001Good evening everyone. Good e Oh, thank you. Good evening. Welcome to uh tonight's board meeting for the board of education for the Lancing School District. If I could have everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance, please. Thank you. I >> aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. If I could ask that Trusty Williams please read our land acknowledgement this evening. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Thank you. Our land acknowledgement. We collectively acknowledge that the Lansancy School District occupies the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the Ashabi, the three fire confederacies of Owa, Odawa, and Podawami people. >> Thank you, Trusty Williams. Thank you, >> Dr. The mission of the Lancing
002School District is to provide a highquality education in a culturally safe and nurturing environment that supports all students to live purposeful and fulfilling lives. >> Thank you. How could I have forgotten that? Um, could the clerk please call the role? >> Dr. Kavanaaugh, >> present. >> Mr. Heard >> present. >> Mr. Lopez >> present. >> Mrs. Moore >> present. >> Dr. Navar Martinez >> present. >> Mr. Noveske >> present. >> Dr. Rodriguez. >> Mrs. Strode >> present. >> Miss Williams. >> Quarum is present. >> Thank you. Are there any public comments on agenda items at this time? >> All righty. Moving on to our approval of minutes. Are there any corrections that need to be made on our last um board meetings, board meeting minutes from the 18th? Seeing none, moving on to our presentations
003this evening. It looks like we have new leadership staff. Welcome to Lancing School District. Um, Miss Benvitz and Mr. Kek. Please join us. Good evening everybody. >> Nope. >> Woo. >> Okay. >> Good evening everyone. Um tonight we're here to um a special event that we do every year is to honor and welcome our new administrators to the board of education and to our community. So between uh Miss Jessica and I, we will ask all the administrators after Jessica is done talking to come up here and you have a chance to introduce yourself. Thank you. >> We're very excited this evening to introduce you to our new leadership. you will see some familiar faces but that are in new roles and so we've invited them to be here uh this evening and then also new
004faces to the district. So before you tonight you have directors, assistant principles and principles um coming up. So what I'm going to have you all do is if you'll come up to the podium and we'll kind of make a line and then if you'll please introduce yourself with your name and your position to the board. >> Shake hands with >> Yeah. I love it. Okay, so if we can have you, let's have you come here and then we'll go this way because then I think we can shake hands with you all at the end. That would be amazing. >> Put your name and who you are and you go and shake hands. >> Okay. >> Hello. Pleasure to meet everyone. My name is Michelle D. Foreman and I am a Southern California girl born and
005raised. I'm always going to claim California A USC Trojans. Woo! Woo! 49ers. I know I'm in Detroit land, I know, but okay. So, I am the oldest of five children. My parents really uh stress education. All five of my mom and dad's children, we all have college degrees. And I was a principal for 14 years in the Houston area where I took an F school and we made it into an A-rated school. So, very known for transforming schools. I love to do that because every child has should have the opportunity to learn. My parents instilled that in me and I believe in that from my very core. The last several years I've been on a director level and I was called back to the school level. My aunt lives here. My mom and dad are
006originally from Mskegegan, Michigan. And my aunt's like, "You need to apply. We need you here." And so I'm so happy that I I did do that and I've been here now since August 3rd. So I relocated from Houston, Texas. and I am the principal of North Environmental Science Magnet School and we are marching to the MSTEP and we will make it an A-rated top what top one of the top schools here in Lancing Public School District. We will make it happen. Michelle Foreman, pleasure to meet you. >> Thank you Michelle. Yes, Michelle. Michelle, can I just say this? The reason I threw my hands up you all because I'm from Moskegan. So that's why I threw my hands up. >> Hi everybody. Uh, my name is Monica Gutierrez. I'm sorry that I have to go
007after Miss Foreman. Um, I'm originally coming from El Paso, Texas, and I am the new assistant principal at Postto Academy. Um, so we moved here in January. I started off actually at North as a teacher, fourth grade teacher, became an instructional coach, and then from there, um, now I'm at Post Stoke. So, I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to work with all of you and, um, ready to get rolling. Good job. >> What's your name again? >> Good evening everyone. My name is Keith Gravvada. Uh I am the new director of enrichment and engagement here in the district. So I know that I've had some communications with uh some of you uh going back to where I started as following suit. I grew up in New Jersey. Um and uh but I've been in
008Michigan for a long time. I've been an elementary middle school uh teacher, been a princ middle school principal for a number of years and uh super excited to be um working in Lancing District and uh in this role uh one of my themes is connectedness and belonging for every single student. And so through our arts, our athletics, our STEM and every other enrichment program, that's what um we're trying to bring. So we're on the move. In fact, I just came from uh an exciting CAAAC cup final game that uh Sexton and Ever are playing in for soccer. So, uh, it's 1-1 at halftime, I hear. So, I'll get back over there and see what's going on with that in a little bit. But, um, nice to meet you all. Thank you for having me. [Applause]
009>> Nice to meet you. We may beelcome. >> Hopefully they can hear me. Oh, you can. Um, my name is Jamie Scott, head principal of Saxon High School. Honored to be there. Go J Dubs. Um, been in the district now for 24 years. has taught in seven different schools prior to becoming the assistant principal the last six years. So truly honored to be here today. Um been around a lot of the children and thankful for all my up um coming and getting to this point here. So a lot of plans coming. So truly thankful. [Applause] >> Really really We neighbors really neighbors. We be outside. >> Hello, my name is Danielle Bowen and I'm the new assistant principal at Sexton High School, JD Dub, and um been in the district for four years now. very
010excited with a history of uh being an administrator here as well, being a Spanish teacher over 18 years. So, I have a lot of uh history when it comes to education. So, I thank you for the opportunity to speak today and I look forward to working with you all this year. [Applause] >> So, where's the pink and green? Well, you know, normally you got on pink and green. Okay. Long. Okay. Okay. >> Good evening. Uh my name is John David Lewis. Uh this is like my 23rd 24th year, my second year in the district. Uh I've been an administrator for more than half my years in education. I've come from I'm uh raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Went to Michigan State. Moved to Atlanta, >> go white. Uh moved to Orlando, Atlanta, and Abu Dhabi. I
011was there for about six years as an administrator. And I've learned that intentional effort changes results. And I'm the assistant principal at Sheridan Road. And I'm going to create a different culture where learning is not only expected but it's enjoyed along the journey. Pleasure. [Applause] >> I know you're not surprised by that. >> Good evening. My name is Kareem Milo and I am the new director of workforce development and student engagement. Th this is going into, believe it or not, my fourth year in the district. I am a Flint guy, >> so uh still a rural warrior up and down the road, but I am very excited about working with the youth. I've worked for over 25 years and at the intersection really of school administration and workforce development. and I'm passionate about helping students
012hopefully, you know, get an occupation by graduation. So, thank you [Applause] Good evening. My name is Chris Cross. I am the new assistant principal at Capillary K12 online and the Lancing Learning Hub. I'm born and raised in Lancing. I think it's a I'm tremendously thankful for the opportunity to work in the building where I attended kindergarten. Um it's amazing. Pleasant View, I enjoy it. You know, the jo the path from going as a uh student at Pleasant View across the grass to the Boys and Girls Club after school is is really really powerful to me. and to have the opportunity to come back and and and lead the uh the community that really made me who I am today. I'm tremendously thankful for that opportunity. So, I look forward to doing great things for our
013community and our uh student population. Um I believe everybody deserves a chance to learn. Everybody deserves a chance to be successful and I'm very grateful and thankful for the opportunity to lead that work at Pleasant View. Thank you. I'm Kisha Morgan. And I am also at Pleasant View CAK K12 K8 though I am tasked to love on our babies, the one who need it the most. And I am really good at that type of thing. So um and so I'm just excited to be here and where I am at. >> Thank you. You can shake hands. >> Yeah, you shake hands. >> And you go to the floor, right? She lives in Lancing. She her kids went to Eastern. She went to Eastern for a little bit and then transferred. >> Okay. So, she's from
014uh Eastland or Waverly. Okay. >> Her last career, but she grew up in there. >> Good evening. Uh my name is Zach Dowy and I am uh formerly the assistant principal at Pleasant View and now the principal um of both CAK12 online and the Lancing Learning Hub which houses um all of our alternative ed programs. I'm super excited this year to have a stellar team that you just witnessed come through. Um and I have to follow that act with handshakes, not hugs. So I'll be coming with that. Um I'm entering my 18th year of education. um 10 or 11 of those were south of Chicago about an hour and then I was able to come uh here and have the opportunity to serve as a fifth grade teacher at Dwight Rich um before COVID and
015I've been here ever since. So um thank you for allowing me to still be part of the Lancing Public School District. [Applause] I just have to say the hugs to Miss Kisha is because I have worked with her in our community and she has poured on our baby. So that hug was real genuine and I know her personally. So for anybody that's like you're just hugging random people. No, no, no. I we know her. Well, good evening everyone. My time at Lassing hasn't been that long, but I know my future in Lassing is going to be bright. I am the new assistant principal at Dwight Rich where we are a beautiful school where we have a lot of things that are happening and I want to be a part of that change and that joy.
016My background has been in both special ed and title one at risk programming and I'm so excited to work here. trust and believe if I'm driving an hour and 30 every day to get here to love on these babies from the city of Detroit that I want to be here and I enjoy working in the district and I look forward to my last few years of education because this is year 27. So >> and you are >> I just said my name is Alita Trice ma'am she just saw me like two minutes ago so but yes but thank you for if I omitted that part again my name is Alanita Trice and I am the new AP at Dwight Rich. Thank you guys for allowing me to be here. >> Okay. West side or east
017side? West side from Detroit. Hello, I'm Kevin Griffin. I'm blessed to be the new principal of Kavanaaugh Elementary. um charged with growing each of the students and staff there, continue on their path. My quick background is I was a high school science teacher on the south side of Chicago about seven years. Uh went into administration after that in Michigan about 10. Um and I found myself here in Lancing the last two years. I've been at Postto with Mr. Coler over there as her AP and I'm blessed to be here at Kavanaaugh. Looking forward to continuing to growing the tradition we started. Thank you. I'll make your prayer. >> Good evening everybody. My name is Tanya Brewer and I'm the new senior director of special education. I was born and raised outside of Chicago, so I'm
018from Evston, Illinois. Spent some time in Indiana. This is my 21st year in special education, and I consider myself honored and blessed to serve the Lancing community. So, thank you for the opportunity. >> Great. Good evening all. My name is Hakee Humphre. I am the new assistant principal at Atwood Magnet School. I'm just here to help children learn, help children grow, and help Lancing grow. I'm from originally from Detroit. Been in education for a very long time. First as a coach, now I'm on this side of of the administrative part of education. So pray for me. I'll pray for you. We'll grow together. That's right. We do have three administrators that were not able to make it this evening, but I want to make sure that I um put their name in the space so
019we can at least congratulate them and with a round of applause. We have Jovon Carver who is joining us as AP of Everett High School. We have Denise Griffin who was an AP of Sheridan Road who is now the principal of Sheran Road, Denise Griffin. And last but certainly not least, AP of Ever High School, our Shawn Parker. So, if we could please have one more round of applause for our wonderful administrator. picture. Bring them in for a picture. [Applause] >> Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. I'm good. I'm good. [Music] [Applause] There you go. Okay, there it is. Thank you. [Applause] One more. >> All righty. That was wonderful. Great things are happening in the district. We've got amazing educators, amazing new leaders that are joining our family, our LSD family. So,
020once again, welcome to the Lancing School District. At this time, we're going to be moving on to our reports. Uh, and we'll start with our secretar's report. So, we have uh the care closet that will be open from October 1st through the 7th. Um you can visit online to place orders. It is https colon uh what is itww.lancingschools.netcare closet for more information. And now you can join parent community advisory council PAC virtually. We have upcoming meetings October 22nd and November 19th. Um and you can ask your school for the link. Also October 17 we have a PD day. There's no school. And October 31st we have half day for our elementary. Um we also have uh the dates for our next board meetings which will be October 16. We have a regular board meeting and
021information study session. October 30th informational study session and November 6th regular board meeting. Thank you, Madam President. We have not had a meeting yet, but it is scheduled for Trusty Williams. >> The meeting is scheduled for next Monday, October 6:30. >> We're well on the move. Thank you. >> Thank you. And I did see the um the the the call out for individuals in the parent newsletter. So that's very nice. All righty. Thank you for your report. Um next on our agenda, we have the equity committee report. Um Dr. Kavanaaugh and uh trustee cav trana and trustee strode. >> Thank you. Trusty Strode and I um have been in discussions with Dr. Dr. Sarah O'Neal um who was a leader on the committee previously. Um through those conversations, we uh now have a list of
022the former um community members who were part of that committee. Our first step will be to meet with um the former members of the equity committee from the community uh later this month, still determining a date based on everyone's availability. Uh and then after that initial meeting um we will be sending out an invitation to the whole community to um hopefully get some new participants from the community to be on the equity committee as well. So, we are in a rebuilding phase uh which is very exciting and we hope that community members who are interested in serving on the equity committee uh keep their eyes peeled for that announcement uh in November about how they can get involved. >> Thank you. That sounds like a plan. Uh next, our next committee report is the facilities
023committee trustee or vice president Lopez. >> Thank you, Madam President. Um, we haven't had a meeting called, uh, but I did receive an email from our staff, uh, indicating that we need to schedule a meeting next meet next, uh, next week or week after that. So, that's where we're at right now. >> Wonderful. Thank you. And Dr. Kavanagh, our finance committee report, please. >> Yes, the finance committee met uh, last Monday. Um the detailed treasures report for the period of August 1st through August 31st is attached to this evening's agenda, but the following are the highlights of the report. The beginning cash and investment balance was $75,546,261. Receipts totaled 23,631 $631,119 while dispersements equaled $22,929,29. Net interfund transfers totaled $582,770 in interest from fund investments to the student and bond funds as well as journal
024entries to remove the due to due from in all funds. The monthly transfer to the general fund for bond expenses was 2,271,599. The ending general fund cash and investment balance on August 31st, 2025 was $77,937,01. The general fund's cash and investment balance is 17,29,829 more as compared to the same time last year. I also want to highlight donations that we received in the month of August. These totaled almost $6,000. Um, particularly this year, as many of you may know, was our inaugural back to school 5K. Um, near and dear to to my runner's heart. Um and we raised over $5,000 in donations as part of that um back to school 5K which is very exciting. Um so we thank all of our generous donors. Um additional updates from the finance committee are that uh so
025as treasurer every year um I get a call from someone who does an audit on the district. Um, so that is an external party who um checks out all of our books and kind of goes through everything with a fine tooth comb um and you know interviews different folks on the finance team uh including myself as treasurer. Um so the audit process is complete and we were told that we're doing amazing and our books are so neat and clean and organized. Um, and so that was obviously not news to me, but it was something I wanted to share with the community because we're very lucky to have such a strong finance team um, who keeps everything transparent and clear um, and very organized. So, in particular, thank you to Kim Adams um, because she she
026does an amazing job and the auditor um, shouted her out specifically. [Applause] >> Yes. And we have questions for Are you Are you um We can leave it there. >> All righty. Dr. Rodriguez, did you have a question? >> Yes, I had a question. Yes. Can I? >> Of course. Yes. >> Oh, thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Uh my question is, do we send letters or recognition or gratitude letter to the donors? >> That is a good question. Do we send like thank yous to the donors? Thank you cards or something. >> Yeah, thank you cards or something. >> Um I think that will be a good >> maybe good thing to do. Thank you. >> Yeah. I mean, most of the time we'll have a personal conversation uh with them and ask them
027how, you know, how they would like to be uh acknowledged. You know, everything from a big blowup check to they don't want anybody to even know their name. Uh but I think that we could create a policy where we just automatically send a kind of, you know, thank you card. But honestly, most of the donations that we see rather than the one that's like the 10 cents that is just automatic, uh, we have a pretty good relationship with the people that do this and do all sorts of things with them. >> Thank you. And I people hear that and send all the money, we will thank you. Thank you very much. >> Yes. Thank you for all your donations. All righty. Any other questions for our um, trust Dr. Kavanagh regarding the treasurer's report? Seeing
028none, may I have a motion? >> Madame President, yes. I move that the board of education approve the expenditures as presented for August 2025. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Trustee Williams and second by Trustee Strode. Um may I all in favor signify by saying I. >> Any oppose? Motion passes. Thank you. All right. Moving on to our personnel committee. Uh Vice President Lopez and Trustee Ninsky. Would you all I don't know who will be reporting this evening, but >> uh Thank you, Madam President. The committee has not met since our last meetings. The next personnel uh committee meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 15th at 8 a.m. here in the boardroom. >> All righty. Thank you for that reminder of the meeting. Moving on now to our personnel report or excuse me, our
029policy committee report. We have a few um uh policies that we will be discussing this evening. Trustee or Dr. Niver Martinez, please. >> Yes. So, we have um draft bylaw 0122.1 on school visits, draft policy 9150, also on school visits, and draft policy 21105 uh the mission of the district. These were presented last meeting for a first reading and we uh will hopefully have them up for second reading and approval at this meeting. >> Alrighty. Um, is there any discussion regarding our policies before we reg Trusty Williams? >> Madame President, while I have read them, I'm still not potentially happy with those. So, I would like that we would table them and go back for further review and before we do a review because there's some revisions that I know that are still I'm looking
030at to suggest that we make. So, >> okay. I think we've been here before. Hold on one second. Let me make sure. Um, so what you're asking is that we table this um parliamentarian Ninsky trustee. >> Uh, well the motion to table is to put something later in the meeting if something more urgent comes up. So currently not a motion. So if there's a specific policy not to consider tonight, we could change the motion to just be the policy or one or two that we do want to adopt tonight and then the others would just stay on the agenda. So I mean I would suggest the mission statement policy >> would be ready since that is simply >> okay >> adopting that one at least and then if the other two the board could decide
031if an emotions in order or not but >> okay thank you. So so let's go let's vote then or which let's vote on the policies that we um want to adopt tonight. >> Policy. So, we need polic. There's only one policy. One policy would that you want to >> draft policy 21105 is what I think um they're talking about. >> I want Yeah, I'm okay with that one. >> Which one is it? I'm sorry. >> 21105. The mission of the district. >> Okay. >> 21105. >> Um Yes. Uh >> second. >> All righty. It was moved by trustee by um Dr. Lopez and second by >> Dr. Rodriguez and second by trustee Williams. Um all in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any oppose? Motion passes then. So we just 21105. >> Can I
032have a motion to >> Nope. Nope. Not yet. Oh Dr. NZ Martinez was >> What were you going to say? Uh, I was just going to clarify that it was draft bylaw 0122.1 and draft policy 9150 that we still have to um do something on. So, we are are we postponing the second reading and approval until next meeting? >> Yes. So, we're postponing school visits. Yep. 0122.1 and 9150. And we're we voted on 21105 the mission statement. Um, >> I just had just a point of clarification. So, >> we're going to postpone it to the next meeting, >> but to do what in the meantime? My I have a very strong I'm very strong in opposition to policy 122.1. And I would like to see it sent back to committee to be reddrafted altogether. Mhm.
033Well, >> so if we're just postponing just so we can read it again next week, I think that as it stands now, it needs to be reddrafted to better um articulate the board's power to do our oversight function. Thank you. >> So my question then for our parliamentarian um if you would. So would we need to overall not just just remove that and not postpone it and just remove that from the agenda or can it stay there and just go back to the policy committee and then you bring it back to the board when it's ready. How does that >> Well, I'm looking at our current bylaws and policies 131.1 which is how we amend them. uh that's stating that the any amendment shall have been proposed at a previous meeting and once proposed shall
034have remained on the agenda of each succeeding board meeting until approved or rejected except that the board may wave that and adopt it instantly. So the reason for keeping it on the agenda is just so that it can be adopted whenever in its ready form. If it doesn't go on the next agenda, then that that two readings starts over again. So the board has the option tonight to accept what's proposed, reject it, or take no action and leave it on the next meeting. I know the policy committee is meeting on Tuesday, I believe. So okay, >> the committee likely will be able to come back with a change if if so. >> Wonderful. Thank you. I just want a clarification. Vice President Lopez. >> Yes. I believe that we were asked that if we had
035any um anything that want to add to the policies when we approved the first reading to send it to the policy committee so they could include it prior to the next to the second reading. So um obviously we didn't do it. So, so because this uh policy 1221 12202.1 um was um was presented before, right? >> We haven't had a policy committee since this and so we did have conversations. We could either turn it down and then the policy committee can go ahead and rework it or like uh um Trust Whiskey said, just leave it on here. We can still work on it and then bring it back. I guess my point is that if we have any input, we should send it to you so that the policy committee can review that. >> But
036that's what's happening. >> Okay. So, trust hold on hold on one second. Um, trusty uh trusty stroke. >> Thank you. I think the clarity and maybe someone can correct me. I believe that these policies were spoken about and they're on the agenda, but the policy committee have not had an opportunity to discuss them yet. Is that what I'm hearing? Okay. So the policy committee did in fact address these these documents and there was feedback received by board members surrounding the changes and were they adopted? Yes or no? >> Not the one since last meeting because we have not had a meeting of the policy committee. >> So it is correct that the policy committee >> but the policy committee met several times on all of these policies. met with the lawyers on the policies, received
037feedback, and then um as a group at the meeting decided to bring them to the board as a recommendation. Um and then there were additional ch additional concerns, which is what we're addressing now. >> Thank you so much for that clarity. So, would it be safe to state that the mitigating concerns surrounding the policy could be met within the policy committee meeting and then brought back to the board? Thank you. >> Yes. >> All righty. So, it sounds like they're going to stay on the they're going to stay you they'll go back the policies that we did not adopt this evening will go back to the policy committee. It'll stay on the agenda, but as of right now, we did vote on policy 21105. Our mission statement, Madam President. >> All right. Um, yes, Trusty
038Strode, I believe we still need a motion to do that. >> Oh, I thought we had a motion. I move that the board of education leave policy draft 0122.1 school visits and policy 9150 school visits to state on the agenda until it is rejected or approved by the board. I Okay, I don't think we needed that but thank you for that anyway. But we did have a motion and it was passed by trust um Dr. um Rodriguez and second by uh trustee Williams and we were all in favor. So, um, we're all set on policy 21105. Okay. Wonderful. All right. Well, moving on to our student achievement committee report. Um, Mr. uh, Vice President Lopez and Miss Williams. >> Yes. Um >> we we have u requested from staff some dates to meet and and
039and we're waiting for that so we can coordinate our schedules and start meeting with that committee. Dr. Rodriguez is also part of that >> oh >> committee as well. >> Dr. Rodriguez, forgive me for that. I did not realize that. >> Yep. >> I think you told me that last time. >> Today's not Friday, huh? I wish it was. Alrighty. um close to it. No. All righty. Moving on to our C superintended um report. Would you grace us at this time? >> It is always an honor and privilege to speak amongst all of you. Um you know, we have a lot on the agenda, so I don't want to take too much, but you know, my promise to the community is always the transportation. Uh you know, it is now the month of October and
040certainly we want to make sure that all of our kids are able to get to school uh safely and on time. Uh we're making progress certainly with gas cards. We have um 2,634 have been requested with 2363 in the hands of families which again I know that some families are now asking for them because they want them. Please make sure to be in touch with your schools. Please make sure to reach out. We have them at the ready. We just want to make sure uh that you get them. So, it's really terrific to see more than 2,300 families already using them as early as October. Uh, with Kata, we have 540 requests with 521 uh being distributed already. Again, that's the lead time between uh families saying, "Oh, we really want one now." Uh to
041not. We definitely have them. So, please uh go to your schools, make sure uh that you uh pick them up because we definitely want you to make sure that you have it. And then in terms of routed um in request is 4,64 uh and routed is 3785. So there's only a differential of 279 between the routed and the request. So we're certainly using that number um you know as a as a baseline. We always want to be below that. Uh but you know at this time last year we were certainly not in as good a shape. So you know is it okay that it's more than zero? No. Of course, we want to get that down to where everybody has the route. Uh but please, please, please, if you've asked for a dean route and
042you don't have it, please make sure to follow up with uh the transportation department or really your school because they can be kind of your best advocate. One of the things I want to make sure is that we are of course doing the formula based on the address we have on record. if you've moved, if something's changed, if you're now staying somewhere else, please, please, please make sure that we have the correct address so that we can then run and see, oh, you're qualified for this bus or you're within, you know, half a mile or a mile and a half, uh, so you don't qualify. But again, I want to make sure that all families have um or know how to they can get to school. Um, other than that, I've just been, you know,
043really, really happy over the last month. you know, the construction, the new building's amazing. If you go and see the new Willow, we're going to be opening up that that next year. But really, I'd love the community to be into the schools because we've done a lot of work in the schools and at the schools. Maybe, you know, you're not in a brand new building, but you've got a brand new uh classroom or a brand new uh uh playground or brand new track or something like that. We know our children and our staff really deserve the best. the number of air conditioning units that we put in over the summer. You know, one of the things that's funny, sometimes community members will come up to me and they'll say, "Ben, you know, I didn't have
044air conditioning when I was a kid. You know, what are you doing?" And my response was, "Yeah, and it sucked." And so they're like, "Oh, yeah, it did." And I said, "How about we really make sure that we're putting our kids and our and our faculty and our staff front and center." And I think what you see around the district is this really, really big change. The other thing that you know I haven't been at this stis for a while um the one thing that we are going to promote and make a big deal of but I really want to just thank our community on something which is a couple of weeks ago we got the finalized number for attendance. Um we broke 85% um last year. Now it's not 90 yet. We have another
045year to make it. It's on the wall. But the idea that four or five years ago we were at 70%. And now 85% of our children are coming to school every day, that's a huge, huge change. And what's great about that 85 number is that's actually higher than it was precoid. So this isn't just the COVID coming back. This is more of our children coming to school every day. And I say this because I want to thank the families who have done everything they can to bring our children. Thank the bus drivers and the catted drivers and the gas cars and I guess the parents driving the kids. But I also want to thank the faculty because we know as a kid gets older the decision to come to school is goes from parent dropping
046you off to high school student deciding to go or not to go to school. And the fact that we're now at over 85% daily attendance uh 15% higher than we've been over the years is really a testament to that growth in the district. Yeah. our graduation rates are up by 26% and yeah, our attendance, you know, our our test scores are up and our AP scores are up, but the daily attendance that more kids every day are coming to school is really tremendous. And I say that because I want to thank this community for being so uh supportive of us. So, with that, you know, uh next time we meet, I'll probably have a little bit more, but I know we have a lot on the agenda, and I want to be respectful to everybody
047in the audience. And uh you know, I just really want to thank this board for being uh so supportive. you know, they they so often say, you know, what do they what do we need from them to be successful and now you're seeing all these successful things? And it's because of all the support we have from the community, the board, the staff, and everybody else. So, with that, uh, Madame President, thank you so much. >> Thank you for your report. Um, are there any questions right now? It looks like I have a question from Vice President Lopez. >> Uh, not a question, it's just a statement. Uh, and that concerns the, um, Hill track. Everybody loves it. every time I see somebody says, "Hey, that track is really nice to walk in the morning, blah,
048blah, blah." So, that's one of the things that it's happening. >> Yeah. And and if I can add, we specifically built that hill track not just for the Lancing Tech students, those wonderful kids who are learning at Lancing Tech, but we know that our role as a district is to support the community as well. And this board believes that, I believe that, our staff believes that. So, by redoing the track at Hill, we knew it was for our kids, but we also knew it was for the community. and I really appreciate uh how many people use it uh every day. >> Vice or um trustee Dr. Rodriguez. >> Thank you. Thank you. I know the superintendent not going to report about that but today uh the chamber has a launch in Michigan State University and
049is doing that every month and dedication of the topic of this today was education and our superintendent was there defending not defending >> showing how much Lino school district is doing to educate the kids students and I I I think the I saw many people in other occasion that they are moving and they were so attentive and people learning about what education is all about is the most difficult task >> and then congratulation. Thank you for talking well about lancing and talking about lancing school district to the future. >> Wonderful. Yes, trustee Ninsky. >> Thank you. Uh Mr. Superintendent, I know there's been a lot in the news about the state and federal budgets and even some uh requests for school districts to continue providing lunches. Just if you could speak on where those are
050at at this moment, how the district is affected. Of >> of course, I I would I I'm going to miss these uh conversations. Um so, as many of you know, uh we do not have a state budget at this moment. Um what that means is that the good people two blocks from here are working very very hard in getting it to us. But we have certainly heard that all indications are that they are close. They uh you know last week announced that they had a kind of a draft or some sort of structure and now they're trying to fill that in. So we did certainly uh receive a letter from the governor. Uh all superintendents did that said, "Hey, please trust us. we got this. Don't do anything rash. And I understand the sentiment behind
051that, but as you know and this community knows, I've been very, very clear that we are not going to get rid of anything. We're not going to change anything just because the budget might be a little late. School food, our staff, all of that. So, you know, as long as that budget gets done within the next couple of weeks, as I've explained, we're we're we'll be okay. Now, I hope that everybody is watching to see what's in that budget. Right now, we don't know exactly, but certainly all indications are is that we as Lancing are going to do well. And a reminder, of course, yesterday was count day. Now, again, that's a misnomer, right? It's not count day, it's really count month. So, we're going to see how many kids are in this district, but
052all things look very good, very robust. So, you know, I want the board and I want the community to know that, you know, though there is not a actual budget for the state and it is October 2nd, uh we feel very comfortable moving forward. Now, again, things can change. uh but with our fund balance and with the kind of promise from the governor and the understanding that they have a structure of a budget and one will be coming shortly, I feel very comfortable and certainly my hope is that the next team time we convene on the 16th uh I'll be able to not only say that we have a budget but have specific line items around that budget and can show you you know draft we will probably won't have run every number for everything
053in the district kind of are we going up are we going down staying the same kind of thing. So, thank you for the question. >> Could you Yes. Could you also then speak to the federal budget if that's having any impact on the district at all? >> Uh, my pleasure. Uh, so we also have a federal government shutdown. Now, um, you know, federal monies are very, very different than state monies. Most dollar figures, you know, you're talking about anywhere between 80 to 90% of school budgets are local, state, you know, local, municipal. So, we do get some federal money, but the nice thing about the way that, let's say, title one or title two works is that their shutdown in DC isn't necessarily impacting the monies or the programs that we have at this moment.
054Now, if that shutdown continues and things happen, it could I mean, you know, where you're going to probably see it is, you know, something like a national park might shut down, right? But, you know, the money that we get for title one, we've gotten a lot of that. So, we've got the time. Now, if this extends for a month or two months or three months, that's a different story. But, so certainly, you know, my heart goes out to anybody impacted by the federal shutdown, but at this point, you know, as a school district, we're we're we're really not that impacted greatly. The state budget, if that actually gets shut down and that uh, you know, really doesn't happen by, you know, October 20th, that's a different story. But again, all indications are we're in pretty
055good shape. Thank you for that report. Um, Superintendent Trusty Herd. >> Mr. Superintendent, not a while ago, uh, your team came before this board and you all were talking about status, um, statistics surrounding proficiency um, and our new curriculum. What I'd like to know from you is, is there anything that you or your team would like to brag about today about what you've done? something actionable and real that you've done to get us to on the road toward not only having good test scores and good graduation rate, but also proficiency so when our babies leave this district, they can read and write. Sure. >> Well, I I love that question. Thank you so much, Trusty Herd. And certainly I will say we um you know it is always a team effort but you know the
056latest MSTEP scores that we got and we will be presenting this uh in a more kind of cohesive package. We actually doubled the proficiency rates in math in grades four and five over the last three years. The fact that we've been able to do that is really quite tremendous. So, you know, it's one thing to say that, you know, your scores go up a little bit, but to take a district where we have individual grades that are doubling in something like math or going up by, you know, 50% is really tremendous. But the one thing that I really want to note, which we I haven't shared so much, and we'll talk about this more, is that I appreciate that when you raise a graduation rate from 70 to 86, you're getting to where you're kind
057of supposed to be. And and that makes perfect sense. And you know, we've done tremendous work and I'm very proud of it. But you might be asking yourself, well, what about the highlevel stuff? Okay, you you get the kids across the the line, but what are you doing kind of at the higher end? And we just kind of got the the the results from the advanced placement exams and we have now increased our advanced placement passing rate by 53% in just one year. That's tremendous because that's now saying 53% more kids are getting college credit, highlevel stuff. And that's a big shout out to our educators and uh to our families and our kids of course. Um so there is so much for us to be proud of. Do we have a lot of work
058to do? Yes, absolutely. Do our proficiency rates need to go up? 100%. But we are seeing some really incredible movement of late and we ascribe that to our hardworking teachers. We ascribe it to our hardworking kids and our supportive families. and also the new curriculum that we've brought in to really bring highlevel instruction to our children and of course the better learning environments that the kids have. And I would just say certainly stay tuned uh for our what we generally refer to as the 98B presentation which is not 98B anymore. That was a piece of the state uh kind of uh policies. But we will be presenting our MSTEP scores and some other data in a couple of weeks that I think will make everybody proud. So, thank you so much. >> Yeah, I I
059thank you. Thank you for that. Um, more specifically, the the numbers that really appalled me was the 78% of African-American students in this district who were not proficient in reading. When you say that we've seen double the numbers in things, are you talking across the board or are the trends still the same that Caucasian young people are growing by leaps and bounds while our babies who are African-American, Latinx are not? >> No. So, you know, thank you for for highlighting that. Um, no, what we're seeing actually is all kind of sections are getting better. Um, which is really really important. And in fact, and I don't have the data in front of me, we'll definitely try to get more of it uh in two weeks. But what we're seeing is yes, we definitely started at
060a low level. No question about it. But we're actually seeing some really great growth across the board. Now, is there still discrepancies? Absolutely. But what's been nice is over the last uh two or three years kind of all of the numbers have risen. I mean, when you look at something like attendance or graduation, when you get to 85 or 86, that actually is showing that everybody is rising. And, you know, I'm not 100% sure. So, I I'll have to check, but I actually think that our uh graduation rate of students of color might be higher than white children, which is something that is really quite incredible that doesn't you don't see uh across the board. And then in terms of our uh proficiency rates, we are seeing them raise. Is there still a discrepancy? Absolutely.
061Am I going to be very uh blunt about that? 100%. But what we're seeing is the rising across and then those discrepancies kind of being worked on a little bit but not as well as I would like. And you will see uh when we share that you'll see still see the discrepancies but the good news is all sections are rising. What what I'm most looking forward to when you have this presentation and I am looking forward to it um is for us to be able to share with the communities where our successes are lying. So we know that our teachers and staff and support staff and principles are all a part of your team and they're making this happen. What I'm really interested in is what are they doing? We are finding now it sounds
062like there's a recipe that is working that has not been working. And what I'm very interested in as an education buff is what are you doing now that's working and how can this board support you to do more of it if it's going to be raising us by double? >> Yeah. >> No, I >> what can we do to empower you more? But I what I'm after from you and your team is what exactly are you doing? >> Sure. And I appreciate that. And in fact, what's been great is school districts and other people have actually started to reach out to say, "What is going on in Lancing?" We're seeing these numbers. I mean, just as a reminder, from 2022 to 2024, the Lancing School District had the highest growth rate in reading out of
063any district in the state of Michigan, right? That that doesn't happen overnight. That happens with the incredible kind of hard work and and uh investment. So, I am happy to share the things that we're doing because as a superintendent, I care about all children, not just Lancing. I mean, I care about Lancing the most, but you know, what we're doing is actually replicable and there are things that uh people can take and are starting to take around the country. >> Um, Trustee Dr. Kavanagh, >> hi. We're talking about data, so I'm about to be really annoying. Um I >> use the word significant. >> No, no, no. I know. Um but trusty heard. Um I I really appreciate your comment because there's a big difference between there have been improvements for this one group and
064there have not been improvements for another group. Um and so I quickly pulled up some MSTEP data um and did some extremely fast analyses. So this is this is just very very quickly. Um, and when we compare 2022 to 2025, um, the gap between white and black students in particular has shrunk considerably in MSTEP scores, uh, which is very exciting. There's lots of other comparisons we could do across all of the different racial groups and all the different years, but my my very quick look um is that accounting for all the other factors that we know are relevant, the race gap between white and black students has decreased from 2022 to 2025. Um, did I have any more questions for our superintendent? >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Oh, yes. Trusty Stro. Thank you so much
065uh superintendent for your report. I just wanted to highlight I know we talked about it a few uh weeks back about the care closet and so I just wanted to maybe give you a spot to talk about that a little bit and let parents and students know that if they do need services or things that they don't have I think we've been doing a great job at getting those things to them but they got to know that we have it. So just giving you a space to brag on that as Trusty Herd likes to say. Well, I I really appreciate it and certainly, you know, though when public schools started, you know, three 400 years ago, uh it wasn't necessarily meant to be all things to all people, but we truly believe that our role
066and our responsibility is to support all of our families in any way we can. And so, the idea that we have this care closet is really quite wonderful. And so I'm actually going to turn it over to our wonderful executive team, probably Cordelia at the best. Um, but we can speak about all the things that we're doing and certainly to the community. If you need things, especially uh, you know, ba basically care products, we will be able to support you. So, please reach out. But I'm going to turn it over to executive director Black to talk a little bit more. >> Thank you. Yes. Thank you. What a wonderful question. Uh, we just love what we do. uh especially when we're able to um take bring product to to to to families that reach out
067and we actually have it in house and and we can deliver it to their homes, deliver it to uh student schools, parent preference. Uh but we have everything from um toiletries, health care or excuse me like hair product uh um gels, bath shop bath and shower gels um period products. That's a huge uh thing that we've been really, you know, pushing. Running drives monthly free uh tampons and pads. Just in case anyone doesn't understand what period product means, I'm very clear about what it is. Um and as well as um beads, um hair oils, uh shampoos, conditioners, uh every every month we open the care closet. Parents and students can select up to three to four items and again those items are uh delivered to the home and or to the student uh family preference.
068So, uh, we're always looking for, um, additional funds. We, we've partnered with a community partner that provides about $5,000. And this is a new partnership. I was just talking to uh, Miss Adams uh, this morning about it. It's a new partnership where they're they're giving us like $5,000 to contributing to this. It's such a wonderful thing to be able to help families in need and um, it goes a long way. And so it really kind of uh levels the playing field for students to get to school and feel comfortable being in school and and learning at a at an equitable uh pace. >> All righty. >> Thank you so much. And I know that it was highlighted uh through uh our secretary uh Martinez about it being open October 1st through the 7th for a
069visit. But when you say care closet, I think it's great to have some explanation so that people know what that is and how our students could get that if they are indeed in need. And we have nice secretive ways for them to do it with getting it delivered to their home. So, I just wanted to highlight that. Um because as a parent, if I see care closet, I'm not you might not know what what that entails, right? Um you you might be able to buy the groceries, but the beads awesome, right? So, I just wanted to highlight that. Thank you. >> Thank you. Alrighty. If there's no there if there is no more questions, can I have a motion to um recess for five minutes, please? >> Okay, it's been moved by Trusty Williams, second
070by Second by Trusty Herd. Um all in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Okay, we will be in recess for five minutes. >> Nobody has to leave. It's not It's not a close session. >> I have a question, too. All righty. Ready? Alrighty. Do we have everybody? Oh, yes. Wonderful. Alrighty. Good. Hello. Hello. Hello. So, um, do I have to come back? Yeah. Got to come back. Okay. We are back from our recess. Thank you for Oh, yes, I am. >> Oh, we are back from our recess. Thank Thank you so much for um for your grace. Um at this time, may I have a motion to move our um close session seven um to six? And we're going to move six, student discipline to seven. May I have a motion, please? Madam
071>> Sure. >> It's not >> ma'am. It's 10 and 11. >> Thank you. >> So with that correction, Madam President, >> thank you. >> Number 10 and 11 and seven. >> Wait a minute. >> That's what you said. >> No. >> 12. 12. Got it. That's 12. >> Yes. We're we're we're flipping. >> Matter of matter of fact, let's let's retract. >> Let's retract. I'm going to gavvel. Boom. Because I felt like it. Um let's retract. And first of all, we have a comment on a non-aggenda item at this time. No. >> Oh, new business. See, I'm moving ahead. You've got people just All righty. We Let's move on to our new business. May I have a motion that um we amend our calendar calendar by inserting October 30th meeting, please, >> Madam President? >>
072Yes. Thank you. >> I move that we resolve the board calendar previously adopted on January 9th of 2025 to be amended by inserting the October 30th date. Thank you. >> All right. So, it's been moved by Trustee Strode and second by Trustee Williams. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any oppose? Motion passes. 90. So, we now have added October 30th meeting um regular board meeting to our agenda. Wonderful. Thank you. Now, moving on to public comment on non-aggenda items. And it looks like I have two at this time. Can I have a Sher Did I say your Cheryl Williams? Charerel Williams, I'm sorry. And Miss Williams, we do not respond to public comments, but please um grace us with your presence at the podium and you have three minutes to speak. >>
073Okay. Thank you committee for talking to me. I just wanted to address I'm trying I'm a citizen and a I'm a foster parent and I'm here to be a voice for the children that can speak and who can't speak. I'm a foster parent to a a child that was traumatized and he was abused. He came in my care. He got a IEP. Um he's in special ed and n on a 911. He was assaulted by a teacher on 9:22. He was assaulted again. And when I brought this up um to the district and to the um I haven't got no response but from Miss Bureer. She was nice to me and she's looking into it. But I have got a lot of retaliation from the principal um from the teacher. I just moved him out
074the class. He went to school today. He was biting his fingers. I took the therapist to the school and he reliving trauma all again. And I think it should be more trauma based training for these teachers to work with kids that been abused. And I feel no kids should have to come to school to get abused. And I think it should be cameras in the classroom for kids with nonverbal. And I didn't know that my child was in a nonverbal class. till last week. They switched classes and didn't even tell me and he got an IEP and that set him back so much. And I think these teachers need to be trained how to work with with kids. Don't traumatize them. Don't put your hands on them. That's not acceptable. And I just want y'all
075to please do something. Help these teachers cuz some of them is overwhelmed. And I pray for them that God have mercy on her cuz I got in foster care to love and to pro protect these kids. But I think it take us as a family to come together cuz some people don't know better. And I think these teachers is overwhelmed and I think they need more trauma training. I even took community mental health as therapists. I even took his caseworker to the school and since I reached out and I was trying to advocate, I got so much disrespect from the teacher and not the principal looking at me a different way. And I never been disrespectful to anybody. I feel my child should be able to go to school and get an education and not
076for no teacher to email me and tell me the class is safer since he's at home. He should be able to go to school. I thought that's what I got I for is to protect him. And I'm coming to the district cuz I don't want to file a complaint. I love Lancing. I want our money to stay in. I I love the Lansancy School District. They did so much to my for my 15 year old and I just thank y'all. I know my time is over, but please train these teachers to work with trauma kids. >> Thank you. Thank you so much, Shannon. Um, and I can't read your last name. Quaker Eastern High School. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Please, please join us at the at the podium. You have three minutes and we typically
077don't respond to com public comments. >> Thank you for hearing me. Um I was debated about speaking tonight. The reason I'm here, I want to give you a quick update on Quaker bands. We I came last year before you. I would like to say I'm happy they're thriving on the recommendation of our superintendent. Get the community involved to reach out. I feel like we have more parent participation, more involvement, a great group of new kids. Our homecoming's tomorrow. Please come. And because of that, I was at the laundry mat washing jackets with our director and a a parent said, "Oh, you're a good mom. I can tell." She said, "I remember my cheerleading days." And we got to talking and she was from um Dwight Rich. And we got to talking. I had no idea
078about the situation with the gun issues. And she looked to me to advocate and speak. I talked to community members. I talked to gun experts. Said, "In this situation, what would you do?" I have I'm only speaking on the limited facts. I know this was a younger individual. The prefrontal cortex is not developed until the age of 26, maybe 24. I I don't I think he made the best judgment. All I understand was that some weapon was disarmed. Um and why didn't he tell adults? Because he didn't know better. Um fact, if his fingerprints were on the gun, if we have a policy for that, maybe that should be reviewed. I understand state policy can uh trump our local policy. Each one a gun handler said should look be looked at situationally. Uh second fact,
079the the gun was arm was disabled. Um at the end of the day, whatever the gun was there for, whether it was his or somebody else's, the correct decision was made to leave it apart. Um last fact, at the end of the day, he was brave enough, had the knowledge enough to do what he did to disassemble this. Again, as I know, you can correct my facts if I speaking out of turn. Um, especially in today's times, at the end of the day, all of our children went home safe and alive. So, I think that was brave and courageous. And I don't want to say this, but another community member said to me, "What color was he?" And he said, "If he was white, he'd been hailed as a hero. If he's been black, there'd
080be other things looked at." and um they there's community members that don't think he should be expelled again. I don't know if he's back in school. I don't know what the situation is. Um I'm thankful that all of our children are alive. I want to applaud the board. I understand this is no easy task that you have and we should not be having shooter drills in hospitals, schools, etc. But that's the world we live in. And I'm so thankful as I understand that weapon was disarmed and to this young child who was brave enough to speak up as thank you. >> All righty. With no more public comments before us, moving on to comments from the board at this time. Uh Dr. Kavanagh. >> Thank you. Um, I just want to correct um I I
081think I misspoke a little bit in the treasures report. So, we received um about $5,000 worth of donations for our inaugural back to school 5K. However, the back tochool 5K itself brought in about $40,000. Um, which is really exciting. So, I was speaking just to the donations that were made from an outside source to that 5K initiative, but the the 5K itself brought in about $40,000, which does not appear as part of our donations um but is really exciting, especially for um our our first time doing this. So, um thank you for indulging that correction. >> All right, >> thank you, Madam President. Um I just wanted to share as mentioned earlier that the PAC parent community advisory committee has begun meeting uh as the leaison to that group. I was able to join the
082zoom meeting last month. Uh when we uh executive director black talked about the student code of conduct and there were several parents uh and community members engaged in that discussion. There were some questions raised about religion in curriculum, dress code, after school activities and drop off traffic which I know um were going to be addressed by the administration. So, just wanted to share that with the board that that is happening. And then do want to ask the board if someone might be available for next month's meeting on Wednesday, October 22nd. That's the same night as the um Hispanic Heritage Recognition at Luton where I'm the liaison. So, I can't be at both. So, if somebody can be at the PEK meeting on Zoom at six o'clock, um let me know or be in touch in
083the coming meetings. That topic for that meeting is going to be health and wellness programs in the district. >> All right. All right. Uh, and then finally, I just wanted to um thank the North School for the fall festival they put on today. Just was able to get over there just before the board meeting. Uh, it was a wonderful open house. Very unique. I'd never seen anything like this because there's an outdoor community garden there and a school garden. Um, I had helped with that uh project several years ago. It was great to see it fully th uh flourishing. They had games. They had food samples. I mean, authentic garden grown foods which was wonderful to see. um families could take produce straight from the garden home with them and we got to see several
084student projects the Everall Center. So just a wonderful event over there earlier this afternoon. Thanks. >> I love that. Thank you for sharing. Trusty Herd. >> Thank you, Madam President. I wanted to um talk to the board about my visit to Lions yesterday. Lions Elementary where I'm the liaison. Um I visited them for count day. Happy Count Month everybody. And um when I got to the school um I first want to thank the superintendent for the extra bit of safety door. Um we went through one door and then there was another door that wasn't there before. Um and I said, "Oh, I'm almost in. I'm almost in." And I got buzzed in the second door. And I really appreciated the the brand new door with a new keypad um making our schools more um safe.
085Appreciate that. Walked in, there was artwork all over the walls. Um students were engaging. I saw I must have come during a transition. Some were going to gym, some were going to art. Um and some were going to their reading intervention. and to watch those babies. Anybody that knows Trusty Herd knows that uh kindergarten to about fifth grade is my jam. And I saw our kindergarten students with their bubbles in their mouths waddling down the hallway toward um their their elective classes and I thought it was the most wonderful thing. But the one thing that did stick out to me was hearing reading from the halls. doors were open and students were reading out loud and I heard fluency and I I heard teachers asking follow-up questions about what they had read and them trying
086to explain it the best way that they could. And then um it was the best school visit ever cuz then there was a fire drill. And I said, "Back to this Pleasant View days for me." And so what I did was I got behind Miss Hall's kindergarten class and I waddled on out of the building in record time, I might add, and got to our designated area. And so I wanted to congratulate Miss Arocha and her team and Miss Hall in kindergarten um and all the staff that I was able to visit um today um yesterday, excuse me, on a job well done. I also wanted to give a shout out to JW Ston JDubs on um their win. I believe it was last week against Charlotte. I'm sorry I I missed um a resurgence
087of the Sexton High School band. I'm so sorry I missed it. Um, and I know that we are well on our way toward getting back to the bands of old. Um, where you could feel the rumble going down McFersonson up Michigan Avenue. Um, but when I saw the seeds of that in the video sent to me by the choir teacher, Miss Pototts, I said, "Well, the JDubs are on their way." Um, and with all of that, I wanted to just say to all the community members, I've been so thrilled in the last couple of weeks just being in our schools and um, it's easy to talk your talk in the typo type, but take a few hours off work and come visit our babies and look at the brilliant things that they are doing and
088the faculty and the staff and administrators that are working with them. You might be amazed to see that Lancing still boasts the best and the brightest in this state. And no matter what you heard, Lancing is the best place for you to be because we are people who get it. What we saw today was homegrown people >> saying, "Hey, I'll come back and be a part of that in ways that we hadn't seen before." I almost considered going back in the classroom. Then I got over it. because it's so beautiful to see people that I went to school with who are now principles in this district who believe in it who go and get educated elsewhere and they come back as shining stars. So if you've been considering and you've been teeter tottering as of
089late to think about whether this district is a place you want your baby to be, it's about time that you come home. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Herd. Dr. Rodriguez, did you >> Oh, I'm sorry. I was thinking in maybe item 13 then we can move that before we go to close session since they are here. >> Item 13. Yes, that's what No, it's 12. It's 12. >> Yeah. >> No, it's Yep. So, what we're going to if I could have if there are there any more comments from board members at this time? >> No. Okay. With that being said, we were going to move Yep. Item 12. item 12. We're going to move that to replace item 11 and then item 13 will then go to excuse me. Um 11 will go to
09012. So item 11 will then move to 13. Does that make sense? >> That is that is what I meant. Y >> number 13 go to 11 and then >> that probably made it more complicated. >> No, no, you're doing right. But I think they are here. >> We want to respect our our guest here. >> Okay. Thank you, >> madam. So, may I have a motion please? >> Second. >> Moved by trustee herd, second by trustee Lopez. So, >> no Rodriguez. I'm sorry. You are you guys have me all confused. So, we want to we want to read the mo. Can we read? We need to read that. We need to because we're going into close session. So, we need to read that. We um >> Madame President. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I move
091that the board of education go into close session under open meetings act section 81H to consider material exempt from disclosure by state or federal statute, specifically an atur attorney client privileged letter. >> All right. It's been moved by trustee trustee Kavanaaugh. Second by Vice President Lopez. All in favor? May I have a roll call vote? >> Dr. Kavanaaugh. >> Yes. >> Mr. Herd? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lopez? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Moore? Yes, >> Dr. Navarus Martinez. >> Yes, >> Mr. Noiski. >> Yes, >> Dr. Rodriguez. Mrs. Strode. >> Yes, >> Ms. Williams. >> Okay, we are motion passes. We are now in close session. >> All right. Thank Thank you. Good to see you. Okay, if I at 9 9:19 at this time. And if I could There are action items. If I could
092have a motion that the board of education adopt the resolution authorizing the frequent center purchase agreement agreement at present. >> So moved. Second. >> All righty. It was moved by was that you? It was moved by trustee or trustee Dr. Kavanagh and it was second by >> me. >> Uh vice president Lopez. Could the clerk please call the role? Dr. Kavanaaugh. >> Yes. >> Mr. Herd. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lopez. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Moore. >> Yes. >> Dr. Narz Martinez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nisque. >> Yes. >> Dr. Rodriguez. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Strode. >> Yes. >> Miss Williams. Motion passes 81. Thank you everyone. Thank you. All right. Moving on to moving on to uh ch number 10. New number 10. Our um student discipline. Uh, may I have a motion that the
093board of education go into close session under open meeting act section 81H to consider material exempt from disclosure from federal state from the by federal statute. I'm specifying the family education rights and privacy act. >> So moved. >> May I It was moved by Dr. Kavanaaugh. May I have a second? Second by trustee. Um, all in favor I don't Oh, roll call vote. May I have a roll call? Thank you. >> Dr. Kavanaaugh. >> Yes. >> Mr. Herd? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lopez. Mrs. Moore. >> Yes. >> Dr. Nibbar Martinez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nisque. >> Yes. >> Dr. Rodriguez. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Strode. >> Yes. >> Miss Williams. >> Okay. Okay. Uh motion passes. Okay. We are now in close session at 9:21. We are back from our session. At this time, I
094have a motion. Madame President, I move that the board of education reschedule the student discipline hearing at the request of the parent to a betermined date by the board. >> Second. >> It's been moved byustee. >> Dr. Kavanaaugh. >> Yes. >> Mr. Herd. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lopez. >> Mrs. Moore. Yes, >> Dr. Nibbar Martinez. >> Yes, >> Mr. Noveski. >> Yes, >> Dr. Rodriguez. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Strode. >> Yes, >> Miss Williams. Director's two of us want