001All right, I'd like to call the meeting to order. We will start with the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Kristen Campanzi, here. Jennifer Ray. here. Jason Zadun here. Jennifer Cliff here. Cheryl Maddox Smith here. Cassidy Thomas here. Eric Smith. Okay. And I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda. Make a motion to approve the agenda. Second. Okay. Motion made by Mr. Zadudnick, support by Mrs. Clip. All those in favor? I. Uh, moving on to the superintendent report. Thank you, Mrs. Camby. Appreciate everybody coming out this evening. Want to start the superintendent report with our very professionally dressed Marquette Senior High School athletic director, Mr. Jackson.
002That's right, Mr. Minutes now. What an incredible Thank you, Mr. Sedwick. Uh this is my first time uh presenting to the board and I'm very happy to do it uh and talk about our school year this year. It was a very fun year and I'm going to go through and highlight some team and individual successes. Uh our fall season set the tone. Cross country saw both our boys and girls teams crowned up champions led by standout performances across the team. Football posted a 6 and3 overall record finishing 5- one in the Big North and filling Friday and Saturday nights with community pride. Our boys soccer team went 164-2, winning the district title. Girls tennis finished fourth in the UP meet. Volleyball battled throughout the season, finishing nine and seven in dual match record and four
003and four in the conference. Dance and cheerleading added energy and enthusiasm to the football games. And our mountain biking team repeated as Wisconsin state champions, showing just how farreaching our student athletes talents are. As the snow started to fall, winter sports arrived. Our student athletes continued to shine during the winner. Boys basketball finished 22 and4, winning the district title and advancing to the class A regional final to reach the round of 16. Girls basketball ended with an 11-4 record and a 4-4 mark in the conference, making clear strides in teamwork and consistency throughout the season. Hockey won the regional title and and reached the division 2 state quarterfinal in the round of eight. Swim and dive swept the UP once again with the boys and girls teams crowned UP champions thanks to a strong foundation
004and senior leadership over the years. Alpine skiing took home the boys state title while the girls placed fourth in the state meet. Nordic skiing continued its championship tradition by winning the Michigan state title. Wrestling produced a regional individual qualifier. Gymnastics competed in the regional meet at Rockford. Bowling sent a male to the individual state finals. Figure skating had skaters qualify for the Michigan State Championships and dance and cheer introduced new routines and provided great energy at all the basketball games. As the snow melted eventually, spring arrived, our teams finished the year on a strong note. Boys golf won the UP final and girls golf finished as UP runner-ups. Boys tennis captured their first UP title since 2009, a huge achievement led by depth and top tier singles play. Boys track were crowned up UP champions,
005while girls track and field finished a very strong second. Baseball and softball posted their best records in years, showing big improvement and narrowly falling in a tough district matchup against Traverse City. And girls soccer wrapped up the spring with a strong effort and in a close district loss to Gaylord. It was a memorable year of team success at Marquette. But throughout the year, we recognized athletes of the month, each chosen for his or her individual performance and leadership. To start off for September, Seepe Camille broke the school record in cross country and Briana Anderson led the volleyball team as a senior. Drew Bradley was our top football player and Sam Patternoster won her second straight mountain biking state title. Trevor Crandell stood out in swim and dive while Yara Sprouse a freshman led our cheer
006team with positivity and spirit. In December, Jacob McY broke the basketball career rebounding record and Olivia Murvich was a standout performer on the basketball court in dance. Talon Smith led on the wrestling mat and Aubrey Blackburn shined in girls basketball. Cole Kelly, our starting goalie, anchored a strong hockey defense while Annabelle Ola led gymnastics with consistency, composure, and leadership. Jackson Germ made headlines and broke school records as the point guard while Hi Haynes elevated the softball program in March. In April, James Bart broke the school record for the 3200 and Jocelyn Luzo remained a leader for girls soccer in her senior season. In May, Chase Thompson led boys tennis to a UP title, while Maya Mackey Warren, a key in multiple relay wins, is headed to NMU to continue her track career. We also recognized
007our teammates of the year, Parker Saunders in basketball and Pton Plow in tennis and basketball for their outstanding character and leadership. And finally, the highest award in athletics is the athlete of the year. Chase Thompson the male was a 16-time varsity letter award winner in his four-year career in cross country, swimming, diving, tennis, and track and field while maintaining a 4.2 GPA. He'll continue his academic and running career at Minnesota DUTH where he will be on the cross country and track teams. Aubrey Blackburn, a threeseason letter award winner in tennis, basketball, and track, made a lasting impact in each program and will go on to play college basketball at Bay in Eskanava. Both Mr. Mr. Thompson and Miss Blackburn have represented our school with integrity, balance, dedication, humility, and a deep commitment to excellence. They
008are the best of what we hope to see from our student athletes. To conclude, I want to reaffirm my commitment to leading Marquette athletics with clarity, accountability, transparency, and purpose. This past year has been a testament to the incredible talent, dedication, and character of our student athletes, and I'm extremely proud of what our student athletes and coaches have accomplished. That success didn't happen by chance. It was built by people, coaches, families, teachers, custodians, bus drivers, secretaries, athletic trainers, game workers, officials, and volunteers, and by the continued support and leadership of the board and superintendent. I believe deeply in what high school athletics can do for kids, and I see this every day. I see how a good coach can change a life. I see how a team can become a second family, and for some,
009a first family. And I see how lessons learned on the playing surface help shape these young people. excuse me, help shape who these young people will become for the rest of their lives. But let me be clear, this is only the beginning. We've laid a strong foundation, and now is the time to build. The bar is high, and it should be. We're not just maintaining a program. We're elevating it. I'm here to lead with energy, professionalism, and vision. I'm committed to pushing our program forward to ensure that Marquette Athletics continues to be a source of pride, unity, and excellence for our school and our community. My job is to now make sure we don't just protect that momentum, we build on it. That we keep growing, not just in championships, but in the experience we
010provide to every student athlete who wears the red and white of Marquette. I'm honored to serve this school, this community, and these student athletes. Thank you for your time tonight. I look forward to seeing you this fall at our home athletic events. God bless you and go Centrals. [Applause] Yeah, you're great, Mr. Engles. Well done. Very well done, Mr. Engles. That was thorough. High energy, a lot of information. Thank you for the update. Athletics is certainly a phenomenal part of our program and one that many students benefit from. So, uh, board members, you might want to turn your chairs. The only way you can see this screen is by turning. Although you have hard copies of the presentations in your packets, uh, Mrs. Hopper, do they? Oh, they don't have this one. I I apologize.
011So, you don't have this actually sit in the Yeah, if you want to move to the front row, by all means to watch that. So, this is a co-presentation with our student achievement coordinator, Miss Kathleen Styles. Her piece is going to come up here a little bit later in the presentation. This is actually a very similar presentation to one that I had given previously to the board and which I gave uh as part of our recent strategic planning meeting. The biggest difference between this presentation and and those that we've sh there's two real big differences. One, we actually have some data embedded in the presentation survey results. We recently gave strategic planning surveys. This is actually the third cycle of giving those surveys. So we have data over three cycles. That's pretty powerful data for
012for doing strategic planning. So we've embedded some of that data in this presentation. And we also have uh some enhanced technology uh in within the presentation. Thanks to uh Courtney Larson who's in the audience. Thank you Courtney for taking some tools, some tips that we learned in a recent training from uh a gentleman by the name of Myron Dick, British Columbia. He gave us some some great strategies for enhancing our presentation. And I think you'll notice uh some improvement to help tell the story so it's not just my words. Anyway, whenever we're talking about strategic planning, we want to stay grounded on our mission and that is to maximize the academic potential of every child. And I think you'll see in this presentation that we're talking about more than just academics. A holistic approach where
013we're looking at the social emotional needs of our students. And you're going to see a theme or hear a theme of in infrastructure in this presentation as well. So that mission is the the foundation for the strategic plan. We didn't include all the objectives and goals for this presentation for ease of the reading of the slide, but you see the six groups that we uh that are part of strategic planning. And each group is chaired by one of our administrators. student achievement, our district wellness team, professional development, and Courtney, I see our first typo with wellness team up there twice. We actually were missing uh finance. So, Mr. Lampman, I'm sorry, but your group is not adequately represented. We will fix that for the next go around, but we'll we'll replace finance with one of
014the wellness team uh one of the wellness team groups, student achievement and facilities and learning environment. I I talk a lot about Masow's hierarchy of needs. I think it it really is the some some of the core principles uh that that drive education especially postcoid 21st century which is a much different environment than what I started in talking first about physiological needs. Essentially students are never going to reach that self-actualization that that uh that point of really realizing their full potential if they don't have these core needs met. And as you work up the pyramid, you're getting in you're you're you're starting with those core needs that are absolutely essential for kids to be successful. And as you work up the pyramid, maybe a greater uh greater likelihood of of having uh obstacles, unique obstacles
015to the individual learner that are going to be in place, whereas those physiological needs are are are across the board necessary for students to be uh successful. So physiological needs and what I want to do is highlight some of the actual initiatives that are in place to address those physiological needs. I've said this anecdotally obviously we know what physiological needs are. Basic needs of food, water, shelter, clothing, and we're doing that. We have free breakfast and lunch. We have uh a program that's been in place for a couple of years now where we've installed filtered bottle bottle water bottle filling stations throughout the district and we've greatly enhanced a number of those filling stations. There is legislation that's driving uh these types of improvements throughout public schools in Michigan. We're well ahead of the curve
016since we've been working on this for quite some time. Clothing, you know about coats for kids. I'm sure you've heard about rock to socks. We have a variety of building level programs where we give free clothing where we really meet the kids needs uh the individual kids needs, physiological needs, uh especially important during the winter months of course in Marquette and even unique days like this one where it's quite hot. Air filters. You may not know that there's air filters uh that there's uh that we have devices that we have units throughout the district. And I'm I know the board has heard me talk about HVAC systems that have been put in place such as Bothwell where we have a new unit where that building is now much safer, much healthier for students to learn
017in. And we're soon going to be replacing the pod AC. We're actually in the part of the high school where the pod AC actually controls air flow or lack thereof tonight and it is uncomfortable. So, when we talk about potential barriers to student learning and MTSS, right, it's all about removing barriers. Think about the barrier that we're experiencing tonight with the heat in this room. Tell me it wouldn't be hard for you to sit through an hour and a half long presentation. Now, I this is not going to be an hour and a half, but just imagine if it was. So, and then more to say about suitable infrastructure. Again, potential barriers to learning. We're working hard on infrastructure. We've done a great job with what we have and we'll talk a little bit more
018about what the resources that are available and the projects that we've done but clearly infrastructure that uh idea of shelter let's go back to Maslo's hierarchy of needs you're not you don't give students adequate shelter in this case a proper learning environment that's going to be a barrier to their learning safety and security is next up Maslo's list I've talked significantly about safety and security over the years. You've heard me talk about all of these initiatives. I'm not going to list them off again today. Thanks to grant money and local dollars that we've invested, we have done made significant improvements in the safety and security of our buildings. And that of course is necessary for students to feel safe in a building to feel safe in a school in order for them to learn effectively.
019But just again uh I want to I want to definitely highlight the PA systems, the cameras, the radio systems and the maps which were instrumental in very uh unique and successful experience recently even with the districtwide drill. Those technologies are greatly improving our communications at all times, including during emergencies. But we are certainly focused first and foremost on safety and security for our students and we will continue to be as we move forward. Here's where we get into some feedback from the community, staff, and students. Again, there's three surveys that we gave earlier this spring, and we embedded some of those survey results. 96% of, excuse me, 96% students, staff, and community felt that our buildings were safe. I think that's pretty powerful. Some more data on safety. Uh first off, 81% of staff and
02088% of the community sat satisfied with how we've used uh millillage uh past millillage bond issues. And you've heard me talk about the structure, safety, infrastructure, programming structure of my presentations. That's what we have here along with some evidence of of different initiatives, different projects that we've taken on to address those three components. On the top you see examples of our PA systems. In the middle top row is uh an example of our new security entrances and our camera system which I alluded to in the top right. Middle row when you're talking about basic infrastructure. We have parking lots. We have mechanical and uh outdoor learning spaces to the right. And then programming. I always you you've heard me talk about I love my acronyms and my pneumonic devices but the academics, the athletics and
021the arts. So on the bottom when we think about programming we have an example of athletics uh and academics with our new science labs and then our new ADA entrances at at Kaufman for the arts. Shortterm talk about how much money we have going in and how much money we have going out. So in the short term or as far as revenue sources, we have a $1.3 million a year syncing fund that is helpful, but you'll see in light of the need uh just immediate need, not adequate. So this summer we have $3 million worth of projects. I could quickly lift those off, but I won't at this time just to save a little time. The amount of money coming in, the amount of money going out shortterm is not adequate. It's similar long-term. Mr.
022Ray, this is for you. Just to give you a little bit better demonstration of the long-term need, long uh animation of this slide to indicate that our long-term need, we had a hund00 million of infrastructure needs identified internally. You'll soon hear me talk about a statewide infrastructure that confirm that amount, but what we have coming in and what we have going out short-term and long-term is certainly going to be an obstacle to our continued success if it were it is not addressed. So, we have representatives from GEI and IDI. We have Isaac Roberts here tonight, engineer from GEI and Craig uh Carmen from IDI working on that pronunciation. And they are here to talk a little bit more about our construction manager which I'll get to shortly. But what you saw on that slide was
023our effort to en encapsulate a lot of work into one slide. On the right you saw pages scrolling through that. Those were basically a synopsis of internal audits that we done to come up with the results that you there then see on the screen. You have 61 million roughly $61 million worth of prioritized projects and over $112 million worth of projects identified in in our inter as after our internal audits. That's not exorbitant. Those are basic infrastructure needs in our district. And then we recently received the results from a statewide study which essentially reinforced the same information. It's not the same list, but I think it's notable that the state came up with over $100 worth worth of critical infrastructure needs at Marqueta Area public schools. 22 billion in fact throughout the state. Now Michigan's
024unique in that it doesn't provide funding for infrastructure unfortunately at least for public schools. So they ask us to go to our local community in an effort to pay for that or to address those needs. And we've done so through various initiatives. The scing fund I mentioned we've put money in capital projects. We've applied for grants and you'll hear Jim talk a little bit more on finances. But again, $102 million roughly. They also told us how much it costs to replace the facilities. That's interesting information. Three almost 350 million to replace our facilities. We have over 750,000 square ft of buildings. So $350 million is not an unreasonable figure when you're talking about that much infrastructure. So obviously we're going to go with repair going with repairing the facilities, repairing rather than replacing. A little
025glimpse of how MAPS rates compared to other public schools as far as the amount that we levy from our community to address infrastructure. Although the community may feel like there's significant taxes that they that they bear, it's not necessarily from maps. So maps as compared to local districts, these are more immediate proximity to maps. Certainly very low in comparison to other districts in our area. And then when you expand that, it's even more stark the difference between what maps leveies and other public schools in this region. 46% of our staff. Now, we saw some great data when we reviewed this uh the surveys from the strategic planning uh uh initiative that I mentioned, but this one is notable. 46% of our staff felt that our facilities were suitable for teaching and learning. And that's a
02625% decrease from the first time we gave this survey in 2017. 95% of the staff and 90% of the community said they'd support a bond issue to improve the infrastructure. Obviously, who we know who our population is when we're surveying staff, but it's worth noting for the community, we're targeting families. We that's where we have the easiest means of communicating. But still 90% of our families support a bond issue in the future to address address infrastructure. Going back to Maslos, we're working up the triangle, working up the pyramid um further towards self-actualization. I mentioned COVID and we're really intentional here about addressing the needs of students beyond just those basic physiological safety security needs. Now we're getting into some initiatives such as social emotional learning. Uh we talked about collective efficacy. That was a focus
027in our district. We really are trying to build smaller communities within our buildings, especially especially larger populations like the one at the high school here. But love and belonging, if you look at the right, those are initiatives. I won't read them off. You can read, but at the top of the continuum is MTSS. And that really is that systemic view of addressing student achievement. And that's why we put it at the top. All those other initiatives are are really geared towards accomplishing the same task. And notably, again, 95% of students uh said that they have at least one adult at their school who could help them and support them if needed. And maybe of even more uh more uh importance is that that's a 13% increase from 2017. So, it appears that the data is
028supporting what we're working on. Self-esteem, very similar theme. 93% of our community feel feels welcomed at MAPS and 72% of students were able to meet students of different backgrounds. That may not seem like a a a high mark, but it's a 30% increase from 2017. And 95% of our staff and community said MAPS graduates were prepared to continue their formal education. I think that's a pretty good litmus test for how well we're doing with our academic programming. 98% of staff and 93% of the community would recommend MAPS to other families. There's not much better credit or much better uh um appreciation shown than somebody wanting to actually recommend your district to other families. I think that's a powerful statistic. And 95% of students were optimistic about their future, which is a 15% increase. From 2007,
02995% of students are proud to be graduating from MAPS. I think that's remarkable. And also an 8% increase from 2017. You've heard me talk about daily attendance or attendance in general. Our attendance rates are very strong and you'll see that in some of these marks here. Uh our our marks whether it's the full day attendance rate or what we're reporting to the through our student information system which is what CIS stands for almost 100% consistently across all seven of our buildings which are listed in that graphic. Now we reach the top of the pyramid self-actualization and and Maslo's hierarchy of needs. This is where students are best able to reach their academic potential. And I think uh we we capture that maybe I guess a statistic that captures that appropriately is the fact that 93%
030of our students believe their life has a purpose. Very ex existential type question to ask of students. Now these are seniors so they have the ability to grasp that type of concept. But that's a powerful statistic to me and one that I think really captures the idea of selfactualization. That's also a 6% increase from 2017. Real quick, our five-year plan. I talk about MTSS implementation. We're on the pathway towards full implementation. We started in 22 23 with a MTSS 101 collective efficacy. The idea of the shared belief that we can make changes together that are positively going to impact students. Moving on to positive behavior intervention and support, which we talked about previously. That was our focus this past year. We're focused on social, emotional, behavioral learning for 25,26 and we wrap it all up
031with MTSS uh we implementing MTSS with fidelity in 26 and 27. At this point, I'm going to ask Mrs. Kathleen Styles to step up and talk a little bit more about some data that supports student achievement. I get the fun stuff. Um, first of all, I want to say that when Jackson was reading off names, Holly and I, former elementary teachers, went back and forth saying that one was mine. Nope, that one was mine. That was mine, which was fun to see our um former elementary students doing so well. So, up here you have um a benchmark assessment called NWA. On the left you see reading, on the right you see math. And what you want to focus on here is a norm. This is nationally normed. So 50% is the norm. That's where most
032people perform. And so when we're above that, either achievement on the left part of that or growth on the right, that's something to celebrate. Um, in math, focus on the blue. These are things we never see. So, um, in math, we've really started implementing the foundations of math. There's been a lot of work done at the K12 level. Um, and we're seeing growth way beyond what we've seen in previous years. Uh so here's reading three through eight over time. You see all the way back to COVID to current. Yellow is bad, blue is good. And now in this year, you can see that we've had a gradual increase in those scores since CO. So the efforts um are working, the things we've implemented and the investments we've made. Here's our math over time back from
033CO all the way to now. significant increases. Doesn't that ever make everybody smile? Isn't it fun to see that? Okay, so um K2, we started doing a different more age appropriate test called FastBridge. It's delivered one-on-one and you don't just put a kid on a computer because we know they just click and move on. Um so in JK and one um you can see three years of data and you can look at the increase this spring. So a gradual increase and then our second graders over time another gradual increase. Uh and here math um you can see spring of 2022 all the way to current significant increase. And here um in our second grade which is wow all those foundational skills have been taught and that should benefit our middle school and high school as
034our students come through. Uh, so I don't know if you've heard much about the playbook. As the MTSS coordinator, I'm in charge of helping facilitate writing our processes down from how we solve things at the district level, the building level, the grade level, and the individual student level. First, we purchased a data warehouse called Edge Climber, and I'll talk about that a little bit in the next slide. Um, but it's basically where we house all of our attendance data, behavior data, grades, um, state assessments so that we can problem solve at all of those four different levels. Uh, we established a writing team. Oddly enough, eight people wanted to write this with me. So, I was really grateful for that. Uh, we divided and conquered. We each took a section. We began writing. We brought
035it back to larger teams for feedback and review. And we had a a draft. We gave them a draft and now this summer we have three dates set to revise that draft. It's a living document which will continue to you know evolve but we hope to have that in the hands of our our staff in the fall. So, edge a climber, this is a important thing. The the basis of MTSS is using data to drive decisions. And so, we found that 81% of our staff felt like datadriven decision-m is enhancing student learning and achievement, which is significant. Now, I get to invite up my good friend Holly. You'll see um our we had some work to do in reading. We had some significant growth in math. Well, Holly and I have been sort of studying
036over two years what that need might be. So, I'll pass it on to her. So, this actually started when MAPS um worked with the carry team in Minnesota to look at what are we doing for instruction through the MTSS lens. And one of the things that was identified was systematic and explicit um instruction and literacy. So um at that time we adopted a few curriculum pieces to support word recognition um phonics funological awareness in our students. Um but the other side of what we call the reading rope was do you want to click through this? I make sure can't remember which comes next. Um the other side of the reading rope is more about knowledge building and the language comprehension piece and that's the piece that's been missing. So two years ago, um Kathleen and
037I led our district K5 ELA committee to we began the vetting process of looking at curriculums um utilizing uh a curriculum adoption process that it would be recommended throughout the state of Michigan. So um going to research supported uh sources to first begin to sort down um curriculum possibilities for us. At the same time the Kerry team was working with the state of Minnesota and their curriculum review process was even stronger and more stringent um looking for more rigor and more student success than any of the others. Um they identified multiple curriculums, two of which we had already chosen for maths which was exciting like two out of five. Um there was one curriculum that fit our missing piece which is that language comprehension and that's Whiten Wisdom. So um last year or two years
038ago we were we started working with the Witten Wisdom um company and we identified the need to um do a pilot with Whiten Wisdom and in that pilot we wanted to make sure we were testing um teacher usability, student usability and response to the curriculum and then just how does the curriculum work in uh throughout a pilot so that when we if we were to adopt the curriculum, how can we what what I we tell the teachers the good, the bad, and the ugly. And um throughout the last year, 24-2, we had several all grade levels um did do a pilot. We had teams at each building um working through that pilot. Two, they did two modules, two of there's four total, one bonus. So, they did two um and we had a couple grade
039level teams want to do the third to get more um experiential information. So, uh, tonight we because of the success of our pilot, uh, we believe it offers the rigor needed for the our MAP students, um, that missing missing piece of the puzzle. Are we building our students knowledge? Are we building a rich vocabularies, um, background knowledge that will lead to future success in literacy? And we we fully believe Witten wisdom is it. And we believe that our pilot, you know, having this two-year process, um, a per really purposeful and intentional, um, look at how it works in classrooms and and our teachers had to grapple with it and they offered us the ugly, you know, the things that were hard for them so that we can plan an implementation that works around that. Um
040ultimately walking in classrooms of students um experiencing Whitton wisdom wisdom curriculum the engagement was very high um for students seeing them talk about text um real text these are um you know our previous ELA curriculum was comprehensive it included all the pieces in one and I think you know over time we've learned that curriculums that do try to do everything are going to water out something. So, um, witten wisdom is a narrow lens that fits the last piece, which is this knowledge, um, building piece. I'm looking at Kathleen. We we spent a lot of time with this, um, and have geeked out on it quite a lot. Um, but in all reality, the magic is seeing kids with books and friends reading and wanting to read um, and talking to their teachers. Uh, at my
041school, I was lucky enough to have three grade levels. pilot and seeing second graders. I I remember walking in during one of the lessons thinking, "These kids don't look or sound like second graders. They sound much older because they are engaging in discussions about what they're reading." And that's what we really want to see from our students. And a piece we've been missing. And the good news is the last little bullet up there that it's been fully funded out of a grant I wrote and that Jim will help manage called 35J. So that big bottom number that you guys will have in your packets will be grant funded. Yeah. And so um in conclusion, we plan to if you support move forward with adoption and it's a really a strategic plan over the next three
042years not to overwhelm teachers but to learn each piece one at a time. Thank you. Thank you. All right, as we transition, if you guys want to make your way back, I think that's the last presentation that you have to be in the audience to see. Mr. Lamb's presentation is hard copy. Just to let the cat out of the bag a bit, that that grant is over $300,000 that we're talking about. This is this is significant purchase that we're asking you to approve tonight, but we have grants that are covering the entire thing. So, I'm going to make my way back over to the seat as well, and I'll have you up shortly, Mr. Roberts. Real briefly, trying to keep this meeting moving along. I mentioned infrastructure in my presentation. Just a little bit more
043about infrastructure. We have a team that meets regularly. That team consists of map staff, board members and also consultants from two different architectural engineering firms, some of whom are with us tonight. And one of the the most recent tasks that the board has actually charged me with at our previous meeting is to find a construction manager to help us with a potential bond issue. the scope of which is yet to be determined. But the board did direct me to release an RFP and we did that since the last meeting when I was given that directive. We released the RFP and I asked Mr. Roberts from GEI. GEI is the architectural engineering firm that works as MAPS owners rep. So it seemed appropriate that Mr. Roberts would help facilitate the process of selecting a construction manager.
044We also have Craig Carmony here from IDI, former superintendent and very knowledgeable with respect to bond issues and has a lot of experience working with construction managers as well. Between Mr. Roberts and Mr. Carmony, I'm hoping that we can answer your questions, any questions that you might have. And um Mr. Roberts, if you could step up, give us an synopsis of the submissions that we received uh regarding that RFP for a construction manager. Yeah. So, as uh Zach indicated, we sent out an RFP request for proposal for construction management services on a project ranging from 60 million to $100 million. Uh bids were due last Tuesday. We received four proposals from four companies throughout the state of Michigan. Uh we received oh we received four bids from companies throughout the state of Michigan. They are
045Clark Construction, My Construction, Wool Gas Corporation, and Gunlock Champion Incorporated. Um two of which are local. Myin and Gunlock are local here in the UP. Wgast and Clark are located downstate. Um, I believe you guys have copies of all the RFPs. Uh, some of them are up to 50 pages long, so I don't want to go into too deep too, uh, too much detail on that. Um, and I believe Zach has a more indepth breakdown of the requirements that he was looking for as far as a construction management service. Sure. Thank you, Mr. Roberts. if you could just stay up there for a minute in case the board has presence uh questions for you. But the RFP criteria that we used were were the following categories. Relevant experience and qualifications, responsiveness, team compatibility, local presence,
046pre-bond, pre-construction, capabilities, proposed team structure and fee structure. And all we had four great proposals. We do very much appreciate all four companies and their interest in working with market area public schools. Again, thinking about relevant experience thinking about qualifications, responsiveness, etc. And I want to highlight a couple of of of areas that I was particularly interested in and that would be the local presence, whether or not there was a local presence from these potential CM companies and also the extent to which they provided pre-bond services. Much of the need that we've identified in the meetings I alluded to earlier, much of the need we have at MAPS right now or the lack of capacity, if you will, for a project this size lies in some of those pre-bond preconstruction services that are going to
047be required for something of this scale. So when looking at those particular categories in light of the six criteria that I outlined from the RFP, we really we we identified uh well, let me just list them off. So myin had a local presence and they also provided those pre-bond services. Gunlock had a had a local presence, but they didn't highlight those pre-bond services. Clark highlighted the pre-bond services, but didn't necessarily have a local presence. Although I will uh say they met with us today, they have a brand office in Alpena and it sounds like they're very interested in being responsive to our needs locally. And then the last one uh got the last company uh Wool Gast uh they didn't have the local presence nor did they have the pre-bond services that they were that
048we were looking for. So at this point as we think about moving forward in the process of selecting a CM I do recommend that we do not interview Wolg gas for the reasons I just mentioned. Uh what I do recommend is that we we we interview the other three. I have an interview structure outlined in your packet and that inter interview structure or that process really it involves bringing a group together an interview committee together. have that interview committee consist of myself, Mr. Lampman, Mr. Bander Scaff, our auxiliary services director. I would like to include the three board members that have been part of the conversation thus far. That's Miss Cam Benzy, Miss Ray, and Mr. Zadunic. And then we have a tenative date identified of July 1st for conducting interviews. We have some question
049specific questions listed that I think will identify the criteria that I listed from the RFP and a structure that I think will make sure that there's a a very fair and transparent process for selecting a construction manager and then that committee would be charged with ultimately bringing a recommendation to the board of education for our next meeting at which point the board would ultimately decide who would be awarded the the the project. Now the it's important to note the board is not necessarily eliminating eliminating any of the four candidates. I'm just making a recommendation on the three that I I feel we should move forward with interviews for and then ultimately have that committee bring a recommendation to our next meeting in July. Any questions for Mr. Roberts, Mr. Carmony or myself about the construction
050manager selection process? No question. Okay. Well, hearing none, I will you will see that action item later in the agenda for the board to consider. And we'll at this point turn over the mic, the podium if you will, to Mr. Lampman. It's that time of year where we uh we present he presents his final budget amendment for the 24-25 school year and also his initial budget for the 2526 school year. So, Mr. Lampman, if you could come up. Thanks again, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Carmony, and and Miss Musco and Miss Styles for your help tonight. I considered putting the jacket on for this. I thought maybe it would motivate me to get through this a little faster, but um no. No. So, uh the board should have a hard packet of the pres or hard copy
051of the in your packet of the presentation um this evening. Uh first of all, I want to say that um we're closing in on a $50 million budget for for maps and uh there is a lot of moving parts the budget and it isn't just myself involved in the preparation. There is a team of people working on this. Uh Miss Style included has has areas that that uh she works on. Um, so I just want to give acknowledgement to the the team of people uh behind the scenes that are doing a lot of hard work as well. So where do I begin? Um, this was somewhat of a challenge putting the budget together this year. The state of Michigan's required to have the education budget uh finalized by a July 1st date. And currently uh
052as far as I could tell today, there's been no consensus yet at the state level as to how they're going to fund education for the 2526 fiscal year. So what we did was we took a very conservative approach to how we put this budget together for 2526, not knowing what our funding was going to look like for next year. Um, for those of you who are on the board, LA, uh, last year, as you may recall, there was agreement between the governor's office, the Senate, and the House, um, as to, uh, I think it was, if I recall, a $400 per pupil increase um, for the 2425 school year, uh, that wound up not materializing, and they instead uh, gave us a one-time uh, infusion of, uh, Miper's retirement fund. dollars um in lie of
053a a per pupil fund uh increase. So needless to say, we're kind of a little gunshy on what to expect from the state. Currently, the governor was proposing increasing per pupil to about 10,000 per student. Currently, we're at $9,68 per pupil. um and maintaining the current categoricals that are out there such as 31A uh which funds uh uh safety and student mental health. Um the House's version they were uh proposing increasing per pupil funding to 12,000 and removing all the individual categoricals such as 31A for mental health and and school safety and basically give that money to the districts to do with as as they please well feel is necessary at the local level. So, kind of kind of two different plans. And so, again, we just we just from the get-go decided we were
054going to take a conservative approach knowing full well we'll have to readress this whenever the state comes up with their plan for funding education. So, I just wanted to preface that. So uh on the uh on the first graph uh we have the property tax millages that um we've levied uh in the past and uh what we'll levy for 2526. Um so for 2526 we're looking at levying 18 mills for our operating non-homestead millillage. uh 6 mills for commercial personal property, 9255 for our sinking fund and 38 for our debt millage. Uh this is actually going to be an agenda item later on in the evening, item 9E, where the board will officially adopt the uh tax millages that will be levied next year. looking at enrollment. So, um we use a third-party company to
055uh put together for us uh enrollment projections. Um they use various data, various demographic data including local economics, birth rates, uh and and various other information to try to project um what likely scenarios would be for our enrollment in the future. Uh we then kind of come up with a blended rate by using the most likely projection uh blended with a low projection. again taking that conservative approach to um to what our uh uh pupil count will be uh in the future. As you can see the black line is actual, the blue line is the projection. Uh so far the last few years we've exceeded the uh the projections. Moving on to state aid, as I mentioned a minute ago, uh currently we're at $9,68 for our per people funding. Uh that was the same
056threshold for 2324, so there was no change. Looking forward to next year, um we're conservatively going to say a $200 increase to our per pupil funding, which would raise it to $9,88. Again, that's a best guess. It's a conservative estimate. Um, I wish I had a better crystal ball. So, a $200 uh per per pupil increase would equate to about a $640,000 increase in our uh uh state aid funding. And by the way, feel free to stop me as I go if you have any questions. Mhm. cuz I can ramble as you know and as Miss Styles is is quite aware as well. Um so uh looking at some of the revenue assumptions we use for 2526 uh we uh we based on May 2025 property values uh for our tax revenue. uh we based
057uh other local revenues on prior year. Um with with the exception of our investment income. Uh I I meant to look it up today uh because it's been a while since I've looked it up, but I think we're currently earning on our MyOTH uh investment portfolio uh a little over 4% and that's tied to interest rates. Um There's a lot of pressure right now on the Federal Reserve to start lowering interest rates. Again, I wish I had a better crystal ball. I don't know if they're going to do so, but but we assumed that we'll see some interest rate decreases over the next year. And we we did bake that into our uh projections here. State revenues again based on $9,88 per pupil foundation allowance. That's a guess. Uh still no uh consensus at the
058state level. MIPERS um for 20 425 we saw a decrease in the myiper stabilization rate down to 10.58%. Uh Mipers has come out and said uh beginning in October that rate's going to increase to 15.02%. So that was factored into our uh uh estimated budget. federal revenues has been based on our preliminary allocations. Um we are moving more towards what a normal year would be for the district's federal awards now that our CO dollars have all been exhausted. Uh so our our main sources of federal revenue in the school lunch fund um would be the child nutrition program. Uh in the general fund, it's largely our title one dollars, title one, title two, uh title 4, um which again, Miss Styles is very familiar with the title program. Um and our title six uh uh
059Indian education uh grant. Um so we're we're kind of moving back into what an quote unquote normal uh federal award year would be. And then we based all other revenues on the prior year or historical u uh estimates. So looking at our general fund revenues uh for the final amendment, we're looking at about 15.9 million in local revenue, 32 million in state, 651,000 in federal revenues, transfers in the general fund from food service of 105,000. And that's to cover administrative expenses that get charged to the the food service account. So we're looking at revenues of 49 million uh 340,000 for 2425. 2526 we're looking at local revenues of 15.8 million. Uh state revenues of 32.9 million. Federal uh revenue estimated currently at 657,000. And again, an estimated $105,000 transfer in from the food service uh
060account to cover administrative costs. So, it'd be about 49.5 million in uh general fund revenue. Uh next slide shows you a breakdown of those revenues. So by and large the uh most significant revenue is the blue section of the pie uh 32.9 for 20 uh 526 uh that represents our our state revenue. Uh followed then by uh taxes. We get about 9.2 million in tax revenue from local dollars. uh followed by our special ed allocation uh from Marica and then um other local sources and federal. Moving on to general fund expenses. [Music] So, as the board's aware, last year we negotiated three-year contracts with all of our staff. Uh those contracts are set to expire June 30 of 2027. Uh so for 2526, we based our salaries and benefits um off of the existing contracts
061uh that are in place. Health insurance hardcap rates are going to increase 2.9% um over where the 2425 rate was. So, uh, under state law, um, we under the hard cap, we only pay up to a certain, um, percentage. Uh, and that that percentage is increasing 2.9%. Mipers rates, as I mentioned, are going from 10.58% to 15.02%. Um, we have not done any programming changes from 24 or 25, and I think that's significant because there were a lot of, um, as Mr. Sedwick has has mentioned in uh in the past, you know, there were a lot of um a lot of uh um supports put in place during the co years and we've been we've been trying to maintain those supports. I believe there's a social worker in every every building currently if if I'm
062not mistaken, Mr. Sedwick. Yeah, we have additional support, social workers, we have health aids, we have roving subs, we have instructional coaches, we have a summer school program, summer enrichment program that just started yesterday with 350 kids. So, some some phenomenal programming that comes with a cost of course and we add Mr. Lamb said made a effort to to maintain those programs even though some of the grant funding that initially uh incentivized us to start those programs or helped us pay for those programs have have run their course. And I uh you know getting back to the presentation earlier this evening I I think having some of those supports in place helps to has a bearing in the numbers in the data that you provided earlier um if I'm not mistaken. Is that a correct
063statement? Yes. Those additional um 23G and 35J have funded some of those initiatives. 31A our atrisisk funding has funded our instructional coaches. [Music] So, it all ties together. Um, in my time here, moving on, in in the three and a half years I've been with the district, um, we place replaced approximately half of the school bus fleet. Uh, we had, uh, our goal was to get on a two bus per year purchase cycle. Um after speaking with uh uh our auxiliary services director, uh we did actually include three bus purchases for 2526. Um so we do have 420,000 allocated in that budget for three purchases. Um I think then after that year, we'll probably be be on the two bus per year purchase plan. That that is our our goal. Um so and then all
064other expenditures were based off our prior year uh budget or historical trends. So looking at the general fund expenses, uh instruction for 2425 we think we'll be at 27661,000 supporting services 20,280,000 community services 221,000. Uh transfers out1,161,61. Now of that 1,150,000 is a transfer to the capital projects fund which we've done the last couple of years. Um, so that would be total expenses for 2425 of 49,323,000. Looking into next year at 2526, uh, we're estimating instructional cost to be at 29,291,000, supporting services at 20,336,000, community services 132,000, and transfers $161,61. And what is notable there is uh for 2526 currently we're not proposing a transfer to Kappa projects. Um again conservative budget. If we have a per pupil increase uh that's more significant than we've estimated perhaps we'll go back and and consider um in
065a future amendment transferring money to capital projects. But currently um we don't have that planned. Uh so overall 49,921,000 for our proposed 2526 general fund expenditures. And then this just breaks it out a different way. Um our expenses by salaries and benefits. Sorry, let me catch up on slides here. Um so by far the biggest expense to the district is our salaries and benefits. um looking at 2526 alone that is a little over 42 million between salaries and benefits which represents about 84% of the budget. So the other portion of the general fund operation is going to be funded off of 16% of our our revenue. So, um it's it's it's you know, we're a service industry and our our our bulk of our dollars going to um our our employees. So looking at 2526
066um 24.3 million for salaries 1767 for benefits purchase services 2.7 million repair uh repairs and maintenance a little over 1.1 million supplies round that up to 2.2 2 million capital outlay 790,000 other expenses uh 490,000 transfers 535,000 broke it out a different way and then this just shows uh again graphically um what that breakout of the budget is. As you can see, the black is our salaries, 49%, our benefits are in blue, 35%. So that's 84% of our uh anticipated 2526 budget. So to summarize the general fund looking at 2425 um we have revenues of 49,340,000 expenses of 49,323,000 resulting in net income of $16,424. We had a beginning fund balance of 18,35,000 and after uh adding 16,000 of net income to uh our beginning equity, we'll end up at 18 uh,321,000 for 2425. Uh
067that gets broken out in several ways. Uh there's a non-spendable portion for things like prepaid insurance and other items, inventory, things of that nature fall under non-spendable. uh we commit 10% for future contingency that's 4.9 million assigned for MTSS implementation. Uh we did have 1.3 million uh set aside uh in prior years for MTSS implementation. We are starting to now spend down that 1.3 million set aside. So for the uh uh we're looking at 1,234,000 set aside for MTSS and uh 881,000 continue to be set aside for future school bus purchases. Looking at 2526 um again revenues of 49,512,000 expenses 49,921,000 resulting in a net loss of $48,632. Now again, we used a 200 per pupil um number for estimating our our uh state aid revenue. If that doubled to $400, say in the governor's
068proposal, that would put us back into the black. Um so again, I just want to be very clear, this is just a very conservative estimate. Uh so that would bring our overall fund balance down to 17.9 million. Our unassigned would be 10,495,000 which is still a healthy fund balance. Um the uh I would say the industry standard would be to maintain a fund balance that's at least 15% of operating expenses under the 2526 budget. If you look at overall fund balance, um that would be 36% of our operating cost. So well well beyond the 15%. If you look at just what's available in currently in our unassigned, the 10,495,000 that would be 21%. So again, even just looking at our unassigned, that is still 6% higher than um industry standard of 15%. Okay, moving out
069of the food service. This is another area that it's a best guess. Um, under the governor's proposal, uh, she wanted to continue a universal free meal program. Under the house proposal, I believe they, um, wanted to eliminate the universal meal program. They have not reconciled yet, uh, their plans. So, we don't know if there will be a universal free meal program program next year or not. We ran under the assumption that there will be. And so, we're running under the kind of the assumption that we're going to come in somewhere where we did with 2425, but knowing that we're going to have to do an amendment once the once the state reconciles their budget and informs us um what uh local districts are going to uh receive. So, um we uh we have also been
070working on a spendown plan uh in our food service fund. Um we we want to be somewhere around the 400,000 mark at a high end in food service. Um because we're not allowed to carry too much excess fund balance in our food service account. It it does need to act kind of as a nonprofit. Um so uh us and a lot of districts coming out of COVID we're in the same position where we grew uh excess fund balance and as the board may recall the board has approved a lot of various purchases um in the last year or two for our food service program. So we've been rolling money back in trying to improve our program. The other thing that we've done this year for 2425 is we've been purchasing a lot more um fresh
071fruits and vegetables, fresh produce um to uh to help spend that down. So, it isn't just equipment that we've been purchasing. We've also been uh rolling more money into um uh fresh fresh produce. Uh looking at 2526, we're estimating uh local revenues of 78,000, state revenues 816,000, and federal revenues and commodities of 823,000. Overall food service expenses 1,996,000 resulting in a 2526 and that loss of $279,283. And this is based off of utilization too and how many meals that we produce. So, you know, these these figures tend to um uh you know, um vary a little bit depending on uh meal production. Looking at the summary for the food service fund, uh we have a beginning equity for 2425 of 746,000, revenues of 1.8 8 billion expenses of 2,ion30,000 resulting in a ending fund balance
072for 2425 of 533,000. Looking at 2526, we have revenues of 1.7 million, expenses of 1,996,000. And we're projecting at this point an ending fund balance of $253,787, which gets us under our mark um where we want to be fund balance-wise. And um again, this is this is assuming there's going to be a universal free meal program next year. It could change. Looking at the debt service fund, um the debt service fund exists for the sole purpose of collecting taxes to pay the annual uh principal and interest payment on our 2016 uh bond. Uh so 2425 we're looking at revenues of 569,000 expenses of 657,000 uh resulting in a net loss of $88,000 $825 for 2526 we're looking at tax revenue of about 565,000 expenditures of 556,000 resulting in a net income of $9,14. So looking
073at the fund as a whole, we're projecting a uh this year uh fund balance of 97,274. Looking at 2526 after tax collection and debt uh uh payments, we're looking at an ending fund balance of $106,378. Again, this fund just works kind of as an in and out. Capital projects. uh capital projects fund. As I mentioned earlier, we've been transferring money in the last uh several years um in order to build up uh a fund balance that we could utilize as a a kind of a a stop gap to the syncing fund. Um as Mr. Sedwick mentioned earlier this evening in his presentation, the syncing fund takes in roughly $1.3 million. we had over $3 million worth of projects. Um, and so we needed another funding source for those. So, we've been we've been um trying
074to create a supplemental fund that that we can use for um for projects that the syncing fund just doesn't have the capacity for currently. Anyway, uh looking at the 2425 year, uh we think we'll be at about 1,88,000 in revenue, local revenue. We're transferring in uh an anticipated 1,150,000 expenditures of 1,837,000 resulting in net income of $400,712. Now, um 2526, uh that drops, the revenue drops significantly. As I mentioned, uh we're not transferring in uh the million dollars that we've done in the past. And also looking at our local revenues, uh that drops down to 140,000. That 140,000 really is the um you know investment income that that we're earning currently. We paired that down a little bit. the local revenues in 2425. Um the lion share of that is funding for the Shyus Planetarium
075project that um the district has uh uh is receiving money for from the Friends of the Shyus Planetarium group um that is fundraising for uh for the the the work at the uh at the planetarium. So, we're looking at um uh an overall uh net loss of $492,832 for 2526 um based off uh expenditures of 782,000 uh for various projects that we're going to fund this year out of capital projects. So looking at the fund overall, we're anticipating an ending fund balance of 6.1 million uh at 2425 and after funding projects out of the capital projects fund, we're looking at ending 2526 at 5,616,000. And I know Mr. Sedick didn't go over this in his presentation, but I thought I'd throw a slide in just to show you the projects that uh we will be
076working on uh this summer that that will be funded through capital projects. So, we'll be doing a playground uh some playground work at Sandy Null. We'll be doing a roof at Sandy Null. Um playground at Cherry Creek, a boiler at Superior Hills. the the pod um HVAC here at uh MSHS which Mr. Sedwick uh discussed earlier and we're also doing some facade work and a college and career readiness room up at the market alternative high school. So, um, excluding the work that was being done on Shyus Planetarium, excluding the work that is being funded through various grants in the general fund, including the PA system, um, we're at almost 1.4 billion in projects that we're going to do this summer funded by the capital projects fund. Moving on to the sinking fund, and and let
077me just say, I'm trying to get through it as fast as I can. uh syncing fund. So we have uh tax revenue of 1.3 million uh this year expenditures of about 1.7 million resulting in a loss of 390,000. That's largely the um uh science lab project that Mr. Sedwick talked about earlier this evening. Um, looking at 2526, we're proposing uh tax revenue of 1.3 million, expenses of $17,316, resulting in a net income of $1,28,614. Looking at the syncing fund overall, um we're projecting an ending fund balance this year of 539,982. Looking at next year, um we're projecting uh $1,748,596 in an ending fund balance. Again, we specifically elected not to fund anything out of the syncing fund during the summer of 25 in order to build that fund back up so we have, you know,
078a larger dollar amount that we can do a bigger project with next summer. And then lastly, we have the private purpose trust fund. This is basically our scholarship fund. Uh the revenue and uh generally comes in in the spring. We pay those out in the spring generally around May. Um so um we started with a beginning fund balance of 307,000. We had revenues of about 134,500 expend uh scholarships totaling 127,000. So, we're adding 7,500 this year to that fund, resulting in an ending fund balance of 314,000. Looking into next year, again, it's an estimate um about 125,000 in revenue, $118,000 in estimated scholarships that'll be paid out resulting in a fund balance of $322,286. Any questions? And again, I was trying to get through as fast as I could. Thank you. Um, questions. Two, uh,
079two quick ones. The retirement UAL, uh, rate increases. If you covered it, I apologize. Um, what led to that and what is what is the impact for us? So, so the impact for us is that that are you talking about the 10.58% that increases to 15.02 correct? Okay. So, what that uh what that means for us is um that percentage is actually f uh uh established by the state of Michigan um on an annual basis um the office of retirement services actually. And um so we're required uh to withhold from our employees that percentage. Um and well I I take that back. I misspoke. Sorry, the heat. We don't withhold it from our employees. I misspoke. Uh it's it's a benefit that we calculate based off the percentage that um ORS tells us and then
080we we get that money back from OS. So it comes through our state aid report as a reimbursement to us. So for our books we have to show it as as a revenue and as an expense but it it zero it nets to zero on our books. Um, but it is something that we do have to um record based off of our payroll and report to OS. So there's no additional expense to us per se other than per se, right? It winds up being it winds up being just basically a flow through to the district. Um so um the one thing that did impact um speaking of ORS and I think I did mention it in some of the assumptions that were used um the one thing that came out came about after our March
081amendment and probably the most significant there wasn't a the most significant change that happened after our March amendment was um ORS came out and said for employees that received received a 3% health care option as part of their retirement plan. We had to refund all of those dollars that were collected from those particular employees going back to last October. So, and and we have to continue that refund through the end of September. And so, um, we estimated that would cost our district about half a million dollars. We only received about $324,000 325,000 from the state to cover that mandated um reimbursement. So again, it was only a partially funded mandate from the state. Uh, so it it it did hit that hit our bottom line. The state acknowledged that it hit the bottom line of
082districts and they had talked about seeking a legislative fix and the legislative fix went nowhere. So there there is a we're estimating about 175,000 that that the district is is eating to to um be in compliance with that mandate from the state. Thank you. And then the other one for local revenues, you had a local revenue estimated decrease of about $137,000. Um I mean with property taxes, I mean with property values seemingly, you know, you go to buy a house, they're quite expensive comparatively. just if you want to talk a little bit about where that we we we did um we um so so the what's tricky is the increase in property taxes kind of gets offset by um state aid and um so if there's a district that sees a lot of growth the
083state will pair back their um their state aid so they so that no districts really become a a winner based off their their local property tax value increases and on um on our and and so that gets factored into our state aid and I believe on the last state aid report we we saw they the state had decreased our our um state aid a little bit. So, so we looked at that formula and we try to factor in a reasonable amount for our property tax where what I mentioned earlier was um we actively manage our um investment portfolio. And so um we had brought we we had brought down um our investment earnings which would be that local share um uh by probably a conservative amount based off of um the pressure being put on
084the Fed to reduce interest rates over the next year. I've heard as much as you know pressuring the Fed you know to go as much as 1 to 2%. Will it happen? I don't know. But knowing that we're going to have to revisit this budget anyway because there's there's really no clear direction coming out of the state as to what this was. we we took a conservative approach and when we amend we'll we'll revisit this and um so this is kind of a a a worst case scenario uh in my view right now and I would rather present a worst case scenario today than you know print something or present something that's that's going to be rainbows and unicorns that may not materialize. So, I guess I' I'd rather bring you potentially good news down
085the road than bad news down the road. If if if that makes sense. Under promise and overd deliver. Yeah. Thank you. Any further questions? Thank you very much for your hard work. Thank you. That's all I have for the superintendent report. Thank you, Mr. Landon. It was very well done. Um, okay. So, that was still under the superintendent report. Uh, not necessarily. I'm sorry. We moved on to item six. Okay. So, that was comments from the public on the 2025 2026 budget. Okay, hearing none. Um, moving on to item seven, approving the consent agenda, which includes the minutes of the regular board meeting of May 12, 2025, minutes of the special meeting of June 2nd, 2025, the personnel report dated June 2025, and the financial reports of May 2025. Make a motion to approve the
086consent agenda as presented. Second. Okay. Motion made by Mr. Zudnick, support by Mrs. Clip. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Uh, regular comments from the public. I don't have any. Nope. Got one. Oh. Did you fill out a slip for us? I did not, but I'd like to fill just the floor. I just sitting here. Is that okay? Or um we're supposed to fill out the slip before the meeting starts. Your seats on the call. I saw you arrive late to the meeting. So, that would be a decision. That is typically not per our policy that we would allow the public to speak um when they haven't followed the procedure. It's it's board policy. I understand. I didn't see any sign when I walked in the door that said that I
087need to fill out a slip order or address the There's a table right outside the door that has the slips on it, the agendas on it, and our board policy on it. Can the board come to a vote? Um it is not our policy to allow comments. Um but yeah um we'll have you fill out the slip anyway just so we have it for our records for the minutes. So I can't comment though. You can comment but I would like you to fill out that slip. Absolutely. When you're done. Abs. Of course. Of course. Thank you. And the board policy is that you can only come for five minutes. Just so you know. Understand? I'm not going to fill the buster. It's hot. Um I appreciate it. I'm um Can you turn the mic on
088though for us? Yes. Yes. Okay. My name is Tony Ruiz. Um uh resident of Harvey. Uh I've got two children in MAPS. Um it's hot. I I really, you know, um don't necessarily want to be here. I appreciate everyone's time. Um, but I I'm I'm here because I do have a significant complaint that I, you know, I just would not feel like I was doing the due diligence to the community if I wasn't expressing it to the board. Uh, and it really has to do with the sixth grade pre-alggebra program. Um, I guess I've taken some notes here. Um, and and really what happened is that the administration, whoever, I don't know, they dropped the ball on sixth graders at both in my opinion. Um, I have a son who is in sixth grade. Um,
089B student in math. Uh, but he was close to the 90 90th percentile according to the most recent NWA NWA testing. Um, he's got an IEP. Uh, he's been to three different schools in three years. He before that, I mean, like every other kid, it was in the pandemic and this is his first year in middle school. Unfortunately, no parent was told that there was this pre-eligible track that their kids could get on to. They weren't told at the beginning of the year. They weren't told at the middle of the year. And how parents came to find out, at least how I came to find out, was because my daughter, who was 10, not in middle school, was in the back of a car talking back of our car talking to her older friend who
090said, "Hey, my mom just got an email saying I'm in pre-alggebra. To me, that's a failure. It's a failure to inform the parents. It's a failure to really do right by the students because how are the students how are the parents supposed to know what is supposed to be expected of the students throughout the year to get onto the the right track. My kid's good at math. I know he's good at math. I know that he could handle the pre-alggebra program. Had I known that this I didn't go to math schools. I didn't know that this was, you know, the track that we had to take. Now, I've tried to address it and the feedback I get is, well, he can double up in high school. That's a failure to me. Um, I think it's
091a failure to the kids. And all I can, I guess, ask the board now is the next fifth grader going into sixth grade, maybe the school will be a little bit more transparent about what's expected of our children. Thank you. Thank you. Um, moving on to new business. Um, consider wit and wisdom curriculum purchase. I believe that is in our packet and it was something that was alluded to earlier. I'll make a mo I'll make a motion to consider the purchase of the wit and wisdom curriculum support. Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Clip, support by Mrs. Maddox Smith. Uh any further comments or questions? So I just want to understand that you know there's the discount, right? And then um but the 317 is covered by grant money. So it wasn't the grant isn't 400,000.
092The grant is over 400,000. 35J that total amount is for four years. That won't that's not an annual thing. So four years. So in the fifth year an annual cost of about 50,000 in supplies would be needed for the district. Okay. So, the grant will fully cover the big purchase. Awesome. Okay. Thank you. This has a expiration date of December of 2024. Is that in reference to just an older invoice or We've been going back and forth a lot. So, yeah. And actually, this total will probably be reduced because we did a pilot and we pulled some of those supplies out of already the 35J fund. So, that total will be decreased because we just finished that pilot. The grant, my understanding the grant is already approved. Like it's not like pending like it's we
093No. Yeah, we've already had it. Yep. It's okay. It started in the fall. Any other questions? Thanks. Okay. If there's no other questions, I have uh motion and support. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. um consider superintendent recommendation for construction manager interviews. Um so as mentioned that those would take place July 1st and we would invite three of the four to the interviews. I'll make a motion to consider the superintendent's recommendation to interview three of the four applicants for the construction manager. Interview issues to be done on the first second. All right. Uh motion made by Ms. Ray support by Mrs. Clip I think. Yeah. All right. Any further comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Um, consider amendment to the 2024 2025 budget. I'll
094make a motion to consider the amendment to the 2024 2025 budget as presented. Second. Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Clip. support or support by Mrs. Thomas. Uh, all those in favor or any further comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Consider adoption of the 2025 2026 budget resolution. I'll make a motion to consider adoption of the 2025 to 2026 budget resolution. Second. Okay. Motion made by Ms. Thomas, support by Mrs. Clip. Uh, any further comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Consider approval of the L4029. What's this one? Oh, too far away from the microphone. Um, can you hear me? Yep. Okay. So the uh the L4029 is um a tax form that needs to be adopted by the board on
095an annual basis and that form establishes the tax rates that we're going to levy for the upcoming year. So the first slide of my presentation um I I showed the uh the tax rates for the last three years and then what we anticipate for the 2526 year and the L4029 uh has been vetted by both our attorneys trun and we have also had it vetted by PFM which is our um bond advisors. Um so they have signed off on it. Uh so all we're looking for is um the board to um officially authorize those uh villages for 2526. No previous changes. It's just the same rates from last year. Correct. There was a slight decrease to the rate for the sinking fund uh due to the headley roll back. Okay. Um, so I would entertain
096a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the um L-4029 support. Okay. Uh, motion made by Miss Ray, support by Mrs. Maddox Smith. Uh, any further comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion passes. All right. Uh, designate depositories for school funds. Uh, Incredible Bank, Primary, Michigan, Liquid Asset Fund, US Bank, Fifth Third Bank, Flagstar Bank, Honor Credit Union, Nicicolay National Bank, and Range Bank. I'll make a motion to consider designating depositories for the school funds as listed. Support designate designate depositories. It's an adjective in this case. Sorry. Motion made by Miss Mrs. Clip. Support by Ms. Ray. Any further comments or questions? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. um consider approval of the 2025 2026 MHSA membership resolution. Um this is something that we do
097every year to allow our athletes to participate in high school athletics. Correct. I'll make I'll make a motion to consider the approval of the 202526 LHSA membership resolution. report. Okay. Um mo motion made by Miss Ray, support by Mrs. Maddox Smith. Any further comments or questions? Just out of curiosity, what is the cost to engage with NHSA for both middle school and high school? If you want to step up, Mr. angles. That's fine. There's no uh fee for being a member. Um the way they generate their money is through the tournament events. They take just about all that revenue from ticket sales. Thank you. Okay. Uh any further comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Um, consider MASB membership and legal trust fund renewal. I'll make a
098motion to consider the MASB membership and legal trust fund renewal. Second. Okay. Motion made by Ms. Ray, support by Ms. Thomas. Um, and then I will have to abstain from this vote since I am on the MASB board of directors. Uh, do we have any further comments or questions regarding this? Hearing none. Um, all those in favor I one abstension. Motion passes. Uh, set board meeting dates for the remainder of 2025. Those are also in your packets. I'll make a motion to set the board meeting dates for remainder of 2021. Second. Okay. Motion made by Ms. Rice, by Mr. Zodnik. Any comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Uh, moving on to board member comments. Start with Miss Thomas. Thank you to our speakers and no further comments.
099Mrs. Maddox Smith. Um, just thank everybody for coming out on this hot day and um pointing out how much we uh really do need our infrastructure as we sit here in this very warm room. Um, thank you, Mr. Engles for that very quick and informative update on our students. We really appreciate your enthusiasm and your hard work. Thank you. Um the presentation was long. Um but thank you Jim for putting it all together for us and helping us understand it. It I mean it's a lot and I this flu the budget is it's going to be a fluid situation. So I'm sure we'll see changes as time goes by. Thanks everybody for their hard work, the Wisdom. Um, I really appreciate that breakdown because, you know, you hear it, but when you guys explain it
100to us, it's like, oh, that makes so much more sense. So, thank you. Thank you all for all the hard work you're putting in for for our district. Okay. Uh, Mrs. Clip, uh, just quickly, uh, Mr. Engles at I don't want to be dismissive or um patronizing, I guess, but I I do want to verbalize how impressive and how much uh professional growth um I've seen from you. You are a delight. You are a really um great asset to this district. And I think about you coming in last year and um what a difference a year has made. So, just very grateful for you. Um thanks ladies. It's always great to talk about what the kids are actually doing. Uh that's why we're here. Mr. Lampman, again, um you are the only person who can
101help me make even a little bit of sense of uh an elephant that that that's that big. And I again thank you for not including emojis or trying to make that joke. Um was really well done. Thank you, Mr. Dnick. I appreciate the work of all of our speakers tonight. Uh and all the work that went into the presentations. Great job to everyone. That's it. Miss Ray that one up. That was great for you. Um, just thanks. It's obvious there's a lot of big stuff happening within all the walls of our schools and it really is because of you all working in them diligently and for the students. So, appreciate all of that. Thank you. Okay. Um, board president comments. Um, just echoing everyone else. Thank you guys so much for coming out and for
102all of your hard work. Um, announcements and other meetings. Uh, September 2nd, 2025 is going to be the first day of school and then July 21st will be our regular board meeting uh, here in the little theater at 5:30. So, I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. Make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Okay. Motion made by Mr. Zenick, support by Mrs. Clip. Uh, all those in favor? I. Any opposed? Ocean passing.