001Start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Let roll call show that all but Mrs. Burmeister and Mrs. Neto are here. Uh, next item is the approval of the consent agenda which are the minutes from the March 24 regular board meetings and the March 25 financials. I move that we approve the from the March 24th regular board meeting. Okay. Um, did anybody notice any errors, omissions, corrections necessary? Hearing none, I'll grant to a vote. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. And any oppose say nay. That carries. Public comments. Is there anybody here that wants to address the board at this time? Okay,
002it's nice to see you. Big crowd. Uh, next on the agenda is committee reports and finance committee. Ben. All right. Uh, so you'll see in your packet a uh approval for the book bookworms program. Um, it is a great program. I think uh we have a government uh section 35 grant covering that. John, I don't know if you wanted to say a word. Stand up chair. It's been a multi-year process. Uh school improvement team has done a lot a lot of work. And Hedrickk and I have helped us a lot. She's our literacy coach at elementary. Um, we had a bunch of teachers pilot it and another program called EL this year is a it's been a really heavy lift, but the staff is really really excited to the point that um they've been want
003to do two days of training in June in addition to training kickoff to start next school year in August. Um, and yeah, we got around $17,000 from 35J grant in order to do this. So, it's just great all around. Yeah. Yeah. We like we like that. Uh, discuss the kind of the busing uh situation through 2029. So, budgeting for that. Um, and able to cover that. We're looking at bond money as well. uh we can now use the sinking fund for transportation. So that's uh good ways to to finance that. Uh and of course through our normal review of uh our March accounts payable, general fund, food service, tech fund, syncing fund, and capital improvement project. Um looked at all those and everything looked in order and we're about 20% towards our bond and our
004capital improvement. So uh we should see a big on that I think next month about all the improvements that you're saying in the school and that's what I got. Thank you very much, Ben. Uh, next up is personnel committee. Actually, I I can knock those out, Stephen. Actually, personnel and academic affairs both have very similar to the point of being exact agendas. And uh we talked uh a little bit about our school psych um position and um potentially being able to pull that fill that in house um in the future here hopefully. Um we talked about budget and the newest amendment coming up in June and final budgets in June. And then also a little bit about our um new PTSO structure, parent teacher student assoc organization and um some potential recommendations coming from our
005sex advisory board here in the near future. Those will hold the same agendas. Okay. Uh those of you who have an agenda, it's not on there, but there is an added uh committee report and that is the student rep report and I'll have Jen introduce it. So, um I just added it. So, that's my call because these our amazing cheer team is here. We're going to celebrate them and because they're so strong and flexible and smart and able to go flow, I said, could you also give a quick little update about how the school year is going? So, Chloe and Mary were about told um and um some others might happen. So, do you guys want to just want to give a quick little your student perspective? Yeah, whatever you're comfortable with. And There's not
006like so and um I know that me personally with another student exchange coming up. It's just a really fun experience of like Sorry, I'm in French. We have a French and congratulations. that we have sports coming. I don't know what to say. Yeah, I think overall Well, thank you. You did a wonderful especially for being put on the spot. Okay. Thank you very much for that. Uh, moving on to new business. Uh, first item, item 664, the approval of the Bentley Sourcewell turnkey flooring quote. Um, Jess Kurt, anybody want to just give the summary on that? We were happy with elementary. It's the same company. Um, and now the middle school, high school end, it's their turn to get shined up this uh this summer. So, It's a company that we we appreciated working with
007last time and they did a great job. Okay, I'll have the quote right in your packet. Were there any questions for Kurt Jess or otherwise? Not I'd entertain a motion to approve. I motion to approve the terms for Okay. Motion and a second. Any further discussion comments? All right. We'll bring it to a vote. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed, please say nay. Motion carries. Item 665, approval of elementary ELA not to exceed $100,000. Um, Ben just covered that. This is the bookworms, but anything further anybody want to add? If it doesn't pass, John's going to cry in front of everybody. That might be true. You might have heard me say the grant was for $117,000. This is not to exceed,000. This is just purchasing of the materials. Um the
008other money is for uh teacher training and the trainers coming to do that and yada yada. So that difference between and I will add the reason it's a not to exceed number is because we still might tweak some things. You know, normally a quote is a quote is a quote with an exact dollar amount, but we might tweak extra study guides or teaching guides. We actually might be able to find some of the stuff a lot cheaper from Barnes & Noble than the regular publisher. So, that'll take about another week to iron out, but that's why it's not a firm dollar quote. So, we're just doing a not to exceed quote. Okay. Any uh further discussion or question? Otherwise, I'd entertain the motion. Be happy to move the approval of elementary not to exceed $100,000.
009Okay. Um I already asked if anybody questions or comments, so we'll bring it to vote. All those in favor, please say I. I. And any opposed, please say nay. That motion carries it. Thank you for all your hard work and that too and your whole team. Item 666, approval of hiring Jana Woodwick, school counselor. You've got a little write up from Schultz in your packet, but I don't know Jen if you wanted to say anything else. Yeah, she's was going to come, but she's not able to. She has a commitment with her child. Um, but she went through a very extensive interview process. Um, they have to send a video to us to even get to an interview. Um, many people in the first round and then there's a second round. We had her come
010in and teach a lesson to our middle school students. Um, she's also certified to teach psychology in ELA. So, it's very likely that she will be serving as a secondary counselor and probably also teaching either a psychology class or study skills or some type of class. So, we're really excited. Um, she actually mentored Molly Moser when she was at Spring Lake. So, they have already been working and collaborating um and figuring out how they're going to tackle that together and she comes with a wealth of experience. Um, so we're really excited. She'll probably come to another board meeting so you can officially meet her, but she sends her apologies. But we got a we got a good one. So is um have you determined what she'll cover? Yeah. So they're going to work together as
011a team. Now right now Molly does 6 through 9 and Tina Gallow does 10 through 12. Um they're thinking about um taking six to 12 together, maybe dividing by the alphabet or taking certain specialties. So they're going to look and we're going to work together to see where their strengths are and try to make it where their strengths are for our students. So, an opportunity to maybe do things um a little differently and we've tried all different ways at the secondary level. They've done it a variety of ways. So, we'll just take their skill set and go from there. Thank you. Okay. I could have a motion to approve the hiring support. Okay. Any other questions for Jen comments? Bring to a vote. All those in favor, please say I. I. Anybody opposed, please say
012nay. That motion carries. Uh item 667, approval of Cody Liver, teacher and athletic director. Yeah, I'm guessing a few people in the room know this uh character a little bit. Um so uh pretty uh pretty be happy to to bring this one. And again, um, Jen's got a write up in there, but I don't know if you wanted to add anything more, Jen, because you sure made this all work. Um, another extensive interview process, and I say that because um, Cody um, has been serving, as you guys know, for years, supporting our athletic program. And, um, gosh, I'm a little emotional about this, Cody. Like, he had my kiddo in school, so I'm like I'm He's here. He's He's here. That's actually why I did a handoff. Yeah. And I'm I'm I'm a crier, but
013I'm surprised that this is happening, but um he um we gave him one hour out of his day this year to help support the athletic department as assistant athletic director. And we all know Cody. I don't know where it's coming from, but welld deserved. So that's all I say. Well, that was very heartfelt. Thank you, Cody. Um, so that being said, would somebody like to make a motion? I move that we approve Cody Libert as teacher slashetic director support. Okay. Do we want to put any stipulations? Any kids out there want to stipulate anything? Public comments. All right, we won't do that to him. All right, all those in favor, please say I. I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. Motion carries. Congrats. Um, and then on a sad note in a sense, uh, item
014668, the approval of, uh, Lisa Cobb's retirement. Yeah, Lisa's with us today. Um, and uh, I just when when Lisa and I met to talk about this, um, I said to her that, uh, I was incredibly proud to be able to hire her and bring her, get her to come to North Moskegan. Um, because I knew the amazing things that she would do. Um, she definitely did that and some. Um, brought us a lot of initiatives that are going to stay in place for a long, long time. Um, to keep the emot uh rolling, I guess. Um I also told her that the really cool part was I I gained a friend and that was to me the most important part of it. So um Lisa's going to be missed out there. And I'm not
015going to say squat, but I will. So I she knows I love her and appreciate her. Okay. I assume with regrets we would take a motion from somebody. Okay, we have a motion and a and a support with regrets. All those in favor, please say I. I. Anybody opposed? Congratulations. I think there's a sailboat. Um, next up, board review, the MSD bianual election resolution on June 2nd. Uh, you have that in your packet. Kurt, do you want to just Yeah. give the I'm not sure every board member has come through this yet. So this is this is um the way that the ISD has to do things. Um this is just a review um for you to look at the the format of the resolution, get a taste of what is coming. Um nothing real
016crazy to it, but um we will get more information. Um it will go to a vote in our May meeting, Christie, and um so we will fill in some gaps, get some more information, but the idea is that you're