Livonia Public Schools Regular Meeting May 20, 2024

001e e e e e e good evening and welcome to the Leonia Public Schools regular board meeting of May 20th 2024 Mrs aosta would you take the role please yes Mrs bonnerfield here Mrs Burton here Mrs Frank here Mrs Jarvis here Mr Johnson here Mrs aosta is here president Bradford here and we have a quorum um Miss Mrs Jarvis would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance with pleasure to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all good evening again and welcome to everyone who is in our audience tonight we have a couple uh honor a lot of honores this evening so welcome to our meeting um if you'd like to follow along with tonight's

002meeting and you're joining us in person you can go out the doors uh to the left here and on the table will be the agenda and um if you're joining us from home you can uh go to our LPS website at www. lonu schools.org click on the Schoolboard tab uh go down to board meeting information and you'll find our meeting agendas there um for the evening um if you are here in person this evening and you wish to come before the board uh to speak out audience Communications there is also a blue slip out on that door uh out the door um to the left on the table and if you want to hand a slip to any of our board members uh prior to audience Communications that would be great um tonight is what

003we call a regular meeting or a voting meeting um if you've tuned in to watch this meeting you'll notice that there is not a lot of discussion happening on on a lot of the items that's because we've seen and discussed these items several times prior to this meeting mainly at our study session or our committee of the whole meeting so if you wish to hear more um information regarding these items we ask that you go back and watch the committee of the whole meeting and there there you're going to find a much richer discussion um and many questions our uh Committee of the whole meetings are recorded and can be found on our we website and uh via YouTube um one other item that I'd like to briefly mention is one of our Comm Community

004with character trait and that is one of respect um our students learn model and follow this tradeit every day at school our board also follows and models this important trait here at the table we don't always agree with one another um and we have very differing opinions at times but we treat each other with with respect for our differences and in the way that we convey them to each other so you have our word that this board will treat everyone in this room with respect and we ask uh that you do the same for us and with that um we will go ahead and move on to item three uh Communications and this evening we have item a uh the recognition of Our National Merit Scholars and we're going to hear from Mrs Jenkins yes

005good evening I'm so lucky I get to do this just about every meeting um good evening president Bradford members of the board superintendent oquist um tonight is my pleasure to recognize a special group of students who have Exel excelled in the National Merit Scholarship program National Merit is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships and has been in existence since 1955 High School juniors take the PSAT National Merit Scholarship qualifying exam which serves as an initial screening for program entrance in the fall more than 16,000 semifinalists were designated Which is less than 1% of all high school seniors in the country for this year from there the semi-finalist uh completed a detailed scholarship application which included an essay and information such as extracurricular activities and awards to be considered for the finalist the finalist designation

006um students must have an outstanding academic record uh demonstrate lead leadership have a qualifying sat or ACT score and be recommended by a high school official each of our uh seven honores this evening are indeed National Merit Scholarship finalists and some have even earned a National Merit Scholarship as well awesome so this year we are recognizing seven LPS students who have scored in the top 1% out of approximately 1.6 million students Nationwide on the PSAT I always enjoy this presentation each each May um because it not only highight highlights the students accomplishment accomplishment on the test but this is also a chance for us to to be totally wowed by the accomplishments of these of these amazing students so um I've got my honores behind me most of them I we may be missing are

007no okay Mrs Jenkins can I just say something if any of our parents wish to take a photo of their Honore they are welcome to uh stand up and move around around if you want to get a better photo so I just I forgot to mention that that's so important so this angle over here is usually the best yes um sorry about that so where was I so as I call your name um please join me at the podium and we've um prepared a special certificate which reads Leonia Public Schools certificate of recognition outstanding achievement National Merit Scholarship program finalist uh and then the students name selected by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for outstanding academic success on the preliminary SAT National Merit Scholarship qualifying test dated May 20th 2024 and signed by superintendent Andrea

008oist and board president Karen Bradford so first up I'd like to welcome Sophia aiman hi welcome sopia is a senior at Churchill High School who is wrapping up her LPS educational career with a whopping 4.67 weighted gr grade point average she uh plans to attend George Washington University to major in Psychology during her time at Churchill uh Sophia has been involved in the marching band jazz band brass Ensemble and the pit Orchestra for Kappa musical musicals and you'll never guess what she plays the trombone I thought that was so cool um she's also a member of the science National Honor Society and she received the Detroit Society of women Engineers uh Marie Curry award in 2023 her future career plans include research in the field of mental health in a brief questionnaire um I always

009like to ask the students about one aspect of being a student in LPS that they enjoyed the most and uh Sophia said the following I've always felt supported throughout my time in LPS from Webster to frost to Churchill I have always felt like my teachers and counselors have had my back and I'm very grateful for that so congratulations Sophia and best of luck to you thank you uh next up let me see if uh malar kisty has snuck into the room Dar okay we will make sure that malar gets his certificate but I would like to read a little bit about him uh malar is a senior at chural high school where he wraps up his LPS educational career with an outstanding 4.43 weighted grade point average uh malar plans to attend Michigan State University

010to major in computer science uh during his time at Churchill he was involved in the Churchill coding club uh Robotics and he also played tennis the one great thing he has to say about his time in LPS is that he genuinely had the fort uh Good Fortune of having some really valuable and caring teachers so congratulations to [Applause] Mar and next we welcome Michael noell a long Trek up to the podium side Michael is a senior at Stevenson High School and is wrapping up his educational career in LPS with an amazing 4.42 great weighted great point average Michael plans to attend the University of Michigan and Arbor go Blue to major in economics during his time at Stevenson High School Michael was um a section leader in the marching band leader of the chess club

011quizbible co- Captain member of the Bible Club recycling club and the National Honor Society outside of school he serves as a a youth leader in the St Colette youth group he also enjoys running 5K races did I get that correctly about 100 years son he's R about 5Ks thus far and he works as a baseball umpire for Leonia Junior Athletic League Michael's scholarships and awards um in include being named an AP scholar with honors uh he was the recipient of the arch dicese of Detroit Timothy award and is the recipient of the me a scholarship his career plans include working in finance Michael had this to say about his time in LPS it made me a well-rounded person because of the many different opportunities Avail available to me throughout the district congratulations Michael congrats thank

012you okay next up we welcome Arian Patel either side um Arian is a senior at Churchill High School and is finishing up his LPS education uh educational career with a stunning 4.71 weighted grade point average I'm not sure how how high these can go with all these AP courses um Aran plans to attend the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor go Blue uh to earn a dual degree in business and data science during his years at Churchill Aran served as president for two years of Mu Alpha Theta which is the Churchill math National Honor Society he also played Varsity soccer and golf and was a member of the robotics team for four years in addition to serving as co-president of the Churchill Deca chapter he also served on the Churchill student council for four years

013competed on the university quiz Bowl team um where he served as Captain and in his spare time he's a volunteer tutor I don't know that you have very much spare time um Aran is a three-time Deca state champion and was in the international top 10 this year he was the Michigan Math League schoolwide winner and proudly competed in the two-time on the two-time world qualifying Leonia Warriors robotics team his career plans include becoming an engineer and the one thing that he loved about being a student in LPS he said the following the community in Lon Public Schools is undoubtedly one of the friendliest and most helpful I have ever been a part of from the teachers who help me with questions both inside academics and Beyond to the peers I have grown up with congratulations

014Aran congrats okay next up we are welcoming back a familiar face uh Jaden Reggie welcome Jaden as you may recall we recognized Jaden last month for being named an mhsaa uh scholar athlete uh so some of this information will surely sound a little bit familiar uh Jaden is a senior at Churchill High School where he is finishing up his LPS educational career with an amazing 4.68 weighted grade point average Jaden plans to attend Michigan State University that's correct right that was from memory from our combo um where he plans to study Neuroscience on the premedical track with the ultimate goal of becoming a physician during his years at Churchill High School Jaden was involved in in numerous activities including basketball soccer Leonia Warriors robotics National Science National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society

015he was a state and International Champion at HOSA future health professionals organization and was a three-time Deca state champion and an international fin finalist um about LPS Jaden had this to say my academic journey in LPS has been transformative marked by rigorous academic programs and a supportive Community these programs which include acat makat and MSC have collectively shaped my academic Jour Journey uh challenging me supporting me and providing opportunities for Success I'd like to thank all of my teachers who have constantly guided me with that we congratulate you [Applause] Jaden here's another certificate have your [Laughter] collection and last but not least we'd like to welcome Benjamin schler Hope I said that correct uh Benjamin is also a senior at Churchill High School and is wrapping up his uh LPS educational career with an amazing

0164.66 weighted great point average Benjamin plans to ATT attend Eastern Michigan University where will major in Biochemistry during his four years at Churchill High School he participated in Cross Country swim and Trek and field he was a member of the National Honor Society the math National Honor Society the science National Honor Society and was a member of the German club uh I'm using past tense because these seniors are just about wrapped up for their time here in LPS uh Benjamin has earned uh the Emu president presidential scholarship um he was also awarded um the distinguished leading scholar award uh from Michigan Technological University and was a finalist for the alumni distinguished scholarship at Michigan State University um he also received the um Churchill High School excellence and English award and also the coaches award and

017should I say the last award from cross country yes why not the Manly Man Award I thought that was funny um so that was that was from cross country um his future plans include becoming a researcher in the wonderful world of molecular and cellular biology which will allow him to learn about complex mechanisms that enable life to exist and potentially develop new treatments for disease about um about his time in LPS Benjamin had this to say the MSC program really challenged me academic and pushed me to where I am today I am thankful for the efforts of all the MSC teachers who assisted me in my education congratulations Benjamin congratulations and we had uh just let me make sure if um Milan is with us no okay um we had another Honore but I have

018very little information information but we're going to recognize him anyway um uh Milan charlot colu um is also a senior at Church Hill High School and was named a National Merit Scholarship finalist and unfortunately he was unable to be here with us tonight but we'll make sure that he will re that he receives this certificate so join me once again in recognizing these amazing students on their huge success in and that wraps up yep thank you Mrs Jenkins are there any uh comments from the board Mrs Burton um yes one thing that that was mentioned um by one of our our honores um is something that that is so important I think about lonia public schools and it was it was cited that the District offers so very many different activities uh for students both

019both academically uh from from remedial classes gen Ed classes and advanced classes of obviously you folks have taken a lot of them um but also the wide variety of uh activities uh sports music uh other clubs that are offered throughout the district but um it's exciting to see that in addition to academically obviously really excelling you folks have been able to take advantage of a lot of the other offerings that that have made you such well rounded students uh and so well prepared to go out to the world but it's exciting from from a board perspective to see that you've been able to take advantage of so very many of those opportunities and obviously you've done very very well we are extremely proud of you and looking forward to see we're going to go from

020in the next four to eight years thank you Mrs Burton any other board members Mrs oquist thank you so much president Bradford well what a joy this is I would absolutely join Mrs jenkinson saying this is one of the highlights of our year and um so many of you are familiar faces and it was wonderful to see you come across the stage at honors night these past couple of weeks and to hear a little bit more about you there and thank you Mrs Jenkins for capturing a bit of their spirit and their interests um certainly these elements of your your high school experience are really just one foundational piece of the rest of your life but we love that you've shared a piece uh with each of us um that has impacted you um and

021what a tremendous honor out of 1.5 million students across um across the country to be in the top 1% that is absolutely remarkable and beyond that the ways that you've chosen to give back in your areas of service um whether it was through National Honor Society or other honor societies um volunteering with groups across um across our district participating as a teammate um on one of our athletic or robotics teams um it just it you really have taken advantage of all of those opportunities available to you and hopefully you've gotten a few Winks of sleep in there as well um but we would love to have you come back sometime and visit us um I know that your principles and your um teachers would love that as well at your school so thank you for

022being here thank you to the families and a huge round of applause to all of the parents Guardians grandparents who are here as well you are an absolutely essential element of the success of the children we the young people we see before us so thank you for uh entrusting them to us for the time that you have [Applause] congratulations all right and um and by the way another note we will be taking a short break to um honor our honores after item 3C but we're going to go on to item 3B right now uh recognition of deca and Inter National Champion and yes Mrs Jenkins thank you president Bradford um our honores I've noticed um have something in common quite a few are interested and successful in Deca um so this is kind of a

023um opportune moment to recognize our International Champion um first I'll tell you a little bit about Deca um it is a Career and Technical student organization with more than 20 260,000 High School members across all 50 states and eight countries Deca prepares emerging leaders and op entrepreneurs in marketing Finance hospitality and management and prepares the Next Generation to be academic academically prepared Community oriented professionally responsible and experienced leaders all three of our high schools have Deca chapters and our students have enjoyed much success over the years tonight we are recognizing a Churchill High School senior who has achieved the ultimate success in Deca by being named an International Champion it's my pleasure to Welcome to the podium uh miss Ma Mahi gar welcome welcome welcome Maki was named International Champion in the category of automotive

024services marketing at the DECA International Conference in Anaheim California in April uh she competed at the district level then at the state level before heading to the international level at each level Mahi uh completed an exam and a series of role plays within the automotive services marketing category during the roleplay portion of the competition Mahi was uh presented with a problem and she had all of 10 minutes to come up with a solution um after the 10minute preparation time she had another whopping 10 minutes uh to present her solution to the judges no pressure at all as I mentioned uh Mahi is a senior at Churchill and has been involved in several activities during her four years at as a charger her activities have included uh being a member of the greenhouse club and serving

025as its president um serving as captain of the debate and forensics team uh serving as Captain of girls varsity tennis and being involved in student mental health and wellness uh which is an appointed position and a member of deca for four years she also served served as uh vice president of the math National Honor Society and is a student liazon Char uh liaison for charger connect uh which is a mentoring mentor mentorship program that uh where the seniors Mentor The Freshman is that right um and one more item she is a member of the science National Honors Society as well she plans to attend Michigan State University's Honors College and plans to pursue a degree in Neuroscience we've pre prepared a special certificate for Mahi which reads Leonia Public Schools certificate of recognition outstanding achievement

026Deca International Champion gar selected by the de Deca International Championship judges panel as the winner in the automotive services marketing category dated May 20th 2024 signed by superintendent Andrea oist and board president Karen Bradford congratulations Maggie and I think I have talked her into saying a few words too oh awesome thank you guys very much welcome um I guess four years ago I never would have thought that I would even have the courage to stand up here today in front of all you all um but now here I am and I could not have done it without the help of my Deca members and miss forcan my advisor and Mr Ward and just all of the help that I've received at Churchill and and like everyone mentioned my teachers just all along along the way

027from Webster to frost and I just I feel very proud of myself and also my friends here with me of everything that we've accomplished um the last four years and I think it's the perfect end for all of us so thank you very much a than any comments from members of the Mrs oquist oh just congratulations that is such an uh amazing honor and uh we're so grateful for all of you that have been here tonight and proud to watch how you've transformed and learned and and grown um through your careers here at LPS and so we're so thankful for each of you and we are so honored to have played such a small role in your education um here at the board table so we're so so proud of each and every one of

028you thank you Mrs Oak thank you Mahi we had a chance to see the video of the moment when you were announced and we all squealed on our cabinet team you know you have you have some uh big supporters in this group and uh who have been your principal previously and it was so exciting to see your face just light up and um um and to be able to receive that honor um so welld deserved and I I'm sure most people have caught Mrs Jenkins talk about um needing to be successful at the district level and then at the state level and then to even get to International competition um which we did have um a number of students uh from um our high schools achieve that um but to earn this honor I cannot

029recall a student that we've had as an International Champion in our district in at least in the past decade um so what a tremendous honor and then you skated right in and made it with moments to spare for honors night right uh the group that came in from Anaheim I know made it just in time and I want to thank um Mrs faran and Mr Ward for being here this evening and I think I saw Mrs quesada as well so thank you so much for being here to um celebrate our students who are being recognized um we truly appreciate that so congratulations it was very exciting to see your excitement you should be so proud thank you I Echo the sentiments what a wonderful evening honoring uh such great students and uh we we do

030play a small role but you guys do all the hard work I'm not sure when you find time to sleep but I'm sure you do at some moment but uh we wish you all the best as you move on to the next phase of your your life's journey and uh hope everything just goes well for you so keep shining congratulations [Applause] thank you Mrs Jenkins um and we are going to go ahead and move on to item three uh C District update from our superintendent thanks so much president Brad you're welcome M here we are this is a busy time of year so I you're welcome to check out any one of the screens uh we'll be sharing some highlights so um we always start with some of our youngest Learners so uh as as

031we know many of our students here came up through those years and maybe we'll see some future uh future finalists come who will be in uh here in another 10 or 12 years being honored so we start out with some um adorable kiddos in first grade over at Hayes in Miss piers's class um they were learning about special American symbols and they started with one of the most recognizable um the American flag and spent some time um learning about that and writing about that as well and then we move over to Mrs Allen's class over at kulage um they are on their final math unit of second grade um working on fractions and their proper names I don't know about you but I think fractions used to be somewhere in around the fourth grade so

032uh here our second graders are getting started and uh and they look pretty happy about it I have to say sometimes fractions can be scary but they look uh they look excited to get going and this may be look like a throwback picture but it is uh all of it is a number of our second graders from Kennedy Elementary as we've shared with you um we've had the wonderful support of the foundation of uh the Leonia Historical Society um the MacGyver Foundation who have supported many of our uh second grade uh classes going to Green meat for the day they visit the one room Schoolhouse they dress in in the spirit of uh that time and they learn with some of the old McGuffy readers and using slates and uh all different aspects of um

033learning back in the day so thanks to rpt and especially to the Leonia Historical Society we have had so many second graders uh heading over there this spring it has been a joy to watch them and we have some of our students I don't know if you remember our board team when we were visiting lctc we went into one of the rooms and they were designing the stuffed animals based on the students drawing so um what we have here is we have um some of our on the left you'll our third grade students from Mrs Duff's class uh designed uh p and Drew pictures of no this was in first grade I'm sorry the first graders um Drew concept drawings of a stuffed animal and our students in the advanced graphic design class made 3D

034drawings and then built the stuffed animals and then brought them to our students um and then we also had students from third grade um who wrote stories and then we had our Advanced graphic design illustrating them so just a great Synergy between our students at lctc who are so tremendously talented as our our teachers there um pair up with our students at Buchanan and Hoover to create uh these these wonderful keepsakes for our students so great great partnership to see that come to life uh here we have at Cooper um we had our students have an opportunity to learn about Braille and learn about orientation and Mobility such an important piece of our working toward um our sense of belonging in all of our schools um so it was a great way for our students

035to learn about and Advocate um for being more inclusive of people who are visually impaired so thanks to Mr Crawford and Mr dreim and student of nefi um who taught Mrs Tim's class about all of these pieces as it relates to um Braille and the use of that in visual impairment education and here we have um just we had just a wonderful time last week at Webster visiting with the family 2 classes uh they just completed their project-based learning ADV Venture um so they had an opportunity to invite um many of our board members members of our cabinet team and uh members from across the community um to come in and to gather information about four weeks ago um about an adventure or a trip you would like to take you gave the students a

036budget and a little bit about what you would like to do while you were there and then they spent time um during their project working with two or three classmates and creating an entire trip with a an itinerary a budget a packing list um and everything from the Airbnb at which you would stay to the flights you would take um and they all stayed within budget I have to say some people were a little bit more generous with their budget than others um but it was a great opportunity to see that come to life so um I know many of us around the table and our cabinet table had a chance to participate and what a great adventure that was for our students at Webster so thank you for having us and we had boy

037it seems like quite a while ago but I think it was actually only a few weeks ago that we celebrated all of our students who were participating in youth make a difference as you know we have the most amazing ptas and PTSA Council um and each year they part they ask students to participate in youth making a difference taking on some sort of service project um and we had over a thousand students participate this year so that was fantastic um they had their the Showcase we had at uh Churchill and then they were treated to um a show by a uh magician and then had some uh cookies and punch and it was just a great great evening here you see some of our beautiful families we had over 200 families participate in a wonderful

038fundraiser for the LPS Education Foundation it's called portraits on the porch um we do this in the spring and in the fall and I want to give a shout out to our three volunteer photographers um Mrs O'Brien Mrs Jenkins um and Emily who is behind the camera uh over in our control room um and all of our volunteers from the foundation led by our president Mrs Jarvis um we had many many folks uh pitching in and we loved to see our families thankfully most of the day held off with uh the rain um but as you can see there was some just they leave with about 5 to 10 high quality images um so they have short appointments um but some great uh great sites to see so thank you for that support from our

039community and we participated uh all of the cabinet members participated in sub a staffer so as you know this was another fundraiser for the foundation and we offered the opportunity for folks to buy raffle tickets either for themselves uh to earn a half day off or for their child's teacher or for a colleague um and we had many many many people buy tickets um and so our cabinet team filled in I had the opportunity to fill in in for Mrs rentis the wonderful secretary at Buchanan um so she could enjoy some time off Mrs Jenkins and Mrs O'Brien were working on some um reading groups here you see in the center uh Mr Francis uh did not change too much but had a pretty exciting day as principal of UK Canon Elementary um and all

040of our cabinet team uh either have or will be um subbing for one of our hardworking staff over the next couple of weeks so it's been a lot of fun and we have certainly have such a great appreciation for all of the different roles within our school district and we are we are in that end of the year fun uh there is something going on almost every evening in this district and so um from art shows and uh music concerts and barbecues and family fun it has just been tremendous so we'll share some pictures um as we go through here on the next one you'll see in the center um we shared this in the LPS link we sent last week um but thanks to the grant written by Mrs O'Brien we received a $1.8

041million Grant and one of the things that our kindergarten through fifth grade students have had the opportunity to do is each pick out five books that they will bring home for the summer that will be Theirs to keep thanks to a portion of this grant so there were many popup Book Fairs um going on while we also had concerts and art shows and it was just a tremendous opportunity to see our stem students in action as well as um each of the specials areas we were also able to highlight uh the leavon Career Technical Center for governor Whitmer when she was here um earlier this month she had the opportunity to tour four of the programs in including the new robotic Center um she also held a press conference and talked about um her proposal

042for free community college for high school graduates and we had a parent and a student um who also spoke uh about their experiences for their child's experience at lctc and their plan to move on to Schoolcraft College and the partnership we have between lctc um in Schoolcraft so it was wonderful to host the governor in such a proud moment for our staff at lctc and principal Lindsay gray and speaking of lctc we were there with the chamber board um as you know we have a wonderful relationship um and we've had a longtime presence on the board of directors Mrs Jenkins currently serves on that for us um and we were able to host one of the Leonia Westland Chamber of Commerce meetings um at lctc they took a tour as well they were so impressed

043these are folks from every element of business within our community um and I can't tell you they were absolutely wowed with the offerings that our students have at lctc and the work that our staff does there as well as just the partnership that we have with so many of them to host our students not only from LC TC for instance in the career intern program but also through FTP ltp and our Western Wing Skill Center um a number of these folks uh partner with our our schools and our students to be host um for students in those programs as well so we're going to share just a few quick spring sports highlights but we decided that we would save most of them for June because we have um a number of students who are moving

044on to the state level um we have some of our hardw work students in track and field we will highlight um these athletes more in our next District update but we wanted to share a few pictures with you over the weekend lots of success um in track and field um we also want to congratulate TJ colia he is the first player in Franklin's baseball history to reach 100 Varsity wins during his his four years pretty amazing isn't it Mr 100 it's pretty exciting um it's some other sports uh highlights we have um our Churchill baseball KL AA East champions and I believe they're playing Novi right now and if I am correct I believe they are up they won W they won let's give a whoo wo all right that's a big that's a big

045big win so uh that's an exciting night for them and our um Stevenson girls soccer also klaa Champions um and our Churchill uh girls track and field and boys track and field both East Division Champions so um some huge huge victories um in Spring Sports and we'll tell you more about that at our next District highlight it was wonderful to have Lily Bowen sing the national anthem prior to one of our recent JV games it is such a treat um to hear our students uh sing the national anthem or lead us in the pledge so we'd love to highlight that uh at the honors night at Stevenson last week we had a chance to see the brisy award winners um which is the highest um award uh that's can be the top athletic honor to

046receive um for a student athlete at Stevenson so we had Lila cram and John Toth um and Mr Muscat our uh athletic director had a chance to share some wonderful highlights about both of them who are multiport um athletes and great in the classroom as well our unified botche ball is uh just continues to be remember that that program started a couple of years ago um as a way to grow our unified offerings for our students and um it has definitely been a joy uh Franklin recently hosted a unified Bachi game between Churchill and Berkeley um a beautiful day for Bachi and lots of smiling faces thanks to all of our student athletes who participate and our peers um who work together Franklin was has has been a longtime host of special Olympics and it

047takes if you've ever been involved many many many volunteers so we had so many Franklin students and family members and staff participate to make uh the annual Special Olympics at Franklin just such a success so another great day that we've had we've had a beautiful spring um and here are just some of the smiling volunteers um who were needed to make this event so successful and a few Kudos before we wrap up um as you know we've had a great opportunity across the district we've seen our ptas um celebrate and our parents celebrate our amazing staff um just want to give a shout out to those ptas who have really treated our staff in such a special way um this past week and as you know our Board of Education approved the wonderful spiritwear offerings

048and we have almost 1600 staff that have made those selections and those will be arriving this week um so we're excited to be able to uh to share those as just a small token of our appreciation for our team across the district another way to recognize our our staff is through the star awards um so again the LPS Education Foundation our awesome Partners um have invited anyone in the district or in the community to uh make a donation and issue a Star Award to a deserving staff member we have had such a response this spring if you follow our social media at all or the LPS Education Foundation um they have recognized literally hundreds of Staff members across our district so it is great to see those come through each week and a big big

049news for Hayes Elementary School if you have not already heard um they've been named a 2024 Green Ribbon School by the US Department of Education they are one of only two schools in the state of Michigan so we've seen Green Schools come forward and Evergreen status come forward um this is the first time we have had a school named as a national green ribbon school um one of only 40 Across the Nation so um Hayes was cited for their Innovative efforts that positively impact the environment um we are tremendously proud of our huskies and we just want to give a huge shout out um to Mrs Laos who is our art teacher at Hayes and such a committed member of the team of the Green Team and leads the students in really creative ways to

050uh to really take care of our environment and she will be headed to um Washington to receive this award this summer absolutely big deal and we had an opportunity to have one of our Leonia transition program students Jacob a very proud member of the uh support team at St Mary's Hospital received the outstanding support team member um from the hospital uh this past month so we want to congratulate Jacob um who is an important part of the St Mary's team um for his work and congratulations to our team over at ltp for continuing to do such great work in partnership in our community um in finding ways for our students to serve in meaningful ways so Jacob we are so proud of you and we have some animation Awards we had um a number of

051students who placed in the state's top 10 of Michigan industrial technology education Society for animation and gaming classes um so as you know Esports and other forms of um of gaming has just exploded um in this animation and design class had um many students who were who were awarded for placing in the top 10 so congratulations to all of them a few more from Career Tech we are highlighting elcc in big ways tonight wow um they received uh these students received their National Technical Honors Society honors chords for graduation um they have had wonderful attendance um maintained a be or better and um do community service hours as part of the work in their National Tech Honor Society so they will be able to proudly wear those at graduation and we were very proud to

052hear that Mrs wear our family and consumer science teacher at Stevenson was awarded the Michigan family and consumer science teacher of the year um she has been part of the organization since 1999 and has over 20 years of classroom experience so congratulations Mrs wear very deserving of this award speaking of deserving of awards and celebrations you know we have our graduations coming up one of our favorite times of the year so we want to remind folks that our Leonia transition program will be celebrated on June 3rd at noon at Schoolcraft College Garfield Community School will be recognized on May 31st at 10:00 a.m. at Franklin High School so that's different we'll remind you of that again but they are going to be at Franklin and we see some of our Franklin transition program grads who

053um participated in their senior recognition ceremony on May 3rd a one another wonderful opportunity to celebrate our kiddos and then we will be celebrating our graduates from Franklin Stevenson and Churchill um NE next week already right I was going to say the week after yes next Thursday Friday and Sunday it's hard to believe we are here and oh I see some familiar faces right do any of these folks look familiar to you yes they do um so more to celebrate um we had HOSA winners congratulations to our students who participated in the HOSA state conference this weekend um so not coasting out for these seniors that's for sure or our underclassman um Churchill uh Jaden Reggie right here with us receive first place in the research persuasive writing and speaking event and your brother Julian

054Julian we need to get some FaceTime for Julian right Julian received third place in the prepared speaking and speaking skills event um so now they are both invited to the National Conference that takes place in June in Texas oh nice all right good way to go guys that's fantastic wonderful wonderful that was perfect timing that your F you and your family were here uh speaking of reaching big Milestones many of you know Coach Rick barryman um who has been us the uh Stevenson baseball coach for many many years received his 600th win that's a lot of wins oh my good so congratulations to uh coach bman and we have some great news from Project Lead the Way um two of our schools were named National Project Lead the Way distinguished schools so congratulations to Randol

055Elementary and Hayes Elementary um they were noted for increasing student access engagement and achievement in our new stem program so I just want to thank again the board of education for supporting this endeavor this past year to change significantly change the structure of our elementary day to add the fifth special to add collaboration time for our staff and to build this opportunity for our students and all of our uh stem teachers um who have done such a tremendous job in learning this new program and and making it come alive for our students we're just about done folks this is this is it this is the final slide in case you're uh hungry and haven't had dinner um so we had a great thank you come through from Stephenson and we want to share that with

056you so Stephenson asked one of their Spartan Alum to create this video as a thank you to our Community for support and to the board for supporting the new weight room um we've had a chance to visit some of those weight rooms they're absolutely spectacular um they are not only for our student athletes but for our students ac across the board in our P fit classes in our physical education classes so they have all been completely renovated top to bottom and outfitted with brand new equipment so I'm going to invite Mrs Jenkins as we wrap up uh this section to click on the video and share that with us or Mrs O'Brien well the nice thing about leavon public schools is that we utilize the weight room in a many different ways we have classes

057here every hour we also have 30 plus different sports and over 60 teams that use this facility it truly is a facility that gets used from morning till night and having a new new facility like we have the excitement is a big buzz around the school and we're redesigning some of the curriculum for our health and PE classes that will be using this we started a female weights class because of this area so we have a whole population of the school that is never been down here and because of the buzz and the new equipment and the things we're able to do uh all the girls in the school are able to take this class and be down here as well it's fully booked and we're ready to go next semester they are so excited

058I've seen more kids in this facility now than I have seen since I've been here this weight room compared to the old one is much better because it gives us more space we have the opportunity to get more kids in more student athletes can uh work out at the same time and and the way it's it's set up for function it works flawlessly for our kids this weight room compared to the old weight room really there's no comparison this weight room really compares to college and and pro weight rooms every one of our teams every one of our student athletes has the same basic core Foundation needs but then it really gets specific from a hockey player to a football player to a volleyball player to a gymnast they all have different needs and this

059weight room is really going to allow us to Target those different areas and to Target those different training exercises this weight room is a game changer for all of our students and our student athletes we've kind of transitioned from the machine workouts to the stationary stuff that you see behind me this is all state-of-the-art stuff they're excited to be here they're excited to get going they're excited to try try something new the football team utilizes the weight room by coming in here we we use it multiple times a week so the way it's been designed we have multiple racks so that we can get at least 50 kids in here in a Time the volleyball program uses the weight room in season every week we have a program Wednesday and all levels come in and

060work together and train with one of our strength and conditioning coaches the hockey team utilizes our space here to build the foundation really for what the hockey player needs and teach them the right things about lifting weight and building muscle and I'm excited to see the gains that it gives us out on the fields and the courts and the tracks and so forth I think this is going to help our Athletic program here at Stevenson High School I'm most thankful for the fact that the leavon public schools invested the the time and money into providing this it is truly a game Cher for our students and our student athletes I would like to thank everybody in Leon Public Schools who made this happen Mrs oist and all the administration over at central office Mr Francis

061Mr E our current ad you know Mr Muscat and Mr maone our principal here and the the cabinet the Board of Education the community for the the approval of the bond that allowed this great facility to take place for us I hope they know how much of a difference this makes to our student athletes to our athletic programs and our school Community because it really makes a big difference so thank you from the bottom of my heart without your support we would not be able to uh be in this space so thank you very much it's really great I'll wrap up on on that wonderful note and just um just to note that this this same work has taken place at every high school so Franklin High School Churchill High School and Stevenson High School

062all have those amazing renovated spaces for our student use thank you and yes we can't thank our community enough uh with the bonds and and the programming that we were able to offer this so it's it's really wonderful and with that we are going to take a five to 10 minute break um and to uh congratulate our honores so we will be back shortly thank you e e e welcome back uh if you missed the first front end of the meeting we just recognized a uh some wonderful students from the National Merit Scholars and deca Champions and uh now we're back and we are going on to item 3D uh written Communications do I have any written Communications from anyone I see none uh going on to 3E response to Prior audience Communications do we

063have any prior audience Communications seeing none we will move on to item 3F audience uh Communications audience Communications is a time set aside for the board to listen to the concerns of our community it's not a question and answer period but rather a time set aside for us to listen thoughtfully to your concerns each speaker has up to three minutes to speak um Vice President Johnson will be our timekeeper tonight and when you hear the tone go off we ask that you politely finish and wrap up your comments we will listen to audience Communications for about 15 minutes if it goes any longer than that because we have our business meeting to conduct we will listen to the remainder of those Communications right before hearing from board members um the board is responsible for three

064main roles hiring and evaluating our superintendent adopting policies that give the district direction to set the priorities and achieve its goals and also adopting and overseeing our budgets if your comments pertain to those three roles and you are looking for a response um on your blue sheet you will expect to hear a response from the members of our board um if your comments pertain to anything else or what we call the day-to-day operations of the school SCH district and you are looking for um a response you would uh expect to hear from our superintendent or a member of her cabinet team um so um thank you for being here tonight and addressing your concerns before the board and with that I have several blue slips here um the first one is uh Janine Martinez welcome

065Janine and if uh up at the on the mic microphone there you tap it and it turns green and then you'll be ready there we go good evening school board with also other leonan public school members and all those present and watching would like to introduce myself my name is Jennie Martinez I'm a Leonia resident for over 30 years I had three daughters that graduated from Stevenson I am the head coach and manager for leavon United girls high school hockey team all three years of existence Seven Seasons just finished our last season which two of my daughters played on the team and proud to say the team is back-to-back State finalist in 2022 and 2023 banners hanging proudly in the our home rink adag today I'm R uping all three groups girls hockey figure skating

066and dance I would first like to thank Kev a two for supporting girls hockey in the past years and for now his time efforts meetings and for him seeking input from the three groups we would like to thank the three schools Stevenson Churchill and Franklin activity Club directors athletic directors ESP as Stevenson and principal supporting me and the girls hockey finally we would like to thank you the school board for your input review of The Proposal through this process and now today is the first read and highly encourage you all to vote Yes to improve it next month at the School Board of Education meeting on June 17th which I plan to attend special thank you to the student athletes and parents that belong to these athletic clubs plus leavon and surrounding communities for the

067public support encouragement we have received I personally thankful to all of the above on the support amount of work that has been involved in this proposal and process getting voted in and approved is bigger than all of us as well as the future will look brighter for Leonia Public Schools athletic clubs to earn their varsity letter award jacket which I know they all will wear proudly thank you thank you our next speaker is Colleen beero good evening Colleen hello hello thank you to all the board trustees and the district leaders for your time and your consideration I'm Colleen Badger I'm a mother of two daughters who attend coolage elementary and I serve as um the secretary and outgoing secretary and diversity equity and inclusion chairperson for their PTA um the last board meeting I attended

068here was a year ago and coincidentally it was the meeting where there was a heartfelt tribute shared um in honor of in memory of Joshua reading who is an LPS student who was clearly loved and continues to be missed by many um today would have been Josh's 15th birthday so I'd like to take a moment to honor him in my comments um I spoke with his mother and she shared that she wants his memory to stay alive and to acknowledge that kids are struggling often fighting internal batt mental battles black and brown kids in particular are facing complex and compounded challenges that need to be acknowledged and accounted for through tangible student Le action oriented approaches across the district but I particularly want to highlight the need for support for students at holes Middle School

069um I want to offer a trigger warning because I'm going to mention suicide and violence and next statements um in the past year alone they've witnessed students at homes have witnessed the loss of Joshua by Suicide um a violent racially motivated attack of a fellow student at the recreation center um a seventh grade student physically and psychologically intimidated by a bully who was getting right in her face and calling her the n-word repeatedly for weeks before she found the strength to report it um most recently a gun intended for self harm brought to school now that that's just things that I'm aware of um there may even be more things going on but that's a lot to process and cope with not just for the students but especially for the students also for the families

070and the teachers all of us are grappling with this um particularly for black and brown students and families that breeds a sense of lacking safety and lacking belonging um the black parents that I've spoken with have expressed fears about what their children will face at homes um they want to see supports tailored to kids facing racial dis bias discrimination and ignorance at school and in the community they also want to see teachers and staff that are more representative of student demographics to provide added layers of support and shared life experiences um to students education um I've heard of some positive steps that have taken place at fraud with the principal an Administration who's informed and empowered in Dei work um which is really encouraging to hear um It's My Hope and request that the administration

071and board ensure that this work is prioritized across the district in real meaningful ways um and just not allowing um political lines to sweep this issue away from us but to continue to show up to have these important conversations and take these important actions that are required to make LPS more inclusive and safe where every student truly feels they belong so thank you thank you our next uh speaker this evening is uh Monica is it D Dy yeah good evening good evening hi I'm Monica hi Monica I'm a parent of three LPS students and I'm Jen I'm a parent also I just came with her we're supporting each other for the same thing and I'm probably next on the list oh okay yes I'm here uh to speak about the Holmes incident with the gun

072that was brought into holes a couple weeks ago I'm a concerned parent regarding this issue as we know uh gun was brought into Franklin last year two knives have been brought into two other schools since the homes issue um in the past couple weeks I and I I am aware of the security measurements that Leonia has taken with the extra security officers extra Mental Health Resources mental health hline which are all amazing resources however the weapons are still making into our building I'm concerned because I do not want to be here and speaking about this after a conse after something has happened and we are here to intervene because of a crisis I would like LPS to be Progressive on this issue and to do something about this before something happens thank you thank you

073and our next speaker I have G Garder oh that was her okay all right thank you thank you all for being here this evening our next item um will be item number four our consent agenda um may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs Burton move that the Board of Education of the lonia public schools School District approve the following consent agenda items as recommended by the superintendent 5A minutes of the regular meeting of April 22nd 2024 7e approval of of 2024 2025 leases 7f approval of purchase of Cofe paper 7g approval of LPS merchandise Pur purchase 7h approval of Wayne Risa budget for 2024 2025 7i approval of appointment of auditor 7j approval of food service purchase support we have a motion by Mrs Burton supported by Mr Johnson for the consent agenda

074um is there any members of the board that wish to remove an item from the consent agenda prior to us voting okay all right we have a motion by Mrs Burton supported by Mr Johnson for the consent agenda um Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Burton yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs botfield yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes that motion carries we will move on to item 6A Personnel matters and item a is the appointment of Elementary principal may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs bonafield move that the Board of Education of the leavon public school school district accept the recommendation of the superintendent and impo Benjamin Hillard as principal at rosale elementary school support we have a motion by Mrs bonafield supported

075by Mrs Jarvis for the appointment of Elementary principal um this evening we're going to hear from Mr Abate actually it's me Mrs Keats we're GNA hear from Mrs Keats sorry about that that's okay good evening everyone uh this is one of the most exciting parts of our jobs as directors of human resources that we get to bring recommendations before you the board this evening uh in this case we bring to you uh Ben Hillard for the role of principal at rosale elementary so what's even most exciting about this is I'm going to get to do this twice because Ben couldn't be with us this evening as he is chaperoning his son's uh long- awaited eighth grade trip and made these plans last year in fact so he will be here next month with us to

076celebrate and and bring his family but I did want to share a little bit about Ben with you guys this evening uh Ben is no stranger to LPS he has been here for just about 20 years and in that time he has met many people in many schools he served as a teacher at Randolph McKinley Hayes and Webster he's also served as the aad facilitator as well as the K12 Math and Science coordinator uh the role he serves in now is our assessment coordinator for the entire District so Ben is the man that we all go to when we need data and we need it fast and he knows uh that data inside and out and he is he is brilliant when it comes to compiling it in a way that we can all understand

077us us lay folk when it comes to to all the numbers so this evening I'm I'm very excited to bring forth Ben who is a very kind heart and he is very very passionate about bringing an experience to school that all kids have a place all kids feel welcome and they are all uh a member of a community where they can do great things so I'll gush about him a little more next month but uh also his professional experience he has a bachelor of Elementary education and an administrative certificate from Eastern Michigan as well as a master of curriculum from U ofm Dearborn so I bring to you Ben Hiller this evening for the next principal of Rosedale Elementary thank you Mrs Keats are there any uh questions or comments from the board well we

078we we'll look forward to hold for June yeah we're gonna hold him for June and we uh congratulate Ben and hope he's enjoying his trip and we will see him in June all right we have a motion by Mrs bonafield supported by Mrs Jarvis for the appointment of Elementary principal Mrs a coasa would you take the role Mrs bfield yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs Britton yes Mrs Frank yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries uh we're going on to item 6B the appointment of student services coordinator I may I have a motion please president Bradford Mr Johnson move that the Board of Education of the leavon public school school district accept the recommendation of the superintendent and appoint Shannon Bello the student services coordinator support oh I'll

079say Mrs burton all right we have a motion by Mr Johnson supported by Mrs Burton for the appointment of student service coordinator and this evening we're going to hear from Mr Abate hello good evening everyone thank you uh so it is my pleasure to introduce Shannon Bello as the next student service uh coordinator um she had joined LPS this year as a program specialist for Franklin transition program uh prior to LPS she uh worked as a special education teacher for 10 years in the mome mome Intermediate School District and then moved on to Taylor where she was a supervisor of special special education uh before joining us as program specialist U she has uh had the pleasure of interviewing her and she is very knowledgeable very reflective we feel she has quite a bit to

080offer in a in a leadership role um she is going to be a great fit with the student services team who's out there in the crowd right now her new partner's there and uh and a great compliment to them in terms of skills um she she as I said her her knowledge has always been very impressive but she's been with us for a year and and we've had a chance to talk with her about you know experiences over the course of the year and all the new things she's been involved in and she just has gathered so much in such a short time and it is so eager to share that and to continue to grow with her team uh for student services we're very happy to have her in that role I know raow

081is happy to have her whole team uh completed once again and they'll be their full strength and they're going to be ready to roll uh ter a little B re rewind Just a Touch give you a little bit of her educational background uh Shannon has a bachelor's degree in special education cognitive impairment from Wayne State uh a master's in education from the University of Michigan Dearborn and an ed specialist in special education directorship which is from sagai Valley State University um as I said she's going to be great we're excited for her we want to congratulate to her and uh that is Shannon Bello in a small nutshell thank you so much Mr abbati any questions or comments U Mrs oh Mrs Frank we're so thrilled to have you congratulations and we're happy to have

082you and your family and your sweet kiddos here tonight and um we're just looking forward to all that you bring to LPS so thank you for making the decision to come here we're grateful for you thank you thank you Mrs Frank Mrs oist well as I shared in um in my message to the board we are we are thrilled to bring U Mrs Belo forward to you um to round out our amazing student services team um one of the things that that strikes me about Shannon is she brings to her role um extensive teacher experience both in Southfield Public Schools as well as the mome Intermediate School District as well as administrative experience and both those things are so valuable to the the staff with whom you work um par professionals our teachers colleagues administrators

083colleagues um and one of the things that has been just so powerful for us as we've had folks both within the district and out of the district join the student services team is to be able to bring that fresh lens and that fresh set of eyes to the work that we do and I was so impressed with the things um that Shannon shared with us that um she sees areas where we can continue to grow as a district and I think you know how truly proud We Are of our student services department they are second to none um the work that they do on behalf of our students with special needs um and caring about the mental health needs of all children in this District um the social emotional needs of our students is um

084without question and it's unwavering and so to know that that happens but to also have someone come in and say here are some areas where we can continue to grow to me that's very very impressive so she not only brings with her a wealth of experience but also um has a vision going forward of of where we can continue um to excel in this area so we are thrilled um to bring this recommendation forward to you this evening um and so pleased that she has joined our team in Leonia Public Schools thank you Mrs oist all right uh we will continue we have a motion by Mr Johnson supported by Mrs Burton for the appointment of student services coordinator um Mrs aosta would you take the role Please Mr Johnson yes Mrs yes Mrs Frank

085yes Mrs Bonfield yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries [Applause] congratulations didn't prepare a speech but uh president Bradford members of the board superintendent mquest thank you so much I'm so happy to move on to this next stage of my career with Leonia my time is my time here has been short so far but it's been so wonderful and I'm just so excited for this next chapter so thank you thank you we look forward to you thank you to your family for scking out the yes get ice that's wonderful you know what at this point let's take a very very brief recess and I hope we get to go for ice cream but we'll be right back we just want to say congratulations to Shannon e e

086e welcome back once again we're going to continue our our wonderful meeting this evening and we're going to move on to item 6 C uh teachers for approval uh may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs aosta move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District accept the recommendation of the superintendent and offer employment for the 2023 24 school year to the teachers listed on the attached document support we have a motion by Mrs aosta supported by Mrs Jarvis for the teachers for approval and this evening we're going to hear from Mr abati yes if I turn the mic on hello over again everybody hello so our teachers for approval this evening those that we are presenting fill our needs in a couple of Elementary resource rooms they're very well

087qualified to fill these positions and have been uh vetted through our interview process we are confident they will perform at a high level and represent LPS in a manner that it's consistent with our shared vision and Collective commitments these positions have also been included in the 2324 budget we are pleased to be recommending these talented professionals to join our LPS family with your approval we are excited to have them working with our students thank you Mr Abate any questions or comments from the board all right seeing none we have a motion by Mrs aosta supported by Mrs Jarvis for the teachers for approval Mrs aosta would you take the role please thank you Mrs aosta says yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs bonafield yes Mr Johnson yes president Bradford yes

088that motion carries uh we're going to move on to item 60 resignations that is for board information only uh so now we will move on to item 6E retirements may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs Frank move that the Board of Education of the lonia public schools School District adopt the attached resolutions of appreciation for service is rendered by Katherine kustard Priscilla David Tracy Hammerman lesie Hoskin Todd Mai Amy Lou Martin Lynn Miller Lynn Merchant Shelley Miller Carolyn Mulin M mulon theres Palmer uh Lars rter Lauren Schnell Sandra shovely Amy wer and Loretta zims support support we have a motion by Mrs Frank supported by Mrs bonnerfield for retirements and this evening we're going to hear from Mrs Keats hello again hello tonight we honor and congratulate 15 members of our LPS family

089who are retiring from their positions with Leonia Public Schools as they leave the district they take with them a combined total of 362 years of experience on behalf of the administration I would like to thank our retirees for the dedicated years of service they provided the students of LPS and asked the board to please adopt the attached res res Solutions thank you Mrs Keats any questions or comments from the board Mrs Burton um frequently when we see a list of retirees it there are very frequently there are folks on that list that have uh impacted our our families or our own students lives personally and there are uh a couple on this list uh that that is the case um we wish that we could say no and have them continue to serve the students

090of our district um uh I I I don't frequently call out anyone but I have to say that uh a special thank you to Lars rifters who was not only my son's teachers but also coach and was an is a gentleman who has been very very impactful for many many students in our district um I wish all of the folks on this list uh a very blessed retirement you will be very missed um it is it is always so very Bittersweet we we wish you well and and we are sad to see you go at the same time uh but uh but blessings to you in your your new chapter of your lives thank you Mrs Burton I think we Echo all those sentiments uh We wish all those on this list congratulations for your

091retirement best wishes oh Mrs oist yes I I will just also make a quick comment and it and we we face this every month as you shared um where we have folks that we have known for the majority of our career if not U many and as you see the folks on this list um have up to 35 and 40 years of experience individually um some a bit newer um but as we go through especially at this time of the year um you begin to see people that you you started your career with that you've worked with for many many years um folks who have held leadership positions um such as Mrs David and our and our um Leonia Education Association we have folks on here a pair of professionals learning interventionists uh counselors teachers

092um Etc and social workers and when you think about the impact and um from when these folks were hired until they're leaving now um it really is an indelible impact that we've had um that they have had on our students on our colleagues on our processes within our school district um so this this group of folks uh this time of year often brings many many familiar names and I'd just like to personally wish each and every one of them um the very very best as they retire thank you Mrs oist we have a motion by Mrs Frank supported by Mrs bfield for retirement U Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Frank yes Mrs bonnerfield yes Mrs Burton yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs aosta says yesid president Bradford yes and

093that motion carries thank you moving on to item seven our business matters we have item a the approval of purchase of electrical switch for Leonia ECC may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs Jarvis move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District approve the recommendation from its owner representative plant Moran Realo to approve the funds for a change order for green line electrical located in Plymouth Michigan for a purchase and installation of an electrical switch at the Leonia Early Childhood Center in the amount of $130,100 ,79 support we have a motion by Mrs Jarvis supported by Mrs bonafield uh for the approval purchase of electrical switch for Leonia ECC and we will hear from Mr Francis good evening everybody good evening this is a topic that has been discussed

094to the board on uh several occasions this was something that while not in the original bid package for the Leonia Early Childhood Center came about after after the realization of the full breadth and scope of the power uh and the changes that occurred out of requirements um to Source power via nio into the Early Childhood Center so this switch is something that is is required it's a major safety component uh of the use of the the turning off the powers Etc at the at the uh site at the building so we do recommend the board approv this amount uh in order for us to continue with finishing off the electrical service at the Early Childhood Center thank you Mr Francis any questions or comments from the board Mrs Burton um for the benefit of those

095uh listening in tonight who may not have tuned into to the committee of the whole uh first off there is a len there was a lengthy discussion at the committee of the whole so if you want a lot of detail on it go back and listen to that one but just so folks so this is not a typical electrical switch that we're talking about uh this is something Mr Francis correct me if I'm if I'm misspeaking on this but uh this is something that uh would be utilized on a very rare instance and it would be uh utilized if if we didn't have this which we would have to be calling DTE in for a a power uh emergency at the building so this that's accurate yes we we would U this is for the

096safety of the leavon public schools um the the maintenance staff to go in there otherwise you need to schedule with DTE DTE needs needs to come in in a special suit protective gear for them to turn down the the power on that on that building so this is a pretty important uh item for us from from that standpoint because as we all know lonan public schools has its own maintenance team and and we also have contractors and subcontractors come in and it's just an important piece for safety as well as scheduling okay and if I understand correctly uh we this is not something that's required at every building but we do have these at a few of our buildings that have unique power needs yes also correct okay all right thank you you're welcome thank

097you Mrs Burton any other comments seeing none we have a motion by Mrs Jarvis supported by Mrs bonafield for the approval of purchase of electrical switch for the leavon ECC Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs bonafield yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries moving to item 7B the approval of central office Paving contractor award Mrs Burton oh may I have a motion please I'm ahead of myself wow that's that's rare that's Mrs Burton thank you mooved that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District approve the recommendation from the owner's representative plant Moran Realo to approve Nel Paving company located in Novi Michigan for the central office phase one Paving project in

098the total amount of $98,700 move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District approve the recommendation from the owner's representative plant Moran Realo to approve Nagel Paving Company located in Novi Michigan for the central office phase one Paving project in the total amount of $98,700 which includes contingency and authorize the superintendent or her designate to negotiate and execute final contracts support we have a motion by Mrs Burton supported by Mrs Jarvis for the approval of central office Paving contractor award and we're going to hear from Mr Francis thank you very much this is a syncing fund project a planned syncing fund project that uh we are looking to begin phase one and we're calling this phase one because we believe we'll probably have five or six phases over the coming Summers

099to do the paving project here at the board office complex or the administration complex um this this area gets heavily used by our largest Vehicles not only our buses which is obviously quite a bit of of um weight and traffic on the certain paths that we go through and in the parking lot that they are parked in but we also have all of our maintenance Vehicles here that come back and forth Etc so um we went around and did the buildings that had the school buildings after the during the 2013 Bond initiative when we would complete a building just to give the folks listening at home a little bit of background after we would do the renovations in the 2013 Bond initiative we would follow up in those buildings and repair and replace the parking

100lots and the asphalt around those buildings now it's time for the central office complex to have its its work done it really does uh need to be uh replaced and updated so uh I bring to you again through the syncing fund phase one uh and we do recommend Nagle Paving they were low responsible bidder we've done quite a bit of work with Nagel um and they' they have do very good work not only for LPS but but all around they have a very solid reputation we work well with them thank you Mr Francis any questions or comments from the board seeing none we have a motion by Mrs Burton supported by Mrs Jarvis for the approval of central office Paving contractor award Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Burton yes Mrs Jarvis

101yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs bonafield yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries moving to item 7 C the approval of purchase of leavon ECC wireless access points may I have a motion please president Bradford Mr Johnson move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District approved the recommendation to purchase wireless access points for the lonia Early Childhood Center from Sentinel Technologies located in Leonia Michigan in the total amount of $4 49,3 56 support we have a motion by Mr Johnson supported by Mrs bonafield for the um approval of purchase of Leonia Early Childhood Center wireless access points and we're going to hear once again from Mr Francis thank you president Bradford this is a 2021 Bond purchase this has been planned for and

102set aside within the budgetary lines in the it uh budget from the 21 bond to purchase these items we have wireless access points in this room and in rooms throughout this building and in rooms throughout our schools well the Leonia Early Childhood Center is as many of you saw earlier today and I'm going to take a moment to plug that it's looking beautiful and it's we're very excited we just had the staff from Jackson a large portion of the staff come for a tour Saturday morning so they can put eyes on the space again well if they want to be able to use their wireless devices in there we're going to need to put these these access points in so this again is a planned item uh the 49356 is the number to be able

103to purchase these we'll have these installed the infrastructures there so um we do recommend the board approved this so we can finish off that technology piece in the building thank you Mr Francis any questions or comments from the board seeing none we have a motion by Mr Johnson supported by Mrs bonafield for the approval of purchase of Leonia Early Childhood Center wireless access points Mrs aosta would you take the role Please Mr Johnson yes Mrs bonafield yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and the motion carries moving to item 7D the approval of purchase of classroom technology may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs aosta move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District approved the recommendation for the

104purchase and installation of interactive short throw projectors and document cameras from digital age Technologies located in Davidson Michigan for a total cost of 1,924 57 which includes contingency support we have a motion by Mrs aosta supported by Mr Johnson for the approval of purchase of classroom technology and we will hear from Surprise Mr Francis uh this is a another planned project out of the 2021 Bond initiative another IT project which we have in the budget in their line items this has always been something that we were ready to to to do during during the years of this newest Bond Renovations of buildings so we in 10 years ago now uh when we had the the last Bond initiative put in some state-of-the-art classroom technology a short through short through don't even know what that is

105short throw well it's their past tense we're getting rid of them so they're their past tense um the short throw interactive short thow projectors and the um the document cameras so we're now coming back and believe it or not that started 10 years ago and that's technology we will be coming back to replace these with the uh more up-to-date versions of both of those items throughout the district and throughout the classrooms in all the buildings so uh it's a it's a big number but we're talking about hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of classrooms and short throws and document cameras um so we are recommending digital age Technologies another company that the board I'm sure is very familiar with they've done quite a bit of work uh in the last Bond in this Bond uh throughout

106our buildings they know our buildings well and again something that's been planned we're ready for and we'll be getting some updated uh technology in the classrooms with this purchase thank you Mr Francis any questions or comments I just want to make one um I as I understand the equipment the new equipment we're getting uh does not use uh the light bulbs in those projectors anymore it's switched to laser is that correct that is correct yes which I think is really great um that'll be a a real Improvement for our classrooms um and I also want to take a moment to thank uh I know we do this quite a bit but to thank our community for the support of the bond money um this is a big number you know $1.9 million but it's so

107important uh to get all these latest equipment and everything into our classrooms and we're so appreciative that we have a community that supports us um on these bonds so we really really appreciate that so um we have a motion by Mrs aosta supported by Mr Johnson for the approval of purchase of classroom technology um Mrs a coaster would you take the role Please Mr Johnson yes Mrs bonnerfield yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries we are going to go ahead and move on we're going all the way to uh eight instruction matters and we have 8A the approval of 35j Grant purchases may I have a motion please president Bradford uh Mrs Frank move that the Board of Education of the

108lonia public school school school district approved the purchase of books training and material support to support literacy development in preschool through fifth grade from Scholastic in jerson City Missouri fet in Westchester Illinois Amazon in Seattle Washington Benchmark in new Rell New York Mrs Nelson's Book Company in panoma California and and book Source in St Louis Missouri hamay in Culver City kids discover in Columbus Ohio and and Isme in Sterling Heights Michigan for a total purchase of $547,500 24 cents support support oh okay all right Mrs burton all right we have a motion by Mrs Frank supported by Mrs Burton for the approval of 35j Grant purchases and we are going to hear from Mrs O'Brien good evening good evening Mrs O'Brien such a happy purchase isn't this this is a happy purchase as um superintendent

109ois shared during the uh update we applied and received a grant from the state of Michigan for $1.8 million for literacy development um for preschool through fifth grade and this grant um will provide tier one material some of our Core Curriculum materials an opportunity for us to update those things for us to provide training on Orton Gillingham and morphology and some of the materials that go with that um in addition to providing all of our students uh preschool through fifth grade five books to take home this summer and so this particular purchase is some of the first things we'll be utilizing that new um grant for is purchasing new books for our K through 4 modules so new inhand books you know we use digital and um physical books in our modules we will also

110be using this purchase to um train some additional support teachers and new teachers next year in Orton Gillingham and morphology plus providing our teachers with some of the um replaceable materials that come with that and then that $292,000 worth of books for our our students to take home for this summer so that total purchase of $547,500 24 is just the beginning of the spending for this wonderful grant that we've been um awarded oh my goodness Mrs O'Brien that is awesome we're so thrilled does anybody have any uh comments Mrs pfield I'm just so happy to hear that our young readers are going to be able to take books home that they've chosen um that they're going to be able to take home over the summer um and read over and over again and hopefully with

111a parent or a sibling um and just really enjoy them I think this is going to be huge and I'm excited to see in the fall I know we talked at the committee of the whole about possibly seeing some improvement in our summer learning loss which happens to all kids sure um and that this is going to help uh some of that and I just it's so important to have books in the hands of young readers and it doesn't take that many books to really make a difference yes we're we're very lucky that our students get to utilize this grant money to choose five of their own books and our schools our principles have done a Yen's work in a very short amount of time since we got this grant in order to put up

112set up Book Fairs and all kinds of different ways for students to choose books and I think that we need to also recognize uh you Mrs obrien that this was a grant that's been kind of lingering out there and then all of a sudden they pulled the trigger and you and your team had to um buckle down in a very short period of time we got the Grant and then the teachers had a very short turnaround to make sure that our kids can uh uh take advantage of that grant for for this next summer so um it it's been a quick turnaround all around for everyone and we appreciate the extra work thank you my pleasure thank you Mr Johnson thank you president perhaps Mrs bfield sto stole some of my thunder sorry but um

113you know we want to thank you for the effort that you and your team put in uh to tr uh trace this this grant uh and we know that you're not the only one uh our staff uh uh continually looks for grants for our kids um that's what makes us such a great District so thank you to your team uh for following up on this you're welcome my pleasure Mrs Burton I'll following up and along that same line I'm not sure if if everyone in the public caught it but this was a $1.8 million Grant um first off periodically we hear of of folks suggesting that we we go for Grants we do on a really regular basis um many many many folks in our staff uh apply for Grants many are awarded the grants

114um and we are thrilled and we are very proud that's that's one of the many things that makes our staff phenomenal um they go above and beyond this happens to be I I believe this is the largest Grant at least in in my 15 years of service on the board $1.8 million is a huge amount of money uh for literacy for our prek through fifth grade um it's just a really really big deal and I don't want that lost on everybody we have a a lot of numbers that come across this desk in a voting meeting but $1.8 million grant for Literacy for our kiddos for extra above and beyond literacy is huge so again along with all all the comments of my my fellow board members thank you for and to your whole team

115for going above and beyond this is a big big deal [Applause] Mrs Jarvis thank you I just wanted to say that our board has a priority of student achievement and improving student achievement and one of the best ways to improve student achievement is to instill in each child a love of reading and one of the best ways to get a love of reading is to read books that you like so the ability for students to pick out five books that they like books that will interest them and and help them develop a love of reading books they can take home and start building their own library and we know that there are some families where they don't have that um so this is probably one of the most important ways that we can influence student

116achievement by getting our kids to read books that they like uh what a phenomenal way to use those dollars I I just can't say enough it thank you so much for applying for the grant and I'm thrilled that that we were able to make such a tremendous use of these dollars and I look forward to seeing what kind of books our little guys pick out um I just I would keep gushing for an hour I agree Mrs a Costa just a snippet because everything's been covered already by my colleagues but I just wanted to say onetime dollars with long-term impact um what a fantastic way to do that thank you thank you thank you Mrs aosta I do have one quick question how how um long do we have to spend that Grant so it

117it ends correct yes we have to spend these funds by next fall so the fall of 25 September awesome piece of cake yeah we we can manage that we'll be able to do that thank you so much Mrs O'Brien to you and all your team for this wonderful Grant we're just really excited um we have a motion by Mrs Frank supported by Mrs Burton for the approval of 35j Grant purchases Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Frank yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs bonafield yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries moving on to item 8 B the approval of world history textbook adoption and purchase may have a motion please president Bradford Mrs bonafield move that the Board of Education of the

118leavon Public Schools School District approved the purchase of classroom sets of History Alive world connections by TCI publishing located in Mountain View California digital and physical textbooks for high school world history courses for total amount of and six years of teacher digital licenses will be provided at no cost to the district support we have a motion by Mrs Bonfield supported supported by Mrs aosta for the approval of world history textbook adoption and purchase and we'll hear from Mrs O'Brien again thank you um this recommendation comes from um Mrs Lindsay rouso our social studies coordinator and a team of teachers who looked at world history materials this past year um they looked at five different titles and piloted two they asked students what their thoughts were on the usability and the enjoyment of the lessons and

119they are recommending TCI which stands for Teacher curriculum institute materials we have used this program this Publishing Company history alive geography alive we've we've adopted other textbooks from them um it is a very engaging uh publisher and so this is for our ninth grade world history classes and as you know we've moved to classroom sets of physical textbooks and then a digital license for each student these are six-year licenses and then all of the teacher materials are being provided for free this comes from our secondary textbook budget which has been supported by the Wayne County enhancement millage um um monies for the last seven years so thank you Mrs O'Brien any questions or comments okay seeing none uh we have a motion by Mrs bonafield supported by Mrs aosta for the approval of world history

120textbook adoption and purchase Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Bonfield yes Mrs aosta says yes Mrs Burton yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs Frank yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries moving on to item eight c um the approval of expulsion of a secondary student may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs Jarvis move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District expel one secondary student for violations of the Leonia Public Schools Board of Education policies support we have a motion by Mrs Jarvis supported by Mrs bonafield for the approval of a expulsion of a secondary student um Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs bonnerfield yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs Frank yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs aosta says

121yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries moving on to item nine hearing from board members item a we have a first reading of board policy instructional program I CFA curriculum guides and course outlines and for our first reading um we are going to hear who do we hear from here so we're g to go um we'll start with um Mrs O'Brien okay the first three and then Mr E2 and then HR and then Mr Green they do know which policies are there so if you're comfortable they'll just proceed in the order as listed that sounds wonderful thank you okay oh Mrs O'Brien yep so um the first policy this is the first reading of these policies and um each one of us will go through them we've gone over them in depth during the

122study and the committee the whole on this first one actually the letters are out of order so it should be I CFA so on the cap sheet it says ifca but it's actually the other way around so I just want to make note of that so that we're all on the same page that that is not written correctly okay but as a first reading we're not voting on it so I think we can fix it for second reading yes um Mrs Burton we can fix it for second reading and uh and it's whatever policy is verbally read into the record not written into the record so we're we're okay okay so our first policy for our first readings tonight is instructional program I CFA curriculum guides and course outlines this is an update um from

1232014 and we uh went through the policy together and updated uh some of the uh language that we utilize today adding in state standards taught adding in our common assessments instead of um utilizing exams talking about the um curriculum guides will include the priority standards that will be assessed each uh quarter and then um just overall updating the um title of our department from curriculum Department to academic Services Department okay any any questions or comments on this first one I CF I CFA Mrs um Frank and just as we go through all of these we have had and and I think you said we have had substantial conversation about these policies we've worked them and tweaked them and so if there's not a lot of conversation tonight we have even though it's first reading we

124have worked them over many many times yes yes and so we there has been many um discussion in in our committee of the whole and so if anybody wants further discussion or wants to see the rational for some of the changes they can watch the committee of the whole but we're not going to try to um rehash it tonight but um anyway so if you it seems like we're flying through these it's because we've had many many discussions about them thank you Mrs Frank our second policy is ID it was basic instructional program and it is from 2014 we're renaming it to educational programming and um we've updated the language of this board policy to um um make sure that we are talking about the programming designed for our preschoolers through postsecondary students and um

125making sure that we meet state laws and curriculum um following curriculum and offerings and opportunities for our students any questions or comments on Ida okay seeing none uh we can go ahead and move on to go ahead idb yep so our next policy is ID DB instructional program it was um titled remedial education and this is from 1988 we've retitled it to multi-tiered System of supports is what um we call what we do to help students who are not quite at grade level and so this policy has been Rewritten and updated to make sure that it uh codifies what we do which is provide students with instructional and behavioral support so that those who needed time they get that time in order to meet grade level standards thank you any uh questions or comments I

126just want to say I appreciate that because from 1988 to 2024 many many instructional programs have changed so thank you for uh updating that one no problem all right um thank you Mrs O'Brien we're going to go ahead and move on to uh the next first reading of board policy JN letter jackets letter Awards and scholarships and U Mr E2 is going to I think this one's mine right yeah this one is definitely yours definitely Mr E2 with an exclamation point on the end of it there you go yes this is policy JN uh we're looking to add letter jackets and letter Awards to company scholarships within this this is back from 2015 was reviewed in 2018 and then we took a closer look at it uh with number of stakeholder committees uh this year

127uh we did add most recently from our last conversation the last paragraph on scholarships to this board policy and then accompanying this board policy will be administrative procedures and guidelines does anybody have any questions or comments on on the policy U Mrs Burton excuse me um just a huge thank you uh Mr V you you led this charge but there was an enormous team behind you of uh principles athletic directors par uh the athletic Council many many people lots of people gave input on it and you led this whole thing through what seemed insurmountable at the beginning to a a workable solution so thank you very much you're welcome thank you for the support yes any other questions or comments regarding this okay seeing none okay we can go on to item 9e uh the

128first first reading of board policy uh Personnel gahb staff student relations and uh we're going to hear from Mr abati yes thank you very much so this is a a a new policy and it it you a lot of what is in here is is governed by professional ethics and and different pieces of board policy generally but we haven't had a place in policy that that kind of encapsulated these ideas uh in in one one spot and and was comprehensive and so this provides uh pretty specific guidelines for um for staff in terms of the relationships that are developed with students both in terms of uh inperson interactions and um and out of school interactions Etc um covers a lot of ground uh it makes it makes the professional boundaries very clear uh and appropriate

129um I think it would be uh one would be hardpressed to not understand the expectations as an employee of L public schools in terms of how we relate with our students when you read through this policy so we think it uh we think it it it captures what needed capturing and it puts it in one place uh for reference thank you Mr Abate does anybody have any questions or comments regarding this policy okay all right seeing none we're going to go ahead and move on to uh 9 F the first reading of board policy personnel gahc uh digital Communications and uh we are going to hear from Mrs Keats yes thank you this also is a brand new policy we're bringing forth for the first reading tonight digital Communications uh this policy refers to a

130much needed uh policy regarding social media and other uh ways that staff communicate when they are working within our walls of our schools and while they're representing Leonia Public Schools outside of their their day-to-day work obligations so once again this is a brand new policy we think it reflects uh the time that we are in with social media being so prevalent and available to all of our staff and students okay any questions or comments regarding this new policy uh digital Communications okay see none we are going to go ahead and move on to item uh 9g the first reading of board policy students J gfg um accidents and illness and we are going to hear from Mr Green on this one good evening good evening thank you president Bradford I wanted to make sure that

131everybody was clear that it was J Juliet G golf F foxtrot and G golf uh I don't know what happened last week when I did the phonetic alphabet but I want to make sure it's on the record and it's clear uh for those of you that weren't able to uh come to our study session on May 6th and in the community that didn't hear our um televised viewing on the 13th this policy is an update basically that has transitioned from The Old Pink Emergency Care cards to our current digital student information system and how we're going to store student demographic information in that and how we're going to have ourselves update that annually and we discuss administrative procedures and how schools will handle that information okay thank you um any questions or comments regarding uh

132that item that first reading accidents and illness item J gfg okay all right then that completes our uh first readings um we're going to go ahead and move on to item 9h and that is the second reading of board policy board operations BHA code of ethics uh may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs Burton move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District accept the recommendation of the policy committee and adopt board policy language per the attached document for the following board bylaw BHA code of ethics support oh we have a motion by Mrs Burton supported by Mrs aosta for the second reading of board policy board operations BHA code of ethics and we are going to hear from Mrs oist or is that or yes the board has

133taken time to review um as as you do annually the um code of ethics and we are very proud to have a code of ethics for our Board of Education um I know that our board has um been generous to share this code of ethics document with other boards um as they worked to um finalize governance elements of their work um at our first reading the board did go through and read each of the items um publicly so we will not have to do that again um but once the board does take its vote and it uh this is updated um Mrs Juna has had this printed and we will have the board all sign the code of ethics policy and hang it proudly in the boardroom thank you Mrs oquist yes we do uh

134review this um policy annually and it's it's important for all of us to um take a look at each bullet point and um and and make sure that we we all are on the same page uh regarding uh the code of ethics it's very important and we are very proud of this piece because it just brings us together as a board and helps us to um actually do our business in the best way possible possible for for our students for our public and everybody so um I'm proud to sit on this board with each and every one of us and I'm proud that we sign this every year because that just gives our commitment to uh the work that we do every day and how important it is so thank you to everybody who uh

135signs this annually it's it does mean a lot to each of us I know so so thank you so I guess we'll vote on it and then we'll um sign it oh I guess other people can make comments too not just me okay Mr Johnson well thank you president Bradford you're welcome um this is really a reflection of our ongoing education we take classes continually and we only review this once a year but we bring back everything that we learn during the year and apply it to a reading of uh our code of ethics uh each segment that we go through something may change during the year and we learn that and that's why we go to those classes so again thank you all for your support and your continued education and it's really important

136work so thanks thank you Mr Johnson would anybody else like to speak okay seeing none we'll go ahead and take the vote and then we will um sign the document if that's okay we have a motion by Mrs Burton supported by Mrs aosta for the second reading of board policy board operations BHA code of ethics Mrs Acosta would you take the role please Mrs Burton yes Mrs Bonfield yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries thank you you're a Reb excent this document will be um hung up in our boardroom I believe um in our other one is right over there it will replace the the one that's already hanging so just for the Public's notice and you're welcome to come in

137and read it at any time or you can find it in our um on our website today if you'd like and I just want to thank Mrs Juna for getting FedEx to get that to us today we appreciate that yes thank you Mrs Juna okay we're going to move on to item 9i the second reading of board policy business management EB Wellness for students may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs bonafield move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public School school district accept the recommendation of the policy committee and adopt board policy language for the attached document for board policy e EB Wellness of students support we have a motion by Mrs bonafield supported by Mrs Jarvis for the second reading of board policy business management EB Wellness of four students

138and we are going to hear from Mr E thank you very much president brard yes yes this is EB Wellness for students uh this was back in 2016 and looking to update it this year it coincides with the healthy hunger-free kids act of 2010 it also outlines us for us our district Wellness committee that we worked at together each year thank you any questions or comments seeing none we have a motion by Mrs bonafield supported by Mrs Jarvis for the second reading of board policy business management EB Wellness for students Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs bonnerfield yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries moving on to item NJ the second reading of board policy

139students JCC bullying prevention may I have a motion please president Bradford Mr Johnson move that the Board of Education of the leavon public schools School District accept the recommendation of the policy committee and adopt board policy language per the attached document for board policy jcec bullying prevention support we have a motion by Mr Johnson supported by Mrs a Costa for the second reading board policy students JCC bullying prevention and this evening we are going to hear from Mr E2 thank you again very much Yep this is JCC buling prevention uh back from 2015 when this policy came into existence we're looking to updated uh today May 20th 2024 it does coincide with the Matt eing safe School law of 2011 as well as the state of Michigan's anti-bullying or the MD's anti-bullying policy it should

140be noted that we did work diligent this year with our bowling prevention task force to also add in administrative procedures for administrative teams and training for all stakeholders or all School Employees thank you Mr E and thank you for all the work that you did on this um policy and Mr Green as well thank you this was a big one and uh we appreciate all the efforts and all the improvements that were made on that on this um policy does anybody have any questions or comments regarding the policy okay uh we have a motion by Mr Johnson supported by Mrs aosta for the second reading board policy students jcec bullying prevention Mrs aosta would you take the role Please Mr Johnson yes Mrs aosta says yes Mrs Bonfield yes Mrs Jarvis yes yes Mrs Burton

141yes Mrs Frank yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries all righty moving on to item 9k second reading board policy Personnel GAA goals and objectives may I have anot a motion please president Bradford Mrs aosta move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District accept the recommendation of the policy committee and adopt board policy language per the attached document for board policy GAA goals and objectives support we have a motion by Mrs aosta supported by Mrs bonafield for the second reading board policy Personnel GAA goals and objectives and this evening we're going to hear from Mr Abate yes thank you so we've been through this in some detail through two study sessions in a first reading uh this policy sets out the objectives of the district in terms of our

142hiring practices recruitment uh compensation Prov voting collaboration Etc um there have been no uh changes since last we spoke and none were requested so we would suggest moving forward as written thank you Mr Bate any questions or comments regarding this policy seeing none we have a motion by Mrs aosta supported by Mrs bonafield for the second reading board policy Personnel GAA goals and objectives Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs bonafield yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs Burton yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes that motion carries moving on to item 9 L second reading board policy Personnel gbn separation of certif certificated Personnel presid certificated what certificated Personnel my bad sorry president Bradford oh Frank I apologize that's okay move that the Board of Education of

143Lon Public Schools School District accept the recommendation of the policy committee and adopt board policy language per the attached document for document for board policy gbn separation of certif certified certification certificated Personnel thank you support this is a tough one okay we have a motion by Mrs Frank supported by Mrs bonafield for the second reading of board policy Personnel GP separation of certificated personnel and we are going thank you we're going to hear from Mr aate uh yes my apologies for not simply using the word certified EAS subtle difference I suppose between certified and certificated um good Lord but it all means the same thing and this policy is just uh a notice of our of our policy of our procedures for dealing with these Personnel if we have to make a change again we've

144been through the full process on this when those uh changes were requested so we' propose moving forward thank you Mr abat any questions or comments okay we're going to get through this we have a motion by Mrs Frank supported by Mrs bonafield for the second reading of board policy Personnel gbn separation of certificated Personnel may I have not a motion Ro may I have a rooll please Mrs Frank yes Mrs bonafield yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes the motion carries moving on to item 9M the second reading of board policy Personnel gbq retirement system may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs Jarvis move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District accept the recommendation of the policy committee

145and adopt board policy language for the attached document for board policy gbq retirement system support we have a motion by Mrs Jarvis supported by Mr Johnson for the second reading of board policy Personnel gbq retirement system and we're going to hear from Mr Abate yes thank you just some updated language here regarding our retirement system here in the state of Michigan public thanks once again to Mrs Smith for the assistance on this one um she verified that all of this is in fact accurate from the finance end in particular and U yes and no uh changes were requested through the process up to this point since the last meeting so we would suggest approval thank you Mr aati any questions or comments seeing none we have a motion by Mrs Jarvis supported by Mr Johnson

146for the second reading board policy Personnel gbq retirement system Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Jarvis yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs Burton yes Mrs Frank yes Mrs bonnerfield yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries moving on to item nine n second reading board policy Personnel GB medical examination of employees may I have a motion please president Bradford Mrs Burton move that the Board of Education of the Leonia Public Schools School District accept the recommendation of the policy committee and adopt board policy language per the attached document for board policy GV medical examination of employees support we have a motion by Mrs Burton supported by Mrs Frank thank you for Mrs Frank uh for the second reading board policy Personnel GB medical examination of employees and we're going

147to hear from Mr Abate yes thank you so this policy covers the various situations in which the district may require an employee to undergo an medical examination there are variety of reasons there they are contractual and legal uh we have not uh there have been no changes requested since we went through this last and we would suggest moving forward as written thank you Mr Bate any questions or comments seeing none we have a motion by Mrs Burton supported by Mrs Frank for second reading board policy Personnel GB medical examination of employees Mrs aosta would you take the role please Mrs Burton yes Mrs Frank yes Mr Johnson yes Mrs Jarvis yes Mrs bonafield yes Mrs aosta says yes president Bradford yes and that motion carries we are moving on to I oh Mrs bredford Mrs

148oist thank you I just wanted to make note um and I know that uh this was mentioned when we started but included in these policies either for first or second reading were some pretty significant areas of focus and uh oftentimes uh when when folks come up and share concerns via audience communication there isn't an immediate response because that is the way that that our our board works and um you as you president Bradford and prior presidents before you will often say the roles of the board and one of them is to set policy and Direction and there were some significant policies that we've reviewed including the updated bullying prevention policy um so we did hear from a few parents in the beginning of the year with significant concerns regarding bullying um regarding the impact on

149their children or the impact on their school and at that time we had extensive conversations about that among the amongst the board team and the cabinet team and Mr E2 and Mr Green um led a updated task force to take a look through not only the whole policy but add the administrative procedures um so at at times there may seem to be a disconnect because someone may not get an immediate response but I I want to be certain that um that that policy policy JN the letter jackets letter Awards and scholarship um also was something that came forward with concerns from students and parents within the community with regard to um the awarding of Varsity letters that led to extensive conversation with the board um I believe we spent many hours on that conversation and

150in turn Mr IU and his team um spent significant hours in weeks and months on this process I I could go on um including you know our H HR team developing two brand new staff policies that were not necessarily easy to pin down with regard to staff student relations and digital Communications I say that only to point out that this is one of the most significant roles of the board um we've had some extensive study sessions this year that have gone quite long and a big piece of that was the work done on policy and um so oftentimes when folks see us move through this um and as we update these policies I I don't know that it's often clear that often times that comes from either um questions or concerns that either staff students

151or our own team has brought forth um or the board of direct or Board of um education has given us direction to review something so again um this is one of your Mo most important roles and I sometimes wish folks could see the extent to which the time that you take um to discuss this with us to give us feedback to give us Direction um and to make a difference in the lives of our students and our staff by these policies and the implementation of them so we just had some big biggies in there and I didn't want that to go um without notice um and without acknowledging that um the you know the concerns that folks bring forward are heard um and there are times in which um we can act on them immediately

152and in times in which we ask for their patience while we work through in a very thorough way so this even evening we covered a lot of those and I appreciate being able to acknowledge that thank you Mrs oquist any other questions or comments regarding that oh no no okay um moving on to item uh n 90 hearing from board members this is a time set aside if any of our board members would wish to speak on any topic and so I will just open that up um is it would anybody like to say anything um Mrs Jarvis thank you president Bradford I would just like to mention to our community that this Thursday is in fact the 75th birthday of Leonia and that the Leonia 75 committee together with the Leonia historical society and

153the friends of Leonia Arts uh has a bevy of activities scheduled to celebrate it will take many months to go through them all and in order to uh facilitate this and kick it off they are sponsoring a logo comp competition and this logo competition is to design the logo for Leona's 75th birthday it's open to all members of our community including yes our students so I'd like to encourage our students particularly those in the graphic arts to um consider designing and entering a submission to the logo competition for information they can go to info@ friends of leavon arts.org oh and by the way there there is a cash prize $500 oh nice there's a little incentive please please take a chance and design a logo thank you Mrs Jarvis Mr Johnson thank you president Bradford

154um a couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of uh going over to Church Hill High School and the center and ASD programs uh presented Finding Nemo and it was amazing these stud students did all the choreography the set um the uh script everything themselves and it was what 45 minutes I think Mrs oist we were there and how these kids memorized their lines was absolutely phenomenal so I want to thank that program for putting that on um I think there was even a suggestion that they take their show on the road U which would be wonderful um if if they ever do another one I will be there uh it it was just outstanding also this is graduation time uh yes believe it or not next week our graduations and I just urge

155all of our graduating seniors to be responsible and what they do um be kind to each other and uh have a good time but please be careful thank you anybody else okay yep that was one of the things I was going to touch on graduation is upon us and uh we want to wish everybody a very happy graduation in all the programs I know the staff has been diligently working on all of these commencement exercises they don't just uh appear a lot of people work very hard to put on all these programs at the end of the year so uh I just want to thank all the staff and everybody that that takes the time uh whether they're making programs or organizing um events uh these big events are huge and they're so important for

156our families and uh we appreciate all the work our staff does in putting together the commencements so uh we also want to congratulate all our students and uh wow the year went really quickly so very fast so everybody have a safe and happy graduation and uh we're going to going to be back in June so um if there's not any other business before the board anybody uh we're going to go ahead and say good evening so have a good night everybody e e e