001app. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, with that said, we will uh move on to board committee reports. And I am first up with the April 28th curriculum and technology committee report, which was called to order. by myself in the computer lab a follow high school at 4m members present were myself Mrs. Sharon Mrs. Dumbrossski staff present were Mrs. Ringle Mr. Mr. Stal and Mr. Stewart motion by Mrs. Dumbrossski supported by Mrs. Chair recommending approval of minutes from the March 31st, 2025 meeting. The motion was approved. Call of the public. No members of the public were present. Technology department updates. Mr. Stavo reported that state testing is going well overall with only minor internet issues that were quickly managed. The technology team is now preparing for summer projects including updates at Fable Elementary School, device deployments,
002new security monitors, and upgrading all district computers to Windows 11. support for Windows 10 ends in October. Approval of new high school textbook for 202526. Approval of Krugman's economics for the advanced placement course fourth edition by David Anderson and Margaret Ray. Fville Community Schools teacher Mr. Evan Martin presented the Krugman textbook as a resource for the new AP macroeconomics course. The text also supports AP microeconomics. Should the district offer it in the future? Mr. Martin aims to expand rigorous academic opportunities for students and selected this textbook for its strong emphasis on real world application. The committee approved the forwarding approved forwarding the recommendation to the full board for approval of the text with online access at the cost of $5,669.40 for 30 textbooks as well as $1,170 for six years of online access. New high
003school course proposals. Mrs. Wrangle presented several new high school course proposals to the committee for discussion only at this time. AP computer science A is proposed to meet the state's new computer science requirement. Additional science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics focused courses. Introduction to Computer science, first robotics, engineering and innovation, web design, and forensic science are also proposed to expand student options based on skill and interest. While not all would run next year, they are part of a broader possible course. Mrs. Wrangle also noted that the junior high would like to reintroduce seventh eighth grade choir and ask the committee to confirm whether board approval is required. The committee will respond with approval by Wednesday for 292. I think we 35J library book purchase update. Mrs. Ringle shared a list of books that support FCS's
004literacy initiatives and will be purchasing and will be purchased using 35J professional development curriculum and supports grade instructional rounds updates. Mrs. Ringle shared a summary of the first instructional rounds day at Followup Elementary in which went smoothly and was well received. A total of 14 teachers and five administrators participated visiting 10 classrooms. The team continued to explore their problem of practice by focus focusing on higher order thinking and student learning. They also engaged in professional reading using excerpts from building thinking classrooms in mathematics. Optional June PD update. Mrs. Wrangle provided an on optional professional development funded through title two scheduled for June 16th, 17, 19th. The sessions will focus on literacy and math and with math with up to 30 teacher participants. So far, 59 teachers have responded to the interest survey. Mrs. Wringle noted
005that they will attempt to fund full participation. Summer school update. Mrs. Ringle shared that Miss Stephie and Mr. Krueger have been hired as summer school principles. Mr. Cole provided an overview of the program which will run for three weeks starting July 7th, Monday through Thursday, for approximately three hours each morning. Invitations have been sent to students identified as needing academic support. Registration will remain open for two weeks after which the schedule and staffing will be finalized. Transportation will be provided. Other Mrs. provided an update on MSTEP testing and shared that the team is tracking preliminary results. Mrs. Wrangle asked the committee to share their preferences for a new format for student representation at board of education meetings as the current student representative is graduating. The committee agreed that the next student representative may be a
006junior and would serve a one-year term. Mrs. gave an update on progress with building the 202526 master schedules. Principles have been working diligently to ensure the schedule meets student needs while remaining efficient for the district. Mr. Stewart added that the team plans to meet with Education Association representatives in May and over the summer to share updates on the development of the master schedule. Motion by Mr. Hinton supported by Mr. recommending adjournment of the meeting at 5:09 p.m. The motion passed. That's my report. Yes. Couple things real quick. Do we know how much do we funding? I'll be sure. Oh, yeah. With that with that amount of Yeah, I think that's we'll find the money. So, is that on the record that Mr. Belt? Yeah, finance will find the money. Tell me if we don't have
007it yet. Perfect. And then second, I do want to say before we go into Thank you guys so much. It's awesome to see you have a plan for growth in our um that's for many years I don't think we had to program future. Um the best way to get kids here is first off show the parents that we can educate and second no do not do not compliment finance. All right. Perfect. All right. Um so uh do I have a motion to rec to adopt the Krugman's economics for AP course fourth edition by David Anderson and Margaret Ray. I have a motion by Mr. Belchure. support by Miss Dumbra, Mrs. Dumbrosski to adopt the uh program's economic 4 AP course. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? Is it a roll? Roll call. I
008I have the motion passes. So from here Mr. Davis, when I look over there, if it's a roll, you just Yeah, perfect. And we did get stickers, but did you put your economics nerd sticker up from Mr. Martin, the teacher? So, he is really excited. It's in the car. Yeah, it's in the car. He's hand stickers. Yeah. Uh, next up, the five uh May 5th personnel committee report. And that looks like me as well. Uh the personnel committee met in the computer lab A and was called to order at 4:03 p.m. by myself. Members present was Mrs. Dere, myself and Mrs. So staff present were Mr. Stewart, Mrs. Ringle, and Mrs. Reed. No others were present. Motion by Mrs. Sa supported by Mrs. Dere to approve minutes from the April 7, 2025 meeting. Uh there
009was no one from call of the public. Staffing update superintendent report. Mrs. Reed reviewed the superintendent report, the review of open positions. Mrs. Reed reviewed the district open positions 202526 personal projections. Mrs. Ringle delivered a comprehensive overview of the planning process for the 202526 school year, presenting projected student enrollment figures by grade level and outlining how these projections will guide potential adjustments to full-time equivalent staffing, including both reductions and additions. She emphasized that any staffing reductions are intended to occur through attrition. The district's objective is to reduce FTE by five positions, a target previously communicated during the budget pres presentation to the finance committee. Support staff negotiation updates. Mrs. Reid provided updates on the ongoing negotiations with support staff. Tenative agreements have been reached with the transportation, food, and nutrition groups, and the process of
010review, voting, and finalization is currently underway. Meanwhile, the administrative assistant professional group has made substantial progress on language agreements and is scheduled to address financial matters at the next meeting. Electronic family and medical leaveback trial. Mrs. Reid introduced a proposed FMLA service that the district is considering for a pilot program. The e FMLA platform would replace the district's current laborintensive paperbased FMLA administration process with a streamlined, fully customized online system. Mrs. emphasized that implementing this platform would create a more consistent and user-friendly process for staff while also enhancing the district's ability to provide timestamp documentation and easily accessible forms for both employees and the administration. Under other, there was none and a motion by Mrs. supported by Mrs. Dere at 4:38 p.m. And I'll make a note under the FMLA, you know, a big process
011person and I think this would definitely make certain that the FMLA process is repeatable time and time again without any you know without any fluctuation on who gets or whatever and also Mrs. Reed you did also say that um it's definitions are easier for staff to understand And correct me if I'm wrong, but this system also communicates with some of the other software that we have as well. So it's not They could use some help. Does any other members have any questions? That sounds good. All right. Uh, next up is the 512 asset management committee report. Mrs. Dere, is that you? That's me. All right. All right. Okay. So, the asset management committee met on May the 12th. Uh meeting was called to order at 6 PM. Members present were myself, Mrs. Reinger, Mr. Belure,
012staff present, Mr. Stewart, Hively, others present, Mr. Wiki, Mr. Shock, Mr. Gangler, and Mr. Dere not related to me. Um, no members of the pres of the public were present. 2021 bond projects update. Mr. Shock provided updates on current bond construction projects. The high school project remains on schedule with no significant issues. Preparations are underway for summer work. Landscaping and playground areas at various sites need preceding. And Smith building projects are progressing with demolition and abatement scheduled to begin after the school year concludes. Valerville Community Schools water system committee held an indepth discussion regarding the schools school district's water system. Key points discussed ownership and responsibility. Questions remain regarding the original 1992 easement agreement, specifically the board of education's dedication of the water system to the village and whether whether these agreements established the village's
013responsibility for ownership and maintenance. The district is seeking records from the village to clarify the historical intent and legal status of the portion of water system covered by the easement. Future agreements and planning. The district is working to negotiate a formal water agreement that clearly delineates each party's roles in line with the preference of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, also known as Eagle, backflow preventers, and compliance. The village recently communicated a requirement to install backflow preventors at multiple connection points to the district's water system with a compliance deadline of August 15, 2025. Concerns were raised about the potential impact of these devices on district water quality and pressure throughout the interconnected system within both the district and within the village. Mapping and infrastructure assessment. The committee agreed on the importance of
014mapping all water system infrastructure and authorized the superintendent to move forward with this meeting with Eagle. A meeting with Eagle is scheduled to clarify their compliance expectations. The district is also considering seeking a second legal opinion. Operations update the high school and the junior high buildings will be closed to the public during summer renovations. Staff access will be limited and all building cards access will be temporarily disabled to ensure safety. Public notification will also include updated information regarding restricted access to the track infield which is receiving new turf. Central office Verville Elementary School and information technology will be open along with other select locations around the district. Additionally, the district has received a grant to support the installation of bottle filling stations across district facilities. A total of 42 stations are expected to be installed
015during the summer. The motion was adjourned at 8:02 p.m. Thank you, M. Is there any questions or comments? Thank you, Mrs. Dice. We will move on to the May 16th Finance Committee. Um, oh, hang on. The May 16th Awesome Finance Committee. Go ahead, Mr. Belter. That's you. Uh meeting was called to order at 7 a.m. Members present myself, Mrs. Sharon and Mrs. Staff, Mr. Stewart, Miss Cole, and Miss Amy Hilly Smith. Uh first item up was the 2025 2026 school photography recommendation. A recommendation was made to contract with Life Touch Photography for school pictures across all grades as well as for staff and student identification cards. Discussion followed. The committee supports the recommendation. No board action is required. For the parents out there listening, it's going to be the exact same services we're already getting.
016We just have one group instead of two uh supporting that. Uh the 2526 recreation agreement, a new community recreation agreement was reviewed with each participating municipality contributed flat fee. This fee will be adjusted annually based on other relevant factors. While some minor revisions are expected, uh the agreement receives support to move forward once the uh addendum containing these uh revisions is complete will be brought before the board for approval as well. We'll be talking about that in a little bit. The 2526 original budget res resolution was presented uh for the general fund, food service fund, community red fund, and the special activities fund. Uh they were all reviewed and will be sent to the full board on June 3rd. The original uh general fund budget resolution includes an operating deficit of approximately 248,000 and projects
017an ending fund balance at 10.4% but that's all up in the air until the government decides what to do at midnight on September 30th. Uh 2526 L4029 forms uh those will also be at the June 3rd meeting but we uh we had to certify which townships within the district's border uh borders to levy taxes on behalf of the district will be included in the board packet and presented at at the next meeting. County reports expected today will be used to populate the forms and following that the forms will be reviewed by the district's legal financial advisor. 2526 meal prices uh the current paid lunch equity uh tool was used to estimate proposed meal prices for the 2526 school year. The committee reviewed and supports increasing meal prices should and this is an if. The word
018should means if free meals are not offered in the future. Proposed prices are as follows. Elementary or 285 and secondary go from 315 to 350. This increase is recommended to the full board for consideration at tonight's meeting. The 2526 food service fund spendown plan a plan to reduce the excess fund balance is in the food uh service fund was reviewed. It includes a recommendation to purchase $155,46145 worth of equipment from Stafford Smith to replace a serving line at the high school and a pass through cooler at the junior high. The committee recommends this purchase to be presented to the full board this evening. And then the 2526 LEA budget was reviewed with resolutions and accompanying presentation. The committee also recommends this to be submitted to the full board for this evening. We discussed the amount
019of foyer time spent on foy and perah and the meeting adjourned at 8:12 p.m. Thank you, Mr. Belchure. Is there any questions for Mr. Belchure? We have a number of items uh that we need to make a motion on. Uh the first being uh a motion. Is there a motion to adopt the community recreation agreement dated April 1st, 2025? So move. Have a motion by Mr. Belt, support by Mrs. Dumbrosski. Is there any further discussion? I I I I The motion passes. The second is the recommendation to adopt LEA 2025 2026 budget resolution. I have a motion by Mr. Belchure, support by Mrs. Dumbrell. Is there any further discussion? I I I I And the motion carries. Uh the next is recommendation to approve lunch price increase for 202526. I have a motion by Mr.
020Belure, support by Mrs. Reinger. I just because I have it written down as um any further discussion I think just to reiterate just to make it 100% clear this we don't have any idea if this is happening we won't know until their state budget is settled which again could happen September 30th so these are just in place until we know we don't know I I I I And the motion carries. Next we have uh do we have a motion to approve the 202526 food service fund spendown plan? Have a motion by Mr. Belchure. M the breeze. Is there any further discussion? Thank you, Mr. Smith, for once again finding a way to keep us out of trouble the government for not spending enough. We get slapped every year because we don't spend enough. We're too
021frugal, too, whatever. Uh but once again, thank you. Uh if you guys want to look in the packet, it's about 40 pages of what looks to be the same thing over and over again, but it's all very detailed. And thank you once again. I I I I and the motion carries. Next is the May 19th policy committee report. I'll read that one which was held at the in the computer lab. A meeting was called to order at 6:01 p.m. by Mrs. Silva. Members present were Mrs. Silva, Mr. Belchure and Mrs. Staff present, Mr. Stewart and Miss Smith. Motion carried. Motion by Mr. Belchure, supported by Mrs. Sharon, recommending approval of the minutes from the April 21st, 2025 meeting. Motion carried the public from the public that call. So, we moved on to the overnight out
022ofate trip request. Mrs. Smith presented a request for 22 students to attend the Archery World Championships in Myrtle Beach from June 4th to June 7, 2025. The committee unanimously approved the trip. Additionally, the committee agreed to subsidize the trip in the same amount provided to the high school robotics team for their 2025 World Championships trip to Houston. Policy 0131.1 bylaws and policies. The committee unanimously supported moving the policy forward to the full board for first read policy 5320 immunization. The committee unanimously supported moving the policy forward to the full board for first reading. Policy 5330.01 auto injectors. I'm not going to read that. The committee unanimously supported moving the policy forward to the full board policy 5350 student health wellbeing and suicide prevention. requested a minor revision to include parent guardian notification and unanimously supported
023moving the policy forward to the full board for first policy 8320 personnel files the committee unanimously supported moving the policy forward to the full board for first read under other there was none motion by Mr. Belchure supported by Mrs. Sharing recommending the adjournment of the meeting at 6:32 p.m. The motion carried this Alo has two motions that we need done. Do I have a motion to approve the second reading of proposed policies? Have a motion by Mr. Belchure support by Mrs. Deb to approve the second reading of proposed policies as written. Do I have to read this as any other discussion? I I I And the motion carries. Do I have a motion to approve the first reading of the proposed policies as recorded have a motion by Mr. Belter, support by Mrs. I I
024The motion carries. Next up is our student representatives report uh by Miss Aurora. All right, let's start the high school. with the high school. Just the seniors are ready and excited for graduation this Sunday and we all graduating high school. And then uh the junior high has been a busy month at the junior high. Our eighth graders took their annual trip to Washington DC um and we finished up our spring testing and have been working hard putting together the master schedule for next year. On May 8th, we celebrated our student of the students of the month. And on Friday, May, we hosted our semiformal dance, the junior high. On Monday, May 19th, our junior high band performed their spring concert. And on the 22nd, we held our junior national honor society. Our students are not
025only talented, smart, too. Next Wednesday evening, we will be honoring students at our academic awards night and spending the night spending the rest of our time wpping up school year. This this year has been an amazing year. recognized the captainc at the emerald level and our yearbook won the national yearbook for excellence award status under the so proud of all students and teachers. Next is our spring flower fundraiser went well this year. All students have finished up in all relieved about that. Our third graders went on their annual trip to last week and enjoyed learning about history. Fifth graders will take their annual field trip to Greenville Village on June 4th. And parent teacher network is bringing the um ice truck for the end of the year. And then lastly for elementary they had a
026great month over and that's it. That's it. So, are you graduating this? Yes. Oh my gosh. What are we going to do without you? That is by far the best report and I wait at every meeting for your report. But I have some We have something for you because we don't do this. Yeah. Okay. [Applause] Thanks again, Aurora. Uh that uh brings us up to superintendent report. Mr. Ste. All right. So this Sunday is the big day. Um at 2 p.m. we're be honoring the class of 2025. So I just want to congratulate them. will be the high school competition gym. Graduation tickets have already been sent out to any seats. Uh I just wanted to say again thank you to Mrs. gains that we made are pretty amazing and she didn't really talk about
027it much our students are coming out Again, thank you to a few reminders. Construction this summer will be going on across the district. So that's already working all summer. So central office continue to make little onfided I don't know that yet. I've told Mrs. that it was coming. Um, but I know that she'll be excited. Interim director of finance. I'm in my board update this weekend. I mentioned that I was meeting today and did meet with her. She's a retired school business experience. She used to my she's very experienced finance and so she will be starting as our interar Francisco last day enrollment. Just wanted to remind everybody that we're still enrolling for kindergarten for little kinder academy program. We still have space and then of course our school choice. If anyone who's listening right
028now has any questions. Cool. Is there any questions for Mr. Mrs. Render? Do you have any public? Okay. No, I do not have any call to the public here. Is there anybody who would like to address the school board as public someday? Someday they will come so that I can read the card. It will happen. I'm very excited. I just wanted I just wanted to know. So I didn't have I'm waiting. So why don't you uh Okay, we'll move on to new business. Uh discussion of LEA election. Mr. Stewart. All right. So we have an LEA election. Um The board needs to nominate someone to go and vote in election. So um Mr. Sharon who is not here tonight. So can we force her to do that? I mean she's not here. Okay. That's how
029it usually works. you get the date for that election. Okay. So, we do we make a recommendation or is it a motion to have I have a motion by Mr. Belchure, support by Mrs. nominate Mrs. Sharon as our represent alternate as well. Okay, I have a motion by Mr. support by Mrs. to nominate Mrs. L. Is there any further discussion? So now there are only three boards. However, the board As long as one district shows up and goes for all three, it's over. I move that we support all three candidates. Make have a motion by Mr. Belchure. Is there support? Support. Have a motion by Mr. Belure. Support by Mrs. Dumbrosski. Is there any further discussion? We have Mrs. I I I motion carries. Thank you for helping me. Okay. Next is a recommendation to
030approve HPS membership for 26. Was that you? Have a motion by Mr. Belchure supported by Mrs. to approve the HPS membership for 2025. Is there any further discussion? Is this a motion? All in favor? Opposed? And the motion carries. recommendation to approve the remaining with of to approve remaining with great the great lakes consortium. Is there a motion? Have a motion by Mr. Belure supported by Mrs. Derowski. Is there any further discussion? All in favor? Opposed that motion. Uh is there anything under old business Mr. uh introduction of other matters by members of the board. Yeah, I would just like to say that awesome tonight get to not only recognize our wrestling program state championship from our small town, but also we lately celebrated a world champion uh perform or attendance by a robotics program.
031world championship attendance by our archery which seems to fit more in the Fville mold shooting stuff. Um you know uh but then we've also had all this great numbers in our academics and everything and I just say say that our district and to all of our staff job well done. We have a ways to go to hit our goals. This year has been a very successful year and thank you to every one of you out there including the parents who support these programs and of course the students are good meeting. Very good. Thank you Mrs. Dumbowski. Um I just want to thank Mrs. Ringo and Mrs. Regina and Mr. for the incredible work they're doing um with our principles and teachers to raise those reading scores. And I know from being on the curriculum committee
032that they work incredibly hard and um building those relationships and I just want to thank our teachers, everybody involved with that because it was incredible the way the scores I'm very proud of. This is great programm. I wanted to say to give a little shout out to the uh to the archery team. Um they did a phenomenal job and they deserve recognition and also they have great coaches and great kids and it's it's an under I want to say personally I feel like it's an undervalued sport. It takes a lot of concentration, takes a lot of skill. Um, and those kids work really really hard and those those coaches give a lot of their time and so they deserve um, congratulations for what they accomplished. I'd like I'm not going to reiterate everything that everybody
033said up here, but it it holds true. Um, unfortunately I will not be able to attend the graduation and I'm I'm quite sad about that. That's a that's an exciting time and I know I told Mrs. that you get to see a new perspective of everybody looking at you and it's it's really neat to have. Uh I do want to invite the public to the next uh curriculum and technology committee meeting because you only see 12 slides on here. If you want to see 50 plus slides, uh they'll be at the curriculum committee, but we discuss all of those slides. I think the important thing is the data now that we uh know how to mine data and know what to do with it afterwards and not all the data is what we really want
034to hear but it takes us in a direction and it's really good to have that going forward and that's all I uh Aurora do you have anything do you have any final comments I'll add you to this list too thanks Okay. Uh other matters with superintendent. No, nothing tonight. Okay. Uh we have close session. Um just before before we we still have uh before we do that, of course, when we go into close session, we come back, there's nothing. There's no fireworks show or afterwards. So if the room is empty, we'll understand why. Um if it isn't, we won't understand why. Yeah. So, uh, if I could get a motion to go into close session. Have a motion by Mr. Belt, supported by Mrs. Ringer. Uh, is this a roll call? I I I I
035motion passes and we will go into close session. Thank you all for coming. return to open session. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Belture, support by Mrs. Dere to go to return to open session. All in favor? I. And we're back in open session. Mrs. Do you have the minutes from the close session? Do we approve those? Do we have a motion? Support. Have a motion by Mr. Belure, support by Mrs. Ringer to approve the minutes of the closed session. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. That motion carries. Uh that brings us to uh information the June 3rd school board meeting 7 p.m. here at the high school media center. Do we have a motion to adjourn? Support a motion by Mrs. D and a support by Mrs. Reinger to adjourn. All in favor?
036And that concludes