001Looks like everybody is on the lefth hand side except for the Millers. Thank you. Um I'd like to call the meeting to order. Thank you for coming. At 7 o'clock, if we could all rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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, could you please call the role? >> Mr. Clark, >> here. >> Mrs. Love, >> here. >> Mrs. McInness, >> here. >> Mr. Hire, >> here. >> Mr. Mr. Ne >> here. >> Mrs. Egan >> here. >> Mrs. Crane >> here. Thank you, Mrs. Mlan. Item 1.3 is the reading of the public statement. This meeting is a meeting of the board
002of 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 a 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 approves the consent agenda as presented. >> Support. >> Motion made and supported. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item three is the first opportunity for citizens to address the board. You are given two opportunities to address the board. Under this item, item 3.1, you can request to address the board about any topic that is on tonight's agenda, which I believe is behind me.
003Under item nine, you are welcome to address the board on any topic. When making comments, please state your name and address. Direct your comments here to the board president. Each person may speak for up to two minutes. Per established procedures, the board will not respond to questions or interact with the speaker during public comment, although we may refer the matter to the appropriate person in the district for further followup. Mrs. Mahoney, has anyone signed up? No. Okay. Thank you. Item four is our superintendent update. I will turn it over to Dr. Ryan. >> Thank you. Good evening, community. Uh it's my pleasure to really bring forth knowing to everyone that we're in full swing of our 25 26 school year. Uh through all buildings, you can really feel kind of the heat and the uh
004um really the application of our students, our teachers, everybody's really going after it. I'm really excited to see uh the results it's going to pull and we're going to get to see a little bit that this evening. Uh to update our families on that progress, this week is parent teacher conferences. I want to encourage all of our families um to meet with teachers, get that engagement and really work on that school to home connection. It's absolutely critical in the overall growth, well-being, and education of your children. Um including this Friday, which we have a half day uh to make sure we have flexibility for families depending on their work schedules and their busy lives right now. Uh additionally, want to make sure everybody's invited uh this Saturday to Clarkson High School uh band invitational. It's
005a big night for our bands. Uh if you've never had an opportunity to to watch it, uh marching band festival, including the awards presentation, it's it's really something to see. Um our our kids have worked tremendously hard. If you live anywhere within 5 miles of here, you might have heard them practicing at one point or another into the night. They put a tremendous amount of work into it. And it's uh neat to see the other schools as they play their competition. And there's various awards and in different categories that they can uh achieve. and they at the end the uh drum majors from the various schools come out and they all have a kind of a different um cheer and a way to kind of represent their school and the school districts and uh really
006really proud of our kids and to really kind of see how all the kids in the area really come to play their hearts out. So if you have an opportunity on Saturday night it's a great evening to come out. Uh and finally in regards to the excellence that we're seeing in that classroom I have Mr. Gary call this evening um to introduce the three National Merit um scholar semi-finalists that we have in Clarkson. so proud of these students. Uh the amount of work it takes as you're going to hear from Mr. Call to be in such a a small fraction of the overall country in achievement is really um an amazing amount of pride for the school district and for this community and uh it's uh really our pleasure to be able to recognize them
007this evening for all the those in attendance and obviously all those that are tuning in uh on TV this evening as well. So thank you. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Uh item five is presentation items. As Dr. Dr. Ryan alluded, we have 5.1 is recognition of our Clarkston's National Merit Scholar Semifinals. Dr. Ryan, Mr. Hall, please. Good evening, everybody. Uh, very happy to be here tonight to recognize three students who are National Merit semi finalists from Clarkston High School. Um, I'd like to call them up tonight, but before I do, and we'll call you up uh in order as your picture comes up. So, as soon as that comes up, we'll call you up. The following students have been recognized as National Merit Semi Finalists for the National Merit Scholarship Competition. Each
008of these students is among approximately the se 16 to 17,000 participants nationwide um of amongst 1.6 6 million test takers that have the opportunity that that have qualified for this recognition and have the opportunity to continue uh on to be named 7 thou approximately 7,000 to 8,000 merit scholarship uh awardees and that will be in the spring of this year. Um and then they can also qualify for about a thousand more corporate scholarships. Uh so it is really a badge of honor for these kids as Dr. Ryan had said. Um it's where the confluence of ability and hard work come together um that these students are being recognized for this. So you think about I think it's about 3 and a half million kids take the PSAT. Um of those students uh 1.6 6 million
009uh qualify to be in this category as recognized stu or take this and qualify to be uh national merit scholar semi-finalists or recognized students, commended students. Uh and we have three with us here this evening. First off, I'd like to ask Katherine Miller to come up. [Applause] Next student is Joshua Pants. [Applause] And finally, we have Elliot Hy. [Applause] These students are all excellent academically. They're all involved in many things around our campus. They're very well-rounded students. Uh and they're also wonderful people. So, please join me in congratulating uh their academic accolades here this evening. Uh but they really are fantastic students at Clarkston High School. Very well-rounded and a great representation of what we offer in Clarkston Community Schools. Thank you very much, guys. Excellent work. Now, if you'd like, typically we'll rotate to
010your left and shake hands with the board of education. >> Yes. >> Congratulations. Well done. >> Congratulations. Good luck next year. >> Congratulations. once again. A quick round of applause as they head back to sit with their parents. And before we take all the pictures, >> thank you, Mr. Call, Mr. Hy, Miss Miller, Mr. Pon, thank you so much for coming tonight. We really truly celebrate you hopefully along with your families which I appreciate all your families coming as well. Um at at at all every graduation every president gives a speech and asks that students come back and tell us what you're doing. Keep us apprised of what you're doing. We really really mean it. I would love to know what you guys are doing in the future. Um we're very proud of you. So
011I'd like to take a quick break so you guys can leave unless you'd like to stay for the rest of the meeting. Uh we'll reconvene in about 5 minutes. Thank you. >> Yeah. Why don't you guys come up and we'll get a picture with the board. >> It's probably this way. rice or other things. [Applause] Is it me? better. I'm really now for everybody who stayed. I appreciate it. Let's move on to uh item six, our action items. Item 6.1 is approval of personnel changes. May I have a motion, please? >> I move board of education approve personnel changes as listed on the attached sheets as presented. >> Support. Are there any questions or discussion? Okay, seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 6.2 is approval of
012the assistant superintendent of business services contract. May I have a motion, please? >> I move board of education approves the contract for the assistant superintendent of business services as presented. >> Support. >> All right. Motion made and supported. Are there any questions or discussion about it? and we've talked about this for quite a while. Um, okay. Um, all those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 6.3 is approval of the construction technology program project. May I have a motion? >> I move that the board of education approves the pavilion project at Pineup Elementary for the construction technology program students as presented. >> Support. Okay. Are there any questions or discussions about this? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 6.4 is approval
013of the construction change orders at Clarkson Junior High School. May I have a motion? I move that the board of education approves construction change orders for commercial contracting corporation the amount of $116,468 for&m construction company in the amounts of $65,692 and $75,236 and for JJ Barney in the amount of $114,342 as presented. >> Support Motion made and supported. Are there any questions or discussion? I know Mr. Goodman is here. If there are. Okay, seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 6.5.1 is the purchase of a Bobcat compact track loader. May I have a motion, please? >> I move that the board of education approves the purchase of a 2025 Bobcat compact track loader. to Carlton Bobcat of Motor City in the amount of $60,36466 as presented.
014>> Motion made and supported. Are there any questions or discussion? Miss Love, >> I'm curious what we are doing with the other one that we're replacing from 2002. Is it worth any money to sell that or is it just completely >> Mr. Goodman? Thank you. We're going to use that in the uh construction tech program. >> Oh, nice. Good. >> So, yeah, >> it won't get as much use as we we use it. So, we think it has a little life over there. >> Okay. Any further questions or discussion? I have a question on on that. When when we go to do that, I guess, what kind of liability coverage are we going to need or any kind is there going to be any liability coverage that we're going to need to have students operate
015those? And then if we do have students operate those, is there any kind of certificate that we can give them >> as you know like they've completed >> some kind of course with this so that way they can maybe take this on to let's say a construction job cuz personally I did this in in high school um and it was a a major benefit when I started in in construction when I was a kid. >> I I um don't 100% know that answer. Um, I do know that Adam and I were talking about buying a small piece of equipment earlier in the spring and um, and then we talked about this would be an opportunity uh, versus the investment for a another piece of equipment for them. As far as insuranceances, we can check into
016that, but I do believe certificates for the kids would be available with the small um, equipment. That was what he was looking for. Um, I'm not sure what entails with all that, but we can find that for you. I don't know if Sean, you have >> No, I think we can look at and get back to you on that. Good question. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Is there any further questions? >> Thank you, Mr. Goodman. >> Thank you. >> Um, all right. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 6.5.2 is the purchase of a maintenance snow management pickup truck. May I have a motion, please? >> I move that the board's ed education approves the purchase of a 2023 Ford F250 with a utility body to
017Fox Ford in the amount of $55,318 and snowplow accessories to Bastic Truck Center in the amount of $9,372 for a total of $64,690 as presented. support. >> All right. Uh, are there any questions or discussion about this? >> Okay. Thank you very much. Uh, seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Right. Before we move on, uh, item 6.2 is the assistant or the approval of our assistant superintendent, uh, Miss Kristen Nag, who is here with us. Uh, Dr. Ryan, would you care to introduce her, please? >> Yeah. Uh, Kirsten, if you'd like to stand up, come to the podium. Um Kirsten is was part of our uh extensive search that we did for fulfilling of our assistant superintendent of finance role here in Clarkston. Um
018I know I kept our board of education appraised, but I'd like to introduce her to the community. Um she's worked for many years in school finance up in Jennese County through the intermediate school district there where she was contracted out where she worked for Kursley school district and uh another charter academy and several other schools over the years to support them and all their finance and uh business management needs for their school district. We were extraordinarily lucky. Um, right now in this time across the state of Michigan, there's very, very, very few um, highly qualified individuals that um, can take these roles. Um, they're very challenging. School finance is much different, as I'm sure most of our community would understand, than the kind of finance that goes along with a regular business. It has all
019the accounting needs and and business management um parts that you would find in a private sector with literally thousands of uh additional requirements and pages and understanding of the specific elements of school finance and all the legalities and um checks and balances that is required for school finance. Um, Kirsten's come across and been part onto the team now for a week or she's coming in her transition and so far I just have to to say how uh well she's adjusting and right into the team here in Clarkston. She has that right do spirit and we're really uh excited to have um her talents being added to overall Clarkston team. I wanted to invite her to be able to say a couple words this evening just uh any any reflection or uh thoughts on her mind
020related to starting this new position here in Clarkston. >> Uh thank you for the opportunity. I am thrilled to join the team. It's been incredibly warm and welcoming start here. I've had so many friendly faces and so many offers of if I need anything to call and whoever can answer the question will answer the question. I am looking forward to becoming even more imshed in the team and um hope to help you guys grow in every way that you're looking to do in the future. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, we we're very happy to have you. I hope in your week you've you've been able to tell just it's a big little town and you know I think it's a lot different than I actually grew up in Jese County.
021Um so and I've made Clarkston my home for a very long time. But you're very welcome. I look forward to talking to you very soon. I'm sure the rest of the board will be asking their questions and getting to know you as well. So, welcome. Thank you. All right. Um, item seven is report items. There are none. Item eight is discussion items. There are none. Item nine is the second opportunity for citizens to address the board. Uh, there was nobody signed up. Um, we can move on to item 10. Item 10 is information items. Our next board of education meeting is Monday, October 27th, which is a six o'clock workshop meeting. And our next regular board meeting is Monday, November 10th at 7:00. Item 11 is adjournment. May I have a motion, please? >> I
022move to support. >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you. >> Thank you. Now feel