001And it was main street for sure. Oh, it's 6:46. All right, it is 6:45. This is the date and time set for our statutoily required public hearing regarding our 202526 budget. and I will turn it over to Mary Beth Rogers, our executive director of business services to run us through the upcoming year's budget. Mrs. Rogers. Okay. So, so here's our I'll be presenting our 2526 budget tonight and I'm going to start with unfortunately a repeat of the last few years that there's currently no approved state budget. Um, and that the May revenue consensus revenues did come in stable from January for the school aid fund. There really wasn't too much of a change, but it did but the state general fund didn't come in as well as the state aid fund. That did come in
002less January, but this and the state aid fund is still in good condition. Um, we're still working with some one-time grants. Still some a lot of unknowns there, but they're slowly being eliminated. And the questions out there, I would say for the one times is what is the future for of the 31A mental health and the RS one times. Um 90% of our revenue is unknown without a state aid budget being approved. So most of our budget will be presented with the governor's budget at this point. So the budget parameters um the student count we have no change just in our regular student count but then in open enrollment we predicting a gain of 75 students so that would be a total of 75 then for our uh student count when you're just including our
003Clarkson K12 um the shared services this year as mentioned when we were going over our May board. Um, this will be a year we're not predicting to get to the 10%. We've been doing 10% growth every year. This year they're saying that we're really not going to grow much in shared service. They have us growing like 29 FTE. So, I just put it as stable. Benefit changes. That's already in and it's 2 and a half% increase to um to the cost of Clarkson schools. Whoops, we're lost. And then um Mipers's retirement there is out there in all the budget proposals from the well at least from the Senate and the governors. The House one isn't in yet. That one is um got one-time funding eliminations in it. We're looking at some one times. It's just
004a matter of what they're all going to agree upon. So, at this point, I just took out the one-time eliminations that are in the governor's proposal. Um, and then estate funding. Right now, the governor's budget is at 392, which is about what the Senate has. They're just a little over 400 for the uh, state funding. And this is, I think, the first time I heard in my last legislative update in history, the House hasn't had something by now. The House has not proposed anything. They probably they may not have anything by June 30th. That will be the first time ever that that's ever happened. the house doesn't provide a budget. Um, and then we have our human resource contract obligations in our budget parameters. So, we're looking at 2526 revenue budget assumptions include with all
005these parameters that the foundation allowances from 392 that takes us to 10,000 per pupil. open enrollment gain of 75 would put us at about 750,000. Then you got your shared service enhancements of 876 just for the revenue piece. There will be some expenditures for that piece too. And then the one-time offsets with different eliminations and rate increases. We're looking at about a negative 2.7 overall loss for mipers for us. Um and then the PA, we have our PAISD allocation in and that was down 422 165 for now. Hopefully that will increase when they give us a mid adjustment. Usually around March they'll give us a mid and then hopefully that'll go up. Um I we had a bus IPA debit proceed that we received in 2425. We just did the closing of the four buses
006in on May 22nd. So now I'm taking that out of the budget because it's just a one-time thing that happened in 2425. You'll see it in the final amended. Same thing with sale of assets and then the material adjustments elimination. Those were just all one-time things that happened in 2425. So I'm just getting them out of the budget. Um then here's our one-time federal and state fundings. Um we finally our 11T which was the last little bit of all of our COVID funding um that is now gone the 250,400 that was for our summer 24 summer school which would have been in 2425. So now there that'll be that funding won't be there anymore. Early literacy grants um we're doing some carryover. We lost a a grant and then we are doing some carryover to
007next year on the professional development 35J grant. We didn't get it all spent this year. Project start grant. We're being told that that grant we've had it now I think three years. We're being told it's not being renewed for next year at this point. Um teacher tuition and talent grants. These were just some little grants that we got this year that some of the teachers were able to apply for and get. So I don't foresee them next year unless somebody applies for them. The first filter grant it's in 2425 but I had to take it out because now we're carrying it over to 2526. That mainly is just because the products are not available right now. There was such a rush to get all the products. We we couldn't buy this stuff. So now that's
008being carried over. You'll see where the expenses are carried over too. And the mental health grants, same thing. That's mainly just a lot of 24 25 has a lot of carryover and we're not so that revenue is going to go down quite a bit in the mental health because we don't have the carryover anymore. Now we're just going to be every year whatever the state gives us at this point we're losing a lot of our mental health grants and then the 27k loan forgiveness. That's how much um we used in 2425. I don't know if we're going to see that again in 2526. So I eliminated that. That's really an in and out anyways. That's just ex You'll see the expenses went out too. So those are our one time. You can see there it's
009not a lot of dollars like it used to be. Um and then our 2526 expenditure budget assumptions with the 2 and a half% increase in the parameters. That's about 200,000. That's what I added to the budget. your human resource contract obligations and that includes all of our projected retirements, you're looking at just under 1.2 million um shared service when the revenue goes up also the expenses go up. So that's we're expecting expenses go up about 320,000. You'll see the early literacy grant that'll match the revenue piece. utilities. That's from our consultant. Um, right now they're predicting that to go up 60,000. That's your electric and your heat. Um, property insurance renewal, we're predicting that to go up 285. The bus IPA, just like I had to take it out of the revenue, I'm going to
010take it out of the expenditures because that was just a one time that happened in 2425. Um, but because we have a new uh IPA of four buses, I had to increase the long-term debt principle and interest by about 130,000. Um, and then but we did complete the lightning IP. I don't know if you guys remember, but we've been in a five-year lighting IPA and that is gone now. We our 60 months are gone and we won't have that. We'll make our last payment in June for that and we won't have any more of that uh in our budget. Same thing you seen where I took away the first fil I carried over the first filter grant. Well, I had to carry over the expenditures. Um and then there's your the teacher tuition grant. That
011was just a little grant that we won't have the expenditures anymore. And you'll see the match of the 27k loan forgiveness. And um I was able to right now with what the ISD sent me, we were able to reduce the tuition right now for ISD students. That could change throughout the year, but that's their allocation or their prediction right now for our expenses. And then this was just the building and department budgets. All little here and there negatives ended up being about a 14.9. Not a big increase to our expenditures. So with all of this, your 2526 projected revenue, we're looking at 129.3 million expense revenue. And your expenses are looking at 134.2. And then your total transfers in, which would be coming from your early childhood and your food service, it's 169,000 for a
012total deficit of 4.7 million. total fund balance that puts you at 18% with unassigned 16% 16.5%. So just another look at this your deficit budget 4.7 like I said your estimated un ending fund balance will be 24.2 2 million. So you'll still even with this deficit spending will have a healthy fund balance. And then your there's your non-spended committed. You got your assigned which is your sick sick leaves payout vacation uh that we are obligated right now at some point when people leave. And so then your unassigned fund balance is 22.2 million putting your total fund balance at 18%. The average state average which is the early latest I can get is 23 24 right now is 24.7%. And unassigned fund balance then like I said is 16.57 after you take out the assigned and
013the non-spendable. So So do I have any questions on any of this? just for the benefit of the public um by law we have to adopt this budget by June 30th. So as has happened many years we have to adopt our budget before we know exactly what the bulk of our revenue from the state is going to be because that goes through the legislative budget process. So with our finance department and our superintendent, we do the best we can to try to project what that number is going to be, but it's always a little bit of a moving target. So we thank you, Mrs. Rogers, for that. Any comment any comments from the public? Questions? Any comments or questions from the board? Okay. Hearing none, we will close the public hearing at 658. Thank you,
014Mrs. Rogers. We appreciate that. And we will take action on this item during the agenda for the regular meeting which will start in about two minutes. order the regular meeting of the Clarkston Community Schools Board of Education for June. If you could all please rise 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. Mrs. Mlan, if you could please call the role. Mr. Clark here. Mrs. McInness here. Mrs. Love here. Mr. Hire here. Mrs. Egan. Mrs. Crane here. Mr. Ne here. We have a quorum. We will proceed. Mrs. Egan apologizes. She has to be out of the country for work tonight and uh had some appointments that she
015could not reschedule. So, she sends her regrets. This meeting is a meeting of the board of education and 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 we approve consent agenda as presented. Support. Motion's made and supported. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda as presented, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any oppose? Motion carried. Thank you. 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
016the board on any topic that is on tonight's agenda, which is displayed behind me. And then under item nine, you're welcome to address the board on any topic. We ask that you complete the sign-in sheet that's just inside the door there. 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 and per established procedures, the board will not respond to questions or interact with the speaker during public comment, although we may uh refer a matter to the administration for followup. So, at this time, Mrs. Mooney, you check. Thank you very much. We have no citizens that requested to address the board on an agenda items. We'll move on. Item four, superintendent update. Dr. Ryan. Thank you, President Ne. Uh
017good evening, community. looking as today the first official day of summer break for our students and our teaching staff and support personnel in the classrooms and thinking last week of coming off an amazing week of celebrations for the conclusion of our school year. It was very nice commencement. Um I tip my hat to President Ne both at Renaissance and Clarison High School graduations. Very nice speeches and by our high school staff. We have Mr. Lame in the crowd who was a name reader and a major part of the function of pulling off that show. Thank you. Uh it was a great evening for our community evenings for our community and uh I think it was a great way to kind of wind down our school year. Uh as uh Mr. Loceto, Miss Mahoney, myself just
018also completed uh literally on Friday in meeting with our uh uh food food service group. We met with every single uh department school and grouping within Clarkson Community Schools over the last three and a half weeks. And the report back uh from the staff from top to bottom is high energy, solid end of the school year and uh an amazingly high reflection morale in celebration for a school year that just completed and uh probably more than any other I've had in recent memory. Just an excitement to kind of put things away for this year and get already all the ideas flowing for the start of next school year, which is really exciting. Um, obviously summer approaching, we have camps and lots of different ways for our kids to stay engaged. This Wednesday, um, I believe
019we start summer school, correct, Miss Mahoney, on the date, which I think is one of the secrets of our success of making sure that we don't have any summer slide as we target students to make sure that we're going after it academically and continue to build on the successes we've had in the past. So, as we kind of turn and and make our transition uh from the 24-25 school year and then in earnest uh start full preparations uh to get the next show on the road uh all systems go and we are now gaining down into the start of the 2526 school year. Thank you, President Ne. Thank you, Dr. Ryan. Any questions for Dr. Ryan? We have no presentation items tonight. We'll then move on to action items. Item 6.1 is the approval of
020personnel changes. May I have a motion, please? I motion that the board of education approves the personnel changes as listed on the attached sheet. Support motions made and supported. Mrs. McInness, I think you had a comment you'd like to make. Yes. Thank you, President Ne. I just wanted to make a quick um comment about the depth of the names of the individuals on today's personnel changes. Um the retirements of 10 masters 16 years teachers and five masters 30 plus year teachers is a longevity that this district um has enjoyed with the employment of these teachers with us. Um I know that they have left a longl lasting legacy with the students that they have reached. Um many of them are friends of mine. um many of them my children had. Um and I think that
021I I want to wish them the best in their next endeavor. Uh I see social media is always already showing us a few of the highlights of what a few of them are going to do. And um I know several of my teachers still from high school on social media. I am friends with several of my teachers and those teachers left a lasting mark on me. I can only imagine what these teachers have done to some of our students in our community and the retirement of a principal that is beloved by everybody um is going to be a little bit of a loss. But I am so looking forward to the replacement and the promotion of Josh Lay over to Bailey Lake Elementary. I think it is going to be a perfect fit for the
022parents and the community over there and I look forward to wonderful things happening there. Thank you, Mrs. McInn. It's very well said. My some of the names on that list are K are teachers that my kids had, and I agree. We have some excellent teachers that are moving on to the next stage of their lives. So, thank you very much for your comments. And just as a footnote there, there were two former winners and three other nominees for teacher of the year. Sorry, they took me up to the last second here, but thank you for pulling the audience. You got absolutely incredibly talented. Any other discussion? Um, I just want I wanted to I wanted to introduce uh Mr. Lame. I just want to as uh Miss McInness pointed out Glen Galter has retired this
023year. He's been with the district for for 30 years. We went through an extensive interview process over the month of May. We had three rounds of interviews. We had over 60 candidates um for the principal job and we're we're very excited and so was the team over at Bailey Lake to have Josh Lame lead them and take over for Glen Gallery. So, I wanted to introduce Josh Lame to the board. He had a few things he wanted to share this evening. Thank you, John. Um, I'd like to start by saying how honored I am to have been selected to be the new principal um at Bailey Lake. Um, some of you may know that a few years ago I had the opportunity to be the interim principal at North Stash Elementary. And it was it
024was during my stay there uh that the elementary world really got into my heart. So, I'm so looking forward to to to going back and I'll do my very best every day to lift up the students, the staff, and the families of Bailey Lake and to build upon the things, the outstanding things that are already taking place there. Um, and I want you to know that I couldn't be more excited to be the next principal at Bailey Lake. Uh, and I'm looking forward to the future. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lame. We are also excited to have you in that position. You do have some very big shoes to fill, but we're confident that you're up to the task. So, welcome to your new position. All right, we have a motion in support. All
025those in favor of approving the personnel changes, please signify by saying, "I." I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.2 is the approval of the parent square communication notification platform purchase. And I would ask I'm Mrs. Allen, our director of marketing and community relations to give you some back give us some background on this. Good afternoon. Good. Good afternoon. It's evening now. It is evening. Good evening. Um I am here to share with you um what we are very excited about with our communications department and technology. Um my right here. Yes, it is. So before we explain why we're going with parent square, just very briefly wanted to make sure that we touched on the why. Now, as you can see, this is just a graphic of all the different ways that parents are
026challenged with being able to keep up with the emails, the text messages, is it over here? Is it over there? Where did I see that? Um, and our staff feel the same way. Administrators, information is coming in at such a rapid pace and from so many different places, it can get difficult. And we know that engaged families means success with students. And so it is our job to figure out the best way to engage those families. So our evaluation process, it was a team of myself, Lori Banzac, the director of technology, and Heidi Mlan, our executive assistant to the superintendent and communications coordinator. Our process started with really doing the market research, digging deep into the different products that were available because there are a lot out there and then also looking into professional referrals
027both from the technology side and communication. With that, we identified aptagy, final site and parent square as um our three platforms we were most interested in. We held in-depth vendor interviews with demonstrations and then actually had a bit of a ste speed dating if you will um where we talked to each one backtoback to really make sure because many of the things that they offer are similar in nature but really making sure we're finding the product that works best with us. Um after that we went to our reference checks with current users and I have a bit more on that in just a moment. So, Parent Square. So, take the last graphic we just saw and now look here. With parent square, everything will be coming in and out of the exact same space. Whether
028you're a teacher, an administrator, your staff, you're a coach or PTA president. Um, and then on the parent side, every version of parent, whether you want to use an app or an email or a text message, all of those things will be available for you and in one place. It's also nice because it can nail it down to exactly what schools your children are in. So you're not inundated with things for different schools that your children are not in. And another great thing is the uh language changes and we'll talk about that in just a moment as well. So this gives us one unified communication management platform. What are things from the district? So when we have a snow day, any sort of emergency, those urgent alerts, posts and newsletters that we send out regularly,
029um attendance and lunch balances can come from there as well, report cards, progress reports, delivery, social media, and website share all tied into one. From the classroom, we are able to do direct messaging one-on-one or with groups. They can use it for parent teacher signups, volunteering, and signups. We don't need to use Signup Genius cuz now we have this. Nothing against it, but this will be a nice platform for everything to be in the same place. It will also hold our directory and there is a student square app. Now, just to talk about those for a moment, the directory is really important for us because right now it is best practice and we are all moving forward to taking email addresses off of our website for safety reasons and security reasons when it comes to
030technology. With that said, now the directory will be built into the system and you will have access to your child's teachers. And then the student square app will be an app specifically for the students to be able to have one-on-one conversations with their teachers. Teachers can send a group message to a classroom. Uh but this gives us oversight and protection as well for both the student and the staff member um that they will be having their conversations on this platform. And then the school also has opportunities for calendars that are subscribable, events, polls, surveys, newsletters, forms, and permission slips. So, this will give us equitable access, language translations, and oversight reporting. Now, it'll be nice because you can choose how items go out, whether you are the sender or the receiver. So, as I had
031mentioned before, text, email, voice, push notifications, you can choose how you receive that information. I can choose what I send based on the urgency of the message being sent. And then we have both the parent and student app platforms. But if you don't want to download the app, we still have the website. Now the mass notifications, as I'd mentioned before, we can choose the tools that we're using. It is mobile friendly. Um full translation. I actually have um a slide that will show how well it works. Um and in-depth analytics. This will give us the opportunity to really dig in to who is receiving messages and who is not. Um, as well as a studio editor which will give us a newsletter look much like S'more which is one of the products we're currently using.
032So if you watch here very quickly they can pull up a student. The teacher is typing a message in English and then it is sent to the parent. They open it up and it's in Spanish. That parent can then type in Spanish, send it on back and it will go to the teacher in English and that is in 190 different languages for automatic immediate translation. So above here you can see those analytics that I mentioned before. This will help us because we can throw a lot of things out there and hope that they're receiving it, but without being able to measure the engagement and the return on investment, it's really just a guess for us. So, this will give us that opportunity to see when they're engaging and what platforms they're using most. We also
033will have two-way texting. You can choose to do it there or in the app. Um, the analytics, parents can subscribe to calendars for their schools, um, which is wonderful. Um, I am a parent in Rochester that recently brought on Parent Square and so I've been able to do some real market research on the other end of things and it has been very helpful. At first it was a lot coming at me, but that's because I didn't set up what I preferred. Once I had that in place, um, now it's perfect back and forth communication. Um, and I can click between my son and my daughter and see what's happening in their schools specifically. We do have that over the administrative oversight. Um, they are in partnership with Synergy, which is our student information system, and
034Canva, which is a design product that we are all using here in the district. Um, it's important to mention that they are aligned with Furpa and Copa. These are very important pieces to the safety of our students and their information. Um, North Sashba Elementary has been using it for some time now. Um, I did speak with the principal, Jennifer Johnson, and just asked her what her thoughts were on it. She absolutely loves it. It is her main form of communication with her parents to the point where if we send something out through InTouch, our current system, she will then be sure to send it to her parents and parents square as well. Um, also talking to other neighboring districts, Lake Oran also just adopted this same program. Um, and the onboarding process has been smooth
035and very helpful and the training has been robust. So, in those budget considerations, we will be replacing several tools. InTouch is currently for mass messaging and our alerts, the Clarkston calendar for event promotion, and SM'more, which is our newsletter creation. It's important to note that we still have two years in our final site contract. So that will not be changing at this time. That is just for our website. Um and of course at the educational instructional level, Seesaw and Google Classroom are going nowhere. So I just want to make sure I state that so nobody thinks this is replacing any of those important teacher tools. When it comes to the budget, there is an increase. Um it is minor and it has been built into this year's 2526 budget. Um for transparency reasons, just to
036explain, the increase in cost for the first year is about $5,300. Um there is a onetime uh $3,000 setup fee. So that first year will actually be at $8,300. After that, it will just be the $5,300. And there is an opportunity a few years out that if we were to decide to go to their website um provider then we would have some pretty extensive savings in that respect. So and that would be two years out at this point. So if it is approved we will have a pretty tight timeline. In June and July we will start our data loading and communications team training. In August leaderships and staff training will start and the awareness campaign for parents. Our hope is to go live when school starts at the end of August. And it's also really
037important to note that we will have an overlap between the new system and the old to make sure if families haven't adopted the old yet or the new yet, they will still be communicated with. All of that was already paid for in last year's budget. So there's no extra cost to that. Any questions? Mr. card for the messaging and texting uh feature on that. Does it track and log or document uh the conversations just for like future reference? You can go back to future conversations for oversight if necessary. Yes, Mrs. Love. Um, I was wondering for streamlining purposes why we would keep Seesaw because that's kind of Isn't that a communication service right now that parents or teachers use to notify parents of things? Parents do use Seesaw. However, it also has educational tools that
038we would not want to lose. I'm sure Miss Mahoney could speak more to that, but um, we looked into it and while there is a communication piece to Seesaw, we would not want to replace that. So there may be some overlap in that respect. Um but overall this will bring everything in and at that point there is a good chance that once it's fully adopted and everyone's using the platform at its full capacity that Seesaw will be used for the educational purposes and parent square will be used for the communication. So we're going to kind of phase out like the communication portion of CESA over time. Is that the goal or the there isn't any set plan today to say phase out all of communication. We're not going to make any directives to teachers to
039drop one thing and start another. We are going to start this training have the early adoption process. I wouldn't want to speak out of turn. and want to have more conversation with the teachers, the principles, Miss Mahoney before I was to say strictly, let's cut off one with the other with but unfortunately they're not the same product or offer the same thing. So, one can't replace the other. Okay. Dr. Ryan, did you have a comment? No, I just want to be clear. We're keeping it right. Okay. With She has another one. I'm sorry. This is just a followup. um is I just feel like it might be a little rushed and I'm wondering what I mean cuz we're not actually saving money. It's going to cost us more money and then with our website we
040have one year or two years left. We have two years with our website contract but those things are not connected. They are they are separate. They're not connected. They are not connected. They are separate. We can if we choose move to the parent square platform with their website and that's a completely separate cost in implementation. The cost would not change if we have the two together. They both run separately. Um the cost savings really in that two years if we were to move over is just the overall cost for parent square's website is and the design of the website is significantly uh cheaper than the final site uh quotes that I'm getting right now. But we are in contract with final site. We will continue those two years of that contract and we want to
041make sure that we are still making the best choices um as we move forward. also being mindful of the implementation process and giving things time to breathe. Right now with the intouch system um it has worked for us but it does limit us to what we are able to do and so this will open it up quite wide for us to be able to reach out to families more consistently. I know from a very personal note both Heidi and I will be very excited when we don't have to pull over on the side of the road, open up our hot spot and our laptop and close something or send an emergency message from the side of the road. uh we will have an app so there's both sides um of the spectrum for both parents
042and for the individuals sending the messages. Mrs. McInness by your own accord you made a comment about your initial use over in Rochester. Had we con have we considered possibly for uh such a quick roll out to host a table at open houses so that our parents can have a a good startup for it because here you are a trained person in communication dealing with these kind of tools and I know there's a lot of parents who don't really use technology like we all do and so I don't want to um not address the possibility that we need to give parents a little bit more training than just rolling it out. Absolutely. So, two pieces to that. The first answer is that we will have an awareness campaign that will involve being a part of
043open houses, having information available, um putting it out in our newsletter that will go out in August to the full community. Um but it's also very important to note that even if you are not techsavvy and you don't want to download the app and you haven't downloaded the app, the information is from Synergy directly into the system. So just like in touch you don't have to subscribe to get the email the text message and the phone call as long as your information is in synergy will you will continue to get all of that information really the biggest technology training aspect would be downloading the app but all the information will still come in email form and text form just like it does right now within touch it's that app that we'll do the training on
044as well and the awareness campaign. Okay. If there's nothing further, if I could have a motion on this item, please. I move that the board of education approves the purchase agreement for Parent Square in the amount of $3,187.80 annually and a onetime setup fee of $3,18.78 for a total of $33,26.58 for the 202526 school year. Support. Motion's made and supported. Are there any other questions? Comments or discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.3 is the approval of a computer purchase for one of our SC shared services partner schools. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the purchase of 66 Dell desktop computers from Peopledriven Technology in the amount of $43,624.68 as
045part of our shared services agreement as presented. Support. Motion's made and supported. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.4 is approval of the boiler pre- purchase for Springfield Plains Elementary. May I have a motion, please? I move the board of education approved the purchase order for Howley Agency in the amount of $77,687 for the boiler pre- purchase at Springfield Plains Elementary as presented. Support. Motion's made and supported. Any comments or questions? Um, I would just Mr. Mr. higher. Add to this item that we have two original boilers at Springfield Plains and one of them has failed. They're obviously both past their expected life and with the lead time. Um, that's why we're doing this pre- purchase. So, there's
046more expense coming to actually make the boiler work, but we need to get it ordered as soon as possible to get it in because it has already failed and we can't get by into the winter with one boiler. When you say original, Mr. higher. What is that year? How old is it? I don't 95. 95 or so. Just out of curiosity. Something like that. As long as I've been here, it's 30 years old. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Hire. Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any oppose? Motion carried. Item 6.5 is the approval of the student representation policy. May I have a motion, please? I move the board of education approves the new policy regarding student representation on the school board as presented. Support.
047Motion's made and supported. This item has been discussed at the board level and by our policy committee. Mrs. McInness, do you have any additional comments? Yes. Some may remember this was at a board meet, previous board meeting for a final approval. But at that time, we did take some additional comments from board members and look to refine the specifics regarding um the startup of one senior for the first year and a junior that is expected to serve two term and then the junior will move to the senior position and a new junior would hold the next two-year terms. That is not specifically exactly what is said here, but that is the intent of what is said and it's been revised at the um request of board members and has reached consensus. Thank you, Mrs. McInness.
048Any comments or questions? Mrs. Curry. Uh I just want to say that we with the help of the um policy committee, which you guys have done a great job. Thank you. have talked very specifically about keeping this a very um skeletal policy and that we would kind of flesh it out more in board operating procedures as we worked with the students to try and figure out what that role is going to look like. So we all kind of agreed that it is an ongoing discussion and again this has been reviewed by at link by a policy committee so I thank our chair Mrs. McInness and Mrs. vegan for all their hard work on this. Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any oppose? Motion
049carried. Item 6.6 is the approval of the purchase of a grand piano for a music department. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the purchase of a grand piano for the Clarkson High School Music Department from Kawaii Piano Gallery of Michigan in the amount of $59,987 as presented. Support. Motion's made and supported. Just a little bit of background on this item. Earlier today, under our consent agenda, we approved the donation that allowed us to fund this purchase. Um, a couple months ago I was contacted by an attorney acquaintance of mine who's a board member of the Ferguson Foundation expressing an interest to uh they have donated to other surrounding school districts in the past. And because this board member actually had grandkids in Clarkston schools, they were looking
050for an opportunity to support us as well. We put them in touch with the administration in the high school and they determined that the music department could certainly use a new grand piano. So they very graciously agreed to fund this purchase. Um it is a 501c3 foundation. They are um you know they look for opportunities to give back to their community and we've had further discussions and we think there are going to be some additional donations that may be forthcoming in the future as well. So I want to publicly thank the Ferguson Foundation for support of Clarkston Schools and we look forward to to be involved with you in the future. Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, all those in favor, please see signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Item 6.7
051is the approval of the final amended budget for the current 202425 school year. May I have a motion, please? I motion that the board of education approve the final amended budget for 2024 2025 as presented. support. Motion is made and supported. Mrs. Rogers is here. If anybody has any questions or if there are any comments, seeing none, all those in favor of approving the final amended budget for the current school year, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Item 6.8 is the approval of the original budget for the forthcoming 202526 school year. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the original budget for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Support. Motion's made and supported. We have the required public hearing before immediately before
052calling to order the regular meeting. Mrs. Rogers ran us through the details on this budget. At this time, are there any additional questions or comments from board members? Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion to approve the 202526 budget, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. We have no report or discussion items tonight. Item nine is the second opportunity for citizens to address the board. So at this time, are there any citizens who wish to address the board on any topic? Seeing none, we will move on. Information items. Our next board of education meeting is Monday, July 14th at 5:00 pm. This is our annual organizational meeting. Item 11 is adjournment. May I have a motion, please? I move to adjourn. Support. Motion's made and supported. All
053those in favor of adjourning, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you everybody. We are adjourned. Just for a second. Yeah, Mr. Rogers. Thank you. Nice job with the budget presentation tonight. Now you're I know you're going to be a million and a half off, so I look forward to collecting that in my piggy bank after July. all the faces over an hour and a half. I I think he's good. I think he understands, you know, he had just um We're not going to do it. Part of it. We didn't meet the legal requirements. We're just