001would you please rise for thege of plge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all Mr St can you please take the here Co here daughter here Brad leer we do have the floor great thank you um is there a motion to adopt the agenda so move to Second discussion all those in favor please say I I any post we have an agenda first presentation to it Middle School Dr kada welcome thank you good evening everyone we're excited to be here uh tonight and I'm just going kind of kick things off and get the projector started really and then turn it over to our amazing teachers and students uh they're going to give some presentation on integrating uh
002diversity equ inclusion into the curriculum um as you're well aware we've been working on uh many uh D inclusion initiatives uh for a number of years and uh we have two of our teachers here tonight who serve on our di team for our building but they also represent just our staff and ways that this is integrated in so this is a small sample but I'll go ahead and turn it over that think up first all right I'll introduce myself I'm Randa brother I teach sixth grade science here at the middle school and I'm going to talk about a little bit what I do in my classroom to try to integrate Dei work into it so one of the very I don't want to be near the mic I'm just going to get away from it
003um so one of the very first assignments I gave my um science students is something just called the scientist picture I kind of downplay it like hey we just did this really cool thing in class and when you finish I just want you to draw a picture of a scientist I don't really give them much other than that I just tell them hey draw a picture of a scientist and I give them these um four kind of criteria make sure it takes up the majority of the paper make it colorful make it neat like I said it's one of our very first assignment so it's really just a kind of get to know them and what they think science is and I have them list three characteristics so this is typically what I get from
004sixth graders kind of like the Einstein look they're usually got crazy hair they're carrying beers they have lab equipment um they're wearing a lab coat they're usually wearing goggles or glasses and you could tell right away that they have a lot of stereotypes when it comes to what a scientist looks like so um then I kind of introduce the whole point of the assignment and I say here is the breakdown when we look at gender and we look at race the breakdown of actual people in the stem fields and we can see that yeah it kind of makes sense that their stereotypes are these white men because the majority of people in the stem fields at this point are white men you can kind of see the other break down but I say does it
005have to be like that definitely not we want to make sure that our stem careers are more reflective of the people in you know our world and so during the year what I do is I try to highlight some scientist to give them ideas that no they're not just white men wearing lab coats with crazy hair and whatnot like you can see there's a lot of diversity in the scientists that we have in our world and I do that by just showing these things every Wednesday I call them my scientist spotlights and this is the very first one that I do to kind of show them that it doesn't even have to be an adult like you can be a scientist as a kid so this is Janel Ral she's a 15-year-old indian-american scientist and
006inventor and a few years ago she was times very first kid of the year and we kind of just highlight some of the things that they're known for the awesome things that they're doing in the stem fields and here this is kind of the whole point is exactly what she said in her interview with time she says I don't look like your typical scientists everything I see on TV is that it's an older usually white man as a scientist she told time my goal is really shifted from not only creating my own devices to solve The World's problems but inspiring others to do the same as well because from personal experience it's not easy when you don't see anyone else like you so I really want to put the message out if I can do
007it you can do it anyone can do it and so then I just every Wednesday we highlight somebody um so when we were doing engineering we highlighted jessco Matthew she's an inventor of the soccer ball that actually generates electricity so they're using these in some of the more third world countries where they don't have um electricity um Taylor Wilson we highlighted him another kid he produced nuclear fusion in his garage at the age of 14 I told him don't do that uh we got Rini prash and we highlight her in May so she's actually coming up in a couple months here um May is known for Asian-American and Pacific Islander heritage month so a lot of the times if there's like a month where we're looking at a certain Heritage we'll highlight scientists from there
008we got Victor Glover we did him for Black History Month he's going to be the first black American to go around the Moon he's going on the emis 2 flight here in the next couple years we got Dr Sabrina peski for Heritage Or Hispanic Heritage Month she's kind of known as the next Einstein so it all comes back to what janali said I want them to be able to see people who are like them that they don't have to be old white men in lab coats and crazy hair to be a scientist so here's the before picture the idea is that they end up drawing a picture of themselves in the end of the year that they too can be a scientist so yeah and here's some of the pictures I have in my own
009science classroom to also just show that you know scientists come in all shapes sizes colors and all the above so yeah Todd you're next there's my segue my beautiful segue all right I'm Todd carnish I teach seventh grade ELA at the middle school and I brought two students with me to help so I don't have to talk the whole time Tommy Mundos Evelyn f are here to kind of share a little bit about their side of the project from my side of the project so we do informational writing um in English we do informational argument narrative but I really embedded diversity in with our informational work um basically giving them an unsung hero in history someone of a minority status who's not often celebrated so like not Martin Luther King Jr not Rosa Parks like
010the people that they've heard of time and time again through all of their growing up in school um so that's kind of the introduction that we give them um and then as an opener similar to what Miranda does I have them getting groups that kind of like frame it as a game and they have to list out as many influential people in American society as they can in 5 minutes and whoever gets the most names wins and then they're all like real competitive like oh I know George Washington and everything yada yada and then I compile their statistics oh I did not realize left transitions in on second um so it ends up this is like one of my hour statistics so total across the whole group they named 36 Unique Individuals 26 of them
011were white men so 73% of who they could name were white guys dead white guys guys like George Washington and aink and all that stuff um only nine black people are named and of that six are athletes so that's something else we talk about um black people have more contributions to society than just being a basketball player football player whatever that's 10 the tendency of what they go to um I was like pointing this out to the kids like you named four women so out of the 36 names of influential people you named for women and that's an alarming number it's like Rosa Park saaka Jia Helen Keller and a random fourth one that someone else throws out um no people with disabilities no latinx people no Native Americans one Asian person who's usually Gandhi
012that a kid like I know Gandhi um zero Arabic people and then zero lgbtq plus individuals so I always show this to them and the kids tend to get like a oh kind of gross feeling in their stomach which like it's kind of the goal like yeah you don't know these people which isn't your fault so that's why we're doing this project so that you do know more people um cuz you're 12 we don't expect you to be knowing these people all on their own so uh Lou bra was a blind educator who also invented bra Danny Thomas was an Arab American actor who found in St jud's Children Hospital Mary M bethon was an africanamerican educator philanthropist and civil rights activist for women and racial Equity Nelly B was a famous female journalist who
013was known for her uncomparable trip around the world in only 72 days NAA ly is an Asian-American award-winning designer and sculptor Harvey mil was the first openly game to be elected at San Francisco Board of supervisor and so one of yeah some of the things you had to research were their life story their inspiration some obstacles they faced and their impacts on society um so they're each going to share their person um total every kid or each person was only done twice so there was like 80 different individuals that they could have researched um and the two they got are kind of like the more famous ones so like it's there's lesser known examples than these two you're like oh I know those people most kids kind of do by um so I did Jim
014Thorp and he was a Native American football player Olympic gold medalist and star runner um his big inspiration was when he went to carile and joined their track team and he was a really good runner which inspired him to become a professional athlete One Challenge he faced was that because he was a Native American people doubted him his achievements uh so I researched Selena K who with a record-breaking award winning to S and then her first musical experience was when she was nine and her dad started the band with her and her siblings one thing she struggled with in life was like speaking Spanish which is contrary to popular belief because most of her songs were like written in Spanish and then uh the impact of Selena was enormous proof of this includes singers like
015Beyonce ktie Perry and Whitney Houston All stating admiration for her and so kind of the way I wrap up this project usually with them is giving them this little statement often times Stories being told in history classes in throughout School aren't reflective of all the people of our country people from other cultures have valuable stories to be told when considering influential people with a minority status you're likely to think of Martin Luther King Jr Rose Parks Barack Obama they are just the surface of so many other Monumental leaders that deserve to be honored usually we present these this year was my first time doing at the beginning so butted up with camp and then we came back from Camp like you all forgot you did this um usually they present so that they all see
016each other's projects as well so they're not just learning about their one person they're learning about 30 Unique Individuals that they had not formerly known about so yeah thank you any questions thank you all really appreciate it okay we will move on to the next presentation tonight uh the CC Rea 2024 special education village with Scott kennick CC recent superintendent Scott welcome great thank you appreciate the opportunity to address the board and the D community tonight that's a tough act to follow uh always difficult to follow uh students but you guys did a great job and I appreciate your work I have four daughters um and a s with autism and so I appreciate the work that you're doing around diversity Equity inclusion for those that maybe aren't as represented as but they have been
017in the past so uh I am here tonight to speak to you about uh an ed special education millage question that will be on the ballot in August of of August of 2024 thank you um and we'll start with a why in terms of why do we have special education Village in Clinton County um and most of us in the room uh know that state our federal law excuse me requires school districts to provide um services to students with disabilities um the federal law was passed in 1973 and it requires school districts to provide what we call fate or free and appropriate public education uh that meets the individual needs of all of our children and in Clinton County we have a renewal uh question that will be on the ballot that amounts to about
01822605 Ms and then we have another question within the question um regarding a restoration and that restoration is about 0.517 uh Mills uh that will be on the ballot if you take a look at the numbers regarding the Mills Levi by our neighbors in the M Michigan area you can see Clinton is the second lowest special ed debt leving ISD in the area and again along the I'm not going to read those to you but you can see where our neighbors are in terms of the total numbers of Mills that they Levy uh if this proposal is successful we will go from 25733 to 2.625 so we will remain the second lowest debt levying special ed millage um ISD so the specific questions that will be on the ballot again the question will be uh
019on August 6th 2024 there'll be one question with two components and you he me talk about those the first is a renewal um and then a restoration both would last for 20 years so the renewal side of the question would continue the tax rate at the same rate it is today for 20 years uh and that millage expires December 31st of this year the second part of the question I talked about a restoration the restoration would restore taxes to the original value approved by the voters and again that restoration would be about 051 7 Mills for 20 years um that is 5 cents roughly on each ,000 of taxable value um of a home so the proposed millage both the renewal and restoration would cost a homeowner with a taxable value uh of $100,000 which
020you double that to get your market value of about $517 per year so if your home is worth $200,000 uh the rest excuse the restoration part of the millage would cost cost about $517 a year um and we know that special education has been underfunded in the state of Michigan across the state of Michigan for a number of years um and schools are still provide are required to provide these services and so um the shortfall um where there is shortfalls in most districts has to be filled most often by the general fund um uh to cover the services associated with our students with disabilities uh the proposed millage would apply to all all taxable values uh in Clinton County so it's not just it would certainly be bad fer over LC P Val in St
021John's um and again uh it's two questions uh that will appear as one question on the ballot the renewal 2605 the Headly restoration um you can see the definition of that a Headly a roll back occurs when the taxable values increase it higher rate than the rate of inflation uh that portion is 05 so the total Mill request W will be 3122 um why now we talked about the why why now um we know and you're going to see some numbers here shortly more specific numbers that we serve about 1,400 students across Clinton County and we'll take a look at that by District here in just a little bit um and over the past 5 years um special education costs have increased greatly these are just CC recent numbers so in Clinton County Risa we
022went back 5 years ago and looked at our expenses related to students with this abilities and it was a little about $6.5 million and fast forward to 2223 that number is increased to about $8 million so about a 21% increase um just Clinton County Resa um I don't have a magic ball um but if I was a betting man rob could probably confirm if we looked at the thewi costs they've risen um that much as well over the past five years uh there's a additional need for additional programs and services so we've seen a fairly significant increase we think um in requests for students receiving speech and the language therapy from 2020 to 2022 um one may surmise that's Co related we don't have any data for that but we are seeing an increase in
023the students that are receiving speech and language same thing for bullet point two we're seeing a drastic increase um for students needing more support uh with behavior um and so we have developed a behavioral team um that comes out and works with students in local school districts and then specific Bally design training opportunities align the staff and District's needs and so part of the why is uh the three different needs there and I talked about this on the last slide but that 3122 total Mill package is about $873,000 and so if the millage doesn't pass um that's the amount of money that would be lost across the county um which will impact all students in the service area both General in students and special in students uh these are a listing of the services that
024we provide um at CCA I'm not going to read all the bullet points to you again most of us in education um are familiar with um these particular areas and the services that we provide for our students those are a couple of our students uh on the playground actually at the end Center again this is taking a look at the cost of the restoration again the renewal is simply renewing what taxpayers are paying now the restoration as I mentioned a little bit earlier if you have a taxable value of 100,000 means your home is worth2 200,000 it's $517 and you can kind of go down the line um from there so if we go down a couple and if your home is worth $400,000 on the market it's going to be about $10 per year
025the restoration part so see how that flows down uh now we'll get into some numbers if you like numbers these are where our students are at um if you take a look along the left those are our local districts uh and those are the numbers of students um that are served students with disabilities so 298 int you can see again a little over, 1400 down at the bottom you can see where each of the districts are at with total numbers of services the chart on the right um um pulls out relates what we call Related services and so in education we often think about special education maybe is um a resource room um uh moderately cognitively impaired room but a room for that students go to and in many instances that's what the services look
026like for our our children but a lot of our students receive what we call Related services and so again it's the speech and language that they may receive a couple of times a week uh it's Social Work supports it's occupational therapy Physical Therapy um we have a teacher consultant that works with seven students across the county who are def heart of hearing I apologize I didn't call that acronym all that's what the acronym is uh we have a teacher consultant that works with students who are visually impaired as well uh seven students across the county um five students a majority of them being visually prepared also receive support that we call orientation and Mobility so we contract with another ISD and we have an orientation and Mobility Specialists that take students out into their communities
027U most often visually impaired and helps them navigate their communities um how to cross the street how to board a bus how to go into um a Merchants U shop uh store those types of things and so again a lot of services that one might not think about um as being traditional education and then on the bottom we have 136 kids um in what's called an early on program an early on is a program that serves children and their families actually age 0 to three so a Clinton Rea um depending upon the need of the student we are working with that youngster I shouldn't even say student that youngster U weeks after they're born depending upon their disability and we offer our services in their homes we offer to provide supports to the families um
028as well so about 136 kids across the county really terms of the dollars associated with the millage um the column on the left um is what cc Rea currently allocates out to local school districts with the pre with with the millage that we have now so right now uh every year we send $537,000 back out to the local school districts from the millage that we Levy now so for dwit we send $180,000 um that you use at your discretion for students with disabilities um here within your District if this is approved um you can see the middle column we are going to allocate $463,000 which is a little over half if you remember the slide it will generate about $873,000 if you remember the numbers we are going to um flow out a little over
029half for $463,000 to the local so dwit would gain an additional $155,000 bring a yearly total um here for this community of $336,000 that would FL back to the district for you to use um I say your discretion obviously it has to be with disabilities but um here in in the district and then the last slide um we know this is a 20-year millage so if you find dwit and find the 155,000 if you run that out 20 years over the life of the millage this will generate an additional um 3.11 million doll for for do and last slide I will certainly answer any questions Stitch my have just a process question Scott when you say two questions but under one question they can still vote you're voting twice right it's voting you're voting once
030either yes on Vote or no on vot that's correct y okay thank you clarification y two questions and one question any other questions or comments from anybody if you do the Headly restoration did you guys consider doing it with just a renewal instead of the the restoration of the we did we did the uh we did it was a question that I asked so the total as I said is about 873,000 so the restoration um if it was going to be I mean there are no insignificant dollars in education but if it was going to be a small amount um I had the very same thought maybe we just not ask for the restoration but the restoration is about 147,000 ballpark maybe 143,000 which is pretty significant I mean that's you're looking at almost a
031staff member um and the roll back begins after the first year correct uh it occurs when the taxable value increases at a rate greater of inflation yeah okay any other questions so I do have a one pager that I'm going to pass around um this says exactly what I said there but it's just in a onepage document and then the bottom piece is specific to do when we start talking about the dollars that will flow on those types of things so I will share that and then please know that I will send that electronically and the presentation electronically um and certainly encourage you to share that with your community share with your voters um and certainly ask to get out thanate thank you yeah thank you okay one more presentation for tonight is CCA Career
032Training education with Jennifer Branch CC resa's Career Education director welcome thank here for having me this evening and um it's a cc Reon I also have some handouts and if you just want to take one of each and keep going around uh there are some some more numbers there talking about enrollments from last year um specific to well there's some specific to dit and then there's one sheet that has this year's current enrollments and also some savings that you'll see um District by District because we partner for four of our six uh or four of our 12 programs we partner with mid Michigan college for direct college credit and two of our 12 we partner with Ling Community College so half of our programs have direct college credit the rest have either credit by exam
033exam or what we call articulated college credit for students so you'll see some of that um those numbers coming around just some data some information for you and I also have a couple students but I'll I'll take you through some slides here and then um you'll get to hear a little bit from both of these gentlemen about their experiences in one of our Career Connections classes so we have a couple of new staff this year Shelley gelon is our um she is an LCC employee teaches our computer networking and Technology Program Brian Kelly is a mid Michigan College employee teaches our criminal justice program one of the things that makes CTE unique is that these instructors must have uh a lot of background in that specific industry so for example Brian worked for the lanan
034police department has worked for the the state police um and in their um their lean and their Law Enforcement Education or excuse me information Network so they all they're very familiar with the industry side of things and they often have to keep industry credentials current in order to be able to teach the CPD class so we also have Brandon Whipple teaches our Emergency Services fire science program he is the fire chief at Ingam Township Fire Department and so he has many years working in the industry as well we have some some good news in terms of some of our data um every year we get a Core performance indicator data this goes along with our Perkins Federal ballar and they take a look at as you can see here uh probably similar things to what
035your District takes a look at uh graduation rate uh scores on the um state Assessments in uh reading language arts Math and Science and then a few that are very specific to CTE how are students where are they plac are they are they going to school for whatever is connected to their program are they working are they in the military so on um looking at non-traditional program concentration for example females in Auto and Welding um males in education early childhood and U alied health and some of those programs and then every program has been well they're not all done yet but many programs have gone through with uh the state of Michigan a um a Perkins 5 transition and looking at industry credentials and those are determined meeting with both the instructors and uh a
036crew of Industry to take a look at what credentials are meaningful for students so for example our our welding students have the opportunity to um take an American Welding Society sense certification test um and so that's what that last measurement is um Clinton County overall this is not just our um countywide CTE this is also our local so you have a lot of In-House CTE as well with business and programming and web design and finance and those things that do it so this takes all of that into consideration all of our local District uh CTE as well as our countywide CTE we did very well um in terms of you see that First Column is what the state determined level of performance is this was the first year that they were um taking a look
037at those science scores and so you don't see a state determined level yet next year they'll have a target for us with the state um you can see the Statewide average and then you can see in that last column um how Clinton County did uh in each of those core performance indicators and so there are 53 career Ed planning districts in the state and Clinton county is CED 51 we had the highest uh graduation rate second highest in the English language arts fourth highest in the math fifth highest in the science 12th in the um post program placement 18th in the nontrad that's my area to keep working on um for sure um and then fifth highest in the um post secondary credential so out of the seven cpis we were in the top five
038for five of the seven so I that's I I give a lot of credit there it's not just the work we do at CCA your local District CTE teachers your instructional Services Department your curriculum Council those folks they're working hard to make sure that students are strong in those core areas um oftentimes we get students after they've already taken that state assessment so certainly not because uh you know we had an opportunity to affect that but our local districts do a great job with uh the process and procedures they have in place to to make that uh those numbers as as they are so there are several other events that we have throughout the year that you're probably somewhat familiar with um every year in the fall we have a college night event where we
039bring in nearly all of the public uh in the state and then we also have several private institutions some military Representatives some of the other uh postsecondary options over 40 choices I guess if you will for students to hear from we also have a financial aid presentation at that event and uh and a presentation on how to apply to college in the college admissions process every year the first week in October uh there is a manufacturing day I think next year it's going to be a week long event so that we can try and um coordinate schedules and busting and all those things that get a little tricky but that is done through the Capital Area manufacturing Council and we always take our students that are in manufacturing programs be they local or countywide programs
040uh they get to see two manufacturers and then our annual career Expo which we cannot think do it enough uh you have hosted that for the last several years that is a huge success we have people immediately when they come the vendors in the in the action Booth say hey I want to be here next year how do I get signed up and then we have people contacting us saying you know we we heard about this Expo and how do we get signed up and so I think we had uh over 130 action boosts this past year between outside and inside representation um and it's a great day every eighth grader and every 10th grader in the county comes and we also um have an opportunity to showcase our countywide program so students can get
041a little flavor for that um these two gentlemen may have been there on that day to help uh talk to the the future uh potential students though this week on Thursday we have another big event coming up which is strictly for our students that are currently in a Career Connections program it's a dayong career preparation Workshop called pave your own path there's resume and cover letter review speed interviewing um success sessions um they've probably been preparing their little pitch so that they can go to the job fair simulation they fill out an online application I mean we we just throw it all at them that day and they've spent a long time preparing in their classes to make sure they're ready we'll have over 80 volunteers from business and industry at that event and um
042they've come to us now and said hey we we are actually interested in you know apprenticeships hiring summer work and so we've created these little table tents for those that are going to be in the job fair simulation so students know if they walk up to that table that employer is actually looking uh to hire last year just one employer out of those that were there hired five students um um and is still looking for more so these are some of the businesses oh sorry these are some of the businesses that PO students either in paid or unpaid work-based learning through our programs and um we continue to look to grow that so and then we also have CTE related work-based learning and so you can see the list is lengthy in terms of the
043number of places and the cooperation that we have support of our local districts support from our business and industry it would never it would never work and be as successful as it is without all so grateful for that every year there are senior interview days and we help prepare the packets and help uh Garner volunteers for that and then hand that off to most often your local District counselors and they take it from there once we give them a volunteer list and then we have our Capitol region technical Early College we now have three programs we have many new students this year in the three programs the first two are through Lancing Community College and the last one is through M Michigan College so I'm going to give you a little overview and some data
044on CTE um this is where students uh elect to delay essentially receiving their official diploma until a year 13 they take one of our Career Connections classes their junior year with their peers taking the same college credits uh than all the other students in that class take their senior year they're about 5050 so they're about half at their local district and half at the college many times those classes are online um we try to make that as simple as possible just depends on what the program of study is and sometimes it's just options depends on what fits in the student's schedule and then year 13 they're completely in college classes um they can still have their open house walk at graduation they can still participate in all their Sports their senior year um and as
045long as they pass all their classes the first time there's no cost to the students um we pay for everything um through what's called 61b doll um and um partner with with our local districts for that students go through a family interview process because it's definitely a uh you know team effort to work all those schedules out and you know that you if you have high school students getting them where they need to go so just looking at uh total number of students each year when this started back in 1819 and we had um only two students in computer networking and how that's grown over the past several years so up to uh 43 students this year so and this would show the number of students each year that were part of ctech by district
046and so this year we're very excited that we have students from every single District involved in our our early college program this shows you where they're at in terms of the cohorts so we have 18 students that have completed and we have many in the junior year seven in the 12th grade year five in the year 13 and this is one of the best slides to show as of fall 2023 students had completed through all the cohorts 1,633 and a half college credits and they were currently enrolled in the fall and 387 and a half credits for in process so so that's our early college um but I'd like to call these two gentlemen up if you would come on up talk a little bit about a couple program spotlights so we have Callen Weaver
047and Drew no Callen is in our video audio class that is housed at over at LT and Drew is in our Sports Medicine class that's housed at St John's High School so I'm going to ask them a few questions and then we have a little work sample um that Ken shared with me was kind of fun something he put together with a couple of this peers in video audio so um and if you just take turns each one can answer this what made you decide to take a Career Connections class um I was hoping that it would kind of push me toward uh the career I was hoping to you know go into um I think it's done that very well for me um lots of hoping for lots of opportunities to learn about uh
048again the career that I'm going into uh which I feel like I feel I can say I strongly agree with that I wanted to find a potential interest in the career I want to go into I hope to go in the medical field one day and as I'm sure many of you know that's a very broad field there's count options in the medical field and I was hoping to find a more specific Avenue for to explore and I feel that this class is absolutely what's been the best part about your Career Connections class so far uh definitely working with my peers um finding people that are in interested into the same direction of career uh that I am um whether that's I mean we have people that are going into film making going into broadcast
049um people that want to be on the news people that want to be animators all sort I mean all sorts of uh different perspectives and lots to learn from uh different people that are my own age um for me I would have to say the connections and getting to be exposed to multiple different careers like uh just this year alone I've been able to shadow um EMT and then a cardio rehab specialist I know other fers of my class have gotten the shadow impatient mpatient rehab um athletic trainers personal trainers and I just think that it been super helpful to be able to find a specific career that I've been able to to be able to go and what would you say would give you kind of a leg up maybe to a peer that
050hasn't had this opportunity to take one of or hasn't taken advantage of the to take these what what leg up does that give you I think um getting to spend kind of more time um and having a more structured um a more structured approach to uh video and audio production uh that I otherwise wouldn't have um it it opens a lot of avenues to uh learn things that I might not that's for sports medicine it would definitely the on experience because that's one of the things I've love most about the class it's very Hands-On it's very personal get to know how to do things yourself rather than just listening to it in a lecture reading out of a textbook and um I think that will absolutely help you I guess get a leg up when
051you're getting ready to go to undergraduate graduate school finding an internship finding a job it'll come give you that leg up and you have that experience already any questions for either of them before we show you a little video clip or for me not yet okay well do you want to explain your sure uh yeah so this is a video for a one minute short film um that it was a project in my class um we decided to do kind of a western shootout sort of a thing [Music] uh uh forgot to get prop guns so I interest bananas and kind of went with [Music] it [Music] so that's our presentation I appreciate them being here I always like to hear more from them that's the favorite part of what I get to do is
052when I go around the classrooms and see what they're working on or even better yet when I go in the community after they've graduated and you know one of them's changing the in my car you know waiting we go to ouch one of them's there working and you know take care of my kids and so yes they're they're taking care of us now as we you know as the Next Generation goes into the workforce so what questions do you have for me very thoroughly explained presentations we appreciate it Con thanks for sharing the video we both of you for being here we really appreciate that thank you thank you so much thank you have a question um it's called early college is there the transfer Potential from from there definitely yes what are some of
053the colleges that locally so it just depends I mean it depends on what the program is I mean all all of the programs The Early College Programs the students get a smattering of all those gen Ed credits that are part of the Michigan transfer agreement which tend to transfer the all the public institution so but then they have their specialty courses and that just depends on the institution as to how they transfer those in right thanks again appreciate it okay we will close up uh the presentation segment of the meeting tonight we move on to Public Communication for items found on the agenda is practice the Board of Education to commit persons to the audience to make statements concerning agenda items at this time please complete a public comment form and return it to the
054board desk if you wish to speak or prer to express a written comment public comment shall be limited to 3 minutes per participant nothing all right we will close Public Communication for items found on the agenda at this time and move on to the student report Lucas good afternoon um starting off we have senior interviews that are going to be held this week on Wednesday March 13th that be going on during the school day so what happens is students go in during the school day into the presentation room they pick up a printed out version of a resume they've made earlier this year and then they go to interview of some they've never met before usually it's like business uh people who own a business or involved in the community they come in to interview
055students and then um after that there will be no school on March 22nd to March 30th that will be spring break midterms are going to be administered on March 20th and 21st with third and fourth block midterms on the 20th and first and second block on the 21st and then the 21st will also be a half day for students bringing an end to 9 weeks 3 on that today and the N9 weeks war will start on April 1st the DU choir's musical Cabaret with the theme miscast will be held on April 6th and April 7th and I also wanted to give a quick shout out we had seven students uh all win awards from the MSU FCU annual Art Exhibit so I want to give a quick shout out to them then moving on to
056Athletics on February 28th the boys varsity basketball team played in The mhsaa District game against St John's school and won 52 to 42 then on March 1st they played another mhsa District game against Waverly High School and lost 42 to 45 bringing their season to an end then the girls basketball team played in the MH mhsaa District game against St John's High School in won 43 to30 then on March 8th they played another District game winning against Grand Ledge um 42 to 29 making them District Champions and they are playing playing the Mason High School in the regional game I believe right now so that's then for boy swim dive we've had multiple swimmers set records uh either at our high school or at other high schools over the last month Dominic Rose Vincent Rose
057Noah Burns benon and Caleb castler all setting records either as a team or as an individual in the 10200 free relay the boy swim and dive team also attended their Statewide meet on March 8th in F then the following spring Sports have their Tri outs today March 11th uh baseball softball boys and girls across boys Golf and girls tennis then moving on to extracurriculars uh Student Government received multiple Awards well at the masc mahs conference including the Award of Excellence the exceptional service project the star school award and an award for giving money to the state charity Student Government also nominated member Nicholas Gomez as our unsung hero to be represented at the conference and our vice president Alex bartand was a finalist for to be represented as student of the year across the whole
058state so there was three finalists and he was one of them so congratulations student government has also planned a spirit week for the last week before spring bre break planned completely by underclassmen to help prepare them for planning in future years of student government and finally we have a new club at DHS the Chief science officer Club so the CSO Club is a new club starting on March 13th it will focus on giving students s days learning and Leadership opportunities they plan to get more involved in stem learning and hope to help students get involved in the community so for more information on that and contact contact Mrs forbach or Alex all thank you Lucas any questions thank you love your reports as always apprciate it okay moving on on to the consent agenda is
059the recommendation by superintendent shaas sper that the Board of Education approved adopt and accept the following items for immediate implementation and appropriate action as presented the approval of minutes curriculum and Improvement committee meeting on February 12th 2024 regular meeting on February 12th 2024 the treasurer is reporting bills for payment for the month of February of 24 Treasurer has reviewed and confirm the checks a debits and the purchase cards of the month of February 24 and out of state overnight trips for dit High School fccl Club to Dearborn and the dit high school track to Golf Shores Alabama do we have a motion support supported any discussion all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries okay moving on to action items now as a recommendation by superintendent Dr shaas sper that the
060Board of Education award the 2021 building and site Capital project to Moss the following as presented fiber structured cabling for $ 26731 184 Network electronics for $81,900 do we have a motion support move and supported any questions or discussion anything from you guys only thing is it's it's part of an eate project so there's likely going to be some rebates coming back to the district um that was laid out in the letter from the consultant uh but the board approved the full amount and then any rebates that do come do come back would offset the cost of the project what do those rebates usually look like historically Rob like how much are we think we if the feds award us everything that we to is it's $200,000 plus okay almost $300,000 so quarter of that
061is we could see actually see any other questions for anybody all those in favor please say I I any oppos motion carries okay a couple of easements now to uh move forward with first one um for 804 Wilson Street uh just give background information for those in the audience David Scott Elementary School the of air conditioning will require electrical service to be upgraded to the school there'll be a new Transformer placed on the site and then a line installed between an existing power pole and the new Transformer this line will require an easement from consumers and will require that DPS uh not modify the graining build a structure or plant trees within the easement it is 12T wide and approximately 30 ft long projecting from the existing pole toward the school as a recommendation the
062Board of Education approve the easement resolution from Consumer Energy company for property access to Scott Elementary as presented do I have a motion any movement supported any discussion okay all those in favor please say I I any oppos motion carries um for another easement at the main campus the addition of air conditioning to herbison Woods in the middle school and the general age of the existing system components will require the electrical service to campus to be upgraded in this case the team needs to add a new pole cabinet and all of the conduit and wire for the new service and components the existing service remains until switch over the new poll will will require an easement to Consumer Power and will require that DPS not modify the graving grading build structure or plant trees within
063the easement it runs adjacent to the existing pole and easement at the northwest corner of Campus the existing easement will be vacated as part of this resolution his recommendation the Board of Education approve the easement resolution from Consumers Energy company for property access to dit middle school as presented do I have a motion support moov and support any discussion question the first easement had a 12T wide long eement what's thear 30t wide on either side line any other questions okay all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries okay is recommendation by superintendent Dr shaa sper that the Board of Education award for the 2021 Building inside Capital project aestus abatement services from gfl HBC specialized Contracting as presented dit Middle School $4,975 scottt elementary school $2,976 for a total of $
06445950 52 do we have a motion support can move and supported any discussion we had an analysis done in advance of potential areas um so this put together given with no conditions at this point the Buildings Construction great thank you R all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion cares okay extension of administrator's contracts it is the recommendation by superintendent Dr sh sper that the Board of Education approved the contracts with principles and administrators identified in the March 5th 2024 Memo from superintendent Shan sper for the 2425 and 2526 school years with authorization for the superintendent to execute contracts by June 3024 we have motion support moved and supported any discussion or questions just a standard Ral great all those in favor please say I any post motion carries last action item
065is for a civil rights compliance plan uh some background information on November 8th the district had an audit for our CTE program DHS and the central office were involved before the site based audit several months were spent gathering information data and reports and that audit went very well and only minor recommendations fixes were required the district submitted its compliance plan in January and received acceptance of that plan in late February the board now needs to review and vote on the acceptance the office for civil rights compliance plan which outlines measures to ensure adherence to Federal Regulations pertaining to civil rights and education settings it is a recommendation by superintendent Dr shanas sper that the Board of Education approve the OCR compliance plan as presented do I have a motion support move and supported any questions
066or discussion back it's just something yes it has to be done um the good news is is there's not a whole lot and I think brick will be able to have most of it taken care of veryy quickly so okay all those in favor please say I I any oppos motion carries we will now move on to public Communications for items not found on the agenda okay close public Communications and move on to the superintendent so I have a little bit of a long report uh February 21st I served on a zoom National panel for aspiring um leaders in the evening and um basically all of the national associations the superintendent Association the curriculum Association Elementary and high school principal secondary associations are working together to build the pipeline so they um know that there's
067a shortage and they know that we need to do recruitment for for teachers for leaders for superintendence and so I was um fortunate to serve on that National panel to just talk a little bit about aspiring leaders and um preparing the resume things to look for things to consider with that and um I was also able to attend a session at the National Conference on their their goal as far as working together so it's really the first time I think that all these National organizations have have worked together so I'm hope hopefully that'll help our shortages um we have our second teacher evaluation subcommittee tomorrow so we've been working on the changes with the law and um so there's a team of uh administrators and our administrators and teachers who are kind of working together
068to take a look at what the board policy is what the law states and and work that into hopefully a recommendation for the negotiations the Masa regional meeting last week uh so that's our regional superintendent meeting mhaa presented to us and they presented um they are also working on a mentoring program for new ads so the last couple of years they've had over aund and some turnovers in ads across the state and so they've been really working on helping support those new ads coming in understanding the job being a network and support for them and so that presentation was pretty interesting um last week as far as the Strategic plan goes for communication and engagement the soup from the the Scoop from the soup came out in March was about our Myster Reader Program and
069our April will be um basically an update on the bond and the status of how much we've spent how much we' committed and what is left for the community to know where those allegations are also our community conversation happened last week at the county so CCA hosted that we had about 30 people in attendance um at that and uh the April points of Pride newsletter will have a link to that and I've also included a link to that presentation and the resources on our families parents and students links so if you go to our website you'll see that resource and there are a ton of Mental Health Resources as well as some of the information that came from that conversation for academic programs we're really continuing to build our transitions from building to building and
070for the first time on March 1 eth graders Vis is the high school um to kind of prepare for next year and so they were able to hear from a student panel um Mr briy talked about Athletics and other clubs at the high school that students can start signing up for they took a student L tour of the building and they actually started to put schedules into Infinite Campus so this is the first time they've done this type of orientation day and it was a pretty big success and we're hoping that continue to move forward with that so thank you to Mr doson and our Dr kavada and and Mr har for helping with that and then I just want to thank uh Jennifer Branch for her CTE presentation I think it's always important for
071our families to understand the options that they have as far as our safety and operations goal the camera and door installation work is almost under complete and then we're we're also looking at Raptor um information system so these are kiosks that will go into all of our um airlocks to be able to scan IDs we'll also be able to do video monitoring and to just really help secure our building so we're hoping by the Fall we'll have those in place um for and then also be able to communicate C of our families how to use the system what's new what's changing and and why we're obviously doing that and then learning environments we're really digging into the perception data so from the buildings we asked our communities to and our staff and our students to
072complete perception surveys and so we have a countywide day on Friday we'll start digging into those and then in April we'll be using our some building time for administrators to also dig into those and then we always try to put out a powerful practices some opportunities for growth and some goals based on the perception data and then we'll share that out to the community as well and uh for personnel our teaching intentions were they're due on the 15th I think we have almost all those in and we're looking like there'll be at least three maybe a few more retirements um from that those are all my updates pleas thank you questions or comments for Dr sper will entertain a motion forour all those in favor thank you