001and bar here Carpenter here white ansite here Jason hansman Brad St here John TR here Brad Weaver here we have great thank you can I get a motion to adop the agenda please supp supported any discussion all those in favor please say I I any post we have an agenda we'll move right into presentations uh with the superintendent of CCA and their strategic plan Scott kenes Scott welcome thank you thank you very much I come bearing gifts that I'm going to share with all of you here shortly but as I share them I want to thank you for allowing me to go first this evening that is for Kevin 's award and I'll explain that and then I've got four sets of documents if you'd like just to take passes along thank you I'll refer
002to these through our present thank you so again uh thank you for allowing me to uh to go first I'm leaving here and going up to St John's uh and presenting to their Bo and their administrative team as well so I have to be there at 7 o' so thank you again for the flexibility so my name is Scott kenes I'm the superintendent OFA and and in year two while holding that position and I wanted to come out this evening uh and give you up with regard to our strategic plan your help with that um and really how do it fits into our strategic plan as we try to serve our local school districts so um a little overview when I arrived uh at Clinton Rec so we really didn't have a strategic plan we
003were operating under some accreditation goals um I'm a big believer in that strategic planning process uh and so started to talk to our board started to talk to our staff about embarking on a strategic plan um process and so I took uh the process to the board in February of 2024 a little over a year ago uh recommended using Michigan Association of school boards to help with the process uh the board approv that uh February through April was a period of data collection and stakeholder input which I'll get to we held a large all day Retreat of which you had a representative there shaa was there shaa is your uh superintendent spent the whole day with us uh we came back together in May late May spent another whole day really flushing out the objectives
004of the Strategic plan and then our board would go on to approve that plan uh in June of last year so the stakeholder inut phase I'll go through this fairly quickly we had 172 responses that includes about 36 participants in that all day planning Retreat again with shaa was your representative uh we did a survey uh we surveyed the community staff parents students we had a student focus group we had a number of other types of focus groups as well so ended up with 172 responses um that really helped us identify ass set strengths identify areas where we really need to improve uh any barriers that existed and then really helped us start to craft division so the first work day was April 29th again sha was there all day um it really helped um
005in a variety of ways we went over the strategic planning process uh we reviewed those survey results we took a look at our current vision mission and belief statements because we we didn't believe we had to throw everything up um so we reviewed what we had again reviewed the input stakeholder input we looked at lot of demograph demographic and District data with test scores um student enrollment budgets all sorts of District data including quits and other local school districts and then we started to propose to revise our Mission Vision in belief statements uh we finished that particular day with establishing five strategic goal areas and I'm going to get into those in a little bit with some goal statements and so the outcome of that day was to take all of the feedback uh craft
006a uh review and craft a vision and police statements and then identify some five goal areas and some goal statements so that's what we did the very first day and the document that I'm going to kind of steer you towards that has those is this two-pager which has our mission vision and go State believe statements on there and on the back there are five goal areas we'll walk through those very quickly uh and then also some objectives under each underneath excuse me each one of those SCH areas here is a list of participants on that April 29th meeting again you'll see Sean name you'll see parents there you'll see students there um and again a representative from each one of our local school districts the outcome of that day as I said it was a
007revised Mission so there is our revised mission to demonstrate quality leadership in partnership with stakeholders to provide high quality services through Innovation collaboration and communication Vision then of Clinton County Rea is to be the recognized leader in providing exceptional learning opportunities for all in partnership with our schools families uh in in communties belief statements again we had some belief statements we revised them I won't read all of these to you but give you a chance to scan those we had six belief statements that we coales so I'll give you a a little bit of time to uh to digest those and then we moved into again what we call our five goal areas those are highlighted on this two-pager uh they're colorcoded uh the top is blue uh that goal area is Services programs and
008Partnerships uh you can see the goal statement underneath that uh the next one is uh it's not lined up on here it's the middle one the green one organization or culture uh you can see the goal statement related to that uh teaching and learning uh providing high quality Dynamic and meaningful learning opportunities this is red uh opportunities would be the purple Communications and Community engagement is uh the fourth bullet and the fifth is operations personnel and finance and that's the goal statement associated with those so five goal statements and five particular goal areas and in all of our marketing materials we've color coded um each one of these tool areas so if you see yellow you know it's going to refer to operations personnel and finance so we got back together we had aition vision
009and goal statements we had relief statements uh and what we needed to do then was really start to what are we going to do with this right what are the objectives that we're going to work on and so we came together in May and of May uh and our task before us was to determine potential objectives final objectives of what we were going to work on for the 24 25 school year so the participants here this is very intentional according to our strategic plan consultant um it was all Rea folks that developed these and I questioned that said wait a second what about the input from the locals in the community um and his response was Scott these are the people that are going to be held responsible for getting the objectives done and you
010signed their paycheck and those are the folks that need to be in the room so we didn't intentionally keep folks out but he felt very strongly about who was involved in developing the objectives and so there's who developed the objectives and if you go again back to this two pager um we will walk through these real quickly I talked about our first program area our goal area being Services programs and Partnerships we've already known what the goal statement is so what are we doing um we have developed um and Kevin can speak to this and some of other your staff members a special education task force Julie sits on that U Kevin's going to sit in in a couple of meetings as well to Contin continually assess needs and plans for improvements and monitor progress
011we are expanding the work of what we call our district profiles and your staff knows what that is um we will come out in May or April sit out with your staff shoulder-to-shoulder for 90 minutes um and take a look at your data your District data your test data your demographics your free and ruce launch number of data Point um in plan with you in terms of how can we provide support so we expanding network uh and then we are internally developing an organization wide process for decision making to bring us together uh what we're finding is everything sounds like a good idea and when you're trying to do everything all at once uh you don't get a whole lot done and so we need to come up with a system to u to identify
012what's next and then prioritize that so those are the goal the priority objectives again the first two are underway well underway the third one we're just beginning and I'll come back that little bit second goal area I talked about Community engagement and communication that was something we really needed to improve upon when I came to uh to Clinton Rea so here's what we're working on uh we established a contract with Ingam ISD for communication supports we Comm contract with Ingam uh we have their staff for two full days a week on site uh and we're doing a number of um communication activities with the community with our local school districts on social media that we haven't been doing in the past and that's been going very very well part of that as well developing a
013communication plan with a clear consistent protocol including a communication calendar so much of what we do in the school World happens the same time every year right so let's develop a calendar so we're proactive in how we're communicating and then lastly this one of the things I I shared with Kevin with you as a board is we really want to provide signage for all CC recent classrooms meeting rooms offices and copies uh and for our local school district stating what our mission vision and belief statements are we are here to serve you and we feel it's important for you to know um what those things are again the document I shared with with Kevin so well underway uh in this particular pool area organizational culture uh first objectiv develop an employee recruitment renion plan I'm
014sure is the board you know that that's a call task nowadays is to recruit great folks and keep them here um it's a competitive market and so we're in the process of doing that uh and then creating and disseminating and uh using multiple formats a single page brochure outlining the programs and services that we offer I'll draw your attention to the other two pager that I handed out to you um this is the product of that so we can cross that one off we've done that this is the document um that we pulled together on the left L the Sera staff members the first column in if you're looking at the side that has the red uh stripe is the student population um for the county and then by each local school district for 22
01523 and 23 24 the third column in starts to break down our special ed numbers who are we serving well we sered 1,199 students with IEPs uh during the 23 24 school year 98 of them were at our Center just south of St John's I'm not going to read all these numbers to you but we really wanted to quantify and help you understand what we do and the numbers associated with that at recell the next box down is Early Childhood so we work with about 135 Z to three year olds a lot of folks don't know it Rec said we start working with kids sometimes the day after they're born depending upon the nature of their disabilities so 135 kids across the county that we work with um that are zero to three 187 gsrp
016kids you can see some information about resources a lot of budget information is there um CCA is a low debt levying ISD when you compare us to our neighbors uh instructional Services you can see our staff members there and the services that they're providing if you flip it over um a lot of data around Career and Technical education I know Jen's going to give a presentation shortly on that but we have over a thousand kids in CTE programs in Clinton County that's pretty powerful we have about 10,400 kids total so about one out of every 10 kids getting some kind of experience so we're excited about that um if you go down it mentions the career Expo which dwit is an excellent host and a generous host you host that every year in November for
017us thank you we appreciate that we bring in 800 eth graders and 800 10th graders into your gym um to expose them to different careers every fall uh towards the bottom of that column is information about our early middle college you have participants in early middle college in in last year um or to date we have had students earn 524 college credits at Mid m College 501 credits at LCC with a savings to families of over $214,000 that's a lot of money that you're saving families in our County so excited about that a number of other Early College data points there's some business service data points um we provide for feif for service um some business services to our local school district so for example Fowler is small so we run their AP and we
018do their payroll for them uh we were running all of OB El's OB El's business services for a while so you can see information there and then information about technology same concept and then finally in the blue we do have an office right here in dit downtown dit um where we provide Statewide Services it's called the office of innovative projects um and we provide services to a number of isds across the state so this is the one pager so we can cross that off our list for organizational call Operations personnel and finance the first objective was to conduct a special millage renewal we did that fortunately we're successful thank you for your support as a board of that so we can cross the head off we are remodeling our Ed Center so we've got about
019100 students um with some more severe impairments that are south of town so we are remodeling that uh updating our compensation manual job descriptions employee handbook and then in the process of developing a supervisor uh handbook as well and then finally teaching and learning uh establishing a countywide task force to conduct a review of schedules assessments and Data Systems to identify where we can collaborate better um so easy part of that is what uh School Finance uh technology services are each local school district using what curriculums are each school districts using certainly want to honor the local control but if there's areas that we can collaborate partner better on we want to do that uh and then last bullet point identifying catalog data resources designed to measure indicators of whole child outcomes we are working
020on that as well so I'm going to stop there and point out one more document and then answer any questions you might have the final document that I gave to you the non- glossy one is how we're measuring this so I shared a lot with you and there's a lot going on and I learned a lot from my dad one of the things I learned from him is what gets measured is what gets done so we're measuring this uh we measure it every quarter I give a formal presentation to our board where they hold me accountable um for helping get getting this stuff done um and this is our dashboard it's live on our website uh red means we haven't started it yet and that's okay it's a 3 to five year plan uh yellow
021means it's in progress uh in green means it's done and I can tell you that some of those yellow bullets um will get slid over um to the green column here when I present to the board in April I'll present the the third quarter uh quarter board report so we are measuring it this is not sitting on a shelf um I think your teams here will acknowledge that um as we are providing services to them so now I will stop and answer any questions that you thank you Scott any questions for Scott guess you were very thorough well thank you again thank you for the opportunity to come on I always love to come out and present to you as so thank you thank you thank you okay we will stick with CCA next the
022Career Training education program with Jennifer br's Career Education director welcome than thank you well good evening everyone thank you so much for allowing me to be here this evening and follow by uh my boss uh my name is Jennifer Branch I'm the Career Education director here at Clinton County Risa and I appreciate that our local districts allow me to come once a year and update a little bit about what's going on in Career and Technical education at Clinton County Rea because it is a countywide effort and in our department we support both the countywide programs we have 11 of them this year one of them is actually housed here one of our countywide programs our business management entrepreneurship program uh they run hand depos Cafe Inspire attire um and they do some embroidery work as
023well so um that's how it's here and then we also provide support to all of the uh Local District in-house CTE programs so you have Finance here you have web you have programming you have family and consumer science you have business so several programs here that are dit local CTE programs um just a little bit of a couple of updates we have a new staff member this year our administrative assist Kim CCO we we have a lot of Staff members that are from Clinton County Kim happens to come to us from B schools where she uh did had was in a number of roles and so she's done great so if you happen to be in our office and see a new face to you this is k um we also this year were able
024to add another section of sports med due to uh enrollments and so our Sports Medicine instructor and this program is actually located at St John's High School but it's a countywide program uh Matt be uh is certified athletic trainer and he's done so well with students that next year we're going to be able to offer a year two of sports medicine and those students will have the opportunity to become certified personal trainers throughout the year so we're excited about the growth that's happening in sports medicine some of the other things we do uh in addition to providing CTE programming every year we host a college night where we have over 40 postsecondary institutions community colleges four-year colleges um military trade schools and we invite all students in grades 8 through 12 as well as not
025just from Clinton County but surrounding areas to attend that it's always well attended um and then we also support the Capital Area manufacturing Council in manufacturing week and it's actually manufacturing month but during the month of October uh all of our programs that have a manufacturing Focus students are uh they visit two locations throughout the day the manufacturers eat them lunch and they get an opportunity to connect with business and industry um and as Scott mentioned we want to thank the every year for hosting our career Expo it's a lot of people to have in your district and um we couldn't we couldn't do it without the support of uh do it and we appreciate it greatly in addition to uh some of the industry connections that you just saw there we also have a
026number of places where students are in work-based learning throughout the county um one of the things about Career and Technical education is without your educational partners and your business and Industry partners and volunteers uh things cannot be done so students are getting that real world connection and you can see a list this year of some of our CTE related work-based learning placements and then in those individual programs listed there we have students in a number of businesses throughout the county and this week um is our second large scale career uh exploration and awareness event our PVE your own path event that will be at Clinton County Ora that's a dayong workshop for students that are currently in programs going to hear from a few of our students here shortly um but that ex or that
027PVE your own path event they'll spend a day uh having the resume cover letters reviewed um having to give a little elevator pitch of themselves uh being in a job fair simulation having to do some speed interviewing um and then hearing from Professionals in the industry um about things like professional dress social media and how that impacts your search um how to find the right job so on and so forth so and before before I get into some Early College date if I could have any all of the students that are have graciously agreed to attend to come up here um I'm going to I'm going to ask each of them a few questions after they have a minute to introduce themselves so come on up here some of you on the way but not
028all of you so I'll make sure everybody gets their Subway Gift Card they didn't know they were going to get that at a time I didn't even have to that way so um so I as I asked our instructors to let me know uh if they could give me names of students they stop would be able to speak to their program and have done a nice job in their program thus far and these are some of the names that were given and I appreciate all of you being here thank you very much so um you did get to see the the questions a little bit ahead of time but if I could just take a minute all of you introduce yourself what program you're in and if you could share what made you decide to
029take that that Career Connections that CC program I guess I'll start my name is Claire McIntyre I'm a senior at DWI high school and I'm currently in the second year of the cad and Design Technology course with rck laar as my instructor and after attending like the um like field trip to go see the CC Resa courses C Design Technology really stood out to me as like an artistic creative person I'm able to express some of that interest into architecture and building my name is Dylan Ree and I'm in the same course I'm just in the first year of the design course with Mr lar um I chose it for a very similar reason I'm also a very artistic person and while architecture is a very technical literal art I can scratch my Creative Edge
030because I'm able to express a lot of my creativity um even though it's a very math heavy subject um I'm K cultra I'm a junior and I'm in early childhood with Miss pepper and I decided to take resell because I've always wanted to become a teacher and like after going to the tour one time met Miss pepper I was like this is my personal Miss Frizzle and I need to take class I'm Griffin l i take business management entrepreneurship which is offered here at D high school I'm also a junior the reason I took this course is because I want to follow the footsteps of my parents my mom and my dad had business degrees from MSU on the University of alette so I just feel like my turn to step into into the business
031world my name is uh Christopher gka um I wanted to be I'm in the auto program at St John's and why I chose it was um I wanted to become a automotive technician thank you I appreciate it next question if I can just have two of you answer this I'll have I'll pick on different people here but um if you could just share with me what's been the best part of your counta CTE forast so far so just have two of you volunteer to do that it's been the best part of it so far great for me the best part has been just how differently the classroom ran compared to the it high school um there's a lot more freedom and it's very much um you pace yourself and you come in you start working
032nobody tells you to start working and you have a small five minute break out of the giant window that you were there and so I feel like it's really well preparing me to work in a actual career because I am building these habits very early on and there's a little bit of wiggle room if I make any mistakes um right now we're in placements which has definitely been my favorite part of the re program so every Thursday and Friday I get to go hang out with children in like Care Centers like the growing patch and do it or I've been going to Riley for like elementary school and I'm getting a great hands-on experience with working in classrooms and with children and it's just very fulfilling for the other three of you if you could
033answer this question uh how do you think that taking this program has better prepared you for your future plans after high school I can start us off um my first year I learned through Rick Lear um if you're not five minutes early or 10 minutes late and so that kind of ingrained into my head I show up instead of at 7:45 I'm there at 735 every morning um and that kind of brought in a sense of responsibility that I learned through myself I guess I'll go next I got here in my freshman year at the and I was a complete nervous wreck I had no self-confidence or anywhere of professionalism but taking this course has brought me to where I know I can be as a person and as a businessman so um my auto
034Resa um it allows me to get um certifications for the state of so I can work on uh Automotive vehicles in state of Michigan and like any does would have any questions for the students before I let them sit down and get off the hat SE I think my only question is about Transportation how how much of a challenge is that for you as as students I know I had a son who went out to ID every morning and that's quite a bit of money I mean so how how are you handling that and is that a barrier for you or have you heard that's a barrier for other students I live in dit and Dylan I actually carp to him from St John's every day so that definitely helps with gas mileage and gas
035prices or gas yeah for sure um and we even car pulled another kid with us on the way back every once in a while so I think it is manageable and I think there are still some like the blue school buses you see you can take those with transport if you sign up for so it's not much of an issue for me yeah S I was just going to say I I know nearly every other District but to whip offers Transportation that's free um and it's a 20-minute drive and sometimes it's a little bit grueling when the sun hasn't risen yet and it's icy out but um I know our instructor he's never been mad at us the road conditions are bad for being late I don't know if you guys same so I've never
036been really Transportation you have your class right here so so I live over in Grand Ledge so I'm kind of at the black sheep of everyone up here so it's a 10-minute drive for me to get to the high school so it's kind of a little bit of a hassle on gas but it's manable worth it I would say for sure oh definely is thank you any other questions thank you thank you for representing yourselves program so well really of course and I do want to say that all of these students have the opportunity to earn industry recognized credentials and or postsecondary credits in their programs which is really helpful you know Chris talked about you know State mechanics test it's not a student State mechanics test it is a test which certifies him in
037the state of Michigan to do mechanical work and and likewise these students are in certifications that the industry recognizes so thank you students I appreciate you being here two other updates from from the Career Education Department and then I know we have some other great presentations so uh another Focus we've had this year is to try to better partner with our special education departments in our respective districts so we have students that come to us with IEPs and 504s and we've always been mindful of that but we have held some lunch and learns with each district so that our um our our teachers can connect with the special education representatives in each of our local districts to figure out how to best serve the students in their program so that has been really successful and
038we plan to continue to do that in the future um every single student in Clinton County has a senior interview day opportunity whether that be through PVE your own path or in their local district and we do assist with that and as Scott mentioned we have our Capital Region technical Early College this year we have uh 11 new students in Allied Health eight new students in cyber security and new students in education Early Childhood the first two we partner with laning Community College and then the last program we partner with mid Michigan College and I'm going to show you a little bit of data about the capital region technical Early College uh this is a regional effort with Clinton Eaton and Ingam and you can see uh that growth that's happened since its Inception in
03920189 um all the way through now where we have a total number of students of 64 students in the program it started out with two and this is by District you can see um the growth over the years in terms of student participation this is by year so how many 11th graders there are how many 12th graders year 13 and how many have completed Scott mentioned this a little bit um we have many many college credits that were completed as of the fall semester obviously we're in the middle of um some credits in process um for the spring semester and a huge savings to students and their families in Clint County and this is our office team uh should you ever need to reach any of us I believe um I you should all have
040access to our presentation I really appreciate your time and then any questions you have for any other questions for thank you thank you thank you J okay next we have D Middle School 8ighth grade impact projects led by Heidi Bita D middle school health teacher welcome Heidi hi thanks for having us got my little duckings with me good evening while they're getting set up I'm just going to kind of kick it off so uh at the middle school we are uh really fortunate and uh excited always to have health education going on for our sixth seventh and eighth graders and uh we have one of our phenomenal teachers here Mrs Heidi um and she's going to explain to you one of the projects that our eighth graders do that is just really amazing and shows
041what middle school students are are capable of all the time when we see that energy go towards the L thank you first uh question for everyone what kind of vegetable do you need for a flat tire [Music] asparagus okay you feel better joke right um thank you for that intro we're so fortunate to have three trimesters of health education at the middle school by the end they've had a full year that is very rare very very rare most schools have maybe a maybe a quarter or a semester so because of that we can cover a lot more content and do this is a Project based learning um approach here this project impact project and it allows us the time to really give it the care it deserves so this sampling of students has come in
042I'm going to tell you a little bit about the project and then they're going to tell you just a little bit about their focused um areas so um the driving question of this particular project is how can I use my interests and strengths to advocate for health related topic and make the world a better place so in this project this is what the students would see they work with a group to develop a public product to help promote a health related topic of their choosing so we cover physical health mental and emotional health and social health those are are big three we call them and so students really can pick anything that draws their interests um they start individually thinking about those things and then through a process of um some different activities they kind
043of find others who share similar areas of interest to um come together around this project they practice these are all of the standard skills that we cover throughout health education that we would really just get to touch on um a little bit if we didn't have all the time that we are allowed to put towards health education advocacy being a big one decision making goal setting analyzing different influences accessing valid information interpersonal communication and self-management so this project pulls in all of those skills puts them to work in figuring out all of these different steps and they kind of learn these things as they go through the process that's the overall goal they work their way through different components they have time in class they have many of them come in during seminar time to
044work with their group um some do working lunches some get together outside of class time but once they get rolling with this they kind it kind of takes on a life of their own uh of its own and it's really exciting to watch so we just got a few examples we've been doing this project for I think I was trying to count Co kind of interrupted it a little bit but six years six or seven years um these are some more of the recent projects and some of the volunteers that we have here so this was a Just Dance Party at herbison woods and I have two of the Reps here from that we have Maya and Izzy and I guess take this off I told interview them all right hello tell us what uh
045what made you want to do your project at herbis and wood um so we really like to exercise um we both play soccer and so we wanted to share our love of exercise to F graders so we threw a Just Dance Party with classes that could come and um we did it for 30 minutes for um um like three combined classes and we did like five just dances for each class and Izzy do you think the kids had a good time definitely I mean they were screaming and they definitely had a lot of f yeah this was one that I actually got to go to I can't be at all of them cuz any given class there usually in groups of about three to four and so a class of 30 you know you have
046several projects going on all at the same time so there's a lot of plates spinning and so I go to as many of them as I can but the teachers at Heron woods and shav Road and even the high school um Scott School across town they all are just so quick to be supportive of these students and they reach out that's part of the project is to communicate professionally and reach out um to set things up and arrange things and uh communicate the details and and the teachers have been outstanding and providing those collaborations so thank you for that they did have a great time lots of lots of screaming and dancing was going on okay so that's one we did this year that was physical health related um This Crew couldn't make it tonight
047but this is another pretty popular project over the years um groups that seem to find an interest in wanting to help and typically they'll mention something about enjoying cooking so part of this project is finding something you're already good at and bringing it to the table right pun intended here so they um all really enjoyed cooking they really wanted to do something to help people um who were struggling and so they went and volunteered at Ronald McDonald's house and made a full meal and got a tour of the house and get to learn about the services that are provided at Ronald McDonald House here's another one we got a crew down here on the end three of the four are here today this is our shoe crew and you can see May if you follow
048the Facebook Community page you may have seen their efforts um they worked with an organization called Footprints of Michigan that one of the group members collaborated with a parent right Roy um to get connected with and they decided to do a shoe drive and what was your original goal for shoes do you remember like how many pairs you were hoping to get we looking for 500 500 how many did you get uh 86 awesome um and what what do you think helped get you over that I think on a Friday we were at like 300 or something and by Monday we were at 800 do you want to talk about that how that happened so we posted on the Facebook page for more donations of shoes and everybody from all around the community just helped
049out and brought shoes in even if like the kids didn't bring them parents brought them in so much shoes yeah people so many shoes and they were all over my room all over my room all the shoes um and you all got a chance to kind of collect these and like carry them to what they call the um what did he call the truck again the Soul Train the Soul Train is the truck there and what did that feel like d taking all those bags you want to talk about that Brody yeah it felt really good because I knew that we were to put those shoes to use and them to people need yeah yeah it really brought it to life didn't it you guys were awesome anything you want to say Troy smile okay
050excellent that was an awesome awesome effort um and then we've got that one was really another kind of social effort social advocacy effort to draw attention awareness and also fill a need um this is from actually last year I wanted to feature um a it was an art share and there was a group of students who really wanted to provide an opportunity for their peers to come and show their kind of hidden talents they have so many so many that they might not get to shine um all the time to their peers and so they came they put a sign up sheet out and kids signed up to come some played music some showed their art some read poems we had kids playing instruments we had um one student who makes cutting boards and he
051brought them and passed them around and it was just really beautiful to watch them supporting each other and getting excited about the variety of of talents hidden inside their little hearts so that was from last year you want to see some of those faces this is a smatter of some of our physical activity um efforts over the years we uh have kind of come into a tradition of doing three Onre basketball tournament at herbison Woods that my son is a sophomore right now he was a fifth grader the first year we did this and like lived for it still talks about it he as an eighth grader actually that's what he chose to do for his project so he was very excited to kind of see that go full circle and I'm noticing that kind
052of happening each year somebody will come in can we do the can we do the basketball tournament we want the basketball tournament so um you see that one up there we've got an outdoor kind of flag football experience that was put on um I think this is some more footage of maybe the just that might be some of the Just Dance Party and then we even make it over to Shady road to get them up and moving I've got Sullivan here to talk about a little bit about going to Shady Road do you want to hold the mic Sullivan feel like you're ready tell us kind of what was your topic and what did your group do all right so um our topic was on music and its effect on mental emotional health and motivation
053uh our group now I was really the only one who like the music part that that was what I brought to the group but my group really cared for like physical education whatnot because we're all very invested student athletes and so we wanted to bring something to um to shab Road the younger kids and just show them I don't know a little bit of what we cared about and so we went to them we made a slideshow now that might not sound fun but if you saw it you had to be there to see truly how wonderful that slideshow was you know I'm going to P myself on the back I did a really good job and um so we brought it to them and we just had a bunch of fun activities and I
054really think we taught them something and just gave them a little fun break from their normal uh PE activities all right and then another fun um I don't have a picture of it unfortunately we were having such a good time at this next one that no one took any pictures but we got this idea from Fowler actually I got to give them credit because at an eighth grade basketball game this winter I'm a mom and of an eighth grader and you know we're sitting in the bleachers and it's halftime and all of a sudden we got kids going like running out onto the court and they're doing half court shop contests and they're winning like you know a candy bar or something like that and the line is like out the door and they're paying
055a dollar at a time to do this we're this is so fun first of all and I wonder what that money is going towards right so ding ding ding I'm thinking this is a great idea so Das you were part of that basketball team right and so your group tell us how you came to decide to do your project okay so what we did was at the girls basketball games went to two of them and at half timee we did a half court challenge where you pay a dollar and you shoot a half court shot you can make it you win a pop and we did this to raise money for the DAR scholarship fund for kids that can't afford to play We rais over $200 I think yeah they were ready they multiple shots
056were taken did anybody make their half court shots yeah a couple I think we had a few awesome thank you so much and just really quickly just to show the kind of Snowball Effect of this um this t-shirt that's up top there Grody I think your brother was part of that project actually back in the day um that was designed by a group that was interested in art and graphic design and also in physical activity and they designed that shirt to sell put out to the community for purchase and the proceeds is from that t-shirt is what started this scholarship fund um through dit Community Ed so if a student wants to do te- ball or basketball or floor hockey and they can't pay for it um dit Community Ed can can seek some help
057from that fund so it's really cool again to see each year another group wants to do something to help with that so lots of different examples over the years we even have officer Mike in there and really this is what it all comes down to um as part of my goal they already are awesome as you can tell but I think sometimes we forget that it's sometimes the little things that make the biggest difference so thank you all for all showing up tonight on this beautiful evening Sunny evening I appreciate you and I know um Mr carva has a little something extra for our shoe crew group from the foot prints of Michigan that he wanted to um present and we actually have certificates for all of you as well so um do you want
058to talk about that a little bit thank you so we are so proud of all of our students and just the energy that you could see tonight and what they bring is awesome I know they put the same energy into every essay that write for language arts or every time they do 100 problems for math but you should see when they do these uh impact projects will just truly take sign life of their owni it means when she says they go down to a room at lunch they um stay after school they're they're working on the weekends on things they're reaching out so um the we have certificates for all our students that um that presented and Al worked on the projects and really appreciate you coming out I also though do want to mention
059our Footprints group um the as they you saw on the Facebook page maybe even the news story that was done in them was the largest donation they ever had from in one day from uh an organization so that is amazing and um and they actually brought some plaques so we do have plaques for our our book Prince group that they just dropped off last week you you know they were coming it's a surprise to you so um so we'll we'll I I'll give you and um and she can hand those out uh in her at another time tomorrow at school or the next day or something and any questions though from our board for awesome thank you thank you that does conclude presentations for this evening all of you are welcome to stay but if
060you do have something better to do now is a good time to sneak out up to you thanks everybody we appreciate you coming out okay we will move on to Public Communication for items found on the agenda it is the practice of the Board of Education to commit persons in the audience to make statements concerning agenda items at this time please complete a public comment form and return to the board desk if you wish to speak or prefer to express the written comment public comment shall be limited to three minutes got one okay uh Griffin get that right with the re well I guess no no okay we will close Public Communication items on the agenda and move on to the consent agenda it's recommendation by superintendent Kevin ridc that the Board of Education approved
061adopt accept the following items for immediate implementation and appropriate action as presented approval of minutes regular meeting from February 10th 2025 curriculum and Improvement committee meeting from February 10th 2025 Health advisory subcommittee meeting February 26 2025 the treasurer's report bills for payment for the month of February 2025 the treasurer reviewed and confirmed the checks a deits and the purchase card for the month of February 2025 an out of state overnight student trip request to get high school business Professionals of America State Conference in Grand Rapid motion support who can support it any further discussion okay all those in favor please say I I any post motion carries move on to action items now is the recommendation by superintendent Kevin ridc that the DWI Public Schools Board of Education approve the resolution authorizing issuance bonds delegation
062of the sale and other matters relating thet as presented do we have a motion support supported any discussion Rob anything you want to add to this part started this process back in November there was an initial resolution that was passed by the board um all met so that step that appr so we can finalize the sale two days great thank you and if there are any questions we also have AV great any questions for okay all those in favor please say I I any post motion carries okay next Furnishings for shab Road Elementary is a recommendation by superintendent Kevin ridc for the 2021 building and site Capital project the Board of Education approved the award recommendation of $794 361 for the purchase of Furnishings for shab Road Elementary as presented PL Moran real Point has
063provided a recommendation letter and bit tab sheets for board reviewed motion so moved support moved and supported any discussion anything here Rob no okay great thank you all those in favor please say I I osed motion carries next be Furnishings for the det Middle School Phase 2 is a recommendation by superintendent Kevin midc for the 2021 building site Capital project with the Board of Education approved the award recommendation of $ 41579 th000 128 for the purchase of Furnishings for D middle school as presented plant Mar real Point has provided recommendation letter and bab sheets for Board review to be a motion support who and supported any discussion all those in favor please say I hi any opposed motion carries next for the bond projector presentation systems and Associated equipment recommendation by superintendent Kevin ridc the
064Board of Education award the 2021 building Insight Capital project presentation systems and Associated equipment as per the issued bidding contract document with moss in the amount of $128,800 motion carries next is a recommendation by superintendent Kevin ridic of the board of education for the 2021 building and sight Capital project asbest batement services from Green for life in the amount of $34,900 for summer asbest batement has presented shab elementary $1,550 and middle school phase 2 $ 23,37 do we have a motion move is supported any discussion all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries uh next approval of the 2025 26 to Middle School curriculum guide is a recommendation by superintendent Kevin ridc that the Board of Education approved the 2025 2026 withit Middle School curriculum guide as presented in a motion
065support is supported any discussion all those in favor please say I any post motion carries finally extension of administrator contracts is the recommendation by superintendent Kevin ridc Board of Education approve the contracts for the principles and administrators identified in the March 7th 2025 Memo from superintendent Kevin ridc for the 25 26 and 26 27 school years with authorization for the superintendent to execute contracts by June 30th 2025 do we have a motion support move and supported any discussion no okay all those in favor please say I I any oppose motion carries okay that takes care of the action items we will now move on to public Communications for items not found on the agenda ises the practice of the Board of Education permit persons in the audience to make statements concerning items not listed on
066the agenda at this time please complete the form and turn it in public comment shall be limited to three minutes right Jeff M welcome if I knew the news was going to be here I just stopped at home and done my hair after work today um my name is Jen for mcne I live at 14355 Turner Road um and last month I came and talked about the pool and the bond funds relating to the pool and just some of that transparen I thought it would be relevant for me to follow up and let you know that um thank you to Dr verbeck for making your arrangements to call me we had a great discussion on the Friday following the board meeting we talked about a couple of things things um I'm hopeful that he's going
067to follow through with some of the points including um taking a tour to the pool with the coaches and our MMA board just to kind of get a better um arms wrecked around the needs of our pool facility I still want to really push on the transparency of the bond website um even the board agenda all of these things that are on here there's no attachments it's just an agenda so you can't go through and read what is being presented at the at the board meetings and I think that that's also relevant to the bond so we just want to keep pushing and leaning into that that um I really want to encourage and after some of the discussions that I had with Coach brace following the board meeting and then the MMA uh president
068uh Holly scoon over really the transparency of communication from when they communicate to coach BR all the way up through and how that comes back and translates back to them open communication real being really transparent will impact some of that like I don't know dissension or uncomfortable feelings about how they feel about how the bond is being handled and the pool repairs and all of that stuff I became The Accidental you know pool uh representative that wasn't really my goal or my point but I'm fine to keep coming back and keep pushing in as until we hear and see of changes um and then also if there's an issue of funds and there's gaps our club organization has funds available I think that there needs to be open communication andou about how they live and
069breathe within our pool system and I think they would come to the table to help with some of that Gap if there is a gap between what the bond is going to be allowing the pool to do as I see the timer um what the bond is going to allow the pool to do and what the needs are and I think that again that comes down to communication and transparency and I'll just continue to encourage that and uh perhaps I'll be back next month and we'll just continue having this discussion until there's some movement one way or the other so I appreciate your time and thank you very much thank you uh we have one more okay um Amber Covington hello everyone um my name is Amber kington um I live in Lany Michigan my
070kids go to D schools um I just want to speak today on an incident that happened on bus uh February 27th um I've emailed everyone here and I only uh heard from one person thank you this Carpenter um for that and so I just want to bring it to your attention that um it's been a week a little over a week and we just got a letter today about what had happened we received a phone call that day after our children uh we about 30 to 40 45 minutes late um and so I just want to um ask the board to look into the transportation policies if there's going to be a delay especially in a situation that may be an emergency so we can have better communication and transparency of what is going on
071um and then um also what um the school is going to do about bus safety um is there training that the bus driver should be taking to handle certain situations um I think that's very important um my child was on that bus that day I did not know the the severity of the situation um he um was able to text me and say I'm okay and I thought that was weird Mike why are you saying you're okay what happened um and I know no communication from the school and the communication I got from the school was um a phone call saying that there was a student not going to go into details exactly um but they said there is a student and everyone's okay your student wasn't involved okay that's very vague that's not like
072what what did my child witness I need prepare I need to be prepared as a parent to speak to them about what they may have seen or the situation they were in um so I would like to be more the school to be more transparent and um then also just um again bus safety I think um how many incidents need to occur before the school steps in to do something um um I get it people cannot control bus drivers are there to drive a bus I would not want to drive a bus and have to deal with 65 kids as well um especially with different ages in different needs and I think that would be very hard and I think they need to have more support is their training that the school has them do
073um what type of training um to be in that situation and um what's the school policy for that and so I would just like that to be um more um aware and then also I would just like to thank Mr K for being there that day um to be there um for the kids in that situation so thank you you anything else yeah uh Dennis kski any information from me you go all right I'm Mr Co Mr K the bus driver that bus 17 on that day uh the issue I had that day is that this situation has been going on for months I had brought it to my superiors and nothing has happened nothing has changed all I get is put them in the front seat put make sure the student has headphones on
074these these aren't working I've been telling him since Christmas that this was not working the situation is getting progressively worse and he's going to hurt somebody on the 27th he got on the bus he didn't want to sit in the front seat cuz I had a student in there I told him to sit in the second seat back he said or he said he would sit in the second seat back I said that's fine I can keep an eye on him and still talk to him within minutes I had a kid screaming that he had been hit in the face and other students following up saying he was hit in the face I open my door I called for help from Mrs Aly over at herbon to go get an aid they came and got
075an aid they couldn't get him off the bus he was cussing swearing kicking the seat punching I had kids behind him that were crying numerous girls crying student shaking it was ugly and it was avoidable I don't know how this this child had been kicked off the bus already numerous times and allowed back on other students don't get that kind of opportunity he has an aid in class all day long in a small classroom environment but then he's put on my bus with no Aid of 65 screaming kids it is no secret I do not run a tight ship on my bus okay I don't care if the kids are loud I don't care if they're singing as long as they're sitting in their seats and behaving themselves I'm not picky that way I made
076it very clear that the bus environment was not a good environment for this child okay whether administration his parents or whoever it is this is not the place for that child when I brought up putting him on a Dean transportation bus Mr Gibson told me that cost a lot of money and the school board had the school district has to put that bill the next day I received numerous accolades from parents from the principal at shab Road and from Mr Gibson himself on my handling of the situation but I told George you failed me and you failed my students and I'm not happy at that point he realized that didn't have his back that afternoon he brought me in look at a video tape this video tape that Mr uh robik even brought up today
077in his letter was so dark you couldn't see anything on it so for Mr robik you get on the web today and break your little note about their videotape showing uh no incident and saying that that child wasn't hit you made a big mistake I think with the public on that one that child was hit in the face he had a mark on his head he was crying and there was numerous students that said so you called it an altercation an altercation is a war of words sir when you get hit that's an attack this was not an altercation it was an attack on another small child a kindergarten Child by a large fourth grade student they began looking for excuses and Escape goal first it was the student I think he might have antagonized
078that other student no he didn't well when did he get hit you can't see him get hit on the videotape he got hit the tape they showed me last week unless something's changed was so dark you couldn't even see the students faces I was set up for a meeting last week with um supposed to be HR when I showed up Mr Rober was in the meeting also at that point it's a 2 on1 I said I'd like to record this conversation he said absolutely not if you want to record this conversation the meeting's over and it's not up for debate HR meetings are quite often recorded there was no reason that meeting could have been recorded to protect not only him but me it protects all of us so I left that meeting right now
079I'm saying they have no plans they have nothing they have no way of controlling this child and someone's going to get hurt as far as my job doesn't matter I can get another one but something's got to happen because this kid is going to hurt somebody and he needs an eight on the bus or he needs to be on a different bus and that's it that's all I got to say I'm pretty heartbroken cuz I love those kids those kids love me thank you thank you guys we will then close Public Communication and move on to the superintendent report all right I just want to make it clear that we remain committed to student safety and clear communication with families and we deeply appreciate the trust you place in US holding students accountable is just
080as important as holding ourselves accountable it takes all of us bus Travers School staff students families and administration working together ensure a safe and successful environment for everyone I'd like to announce that uh this is reading month March has been recognized as reading month as a Time dedicated in love for meeting among students and their families and with Public Schools we celebrate this by engaging students in a variety of literacy focused activities that highlight the Jo of importance of throughout the mon want to congratulations to our girls basketball team on the district Championship their third consecutive good luck this week to the girls uh basketball at regionals and the boys and swim dive at States uh I also want to thank you for the dedication incredible work um that our staff in the classroom and
081on the bus and the kitchen and sporting countless other ways your efforts do to go do not go on notice I truly appreciate all that you do finally I thank you to our families for providing feedback to ensure we are focused on continuous Improvement thank you any questions Mr my question is surrounding the communication with parents about just transportation in general what what are we looking at changing if a bus is going to be late in the morning have the communication system in place to be able to get text messages out I mean I know we can communicate for snow days and things like that but is that the type of thing that we're looking at doing yeah that that was definitely a mistake by The District in the sense that we were making phone
082calls that day um and the transportation department has now worked with the technology department to make sure that they've been trained in Infinite Campus and uring that first we got to get that message out that hey we're going to be late and if we are late they'll know what frame that might be in uh so that they can plan but then we're also going to follow up with personal phone calls to ensure that we can communicate that so and what's what's late I I mean I look I look out my window every day and my kids Bus shows up within two minutes yeah I would say if we're that 105 minute Mark we're definitely especially we got to remember this is a K through five bus so that things Shi I understand okay any comments
083or updates board members on any status update on the PO I do not um we have met on but as far as working with the coaches and stuff um Rob and I have talked with the bond committee on that making sure that they're Rob do you have more on the I don't know if you have um think what yes likely we do I'm trying to think what we've talked about since the last board meeting so we're looking at bidding the pool separate from the high school um to step up the timeline talking with the swim coaches as well as um atle Department the the ideal time to start work on the pool would be around spring break uh and to get that done we have to basically have to push up when we would be
084going to bid for the the items that are related for the pool so that's probably the biggest update is that we'll have instead of one package for the high school we'll have two packages you'll see the pool bid sooner than the high school bid to make sure that we can hopefully fit those timelines um and obviously part of that be depend on contractors and availability but the reason of stepping up that timeline is to hopefully be able to hit that spring break to early summer for getting that actual work done and we're still looking at doing um tiling so around the pool tiling looking at doing starting block siing boards um so the items that were listed in the pool and then we're investigating a couple of other items that while we're working in the
085pool might make some sense to to tackle as well thank you appreciate that and then is there any um plan or updating progress in terms of the bond project and how we're communicating that online what's happening with it those updates our website yeah we're going to be working with a tech team on that there's a obviously there's a little disadvantage because we don't have a tech director right now so we're kind of in that that space unfortunately but obviously it's very important transparent and sharing those documents as best we can so thank you question Rob put on the spot are there things with bids that we cannot put up is there are there privacy issues competition issues are there anything that would prevent us from putting things up and you don't to answer that now
086but I I just think even if there is I think it would be nice to be able to communicate to the public so they know what we can say and what we can't say just so we're just with the bond project itself and it bids I mean not really I mean once things are publicly bid I mean everything's part of our board packets um as well uh so so it's all out there what we kind of talked about probably in the fall maybe even the summer was going to quarterly updates because you get into certain months of the year and there's just really like right now there's hardly any activity going on so if we were to do these monthly updates uh on the bond website it's basically rather rather rinse repeat because there's not
087a lot there so we're looking at kind of March 31st June 30th September 30th December 31st as those updates um but certainly there's other things that we can post out there if there was interest from know of the board do so appreciate that thank you one last thing do we have the technological capability to get like the underlying materials for the board like that go with the agenda to make those more accessible as well as far as to the public I think that would all come down to just um do we have the ability do we have that person to be able to do that so I think that's what come I just didn't know if like board local capacity like that would be a d question I'm not sure on that we could we
088could PDF the board packet and then post it online as a PDF yeah and then we would want to make sure it was had the watermark of draft on itse okay I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so move support all those