001and my husband. Okay. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Everyone please stand for the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, jump. Can you guys hear me? No. There you go. Okay. Uh, Amber, can you please do a roll call vote? Roll call. Davidson here. Shu here. Dlet. Will here. Fory here. Smelter here. Stein here. We usually do that quietly. Um, yeah. Um, for you have an agenda in front of you. Are there any changes? May I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I'll support. All in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries 6. Um, next we have the consent
002agenda. um which contains the approval of minute meetings from the special meeting on March 17, 2025. Our regular meeting March 17, 2025, special meeting March 24th, 2025. and our special meeting April 7th 2025 approval of accounts payable in the amount of 558,637 and.36 for the month of March 2025. Approval of the treasurer's report dated March 31st, 2025 with a balance of 8 million 4,489. Sorry 4,898. Okay. 8,498 92. Um the approval of new hires, resinations, and retirements. We have none. We have none. Um none at this. And I have a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. All right. Um roll call vote, please. Corsy, yes. Davidson, yes. Smeltzer, yes. Shoot. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries 6. Um, next up we have reports community input. Did anybody
003want to speak on agenda items? No. Okay. Um, middle school principal report. Hear me. All right. Can you guys hear me? Yes. Okay. Um, all right. So, I won't take a lot of your time, but a lot of great things happening at the middle school this year. And as we're looking ahead to next year, there's just a few things I want to highlight. Um, so first of all, from this year, um, one of the things that I think has been really great is Can you guys hear me? Do you want me to? It's okay. Just y Okay, I can talk much louder. um is um we've been working really hard with all of our steam classes to um align our curriculum vertically. And we've had our teachers working with a coach um working on the
004um steam, you know, not only what they're offering in the classes, but aligning those to standards. And so I'm really proud of that work that's been happening at the middle school. So all of our students are receiving that. Um, we've also been doing some great things with our career education. Um, we've had some guest speakers coming in from Cummins Corporation and speaking with our eighth graders about a variety of careers. So, that's been exciting. Um, one of the things I'm really excited about moving forward into next year as we've been working on our master schedule is um the opportunity to offer some more electives to our middle school students. So, I think that's pretty exciting. Um, one of those electives is going to be called um, freshman focus and that's going to be specifically for
005our eighth grade students. Um, the course is going to be geared towards helping those eighth graders be prepared for 9th grade. So, what does it take to be a successful high school student? What does that look like as far as organization, time management, you know, just really looking ahead to make sure our students are prepared. So, we're excited about that one. Um we also have the opportunity too to offer some um shorter electives next year um around around our lunchtime. So instead of all students receiving additional math support um only the students that need the additional math support will be receiving that and the rest of the students will have the opportunity to take some different electives offered by teachers. I don't know if you remember a few years ago, but we had a variety
006of electives in different content areas. So, like if I'm a social studies teacher, for example, one of our teachers taught a an elective called Great Lakes History. So, we're going to be bringing some of those types of electives back, which I think is exciting. Very exciting. Um, lots of upcoming events. We have um we're obviously in the middle testing season like everybody else right now. But then we've got upcoming field trips for our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. So that's exciting. Eighth graders, of course, going to Michigan's Adventure. Seventh grade going to a movie and sixth grade going to Becca Zoo. So we're really excited about that as well. Um and then I'm going to pass it over. So speaking of electives, we have Mrs. Neil and a couple of her students here to really
007highlight some of the awesome things that they've been doing in health class this year. So, all of our seventh grade students receiving health. Um, and so even those students that are in band were pulled out for a week to receive some of the essential components of the health class. So, they're here tonight to showcase some of the things they've been doing. All right, you guys all know me. I'm sure you're sick of seeing me by now, but I'm still here. I'm coming back. Um, so I have with me tonight Ava Brady and Lola Cowles, who took my health class first semester here at the middle school. They're in seventh grade this year, so they'll have the opportunity to take that freshman focused class next year, and they're back here talking about how exciting. But, um,
008if I can connect to up here, I can kind of show you guys some slides up close. So, somebody get at the beginning of health, one of the first things that we do is talk about that health triangle. Um, and give students the opportunity to identify aspects of their social, physical, mental, and emotional health. Um, and I'll throw this up here real quick so you can kind of see the beginning of that and then APA can speak to that just a little bit. All right. Did that say slideshow? Yeah. All right. All right. So, we had a few other students who signed up that ended up with wrestling practice tonight. But, um, AA's going to kind of talk about this first picture up here, the big triangle. Um, there's a lot of little papers glued
009all over on the outside of it. So, you want to kind of give some insight on what's going on there. So we had emotional, social, physical, social, mental, emotal, and we like drew like a bunch of stuff about like where our feelings were and how just showed them on a piece of paper and we would put it up on the wall. So their task was to identify people, places, and things that supported their physical, social, and mental, emotional health. And they do that beginning as a visual and then we kind of build around that. And Lola here has one of our smart goal trees. The kids learn about setting smart goals and they pull from that health triangle idea. So, I'm going to have these girls walk these up here so you guys can get
010a better look. All right. While you're taking a peek at that, I'll kind of speak to the alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs unit that the kids got into this year. We had the opportunity to put together our cadaavver lungs. So, we have actual human lungs from somebody who had healthy lung tissue and somebody who did not, presumably somebody who used tobacco. Um, and it was Ava and Lola's favorite thing that we did the whole semester, the inflatable lungs. The kids were tasked with creating an anti- tobacco. advertisement. Well, I love it too. What I'm going to do for that sounds great. So, each group had to create their own antismoking or anti-tobacco use video. And the kids love doing that project based learning. Um, and of course the ads that I get back are always
011pretty creative and hilarious. It's very bad. It is very bad. That's the take generally. Okay. So, these girls wanted to show you guys the locks. Oh, yeah. You're free. Run. can hold and I'll hold the boxes with the smoker lungs in it. head on so we don't lose our tape. [Applause] [Music] All right. So, if you're squeamish, this is your presenting area. Okay, cool. Thank you. Not squeamish at all. All right. All right, Eva, present away. Explain what that is. Go ahead. Can I take it off? Take it off. Unveil. Ew. Okay. So, this is the set of lungs with healthy lung tissue, right? Yeah. Okay. Go ahead, AA. You're saying um so these are obviously like not smoker lungs. Um, these are healthy cadaabvers. Yeah, you got it. Pump it. Yep. Oh god. So,
012you can see them filling with air. And this gives the kids the opportunity to understand the difference. Once you have that visual, you cannot unsee this. And so it's a lot of wide eyes when we do this and a lot of questions, but it's it's very helpful to understand what an organ looks like, a human organ. And my predecessor had these in storage and I was when I found them, so used them. Cool. And then we can swap them out. So these are adult healthy lungs, correct? Correct. Sorry, Sh. You're good. I d name tag you. Are they in for all the hide or will they? They are. They are. Yep. Huh? Please use your gloves. It's not It's not firmaldahhide. Okay, good. Thank you. Yeah, it's alternative. Okay. Okay. All is fine. No, girl.
013Okay, go ahead. So, these are of course the bad smoky lungs that when you smoke, they get really bad. And if you're like or smoker, a really heavy smoker, these your lungs will get really bad and they'll go out. Mhm. This gives that visual for all of our kids who are thinking about it or doing it. This might be the thing that kind of is the stopper, we hope. Right. Yeah. So you can see smaller. Yep. It's so much more difficult for them to inflate. They have that visual of how struggled breathing can be. And that just really hits home with a room full of middle schoolers. Right. All right, girls. That's amazing. I'm going to show these. Right. It'll do the trick. Thank you guys. What do you mean by go out then? Is
014that a you said these these lumps have gone out or they like they'll get really bad and they will just like go out functionally stop. Yeah. All right. Well, you got those ones. We'll get this out of here. Very amazing. All right. Follow. Very cool. Oh, thank you. Trucks are bad. Trucks are bad. And they're gross. Come back and back. Look those. And the last thing that we kind of wanted to showcase, um, this year at the middle school, we really got and a lot of our kids. This is something that we like to try to do outside if it's nice enough. Get them outside, get them moving. Um, it always starts off awkward. Nobody's super excited to try it, but by the end of the semester, they're usually asking, "Do you guys have any
015anything to say or add about doing yoga?" It was like really fun to go outside and do it inside. Um, we have the goal is for them to feel confident maybe taking a yoga class in public at some point or when they get to school like trying to meet people in more of a health oriented setting versus like going out partaking in other college activities. I think that's great. So Fiser just had like a health week and they offer yoga classes and so many of us were like embarrassed to even try it for the first time. So that's great that you guys are doing that. They love it. Good job. Thank you ladies and Amy. Next up we have the high school student council presentation Kayleen O'Donnell. So, we have quite a few student council
016members. [Applause] Um, this is about a third of our student council this year. Quite a big group. I didn't turn it on yet. [Applause] They're high schoolers. They don't need a mic. We have some seniors who this is their last presentation for you guys. Actually, let's do you guys want to introduce yourselves? Yeah. what position you're in this year and if you're elected what position you're in next year. Um um I'm also I'm a 10th grade representative and next year I'm going to be the treasurer. I'm David Albert and I am a 10th grade representative. I am Robert Kane and I'm an 11th grade representative and I was the I'm going to be the student council president next year. Hi, I'm Moy. I'm the vice president this year on the Hi, I'm Lily Thompson. I'm
017a senior and I'm the liazison for 12. I'm Suzanne Nichols and I'm the 12th grade representative. I'm Jaden Cliff and I'm the president this year. I'm Holly Cobber and I'm secretary. I'm Ryan. As a lot of you may know, I am the chief of spirit and I am a senior. I'm Jennif and I'm a third grade. I'm Caler and I'm a ninth grade. I'm Phillips and I'm a nth grade representative. Okay. Next slide, please. Yes, sir. Look at that introductions. The presentation's a little wonky. We did it in Canva and then transferred into PowerPoint. So, our mission and vision for this year was to make everyone feel heard and GA great for all students and teachers. This year's vision was to create many opportunities for students to get involved and have fun. while we as
018a club work together to create a better envir environment while actively being great examples of the school. All right, so this year we have nearly 30 people on student council all helping to represent the student body's voices. Some new events we did this year were the beautifification project, the color run, deck the halls, assisting with rising ramps, and flower sales. Some fun facts are nine ninth graders joined this year, which is the most ever from one class, and that we have the biggest group of students representing the student body. [Applause] So, on the spirit side of things, I have this is the more of the like homecoming fun stuff we did this year. We did a color run which we had like um a pretty good amount show up. I'd say like I don't even
019know it's a lot from the picture at least. And we had like red and yellow colors and it was just very fun and colorful and eventful and everyone had a lot of fun. And then another thing we did was uh the Ramaganza which at um while the football players are playing the little ones um we had we're selling red and yellow snow cones with three different flavors each and I think it was a pretty big hit in my opinion. And another thing we did was homecoming at the new stadium for the first time, which was like a super cool thing because it's like it's a new look and a lot different from last year and the student section was a lot bigger and it made a lot more people want to show up and um
020um oh a GA students, we have let them announce court at the football game which is a great uh learning time if they want to go out and speak in public and it helps a lot will get in over the the fear of speaking out to public. And then for snow coming, we did this new thing this year where we turn the lights off and turn the black lights on and everyone was just in neon instead of G8 for the first time and we were glowing and the whole place was just so vibrant and so pretty. And even during the basketball games for the walk out like for like um now it's the starter basketball players um we did turn the lights on and turn the black lights on and and all the white jerseys
021were glowing almost green and the neon posters in the background especially the senior class was glowing and I think it was just such a fun new that we had this year. Okay, who's next? Okay, so I just got back from softball practice. Do I look like this? Like this. Good for you. And Lillian rides. I look crazy. Um, this year, last year we did a lot of stuff where we the money that we raised, we gave it to charities. This year, I'd say that we focused more on the high school and making sure that we gave back to the students and did what they wanted with it. You can tell that our income was mainly from dances. Our dances were a big hit this year. But a problem is with social media and stuff, people
022are expecting more. So, it's hard to get people to come unless we do more. So, that's why our expenses are kind of up because you have to have all these balloons. You have to have all these cool themes for people to want to go. It's getting harder for me. I mean, like freshman year, I feel like it was a huge thing and now that we're seniors, it feels like we're the only people that really want to go anymore. So, it's harder to get younger people to want to go to these things. That's why we do the blackout dances. That's why we add themes and do all this cool stuff. Um, bake sales great way. There's no expense to it normally. Gets a lot of money going. I will say that a color run was one
023of our biggest things that we spent a ton of money on and we didn't make too much of profit. I don't know if it's something that we'll do in the future just because of how expensive it was. And I think the community wasn't too aware of it. So maybe if we got it out quicker or maybe gave a more um detailed plan to it, more people would go. But it definitely was fun for the people who went, but it was a huge expense. And then also the snow cones barely made any profit off of that. And I think maybe our um target audience wasn't the best. I mean, little kids, you know, their parents already spending a lot of money at that Ramfest and it might be harder, but maybe at snowcoming or homecoming, if
024we do it, we'll have a lot more people who want to do that and want to buy it. But overall, I think this year we did a great job um raising a ton of money and I think that it shows that people do enjoy going to what we do and what we present to them. It's just a little bit harder to get I don't know a lot of people to go unless we do a lot of things which means spending a lot of money. Fair enough. Um, so we were also here last year. Um, and during last year's presentation, we asked for quite a few things. Um, our main thing was Sorry. Um, our big thing was desks and chairs, like the connecting desks. Um, we also asked for like outdoor activities, um, drinking fountains,
025which we know that that is very hard. Um, and our outdoor picnic tables and we would like to thank you for this is very um for donating um to our outdoor activity fund um with our new Gaga pit. It's really helpful to have something to actually like play with. So, we very much appreciate that. Um and I know our gym teacher does too cuz he struggled spending his own money to buy new equipment and everything. So, your donation is very appreciated. Thank you. It can bring up the PDF. Make it smaller. Just delete the student survey. What's that? Student survey. You guys don't have to memorize. Um, a lot of memory. Kidding. Yeah, wrong box. Control Z. Control Z. I'm just going to delete this whole thing. All right. Go. There it is. Do you
026want me to put it on slideshow? I was going to adjust the questions. Go ahead. Sorry. Uh, we put out a student body survey where we asked questions and people like rated each of the questions and our first question was how well do you think student council represented your voice this year? Question two was, how satisfied were you with the schoolwide events and activities this year? Question three was how much do you think the school improved overall this year compared to last year? Question four was, "What kind of school or districtwide events would you like to see more of next year?" Question five was, "What's one area where you felt the school could improve and what specific suggestions do you have?" You sorry. Plus you. Um, here are the results for those questions. Um, question
027one had the student body gave student council a 3.27 out of five. presentation come voice this year. Question two, this year the student body gained an average of 3.67 out of five for schoolwide events and activities. Question three, the student body gave student council a 3.4 out of five for student school improvements this year. Question four, the student body would like to see more assemblies, events, dance, and attendees. And question five, the student body feels the school could have more field trips, better lunch, and more communication and to be heard. In the 2025 2026 school year, student council plans to develop a communication plan where all students feel heard. Two, plan and coordinate more events throughout the school year to keep students involved. and three establish meetings with students and administration on regular basis for
028collaboration, communication and approval of events in a timely manner. Great. Perfect. I'll just move this one up real quick, guys. You can read the first one and after you do the others for the time council would like to ask for a meeting with services to see how we can achieve online. If some feedback, student council that more movie opportunities such as those for tennis challenges would be beneficial to the student body as well as the district alone. The students enjoy being with their friends doing something council would like the board to support us in giving more room for dances so that we can get the student body. The student body would like to ask for the consideration of hiring more teachers for elective and science classes. Having the English, math, and science teachers have elective
029classes could also be a great way to solve this. Our biggest ask from the school board is to establish a high school that educational experiences outside of the school. Thank you. Any questions? When did they take the survey? When did that when did you About a month ago? Just about a month ago. Just recently. Yeah. was there, excuse me, specific complaints about the lunch? I think it's mostly the proportions. I mean, we're getting the same proportions as like primary students. And I know for us who are athletes, that's a lot harder, especially if we can't go home before practice or go home before the bus leaves. It's hard to get our parents or anyone to pack us extra stuff or go somewhere before we leave. Fair idea. And oh, sorry. Uh, so there's also like
030a like a new food every single day. And sometimes uh it sits out too much, so it doesn't really look that appetizing. And like today, it was mashed potatoes and uh chicken nuggets, and I was going to get it, but the mashed potatoes looked pretty dried up, so I didn't really want to get that. So So yeah. there and the kinds of things they put on our um travel cultural food. It's like there's some like spicy food or like it's just I don't think anybody would really choose it and I think they have a problem with people wanting that out of it cuz it's like weird like differentiating spices. You you you don't want to explore, you just want to come eat. Yeah. I need some mashed potatoes. I don't want chicken. It's probably hard
031with like high school kids that didn't have that when they were younger because younger kids are really like trying it and I came here for the middle school raving about it. So, thank you so much for your feedback though. Yeah. Okay. Uh, and then sometimes, so it's happened to me like once or twice, but um, whenever you're like last in line for lunch and you go up there to get the food, uh, usually like the burgers and stuff are all ran rent uh, ran out. And maybe somebody doesn't want a burrito, but they also don't want the other stuff that's underneath the lamp. There's nothing really left to do. And like the salads, too. I mean, I don't think anybody really wants salad. I mean, fill them up. Mileshead. The thing I have to add
032to that is like that we have like so much variety of all this, but it's like there's not very much of each thing. So like if a lot of people want one thing, it'll be instantly gone. Yeah. I think they um overestimated how many people want the cultural difference. I think it's a really good thing, but I think that shouldn't be our main course for the day. And also like the salads. I used to eat the salads. They used to come in these huge bowls. Now it's literally this open like container that's this big. The Bosco sticks used to be a great hit. Got two huge things. They're this small now and they're like not even the regular Bosco sticks. So now that's something that people don't even want anymore cuz they're so tiny and
033it's just it's getting out of hand. The review at the primary when we had lunch because everybody raves about them and I have to agree. I was like why did you read these? It's just unfortunate you guys don't have any ideas on what you'd like to see different. Very well put together. That's great. Also, the sides run out really quick. Like got a lot of opinions on it. Can you tell they just came from practice? You're a little hungry. They're ready to go home and eat. keep saying over the announcements and it's like cultural. It's like I I don't even know how to say half the things. It's really hard. I'm like I'm going to butcher this. Next publishers potentially different presentations, right? Oh, that's fair. Any other questions? Yeah. Very well done. Great. Great
034job. [Applause] Hang on. Suck it in. Pull it back out. Pull it back out. They make some good points about portion size. I think here you go. Thank you very much. Hand it over. Yes, ma'am. Take him anywhere. Thank you guys. Next up, we have the high school ALC field. Now that everybody's gone. Yeah, right. Talk about food. Yeah. What kind of food do you want on a field trip? I agree though. They do not get enough food down there. It is not enough. Like I It's not It's not It's just not okay. Huh? I did presentations. I didn't make a PowerPoint. All is well. Not. Thank you very much. Wow. Does it seem like right now? I have two things. I have two things. I don't want to wait. You know what? There's one
035serve everybody else. Do you feel like you're always nine? But you will notice halfway through your second page that I got a little crazy with the highlighter. So, some of you have different highlights. You know, sometimes it happens. You'll get there. Oh, you Oh, no. It's on the It's on this one on page two. It's not in color. You'll notice I did not copy in color. Thank you for saving for other things. We do need to get you a new highlighter cuz this one's probably No, right. I It's Yeah. Anyways, okay. So, sorry that I'm super late. Um in my brain, I don't necessarily always count Toledo as a different state. So, that started the problem. Are you? Yeah, that's why. That explains a lot. No. From Ohio? Heck no. No. From the other side
036of the state. I'm from the other side of the state. That's how I feel about Canada, too. I never think it's another country because I grew up going there all the time and so I'll be like, "Wait, it's Oh, yeah. I've been to Mark." Anyways, sorry I get dressed. Move forward. So, um I've been here a few times before every year. So, you remember I run Java the Hut the coffee cut shop. So exciting. We bought our wood last week. So, we're going to be building starting hopefully next week or the week after. I'm really excited. Um anyway, so we run Java of the Hut and the proceeds from Job of the Hut go to those four ALC students. ALC is the alternative learning curriculum. Um, so those four students learn this is what their
037program is for learning. So this is why I gave this to you. So what you're used to seeing is like the um what are they standards the I don't know what we call them or your core standards. Common core standards. Yeah. All those things. So we follow this for them this whole big packet. So, this sets them up to go on to the young adult program um after they leave us or to MCTI if that's an option depending on where they're at based on need. Right. So, um last year, I don't know if you know, we remember we went to Great Lakes Crossing and we got to go to Legoland and the Aquarium and Rainforest Cafe and we went to this massive arcade that's like as big as the school and we went to dinner
038on the way home and we did all like it's it's an event, right? and we kind of let them run the show. So, they get to decide where they're going, but then they have to like figure out how much is it going to cost, how are we going to get there, what are we going to do, how far away is it, how all the things, right? So, they kind of plan a trip and they always start with something super super grand, right? So, we started out this year going to like I can't remember what random country and we're going to fly there on a jet. Clearly, the board did not approve us buying a jet this year, so we had to nick that plan. Um, and we kind of go back down into like reality,
039right? So I, my sister is a vette at Toledo Zoo. So I was like, "Oh, we should go to the zoo because maybe Megan will take us to cool places at the zoo." Right? So I call my sister and of course she's super excited and she's like, "Oh my god, we're going to go on a hospital tour and we're going to go behind this and we're going to check out this." And she's so excited cuz she gets to walk us around all day long, right? And I'm her big sister, so I'm sure she's pretty excited about that. So we decided to go there. Um, they really want to go to Chicago. So, next year I'll be here at some point. Maybe I'll try to do it like in like November or something so I don't
040forget. They're a big senior trip because they'll be seniors next year. So, they're a big senior trip. They really want to go to Chicago. They really want to ride the train. They want to do all the cool stuff. They want to stay in a hotel. I'm not sure what senior trip will look like next year for the rest of the district. So, I'm not sure that that will be something that we go on, but I think that we they really want to do this trip, right? So, we'll go do that. So, we're going to try to save some money this year to help for next year's trip because that is expensive. We did look into that and it's like a couple thousand dollars for the six of us to go or whatever. So, um so
041we decided to go to Toledto Zoo and we have a little bit of an inn. Right. So, cost. Next page. Um the cost for our trip. Um we one asked AFGAC for $200 to help with costs. So, tickets are $32 a piece. However, with our secret hookup, we don't have to pay to get in. So, yay us. That's amazing. So, that saved nine people, you know, tickets. So, that's really exciting. Um, we do though definitely want to feed the drafts and ride the carousel and take the train, ride, right? Because of course, we're going to do all the fun stuff even if we were paying, but we don't have to pay also, so even better. Um, so those are the costs for that. We will be eating lunch at the zoo. We will need to
042eat dinner on the way home. And then we will ask them for um to bring money for souvenirs. However, because we are getting in for free and this is the money that they put in all this work all year for shopping and budgeting and all those things, we will give them money for a souvenir once we get there and figure out what's an acceptable amount, right? Because I don't know how much stuff costs there. It's probably $50 for a 4 in stuffed animal. I don't know. Um transportation we put in for uh the busing place to let us use a van. I don't they're not going to drive me. I I got we're good. Um academic curriculum. So this is where my academic alignments. This is where that document comes in. So the first page
043is all employment stuff. Yes, some of those we'll touch on, but we're not focused on like your job when we're there. We're focused on the community and how we function there. So you really won't start seeing it until you get to the second page. And then so some of them I started highlighting every line. Some of them I just started highlighting sections because I like went over because it was becoming crazy. So like all community skills, recreation, leisure, basic skills, shopping. So I mean these are all even basic things like what do you do if you're lost? How do you make plans? How do we appropriately ask somebody how to get somewhere? Um if it's a crazy environment, which is can be a loud environment, what do we do if we're overwhelmed? And h how
044do we take a break? How do we ask for a break? How do we follow the directions in a social setting? Right? These are all things that not all of our students, believe it or not, get to do on a daily basis. Um, we have some students that really don't leave the house. So, these are big events for them. It's may seem like not a lot to us just to go to the zoo and walk around and it's a lot for them. Um, also the stamina of the time of walking. Um, we don't do anything fast. Um, we got about an hour of decent walking and then and but like maybe half an hour and then then we're kind of slowing and then we have to at least have a 20 minute break. We just
045don't walk like that, right? Toddlers walk faster than us old people, but anyways, but we're talking about muscle tone and stuff like that. Um, so a lot of social and personal skills. So, self-awareness, strength, challenges, like I said, seeking help, communication, ordering at a restaurant. Some of our kids up until we started doing this had never even ordered at a restaurant and just kind of look at me like you want me to do what? You want me to tell who? Yeah, sorry. You want to eat today? We got to ask, right? So, we work on that. Uh, and then decision-m, conflict resolution, and interpersonal relationships. So, you guys could read through all those sections. That's why I provided it. But this is the big thing of what we follow. So, a lot of the things
046that we're doing, we want to meet these the best we can. So that way when they leave us they can be as independent as they can be in their future, right? Like our goal is to get them out of their parents house even if that's in a house where someone is like where you rent the room and someone is still feeding like ROI kind of I don't know if you know what that is but um as in as possible right some kids will go to an apartment. Some kids won't get that far but we want them to be able to do as much as they can. Um, and then so our trip plans, uh, the zoo opens at 10. It's a two hour and seven minute drive. We'll leave the high school about 8 o'clock
047after we've had breakfast. Um, the zoo closes at 4 right now. I don't know if it changes on May 1st. I didn't see that online, but it might till 5. We'll stay the whole day or at least as long as our stamina allows. Um, and then we'll have to stop on the way back home to get dinner and then parents will pick up somewhere between 7 and 8:00 PM. So, my question to you is, I have to drive to Toledo, which is not in the state of Michigan, so I need permission to leave this cuz I forgot. Lindsay was like, "Oh my gosh, this is going to be so much fun." Oh, wait, Chris, that's out of state. Oh yeah. Well, that's what I asked. I'm like, "What's up with Teresa and Leo Zoo? I've
048never been there. Do we need to go?" And she said, "Sister works there." And I was like, "Oh, wow. That's amazing. It's a new event. It's a good zoo. Yeah. And I'm excited that we get to have like so like she's like got it on their calendar like on their hospital at work. She's like a school tour. They're like people were like um we don't do school tours. She's like well it's my sister. It's really only like four kids and like so she's got us hooked up. So as long as no animals have any major emergencies and she's in surgery, which does happen because there's only two for the whole zoo or this other girl. So then um if you've ever seen any Toledto Zoo videos, she's on there all the time on Facebook. Awesome.
049So anyways, thank you very much. That's my presentation. Thank you. Thank you very much. Don't do you have any questions? Is that there's nine total going otherwise? Yeah. So we take all we generally take all of the special ed staff because they all work on this all year long. So it's the one year where we all go together to do our one trip. That's why. So I it is an uneven proportion amount adults to students but these are the people that work with them every day and work on this shop all day. So we did we just pick one time for everybody to go. So with one van though uh we will take a personal vehicle without students in it. Staff will have to take Gotcha. We've got that. Yeah. We're just going to take
050someone else's. You are already fully funded or you're still working on um Yeah. So, um, ASAC said that they would give us $200 and Laura and I are working that out because we're not paying for tickets. So, because Laura was like, "Okay, well, what can I just buy online?" And I was like, "Not nothing." So, we're working out that piece and then we have money that we earn through coffee shop um for whatever's left over. Um, next year though when we go to Chicago that maybe that's going to be a little more expensive. We earn couple hundred. I mean, we don't earn a ton of money with coffee shop because they use their money they make to buy next week's supplies, right? So, they're not like rolling in this dough. There's no like um so
051next year may be different, but we're working on it. Awesome. Front says tips for Chicago. Right. Right. And and people ask like what is the money for? I'm like, oh, field trips. Field trips. That's all I feel like that's all I ever fun. But it's fun. That's that's all that matters. Good for the kids, right? Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have a superintendent update on Stop it. I saw that. Okay, so I have um I didn't make copies of this tonight. It was real short and sweet. It's just boring talking about it. So, okay. So, strategic plan update uh for this second year. We're coming up on the end of this school year. So, there'll be a recap of um year two and then strategic plan year three coming out over in August's
052um newsletter and then in our RAM announcer that month, too. So, anyway, increasing student awareness and accountability for negative behaviors. Uh we have our first parent enrichment class this Thursday. So, we're excited to see the turnout for that. We're getting some food and snacks for the parents and partnering with integrated services of Kamazoo to do that learning. So, that'll be exciting. Um and then we are currently in a assessment period of analyzing our whole child. We did a good job of creating it. Now we implemented it and tried to build some capacity this year and we were kind of in a lull I'd say. So we need to reassess where we're going with whole child um and figuring that out. So um one way we're going to do that is through our mentors and mentees
053program. So we have um Kim Jinowski and Misty Piper who are our mentor leaders. And so we had a meeting this morning to assess the things that have gone well with that as from Theresa King. We delegated to the teachers now, how do we keep it awesome and what things do we need to improve? So we're going to work on that come June once we're done with all of those things. Um the career readiness opportunities. So we have outstanding achievement awards coming up. When is that Kayleen? Two weeks from now, three weeks from now, a month from now. It's in the next month. Um, so we go to Rison and we celebrate some of our students in the CTE uh program and then we've also got our career champions innovation so showcase. So Bethany Stanton
054and the high school team has done a ton of work around our workforce Wednesdays and so we're going to highlight that at this um career champion innovation showcase which Amy mentioned um that they're doing a lot with career readiness and having speakers and partnering with Eaton but also we're taking that youth solutions and we're expanding it and aligning it down into middle school as well. So, we have funding and some plans in place for workforce Wednesdays at the middle school. And then increasing opportunities for staff engagement. We're currently looking at um our fame and our myip and how do we align it and then how do we take our Wednesdays and use that time for that work so that we're providing more for teachers timewise but still doing the same hard work that we've done
055outside of school for that. So, that's our strategic plan update. Uh a couple things around budget. We are currently working around staffing and funding and trying to figure out that puzzle because we don't know what funding is going to look like for next year. So, there's been a couple things, you know, I we were supposed to spend $11,000, which doesn't sound like a lot, on vapes and I'm like, nope, we might have to do that for a title person depending on what happens next year. So, we're just kind of pausing our spending at this point, obviously, and then looking and finding what funds we're going to get so that we can make sure that we're keeping and maintaining the systems that we have. Safety um we have finished up our safety district meetings for the
056year. Our last one was a month ago, but we have um our we're gearing up to look at our emergency action plan. It has been updated each year with new names, things like that. It doesn't the plan itself doesn't change too much, but we're going to um really align it with that I love you guys organization that we did the reunification with. We're going to look at their emergency planning for that and see if we can simplify it a little bit. So, that is going to be my summer project. Um along with Frank and Ben um Bond Stadium, we have a med we have to talk with Philip here shortly about uh Philip Clark from Trun about our mediation and for the stadium and then we a couple more things for some pre-bond work because
057I know that we're in that limbo right now. Elite, Triangle, and GA are going to meet to look at the and assess what it would take to renovate the bus garage versus build a bus garage so that we've got that data and that information of what could we salvage versus couldn't we? And then do we go out for a bond if and when we find a triangle? I'm sorry. Tower pink, sir. Sorry. Okay. I was just going to ask. It's too many. It's too many moving pieces. Look at I was like, wait to I heard it. No. My brain was still trying to figure out, wait, is that wrong or is that right? So, transportation, we've requested our transportation prices for next year. They have increased. Philip and I are meeting to figure out our
058navigation of that and going forward. Um facilities, we have contingency funds still for like our multi-purpose and stadium for this pass bond. So we have green light Philip or I'm sorry, Frank is bringing in a guy to look at we're looking at tables and chairs tomorrow for our multi-purpose space because we can't use that space unless we can actually sit in it and use it. we've and it's too much to get tables from every single building and chairs from every single building when we want to use it so we're going to um be purchasing something for the multi-purpose room and then technology forecast I just wanted to give you guys highle overview um in 2324 we spent about $44,000 on technology for that year this school year it was approved to spend $117,643 on technology
059and then going forward to next year we are going to Um, we had a like $110,000 forecasted, but we went through that list, assessed needs, what could weight, and what doesn't need to be spent. Um, and so we are going to be I think it's projectors we have to do and then adapters so you can project to the equipment. So, it'll be about $44,000 in total for this year versus the 110 because that's an opportunity to potentially save a little bit if we can prolong some things and if we do get bond funds, maybe we could use it towards technology as well. So, that's the game plan there. Um, Philip did bring to my attention that there is a capital projects of $37,000 to that was put away over the last handful of years and
060so we are going to use that to offset this school year, the 2425 school year. Um, so we have to approve that in a resolution tonight. So, do I need to bring that up now or do I is that later? We have discussion. Okay, perfect. So, that's technology forecasting overview. Uh, if you would want to see any of our athletes that are signing for college, we are doing a signing day on April 28th at the high school library. You're welcome to come. If you want me to, I can put you on the invite. Um, and then I feel like I'm rushing. Is that like during the day or? No, it's right at 2:45ish, I think. So, it's right at the end of the school day. Uh, we've got decision day going on at the high
061school. So, that's going to be where kids decide whether they're going to go to Rogers Refrigeration or whether they're going to go to this work at this company or whether they're going to go to this college. And then we highlight that, make a little video. I'm working on state of the district. That's going to have data, finances, projections, and forecasts for things. That was an idea that we had in our board governance meeting. I really like that. I think that's important to have a page that highlights highle overview of where we are in the district and where we're going. Um, oh, KCS SOA, I hope I said it right. That is coming up at the end of the month. And if we if we reserve a spot and we don't go, we have to pay
062for it. I don't have the date memorized, guys. I can't keep dates memorized right now. Um, but so we have to if we are a CP, we we can let them know, then we don't have to pay for it. But if we are a CP and say we're going, we do have to pay for the $45. The next one, I believe, is that the C the Career Tech Center. Yep. I'll put that in my weekly update and update you guys on that as well. And she's getting recognized. Yeah. Oh, that's fancy. Yeah. Reach her level two boards. Okay, cool. Good job. Yay. Um, we have a Gailsburg virtual academy graduate coming to our next board meeting to be celebrated. So, we're going to put a gown on them, get a picture, you guys will we'll
063do the whole diploma thing. So, that'll be our first experience with that. That's pretty cool. Where do they live, Amber? I don't know. Far away. So, they're coming to to that meeting. We have teacher appreciation week coming up. Uh you guys are doing bagels I believe is what we said. Um so we've got that on the calendar that's going to go out. It's different day at each building where you guys are providing bagels for the uh teacher appreciation. Um we filled all of our slots at the high school for our career tech ad. Yep. I we were going to have to pay for it whether we filled it or not. So I'm super proud of our high school counselor. She nailed it. It was off to work. So we're proud of her. Um, I think
064that's kind of it. There is a DEI letter that was went out in a memo from the state. I did get an email from a parent asking, "Are you going to sign this and where do you stand ethically on this?" And so I reached out to the superintendent at K Reese and I'm like, "What is the state signing this on our behalf or are the districts that the local level signing this?" Because it is could be the difference maker of funding or not funding and could be a new you know case or whatever. So at this point it was um what's the word postponed and then we are looking to see if the state's going to do on our behalf and then where that basically Dedric at county level is going to be working with
065um attorneys to see and get guidance for the rest of us. So just wanted to keep you in tune on that. I did receive an email from a parent and so it's could be the conversation out there but um I responded back that we are held to state and federal law and so we're following that because that's what we're expected to do. Um, executive orders and memos are suggestions at this point. So, we're giving um attorney feedback on what to do. Perfect. Okay, that's all I have. Um, next up we have business items for discussion. Um, monthly budget discussion. All right. High school um ALC field trip. Do we have any discussion on that? Um, expenditures for the tech project fund. Yes, that's what we have to hold on. I I got a little paper
066back here. So, we we have a resolution for the use of funds from the tech project funds. So, it's an total of $37,538 um to offset I think it was a purchase of Chromebooks for $81,000 some change dollars. So, we just have to have our secretary sign this to make this happen. Any questions for that? So that was funds that was set aside for that. Is that what you're saying? So I what I think is if I recall Philip's conversation is prior or during COVID when we had to purchase all that technology. It was like okay, we have all these things. We're going to have to replace them down the road. So let's start to put some money away for that. I don't know the consistency of it. I don't know if it was a
067onetime chunk. I don't know the history, but I can get that for you if you're interested. Um but we've got 37,000 just chilling right now that's allocated to this. we have it to offset. So, let's just use it. I think that wasn't that long ago then if it was for Chromebook replacements that we discussed that. Okay. Thank you. That's where this is buy new ones, replace ones that are dead, broken, and need replaced, right? I think in the last couple years they started putting money. Yeah, they don't last forever. I'm just we're not on adding or we they're already spent. We had this money sitting over here for a rainy day. Rather than having it being a rainy day right now because our budget is needing to be offset, we're going to use those funds
068to make up the little bit of a gap that we have. $17,000 was a lot to be spent on technology this year. Hopefully well spent. It was Yeah, it's already decided. So I saw it was done and over with. Very good. Let's move on. Okay. Up next, we have the ISD elections and we don't know who they're going to be next. No, I we talked about this today at the superintendent's uh meeting though. There's going to be I think there's only one person that's going to be out and so that name will be released on the 5th. My suggestion and I put in the U weekly update was to do a 15minute small special meeting, look at that name, appoint one of us to go be the voter and vote for that person or whoever
069we decide. Either of you guys do that before vote. Okay. Is everybody cool with a special meeting then? 5:45. Okay. Um, first reading of policy 0144.1. So I think there was some confusion with Chris. I I got feedback from all of you about the number of meetings. Everybody was pretty consistent with 31. Individual said 28 or 30. I just went with the 30 as majority. Um, and asked um Chris to draft this and he put it in he had it put into policy. So he said you could use the one waiver or the policy waiver to do a first reading tonight and then accept it tonight if that's what we want to do. Okay. So then we'd have to make a motion to Yeah. which is in here. I believe motion for it doesn't really
070matter when we approve this cuz we're going to get paid at the end. So correct. I think I these are what I was kind of worried about. Oh okay. You know so I don'tated it. Okay. So, is everybody okay with making a motion to suspend that rule? I get to that part. Um, this this Oh, it's that this is this is the this is the policy that we're going to in put in place to be able to one time this one. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Um, thank you. Um, everywhere. Any other questions on this? Okay. Uh, board government standards of practice 2025. So, in our board governance meeting, we discussed having um standards of practice. So, is this in their packet, Amber? Okay. So, what I what I would suggest to us as a team
071is to look at this now that we've got it in our hands, make some chicken scratch on it, see what we like, see what we don't like, and then have time over the next few months to create one as a team. Um, because I think this is an inherited board of standard of practice. So, I don't know how we go about doing standard practice, but yeah, maybe we can just add it to one of our take some time and add it to a meeting like a month from now or something. do it every so often. Yeah, sounds great. Um, [Applause] okay. Next up, we have communications. Um, public participants. Does anybody want to say anything? There's no one on there. Me to cross myself off because I didn't have to get on there. Okay. Thank
072you. Um, business items for decisions. High school ALC field trip. I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the high school ALC field trip request to the Toledo Zoom. I'll support. Any further discussion? Roll out, please. Yes. Uh, yes. Sh. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries 6. Next up, we have expenditures from the tech project fund resolution. I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to adopt the resolution for the use of funds from the tech projects fund authorizing the total available fund balance of the fund to be applied to the cost of 265 student HP Chromebooks. I'll support. Thank you. Any further discussion? Roll call vote, please. Yes. Yes. Davidson, yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. So, we need to um make an amendment to the agenda um to add that policy.
073I was supposed to tell you to do that at the beginning, but I was worried about hearing. So, could somebody make a motion to do that? What? I'll make a motion to amend the agenda to add in the policy 0144.1 the policy 0144.1 to our agenda under section nine nine I'll see Cubian I'll support Um roll call vote please. Shute yes. Meltzer yes. Davidson yes. Yes. Wils yes. Tren yes. Motion carries 6. Um now I will entertain a motion for the first reading of policy 144.1. Do I have to do this one first? Suspend the one first. Yeah. Well, you have to make a motion to suspend it and approve it. Oh, okay. So, I'll motion. to right am I reading the right motion to resolve the GA excuse me a motion to resolve that
074the GACS board of education temporarily suspend bylaw 0131.1 effective until the next regular meeting of the board of education and and then can you just say and approve policy and approve oh motion to approve and adopt the revisions to policy 0144.1 increasing board compensation to 30 meetings per Yeah. All support. Thank you so much for Okay. Roll call vote, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries 6. Um, next up we have close session. So, we'll take a short break to everybody and shut the door. I'd like to make a motion to go into close session. Thank you. under the open meetings act to consider a letter from an attorney dated April 16th, 2025 for the reason that the letter is exempt from disclosure under state law due to the attorney client privilege. I would
075like to make a motion to go into close session under section 81H of the open meetings act. I'll support. Okay. Roll call vote, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries 6.