001myself. Okay. Sorry, guys. All right. Welcome everyone. We're going to call this meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. Can we please read our mission statement? Our mission is to inspire and empower students reach their full potential through opportunities, experiences in a safe, diverse, and a collaborative environment. Trusty Anderson, will you lead us in the pledge of allegiance, please? 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. >> Right. >> Roll call, please. >> Trusty Anderson, >> Trusty Valtauski, present. Trusty Dyro, >> present. >> Trusty Sterlin, >> present. >> Trusty Stanovic, >> present. Trusty Wall >> present. >> Trusty Wless >> present. >> We have a quorum. >> All right. Item number four, adoption
002of agenda. Be it so resolved, excuse me, that the board of education accepts the June 10th, 2026 agenda as presented. A board member request an item be removed from the consent agenda to superintendent recommendations. I have a motion. >> Some moved. >> Moved by Trusty Beltski. Supported by Trusty Windless. Any questions, comments? Roll call, please. one. >> Oh, sorry. Go ahead. >> So, I just wanted to ask cuz we did have the one building and site. Do we want to bring that up maybe doing superintendent before >> the action items are on this agenda? So, it might be a good idea. Can we add that to the agenda? So, we need to resend in >> I resend my motion. Okay. >> I resend support. >> Okay. So, we're going to add the building and site
003to the superintendent's report. >> Correct. Item number four. >> Okay. Got that, Susan. Item four is going to be building site. Okay. Great. Okay. Be it so resolved that the board of education accepts the June 10th, 2026 agenda as presented, a board member may request an item be be moved from the consent agenda to superintendent's recommendations. May I have a motion? >> So moved. Moved by Trusty Beltowski. >> Supported by Trusty Windless. Any questions, comments? Okay. Roll call, please. >> Trusty Anderson, >> yes. >> Trusty Beltski, yes. Trusty Dyro, >> yes. >> Trusty Seven, >> yes. >> Trusty Wall, >> yes. >> Trusty Wless, yes. >> Trusty Sterling, >> yes. Motion carries. Item five, public comment on agenda items. On agenda items only. Do we have any public comment? Public comments. Okay, seeing none. All
004right, next up is superintendent reports. Take it away, Mr. Fin. >> You bet. Thank you. So, this evening we have the 2526 budget hearing, which includes the 2526 final amended budget, the 2627 projected budget, the 2627 general fund, operational, syncing debt, tax levy, non-homestead tax rate request, and the L4029. So, Dr. Good singinger is going to lead us through this and then we'll do the building and site committee right after that. Okay. >> Do we have it on the screen or not? >> Don't we give hands? >> Okay. >> Yeah. Maria, go ahead. >> Good evening. Thank you for having me at your board meeting to present our final amended budget for the 2526 school year. I am looking at exhibit one. If you could please join me there. So, we have a an increase
005in our revenue of $1.8 million from the last time we amended the budget at our midyear point. Excuse me. Yes. >> Should be on the screen. >> We didn't. They passed out. So, there should be >> no worries. I'm on page two. So, just a small increase in our revenue just based on some small changes that have occurred since our last amended budget. The big news on the revenue side is that we transferred a million dollars from our capital projects fund back into our general fund. So that is the majority of the changes on the revenue side. If you flip to page three, the far right column will show you those small changes and tweaks from our second amended budget, our first amended budget. We also received notification from the Michigan Department of Education of
006a large bump in our Title One uh grant midyear. So that was good news. It was $392,000. And so not only will we see that increase in on the revenue side, we'll also see that increase on the expenditure side. Page four shows our $46.7 million budget and how we are planning on spending it by area. You can see that the majority of our funding is going into instruction and into instructional support as we would hope to support our students in their learning initiatives. Page five is the 46.7 million how we spend it by location. So you can see that salaries and benefits are the largest pieces of the pie because we are in the people business and so that's the majority of the areas where we spend. Purchase services is the next largest and that
007mostly is comprised of our outsource transportation contract as well as our outsource custodial contract. Pages six and seven is just a breakdown of all the functions and object codes and across the district and how we spend those in those areas. If we move on from the general fund to page eight, this is our food service fund. We are projecting that we're going to end the year with $293,000 in our food service fund. If you recall, we kept getting cited along with many other districts in the state year after year about having an excess fund balance in our food service account because through CO they gave us a lot of federal dollars and we really had a hard time spending those. And you're only allowed to keep three months of resources in your fund balance. We
008are below that because we did engage in a spendown plan that was approved by the Michigan Department of Education. So, let's hope that going forward we have rightsized our food service fund and we will no longer be getting letters from the state that we are over the statutory limit. Page nine is the student activity fund. Um this is the money that we transfer from the uh student activity funds into our special revenue fund as part of gazby 84. It was a requirement when that uh we converted to that. And so we don't know what those numbers are going to be because as you can imagine the student activity is um very sporadic and it's not consistent. So, we're estimating that we're going to transfer about half a million dollars of revenue and expenditures from our
009trust and agency fiduciary funds into this special revenue fund. Page 10 is our debt fund, though the heading is missing. I can tell from the type of revenue that's there, we collect about $791,000 of property taxes from our property tax owners, and we are paying about $700,000 of principal and interest on the district's long-term debt. We're anticipating that our fund balance in the debt fund will be $378,000. Page 11 is our syncing fund. We have engaged, many of you signed our syncing fund committee. We have engaged in capital improvements across the district and we're anticipating that our sinking fund is going to end with $154,000 fund balance. Our capital projects fund is the money that we had set aside um for capital project improvements and this is the area that we're transferring a million dollars
010back to the general fund. And so we're planning on our uh capital projects fund to end with a fund balance of a million59198. We have we that money's been in that fund for two or three years. I think two. We haven't touched any of it. So the only revenue that's been going in there is the interest that the $2 million that we transferred over there has been earning. So that is a total of almost $60,000 over the 2-year period. So that's extra interest that was earned on that money that we have set aside. The remaining balance of the pages in our budget book are just the object codes that show you what all of those object codes mean if you're interested in reading up about that. And next we have our resolutions. Would you like
011me to roll into exhibit two or shall we stop for a moment and take questions? >> You guys have any questions on this so far? All good. Good. Okay. Go ahead. >> Okay. So, next is exhibit two. This is our projected budget summary and we um spent a considerable amount of time reviewing these numbers. We reviewed these numbers with the finance committee as well and our superintendent can attest that he has spent become very intimately involved with these numbers and I just wanted to let the board know that um these um budget numbers are representation of the superintendent. So I just wanted to be clear there. We're anticipating that our revenue is going to be $38.9 million. We think our enrollment >> I'm sorry. Can I interrupt? >> Um, so these are the superintendent numbers.
012>> Yes. >> Where are your numbers? >> You don't have them. >> Is there a reason we don't have them? Well, we have engaged in a budget reduction process in the district as far as what is going to happen as the outcome of our district for the end of 2627 and my projections are different than the superintendent. We chose to use the superintendent numbers. >> Was there a great difference between your numbers and the superintendent's numbers? >> Um, I believe that that information was shared with you through the finance committee. >> Okay. But for transparency purposes here, I don't exactly have those numbers with me. I think there I'm just going to ballpark at $3.5 million. I don't actually have the exact numbers with me. >> 2.4 >> 3.4. >> 2.4. Okay. >> So, there
013was a difference of $2.4 million between your numbers and his numbers. >> There was a million on the revenue side and two four on the expenditure side. So, is that correct? >> 34. >> I don't have that right in front of me. not going to if I gave you something. Now, I can tell you I can explain why and one of us can also explain why there's a difference if you want to hear that because that's probably more pertinent of why. >> I would like to Yes, please. >> Do you hear? >> So, there were changes. >> Trusty Duff had her hand raised. I'm sorry. I would like to hear too because you referenced that the finance committee filled us in on something and I'm unaware of that that the finance committee filled us in
014on anything. You referenced that. >> I did ask everyone to call me and I sent texts and everyone called me. I didn't hear that. >> Well, that's because I get my information here and um the finance committee um you're the chair so I would have thought that would have come from you if there was information. So I'm interested to hear what you have to say. So, I'll jump in. So, um, so I sent to the sent the board the three, the Senate version of the of the state aid, the House version, and the governor's version. The governor's version and the Senate's version of the of what D7 is supposed to get reflects um better than the House. So combining that information along with the the budget that Maria was working on was a reduction of
01550 students and the budget number that I used based on where we were at in our um enrollments for schools of choice. I went even. So that's a significant change in the two budgets as we work through. The other piece that I did is um I went through all of the line items of the budget and made significant changes um to line items looking at what where we where our expenditures were this year and projecting that into next year. So that had a impact on Maria's budget numbers versus mine and the expenditure side. So I I feel pretty confident with the numbers that I have. >> Did you not go through each line item in the budget? You did or did not? >> I did. Yes. So on the revenue side, it's a change in
016enrollment. That's strictly what the difference between the superintendent numbers and my numbers are. On the expenditure side, um we just have a difference of opinion in the outcome of how what we plan is going to transpire. >> Okay. And then you said that the Senate and the governor's plan looks to fare better for us. >> That is correct. >> Versus the House. So why would we I'm I'm just worried we're going to be in a situation where we are um anticipating something that if it doesn't work out in our favor, then we're going to be right back here again. >> Yes. So if if there are two factors at play here. If the legislation, the school aid budget comes through and it's not favorable as well as the student count is not favorable, we will
017have to make additional reductions in the budget. No question about it. >> Miss has a question. >> Go ahead. So, um, wouldn't it be better, I guess, to air on the side of caution and go with the minus 50 students versus thinking that we would break even since the trend has been that we've lost students. >> So, um, when Maria asked me what we should build the budget on two probably a month or so ago, I said minus 50 students. So, that's where that number came from. Currently, right now, as we're going through with all the work with the enrollment fair and the videos and everything that we put out, we currently have 130 plus school of choice applications. So, these are new students. Now, not all of them may be enrolled in our school.
018We still have do background and all of that kind of stuff. But I went based on and we don't know if you know students leave, right? We have students that do leave. But based on that information, I felt that it was um that it was prudent to go ahead and do a 0% u not a loss, not an increase from our fall student count numbers. >> Okay. Well, what and also for the house budget, would it be best to go with the more conservative numbers? >> Um we could >> because I think that's where we fell short last time is we over projected how many students we would have and then ended up in a crisis. Correct. >> So to avoid that, wouldn't we go conservative this time around to ensure that that doesn't happen
019again? >> Um, yep. We could certainly do that. The Senate, the the the recommendation, all three have the $250 per pupil recommendation. The House, the Senate, and the Executive, they have the 250. So that's built was built into both of ours. So we feel pretty confident. The other pieces of revenue that are significant are the the Senate the the the governor has um they they have a line item there's a line line item in the budget that's enrollment stabilization and that is designed to help districts that lose a number of students and so there's like a I don't have the exact number but a 200 and some odd thousand increase that they're projecting for D7 for schools that lose and they do a there's a mathematical formula that you plug in your numbers from this
020previous year to the to or this year to the previous year and they use that to calculate the enrollment stabilization. My budget that I'm we're presenting tonight has that in there. Maria's did not. [clears throat] So, it's my understanding from a from the conversation I had with um President Sterling today was that um if the numbers come back poorly in the fall after student counting day and everything is that we will make cuts to staff then. Wouldn't it be more prudent to make a cut to the staff now and hire somebody versus cutting the staff in the middle of or you know in the beginning of the school year and all the schools have already hired teachers and now we're putting somebody out of a job versus putting somebody out of a job now and
021giving them the summer to recoup to find another job elsewhere in another district. I'm I just I'm not comfortable with that. I don't think it's fair to students. So, we're going to have a classroom of students that we projected we were going to have 28 students and we ended up with 18 students. So, because of that 18 students, we're going to take the nine and we're going to split them here and here into this class. And now this teacher is out of a job and now these students have been displaced and they don't have their teacher. I'm not comfortable with this. So, >> I think we should be more conservative. We we we over projected and look at where it got us. >> So, the other piece of that is too though. So, he's going
022to be doing a survey uh when classes are out. So, he would have a better idea of what students are coming back to the district and what students are not. And from that point, which will be in a couple weeks, he can also gauge am is my projection. >> That's if you get 100% participation in the survey. >> Sure. So, I feel pretty confident where these numbers are. If there are major changes or we find out there's major changes, we'll bring the budget back and before the fall, if we if we find out that that the budget that comes out of Lancing doesn't benefit D7 the way that that I think it will, even with the 250, the 250 that or that's in both budgets, they could come back and say a 0% increase. Then
023we're going to have to definitely make more changes even before school starts. Anyone else? Okay. Okay. So, the decrease in the revenue, the majority of the decrease is the fact that we are not trans planning on transferring a million dollars from our capital projects fund in 2627. And also too, there are some grants that are not carrying over from one year to the next. Uh we are no longer having our 35M literacy support grant. We are doubled up on our section 41 bilingual because we had some carryover in 2526. We're not anticipating in 2627. We're getting a categorical called mysterous employee healthcare reimbursement this year. We're not anticipating getting that next year. Also too, if you remember the student loan program where the state was going to pay everybody's student loan payments and then that
024really didn't work out the way the state had planned. So they had all this extra money and they gave it to the schools and they said here just give this to your employees as compensation and it was a categorical in the state aid called the educator compensation program. That is $346,000. That was a oneandone. We are not anticipating receiving that grant again this year. Um the title grants we're just budgeting for the amount that we've gotten every year, not this big increase that we got this year. We believe this was a one-time thing. So those are the changes in the revenue from the expenditures. We have engaged in a significant budget reduction campaign throughout the district. I believe that number is north of $6 million that we cut out of our budget and it came
025from everywhere. I believe some of you have been involved in those conversations regarding the reductions that we made in the district, but you can see that it's difficult to pinpoint one exact thing that we cut because we cut things across the board. So the page six and seven are the object and function codes that the way that we're spending our money across the general fund. And again in that it does include our expenditures dropping from 46.7 million to 39.1 million. Page eight moves on to the food service fund and we have a balanced I just want to point out there is a typo. There is an error on page five. It says 202526 amended budget and then it says 202526 final budget. Shouldn't that be the 2026 20227 final budget? >> So the blue numbers
026are bouncing the final amended budget against the 2627 projected budget which is to the right. >> No, I'm talking about page five. Your pie chart page. >> Oh, page five. My pie chart. Oh yes, that in that box it should say 2627 projected. Yes, thank you for catching that. We'll uh fix that for the next presentation. >> Thank you. Sorry for interrupting. >> No worries. Okay, so again the food service fund, we have a balanced budget. We're anticipating the revenues and expenditures to match and our fund equity should be 2935 594. Again, the student activity fund, we're still estimating a half a million dollars in 2627 to be transferred from our student activity fund into from our trust and agency to our student activity fund. our debt fund. Um, one of our debt mills expired.
027All of you are property owners inside of the city of Dearborn Heights, you will notice your summer tax bill will be reduced because one of our debt mills dropped off and we just declined to renew that. So, if you look at page 10, our grant revenue is or I'm sorry, our property tax revenue is 791,000. it is dropping down to 441,000 because our debt mills have dropped off. So again, the debt that we levy matches the debt that we owe as a district and so you see a pretty balanced budget there in the debt fund. Page 11 is the sinking fund we're estimating and again I don't do not believe conversations have begun for the 2627 planning for the sinking fund. I'm estimating just to put a number out there so that we have an
028appropriation of a million dollars that is going to be spent um in the syncing fund. And then page 12 is the capital projects fund. And again, we're not planning on drawing any any transfers from the capital projects fund in 2627 to the general fund. So we're going to earn about $28,000 worth of interest on that money. And then the rest of the budget book is the explanations of what these functions are as well as the resolutions for the projected budget. Would you like me to move into number three or are there any questions? You guys have any questions? Okay, go ahead. >> Okay, next we're moving on to exhibit three. This is the L4029. Uh this is how we levy our taxes on our property tax owners and we levy 18 mills of nonh homestead.
029In November of 24 we asked our voters for a little bit of an increase because of our headley hedge. It was 2 mills because we have to roll our mills back if our property values expand beyond the rate of inflation. So, we have these extra 2 mills set aside just just in case we go below 18. In the last 2 years, we have chewed through um almost 1.3 of those mills. So, we only have a little cushion left of 7994. This debt expires in 2034. I do not think that this is going to hold you until 2034. So, I just want to put a pin in this because I think that maybe next year or the year after you might want to consider renewing your non-homestead mills again. And let me tell you what is
030happening out there in school finance world. I'm currently working with a district who's in the same position. They're uh head their uh non-homestead mills have actually eroded below 17 mills. are losing about $225,000 of property taxes every year because the way that schools are funded, this is part of our $10,300 student. The first money in the bucket is the property taxes. So, whatever our property tax owners give us, our property owners give us, the state thinks it's 18 mills. They don't care if you're not levying something less than that. So, that's the first money and then they top the bucket off to $10,300 a pupil. So, like I say, they don't care if you're not loving 18 mills. You're just out of that money. So, this district that I'm working with, we're actually going to
031the voters in November and asking for a 12 mil hedge on 18 mills. So, they're going to going to we're going to the voters for 30 mills and it's supposed to last them for 10 years. So never every three or four years we have to check this number and then incur legal costs and you know all of the stuff uh going to the voters and all the things that happen when you have to renew your non-h homestead millage. It's one and done and 12 mill should hold them for 10 years. So that is something the district may want to consider because um having a hefty headley hedge is starting to become a thing. You levy three mills of sinking fund. That debt or that millillage also has a headley hedge component attached to it. And
032you have 1.533 [music] mills as a cushion. And that expires in 2035. That probably will hold you for your three mills um throughout that whole time frame provided that the property values don't continue to expand beyond the rate of inflation there. and your debt mills have dropped to 2.7 mills and you saw that reflected in the debt fund resolution. So again, the taxpayers will not be paying as much millage for the debt in the district. And that concludes my presentation. >> Okay. Anyone else have any questions? >> Good. All right. Thank you, Dr. Gizinger. All right. Okay, we got to do the building and site. >> Uh Derek, are you want to discuss the building and site? >> Yeah. So, I realized when I grabbed everything, I grabbed my finance notes, not building in sight.
033Um, but I could just mention with the building of site, what we talked about was that, so I don't have dates or anything, so I apologize, but was talked to building a site though was with regards to um the overall plan with the filters, with regards to what was going to be covered under the grant, and then what was potentially going to be covered from outside um repair. the uh the thing that building a site wanted to see is as much possible was done inhouse to avoid expenditures basically and uh then it was brought back that um and this was just recently brought back that um Pat was able to find that she was able to bring that price down by almost half on the external um contractor versus in-house. And that was mainly more
034for things that we that they felt the in-house would not be able to repair to what they felt would be the correct way. So that was the reason why that is. So those were the two things that are being brought on the agenda was regarding the grant and uh the um external contractor for repairs and um there was questions arose about and this wasn't at actually at the meeting but this was brought up after so I'm just going to bring it up now because it's probably going to be a question. Uh the question was because we're not going to be using the maximum of the grant, but we did inquire and we can't there's nothing else we can pull out of the grant. So that makes so we're only allowed to take what we can
035take. >> So that's that's the part on that. So I apologize I don't have the notes. I got finance. So that rain that hail. >> Anyone have any questions? Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. Up next, item number eight, superintendent recommendation, certified staff resignation, exhibit number four in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the following certified staff resignations. Michael, is it feeb? Apologize. Teacher Annapolis High School effective August 31st, 2026. Dr. Maria Gissinger, interim business manager, effective May 31st, 2026. Sheila Green, resource teacher, Poke, effective August 28th, 2026. Jabra Lach who lush >> speech language pathologist effective August 31st, 2026. May I have a motion? >> Some moved. >> Moved by Trusty Beltowski. >> Supported by Trusty Wness. Questions, comments? >> Um, what did May I ask um
036what Mr. Fig taught at Annapolis High School? What subject? >> Science. Thank you. >> Okay. Unless All right. Roll call, please. >> Trusty Beltski, yes. Trusty Dyro, >> yes. >> Trusty Savanvic, >> yes. >> Trusty Wall, yes. >> Trusty Windless, Trusty Anderson, Trusty Sterling, >> yes. Motion carries. Item B. >> Edio. I'm saying that right. Website content management system. Exhibit number five. It's so resolved that the board of education approves the annual subscription fee, which maintains our current service level and ensures uninterrupted operation of our district-wide website system. The the total cost of $6,400 will be derived from the general fund. May I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Moved by Trusty Beltowski supported by Trusty Windless. Questions, comments? Roll call, please. >> Trusty Dyro. Yes. >> Trusty Stanvic. Yes. >> Trusty Wall. Yes.
037>> Trusty Windless. Yes. Trusty Anderson, >> yes. >> Trusty Beltowski, yes. Trusty Sterling, >> yes. Motion carries. Item C, instructional days and clock hours. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves 180 days, 1,098 clock hours as a minimum time for pupil in instruction for the 20 26 2027 school year. May I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Moved by Trustee Wall. >> Support for by was that Belowski? Yes, >> Trusty Beltowski. Questions, comments? Roll call, please. >> Trusty Stavanovic, >> yes. >> Trusty Wall, >> yes. >> Trusty Windless, yes. >> Trusty Anderson, >> yes. >> Trusty Beltowski, yes. Trusty Dyro, >> yes. >> Trusty Sterling, >> yes. Motion carries. Item D, Food Service Management Company, exhibit number six. Be it so resolved that the board of education moves to renew the
038contract with Compass Group USA Chartwell's division to provide services for the 26, 2027 school year beginning July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027. This year, this is year three of a 4-year proposal and includes a 3% increase in management fees. Monies will be dived from the food service account. We have a motion. >> So moved. >> Moved by Trustee Wall. >> Support. board by trustees savvanovic questions comments yes sir >> so I just uh wanted to see so I know this is three third year of four so then that would be one more year if we ever wanting to look for reviews before the bids and all that when would we start that >> suggested wise >> yep so the so this process will start to rebid um will be not this upcoming year it
039so the the last year of the contract that December typically is when school districts put the bids out on the street. Yep. And it's quite a process. The state's involved, the federal government's involved. Um, and it's it's very specific if you guys recall. And then we all the way to the point where you bring people in and you do group interviews. It's there's quite quite a process. So we'll go through that the probably late fall early winter of the last year of the contract. >> Okay. So this is 26 273rd 2728. So fall time of December time of 27 then. >> Okay. Okay. Anyone else? Okay. Roll call please. >> Trusty W. >> Yes. >> Trusty Windless. >> Yes. >> Trusty Anderson. >> Yes. >> Trusty Beltowski. Yes. Trusty Dyroth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Stavanovic?
040>> Yes. Trusty Sterling. >> Yes. Motion carries. Exhibit or excuse me, item eight, cooperative education program agreement exhibit number seven. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the cooperative education program agreement between the Wayne Westland Community Schools and Durban Heights number seven school district as required by the state and according to the present counting procedures and practices as presented. Uh we have a motion moved by trustee wness. >> Supported by trustee wall. questions, comments, sorry. Go ahead. Okay. Roll call, please. >> Trusty Wless. >> Yes. >> Trusty Anderson, yes. >> Trusty Vowski, yes. Trusty Dyro, >> yes. >> Trusty Savanovic, >> yes. >> Trusty Wall, >> yes. >> Trusty Sterlin, >> yes. Motion carries. >> Can I just add a quick comment? I I didn't jump in fast enough. So, currently, right
041now, we have um one student enrolled in their welding program. So, just as FYI, I'm sorry. >> I don't No, that's okay. Sorry about that. It's not me. Okay. Item F, Envirro Clean Contract Extension. Exhibit number eight in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education accepts the proposed contract extension of Envirro Clean with Dearborn Heights District number 7 for the period of July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027. The total amount of $728,57923 will be be derived from the general fund as presented. I have a motion. >> So moved. >> Moved by trustee wall. >> Supported by trustee windless or was it Steanovvic? Sorry. >> All right. Go ahead, Mark. Would you like to say >> just this represents a 30% reduction? I I'm sure you guys read that you caught
042that in the thing. a change into the operations and this the reduction in this contract is reflected in the budget that you guys that was presented the 2627 budget this evening. >> So I'm looking at these changes. So the desktops will be completed, cleaning will be completed once a week. Um, I understand students use Clorox wipes and wipe their desks off. I would hope daily, but classroom floors will only be done three days a week. Does that mean they're only going to sweep the classroom floors three days a week? >> That is correct. Yep. Under this plan. >> Um, okay. >> So, we're going to see how that goes. >> And the teachers are required to shift all trash cans to the door. >> Correct. And the school offices will only clean once a week.
043>> That is correct. Um question on the deep cleaning schedule. Um so the deep cleaning of the floors will only be done how often. It doesn't say >> right. So the so we met with Envirro Clean last week and we we are still under the current contract from last year. So this contract will start July 1st. Right. So, we are working to get as many of the buildings cleaned, deep clean as they're talking about the floors stripping and waxing as possible through July 1st. Now, it we won't be able to get into Pulk because that's where Summer Discovery is, right? >> Okay. So the other buildings will go through deep clean and then once the new contract starts up then then they will instead of the the stripping they will clean them buck them and
044then rewax them. So that's that's what they're doing. So >> and we were looking Mary Beth we are looking to try to save as much money as we could. >> Okay this contract um >> are we responsible as a district? I believe when I'm looking at the line items in our um check things that we are paying for the cleaning supplies for Envirro Clean. >> Um the cleaning supplies are part of the we it's it's where's where's my person right here. So So some of the stuff we do provide, but some of the stuff they provide as well. So we can get a breakdown of that for you if you'd like. I just I didn't look at this this week's to be honest with you, but I have looked in the past and I mean
045it's a hefty amount of money that we're spending on cleaning supplies in each building. >> Mhm. >> Um >> I just don't want as far as the floors being buffed and shined and whatever that that Okay, I understand that. But like the cleanliness of the school um um have you ever been in a kindergarten classroom? [laughter] They're only going to be swept three days a week. That's just to me that's not acceptable. That's not an acceptable thing to do. And I think the safety and health and safety of our students should be our priority. And making sure that they are in a clean, healthy environment is important. And so I'm I'm disappointed in this. I'm just going to say it. >> Understand. um when we met with them, you know, this is the plan that
046we came up with to reduce uh expenditures in the contract and we'll just have to monitor it and see see it how it's working. They assured me though that they can that they'll do their best to keep our buildings clean. >> Okay. Anyone else? Okay. Roll call, please. >> Trusty Anderson, >> no. >> Trusty Beltowski, no. Trusty Dyroth, >> yes. >> Trusty Stavanovic, >> yes. Trusty Wall, >> yes. >> Trusty Wless, >> no. >> Trusty Sterling, >> yes. Motion carries. >> Item G, LaGuardia Security Services Contract Extension, exhibit number nine. Be it so resolved that the board of education accept the proposed contract extension for the Guardia security systems with dear Heights district number 7 for the 20 26 27 school year as presented. The total amount of 78 gosh darn it what is wrong
047total amount of $78,192 will be d will be dived from the general fund. May I have a motion? So moved by trustee windless supported by trustee Anderson. questions, comments on this or you feel free. Okay. >> Um, go ahead. >> I have a question. So, I'm sorry. Let me get to it. So, this is Lagarda Security whom we've talked about before, correct? That we weren't really happy with as a I'm I'm looking um >> is this the company that we were talking about that we weren't really happy with their services? So, I can address that with LaGuardia. We um every time there have been issues and there have been issues, no question about it. We've worked with the company to address those issues. Um this contract represents uh two security guards and we feel very
048confident that those individuals that are part of this are are going to step up and do the job. They are already stepping up and doing the job. They're by far the best security guards that we've had and we've been assured that they'll be placed back in our district. >> Can I make a comment to that? We don't want to lose these two security guards is part of it. >> That's that's the main thing. >> Okay. All right. Anyone else? Roll call, please. >> Trusty Belowski, no. Trusty Dyro, >> yes. >> Trusty Stavanovic, yes. Trusty Wall, >> yes. Trusty Winless, >> no. >> Trusty Anderson, >> yes. >> Trusty Sterlin, >> yes. Motion carries. Item H, business manager contract exhibit number 10. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the contract of Ronald
049Damuth. Did I say right? >> Correct. >> Business manager Dearman Height School District number 7 in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract presented. May I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Moved by [laughter] echo. Trustee Wall >> support. the board of trustee wins this figure that okay any questions or comments go ahead >> yep so we're very pleased to welcome Ron to D7 Ron's right over here so people can get a name with a face um he comes to us with 20 years of financial experience including fiscal leadership uh financial planning and operational management specific areas that um he's dealt intensely with um are payroll and accounting expense administration journal entries, acrruels, reconciliations, purchasing, accounts payable, and accounts receivable. He's also done a little auditing in his spare time. Throw that
050out there. Has a bach bachelor's of science uh degree in business administration. He's uh very techsavvy. He has a lot of experience with different software, financial software plans and um software programs, not plans, excuse me, and using those uh plans, implementing them to more effectively run finance. Uh comes highly recommended uh from his um all the background checks that we did. Um I believe he'll be a great addition to the D7 team. And if you if you when you get to meet him, you're going to find out he's very personable and so very approachable. So that's one of the things that really stuck out in the interview process and we're excited to bring him aboard. >> You're welcome. Oh, thanks. >> Thank you. >> Oh, yeah. Oh, wait. I'm sorry. We have a motion. We
051forgot we didn't do a >> Oh, no. We did do a motion. Any questions? >> Go ahead. You had a question. Sorry, Derek. So, I just wanted to um just transparency is the plan for full-time in the office and would he be at board meetings? >> Yes, that is correct. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. All right. Roll call, please. Anyone else? >> Okay. Roll call. >> Trusty Dyro. >> Yes. >> Trusty Stanovic? >> Yes. >> Trusty Wall? >> Yes. >> Trusty Windless? >> Yes. >> Trusty Anderson? >> Yes. >> Trusty Beltowski? Yes. Trusty Cerini? >> Yes. Motion carries. Welcome. >> Welcome. Welcome. >> I got ahead of myself there. Recording a little bit. [laughter] I'm sorry. Item I, leadership camp field trip exhibit number 11. Being so resolved that the board of education approves
052a leadership camp overnight field trip to Oakland University August 3rd through 5th, 2026 for the AHS theater students as presented. May I have a motion? >> Some moved. >> Moved by Trustee Beltski, supported by Trusty Windless. >> Uh, questions, comments? Okay. Roll call, please. >> Trusty Stanovvic, >> yes. >> Trusty Wall, >> yes. >> Trusty Windless, yes. >> Trusty Anderson, yes. >> Trusty Beltsowski, yes. Trusty Dyro, yes. >> Trusty Sterling, >> yes. Motion carries. Item number J. Reduction in workforce. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the termination of one full-time maintenance department position. May I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Moved by Trustee Wall. >> Supported by Trustee Anderson. Questions, comments? Roll call, please. Trusty Wall, >> yes. >> Trusty Wless, >> no. >> Trusty Anderson, >> yes. >>
053Trusty Beltowski, yes. Trusty Dyro, >> yes. >> Trusty Stavanovic, >> yes. >> Trusty Sterlin, >> yes. Motion carries. Item K, adjustment to the assistant superintendent's compensation exhibit number 13. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves a salary and wage freeze for the assistant superintendent, Mr. Scott Armstrong, for the 2026 2027 school year as presented. I have a motion. >> So moved. >> Moved by Pelosski, supported by Trusty Windless. >> Questions, comments? >> Roll call, please. >> Trusty Windless. >> Yes. >> Trusty Anderson. >> Yes. >> Trusty Belttowski. Yes. Trusty Dyroth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Satanic. >> Yes. >> Trusty Wall. >> Yes. >> Trusty Serini. >> Yes. Motion carries. Item L. Adjustment to the superintendent's compensation. Exhibit number 14. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves a salary and
054wage freeze for the superintendent for Mark oh gosh for the superintendent Mr. Mark Kleinands for the 2026 2027 school year as presented. May I have a motion? >> So moved by trustee Wness supported by Trusty Beltowski. Questions, comments? Roll call, please. >> Trusty Anderson. Yes. Trusty Belowski. Yes. Trusty Dyro. Yes. >> Trusty Stanovic. >> Yes. >> Trusty Wall. Yes. Trusty Wless. Yes. Trusty Sterling. >> Yes. Motion carries. Item M, progressive plumbing proposal. Exhibit number 15. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the progressive plumbing proposal for parts for the filter first program for our district as presented. The total cost is $51,254. Money is derived from the filter first grant from the state of Michigan. May I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Moved by Trusty Beltski, supported by Trusty Windless.
055Questions, comments? >> Um, I just have a question. These will all be installed and we will be in compliance by the deadline. >> Correct. >> Thank you. >> So I had a question and this um I appreciate you answering me. This is the question, right? This is for the filtration system. >> So So we're we are going to have some uh drinking fountains as well, regular drinking fountains or it's going to be a combination of bottle bottle and drinking. Correct. Both of those >> like that like we have there, right? >> Yes, that is correct. Okay. Yep. Yep. They're >> all right. Anything else there? I heard that some are going to come out of the classrooms. Is that correct? That there's some in the classroom that are going to be coming out. >> Correct.
056Yep. We're going to be capping off the bubblers, the little bubblers in some of the elementaryaries. Not all the elementary classrooms have them, but we'll be capping those off. >> Are we not Are we going to put a new one in or not? >> Nope. Those will be capped off and be replaced by those to meet the standard with the filtration and the number of students per drinking fountain. So, like the little ones that have it in there now, they're going to have to run outside to get it. >> Yep, that is correct. >> Okay. Okay. All right. Anyone else questions? Okay. Roll call, please. >> Trusty Beltowski, yes. Trusty Dyro, >> yes. >> Trusty Sonvic, >> yes. >> Trusty Wall, >> yes. >> Trusty Wless, yes. >> Trusty Anderson, Trusty Sterlin, >> yes. Motion
057carries. Item N, is it Tukar mechanical proposal exhibit 16? Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the proposal from Takar Mechanical for installation of the filter first sink and bottle um filing system as presented. >> Filling station I need to go home today. What is wrong? Great. >> Filling station as presented. The total cost is $31,000. Money is derived from the building and site funds. May I have a motion? >> Some moved. >> Moved by Trusty Belt. Supported by Trusty Windless. Questions, comments? So I just want to be uh real clear. So the the supplies come from the grant non-general fund, right? The filter first grant and the installation comes from building and site. Again, no general fund dollars. >> Anyone else questions? All right. No comments. >> Trusty Dyro. Yes. >>
058Trusty Stanovic. Yes. >> Trusty Wall. >> Yes. >> Trusty Windless. Yes. >> Trusty Anderson? Yes. >> Trusty Beltowski? Yes. Trusty Sterlin? >> Yes. Motion carries. All right. Unfinished business. Do we have any unfinished business? No. Okay. New business. Do I have any anybody with new business? All right. District points of pride. Mr. Clans. >> Very good. Thank you. So, um, from a district perspective, just a special thank you goes out to all of those that have been involved and will be involved because we still have a couple more events for the end of the year celebrations, including all the assemblies, the field days, the class events, um, and especially our what I consider a wonderful um, graduation ceremony that was held last week. Um, just all of the events have been out and about. It's
059just wonderful. Well, I know they're getting ready tomorrow for um Alisa was running a little bit behind because she was setting up for the fifth grade event for tomorrow. So, just all of the work that goes into these events are wonderful and the graduation was awesome. The speeches, Tanya, your speech and delivery was fantastic. You really did a good job. I know you were concerned and worried, but you did great. Um but just it was just a very wonderful event. Update on summer discovery. We're excited to kick off our first year of summer discovery program. We have over 300 students enrolled. I was the guy that said we'd be lucky to get a 100. Just kidding. The program uh will be at Poke Elementary and includes breakfast and lunch for students. The structure will be
060academics in the morning with math and reading using lit lab for our little ones and then problem based learning curriculum and then exploratory and the fun activities are in the afternoon. The program will include field trips. I think one's scheduled for the Tigers for Tiger baseball game. Wonder if I can get tickets for that. And um the program I would but I'd have to ride a bus. I don't know if I can do it. I'm getting pretty old. The program also includes uh with it's um so they're spread out through the 6 week schedule. They also we're going to utilize our pool and do some swimming um with the with the little ones as well. So um it really should be a wonderful program. The staff will participate in two days of professional development uh
061starting next week, June 15th. And then the students, the first day is on June 22nd. So really excited to see how this whole thing goes. Enrollment update. Um again, thank you to everyone who participated in the enrollment fair um as well as doing the videos and getting all the information out. Um, right now we're north of 130 uh applications, well ahead of where we were last year in terms of school of of choice applications. So, um, it was that information that I used and where we're at today and processing these when I um kind of working through this budget. So, I'm very pleased that uh where we're at now, not necessarily all of those students will attend. We still go back and do background checks and we do a lot of work before we get
062the kids enrolled. And the other piece of it is those uh folks and we're calling them daily. Um we can ask Carol, she's sitting over here. Um especially for the kindergartens. So they start the enrollment process. They could have started at the enrollment fair and if they're missing some documents, we're calling continually calling from our office out to say, "Hey, what do you need help with? What does it take? What do what do we got to do to complete this enrollment?" So, we're working really hard to um to, you know, get get those enrollments finalized, get the students placed so that uh we're good to go. As you know, our budget is so contingent on not only state aid, but student count. So, that's kind of from a district perspective. Um we did have a
063tornado drill at the end of the school day the other day. We did hold the students uh for an extra 10 minutes at the middle school and high school until the um tornado drill had lapsed. So, we wanted we did have some folks that um wanted to grab their students, but we told them just sit tight. Uh we sent emails out, you know, to all of our families before and or right when it happened during so we got information out and then afterwards um just letting them know. So, we did hold the students a little bit longer um just just to be safe for everyone. We certainly didn't want to um you know, we were watching the radar, so we knew the storms had passed, but the um the tornado warning had not expired, so
064we did hold the students. So, I just want everybody to know that. Um at Madison, they're finishing up this week. Today, they had their preschool graduation. You'll see pictures in your Friday report. That's always a wonderful event. Um and uh they have also had a wonderful picnic um for their students at Bedford. End of the year kindergarten celebration and fifth grade clapout are scheduled uh for tomorrow. The Bedford Bears are excited. The garden club installed three raised garden beds last week. If you buzz over to Bedford and you look in the area that has the outdoor classroom with the picnic tables, um you'll see the raised flower beds and they're going to incorporate that into growing crops in the fall and have the classes take turns taking care of of that. So, kind of it's
065in that outdoor classroom area. You can see them. They look very nice. They're very nice. Yep. Field day was today. They had to um because of the heat issue, they had to uh reduce the time that they had students out just to be safe, but um I've got pictures as well. So um I was unable to attend, but they sent me pictures. Look like the kids were having a wonderful time. And um Marcy wanted to thank Mr. Smeaggel for setting that up at Pulk. Pulk students enjoyed amazing field day on the 5th. Kids had a blast. Many thanks uh to Mrs. Friendo, Mr. Berteio, and Mr. Allen for coordinating the event. They appreciate all the parent support and volunteers. The fifth graders will be celebrating their last day of school as well. They're proud of
066all they've learned and accomplished. Um and they wish the P uh folks wish the fifth graders the very best in the future at party. The party PTO hosted a donuts with grown-ups. Why I miss this? I have no idea cuz I love donut. No, I'm just kidding. So Elise was heavily involved in that. Have pictures coming as well. that event. Um students, staff, parents, and other family members came together for a treat uh to spend some time outside. Hardio would be having their fifth grade promotion ceremony as well um and celebrating the fifth grade um work that they've done and sending them off to the middle school. We're proud of them and wish them the very best of luck as they move forward. >> Mr. Klein Hansen, excuse me. Can I just say something about
067the pictures that will be forthcoming? So, I attended the event um for my granddaughter Charlotte and um there were two youngsters walking around with cameras and I have to say I saw the pictures posted on social media. We have some future photographers on our hands. They are excellent pictures. I was very impressed. I just wanted to say that. I don't know who they were, but they're two littles walking around with 35mm digital cameras. Just snap it away. >> Very nice. Yes. party. Students and staff enjoyed amazing field day. Many thanks to the PTO president, Elise Devanovic. So, Elise, good job. And her many parent student volunteers as well as Miss Kim Fernandez for organizing such an awesome event at the school. Ob best, a beautiful eighth grade formal. Thank you to Trista Jacobs for the
068work that she did in that and the whole parent group. I was in here that evening. It looked it didn't look like a cafeteria. It really they really spiffed this place up. Um put so much time and effort into it. The dance and paid attention to many of the details. The band concert was nothing short of phenomenal. Was very creative and whimsical. Uh it was held last uh week Tuesday and then today they had some PBS activities scheduled. They had students out and so just a lot of uh unique things going on at the high school. Again, graduation I already spoke to that uh from Mr. Mlette. Teamwork from everyone created a great night for the whole school community. Prom was great. The war memorial in Gross Farms was a perfect setting. The kids and
069staff look great. Thank you to Dr. Prince and Mr. Sod for a great night. In the athletics area, the first annual athletic award show was was held this past Monday. It went great. Lots of support from the community. It was fun watching the individual athletes earn muchdeserved awards. For spring sports, all conference, we had three baseball players, three softball, four track, one golf, one soccer, and we had three a three athletes earn all state in track and field. Janette Rigggins in shotput. And I mess up these names. I apologize. Tyrone Thomas and high jump and Isiah Mooney in long jump. So, congratulations to those individuals as spring sports wraps up. And if um I think they've already started some practices for the fall, so I saw some kids out. I'm like, it's a little early,
070but that's what they do. In our EL program, our ESL adult ed classes have been a success. So part of the section 41 grant um was built into the grant approved by the state of Michigan and you have to offer some community programming is Nearmont has set up these adult ESL classes. The program um in district 7 provides our multilingual families with valuable opportunities to strengthen their English language skills, increase their confidence, and become more active participants in their children's education. So that's the key part. Parents are deeply appreciative of this opportunity because it helps them communicate effectively, support their children's academic success and access to community resources and pursue personal and professional goals. The program not only benefits the individual families but also also strengthens our partnership between homeschool and the broader community. So
071done a good job with that program as well. Okay. And Scott special ed. >> So I'd like to put out a big congratulations to HR administrative assistant Holly Nichols at the board office. She completed her Michigan School Business Officials human resource specialist certification program. It took her uh gosh about 18 months to do it. Uh a lot of classwork and she worked hard to do that and that helps her do her job even more effectively than she already does. She's a great asset to the district. And then uh with graduation the other night, I just want to acknowledge two of the Annapolis resource room teachers, Daniel Mlehaney and August Smith. Uh they're exceptional educators, very compassionate, and uh it was so remarkable to see the kindness and support that they gave two of our graduates
072with special needs cross the stage safely because they were both very sensitive to loud sound. Uh they held their hand, they walked them slowly across and uh it's just a great thing to to see. So, thank you to Alga, thank you to Daniel, and thank you to the entire special ed team for always going above and beyond to support our students with the most significant needs. Thank you. And so, I just want to wish our staff, students, and families a safe and restful summer. I'm very proud of the good things that we're doing here at D7 and want to thank all those that support our school district. So, thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Next up, other business. Do we have any other business? >> Um, yes. I would I'd like to um just
073congratulate all of the graduates that graduated. Um, it was a wonderful ceremony. Um, however, I have to do I have to say I am deeply disappointed in the lack of support from staff. Um there was a handful of elementary school teachers there. I understand there was also an event to middle I believe it was middle school's Cedar Point trip. So I I do know that that event was scheduled. Um I would ask that we refrain from scheduling events on graduation night um from other schools. Um I was disappointed in the lack of high school teachers that were there. I know our district is not in the best shape right now and that we've had to make very um harsh hard cuts. Um I just want to speak and say if you have an issue with
074the board and you have an issue with the cuts that are being made um in the district, take it out on us. Take it out on the superintendent. But for God's sakes, do not take it out on the students. They deserve support. Um, in the four years that I've attended the graduation ceremony, this was the least amount of staff that I have seen at at the graduation and it was just highly disappointing. I know people have personal lives and things like that. Um, but these kids worked so hard and you know, you as teachers worked so hard to get them there and then to not show up for them was just I have to say I highly disappointed. highly disappointed. Um, graduation is on the calendar at the beginning of the year. I think everybody
075should put it on their calendar and um, make every effort to get there for those students that work so hard. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. All right. Do we have any committee updates at this time? It says none. Go ahead. >> No, finance. Um, >> oh, I'm sorry. Building a site earlier. >> It does say update. Go ahead. >> Um, oh, it does say. >> It does. >> Okay. So, we met finance committee met on June 3rd, 6:30 p.m. Board office. President was myself, trustees, superintendent Kleinhands, and business manager uh Dr. Ginger. Uh, absent Trustee Dyro. Uh the main focus of that was just pretty much getting ready for this uh presentation which is 2526 budget and 2627. Uh big thing that was discussed was with regards to the million dollars from the capital outlay.
076So that way we would not have a fund balance that is highly triggering the state to um want to look into our finances. I mean they still will. I meant just not in a dictatorship. Um the other thing that we uh also talked about was the state 8 note that has to go in by I think July 1st. So that was one thing that we also discussed at that meeting. Um there was no community comments. Um the the really important thing that I really was saying on the next meeting right now tendedly planned is 2 weeks after our student fall final count. So that way the committee can bring up to the whole board how is our student count. So that's the goal to to avoid missing that. Um and then we adjourned at 8:10
077p.m. >> Okay. Thank you. Anyone questions? >> Okay. Thank you. Uh let's see. No other updates yet. Um others go ahead. >> Um is two weeks enough time to have the count? >> Oh yeah. So that we we went back and forth on that. So we have the final count and after the final count, whatever date that is, then there is a duration of absentee students, Mr. Klein's report. So that's why we figured approximately 2 weeks after that, we should have the numbers by now. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> So I can just if a student's absent on count day, they have a 10-day window that they show up that we can count them. >> Okay. All right. No building and site scheduled, no finance scheduled, and no policy scheduled as of this date. Okay.
078Next up, public comment number two. Do we have any public comments? Feel free to step on up. State your name and affiliation. >> I did two different days at the senior center with the fifth graders and they came to ask us questions what it was like in our time. Mhm. >> Um what were our favorites, you know, but it was really good cuz we had good groups of kids and uh one of the groups that I had, they have been here since um preschool. >> So there's one group through a fifth grade. So it was very it was fun. It was just a great day and it was a heartwarming experience. >> So and Miss Elise was there too. So thanks. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Oh, okay. On to kudos. Who's got kudos?
079Syra. >> Sure. >> To Heather Welch from Danielle Osborne dated May 27th. Thank you for your dedication, guidance, and support as our district reading coach. Your patience, knowledge, and encouragement help both students and us as staff grow each day. The positive impact you make through your hard work and commitment to literacy does not go unnoticed. I truly appreciate all that you do to inspire and help make our reading instruction better. To um district 7 from Jennifer Fean dated May 12th, thank you to everyone who came out and supported the theater productions at Annapolis High School. Every year the kids put on these shows and it brings them so much joy to see the faces of their teachers in the audience. It means so much to them and to everyone who works on the shows. Miss
080Sunberger and Miss Feynan are forever thankful for your support. Come see the Annapolis Kids in their shows next year. The show does go on. To Tracy Shy from Danielle Osborne, thank you for inspiring cur curiosity, creativity, and problem solving in our students each day. Your passion for STEM and hands-on learning creates exciting opportunities for students to explore, discover, and grow. We appreciate the time, energy, and innovation you bring to our school community. Thank you for encouraging students to think big, ask questions, and believe in their abilities. To Holly Nichols from Jennifer Fine, thank you for all your help with the front of house and fan mail for the kids and the show. It takes many hands to make like light work and you help make the play a great experience for the kids. Thank you
081so much to you and Taylor Joe, a corpse. Yet again, you are appreciated. >> To Brian Sturgeon from Daniel Osborne and Samantha Rose, dated May 27th, thank you for always helping in our classroom when we need it. A big thank you for setting up the chairs and hanging the banner each month for the student of the month assemblies. Your hard work, positive attitude, and dedication do not go unnoticed. We truly appreciate the way you always step up and support PULK. Thank you for everything you do each day to help keep things running smoothly. To Allison Lefrev from the Pulk family dated May 15th, Mrs. Lefre wrote a grant and Pulk Elementary School was one of 220 schools from 38 states across the country to receive the $5,000 grant through the Laura Bush Foundation for America's
082Libraries. The funds will allow us to update, diversify, and expand our library for all of our students. Thank you for always going above and beyond for our students. To Elizabeth Ortwine from Danielle Osborne, dated May 27th, thank you for sharing your creativity, talent, and passion with our students each day. The joy and confidence you bring out in students through art is truly special. Your hard work, patience, and ability to inspire creativity make such a positive impact on our school community. We appreciate all that you do and the colorful, welcoming environment you help create for everyone. Okay, this one to Amanda Stagger from Jennifer Fein, dated 512, 2026, for always being supportive and working your tail off for the teachers, the students, and the district. You do an incredible amount of work for this district that
083people think has always been done. That's the magic. You're the best and we are blessed and lucky to have you. # squad # ride or die >> to Allison Le, >> what did you say her last name? Lever. >> Le Fever. Okay. From Danielle Osborne, dated May 27, 2026. Thank you for all that you do as our media specialist. Your dedication to creating a welcoming, safe space for learning, reading, and exploration makes such a positive impact on students and staff. We appreciate the creativity, organization, and kindness you bring each day. Thank you for encouraging the love of books, technology, and learning throughout our school community. >> To Brad Allen from Danielle Osborne, May 27th, 2026. Thank you for all the energy, encouragement, and positivity you bring to our students each day during PE. Your dedication
084to keep students active, engaged, and confident make such a difference in our school community. We appreciate the patience, teamwork, and enthusium enthusiasm you bring to every class. Thank you for helping our students learn the importance of healthy habits, sportsmanship, and having fun. to Carrie Brand from Jennifer Fi Fein May 12th, 2026. Thank you for cleaning up our messes and making sure this place is ready for company. You help with the auditorium and that stinky rug was immeasurable. I know we can always count on you to make this place lovely. You are the best and we appreciate you. All right, I got to Val Kristofferson from Daniel Osborne dated uh May 27th, 2026. Thank you for your dedication, guidance, and uh support as our district's math coach. Your patience, knowledge, and encouragement help both students and
085us as staff grow each day. The positive impact you make through your hard work, and commitment to math does not go unnoticed. I truly appreciate all that you do to inspire and help make our math instruction better. And I cannot begin to express my thanks for all of the hard work and guidance during our math curriculum pilot. Um to Dan Daniela Wright from Danielle Osborne dated May 27th, 2026. Thank you for bringing music, energy, and joy into our school each day. Your passion and dedication help students build confidence, creativity, and the love of music that will stay with them for years to come. We appreciate all the time, patience, and heart you bring into your classroom. Thank you for making such a positive impact on our school community. >> All right. To Megan Sears from
086Jennifer Fan, dated May 12, 2026 for supporting and helping with the school's play. This this murder was staged. Your assistance behind the curtain and in front of the house meant everything. Thank you for helping take the load. You are the best. To Mafa >> JMA >> Y >> from Jennifer Fein dated March 12th, 2026. Thank you for all you do in the in your classroom to help improve student learning and attendance. The personal attention you put into your room and re reward system is amazing and your attention to teaching is great. I wonder when you sleep. You're lucky to have you. And I just want to say a couple kudos. The graduation to everyone that helped with the graduation from Mr. Kleinhands to to Mr. Mallette to Mr. Canerum and the special ed um staff
087that showed up, the staff that was there, everyone. You guys were amazing. And there was a lot of last minute things that you guys had to do and I appreciate it. Um, and I I do appreciate those that showed up and show up every year, but it it was it was wonderful. And each year we've got a newer team doing graduation, right? So, each year it's improved and it it was it was great. Um, also to Mr. Buchanan, the awards banquet awards. That was great. I loved how he did the videos. He had videos for each coach and then he'd stop the video and they'd pop the name up and it was I thought it was great. I hope that expands and um you know we move forward with that. I thought it was great.
088So I just want to say kudos to that. >> I I would like to second that. And I just want you to know as I was telling um Trustee Anderson, those videos, those people did not know who was being announced. >> Oh, nice. >> They were given a script to read and that was it. >> Yeah, they it was great. I loved it. I loved it. So, all right. Anyone? Anyone? Okay. Close session. Pursuant to review of legal opinion, be it so resolved that the board of education goes into close session at we'll call it. You guys want a few minutes? Same want to do like 8:30. Does that sound good? 8:25ish. Okay. At 8:25 for review of legal opinion, attorney client priv privilege. May I have a motion? So >> moved by trustee Lindless.
089Sorry. >> Support of trustee Belowski. Um questions, comments? Uh I just want to make a comment. So we are going to go into close session. Um Superintendent and Mr. Armstrong are going to leave. We're going to come back and just, you know, wrap it up. So I just don't want you guys to have feel like you have to sit around cuz we're just going to come and and leave for the day. Okay. So um All right. May roll call, please. >> Trusty Stavanovic. Yes. >> Trusty Wall. >> Yes. >> Trusty Wless. >> Yes. >> Trusty Anderson. >> Yes. >> Trusty Beltowski. Yes. Trusty Dyroth. >> No. >> Trusty Sterling. >> Yes. Motion carries. All right. See you guys in the room back there. >> Yeah.