001I like to go ahead and call to order at this time and can I get a roll call here yeah yeah here here yeah yeah all right pastor brick farrier David was not able to join us so I will be doing our invocation if you would stand for that then we will follow a bunch of Allegiance Heavenly Father we come to you today asking for your guidance wisdom and support as we begin this meeting help us to engage in meaningful discussion allow us to grow closer as a group and nurtured the bonds of our community fill us with your grace Lord God as we make decisions that might affect the students and staff yet they in the Hazel Park School District and continue to remind us all that although we do need to hear today
002all that we accomplish is for the service of humanity we ask these things in your name all right can I get a motion to approve our agenda motion to approve the agenda as written support any discussion roll call yes yes yes yes yes yes yes okay first item on the agenda is public comment I have a few sheets here anyone wishing to speak please fill out a slip at the back of the room but I'll go ahead and start with what we have please keep in mind to start with your name and your address and adhere to the time limit of three minutes and we'll start with Melissa Baldwin hello Melissa Baldwin one six three six East Madge Hazel Park if I go too fast or however just at me I tend to get nervous
003and talk fast so first I want to talk about the senior all night party update we just had a very productive meeting this past weekend we've had our painting with a twist fundraiser at the end of February which was really successful we raised over eleven hundred dollars so I want to thank the board dr. Cupid staff and a family and friends for coming out to support us it was a really fun time so we hope to make it annual and so look out for us next year we are now working with several organizations for volunteers and donations my favorite one is the HP Community Coalition with Jared is helping us with Madison Heights Ames Park Chamber of Commerce has offered donations the Recreation Department National Guard athletic boosters and a lot of individual offers for
004donations and help so that's awesome so far on the list for entertainment we have DJ a DJ inflatables jazz sumo bungee run bounce houses the pool we open and we are still looking for a lifeguard to help with our second shift so if anybody knows anybody that would really help us out a lot I think we have Bilski slated to help we are gonna have a hypnotist show we are also hoping to have prizes for every student to take home so we're gonna be looking for raffle donations and I think that's it Oh our next meeting is April 13th at 9:00 a.m. which is open to anyone friends family class of 2019 so far from I just want to thank just the community for supporting us to our senior advisor mr. Nabozny this high school
005staff the board dr. coupie and just the entire staff and from the district any questions about that I know I was at the meeting because I have a senior and I know I do I'm sorry thank you I did bring some donation letters I also brought the t-shirt form which is in the back if anybody wants to support by you can put mom dad grandma grandpa or just whatever you want on the shirt so those forms are back there if you want to take one of those and yep and then those forms these are a donation form that we are handing out to ask for cash or raffle donations so I'm something she's I can pass out up here a little bit if anybody's interested in the official donation form if you have a company
006or if you just want to donate thank you Laura the Recreation Department offered to just as a side note just today she said is ten soccer balls I said we'll take whatever we can get so we're having soccer balls to give away the next thing I wanted to talk about was designed a I don't know if anybody's talking about that tonight or not design day I also have stuff for that in the back too so I'll show you those design day was March 5th I believe that was okay so the city of Hazel Park received a very generous gift from suit our street art Meyer foundation for a new playground at Scott Park the foundation chose leathers and associates because they have a community input and community build aspect so as part of the community
007input plan members of the Recreation Advisory Board and the steering mitii myself included got the opportunity to go to Hazel Park Elementary Schools I went to Hoover and I just want to thank mrs. Dimas and the staff at Hoover for making that so easy it was so much fun and dr. groovy I had a blast that day there were other people who went to the other schools so our super art DPW supervisor and the designer went to Webb and Edie Klobuchar and serine went to United Oaks and it was really awesome to see that the actual input we got from the kids was exactly what he put into that playground so it was really cool and really exciting to see and the kids are so bright and are so excited about it it was just
008it was just really nice to see so I think that's a any questions I'll do my best to answer any questions about the playground I know there's some some questions about it so I think that projects are awesome so I know I wasn't able to attend the big reveal that I've seen someone posted online exciting mm-hmm any of them any questions yep thank you for asking that because I did bring the volunteers energy which is in the back they're gonna be looking for help with everything so it's it's supposed to be a community build which i think is just a really awesome way for the schools and the community to work together like I don't I can't think of anything better but what do I know so anyway yeah it'll be a lot of fun
009this is the schematic if you haven't seen it we have copies of this in the back too I stopped and got those from serine today so yeah the build is supposed to start doing 10 it's supposed to take five days yeah thank you thank you her name is Shirley was insky Shirley blue 69 16 Midland where I look I attended Hazel Park schools and now have been a teacher here since 1987 I have worked under many administrations experienced the heartaches of school closings pay cuts transfers budget cuts during these years I have also an indoor countless tears of joy due to the achievement of our students I would like to take a few minutes and say some things in a forum where I can be heard as social media can distort the message and has
010a limit on words I know there's a time limit three years ago we faced many changes change is uncomfortable via good or bad I personally did not embrace the changes it took me time to let go of the former way of doing things that which I call private practice shut your door and do what you can with whatever you can get your hands on to educate our children why change things that sure seem to be working right wrong our scores were plummeting our enrollment was dropping and worst off our students were not receiving the quality education that was due to them coincidentally educational statistics were going down throughout the state of Michigan according to Michigan rankings an American Legislative Exchange Council Michigan was ranked 33rd in 2005 42nd in 2006 49th in 2009 in back
011up to 46 and 2010 so you see the problems we face in each pair some of the same problems faced throughout the state I fought the new changes and I finally around I decided I was working too hard and not seen the success that I wanted for my students I tried the new lesson plan and balked at the time it took each time I did my lesson plans it went smoother and faster but most importantly I became a better teacher in student mastery increased I knew then that I had to embrace the blueprint and all of its components I was eager to learn more so I became more involved no more sitting on the sidelines and complaining another change that caused angst is our evaluation standards became more specific not just in our district but
012throughout the state of Michigan and rightly so we were failing our kids administrators were now coming unannounced into my room as often as three times a week yes they would sit and type away this was the data they needed for many reasons a couple being one to be able to reflect and see where I was hitting the mark or not according to a rubric - to follow up with conversation which would help us to work together to see how we could improve what supports what I like or need never ever have I been threat belt threatened by their visits I believe that these positive changes are due to the leadership of dr. Amy croupy she has had an open door for whomever would like to address her she believes her children should be taught by
013highly qualified teachers and rightly so she acknowledges that the statistics show the annual income in Hazel Park borders the nation's standards for poverty she utilizes all the resources to help this factor and I do have the statistics to show if anybody wants them this is not meant to be demeaning but demonstrates her care and understanding her involvement in her schools in City is far superior than any other superintendent we have had Amy is constantly reading researching and consulting with others to find the best ways to move HP for and to top it off she is available 24/7 amy's actions are that of dedication and commitment to our city shame on anyone who questions where her loyalty lies as far as employees who are unhappy I feel for them I don't believe anyone in church wants
014anybody to be unhappy I would encourage them to make an appointment to discuss what is bothering them it is not uncommon when people are expected to break the mold that they've been using that there is pushback I am fortunate to work among some of the most dedicated people who have supported each other through the changes I know we are tired but not due to our working conditions we are tired due to the demands of teaching the lack of funding the many hats we must wear teaching has change the needs of our children have changed in the skills they need to be successful in life have changed yes we need to change too we need to adopt methods which require us to be trained thankfully we are getting the training we need are we completely there
015yet no but we are on our way before I finish I'd be remiss if I did not comment on the climate surveys it is difficult to use these to compare to previous administrations as I do not recall any prior to the past few years but of course if there were any I suppose they'd be positive who wouldn't be happy we were receiving raises stipends conferences were paid for and so on all while the district was being financially run into the ground I mean every would also like to add that when we do a Climate Survey it should include all the employees of the district every single employee through Hazel Park should be included in the survey if it's to be valid each and every person's opinion should be valued and included in a non-biased independent
016survey I would like to finish with saying I stand here tonight and speak up because I feel there are many good things going on under the leadership of dr. croupy the public scorning of myself our administrators board members and community members is appalling I have nothing to gain by being here in fact I expecting backlash I could retire at any time I could work elsewhere I could sit on the beach and read endlessly but I choose to stay my private practice is no longer instead we collaborate we use best practices I stay because we have a good thing going here in HP every day there is a child who brings tears to my eyes tears of joys of what they've accomplished and that is definitely worth delaying my retirement I have you someone okay so
017I can sustain I have to run back and then come back Bethany Allen 3:05 West Milton Avenue I'm here wearing one of my mini hats this one would be the creative arts and I want to remind everyone that we still have two weeks left for the winter spring themed photography contest and there are a few fliers in the back and there should be an email blast going out again there are some really cool prizes and the judges are artists in the community and again there's some really cool prizes and we simplified the flyer a little bit because there was some confusion about pixel size and photo size if you have a smartphone we encourage you to participate and we said spring and winter because Michigan you know nobody knows what's going to happen tomorrow I
018also want to share with everyone that so far this month I've been involved with three of our schools and three different activities and Melissa thank you for taking lead on the senior all-nighter and a leadership role in the Scout Park and the development that's going on there one of the events was Gleaners and as always I wish to thank the outstanding students of the alternative high school program at this building we pass out food for over 100 families in the community and I've been told I don't know because it's usually bedlam when we're doing this but I've been told that were some of the most organized teams that they've seen which is amazing I appreciate the students they bring a just an amount of energy and joy that you you can't get anywhere else and
019it's wonderful to see them take on this leadership role and help serve the community also we had the junior high school we had the the Scout part the master land-use plan revealed there and I want to thank dr. croupy and the board for making this beautiful building available the city itself doesn't have any locations large enough to host a big event and not only did the custodians throw this together at the last minute make it possible men the Community Engagement Team baked thousands thousands of cookies the attendance wasn't as good as we would have liked so a bunch of the cookies went to the police station they were very grateful a bunch went to the rec center so they served a whole bunch of the community a whole bunch and I there was one other
020roasting tray that went somewhere I'm not sure it did not come home with me though my husband was very unhappy about that and also we had the dr. Seuss breakfast and craft vendors show at the high school and again I don't think that our custodial staff get a lot of thanks publicly and I want to take this moment to thank them for helping make all of the tables all of these tables over 100 the banquet type tables that they had to pull from all the different schools and get those there in assists setting up and the members of the Community Engagement Team Creative Arts PTA Council just so many different service and civic groups were there as well and again it got a chance to showcase one of our beautiful facilities and I you know
021I I remember my mom telling me that was the new high school and she's not new anymore but she's been beautifully maintained and that's a credit to the staff that really put in the effort thank you hi Bethany Holland 3:05 my hat right now is with Hazel Park Historical Commission and I'd like to ask our chair Charles glue do commissioner Lee McLaughlin and Jessie do you want to come up to Jessie is one of our newest commissioners so no notes on this one we have a very unique partnership with the city and the school district the historical museum was created in 2000 two years ago two years ago and this is the old Erickson library 45 East pearl and we have a brick and mortar museum as a Historical Commission typically the Commission's job is
022just to catalog items and to decide whether or not a building has historical significance it's it's not very exciting and the Historical Commission has kind of turned into we need to grow so I'd like to introduce the Hazel Park Historical Society which is the fundraising arm of the museum we we have taken the the grown-up steps to grow and we are here tonight to ask you to consider entering into a lease arrangement long term at the 45 East pearl Erickson building location so that we can continue to grow not just preserving hazel parks history but also to partner with the community and each of us individually or as a group we've all been ichatted so you all have our contact information we are available to meet with any of you as individually or as a
023group to answer any questions and would respectfully ask that you consider partnering with us to get into some kind of a permanent situation with the museum that's all well we can look into it at the next meeting that way we get all the information from dr. creepy and then we can consider that at the next port I said I'd like the ended chuckles comment yeah dr. cabbie if you want to get an agreement for us to look at and with some details that would be yeah we can very appreciate it go through it all and see what we got absolutely I'm grateful for the opportunity thank you all the next public come on have is is Anya right so good evening hello everybody my name is Anna Reed I live at 41 West Milton Avenue
024and I work for a company which is called EPLAN software and service and this company is actually in the field of software engineering doing a tool for the automotive industry for the electrical cabinets the big three are actually using our software and EPLAN is also a sponsor of the robotics team and I'm actually glad to see that this program is making such a great progress and I'm also here to mention that I'm happy that we were able to do a donation this year beginning of this year and furniture donations which was close to evaluated grows to be seven thousand dollars worth of furniture for the school yeah that was all I had so so we do have some thank you for donations on tonight's agenda and each plan was one of them for that donation
025of acetonitrile thank you very much we really appreciate it no one's being used I don't dr. creepy you know it doesn't very generous and we always appreciate the donations we have a list of thank-you notes tonight but that was one of them and we were very grateful to our robotics team but also to the furniture donation to within our school so thank you it's very gracious and we are very very indebted to you so thank you alright that is all the first the common sheets I had was there anybody else wishing to speak for public comment okay if none we will go ahead and move move on to our special order of business so first item is our advantage high school Krystal Gregory I'm gonna give a report hi everyone I'm crystal I'm in tenth
026grade I attend Hazel Park advances high school and I just wanted to tell y'all while we're showing y'all what we're doing in the alternative school board meeting we get serious about me hello my name is Krista Gregory and I'm here representing Hazel Park advantage alternative school I'm involved in the local mentor a meeting called prime and prosper incorporate as a mix I also mentor the elementary and the middle school is at the advantage my plans after graduation are to attend an HBCU and hecu is a historical black college in major and business and law and have high hopes of becoming an attorney so this is the kindness challenge we this is what we have been doing this whole week well last week and we have what we have been doing so the kind of challenge
027was really like about opening up parts of people that we really don't talk to on a daily basis cause when you were in school you talk to the same people you say hi to the same people and it's helped us express ourselves when I speak to people more so this is what we did for the first week we smile at 20 people we wrote a kind know and post it and leave it if for someone to find officer Kerrie something for someone hold the door open for a stranger at the store I always do this I'm always hard there of a stranger at the sport one lesson we have learned was the art of apology in the art of apology is that you everybody say oh I forgive you I forgive you it really doesn't
028mean it and y'all just start of apology like you have to start apologizing and meaning and not saying a lot of pologize in the end 20 minutes later be like I don't remember what you did to me like apologize and the kind of child is beneficial beneficial because everyone could treat people more kind in these days in school and at home and work anywhere ok2say mr. Ferguson came and talked to us about bullying suicide sexting and other issues that plague our students and when I mean by mr. Ferguson he was like a person that comes to all different types of schools he came to like several of my schools like every time I go to school he's there like ten weeks ago always like give us these little things we could put on the back
029of our phone so he can call people and people be like oh you really gonna put that on your phone your cell a snitch and stuff like that but you need to this will mean us students and scholars us teenagers need to do we need to tell people when something's in trouble because nowadays I'm not gonna tell if he got a good enough be quiet but we need so that we needs to do that we need say safe he provided contact information so students can probably share their concerns about trying people trying to harm themselves or others teachers the advantage teachers go above and beyond to help their students with schoolwork with online classes tests and resubmit it that needs to be submitted one prime example is mrs. Wilson mrs. Wilson helped me and a
030bunch of the scholars that I have asked about with emotional problems she didn't help me I think like over ten students with emotional problems in that when they need to talk she's there for you to talk to because even though we have a social worker some people still don't want to open up to a social worker because they probably don't trust me and mrs. nothing our social worker isn't trustable but people were just people wanna talk to different people it's just that's the way they feel and another trying example is mrs. Horne mrs. Warner help scholars bring their grace up when need help need it cause let me tell y'all I could not do Matt for nothing she can help me a lot a lot like a lot cap and gown all advantage seniors are
031getting excited as graduation approached they like yes crystal I'm graduating this year I'm ready I'm self epi and I'm all like wish I was graduating this year so I could be happy as your peers are purchasing their cap and gown and they're talking in their no cap and gown order so you know like I had a stuff ready flirt I think they graduated in April I think so yeah they're just putting their me down there are looking forward to college and excited about life after high school there is a lot of seniors that really haven't found myself yet they still have they met parents in the area and Union Union in it so now when they graduate other college they don't be able to express their self where they're gonna be able to do what
032they want even though probably not gonna be good so sounds goofy bit just different so they're gonna be able to do what they want to do and find their self more in college it's gonna help y'all I'm telling you you go fill this ID in the building as still as students are making their requirements and Dale eyes are reaching male summit women empowerment Howard's are women the male summit or this Friday all the male males woo-hoo-hoo was him advantage will be going to Wednesday for the male summit they will be sending Wayne stay and they're gonna be talking about personal branding resume building interviewing skills financial skills I mean finite financial legacy literacy study skills and kajol the collegiate success workshop and a female empowerment all females will stay at the school we will have
033a women's empowerment day this momento de will have females present from presenters from different walks of life as well as activities soon unites topics will include interviewing skills how to write a resume and girls Howard as we should watch really worked national reading what is highlighted by celebrating the beloved dr. Seuss and can I please when I great outfit cuz I really want to work because you know what to eat green is good and this whole month of March several stories have immersed himself and reading books we have celebrated our reading by creating a bulletin board as you can see in the picture was a whole bunch of students teachers also know gonna reading books and the picture with the baby is my little cousin Sharda it's been helping expand my vocabulary a little bit
034mom what goes on in class scholars are learning about health Spanish math English biology and zoology scholars are conversing about what we want to do after we graduate high school I know what I want to do college and scholars are also talking about life skills and social skills and what I mean about they're talking about life skills is they like what am I gonna do like what am I gonna do with my life after I graduate high school am I gonna go just stay with my mom or am I gonna go to college or am I gonna go to the NFL you know basketball all of that they don't know what they want to do yet is social skills every day we come to school every day I know I speak to everybody good morning
035you look so nice so I know I'm expanding my social and life skills better finally advantage teachers will do extra correctly embody tomorrow evening several staff members and their spouses will be attending Hazel Park Parmesan dinner at Chrysler and I know they don't have fun the evening I look and I'm saying they didn't even ask if I wanted to go but it's okay though the last light thank you angry hey Cooper why you looking you're Chilean are you thank you for that delightful presentation really that was incredible nice job crystal so we're gonna try a nominal job the humor well first and foremost I want to thank our amazing staff if they could please stand those of those who are able to join us this evening they are incredible so mr. gold and I have
036put together a presentation that I promise you at the end you'll get to see the most of the students we're gonna keep it rather brief but we would just want to go through some of the things that are going on at the junior high that we are very proud of so we'll start with just some information we are continuing with our positive behavioral interventions and supports program PBIS we're in our second year so we've implemented parts of two tier two working on tier three and if you've been able to see the junior high lately you'll notice that there are posters with expectations in respectful responsible and safe all around everywhere including the bathrooms the locker rooms the drinking fountains the hallways everywhere the expectations even on the computer carts even on computers it states the
037expectations what we're trying to instill in our students is that no matter where you are what you're doing we need you to do these three things respect be respectful be responsible and of course be safe now in doing so students are rewarded and I didn't wear my tickets today I changed my ID but some of our teachers have theirs we have tickets that are given and our students have lots of options mr. gold will show that slide in his portion of how they want to use their tickets they can save them for big prizes they can turn them in for weekly drawings we have monthly drawings quarterly drawings pizza party lunches we have lots and lots of things that they can earn by using those tickets so we have an AV schedule this is our
038second year and I know this might be a little confusing for some of you those of you have children in the building understand but it's a little confusing for some parents maybe that maybe have some fifth graders coming up so basically every student gets English and math every single day for a class period in addition every student gets a success class it's a half an hour of intervention or acceleration in ela and another half an hour in intervention or acceleration in math so it's like they're getting an hour and a half of each every day it's just that success time is really targeted to their strengths and weaknesses in addition to that we have what we call our alternating a B days on an a day which is any even calendar day so today being
039the 18th was an a day tomorrow would be a B day and students will have three of these classes so they'll either have pe Health Project Li the way science social studies and then two electives so it could be banned it could be quiet could be music media or art so in those alternate so if they had science today maybe tomorrow third hour they'll have social studies instead and our top band are ones that just got all ones at festival just a couple weeks ago congratulations to our amazing band those students all have both of their electives are that band so they they're there every single day and it shows in their performance lunchtime we have a couple short videos here they're very short I promise you but see these are some of the things
040that students do at lunch and we have a phenomenal in case I mean I wish back in the day we had these options for food the choices that they have and we are excited that we're having some new things added right after Spring Break I got to meet with Samantha today about that we're very excited but just some short videos are the kinds of things students do on their lunchtime [Music] so they were practicing for the choir concert that was coming up and then this is just a regular lunch it is middle school lunch and they're seated they're socializing which is what we want any mail at middle schooler to do at lunch we want them to socialize respectfully responsibly and safe with their peers that's their time to talk so if you ever visit
041us and it seems a little loud part of it is we have very high ceilings in there so it does echo but they're doing exactly what we want them to do talk to their friends so that they don't do it during class that is our hope it's not going forward bread there goes okay every student at risk should say every teacher has a Google classroom so Oliver we have a one-to-one we have computers in every classroom students use them daily and they have an email account so in there the teachers in their Google classroom will put in assignments video links updates about what's going on but last year we started this patriot-news Google classroom which is for the whole school so this updates students and I kind of arrow it in there so you can
042see when they go into their email it says Google classroom and Miss Robinson is actually one of is our teacher who helps update that in all of our newsletters that parents get students get they can also find in in this Patriot classroom last year we also introduced a Hall Pass electronic version so if a student needs to use the restroom go get a drink go to the bathroom where go to another classroom they have to sign in and out electronically the great thing about that is it helps us monitor how long a student is gone where they're going and it's for safety reasons as well but we have conversations with students about being responsible going where your say you're going coming back in so we're really happy with that data being collected through our technology
043so we have lots of ways that we recognize our students from our positive Patriots which is brand new this month our building network team wanted to recognize students that maybe are not going to get student of the month but are doing what they need to do every day so every teacher in the building picks one student and it could be that they were have grown in their academics in their behavior but they and then that picture is posted out of every single classroom one student boy girl doesn't matter and each month we change it so we're recognizing an additional 35 students every month and that we're very proud of and that came about from our teachers wanting to do that in addition we have our students of the month a boy and a girl from
044each grade level nominated by any staff member voted on by staff pictures are in the showcase and we have a connection with the Oakland County Sheriff they send a beautiful certificate and often will send free tickets to like Pistons games and a bumper sticker that says my student was student of the month so we're very happy with that in addition we have premier Patriots which was something years back we started this is students you might have thought of like honor roll kind of students A's and B's ones and twos exceptional behavior and working very hard we do once a card marking we just have a gathering they get a little treat some time to socialize hang out we have our super students who get sub special privileges for earning just even one card marking of
045all A's that can include a minuses and excelling and their citizenship ones and juice we have some special field trips for those students as well and at every grade level celebration which mr. gold will talk about in a moment we celebrate our students growth academically and behaviorally by recognizing these students and you'll see some in the slideshow at the end we have a little video that you'll get to see a lot of this in picture form as well and of course at the end of the year our goal is that every single student that walks across our stage and everyone will walk across our stage will have some kind of recognition because everybody needs to be recognized for something that's the most important thing so mr. gold is going to talk about our monthly grade
046level meetings thank you so our monthly grade level meetings those are by grade level six seventh and eighth and we'll talk to the students about some of the positive things that are going on in the building we'll also look at data as far as our behavior data and we'll also look at academic data and then like Michelle's just mentioned we also look at the positive Patriots so we recognize those students you know each month so we created a Genda our last agenda here for this month of March we had Motor City mitten mission rep that came out and spoke to the students about homelessness and what they do to help out the homeless folks across the Metro Detroit area they create these mats and like a pillow that they give to the homeless here in
047the Metro Detroit area then we also have the kindness talents video we discussed our kindness challenge video or kindness challenge activities that we did this month for the folks they don't like I just shared we went through our PBIS and behavior data we also have a survey link so with that PBIS and behavior data we look over the last two years to find out what the goals will be for the students for that month as far as office referrals so this pass well it's three months in a row now four months in a row the sixth grade has been coming in and meeting their goal of a minimum number of office referrals so they've been able to reap the benefits of free time or ice cream treat that we've been able to do for them
048folks because they've been so successful with their behavior and getting minimal office referrals but I believe last month in the month of February all three grade levels earned that goal of free time or the treat then we also talked again about the academic data where we talked about our Maps scores and the positive pay tree piece so we show sometimes we'll not sometimes all the time we try to put a video a heartfelt you know warm fuzzy video in for the kids sometimes this comic relief as well but this one here was a really special one I think it was about three minutes and it really touched on what kindness will do for you doing kind things and being kind of folks throughout the day that was the Motor City mitten some links that we
049put and we share this PowerPoint the grade level meetings with the students at the end of each at the end of the gray level meetings so here's our PBIS data for sixth grade for example we talked about Trading Post miss Kenyon has been a phenomenal resource in bringing the Trading Post how many years has it been in effect 17 years you can bring your money or you can bring your PBIS tickets and if you come into building you might earn a few tickets yourselves so you can see under the Trading Post we tally the numbers of tickets earned by month and by grade level so here September it was 366 that was the beginning of the school year then the weekly drawings we do where the teachers are staffed throughout the building all have their
050PBIS tickets and they're sharing them out with the students and you see four numbers under the weekly drawing they're in the month of September those are by the week so the first week of September there was 266 tickets that were earned second week were 466 third week 229 in the final week was 180 giving that month total for sixth grade 1500 tickets that were passed out and earned by our students with their behavior now if you look at yeah by was if you look at two 2016-2017 the total is there at 760 we almost doubled that in 2019 and if you look at the 2017-2018 Toto's we tripled it with the total they are 430 yep so seventh and eighth grade totals here with the PBIS data now this is one of our targeted goals
051that we've been trying to you know get our kids to slow down in the hallways while in the building so we had this short video here as a tip on you know how you can get to class if you do what you're supposed to do in under three minutes we have a three minute transition time and I think this young man here getting a drink of water getting a drink of water going to his locker little socializing I believe just a little and he got to his class in his seat in 2 minutes and 27 seconds so we know it can be done and he did not run now these are different ways that you can use those PBIS tickets for our weekly drawings you can earn mcdonald french fries you can get a fast
052pass to eat and lunch first you can get a pop or Gatorade you can get a free bagel coupon elevator pass and you can get that with a friend you can get an early out of class pass and my glasses are failing my eyes are failing me here and eat outside with friends when the weather breaks and it's pretty good for us then you can use a trading post you can use tickets or money you can purchase a variety of candy and food school supplies like pencils and paper and pen that some of our kids can use specialty items and then less with specific teachers that's been a great deal for our students and our staff enjoyed as well they'll spend their lunch time with our students having those meaningful conversations and connecting with them
053so that's always been a great deal then we'll have the monthly drawings for a pizza and pop party for the winner and two friends they'll get a large pepperoni pizza that they'll split and they don't share it with us you know but that's always a great deal so here's our PBIS data when you talk about our office referrals and we always look at a three-year chart here so in that green line that's 2016 2017 the blue line is 2017 2018 and the orange line is 2018 2019 our current school year so you will see as over the last three years the trend at the beginning of the school year it turns up as far as the office referrals so in September we're a little lower than you know in our average referrals per day in
054that particular month I think we're just under five in the month of September for the last three years then we shoot up and October I don't know what it is is Halloween Devil's Night something like that but are the sugar but it gets just above seven this year then it starts to go on that decline as we start to get to Christmas because everybody wants to be on that good list and get their get their gifts so it continues a decline there and we'll see what marches is low for us right now we still got a couple more weeks left and we hopefully we can keep that thing going down as opposed to going up as you see over the last two years now referrals by grade so we break it out by grade as
055well so in the month of February the goal for sixth grade for example looking at last year's data was twenty-seven office referrals that the kids got last year sixth grade this year our kids got seventeen so that's ten less than what we did a year ago you look at the seventh grade so the seventh graders that are current seventh graders their office referrals a year ago were twenty-seven to sixth graders and they matched that so they did not meet their goal and then the eighth graders as seventh graders a year ago had 12 office referrals and just missed it by to earning thirteen office referrals but we still give them a good hand good pat on the back end hey you can get that you can reach your goal next month and this is a
056slide that we just added here that we'll be sharing with the kids the goal is to have less than last year sixth graders so in that gray level meeting as we have them there where they're able to see on the screen they have 32 as their goal and I think those are some pretty easy goals to meet but this time of the year there's a lot going on so we're going to keep keep after them and then here's a link that we share with the students whoever earns the reward for that particular month they'll get an idea they'll be able to click this link here will it show okay I won't show up so they'll click that link and it gives them some options and they're also free to submit some ideas if they if
057they'd like to see to celebrate for their earning their reward of the least amount of officers referrals pick it up from here one of the things we do we did this last meetings we talked to our students about their winter map data and so we want them to understand what is this RIT mean we kind of briefly explain that to them they've heard this before but now it's relevant because they just got their reports back a few days prior so we go through when you look at have them look at their RIT we look at growth that we have made in the different areas and I know we're going through this but it's in the presentation so anyone can refer to it the positives and I know I stole this from Debbie Dimas when she
058said our glow and grow we talked about what are we doing well and what do we still need to grow we have the students and this has no name obviously but we have them look and say this is what you received this is what went home what does that mean and we zoom in we talk about the student RIT the district grade level RIT the norm RIT what does that mean and then their projection and then we look at a student who may be just who is a little bit above some that are a little bit below and then we talk about what is the purpose of our success what is the purpose of the teaching that we're doing and how they can improve because it's really about the growth so the other thing as
059teachers have shared this profile with some of their students which takes into account their different levels and how they've done we don't do science but this is just the one that's off the map website and then as mr. gold reference we actually have the students who are recognized as the positive Patriots we put them up on a slide we have them stand up everybody cheers in the whole auditorium so they can feel good about their successes so we are going to end with a video that's just a few minutes long that kind of sums up everything that we kind of talked about and of course it's more exciting because it's the students so here we go [Music] people rather than racism only self-centred forgive them anyway if you are kind people may kiss your selfish
060motives because anyone if you're honest I'm gonna cheat you you have assimilate if you find happiness people may be jealous you happy anyway they gonna do today really productive I'll do that anyway in the world the best you have and it may never end up in your mind anyway you see in the end it is because your life anyway quotes Pamela Theresa in a lonely community because and they'll I didn't I fail to mention that every day we start the day with the Pledge of Allegiance and students submit quotes of the day and that was a that was a student had submitted that quote and we thought it was relevant to end our presentation so thank you for your attention t-shirts didn't get here in time but we brought you bracelets for our kindness show
061they should be here all right coalition Jared you just hello everyone how's everyone doing hello long time no see um a couple updates before I give a presentation today I'm actually giving a presentation on youth vaping I know a lot of people have questions about vaping what is it what can we do to help prevent youth from vaping so I'm gonna give some updates on that but first I want to touch upon the decade stands the a-okay Club at the high school partnered with the East Park Community Coalition about a month ago to host a decade stance if you know anything about planning a dance between homecoming and prom it's very impossible so the fact that they were able to do it and get like 65 students to come out is absolutely amazing so kudos
062to them Brittany Mel C mr. Daly the whole the whole staff over there absolutely fantastic additionally looking into April we have our angst events coming up it's gonna be April 11th angst is a documentary about anxiety we're partnering up with youth assistants to bring up the school district this basically what it is is that we'll have a lot of different vendors their common ground counselors whatever it may be passing out information about wellness and mindfulness and how you can stop anxiety we know that a lot of our youth deal with anxiety on a day to day basis so the documentary covers that and so we're looking to make sure that we're addressing this and breaking the stigma around mental health a lot of people suffer from mental health issues so we're here to talk about
063it where no one else wants to so thank you to the school district for letting us host this we're looking very forward to it so hopefully everyone come out also we are working with the college advisor Maddie at the i school to bring a de-stress for success event and this is gonna be in April as well basically the premise of this is that we're gonna have a panel of college related or trade school related people talking about things that could help students transition from high school to a post-secondary education after this event it's gonna be about an hour we're gonna have just inflatables yoga probably puppies because everyone loves puppies food everyone loves definitely those food just the students can de-stress before they transition into their post-secondary education lives this is only for seniors which
064we're looking to do more for other grades but at this time we're very excited to be planning this hopefully everything goes really smoothly with us also for prom we're doing our prom promise again last year we did it we had about 50 students sign it basically what it means is that if you are attending prom if you go you promise that you won't drink but if you do drink Triple A offers a service for you or if you call your parent and say hey I'm drinking I do not want to drive I don't know what to do Triple A become tow the car for free back to your parents house this way we're commuting having a conversation done between the student and the parent and talking about alcohol and drinking and drinking and driving because
065you know a lot of parents can't have these conversations until it's too late so Triple A and his Park Community Coalition wants these conversations to happen before it's too late and started it's never too early to talk so we always talk about talk sooner additionally April 27th is national prescription drug take-back day and we're actually doing something different this year we'll be partnering with the his of the city of Hazel Park to have a take-back day on Earth Day which is May 4th at the DPW but anyways on April 27th from 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. you can bring any unused or expired medication to the his Park Police Department there's a drop off box there that drop drop drop off boxes a mouthful is 24 hours so if you want to comment 2:00 in the
066morning to drop something off nine in the morning whatever it may be please come in just put it in a ziploc bag there's no questions asked this is our way to help battle the opiate epidemic that's hitting the nation we know a lot of people suffer from opiates a lot of people of famous people have died from OPA overdoses and such so this is our small way that we can try to get back additionally we are looking to plan something in relation to 4/20 last year what we did we put out a stanchion in the hallway and every day leading up to 420 we posted facts about marijuana like facts versus fiction you know people think marijuana is all because it's natural it's all healthy for you wrong so what we're going to do this
067year we're doing a love your lungs event basically what we're going to do I have a table set up where we're going to be educating students about anything that you smoke and bring into your lungs can be detrimental for your health and they have long term effects so we're talking about loving your lungs we're gonna be passing out gum and everything like that gum isn't that healthy for you but I mean it's better than most things we're gonna have a photo booth everything like that so we're very excited to be doing this thank you against the high school for letting us work with this so with that if we don't have any questions I'll move on into the youth they being awesome okay let's start so let's talk Youth aping hello everyone i'm jared gay
068joes i am the director for our community coalition i was very fortunate to be able to attend a conference in DC last month at this conference its leaders like myself who represent groups that deal with substance abuse prevention and mental health I'm just talking openly about these issues we know that a lot of people have said have misconceptions about mental health and drug abuse and addiction and so we want to make sure that we're keeping up with a common knowledge and everything like that expanding what we might be able to bring to the community so we're very unfortunate so most of the seminars I was able to attend number around vaping as we all know vaping is a huge issue with our youth population you don't really see them smoking traditional cigarettes anymore you're seeing
069them smoke something that looks like a USB Drive and so when you see that you're like what are they doing these crazy kids they're dangerous we're gonna talk about it so collecting different ideas and everything like that from the CDC from the FDA from several different groups all over the nation I was able to put together this brief PowerPoint for everyone so hopefully it's very informative everyone and DC I was able to meet with debbie stabenow and Gary Peters our senators to talk about mental health and substance abuse prevention and what I wanted to acknowledge to them was that you know we can only do so much as a local group but we need to state draw an effort to be able to make a huge impact and so that was something I sort of
070got on a soapbox and I sort of put Gary Peters in this place but it was okay and so I'm very excited to be presenting so thank you to the board and dr. Cooper for letting me be here today so I'm very excited so let's get started okay so understanding youth fate being on the left you can see an electronic nicotine delivery system or and then you see traditional cigarettes so with this what we're seeing is that with an ins device one usually jewel pod or eliquid container whatever it may be equals about a pack of 20 cigarettes that's the same nicotine content a lot of people don't know this this is something that we want to make sure everyone knows there usually is always nicotine in these products so I'm going to start off
071with a vocab lesson so learning the lingua so vaping according to merriam-webster vaping is to find us the following to inhale vapor through the mouth from a usually battery-powered electronic device such as an electronic cigarette that heats up in vaporize a liquid or solid according to groups like myself and prevention specialist vaping is defined as the following the act of using an electronic nicotine delivery system or ends to inhale vaporized aerosol products called ejuice or Eagle e-liquid so if we look at the two definitions provided here one is from merriam-webster they're the best of the best but one is provided from the troops on the ground and so one thing that we want to bring the attention to between the two difference is vapor versus aerosol when we say vapor you know you automatically think
072of like water vapor you know that's something that a lot of people turn to you after traditional cigarettes for smoke they want to get off of it and so we're trying to like say no we don't want to associate that with vaping when you say aerosol you're like whoa okay CFCs ozone layer hairspray what's going on so it has that more heavy effect on it so we want to make sure that whenever we're talking about vaping we're talking about in a halation of aerosol products aerosol can also mean in this instant when you're heating up a vaping device you're heating up metals and so when a person is smoking anything that is an electronic nicotine delivery system they're ingesting and inhaling metals which can cause carcinogens so something to keep in mind electric cigarettes versus
073in products yeah we know a lot of people like to just say electronic cigarette as like a general term for us electronic cigarette it's basically like a water vapor type thing when we want to talk about vaping we want to talk about into products because that can like cover everything from jewels to hookah pens to electronic cigarettes to whatever it may be so this is something we we don't want to be general you know when we want to deal with an issue we want to be specific because that's how we fix the issue also so inst of Isis a virus set is known as an electronic nicotine delivery system and encompasses all forms of systems that allow the user to inhale and exhale an aerosol jewel very different a type of ends device made by
074the company jewel known for its USB Drive design jeweling in vaping often get used interchangeably but a jewel is just one of many products in the vaping realm when you're talking about vaping it's not the same thing as drilling sure the action is the same but Julian is just one of many factors in vaping joule is currently the leader in the vaping market because of its products sleek and modern design as well as its ability to be well hidden due to its small form so like I said it could be look like a computer charger a USB Drive a remote and you're looking over it like OS general that's just the radio remote no it's an ends device get ready so we want to make sure that we're talking about this so here is a
075couple images I want to provide for everyone so we look in the top of left these are what you use when you're smoking a jewel these are the products that contain the same level of nicotine as a pack of 20 cigarettes so they're very small they're like the size of my thumbnail which is crazy and then if we look to the right these are just examples of in devices and how they're broken down usually all of them have a battery a battery the other one a tip that you can put into it like the charging ports or whatever it may be in the bottom left you have several different forms of vaping devices but on the right you have the bottom right you have a jewel which is a lot of people you see these
076nowadays these are something a lot of our teens are using not just at school but at home in the parks with their friends and I'll cover more about that in a minute so why babe it's very popular to be vaping Leonardo DiCaprio actually did it at the Oscars and so a lot of could see this in mass media they see it on Instagram Twitter Facebook snapchat whatever other apps the cool kids are using and they see and they're like well I want to do that looks so cool and then you they don't think like oh this is something I'm inhaling it may have nicotine they see like Oh Selena Gomez she's vaped I want to vape how do we do this so again all the cool kids are doing it that's why they want to
077vape with vaping it doesn't burn like traditional cigarettes traditional cigarettes burn usually when you inhale them what beeping what Joule and big tobacco companies did they work together to create a thing called nicotine salts nicotine salts are a product that comes from changing the alkaline levels in tobacco when it's in its most raw form making it more from making it more acidic so we're moving past the burning sensation that comes with traditional cigarettes to something more smooth additionally as we know gin Z is not very social you know they like to be on their iPads on their computers on their cell phones blah blah blah but when you vape and jool it's a conversational starter so a lot of our teens are turning to joules to like start a conversation when they're going out to
078a party with a friend they see someone jeweling and oh I have that let's talk and then that's how you make a friend we shouldn't do that lack of knowledge to you like I said you know nicotine a lot of students don't really understand the under the full impact of what these devices can act have when you ask your team like do you smoke traditional cigarettes they'll say no because there's been decades and decades worth of advertisement let's say when you smoke it can cause mouth cancer can cause health problems you may not be able to run a mile like you're supposed to but when you say Julie there's not that much common knowledge about it so this is why we want to have these kind of presentations have these discussions to keep make sure
079that we're spreading this knowledge so revealing the truth vaping differs from traditional forms of smoking because of the useless ability to change the flavors other eliquid or ejuice on the same device big vaping companies such as Joule recognized the popularity of this and have appealed to the consumers by making dozens of flavors that everyone can enjoy substance abuse prevention groups the CDC NIDA NIDA is a National Institute on Drug Abuse and more have found the e flavors target youth users despite claims from big companies like Joule who said their products are solely for people over the age of 18 so let's talk about their flavor campaign this is a screenshot of Jule's website this is the flavors that you can see listed on here we have mint mango fruit cream cucumber these are flavors that
080our youth are really appealing to so when asked Jules asked like why do you have all these flavors like oh no these are just for adults most adults that I know who jewel our vapor or whatever it may be are using menthol or tobacco they're not going for the mango the mint the fruit the cucumber the cream that's not that's not them so this is where we say like a jewel we think there's more to this and so here we are to talk more about it so what a a flavor is important to know ela quid flavors allow the user to enjoy the vaping experience without much of a burning sensation as I've said flavors get the product more purpose as users users can continue to use their ends device without having to use just
081one flavor unlike traditional cigarettes flavors give users something to collect share and use as they anticipate the drop of more flavours from their favorite vaping companies but the cdc has found that 85% of e-cigarette users ages 12 to 17 use these flavors the FDA has found that from 2017 to 2018 there was a 78% increase in current East cigarette use amongst high school students as 78% that is a huge jump we don't really see that in opiates we don't see that in marijuana use alcohol use we see that in youth vaping use very very scary a 48% and each cigarette use amongst middle-school students this is ages 11 to 14 I believe so middle school students are now participating in dueling vaping whatever it may be so that's something that we definitely need to look
082more into 68% increase in the use of e-cigarette flavours from current egret high school students so very scary statistics but again we put them out there so everyone can be well aware of what's going on in the community with beeping this is not just something that we're like oh my students not doing it my son's not doing it how do you know have you had the conversation with them have you seen a device you could just be overlooking it when you're going in to clean up their room while they're at school so definitely something to consider so what is being done about flavors this article at the top talks about how everything you need to know about the Joule flavor band so a lot of substance abuse groups and the FDA came together because they
083recognized that youth were using flavors like creme brulee and strawberry and watermelon and mango whatever else it may be and so they worked with jewel to champion them to say if you're not appealing to those who are under the age of 18 take away the products limit them restrict them what's the harm that's gonna happen and so jewel participated they worked with the groups to restrict how much they put in retail stores as well on as on social media so creme brulee watermelon and strawberry I actually completely offer their website you can no longer purchase them they you might find them in some retail stores but that was their effort to try to work with students okay but they introduced cucumber and mango and fruit punch and stuff like that so it's like you really
084just change the wording you kept the same product we see what you're doing here we're about to call BS so why should you care everyone we asked everyone that why should I care everyone asked me that I don't have a kid why should I care well looking at all these wonderful news articles wide-ruling has become a nightmare for school administrators I'm not at school administrator but I feel for you if I get addicted to vaping buhbuh blah that's that article the students will are eager to talk to the students about vaping you should care about these kind of things because there's something that's happening in your community and it's becoming a growing epidemic because our students don't know that when you smoke for the most part an ins device it is nicotine and nicotine can
085have detrimental effects to your long-term health so the cost most eliquid and all Joule products contain nicotine every single product that jewel manufacturers has nicotine regardless if they say it does not it does the FDA and CDC have discovered this this is something that you want to keep in mind when your child comes to you and says oh I'm smoking a jewel you say that's nicotine and then you talk about it further nicotine as we know from decades worth of anti tobacco ads can be addictive and caused the following health products a weakened immune system damage to come to mouth respiratory problems shortness of breath nicotine addiction higher risk for an adolescent brain high blood pressure irregular heartbeat headaches dizziness agitation insomnia carcinogen related health issues I just felt like a more commercial reading that
086but it's something that needs to be discussed it's something that students need to understand when your smoke is not just a vapor that's coming out of your mouth you're inhaling metals carcinogens things that can damage your body and you need to understand like what these can do to you the cost again so youth use continues to grow as more big tobacco companies continue to invest in the vaping market obtaining an insta buy stimulated products is very simple and can be done over the internet a lot of places where you get an instant like a cartridge whatever it may be don't really card you online and then if you have an older brother if you have a friend that's 18 in the high school with you very simple to go get one of these products because
087vaping is so new there's not enough research done that can really state any long-term use consequences at this time leaving many administrators groups parents whatever it may be helpless this is sort of when I talk to Gary Peterson debbie stabenow about was that even though we don't have much research we need a vocal state-driven point of view on this so that parents at least understand like all this isn't just something that the crazy kid down the street is talking about this is something that our senators are talking about us students who become addicted don't really have the resources necessary to withdraw from addiction this is something a lot of people don't understand it's when your student begins to engage in drugs and use of things that can have these effects on them that can cause
088addiction there's not really anything below the age of 18 for treating addiction you know when you are trying to overcome smoking traditional cigarettes what do you do go to your doctor and they give you a patch or you they work with you cold turkey whatever it may be students don't really have that and so we are want to bring attention to this and so they don't always feel comfortable speaking with their parents about addiction I know that if I were in this generation and I was vaping I would not feel comfortable going to my mom I love her dearly I really do but it's just one of those things you know you don't want to admit to your parents I'm smoking doing something that you told me time and time again not to do and
089now I have an addiction so that's where our group comes in to work with the schools the city other groups to talk about addiction break down the barriers break the stigma and really just go full force on this so going forward until more action can be done by our state leaders and federal groups it's up to groups like his Park Community Coalition to educate and spread the knowledge have the conversation with your student about vaping and the harms that can do to developing brain and body break the stigma surrounding addiction to help create a space for an open and honest conversation educate yourself on the different ends devices really familiarize yourself with what do they look like it's just not something that's traditional is it something new and as always continue to educate yourself through
090the CDC and FDA's websites for more information on topics that weren't covered today such as vaping in relation to marijuana the deeming Act that applies to Jewell Tobacco Control Act admit that Michigan has to abide by the tobacco 21 movement and the Clean Air Act I believe that's all I have boom it is thank you [Applause] Thank You Jared hopefully everyone learned a little something there good moving on to our last special order of business to have a high school presentation doing some earthworks mission who is doing that okay okay so we're gonna move past that because the student beam recognizes it is built so we will all right we're gonna move on to the consent agenda can I get a motion please motion get probably consent agenda is written support yes yes yes yes
091and before before we move on past that I do want to just recognize some of those donations in there because we've had some really generous donations we talked about a plant earlier we had athletic equipment donated by mr. Parrish said Parrish sorry worth forty four thousand dollars that's a lot of athletic equipment so we're really thankful you know it's a MOOC into school I don't know with that group you can say I don't know what to get they really I and we benefited from someone's unfortunate misfortune and so a local individual donated a whole building full of athletic equipment to the school that he received under receivership and it went to our high school athletic facility so we're really really fortunate and it was over forty four thousand dollars worth of equipment to go into
092our workout room at the high school so we're really fortunate to receive that and really for that generous generous donation to the school all right and then the other thing Q that we have on there where for the creative arts that was making some donating funds towards a robotics program and they again I the creative arts is often the flow-through for us when five thousand dollars that was able to come through through the company so last month we think to the company and this month it only seemed fitting to think creative arts for continuing to be the flow through oftentimes to those donations that are able to come through to us and then of course neighborhood enrichments for those fabulous cookies that they did for us and i we always can count on neighborhood enrichment
093to pull off that for us right yes and they were good haha sounds like it alright so it looks like we don't have any unfinished business move into new business item a is anaesthetise in furniture purchase can I get a motion please the furniture purchases is written the recommendation furniture purchases from laws six I'd like support all right who's gonna talk to us about this furniture is any may have any questions as you have do you guys want my name is Carrie Seanie I'm the interior designer with champion texture and I was responsible for meeting with the user groups dr. Krauss with Edison Max and a few users there and hearing their needs their wants for the new furniture at Edison putting together a comprehensive furniture package issuing formal specifications for pricing based off of
094cooperative bid contracts I received pricing for all the furniture and happy to report that we are one hundred and four thousand dollars seven hundred 104 104 thousand seven hundred seventy $1.46 under budget and I just want to for those that are watching I just want to reiterate that this is for our Center program that this is not Hazel Park funds these dollars come from the 28 school districts that helped to build the center program and so this is funded to build our Center program to remodel this for us and it's really exciting this will benefit children from all over the Oakland County Schools that come to Hazel Park for the Edison program anybody any board mums have any comments or questions on it looks like mr. stone are you coming in and that we're still
095remaining under budget for the total project out of that dollars perfect thank you thank you I was just gonna say at the last buildings and I mean they've brought in the samples it's really great looking product the color scheme is awesome but I hope the staff was really excited about I'm really excited to see what the school looks like when it's done and this is just add nice dirt like this we're all kind of like all like kind of these jewel tones they're orange in here it's gorgeous too bright and poppy given the given the use of the building and the type of program it is we wanted to be careful and it's gonna look right you're gonna you think so many elementary teachers every step will be joking yeah yeah yeah I'm for sure
096alright it's beautiful it's modern it's gonna be great alright noble head with roll call mister yes slack yes Hinton yes Hammond's yes yes no yeah yes all right we're gonna move on to personal recommendations they have these broken up to accommodate some of our conflicts of interest Burt and the yeah so the first ones for asked me are custodian can I get a motion please make a motion we expect the recommendations on my ass finger support hey mini-cons roll call slack yeah mr. humble yes yes humans yes no yeah abstain due to a familial conflict alright moving on to the HP EA teachers union can I get a motion please make a motion made by HPE a personal recommendation if that's presented support discussion you're the only thing that I'll say is some of these
097you're seeing on here are staff members that have been gone for a year you're a member this time of the year is the time when staff members have to say whether they're going to come back for the following year so you're seeing some staff members that have been gone all year long that have decided not to return for the following school year so you're seeing some of those staff members that you haven't seen thank you one-step memory I noticed that on here that how long do we give them as far as a leave who's an undetermined amount you can give a leave and then this you Intendant can give an additional read well what I mean is how long will the how long can they stay on me as far as four years five years
098ten years there's not a time frame we did in the contract that says the superintendent can give an extended leave well I know that I'm just saying it's just your accent if there's a max number of years yeah back to know my news and because what happens is the person wants to finally come back after ten years and I got the person that we had in that position what you're gonna do with them that's why I'm just saying yes well at that point in time that's why they give them the time that they have to do it by this time period so then you would have to reduce staff okay all right yes mr. hump oh yes yes Hammond's yes mr. temple yes nope yes yes next one is our paraprofessional hppa I just want
099to note that we were not able to vote at this so I think there were some things an Asterix that were carried over because we didn't have forum last meeting for that so can I get a motion please I make a motion that we accept the recommendation it's got a hppa guru pass presented it's not good any discussion broke up slack yes yes mr. humble abstain humans yes this is him abstain doing a familial conflict nope abstain you familiar I'd like to heavens yes next item is unaffiliated voice can I get a motion please I make a motion we accept the recommendations for unaffiliated employees as presented for in the discussion here all right roll call sure yes mr. hump oh yes engine yes Hammond's yes yes no yeah Hammond I'm sorry engines yes all
100right it's good moving on to AMC our 2019 2020 budget amendment can I go ahead and get a motion on that and then we'll have them to approve the 2019 2020 budget amendment or exactly okay discussion go ahead and enlighten us on a budget good evening everyone this is the second budget amendment of the year so just to kind of give you a brief overview on the revenue what we've done is it straight up our revenues based on our state aid and grant allocations accounted for any new adjustments and carry forward dollars that we've had since budget November number two reviewed and submitted final Center program budgets and we've reflected that in the current budget in terms of its interaction with the general fund because we do have rent and indirect that come into the
101general fund from these Center programs and we also reviewed a miscellaneous invoice or miscellaneous invoices sources of projection projected as the remaining months through at the end of the year so the major changes in revenue since much and remember number two was a state aid reduction and again this is more or less we did lose some students in terms of what we could count in our virtual program so what we did is took what was a budget amendment number one reflected our current state aid status report and the end result is a reduction of state aid of five hundred and seven thousand again that was offset though by the fact that the first amendment had five hundred twenty thousand dollars less in the retirement funding coming from the state we also increased our Sutter fund
102transfers and what that is is again indirect rent and indirect costs when we readjusted our Center fund programs budgets back to Center on December 15th we were able to increase the allocation in two general fund by 75,000 based on the total expenditures in that in the center fund federal grants we were able to clean up her balance sheet and recognize again differences between amendment number one and amendment number two the most notable in the federal grants was some idea funding as well as title four in the last night of grants state grants and local grants that increased two hundred thousand dollars most notably we received from February to March we received seventy thousand dollars in additional thirty-one a funding so we'll have to find a way to spend that before the end of the year
103it's always great when they give us more money in in March again from the expense side of things we've looked at you know employee positions within the district and what we do is we take actual expenses to date and then project out the remaining costs on all our employees including the fringes and we also reviewed services and supplies we you know for the most part we looked at a three-year trend and then anything that was unusual or something that we've done differently between this year and last we've taken that into account so in terms of our expenses the significant changes and one of the things that when I was going through my presentation it was as salaries and fringes aren't on this list because we did have a lot of things that happen within salaries
104and fringes but overall there wasn't a huge increase or decrease that triggered us to put it on the list I mean we did have some vacancies and some reductions in staffing in terms of positional allocations and how we cost them and the other thing is is that we also added a new business office so by by looking at that it's just one it's just one aspect of many that you have offsets within that area of salaries and fringes and it really doesn't have any true impact on the budget overall the other areas just purchase services that was more or less a allocation of where some of the dollars were going we wouldn't went through some of the purchase service line items just didn't seem like they were going to materialize so we reduce them and
105we'll watch that as as the year finishes out because sometimes there's that surprise item that will come up that will say oh that's why that was there so hopefully we don't have that many of those in terms of supplies you know from our standpoint we went through looked at a lot of the items that are in there there's a lots of making up and and so we've reduced that by fifty thousand and then the other line item that primarily is the IGA where you know we increase in salaries related to say the business office but the big chunk and the other is is the IGA agreement with Oakland schools for the business office staff or actually I'm sorry that's down below the other is again oh yeah so yeah interests okay so the other story
106is three hundred twelve thousand dollars net and what that is is interest on state a notes when we went through budget amendment one two budget amendment to there was a hundred and fifty thousand dollars of increased interest that we had to account for miscellaneous expenditures and the IGA with Oakland schools offset that so that we really do have a savings with three hundred twelve thousand dollars in the other category so in total just for a very base first amendment we had a budget surplus of four hundred thirty nine thousand or sorry the original budget at 4.4 hundred thirty nine thousand the first amendment we went down to a expenses over revenues of twenty seven thousand based on our proposed changes we are looking at a second amendment to have a budget total of 1 million
107forty thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight which would potentially reduce the deficit down to 3.1 million dollars you know our next steps in the budget process is just we need to be diligent in our in our spending you know revenue is capped based on on Foundation and our grants we know we shouldn't be getting any more between now and the end of the year so you know where we are going to save money throughout the end of the year is it's just making sure we're diligent in trying to contain our cost and make sure we're spending money where it needs to be spent you know you know monitoring the grants to make sure we get those dollars spent down so we don't need to carry those forward and you know again continuing to develop the 1920
108budgets so we have an idea of where we're going to be next year and that's going to impact a lot of things program staffing and everything else that is Hazel Park schools and again this we just want to kind of show you some trends this is a state aid per pupil amount that we've been receiving the red line represents the foundation allowance back in 2010 you can see this is the first year we've actually surpassed that and the very last bar is the to 2020 budget that is the governor's current proposal with the increase so things are looking positive if we can get that budget through the house in the Senate enrollment trend again we're looking over the past 13 years you know we see the red being declines in enrollment you know with only
109three years of increases you know that coupled you know with the going back to the state aid foundation allowance and the decline in students you see that you know we've had that downward trend on revenues and expenses which have contributed to what our when our general fund deficit is where it peaked out in 2015 at just over 8 million and you know we're projecting right now to be just just over 3 hopefully that comes in better and then just a touch base with you know our other revenue funds one being food service right now we're looking at a budget surplus this year 124,000 which is very positive we did spend about $90,000 so far on equipment so you know truly if you were to look at this fund without equipment expenditures we would have been
110over the back of the surplus of last year with 200 so yeah that's looking very positive for our food service fund and us being able to you know maybe increase our product offering or repair our kitchens and and and make them more useful in terms of food service and quality our childcare fund this year we're looking at a surplus of fifteen thousand dollars which will leave us with a fund balance of approximately forty thousand and then our special education fund again revenues are equalling expenses in there with our required reserve of five hundred thousand dollars and that's the reason it's break ease and it's just by design you know final thoughts is you know districts just mean made the district must maintain continue to focus on the deficit elimination re gap is is in the
111range of four to five million for it five hundred thousand dollars a year again it affords us the ability to be a little bit more fluid and how we want to spend dollars it is extended through twenty thirty but we don't expect it to take us that long to get a deficit and there are many variables that can and will go into change requiring continued oversight as I said earlier with the state aid status report came out on Friday and I was making changes to the budget on Saturday and Sunday so again a budget is only as good as you know the point in time which it was developed and as as administration and the board you know as you go through the remaining board meetings you'll be making changes to the budget indirectly through
112hires and decisions you'll do so it's a it's a fluid document for the most part so any questions or I think that's it discussion and I think from the board I think it's good to see a positive number I think that this is pretty conservative I think it it's great they've got additional thirty one a dollar so it'll be interesting to see how we're going to reallocate that carry over to some help for our students I think overall I write the fluid document so we're just going to have to continue to be diligent I think Kimi is doing a great job with monitoring now now I'm super excited to see that we're gonna reduce the deficit potentially by a million dollars it's awesome it's more it's about double what we have to do according to
113be depth but it tells us we're on the right track and we'll be able to finish we hope to finish early we know that things can change and we've had you know a year ago we were looking at all the different pictures so you know we're really appreciative where we're at now and I so thank you for all your hard work and validating a lot of these numbers can you may have so many comments or questions okay I just want to say kudos to Matt Jason it is difficult to come into placement year and they've really dove in and just stepped right up that whole Department you know to come brand-new and really worked hard and dedicated so kudos for a job really well done we really appreciate how positively you've stepped into worked really
114hard you know picking up the pace just where the ISD left off so we really appreciate that so thank you know I have to give credit to Matt and my staff I mean it's it's it was it's been a pleasure and I said we've been very fortunate in the individuals we've been able to find within the business office were just you know full steam ahead great okay if there's no further discussion we go ahead and budgets the roll call yeah yes mr. temple yes yes yes yes yeah yes all right the next item Dioner imd is on our staffing for next year so dr. creepy it's going to talk to us on that do all we need a motion actually says action I we should we should we haven't we know motion on this okay
115can I get a motion please motion to approve the 2019 2020 staffing as presented support all right discussion that's a groupie thank you so last this is the same staffing that you looked at last month and it pretty much views a status quo across the school district for you and I did attempt to upload the spreadsheet for you and if any of you tried to look at it it was mumbo jumbo so I had to remove it for you I can send it to those of you that would like to see it but my memo is the same kind of memo that you received last year what it does for you is look at what do we currently have in the school district and what are we looking at for next year I want to
116remind you how we walk through the process from here to the end of the school year if you choose to approve staffing tonight the next step that we do is that we work within the school district to start looking at next year so for the last several weeks we've been reminding staff that if you have interest in looking at another building or you want to be transferred that you send them a memo up to central office and what we'll do is that from the positions that are approved we will start looking at any internal transfers that staff might want to have once we start looking at those internal transfers and start talking about those then we will post open positions so we want to start getting moving out ahead of the game to any open
117positions that we might potentially have just because of the great teacher shortage that is sitting out there within all of the state of Michigan and other states around us so we will start get moving if there's potentially some teachers that might not be asked back next year that potentially could come to you in the April time frame because there's sometimes some teachers that that might not be the fit for them or they might not be the fit for us as well so sometimes you'll see some of those resignations that might happen in April or those could potentially be submitted to the Board of Education in the April timeframe as well so those discussions will happen sometime in April or in at the main board meeting so what you see up here is that we make
118decisions based on each building based on starting to roll those positions up we leave at the kindergarten level to classrooms at each building because we know that the enrollment for kindergarten starts to happen throughout the spring and into the summer time and we will start opening up registration after Spring Break letters you'll start coming home and we'll start working on that registration and then what we do is we roll up the current kindergarten into first grade first grade into second grade and etc so that's how we make the determination up above about how many classrooms we have and so up above here is what you see so for example we look at web has 48 students in the first grade and so we make some determinations up above about how many classrooms we would have
119which that would be two so the same thing that we do in each grade level so if I look below at web in second grade we know that they had 64 first graders this year and so that would take us above the amount of children that we could have in two classrooms so now they need to have three second grade classrooms and then this falls out if you look here this this sheet goes all the way across the board and this includes art music PE steam title technology psych special ed Social Work speech all of the areas we know that in our recommendation here we aren't addressing the full needs of the students that we need to have in the area of MTS s as a matter of fact we just had the state in
120here looking at our 31a programs and while they were glowing about our elementary programs we know that one of the areas that we have significant need in is our areas of 3rd 4th and 5th grade in our elementary programs because we're not able to address the need because we don't have enough financial support in that area so we continue to hope that we will receive more title funds so that we can hire more mt SS teachers in that area so what I have in front of you today is I have a request for the same amount of teachers 77.7 and our Elementary's but I've also written in here that we know we're still not addressing and I say this every year that our wish would be that our title funds from the federal government would
121not go down and we are kind of keeping our fingers crossed that you know the federal funding is not cut but if the federal funding does come in that we will come back to you and ask for you to increase our mt SS teachers at the elementary level we probably could use one and a half more teachers at each Elementary School in order to meet the needs of the the amount of students that need title support any questions about Elementary at the junior high we're requesting the same amount of support but I would say once again that we need additional MTS s teachers the amount of students that need additional support at the junior high is great and so we again would it need at least two more MTS s teachers at the junior high
122to address the amount of students that need additional support from the teachers at the junior high and so again we would hope that we would get more title support and if we got more title support we would add more teachers when you get more title dollars they're differentiated by the number of students that you have and so those dollars would need to go to the junior high as well so we would hope that we would get more title dollars we have a point 5 coach that you've allocated to us point 5 at the junior high in point 5 at the elementary so we'd have additional 1 we've not been able to fill that because we've not found anyone to be able to go into those positions that would take it at the salary were able
123to offer so we're hoping still that we would be able to fill that position next year and that would be filled with those 31 eight dollars any questions about the junior high at the high school we have listed forty four point eight six positions and next year forty three point eight six we cut it by one English position that position really is just a half cut if we really wanted to look at that because that position is Kendall Smith's position Kendall as you know came over mid-year and we didn't fill his position halfway through the year it's our intention at this point in time to not fill that position now I do want to say that this is might be something that I come back to you later to look at because we have a
124couple things in the fire that we're looking at one of them is the Emma Amazon grant that we potentially make it we did submit a very long grant and we potentially will find out in the next couple weeks about getting three not one class but three class a basic computer programming class and two AP classes so if we get that we may come back to you and ask to increase so that we have some additional electives at the high school and there may be some other elective opportunities that we look for so we may come back to you and ask to add that back in but at this point in time I'm not asking for that until we see if we have that class and those opportunities we know one of the areas that our
125children have been talking about is the elective areas of concern and so that would be an area that if we get this class that would be training that would be given to us in the curriculum would be given to us from Amazon so we're really excited to share that with you any questions about the high school the center programs you see an increase from thirty seven point seven to forty six and as we spoke before that increases due to the increase in the Edison program those programs would only go up to forty six if the students come and so we're asking for that approval and we would grow that as the number of students increase over at the Edison program so that's that increases strictly as those children enroll then we would increase those classrooms
126at that point in time any questions about the center program that once we're back in our own building that we'll see growth they are anticipating that's why they built yes why they built those programs and at this point in time the Advantage program is currently nine and what is slated to be nine again next year and these are for all of our certified positions these are not paraprofessionals any question so I would respectfully approve of the 2019 2020 staffing of our certified staff at this point in time can I get a motion on the website those're to approve that's right and to manage the Hazel Park District's website okay all right mr. Wilkins is going to talk to us about this for a discussion we looked at a few different website companies we mainly focused
127with Fox Brite and are recommending them for approval because they do a couple things they offer a DA compliant which is big for today they will offer monthly reports that you know will tell us if they're spelling errors broken links different information our website that is wrong that we can make sure that we're in compliant with a DA this will also allow for user-friendly editing right now it is a little difficult with our current website provider to edit and create pages this one is basically like a drag-and-drop in a Word document so you want to add pictures you want to add a title it's that simple also this will allow for user permissions to where we would possibly be able to have students work on pages and submit any updates to the page and then
128that would go to whoever we set to be an approver before they actually get published and then last on this is training is provided up to six hours on-site training for five people 50 people hundred people however we deem that we want to be in that training and they're also a company from Grand Rapids last time we did did this process we had board members on the committee which you would know that but it says our opinion who was and who made her committee I guess Darren Fox and I and I mean the technology team and we also had discussed about this numerous times a cabinet with different web site companies they'll be five-year contract 5000 each year recall what this company is just the one that has a Hazel Park graduate on it they
129have ties to Hazel Park the one guy wasn't sure if he graduated from there or not there is there is a developer that is hoping to you know get our contract that has ties to the community I just found that out today examples are good we've been looking for some time due to you know their ad a compliance that's a really difficult task and and because just the design has been so difficult but to get on top of that it's been over a year that we've been working to kind of get on top of this conversation and really appreciate how collaborative the Technology Group has been and bringing these examples to us is a cabinet the Finance Committee talked this through earlier so we got some of our questions answered and so that sounds like
130it's a better product it should be more user friendly and you know I hope that this will represent Hazel Park better than our current one does so that you know definitely been challenging and I would really love to have a website that's current all the time look at us like to see us maybe get a bunch of people in for the training so that ok I roll with it and stuff yeah any other discussion parents in the ward alright roll call no yes yes hidden yes mr. Helme oh yes humans yes yes yes all right thank you next item on our agenda is a resolution regarding the governor's budget can I get a motion on this motion to approve that governor's budget resolution yes presented second second croupy did you want to so I put
131out for you guys the governor's information and I don't want to go through her whole presentation here but what I do want to do is is do some highlights if any of you have seen the governor's presentation so I've given you a resolution that the superintendent's are asking their school boards from the tri-county Alliance to approve because the conversation that we have is it's time for schools right to have a change financially and for Hazel Park this change if it's approved could potentially be 371 dollars per student which we know that one of the concerns that we have in Hazel Park as Jason showed to us was the fact that we had such a decline in our state aid and a decline in our student enrollment at one time and we didn't adjust quick enough
132for some of that change and it really hurt us and we also know that the students that we educate deserve and they deserve more and the finance collaborative has developed a formula that really looks at that and the governor has has stood up and said we need to make changes but in order to make changes there's some changes that have to go along with it and we know that she has quite a battle come to fight in order to get there and she needs strong school districts and strong individuals to stand behind her and so we're asking today for people to stand up and support that resolution but I don't know if you've had a chance to read I've sent it to our staff I've sent it you put it out there in social media
133in the finance collaborative I've sent it to you as a school board and I would love to have the people of Hazel Park to take some time to take a look at the finance collaborative and to see what our governor's doing because this is our chance for schools to have a significant difference in funding to stand up and pay our teachers what they deserve to be paid they deserve to be paid as professionals and and we need to do that we need to do that for our students here in Hazel Park and for our students here in Michigan we need to make a difference but she talks about why people came to Michigan but I think one of the pieces that is really important oh I do this every time is every time if you
134look at her budget there are some really important pieces for that in order to make this budget work right the gas tax has to come on and I think that's going to be really difficult for people so we know that the budget is going to come through somewhere in between but I think one of the things that you can hear or see is that we rank the bottom for our instructional infrastructure on our roads and our roads are a mess and so something needs to give because people aren't going to keep coming to Michigan our beautiful Michigan without something changing with our roads I don't know what the answer is I'm not a road politician I'm a school politician right that's my job but we also know that we are in the bottom for reading
135proficiency in the country and so we know that has to change too and we know as educators that third grade reading law is not the answer for that either because we know that retention doesn't work and we've been saying that since that was passed that retention is not the answer to solving that good teaching literacy coaches professional development for our teachers time to collaborate together is the way to change reading profession see inside the classroom and we hope there are some of that inside her bill as well there's those five professional development days that they took away years ago is inside her budget as well giving that back to our teachers that time to collaborate that time for professional development is then there so this governor gets it she gets what it needs to happen
136for our teachers there I did it again but what I do want you to take a moment to look at is what can happen here in her budget one of the things that is important for her inside the budget is that this budget puts things back in containers the way that it's supposed to be we know that everything is stealing from everything else right now in in our budget what is happening is that I'm hoping I'm gonna get down here is that currently we are taking money the public universities are taking money from a school Aid Fund and the general fund is going to the Transportation Fund but this budget takes it back where it needs to be the transportation fund goes to the roads the general funds goes to the public university and the
137school Aid Fund goes to the pre-k s14 school funds that's what this budget does so we are hoping that you will approve this resolution and that you will learn more about this budget and that you'll stand behind our governor and support her as a school board and then learn a little bit more about this so that we can get the dollars for our kids back into the school Aid Fund to go directly into the schools so that we can make sure that we are supporting our kids in Hazel Park and we are supporting our teachers and then we get us back on the right track of where we need to be in our public schools today thank you I support and she's willing to put into our schools and a bus and that's the only
138reason I will support this resolution okay I think from this I think it's really nice and refreshing to have a governor say you know recognizing at-risk kids literacy coaches those things that our district needs so many and so much of that it's refreshing to hear some actually say it from an outside perspective who has control of that and yeah I I don't I don't know what the right answer is to get that additional funding I'm just happy that it's on the table for once and it'll be interesting to watch it go through representative and that and the Senate as they kind of probably put the super Mel and everyone takes a piece of the pie out and see what kind of comes down so it's a it's a step in the right direction for education
139all right so since it's a resolution I believe to read it all I'm sorry go ahead no my feeling is is that it's premature because of the fact that it's starting the process but at the same time it's a support that we have to do so that way the Senate and the house gets the idea that we need the money so that's my only concern is we're doing it school it even comes up but at the sad part is is they don't come on till October or November or whatever they feel like it yeah so that's my opinion mm-hmm okay all right I'm go ahead and read this resolution school board resolution in support of governor Whitmer's budget proposal whereas a recent study by researchers at Michigan State University has shown that machine ranks last
140in the nation in providing funding for k-12 schools in recent years and whereas the work of the nonpartisan school finance research collaborative has provided Michigan with comprehensive recommendations of how to change our approach how we fund Michigan schools to fully prepare all students for jobs and success and whereas the SFRC in Michigan State University study have both pointed to the need for significant new funding for k-12 schools in addition to changing how those dollars are allocated to reflect the unique needs of each individual school district and where as governor Gretchen Whitmer has released a proposed 2019 2020 school aid budget that reflects the work and recommendations of the SFRC and whereas governor Gretchen Whitmer proposed 2019 2020 school a budget represents a historic investment in schools across Michigan and whereas governor Gretchen Whitmer proposed 2019
1412020 school aid budget would provide an additional 1.5 million dollars to Hazel Park schools and better support the programs our students rely on whereas governor veteran Whitmer's budget plan emphasizes the need for the state to properly fund early literacy programs special education programs career technical education and progress for at-risk students and therefore be resolved the his Park School District believes that governor Gretchen Whitmer is proposed 2019 2020 school a budget puts the needs of our students first and foremost and we encourage our elected legislators to support it as it moves through the legislative process ok that Rokoff yes yes yes all right we're going to move on to item G the Martin Road Park land survey mr. earnest I see you moving to the podium can I get a motion on this please pause informational
142sorry currently the Martin Rowan Park is shared venture with Ferndale city of Ferndale they've come to us because what they're looking at is getting they're looking to get a grant from the DNR to redevelop the park but at this point in time based on some legal representation we would like to complete a site survey at this time we are kind of in-between on ownership of some of the parcels so what the site survey would do is you know allow us to get a third party to come in and say you know based on the historical records and deeds you know these parcels are owned by either the city Ferndale or jointly and again it's just you know we just want to let you know that we're looking to spend probably no more than five thousand
143dollars to get the site survey just so that we're we're sure of of anything that we do going forward representing the the school district well it's it's this this the ownerships going back years in years and years with multiple agreements to the point where one parcel is actually there's a no there's a unique agreement out there that we owe each have a 50% shared interest in in some of some of the property and this is cool I mean again you know the document again that's why we've brought in some legal counsel so that we could you know looking at it looking at it from a legal standpoint what who does own what before we move forward with with something that you know we were not we're not entering into it agreeing with this ill-informed yeah
144I know mr. Patterson had been working on this here some time and had the same concerns about trying to find the exact documentation or ownership so I think it's a good idea to go ahead and get this settled before we enter into any kind of agreement for the part I see this is an informational item tonight and we vote on this tonight we would bring even need to do this later under okay great any other questions or concerns all right thank you alright next item is Hazel Park youth assistance sponsorship I'll make a motion to accept the youth assistance sponsorship Ezrin support any discussion on us the sponsorship does $1,500 I would support it also because with the new leadership on the Lili liaison for the schools and to hear the caseload and the people
145the students said he works with he has quite a bit and I think that youth the system is an asset to the city or I should say to the schools yeah I know she does a program in the past and so this is kind of an annual thing is anything else it's great for doing this all right yeah yes yes yes yeah yes all right I know I on our intergovernmental transportation agreement can I get a motion please I make a motion that we accept the intergovernmental transportation agreement as presented support you know this is just a continuation of the prior year's agreement we are paying for half of the director parts service the drivers are ours and we bear that cost so I think right now I think it's a good agreement again given
146the fact that we don't think we only have six runs and in some programming trips I mean it doesn't it doesn't warn us to have a full transportation director so I think it's a cost savings to the district to continue any questions or concerns there is no increase good okay thank you there looks like there might be a change of there's as 1890 there might be to say that you're 20 I just want to say publicly that there's been some questions about whether or not we are continuing with our bus drivers in the Hazel Park and I just want to publicly say that there's been no conversation that we are outsourcing our transportation stadiums it has been and yet there are employees there are employees and there's we intend to continue with them our is
147our employees I support that thank you all right roll call yes yes Hinton yes mr. ho yes Hammond yes no yeah yes item J is an enrollment update this is an informational item so dr. poopy know if you have any questions we're just continuing to keep that updated for you you can see the February 2018 count as compared to where we are at the end of the year June 2017 18 it's really just kind of giving you a historical look about where we've been do you have any questions okay item K summer intern program informational item motion on this make motion we approve the summer intern program again all right support thank you dr. koop you were you didn't speak to this I am okay so we are just requesting that we do our summer
148intern program like we have in the past and that we hire students for summer interns in the custodial maintenance apartment and in the technology department as well we sometimes we hire college students that have been from he's a park sometimes we hire high school students from Kaiser Park it depends on oh right and Brad will not to hire depending on their experience and what they have but they're always open and these are we do this out of our party today okay and that's job-related so it's great all right anybody have any other comments or questions on this no I think this works for us in these two departments who desperately need an extra hand bringing up so in this summer so I think it works out great yeah I love it alright roll call shocked
149yes no yes Kenton yes mr. humble yes Hammond's yes yes yes all right item owl superintendent updates dr. creepy just the PR job description huh just for discussion and I brought this to our personnel committee so one of the things that we talked about is developing and expanding communications and so I just wanted to start discussing this I've got this job description from the Oakland schools person that does the communications I'm not only do they do their website they do their PR they do their communications they do their Facebook they do their Twitter their Instagram and starting to look at we talked about the need to continue to market and to communicate more effectively so I wanted to bring this for your input and thought to the board as a whole as that was one
150of the goals that you guys developed not only for yourself but for me too to do that is not a specialty nor do I have a marketing degree and so I brought this to you as I said that I would start working on that for your review and thoughts I think we had a great discussion and the Personnel Committee regarding this topic I think considering that we are lacking with some of our communication out there we need it professional not somebody just us adding this as those other duties as assigned to someone's current job description actually having an allocated person that can showcase the wonderful things that we're doing in our district can get our name out there I've seen you know we just became fully staffed it where I work in communications and we've
151seen a big difference in people traveling to our website people interested in our services so I think that there's benefit to having somebody come in and offer this service for us with some of those key newsletters that people are asking for out the community I think there's a lot of things that go on in the district and we just need to figure out that bridge to get it into people's hands to maybe aren't a part of our school family or are or are a part of our school family to let it let them know that we are the resource to local news people moving into our community that's just my take on it so I I think this would be great anybody any other discussion on this position this was just informational right Frances yeah
152probably yeah it was for your leap here Park in them kind of professionals mean take some those dudes away and let er staff concentrate on the other things that we need to yeah but for your personnel committee we also need to consider an HR person too so I had the two HR is more important to me so I'm glad it's informational to ponder about but I still think there's a whole lot of thinking into positions we fill yep I would agree I mean it sounds great and I'd love to have someone doing it but I do think we have to consider that HR position that we have felt like we need at some point to and all that's a trade-off right so but this is good good to think about anybody else have any other
153comments all right dr. Kirby anything else on your update nope okay we will look to board member and administration comments well it was a long wait I enjoyed the presentation and for Krystal Gregory she rocked it girl you made my night she kept me awake and I laughed and I enjoyed her she would be our good PR person other than that and have a good evening drive home safe um I wanted to say that it was a pleasure reading at Webb Elementary on Friday the third grade classes were amazing mrs. Thomas picked a great book on the annuals dream so if you have not read that book to your third grader please read that book it has a great message of being kind and not judging an individual based on something going on in their
154life Manuel had a deformity in his legs and the kids and they had so many questions about what to do and they can't believe how intelligent they are and how they're they really just want to learn so it's been a couple of hours they're on Friday morning and it was it was awesome just being with them and thank you for acknowledging one another's comments and opinions and that collaboration in the classroom so it's really rewarding to see that as a board member so just kind of wanted to say thank you to web for inviting me and I am available to do other elementary school readings if I can fit it in between my audits that are going on promise of dinner tomorrow night I encourage everyone to do their own kindness challenge and I love
155the presentation tonight everyone did a fantastic job I enjoyed seeing the junior high working together and analyzing the data that's what we do in the professional business world so seeing our kids do that at such a young age I can imagine what they're going to be do when they enter the workforce five years from now it's just gonna be great for them and spring is Wednesday so bring out the bright color so that's all I have to say so good night everybody and and keep it going on the side comments Rosie thank you for coming tonight we have save me what's left of it mr. Heflin hey Matthew yep so one I want to thank Laura and Rachel right for reading and I've enjoyed reading that early fives today was a lot of fun in
156Hoover Elementary School and for the second grade at Webb elementary school really lovely Carla and mr. Daley and Theodora who is mr. Daley's lovely daughter I had an opportunity to go to Oakland University this weekend where a ton of our students were able to start the induction program where if they get a 1060 on their SAT and have a 3.0 that they will have a full paid scholarship to Oakland University so it was an honor to be able to speak with a three of my other superintendent peers from Pontiac Oak Park and Chandler Park thank you what a pleasure to be with seventy-five students inside the room it was powerful and just an amazing opportunity and kudos for that opportunity that I think Carla it was maybe three years ago that we worked hard to
157get our students into that and it's taken us three years so really an outstanding opportunity for our students I want to say thank you to the junior high and the staff Tammy you and Jeremy have done an outstanding job of pulling that together I'm really grateful that you were able to do that and get them here tonight and kudos to Kendall who's not here forgetting his student here so thank you we share that but I do want to take a moment to just reflect we did as a paraprofessional who passed away today and it wouldn't be right for us to not take a moment Claire Thompson has been a longtime paraprofessional in our district and did not show up to work today and it did pass away in her home and so I just want
158to take a moment as an organization that cares about their staff to take a moment just to think about her and let her let her know that we really care and we'll miss her she's been a long long time employee yes thank you for not covering that mr. handful thank you for everyone attending this lovely evening all the presentations were excellent enjoyed everyone oh we're looking forward to seeing our budget really well this year so don't worry I know so hopefully we keep moving forward and that's it have a great night goodness I thank you for coming out hanging in there and all the hard work day in and day out every day I appreciate it I have minutes from our conference that I told you I would write and be brief because we get
159so much terpene yeah I could dense these so I have those for you granny thank you all right um I I will say that over the weekend we had some great extracurricular activities and in addition to Oakland University we had sports stuff going on so our our girls varsity soccer team had a tournament which they won on Saturday I'm so exciting and they played four games and it was snowing pretty hard on Saturday morning a new recollects though they played through it I was really proud of them and they were excited to win that and then I went to the state soul ensemble was last weekend we had our high school students so if they score Division one rating at the district so ensemble then they go compete again at the state level and I
160got the opportunity to see three of the groups perform and they all did great and I was really proud so um representing is a park and really something to be proud of to come out of there were some ones and then yeah reading I'm enjoying out and read at web and I have a couple lined up as well so I'm excited about reading month and glad to get some invites for that with that I think we're ready to adjourn all right thanks everyone