001So, we'll go ahead and I know you said we were ready. Are we good? >> All right, great. Um, call the meeting to order. If you would please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. And it looks like we have all of our board members here except the robotics coach who might be coming in hot after practice. Um, and kudos and congratulations to robotics for making it to the state finals. That's exciting. Um, what else? Uh, any guests you want to recognize right now or just as we >> I think as we go. But I do need to make one quick change
002on the consent agenda. The minutes you're about to approve approve are March 9th, 2026, not February 9th as listed on the agenda, and I'll fix that at a later time. >> Great. Other than that, I don't have anything different. >> All right. Anybody else? Any changes or anything? Great. With that, I would look for a motion to approve the consent agenda items, noting that the minutes are March 9th, not February 9th. >> Wes and Megan. Any discussion? All those in favor? I >> I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Um, and now what a treat. Our awesome giant class of Model UN this year. This is really exciting to hear what you guys experienced. So, we turn it over to Brad or >> the MC, whoever. Sorry. >> Oh, I fixed it. Um, but anyways,
003lots of public speaking and uh, yeah, it's just an overall good time and it's helpful. Next slide. Um this year May the Mid American Model >> Do me a favor and just say your name so that I remember who you all are. >> Um I'm Sam Vulma. I'm a junior. Um this year the Mid-American Model United Nations or MAMAN which is the conference we attended um offered seven different committees. This year Frankfurt represented all seven. Um these are a couple of the topics that each committee covered. Uh I know in spec poll we did the Israeli practices and settlement activities affecting the rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories. That one was really fun. There was a lot of debate on that one. Then these are the other four in
004legal. They like crimes against humanity. I know. Um it's important to note that each of these committees actually has three topics. I just picked a couple of the ones that they found the most interesting. And then security council does have six. We had two people in security council this year. >> Um, some of the countries we represent. Oh, sorry. Uh, Charles Kabuk. I am a junior. Um, this is a list of some of the countries we had this year. Um, yeah, I can speak on behalf of the Ukraine dele Ukrainian delegation that it was a lot of fun to represent Ukraine with all the stuff going on in Russia right now. And uh, yeah, next slide. This is the other countries that we represented. Uh it's important to note that the one at the bottom,
005Denmark, um we got last second because there was an opening and we got it. So yeah, great. Next slide. So position papers and research. Um there's three main things to a position paper. The background, the policy, and suggest resolution. And these position papers really help um help us like developing research skills, helps us de um develop concise argument skills and helps um helps us learn how to take good notes if we're able to write these papers. >> Next slide. We also Oh, I'm Zia Bushman. I'm a senior. We also submit resolutions before we go to conference and the ones they like best are selected to be debated in committee and these resolutions are basically your and your country's suggestion on how to fix the problem and you then debate these in committee with all of
006the other countries and try to get them passed. It's basically a very formal suggestion sheet. You have to keep the format and the operative clauses and just kind of a concise solution to the problem. And we got 27 resolutions throughout all of the committees and in the special political committee which I was in, our school made up nearly a third of the resolutions. Uh I'm Shahan Hol. I'm a junior. Uh one of the main uh skills we focused on developing in model UN is our uh public speaking skills. Uh before conference, we usually speak in front of our class and uh work on making our speeches. But during conference, you'll have to work with uh speaking in front of 30 to 40 people in your committee room. So that's a that's a very new thing
007for students to learn. Um, and as well as during committee, sometimes you'll have to write uh resolutions in a very short amount of time. Uh, I know one of my committee members had to write one in like five minutes uh to open the topic. Um and uh uh another after committee session some of our students or delegates will go to the general assembly which is which means you'll have to speak in front of 200 to 250 uh other students there. And I have a video here to kind of demonstrate what the speeches will look like in committee sessions. Canada acts as a major crime against humanity has and continues to be a major issue that plagues our that plagues Canada's resolution works to strengthen Canada's safe haven called punishing refugees looking to escape crimes they
008committed. This resolution is up for amendment uh to ensure that refugees will receive the most equal, humane, and fair treatment. That being said, I yield the remainder of my time to Poland. Junior. Um, for the entire conference, um, we are in committee sessions from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. with, uh, very little breaks for lunch and dinner, which means we're at work most of the day with, uh, communicating with other students on getting resolutions passed or um, complying with other students to help get one big resolution passed. So even though we were in committee sessions all day, um Non uh provided students with social activities after the long day. Um the first day they offered a delegate mixer which allowed students to walk around and just meet the people they'll be working with. Um the
009second day they offered a trivia night which our school came one question away from winning the entire thing. Um and the picture on the bottom there is us huddled up for that last question. Um, and then they offered a delegate dance, which the picture on the left is a picture of the delegate dance. And if you were to ask um, any student from Frankfurt, um, every single uh, person from Frankfurt would have at least one person from conference from another school all the way across the state or in another state that they're talking to and that they continue to talk with. So, not only are we talking to other students from other schools about research, about resolutions, but we're also making and continuing or making friendships with other kids around the schools after conference. And
010they hope to see them again uh next year for next conference. So, I think that's a great addition to going to conference is that you're just making new friends from all over the state. Next slide. Um, these are some awards we rad in while we were at conference. Uh, you can see up in the top right, Chuck, it's right there. He got an award in SHNC. That's his committee. Um, Sam won an award in crisis sim, which is like thinking off the dome, solving problems. Uh, in the bottom left, Sam also won a position paper award. He scored a 20 out of 20. and our entire Egypt delegation won an award for their general assembly paper which is pretty cool. >> Next slide. Do we have any questions? >> What was the question? >> Uh
011I have no >> it was it was what what threeletter combination do like most countries in the world start with? So the answer was mal. So it's like Malaysia, the Mald. It was >> Yeah. We were Ukraine, Pakistan, Romania, Canada, Spain, and Egypt, and Denmark with Keith. >> Do you take a a class in school? Did you find your mostly cooperative? >> Yeah, so that's a great question. So, um, we saw as a class that it really kind of depended on your committee. Um, we saw that, um, with, um, Sha's committee, he was in legal and he was had the opportunity to represent Ukraine, so he was constantly arguing with Russia, the delegate from Russia, which is fun by itself. Well, um, for me, I was in the environmental committee and we didn't really see
012as much, um, fighting with each other and more of like because we're all trying to reach the same goal and we saw more, uh, collaborative work than other committees did. So, it it really kind of depended on which committee room you were in. And I think even more than that, it really depends on the topic because like I was in special political and when we were doing the like Israel Palestine war topic that was like very contentious. Not a lot of resolutions were passing. There was a lot of debate. But when we were doing like the situation in Haiti that was a lot more collaborative because everyone's trying to work together to make a solution rather than fighting over the problem. Has this experience changed how you digest media now? >> Um well as a
013first year student I think like before I started taking the class like I really wasn't super conscious of like like I didn't watch the news much or really pay attention to like a lot of world issues. But I think one of my favorite things about this class that it's taught me is it really teaches you to like engage with like what's going on in the world and what issues are happening because I mean it it's going to affect all of our futures in some way. So, I think just like watching the news or it's just in general made me more curious to like research issues. Like for example, like right now Iran and the US are they're fighting a war in the Middle East and it's been really fun like after um after conference we've
014been really looking into that issue and um seeing like what the root causes of it are and I think just like going into that and um trying to figure everything out is really fun. >> Um, my name's Hazel. I'm a freshman and it was my first year. >> My name is Jimmy Colamin and I'm also a freshman and this is also my first year. And one thing I'd like to add is this class helped me like expand my research a lot because now if there's something like if I'm watching a video or something and I see something that I might like want to research further, I feel a lot more comfortable just like expanding my knowledge in that too. >> So those of you who are uh are not seniors, do you plan on doing
015model UN again next year? Definitely. >> Very cool. >> I I think I know I'm not a senior yet, I'm a junior. Uh I've taken Maluan every year of my high school career and it's definitely has been a regret for me because it's something to look forward to to go to that conference every year and just keep building my research skills and public speaking um skills as well. >> Yeah, the confidence in your public speaking all of you, it's really inspiring. It's really impressive. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, Mike knows. >> So um we had this I think it was called magic school. Um Mr. Edi took not only he did this for research and position papers. for position papers. What we did is he worked with us um second and third years and we
016took our past position papers that we've written and the scores that were given um created a bot that can um in a way grade your position paper that you write similar to how the adviserss at Maven would do it. Um, and then we also, I'm not sure how he did the other one, um, but he he used a combination of like United Nations websites to, um, help assist and answer questions that you asked it and then also give you like sources to look further into that. And um, not only were we using um, AI to help us research um, but also MMAN had used um, AI for a lot of their topics. For example, our general assembly topic, which is the like the big room full of people, the whole topic for that was AI
017integration into the military. And it's really interesting to hear different countries thoughts on how AI should be used or restricted. And um so it's also a key um topic that's in the minds of um whoever who was running uh Mayan. So you guys learned a lot about these countries and the way that they operate and the way that they work at the UN level. I'm wondering if that has also just like Liz had said about your media consumption. Has it at all influenced where you want to go? Like any countries that you might want to visit? Do any of you want to visit your own countries? Did you learn about other people's countries you're interested in culturally? >> Um so uh to answer that second question, um my country was Ukraine. So, it's gonna it's
018going to be kind of difficult to go there right now. Uh, but we do do some research on the cultures of our country. I know last year we did a cultural food day where we were uh Italy and Mexico and Slovenia last year and we uh basically just had a big lunch full of the food from that culture. So, we do do a little bit of diving into what the cultures look like. And I it's also important when you're um learning about how to debate and how to represent your country well. >> So how do you um and you may have said it, sorry. How do you determine which countries you'll be representing next year? So, at the end of conference every year, all the um adviserss from the different schools gather. I don't know
019where, but um they basically they basically just do a draft. I think it's like snakes, so whoever's whoever's last goes first in the next round, and just pick your countries. Um I think we picked three this year again. Um last year we picked three. And then what you can do later on is pick up any countries that weren't picked in the draft. So, and our countries next year are going to be uh Israel, uh Poland, and Latvia. And Latvia is our security council country. And we're also having our eyes on uh Switzerland right now. We still haven't got a response yet for that country. Well, you guys are extremely impressive and I I really appreciate Oh, there's another question. Where >> um I wanted to ask >> this class costs us a lot of money
020from the school. In all of your opinions, what does this class do for you extra that you can't get from other classes? >> Um, so in this class, we uh we develop more public speaking skills than any other class. I can't think of any class that the school offers where you have the opportunity to speak in front of 100 plus people. And also the research factor of this class. Um, if you plan to go to college, research papers are going to be something you're going to have to do. And finding good sources and reliable sources and that skill to analyze sources is really helpful. And it's something this class provides uh for all of us. any somebody else. >> I'd like to add on to that a little bit. Um I do think that like
021the researching um part is important, but I'm already starting to see examples of myself at least using parts of the class in um college classes. I'm taking um dual enrollment right now and they asked for resolutions or any ways you could help um the environment in Australia, for example. and I used my environmental knowledge from my environmental committee and I just could not stop writing on suggestions to help the environment. And as as a veteran, um I continue to see myself improve every single year I go to conference. My first year, I can remember um me being thrilled that I co-sponsored a resolution. Um but every year um I just see myself improving. This year I was able to speak six times in my committee and to speak at the general assembly or be the
022first one to speak at the general assembly and pass two resolutions that I made myself. For me personally, the research has been a big thing because I feel like researching like your country's perspective on an issue really helps you get like a better idea on the like global perspective and how the same thing is reported differently in different places. And it like I feel like when I'm researching from now on, I'm more likely to like try to look and like specifically try to like find new sources from the UN and from different countries around the world to try to get a more well-rounded perspective on what's going on. I also just want to say like I think from a social standpoint like learning how to work with new people and like figuring out how to
023be persuasive but also like respectfully cooperative with everyone is really important. And um just like in writing this year, I wrote one resolution and because I was still figuring the class out, I wasn't really sure like how it would all pan out once I got to conference. But I really wish I would have wrote more because when you have your own resolution, you're able to like talk to everyone about how like your resolution aims to like fix the issue and you can like talk to them about how they might want to change it and like other people's perspectives on an issue uh is really important and um I just I think it's just such a great experience because in the future like using like academic language for anything like a job interview or writing other
024papers in school, it's really important um to be able to know how to do that. And this class has taught me better how to do that than any other class I've ever taken. Um, definitely as a freshman, it's hard to have your voice heard through the school, but this class has helped me learn how to advocate for the school, for our town, and it definitely made me more social and better at public speaking at conference. >> Um, I have one thing I'd like to add off of Troy's point. You're not going to particularly care for everybody that you work with. And when you go to model UN, you're representing your country and your country isn't going to particularly care for every other country there. Like Sheay representing Ukraine doesn't really like Russia, but he still
025has to find a way to work with them. And I think that's a really important skill to have as we maneuver our way through life. >> Great answers, you guys. >> Um, so what do you do this semester? I mean, you mentioned there was some cultural, some some food. >> What else? So, um, right now, um, postconference for the past couple weeks, we worked on like critiquing and looking at how conference could have gone better. Um, I know Cole's working on some sort of resolution to submit to actually the, um, head of MMAN to change different things that we didn't like as much. Um, but right now, we're really focused on current events. Um today we just start an assignment um a research assignment on different uh conflicts in the world that we don't necessarily
026cover or aren't as popular uh subjects and topics. And also we'll work on preparing for next year main um figuring out how I know last year we figured out how we're going to choose our countries for this year how each person gets to choose their committee. So um it's a lot of preparation and um keeping up maintaining knowledge on uh world issues. Great. Awesome. Any other questions? You guys are so impressive collectively and individually. Congratulations. >> Yeah, really impressive. And congratulations for all the accolades and awards you earned. Um, and for representing our school and our town so impressively well. Um, just really appreciate that. Thank you guys. >> Thank you, Mr. Rey. Yeah. And thank you, Mr. Reed. The world is safe. >> I love that. >> Thank you guys. I mean, you can
027stay if you want. >> See you. >> All right. Um, wow, that was inspiring. So, with that, we would open it up for public participation. Is that anybody? Yes. Oh, and the So, you have to state your name and your address and you have a three minute limitation. And generally, we don't engage. We're just here to listen. But every once in a while, if it's really something easy to answer, we can do that. >> Yeah, I know. Good luck. >> This was a test. There you go. >> Okay. Hi, my name is Melanie Garzio. I live at 4739th Street here in Frankfurt. I'm the mom of two little boys in preschool, one who's entering kindergarten. I went to Frankfurt Elementary myself and I'm a mental health therapist. Um, I'm here to highlight parental concern around
028the use of technology in the elementary school. I'm not an enemy of technology, even though I bumbled this. Um, but as you may realize since I'm reading this off of my smartphone, I also work in teleaalth. I use Google Maps. I have a Netflix account. Uh, however, there's a growing body of evidence that technology is not an asset to our youngest students and is actually detrimental to their learning at times. Recent studies have shown that implementing technology in schools uh meaning primarily Chromebooks as the kind of the main brunt of the research has coincided with either decreasing test scores or no progress for students. Studies have shown that digital reading leads to lower comprehension, especially among younger students. Whereas physical books provide cognitive cues like page location or physical thickness that help the brain map
029information for later recall better than scrolling. Additionally, technology use in children is strongly linked to increased depressive symptoms, poor sleep, and negatively impacted social and emotion. with uh Ryan Nicholson from TRUN to make sure our language on our social media blast which will go out shortly. Sent a letter to the paper that was out and then we'll use this information. Mike has been working on getting this up on our web page. Should be ready to go tomorrow. Um a lot of this information has been approved. Uh all of it's been approved and that's why I didn't want to post it until it was uh for a variety of reasons. Uh some other things we've done in the past, uh face-to-face conversations actually of course work the best. Uh meeting with small groups, an example could
030be Rotary. And then we'll do an email blast on Sunday, May 3rd, just as a reminder. And then a possibly a a phone call on Monday uh night, May 4th, just a general reminder to everyone. Um we've also used some form of a backpack stuffer that we'll work on as well. Uh, as I said, the bottom line is getting the word out face to face. Um, and just talking through this, I think some key talking points, um, is it helps protect our May 24 voter approved non Homestead millage from falling below 18 mills. So, you need to look at this as it's called it's headly roll back, but you look at it more of a headley hedge. they've called it in the past as well to make sure that we're always able to levy at
031least those 18 mills that we're able to do. What happens is it gets rolled back for a variety of reasons constitutionally and in order to put this proposal this millage proposal out. All this is really doing is safeguarding our 18 mills through 2029 and then it'll go back to another vote um after 2029 because that's when our original millage would expire. Um those are the main talking points I believe. Uh the biggest one is it helps protect our our 18 mills through 2029 by giving us permission to do that. Uh that's the biggest point. Um, I think the other one, you know, the impact is, you know, we estimate that we could get rolled back half a mill, which would result in a levy less than our 18 mills and and it could even go
032further than that depending how it spikes up. But what this does is protect our 18 mills. And that's the most we can ever uh do anyway, but we're trying to protect it from be going below the 18 ms. So, and there's some ballot language there as well. And then, uh, as I said, m I've given this to Mike, which is in front of the board, and we're going to post this and answer any questions that come to you, but I wanted to let you know these are the main talking points. >> Yeah. So I think um as as people have questions um in the ballot language it uses the word increase by two mills but to Jeff's point all that is is to increase the millage rate so as things roll back year after year
033it doesn't go below the 18 mills but we will never collect more than the 18 mills and this is nonhomestead only so businesses second homes homes um that kind of thing. Does anybody have any questions? I know it's kind of >> I have just one other quick comment. I think the the other important point to keep in mind that the operational millage and we'll include this in the information that covers how we operate. That's our how that's our operational money to get through the school day. It's not bond money to do projects. It's our operational money from uh salaries to curriculum supplies. everything we do from a day-to-day basis our general fund. So that's how we are funded uh primarily through the through the non-homestead operated millillage. >> Great. Any questions on that? All right.
034>> Okay. Thank you. And and please let me know if you have any thoughts or other questions besides that. Um, just to let you know, uh, we're in the superintendent transition as you well know. Uh, spent some time with, uh, Vic Bugny. I've met with him through a couple Zooms. We've had a face tof face on April 6th. I'll spend more time with him and we have some more conversation as well. He was in the district on Friday and met with a number of people in the district and just introduce himself and some directional things and trying to figure out what 2627's going to look like. Uh he'll be back in the district on May 5,6 and seven. And then of and he'll also be at the spring fling this coming >> Saturday. Boy, that
035came fast. Uh so we'll of course he'll have an opportunity to meet some people and and and so forth. So it's going well. It's it's an odd feeling. I'll be honest, but um I am very comfortable working with him. I think he has some really uh good ideas. I also know he's going to come on here and get to know the culture and the community and keep moving forward. Uh secondly, our last day of school that's also in here. Uh the only thing is at this point is we have the day which would be Friday, June 12th. We're not quite sure if it's a noon dismiss noon dismissal or a 3:00 dismissal. That all comes down to our clock hour report. So we're working on that. Uh and we'll get that posted as soon as
036we have that answer. uh some potential summer projects just to keep everyone updated. This a lot of this goes through the either the finance or the schoolboard or excuse me the long range planning committee. Um hallway lighting, classroom lighting, flooring project looking at some elementary gym ceiling work and some exterior work. Uh our buildings exterior wise have not been touched in many many years and could use some some tender loving care. All of this is still in the planning stage at this point. um announcement. Uh received another retirement letter. I'd like to thank him for his service here and that's Mike Thompson. And uh he's going out in style. He was also awarded Matt, help me get this right. This is the Michigan Coaches Hall of Fame. Michigan High School Coaches Hall of Fame. That's
037a great honor and that that is a that's the next step. So congratulations to Mike. Um we'll talk a little bit about u schoolboard workshop. Couple items coming up in May. We'll need to approve the interd district cooperative um schools of choice agreement. That could be a topic. Probably should be. And we'll also need to approve the northwest ed budget resolution or at least it's on the it's on the docket for uh discussion at our May meeting. Um, I believe that's all I have unless you have questions. And once again, congratulations to our robotics team now that Brian is here. And it wasn't just Brian. I understand that. And he'll be the first to tell you. So, uh, if it's been a it's been fun to walk I have no idea what they're doing in
038there. Be very clear of that. I walk in, there are machines and parts and stuff everywhere and our kids are working on them and lots of adult direction. But it's a really amazing opportunity for our kids just to get on college campuses alone. They spent three two three days at Ferris. They're going to spend another three days at Sageno Valley uh this coming Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So the great opportunities like our model UN kids to see what the rest of Michigan looks like in these cases. So, thank you, Brian, and to your whole crew. >> Great job. Those two matches at the end were so close. They were exciting. >> It was I know you just kept waiting for the calculation like, wait, maybe more balls winning, >> but they did great. >> Uh, one
039quick item, and this is really fast. Does anyone have any questions on the true law notes? >> If you do, please let me know. I'll walk you through the best I can. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Moving on. Finance committee. >> The uh finance committee met on Tuesday. We chose to spend most of our time focused on um understanding the finances of early childhood. As everybody here knows, we've been speaking for some time about uh developing some sort of a plan to resolve the issues of space taken up the ele school by our growing and increasingly popular and very effective early childhood program. Um and uh part of the question there is is very financial um in terms of the costs that come out of the general fund to support that program. Um
040and uh the committee uh dove into the details again in greater depth to really understand the financials there as we get ready to think about plans probably not until not for some reasonable amount of time but really get our heads around the operating model of the of that of that program so we understand it. Uh as a result we didn't cover other items that are urgent so we're going to meet again tomorrow. The additional items we need to cover are precisely what Jeff uh mentioned. Um specifically the uh the summertime projects that we plan to complete at the school infrastructure related. A few other things the uh override or hedge vote also we covered but the um decisions around lighting, flooring, some other interior and exterior refreshes of the school need to be made. And
041so we're going to meet again tomorrow, right, to cover to cover that. Um, and I'd just like to say thanks from everybody on the robotics team for the support that uh you guys um and that the school gives to us. Um, the team has done a really great job. We've got 15 students, primarily middle schoolers, only one high schooler competing in an all high school level event. Um, they hold their own. They do they we finished 123 out of 530 schools in Michigan. Um, this there are no divisions. So, we're up against 4,000 student high schools from downstate. Um, and uh we'll be at Sagenov Valley State trying to see how we can hold up against against some of the best schools in in Michigan. Um, so it's very exciting. The kids are extremely pumped
042up. I was late because they're over there turning wrenches and drilling holes and trying to get the robot tuned up uh for um what's going to be a great weekend. So, thanks again for all your support. Uh the whole team thanks you. Did they uh try to get some information on that one robot that was sinking like 300 balls? >> Yeah. I mean, it's funny. You can um there's like a whole universe about robotics that you kind of get exposed to. You don't even know it's there, but you can you can go down YouTube holes for days watching watching the the robots, the different styles. They have names. There's a there's a big dumper style, there's a turret style, there's the Death Star style, and all these people like and uh you know, it's it's
043been one of the neatest things for me is watching the kids not just there's the the building of the robot and sort of the mechanical education and and and technical education. There's electrical, it's all kinds of stuff, but then also sort of becoming engaged with the game itself and realizing that the work they're doing is for this bigger purpose. And you know, each kid on the team has a favorite school. There's like the cheesy poofs from California are really good. There's the the title wave team. There's the hot team from down. They all have like their and they argue about which one's better and they like really um and it just it's awesome. It's like it's like uh like we like to say, we have great sports teams here and um now we have a
044growing robotics team. It is 100% possible every kid on that robotics team can go pro in what they do. And that's a really neat and exciting thing for for all the all the coaches and and parents. The parent support has been extraordinary. So it's been it's been a neat uh coming together and um uh I should also last thing I'll say the school represents itself very well at these things. I mean we are like in terms of compassion, friendliness, uh engagement, a lot of the things the model UN guys mentioned, making friends with people from the strangers, um uh some public speaking, making negotiations, stuff like that. These kids really held up very well in a stressful environment. We're super proud of them. The parents as well. We have one of the best cheering sections,
045one of the kindest groups there. Um so everybody should be proud about what we're what we're putting out. It's really neat. >> Brilliant. But thanks again for all the support. Couldn't do it. It is an expensive sport. So appreciate it. >> Yeah. Well, thank you. It's a lot of time. >> Appreciate it. >> All right. Technology report. Moving on from robotics. >> Another aspect of my job. Thanks, Mike. Appreciate it. And then I'm just out of curiosity. So when we are using Chromebooks within the school district, is it does it collect data? like do you kind of know what everybody's doing on their Chromebook? >> I can come up with >> Okay. I was just curious. Okay, cool. Well, thank you. Thanks for all you do. Thanks for being here tonight, too. All right. Um,
046school board workshop date. We are looking at Gosh, why is time flying so fast? Uh, Monday, April 27th. Does that work for people >> six o'clock? All right, I'll send you guys. >> We should make the announcement. We should make the announcement here is that we want to meet in the elementary library. That seems to be a good spot some. Okay. So, we will be Monday, April 27th in the elementary library. 6 p.m. >> Yeah. Trying trying to send out >> I'll get that to you as well. >> Okay. Um, Bella and Griffin. >> Okay. >> All right. So, over the last little bit here, the students have experienced a few changes going into spring. We had spring break. I know I enjoyed it a lot. I know a lot of people took some good
047vacations, good rest, and after that, we're rolling into quarter four. Um, finishing up for the seniors, they're getting real close. Um, I know as a junior, we've got testing coming up later this week. On Wednesday, I believe we take the work keys test. Thursday will be the SAT and Friday is the I forget what it's called, but it's basically the MSTEP test. Um, and then we've also got a spring musical coming up real quick. So, a lot of exciting stuff. And Belle's got more exciting stuff to tell you about. >> Um, we have a NHS blood drive tomorrow. And if anybody is interested, please let me know. And I have like a little QR code that you can just like schedule when you want to do it tomorrow. and we're looking for more people because
048if we like reach a certain amount then NHS can get money and then that money like goes towards families certain Christmas time and like we help out families within our school district. So if anybody is willing or able to donate blood tomorrow, please let me know. Um we also have our NHS induction on April 30th and the new executive board is elected next Monday. And then seniors have their job shadow on Wednesday. So, we're getting out there looking at all sorts of things, stuff that we're interested in um beyond high school. And then we also had our senior trip, which is a lot of fun. Uh great experience, just a lot of fun to be with the whole class. And out in DC, uh we saw some really cool museums and buildings, that sort of
049stuff. And then sports are uh rolling. We had our season opener on Friday with baseball and then track too and softball and golf, all of it. Lots of fun. And then another congrats to our robotics team. Um, very excited to see how you guys do this weekend. Yeah, >> I do want to speak on that. I don't experience a lot of the robotics team, but the one member I do, he's in high school, Caleb Rosal, I believe. Um, he's always super excited about it. every time he gets to leave, he just stands up and you can just tell he's pumped to be there. So, I just want to say I see that um some days and I'm really grateful because I think he's a great kid and he deserves it. >> Bella, can you tell
050me more about how um seniors are choosing or getting assigned to um people to shadow? >> So, we have like free will on like whatever you guys are interested in, reach out and schedule it. Um, we do have like this sheet that we have to like fill out and say like what we did and like this person has to sign it. Um, like I know I'm going in like shadowing a ER doctor on Wednesday in Lington. So, just like seeing and exploring um what we're interested in and like I know the teachers will help if we have any problems connecting with somebody. >> Any other questions? I figure I'm in a room with someone that's going to have the answer instead of me looking it up. Um, when is you you piqued my interest. When
051is the spring musical? Does anyone have the date available in their brain? >> 23rd. The 23rd. Yeah. >> End of April. >> They have quite a few showing. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> 20. Sorry. So, just one voice. 23rd >> through the 25th. >> To the 25th. Thank you. different casts on different nights. >> Okay. >> Just in case you were specifically wanting to see somebody, you should check the cast list for that night. >> Okay. And is there a showtime as well? Like >> Thank you. So 70. >> Thank you. Thank you. Awesome. All right. Any other questions, comments? Okay. Thank you guys. Um, moving on and the elementary school. >> Um, so I presented my report to you. Wow, I'm loud when I have the mic on to start with. Um we we
052have uh a lot of things that we listed there. Observations are going on. We've completed all of our severe weather drills. We have one fire drill left. Um but there were a few things that I didn't necessarily include or I want to highlight. Um we've started the let's make a musical performance um practices again. And this is for fourth and fifth graders. We have 27 students participating. And on Thursday afternoons they go to the Garden Theater and they actually are writing their own musical. And so we have um people working with them to help them with the lyrics and the music and the theme and and they're in the beginning stages. But um I did include mark your calendars for June um 6 or June 4th at 6 PM at the garden. You won't want
053to miss it. We had a fantastic turnout last time and it was uh just a tremendous performance. So please um mark that one and we thanks to Sue Hammond for heading this up and walking the students down and uh supervising and facilitating for us. Um we are also um uh Mr. Chisum also mentioned MSTEP and testing. We are gearing up. We start with fifth grade testing next week and we will be continuing testing until the middle of May. Um and so we will be doing our our state testing for grades three through five, but also um our benchmark testing to prepare um for interventions and plans for for next year. Um I want to say thanks to Sue Hammond for taking 23 fifth graders to see FPRO in action uh on a bright and early
054Saturday morning and they went and I think that they were instrumental in helping them get the spirit award that they won that day. So um and they were >> there's nothing like 20,000 two 23 or how many of them were there? >> 23 screaming screaming fifth graders in your cheering section to make an impression on the uh on the event. Yeah. and the FPRO members also treated them like royalty and so they took pictures with them and with their signs and and all of those things. So it was a really great recruiting experience for you, but also it was something that really told the students what the possibilities were. And we followed that up with our very own duck bowl here um which was our battle bots um for about three hours in the little
055battlebot ring with all of the different rounds and um trying to knock each other out and trying to avoid the obstacles and it was amazing. So again, thanks to Sue Hammond for doing that as part of steam. That was fantastic. the it was that was such a nice part of it before we even started the FPro students who had been here just three or four years ago. They actually talked about it. They thanked the students for being part of their cheering section. Um talked about how the day was going to go and what their role was going to be. Um it was it was fantastic. Um this Last weekend we had a wacky luau which was a dance for preschool to second grade and then third to fifth grade. I would be not telling the
056truth if I thought it was going to go perfectly and it went better than perfect. And the fourth and fifth grade student council members did a fantastic job of setting it up and keeping it going. And I think the the people that came had a really good time. Um, and so I the other date I asked you to take a look at was our fifth grade expo for research projects is May 27th at 6 PM. It's one hour. We will have all of the fifth grade projects in the hallway uh with a chance for you to go and actually talk to the creator creator of those projects um and find out what they learned and what their thinking was and why on earth they chose black holes to talk about or whatever their their passion
057project is. So come and um we we love having your presence here. Come and take a look at what the fifth graders are going to be able to produce. Uh it's pretty remarkable what the fifth grade teachers help the students achieve. So uh any questions? >> Okay, Matt, middle and high school. >> Thank you. Um everybody should have a copy. I mean, I submitted one and then I know Jeff added a second page. Uh >> does anybody not have a copy? I have some I put some at your table because I technology didn't work for me that day. Um as Griff as Griffin had mentioned, um this is a big week for us testing wise. Our juniors will be testing Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Our ninth and tth graders will be taking the PSAT also
058on Wednesday. So our whole high school uh will be locked down for testing uh on Wednesday. And then um our middle schoolers will will test um the eighth graders have their PSAT next week and then our MSTEP stuff is the first week of May, May 5th and May 7th. Um our seniors the we time the job shadow up with our testing. So um 8th or 9th, 10th and 11th will be testing Wednesday and then our seniors are job shadowing. So they're not in the building. That's kind of how we try to coordinate that. Um robotics has had a big update. uh senior trip as was mentioned by Bella. Great. It was record number for us. 35 out of our 40 seniors attended. So just really incredible. Hoping to get uh some um type of presentation
059or some pictures or some things before the end of the year with that group. Um you know there was an update on scheduling a little bit on um retirements. Um all of our seniors except for two that we know of right now um 38 of the 40 are on track to graduate. Uh the other two uh they're on track but just at a different plan. So we already know like they'll be graduating at at a different time but just taking a little different journey but we're committed to helping them. Our FASA numbers are up for 2026. Um that's it's like eight or nine more than we had a year ago as far as submitted and accepted. So that's pretty exciting. Mr. Joselyn will be presenting at our May meeting um and he'll give some updates
060on the band. But we did have our um our Frankfurt Alberta Middle School participate in the solo ensemble at Boone City this past Saturday. Every student earned a medal, five divi first division ratings and one second division rating. And our first division uh people as soloist, Anna Tester, Trevor Keepky, Ella Fra and Zack Miller. And then McKenna KD and Haley Lowry. So, congrats to those first division. And then Zoe Lovely and Margaret Ker both in a duet took a second division. So, pretty exciting. Uh, good number of kids went up and competed and did a really nice job representing Frankfurt. You see, there's an art update also on my list. Um, Grace Scott won one of the top awards through the Crooked Tree Art Center um with our Juried Art Show. And then at our
061Oliver um art show, our own Willa Roth took home a first place ceramics award. Gray Scott, Ava Swina, Sweeney also took some big honorable mention awards. And then you see on the bottom there, a number of students brought home the special awards sponsored by um Slurping Bear, Bellis Cafe, Dingies, and A&W. So, it's pretty exciting to see our kids, especially in those jured art shows, do so well. So, really proud of them and uh congrats to Miss Harvey as well. Now you see a big list of important dates that are coming up and the just handpicked the hand some of them off the senior listings and then also some things that includes the drama production uh NHS induction and some of the other things that are coming uh on the calendar. If you have any
062questions about those at any time, send me an email. I'm happy to give you more information on what they are or maybe what's happening. And then lastly, just today uh received an email kind of nice thing. Uh the Michigan Intercolgiate Athletic Association, the NIAA, um they they take part they have their own academic awards um for their sports, but then they also participate in what's called the Hampshire Honor Society. And so all the conferences around the country then, you know, get put into this um group about uh to try to see about academics and athletic excellence. And we had two students uh from Albian College that uh and Albian only had they had 10 kids. Um Kelvin had like three kids. Adrian had two kids or three kids. So it wasn't like there was bunch
063of kids. But out of the Albian College kids, Tucker Harvard and Adam Mills, both Frankfurt grads were part of that prestigious honor society. So pretty cool representing Frankfurt at a at a high high level of academics. So good stuff. And that's it for now. Any questions? Well, thanks. I know this gets to be the start of the uh the busiest time of the year, so hope you got your seat belts on and ready to ride. >> It's always amazes me how much stuff gets done in these last couple of months. Um so, thank you. Uh business discussion, bus purchase. >> Believe it or not, we only have one. Um this is a conversation on a bus purchase. Uh this topic was brought to our long range planning committee as well and Frank Iikens was there
064and walked through uh that information. But before I go into the recommendation, just some more information. I talked with him today. U we're going to sell two buses. They're 2015 buses, so they're approaching 11 years old. So that's why we need to get rid of those. Um, we're hopeful that if we can get $16,000 for both, that would be wonderful. Um, that's probably more than we typically would get. So, those will be sold. Uh, a couple things we selected in those uh options. The white roof uh is an option, but it's the bus is cooler, the tinted windows are cooler. Uh there's a little bit of air for the driver which is very helpful for them to focus and be more comfortable. We did opt for a bigger bus, not a lot bigger, but it
065is a larger bus than what we have for a variety of reasons. U sometimes buses do more than haul kids. They haul equipment and a number of different things. Uh one of the key points is the bus that Frank is recommending that can be serviced by a local dealer, a local person in Traverse City. When we say local, that's Traverse City. If not, the other ones would need to go the other choices would need to go to Grand Rapids. Um the other piece, uh we upgraded the lighting package, which makes the bus easier, safer to see, and it's better to drive. Um also, uh these buses are shared, not shared, excuse me. Benzy Central has some of these buses as well. They have a little bit different setup than we do. Um, however, we try
066to keep that that bus in line because they they do service our buses and they have those parts available. Uh, so we're not looking for parts. So, that's a good fit for us as well. And that's we've done for a number of years. It's a really good cooperative agreement with Benzy Central. Um, I think those are the main points uh why that bus was selected. So, with this recommendation, we're recommending the Midwest Transit Zeremba equipment. Uh the bus totals $160,462. It meets all of our specs and then some that we wanted to provide. Um it fits in our line with our long range planning committee has done a really nice job of specking things out as far as what project comes next. This bus purchase fits in our line of transportation as far as replacement.
067That's important. Um the other piece I mentioned is this manu this bus manufacturer we have good stock of diff of parts. So um we have the three quotes. Uh our recommendation uh for Frank Iikens and myself is to approve the purchase of the new bus from his equipment at a total of $160,942. And it also fits into our planned expenditures uh with our using our bond funds. So we're on track to to use those funds that way. So that's the recommendation is to purchase that bus 160,942 from Midwest Transit Zeremba. >> So you said we're selling two buses and we're so and we're buying one. So our fleet will be how many? >> Well, we have an extra one. I think I believe we'll be at four. I have to double check for sure with
068Frank, but I know the two that we are going to get rid of are our very two oldest buses and they need to go. >> Yeah, we'll have four. Uh, our newest one we bought last year, >> I believe. That's correct. >> So, these two were scheduled as part of the bond fund, a schedule replacement of the the older buses. >> Yeah, we're we're in pretty good shape with our cycle of of buses. So, we're fortunate. >> Yeah. For the rest of you guys, we we discussed this with uh Jeff and with Frank in uh finance committee meeting. Talked about the old buses and shockingly low resale value of these things. >> Yeah. >> Go figure. Actually, it's more than what we got in the past. >> It's funny that that's a good deal. Yeah,
069we'll see. >> These are uh these are electric. >> No, >> they're not electric. >> Okay. >> No, we're not ready to go down that road quick. >> And and are they um is it the IC? >> Yes. >> Brand that are because those are basically serviceable everywhere. I mean, it's a universal >> brand, right? So, not just in Traverse City, but I mean you can you can have those serviced. >> Yes, you can. But but the other what my point was the other buses that we had an option either Holland or Hulra, those are not serviceable in Traverse City. >> And what brand are they were they promoting? It's not IC buses through >> No, they what we're going with is the Midwest Transit Zermba bus. That's the recommendation. >> Yeah. So, Holland's Bluebird.
070>> Okay. So, it's a different It's not an IC bus. No. is what you're telling me. Okay. >> Okay. Any other questions? So, it sounds like Long Range Planning recommends it as well as Frank and and Jeff. >> Yes. >> So, I would entertain a motion to approve the purchase of the bus for $160ome,000. >> $160,942. I'll make the motion to buy the bus. >> Brian >> Second, Liz. Any other discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Great. >> Thank you. >> All right. And at this point, unless there's any other business items that you've thought of, no, we're good. Um, we'll open it back up for public participation if anybody wants to say anything. All right, with that we will see you guys back here for a workshop meeting
071in two weeks um at six o'clock and we are adjourned at 7:09.