001It is 7:01. We will call to order the regular meeting of the Clarkson Board of Education. If you please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. Mrs. Mlan, can you please call the role? [clears throat] >> Mrs. Egan >> here. >> Mr. Clark >> here. >> Mr. Hyer >> here. >> Mrs. Love >> here. >> Mr. Ne >> here. >> Mrs. McGinness >> here, >> Representative Hats >> here, >> Representative McDonald >> here, >> and Mrs. Crane >> here. Thank you. Mrs. Mlan, item 1.3 is reading of the public statement. The following statement is read by the board president. This meeting is
002a meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community hearing. There is time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in agenda items three and nine. Item two is approval of the consent agenda. May I have a motion, please? >> I move that the board of education accepts the consent agenda as presented. >> Support. >> Motion made and supported. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item three is the citizens request to address the board. You are given two opportunities to address the board. Under item 3.1, you can request to address the board about any topic that is on tonight's agenda, which is behind me. Or under item nine, you are welcome to
003address the board on any topic. When making comments, please state your name and address. Direct your comments to the board president. Each person may speak for up to two minutes. For established procedures, the board will not respond to questions or interact with the speaker during public comment. Miss Nag, would you mind checking the sign-in sheet for me, please? maybe. Thank you very much. All right. Uh we have three citizens who would like to address the board. Um, we've got so one on number nine, Miss Rogers, you'd like to speak at item 6.3. And I cannot read this last name. Beth Peru, I'm sorry. What is it? Oh, so you did not want to speak. Okay. All right. Great. So, Mr. Dinger, you're number nine. Miss Rogers at 6.3. I will call you Miss Rogers at
004that. So, okay. Um, thank you. Uh, item four is the superintendent update. I turn it over to Dr. Ryan. >> Thank you. Good evening, community. uh behalf of our school district, just want to put out some uh amazing vibes as far as this evening, how exciting it is to hear to have our business professionals of America youth here uh represented and and sharing some of their uh recent success. We're so very proud of them and looking forward to hearing their story this evening. And also uh for uh the representatives this evening from our Clarkson area youth assistance. It's a group that is intertwined very closely with our school district, our community, and a large part of Oakland County and and their way that they go above and beyond to really support the children, especially those
005that may be struggling at some points to make sure that they have an added layer of support. And I'm really uh excited they're here to kind of share their story and really give an idea of all the amazing things and connections that we have in our schools that make our kids um safe, supported, and hopefully eventually successful and on their way and and then helping the next generation. So, it's very much a labor of love. So, we'll get to them this evening as well. Also, this past Friday want to report in that uh our school district had a very strong day of uh professional learning. Um there was a lot of work done in in the secondary around uh artificial intelligence and how that translates into the educational process here in Clarkston and looking at
006how staff appropriately uses and how we engage with AI uh with the obvious stepping stone uh to link it to looking at how our students interact and that you know long-term you know the value that we have in education for thinking for engaging not only with each other but you know with technology and and seeing how things are used in the workforce. course that we need to constantly be on our toes and looking forward, not looking backward. Um, but that work was was very much begun in earnest in a larger way with our entire staff. So, I'm really happy to be able to report that that work is being done. and also on our elementary this past week, you know, all the work around looking at our future literacy resources which will be coming to
007bear to the board of education and into the Clarkston teaching learning council over the next week as they come to a final uh piece for looking at uh a new resource in Clarkston which will very much continue that that spirit of upgrading and moving into the future and high success for our students in reading. So very very excited um to see the work being done that and I can tell you in earnest uh our staff was very much engaged and working hard in all these different elements on Friday and uh they're going to carry us into the future that way. So lastly just I'm hoping to get a little reprieve for our community on behalf of uh Clarkston to hopefully get us some warmer temperatures. Uh it's been absolutely brutal to facilities and everything keeping
008everything uh tight so that we can keep everybody safe and in school. We're doing our absolute best. I'm heard tomorrow might be a heat wave up first time possibly above freezing in uh in several months. Uh so I for one is looking very much forward to that and I hope you're all staying warm uh and connected as we move into this February. Thank you. >> Thank you Dr. Ryan. Item five is the presentation items. Our first presentation is about EPA which is Business Professionals of America and we are recognizing [clears throat] them. >> The mic is yours. Thank you very much for coming today. >> Good evening. Thank you for having me. My name is Julia Whitaker and I'm the president of the Clarkson chapter of Business Professionals of America or BPA. BPA is a
009competition-based club that allows students enrolled in career technical education courses to compete events that correspond with their class. Events range from finance to computer science to media production with competition formats including presentations, tests, case studies, and interviews. All Clarkson BPA members have the opportunity to compete at the regional competition and qualifying students have the option to compete at the state level and possibly at the national level. BPA provides students with the opportunity to pu pursue experiences and careers that interest interest them outside of their education, expanding their learning and often resulting in accolades that they can show off to employers through their resume or on college applications. Tonight, I'm joined by the other three officers of the Clarkson chapter, and they're each going to tell you a little bit more about their individual experiences as
010members of BPA. >> I'm Gavin Pruski. I'm a junior at Clarkson High School. I've been in BPA for two years. I'm one of the officers here at Clarkson. My favorite part about BPA is that there's so much more than just the business involved in BPA. It truly expands to like the healthcare administration medical uh I do the medical coding event so I can learn more about what I want to do after high school in the medical field. I know that a lot of a lot of friends that are interested in normal coding like with a computer and they can find that and it's so much more than just business. also people interested in media production and things that you don't typically involve with the word business. So, I think it's really cool that there's a
011spot for everybody that can really help you learn what you want to do for a career and just give you some more experience with what you want to do after high school. >> Thank you. >> Hi. Uh I'm Matthew Drake. I'm also a junior at Clarkson High School and I'm an officer for the BPA club. Uh BPA has really helped me prepare for my future goals and academic growth. Uh a lot of BPA classes revolve around CTE classes uh which is career technical education. Uh last year I took an accounting class with the CT program and this class helped me join BPA and with this class I decided to take three accounting events over the past two years in BPA. And these events really prepared me for will will prepare me for future college accounting
012classes. Another event that I did is uh the financial analyst team with Gavin. Uh together we uh went over a case study of a business uh using their financial statements and we decided whether or not they should expand in the coming years. uh with our with my accounting experience in through my accounting class and business management experience through my business management class uh and also our problem solving skills. We decided not to uh have the business expand and um this event really helped me with uh presentation skills uh intercom communicate interpersonal communication and teamwork skills. Uh overall, BPA has really helped me prepare for future college classes and helping me prepare for a future career in business which I hope to pursue. Thank you. >> Hi, I'm Hayden Smith. I'm also an officer in BPA
013and so my story was uh last year I joined as a junior and so I was in the entrepreneurship class that is provided and so with that I joined the entrepreneurship event. So for that I had to create a 10page long business plan. And so I created a consulting firm that connected uh high school students to employers giving them shadowing opportunities. And so with that I made all the way to states. Uh and then past that during the summer uh I partnered up with DOR Financial Credit Union and Solvent Inc. and provided myself and another student a shadowing experience at the executive level which was amazing experience. I learned how executives communicate and solve problems and plan for the future and BPA really influenced that as well. Uh this year I'm doing uh the advanced
014interview which again coming from the summer uh is supporting a lot of my professional communication and a lot of my career uh preparedness. So yeah, >> thank you again for having us. Um are there any questions that we can answer? >> Does anybody have any questions, comments? How many students are are part of BPA this year? I think it's getting bigger, right? So, you've been on it for a few years, Julia. Is that correct? >> Yes. So, the past 3 years, we've had about 50 to 60 students. Um, all 50 to 60 students attend regionals and then we usually have about 30 students who um attend the state competition and a handful of students attending the national competition. >> Okay, that's actually quite a bit more than I had expected. Um, what's the X I
015see three gentlemen and one is that pretty indicative. Are there more boys than girls? Just out of curiosity. There's definitely um more boys and girls, but I think that we've also increased the number of girls who are involved in the club over the years. So, I would say it's probably closer to like a 6040 split. >> That's great. >> Yeah. >> Wonderful. Um and then how many events can you guys do in a year? I say you said that the states, the nationals, is there I heard an advanced interview. Is that another event that not everybody does or >> each student can choose two events to participate in? So, um up to one team event. So, usually students will participate in either two individual events or an individual event and a team event. And there's
016about 200 events I think that they can choose from um ranging from business and marketing to digital media and computer science. Um, but there's also open events that any student can compete in and some virtual events. So, for example, I at the regional conference I um competed in two events and I qualified for states in both of those, but then I also competed in every open event. There's 12, I think, and I competed and I qualified in six of those for the state competition. >> I love that. Thank you very much. Um, does anybody else have any questions or comments? >> Where's the national competition this year? This year the national competition is in Nashville, but it changes every year. So, >> yeah, Nashville's nice. Enjoy it. Well, thank you guys very much. We'd love
017it if you guys could come up and shake our hand. We wish you luck and we very much appreciate your coming today. [applause] I don't want to get [laughter] >> But congratulations. Good luck. Yeah, >> that's right. You were probably in the [clears throat] entrepreneurship. >> I was. >> I heard. >> We will do one more presentation and then we will take a short recess if you guys would like to leave. Everyone is welcome to stay for the whole meeting. But our next presentation before the break would be uh item 5.2 is uh Clarkston area youth assistance update. Thank you. I'm Judy Abler. I'm the vice chair of Clarkson Area Youth Assistance. And this is Lauren Clauss who is our case worker and she's going to be sharing um some experiences and an update in
018a little bit, but I'll just give you a little update about um the organization. Uh so my as I said, my name is Judy Aliser. I'm a retired education professor and administrator from Oakland University and it's still in my blood. So I I even when I left there, I then uh became very active in in Kaya. Um as most of you know, KA is to strengthen families and youth uh and reduce delinquency and abuse through community involvement. So we really appreciate uh the sponsorship and the support of the schools and the community. So, thank you very much. Um, I'm not going to go over all the things that Kaia has been doing. Um, we do have a couple of copies of the annual report. You can also get it online if you'd like and also
019check things out through the um through our website. But I'm just going to highlight a couple of newer programs that we're doing um and then give you some dates of upcoming things. So, one of the new programs we started this past year is called Music Mashup. Um, and it started in the winter of last year at Pine Knob Elementary. And it's a program. It's a 7-week program after school for kids between um second and fifth grade. And it's um students have been identified that would benefit from having an opportunity to have um some structure but some social time. Um it's not to f it's not to you know highlight people that are going to be great musicians but it's just to bring kids together with some adults to support them and mentor them. Um and
020it was a great success when we did it last year. So much so that uh we're we ran it again in the fall. um and um at North Sasha and we're running it again now again at Pine Knob and we hope in the future to even spread it further. Um so that's one of our new exciting programs that sort of replaced or um we used to do a homework club and a mentoring program and we've phased those out and put the music mashup in in its place at this point. The other program I want to highlight is our family education program. So for years we would have um workshops and sessions where we would invite families and particularly parents to come to hear about different topics that would be of interest to them. Well, parents
021are really busy and under a lot of stress and so time is a is a huge issue and so we found that less and less parents were coming in the evening to our workshops. So we decided we get with the 21st century and we decided to create podcasts instead. Uh particularly to address there's the theme for last year was actually on reducing stress for parents and what a better way than being able to access a podcast whenever you want. Uh and it was done through um a question and answer period. That's the flyer from last year. There were six different um uh podcasts last year all relating to stress. Um I'll just quickly highlight them since you probably can't see them up there. Uh the first was was on stress busting tips, balanced family life,
022parenting with connection, blended families, sibling dynamics, and navigating mental health needs as a family. Um and last year uh it was a question and answer period where we posed the questions and counselors from LA mental health were the ones who responded. Um and those are still available. They'll be available, you know, ongoing. Um and this year we're doing one aimed for um teenagers and it's focusing on uh building relationships. Um the first one which has now gotten the most attraction or most um momentum is um stick those on on called feed hurts algorithms FOMO and your mood. I had no idea what FOMO was. I'm out of the picture [clears throat] but it means fear of missing out when you're dealing with uh social media. Uh and we will be doing six again this year.
023And this year we are working with um Gizkin Counseling Services. Uh all of the episodes are on Apple podcast, Spotify and through the Kaioa website. So again you can access that um at any time. The other two things that I just want to highlight um are some dates for some of our um bigger events. So each April we do pin wheels uh which is um to again promote healthy well-being and reduce um delinquency and abuse in the in the community. So we've sent a save the date for our um kickoff event uh which is March 12th at 7:30 a.m. Um and um invitations will be going out. And uh the last one I want to highlight is our youth recognition, which is my very favorite program of the year and probably most people's favorite. Um
024it's when um students are acknowledged uh for their um personal growth and development through the year. Um and last year I think we had 72 around around 72 students. um each one of them beaming from the um uh passage that was read about them and they got to shake everyone's hands. So it was it was a wonder it's a wonderful event. Um and uh that again is on April 28th at 700 p.m. and it's going to be held again this year at uh Clarkson High School in the Performing Arts Center. uh letters will be sent out to all the board members uh as we get closer to the time. So, what I'd like to do now is turn it over to our caseworker, Lauren Clauss. And I have to say um we are so privileged
025and and delighted to have Lauren as our case worker. She works with the board incredibly well and she also works with the students brilliantly. So, we're really really thrilled um to have Lauren. So, I'll turn it over to Lori. >> Thank you, Judy, and thank you all again for having us come and visit tonight. I know it's been a little while since we've been in front of the board to give an update, so we're we're glad we could could come out tonight. Um, so yes, many exciting things going on with our board. Um, it's awesome to see how our volunteers are really rallying together to develop new creative programs to reach our community in all these new different ways. So, um, and our board's been growing. We've been gaining some new members over the last
026year, year and a half. So, that's exciting as well. Um, with casework, just some updates for you all. Um, since July of 25 until last Thursday, I checked my stats. Um, I had 36 new cases come in in that time frame. Most of them have been from schools for school incorility. Um, some for prevention and a few for truency or educational neglect. um as well as others from like law enforcement, the juvenile intake department, prosecutor's office, and from parents as well. Um some trends this year, um kind of the same as some other past years as well, but uh vaping with nicotine and marijuana. That's probably probably the biggest concern I keep seeing on my case load. Um as well as threats, bullying, harassment type things, uh general encourageable or defiant behavior, um either in
027school or at home. um as well as sharing inappropriate pictures with one another um destruction of property and retail fraud. Um this year with the juvenile justice reform that happened with the state of Michigan, all juvenile courts are required to do a new assessment process. So um that includes us even though we're not formal court. We are a diversion of the court. Um we're informal, but we are also doing this new assessment process with everyone who's 12 years and older on my case. Um so these one assessment particular looks at um eight different areas of what they call criminogenic risk. And I I always tell families I don't like using that word because it makes it sound like everyone's a criminal, but that's not the case. It's we want to look and we want to
028reduce anything that might be maybe heading in the wrong direction and we want to reduce that, right? We do not want to go in the direction um of any criminal type behavior or court or anything like that. We want we want to target specific areas that might be risk of risk and reduce that. So our goals and objectives are really targeting any of those areas that are being flagged as a higher risk area and doing things to make sure we're we're addressing those particular areas especially. Um, so some examples of interventions, um, maybe if it's substance use, I have them do maybe a research project or attend like the power of choice class that we've partnered with Easter Seals to host, um, which is all about substance use education and prevention. Um, maybe they create
029a vision board. It's a really fun project where they do some dreaming and goal setting and we work on what do you want in your future and then come up with an, you know, action steps and action plans to help them focus on what they want to live for and what they value and what they're going after. U maybe they're doing some community service hours, you know, really giving back to the community in different ways. Um Clarkson Family Farm is one of our favorites. Uh kids love going over there and um I know they love having many students serve in some capacity for many different reasons. Um ripple effects lessons are it's an online tool that we have right now. It's an evidence-based program that um I use often with my kids and they're just
030very short online lessons on all sorts of different topics. Um, so we'll pick and choose ones that help address what we need to. Um, as well as other interactivities, interactive activities with me to work on different skills like decision-m, peer, you know, friendships and relationships, communication, coping, etc. Um, sometimes they'll write an essay like getting them thinking more about their choices and outcomes and what they've learned or doing a letter of apology if that's appropriate. We'll also um watch videos often on all sorts of different topics. Um and then sometimes they go and observe adult court at the county um courthouse, which is always very interesting to hear what they've seen and observed at the county courthouse to get that kind of reality check of this is real life and these are the choices that
031can lead in that direction. We don't want to go there. Um and then of course always connecting families with their needed resources with mental health with um parent support or parent classes any you know any other basic needs that they might have. um always looking to help connect them with what they need to help support them. So, as always, we just thank you so much. Um you know, Clarkson Community Schools and School Board and just the partnership that we have with you. We really appreciate your sponsorship, your partnership. We really couldn't do the work that we do without all of you and the the close relationship that we do have with everyone in the school. So, thank you again. >> Thank you. Does anybody have uh RP pants? >> Okay. So you described um Kay
032as a diversion from the court, right? >> So I want to ask do you have like any um does Kay ever interface interface with the other diversion program like team court for example? >> Oh that's a good question. Um teen court my understanding of that is it's more I think the prosecutor's office like works closely with teen court or the the pro the probation officers with formal court. they they work more on that side of it and like do referrals into teen court. So I I have not personally done referrals into teen court. Um I think that one's a newer one that I'm so I'm not even sure if like our end of it would be able to refer into it. Um because we are we're like the really early early prevention side of court.
033We're very informal. Um I mean there's a lot of kids I see that are not at all like in trouble with anything. You know, we're just working on kind of typical life stuff and support. So, um, youth assistance is is kind of unique in that that you [clears throat] know, we're a diversion program, but we're like really early on prevention. >> Thank you. >> Does anyone else have any questions or comments? >> Yes, Mrs. McInness. >> I would um just like to commend you the podcast. I think it was a fabulous idea. I think it >> you know, you got to go where they're at. Exactly. >> And if they're not coming to your meetings, you got to go to them. So, I love the podcast. Um I was part of the parent network with
034Kaya many many years ago and um I think also changing up the the homework club to the music mash is also going where the kids are going and I think it's both of those changes are going to be to the benefit benefit of the organization when it comes to outreach to our kids. So thank you very much. >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> Thank you very much for coming tonight. We often talk about how much we appreciate all the work that you do and I know Mr. Hire and I were talking with our student reps at lunch last week about all that you offer and all that you do and we spoke very highly and we're very appreciative. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. All right. Those are our presentations. We're going to
035take a quick [applause] please say yes. Actually clap. >> We are going to take a quick five minute break. If you would like to leave, you may scoot out now. If you'd like to stay for the rest of the meeting, you may do that as well. So, we'll reconvene in just a couple minutes. And I'm very impressed that our BPA officers are staying. Often we don't get that. So, well done, guys. Um, okay. We're going to move on to our action items. >> Item 6.1 is approval of personnel changes. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the personnel changes as listed on the attached sheets. >> Support. >> Motion made and supported. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 6.2
036is approval of the revised contract for the safety director. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the contract renewal with SEC Shield for our district safety director as presented. >> Support. >> Motion made and supported. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Nay. >> Motion carries. >> Item 6.3 is approval of the resolution regarding the regional enhancement mill election. Before I entertain a motion, Dr. Ryan, would you give a quick update or a quick summary of this? >> Absolutely. The uh Oakland County Mill uh proposal that our board is going to be reviewing this evening is regarding a possible regional enhancement millage for Oakland County from across our entire school district. Uh the action allows a countywide uh question to appear on
037the August 2026 ballot across the county. and on behalf at least for our schoolboard members tonight, it does not represent a support or opposition to the proposal directly. Uh the resolution simply ensures that a decision rests with the voters of our community. And it's not just us that's considering this. It has to be and will be reviewed across school boards and school districts across Oakland County. And to make it to the actual ballot, it will need to be passed by school districts representing over 50% of the students in Oakland County uh for attend on the uh ballot. Um it'll be on an August 26 ballot and it has to be proposed and approved by voters across the entire county by a majority for it to actually take effect. And some of the wise behind we're
038reviewing this proposal this evening is that since the 1990s um school funding has largely been controlled by the state. It's done in a very cookie cutter format for all on a per pupil for all students. and that uh before that, prior to 1994, it was very common that the way that school districts generated and and receive their revenue was going to their local voters to pass and to have uh school districts that were funded the way that their communities intended and wanted them to be funded. Um that sense of local control uh has largely been lost. um there's very few um avenues for school districts to be able to look at their local voters to be able to uh fund the schools that they the way they want to do that. And uh this is
039one of the the small ways that is still available um to voters and it's used by multiple many counties across the state of Michigan. Um, it's also a fact that based on this cookie cutter model the state of Michigan has that school costs continue to rise faster than the state and federal funding that supports the schools nationally. And there's really no ear or um view to individual school districts based on their needs, their level of success or how they use um taxpayer money to uh convert that into student achievement to be actually viewed um by that community in terms of how they support their local schools. um this enhancement millillage would be one way that our local community could weigh in and how they want their schools funded. Um having a countywide millillage uh just
040to make sure that's clear because normally our voters do not vote on proposals like this. Uh they do vote on proposals uh for school bonds. Uh to be clear, school bonds are uh used by our local community um to support the building and maintenance of our physical facilities. um if we want to build buildings or put roofs or repair parking lots, those are those things and and the money from school bonds is exclusively and only allowed to be used on those type of capital projects they call them. Um a countywide millage on the other hand can be used for a wider range of different things within our school district and school districts across uh Oakland County. Um that does include things like staff recruitment, retention, safety initiatives, um our money for all the different uh
041things we do to support the students in the specialized programs and elements of things like class size. So think of the human element of a school district that's support. Also, Clarkson's in a unique spot that if if uh a millillage would uh pass in our community, I can say to a certainty that all the dollars raised by that millillage would stay in Clarkston Community Schools. In addition, based on the formula that is done to in in determining the funding based on these countywide millages, Clarks would actually receive money from other communities from Oakland County that would flow into Clarkston. So by this proposition, it would have the opportunity to actually raise additional funds that not even the Clarison community itself would be able would on on the similar millillage would be able to generate. The
042specifics of the proposal would involve an August 4th, 2026 election date if it was passed by majority of school districts representing the students of Oakland County. The rate would be 1.5 mills. The term would be six years and the estimated impact if approved to be transparent would be an increase of roughly $781 per pupil annually that it would raise and approximately $4,686 per pupil over the six years. Um approximately $150 would be an increase on the average $200,000 home. Again, it'd be $150 on a $200,000 home. Uh the first collection for this would take place in December of 2026. And just to be clear also that Oakland County does not currently have any type of millillage like this and that most of our neighboring districts uh for a competitive advantage including Wayne um levies a
0431.9 mil and Mcome County also uh levies a 1.8 mil. I know other counties across the state do similar things uh in terms of with their voters that have support uh to support local funding. What the board would be taking action on tonight is not whether or not that they have a personal belief at this time the mill should pass. Uh they're just voting tonight deciding whether or not that Oakland County voters should be giving uh the opportunity to weigh in on the educational opportunities if they see fit. This action in in my estimation supports transparency and public participation by allowing community to get information on how they feel like um the revenue and funds should be used. It does uh give an element of our local community uh given a voice to decide how
044what type of schools that they want to have and how they want to invest in them. And this is a governance decision this evening, not an advocacy one. Uh the proposal would provide local flexibility, not mandates. We have enough mandates from the state and federal government uh that don't necessarily align with the values and what we believe in in Clarkston. and for us to be able to support the kind of schools that we want for this community. This would provide that opportunity for voters to be able to sound off and that if the county if excuse me and it allows the community to review the facts, ask questions uh all the way between now and August in a very transparent way to decide um how they feel about it and their level of support. So
045this evening I'm it's it's you know my duty as your superintendent. I'm the number one advocate for for schools in Oakland County, excuse me, Oakland County, Clarkston community and for a proposition that would affect Oakland County. What I would say um for our board to be able to have an opportunity to to u weigh in on it and then potentially allow our voters uh to be able to u make their voices heard as well. So I'd be turn it over to screen. >> Thank you very much. All right. May I have a motion, please? >> Oh, can I say something? Not until the way. Motion's been made. >> I move that the boardification approves the attached resolution requesting that Oakland schools submit to its electors the question of a regional enhancement village proposal for 1.5
046mills for a period of six years at the election to be held on August 4th, 2026 as presented. >> Support. All right. Motion has been made and supported. Mrs. Love. >> Uh yes. I would like to I guess respectfully disagree with Dr. Ryan on some of his points. Uh I believe this defies local control because local control would mean that it was Clarkston Community Schools voters only. This is the whole county. And we know that Oakland County is 100% going to pass this if they if we get it on the ballot. They did the abhorrent transportation tax that brought no benefit to Clarkston. And I just want my fellow board members to remember that we are elected officials by the people here in Clarkston. They don't want another tax increase. And Dr. Ryan said 200,000
047was the average home price, but that's actually not true. Clarkston's like double that. So it would be probably 300 or more per person. It adds up. And our constituency does not want this. and we should vote according to who elected us. And I also wanted to get the student rep's opinion on this as well. >> Do I have more, Mrs. McInness? >> Um, I have a couple questions I just want to put out there so that somebody can get the answer later. Number one, I want to say thank you for superintendent bringing the transparency to this conversation to let the public know to the best of our ability what this vote is about. Um, a couple of the questions I have is, is Clarkson Community Schools paying for the port our portion of this election
048as if it was a Clarkston school board election within the election or is Oakland schools paying for it? one. Um, will Oakland schools be providing the public with the factual presentation as we would with a bond campaign or non-renewal of our homestead. Um, in the future, I'd like a little bit more information for our public to understand how the funding is divided. And unlike approximately and other senior board member here can correct me if I'm incorrect here. Unlike the 11 other school districts in Oakland County who are nonhome we're not a we are a non nonhomestead district. We cannot ask to have our >> Hold harmless. Thank you. We cannot ask to have our uh operating funds u millillage raised based on a request to our community. Only 11 other districts in Oakland County can
049do that. We can't. So, and they already get more per pupil than we get. So, you could see the disadvantages that Clarkston is always working with since 1994 when it comes to our per pupil allocation. Um, so for those reasons and many more of which I do not speak for every single person in this community, I will bring an affirmative to allow this to be brought to our public. >> Okay. Just on on on the question side, I believe that August, and again, not to quote me right now, I'll come back with clarification, committee, if I'm wrong, is is the final primary before that. So, they'd already be having the election. I don't know if there's um that as far as an additional cost to having that. I do know when school districts as entities
050call their own election where there's no other election going on, they are fully responsible. So I don't think that's the case. Um the second thing is I do believe that um open schools will provideformational uh uh data and uh background and additional from there. And I do think uh through the process that we owe our community explanations, continued opportunity to ask questions and being how it would affect our community and uh any such funds and how they'd be invested. I think those are all fair questions that we would want to be 100% transparency. And then those are I think the main gesture questions and then the loop back to Miss Love just on on the comment about that the house is the $200,000 house u estimate is not an average for just to clarify for
051a house in Clarks. It's usually just done for illustrative purposes that people can think if I live in a less expensive or more expensive hope they can kind of get what that relative cost. So if that was unclear then I apologize but it was usually I think that's like the standard used when they do for estimations for increase for uh anything to do with uh um tax changes. >> Thank you for clarifying. I thought you might be citing the whole open. >> No, I don't believe that would be the average thing, but I think that's like in any type of model they use in anyformational thing, they always say based on a $200,000 house. >> Yeah, obviously that would be graduated based on that. >> Mr. McNotton, >> I wanted to I guess representatives on
052this. I appreciate the concern for our opinions, but I think that it's kind of unconventional to um maybe ask a specific section of the school how an issue like this speak up for ourselves on this issue. So um I I I appreciate the desire for for our opinions. >> Okay. Thank you. Is there anybody else? Mr. Hire, >> um, this is a a curious proposal. I I I really question the timing of this at this particular time. I know things are especially volatile right now economically and going for this at this point, I feel like could be a real challenge for our community. I I I think we'd want to have more time and more chance than this to come up really at the next major election. That that's that's my main concern at this
053point. >> Do we have to is is tonight like the last night we could vote on this? I'm just curious. >> I can't remember the exact date. It was It was I think this or March. It was It was close. >> It was end of March. Is that correct, Miss? >> March. Was that an okay? >> So, um, >> from from an agenda planning standpoint, it was either this meeting or the next meeting that we had as far as a choice of when to take it up. >> And next weekend's a is a workshop meeting and it's not being as much in in the public eye as this one would be. I which I appreciate when we [clears throat] sit at the table and talk about how we respectfully disagree because I do think that's
054the strength of this board in particular is that we can respectfully disagree and Mrs. Lovewell I have the utmost respect for your political prowess because I think you're amazing. Like I've talked to people that both in Clarkston and no in Oakland County. I don't know that this is a sure thing from what I've heard. And then I also >> I think we run in different circles. [laughter] we may but and then I also just in Clarkston have had as many people say I think that people deserve to vote even in Clarkston. Um and I I do want it known I mean and I think it was like Dr. Ryan said but um I feel very strongly that I want it out in the public that a yes vote here is not an endorsement of this
055millillage. Um and I know I think we've all said it a couple different ways but I also wanted to say it. So, um, with the is discussion any further? Mrs. Rogers, if you'd like to come up, I will start the timer. If you went after you say your name and address and you will have two minutes to address the board. >> All right. Beth Rogers, 7165 Hogback Lake Road. President Crane School Board, um, you are going to vote, I believe, tonight, on bringing the school enhancement millage to voters. This vote is a critical example of what democracy should be. Giving the vote to the people. What a unique and valuable opportunity you have to make a positive impact potentially on our district. Here's what I believe. Where the federal government and the state might let
056us down, our community will not. CCS is as much a part of Clarkson as Honcho, Depot Park, and Pine Knob. Our students play in Friday night football games. They march in the band. They are there in every parade from the youngest dancing with pom poms to the Boy Scouts on floats to Team Rush and the amazing robots that they build. Our students are amazing rock stars, athletes, engineers, construction tech wizards, robotics programmers, artists, musicians, military recruits, and so much more. They are the very future of Clarkson, of Michigan, and beyond. We have a shared belief in and responsibility to our children. We are securing the future for them through the decisions we make today. This opportunity for local funding will help our children continue to have the opportunities we offer to be wellprepared for their
057future so they will go and achieve their dreams. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration and support for our kids as you vote to give our community a voice and a choice. Thank you, Mrs. Rogers. All right. Item 6.3 is a roll call vote. Mrs. Mlan, can you call the role, please? >> Mr. Ne, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> no. >> Mrs. Love, >> no. >> Mrs. McInness, >> yes. >> Mrs. Egan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hyer, >> no. >> Mrs. Crate, >> yes. People's >> four to three. Motion carries. Item 6.4 is approval of the budget amendment resol resolution. May I have a motion, please? >> I move the board of education approves the budget amendment resolution as presented. >> Support motion made and supported. Is there any discussion on this? Seeing none, all
058those in favor, please say I. >> I. Sorry, I need a roll call vote. You do. >> Okay. doesn't say >> Mrs. Egan. >> Yes. Sorry. >> Uh, Mrs. McInness. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Love. >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ne. >> Mr. Hire. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Crane. >> Yes. Thank you. Item 6.5 is approval of the filter first initiative contract. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the filtered water equipment uh filter first healthy hydration initiative contract to service pro in the amount of $16,000 as presented >> support. All right, Mr. Goodman, could you come up and say a few words, please? >> Yes. Thank you. I I just want to give you real brief what this is. Um in 2024 we applied
059for the grant for the uh filter first healthy initiative. What it really is is a state law that is making all K12 schools and private schools uh put filters for lead in the in their buildings. And it's not to do with uh that we have bad water. Um but a lot of older buildings have older infrastructure and um this is like they they kind of call it a seat belt that will versus us testing and then being reactive to how to solve it. the filters will be taking care of that um as as they're required to do and um so they're they have to meet the water um like ANIE and these different rules of what type of filter we can use as well as all the filter stations that we are going to provide
060have to have indicator lights to let us know that the filters it aged and and needs to be replaced with also within this grant we are uh require required to test all these areas at least annually uh just to have that if there was something to come about. Right now we only test schools that we have well water. This will require us to do all of our schools. So there'll be um additional operating cost for changing the filters and for doing the testing um again annually for each building. Uh we are we and so in 24 we applied for the grant. In 25 January of 25 we had to have a water management plan and then now we're bringing to you uh tonight for the award of a plumber to come in that will purchase
061the equipment and then install the equipment for us. Um within that the uh all water anywhere a kid can drink water or a staff member has to be filtered. So we are and part of the filtration is um one bottle filler filtered bottle filler for every 100 kids. So an elementary for instance 500 would be five bottle fillers within that building. We also anywhere like a teachers lounge or where we do food prep in the kitchens those will have to have inline filters. So, we will be removing all bubblers that are in the classrooms. Right now, there's a a handwashing sink with a bubbler next to it. The kids don't really use those anymore. When bottle fillers came out, kids bring their own bottle and then they go out and that's chilled water um and
062so forth. So, if we left the bubbler, we'd have to put inline filter and then we'd have to test that annually. So, removing it just gets us out of that that process. The second or third or fifth part of this is we anywhere we don't have a filter we have to label that as non um filtered water. It's not for drinking. So basically uh it will be a handwashing sink or or you know listed as that. So those will that's part of the law is we have to have filter where wherever we will will have students and staff and visitors drink and then anywhere it's not we have to label that it's not filtered. So again, this this request award for this bidder uh will get us started in replacement uh and additions to uh
063meet the criteria. >> Any questions? >> Thank you, Mr. Are there any >> I do have a question. Do do we do the testing or is the county coming in and testing or is the township testing? >> Uh we will test and um but we take it to a lab. So, we'll we'll get the bottles from the county, most likely take it to the county. The county is pretty reasonable as far as the uh testing rate, but there's private labs. We have different options. Um, but we will we'll actually pull the samples and take them to a lab. >> And we do that annually or every 6 months? >> Annually for this new law. >> Okay. And so, like when we're testing, is it coming is it the water that's coming out of anything that's
064filtered? Like do we have to test every spot that has a filter on it? >> Everyone that has a filter cuz those others we're not using for drinking water. So part of testing for lead because we do this now in our buildings with um a well and we test for other things arsenic and >> um lead and copper and cifform and so forth. for this law, it's just for lead. And the lead test is the first draw in the morning after it sits for six hours because what you're really trying to get is is there's something coming out of the pipes within the building. Um, again, it's going through the seat belt with the filter and then we're going to test, but it just gives us background that it the filter should be pulling anything
065out. Um, and that's why the indicator lights and that to make sure that we replace. So they we've been doing this. Oakland County had a grant back 201819 if you recall. We we ended up with 60 bottle fillers throughout the district. It was only K I think it was K8. Didn't include the high school. Um, with that the filters are they can be pricey. Um, and when we go through them, uh, we're we're really going to have to figure out what this looks like in the kitchens when they're using it for food prep, how many filters, how often those filters will be replaced. But we can we might replace uh three to four times a year and um, you know, we'll buy in bulk, but it's these filters aren't cheap. >> Yeah. And then when
066do we when do we have to be in compliance with this law? Like is there a deadline to get at the end of the June 30th? Okay. >> Now, that may may get extended because every school in the state has to have vital fillers done. Um, our supplier right now says they can supply us the equipment and uh you know with your approval tonight are we'll get them going uh right away. We're going to have to do some work after hours or um during breaks and that doesn't leave us much time in the summer to have it complete by June 30th. But we'll we'll do we'll we'll do it if we got it. That's that's our plan right now is we talk to the bidder and he can have it done. >> Okay, Mrs. >>
067Thank you. >> I was just curious, is this a new law or has this been existing for a while? >> It's it's a new law. >> It is a new law under the current house. >> Yeah, it's uh from the state. It's not through the county and it was federally funded. There was $50 million given to the state to um and grants to apply to fund to make it um to qualify to get your buildings up to par. >> Okay. So, it was a federal grant. >> It's a federal It's a state rand grant, but the funds are from the federal. >> Got it. >> Is there any further questions, Mrs. McInness? >> Madam President, thank you. Um, Wes, are we testing the water after filter or before filter? >> At the filter. >> Okay.
068So, the filter should be doing their job, >> right? >> Conceivably. [clears throat] Um, it would be interesting for you, of course, to keep some kind of track of what this costs since this, I believe, is an unfunded mandate from the government for us to do this, which means the money will come out of our general fund. >> Yeah. Yeah. We'll definitely keep track. We'll have a >> Yes, it will. >> And am I correct to assume that lead cannot be boiled out of the water when you speak of the kitchen use? >> That's correct. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else? All right, the motion has been made and supported. Thank you, Mr. Goodman. I appreciate it. All those in favor, please say, "I." I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item
0696.6 is approval of the transportation building improvements contract. May I have a motion, please? >> I move the board of education approves the contracts for the Clarkson Transportation Improvements Project based on the attached breakdown. The contracts total 1.338 million, $2.40, 40 plus a 7 and a half contingenc 7 and a half% contingency of $100,350 for a grand total of $1,438,35240 as presented >> support. Is there any questions or discussion on this? >> You may recall we did some of the transportation bids in January to allow some additional time for um that work to be done and this is the rest of them. So, this finishes the transportation uh project of what we need to approve for bids. >> Thank you, Mr. Hire. All right, seeing no more discussion, all those in favor, please say I.
070>> Any opposed? >> Motion carries. Item 6.7 is approval of Anderson Andersonville Elementary Generator Project contract. May I have a motion, please? >> I move that the board of education approves the contracts for the Andersonville Elementary generator project based on the attached breakdown. The contracts total 73,6 $36067 cents plus a 10% contingency of $7,36 for a final total of $80,6967 as presented. >> Support. >> Thank you. Um motions made and supported. Is there any questions or comments? >> I would just comment that this was actually the generator that we were repurposing from the junior high and moving it over to Andersonville. We did talk about that. I believe um when we did the tour at the junior high, but I just wanted to remember uh remind everybody that that was the purpose. That's what this
071project is. >> Thank you, Mrs. Egan. Right. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. >> Item 6.8 is approval of the change order for Clarkson High School's mechanical work. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approve the construction change order for Bumler Mechanical in the amount of $117,949 as presented. >> Support. Motion made and supported. Is there any question or discussion? Right. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. [clears throat] Item 6.9 is approval of the change order for the Clarkson Junior High School Excavating. May I have a motion, please? >> I move that the board of education approve the construction change order for Johnson and Suns excavating in the amount of $61,5 presented. >>
072Support. >> Motion made and supported. Are there any questions or discussion? >> Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carries. Item 6.10 is approval of the board operating procedures. May I have a motion, please? >> I move that the board of education approves the revised board operating procedures as presented. [cough and clears throat] >> Support. >> All right. I will remind you that I sent these out last month. I changed the mission statement and vision statement to reflect our most recent strategic plan. And then I added Mr. Mr. Ne and Mrs. Love as part of our board goals um gave us a superintendent evaluation timeline. I added that to the board operating procedures and I as your president apparently dropped the ball because it says in the
073board operating procedures that we will affirm them annually at our retreat and we did not. So we are doing it now. So I appreciate that. Um is there any further discussion or questions about this? >> Yes, Mrs. Love. I would just like to commend our president on being proactive to do this. This was very good. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. Um, all those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries. Item 6.11 is the approval of the MASB tool for the superintendent evaluation. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the updated superintendent evaluation tool from MASB as presented. >> Support. >> All right. I will remind you that by law we have to evaluate our superintendent annually unless he gets three years I believe of effective
074and then we can go by annual but we do need to tell him what tool we'll be using so he knows you know what yard stick to that we'll be using. So this is what that is and it also is in the board operating procedures that we will do this. So um any further discussion or questions? [cough] All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Therein ends our lengthy action items for tonight. We will move on to our report items. Our first report item and our very first time ever. Thank you very much. Is an update from our student representatives. Um hello uh me and Jay wanted to inform you about a few points related to both student representation within schools and um just some things that our students in our community are
075doing that you might have to hear about all the time that really make an impact on our school and our community emails going to be sent out tomorrow I believe all high school students that will give high school students a little bit more information about the student to represent the program and what we're really trying to achieve for this program. Um we're looking at the potential to do setting up a new classroom soon that um will provide easier access representative so um students high school can both submit ideas um about the way that the personal school is going to have an easier way to um provide that input with the student representatives which we can then pass on to the school board. I will also include school related information uh and just create a more
076stream access representatives the students. Um I also wanted to mention that students have basketball game or basketball game tomorrow at high school. Um, unified basketball is a popular students both with and without special needs sports and safety. Um I would encourage you all to attend um sometime in the future if you are able to attendation [cough] of [clears throat] how um different parts of the school different parts of the community and work together inclusive and welcoming and um it's just really fun opportunity to strengthen our community. Um on the 21st of January students participated in the team program that they mentioned earlier um team or team are able to criminal recording responsibility having other teams determine um their their sentence like community service or things like that. uh encouraging people um move away from the
077legal activity kind of better integrated into the rest of our community. Um, representative and I both look forward to continue to share some more tips that question you may have here at all and more about what the students are doing in our roles and we are also looking forward to sharing ideas and solutions that our students can contribute to. >> Thank you. I appreciate that very much. Does anybody have any questions or comments for our representatives? >> Uh I would love to talk more about the teen court thing. Um maybe not now, but does any can anybody participate in that in the judicial side or >> Right. So teen court is only actually it's not like open. You can't sign up for it. So in order in order to be as a team member, you
078have to firstly be a student of one of our law classes at the high school. So So um I think our classes are law society one and two. So if you're a student of either of these classes or if you ever have them um you can you know if you go through a team court training procedure where they Mrs. Sims from the open county prosecutor's office will essentially come to the the high school board to essentially explain to the students how to participate in T court by as a juror or as a clerk or as an attorney. And then the the court coordinator who is Mrs. Luther is Mrs. Graco at the high school leading law sociology and civics teacher. um she will will assign often randomly but not always the people we participate in
079a particular team court case in a given month. Usually we have one team court session every month. Last month we had two in order to compensate for the fact that we were unable to hold one in December. So there she decides that you're going to be a clerk which means that you swear to the land. You call the courtroom order and you essentially assist a judge in that regard. You can be a team juror in which you decide the sentence of the person who been who's been for this compound crime and or you can be a tea attorney. In that case, you can either actually represent the team and explain why you believe that they should be given a a more lenient sentence or you can be a prosecutor. >> Yeah. >> In which you
080explain why you should get a more harsh sentence a require more. This is fundamentally a restorative program. >> Y okay. Thank you very much, Jay. And thank you very much, Representative McNottton. Any further questions? All right. We appreciate you guys and we appreciate you guys giving up so much of your time to be here. Uh report item 7.2 is our monthly finance report. Miss Nag. >> Good evening everyone. Um this is a slightly different format that when you have uh seen in the past just change from uh one finance director to the next. Um so this is kind of a trial run for me of things I think will be useful and helpful uh coming out of my office. But at any times if you uh have questions or would like to see things in
081a slightly different way, let me know and I will tweak this to the best of my ability. So page one, uh, monthly expense reports. So I'll give you the breakdown of payroll for the month. Uh, pay 9 was 4.2 million and pay 10 was 4 million. That consists of gross payroll, uh, retirement, FICA, and then any contributions we make on the behalf of employees. Uh, and then, uh, their federal and local taxes. Then, uh, Corbridge mandatory 403b payouts. Those are people who have either retired or resigned and have accumulated so much in sick time payout. It's in their contract that we will pay that into a 403b on their behalf. Edge of staff payments for the month of uh just shy of 500,000. Those are our contracted staff at the district. UAL payment for November
082was uh the unfunded actuarial liability that comes on state aid from the state of Michigan that we turn around and pay into retirement. And then a payments for the month. Those are the payments that come out electronically of the bank account. And then bills payable are the things that get processed by hand by Julie in the AP department. So all of that to total 15 uh,75,9626 for the month of November. Uh monthly investment report. This is either the cash balance or the investment balance depending on the type of account for the month of November. uh with all funds accounted for uh we have just over 190 million um just shy I should say of 191 million um between cash and investments uh to our name at the end of November. And then three-year fund equity,
083you guys have seen this uh in the past. I changed a little bit to make it a little bit easier for me to read and easier to kind of compare where we're sitting from uh the last two years to today. So, as you can see, November, we're fairly comparable, a little bit higher at uh just shy of 20 uh pardon me, just over 20 million um in fund equity for the general fund. And then the following pages are the check register for November. So that's every check uh via Julie processing that has gone out of the district. Um if this feels like everything you guys are looking for, um I will get it caught up next month for December through through February and then we'll stay current every month. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Do you
084have any questions or comments for Miss Nag? I just want to thank you for all your work you're doing. We know it's a it's a big job and we appreciate >> how much effort you're doing putting into it >> and how much you're working with us. I think um our workshop last a couple weeks ago was was wonderful. So, thank you very much. Um okay, item eight is our discussion items. We are a little over halfway since we made our goals. So, I thought we should talk about our goals. Um I asked you we had we came with left our retreat with seven board goals and we kind of divvied those up. So the entire board priority goals. Um Cheryl and Elizabeth you guys want to talk about the first one? I know you just
085had a meeting recently with Mrs. Mahoney. Um so that one was about understanding better our current systems of supports and how we're going to expand into the secondary level. Yeah, I can start if that's all right with you, Mrs. McInness. I just brought my notes from that meeting. We um focused this particular meeting on um um the new law PA 146 um um which um gives us measures for reading intervention for K through 7. And um we talked about what does that screening um look like and what will the interventions look like and then um what do we want to do for 8 through uh 12 grades right now. We talked about the big rocks in K through 5 literacy and math 6 through 8. So um that was our initial discussion with Mrs. Mahoney
086on um you know it's focused on literacy and and um ADHD I believe and do you want to add to that? >> I I would only add that I feel [clears throat] that we're well ahead of many districts in the area. I'm sorry I I'm losing my voice today [clears throat and cough] because of the work that our reading team has been doing over the years. um um piloting several different um programs for our our reading intervention um work or reading and then potentially intervention work. So I think we're probably well ahead of many other districts in this regard. Um, I think the work that our teachers are doing in this area is unbelievably detailed in what their expectation levels are, which is only going to result in the best programming for our students. Um,
087I think that, um, from what I know from other districts, they're well behind where our teachers are already at. And so I think we're well on our way to exploring uh what works best for our um district here and looking forward to seeing some continued advancements with our students reading capabilities. The other thing is we um in our discussion we suggested maybe at the next opportunity in front of the board maybe have like a timeline of like for professional development for the teachers. um just show us where you know the progress is being made to hit these deadlines. So >> love that. Thank you. Any questions or discussion about that goal? >> Thank you very much for your work on that. Thank you, Mrs. Mahoney. Um the second one with Mrs. Love and Mrs. Egan,
088I think should actually be after the third one. The second one was about developing the elevator pitch for Clarkston. And the third one, however, we think has to come first, which is Mr. Hire and myself. um working with the administration and our board to define our culture by outlining our core values and developing our core values speech. Our March workshop, our March workshop is going to be devoted to that. So, we will have some homework kind of going out to the board before then and we'll be working on that at our March workshop and then I think then Mrs. Love and Mrs. Egan can probably take some of what that and do the elevator pitch. Um so we'll more to come on that one. Um the board committee governance goals the first one Mr. Ne
089and Mrs. Love have done a wonderful job developing a plan and timeline for our annual superintendent evaluation which thank you very much that was just voted into our board operating procedures tonight. Um so I don't know that we need to talk about that anymore. Um second one is also Mr. hire myself developing a plan to schedule an agenda do the workshops at the different schools and the very first time we tried to do that the snow day got the best of us so we had to pivot really quickly rather than independence we had our workshop here um in two weeks we will be meeting at Pineob Elementary so we are going to start doing that um do you have anything else to say I think that's um number three Mr. Clark and Mr. hire providing
090careful oversight of the ongoing bond construction projects. You want to give an update? >> Um we we are uh obviously taking care of $195 million of taxpayer dollars and we think as a board it's critically important that we oversee how that's being spent and making sure our projects are covering everything we said they would and make sure we're on time and on budget as we do that. And so uh Mr. Clark, myself and Mrs. Degan meet on a monthly basis with our uh construction, our design, our technology team along with our buildings and grounds staff here. Um and we go through in great detail and they answer any questions that we might have and making sure that we are on schedule um and on budget for what we're doing. And because we have such great
091experts working for us, um we rarely have anything that comes up that is a surprise. Um with the construction process, there are certainly things that do come up, but we usually have those um uh funds available in our contingencies and and plan that things like uh needing uh helical peers and the junior high to secure a wall are already part of, you know, what we've allowed. And so, uh, the great team makes this easy as we go. Um, we are, uh, on schedule at this point for the junior high and look forward to scheduling some time for the whole board to see the junior high when the, uh, maybe the snow isn't quite so deep. And, uh, we want to look at the track at the junior high as well. That will be a a
092future discussion for us as we look at uh, some options there. Um, and we want to set some time uh that some of us will go look at the uh uh pen houses that we'll be putting on the high school this summer and next summer to replace our aging HVAC system out there. Um, it's a somewhat of a custom engineering feat to stick the equipment that we need in this essentially like a shipping container kind of a thing that gets, you know, weighs several tons and gets lifted on the roof uh this summer and next summer. And so, uh, we'll be taking a look at that. They're building them in Fenton um, for us. So, that'll be really uh, really exciting. And, uh, we're doing as good as we can possibly do to make sure
093we're taking care of our resources the best we can. >> Thank you. Thank you three who are on that committee. I appreciate it. Does anyone have any questions or further update on that? Uh our last board goal was about evaluating and selecting a board policy provider which it has been selected and uh just was looking for an update on where we're at with moving forward with that. So we went with Miller Johnson and >> correct and we have a meeting scheduled here in a couple weeks. I don't remember the date right off for our first um review and moving forward. I think a 2 and 1 half hour meeting um starting at 5:00 going to like 8:30 at night. So there will be approximately four or five of those that will be transpiring in the
094next couple months uh to put us on track to be able to start the new year of a new school year with a brand new policy and housed on the website and available in a transparent manner for our community to review. >> Nice. So these meetings and I remember when we were interviewing them these are to go through our current policy to make sure they match. >> Correct. remove any redundancies that might be there, possibly realign some uh policies that would of course all of it will come to the board for review also and approval. Um I think there will be some um sessions where administrators and others will come into the meetings as appropriate to um potentially just make sure that we're not overlooking something that we as a board don't see from a
095day-to-day operations standpoint that is not our responsibility. um and ensure that as we rewrite these policies that they stay um appropriate to the district and appropriate to the um leadership role the board plays versus the administration. >> Okay. >> Well, thank you for all your work and time on this. I know that um a 3 and 1 half hour meeting on late at night doesn't sound fun, but I >> work how long like when when should we expect like we're fully moved over and our policy book is >> done like just calendar-wise like when >> I think um based on Mr. Sutton's emails um we should be set by June. >> I mean as long as everything's approved and the board is happy with that >> fourish months. Okay. Are we doing anything besides the
096policy? Because didn't they also offer offer something else as well, right? >> Just administrative guidines. >> Administr So, we should allow for some significant policy time. Well, I guess what I would ask is that as we finalize packets that we might want to bring them in in nuggets to the board, especially to the the planning committee so that we can get them. >> Yeah. Because we're we're like three or four sections at each of these meetings. So, it's Yeah, it will be a lot. >> Yeah. Well, I mean, but the idea is I mean, it's going to be a smaller >> policy. I wonder if um we could actually potentially get those larger sections after you guys have gone through them. Maybe we could get them right away so that we can get more of
097a than a 3 or 4 day >> period to go through those cuz I I think we all should take some time and you know obviously we we >> may not get through hundreds of pages in a weekend. >> Yeah, >> I'm sure I could provide you a chat overview. >> Yeah, >> that's it. Well, I think I mean certainly from an overview, yes. But I mean these are important that absolutely we know exactly what's in there and because they're new to all of us, we want I think we should allow everybody plenty of time. >> Yeah. Thank you again. Does anyone have any further questions or thank you to the policy committee? That was a huge thing that I think when Mr. Ne and I years ago talked about doing it and it just
098was such a big >> big project. So I appreciate you guys. It's been a long time coming. >> It has been a long time. [clears throat] >> And the advantage the Miller Johnson policy document is substantially reduced in size by eliminating a lot of the redundancies that Mrs. Ben spoke about before. So >> wonderful. All right. Thank you. So those are our seven board goals. I appreciate all of the work all of you have done on these. Um I feel like we've made pretty good progress on the vast majority of it and I really appreciate it. Item nine is the second opportunity for citizens to address the board. Citizens are welcome to address the board on any topic at this point on the agenda. Miss Nag, can you go check the list again for me
099and see if anyone else has signed up? Um, while the signup sheet is being retrieved, I would like to remind everyone that speakers will be limited to those who follow the correct procedure. So, please fill out the signup sheet as directed. I would also like to remind everyone that speakers should direct their comments to me as the board president and personal attacks will not be tolerated. I only have one speaker and that is Mr. Dinger. >> Welcome back, Mr. Dinger. I thank you. Uh, please state your name and address and then I will start your two-minute timer. >> Jeff Dinger, 7540 Perry Lake, Clarkson. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, President Crane. I stand before you as a concerned Clarkson taxpayer troubled by our superintendent's handling of the district's zero tolerance policy on bullying. The
100policy exists to protect every child. Yet, under Shawn Ryan, it has become a hollow promise despite the school board giving him the highest possible rating of effective. This school year, my first grade daughter reported a series of physical harms and intimidation in the classroom numbering 31 instances over 23 weeks. School staff documented the instances, but the superintendent alongside principal Nate Fuller declined to pursue any disciplinary action. They labeled it as kids being kids, promising to monitor the classroom, and to separate the kids. [clears throat] But this failure is not isolated to the classroom. Bullying happens in the lunchroom, the playground, gym class, and on the bus ride to and from school, all while the administration turns a blind eye to the evidence that they collect. By ignoring these facts, the superintendent has sent a dangerous
101message. Our children's safety is negotiable. Since the board adopted zero tolerance, you entrust him to enforce it impartially. Instead, he cherrypicked which incidents deserve follow-up, and which can be quietly dismissed. The result, victims left unprotected, bullies unaccountable, and parents are powerless. This is a district violation of board policy. Schools must be safe havens and leadership must be unwavering in upholding the policy. Every student deserves to learn without fear. I respectfully but firmly ask this board to relieve the superintendent of his duties, to restore integrity to our zero tolerant stance on bullying, and to reaffirm that there can be no accountability without transparency. And with my last 10 seconds, thank you to Mrs. Love for those early remarks on the millillage. >> Thank you, Mr. Dinger. Thank you. >> Item 10 is our information items. Our
102next board of education meeting will be Monday, February 23rd at 6:00 p.m. It is a workshop meeting where we will review our master plan review at Pine Knob Elementary. Item 11 is adjournment. May I have a motion, please? I move to adjourn. Support. >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Meeting is adjourned.