001Hello and welcome to the FBA school board, everybody. Looks like we're all present and accounted for. So, we're going to call the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. If we could all stand for 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. Great. Thank you so much. It looks like we've got a full boat today with the exception of our fearless leader, Amy Schindler, um, who is our president. I'm the vice president, so I'll be running the meeting tonight. Um, wanted to welcome everyone. Looks like we've got everyone, but Nope, we got everybody else. Awesome. Okay, great. Um, are there any guests tonight that wish to be recognized at
002this time? In just a moment, we'll ask for public comment if there is any. Did anyone just want to be recognized? >> Okay, >> it's all our crew. >> All our crew. All right. All right. So, moving on. And I hope you've all had a chance to review the agenda, the notes that were sent out. Thank you, Aubrey. Those were so thorough and appreciated. Um, at this time I would enter one change. >> One change. >> Yeah. Uh, when we get to the Whoops, I did it again. When typically the approval of the agenda once we do consent agenda, it all goes through. Um, I need to add one item 8.7 approval of schoolboard meeting dates for 2026 and that is at your table. >> Now we can go ahead and >> Great. Thank you
003so much. All right. So, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> So, moved. >> Thank you, Megan. >> Second. >> Aubrey seconded. Thank you. >> Aubrey seconded board. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion passes. Okay. and Aubrey sent out the meeting minutes. Thank you so much. Uh, were there any additions or edits to the last uh, month's meeting? >> Wes gave me a small edit. There was a typo and I accidentally said that uh, Richard Han's grandparents might be attending, not his grandchildren. So, I made those changes. >> Oo, [laughter] that would have been spectacular. Wow. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes from our last meeting? Make the motion. >> Wes moves. Second. I'll second that.
004Seconded by Megan. Thank you. All in favor? >> I. Motion passes. Great. Okay. With that, we can move on to our financial report. Please, >> you want to We got to back up. Just Just a second. >> Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. Excuse me. um public participation. >> Wait, wait. >> Yeah, they're out of law. >> Oh, the No, the financial report is just that gets going with the consensus. >> That's the budget. >> Okay, >> go ahead. >> Okay, so we're jumping to public participation. Thanks, Brian. >> We're fine. >> Okay, this >> Yep. publication. >> All right. At this point, I'd like to invite anyone in the public who'd like to speak to the board to do so. reminder that it's uh three minutes uh tops for your speaking and it's normal for
005us um to listen and absorb but not necessarily to respond. Is there anyone who'd like to speak? Anyone? You'll have a second chance to speak at the end of the meeting as well. >> All right. No hardy volunteers. Okay. So, with that, we will move on to the superintendent report. >> Thank you. uh in your packet on page 25, there's a number of things that have taken place. Just quickly, lots of meetings, uh title n trainings, uh congratulations to our drama students for a wonderful show, and I'm sure Mr. Stapleton will mention that as well. Uh the empty bowl dinner, if you had an opportunity to attend that, that was wonderful. Uh foundation meeting also met. We've had long range planning committee meetings. Uh Holly Berry Festival, wow. Uh hats off to Brennan Nent uh
006for organizing that from the chambers point of view. It was wonderful. Uh most vendors I've seen in many many years. So it was really well done. Uh district finance committee met. Uh Brian will talk about that. And then uh lots of things are going to be happening the next week uh two weeks especially the week of the 15th for programs and so forth. Uh long range planning committee met. Uh we have lots of things we're continuing to work on. uh primarily um well not primarily but a lot of things but one continues to be our focus is our early childhood center uh that we continue to work on. Lots of conversation. Um the committee concluded that we need to uh get some looks from a feasibility study as far as some opportunity where we could
007how we could use those uh that building that area. We just need to have some more conversation with that for a potential site. uh nothing has been decided at this point. Uh and we're also uh in conversation and exploring and very open to looking at some operational funding sources uh to keep that going. It's the operational piece that we're spending a lot of time on. I think we'll have a lot of support for the building addition, whatever that stems to be. Uh preparing for January schoolboard meeting. Just a note to our board members that at that meeting uh we'll elect your board president and the election of officers and some organizational mo uh motions and all of that will take place prior to our general meeting really beginning a high school carpet renovation. I sent
008a uh some information out to staff today. That's going to take place over winter break on the main corridors of the high school along with the library and the ramp between the two offices. Uh most importantly, happy holidays. Uh >> what dates are that? >> Uh we will begin the renovation on the 19th. Actually, the supplies will arrive as soon as we have staff and students exited the building and then that'll run through the winter break and hopefully that will all go well um and get uh staff back in the buildings. It'll be ready for the Janu January 5th return to school. So that's all set and we're ready to go there. >> Great. Uh once again, happy holidays. Uh it's going to be a little bit busy um at the building, but that's that's
009said to be and we're happy to do that and looking forward to that change. Uh before I do go into the true law notes, uh I want to make a mention of our uh staff uh staff letters of retirement, uh Joe Hollandbeck, uh Rebecca Hubard, Mike Tysworth, Sue Hammond, Barb Ians, Frank Iikens, and you've received my letter uh last month. So, um, congratulations to those staff. Uh, lots to say, uh, later on. Um, they're a wonderful group of people. Um, with lots of knowledge of the district for many, many years and we'll move forward uh, as we, uh, plan for those transition pieces for the remainder of the school year. Still lots to be done, but we will have to start thinking about transition process at some point in time. the trun law notes. Um,
010not a lot there at this point. Does anybody have any specific questions? >> No, these are pretty straightforward. I thought >> these are very straightforward. >> A lot of not applicables. >> They are not. So, with that said, um I do not have anything else uh for the superintendent report unless I'm of course happy to take questions. All right, hearing none, we can move on to our early childhood program report. Amber Wilson and company. [laughter] >> No, it's coming back on. It's just taking a minute. Uh, >> should we hit the lights? It just looks really faint. >> Oh, it's just taking its head. >> It's just warm now. It'll get there. >> I feel that. >> To there. Okay. I'm like, man, is that >> Thank you. I appreciate that. Uh, well, thank you
011guys for giving us some time. Uh, we always love to share what we're doing. Uh, sometimes it feels like we're just down in our wing doing our thing and all you guys hear is, you know, crying and the big stuff. So, we want to share some of the good stuff as well as some of our challenges just uh as we're looking at long range planning. We just wanted to have some time to give you guys some input. Um so, go ahead and go to the first slide. Uh the first thing I have to do is recognize uh the people that make our early childhood so exceptional. Uh we have one of the best, and I can say that because I've been in a lot of the programs around here, uh one of the best early
012childhood programs, uh in the area, and it's because of uh these ladies. Uh they do an exceptional job and they do it with very few breaks. Uh they eat with the children, they clean up after the children. Uh and then when their workday is over, uh twice a week they go and they provide afterare for the elementary students. Uh so hats off to you guys. You do an exceptional job and you deserve every recognition. So well done. Um, and this was from the county commissioners gave us some money to do um, early childhood professional development in the county. Uh, and actually uh, two of our teachers, Elizabeth and Haley, presented at the professional development out at Crystal Mountain. It was really amazing. They did something on uh, brain architecture and how uh, brains are kind
013of formed and how trauma affects the brain as they're growing up. So well done to you too and everybody else that uh our whole staff went which is always really amazing. Uh they all took three hours out of their evening to go. All right so here are just the numbers. So right now we have 12 uh early childhood infant toddler students in one classroom. Uh eight of those or nine of those are staff >> will be nine when she returns. >> Yes. Yes. So nine of them are staff which is really great. Uh then we have our tuition preschool which is those students that are not four by December 1st. So three two and a half to four year olds in that classroom and they have 16 students. And then GSRP we have two classrooms
014one with 20 and one with 17. Um that was a change to GSRP this this last year uh that they capped it at 20 instead of 16. Uh so uh Kirsten was very good to say yes Amber I will give that a try. Uh and her and Ashley are doing an exceptional job of uh dealing with 20 uh small humans. Uh and then the other GSRP classroom is our extended GSRP classroom. Uh so we have the about 176 days for that. So they go kind of the more traditional school schedule. Uh and actually Liz and Alyssa teach that and it's a a newer model. So Liz is our 1755 provider, which is our special education teacher. We're full inclusion for special education and early childhood. So Liz provides the special education services and Alyssa is
015the uh general education teacher. So they do that together, which has been working really well uh for us this year. So hats off to you guys for giving that a try. Um, so on the infant toddler weight list, as of today, we actually stopped taking any more uh intake on the weight list because it was just too long. Uh, so we have 10 kids on the infant toddler weight list. We have 10 children on the preschool weight list and we only have two on GSRP. Um, and the GSRP ones, the only reason they're on the wait list still is because they haven't finished the process of enrollment. Um, everybody else um pretty much found other care other places. I try and follow up with them as we go just to kind of see which are
016real weight list kids uh and which are kids that are just they were but they found something else. And for staffing, we have five lead teachers, five assistant teachers, and two aids. Okay. All right. Miss Haley, do you want to present for your room? So, this is my third year teaching infant toddler and I remember the summer Amber's like, "Hey, is anybody interested?" I was all about it. Um, and it has come with a set of challenges. At that point, I didn't have my own kids, so I was winging it. But it has been probably one of my favorite positions in the seven years I've worked here. Um, last year we had five infant infants. I we had five three months old start a mass with our other children to put us at 12. This
017year it's been really rewarding. Uh we get to see those five are now toddlers and then our babies last year are older toddlers. And so some things that uh we implemented last year is we have Miss Smith come into our classroom. It is the highlight I think of the kids day, our day. Um she does such a fantastic job with them and she sings songs and gets on the floor and brings um musical instruments into our room. So we get to do that twice a week. And then we've also partnered with um Miss Heidi, our librarian, and she comes in once a week and does a story with us and um a little song with a game. And so it's been really cool because uh it is really hard to get the attention of those
018kids, but it is like they are fixated on uh Miss Heidi and Miss Melly when they come in. So it's really cool to see. Um, and so some things that is I often hear walking in the hallway is like, "Oh, but they're too little. How do they do these things?" Or, um, like, "Oh, they I I don't understand like they don't how are they taking their shoes off or how are they taking care of their own needs?" And so, this is something I think we often forget is yes, they're so little, but we are teaching them to take off their their shoes to get themselves dressed. Um, with our five new uh toddlers, we are using instruments, uh, learning how to use utensils, fill up our cups, uh, drink from an open cup. Like, these
019are all skills that hopefully by kindergarten we're not knocking over our carton of milk every single day because they've figured these things out. So, we are putting those like very first developmental steps. Um, and so I have most of our class can help set the table. They clean up the table. They take care of their own things. They ask for more food. Um they're able to refill their plates if they want more food. Um and it's just really cool because they are one and a half and they have all of these skills. Um and then this is just one of our uh favorite things. If you ever walk into our room, we're usually doing Old McDonald and it's probably my favorite thing ever is listening to them make all of the animal sounds. [laughter] So
020I just had to throw that in there. Um, and then we just do a lot of exploration and sensory play. And, uh, anybody who walks into our room, it's either going to be met with, uh, a hug from one of our little ones or, um, they're asking you for food. So, [laughter] thank you. >> Hi. Um, my name's Gretchen Schuman. Um, the kids call me Miss G. Last year was my first year within this program and I worked in the infant toddler room as an assistant. Uh my background is in early childhood education like my education background um with a minor in art and they Miss Brit generally teaches this class for the last few years but she was pregnant so they needed somebody that was going to be able to take over during her
021maternity leave. So I had the pleasure to do that and Miss Khloe is my assistant this year and we were having a great time. Um, my class consists of two and a half year olds and a few turn four by the end of the year. And it's kind of nice because I have a few kids from the infant program last year that have moved up to my class. So, it's kind of been fun to just watch them grow. Um, my class is a lot about exploration. You know, allowing the kids to use different building materials, different art materials, um, exploring things. you know, sometimes we do make messes and that's okay. We learn how to clean them up. Uh we have lots of little brooms and mops and things like that. Um so our class
022is just about learning how to be a part of a community. So each kid has a job each day they get to pick. And that's anything from the prime jobs that all the kids want are door holder and line leader, but we also have snack helper and we have chair stacker and we have uh mess helper. Um all these fun jobs that just kind of helps them learn how to be a part of the community because it takes, you know, everybody to build that together. Um we work on a lot of sharing and working together and the kids are starting to develop at this age um not just mere playing with their peers, they're starting to learn to play together. So creating those friendships that hopefully will be friendships that start from two and a
023half all the way through high school um through the Frankfurt system. Um, and uh, yeah, I mean, okay, [laughter] thanks for letting me talk. Hello, I'm Kirsten Lambert. This is my third year here. Um, Miss Ashley is my assistant teacher. We've been together three years now. So, um, a little bit about our class. We love being able to work together. U right now the kids are really into just recognizing letters and their sounds and like we'll go through the ABC sound and they'll be like, "Oh, D is for so and so." Or, "Oh, that's in my name." Um, just really trying to get them engaged and ready for the next step when they go into kindergarten. Um, we have a morning meeting every single day. We are singing and dancing. Uh we're learning and they
024get to pick their jobs. Uh very similar to like Miss G how we have our jobs in our classroom. Um we have been doing a lot of fun activities. As you can see, we did turkey vests. The kids were very very proud of them. Um >> we were too. >> We were very proud. [laughter] We've been really We have a lot of girls in our class and they love love crafts. So, uh, they've been keeping us on our toes this year to make sure we're constantly doing crafts and we're constantly switching out different toys to keep them entertained. Like our dramatic play was, uh, grocery store. We did family fair and then now we're into like a Christmas bakery. Um, and again, we're just learning about different studies. Right now, we're learning about a light
025study. So, we're giving the kids a flashlight and showing them what trans or showing them and how to teach them like transparent and opaque and um using a lot of those big words where they get super excited and they actually know what they are and they're making those connections. So, and I'm uh currently almost done with my master's degree in early childhood and I'll be graduating uh next December. So, thank you Um, so I'm Elizabeth and this is my eighth year teaching at Frankfurt and first year as 1755 prep rider and co-teer with Miss Alyssa. Um, so we've been walking to the library monthly for fun craft and story time with Miss Heidi. Um, and the kids have really enjoyed adventuring out to the library. And when we first started this, we're like, "Oh, yeah,
026that's great." And then we're like, "How are we gonna do this with snow pants and stuff, but she embraced it with us and last month we went in our full snow gear all the way there and back and they loved it. Um, and it's just she's um does a great job. We do some songs and we make crafts and the kids get to come back and like we Yeah, like I said, we walk there and back and people are sometimes shocked to see us walking with the kids. Um that part's fun though to get them out in the community. Um a lot of the times they'll be like, "My mom works there or I have been there before." And it's like the gas station and they're so excited to tell everybody. >> Yeah. So that's
027fun to get out into the community for them to see, too. >> Yep. And then um we also been embracing the snow. Um so like getting snow gear on is a long winter season and so we've been working really hard and um me and Alyssa were just talking like this group is very successful of getting their snow gear on and like today we had a lot of stragglers not wanting to get their snow gear on. I'm like you're going to miss out on sledding and they're like sledding? I was like yeah with real sleds? They're like oh. So they're like got on and then like right as soon as we get out to the playground, let's get the sleds out. Where's the sleds? And so um >> we went Yep. >> We went sledding down.
028>> Mhm. Um we also went to the fire station um and learned about fire safety and got to see all the equipment and the kids really liked that. Um we did ride the bus over with that so they thought that was great because some of our kids that might be their only time on the bus. Um, but they did great and then we learned all about fire safety. Um, and they were talking about that for a while. So that's our classroom. >> All right. So in early childhood, we like to celebrate the little things and we generally look at things pretty positively. Um, but I thought it was important to kind of share some of our challenges that challenge us every day. [laughter] Uh, for example, we have two classrooms that don't have bathrooms in
029them. And while they're just across the hallway, that seems like not a big deal, except in early childhood, uh, we can't let kids go anywhere without us having eyes on them. Uh, and we also can't go out of ratio. So, if we have two people in the classroom and one has to take a student to the bathroom, if that takes more than five minutes, it always takes more than five minutes in early childhood. uh we actually have to you know radio for someone to help to support and on most days uh that means that somebody's break is shortened uh because we c we can't go out of ratio so somebody has to come back from break to cover the bathrooms. Um we also have to deal with licensing which um is something that I know
030we talk a lot about when um when I get the opportunity to go talk to our congressman and stuff like that. That's one of the things we talk about a lot uh is being in the public school. We not only have all the public school rules, but we also have the licensing rules. So, for example, we can only go in our early childhood classrooms within this building. Uh we cannot eat in this room even though it is made for eating. Uh unless it's on a special uh case. Um we like we couldn't have just like library time because it's not a licensed space for us. So, we run into a lot of little uh red tape things. And our licensing consultant is incredible. Uh, and she has come up here several times like I'm like,
031"Hey, we got to like use this other room regularly." And she does a pretty good job, but it's all all that red tape that we have to go through to make sure that we can go into the places. Um, familyfriendly. The thing about that is early childhood is so family focused, right? We are an extension of the family. We have these uh the littlest humans in their family. Uh, and being in the elementary school, we can't allow that as much as we would like to just because it's such a big uh operation. Uh, so of course families drop off drop off and pick up out front and it would be wonderful in in a different setting to be able to allow parents to come in, help their kids get their stuff off, maybe even eat
032breakfast with us and just have kind of a softer start to the day. Um, and then the meal space, like I mentioned, um, our classrooms get pretty nasty at the beginning of the year when milk spills every day, uh, because we have to teach them how to do milk cartons. And if you put a straw in it, you can't tip it up like this and all of those things. Um, and so we can't eat anywhere except for in our classrooms, but if we had an early childhood space, we could have an early childhood uh eating space, which would be helpful for all of us. Um, and those were just kind of the big things we wanted to highlight. Generally, things are incredible and we're we're very content and happy, but just some of the things
033that we have that are challenges. And then my last uh and Kirsten you announced some of the stuff that I was going to highlight. We have again incredible staff and we partner with teach uh to provide uh degrees at no cost uh which is incredible. So Kirsten uh Liz has already taken advantage of it and gotten her master's degree. Kirsten's uh really close to hers. Alyssa uh is really close to her associates degree and will then go on to get her bachelor's degree in early childhood. Ashley just completed her CDA. A little test she's got to do, but nothing more really. Uh Haley completed her associates degree uh and is working to complete her bachelor's degree. And then uh Liz taking on that new 1755 role. And then Molly, I wanted to highlight uh Molly
034is uh helping the community. She makes little cake things and donates them to uh bacon uh so that everybody can have a birthday cake on their birthday. So just incredible staff that we have. I'm not going to share the last slide. I'll come back later to kind of show you some of the data. But uh any questions that you have for us? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Do what you do. >> So appreciated. >> All right. Great. Uh, finance committee report. Brian, did you want to lead this one? >> Thanks, Liz. [clears throat] Uh, so [clears throat] >> thanks a lot, guys. Thank you everyone. >> We can give them just a minute. >> Thank you. Thank you guys. [applause] Good job. >> It is nice to be okay, Mom. >> Good job. >> I
035didn't want you to take the first one. >> Yeah. Was it? [laughter] >> I said finance and the room just empties. >> Exactly. This is interesting this week. All right. [laughter] Anyway, so [clears throat] the finance committee met last week. Um, primarily we spoke about the updated budget. You guys may recall that. Um um during the course of our budget budgeting process over the summer, we had some question marks around state funding and where the numbers were going to land. Remember some of this? >> Yep. >> Um then we got the news that things were okay, not not as good as they had been, but not disastrous. And so we had uh the final numbers have kind of come in and we asked Heather to redo the budget given there were a lot of like
036placeholder numbers in here. Um and so that has been redone and we went through it in the finance committee meeting. Um the story is um as follows. Essentially everything's okay. Um we have the the skipping to the end of the story. The the projection for the fund balance which is the ratio of the amount of money we have essentially in the bank relative to uh as a as a portion of how much we spend during a year as a fund balance uh is going to drop. Last year we finished at a 42% fund balance. That will decline to 33%. So a a uh a meaningful decline of about $581,000. That was expected post teacher negotiations and some other things. Um but it was accelerated because of the change in state funding that came in through
037the year or the the final number that we got. Okay. So we're down on fund balance somewhat expected. Um the revenues for for the first time in a while our revenue numbers our total revenue numbers uh income in a business context are down uh by about uh 1.2%. The revenues in total if you add everything up declined by about $120,000 [cough] last year to this year. Um, interestingly, the the line called local revenues, which is essentially our property tax revenue, this the money we get from people paying property taxes, increased by about a little bit less than 4%. Uh, by about is roughly roughly 200 200 200 a little bit more than $200,000 about 4%. So our our local revenues continue to increase as property values increase. People have to pay more taxes, local revenue
038increases. So that's good and expected. The the um uh the the state revenues, however, declined from last year. Our state revenue numbers were 2.2 million in total. Uh and this year they they they fell by about 400,000 450,000 to 8 1.8 million. So we went from 2 actually yeah 2.25 25 million to 1.8 million. So, a meaningful decline in state revenues. That's a really tricky one from a budgeting standpoint because, as we learned this year, you just kind of don't know what you're going to get. You can have some expectations, there's some forecasting, they kind of give signals, but until they pass the budget, we don't know what that number is going to be. And while we're fortunate as a district that we have such significant local revenue numbers, you look at some of our
039peers around here, like we're doing great in that category. um you know last year two and a quarter million dollars came from the state. That's a lot of the money that we spend to operate school. So if that number changes significantly it makes things challenging for us from a from a planning standpoint. Um so uh we also in addition to some decline in revenues part of the reason the fund balance so the revenues total revenues declined by about $120,000 as I said um yet our our fund balance declined by uh 581,000 meaning we spent 581,000 more than we received this year. So in addition to the decline in revenues we also had uh increases in expenses in a [clears throat] number of categories. Um the pro uh uh so our our total expenditures from uh
04024 25 were were just shy of $10 million 9.9 and change. Uh and our forecast uh uh budget for this year is is about $1 million. So expenses uh increased meaningfully. Primarily that's that is coming out of uh uh uh forecast changes in uh staff costs. There are a few other one-time things in here as well. some deferred maintenance that we're taking on, but primarily uh instruction is up, support staff's up, um and and as I said, we do have a large one-off maintenance line item in, uh operations and maintenance for some stuff we're going to fix. >> Can I ask a question real quick? >> Of course. >> Um are those costs up? I know that you said earlier primarily because of the staff renegotiations because we did almost everybody's >> Yep. >> Um
041is it alsone additional last year or no? Is there any It's just >> we hired people but primarily replace staff didn't meaningfully grow last year. >> No additional. So it's most it's almost entirely from >> it's it is primarily due to changes in the staff compensation structure. Um the numbers grew significantly this year. Uh but because of the structure of the contracts, my understanding is we won't see the same rate of growth year-over-year. there was sort of a jump in in in uh compensation this year to to kind of catch up that will not happen every single year. Um but so you know um on one hand so so that's sort of the summary of the budget. Um my analysis of this for whatever it's worth uh is um you know it's not good to
042spend more than you take in in general. Um and that's true in any sort of context. Uh however [snorts] there there was a sense that the fund balance had grown to a level beyond where it had to be in terms of our security. The fund balance the way simplest way to think about this is a rainy day fund. You know if that state revenue number had fallen from 2.2 not to 1.8 but 2.2 to nothing. Um because of our fund balance we could carry on until we had time to figure out some other plans. So, it's a nice buffer in case things go off the rails in unexpected ways, which, you know, even for a district as blessed as we are, can happen, >> right? >> Um, however, um, uh, you know, if we if
043we're spending nearly $600,000 more than we take in, uh, on a recurring basis, we can only do that for so long. So, I think this is this is a this is a trend we're going to have to watch carefully as the year goes on. We got to see if our final numbers this is a budget number. You know, every year the budget doesn't end up being exactly like reality. So, we got to see how reality ties out to the budget through the course of this year. And then when we get to budgeting season next year, make sure we're um managing these these shortfalls which I think are predicted to continue for a couple of years until local revenues catch up. >> The largest impact this year with the largest impact this year should be this
044year, >> right? with a caveat that we don't know what the state revenues are going to do as things move forward etc. >> But as far as the staffing increase >> but in terms of the staffing increase we would expect not to see the same increase in the same proportionate increase in expenses next year. So um everything seems okay. A fund balance of 33% is a good fund balance relative to most schools not just around here but most schools in the universe. That's a good fund balance. Um uh and um at the same time with times being what they are and the fact that we were all nervous that that state number was going to be a much lower number uh we want to make sure that we remain in a position where if that
045does come to pass we're not uh taking super drastic measures but have room to maneuver essentially. Um so that's my my take on this is some some uh editorial commentary on that but that that was a lot of the discussion in the school in the finance committee meeting. So before I spew other points, anything else? Any questions on that? >> No, >> I just want to add I think that's an excellent summary. Um and it really is hard to overstate the impact of those state funds and we were initially running some scenarios that put our fund balance in the teens and projected three years out um negative fund balances which is pretty terrifying. So it see you know 2.2 two million doesn't seem like that much, but when you're talking about a total op revenue
046of $10 million, it's, you know, 20% plus, it's a big chunk. So, I we were we were uh a little sweaty in the palms for a while and this was generally a good outcome. Not as good as we'd liked it to have been um last year, but not the worst news we could have gotten either. >> Sure. Exactly. Exactly. Um, and I would mention one thing that we continue to work on is we're trying to we have a a goal in the committee to try to pick a fund balance that we feel is like the right fund balance. Um, like a target fund balance. We we haven't gotten there yet. As I've I've been doing this for a couple years now, it's funny. You could pick a target and then things change and then suddenly
047there's there's money. you know, you budget for a person to hire, you don't manage to hire the person, so that comes out of the budget, but then some other expense because it's a little hard to plan these things. Um, uh, which is, I think, true in any in any sort of operation of this scale, but so we we would like to say, you know, is 33% the right number? We'd like to have some sort of opinion where in our minds and together as a group, we can say, oh, yeah, that's the right number, or it's too high, or it's too low, or whatever, >> um, based on more than just a feeling. >> So, we're working on the right way, figuring out a way to to pick what that number is. Um, one other point
048I'd make, I should I should have mentioned, we have some we have some meaningful increases in some things that I think we collectively need to keep an eye on. Um, the um, for preschool after that excellent presentation um, and also for our food service, part of the way the budget works is those things operate as separate funds. So, they have their own balance sheets and income statements. They get money from grants and different and tuition for preschool and they operate their own their own income statement. And then if those things end up being positively funded through the course of a year, they keep the money in the bank essentially. I don't know if it's actually in a bank or what, but they keep the money somewhere else. So they have a balance of funds. If
049they end up to to be operating in the red at the end of the year, the general fund, which is our main budget, makes up for the shortfall. So we basically fund our food service, we fund our preschool from general fund money. So money that we would otherwise be using for paying salaries and you know maintenance in the building etc. Some of that is is used to support those programs. Um the the numbers uh the amount of money that we're we're we're providing from general fund to those programs increased substantially this year as well as a as a as a a ratio. Um last year uh food service general fund support money general fund paid out to food service was 88,000. This year it's 164,000 forecast. So an increase in the amount of money that
050we're paying to for food for the kids for you guys. Um and uh pre uh preschool early childhood increased from 40 about 40,000 to about 90,000. So the amount of money that we're paying to support this wonderful staff primarily staff cost there uh increased. Um this is another thing that we discuss and debate. Is that okay? Is that not okay? you know, some amount of support is perhaps expected. Um, and then there are other are levers that we can pull to have those programs be more self-supporting. Um, like there's tuition charged for some early childhood students who aren't on grants and maybe get more grants and different things like that. So, we're keeping an eye on that as well because, you know, if those numbers continue to rise, they're just they're just adding to to
051money that has to come out of this this fund, these funds that we can't use for other things we do at the school. Um it's an interesting one, but so just to call that out, those the the shortfalls there uh increased as well. >> So just a quick note, when I started on the board, um the food program was in the red, so to speak. And so um we at that point were having Jenna come in monthly, quarterly to give us kind of an update on how things were going. And since we're and then we got in the green and she kind of stopped coming to meetings. And so I'm wondering is that something that we should be doing again? Is that a recommendation from the finance committee? I don't know what Jeff thinks. Like
052is that >> should we be having Jenna come back in and give us updates or >> I I I sincerely do not know enough about how the the the ma my my my very limited understanding about the the way the math works on the food budget is is that it's kind of complicated. We get some grant support. The grant support is based largely on the number of students who are eating, but then we have to staff it and send often buy food for some other number of students. So if if a bunch of people show up and eat, >> then we get to get more grant money, but if fewer kids are coming, we still need to have the same number of people getting, you know, available. So it's like it's uh it's not like
053it's a little hard to plan, I think. Um, and um, uh, I mean, I think it'd be it's always nice to hear from Jenna what's going on with the food. Maybe we should do that anyway, just in general. >> Um, >> however, I don't know that a lot of this is necessarily in her control is what I would say. Yeah, Heather mentioned that the biggest factor in this increase was actually I don't want to say too much, but it has to do with staffing and insurance and costs on that side, not actually food costs. >> Gotcha. >> Yeah. I don't think it's it's food cost is a portion of it, of course. >> Um and then, you know, early childhood, it's it's a $90,000 support from the general fund. Well, it's like, you know, they
054get a couple different grants this year and that number goes down or those grants go away, the number goes up. It's not it's not it's like um you know it's I think it's really useful that the general fund can provide a buffer for these programs so they can just operate and if things move differently because new rules come in or new grants or grants go away that we can continue to provide the services and not be you know asking fewer kids to join us for the year or whatever but it's but it does um [clears throat] there's some level where this is fine and then there's some level where we have to restructure something somewhere you know and so I think Again, some uh uh uh editorial comment here. I think this is fine. Uh
055and I think we need to keep an eye on it because if these trends continue, we might need to make some changes. So, >> I don't know if you agree with that. >> 100%. I think early childhood education is or early childhood is um significantly subsidized as well and it's a very very important program to us. It's best for our kids. It's best for our family. It's best for our community. So, we're happy to pay that money, but we also want to make sure that we can make it, you know, as sustainable as possible. >> Yeah. And I'd argue in a in an 11 million budget, $90,000 is is is that's the cost of that program. It's a pretty good deal. >> Yeah. >> Uh but we should all be on the same page in
056that regard and make sure we understand it, you know. >> Yeah. And we want a great program. >> And we want a great program and that costs money. So, Sure. Okay. Any other questions on the budget stuff? I got a couple more updates. Okay. Um, we uh uh agreed that we will open a position for a new custodian, which I think we're going to have on the thing tonight. Um, we spoke about the the Hall Street property that we own um and had a a good meeting with uh a group of people uh um about uh potentially developing teacher housing on that location. I think we've spoken about this over the past years, different points. >> We're going to talk through theou. >> We are going to talk about it here. Okay. So, yeah. So,
057I'll save any. So, but that was good. Good. And then we also did discuss uh uh the early childhood um space that we're considering and have been talking about at different points over the past years again and had further conversations there about starting to do some more detailed planning about what might work. I think that the idea there is that resolves some of the issues that Heather was mentioning with the early childhood uh program today and perhaps more critically has the possibility of freeing up a bunch of extra classrooms in this building so we can continue to expand services for our elementary kids. Um and that's about it. >> Great update. Thank you. Any questions for Brian? All right, Mike. Technology report. Just uh very briefly, I wanted to thank the ISD publicly for their
058assistance and their oversight. Um since Brit came on, uh Brit's been helpful, but more more importantly, the big picture, um the ISD support is really crucial. Um just this probably in the last month, they have helped me install a switch, which would have been something we would have hired out and had somebody come in to do. Um they're helping us with -ate which is very confusing for me and I'm intimidated by it. So I'm always helpful or always glad to get help. Um they behind the scenes they're configuring Windows updates for all the staff laptops and making sure those are happening from a central point and they're also overseeing our endpoint protection um on our servers and all the staff laptops. We've caught like different behind the scenes viruses and staff doesn't even know about
059it. It's all just being taken care of behind the scenes. So, um, it really puts me at ease and I'm grateful for them. That's it. >> Report is in front of you, Miss Walt. >> Um, so the they're kind of just brief little um nuggets that I have here. Observations. I've started doing my formal observations with um my encycle staff and uh I'm enjoying the time that I get to go into the classrooms. We really have some talented teachers doing some wonderful things in our classrooms. I will be um hopefully getting all of the on cycle teachers one formal evaluation before or observation before we leave for break. So I'm excited about that. Um I participated with ISD consultants in something called walking folky and what I did with that was I went with them
060and we just looked for evidences of teacher clarity. This was baseline data that we were getting so that we'll have some things that we'll be working on and teacher clarity is the um the work that we've been doing as a district with the inter uh intermediate school district um student supports. We had our monthly child study team meeting with 10 30 minute meetings about students that teachers brought that they have concerns who they have concerns about. And so um those meetings are really powerful. We have a group of ISD uh itinerants who sit at the table with our teachers and our title team and we problem solve about what we can do for students. And sometimes we it's a oneandone. Sometimes it's something that we do over time, but the process is really pretty powerful.
061Um, and we also have had a number of IEPs for special education students. Uh, we've had two of those added to Mrs. Johnson's case load. Um, we started an elementary student council in grades four and five and students uh filled out applications. their teachers gave feedback about the applications and then um we had our first meeting today and I'm pretty excited about where we're going with this. Um the way that we're going to do it this year at least is that students who put in applications but didn't get selected this time will have an opportunity to rotate in probably uh in April. And so hopefully we'll have it up and running at the beginning of the year next year. >> Is that a new program? >> That is new. >> How cool. Yeah, it's something
062that I have had as a goal and uh very excited to have an opportunity for student voice and um we had a kind of it was like having an adult meetings day. We had our we worked on our norms and we worked on what our goals were and then we had a parking lot for things that we didn't have time to cover but we'll cover next time. Um and so we're going to be meeting next Monday as well. It was it was a nice meeting. >> How frequently will you meet? >> I'm sorry. How frequently will you meet? >> Um, right now we're going to do um probably every Monday during lunchtime. >> So, it's a nice pull out for them. >> Yeah, it's it's it's they choose to come and eat lunch in this
063meeting. Um, so they get they come in a couple minutes early from recess, they're the first in line, they get their lunch, and then um we're able to sit down and meet. So, um and they're all they're amazing students. So, uh, we celebrated World Kindness Day on November 13th. Mrs. Craft, um, facilitated all of us wearing kindness shirts and then, um, students wrote down something that was kind about them or that they were proud about, their own kindness. And we made a chain and then we hung the chain in front of the office. Um, and students could go and look what other people had said. And then they also had an opportunity to write down the things that they noticed that were kind about other people. And it could be students or staff. It was
064it was very powerful as well. Um, congratulations to Missy Beth and Melly on another uh carolling club that was very successful. You can see a picture down there at the bottom of the elementary children standing and singing in the very cold weather. um every year they sound a little bit better I think. Um 65 students participated in Caroline Club. Um and so that's just exciting to see how that has grown. Uh so thank you to those leaders in our building. >> Whenever I describe it to people who have who haven't seen it before, I say it's like all the little Who's down in Whoville. It's >> Yeah. feels very >> or it's like the Charlie Brown Christmas where you've got all of the you know it's just it's such a beautiful small town thing and
065um there were so many people downtown for that. It was exciting. Um we had our first incentive winners um celebrate their behavior incentive. We had professional juggler Clark Lewis come in. He did not bring the flames and the saws he usually juggles. Um so it was an elementary appropriate performance. Um thanks to Matt for facilitating us going to the auditorium so that we could see it. Um he was very complimentary about our students and about our facilities. So we have a a nice setup for such a small district. Um I was able last week to attend the MEMSA conference which is the Michigan Elementary Middle School Principles Association and I just want to publicly say thank you for the opportunity for us to continue to grow. um professionally um it was really powerful so many
066things about relationships and communication and uh AI we're ahead Mr. ties worth of a lot of the people even presenting teacher coaching so many things that were really helpful that I I brought back with me and it's always exciting to be with 400 other people who do the same thing. So that was exciting. Um I would like to courtally invite you to our um holiday music programs. They are going to be amazing. This year we will have our 3 to five grades three to five uh on Tuesday the 16th and we will also have fifth grade band performing with that. Um we will have some ukulele playing going on. So um it will be a really exciting um and very fun uh music program. Love the fifth grade music. That's really great. Um and then
067Thursday we will have our preschool to two. The really nice thing about the preschool to two concert is it takes about 35 minutes because the songs are really short and the attention spans match the songs. So, um it'll be really a lot of fun. Doors will open at 5:20. Uh come early if you want to join us because there aren't any seats. So, um, and a not elementary note, just because, uh, I got to, um, go to the empty bowls dinner for our food pantry and for bacon and what an amazing night in the community. And I just want to recognize Christine Harvey, Kristen Pencil, Tammy Garrett, and the FHS Interact Club. What a nice, nice community evening. So, any questions? Thank you so much. Appreciate that. All right, Mr. Stapleton. >> Nice job, man.
068Well done. Um, a couple um, uh, items on the list. Uh, there's a lot going on as everybody knows at the high school, middle school. Um, so I just touched on a few of the things going on. We're also um in the second year of our three-year track of teacher clarity and that continues at uh middle school and the high school staff. Um we met in November. We'll meet again this week. Um and working with the ISD on that training. Um we did our uh walking folky that Ann u mentioned. We did that in the spring and shared the data with our staff in the fall. We do it again in January uh when we get back after break and those couple weeks prior before the end of the semester. Um and our staff um
069is going to take uh be part of that walking folky. So we'll have um teachers actually um being part of that observation process which is be pretty powerful and pretty pretty amazing. We're looking forward to see how that works out. Um then winter sports I I left schedules on your table. Um we've got that those are up and running including uh bowling and then robog is just getting started as we push to the start of the new year. um our senior trip update. Some of you were in attendance at the game on Friday. Uh we had one of our bigger raffles that we've had for our seniors. They did a great job recruiting prize. So much so many prizes. Uh thanks to all who donated. Um the students uh raised over $15,000 just in raffle
070ticket money to help put towards their trip. We have 36 kids right now who are uh deposits down and are making money towards the trip right now. Um so a big thank you to all who donated. uh big prizes and little prizes. I mean, there were over 30 prizes on the list this year um which was pretty incredible. And then um big thank you too to Vita Bella who had a November uh fundraiser and they raised over $1,500 to put towards the kids trip. And you know when you're talking about per kid like $40 to $50 that makes a huge um you know impact on their trip. So we want to uh thank them as a community. And then the foundation is matching 200 per student uh and Panther parents are donating another 1500. So,
071I mean, it's over I mean, just for kids alone, it's over $35,000 trip. So, I mean, all this, you know, they do a lot of work up on the front end here. We we've already made reservations for plane tickets and working on hotel stuff. So, it's a it's an unbelievable opportunity and really excited people are able to do it. Our kids and really um I mean that's going to be a great turnout. Our best in since co 36 kids. So, like excited about that. Um Jeff mentioned uh whistle stop by the drama group. They did an amazing job. Um little typo there. It said 20 high school and middle school students. I should say 29 u not 20 um were participating. And then we have a number of students uh this weekend going to the
072Thespian festival um which they did last year represented us really well. They'll be doing the same um this year with chaperones etc. um our middle school community um visit LA a couple weeks ago was it in mid November. Um our eighth graders had opportunity to get down to Alberta Beach and volunteered, shovel the ADA walkways, help roll up uh the really heavy um walkways. They did took part in the uh beach cleanup uh which um turned out to be a beautiful day. It was cold but uh sunny and the kids not one complaint. They asked a lot of questions. why can't we just take um you know big trailers and tractors and you know drive out on the beach. And so we were able to talk to them about you know why you know why
073we have to do this by hand and you can't just drive those because of the the protections um that are that are set up on the beaches and um they really rallied and got a lot of work done just a couple hours. So really proud of them and the work that they did there. Uh building is full use as you know um I mean some days I mean even tonight there'll be people back at the high school when we get back there. Community groups also are coming in. We've got adult volleyball and pickle ball and the RC flyers coming in along with uh our sports teams and other groups that are using the building pretty much uh seven days a week. So, lots going on. Uh Ann and Jeff both mentioned the Empty Bowls fundraiser.
074Um they did raise I mean per uh what was reported over $3,000 for local food pantries. So, what a great event. Um we did have Blue Lake um in our Blue Lakes in our building. They do annual um auditions for scholarships and Miss Harvey and Mr. Joslin kind of coordinate that. Um I put down just our fall participation with drama and athletics and it was right around 66% which is uh pretty incredible. We have our kids involved in a lot of different things which is great. Um and that does not include our sixth graders. So um we're happy happy to get kids involved in doing something. Um as an mentioned lots of CSTs and data reviews and other things that are going on. Um we did we were fortunate that our pantry in our building
075supported 10 families for Thanksgiving that included full um Thanksgiving dinners to some families in need. Uh sophomores um this is a new thing that we added this year. I took a college tour of CMU on November 11th. Um we had really good participation for that trip. Um our Veterans Day breakfast was hosted by the NHS on November 11th as well. Um, Miss Harvey just finished up her evening ceramics class which was uh great well really well attended and a great outreach to our community. Our eighth graders visited the CTC and that was the week after our last meeting with Miss Roth. We also had a senior parent financial aid meeting. Um, we have Maple residents coming once a month right now from the Maples to do bingo with our middle schoolers that are available after
076school and uh that's been a big hit so far with a number of kids. So, we're happy that's happening. Um, and then last week I had the opportunity to be at the ISD for a couple days. One day with high school principles and the other day with the middle school principles to talk about, you know, math updates, um, uh, English ELA updates, budgeting updates, and a number of things that are going on. So, it's it's been a whirlwind. On the back side, you'll see a couple important dates that are coming up. See, Wednesday, we have ERW day um, approaching. Um, you see dramas going to the thespian. Um, we have another blood drive coming up this Friday. That's from 9 to 2. The time isn't on there, but it's from 9:00 to 2:00. We have
077our first middle school dance of the year going to be on Saturday, which is exciting. Uh, and then Monday is our holiday band concert. Um, that's our uh big one that we have there in the cafeterium. And then you can see we finish uh the break with our student holiday feast and then winter break and away we go. So, almost there. Getting there. So, that was a lot in a short time, but uh thanks for reading. >> There's so much holiday cheer in the reports this month. I love it. >> Yes. going. >> Um, I have the same question for three different things that you mentioned. The middle school community visit to Alberta Beach. About how many kids do you know went on that? >> Yeah, we took 40, I think. >> Oh my god.
078Okay, that's great. [laughter] >> Sorry. I have a middle school. >> That's right. Yeah, we took 40 um eighth graders with three chaperons. >> Okay. >> And then we met the village um leadership down there along with the village president. So, it's good. >> And do you know about how many kids audition for Blue Lakes? Uh I I don't but I can get that number. >> Okay. Um there was one more I think that was okay. I guess that was it. Thank you very much. >> Um so real quick, we haven't taken sophomores to a college before. Is that new? >> That was my question. [laughter] >> Yes. So we you know we have our um Chicago trip which we do. uh we do the grand uh excuse me the fair state visit and then
079we've done in the past um a freshman visit um but we haven't in the last two years. So um so right now we're trying to set up a second one for our sophomores to the Grand Valley uh possibly in the spring. >> Yeah, that's great. >> Cool. How many kids were able to go on that? >> Uh I believe the Yeah, pardon. >> Yeah, I think all Yeah. So, I think we had maybe 30 total or 28 total because we had a few juniors that asked to go as well. >> As a person who's going through that process, I appreciate the tours and that sort of thing, just getting us out there. So, thank you. >> Had CMU reached out to us asking or had they made that intro and request or was that all
080on our end? >> Well, initially on our endached out Thanks. We have the u uh our communication class and our careers class that sophomore group. So, Mrs. Kay and Miss um Acre Piers about reached out to see about logistics and and you know, of course, they're you know, it's part of their cell too, trying to get kids to walk the campus, but they were quick to help lock in on a day and then um you know, Miss Roth helped work with those guys to get it all set up and yeah, it was great. >> So, awesome. a debt, but they took the lead and did a great job. And they also chaperrod. >> That's great. Thank you so much. It's quite the opportunity. All right, moving on. Um, Frankfurt High School student representatives report. Bella
081and Griffin. >> Hi. Um, we're always having fun over there and doing a lot. >> Are you learning stuff? What? Are you learning stuff? >> Always. >> Okay. always sort of thing. [laughter] No, it's fun. Uh we're always busy there. Uh winter sports are we're getting into full swing with that competitions and that sort of thing. Um really excited about the holiday dinner coming up and that whole day and that's a really fun day just with the secret Santa and then like student council does rotations where people do crafts and that sort of thing. So a lot of fun and looking forward to our not so talented talented show. If you guys have any recommendations for a not so talented person, let me know. Always looking for stuff. And then NHS has their blood drive
082this Friday. If anybody would like to donate to that, please let me know or any other NHS kid and we'll get you a link to find a time when you could donate blood and that is very appreciated. Uh NHS is also helping out with organizing toys for Toys for Tots on Wednesday. Uh it's a big process. There's so much donated and it's it's really cool to see and to help out with. Um and then with the senior raffle, thank you to everybody who donated prizes and bought tickets. Um special shout out to Ba Bella and their team. Um that helped out a lot of kids. Thank you. And then I also wanted to mention that we I had my first experience this week with a teacher introducing um AI to classrooms. Uh, and I don't
083know if it's been used in other classrooms that I'm not in, but um, I found it helpful and we're kind of learning like what to ask it and like what tools work best and I don't know, it helped me when I had a few problems because you aren't always in the classroom with a teacher uh, that's able to help you all the time. So, that was really helpful and just a cool thing. >> Uh, yeah. So, I'll start off something I wasn't prepared to share. Um, in model UN, our teachers been using AI since last year to give us an >> that closer. >> Oh, sorry. >> Uh, to give us a more in-depth look into how we represent our countries. We've been doing like simulations where we'll do inputs and the AI will give
084us an output and we'll go through like simulated crisis from in the past or future crises. So AI is a really useful tool that um, we've been using in that class. um as another example from a different class. Uh another more recent thing where we go backwards to cover some student perspective on some stuff that's already been covered. Uh I think it was last week we started getting snow and um there are a few pointers to be made about um there have been a few incidents in the snow. No one's been hurt, but there have been a few ditched cars and a few stuck buses. So, I wanted to make that mention that students have noticed that and we've been feeling that. I think that's something we feel every year. There's always a little transition.
085So, we are going through that, but everyone's fine. Um, going back to >> what it sounds like. >> That is what it [laughter] sounds like. Um, going back to Veterans Day, I wasn't able to attend. I went to the CMU field trip, um, which we'll talk about later. But Veterans Day, I heard it was a whole lot of fun serving the veterans. I heard it went well. Uh, CMU field trip, I went. It was a ton of fun. We went there. We got introduced to the dorm rooms, the idea of what it campuses would look like. I haven't really been on too many campus tours, so it was really interesting. I'm sure all the sophomores had a great time. I know I had a great time and it was really interesting to look at that
086and look to our future like that. It was a good introduction to it. Uh, the whistle stop performance. I know all the drama kids had a whole lot of fun. I know everyone else was glad to get out of class for a little bit and go enjoy that show. It was really good. It was a whole lot of fun. I know everyone involved had a whole lot of fun. I think it was a great performance. Uh the empty bowl dinner, uh there was a lot of fun from the ceramics and I think it's important to look at this as an opportunity to shout out Miss Harvey and all the ceramic students how much effort they put in their crafts. Um they do amazing things in there and they were able to raise money on this
087example. So that's a good point to make. And uh last point to make is honors band. It was mentioned uh my friend Chuck was I believe the only one who signed up this year, but he talked to me a lot about it. He had an amazing amazing experience meeting other people with uh similar likes and hobbies to him. He met other trumpet players. He had an amazing time and it was really worthwhile. >> And it's my understanding that Mr. Joslyn takes a lot of his own personal time to help kids who are interested in honors band. So, I just want to give a huge shout out to him for his dedication to that. >> Yeah, definitely. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. >> Great report, guys. And we're going to make you official in a
088business item in just a few minutes. Okay, so on to business. The first one we've got is the ever exciting approval of Miola policy updates. It's not quite that exciting. Um, however, uh, last month I did a quick overview, had everybody gave everybody an opportunity to take a look. I did not receive any phone calls. Uh, so I'm assuming we are good to go. And if that is the case, then it's the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the Neola policies volume 40 number one. >> So moved. >> Second. Seconded by less. Great. Any discussion? Motion passes. >> All right. Thank you. The second item is uh noted as a Headley override resolution uh for a May uh at that time when I put this together, it' be a May 5 uh 2026 election. Uh
089Barb has the information from Trun. Uh the resolution is attached uh follows the worksheet on page 38. And the the way this is looked at is uh during last week's finance committee meeting, we discussed this need for the headley override. We haven't done this in the past, but in looking and trying to have forecast the future, we want to make sure that we can um always expect 18 mills uh to run in local revenue to run our district. uh the resolution following the page then for the May 5 election it's called we would be requesting uh a 2 mill hedge and what that means is if we ever drop below the 18 mills we have a little bit of a think of it as a little bank account where that 2 mill hedge that would
090always allow us to maintain our 18 mills uh through 2029 that's when the next um operating levy uh would expire and then we would need to vote that in again uh the resolution to call for the ballot needs approval tonight because there's a many steps and I believe there's a calendar on page >> 42. Thank you. So that's the reason we need to do this tonight. It's a uh and then there's lots of conversation. There's some districts uh in our ISD who have been very successful with the Hadley override and we'll work with those districts as far as communication to our parents and community members especially. Um, and it it's really looked at as so we don't go below the 18 mil uh of the revenue. >> Is there already an election going on in
091May? >> There is no election going on in May. This would be have to be a standalone and we did discuss that at the uh finance meeting as well. and the the cost to run a standalone election. We kind of know what that is, but that would that would really be minimal comparatively to if we drop below the 18 mills from a local revenue aspect >> and we can't do it in like August or November next year. >> Not according to this. No, it's be too late. >> And we're talking like less than 2% of the amount that we'd be getting. >> Yeah. >> Is is what it would cost to run the special election. Um Yeah. And the good news is that we would not have to do this again for another four years.
092>> And and a lot of it just depends on where it rides. But once again, this is just an assurance until 2029 that that 2 mill hedge allows us to continue to collect 18 mills. So with that said, um is the recommendation of myself and the finance committee to approve the resolution following the page. And once it approved, then Barb would have need some signatures um from Aubrey and then we would put these steps in motion per the calendar on page 42. Are you guys Does anybody have any other questions on this? I you this is a kind of complicated state revenue, state law stuff. Is this good? More or less? >> Yeah. Well, >> I can tell you I'm trusting in the information that's been put forward to me by >> the short version
093is the voters voted for us to to to charge 18 mills property tax, >> right? >> That's whatever the that's what our community voted for passed. And then there's another law called the Headley override, which is like rather arcane math that has to do with sort of if property values rise, there are caps that can kick in in certain cases with weird formulas that even Heather kind of doesn't it's difficult to explain how these things work, but essentially in some cases this Headley cap can come in and make it so even though our voters voted that we get to charge 18 mills in property tax, it might be a lower number because of this override thing, >> right? Um, and so, uh, this hedge that is approved by the voters essentially says, "Yeah, yeah, you
094can still charge 18 mills even if this override thing starts to sneak into to turning 18 ms into 17.5 ms or something like that." So, we're basically asking the voters to confirm in a sense that 18 mills is the number they want to charge. >> A sustainable standard. >> Yes. Sustainable standard regardless of the other modifies the other mechanisms that exist in Michigan >> to enforce some of control. Understood. >> That's it. >> And we might continue dealing with this issue because our property values are rising higher and so that ride goes into effect. >> And so maybe this isn't the moment. >> Maybe this isn't the moment. But the question then is is how is this sold? Has that been talked about? >> That was where I was going to go next. >> Yeah.
095There will have to be lots of conversations and opportunities to to meet with groups and to explain this because unfortunately the way the ballot's written it it it writes it as an increase but it's really not an increase because we've always been paying 18 mills but that's the way the ballot has to be written. So I'm going to rely on some sources that I have that have kind of done this already and how did they what was the information that was really important to get out to the communities. >> It's the on this is not a tax increase. It's not any more than the 18 mill. >> We're just m maintaining the rate that that the vote that the voters approved. >> I'm just trying to think of it in really simple terms, right? >>
096No, I'm being very [laughter] I'm being and Brian is absolutely right. It is tricky. It's a tricky thing to talk about because it it's like this doesn't So, you have to be really clear that it's not we're not asking anything more than we already have of the 18 mills. >> We just we want to make sure it doesn't go below 18 mills for our operating costs. >> And our district has done this before. I would have to check on that to be honest with you. >> No, we do because we have a hedge that's almost expired which is why we have to do this. >> That's what I thought. >> So to that point, we've got a calendar that goes through and highlights uh dates relative to the actual election dates, but do we have
097like a strategic marketing calendar, >> but we will >> that we're planning to forward? Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. This is the legality of the process you have to you to use to make sure it gets to the clerk and make sure the ballot language is approved and it gets on the ballot. And so this is the the election process. >> This does not account for the amount of information we need to get to our to our public. Okay. >> What what number of schools in the ISD um are doing this now? I I know one has I have a superintendent meeting Friday at the at Northwest V and this will be a topic of my roundt uh conversation with my colleagues because I know some have done it already >> and it's not just schools
098like >> no it's not >> county like there's like townships that have had to do this and I know that they were talking about in Alberta village of Alberta so we're not alone in this but >> I I think the key is to let people know that we're not we're not asking for any more than we already have we're just basically basically asking permission to ask with for the 18 mills. >> So, it it is kind of odd, >> but I will get as much information as I can and I'll start on Friday at my meeting uh with my other superintendents in the region. >> Thank Thank you. >> So, uh did we get a motion? >> I don't think we've made a motion yet. >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> Any
099discussion? All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion passes. >> Thank you. And then, uh, Barb has some resolutions, Aubrey, for us to sign and we need to get them to certain places. So, thank you. Our next item, um, as odd as this may sound, uh, it was a little busy and this one got past me. Barb reminded me, and thank you very much, that we need to officially approve, uh, Griffin Chisum for our schoolboard rep. So, I won't get into a lot of detail. It's just the recommendation of the superintendent to approve Griffin officially for the position of student representative to the school board. >> So moved. >> Second. >> They're they're so excited. They're fighting over motion. >> Any discussion? >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any
100opposed? Motion passes. official. >> Were you sweating a little bit? [laughter] >> And Griffin, I will make sure we get you an official name plate. Garb knows where to do that. [laughter] >> Yeah. And great report by the night, by the way. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> All right, moving along. This was mentioned earlier. This is a request to for the board to approve us to post a full-time custodian position. I gave a quite a bit of reasoning why. Uh the the biggest piece is we've added a lot of space and our custodians and and Frank has worked super hard to try to get everything accomplished and we've just kind of had come to the conclusion that in order to do this in a way that that we would like to see our
101buildings taken care of, we just need a little more help. Um and this gives us a lot of advantages as well. One primarily would be to have someone on staff uh from 400 p.m. to 12 midnight for a variety of reasons. As as Matt mentioned, we have so many people in our buildings up to 9:00 at night. Um, we've got to make sure the building's locked up. We want to make sure the bathrooms are clean for the next morning. And I could go on and on and on, but that middle paragraph pretty much summarizes the need. Um, if this was to be a full, it would be a year- round position. If it would have started in u I guess would have been July, it would be an $81,000 investment. Um this would include $20
102hour per $20 per hour per the contract up to two person insurance and FICA and retirement. Uh presently this position if approved and we can find someone wouldn't start I would guess till probably mid January at best with the holidays we have to post and interview and so forth. So, with that said, and and from our discussion with the finance committee, we're asking uh it's the recommendation of the superintendent and the finance committee to approve um I'm sorry, it's not the resolution there. My I copied one over to approve the posting of um full-time custodian. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. Barb, do we need a roll call with that or no? >> Who who second? I'm sorry, Scott. Thank you, Scott. >> We do or don't. >> Okay, let's do it. >>
103Wes, >> yes. >> Megan, >> I >> guess. >> Thank you. And Barb, we'll fix the recommendation on the page tomorrow. That was a crossover of an earlier motion. Thank you. All right, we are now at 8.5. This is what we had also talked about quite a bit at the committee level from finance and long range planning. Met with some people in the process and I'll read this one. The long range planning committee has been in conversation for some time regarding the concept of providing the use of school property for housing development. The memorandum of understanding f follows this page. This is the important part. By approving the memorandum, this would allow continued conversations with homestretch nonprofit housing corporation. Any further decisions regarding this project would need FAS school board approval knowing there are stipulations
104per fees board policy regarding the use or release of school property. It's my understanding we can do those things. However, we still need to have some more conversation um with the board and making sure we can move forward if we choose to. But the memorandum co-development notice co-development is that word is important co-development memorandum of understanding allows us to continue in these discussions basically saying let's keep talking. So, >> exactly. Um, and this kind of started off as a casual conversation and we're very fortunate to have gotten hooked up with Homestretch very very early, but this started with the Hall Street parcel, which we know is adjacent to our part of our school grounds um to the north and west side. And um we've never had a use for it. It's kind of scrubby trees.
105We've cleared out a little bit and done a little bit of work to make it kind of a little prettier, but it's a wooded lot with not a lot of intended use for the foreseeable future. So, we um started talking with Jay White of the Benzy what's help me with the name. >> Well, the Frankfurt Housing >> the Frankfurt Housing Commission >> and the Housing Trust of Benzy, formerly the Frankfurt Community Land Trust. um and John Stimson of Homestretch, who currently has um two housing um developments in the county. The one in Honor is his and then um Lake and Maine. And part of the reason that we're not looking for builders or looking for partners for this is because Homestretch is the only nonprofit builder and developer um in at least a 10ount region.
106And I don't know of any others in the state. there probably are. But um so it's just not even worth something to be shopping around when we know and we we're familiar with this um group. So John and Jay White of the of both of the aforementioned groups have come in and spoken kind of informally with an ad hoc hall street group and that was myself, Amy, and Brian. Um going forward if we'd like to uh approve this memorandum of understanding and I hope everybody's had the time to review it. Um it will probably shift to just the long range planning committee. So that would be Aubrey, Liz, and Brian. Um and like um Jeff said, this is really just an agreement on our part to continue talking about the potential of developing um that
107property. One of the things that we have learned is that we need to exchange we probably will need to exchange like for like. So, this might end up involving a land swap with some of the city property coming to us and then we give this to them and they give it to Homestretch and all of that. But the most important things that we wanted to um express with this is we're looking to house teachers. We don't ever want to interview and find excellent teachers and then have nowhere to put them. We don't ever want to hear um this teacher had to decline an offer to teach our students because they were not able to find anywhere to live in our community. and that is getting harder and harder um to find year- round um living
108in our community. So, this is kind of a twofold thing. We'd be hugely helping the community, but also we would have a space um for our teachers that we would be able to give first preference to any incoming or existing folks who wanted to take advantage. So the changes that we have already made to thisou that make it even more attractive to us is that we are would like to go in as um co- I can't remember how we co-designers basically. So, we would have not necessarily last right of approval on the housing um and the design and how that would go forward, but we would definitely be co-developing that and what that would look like and we'd make sure that it was um something that was what we wanted to see and would be
109proud of having in, you know, literally our backyard. And the second piece is that because Homestretch has two other properties, the lake and Maine right here in Frankfurt and also the units over in Honor, um they would be willing to have kind of a swapping system where all of those could offer teacher um first priority as well. So we never want to have units available for anyone in the community who needs them in our workforce empty. So this would make sure that we had no empty vacancies but also that our teachers if we couldn't immediately house them you know right here in our own development we would have somewhere nearby where they could go. So >> I think just if I can interject I think the other piece is >> you know we have a
110couple example units in the county one as Liz mentioned one here and one in honor that one part of the discussion would continue to be what would what would that look like in the design it wouldn't necessarily look like those buildings um and that's part of the process and that's why it's so important it's a co-developmentou so we can have those conversations as Liz mentioned it is right in our back door and making sure my feeling is making sure my suggestion is how many units we put in there and so I that's something we need to continue to talk about. Um so that was my my point. I wanted to clarify that when we mentioned you know we have those units that's what's going to go there. That is not necessarily true at all. Yep.
111>> That will be part of the conversation with Homestretch if we if this is approved of the design, what's it going to look like and how many tenants and lots of conversation still to take place. This just allows us basically from the board's point of view, go ahead, have the conversation, but knowing we'll have to come back if we really want to approve something to move forward. >> Yep. And there's some steps >> and this would allow Homestretch to do some of the pre-planning work that they would do developing a capstack and looking at the site and getting official survey um boring tests and all of that. >> As far as like right now when it's our property, we're not paying taxes on it, right? >> Is that true? That's true. >> Yes. So then
112and then is that why we have to do a land swap with the city because it has to be tax or tax or like what how does that when when homestretch takes it over will they be paying taxes? I think that's their development but from and I will at one of our next meetings for this group I will pull the board policy because there is I have been in conversation with his name is Kirk Herald at trun and there are some stipulations on what we can do with school with of any property but in that case we just can't give it away [clears throat] we have to figure out some form of trade swap uh that's same word trade maybe purchase that's not there yet but there are stipulations we just can't as a as
113a district just go here, take this or take that. >> We can't gift it. We need like for like. >> Yeah, that's part of the that's that's the piece that we have to >> and and additionally, we can't be a landlord. >> No, I get that. I guess my question is more like when we're talking about taxes, right? Like, is Homestretch then going to have to be paying taxes to the city and to the county? >> Probably depends on their nonprofit status and the exemption. >> I can't answer that yet. I think that's one question. There could there could also be a tax abatement. There's lots of ways it's that that would be worked out, but ideally we would probably want to do an outright sale where the land swap would come into play because
114we we can't manage it. We don't want to be managers of a property. We want somebody else to take all of that responsibility on. So we would no longer have responsibility for the property, but we would still get a say in some of the decision-m which is great >> and and some of the stipulations on >> right so forth in the building >> and that's also tricky but this would allow approved by the board for us to continue in the conversation. I would assume then the the legal east that goes into that kind of protects I'm kind of doing the the thinking ahead of if you if we do some kind of equal swap trade like for like and it becomes city property does then that open us up to additional steps that will need
115to be taken to get community approve approval. >> No, that's what I want to make sure with the board. I think the board has the opportunity to do that, but there is a process. >> Yeah. >> To to dispose of any school property. >> Okay. >> And I want to make sure >> vote on that, too. >> And it will still have to be voted on. Absolutely. That's what needs to be voted on. >> Yeah. This is not one committee to determine what's going to happen. And this would have to be approved by the board coming back at some point in time and saying this is where we're at with a lots of conversation, but the board has to approve the disposal of property or trade or sale, whatever you want to call it. >>
116And we're not there yet. >> We're not there. But I that's my next step is making sure we are very clear on on that process per our board policy. >> And can I put in my my two cents on this, Liz? >> Please. Yeah. >> Yeah. Great. So because we've been working on this for this is we've been talking for two years about with uh with Jay and his patient friends. See if we can figure this out. So my my perspective on this guys is it's it just to be try to keep it simple here. The the most the bedrock of everything that we do. The most important asset we have at the school are the teachers. Full stop. End of story. We're not that important. No offense the collective group here. If we don't
117have the best teachers in this school that we can get then we're not doing our jobs. And that's the starting point for me for this whole thing. Now, um, when we hire teachers, the housing cost in this community can be a roadblock. We, to be totally clear, we do not have great data on this. We do not know. It's impossible to know how many teachers looked at our job posting. We're like, "Oh, that looks cool." And then went and looked at like apartment costs or and there are no apartments and then looked at a house or Zillow and they're like, "Well, forget it." Right? So we just do not know how many people, you know, are not even applying because the housing is just out of reach for most people. As well as we pay
118our teachers, and that's a increasingly well we pay our teachers, people coming in at the entry level scale here simply cannot afford, it's very difficult to live, very difficult to afford living anywhere near our school. Um, and that's a benefit. We get the property taxes, all that good stuff, but it's very makes makes it tricky to get those really exceptional teachers. So for me, the most important thing is anything that we can do to make sure that if we find a great teacher we want to hire from wherever they want to come from that we can do that we're doing everything we can to get them here. That's like the starting point and I hope everyone agrees with that principle. Um we have this piece of property that we don't need, we don't use in
119all of our long-term planning things, all the things we want to build, all the things we want to do, that doesn't fit. It just sits there. It's just woods by the track. It's we have none no other plans have touched on that as a potential site for anything that we want to do. Um we can't be a landlord. We can't build apartments and run them or a school. Um but happily we have a really great partner who's very familiar with our community and has executed on this stuff before. They've done a good job. They know what they're doing. Um [clears throat] so the issues that I wanted to make sure were covered in this memorandum of understanding which is non-binding. we can just change our minds. So can they um are but they're the foundation
120of what we'll do together. You know the key points that I wanted to make clear these guys clarified very well is first of all do we get teacher pref do our teachers get preference because other people are going to live in the they're not teacher housing they're teacher preference housing so people from the community whoever can live there the way that's going to work operationally is a little bit tricky as Liz pointed out because we can't like kick people out to let a teacher move in. It's like hard, you know, people have leases. But the idea is our teachers will go to the top of the list. So maybe not every single time that a new teacher wants to start will they will we be able to offer them a place to live, but it
121will be most of the time. We we believe. Um, and it will certainly allow us that when we're posting for new jobs, we have retirements coming up and the workforce turning over. We're applying people. We're putting up job applications around the state. We can put in there uh affordable teacher housing is is high likelihood that that's available for you, which I think will get will help us with our job applicants. >> So, existing teachers too >> and existing teachers. >> Situations change. We have excellent teachers here. That is absolutely available to our existing staff as well. >> That's absolutely right. is not exclusive to new hires or anything like that. Um so that that we will have our teachers will have preference and we're going to work with home stretch, we're going to manage that
122list like we're going to tell them here's a person and they're going to like that's going to be part of this deal forever. Um we'll have control over the design. So co-ont control so we will have because this is in our backyard. We'll make sure it's something that we like the look of to keep it simple. Uh and then we do have protection. We're working on figuring out how we're going to have protection so that if homestretch decides they don't want to do this anymore that we have the ability to hand to to to manage who is the replacement for homestretch so we don't get stuck in a bad situation again right in our backyard. Um so on the basis of those points the importance of this in my opinion and those points being clear
123very clear between us and them as we get started with this process I strongly recommend that we approve this and that we get going with this process. Hopefully it goes to a good place and we can get this done. There are a lot of complicating things in the way and this and that and property swaps and this and that that we're going to figure out. But the main thing is the first step is this. Let them go and do their work and figure out is this something that will work for them that they can build something that works for them and that works for us. >> And there are a lot of notably there are a lot of other schools close by who are facing this exact same problem city Glen Lake with >> and
124they are they are finding you know >> innovative ways. Everyone's finding different innovative ways, but nobody that I've heard of has one that's a block away from the school. So, >> it's really great in a lot of ways. So, we let's explore it. I I I urge we pass it and let's do it. Let's explore and we'll talk about it again when it's time to take some definitive actions. >> So, this is not the vote to sell the property. No, >> this is the vote to continue talking and let them do their exploration. Let us continue to do our feasibility studies and then come back to the table. >> All right. I'll make the motion to be approved. >> Okay. >> Seconded by Wes. Further discussion. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I.
125>> Any opposed. All right. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Uh I assume we'll have to sign. One of us will >> We will uh set up for our board president to sign and we'll get that taken care of when she's back. >> Great. Thank you. >> All right. We're getting closer. 31A resolution. Um this is think of 31A as similar to our at risk funds that we have now. We have at risk funds we use in a variety of different ways. We have 31N funds uh that we use for our counselors. Some of our at risk funds are used for counselors and so forth. There is another pot of money called 31A that we that we may or may not apply for. Um but in order if we do feel we need to we
126need to do the next resolution that moves us into I just have to notify uh MDE through Heather that we are going to have the opportunity to apply for 31A if we choose to. Uh secondly, um it's it's in a little bit of a litigation right now because when this came out from the legislature, 31A came with some caveats that we're not real comfortable with and that's why it's in litigation and most districts are not. it has certain things to do and part of this came about um uh kind of from the Oxford incident where if you if you apply for these funds there's certain things if there was a mass casualty you have to follow a certain set of regulations certain set of rules certain set of disclosure um there is a little um
127cons well there's a lot of concern and that's why it's in litigation from districts that there's some things we could lose in that process Um but right now what we would be doing is approving the resolution to apply for the funds if we choose to. If we do not approve the resolution uh we cannot apply for the funds this year. Um, if the litigation comes out uh unfavorably to districts, then I on I believe it's by December 28, I have a big red circle on my calendar that we can opt we can say we can opt out and we're not going to apply for the funds. What this does is give us an opportunity to apply for the funds if depending on how the litigation comes out. And we should say that these are for
128mental health funds specifically earmarked for mental health. >> They can be used mental health funds. We've talked about some other things and we've talked about mental health funds as far as things like um >> uh cameras in CL in not in classroom, excuse me, cameras in hallways. We've talked about um some potential with vaping things. So we just have some certain things out there. The things you have to be careful with is you can't supplant. But as an example, if we already have a counselor in place, we can't take these funds to help pay for that counselor. We can only do things that are new. So that's the other point to this. Um we'll have to look at if there's something we can really use the funds for. But if we don't complete the resolution
129tonight, then we're we can't use the funds either way for this school year. >> And can you remind us how what the funds are? Was it 40,000? >> It's about It depends. It's somewhere around 65 to 70. >> Okay. So it's it's not a small amount of change, but one of the things and that's why I want to keep a close eye on the litigation. I don't think that in most of my colleagues would feel the same way. Depending how the litigation falls out comes about, it may not be worth that amount of money, >> right? >> So we're going to wait and see. >> Okay. >> Sorry. And I I'm just trying to get a hold of >> this concept. Um, so this litigation is like because I I don't really understand or know
130much about it. I'm >> Well, I I can give you a couple. Go ahead. >> So, it's just putting like um handcuffs on the school of things they can do or can't do. >> Here's a couple examples. Depending how the litigation comes about, one of the caveats for 31A is that is that you could lose your governmental immunity. You would not want to do that. Some of the other things, the disclosure is if something were to happen that all of that now becomes open-ended and that makes it really hard to do certain types of investigations. That's the part that's in litigation. What come because no other grants come with those types of stipulations. >> Okay. >> I think you take the money, you lose some rights that might that we might want to preserve. >>
131Right. That's what I was That's where [clears throat] we're at. And and who knows where this is at. But once again, I called last week and I said, "If we do not apply for these, if we do not complete the resolution, then we cannot apply for the funds this school year at all." >> Okay. >> Knowing that even if we it goes through and we sign the resolution, I don't have to use the money either. It just gives us an opportunity without closing the door. So before this uh the 28th comes out, you'll be telling us then kind of like >> you think this is good or you think this resolution go forward or not? >> Yeah. Well, this resolution I can say right now depending how it comes out if it comes out disfavorably
132to the district. >> This resolution gives me the opportunity to opt out >> and as of right now >> on behalf of the board >> and it's probably not going to be December 28th. It's probably going to be January, February based on the latest info we got from MASB. >> Okay. >> Yeah, that was my question of, you know, do we have a schedule of and what if that >> they're not going to get it done by >> it? It it it may move and it may just be stuck. We don't know. >> So then our timeline for >> our we we would move with the timeline. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And this is a big topic of a conversation with u the people superintendents talk with a lot e between trun and a couple
133other groups. So we're all kind of keeping an eye on this and helping one another get through this one way or the other. >> I think handcuffs was a good term because that is kind of we we'd love the funding. We'd love the help with that. Um but yeah, we're not willing to give away some of our rights in doing so. >> Yeah. And interestingly this to my knowledge this is the only funding source that that has come with handcuffs >> potential handcuffs. >> Okay. >> So it would be my recommendation and this was discussed at the finance committee I believe to approve the 31A. It's called resolution D2 ratification of opt in. The next part is important subject to recision. Recision not say that right. You got it. Recision meaning if we don't want
134to do it I can opt out. So moved. >> Anybody want to second that one? >> Mr. Handcuffs is concerned. >> I'll I'll second it. >> Brian seconds. Discussion. >> Me. >> Anyone? >> Okay. Seeing no discussion, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Anyone opposed? >> Motion passes. Thank you very much. And once again, Scott, I will be very clear that if there's any thing that would say opt out, we'll opt out. >> Great. >> So, I I mean, I trust you on it. I just was curious, you know, like I I >> Yeah. The starting point was where we weren't even going to bring the motion because Jeff the thing was like it just sounded like too much trouble. >> Yeah. >> And then we did deeper digging and found out we
135could like approve it and then decide later, >> right? >> Well, there was so much to have. I mean, that's why it went into litigation. people. >> All right. >> Moving on to 8.7, approval of board meeting dates. If everyone was able to review those, they are located. >> Yeah, those are your last page of your packet or it's at your table, excuse me, page 54. And the reason we need to do this is because our next board meeting is in January. And we need to make sure we have that date on the calendar, which would be January 12th. And this would then set the calendar for the for the 2026 calendar year. Um, of course, um, if we need to move a meeting, the board has the right to do that. And then we
136need to schedule any special board meetings. This just sets our standard second Monday of the month for 2026 board meetings. >> And these are the same dates that have already been scheduled out for those of you who accepted Aubrey's or Amy's first. >> Yeah. whenever she sent that months ago, it just continues on the same schedule out. There's no changes to that, >> right? >> So, any >> I'll make the motion to approve the schedule. >> Seconded. >> Excellent. Discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Motion carries. >> Well, Liz, you did it. >> Well done. >> It's one under my belt. Not quite yet. All right. Do we have any public participation? You do get one more chance to speak. >> Absolutely. We'd love to recognize
137you. Could you please um you're welcome to use the podium and get a little microphone from Mr. Tisworth. >> And just like the city does it, name and address if you would be so kind. >> Sure. >> Am I on? >> Yes. it you won't hear it but the >> so Jay White uh my address is 488 Bridge Street here in Frankfurt. Um proudly I have three grandchildren in your system and uh as a grandparent I'm very proud to say that and pleased with everything that's taking place from you know prek uh early childhood development uh all the way through uh my oldest one is now in middle school. So thank you. Just wanted to introduce myself to you and also let you know the team that's on the other side of this housing project
138and that would be myself. I'm a member of the Frankfurt Housing Commission, have been for several years. Uh was on the housing commission when we put the transaction together with Homestretch for the uh Lake and Main Apartments. Um who else is joining me from the housing commission would be Stephen Drews uh is on the committee with us. And then uh the mayor certainly is weighing in and she attended our last meeting with us which is critical if we get to a point of a land swap if there's a land swap that may occur in the future. Uh we are really partnered with Homestretch. So, we don't work for Homestretch, but they certainly are a close partner of ours and uh we had an excellent experience with Homestretch with the Lake and Maine project and I
139can just assure you that in the Northwest region that they are very very highly respected. Uh they're wellunded nonprofit group in Trevor City, excellent board membership uh there and we feel good about uh about them as a partner here in Frankfurt. So, we know we're at the very early starting stages. It's exciting to at least start to conceptualize what's there. And um we have reached out to a very talented uh architect who recently retired. So, we're going to get some some maybe some free sketches uh in that direction that might help some of you become comfortable with that. What does it look like? Um question mark. So, thank you for the this evening. We can't wait to get to work. >> Thank you. So >> under three minutes, not even two. >> Thank you, Jay.
140>> Know she doesn't want to uh to toot her own horn, but uh this past weekend, Bella was uh the her champion in her weight group for the weekend. >> Yes, she was. >> And uh also was the tournament's most valuable wrestler. Um, so she was five and0 with five pins on the day. So pretty exciting. Way to go. >> So humble. Amazing. >> No, you've got stalker on Facebook. >> See what she's up to. Congrats. That's pretty amazing. Good for you. All right. Our next school board meeting is going to be January 12th, 2025. With no further business, I would >> 2026. That is a typo. Not my fault. Don't let the record reflect. >> Sorry, that would be me. That's [laughter] two. That's two. >> Sorry, we're not keeping track. >> Someone is.
141[laughter] >> We got that right. >> Um, so I would entertain a motion to officially adjourn. >> Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Scott. Seconded. All in favor? >> We are adjourned. Thank you. >> Did you turn your uh information in with your picture and everything? Okay, I