001stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Will you please take >> here >> and we need an agenda but I believe we have >> yes I'd like to move to Amend the agenda to add uh consideration and adoption of the superintendent contract of employment amendment number one. >> We have a motion change the agenda support. Motion in support. All in favor say I. >> Oppos have a new agenda and then we have a presentation. Nope. No presentations. Moving on. Public communications for items found on the agenda. It is the practice of the board of education to permit persons in the audience to make statements concerning agenda items at this time. Just complete a form if
002you need to. Anybody? Good. All right. Consent agenda. Um, recommendation by Superintendent Kevin Robitic that the board of education approve except uh the following items for immediate implementation appropriation and appropriate action as presented. We have approval of our minutes from our July 28th meeting. Approval of the treasures report and the bills confirmation for payment for the month of July. treasures reviewed the checks a debits and purchase card for the month and then the professional hire of Becky our new uh middle school principal. >> Welcome. >> We have a motion support motion and a support. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> Opposed. Thank you. And now the items for action. First up is a resolution to establish a line of credit. Recommendation by Rob Spagnolo, assistant superintendent for finance and operation operations that
003the board of education approve the resolution to establish a line of credit of $1.5 million as presented. We have a motion. Motion in support. Any discussion? So we've done this last year. It's a little different than what we kind of given the situation we're in right now. This is a cost savings last probably,000. Any questions? All those in favor say I. >> Post. It's adopted. Uh the recommendation by superintendent Kevin Roitic at the board of educ. award for the 2021 building and site capital project to rem Spot statewide bid for 700 Chromebooks with licenses in the amount of $226,435 as presented. I have a motion. Motion in support. >> Rob, anything on this or >> No, it's in line with replacement. >> Any questions? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Is
004adopted. We will move on to the superintendence contract. Um have to put this to make a motion to put it out. Make a motion or do you want to discuss? >> So I can move to adopt it and then we have a motion on the table. >> Entertain that motion. >> So I move that uh board of education adopt the superintendent contract employment. number one. >> Is there support >> discussion? >> I'll just give a brief overview of this. So the board is amending the superintendent's contract of employment um in a minor way to just clarify a certain provision that was provided in there regarding toal compensation longevity and uh to insert a superintendent salary schedule which is a requirement of the Michigan Office of Retirement Services and so uh we're essentially meeting that obligation
005to provide a superintendent salary schedule. So the first provisions essentially just identify the Michigan statutes under which we're required to have a written employment contract with the superintendent. Um and then under paragraph one of the existing contract we're going to modify it. We need the approval of the board and then um we outline how a salary schedule is defined under Michigan law and then under the public school employees retirement act what a normal salary schedule is and our obligation to provide clear and specific documentation salary increases. So what we did is we went to paragraph two compensation of the existing contract we're deleting it replacing it and essentially we've just um taken the longevity clause and then um put it in a table format. So the longevity clause says that um we pay 1% of
006the superintendent's base salary for longevity each year of service that he has served as a superintendent public school. My understand. So the first contract this school year is 2027 to 2025 which is a 7% longevity on the annual base and then the chart shows what longevity totals adds it to the base to get total compensation and shows the contractual contract. So nothing changed about that. Essentially we're just putting in that table to make the words representation here. Um and provide that salary schedule that the office requires. There is a note on the final page just for clarity um to indicate that the calculations in the chart aren't intended to be used to do any additional calculations. So you wouldn't take any compensation and then apply the contract language to that. We're just showing individual questions.
007I just want to say thank you for your work on this and I know you put a lot of time and effort into this. It's been it's an important thing and energy to it. I know everybody is just seeing this so you have any questions Any questions? >> All those in favor? >> Post is adopted. Thank you. We'll move on to public communications uh for items not found on the agenda. We'll move on to the superintendent report. >> Oh yeah. So thank you. Um first of all I want to thank Rosola for uh all his work on the bond that he's done over the summer time. We're getting to that very end where Shady Elementary and middle school. So, it sounds like we have some final inspections coming here on the 14th and 15th. But
008I just want to thank you for all your work on that. Rob's done a tremendous job making sure that Clark and JMB and everybody's on board so that we're ready for school. So, thank you. You'll have in your inboxes some of our emergency operations plans. I'm going to share those with you. worked with on those um late at the end of last year. Marie has been a true gift for us on that. She's really worked hard to make sure that everybody's involved and engaged from our safety team to the local authorities. Um but those will be in your inboxes so that you can review those and look at those. Um and then those will be on a future agenda. But I want you to have time to review those. I will warn you that the
009templates are very similar but each about pages per building because there's just some differences as far as gas shut offs and things of that nature. But that will hit your box and then at some point we will have a close session where we can review with you those plans and review with you protocol for some of our lockdown situations. And so family letter went out today. sent communication last week just provided some basic information on professional development and so forth. A reminder that our first day of school is August 26. Um the buildings have already sent out family information as well. Families are aware of when school starts and all those things. Transportation is ready to go. Uh first food service is gearing up as well. The administration has been working hard making sure our
010schools are ready, making sure all the eyes are not teas are crossed. Just want to remind the team here that we won't have a welcome back because we have our capturing kids hearts training this year and they'll be on the 19th and the 20th and that really is geared towards two goals. strengthen our student teacher relationships and just continue to build that positive climate culture where students build one another up. So that's what we have in our plans. >> Thank you. Any questions? >> Except two questions. One is are we still providing three breakfast? >> Yep. We'll be providing that. Um I think Rob you can help with this but I think September 30th is when the actual budget ends right. >> Yeah. So the state runs through so there won't usual and just see
011what happens at the state level. Oh, in the newsletter that you sent out um there was some reminders about students who are doing the various online programming. Were those reminders about staying in the office and being physically present in the office? >> Was that yours? >> There were newsletter that went out to the community that they have to be physically present in the library during their online school >> just for Michigan virtual class. >> Okay. But Is that new or is that how it's always been? >> No, they can um kind of a carrot is if they complete their course early with parent and it's on the first block or fourth block then they otherwise they're stuck in the library. >> I know it >> app announcements from So, I will just say I was
012I want to welcome Becky uh to the district. So, thank you. We're excited to have you. Um I also want to give uh Kevin a little bit of credit here. Um ran a great process. I think that's an important thing when we're hiring somebody is it's not an easy thing to do over the summer. I mean, timing is never right for, you know, when somebody leaves, but I appreciate what you did. I know the staff appreciated it as well. You involved the community, involved parents, involved as as many people as you could. It's not a it's not an easy thing to manage. So, I appreciate that and I want to, you know, make sure that that you're recognized for that. So, thank you. Appreciate that. >> There's nothing else. I'll entertain a motion to >>
013We are Thank you.