Hazel Park Schools Board of Education Meeting 9_17_2018

001[Music] well this we need to order today September 17th 2018 roll call please here no here here alright we have pastor Barry David at Landmark Church here to deliver our invocation and a pledge allegiance will fall will follow please rise let's pray loving father we pray for the state of North Carolina and the loss of lives and the huge property losses they're experiencing we ask your blessings upon the people who have lost loved ones comfort them and encourage those who have lost all they have to Hurricane Florence thank you for the start of this new school year for student enrolments for the new teachers and we thank you for all the planning that has prepared us for this coming year may this year be one of achievement and accomplishment we pray for safety in our

002schools protect our teachers and our students Hine hide them under your wings we pray for these proceedings tonight we ask for wisdom beyond knowledge and guidance in every decision and we will give you the praise for all that you do for us in Jesus name we pray amen and to the Republic for which it stands one nation all right we need to approve the agenda can I get a motion once again from the agenda Turin support discussion I make an addition to the agenda under special presentation the new youth assistance officer Jeff Paul will introduce himself all right anything else okay do we have support for the amendment support roll call what's it yeah I met my cousin oh my my motion to it mr. have those requests no yes yes yes yes yeah yes

003all right public comment is there anyone wishing to speak you can fill out a form in the back we have anyone oh sorry special order business I guess it's in a different order okay special order business he's a park Community Coalition update Jared so I just got a couple things for you guys just since May it was the last time I was here so in June we had a human trafficking event that I talked about in May it was very successful we had about 35 to 40 attendees I want to give a big shout out to Elizabeth Campbell she's from U of M Ann Arbor and the Michigan abolitionist project by helping to pitch a hand and just give some discussion and some resources some ways that we can be aware of human trafficking happening

004in Michigan in July we had a family fun Friday's event I saw Rosie there quite a few times it was a very wonderful event we partnered up with the religious sector of Hazel Park so city edge Church and Youth for Christ it was every Friday in July except for the first week because those 4th of July we got together we gave some free food some fun games some video gaming trailer it's really cool we had foosball basketball everything that you could pretty much think of all together I think we had about 350 to 400 people attend over the three days it was just a way to provide something for the students to participate in over the summer that was free and engaging and memorable and just something to get them out of the house in

005July also we went to cADCA which is our like national funder for coalitions we went to a conference there it was me myself dr. Postel and three youth from the hits Park High School they really loved it they were super engaged I got to speak with many students from around the country on it's abuse prevention and mental health and suicide and things like that so they're very eager to start to get back and share the knowledge that they have learned and what they're going to be doing with it this year so look forward to that you'll see many updates on that also this summer we were able to bring back our summer mini program with much help from Stephanie damage Thank You Stephanie we were able to work in partnership with the schools to bring

006this we had about 20 participants from the middle school age basically what it was was five weeks of youth empowering solutions so they were able to me every day for I think about four hours and they just pretty much engaged in team-building exercises talking about ways that they can better the community and things like that and then they did some projects I believe they were murals and then they started a library at the his Park advantage school which was pretty awesome so I want to give a huge thank you to everyone that helped out with that and then also in partnership with that our funders the Alliance the coalition's for healthy communities also funded a day in Royal Oak for the youth who participated in our summer programs so they got to do like a

007scavenger hunt arts and crafts they got to see I think was incredible incredible stew and they got to see a magician who spoke about mental health and suicide and stuff like that so it's really engaging it was like a look reward for them for saying like hey you gave us five weeks of your summer let us give you at least a day so it's really fun and so thank you again to everyone that helped out with that additionally a thank you to the schools and Lisa Crouch Johnson for bringing the hometown huddle back we were really excited to participate again this year we did giant Jenga which we were super excited about we had a lot of youth come up to our table and participate we gave him candy we gave out informational items on

008a variety of subjects in addition to that we were able to get ten or so students sign up to help start a Youth Action board that we're looking to bring taste of art schools basically what this youth action board would be it would be like a coalition but on a smaller scale so they would be implementing campaigns and different vents and stuff like that within the school district basically just to have that better youth engagement and everything like that so we're really excited to get that on the roll in addition to that we have national suicide awareness month this month in case you guys haven't heard or seen our Facebook pages we are wearing ribbons this entire month national suicide Awareness Day was this past Monday or last last week so last Monday last week

009was national suicide awareness week so the week the week before that we were able to pass out ribbons to the his Park High School students who came up to our table and just wanted to talk about suicide and mental health suicide is the second leading cause of death for ages 10 to 24 years of age and so we recognized as this is an issue that a lot of people don't really want to talk about it's very taboo a lot of families or look it's not something we want to talk about outside the family so we want to make sure that we are here to talk about it and say you know like we have support we have resources within the school district within the coalition that here to help who are here to break the

010stigma surrounding suicide and mental health you know this is an issue that we're seeing a lot happening in with our students within our community and we want to make sure that we're addressing it and that we're spearheading a conversation so thank you to everyone who participated who's wearing a ribbon if you have not received a ribbon we have about 200 left we passed out about five hundred to the schools in the community so thank you guys so much I believe amy has some if not I have some too so just come see us about that prescription drug take-back day is October 27 if you remember last time we were able to collect about 35 pounds or their prescription pills basically what this is is that any expired or unused pills that someone may have in

011the community they can bring them to the Hayes Park Police Department and their main lobby they have a drop-off box it's a 24-hour thing but we really advocate for the 27th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. that's when we'll be there collecting all the prescription drug take-back pills I guess so anyone that comes I'll be handing out Tutera bags which are basically bags that when you put your pills in there put in some water it deactivates n so if someone were to get into the pills they want to have any effect on the person who were were to ingest them so come see us that day October 27 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. his Park Police Department in addition to that we have Red Ribbon Week coming up it's the theme this year is my

012Fisher journey so travel drug-free in case if any of you don't know what Red Ribbon Week is basically it began in 1985 it touched the lives of millions of people around the world in response to the murder of DEA agent Enrique kami rhea angered parents and youth and communities across the nation began wearing red ribbons as a symbol of their commitment to raise awareness of the killing and destruction caused by drugs in America so we really encouraged youth and our schools and our community to participate in this because we want to make sure that we're bringing awareness to this you know we say like oh we're no longer talking about drugs and drugs don't really affect our community but you never know what's happening behind closed doors you never know what youth may be engaging

013in so we want to make sure that we're really bringing light to any of these situations to drugs to mental health to suicide so I'm in Red Ribbon Week is just one small example of that so currently what we were able to do we purchased pencils for the students to give out just what to give out within from promotional information and things like that we're looking to get a couple more things to pass out to everyone we will make sure every student has some type of promotional item to bring home and say mom or dad or whoever this is what ribon ribon week is it's all hardware to say and this is why we're engaging in it this is what we're looking to do with it so look forward to that I'll have more information

014on that coming up soon additionally there's so many updates dollar skate days is coming back if you remember that was something we were able to start last year we do it during the winter breaks and mid winter breaks for the students it's basically an again like our family fun Friday it's just a way to get students out of the house and engaging in something that's affordable and fun for the whole family so dollar skate days is basically you pay a dollar and you can skate for three hours over a three-day period it basically is extremely affordable because we understand the cultural competency of Hazel Park 30 27 percent of our population is currently at or below the poverty line poverty line so we want to make sure that we are providing an extent that is

015affordable for everyone that is available in that they can participate in with their students and their kids and whoever else so that will be coming up soon we're working with the his Park Ice Arena currently to set dates in stone but because the first in the 2nd of January fallin like a Tuesday when stay thirsty we're trying to refigure ideas to make sure that we are providing it during a time when students are on break but not when it's too cutting too close to home like for school to start and then again as usual if any way of anyone listening wants to participate or having a youth that want to participate please just send um my way my email is Jared Gaydos that's GA Jos at his for perk schools org we always are looking

016for people to help entier or join the coalition especially since we have our youth action board starting we are definitely looking for youth ages 14 to 18 to help start this going get it ready to go and just spearhead events and campaigns and just a wonderful progress for the his support community to participate in also I just wanted to give a shout out to Josie for helping us with our finances in our fiscal year she's been doing a fantastic job helping close out our fiscal year so I want to say thank you Josie I appreciate that and then thank you to everyone who's participated and helped us out we've officially hit our one-year mark back in March but it's been a crazy year but it's been a fun year so I definitely want to say

017thank you and we're looking forward to a second year so thank you yes the Coalition sponsor kids if they need help like playing doing dance or a sport I think that we can so the way that our funds work is that it's supposed to revolve around substance abuse mental health and suicide but with that aspect cultural competency false around that so we understand that if a student can't afford something that technically falls under cultural competency so it had to talk to our funders just just to make sure but I think we could I think we could think there's a way that we could refigure that I mean we have enough funds to help out community groups and whatever else so why not how about the students that want to participate in something so good question

018thank you of course any other questions clearly we shouldn't wait too long between your updates there's so much but thank you guys no thank you all right so then our special order that we added our youth assistants so our new youth assistants Jeff yes my name is Jeff brough it's spelled vro ugh it pronounced BR uff it's the easiest way for me to explain it to people so yes my name is Jeff broth I'm very excited to be in Hazel Park I'm very excited to hear when I learned about the position at Hazel Park was the district that started youth assistance since 1953 so it's been 65 years now the youth assistance has been here has been doing great things here with kids and families I'm hoping to keep that tradition going so I'm very

019excited to be here and work with you all I also wanted to say thank you for 65 years of support and sponsorship and I hope to continue that and hope to continue to be a good support for everyone here as well as the families and kids in this community we're gonna invite him on opposite months with Jared so I don't just don't think W may be made that email or call yet so so he'll have an opportunity to kind of talk every other month about the great things that are happening with these assistance you're absolutely okay I could do that all right thank you thank you all right so now the next item on the agenda is public comment is there anyone wishing to speak under public comment tonight okay if not we'll move forward

020with Senate end on can I get a motion motion to acquit they consent in Jenna Rokoff no yes yes yes yes yes moving on to unfinished business we have item a as viola we have a second reading of board policy revisions can I get a motion please remember we accept the setting of the board policy revisions as presented support any any discussion okay I just want to say I'm going to vote in favor however the one we met my feeling is that I've looked at other districts that director croupy the superintendent is not the compliance officer in almost every school and so we discussed that and now I'm going to prove this but I think in the future we should look at that again and possibly amend that so is it it's two names now

021is it it was always to mr. realms like laughs tuck the show we're going to place him with a dr. pasta okay and that dr. crew bees first okay all right it's an either/or all right any other discussion okay roll call no yes mrs. temple yes yes yes yes yes okay items B and C were tabled at the last August 27th meeting so we first need a motion to remove them from the table in order to have a vote the item B is the tax rate request can I get a motion on that please so make a motion away and remove that from the table nidal yes yes no yes yes all right and then we would need a motion on the actual to approve the 2018 tax rate request make a move I move

022that we approve the revised 2018 tax request suppose written and I heard support discussion everyone Clovis is on the I know we amended from last time mr. Melton you do from the 17.3 by planning bills reflect approval by the voters in August of the have the override and restoring 2.64 or one else which would be levied in December all right broke off mr. temple yes Hammond yes yes this is temple yes no yes flat yeah yes next item was on the invest on the second amendment do I have a motion on this to remove it from the table all right seeing I have no motion we're gonna move forward to new business so I understand me half the student representatives do we have someone here from the high school I would like to tell us

023what's going on hello my name is Robin kanjorski and the senior at the Hazel Park High School last week mr. Daley asked if I would be the student representative and I'm not exactly sure what all you're looking for so I'm gonna give you what I got so far I am the vice president of Bo D the president of NHS and a drum major on the marching band so I'm kind of involved in everything so as far as Bo Diaz going we started off the year a little rough we didn't have an advisor but this past week we do now have an advisor Miss Andrea Elena she has been working with us to start planning homecoming which is September 29th so far we have homecoming tickets are being sold this weekend next week $25 for the

024ticket and $15 for the class shirts and the dance theme for this year is Once Upon a homecoming and it is September into September 29th from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. applications were sent out and we're receiving applications from students we should have results for that within the week or next week yeah so that's about where Bo Diaz most of the plans for the dance are in place so that will be all set once that comes around as far as NHS applications were sent out the first week of school and they have been most of them have been returned they were like the due date for them to be returned was this past week so they'll be looked over at new members should be announced by the end of this week that's where NHS stands we

025have about 17 returning members from last year and we had 74 that were eligible that were given applications I'm not exactly sure how many we have back yet though and then the new college advisor miss burns has been meeting with students and she's been very involved they've seen her a lot around in the classrooms though she's spoken to my English class a few times and she's also spoken to my post-secondary class she gave a presentation on majors and minors last week so she's doing a great job at the high school really appreciate having her junior and senior class officers were announced today that was that was a good thing because what they were they were worried about senior banquets and everything being planned this year so we have class officers now and the class meetings

026were held the first week of school to introduce the new handbook and the new policies and they are being enforced mr. Daly is always on the IDs and dress code everything like that it's all being enforced very well the new AP classes that we have for new teachers for the AP classes are going well it was a little bit of a rough start at first but they've they've brought it back so we're doing good now and yeah the marching bands first competition is this Saturday September 22nd at Lake Orion and that's about where we are with everything Roman where's the dance gonna be held the homecoming dance it'll be in the cafeteria cafeteria commons area in the high school what does managers do do they yeah the NHS is a volunteer organization we we sell

027bagels in the high school in the mornings we also do all kinds of volunteer things at the Rec Center in the elementary schools basically if there's anything that needs student volunteers a lot of times miss crews will be contacted for NHS officers or members and then we go out and volunteer in the community so we help with whatever comes our way thank you any thanks for coming Robin you did a fantastic - that's the information that we want all right thank you all right and do we also have someone here from his apart hi I'm I'm autumn boss and I'm here to represent advantage we have a PBIS rollout which is it's kind of like a ticket system movie of activities planned that go along with it we get gift cards and things like that

028depending if you're chosen or not but you get it for cooperation and helping your like your peers and things like that all the teachers have initiated attendance incentives so if you're there all week you get like a bag of chips or something to drink our middle school history class is doing a CSI investigation to find out what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke which I heard they're doing pretty well we just finished a unit on in English 12a and we're working on creating our own podcasts on something without even life students in government class have researched the political positions and plans of candidates running running for governor this fall and along with that the botany students have started a week investigation to test the varying amounts of fertilizers on Wisconsin flat fast plants and

029we also have high school students where mentor the middle schoolers are there any questions sounds like you got a lot going on everybody my reading yes so thank you very much we appreciate it thank you all right we will move on to personnel recommendations we have that broken out fighting in to support for clarity and further conflicts that we need to work through so first one has asked me can I get a motion please move that we accept the administration's recommendation that they asked me and probably her if it's presented for any discussion roll call no yes yes yes and yes this is yes yes standard a familial conflict hpe a teacher union can I get a motion on that one please make a motion we accept the recommendation from the administration support any discussion

030here all right roll gone Apple yes yeah yes and yes this is hempel yes no yeah yes next item 3 is the paraprofessional hppa can I get watch them please I'm over the Board of Education accept the administration's recommendation for the hppa employee your best presented support any discussion I'm gonna help these ladies yeah alright roll call yes yes standard of familial complex no next a familial conflict yes I tumble for non-affiliated employees can I get a motion I'm on the board of education is something ministrations recommendation it phenomena the administration competition any discussion yes yes yes yes yes no yes yes yes item C alright so that's my personnel recommendations going onto item C hpe a letter of agreement can I get a motion please make a motion that we approve the administration's recommendation

031for that is the parka Education Association letter of agreement that's presented so for discussion well we brought they've been working for a long time trying to come to an agreement that we all feel comfortable with and we have a side letter here signed by both myself and mrs. slide to give a one-time compensation to our group and we are really hoping that people understand how much we really do appreciate our teachers I had a question the last time we talked about this we it was we had closed session and there was a dollar amount it has a dollar amount changed as to what this will cost yes less because more teachers will receive it no unless teachers will receive it less teachers are you seeing it tonight well it says and to be paid to

032certain teachers so so those individuals those individuals that are below step ten will receive a step in those individuals after step ten will receive six hundred not including the center programs already received a raise and not including those who were not with us last year so it is only for those people that have been with us for a clarification and this is for all and all teachers that are above that time for in the hpe a yes and anyone that's above ten years will get the $600 and if it makes any of you feel comfortable I did my research and the teachers do want this so it's a good thing good alright roll call no yes yes yes yes yes yes yes thank you I'm MD sidewalk repair slash replacement the junior high can I

033get a motion I make a motion that we burn the administration's recommendation and sidewalk repair at the junior supported discussion do we make arrangements and do we have a set thing that we also need to recommend uh contact the city see if we can work with them did they have a length of time all right I think just for clarification for the public of what we're talking about we have a sidewalk in front of the school and the entrance where the kids would be walking correct where the ground in the attract quite a distance drop that that subtle right I'm guessing and it is a hazard that you know we could possibly have someone get injured very badly if we don't fix it it's the driveway entrance off of Otis right so where everyone pulled

034in and pull their kids kind of the wiring inside one missing yes it's due to what's happening with the drainage system underneath the drive so before it gets too bad we'll get it done sorry about the traffic holdups but look at it send your kids on their bikes I we're joining a school okay and you did I'm sorry I said you were saying I appreciate knowing I'm glad mrs. hopefully you explained where it was yes front walk leg well the city of the same sidewalk program going in I didn't make it I wanted to get over there see if it was City sidewalk what the deal was but it's not so thank you and that's why I say we need to give the city to see if we can use this side because there's no

035parking staining or anything on this side of the street and they are very good at it because they gave me a ticket all right roll call yes yes yes yes no yeah yeah yes item e online learning license renewal can I get a motion for a Janu 'ti make a motion that we approved that a Genuity online learning license renewal support this is Thomas that in every movie a school advantage by commercial from this rule a lot of in-depth analysis of the usage reports and really have found that would really we're not using edgenuity and obviously where as much so we decided to pare it down to one that would meet all needs however that edgenuity is actually one that's in high use at invest Michigan cyber and access so there they are going to

036continue to use it in the amount of fourteen thousand seven hundred thirty dollars and you can see the breakdown of the licenses and those license ARS licenses are sufficient to the needs that they are going to use this year any other discussion there will be a reimbursable ingesting or we just online pay for no so so basically there so that will come out of their payments so one of their monthly payments that will come out of their payment did I say that right Josie what make sure it was accurate yeah so we are not paying that so obviously you get that money in and then in that monthly payment that they would normally get that money won't be taken out of it correct okay perfect thank you all right roll call no yeah yes yes

037yes yes yes yes next stop where was Odyssey where can I get a motion for that I make a motion that we approved that obviously we're online learning the license renewal that's presented support and similar to what we did with edgenuity investors also decided they were only they are only going to streamline down to two as well they really found that they were not using Odyssey where as much and so again looking at those users rates and trying to be fiscally responsible they decided appeared on that as well so honestly where will impact his high school Viking virtual and advantage and it will really take over some of the things that they were using in edgenuity so we think that you know really looking at these two pieces and looking at usage rates we have

038a really good combination of grad point which is used frequently and edgenuity and honestly we are used for electives what does odysseyware do for our district as far as internet service so Odyssey where is one of the online course platforms that we use and it's in high usage in Viking virtual it's one of the platforms so for example that's where students that are in Viking virtual or students who are dual enrolled at the high school can go take English classes math classes online math classes online science classes and that is utilized in a couple of ways at the high school in one way it's utilized to impact credit recovery that's mostly utilized during the summer and we also use that as an alternative pathway for students at the high school if processing through their classes

039and face to face mode isn't really the best learning opportunity for them we allow them to go into these online courses as well and that's done at the high school during the day for our Hazel Park High School students Viking virtual students of course are fully virtual so that is one of the courseware pieces of the thank you all right uh roll call no yes mr. handful yes Hinton yes Hammond yes this is Hempel yes yes yes thank you thank you item of the alternative education program waiver can I get a motion for that please make a motion that we approve the alternative education program waiver application as presented still coming around good evening this is pretty short last month or I should say last month the last meeting you were presented with the two

040other reduce or reduction and hours and days and so this is the same thing for excess I'm here asking for your approval for the hours and days waiver or excess any questions okay Clary can you just kind of briefly because I read it but the people at home or wherever watching them well this is the same one it's just that last month I didn't have this one wasn't attached it's talking about the reduction in days or hours for the excess okay and they're using that for tutoring yes stuff like that so they're still getting the same hours the same time in the classroom they're just getting an extra help right yes that what that does okay all right sorry all right roll call no yes Anton yes yes yes yes yes yes OMG summer school

041updates so I can go over this but I didn't know if you wanted to ask any questions because I see it listed here it's informational but in short it just over it's an overview of the two summer school programs that were offered when I was at the high school which was just mentioned where credit recovery was offered of the hundred and thirty eight students eighty-three completed their courses and the others are still in road and have an opportunity to complete between now and the current semester to therian they were offered again online credit recovery and one face to face chemistry class that had seven students and all seven students successfully completed the course and then in short at the elementary level it was the lit camp which as you know it started a couple of

042years ago and it has grown that there was a lot more interest so we expanded the program and this was the first year where there was an actual increase in the number of students they actually maintained this year there were 74 students that participated in elementary and 73 actually were there at the end of the summer school program which in the past that hadn't happened you know there was always a drop so the enrollment was consistent and there was an increase in the reading and writing which in the report it talks about 92 percent either maintained or surpassed their FMP scores and with math the same thing with the fruit based on the pre-assessment are there any other questions there's more details in the report but this is just the basic information any other questions

043no thank you for the information it's always something that without you telling us it's hard to know how it went I'm not around in those buildings to know so anybody have any other comments all right thank you item H is our enrollment update see dr. could be getting and she's launching on herself today there's no person in the back but they're back there okay so I'm presenting to you our current enrollment though it's changed since then so I think that's important to let you know what changes on a daily basis and we still have the ability to bring students in until the end of the month and they are coming in every single day in the process just to remind you is when we have students that are coming in for open enrollment they must

044apply discipline records attendance records and other information into the enrollment office and then they are brought to me to review and if I have any questions I may send those to mr. Nemec e or may send that to our director of student services to take a look at and then we collaborate and then the enrollment office will call the parents and let them know our decision whether they enroll or they don't enroll so there is a process that we look through and we have denied students correct we have denied students and it's um I think it's really difficult because parents come and they really want to be here and so there they may not be very pleased but there is an opportunity in the wintertime that if somebody had disciplined before and they cleaned it

045up they could attempt to enroll again if they were doing better and we always say that you know there's an opportunity next year there's an opportunity in the wintertime if you'd like to come and so we take a look at the last two years of their behavior incidents so right now today we are up 124 kids across the district from the end of last year but we are down 125 from last year's October count we projected a hundred students down given the enrollment bubble so we're about 25 students off of where we had projected the concern that we need we need to kind of keep our eyes open to and that is that includes all of our vendor schools it includes the alternative school it also includes medicine mats in the center programs and so

046when you start looking at that there's a difference that what's happening in our elementary buildings in a junior high in high school and so we lost a tremendous amount of students at the high school level right now we're down 132 from last year at winter count but 26 from the end of the year so last year from October count to the end of the year there was a significant drop in the number of students at the high school add to the junior high we are down 40 students from County and 12 from the end of the school year so when we look at that that's something that when we talk start talking next year about staffing and other things we need to make sure that we're really paying attention to our students as they're moving

047through because we have some of those higher class enrollments bubbling out any questions about enrollment so overall the numbers up but that's not the k-12 and k12 are down we're down overall from October count yeah over camera now and we're up from the end of the year but what really matters is where we are October 4th right well may have counted that that's what really you know we can do all these numbers back and forth and and I have to commend our enrollment office they've been doing a really good job checking every day updating these that we really see where we're going but what really counts us who's here on that October count day that's that's what really counts no that is not something that that is not something that we have been presenting here

048but we absolutely do have a breakdown going in a separate file that we show when they make decisions and the SAS office about what school they should go to there's a certain number of size that we have that we'd like our classes to be some of them are a little higher and then there's also a number that you can't go over per the contract well I know that that's why I was wondering because of some of the classes that are a little bit higher wondering how many teachers you have at different ones so like you have 67 and United Oaks in the second grade and I'm so we have enslaved three teachers in that grade what would you like to see this in a different format going forward sure that way we get an idea

049of where we're in for his first teachers and Oh what you're saying is like how many kids are in a classroom like no way we know for sure I mean that's surprising to see United Oaks and 76 fifth graders compared to our bigger two schools only have a little over 50 that's been traditional if we looked at remember in the spring when we went to that I gave you a sheet that shows where they've rolled that's traditional happening at United Oaks that is a high request area for people for open enrollment to United Oaks I think newer building and so they've always had a little since I've been here I can't say always since I've been here that is where we have the most splits into three classrooms instead of two so if you see

050a number above sixty most likely they probably have three classrooms instead of two I got a question now that you said open enrollment and then the classrooms do we advertise to the other schools excuse me and if they want to send their child let's say they were at web this year do we send it out that they can do school of choice at any school so that they have the option to pick where they want to go before open enrollment to outside his apart in and picks the schools that they want to go to so it is it soon it used to be that we waited too late August to make those approvals but pretty much in the spring when we start reading rolling there were a lot of people that filled out the form

051and we approved them as they came in know I'm talking in district that's kind of what I'm talking about so and we did reenroll meant in in the spring when we did that people started people started giving me sheets already to go to in between schools and it used to be the first year I cake it was it wasn't until August when we approved those now and really because of the issue you're just talking about is that you want everybody to have a chance and so as soon as open enrollment sorry registration starts in the spring then parents started putting it on about that or I do want everyone have a chance but if they're in district so you get a chance they shouldn't have first option like they you should put out we have

052openings at United Oaks do you want your kids from this school to go here before we fill on with school of choice I guess that's something we could talk about I think that'd be very difficult but I got some ways and offer yeah well I think we do offer but I think it'd be very difficult so we should probably talk about that about the pros and cons about waiting to allow the other individuals to come in but be aware of any know if we open it because most of the time if you go to web to stay at web unless you have a prom at 1:00 then you leave one but do we offer it that they don't have to be at web or United Oaks or wherever they can I think they have the

053opportunity to fill out the form and I think they are on the early side usually because they know they want to get that in I'm not aware of any problems but we could talk no there is not there wasn't a problem I think Evan had once again I haven't had a parent come to me in the day that they didn't get in where they wanted to we had a tremendous amount of people saying I'm in web I want to go to United Oaks or I mean United Oaks I want to go to Hoover and I in in between the three schools and as far as I know we've been able to honor that for everybody that's inside the district so there's a sheet we have here that kind of shows you that we follow that

054I pulled up for you wasn't part of the presentation tonight where it says at Hoover you have one you know young five classroom there's 20 and 20 enrolled there's no spots and so that's how we monitor ourselves to determine where we are where we would like to be in all of the building so that's something that we can include in the future for you because we we keep track of that too monitor ourselves alright if there's no more questions on enrollment we can move to the superintendent update tonight she's gonna cover the state of the district so oftentimes in the beginning of the school year you'll see different districts that'll do a state of the district address kind of talk a little bit about where you've been and where do you think you're going and

055so I'm going to offer that opportunity and if there's any questions along the way please stop me so I kind of tried to break it down one area that I believe that's been important to us for the left four years plus is our areas of Finance and when we started four years ago we were eight million dollars in debt at the end of the 2015-16 school year I mean you will I'm not going to get the number yet for the otic so I'm going to wait and see if something happens in the next several weeks but we do have a draft audit in and we're under 4.5 million for the end of last year and so it might be a little better than that but we'll wait until that number final number comes in just

056so that we don't have something that surprises us I think it's pretty solid what our number is and so that's pretty exciting that's a lot of work that everyone has done together and we really have to think our teachers custodians our secretary our maintenance our bus drivers our administrators really because that change of that number has really been on the back of staff which is really really difficult so I mean kudos to them for those that have been able to come to Hazel Park stand here as a park and really support the change to give the school district out of debt as you know we've had sinking fund approval we've done it twice now and we this allow us to get some heavy lifting work that needs to be done and we'll talk about that

057in a few minutes so that's pretty exciting this community again has supported it's it's teachers and the schools and stood very readily behind us to approve that sinking fund we also approved a 12-year lead up to try to recover our finances while we were able to in the last four years bring our south's down almost four million dollars I think the piece that's really important is that we know that especially with the incredible teacher shortage that's happening across the country that we have to make a change in what we're doing for our staff and so we're really hoping that this 12 year Egypt it has built in incremental races and so it'll also depend on what the state does for funding and what happens in this let next election right with the state and then

058also what happens with our student count and how we'll be able to move forward with that 12-year eat up and so we really hope that that we'll be able to recover today superintendence from all over Oakland County was sharing their starting salaries and ours was by far the lowest starting salary of 31-6 where other school districts are 37 to $40,000 for a Bachelor plus zero that is significantly hurts us especially when teachers have been frozen for many years and so we have to be fiscally responsible we also have to think about in a teacher shortage it's really going to continue to hurt us as other districts retire I think Troy retired over 30 students last year and in doing so we lost several wonderful wonderful teachers we're fortunate we've been able to hire great ones

059any questions about the finances one of the things you asked for years ago was to look at curriculum and we've been able to do a k-12 curriculum and this year even more so we are looking at our assessments so we had national norms state normed and now we're also looking starting to look at local based assessments based on the curriculum so that's pretty exciting it takes time though to make a determination and how that's working so that's really something that we have to continue to dig into the data and I'll talk about that in a few minutes as well we're really utilizing a lot of technology platforms for the curriculum and what's exciting this year is that the teachers were trained on how to do assessments inside illuminate so that should take away some of

060the heavy lifting work that our teachers are having to do in the area of assessment and we hope that that will continue to and lighten the load we've developed our k12 and we have Project Lead the Way now for steam that's really great and we continue to grow that I've seen some really exciting things that open house occur when the teachers are have their things out there for steam so that was one thing that we really worked hard to happen and the Inc P classes back to our school and so we've heard a lot of positive support I hope we'll be able to continue to grow those AP classes as more of our students really want to enrich themselves and challenge themselves here in Hazel Park buildings and grounds we're in the process right now

061of doing a safety and security audit in each of our buildings what will come of that is that our teachers will all be trained I don't know October 10th on safety procedures that will include a rendition of captive shooter as well for our teachers we also will have an administrative templates that will be put into place and then we will develop a safety committee where people the community teachers if a board member wants to join us will be able to sit down and hear the outcome of those reports and try to make suggestions about the direction we may want to go that'll also help us have more safety and security grants come from the state that we now are in compliance where we weren't before with the state guidelines for safety and security we've continued

062to do great work over the summer and we're really looking forward to this upcoming summer we'll be able to do more and so as you know we did carpets and vestibules and playgrounds that we're done this year there weren't as many things that we're done but we did take care of our heating and air that though it doesn't feel like it right now it is it is repaired in our buildings at United Oaks Inn at the junior high and then right now currently mr. Machin is developing a list with Greg about things to be completed and then the building and grounds committee will have an opportunity to talk about those and will ultimately bring those to the Board of Education about things to do next year so we're really on a great path to having

063a great plan for next summer questions two big state requirements that we've been working real hard on and that's the third grade reading law so last year we communicated to parents if their child was reading on or below grade level and the kind of interventions that that happens three times a year it'll continue this year and next year those children that are entering into the third grade if they're not reading on grade level could potentially be retained there's some ways around that but really the legislation says that the parent has to come and ask the superintendent and so we'll see what happens next year that might be one of the hot topics that'll happen after lame-duck in the new legislation because I know a lot of people are ultimately concerned given the fact that Michigan

064has such a low weight reading rate if you've seen some of the articles I've sent you about the amount of students that aren't prepared to read across the whole state of Michigan the other state requirement that we're doing is MTS s you have to have interventions for academics and behavior and if you look at the state superintendent who passed away in the current interim one the top ten and ten goal two is really about MTS s and interventions for academics and behavior they include the research behind PBIS and the fact that that should be done inside schools and I sent that to you this week in our letter as well and the interventions for academics we're putting in place all of these are required for ultimate different funding mechanisms it's part of 31a funding that

065we received that you have to be doing MTS s it's part of the instructional grant that I just wrote this evening and it's part of the assessment grant can we heard any other attraction about the movement to increase this pupil funding reading and you know the top we're number what 48 in the country as a state I think it's commendable to try to move us up to the top ten I think getting us into the top 20 would be great have we heard any traction about raising that in you know states in the top 20 that are paying 14 to $15,000 per pupil and we're at 7600 so right there there's a disconnect in what we're getting some just trying to figure out if there's been any movement on yeah so this year we're at

066will be at 8,000 for our pure pupil meant that and part of that increase that happened to us so there is a lot of movement there's something called the finance collaborative that's out there Oakland schools is one of the individuals that have been working on that and we really believe as a group that that will gain some some tread out there to kind of redo the funding formula as we know in Oakland County we're one of the lower per pupil and and that makes a lot of pain for us and the finance collaborative did research around the fact that and they've raised over a million and a half dollars to go around and to communicate this concern across the state and to get business people to get school districts to get families on board to

067really stand behind this they recently did a survey and sixty percent of the people in the state of Michigan believe there's a problem with how we fund schools and they really want to see a change so we hope it's right now to be able to do that they say that 9500 is the base cost that you should have for a student and then there's a percentage on top of that that goes with that for how many students at risk you have and how many ELL students how many special ed students so Hazel Park would really have a much higher per pupil if you think about the fact if we had ninety five hundred dollars in the last four years you'd be out of debt now so it really is a catastrophe what has happened to

068our schools and the funding that's taken place in the state requirements just a general comment I know that with this lame duck I don't see any new requirements coming at us but in the future are we going to be sitting at the table or districts and be sitting at the table we hope to talk about some things unfunded mandates that they continuously put on us like you said a lot of our funding is based on these state requirements and I know that's new for our teachers it's new for our staff and getting used to that too new for us to have to understand and navigate this difficult required world of a baby in compliance with delivering public education so I'm just kind of hoping that when these legislators think about this that we'll have a

069voice at the table going forward so here's a park I attend every month a legislative breakfast where we're able to bring some of these ideas to the table and of course you as school board members can go to the Oakland County School Board Association and bring some of those to the table as well I think that is really important that we're out speaking especially right now given the fact that it's ripe for change and we that would be in a world of difference to our teachers and our students here in Hazel Park funding has been the issue since 1994 before it's always been that equal and it got worse when it switched over to sales tax because when people didn't have money to go out and buy a refrigerator or sofa and there was a

070sales tax coming in the funding got worse previously so and it's it's so unequal it's really not fair because kids are kids everywhere and Hazel Park was always proud of the little money we did have that we did such a great job with it so it's kind of like youth assistance we used to work with $3,000 and do all sorts of things other groups couldn't manage the other thing how how do we pay for all the prizes I went to open houses and I hear prizes prizes prizes but ten minutes you get prizes like time party after school huh are we paying for that well the the principal's fundraise for that and so sometimes teachers donate things I know at the junior high right a lot of the teachers donate things there's a store and

071so that's all done with the activity funds but that's part of the behavior through MTS s that's encouraged by the state and we have had significant training under a grant for my Blissey but you and Hazel Park have done this for many many years PBIS has been in place for over ten years here in Hazel Park we were fortunate to receive a grant to re-up that and I'll talk a little bit in a few minutes about tier 2 and tier 3 and what's coming for this year and so it's been a long-standing piece but all of those things are done with donations there's no local funds that are done with that and it's something that really really motivates the kids is very research-based if you again if you go look at the top ten and

072ten up the website for the state it is something that they encourage as a matter of fact it's part of Mt SS and the site of behavior that we're required to do however though it might be something they came up with but I think it's very negative because kids should behave in school without being rewarded so you have the kid here that's getting rewarded but the kid that's always that good kid that everybody wants to have that gets nothing other than he's a good kid you know and this one's getting rewarded I just don't agree with it I think the rewards are going across the board I think the kids get recognized all kids get have the opportunity to earn whatever currency is going on in the schools I know that I know well PBIS

073is not just about rewarding it's about one of the things that happens is that you actually learn learned behaviors and so there's a rubric of what they do inside the classroom and what those expectations are there's a rubric about how you go to the washroom there's a rubric about how you behave in lunch there's a rubric about how you walk down the halls and then it depends on the school and how they've chosen at that school with their teams they have a team of teachers they have a principal that sits in and they have a PBIS team there and they decide how they want to do it different school districts may not give prizes some school districts just have you work towards going to an assembly and in if you've earned that right you go

074to that assembly and it's a very rewarding piece for everybody I think one of the things here in Hays apartment you have to have multi tiers of what you're doing some of it is that big assembly that you have that everybody gets to go to some of it is maybe lunch with a teacher some of it might be that you've gotten some gift certificates that somebody's donated some of it might be getting in a drawing for a bike at the end of the school year so each building has made a determination about how they celebrate that in a districts across the country use PBIS and different ones do it in different ways we're really fortunate that a group of our teachers are going to be able to go to the National PBIS conference free of

075charge so that they can hear some of that and we can hear some of your concerns and maybe that's something they bring back to the district white team we have always had PBIS and I think it was more in the quieter side because we had lunch with the Cybil and different things like you just mentioned and I think it I think because it wasn't talked about it was like it was kind of gone away although those things were happening and another thing they mandate something continuously sorts of things and they don't give you funding yes so how they operate so PBIS is funded by the state and one of the things I sent to you with the grants that were coming out and ours is totally funded by the state and we received $10,000 grant

076for all the training so all the training that occurs for our staff was totally free to the prizes prizes are not mandated those are made a decision that's made after each building level about how they'll do it so the prizes are not mandated but rewards and coming up with intrinsic and extrinsic rewards are the question okay so other things that we have done is obviously we did the evaluation committee to talk about growth this is one thing that is weighing heavy on administrators teachers I think everyone and you see it out there we're hoping that this doesn't go in lame-duck because we don't want other things to be attached for it but currently we have 40 percent growth coming in this year so there's a lot of conversation so we had a group with the

077teachers to make some final determinations and next week that group will finalize what growth is going to look like in Hazel Park and then will come and present that to you so you can kind of see how much actually goes into what our teachers end up having to do with growth as its weighted on evaluation student handbook was finished and then we've really worked hard to increase our communication with weekly memos newspaper the Hazel Park communicator I know our principals are doing a bang-up job getting weekly notes out to their teachers as well and so communication has been a big key for us our policy manual thank you guys I've finally completed and so we should see all of that with the administrative policy shortly up on the website so people can follow through with

078that and then we're really proud of the mental health support that we've developed with the extra social workers as well as the p2p actually people that are helping us with attendance our Robotics Club has been developed k12 dark breakfast and just come to us with all kinds of new equipment and then of course our teacher mentoring program so these are all kinds of things that were really proud of our administration and our teachers that they've done together so items a focus that is I think about the things we really need to focus on this year and that's again keeping in line with our budget and our financial plan so we really can maximize our dollars to the greatest and make sure that we can move towards I think for our teachers our custodians our secretary

079everyone looking at and hopefully some kind of different compensation so we can retain then also we need to talk about staff recruitment and retention this is a conversation that people are having want to cook Robinson I believe is just being interviewed because of the substitute in the teacher shortage that's happening and what is it that we need in our schools it's a concern for all of us as our teacher education programs are really dying on the vine so we really need to find a way for here in Hazel Park is how are we going to continue to recruit and retain when we we know we're not going to be at $40,000 a year next year and so how do we make sure we get keep get people really invested to stay and so the administration

080has are only been talking about this then really our student performance we've had a lot of test scores for a long time now and so now it's time to dig in even further and say what are those mean and desegregate by buildings but also to segregate by all different ways with students so that you can see that and we have a workshop coming up and we'll be able to talk a little bit about some of that some of the great tools that MDE has developed and provided to make that easier and that also goes with that data will also guide the curriculum improvement while you have curriculum in place every year we need to relook at that because you need to look at the data to tell us where is it working and where isn't

081it working and what might we want to change and do differently we also need to look at what is the impact of changes in our student handbook on behavior in attendance that was one area focus that was shared with us that really wanted us to focus on and so we really worked hard we meaning the committee not me worked hard on that behavior in attendance book and handbook in there and some changes on I've already had many parents and some students talk with me about how drastically that's already changed the teachers have been informed and the students where have been done so like you heard earlier a student talked about that they had grade level meetings and that was gone over with them with the administration and then also the handbook has been up on

082our website in the board packet for parents and then some parents have been communicated with notice not yet we are working at retooling our website which is one of the things that are over here and while we're doing that there's some discussions about how we put things up to not violate OCR when you have something in a PDF depending on what it looks like with those tables and our handbook has a lot of tables and so mrs. dolmage has been working with the person to determine how we put that up in the best way if you had a visual impairment and you looked at that handbook and a PDF that's online you wouldn't be able to see it because of some of the tables and so that has been given to students it's been sent

083out to students they haven't it is up on our website in the board books so any parent that listening that wants to see that handbook can have it and shortly we'll have some final adjustments made to our website so thank you for taking me to the other side of that I we also are working on that potential health clinic and different support they can do I'm gonna look into potential flu shots for our students through st. John but there's about 30 million that's sitting there waiting at the state for potentially so any day now that could come through and when it does we need to be right there writing that information then a variety of grants that we've been writing it I think I shared with you earlier about the instructional grant and the assessment

084grant that gives us extra dollars but we also need to focus this year on tier two tier three of PBIS and our NIJ grant all of these are things that work on focusing about behavior and attendance in our schools tier two and Tier three now means that now we're not looking at the big school-wide presentations we're looking at individual students that have some concerns as well as NIJ so there'll be a survey that'll go out our teachers will have that for our students and we'll be able to identify some of those students that we have concerns with so problem hopefully we can stop some of the things that are happening National Institute of Justice so it's a grant that we have received for the last several years it also helped us pay for our social

085workers and the purpose of the grant is to keep students out of the prison to pipeline the next book is the staff handbook that's something that we feel like really needs to take place to help communicate some of these policies and procedures now we have in place and then we also need to really work on technology our technology's dying and so we're really struggling with our teacher machines breaking Chromebooks breaking and so that's a really focus that we need to come up with a better plan and work with the school board on that situation and then finding community collaboration this has been something that we've worked on for the last four years is community collaboration and how can we bring all these different organizations together to work together to communicate together but also to work

086with our parents any questions I think you know that our phrase is all in all the time and we've added this year choose kindness and you'll see that throughout your schools if you were at any open houses that a lot of us are really looking to make sure that we put in for our students the ability to choose kindness and all of us as we know it's a sometimes a little rough out there so we want to keep it very positive questions for you I hope this goes here but the annual education report is not online yet and I didn't receive copies but I think that's important on the website it is mandated to be up on the website and so yes you can but you can't get hurt I will repeat it we talked

087about that nasty but I realize that the compliment is there for whatever reason is saved and last year so if you open it up and read it it was the most recent one but it's still safe probably because of the PDA but it was transferred late because weird and I did that will you look at mine after because I just checked it in it says years 2015 day great Carla thank you for doing that and doing that connection because I know that she did check it and shared them there up there other questions No thank you for providing it there's a lot going on and it's good information yeah we're really proud of the work that our teachers and our administrators are doing here in Hazel Park they've just done a fantastic job you know

088I got some website you just mentioned the website we have the person that's working on it any idea like when it's going to be running and who's injured misses damage has been working tirelessly with the person and so it we're all we're trying to do is align things and clean it up so there's not as many clicks the platform that we have chosen to use is not probably the best platform to do some of the up-to-date pieces but we are hoping that we'll have that updated soon but that takes a lot of extra work because it wasn't improved to a little bit later to go forward with that different because there was a website committee before that picked that design I don't know that now particulars it'll look like that only it's gonna look like

089that because it would be extra dollars right now in order to change that but one of the things that they have suggested is that we should have a teacher or excuse me a parent portal so that when you log in as well as a staff portal the current program that we have doesn't support a a parent portal to log in to see all of those things but we might be able to look at a staff portal and so it's all about improving that it's been four years since we started that and we really needed to have somebody with expertise to kind of clean that up for us and think through what's practice okay thank you great alright um that was the last item on our agenda always have board member and administrative comment so I'll

090start down here back I intended to meet teacher night and they are both very well attended I was happy to see a lot of parents I was really great and also for any boys or girls interested in joining the Cub Scouts we meet here at Ford every Wednesday at 6:30 and we need some more kids so it's a great organization and bring goodbye yeah I do I have a few questions I did receive finally in the mail our city school city guide yes hmm and I was kind of wondering the Hazel Park insert in it who paid for that to the school district so we paid for the communicator and we were totally separate from the city so those were two different pieces we approached Ferndale friends based upon many conversations about putting one out

091and it was cheaper for us to do it because it was the same time the city was already doing that and so we had absolutely nothing to do with the city one our communicator one remember I emailed the board and asked you for ideas of topics and then we could only do so many and so we're hoping to do that again in the spring with some more topics of things that are happening within programs within the school okay so who came out of our advertisement kind of yes it did the only problem that I personally saw honest only me a lot of it was based on kind of the superintendent like your story I didn't see anything in it really saying School Board I would really like to see something with the school board in

092it I didn't see any of our names really mentioned in it so it was more of an eye eye instead of we so I would like to maybe if we do it in the future maybe for focus on we like the great things we have done so I didn't interview for any of those articles all those articles were done by different staff members we did not have a piece of those the only one was the one article that I was in other than that that was all done by separate staff members with an outside person writing them which I mean it was I'm not saying it was the bad I'm just saying if you read it it was the great things the superintendent has done for the Hazel Park Schools and it is the and

093I'm guessing like when we talk about things we never want to say I it's weak and I think that we should be in it so that other than that fantastic it was a good you know our schools that represented us very well my other common is the meetings of the hall we have individual meetings and I want to be on all the meetings I was elected by the people of Hazel Park I want to know what's going on in our district so I can share with you every meeting what's going on I don't want to read it later in the month before board in minutes I want to tell you tomorrow if I can share what's going on this latest one is the group of three for me buildings and grounds met and gave direction

094they have an appraisal done on Campese wood for future plans for it one of the future plans is possibly selling it I would never give you the approval to get an appraisal if you had any intentions of ever selling that property that is part of our heritage it's our tradition for the kids I just I think that when you have these little meetings it should be meeting of the whole you already got your three votes when you come out of it we set policy we hire the superintendent nobody wanted to be on a policy but that's what we do I did policy I'm on finances there's no really voting on giving direction on any of it the other ones are and I have real problems personnel you know if you're going to bring to the

095board about hiring somebody you have that conversation you already have your three numbers coming out of there for that thing this is a board we should have conversation we should talk it shouldn't be three people going into a meeting and coming out that's the way Jim lysing or work we are back to the gym my senior days people and it's not a good thing so you have an issue with committee work that we do here that we I've always have and I've always voiced it we should be as a whole making decisions for this addition and support is a home we decided to a committee structure well well we've always had a discussion and it's always gone back so that's your opinion but just so you know however they're voting whenever they decide I am

096one individual that's being brought by three already approved members I guess you would say I just think the be getting the appraisal on Camp Hazelwood just disgusts me especially if the intentions are seeing how much it's worth to see if it's a profit to sell so let's talk about you know I think maybe one of the meetings that we could do is to talk about the committee structure because no one can make a decision till it comes back to the board as you get three votes coming out we talked about the committee of the whole I brought it up when mr. Scott Morrell was here and it was decided nobody they didn't want to have it that way and I thought it was best to have it that way so we all hear the same

097thing because my issue is people go in those lower committees but they don't call up and say hey personnel we talked about this tonight or there's a Campese with nobody comes out of those small meetings and shares what the rest of the board and so I I think it's a communication thing but I've said that about this board over and over not talking to each other all right so I yeah I think that we did agree to try the committees we've been doing them for a while I know I don't have any desire to be on every committee and many I do and so I'm so what I was gonna say is let's let's talk about this at our next workshop meaning as as a board and we can talk about the many of the

098whole maybe or maybe we can work for a way to improve communications if there's frustration there so I think that the workshop would be a good time for us to kind of freely discuss options and what I'm going to change the way we're doing it I think I want to be real clear that the committee did not give permission to do that with camp Hazelwood it was brought up as a yes those of you that were there can verify that and it was placed in the minutes on purpose and also mentioned in a weekly update in order to because we know that that is a something that many people within his Oh Park feel very very strongly about and so it was something that no one would do without having a larger conversation with the

099board it's also my understanding as well that it would be another way to kind of look at using that property in different ways from my understanding and we pay for an appraiser to what we would have plans for it not to get an appraisal of what it's worth there wasn't there was when it was purchased um no was reading to us that they had plans to you know put baseball fields in and there were all kinds of plans and and although there's been improved to the property over the last fifty five years um Chuck I mentioned that there was you know times where it had been brought to the board before they hey we could earn some money on this and not bleed it from the district instead and you know it's been shot down

100time and time again so giving an idea of but it wasn't enjoyed happen with the property to perhaps become more profitable for the district keeping it then just letting in the Barons lead so you would rather see this lets me just ask you those would you sell the camp and say let's pain to go to another camp I also think that this is another time and another place for discussion for there's my consent Rachel I am this just my comment see this is what this is what happens in our meetings I don't think I say something and get yes yes it's all hi Rachel this was my comment and I guess I'm done since it's kind of turned into an argument it was these minutes saved that it was requested of the administration to secure

101an appraisal so maybe this is written wrong because it says it was requested and I don't know who wrote the minutes because it doesn't say who wrote these minutes but that says it was directed to have an appraisal did it cost for an appraisal and why do three people get to decide to get an appraisal I'm with you soon that's okay so we're not the numbers technically if you want to look at the camp Hazen Wood has not led this district because really we haven't done major improvements in in 10 years I think the last thing we really did - it was improving with the tankless water tanks Chuck you're on the board when it was brought about the trees did it ever get past a superintendent did he act on it technically I never

102got impressed the person that was in charge of the camp is a wood which was mr. death so it wasn't a lack of board support board members there was a few that wanted to do it a few of them that didn't want to do it but at the same time the recommendation never came from the superintendent or mr. Knapp that was in charge of the camp days would what is that Therese there was an investor that wanted to cut down some of the trees to make some trails more trails because I guess there's some hardwood that's in that area that they can use but talking to one of our maintenance personalities it's some of the hardwoods that we were able to sell fell down in a windstorm so they're just laying there rotting away now

103so yeah it's like a hiddenness and at the same time no communications with the director that's out there we we don't know for sure so we need to get communications back with him to find out and do some more working see what he really needs because right now the word is that the main house everyone a analysis is starting the link so they needs a new room now Brandon we've had it for fifty five years and it sounds like that week hasn't been fixed since then who knows so we have to look at those things and it was more of a discussion finding a way to find some funds to improve it exactly that was according to the gentleman that was out there it was possible an investment of about $10,000 just some things trees

104all right so here's the point three of you know that that there's a bit oh and the rest of us don't know that so we read this and get upset when you all know that if this is the reason for kid mini up the hall so we can know well we can know a lot of the board members didn't know that the only board member that knew it was me because of being on previous fighting they could keep it and fighting to do different activities out there we have had deficit we went through this so many times at least three and we had committees in each school to compile lists of how to save money and and so on and Campese woods would come up all the time every single time and we were eyes

105told us government purchased with a grant and we would not make any money and we would have to give some of that back so I don't know how true that is but that was so draw back stop selling it you want to come up here and talk to them about that briefly I think it would be you know be wrong not answer that question when it's brought up to the table I don't want to mention that this information was not done with the last four years with this group the information you're talking about here is way before our time so there's never been anything brought to us about Campese wood until this information you have now right what started the conversation was that we got a call that the washer and the main house had

106broken down and were we going to replace it or not and that was brought to me by Craig and my response was well I guess I need to find the agreement that says what responsibilities the district Tezz and what responsibilities the caretaker has and there is no such agreement that I've been able to locate anyways so I that was one thing that drove it I've looked and said well of all I've heard lots of things that it was bought with you know that it was a grant that bought it that it was given to us so we dug through the property records and we actually found the actual documents from when it was purchased it was purchased in 1967 for a little over 41 thousand dollars it was paid half by a Department of Housing

107and Urban Development I believe grant and half from the general fund back in 2007 the district paid for a title search a deed search on that piece of property and according to that document that we have in the file there is no restricted use on that property and nothing that says that if it sold what has to happen to it or if it's not sold what has to happen to it so there's that I just brought that forward to the committee as you needed this is what I've been able to find and and where should we go from here so that's how it kind of started that's what I know to be the facts as well as they are from the documents that I've been able to find on the property it's about 75 a

108little more than 75 acres you know a mix of hardwoods and a little lake and a couple of streams and six or seven buildings and so you know there was talk to talk about what's coming up in the future I've been told by Greg our maintenance supervisor that the dormitories probably the next thing that's gonna be need to be done out there the roofs on the dormitories there's about $4,500 left in the fund that was and I don't know that I know where that money came from or how we but it is a trust fund that's for Campese would that money won't pay for the roofs on the on the dorms those dorms might not need a roof next week but and then as we're talking about a five year sinking fund if plan if

109we're going to continue to keep the property and keep it up and use it for the way it is then we're going to need to talk about putting some of that money into the from the sinking fund more than likely into that property and then the discussion comes up from there is what's the best use we have you know a limited amount of money we have way more need than we need then we have money and what is where do we come up with the priorities for what drives that so that's kind of how we got to where we're at it wasn't about yes we should sell it but it is a sizeable piece of property in probably a very desirable area in the county and it is probably worth a fair amount of money

110and I don't think from what I've been able to read that there are a lot that there's a restricted use all right so clearly can't pay so it's a hot topic I want to be clear that no one zero people on this board has expressed any interest in selling it that I don't think that was ever part of it I think it was how are we using it is there an agreement for repair and should be getting appraisal now you know I don't know what we do when we get the appraisal but we can talk about that so let's claim to talk about that at our next workshop some more and we use the same appraiser the recent appraisal [Music] thank you all right I'm sue do you have any other comments tonight Rachel I

111said welcome back and it was wonderful hearing from the students I'm sorry that we probably ain't give me a little close to them trying to get everything ready for tomorrow but it's great hearing from them to welcome back as we're vastly approaching all the hot the past holiday season with Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas and all the other activities that we like to cram into the next three months anything here just be safe and get out to everything that's going on I know the Community Engagement Team hats and really cool things that they're working on the tree lighting ceremony that maybe is tomorrow everyone's welcome to come that 5630 thank you sir disparity it's here thank you to all the administrators and everybody on their projects for you my grandson getting students safely in we

112know the first couple weeks of school can be really hard and difficult and I know we have some challenges with technology and things like that so thank you for working around those that's it just be safe and see you in a couple weeks all right down on the side okay welcome back also on October 5th is our creative arts dinner and silent option and I have a good evening I just want to thank you know it has been an extremely positive start of the school year with our teachers and with our principals we hear nothing but positive comments that are there and so I really appreciate that I think the culture is feeling great inside the buildings and so I just want to thank my administrative team for a lot of hard work again in

113working with their staff inside the buildings thank you oh we haven't quite a few things going on in the district welcome back everyone one in October we're having were the first responders is requesting that we sponsor a table some administrators community people sounds like a great event I think it's being held at the high school so that's one good thing I'm hearing that a retired teacher wanting to come back and solve and she was denied is that true I think this is more appropriate and a maybe at our next meeting but no one has been denied to sup but I am happy to discuss the specifics with you it's it's probably personal so I'm happy to do that okay that's about it great to see everyone smiling faces start the new year off homes let's

114get it rolling mm-hmm I went to a couple open houses high-school junior high well the Tunde it was very nice I think you were there anyway they were nice it was nice to see the parents and the students and the presentations and everything so that was good and youth assistance we have October 24th raising responsible kids with positive discipline I think is what it says now that's okay October 24th at Webster and for elementary children welcome back off to a good year though the other thing as board members are we supposed to get invitations to some of the things that the schools are doing so you you do every week in my weekly update on the top or all the activities that are inside the school's open your calendar you to include district calendar invites

115so to appear on your calendar Secretary so they're all on our weekly update mrs. Scott puts all the events for the school district on my weekly update to you guys on a weekly basis and then there you're all invited on your calendars as well to all the events that are happening inside the school it's okay all right so we all go ahead and wrap up tonight yeah welcome back to the school year I know we're trying to get settled in at my house but the kids have had good things to report and I of course was that some of the meet the teachers last week as well and excited for a new year so thank you emotion