Richmond Community Schools Board of Education Meeting on February 24, 2025

001[Music] okay everyone set good evening the regular meeting of the Richmond Board of Education will come to order please stand for the pledge of aliance pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all is that Victor yes he's loading okay not too okay um Sandy if you could please um State our mission statement and take roll call at richond Community Schools we provide quality education that empowers students to be successful in a global community board member kingham here board member Gillis here board member Bashan here board member s here board member T here and I'm boarda I am here and uh board member sty is absent with notice but we do have a quorum

002we also have our Senor representative here uh Joseph Caso but unfortunately Elizabeth she thank you very much uh before we approve our agenda I need to make two changes please um we are going to move everything down in our presentation so uh we're going to starting with letter B is going to be an un unpaid leave of absent request and then C is the consideration of our board and our budget and then I'm going to add uh letter e to our action items for the unpaid leave request so I'm looking for a motion to approve the agenda so move for the amended agenda support okay all those in favor I opposed motion carries looking for a motion for the approval of the consent agenda some move support um Mr W do you have anything to

003let us know um we should have a a revised Personnel we had a last minute um or an addition regarding a second semester online Mentor so um there were no questions regarding the um Regular meeting minutes or the FTE report um as far as the Personnel report uh Shelley maida was a appointment she was previously hired by the board moving from a fler cook to an assistant cook and then Adriana rman is becoming the second semester on my student that's it anyone have any questions yeah I do Brian for the online U Mentor just an overview night of what exactly that sure we we have students that are in online courses as part of their schedule and so um part of being an online course requires us to assign a mentor and so often times

004these are either teachers on their prep hour pick it up and so forth um we do not have any teachers elect other than Mrs rman for that so she will do the two-way communication that's required to count U to count as an m and then how is she assign certain students or do there Mentor how does it work anybody who's assigned in online we have one teacher who has one for hours of the day is online it's not those students it's the other students throughout the I think that's fourth hour so these are first second thir third 5ifth Sixth and 7eventh hour there's probably about less than 20 but I think about 10 to 15 of them um so she'll make sure she reach it out touch page for twice uh twice a week thank

005you any other questions all those in favor I I opposed motion carries next item on our agenda is our Career and Technical Education Month who's going to lead I will get us started but I'm going to quickly hand it over to Mrs Zoo um as you know we always celebrate February as CTE month and so we're excited to be able to highlight some of the programs and get a little bit in depth with one of our newest tools um so I'm going to leave it to the building expert at least and turn it over to Mrs thank you um so for those of you that don't know um one of my absolute favorite things to talk about is Career and Technical education because I believe that it truly just creates um so many opportunities for

006our students no matter if they're interested in going to a fouryear college or university or if they're looking to go to a trade school or go directly into the workforce so um I have just some facts a little update about how all of our programs are going um and then obviously hopefully you had the opportunity and if you didn't when you first came in to look at what our students have to say as well as some pictures um I highlighted uh one student uh was highlighted in each one of our uh CTE Pathways um as well as a quote for myself just really about the value and the importance and what the students are learning and it's really interesting because none of the students were prompted like hey talk about this or talk about this

007and I think that if you read each of them individually each one of them truly is gaining something different from each one of our CTE classes so um currently right now 54% of jobs in Michigan require more than a high school diploma but less than a four-year degree and so that means that over half of the jobs that our students will be applying for are really looking for technical skills or some sort of credential and I think that's really important because we tell students that you don't necessarily have to go to school you don't have to go to a four-year University but the key thing is is that you need to gather something whether it's skills or a credential that a lot of the students are getting here in the building that's really what future

008employers are looking for in the 2022 2023 school year and we don't have the updated number 95.95% of students that were a CTE completer graduated high school compared to about 81% which is the state average and so students that are enrolled in and complete a CTE program over 14% go on to complete high school and I think that really speaks about the importance of making connections with kids and then also the value that the students are seeing in these programs we currently last year had 483 CTE enrollments that is double counting students so ultimately um that's a lot that's a lot of enrollments and we are looking at about 362 separate students so some of our students are enrolled in more programs but um over the past three years we really have been uh looking

009to streamline our programs and also make offers or make course offerings that are more interesting to the students um some program Updates this year we have $138,000 or a little bit above that in our 61a funds and basically that is the grant funds that directly come from the state of Michigan and can only be spent on program improvements in our CTE classes so it goes from some of the day-to-day things our teacher cadetes all get supply bags which they carry to their placements it's got everything from binders trans markers um consumables manipula um anything that they're working with their kids on um this year some of the large purchases is we purchase laptops and a laptop cart for our uh TV broadcasting course that is so the students can run the Adobe uh Suite that

010they're going to be earning a credential in their credentials are a state requirement for all of our programs and so we wanted to make sure since that wasn't something it's some souped up Tech stuff that I don't know a ton about but I know that the Chromebooks that they have wouldn't run that software so there's going to be a class set that's open to all of the students um also this year we updated our marketing books and then also recently purchased a new dishwasher and an ice machine for The Culinary room just as they prepare for the opening which I'm happy to say we're doing our soft opening next week the week of February 28th and then we will do um the larger opening once we get into the month of March so the kids

011are starting off with um just they're doing um an Asian uh Buffet for the staff and then they're going to do a Mexican themed buffet for the staff really just to kind of get their feet wet let us uh do some sampling which a lot of us already have done and then it will be open to the public so look for that um also this semester uh we added or this school year we added a CTE data monitoring and Reporting assistant um her name is Jenny SE and she has been a lifesaver um with the 360 some students that we have in CT we need to hand enter data for each one of those students each semester everything from the grades to the courses they're enrolled in to every one of their work-based learning experiences

012so every time a kid goes on a field trip has a guest speaker we all enter that data in by hand and so Jenny really has taken the lead with that um she's entering the data and not only that but we also are required to follow up with all of our graduates upon graduation and so before January 16th she has to touch base with over 80% of our recent graduates and ask them survey questions and so we were able to meet that Mark as well because of her um a couple of the other things we're working on um I'm working with the AIS program we're working on a year three work-based learning experience and so basically we're looking at um how are we going to get the students where they're going to be able to

013spend a lot of their day in a job placement or an internship and so getting all of the paperwork making sure we're following the pupil accounting um manual ual making sure we have everything in order um we're hoping to roll that out once we figure out what students have signed up for that and then how we can help partner with area businesses um and get those students placed last year we had 101 students earned credentials and so with that being said the state is now requiring each of our programs to offer credentials so everything from Microsoft Word PowerPoint Excel um we have it specialists in Python coding and HTML and CSS um this is the food handler through Serve Safe also the food manager through Serve Safe so the state puts out a list of

014credentials that students can take and our teachers then have to choose off of that list and then we have the students take that credential and so the state is looking at I believe the last Mark they had was a 4.5% pass rate um obviously that's going to continue to increase um every year as they roll this out we had 100 one students earned some sort of credential last year so we're above that Mark but always looking to strive to how many more opportunities can we offer for our students couple of last things um before I do want to turn it over because we do have two student speakers and then I also am going to debut um our animage machine that the majority of you were here to hear a lot about last year but

015also see it in person um one of the other things that's really important to me is the business Partnerships and I know we have Jeff White here um from Richmond lenx uh EMT him and I had the opportunity we are selected to speak at leadership mome this year um we were one of two I think CTE programs that Shannon Williams reached out to and said you have such a strong partnership between a area business or area service a public service and what you've been able to do to the school within the school so we were able to highlight that um you know after covid the desire for many students to become EMTs was not necessarily there and our program has um I think it's increased by over 300% we had about three or four students

016right now we have 17 in the program and so looking for ways of how we can strengthen that partnership um is also really important but at this time i' would like to invite Ivy and Jenna just to come up I just wanted to ask them to share kind of some of their thoughts about what they've learned um in their teacher connect programs um through our program um it's really helped me like for patients and how to work with another teacher oh it's given me experience working with others and like being in a different environment so kind of nerve-wracking but I was able to select what kind of um subject I wanted to go into and I don't know it's been a really great time like meeting my students and meeting my teacher and being able

017to help them out just going to say I was going to ask I'm in a fourth grade well I'm in a fourth grade class but I'm there during the math time and I'm also there during the special time so I'm able to go help like um you were in music for the past month we switched over computers but I've only been in there once so far so I've been able to help a lot with the math and it's been I don't know it's been fun cuz that's if I were to go into teaching that's where I want to go so nice good yes we need you okay so I'm in the sixth and eighth grade art in the middle school and it's kind of a really funny age because a lot of them are very

018I don't want to say awkward but they it's just a silly age it's cute it's cute but sometimes I it takes a lot of patience because they don't want to listen all the time and it's hard to like sometimes it's actually hard to like convince them like if I have something and if I have an idea and some of them are just like no I just have to like accept that I really just have to accept that sometimes so that's one thing that I had to learn cuz we've been in their since like November so that was like very hard for me to just accept that sometimes they don't want to listen and normally I would have a hard time with that but I'm a lot better with it now but it's really fun being

019in there you go there Monday Tuesday and Wednesday every week and I don't know like even just like talking some the kids and like getting to know them better it's just so fun it's cute thank you and I think that just is The Testament to again you might not want to do this when you grow older or when you go on to college but even some of the quotes it's like hey I might not be going into this but I've learned confidence or I've gained interpersonal skills or I've learned how to write a check I might not become an accountant but I learned how to write a check and I think really it's that skill development that's at the foundation of our uh program so um last thing I just wanted to show is a

020little sample of our animage table um if you did not know this was through a 61c grant last year um that we wrote um this is the new age of basically where medical schools and any sort of caber labs uh have gone because it is all digital now and so if you go into many of the teaching universities you'll see a room with five six seven eight of these um if you go into our classroom It generally lays flat but one of the nice things is is that it can raise and it can show people um sometimes it's a little bit slow but just to kind of give people an idea of what our students are able to see and what they're able to do on a regular basis so I'll just so basically on

021the animage table there are a bunch of kabers that are loaded these were real people so they the the history and what you're actually seeing in here is what the individual passed away from um what kind of genetic disorder they had what kind of Health disorder they had so really our students can come in and um they really can cut at any point and then because it is all electronic we get updates all the time so they'll add different um images or cavers but it is all Wii base so like sometimes my patients I just like click click click click click but I just have to remember okay once I do that um and then so what it will do is it can like remove layer by layer and so it identifies I can pull

022off you know I can click off all the muscles so if I'm instructing or I'm talking specifically about a different part of the anatomy um I can go ahead and I can remove all of that and just click around um I can also start looking at the bones and taking those away so you can see the spleen all of this is It's touchcreen it's labeled and you can go all the way down to um you know as as far down into the system as you want um a couple of the other things is that it also um allows you the opportunity so if you want to see what the dissection is so if it was right here see there you can see the spine you can see the arms um the way it's moving down

023but again all of this is here for our students at the fingertips um that is the Cada part there's everything from case um case Library functional Anatomy histology and so in any oh so some of these like for example this one I can't use because I'm in the vertical uh the vertical display um but everything on here is um open for the students a lot of times if they come into school early I'll just see them in the EMT lab and they'll just start kind of clicking around um there's the option and I don't want to go into this spefic speically but you can play games so there's different ways where they can do like identifying you know if I say where is the spleen and you have to click on the screen as fast

024as possible so I just got rid of it there's got the liver um but you can turn you can turn it around I mean it works in all sorts of all sorts of directions so really this is um state-ofthe-art technology that specifically our EMT students are working with but um obviously there's so much information on here um if you are on Facebook the students were able to when they were learning about the birthing unit they were actually able to um see not only it happened but really what is going on inside because that's where a lot of times the emergency can happen so knowing how would they respond during that situation um but just imagine they're all standing around this table and they're watching it right in front of them versus um seeing it in

025really a old video or something like that so the options are endless um this is um really amazing and I just every everyone that's was supportive of this really this is um state-of-the-art and something that are students will really remember so I will leave this I don't know if I want to leave that up there go back to the homepage um but there's a bunch of different uh different students and you can also do you if you specifically want to talk about a different part of the um the anatomy everything from the brain they have a fetus they have just the eye the ear so especially when the they're learning about specific parts of the body putting in you know a tube and you're talking about how you put that in the throat you can

026really look at just that specific part so it's all right there and it's pretty amazing so I just wanted to make sure I know one of the things that people had asked for once after they after you guys approved it last year the purchase said like we want to see it in action so I thought that was a great time for to so other than that I don't know if anyone has any questions about CT but thanks for all the support and Carrie here what have Carrie here who our teacher Cadet yes yes Carri thank you so much Carrie shagin is here she is our teacher Cadet teacher right now she has our first year students and um we had such a we had 30 we have 31 teacher Cadets I think right now um

027in terms of her having the first year students and then um Mrs parman has the seconde students so our seconde students were able to start going to placement right off the bat and then we also have a third-year student who um is in her placement she is planning on going into education um and has kind of her path all out for her or mapped out for her so so thank you for that support specific questions about I'll keep the table in here so if anyone wants everyone's always like I'm so afraid to touch it I'm like you really can't break it so if anyone wants to click around after feel free um it is there so I don't have any questions but I just I love I absolutely love all the little posters showing all

028of our kids and all of the program like it's really and it's better than just seeing it on a piece of paper this is really I like how visual thank thank you I have a question yes so which cuz my daughter is picking classes for next year I didn't see a whole lot of CTE for options for 10th grade um the AIS was one of them I didn't see a whole lot of in the matter so um computer programming marketing AIS business management teacher Cadet culinary yeah so the the ones that so EMT is open at 11th and 12th grade because there's an age requirement for for the national registry exam um so that one has an age requirement so that one's the 11th and 12th grade and then I also believe accounting is 11th

029and 12th grade because it follows the pathway but the other classes should should be open for the 10th grade students yes I just want to say thank you because we have been asking to see that but I just those those two girls iy and Jenna what's the other girl name um I love the kids just tell me no where they don't want to do it I want to say welcome to the world of teaching you know so maybe you realize look at your teachers a little different because yes they have kids that say no I don't want to do that um but that's that's cool that's that's good for them um it's good and thank you Micha for what you're doing and I always say even if you don't want to be again it goes

030back to you might I I would rather and I'm sure the students parents would rather like I would rather you realize that you don't like blood or looking at something like this here versus going to school and then you're oh I'm going to be a nurse or I'm going to do something and it's like but wait a second I don't like anatomy and I don't like that type of situation so now is a good time to also make those Explorations or we have students that are in culinary and two weeks ago they were doing the chicken Butchery lab and that literally is like butchering a whole chicken and they're like well I don't like chicken I don't want to touch chicken I don't want it's like it's culinary so making some of those you know

031making some of those realizations Now versus in the future is what this is all about too so well I think that teacher can add even if you don't want to be that I think the confidence that it can give you from having to work with kids and stand up in front of them and do things I think that presentations and speaking absolutely I think there's that part of it too yeah I think that's in all of our CTE programs that give skills that aren't necessary necessarily oh yeah skills you know of the em or whatever there's a lot of other skills that it provides our students yeah Jeff did you want to say anything I know you're here you we started this partnership about years ago I came here after co uh we were uh

032you know I don't I can admit this to you all now but we were broken uh our staff was broken our our ranks were broken uh we didn't have uh people looking like they wanted to G a profession today I can tell you with confidence that I don't have a position to open uh at EMS and right now part of that's because what we're doing here part of was getting kids interested so I just simply I can't thank you enough you know when you talk about students getting experience I stopped down there station nearby New Haven this was a month or so ago when uh the students were just starting to ride and as I left the station was headed to somewhere else there was one of the students there and I don't remember which

033students he was but they had cardiac arrest in the prison and CU we serve in a clone correctional facility and the prison is different than the jail these aren very nice places in Mar very nice people and very overwhelming just the sensation of being around there and I thought kind of unfortunately and fortunately what an education she was about to get the patient also turned out to be a cardiac arrest so there's a lot of medical care that victim of that but but those are the kind of experiences we can offer and we watch them throughout the year they kind of start as as kids with us as children and by the time we see at this point in the year they're really becoming young adults and a lot of that I think is because

034we're very exposed to so thank you all very much that's really all I had to say thank you for celebrating CTE month with us and if who ever have any questions um one thing and I don't know I sent it to Joe for the student announcement but March 18th is our regional uh CTE Advisory board meeting um that's held at the MISD and so uh basically all of the CTE teachers from around the county we come together um everyone brings one or two business partners and so really that gives the students for the students gives the teachers an opportunity um to really hear about the programs from around the county so if you're ever interested in getting involved uh whether it be what your profession is or if you're just interested in seeing from the

035eyes of a you know a board member or a parent or like I said what you do um I definitely can uh get you invited get you a seat around the table and at least just to really get to see what the teachers are doing outside of the classroom um in addition to what they do inside the classroom so that's March 18th if anyone is interested thank you thank you very much he next item on our agenda is our unpaid leave of AC Clon before you tonight is a request for an unpaid Leal absence in some communication that I sent ahead of time just TR because this is a very short time frame we um have request um it is in the uh re contract um there are two parts of a staff member can

036request that un pay one is prior to to pregnancy and one is after they had to be Mr is here over hi everyone I'm Elina um I'm presenting this evening uh to formally request unpaid time um from my classroom to care for my newor who just exited the room um I'm asking for time for the remainder of the semester so after speaking with Mr wisley he kind of let me know the two articles specifically uh within number article 12 um section 4 and section five so um I kind of wish I would them a little bit more in detail prior to uh my maturity leave because that kind of would have le having to be here her tonight so um she was born prematurely um and because of that I had to leave very quickly

037so I did not get time to sit down with um Angel like I would wish to and kind of look at the lead so kind of in detail so as the first time Mom I want to prioritize my postpartum mental health and physical health so the extension of my leave unpaid would give me the opportunity to care for myself um currently I'm going through IM um for my legs to kind of see what the pain and the problems are that I'm having it was an unplanned C-section and she was due 1 month and 4 days early so to my surprise after I dismissed my students on November 18th um my water broke so that was not planned I thought I had about a month more time and December 20th was my due date I thought

038I had about a month more time four to five weeks to plan um with Mrs good and have some time to transition her into my room andon to me she came early so Mrs Murphy helped this out for a couple of days and then Mrs good took over right away um once I was admitted into the hospital um for Labor uh she was born premature and we stayed for 4 days because she had jness so after those 4 days we were discharged sent home I was readmitted within the next 24 hours with pre glansa we stayed for another 3 days so during that time I was emailing Jamie as much as I could um to kind of up him on where I am and what I'm doing and who needs to take care of my

039room and where things are at uh during that the my time so far with postpartum care I've um sought out counseling I worked on my own mental health and my own physical health but I've also cared for my child um I'm a valued member of the Community Schools I've been nominated and selected for Teacher of the Year um that was my third year here this is my seven year now um I've had the pleasure of planning and reading with lots of you during March's reading month and I have stayed current in planning in my classroom um I'm committed to continuing open communication with the staff and students um in my classroom and their families as well if possible I would love to continue and hopefully volunteer with March's reading month as kind of an out

040of building person right now I'm currently working with Mr P to finish plans for our fun month and lots of you are going to plan I'm hoping to come read I know Miss T was been in my room before um so it is just that time that I'm asking for to continue care for her for the remain year of the semester and and then return after so thank you for your consideration and um making extra time for me to fit in today and I appreciate if you have any questions to answer question thank you very much thank you we're going to we are going to vote this are we going to discuss it at the that point yes so do you want her to stay or if she wants to stay or I know Mr

041lley can get a hold her afterwards I I'd let her know that I would either way I'm going to let her know tomorrow morning first thing so you're are welcome to stay or can you can go and I'll let you know little one here so okay okay okay next item on our agenda is our consideration of masb board of directors um I know everybody has received everything we need to pick one person um anybody want to start the conversation on this would have a choice that they would like I um watched the videos that gr had sent over I didn't get that email but so was appreciative when he forwarded that email um but my personal choice looking at the four of them was and I can't remember the name now as here but um

042the first woman from Pontiac um I really liked what she had to say Dr H yeah I know her first was um I really liked what she doct her and the her having been on the board and having all the classes MB classes and things um a couple of the others kind of just rubbed me the wrong way the second start talking um but I really like what she anybody else have any or inut um so I I I had um you know all of them actually were really um they well groomed with the masb which was good to see so in terms of credentials um they all passed for that um the one person that stood out to me was um Paul colon he was the one that actually sent us an email first

043too a couple of the things that some of the interviews they had mentioned um they had talked about their own School Board a lot almost as if they were trying to bring their school board into um bring it wasn't for everybody the whole region where Paul in his um speech kind of talked about bringing everyone and being committed to the whole region not just his own board that he sits on um which I felt that that was very important um compared to what some of the just kept boasting about their own board not talking about how the new position is encompassing multiple um I will agreee with Candace on her choice that's who I had um picked out I do know the person personally so maybe that makes a little difference um he's very well

044spoken and I I think the big thing that kend just said was the same for me is that he talked about the whole region uh some of the people didn't talk about uh you know we have different groups and different families and different types from Richmond all the way down to you Fitzgerald all the way out to Oakland um Detroit whatever so I that was my pick when I look through everything my first pick was Ursa Rogers um she was the only one that actually mentioned in her like election statement anything about mental health and that just I'm always been B big advocate of all that um she seems pretty strong on that and that's why I guess she's I I them stars and that's why she's got five stars for me but um that

045and she also does talk about the whole all of Michigan schools in her last um paragraph there that she's and I also um I underlined her statement in regards to having um equal funding um across the board so that's important to me as well so she's my number one pick although I did I did give I think two or three stars to the col is that his but she's my she's my number one well she's my number one p too are you kidding me no that's what I thought when you said it um but I I lean towards I had three uh Ursa was number one rodri means and Jack tsy and I reason she was number one is she added the mental health part but each one of my top three talked about inadequate

046funding and what we have to do to better fund all the districts and if the way things are going with public education we need as many advocates for appliable funding um if we want to see public education survive so that's that's the direction what who I'm sorry who would I um you said you had Ur Ursa was my number one is my number two I can even show I can show it to you you guys there's not a Jack come here I eaten eaten um Rea oh yeah he was yeah I don't I don't have anything for him actually he's got no stars I read it was like Canda said they all have great sure background experience um they all seem like they can do an excellent job um I'm always for mental health so

047you know Ursula that that did stick out to me as well but I also like what Paul had in his bio um I think I was leaning more toward Paul in this one but I did like both of those okay so we're kind of tied a little bit here between Paul and Ursa so to kind of comment on that I had seen Ur that's why I yeah some of them didn't do the video and some were in the book right that yeah all were in the book correct so I will say sking through looking at Sandy sing I would lean towards Ursula ironically um Paul's video when I was watching like within the first two sentences I told my husband I like oh absolutely not like I can't do this um and so that was

048just like one of my first thoughts um when going through his stuff so I if there were between the two I would lean towards her well okay I'm fine with that I don't have an issue I like yeah I'm just going to say I'm either one for me and we have more people for Ursula so um and we're good that we're voting on it later right we're going to votee on it later for Mr Wesley to submit that okay any other questions or anything on that thank you next item on our agenda is our 2025 budget amendment so while Tammy's pulling that up and and enlarging just a couple of things this budget um does improve our situation from the budget that that was approved in June um there are still some unanswered questions that

049we can't definitively say at this point surprisingly it's almost March 1st of a school year um you know I'll just the the legislative uh change to the hard cap and retirement um we've gotten information all over the board so what the budget you have here is given what our ISD recommendations and so forth trying our our best guess but it could change overnight um and soth so I turn it over to the thank you good evening um when you approve the budgets back in June of 24 for the 2425 fiscal year we made assumptions lots and lots of assumptions and we didn't know what our foundation would be the state budget hadn't been approved we didn't know the number of students or what R revenues would be available to us um we didn't as it

050turns out know our retirement rate and we didn't know our actual Staffing and other things we didn't know the picture has become much clearer now so in this amendment um we will change the assumed Foundation Revenue which was we assume the house proposal at 9,825 per student as we know now that $217 increase did not happen and we remain at the 29 9000 I'm sorry 9,600 per student we estimated 1,539 students we have about 18 more students now at 1,557 we amended all of our grants we now know what was available for state grants and federal grants we still have a couple grants out there from the state our um robotics Grant is still not in this amendment and then we've been hearing about the healthc care reimbursement Grant from the state for money that

051our staff pays we are to reimburse them so that also is a new grant that we have not put in this amendment and it will be in the final we also didn't know our salaries and who our staff would be we now have updated the budget to include our current Staffing at their current salaries and their benefits our UA rate um our retirement rate is is is the big benefit a UA rate we assumed would be 17.02% it did not remain at that it dropped 6.44% to 10.58% so that was what I believe the intent was not giving us a foundation increase saving us on the retirement expenditure side so that is also reflected in this amendment um in the original Amendment we had eliminated the instructional coaching positions in this amendment those two positions

052are back and I'm here to tell you what thises to our bottom line so on the screen we put in our comparative budget it shows our actual from 2324 just as information to you those are the audited numbers and then we have a column in the middle for the 2425 original budget and a column toward the right side of the First Amendment proposed amendment that we bringing to you tonight and then there's a yellow column that shows shows changes increases are positive decreases are negative so as we look at our revenues as I mentioned um local revenues went up about 35,000 that's not a big increase a lot of that is our tax revenue is not included in our local revenues in our state revenues um big change there is our foundation we also receive

053some more mixers offset revenues which is what they call 147 um and there're different there's a number of them on our state aid report those are now reflected that brought us an increase of 184,000 in state revenues federal revenue stayed about the same um so we've adjusted that you'll see an increase of 190,000 in our interdistrict Revenue sources that's money that we get from a com ISD in our original budget we were not planning to get a specialed mation are getting that and then increasing our in District sour by 190,000 and then our food service we do a modification transfer of indirect Coster Food Service fund to our general fund because the general fund pays all the utilities pays for my salary pays for payroll benefits Ryan anything that related to food service but we

054can't charge to Food Service we do through this indirect cost Str and we originally estimated that 44,000 we've increased it to be more of what it was last year around 60,000 so it increases our total revenues from 22,45 to 22864 which is an increase of about 00,000 I just want to say um there scientific principle re reaction is an opposite equal reaction um the one we need to look at is that Federal depending on what happens to the federal if we were to lose federal dollars that's 620,000 what what is that Tam is going to go over kind of something think that tails for but that your title one eras and your title one uh teachers it's got special ed Staffing in there um that's on the radar right now given what's been going on

055at the federal L um we're always looking at the state level as you can see majority of our funds come in at the state level or local level but um that's a significant amount of money and as we scroll down get to our start our expenditure report so it starts with Elementary um you can see our salaries went up slightly um health benefits declined the biggest decrease was in the retirement and then we had other modifications the supply increase is a state Grant um 35j which is hanging we started last year we received half this year we're getting the other half so when you see that $29,000 increase in supplies it's additional textbooks being funded by the 35 we go down to Middle School see and similar numbers um health benefits decreased our retirement benefits

056decreased we also had an increase in our supplies through the 35 J textbooks that were able to purchase High School you see an increase in high school salaries and benefits that's reflecting our actual Staffing now and then there Savings in the retirement rate then toal High School inre 68,9 between those three function codes that's a good chunk of our dollars from the inst structural end um the thing that we're watching right now is that that legislation that the previous legislation did not send over to the governor to sign if you recall in Lan duck there was a hard cap legislation that was passed and the current uh house U has not sent it to the governor they they're holding off uh there's some legal battles that are going on if that goes over that health

057care cost could go up for our part of the possible or like it will for our one of the basic things in that I believe is a 7% increase in the cap which is what we pay we have Bud is pretty much at C then we get to preschool um as you remember our gsrp numbers were down so we've decreased some of our staffing at the gsrp level and that is reflected um School expenditures you can see an increase in our summer school costs and that again is a grant there's a 23g grant that begin to finish up this year we have to expend it by September 30th and 25 so that is allowing us to do some prescho I'm sorry summer school to special education again we're reflecting our actual Staffing and actual salaries

058um special ed includes Ida Federal funding Ida is still budgeted at the higher retirement rate so that will be adjusted in the final Amendment but whatever is in the system right now for that Grant is what we have to budg until that changes we have to it will change by the end of the year for the [Music] June let we get to the I call function 125 added needs it's really your um Title One and at risk a lot of your oops too lot of your expenditures are in that those numbers and again the 31a title grants and that's those doll are refle GRS anything on the suppliers 1 the one the supplies under the title one 31 there's title is only a staff person and what we have to get to the brok hill

059it's not of all um the supplies it's FS under 31a some books some books here for the intervention okay thank you the title over the years has been reduced to reduce it is literally just a person it's not even a full person anymore it's a par of a part of a person and we used pay 31a out of the other one they used to provide uh AIDS and all that has been moved out of title that's now in the it's in the the a that we have we currently have three of them they are part of the 31a grant where they used to be part of the title gr but they we don't have funds to support it thank you I think you might be looking at the $65,000 in Pur services and I'm trying

060to remember is that the summer uity uh no that will be in summer school oh puras Services right okay just okay I'm just curious cuz that one jumped up yes I can see why it did Sor might be the um not the summer school credit recovery but like the during part that we for I that one so those students who are earning Credit Credit Recovery the credit recover chunk and then we get to vocational education um again our staffing salaries benefits um we'll see decrease in capital outling last year we purchased um computers for the computer programming class this year we're purchasing computers for the TV and broadcasting class and then we're reallocating some of that to that new position that Andrea mentioned which you'll see later in the budget so under instructional expenditures our

061total goes from 12,568 to 12,6 which is about 4 to guidance services that is reflective of a shift in our 31 of our 31 a the health Grant counseling um but we are Staffing still one one counsel like the middle school one counsel high [Music] school next line is health services and when you see that purchase service number that's our 97j um Grant dollars 97j is of early students behavioral intervention grant that we're receiving again that's money we um actually received last year in our spending this year so you it's both the revenue expenditure this year so that's part of that health services that we're no real change in speech services again this is reflecting um our current Staffing see the social worker um social worker also is impacted by our 31a and 31aa gr

062doll 31a is that 31 are at RIS 31 is the of Health that funds some of our social have question yeah then spech and Audiology does that include what we had approved last with the contracted services or is that included in that CU I know that was an additional expense that contract Service but that individual does isn't getting paid our current employee because they don't don't have the time so it's going to be shifting from the payroll side to the contracted service it's moving it from one category to the other okay so we not make that but I want to make here if if the person stays out for as long as they plan to and we are Contracting there is an additional cost in the net it's going to cost us a little more

063than person was just here but that that's the plans to move from salary teacher consultant is also a shift in our um Staffing where we had a little more [Music] TC other people Services is our schedule B um that includes all the extracurricular academic side plus your stage plus your your b expence as it is no big change there at this point Improvement of instruction is where you'll see the big change and that is where we did not budget to have two um instructional coaches but in the original budget but we are budgeting for that that this and part of their salary is paid out of Grant it's not 100% out of general fund non but they both get recorded on the section under the function of your budget we get to library not a

064lot of change there at this point um same with technology we're basically adjusting for um current Staffing to supervision of instruction of staff and that it's really your special ed director and Billy's position as the curriculum director and again we're just adjusting for um actual paying benefits then we get to the board of academic assessment didn't change much um Board of Education expenditures have not been amended at this point a superintendent again we're changing modifying the budget for just actual Staffing costs same with the office of the principal again throughout you should notice the retirement benefits line is negative in all these SE even the salary went up most of the time the retirement rate didn't didn't go up proportionally work just to reminder on some of these areas the support staff appropriate to that

065are also built in like the off the principal the secretaries are also built into there um under my office City's built into there the secretaries are split Marge and and Christa are split between Athletics and throughout the budget get to the business office again no major changes there um major changes with the other business services I can go back down to [Music] the see changes there operations and maintenance again we're adjusting for our current Staffing and the same with the security services a big chunk of that security services are our bus driver security monitors that are funded by 31aa gr so there's an increase there that just to reflect the actual stat that we have people transportation again we reflecting our actual Staffing costs and support services in the middle section there we see an

066increase of 20,300 that is that CTE 61a Grand funded position that Andrea talked about where they're doing a lot of the data entry and data monitoring for the CT programs no real changes under Communications just decrease no real changes in their support services staff Personnel that is our HR position and the cost associated with [Music] it changes under support there for p accounting that's again the bo position and adjustments to reflect actual cost athletic activities we have not changed a whole lot um we're still budgeting the same salaries for coaches we have our secretary ctime secretary and athletic director there um one area that may have to increase as under purchase Services um not sure where that's going at this point that's where we pay for our athletic um officials and there's cost increase in

067athletic officials so that will be Bud as well we get down to people accounting assets Support Services other our total Support Services which is everything that's not instructional so far um went from 9 million 480,000 to 9,673 which again most of that increases our instructional purchase [Music] 193,000 questions open to the end I have a question okay go ahead um I know on the front page we were talking about Federal funding um including the parents and the teachers so I see where the title one on page four is that what we're looking at is affecting part of the um I was kind of trying to check like what areas would take from that that that will include those pair Pros that work in the 31a program that used to be funded by title are now

068funded by 31a it also includes the teacher the title one teacher that we fund partially title n31 you're going to see some of Federal in the group above it in special ed like a ecsc program if they're finding through title grants uh your title and you're going to see it at the end when we do um for our our broal schools their allocations are in here so it's it's that's where the bulk of it is but it is sprad or sprink through all other function codes and special education is where the federal funding is going to be it's the it's the biggest that's the idea program and that's our biggest Federal fund at this point yes that's under specialed net fund specialed teachers too but there's funing General be on the number I believe it

069when it was originally put in place it was supposed to be funding at at least 17% and they're only funding it at 7% so they're not even at the Target when it was originally put in place so um it's a significant difference so and we know educating a student with special needs and it cost there's more resources there's more support servic just natur it cost more as IA actually funds about three of our teachers under the special education any other questions moving along get to our Community Education grants um that's where we have to put our homeless that's where we have we have an activity night where staff comes in to work and works with parents and students on activity night for can be for Section 41 which is bilingual education can be special ed

070can be preschool but that all goes under that that section Community Education and then we get to custody care of children which is our Child Care Program again we're adjusting paying benefits for the staff L that we have welfare activities the biggest chunk of that is funded by title one for our students then we have our non-public school section and this is all funded by grants the largest one being actually IPA proportionate share and some title as well we're just adjusting those numbers to the Staffing that we have dedicated that in the Grant on we have available and then the last part the outgoing transfers airports we are still transferring the planned amount of 59,900 for the nonbond cap projects which includes savings for busing savings for the track replacement artificial CH replacement savings for

071computers also servers laptops the stuff we've been putting aside a little every year so that when we're ready to the funds are there so brings our B in line to an improvement of about 50,000 Improvement 15389 is our Improvement we go from total expenditures of 22855 to 23109 an increase of 254 and then our revenues exceed our expenditures exceed our revenues originally it was 399,000 we decreased that to 245,000 so reducing that use of fund balance by 152,000 then you can see we have beginning fund Equity we have our projected fund equity um we're at 3.8 million at the moment with this amendment we project to be at just under 3.6 million at the end of the disclosure which is about 15.6% of our revenues and if we do unrestricted revenues to get to the

072what they used to call the restricted yes yes 21.6% um some things that we still have unknown is our utilities depending on how long it stays cold and how quickly it's h to turn on the a condition um snow plowing is another one that we'll be watching actually salting is our bigger cost than than actual removal of snow so we'll be watching snow falling and salting um the insurance C legislation that Brian mentioned any building repairs that pop up we learned last year that anything is possible and middle school didn't have a little issue so hopefully that won't be reced and then as I mentioned the have other no from of the operation when I'm really W just remember the contract we we approved for the salting and plowing was significantly more than what we've

073paid in the past and then you coupled that on we've had more plowing and salting this year than we did at all last year so we are watching that one as that's that's same thing with the the heating and cooling you know in the days when we aren't in session we try to power down the buildings to save on the energy um which does help but those are the things we're watching at at this point you know when I look at that that number and I know we've always um tried to at least tried our targets always zero I am not concerned at this point because I know there are still things um that are going to are going to roll up I believe at the end when all the dust settles but the ones

074that I'm watching the leg of the hardap legislation that that could be a 7% increase in our cost just like that especially if they retro again it was supposed to start at least uh January 1 when the bill came over but never has moved over so um we'll see we'll see that's good sticking this is where we're at now and we're not in a bad spot for now IDE anything coming out of Lancing on the you're quiet which is scary this is this will be we'll vote on this in two weeks and at the beginning this first amendment you said something about some things that aren't there will it be a second amendment coming or will we do that at the end of the year right now unless there's something significant that change the plan

075the the beginning the money that Tammy mentioned about the 3% yes it's it's really a cost neutral it should be a cost neutral they're giving us money to reimburse what we are paying out that's so there's going to be a revenue and then it will be a line of expenses zeroed out I don't anticipate unless they do some special supplemental education bill which I don't anticipate are revenues significantly changing other than the one that Tammy mentioned which is about 59,000 um we are just so the board knows this we started reimburse the employees July 1 we just got the money now so that's is why the importance of having a fund balance is because then you can pull from that instead having to borrow money but we are watching to make sure the money they

076allocated is enough to cover everybody because our rough calculation what was that last Thursday or Friday with Thursday with Angela we're meeting together at the end of April because I think May based on their current allocation we should run out which would mean we no longer reimburse employees until October 1 next year when the law actually goes into effect when we don't have to pay it well we don't have to pay it's just going to be taken out that doesn't go permanently in effect so um I don't know how they're going to handle that but we are we're watching it closely so that we uh there's been little rumors that oh they're going to adjust it and and make everybody whole so everybody gets the full reimbursement but again those are rooms and we don't

077know where the actual numbers are it's a budget that's we guess I I wouldn't anticipate anything from the federal government proving anything on that end um if that money does go when we start that budget conversation we need to we need to be prepared to how we respond because a lot of support services are paid out of those grants that we no longer okay we wouldn't have unless we're going to choose to allocate money in another way which you just squeezing the b in your packet you have the actual the ASN copy if you want to look through each account number and see the difference in change um it's there so you get bored you can't sleep very entertaining very entertaining thank you thank you thanks okay next item on our agenda is our Blue

078Devil raids let's start off with Candace okay Margaret yeah um I went to the cheer districts a couple weeks ago that we hosted here and um if you've never been everybody that participates gets a section and it's cordoned off if you will for fans and all of that and so the schools were there one of the schools was Clintondale High School and they only had four cheerleaders um to compete and they had zero fans and um when when the teens get announced to come out you know everybody's fans go crazy and stand up and cheer when it came time for Clintondale um our girls lined up the air when they came out from the gym they lined up for them and cheered and went crazy for these four girls that had nobody cheering for them

079so um it it it got my heart and just Raves to our girls and to the coaches we were a real Class Act and uh the Clinton girls were just so supportive of everybody they were cheering everybody on and they did really good the first two rounds they weren't able to compete in the third round CU they didn't have enough girls to compete but just just a great job just a real Class Act and I was very proud um to be from Richmond that morning for afternoon I guess it was thank you uh Daniel um yeah I guess I have two um I just wanted to say thank you to the special department at the elementary um Mrs gerie has been doing a lot um leading up to these conferences and things and she individually

080reached out to every single parent under her case load to arrange and coordinate conferences with their um classroom teacher as well as herself so um that's the first time I've seen that in the three years that Jackson's been part of the program so that was really awesome um and she's new to us this year so that was really nice to see um and then also to Mrs Pinsky in the office for um not only just dealing with every everybody in general but she does an amazing job of contacting us even though she you know it's the littlest things but I appreciated her phone call this morning um just to keep me updated and I know that she's it's I know that I have peace of mind of Jackson being here um because she will give

081me a call and let me know because she knows I keep we have to keep T tell's medically for some of this things and she will make it a point and she always remembers to call me and let me know if those occurrences happen so I have been very appreciative of you know her support of all of our little kiddos um at the elementary dist thank you I'll uh nope I don't have anything tonight Sarah uh just that I also attended districts and then I also attended regionals at Heartland last weekend for year and our girls I mean they're just doing so great so to see all the growth and everything that they've put into this season I think is great the coaches are amazing um I think we're very lucky to have all the

082whole cheer coaching staff and um we're going to States so that is exciting um so we'll be going to States this weekend thank you um I just want to rate about our CTE programs actually um Mr Z for putting them out on Facebook um I don't know if any anybody follows the district Facebook but um and she knows cuz I sent her I sent her a thing um it's it just looks really professional looks very nice it's special it it gives us a student tells what program they're in and uh what they're doing and I just I just thought it looked very professional looking and very nice and it acknowledges our students so thank you okay next item on our agenda is our student rep Joe what's up all right hey guys let's uh get

083started with the elementary school first give you guys some updates uh the preschool winter formal was recently it was a success where we had a lot of ice cream cookies grape treats uh face painting you know lot of dancing just an allaround fun event where every student had then left with a book got a chance to enjoy some nice sugary food great time really awesome and then send them home uh yes of course uh um February kindness month is coming to an end and we'd like to um share how wonderful it was as the students were learning many different ways to express forms of kindness whether that be making a new friend opening the door for somebody just being that person in someone else's corner it's a really important thing as people to share and

084and spread this level of positivity and it's always great to see that within our schools um after February kindness month we is March's reading month which we are also super excited about um our first ever March is reading month assembly will be hosted soon and where we will have around most of the entire Elementary School student body around 600 kids to celebrate literacy uh we are excited to have had many visitors in the school such as uh representative Jamie green uh Richmond Board of Education members superintendent wansley community members U Miss Richmond court and many other people to come and read to our students which is really awesome um going on at the middle school notum interrup real quick yeah of course did they have a date for that all school assembly yet for the

085reading for the um the March's reading month kickoff assembly yes I was not provided a date Mr romsley do you might uh do you have it on you right now I don't know okay that for you as um Middle School we've got some great stuff going on as well uh Friday's uh PTO annual dodgeball tournament and went on it was really really interesting I heard the kids had a blast at a great time I mean you know no doesn't love the Hodge ball right um our teachers are getting ready for parent teacher conferences which will be held on March 5th and 6th and congratulations to Ava van sled our RMS spelling beat champion and Cole halis our R our RMS geography beat winner we are incredibly proud of both of our students it's just really

086awesome to see that type of stuff that's it's hard I mean come on many of us really especially uh uh spelling I was not very good at that middle school but congratulations to them moving on of the high school our 11th or 9th through 11th grade course of car carousel took place on Thursday February 20th where we had over 18 groups and classes being advocated for ranging from different CTE programs all the way to our Performing Arts programs um as well as uh core content electives like American wars and forensics um just to increase the advocacy for the um student enrollment our eighth grade orientation and course of care cells will be take will take place uh during Wednesday February 26 where students will be receiving uh scheduled presentation a tour of the building led

087by student ambassadors and participating in carel of course just as the ninth and 11th graders did to kind of get a feel for what classes we have here at rhs and give them some ideas on what they may want to take when they eventually enter high school they will also be eating lunch at the high school which you know can't go wrong with that just get a feel for the environment I mean you you get rid of recess when you grw up I caely honest moving on to um after school activities one big one is is we've got a lot of music uh stuff coming around for March but this week Thursday we have choir pref festival and I would like to um make note of that good luck to all of them it will

088be hosted here at the high school auditorium and um I just wanted to give you guys a heads up because there there will be many different like choir Festival band Festival all those uh great stuff which those will come out a later date in terms of Athletics we have three teams and uh Sports here at uh the high school going to States congratulations to all them first we'll start with as mentioned previously our varsity cheer team who placed fourth at regionals and will be competing all the way at CMU on Saturday they start time is 11:00 a.m. it's quite dry I got to St especially if we starting that early um CLA milbrand congratulations to her she qualified for a girl single States finals in Bowling where she placed six at her Regional on Saturday

089and will'll be bowling at Jack 60 starting at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday uh moving on to wrestling Jacob think Jack Akin a bon and Paulie Chapman will represent rhs at the individual wrestling state finals on Friday and Saturday at Ford Field um Good Luck to the JB powerlifters um competing this weekend at Flint poers Catholic the girls uh or middle school basketball boys are um wrapping up their season this week with games at at home against alanek and Wednesday on Friday at ARA the girls basketball teams hosted Almont for senior night uh Friday and scored a big win against the Raiders congratulations to them and boys basketball begins their District tournaments tonight in Marysville against alanek at 7 if they win they will then play armida at 7 on Wednesday in Marysville um with all

090that said and done um oh actually no there's a couple more I skipped over want to forget anybody um girls basketball will also host districts at the rhs uh um next week Monday Wednesday and Friday and then finally there will be an informational meeting for all parents and student athletes interested in participating in Spring Sports tomorrow at 6:00 in the auditorium as I mentioned previously um something new that I would like to kind of have me and Elizabeth start to regularly adapt in our um presentation sort of an item of interests for the students I had previously presented some questions to Mr Wamsley that I'm sure most of you guys have already seen that um I me and Elizabeth both have been somewhat contacted by the student body as a request for clarification on questions

091they necessarily couldn't get straight answers for um which is no problem at all we're just kind of looking to advocate for you know maybe the right process or just clear up some understandings the first one if it is okay with you miss R you would like to ask is um about Pizza Little Caesars being the only branded food on Thursday are there any opportunities to maybe expand that to different businesses and if so why not and um no complaints of course just curious um as I mentioned you has to do with the the nutritional standards that we have to have within the week of the the Food Service U Pizza is a hot commodity un intended um with our students it's a high volume day it's well L um and so we we don't have

092currently any other groups like Taco Bell or Burger I don't know if they would beet the nutritional standard however we have a lot of products and vendors from Lakes to Tyson to uh we've had a meeting with um weights meet Market just recently try to get more um Fresh Foods and that's preservative Foods into the meal so alls can I add that we also have to um bid out anything that we offer in our food service program so when we invite other vendors to bid on the pizza Little Caesars is the only one that bids we all all the pizza shops in the area in Richmond and in the area little CA right now the only one that's to us interesting it's a big commitment to supply all people grateful that they're willing to do

093that for us okay yeah that that makes sense yeah totally I I understand um the next thing is necessary um isn't a huge issue just kind of curiosity among students uh do we have faith detectors implemented in our um bathrooms um all around the high school maybe even the middle school and if so do they work we currently do not have V detector this is one that we have been piloting and trying out um but it is U gives a lot of false positives when you have false positives it it it reallocates resources many times through the day that you can use so um like deodorant yes I understand um so we have tried them out we use them but they have not been a consistent a good uh consistency in terms a positive false

094posi other things other units out there we've tried some other units this is the latest one that we use interesting is there like a specific brand of like that makes Vape detectors is there someone we're in contact with or is this just like kind of something you no there's several companies that are I Department working with interesting cuz part of the the connection is um power sources it connection where that be reported to how we're getting that notification um we're trying to tie it into our current system so okay uh thank you for that clarification and last question I just wanted to ask you today was if it was possible to have student parking lot cameras provided to prevent damaged Vehicles going on notice and recognize those who may have caused the damaged vehicles that

095so I'm not aware and I asked the administrative team and they asked their secretaries and I asked Mr we report anything we haven't any insurance claims filed so I'm not aware this is the problem however we do have two uh cameras that um cover the middle school or the high school student parking lot and really see the images um the challeng is is yes we can add more um the current camera system have to be a a Wi-Fi camera because running the camera from the top of a pole or on a light pole down the pole in the underground uh Tu being back to the server the connection the network um it's too far a r so you'd have to use a Wi-Fi camera from the pole to a receiver which is what we do

096at the football field there's Wi-Fi in the stadium because we shoot a WiFi um receiver or from the high side of the high school over there um but we're not aware that this is a problem but it doesn't mean that we can't for future forment okay I don't know that we I don't know that you would be notified of a claim because they wouldn't make a claim with us they would be doing with their own insurance carrier we have that conversation with many parents they call the school school it's more yeah yeah the calls to you yeah really we get a whole lot we do we do get a call and and often times we will s to set our insurance but they be a littleit directly but as supp if some yeah right okay

097gotcha so I was suppose also too my advice would be there if this is like an issue um they have a lot of really affordable dash cams now um that catch a lot of good information no that that that's definitely it was just uh because some students had come back to me and said that they were informed that they didn't exist and I didn't exactly see that is being very realistic I thought I would just ask for some clarification they do exist there are how many them do we have there's one on the side of the front of the high school that focuses out into the parking lot with one on the bus garage that focuses the other way okay thank you um awesome just wanted to clarify that they' there so if we if

098we if there is a student who asks about that because they had an issue or whatever are are we able to go back and look at that footage like how long do we keep that footage yeah uh we keep the footage longer than we're supposed to okay because we have the serving or capacity to sure but we we go back in time and look at can put it okay and what's nice about our camera system is it's not a constant roll so it's as people are moving if I'm watching the high schole I can see the blue lights light up as someone's walking through the high schle because you can see the path that they take so if a car is going one way you'll see the camera pick it up and then it'll pick

099up on the side of the building and then pick up on the other side interes okay interesting right it's about a 90day that we gotcha okay it's very entertaining to watch I can imagine that's about like this budget um okay thank you for those clarifications Mr ramley I greatly appreciate it otherwise that is it on behalf of the students anyone have any questions for Joe thank you very much Joe okay next item on our agenda is our superintendent and legislative update Mr M start with our district up update this coming Wednesday is the Kindergarten Roundup those who are have young uh students who are going to turn five at least by September 1 um we'll be welcome to class of 2038 um and on Thursday February 27th is our preschool groundup for the class of

10039 and 40 um both night's dinner will be served at 4:30 with the presentation at 5:00 and then classroom visits and meeting and follow um as Joe mentioned the March 5th and 6th and 7th are half days of school for parent teacher conferences Wednesday and Thursday conferences are from 12 to 3 um and Thursday night is from 5: to 8: um we encourage parents to attend as this is a um six week into our second semester kind of midpoint on Thursday March 13th is the bwac art expo uh this is our first year uh participating in the BW art expo um there's an opening reception from 6:00 to 7:30 Yale High School is hosting the bwac art expo this year the exhibits will run through March 14th through uh March 21st 6:00 to 7:30 each

101night um in the lobbies at um the Yale Auditorium area do we do we need can go to that was there an invitation we have to respond no just an open it's an open and uh Tuesday March 18th um myself and some of the high school students as well as uh either or Mrs Bor be joining me for the legislative breakfast that's organized by Northern m home chamber of commer um in in election years typically they bring the elected officials there so it gives our students an opportunity to kind of see the holay of things uh this event is going to focus on some of the El U some of the people in the agencies they're going to focus on Smart uh transportation what Smart looks like in our County um if you are interested

102I believe we still have one more seat for the board members if anybody's interested that day starts at 8:00 in the morning usually done by I would say by 10: in the latest about hour breakfast uh meeting at manach on Tuesday 18th will be our community conversation regarding the the proposed no increased millage of bond work of the last one was canceled primarily due the snow and clate weather and getting people here um so we'll host at the high school media center beginning at 6:30 we'll have a second one um on April 21st at Lee Elementary School as well as the next board meeting will be a presentation focus on the high school March 19th uh 20125 will be the second annual state of the district presentation at 7:00 invitations will go out um our

103gos this week to City have work on them um more will be going to parents and community members on that day um from a legislative update uh the house education and Workforce committee held their first meeting uh of the legislative session last Wednesday uh they had a presentation from Michigan trust or excuse me education trust Midwest report and it was really about unclosing the opportunity divide and addressing the Michigan Teacher shortage I had a chance to look at what part of it um it's pretty interesting um it's nothing that we don't know it talked about the impact on the teacher shortage in the state and that impact how that impact is having on uh students and student achievement across the state particularly in areas um that are struggling more for teachers um than than other

104areas um always interested in the budget to see how our our legislators prioritize funding these shortages are helping um um and we've made a lot of strides in the last couple years so my hope is they continue uh with that support the committee also uh took testimony at House Bill 4060 which um basically modifies um the tax levy for Career and Technical education programs um it allows intermediate districts to partner with other intermediate districts um to provide CT courses that they might not or be a programming just gives more flexibility mome County currently does not love thect millage like other counties um and I know if you've gone to the some of the County uh School Board Association meetings over the past they talk about how many CT programs are in mome County versus Oakland

105and Oakland has a CT millage and we are equally as competitive as Oakland in terms of those offerings so it's just something to watch for the future to give some um flexibility um I don't see that necessarily directing Richmond but just something to watch um the House Appropriations Committee last week um had a presentation on Governor whitmer's 25 26 budget um some of the highlights of her budget would be increasing the foundation allowance to $10,000 for both public and Charter Schools um that's basically a 4% increase proposal also calls for 4% increase to special ed English language Learners Rule and isolated District at risk populations with talked about here today isds it also increases great start funding uh to a um $1,575 per slot allow allocation it eliminates the income cap and allows more fouryear

106old to access preschool um so we're obviously this this budget starts a budget season with the House and Senate so we're watching that very closely um from that aspect the other one we're watching is in 31a um the funding um they're putting looking at putting it uh rather than be a section where it's subject to a line item every year to be funded at $150 150 million which is about $150 per pupil uh going forward um there is some restrictions um I think this is I don't know for sure but my speculation this is from the Oxford incident that would allow the state to conduct an independent uh investigation should any mass casualty events occur if you choose to take the Funday so I know there was a lot of news media on um who

107was investigating the reports and came out after o so we're watching that one that that from a good is is locking in that funding rather than being something that be ly be um the other one that we're watching um though it doesn't directly impact Richmond um and I hope it never does uh is a proposal called the new uh smart plan which focus on students metrics and results with transparency um there are not a whole lot of details on it um however there's $250 million that have been allocated um primarily the funds go to schools that have been identified as identified for needing Improvement or conprehensive uh support schools um increase in the number of targeted Schools they're trying to help with closing that achievement yet again we are not any of those schools I

108hope we never will be um but I'm interested what this student metrics and results with transparency plan is um that's all I have thank you I actually had a question for Brian um has there been any buzz in regards to the president executive orders regarding I mean amongst the superintendent um we have we have generally talked as a group about things that happen legislatively um but we've received receive no direction or guidance on what those um the impact of those orders are um typically from a legislative action or an executive action in this case for the executive order um the department that's affected in this case the US Department would send guidance down to the schools that you've got to do XY none of that has come at least through through our office Tom or

109the Michigan Department depending how the fundings are sometimes they funnel that way and then they go to the Michigan Department of Education we haven't gotten any guidance um one of the executive orders um that the the president signed was regarding um ice and the immigration the guidance we got was from our attorney not from any state department or regulations on how we should handle it should that situation occur in your displine we got any guidance from our attorney on any of the other executive orders um I have not checked the online platform that where they kind of they sent them out in case you missed it they keep an online platform to our attorneys that we kind of go back in probably about last Wednesday Tuesday Wednesday was the last time I checked it so

110if it came out from that point to today but I haven't seen anything that's there's a lot of we're watching it we're monitoring it don't do anything don't react until we get more clarification so you haven't heard of any other schools taking anything out or taking any next steps I have personally not heard of any schools I've heard um rumors on social media and some things but I I don't know what's true and not on some of that social medias about so but locally I've not heard of anybody that that is said now if they've done it not said something I I don't want that your superintendent meetings like seven districts have seven no I would say mome county is more of a Sit wait till we're told this is what you have to do

111or what you what you're they give you a guideline or a parameter of what you can do um there's more questions than there are answers I would say that there a lot of question questions um that's all I know any other questions for mrle okay next item on our agenda is items of interest of came to you went first time Margaret no Sandy nope I got nothing Daniel I'm just CL that's okay um one is kind of a rave but also feedback because I know I remember having mentioned it last winter too um about the snow plowing um I think even though like you mentioned it's a little bit more cost to us to use this company this year I feel like um I've seen a night and day difference and I'm really appreciative I

112don't know who does the playgrounds and things and the paths for that whether it's the company or that's janitors um custodians but um it's been much safer a lot more salt out there not as slippery um and it's just been much better this year overall I've noticed compared to ice creams that we had sometimes I will agree with you we share that with our company um being they there's still a lot of paths that till they know our campus they forget that sidewalk is there that they come back and but they've been very supportive and um think have done a great job yeah it's been it's been doing ourselves ultimate Landscaping really um and then so that was kind of a r but also just feedback since it's a new company this year but um

113then the other question I had was it came up tonight actually just regarding the unpaid lead request that we had is it standard procedure that the teacher requesting it not just submit a letter I didn't see anything in the verbage that you had sent via email but have to come in and present like how she had to come she came to the podium and from your email I felt like if they it's required of them come to the podium I know from my own personal experience I simply just sent a letter I'm just curious if I got lucky that mine was approved when I didn't show up this speak at the board meeting um but I'm curious if that's part of their verbage that they have to I the only concern I have that especially

114these longer ones tend to be because of premature birds and if we're then exposing obviously she felt comfortable enough to bring the baby here this evening but in other more extreme cases like having to come and have that exposure to general public and that type of thing and being required to come in um I would have felt or I do feel that just having a letter of a request would be sufficient so I didn't know if that's something that's in the contract or if that's something that's always been done there's actually two parts of the contract they said we're up there one is prior to the baby in that language said the board shall Grant so it's more of a formality because it doesn't give you an option of not to Grant right this one

115it gives you the option of not granting it says the board May Grant and so um most of the stuff in a contract is delegated to the superintendent to do there are a couple things in particular the teacher contract that's has to come to the board um I think a lot of people would prefer that process but not saying that's good or bad um because sometimes you want to make sure that objective is objective and possible when I when I talk to Mrs Stuy I she got what do I say said well you don't give away personal I mean you can talk about you know why you're request in CU she shared a lot so that that was her choice but the in this particular case it's because of the word May and you have

116the option and the other piece that both of them have um is that it has to go through a break her original request as I sent I think I sent you just as a heads up but she only want in an 8 week but the way the Contra gr it has to go to a natural break in this case it's going to be June the end of the school year so if I'm understanding you correctly then uh because it says may meaning that we have that an option not to approve it they don't have to come here they just are choosing to come here to State their case so more likely to approve it well that's my that that's my follow question would it have been sufficient for her just to send us or send

117an email and us have that email presented in front of us and us personally reviewed that or does is she required like the overnight Tri that we present to be here in person I guess I'm just thinking from a point of view if it's if it's it's not a given you're you're requesting an extension of something this isn't interesting situation but to me I I would really like to see the person standing up here asking Bo to do something that is out of lines of the contractor you know that it's not it's not a given because sometimes it puts it puts a face to the name you know sometimes if you if if the name because quite honestly I didn't know I the last name didn't but when I saw her I knew who she

118was you know what I'm saying and I just think as a board member if you're going to be asking for something out of the realm of what your contract I just I just think you should but at the same time what if they're not medically capable or Technically she's on she's technically on a maternity leave right now and she's it's part of her FMLA or maternity leave still her I don't know what the time I mean it's 8 weeks for C-section but if she's within those technically she shouldn't be having any responsibility or even being on school property or having to um correspond via school email or any of those things because medically she's out so requesting her I don't know where she's at right now in the point but if if she wasn't that

119then she's coming she's being required to come in person when she's technically out on medical when she shouldn't be but but her time is she's supposed to be back Wednesday I I think that would be different I get what you're saying but she's supposed to be coming back Wednesday and she's asking for an extended so I don't know I just think you know maybe you you ever that she can zoom in or something cuz I get where you're coming from on that but I just think it's really important when you're asking for something outside of special circumstances to come to the board I was going to say I'm sorry I was going to say also what if we had a question and she was not or whoever was not physically here to answer that question

120that we had would that make a difference on our decision of voting yes or no well and I who knows yeah who knows so I guess I I I that's why I'm wondering would it be sufficient though if somebody chose to just go the route of submitting a letter either through Mrs jar or to you to just say I'm requesting this time I either a can't make the time or B don't want to be exposed to whatever it is the medical condition that's being related would it be sufficient for somebody obviously coming and be able to answer questions that gives a bigger picture and gives that Assurance but if somebody I don't even want to call it wanted to take the risk because I I am impressed that she came because I I probably wouldn't

121have just for the sake of exposure um but but would it be sufficient if somebody just submitted a letter and not showed up or is it required that they come and speak there's nothing in the contract that says you have to stand in front of the board and present it would be more of practice that has been established over the years you had one in December a couple years ago the language was similar we had a parpro that came up here to present an extension um those are the two off the top my head I'm sure there's been more so I guess it'd be more of a practice so when we get into the contract negotiations and this is something the board wants to consider as a parameter to give me um in terms of

122do you want to have that discretion I mean because the the like work that led up to this is this justce wasn't her and I talking we had multiple emails we had a conversation with the administrators and and Billy and there was multiple people in this very short time that had a conversation to get to a point of a recommendation to you guys obviously as a board you can honor or not H that recommendation your choice but um if that's something in the future I think the language needs to be changed because there's often reference in here you have to in one of the other section you have to submit an application well there is no application you know it's an email that I get so there's there some cleanup language that that we're going

123to have to address and this could be one of those that we look I feel like it's different CU I know I when I read through it when you sent it if it's like extending their education I know it's you know programs or whatever versus a medical condition or something pregnancy related only because I agree I would want them here if I had questions I can't get questions answered they're not here but at the same time what if I have a question and they're not comfortable answering it because it's a medical thing that they don't want you know videotaped I feel like there should be some discretion maybe for medical stuff even at that or um I don't know the medical part just feels weird to me because even though she didn't have to share

124everything that she did what if a board member asked a question she wasn't comfortable answering I just think that puts them in a really hard spot because this is something they believe they need but we're asking them to put their personal information out there for everybody to hear I don't know I have mixed feelings about that but I don't think wear asking me to her personal she chose to do I'm saying what what if I asked a question yeah you just say I think but then what's the point of the being if we can't ask questions because we because we we really got all the in really what she talked about we we got that so then we shouldn't need here I was just asking whether it's required of her to be but it sounds

125like it's the verbage is not in the contract that it's required for her to be here she just she chose to but I I found that by the wording of the correspondence that was going on it seemed like it was like uh not highly suggested but the way the verbiage was was that like you're kind of required to come you know to be put on the agenda in order and so make sure that you're able to make it and things and especially if it was last minute and or maybe it's a nap time or a feeding time or whatever time you know like that that just doesn't make it convenient but she didn't have to be here and that that was really all I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something that was required

126of her to be here especially in a medical type situation so that's all but that's good it answers my question that they were she wasn't required we good thank you you're all set Danielle yeah okay Sarah I have oh this book a couple meetings ago you brought it yeah and you asked us if we all receiv received it and that it was very good I'm willing to share this book with anyone who didn't see it because it actually is very good and it um it really talks about contract negotiations and if you about tough face here this year with the teacher contracts and what it does is it gives like a whole backstory to the obam the whole just fura and all that um leading up to where we are today with teachers and what

127looking for versus what they were then and um it's just it's incredible book so I be willing the share you guys didn't um I just got the newest one too I think it's quarterly or it's not every mon no anybody wants to read it I just I just need to feel I need to say this say say what you want when you read that take it with a grain of salt it's a perspective the company that publishes it is not always an advocate for public schools okay given that now obviously you got to look for the facts and so forth and the challenges so you know as with anything there's another side of a story that may not be told so I just want I just need to say it there's there's another side to

128it a lot of the story even though what I took from the article is it did give a detail this is what the teachers what we had what we could not negotiate yeah and then now we have to and for me that just kind of gave me some history which I thought for me was reading it I mean just history yeah I just thought that think thinking from this for a second early on in education salaries weren't great but there was always a benefit and the long-term retirement the benefit and the long-term retirement is what legislators have attacked and taken away over the last several years so the only thing someone has to do is now fight for salary which I blame for that um the problem that we have in our state is all

129the pur strings are up at landc they're not sitting here in front of you as you saw tonight we're you know they decide to send that bill over there's a seven potenti to a 7% increase that goes up on it's out of our control so and so I mean just it's just interesting when you look at the history and I think I shared with deal a while probably been a couple years there it next I think I have right here keep it with me I don't know I'm going to side T it but I said this is I've been in education too long but here's all the mandates over the course of decades in public education so you look at what from 1900 all the way to 2000 and it's just more and more that's

130added on and most of these are not even funded and so when you talk when you start criticizing Public Schools about their school sores when you got to do X Y and Z that's taken away from time so I'm just always cautious when I hear of story and that that group don't get me wrong they've got a lot of factual information they're they're a good source of getting at least starting points of information um but they haven't in the past always been a a proponent of public education and you and I have talked about you know that you know the lobbyists and out there want the that public dollars to be in the in the private sector because a market that opens up and and I'm always cautious of when people open businesses up with

131kids and their purpose isn't for kids it's about a profit so anyways I I did I did read that and you're right it does it does give you perspective and hisorical anybody absolutely if anything else fam I think okay I have a couple things um Everybody received the board evaluation um I'm just asking that you look through it Mark your choices and uh when we meet next Monday we will be going through that keep your comments uh you can write comments or whatever on it um there's we also will be talking about goals for us so as you're going through it you see something you feel like we as a group would like to work on um we had three goals last year so I'm assuming we're going to kind of do the same thing

132um also uh policy number 4601 um Brian informed me that we now have it loaded up it is our superintendent succession plan it's not called that I foret but it's called but um it is up there so I'm asking you to please review that we may be fine with what's there and we'll leave it or if we want to change it in any way so please make sure you review 4601 before next Monday I only had one person reply to staff appreciation and that was Candace um we aren't probably at this point we're not looking at doing a I don't know dinner or something because I don't know if we have time to get it together or not resp because they asked a question and you hadn't responded so I was waiting for your response

133I asked question I didn't respond to ask a question and I responded you didn't I don't know if you didn't respond to everybody then maybe you I respond you did respond I did right yes you did respond me I'm thinking wait a minute okay um and the response was in yeah so the thought and we when we when I met with Brian we talked about it and we don't know if we have enough time to put it together at this point to do a whole meal like we have been doing so we we kicked around some ideas about getting uh teachers uh T-shirt with their teachers staff I'm sorry thank you the staff with a number on the back of of how many years they've been with the district that was just one thought and

134one suggestion so I'm I'm looking for a group or someone who'd like to sit down and kick some ideas around well I'm I'm I'm just going to be completely CID I'm a little disappointed in us as a board that we're not um don't have something or can't make the time to make something happen for the staff we can um and that's not personal attack I knew that's also on myself obviously I'm a board number two um I'm just saying like I I feel like we've had really good attendance the last couple years we've had really good feedback last couple of years I think it's a real positive thing for them to look forward to and I think to replace it with the t-shir is not even comparing it doesn't even compare that's my opinion I

135would agree with you but that was just one thought yeah and you could add something to it or whatever idea when when the conversation happened after the last meeting about would we be able to put something together we did we did the shirts we might have been on the board when when we did the shirts for the it's been a few years since we did it um and did some lottery tickets but the thought was everybody will get something not everybody comes to the dinner so that's where the shirt idea came from that was me when I said well something about that because if we're not able to put something together cuz you are right it has been great it has been fun all of that but this way there would be something that we

136know would reach everyone so if you have a better idea than that with it and that's what I'm looking for who wants to sit down and have a discussion well I have a suggestion and I brought it to Brian's attention well Brian's not the was part of this discussion because Brian is a staff member who gets honored so he shouldn't be part of deciding anything of what he gets what was your suggestion um it was like a mystery dinner theme cuz I just put this on for my work um for our Christmas party and um it actually was was pretty fun a lot of fun actually and they will come to our venue so what's so this is obviously they will come to our venue and coordinate the meals and do all that like you

137don't have even so this mystery thing it's not anything that they have to participate in CU I've been to parties where I've had to be a participating member of those particular like I get a character and I have act that's not that's not what you're talking about here right it is they have their own actors but then they also get they also like like they ask you it's not everyone at the table it's not everyone at the table um but they asked like they probably I feel like they were walking around kind of seeing who was more out don't get me wrong I Sarah we have done the last two years you've had a band play and that kind of thing so I think it needs to be hites Candace wants to sit down and

138take look some ideas sitting here around the table at 9:00 than I agree I just have one question because this is my first year back on the board what is the attendance rate at these divers I know you're saying that everybody comes but how many people first year I last year more people right I don't remember the number I they're they're pretty good numbers okay um I don't remember the exact numbers though CU to me I think it was over 100 it was more than half to me if they don't if I mean if they can't attend that is unfortunate we're not going to please everybody's schedule but it's an option if they don't choose to come I think it that in my opinion and I mean we could always you know get some feedback

139for next year but I think that would be maybe more valued than I say just a t-shirt but just a t-shirt well and a t-shirt was just the fact it could have no and I think I'm just te bring for everybody let's let's just committee okay so who wants to be at okay I mean I I will I've done it the last two years but I will do it again um so that something happens okay so we have Candace and Sandy anybody else we can only have one more have one more cuz you can't have four if we have if we have you want to be on it you can be on it yeah yeah you can be on Jo busy Jo's I am not very but I can help once it's planned I can

140help Sarah on to but I'm not creating thr that out there okay so we have a committee our committee is Panda Sandy Joe and Sarah do you want to on it no I can't because you oh now we have four did you want to be on it do it Dani how about you no I my question was if if it's an event is there a specific date that it would happen because it always tends to fall on or around Mother's Day which also happens to be my birthday and then I'm just out for the week so I can't do it anyway so I don't want to well we'd have to see what a date we have to see what the committee so do you want to be on Sarah here is I'm not but I

141will I'm not creative either s s that's why quick you can do okay I'll do creativity okay so Candace Sandy Joe and Sarah will be on our committee you guys will do some investigating and find out and give us some options we do have a okay you guys know the yeah well it's the same as it's the same what it's done in the years's past we'll good to okay thank you on that one um let me see I did that one I did that one one I did that one uh tomorrow there I believe there's four board members going to the county meeting all seven all seven of us are going anybody want a carpool if you do see me after the meeting I'm just thinking why have seven Vehicles down there okay that's all

142that I have uh since our last next item is our public comments since the last board meeting sorry I'm sorry no that's okay I had another question about something else that You' mentioned just got a little side but um on just so the next Monday is not a regular meeting no because you we're going to do a workshop I'm sorry 6:30 at 6:30 okay okay yeah and then the calendar and Outlook still has the 24th as a meeting in March no it doesn't I'm pretty sure it pulled it to pull it off I thought I remember getting email that it was we did well we'll check we'll get it cleared up okay public comments since the last board meeting the board did or some members of the board did receive an email from a teacher

143regarding an attendance concern this email was directed to Mr Wesley who dealt with the issue there was no public comments from the last board meeting that we need to address at this time any member of the public May address the board please sign in and state your name you'll have three minutes to address the board are there any public comments he being no public comments we will move on our next item on our agenda I'm looking for a motion for the approval of a proposed overnight extended trip request I move to accept the recommendation of the superintendent and approve the overnight SL extended student trip to Detroit Michigan as presented at the February 10th 2025 Education meeting and outlined in the attached documentation do I have support support any discussion all those in favor I

144I opposed motion carries I'm looking for a motion for the approval of the 2526 preschool tuition and child care rates motion to accept the recommendation of the superintendent and approve and increase to the substitute rates effective in 202 not substitute no it's preschool PR oh this oh they shift it down sh is it here I just okay I motion to accept recommendation of superintendent and approve the three and four-year-old tuition based preschool and child care rates and corresponding registration fees for the 2025 26 school year as presented on February 10th 2025 Board of Education meeting and outlin catch that is that Mar is that thank you uh any discussion the information that was in that backup was what we requested last time so I thank Mr Gibson for pulling that together for the cost with

145neighbor districts so for the the four year preschool we are 5 days but it's they're half days correct uh four-year-old tuition bases 5 days half day four-year-old full big GS is full any other questions all those in favor I opposed motion carries I'm looking for a motion for a 2526 substitution rates I move to accept the recommendation of the superintendent and approve an increase to the substitute rates effective the 20 2025 2026 school year as discussed on January 27 2025 and presented at the February 10th 2025 Board of Education meeting and outlined in the ATT documentation do I have support support uh any discussion yes I do um a couple things so the for the general education the Ed area um I know that we just brought in is that the area where we brought

146in the five extra for the kindergarten we have the five that were brought in one resigned the fifth one is build by a substitute um but the intent is those wouldn't carry over next year unless we absolutely need them because we're not going to hire a teacher they were brought in because we didn't hire we didn't go to six section so would they be considered long-term Subs I guess is my biggest since we brought them in as to fill that spot the year right no some of I don't know off top but they may not qualifi to be a substitute teacher in the district no we hired them as employees you're asking were they long-term Subs this year no we them as employees no we they are physically sorry they are Richmond employees the four

147that are remaining are Richmond the one position that I mentioned to the board that's two people filling it or actually three sub um is through edge of Staff gotta that's what I it's not a district employee and the just so you know that the union agreed to not fill it with a person so we wouldn't have to lay that person off in June did you have another question I did have one other question so with um the um the biggest topic I mean we had the staff member come in and ask for an extension which then would extend the current sub that we have in that position not necessarily not necessarily some yes that would be the the easiest transition but not I had sit down with the team leas on the board's decision but

148yes that would be the easiest transition doesn't necess so that is is the first and that would be an almost an entire school year of that correct employee since November 19th or some fashion at that point so again I just going back and we don't we can approve this is fine my point that when we had talked about this was about that position and somebody being in there throughout vacations through through out snow days throughout and none of that being collected so the idea that somebody now could be in it another extension um we're looking at almost an entire year full and I I I I love that we increase the pay um but again now we're looking through possible spring break and um now we've gone through Christmas break spring break all those days

149of no pay um and that same person could entually be you know taking on all the same um respons the teachers don't get paid on breaks no they don't get paid and neither do the administrators they get their calendars based on days work the teachers calendar is 184 days and those are spread out so Christmas break do they get their check spread yes most of them do at least do the 20 pays and then the 24 or an administrator might be 205 212 secretaries don't get paid on breaks they actually couple years ago went to time work time paid in terms of they don't spread their pay are they able to use their vation or Si time to accommodate for that though not to get paid for breaks no they can use their sick time

150or personal I got think each group secretaries can use it for snow days Transportation can use it for snow days or they have in their contract this earned snow day if you show up and work 30 days or 45 days you get a day that kind of Bank there cafeteria workers have that through so each group like administrators do not have vacation time they have personal but they I'm going pick on you Andrew Andrew can say I want to use my personal days for these five days dur in Spring Break and get five days B no they don't that's not how they're cont work plus our sons are not contracted they're not a contract even the approval for the increase for next year it still is during those breaks even if it's a long-term sub

151yes they're getting more in the daily rate but they're not getting paid for those breaks either next year that rate increase is just a rate increase for the days that they're there that's what I'm I don't think that's that that that's that different though from other professions out out there I feel like if there's a lot of professions out there where if you're not there that day for whatever reason because it's a holiday because that you just don't get paid for that day you know if you don't work that day you don't get paid that day I'm thinking of that's how most trade contracts are if you don't work you you're a hairdresser and you don't work that day you're not getting paid that day there's no Bank anywhere that you're saying I'm going to

152cash this in it's if there's someone in the seat and you're doing the you know so I feel like that's not that different so I'm okay with it I I think if I hearing you correctly based on what Margaret said last time about C bringing back what would it cost to bring them back inh housee and that that total CL I think that's the conversation if that's what the board wants to do because if you're bringing them back in housee then then we are looking at things like do we give them holiday pay do we give them snow day or or whatever I think I was just trying to bring up this is kind of like an example right kind of extending just happen here tonight it's like a prime example of kind of what

153I was talking about last meeting but I I I just wanted to make that M that's all anybody else um all those favor I I opposed motion carries looking for the motion for the approval of our candidate to select Ursa we go Wester Rogers from ramulus Community School uh for our I'm sorry as a Rond Community Schools candidate for the Michigan Association of school boards Region 8 board of directors and authorize the superintendent or his bu and me to cast the ballot for set candidate by March 5th of 2025 thank Mr Mar I'm sorry um any discussion all those in favor I oppose motion carries looking for motion for the approval of the Rea unpaid leave of absent request [Music] oh yeah I I motion to accept recommendation on superintendent and Elena unpaid request exing

154her Thursday February 27th 2025 through the end of the 2024 25 school year as outline ination thank you any discussion no just go ahead goad sorry go ahead um I just had I guess my question um was she has Si or vacation time appr that she can use that she she's foregoing um to use onay time off she has go my memory because I don't know the exact number because of where she started less than 10 days cuz she's used all of them for the last for her last leave that she's been on and um so just so everybody knows um and this might be a point that Angela our payroll and benefits person sat down and calculated what this what the impact would be for her reduce salary the insurance cost that she would

155picked up because the contract says the district doesn't pay that and that information has been sent to her before she came tonight so she's aware of the impact that's going to be but there is few days she does have left in her bank over the years that she's worked here that she still has and then um did she have to provide a doctor's note for the for the this Le this leave if if an individual goes on FMLA and I I can't say if this person did or didn't but if they do they have to provide that documentation in this particular case she's just asking to take an unpaid leave to take care of her child which is section five in the contract so that's what she's request so there wouldn't be a doctor's note

156that I would need for that I mean it could be Sarah could if she was a teacher could say she was a kid so I want to take care of my kids and I'll just go un paid for six months the more do it doesn't have to be necessarily tied more personal after the PR but no there's no doctors know to tied to this and then lastly I would just like to um recommend that we try to keep the same educator in that classroom and I speak on uh experience because two years ago my son was in the fifth grade and I met his teacher at Blue double day and she was you know out to here by the time school started she had her baby and never returned the whole year and we everyone

157thought she was coming back and she never did she got the extension and um there were a lot of teachers in and out of classroom and um throughout that year and I just it was not a good year let's just say that um so I I just want to throw that in but I would like to see the same face in there if they're willing and if we're this thing and the parents that's a whole year of not the teacher they thought they were getting that that's it did you have yeah I just wanted to um wish her well good health mental and physical health and we look forward to her coming back I also would say yeah kind of what Margaret was thinking or what say I was thinking and just you know we've

158got someone in front of us who's saying that they're for whatever the reasons are not quite ready to come back and I think when you come back you need to be ready and if she's saying that she needs time to kind of do her thing I think we should support that [Music] absolutely any other comments all those in favor I opposed motion carries being no further Business board will adjourn at 9:16 thank you very much everyone [Music] he [Music]