001[Applause] [Music] all right we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order Rachel here Katie here Sarah here Doug here Lori here Carrie here here all right if everyone will stand for the Pledge of Allegiance which will be led by uh the chamber singers and then we'll remain standing for a moment of silence for armed services personnel and our guests are coming in right now sorry I was rounding up the cats you're just fine you did good they're all following my favorite meetings when we bring up singers in my fault yeah I did it wrong cat the cats are doing fine but the shepherd's not doing well leer cat trainer leer had a long long musical weekend like they did so sure they know how to do it just let flag behind you turn around
002Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you Mr glass you have the all right can we entertain you for a few minutes yes please please all right so this is the high school chamber singers with the audition group an satano alha base group uh they recently performed at um at District Coral Festival where they received a division one rating which is excellent made them eligible for State F so they've got a couple songs we made them a little bit shorter so we don't take up too much of your time but we hope you enjoy this first one is the road home and it is it was written as for a uh a
003wedding anniversary so it's a sweet little poetic love song [Music] tell me where is the road I can call my own that I that I lost so all these years I have Wonder oh will I know there's a way there's a that will lead me home [Music] rise up follow me come is the call with the your heart as the s there is no such beauty as you Bel up follow me I will you home [Music] and the second song is called Ad Astra it's based off of the Kansas state motto um which is to the Stars so it's Latin mixed in with English um but they'll sing the English translation of the Latin so you'll hear that um bases real quick can you back up around a little bit deal just to help with
004that and go back a little bit this one is normally uh accompanied by piano so they're going to try it AC cappella they've done it before so we'll see how it goes [Music] to the Stars to the star [Music] when you're tired and and you have lost your way don't let you you may be we just you're not alone for the Stars will go you [Music] all be [Music] to the to the to the Stars to the [Music] stars for behind [Music] nicely done [Applause] do you guys have any more competition do you so State Festival is either going to be may I want to say it was 6th or 7th uh got to finish getting signed up for that and get a date for it uh the middle schoolers are also joining chamber singers
005for that they uh they also got division one ratings so we've got that to look forward to in early May and then the concerts uh may I think 20th and 22nd where is States at uh it is at Sagen Valley State University okay this year so wonderful that was awesome you guys great the piano good luck at your States thank you for coming and then if you guys will all just come down and Shake Your Hands please yes that'll be just fine well done thank you congrats on the ones congratulations sound wonderful great job thank for job today thank you congrat on the thank you for coming job see you again great great job thank you for coming great job thank you sound amazing thank you amazing group great job for coming tonight appreciate it
006apprciate you thank you thanks for thanks for coming see you great job see you guys some wonderful wonderful job again well done thank you good job thank you thank you for being here wait are you a senior yeah I was say you've been here like every year I've been here we're going to lose you which is two years we don't want to lose you okay year a couple of those kids you see them here every year they're so good oh yeah all right are there any items to be added or change to the agenda there's not recognition is acknowledgement new staff no new staff here okay building uh updates Mr Bram you have the floor you have the podium our new Podium Podium okay yeah we got to make sure we we use it um
007so obviously you met our our chamber singers uh so we're going to start with that not only did um they compete but we also hosted so not only did they get to sing but they also had to greet multiple families and uh schools across the state that were coming to to compete with us and I always say they conducted themselves as true Blue Devils um and so that kind of ties to the slide there where we call we call it the blue double agreement we've been um attempting to kind of tie this in in a catch fire method um but it's just kind of three staples right being safe physically and emotionally speaking up but most importantly working as a team and when you have so many moving Parts going on we've got academics going
008on we've got families from all over the place schools coming in during a school day um and so keeping security high but also being welcoming is kind of difficult so our our students were able to do that for all of them so just want to touch on that the other big thing is I could talk a lot about robotics but if I start to explain it it it's hard because this year the the stem program it it's it's tied into what they call um it's like a reef project so it's looking at utilizing stem in more of an oceanographer type thing but obviously we can't have kids scuba diving so um they kind of create scenarios so I was hoping to share that YouTube slide with you and then um also just kind of show
009you our robot welcome to the 2025 first robotics competition game Reef skap presented by hops two alliances of three teams each compete to earn points by harvesting algae seeding coral on their reef and returning to their barge to ascend to the ocean surface alliances earn additional rewards for meeting specific scoring thresholds and for cooperating with their opponent prior to the start of the match teams can choose to hang a shallow cage or a deep cage on their barge robots start each match at their starting line and may be preloaded with one Coral during the first 15 seconds of the match robots are autonomous and can be programmed to leave the starting line remove algae from their reef and Place Coral on their Reef if all enabled robots on an alliance lead the starting line and
010score at least one Coral in Auto the alliance earns the auto ranking point during the following 2 minutes and 15 seconds of the match drivers control their robot robots can place algae in their net and collect Coral from Human players at their Coral station to place on their wath Coral placed higher on the wreath are worth more points if an alliance can score enough coral on all four levels they will earn an additional ranking Point robots can also deliver algae to their processor once processed the algae can be taken by the opposing human player and scored into the net when two algae are delivered to each processor both alliances earn a co-op point the co-op Point reduces the number of coral needed on the wreath to earn the ranking point and influences A team's rank
011in the tournament as time Runs Out robots race back to their barge to hang on their cage and Ascend to the ocean surface points are awarded to robots that can hang on a shallow cage and even more points are awarded to robots that can hang on a deep cage an alliance that scores enough barge points will earn the barge ranking point the alliance that earns the most points overall wins the match so there's no way I could done that Learners that's prob a little more helpful um the the images that I have there I don't know if you want to um if you can see them very well I kind of had it like an animation sort of setup but um our robot is is is the red bubbled thing right now their um transmission
012can't take the weight of the lever so they're currently in the process of moving the motor to a different spot to be able to generate more power so I was watching them try to sus that out to today and a little bit last week um the back corner um had a a young man from St Mary's as a foreign exchange student he was working on the cage part and then we've got four other students two of them female the rest male um you know so it's a small team uh but we've got you know both groups being represented which is huge their big goal is to increase uh you know more involvement so we're advertising a lot more trying to get it out to parents just because I think some of our students are a
013little gun shy um but we''ve even had had I mean a student transfer from another school because robotics is kind of what he want to do so it's very cool watching them kind of figure out and uh you know they went and watched the last competition so now they have a better strategy um the last group that they watched they scored big time points in the algae portion and they thought their whole strategy was going to be around Coral so now they're pivoting and kind of coming up with a different solution so kind of cool to watch them work that out and you know our our uh you know stem coaches that are sitting there going yeah let's do this let's do that big thing is we fail a lot in that and that's that's
014the best thing because we can learn from those F so that's what I got for today thank you thank carry out as much so Mr glass kind of let the uh cat out of the hat so our we had a good good month at the middle school with our band in choir so our seventh grade eighth grade band and both the choirs all got ones at District so the um and I don't think you I've been there a long time and I don't think that's ever happened you know we've had one or the other and the band I think it's been it's been a minute I mean it's been 10 years or so so they're going to compete down at Bay City Western High School I think May 1st and then the choir will be
015going like a week later great stuff congratulations is Carla okay Celeste you got um so I'm glad that Mr byon bled with his uh robotics program because to launch from that we had um a lot of Staff teachers and uh pair of professionals our IAS stay very late into the evening on February 28th so that was Friday before we would come back to school in March and they revamped I don't know if you've ever had an opportunity to see how decorated the school gets for March's rating month our theme this year is steam so full steam ahead for March's reading month so each section has there's like a science a technology an engineering each it section has a component that is represented in the hallways and we will have the Steam Museum this is vus
016has been working very hard um to coordinate this on on April 1st so we'll have a Hands-On kind of ending activity after break for our students uh to wrap up our March's reading month activities which of course revolves around our theme this year which is full steam ahead um another noteworthy thing uh North Ohio would be we had a family and this family periodically will bring things to school step in check in and they have not had students in our building in many years and so it's just really a testament to the relationships that people can build uh within their community and then with the families that attend our elementary schools and then carry those relationships through um as their students get older so just a testament I think again to the staff uh for
017making those connections and some hard data um our January Behavior referrals were down um from January to January by 38 so significant reduction in those Behavior referrals as a whole and our February's data is showing that uh we are down by 22 uh major referrals so that would be the the bigger kinds of behaviors that we see so again um a testament to the staff and everybody working together and uh coming together to ensure our kids are doing what they need to do thank you thank you oh yeah all right I'm back and Tina I'm a third grade teacher at sou Maple so I will be filling it for Diane um so first thing up if you guys go ahead and take a peek at the screen what have up there is our new um
018disposition which is rocks so our students are working hard to earn cert certificates which is what those are so if a teacher or staff member sees a student going above and beyond and showing Resolute or they're super organized or very Cooperative knowledgeable self-controlled that's what the r stands for then a teacher or staff member will give that student the referral sheet and they get recognized by walking in front of the office they feel so super cool and so awesome about that so that's one thing that we've been working on is um having our students rock or rocks um the next thing that we have up there is just to Showcase how well the book rooms curriculum is going that we had adopted and you guys had adopted for us and what she's going to have
019is if she can pull it up there we go is this is actually a kindergartener our our work piece that we have on display to show just how rigorous this curricul is and how much they are achieving in that so if you can scroll on yeah so they draw an illustration with it um as a third grade teacher I'm not too familiar with what they do in kindergarten but they've been working on their phonic skills and Samy is getting breakfast so they've been working on sounding that out and they have some really good work there um next he was playing at free choice so there are some spelling errors but they are phonetically correct which is what we are looking for in that kindergarten um Arena and then finally at the end of Samy's day
020it shows last he got ready for the buses so we thought that was a pretty cool piece to highlight how well the curriculum is going in kindergarten specifically but as a third grade teacher is it's really good and the kids are really enjoying all the different books and textbooks that they get in their hand instead of just one big Journal which is what we've had in the past and then finally to bounce off of what celest Ted said March's reading month is kicked off we are doing at South Maple dive into reading it's a nice ocean theme and just like she stated U Mr curay craft was one of our guest readers and we have several coming in as well but we have it decorated to the knives with a whole bunch of ocean um
021themed things yeah it's pretty cool they they really the staff really put some good work in um but we use March's reading month to help PTO raise funds for um field trips and stuff like that and to also Foster a Lev of reading and we have a schoolwide goal of 100,000 minutes to read as a school and so far we after one week we've hit already 30,000 of those minutes so we're well on our way awesome thank you oh Jeff um we're gonna have Carla is gonna give you a brief on the preschool oh okay yeah Carla you have the podium thank you hi my name is Carla Hawkins and I'm the program director for the preschool program and I was excited to share tonight as we kick off enrollment for the new year that
022just started this month we had an open house last Thursday and we had a huge turnout it was really exciting lots of new faces but also a lot of returning families with their children so that was a lot of fun just wanted to share that with you all thank you thank you thank you all right now we'll move on to our public input and just as a reminder at this meeting we have two uh public inputs you can either go now or go later and first up would be Larry Carell evening you know me as a spokesman for conservative values and the rights of families pardon me I V this out so I didn't mess it up I'm speaking to address your mission rather than your agenda I want to report to you today what
023I'm hearing and observing in our society in the midst of what might be called a newer political situation previously it was difficult to engage individuals in serious discussions regarding foundational principles of our constitutional republic currently you only need to be quiet listen and observe and you can find people engaged and over guiding principles or what should be happening in our country I'm happy to report that there is a strong element of a tenative engagement with the Affairs of our society and which principles and precepts should be informing our corporate public decisions people are less and less inclined to say oh let's just go along with what is happening there's a growing desire to know and understand our founding principles with the intent to restore them I'd like to remind you that we were intended to
024be a function as a constitutional republic our leaders are elected by the people to function on our behalf subject to basic principles of limited Authority in the Northwest Ordinance which I know you're familiar with there was a significant piece of legislation passed by the Confederate Confederation Congress of the United States a foundational document especially for the state of Michigan one of its notable Provisions address education reflecting the early American emphasis on knowledge and Civic development they said that religion moral this is a quote religion morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind schools and the means of Education shall forever be encouraged um I'm skipping part of this we like you to know that we need support and expect schools that enable our youth to read handle math possess a
025basic understanding of the world they live in that they might be good citizens and contribute to the general welfare of We the People please Faithfully execute the charge given you when you were elected to this board thank you thank you next up will be kieren Olen um I'm here to discuss food given to the kids in school again to follow up what I did before and since I was here last I noticed that vegetables have been added but that's not exactly how it works we need to feed kids only healthy choices in Japan the incidence of obesity um and overweight is 4% in America it's 40% they have a nutritionist in every school that is usually a teacher who's been trained extra and they only feed fresh healthy nonprocessed foods low in sugar salt refined
026carbs bad fats preservatives colorings pesticides herbicides Plastics BPA and all the stuff that we allow in this country if you give pancakes and syrup or uh French dose and syrup to kids what happens is their sugar the sugar goes up goes subnormal on a lot of kids and then in that state they're hyper they're irritable they can't concentrate they have a lot of problems if we gave as we should only uh high protein um good fat like uh olive oil and uh avocados you give eggs in some form boil scrambled little kiches um oatmeal with fruit and nuts and seeds plain yogurt with nuts and seeds or something blood sugar is steady kids don't have those symptoms so the way to not be obese is to eat only good food and not too much so
027I think that um rather than accept that what the government gives us for our Foods I think that we should explore changing the supply chain and mostly look and see if we can use local organic farmers and maybe uh like all these and stuff that have organic food um local Fisheries um and have a garden or the equivalent Hydroponics at every school have all the kids work in the gardens working in the nature in the soil is healthy for the brain and the body and uh studies show that if kids work in um growing the veget vegetables and stuff and preparing them they're more likely to eat them too so um I think I would have the kids help choose the menus and uh uh choose what they want to eat the next day to
028help the kitchen know what to prepare like the hospital gives you a menu what you're going to eat the next day we should do that with kids teach kids why these foods are healthy for them and if you want your student strains and bodies to work right you have to feed them right and I used to tell my patients um putting the wrong Foods into your body is like putting Jam in the gas tank of your car and wondering why it doesn't run right um if I got a smidgen of time left I'll tell you my daughter worked in Battle Creek as a teacher at 10 a.m. they had a they had a grant to have at 10: a.m. a food cart going around for kids to choose healthy snacks like apples and that work
029really great so that might be something to think about so okay thank you you that is all of our public input so we'll move on to the consent agenda we have board minutes from March 4th 2025 Treasures report general fund and athletic fund bills in the amount of 3.1 million cafeteria fund bills in the amount of 84,000 sying fund bills in the amount of 2,000 and prior period adjustments at zero that is the end of the consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda I'll second it any questions okay Rachel yes Katie yes Sarah yes Doug yes Lori yes Carrie yes je yes motion carries 7 all right we'll move on to new and unfinished business it is recommended that the board approve the bid proposal for the electronic locks from Grand
030Valley Automation in incorporated as presented I'll make a motion to approve the bid from Grand Valley automation for the electronic locks I'll second it questions on the electronic clocks for North Ohio and South Maple Rachel yes Katie yes Sarah yes Doug yes Lori yes Carrie yes jaff Weaver yes motion carries 7 Z all right uh Charter technology contract extension it is recommended the board approve the charter Technologies Incorporated contract July 2025 through June of 2030 as presented I will make the motion to approve the charter technology contract extension as presented I'll second questions okay Rachel yes Katie yes Sarah yes Doug yes Lori yes Carrie yes chck yes motion Carri 7 all right 24 2024 2025 budget amendment number one it is recommended the board approve the 2425 budget amendment number one resolution as presented
031I'll make a motion to approve the budget um amendment number one second any questions okay Rachel yes Katie yes Sarah yes Doug yes Lori yes Carrie yes Jack yes motion carries 7 Z that is the end of new and unfinished business we have no other public input we need one more motion I will make a motion to Jour I'll second it AR yes Doug yes we throwing us off no kidding yes Katie yes yes Sarah yes Lori yes thank you all for coming [Music]