001[Music] I don't know. Good evening and welcome to Ferville Community Schools regular board meeting June 3rd. Um please let's call the meeting to order and rise for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do I have a motion to amend the agenda under new business? There is a recommendation from administration to approve a not to exceed amount of 200,000 for the superintendent to contract with Wolverine engineering and surveyors for water system mapping including ground penetrating radar GPR utility locating standard utility locating hydrovac truck evacuation for visual verification and surveying services. So moved. Is there support? Support. Motion made by Mrs. Rener, supported by Mrs. Dumbrosski. All in favor? I. And the
002agenda is amended and that will be under new business. Um, next we will go on to reports and recognition. All right, we have uh retirees here tonight. Congratulations. [Applause] So we have Mrs. Stephie here from the high school and come forward to the podium and say a few words about the high school retirees. Yeah. And can our retirees stand up and come forward over here? That way you'll be able to Well, no, you can you can stay. You get to wait. First we have Ken Damro and he's been in education 31 years. So long awaited time of rest. I have a card and it says forever Saturdays. That kind of sums it up for you, right? So thank you for all of your service to our district and the many grade levels and departments. We
003greatly appreciate it. You will be missed. Thank you, Mr. Dro. [Applause] And next is Lisa McGinson and she's been with us for 27 years. And I can't think of a nicer person that I would like to call at 5 in the morning to make sure that we have all classes with a human being in front of them so that our students aren't alone. So, thank you very much. What's that? [Laughter] Her spouse is like, we'll stop now. Yeah. Thank you, Lisa. We will be missing you bad. [Applause] Don't take her. All right. Next is Mrs. Well, I just want to say, you know, personally, um, Mrs. Co has been a valuable asset to me during my tenure, a little two years now. Um, she has the most institutional central office. And so to have someone
004that I've been able to go to and others at central office to ask those questions about something that happened a decade ago has been invaluable. And so um she's been incredibly supportive during my tenure and I know that she's been a valuable asset to the district long before I ever came. Um I don't remember exactly how many years. It's 15 years in the district. It's quite quite a while. Um and so you know been um not only to the administration but of course our business office as well in the back. So um so and then within the county um I think it's important to remember that the business officials directors superintendent talk collaborate together so um thank you Lori you're going to be missed last day like Mrs. Ringle has something to say. I just
005want to say thank you so much because uh working on a grant is a continual nightmare and without Lori, it would never ever happen. Um I cannot speak highly enough about the amount of time and effort and thinking it takes to make sure that we get the money that we get. Um and I appreciate all the time and effort you've put into it because we really would not get the money that we have received without Lori. Thank you. [Applause] I would just like to recognize um some of our other retirees that are here tonight. So from the junior high um 25 years in the district. So thank her. Carla Larson Smith, Sean Mesner, Barb. [Applause] Um, next we will move on to the curriculum and technology committee report um given tonight by Mrs. Dumbrosseski. And
006our retirees are free to leave unless they would love to stay and listen to this board meeting. Thank you again and congratulations. Okay. Yeah. Wait, we have a hug that's needed really quick. We'll take a quick brief recess. with the curriculum and technology committee report. Thank you. The curriculum and technology committee met in high school computer lab A at 4 p.m. The meeting was called to order at 4 by Mr. Hinton. Members present were Mr. Hinton, Mrs. Mr. Stewart, Mrs. Ringle, Mr. Mr. Stal, and Mrs. Regina. There was a motion by Mr. Hinton supported by Mrs. Dumbrosski recommending approval of the minutes from the April 28th, 2025 meeting, and the motion passed. There was uh no one at the call to the public. Technology department updates. Mr. Stal provided an update on summer technology work
007at Smith Elementary and Fville Elementary Schools. The work includes behind the scenes improvements and updating all computers to Windows 11, new high school course proposals for approval, robotics and intro to computers. Mrs. Ringle presented updated course descriptions for two new courses at Bibleville High School. Introduction to computers and robotics. Mr. Hinton and Mrs. Dumbrosski approved sending the proposal to the full board of education for approval via email on May 28th, 2025. Mrs. also mentioned that the new forensics course for Fville High School and Fville Junior High School will be submitted for approval soon. Instructional rounds updates. Mr. Combmes shared positive feedback from the first instructional rounds at Fville Junior High School and Fville High School. Teachers followed agreed upon norms, shared valuable observations, and are eager to continue the process next year. A debrief meeting
008is planned before the end of the school year. Math pilots and science pilot update. Mrs. Ringle shared results from the ready math pilot in grades six through eight, noting overall growth and positive feedback from teachers. She recommended continuing the pilot and expanding it to grades kindergarten through 5. She also reported that elementary teachers are interested in piloting new science curricula at K through 5 next year. Spring 2025 I Ready data update. Mrs. Ringle shared I Ready and Math results. Overall, students in grades K through eight showed growth in both subjects and outperformed national averages. Reading levels improved at all schools with significant reductions in the percentage of students reading below grade level. Math results were mixed but generally positive with elementary schools performing better than secondary levels. Other Mrs. Ringo welcomed Mrs. Lauren Reio as
009the new math coach for grades K through five. There was a motion by Mrs. Strowski supported by Mr. Hinton recommending adjournment of the meeting at 5:11 p.m. And the motion passed. Thank you very much. All right. We have a recommendation to approve two new courses at Ferville High School for the 2025 2026 school year. Introduction to computer programming and robotics. Do we have a motion? Is there support? Motion made by Mrs. Sharon, supported by Mrs. Dere. Um, board comment. I'm really happy with the addition of these courses as well. That is exciting for our students. All right. Um, Mrs. Avis, roll call, please. I I I and the courses are approved. Um, next we will hear from Mrs. Ringle uh with the assistant superintendence report. Sorry, making sure we Okay, so tonight I'm going to
010share some information um about the students who have uh left the district and um some research that we've done about why they chose to leave the district. So some time ago uh Mr. Stewart requested that Mr. H spend some time looking students who left the district. Um, and Mr. H uh ended up calling these families and also sending them a survey. So, he collected a lot of uh data that uh he compiled that I'm going to share with you today. So, we had 130 students who chose not to reenroll in the district coming into this school year. And as you can see at Smith at the time, um, we had 17 students who did not reenroll. Uh, 36 at Creger, uh, 32 at the junior high, and 45 at the high school. And you can
011see the percentage breakdown. As you consider those, we also wanted to talk a little bit about our enrollment trends. And as you can tell, over the last few years, we've had you know, a pretty significant decline or I guess a decline in enrollment just over time, but we're actually keeping track with overall student enrollment in the state. So, we are really just part of the trend. So, that is something to keep in mind um as we look at the changes in enrollment. Just to be clear, the ongo So when we asked families where did you decide to go? Um we had about 75% of the families uh choose to enroll in a different school within the state of Michigan. Uh 0.8% in there enrolled in a n public school. Uh 8.5% moved out of state
012and 15.4% decided to enroll in a home environment. When we asked what were the reasons uh that you decided to go, um what we mostly saw were that 32 sorry, excuse me, 34.2% 2% decided to relocate to another area and so they withdrew from the district. Uh 1.8% had a financial change uh as well as 9.6% changes in their family circumstances. Uh 20.2% talked about wanting better educational opportunities. 7.9% needed something specific for their child that they felt that they could not gain here inville. 5.3% talked about bullying or social struggles. 3.5 talked about a mental health concern that they had. Uh 7.9 talked about a lack of belonging and 7% talked about. So of those things, you know, we can't really control relocation or financial changes or family circumstances, but we can certainly keep
013working on better educational opportunities, which I feel like we have worked on pretty significantly this year and we're going to continue with that. Um we definitely can do more to support students mental health, lack of belonging, behavior and bullying, right? Those are things that are within our wheelhouse and um you know this is the end of our partnership with the my MTSS technical assistance center. They helped us install PBIS or positive behavior support in our district. Um and that means that coming into next year we get to chart our course and decide where we take our, you know, PBIS process. Next, it means that we get to talk a little bit more about capturing kids hearts and how do we um make sure that we're doing fidelity. Do we want to, you know, bring it
014to other grade levels? All these different options. And so, it's a real opportunity for us to look at what we're doing and work to make it better the way that we do everything else. Because while we know that we are following the trends of the That doesn't mean that we are, you know, we can't do more to keep our families. That my report for you tonight. Thank you very much, Mrs. All right. Now, we will hear from Mr. Stewart with the superintendent report. So, tonight I'm going to forgo my time to Mrs. All right. And good evening. We have our annual original budget presentation for the 2025 26 year for your reference. our funding sources. So I want to go over just how we built this budget to start the year and the assumptions are
015just the best information. This is primarily governor's recommendation that we used and I did hear just yesterday that they do not believe they will have real numbers for us after July 1. So it's good that we're making assions and getting requirement required deadline July 1. So what this budget is built on is the state aid package that I'm presenting a little bit differently because there's a lot of moving parts first and foremost an increase in our foundation allowance from $9,68 to 10,000 which is really nice and also subject of this meeting is we'll get our foundation allowance from the state less property tax that Also in your packets tonight are the L429. So the increase in foundation allowance is worth 941,000. Unfortunately funding that we were granted last year is going away. So we're not
016getting that 91200. They are giving us um of the healthare premium subsidy that we got this year to pass on to employees. Um but next year we don't have to pass it on and we're getting half. So that's a $296,000 in our bottom line and unfortunately uh the normal health cost of the pension cost is expected to increase. So when you All of those numbers come the total impact on our budget is actually also in this budget stabilization passing through our district. We don't know yet whe historical peril allowance over the last years has been an average increase of 3.5% student count again very closely to the state level. So then if we look at those two factors together, we can calculate our total funding for the last years and we have an annual increase
017of our student. And then also for reference, here's those funds showing how they both revenue and expenditures so they don't impact our bottom line. The next slide is just our fund balance history. Um, and there's some little benchmark indicators on the side that show we are well above the 5% fund balance where there would be state intervention. Um, we are still a little bit below the auditor 15%. Our original budget next year has fun. When we look at our budget, the vast majority of what we spend is on staff wages and benefits. In our new proposed budget, staff wages and benefits 78% And then lastly, I just want to step through our the change from our final budget amendment which you saw in May where we expect to end this year with a 3.7 million
018fund balance. We expect to have a little bit of operating deficit this year. And then the next slide which is a little bit small but there's a lot of moving parts, a lot of ups and downs. So what we do is we take our operating deficit that we have right now and then we the changes that the assumptions give us right so we are using a student count decrease of 80 to build this budget um the governor's package on the one slide and then um on the revenue side an increase in indirect cost transfers that we've been receiving from both the food service fund and the little program. So that's our original budget. On the expenditure side increases in employee wages, not including yet. Um and then we have some savings from teacher retirements and
019resolutions. and some other staff reductions, staff position reductions. We needed to increase our substitute budget as a result of the expiration of our moving a couple of other positions. The SRO portion of the instructions for special anticipated premium increase. Then we have we're adding in a text budget and if you recall we had a plan to text the alternate years. So this will be 2526 will be the year for textbook purchases also will be the year for bus purchases and so that we are project and then just some other miscellaneous supply budget adjust And then removing that transfer of furniture took that back. So all of that combined, we think we will go into next year with an original budget with a4 million operating deficit. That's the very bottom number there. So in summary um
020we think we'll have based on our assumptions general fund revenues 33.3 million expenditures 33.5 million and an operating deficit of million. So that's the general fund and then I just have a summary here of the small funds and you know, showing the expected revenue expenditure and I think what you'll note on this is an operating deficit for food service and that really is spending down those excess funds that accumulated. So you've already seen proposed equipment purchase and so that's part of also down days and they had a plan. That concludes my presentation. Happy to take any questions. No questions. I just want to say thank you again but also many many others principals and our directors for those of you that are listening thank you for all the effort Thank you, Miss Co. And um
021Okay, so we have a uh recommendation to adopt the original adopt original uh 2025 2026 general fund budget resolution. Is there a motion? Is there support? Support. Motion made by Mrs. Dumbrossski and supported by Mrs. Readinger. Um, board comment. Okay. Roll call vote. Mrs. Aus. I I I I and um the uh the budget is adopted. Uh, next we have a recommendation to adopt original 2025 2026 food service fund resolution. Is there a motion? Motion made by Oh, in support. Okay, support. All right, great. Motion made by Mrs. Dumbrossski, supported by Mrs. Reinger. Board comment. All right, Mrs. Zavas. Roll call vote, please. I I I and the motion carries. Uh we have a recommendation to adopt original 2025 2026 community services fund resolution. Is there a motion? So moved. Support. All right. Great. Mrs.
022Reinger. Motion made and uh supported by Mrs. Dumbrosski. Board comment. Uh, roll call vote. Mrs. Aas, I I I I. And the motion carries. We have a recommendation to adopt original 2025 2026 special revenue fund resolution. Is there a motion? Is there support? Motion made by Mrs. Sharon, supported by Mrs. Dere. Board comment. Mrs. Savis, roll call vote, please. I I I and the motion carries. All right. We have a recommendation to adopt L 4029 tax certification. L 4029s have been prepared to request each taxing unit to the levy of 18. Okay. 18 operating mills and to levy 9.55 um debt service mills. Is there a motion? So moved. Is there support? Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Dumbrosski, supported by Mrs. Dere. Board comment. Mrs. Avis, roll call vote, please. I I I. And the
023motion carries. Um do we have any call to public tonight. Okay, we have no call call to public tonight. So, now we're on to um new business. And uh first up, we have a recommendation uh to adopt Michigan High School Athletic Association, MHSA, annual membership resolution. Um the MHSSA MHSA is a voluntary organization that supports education athletics in uh schools. Being a member of this or organization provides many resources and act and access to information for our athletes, coaches and athletic director as well as providing schools with an opportunity to participate in state tournaments. Community Schools has been a part of this organization for many years and wishes to uh continue to do so. Is there a motion? Is there support? Motion made by Mrs. Debris, supported by Mrs. Sharon. Board comment, Mrs. Avis, roll
024call vote, please. I I I I And the motion carries. Uh we have a recommendation to appoint Mrs. Cosbro to the position of the interim financial director at Ferville Community Schools. Um Ms. Cosbro began employment on June 2nd, 2025. Do we have a motion? Is there support? Okay. Motion made by um Mrs. Dere, supported by Mrs. Sharon and board comment and uh All right. All in favor? I and the employment is uh approved. And then would you like to introduce? Yes, we have Mrs. Kim Cro here tonight. Come to the podium. Mrs. Cro, so put you on the spot for a minute. So just want to publicly say thank you for coming to Colorado schools supporting us in this capacity. Very pleased to have you came in yesterday started yesterday in our cabinet meeting provide
025some valuable input on a few things today. It's nice to have a different perspective sometimes and so finance. Do you have anything you'd like to say maybe about your background or anything. Oh jeez. Um I started my career at plant to man. I was there for 11 years. I have a CPA. Um and then I went to whole public schools. Um and started there. I spent 25 years there. I got my masters there. I ended up as a deputy superintendent. And what I would I did is I ran the operations. So food service, transportation, facilities, those types. Um and um then of course and the superintendent took care of educating kids. So, uh I would bump into their budget and the superintendent would bump back, but you know that makes the best. So, um it
026it was a nice career. I have been gone for three years and uh I do apologize for being late, but it is hard to roll out of retirement as it is into. So, you know, if you have any questions, I'm here. Um, you know, I've been here two days. Um as you said, I went in. Everybody is professional. They're and um and they're professional and so they know what they're supposed to do and I keep asking questions and they've got great answers. So, you should feel confident in your administration, the ones that I've seen so far. So, thank you. Thank you and welcome. [Applause] All right, we have a recommendation to eliminate uh the Ferville High School Dean of Students position. Is there a motion? Is there support? Support. Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Dere,
027supported by Mrs. Dumbrosski. Board comment. Okay. All in favor? I. And the motion carries. And I would just like to say um that I have spoken to the employee understanding of the situation. Um this year he's been working on special projects. As you saw from the data earlier, our student population at this stage local off. Thank you. Okay. And last, we have a recommendation from administration to approve a not to exceed amount of 200,000 for the superintendent to contract with Wolverine Engineering and surveyors for the water system mapping including ground penetrating radar GPR utility locating. Uh standard utility locating, hydroac truck evacuation for or excavation, sorry. visual verification and serving uh services. Do we have a motion? Okay. Is there support? Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Dumbrosseski, supported by Mrs. Dere. Board comment. Okay. Um
028Mrs. Avis, roll call vote, please. I I I I. And the motion is approved. Um and now we are going on to old business. Uh we have a recommendation to approve second and final readings of the proposed policies. Policy 0131.1 bylaws and policies. Policy 5320 um immunization policy 53 um or 5330.01 Okay. Epinephrine, auto injectors, policy 5350, student health, well-being, and suicide prevention, and policy 8320, personnel files. Do we have a motion to approve these second and final readings? So moved. Is there support? Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Reinger, supported by um Mrs. Derowski. Word comment. Okay. Roll call vote please. I I I I and uh the policies are approved and now we will move on to introduction of other matters by board members. Okay. Do you have something? I do. I would just
029like to remind the community of the Sheila Larson Memorial to the family impact center. Sheila was a very beloved um educator and then an administrator here in the district. Sadly, she passed away from cancer, but this is a great way to remember her and one of her pet projects here would be the family impact center. So, the race is going to be on Saturday of June, starts at 9 a.m. registration, you can go walk up earlier than that, I'd sayish and enjoy either a 5K walk So anyway, it's a very good cause and I will be there. So come see me. Uh the other thing I'd like to mention is the family fun night. I guess it was the end of the school year night that they had um jointly between the fez and the
030cre. So anyway, um I ran into it by accident with a little one and we just had a lovely time. Was so much fun. The book bus was there. They had Kona ice. They houses and families were just smiling and everybody's having a great time and so many thanks to the the staff and to the parents who helped put it together. This was really a very memorable evening. Thank you. And I also want to let the community know just one more time that our fantastic archery team is headed to the Worlds this weekend. That is a phenomenal achievement and they are headed to South Carolina, I believe, Myrtle Beach. Um those are some pretty incredible kids and some pretty incredible coaches and they deserve um a lot of attention and and praise for that. That's
031very impressive. And also I want to say as a new board member I had the privilege of attending the graduation ceremony this weekend. Just so excited for those fantastic group of kids. Um it was a beautiful ceremony put on by the administration and it was um it was just a privilege to be there. So I wanted to just say thank you. Agreed. And I wanted to thank um Miss Stephie and Mr. and their staff for putting on a wonderful organizing and putting on a wonderful ceremony. Congratulations to the class of 2025. And also, I'd like to acknowledge the class sponsors, um, Mrs. Tamasi and Mrs. Ms. Thomas. They did a fabulous job with the kids from the gauntlet to practice and everything that they did for the class and the senior lock in. Everybody had
032a great time. So, thank you All right. Now, any um other matters by the superintendent? I just wanted to update the board on the water break that occurred today. Um so, there was a water main break, I think shortly before noon, um the intersection right across from the one early childhood building. And so, um we were able to shut the water off and it did not turn water off to any of our buildings. And so, our buildings continue to have water all day. We did have to that intersection down because it did bring some debris out of the ground and so um it also kind of created a little bit of a sinkhole which was potentially dangerous for people walking or driving in that area. So we have requested the village um come in and
033repair that water man. It's literally right on the border between the village property and our property and so they will be coming in either tonight or tomorrow morning to repair that and ensure that that water is complete and All of our students should be no impact whatsoever. Just make that clear. Will that intersection be closed for families bringing their kids to school tomorrow? Yes, it will be closed in the morning. We hope to have it open by Thursday. Okay, great. Thank you. And um now we have a recommendation to move into close session for the purpose of negotiations. Is there a motion? Is there support? the board. Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Sharon, supported by Mrs. Dumbrossski. All in favor? And we will move into close session for the purpose of negotiations. Do we have
034a motion to reconvene open session? So moved. Is there support? Support. Motion made by Mrs. Dumbrosseski, supported by Mrs. Sharon. All in favor? I. I. And we're return to open session. Do we have a motion to approve the close session minutes? So moved. Oops. Oh, sorry. Jumped the gun. All right. Do we have a motion to approve the close session minutes? So moved. Is there support? Support. Okay. Motion made by Mrs. Reinger. Yes. And I did support both. So it was not sometimes it's hard to be official. And then uh support by Mrs. Dumbrosski. All in favor? Okay. Wonderful. Do we have a motion to approve the ratified contract with food service? So if is there support? Motion made by Mrs. Dere supported by Mrs. Sharon. Board comment. All right. Great. Uh roll call vote.
035Mrs. Sharon. I I I and the uh contract is approved. Uh do we have a motion to approve the ratified contract with transportation? So moved. Is there support? Support. Motion made by Mrs. Dumbrosseski, supported by Mrs. Readinger. Uh board comment. Roll call vote. Mrs. Sharon. I I I and the contract is approved. Um information our next uh uh board meeting, regular board meeting is June 30th at 700 p.m. in the media center. Do we have a motion to adjourn? Is there support? Support. Motion made by Mrs. Sharon, supported by Mrs. Um, Dumbrossski. All in favor? I I Everybody have a good evening.