001Andy and all right. Love it. Right now. Oh, you got it. Oh, sorry. You guys got a minute. True. Right. So, we want to put that A and move amended to B. And move. How much finance committ? Do I have to make a motion for that? Yes. So explain it before you adoption. Okay. So before the adoption, I say I want to vote. You know, I don't nervous because there's nobody. I just have to remember there's How do you say her name? [Music] May 10. Oh yeah, the horse creek. What is that again? May um registration's at 8:30. I don't know that I mean because they're I mean for us that again April 12th April 12th I don't know what time does he start though? Yes. Yeah. Okay. You guys ready? Ready? All right. Call
002this meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. Mr. Wall, would you like to lead us in pledge of Oh, I'm sorry. Do we read the mission statement first? I'm sorry. Yeah, sorry. Wasn't here when we enacted that. Okay. So, if everyone would like to read it with me. Our mission is to inspire and empower our students to reach their full potential through opportunities and experiences in safe, diverse, and collaborative environments. Would you like to lead us in the pledge of allegiance? Thank you 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. Roll call, please. Trusty Anderson, Trusty Beltowski. Trusty Dyro. Trusty Sterling. Present. Trusty Steanavik, Trusty Wall, present, and Trusty Winless present. So, Miss Belttowski and Miss
003Sarov uh mentioned that they would not be able to attend tonight's meeting. Uh before as before we get started, I'd like to make an adoption or change to the meeting or to the agenda. Um Mr. Wall would like to read his finance committee meeting minutes prior to us going into the finance um discussion. Um Dr. Ginger right before September. Yep. Is everyone okay with that? That's good. So what we would do is we would make A under superintendent report finance committee minutes. Then B would be the 2024 2025 amended budget summary. Maria getser business manager. Okay. Um may I have a motion? So moved. Uh support. Do we have to read the adoption? Do I do like that or I have to do a motion for the I can just read it? Yeah. So, I
004just read the Y. Okay. Sorry about that, guys. Be it so resolved that the board of education accepts the April 2nd, 2025 agenda as presented. A board member may request an item items be be moved from the consent agenda to superintendent recommend recommendations. I have a motion. So, move. I have support. Supported by support. Did I say that right? Yep. All right. Roll call. Any discussion again? Who was it? I apologize. Who moved it? Leslie. Thank you. Uh, roll call, please. Trusty Sterlin. Yes. Trusty Stavanovic. Yes. Trusty Wall. Yes. Trusty Windless. Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Uh for superintendent reports item A, we'll go to finance committee meeting. Public comment on agenda items. What was that? Public comment on agenda items. Oh gosh. Thank you. Sorry everybody if this is the first go round for me.
005Uh anyone have public comment regarding agenda items? Public comment regarding agenda items. No, you can say it now if you'd like. What's agenda item? It's kudos. She could do it now or later. Agenda item totally. Kudos is agenda item. It's on the agenda. Well, true. Yep. So, if you'd like to say it now or you can say it later, whichever you would like to do, feel free. Absolutely. I just want to start out by saying a special thank you to Darius and D'Angelo Martin, the two Browns gentlemen. A special thanks to those two for all they do to keep our school district looking great. Going the extra mile when asked to cut trim or plant anything. We have so much we have so much to be proud of and we have so much yet to
006do. I know they will continue to make D7 make a D7 difference. Thank you. Can go around and see what they've done during spring break. This was a long time coming. Okay. Almost 75 years ago, I think I was here. I'm not sure. Um the first of WS class uh completed going to school here and we framed the first photo was hung in the hallway. Um over the years, uh from 1970 to 1988, every year they were hung in the hallway. years ago there was a renovation and they were taken down and somehow they were misplaced and often many people thought they had been lost but I knew they were here so no one knew exactly what had happened to them and we kept looking. Then last fall would you believe they were found. Three
007of them were found in the maintenance room and they were in pretty bad shape. Some of them were torn and they torn. They have these plexiglass on them. And we thought, well, three suddenly we found the other 10. So all 13 were found. They were uh they were repaired. They were clean and um and then they were lovingly hung by uh Ray White as part of our history. Now returns to the hallways, to the school, and to the D7. I want to thank Steve, Pat, and Ray for what they did. And if you get a chance, please walk down of this hallway and then turn in front of the library and you'll see all 13 of them hanging on the wall. And also, if you have a chance, you'll see we also found um Mr.
008Oakley Best's picture and he's been returned to the vestibule where he belonged. Some people say, why was Mr. Best so important? He was the first superintendent of schools in district 7. He oversaw the building of every building. If you go to any of the buildings, you'll see a bronze plaque and on it there'll be a list of trustees, but it always says Mr. Oakley W. Best superintendent and it was hid under his guidance. The land and the buildings in this district were built. He was a very important part of district 7 and his true picture had gone missing. But we up and we hung them back up in the hallway. Please take time to look at these ships. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Virginia. Anyone else for public comment? Seeing no one else
009here, let's move on to item A. Um, finance committee meeting minutes. Yes. So, we had the finance committee meeting on March 18th, uh, at 5:32 p.m. In attendance was Trusty Belttowski, Trusty Dyro, myself, uh, Superintendent Mr. Kleinhands, and business manager Maria Gustinger. Um, none present. There wasn't anybody that was missing. The first part was chair selection. The committee did select myself as the chair. old business. Uh, business manager provided us an update on the 2425 school year budget with the plans for her to provide an update also at an upcoming board meeting. The uh new business uh also led by the business manager was of the unknown status on the future grants and how federal government may disperse federal funds in the future. plans for the finance committee to meet and discuss potential changes to
010avoid being surprised on possible federal fund changes as best as possible for our district. There was no other business discussed, no public comment. The next meeting is to be determined and the meeting ended the same day at 6:28 p.m. Excellent. Any questions? Questions? Questions? All right. Thank you, Mr. Wall. All right. Next up, the 202425 amended budget summary by Dr. Ginger. Would you like to Yeah. So, Dr. Getser, come on in. Um, you should have in your board a packet, this packet. If you don't, I've got extras and got a couple. Pass these out. I know Virginia. Okay. Well, good evening everybody. This is our midyear amendment to our budget. I'm going to start on page two. Page two gives you a layout of all of our revenue that we're receiving. We had originally budgeted
011to receive $35.7 million in revenue. Our new projection is 40 million $40.5 million in revenue, which is almost a $5 million increase. I will explain where those additional funds are coming from in further along in my presentation. The majority of that is an increase in state revenue as well as an increase in grants mostly due to our ESSER grant. If you flip to page three, there's a little bit more line item detail of our revenue. So, you may recall at the start of when we projected our budget for last year, for this year, we were anticipating a foundation allowance increase. Our our state's fiscal year starts October 1. And even though ours starts July 1, they were still in negotiations about state aid budget while our school year was underway. And they negotiated and deliberated
012throughout the summer. And the end result of that was that we did not get a foundation allowance increase. We got a flat increase of zero, but we were to receive some relief on our retirement costs. So they lowered the cost of retirement that the district pays towards the public school pension. And so along with that, we'll see some changes in our revenue related to that. But let's start at the top of page three. We are anticipating about $700,000. Most of that is due to property taxes and also interest on investments. We had a none of our bank accounts were scheduled to receive interest income. So I just called the bank and said, you know, can we be interesting? Our rate is almost 5% and because of that we are able to generate um $475,000 projected
013in interest income. I'm sorry that can't be accurate. Yes, it is. $475,000 in interest income. So that's money the district Go ahead. Yeah. So So our dollars that we get from state aid were just sitting in the bank, not collecting any interest, right? And so you took it upon yourself. It's awesome to work with the bank to get those interested. Yes. Exactly. So that is the majority of the increase at our at the local level. At the state level, this is where you'll see the changes in the retirement that we've been talking about. First off, we got a big increase in our at risk funding, way more than we and we also devised ways that we money we didn't spend last year. So, in the at risk, we have $4.2 million projected. A million of
014that is the money we didn't spend last year. So, we're anticipating this current year, which is good fiscal practice because we get the revenue each year to support the students that are in the classroom this year. So, we're planning on pushing that support down to our students. And then you may notice as you're working your way down the state list, some big changes in like the UAL rate stabilization. It went down $1.4 $4 million of our retirement system that they did over the summer that we discussed and also a large increase in 147 A4 which is also related to that. And then if we move further down to our federal dollars, you may recall that we had a large SR3 grant that was still hanging around our one of our last COVID grants. We thought
015we would spend that by June 30th. However, we didn't quite get there. We still had um just a little bit over a million dollars worth of projects that were wrapping up in July, August, and September. So those costs along with the revenue had to be moved into the 2425 budget. So you'll see an increase of a million dollars in ESSER grants, but you'll also see the increase on the expenditure side. So all of these increases in grants, you know, I mentioned we projecting almost a $5 million increase in our revenue. you'll see the increase on the expenditure side as well because we can't get it if we don't spend it. Okay. When we get to the bottom, we're projecting a 20% fund balance. If you recall, the district engaged in a spendown plan this year
016for the first time of our fund balance because our fund balance was growing larger than what we were comfortable with. We had originally anticipated moving $2 million into a capital projects fund. Once we were done with our spendown plan, that number is going to be closer to 900,000. If you want to turn your attention to page four, this is where we start talking about our expenditures. The majority of the money the district spends comes to we spend it in instruction instructional support, which is exactly what you would think we should be doing. and a most of the increases in the budget, the almost the $5 million of increases in expenditures are going into the classroom in instruction and instructional support. So, we're anticipating spending just over $45 million in expenditures. Page five takes the same
017$45 million of expenditures and breaks it down to how we are spending it. Salaries, benefits, purchase, service, material, supplies, capital outlay, and other. So the big dedduct that you see in other is related to the decrease in the transfer to our capital projects fund. So originally as I had mentioned the anticipating 2 million is going to be closer to 900,000 but the majority of the increases are in salaries and benefits and a lot of that is related to the additional funding that we receive and at risk. So we've taken it upon ourselves to hire a lot more support of our special education staff. You're probably all part of that discussion as we made our plans for the 2425 academic year. And so a lot of those positions were funded through at risk. And so we
018were able to increase our salary and benefits to offset the revenue that you see on the grant side. And then page six and seven further breaks down the expenditures into fund function and object code. And you can see what we're spending is salary, benefits, purchase, service, employee or supplies and materials, cap outlay and other based on function. So the functions run um from the top to the bottom of the page starting with function 111 in elementary and they go all the way over to page seven under function 611. So that's a two-page layout of exactly how we spend our money. So, I know I've thrown a lot of information at you. Um, that concludes the general fund. Page eight is the syncing fund. All our other funds did not require an amendment, only our syncing
019fund. And so, we had originally budgeted to spend about a million dollars in our syncing fund. We're um anticipating now that number could be closer to two million. I know some of you sit on the scing fund committee. So, you've been part of those conversations as well. and we're anticipating um having about a million dollars 900,000 left over in our seeking fund when the cander fiscal year is up. So that concludes my presentation. I know we kind of talked fast, but does anybody have any questions about the presentation? Yes. So more of a comment um looking at this budget. So, um, this board certainly was part of supporting our students and we not only added special education staff, but we added, um, psychologist, social workers, nurses, nurses, behavior interventions. So, we've done a lot with
020the dollars that we've had. So, um, but we're ending this, it's projected that we're ending this fiscal year with a 20% fund equity. Correct? So that's about what's what's that amount of money? So that number is $8,98,000. Okay. 8 million. So we're going to end the year with approximately I'll just round 8 million dollar. Now it's critical for school districts to have a fund balance because there is one month of the year that school districts do not receive any state aid. And so school districts need to have money in their fund balance to cover that month. And if they do not, then you have to go into the the state uh what's called school bond loan fund. Yeah. State aid note or school and revolving fund. Yeah. It's a revolving fund. And you have to
021borrow from it. And of course, if you're borrowing from it, you're paying interest on those notes. I call it other people's money. So, um, it's critical for the school district to carry a fund balance of 20%. 20%'s a good healthy fund balance. There are many school districts that range between five and 10% fund equity. So, um, we're going to end the year with that and then we account set aside if a boiler goes down, if roof goes down, um, if we need, um, major repair on a building, that's the, um, the money in the infrastructure account. So, the other thing that I always say with these, you would never fund your home budget the way that school districts are tasked to fund the school district because when we have to make these projections, and Maria
022does great job doing this, you really have to project. You don't know what the state aid is, right? because they're always going back and forth and lancing and you're not sure about the grants and you're not sure about the key piece that funds our school district and that's our student count. So it it is a challenge when you put these together. I think Maria does a good job with that in estimating. Um and it appears moving forward for next year we're in the same predicament. Um, if you're following the news, the um the state aid process has started and of course the the House comes out with their plan and the Senate comes out with their plan and the then the governor comes out with their plan and then they get all together and they
023try to to work it out. What we're hearing for this upcoming year is we're going to get an increase in state aid, which is great per pupil increase in state aid. But what they're not saying just as they did with the mitzvah of retirement, they're going to increase the retirement. So they're going to give us a little bit more money back. So that and then the other piece that we're being very mindful of and I spoke about this at the committee is they are projecting a reduction in the grants right now. So it's not etched in stone. It's not um something that we're going to um you know panic about, but they are just projecting right now that that our federal grants could be reduced and that would have an impact on us, but we
024haven't had anybody come out and say that officially. These are just projections. So, um, with that being said, even if we do have a min a minimal increase in in our per pupil funding and a reduction in our grants, we've got to be mindful and we've got to be strategic moving forward, but we're still in a pretty good spot with a 20% fund balance and then a then a an account in case something goes south. So, um, so I just want to make sure that I speak to that. Does anyone have any questions? Okay. So, on page six, yes. Um, under summer school, are we projecting zero that we budget? Is that because it pays for itself with the tuition? So, we're budgeting 219,543 in summer school. We had originally had didn't have anything in
025there and it's funded through grants. Okay. Thank you. So that's different than the summer school that runs at Madison that's tuition based. That's like our summer school is grant funded. I can't. Thank you. Anyone else? I have a question. The rainy day fund that's not taken in consideration here or it not in these documents. You approved it in the projected budget and it didn't need an amendment. Okay. Perfect. Perfect. Okay. Yep. Awesome. Okay, that's good. Anyone else seeing hearing none? Thank you, Dr. Thank you. Thank you. So, what we will do um is the board will put in the for our next meeting, we'll just adopt the amended budget and then the finance committee once we get what we think state aid will be and um typically we have a finance committee meeting towards like
026in May to go over the projected budget. We'll bring Dr. get singer back and by then hopefully she'll have all the answers I hope and we'll be able to um uh project the 2526 budget. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving forward with superintendent recommendations. Item A, non-certified staff resignation exhibit one in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education accepts the following non-certified staff resignations. Karaba Rahami I apologize. It's K A R I B Ah R A H I M E. Position is parapro at Annapapolis. Effective date 318 2025. I have a motion. So moved. A support. U by Derek Wall. Support. Oh, I guess we'll do Leslie. Okay, sorry. Doesn't matter. Just we'll do Derek and supported by Leslie. Thank you. You're welcome. Any discussion? Roll call.
027Trusty Sterling. Yes. Trusty Steanovic. Yes. Trusty Wall. Yes. Trusty Winless. Yes. Trusty Anderson. Yes. MB super summer camp registration exhibit number two in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the Dearborn Heights School District number seven summer camp program which runs from June 23rd through August 22nd, 2025. Registration begins on Thursday, May 1st, 2025 at Madison Elementary School from 8:30 a.m. until 300 p.m. May I have a motion? So moved by Derek, supported by Leslie. Any discussion? Mr. Mr. Ver. So, um, Mary Beth had a great suggestion when we were talking about this on the agenda. Um, she asked that because many of our families work that that time might not be good for them to come in and register. So, we've got Shaheen, our tech director, and Deb Haskell
028working together on a autofill on our website registration so that u make it easier for families to register. Nice. That's very nice. Anyone have a question, comments? All right, roll call, please. Trusty Sterlin, yes. Trusty Stavanovic, yes. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Winless, yes. Trusty Anderson. Motion carries. Item C, field trip, the creature cons creature consery, exhibit three in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves Bedford first grade class field trip to the creature conservancy in a an arbor Michigan on April 23rd 2025. The course of study is science curriculum animal adaptations and habitats cost be paid for by families and offset by building activity funds. May I have a motion? So moved. Support. Thank you. Moved by Derek, supported by Leslie. Any discussion? Derek's loving this promp, please. Trusty Stabanovic,
029yes. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Winless, yes. Trusty Anderson, Trusty Sterling, yes. Motion carries. Uh, item D, field trip Imagination Station, exhibit number four in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves part D second grade class field trip to Imagination Station in Toledo, Ohio on May 14th, 2025. The course of study is Earth Science, Life Science, and STEM. Cost to be paid cost to be paid for by families and offset by building activities. Motion motion by Derek, supported by Elise Sanovic. Any comments, questions? Roll call, please. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Windless, yes. Trusty Anderson, I forgot who Trusty Wind was. Trusty Sterling, yes. Trusty Stein, yes. Motion carries. Okay. Item E, field trip, Treerunner Adventure Park, West Bloomfield. Exhibit five in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of
030education approves Annapolis High School senior class trip field trip to Treeunner Adventure Park in West Bloomfield, Michigan on May 15, 2025. This the course of study is social emotional learning and team building. Entry fee paid for by the students and transportation fees covered by student clubs. May I have a motion? So move. Motion by Derek, support by Leslie and Liss. Any comments, discussion. I have a question. Yes. For the senior trips, are the um online students included in this or um the physical building? That is a great question. I will get the answer. Thank you. Yep. So, I have a question. Oh, sorry. Um because I know like I actually sent an email out the other day to um Mary Beth reached out to to Mr. Kleinhands. So when I was went and saw the
031kids presentations with Mrs. Seager's class, the the class presentations, one was the field trip to Mcn Island and Meno City, all that beginning of May and I hadn't heard anything, you know, about it because it's fast approaching and so is are they still looking into that? you kind of mentioned they were still going to they're going to talk about it Thursday. So I believe there's a meeting tomorrow night tomorrow night to discuss this and they're trying to gauge interest. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So the purpose of they wanted to go to Min Island. They didn't have a DC trip um like you know eighth grade because the co hit. So they were looking at okay we didn't get that. What can we do as a group? They um mentioned going for it was like one spending
032one night there. And to me what what they had planned I suggested bring it to the board. We'll see you know see if we want to approve it but I said give us the price of that day plus an additional day just to see the different cost just because I didn't feel they could do it in that day. So anyway so that I just want maybe this wasn't appropriate time to bring it up but they said field trip. So all right say isn't that what the treeunner one though is they're doing. Well that's why I kind of brought it up because is this going to take the place of that? Are they still looking to do the the Mac? Nothing. Oh, and I believe it's just the way they wrote it up. They're still looking
033into it, right? Okay. So, yeah. Okay. Anything else? Anyone else? All right. Roll call, please. Trusty Windless. Yes. Trusty Anderson. Yes. Trusty Sterlin? Yes. Trusty Stavanovic? Yes. Trusty Wall? Yes. Motion carries. Item F, field trip Toledo Mudens game, exhibit six in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves Bedford fourth grade class to attend the Toledo Mudad game Toledo Mudhens game in Toledo, Ohio on May 7th, 2025. The course of study is social emotional learning and math word problems and calculations paid for by a grant through the Greater Toledo Community Foundation. So moved. Moved by Derek Wall. Support. Supported by Leslie Windliff. Any comments, questions, discussion? Roll call, please. Trusty Anderson, yes. Trusty Sterlin, yes. Trusty Steanovic, yes. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Wlands, yes. Motion carries. Item G, first reading of
034proposed proposed, revised, and reissued board policies. Exhibit seven in your packet. Be it so resolved that the board of education approves the first reading of propo proposed, revised and reissued NEOA board policies as presented. Bylaw 01000 definitions bylaw 0123 philosophy of the board bylaw 0142.3 term bylaw 0142.4 4 oath bylaw 0142.5 vac vacancies bylaw 0142.7 orientation bylaw 0143.1 public expression of board members by law 01440151 organizational meeting I have a motion so moved moved by trustee wall supported by trustee Anderson any comments Mr. finance. No, no, go. Please go ahead. I I was just going to make a comment. I want to thank the members of the policy committee who spent hours at home going through these and then spent hours talking about these um at our committee meeting. So um so it it's a
035lot of work behind the scenes and I want to thank them. We're going to meet again here in another week, go through the next section of bylaws, and then we're going to start looking at the policies, going through sections, and maybe hitting the the um policies that people have questions about um as we go through. So, the work is just begun, but I do appreciate all the time that spent away from the board table studying these and preparing for the committee meeting. Thank you. Uh, trustee Walt. Um, yeah, I just had a question on the the vacancies one. I see that they crossed off the news media. Um, I was just wondering if that potentially could be back on there. I know that does make it more work for our You had the same question.
036Yeah. The only reason why I think that is because um I uh had to go to the senior center to help someone the other day and one thing that I thought was really cool is they had a whole package of the um the Times Hero I think is the one and it's nice because you know that's how some seniors keep on because there's many seniors who don't have cable that don't do Facebook you know social media. Now granted, these seniors most likely may not possibly run for a board position, but we want to make sure that they're aware and, you know, would have that opportunity. So that's the only thing I was, you know, inquiring about. But everything else I saw changes looked okay. That was my thought. And and I think the discussion Wendy
037at that table when we looked at that was currently we don't do that. Yeah. So, we should, you know, at least the paper I would think, you know, not necessarily like channel two or anything like that, but we we have Mark. Yeah. Because a seat that I applied for was published in the AirAmerican News like a a vacancy. You posted before it was like seeking seeking open position. It was like a news article. Um, so I can talk to the chair and we'll see if we can get that out of We were just trying to we went through update, right? Yeah. Okay. I don't know if we don't do it consistently clearly, but that's Yeah, because I saw I saw some of the like social apps. I'm like, "Yeah, those don't exist anymore." Yeah. You
038did go back and forth on that media one. We said like you said, we we don't didn't use it. Okay. So, do I need to um page two? Okay. So, do we need to amend this to remove the uh vacancy one? Yes. Okay. Can you remove um the definitions one, two? Okay then. Okay. Is that part of that? No. I had a question on Gohead. Well, I don't have a question. I have uh corrections for the on page three of the definitions. One, uh Tik Tok is spelled with the K and then the T is the second T is capital. Yep. And then uh remove the and before FaceTime and then thread and Discord are both apps so they should be capitalized. Yep. Okay. So it should read Tik Tok. Snapchat Discord capital and then
039the and that's right before FaceTime. Take that one out. Okay. Okay. So, I'll move that. Thank you. Anyone? So, would we need to? Go ahead. Trust you all. Would we need to do first? I mean, they're first read. So, I mean, if it's corrected before the second, I don't think we need to make a motion to remove it, right? Because we're not approving. We're just reading. So, okay, we're approving the first reading. Okay. Okay. I will make the changes. I'll talk to the chair and then maybe someone send an email out just so that way in case they have the questions prior. Yeah. Okay. Everyone good with that? All right. Roll call, please. There's a comma missing in the old one, too. But I'll email it. What was that? Which one? I email it because
040I just I skipped back to the front already. As long as it's Was that still part of definitions and vacancies? Uhuh. It was part of the oath one. The oath one you said? Okay, I'll go back. Hold on one second. I'm sorry. Did you say you were going to say it or you Yeah, I was going back to it. I'm trying to still find Oh, here it is. The copy of the O is the title of it. And just the last sentence, making sure it's a comma after board member before work. Oh, yep. And that's it. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else seen anything? Witness, are you good? Yep. Okay. So, oath is going to be updated, definitions will be updated, and vacancies will be I got another question.
041Compensation is are we going to have a discussion about compensation? It's been brought up a few times um just throughout the years that I've been attending, but never actually discussed whether we're going to increase compensation to make it uh closer to what is being given like do a study of what's being given to board members in the area. Not the one I was going to say it goes anywhere from zero to it depends on the district. Some districts are salary. Yeah. Not those ones. We don't want to be salary. We want to discuss it. Probably should be discussing or do we need to put that would want to wait for diial. Okay. I'll pull it and when I talk to her I'll and I'll do some leg work calling around the area board members just
042to see what everybody else is doing. I I believe um um Wood Haven is third. I believe third. Yeah. It it varies. It really varies. Um, we did discuss that in our meeting. We did talk about do we want to increase it and I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, Anderson, but I think we all said we were good with the 30, but okay. I just wanted to make sure No, but we should discuss it because it has been bounced around and shouldn't be just up us discuss it. So, that that's good. That works. Um, and I do have a comment. I I said this to Mrs. Anderson earlier today, Trusty Anderson. Um that policy meeting I want I was going to send an email out to everyone after the policy meeting. That was one
043of the best meetings I believe I've gone to. I thought it was a great meeting. I I everyone was had great input. It was such it was engaged. I enjoyed the meeting. I I was I really was left it like yeah like I felt like we were we did some it was a great meeting. So thank you. Thank you. It was a great meeting. Um and thank you Miss Dyro who's not here. Um, I just want to add if the board did decide later on they do want to adjust it, it would just be an an adjustment to the pol, you know, a new policy. So, okay. All right. Anyone else? All right. Roll call, please. I have ahead. So, in the event that someone feels as though it should be changed, I think maybe
044some suggestions should be put on the table for us to have that discussion as well. Are you talking about this or just in general anything? No, about the compensation. So if we could have a conversation with regard to what it could or should be so we can propose it and we won't have to keep on going. Yep. That's Yeah. So come to the table when it you know when that comes up. Yes. What your number you'd like to see and Leslie's going to do a little digging. Yeah. All right. Good recall. Okay. And I will say that we because we are continuing our work on this that we have time. I mean, we can be in the 1000s and by the time we get the information, go back and we can make adjustments. That's the
045beauty of kind of doing a rewrite. You've got time to go through and look at look at things that are we want to address. All right. Okay. Everyone good? All right. Rooff, please. Trusty Sterlin. Yes. Trusty Stabanovic. Yes. Trusty Wall, yes. Trusty Winless, yes. Trusty Anderson, yes. Motion carries. All right. Unfinished business. Do we have any unfinish finished business to discuss? Unfinish. Okay. Moving on to new business. Do we have any new business to discuss? No. All right. District points of pride. Mr. Fleinance. Well, actually, it's just briefly on the new business. One thing I'd like to inquire, but the whole board's not here, so we can't really discuss it, but um the pictures are gone from our website from all our um trustee positions and all that. Well, I'm not But one thing is
046I did actually look around to Allen Park, Taylor, Melvinale, uh Westwood, Crestwood to see, and I'm going to say about 80% of them have pictures. I think there's only one that didn't. And what it was also, but someone had a little like profile with it if you clicked their name and it kind of gave a little bit about whatever they wanted to say. They could have said nothing or they could have said, you know, something which was kind of a little bit interesting because then the community knows a little bit more potentially about the board member, right? So, that would be something I'd like to maybe uh maybe bring up at the next board meeting if we have everybody here, but I just want to give a heads up on it. So, I did send
047an email, but didn't hear anything back on it. So that's why I just want to bring it up there. Okay. Awesome. Thanks. Thank you. Yeah, I hadn't noticed. Like I said, kind of glad for that. Anyway, for myself. All right. District points of pro. Very good. Thank you. So again, welcome back everybody. I hope everyone had a good spring break. Um I know I've talked to a lot of staff members. They went all over the place. We had people and then we had some that just stayed home. So um but I'm glad to get everyone back and get rolling. Uh, first things first, congratulations goes out to board treasurer Derek Wall on completion of the MASB finance certification level three award of distinction data skills specialty. So good job. Good. So that's excellent. I know
048that um doing the classes, doing the conferences, doing all of the work that we do, reading policy pulls you away from, you know, what your family or whatever your situation is. Please know that especially with these classes and going to conferences that that leadership training that you guys are taking on is huge for our students. So, please know that it doesn't go unnoticed. I think it's awesome. So, Yep. Very good. I also want to thank the staff members who were team leaders and presenters for the professional development day on Monday. Uh we had some cancellations the Saturday before and we were scrambling but we adjusted and we did well. The PD committee is already planned for our next PD. I know everyone's sitting down but it's going to come fast which will be the start
049of the 2526 school year. So um so the committee is still working. We we've met we've got u the framework of the start of the school professional development the welcome back and so we're already planning that people say wait a minute we're not done with this school year but that's our next professional development so Monday was our last one for this uh school year and I will say that uh since we put this committee together holders that the PD has been much more meaningful and I think it's been um um well received by um all of our staff. So, pretty excited about uh the work that that committee's done. And even on this day, I mean, we were we got notification that our speaker couldn't attend and that was the Saturday before Monday and I
050just met with the staff and said, "This is what we're going to do." Everybody rolled up their sleeves and went to work and it worked out well. So, um I I am very appreciative of that. Uh kindergarten roundup is tomorrow. So, I did a robocall. you receive that. It's tomorrow, Thursday, April 3rd from 6:00 to 7:00 and it's at all of our elementaryaries. So, your child is already 5 years old or will be five by December 1st, 2025. Please plan to attend Kindergarten Roundup and you can go to any one of the elementaryaries for that event. So, um pretty exciting to get those little ones rolling um at the elementary buildings. And and please be patient. I should have said I have about four pages, so we got a lot here with me. I'll try
051to go fast. Um, the reading month was a busy month for everybody, including board members. I want to thank all those that volunteered. A special thank you goes out to um, principles that hosted Jonathan Ran. He's a Michigan-based um, author of Michigan Chillers. I'm sure you've probably seen those books flying around. I laugh because the guy is chasing me. We had him at Montrose. We had him at Bedford. And we had him here. It's not because I'm here, but um he's very well I mean he goes all over the place. So um very cool. Also the elementary spelling bee is on April 22nd from 6:00 to 8 and I believe we have some folks that have volunteered to be judges on this board. So I do appreciate that. Pole Elementary that science fair event right
052before uh break that was wellreceived. Uh the PTO sponsored that. It's a science fair program for all the students. On April 29th at Folk, they're having their it's called the animal magic assembly. During school that day for all of their students. So, pretty exciting event for those little ones. Oh, by the way, at the at the science fair, they asked me to eat some kind of bug. I don't know what it was, but I chickened out. So, at party, uh, congratulations to Becky. Uh, I'm going to mess up Chiota. Thank you. Second grade teacher party. She was recognized by the Wayne County Commissioner Commission as an out as the outstanding educator for the month. She was nominated by principal um Don Leinsky. And I want to read the quote that Don sent into the commissioner.
053Said, "Becky's classroom is always warm and welcoming and her students know that she truly cares about them as if they were all her own children. Becky um she's a great she has a great rapport with all of the students and their family. Becky was in instrumental in bringing the therapy dog program to party three years ago. She takes care of Ruby who's the therapy dog and provides great opportunities for all our students. So wonderful quote certainly true there. She's awesome. I've been in her classroom and there are many days that I go to party not to talk to anybody at least there to see Ruby. So, um, just a crazy story few months back had to pad down. He was old and sick. And I went that next Monday. It was over the weekend that
054next Monday and I was waiting to talk to Don and Ruby came up and just put her head on. So, it's just amazing how these dogs sense that. So, um, but Ruby's awesome. I'm sure Lee could tell a lot of different stories. When I was there today, there was a little one that came in and Ruby jumps up and she just she's just awesome. So, and Becky does a great job with her. They've got a whole plan about uh taking care of in the building. So, it really works out good. So, but congratulations to Becky and being recognized. That really was awesome. They also brought uh donuts for the students. So, even better yet our class. So, in addition to the uh the D7 spelling bee, Hardy staff does their own spelling bee. Um, and
055that's on April 16th and they do this to encourage and show support for the students participating in the in the spelling. Yeah. So, it's pretty cool. They asked me to participate and I said no. They're doing the staff spelling, right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yes. The staff. The staff actually do. They're the spellers. Yeah. Right. We should all go to them. Yeah. Exactly. Oh lord. So at Bedford um so Marcy wanted me to a shout out to Carrie Mchio. She made March reading month so fun. They had a book of the year contest. The author of course from Michigan Chillers and Becky was or um Carrie was very instrumental in getting him to come to our school district. Um also a fabulous family reading night that was a huge success at Bedford. They also are celebrating
056uh World Down Syndrome Day by wearing mismatch socks. Uh they did that and then even today they were celebrating autism awareness by wearing blue. So couple things that she wanted to um to point out. And then of course they're having their spelling be followed by the district spelling in our secondary buildings. They're gearing up and Mr. Buchanan for our spring sports if it ever gets to spring, weather permitting. Uh but we certainly wish all of our coaches and athletes certainly the best of luck at OW Best here middle school. Um they're they're excited and gearing up for the baseball, track, and softball season. It's also testing season as I call it in all schools across the state of Michigan. Um gearing up. So here they're gearing up for the uh PSAT test for the eighth
057graders and then the MSTEP take uh the sixth and seventh graders take the MSTEP test. So, um, I've often said that if the state truly knew the amount of time that it takes to do all of these tests, I know we have to do them, it is a pretty big lift for school districts. Today, they honored PAR professionals day. They're thankful for their paras that work here at OW um in support of the students, staff, and community. And lastly, they're in the process of finalizing all of the end of the year events, field trips, PBIS events, and such at the high school. The prom fashion show was a huge success and I appreciate everyone adjusting schedules so we could get over there. Um, I thought it was really cool. Thanks to all who participated. They
058had a college career day. Again, a very successful event. Want to thank the AHS counseling department and all the colleges, businesses, and service organizations. Um, if you saw my picture, the high school gym was packed. It's amazing. We had a representation as far north as South Alabama. um what's called Alabama State all over the place. The counselors did a great job. Not just colleges, but um they also had businesses, they had the service industries there. It was really, really cool. Today at um AHS, they had uh staff members, some of the staff members and students went on a college visit to Grand Valley State. Um and then also they had a blood drive today uh hosted by the student council at the high school. On Friday, they got a group going to Henry Ford College
059for another college visit. And then we were talking about the April 12th, the um Easter Bunny pancake breakfast and craft show. So, a lot going on there. In the virtual program, um they are gearing up for their state testing as well. They participate. Again, it's all part of the process. Teachers have to go through um they have to do online and then inperson training. So, the virtual program, they've completed all that and they're ready to roll for testing next week. In the curriculum area, the district K12 math team has developed a K12 vision of mathematics. They've been working on this for a while, which is being used to guide the review and selection of new math instructional materials. The K12 vision for teaching math is as follows. In D7, we will foster and maintain a
060dynamic, inclusive, and culturally culturally, I can speak, culturally responsive learning environment where every student actively collaborates to unlock their potential, embrace challenges, and cultivate a liflong appreciation of mathematics. They'll empower the students to become competent critical thinkers that can solve real world problems, apply mathematic tools, proportionately and communicate, demonstrate and define mathematical thinking. So, they're working hard on putting all of these pieces together to guide our math curriculum K12. The also in the curriculum area, the parent involvement management system, the PIMS points, it's up and running. Um, if you guys recall, you approved that uh position grant funded for a parent um involvement coordinator. They currently have 142 parents and guardians registered. Uh seven coupons have been redeemed thus far and parents earn points by going to events and they get coupons. The uh the
061parent liaison is working actively to seek community organizations that will donate to the pims program so that as it moves forward in the upcoming years that um we have larger things that parents can work towards. Yeah, pretty cool stuff. And then the district has begun accepting applications for the elementary summer lit labs for students. You'll see the signs going up entering this for gates grades K through three for the 2526 school year. The labs provide students uh with literacy learning experiences integrating in STEM activities. So the lab curriculum is provided uh by Wayne Resa. So that's a cool event. And then the final one I've asked Mr. Armstrong to present the final item. Scott. Thank you, Superintendent Klein Hansen. As you mentioned earlier, today is National Parrofessional Day and the board office sent out a
062special message to our paraprofessionals recognizing them. And I'd like to read it for the board. On this special day dedicated to you, we wanted to take a moment to express District 7's deepest gratitude for all the hard work, dedication, and care you bring to our schools each and every day. Fair Professional Day is a reminder of the important role you play in creating a supportive learning environment for our students. Your commitment to our students, whether in the classroom, supporting teachers, or providing personalized care, is truly appreciated. You help ensure that all students have the support they need to succeed, and that does not go unnoticed. You make a difference in so many lives, and for that, we are incredibly grateful to do for our students, teachers, and the community. Your contributions are essential and we
063are lucky to have you as part of our team. Wishing you a wonderful paraprofessional day filled with appreciation and welldeserved recognition. Thank you to all that support D7. Thank you. That was Thank you. Excellent. I would like to take credit for that but took care of that. So very nice. So yeah, they are a key part of what what it is we're doing and providing the