Discussion. Sorry. This is the second reading of this. Yes. Remind me the non-discrimination one. So, the title N one. Um, yes. 2264, the one that was, right? Oh, the one that that we're rescending. Yeah. So there were changes made towards Title 9 at the federal level or expected changes that would be made to include um to include protections of genders and identify genders. And um it was a it was recommended to us that because that was being federally um imposed that we create um new Title 9 uh policy. and now changes at the federal level
050have gone backwards um and had been rescended at the level. So we've been encouraged to resend that and go back to our previous one that we never got rid of. We just held it because the previous one would be for any complaints for Title 9 prior to August where the other one that we're looking to resend is anything taken any complaints after August. So we still have a non-discrimination on the books. Absolutely. Yes. Previous version. Yes. Any other discussion? Roll call. Member Billsboro. Yes. Member Dean. Yes. Member Steel is absent. Member Frederick. Yes. Member Hullbrook. Yes. Member Lion Welch. Yes. Member Lake. Yes. Motion passes. Next, we have the recommendation to approve the updates to the athletic student handbook for 2025 2026 school year. Be a result of the board of education formally approves the
051revisions to the student athletic handbook for 2025 2026 school year as presented. Is there a motion? So move support. Any discussion? [Music] All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Next, we have the request to approve the transition from Eden enuity to admentum for online course services for CHS students. Be resolved. The board of education approves the proposal to transition from eenuity and to admin for all of the online course services for Cold Water High School student. Be it further resolved that the board of education approves the contract with Edenum effective August 1st, 2025 through July 31st of 2028 as presented. Is there a motion? So moved. support. Can you elucidate date for the community the benefit the increase in benefits? So, and Dr. Hope, you'll correct me if I'm wrong in any way, shape, or
052form, but um Edenum number one is a less expensive uh program, but additionally, it offers SAT prep programming uh that the previous or that our current program does not. And it al also offers more um translation services for the the lessons. For example, um Haitian Creole where uh our current one does not offer lessons translated in Haitian Creole. Thank you. It's a roll call vote. Member Billsboro, yes. Member Dean, yes. Member Steel is absent. Member Frederick, yes. Member Hallbrook, yes. Everline Welch? Yes. Everlake. Yes. Motion passes. Next we have the recommendation to approve the proposal from Jeff Electric for the purchase of new Ballard Lights at the Dr. Robert W. Brown Aquatic Center. Do you resolve the board of education approves the proposal from Jetson Electric in the amount of $6,320 for the purchase of
053new Ballard Lights at the Dr. Robert W. Brown Aquatic Center as presented. Is there a motion? So move support. Any discussion right now from the city? This is um we could use it from the the money that's given from the city or the money that's given from the county. Um but we also have that separate account that we've dedicated funds to. So, we could take it from any of those, but it doesn't meet uh our committee talk that um this isn't something that we would be going back to the Brown family and asking for reimbursement for speaking in general, but they do a lot of they have a lot of money just for LEDs switching LEDs out just at the city. Oh, you mean Well, actually, um that didn't come up. It was just the
054the monies that they've already dedicated to maintenance of of the aquatic center. Why wouldn't it come out of the million dollars that that the family was going to give us? I mean, it it can, but I mean, the city's be able to spend that money. Yeah. On big ticket items like replastering the pools next, not this summer, but the following summer. It's not going to use it up. It's going to use up a large chunk of it. And then um we're looking at um looking at the uh heating system the the underground heating system that's never worked correctly. So we're we're revisiting Thank you. Capital it hasn't but kind of. So um we we've been talking about that as well. We included some of the uh of the engineers from the city in our last
055meeting to revisit that. You mean they want to try to get it working? Yes. No. Yes. Yes. All in favor? I opposed. Motion [Music] passes. The board meeting. [Music] Well, I've got I've got that. I just don't have the stop with that one because that's it. That's the end. That's the [Music] end comments. Yeah. [Music] Get old. It's okay. There's still announcements and comments. A public hearing for the 2025 2026 proposed budget is scheduled to be held on Monday, June 23rd, 2025 at 5:30, a half hour prior to the regular meeting, which is at 6:00 at 401 Sock River Drive in Cold Water. The regular meeting will commence at that time on that evening. We are journey.