001scheduled meeting of the East Ling Board of Education to order uh Miss hore can we get a roll [Music] call Mr Martin here Dr Lions here Dr edel um Miss feris Highland here Dr Chambers present Dr Torres here miss taaki here um student representative hen Walsh here and Miss Leo here thank you cor trusty Chambers can you read our mission statement I sure will our mission statement at East laning is nurturing each child educating all students and building World citizens thank you uh the first thing on the agenda is the approval of the agenda can I get a motion I move to approve the March 10th 2025 regular meeting agenda as presented second move by trustee lions seconded by trustee Ferris Highland all in favor of the motion as present say I I I any
002opposition the motion carries unanimously uh the next item is the approval of the minutes my last meeting I move to approve the minutes from the following meeting as presented February 24 2025 regular meeting second move by trustee taaki seconded by truste Torres all in favor of the motion as presented please say I I I any opposition the motion carries unanimously the next item on the agenda is recog nition uh trustee Ferris Highland have you received any recognition I have not did you I don't believe so but I'm sure miss Walsh will have some good stuff okay so should we do that let's turn it over to miss Walsh and oh I do have oh wait a minute before we do I just want to let everyone know that our seventh grade girls basketball team went
00310 and0 so they won all their games so UND defeated yeah awesome I there how many girls basketball teams are the seventh um two there was a and b so the a a team went 10 and 0 yep that's great I caught a couple of those games it was some Fierce competition yeah I have a little bit of recognition um I just want to share that our Deputy superintendent um Glenn Mitchum uh presented last week at aasa um the national superintendent conference um and he was on a panel um elevating student voice and partnering with students for change uh msan District stories so it was a group of msan the the director and a couple other superintendents and Mr Mitchum and they presented they got the really sweet time of Friday afternoon at 3:45 and
004so I know um sunny in 75 on the day that was sunny in 75 and your room was uh yeah so they got the very unfortunate but uh draw but um yes was still uh um should be recognized yes absolutely uh my father-in-law made a joke that he was given one of those time slots to present at a conference and it was so bad that nobody showed up because it was a beautiful day or whatever but at the conference every year they Reserve that spot for the Peter tarelli Memorial lecture or whatever it's a sort of become a joke at the conference the spot that nobody wants um all right so let's move on to miss Walsh hi everyone I have a kind of short but pretty exciting report for you all today so today
005was the first day of spring Sports which is why I look like I just got out of the pool um the boys basketball team has their quarterfinal tomorrow against Ann aror Heron and if they win they advance to the semi-finals at bresin on Friday and if they win that they will then go on to play at bresin on Saturday morning um M went had a conference this weekend and won highest honors for the most prepared School the opening night of the Play Once Upon a mattress is on the 13th so this week and senad had their done line last week so the yearbook is officially finalized and ready for printing that's all I have wow thank you thank you m we'll move on to our superintendent's report superintendent Leo thank you um first first thing
006I have is we have the um let's see here the makeup of the makeup meeting um for the East Lancing high school health clinic community advisory committee uh this Wednesday this was uh postpone canceled both in January and February because of uh snow or cold days so the meeting is this Wednesday night March 12th from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. upstairs in the hub here at East Lancing High School um any attendees can enter through door one and all are welcome represent from U ofm Sparrow health and Eaton Risa will be at the meeting to share more about our partnership to open up the clinic this fall and also a light dinner will be available for anybody who shows up so that is open to everybody Wednesday night I want to share a little bit about
007a recap of Friday's uh professional learning some of the sessions we offered this past Friday um we offered some that again these are all under our buckets that align with our mission statement um ending the silence for School staff stop the bleed the interconnectedness of intentional relationships and school safety avmr math instruction implementation sessions um AI Savvy and data smart enhancing learning and protecting data safe supportive and inclusive classrooms practical strategies for affirming lgbtq plus students Title 9 training for administrators and getting to know the ejat with two of our elementary building staffs and and we have our fifth and final professional learning Friday this school year is April 25th uh this these notes will be head going out tomorrow morning and will include the link to purchase tickets for tomorrow night's boys basketball game
008when I checked a couple hours ago when I finished this up they were still available so there is a link for public to purchase games for the division 1 boys basketball quarter final game tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at Mason High School um as hin said should the Trojans win the semi-final game will be played this Friday March 14th at noon at the bresin center more information to come and then I will share this link and a few upcoming dates to know tomorrow is the last half day for elementary only due to conferences um next Friday begins spring break through the 28th we'll return to school Monday March 31st and as I mentioned April 25th there is no school for the last of the five staff professional learning days school year so thank you happy
009to answer any questions about those items or any others what's an EET the ejat is a tool we use I probably you should get you a copy and share a little with you through the Justice leaders collaborative that helps um helps our staff um audit some practices in many different areas and um not just audit them but then what to do to improve them to provide more inclusive um classrooms spaces instruction policies Etc very cool thank you yes um I would educational Justice I'll Google assessment and transformational Tool I was trying to think what the pretty I'm really close with that sorry we just always say that but I should spell it out yep I can make those assumptions thank you for asking if you ask me what a Mr R is that's just the
010math instructional training and I looked that one up and I still couldn't find a good uh uh good what that acronym really stood for it was um and I like Google I searched that one it's good math instruction okay okay we got it okay good math instruction any other questions for the superintendent I know that and our here on bounced us last year so hoping that we have a different result tomorrow night M yeah we're going to get the River Rats this year okay the next item on the agenda is public comment Miss H do we have any public comment today all right if there's no public comment we can dispense with the reading of our public comment statement and move on to item six board discussion do any board members wish to offer anything
011for discussion all right thank you think that is no um let's move on to our action items uh action item a is a sexual health curriculum for grades 7 to 12 uh can I get a motion I move the Board of Education approve the new pilot Sexual Health curriculum grades 7 through 12 as presented second uh mov by trusty Ferris Highland seconded by trusty taaki is there any discussion on this topic oh should we have up all right would you like to come up and say a few words sorry to put you on the spot we just hate it when people show up for no reason we'd love to yeah pleas give the opportunity to no problem well no I um we provided the information last month hopefully for your review um and the goal
012of this pilot is we're just sampling some of the lessons from the full curriculum really trying to get um input from the Educators about how they like the lesson plans the materials get a little student feedback and see if it's comparable and hopefully better than what they're currently using in the classroom so that's our goals so and any questions you have I'm happy to answer thank you thank you we're grateful for this programming yeah thank you for all your work on it we had we had a brief discussion about it at our last meeting about why we do the pilot why we have to do the pilot yes uh differently from our other curricula and it is I do a little bit of a discussion about that as well so great right I'll say I
013not a question but I just wanted to say that I appreciated the high school school lessons focus on um health and safety relationships and and how to get help and on consent um and I really like the Middle School worksheet activity to do with a trusted adult because it provides learning for both the grown-ups and the students which is very cool thank you I thought it a cool pilot it's great feedback thank you all right thank you for being here yeah absolutely thank you all right so we can move to a vote uh all in favor of the mo has presented please say I I any opposition motion carries unanimously the pilot will go forward uh Item B is a new course proposal I move the Board of Education approve the new high school course
014video game design as presented second move by trustee Ferris Highland seconded by trustee lions and I know we have a couple folks here on this topic would you guys like to come on up absolutely this is a interesting uh proposed course that was that we learned a bit about at our academic meeting a a couple months ago um but if we have any questions uh now is the time to ask them have ma apply technology computer science engineering Orion Smith uh computer science and engineering classes APA as well I'm really glad we're offering this for our students so cool there's going to be I think it's going to be in high demand yes so they do a survey and that survey went out and we have enough for two sections so it won't be a
015profit for cool wow cool if I recall correctly at our meeting the academic meeting you mentioned that we only have a certain number of Technology courses that we can offer in the building this would just add to that portfolio so that students who kind of max out will have a chance to take the next step or you know more options if they want to take a technology course is that is that a good summary yeah it is so we we're now this takes us you the last 5 years we went from three courses all the way up to now this would make eight uh so they have a lot of options whether it's the engineering uh or robotics or now we have another uh coding example in the computer science thing with intro video game
016design and then two different AP uh computer science classes those gr Fund in the last five years and I love that you're offering them in the buildings and the students aren't having to to leave or do something online or something I think that's a that's great too we hope that we can offer a competitively strong program uh compared to the other options students might have elsewhere yeah yeah and we can do this without having to hire more teachers or you know because we're offering one less section of one of the um lower level courses right yeah we already thought through how we could revise our mini master schedule of which of us divides which course and which period of the day we've got it and and it would mean one less of engineering or Tech
017Essentials the fall and then one less of the other of those in the spring but the numbers of uh registrations for both of those courses this year bear out that hypothesis as a good idea this is also helpful for administration as they're doing the scheduling we have we'll teach one class first semester and the second the next semester so the kids will have a place to go because they tend to the kids that we tend to see tend to stay in our area and so it also makes it uh easier for Ashley and administration to schedule as well yeah sounds like a win win win so awesome yeah we appreciate you um looking for a solution that obviously meet the students needs first but also you know is thoughtful about these administrative costs and keeping
018those down is appreciated which our teachers always do which we appreciate that too right are there any other questions for Mr Smith and Mr ma thank you both for being here uh are you prepared to move to a vote all right all in favor of the motion as presented please say I I any opposition the motion carries unanimously thanks for coming to the update yeah get out get out you too the next item on the agenda is a fiber installation project can I get a motion I move the Board of Education approve the contract with fiberlink to upgrade the aerial fiber optic cable network for the amount of $65,100 second moved by truste Chambers seconded by truste Ferris Highland Mr pasty is here I is there anything to offer about this Mr pasty can I
019answer any question you have all right do we have any questions for Mr plast sounds like a good idea to invest in fiber I'm good with it um we'll move to a vote all in favor of the motion as presenta please say I I any opposition all right motion carries unanimously so the next one is a long one item D award bids for safety security accessibility Bond bid package number one for the new administration building and move the board of educ Kath usually reads the long ones I move the Board of Education award the following bids related to the new administration building as follows category 4 masonry shiffer Mason Contractors Incorporated $97,900 category five structural steel Custom Steel Fabricators LLC $55,200 category six metal studs and drywall chisen Constructors uh Incorporated category 7 General trades
020more troser Construction Company 44 $444,500 category 8 roofing systems Roofing Innovations LLC $138,400 category 9 aluminum glass and glazing Voss glass $119,000 category 10 composite sighting weatherman Reich cam $128,800 category 11 flooring systems William reinbach company $78,200 category 12 painting and wall covering b& J painting Incorporated $244 category 16 Asphalt Paving levit and Stark Excavating Inc $41,800 category 17 commission commissioning prch Engineering Services $1 13,275 category 18 material quality testing and in infections pssi Intertech $4,975 Construction general conditions 3 3% Clark construction 60,1 192,000 for a grand total 2,668 second by trusty Chambers take a sip of water second by trusty Takaki thank you for reading that trusty Chambers we have somebody from Clark Construction would you like all right do we have any questions before we move to a vote I think we went
021over this a few weeks ago for the most part and these are numbers seem to be in line with what we expected so this is the final round of the bids like you you approved the first group of them two weeks ago this is the second final group of the same um bid package that went out for the new admin building when do we expect things to start getting knocked down and moved around um shortly like March I need to come up you should you should probably come up just the the the millions at home watching the live stream they don't need to see me okay yeah so right now we we actually have the demolition permit so the BCC has issued that I'm working with Consumers Energy to get the power disconnected from the
022current building get the natural gas disconnected we have to do that before we can start the power should be this week I'm still working with the consumers to pin down the natural gas so that hopefully week after this maybe next week at the latest we can start taking the building down that's that's the goal right now that's what I'm working toward then so most of the construction is going to happen over the summer yes okay that's going to happen very fast yes how many of us are going to go to the high school instead of to the new building not a question yes the first board meeting over there is going to be sural a reminder go to the other building all right are there any other questions before we move to a vote all
023right all in favor of the motion as presented please say I hi hi any opposition the motion carries unanimously thank you for being here thank you all right I believe that concludes our uh official business for the meeting the next item on the agenda is closed session can I get a motion I move the board education and turn to close session pursuant section 81k of the open meetings act to consider security planning to address the safety of the students and staff second moved by trustee Torres seconded by trustee Ferris Highland uh this motion requires a roll call vote so miss hore can we get a roll call vote Mr Martin yes Dr Lions yes Miss Ferris Highland yes Dr Chambers yes Dr Torres yes Miss Tech yes thank you so we will go into close
024session for a few moments thank you all for being here you can certainly wait until the close session is over but you have to exit the room for a few minutes uh so that we can conduct the close session e e [Music] watch [Music] e [Music] he e [Music] he [Music] that's [Music] e [Music] he [Music] e [Music] that's [Music] he [Music] he [Music] he [Music] back all right we are back from close session uh thank you to the folks who are still here for your patience uh the next item on our agenda is committee reports we'll begin with the academic and Technology committee trusty Lions we have not met since our last meeting and um we will be meeting uh next month um we were supposed to meet this week but there are no
025agenda items so we have canceled the meeting very good thank you facilities committee we need to reschedule because I had to reschedule but first like I'll get with you this week and we'll do some maybe first week of April after spr break sounds fantastic finance committee trusty edel's out does anybody have an update from Finance it got cancelled okay intergovernmental relations we met at 10:00 a.m. on the 27th y um and it was a lovely meeting where we just kind of talked about the overview of the committee goals and setting priorities for the upcoming year and we will um reach out one of the things what we'll do is uh reinvigorate the joint meeting with the school board and the city council so that date is to be determined good luck with those folks over
026there um very comforting thank you we got this got this uh person personel committee has not met policy committee trusty sel's out does anybody want to offer something from policy we canell because we didn't have any agenda items so schedule probably pretty soon isoa toy teaki we met on Wednesday March fth and had an incredibly uh it was a barn burner of a presentation from uh the Michigan Association of school boards legal council and director of Labor Relations Brad uh I don't know if it's basc or bassic um it's a it was a 43 page presentation and he worked really hard to get through all of it if anybody wants to see it I'd happy to forward it to you but um we covered Ingam Intermediate School District elections that election's coming up on June
0272nd our deadline to nominate people is May 5th and there'll be uh stuff we have to do at our May meeting to pass resolutions designate Representatives identify who we're voting for and Kelly will get all that information later um we talked about Schoolboard committees and the open meeting act we talked about federal administrative law and Title 9 and all the court cases attached to it there in it was a lot and then executive orders it was a lot um then we had a superintendent update from Jason melma um talking about working with the sheriff's department on the stop at bleed kits training for all staff which sounds like was just part of our professional development um using the tourniquets and they're working on how to centralized training for new staff going forward um working they
028working on the application to the Michigan Department of Education for the three-year pre- Labor Day start waiver and that's due March 19 and then we reviewed our bylaws and voted on officers Sarah Bellinger from Williamston is going to remain president of isoa and Josh shaah Rocky from weberville is vice president and we meet again on May 7 thank you to Takaki um are there any announcements uh before we conclude the next regularly scheduled meeting of the board of education is not until April 14th because we have Spring Break um intervening so uh we'll most likely won't be together again until the fth the 14th of April all right if there are no announcements I will adjourn the meeting at 8:07 p.m. thank you all for being here here