001e e e the Hazel Park Board of Education meeting to order at 6m on this jary 25th 2025 welcome everybody on this beautiful night and it's lovely I love to see the kids back so we need to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance oll roll call I'm sorry okay I need to read my list with stand and do roll call here Becker here Fortress present Fox here lefon boys here here Pon here now the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation under God indivisible okay our first order of business do the agenda approve the agenda got this I need a motion to approve the agenda I make a motion to approve the agenda as written support a motion
002to approve the agenda by Heidi support by deby all in favor of approving the agenda I can we get discussion for the agenda please would you like what discussion for the agenda sure if we can um get some clarification we had a memo at Committee of the whole um for a language line pilot that was being voted on today can we get clarification on why that's not included pass we um have uh temporarily removed it from the agenda until we have a better feel for some of the financial implications do we know when it will be put back on I mean do we have an estimate I I do not have an estimate okay I will I it worries me that it's not included I mean our original the original memo that was given to
003us at Committee of the whole that we talked about so that we could vote um Not only was it a relatively small amount of money speaking um but it was directly related to an MD review and title 3 compliance and it worries me with the number of audits and the number of things that we have going on that we are sacrificing a $6,000 initiative uh that would not only provide some really inclusive services to our families but was directly recommended through an mde review and may further push us out of compliance with yet another issue so I want to clarify that it will not push us out of compliance and it was not specifically addressed in the MD review but it will address some um shortcomings we know that that we have so it's not
004a no I think it's just a not yet okay that's it a shame given the amount of money that we've spent in the past month that something that would directly service our families that are non English-speaking and that would allow the district to be more inclusive for them is what we're sacrificing but we can vote on the agenda any other discussion let's do roll call please foress yes Le yes Beaton no Becker yes Fox yes Richie no Pinon yes motion carries um to accept the agenda now we're on to special order business do are we going in front pardon me are we lighting up yes I think we should absolutely do that my my path I know I was just thinking I got to go all the way around my walkway been closed oh you're
005good you good oh we're going to start with Edison so the representative for Edison speech anybody from Edison to give out to read out the speech ccle we can no we can I'll go to Hoover ho we want you to read it y yeah but I'm G give you the mic but I'm oh we can do web first go on all right for web our student of the month is Leah Gino Miss sheer heart's class nominated Leah Gino is our February student of the month Leah is such a joy to have in our classroom Community her classmates describe her as kind creative and a great friend her teachers describe her as amazing humble helpful and hardworking Leah has over 1,000 reading steps with her positive attitude and responsible responsible behavior Leah is headed for greatness
006great job Leah [Applause] you all right Hoover's Elementary uh student of the month is Isabelle Han she is in Mr Lam's room and this month we're excited to celebrate Isabelle as our student of the month Isabelle embodies kindness respect and responsibility every day her peers describe her as someone who is always on task practices safety and shows respect to teachers and classmates alike she is always willing to help never argues and consistently sets an example of what it means to be a leader what makes Isabelle truly special is her authenticity uniqueness and her unwavering Integrity her commitment to doing what is right even when no one is watching is inspiring she brings positivity and warmth to our classroom making it a better place for everyone we are so fortunate to have Isabelle in our class
007and we can't wait to see all the amazing things she will continue to achieve wonderful [Applause] all right I have with me turn for the crowd my dear this is Mr Carter and I have had the pleasure of watching Carter grow into the amazing young man that he is today and we love we love the family girls I see you back there too Carter is a wonderful student he takes pride in his work and always puts best I'm sorry puts forth his best effort in class Carter is kind and helpful to everyone he sets a wonderful example for others I know that if I need something done properly carefully or thoughtfully Carter is the student I Look to for help he is consistent and kind Carter for all you do keep up the good work
008we're proud of you [Applause] oh sorry United [Applause] your parents a little bit good evening everyone we have Charlie Robinson from Advantage High School it is an honor to have Charlie Robinson as student of the month she has made a complete turnaround since last school year Mr Higginbotham and Mrs Bleu stated that Charlie is a pleasure to have in class always she has a great attitude and she is an excellent student with great Behavior she goes above and beyond what is required of her in class and she asked high level questions keep up the good work Charlie thank you this is GR Becker uh from the junior high uh Hazel Park Junior High is proud to recognize Graham Becker as our January student of the month his dedication to being responsible safe respectful and kind
009his dedication to being respectful responsible safe and kind sets a shining example for those around him he constantly puts great effort into all of his classes achieves excellent grades and serves as a role model to his peers he is also appreciated for his willingness to help others and make everyone feel included his friendly and outgoing nature makes him well-liked by both staff and students and his positive positive attitude truly embodies what it means to be a Hazel Park Junior High student we thank Graham for being such an outstanding part of our school Community keep up the Fantastic work [Applause] well Mr Kemp Jeremiah Kemp is our student of the month at Hazel Park High School his mother is with us he is actually at drama on his way hopefully in the next few minutes because
010he's also our high school rep representative who's supposed to be speaking in a moment about things going out at the high school so they have production coming up pretty soon so I know he's very committed to that um Mr Fair brother who is the Drama teacher recommended that Jeremiah be nominated as student of the month he says he embodies the finest traits of PE of people first leadership collaboratively setting goals freely sharing genuine smiles and selflessly coaching his peers towards success what Mr fairbrother said he is most impressed about is his tireless commitment to growth in his organization ations in himself and in his in others he fearlessly asks critical questions learns speedily from every mistake and proceeds with deepened professionalism Hazel Park has been lucky to have this Superstar move through the its hallways
011and onto its stages strengthening drama the National Honor Society and our Greater Community in the process Mr Lee the band teacher stated that Jeremiah Was an outstanding soloist and musician during our marching band season he was a leader and always exhibited the qualities that we look for in the senior member of his section he is well respected among his peers and our staff and our administrative Team U let want everyone to know what a true leader Jeremiah truly is he's extremely organized dedicated responsible even more than me at times he reminded me today that we needed to meet to discuss tonight because he already had his list ready to go so he's very organized and I adore he's been two years for those of you who watch board meetings for the last two years you've
012seen jerem Jeremiah here and he's always well spoken organized which I truly appreciate I am confident as all the administrators and teaching staff at Hazel Park High School that he is going to succeed no matter what he puts his mind to so Mom kudos to [Applause] you so I know Jon's principal cannot be here so we have Zachary McMorris Zachary has done [Applause] Zachary has done a great job transitioning into new classroom learning opportunities he is showing courage and leadership as he navigates through his day keep up the good work Zachary we are so proud of you [Applause] do we have anyone here from invest no okay so we have nor from invest nor is a shining example of dedication leadership and resilience a proud immigrant from Baghdad nor has embraced every opportunity to make
013a lasting impact on her community as a student council member at invest she has been instrumental in leading anti-bullying initiatives organizing fundraisers and strengthening the school's culture of inclus inclusivity and Excellence her hard work and ambition have paid off nor was accepted into all three universities she applied to and will be attending Michigan State University to study political science with aspirations of becoming a political anal analysis she is determined to use her voice and expertise to shape the future Beyond academics and Leadership nor is an incredible daughter and a devoted sister always uplifting and supporting her family her passion kindness and drive set her apart making her a true model for her peers congratulations nor your future is bright and we can't wait to see all you accomplish [Applause] oh do we have anyone here
014from Edison no okay I'll read it anyways um uh CN cjn has made great progress at Edison he has committed to following the behavior expectations of the building advocating for himself in an appropriate Manner and utilizing the resources available to him he has shown that he has engaged with academics and focused on returning to his home school the progress he has made during his time at Edison has been phenomenal and the staff is so proud of his accomplishments as he continues to grow in progress congratulations [Applause] so we have another round of applause for all the wonderful successful students you may stay or you may choose to leave it's up to you we welcome you to stay um the next on the agenda is the junior high representative report do we have a junior high
015representative not yeton she wouldn't be able to attend today okay thank you thank you high school is late Advantage representative up to teacher of the year is that that's perfect okay we're up to teacher of the year uh so Board of Education members um I would like to read off the list of honorable mentions for teacher of the year uh because we have so many talented staff members and it's important to know that so many people think so highly of them so from Webster Carly o'bright was an honorable mention from Hoover Carrie Johnson Elizabeth Dean Jennifer Williams they were honorable mentions United Oaks we have Amber Wilson and Kim Forester congratulations from web Elementary Angela Wilkins Beth Pollock Emily Schneider Jennifer Hall Julia Burgess and Emily Schneider again she must have gotten many nominations um
016at the junior high Audrey London at the high school Karen Ryan jardan Janet Springsteen Karen Converse and Melissa Morad Brown all honorable mentions from Edison Tanya Wilson and from invest mad shamas congratulations to all of those [Music] [Applause] teachers are any of those teachers here today yeah please stand if you were on the list [Applause] Hazel Park's very fortunate always has been very fortunate to have very dedicated um teachers committed to your students to your children um so can uh can we start because I believe we have principles do you have the M are we coming back up yes please we have um principes who would like to honor uh the teachers of the Year from each grade level this is exciting do you want to use this sure okay okay good evening I'm here
017tonight to honor Tracy Steen from Webster Early Childhood Center come on [Music] [Applause] up Tracy is a dedicated and compassionate teacher with over 20 years of experience she consistently shows patience kindness in love towards her students creating a welcoming and supportive environment where everyone feels valued Tracy is always prepared with engaging activities and readily steps in to help her colleagues and students she has developed strong relationships with students and their family making them feel at home at school Tracy is also a mentor to both new and experienced teachers and actively participates in family and Afterschool events demonstrating her commitment to the entire School Community her dedication to her students particularly those with special needs stands out one parent shared that Tracy treated their child as her own providing immense support and understanding for their child
018with autism her patience and ability to help students adjust to the school environment has earned her High Praise from parents and Co co workers alike Tracy's passion for teaching her willingness to go above and beyond and the positive impact that she has had on everyone around her makes her an exceptional educator deserving of this recognition congratulations for being the first preschool Honore at Hazel [Applause] Park you know [Applause] I uh would like to uh honor our elementary teacher of the year Sue Watts from web Elementary Sue has worked for the district since 1993 by my calculations 32 years she sh setup shop at many of our schools including long fellow Clark Hoover United Oaks and most recently web and I have personally known her to teach kindergarten first 2 Fifth and young fives her nominators
019have included wonderful things about her Mrs watts is a dedicated educator who goes above and beyond to support her students academic and emotional growth she uses adaptive teaching methods and handson support to create an engaging inclusive classroom where every student feels valued her patience and empathy athetic approach Foster a positive environment that encourages students to succeed while her emphasis and social emotional learning and School Readiness help students develop essential skills like conflict resolution peer collaboration and classroom routines by tailoring lessons to meet each students needs she ensures that all students Thrive at their own pace while also fostering teamwork and Leadership within the classroom Beyond her work in the classroom Mrs Watts builds strong relationships with students parents and the broader School Community she communicates open with parents offering guidance and support and actively participates
020in school events and extracurricular activities her students well prepared for kindergarten often serve as role models and mentors helping to organize schoolwide events like the holiday concert Mrs Watts's commitment to education extends Beyond her own teaching with a legacy of service to students that runs through her family as her children are also Educators this dedication has enriched the Hazel Park School Community creating a culture of collaboration support and Excellence we're so lucky to have Mrs watts in Hazel Park and at web we're grateful for all that she has done for our students families colleagues and Community congratulations [Applause] and the junior high would like to recognize Cassandra Brown as our teacher of the year Cassandra Brown is an exceptional educator whose dedication generosity and passion have profoundly impacted Hazel Park Junior High for over 25
021years as a PE and health teacher she builds strong trusting relationships with students and staff creating a supportive and welcoming environment beyond the classroom she plays a vital role in organizing PBIS committee activities student council events and schoolwide celebr ations often donating her own time and money to ensure students have memorable experiences her leadership in events like the December to remember raffle demonstrates her commitment to student well-being providing Essentials and holiday gifts for those in need Cassandra's caring in compassionate nature sets her apart as a true pillar of the school Community she is a mentor role model and advocate for students always going the extra SM the extra mile to make them feel valued and supported her willing willingness to help whether coaching coordinating school events or simply being a trusted adult for students has
022left a lasting impact on everyone around her as she approaches retirement her absence will be deeply felt but her Legacy of kindness dedication and school spirit will continue to inspire Cassandra Brown is truly deserving of recognition for her unwavering commitment to education and the student she serves [Applause] okay and the high school teacher of the year is Cedar OAB so miss OAB Madame OAB for the French did I say that correctly was nominated by many staff members not just one or two lots of people nominated her and there's so many reasons why she's an extraordinary educator with over 30 years of dedication and passion that have profoundly impacted her students colleagues the entire School Community she's committed to Student Success utilizing Innovative teaching strategies and fostering an inclusive and engaging learning environment Beyond her classroom
023she supports fellow Educators coordinates testing thank you very much and ensures strong parental involvement all while PRI prioritizing student well-being her Boundless Energy those of you didn't know she's a runner and a previous boxer yes I learned many things about Ceda recently she's amazing her kindness and creativity make her an invaluable asset to our school district respected and admired by student staff and parents alike Miss osab is the heart of the school Community she connects with students of all backgrounds earning their trust and respect even among those facing behavioral challenges with expertise across multiple subjects and a passion for the French language she has enriched students lives through cultural immersion trips to Paris as a mentor to new Educators and a champion of lifelong learning her impact extends far beyond the classroom making her truly
024deserving of this recognition I have a few other important things I want to state that some of the nominations one of the people who nominated her stated that on top of her high workload she is the first person to volunteer for anything that is needed her ambition and dedication is admired by the entire staff her name is the first on everybody's lips when asked who is the best teacher at the high school staff and students both students from all grades engage with her frequently during passing time where if you stand nearby you will be blown away by the sheer volume of students that engage with her warmly on a daily basis even though students with behavioral issues are quick to anger normally but show nothing but respect and admiration for Miss osab additionally another one
025who nominated her said she is the as a mentor I apologize H here we go she uh with over 30 years of experience she said she has served as a mentor to many new Educators in fact every year when I say who can I ask to Mentor the new ones she's the first to say I'll do it I'll do it no matter what the content and they all come to her for all the advice and I go to her all the time she has a sheer Heart of Gold uh one more thing we did have a parent submit Miss Jackson submitted I can't read the whole thing but I did want to make sure that I stated some of the things that she said um she says Miss osab has dedicated so much of her
026time to helping my son try to learn French he struggled sometimes keeping his focused but miss osab regularly tweaked her teaching style to accommodate him extra reminders here and there breaking down the information so she was teaching it in different ways so that her son could understand additionally she took time her own time even in the summer to get some paperwork done to help her student and the the parents said that she couldn't thank her enough for that she is the perfect example of a teacher who deserves the teacher of the year award she's dedicated to helping her students learn creative and adust in her methods to accommodate children who learn differently and she is genuinely concerned about their well-being [Applause] congratulations and they're here thank you picture I mean I've been sick you might
027not want me near you anything to get out of a photo thank [Applause] [Music] would anybody like to comment to our teachers scho High School oh as well as would anybody like to comment to our teachers and then we'll move to the high school student no great job teachers all very well deserved Rec and we'll go to um High School report woohoo go HP Staff first congratul take Jeremiah's picture to thank you so much I appreciate that hi my name is Jeremiah Camp I am the uh student representative at Haz Park High School I am a senior current senior I'm just going to go over some couple things that's going on with High School uh senior banquet is next Thursday March 6 at um at the Banquet Center in waren uh tickets are $35 and
028and the last day to orm is this Thursday uh winter sports is almost finished now they're doing a great job spring trials are starting soon um later later in uh early March and later later March um make sure you have a physical on on file before April 15th or later freshman pregame is March 12th and then right afterward is a parent orientation at 6 at 6 p.m. for the um for parents of the next year's freshman uh families please check your power schools for uh for all emergency contacts please change all your email addresses and phone numbers to get that all updated and in late in late March we'll be starting course selections for 8th through 11th graders for the next year next year schedule next Thursday band is going to Festival so please go
029go ahead with band tomorrow there'll be a Altech field trip for 10th graders Chrysler field trip is in late March and last thing I want to talk about is the upcoming drama spring production sorry for my tarence I was just there at rehearsal we have our youth Ensemble there today um we have over 70 students in the production uh it's the production is James and the Giant Peach please order your tickets now at uh hazelpark dr.org and yeah thank you so much [Applause] [Music] oh look how cute [Music] Jeremiah over here Jeremiah where is the band Festival Tak Place CU I was looking in the you know Facebook yeah they [Music] I'm having mat issues it drives me nuts okay we're on to chair what are you do call him in the room over there
030um we're going to find out I thought we were just talking bad about men which I'm ins suppor of today me too I wasn't going to knock it down okay our next order of business is the bcba presentation I don't know who's giving that hi every welcome welcome thank you for having us tonight we're excited to um introduce you to our bcbas uh we have here with us tonight Elizabeth tosto she's our district bcba and Ann Parker she works uh at Addison as our bcba and just a little introduction a bcba is it stands for board certified behavior analyst so they are new to the district this year and have been amazing made a a great difference with our students um our teachers PA of professionals and our fam so really excited for them to
031show you what they do every day and um allow you to ask some questions about all of their fantastic skills and what they're teaching our staff and students all right you guys are up you guys can stand there sure all right um hello so um as uh Dr papazian said that uh bcba is uh stands for board certified behavior analyst um this they are regulated by the behavior analyst certification board um we hold a graduate level of education and behavior analysis um and to become credentialed um you must pass a a board exam and maintain a certification through um every 2-year cycle um we need to maintain about 32 cus um including those that Co cover ethics and supervision um learning activities in those two years um and we are also independent practitioners who can
032provide Behavior analytical Services um so aside from the schools um Behavior analysts can also work in settings like clinical settings Hospital residential um other settings um like that for independent practice as well um how many of you know what ABA is you oh yes people sorry got it thank you um I just just asked how many know what ABA is just a few hands so I just wanted to explain it really quick so ABA stands for Applied Behavior Analysis that's the service that behavior analysts do provide um and what we do is we work to either increase or decrease specific behaviors that are considered socially significant and impactful to the students that we work with so I just kind of wanted to go that too cuz I know ABA is still such like a new
033term out there um so those are the types of um things that we work on and target with the students that we provide services to yeah um so here at Hazel Park um our bcba job description is that we work under the supervision of our student services program director um and the bcba collaborates with classroom teachers uh we work with support staff like par professionals and other like occupational therapists uh physical therapist speech therapists um we implement we help them to design and Implement evaluate behavioral intervention plans um also called bips um that you may hear them um termed and for these special our special education students we also provide consultation coaching and onetoone group presentations and classroom support um instructional and behavioral strategies for special education teachers par professionals and um other support staff
034as mentioned so what support provided for students and staff um what this looks like is um specifically um that we are both included in our Kip team um these are key identified Personnel so anytime you hear um of a kip team being called this is when students are in crisis um our key identified Personnel are called at that time this is kind of where we have been talking a lot and and um most of you have probably heard a lot about uh restraint and seclusion numbers for Hazel Park and how we're working to decrease those numbers um so part of that initiative was to bring uh bcbas in on the team to help develop plans that allowed us to come up with strategies that would help decrease um those escalated behaviors that often led to
035the restraint and seclusion so in with that said when the key um the kip team is called um we are part of the team that will make those decisions in the moment so we make the decision whether or not restraint and or seclusion is needed for that specific situation so we are looking at like imminent harm imminent danger uh risk and safety to others as well as a student so we are part of that team that does make those decisions um we do um have adopted ukeru training this year so this is a restraint free and Trauma informed crisis management um as far as um Beth and I across Edison I have um all of our staff right now um has been trained at Edison um so we are 100% trained in uku and we
036are currently using and piloting this in our Elementary classrooms um our Elementary classrooms are actually the ones that have produced the highest numbers of those restraints and seclusion over the past couple years so those are really the group that we have really targeted um and really happily we are reporting the I think we're down about what 98% of restraint and seclusions um as of right now so those are numbers that are looking really great and they have maintained um thus far um since the beginning of the school year um um Beth here has also been working on training um others in the district I think you guys are kind of focusing right now on your behavioral Paras and your self-contained classrooms correct yep we have one elementary school that has aass classroom that has been
037trained and then we are um planning on training another Elementary School in all the self-contained rooms in that that building so we still are using and um utilizing CPI The Crisis Prevention um intervention um we are still using that um but we have adapted the ukar training to just kind of help um help guide us towards more of like a restraint free practice when needed um we also have provided par professional training um Beth and I both presented a behavior Basics Workshop to them districtwide um for a per Pro PD training and I want to say we had about 50 plus Paras um show up so we had a really great turnout um we do assist with functional Behavior assessments so um our special education teams are already implementing these in schools but we have
038kind of kind of um are brought in um at certain times and we'll talk about that a little later about like when we are kind of brought into that process and when the need for a bcba to step in Rises um and we also work on those behavior um the Positive Behavior Support plans as well we'll um include our feedback on those uh we work a lot on establishing an efficient way to collect data so this can look like paper electronic graphing what is really hard is data is really really important to what we do here this is really how we we choose and we determine um when an intervention is necessary as well as when an intervention is being effective and when it is not effective so it helps us to make those decisions
039so um data collection also um is a little bit of a double-edged sword because it's very difficult it can be very difficult to collect in the classroom so if we have any teachers here today you probably can agree that data collection is really tough um to take in in the classroom especially when you're managing multiple other students and you're having to take individual data so we really work with the staff um and we help develop a a functional way um and practical way to um take effect data but also make it very effective as well to be very meaningful for us when we determine these interventions um assisting with re um observations we attend IEPs uh and any beh avior support meetings we analyze ongoing student data so that data that we are asking our
040classroom um staff and teachers to take we are using that and putting it to good use to make those um database decisions we provide op and observe modify and model interventions as needed as well so not only are we giving our recommendations but we are going into the classroom and we are modeling showing them what it looks like giving feedback back um just to make sure that everyone is understanding the intervention and everyone um is implementing it consistently across the board and then there's also um an option for us to provide caregiving caregiver training um when requested and when needed um as decided by the the IEP team okay okay so I'm going to go over now a little bit of what the referral process um and how it is determined that a referral needs
041to be made um for bcba services within the district so a lot of times what this looks like is um the individual buildings request for assistance team um they have determin that all tier one and tier 2 levels of support have been exhausted um in an attempt to decrease Behavior or sometimes even increase a specific behavior if they've been working on it for a while um also building you know request for assistance team they may also to um identify that uh they just need support in development of new strategies um of a current behavior plan um maybe it's a student that they've been working with for a while and they just kind of need like a fresh set of eyes to come in and um just come up with maybe a new strategy or some
042new ideas as well okay so we actually do have a referral form that we ask the staff utilizes to Across The District uh it's a Google form and just a a couple of things that are on the form that are helpful for us to determine if the student does need that higher tier three level of assistance um their demographic information is included the reason for their referral um specifics about their target behaviors um so like what they look like um any data if there's data available we definitely want to see that too um known anant so anant are things that occur before a behavior occurs so we want to make sure we have an idea of that as well um and current and prior any current and prior inter uh ventions that have already been
043tried and then specific services that are being requested whether it's somebody to come in and help with writing the Positive Behavior Support plan condu conducting a functional Behavior assessment helping with data collection conducting any observations um parent training or parent support those types of things too as well and then this after following a referral we have a whole set of steps that we do we start with an observation this can be a singular observation if determined needed maybe it takes you know just one to kind of come in and come up with the strategy most likely though it's more than one so repetitive observations to really get an idea of what the behavior looks like and how we should intervene um so we'll observe the student in the classroom and in any other settings that
044the behavior has reported to been occurring in we'll want to make sure we observe the student in that environment as well we are going to ask the teacher and the staff that work directly with the student lots of questions we're going to interview them regarding the Behavior they know their student the best so we're definitely going to collaborate with them um if available already we're going to review any data and we might actually too sometimes need to assist the team with coming up with the best way to collect data that represents both the behavior but also it's it's manageable for the teacher as well um we will determine if the behavior meets that tier three kind of criteria to proceed with like the bcba coming in in providing Services um we'll and identify strategies and
045or make modifications to the current strategies um that are both function and evidence-based um for the team to begin implementing well from there we're going to want to meet with the team to discuss these strategies or any positive behavior support plan ideas um that we have for the team next we're going to assist with the development of their Positive Behavior Support plan or oversee any new implemented strategies so it's not just here's the strategies who go at it there's it's very systematic in terms of let's talk about these ideas what's going to work what's not going to work um but also to providing the next step the training that's needed for the the pair professional any training that the teaching staff might need specifically an ongoing um doing ongoing observations in school visits to see
046if we need to modify our interventions in any way um and if they're effective um and then lastly there if the data is showing a reduction in the Target Behavior we're going to meet with the team um to determine if bcba consultation if it needs to be modified a little bit um I know with me I when I'm starting out with a student it's regularly I'm going into the classroom um but as we start interventions we see some progress I try to fade myself back um if needed if the student needs it and the team determines like we don't we you know the student's making progress with the intervention that we have in so we might switch it to you know um bi-weekly monthly check-ins um to just make sure that the student is still
047you know progressing with the plan that we have in and then here's just some examples um across the district that um an and I different types of behavior plans that we've created so reductions in physical aggression verbal outbursts things like swearing reduction in in appropriate touching of others we've done some functional communication training which is basically teaching communication skills in replacement of a challenging behavior um increasing those positive transition between environments increasing remaining on task increasing tolerance with instructional demands or non-preferred tasks reinforcing tolerance and desensitizing them to specific sensory input so things like wearing headphones maybe a sudden change in their routine using um fidgets or other tactile items if needed specific coping strategies increasing uh self-management skills so that emotional regul ation piece increasing social skills and decreasing alotment and increasing time spent
048in the classroom so here's just like a little bit of data on where we stand with how many students that were're serving in the district so SE since September of 2024 45 students across the district have had their school team request assistance for higher levels of challenging behavior and as of right now each School in our district has utilized bcba consultation this year uh yeah we wanted to share a couple other things so um out aside from working in the classroom and in the schools um we together collaborated on something that we are working on rolling out districtwide we created this uh six-step stages of student crisis management so um when the special uh Services team student services team came to us and was said hey we would love to have something easy to reference
049um for everyone across the district whether it's a secretary at the front office whether it is a substitute teacher it's our general you know everyday staff something for them to pick up and have a little step by step of what to do when our students become escalated so Beth and I uh came together and came up with this visual um we know everyone loves a good visual so I I'm not sure what the status is I don't are we working on getting this awesome at the printer okay so these have been sent off to be printed and hopefully we're going to be able to distribute these districtwide um and hopefully help people that are um in the moment of crisis when you're kind of froze and you don't know what to do you have a
050little visual to to um hopefully look at and and um give you some ideas of where to start another thing that I wanted to bring up um this is something specific that I do at Edison so um Edison is our Center based program here in at Hazel Park uh we service um nearly a 100 students um roughly 100 students give or take um and that is K kindergarten through 12th grade um and all of these students have um more severe challenging behaviors and that's why they're they're placed over with us at Edison something that we were specifically targeting so um aside from our individual work um on decreasing behaviors we looked at um a systemic problem that we had with our upper classman so this is ranging from our seventh grade to our 12th graders
051so we had this year we had a lot of students um basically spent outside of the classroom so maybe refusing to go to class refusing to complete work um so we got together our PBS team PBIS team got together and we were brainstorming some ideas so what we did aside from our PBIS monthly celebrations that we do do that is available to all students we incentivize them with something more special and individualized um and so we worked on them getting to earn to go to a January jingle we made a huge deal about it um we wanted to decrease that elopment from class or that leaving class and spending more time in in peer conflicts and being off task in in the classroom um and we wanted to increase their participation we wanted them to
052increase work completion and of course like increase some more positive social relationships with with peers um over at Edison we work off a point system so our students earn points daily and their Max points are 40 points per day so we took the month of January and we made it very attainable so we weren't saying that they needed 100% of their points every day but we we made it pretty attainable for them if they had pretty decent days with their points and it would reflect through their points um and so they would have to earn I think this says um it was 520 points to earn their January jingle um and in January at the end of the month we had 13 students attend out of maybe roughly about 80 of those students um from
0537th to 12th grade so um but with our February um incentive event uh we now have about 28 students on track to attend this Friday so we really had a big increase we had a lot of students very excited about attending the jingle and we had had a lot of students that were a little disappointed that they weren't able to attend so it really incentivized them to um stay on track to focus have something to look forward to um and it turned out to be a really fun success and they had a really wonderful wonderful time so um I just kind of wanted to share a little bit with you on how not only are we working individually in the classroom but we can do things to do um work to incentivize um our group
054behaviors and and students as a whole getting them work together getting them to work together um I believe this concludes our presentation unless you guys have anything to add okay uh before we close out uh I just wanted to uh acknowledge I'm sure you were able to really hear and see that Miss tosto and Miss Parker are uh very well established in their field and we are extremely fortunate to have them uh at Edison and across the district uh but a few things that I did want to highlight with what they do is is that um uh as we spoke in an earlier presentation about our reduction of seclusion and restraint that many of our PA professionals have proceeded on with an opportunity that we've provided to become rbts so uh registered Behavior technicians and
055Miss Parker and Miss tosto are actually helping to oversee some of that training component as they finish through that and support students across the district uh the other thing that I wanted to make note as well is although we are a student services department and we do support special education across the district this is not just for only special ed students so our bcba support as uh Miss Parker uh mentioned you know as teams have exhausted tier one or tier two interventions within their buildings uh oftentimes they may come together as teams uh and and you know they may be a request for assistant meetings uh where they come together to say you know these students we've tried a b c and d it's just not working and so we think at this time it's
056it's time to reach out and and utilize the support of our bcbas and so uh that's where they come in as well so it is it's not just for our students that are you know receiving specialized instruction it truly is for all of our students across our district so we're very fortunate with that and then lastly um you know as we Dr papazian and I spoke um at our last board meeting talking about that reduction of our seclusion and restraint across our district uh you know to be quite Frank we really couldn't do it without the expertise of our BCB as well so we're very fortunate to have them so I think that takes us to our [Applause] end does anyone have any questions no thank you it's nice to hear the Improvement each meeting
057we come to so fantastic thank you so we're making a little switch here we're going to do the web presentation first and the resource will follow thank you I have a teacher and a student here who have been waiting to present so I appreciate you guys moving us up so I have brought with or we have brought tonight um this is Chloe Bernett and I'm going to let them tell their story and with her is Lori Hazen and they have a student Le Club at web and I'm going to let them tell their story oh we have this okay I'm going to let them tell their story about um how the club got started where the idea came from and what they're doing it's pretty cool so I am Lori Hazen fifth grade teacher at
058web um I'm honored to be here with my student Khloe Bernett we have a pretty cool slideshow I don't know if have it so oh sorry if only I knew what I was doing okay right here y okay um Chloe asked me last here to sponsor a club and the club is an American Sign Language Club um I'm so sorry people at home won't hear you sorry sorry people at home um so it was toward the end of the year and um I told her it was too late for an actual Club but we could squeeze in some recess time and we were shocked by the number of students that gave up the recess to come to our club so I promised her last year um that we would do an official Club this year
059so every other Thursday we meet and as I go through the slides these are Mo I'm going to read the slides to make it not quite so um nerve-wracking for Khloe but Khloe's gonna do um sign she's gonna use American Sign Language and um you'll see why in just a moment but when I read the words they're mostly words from Chloe sound good okay okay and these are Chloe's words why I want to to start a sign language Club am I going too fast are we good okay I wanted to start this club because my mom is deaf it can be difficult when people exclude my mom because they can't understand her and she can't understand them what we are learning now we're learning simple greetings like how to say hello we continue to practice
060the alphabet our club members watched and listened to a read aloud using ASL and that's a picture of a couple of our cuties there are more but that was all we could get that day what we will learn later in the year we're planning to learn harder words have conversations with each other this part almost makes me cry hopefully have my mother come in so we can practice talking to her sorry that's it Mrs Hazen I just wanted to share though what did Mrs Hazen what did you tell me about the lesson plans and the she has her own cupboard in your room and she comes in and does her lesson plans each week for um the club that they're going to have so she's really taking this seriously I think we have a future
061teacher in our uh in our midst so we're super proud of Khloe and Mrs Hazen for sponsoring it um and thanks for letting us [Applause] share yes thank thank you so much for putting me on the agenda so thank you board because that clock makes me nervous so uh I don't have a clock running but I won't take long I promise um first of all uh thank you very much uh board and um for having me here to talk about the annual resource Fair actually we call it the it was the third annual Family Resource Extravaganza in chili cookoff second year for chili cookoff it was on Saturday February 88th from 11: to 2 we had 222 people come through the fair we had 53 vendors we had around 25 baskets thank you Bor for
062your basket that was uh a favorite one um and um I am going to go through some of the vendors because I would like the people at home and and people of uh Hazel Park to know what uh the kinds of organizations that come to the resource fair in case they need that resource or get information from that resource I know there's 53 but I will go quickly um The Alliance of col uh Coalition for Healthy Communities we gave away books uh the care C of South Eastern Michigan Chartwells did the discovery kitchen they also donated uh donuts and coffee in the morning for our vendors as well as as the fixen for our Chile and they serve the chili so they were big um um contributors to our resource Fair thank you to Dan
063and Brenda because Brenda kind of took over that day I think uh the uh National Honor Society from Hazel Park High School did face painting for us uh children's special Health Care Services of Oakland County the city of Hazel Park um is it Jared yep Jared made Chile and then stayed there for the duration of the fair the C NS Healthcare Cornwell Health Cranbrook came and did some activities and made people eat bugs uh well they didn't make them they didn't hold them down but they encouraged people to eat the bugs and they got a little sticker Creative Kids Market came uh DTE came and are they were so excited last year and uh when we contacted them they were like of course we're coming and they've already signed up for next year so very
064cool um Carolyn Deus did a family photo so if the family wanted to have family photos done they could have a family photo and then she would uh text it to them I had them done last year and they're beautiful she is a great photographer um fale senior coordinator I made a connection because I think they're part of the con the um Ferndale re Center Recreation Center to yep so they are thinking of doing some programming for our summer with us um and um also Franklin wri settlements Miss Lovely came and did some activities with kids Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan great start collaborative Oakland County uh Webster Miss uh Miss Heather had a a table there have for Humanity uh Harold uh came and did caricatures for kids it was really cool
065so a lot of people donating their time Community Park uh Community Hazel Park Community Coalition the Hazel Park Library did activities Randy and Amy always a uh somebody who does a lot for us U MC Gruff from the police department in Hazel Park came the Hazel Park promise Zone came uh Joan from our Hazel Park latchy uh our student services department came um in case people had questions youth assistance came um the athletic department fire department came girl they won the chili cook off again I'm glad they came they hung around because we were doing all of the the chili in the so they didn't have to serve it this year in all their Garb but um they did hang around and kind of talk to people so that was really neat um the Lions
066Club gave away water at the Air Station um the HR department from Hazel Park came trying to drum up some par Educators and other people that if we have jobs open um Lighthouse uh manager of youth programs came a Michigan Department of Health and Human Resources the Michigan Education Justice Coalition brought um voting a voter registration for anybody that wanted to register as well as they did surveys with parents because we're looking at doing parent workshops so they kind of surveyed parents and said you know what is it that we could do per workshops on so we're working with them and um Miss Brooke and I and the uh Community Coalition to kind of come up with a parent series of workshops for our parents to come to and that's that was a a pretty
067cool um the Michigan Schools and Government uh Credit Union was there uh Mike McFall our state representative was there all day and helped me um do the chili cook off announcements for the winners that was cool we also had mobile Mission mobile Mitten and mobile Mitten does vision um they have a mobile Vision iare where they can do the exams right there they had a chair they you know if somebody wanted to do something they could do it right there it's pretty cool they're actually I think we're partnering them with them uh moms against gun violence Oakland 80 um Oakland Community Health did vac a vaccination clinic so we had whooping cough uh nne numo cacal pneumonia covid flu and some childhood vaccinations that people could get while they were at the fair uh the
068Oakland County Michigan Works was there as well SMART Bus I'm almost done um United Way of course came they are uh good partners Water Resource Commission YMCA did some activities with kids and the Hazel Park Civic Action Network came so those were all the amazing people that came and some of them that couldn't make it are already trying to sign up for next year so um we we thought we got started early enough but I think at right after the hometown huddle Miss brooken and I start talking about this event because it's it's a daunting task I do have some thank yous uh first and foremost my co-host Brooke Barnett who is the community school coordinator at United Oaks stand up Brooke if I call your name stand up um if any of the NHS
069NHS uh kids that came um could stand Debbie George and Carolyn Deus um did George and Debbie did um not only stayed there all day but made um chili Kathy Ryan Ryan Voss Jamie B uh Shan Lisa bernes and Thelma all uh we could not have put this together without that team of people they called they checked they emailed they uh did so much work on this um last but not least we had a group of boys that came in from Wayne State University they are the Alpha Sigma fi fraternity boys Demarcus is here uh Matthew is here and Phillip is here there you go they came in there were two more um Samuel and Leo the president was there they were there all day stepping and fetching and pulling and moving and do this
070do that and they've offered to volunteer for some other things so let's have a round of applause for all the helpers so now I have volunteers called the NHS the you know Community engagement team and the Frat Boys so those are my those are my volunteers um I do want to thank um everybody that helped out everybody that came and I feel like um you know we this event just keeps getting bigger and better so thank you so much for your time any questions thank you for your time to put that together for our community and for the great team work it takes a team to pull all of that work off and to improve every year so thank you Dr Dage Leo presentation good evening so I'm coming before the board with a regular
071quar report that we are required to do as part of a Leo uh organization as you know Leo is literacy essential Oakland and the primary piece that that supports us with is that they totally fund one of our instructional coaches so that is a great savings to our district and with that funding they also have professional learning and a number of different pieces that we are involved in as a district one of the most recent things that they did was they allowed us to foro if you will going to another school district to do instructional walkthroughs they know that we have a pretty deep commitment to the work that we're doing with the American reading company so instead of making us go out of the district the ISD came into the district uh they came
072into the district they worked with our art coach they work with our building leaders and our instructional coaches and had a great day learning what we're doing in Hazel Park they were very complimentary and it also checked off that box as part of the Leo initiative always they help us as well with some of our school Improvement goals specifically focused on academic vocabulary and math and along with with those other supports they provide resources in terms of materials and Consultants so that's my brief Leo summary quarterly as you will you know it's pretty much the same thing every time but the deepening our work and helping us get to where we need to be with our strategic plan goals any questions questions no questions thank you thank you [Applause] so we are now at the
073public discussion portion thank you so um this is a business meeting of the Board of Education held in public not a public community meeting the board has provided two opportunities during the meeting for the public to address the board respectfully the board members will not engage in comments but be assured we are listening carefully please state your name and address and you have three minutes and first is Jarrett Jackson Jennifer go I'll go Jennifer Jackson yeah hi my name is Jennifer Jackson I live at 139 West Robert Avenue um I've had many positive experiences here in the district with Dr over the years and um I was not especially surprised to hear what happened on January 27th because it seems like it was a a slow burn for some reason um I do have a
074lot of questions though uh because I've had a lot of positive experiences and exchanges with her over the years um one what written board policy was potentially violated when was the potential violation discovered and by whom how long has the board known a policy may have been violated most of the board members are active on social media and have public postings visible by anyone is the board aware of online bullying of Dr KY um are any of the members of the board friends with administrators of those pages um I'm very nervous I don't speak publicly um have any of the board members actively defended or tried to quell the Hostile written dialogue that takes place in those forums about Dr KY um it's even present on the district's Pages as well um is the board
075aware uh that the individuals who are participating in the online bullying of Dr KY are encouraging her firing some even promote the idea that consolidating Hazel Park schools with other districts is actively being looked at have any of the board members had their photographs taken with individuals who repetitively bully our former superintendent um how does the board and how long does the board anticipate this investigation will take how much are taxpayers paying for the legal council who have been hired to investigate this potential policy violation on October 15th an incumbent board member chose not to participate in a town hall for election for uh the election that was happening um they sat in the audience though and ask questions of the other people who were um running during the election um those questions had to
076do with laying off employees and budget shortfalls um were those questions being asked because some of the board members knew something months prior uh to uh the January 27th meeting does the legal council know about the actions that took place at the Town Hall um does this invest investigation justify board members accessing emails in some of some or all of hbsd employees and students will details of the investigation be provided to the community parents stakeholders uh with its complete when it's complete and in its entirety how many people outside of the board know details about the policy violation is that it okay Jared will finish up for me thank you jar Jackson hello Jared Jackson 139 Wes Robert Hazel Park obviously um these are all questions my wife wrote I'm just finish up for um
077um during the Clos sessions on January 27th 27th were the terms non disciplin plenary and paid leave used as bargaining chips to get a unanimous vote do we have room in the budget to pay for two superintendent salaries until Dr ky's contract expires how many interim superintendents were interviewed before the current person was selected for the role how many professionals who can fill the role of interim superintendent rejected offers to come to Hazel Park what reasons were given as to why they rejected becoming hp's interim superintendent is the new interim superintendent a local Hazel Park resident what happens if the investigation finds that no policy was broken will the board offer to reinstate Dr kupe what happens if Dr kupy provides evidence that the board of education has created a hostile work environment one that
078prevents her from doing the work effectively and is unable to return to this District what are the financial costs associated with Hazel Park Hazel Park School District not fulfilling their contractual obligation to Dr KY and how does this affects affect taxpayers have any of the current or past members of Hazel Park Board of Education violated any policies that are in place to protect the students teachers parents community and stakeholders how do you expect the community community to trust the Board of Education after this why do I have so many questions because the word transparency has been bastardized in this community that's all thank you for your [Applause] time thank you I thank you I have uh Ryan Voss Ryan boss 803 East Meers I stand here tonight deeply disappointed in this school board I once
079voted for almost all of you believing you would lead with Integrity transparency and in the best interest of our students and staff I expected better on the very first morning after removing Dr KY while central office staff had zero Direction two board members entered her office they didn't acknowledge us or explained their actions they simply walked in and rummaged through her belongings files and emails laughing as if they had accomplished something great this is just one example of what we witnessed in central office the public doesn't see the lack of professionalism the power plays and the disregard for ethical leadership as a result staff now work in an unstable stressful environment filled with fear uncertainty and intimidation yes we're intimidated some of us are here tonight because we are frustrated confused and deeply concerned about
080the direction of our district the sudden and unexplained removal of our superintendent was disruptive and frankly seemed personal when decisions are based on personal motives it's the students staff and Community who suffer so I ask what board policy was violated to justify this investigation no reason has been given making it appear that none existed instead it seems this board removed Dr KY first and looked for justification later that's not accountability that's a fishing Expedition and what about the cost the investigation that could have happened without removing Dr KY an interm superintendent salary on top of Dr ky's contract and the law firm guiding the board through this mess cost unknown all unnecessary expenses draining resources that should go to students teachers and classrooms and for what if this investigation turns up nothing then what will
081Dr recr be return after being publicly humiliated or will taxpayers be forced to buy out her contract adding yet another Financial strain Beyond this financial waste this board's disregard for ethical boundaries is alarming two board members accessed confidential files and emails without oversight or justification let that sink in one even questions staff absences as if that were the priority this overreach has created a toxic environment where employees feel vulnerable and afraid to speak up the reality is this board has proven incapable of making decisions that are in the best interest of students and staff every decision made thus far has been impulsive and self-serving with no thought for the consequence how can we possibly trust you after this What's worst what's worse is the blatant violation of board procedures a majority vote of four does
082not equate to proper board approval if the entire board isn't involved in the decision- making this community deserves better our students deserve better and we demand better [Applause] Eric comfor hello my name is Eric coner I live at 117 West annabal Avenue so I was a volunteer wrestling coach last year and developed a great relationship with our wrestlers at Hazel Park and have a deep bond with a lot of them and a lot of them actually have great potential to go and do further things as you guys know we only have one Hazel Parker from Hazel Park High School to be an Olympian at Steve Frasier you know so wrestling has a very big background here when I was hired in this year as the assistant Varsity wrestling coach I was put through the ringer
083in order to become hired I had to provide not only just six references but that wasn't enough it was 12 and then my uh my paperwork wasn't served to me until halfway through the season which then I found out that my wages were cut in half from from what I was originally told in the first place so with that being said I have 28 years in this sport I know this sport better than most people how many people in this room have stepped on a wrestling mat and know what it know what it takes to be a wrestler and a good one wrestling builds confidence you don't have a team to stand behind you step on the mat alone so it teaches these young men and women to be a be accountable for themselves it
084builds better humans it's by far the hardest sport and when I found out that we weren't allowed to wrestle with our kids all the other coaches in mhsaa find that we're a laughing stock and they laugh at that matter because have any of you guys seen somebody get paralyzed I have because that kid didn't have the knowabout how to fall correctly none of his teammates were strong enough to hold him up and Coach him and be able to say hey look fall this way do that that way way we went up against dund D for our regional championship and lost 81 to zero because we weren't able to provide the actual good coaching which wrestling needs in order to provide a good wrestler opportunities to be able to protect himself and be able to make
085good judgments on the mat that comes with somebody who knows exactly what they're doing at all times and being a Hands-On coach if you can't be a Hands-On coach then I don't want to come back next year and I doubt you'll find anybody who's more passionate about the sport than me I have 28 years in this as I said I didn't have a coach that pushed me and allowed me to be able to go above and beyond what I needed to do I had to do that myself and because of that I have a my C6 and C7 vertebrae look like this because in order to make vary had to wrestle two weight classes he didn't give me the shot he favoriti the seniors and the upper classman versus somebody who actually had the skill
086and dedication that's what wrestling is and you're going to lose a great wrestling program if it continues to go this [Applause] wayk anyone else wishing wishing to speak okay seeing none we move on to a motion to accept the consent agenda I make a motion to accept the consent agenda um I'd like to pull out the the personnel and then discuss um the minutes please [Applause] support okay a motion was made by Heidi to pull out the Personnel supported by Debbie for the consent agenda and discussion on the minutes of the minutes you want to those pulled also um I just discussion on them is fine I think we have to approve them I was being told we have to approve the minutes within 30 days so just a discussion okay so we can have
087the discussion now okay um during the uh Committee of the home meeting we talked about having uh Darren and I believe Monica volunteered is that you yeah to meet and go over the minutes and maybe not make them so descript we wanted a more descriptive but it seemed like they were very detailed and maybe come up with a happy medium and that has not taken place it's scheduled to take place tomorrow I just wanted to yeah Jamie asked me about it and I said to go ahead because we were behind on minutes and you have to have them posted so I told her to go ahead and give us what she had and then we' move forward okay so if there's any changes that need to be made to those are we allowed to do
088that at the next meeting amend the minutes are we allow to not after they accepted okay that's it um from this agenda can we also pull approval of the Clos session minutes for 127 2025 we don't have them to review we can approve minutes that we have not reviewed so do have the Clos session minutes for January 13th we do not have them for January 27th so you want to pull them for the next meeting yes if we could I I'm not comfortable voting to approve the Clos session minutes for 127 without reviewing them in our in our packets we only have January 13 not we have two close sessions to approve and only one to review okay I'll amend my motion just pull those what's that I said I'll amend my motion to accommodate
089that thank you if we need to support again I'll definitely do it okay so you're going to amend the motion to ask for it again sorry amend the motion to pull the Personnel recommendations and put them later on the agenda yeah and table the uh Clos session minutes from 1 127 correct okay roll call or any more discussion no okay roll call foress yes boys yes yeser yes fo yes yes so we'll put personnel as the last uh agenda item thank [Music] you which will be P okay now we need a motion for yes close session I move the Board of Education recession to close session under item 81a to consider the demiss dismissal suspension or dis discipline of a student if the student or the student's parent or Guardian request close session hearing and
090section 81f to review and consider the consent of an application of an employee to permitted under the special meetings act open meetings act sorry support okay motion made by Heidi for close session support by April any discussion okay roll call for close session or yes Eon yes Becker yes Fox yes Bo yes re yes yes e e e okay need a motion to call the meeting back to order please I'll make a motion to return to open session support he motion made by Debbie supported by April to call the meeting back to order any discussion okay roll call yes yes beer yes yes sorry yes yes yes uh new business student discipline action item need a motion I move the Board of Education approve the transfer of student 202 502 245 to Advantage second motion
091by Monica second by was that Heidi yes okay any discussion on the result okay roll call please R yes foress yes Pon yes backer yes yes yes yes uh the next item is hiring of the PA professional I move the Board of Education approve the hiring of Danielle jenti as a pair professional for Haz Park schools as presented second motion by Monica to hire recommended PA professional second by Heidi discussion okay roll call R yes Fortress yes Eon yes Becker yes Fox yes yes yes motion carries um masb board of directors election President read the resolution now oh okay starting at the whereas whereas section 1230 of the revised school code requires that both both District superintendents and boards to specifically approve the employment of District employees who have been convicted at any time in
092the pass of a felony that is not listed not a listed offense under the sex offender registry act whereas information received by the administration indicates that Danielle GTI an applicant for the position of PA professional was convicted of a felony controlled substance and delivery uh MCL 333 7412 CA which is not a listed offense under the sex offender registry act almost 15 years ago and whereas the Administration has done employment reference checks of Mrs G gunti and has received positive feedback has determined that such past offense has not adversely affected the employees employment with other employees to date does not believe believe that the offense will adversely affect the employees employment with the district in the future and as Mrs Jen's employment as a professional is recommended by the superintendent be it resolved that the
093board hereby approves the employment of Danielle jenti as an employee of the district to Begin work as a par professional now roll call right cu it says eyes and N yes yes foress yes Eaton yes Becker yes Fox yes boys yes yes now we're moving on to the Mas masb board of directors election may I have a motion I move the board of uh education approved the nomination of we haven't picked anybody yet for the masb board of directors as presented so can we discuss before yes yes did you say a name we did we don't have a name we don't have a name yet because we haven't had a discussion who's a second I'll second on unknown name okay motion made by Heidi second by I'll amend it once we have the discussion and
094now we have to discuss the people there's eight seats open for the Michigan School Board Association that's what we're voting on there's a total of eight people or one seat for there's one seat eight people candes anybody have any recommendations I know we've gotten little Clips in our emails the last couple weeks I like um Randall Meisner from Fitzgerald he um received the president's level seven which is the highest you can go and he also has advocacy specialist um and data specialty which is the highest classes you can take in um masb he has 13 years experience as a board member and he did all of that in 13 years which I was pretty impressed with um he's from Fitzgerald so it's kind of like our similar makeup of community um so I thought he'd
095be a good spokesperson for the same kind of issues that we might be having anyone else I'll mention that there was not a video interview but we did receive communication from a candidate Scott Wallace who had a lot of um legislative advocacy experience and I I certainly won't fight the nomination um because I I don't know this man but he did present himself very well um and I think that both in Lancing and in Washington we are in a place where legislative advocacy especially for public education is going to be incredibly important and that may be a skill that lends itself well to the association as well I like to there were a few others I listened to four people had video uh interviews and there was a lot of experience out there do you
096want to make do we want to go with Mr Meisner was it mhm that was mine in April well there's only one so we're what was the other name that was brought forward Scott Wallace forward well somebody makes the motion to which whoever one you want is there a preference where was Scott Wallace from Fraser oh yeah I did like both of those were were kind of equal for me except I think Andy mner had more classes on thought that was the reason I went with him Andy mner is a different guy but it's Rand Randy Randy sorry he's he's a cool guy but he doesn't want the job he doesn't want that job darn um yeah that's why I WR with Randy he off okay so please make a motion and put somebody's name
097in there do you want to amend your motion Heidi or it but is there a unanimous decision or discussion we're going with um I think so sounds like it okay I would amend my motion I make a motion to amend my motion um to approve the nomination of Randall Meisner and I will support B board of directors okay motion made to recommend Randall Meisner Fitzgerald to the masb seat second by Monica discussion all in favor Out roll call foress yes R yes Eaton yes Becker yes the bo yes Fox yes yes motion carries dance team competition overnight travel motion please I move to I move the Board of Education approve the dance team overnight travel to the national competition in Ohio as presented support okay motion made to support the Dan team competition at the
098overnight travel by May by Heidi second by Monica any discussion just for the sake of discussion I'm reading our memo and it says that there is no cost Associated to the district um they're just asking for the overnight permission um with six coaches and another chaperoning adult so there is not there's a z value hit to our finances okay thank you for that additional information April all in favor oh I you know I want to do that because it's faster but people tell me that they want individual votes so I I keep forgetting go ahead Jamie foress yes R yes be yes beer yes Fox yes Bo yes yes motion carries and we have Edison camera purchase I move the Board of Education approve the purchase of cameras for Edison as presented soort good evening
099I'm coming to the board to ask for not an amount not to exceed $7,000 for nine cameras at Edison um there are cameras there are there's coverage that we don't have any cameras that we can't see which tends to lead to a security risk um the original quote for these cameras was 7600 I was able to get it down to 6182 um and then put in their regular little over $800 just to cover costs of mounts um cabling stuff like that um and we're saving on labor cost with us doing it in-house then if we were to bid this out I would be comfortable saying that this would be a $5 to $20,000 project if we were to bid it out nice bargaining there Mr Wilkins how some the cameras inside outside yep there's a
100mix of inside and outside cameras you guys are going to do all the work yes sir that's pretty amazing that's a lot of time consuming special thanks to your team you and your team and that it's Center fund money uh I did have it as Center fund but I believe the last one they said was going to be 31a Safety and Security fund oh okay so that's good do we have enough server space yes we do okay all in favor of purchasing the cameras voting roll what roll roll yes roll yes Eon yes beer yes foress yes yes yes all right motion carries oh hint in yes summer school ation item I move the Board of Education approve the Early Childhood through grade 12 summer school program as presented support good evening again even so
101I'm coming before the board to approve our early childhood our Rising 1st to Rising 9th and our credit recovery slash enhance um uh diploma enhancement program I understand based on the last Committee of the whole meeting there were a few questions around some of the numbers of students St that we had in those programs so I did bring the memo that was presented back in September and I'm going to go over specifically the early childhood and the secondary because I know there are questions around that so in our early childhood our kindergarten Readiness program we [Applause] had uh approximately 24 students and 13 out of those 24 students had an attendance rate of 75% or high and at kindergarten writing this program really just runs four weeks for our secondary program we had 145 students
102registered and those 145 students registered in 449 classes so um credit the credit recovery program and the diploma enhancement portion of it are really critical to our students and I know that's really been a longtime program that's really been very beneficial I know there were some questions I think around the funding for the rising 1st through 9th that is all Grant funded so $450,000 coming from Balmer is going to fund that program the kindergarten Readiness program and the high school program do not have grant funding I know there was some question around that and currently we do not have funding to do to take care of that now of course we are always looking for other grants but at this point we do not have funding for for that program one of the things that
103I was going to address correct for kindergarten Readiness and for the secondary but one of the things that I was going to address is that in that number which is really just an estimate of the high school being 111,000 there were opportunities for three elective classes to run if the board is not comfortable with that number we could pull those elective courses and that might save between 30 to $40,000 typically we have we had Walling last year we had uh I think a Woods course last year and we had a Spanish course and they were credit bearing so students did get elective or some of the world World Language credits but if they're looking to reduce that a little bit that could be a place that we do some reduction and pull those elective courses
104off at the secondary and just really focus on credit recovery and the diploma enhancement pulling the electives would not have an impact on grad graduation it wouldn't it you know it's it's a nice opportunity for students to do that because then it might give them an opportunity to take another course during the school year but it's not something that a must be so again if we're looking at those dollars that could be a place that we adjust slightly could you explain what diploma enhancement I figured it was the extra classes but is it it is so if you have a student let's say a student wants to take a number of AP classes and they have to get some of their General classes done sometimes they'll take those classes in the summer so they can
105add additional AP courses or if they're looking to take a specific number maybe they are very focus on getting an art uh degree as they graduate they might take some courses in the summer like algebra or English so they can take those other courses during the school year can I ask Crystal a question is Crystal here did we budget for all of this in our in our amended budget we looked at last week I think so too question yeah we asked the question last week and got a yes so I think so yeah I think it's important is I know as a high school student of 40 years it was important for my friends to be the ones that weren't going so well to be able to go to summer school and to be able
106to take some extra classes so they can move on to the right grade and also I look at as as um if you're able to take wood shop or a foreign maybe maybe that might Inspire them to keep going to school or and talk to their friends I mean if we get more enrollment you know that fall we can pay for that you know with the numbers of students that come in so I'm I'm looking as a positive and it's for our students and I think we need to have it that's just my personal opinion any other discussion questions no no thank you okay roll call hress yes rtin yes Beaton yes beer yes fo yes boys yes yes any motion carries for summer school corrective action plan for finances informational good evening good evening
107on January 31st we received a letter from the Department of Treasury um requesting requiring the district to complete a corrective action plan a corrective action plan is different than what the district has seen in the past um when we've seen deficit elimination plans uh a deficit elimination plan we're already in trouble we're already in deficit um and there's a lot of requirements for followup the corrective action plan is um they send this to all school districts that their fund balance Falls below 5% and it's really to give us a chance to let them know what we're going to do to not get into deficit um so with the help from Dr dmage and Sarah Bean student services chrisy and Crystal uh we were able to identify savings um opportunities that really were were already in
108place in the district um so one of the savings initiatives um one of the savings that we identified um that I thought was a really exciting positive change we expect our workers comp premiums to go down next year from the successful uh seclusion and um uh restraint procedures from September through January the workers comp claims at uh Edison have gone down 50% so you know knowing that this this program is really effective um I think that's a a really positive unintended consequence of that uh that we'll we should see some insurance savings um the plan was submitted to treasury uh last Friday and uh there's no additional followup required on our part we should receive a letter with their response from our submission uh within the next days any questions questions we don't know when
109they expect us to be within the five you know above the 5% like they don't give us a timeline they they just asked us to project our fund balance for this year and the next two school years so um we looked at our savings initiative that we had also uh enrollment and foundation allow allowance uh projected increases um with our projections we did we would be uh above 5% next fiscal year thank you anybody else questions and we don't have to vote on this no it's just informational okay all right thank you for all your work Monica and Crystal that was exceptionally good news uh motion for the junior high Workshop I move the Board of Education approve a one-time purchase of cabinet cabinet saw with safety with a safety fence to equip the Hazel
110Park Junior High wood shop classroom and the amount not to exceed $6,000 support okay motion made by Heidi for the Woodshop purchase of the saw and the second by Monica any discussion I think again it's just this is the funding source is a career Readiness Grant so this is a grant-funded um purchase that would be made correct okay roll call please foress yes R yes beon yes beer yes Fox yes yes yes motion carries dog uh therapy dog handbook [Applause] motion I move the Board of Education approve the changes to the therapy dog handbook for 20 2425 lizard a second I'll support okay motion made by Heidi supported by April for the therapy dog handbook and Miss K is going us so we have an employee who is requesting to um bring their therapy dog
111in and while we were going over the requirements and carefully reading through everything that was there it was identified there were a few changes that maybe we needed to make in the handbook so uh we made those changes highlighted them in red for you guys so it' be easy to identify um really based around in the handbook itself it does describe that uh we would use TDI or another like training Source um but then on the I think it's the opt out um form in the back it didn't mention the Second Source that could potentially be used and then we found out that it said 23 24 instead of 2425 on the page as well so we fixed that those two things um those are the only changes any questions I don't have a question
112but I have a comment um in this it says I only puted it up the page that that I was questioning ASA Park School supports the use of therapy dogs for the benefit of its students subject to the conditions of board policy we do not have a board policy on on dog on support dogs I'd like to make one but we don't have one currently okay any any other discussion okay roll call please ESS I am a no until we get that policy in place beon yes beer yes Fox yes boys no rine yes uh no motion carries 4 to three um board protocols motion to accept the operating procedures for the board I move the Board of Education approve the update to the board protocols as presented is there a second second support he
113motion made by Heidi second by Debbie to accept the board operating protocols is there any discussion I do have one so when me and Nate did our classes recently they said that um they normally prefer like when you do public comment your first public comment is for what ever they want and then your second one is just on your items that you talked about instead of things being dragged out longer I didn't know if that was something it it was on our our um zooms the other day our trainings I think that's a fous idea uh you know what I thought about that didn't realize because I've heard the same thing yeah um that's what they recommend didn't can can can we vote on this and then amend it next time or we can like
114make a motion to accept it pending change pending the Amendments I have a couple too if we want to run through them okay well let's let's just get those and then we'll we'll vote on it next time the whole package is that okay that's okay okay thank you um I had there's the page numberers don't match up so I'm trying to get the um sections in 1.4 um we haven't 1.4b is all board members may make motions second motions and enter into discussion on all agenda items um and then we have C that says the board president may make motion second motions and enter into debate on all agenda items and I'm I'm wondering if that's repetitive if we have all board members in b um and then if we want to replace the word
115debate with discussion uh that's kind of an aggressive word and we use discussion all through the rest of the policies it's the only place that debate appears yeah I think taking out C you mean yeah I C seems repetitive to D because or repetitive to be because B says all board members may make motions so that includes I don't think we're excluding the president in that right I agree what happened the reason that that's in there we can put it under B is that this a previous board could not come to a vote and so it was stated at that meeting that board presidents can make motions and so that's why it's written separately because the board in my 10 years did not know that the president could make a motion till the superintendent said
116the president could make a m motion and that's true so that's why I don't care if it says just so you all know I they advise the president not to make the motion because we're all a team and the president shouldn't be the powerful making all the Motions so they advise the president not to do it but they say it's okay if we do it right but then B says all board members so we can leave it under all board members that's fine as long as you know that there's nothing wrong with the president making motion so take C out all and then it wouldn't matter the discussion instead of the debate right that would be gone and what was the other one well the other one was just that we used the word debate
117in in C where we use discussion and all the rest of them but if we're that sort of becomes moved if we're removing it anyway so those I mean that's sort of like two birds one don't yeah okay um 4.8 I'm scrolling sorry uh I'm still scrolling sorry 4.8 um in the presented policies under 4.8 development and Adoption of the District budget um we have we have the budget on the calendar for March it says spring and here I'm wondering if we want to further Define it and say March uh just to sort of remove a little bit of ambiguity there um especially because of the focus that we've had on the budget lately if we want to like further codify that as the very to match the calendar um and then also in 4.8
118on our on the presented policies that are in board books we have C board members will not individually undertake to observe the performance blah blah but we then have that again 4.9 a so I think that may have just been cut and pasted into an incorrect spot because it repeats itself yep that's correct I think it is misplaced and that's it so the um oh yeah the C under 4.8 the C needs to move down under 4.9 which it did there I think it just it got left it take all right it doesn't need to be in both places and and the spring March is the other suggestion I kind of like that so it just matches the calendar out D yeah that way we don't contradict ourselves at 4.8 D when our calendar specifically
119says March okay I don't know if we need to take it out or if we just want to change it but it and so say spring you know in one spot we tie ourselves to March and then in another spot we sort of give ourselves some leeway and I don't know that we want to do that I think it's good under March okay and then I think the other thing is more involved that monit brought up or is it if you guys want to write it right now the voting on The or the public discussion is on public comment yeah public comment is the [Applause] first somebody want to do I can't find it communication it is um 1.3.2 what did it one point what 1.3.2 and on page 159 if you're looking at the
120whole board book oh persons addressing the board uh persons addressing the board it's under person shall be limited to 5 minutes at the beginning and 3 minutes at the end so we would have to add another letter yeah I think that we should wait on that because I mean you guys decide if you want to wait on it because the first public discussion is supposed to be on agenda item so we know what people are thinking about and the second public discussion is regular Community public discussion right so we were told that the first is public whatever they want to talk about and then the end was them discussing what we discussed so if they had questions during the meeting about things that we discussed that would be the end okay so let's wait and
121rate that please I think it be the opposite sorry because that way we know the questions they had before we had our discussion I have not I have notes on it from what we took from what other boards are doing where they talked about it I can I can look at that and get more clarification so now it's stating that we there isn't no preference whether there has to be an agenda or not agenda right they just say what they want so what's wrong with that it's open there's nothing wrong with it it would just recommend it that that's how I mean I'm just want I mean okay it's okay we just table that till the next time yesing it I make a motion I amend my motion to table the [Applause] board protocol board
122protocols until changes that were discussed were made did I support that I don't remember yeah then I oh I support if I did it I'll support it okay motion to table the board protocols until the next meeting so roll call foress yes Le yes Eaton yes beer yes no R yes yes motion carries 61 um ice guidelines informational item Dr cost are you going to um speak to that or somebody oh I'm sorry Dr do that's okay I think it can be a certainly could be a group conversation as well so uh we are coming before the board with these guidelines because as you know the current Administration has rescinded the protection of what they call Safe spaces such as schools hospitals and uh places of worship which means that potentially uh an ice agent
123if they had the proper warrant could come into our schools now um Miss KES and I attended a webinar done by Clark Hill our attorney firm and the first thing that said to us was chances are Michigan right now is really not where that's going to be occurring so so while we want to get some guidelines in place we probably have an opportunity to get some guidelines in place discuss learn what's happening in districts across the country and in districts in our own County uh if that happens and then continue to make some uh discussions and decisions around that because one of the the big pieces is is because schools have been protected areas there really isn't a lot of precedents around this there isn't a lot of case law around this and that's going
124to happen as that increases so in about mid January uh prior to Dr ky's leave she did give us some highlevel guidance uh that was from John Garrick because they too were in the in the really beginning stages of trying to figure out what this looked like and sound like when we're coming into schools about two weeks after that Clark Hill did a webinar that Miss KES and I attended and I think a couple of our principles did as well and what they did was they basic basically use that same guidance but added more details the document that you see in front of you is the document that came from that you're shaking okay okay well I'm going to tell you about the document thank you did you emailed this to us last week do
125so you do get a copy of it yeah I think we just don't have it printed guess that's all thank you so um so that that document is really a more detailed version of what we would guide our billing principles to do about a week after that uh the ISD also came out with some guidance and I compared those two documents and quite frankly they're very similar you know essentially if an ice agent comes to our school we would treat that ice agent like we would treat anyone that's a visitor in our schools any law enforcement we would have them follower visitor management entry piece and have them wait the big difference is but we would do this anyways if if law enforcement comes into your building and it's not one of our sro's we
126would follow protocol which would we to contact the superintendent in this case what the guidance is if you you would contact the superintendent and then they would really be contacting legal counsel because one of the things they really tried to highlight was when someone shows up with a warrant we are not in a place where we would be able to to make a decision as to whether it's an administrative or a Judicial warrant and they do not guide us to do that so the goal here is really to have a short-term set of guidelines we know there might be questions we know that probably things are going to be changing very frequently we know there's going to be a lot of things that happen uh I'm sure the county is going to come out with
127some additional things as well as surrounding school districts so our hope tonight was just to get this in front of you we do feel it's important for our administrators to have something in hand in the event that that happens that they have some sort of protocol that they can follow until we have a little bit larger discussion we had had a meeting plan for January 28th and that meeting got pulled to start into some of these discussions to say short term here's what we're going to do so people have something in their hand but longer term if need be we can really dig into that more deeply and reflect on what's going again across the country across the county as move some of these things forward so we really just wanted to bring this forward
128just to make sure you had uh some of this in your hand and I will be happy to answer any questions that I can but of course it's all new um and this is the guidance that we have so far and as I said the county really came out with a document that is almost exactly the same the only differences is that what they recommend which would be consistent with our protocol is that if law enforcement really if any law enforcement other than our sro's were in our building you would put the school into a hold so again if there's ice agents in our building you'd put your school into a hold which means as we know you see those come home sometimes that just means students are in their classroom business as usual we
129would just do some things that would make it so kiddos and teachers were not in the hallways what questions might you have for me can we get a copy of that Oakland School guidelines as well just I know we have the the guidelines from Clark Hill but if we could have them both just a reference absolutely anyone else thank you no thank you board training this is our every other month training at openland schools I need a motion I move the Board of Education approve the board training as presented support motion made by Heidi second by Monica to for the board training and open schools any discussion roll call Fortress yes yes beon yes beer yes fo yes yes hon yes the next item is just a for you informational piece um next is Grants
130informational also anybody addressing um I can run through them just quickly based on the time um and this is just information especially since Hazel Park is so blessed to have so many different grants um but there's a 61a one and it's a Michigan Grant uh specifically for CTE programs such as equipment instructional materials and program development that we utilize there's also a 61d that also is from Michigan and focuses on CTE uh but this is to build Partnerships with Community organizations or businesses and by strengthening those relationships with employers it not only helps connect our students to programs that they offer but also Taps into some of the local knowledge that uh our local employers have stronger together there are two cohorts and um again this is centered on fostering Community Partnerships and addressing student
131needs through Innovative programming um the two cohorts allow twice as many um Partnerships to be created and uh twice as many resources to be allocated last but not least uh there's a National math and science grant which focuses on teacher instruction and improving that so that highquality Math and Science um experiences and engagement skills are happening in our classrooms and so this really this grant focuses on How to Train our teachers in order to bring stem opportunities to students so just a little snapshot of some of the neat resources we're able to get over and above our per pupil FTE thank you any questions okay thank you uh next one's informational target support and Improvement um and that is me as well so some good news with this is that uh our Junior High School
132which was previously identified for targeted support Improvement in 2023 um has in fact improved and so they are now off the list uh that leaves Advantage with being our only TSI school that has been identified and so we are working with them um with interventions and progress monitoring questions okay very good thank you uh now we have H Personnel that we moved from the consent agenda um yeah I was a couple of things I was confused that we um approved uh promised Navigator um three positions two at 40,000 when at 45,000 and now um it looks like there's an additional 4,875 being added to the um position at the junior high when we told that we were told we need a motion oh I want to word it I make a motion [Music] to re-evaluate
133the pay for the promis Zone Navigator position at the junior high as presented through a second support but but I'm not sure that that's can you repeat we have we're doing the whole Personnel list right yeah there's a lot on here outside of the pr Navigator position so like a lot are we just going to work on this and then do the whole person well this was why I was pulling it because I had a question on it okay that's why she didn't know how to make the motion I thinking to do you make the motion for the whole list or I didn't know because we we approved this position already and now there's we didn't approve the 4,875 that's being added to the position some what happens if since you already pulled this out
134we have discussion on this particular position and then we'll have to do another motion for the rest of it okay I think so cuz we have to approve all those other hirings and retirement sense yeah we still have to approve that list so so your motion we're discussing this particular yes position yeah right now yes just I just want everybody to look confused and I'm just trying to make sure everybody's not confused I mean I was confused too when yeah but we're okay now we're on the right okay so go ahead and discuss I would I have a question cuz it's supposed to be promise Navigator Grant and this ISS community school expansion Grant that's the bomber gr that's the B grant that is community school expansion is Balmer who is we're just calling them
135promised Navigators correct can we get clarification what it's PA out of the grant is called the community expansion Grant it is from Balmer yes the title of the job is promise Navigator first I heard that so we need a motion to accept the to spend the rest well I'm just questioning when we approved the $45,000 why is it getting combined into this for $4,875 more than what it was approved for to begin with can anybody answer that can you answer that didn't we say at the at when we discussed this at last month's meeting wasn't it because the junior high had additional students that's why the junior high position was $5,000 more no it was the 5,000 was for the additional Athletics I was so the um if I may the um Junior High position
136was approved for $45,000 because there's additional duties there more clubs Athletics at the Junior High um the portion that is coming from the general fund would be work that this employee would be doing in other parts of Athletics for instance working at the high school on some of those events say say that again the $45,000 was approved the $45,000 is Grant funded the balance is general fund for for additional duties um in athletics just Athletics that's what this letter says right mhm I'm just trying to get a clear in mind so was that additional money already approved in Prior budget this is the salary that the employee is already receiving total yeah I don't think the additional fund was a 4800 was approved I think it wasn't approved as part of Promise Navigator it was
137approved the salary for the employ was improved as a total salary total comp um when we improved when we approved the um compensation last year you it was not approved we approved 40,000 promised Navigator 5,000 for to handle the athletic end of it and now it pops up with the extra $4,875 we did not approve a $49,000 so total comp for the employee was improved was approved when we did our um non-union salaries last year for this school year um we have just moved the funding for the position 45,000 of it to come from a grant this is the new grant that it's coming from okay so what you're saying just s clear is that we approved the 49,000 for the position that we couldn't have approved it for promise Navigator because we didn't vote
138on promise Navigator until now so for the position that for the position and the work that the employees doing yes from before from the previous position MH and so we we're trying to compensate him in the new position to make the salary the same correct to keep the salary the same the job is really the tasks of the position are very much the same this employees still organizing after school um activities working with Athletics um doing much of the same tasks that they were doing in the past um all this time um so we are able to fund $45,000 of this person's compensation from this community expansion Grant and then the balance is just coming from the general fund for other activities which would you know potenti High School athletics so what would he be
139doing for High School athletics assisting it events just like he has been doing High School athletics or Junior High Athletics both Athletics okay Athletics as a whole because it doesn't it says position it just says Athletics junior high school so the position is stationed at the junior high school yes um and so this person as described will be again helping with the um after school activi and Athletics there and then outside of that um much as they have been doing all along is helping with other activities in the athletics department as well so because I'm new to this and I wasn't here when the the first vote for the $49,000 for the athletic position I I need to so in my head I've heard like two different stories explanation the one I just heard a
140new one was was for $49,000 that that was um done a while ago as he that was his athletic job that it was a um activities coordinator was the name so that was his that was the money for the athletic coordinator it was activities coordinator okay and then now we're lucky because we have this grant it was he's going to get $45,000 from the Grant and the rest is going to be general fund and his position now is an addition to the is a prominis navigator so the position before was also grandf funded we talked about that too okay so this is this is a different Grant new Grant okay um so it's it's really the only thing that's coming from the general fund is the balance between the um the 45 and the 49
141I think the confusion is how it was all worded and and last month we voted on 45,000 for and and I think that's where I'm confused because I wasn't part of you know last year's funding with with this position so I think that's where we're confused and um does that make sense am I am I on the nobody gave permission for $4,900 to come from a previous Grant or $4,800 for his original position for original position was 20,000 from out of school time Grant and 40, ,000 from general fund that's 60,000 it's not 49,000 it was 60,000 before the position all along was partially Grant funded before as well I believe we can go back and look at the um we can go back and look at the documents from before I think we need
142to do that because confus coming from yeah I'm confused where the 60s com what was the previous position called athle or not a activities coordinator activities coord the the salary for the activities coordinator was $60,000 no well that's what we're going to check that's what that's what you were saying correct so that's what we want to check on the position before was 60 40 I believe was from a grant and 20 or the opposite okay 20 was from a grant and 40 was out of the general fund so now this person is moving positions and so we're the new position is promise Navigator and so we're trying to get his salary close to $50,000 so the the employees not moving positions it is the activities that the employee is doing so just so we clear
143it's title car update yeah she's still the title it's a it's a update to the title of the position it's not will be additional things that will yes we had the job description in our last board meeting um you know very much like um Brooke does at United Oaks there will be additional activities that he will be involved in so it's it's um and and I believe the last time we spoke about it we did talk about you know now he's going to be more funded with Grant funds and additionally his Fringe and the only thing from General is the above the 45 but there will be after school weekend activities I know the Drone Club just got uh invited to the championship he's going to be involved in that that takes weekends um we
144do a lot with um uh you know the resource fair and finding resources for his families at the junior high and then on top of that the general fund money will help in the athletic department with high school things the grant covers anything at the junior high anything he does for the high school has to be out of general fund that's I think will his office be at the junior high yes it is MH so so the total salary for this position then becomes 4 9,875 his salary hasn't changed the the the how we pay for his salary has changed more is coming out of Grant less is coming out of general fund so he is making the exact same amount the differences is 45 of it will be coming out of the expansion Grant
145as opposed to you know the opposite where less of it came out of a grant so more of it will be coming out of a grant and uh less out of general fund that isn't how it was explained and we were given a nav promised navigator job description for $40,000 this should have been $40,000 out of the grant slash athletic director Communicator whatever for the other amount of money coming out of the general fund there was presented very poorly in my opinion it's it's came before us several times that it was provin Navigator with this about community services and do didn't say one thing about Athletics not one thing but I miss foress asked at the last meeting and was told the 5,000 was for athletics that's with the extra there was no more of
146that 4800 it's on tape you can watch with I would like to go back and watch that because I believe that it was 45 for the junior high and then uh the extra 5,000 or 40 you know approximately was athletic so 45 so I think where the mixup is is we said 45 for the promise navigator at the junior high the additional 4,900 was for the Athletics so I think that's where the the confusion might become I I'm pretty sure and I'd be happy to go back and look but I'm pretty sure that was mentioned a few times from uh Miss Gales M hon I'd like to amend my motion to table this um recommendation until we get further information I I have one more quick question too while we're before we table it so
147are we eliminating the other position like it will not be a title within the schools anymore correct okay I'm sorry go ahead what what um other information are you asking for so that I can get that for you why didn't you just leave it the same title why' you change it to a pro uh a navigator just call it the activities Community person and move them to a different it's community school coordinator which involves after school that's one of the pillars is after school extended day learning so that's that's what it is it's a community school coordinator because we were trying to tap into promise Zone we changed the name so it's just it's a coordinat it's a pro it is a community school school coordinator which involves involves the four pillars one of which
148is extended day and after school activities what would you like to see it's very confusing I'm going to table the decision I'm going to me the four pillars are set by Balmer no the four pillars are national uh that's Community School model yep so the other two positions at the elementaries are actually Community activity coordinators they're not promise they are promise Zone they are promis Navigators they do the they do wraparound Services collaborative leadership um they do um just extended day learning and then family engagement so they do the same four pillars just like at United Oaks just like the junior high just like at the two other elementary schools so the difference between the elementary and the junior high schools is there there there is no Athletics at the elementary level Christy asked what
149we'd like to see do you well I'm just going to go back and review my notes um we have a recommendation from the last board meeting I'm going to review and um I'm going to review watch the tape and see I think we need to review the uh position original position and then uh what was said last month I'm just I'm really still confused but we'll get does everybody have the information when we first did the community activity you wouldn't can you get us the original check job description when this of the activity coordinator yes yeah the one where that was only partially Grant funded yes and if it was funded 20% 20,000 Grant 40,000 general fund because that was on the bottom of it was there an interview process for this position no there
150was not because the because the job tasks are the same it's it's really a title change there isn't anything about position there's no salary change there's no really any task change anything like that this is really a title change for this person who we already have hired and is already earning the salary I understand that but you have to understand what was presented at a new person at $45,000 or 4 uh $49,000 is confusing because in my mind I'm thinking well that's what they're going to be receiving as their salary because there is no mention anywhere that it it was 60,000 minus this you know I'm so confused where we're getting 60 from because that's that's the salary but it's not it was it was his salary that was not his salary president that that
151is not the salary that [Music] the motion is to table this until we can review things yes is there a second I'll support all right a motion to table this until we can review things uh roll call please are no more discussion roll call no more discussion what is the impact on current work then if we table this are do these positions not exist until I don't think it impacts anything I think that is continues the way it has been I mean we just have to clear the money okay so so continuing the way it has been keeping the same salary for this employee whatever has been happening he was approved it we're not changing we're not changing anything about the position we're changing the funding right and so we have a higher level of
152grant funding than we had previously so we're we're pulling less money from the general fund than we were in the past significantly less but why is it in the Personnel like he's a new hire or transfer it is a transfer in the personel I believe because it's transfer it's a title change transfer that's how that's how the personel recommendations List have have been done for some at the 4th at 11:30 it doesn't whatever I'm good we approve the position for 45,000 I whatever I'm I I I wasn't part of it last year so I can't I'm just going to this is last month we were told it was a transfer and we approved the position for 45,000 so we need the job description of the first job at the high school and now the job
153description of the promised Navigator because they're very different and then Athletics was tagged on to the promised Navigator the promised Navigator is like a community rep that gives Services for Families food for families coats for children it's a it's not academic it's not Sports it's Let's help our families kind of thing the coordinator act activity thing was about Junior Vikings it was about working basketball games it was about working weekends for sports they're two different job descriptions with two different titles but they're doing the same job so please can we just vote and will we can come back to this he can keep working nobody's saying that the person can't work are we just so I'm can I ask a clarifying question is it it's about the 48 or the 4975 is that what this
154is all about will we approve the position for 45,000 yes so it's about the 40 they're not happy that he's still going to do things for the high school no I don't care what he does but we approve the position for 45,000 if you're going to change it then we need to vote on the job if it was so I heard you say he can still do what he's doing right now all right so we need to vote on the motion to table Dr cost is speaking no that April was going where I was going so vote on the motion to table stays put where he is right now and we'll sort out the paper trail that's what we're voting on right is the motion table table okay because I'm I just want to make
155sure that I know what we're voting on because it that got weird way to put it do we have did we have support for Heidi's motion supp I make I make a I make a motion to amend my motion to approve the person wait we didn't know wait we have to vote on the the table moving oh you're change okay I'm doing them both in one I'm sorry is that okay that's fine I make a motion to improve I don't believe we can because on the table to go ahead I make motion to table It Go a second second that I'll second it all right motion on the table to second yes foress yes brown boys yes yes Becker yes Fox yesion yes re abstain okay motion carries Personnel motion to accept Personnel report I
156make a motion to approve the Personnel report as written second anybody I'll second um with just the one question can we have the the memo and the resume of the the prior resolution only because that wasn't included in the packet because we were closed what I'm sorry just to include profession just to include the resume of the par professional that we discussed um in the prior resolution oh you want that to be included yeah we can approve it without it but when we have the packet next time we get the like we did last time yes person kind yeah okay motion to accept the Personnel report by Heidi second by April any more discussion roll call Fortress yes Eon yes Becker yes Fox yes Hinton yes the boys yes Richie yes oh sorry pres can
157I was on break what in the beginning of the meeting there was a question and it was very hard to hear because uh we had a lot of people here that um Miss Beaton brought up and I couldn't hear what was something with the language at the beginning of the meeting yeah I couldn't was seven years ago I know but I couldn't hear because it was so loud it was a language pilot and we and we oh the language line pilot and we talked about it at the committee of the whole correct and it wasn't on the agenda it did not make it to the agenda the there was a recommendation to not include it was that made at the committee of the whole meeting it was not no then I make a motion to
158bring the language to bring it back to the agenda yes okay I'll support okay a motion was made to bring the language line pilot to uh discussion second by April discussion I mean I made my discussion I I think that it's necessary and um only helps our parents and is inclusive to the families that are in the district so I I mean I just echo my statements from earlier if we're making discussion I agree with that said that at the committee as a whole meeting that was important did you have anything to add to it Steph no I just thought I'd come up in case there were any questions I kind of I think we're all done with this meeting tonight some questions coming maybe um I just I think we talked about it at
159the committee the whole there was no objections to it being brought forward I'm not quite sure why it wasn't um I believe we even had discussion that it was in our current budget and it was a small amount and if it can benefit people and the students in the committies I wouldn't see why it wouldn't be on the it was explained it was left off due to the cost just to wait until we seen uh finances but that's fine we can vote on it and have discuss it I don't believe it is in the current budget which is where my hesitation was um but I think it was for up to $6,000 and we were going to Pilot it and and I'm comfortable moving forward okay or um just a a modification that we had
160discussed Dr cost and I discussed if we're not comfortable with the six that perhaps we shorten the pilot and run it during the summer months because that's when there's a lot of enrollment going on and we often have families so if we pil it and the pilot would be to Pilot see how do then consider if that's something that we would like to move forward on in the future of course um and so we thought that if we chopped it down to 3 months that we could really say let's try to keep it within that $3,000 monitoring it very carefully to see what the cost would be uh with the while we have a a number of students that are El students in our district the vast majority of them are invest and most the
161invest staff is buer trilingual so they don't seem to have they don't really have those needs as much the other portion of the district it's probably you know we probably have 90 students so the number of families who are really going to need that is probably going to be pretty low but I know that our Enrollment Office often talks about the difficulties and we have to grab a staff member here or there and if we were to use an interpretation service you know a f an in-person interpretation service it would be significantly more which we use we use those for iips and discipline meetings when it's a really critical nature to have somebody who can really fully interpret so uh I'm comfortable with the six if the board wants to go with that and then
162we could get that started next month or if the board prefers to adjust a little bit as we're navigating some of these budget pieces that would be fine as well so it's basically $1,000 a month say that again it's basically $1,000 a month for six pleas that was our Target about $1,000 a mon a month and what it would be is really closely monitored because the suggestion was is that we would have the Enrollment Office use it specifically but maybe one or two maybe a secondary uh secretary in the building you know a couple of people to try it out see how it worked because it's on demand literally they can you know a person could walk in here need the translation services they will give you cards to sit on your desk that would
163uh individual could indicate that they needed a specific language they literally could call up it's 247 and they could get somebody to do that interpretation it can also be done during uh through video as well yeah I'd like to see that during enrollment for sure so and it is not I mean the $ 6,000 average is $2,000 a month the the cost is 64 cents per minute for Spanish and 60 cents per minute for other languages so I mean it it could end up being 0 if no one utilizes the service but to have it available so we we only pay for what we use essentially correct and actually this was already which I didn't know when I went into this about 5 years ago someone actually opened up an account we were going to
164launch into it it never got triggered so we actually have an account with them already we've just never used the service before Madam president would it be permissible to maybe have um beaten to uh maybe make the motion so we can go ahead with this made the motion made it oh well it's late Darren I can't I feel you can we just move forward and vote on this thing yes so are we voting for six months or for three months make the motion for how many months I I I did it for the six not 26,000 okay and it's on a perdan basis so all right motion made for six months of the language line pilot second by April correct all in F no roll call yes yes beer yes Fox yes yes yes motion
165carries superintendent report enrollment so this is a snapshot of our enrollment we had fourth wednes Wednesday I believe it was February 12th um the following week was spring break we have 20 days to count students and so we're we're cleaning that up but I wanted you to have that at your fingertips as of right now so when when this is all finalized we'll give you comparisons of where our fall count was where this count is and then how that impacts our Blended account yeah this is nice thank you um I'll move on to the next item fundraisers there is one it is in your packet I believe it's for men's basketball program okay uh request for future agenda items um I'd like to make a request that um we look at making um sorry uh
166making a policy for the um support animals and making a policy for the fund balance and um making a policy for social media those were all um policies that we used to have and they're no longer with us what was uh fundraiser social F fund balance social media emotional pets support animals support animals okay we need to get a policy ad hoc committee I'd like to add to that policy uh discussion uh artificial intelligence what was that ai ai oh AI yeah policy it's a good one dat all right we'll talk about we need to get a uh ad committee cuz it's going to take some time them to sit here at a business meeting um can we get maybe a draft you can help me guide guide me on how to do that okay
167we're public I have a request for a future agenda item um for our next whether it be a committee meeting or our next business meeting I don't have a preference for which uh but if we could invite um Mr Gardner from truan to update the board on our current relationship um or if we invite a representative from the investigation Law Firm um it was brought up a couple times in public comment today it's obvious that the public has questions um it for one struck me as stressful um that there were a lot of questions that were laid out in public comment and I don't even know the answers to those questions um so I can certainly see the the stress and the concern of the public if they members of this board also don't have
168the answers to those I would like for them to come in it's been almost a month [Music] um it also concerns me that in our informational foyer request it says that we do not have a written contract with the investigation firm um so I would like to explore whether or not that's accurate or not if we're paying them money I would like to have a written contract um we have I don't know if our resolution takes care of that but um it was in the resolution and all of your names are on to hire the Allen Law Group to hire them but I if we don't have a written contract with them that concerns me um just using really rough calculations uh based on two law firms two staff people uh since making since placing
169the superintendent on paid administrative leave in late January by the close of February we will have spent tens of thousands of dollars on this and we have not received an update uh since January 27th so if we can invite one and or both of those law firms to come to our next meeting and provide an update to the board I would appreciate that okay anybody else could we add an accounting of what we spent so far to your ask we could I I don't know if that would be redundant to the financial statements because I guess it would be in there but I I certain OPP and you know the the interim superintendent contract is right there online for everyone to see they know how much he's getting so I mean they can add it
170up it's not like it's being hidden what did you what did you request accounting an invoice yeah I asked if we could have an accounting of what we've spent so far yep if you start using you know thousand thousand and tens of thousands millions of dollars it kind of gets kind of exaggerated we need to know the exact number it's not fair to people to have this not knowing any other agenda items we're speaking agenda items could we get a um presentation in the near future couple of months about uh our health clinic I haven't heard much about it over at the high school how many are we servicing are they are are they still in play there are they um what the health clinic is that what you said at the high school behind
171the school where the health CL yeah I don't know if they're St John's anymore or corwell I mean they've changed names I don't even know if they're there if our people know we even have it um and also sometime I'd like to see a demonstration of Power School uh to see how a parent even though um you know parents are here but there's some people that uh aren't parent and I would like to see how a a person registers their student uh when they do it from home and they want to bring their kid to our district I want to see how they uh you know where they how the parents can see the grades the lunches the all that stuff it would be kind of interesting to see a demonstration Plus for the people
172at home too that don't have lunches are on our District page on the menus no no I mean lunches like before you were able to see the kid what they ate the lunches that they ate because it would work with the tie system so you would go on as a parent you'd see they had a milkk they had this they had that and I I don't think they do that okay that's okay that's that's what I'm curious about I'm not curious about my KY just change yeah I I'm just curious about it and I'm just curious of how easy the system is um to register your student student I mean you're sitting out you know going to type in stuff you have to mail stuff in do you have to I mean just you know
173and it can be done in June July I don't really care but just uh it'd be interesting spend all this thousands of dollars on a new system I'd like to see it in the in the works and the other question was did we find a room for the athletic boosters uh equipment that has not been completed yet okay thanks just curious just up is that it all right back to public discussion I have Eric Comer [Applause] Comer my name is Eric I live at 117 West Annabella Avenue so what I kind of wanted to just briefly touch on again is when I was brought in as a paid employee to coach these wrestlers this year I was told a that I was going to be paid in a specific amount and I didn't get my
174paperwork until like halfway through the season and that paperwork said that I was going to get about half of what I was told at the beginning of the season so was pretty much like lied to of what I was going to receive for coaching these kids and I should have just left halfway through the season just kiss the paycheck goodbye but that wouldn't show these kids what it's like to be a man of your word and stick to it and that's what we're here to do as coaches is to encourage these kids to stick to their decisions and follow them through no matter what and as a coach that's what I really believe in and if I would have just did that I wouldn't have given my kids any faith and being able to just
175be a good example for him so like I think that definitely needs to be changed thank you thank you Don mcginness Don mcginness 1337 East Granite uh I came up here to speak about a couple things uh mainly by uh not not being heard uh in the school uh all the way up through management uh I asked for a lot of things of course you know for wrestling and all that and I don't get answers back uh and then I get emails as well saying that I had to have it done within an hour and and no followups on anything uh and on top of that um you know I I still want to follow up on the uh the junior high wrestling coach I haven't heard nothing back about that uh about the applications
176uh I never got an interview for that as well um and I don't know why I I have had many meetings about a lot of this stuff and I just feel like it's you're pushing families out and uh you know I I'm at the last straw here so uh like I said Thank you thank you okay um board member uh comments anybody have something I have oh can I go ahead I some I went to the um government relations meeting well was Zoom so I didn't go there but um and I just wanted to briefly um they encouraged us to watch the State of the State which is February 26th um they said please be vigilant in um your budgeting because with the federal government making their cuts no one's sure what's happening um they're
177one of the cuts they're anticipating is um it's going to make it harder to get free lunch the guidelines for that are changing I don't know if that's going to affect us or not but that's one of the things um the medic care Cuts Medicare Medicaid Medicaid thank you I I get those two confused all the time um might have adverse effects on the school district and also the title One funds could be caught up to 25% that was pretty amazing to me um and there I just talk about some good news talk about expanding free preschool to three-year-olds cuz right now I think it's only to four-year-olds and another word of warning is to please watch best practices because long-term issues because those change all the time and sometimes they're not really best practices
178um I want to thank everybody that spoke it's very difficult to get up there I've been on that side before it's difficult on this side too but um and I'm really excited for James and the Giant Peach I've been waiting for a movie I could take all my grand kids to or play I I think that's it right I'll go next you want to do your fabulous night last night I do I'm going to do a couple things first um I want to congratulate all the teachers of the year I mean our teachers are all amazing but to see so many nominations and some of them coming from staff parents everything it's phenomenal to see so congratulations to them um huge congratulations to Khloe Mrs Hazen I am amazed that a fth grader has such
179a heart that wants her class to learn sign language for her mother I wish that we had had sign language as a normal class anyways but I think I I mean I can't even commend that girl enough at at what she's probably 9 10 that is amazing so kudos to her and Kudos Miss Hazen for following up and not giving up on her and learning with them I think that's awesome um for the promis own dinner yesterday um most of our board members came some of you w some baskets um it was definitely a smaller event this year which I'm sure we all know why with the negativity of the district um but this shouldn't affect our kids so right now in both sides of this it's extremely important to stay supportive um the promiseone
180definitely helps our students with many opportunities to and through postsecondary and Beyond and I want to have a huge shout out to um jardon tidy Coons she donated like 10 baskets to me um she couldn't be there that night so she donated tremendously and I just I can't thank her enough um last night's dinner was a little more formal I felt like cuz it wasn't as crowded and um I just appreciate all of you guys for coming and anyone from the audience that did come um it was great so I appreciate you guys that's all I got anybody else yeah if I could just for a minute um there are two things coming up um well several things coming up James and the Giant Peach has already been mentioned um on March 4th the jardan
181Crusaders are going to be playing a basketball game at Hazel Park High School um it will be free admission and it would be great great if um as many people as possible could come out and support that team I found out today that they are undefeated um this will be a really great opportunity for them to play directly at the high school um and a great opportunity for the community to show up and support them um also Sports for the second year in a row Hazel Park High school has a wrestler that is completing competing in um individual State matches um coming up I think they've already started two oh Kendra two right okay two um I think they might have already started did they start today okay uh coming up this weekend so good
182luck to both of them that'll be the second year in a row that that happens that's exciting um all of the teachers that had student of or teacher of the year we've been here for hours um without them none of us would be here none of our students would be here uh they are obviously the backbone of the district um and then just to Echo some of Debbie's statements we had a lot of advocacy and a lot of people that came to speak in this room today and I would encourage you to pack that up um and when you leave this room don't stop take that to the county take that to the state take that to your senators and your representatives um at the federal level because both public education and and supportive services
183that take place in our schools are absolutely in Jeopardy right now and that is happening on the backs of our students um if you feel strongly about public education if you feel strongly about our students having access to a free and appropriate education um leave here email call keep that energy up and and make sure that you're advocating elsewhere as well okay thank you anybody else uh I just want to Echo what everyone else said about uh you know people getting up and speaking I really appreciate that we hear it we absolutely hear it uh there's a lot of uh tough times right now um so keep speaking please um students of the month that was awesome that was fun uh and the teachers of the year it's great to see all the staff and
184the the teachers and getting uh the accolades that they deserve so uh thank you thank you for being here d d d they' set up so just a quick update there was some concern about lights at web and Greg Richardson was on it right away and it is it is in the process of being resolved but all students are safe um a happy thing is next week is uh social worker week so those people are the glue that keep our schools together and it it'll be nice to just let them have their own week next week and today is school bus driver appreciation day so lots of appreciation special special things going around so I wanted to mention um we lost a principal that was a fantastic uh person Mr Don vote and I took
185some of the comments from Facebook from his staff and from his students CU who could say it better than than those people um I worked for Don for 10 years um but it this is some of the things they said Don was such a genuinely kind encouraging Soul who had a wonderful way with words always had a smile and time to chat he was a principal by day basketball coach after school and on weekends Don was a dad to all who taught at Hazel Park High School students described him as the best he was an amazing Mentor he made sure we stayed on track he was always Walking The Halls with his school radio and he was he was always all walking Halls he attended every drama club production and some students would play Spot
186Don to see where he was in the audience one of the best principles that my kids ever had every interaction good or bad always ended Pleasant Hazel Park was lucky to have him and that is true and I love that quote from that parent good or bad because that is what happens but she always felt that in the end it was always a pleasant experience so so um yeah Don was a he was he was a great guy and he did smile at and he could sing and he could dance and he could give a eulogy because he also had a a degree as a minister so and then I had the school bus appreciation thing I have um I've made a binder for each board member um I have the vision in the mission
187statement on the front I was looking for some information for Dr KY and I came across this 2004 Hazel Park newsletter and it's the history of our schools and when they were when they were built so I I thought the information was good we have at our service we have an a free attorney at the Michigan School Board Association Brad bassic and so I have I I copied all the questions people have asked him about school law because I keep all the magazines so uh there's a lot of stuff in here I told him one time you need to write a a book school board for dummies because there is so much the learning never ends um so and I have Brad's things I have the Board of Education goals in here what our goals
188have been um some different laws how to call the question if the discussion's too long I have the board committee appointments in here um and you got a copy tonight Jamie was kind enough she put a job description of those committees and um your state legislators your Governor um to write letters or phone calls us if you want to send each other birthday card or Christmas card or something we're in there and this is about interviews how to handle interviews uh how a committee should sit on the board and I have our bylaws in here so I have one of those for each person uh we get this leader book several times a year I have one for Nate because these came out last year and when I went to the conference in October November
189I grabbed these for the new people April and Darren we just got one that has a fantastic article in it about the budget it's like this was written for us it's a wonderful article so check out your leaderboard and check out the budget article oh jeez that's a page oh that's my my page cuz I was going to read the committee assignments so that's it um anybody have anything else if not we can adjourn second