001I aliance 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. Okay, next up is roll call. And I want to have a very hearty welcome to Mrs. B for making it back. And we have one absent, uh, Mrs. Sen. Two, I'm sorry, SenCow and Carolyn. All right. Um, next is the approval of the consent agenda which is attached to your packet and uh the financials from April. I move that we approve the consent agenda for tonight's meeting. Okay. Did anybody notice any errors, omissions, corrections to be made? Hearing none, I'll take it to a vote. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose say nay. That carries. Public comments. Anybody here to address the
002board? Okay. I just wanted to say that um last Tuesday night I had a chance to go to the French club um French play that they did. I was so impressed. I know they didn't have too much time to put it together, but it was so I've been really grateful for what the program has been for my daughters. Um I have a first grader who's t I think she's probably the youngest. Um I think they normally started second grade. She's really thriving and um I think that it's really added to her school experience because I feel like first grade is kind of easier for her. So she needed like a little extra challenge. Then I have an eighth grader who's taking it as a high schooler. Just really appreciate it. She that one loves learning
003and she um is just really excelling. So and I even have a a boy in ninth grade was taking Spanish. So, I just really appreciate the the depth of that. Thank you very much. I was going to say something too. I'm super nervous uh because I don't want to say anything wrong, but I actually want to talk about something that's really awesome and that's actually our sex ed board. And I know that it's highly sensitive, very controversial at times, but also it's something I've been wanting to be a part of since I was in high school myself. And I started seeing well in childhood even, you know, you learn things and you learn um certain things can with education, better ways can be gone about things. And uh I wanted to say that being on
004the board for the last two years has been everything I wanted it to be. We've tackled topics that are hard to address. We have an amazing community involved. Parents that obviously care deeply and community members that care deeply and our amazing Danielle Rizley who cares deeply and uh I'm just really grateful to be a part of that and I'm really grateful that um we have that here because it's not offered everywhere and I absolutely understand that that is a privilege that we have um and there's challenges but I honestly lately I've been seeing them as more as growing pains. So anyways, I want to thank you. I know Lillian's on it with me as well and I've really been grateful for all of the diversity that is on that board. Uh we all bring the
005best we can and uh most of that is heart and research and passion and um I just hope that we're doing as good as everybody would want us to. So thank you. Thank you. Would both of you give Christie your names just for the record? Oh yes. Thank you. Uh I'm Leah Lowi and my address was that was part of it, right? 700 Raman. Thank you. I'm Lillian Sutton and I'm at 2795 Memorial Drive. Thank you very much both of you. All right, we're going to move to committee reports. Just one no student report. Um just finance committee tonight. Oh, did it help myself? Yep. Uh, nothing uh unusual in finance tonight. I think we're investigating um some shared service time with another school up north. Uh if that kind of pans out, it'll be
006an opportunity for us to to share some of our resources and get a little income. Um which always helps. And uh if it does come to a point where we have a contract that needs to approve that'll go in front of the board. So, that's good. Good work uh on that side as well. So, we'll see where that goes. Um we're still tracking this year for the budget. So, the budget uh that Mark and the um and Jess will put together uh I think in in June for our June meetings. Um we are going to obviously look at a balanced budget for next year. So we're we're tracking for that. Uh more to come on that. Uh other than that, everything looked fine. Uh looked at uh you know, general general fund financials, account payables,
007food service technology, saving fund, and capital improvement funds all in order as far as we can see. And um all the way up through, of course, our big bond project um or our big April bond of last year. Uh we can see that money going to work right now. So all all is good there right now. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much for that. And now we move on to a presentation from Kurt Babcock, the state of the district. Actually, I'm going to have a little bit of help with Jen and John. Um but first, uh just to let everybody kind of know the direction we're heading here. Um this is this was put together by the whole administrative team. um and I really appreciate all of their work. Uh we did um
008change things up starting this year. We're going to base everything off of the strategic plan and we'll be we'll be using this presentation and um adding to it uh as years come so we can start to look at some longitudinal data and some changes along the way too. So to get started, um I'm fighting allergies, so hopefully I don't do that whole presentation, but you want to go ahead and flip that, Paul. Um got to start out with some cool pictures of some kids and people in our building. And I think we even got some grandparents there from um so we got a few different pictures along the way here just so you don't have to just look at data. All right. Uh, obviously want I'm not going to read every slide to you guys,
009but start with our mission and our vision and then those drive the next slide. Um, these are all things you see all over the place, board agendas throughout the building and they helped us formulate the um, new strategic plan. I really like the bottom one though that the stakeholders of the district will expect high academic standards and citizen citizenship expectations for all students. Work in tandem with us. Help us foster a safe learning environment. Those bullet points I really love because I think it does depict North Moskegan and how we all have a vested interest in this building and all of the um lives that are in it. So, and here is our strategic plan. um everybody um on the board was involved and actually some of our people in the audience were involved in
010forming this. We have four main goals and those are going to be the basis of today's um presentation. One, the first one is being a top 10% academically performing school. How we came up about that is um because we're ranked in so many different ways and there's they all use a different equation and they all have different factors that are involved and um so what we did is we actually met with the consultant at the ISD and said we want to have a consistent way to rank ourselves at a high academic level that makes sense to our community. And um the US News and World Report actually has a really good ranking system. It's um uh recognized across our nation. Um the the metrics that they use pretty and so the things that they look
011at are um kind of the things we think our community would wants. They want our kids to be um college ready, be prepared to take um high rigor courses in at AP um obviously graduate. Those are the things that are in that equation. Not that we don't support the kid that goes right to work or those are some of the main things that go into the um how they rank schools. And you're going to see a slide a little bit later that shows are we at 10% right now or not. You're gonna have to wait on that one. So um nope. Yes. Uh second goal is that our students um will all all of our students will feel safe and accepted in our school. We're going to communicate effectively with our full school community. We've
012expanded some of that today. You're going to hear about that. And then we're going to do all that stuff with um being financially or fiscally conservative and responsible. So now I'm going to hand it off to John and Jen and they're going to talk about a bunch of student performance data. It does. Do I need to be in the camera? People see me. This will all be put online as well. Do you want to do the questions? Sure. Yeah. So, one of the things we look at is our state assessments um with proficiency and college readiness. So, is obviously the PSAT and the SAT for the secondary um and we'll get dive into that how we're doing and then college um curriculum breath specifically they're talking about like AP courses like what classes how many
013students we have taking AP courses how many AP courses we offer how well students do when they take the AP exam and then they kind of they look at all of those data points together so um we get credit for lack of a better word based on the percentage AP courses that we offer um based on our size which we offer a a wide variety um really impressive for our size and then the number of students that take them and then um we track how they do each year so that they can hopefully earn some college credits and if not at least be better prepared for college. Um so the elementary which school boards aware of this we uh updated our curricular resource for math last year from Bridg's second edition to third edition and
014we worked with Carrie Carlson who's a math consult or math coach excuse me from the ISD uh all year this year to make sure that we're using it as intended with fidelity and um and then we also at the same time piloted two different curricular resources for ELA, reading and writing. Uh, and then we selected Bookworms. So, we're already primed to have a lot of professional development on on how to use Bookworms curricular resource with Fidelity next year and we were due to have these kind of refreshes or complete overhauls of what we're doing. Um, what we've been doing did well, but we knew we could do better. So that's what we're we've been setting about. So and the bullet points that you see on each of these starting slides before there's a bunch of
015data are are things that have happened this year that um kind of like check the box that we're advancing with what um the strategic plan um wants us to be concentrating on. We also I just want to add we talk about um dual enrollment and CTC2. So like AP is I think it says 53% of our stu um juniors and seniors are in some type of AP course at least one many of them are taking more than one AP class but we have um many students that are taking classes at Baker and Community College dual enrollment and then um our CTC numbers are also rising and that's that career and college um readiness and that postsecary. So yes, it focuses a lot on college but also that career readiness piece as well in the trades
016and how they can get that postsecary education in that realm too. So and I think the rest of votes maybe can be summarized MTSS stands for multi-tiered system of supports. So all kids get tier one supports, some get tier two and then a select few get tier three depending on what level of need that kid has. And so there's several initiatives which is not even remotely exhaustive of the things we're doing PK12 to help kids that have different levels of uh so this is actually starting to get to be out ofdate information but this is um our inhouse NWA MAP test that we take three times a year. This these scores are from the end of January, start of February. Uh com is this this would just be um what are how our kids did
017relative to precoid norms nationally on math. So yellow, green, and blue doing pretty well. Orange could use some help and red could use quite a bit of help. And actually, I was hoping we would have enough time, but we still have probably 3 to 5% of our kids who didn't take the spring test yet because absences and such, but um it it looks even more positive because uh our staff are still learning how to use bridges correctly the first half of the year. And reading is the same. Uh again, like these this looks all right because it is all right, but we know we can do a lot lot better at North Moskegan. Um and that's why we're switching to bookworms and all working together as a building like team to do that. Well, so
018this is the same thing but for reading. This is our middle school. So we also do the NWA or Matt testing. So sixth through 8th grade exactly the same as the elementary three times a year. Um this is our winter data. They're just finishing their spring testing. It's really heavy testing season. So we try to spread it out a little bit so our kids aren't test. Melanie is over there shaking her head. She helps our students with that. Um but similar to um what John shared, the cool part um that both the elementary and the middle school gets to do is when they look at that data um we can use math accelerator that will take each student individually and break down where their strengths are, where their areas of growth are and they can
019get targeted interventions that academic practices that they can work on to help improve those gap areas. Um, in middle school, Joanna Barry teaches a numer class which we pull the data from when John has students that come to us um and they do title and um interventions as well too um that we can pull. We use this data to support the kids who might need that extra help. Um and on the flip side, the students that are um advanced, we can challenge them DK12 to have some more advanced classes. So really um honestly scratching the surface I would say the secondary starting to use this data more, but each year we get a little better and better. So, being more intentional about taking the data and what are we going to do with it to
020use it to help help kids um across the continuum. So, that's our math. And then the next one is our ELA. Very similar um to what the looks like questions. This is our ninth grade um PSAT scores. I was hoping that the scores from this year will be released but not yet. So the cool part about this that I like is you can see our school is the top line the district it's exactly the same thing but and then it's the state um and then um the nation and then internationally. So what I love about this is you can see that our average is above um state and national. So that's always really cool trend to see. Um that's our PSAT for math. The next one is PSAT for reading and writing ELA. And it's
021same thing, you can see that we trend um higher than the state and the national average, which is really awesome. Um and you'll if you keep going, you same exact thing for 10th grade PSAT and then 11th grade um SAT. That is the um what most of our juniors will use um when they're looking to apply at colleges. They can take it here. They can also that other times, but this is the score that they took here. Um, and what is really cool is our um, ELA um, team has died has taken this data and um, looked at the areas of the assessment that kids were having the most trouble and when they were doing their curriculum review and figuring out where their gaps were in their um, alignments were able to like, oh, we
022know this kids really need to work on non-fiction and these are the areas. So, they so they're starting to really dive into that. So that's been that's been fun to um see. So that's our 11th grade ELA. This is from 23 and 24. So um I couldn't go back any further because College Board is really awesome to work with. Um so um it wouldn't let me since I probably though. Um but you'll notice that spring of 2023 our scores were actually think I might have those. Those are flipped. They're flipped. They should say the other thing because our scores actually went down this year, but you'll see that the trend nationwide and statewide was that way. And so when we look at the data across the nation, that seems to be the trend. We still
023trend above the average, but that should be flipped. So I'll fix that. Spring of 23 class is pretty solid. Yeah. So we expect the um juniors of this year um to trend back in that upward direction, but it kind of just depends on the cohort of students because we have such small classes. One or two, you know, student scores can can sometimes make that that much of a a difference. So we'll start to collect those um that longitudinal data and see if they notice any over time in specific areas. This is our um the number of students that are taking um AP classes. So um the red represents the students that are taking AP courses virtually or self-study. So um the 79 is the number of students that are taking in-person courses. Luckily we've got
024amazing teachers that are certified to teach AP courses here, but we also have some students that have interest in macroeconomics um for example. Um, and so we don't have enough students to run a macroeconomics AP class, but we're able to offer that virtually for students based on their um, EDP. And if there's interest in that, all students can take an AP test. So, if you were a junior and you said, I want to take the AP Spanish exam, you can sign up for that and self-study. Um, we have a few students that are doing that in certain areas. Um, teachers are kind of working with them and doing different things, but that those are our numbers. That has grown each year. So, we're really proud of that. And then our CTC CTC students um also
025we have 36 juniors and seniors that are in the at the career tech center um this year and that I think it's more next year. I think it's 40, but I'd have to check my numbers. Um dual enrollment, these are our numbers for the fall and the winter. And then early college is we have two students that are um graduating this year with early college. So again, just trying to grow those opportunities. MCC does a great job of coming in and talking to our students and getting them connected with that. Y um thank you guys. One of the things we've talked about over the last couple of years is yeah, we can compare ourselves to Mske County or this region or the state. Um and that and we look good. We we we know that.
026But um one of the things we've talked about is okay, how can we compare ourselves um with other schools that excel in academically but look a lot like us. So we pulled this these 10 um comparable schools. They are um similar size um similar social economic makeup um similar um uh race makeup. that they look like us or I should say we look like them for the most part to the best of our ability and they all are top performing schools in the state. So we said let's start to compare ourselves to some people that we want to compete with. Um and the best part is this is the worst slide you're going to see in this group and it's actually not that bad. So we're the we're the one with the star on it
027each time. So this is uh language arts grade three. So again, these are snapshots of of cohorts of kids, but then there's also some combined ones that you're going to see as well. Um, you're also going to see a common theme with that school down at the ed Bridgemond. Um, they're doing very, very well. Um, we've actually in years past had groups that have gone to Bridgemond. They've come here. We're going to start that partnership back up um next year and we're going to try to share some ideas with with them and hopefully get some ideas from them. Um but uh they're they're doing very very well. So to to reiterate though before I show any more slides, these are like the tops of the top of schools that look like us. So um go
028ahead Paul. This is third grade math. A little bit better than the ELA. We can move through these Paul as I hesitate. Um, this is language arts fifth grade and you can see we're doing quite well. These are all based off MSTEP math fifth grade. ELA sixth grade. Yep. Go ahead. Um, so here's where we So those were all elementary scores, right? The up to sixth grade. We're doing a lot of different things in our elementary school since Mr. Allen took over. I think we're going to start to see those things those scores start to trend up, but also there's a lot of other things. That's where we get a lot of our new students and then they kind of stay with us and and advance. Now, we're going to take a look at So,
029this is EL um this is PSAT now. So, it's not MSTEP. Um uh so PSAT we put a little more stock in. So does the nation. Um, so this is ELA, any any of our students and or any of those other district students that took the PSAT that year. Um, and you can see by the time our kids hit middle school, we're doing pretty darn good. Next slide. Math the same. Got a couple of those schools that are better than us, but you know, we're we're right there. Um, and let me see. That's PSAT math. Yep. Um, so that's basically middle school math. Go ahead, Paul. Now we're on to the SAT. This is any kid that took the SAT in that year of 2324, which is the newest data that we obviously can have.
030Um, and this is for the language arts, reading, and writing. Again, we're doing quite well. And then if you do the next one, Paul, this is the math. So the the bottom line with these is we excel when it comes to kind of this region, but when we compare ourselves to people that we want to compare ourselves to, we're still looking pretty darn good and we, you know, we've got some probably some things we can learn from darn Bridgemond there, but um so go ahead Paul and so we talked a little bit about the US News and World Report and why we why we're going to use that and why we want to be a ranked in the top 10% not only at the state but up as in the nation as well. We talked
031about the the things that go into the equation for that and those are those bullet points on that right hand side. Um and as you can see um right now with the newest data that we have um our national ranking we're in the top 13% in Michigan we're in about 9.5%. Um so we're you know we're in that area. Um and then in in this the Moskegan region, we're the top ranked um school, high school, middle school, they in elementary, they don't really do a national ranking because there's just so many different numbers. And like one school district might have 10 middle schools, you know, in these big districts and 20 elementary schools. So, they don't really do national rankings, but you can see our our middle school right now in the state of Michigan
032is ranked at 9.6, pretty much where our high school is. And just like our scores showed on MSTEP, we're a little low. We're lower in the elementary right now. I think what we're going to see in time is that's going to be changing because of the work that we're doing. Uh so now we're moving on to I think our next goal, which is wanting all kids to feel safe and accepted. I'm going to do a handoff again to John and Jen to talk about the data um that reflects the work that our programs are doing. But again, I'll point out those bullet points under the progress to date. Those are just snapshot. It doesn't get everything that's happened this year, but it shows some of the things that um we've we've done this year. Targeted
033rate hack, specifically the strategic plan goal. Um so hopefully a lot of those things sound really familiar because you guys should know about those. So I'm going to do a hand off. go to the next or unless you guys want to talk. Those are just a lot of the things that are being done districtwide or have been in the last 12 months to help support that goal of helping um kids feel safe and accepted at our school in every grade level. So that's not exhaustive either, but you can read so we don't have to. Uh this is is this the high school or was this district? I think it was. So this is um we asked all all students. We've done um did a climate culture survey um to see there was many questions. We
034pulled out the ones that talked about related to this goal too of our strategic plan and um if they feel connected at school. And so you can see that the strongly agree and they agree. Um pretty good chunk of kids that feel connected at school. And then there's the yellow and the orangeish yellowish that um don't disagree with that. Um the next one was teachers treat me with respect. We had really good participation in this last year. Um we didn't as much as grade um participation. I want to say it was 95% completed it but I have to check with Julie that number right too. It was above 90% of students did. So that was really good. Um our last one was not that great. So we didn't we weren't sure that the data had
035a ton of fidelity because we're like if you only get you know a smaller percentage but we felt really positive about this because almost every student participated. Um and then school is a place in which I feel safe. So you can see the students that um would agree and disagree with that. And then I was just Yeah, the elementary actually had uncannily well matched responses to what was just shown through. Exactly. Um and those were selected not just because they look so good, but because research has shown those questions correlate to fewer problem behaviors and better academic performance. And we look good. So we want Um, one of the cool things that, um, we've done is we along with the just the overall climate and culture surveys, we do check and connect with students where
036we ask a little more specific questions. So, at the beginning of the year, we um set and this room is full of every single student's name and teachers go around and they we talk about what does it mean to be really connected with a student and we ask our staff to identify who are they truly connected with? Um, and then we can be like what kids do we intentionally need to build a connection with? Right? And then we ask the students, do they feel like they have a connection with someone at school and and if so to name them to an adult and a student? And then we cross reference that data. Um Julie, um Van Bergen and Sue Gwer, I wish they were here because they are incredible. Um John and I have done
037a lot of this work, but it's been really hard to like dive into the data and they can dive into the data and make it really usable for us to be intentional. So, one of the um researchbased interventions that came out of that was silent mentor. We've done silent mentor for a few years, but not with a ton of fidelity. We were just kind of like thrown at the wall and seeistics. Well, this year, thanks to Sue and Julie, we were able to be really intentional to be like, which students do we truly want a silent mentor? So, based on the students that didn't feel a connection and the kids that the staff saw, we were making sure that no kid would fall um through the cracks. And so this is just some fun things
038that staff a little informal feedback that staff gave um and I can't read that far away that just talks about some notable wins. So um teachers said they were getting their mentee to participate in class anymore. The students started to initiate um greetings. The um the student was more vocal, more positive. The students were talking. Um so just really being intentional about those connections with each student. um and hopefully helping to increase that feeling safe and connected. SRS. Sure. So the SRSS is the student risk screening scale. So it's just a teacher survey of all their students at the elementary. It's in their class at the Milk High School, their Northtime teacher, I believe. And um they do it three times a year and it's a pretty well correlated predictor of if that student's going
039to have problem behaviors. And I there's external problem behaviors on the left, which is stuff that's easy to see, disruption, um all those kind of things that are external. Whereas internalized problem behaviors would be withdrawing, shutting down, not uh participating or having those connections with staff or other students. And so we do so the other survey surveys have been anonymous. This is not and so our uh mental health and wellness teams know who are the kids in those red parts of the bar and we connect with them and do things like silent mentoring and a number of other interventions to and so we use it for individuals but we also use it to kind of track how our buildingwide initiatives are working for all the kids too. So that's what we're looking at. And it
040is is it? Yeah, it looks like district. This is a cool one because I think it talks about how the work that they do in the elementary really sets the foundation for success as kids get older. So this is uh a snapshot of our current seventh graders over time. And yes, we chose this grade on purpose um because this is a group that um John team has been working for a long time. I think we're impacted by a lots lot many factors um and discipline things and you can see the really cool part is the green um over time goes has gone up and increased and the red those at risk behaviors has has decreased and so it really speaks to the restorative work that they were doing with this group in fourth grade and
041all of the things in fifth grade and how they get to middle school and all of the pieces that um the system IPBS elementary middle high school, but then also um restorative circles individually and small groups and trails groups and all of the things that we're able to do um that sometimes it doesn't feel like it's making a difference when you're in the forest, but then you look and you're like, "Oh, what we're doing is is working." So to be able to track that cohort um over time um is really powerful. Thanks, guys. Third goal. The third goal has to do with communicating with our um full school community and um you can see some of the progress updates on on that. Um one of the things I wanted to highlight uh or a couple
042things. The quarterly admin admin and board uh community communication was a brand new one. Um our our goal there was or our plan there was that that's going to be totally um academic based. We're not going to have pictures of the sports teams and we we do that in a lot of other places, but we wanted a communication piece that went to the community that focused strictly on academia and we've got that out that went out several times this year and it will continue to do that. Um the Norse advocates uh group has been a blast. Uh what a what a ton of fun and what a great group of people. Thank you. She's involved with that. She's involved with everything. and you could just say Leanne could tag her name with almost any of
043it. But um so that North Advocate Group is off and running. Um that's going to continue. You can see some of the others. The the another one I wanted to point out those the um we just started to get rolling a parent cafe that you're going to hear a whole lot more about. Um, that's a group at the elementary school of of current parents that support our new parents that come to us and then kind of do a handoff to those new parents when they're not new anymore so that they can work with the brand new ones. So, it just keeps on rolling. Um, we will be doing a survey to um our school community on h how they how these things went. Um, but also could there is there other ways that we could
044communicate better and uh we'll just continue to try to do a better job with that. Um, go ahead and I think the next one's the app. Yeah, we wanted to put a plug in for our app. Um, we are expanding the use of this. Um, and when we talk to groups of parents especially, they like love it. Um, so we continue to push the app. We're almost everything that we're doing is you're going to find out because of of the app if you're on it. other ways as well, but this kind of holds everything all in one spot. The last goal has to do with finances. Um, yeah, a lot of people don't like to talk about money, but we have to as a board event, and it's part of the deal. We need to
045be fiscally conservative um and conscientious uh to make things happen over a long period of time. And um you know, this year uh um you've had the we've gone through a successful audit. We're going through the budget. We went through the budget amendment process. Now we're going through the final amendment uh where you're going to see um a budget uh in June for this school year, but also projection for next next school year. Paul, you can go ahead and flip that next one. Um as many in the room know, currently our our this year budget is showing a a negative around $440,000. That's not good. But we also knew that we were going to be riding a roller coaster with COVID funds. We're coming to the end of that ride. So, we're gonna hopefully end
046this year about where we went into um things when when when COVID happened. Um that 437,000 isn't going to be that high. It doesn't look like as we're, you know, getting closer to the finish line. Probably going to be looking at more like half of that um uh having to come from fund balance this year. and we have a goal set for ourselves that next year's uh budget will be a balanced budget that the board will be um viewing when we get to that point in June. But what does that mean? We've got to shave some things here and there. That's one of the reasons we're looking at expanding that shared service and we're looking at um our our staffing needs. Um we're going to probably be one, excuse me, one less teacher overall um
047on our um staff next year because that's where the needs are. we don't um we don't necessarily have that uh um need that position. Um and so we're looking at everything to try to make up that about $200,000. And that's our that's our goal going into uh June's finance meetings. Again, there it's all wrapped up into one. You've probably seen those one pages around the around the building. Um it's our mission, our vision, our values, and then our goals created um from our strategic plan. all wrapping them together. We need that clicker thing. It'll make it easier on you next time. Um before I close, I do want to say again, thank you to the whole the whole administrative team. Um it was a lot of work to go into this um and and having
048trying to figure out the flow and what data do you use and what don't you and how do we show a real picture and I just I got a ton of respect for the group that I get to work with and they did a great job um great job with this. So huge thank you to them. And to close um overall the state of our district is strategically moving forward to support student academic achievement, student well-being, effective and transparent communication with our full school community. and we're doing so in a fiscally responsible manner. So, you'll continue to see this similar presentation in years to come and we'll be able to keep adding data to it that kind of gives us a better look at what is what are things looking like over time, which we've
049never had a good way to do that. We think we've got a pretty good tool now. So, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, K and the team. That is a tremendous presentation for state of the district. And we know the board likes 10 minute or less presentations. We just couldn't do it. So something this important may be a little. Okay, we are going to move on in the uh agenda to new business. And the first item 669, the approval of uh Karen Walberg's retirement. Yeah, we got a couple of those on here today that uh regretfully, but um we uh we're having a very very solid special education teacher and just a quality quality person um moving on and her next uh ventures in life. So, we we wish uh Karen well and she's going
050to be missed. Um, I will regretfully move to approve the retirement of Karen W. Okay. Motion support and a support. Any further questions? All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed, please say nay. Motion carries. All right. Next on the agenda, item 670, the approval of the MISD byianual election resolution. Think everybody on the board has gone through your packet knows that um there are two openings on the MISD board. Uh they only had one person um uh seek for the two spots. Um what we need to do is approve the resolution in our packet and part of that resolution is appointing one delegate and one alternate and prior to the meeting um I did talk with Lisa Winter was willing to be the first delegate and it's Lisa Pototts who will
051be the first alternate in that resolution. Uh, and this will be a roll call vote, too. So, has anybody had a chance to review that? Anybody have any second feelings about being a delegate? Okay. I would entertain a motion to uh approve it. I move to approve the Misd by by annual election resolution as presented. Okay. Motion and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll do a roll call vote starting Miss Wickers. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Motion carries. Next on the agenda is the approval of the Misd budget resolution. I did attend that meeting a week ago or week and a half ago. Um and it is just a kind of a formality to approve their budget. Um it's a big budget tell you that but it supports all of uh all of
052the kids in the county and um a lot of funding comes to us through through that budget. So I am recommending that we approve the budget as it was presented or I'm sorry the resolution as presented. I move to approve uh the AISD budget resolution support. Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. All those in favor, roll call vote. Mrs. B. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Item 672, offer of additional probationary status as recommended by the administrative staff. Yeah. Um, and if you want to, um, Steve, you could do 672 and 673 together. They're on the same sheet. Um, and as you can see, we've done some hiring over the last few years and, um, got some people that are working their way through the tenure process. And then we do have one
053that um, is being recommended for tenure um, due to being with us long enough where we could recommend that. So you can do both if you want at the same time but you don't have to. Hearing that I would entertain a motion to do both at the same time. All right. So I'll move to uh approve both theary statuses as well as the tenure uh on new business 672 673 as presented. Support. Any questions? My only question is I thought that Howard's been here a lot longer than four years. She She has, but not in a teaching capacity. Okay, bring it to a vote. All those in fa favor, please say I. I. I. And any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Item 674, approval of Bernard Beock's retirement. Yeah. How what do you say, Miss Be?
054Um I liked her letter when that she said in there that she was always told she would she would know when it was time. Yep. And it's it's time. So, um she uh she had been telling Jen and I that no, few more years, few more years, but obviously that changed. Um and again u what an incredible incredible person and wish her the best in probably what will be her world travels from now on. So would be my guess. I move that we approve Bernardet Belock's ret excuse me retirement request. Okay support support. Okay. All those in favor, please say I. I. And any opposed? Say night. Okay. Um item 675, approval of the membership renewal of the MHSA. Something annual renewal. Yep. You have to do if you're going to be affiliated with the
055state association. I move that we approve the membership renewal for NHSA. Okay. Any other questions on that? Okay. Uh all those in favor please say I. I. And any opposed? N. Motion carries. uh information and for the crowd as well. Uh starting in June, there will be a lot of construction in here. So, we will be moving our board meetings to the city council order. So, future meetings over there, we will June through August. June through August and notices will be posted and it will say on there that it's at city hall. Okay. Board comments. Start with Lisa Winter. Wait, so many things to comment on. Um I guess welcome back Mrs. B. That is the most important. Thank you that you're back. I appreciate your support. Um wishing uh Miss Wahberg and Miss Beock
056all the happiness in their retirement. Thank you for the state of the district presentation today. Um a lot of good things there. Um but Thanks for all that you do and always putting what kids need first. I will also be back. It's very good to have you. Um and yes um with you know regret uh some more retirements. um a very long-standing staff. Again, just what a testament to what a great place this is to be educated and to educate. So, I really uh wish both of them well. Um thank you for that great presentation uh the state of the district and um what wonderful transparent information to uh uh the whole district. Um, thank you to everybody who's getting ready for graduation and end of the year uh the festivities. It sounds like it's
057going to be really wonderful and at the ball again. So, just a little plug to everybody come out. It's a great place I think Jen has said before to bring you know littles so that they have something to aspire to. Um, and this really is our our crowning achievement um for these students. So, happy graduation weeks everybody. Um, I'll just reiterate some of those. Welcome back, Mrs. B. It's great to have you back. Um, excellent presentation that uh you put together. I appreciate uh all the hard work. I'll also throw some kudos to the business office as they're getting ramped up trying to put together the end of the year budget but next year budget and a lot of things going on for everybody this time of year. So um also um disappointing to hear
058about retirements but in the same token I do wish them the very best and thank them for the time they they did give us and that's it. Yeah, I echo everything. Uh, we always get the retirement letters this time of year, so it is uh a little bit regretful to get those because you hate to see good people leave, but uh time to open the door for for some new young eager talent to come back to North Whiskey again. So happy to see that as well. Uh congrats to those who are continuing on with us through their continued probationary and uh um Amanda who's in tenure this year. So that's great. Uh looking forward to graduation. I think we we got a good thing going at the Frolenthal. So that should be a great event
059as always. So definitely look forward to that every year. And um yeah, things are getting pretty exciting here in North Moskegan as we are in the final countdown, right? So uh thanks everyone for keeping your sanity. Make sure that you're not sure that's a true statement, right? I uh I need to tell tell you a story about Bernardet. Um, we come to school at about the same time and she wear her her high heels so I always knew where I was from the car to the school where she is because she goes click click click click right and of course nobody else is in the hallway. It's just the two of us. I always knew, but if I walked down the hall any other time of the day, she'd be out there clicking away. She
060got the biggest kick out of her. She's just a wonderful person. She loves what she and Oh, thanks to Mr. Don for putting up an excellent. Yes, it was pretty decent, too. Yeah, almost got rained out once. Good week. I just uh feel like I have to. I've been talking a lot about academics today, but uh before coming to finance committee meeting, I was able to go down to our new baseball field. It's not completed yet, but it's playable. And um the there was a ton of people down there and everyone was having a great time and you know, just a sign of things to come. Um it's just going to get better and better down there. Um, but it was great to have our our guys uh playing on on their home field finally.
061So, um, that's uh make get you starts to get you excited about the work on the tennis courts that's going to have be happening later this summer. Um, it's uh exciting. Yeah. Thanks. Okay. Meeting is a journal. I'm so sorry.