001[Music] and then we'll call the meeting to order for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of America to the Republic for which he stands one issue [Music] all right roll phone please Tristan campenzi here Glenn sarca here James Hewitt here Jennifer cliff Jennifer Ray here Cheryl Maddox Smith here Jason's a junior Here all right uh next is approving the agenda I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda I'll make a motion all right uh promotion made by Mr Hewitt seconded by Miss Misery uh all those in favor any opposed all right moving on to the superintendent's report good evening thank you I wanted to start by welcoming Dr nian from Marisa who's here to talk about a ballot question for May Dr nian you superintendent Cedric board members I appreciate the opportunity to meet
002with you and speak with you tonight uh Welcome to our audience members as well community members tonight I'm going to be talking about a special education millage votes coming up on May 2nd if approved by the voters the special education millage election will greatly reduce the special education funding shortfall that Marquette Area Public Schools currently realizes so who does Marquette Alger Risa serve we serve 12 public school districts and one Public School Academy in Marquette and Alger counties you can see the list of very familiar school districts here on the screen I'd like to talk just a minute or two about big picture how many public school students are in Marquette and Alger counties the answer is about nine thousand how much does it currently cost to educate 9 000 public school students on an
003annual basis anybody want to take a guess approximately 170 million dollars that is the combined total public education budget for all 13 districts in Marquette and Alger counties so as we drill down a little bit into those numbers how many students with disabilities are in Marquette and Alger County Schools the answer is approximately 1 600 students in 13 different disability categories how much does it cost okay students students is annually approximately 25 million dollars how much revenue is received by local state and federal sources annually to educate those 1600 students with disabilities the answer is about 20 million dollars so let's talk a little bit about the budget and how it works currently the budget shortfall in special education is resulting in fewer resources being allocated to other areas of the budget some funding streams
004have very significant restrictions While others have a bit more liberal ability to be used in the budget overall special education funds may only be used for costs identified as eligible under the individuals with disabilities Education Act and under the Michigan administrative rules for special education also known as Mars and idea idea itself has very specific safeguards that have been put into place to prevent cutting resources to some of our our student populations that are most vulnerable one of those safeguards is known as maintenance of effort because quite simply I've been asked well why don't we just reduce the cost of our special education education there's a rule that's been in the place since 70s called maintenance of effort that simply prevents school districts from slashing budgets to students with special needs so as a very
005oversimplified illustration if Marquette Area Public Schools spent ten thousand dollars last year to educate students with disabilities they cannot spend any less than ten thousand dollars in subsequent years so maintenance of effort is a a high water mark but it's also a requirement a threshold that must be met on an annual basis so why ask for an increase well we've got a math problem here we have 20 million dollars in Revenue we have 25 million dollars in cost that leaves us with a five million dollar deficit where are those 25 million dollars going they're going to more than 350 staff members that include teachers therapists Consultants secretaries administrators parapros and drivers those drivers are transporting students more than 200 000 miles annually and then there are also some costs associated with supplies equipment travel professional
006development dues and other fees the responsibility of the Intermediate School District under Michigan Administrative Code are 340.1832 says that we shall have a special education plan Zach is very familiar with this plan all of the superintendents in the two Counties have spent the last two years rewriting that plan there are a lot of essential elements that are in the plan but the one that I want to draw your attention to is under letter j a description of the method of distribution of those millage funds under the statutory reference right there so only only Intermediate School Districts have the authority to Levy a special education millage local school districts have the responsibility to provide special education but they get the resources flowing through them through through the ISD to the local school districts the ballot question
007is going to read something along the lines of shall the Marquette Alger Risa millage be increased by 1.5 mils the estimate of the revenue the Intermediate School District will collect if the millage is approved in levied in 2023 is approximately 4.7 million dollars so that 4.7 million dollars is going to go a long way towards plugging that 5 million dollar shortfall that's currently being realized and just as a quick aside I'd like to point out that Marquette Area Public Schools your portion of that shortfall is all currently almost 2 million dollars so once again only the ISD has the statutory authority to Levy this millage so everyone wants to know of course what will the millage cost so we need to talk a little bit about assessed value of your property overall the millage will
008cost a dollar fifty per one thousand dollars of taxable valuation taxable valuation is typically 50 percent of the appraised value so let's put this into a simpler term if you have a 100 000 home your cost is about 75 a year or approximately 21 cents a day if you have a 300 000 home your cost is going to be about two hundred and twenty five dollars a year or approximately 61 cents a day and of course it's just a simple math problem to calculate what your own impact is going to be once you understand what that overall cost is of a dollar fifty per one thousand dollars of taxable evaluation so how will local districts use this reallocated um resource it really depends we are in a local control State you as a board of
009education will work with your Administration to determine what priority areas you choose to support with this new resource some school districts are going to focus on infrastructure While others might look to mental health supports removing barriers to learning maybe it's advanced placement coursework maybe it's extracurriculars or additional staff to lower your student to teacher ratio maybe it's school safety I'm sure that you have a long list of priorities as most school districts do another popular question of course is how much money will Marquette algerisa retain the answer none those tax dollars flow through the Risa to the local school districts this is not a Marquette algerisa millage this is a millage for Marquette for negani nice Republic Michigan Superior Central you get the idea all of the public school districts and Public School Academy in
010Marquette and Alger Collins so what about community members who don't have school-aged children well strong schools access to high quality Health Care infrastructure employment opportunities in affordable housing are all markers of the economic health of a community additionally Research indicates that real estate values tend to be higher where you have strong educational programming and options so we're asking folks to get out and vote on May 2nd the board also has for its consideration this evening a resolution of support that it may or may choose to act upon this evening at this time I'd be happy to answer answer any questions the board might have I do have a quick question so if you had mentioned in regards to the knowledge if we did support this the money every tax dollar that is collected as a
011result of this millage does not go to pay for Marisa the staff members or compensation packages it pulls directly just as a direct pass movie that's the that's correct that you're absolutely correct uh may I call you Jason yes Jason you're absolutely correct I would however enter a short caveat just that um Marquette algerisa the Intermediate School District only exists to support local school districts if there were not local school districts there would not be an intermediate school district if there were not students with disabilities and ISD would not exist so we play a very delicate game of supporting the students and the Educators in our local school districts So to that end do we have staff members who are part of an economy of scale that serve our smaller school districts that otherwise wouldn't
012be able to afford to hire an occupational therapist or physical therapist yes we do provide that service and a portion of those funds may go to support those students in those districts but the money is still flowing through us to the local districts the local districts have the option of either purchasing a service a service from Marquette algerisa or from a third party vendor that's completely a local decision and if they choose to use our service providers then that money would circulate through the system does that make sense um to a large degree yes I I think I'd like to probably have a little bit of a follow-up discussion with you just to absolutely take out too much time right I I do appreciate that that was a clarification yeah I wasn't sure exactly how
013the actual collection works with the distribution thank you you're welcome does the increase and you could call me Jason if that makes it easier does the increase affect any state offsets oh oftentimes we'll see that if we if we get an increase in tax money the state will then take that out of kind of support right does it affect that at all that you're aware of no however I would say that or just add quickly that there is legislation that's currently being introduced that will actually um uh disincentivize if that's a word isds that don't Levy enough funds to cover the special education costs so there there's actually um an incentive uh for intermediate school districts or risas to make sure that they are providing the resources to their locals to fully fund special education
014and I wanted to thank you for not putting them out we spend each day in terms of how many cups of coffee we would have to give up because I think every everybody that does that doesn't understand that that's not making it easier thank you do you mind touching on when last week during the executive to give us kind of a brief synopsis that you are highlighting here tonight can you talk about how we fare that Marisa compared to other districts across the state as far as average Villages going towards special events yeah excellent question uh thank you for bringing that up uh so the state average is right around three Mills currently Marquette algerizo Levy's two Mills we have the authority to Levy up to 3.5 Mills we are asking the voters to go
015to that maximum we know that special education costs have increased over the last couple of decades which is really since the last time we've had a special education millage and those costs are not static they continue to grow year after year so although we would be fully funded for next year we know that as we project three four and five years out those costs are likely to increase and revenues typically don't increase at the same rate as cost so the Statewide average once again to get back to your question is right around three we're currently at two we are going to be asking for an additional 1.5 which would bring us to 3.5 and I think just as a point of comparison there are isds around the state that are levying as much as six
016mils for special education now there's always a formulaic conversation to have here because the millage Works directly with property valuation so if we had let's say the property evaluation of Wayne County at you know 45 billion we probably wouldn't need to have as high of a millage great questions are there any other questions uh just perception of that it is where we already have to meet this amount that we spend as a district which is do you know how much what is that another two million is for sure we spent about 9 million okay 9 million which there's a shortfall of 2 million which this then gives us that we don't have to find from other from the general funds I'm assuming that's where we take it currently from so this we will be able
017I mean we meet the need which we have to by the state 9 million this will then give us as you said funds to use elsewhere that we are taking in order to cover the shortfall right yeah you're absolutely correct I use this uh as a as an analogy this morning if you were receiving um food assistance from the state and you become accustomed as I have uh to having food and eat on a monthly basis if my heat bill goes up but I'm receiving food assistance from the state I can't take from my food Portion to pay my heat bill I can however take from my heat bill to buy more food I just have to be colder which is essentially what school districts have had to do over time is take money from
018other portions of the budget where they have greater flexibility namely the general fund to be able to subsidize special education costs we're looking to fully fund your special education costs with this millage thank you great questions thank you thank you very much Dr Neen great information I'm going to invite Mr recall up next who's going to do a short presentation on behalf of buffalos that's right good evening can you hear me all right good evening I want to thank start first of all by thinking board and this is and as you know some of you I was able to give a tour of the building if you work here I encourage you to walk around um you're going to see some great things that are going on and I'll get up into the library you'll
019notice that up in the library we just finished our mission issue Day project which last year we at this time I had them present Mr Patrick Mark get involved so we had the entire sixth grade doing the Michigan History Day project which is pretty fascinated and you know when you walk through the classrooms they had the opportunity to teach me most of the project and what they did was they had a last Tuesday we had some people come here they were judges and so the judges came here and they had to judge the projects and 11 students were selected to head over to Manistique and December 4th for the district finals and if they if they they'll get beaten there and then they head into potentially The Regionals and the states you'll also notice if
020you two of the building over in our in our computer lab we have 10 new computers that we're looking at they're actually gaming computers but they're really fast really nice you know there's other subjects are able to use them such as computers and they're um speaking classes get to use them as well and so we have 10 of those that are up and running in our Esports Believe It or Not Esports is pretty popular here at volleyball and so they get to use those as well but part of the presentation today I think what I think is most important is are the things we're doing for mental health and we're looking at an increase in the need for supporting mental health with our students and you know right now we have Miss Teasley Miss Teasley
021is one of our counselors she teaches a uh he's called trails to Wellness and that is to support kids it's a small group a tier two level uh teaching that she pulls kids from all grade levels to teach about um coping mechanism for anxiety and depression and uh so she has a small group that that she's working with all the time we also have right now we're looking at implementing a new program called through Michigan cares which is a grant funded program that we're looking at was just in a meeting today Mr Mr B Mr van Nelson was also with us on that call and uh that'll be a tier one level where we have each of our advisories teach lessons on supporting their social emotional health and so we're really focused on that and
022you know I have to thank Mr Cedric back in the spring he came to me and asked both you getting an E3 site here in E3 site is a grant funding position to help with hire a social worker and um you know I can't express enough how grateful we are for that Mr Cedric and how awesome it's been for for our school you know closely uh Miss Ross works with our counselors and supports our students I her and I were talking yesterday and she's working yesterday and you know it's just it's so important for us to be supporting these students with mental health and I'm concerned and whatnot and Mr Cedric or Dan can't thank you enough for for pushing that and I know you've done much more than that outside of Buffalo and so
023as part of the presentation I asked Miss Ross or a social worker here at Boswell to come come present to you and what she does so I appreciate that I appreciate you coming thank you well thank you for that hopefully I live up to all that hype um so my name is Marie um some people call me Miss Ross but when I hear Miss Ross I think of my mom and I'm like um so just a little bit of the background on me um thank you for allowing me to be here this evening and spend a little bit of an impromptu last minute thing so I didn't come prepared with the presentation but I figured I would just wing it give some background information for you guys um I did make up a few little
024packets of information for you all to look at with just some information on the E3 program that I'm a part of um so um I'm Anita buer I grew up in the Iron Mountain Kingsford area um I've lived in Marquette on and off since 2007. um with the exception of going to school for graduate school downstate and then working in Delta County for my first job outside of grad school so I worked and lived in Marquette since then I have a personal and professional tied to the area my son actually went to Bothell here seventh through eighth grade he's 19 he graduated from Norway high school last year um and it kind of came full circle so previously to this job I worked at the Glen area public schools so the high school the middle
025school for about three years in a different position we have a child in adolescent health clinic at the queen schools it's just a little bit of a different program than it is here there we have a full-time nurse practitioner RN secretary and two Mental Health Counselors here with the E3 site we just have a full-time mental health counselor and so with the new grant money provided to us by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services my position came up for funding and we gave some choices or options to various schools in the community Mr Cedric was uh brought to that opportunity by the Marquette County Health Department which is who I work for so I am not a School employee I just work in the school um so kind of I explained to parents
026and kids um think of going to a therapist office outside of the school I just so happen to be in school um so you know one of the biggest things that we're coming across these days is you know some buzzwords trauma mental health depression anxiety pandemic so with the rise of all of these things happening in schools piggybacking off of what you know Market algerisa was mentioning more kiddos meeting specialized Services we need more mental health providers in the community so that's where I came in so I have the professional and personal experience within this field to provide services to kids so just to kind of give you guys enough or an opportunity to what we do um everything that we provide for services is free um so there's no cost to parents or the
027kids we do take health insurance but that is not a need so if someone comes to me without health insurance I will not turn them away we do not turn anyone away due to cost of pain or anything like that and what's nice about our program is that we can provide services during school hours so essentially I bring School bring students down from class provide anywhere between 30 minutes to 60 Minutes of therapy depending on their presenting problem that they come to see me for and then send them back to class I'm also available for walk-in crisis appointments so say Mr Rico has a student that he's very concerned about a guidance counselor has another student referrals can come from anybody they can even come from you which is why I gave you some of
028that information and basically we meet with students right away uh their parent doesn't have to take time off of work they don't have to necessarily miss the whole day of school and if they need any referrals well that can come for me so it seems to be pretty seamless it works out really well and I think the other part is just supporting everybody else in the school because we're all in this together and we're all you know helping kids and our goal is to make sure that our kids are doing well um so the biggest things um there's no cost the mdhs provides the grant money to fund my position and also to keep our services free um and as long as the money keeps coming every budget here uh we're good to go um
029and the biggest thing that we have to kind of require due to this being Michigan and mental health laws we observe HIPAA privacy laws just like any other therapist or doctor does so parents will sign a consent Mr Rico was kind enough to send that at the beginning of the year to each parent in a parent packet lots of parents uh gave me the consent back and just had it on file which is nice so a student who's in the map School District can have it on file throughout their whole school career so they do not need to fill one out every single year if they don't need to um and I can keep it on file for as how long as I as I need to so I'm allowed to see individual students from
030the ages of 5 to 22. so technically even after they graduate from Marquette area to schools they can still come to see me which is really great because we know that the time between graduation of high school and college there may be a lack or a lapse in insurance coverage depending on their situation or maybe they are attending a school far away we can still see them if their residency is within the Marquette School District I have co-workers who see Michigan State students which in light of the recent events with that is very helpful um so realistically there's not a whole lot of red Hoops to jump or Hoops to jump through a red cave to go through so the parent consent is very important um that's just like any other consent that a parent
031needs to sign for any kind of medical or mental health care Michigan does provide what we call minor and confidential services to students 14 and older in the state of Michigan so basically what that means is say I have a student who's 14 or over who does not want their parents to know that they want Mental Health Services or substance abuse services or maybe their parent isn't sued so keen on it or maybe they don't even have a parent that's very engaged so to offset the um to offset some of the things about not being able to get treatment we're allowed to do that so uh 14 and over for up to 12 sessions for free um I've had a few students already asked about that for a variety of different reasons um and it's
032not about being secret or keeping things from parents typically during that 12 sessions I tried to work with the student and the family or the guardian to see if they're willing to sign the consent that's my goal it doesn't always happen however um so yeah that's pretty much um all all I do I look forward to continuing to work here and bettering the mental health of our community especially our children and our students and providing the help and to the staff and I believe it takes the village and we are all the village to take care of these kids so I'm willing to do anything in it anything and everything for them and to continue to help support the staff and you know continue to to do that so I'll open the floor up to
033any questions that anybody may have try to answer them as best they can thank you thank you thank you Mr ask we really appreciate that information and all the work that you're doing about the world very yes thank you long desired so it's great great for me to see that up and running thank you Mr Rico as well if you could just do me a quick favor and put that other presentation up for me that would be great so I'm required to present a progress report we receive a small Grant to help pay for some of our assessments nwea specifically and I gave a similar presentation back in October so I'm going to keep this one even more brief uh just a recap and also make sure that we satisfy that requirement for the grant
034this is section 98b our goals I know this is hard to read just sum it up for you basically our goals are related to math reading for k through eight we're looking for students all students to show growth specifically students to meet projected growth as measured by the NWA for math and reading another slide that's a little hard to see if you've got distorted my apologies but I can sum it up I think even if you can't quite make all the numbers the first two numbers are the most important this is the mid-year progress in reading approximately 51 of our students met their projected growth and 56 percent Mentor projected growth in math attendance we've talked about this slide while we've talked about attendance throughout the year and I just wanted to keep that pattern
035going you can see the overall attendance Trends are improving I'm not really sure what happened on December 19th except for Mr lantman that's when you give your audit report so I don't know if people just wanted to make sure they rested up because they were so excited for that presentation but that's the only anomaly I see in that overall pattern which is showing growth in attendance including today if you were to notice today 94 percent so again in summary a 20 000 foot view I show the winter to Winter comparison here this is again K-8 reading and math aggregate we would refer to it as you see a growth from 2000 2021s 2021-22 to 2022-23 this is the mid-year progress again we I have noticed and you'll see it on the next slide that there
036has historically been a bit of a dip in the fall of winter which seems counterintuitive that halfway through the year kids might digress but I think it's just the nature of the winter testing uh the season that we're in and then generally you see an uptick in the spring so to see if a increase in the winter uh average is encouraging this next slide you'll see what I mean the you know the fall to winter we don't have a spring assessment yet for 22-23 that's the leftmost column but you can see that dip I talked about I had a little laser pointer but it's not picking it out for me so there was a slight dip from fall to winter however the last slide indicated that there's been a drove from Winter to Winter and
037you can see that within this slide as well that I just I drilled down to that specific metric on the last slide so here I want to give you the overall scope of how we compare to years past um I would say if we're trending in the right direction overall but I still see a lot of opportunity for girls the summary for me I had since I took over I really try to emphasize social emotional learning there's a lot of resources that we've put in place much like you heard from Mr Ross and Mr Rico we have E3 sites at the high school and the middle school we have a 31m social worker full-time social worker at the alternative school and then we have two district-wide social workers we're also employing full-time counselors at the
038elementary school which is only two years now in the making something long desired this particular metric the xsecl screener was the I guess the best option for us at the time when we when I took over as far as getting Baseline data and trying to find a means to monitoring the progress through social emotional learning I know these data points are hard to really get a lot of information out of other than just a bird's eye view but you can see generally we're scoring very well when you look at the overall average for this particular cessco which was the fall of 2022 that first bar or that first graph is the overall score approximately 83 percent of our students were at or above average according to that screener that compares to about 82 percent last
039spring so some growth overall that was for K3 the last slide was K3 this is four eight again if you look at the overall growth you can drill it down to the specific categories these follow these are very much aligned to castles core competencies anybody who's lived in the SEL realm understands Castle's core competencies very much the Bedrock for most SEL programming including those mentioned today Trails certainly would be an example you heard that from Mr Rico overall score if you were to combine the add or above average for this slide is about 68 percent and that is actually the same in the spring of 22 so somewhat stagnant but overall 68 we're at or above average in their overall scl score our counselors teachers administrators have the ability to drill down to specific students
040within this tool tool get more specific information for the board I'm presenting at a district level this is now 9 through 12. this one doesn't have an overall category but if you look at the different categories uh it reads 72 percent for self-awareness here it's not average or above average you're looking for almost all the time which is that very light shade green at the top uh almost all the time frequently would be the next category down so for example self-awareness you'd have about 72 percent of your students that were uh that the great the higher the percentage the better 72 percent scored well in self-awareness either frequently or almost all of the time and then as you read across the number is somewhat vary I was a little bit concerned about the relationship skills
041category the second from the furthest to the right uh 38 scored frequently or almost all the type of time in relationship skills that was slightly better than the spring of 22 or only 37 percent scored in those two top two categories I want to just briefly revisit some of what we've done to address not just the academic means of our students but the social emotional behavioral needs of our students you've seen these before these are part of my presentations that I'm providing to community members I have one later this week I've had already had presentations with different commissions and Boards Community Service Groups Etc talking about what we've done what we're doing now and and what we will be doing these are resources that are already in place I mentioned things like JK in every
042building that's currently in place you heard about the social workers we went from two to five curricular resources Early Childhood supports we've hired health aides enrolling subs and Tas to help support our elementary schools instructional coaches which have been a game changer in my opinion for helping raise the bar as far as instructional practice an achievement coordinator or close closely aligned with a curriculum director which is a long decided resource in our district and then the Partnerships with various institutions like Marisa who you heard from today those Partnerships have really resulted in a variety of supports that that are much much needed in our school district so that's what's been done or a summary what's happening now we're very much focused on strategic planning we have assessment Frameworks and assessment framework that we're building on
043a pilot already in place we're working on building an early warning system so we can flag students in any number of the areas I mentioned academic social emotional behavioral attendance and then providing the support so the intervention menu to go with those things Trails is on here and other SEL resources the community Forum of student wellness we just had a meeting last week and then just more engagement with our staff and Community I've been going around to faculty meetings the last few weeks I've been going around like I said to community groups just trying to get the word out on what we're doing at Maps and then what's next we continue to focus on Collective efficacy that common belief that we can make changes that will positively impact students achievement long-range pde planning we do
044have a three to five year plan in place the problem-solving process is much like the early warning system only having a systematic approach to dealing with all those different needs that students come to school with every day much like is described in MTS sets that systematic comprehensive approach data-driven approach to making sure that we get students what they need to be successful the metric we're looking for is 80 percent of our students achieving grade level or benchmark that's a considered a high bar I think but also one that's uh well researched and aligned with mtss and I'm hopeful that we can get closer to that Mark in the foreseeable future and then the continued Financial commit commitment putting our money where our mouth is you've heard Mr lantman talk about the investment in mtss and
045the other supports needed in order to implement mtss with Fidelity and we've budgeted a sizable amount of money over a million dollars towards that effort trying to make sure that we do put invest our money in the initiatives that we've put in place and those that are coming in the future so I know I talked kind of fast but that's because well first of all I didn't want to be long-winded we had a quite a bit on the agenda and the weather is a bit frightful so I just wanted to make sure you got all the reasonable time in a reasonable a long time any quick questions for me before I turn it over to Mr Lambton to talk about the bus fleet that sounds great all right thank you Mr eleven thank you Mr
046Sedgwick and you wanted to keep this moving quickly yet you turn it over to me um I uh I don't have a uh a fancy PowerPoint like Mr Sedgwick brought this evening but in your in your um in your packet you do have um a spreadsheet with uh an update as to where the um current bus bleed stands as of uh February 24th so I just like to um review this really quick throw a few stats at you So currently we have 20 school buses in the fleet uh one of those is currently out for repairs the oldest two buses in the fleet are from 2006. there were a number of years during the 20 teens where as a cost saving measure there were no school buses to purchased so normally you'd like to see
047I would suggest two buses a year to keep that that Fleet going operational there was a period that didn't occur so right now uh 60 of our school buses are greater than 10 years old over 60 percent greater than 10 years old also 60 of those school buses have 150 000 miles or more thirty percent of the has over 200 000 miles so we do have an aging Fleet that that will have to uh be replaced the maintenance costs become submitted again uh also we're required to have an annual inspection on our school buses and our spring inspection is coming up right now there's four school buses that are our mechanic questions whether or not they're going to pass inspection this year for various reasons so we also have three special needs buses in the
048fleet that have a lift on them the one boss that I mentioned that is currently off the road for repairs is one of these special need lift buses it has it's having some electrical issues one of the other special needs lift buses that we have was involved in an accident we're currently using it but it does have about thirty two thousand dollars worth of Damages that eventually is going to happen for repair uh so that will be coming out of the rotation so right now we're we're down to really one solid uh special needs to lift box so there's there's definitely a need um in uh in the fleet for um for another special needs to lift across um and uh again to keep it short and sweet uh I will open it up for
049questions but I just wanted to throw some throw some information at you about the state of our philosophy actually there's two on order thank you thank you for mentioning that there are two regular buses on board yeah they they were ordered at the beginning of the year we hope they're going to arrive come may but with the supply chain the way it is right now you know they're estimating 10 months for a turnaround on a school bus order but yeah yes what's the average yearly mileage for a bus that's a great question I don't know that I have the answer for the average yearly in front of me that I can just do some quick 000. I would say that's probably yeah I would I would say I would say probably we're probably doing anywhere
050from depending on the boss depending on the runs probably anywhere from you know 10 to 20 000 a year uh we uh we do do 10 regular morning runs two special ed morning runs we do two midday special ed bus runs we do 11 regular afternoon bus runs and two afternoon special night bus runs the older buses to shorten around there is their strategy I'm sure I'm sure Transportation has a strategy yeah um yes and I I I would have to believe that they would um keep the older buses closer to home if you will and the one that has the damage is a new one so that's it is it's 22A on your um on your sheet so unfortunately it was one of the newer buses that that was damaged so are the two
051to replace these you know two of these four that may not passion are the two new ones to be to replace two of the four that may not pass uh I ideally yes I do yes um I I would like to to reach a point where we're once again investing in new buses uh two a year if we can get back on track uh in the future incorporate that back in the budget process but yes if when we get the two new buses um you know our two oldest are 2006 I imagine at that point those would be rotated foreign strategy will affect costs is there a way to kind of estimate we can bring you an estimation of potential cost savings you know certainly the older they get the more um constantly they are
052to maintain sort of stuff that are middle aged that has some significant costs [Music] it'd be interesting to see how a two bus a year or what's the optimal replacement rate for us thanks yeah I I think the I think the standard is that that most of the districts in the area uses two buses a year which you know you then benefit from that rotation I think my understanding is generally at the 150 000 mile Mark is when you want to start turning over those buses we've gone beyond that part with with quite a few of our buses like I said 60 of our faith is now Beyond 150 000 miles could it be that we have to do a three bus a year until we've had it catch up and came back and do
053a two bus here it is and in fact this budget year we did put three buses into the budget we had ordered two earlier in the year and you're kind of holding up to see what kind of gear we looked at before we pulled the trigger in a third third boss what's the price of a new one uh the price varies depending on the uh the type of configuration and what options uh if you can generally go anywhere from about 115 000 to 130 140 000 depending on the number of seeds if you're looking for a special needs boss with a lift date those are going to be a little more expensive thanks that's all there's still my question yeah the current proposed the current proposal in your package is for 128 000 for a
054special means bus which includes the lift gate so give me an idea I would imagine there'd be some cost savings if we weren't buying that special needs Plus as far as other I I'm sorry did the board have any other questions for Mr lamman okay just a quick I guess recap from the other presentations I I again want to thank Dr Nee and I think that two million dollar shortfall in special education funding is certain reason to consider that resolution Mr recall and Miss Miss Ross again thank you I'm so excited to have the E3 safe here at Bothwell and I'm glad that you had an opportunity to present to the board and I just want to give a shout out to Mr masana at the Marquette County Health Department who really took the lead
055on that Grant so I didn't want to take too much credit for that Mr LaSalle deserves plenty that's all I have under other thank you all right thank you for that we're going to move on to comments from the public agenda items only I believe Mr Dewan hello yeah okay my name is James I'm with the market County Suicide Prevention Coalition and I'm with the Marisa Community Wellness task force and these are my opinions and I guess I would like to start out by saying the ending here because I I emailed this week this comment to you and including the attachments that I'm going to be talking about the documents are in that email and she said that she could forward that to you already and um so I want to ask you to schedule
056a special meeting with a public Hearing in order to ensure that these behavioral mental health programs the E3 program the Behavioral Health Works program and the 31n program are compliant with the Michigan mental health code because in that letter that I sent to you is a letter from the director of the Department of Human Health and Human Services it says that all mental health services in Michigan are required to comply with Mission mental health code now that's all been updated now with all the new funding the hundreds of millions of funding it means that under MCL 330.1712 which is an individualized written plan of services there's nine categories in a minute for his life that you have to address and the food sheltered clothing Medical Care Recreation education and needs for legal services and none
057of these programs the n31 the 31n none of the nationally validated assessment tools the reason they're nationally validated because they're not uh they're not consistent with Mission law they're not consistent with law or anything that's how they do that it doesn't talk about law at all but Michigan that the health code requires that you address the needs for legal services including the children and in here we have some statistics is 63 of Youth suicides our children to follow those homes these are the children that are at divorce the separation of their parents if they have a court order standard of care and that corner of standard care is um increasing the risk of suicide you don't you don't provide it to them and they're I'm working now I just contacted the attorney at the judicial
058circuit court to get a uh Dr Gray agreement so that the schools will be able to report quarterly rights violations directly to the chief Circuit Judge in order to take a review and enforce if necessary in order to have a template for the schools to not only get involved you just hey this job is saying they're not receiving with court order please and so for now I would ask you to please postpone any support from Maurice's millage in order to you ascertain whether these this n31 program and these mental health assessments are actually consistent with the state law which would be a Section 504 violation for a fair in uh right appropriate this would be the services to to keep the mental health for the child to be able to concentrate costs that's that's common
059now all across the world but we special ed students especially the children of autism they have a Developmental Disabilities Act which is required that um the people with developmental disabilities are to be shall be provided with opportunities and supports they live their life free of violations of their legal and human rights the legal rights are because the eternity they share the life with a family to live with this is what is destroying in life this is what's driving suicide in our state is that the system of care does not address illegal needs or legal services and your counselors know what you believe in your stage said well what does she do when a child says they haven't seen their parent get over there foreign policy by law every county in the state is required to
060have a makeup energy so if the children don't receive their parents attack they can make a date unless there's only two reasons over half hour late for drugs and alcohol are suspected it's the only reason 59 parents children didn't want to go they automatically get to make okay and these are retroactive for a year so if you can shop those into Services maybe when's the last time you see me you know damn you don't live with if it's two months that's 20 violations of a court ordered standard of care for a child autism and Maurice is not completely I think that exactly exactly instead of Zach you know dude what he should do which was to you know do his due diligence and just look into the issue and bring it to the attention of
061his employer and your attorneys he uh he decided to call the police on me while I was given a report as if it was going to block his report all of these reports have been gone through the uh the State Board of Education two artists the Senators the governor the Attorney General the department the director Department um and so that's why I'm asking you please ask Jen Hill now that she's the state representative to request an attorney general opinion do these programs comply with state law now and I'm sure she would she's nice that's how she does I don't know well thank you very much okay um I believe that the the next public comment will be at the end or do you want to go now whatever works at the end okay then we'll
062have you go out there all right uh next approving the consent consent agenda which includes the minute so the regular meeting of January 23rd 2023 Personnel report dated February 2023 Financial reports of January 2023. I would entertain a motion I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda I support motion made by Mr Hewitt and supported by Ms Ray um any comments follow those in favor any opposed all right moving on to a board committee report first is board executive committee meeting of February 21st 2023 where's that semester thank you we held the meeting on February 21st at the the offices the administrative offices here we had myself generate James Hewitt and attendance uh we discussed quite a few matters of snow removal of course being especially relevant for days like today and I'm sure
063the next three months of snow that we're planning on getting and we made recommendations regarding the stone legal equipment we also covered a lot of other matters it's amazing to me the cost of just simple equipment stuff that we take for granted kettles that are in the kitchen that have probably been in this kitchen since I was in middle schooler I need to be replaced and so we got some valuable information on that we also made a recommendation regarding school buses that comes off the leader in the agenda thank you for that um I don't believe we have our student Representatives today so we're going to move on to new business uh consider the adoption of the resolution and support of the special education Village do you have any further information about that or just
064prior to lending support I would like to get some additional information just as after the presentation I I want to um talk with uh the gentleman that provided the presentation I just had some additional concerns as far as questions that would probably be best to just have follow-up with family or be able to possibly take that up more formally with the next meeting or to to hold on board on that not more um well we're just considering the adoption so if someone were to support it and say that they would like to support the adoption of the resolution then we would need a second for that if we had that then we would vote on it today and we don't have that then it can be tabled so every time the resolution I would make
065the notion for the adoption the resolution has provided in the um as provided that we were given a sample resolution that we have talked to our Law Firm okay and um Mrs Maddox Smith just a second I second okay so we have emotion and support motion by Mr Circa and support by Mrs Maddox Smith um we can open that to a discussion as far as I I do have some additional concerns as of right now sorry just as of right now I do have some additional questions as far as the funding mechanism I know that sounded like it was a pass-through millage and and I there was some additional information after that in like fully grasped so I didn't want to get a clarification on exactly with that were to if we were to support
066that and if over to pass would 1.5 Mills or whatever that generates approximately 4.7 million does that goal there's 4.7 million dollars then go directly to Maps um and then there's no I believe it would go to Marisa and then they would delegate the funds to the I might be able to help I've been very involved in this whole process not just the discussion of the millage but also the funding formula that he discussed we actually didn't get a chance to talk about that very much but because of the transition to an expenditure model we're actually 240 000 more in the black just based on that funding formula and then the millage is going to give us almost a whole as far as that two million dollar deficit as far as it doesn't Dr nian
067was trying to explain the size of the district is a major factor in determining how to answer that question so he was trying his best he could to explain it essentially what it comes down to it Max does not use nearly the number of services that smaller districts do we employ for example we employ our own social workers and our own psychologists we have two social workers and two psychologists we employ them ourselves some districts they just don't have the budget to support those uh those that that those staff uh and they they actually contact with Marisa so the money he said it kind of makes a full cycle yes it's going to the The Districts The leas but then some districts are actually purchasing those services from Marisa Marisa is a provider of school
068psychologists social workers speech pathologists 31n workers and I could go on and on Maps doesn't necessarily use as much of those Services which is part of why [Music] um our costs are so high is because we employ many of our we do it in the house so I don't know if that helps at all but he was when he was trying to explain the cycle of how that money flows through some people some districts Contracting racism districts contract with the third party for especially speech pass OT and PT Maps does not do that nearly as much as those other districts the only thing the the thing that we probably spend the most money is some Specialties like autism consultants and uh another one would be hearing Vision or hearing impaired consultant Specialties that we even
069don't necessarily have the capacity to house ourselves so we'll contract with Marisa we'll get the money and then get some of it back because we're Contracting with race Affordable Services does that make sense essentially can I ask this um so we are ready a portion of this 25 and 25 million there's a shortfall correct right but we are we receive a portion of that correct and that proportion we're able to determine how we want to spend it correct right and Marisa might be a source that we use as a as a resource as a vendor exactly so but other it's all up to us how that money is spent that's my interpretation exactly yes okay yeah they actually use an mde audit of our special ed expenditures to determine their funding mechanism so it's not
070Marisa determining it's a third party that kind of determines what does the are those are those expenditures legitimate as far as being used for special education it was just I did have two additionally I wanted to know for example if the taxes or the this millage will is not going to go does that fund just Marquette schools then for you know the taxes that a market resident or business were to pay uh for that 1.5 Mills does that directly go back to maps does that get distributed to another school district as another example well that's a um so the the millage is a two County 13 leas the one he listed them 13 leas are involved so there's a two County area very pretty vast area that's being Excuse excuse me uh that's being approached
071or that's going to vote on this ballot question and then the way they fund it because of that funding formula that I told you about it's based on an expenditure formula so I I want to say we were about 74 funded that two million dollar shortfall is about 74 we are if you remember I think it was like five million dollars shortfall uh and that we were approximately two million dollars that's about 40 percent of that shortfall overall in the region yet we also we only have 30 percent of the students in our region we're about a third of the entire two County 13 Lea population yet we're about 40 percent of that shortfall so just doing Mental Math I can tell you was going to probably benefit us at the minimum average or better
072because we are uh we are shouldering such a sizable portion of that loss that's going to be recovered with the milk now it doesn't mean that they just look at only Market Area Public Schools voters so to speak and say that those the uh that you know it's not it's not segregated so to speak to say that you know only the money from the tax rolls of Marquette Area Public Schools residence is going to Market every public schools to the district I don't think that it's that sophisticated I think it all flows through Marisa through that expenditure formula that I talked about earlier but either way it's going to get us the whole which is about two million dollars and and like I said that's about 40 percent of the shortfall overall of the entire
073Marisa has that been in turn I could possibly open up if we were to have an additional funding opportunity if that money were to flow in to possibly look at an increase in funding and other potential areas that we would look at well yeah right now the two million dollars is essentially coming out of our general fund the two million dollar shortfall so you bring us two you bring us to even close the whole and now we're able to use that money elsewhere and Jason Miller is why I understand this is because I just have to do that so I I this is my second round actually my third because I went they had me I went over to Marisa this week for a session that they had on this so that's I all your
074questions are what I was asking previously no absolutely absolutely and I just want to make sure that yeah absolutely you know with with um you know because any tax increase I would support um it you know we just had the city of Marquette tax increase and you know inflation and there's a lot of concerns within the community that I I wouldn't take that recommendation lightly but I just want to make sure that it's something that if I'm asked about this in the community that it's directly going back to benefit market area public schools and an overwhelming increasing percentage basis uh if not again solely on a pass-through basis and there are a lot of concerns that I had because if we're going to start looking at a tax supporting this that's going to go to
075fund for example you know Marisa Ann Mass so to speak that would be a little bit different so that's a lot of the concerns I had and I would say we're limited on how we can support that the resolution was crafted by the lawyers to make sure that kind of staying in our lane because we are very limited on what how we that we can't Advocate but we can support so that was one of the tasks we gave to our the law firmness to in our lives we appreciate that thank you any further comments all right uh so we have uh motion and support all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes consider adoption of the 2023-2024 schools of choice resolution I believe this is something that we do every year around this
076time so I would consider a motion yeah just for the I guess the audience is if we don't pass it like around this time that we can't open up choice on an annual basis to allow students to come in um speaking of that I will make the motion to adopt the school of service resolution board 20 23 2024. I would support it all right we have a motion by Mr Hewitt support by Mr sarca uh any additional comments all right uh hearing none all those in favor aye aye any opposed all right motion passes all right consider purchase of a snow plow Master Cedric do you have anything further on that yeah so we have uh two we had or I guess we will say we have two plow trucks in our possession and and
077one of them neither of them I I think they're both 20 or a year 20 more 20 or more years old and one of them has had a bad winter and um is limping along but it's it's pretty clear that if we didn't start working on that we're going to be in trouble it just to give you an idea one plow truck almost operates almost exclusively at Marquette Senior High School in the bus garage because of the amount of work required to keep that property maintain that property in addition to having Smith Contracting with their Front End Motors the other one travels around the rest of the district hitting the other buildings so it's imperative I believe imperative that we have two running and uh I I did two rounds of rfps or requests for
078proposals the first one I actually went around to all of our local dealers and hand delivered of RFP and even with that effort only was able to give one bid from a private owner so it was a very fair price and we considered it but we thought we needed to go back and try again so we did a little bit more networking the second time around we were able to secure two additional bids the person from the first round did resubmit and then the the bid that we're recommending what came from a sister dealership downstate for from Fox Motors and and the the Dodge dealer up in nagani had a plow down state that met the requirements I I do think it's important that we buy the one ton you'll see a three two three
079quarter tons and a one ton on the bid submarine I think it's important that we buy the one ton since that's available we were pretty hard on our trucks we had a very heavy sander that we put in the back a heavy full-size V plow on the front putting a lot of weight on those plows and that one time is built for for the abuse and I think we'll have a long better longevity than the other two and it's it's a reasonably price yes so that would be my recommendation my summary anybody have any questions for me okay thank you for that I would consider a motion for the purchase of a snowplow I would make a motion to purchase the 2023 GMC Sierra 2500 HD regulator can't block that four-wheel drive Pros to replace
080the meter with the heater [Music] just to make sure where we where are we going with the ram now the ones I'm just going to turn my microphone off at this point it was a good motion so no it's important no I'll withdraw the motion and make the motion for what uh indicated sorry so we have a motion by Mr circus misery uh any further discussion all right all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes uh consider the purchase of a school bus do we have any other additional information that was previously discussed I do want to make a note that the the make and model of the bus we do work through a a program that competitively bids and the provider is one of the state approved vendors for school buses it's
081not necessarily the cheapest but our mechanics are very interested in maintaining some consistency with the make especially the international brand and the engine that it that it includes because they're always trying to capture Parts swapping all parts off of older buses say some some money down the road in the comes to repair so it's very comparable but we thought it was important to stay with the same name that was gonna be one of my questions too if we're sticking with something we already had yes all right so um I would entertain the motion for regarding the purchase of the school bus I'll make a motion to approve the purchase of the Special Needs Bus presented in the package any support all right motion made by Mr Hewitt and seconded by Mr Ray any further comments
082all right all those in favor all right uh any opposed motion passes um sorry um consider a vote for the region one masb board of directors all right so we have two candidates for this it's a three-year term for our region with masb the Michigan Association of school boards just out of curiosity is this something that we we need to vote on or we would not need to this was something that we have done in the past it is not a requirement but in order for us to put a vote in we do need board action okay but the board the board could decide you know what we don't really have anybody who support that we want to put our vote in so that could be the motion too yes the politic depend on mistake
083in heaven sometimes in the past to um given the authority to the board president to kind of cast on our path I don't know that we have I think we usually have looked at the two candidates and and recommended one okay but um we could do that too I mean the board can do really what they want I just need would need to know because we would need to put our ballot in for board action I mean is this something that we that we need to wait we need to do this today though we would need to do this today yes because if we want to the deadline is I would have to put the vote in tomorrow we'd have to vote by March one correct so I guess the question is do we want
084to nominate one of these candidates or any board members have a recommendation at all yeah does anybody know any anybody that's you know well enough to offer a recommendation I read their emails but um it's hard to kind of know yeah I mean we received a few Communications from them I'm not sure that either candidate really jumped out at me as actually I had some personal conversations email conversations with both candidates if you guys want to kind of hear my thoughts out of it um I did talk with Mr fultonsberger um in specifics he talked about Houghton in the mtss that they have put on board and how they're getting their staff on board very positively he talked a lot about some of the parent concerns about books and how they're dealing with that that
085they certainly take it seriously and how he feels that the school board in particular when we put good people in these positions that we don't need to look at them as deeply you know when you have a good librarian that's monitoring what's going in and out um he did talk a lot about the other candidate um not being able to attend the meetings and obviously he's been involved in this for about 34 years he has missed meetings the past which is something I did ask him about as you know life happens I also talked to Mr Perrin as well super nice gentleman very very committed police officer very busy very very busy man I did go through some of the masb board minutes just to follow up on some of the things that he talked
086about one of the things that he talked about was that he had quoted no on some hard votes and I didn't look back at that and I did ask him for clarification and I don't have my computer up in front of me but his email clarifications were very confusing um and it did not lend me to want to support him based on that um that alone he also um when I asked him about one of the situations was was about book Banning that he did support that 100 so that was just some information that I got I glanced for emails um my input from what I got from both of them because I did research both of them because they knew we were going to be voting today so so I guess I would entertain
087the motion if anyone would like to nominate one of the candidates or we can label it all right um hearing no recommendations uh we'll move on to comments from the public General and so we have uh Mr Khan hi uh my name is George Pond I work full-time here at Roswell middle school as a paraprofessional and I feel like in my Mr Bancroft science class because he uses this all the time with the kids to keep them on task just a couple quick things Mr sarker now I know why my father-in-law likes you so much okay um for sarcasm and um you know just how you go blow your day so I also don't have a fancy PowerPoint I have a pencil Point okay just so bear with me I scratched some stuff down here
088um just to talk about a little bit although my main topic of conversation would be increasing the minimum pay for paraprofessionals and instructional AIDS you know and then scale up from there I would like to approach it from a little different avenue instead of just standing up here saying we want more money um with that said just a little bit of background for myself so you understand that you know I have a little bit more prior knowledge of what I'm going to talk about I graduated from Central Michigan University with a degree in recreational therapy and psychology um I work in a bunch of different places that have given me a very useful set of tools to be able to work in the school system and worked on and off of the school system since
0892009 just real quick some other places I worked as a recreational therapist on the youth and Adult Psychiatric work at Market General Hospital I worked for Wedgwood Christian Services down in Ann Arbor Michigan there was a residential program for at-risk youth that were either going to jail or come and see us for adult learning system as a treatment manager I was in charge of two homes or two different individuals with autism lived there so I was in charge of hiring Staffing and creating those programs so that those individuals could have as much Community success as possible um I work at the U of M U psychiatric facility rehab was on walls which is a program that um initiates retraining of people with traumatic brain injuries specifically from car accidents and I also did a very
090short-term stint at the Ypsilanti psychiatric prison as a recreation coordinator but due to the fact of a lot of the things that I saw and experience there just wasn't going to be a good long-term for mental health um so um with that said I just want to give you a little bit snapshot of some of the things that I personally experienced and other areas of experienced in the school district if you haven't been in the you know so to speak trenches um so have you ever have your hair pulled you know to the point where a big chunk of it came right out of your head have you ever had to run through the woods without your jacket on or any shoes in the wintertime chasing a student Into the Woods um have you ever
091witnessed a kid biting his hands so hard that detached the skin and he had to go into the emergency room here in town and then have a kid sit there at his desk and continually to pick his fingers to the point where they're down continually around a daily basis trying to help himself do whatever thoughts in her his head so he can concentrate a little bit more on what he's doing um ever been stabbed with a pencil um have you ever had to use um different types of management tools to keep students stay from themselves and from others which a lot of these things can be they're definitely mentally draining on the individuals that have to different work with these different children over a period of time have you ever been kicked punched I'm even
092at spit in the face um so these are just a few of the things that some of the instructional leads have to deal with on daily and yearly basis and don't get me wrong there are many positive and enjoyable and very rewarding things that happen also [Music] in addition to our functional skills program where kids need to be fed whether to change all of their activities of daily living things that they need to have taken care of while they're here at school you know and as you well know teachers in paraprofessionals are instructional leads you know spend well percent of the year with these kids right so we are helping parents to raise their children so to speak and some of these other children that when they go home at the end of the day
093they go home tonight so coming to school and having some of these social skills and some of these behaviors that they require over years so um so to kind of wrap it up I just think that you know it's increased fail between more people to come through more consistency for the kids right from here to your basis and I think it'll just help these kids to be you know the best version of themselves if they can possibly be depending on their abilities and harvest skills thank you thank you all right um board member comments there's only one there's only one in Europe policy you're only allowed to well it's a public comment ones it says general at the end you commented once I'm sorry can I just have no I'm sorry if you cannot you
094had your problem in the beginning it's well no uh we're going to move on to board member comments uh we'll start with uh Mrs Maddox Smith um I just wanted to thank everybody for being here today what a great School Buffalo is I love the presentation the stuff that you guys are doing is amazing um the um miseros the the stuff with the the E3 Grant and the mental health clinic just couldn't be more timely and important especially with events that are going on in our community in our nation in our state um that was just very inspiring to hear about that I love that and the fact that you're reaching children from Age 5 to 22 you know that's after graduation and and our you know just setting our kids up for Success that
095that makes my heart swell and that's awesome um as far as the uh the special education Village I I think that it's much needed in our area to address that shortfall that Maps is currently experiencing um I'm excited and thankful for all the work that that Dr Knight has put in on it and exercise like I know that has been a process and it will continue to be a process so I'm glad that we're we're looking at that supporting social emotional learning Zach just Paramount to kids thank you so much for your presentation um thank you to Mr Pond and Mr down both for presenting you know great Community points you know we want to hear what you have to say and you know thank you for having us seat at the table um you
096know a day in the life of an instructional Aid that's that's a lot so thank you Mr Elizabeth I just appreciated Mr Rico's time and information prior to the board meeting in regards to uh Bothwell um in in the school last last time I was here in in Buffalo was I think in 2000 two and I formally went through the building when I was going through NMU with the teacher prep program so it was really interesting to see the changes over the many years in regards to the in regards to the school um thank you Mr Pond for your bringing a brand of light some of the information regards to your position and some of the challenges and rewards that that position brings as well I also wanted to extend um congratulations to the I
097believe it was the mshs ski and we I believe we did send a wrestler on two of these state finals so wanted to offer congratulations to those to those teams as well so other than that stay safe with the weather those were okay sorry it just happened um uh it used to be down the road uh no I just really appreciate everybody coming in and hearing what you have to say and what you're doing in the schools is amazing and our focus on the whole child um has been much needed and is now clearly needed even more so so I really appreciate all the ways that were coming at this and yes more support financially and just for all of us thank you Mr Hewitt I just thank you to Mr Rico Mr Ben Wells
098news for hosting us here tonight and thanks to all about both staff Mr Bond thank you appreciate the comments and uh that's all I'm sorry my microphone wasn't working earlier so that's a 2022 Ram truck around 3500 no I I most of my best memories in school were in this building and I just love that wall over there that does a stream Middle School I don't know what it does right and I want to say for Mr Rico you are such a great fit for this building it's always sad that energy that you have so it's always great when we see a person that just fits the building of the community I cannot imagine how because right now this building I mean this was a sunken floor whoever thought that like a sunken part of
099the cafeteria is a good idea for six to eight grades whoever thought that putting four classrooms in the big wedge-shaped classroom was a good idea because what it meant it wasn't add for our students so much as it was add for our teachers because paper airplanes Bottle Rock you have bottle rockets being shot off in those rooms it was just it was something else but it was a great education it's good to see that that's continuing and that tradition is continuing your thoughtful thank you Mr Gallant thank you Mr Farm uh for your comments that that's we need we need to hear those things so appreciate everybody's hard work all right president your rule says portions with an S it says with s right here please may participate during designated public portions that's because there
100are two more divorcups it says there's two portions so I can do two please obsessively no over here violations there are two portions I put this on here Madam president please read it out the record the rule so it says something you can point of order that's how pointing order Works Rules of Order that's how it works where do you read the rule and they did then you can make a decision what it says he says portions with an s so that's two times that's what it says I'm sorry I don't know and it's not my card s I'm requesting her to entertain the point of order on your own well it says each individual will be permitted up to five minutes when you had your five minutes for each portion [Music] all right announcements
101and other meetings March 1st and 2nd 2023 parent teacher conferences 6 through 12 March 3rd 6 through 12 half day March 8th and 9th K through five parent-teacher conferences March 10th K through five half day March 10th is Spread spread goodness day uh March 13th through the 17th kindergarten registration online March 17th half day for students March 20th regular board meeting at the Sandy Knoll gym at 5 30. I would take a motion to adjourn so we'll ask you before all right motion by Mr Hewitt support by Mrs Maddox Smith all those in favor um problems of hccs if the children are not being provided with properties because