001We're gonna go ahead and get started this year. Whoa. I would like to go ahead and call this meeting to order today, April 15th. Um, roll call, please. Here one. Everyone's here. All right. Um, Pastor Bear David's going to lead us in our invocation followed by the pledge of allegiance. Please rise. Let us pray. Father, we are shocked to see the images of the fire in the Cathedral of the Notredam in Paris. We pray for safety for the firefighters and the residents of the city. Help us to remember the importance of places of worship to society. Father, we thank you for spring. Thank you for another school year and the progress made in so many areas of our district. Thank you, Father, for our superintendent, her staff, and the board members. We're grateful uh for
002the sentinels of the classroom, our teacher staff. Now, for these proceedings tonight, we ask for wisdom beyond knowledge. And may all discussions and decisions be according to your will. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Allegian to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] All right. All right. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? Motion to approve the agenda as written. Support. Any discussion? Roll call. No. Yes. Hinton. Yes, Mr. Hemple. Yes, Hammonds. Yes, Mrs. Hemple. Yes, yes. All right, we're moving on to public comment. For those of you wishing to speak, there are forms in the back. I have one at this time. U Melanie Love. Good evening. I am here
003on behalf of the high school band program to bring you information on our upcoming fundraiser. The Hazel Park Band boosters are holding a golf outing on Saturday, June 1st at the Riverbank Golf Club in South Lion. All proceeds from this event will be used directly to benefit the program. This in the cost for this is $100 and it includes 18 holes, continental breakfast, hot dog lunch, and then a dinner following. We are also looking for personal and corporate sponsors to make this event possible. Everyone in the instrumental music department would like to thank both the board and the members of our community for your continued support of our program. I have packets for all. Okay, great. Melanie, do you know what the sponsorship prices? Um, they're in the packet, but I believe there's a $250
004one and a $650. Thank you. But if correctly last year, you'll take um donations for different things too, right? No matter what level. Yes, they were like collecting um different donations for raffles and baskets as well with the corporate sponsors. Okay. Does anyone have any questions about this golf event for the fan boosters? All right. Thank you, Melanie. Thank you. We will work to provide some support here. Um, okay. If there's no one else wishing to speak, um, then we will go ahead and move forward to our special order of business. And we have a Don presentation. Is this on? Uh, good evening, Board of Education. Dr. Krooppy. It's nice to be here tonight. I am the new principal at Chardon Vocational School and I'm really excited to talk to you about just the things
005that I've been so blessed to witness in the last few months. Um I have a PowerPoint. I'm not really Oh, there it is. Okay. Magic. It is magic. Okay. So, Jardan Vocational School, we basically have two programs in Jardan. We have a program for the um ASD students and we have a program for Mokai students. Uh all of our students are ages 18 to 26 and we really work on developing our students to engage in the adult world, helping their families to understand where they move to next and working with outside agencies so that they have those resources moving forward. Um, so here we talk about work-based learning. They go out into job sites. We have 25 different job sites as of right now, and we are working to build some new and really exciting
006job sites. Uh, my transition coordinator is working with the Detroit Zoo right now to see if we can get some students in there, which will be really neat. Uh, community- based instruction. Our students do go out several times a week. They go to grocery stores. They go to the mall where they really learn how to interact with the community. Uh as far as socialization with peers, we have dances every month and we welcome back all the the alumni from Jardon. So it's a really fun event and they're themed. Uh that would go with too the leisure recreation and fitness. We do have a special Olympics team uh for basketball and we're starting a new botchi ball team which would be will be really fun although I'm not so great at botchi ball. Um also the
007assistive tech and the inter agency collaboration. So these were my absolute favorite pictures. If you want to take a look at them, I just think they're so reflective of the energy Jardon has with the students out there working. They're excited to work and we have such good contacts with our work sites that they really embrace our students and work handinhand with them um to learn how to be in different types of job sites. As you can see um I've listed as many as I could fit on the page, but there are more. We have three at Bulmont alone. Um, animal welfare is really one of the favorites for our students because they get to work directly with animals and the care of animals. Uh, Joan Fabrics is another really fun one for them. Uh, so
008and I also wanted to bring it to that that we have the prom closet at Jardon and we also have the community closet at Jardon. And I I can only speak from my personal experience. I have to tell you, when those prom dresses came in, they were so excited and they organized them all by color and they they just they did an amazing job. It was very sweet. Okay, so here you're going to see we are working in that greenhouse. Um Dardon has a greenhouse. Uh we just got a big big shipment of herbs and lettuce and so we're putting those together right now. We will get our flats of flowers coming in at you know as the weeks go on. Uh timing wise is it's all important I guess at this point. We have
009some succulents too. Uh so what the students plan to do, they're working with the high school students right now and we are going to have a market day. So stay tuned for that where we're going to, you know, we have a greenhouse that we're going to work with and they're going to bring in lots and lots of of wholesale stuff so that we can put our word out to the community that we have a greenhouse and it's great stuff. You see the prom dresses there and the bottom picture. Um that's a real point of pride for for our students, that organization of that prom closet. Also, you see in the picture a what we call a pays lab. And we just had our PAs lab put in. Um, it is a lab where students get
010to work on different work skills and they're very specific. So, there's building skills, clerical skills, cooking skills, and each different skills in a box. So, they take the box and it's timed. and they their goal is to keep improving, getting faster, being able to stand on their feet, um, and knowing what's expected and be able to do those those jobs quickly and correctly. Okay, here's a little picture of our basketball team. They really are rock stars, I have to tell you. They won lots of games this year. Um, just some points of pride, our students, 98% of them go out into the community at least one time a week. Um we have like I said we have basketball and botchi ball. Lots of peer integration opportunities. We are having a spring formal coming up which
011all of our students again we invite all those alumni to come back. It's a really big deal. We have it at a hall. Uh we have the talent show, the fashion show, student council, themed dances, and these are all things that they really integrate their social skills with and they're able to really hang out with adults and have fun and enjoy their time as well as a place where they are learning those work skills. Uh these are our agency partners. I talked a little bit about inter agency um collaboration. So we work with many many agencies to really connect our adult learners to the outside community so that they have those resources lifelong and that's it. Do you have any questions? I do. The high the uh high school students you have coming over to
012work with them. Are they volunteers from the high school or is this something that they do like on a weekly basis? Yeah, that's a really good question. Uh the class that comes over to work with us is a class of special needs students. but they're high school aged. So, those are the students that are working with our students at this time. That's great. Thank you so much. It was really helpful information and it's nice to welcome to the uh being principal here at Don. We're happy to have you and uh so anybody else have any other comments? I'm just glad you got the greenhouse going. Oh, we're working on it. It's it's far from done, but we're moving in the right direction. All right. Thank you. Megan's a wonderful addition to our team. were really
013pleased to have her join our special education team. It really rounded it out. So, thank you and um we're glad that you could be here tonight. Thanks. All right, we can move on to our consent agenda. Can I get a motion? Motion to approve the consent agenda as written. Support roll call. No. Yes. Mr. Humble? Uh yeah. Hammonds? Yes. Mrs. Hmple? Yes. Hinton? Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. Uh we don't have any unfinished business, so we'll move to new business. Our first item is promise zone. Thank you for the opportunity of again coming and telling you a little bit. I'm sad for me to come tonight to uh mention that uh Kayla is going to be leaving us. uh she did such a good job uh getting us a couple hundred,000 dollars from the Balmer
014group that I they hired her. Uh so uh we appreciate the the job she's done. We've come a long ways. They say that we have the most active promise own in the state. There's no other group that has any skilled trades program like we have. And so we have a number of nom things that we're doing. Uh but I really hate to see her go, but obviously uh she has the talent. She's been here seven years. I think it's significant that uh the first year when she came they were doing about 500,000 excuse 500,000 in scholarships. We're right near 4 million right now for this spring and we're not done yet. And uh the superintendent mentioned how many fewer students up to 100 fewer students than we had last year. So, they've done a terrific
015job uh with a scholarship program and and I'm really pleased with the job that Kayla has produced here. Um I would like to uh mention one additional thing. Uh I've put on your your desk your desk there uh a mentoring program. We long one of the first things we realize that students drop out pretty quick when they start college. first semester, first year. And so, uh, this group money that we got from the Balmer group, we hired Musa back who was with us for two years. He was the outstanding promise own staff person in Michigan last year and uh, he's working talking to the students as they go to college. His role will be to talk with these students during the year. He's already made contact with the community college and talked to some of
016the other students who are already in the community college and they have him a place where he can go and meet with students here in the Royal Oak campus which we're real pleased with. But one of the things that uh Leon Lreck who used to be a school board member with me many many years ago and is on our board has mentioned a number of times about doing a mentoring program and so we're attempting to get a mentoring program going here. Uh, I put on each of your seats here. In fact, one of the young men just handed me back an application to be a mentor. Uh, this is going to take probably two contacts, at least two contacts a month, whether it's phone or taking them to lunch if they're locally. I would hope
017that some of you might consider uh being a mentor. Uh, and we're looking, we already have, I think about 3540 applicants already who want to have a mentor. And hopefully by the end of the semester it'll be more closer to 100. But we're going to have on May the 2nd a training during the day uh and also in the evening at 7:00 from 7 to 8 on the 2nd of May to train people to what what's involved in being a mentor to help our kids stay in school. You know, we work hard getting them all the way through high school and through school here and they start off in college and you know they don't hang in there. and and we feel like uh with Musa coming on staff to be communicating with them. In
018fact, we've even the board has set aside a a small amount of money to help in emergency cases of new students to get started if they need a special help of some kind. And but we feel like this mentoring program having one of the adults from our community uh to relating to these students uh we feel that's really important and we're doing the best we can not only to get the scholarships to get them there but to have a program to continue afterwards this first and second year. So, uh, we don't know how this is going to go, but hopefully, uh, we're making every effort we can, not only to get them there, but to keep them in school and to get them graduated. Likewise, it won't be just for kids going to college, but
019even in skilled trades. We'll have hopefully a number of skilled trade people, uh, working with those who are taking the skilled trades, whichever way it goes, and to help them stay where they're at to get the education they need. So, uh, we'll keep you posted of what we're trying to do, but if you have if you can, uh, help being a mentor or you know someone that can be a mentor, uh, please, uh, get their application in. That's May the second. We're we're starting that during the daytime. It's a lunch 11 to 2 or 7 to 8 at night. So, if uh if you can help us, I think this is a critical factor in keeping our students moving ahead, not just getting through high school, but hopefully getting through college or getting through the
020skilled trades, uh and and getting a better job. So, we're trying to make the effort. Yes. If you've already filled out your application, do you need to fill out another one? No. Okay. Where are you planning on having this? Uh it's going to be at the high school. at the high school probably in the library library. We got to check that out. She and I were talking about that this morning, but we'll we'll be checking. That's probably where it'll be. Uh so we're trying to give two different times. So whether you can make it in the dur during the day or in the evening, whatever works for you, we'll we'll do that. But uh Bill, if if you we give this to anybody, who should they give it to now that with Kayla leaving into
021the promise own head office in H High School? Okay, give it to me. I'll get it in there or one of the board members. Rachel, I will be so um I made sure I'm staying through that training and so for any of these applications, they can still send them to me or drop them off at the high school. She'll only be with us till early in May. Yeah. So, that week will be my last week. So, uh you can get them into us. we we would appreciate and if you can help us get more mentors. My goal is to have most a mentor for every student going on to skilled trades or to the college, whatever it is. That's our that's our goal. So, we're making that effort. So, I've talked a little bit. Kayla
022has a few things to say as she's leaving, but she has done a phenomenal job. Hazel Park is recognized as probably the best promise area in the state of Michigan right now. And so we're proud of this lady. She's been here seven years, so she's done a terrific job. Thank you. So I uh first we'll give some updates. So the thank you to everyone who came to the promise on fundraising dinner. So it was our sixth annual dinner um and our most successful yet. So I know a number of you were there. We had um some great speakers and some great students. So we were very very excited about everyone who was able to make it to the UAW Chrysler Training Center. Um any students who are interested in summer promise scholarships should reach either
023reach out to me or Musa who's our post-secondary success coach and we can help get them set up whether it's at OC or um another institution. We have a lot of students as some of you know that come back from the four-year institutions and take classes at OC over the summer and we're able to provide funding for that even if they're not getting scholarship funding during the school year. Um, as a reminder, promise scholarship eligibility now expires after six years after graduation instead of four years. So, that's something that if uh if you do know someone who's recently gone back to school or wants to go back to school, they do have that extra two years of eligibility. It's still the same maximum scholarship funding um but over a longer period of time for students
024who might need it. We provided the second and final portion of the promise scholarship application last week to seniors um those who were in attendance for our college and career days. So, we will be sending it via email this week. That's the hard copy form that requires a signature. Um, it allows the colleges to release their information to us so we can pay bills, track data, stuff like that. College adviser, Miss Burns, has copies in her office. We have copies at the high school, and then we'll also be emailing it out, like I said, so students can print it out. Mr. Trayor, as Bill mentioned, has been meeting regularly with various Hazel Park alumni who are needing assistance with anything college related. And honestly, every time I talk to him, I get more excited about
025the fact that he's here. Um because he's helping students through anything related to maybe an issue with their FAFSA that's kept them from enrolling or um issues related to whether they can still drop a class without it hurting their GPA, whether it makes sense to do this. Um students who have been out of school but want to get back in or who are interested in XYZ and don't know don't know where to go to for that. So, previously that was something that if students reached out to us, we'd help them with, but we weren't able to do this like very proactive outreach that he's doing now. And he um shared with our board on Friday that he's met with or communicated in some way with about 80 students in the past month. And these are
026all Hazel Park alum who are either in school or wanting to get back in school. So, it's really uh pretty amazing already. So, I'm I'm excited about seeing where that goes. So, as the college and career days um as I mentioned, we had those last week. We worked with the high school administration to plan those and they were held during testing. So, uh for non-esting students, we gave different college and career programming opportunities. So, on Tuesday, uh Miss Burns, Maddie, our college adviser, and some of our talent search partners from Wayne State presented various um workshops related to study skills and life skills to students while Musa Trayori and I took a group of students to OC. So, we took 34 students who are planning on enrolling at OC in the fall and we'd actually
027had OC out the week before spring break as well. So, we're trying to make sure that they can get all everything done by the end of the school year related to application, FAFSA, um creating an online student account, going through like the online orientation stuff, pretty much anything while we still have this regular communication with them every day um just to make sure that any issues that come up are able to get dealt with pretty quickly. Then on Wednesday we hosted five different career well actually six career speakers. Uh they were Anita Capone who's a surgical technologist at OC and she teaches in the self health sciences program there. We were very excited to have her because we have a lot of students interested in health sciences uh but don't necessarily know about all the
028different opportunities available within that field. So most of them say, "Oh, I want to go into nursing." And a lot of them will go into nursing, but some others might be interested in some of these other fields that um OC actually has a really great programs for um associates degree that then can lead into some really good career opportunities. They have partnerships with Bulmont. So we were excited to have her. We had Jared Gajos from the community coalition who's a Hazel Park grad. Jordan Tuardi, who's the economic development uh director for the city of Ferndale. We had James Regado, the chef at Mabel Grey, Kayla Shelton, who's a mechanical engineer, and Kyle Stoof, who's a digital marketing professional. He does social media marketing marketing for different clients, and he's a Hazel Park alum as well.
029So, we were excited to host all of them. Um, as Bill mentioned, our program launch for the mentoring program will be held on Thursday, May 2nd. So, as he stated, we'll have a uh so that's actually decision day is that morning. So, the college adviser is planning decision day for that morning. So, we thought it would be a fun way to kind of continue for students who are going to take part in the mentoring program. We'll have like a pizza party lunch that will also be open to mentors and it'll be that training as well. For mentors who aren't able to make that session, we'll have an evening session. And so, the idea is just to give kind of an overview to mentors, what's expected, advice, um some different materials and guidelines, things like that.
030Um, also I hadn't told Bill this, but actually the the current seniors are up to $4.1 million in scholarship offers. And so to clarify, but those are scholarships that uh the college adviser is working with students and helping them to um apply for different scholarships um through their universities and and elsewhere. So they're at $4.1 million, which is a a new record for the third year in a row. And uh yes, it's exciting and uh we anticipate it'll keep going up. So uh probably maybe we'll hit five by the end of the year. We'll see. But at 4.1 million right now. And then lastly, as Bill mentioned, I'll be transitioning out of my role. So uh I just want to thank all of you for all of your support over the past almost seven years,
031which I can't believe. Um, I just feel so lucky to have been able to work with all of you and with so I'm gonna try to not get as emotional as I was with Bill and Ed Clobacher last week when I told when I talked to them about it, but um, just so many people here who are so committed to students and to the community. It's really been amazing and I've completely loved working with all of you and uh, hopefully we'll still be able to work together in some way in the future. So, thank you all so much. Thank you. Because the board probably wants to get up and maybe do a handshake. or something along those lines. Of course, we couldn't let you go without a small token of our appreciation to you for
032all that you've done for us because um Hazel Park and His Park students are better off because of all the work you've done. Thanks so much. Thank you so much. For sure. Have a good enjoy. Good luck. Thank you guys so much. Good luck, Kayla. Send us lots of emails. Sure. All right. Yes, Kayla, we miss. We thank her for her dedication. Um, seven years and and watching the promise um grow and flourish and and take form and shape, you know, has really been something to watch. So, um I'm excited about where we're at with it. And um we'll see who who they can get to fill those shoes. Um but we will go ahead and move on at this time to personnel recommendations. We need to break them out, I think. Yeah. So, um,
033these are broken out to accommodate some of the conflicts on the board. So, we're going to start with ask me. Can I get a motion, please? Motion to approve the ask me personnel recommendations as presented. Support. Any discussion? Uh, roll call. No. Yes. Yes. Hinton, yes. Mr. Humple, yes. Hammonds, yes. Mrs. Simple, yes. Atkins, abstain due to familial conflict. Um, next one is the HPASA uh union. Can can I get a um motion for that? Motion to approve the HPASA personnel recommendations as presented. Support. Any discussion? I have a question. Dr. Krooppy, since it's late in the year and before you put Mr. Barnett there, this is a couple week leave, will anybody be there for those few weeks? We haven't made a decision yet. We've talked briefly about it, but we will put someone
034in place to make sure there's proper support. There will be someone. I'm just concerned the time of the year. Absolutely. Sure. Absolutely. As are we. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Roll call. No. Yes. Hinton? Yes. Mr. Mr. Hmple. Yes. Hammonds. Yes. Mr. Temple, yes. Atkins, yes. Uh, next one is HPA, the teacher union. Can I get a motion? Make a motion that it's for the HPA union group support. Any discussion? Lots of retirement. You want to say something? Yes. you know, we we um are hoping to invite our teachers to join us uh next month so we can celebrate some of these retirements, but it is um heartbreaking yet um c se celebratory for many of them, right, for their many years of service. So, um hopefully you'll have a chance to congratulate some
035of them that may join you next month. We're going to invite them to the meeting. That'd be great. Yeah, they're definitely um sorry to see some of them retiring and excited as they start their new chapter, but very thankful for their service to this this district. Absolutely. All right, roll call. Mr. Humple, yes. Slack, yes. Hinton, yes. Himmons, yes. No. Yes. Mrs. Humple, yes. Atkins, yes. All right. Next uh group is HPPA, the pair of professionals. Um can I get a motion, please? I make a motion that we accept the HPPA recommendations, personnel recommendations as presented. Support. Any discussion? Roll call. Slack. Yes. Hinton. Yes. Mr. Hull. Abstain due to conflict. Hammonds. Yes. No. Abstain of familiar conflict. Mrs. Simple. Abstain due to familial conflict. Atkins. Yes. Um, next is IOE, which is the secretary
036union. Can I get a motion, please? Make a motion. Can we accept the IOE recommendations as presented? Support. Go ahead, Mr. Hel. Discussion. Roll call. Schlack. Yes. Mr. Humple. Yes. Hinton. Yes. Hammonds. Yes. No. Yes. Mrs. Hemple. Yes. Atkins. Abstain due to familial conflict. Uh, unaffiliated. Can I get a motion, please? I make a motion we accept the unaffiliated employees personnel recommendations as presented. support. Oh my goodness. In my house would be like jinx. I know. Sorry. Okay. Two cos the end of this. All right. Roll call. Yes. No. Yes. Hinton. Yes. Mr. Hemple. Yes. Hammonds. Yes. Mrs. Hemple. Yes. Atkins. Yes. All right. That's it for personnel recommendations. Um, now we can move on to the administrative contracts. Um, can I get a motion, please? Make a motion that we are we renew the
037administrative contracts as presented. Is that the motion? Yeah. Approving for the next calendar 2019. Yeah. I did not realize this date will need to be changed in the minutes to reflect 2019 to 2020. So, all right. Yeah. Oh, the contracts all have nothing. The contracts are correct. Well, we'll table it until next month. The contracts are correct. She just loves me for that. All right. Do we get a second? Yes. Second. Okay. Uh discussion. Yes. At this time, I feel that we should wait until next month. According to the record, this is only at this month is considered a nonrenewal contract month. So, I I feel that the month of May plus also with everything else going on, I that's my feeling that we should just wait until next month. because of the consideration that
038all administrative uh are contracted from July 1st until June 30th. So it's like for me I just the contracts that can wait. We got more important things to worry about. This is just a renewal. I understand that. But at the same time, there's other issues that I feel that we have with it that are I disagree with that waiting for like I asked for last year and we still never received those either. So I'd say no this month. So and if the administrators feel that I don't support them in all way that I was told that they feel that sometimes then that's the way it is. But I talked to a lot of them and I support I mean we support them 100% all the time. I mean if they feel that way for this
039month then okay fine I'll just live with that fact you know I support the teachers support the administration support the superintendent that's what a board member is supposed to do no matter whether we vote yes or no on any factor. So that's how I feel. Sorry. Or I guess my only comment would be are the evaluations done? Evaluations are not typically done till end till the end of the school year is my understanding. So So go ahead, please. So the um as of April 1st, you must give notice um to whether or not you're going to not renew. So typically a school district will approve contracts in March um or April. And that's a time frame that you're given um through superintendent groups, through principal groups to renew your contracts. Um that's the guidance that
040you're given uh to renew those contracts. Evaluation's purpose is not to renew contracts, not to renew teacher contracts, but to give growth and for people to grow. Um their grounds of evaluations are not weed an evaluation to determine whether or not we're going to renew a contract. So, evaluations for everybody will be completed uh closer to June um once all of the teacher evaluations are completed and uh once we close out the school year and they'll be completed before the end of the school year before they leave. Well, I um have no intentions of seeing any of our administrators go nor our teachers at this point because there's no teachers out there to hire. So, to me, we're going to be keeping everyone. So, yay. It's great. We all win. Um, but I would rather
041wait to make sure that the teachers evaluations are done and then the administrators along with the principles. Um, in the past I've always asked to see the principal's evaluations and was told that, you know, it wasn't my business basically, but I think they all kind of go hand in hand. And so I my feeling is until they're done, we shouldn't be renewing contracts because technically if a teacher's evaluation is ineffective and it and it's a procedure that we do. So if we don't follow procedures, then what's the point of having them? Um but usually the teachers their their performance is based on their evaluation. Um a lot of them are put on improvement plans and all that and that's the way the things work. Um, so I I think that it should follow suit with
042the administrators as well. So my feeling is we we know that we're going to renew the contracts and I see view the evaluations as something that's um coming later and it's not something you're right that we we have had some discussions about what we're able to see um on that and I would rather see us talk about evaluations separate than voting on the contracts. So um I think we should vote on the contracts tonight. I don't know. I think waiting one or two months does not make a difference um if we're going to approve them. Um and we I am happy to talk about evaluations at at a workshop or future as a future topic. But don't they kind of go hand in hand? No. Once if you have not uh if you have not
043given notice by April 1st, you automatically are renewing their contract. Well, I think that's what our plan is anyway. So, if we wait, we wait. I'm just saying we we put policies and procedures out there and we don't follow them. Well, the your your this is your policy that's in place is that the policy is that we renew contracts before there is no policy about evaluation. Uh not that contracts are renewed by evaluation. I I don't know what what I'm hearing something different is that contracts are not based on their evaluation. Evaluation is something for growth and this is going to determine if we want to keep them as principal or not. So, so, so if we were if there was a reason not to renew someone, you would have been uh doing something very
044different and and they're based upon one-year contracts. And so, all of them are eligible for the renewal of their contract because we did not give them notice 30 days before the April 1st deadline. So, it is it is the will of the board um to make that choice in your voting to to decide what you want to do. I think it's just me. I think you know, we talked about this last year. I recall um the evaluation should come before the the vote. It kind what do you call it's like protocol. You do the evaluation, you do the vote. There's a system uh to it. I totally support the principles. They love the district. They've been up here given wonderful reports. So there's not there shouldn't be any any threat in that way. Um I
045just feel there's a you know the evaluation comes and then the contract comes. It's kind it seems backwards. This is backwards to me, but yeah, I think the timing is challenging, but the um I think as the the evaluations are not meant to lead to the renewal. We're we're you know, they're they're a personal growth thing. That is not the So, that kind of goes with the teachers as well though. If the teachers get bad evaluation, it it renews their contract regardless. I So you so you could uh it depends. So a teacher, so for example, and I think this is a great workshop for a schoolboard association for you guys to put on a topic for them because for example, um a teacher that's non-tenure, it wouldn't matter what their evaluation is. Um their
046contract, they could be renewed or not renewed based upon the opinion of a administrator that's for non-tenure. For a tenure teacher, um depending on what the rating is, it would take several years. So you could have a minimally effective or an ineffective evaluation and still be renewed because you're a 10-year teacher for several years. So it let's say your evaluation was completed in uh June or which we we get them done by May, you would if you had a minimally effective and you were tenure teacher, you still would be teaching. Second year, you still would be teaching and your contract would be renewed. It would only be the third year and then there would be several actions that occur and you would still be teaching before you would be removed. So, um there's different processes
047that are put into place. It is not um in in the same process. It doesn't necessarily wag the other one. I'm comfortable with this being here. I'm comfortable with approving the contracts and and letting it work like we have been in the past year and again having a workshop to discuss a little bit more about understanding. I don't see a policy and procedure that we're violating. So, um, your your policy that's in your policy is the non-renewal policy that says that you have to give notice by that's the only policy that you have is the non-renewal policy that goes along with guidance from NEOA that's put into place. It says May 1st. Give notice by May 1st. April April 1st if a 30-day notice. Yes, you have to give the 30-day notice. 30-day notice, but
048you give them 60 days prior, too. Which is like all all contracts, you give them 60-day notice to not renew them. That's what I'm getting at. It's like all of a sudden this come out of nowhere because I knew the rule and uh it's like, okay, we renew them anyway, but it's like why now? That's my come out of nowhere though. Wasn't this the way we've been doing it for? Are you sure it came out of last year? I believe it was May. I checked last year was April and the previous two years were June. So we have had some variation. Uh because of the 60-day notice, we'd be approving them anyway. So I guess I'm not sure why hold off on that, but yeah. So that's my that's my opinion. Here's another example. When
049Dr. Krooppy's um contract the evaluation was supposed to be done in May or June or something and then it went all the way to October and we got off schedule. So if we did a couple times in June, it's like you can't switch. It can't be May this month and two years ago it's June and it needs to be consistent is my feeling. So, so that that's one of the reasons why um we changed the cycle of the superintendent's evaluation because the superintendent's evaluation is much different than um administrator's evaluation. for the superintendent evaluation that was done to be completed so that when uh board members are going off the board, the board that's currently in place can do that final evaluation and the new board members coming in in January. It has nothing to
050do with the contract, but the board members coming in are the ones that do the final evaluation. Um or the board members going out are the ones that do the evaluation. So, if you remember that conversation, it had nothing really to do with the contract. Now, I I know I I know why it was done and why it was changed that way. It's just that we sway from what we say. I I know why we changed it. Dr. Krooppy, was this one of the things that we agreed on the board calendar? I don't think so. It's in the superintendent uh calendar of what we do. Okay. So, it's not in the board candle calendar. It's not on our calendar. Okay. We just act what we do is we take what we've done the year before
051and we bring it forth. So we're trying to be consistent with our calendars about what we do year to year cuz it was always in May. That's very fine. I do what you call I just gave my reasons. Okay. All right. Roll call. Excuse me. Slot. Yes. No. Yes. Hinton, no. Mr. Hemple, no. Hammonds, yes. Mr. Hemple or Mrs. Hemple? No. Atkins? Yes. All right. Moving on to curriculum at item D. Um, summer school. So, I don't know who you go. Miss Pastel is going to talk about that. Do we need a motion on the board on the table? Mrs. Is this an action item? Yes. Let's take a Can we get a motion for this? I make a motion. We accept her presentation of the summer reading in myth camp proposal support. Good. No,
052it's not afternoon. Good evening. So, I am here to request your um approval for the summer reading and math camp for exiting third grader. Um, we're looking at having the focus be those students that are exiting third grade at Hoover. As far as uh entrance into the program, however, it'll be open to all students. We're planning to have a timeline if approved um where parents uh exiting third graders from Hoover are contacted and made aware that they'll have an opportunity to kind of have similar to what we had last year, a lit camp, but we're adding a math component. and we're choosing to focus on Hoover just because there were a lot of changes with the third grade in particular. Um, and so we are I am here to ask for your approval of that.
053We're looking at using the same amount of teachers as last year, seven teachers, um, the same hours from 8 till 11:30. Free breakfast and lunch will be provided. And as you can see in the document that was provided, the total cost, which is about the same as it was last year. So, I am here to answer any questions and ask for your approval so that we can get these uh kiddos in leaving third grade some summer reading and math. Where are you having this at? Are you having it strictly at Hoover? Yes, it will be at Hoover. And then are you advertising in with the other two elementaryaries? Yep. So, well, yes, yes and no. First, we're going to if it's approved tonight, we're already ready to go. the parents at Hoover will be identified
054and contacted to make them aware and we have like a timeline. So say for example to start Wednesday till two weeks from now those people at Hoover will have access first and after that we'll open it up to the others. Okay. So you're looking at how many students? Well about with seven we're looking at what do we say eight to 10 per seven teachers. So up to 70 students. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you ma'am. Any other questions? Any other questions? And this is grant funded. Yes, this grant fund is out of 35A. Thank you. Good. You sure? Okay. All right. Um, roll call. Mr. Hemple. Yes. Hinton? Yes. Amens? Yes. No. Yes. Mrs. Hemple? Yes. Atkins? Yes. Thank you. All right. Next item on the agenda is Oakland County Budget Resolution. Um, can I get
055a motion? Motion to approve the Oakland schools 2019 2020 budget is presented. My apologies. I forgot to bring the book. It's a massive binder. I was kind of It was a massive binder and reading through it just love it. The numbers are just right there. That's up here, Alan Jason. I know you agree. Um, there was a few things that I seen that I had questions on, but being that Oakland schools had all their auditors and everyone in the world doing their book, uh, I'd make a recommendation that we as the Hazel Park Board of Education support their budget for the 2019 2020 school year. Okay. Thank you. All right, Mr. Zern, did you have anything else you want to add? What? What? Um, again, this is just a formality based on the revised school
056code. Um, the state requires the LEAs within the county to uh pass a resolution of support or disapproval for their budget. Um, there really isn't a lot going on this year in that budget. Um, you know, they are projecting a 3.5% increase in property values, um, which will hopefully get back up to the, uh, pre20 levels in three or four years. um their general general fund balance. One of the things that they are looking at is they're raising their minimum for their general fund balance as a percentage of expenditures. Their unassigned portion um they're looking at raising it half a percent over the next 5 years. Um currently they're at 15.3% of unassigned um which is pretty healthy. Um, one of the other things in there that was kind of noticing from my standpoint is
057that they raised their FTEES for shared services going forward. They estimated 22 additional individuals that were going to be placed within districts. Again, there's no additional cost to the ISD because they're just going to charge back to districts. But, um, just an interesting tidbit of information in there. Uh, their center program. One of the I guess one of the major trends in the center or the the special ed fund was the center programs we've seen a bit of a decline over the last seven or eight years in in enrollment. So districts are retaining their kids as opposed to sending them to the center programs. Um it's been relatively flat for the last 3 years, but um again we just have to be you know diligent in making sure that you know we get those referrals
058into our center programs just um so it's better for us to operate um and keep the cost low. the more students obviously the costs are going to come down per student. Um and again their their special education fund has been consistent at 5% of uh of their expenses after LEA transfers. So all in all it's it's a pretty it's a pretty decent budget. Um, did you did you notice in the in the front portion of the book where they they show their their amount where their intake was 33.5 million and or 335 million 30 no 35 million was their uh coming in and then their revenue and their expenditure was somewhere in the range of 30 37. Did you see that? Yeah, I think there was a typo. I think they they had a balanced
059budget. I believe that was 3 337.5 million. Revenues and the numbers in the Yeah, revenues and expenses were the same, right? Uh cuz again, I I think I pulled my my numbers from one of their memos, but then when I went back into the actual budget book, it's it is it is that's where I thought was some discrepancy. Again, you're you know, there's a lot of numbers in there. Yes. try to go through that book is Jason I'm not sure if you can answer this before Dr. Krooppy um since you kind of spoke about the center programs and remaining flat for the last few years how do we retain or uh seek out those referrals are do the do the other districts in Oakland County send those into the ISD and then they send them
060over to us or do can we send something out to the other districts letting us know about our awesome programs and how they could be beneficial. What do we do to kind of maybe advertise a little bit? I think we should let Tamron speak to that. Sorry, but but she's got to come up to the microphone. Aha. I'm sorry. I don't mean to crush your No, no, no. That's important that um that's a really good question. That's important to I think maybe ask. Yep. Tamara, do you need me to ask it again? I do, please. I'm so sorry. That's okay. Um the qu the question is Jason brought up a good point about how we remained flat in our some of our um center program enrollments and looking at building our programs and building capacity
061within those. How are we looking at growth? How do those referrals come in to us from the ISD? Are they can a district refer right into us? They do they have to go through the ISD? Um those types of how how do we increase our base? Sure. So every referral for um Jardan and Edison go through it's a DSR district service request and it goes through Oakland schools. So a home district Oak Park let's says I want to send so and so to a centerbased program um that they submit that DSR through Oakland schools um and then it comes to our centerbased programs. So, how do the other school districts in our county and this might be a question for the ISD then um know about our programs and are are they referring them? Are
062they do they know about the awesome things that we are doing? I think it's great to hear Megan's presentation about the greenhouse and then it the work programs and different things like that. Do the other districts know that we're putting an I guess a notch above the breast and trying to get those kids into services that can help them? So, she was just at SEAK, which is the special ed administration um administrators in Oakland County. We meet every month at Oakland schools. That took place last Friday. Um I had to stay back for some meetings here, but so she presented on Jardon. And so what they do is they have four breakout sessions at SEAK every afternoon. And so Megan was one of four breakout sessions. And she brought pamphlets for um and you have
063to go like to every breakout session. And so she presented on the programming, the greenhouse, the CBI trips, the work sites, the staffing, you know, all the highlights that you saw here, she presented on at SEAK last Friday. And she was actually told that um it sounds like hopefully there are be they're going to be four um students in the ASD program in the fall, a potential of six in our MOKAI program, but we have to wait until we actually have like the referral in hand and an IEP team has said yes. Parents have said yes, guardians have said yes, they've toured the program and um the decision is final. So, we have to wait until we actually have referrals in hand. But, she did go out and she did present and it and it
064went really well, I was told. I'll be curious to see what Oakland schools does when the Edison Max building is back up and running with increasing those referrals since they kind of dumped a lot of money into that project. So, Dr. Krauss has sent a few emails out to directors, the same group, SEAT group, saying, "Hey, here's our we're going to be opening a post EI program, um, what might be your interest level. Might you be sending us some students?" And so that goes out to every Oakland County administrator just to kind of see where the interest might be. I think she said a couple directors say yes, we're going to be sending, you know, so and so, but that's referral based as well. So, we don't know until we until we know. Yeah. Okay,
065that's great. No, thank you. I have a better understanding and we met today and we sat down and we went through um our projections for next year, how many students, how many staff, how many incoming students were projecting um what that looks like. But Jay also shared with me that at the same time while we are doing presentations about our programs, they're also doing presentations about how to keep your kids within your own school district. So there's that constant challenge about um how to grow Jardon um at the same time where there's presentations being done about how to keep your kids at home. So that's that's that balance about when you're running center programs. I have an offbeat question. Um um I noticed in the in her update that uh they want to change the
066the name from an EA to an AG I believe it is. Oh no, the the originally originally there was an ASD program and they no longer want us to do an ASD program, but an EI program there. So, we already run an EI program uh there and so there's no need any longer for an ASD program because other programs have built other school districts have built programs within their own. So, they're asking us to make to add those three extra classrooms to be EI because our program is already full actually and so those three classrooms would take carryover to additional EI students. Okay, that's what it is. Thank you. All right. Anything else on the budget resolution? Oh, no. I I don't know if Jason had anything else to say. Thank you, Tamron. You're welcome.
067No, I'm good. You're good. You shared. All right. Well, thank you for giving us some tidbits. Um I need to read the resolution. Should I do that? Which one? The one to approve or disapprove. Well, oh, yeah. Should we vote first and then I'll read it? Are we approving it? We're approving it. The motion was to approve and we have support on the table. I don't know. I guess yeah, we Let's go ahead and we should vote. Let's roll call and then I'll read it. No. Yes. Slack. Yes. Hinton. Yes. Mr. Mr. Hemple. Yes. Hammonds. Yes. Mrs. Hemple. Yes. Atkins. Yes. All right. ISD budget resolution. Whereas, oh my god. Section 624 of the revised school code as amended requires the intermediate school board to submit its proposed budget no later than May 1st of
068each year to the board of each constituent district for review. And not later than June 1st of each year. The board of each con constituent district shall review the proposed intermediate school district budget. shall adopt a board resolution expressing its support for or disapproval of the proposed intermediate school district budget and shall submit to this intermediate school board any specific objections and proposed changes to the constituent district board has to the budget. Now therefore it be resolved that the board of education has received and reviewed the proposed intermediate school district budget in accordance with section 624 of the revised school code as amended and by the adoption of this resolution expresses its support for the proposed intermediate school district budget. The secretary of the board of education and his or her designate shall forward a
069copy of this resolution to the intermediate school board or its superintendent no later than June 1st. All resolutions in so far as they conflict with this resolution B and the same are hereby rescended. So the resolution is declared adopted. So there we go. All right, let's move on to the next item which is the St. John's Health. Um, can we get a motion? Motion to approve the improvements to the Hazel Park High School as necessary to renovate the space to accommodate the new St. John Health Center as presented. Support. And who's speaking to this? Are you Mr. Z? All right. So, we've met several times with the architects uh and St. John representatives to go through the available space at the high school. Um, St. John's is currently in a temporary space. Um Dr. Cry,
070I'm not sure what counseling the old counseling office. Um they will move them down the hall and around the corner. Um it's going to take um some costs obviously to renovate the space and get it into a um get it into shape for a health clinic. Um we've met with St. John's and they're willing to come forward and provide us with finish work, painting, uh, tiling, and and the case work. Um, we're going to have our maintenance custodial staff go through and do a lot of the demo in order to save us money, but we'll still have to have a contractor come in and do the mechanical, fire alarm, you know, you know, take out a couple walls, move a few doors. Um so what we're proposing is the remaining funds not to exceed 185,000
071uh be designated from the sinking fund to complete the project. I do have a question. We're using the oldback shop room one of the welding something. No there's Go ahead. Go ahead. There's We're using a piece of the I think it's the old welding room. There's a there was a small classroom that was designated out of the corner and which will probably become a conference and separate meeting area. Do they have a a entrance in and out of the school without actually coming into the school? There's going to be an entrance. Um there is there's there's two doors currently. One's going to be an emergency exit. One's going to be the main entrance. Um and part again part of the renovation of the space is the current door that leads into the space has to
072be flipped over so that both doors enter into a reception area for security for that you know for the standpoint of you don't want a reception area and people coming in from you know unseen areas. So there's just some movement of some doors. So it will be secured for our students at the high school as well. Yes. Yes. Okay. Is this going to start in the summer? Well, again, we we have to once we get your approval, we have to submit the well, we have to actually put the plans together, then submit them to the state for approval. Then we have to bid it out because of the magnitude of the project. Uh because it's a self-contained space within the high school, I think we'll be able to do this over the school year without
073any interruption within the classroom space. Um so again, it's going to be a project that we're probably going to work towards uh completion by the end of the year or soon thereafter. So the currently students within the high school can receive services but no one outside of the high school can receive services because we're not in that isolated space. So we currently are receiving uh those services. Anyone in the high school can receive services from St. John in the counseling office. So we have a wide variety of services and that's been communicated by um Mr. Daly um out through paperwork and through to the students. But unfortunately, we cannot bring it up to full scale until we get this completed. Very exciting. It is. All right. It is. Any other comments or questions? All right.
074Roll call. No. Yes. Hammonds? Yes. Hinton? Yes. Mr. Hempfield? Yes. Heels? Yes. Slack? Yes. Atkins? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next item is an enrollment update. So, Dr. Hrippy, what do we what do uh this is just a continually um gathering to you uh enrollment update that we will continue to give to you so that you can see enrollment as it continues. So, is this enrollment? This is enrollment for next. No, this is this is current. Current. We don't have Jardon or Edison or Advantage listed in these numbers. Actually, this doesn't look like it's correct. That's what I was thinking. I was like, that's a big drop, but they found a lot of zeros. No, was not correct. Okay. Could you follow up and just I will and I'll get the new one.
075I'll send it to you and put the new one up. The correct one. I wasn't expecting a whole lot, but that just looked like it doesn't look right. All right. Um, that moves us on to superintendent update. Dr. K, do you have anything else for us? I don't. Um, I will have that in administrative comments. Okay, let's move to board member and administrative comments. We'll start on this side of the table. Um, I just want to say thank you to Megan for the Jardine presentation. It was really nice to hear about all the great things happening there. Um, amazing news once again year after year about this promise zone and the amount of scholarships that our kids continue to earn and get. So, such a great great great news. Um, especially with the post-secary support
076that we're now able to give out to these kids. I think that's really really important and um also great news about the clinic. Um, I think that would be really helpful to some of our students that require need and maybe don't have insurance or, you know, don't have the um, resources to go and be treated or vaccinated or all the things that they're going to be offering. So, it is simple. Um, I wouldn't just wish Kayla the best of luck in her new adventure. Um, she left, but I do wish her well. Um, I want to tell the administrators I support all of you and I appreciate all your hard work that you do. Um, as well as the teachers, you know, I I appreciate our whole staff. And that's about all I got right
077now. Um, thank you everyone for coming out. Um, I don't know if this is our shortest meeting on record. We all can wrap it up here. Um, so wait, let's talk. I know. I know. Well, um, so thank you for everyone putting in their hard work day in and day out for our students. Um, everyone, please have a safe uh, good Friday and happy Easter this weekend with your families. Um, this is a time where hopefully the next few weeks we'll start to see leaves and flowers and all the beautiful things uh, coming back on into your flower beds and around the city. So hopefully you feel a little more energized as we go into the the last couple months here of school into graduation season and all of our end of the year activities.
078So be safe and enjoy your your time with your family and um and in and this time to reflect about um what you want to do in the next few months as we get closer to warm weather. All right, this side. Dr. Kirby, do you want to Sure. I have a few things. Um one, I was uh fortunate enough to attend the city council meeting last week where uh they started to talk about the Julian ordinance and I think that's an important thing for us to kind of be aware of. That is the first um bit of Julian presentation here and there is a um first um reading of the ordinance that uh we hope will be put in place to help us facilitate that within our schools to make sure that's a safe environment.
079Yes, if I remember correctly, that was to mirror the current tobacco ordinance. It's it's to mirror the current tobacco ordinance. So, there will be fines put in place if you're doing that inside of the school environment in the community, but if you're under 18, but also in the school environment. So, um, look forward to reporting back to you the fi final, uh, results of that. I think that's an important thing inside our schools and it's mirroring what's happening in school communities all around us. I too want to thank Kayla. She's been an outstanding asset to the school and um, uh, I will be working collaboratively with them as they are looking for the next steps and I will report back to the school board um, that she's going to be hard to replace. She's a
080bright shining star. I also want to continue to report how exciting it is to receive the safety grant, but also the Amazon classes. So, thank you to our team to get the Amazon classes and we'll report to get those in place. Um, we're really proud to continue to receive outstanding grants here in Hazel Park to add and continue to grow in our school environment. So, we're really proud to report to that and congratulations to our PBIS teams as they'll be honored next week um at the the statewide PBIS conference uh for their wonderful uh attributes as they continue to do the work for PBIS throughout the state. Yay. That's good news. That is great news. We are also losing another one of our fabulous uh staff members as Samantha will be moving on from our
081food service and she's uh accepted a job in another school district and she got stolen away and she was out reporting about our breakfast program. Um another school district approached her and and um offered her a job and so we lost another wonderful outstanding staff member um and so we'll be interviewing for that replacement as well. So, it's hard to see our great, wonderful employees go. Um, but we wish her well as as well. And I'm very grateful that you approved the St. John Clinic. We've been working on that now for two and a half years to get that back after losing it. And so, we're really going to look forward to that in the next year. I was able to attend Angst uh last week. So, thank you very much to the Hazel Park
082Coalition and Youth Assistance. They gathered together um to um show the movie also provide a wonderful dinner. I was grateful to have a wonderful piece of pizza. I was starving after that. But really a great reflection if you haven't seen that to talk about the anxiety that exists within our our youth and our um even adulthood and really reflect on what we're doing sometimes to our students and those around us to really think about um how we need to look at life differently. And if you haven't seen some posts in the newspaper article about our students attending Hamilton last week, we uh were wonderful to write for a grant. Uh Dr. Pastel, I believe you were able to attend, right, Mr. Dailyaly? Um but our students were able to go to Hamilton and out of
083I think what 25 groups. Um ours were one of the 10 that were able to get up and pres uh present and perform. Um and a wonderful article that was out there and uh just Dr. Pastel, thank you for sharing that. We're continually proud of our Hazel Park students. There's just wonderful, wonderful things happening in Hazel Park and couldn't be more proud and thank you school board. Um, I will be thinking of you this week and uh great things uh happening in Hazel Park. Let me jump in right here. The the safety grant I got a call today. Could you talk a little bit about how the swipe card is um allowing safety? So the swipe card allows safety so you don't have the keys, right? So there's time periods and you're swiping uh versus
084um the key. So you don't have all those keys out there. And when people leave, sometimes they leave with their keys, you're now able to turn off that access. And so it's a much safer environment. Um uh you know, when you have keys and keys and doors um and people leave and they've got those keys or somebody lose those keys, now those keys are running around in a door. When you have a swipe access, you've now can lock out people when they leave. And so think about your safety. You've got for years and years you've got keys that are out there where people have walked away and they can get in at any point in time. Yes. Well, I favorite group big cleaning. One of the first things that people often do in those safety
085pieces, we already have the cameras and those other things, but those swipe cards are definitely a huge safety issue that school districts put into place. Thank you. And we've been talking about it right for four years uh since I came initially. So, we're grateful that that's one of the steps that we can put. There's more to come, but that was one of the first steps. So, we're grateful and not everyone I met with superintendents this morning at the legislative uh breakfast and not everybody was able to get that opportunity. So, we're really grateful that we dotted our eyes, crossed our tees, and signed on the dotted line and got that. Yes. Thank you, Jason. In prior administration, there's a lot of work done by one of the principles and getting their EOPS up to date.
086So, there's a lot of work involved. Yeah, I bet. All right, Miss Hammonds, I just want to say happy Easter to everyone and thank you for coming out. And we have a couple students here that came to this board meeting for credit in their class. Thank you. Well, lucky then. Good meeting to come to. All right, Mr. Hel. Um, no, thank you everyone for coming this evening. Um, good happy Easter to all. Um, and I do support all our administrators and our teachers, practically all the staff. I feel like they're all family. So, you know, even though Dr. Krooppy don't like me calling them family because they're her employees. So, I don't believe I've ever said that. So, other than that, everyone have a great week and uh we'll see you next month. That's all
087you have to say, Jeff? All right, Mrs. Hint. Um, thank you to everybody for coming out and, um, you know, there's wonderful things. It's continuous. You see it in the CG. If you don't have Facebook, you need to get, uh, get up to speed there and go on the Hazel Park site. Um, but yeah, it's continuous. Good things going on and moving forward. And it's the end of the year. Hard to believe that, too. It's the time just flies. So, have a good night. Yep. I I don't have anything to add other than I uh I forgot to to plug the marching band sign up when Melanie was up there. So, she was talking about the golf event, but this Thursday is marching band sign up. They're already starting to plan those fall activities because
088marching band starts and goes all summer. So, I think it's 7 o'clock at the high school and they've been starting to promote that and um so that's all I had was a plug for that. Um so, with that, can I get a motion to There it is. Mr. Bort. All right.