001All right, we good. >> Great. Thank you. Thanks for everybody being here tonight. I'm sure it's because of the technology report. So, um >> finance maybe, I don't know. But, uh no, we're we're really glad that um to see so many people here tonight. Thank you. Um, and with that we will call the meeting to order and start with the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Right. We have all of our board members here. Um, and do you want to recognize anyone or we'll introduce as we go? >> Out of time. >> Great. Um, anything to add or change to the agenda? >> No. >> All
002right. With that, I would look for approval for the consent agenda items. >> A motion. >> Liz, >> second. >> Megan, any comments, questions? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? >> Great. And now the fun part. We will start with our student activities report and I'll hand it over to Jeff. >> All right, here we go. Welcome everyone. This is very cool, very exciting. We have lots of presentations tonight. We're going to start with Chris Price. >> Sorry, Chris. Chris is our uh shop teacher at the middle school high school. He has some exciting news that he wants to share with us regarding some state competitions with projects. >> Oh, sorry. >> Thank you. So, uh, wow. Okay. Uh, this year we, uh, had the middle schoolers and the high schoolers all submit projects
003to the MITES competition. It's an acronym that I can't remember off the top of my head. Basically, it is a wood shop competition that involves schools across the state. Uh at the regionals, we submitted 19 projects uh of which 18 of them moved on to state. They had to place sixth place or higher to do that. Um the one that did not get an honorable mention. At states, we had no idea what to expect. U we're competing against schools all the way from Marquette to Detroit. Uh we had a couple dozen at least schools show up. Couple thousand projects. Next, we filled an area the size of a small Walmart. Um, in that competition, there are 18 categories. Each category divided by age group. So, sixth graders will never compete against a high schooler or
004even an eighth grader. They're only against themselves. Um, there is one placement per category, first through 9th. I'm pleased to say that uh our students, they submitted 18 to the states, 16 of them placed. We had three of them take first place, four of them took second, one took third, fourth, two fifth, a sixth, a seventh, and two honorable mentions. For a school our size in their first year when none of them know what they're doing, that is really good. So, >> so they got to find out this morning. They were pretty over the moon. Um, a lot of them have expressed interest in coming back next year. I heard from one of my current eighth graders that he's worried he might not get into ninth grade because there's too many of his friends wanting
005to do it. So, I think we're heading the right direction. >> Wow, Chris, that's awesome. >> Great. Great. That's fantastic. Wow, what a program. Chris, was this something we've done in the past? To my knowledge, we have done it in the past but a little bit different. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you, Chris. And you can always tell first year teachers they spend half the year sounding like Chris. So he doesn't normally sound like that. So thanks Chris. I know that was a long weekend and lots lots of things you've put together and I know the kids are very appreciative and and so are we. So we're going to move on. We're going to move to Mr. Josyn and he has a band student that and some information he would like to share I
006believe. >> Uh thank you. Good evening. Um, tonight I'd like to recognize one of our >> Oh, for the streaming. Yeah. >> Oh, you got to press the button. >> So, tonight I'd like to recognize one of our middle school band students, Anna Tester, who will be performing for you this evening on trumpet. Anna recently earned a first division rating for this solo at the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association Solo and Ensemble Festival in Boone City. Um after each year uh each year after our holiday concert we do a chamber music unit um where the students prepare solos, duets uh small ensembles. I pick the music, I coach them, but the preparation is all them. All the work is done by them. All the practice time I give them sort of outlines of what
007to cover and they just go at it and do all the work themselves. uh that that work leads into participation in the MSBOA Soul and Ensemble Festival where students perform for trained adjudicators and receive medals, ratings, and uh uh constructive feedback designed to help them grow as musicians. This year we had 10 students sign up uh continuing the steady growth of that part of our program. Every year we've had more go. In many ways, events like Solen Ensemble reflect the heart of our Panther uh motto. Our best, our joy, our best for joy, our music for life. Uh students are challenged to give their very best, discover joy in the process of making music, and develop skills and experiences that can stay with them long after their school years are over. So, at this time,
008I'm going to be running a recording uh of the accompaniment for her. And um so at this time it's my pleasure to introduce Anna Tester on trumpet performing menu and trio. middle school. >> Great job, Anna. And and Mr. Joslyn, thank you for what you're doing for the band program and and for all the musicians in the school. I really appreciate it. >> It's great work. >> Thanks. >> Anna, what grade are you in? >> Yeah. >> Anna, what grade are you in, honey? >> Seventh. >> She's over here. >> The voice over here. >> Seven. >> You're in seventh grade. And how old were you when you started playing? >> Great job. Thank you so much. >> Great job. >> Thank you. Thanks for >> Thank you so much. >> All right, we are
009going to move on to our robotic >> finance report. >> Just kidding. >> We're going to move you to the end of the meeting. No, just kidding. >> Mr. Norton, >> gentlemen and ladies, come on. Uh you guys Okay. So, >> um before we start, would you guys the robot turn? Okay, thanks for having us guys. So, it's uh um it's my pleasure to present to you u the FPro 2026 team. Um as many of you guys know from our various conversations that we've had over the course of the season, the course of the year, this was a remarkable year for the team. Um we exceeded all expectations. Um, and it it's fantastic. The kids are here to tell you the story of the season. Um, before we get and then also show you how
010the robot works. Uh, in before we get started, I'd just like to say the team is 14 students um, primarily made up of middle schoolers. As a reminder, this is a high school level competition. We have one high schooler on the team. Uh, and um, these kids worked their hearts out from uh, January 6th until just last week when we finished the season in Houston. The robot that they're going to show you was designed by them, built by them, tested by them, coded by them, driven by them, and they deserve a lot a lot of credit for everything they put into this, and um, they're excited to tell you all about it. So, I'll pass it over to them. Hi, my name is Toby and I'm in sixth grade. I'm part of the build team
011and I am the battery boss. This game's really simple and it's like basketball. The game starts with the few seconds where the robot controls itself with predetermined code. Then the drivers take control and drive the robot for about two minutes and then and then endame. Endgame lasts for 30 seconds and it and the robots race to get as many balls in the hub. That's the hub. It's like a basketball hoop. As many balls as they can to score the most points. Bots can climb. If they climb, they can score additional points to win the game. Overall, the game's really easy to play and or not easy, fun to play and exciting. It's basically just like basketball. Um, I am Caleb Braso. I am in ninth grade. Um, I am part of the design team and
012I am the coach on the field. Something really cool about our robot this year is that it was designed, built, and prototyped entirely by our team as opposed to previous years where it was where we bought a kit and simply put it together. Um, we came up with ideas together over the course of a few days as to what we think our robot should be able to do and what we wanted to do uh, for our gameplay. We had kids on different teams such as the build team who put together the robot, the design team who designed the robot, and the marketing team who spread the word about our team and really got everybody hyped up. They also made these jerseys, which are awesome. We spent weeks planning and prototyping each singular part of the
013robot such as the conveyor belt and h feed and the intake um which are all very complicated and are just really it was really fun to do. Um but yeah, by the end of this phase, we were really happy that we were able to design our own robot and that it was ready for its first competition. TC West was a very exciting and also nerve-wracking experience for me and my team as well. It was our first competition uh of the season uh down at TC West uh so during one of our uh later competitions during the middle uh half of the competition. Our shooter broke off uh during a uh accident and so we had to learn and adapt and so we learned to play defense. But because of our uh how well our drive
014team was able to play defense, uh we could uh we got the attention of one of the uh soon to be leaders of Alliance 3 and uh during the final selection of Alliance 3, uh we were selected and not not final selection uh we were selected by uh Alliance 3 and were their third pick and we ended up carrying them onto victory uh which ended up leading us to win the competition. And yeah, >> uh I'm Luke. I'm in seventh grade and I'm on the build team. Hi, I am Boon and I'm in sixth grade and I am on the build team and I am the technician on the drive team. Fair State was our second event of the year. But before the event got started, we um took tours of their manufacturing and engineering
015department and saw dorms and college life. It was really cool and impressive. Then once the event started, it was all about getting enough points to make it to states, which we have never done before. We we got luckily we got a lot of points at the Traverse City event, which was our first event of the year, but we still had to finish 15th or better to qualify for states. We focused on offense and our shooting ability, which we fixed dramatically. We got much higher in the rankings than we did in our first event. We actually earned a captain spot in the playoffs, which was unbelievable. So, we had to pick who we wanted on our alliance, and we did it. United States. Um, so after Fair State event, we were very excited and nervous about
016the new experience we were going to have at states with the 160 best teams from Michigan. Um, we over the week we had to uh prepare, we refurbished the robot and made sure that it was ready for the competition and in it and in its best state. Um, we went to TC West to practice on their field, which we should totally get. Um, and we practiced it in order to get the coding right and have our drive team completely ready for the competition. We had a state sendoff um, at the school which really helped boost everyone's morale and it was just a great thing that happened. We eventually got over our nervousness and were just really excited to go to states for the first time ever. Um, and we were just completely ready for the
017competition and ready to see what would happen. Hi, I'm Sebastian Nordon. Uh, I'm on the design team and I drive the robot. I'm here to talk to you guys about our experience at the STE competition. Stace was an unbelievable competition for us. Uh it was amazing to go against such teams of such high caliber that we had never even imagined playing in the uh qualifiers. It was awesome to be there and worlds was absolutely not on our radar when we got there. So, one of my favorite parts of states was our cheering section. We had a huge cheering section, maybe the biggest one in our divisional field. They were amazing. They were there to support us the whole time and their cheering got us through our hard times, uh kept us up and boosted our
018morale when we were out there. Um, our gameplay at TC uh states was pretty good. Uh, after the first day, we we were in dead last, literally dead last. Um, but after the second day, we were crawling back through the rankings because of our amazing defense and our schedule got a little easier. And in the playoffs, we got picked by the second best divisional alliance. We went through the playoffs. We beat some teams that were from downstate Detroit. They had a lot of resources and amazing robots. and it was super cool to play against them. We got knocked out by the first regional alliance. They were very good. They had some of the best teams in the world on their team. Um, and my favorite part of states was after we finished the playoffs, we
019figured out we got to worlds. That was crazy. Everyone in our team was going bananas. Uh, we basically were just having a big party after that. It was amazing. States was such an amazing competition for us. We did well. It was a eye openening experience for our whole team and we were absolutely not prepared to go to worlds. >> Uh getting ready for Worlds was an exciting uh time for me and my team. Uh but before we could actually go, we had to do a few uh things before uh them. Uh first we went over to TC West uh for some late night practices to actually get our robot ready and to help our drive team better understand how uh to actually drive it so we so they could uh handle the intense pressure that
020comes with going to worlds. And Toby will tell you a bit more about uh what we had to do to our robot. So, we changed and fixed the shooter and the conveyor belt and added new netting to keep the balls from flying out the robot. As we were leaving to go to Houston, we were excited and nervous about our experience. >> But even uh after all that, we still uh didn't have enough funds uh to actually make it there. So, uh, so we did a couple fundraisers, uh, at the Garden Theater. We put some posters up around town, which I'm which I'm sure some of you saw. Um, some uh, restaurants uh, like Dingy's were kind enough to share uh, some of their funds, not funds, uh, sales with us so we could afford uh,
021to go. Uh we also uh got our community as excited as possible uh uh for uh us and yeah very fun. I'm Asher. I'm in sixth grade and on the design team at Worlds. We had an unbelievably extraordinary time. For some of our team members, it was their first time flying on an airplane and their first time or not first time, farthest away from home that they've ever been. When we arrived at our beautiful hotel, we got settled in and then headed towards the convention center where the main event was happening. Um yeah, at the convention center, um as you can see, it is a giant area. It is a quarter mile long, um which is insane. We had a great time uh talking with other teams from other countries um and being able to
022play with and against them. Overall, it was a really great experience for our cheering section and our entire team total. Hi, I'm in sixth grade and I'm on the build team at Worlds. There were teams from China, Romania, Turkey, Korea, Canada, and even Taiwan. This that's that's a picture of my sister playing a game with a team from Taiwan. And then above that is a picture of me with another team from Taiwan. And we did this thing where we were doing a little bit of advertising for Graceland Fruit. And we handed out dried cherries and other dried goods to teams from all over the world. And in return, they gave us these things that were basically like small sugary rice rice cakes, if you've ever had those. And they said it was their traditional dessert.
023And then that picture on the far left, that's our friend Emma from team 6907, the goat. They're from China. This is a good experience for people from a small town because it teaches us that people who may speak a different language, eat a different eat a different food or live somewhere else doesn't doesn't mean they're like crazy or they're like very very very different than you. It just it it teaches people that they're just like you. They're kids who are like involved in this stuff and they love it and they're really excited to be there just like you. Thank you. Hi, I'm back and I'm here to talk about the impact we've had in our community. So, this year, uh, we've had a lot of impact on our community through, uh, all our different outreaches.
024We've done a lot of work with the fifth graders. We brought them on field trips to our lab. We did demos with our robot. We've brought them to the TC competition. That's what got us the team spirit award. Um, we have done a lot things with impact in the community such as uh fundraisers like at the garden theater where we did a pre-event for worlds where we did raise a lot of money. We've had uh FP pro days at local businesses where some of their proceeds go to us and we have a lot of plans for impact in the future. Um, our team has been uh growing a lot over the past few years and we plan to expand a lot in the future. Uh, a lot of the fifth graders have actually volunteered to
025be on the team next year. So, we're going to have a lot of new recruits to handle. Um, and we have a lot of impact planned for the future. >> That's all. >> Didn't they do great? >> Good job, guys. Just a few things before we wrap up. Thank you very much, guys. Good job. Um, and thank you for having us and letting us speak. Would you Yeah. Uh, you want to ask some questions? Yeah, that's a good idea. I've got a few things to wrap up, but please Yes. >> So, I was just curious about the process of getting your bot to Houston and and how >> and and how that went and everything. Yeah. >> Okay. So, um, me and my family, um, volunteered to haul the robot all the way to Houston,
026Texas. Wow, that's awome. >> Oh, yeah. And this is my family's business. >> It should be bigger, but it's >> So, I had a question. I followed very care closely and and watched watched you guys compete either well I went to Traverse City but watched you online. Um and it was super exciting. Um I had a question because last year when I watched I feel like more robots tried to do the climbing thing at the end and this year it did not seem like there were a lot of robots that did the climbing and I was wondering why. >> Yeah. So every year the game is completely different from the year prior and every year before. Um so this year it just wasn't something that was really um completely beneficial for teams to do. It
027was only like 15 points for low-level clims and some of these turret some of these robots can score three times that in half the time that it would take to climb. So, it just wasn't beneficial for this game. >> Great. Thank you. >> So, the last thing I'd like to say before we wrap up or we're going to show you the robot briefly, we're going to make some shots for you here, let you hear the sounds of this thing driving around because it's quite loud. Um, while I'm doing this, would you guys make sure the driver station's connected and everything? Is that okay? Uh, so we want to thank we had as the as the guy said, the support from the community was outstanding. I don't know if there's any business in town that's not
028on the board that didn't somehow give us some support. If you're not on there, we'll get you next year for sure. Um, but seriously, thanks to everybody and especially Mr. Towsley and Amy, thank you so much for the support from all the school board for the funds and the support that the school's given to this team to help us get where we've gotten over the past couple years. Um, just a reminder, this is their this is our third year and so we've come a long way in a short amount of time and it's with the support of all these people and you guys that that's possible. Uh, the other group I want to thank here while we're here is all the parents. You may have noticed there's good crowd attendance here. These people come with
029us everywhere. Um, and many who weren't able to come tonight. The cheering section that Sebastian mentioned is a legit thing. We are like now have a reputation of being the loudest, craziest fans. You're lucky that the parents didn't wear their hats and glitter and stuff. They normally have all this stuff going on. It's quite fun. Next year, I'd encourage all you guys to try to make it to the Trevor City event. It's quite it's quite a thing to see, especially when they all when they all get going. Um, can we go to the next slide, please? Uh, couple points on next year. So, we have plans to start a middle school team. So, this is a high school level team, even though most of the kids are in middle school. There is a different program
030called uh FTC, which is the robots are smaller. It's a little bit simpler, but it's all the same stuff just at a smaller scale designed for middle school. We're planning on calling that FP proto if you get it. And um uh and so um the team came up with that. And so you'll hear more about this. We need um some additional mentors and coaches to help make that happen, but we really want to do it. As Sebastian mentioned, we think we're having some real success with the younger kids recruiting, and so we need a program that suits them. Uh we plan to grow the team. We plan to add mentors. If you or anybody you know is interested in joining us as a coach or a mentor, please let us know. Um we could certainly
031everyone here will tell you it was a lot of work and we could use the help. Um we expand to uh we're expanding training and education for these students. The better they are at the work they do, the faster this goes and the easier it is. And we of course plan to continue to provide great experience for these kids both in terms of fun and excitement but also you know education uh and as I mentioned I think really uh eloquently pointed out the experience of meeting kids from far away and learning that there are other people like you out there in the world which is a neat thing. Um let's go F-Pro. Huh. Okay. Lastly, let's get that robot off the cart. Show these guys how you do it here. Actually, uh would you narrate
032what's happening here so they can Why don't you narrate what's happening? So, >> okay. So, every uh before every match, we have to take the robot off the cart and put it on a legal place on the field. So, on the field, uh this hub usually has there's a bump here that is not that inclined, but just inclined enough to make it very annoying. There is a bump here which has a 22 in uh bar over the top. So, that's why a robot is so short this year. Um, and you're only allowed to put the robot touching one of the uh pieces. So, usually we put our robot underneath the trench so it can do its autonomous routine. But now our excellent field crew has put the robot right here, but it will be able
033to make shots easily without hitting the roof. >> Yeah, we can't shoot from too far away because it has a pretty high arch and it will hit the roof pretty hard. Okay, let's try it. >> Uh so right now he's resetting the field centric field centricity, whatever that word is. um so that whenever he drives um and moves the joystick, it goes in the direction that he thinks it should. >> Yeah, it's fine. >> So, there's a lot of drift on the floor right now because it usually plays on carpet. Uh, and our our tracked wheels will not be able to it's going to drift, but uh, this is currently only like a portion of the speed that it can go. It can go really, really fast. It's also very strong. >> It's all good.
034>> So, right now we're running the mechanism that intakes all of the balls. Okay. Record. Um, this is a vital part of the robot so that we can pick up balls and are able to play the game pretty much >> manual. >> All right. So, we have a feeder system that move the balls into the shooter. Right now, Seb's trying to get it into position where we can shoot. Ah, there we go. >> As you can see, it has a pretty decent fire rate. >> You guys get the fuel in for it. Brian, could you quickly tell us about the coaches? Who the coaching team? >> Brian, Brian, who are the other coaches? >> So, would the the coaches do you guys want to introduce yourselves briefly? Hi, I'm Lexi. I'm more in charge of
035helping with the kids and thank you notes for all the donations we've gotten. So, anyone that's donated, we'll see a thank you note very, very soon. >> Chris Porter. Uh, I just do what I can. >> That's all of us, right? >> There you go. I'm Dustin Vandervest and I help with the design team build kind of do what I can. >> I'm uh Uncle Mike. Um that's what everybody calls me. Uh I am the uh coach for the build team. And as you heard, we have a lot of build team members here tonight. There's a few people who are missing. Brian said we had 14. We have 10 here. And um we have a few more young ladies as well as uh Imagin. And we just have a a great team. So, and they're
036all learning how to use a tape measure and things like that and power tools. >> So, >> and everybody has all their fingers. >> Yeah. >> I'm representing non-committal friendly engineering consultant Kyle, who's currently making up for the time he spent with Pearl in Asia. And uh if you know him, he doesn't lean into a lot, but uh he leaned all in and super enjoyed spending time with these kids and the coaching staff. >> Hey, Cory. >> Hey everybody. I'm Corey Miller. Some of you up there know me. I've been a coach for this season helping on the build team or whatever anybody needs. And it's been a great run. It's been awesome. Thanks for having me. I'm Marla Norton and I was um marketing coach. Um did a lot of the swag and buttons
037and painting. We did a lot of painting. It was very fun. Um >> and so many other parents help and did a lot of social media. >> I'm Bill Keith Brown. Most people know me as Belle. Um I do all the social media stuff, helped with marketing. Um, so anything you see online probably came from me. >> But we're also the mom crew. There's all these moms that really Yeah. that really have pulled this together. >> It really It really took a village to to get us here. So, >> thanks. Thanks very much, guys. Thank you to the parents and the coaches and thanks to the students for um really doing an amazing job this year. It was fun to watch. All right. All right. All right, >> Christine, I'm not sure if I should
038apologize when you lost your audience, but I know you have some great information for us tonight with your art program. >> Okay, you have to get her a microphone. All right. Tough act to follow. I've got my assistant, the math teacher here helping with the art presentation. Um well, uh I was asked to if I wanted to present um and I said yes, I do. But instead of having a testimonial or something, I am going for a more experiential experience um here today and thought I would give you a six or seven minute um art class right now. So, um, choose your paintbrush, pass it down. Take a paintbrush, pass it down. And you're going to have to share paints with your partner. Anyone else? Anyone else? Um well I am also here um the
039timing of this is fortuitous because in two days we have extravaganza and we have rebranded extravaganza as student showcase because we're combining the spring band concert with Mr. Joelyn and me. And I'd like to interrupt myself for a moment and just uh shout out to the back hall at the high school with Mr. Price, Mr. Joslyn and we share that space with the um robotics team too. Um so yay for us. Um what was I saying? Um okay so um the extravaganza is a tradition at Frankfurt that it came long before me. I believe it was back to Sue Harris's days and maybe some other teachers um over 30 years ago. And the idea is that it's not just an art show. I mean there is art. It is a academic um expose um and
040um it's a lot of work. It's a lot of masking tape. It's a lot of coordination and supervising kids in a big space. But um it's uh rather amazing to see that kids hustle to get their things done and they want it to be seen. Most of the kids don't have parents who come to it. um but it's still important for them to have their work presented and have it be seen. So this is also a huge invitation to all of you. I hope you can come. It's from 5 to 7:00. I hope you stop by. Um and then on your way to the um band concert, but okay. So our six minute art lesson starts now. We haven't started yet. Okay. So um I want you to close your eyes for a second. Put
041your feet on the ground. Um, put your arms by your side. Close your eyes for 10 seconds with quiet. And breathe in and exhale. And breathe in and hold it. Breathe in and exhale. And breathe in. And let your belly get full. Breathe in and exhale. And before you even open your eyes, I'm going to have you do something that I started when I was teaching elementary school and we learned about the zones of regulation. And maybe you know, maybe you don't know, but quickly the zones of regulation are ways to identify how you are feeling yourself. And in this format, there are four zones. A red zone is like you feel like punching a locker or screaming. That's a red zone. Yellow zone, you're feeling anxious or nervous or excited. You have a lot
042of energy. Blue zone is maybe you're feeling sick. Maybe you're feeling tired. Maybe you're feeling down. That's a blue zone. And then the green zone is where what we're hoping for. Um the optimum zone where you feel like you can learn, you feel like you can make friends and make connections. So I just want you I'm not going to have you raise your hands or anything, but I just want you to check in with yourself and see how you feel right now. Um, yeah. And I'm hoping I'm hoping that at least some of you feel a little uncomfortable with the prospect of doing a little art project in the next five minutes. And um, take that with you when you go to the extravaganza and see um, what people have put on the walls and
043how they have made themselves vulnerable to presenting their work. Okay. So now you're going to open your eyes and you will notice you have four pieces of paper in front of you. You're going to treat that paper like it's a full square of paper. Um but just put or full rectangle of paper. Put the white paper on top of the construction paper. The construction paper is there just to be like a table protector or laptop protector or whatever you whatever you have underneath it. and center one of those pieces of paper down um in the middle of the paper. And you can leave the other one three off to the side for now. It doesn't matter what you'll take. Okay, for this little line lesson, we're going to first of all just think about lines.
044Look at lines. Look around this room. What kind of lines do you see? What do you notice about the lines? What do you see on the ceiling? What do you see on the floor? What do you see um on the walls? What do you see outside the window? What do you see around people's shoes? Um what what is what are people's hair like? And I want you to take your uh paintbrush and go ahead and you're going to this is like a sampler. You're going to do some different kind of lines on your um paper. And I recommend that you hold your paintbrush more not so much like a pencil but even just like a experimental thing. So put your hand more at the back so you get a little wiggle in it and you
045have less control rather than more control. Then you can't blame yourself because it's just out of your control. So, go ahead and take your um paintbrush and draw three lines that you see right now >> on your white paper. Yep. >> The purple is just >> Yes. So, that that's just protecting the table. And you can go off the page. You can go in a corner. And then I would say if you did some straight lines, try maybe some curved lines. Think about good old Lake Michigan on a north wind wavy day or those leaves tussling about or I can't even think right now. And then maybe a dotted line or a dashed line or the trails you see up in the sky when the plane goes by. Just just lines. And then we're going
046to set that one a well maybe a few more. Maybe turn your page on the side. Turn it 45° and add three more lines. This one's just just a sampler. Okay, set that one aside. Grab your second piece of paper and put it in front of you. I think I've got four minutes left. That was a long minute. Sorry about that. Okay, set that one aside. Take the new paper. Close your eyes. Just for a second, think back way back to this morning and think about how your day started out. Think about that, how that went. Was it straight lines? Was it curvy lines? Was it thick lines? Was it thin lines? And you now have 25 seconds to try to without making words, without making objects, just using lines. Go ahead and paint the
047start to your day. You have about 13 seconds left. You can always just close your eyes and see what happens too as you drag your brush across the paper. Okay. And we're going to wrap that one up and set it aside. And you're going to grab a third piece of paper. I want you to think about a little later on in the day. How did that day turn out? Not right now, but a little bit. I'd say between 11:30 and 5:00. How was the day? Did anything change? Oo, I'm seeing really big differences. Pretty cool. There's There's no wrong answer. There are so many right answers. I hope you notice I'm happy with these paint brushes. They have a nice tip to them that you can get like a real fine line or if you
048push down harder, you can get a really thick line. On this last piece of paper, I want you to think about a dream day. The kind that, you know, we dream about in the winter time and that we look forward to. Um, what what's a good day look like? What's what would that be? Are they curves? Are they zigzags? Are they parallel? Are they perpendicular? Are they caddyywampus? Are there surprises? Okay, we're going to go four, three, two, one. Okay, I'm going to give you one chance to look back at all four drawings. Is there one sort of mark you wish you had made? Do you want to add it to something? can't really take away, but is there something you want to add? And then you are going to set your brush. Normally, I
049would not let you rest your brushes in the paint, but you can rest them in the paint for right now. Um, and you will notice that these papers have like a a slit and um the slits come to about 50 or halfway through the paper. And what I want you to do is take that paper and fold it backwards. So is there um so your paper um we'll fold in half either this way or uh this way and it should stand up. Oopsie, that one didn't stand up so well. So, I brought these, too. And you could make a stand with this other piece of paper. Little little engineering here, too. Now, what I want you to do is this is probably the most critical part in this whole art making is you get to
050to look at this and select what is your own rubric. Which one of these do you think you want to have represent you right next to your name tag for the rest of this meeting? You're going to show it out to the others. So, is it something that you feel like represents you the most? Is it the one that just feels pleasing? Is it the only one that will stand up? Um, think about you're you're going to make that um selection there. Have it face out and um the other ones you can uh throw away. You can lay them down, take them back with you. Um, that's it. And I'm just going to ask you to let the one represent you for today. I'm not going to ask you to write a ha coup or
051anything about it. Um, but just have it up there representing you. I hope it makes you feel a little proud or a little vulnerable or um, a little different. And um, that's all I have to share with you today. And I hope you come on Wednesday night. Thank you. Thank you, Christine. You uh I know you inspire so many kids um and adults in the ceramics and and I really appreciate what you do beyond just art. Oh, >> no. That's >> all right. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much. That was fun. Extravaganza is very cool. If you haven't been before, it is definitely worth checking it out. >> Wednesday, >> is there a food truck again or no? Not this year. All right, that's okay. Thanks. Um, just a couple of quick things before
052we go into or as part of public participation, but I I wanted to mention that um I just wanted to thank Panther parents for doing the teacher appreciation week and the really nice things that they did to recognize very hardworking people and especially at a time of year where it's pretty challenging. So, um, thanks a lot to the Panther parents and everybody involved in that. Um, and then today, Megan and Liz and I had the pleasure of delivering some milestone anniversary gifts. Um, so to the best of my ability using spreadsheets that I have, uh, we celebrated several 5, 10, 15, all the way up to 40 years um at Frankfurt, Alberta area schools. Um, and it was it was an absolute delight. Unfortunately, we had a few people that were sick that we didn't
053get to deliver face to face, but Liz is going to try to catch up with some of them, but that was that was a lot of fun. So, um that and public participation I received um through the school site um Erica Elliot um had a request for consideration to improve the elementary school baseballsoftball t-ball field. Um and Jeff reached out to her. Um Corey Mcnick who is the president of Glen Lake schools. She and I were chatting at a track meet and she sent over some info about the company that they used to assess building utilization and create a strategic big picture plan of of their buildings and what they're doing. So, it was kind of neat to um learn from her and their experiences. Um, and then lastly, I received um an email from
054Chip May who um asked that we consider um having middle school basketball and softball be official school sports as a part of instead of being a part of FESB baseball. Did I >> I think basketball >> Oh, sorry if I did. Baseball and softball. Um, and I reply back to Chip that I think, you know, when we get a new athletic director, afterchool coordinator um, on board that that'll be a good project to learn through that person, the pros and cons and that kind of thing. I mean, with the institutional knowledge that exists, too. But that is all I had received. Um, did you have any other ones? Any comments? Okay. And with that, I would open it up to anyone here who public participation. Nope. Okay. All right. Great. Um, superintendent report. >> Thank
055you. Uh, before I start, I would like to introduce uh Jordan Hunt who is at the back table. Uh, he is with us tonight learning the ropes. uh he is through Northwest Ed a technology assistant and he is and Mike have spent many many hours together so working on some transition activities. So thank you Jordan for being here. >> Thanks Jordan. Welcome. >> Uh good news of course many of you have I'm sure you've heard that the millie proposal did pass with a vote count of 673 to 263. So that was a very positive margin. So, thank you for helping get the word out uh for that proposal. Also, the superintendent transition is going well. I've spent quite a bit of time with Vic Buggnney. Uh continue to communicate with him probably daily. Uh he
056did go to the Northwest uh education services superintendent retreat in Gaylord. I did not go. Uh most of that was all for next year's planning. Um and then we're he's been involved with some interview processes and he's continuing to interview um some other candidates for some other items I'll get to in a minute. Uh summer school food pro excuse me summer food program. Uh we will be running that this year uh June 15 to August 19th and working with Jenna to make sure that's in place. And we also have some conversation uh using some food pantry to support some families as well. But that's still a work in progress. But we will be running a June uh food program June 15th to August 19th breakfast and lunch take place in this building. And thank you
057an along with our summer uh care program >> and that's open to any child in Benzy County or >> anywhere. Yeah. >> Okay. >> That's great. Does the migrants fit into that situ? >> Oh, thank you, Wes, for letting me know that there will not be a migrant program uh this year. We're not hosting a migrant program >> uh for a number of reasons. Um so with that, it would we'll have the summer care program here and the um food program. Okay. Long range planning committee. This kind of morphs into the finance committee that we'll have a lot of conversation tomorrow. We have a finance meeting at 2 p.m. tomorrow. uh Frank Iikens will be in attendance because we have some things to talk about primarily some things that are in the true true law
058notes we'll just touch briefly on but we have to do some more uh conversation with that along with that tomorrow we'll talk about uh working with Nealis engineering we've used that company before um especially for our lighting project and this will all fold together tomorrow with our conversation at the finance committee uh John Dancer from Cornerstone I did reach out to him and he is very interested in continuing contining to work on the planning process. Uh that was prior before we'll talk about that tomorrow as well. See what our options would be there. And as I said, the finance committee and the more and the uh long range planning committee kind of are starting to blend together. I have invited uh John Dancer to a meeting Friday, June 19th. Um hopefully with at least part
059of the long range planning committee and the finance committee, Vic Bugny will be in the district that day and and we'll talk more about that tomorrow to see if that works. Um the true law notes are follow and also in your packet there is some information on the lighting upgrade project from the Alice. As I said, we'll go in more detail with that at the meeting tomorrow at two in our in our board. uh true law notes when we talk about truth and taxation and budget hearing reminder that is our June meeting uh June 8th at uh typically run it at 5:30 or 5. We'll get that on the agenda as well to determine and we have our regular board meeting following that meeting. Typically we can do that in a half hour. So that's
060something you and I will talk about because we need to get that out to the newspaper as well advertising that budget hearing. Uh moving along, um there's a piece in there on board vacancies, uh piece on hardcap insurance, um uh some information, lots of information on special education, uh processes, graduation guidelines that's in here every year. And then where I was referring to um we won't go into a lot of detail right now, but the blueprint for construction delivery methods, that's what sparked the conversation with a few people on the board. And then more importantly, we need to talk about long range planning projects and as I said, we'll dive into that more tomorrow. Um think that's it. Questions on true law notes? >> Okay. Any questions on Jeff's report? >> Report. >> All right.
061>> Great. Thank you. >> More to share in a bit. Thank you. >> All right. Finance committee report. >> Nothing to report. Finance committee meets tomorrow unless there's something I'm forgetting along the way. So, we'll we'll have double the finance report next time we meet. >> Perfect. Um, technology report. I just want to reiterate again as a social media person. kind of what I experienced during the day walking around there to capture anything but just observing feel that wellrounded atmosphere measures amazing and for your passions and feel like we should focus a lot of our energy on that most part of the district. It doesn't have to be situ I saw people illustration of this always coming into school walls and And you can see through the glass wall, you see the bandade obviously you
062can tie in allade student. for thinking about me support. >> Thank you. Thanks a lot. Great points. and we appreciate all that you have done for Frankfurt schools and our kids and keeping us keeping us honest and focused on what's important. Thank you. >> All right. Uh planning for the 2627 school year. We need to do that. >> Yeah, just a little bit. Been doing that for a while. Um just quick updates on a couple items. Um, as far as the elementary staffing, uh, we will have two elementary openings, a second grade and a third grade position. The second grade position is, uh, comes about with Beth Rother's move to director of teaching, learning, academic growth, and me and media support. Uh, Vic Bugney was very involved with those conversations. The third grade opening is
063due to the retirement of Sue Hammond, and Derek Jackson will be moving uh, to that position, leaving a third grade classroom opening. Ann has had very good interviews. She's kind of waiting for a couple things to to get with those people again and we'll have a we have an admin meeting tomorrow to try to flush some more things out. Ice high school English, you'll hear a little bit about that uh candidate tonight. Uh that's in retirement of Mike Thompson and we had quite a we had a fairly good discussion um at our board workshop uh regarding that candidate. the executive assistant to the superintendent. Uh Vic has taken that over solely um with that information. Uh he'll be reaching out to candidates uh this week to try to put some closure to that hire as
064well. Uh director of operations, this has been a busy time uh working uh with Frank Iikens and interview committee uh through that process. Uh we had nine applicants. We interviewed four. Um, at this time, uh, AJ Eers has given a verbal, uh, acceptance of the position, and I will be working more with him this week, and hopefully we'll have a formal higher, uh, when we talk about our next item, 8.4. Um, early childhood, middle school intervention. Uh, Amber Wilson will continue to, uh, guide our early childhood program. She'll also be kind of returning to the multi-tered system of support called MTSS. Uh the best way I can help the board understand it, it's similar to what Amy Torque does in this building, but solely at the middle school level. There's some changes in reading law
065that's coming about and in talking with Vic and Matt and an uh teachers. We feel very strongly that we need that MTSS system put in place and she'll be uh overseeing that. Uh ongoing discussions still continue with a middle school teacher uh that which would be due to Rebecca Hubard's uh retirement trying to figure out what those uh classes would look like and what those needs are. Um still working on the athletic director and physical education and as Matt and I have been in lots of conversation with with Vic Bugny about that as well. Our hope is that uh this week we'll get quite a bit of this accomplished. We're very close to having the high school lined out, uh, which will also help us determine what needs we have at the at the middle
066school. So, more to come and we hope, um, if we look at a planning date or a special schoolboard meeting uh, next week. We'll talk about that next. We're hoping we can put some closure to these hirings, at least I would say most of them that I have that I just shared with you. >> Jeff, I have a quick question for you. Um, whoever it is that we hire for Frank's position. >> Yes. >> I know I reached out to Amy and made the comment, but I wanted to >> I wanted to follow through with you as well. I think it would be great if we could get that person in and overlap with Frank. >> That's the plan. >> Okay, cool. Yeah. Great. >> Yeah. We don't have a lot of time, but I
067think we have enough time. >> Yeah. I just spoke to him instrumental person as much guidance >> as possible. >> Yeah, that's the plan as much as we can. >> I'm sorry. Can you remind me for because I keep getting asked this question, but the the AD type position that's been posted and we've received >> we have we have applications. Some of it is how we connect that 80 to position to other positions in the building. >> Got it. >> That's what we're trying to figure out. >> And we're still hoping that in the next couple of weeks that will be solidified. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Yep. And I believe Matt's going to have a conversation tomorrow uh with Vic and try to look at some other some options. >> Okay, great. >> Yeah,
068there's a lot still a lot of moving parts because we're so small that certain things have to connect somehow. So, that's what we're working on, >> I guess. Can I add one more thing then? >> Sure. Um, thanks. Um, and I'm sure you're aware of it because you've probably talked with Mike, um, but I know in talking with Mike Zimmerman, um, and and hearing some feedback from him as we've had discussions, it sounded like what he did this year to help out with Matt and do some consistency has been really successful. And I asked him, does it need to be more? And he didn't think it needed a lot, but he said it couldn't hurt a little bit. And I didn't I'm sure you guys are all thinking about those things in your positioning. I
069just Yeah, >> throwing it out there just to think about. I'm >> Well, that that's that's this little Tetris puzzle we got going on to try to figure out what fits and what needs and find the right person that can cover maybe more than one thing, >> right? >> Yeah. It's got to be it's tough in a small district >> in in a small school. It is. >> Matt, did that kind of summarize it up? >> Okay. All right. >> So, then the the second and third grade Oh, we've got applicants for the third grade. So, oh, and it's possible that one of them could teach second grade, too. I mean, of the applicant pool, or are you starting from scratch? >> Great. >> Yeah. Okay. Cool. Cool. >> And that posting Oh, excuse me.
070That posting will end up this week. So, that will give some more conversation so Ann can move her building forward and get some people in place. >> Awesome. >> Cool. All right. Um, anything else with that? >> No, not not right now. >> Um, and I guess we'll get to it with the open enrollment, but I'm assuming that the the hirings that we're doing, we're also keeping in mind the class sizes that we want to maintain. Okay. >> Right. If I can just chime in. Um, uh, great job. Like there's so many moving pieces here. It's quite remarkable that you guys have made so much progress and so early in the year. I know years past these things have run down to the wire. So this is this feels just listening to you talk about
071it, Jeff. It feels great. >> Thank you. We're not there but we're getting close. >> I know. Good luck finishing it out and everything, but just to just kudos and hats off especially as you're, you know, one foot out the door kind of. Um this is great stuff. So >> thank you. >> Yeah. I don't think from the outside a lot of people realize that the moving parts that it's like, well, your AD re, you know, is retiring. Why don't you have that job filled? Well, because they also teach some gym classes and we might need them to do that or we might find somebody who could do something, you know, so it's it's a lot, but appreciate that. Um, okay. Special school board meeting. This came about as I don't want to repeat this
072but you know we're trying to put some closure and we didn't we don't want to wait until the June meeting by any means and I think we have some opportunity to do this sooner than later with some of the positions I just mentioned. So the request is to have a special board meeting next week. If Wednesday would be a possibility uh that would probably help us just to try to spread get as much done this coming week and a little bit into next week as we can if that's a possibility. like at five or six o'clock. >> Six is fine. I mean, that works well for us. >> Six o'clock on May 20th. >> Do you you anticipate it being like an hour or less? >> I think I'm hopefully it's less than an hour.
073I mean, I we don't know if we're going to have everyone to bring, but I know we're going to have enough that warrants a meeting to get this started so we can get people hired and in place. So, more important we don't lose people. >> Okay. And would it be here or >> This is fine. We can do it in here. >> Okay. I'm I promise you I'm not checking my phone. I'm just putting getting everybody invited to the meeting. >> Tomorrow. Yep. >> But this meeting, Brian, next next week. Okay. >> Thank you. That that should be very helpful to move this keep moving this along. Okay, >> I'll get this posted for six o'clock for Wednesday the 20th in this room. >> All right. Um, Griffin and Bella. Bella, is this going to
074be your last one? >> Kind of. It is. >> Well, you're welcome to come back in June if you'd like to. You'll officially be graduating. >> You might want to think that through, but we always love having you >> all summer. We meet all summer long, too. >> And Griffin, you're off the hook for the summer, too, just so you know. >> I was hoping to show up, but >> you're more than welcome. >> Um, so the students have been very busy this last month. I know I've been very busy this last few weeks. Um, a little while ago we had the SAT uh testing along with testing throughout the high school. I'm pretty sure we mentioned that at the last meeting and it went very well, at least for me. We're still waiting on
075the scores. They're supposed to be out and Thursday. They're supposed to be out. So, we'll see. Um, NHS induction, I believe that was >> they're optional at a lot of schools. >> Um, NHS induction maybe a week, week and a half ago and it went very well. We had, I believe, seven new inductees and NHS is flourishing. We were very sad to see our seniors go. We had a very large senior class, but um they're off the hook now. Uh the junior trip, uh that was really fun. We went to Chicago like we normally do. We saw The Great Gatsby theaters or a play of The Great Gatsby and it was really an amazing experience. The whole thing was incredible. Um, the ninth grade uh went to the Dow House like they normally do. I
076remember going to that. It was an amazing experience and I heard a lot of them talk about how cool it was. They said the tour was a little slow this year, but it was an amazing experience and it's really cool to look at. Spring sports have been going very well. We have track regionals May 16th. This weekend, Saturday, we are hosting it, which is super duper exciting. I don't have to drive forever to get anywhere. Um, brand new track. We would love to see any of you guys that can make it be there. Um, yeah, and generally spring sports are going really well for everyone else, too. Prom was a huge success this year. I know my class was a little scrambling to get it done, but I think everyone had a whole load of
077fun and no one got hurt or anything. that we know of. >> Yeah, that we know of. Um, service day was not too long ago. We had service day last week >> and I know I went and pulled a lot of weeds at the Michigan Shores and I know there were a lot of people that are very thankful for us having service day. It was very great experience this year. Um, we've got a lot of uh signings going on. Bella signed last week. Um, and I believe this Thursday Addie Gerros is signing and I think next Tuesday I heard um Sophia Schindler was signing >> Owen Mills signed with TR. That was a little bit ago. >> Oh yeah. >> Um, so we've had a lot of signings going on which is super exciting. Um,
078and AP testing is happening. calculus took therapy tests this morning and pre-calculus which me and Bella are both in will take their tests tomorrow morning which is super exciting and nerve-wracking. >> Good luck. >> Yeah. Uh lots of fun things going on this past month. Another big shout out to our FPro team on a great season. Um our seniors are pretty busy right now. We have mock interviews on Wednesday and then all the fun. Graduation, all night party, the senior breakfast. Yeah, we're busy. Um, as Griffin said, we had service day. That was really cool. And I think it's just a great day to help out our community and the people around us and get outside. Dual enrollment classes also ended last Friday, so um, we took our finals for that and, uh, yeah, it
079feels nice. And then prom was a good success. Thank you juniors and Miss Kay for helping with that. Again, the extravaganza is on Wednesday. Go check that out. And we have our field day on Thursday and hopefully that the weather's good. Our makeup day is on the 21st, so should be fun. >> Yeah. Yeah. And congratulations to Bella who just qualified for nationals in wrestling. Thank you. >> She's gonna go to Fargo and she hasn't watched the movie yet, but she's going to watch the movie. Stay away from the wood chippers. >> Maybe she should. >> Oh, that's awesome. >> Thank you guys. Anybody have any questions? >> I had one question. Um point of of clarification for the Is there not a track fundraiser happening? >> Oh, >> next week there's a pasta dinner,
080>> correct? >> They're absolutely. Yes. Thank Can you tell me more about that and how we can participate and raise money >> for the track team to go to states? >> You're like, I don't really know about it. >> Monday on the 18th >> from 5 to 7 at Vabella. It's a driveby pasta. >> It's driveby. It's drive-thru pasta. 15 bucks. >> See, I was just about to say that. >> Exactly. >> Oh, sorry. Sorry. Salad, pasta, bread, lower level, pull through, Venmo or cash. >> Venmo or cash and help our students get to states. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> 5 to 7. That seems to be a theme. 5 to 7. >> Great to have. >> This is next Tuesday the 18th or no, Monday. You're right. Monday the 18th. I bet. >>
081Is it? >> Yeah, that sounds right. >> Yeah, Monday the 18th. So, just use the back alleyway. >> It's so nice that we have this new track that we can host regionals >> cuz we have eight lanes now, right? That was the whole issue. Yeah, just had to say that ample parking. >> That's good reminder because that was a big reason why we did this. >> And do they still need concession stand help? Does anyone know? >> I am in the concession stand helping. I don't know. We can I'll be there, too. >> Okay, >> we're good, I think, so far. So, but >> we will absolutely reach out to the school board to help. >> I do just want to say a quick thank you to the board and whoever made a decision to
082make a new track and stuff. This is super exciting to be hosting. I don't think we've ever hosted before. >> Since 2008 >> when they made you have a eight lanes. >> That is correct. We could host it with six at that time. and then they changed it. >> Uh so yeah, this is super exciting for me and I know a lot of the track team is excited to host this here. So >> you're just happy we're not leaving at 5:30 in the morning with East Jordan. >> Great. Well, thank you to all the voters who supported the bond. >> Um >> oh, one more thing. Um just thank you guys so much for letting me have this opportunity to be on the board the last two years. I've really appreciated it and it's been
083great. So thank you. Yeah, thank you. You've been awesome. Okay, Ann, elementary school. Um, I gave you a report. I just want to highlight a few things off of the report. I also want to uh recognize Mrs. Pencil and the high school service day representatives who helped us uh clean up our flower beds, mulch, um, and you know, they really did a nice job and it was so quiet. you really didn't even realize they were out there. So, um, and of course, thank you to Marty Davenport who coordinated with Chris, uh, Kristen Pencil. She is one of our garden angels and keeps everything looking so good out there and works with me and plans with me. So, um, I'm very grateful to have all of that effort to make our grounds look beautiful. We have
084our last Champs assembly this week and this is one of my favorite Champs assemblies because we have the kindergarteners tell what they've learned this year and then um Patty Roth helps me select some um high schoolers to come over and talk about what they're going to be doing next year and what they've learned along the way. And this year Mr. Tsley, Mr. Tyworth, and Mrs. Hammond are also going to share their wisdom as they start their next adventure. So, we're really excited about that. Um we had a successful kindergarten roundup. We're at 37 right now, 35 new students. Um the garden volunteers planted uh about 300 new tulips this year and then on Thursday they came and cut 250 of them and packaged them up for students to take home to their mothers for Mother's
085Day. It was beautiful. Um, and then spring field trips I just included um where we've gone so far, where we're headed next. And then some important things. Um, the band concert on Wednesday night features fifth graders for the first time in a com uh uh in a real concert that way. Um, and the extravaganza goes from 5 to 7 and then the band concert is directly after that. our fifth grade expo. The research projects are really coming along. If you want to learn about the great molasses flood of 1919, if you want to learn about the human brain, if you want to learn more about colorblindness, if you want to learn about the really interesting Egyptian beer uh burial practices, come to ours, plus a lot of other um things. come to our fifth grade
086expo on May 27th at 6 p.m. and the students will be here to explain their projects, what they learned. Um, it's really amazing. Uh, I remember when these guys were kindergarteners and they had no poise because they were kindergarteners and now they are these grownup sounding and looking and very articulate uh, human beings. My niece is in fifth grade and um picked her up from school last week and she was very excited and she was telling me that she really wants me to come and see her presentation and she said that she chose Peeta and I was she's very into animals and so I could believe that of her and then I was as I was about to ask like do you know how people throw like how they throw fake blood on on you
087know celebrities that wear fur and all of a sudden she starts talking about leaning tower of Pisa. So, I had just misunderheard misheard her, but I'm very excited to go and see about the uh Pisa presentation, not PA. >> Oh, yeah. There's that, too. Yeah. No. >> No. >> And we and we do we do have bread that will be represented. Somebody is doing something about a Greek recipe for bread. Should be really interesting. So, and it's a fun night and it's just so fun to see the students with their confidence and interests. Um, our Let's Make a Musical performance is June 4th, the Garden Theater, 6 PM. And this is uh working with uh Tim Jones among others. The students are writing a musical again. And it was a beautiful thing last year, very
088excited about this year. We will be having our fifth grade farewell on June 12th at 10:30 in the morning. Um, and that is where we just honor and recognize um, students for their accomplishments in fifth grade and wish them well as they move on to middle school. We don't do a graduation because it's fifth grade. Um, so there hopefully going to be a lot more graduations in their future. So, um, that is those are the highlights from my report if you have any questions. >> Great. >> We're also grateful to the Panther parents. It was a really fun week. Cool. It's awesome. Looks like things are going well. >> Thank you so much. All right, Matt. >> Busy time of the year, as everybody knows. Um, one of the things that uh or many of
089the things that were listed have already been covered, so you know, I'm not going to talk about them all in detail. We've got a couple pages worth of things here. Um, but I did want to shout out because u we haven't had a chance to meet since um the early April meeting and who would have thought just it was only just a few weeks ago. But also want to shout out Susan Johnson and the drama production. They did an incredible job again uh this year continue and involve a huge vast array of kids and uh from elementary all the way to the high school and uh and behind the scenes and in the lighting tower and uh just a really great thing. So, just want to give her a shout out and all the volunteers
090that helped make that a great performance. Sound of Music this year. >> I wanted to ask a question about that. I saw that in the program it said that um the the um child of a Holocaust survivor had been um had given a presentation to the students and I just thought that that was really really cool and I would love to see that happen for the whole school if possible. I don't know if that's a possibility, but I wanted to say that I thought it was very cool that the students who got to do it got to do it. So, >> yeah, it was a really cool thing um that I think a week before the performance like just before dress rehearsal started um came in friends with Susan and some of the um crew
091and uh and the Kypers and some and then um spoke to all the kids in the cafeteria and presented and then it's kind of a test run so that way we can bring them in to do high school stuff. Yeah, it was awesome. did a wonderful job as well. So, great point. Um, some of the things like NHS, I just I wanted to thank Miss Stevenson for her work as the adviser with that group. Um, you see that we did have a couple kids jured into the NMC art show that that hasn't been announced, but it's on display right now at the museum. That's Owen Mills and Grace Scott. So, congrats to those two. Mrs. Kay did a great job with prom and the junior class. Um it was a we hadn't been at Crystal
092Mountain in a number of years and it turned out to be a great place to to host and um they did a great job and thanks to those extra chaperons we had deputy dragger there Mrs. Chisum Mrs. Brown and it made for a great evening. So great attendance and the kids kids were awesome. So um Mr. Price you know he spoke about the arts competition and all the great things. Those pictures will be posted a lot of things will be on display at extravaganza which is awesome. Um and he I don't know some people don't understand this like with Christine and with um Mr. Price they they deliver all of that artwork themselves and so it's not like you know you take a team somewhere or you do this or that. I mean they pack
093up the cars and they drive their stuff up to the to NMC or to Crooked Lake or in this case um he packed up his you know his car and his trailer and they he drove to Detroit so they get to get judged. So uh pretty cool stuff and big investment which is awesome. uh going above and beyond which is great. Uh you see a couple field trip informations there. I did want to shout out Miss Pencil in the interact club who organized the service day. Um it's so cool because we have staff and students in the community and um just you know all of them roll up their sleeves and uh the weather turned out great this year. So we were really fortunate and there was lots to work to be done that's for
094sure. Um and then one thing that wasn't mentioned yet was senior mock interviews. We do this each and every year. This is our 12th year. Um, and seniors have been working on resumes and interview skills, and that'll be happening on Wednesday morning. Um, and that's in our high school gym. Um, and then thank you to Miss Harvey. I know she took off, I think. Um, and she put together the whole junior trip. So, and Ed Foundation and Panther parents supported that. We've got AP testing this week as long as well as some other testing coming up. Good luck to our pre-cal kids. Miss Brown's here. Um, they're going to do a great job just as the kel kids did today. And then you see opioid the musical. That's not a misprint. Um the the name
095of the presentation was called Painless. And um they brought a theater drama group from U of M and um they performed and sang uh you know about some of the struggles and some of the things with addiction and they did a really really nice job. It wasn't a long performance but it was sponsored by the Bay Initiative and one of our county groups and uh it was really cool to have them in our building. And then the Great Lakes Surf Project U also was in both they were put in both buildings last week as an mentioned and um Dave did a really good job engaging kids and um giving him some really good tips uh on how to navigate the Great Lakes and some of the myths that are out there. So um I think
096that was really impactful for all of our kids. At least they took something away from it. So and you see lots of things still coming down the pipeline. So big week with uh our awards and our seniors finishing up and class night. It's our scholarship night for those of you who don't know on the 28th and then commencement in the allnighter party. So big stuff happening. Thank you. That's cool. The rip tide wait >> flow flip and follow. I was paying attention. Well, it was really cool because in the presentation, if for those of you who weren't there, they discussed all of these acronyms and you know people know and he even said like what do you guys do when you know you learn in elementary school and all the way through like when it's
097a fire and you know stop, drop, and roll and all those things and um and he's like what about you know water safety and like you know don't drown. That's what kids are yelling at you know things like that. So, um, so it was really, yeah, help. Yeah, it so it was really informative and, um, and at the end we test it up and make sure that they knew it. So, hopefully they'll stick with them. Could you have answered that, Griffin? Could you have answered Okay, thank God. >> And the the really cool thing about it was adults afterwards said, "I learned stuff. I I hadn't heard some of that before." So, it was powerful. >> Oh, that's great. >> So, thanks to the to the movie club. That was awesome. Great sponsorship there. So,
098thank you. >> Great. Any questions for Ann or Matt? Awesome. Thank you guys and and good luck for the next month. Um all right, business. >> All right, before I dive into this, I just want to thank Matt and Ann. Um you've seen the list. It's a lot to to juggle and keep going. And both both building staffs, they know what spring is and they always work together. gets tiresome. But just thank you to everyone uh for getting through to the spring. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just a lot to do and spring is very focused on all of our students and all their accomplishments. So, thank you to Matt and thank you to the staff because it takes a lot of work to get all this done. So, thank you.
099Uh moving along, uh high school teacher recommendation for hire. We talked a little bit about this at our board workshop. Um, we were very pleased uh and are very pleased to recommend Brooke Martin for hire to teach high school English. Uh, the interview community was very impressed uh with Brook's teaching background and credentials. Uh, she was offered the position on April 28th and accepted that very same day and she will begin her career at FES on step 10. Um, her resume does follow the page. Hope you've had a chance to look at it and I um we're just very pleased uh to have her on board assuming the recommendation goes through. So, it's the recommendation of the superintendent and Frankfurt Middle High School principal Matt Stapleton to hire Brook Martin as the full-time middle high
100school English teacher beginning with 2627 school year pending all background checks are approved. >> Great motion. >> Uh Wes made the motion. >> I'm happy to second the motion. >> Scott, sorry, Brian. Scott seconded. Um, any discussion or questions? I guess the only question I had and maybe we don't know the answer to this yet. Are we going to try to do a pit >> next year? As soon as we have that answer, I'll defer. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Assuming interest and all that. That's awesome. That's great. I mean, she looks like an amazing hire. >> Yes. Um, any other questions? So, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Wonderful. Well, welcome, Brooke. >> Um, she has >> Oh, that's a very good question. How How
101did she find us? Um, she found us. Um, they're once again, we're very fortunate. Their family is very very familiar with Frankfurt. has a place here somewhere. I don't know where. Um even even when talking with her about the opportunity, she's always said if I if there ever an opportunity, we're going to Frankfurt and they did. >> That's awesome. So, somebody who already had housing here, which is a huge help. Awesome. Okay. Uh approval of Northwest Ed. >> Yep. >> Cooperative open. This is the we talked about this also at the board workshop. This is the north northwest ed services interd district cooperative open enroll agreement. It's an updated agreement to carry through 2026 to 2029. Um it covers our 105 uh and that is our schools of choice. We handle that through the ISD
102uh through this agreement and it and then also that's not in that agreement is 105C which that is the agre that is the schools state schools of choice program that allows us to offer open enrollment to students that are not in our ISD. An example would be kids from Arcadia um on MISC anywhere outline our ISD. But before I do that, there's a couple at your table. I put an updated um document there that I just want to make sure uh we're clear. It's it's pretty easy. Um if you go to 4A, it says enrollment procedures. The change is they I I don't I meant to call the day. I don't know why. Um, everybody wants to do things a little bit differently, but I highlighted this and it will read, um, I'll start with,
103each constituent district will establish a window to accept applications for enrollment pursuant to this cooperative agreement for fall registration. Um, closes not later than uh, 15 calendar days before the fall count day. >> Oh, >> every district does a little bit differently. We are still recommending that we continue with that open enrollment date which I will get to you in just a second soon as I find it. Um the open enrollment date we are looking at shoot um here it is. We're looking at May 26 through June 15th for the reasons that we talked about at the board workshop. Um and then we would get parents notified and get all that in place prior to people heading out for the summer. So, so that is an edit that they did uh after I had put
104this together. I just I just received this today. Actually, I received it Friday afternoon. Uh this was decided at the superintendent's uh >> conference. >> So, this says no later than so we're still keeping the earlier dates we talked about in the workshop. Is that >> we are going to keep the earlier dates? So, so this doesn't change what we're doing agreement. It's just a little bit of an edit from in the work. do it later if we wanted, but we want to do it. >> Yeah, we're going to do it early. At least try, you know, that seems to work the best. The second edit is on 18 page. It's number 18. And this edit comes about it. If there's a dispute resolution, the party may escalate the matter to the ISD and then
105the ISD would review whatever the res the dispute resolution, whatever the dispute would be and come up with that resolution. So the ISD would review and impose a final remedy if the local district local districts including us couldn't come up with a resolution for a parent and that's pretty common and that's what they wanted. They needed someone needed to make that decision and that was an edit um also at Friday's meeting. So other than that, the document stays the same with the exception of the edits that I just shared with you >> and we would continue our open enrollment date which is May 26. So I think I said June 15th. Um that's really the only changes. So, with that said, um it's my recommendation to continue to approve our participation in Northwest Ed Services
106Interdist Cooperative Enrollment Agreement for 26 through 29 and participation in section 105C. And it also says somewhere in the agreement that it's reviewed each year just to make sure you're still aboard with that. And and I'll get Vic Vic caught up to that as well. So that's the recommendation is to continue in the open enrollment agreement with Northwest Education Services. >> All right. So that is just for this and then the the second part of that is our >> what we're what we're approving. >> Yeah. >> Is we're going to participate in the agreement which covers 105. >> Okay. >> The motion also approves us to continue in 105 C. So that's what you're that's what what we're that's my recommendation to the board. That's what you would be >> and 105C we're saying is
107that the one in which we're open to all grades except kindergarten. >> no that's a different >> No have no I'll back up. >> Okay. And the date the cut off date that's also in a different >> Okay. 105 is this agreement. >> Okay. that covers our schools of choice of people that reside within the Northwest Ed ISD. >> Okay. >> 105C is not in the agreement. >> Okay. >> But if we want to continue to have open enrollment with students outside the ISD >> from other schools, the board would have to approve 105 C. >> Okay. >> So this this recommendation is to approve 105, which is >> 105 C. Okay. >> This agreement and 105C. >> Got it. >> Okay. >> I'll make a motion that we approve it. Okay. Any discussion? >>
108So with the with the date change, >> Scott, would you a second? >> Yeah. >> With the date change, we could have a a discussion on that. >> You potentially could, >> but I mean that's not a set in stone. >> That is correct. It just has to be 15 days closed prior to the first count day, which is October one. So I surely would >> No, no, no. I'm not thinking that. I'm just my question would be >> it does it does give us the opportunity to set our own enrollment date. >> Yeah. >> But for our conversation at our board workshop, we're still recommending that May 26. >> Right. The I just didn't know how much of that work is done by Barb and with Barb leaving. >> Oh, that's a great question.
109>> There's an opportunity for whomever takes over Barb spot to learn. That's one of the that's one of the other reasons why we choose the earlier date because we still have our secretarial staff in both buildings >> to take those applications. >> Okay. >> The 105C comes a little bit later, but I can I'm sure we can get that taken care of. >> Okay. So, we have a motion and a second. Any other questions? >> All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Great. >> All right. Thank you. All right. It can be a little confusing. Sorry. Appreciate your patience with me. Um, okay. The last item of business is the approval of the Northwest Education uh operating uh excuse me, I'll start over. Northwest Education Services general fund operating budget for 2627. So
110the general fund puts out their budget and we had we have met myself and Liz and Amy met with Sean Bidd who's the director of finance associate superintendent for finance at the ISD and also met with Tara Major who is Tara Major excuse me who's the northwest ed superintendent. They came and did a presentation probably an hour at um in the conference room a couple weeks ago and went through the budget. So following this page is a resolution to this is what we have to do by law is to recommendation of the superintendent to support the 2627 Northwest Education Services General Operating Budget. Now, I have to present the resolution. How the board votes to to support it or not support it, it's just it's a recorded document, >> right? >> Um, for me, I
111would still recommend that we support the Northwest Education operating budget >> for a variety of reasons that we received that too via email. >> Good. I mean it's yeah it's for the purposes of this >> I think that's the key for the purposes of this it's yes >> there's always questions but it doesn't necessarily have to do with the budget per se it's just some other outline things is that fair >> yeah yeah >> it sounds like they hear us and they'd like to work with us to it's good >> so I I go back to the recommendation of myself to support The 2627 Northwest Education Services general fund operating budget. It's a multiple move. Megan, any questions, discussion? >> All right. I just had a question about why we're agreeing to the budget. Aren't
112we agreeing to contract with him? >> No, that's different. >> That's not how it works. No, >> that's our business contract and that is we're still under contract for another year at the >> we'll that will come up at our next board meeting. Yeah. To renew that contract. Okay. >> That's our that's the business services contract with which >> when you have Heather Sols come in and present to the finance committee. She's under that >> agreement similar to what Jordan has with the technology assistant agreement. >> Okay. So this is just voting on approving the ISD budget, >> correct? >> It's a it's what we have to do >> by law in order to do that. >> Pardon me. >> Because we're members of the >> because we are members of the ISTD. Correct. I
113have to at least bring this >> right. Okay. Thank you. >> No, that's a great question. >> So we're really under two two contracts outside of the saving the contract. Jordan's position and Heather Soul's position which we'll talk about at our next meeting. >> Great. So, we have a motion and a second. Any other questions? I do think based on the presentation that they are being very fiscally responsible and um Sean has like an encyclopedic memory of um where every dollar is going. and she was able to I mean without consulting her notes just every questions that we asked she was able to kind of talk us through why it was being done and there was no red flags nothing that was alarming it all looked above board it it just all similar to what
114we've looked at the same the past three years so >> it's kind of boilerplate but I I have zero concerns about the way that they're managing their budget All right. All those >> I was sorry. I was just thrown off by the fact that we're voting on the ISD budget. I just I hadn't been clear on what we were particularly voting on. I was prepared to vote on something else. It was my mistake for not reading correctly. That's all. That was the only hesitation. >> Oh, >> you're weird. All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Great. >> Um, any public comment? No. All right. Uh, so the next the hearing meeting or the budget hearing meeting is June 8th at 5:30. Regular meeting. We'll follow that at 6. And then we also set a
115meeting for next Wednesday um with the specific intent of approving some hires. >> That would be the only thing. >> That's the only thing. >> Did we talk about high school awards night? Did was I spaced out during that? But that's the 21st, right? Class night and >> excuse me. >> Graduation is the 31st of May, >> right? >> I'll send it out to everybody if that's just to make sure we got it. >> That's a good idea. >> Principal's reports. There's the important dates on both Anns and Uh >> Brian, I just a quick comment. I there's a lot going on. Uh the graduation, commencement, that's where we hopefully everyone can attend. The class night if you haven't had an opportunity to attend, it's absolutely amazing. Um and all the other things are great.
116So if you have to pick and choose, I guess, um class night and and commencement are are very very >> So there's the senior scholarship awards, which is class night, right? And then there's the 9th through 12th awards 21st >> high school. Okay. >> Wait. Okay. So, class night is when the 28th >> 28th >> is the 28th. Okay. That's the one I was trying to think of. Okay. Okay. Bella along with classmates and and I worked on a commencement speaker and we have Carter Kinch coming who's our commencement speaker who Brian knows his parents Bill Kench. Yeah. Um and Carter is a social media influencer. Um he's got like 11 million followers on the talk tick tick tock. Just kidding. Um, but uh he's it it's going to be it's going to be really
117good. I've I've gotten a little sneak peek, so it's going to be very exciting and very different. I'm a little nervous. It's going to be great. >> Yeah, it's going to be great. >> It'll be high energy. >> Very relatable to our graduating. Yes, it's gonna be awesome. >> He just, you know, finished what? He's got Carter Mafia, which is a a a game show kind of thing that he does, uh, reality TV show of his own. And then he also, uh, just did the Hannah Montana Red Carpet, um, and then something with Netflix, um, Actors Guild. So yeah, it's cool. Gonna be cool. All right, with that we are adjourned. >> What's that? >> Is that a good thing? Oh, I thought you said lip. I was like, "Oh, no. What's that?" >> Yeah,
118it'll be great. that had all of the um jobs >> just because I could not take that test.