001meeting to order at 7 o'clock. We can all repeat the um mission statement together. Our mission is to inspire and empower our students to reach their full potential through opportunities and experiences in a safe, diverse, and collaborative environment. Mr. Wall, will you please lead the pledge of allegiance to the flag to the republic which stands one indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call, please. Trusty Anderson, present. Trusty Belowski, present. Trusty Dyro. Trustee Sterling, present. Trusty Stephanovic present. Trusty Wall present. Trusty Wless present. Thank you. We have a quorum. The adoption of the agenda. So be it so resolved that the board of education accepts the May 21st, 2025 agenda as presented. A board member may request an item be moved from the consent agenda to superintendent recommendations. May I have a
002motion? So moved. Moved by Trust Trustee Wall. Support. Supported by Trusty Sterlin. Roll call. Any questions or comments? Roll call, please. Trusty Anderson, yes. Trusty Sterlin, yes. Trusty Steanovic, yes. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Wless, yes. Trusty Bowski, yes. Motion carries. We are moving on to public comment on agenda items. Do we have any public comment on agenda items only? Seeing Seeing none at this time, we are moving on to superintendent reports. Mr. Klein hand. Thank you. We have uh four items this evening. Uh the first item is just to remind everybody that the AHS commencement ceremony is Thursday, June 5th, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. at the Taylor Sportslex. It's a wonderful event. I'm looking forward um to it. I was uh during my um points of pride I'll be talking about last night and about
003our honor society, but I know that I've had a couple seniors that they walked up and said, "The next time you'll see me is at graduation." I'm like, "Okay, sounds great." They're really excited. So, um so it's exciting time for the entire class. Uh the budget hearing, um I'll read the uh public notice of the uh public hearing of the Dearborn Heights School District number 7. Please take notice that on Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 at 6 p.m. at OW Best Middle School 22201 Powers, Dearbornne Heights, Michigan, the Board of Education, Dearborn Heights School District number 7 will hold a public hearing to consider the district's proposal of the 202526 property tax millage rate. The board may not adopt its proposed 2526 property tax millage rate until after the public hearing. The public tax millage rate
004proposed to be levied to support the 2526 budget will be the subject of this hearing. The notice is given by the order of the board of education. So just a reminder to everyone and take care of that notice. And then uh the next item number three is the superintendent annual evaluation. We have June 18th, but I'd like to take a minute and just pull the board. Uh Jeremy's not available on the 18th, but he is on the 17th. Can we check our calendars to see if uh if we can make an adjustment? We would go the same time uh 6:00 and we would do that here and we would do that in um typically we we aren't open and then we go into close in the conference room. Lee, are you available? Mr. Wolf. Mr.
005Liny. Yep. Miss Limless. Uh, can you skip me? Uh, Miss Anderson. Yes. Uh, did you say the 17th? 17th. That's a Tuesday. Yes. Okay. We can move that to the 17th then. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone. And then the final um item is the building and site meeting minutes. And I'll turn it over to Mr. Wall. I I have a question. Can we wait till we get a confirmation from Mandy that she's available on the 17th as well before we move that? Yeah, I can do that. We haven't taken any action on it. Just put in that. Yes. So, our building and site, we met on May 14th, Wednesday, at 8:16 p.m. In attendance were Did you get the copies? Did you pass them on already? No. They're underneath your There they
006are. Sorry. So, you guys will just listen to me first and then I'll pass it out after. He's got holes in it. Makes it easier to add it to our folder. You may proceed. Okay, take two. Building and site committee met on May 14th, Wednesday at 8:16 p.m. Uh because it was after one of at the um study session. In attendance was trustee Wall, myself, Trusty Sterling, Trustee Stanovic. Did I say it right? Oh, yay. Okay. And then uh Superintendent Klein Hands, and director of operations Steve Gary. Not present were community members Pat Grea, Virginia Morgan, and Shannon Powowski. With the old business, uh, with the pulk and party HVAC system, um, there was pole ahead work that's going to begin on May 26, and the whole purpose of that is so that DTE will
007have more time to do their part, so there won't be delays like we kind of experienced with the Bedford um, HVAC situation. And, um, this will not interfere with the classes inside. And the goal is for not to interfere with drop off for pickup. Yes, Mr. Clients. Can I give a just a quick update on that if everybody's comfortable with that? So, the company came in Monday. They marked some areas. They walked the building two or three times. Um, there's been a move in where the service is coming in. Um, and so I did talk to the owner of the company for the pull ahead work and he believes that uh this Friday they'll uh begin their actual work. um there are no students in the district, so it's a great time. They need to
008tunnel underneath the playground and they would do that work then and then along the back side. So, um we're hoping that there'll be minimal disruption in the front of the building um from what I got from him today. So, hopefully that's the case. Great. Thank you. for the Bedford site playground. Uh superintendent brought us to committee the option of the turf versus the uh planned porn and play. Um the turf would not cost any additional to the district whereas before it may it could potentially have had happened. Um, but some of the difference is the porn and play has a 2-year installation warranty and a 5year on the product. Whereas the porn and play has eight years to both the installation and the product, but the product has a limited warranty warranty up to 20
009years. So after year eight, it's prorated after that. Um, committee has agreed to send the approval to the school board on the turf base over the porn play. The other part of the Bedford site project was uh the estimate for the lighting was at a 100,000 and found to be underpriced. They could have done it with lights, less lights where they were adjusted on an angle. So then that way the problem was though there would be lights going into the neighborhood. Uh committee did not like that idea. So, in return, um, they went, uh, were asking for the board to approve the bid for the light fixtures to shine down on the parking lot and onto the neighborhood, but the funds would still stay within the building site/saking funds. For the new business, uh, the
010party playground proposal that was led by Mr. Klein hands regarding the project being funded by the capital projects general fund. The estimate cost was $336,626 which was part of the discussion that uh be used from the $500,000 from the 25 26 year as discussed on the prior building and site meeting and also with the board. The committee agreed to move forward to seek approval with the school board and there was discussion on different fencing and repositioning of the basketball court and it was felt that there would be nom nominal price change with that fencing. With other business, uh the cement work, the director of operator operations is seeking bids for the cement work in our school district. The high school cafe replacement of the tables and chairs in the high school cafeteria is approximately $71,96
011with the cougar logo on some of the tables. The committee agreed to place the request for the board approval and funds would be coming from the cafeteria fund the high school light project. There was discussion by the director of operations on options for replacing the lighting in the cafeteria with either retrofitting the lights at $8,249 or replacing with new fixtures at $10,383. The committee was in agreement to put the approval towards the board or request for approval from the board to go to new fixtures and the funds would be coming out of general fund. landscaping the there was discussion on um trying to appropriate approximately thousand dollars to each school property to enhance their landscape appearance or appeal. Uh superintendent um has met with MSAB landscaping to get ideas for each school. The party lockers,
012there were two quotes obtained on replacing the lockers at party school at 30,000 and 35,000. more to come with from a future building a site meeting. The secret garden, there was ideas uh brought up about reclo relocating the big stones from the secret garden to different school parks in our district as potential sitting areas and plans are for more discussion on that. Public comment, there was none. Next meeting is to be determined and our meeting adjourned that same evening at 9:44 p.m. Any questions? Yes. Um, which tables are getting the logos and which ones are not? The round tables will have the logos, the rectangular ones and the tall tables will not. Okay. Where do the rectangle tables go? Yeah. So, um, in the board in your board packet, I seen the picture next to
013the exhibit, the back page has a layout of the, um, seating. from third and last page. Yeah, it's right there. Oh, this one. Yeah. So, the long tables are in the main part and this little breakout area is that what do we call that? The the al cove. The al cove on the side. So, the round tables go in the middle and one over here and in the al cove and the round tables are the ones that have the panther on it and then these the tall ones and the el or the cougar. What did I say? Panther. Wow. I knew what you meant. I haven't been an Elma Panther in years, so I don't know where that came from. Pulp Panthers. That's what it was. Yes. And then the tall these are tall tables.
014The Okay. In the Elco. Yep. And then what did we put logos on the rectangle tables? Do they not come with logos or Yeah. When I talked to the um the design guy, he said that might be a little much to have them on every table. And so the logo kind of fits right. Well, you see the picture of the wrong. Yeah. Maybe he said too busy looking. Okay. But will the rectangular tables be blue? Yeah. I've asked for um blue chairs. They'll be uh they'll be this granite top. Uhhuh. Yeah. And uh they'll be like that for all of them. And then what's the timeline on this project? So, if you guys approve this, this will certainly give uh the company enough time to get everything ordered and get it here for the start
015of school. Oh, really? Okay. So, can I So, go ahead. I'm done. So, for the tables, because I did ask that, okay, you know about me with the school colors, right? So, um like he said, the tables are going to be the chairs will be blue, the tables will be this grayish color. Um because the logos that will help them pop out otherwise the logos were going to get lost in Oh, I was talking about the tables without the logos, the long tables. Those are going to be the same gray color. Correct. That way it wouldn't look too The thought is it might look too much like too crazy. And we also talked about if we had for whatever reason to like uh repair replacement that it would be Oh, sorry. We talked about also
016like it would be easier to find something like this if we had to make replacements as well. That was something that was brought up about finding this color or whatever as well. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Mr. Wall. Thank you. Moving on to superintendent recommendations. Letter A, first reading of proposed, revised, and reissued board policies. Exhibit one in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the first reading of proposed, revised, and reissued NEOLA board policies as presented. 0155, committees. Bylaw 0163, Presiding Officer PO 5330, use of medication. PO8500 food services. May I have a motion? So moved. Moved by Trusty Serini. Support. Supported by Trusty Wall. Any pro comments or questions? I have a question. Yes. Um is Paul's title director of dining services? Is that who that
017is? I'm sorry. Can you repeat that? Is that who that's referring to? Yes. Okay. I just wanted to know if that was his title. Thank you. That's a unique title. It's It is a unique title. So, I just didn't know if that was his actual title in like within district. Yeah, let me get to that. I think we could change that to his actual title. Yeah, I would like that to be his actual title. Yeah, just so that when we're reading this, we know exactly who we're talking about and who to go to. Um, it's page five. Page five. Thank you. Thank you. I think um in the recommendation that was the language and I when I was typing it in there I thought other than that these look great. Great job policy committee. Thank
018you. Good job. All right. Roll call, please. Trusty Sterling? Yes. Trusty Steanovic? Yes. Trusty Wall? Yes. Trusty Winless? Yes. Trusty Anderson? Yes. Trusty Bowski? Yes. Motion carries. Moving on to letter B. Designation of Dearborn Heights School District number seven Wayne Reese's election representative and votes for candidates and votes for candidates on first ballot. Whereas number one the bianial election of the board of the Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, RHSA will be held on Monday, June 2nd, 2025. And number two, the members of the RSA board will elect be elected by an electoral body composed of one person designated by the board of each of the constituent school districts. And three, in accordance with section 380.6142 6142 of the revised school code. This board must now adopt a resolution which designates its representative to the
019electoral body and directs said representative to vote on behalf of this school board for the specific candidates this board supports for each position to be filled on the RISA board at least on the first ballot taken by the electoral body. Now therefore, be it resolved that one, this board does hereby approve the designation of Mary Beth Belttowski as the representative of this board for the electoral body and Lesie Windless as an alternate in the event of the designated representative is unable to attend. Which body will elect one candidate to the vacancy on the Rhysa board on Monday, June 2nd, 2025? The designated representative is further directed to cast a vote on the first ballot on behalf of the board for candidate blank and blank. All resolutions and parts of resolutions in so far as they
020conflict with the provisions of the resolution B and the same are hereby rescended. The undeid and duly qualified and actric act acting secretary of the board of education of district number seven. I believe that should say Dearborn Heights District number 7. That should say Dearborn Heights District number seven. Hereby certifies that the foregoing is a true and complete copy of a resolution adopted by the board at a regular meeting held on Wednesday, May 21st, 2025. The original of which resolution is a part of the board's minutes and further certifies that notice of the meeting was given to the public under the Open Meetings Act 1976 PA267 as amended. May I have a motion? So moved. Moved by Trusty Winless. May I have support? Supported by Trustee Anderson. Time for discussion. questions. So, we have two
021candidates, correct? Yes. You've had an opportunity to read those bios. Okay. So, it's just an open discussion at this time. Um if this board so chooses to have these two individuals be um who the design votes for on the first ballot. And I do believe we are that there is room on this ballot for two. Yes. votes here. So really there's I will the candidates. Yes, I'm going to read that next. Well, I mean unless we decide we don't want anything. That would be the other thing. Just because they say, you know, there's open seats, the likelihood obviously they get one vote, they're in, right? But if we don't agree with the people, you still can say we don't do that. I love Jimberry. Do I was going to ask you, you know these guys?
022Yeah, these are great guys. You like them both? Yeah. Okay, I'm good with that. Any other discussion? I'm good because of the profiles I've seen. I'm happy with them. Yeah, I couldn't find anything on her. I did find anything. Well, to have the to have the MSP president award, that's pretty good. Yeah, I didn't but I didn't know what his service was. And the National Association, National School Board Association Distinguished Service Award. Those are some pretty high honors. Yes. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. I'm familiar with that one. I know. Okay. So, I'm going to read the resolution now. Therefore, be it resolved that this board does hereby approve the designation of Mary Beth Beltski as a representative of this board for the electoral body and Leslie Winless as an alternate in the event
023of the designated representative is unable to attend. Which body will elect one candidate to the vacancy on the RHA board on May Monday, June 2nd, 2025? The designated representative is further directed to cast a vote on the first ballot on behalf of the board of education for candidates James Barry and Linda Jackson. All resolutions and parts of resolutions in so far as they conflict with the provisions of the resolution B and the same are hereby rescended. The undersigned duly qualified and acting secretary of the board of education of Dearborn Heights district number seven, Michigan hereby certifies that the foregoing is true and complete copy of a resolution adopted by the board at a regular meeting held on Wednesday, May 21st, 2025, the original of which resolution is a part of the board's minutes and further
024certifies that notice of the meeting was given to the public under the open meetings act 1976 PA267 as amended. Roll call, please. Trusty Sterlin. Yes. Trusty Stavanovic. Excuse me. Oh, question. I had a question. Okay. So, on the one part it says we'll elect one candidate to the vacancy, but yet there's two names. I just want to make sure. Is that correct? I was just wondering if there was something I didn't miss on missing. That's the way the resolution read. Correct, Mark. Correct. Okay. I just want to make sure. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for asking that question. Thanks. because I was wondering it as I was wondering that as I was reading it. Okay, roll call, please. Trusty Sterling, yes. Trusty Stavanovic, yes. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Willings, yes. Trusty Anderson, yes. Trusty Bowski,
025yes. Motion carries. Letter C, vote on proposed Wayne Rhysa budget, exhibit number two. Be it resolved that in accordance with section 380.624 624 of the revised school code. This board must now adopt a resolution expressing its support or disapproval of the proposed Wayne Resa budget and must submit to Wayne Resa board any specific objections and/or proposed changes the board may have to the budget prior to June 1st, 2025. Therefore, be it resolved that please check one of the following options. the Wayne Reese general fund operating budget for the 2025 2026 school year be supported and that the secretary of the board is hereby directed to submit a copy of this resolution to the secretary of the Wayne Reesa board of education along with comments or the Wayne Reesa general fund operating budget for the 2025
0262026 school year be disapproved for reasons attached here too and that the secretary of the board is hereby directed to submit a copy of this resolution to the secretary of the Wayne of board of education along with any specific objections or proposed changes to the budget. The undersigned duly qualified and acting secretary of the board of education of district again that should say Dearborn Heights district number seven Michigan hereby certifies that the foregoing is a true and complete copy of resolution adopted by the board at a meeting held on May 21st 2025 the original of which resolution is a part of the board's minutes and further certifies that notice of the meeting was given to the public under the open meetings act 1976 PA267 as amended. May I have a motion? So moved. Moved by
027Trusty Windless. Support. Supported by Trusty Wall. Discussion. I'm in for approval. Thank you. Was that your discussion? Yeah. I mean, yes. Um I I have a hard time with this. I don't know. I guess after taking that Resa class, um I'm not even I mean can you tell us in quickly like what what are we what are we getting from Free Subur like what are they providing because they have a $26 million expenditure. That's $26 million to me that can go to schools. You got to remember it's Wayne County. I get I understand that but that's still there's not a lot of schools in the way in the resale. There's not a lot of I mean there is but I don't know like I I'm just there's a lot of schools there is a lot
028of schools I dearborn was 10 times our size already I I just I don't know I'm just on the So um there is a Did you get a copy of this? This was in the last passed out the last Did we get a copy of this? Did this get to you guys? No, I had that. So there's information in in um I think there was discussion at the uh meetings that they had online. I sat through the first one as this is presented but there are dollars that flow through their federal dollars that go through Wayne Resa and come to us and act 18. Um there's also dollars that uh come through IDA of course our millillage um the millillage that was just countywide enhancement millillage that was just passed. Those dollars flow through us
029to through the county to us. Um we get some Medicaid uh dollars that come through us from federal re really the dollars are more flow through uh Tanya than than dollars that Wayne Resa collects and gives to us except for the um the enhancement millage. So it's money that comes from the feds primarily for special education programming to the district. Okay. And at one time we had somebody from Rha that was working for us, helping for us that we didn't have to pay for initially too that I recall in the past. I don't know if that was during Mr. Kleinhands or before, but but we did have some RISA somebody coming in from RSA helping us out with something. I feel like any teacher or replacements that we've had we've paid for. It wasn't a
030teacher. It was it was another type of position or something like that they came in for free. Mhm. I don't remember a um position per se that they came for free for, but I do remember them coming to the citizen advisory committee for free and I do remember them coming to um the policy committee for free and then I know they help a lot with our technology. Um but I thought we paid for technology a lot of that help. I could be that could be wrong. that I'm not positive on. Yes, we do pay for services um as part of the consortium for technology in the county. Um and and it's not like a dollar for dollar. They have folks at Wayne Resa that run the whole system. They are very helpful. Like the one
031day when everything went down, um they were on the phone with Shaheen non-stop. I mean, we do get really good service from that department here um at D7. And so, um, that's just an example of one situation, but they do support a lot of the PD, a lot of the training for our teachers. They do a lot of that work, right? Um, I've been very pleased. I go to um I either go to the I I can't make the superintendent meetings every Friday because there's a lot going on on Fridays. Um, but if if you can't make the one on Fridays, which I I made a couple of them or a few of them this year, then they have a follow-up one on Monday that I can do virtually that I go to. So, for
032me, that's very helpful. Um, but overall the it's and this is typical across the state of Michigan. ISDs, that's what they were called, now they're called REIAs. Some of them are RISAs. It's basically flow through money that flows through from the feds to the to the ISD or the RHA and then out to the school districts. It does state here that a projected budget of over $874 million. Their budget includes more than $729 million that is distributed to local districts and agencies. And there are 33 public school districts and 96 schoolmies that they service. there. And I've seen reports where we get money coming in from Resa too at different times, too. Yeah. Miss Windless, how do you feel? Um, I would vote to approve it. Anderson, I will vote to approve it. And you
033said yes. You said yes. I'll probably be a big no, but you got your four. Okay. Okay. Let me read the resolution again. Therefore, be it resolved that the Wayne Reese general fund operating budget for the 2025 2026 school year be supported and that the secretary of the board is hereby directed to submit a copy of this resolution to the secretary of the Wayne Resa board of education along with comments. Any more questions or comments? Roll call, please. Trusty Steinovic, yes. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Wless, yes. Trusty Anderson, yes. Trusty Sterlin, no. Trusty Belttowski, yes. Motion carries. Letter D, Bedford Site Project Turf, exhibit number three. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the recommendation of the building and site committee to install sinon turf instead of the pore and play surface
034for the designated areas as presented. The sinon turf is the same cost as the pore and play rubber. May I have a motion? So moved. Moved by Trusty Wall. Support. Supported by Trusty Sterling. Any questions or comment? Okay. Go ahead, Mr. Kleinhance. But then I do have a question. Okay. Can I do a little show and tell? You can do a little show and tell. Okay. So, I see you have it here. Yep. So, hopefully I'll have an answer for your questions. Um, so when this project was initially proposed, the sin lawn product was significantly more dollars. So when they originally proposed the Bedford project, they went with the pour and play rubber. And if you recall, we even scaled that back. So half that playground area is pour and play, the other half is
035wood chips. Okay, this product which is the sin lawn has come down significantly to the point where it's the same price as the porn plate. So when our rep Tyler from Little Tikes who we've um contracted with to purchase the equipment and the porn plate, he brought this to us and he said, "Mark, I want you to take a look at this. The primary there are a couple of good things about the installation and about this product. First of all, the warranty on this is I want to make sure I can get that right. Install is 8 years. Um, and the the actual the product is eight years. With the porn and play, it was two years for the install and 5year for the product. So, for the same amount of money, we're getting um
036more warranty out of it. And then, as Derek said, it is prrated from year 8 to year 20. That's number one. Number two, the pour and play when they pour it, the conditions have to be the weather conditions have to be um well because they're they're pouring rubber, right? Molten rubber in the area and putting it down. With this stuff, that's not the case. So, if we have a really wet summer, um that wouldn't be an issue. It might be an issue in other parts of the project, right? If they're moving dirt and all of that kind of stuff. So, that's good. The ease of installation is good. And one of the reasons why I really liked it is that you can see so the way that it works is at Bedford they will dig
037down the Al's ashvault that's the contractor that's doing all the work they're once they dig down and prep the area they're done. Then Little Tikes comes in they put the stone between the stone and and the styrofoam it's a foot. So, stone, styrofoam, and then the turf is on top. Now, if you look, this has drain holes in it. And as you can see, the turf has the drain holes in it. Okay. Now, I was concerned, I'll say this here, about a little kid playing on it and getting sick. I was worried about that. um worried about pets being not worried about those types of things. So, a couple of protectants for that is this in this little vial is antimicrobial. I struggle with that word sand that gets spread throughout this and every five,
038six years you redo the sand, which isn't a major expense, but um you want to make sure that this is throughout this surface. It has little nap right underneath and this that's what holds the sand. Okay. So, the other piece that I really liked about it is they have what's called safe areas. So, where the kids come down the slides and in the swing areas they have the blue turf and you teach the students that um that area is a safe area for kids that are on the equipment. So, you should really stay out of those areas. The other thing that I liked about this is where those safe areas are, that's going to get most of the rubbing and the traction eventually after, you know, 3, four, 5 years of kids swinging on it.
039This stuff's going to wear. This and this is going to wear. So what they do is in those safe zones when the product starts to wear then they just cut out where the blue is and they put a new new in. So um so pretty slick product. Again the price of this was much more back to if someone gets sick or if there's a pet they actually use this for um pet parks and basically if there's a mess or if a kid gets sick you simply clean it up. um you pick up um whatever's on it and they it comes with a cleaning solution. You spray it, let it sit, and then you spray it down with water and so that that takes care of that. So, this meets all the requirements for the fall
040zone, all of those issues. Um I just thought it was a pretty slick product. Um and I was more intrigued by the um warranty questions. Yes, please. Thank you for answering the fall zone. It it meets licensing requirements. Yep. Okay. Um the second thing I have question is is accessibility. The thing with the pour and play is it is a flat surface. So a um wheelchair or a stroller or a wagon has easy access on the pore and play. This seems like it's not smooth. It's kind of like a turf or a grass. Mhm. What is the ease of I guess my point is if we're making building an accessible playground, handicap accessible playground, but the ground covering isn't handicap accessible, what's the point? Yeah. So, this does meet all the ADA standards and um
041for for handicap and we did um I did ask that question specifically when I met with the reps and they the people wheelchairs, strollers, everything um is very smooth on this. So, they they don't have an issue that this is in parks all over the place. So, okay. Yeah. And my last question is you said before that it was going to be porn and play and wood chips. I thought it was going to be pour and play and rubber mulch that we had. No, no. Pour and play and wood chips. Okay. Is this going to just be all of this and no wood chips? Nope. This is going to be the same areas that were pouring play will now be sin lawn if you guys approve this. And then we'll still have wood chips. Yep.
042And this will be in the for the little kids area and then the larger kids area will have the wood chips. What part is access handicap accessible? This this area, the little kids area. That's where the quiet zone will be and where the swings and the um um Yeah. Y got it. Anybody else have any questions? We do have a flyer, a book if you want to pass it around. I was quite surprised in here they show a dog park. Okay, that makes sense. But um but yeah, I just I thought that this was a good opportunity to um you know to actually the warranty is probably probably the biggest seller. So I've heard that the porn and play after a while if it gets gouged and gets pick at it and it fades. Not
043that this won't fade because I'm sure it will, but um I just think that uh I would recommend that we go with this especially now it's the same cost. Right. Great. Roll call, please. Can I just Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Um, is there I I'm like right there with you with the wheelchair and I did ask that in the building site. But I mean because that's going to be soft, right? So we are Do they have anything? Do you think it's going to be soft or No, it's going to be hard. It's hard. Okay. Well, it won't. Okay. Yeah. Okay. But then how does that Derek punched it? Okay. If that's hard, then I fall off of the how am I going to not break my arm? It still meets the eight of all of
044the requirements. So, they wouldn't be able to sell it for for um playgrounds. Same with rubber though. The rubber is not that. Yeah. It's not like the rubber you're going to bounce off of it. Still a solid. Well, I'm just saying from experience when I've gone to playgrounds that have the pour in play. It is bounces. You bounce when you walk on it. It's not hard. There's give to it. So that's the whole point of when a child falls, they're going to have that give. You know what I'm saying? Just like with the rubber mulch, there's a lot of give because in licensing, you have to have so much so many inches of ground covering, okay? Whether it be rubber mulch or regular mulch, wood chips, pea gravel, whatever. There has to be so so
045much from the highest point of the structure to the fall. There has to be so many inches of that. And my question is, is this going to give enough like the other things do? I'm just going to ask the ground underneath that. That would be the other part of that. Okay. I'm good. Is that good? I think we're good. It's my OCD. Okay. Roll call, please. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Willis, yes. Trusty Anderson, yes. Trusty Sterlin, yes. Trusty Stavanovic, yes. Trusty Belowski, yes. Motion carries. Letter E. Bedford site project lighting exhibit 4. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the recommendation of the building and site committee to move forward with a bid proposal request for lighting fixtures. The monies will be derived from the sinking fund. May I have a motion?
046So moved. Moved by Trusty Sterlin. Support supported by trustee Anderson. Questions or comments? Mr. Klein. Thank you. So, um I just would like to reiterate what uh Mr. Wall had said. Um I went back to the architects when this bid came in and I said, "Give me another solution, one that will come closer to the $100,000 that the board approved." They spent I think it was two to three weeks uh looking at different designs, looking at um there's all kinds of testing that they have to do with the lighting um before it even gets to our before we can even approve it. Um and the solution and it it would have worked. It would have met the candle lights at the edges of the playground. The problem is to get that $100,000 solution, the lights
047would be tilted up. And the architects were very concerned because of the location that these lights are going in in a residential area. And after testing, after looking at that, they determined that that would meet the candle lights that you need to have. However, light would shine into uh people's homes. So that's I just want to reiterate that. So that's why the committee um is recommending this that the the lights that you would be approving shine straight down. So they don't matter of fact they're fixed straight down. There's pictures in the board packet. Any questions or comments? Roll call, please. Trusty Willis? Yes. Trusty Anderson? Yes. Trusty Sterling? Yes. Trusty Steanovic? Yes. Trusty Wall? Yes. Trusty Bowski? Yes. Motion carries. Letter F. Part D playground project exhibit five in your packet. Be it so resolved
048that the board of education approves the recommendation of the building and site committee to move forward with the proposed party D playground project as presented. The total cost of the project is $336,626 and monies will be derived from the capital projects general fund. May I have a motion? So moved. Moved by trustes Sterlin. Support. supported by trustee Stanovic. Questions or comments? Mr. Kleinhand. Sorry, talking way too much tonight. You're doing great. So, I just want to give everybody an update of this project. This is a cool project. So, um this is a major upgrade of the uh party playground. Um, we really worked hard to try to get this in to give the contractors and Little Tikes and all the folks involved enough time to pull this off. If you guys approve this, they probably
049will start with the party playground first because at the Bedford, they have to wait till that site's prepped before they can get in there. So, this includes this sin lawn product, not for the whole area, but because the large playscape in party playground, if you go over there right now, it's it's um what's the word I'm looking for? Wonky. It's There you go. That's a great word. It's wonky. It's where kids have come down over, you know, they've jumped down off the equipment and the stuff is settled a little bit. So, so the the sin lawn would remove all of the wonky um turf that's there now. Put in dig down, put in the stone, put in the product, put that down. And then it would also include, so that's quite a large area. It
050would also include an area going to the west. And that area would include some new play structures. And what they're looking at is um we were looking at two play structures. Now we may want to alter there's about 50,000 in that account for two play structures. Um we may want to look and those are for the littlest of littles. Well, they already have connected a little uh play structure there for the little ones. So in meeting with um some folks at party, they wanted us to look into possibly a a little bit larger play structure but under the same amount of money. So it wouldn't impact uh this proposal would include two inclusive swings and and uh to Mary Beth's point earlier that would be on this stuff and the rest of that just so
051everyone knows is wood chips um but the wood chips are already there so it it this is um this is just installing the sin lawn. Um two inclusive swings, two spring riders, a quiet grove similar to what we have going in over at Bedford. We'd also include two shaded areas right next to the party building which would include um awnings, uh seating areas, some benches, and concrete to fill that in. As you know, or if you've ever been back there on a rainy day that gets awful muddy and it kind of turns into a mess. So, this is right next to the building, the south end of party. And then if you walk over to the right, there's this I call it a pies-shaped area. Um, an awning would go up there with a bench
052as well, so people could sit there and look out on that part of the playground. Uh, we would relocate the basketball court. Currently, there's a uh call an NBA basketball uh court almost. It's huge, 100 ft. We measured it out. Um, an elementary playground basketball court. It's typically not that big. So, uh, what we would do is we would we would shift that, put in two new basketball courts, which this includes, and then we would fence off that entire west side, which is a major safety issue. So, um, it includes that um the B I talked about the basketball backboards, the fencing, and then we had a great idea. Alise brought this up at the, uh, building and site. Part of the area over to the west is this grassy area with two two trees.
053And what we thought would be a great use of those large stones in the victory garden. So Lisa's idea, so we'll give you credit, is we would move those over and create sitting areas in that kind of shaded tree shaded area in the grass uh with those stones. There's still many more stones um than what we would use there, but I really think that that's a great idea. So it's 336626. That's for everything included that comes out of the capital projects um general fund account and it's a pretty cool significant upgrade for RD playground questions or comments. Um it's not related to party but does Pulk have inclusive swings in their playground? Uh no they do not. So are they like next? Yeah. So we would look at that. What Pulp really wants is What
054about Madison? Madison we just put in I don't know necessarily about the swings. I know we put in a new that's how we connected with Little Tikes the commercial is they we put a new um play structure y in at Madison. So a couple of next steps the folks at Pulp the PTO and the students really want a a um zip line zip line. Yeah. So, um, but it's not a zipline like you're thinking zipline. Yeah. So, we would look at that and then we also know at Madison we have to do uh some shading areas, some awning. So, Tyler wanted to get through this project done and then once he gets once we're all set, he'll be waiting with anticipation. If you guys approve this tomorrow, then that will be our next um step
055is we'll look at a party. I I'd like to see the um playgrounds like more uniform so that regardless of where you go, you're getting the same play experience. Um that's one of the things we can control in the district to make it more similar to each other. Um that's it. Yeah. So I I our next Madison's first y with the shade and then uh party with the shading, right? Madison with shade after we get this approved. Okay. Next step is Madison and then we'll tackle P. Okay. Any more questions or comments? Roll call, please. Trusty Anderson, yes. Trusty Sterlin, yes. Trusty Stavanovic, yes. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Winless, yes. Trusty Battowski, yes. Motion carries. Letter G. Annapolis High School cafeteria project seating exhibit six. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves
056the bid for new Annapapolis High School's cafeteria tables as recommended by the building and site committee. These tables and chairs will replace the existing tables that have have the attach that have the attached chairs. The total cost for the new chairs and tables will be $71,531.98 and will be taken from the cafeteria fund as part of the spend down plan. May I have a motion? So moved. Moved by Trusty Wall. Support. Supported by Trusty Windless. Questions, comments. Miss Windless. Mr. Fleand school. He might answer my question. Okay. So um this is a um this idea came out of meetings and discussions. If you've been in the high school cafeteria, it is it's dark. It's dingy looking. And I think that has a lot to do with the old light fixtures, but also the seats are
057those round seats that are connected to the um tables. I sat in there for the pancake breakfast and I lasted about 15 minutes, but I'm an old guy, so um but it it really does need an upgrade. This is a huge upgrade to that area. It includes these seats and then the next uh would be lighting for that area. The new tables and chairs would be more like this style. Although, you know, in terms of the color would be different and the shapes and the sizes. Um, we're working with Manny from uh the company when he came in very responsive. He measured that whole area. He met with the administration, got the numbers that he would need for the lunches to make sure that we had enough seating in that area. Um, he also has
058um asked for our logo. We sent him our our JPEG picture of it, put it on there. um he did the layout. This is what his recommendation is. He thought it would be really cool to create this area kind of off in the al cove with a little bit taller tables. Um so it's 13 long tables, 10 rounds with the logo, three tall, 216 regular chairs, 12 tall tall chairs would be included. And then the logos would be included as well. And this is everything out the door delivery um setup. Of course, there's not going to be a lot of setup, but um that includes everything. The other piece that's not in here is that that company, those the tables and the chairs that we have in there are actually in really good shape. And
059so I talked to Manny. Um part of what they do is they take the old and then they um they take it to a re resale person. So they sell them. Um, and probably for a a smaller school or maybe an elementary or junior high, they would be pretty functionable because they're in great shape, but we would get um some dollars coming back in and we would just uh put the put that back in the general fund. That was my question. The tables are they are in good condition. So, that was my question. Thank you. That's why I wanted you to go first. Anybody else? Roll call, please. Trusty Sterling? Yes. Trusty Stavanovic? Yes. Trusty Wall? Yes. Trusty Windless? Yes. Trusty Anderson? Yes. Trusty Bowski? Yes. Motion carries. Letter H. AHS cafeteria project lighting exhibit
060number seven in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the building and site committee's recommendation of AHS cafeteria's light fixture replacement as presented. The total cost of new lights and fixtures is $10,383.7 and the monies will be derived from the general fund maintenance budget. May I have a motion? So move. Moved by trusty Sterlin. Supported by trustee windless. Questions, comments? Mr. Klein. Just very quickly, this is the second part. Um the committee I think made a great choice to recommend new fixtures as opposed to taking old fixtures and just retrofitting them. So, um, and the price difference was not that. Anybody else? Roll call, please. I was just going to say kudos for that decision because that that would have been my decision, too. So, good job, guys. Yeah, mine,
061too. Good job, guys. Roll call, please. Trusty Sterlin, yes. Trusty Stavanovic, yes. Trusty Wall. Trusty Willins, yes. Trusty Anderson, yes. Trusty Bowski, yes. Motion carries. Moving on to unfinished business. Do we have any unfinished business to come before the board? Seeing none new business. Does anybody have any new business to come before the board? I have one thing that I would like to recommend for us to think about. Our envelopes that our back packets come in. Um, how do you all feel about turning those back in so we can just reuse them instead of getting new envelopes every week, every other week? I I recycle mine. I use mine every time for recycling. Yeah, I do use my brother thing. I mean, like I don't put it in recycling. I like put all my envelopes
062and everything mail for recycling. Take my label off. It goes to Annapolis recycling thing. I have one in my car right now. So, I love them. I got one even better for you. Can y'all just email me the packet cuz I would prefer to not kill the trees. It's just something for us to think about. We can, you know, we can bring it up for discussion again when the full board is here. But I was just thinking that's just so many. I understand what you're saying about recycling, but I'm also thinking, you know, money, saving money. If we we recycle our, you know, if we don't have to use new folders and new envelopes and new manila folders every time that we have a meeting, you know, we could just turn them into Susan at
063the end of these meetings. Yes. Turn them into Susan and But if you still want to recycle yours, Mr. Wall, you'll get We will allow you to do [Laughter] that. I don't know why I closed my packet, but I did. Just thinking. Okay. So, that was all for new business that I wanted to bring up that we can talk about again. Um, district points of pride. Mr. Kleinhan. Oh, yes. Just one thing before we get to points of pride. Thank you. is uh Scott was at the building and site. So, we just need to add that. Um I forgot Scott. Oh, sorry. Yeah. No, that's okay. Well, since you're making corrections, warranty is spelled wrong. Well, thank you. I'll fix that, too. Spell check. I didn't catch it. I wasn't going to do it unless
064you had to make changes. Yeah. Okay. Points of pride. Thank you. Um so, I'll start off by saying congratulations to the class of 2025 on their honors program last night. It was a wonderful event. Um the high school administration, the counseling department do a fantastic job with this. Um just a little bit about the class of 2025 in terms of um getting ready for their next journey. So um they had 160 college acceptance. They had 442 college applications. They submitted 60 FASA applications. And that percentage is up nice or up from last year. And this is probably the the neatest thing. This class so far, and I say so far because all the uh scholarships are not in, they've earned $2,429,54 in scholarships. That is fantastic. That's the work of everybody, not just at the
065high school, but these kids go all the way through our system and um just wonderful. Uh the the thing I really like and I've been to many of these is the way that this school district the way the high school runs it is so slick. They have the students come up and in my Friday report I'll have pictures so you can see but the students they they put up a PowerPoint has every student a picture if they submitted one some didn't but a picture and then it it talks about their honors and then it it has their honors listed. It has where they're going to college and um if they're undecided, just has undecided and then it has their uh scholarship and they come across the stage, they stop, they get a quick picture and
066then they move on. It really is well organized and a very nice event. So, also want to thank everybody who was involved in the family fun night and the ecourse uh creek cleanup. Tom Wel does a lot of work and a lot of time planning all of that stuff and just a a great event. Um Scott was at the at the E-course Creek cleanup and had his gloves on and um was was there. So, it's just a really cool cool event. Thank all the volunteers. We had um our uh the junior honor society from here was there. They had a number of students. So, just a really cool uh event. Um so, I'll just go through the buildings at Madison. They're putting transition bags together for their preschoolers that are going to kindergarten, including books,
067crayons, pencils, and worksheets over the summer. Are you kidding me? No, I'm just kidding. So, I thought that was pretty cool. Uh, Bedford kindergarten celebration is on 6:12 at 2 o'clock at soccer field. Fifth grade celebration and clap out is 6:12 beginning at 9:00 a.m. The tie-dye is on the 3 all day. Their field day is on the 10th. The third through fifth graders are in the morning. Um, kindergarten through 2 seconds in the afternoon. That's at Bedford at Part D. They were all fired up this afternoon for Books and Bites Under the Lights. It has been officially moved. It's already on our website and a seesaw went out. It's Tuesday, May 27th from 6:30 to 8 at Cherop Field. So, um unfortunately the rain uh hit today, so they couldn't go, but they've already
068I talked to Marcy. She said they've already got information out for everyone. They're also um wrapping up the cereal drive at Party to help kids have enough to eat over the summer. They're hoping to collect enough boxes to form a Domino's chain around the building. So that will be quite a quite a project if they can pull that off. Their field field day field day is Friday, May 30th. At Pulk, the EL teachers worked very hard. They coordinated a diversity spirit uh week. They um they celebrated uh tourist day, holidays around the world, World Sports Day, Flag Day, um and cultural show and tell. The school enjoyed the event very much and was proud of the rich diversity at Pulk Elementary School. And then of course all three elementaryaries looking forward to books some bites
069but that of course has been changed. But at that event uh there's all kinds of games refreshments and they give out prize. I think last year they gave out three Chromebooks I think. Pretty pretty cool. Um at OW Best they wrapped up their DC trip. We had one of the students from the middle school volunteer for the creek cleanup who got in at 1:00, got home in bed at 1:00 and then was up in the morning to um to work the event. So, I know they got in late. Uh the students had uh they were exemplary in terms of their behavior and they learned so much about American history. So, it was really cool. Uh they do their their quarterly awards on May 22nd. The eighth grade students will be giving their speeches for the
070student council positions for next year. Um, their eighth grade formals on May 30th. The eighth grade Cedar Point trip is scheduled for June 6th and their eighth grade recognition night is June 10th. At the high school, the band concert was awesome. The senior field trip to Treeunner was amazing. They're already talking about it for next year. Their honors night was last night. Their clapout is tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. And the senior assembly is at 1:50. Exams are May 27th through the 29th. The prom is May 29th on Bell Isle. I don't know the venue's name. What's the It's the um yacht club. Yach Club. Yep. On Bell Isle. So, uh of course I talked about graduation June 5th, 6 o'clock at Taylor Sportslex. June 5th, graduation at 6 o'clock. So, you'll be getting some information.
071I think we show up at 5. Is that correct? A little bit early. And Yep. Okay. And then the Cougar Crier received its 20 24-25 um Spartan critique and they were excited to announce that they achieved a gold ranking. So congratulations to the staff for all their hard work and a shout out to the senior staff members. Um athletics has been a challenge with all the weather as you can imagine been very difficult. When they do reschedule it rains so um they're just doing the best that they can. the virtual program getting ready for end of the year with final exams and senior activities. They've been working very hard. Uh Dr. Kistan is really excited and proud of the progress her students have been made this year. The pathways program applications been sent out and
072they are busy wrapping up all their final tasks for online and uh the staff um you know all of the end of the year stuff in our virtual program working with those students as well. But sounds to me like they've made some great uh strides this year. Um, that's from Cheryl and she also takes care of our school safety. All the MERT insert drills, we've trained everybody. I think I put pictures in my Friday report, so you guys saw that. Those have all been completed. The safety team uh had its last its meeting last week and reviewed all the progress this year and uh where they're going for uh next year. They're also finishing the final drills and the practice with the boot system. So, I did observe uh this past uh Monday or Tuesday
073um over I can't remember what day it was, but over at the high school they um I was there for their um lockdown drill and as soon as the lockown drill was initiated, it was I bet under a minute. We went around and checked doors. That place was locked down tight. So, I I'd like to see those to see how quick um that those buildings can be secure. And as I've said often as a superintendent, I've never felt as comfortable, knock on wood, that chaos would not come to one of our buildings. But if it did, I truly believe that uh we're in we're in a better place in terms of how quickly we can alert people and get um get that those buildings locked down. So, um so that is good. When we come
074back in the fall, we'll also do, if you recall, we did school assemblies, uh, when we kicked off the boot, we'll plan to do that next year. And the key part of that whole thing, and I know we've had some some polls that probably shouldn't have happened or some kid walks up and says, "What's this?" And I would rather have that happen and have false polls than um and the field students feel comfortable that if they see something they can put the building in lockdown than I would the opposite. So yes, pretty pretty good. But we'll we'll we'll do that again this year. The maintenance area, the Bedford site project again, those kids walk out that'll start June 16th. There'll be a lot of construction over there. We um have been sending out information and
075in my newsletter that went out to the community, staff and community yesterday, I believe it was, spoke to the construction that's going on and just be mindful of little ones not being curious and wanting to go jump on and climb on and play on the equipment that's going to be there. The party and poke air conditioning conditioning edition is also beginning. Actually, we're doing some pullhead work. Um and then uh and that's all for the new electrical feeds to the the new HVAC units in the tech area. The Tech 1 hardware has been ordered that you guys approved um and it's already been received uh the high school. They're preparing um they're getting the Chromebooks ready for the incoming freshmen and then with the support of the technology committee, the teacher workstation layout and hardware
076choices have been finalized in preparation for um uh the the migration in the summer so that come October when all the old systems are no longer feasible, we'll be ready to go. And a lot of that work is thanks to you guys. So, we approved all that server work a year ago to get ready. Uh, in the curriculum area, the um district multi-tered systems of support team has developed mission and vision statements. Um, and they're in the process to to guide the process across the district. uh when we met with the folks from Michigan Department of Education um they want us to um have one system and part of that system so it's consistent across the buildings. The first step is this handbook that lays out all the policies and procedures and you start with
077the vision and the mission statements. So they've worked very hard to get that ready to go and Scott for HR special ed. Thank you, Mark. Uh, I wanted to share tonight some good news uh for the special ed department. We just received the May report. It's actually a report card from the Michigan Department of Education for our special education program. And Mark and I were very pleased to learn that we have no state complaints. We have no corrective actions and have a clean bill of health. So, this is really a testament to our excellent and hardworking special ed professionals as as well as the work of all of our educators in the district. So, uh I'm proud of the progress that we've made and uh hope to to build on this. Great. Thank you. Sorry
078that was lengthy, but that's all I have. That's okay. May I add something to your athletics? Y um last night our girls soccer team, our first female soccer team played a game against Divine Child High School in um districts and um they lost unfortunately, but the coaches of Divine Child complimented our athletes on their athleticism and their enthusiasm because going into games like that where teams, you know, the odds are stacked against them. They don't play very well. They're really bummed out. But they were so impressed with our athletes enthusiasm and um the way they put gave it their all. They put their heart into it. And so that's just a testimony testimony to our um student athletes and how wonderful they are um to hear that. And um you know they played as best
079as they could. They played their heart knowing that, you know, they didn't have a chance, but they gave it their all anyway and they were complimented by the Divine Child High School coaches. So, I just wanted to point that out as a point of pride. And I will say thank you to the um folks that put together the honors program and all the parents who came a little early so that we could get our athletes out and get them on to this uh to the to the districts and to the games. So, um so very good. And Mary Beth, you're correct. Some schools are traditional powerhouses in certain sports and when you go up against those schools it is difficult. So, but it's all you can do is give your best and try your hardest.
080Moving on to other business. Um, we had our building and site committee update already. Thank you to Mr. Wall. Um, there are no other updates from any of the other committees. Um, there are no upcoming board committee meetings scheduled as of this time. Is there any other business to come before the board? Yes, Miss Wless. I just had um two questions as followup as feedback that we gave um from the board last year from graduation. I just wanted to know um one was the cap and gowns. Um were they ordered and do they match um the virtual students and the high school students? Yes. So um conscious effort to make sure that that everyone looked exactly the same. Okay. And we've done that. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And then we talked about uh food
081in the back area, but I don't know if we ever circle back to it. That I I didn't circle back, so I must have missed that. So, um, food in the back area for for us. Yeah. Like cuz we're coming early and coming from work. I will definitely check into that. Okay. Like I'll definitely handle that one. You know, you know, I like booze. And then, um, last all night party is June 5th after graduation from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. And if you guys are feeling up to it and want to volunteer, we'd love to have you. and anyone in the community who can pass a background check, we'd love to have you. The all night part is at the high school. Correct. It is at the high school. Anything else? Moving on, we
082will move to public comment number two. Is there anybody wishing to address the board at this time? Please come forward. State your name and affiliation. heard. She gave a kudos out to Carrie Mchio for um the Bedford Book Building and each student gets each third grader gets 22 new books and a Oh, I'm sorry. Every student in the building gets 22 books. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Grea. Is there anybody else wishing to address the board at this time? Anybody else wishing to address the board at this time? Seeing none, we will move on to kudos first. Okay, this kudos goes to Megan McKeliff from Rachel Lang dated May 6, 2025 for her commitment to providing speech therapy services to students. She has been committed to helping a young student learn to use a communication
083device even when limited progress was being made. She never gave up. Mr. Wall, this goes to multiple people. Michelle Jessowski, Noah Cubitz, Maddie Daido, Alexis Wolf, Dan Stannis, Laney Woolak, and Zoe Paris from Karen Crusel from May 8th, 2025. D7 has hosted 191 swimmers at Open Swim and 42 students in the spring swim lessons this school year, thanks to the lifeguards and instructors listed above. Students and families have enjoyed using the natitorium. Natatorium, that's how it's spelled. For fun and to increase their swimming skills. Your time and effort has made a big splash. Thank you. Are there any other kudos? Nope. We're the only two. Okay. Like to move to adjournment. Be so resolved that the board of education adjourns the meeting at 8:13 p.m. May I have a motion? So moved. Moved by Trustee
084Windless, supported by Trusty Serini. Any questions or comments? Roll call, please. Oh, I closed myself. Sorry. Just pause it for a second. Trusty Wall. Yes. Trusty Winless. Yes. Trusty Anderson. Yes. Trusty Sterlin. Yes. Trusty Bazowski. Yes. Motion carries. Thank you everybody for attending. Thanks. Drive safe.