001like to call the Hazel Park Board of Education business meeting to order on this Monday, September 22nd at 6:00 p.m. Uh, roll call, please. >> here. Fortress >> present. >> Fox >> here. >> Leon boys, >> Here. Um, Leon Boyo is absent with notice and our superintendent's not feeling well tonight, so she's not with us either. Um, I have next is approval of the agenda. Nope. Pledge of allegiance. I'm sorry. Please stand. I aliance 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. >> Now we Madam President, I would like to uh move that the board of education accept the agenda as written. >> Support. Okay. Moved by Darren and support by April to accept the
002agenda as written. >> Um I'd like to amend uh remove the personnel recommendations and put them in the regular action items cuz I'm going to have to abstain from voting on that and I would still like to >> Okay. And I would like to move the um the festival as an action item also as the item DD if he's moving the teachers to see. >> Okay. So let's put those just before the superintendence report. >> Is that okay? >> Okay. >> Oh personnel and thespian. Okay. Um motion to accept the changes. >> Does he amend his motion? >> Okay. >> Please amend the motion. >> Motion amended to move those two items from the consent agenda. >> I retain support >> and April retains support. So, uh roll call. >> Yes. >> Becker. Yes. >>
003Fortress. >> Yes. >> That brings us to special order of business. I have Knights of Columbus. Knights of Columbus is first. >> Hello. Uh my name is Jerry Paratt. I'm the trustee of Bishop Murphy. council over in Warren >> closer to your microphone. I can barely hear you here. >> Okay. Um my name is Jerry Paratt. I'm the trustee from Bishop Murphy Council 3257 over in uh Warren, formerly of Father Dolan Council that was in Park and I have a check to present to. Okay. The principal of uh Jardon School. Uh, this is from our Tootsie Roll. I got a check here for $1,000 for uh Jordan on however you have to. We >> really appreciate your support. You're welcome. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Pride. It's always greatly appreciated. You
004very take care of our kids over there very well. Thank you. >> You know, if I could just add that, you know, I remember them 30 years ago, you know, presenting and awarding funds like that and and it's been wonderful. And thank you. >> You're welcome. We used to we used to have more, but we don't stand in the street anymore, >> right? >> Don't see. You'd probably have less. >> Thank you again. Uh, Hazel Park Community Coalition presentation. I don't see our person for that. Um, do I have promise zone presentation? Good afternoon board. How's everyone doing? >> Very good, thank you. How are you? >> Good, thank you. Uh, for those who don't know me, my name is Fernando Mon. I'm the executive director of the Hazel Park Province Zone. If you're not
005familiar with our work, uh I always come around this time of the year to do my little presentation and put us back on the radar. Uh but we are your local college access network. We provide college access and readiness education to our high school seniors and really all high school students uh through financial uh you know, scholarships, assistance, a bunch of different services that we help uh help out with. Uh that's all good and all. We talked about that every year. The the one thing I want to talk about this year is the exciting changes that we have made to the promise zone particularly around the hazelart scholarship hazes by promisone scholarship uh starting with the class of 2025. Uh in the past we used to prorrate our scholarship based on when students uh would
006join the district. We got rid of that cost. Now if a student qualifies they just get the scholarship based on different factors. As you know, if you don't know, a student needs to qualify to use a scholarship in order to do that. One, they need to fill out the FASA application, but they also need to be a resident of this H of the Heso Park Schools district. So, students graduating from here and while also living here. We are also uh we have also been given more permission by the state to use our money broadly, more broadly. So, in the past, we used to only be able to pay for tuition and fees if students attended colleges, universities, trade schools, whatever the case, whatever they want to go to. Now, we can actually pay for anything
007that counts as an educational expense. And so, beyond tuition and fees, we can pay for room and board, we can pay for transportation, we can pay for off-campus housing, we can pay for groceries, we can pay for books and supplies, and all of that comes out of the scholarship fund, which is great cuz, you know, students don't just need to pay for classes, they need to pay for other stuff. And then finally and most excitingly is that we have increased the dollar value of our scholarship. As you know, students can either attend Oakland Community College for free or they can use that money, the equivalent of that money to attend somewhere else. Now that equivalent of that money, if they go somewhere else, has increased from it used to be $1,500 cap. Now we've increased
008that by a couple thousand dollar with the hopes that every year based on how much money we spend, we continue to increase that dollar value. Now we can potentially depending on the situation of the student pay for up to the full cost of attendance of a student's education which is what we've been shooting for since we were founded. Right? Of course I still case by case student has to fill out the application and we review I review myself every application uh based on you know what kind of balance this has. So exciting changes we can pay for more we can cover more stuff. Just wanted to let you guys know about that. >> Thank you. That's good news to hear the expansion like that. That's very good. >> Teacher tenure 2020 2025 26 teacher tenure
009Miss Kaos. >> So it is a pleasure to present um this evening we have 20 employees who have achieved tenure with Hazel Park School and I will go ahead and read off all their names. If you are intent in attendance, if the board would like to get up and shake their hand, that would be amazing. >> Done. >> We do have at least one me one staff member here. So, um, so in no particular order, uh, we have >> Sean Johnson, Jasmine Steppp, Kelly Gil, Katherine Mingle, Love It, Sher Northrup, Shelby Platt, Gina Riss, Adam Shirley, Keley Slater, Emily Snider, D'vorah Aishikus, Olivia Ia Pawar, Taylor Bryant, Carly Ellia, David Hagen Botham, Gabriel Farice, Kimberly Daniel, Monica Vaness, Charlene Wilson, and Rhonda Bradsky. Congratulations to these staff members who have achieved tenure with Hazel Park
010Schools. We are so happy that you have um chosen to continue your career with us. [Music] Okay, That brings us to uh public comment. So have a little note here that this meeting is the meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting school district business and is not to be considered a community public meeting. The board has provided two opportunities during the meeting for the public to address the board respectfully. Personal attacks that are abusive, obscene or irrelevant that disrupts the meeting will be stopped. rules are posted on the wall if there are any questions and um we'll start with Ian Lloyd to state your name and address please have five minutes do we have a timer >> I believe we do >> we have an arrow >> good evening
011my name is Ian Lloyd >> one second Ian I think are we do we have the timer he's working on it you go there you go Ian >> Hi Hi. So, I just came to um discuss some roundabout ways of just offering input for our deficit elimination planning. Um again with like just the you know kind of the historical timeline. I'm kind of an old fogy, so I've been around and have remembered it whether I was a citizen or an employee here. Um, where I tried to bring articles and things that could be helpful. So, a friend of mine was on the school board in Pontiac and, you know, once nearly bankrupt, they emerged from oversight. I I have an article I think I forwarded and if not I will from the Detroit Free Press
012by Lori Higgins October 27th uh October 17th, 2018 that the Pontiac School District has been released from state oversight 5 years after a 52 million deficit forced. Hang on one second. oversight at the uh 5year after $52 million deficit forced the state to declare a financial emergency. The district entered into a consent agreement uh with the state in 2013. At that time, the district's debt was ballooning. Enrolling was declining and bills weren't getting paid. The district was released from oversight uh Friday and that was in 2018. So, um, where I'm going with this is we prematurely exited from oversight with Oakland schools. And why that's important is because the Pontiac School District has been released from state oversight 5 years after a $52 million deficit forced them to go into it. And they had a
013substantial amount of money that was forgiven. And I did a quick, you know, AI overview. In December 2023, the state of Michigan passed legislation that g forgave approximately 18.4 million in outstanding emergency loan debt for the Pontiac School District. That's uh pretty amazing in the larger context of things. It makes me feel like the guidance that we were given when the sacrifices that I went through as the teacher may have been illsaken and some of the choices could have been if we kept the oversight we get the like kind of had the pro close proximity relationship to Oakland schools and then let's say we do this in 10 years and we're forgiven of some money and then I keep going back to how do we keep this thing afloat when we got our deficit and
014how do we keep the morale up and then I I've forwarded art articles from Madison public schools 5-year deficit elimination plan that's not a fun plan I lived it we didn't have a copier but when I came back like 10 15 years later we were still just emerging from this uh terrible able time with that when our instruction was impacted by by what product we could give to the kids and it wasn't good. The special ed budget tightened up. Right now, if if I was a forecaster, I would suggest you to sever ties with special ed with Oakland schools and let them take all programs back. At the worst, they'll give you a higher rate right now if you they beg you to keep it, but it's not good in our interest. We can't even
015sever the data off of our um dashboard. The data with those many students with disabilities are impacting our high stakes testing. And I'm a school social worker. I just give it to you now. They're going to reduce the money to special ed here coming and our exposure is too great. We should not be relying on them to balance our budget and we should be doing zero cost transfers from center programs into our budget and that'll be very tempting to resist. I see I have limited time. However, I would like you guys to do a historical review of this and see how much in money can be spent on instruction. If we can shrink and do a a exit out of bankruptcy with restructured everything, it's very small, we'll have a healthy district and then we
016can put all that money into instruction for the children. >> Thank you, Mr. Lloyd. Uh, I have Ann Ericson Cult, our county commissioner for Hazel Park. >> Beth, we're done with public comment. I think our community coalition representative just came in late. Can we go back to her? >> Yep. >> Good evening. >> Hi. As mentioned, I'm Ann Ericson Galt. I'm the county commissioner for District 3, which includes Hazel Park, Madison Heights, and part of Troy. and I'm here tonight to make sure you're aware of a brand new program called RX Kids. RX Kids is offering uh financial assistance to expected mothers and to uh mothers and newborn children. Pulling up my information, it just recently expanded to Hazel Park as of September 1st, 2025. applies to any infants born on or after September 1st,
0172025 or expected mothers who live in the city of Hazel Park. Uh to apply, uh people only need to go to rxkids.org and fill out a fairly simple application. You'll need some documents to verify your residency and so forth. Uh but should be a fairly painless application process. Um, I just want to make sure that people of Hazel Park know about this wonderful program. It's providing uh $1,500 to expectant mothers and uh babies um receive $500 a month during the uh per month for the first six months after birth. So, wonderful program. It's going to uh do wonders to help make sure that people uh can be uh secure in their housing, have money to buy things, especially a new firsttime um parents to have money to uh buy the necessary things for their children
018and uh some little income along the way uh during a time when most women find themselves uh with reduced earning capacity. So, uh, if you have any questions, I'll be happy to, uh, stay after and, uh, uh, talk to any of you about it. And, um, if you, at any time if any of you have any questions about anything that the county is doing or feel free to call me. Uh, my phone number is 248320-5798. I have business cards I'm happy to pass out. That's my cell number. You can call or text anytime. Thank you. And is that the Oakland County program or is that a Michigan? >> It is a um program that's spreading throughout the state of Michigan. Oakland County did make a financial contribution, but it's supported by a variety of foundations
019and charitable organizations and I think the state of Michigan has already also made some contribution. ULA has contributed to it. So there's a lot of various contributors in this program. It was begun by um Dr. Hannah Monatich, who many of you may remember, who was instrumental in bringing to light the uh lead uh pipe crisis that they had in Flint. And um she's just a an amazing advocate for children, and this is her new uh her new baby, so to speak, and she's just tearing it up, and I'm hoping it'll go nationwide. It's a great program. >> That's wonderful. Wonderful. Yeah. Thank you. >> Um I have um business cards. I'm happy to pass out to all of you in case you didn't because I rattled off my phone number too fast. Nice to hear
020good news like that. >> You can just leave them with her and we'll grab them from >> Sure. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next I have Oh, we're going back. Um yeah, the Hazel Park Community Coalition presenter has joined us. >> Good evening everyone. Thank you so much um for having me back uh this evening and my apologies for my tardiness. Um last time I was here I talked a little bit about who we are and what we do. And today I wanted to come back and just take a little look at the data, talk about what it means and how it informs our strategies and just our daily activities and the things that we do. Um so the objectives for this evening is just to be able to understand some of the key trends
021that we'll be looking at, see what the data reveals um and then be able to interpret the impact to the community. We'll review what that means for schools and the community overall. And then last, how we guide our strategic action. So reviewing how the data informs our priorities and then also making sure that we review opportunities for school and community collaboration. Um so if you don't recall, our mission as a coalition is to lead and facilitate datadriven community-based initiatives that empower HP youth and families to choose a chemical-free lifestyle. And hopefully this will result in a reduction in substance use among youth, specifically those youth in fifth to 12th grade. the way that we do our work, everything is anchored to that mission. And so our actions seek to reduce things at both an individual
022and an environmental level. And we do that in a couple of ways. Our data sources include the MiFi survey. Um, and we work in collaboration with the district to anonymously be able to collect data from students so that we can understand their perception and their 30-day use patterns. And then most recently, we also launched a coalition survey which is also anonymous and we hope to be able to administer that ad minister that on an annual basis in collaboration with the district. And then lastly, we also hold focus groups directly with students usually in a classroom setting. And so when you think about those two types of data, we have the qualitative data, which is the focus groups, and we have the quantitative data. In the qualitative data piece, we got some interesting information from students.
023This was in a ninth grade classroom setting. And so students were able to identify that yes, drug use has specific impacts to brain development, lungs, so on and so forth. But they did know that they felt that marijuana was less harmful than your other drugs. They shared that vaping is the most common and is seen as trendy partly because it's flavored and it's easy to get. Um, and then the access is widespread. I know as the district knows very intimately, you know, it can be obtained in the household, so it can be obtained from family, but then they also shared they get it for friends. Um, one of my uh clutcher pearls moment was when they shared that they pick them up off the ground and use them. Um, and then they get them online
024because it's less guarded. Um, and then lastly, I included a quote because the students were saying that they can see billboards everywhere and one student was like, "Yeah, it's right by my school. like you look up and it's right there. When you talk about the quantitative data, I do have a handout I wanted to provide you all with so that you can follow along. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you. So this data is taken directly from the myi survey and there's uh two components. One is some mental health data and then the other is what we refer to as 30-day use data. Meaning that in the past 30 days, students are reporting some type of use. I've kind of highlighted three areas of this report and I'm happy to go over the report in full with
025anyone who's interested. But as you'll see when we look at the percentage of students who use marijuana in the last 30 days, the Oakland County average is 8.6%. Hazel Parks average is 9.2%. And then when you look at at the breakdown between males and females, you'll see that females are reporting usage five times the rate of males. That's very significant. Then if you come over and you look at the mental health data, so we have the females using marijuana at five times the rate of males. When you look at mental health, 53% of females are saying that they feel persistent sadness or hopelessness. And that's at a rate of 53.3%. So there could possibly be some correlation here. Of course, that would take some deeper dives to really make that connection. But this is over
026twice the rate of males. The last point that I kind of pulled out from that sheet is that one in three students report living with someone who either indulges in alcohol or drug use. So this socializes the norm around use and really is a risk factor for substance misuse in the future. So that's why the work that we do is so important, the education piece for both families and students so that they understand the impact and they can be equipped to make responsible choices. um especially considering that students brain development really doesn't stop till around 25 26 years old. So we have those insights. What do we do with them? Well, we have some national prevention frameworks that we use and we employ them in both the individual and environmental level so that we can
027have some impact on an individual level. That looks like the drug lock bags that you see us give out. We were at the hometown hunnel. We gave a bunch of those out. We're at the resource fair. We're doing that. We also have prevention education in schools. So we have workshops that take place probably on a six to 8 week rolling basis and we're touch we're touching we're we're connecting with students um on the objectives related to those workshops. And then we've also partnered with the district on their build up the park uh series to be able to do the same for parents. And then last but not least this year we finally started building our youth advisory board. We were able to hire a youth coordinator who's really been getting into the high schools and
028connecting with students and identifying those student leaders who want to serve as ambassadors for HPCC. Um on an environmental level, we've um activated a drug deactivation station at the police station so people can come to that community space and they can get resources. And then as we've kind of talked about in those past few slides, we're collecting the data that helps to inform the the work that we're doing. So, I hope I didn't speed through that too fast. I was kind of conscious of being late, so I was just like, but if you want to connect with me, um, you can email me, you can give me a call, you can stop by the school. I'm happy to walk through that sheet in full. Um, and I'm also share I'm also happy to share out
029on the data collecting that we're doing on a regular basis. Um, so feel free to connect with me. And then if you want to get involved, we have a number of ways for you to do so. We do have spots for parents to join the board especially. We welcome anyone one but we really want parent voices um at the table. We always have spaces where people can volunteer so we can expand our reach. We are just a twoerson team so every volunteer helps um and you can follow us on social media and then if you would like to donate there's a link for that as well but thank you all so much. >> Thank you. That was very good report. >> Thank you. >> Can you email us this? >> Yes absolutely. Okay. Next, uh,
030we have the consent agenda and then a motion. >> I'm sorry. Should we close public discussion first cuz we didn't get a chance to do that. Make sure nobody else had >> Oh, anybody else want to speak? I never did that before. >> Anybody out there? >> No. Everything. It's just that we got interrupted and I just wanted to make sure >> that we're, you know, Thank you. >> Okay. >> Motion for consent agenda. I move the board of education accept the consent agenda as presented. So board >> motion by Heidi and support by man to accept the con consent agenda. Committee discussion. >> Yes. Discussion. >> Okay. I just have a couple questions on the conferences. Um there's a couple um administration people that are going to the introduction to school business conference in
031Lancing. It looks like it's this week. They're right on the border. I was just wondering if I could get clarification. Does those amount? One was 385 and one was 430. Does that include room? here. Um, one of them when we submit the request also includes like the expected amount for mileage so that Julie and I just coworker um is riding together. So that just >> So you're commuting? >> We're commuting. Yes. >> You're not staying overnight. No. >> Okay. >> Perfect. And and is that the same for the conference in January? >> Correct. >> You're commuting again. >> Okay. Perfect. And then I guess my other question is I seen that two um community reps are attending some conferences at Oakland schools and I was wondering if it was open to all the community reps
032and just the other two chose not to come >> to participate or >> all of them. Are you talking about the one on Wednesday? >> Um yeah, it looks like there's one on Wednesday and one on November 5th >> on November 5th. All of them should have filled out their paperwork and um I believe we're all going. >> Okay. Cuz I did not see the Hoover and I and I >> So Chlo is a different one. >> Yeah. >> I think those mentioned on Monday. >> Yeah. >> That Uber was going. Oh, they look like they're both the same for these. >> All All of us will be going on Wednesday. >> Okay. All right. I just didn't see the other two on here. That was all. Anybody else? Okay. Roll call. Miss Bum. >>
033Yes. Thank you. >> I abstain. Family. Yes. >> Becker. >> Yes. >> Fox. >> Yes. Um, new business. Additional pair professional. Um, yeah. For the public, this this may seem uh not discussed a lot um because Monday night committee of the whole is when we go through all of this and have the discussion and we're open for questions. Any board members have questions? But we should be able to this is like the voting meeting and last week was the discussion the main discussion so we can always discuss and have questions. But anyway, new business. I have I need a motion for additional pair professional. >> I move the board of education approve the additional addition of one special ed pair professional as the board supported. [Music] It doesn't say where. >> I was trying to
034find it, but then I after I made the motion, >> our meadows as you will. >> Okay. Um motion is made by Heidi and second by Monica for the additional pair professional United Oaks. Roll call, please. >> Yes. Steven, >> yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries 6. Junior high MTSS teacher. >> I move the board of education approve the addition of one MTSS teacher at Heis Park Junior High supported by the 35N reading grant support. A motion by ID support by Monica to hire the junior the MTSS teacher for the junior high. Any discussion? Forgot that last time. Okay. Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries 6. Additional custodian. I move the board of education approve the additional of of one custodian
035to for the Longfellow building and to fill in as a sub as presented. >> Did you support >> motion by Heidi and support by Monica gets to hire the additional custodian. Roll call, please. forress. Unfortunately, I'm a no until we get our um audit completed. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Uh no. Um motion carries 4 to2. Uh Playlands. Motion for Playlands. I move the board of education approve the partnership with Michigan stage pre play Lads for the del delivery of a 12week afterchool program enrichment program in drama and creative creative arts during the fall of 2025 and the amount of $10,000 from the Baltimore community school extension grant as motion by Heidi second by Monica. Is there any discussion? I just think that's fabulous program. >> No, I just appreciate Bulmer for always
036supporting us. >> Yeah, that's that's wonderful. Okay, roll call, please. >> Fortress, >> yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries uh six to zero. school summer school incentive obots. >> I move the board of education approve the allocation of funds for the summer discovery grant to purchase Ozbots in the cost of $23,625 as student attendance incentives support. >> That was a grant, right? >> Yes. >> Yeah. Okay. Um All right. Motion by Heidi, second by Monica. >> Can we give our students a shout out for attending and getting the incentive? That's pretty impressive that we had 104 students >> and that was just elementary, you know, junior high. Yeah, it was it was a spectacular summer for sure. >> Would you say it was like 75% attendance or >> 75% or
037more? Many of them had more. >> Excellent. >> Yep. >> Okay, roll call, please. >> Yes. Yes. >> Um I am abstaining from voting for this only because this is not an across the board incentive and I know that of those 104 children, two of them are mine. Uh I feel better for the sake of transparency abstaining from this vote. >> Yes. >> Fox. >> Yes. Motion carries um five to one, but it's um abstaining. I've never had a abstain. So, it's not like a no. It's okay. Uh, language line. >> I move the board of education. >> We skipped um Scholastic Books. >> Yeah. >> Did I skip? >> Yeah. Scholastic books. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. I see now cuz the beginning is summer school incentive, summer school incentive, but they're two different subjects.
038Okay. Sorry. Scholastic. I move the board of education approve the allocation of funds for the summer summer summer school discovery grant to purchase Scholastic books for elementary and junior high students who attended summer school summer discovery in the amount of $23,625. Support >> motion by Heidi and second. >> Although can I on our memo it says $24,362.13. So, can we just amend I think maybe she >> I'm going to amend my motion from 26 23,625 to 24,362.13 and that's for 199 students 48 148 elementary and 51 junior high students that attended summer school and I will continue to support and that's awesome too. Is there any more discussion? Okay, roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Uh, this one is across the board and didn't come with the benchmark or performance metric. So, um, I'm okay
039with this one. Yes. >> Becker, >> Yes. Motion carries 6. Language line. >> Move the board board of education approve the pilot of language line and the amount not to exceed $9,000. Support. Motion by Heidi, second uh by Monica. Any discussion? Okay, roll call, please. >> Fortress, >> yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries 6. Power School open schools action item. I move the board of education approve the contract for power schools with Oakland schools as presented. Support >> a motion by Heidi, second by Monica. Uh, any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries 6. Favor music renewal motion. Move the board of education approve the purchase of Bob Music in the amount not to exceed 6,300 as presented. Support motion by
040Heidi, second by Monica to uh do the quaver music renewal. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. >> Fortress, >> yes. >> Becker, >> yes. Fox. >> Yes. Motion carries 6. High school elevator action item. Now, we didn't have discussion. That's new. Do you have something, Dr. Delman? Anybody? >> Um, we can just say that um to be in compliance, we need to have repairs done to the elevator, the motor of the elevator at the high school. Correct. >> Yes. Yes. >> So that's your motion to >> Yeah. I move the board of education replace the elevator motor and install a solid state starter at the Hazel Park High School at a cost not to exceed $35,767.74 as presented. >> Support. Wow. Everything's so expensive. >> Very expensive. Uh, motion by Heidi, second by Monica to repair
041the high school elevator. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. >> Yes. Does anybody know this is going to come out of um what fund? >> Yeah, it's general fund in the memo. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Steven, >> yes. >> Becker, >> yes. Fox. >> Yes. >> Uh, yes. Motion carries 6. Elevation. >> Move that board of education approve the purchase of elevation in the amount not to exceed $14,000 as presented. Support >> motion by Heidi, second by Monica to >> do we just want to kind of explain what elevation what it is. Mrs. Dman, Dr. Dman, explain what it is just so people know. >> Okay. Yeah, sure. Absolutely. So, uh, Elevation is a tool that we use to monitor and stay in compliance with all of our, uh, requirements to support our English
042language learners. It helps us track the data. It helps us provide professional learning and it helps us really again satisfy all the outlined items in title 3. So, um, one of the things that I mentioned last week is that we have a limited EL staff and obviously most important is our EL staff working with students. And so, this tool really helps reduce doing spreadsheets and manual paperwork to really improve the work that we're doing and improve the delivery of support to our students. >> Okay. Thank you. Roll call. >> Yes. Yes. >> Becker. >> Yes. Motion carries. 6 99. Grant funded social study materials and resources. Motion, please. >> I move the board of education approve the estimated budget of the amount not to exceed $20,000. Support. >> Motion by Heidi and second by Monica
043Hog. Is there any discussion? >> This is the grant that has to be Oh, sorry. This is the grant that has to be expended by the end of the month, right? >> Correct. By September 30th. >> I was just going to let people know too again this is a grant. >> And it's just a budget. >> Yeah. I'm glad I wanted to say too that it was a grant that again and then we have two more. >> It's awesome. Um, a lot of work going into those. >> Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Richie, >> yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> yes. Yes. Motion carries 6 99 grant funded social studies conference. >> I move the board of education approve the estimate budget of $10,75 and for up to five staff members to
044travel to the national Council of Social Studies Conference NCSS support. >> A motion by Heidi and second by Monica. Do we know who those five? We have not selected them pending for approval. Okay. >> But we will make sure that we are going to um try to make uh an elementary at least have one elementary and split the other four or three on our own junior high and high school. So we have representation K through 12 >> across the board. >> And again this is coming out of another grant. The same grant but >> same >> but it is a grant. >> Okay. Roll call. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries 6 to zero. 99D grant consultation compensation. >> I move the board of education approve the payment of 8,100
045for cons consultantation fees. Consult consultant fees and they funded by the 99 budget support. Okay. Motion by Heidi and second by uh Monica. Uh do we want to say anything about that? >> Still I'd be happy to if you'd like. >> Grant's doing great things. >> Yeah, it absolutely is. So through this grant when we actually wrote the grant we really um tried to include not only K12 but higher education. So, we do a lot of partnerships with Oakland University and we worked in collaboration with Oakland University to really um write and deepen our social studies units and really had a a wonderful time collaborating. It was a great partnership to have higher education. Think about that K12 world and also our K12 world. think about that higher education world um and their ability to
046bring some very strong um writing opportunities, some very strong deep understanding of social studies to really make sure that our students get the best that they can through our curriculum and instruction. >> Thank you. Anybody? Okay. Uh roll call. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. Fox. >> Yes. Motion carries 6. Epic Math Initiative. >> This is just anformational item. >> It says action on my agenda. >> It's crossed out and saysform informationational. >> Does anybody have anything on it? >> I certainly can speak to it. >> Sure. Say a few words on. >> Sure. So, uh, the EPIC math initiative is something that Oakland schools started last year with, um, designated schools in Oakland County. It targets supporting and growing math achievement in grades four through six. And through this grant, we have an opportunity
047to have a consultant from the ISD support us. We have opportunities to go to professional learning at a reduced cost. We also have opportunities to take uh, staff through some pretty high level training that would otherwise cost about $2,000. That's something that we get free of charge because we are part of the ethic initiative. There is no exchange of funds. So the the district isn't giving funds to Oakland schools and Oakland schools isn't giving it to us. They're coming in resources and time and consultant. >> Okay. Wonderful. Thank you. Take that help anywhere we could get it. Docuign. I move the board of education approve the purchase of docuign in the amount of $5,265 as presented. Support motion by second by Monica. Any discussion? >> I don't remember seeing this uh on last Monday. >>
048Yeah, we didn't talk about this at committee the whole and don't I Brad? Are you sure? >> Can you help? Uh do we not pay for this through powers school? >> Yeah. >> No, that is separate. There's a power school um signature sign um signing agreement that they do um but docuign is used by early on and um yeah mainly used by early on. Okay, that makes more sense then because they don't go through the traditional enrollment. Okay, thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Okay, any other questions? >> Thanks, K. >> Okay, a roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Uh, yes. Motion carries six to zero. Hoover media center. And will the board of education approve the repainting of Hoover Media Center as presented? Support. >> Um motion by Heidi, support
049by Monica. Any discussion? Um, just for clarification and just for transparency, the amount is $13,569 and it consists of removing um the media center wallpaper that's horribly falling down and repainting it. And I'd like to add um it's being proposed because we have a famous artist coming. He attended Hazel Park for a short time and went to another school. Wayland um uh is is the artist and anyway he's going to be visiting and and he did draw a picture at one time and so uh we want to get a chip shape when he's here. So any other discussion? >> Just that we're also manifesting that he chooses to draw another. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Um, roll call. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries 6. Winter sports purchase of equipment.
050>> I move the board of education approve of winter sports purchase not to exceed $15,100 as presented. Support. >> Motion by Heidi and support by Monica. And that's um uniforms, right? >> Not all of it. >> I you know, we asked for clarification on the tumbling and I've not been in my emails to get that unfortunately. Has anybody seen >> I haven't seen anything yet >> cuz I was going to ask the same thing cuz we kind of both asked about it. >> Well, I used the word equipment. >> Is Mr. It was even clothing? >> I don't think so. >> I I spoke with the coach. She she said it was t for a tumbling coach. >> Understandable. Um I know that we talked to other coaches too that like it was only a
051certain amount per kid. Sometimes kids used to pay for themselves, sometimes they didn't. So that's what we were trying to figure out. >> Can't answer that. The way the way I understood it when I asked the question, it was answered that Tom, the previous athletic person, ended up paying for it out of the athletic fund and it's been going on ever since. And that's why they want to keep doing that just to make sure that the kids get the correct instruction on tumbling so they're not hurt. That was my answer to the So, it was previously done. Um, >> should we table it since we're on clear? >> I think we should table it. I mean, it's only a month. They still have time for competitive cheer to get somebody in. >> So, can we
052amend it of doing the rest and just not comp because it's not comp season yet. So, >> yeah, correct. I'm okay with t I'm okay with removing it. Um, I make I'm amend my motion to remove the tumbling for uh further discussion in October. >> I will still support. >> Okay. >> So, we're approving everything else that's on this list. Okay. Cuz I don't want to hold them up. >> Yes. Right. >> Okay. Now, I'm confused. So, are we doing partially approving this? We are going to approve everything except the tumbling. >> Okay. Got that, Miss Puko. Everything but the tumbling. >> And the tumbling will be on for next month. >> For next month. Okay. All right. >> Hold on. I'll make it clear. Give me two seconds. My brain's red today. >> Are
053we doing math? So, we're I I make a motion to approve the winter sports purchases for $10,400 removing the tumbling for later discussion in that. Continue to support. >> Okay. Motion by Heidi, second by Monica for the new motion. Any further discussion? >> Okay, roll call, please. >> Fortress, >> yes. >> Excuse me. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> yes. >> Uh, yes. Uh, motion carries 6 to zero. Huddle renewal motion, please. >> Move the board of education approve the renewal of Huddle program at a cost of 12,400 as presented. Support. Motion by Heidi, second by Monica. Any discussion? Okay, roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries six to zero. District improvement plan. >> I move the board of education approve the district improvement plan as presented. Supported.
054>> Okay. Probably no discussion. Okay, that was a lot of a lot of reading. Um, a lot of discussion last week. So, um, roll call, please. >> No. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> Yes. And did I hear did did you say no, Light? >> I did. >> Okay. Uh, 5 to one. Motion carries. uh designate of asbestous resolution >> and the board of education approved the resolution. Oh, do you need >> Let me read it first. >> Don't we need to do it? Yeah, I'll read it and then we can motion because it is the resolution is offered by. Um, so whereas Congress has enacted the Asbestous Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 and the Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated final regulation requiring the district to inspect and reinspect buildings, take and analyze samples of
055suspected asbestous containing materials, perform assessments, submit a management plan to the designated state agency, and perform various other tasks in accordance with 40 CFR 763. And whereas the district is required to designate a person to ensure that the requirements of the regulations are properly implemented. And whereas the board of education believes that it is in the best interest of the district to provide the designated person with protection against liability arising out of our efforts to comply with AHA which is the affformentioned asbestous act. Um now therefore it be resolved that the superintendent and her designate are hereby designated to ensure that the requirements of the regulations promulgated under the act are met. Uh, the board of education shall indemnify the superintendent and/or director of maintenance and operation, and such individuals shall be entitled without further
056act on their part to indemnify from the board of education for all expenses, including the cost of investigation and defense, amount of judgments, and amount of reasonable settlements incurred by either of them in connection with or arising out of any claim, action, suit, or proceeding in which either of them may be involved by reason of their acting. as such designated person on behalf of Hazel Park schools. This indemnity shall include all acts of such individuals, even if deemed to be acts of negligence on their part, but shall not include indemnity for acts of willful misfeasance, bad faith, or reckless disregard of duties in the conduct of these responsibilities. The right of indemnification shall ensure to the benefit of the heirs, executives, and administrators of each individual and shall remain in force even through such even
057though such individual shall no longer be an employee of Hazel Park Schools. All resolutions and parts of resolutions in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this resolution be and the same are hereby rescended. >> We can motion. That's the end. I move the board of education approve the resolution for the asbestous designate as the was it superintendent and maintenance supervisor. >> Um uh spec verbatim in the resolution is director of maintenance and operation and I for the sake of the public that that person is Greg Richardson right now >> and I support. >> Okay. Any discussion? I think it might just be worth mentioning that this was a bunch of legal ease, but it's something that's just required and it already exists. Uh we're just changing the designated person um as they're
058titled in the act from an employee that resigned his position to a new person who has undergone the training. >> All right. Thank you, April. Uh roll call. >> Gorgeous. >> Yes. Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Can I have a motion for the board goals? >> I move the board of education approve the board goals for the 2526 school year as presented. >> Support. >> Any discussion? Um just to clarify that what our goals are are each member members should attend six school or community events, develop a policy on fund balance, host by by annual retreat, attend three individual relation relationship building events. >> Okay. Uh roll callress. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> yes. >> Uh, yes. Motion carries six to
059zero. Board calendar. >> I move the board of education approve the board calendar as presented. Support. >> Is there any discussion? Motion by Heidi, second by Monica. Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. The motion carries six to zero. Motion for the handbook revisions and updates. >> I move the board of education approve the revision handbook for the 2526 school year as presented. >> Support motion by Heidi. Support by Monica. Is there any discussion? >> No changes from committee of the whole. >> Correct. >> But you're glad that's done. >> I am. >> It's been running for running and running here. We're just trying to make it work just right, aren't we? >> It's a lot of It's a lot of work. A lot of changes with laws and
060all that stuff. So, um, roll call. >> Yes. >> Reie, >> yes. >> Beaten, >> yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> yes. >> Uh, yes. Motion carries 6. Um, readmission of students. >> Oh, we have >> discipline. >> Student discipline. >> Yep. >> I move the board of education approve student discipline as presented. >> Support. >> Any discussion? Motion by Heidi. Support by Monica. Roll call. >> Yes. >> Becker. >> Yes. >> Fox. >> Yes. Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Readmission of students. >> I move the board of education approve these students to reenter Hazes Park schools as presented. Support. >> Motion by Heidi. Support by Monica. Um roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Becker, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries six to zero. teaching diverse history grantformational. Um, Dr.
061Delich, >> yeah, I was wondering on that one. So, we presented the grant a while back. So, I'm need need to seek some clarity on what that's referencing. >> Okay. >> Because we we voted on I'm wondering if all that 99D those three items, they were part of that grant. >> Okay. Thanks for the information. >> Yeah. >> And then freedom of information. That's justformational um for us. Oh, and now I have personnel that we added. >> I move the board of education approve the personnel recommendations as presented. Support. A motion by Heidi and support by Monica um to approve the personnel as presented. Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Uh I abstain for conflict of interest. >> Familiar. >> Yeah. Familiar conflict of interest. >> Yes. >> Uh yes. Motion carries
0625 to one. Uh the uh festival trip. >> I move the board of education approve that that thespian festival trip um in amount not to exceed $4,600. Support. >> Okay. Motion by Heidi, support by Monica. And just there was some questions during the committee of the whole about fundraising and um the um director agreed to have the students raise $100 through fundraising um efforts to offset the trip. So thank you. >> Okay. Uh roll call, please. >> Yes. I I think I >> Okay, never. Yes. Sorry, I was looking at the wrong um I was looking at the old memo. Yes, absolutely. >> Becca, >> yes. >> Fox, >> Yes. Motion carries six to zero. Next portion here, uh we have the information from Dr. will tax on the enrollment in the fundraisers. And the
063next item is request for future agenda items. Anybody? No. Um calendar dates. I don't have those in front of me. That's the first Monday in October will be the next meeting. Sorry, I don't have that. Is that like October 3rd or something? And then we're back to public comment. Anybody wishing to speak? >> We do have a meeting tomorrow, I believe, on Yeah, we have policy committee tomorrow. >> Oh, yes. Thank you. Yes. Policy meeting tomorrow is what? 5:30 to 7. Yes. >> Yes. Starting that important work. Uh, seeing nobody for public comment, I have board member and administration comments. Um, I just want to say that the carpet looks great at the high school. U, I got to go in there the other day and it really does make that furniture just look sharp.
064I don't know, has anyone else been in there? I know that was nice, but the carpet looks really nice. Um, I also want to acknowledge all of our sports are in full swing. Everyone's doing amazing. Um, I've got to go to most of the sports so far, so I just need to catch up on a couple. I want to say congratulations to all the teachers, especially our one that showed up. It's nice to have you around and still have you around. Um, and I did just want to ask I sent an email about a week and a half ago about policy and why HR was not on policy anymore. And I've not received any information back on that. I just feel that HR should be on our policy when she's the one who's supposed to
065be upholding and dealing with policy in my opinion the most. [Music] Okay. Anybody? >> Yes. Congratulations to the band. Um, they received second place and woke me up at bright and early at before 7 on a Saturday morning, but they were playing in their little heart shop, which kudos to you for getting second. Um, nice quick meeting. Thank you. And go Lions. Uh if I could, I would like to thank the administration at all the buildings and even central office for their hard work and dedication. Um especially in these trying times in the past few weeks where you've had multiple injuries, multiple situations and um you know, we get texts right away about it and and I just I'm like, "Wow, that's a lot." And uh when I worked here, I didn't realize how much
066it was. But um and and it's usually handled quite well and uh it's always handled quite poorly. Like I've never heard of anything not um you know uh regarding to you know and the poor people that have passed and I mean you really need to you guys are wonderful for reaching out and for caring and for you know um doing what you do and so thank you and it goes to all the administrators. Can I just make a short announcement? I should have done it at public um announcements. So, tomorrow evening is another family event. It's at the junior high from 6:00 to 7:30. It's called choose your own adventure. We'll have math activities, science activities, STEM activities. It's all district. So, all district means all families uh can come. There will be teaching different
067math games and science activities. And the way you're going to choose your own adventure is on the way out, we will have a boatload of science and math games for you to take one home with you. So, choose your favorite one and then you can take it home with you. So, that's 6 to 7:30 uh tomorrow evening at the junior high. >> That sounds so fun. >> It's going to be great. Um, I hope lots of people come. Are you doing I have it on here for uh build up the park tools to help students thrive. That'll be at web. >> That'll be at web and that will be on October 7th. >> Is that the same like you're saying the junior high build up the park? >> Yep. Build up the park are all
068kind of family events. This is more of a family one. The buildup of the park is typically more like parent university where we feed them, we'll give them dinner, we'll do uh child care so the parents can go off and learn and then we play with the kids which is my favorite part. And um um and then there's usually parent learning of some kind. So we have several throughout the year. Um I believe the flyer is on the website and I will make sure each of you gets we do have to change a few um places um that we're we're going to so some of them are are changing. We have one at United Oaks in um November called uh dinner in data and we're going to be talking about the math data that families
069get and how to interpret it. Um, and then we're going to be giving away turkeys. So, we've got a bunch of them. Come on down. Tomorrow night, though, is really important. >> Very good. Thank you. Yep. >> Can I say one more thing, though? Sorry. Um, I did just cuz you started talking. Um, I do know that one of our elementary schools is a little low on their closets. So, if anybody has any children's clothing, um, sizes 10 and under around is what they were asking. Um, if you could donate them, that would be greatly appreciated. He's what school's in? >> I believe it was Hoover. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. And you can bring it here or to Hoover. >> Thank you. >> We'll make sure they get it. >> Sorry. Thank you, Bab. >>
070Obviously, I wanted to say thank you to Mr. Parate and the Knights of Columbus. That was a really generous um donation that they provided to the students of Duran. Um, I know he expressed some dismay that it was lower than in the past, but obviously what what you give is what you give and that's amazing. Um, that that's what you have the availability to to provide to the young people that are over there. Um, on the same note to the promise zone, uh, being able to really remove some of those barriers that um, students had to attending uh, trade schools um, college after their graduation from Hazel Park. uh being able to offer that that financial boost um and remove that pr-rated amount is amazing. Um want to say that we've been talking about it
071for a while here. Um the state has still not passed its budget. It is September 22nd, so it's really unlikely that they will do so by October 1st. Um so as always urge your legislators, legislators um to get to work and get that done. Uh but I would say even beyond that um to urge our legislators to not only pass their budget but to pass a budget that is appropriate uh to meeting the needs of students across the state. Um especially this past week, we've heard a lot of talking points about uh borrowing money and needing to support infrastructure. Uh but you know we up here in this building in this district um hopefully everywhere understands that education is our most important piece of infrastructure and that the state aid budget should not be borrowed
072from uh by any means. And then I also wanted to uh maybe to a specific subset of parents just based on uh some discussion or comments that were made earlier uh to make it very clear that Hazel Park Schools supports all of our students. Um whether you live in the city of Hazel Park, whether you do not, um you are a student of our schools and we support you regardless. Um would also like to say that uh this district supports students regardless of their learning abilities or their disabilities. Um if you have a special education student, uh your students are supported by this district. It is not only a federal mandate, but it is the right thing to do. Um disabled students are safe here. They are supported here. They will continue to be. Not
073only is it a federal mandate that the local school district uh provide a free and appropriate education for their students, but it is it is the will of the people and it absolutely uh will continue here in Hazel Park in Hazel Park. >> All right. Thank you. >> Well said. >> Uh yeah, I echo what you said. Thanks Mr. Parat and Knights of Columbus. You know that's that helps a lot. Uh, thanks Miss G for coming out and was it RX Kids? Is that what it is? That sounds like a great program. Hopefully our young mothers can take advantage of medication. >> Old mothers can take advantage of it, too. >> Mothers and apologize. I know that a lot of times the younger mothers are, you know, a little more. I misspoke. I apologize. Uh,
074Promise Zone, again, also that's a great program. and I love hearing about it every time. Um, uh, thanks to our teachers, you know, congratulations on your tenure. Uh, it's been nice to see some more, but we we appreciate what you do. It's great to see the school in full swing right now, athletics and clubs. I saw the they got the play coming. Um, I saw they had stuff set up at the high school and I'm really looking forward to seeing that and band, you know, and everything's in full swing. I know everyone's busy. I know a lot of teachers are tired, probably getting in the bed early uh these days and administrators and everybody. So, we really appreciate what everyone is doing and uh we're looking forward to the school year. >> Everybody's so awesome.
075Good comments up here tonight. Um I I just have a couple things here. Um you and I know they're taking the Camp Hazelwoods trip on a Saturday, September 27th. I thought that's pretty cool. Um and then uh Hoover, they have trunk or treat. It's not till October 16th, but people can get ready now. It's like the days fly by. And um Web has picture day October 1st and junior high this Wednesday. They have a meeting on their Washington trip from 6:00 to 7:00. So that's exciting. I think I don't know if this will be like the fourth year of that uh of that trip, which is wonderful for our kids. Um our vice football team won again. So, go Vikings. They're they're on a they're on a roll. They're doing great. Um and so that's
076all I have. Thank you, Miss Gulp, for coming, too. If anybody has questions, she's here. I passed out the cards. Um I also could be wrong, but I think October 1st is count day. >> Yeah. So, please come to school October 1st. That's normally why Web does picture day. Yes. We kind of do it on purpose >> so that you get your pictures, but you're there. >> And Web also has trunk or cheat October 30th. >> Friday. >> Mhm. >> The 30th. >> Is it just Friday? >> So, Friday is a half day and the goal of that day also is a parent guardian communication day. So that's an opportunity for our teachers to reach out um via phone calls or email to make sure they connect with families and just um share some some
077great wonderful things about their channel. >> Awesome. We're going to be halfway through our >> That's right. Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. Seward.