001All right. I would like to call the meeting to order. We will start with the pledge of allegiance. If I could have the students lead us, please stand. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Roll call, please. >> Kristen Campbenzy >> here. >> Jennifer Ray. >> Jason Zadun, >> here. >> Jennifer Cliff, >> here. >> Cheryl Maddox Smith >> here. >> Cassidy Thomas >> here. >> Eric Smith >> here. >> I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda. one at a time. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Cliff, support by Mr. Zunick. Um, all those in favor? >> I I >> Any opposed? Uh, moving on to the superintendent report. >> Thank you, President Cam Benzy.
002I would like to start by introducing assistant superintendent of finance, Mr. Lampman, to present a budget amendment. Good evening. Are you all ready for the most exciting presentation of the of the night? >> Yay! >> Applause. >> Thank you. Uh so in your packet you uh you should have a copy of uh of uh the budget amendment and uh presentation as well. Um so this is uh March 23rd. This will be the second budget amendment of the year. Um coming in June with the final amendment. Um, as you may recall, um, we were, the last amendment we did was back in January and we focused heavily on revenues at that time. Uh, we we uh due to the late adoption of the state of Michigan budget along with the freeze of federal funds that occurred
003in the fall, um, we didn't have uh, a lot of time to figure out our grant plan. So that's why we're bringing uh uh our expenses to you a little bit later than we normally would during the year. Uh in fact, speaking of grants, uh we still don't have our final allocation for our title funds. Uh that application was due last Friday, so we still have not technically been awarded those funds yet. Um which is it's very unusual to to be this far into the year and not have those federal funds allocated. But we're going to start off with the general fund which is comprised of several different funds of our general operations, our grants. And obviously the audience as I have a big audience this evening which is nice and feel free to stop
004you along the way if anyone has questions. So do ramble. Um so we have our grants fund Koffman auditorium planetarium uh services we provide to father Marquette uh uh which is private schooling in Marquette. Uh we have our retirement terminal leave our contingency, our athletics fund and our uh student uh activities fund that all roll up as uh components of our general fund. So, we're going to start out with general fund revenues. So, um we uh we have money invested on the district's behalf. Um currently our yield as of March 20th is 3.66%. I don't know if I'm the only one who tracks the federal interest rate changes during the year, but um at the recent Fed meeting, interest rates were held stable uh due to um the anticipation of rising inflation. So um so
005we take a look at uh interest earnings for the year and we try to make course corrections during the year to see how close we were on our predictions. We had anticipated in the original budget that we're going to see some interest rate cuts during the year. Uh we were probably a little more conservative uh than where we've been, but we took care of some of these course corrections uh with our January amendment. Looking at property taxes and other local revenues, again, we looked at property taxes as part of our January amendment. Uh so at this point, uh we're not proposing any changes to property taxes. we think that are still in line with um where we were in January. So other local revenue uh we're reducing our other local revenue by about 75,000 for
006um specific contributions that we received that uh we anticipate deferring into next year's budget. So we thought it prudent to uh to make a reduction at this point in time. No changes to our interd district uh rep. looking at our state aid. So, we get a monthly state aid allocation from the state of Michigan uh based off a foundation per pupil of $10,50. So, from January, our state aid membership increased by 3.49 uh FTE, which is just a slight increase.11%. So, our FTE has been stable since January. One of the big changes that occurred on our state aid report is our MYIPERS UAL that reduced 232,000. Um, and then our normal MYPERS cost offset increased 108,000. Looking at special education funds, based off what we reported for our 2425 year, we saw an increased allocation
007this year uh in our uh special ed funding of 377,000. And then um during our January uh presentation, we had a discussion about uh the great start readiness program that's being piloted through market alteres. And while we we have not received our funding yet, Mr. is a new which I know we discussed. Uh we do have an estimated allocation that we could include in the budget. Now >> Mr. Landon, can I I I'm sorry. I typically don't interrupt. >> Feel free. >> I think it's worth noting that that $325,890 for the GSRP pilot includes money that we would have received otherwise since it was a JK pilot. These were our JK students already 30 or so by $10,000 per pupil is about 300,000 or so of the 325 we would have received anyway. I just
008want to clarify that you you are correct that that is a reduction of FTE that we saw um that was picked up by by Mara. So had they not picked up that FTE we would have we would have picked up a lion share of that phone. So what you may >> certainly >> going back if I understand you correctly that budget person you're just really dealing with a difference of about 20 $6,000. >> Uh correct. I think we were picking up about was it about $750 of memory serves per pupil. So yes, >> there are some specific categoricals within GSRP that aren't captured in this line in this line item, but I think that >> that sums up the and uh I I didn't include a specific slide for our federal revenues. Uh but as
009I mentioned, we're still uh waiting on receiving our final federal revenue allocations. Um, but we did feel comfortable with an estimate. So, if you look at our federal revenue line, we're looking at about a $68,000 increase to federal revenues uh over where we were with the uh original budget in 2420 original budget uh 2526. So, overall, we're looking at an increase to revenues of about 1.3% 653,000. Uh you can see graphically that our state aid revenue uh is our l largest funding source followed by uh property taxes which would be local then federal a smaller share then other smallest. So looking at the general fund expenditures, we're looking um this this amendment proposes an overall decreased expenditures of 0.1%. So pretty much flat from where we were in January. Some of the biggest changes in
010this budget um are some staffing changes that occurred. But the biggest thing is um reduction to benefit costs. Uh as I mentioned the UAL was reduced. We saw uh 200 some thousand reduced on our uh state aid report. Well, that's kind of an in and in and out on our state aid report. We record the revenue. We also recorded the spent with the expense. So, if we see a drop in our revenue, we have corresponding drop in our expense. So, it nets out to zero. So, we had to reduce our expenses by about 200 uh it was 232,000 if I remember correctly. I should keep up with my notes. Um so looking at the uh other benefits um we also saw a a pretty significant decrease to uh the district's um portion of retirement costs.
011We saw uh the state reduce our uers contribution rates by about 1.45% four 5% all the way up to 5.75% depending on uh the retirement plan of which we we have been. Um so that culminated in over a $900,000 reduction to our our benefit costs and then as I mentioned we're going to continue to work on uh our grant plan that we'll bring hopefully with our final amendment. Hopefully by June we'll have all our grand funding in place. And then we just had some various increases in our operation and maintenance at Dallas for uh some unforeseen events that pop up during the course of the year. So overall looking at our expenses again pretty flat. This is uh a 20 about a $28,000 reduction from our January um budget. Um so some of those reductions
012have translated into uh an increased transfer to capital projects at 500,000. Um our IT director will be presenting a little later on a plan for um purchasing additional Chromebooks and laptops. Some of that will uh come out of these uh additional funds. So again looking at a um our general fund graphically you can see the largest uh expenditure for the district is salaries and benefits. Uh that represents generally over 80% of our operating costs. So pretty significant. So we started the year with a uh beginning fund balance of 19,550,000. This amendment proposes revenues totaling 50,445,000 expenses of 50,383,000 resulting in a net income of $61,792. We have uh various um restrictions on our fund balance for some non-spendable items. uh our contingency uh assigned items MTSS for one leaving 12,430,000 in unassigned fund balance that's
013available for use. Moving out of food service. Sorry, just one second to catch up to my notes. terrible about flicking pictures. Okay, looking at our food service, um this is basically a a nonprofit fund. Uh we currently have a universal field free meal program that's funded by the state of Michigan largely supplemented with federal revenues. Um overall, uh we're proposing a little over 5% increase to our revenues with this amendment. uh bringing into two of 14,000. Some of that is a little bit of a change to our local revenues. Um we collect revenues from uh uh non- studentent users um you know adults who uh purchase lunch through the district. We also have contracts with other organizations that we collect local revenues through. Um so this is basically uh just a a reflection of where
014we feel we are today with the utilization of meals uh throughout the course of the year and where we we think the next couple of months are going to it's been a very popular program amongst the students uh to utilize the universal free meal program. Looking at the expense side slight change overall we're looking at an increase to expenses of 1.6% 6% $32,879 increase. Um, one of the largest changes is to capital outlay. That's a $20,000 increase for some purchases that the board had previously authorized that just had not been reflected yet in the budget. Uh, cafeteria tables, I believe, at grape rat and the board had authorized a uh um a cooler for uh bath ball. So this just reflects that um in the budget. So we started the year in the lunch fund
015with a $510,000 balance. We have revenues totaling 2,14,000 expenditures of 2,35,000 resulting in a net loss of 21,679 the lunch fund and projected ending fund balance of $488,000 $26. So looking at the next several funds, uh we have our uh 2016 uh debt retirement fund, our chemical projects fund, and our sinking fund coming up. So no changes right now to the debt fund. Um all that fund does is collect property taxes to satisfy the annual payment on our 2016 uh bond. Um so that's basically an in and out. We pull up the revenue, we pay the bond payment. Uh there's two payments. The principal and interest are due in May, and then there's an interest payment due in November. So at this point, we're not proposing any changes. So we started uh the year with
016$140,000 fund balance in our debt fund. Uh we had collected revenues above 601,000 projected expenditures of 556,000 resulting in a net income of $44,965 and an ending fund balance of $185,6. Moving on to our capital projects fund. So our capital projects fund does not have a funding source. Um that is funded strictly by money allocated to the fund. So, we uh we're looking at 11% increase overall to the capital projects fund, $52,000 increase. looking at local revenues of that $119,960. I just want to point out that about $65,000 of that local revenue increase is due to one item and that was uh a rebate that we were able to capture on the new boilers that were installed at Cherry Creek and Superior Hills. So that was a $100,000 project that we were able to get
017a 60 almost a $65,000 rebate on. So over about half that project cost was was covered and reimbured the capital projects fund. I just want to point that out. Uh the other change in local revenues is just uh uh a change to where we feel uh our annualized uh investment earnings are going to be from June. Again transfer in increased 500,000 to cover some of the items that'll be discussed later on this evening. Um, so overall an increase of 52,000 capital. Did I talk expenses? I didn't know. Um expenditures $567,000 uh about a 73% increase in capital projects. And again, there's going to be um the board had previously approved a Chromebook purchase and we're also going to bring uh forward another purchase this evening. So, uh we anticipate costs and I I don't want
018to steal our IT director's thunder, but we do anticipate costs going up in the near future. So, we're going to advocate for uh moving uh moving some purchasing up uh to save a little cost. So we started the year with a fund balance of 5,953,000. We have revenues of $99,960, expenditures of 1,338,000, resulting in a net loss of $428,5359, a projected ending fund balance of capital products of 5,525,000. Moving out of the syncing fund, syncing fund does have a revenue source. Uh it's a voter approved millillage, so we collect money each year from the taxpayers in order to fund um uh infrastructure improvements throughout the district. Um again, we had looked at the property taxes pretty hard in in January, so we're not really proposing any big changes to our revenue today other than a
019slight increase of 5,000. And again, that's based on annualized uh uh interest earnings. no uh proposed changes to our expenditures in the syncing fund. Um as the board may recall uh 2526 we really don't plan uh to utilize the sinking fund because we had used it heavily in the prior year to uh uh to fund the renovations of the science labs. And that uh that was a pretty significant project billion and a half to $2 million project that really utilized uh you know the majority of the the revenue from the sinking fund. So we were taking this year to build the syncing fund back up and we're starting to go out on bids now for projects that the scing fund will cover this this summer. So this was an intentional buildup of of uh income
020in the syncing fund. So overall we're looking at a net income of about 1,27,000 started with a balance of 612,000 revenues of almost 1.4 billion expenditures of 107,000. Um that will most likely change come year end as we identify what those projects are and how much we're at the end of June. But again at 1.27 27 million uh net income. Projected ending fund balance 1,84,000. And the last fund to go over is our private purpose trust fund. Um slight decrease in revenue again attributable to our annualized income. Uh we think we'll be a little bit down from where we were uh originally estimating. So a slight change there, $1,000.8%. 8%. And um a slight increase to our expenditures of about 4,500 um based on uh historical averages of scholarships that have been paid out. Uh
021the majority of these scholarships get paid out of this fund uh in uh in May. So um so we just bumped that up a little bit based off historical averages. So overall, we're looking at a change of uh reduction of 5,500 from where we were in the January uh budget amendment. So, private purpose trust, we started the year with 309,000 in fund balance, revenues of 124,500, projected expenditures of 122,500, resulting in a net income of 2,000 and an ending fund balance uh projected to be $311,62. And the floor is open for questions and hearing none. Thank you. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Thank you, J. >> Um, can you cover real quick the um line items under other um under expenditures? You don't have more to do >> numbers or anything, but just with some
022of those bigger items under that category. >> Are we in the general fund, sir? >> Yes. >> Okay. B. Oh, that B2. Okay. See. Okay. So, we're um we're on this slide. Is there a specific Oh, we're on that one. I can't. It's hard to hard to turn around. Um Oh, okay. I'm sorry. here on the other here on the other sheet. >> Oh. Oh, just on this one, you know, um, off the top of my head, um, that is a great question and there's 1.5 million that rolls into the the other category. If you give me a few minutes, I can get you an answer. off the top of my head, I don't remember exactly what's rolling into that particular line item, but I can get an answer for you. >> Okay, no worries.
023Thank you. Um, also, who's responsible for the uh kudos for the rebate and the boiler project? >> I won't take credit, but somebody from Smco reached out to me. uh they knew me from college years and told me about this program that we might be eligible for because they had heard about some of the mechanical upgrades we had made and it took some work. I will say I give credit to Mr. Lampman and Mr. is it specic? >> Spec and uh they they it took some some work to get the information they needed, but that was a significant rebate. And with the potential projects that have been identified through this bond proposal, I'm hopeful that there might be opportunities in the future to realize additional rebates. >> Um last question on the food service for
024the universal food lunch. that's through the end of this school year and we don't know what the future may hold or is there a what that looks like. So it was included in the budget that the governor put out. Um but I have not yet seen the budgets from the house or the state and whether that would be included or not. As you may recall, we went into October not knowing whether or not there was going to be a universal free meal program last last fall. Um, so I wish I had I wish I had a um a crystal ball to to predict that, but I I believe the governor is a supporter of it. what the House and the um Senate decide to do in their budgets and and what happens when they reconcile
025those three budgets together. I I can't begin to predict. >> Um I can say that there is a push to get it codified into law so that it will just be a part of the budget so that if future governors were to come in and try to not fund it that it would be more difficult for that to happen. Um that was one thing that was mentioned at my MASP meeting um during the legislative update. So that is something that they are looking at codifying that into law. So it'll just be this is what what it is. >> I appreciate that. >> Yeah, I I know a lot of you mentioned it's a utilized program and and so you know I just thought we had the opportunity to share. >> Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, no,
026it it has been a popular program. Um, so I'm sure there are a lot of families that would love to see that program continue into the future. Unfortunately, uh, you know, I hope there's not going to be a long contracted um, I don't want to say battle, but you know, budget discussion this summer amongst the state uh, legislators and, uh, governor. Um, you know, I was at a uh I was at a legislative meeting not too long ago where the legislators were were saying there's not a whole lot of appetite to have a lot of attractive budget discussion this summer. Uh so we'll see what happens. Uh but you know again it's been a somewhat unusual year because normally by October we have some sense of what our funding is going to be and it
027makes it a lot easier to budget. Uh this year because of the the lateness of the the state budget being adopted and then Michigan Department of Education have to figure out what got adopted and how it's going to be implemented and rolled out. Uh there's there's just it's it's just pushed the whole timeline back. >> So that was actually a question I had and I don't need examples, but I'm wondering um if you guys read the team news, either you or Superintendent Seg you at those meetings um you're feeling like we're not going to be quite as embattled this summer as figuring out budgets and things like that. It was and that's it did just whisper in my ear. It's election year which I'm sure does have some stuff. Yeah, it's an election year and
028it's still a divided well divided government. So, I would be certainly cautious to be overly optimistic that it's going to go smoothly. >> Yeah, I I I I hope for a smooth um process for the state in rolling out 2627 budget, but um there's the Uh there's there's a lot of factors that played by the government an election year. Um so we'll see what happens. Are the expenditures in the trust budget determined by the number of scholarship recipients? And is there a set amount? That's how you figure what the budget would be or is there's uh there's a litany of different scholarships available. And uh in some years they get awarded, some years they don't. It all depends on uh who applies and um and uh how many get awarded out. So it it it
029varies a little bit from the great year. And we just took a look at the last couple years and we felt um that uh it was a it was a good time to to make a change in the budget in anticipation of what we paid out. So, um, uh, you know, they we're not the ones deciding that we, uh, we're the fiduciary agent for a lot of these scholarships. So, that's not determined by us. We just hold the money and we we pay it out on behalf of others. So uh so I'm not involved in in the decision- making process as to how was going forward and who we go to. Uh so it was more more for us to have a little bit more of an accurate budget number kind of the historical trend.
030There's generally criteria set up by whoever the benefactor was for those scholarships. I remember serving on that committee when I was a teacher at the high school and sometimes you don't have students that applied or they don't meet the criteria and there's a number of scholarships that we host if you will as a fiduciary but then there's quite a few more that the maps foundation actually overseas and when you hear in a couple months when we have our local scholarship uh ceremony you'll hear which students have earned which scholarships and generally a little bit about what the criteria was or at least uh you could look into that information uh based on that program. >> Thank you. >> Looks like that's all the questions. >> Any further questions? >> Nope. And I will follow up
031Mr. Zun with uh with with getting a breakdown of that by item for you on the whole one actually. So, thank you. Next up is our technology director, Ellie Gladwell, to provide a little bit on our technology plan. Sorry, I turned it off. >> Okay, how about now? Much better. Cool. Um, so in your board packet is a proposal for um some laptop and Chromebook purchases for the 2026 2027 school year. Um, this proposal is coming to you a little earlier than it would be normally, as Jim alluded to. Um the bid pro or the bid contracts for technology does come or ends at the end of March. The new contracts for starting in April are significantly higher um 40 to 60% higher in fact per device. Um so we are looking to make these
032purchases a little bit sooner than we would normally. Um this year we are looking to order 60 staff laptops. Um, this will begin a 5-year replacement cycle for staff laptops. Um, as well as 500 student Chromebooks, which will continue our normal replacement cycle for the Chromebooks. Um, the total cost for the 60 laptops, um, we are looking at about $33,673.80. Um, for the Chromebooks, we are looking at $119,50 uh for a total of $152,723.80. >> Any questions? >> Miss Cladwell, could you quickly just highlight the replacement plan for the Chromebooks? I know you mentioned a 5-year replacement plan for the staff laptops, assuming you're starting with the oldest laptops and then moving towards right the the the newest ones. But what about Can you quickly articulate the Chromebook replacement plan? >> Absolutely. So for the
033Chromebooks, um we buy 500. This covers brand new Chromebooks for every sixth grader who will then keep that Chromebook through their senior year. Chromebooks have about an 8year lifespan for Google. Usually it ends up being longer because they continue updating them after that, but that gets them through that second years, no problem. And then we also replace one grade at each elementary school every year, rotating which grade. This year would be fourth grade. >> And because of the questions I get, perhaps for parents that are concerned about investing more in that Chromebook that it might be worth, they always have the option of replacing the Chromebook. >> That is correct. We do keep some spares on hand and um if a Chromebook is in a state that um a family would like a new Chromebook,
034we can absolutely provide that for them. >> Thank you. Question. Is there an Apple option for the staff? >> There is not an Apple option partially because the price difference is so significant. And is software covered irrespectively or do we just have like a one big license that everybody's covered under? >> So for software um it depends a little bit on what software but like for Microsoft we pay an annual fee for that. For um Adobe and that annual fee and that's enough license for all staff members. So >> So the cost is just for the laptop and that doesn't take into effect the software. >> Correct. This is just for the laptop and a three-year warranty for the laptop. >> Thank you. >> Again, sorry. It's worth mentioning that as much as device replacement
035is great, a larger scale technology improvement would be possible where the bond proposal to be approved by voters on May 5th. >> If there's no other questions, thank you very much, Miss Gladwell. Thank you. >> Okay, a quick facilities update for our May 2026 bond proposal. Some key talking points you've likely heard me expound in the community. The pillars of this proposal, safety, infrastructure, and programming, particularly ensuring our facilities are future ready for the students. And this particular particular proposal impacts every building and every student. It's a district-wide solution. Every MAPAP's facility has prioritized projects in this proposal impacting academics, athletics, and the arts. Updating science labs and buildings besides MSHs music art rooms and athletic facilities, just to name a few. workforce readiness and talent pipeline improvements, especially those related to CTE, that's career
036and technical education, operational efficiency and fiscal responsibility. Addressing infrastructure now prevents more expensive reactive emergency repairs later, some of which are highlighted in the budget proposal that you just heard. A reminder that MAPS maintains one of the lowest millage rates in the region currently at 1.31 mills, far lower than almost all of our neighbors and the state average, which is about 4.55. This proposal is a 1.55 mil increase added to that 1.31 that we currently levy. That's about 2.86. Still lower than some of our neighbors, many of our neighbors, and certainly the state average again, which is 4.5. We've been transparent, committed to remaining that way. We've offered multiple public forums and of course detailed project lists and financial impact calculators are available on our website www.mmapsnet.org/2026 bond. just a little bit on voting, which
037by the way could include northern students if you follow the correct steps, which I'm about to outline. With the election approaching on Tuesday, May 5th, we're entering the most critical window for voter participation. March 26th, which is this Thursday, absentee ballots become available. Residents can request and vote via absentee ballot through their municipal clerk or online at www.man.gov/vote. April 25th through May 3rd. In-person absentee voting is available at your m municipal clerk offices from April 30th through May 2nd. There is early voting available from 8:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. at the Peter White Public Library. And then then of course on May 5th is the election. So any questions on the proposal? The board is probably tired of me talking about the proposal, so I'm going to let that go. And the last thing I
038want to touch on under other is a roof project. Speaking of facility improvements, and Mr. Isaac Roberts from GEI who works as our owners rep will come and tell us a little bit about that proposal. >> Yeah. So in your pocket you have a um proposal from Bell Roofing for roof replacement at Marquette Senior High School the auxiliary services bus garage as well as uh the maintenance facility um by the football field. So we solicited for bids. We received one bid from Bell Roofing. It does have an adder for an alternate roof drain for the canopy to discharge below ground. Um, thinking that's probably a best choice to improve safety during freeze thaw cycles. Um, and it does include a 5% contingency for any unforeseen instances during construction. Any questions for Mr. Roberts? >> First
039little note, I would like to say thank you for whoever went to look at that alternative drain for the canopy because that has been an issue since I was in school at Mark County. So I think >> there's currently an east trough that just kind of ends. >> Yeah. at the one side of the canopy and then flows or lands on our sidewalk where it sometimes it hits the drain if it's too cold it's a problem. >> So we certainly it's taken some extra investment are going to make sure that's a safer solution than what curly is in place. That is all I have for the superintendent board. Thank you Mr. Roberts and thank you board. >> Thank you. Um, before we move on to approving the consent agenda, I am going to pass the
040gavl to Mr. Zadunic. He's going to finish up the meeting because I have to run to another meeting. Okay, I believe our next item will be to look for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Support. All right, it looks like we have a motion and support. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion passes. consent agenda items A, B, and C. Moving on to the student school board representatives report. Um, for academics, this is our last week of school before spring break and the quarter ends this Friday. After spring break, standardized testing begins for freshman through juniors. Last Wednesday, Spanish three and eighth Spanish classes participated in Spanish day at NMU where students performed songs, skits, and showand tells. Additionally,
041a handful of students will be participating in both HOSA and science Olympiad states in April. For athletics, um our spring sports have started practicing and our girls varsity softball team had a tournament at the dome this past weekend and won all their games. Okay, for the arts, uh MSHs is hosting Spotlight on the Arts tomorrow starting at 6:30 p.m. in the gym. And then a small group of MSHs Corral students are putting on a short musical production called Painless and English classes and other classes are invited to view this this Wednesday. And then some things coming up that student council has been working on. Uh this week, student council and the administration work together to put on a spring break dressup week to bring up school spirit before going into spring break. And then after
042spring break is powderpuff volleyball where junior boys will play the senior boys and practice will begin after spring break and the game is scheduled but I do not have that date. Mr. Engles might have that. Thank you. All right, thank you very much for the updates and reports. Uh, moving on to the next item are comments from the public. I don't see any flips up here for comments to from the public. So that being covered, we'll move on to new business item A, which is considering the amendment to the 2025 2026 budget. Um, is there any discussion on the budget prior to moving forward? Questions? Hearing none, I will look for a motion to consider the amendment to the 2025 2026 budget. >> I move that we accept the amended budget as presented for 2025
0432026. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion uh from Mr. Smith and support from Mrs. Clip. Um any additional questions, comments? All right, hearing none. All those in favor? I >> I >> uh any opposed? Motion passes to consider the amendment budget proposal update. Moving on to the second item to consider the approval of laptop and Chromebook purchases as recommended. Any questions or comments prior to moving forward? the requisite three or five seconds wait time or something. Um, so hearing none, I'm looking for a motion to consider the approval of laptop and Chromebook purchases as recommended. >> I'll make a motion that we approve the laptop and Chromebook purchases as recommended. >> Support. All right. I have a motion from Mrs. Maddox Smith and support from Mr. Smith. Sorry. Yes. >> Um, any
044additional conversations, questions? >> Hearing none, I will uh All those in favor? >> I I opposed. Motion passes. Item C, consider awarding the Market Senior High School and auxiliary services bus garage roof replacement to uh Bell Roofing Company as recommended. Any questions? Hearing no questions, I will look for a motion to consider awarding the Marquette Senior High School and auxiliary services plus garage replacement to Bell Roofing Company as recommended. I move that we uh accept the proposal for the uh roof project is presented. >> Support. >> All right. I have a motion from Mr. Smith and uh support for Mrs. Maddox Smith. All those in favor? >> I I any opposed? None. Motion passes. All right. Moving right along to um board member comments. Comments. >> Uh thank you. Thank you to our speakers today,
045Mr. Lampman, Miss Gladwell, and Mr. Roberts. Um you guys all have a civics project or something. >> What a crazy meeting to come to the budget meeting. It's so fun. Um a lot of folks do ask about like, you know, what is the school doing with their money? And Mr. and just explained it in great detail. So, if anybody has questions, they should be directed to this YouTube broadcast. Um, as Mr. Cedric pointed out, there is a bond proposal. As a board member, I can't tell you which way to vote, but you should vote on May 5th, whichever way you see fit, and educate yourself on the bond. And thank you to Ellen Eleanor for speaking. I hope you have a wonderful spring break. >> All right. Thank you. Um, Madex Smith, >> definitely ditto
046to Miss Thomas here. Um, I hope that all of our NMU students that are here will will consider voting. Um, just an incredible um, way to exercise your privilege. Um, Ally, I just want to say thank you for being so proactive on the uh, laptop Chromebook. that's like prices going up 40 to 60% getting ahead of that curve is, you know, that's that's really impactful to the district. So, thank you so so much. Um, and Mr. Lamp, thank you for disseminating all of that budget information. I agree. It should be like a YouTube mandatory tutorial now. Um, it's just so much information and we're so lucky to have you to uh disseminate that to us. our student reps. Uh, as always, I love your um presentations. I love hearing what's going on. I mean, that
047after all, that's why we're here is for you guys. So, thank you so so much. Thanks for everybody's input and hard work. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, Mrs. Clip, >> just hope everyone has a really good spring break and they rest, maybe get tan, sit on the beach. It's been fun. Thanks. >> All right. Thank you. And Mr. Smith, >> um, a couple of comments. First, uh, I'd like to echo the kudos to Miss Gladwell and the technology proposal, the laptops, but it goes a little bit deeper than that. She has spent a lot of time putting together a plan that I think the district can be proud of that's going to carry us not only through this year, but for subsequent years. And that's often missing. And I just want to thank you
048for all your work and putting that together. Uh likewise, I think we owe a debt of thanks to a number of our staff that were involved in snow removal and getting the school ready so that students could come back. Um that was a significant storm. We don't have to tell uh people that uh that was a once in a-lifetime experience. But the fact that uh the MAP staff worked in concert with city staff to get the roads cleared so that our plows could do what they need to do to get students safely to and from school. That's no small task and I just would like to make sure that they get recognized as part of this. And also to the students um you have almost the full school year behind you. I hope you have
049a safe break and come back and finish strong and we'll look forward to hearing more. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I just appreciate nobody making me use the gavvel. Put that aside. Um, moving on to board president's comment. Board president's comments. She is not here. So, we'll move on to other announcements and announcements and other meetings. Uh, March 27th, 2026 is the end of the third quarter. uh March 30th through April 6th. Speaking of that spring break, uh is our spring break and there will be no school. Uh our next board meeting will be April 20th, 2026 for a regular board meeting 5:30 p.m. at the Sanino Gym. Uh we'll look for a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion to adjourn from Mrs.
050Thomas and support from Mrs. Clip. All those in favor? >> I I >> Any opposed? Have a good night, everyone.