MAPS Board Meeting of June 22, 2026

001All right, I'd like to call the meeting to order. We will start with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> Roll call, please. >> Kristen Campbenzi, >> here. Jennifer Ray >> here. >> Jason Zadun >> here. >> Jennifer Cliff, Cheryl Maddox Smith >> here, >> Cassidy Thomas, >> Eric Smith >> here. >> All right. And I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda. >> Make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Support. >> Okay. Motion made by Mr. Zidnick, support by Mr. Smith. All those in favor? >> I. >> Moving on to the superintendence report. >> Thank you, President Cam Benzy, and thank you all for joining

002us this evening. Have a few items, more than a few items under the superintendent report, but not most of it. Pretty much all of it is going to come from folks other than myself. So, we're going to start with couple reps from Mara, Dr. Smith and Eric Ziggler who are going to talk about a creative project that we've had in the works for some time and we've got some traction and they're going to give you a short update. So, gentlemen. Okay. Thank you, Superintendent Sedward. Uh I'd be remiss if I didn't take the moment to uh congratulate the board again on their effort to uh secure the dollars from the community uh for the bond. So excited about that and also excited as a parent of a brand new graduate. So I appreciate the leadership

003of uh the principles and and yourselves on the board and our superintendent. And it's through that leadership that we've come to this point in time. talk about this innovative partnership and it's it's been great to uh to sit down with uh Superintendent Sedwick, principles Rico and Johnson at the middle school and high school respectively and and to talk about what opportunities exist through career and tech education and and fortunately for us uh they've they've been receptive. They threw some ideas our way and and we've come to this point in time where we're exploring an opportunity that is um been kind of a long time coming. something that has been discussed a couple of administrations ago and and uh we've come to a point in time where we feel confident uh sharing with the board about

004this uh opportunity with market alresa market public schools. So I'll turn it over to Mr. Zitler. >> Sounds good. >> So I'll add um principal Conton as well. Um we have CTE construction trades at Marquette High School, Marquette Senior High School and Marquette Alternative High School now state certified career in teched and through a partnership with U Marquette Senior High School and Marquette Alternative High School along with Marquette Algera, we're looking at starting a pilot program uh to where we get our motivated uh Marquette students. I know they are I've got three myself. Um but to get them out into real world learning uh to work on um site with their instructors and partners from the community uh to uh get into a housing project and and looking at something to where we can really

005give back to the district and to that housing need that we all hear so much about in the community. So more to come. Uh just high level, we're uh we're looking at um having students working with instructors and um partners from the community, building partners from the community to take a look at a remodel of a house uh on Marquette property. So something that'll benefit the community, something that'll benefit uh our students, which is key uh to career and technical education. And in addition to those innovative programs that um that Dr. Smith talked about um we are also adding programming that's open to all Marquette students. We continue to support the great CTE that we have at Marquette. Uh but also getting into some new and innovative programming. We're going to start a program in

006artificial intelligence uh working with Northern. We're going to start a program in aviation. We actually partnered with Marquette uh last year to get that up and running and now we're going to host it at Sawyer Airport but open to Marquette students. an engineering tech program uh really grounded in our medical manufacturing world uh which is so big in our area but also um the broad range of engineering that we have and then getting into natural resources and um and taking a look at the great resources that we have in our area. So just thank you to the board, thank you to to Superintendent Sedick and and his leadership to Marcadel Jaresa with Dr. Smith and uh and moving forward to help our students and help our community which is is key to CTE. Just to

007add a little bit, we own multiple properties adjacent to Marquette Senior High School and one of those properties has been vacant for some time. the the house is tired to say a mildly mildly and we decided be you know rather than just rent it out as is that you know we take advantage of the opportunity to renovate and improve that property and then we can put it back back out on the market as a as a rental in much better condition and if this goes well there's potentially other opportunities that we'll save for another date but thank you Mr. Ziggler Ziggler and Dr. Smith for your support. Greatly appreciated. >> Thank you. >> Next up, I saw there she is, Mrs. W. Linda Winslow, who's here on behalf of the maps Education Foundation. I'm sure

008the board is aware of the wonderful work and support that the Ed Foundation provides to our students and staff. >> Good evening. My name is Linda Winslow and I'm currently the president for the Market Area Public Schools Education Foundation. I'd like to come at least once a year because I like you to kind of know what we're doing um because it involves all the students in our public school system which is pretty exciting. So, um I just want to remind everyone that um what we're what we're really about. So, the Market Area Public Schools Education Foundation's mission is to acquire funds and distribute financial and other resources for unique programs and activities that supplement and enhance quality learning opportunities for the students in Market Area Public Schools. So, it's a it's a lofty um mission

009statement, but I think we've achieved it over the years. And I wanted to share a little information about what's gone on this year. So, we have what I call four arms of the foundation. And so, I'd like to talk about those four arms a little bit. One of our arms is scholarships. So, we just did local scholarships. And some of you, I heard someone say they had a student graduate this year. And we've all had students that we know or are related to us graduate from this high school, including me and Kristen. and some of you other folks in the audience I'm sure graduated from school here and so we have 67 scholarship funds and awarded were 145 scholarships this year to 127 students. So that's amazing. So think about what that means to the

010students and what that means to our community. Okay, we're all involved in this. Those funds were set up by people in our community and they were set up to be gifts to our students. So, I did bring some brochures along. The um scholarship brochure looks like I won't show you the one I wrote all over, but it looks like this. It's on our website as well, but I brought a couple and I'll put them on the table over there when I leave. Another arm of our foundation is called um grants. So, every year we have a grant committee that evaluates what are called either short grants, small grants, or large grants. Large grants are up to $2,500. Small grants are up to $300. The people that apply for those grants can be teachers, staff, or

011students. And it's always exciting when the students apply because that means they've thought of a project that they feel is unique. So this year we had 37 grant requests. That's huge. That's huge. And so we awarded 32 of those requests, which again is huge. But that grant money, those grant funds have been set up by again members in our community. Okay? So someone's given money to support those grants for our students. Another arm of the foundation is called the Pendle Wall. And some of you may be familiar with that if you went to school here. That wall is down in the main area right before the gym. Take time and read those um bios. I'll call them the names of the people that were um awarded that particular honor. And that committee will be announcing

012who will be getting those awards this year soon. But last year there were two people awarded and one of them was Dan Tradell who is a musician. He graduated from our school. He doesn't live in our community any longer but he did graduate from our school and he came back and he held some concerts in our area. So maybe you were lucky enough to attend one of those. The other person was Steven Eldest Jardens. He is from the class of 1972. Um and he was not able to attend last year but I think he's coming this year. So you'll see him in the homecoming parade. Someone loans us a convertible and they go on the parade and that's kind of exciting for them, right? The last arm that I talk about is what's called our

013first to finish program. That particular program gives $50 from the foundation to every child who's in first grade. Some of you may have first graders that are now in seventh grade who will be going into eighth grade. So our first class is going into eighth grade next year. And that's amazing in my mind. We went through co we still gave the $50 and our bank partners, Incredible Bank and Range Bank give $10. So every student starts with $60. Now there is an opportunity for the students to learn a little bit about banking by taking some money that they've maybe earned or grandma's gave them or mom gave them for picking up the trash or who knows what. they can bring that money to the bank and the bank then um talks about how that deposit

014happens and what happens with their money. It's their money when they graduate. So the key for children's savings account programs in our community was to increase graduation rate. So we're hoping that really works. Okay? We're hoping we have 99.9% of all of our students graduate. So this year we did what are called incentives and all this is funded by donations. Okay? So people give money to help our first to finish program. Two incentives happened this year. All the students who are in sixth grade got $6. Why' they get $6? They're in sixth grade. They're halfway through their school experience. Okay? So they all got $6 if they had an account. Okay. So, we gave 176 graders $6 in their accounts. Okay. Then in May, if they put any money, a quarter, a dime, $5 in

015their account, we gave them five more dollars. So, our sixth graders could earn $11 in their accounts last year, which makes them go from 60 to 71. Okay. So, what's our goal as a foundation? everyone graduates and gets a $100 in their first finishing home. But we need help to do that, right? As everyone says in our community, we need help. We need our community to support us. And they do. So, how many students do we have with those accounts? Well, they get them in first grade and our first class is in 8th grade. About 220 students a year. Over 1,600 accounts. Think about that. That's huge. Okay. We're one of only We're one of 17 children savings account programs in the state of Michigan. And Michigan is very strong with children savings account programs.

016So that's our update for this year. I'll be back next year with more information. I'll put what I brought flyerwise on the counter. Help yourself. Support your kids. They're our future. Okay? They really, really are. even though people don't think that. And grandparents can be extremely helpful. So tell your grandparents, no more junk for Christmas. Send some money. Thank you. And now I'll ask the million-dollar question. Any questions? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Linda. Appreciate all the work that you do and the foundation. Greatly appreciated. So, next up, athletic director Jackson Les for his annual athletics update. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Sedwick and board members for having me tonight. Um, it is, of course, my privilege to serve as athletic director, and we've got actually a couple athletic people in the audience

017tonight. We have our new head volleyball coach, Heather Koncha, who is here tonight, and we've got our football booster club president, Angela Abbott, who is here tonight. So, thank you for being here. and uh uh being in front of the board. It's very exciting. Uh I am honored tonight to be able to share some of the individual and athletic highlights as well as a general review of this past 2025 2026 school year. Uh first of all, I know there have been many questions regarding the athletic budget, fundraising, those types of things. So I'll first provide you with a quick summary of what 2025 act 2025 2026 actually looked like. Um thank you Mrs. Cambi and Mrs. Zunick for taking the time two weeks ago uh to meet with us and some other members of the

018administration uh to go over this in more specific detail, but I'll try to provide you with a a overall general some couple numbers here. It should take about a minute. Uh this was the first year that we had implemented a plan that limited and restricted fundraising with within athletics. So with within doing that, uh the self-funded sports, they still fundraised and then spent about $200,000. Uh however in the school funded sports the total expense was $1,75,000 and revenues included paytoplay of $84,000, ticket sales of $91,000 and fundraising total generated within school funded sports of 200 excuse me $255,000. Uh fundraising even within the school funded sports currently can fund things from food on trips to hotel rooms in some cases to postseason awards, banquetss, ice time and hockey equipment like tackling dummies or blocking sleds,

019shooting machines, wrestling mats, summer team camps, and so on. Uh in the end, the general fund ended up contributing uh $645,000 for athletics during this school year. That is up from $400,000 which occurred about 5 years ago according to the to the records we have. Um, and the difference there is is obviously $245,000 and that's primarily probably because of the reduction in in um cost for for students to get into games and those types of things. So, that's what we've got going on there. Um, but the overall program still spent $1,75,000 on school funded sports. That comes out to about 60% is paid for by the school and 40% is paid for by either fundraising, paytoplay, ticket sales, those types of things. So, that is just a quick update on what that budget actually looks

020like. I know several of you had questions on that, so hopefully that helps. Um, now to get into some of the more exciting stuff, uh, athletes of the month. So, uh, this is nominated and then voted on by the program head coaches within each season. So, we're going to go through and and read off each one of them. So, during August, we had Charlie Roadie from soccer. He had a goal or assist in every game during August. led the team to an eventual 174-2 season and was one of the key reasons why the team earned the number one seed in the district tournament in soccer. Harlo Davis from volleyball. She was the team captain and an allconerence honore. She set the school record for service aces in a match and was academic all state and

021was an outstanding leader on and off the court. In September, we had Ford Richardson from football, who was the quarterback, the team captain, and the leader on both sides of the ball. He was the go-to player offensively and defensively and helped lead the team to a playoff appearance. Uh Kier Lindberg from Dance was a senior captain and three-year varsity letter award winner. She led the team to a first place finish at the summer camp and earned the firecracker award for energy and leadership. In October, we had Pavle McCutchen from football who was the anchor on both the offensive and the defensive lines. He was the team captain and an outstanding leader. He led by example in athletics and in academics. And Ella Fury in cross country was a four-time UP championship team member herself. She

022has nine individual UP titles and she has a GPA of 4.333 and was voted Michigan's top senior cross country run. Uh in November, we had Parker Nehovven from hockey who was a team captain and a four-year letter award winner. During November, he posted a 0.907 save percentage and helped the team to a 42-1 stretch during November. Uh Logan McFaren from Swim and Dive, was a four-year all up swimmer. Uh in the UP, she has seven relay UP titles and two individual UP titles. She's a four-year academic athlete in UP swim and dive. In December, we had Connor Firestein from basketball. It's a three-year varsity letter award winner and a two-year starter. Was a key player of the back-to-back district championships and sweet 16 appearances. And then Lexi Kern from basketball is also a senior captain.

023Helped lead the girls basketball to a district championship uh this year. her senior year and is a tough competitor and a vocal leader. In January, we had Levi Ellis from wrestling. He was runner up at multiple major tournaments. Uh is a team first athlete willing to move weight classes even and is known for his work ethic and leadership. And then Lola Rink from gymnastics was the team captain and an exceptional leader and role model for her teammates. She's known for positivity, re reliability, and work ethic. In February, we had Brody Sheldon from hockey who had five goals, two assists during a 51-1 stretch during February, dominated faceoffs at 63% and was a key player during the tournament run. Me in wrestling, first female wrestler in school history to qualify for the state finals and also

024the first freshman in program history to accomplish that acknowledgement. She did it despite even missing time with a broken finger. Uh during March, we had Brody Clemens from basketball. He at the end emerged as the team's most versatile player and played his best during the tournament run. And then Katie Duket from figure skating finished second at the Michigan State Championships, helped the team finish fourth overall in that state meet. Moving on to April, Lucas Balcowski from tennis was undefeated as the number one singles player for Marquette. He's a two-time UP champion both individually and with his team his junior and senior year, and was an all up and all state selection in tennis. Charlie Swaginan in softball led the comeback of has led the comeback of Marquette softball. 11 and3 pitching record with a 1.71

025erra and betted 482. Uh during May uh both from track and field, Jacob Norman was undefeated in the 110 hurdles, was back-to-back regional and UP champion, and Ton Todd was undefeated in long jump, broke the school record twice, and is severaltime conference regional and UP champion. So, those are our more of our individual awards. And now on to the team awards throughout the school year. So, in cross country, both the boys and girls teams won the UP championship meet, marking the 29th for boys and the 36th for girls. Uh, football finished six and four, including a playoff appearance and a loss, a narrow loss of 3834 to Gaylord in the district semi-final, which in football is the division 3 round of 32. Uh, boys soccer finished 174 and two, reached the district final and lost

026by one goal to Traverse City St. Francis. Uh, girls tennis won the conference championship and finished third at the UP final. Volleyball finished 918-1 and ended up losing to Paskki in the district match. Mountain Viking was second overall during the regular season and finished third at the Wisconsin state final meet. Uh, moving on to the winter, boys basketball finished 18-8, including the district title and an appearance in the regional final, which is the round of 16. uh to note this was the first time appearing in back-to-back regional final games since moving up to class A in 1962. Uh girls basketball finished 8-5 and won the district championship and this was the first time since 2020 that that has happened in girls basketball. Uh hockey posted an overall record of 98 and3 including a regional championship

027and appearance in the state quarterfinal the round of eight and falling to eventual state champion H Hotton. uh in alpine skiing. The girls team won the state championship meet, which is the 14th in school history, and the boys team finished as the state runnerup. Uh bowling sent a girl to the state final, who ended up placing 34th out of a field of 56. Uh gymnastics saw two gymnasts qualify for and compete in the regional meet. Uh swim and dive saw yet again both the boys and girls teams, winning the UP championship, marking the 33rd for boys and 30th for girls. Wrestling had the first female and first freshman state qualifier in state history. The dance team 19 strong, danced very well at all home basketball and football games, and by the end of February had

028performed 20 different routines. This year, uh, cheerleading is now in its second year back. Again, filled the roster to the MHSA's maximum of 12 girls and saw yet another great fallen winner, cheering on the football and basketball teams to very successful and memorable seasons. Uh, figure skating had a state qualifier and finished fourth overall at the state meet. And then both the Nordic skiing boys and girls teams again won the state title. And this is earning the back-to-back right for both boys and girls from 2025. On to spring, which technically started in March, but really didn't really start for us until May. Boys golf won the UP championship, which is the 17th in school history. It set a record of 295 strokes, which is an average of less than one overpar per nine holes. On

029the girls side, the team finished fifth at the UP final meet. Boys tennis won the UP championship, the 48th in school history. And this marks back-to-back wins from 2025 as well. Boys track and field won the UP championship, which is the seventh in a row and 20th in school history, while girls track and field finished as the UP runner up. Softball finished 27-9, which is the best record in I believe nine years, and was a district semi-finalist. Baseball finished 14- 14 following in the district final. And girls soccer finished 76-1 and was a district semiinalist. So those are all of our team and athletes of the month. Now we've got four individuals who are recognized for um their achievements throughout the whole year. We've got two teammates of the year, one boy, one girl, and

030then two athletes of the year, one boy and one girl. So on teammates of the year, the male was Pablo McCutchen. He earned 11 varsity letters across football, basketball, golf, and track. He was the football team captain and an all state lineman. Uh basketball team captain and a major contributor to the two district titles and sweet 16 appearances. His GPA is a 3.99. He was an NHS member and the student council vice president. He is the definition of leadership, consistency, and service. Kylie Smith, a three sports student athlete in tennis, basketball, and golf. She was a constant encourager and positive influence. She made teammates feel included and valued and always represented every program with outstanding sportsmanship and character. And now on to the athletes of the year. These are the two uh uh most prestigious,

031the two biggest awards that we have within athletics every year. So Ford Richardson was the male athlete of the year from football, basketball, and track. Uh in football, he led the team to a playoff appearance, accounted for 24 touchdowns and only nine turnovers. He was dream team all up, first team all region, and all conference. In basketball, he was the point guard and individually earned the BCAM best all state and first team all up. Uh in track, he was the individual UP champion in the 300 hurdles in the 400 meter dash. Uh he holds four school records in track and overall is one of the most competitive student athletes to wear a Marquette uniform. Uh the female athlete of the year was Alfury from cross country and track. Uh she has again a 4.333 GPA

032as a four-time member of the UP cross country championship teams, nine individual UP titles, uh four-time UP dream team selection, and was voted as we know Michigan's top senior cross country runner. uh holds the UP division one finals record in the 3200 meter run and one of the most accomplished female athletes we have had here in school history at Marquette. In closing as athletic director is my privilege to have served over 500 plus student athletes 35 varsity teams 56 teams in total 23 program head coaches 100 coaches overall 100 plus volunteers game workers officials custodians secretaries bus drivers and athletic trainers. It has likewise been an honor to be able to work for our superintendent, Mr. Sedick, my first principal, Mr. Wheeler, and our new principal, Mr. Johnson. As we continue to build up and

033move forward, I likewise will continue to learn and improve. And we will always be taking steps not only to move athletics forward, but to move MSHs, the school district, and the community of Marquette forward. The front porch of your school district is in good hands with our coaches who take care of kids and put them in a position to be successful. the potential of our student athletes can be reached both in life and athletics now and forever. I have loved just about every minute of being at Marquette and I look forward to what we can accomplish next year and many years to come. I look forward to seeing you at our at our next home events which are less than two months away. Thank you for your time tonight. God bless you and go Sensless.

034>> Thank you. >> Thank uh any questions for Mr. Engles? >> Thank you Mr. Engles. >> Okay. Okay. Well, thank you very much. And next up, we have our student achievement coordinator, Kathleen Styles, who's going to give a an update on student achievement. >> Thank you, Jackson. I think in another life you could be an auctioneer. Gave us so much information. Uh thank you to the board for allowing me this chance to share with you student achievement. Uh and thank you for invest investing in student achievement. It's really important. I will say that I have a 30-year class reunion from 1996. Jenny and Jim graduated with me in 1996. Uh so student achievement um we spent a lot of time and energy investing in our early childhood place. That seemed like the most natural place

035to start. Um so you're going to see some I think pretty remarkable scores coming out of that. Uh so this is a universal screening we give to our early childhood kids. You'll see the green is growing and the blue is go growing which is really important. Um and then the red and and um orange decreasing. So some good growth in early childhood. We spent a lot of time in professional development training teachers to better teach the science of reading. You've probably heard about that. um as well as investing in curriculum. Uh here are some scores over six years and this is pretty phenomenal. This is um starting in 2023 we started to see a lot of growth. This is growth scores. So this is normative data. This means that kids across the country that take

036this exam, this test, uh, 3rd through 8th are growing more than their peers. The norm is 50%. So, we're seeing significant growth in our efforts. This is math. Over the six years, uh, we've invested training into something called AVMR, which is really looking at early numerousy and a child's ability to manipulate numbers mentally um, so that they're more successful at things like multiplication and division. Sorry to make your head all crane to see this, but um, this growth is something I've never seen before. Uh, another assessment we give our second graders, this is a reading assessment. You'll see a steady growth over the past three years. Another assessment for second grade. Second grade is really pivotal because in third grade is when we we face that third grade reading law where we're looking at uh

037potential retention if they're not making growth. Uh this is NWA the whole district. This one is reading. There are two lines there. The top one is growth and I think that's I can't see it's 64%. And then that bottom the second bubble of achievement. Again this is normative data. So most of the country right is at 50%. So when we start to see things in the 60th percentile, we look at what are the cool things that are happening in that district or with that grade level. Uh this is math again. Huge growth, huge achievement, something to be very proud of. FastBridge again this is math. This is JK through first. another math score for second grade automaticity. This is uh how quickly kids can do math facts. If you're parents, you know that that's a

038big deal and we're seeing great growth with um curriculum and training we've done with teachers. This is PSAT. So, this is where it it has we haven't seen that return quite yet as our kids come through because they've had that early um intervention and time and better um tier one teaching. Uh we'll see these scores grow as well. 11th grade math. This is a heat map which um is compares the district to our ISD to the state. What you want to see is the darker colors. And this will show you that we are at at maps scoring higher than our ISD peers and at the Michigan level in all grade levels. Uh this is MSTEP. So this is our state summitive assess assessment and this this is um not including this year cuz we don't

039get those assessments right away. Here we have um math. Same thing we're looking at. We're scoring higher at the ISD level in all grade levels as well as um at the state level and the ISD level. So really great things to be proud of right now. And I think that's the last one. Um overall I'd say we've spent a lot of time in elementary right now and our focus our next focus coming out of strategic planning last week is to really start to move the needle in our secondary um education. So, any questions? >> Thank you. >> I don't have any >> Thanks for the in uh information. Appreciate it. Um you had mentioned that it looks like there's going to be some additional work done in that 9 through 12 area. Um >> 6

040through 12, >> I'm sorry, 6 through 12. As far as the 9 through 12 scores that came back, it looked like there were some areas um for improvement. What are some of those goals as far as a percentage and data that you're looking to achieve over the next year or two? So, one of the things that we've really invested in is MTSS. You've heard that multi-tered systems of support, and it's where it's a systemwide effort to improve achievement. That has really taken root in elementary. Um, and now we're moving into secondary to really make sure that all kids are getting what they need. >> Thank you. As far as the MTSS is concerned, that has been a part of the program the throughout. Um, how what kind of changes do you anticipate to see to

041be able to implement some of those goals and specifically what are those percentages of goals that you're looking to achieve? >> The at the secondary level, um, first of all, it's team support. So, we look at like what are we doing at the district level? What are we planning? what what does it look like at the building level down to the grade level and down to the individual student level and those things have started to take root in our middle school and secondary is always more tricky to do this and mostly because of scheduling. We already have things in the works for next year. Um this space used to be used for um like a learning center and that's going to be a way more focused time for next year. Uh just to add to

042that, um Mrs. Styles, a a couple of things that I think sometimes we get so in the weeds and we we forget what people do and don't know when they're not uh in the school building. Um sometimes and you get the press and the media and of course that that drives me crazy. So there's some really interesting as a reading teacher whose um master's work is in this. The reason we're investing in those lower grades is because that's where the skills are built. It is really really difficult to go backwards um and do the interventions and have those interventions stick once a child is about 13. Those foundational skills that we all learned um with the science of reading and math, those are really set. So, you're having to unlearn those and learn a new

043way when you get into a child's 13th, 14th year and all the brain science that goes with that. What I think is so exciting about what you just showed us that I think often times the public isn't aware of is just how many assessments we're getting. I remember what was that maybe 6 months ago we heard about how Marquette was below the state average in reading. There are a couple of caveats there and if you're not aware of kind of how assessments work um that is the meat test and the PSAT those are the things that we're talking about that usually make the press the piece that um as a teacher and as a parent of a kiddo in this district um and uh as a board member d drives me nuts is when we

044look at NWA testing um which is really used to inform and help teachers drive their days. And there are other ones at those early levels. I'm not an early uh elementary teacher, so I can't speak to those. Obviously, Mrs. Styles had a ton of really good data up there on other assessments. I don't think the public understands that's a moving target. So, first of all, we're not comparing the same group of kids all the way through. But sacked doll, what really gets in my craw is those are corporately run. The states across the board. There's a couple different corporations that do this. States go ahead and and um contract out to these companies and those companies rework that test every year. So when they see that the average is rising too hard or too far,

045excuse me, high across the nation, they tweak it and they say, "Okay, I've got to look at these test questions again, they must be too easy." As opposed to rejoicing that public ed. It's got to be we've got to then kind of move the target. So the amount of press which unfortunately translates especially in larger suburban areas it can translate into um home prices and home values depend and to a certain extent it does here right like you move into communities because you want your kids to go to certain schools that's all predicated at least what what the media sees on the MSTEP and the PSAT not all of the grade assessments that are really guiding and diving into what Stacy needs which versus what Jane needs versus what Rob needs. So when you see

046the press loves to do this, oh my gosh, the sky is falling. All these kids can't read. That's a much larger conversation. And we have to start asking, well, what do the test what questions were asked last year? Why has the test been revised? Oh, they did too well, so we revise it and we move the target so they don't do as well. That doesn't seem like public education. That doesn't seem like success. so many great things. Um, thank you so much for the work you're doing to all of the folks, especially teachers in the trenches that are taking all of this great information and in the weeds with it, really looking at each kid. >> Yeah, thank you for saying that. It is our state summitive test assessments do move the target. They change

047the questions. They change what's proficient. So, it's you never know what to plan for um for the end of the year. I'll say one of the things we're doing at the secondary level is looking uh we're curriculum mapping. So we're mapping out from JK through 12 what is all taught so that horizontally between grade levels we can see where there's people exceeding and where people can improve. We're also looking at vertically where do we covering too much of what are we not covering enough of. Additionally, then we are looking at standardsbased assessments where we can go in and analyze was that standard taught well? Did our kids get it? What can we do different? That is transformational and I do think that will move the needle for our secondary students. >> Any other questions? >>

048Thank you, Mrs. Styles. I I just want to reiterate although there's room for improvement as a former math teacher, I'll test that uh math is going to be a focus area moving forward. You have to look at the difference between measuring versus your peers and measuring versus a benchmark. When you look at measurement versus our peers especially, we are off the charts in a good way right now, including math, but not as much as in reading and especially not as much in the more formative years K through five and 6 through 8. Some of those scores are I've never seen before and it's going to pay dividend dividends for a long time. Front loing or investing in the early years is going to pay off as they get older. But again, when you look at

049the benchmark assessment, the MSTEP in particular, it's not that impressive when you measure student success versus a benchmark. But when you compare to their peers, not just regionally, but statewide, it is still trending in a very strong direction. But I think it's more of a systemic concern with the way that we test and with math in general. And I do expect that we're going to see positive trends in all grades including math. And just want to say that last note on Thursday we had about 50 people involved in an incredible discussion collaborative data driven. We had not just educators but business, local, government, industry that were involved in strategic planning. one of the best sessions I've been part of at MAPS and I'm really excited to present that plan to the board for consideration in

050our July meeting and I expect that that plan is going to help drive us towards continued success for the next 5 years. Uh last up under the superintendent report is Mr. Lampman for our budget amendment. >> Here we go. our snowman. >> Really? Really? Mrs. Styles, we're going to sneak out now. And I was just about to pay you a compliment. >> Compliment. >> I was going to say >> I have some 17year-olds at home that I got to deal with, but here >> Well, I was going to say I I wish I could say Mr. Sedwick uh saved the best for last, but after uh watching your presentation and Mr. Engles, that that is not the case. So, >> oh, that was nice. >> All right, >> it's very nice. >> Bye. >> Good

051evening. >> Evening. >> So, um let's start off with the fact that the state of Michigan has yet to adopt a 26 27 school year budget. >> So, we once again find ourselves in the same position we were in last year. Uh budgeting for the 2620 or 2526 year was a bit of a challenge because there was no state budget until October. Uh we budgeted pretty conservatively for our original budget. Uh because there wasn't a whole lot of consensus between the house and the senate, the governor. This year I think is a little bit different. Uh the house, the senate and the governor had put out budget proposals. Uh all three proposals indicated a 2 and a.5% increase to the per pupil uh foundation allowance and all three proposals also included a form of extending

052the universal free meal program. Uh having said that we'll see what actually gets reconciled and adopted. uh the state does not have to have their budget adopted for uh uh schools until uh July 1st. So they still have a little time to reconcile and adopt and and be compliant. Uh we also have to have our budget adopted by June 30. Uh so that is what we are going to cover this evening. So, we're going to look at our 2526 final amendment and our 2627 proposed original budget. So, starting off, uh you can see our property tax millages uh have remained pretty consistent going back a few years. Uh we do have a new addition in 2627 and that's our 1.55 mills for the uh recently adopted uh bond proposal that was on the May ballot.

053Um that isn't going to be addressed in this particular amendment. We have not yet closed on the bond. That uh hopefully will come up on June 30 for our bond closing. Uh, and we're still working through the details of setting up the new funds that we're going to have to we're going to have to establish a new capital projects fund, a new debt service fund for the new debt. Uh, so we're still in the process of working through those and we'll bring those updates on future amendment. So, looking at our enrollment, keep up with my notes here. So looking at our enrollment projections, uh the black line is our actual enrollment and uh the blue line is our projections. Uh as you can see, it fluctuates a bit year to year over time. Um notably

054uh if you look at the black line, there was a bit of a dip uh between uh the 24 25 26 school years. Part of that was the GSRP program which which we've discussed uh at previous uh uh budget uh amendments um where we wound up receiving funding from ORISA and they were able to claim our our per pupil under that pilot program. That program is going away for 2627. So we're once again going to uh reclaim those uh those uh uh pupil the pupil foundation allowance for those students. So um we uh we have projections run uh annually on um where we think our uh enrollment is going to be based off numerous factors including birth rates um various other other factors. Um most recently we had to have these uh we were required

055to have these enrollment restrictions updated back in November when we filed our uh application for the bond with Treasury. So this data is uh is is as a uh as of November 2025 and we use a blended rate in our projections. We use a blended rate of the um least likely outcome and the most likely outcome. So we try to be a little bit conservative when we look at our uh enrollment projections. So for the 2627 school year, um we're looking at 3,190 uh students for uh per pupil enrollment. State aid, uh as I mentioned previously, the 2627 uh budgets uh at the state level, the proposals all had a 2.5% increase to the state aid. that uh equates to $250 per pupil. So, we would be going from our current state aid uh foundation

056allowance of $10,50 up to $10,300. So looking at the general fund specifically, the general fund is comprised of many uh individual funds that get rolled up together including our general operations, our grants, coffin auditorium, planetarium, father Marquette, uh uh couple other funds, athletics, and our uh student activities. So looking at some of our revenue assumptions for 2627 um property taxes uh we kept pretty stable. Looking at last year property taxes increased about 2.7%. Uh the factors for the follow for the upcoming year aren't out yet but we assume based off inflation we'd be about the same levels. Um other local revenues again we looked historically kept it at about the same level. The one thing I will note is uh our special ed funding has in uh is projected to increase from uh market alresa.

057Uh we're looking at uh about an additional half million dollars coming through for special education. Looking at state revenues going from memory I should catch up to my notes. Um as far as local revenues also uh while it's not stated there I should mention that um we did keep uh um 3.5% is um is our target interest rate on our investment returns. Um the Feds met last week and they kept the key interest rate at 3.5 to 3.75%. Uh while inflation does look like it's ticking up, I don't know how reactive the Fed is going to be to raising rates. So um so conservatively, we just left it at the 3.5% when we're looking at our 26 27 budget. When it comes to our overall investment returns, state revenues, again, uh we're looking at a

058$10,300 per pupil uh foundation allowance, although that's subject to change because the state has not yet adopted a budget. um MIPERS, uh the district's retirement plan, uh we're seeing a change in our UAL stabilization rate. Uh that's decreasing from 15.02% down to 13 uh 51%. So we're going to see a drop in our uh revenue from the state related to MIPERS and then a corresponding drop in our expenses related to uh the UL portion of our MYPERS retirement plan. Um, also we did see we have we have there the state of Michigan has over 20 different retirement plans under MIPERS right now. And we did see three of our plans take um take uh some some pretty significant decreases in the uh rates that the district has to pay for those plans. So, we're going

059to see overall a drop in our retirement contributions that we have to pay uh as as part of our benefits for 2627. And then looking at federal revenues, uh federal revenues uh are based on preliminary allocations, uh we think they're going to be pretty consistent with where we were last year. Uh our federal funding has somewhat stabilized after COVID. Um, you know, we we get basically our title grants, title one, title two, title four, uh, title three, title six. Uh, so, and then our, um, federal portion of our, uh, school lunch fund, also part that's partially federally funded. All those, uh, we're projecting to be pretty stable for the next school year. Um, we did have a couple of grants disappear uh from state revenue uh that won't come back in 2627 unless specifically allocated

060by the state when they adopt their budget. Um, one of them is 23G. We use that to fund summer school. So, that's gone away. So we do have summer school in the budget but that's going to be absorbed as a general fund cost and currently not grant funded grant funded unless we get some additional funding from the state. Also as I mentioned GSRP um was a pilot program through uh market alresa and that is going away in 2627 as well. All right. So, looking uh looking at our revenues by sources, uh you can see our local revenues. Uh for our final amendment, we're projecting to come in around 17 million. Uh looking at 2627, we're bumping that up by about 600,000 to 17.6 million. It's about a 3 and a.5% increase. Looking at state revenues,

061we think we're coming in around 33.6 million for 2526. And again, slight decrease about 1.6% decrease for uh 2627 based off of, you know, some of the specific state grants that we uh that we uh lost that won't be coming back unless the state specifically allocates additional funding next year. And looking at our federal revenues, uh, not a significant change. Um, 731,000 for 2526 and currently we're projecting about 710,000 for 2627. So overall, we're looking at about 51.5 million to end 2526 and also about 51.5 million to end 2627. So, pretty much um pretty much on par with with uh where we've been tracking. This is just a chart of our revenues. You can see the um blue is our state funding. That is the line share of our budget uh followed by taxes and

062then our special education funding uh through MARISA. Um so you know really those are the the big three um pieces of the uh the general fund revenue looking at expenditures. So general fund expenditures um are are uh pretty um uh the biggest expenditure in the general fund is salaries and benefits. That's about 83% of the overall budget. So, looking at salaries and benefits for 2627, we still have one year left on the contract uh with the unions. Uh so, we updated uh wages and benefits based off our current bargaining unit agreements. Um we also uh as I mentioned before, we are receiving some additional money uh we anticipate, I should say, receiving some additional money from Parkdale Jaresa for special education. That's been a growing need within the district. And so, um, we are looking

063at adding two additional special education positions, uh, within the district, uh, just because that that is seems to be an ever growing need. Looking at our health insurance, uh, come January 2027, our our hard cap will go up 3% um, over where we were for the 2526 year. Again, MIP's rates uh, on our UA will go from 15.02% 02% down to 13.51%. So we'll see some savings there. Um and again we had a couple of other uh Bipsters plans where we saw pretty significant declines in um the rates the district has to pay. So we'll see some overall savings on our retirement contributions. Uh overall no programming changes for um 2627. Uh we've left all the programs in place. So, summer school um and all the other uh programs that we've had uh we're not

064proposing any changes at this time. We continue to stay with our two school bus uh purchase a year plan. Uh so we do have two school buses in this uh proposed budget and then all other expenses are based off historical trends. Um looking at expenses by function, you can see uh uh our largest cost is in instruction about 29 million pushing 30 million for 2627. Supporting services around 20 million, community services um around 214,000 is what we're proposing next year and um transfers about pushing 1.3 million. So overall 51.5 million for uh for the budget but this is the better breakdown I think uh in looking at it by function looking at it by object code. So you can see um again salaries and benefits is the lion share of the budget. We're looking at

065a 3.3% increase to um uh salaries. Slight decrease to benefits overall again uh largely due to the reduction in mixers rates. Um 5% increase to our purchase services uh which includes our utilities. Um again inflation's been ticking up so we tried to you know project that out a little bit. Um, and then we're looking at savings where we can as far as repair and maintenance. Uh, hopefully as we move forward with some of our projects, we'll see some of our repair and maintenance costs come down. And we also tried to adjust for some one-time repairs that we had during the course of the year. Um, and same thing with capital outlay. We we adjusted down for some one-time expenses that we had throughout the course of the year. Uh so overall we're looking at uh

066from 2526 to 2627 uh a projected increase overall of about $47,000 worth of expenses. So really looking looking comparing 2627 to 2526 um it's it's pretty much consistent overall looking at our expenses for the general fund. Uh again, you look at the black, that's our uh salaries. That's half the budget right there. You look at uh the blue, that's our benefits. Uh 33% of our budget is benefits. That gets you to 83%. And so uh the remainder is what we have to work with for operations. Uh so we divvy up that uh that remaining portion of the pie amongst uh you know transportation utilities things of that nature plowing all comes out of that uh that remaining piece. So looking at the general fund overall um current budget uh we had um 50,445,000 in revenues

06750 million 50.3 million in expenses and we're projecting a net income of 61,792 that was with our March amendment. Subsequently, we had some um some grants that came through uh late in the year uh that uh that we hadn't yet received or paid uh as of the March amendment. So, uh we're we're looking at about 51.5 million in revenue, 51.5 million in expenses for 2526, resulting in a net income at $12,531. Looking at 26 27 very similar 51.5 million in revenues, 51.5 million expenses, resulting in net uh income of $3,445. Um looking at next year, uh beginning fund balance we're estimating to be $19,562 overall. of that uh 24,600 is non-spendable and things like prepaid expenses uh that aren't cash equivalents. Um we commit 10% of expenditures for contingencies. So we have 5.1 million reserved

068for that. Uh we have uh money set aside. We had originally set money aside for MTSS about 1.3 million. uh we've been utilizing that uh uh that set aside uh as we continue with our MTSS implementation. Um so we'll we'll be down to about uh 1.1 million uh set aside for that program. And then we have money set aside for future school bus purchases as well resulting in 12 million 12.4 million that's unassigned and available uh for future use. Moving on to the food service fund and I will pick up the pace at this point. I just like to focus in on the general fund a little bit and I did promise Mr. Roberts here um that I would go exceptionally slow for him. So, um trying to keep my promise, but looking at uh

069the food service fund, um as I said, the uh state of Michigan in the governor's budget, the House, and the Senate budget have all, um indicated some form of a universal free meal program. So, we have kept this pretty much status quo until the state adopts a budget and we figure out what uh is in it. So, looking at our revenue side, uh local revenues about 100,000 we kept that consistent. Uh state revenues about a million. We project, you know, that's based off of me meal utilization. So, we pulled back a little bit. uh again being a little conservative and our federal revenue we think is going to be consistent. Um so overall we're looking at um uh a projected net loss for 2526 of 113,000 and next year we're looking at a net loss

070of 233,000 but we will see what happens when the state adopts our budget and and we have uh also been rolling a lot of money back into our food service program trying to utilize some of our fund balance and uh I've been speaking with our food service director about pulling back on some of the things that we've been we've been doing. And so, um, I think this is going to change in a future amendment. Once we know what the state's doing, we'll we'll come back with a plan and we'll react to this, uh, a little bit. So, looking at food service by by object, um, you can see salaries is about 570,000. Uh, up from about 552,000 where we're projected to come in this year. uh benefits down slightly, 321,000 from and then everything we

071basically left um uh as is. Um again, we'll see if the state continues with the universal free meal program or not. Overall, um we're projecting to end 2526 with 488,000 in fund balance. Looking at 2526, um we're looking at a reduction in fund balance down to 396,000. And looking at 2627, um if this holds true, we'll be down to 163,000. Uh and in uh fund balance in the food service fund, which is a nonprofit fund, so the goal is not to not to build up too much of a fund balance, and we can actually be penalized for for maintaining too high of a fund balance. So um so it's m kind of managing the sweet spot this fund. Moving on uh we'll cover the uh debt retirement fund, the capital projects fund and the syncing

072fund. And these we can go through pretty quickly. The debt service fund. All this is is an in and out. We collect property taxes that we then turn around and use to pay the 2016 bond and interest payments. Um, so we're projected next year to take in about 68,000, spend 561,000 on bonded interest payments, resulting in a net income of 46,581. Looking at the fund overall, um, uh, again revenues of 68,000, expenses 561,000, resulting in an ending fund balance of 225,000. And again, this exists just to pay the 2016 bond that remains. Moving on, capital projects fund. Uh capital projects we have uh utilized this pretty heavily uh this past year um in lie of the syncing fund. Uh the syncing fund we had um saved up and we used a large portion of the

073syncing fund for renovating the science labs over at the high school. And so we brought that fund balance down. So we kind of gave the synop sorry sinking fund a little time to to rest and rebuild. Um, so we were utilizing capital projects this past year. So, as you can see, um, uh, we had 269,000 in local revenue and capital projects. Uh, we're proposing an overall transfer in this year of 1,150,000 expenditures of 1,747,000 resulting in a net loss of 327,000 to capital projects. So, we did we did spend a lot out of that fund. looking at local revenue is 239,000 transfers in of 1,250,000. Um right now we're proposing uh 449,000 worth of uh expenditures out of that fund uh and an overall net income of 1,ion40,000. some of the projects that we're targeting.

074Well, the big project right now that we're targeting out of capital projects that'll be split somewhat between 25 26 and 2627 is the elevators at the um high school in Bathwell. Uh we uh we have three elevators that need to be renovated and that is going to come out of our capital projects fund. Um and that is probably going to also carry over uh into the uh perhaps into the 20 uh728 school year as well. So looking at the fund overall um looking at 2526 we started with 5 uh anticipate starting with 5.6 6 million in uh equity. Um adding revenues of one almost 1.5 million expenditures of about half million resulting in a fund equity of $6,666,700 is where we're projecting. Now the intent is to as you know and I'll just take a

075moment. I know I said I was going to speed this up, but let me just say um uh we are very grateful to the community for uh approving the uh the bond proposal uh in May. Um but that was just under $60 million and we had over $100 million worth of identified need. So we're still trying to fill this this gap. And so, um, we'll be working, uh, we'll be utilizing the capital projects fund in conjunction, um, with with, uh, the bond dollars to try to leverage some additional projects or to be a backs stop in case there are unexpected contingencies that arise. Um, because no project ever goes smoothly. All right, looking at the syncing fund. Uh, as I mentioned before, we uh hadn't heavily utilized the syncing fund in 2526. Uh, we were

076trying to rebuild that a little bit. So, we're anticipating coming into the year end with uh 1.38 million in revenue. We spent about 366,000 out of a syncing fund uh resulting in net income of a little over a million dollars. looking at 2627. Uh we're looking at taking in about 1.4 million in taxes into the syncing fund. Uh we anticipate currently spending 360,000. Uh but we've kind of pumped the brakes a little bit now that we have the the bond um project. We're going to start looking at the big picture and what we can do with syncing fund and capital projects in in conjunction with uh the bond revenue. So um th this plan is going to change in the future. Looking at the sinking fund overall, uh we anticipate starting 2627 with about 1.6

077million in fund equity, uh taking in 1 just under 1.4 million in revenue, 360,000 in estimated expenditures resulting in an ending fund balance of about 2.6 million. And then last one, our private purpose trust fund. Um we had Mrs. Winslow here this evening. I think she probably stepped out. Uh but um this is just our scholarship fund. So there's a committee that handles scholarships. Um so we just act as the fiduciary. They tell us what we need to pay out, we pay it out. So this is basically just an in and out for the district. Um, so we're anticipating ending 2627 with a a balance of 309,000 at the uh in the uh scholarship line. Any questions? >> No, but I just have a comment to make of um you know I s through these

078and I stay awake. I do like numbers, but this budget proposals and walkthroughs get long. Um, and I do this all day long. I work with numbers and P&Ls and all of that. And I just think that the layout is so thorough and that the transparency, there's not a lot to hide here. And I just want to as we pass this $60 million um bond, which is amazing, but still not going to quite cut it, and how we constantly are trying to figure out how to make these numbers work. And I know there's a lot of people in um out there in the public, in our community who think that um I don't know that we're all going to uh Hawaii on a vacation or something. But just joking aside that there is um if

079they were to come and see this and hear this and I encourage people to come and for the community to see that there's not a lot to hide here and that you know yes um 83% goes to salaries and the rest goes to trying to maintain you know all of these buildings. And so I just I'm excited that we continue to be this transparent and this thorough with our budget. And um we do have a shortfall there from 60 to 100 million. You know, we're only covering 60% of it. So I just encouraging and try to say these things so that the community does realize the needs that these schools have and what what the future road brings for us. It's exciting. 60 million is going to get us started, but there's a real need

080that continues and that we are being very transparent with the numbers. So, thank you for that. I appreciate it. >> Thank you for your comment. >> Thank you, Mr. Lman. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Just a quick note, Mr. Lammond and I took over in the midst of COVID and it was an interesting time to be in education and we experienced a lot of turnover and there was a lot of unknowns and between the student achievement update and then uh hearing this update on our budget along with having the bond approved makes me feel very confident that uh this district is in a strong position for the future and I appreciate the board's support because it's been a tough road to ho these past 5 years and I think there's a lot to celebrate tonight.

081So anyway, that's all I have. President Kim Benzy. Okay. Um moving on to the public hearing on the 2026 2027 budget. Believe we already have the presentation >> presentation ask for comments. >> Okay. Um, so, uh, if anyone has any comments from the public on the 2026 2027 proposed budget, I know we have a comment for later. No. Okay. Um, all right. And then moving on to approving the consent agenda which includes the minutes of the regular board meeting of May 18th, 2026, minutes of the close session of the regular meeting of May 18th, 2026, the personnel report dated June 2026, and the financial reports of May 2026. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Support. Okay. Motion made by Mrs. clip support by Ms. Ray. Uh any comments or

082questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I. >> Motion passes. Um moving on to comments from the public. Um Angela Abbott. Thank you. Um, good evening. Thank you for letting me speak tonight. Uh, my name is Angela Abbott. I am the president of the Marquette URL research. All right. One second. >> Well, there we go. >> There we go. Okay. >> Is that better? >> Yes. Do you want me to repeat? >> No, it's okay. >> Okay. Um, for those of you that don't know me, because I feel like there are quite a few in this room. Um, I had a 24 graduate and a 25 graduate, both involved in several sports here at the high school, football, wrestling, track. Um, I have two more that are in school. Um, athletics is very important

083to me. I was expecting more um from the budget tonight to I guess outline what detail was for athletics. Um so I feel like I just need to let you know I guess what we do. I'm not sure if a member of our club has ever spoke to you before. Um we were formed in 2021 um I guess during co and then became um a nonprofit in 2021. I have been um the president since 2024 and then before that was the vice president in 23. Um I want to try to be I guess as transparent as possible during this. Um for the past two years when we go to create our budget for our upcoming um sports season, we have been asked to wait to start fundraising. Um we are a group of moms who

084believe in our children and we want to make athletics better. Um but we are volunteers. Um, I want to emphasize that every dollar we raise does go directly to the safety, experience, and opportunities of our football players. Um, none of our board members are paid. We last season contributed over 500 volunteer hours in season alone and that was just our board. That was not the parents that we were asking to volunteer in the concession stands or do any other work for us. Uh we do believe in our children and the value of athletics and the role that plays in education. Um over the past several years, the grid iron club has funded essential items that the athletic bud budget has not covered. These include weight room equipment that is used for other sports as well

085as physical physical education classes, helmet guardians, which is safety padding that goes around the helmet to reduce concussions. uh varsity equipment bags so that our players can safely transport gear and hopefully not lose anything. Um team t-shirts so that every player can promote unity in school spirit. Steam b senior banners to honor our graduating athletes. Team dinners that build community and ensure all players are fed before games. All bus snacks and travel meals for away games so that every athlete has access to the food that is required to perform. In 2024, a LOL trip was booked um down to LOL, Michigan. The Great Iron Club paid for all hotel rooms and food, giving athletes a memorable and competitive experience. The past two years, we have held a kickoff event that brings our families and players

086together. On 2023 and 24, we traveled for a spring evaluation camp. This gives student athletes exposure as well as our school as a whole. This spring, we invested nearly $20,000 in new sleds, um, new cages. This promotes safety and effectiveness. In addition to player focused expenses, our club also has our own administrative expenses. We pay for all of the concession stand equipment, warmers, grills, popcorn machines. that generates revenue for our football program. Administrative necessities which includes food service licenses, our contact management system so that we can contact parents, um our website, our internet services which allow us to um be transparent and efficient. Every purchase that we make is documented and approved and aligns with our mission, which is to support our student athletes, enhance safety, and strengthen our football program without placing an additional

087financial burden on the school district. Fundraising is what makes this possible. Without it, these opportunities and safety enhancements would not exist. It was mentioned earlier that last year we did this with limited fundraising. I'm not sure why the board chose to limit that. Um, but I ask that we are able to continue as we can so that we can supply for these children. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Moving on to new business. Um, consider amendment to the 2025 2026 budget. So I would entertain a motion to adopt the 2025 206 budget as presented. I'll make a motion to consider the um amended 2025 2026 budget. Can I add these together? the >> Can we put them all together? >> Um, they should be separate. Okay. We're going to adopt the final amendment to

088the 2526 budget, but we're going to adopt the budget resolution 267 amendment. >> Okay. So, then I just make um a motion to consider the or to accept the Yeah. 2025 2020. >> Okay. Motion made by Miss Ray, supported by Mrs. Maddox Smith. Um, any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Um, consider adoption of the 2026 2027 budget resolution as presented. I'll make a motion to adopt the 2026 2027 budget resolution as proposed. support. Okay. Motion made by Ms. Ray, support by Mrs. Maddox Smith. Uh, any comments or questions? >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Consider adoption of the bond ratifying resolution. There's a lengthy document in your packet that includes our official statement and actual resolution and our bond attorneys have

089vetted this document and it's quite technical. So hopefully you don't have any real challenging questions. It's vetted by legal. It's just a it's a step in the process of executing this bond in anticipation of the bond sale uh that is going to be coming up later this month. Okay. So to entertain a motion, >> I'll make a motion to adopt the um bond ratifying resolution as presented. >> Support. >> Okay. Motion made by Ms. Ray, support by Mr. Smith. Any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Um, consider awarding the district-wide hazardous materials survey project to Tri Media as recommended. will mention if I may that Isaac Roberts who's a engineer for GEI owners rep is here and can answer any questions but this is another step to

090prepare for the execution of the bond doing a widespread or a comprehensive assessment to ensure safety for when we're undergoing those projects abatement etc. Mr. Roberts did you have anything to add? Uh no, it's um it's going to be targeting all the schools. Um looking at lead based paint, PCBs, mercury, asbestous um you know, we did a little one or a small section at um Grave Rep for the GSRP last year. Um and Sandy Null as well. So this is going to be expanded for all the facilities um schools I should say, elementaryaries, middle and high schools. So Isaac, did I hear you correctly that each school is going to be tested individually for those things? Yes. >> So this will be districtwide. >> Districtwide. Yes. Correct. >> Thank you. >> Does this have to

091be completed before any of the construction work begins? >> Technically, no. But to save dollars on construction side, it's better to do things upfront so that the contractors know what they're getting themselves involved to um during bidding and prior to start of construction to reduce the amount of change orders. >> Did anyone else bid? >> No, we only received one bid from Tri Media. Okay. Any other uh questions? Um, then I would consider awarding the district-wide hazardous material survey project to Try Media as recommended. Do you have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to award the districtwide hazardous material survey project to Trimedia as recommended. >> Second. >> Uh, motion made by Ms. Ray, support by Mrs. Cliff. Uh any other comments or questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion

092passes. Thank you. >> Um designate depositories for school funds which includes the list underneath. So, I would entertain a motion to to do that. >> I'll make a motion to designate the deposiitories for school funds as presented below. You want me to go through those window? No. >> No, you don't have to. Okay. Okay. Uh motion made by Miss Rice, support by Miss Thomas. All those in favor are any other questions? All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Uh set board meeting dates for the remainder of 2026. Those are in our packet. So entertain a motion to set the dates for the remainder of 2026. Make a motion that we um set the dates as presented in our packet support. Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Maddox Smith, support by Ms. Ray. All those

093in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Uh moving on to board member comments. We'll start with uh Mr. Smith. where to begin. There's so much that we uh heard tonight. I think um to hear the academic and the athletic reports is really encouraging. It's uh I think it represents a well-rounded school district and uh to hear the progress that MAPS is making and its academic performance is significant and it ought to give parents the reassurance that when their students come to MAPS that they're actually getting the kind of education that they would hope for. Um, I also wanted to mention that today I had an opportunity to go and observe uh a district-wide drill that focuses on safety. And um as I think the board knows, uh MAPS has been uh spending the

094last several years upgrading and and improving the systems that are used to notify the public to get emergency responses uh to our schools if and when we were to have some sort of an emergency. And without going into detail, I was impressed with the layers of communication that the district has developed to make sure that notifications can happen when they need to and that the right um services from law enforcement, um public safety, uh medical services, all of those are in place. And in the event of a failure of one system, there are backup systems to cover that. And that is impressive. And I just wanted to thank our administration and all of our uh partners in the community that provide those services for being so responsive and developing systems that are tested so that

095even though uh we're not using them now in the event we should have to have them, they're available and people know how to make it happen. >> Thank you, Cassidy. Thank you everyone. I'm kind of losing my voice, so I'll just say thank you to all of our speakers. Um, thank you Mr. Lampin, Miss Abbott, uh, thank you Isaac for being here. Thank you, uh, Jackson, Mr. Engles, and I think that was everyone. >> Thank you, uh, Mrs. Mad Smith. Gosh, how to follow all that? So much information. Um, the budget alone is just like mindblowing. Um, and thanks for Mr. Lampman for going through all that. I mean, we don't even have a budget from the state yet, so we're we're still kind of uh punting again, waiting, and hoping that um that our

096numbers will be good and then we'll be back amending them when they're not. And and it's just a lot. So, um, we have such a great administration and such a great community. Um, this district is so fortunate to have the people that they have supporting the bond. I I just can't be more thankful for that. Um, the developments with the CTE, Dr. Smith and Mr. um I think it was Ziggler coming in and talking to us about that. That's that's just tremendous for our students and for our community itself. I mean, we really are a district that involves the community and the communities involved. I mean, I love seeing everyone here today and hearing everybody's input. We really are listening. Um, all of the students, congratulations to all the students that Mr. Engles named. I

097amazing, just amazing. We have a great athletics program and thank you for jumping in feet first and and getting her done. Um, Kathleen, oh my gosh, the student achievements were amazing and you know, I I loved the piece um you know how we're moving up with math. Um, but really explaining uh Mrs. Clip really explaining the piece about how that target moves and you know those are a lot of things that we just don't know. you know, we read these things. You guys don't read these things probably. And it's just good information to know and to know that our district is is is doing well despite COVID, despite everything. Um, thank you so much for everybody being here, everybody putting in what they do. Um, and Miss Abbott, I appreciate your information on the grid

098iron. I didn't know um I didn't really know before today what y'all do and it's it's just great information. It just helps us all work together better. So, thank you everybody. Mrs. Clip, I always love the student data presentation, but I am definitely a nerd about that. So, um it's great to see. I believe this is our 12th budget presentation, budget amendment presentation um for Jenner A and I. And Mr. Lampman, if anyone can make it exciting, it's not you. No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding, Mr. Lampman. I very much appreciate the fact that it didn't include little pictures of Tweety Birds and stuff and just got right in there. In all in all sincerity, uh that is not my Valley Wick. um teaching older kids how to read and write well is and um

099you you have made it uh informative and as easy to follow along with all of the um diversity inside it and moving pieces. I appreciate that. Um boy have athletics changed au training. I have a competitive dancer at my house, so she doesn't um engage in school athletics, but I know the costs. Driving off to Madison, driving off to Minneapolis, driving off to Green Bay, bake sales and super one bagging. I feel for everybody who's invested in what their child wants to do. I'm certain that, you know, folks who are involved in um robotics teams would say the same thing. It is expensive to be a parent. It's expensive to love your kid and um try to support them um in whatever way they're going because we know that in 10 years I know I

100don't have a competitive dancer. God, I hope I don't have a competitive dancer. Can you imagine? And um probably you know many of us don't also have um D2 or D1 tennis players, football players, varsity volleyball players, maybe some of us, but unfortunately not a lot of us and yet we're ready to put the money on the line. So I feel for everybody and I appreciate uh the comments today. Miss Abbott, I have to tell you I was a little taken back. I'm not entirely certain of what your comments meant um in this in terms of the specifics of fundraising. Um, it's tricky, man. I can tell you. Uh, I did, I think it was with Miss Cambenzi and I had a conversation. I'm pretty sure it was last fall. You know those vertical rises,

101the put money up there and you donate what you can. I can tell you last fall, uh, I was approached by people that matter to me and kids that matter to me by JB volleyball, varsity volleyball, boys soccer, and the grid iron club. It's hard to make the decision of where to put that money. Whose kid do I love the most? And what about my own kid? I doubt Grit Iron Folks with all the sweat and blood. You have no idea how much those ridiculous costumes cost. Uh they would have make it for 10 minutes on the football field. But holy cow, thousands of dollars. It's a conversation I've been part of with friends and bored and oh, I wish we could figure this out because we got to support our kids. Kids floating without

102an anchor. The data is clear. We lose them. And I don't have the answer to it all. I wish I did. What I do know is it used to be that you could play football and then basketball and then baseball. And now it seems like are you a volleyball player? Then you're a volleyball player. And we're taking 14-year-olds and they better dedicate their life to volleyball between the age of 14 and 18. The cost of a whole bunch of money. Aa is not cheap. It concerns me, frankly. Um, and I don't have the answer to it. Nobody approached me about girls tennis, and that's what I played when I was in high school and was frankly pretty good at it, but also didn't get me a college education. I'm thinking about you guys as you

103go into this season. Football's so fun to watch. I wish I had answers for you. I wish we could figure this out. I wish we could let kids be kids and be good at the things they're good at. And I just don't have the answer for you. It's expensive. It's just not like the old days. Anyways, thanks for your comments. I appreciate it. Thanks for everybody here. Have a good night. >> Mr. Nick, >> no additional comments. Thank you, >> Misery. Um, just a a thank you for the thoroughess tonight um by all those who spoke. I really appreciate it. And it's um you know, we're up here to help oversee things by a broader picture. We don't micromanage. So, it's the things you don't know till you know. and hearing all of the good

104stuff happening um is important for us to hear as well as from the parents who come. Um so I really I appreciate all of the speakers. I um am continued to be impressed by our district um by the administration and the teachers and by the community and the parents um and the involvement that everybody has. uh you know the budget um transparency is huge um and I really appreciate that. I think um the ability for this um district to be fiscally responsible has been impressive to me um and um continuing to kind of try to prioritize things. I do really appreciate you all coming and speaking because it is the things that we don't know. We This is I think the first time we've had you all here um to speak and so I just

105learned a ton and I've got a few questions to ask afterwards. Um but uh yeah, it is we want every child to succeed and we want to be able to um fund all of them, especially the ones who can't afford to do it, right? And so um and and it does ideally continue. I mean I do have two kids that went on to row at U of M and then even beyond that trying to and um it's an incredible thing uh for kids to be able to have that and the community that it brings to them again particularly the ones that don't have the means to do it or the support to do it. So for me that's powerful when they can be part of a team or part of a music group and our

106community provides that and I want to continue to figure out how we can continue that. So I again really appreciate you all coming. I appreciate you all speaking. Um and thank you. >> Thank you um board president comments. Um just thank you everyone for coming out today. It's always great to hear what is going on in our buildings and in our community. Um, I guess I would like to urge the legislators to do their job and you know, we had a a budget hearing and we did our jobs. We're going we approved it. We made sure that we have the the programs and the funding to continue for the next year. Um, it would be nice if the legislators would do their jobs and make ours a little bit easier. So, thank you everyone for

107all your hard work with the budget. And that's it. Uh, announcements and other meetings. First day of school, September 8th, 2026. It's It'll be here quicker than we want. Yes. Uh, and we'd like to recess to close session under section 8A of the Open Meetings Act. Employees request to consider a periodic personnel evaluation. Um, so do I need a motion and support for that? >> Motion support. >> Motion in support. >> Make a motion to go into recess to close session under section 8A of the Open Meetings Act uh upon employee request to consider a periodic personnel evaluation. Second. >> Okay. Motion made by Mr. Zenex, support by Mrs. Cliff. Do we need a roll call for that? >> We would not need a roll. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed?

108Motion passes. >> Yeah. Yep. We're going to Everdone