001um at 7:01. Can we get a roll call, please? >> Hereust >> here. >> Martin >> here. >> Chambers. >> Oh, she's excused. Trusty Torres >> here. Taki >> here. Student representative here. >> Student representative >> here. Superintendent >> here. >> All right. Thank you very much. Um Trustee Taki, can I have you read our mission statement, please? >> Yes. Our mission statement is nurturing each child, educating all students, and building world citizens. >> Thank you. Uh can I get approval of agenda? I move the board of education approve the agenda of the May 11, 2026 regular meeting as presented. >> Second. >> Moved by Trustee Martin, seconded by Trustee Torres. Any discussion on this? >> All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Um, can I get approval of minutes? I move that the
002board of education approve the minutes of the April 27th, 2026 regular meeting as presented. >> Second. >> Moved by Trusty G Highland, second by Trusty Martin. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Motion passes. All right, I'll turn over to Trustee Martin for a recognition. >> Thank you. uh a few things to get to today. We will begin with um some recognition for East L East Lancing High School uh journalists. Um got this announcement. This year was one for the record books for our student journalists at East Lancing High School. Our award-winning yearbook sine earned an incredible 41 individual state awards including 17 first place finishes. the most first place awards in program history. The staff also earned the highest possible honors at both state and national level, including a Spartan ranking
003and an all-American designation. Our student newspaper portrait brought home a program record 52 individual awards across 22 different student journalists, including several freshmen earning first place recognition. Portrait also earned a Spartan ranking for only the second time in program history. Together, our publication staff earned 93 total awards out of 103 submissions, the second highest total in the entire state of Michigan. Special congratulations to Jess Milock and Ya Howard for being named to the allstate student journalist staff with Jess also earning a statewide scholarship recognizing her as uh Michigan's top yearbook journalist. These accomplishments are a reflection of countless hours of interviewing, writing, editing, designing, photo photographing, storytelling, but also the incredible support of our entire school community. We're so grateful to our staff for welcoming student journalists into the classrooms and helping support storytelling that
004captures the heart of our schools. We also know how fortunate we are as a district to have Cody Herrell leading and supporting students in this way. Care, mentorship, professionalism, and opportunities he provides through these programs continue to elevate student voice and and journalism at an extraordinary level. We're so proud of these students, their leadership, and the work they continue to produce. the future of journalism is incredibly bright at East Lanc High School. So, congratulations to all those students and uh and to Mr. Harold uh for the those impressive awards. I like that they call them Spartan awards or Spartan designation. That's that's kind of cool. >> Um some other very important people to recognize. Um our student representatives. Is this your last meeting with us? >> Yes. And I think so. Yeah. >> Okay. So,
005um I'd like to rec to recognize uh Tanya Dia >> Djaga. >> Dja daga. >> Tanya Djaga and Megan Megia. Uh >> Maya, sorry. Maya Magia. I >> It's not like you've been here for a year. >> Yes. I I'm having a hard time reading today. Um, you guys have been wonderful this year and so so happy to have you here, but also excited to see what comes next because I'm sure you're going to do great things and I'm sure you're going to tell us all about it when you go up there. Uh, a couple other student representatives who have been um essential to the board this year, Mason Adams and um, Kyla Caldwell. They're they are the student representatives on the academic and technology committee. uh and they have uh been great to work
006with and are valued contributors at our meetings. That's all the recognition that I have. >> So, thank you. And we do have um for our student reps um a gift for you and then for our two academic tech committee. So, we'll get those to them. But, thank you so much for um coming to our meetings and uh giving us a bunch of information. And you all are up next. But unless anyone else has anything to say or if there's any other recognition, >> I I do want to recognize the voters in Ingam County and in particular the voters in East Lancing that passed the special ed bond on Tuesday. Um that will lead to a brand new Beacon Center and a remodeled Hartwood. Um Abby said this morning 70% of East Lancing voters voted in
007favor of the millillage and I can't be more proud of my community. All right. Any other recognition? Not hearing any. So, we'll turn it over to our student representatives. >> Hi everyone. We are so happy to have served as your school. That being said, um we have one last update for you guys and we also have future schools here tonight, my sister and Carmenel at the end of >> so um like the biggest talk of the school right now academics wise is definitely the AP exams. So they've all been in full swing. I think it was last week and this week pretty much wraps it up. So we today we actually had like a kelp AB and stuff like that testing and then we also have like m music theory I think today or tomorrow.
008So all of those have started to wrap up and then along with that all the courses have pretty much wrapped up. So people are working on like their final projects and then all that kind of stuff. We have two weeks left and I think they have like four or three after this week. So yeah. >> And then multiple sports also have had their senior nights. Um tennis hasn't yet but we did win the um CAAC last week. So that's pretty great. And we have regionals coming up on Wednesday. And then Yes. So, the girls softball team um won their senior night last Friday and lots of success through like events in track and yeah, the girls Oh, well that's us. I was just going to say yeah, our team is like very highly ranked in
009the state right now. We're fourth or fifth in the state. So, that's pretty great. And then we don't have specific names, but we did also want to give a special shout out to their 10 seniors who received like CAAC scholar athlete awards. So, um So, it's like kind of a short like congratulations, but it's a huge shout out to them for just being great examples of like being able to manage your time super well and like being involved in the school and yeah, it's like it's pretty cool to be recognized on such a large scale. >> Yeah, I think that you have to be like two varsity sports, right? And then also have like >> probably a 4.0 GPA. So, that's pretty big deal. >> Um, so shifting over to like National Honor Society, all
010of our hours have been d They they were due in April, but the induction of like the new members and the board was tonight. So, we wanted to congratulate all the incoming members and like the board. And we wanted to thank Miss Sika and uh Mr. Smith for all the volunteering opportunities they've provided. Um I know they've worked really hard, especially like Mr. Smith and Mr. Seika have worked really hard for like the um I think it's a newish thing like the Excel tutoring thing. So, we just I was part of that this year >> and it was really cool and it was amazing. it was so easy to get my hours and it was also like great to like actually like help students within the school. So yeah, we just wanted to like thank
011them for that. >> Yeah. And then also we wanted to shed some light on prom this Saturday. Very exciting. Um so although tickets for both both prom and postp prom, postprom is just like an after prom event at High Caliber with a bunch of games and stuff like that. Um some loose ends like the seating charts and stuff like that are being finished up. So we're looking forward to that event. So, it's 7 pm this Saturday at the Kellogg Center. And that morning, we also want to encourage students and parents to come support jazz band one at the art festival that morning, which is also a pretty cool opportunity for the music program since like they finished almost all of their last concerts. >> And that kind of wraps up pretty much everything we have.
012So, we're just going to have Anie and Carmen like say a little bit about themselves. >> Hi. So, as I mentioned, we are your new school school board leaison for the 2026 2027 school year. My name is Anie. >> My name is Carmen. >> Um, we're both rising juniors. I am a part of the tennis team. I'm the treasurer of students gender equality. Um, I'm excited to be able to represent our high school this year. I've come to a few of the meetings with my sister, so I think it's a cool job and yeah, I'm excited for everything that we get to do. I'm also part of the tennis and golf team and I'm a student representative for UNICEF club back at East Lancing High School and I'm also really excited to be uh working
013with you guys this year. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. Welcome. >> All right. >> Yeah. Get your get your cuffs >> and then you can leave. It's a nice >> and you get to take your name plate. >> Do they? >> Yeah. >> I was like, "Wait a minute." >> Yes. >> Thank you so much. >> Do you need photos from your scrapbook? >> Yeah. We want to give >> Do you want a photo? >> You've given really thorough reports this year. I think very comprehensive. Yeah. >> Should they just come behind us? >> Yeah. >> I was going to say maybe >> come right in here and we'll >> start out. >> Can you see us there? And so can you remind me what's next for for you two? >> Yes. >>
014I'm going to MSU and Maya is going to be >> I'm going to the University of Michigan. >> Well, we're both doing pre-law, so >> Oh, nice. >> All right. >> Congratulations. It's my law school reunion this weekend. >> Oh, really? >> So, >> good luck. >> Where'd you go for law school? >> Uh, Virginia. >> Virginia. >> Oh, wow. >> Michigan is our rival. So, >> everywhere I go. >> Well, congrat law school. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Congratulations. You guys, you'll do great things. I can't see can't wait to see what you do. >> And thank you for the thorough representation. As Miss Lego said, it was always you were solid. you brought it and we appreciate it. So, thank you. >> Of course, we tried. >> You did very well. >>
015Yes. Thank you. >> All right. Um, we will now move on to our superintendent report. Superintendent Leo, >> thank you. Um, our my student voice uh my student voice perception survey. Uh, our students have taken it, many of our families have and our staff, but we got an extension for one more week, hoping we can gather some more family voices with our survey. So, it's going back out again with my report. It'll go back on social media. Um, so it'll be open until this coming Friday. And we really do review all of this data. We have an opportunity to receive the data um by the by school building. So we can really uh disseminate a lot of different data from what we receive and we use it for action planning and goal setting. So it's
016really important we do um get as much representation as possible because it's really valuable data to us and we do use it. Um athletic physicals offered at East Lancing High School Health Center. We have one more day of scheduled physicals there, which is Wednesday, May 13th from 8 a.m. till 6:30 p.m. And you can schedule an appointment by calling the number here. Um, or visit the health cent's website. And getting the physical now will cover all of next year's uh activities that would require athletic physical. And I want to um just make some comments and answer any board member questions uh regarding our recent swatting events at East Lancing High School. Following two recent sweating events at East Lancing High School, I'd like to share some additional information regarding our emergency response to incidents like
017this. East Lancing Public Schools uses the standard response protocol SRP from the I Love You guys Foundation. We moved to this language in fall of 2025 pending an expected statewide adoption requirement. This is an effort by the state to get all districts and law enforcement agencies to be talking the same language when responding to different district emergencies and the five action steps of the SRP. So these are the different uh options we have when there's a crisis or emergency internally or externally or even in the community. Um the first one is called hold or roomh hold. I think uh that kind of replaced the shelter in place we used to use and hold or room hold is just a little more um I think targeted in terms of knowing exactly what to do. It's really
018hard when you to hear like when you hear shelter in place um it could mean a few different things but room hold is just re remaining um in our rooms or areas locking those doors uh and clearing the halls. We use them for a variety of um events. Sometimes in the building, sometime mostly in the building, like it could just be a medical emergency where we need to get um a stretcher or a wheelchair or someone um some medical help and want to have that privacy um in the hallway. And sometimes we use it if we have um a student who just might need some additional support and to maintain their um anonymity and and integrity. Sometimes we would hold kids in a room to be able to do that. Um, one way we used
019it on Friday was so the um, law enforcement and the bomb sniffing dogs could go through our common areas and hallways. So, we use a room hold which business goes on as usual within the room. So, it's uh, students are not locked down. They're just held in the room but with business as usual, but it allows us to maintain um, what's happening in the classroom. um if we're just if we just need some space and time in the hallways. Uh the next one is a secure mode, which we're mostly across the district in secure mode at all times with the exception of secure mode means we would limit visitors coming and going. Um so we're always our exterior doors across the district are locked at all times. Um except for during arrival time. Um so
020we would use secure mode if we if there's a an issue in the area that could turn into something. um and that we just want to monitor or eliminate uh at that time anybody coming and going. We were in secure mode um both both Friday and then uh when we go into lockdown that is automatically in a secure mode as well. So the next one is lockdown that replaces we used to have internal lockdown and external lockdown with the old language. This is just lockdown. It means we lock interior and exterior doors, lights off and out of sight. Um, this one was utilized Tuesday when the threatening call came into East Lancing High School. Um, the next one, evacuate. Leave the building to a specified location. That location, while they're pre um identified, they can
021uh they can vary depending on how far away we need to go. Uh, in the case of last Friday, we just needed to evacuate the building. We didn't need to go off site. So, we did evacuate out to the football stadium or the athletic stadium before um before dismissing for the rest of the day. And then shelter is one um that's more for hazard and safety. So, it would be what we would go into if there was a tornado warning or a hazardous material leak of some sort. We would call a shelter, but the response to that varies depending on what the incident is. So, those are our five options now that have replaced the old shelter in place, interior lockdown, exterior lockdown. Um, they're posted up throughout our classrooms. Um, we utilize there. There's
022actually a parent guide that I've linked um on the back here that this will go out tomorrow. Um, so that uh parents, guardians, families can uh and I linked it in many languages, but they can also review these um different responses to emergencies. Uh staff training and drills occur regularly. Buildings are required to complete three lockdown drills each school year. One scheduled during nonstructured time like lunch or passing time. Additionally, administrators, safety team members, and others participate in emergency response and other school safety related trainings on an ongoing basis. Uh, I've also reached out to our partners at East Lancing Police Department, Meridian Township Police Department, and Michigan State University's Police and Public Safety Department to invite them to a facilitated afteraction review that will be facilitated by Jason Russell with Secure Environmental uh, consultants
023uh, which is a school safety consultant partner of ours. And this will be an opportunity to discuss what went well in each response along with areas for improvement. In addition, East Lancing High School principal Ashley Schwarzback and her team collected feedback from high school staff so we can be responsive to their needs as well. So, um on Friday, Friday's swatting incident did um elicit a heavy response from all three of those law enforcement agencies. Um Monday's only East Lancing Police Department uh responded to that, but uh I've already received uh responses from two out of three of those agencies who want to come participate in an afteraction review. Um Jason Russell, we've asked him to facilitate it. Just he he's familiar both with the law enforcement side of things, but also with the school side
024of things. He's worked with East Lancing Public Schools since about 2021. So, he's very familiar again with our district and our community as well and can act as a more of a neutral facilitator in a situation and um meeting like that. And I would say overall student and CF safety was prioritized and I was think I'm thankful that no one was ever in danger on both days of our sweating events. I think it's just important to note that there were numerous other swatting calls both in Michigan and northern Ohio and other parts of the country. Um, I know that on last or last Friday, Elmo public schools shortly after I think theirs was right after ours received a very similar uh threat and then Tuesday um Napoleon Public Schools in Jackson County had uh had
025a similar threat about 15 minutes before ours. So, um there's I don't know maybe a little bit of a feeling of some relief that I don't think East Lancing was a target of this. We just happened to be um the target that day. But there were many others. I know last Friday there were a number of zoos around that were also um received threats and other organizations. So >> yeah, I know I think Toledo Zoo was one of them. Um and then I know just last Thursday there were at least four schools in northern Ohio northern Ohio who received threats as well. And when I read some of the descriptions of them, they were very similar to ours. Some of them were um Shaker Heights, which is one of our MCN partners, they were also
026the victims of two swatting calls in this in the past week. So, um there's a little rash of it right now. Um actually, there's a few of us participating, I think it's tomorrow, in a webinar with um Jason Russell and SEC on um kind of getting more information when from these calls in order to be able to respond the most appropriate way, especially if they were to continue. And you know, I had a a parent ask me like, "What are you going to do if these continue?" And unfortunately, we can't control that piece of it. You know, we'll continue to implement our protocols. We'll continue to air on the conservative safe side as we do um and hope that we become wiser. Um, law enforcement is looking for some support for from some other detective
027bureaus that have more resources than just the local law enforcement does to see what they can do about tracking these calls. Although it's really really difficult in the age of AI to track these calls and find the um origin of them. And then finally, um, before I take any questions from board members, if uh, community folks have specific questions, feel free to reach out to me directly. And I've included my email here. We are very intentional in not making our emergency operation plans public so that we do not disclose information, response plans, or maps that may make us more vulnerable to someone who may want to do harm. So, we do not publish those. They are exempt from FERPA. Um, but know that they state law requires that we have them and that they actually
028Uh the board will be asked to take action on an updated one before fall of 2026 based on a new state template that became available um at the beginning of last school or this school year. So we'll be updating those with the help of SEC and uh looking at doing that also on a countywide level so that our responses and many um of us will share law enforcement agencies who respond. So speaking the same language, having uh very similar or at least consistent plans and how we operate and how we respond will be helpful to the folks who are supporting us during those times. Um not going to lie, super stressful. You don't you can prepare and prepare and do drills, but when you're in the moment and so much information is coming at you
029from so many different um different folks who are there, different means um you have to make just really quick decisions um with the best information. uh best decisions on information you have at the time. And I'm I'm really proud of the way our folks responded. I think they centered um student and staff safety and um and and not just physical safety, but um mental health as well. So, but I'm happy to take questions from any board members. >> Any questions? Um you mentioned that uh one of the drills that happen every year is during nonstructured time. The the second spotting incident was after dismissal. So that would have been a nonstructured time. So there was Okay. I had been wondering if they had like experience in what to do in that situation as opposed to
030when it was the structured class to class schedule. >> Yes, we have to do one in a nonstructured time every year. >> So again um you know students, they're more familiar with taking guidance from their adult in the room, of course. So, they absolutely, it was about 10 minutes after dismissal when the second one when that call came in. So, um buses had left. So, a lot of students were out of the building already, but not everyone um and there was a high school staff meeting going on, but there were still a number of students in the hallways moving from one place to another, you know, um who just had to uh respond when they heard the announcement over the PA to lock down and they found the nearest space and locked themselves in until
031they were dismissed. >> I just want to say thank you for preparing all of this. It's very thorough and I appreciate all the work that went into uh being transparent to the board and the community. >> Well, thank you. >> I I will second uh Trusty Edel. Uh this is >> You always got to copy me. >> Yeah, it's very thorough. Uh couple things I want to say. Uh first off uh thank you for sharing this language the uh the five action steps because those are fairly new and um and as much as I follow this I had my own difficulties kind of like I I I'm I didn't realize what the different phraseology meant when we were getting updates about it. So this is very helpful. Um I think most importantly is the second
032to last paragraph where uh you say that uh of course student and staff safety is our top priority. Um and I know that uh I think you did an excellent job of prioritizing that and making that the top priority. One thing I think you sell yourself short on, Superintendent Leo, is that you spent a lot of time in the high school after the first after the second incident supporting people who had been shaken by what happened. And um because they are these events are they shake you, they're startling and um unsettling. And um I know Superintendent Leer spent some time at the high school with people who were processing it. And I think that's a excellent leadership and something that she should be commended for. Thank you. I did bring Penny with me. Um had
033an extra dog on hand as well. Um and uh I don't know. I'll just say there were there we had a maybe not the best response to a situation. I can't remember. Folks here are going to help me with it though. Was it last fall or two falls ago? Two falls ago. It wasn't last year, it was the year before. Yes. At White Hills when we had a Yeah. a PA announcement from the high school that landed in White Hills. And um >> we and honestly, I mean, while we had some areas, big areas to improve there, some of that learning definitely informed how I handled things this time. So, um I think that again the learning that we'll take from here will help us inform will help inform our moves next time even better.
034I also want to give a shout out to our admin, our high school administration that were like angels in the halls on Tuesday. So, thank you very much for your swift reactions as well. >> Yes, thank you. uh as someone who doesn't have a high schooler yet um and kids who are in middle school and elementary um having that information come from um um after you know the events but still in a timely fashion was very much appreciated um the transparency and just the communication. So um I appreciate everyone that um you know had to be put in the situation and you um you know made sure all our students and staff and faculty were So, I appreciate it and thank you. Um, hopefully we do not have to go through this again, right? >>
035Yeah. >> And I will once we have the um afteraction review, I'll I'll come back to another meeting and just share some of the outcomes with it so everyone's aware and and inform our our stakeholders as well through my report just of any um takeaways that we get from this review. I think it'll be really helpful. I think, you know, we were still kind of processing after Friday over the weekend and, you know, coming off of that incident Friday and then Monday is our first day back and we're debriefing uh talking about, you know, what to do differently, what went well, where were some areas of growth and then to turn around again on Tuesday and and do it again in a different different type of setting, different time of day, different type of call.
036That one came directly to the office. whereas Fridays came through a non-emergency number that went to 911 dispatch. So just uh I think we've learned a lot through these as well. Uh I don't want to ever have them just so we can learn, but we can't ignore what we are taking away from it and how we can make some improvements. And I think they'll be really helpful to inform our our updated EOP this summer that we'll work on as well. Um, but you know, it's something as simple as typically we would have planned for a communication point person. And then what we kind of realized in the moment was the high school was sending out communication um to high school families keeping them informed, which is different communication that needs to go out to the
037whole district. But because the response Friday was so heavy and so much of the community was aware of it because they could hear it or see it or knew connected to it. um or if you drove by, you saw it. I mean, it was I don't know how many police vehicles, but a lot. And um and everything was blocked off and the perimeter of the site was secured, but um I don't know where I was going with that, but I just Oh, so that I think we realize as we started communicating, we do need two layers, you know, and I I think when we're planning, we might be kind of thinking, okay, we need a communication point person. Well, that was great, too. And then like one of the days the person we'd used Friday
038was out on Tuesday, you know, we just had to switch it up. So thinking about making sure we go two to three people deep, you know, and then I also, you know, learned um that uh like I can do um uh bright arrow messages through an app on my phone, you know, and I didn't have that yet. We were still had been using laptops. So, you know, there was some absolutely some learning that took place that I don't think we probably would have in place had we just sat down to plan this. >> So, not that there's a silver lining, but at least there are some some good takeaways from that that we can uh take forward with us. >> Also a good reminder to all of us that no two incident situations are ever
039the same and there's no oneizefits-all response. It's so many layers and so many people involved and everybody doing their best. >> Oh, and then the last thing I have on here. Thanks. Yeah, just some important dates at the bottom. Um, one more, let's see here, Memorial Day, uh, two weeks from tonight or two weeks from today. So, there is not another board meeting in May. The next one isn't until June 8th. Uh, graduation at 7:30 p.m. That's a half hour time change. um on June 4th and the last day of school which is a half day for everyone in the district is Friday, June 5th. >> Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments from superintendent? Not hearing any um public comment. Do we have any public comment? All right. Well, um, we're getting
040this. So, I'll read our public comment. Um, this is the opportunity to address the board. Speakers are to confine their remarks to five minutes. If a speaker requires more than five minutes after all other persons who have requested to speak during this time of the meeting have spoken, that speaker will be allowed additional time. The superintendent or other district staff may comment to clear up or avoid significant misunderstandings. And uh we have Kathleen Brady on special education. >> Good evening. My name is Catherine. My is a nonverbal first grade student with autism in the special education program at White House Elementary. Over the past few months, I have raised concerns about IEP implementation, staffing consistency, communication, behavior, documentation, and support support needs. Recently, we finally had a more honest conversation during meetings with staff and
041administration. I truly appreciate that honesty. For the first time in a while, I left a meeting feeling cautiously hopeful that we may be moving in a better direction. But I also need to be honest as a parent. I still need to know that this situation is continuing to be looked into seriously and not simply treated as temporary fix or band-aid over a larger concern. I still have questions about how things became this inconsistent, why communication and documentation broke down, what happened with staffing and implementation, and who was responsible for oversight, and what plans are being put in place to make sure this does not happen again. As we approach the end of the school year, I'd also like to make sure we are already planning for next year so these same concerns are not repeated.
042I appreciate the conversations that are finally happening, but truth is rebuilt through consistent action over time, not just one productive meeting. My goal is not blame. My goal is accountability, consistency, communication, and making sure students receive the supports they truly need. I want to believe we are moving in the right direction, but I also need to I also need reassurance that the district is continuing to look closely into these concerns so that real and lasting improvements happen, not temporary ones. Thank you for listening and especially thank you to the board members for continuing to listen to families on these concerns. Thank you. >> Any other comments. Close public comment and we'll go to any board discussion. All right, not hearing any. We'll move to our action items. Can I get a motion for the Ingram
043Intermediate School Districts 2026 27 proposal proposed general fund budget? I move that the board of education adopt the resolution in support of the proposed 2026 2017 intermediate intermediate school district general fund budget as presented. >> Second moved by Trustee Edel, seconded by Trustee Taiki. Any u discussion on this? >> Uh I think it was an items of uh information two weeks ago back in our board package. We discussed it at finance uh today. Um financial director did not have an issue with budget and neither did I. >> Um All right, let's uh move to vote. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion passes. Uh can I get a motion for 2017 letter of agreement? I move that the board of education approve the letter of agreement between the districts and the East Lancing Educational Association,
044ELEA, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFS CME, Administrative Assistance, and East Lancing Education, Educational Support Personnel Association, ELSPA, PARessionals. Second move by Trustee Ferris Highland, seconded by Trustee Edel. Any discussion on this hearing. None. Um, all in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. >> Um, can I get a um motion on equivalent payment to 27L recommendations? I move that the board of education approve equivalent payments of $975 to 34 district employees who were not included in the 27L educator compensation grant funds letter of agreement totaling 44,000 from general funds. >> Second move by uh trustee seconded by trustee Martin. Any discussion? Not hearing any. Um, >> one thing with Liz, just for anybody who's thinking $975* 34 can't possibly equal 44,000. This does include FICA retirement, those other costs in
045it, which is why. So, we just want to make clear that that's why it adds up to what it is, >> which is also true in the motion we passed previously. Correct. In the reward award for the other categories, >> correct? >> Yes. Thank you for that clarification. >> Um, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Um, can you get a motion for the McDonald Middle School band and orchestra day trip to Chicago, Illinois? >> I move the board of education approve the trip request for a May 2027 day trip to Chicago with McDonald Middle School Band and Orchestra students submitted by Mr. Larsley, Mr. Rosen. Ros, Mr. Thornton, and Miss P. >> Second. >> All right. And I believe we have Miss P and Mr. Rosen here. Um, do we have
046any questions for them or would you like to give any information or say anything before we move to? We just moved we just moved to East to do an overnight trip, but we moved to a day trip just because cost is getting astronomical for you know 700 a kid for overnight trip. words, but it says, >> right? >> Well, and I would say um I my have a sixth grader who's new to band and he's already so jazzed about all the trips and things like that's, you know, he'll do band for 180 days out of the school year for, you know, Well, he we got to try to keep >> but thank you for doing it. It's I know it's a it's a tremendous amount of effort. Um so thank you. >> I do want
047to say I do have a graduates of class of 2020 and 2016 who also Mr. Rosen was brave enough to take on those trips for a number of years and those are they speak very highly of those trips. one more so than the other because the other one kind of forced to do office work for for high school career because her older sister did it. But yes, those were great trips and thank you for continuing to do that for so many years. >> So this would just this would be charter buses early in the morning coming back later in the year. >> Coming back very late. Yes. On Friday. >> It's very brave. Very brave slowly. >> That's easier than trying to get 220 kids into hotel rooms. Yes. >> Yeah. >> Everyone in this
048room. Thanks you. >> All right. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion passes. >> All right. May I get a motion for approval of contract um for Miss Kristen Susty, East Lancing High School Dean of Student Success? >> I move that the board of education approve the contract for Miss Kristen Susty East Lancing High School Dean of Student Success as presented. >> Second. >> All right. Motion moved by Ferris, seconded by Trustee Taki. Any discussion? All right. All in favor? >> Any oppose? Motion passes. >> So, and I believe is here. Yes. If you like to come up to the podium and introduce yourself, >> very short and sweet. I'm very excited to start next fall. Um, I've been the social worker for the past few years. Um, and so excited to be part of
049East Lancing High School. I worked in different places before, but this is a place I think that I want to stay for a really long time. So, I'm excited to move into a larger role, have a little bit bigger impact, work more with more students and more systems. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> I guess I should have said this earlier asked for discussion, but I want to say that I had an opportunity to work with Kristen Cesty during my year on the mental health advisory committee and tireless doesn't begin to describe the work that you put into that and I know you're going to bring that to your new role as well. So, thank you. >> All right. Can I get a uh motion for approval of a contract
050for Lindsay Laneski from White Hills Elementary Principal? >> I move that the board of education approve the contract for Lindsay Lanoweski, White Hills Elementary Principal as presented. >> Second. >> All right. Motion by Trusty Taaki, seconded by I don't know who I heard. I think was it. Okay. Any u discussion? All right. Um all in favor? >> I any opposed? Motion passes and evening everybody. That was impressive. I don't know that I've heard my last name pronounced correctly in the past decade. So, thank you. Um >> helped us. Do we have a nice like phonetic? Perfect. Um, so thank you to the board. Thank you to um admin in the district. Thank you to the phenomenal teachers and the parent that was on the hiring committee. I feel extremely grateful to be here tonight. I'm
051really excited. Um, really from my first conversation with Superintendent Leo, from the staff members that I've met, I've I could tell the ELPS really puts kids first, which resonates with me because that's kind of what's at the forefront of my mind is doing what's best for kids. Um, that kind of dedication is exactly what drew me here. As I step into this role, my first priority is going to be to listen and to learn from the people who know White Hills best, the staff, the parents, the students, so we can keep moving forward together. So again, thank you for your trust and your support. I'm I'm really looking forward to starting. >> All right, we will we'll move to our committee reports. Um academic and tech. I know Terra's not here, but um Chris or
052if you've had any any updates. >> We were there. No, it was it was an interesting meeting. >> It was also during um we also got the phone call during that meeting. That was >> was on last Tuesday. >> Yeah, it was last Tuesday. >> We definitely were there. Um there was uh >> there was things you discussed. >> Yes, I'm trying to think Tara did prepare us. She wasn't going to be here. >> I'm sorry. Let me pull up my notes. >> I think she turned in the notes already. Okay. So, don't worry about it. Or she will. We had report we had we had a very good discussion of the ways that we're using technology in the district and areas that we want to work on moving in to the end of this
053year and next year ways we can support teachers especially at McDonald Middle School so that uh we're making the best possible use um in the classroom. >> Christian did a wonderful job of walking us through the secure filter. I can't remember a lot of it because it was very technical but it was a lot of time spent and then I did yeah sorry I didn't have the notes prepared because Terry didn't tell us what we were going to present but yeah >> I just kind of put you on the spot so >> Mark I don't know if you had anything that you wanted to add or you >> I mean I don't know how I could possibly top that >> we will get we'll get the note >> that's his way of saying he knows
054I was there too but you know No, I left halfway through off the bus. So, >> all right, we will move to facilities committee. >> No report. >> Moving on. >> Finance committee trust. >> Um, so we had three items on our uh our finance agenda today and two of them were action items. The um the ISD uh budget and well actually three of them, the 27L letter of agreement and the equivalent payment for 27L. And then the third was um the almost last final look at the 2526 budget. And the big plus out of that is it looks like the draw from fund balance won't be quite as large as originally anticipated. Don't have a final number yet, but hopefully by the next um next meeting. I'll also just add so folks know I
055should have could have mentioned it earlier that the 27L payments will be um coming out on Friday u May 22nd. So, it's it's not this Friday, but next Friday on an off paid. >> So, all the teachers that were waiting to hear that, you can go, >> right? I know. I'm like, well, they're here. I know. Might as well tell you. Yes. Those will be coming out a week from Friday. >> Thank you. Um, intergovernmental relations, trustee, >> nothing to report. >> Um, personnel committee, trustee Martin. >> Uh, no report. >> Um, policy committee trust. >> No report. We meet on the 18th at 1. in this room >> and trusty I'm sorry. >> Uh we met last Wednesday the morning after the bond proposal passed. So the mood was light and happy. Uh we've
056got a real deep dive rundown into the budget that we just um gave our support to. Uh and that was it. >> All right. Um so our announcements the next regular schedule meeting of the of education is June 8th, 2026. So no other meeting in May. We'll see you in June. Um any other announcements? All right, we will adjourn at 7:50. Thank you all.