001Uh she's not going to be here today. Oh, she's not coming. Okay. [Music] It's 7:01. I'll call us to order. This is the uh regularly scheduled July 14th, 2025 East Lancing Board of Education meeting. Uh Miss Hokort, can we get a roll call? Right. Mr. Martin here. Dr. Lions here. Dr. Edsaw here. Miss Ferris Highland here. Dr. Chambers present. Dr. Torres. Miss Taikaki here. All right. Thank you, Miss He. Um, Trusty Torres, can you read our mission? Not Torres. Trusty uh Lions, can you read some of She was on my mind. Trusty Lions, can you read our mission statement? No. Our mission is to uh nurturing each child, educating all students, and building world citizens. Thank you. The next item is the approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? I move that the
002board of education approve the agenda of the July 14th, 2025 regular meeting as presented. Second. It's moved by Trustee Ferris Highland, seconded by Trustee Taiki. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I. Any opposition? Motion carries unanimously. Approval of the minutes. I move that the board of education approve the minutes of the following meetings as presented. One, June 23rd, 2025 regular meeting. Two, June 23rd, 2025, close session. Second. Right. Motion was by Trustee Ferris Highland. Seconded by Trusty Lions. All in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. Uh, the next item on the agenda is recognition. So, Trusty Ferris Highland, do we have any recognition today? Nothing submitted. All right. Thank you. And then we'll move on to the superintendent's report. Uh
003superintendent Leica. Okay. Thank you. I just want to I'll continue to share the first day of school for students is Monday, August 25th, 2025. And one change to um this first day is that it is a half day for the entire district um including middle and high school students, which is a little bit of a change. In the past, the half day has only been elementary. It's for everybody this year as um negotiated. Um, I want to share that our McDonald Middle School athletics, uh, moving forward will be operated and supervised by ELPS. Um, starting this fall, East Lancing Public Schools and McDonald Middle School will be operating the middle school athletic program that's been run by the city of East Lancing for many years. This transition of responsibility and oversight has been a collaborative
004effort between the school district and the city, and we're very appreciative of the years of service and support by city staff to operate this program for our students. More information will be shared in the coming weeks. The first offering for middle school students will be fall cross country, and we will be seeking a middle school athletics coordinator. Uh, and a posting for that position should be out this week. it will just be a part-time position to coordinate the middle school athletics program. Um, I also want to start sharing a board meeting location change beginning with the August 11th board meeting. So, beginning in August, the current room where board meetings are held will be converted into a classroom for use this school year. Once the new central office building is completed, board meetings will be
005held in that location. But in the interim, beginning with the August 11th meeting, board of education meetings will be held in the McDonald Middle School auditorium. Again, this is just temporary until the new board meeting space is completed, which should be by the end of the calendar year. And finally, ELPS health clinic update. Um, mobilization and preparation of the site will begin this week. So, you'll see some construction work for the clinic taking place at the far east end of this building by the small parking lot on Old Hickory. And the scheduled date for substantial completion is September 19th, 2025. Yay. So, we'll see some action on that this week. Awesome. I also have um I gave you a packet with that was provided by Clark with some updates again on our um bond. Uh
006I actually have a couple extra. Trish, you probably see it live, but will you send those out there to our folks in the audience? Would you mind? Thank you. Um just uh some updates. So starting with the administration building uh over at Tower, uh metal framing is 90% complete. So you can see all the perimeter walls are almost up. Setting roof trusses is scheduled to begin later this week. Um a lifting plan has been reviewed by the Clark Construction Safety Group that's just highlighted right now. I think uh as a result of a construction accident that took place a few weeks ago on another site. Um electrical raceway installation in the perimeter walls and plywood wall sheathing is scheduled to begin um today. So there's a few photos of the exterior um metal walls. And
007starting to move here with the high school edition. Uh the soil erosion permit has been issued by the city of East Lancing and soil erosion measures will be installed tomorrow, beginning tomorrow. Central excavation will mobilize equipment to the site uh on July 16th, this Wednesday, and begin removal of concrete and stripping the top soil. Directional signage for the pedestrian entry is in place. Fence installation is complete. Trees have been relocated from the front entry area to the northwest area of the site. those that could be saved and um replanted. And then the memorial trees that were um up in the front have been relocated to the east side of the site to preserve them um when we figure out where they should go back to, whether it's the front or another location on the site.
008Um Clark will work with um administration here at the high school for that. And then there's just a few of the photos of the fence and signage um and some of the trees that have been um replanted and removed here at the high school to get ready for that construction. Awesome. And that is what I have today. All right. Thank you, Superintendent Leo. Are there any uh questions or comments for the superintendent on time on budget so far? Yes. Yes. Yes. I know that by that accident was had nothing to do with these lancing. It was correct. Offsite elsewhere. Yes. Yes. That has just I would say just increased the attention to that around the um the construction world, right? Yeah. Thanks for clarifying. That was a very sad story. Um I'm grateful that we're
009preserving those trees. I think that's um a thoughtful addition. you could see a scenario where it might save a few bucks to not save those trees and I'm glad that we did. Yep, absolutely. Anything else for the superintendent? All right, let's move on to the consent agenda. Uh, can I get a motion for the personnel matter on the consent agenda? I move that the board of education approved to the consent agenda to include the following. A human resource action item one hiring of Latoya Benson as a conditional hire pending obtainment of certification uh 1.0 FTE counselor at Macdonald Middle School at MA step 5 effective at the beginning of the 2526 school year. The individual will be paid at a daily rate of $250 until certification is received. Second. The motion was made by Trustee
010Taiki, seconded by Trustee Edsil. There's no discussion on consent agenda items. So, we'll move straight to a vote. Uh, all in favor of the motion as presented, please say I. I. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. Um, I don't know. Do we have Miss Benson with us? Okay. All right. Uh, the next item on the agenda is public comment. This is the time uh to address the board. I typically if there will be public comment, I would have blue slips. I don't see any blue slips. Does anyone wish to make public comment? All right, that being the case, we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is board discussion. I have not heard from any board members who wish to bring anything up during this time, but we like to leave it
011open uh in the event that there is something that we need to discuss. So, are there any ads for board discussion? All right, we'll move on to um the next items on the agenda, which are the at will employee contracts. Uh can I get a motion? I move that the board of education approve the contracts for administrators, supervisors, and exempt at will employees from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2027 as presented. Second. Motion was made by trustee Edsil, seconded by Trusty Taiki. Uh the contracts have all been provided to the board in advance of the meeting today. Uh is there any discussion on this topic before we move to a vote? Right. I don't think there's going to be any discussion. So we'll move to a vote. All in favor of the at will
012employee contracts. Uh as presented, please say I. I. Any opposition? The motion carries unanimously. The next item is uh close session. We need a motion for close session. I move that the board of education go into close session pursuant to section 8 C of the Open Meetings Act related to collective bargaining. Second. Moved by Trusty Edel, seconded by Trusty Lions. All in favor of the motion. Oh, we have to do a roll call vote for a closed session. So, Miss Hack, can we get a roll call vote? Um, Mr. Martin? Yes, Miss Leo. I don't vote. Oh, sorry. Um, Dr. Lions. Yes. Dr. Edel. Yes. Miss Ferris Highland. Yes. Dr. Chambers. Dr. Torres. Miss Taki. Yes. All right. So, the motion carries unanimously. Um, I know we have some folks here in the audience. Um,
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015item on our agenda is committee reports. Uh academic technology committee Trusty Lions. Um we have not met this summer. We'll uh begin our meetings back in the fall. So I have to get a meeting on the schedule. But all right. Thank you. Facilities committee trustee Ferris Highland. We have not met. We'll meet again in the fall. Very good. Finance. Trusty. uh meet in the fall. Intergovernmental Relations Trusty Torres isn't with us today. Um I I'm not aware of any updates with that committee. Uh personnel committee uh we did a most of our business for the year over the last month or so. So um I don't foresee any meetings in the near future. ISO Trusty Daiki um we're meeting again in the fall. All right. Policy. Policy. Oh, I didn't I'm sorry. Policy committee trusty.
016Um this past meeting we went over most of the policy updates from Trune. Uh all but four of them were pretty insignificant changes. Uh policy committee just moved them forward. They were in items of information. They will come up either at our July 28th or our August 11th meeting um for board vote. And then the policy committee will uh discuss the the four remaining policies at our next meeting which should be in the beginning of August which might have to be changed but thank you trusty. Sorry I skipped over policy. Sorry. The uh the next regularly scheduled meeting of the board of education is July 28, 2025. That uh meeting date may change. So, we'll be in communication in the days and weeks ending up. We're waiting on the contract. We're waiting on some personnel
017issues, uh, personnel hires. It they might happen before that day, but it might make more sense to do it at the August meeting. So, that will be to be determined. Are there any announcements before we adjourn? All right, we're at 802. Thank you all for being here. Thank you. Thank you.